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WASHINGTON -- A Federal Reserve survey released Wednesday found that the economy grew modestly in the late summer, bolstered by solid gains in housing.
The report is based on anecdotal information from the regional districts and covers the period from mid-August to Sept. 28.
Here are some highlights:
BOSTON (includes Maine, Vermont, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and part of Connecticut):
The region's economy expanded modestly. Most retail and manufacturing contacts reported sales gains from a year earlier. Consulting and advertising firms were generally upbeat.
NEW YORK (includes New York and parts of Connecticut and New Jersey):
Economic growth was mostly unchanged from the last report. The job market looked softer as fewer businesses reported adding workers. Retailers noted some leveling off in sales.
PHILADELPHIA (includes Delaware and parts of Pennsylvania and New Jersey):
Business activity improved. Retail sales grew modestly pace and auto sales continued at a strong pace. But manufacturing declined.
CLEVELAND (includes Ohio, Kentucky and parts of Pennsylvania and West Virginia):
The economy grew modestly. Manufacturing output rose. Retailers and auto dealers saw greater sales.
RICHMOND (includes Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, District of Columbia and part of West Virginia):
The economy grew modestly. Manufacturing improved. Port activity continued to expand. Retailers reported sales growth. Residential real estate continued to strengthen.
ATLANTA (includes Georgia, Alabama, Florida and parts of Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee):
Economic activity expanded slowly in September and most business contacts expect little change in the near term. Retailers cited slow sales growth. Auto dealers continued to see strong sales.
CHICAGO (includes Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan and parts of Illinois and Indiana):
Economic activity expanded slowly. Contacts remained guardedly optimistic that conditions would improve. Some noted uncertainty surrounding the outlook will be resolved by the November election.
ST. LOUIS (Includes Missouri, Arkansas and Kentucky, and parts of Illinois, Indiana, Tennessee and Mississippi):
Economic activity expanded moderately. Manufacturing and service companies reported positive gains. Residential real estate markets have continued to improve moderately.
MINNEAPOLIS (includes Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota and parts of Wisconsin and Michigan):
The economy expanded modestly with increased activity in construction and real estate, consumer spending, tourism and professional services. Agriculture varied widely with crop farmers generally in better shape than animal producers.
KANSAS CITY (includes Wyoming, Nebraska, Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma and parts of Missouri and New Mexico):
The economy expanded at a slightly slower pace compared to earlier in the summer. Consumer spending slowed and manufacturing growth was more subdued. Drought conditions hurt agricultural production.
DALLAS (includes Texas and parts of New Mexico and Louisiana):
The economy expanded moderately. Energy activity remained strong and construction picked up as housing demand strengthened. Agricultural conditions improved slightly.
SAN FRANCISCO (includes California, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, Hawaii and Alaska):
Economic activity grew modestly. Upward price pressures remained limited and wage pressures remained muted. Retail sales rose slightly and demand for housing continued to show signs of improvement.


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Alien observers monitoring Earth for signs of intelligent life may well have choked on their intergalactic version of tea a few hundred thousand years ago when the first humans stumbled into focus, some 4 billion years after our planet's own emergence. It was obvious that we were a bit special: we could make fire.
As the global climate shifted at the end of the last ice age, some 10,000 years ago, humans put their fire-making skills to great use, blazing a trail across continents to clear trees for grazing and agriculture, enabling societies to develop from hunter-gatherers to rooted civilizations that produced complex technologies. We were even able to improve on our external sources of energy by expanding our range of fuels: rather than relying on what fuel grew in forests and the continual recycling of biomatter, we delved deep into the ground to extract fossil fuels made over geological timescales.
Humans proved so clever and successful that we were able to overcome almost all the environmental limitations that restricted other species to their ecological niches. The Industrial Revolution began a march towards control of the planet and its resources, which, over the past 50 years, has become truly global. Our population soared from around 10,000 individuals at the start of the Holocene, 10,000 years ago, to 7 billion today. It is estimated that it will pass a colossal 9 billion by 2050.
So, any watching aliens are now looking at a radically changed Earth, on which the land surface, oceanic and atmospheric chemistry, ecology and biology have been transformed by humans. (Human) scientists say Earth has entered the Anthropocene epoch – the Age of Man – because we have become the dominant geological force on our planet.
We have changed the composition of the atmosphere – which now contains more carbon dioxide molecules – and the oceans, which are more acidic because more of that carbon dioxide is dissolving into them. And, because carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas, we are changing the climate by melting glaciers and raising sea levels. Our atmospheric tinkering means that scientists think we have indefinitely delayed the next Ice Age.
We have changed the covering of the planet by chopping down trees (currently we fell 130,000 sq km per year, according to the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations), rerouting rivers (we manage more than half of the planet's available freshwater) and constructing highways and cities. More than half of the world's population now lives in urban areas. At least 75% of the world's land surface has been modified by humans, according to Erle Ellis, an ecologist at the University of Maryland.
Rock and toll
We are also reshaping the planet's rocky material – mining and other excavation shifts four times the amount moved naturally by glaciers and rivers. We are changing the numbers and abundance of other living species –some believe we are at the start of the world's sixth great extinction – and the way they are distributed around our planet, by introducing invasive species and favouring some species over others. There are now more trees on farmland than in forests, for example, and if we were to weigh all of Earth's land vertebrates, 90% of the total would be made up of humans and the animals we have domesticated, according to Prof Vaclav Smil in his book The Earth's Biosphere: Evolution, Dynamics, and Change.
Some of our changes are geologically profound – deforestation and the elimination and distribution of species, for example, are scarring the rocks to leave telltale evidence of our human influence for geologists to discover many thousands of years into the future. Others are immediately obvious to anyone who has looked down at our continents from the window of a aircraft and seen the patchwork of farmland monocultures where there used to be wild savannah, or the islands we have grown out of the sea off Dubai, or the mountain tops we have removed in our quest for coal. But some are more subtle and harder to see directly – the way we are changing the climate, or interfering in the nitrogen cycle, or selecting some metals but not others from the Earth's crust, for example.
We are pretty resourceful and innovative, which is why we have managed to "geoengineer" our planet to produce ever more food, to double human life expectancy in much of the world, and control freshwater sources and most other species. However, we are now faced with some planetary limitations that threaten our survival. If we are going to accommodate 9 billion humans in the next 35 years, and if those people are going to live in comfort, with enough food, water, energy and other important trappings of a liveable existence, then we are going to have to recognise these limitations and come up with innovative ways to overcome them.
In most cases, whether it is about 'peak soil', peak timber', 'peak silver', 'peak fish', 'peak oil' or 'peak freshwater', the problem is that we are using the resource faster than it can be replenished through natural processes – sometimes by a factor of thousands. The solution may be to assist the replenishment or to use less of the resource. Either way, the solution calls for a combination of clever engineering, technology and social tools.
I have spent the past few years visiting the places, wildlife and people that are experiencing the impacts of many of our planetary changes, and I have seen some incredible examples of how we humans can use our ingenuity to overcome almost any challenge.
In this column, I am going to identify the planetary limitations currently threatening us, and find out what we are doing to solve the crisis. Welcome to the frontline of the Anthropocene.
