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Zoetis launches Suvaxyn® PRRS MLV in the European UnionZoetis announce the launch of Suvaxyn® PRRS MLV in most European Union countries, an innovative vaccine containing a modified live European Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome (PRRS) virus strain, grown in a unique cell line for whole herd protection against PRRS.
Suvaxyn® PRRS MLV offers the earliest piglet vaccination from the first day of age, securing immunity before the risk period which lasts until the end of the fattening. Pig protection is established 28 days after vaccination, and lasts for 26 weeks after vaccination in fattening pigs, and 16 weeks after vaccination in gilts and sows. The vaccine reduces viremia and nasal shedding of the virus.
"In Europe, Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome is known for severe impacts on reproduction including lowering birth rates, increasing abortion, stillbirth, mummified, as well as weak live-born piglets, and death," said Monica Balasch, Associate Director, Global Biologicals Development, for Zoetis. "In clinical studies conducted with Suvaxyn® PRRS MLV, we found excellent results vaccinating pigs from the first day of age. It is safe to be used as the earliest protection in piglets, and to protect the whole herd against PRRS, as it is also safe for use in gilts and sows. The new vaccine represents a flexible alternative to allow for new customised PRRS control programs developed by veterinarians for producers."
"We are excited to bring this innovative vaccine to Europe," said Alvaro Aldaz, Director, Commercial Development and Innovation, Swine, for Zoetis. "Suvaxyn PRRS MLV has been developed using a very innovative vaccine technology which brings swine veterinarians a new advanced PRRS control tool. As well reducing viremia, nasal shedding and lung lesions in fattening pigs, the vaccine has been proven to overcome maternal immunity, which increases the efficacy of the vaccine when given to piglets during the first days of life. Additionally, it allows veterinarians for use PRRS mass vaccination within the claim; mass vaccination has become more and more popular in several European countries."
Suvaxyn® PRRS MLV is a veterinary vaccine that contains a European PRRS virus strain (Genotype 1) that has been grown and attenuated in a uniquely modified cell line developed by Zoetis. This has resulted in a vaccine with unique features and clear, practical benefits.
"Suvaxyn PRRS MLV is safe based on true loss of virulence, and not based on a temporary reduction in ability to replicate in macrophage cells in the lung of the pig," said Jay Calvert, Research Director, VMRD Global Biologicals Research at Zoetis, and developer of a new process that allows the creation of new PRRS vaccines that are safe and effective in very young pigs.
The efficacy of Suvaxyn® PRRS MLV is supported by a comprehensive program of clinical studies reviewed by the European Medicines Agency and included in the regulatory procedure approved by the European Commission in August 2017. The European public assessment report is available here.
The most common side effects with Suvaxyn® PRRS MLV (which may affect more than one in 10 pigs) are a short-lived increase in body temperature (0.5°C on average and up to 1.4°C individually) within four days of vaccination, and in sows local reactions in the form of swellings which resolve without treatment within five to 32 days.
About Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome (PRRS)
This viral pig disease is very costly for the swine industry in most countries in the world. It causes reproductive losses, lowered farrowing (birth) rates, increase in abortions, stillbirth, mummified fetal pigs, as well as weak live-born piglets, and deaths. It also causes respiratory disease in pigs, impacting growth performance and is often complicated with other bacterial and viral co-infections.


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Ok folks it's time for me to ruin your favourite meal again. You may remember I brought you Chicken Feces Soup some weeks ago. I know I am proud that I have made a trip to the grocery store a bit of an ordeal for some. As long as I am changing lives. For the better or worse, embrace the change!
This time we are going to talk about eggs, but not to worry this one is really not so bad. Those eggs come right out of a healthy living breathing hen and off to the supermarket. You can't really mess that up too bad. Everybody knows a stressed, unhappy or unhealthy chicken will not lay eggs. Oh unless she is drugged up on anti-biotics and hormones.
A study out of Johns Hopkins University and Arizona State University found that "poultry on factory farms are routinely fed caffeine, active ingredients of Tylenol and Benadryl, banned antibiotics and even arsenic". They found this out by accident. They were testing chicken feathers since feathers accumulate toxins for anti-biotics levels but assays for other chemicals and pharmaceuticals didn't cost extra so they ordered that data as well.
It has been known for some time that arsenic was typically fed to chickens because it reduces infections and there is some indication it results in a more yellow yoke and brown shell. These are attributes people associate with a healthy egg.
If eggs are exposed to fecal matter pathogenic bacteria such as salmonella can contaminate the egg. The statistics on how often that happens varies obviously depending on the producer. The USDA in 2002 put the risk at 1 in 30,000 eggs. In order to mitigate contamination eggs are washed with a sanitizing agent, usually that agent is bleach. Yeah!
OK then, I'm not finished yet. In battery farms chickens can be stressed and hens die and may remain in cages with live hens for some time. These factory farms are pretty hellish by my standards. There are just too many chickens to keep on top of things and I don't believe it is right to crowd several birds into one small cage living in their own filth for the remainder of their miserable lives.
So Organic free ranges eggs it is for me as often as I can get them. Oh there is that dioxin incident with free range chickens in Germany! Hmmm!
Additional Reading;
Is an Egg for Breakfast Worth This?
Never mind the eggs, give hens a break!