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If a school principal allowed teachers to inflate student grades, there would be big consequences.
But when Gov. Rick Scott lets the Department of Education inflate closely watched school grades, it's OK.
That's the message Florida is sending about education.
And it reeks.
Especially considering that Florida is supposed to be a leader in school accountability.
This state set the standard when it comes to evaluating school performance and giving parents real data to determine how well teachers and administrators are doing their jobs.
National education leaders held up Florida as proof that real accountability is possible the way sports fans turn to Tim Tebow as evidence that a spot on an NFL roster doesn't have to come with an arrest record.
How far Florida has fallen.
On Tuesday the State Board of Education voted — with Scott's support — to inflate school grades for the second time in as many years.
To make matters worse, the vote was preceded by a sad discussion by board members, including longtime advocates for school grades, who said they felt the system had broken down.
"I don't think the truth is being revealed in the current grading system," said Chairman Gary Chartrand, who nevertheless voted for the so-called "safety net" that will prevent schools from dropping more than one letter grade.
Board member Kathleen Shanahan, former chief of staff for school-accountability father Jeb Bush, said she was struggling with the "integrity" of the system and the "reliability of the grades."
Education Commissioner Tony Bennett also acknowledged problems, saying what began as a "pure" grading system has become "overly nuanced."
More like overwrought.
Florida started out taking a hard line. Schools were graded, and the results were the results.
But lately as Florida has raised its standards and more schools were at risk of ending up with an F, the focus has been too heavy on keeping everybody happy instead of fixing performance problems.
It's fine to give everybody a trophy for participating — if we're talking a soccer team filled with 4-year-olds.
By the time they're grown up, they need to know the difference between earning a grade and just being handed one.
Board member Sally Bradshaw, another former Bush chief of staff, derided the "safety net" as a boost to the "self-esteem of adults" working at the schools.
Shouldn't this be about kids?
The letter grades carry high stakes for schools. Top-performing schools get more money, and their teachers get bonuses. Low-performing schools are monitored and given extra attention — but that won't happen if their F is masked as a C.
Because of the "safety net," an estimated 154 schools that deserve an F will get a higher grade instead.
This makes accountability too cloudy for parents. School grades weren't intended as a real-estate marketing tool, but the grades are one of the first things potential homebuyers with kids look at when checking out a neighborhood.
Now as grading calculations have become more complicated and watered down by inflation, parents can't rely on them the same way they once did.
What a loss.
There is some good news. If all goes according to plan, the current grading system will be phased out in two years. By then the state will have moved to a better, more thorough set of curriculum standards known as Common Core.
With that will come an opportunity for a new, simpler and more accurate way to grade schools.


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Mark Rooney Systems Administrator, First Scottish
Based in Fife, First Scottish provides fast and accurate searches and reports for solicitors, estate agents, financial institutions and local authorities. The company also offers document management solutions to help streamline processes, reduce storage costs and increase accessibility to critical business information.
First Scottish's disaster recovery platform was reaching end of life and no longer fit for purpose. They wanted to find a flexible, reliable and cost-effective replacement that would increase availability and de-risk the company in the event of hardware failure.
The company worked with AAG Systems and Fujitsu to implement a hybrid cloud solution encompassing Veeam and VMware running on Fujitsu servers and storage.
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Developer Clint Atkins Dies At Age 65
A longtime business partner of Clint Atkins says the Champaign developer was always objective about his business assets--but he maintained a lifelong devotion to Champaign-Urbana.
The 65-year-old Atkins died early Sunday morning in Lexington, Ky., after suffering a heart attack.
Peter Fox worked with Atkins to develop the University of Illinois Business Research Park and the I-Hotel. He says Atkins' contributions to Champaign-Urbana includes the his early investment and nurturing of Hobbico, the maker and distributor of hobby products, and FlightStar, the fixed-base operator at Willard Airport.
In the case of FlightStar, Fox draws a link between Atkins and Willard Airport's long-running relationship with American Airlines.
"And because of their (FlightStar's) expertise in maintenance, they convinced American airlines to bring most of their regional jets through Champaign for service and maintenance," Fox said. "So it convinced American that--flying to and from Dallas, and then obviously to and from O'Hare--that Champaign was a great place for the planes to spend the night because they were serviced and maintained by FlightStar."
Fox also notes Atkins' contributions to University of Illinois Athletics. He says the golf course attached to Atkins' Stone Creek subdivision in Urbana helped bring the university's golf teams to new levels of excellence.
"People would look at Stone Creek and think, 'Oh it's a golf course or a housing development,'" Fox said. "But I think Clint looked at it also as a way to help the university grow and nurture men's and women's golf, which then enabled the university to attract Mike Small, the PGA Professional of the Year ... and now we've got an NCAA championship in golf."
Illini golfer Scott Langley was last year's NCAA men's golf individual champion in Division One. Fox says Atkins gift for the Atkins Tennis Center helped the Illini tennis teams in a similar fashion.
Clint Atkins is survived by his wife Susie, and three grown children--Todd, Spencer and Suzette. Todd and Spencer Atkins are now directors at The Atkins Group, the development firm that their father founded. A spokesman for
The Atkins Groups says a public visitation for Atkins will be held Wednesday from 3 to 7 pm at Faith United Methodist Church, 1719 S. Prospect in Champaign. A private funeral is planned. Morgan Memorial Home in Savoy is handling funeral arrangements.


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The key to a great Valentine's Day dessert is lightness. This sorbet was one of NYC-based mobile cart Guerrilla Ice Cream's most popular summer flavors and makes a perfect end to a good meal, on Valentine's Day or any other day, really.
The lush, raspberry base is balanced beautifully with tart hibiscus, light rose sweetness and a hint of lavender at the finish. Sweet and clean with an underlying complexity, it's incredibly easy to make and the final product is a bright and beautiful pink. I like topping it with crumbled goat cheese (don't knock it until you try it!) and walnuts, but it'd also be great with shaved dark chocolate and hazelnuts, or a really good chocolate sauce.
Note to foods-on-a-stick lovers: this recipe also works very well in popsicle form.
Ethan Frisch is the chef and co-mastermind behind Guerrilla Ice Cream. He's traveled around the world (30 countries, 5 continents) and worked as a pastry chef and line cook in some of NYC's great (and not so great) restaurants. He currently lives in London, where he really misses New York City tap water.
Max Falkowitz writes Serious Eats' weekly Spice Hunting column. He's a proud native of Queens, New York, will do just about anything for a good cup of tea, and enjoys long walks down the aisles of Chinese groceries.
- Yield:1 quart
- Active time: 30 min
- Total time:4-5 hours
- 1 pound frozen raspberries
- 1 tablespoon dried lavender flowers
- 2 tablespoons dried hibiscus flowers
- 2 tablespoons dried rose flowers
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 2 cups water
- 1-2 teaspoons lemon juice, to taste
Bring water to a boil, and pour over the dried flowers, in a bowl or teapot. Allow it to infuse for 15-20 minutes, then strain out the dried flowers.