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From 1959 to 1965, Tommy Kirk films appeared in the annual list of the top twenty most popular films in North America every year. It was an astonishing run of commercial successes – The Shaggy Dog (1959), Swiss Family Robinson (1960), The Absent Minded Professor (1961), Bon Voyage (1962), Son of Flubber (1963), The Misadventures of Merlin Jones (1964) and The Monkey's Uncle (1965). In particular, it was Kirk's appeal that propelled the last two films, originally shot for television, to stunning grosses. Yet within a few years he was washed up, basically forgotten. His story remains one of the least known falls from graces in Hollywood history.
I've long been interested in the career of Tommy Kirk. I would read about Disney as a teen film buff, see that he was in all these hit movies and note how he sort of… vanished. He didn't die or retire; he didn't have a famous "tragic child star" end like, say, Bobby Driscoll; he just seemed to become an un-person. There were good (if horrible) reasons for this, as we shall find out, but his career achievements should definitely be better known and more celebrated.
Kirk was born in Louisville Kentucky in 1941, with his family moving to Los Angeles shortly afterwards. Kirk's elder brother Joe wanted to be an actor, and in 1954 attended an audition for Eugene O'Neil's "Ah Wilderness" at the famous Pasadena Playhouse; Tommy decided to tag along. Joe lost his part to Bobby Driscoll, who had just left Disney and was beginning his descent into unemployment, drug addiction and death, but there was another small role available;Tommy auditioned on a whim and wound up cast. He was seen in the production by an agent, and a career was launched.
Tommy Kirk was in heavy demand as an actor almost immediately. Watching his early performances it's easy to see why – he was wide-eyed, gangly, keen and immensely likeable… the very picture of Eisenhower Era American youth, unaffected and natural, surprisingly non-annoying, extremely easy to cast as someone's kid brother, or son, or neighbour. He appeared in countless episodes of TV shows as well as the short feature Down Liberty Road (1956).
It was almost inevitable in a way that the Disney organisation would come calling, and they did, casting Kirk as one of the leads of The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Applegate Treasure (1956). This was a serialised adaptation of the famous mystery stories, broadcast in nineteen separate 15-minute installments during episodes of The Mickey Mouse Club; Kirk played Joe Hardy alongside Tim Considine as his brother Frank. Watching the serial today it's very much an item of its time, but Kirk's performance is a wonder – relaxed, energetic, a complete natural; he's not as conventionally good looking as Considine but he seems more at home on screen. He was the perfect Disney star.
The studio knew it too – they hired Kirk and former Mouseketeer Judy Harriet to attend both the Republican and Democratic presidential nominating conventions in 1956 for newsreel specials that later appeared on The Mickey Mouse Show. Kirk never became a mousketeer but he hosted short travelogues and voiced over segments; he and Considine also reprised their roles in The Mystery of Ghost Farm (1957).
Disney then gave Kirk the lead role in Old Yeller (1957), based on Frank Gipson's classic tale of a boy who learns to love a stray mongrel dog… then has to kill him when the dog contracts rabies. While Dorothy McGuire and Fess Parker were top billed, it's Kirk's movie all the way – the film is about his character's journey to maturity, having to look after the farm while Pa is away, dealing with an annoying brother, as well as the turmoil of Old Yeller. He does a marvellous job and the film was a big success. It's probably Kirk's best remembered film, achieving some sort of cultural immortality when Billy Murray's character in Stripes (1981) makes everyone admit they cried when Old Yeller got shot. Kevin Corcoran played Kirk's whiny little brother and Disney liked that combination so much the two would be teamed several more times in the future (unfortunately – his performances date less well).
A decade or two earlier Kirk might have been launched as a star on the basis of Old Yeller alone, but in the late 1950s Hollywood the only studio consistently making family films was Disney. Still, he kept busy guesting on television, then Disney called again with The Shaggy Dog (1959), written by Bill Walsh. This is known as a Fred MacMurray movie and MacMurray is top billed but like Old Yeller it's actually Kirk's film – he's the character who turns into a dog and who drives most of the action (the film seems devised so that MacMurray does a little work as possible – he sits down in most scenes and only appears in a few sets). Corcoran, Considine and Annette Funicello also featured.
The Shaggy Dog was the definition of a "sleeper hit" – Walt Disney had pitched the idea for television and been rejected; annoyed, he shot it as a feature on the backlot in black and white and it grossed a fortune, becoming Disney's most profitable film ever. The movie kicked off a whole bunch of comedies with a slight fantastical element that powered Disney film division for the next two decades. Much of the credit went to MacMurray; a lot of the credit should have gone to Kirk, whose easy-going boy next door charm made him the ideal American teen.
Disney decided to offer Kirk a long term contract and put him in their expensive adventure film, Swiss Family Robinson (1960), directed by Ken Annakin. He, James MacArthur and Corcoran play the very American children of John Mills and Dorothy McGuire who get shipwrecked on a tropical island. While Mills gets top billing, it's Kirk and MacArthur who power the second act, in their love triangle with Janet Munro. Kirk also has the juiciest part, as the one member of the family who wants badly to get off the island. The film was a huge hit, became a deserved classic, and is the movie Kirk remains most proud of today.
Disney reteamed him with Fred MacMurray in The Absent Minded Professor (1961), written by Walsh and directed by Stevenson. Unlike The Shaggy Dog this film genuinely did belong to MacMurray; Kirk's part was relatively small, playing the jock son of Keenan Wynn. The film – surprisingly sly and subversive – was very popular.
Disney kept Kirk busy, putting him in support parts the musical Babes in Toyland (1962), as the geeky assistant of Edd Wynn, and the satirical comedy Moon Pilot (1962). Both these films were box office disappointments and would have been better had Kirk been given more to do – or, come to think of it, played the male lead, instead of Tommy Sands and Tom Tryon respectively. Male actors who excel in light comedy were exceedingly rare, then as now, as Disney was coming to appreciate.
Kirk and Funicello appeared in two TV movies made for Disney's TV show that were released theatrically outside America, both shot in Europe: The Horsemasters (1961), and Escapade in Florence (1962). The Horesemasters, a horse riding drama, was really a vehicle for Janet Munro but Escapade in Florence (1962) very much puts Kirk front and center, and he is charming as an American abroad getting into hijinks with art thieves.
He was one of the family in Bon Voyage (1962), a comedy written by Walsh about an American family going abroad; MacMurray was dad, Jane Wyman was mom, and Kirk, Corcoran and Deborah Walley played the kids. Kirk has fun as the eldest son, constantly trying to pick up women. It's interesting to contrast his performance with that of Michael Callan, who plays the man chasing Deborah Walley in the same film – when Kirk tries to seduce its hapless and inoffensive but Callan gives off a dangerous, wife-beating vibe. There was a safeness to Kirk that made him immensely appealing to Disney audiences.
Disney put him in two sequels, Son of Flubber (1963) a follow up to The Absent Minded Professor, playing a bigger role, but still very much second fiddle to Fred MacMurray, and Savage Sam (1963), a sequel to Old Yeller, again with Corcoran. Neither were as good as the originals in quality – both felt pointless, especially Savage Sam, though Kirk's work was professional.
The studio then gave him another vehicle, The Misadventures of Merlin Jones (1964), written by Walsh and directed by Stevenson; Kirk played a college student inventor alongside Funicello. This was originally made for TV but Disney decided to release it theatrically in the US – whereupon the film surprised everyone by being one of the biggest hits of the year, making over $4 million. There was no Fred MacMurray to share the praise this time – Disney knew they had one of the most popular male actors in the country under contract.
Then something happened.
Kirk was gay. He had an affair with a teenager he met at the local pool; the boy's mother complained to Disney, who fired Kirk. Money counted, but the brand name of Disney counted more.
Still, the news did not make the press and Kirk was snapped up by American International Pictures, who focused on films for the teen audience. They gave him the lead in the fourth Beach Party movie, Pajama Party (1964), reuniting him with Funicello. It's a colourful, lively musical, directed by Don Weis like a comic book, in which Kirk plays a Martian who comes to earth; Kirk even sings a duet with Funicello. One of the best of the Beach Party series, it was a box office success and proved the movies did not need Frankie Avalon.
AIP signed Kirk for a follow up with Funicello, How to Stuff a Wild Bikini (1965), and Gene Corman wanted him for another teen movie, Beach Ball (1965). Most notably, Disney called him back to make a Merlin Jones sequel, The Monkey's Uncle (1965). Following that he was going to co-star with John Wayne and Dean Martin in a Western, The Sons of Katie Elder (1965) – a film that would give him exposure to a new kind of mass audience; it would also be the first feature he would make for a major Hollywood studio outside Disney (Paramount). Kirk, it seemed, had dodged a bullet.
Then something happened again.
On Christmas Eve, 1964 Kirk was arrested for suspicion of possession of marijuana at a house in Hollywood… and this did make the newspapers. The district attorney's office subsequently refused to file a complaint against him on the marijuana charge but the city attorney's office filed an illegal drugs charge because police officers found a vial of barbiturates in Kirk's car. This charge was dismissed by a judge in early January, 1965 when Kirk's attorney established that the barbiturates had been prescribed by a physician.
A drug arrest scandal was survivable in Hollywood, even back then, especially if it suited your image – Robert Mitchum's imprisonment for marijuana possession in 1948 arguably helped his career. But it was trickier if you were meant to be the all-American boy. Kirk was replaced on Wild Bikini by Dwayne Hickman, on Beach Ball by Edd Byrnes and on Katie Elder by Michael Anderson Jnr.
When the noise died down, Kirk found he could still get work, especially since The Monkey's Uncle (1965), released after the drug bust, proved to be another hit. AIP brought him back into the fold for The Weird World of Dr Goldfoot (1965) and TV and The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini (1966), with Walley and Weis. Bert I. Gordon gave him the lead in Village of the Giants (1965) alongside Beau Bridges, and he got leads in movies that tail ended the beach party cycle, like Catalina Caper (1967) and It's a Bikini World (1967) with Walley.
Maybe Kirk could have turned it around. There was demand in Hollywood for bright young leading men all through the late sixties and seventies – Kirk could have taken roles played by Beau Bridges, say, or even Dean Jones – every Dean Jones part at Disney (eg The Love Bug) feels as though it was originally written for Tommy Kirk. The Dexter Riley college films with Ken Russell (The Computer Who Wore Tennis Shoes, etc) could have starred Kirk. Even if Disney hadn't taken him back he could have reinvented himself as a counter-culture figure, like Dean Stockwell, or a character actor like Roddy McDowell. He could have segued into television, like Tim Considine, or become an executive, like Kevin Corcoran.
But that drug arrest? It wasn't a one-off mistake. By the mid 60s Kirk had developed a serious drug problem which was badly affecting his life. It didn't help that in a period in his career when he needed to take stock – do some theatre, say, or hold out and audition for a supporting role in a really good movie – he kept taking gigs as leading men in low budget pictures. He made two films in Texas for the legendary Larry Buchanan, Mars Needs Women (1967) and It's Alive (1969), did the insane LSD comedy Unkissed Bride (1966) and made a little-seen car racing film, Track of Thunder. By the time of It's Alive Kirk was looking physically unwell on screen. He did two films for Duke Kelly, Ride the Whirlwind (1971) – a weird biker-slash-My Lai drama, and My Name is Legend (1975), a Western that was never released, and the legendary-in-its-own-way Al Adamson horror film, Blood of Ghastly Horror (1971). He spent all his money, and became near unemployable.
The story does have a happy ending. By the mid 70s Kirk managed to kick drugs, avoiding a Bobby Driscoll style finale to his life. He set up his own carpet cleaning business and made a living out of that for twenty years, enabling him to retire. He received occasional acting offers, notably from Fred Olen Ray who had a soft spot for actors from yesteryear. He began to appear regularly on the convention circuit, and outlived contemporaries such as Funicello, Walley and Corcoran.
I met Tommy Kirk at an autograph show a year ago. He was reflective, polite, philosophical, clearly well-read – he quoted Wordsworth and Coleridge. He spoke with great affection and admiration for Bill Walsh, Robert Stevenson and Fred MacMurray, wasn't overly fond of the beach party movies he starred in, and expressed no desire to get back into acting.
I think Tommy Kirk was a screen natural who found the perfect studio for his skills at Disney – but he did it at a time when he had things to figure out about himself. It took him a decade to figure them out, but he did. Maybe he didn't fulfill his cinematic potential but his CV still has plenty of great performances on it.