In a blender, mix the frozen raspberries, the flower-infused water, and the sugar, and blend until smooth. Add lemon juice to taste.
Chill in the fridge until cold, then spin in your ice cream machine, or to make popsicles, pour into small paper cups. Freeze the cups for about 45-60 minutes, then once they are partially frozen, insert a popsicle stick into the center of each cup.
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The 2012 election campaign may have just ended, but for half of the members of the Florida Senate, it will soon be time to reload and run again. That's because 20 senators who received two-year terms in the new reapportionment plan face re-election in 2014. The two-year anomaly occurs only in a once-a-decade redistricting year, to maintain the constitutional requirement for staggered Senate terms.
Every senator in an even-numbered district received a two-year term in 2012. Those who were just elected for the first time will be eligible to serve for 10 years, through 2022, if they subsequently win re-election to two additional four-year terms in 2014 and 2018.
The district numbers were randomly assigned to Senate districts last March. The Senate secretary drew balls from a basket in a drawing similar to a lottery.
Sixteen of the 20 senators who will face voters in 2014 are Republicans. They are Greg Evers, Aaron Bean, John Thrasher, Dorothy Hukill, David Simmons, Thad Altman, Wilton Simpson, Jack Latvala, Jeff Brandes, Tom Lee, Bill Galvano, Nancy Detert, Lizbeth Benacquisto, Joe Negron, Rene Garcia and Miguel Diaz de la Portilla.
Of that group, only Brandes has opened a re-election campaign account for 2014.
Negron and Thrasher could have the most longevity of all senators in that even-numbered group because both were first elected to fill unexpired partial terms in special elections in 2009.
The four Democratic senators who are up for re-election in 2014 are Geraldine Thompson, Darren Soto, Maria Sachs and Oscar Braynon.
And speaking of legislative longevity, the new "Dean" of the Legislature is Democratic Sen. Gwen Margolis of Coconut Grove, who served six years in the House and is starting her 21st year in the Senate, with one two-year break from 2008-2010.
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There was blood everywhere and she couldn't find a pulse, Sgt. Sarah Andrews testified Wednesday.
She was one of several witnesses who testified at the trial of Richard Kachkar, 46, who has pleaded not guilty to charges of first-degree murder and dangerous driving in the death of the 35-year-old Toronto police officer.
Witnesses said Russell tried in vain to stop the plow, backing away and firing shots at it in the seconds before it crashed into him.
The impact knocked Russell over and spun his body toward the centre of the plow and its blade struck him in the head fracturing his skull, court heard.
Witnesses called 911 and Andrews and her partner arrived first, racing over to a man lying face down on the ground, she said.
"I dropped to the ground and I tried to roll the body over," she said through tears. "I ended up rolling him on top of me and it was at that time I realized it was a police officer."
There was blood everywhere, she said.
"I put my right hand underneath his head and I could feel a hole in the back of his head," Andrews testified. "There was a lot of blood pouring out into my hand."
Russell wasn't conscious, but Andrews put her cheek just above his face and she could feel a slight warm air, she said.
"I took his left hand and I held it and I could feel his wedding ring and I just kept talking to him telling him that he had to fight and to hold on, help was coming," Andrews testified, as Russell's widow and other family members dabbed at their eyes in court.
"I kept asking for help on the radio and another officer finally came...He helped me loosen up his vest and I put my hand under his vest to see if I could fee his heart beating. He was warm, but I couldn't feel his heart beating."
She could no longer feel any breath on her cheek, she said. Russell was later pronounced dead in hospital.
The streets were nearly empty early that morning in mid-town Toronto, with only about half a dozen people on the well-travelled section Avenue Road, court heard. The sun hadn't yet come up and the streetlights illuminated the fresh blanket of snow on the ground in which Russell now lay, court heard.
The trial has already heard that Kachkar stole the plow at a Tim Hortons when two landscapers stopped for coffee around 5 a.m. on Jan. 12, 2011, then drove around Toronto for two hours, hitting several cars and shouting about the Taliban, Chinese technology and a microchip in his body.
The judge has told the jury that there will be no dispute that Kachkar was the person driving the plow, rather the case will centre around his mental state. The Crown alleges Kachkar meant to kill Russell.
Russell responded to calls about the errant snowplow and when he caught up to it, the vehicle did a U-turn and came toward his cruiser, court has heard. He reversed several metres then got out of the car.
The plow didn't swerve and didn't brake as it accelerated toward Russell, who was backing away and firing shots at the plow's windshield, witnesses testified.
All six lanes of Avenue Road were otherwise wide open, the witnesses testified, but the plow drove directly at the officer then continued on without slowing down.
"At that moment the plow is bearing down on the officer and I'm just holding my breath and hoping that this officer can get out of the way," said Vance Cooper, who was driving by at that moment. "(He's) driving straight, no steering, no braking, no apparent effort to change course."
Hamid Azarbani, an electrician on his way to work that morning, testified that he saw the plow hit Russell.
"I saw half of his body, almost, it was struggling on the ground and looks like (the plow) was dragging him about 15 feet," Azarbani said. "He was shaking and all of a sudden stopped."
Tow truck driver Herculano Pereira said under cross-examination that he thought that if the initial impact had spun Russell's body away from the plow instead of closer to its centre, he would have survived.
The trial, which began Monday, is expected to last two months.


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Gun shop owner explains weapon types
As legislators begin to debate gun control measures, some firearms advocates claim the bark is worse than the bite for many assault weapons.
Like many of his fellow gun enthusiasts, Thomas Imperati isn't afraid to voice his opinion about the looming gun control battle at the state and federal levels. Imperati, owner of the Hunter's Shop in Branford, has been selling guns for 30 years.
"Hand them (legislators) a rifle and tell them to take it apart," he said. "Tell me what is the difference between an AR-15 and an M-16? ... What's the difference between an AK-47 and an Uzi? They use these words; they throw these words out ... 'AR-15s are all bad,' ... 'there's no reason why anybody should have an AK-47.' Really, do you even know what an AK-47 is?"
The Hunter's Shop could easily pass as a small military museum. Wartime memorabilia from both Axis and Allied powers fills the entire shop. Some locals stop in to take a look at the items from multiple eras that line the walls and glass cases. Imperati is equally eager to tell the story behind a gun model and talk about current issues facing gun owners.
He said he expects lawmakers will bring the hammer down on many gun control issues that already have been talked about, such as banning high-capacity magazines. Many lawmakers don't understand the difference between many types of guns, he said.
Imperati keeps some of his AR-15 models in the back room. He showed two AR-15 models that appear identical, other than coloring, to the untrained eye. One can be purchased legally in Connecticut and the other can't.
The illegal Colt version has a flash suppressor and is capable of receiving a bayonet lug. The legal version can't accept a bayonet and has a muzzle break to reduce recoil.
"Try and find me the last time where somebody was bayonetted with an AR-15 on the street," Imperati said.
A flash suppressor reduces the muzzle flash that occurs when expanding gases exit the barrel after firing. A muzzle break is attached to the end of the muzzle and helps reduce recoil by venting gases.