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Transforming Care at the Bedside by Empowering Nurses
At Seton Family Hospitals in Austin, nurses used to spend significant time away from patients while searching for the scattered supplies they needed to provide care. Today, as the result of an inexpensive redesign of the supply areas, including shelving units and a labeling system to show exactly where needed supplies are located, nurses are spending less time "hunting and gathering" and more time providing patient care. This is all because of an innovative program that gives nurses more input in decisions about how to improve hospital systems.
Despite the pivotal role nurses have played in patient care for decades, it wasn't until 2003 that a national effort began capitalizing on nurses' strengths and experience to improve the delivery of health care. That year, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) launched Transforming Care at the Bedside (TCAB), a nationwide, nurse-focused effort to improve health care delivery. TCAB recognized that nurses, the largest group of health care professionals, are often patients' last line of defense against medical errors, are a lifeline for family caregivers, and in many ways hold the key to making hospital care more effective, patient-centered and efficient.
TCAB's overall goal was to make inpatient care safer, more reliable and more patient-centered—and in places like Seton Family Hospitals, it did. There and at other TCAB hospitals, nurses and other staff lead efforts to improve the quality and efficiency of care. Research shows that 70 to 90 percent of errors in hospitals are a result of badly designed systems of care. If the systems were improved, the thinking went, the quality of care would also improve.
In the first phase of the project, IHI and RWJF recruited three innovative hospitals that agreed to test TCAB in their medical-surgical units. At the time, 35 to 40 percent of unexpected hospital deaths occurred on medical-surgical units. The participating hospitals—Seton Northwest Hospital in Austin, Texas; University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Shadyside; and Kaiser Foundation Hospital in Roseville, Calif.—created nurse-led teams that identified needed changes, suggested and tested solutions, and then decided whether and how to implement the innovations. They served as laboratories for change, and the experiment was successful.
The success of TCAB in those first three hospitals led to a second phase of the program, which involved 13 additional sites that received technical assistance to implement and test TCAB. Nurses and other front-line staff at the sites created and tested new concepts, developing exemplary care models at their institutions. Each participating hospital was required to demonstrate institutional commitment to the program by pledging resources to support and sustain the innovations developed and implemented through TCAB.
Across the country, and around the world, and hospitals continue to implement TCAB. Both IHI and the American Organization of Nurse Executives (AONE) are providing courses to help hospitals and other organizations implement the program. In addition, the RWJF Aligning Forces for Quality program included TCAB among its major initiatives and helped many hospitals learn how to implement it.
The lessons learned and the breakthroughs made in the first two phases of TCAB are now available to any hospital or health system interested in the program. The RWJF website offers toolkits and other resources to help hospitals implement this groundbreaking and successful program, including information on how to plan to become a TCAB hospital.
"It seems intuitive that the people who provide the most direct care to patients should help make decisions about how that care is delivered, but nurses needed to be empowered to make their voices heard," said Susan B. Hassmiller, PhD, RN, FAAN, RWJF senior adviser for nursing. "And now there's really no going back. Today, hospitals across the country are using this nurse-led, evidence-based approach to providing safer and more reliable patient-centered care. Hospitals participating in TCAB report better clinical outcomes, increased time spent by nurses on direct care, reduced nurse turnover, and lower costs. That means patients do better. Now, it's not just the patients who listen to nurses. More and more, it's decision-makers in our health care system. And we're all better off for it."
During this, its 40th year, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is saluting the programs it supports that have made a difference to the nation's health and health care, including Transforming Care at the Bedside.


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Last night the El Cajon City Council voted to place a Charter City proposal on the June 5, 2012, ballot. Becoming a Charter City will allow El Cajon to establish greater autonomy from Sacramento and save millions of dollars in building costs. As a Charter City, El Cajon will be able to exempt itself, in certain situations, from paying prevailing wage. It also allows for the use of design build contracts. The vote was a unanimous 5-0 decision.
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Will El Cajon save as much in building costs as the City of Vista did?
Steve Schmidt
My story on the El Cajon vote: http://bit.ly/xsoiCo
Steve Schmidt
Yes, thanks.
My point was that Vista passed their Charter at least in part on the promise of saving money on the construction of their new Civic Center when in fact that project, despite a downturn in the general cost of construction, ended up costing more than $10 million more than was originally forecast.
Jim Sills
To paraphrase Bill Shakespeare, "The Fault is not in our Charters, but in Ourselves." The responsibility for out-of-control spending in Vista rests with the City Council majority there.
It sounds like Bill Wells, on the other hand, has the willpower to make good use of the options a Home-Rule city charter offers.
Much like the issue of PLA's, the problem with prevailing wage studies is that almost all, if not all, of them are biased to one side or the other. That being said, consider this:
The labor component of a vertical building project is generally around 30% of the entire project cost. That means to achieve a project savings of the 15-20% you quote, you would have to cut the labor costs in half and you would also have to assume that you could get the same quality and the same production perhour from people who were willing to work for half their normal wages.
I know the reasonable people of Vista expected huge savings but they didn't materialize. I know that you are a reasonable man too, but do you really think you will achieve those savings?
Spin Zone
So, based on Alger's numbers, let's say the savings can only be achieved on the labor component. Let's even call it only a 15 percent savings. The thirty percent labor piece on a $25 million project is $7.5 million. A 15 percent savings on that would be $1.125 million. Pennies, obviously, that we should deny in savings to the good people of El Cajon.
Spin Zone,
The point is that the discussion should be based on real numbers not gross exaggerations. I would accept that, assuming you could get the same quality of worker to work for 15% less, you could save 4-5% on the total cost of the project.
In the case of Vista, a certain lobbyist for a certain non-union contractors' association wrote an op-ed claiming that the elimination of prevailing wage would allow the city to "build two city halls for the price of one." in fact, the result was a project that came in more than 25% over budget.
I have no problem with "letting the voters decide." I only ask that the voters be given honest information with which they can use to decide. In the case of Vista, the voters were clearly not given this courtesy.
And yet Vista's new Civic Center was 25% over budget despite the elimination of the prevailing wage requirement and during the biggest downturn in construction prices since before Vista was even a city. I guess the promise of "two City Halls for the price of one" was slightly overstated, wouldn't you agree?.
Jim Sills
Sorry, Alger, that Vista dog won't Hunt. The problem there was a Council majority too busy raising pensions for City employees, and not paying attention to the Public's business. When a Vista city councilman ran against Bill Horn for Supervisor in 2010 (remember?) North County voters said, "Forget about it."
El Cajon is another story. The Council out there appears to mean Business.
My only point was these charters are being sold to the public as a way to save EXTRAORDINARY amounts of money on construction projects, predominantly from the elimination of the requirement to pay prevailing wages. Unfortunately this just won't happen and it is dishonest to make it the focal point of the campaign. The vast majority of the cost of these projects come from the cost of materials, permitting, overhead and profit, none of which are affected by prevailing wage.
It might surprise you, but I do believe that often a city is well-served by having its own charter and that there is a potential for SOME construction cost savings, predominantly from the ability to use alternative project delivery methods. I would just like to see more honest debates; in my opinion at least, political honesty is beneficial to the public.
Finally, as good a Council Member as Bill Wells is and as good as his colleagues are, they are not going to supervise the day-to-day operation of a construction project. They have neither the time not the expertise.
Let's stick to the question of whether becoming a charter city is going to save the taxpayers oodles of money on construction projects.
The problem with Vista's final bill being above estimates was not the fault of fancy fixtures although that certainly made the cost higher than it needed to be. The engineer's estimate on the project was actually based on the "gold-plated Cadillac city hall plan" and it still ended up costing 25% more than that.
One other point: You seem to have gotten your talking points for PLA's and prevailing wage confused. Charter cities are trying to eliminate prevailing wage. No city in San Diego has ever mandated a PLA on any municipal project. Please go back to your friends at the ABC and AGC and ask them to explain the difference to you.


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Kenzi's Then and Now
Sigh. This week's "Then and Now" hit me right in the feels. I cried both times I read it. I remember her first weeks at Tribe.... the tears she shed as she began to move her body again after what must have been the most frightening experience of her life.... but I also remember my own tears after she did her first sit up. Please take the time to read this. It will change you.
Meet Kenzi.
I have always considered myself an athlete. Playing basketball throughout high school and college, my body type has always been a thick, strong, athletic build. I had my kiddos at 27 and 30 years old. After my son, I got back into the gym consistently, started eating healthier and continued playing rec league basketball. I felt really good about my body and had lost all of my baby weight. Then my life came to a crashing halt when I heard the word, cancer. On October 2, 2014 at the age of 31, I was diagnosed with stage 2 breast cancer. At first, I was shocked and confused not knowing much and thinking ok they are just going to cut out a tumor, right? Well I was way off base because days later I was starting to meet with more doctors than I'd never met with and hearing the words biopsy, chemo, maybe radiation, and mastectomy. I thought triple negative was a good thing….wrong again.
My emotions turned into complete sadness and anger thinking why me and what about my sweet babies who were only 1 and 3 at the time. Within two weeks, I had one surgery down to test lymph nodes and have a port placed. By then my mindset was back to athlete/game mode. I looked at my oncologist and said tell me the game plan and what I need to do to beat this and survive and that's all that matters to me. Chemo started on October 15th and I went every two weeks for 8 rounds. It was the toughest game or battle I had played in. Many days after each treatment I couldn't get myself out of bed. I was getting so many drugs and steroids pumped into my body, I still worked a full-time job, and was still a wife and mother of two babies. The last thing on my mind was exercise. I think back and wish I could have been more active and then I laugh at myself because that shit was hard enough! On February 23rd, 2015 I had a double mastectomy and reconstruction surgery all in the same day. Because of my age, I was a candidate for a diep flap breast reconstruction which means they took blood vessels, skin and fat from my lower abdomen and transferred it to my chest to reconstruct my breasts. I mean that is some craziness yet all part of the game plan…
Fast forward 11 months post diagnosis and I was ready to get back to a gym. Most breast cancer patients gain weight, and I gained around 35 pounds. I was depressed and had zero confidence. I knew friends who went to Tribe and I knew I had to try it. I thought it just may be the place for me. I was so scared the first day I showed up. I made it through the workout and then Tiff had us do sit ups. I remember laying back and when I started to sit back up, I swear I didn't move an inch. I just laid there thinking oh my god I can't even do a sit-up and just started crying. Tiffany was right by my side. She comforted me and then and there I knew that this was the gym I needed to be at and Tiff was the person who would get me where I wanted to be.
That was a little over two years ago in September 2015. Since then Tribe has been my lifeline. I have lost about 20 of those extra pounds but I must remind myself that my body is completely different than it was before I got sick. Cancer took my hair for a while, my breasts and left me with about 8 scars and that's a lot for someone to handle mentally and physically. This Tribe is my second family. It's my safe haven for an hour each day. Tribe has made me feel like an athlete again and it has made me confident and most of all happy. I still may not be too great at sit-ups but when I clean 140 pounds or finish a die day workout, I feel so good and proud of myself. Tribe Gym makes me feel alive!
Kenzi, to say I'm proud of you falls short of what happens in my heart when I watch you boss that barbel around. I love you like a sister. We all do. I'm so grateful to be your coach.