Imperati noted that a pistol grip makes no difference in the way the gun works, other than the way it's held.
"If you're going to try and pass laws to make things better, at least talk to people who know what they are talking about," he said.
There are a number of informational sessions scheduled for lawmakers to learn about firearms, said Adam Joseph, press aid for Connecticut Senate Democrats. Some lawmakers have gone to a state police firing range and have spoken with police gun experts.
"It's part of the advocacy for those trying to resist changes to the law," said state Senate Majority Leader Martin M. Looney, D-New Haven. He said he doesn't think the debate about the deadliness of assault weapons needs to be rehashed.
There are a number of possibilities state lawmakers are looking at to expand the number of firearms that would qualify as assault weapons, he said. More specific models may be added to the list and more characterizing qualifiers may be added as well.
Some state gun law changes will make their way through the typical committee process. Others likely will come sooner.
"We are hoping for bipartisan consent sooner rather than later," Looney said of some proposed gun laws.
Yet, others have added their voices to those of gun dealers questioning assault weapon classifications. Angelo Appi, a former New Haven police officer, Marine and three-time national combat pistol champion, has been an advocate for armed security in every school for several years.
"There is this fervor with the assault weapons," he said. "And forget the assault weapons -- the guy could've gone in there with a shotgun, he could've gone in there with any number of rifles and handguns. Let's protect the children; let's hear more about armed security."
A shotgun loaded with 12-gauge 00 buckshot fires nine .32 caliber balls with every pull of the trigger, he said.
"Three pulls of the trigger and that's 27 projectiles in less than a second-and-a-half," he said. "That's more devastating than that AR-15."
Imperati also showed a World War II-era semiautomatic rifle that is legal under Connecticut law.
"Is this gun any different than that gun?" he asked, referring to the AR-15. "Absolutely not. ... As a matter of fact, this gun is way more powerful than that gun."
Imperati expects both federal and state lawmakers will hand down wide bans that may be retroactive.
"Nobody is going to go against a school full of dead kids ... and it's sad they are going to use those people like that," he said.
The Dec. 14 shootings in Newtown affected him as well, he said.
"That was terrible, I couldn't even watch TV," he said. "For two days, I was an absolute mess. ... I'm not an animal; I got kids."
One way to classify firearms is by the action that enables it to be loaded and fired
As lawmakers consider their options and others defend possession of high-powered firearms, terms surrounding the weapons can be a mystery.
o Automatic, or fully automatic, firearms, will continuously fire as long as the trigger is held down and ammunition is fed to the weapon. Such firearms have been illegal to sell or possess in the U.S. since 1934 without special permission from the federal government, according to the National Shooting Sports Foundation.
An example is the M-16 rifle, standard issue for the Army. Made by Colt Manufacturing and Fabrique Nationale Manufacturing Inc., the M-16 can be operated in either automatic and semi-automatic modes.
o Pump-action firearms have a movable forearm that is manually moved to chamber a round, eject the casing and chamber another round, according to the National Shooting Sports Foundation.
An example is the Mossberg 500 series of shotguns.
o Bolt-action firearms are manually loaded, cocked and unloaded with a bolt mechanism that is pulled to eject spent cartridges and allow another to be loaded, according to the NSSF. Firing rate is lower due to the manual action required after each shot. The very accurate firearms are favored by many for hunting and target shooting. An example is the Ruger American Rifle series.
o Lever-action firearms, along with revolvers, typically are used in Western movies. The lever mechanism is used to load, cock and unload the weapon, according to the NSSF.
An example is the Winchester Model 1894
o Break-action firearms load and unload by pivoting the barrel down and away from the breech while activating a release lever, according to the NSSF. Most breech-action firearms are rifles or shotguns; an example is the Mossberg International Silver Reserve II.
o Semi-automatic weapons fire one round for every pull of the trigger until a magazine or other ammunition source is expended. The Bushmaster .223 AR-15 rifle used in the Newtown shootings was a semi-automatic weapon.
Semi-automatic weapons may qualify as assault weapons under Connecticut law depending on the model and whether it can accept certain attachments. A person who legally possessed an assault weapon prior to Oct. 1, 1993, and applied for a certificate of possession for the weapon is exempt from the ban.
There are 67 specific models and types of firearms that qualify as an assault weapon under current state law. In addition, shotguns as well as semiautomatic pistols and rifles not listed can qualify if they meet specific criteria.
A semi-automatic rifle can qualify as an assault weapon under Connecticut law if it can accept a detachable magazine and meets at least any two of the following criteria:
o A folding or telescoping stock.
o A pistol grip that protrudes conspicuously beneath the action of the weapon.
o A bayonet mount.
o A flash suppressor or threaded barrel designed to accommodate a flash suppressor.
o A grenade launcher.
Pistols are handheld guns that have one chamber, according to the NSSF. They differ from revolvers, which have multiple chambers. Single-action pistols require the hammer to be cocked before the firing mechanism is released. Double-action pistols cock and release the hammer with a single pull of the trigger.
Semiautomatic pistols may also qualify as assault weapons under Connecticut law if they are able to accept a detachable magazine and have at least two of the following criteria:
o An ammunition magazine that attaches to the pistol outside of the pistol grip.
o A threaded barrel capable of accepting a barrel extender.
o A flash suppressor, forward handgrip or silencer,
o A shroud that is attached to, or partially or completely encircles, the barrel and permits the shooter to hold the firearm with the non-trigger hand without being burned,
o A manufactured weight of fifty ounces or more when the pistol is unloaded
Semi-automatic shotguns also can qualify as assault weapons under Connecticut law if they have at least two of the following:
o A folding or telescoping stock.
o A pistol grip that protrudes conspicuously beneath the action of the weapon.
o A fixed magazine capacity in excess of five rounds.
o An ability to accept a detachable magazine.
A part or combination of parts designed to convert a firearm into an assault weapon that can be rapidly assembled and are in possession or under control of the same person would also qualify as an assault weapon under Connecticut law.
Call Rich Scinto at 203-789-5748.


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CW30 Broadcast of RSL-CLB Clash Kicks Off at 6:00 p.m. MT
SANDY, Utah (Friday, June 29, 2012) – After two disappointing and historic home losses, Real Salt Lake (10-5-2, 32 pts.; West #2) hits the road this weekend against recent MLS Cup Playoff and CONCACAF Champions League rival Columbus Crew (5-5-4, 19 pts.; East #6) on Saturday, June 30. Live television coverage of the 6:00 p.m. MT kickoff at Crew Stadium will air on CW30 with hosts Bill Riley and Brian Dunseth, and conclude with the 8:00 p.m. MT showing of the 30-minute RAM TRUCKS post-game show. Fans can also catch the action via the team's official radio partners: ESPN 700 / ESPN700Sports.com and La Gran D 102.3 FM, and by live Twitter updates via Twitter.com/RealSaltLake.