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Ghostbusters: Paul Feig is tired of the chick flick comments
Paul Feig's Ghostbusters reboot can't escape the "chick flick" label — and the director's tired of it.
"We still get called in the press as a 'chick flick.' We are always referred to as the all-female Ghostbusters," Feig said at Saturday's Produced By Conference, The Wrap reports. "It's just an uphill battle and I can't believe we are having to deal with it."
The new Ghostbusters stars Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Leslie Jones, and Kate McKinnon, all actresses who've had to deal with sexist criticism since the movie was first announced.
"There were a bunch of people that were angry that there was a reboot," Feig said before addressing the controversy that surrounded Jones' character, a subway worker.
"I feel bad that many have taken a bad look at Leslie Jones' character. We originally wrote it for Melissa, and then when we were putting it together, we figured Melissa had played a role like that before," he said. "Leslie is so funny at playing this kind of a character that we put her in there. I am the first to admit, while I am a fighter for women, my record for diversity has not been as good and I take responsibility for that."
Feig is no stranger to working with women — the director previously helmed Bridesmaids, The Heat, and Spy — but that didn't stop a male producer from giving him some "advice" on an unnamed female-centric project once.
"I had some male producer say, 'Oh boy, get ready. It's going to be tough, you're going to have catfights,'" Feig remembered. "And I said, 'Who the f— are you?' It was the most wonderful experience I've had."
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Cerner, in conjunction with The American Association of Nurse Assessment Coordination (AANAC), have developed the Nursing Assistant of the Year Scholarship Program. This program will give nursing assistants who are currently enrolled, or are planning to enroll, in a degree program the opportunity to receive financial assistance to help offset education expenses.
Caitlin Atkinson, Nursing Assistant of the Year, received a $3,000 scholarship toward the completion of her nursing degree. She also received travel and accommodations to the 2018 AANAC Annual Conference in Las Vegas, NV, April 11-13, 2018 where the award was presented at a special dinner ceremony.
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The 25th annual USS Gearing reunion was held in
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Home base was the Crowne Plaza Tampa Westshore Hotel.
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Aboard the tour boat for lunch, a Tampa Bay tour,
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When it comes to your credit score, your HELOC has a lot in common with a credit card. It can have a small impact on your credit score when you apply for one but a larger one if payments are late or missed. However, timely payments on your HELOC can also boost your credit score. A HELOC's impact on your credit score usually comes down to how you manage the account.
How does a HELOC work?
HELOCs are revolving credit lines that are secured by the equity in your home. A few reasons homeowners take out HELOCs are to use the cash to make home renovations, cover unexpected expenses or pay down high-interest debt such as credit cards. The big advantage of HELOCs is that they have much lower interest rates than plastic. As of January 14, 2022, the average rate on a HELOC was 6.24 percent.
These loans operate in a similar way to credit cards. During an initial draw period that usually lasts 10 years, you're allowed to borrow money from the HELOC when you need to, carry a balance from month to month and make minimum payments. During that period, you'll typically only be required to make interest payments. After the first 10 years, you'll enter the repayment period, which often lasts 20 years. During that time, you'll need to pay both the interest and principal amount, and you won't be able to make any draws. Making a late payment or missing a payment can both lower your credit score and put you at risk of having the lender foreclose on the home.
Does a HELOC affect your credit score?
A HELOC may impact your credit score in a variety of ways, from application through repayment. However, some of these effects could be temporary.
How applying for a HELOC affects your credit
When you apply for a HELOC, potential lenders will check your credit score, which has the potential to temporarily lower your credit score. However, if you haven't applied for other credit recently, the impact will be minimal, says Jackie Boies, a senior director of housing and bankruptcy services for Money Management International, a Texas-based nonprofit debt counseling organization. "The inquiry will remain on your credit report for two years, but generally only impacts your credit score for about six months," Boies says.
"Overall, a single inquiry for credit will have minimal impact, typically five to 10 points," says Suzanne Mink, assistant vice president of consumer lending at Connex Credit Union.
Multiple inquiries from auto, mortgage or student loan lenders within a short time period don't have a large impact on a credit score. However, if you decide to compare interest rates and fees over a longer period of time, several hard inquiries could be harmful to your credit score, Mink says.
How using a HELOC affects your credit
Once you're approved for a HELOC, the loan backed by your home will be reported like other revolving credit, such as a credit card, instead of like a second mortgage.
"A HELOC is an open line of credit and subject to being used in the same manner (as a credit card)," Boies says. "As with all debt, it will be very important to maintain timely payments and develop an excellent payment history on your HELOC."
Like a credit card, a HELOC is a revolving line of credit, so you can take money from the loan when you need to and make only minimum payments during the draw period.
"That's why a HELOC is listed as a revolving account like your other credit card accounts," Mink says. "The credit report will show the HELOC balance, credit line and payment history." But unlike a credit card, the amount of the available credit used from the HELOC is not considered when determining your credit score when you're seeking another loan.
You can, however, boost your credit score by making timely payments toward your HELOC.
What happens to your credit score if you don't tap the HELOC very often?
One factor in determining your credit score is how much of your total available credit you've used, which is known as credit utilization. Your credit score can increase if the HELOC is untapped and there is a large amount of available credit, says Leo Loomie, a senior vice president of client development at Digital Risk, a New York-based provider of digital technology platforms and services. "Not drawing on an open line is very similar to having a credit card open and not using it."
How closing a HELOC affects your credit
Closing a HELOC can impact your credit score, especially if you don't have much credit available elsewhere.
"Closing a HELOC will reduce one's available credit and could have a negative impact if the percentage of revolving balances breaches a certain percentage," says Matt Hackett, operations manager of Equity Now, a New York-based direct mortgage lender. For instance, if a homeowner has a HELOC of $10,000 and closes the account after it is paid off, that means the $10,000 of available credit is no longer being factored into the homeowner's credit score.
The impact to a credit score will be greater if the person has a short credit history, is relatively new to credit or has few credit cards. "Credit history makes up about 15 percent of your score," Mink says. "A longer credit history will help to improve your score." Each month you keep the HELOC open extends your credit history.
What to do to minimize any negative effects on your credit
Some actions may help minimize any negative effects on your credit when you take out a HELOC:
- Resolve other debts. Several open credit accounts can negatively impact your credit utilization ratio, which will ultimately bring down your credit score. Try to pay down other debt before taking out a HELOC.
- Shop rates and get quotes from different lenders within a 45-day window. FICO considers similar inquiries that have occurred within 45 days of each other as a single inquiry. This time period may vary depending on the credit scoring model used, but it's typically between 14 and 45 days.
- Make timely HELOC payments. A missed payment on your HELOC is likely to cause your credit score to drop. Depending on your lender, there may be a grace period before it's reported to the credit bureaus.
The bottom line
It's best to use a HELOC for specific needs, such as paying off high-interest credit cards or repairing your home, Boies says. Using equity to increase the value of your home is smart, especially since the interest you pay on your HELOC will be tax deductible if you use the funds to substantially improve your home. And since HELOCs tend to have lower interest rates than credit cards or personal loans, they may make the most financial sense.
Before applying for a HELOC, make sure you're prepared for the potential impacts to your credit score by taking the following steps:
- Raise your credit score before applying: Taking steps to improve your credit score will lessen any impacts from hard credit inquiries and help you get the lowest rates.
- Shop around: Comparing HELOC rates from a few lenders, especially if you can get prequalified without a hard credit check, is the best way to find the cheapest loan.
- Understand how the HELOC draw period works: Make a financial plan for your HELOC's draw period and repayment period to avoid hurting your credit by missing payments.


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A gemstone variety of the mineral corundum is Sapphire. Corundum mixed with trace amounts of other elements, such as titanium, iron or chromium, can give corundum yellow, blue, purple, pink, greenish or orange color.
Chromium impurities in corundum provide a redish tint and therefore the resultant gemstone is ruby.
Sapphires of all colors are commonly found in jewelry but because of their remarkable hardness they are all used in some non-ornamental applications which include highly durable windows; optical components, such as in scientific instruments; very thin electronic wafers; and wristwatch crystals and movement bearings.
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The gemstone "color" is most commonly understood as the hue. Saturation refers to the brightness or vividness of the hue. And, tone is the darkness or lightness of the hue.
"Blue sapphire exists in various mixtures of its primary (blue) and secondary hues, various tonal levels (shades) and at various levels of saturation (brightness)". source Wikipedia.com
The purity of the primary hue is the basis for the eveluation of Blue Sapphires. The most common secondary hues found in blue sapphires are violet, purple and green.
A secondary hue of green is considered to be distinctly negative, where as purple and violet can contribute to the overall beauty of the blue sapphire color.
The blue sapphire that has up to 15% purple or violet is generally considered to be of fine quality.
In 1960 Mrs. John Logan donated a flawless specimen from Sri Lanka to the Smithsonian Institute. Know as the Logan Sapphire (view picture) it is the second largest blue sapphire known and is a cushion-cut stone that possesses a rich deep blue color.
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Designed to give the illusion of two separate rings, this eye-catching ring has one ring with sparkling white diamonds and the other studded with deep blue sapphires.
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The dark blue stones provide a really nice contrast against the bright diamonds.
There are 11 gemstones and 18 diamonds. .
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This ring is both feminine and durable.
Being 10k gold it is stronger than 14k or 18k and will not bend easily with regular daily wear.
All though not Blue Sapphire stones this ring is elegantly set with kyanite gemstones and six round shaped diamonds.
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This classic combination of blue sapphires and yellow gold ring features an oval sapphire flanked by two round sapphires.
The ring is made of 10-karat yellow gold.
Total gemstone weight is .45 carat and the band measures 1.60 mm wide.
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This ring shimmers with a highly polished finish of sterling silver and a melange of blue sapphires and white sapphire accents.
There are eight 2 mm bead-set round-cut sapphires, 27 1.75 mm bead set round-cut sapphires, 24 bead-set 1.5 mm round-cut sapphries, seven 1.25 mm bead-set round-cut sapphires, one 2 mm bead-set round-cut white sapphire and seven 1.75 mm bead-set round-cut white sapphires for a total gemstone weight of 2 carat.
The band is 3.5 mm wide.
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Solitaire Style 2.75 carats Blue Sapphire Ring in Sterling Silver Rhodium Finish
You will love the gorgeous deep blue color of this blue sapphire ring and how it sparkles on your finger.
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This striking Blue Sapphire Ring has a dark blue stone that shines brillantly in the sun or light giving a very vibrant blue color.
Nine square princess-cut 3 x 3 blue sapphires are channel set in a ring of 14 karat white gold.
This 14k White Gold Channel-set Blue Sapphire Ring is very eye-catching and something you will be proud to wear.
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As we discussed earlier sapphires can come in different colors, such as, blue, pink, yellow, purple, green, orange or even a clear color. Then there is the red sapphire which is more commonly known as a ruby.
The most common and sought after color is blue and other than the blue and red sapphires, the rest are considered "fancy" sapphires.
Sapphires without good color saturation are often improved with chemicals or heating. Naturally pure in color sapphires are prized and therefore cost a lot more than the less-perfect stones.
Sapphires are next in hardness only to diamonds and therefore are prized for their durability. Since they are quite strong they require little care or special attention by the wearer.
The star sapphire is especially prized among sapphires and are usually cut in a dome shape. Their uniqueness is that they display a star shaped inclusion when held up to the sun or light.
The better defined the "star" is, then the more expensive the sapphire will be. You want to find a star sapphire with clear and well-defined arms. Ideally it would display six equidistant and clear arms. A star sapphire is very expensive and quite rare.
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Sapphires are often cut in round or oval shapes. Oval shapes are sometimes less expensive than round shapes. Something for you to keep in mind while shopping.
Like diamonds, sapphires are graded by carat weight.
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A sapphire labeled "cultured" or "created" it means that the sapphire was created in a lab and is not natural.
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Since sapphires are so versatile and popular they are used in different types of jewelry. Extremely popular are sapphire pendants and sapphire-studded earrings. In addition you can purchase sapphire bracelets, rings and mixed-gem pieces. Sapphires, especially blue sapphires, go well with light colored settings like white gold and platinum.
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Intel Japan came out on Twitter and said it would be making a "serious announcement regarding PC games for 2020" at TGS 2019. And, with the Intel Core i9-9900KS right around the corner in October, we might end up seeing Intel announce its long-awaited Xe graphics card.
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...just don't get too excited yet, as there's a chance this isn't something big.
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Armie Hammer Doesn't Need a Twitter Account to Be a Movie Star
Read anything about Armie Hammer these days and you get a primer on his classically good looks, his manly interest in guns, and the sex he has with his TV personality/journalist/model/actress wife. But can he be a big deal movie star?
Read anything about Armie Hammer these days and you get a primer on his classically good looks, his manly interest in guns, and the sex he has with his TV personality/journalist/model/actress wife. But can he be a big deal movie star?
That's what Variety's Rachel Abrams attempted to evaluate in their cover story this week, using an informal metric of blockbuster roles and Internet fame. But while Channing Tatum might have a fantastic Instagram, while Armie Hammer doesn't, that doesn't mean he's missing out on his big break.
Abrams compares Hammer to Tatum and docks points from Hammer's rising star for not being on social media or having had his viral moment yet. But let's go easy on the newbie, who, mind you, is seven years younger than Tatum. Hammer is best known for playing the Winkelvoss twins in The Social Network. His role in J. Edgar, a movie that didn't get great buzz, was supporting, and Mirror Mirror flopped. The Lone Ranger is basically his first big test, and there's a reason that, according to Abrams, "Fizziology found that Depp is driving more of the positive online conversation about 'Lone Ranger' than Hammer is." Depp has made it evident that his (potentially controversial) Tonto is not a sidekick, meaning Hammer isn't really lead. Plus, Depp, who has top billing, isn't a relative newcomer.
And Abrams may be overvaluing the importance of Twitter to movie star potential. In a December story for Entertainment Weekly, Adam Markovitz explained that movie stars wield less power on Twitter than their television counterparts. And while one publicist said studios might want to "cross-promote" if an actor does have a social media presence, she added: "It's very tricky for an A-list dramatic actor to use the space successfully.'' Hammer, despite not having a Twitter account, has been doing his part in this Lone Ranger press cycle to give entertaining interviews to the print media—which Abrams cites as still important—that cast him as sort of a rogue rather than a spoiled rich boy. (Oh, did you not know? Hammer is one of those Hammers, the great grandson of oil baron Armand Hammer.)
In a Playboy interview he made light of the Lone Ranger mask: "Let's just say I kept one. [chuckles] And that my wife loves it." He talked about his and his wife's sex life (he says he was once a "dominant lover" but now laughs in bed) and reminisced about almost getting kicked out of eighth grade for selling Playboys. His profile in Elle by Jessica Pressler wasn't perhaps as wild as Pressler's take on Tatum—who, mind you, was not as big a star back in March 2011—but she portrays Hammer as an energetic, charming, and a bit reckless actor to skip lunch for a shooting range or a bar. He describes the time he came to blows with a homeless man in Australia who tried to stab him. He describes another time in which a girl tried to stab him during sex. He talks guns and knots, and throws in some profane literary references for good measure: "A guy who is faced with a problem and he has to deal with it, and then there's the adventure—the hero's journey, to borrow a term from Joseph Campbell. Like Moby-Dick. Fucking Ishmael!"
Perhaps the talk of his sex life or his fights with homeless guys come off as un-media trained, but in this day and age they are exactly what media trained should be: give good blog posts. And lo—he's off to a good start.
It's still just a start, though. Let's give the man some time. We still have to evaluate The Lone Ranger's fortunes, and he has another classic TV reboot, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., up next. They may not be a success, his rising star may fizzle, he may just not be a movie star, but he's not at peak popularity yet. He can still have a viral moment, and he's on his way there, but let's not write him off because he doesn't have a Twitter account. Even Jennifer Lawrence doesn't have a Twitter account.