Despite Real Salt Lake's back-to-back home losses in MLS play to Los Angeles and San Jose last week – the first consecutive setbacks on Utah soil since October 2007 – the Claret-and-Cobalt's 32-point haul through 17 games marks a franchise-best point accumulation at this juncture. RSL travels to Ohio with an active four-game unbeaten streak on the road and a current 315-minute shutout run – both dating back to April 25 – and an overall 4-2-2 road mark in MLS play this season, just five points shy of the club-record 19 road points accumulated in both the 2010 and 2011 seasons. A win or draw Saturday in Columbus would extend the second-longest RSL road unbeaten run in franchise history, trailing only the nine-game streak of road results from Aug. 7, 2010 – April 9, 2011. The club-record road shutout streak was set back in the fall of 2010, when the RSL rearguard did not allow a goal for 344 minutes over four games.
How to Follow Real Salt Lake @ Columbus Crew
- Kickoff: 6:00 p.m. MT at Columbus Crew Stadium in Columbus, OH
- TV: CW30 with Bill Riley & Brian Dunseth (RAM TRUCKS post-game coverage at 8:00 p.m. MT)
- English Radio: ESPN700 / ESPN700Sports.com (pre-game coverage begins at 5:00 p.m. MT)
- Spanish Radio: La Gran D 102.3 FM & Juan 1600 AM with Nelson Moran & Fernando Hortal
- Online: Live updates via the @RealSaltLake Twitter Feed and MLSsoccer.com MatchCenter
RSL will play without its Captain, as MF Kyle Beckerman will serve a one-game suspension due to yellow card accumulation. Saturday's Crew match is the lone road contest in a run that sees 4 of RSL's 5 matches on Utah soil and one of 2 away games in a homestand of 6 out of 8 leading up to and including July 27. A gauntlet of West teams proceed through Rio Tinto Stadium, as LA (2-3 L), SJ (1-2 L), SEA, POR, COL and VAN visit the Wasatch Front.
MLS Game Guide for Saturday's RSL-CLB Showdown Now Available Online
Following is the link to the Adobe PDF version of the Major League Soccer Game Guide (media notes) in advance of Saturday's contest between Real Salt Lake and Columbus Crew. If you have any problems obtaining the document, would prefer to receive it as an attachment, or are seeking more information on the match, please contact Trey Fitz-Gerald in the RSL Communications Department via email at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Click here to download the PDF version of the MLS Game Guide
RSL History v. Columbus Crew
Both teams enter Saturday's match eager for a win, as last week's losses to LA and SJ broke RSL's seven-game unbeaten streak, and Saturday's 2-1 loss to Chicago Fire ended the Columbus Crew's six-game unbeaten run. RSL faces a difficult challenge in Central Ohio, as it hasn't won a regular-season MLS game at Crew Stadium since August, 2006, with Columbus having won each of the last five meetings at Crew Stadium.
However, RSL has managed success during the most meaningful of its Ohio games, scoring three unanswered goals in November, 2009 to overcome an 0-2 deficit in the Eastern Conference Semifinals and utilize a 4-2 aggregate win to dethrone the defending MLS Cup Champion Crew, which had also captured the 2009 MLS Supporters Shield. In February of 2011, RSL emerged with a 0-0 draw in the first leg of the teams' 2010/11 CONCACAF Champions League Quarterfinal tilt – despite playing with nine men the final 20 minutes of the brutally frigid match – returning to win 4-1 at home in the second leg.
All-time, RSL is 7-10-2 in all competitions against the Crew, with a 2-6-1 mark at Crew Stadium. RSL's 3-0-1 mark against Columbus in postseason and CCL play sets the bar high in contrast to the Claret-and-Cobalt's 0-1-0 mark in U.S. Open Cup play and 4-9-1 record during the MLS regular season against the Crew. In MLS regular-season appearances in Columbus, RSL is 1-5-0, with the lone win back in 2006 coming in dramatic, come-from-behind fashion, Carey Talley scoring late on a Chris Klein assist to give RSL its first-ever road comeback.
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Teddy bears and toys inundate Newtown
'It's a little overwhelming for us:' First selectman says town appreciates support but warehouse is full
NEWTOWN -- In a nondescript warehouse at the end of Simm Lane, teddy bears languish in heaps and mounds, boxes overflow with miniature fire trucks and plastic dolls.
The warehouse is home to Newtown's ad hoc donation center, where gifts from around the world are received and processed in the wake of the bloodshed at Sandy Hook Elementary School this month.
Nearly all 20,000 square feet are packed with toys.
"It's a little overwhelming for us," said First Selectman Pat Llodra. "On the one hand, we really treasure that outpouring of love and support. At the same time, it's beyond our capacity to use effectively."
In the aftermath of the Dec. 14 shooting that left 20 students and six educators dead, Newtown has been inundated with donations -- everything from large sums of money, to flowers, toys and school supplies.
The U.S. Postal Service reported that it has "received hundreds of thousands of pieces of mail and still receives thousands daily." More is arriving via FedEx and UPS, in the backs of minivans and SUVs.
In one instance, a school bus from Georgia pulled into town, loaded with goodies from well-wishers in the Peach State.
The only trouble? Most of these affectionately packaged parcels have nowhere to go.
"We are going to have a lot of excess," said Chris Kelsey, the town assessor whose duties have been temporarily redefined to include oversight of the elaborate processing operation for donations.
Kelsey spoke from a room where volunteers loaded stuffed animals into cardboard boxes and labeled them "484" -- the designation for teddy bears -- and then categorized them as large, medium or small.
Boxes were then transported on palates to the far edge of the warehouse, where they were stacked against the wall. Those boxes labeled "484" numbered well over 100.
"If people have teddy bears or toys to give, they should give them to someone who needs them," Kelsey said. "We're full."
Immediately after Dec. 14, Newtown's Parks and Recreation Department began processing donations at its Trades Lane warehouse. That warehouse quickly filled up, and the town staff was overwhelmed as they fielded thousands of calls and emails each day from those wishing to contribute.
Newtown then called in the Adventist Community Services, a church crisis response group with special training in warehousing for disasters. The Simm Lane space was donated by a local real estate company, the Hurley Group. ACS members came from across the Northeast to help organize the donation warehouse.
On Wednesday, Llodra and other town officials urged gift givers to stop.
But Kelsey said that in recent days, donations seem to have actually increased, with truckloads of packages arriving daily.
About half of the donations are stuffed animals, with the remainder equally divided between school supplies and other toys. Some odd items arrived, such as 10,000 tulips bulbs for the town Parks and Recreation Department to plant.
Letters, too many for the Simm Lane warehouse to handle, are brought to a separate facility on Trades Lane.
The onslaught of generosity is what disaster relief workers often term the "disaster after the disaster."
After disasters, the American Red Cross generally encourages supporters to donate money to relief efforts rather than items such as food, clothing, or in this case, stuffed animals.
"Donations are very well intentioned, but quite often they become more of a process than the organization can handle," said Paul Shipman, a Connecticut-based spokesman for the American Red Cross. "It becomes a full-time job to collect, store, secure all those items."
The discussion of what exactly to do with all of the donations for Newtown donations has yet to even be breached.
Llodra said that while families affected by the shooting and others within the Newtown community will have first rights to any donated items, most of it will be distributed elsewhere. In a town with fewer than 10,000 households, there is only so much need for teddy bears.
Llodra said the town will likely redistribute the donated goods to needy families within the state and beyond.
"Our intention is to make sure these wonderful expressions of sympathy and support go to those who actually need them," she said.


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Anyone Can Win Vicious Part 1: Naga City
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People often see vicious dungeons as above and beyond. Yes, they are much tougher, but with the right strategy and planning anyone can win a vicious dungeon. The object of my mini-series of annotated playthroughs is to prove to you that you can beat vicious, no matter who you are. I plan to prove this by going through and beating every vicious dungeon with a human fighter. The reason is with a fighter, you have to have a good strategy and know little tricks to make dungeons easier, as they themselves have very little leverage. I do not recommend you do this. One last important note: to beat most vicious, you will need top notch preparations. Make sure you have upgraded all of your buildings as high as you can.
In the first part of this collection we will look at Naga City. With all 9 altars and 10 bosses to kill, this dungeon is seen as an extreme. When most people see it for the first time they are usually overwhelmed, because this dungeon provides you with more options than any other dungeon. Still, no matter how daunting, every dungeon is beatable. We'll start off by looking at my preparations.
Dragon Shield: This is probably the greatest all-round preparation in the game. Unfortunately, it is gated behind a vicious dungeon. If you do not have it, I recommend you take a tri-sword instead. Actually, the tri-sword is probably better, I just didn't have it lockered. If you want to get it now, use part 2 of my mini-series to get it.
Black Market: This is more of a personal preference. Still, it helps because you can unlock more altars or sacrifice more gold to Tiki Tooki.
Tiki Tooki: This is the key element of my strategy. You'll see why later on.
Magnet: Fireball: This is essential for classes that need leverage early, and the fighter needs as fast as he can get it.
Perseverance Badge: A great prep that gives more damage and takes up little room.
Bazaar: I chose not to take any preps. Really any of them would have been fine, but I didn't need to.
Potion Kit: Health and Mana Potions are always useful. Whupaz is essential for every vicious dungeon. Reflex is always helpful. Schadenfreude is nice against the physical resist bosses.
Translocation Seal: Since I want to save money for the arena, I should steal an item to save gold.
Let the run begin!
Here's my opening situation. Please note that you do NOT worship Tiki Tooki off the bat. So, what I'm about to do is buy this fine sword and attempt to kill the level 2 vampire. Now, you may be thinking, "How will he kill a level 2 vampire?" The key is burning. When you hit a monster with a fireball, it incurs one level of burning. That means three things: 1. If you fireball it again it will do one extra damage per stack of burning. 2. If you hit it or another monster, it will discharge the stacks, dealing one magic damage per stack and removing them. 3. The monsters regeneration is at a -1 per tile penalty. The third ability is INCREDIBLE at low levels. It means this level 2 vampire will regenerate at the same rate as me. Then, with my new fine sword and the BURNDAYRAZ damage, I will outlast him in a fight, as long as I reveal enough tiles. Let's see what happens:
Unfortunately, while my strategy would have worked, I was quickly gridlocked in by monsters. I also picked up the PISORF glyph, but I don't have enough mana to push something away to get more blackspace. I have to use my death protection to kill it.
Okay, I've walked around, cleared some space and found two subdungeons. My normal subdungeon is a generic one with a sign and some gold. My secret subdungeon is filled with 20 gold piles. I am looking for a suitable target to kill right now. The snake 3 would be great (once again, use burning and then outlast them), but his poison would take out my regeneration capabilities. What to do...
I find a shop with a venom ward and yet again forget to steal it and buy it instead. Now that made the snake an eligible target, so I use the burn-then-outlast strategy to kill him.
Now that I've leveled, that level four snake will fall the same way as the level three one.
Okay, I did something different on this gorgon. I just attacked and fireballed twice. Oh no! I'm one damage off! Fortunately, I can discharge the burning by killing a level one monster. The two discharged damage will kill the gorgon and level me up!
Depending on how observant you are, you may have noticed that I picked up an APHEELSIK glyph. I've used it to whittle away this level six snakes health. Now I'll kill it and level.
Now I'll use APHEELSIK to take out this level seven gorgon.
Now this level 8 gorgon! Notice there is another level 8 gorgon near the top of the screen. I'll kill him next to level up.
Okay, I just did a LOT of things. First, I killed the other level 8 gorgon. Then I worshipped Tiki Tooki. Then I proceeded to clean up my map a TON. With my newfound piety I bought the poison boon. While I could have cleaned up more, I wanted to have a mid-fight level up in the arena, so I abstained from killing that level five acid blob. Now that my attacks poison, I can convert APHEELSIK and pick up Tiki Tooki's free GETINDARE.
I've done two more things: I purchased Tiki's Edge and I used Tribute six times. The reason I did not use it more is that I will need 20 gold to buy an altar in the arena. Time to descend.
Before I go into what to do in the arena, I'll give you a little info. The arena has 2 main areas: The Prayer Room and The Arena. The Prayer Room as a bunch of purchasable altars. They cost 20 gold each. The Pactmaker altar is free. The arena has three shops. They hold a keg of mana, a keg of health and The Amulet of Yendor. In each of the four corners a monster is spawned. One is level one, one is level four, one is level six, and one is level nine, and they are automatically bloodless. There are nine bosses and then Kinisssch. The nine consist of Lord Gobb, Frank the Zombie, Tomithy Longdall, Super Meat Man, Jörmungadnr, Aequitas, The Iron Man, The Tormented One, and The Tower of Goo. They come in waves of three bosses each, and after each wave the blackspace, monsters and bosses are replenished. After you defeat the third wave, the blackspace is replenished and Kinisssch shows up on the battlefield.
Here's what I've done: I purchased Mystera Annur's altar and converted in. Why Mystera? She gives piety very easily and doesn't punish for potion use or getting hit. Taurog works too, but since I'll be using lots of spells Mystera is better. The basic formula for each boss is use poison to slowly kill them. There are a couple of exceptions:
Frank the Zombie: This is arguably the hardest boss here. You can't poison him, he has more hp than most other bosses, and still does normal damage. Use whupaz and reflex potions on him at the start, then health potions and mid-fight level ups to win.
Tomithy Longdall: Make sure you don't get messed up by his poison, make sure you have fodder for his curses, and make sure you level up when you kill him.
Jörmungadnr: Make sure his poison doesn't mess you up.
The Tormented One: Just fireball him to death. You should use mana potions and your schadenfreude.
The Tower of Goo: Fireball him as much as you can, attack him, regenerate to full mana, and repeat.
See, with my poison I'm about to kill him.
Okay, I made a mistake here. I killed my low-level monsters to make sure I would level up after I killed Tomithy. Sure that sounds great, but now I don't have any monsters to kill so that I am not cursed.
I must apologize to everyone following this playthrough. I got so sucked into the game I forgot to take pictures. Basically, I finished off all of the bosses that don't need special strategies, using mid-fight level ups and potions when I ran out of blackspace. Fairly straightforward. Back to the picture. I've hit The Tormented One with two fireballs. I use a mana potion to bring my mana to six and fireball again. Then, because I have zero mana, I throw back a schadenfreude potion and attack. Schadenfreude potions bypass mana burn. Here's how it works. The Tormented One hits me, mana burning me and reducing my mana to zero. Then, the schadenfreude potion realizes I've been hit and replenishes my mana.