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Statistics show that over fifty percent of the United States population is now overweight.
For this reason, many fad diets and weight loss programs are popping up. You may be tempted to try out the newest lose ten pounds in a week scheme.
However, you need to understand that losing a large amount of weight doesn't happen overnight or instantly.
If you need to lose over ten pounds it won't happen in a day or even a week. Losing weight isn't easy either; you have to be willing to put forth the effort.
Diets Don't Work
While many people have lost weight by dieting, the truth is that diets don't work in the long run. It may be just fine to skip the carbohydrates for awhile, but eventually everyone wants a slice of bread or cake. The best way to lose weight is to change your eating lifestyle.
You have to make a choice to change the way you eat, on a regular basis. The best food choices will be based on the food pyramid. Eating a healthy balance of fruits and vegetables, and lean meat will provide long term results.
In addition, when you base your diet on the food pyramid you can enjoy snacks and treats as part of your diet.
Losing Weight Requires Work
If you think you can cut your calories and lose weight by sitting on the couch, you are wrong. The human body is very easy to understand. The calories you eat are used for energy to live and work throughout the day.
However, if you eat more calories than you burn for energy, the calories will be stored as fat. In order to make sure you burn up all the calories you consume, you need to work out or exercise.
Most physicians recommend that you work out at least three times every week. For faster weight loss, working out daily will be necessary. You might want to join a gym so that you can learn the best exercises to quickly burn calories.
Be Realistic and Set Goals
The main things that cause people to stop losing weight are lack of determination and goal setting. When you are taking steps to reduce weight, you have to set realistic goals that you can accomplish.
Most people can lose from one to five pounds every week safely. Set reasonable goals for yourself, and make sure you are rewarded for accomplishing them.
Have you wanted a new pair of shoes or a new piece of jewelry? After a few weeks of staying on track and reaching your goals, buy these items for a reward. Set a new reward that will motivate you to keep going in the future.
In the end, losing weight and getting in shape, comes down to hard work and a change in your eating habits. This is the only way you can take of the pounds, and keep them off for good. With a little effort, you can quickly transform your body into the shape and size you have always wanted.


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BMW will most likely be using a motorcycle engine as a range entender in the upcoming i3.
In a recent conversation with Eric Evarts of Consumer Reports, BMW chief engineer Ulli Kranz hinted at a possible source for the upcoming i3's range extender. After Evarts suggested that a BMW motorcycle engine might be well-suited to duty in the small plug-in, Kranz quickly agreed, apparently excited that someone understood his line of thinking. This could, theoretically, make for an extremely efficient vehicle, albeit not a particularly powerful one.
At the moment, the most buzz is focused around the 652-cc, 48hp engine in the G 650 GS motorcycle. Production of this engine was recently moved back to Germany from China, and it just might be that this was done in anticipation of an increased volume from i3 demands. With such a small engine, the i3 would essentially be a range-extended city car. This means it would most likely compete with the Toyota Prius plug-in, rather than the Chevy Volt, which has much more range and power (and cost), and is therefore not really in direct competition.


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Homemade pizza dough + a fun dinner party (recipe + lots of photos and topping suggestions at the bottom)
Last year my boss introduced me to a New Jersey band called Personal and the Pizzas, whose album Raw Pie includes songs like "I Don't Wanna Be No Personal Pizza," "$7.99 For Love" and "Pizza Army." Usually around 5 p.m. on Fridays, I'd hear a blast of "PEPPERONI, PEP-PEPPERONI! PEPPERONI PEP-PEPPERONI!" (from the track "Pepperoni Eyes") coming from his computer, to signal the end of the work week. So, this band was obviously a no-brainer excuse to throw a pizza party! Whenever I hosted sleepover parties in elementary school, my mom would make a bunch of pizza dough and we'd each get to top our own personal pizzas. It's a perfect hands-on activity to keep kids entertained, and, as I learned on last weekend, still just as much fun for the big kids, too.
This was my first time making pizza dough and it was surprisingly easy! I do recommend timing it so you use the dough right when it's done rising, as I'm not quite sure to preserve it (I did a test run earlier in the day and wrapped it in plastic wrap in the fridge, but that dough was so set on continuing to rise that it broke through the plastic wrap, which reminded me of Buddy Love turning into Professor Klump in The Nutty Professor… That aside, I don't think I'll ever buy pizza dough again, even the $1 bags at Trader Joe's, because this was so easy, probably even less expensive, and, honestly, it tasted better and had a better texture. Mom would be proud!
Personal and the Pizzas on MySpace