Here's the goo. Just remember, fireball twice, poison, regenerate, repeat.
Finally! We have conquered the trials of The Spider Arena and may face the sun-touched sissy. This guy is pretty easy. He's average compared to the bosses you just fought, and you get a full arena of blackspace. Just start taking him down like any other boss.
What a coward. He'll start running away now, but just continue to kill him.
At long last, we win. This run was made before they added the unique item "Mage Fist" and the Naga Cauldron, both of which are possible drops when you kill Kinisssch. All I get is a Naga Tail. The only other change was making the weaker enemies bloodless, which is irrelevant to my run.
Here's my final screen. That's just incase you want to fill in the blanks of what I killed when and so forth. While it looked like I barely won, because I had no potions, I could have gone much longer. WIth my 100 Mystera piety I could have converted into Dracul or the Glowing Guardian for Bloodswells or Protections. Then once I ran out of piety, I could have used Consensus to get out one or two more.
Key Points: Worship Tiki Tooki in the clean up phase and get poison, then convert to Mystera for the arena. Use poison to kill all of the bosses without special strategies and follow directions for the ones that do. Convert to the Glowing Guardian or Dracul for extra hp and/or mana after you run out of potions.
One last note: If this is your first try in Naga City, try an easier class like the Warlord or Thief. The fighter is not actually a good pick for this dungeon.
Goodbye, good luck, and happy monster killing!


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No, not the book Jane Austen never got to write but close.
This is the story of the nice little piece of, yet unfinished, embroidery above.
If you follow me on Instagram (and why wouldn't you: @kenguroo) You have seen it in progress and may have recognized the design from different places (like the very last post before my long hiatus for example) but here is the full history:
|the original sketch
If you are an artist or a craftsman /woman, you know what I'm talking about. You have an idea. Its good. Its exciting, you cant wait to start! you put hours, days maybe months or years of your life into it and then something goes wrong. An accident, it breaks, you spill something on it, it tears, it's gone. It can not be mended and neither can your heart.
As a digital illustrator I had my share of devastating crushes and freezes that left me staring unbelieving at a dark screen, knowing that I haven't saved for a while and it's all gone. its sad, its frustrating, it will ruing your day but no one suffers more then the ceramic artist.
And this is where it all started, as a sketch for a wall plaque design in my ceramics sketchbook.
So I started building the plaque and it took FOREVER. I don't know how long, more then a month. I finished it and I was happy.
|the late plaque
Here is the sad part: If you are a ceramics artist and you can't afford your own kiln or, like me, you live in a 5th floor rented apartment and a huge fire hazard like a kiln is a huge no no, you have to use a communal kiln in a public ceramics studio, which, in New York City means a tiny space with a lot of people and kids. anyway long story short, sometime between firings it broke into million pieces and so did my heart.
Dramatic I know, what can I say... but eventually I got over it and perhaps slightly obsessed with it. I just really like it. So here it is as a color silkscreen, which you can still buy here (shameless!)
And if you scroll two posts down you can see my iphone case.
Did I mention an obsession?
Did I mention an obsession?
So here is the latest craze, kids. My love of all things Scandinavian has brought me to cross stitching. It works perfectly with my designs and I LOVE it! It's addictive, it's relaxing, you do it while you watch tv... It's low-tech Candy Crush!
Anyway, I am still testing and perfecting the pattern but when I'm done it will be available for sale on my etsy store and you too can become a love sick Jane Austen heroine embroidering by candlelight... or while watching Scandal. Same thing.
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AiP has a strong showing, but if you have a favorite post here that was published between Dec. 1, 2009 and Nov. 30, 2010 please send it along for consideration. You can view what has already been submitted here, and the submission form is here or you can use the button on the right side of the page if you happen to be reading a post that you would like to nominate.
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Went to Cream last night.
In case you don't know, it's an event that showcases 'the cream' of student books.
87 teams entered, from the likes of Watford, St Martin's, Bucks, and Miami Ad School.
20 were selected, by judges who included Nick Bell, Steve Henry, both Al Youngs, and even me. Hence my attendance.
It was much fun. Graham Fink was there, looking like a character from The Matrix, plus Trevor Beattie... and Agyness Deyn and Mark Ronson (they weren't at Cream, just there for a drink at the place it was held).
Stat fans may be interested to hear that 25% of Cream creatives were female, and fully 50% were non-UK.
I have to say that the quality of the books blew me away. Probably the worst ad in any of the books there was better than the best ad I had in my student book, fourteen years ago.
Rory Hill of The Talent Business (Rory did a tip-top job of organising the whole thing by the way) has an interesting theory on this. He reckons that the job market is very tough at the moment, which means young creative teams are taking longer to get jobs, and that's why the quality of people without jobs is so high.
Scant consolation if you're living on powdered baked beans I suppose, but there you go.
Here's some of the ads that caught my eye:
Pretty good, don't you think?


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February 07, 2011
Menorah Medical Center, an Accredited Chest Pain Center that is patient and family focused, is raising the community's standard of care when it comes to diagnosing and treating heart disease. The hospital, part of HCA Midwest Health System—the largest provider of heart care in the Kansas City area—is adding a $1.9 million advanced, all-digital 3D cath lab that allows cardiologists to give patients a quicker diagnosis with less exposure and better visualization of the intricate heart vessels, reducing the need for additional procedure time. It will also allow for specialized cardiologists to perform procedures that can eliminate irregularities of the heart with the most advanced procedures available.
A typical catheterization procedure is when a catheter is threaded through a blood vessel in the arm or groin and into the heart. The interventional cardiologist performing the procedure can inject contrast into the arteries or the heart's chamber to trace blood flow to the heart, measure pressures, and take blood samples. As the physician watches the contrast moving through the blood vessel and chambers, he can see whether the coronary arteries are narrowed or blocked from plaque build-up on the vessels' lining and decide on the best option for treatment, if needed.
The three-dimensional navigation system used in the new cath lab will also allow for physicians to quickly visualize and treat nearly every type of arrhythmia, or irregular heart rhythms. The leading-edge technology is especially useful in the treatment of atrial fibrillation, or AFib, which is the most common form of irregular heart rhythm in the United States.
"Atrial fibrillation affects an estimated 5.6 million people in the U.S. and is increasing due to the rise in the aging baby boomer population," says Daniel Scharf, MD, director of cardiology at Menorah Medical Center. "The newly expanded cath lab and its advanced 3-dimensional capabilities reinforce Menorah's commitment to helping patients get fast, effective treatment for their serious heart rhythm problems. Our new technology allows us to see the smallest of vessels in a 3D space so that we can more accurately and efficiently diagnose and treat atherosclerotic diseases, conditions in which the arteries become clogged with the buildup of plaque and can lead to heart attacks, strokes and gangrene if left untreated."