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Torrance has the talent, but not the depth. So when running back Bobby Wilson went down with a knee injury in the first quarter, Jonathan Heard sensed there was a heavy load for him to carry.
He was right.
The heavy load caused him several leg cramps, but didn't prevent Heard from having the game of his life.
Heard had touchdown runs of 80, 74 and 40 yards and finished with 256 yards and three touchdowns on 19 carries as Torrance came from behind to defeat South Torrance 32-25 in the Pioneer League opener for both teams at South High on Friday night.
"I knew I had to step it up," Heard said. "We only have three running backs without Bobby, and we all stepped up."
It marked Torrance's first win over South since 2007.
"It's great to end the five-year drought; the kids really battled," Torrance coach Rock Hollis said. "Anytime you play Josh (Waybright) at South, you know you will get a battle."
Heard had an 80-yard touchdown run and a 74-yard scoring run in the first quarter, but Torrance (3-3, 1-0) still found itself trailing 17-12 at halftime.
South took a 25-12 lead on a 13-yard touchdown run by Ian Va Natta with 5:35 left in the third quarter.
Heard left the game with leg cramps with 1:05 left in the third quarter, but returned in the fourth quarter after Torrance had pulled to within 25-19 on Sam Hudson's 4-yard scoring run with 11:54 left in the game.
Heard returned for Torrance's next drive, but Hudson had the big play, getting loose on fourth-and-2 for a 57-yard touchdown run with 5:19 left in the game.
Anthony Peters blocked the extra-point attempt, and the score was tied 25-25.
Heard scored his last touchdown – a 40-yard run on a pitchout behind a big block from quarterback Jacob Kalama – to give Torrance a 32-25 lead with 1:35 left in the game.
A 33-yard kick return put South (3-3, 0-1) on its own 43-yard line. South drove to the Tartars' 17-yard line, but after a bad snap, the Spartans faced a fourth-and-24 from the Torrance 31 with 34 seconds remaining.
South quarterback Kyle Nesbit dropped back to pass, but could not avoid Leo Fuimaono, whose sack sealed the win for Torrance.
Nesbit was 11 of 18 for 114 yards and one touchdown with no interceptions. Brandon Chavez had 43 yards on six carries and Bowman had 34 yards on five carries for South.
In the first quarter, Nesbit pitched the ball to fullback Adam Heifetz, who threw a 32-yard touchdown pass to Peters.
But the second half was all Torrance, which scored the last 20 points of the game.
"That offense will wear you down, and we looked like we were worn down," South coach Josh Waybright said.
Hudson had 87 yards and two touchdowns on nine rushes and Kamal Miller had 57 yards on 12 carries for Torrance.
But Heard was the man of the hour.
"Excluding one game by Tyrone Taylor, that was the gutsiest performance I've seen from one of my players in a long time," Hollis said.
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Caption: The local wayfreight with CN GP9RM's 4100 and 4132 is seen crossing Bath Road on the 3-mile Cataraqui Spur in Kingston, heading back after switching the Invista (formerly Dupont) plant to the south.
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This semester at Berkeley I am teaching the year-long graduate field methods course, which I am enjoying tremendously. Apart from having the opportunity to work with a wonderful speaker of Quichua and a group of very intelligent and hard-working students, I have very much appreciated how the experience of helping others get their start with documenting and describing a language has given me the opportunity to reflect on aspects of my own language documentation practices. As in any area in which skills are acquired through praxis, there are aspects of my own practices that I am normally not particularly conscious of, but by watching others find their way and experiment, I've become more aware of some of them.
One such aspect concerns the intuitions I have developed about possible pitfalls in elicitation. Among documentary and descriptive linguists, the role of elicitation in a project's overall methodological toolbox is a source of some controversy, with some linguists, like Tom Payne, recommending a heavy focus on elicitation early on in a documentary/descriptive project, and others, like Bob Dixon, recommending avoiding elicitation until late in a project, after a significant amount of text-based analysis has been carried out. I feel that there are good arguments for both of these elicitation philosophies, but regardless of the approach taken, I believe elicitation involves subtle skills that take time and practice to develop. One especially important aspect of developing elicitation skills, I believe, is acquiring sensitivities to the ways in which the linguistic expectations we have, stemming from the characteristics of our native language(s), can be the source of elicitation difficulties.
One area in which I've developed this type of sensitivity, I've recently come to realize, is in the use of metaphor. For example, I recently overhead an elicitation session in which a student asked our consultant to translate something like "Dancing gave Fred a headache." The consultant had some difficulty with translating this sentence, and it dawned on me that I would probably never ask a consultant to translate a sentence like this.
But what kind of sentence is this, and why wouldn't I ask a consultant to translate it? First, the sentence relies a great deal on metaphor: correctly interpreting the sentence requires interpreting the 'giving' expressed in the sentence as a metaphor for causation. And second, it requires understanding (anthropomorphising?) an activity like dancing as capable of 'giving' in the first place. Reflecting on this brief interchange and my reaction to it, I realized that over the years, I've come to avoid certain metaphors in elicitation. They seem to cause trouble.
But if, as scholars like George Lakoff believe, metaphor is central to human cognition, what exactly am I doing when I am 'reducing' my use of metaphor? I think that what I'm really doing is relying on my intuitive sense of what metaphors are cross-linguistically common and which aren't. For example, I have the sense that the metaphorical use of spatial distances and relations to talk about temporal duration and relations (e.g. 'a long time') is very widespread, while the causation-as-giving metaphor discussed above is not. I'm not sure how good my intuition really is, of course, since I've only worked with a small number of languages, but the sensitivity I've developed seems to be an improvement over having none whatsoever. Of course, what would really be helpful here would a cross-linguistic typological perspective on metaphor, so that we could have a really sound basis for judgements about the use of metaphors in elicitation — but that's an issue for another post.


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80's superstar and Strawberry Lift ambassador Samantha Fox joined the Laser Lipo LTD team at this year's Professional Beauty trade exhibition at London's Kensington Olympia, held 31st September -1st October. Sam posed for selfies with fans and spoke all about how much she loves Strawberry Lift!
Sam's relationship with the brand began after she watched herself back on an episode of ITV's Loose Women earlier this year. Sam was shocked to see that she had the makings of a double chin, which was making her face appear much rounder and adding years onto her age. Wanting to do something about it, Sam began looking online for a solution. Sam is known for being 'all-natural', which even extends to the treatments she opts for!
Committed to staying well away from invasive procedures to stay looking youthful (Sam says she's never even had Botox) she decided to try Strawberry Lift by Laser Lipo LTD. The treatment was exactly what Sam was looking for; non-surgical, pain-free and had incredible long-lasting results. Now Sam is working alongside the brand to spread the word!


text: I took an old drawing to colour, render and develop to my current skillset. This is the main character of my personal project Forlorn Knights named "Wan". I hope you like it and thanks for visiting my portfolio! If you are interested in more updates, which I am planning to do more often here on Artstation either, please connect with me on Facebook. See you next time!


text: Kristján Kristjánsson (PhD, University of St. Andrews) is Deputy Director (Research) in the Jubilee Centre for Character and Values, University of Birmingham, and Professor of Character Education and Virtue Ethics. His interests lie in research on character and virtues at the intersection between moral philosophy, moral psychology and moral education. He has published six books on those issues, the latest one, on positive psychology's virtue theory, was published by C.U.P. in 2013. In 2011 he was awarded the Ása Wright Award, the most prestigious award given annually to an Icelandic scholar. In addition to leading the flagship projects on gratitude and character education and overseeing all the research activities in the Centre, Kristján is working on two independent book projects, on Aristotelian Character Education and on Virtuous Emotions. As a member of various international organisations and editorial boards, Kristján collaborates with colleagues in Asia, Europe and the U.S.A. on issues that relate to the cultivation of virtuous character.


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The 2009 hurricane season has gone missing. No hurricanes have made landfall in the United States and we are well past the halfway point in the season. How can this be? Many experts had planned on 7 to 9 major hurricanes making landfall in the US this year. Others were more modest in predicting 3 to 4. The Weather Channel staff still has their Columbia Sportswear Storm jackets hanging at the ready, praying for some action. But, nothing.
How can global warming, proved now beyond a doubt, cause fewer hurricanes? It is actually quite simple. Global warming causes El Nino to intensify, which increases the vertical wind shear across the tropical Atlantic. The increased wind shear greatly reduces Atlantic basin hurricane activity.
So, global warming has actually REDUCED the chances of hurricanes forming and/or making landfall in the United States.
Before we paint our roofs white, shoot seawater into the sky to make fake reflective clouds, crush all our cars and ride our bikes, paint all our asphalt highways white, switch all our light bulbs to toxic, mercury-filled compact fluorescent bulbs, turn our thermostats up in summer and down in winter, ride the light rail, or any of the many other actions to reduce global warming we might want to rethink all that.
Global warming this year has saved lives and countless billions of dollars in hurricane damage that never was. That is a fact.


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