Dr. Scharf adds that the imaging system helps cardiologists to clearly see the blood vessel and anatomy of the heart, in addition to blood vessels throughout the body. "Our new technology addresses one of the biggest challenges in interventional cardiology today," says Dr. Scharf.
According to the American Heart Association, atherosclerosis causes hundreds of thousands of heart attacks and strokes each year and accounts for nearly three-fourths of all U.S. deaths from cardiovascular disease. "Menorah Medical center is proud to offer this state-of-the-art cath lab to residents," says Steven D. Wilkinson, chief executive officer of Menorah. "We have served the community for 80 years and have constantly improved upon our ability to provide top-quality healthcare to all ages. This new cath lab is part of our commitment to giving heart patients the best resources available."


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Ben Bernanke sat down in front of a microphone Tuesday and offered some blunt advice to the elected officials who have been failing to agree on a deficit-reduction plan.
Bring the federal deficit down, the Federal Reserve chairman said, enough that the national debt actually falls back to precrisis levels.
Chairman Bernanke's semiannual report to the Senate Banking Committee comes as Democratic and Republican lawmakers are locked in contentious debate over fiscal policy – a debate that could result in big cuts to federal spending in a "sequester" at the end of this week.
His advice also implicitly challenged President Obama's stated goal as not sufficiently ambitious. Mr. Obama has said he's "fighting" for a plan to "stabilize our debt and our deficit in a sustainable way for the next decade."
Bernanke used some similar language, but suggested a much more challenging target.
"Fiscal policymakers will have to put the federal budget on a sustainable long-run path that first stabilizes the ratio of federal debt to GDP and … eventually places that ratio on a downward trajectory," Bernanke said in his prepared testimony.
The distinction between the two goals may seem subtle, and Bernanke didn't reference Obama or his administration by name, but the difference between Obama's goal and Bernanke's is many trillions of dollars over time.
During the five decades before the financial crisis, America had a national debt that, on average, totaled less than 40 percent of one year's gross domestic product, the Fed chairman said. Today the US public debt totals about 75 percent of GDP, with the number increasing if you add in obligations from the Treasury to fund Medicare and Social Security.
Bernanke suggested "replenishing this fiscal capacity," by gradually reducing the debt-to-GDP ratio. Bernanke cited two reasons for this objective: to promote economic growth and to have a cushion against potential adversity.
Stabilizing the federal debt at the current level is better, of course, than having it continue to rise. And Obama isn't the only one in Washington who has laid out that goal.
But Bernanke's words Tuesday are a reminder that, to some degree, the word "stabilize" misses a central question: whether the long-run goal should be to reduce the debt.
The Congressional Budget Office and other forecasters say it's possible the debt will remain at about 75 percent of GDP a decade from now. But then, judging by forecasts of health-care costs and baby-boomer retirements, they predict the debt will start rising again.
In that context, stabilizing the debt beyond Obama's one-decade window is very challenging. Bernanke adds that, unless the US can bring its debt-to-GDP ratio down over time, the country will lack flexibility for dealing with potential events such as a war or a new financial crisis.
As Bernanke and prior Fed officials have long done, he refrained from proposing any specific fiscal policies, leaving that to the president and Congress.
But Bernanke echoed many other economists in criticizing the so-called sequester plan that is poised to take effect, under current law, on March 1. He said the sequester amounts to unnecessary economic damage up front, and not enough deficit reduction in the long run.
The cuts would hit everything from the FBI to public schools, and would come at a time when the economy is struggling to recover the jobs lost during recession.
Many members of Congress, including those at Tuesday's hearing, don't like the sequester any better than Bernanke.
Sen. Pat Toomey (R) of Pennsylvania said the March 1 spending cuts would occur "without regard to any sense of what are our higher and lower priorities."
The sequester appears set to take effect, however, because the two parties differ sharply on how to replace it, with Republicans wary of tax hikes and Democrats wary of deep spending cuts or big adjustments in entitlement programs such as Medicare.
Whatever the mix of policies, Bernanke said the goal should be to replace the sequester "with policies that reduce the federal deficit more gradually in the near term but more substantially in the longer run."
Fiscal policy is Washington's consuming issue now, prompting senators to seek numerous comments from Bernanke, the nation's most visible economic prognosticator. He was questioned about a range of topics, from policy toward "too big to fail" banks to whether the Fed's own monetary policies are still helping the economy.
Several senators expressed concern that financial markets still expect that the government would bail out big banks if another crisis hits. And some voiced doubt over whether the Fed's bond-buying program, known as "quantitative easing," is working.
The Fed chairman advised lawmakers to weigh the quality of federal spending, not just its quantity.
He said some spending or tax policies can help the economy because they "increase incentives to work and save, encourage investments in workforce skills, advance private capital formation, promote research and development, and provide necessary and productive public infrastructure."


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CCNY - 3, Farmingdale State - 1 (25-18, 25-19, 23-25, 26-24)
Kings Point, N.Y. - The Farmingdale State women's volleyball team fell, 3-1, against CCNY in their season opening match at the Kings Point Invitational held at the Merchant Marine Academy.
Farmingdale State (0-1) dropped the first two sets before answering with a 25-23 victory in the third. Tied 24-24 in the fourth set, a pair of CCNY (1-0) kills by Leticia Marotti and Kathlen Dos Santos sealed the victory and a 3-1 Beavers win.
Junior outside Sarah Palladino (Lindenhurst, N.Y.) led the way for the Rams with 12 kills, 12 digs and two service aces, while sophomore outside Karen Ulysse (West Hempstead, N.Y.) had 10 kills and 10 digs. Sophomore setter Megan Pisciotta (Lindenhurst, N.Y.) tallied a game-high 31 assists and sophomore libero Francesca Calderon (Wheatley Heights, N.Y.) had a team-leading 15 digs.
CCNY was led by Marotti who recorded 18 kills and 16 digs in the victory.
Farmingdale State next will face Wentworth at noon and Merchant Marine at 4:00 p.m. on Saturday, August 31st for the final day of the Kings Point Invitational.
For live video of the game versus Merchant Marine, click HERE.


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im so proud of you guys !!! sorry i dont mean to sound like a parent, but i dont know how else to explain but this confusion im about to say, the new album makes me feel so good just like when i used to listen to xxx and your other old albums, however it also makes me feel euphoria like a lot of the other new music i listen to... being a musician for 30 years i cant help but notice how clean and dynamic the new album is... yet it has a little of a rawness to it that i love it so much, i cant decide which song is my favorite, i cant say that for any other band i know!!! i love you guys, please dont ever stop making music!!! you will always be the best!!! -daniel
The third bass line I ever learned was 3 days by Janes Addiction, the first was using my guitar to play Pink Floyd wish you were here and the second was the bass line Jimi Hendrix Experience Little Wing, I think the fourth was the Cure or something. hahaha... anyway, To be in the top three of my entire life's song experiences says something about the influence you have had on my life and my creative expression. There is a magic in your music which has ensnared my spirit, and I thank you for that unique feeling that unexplainable being in the presence of your sound which you have created which is somehow able to stimulate my creativity; I thank you for that feeling, it is bliss.


text: Getting around Ireland by coach is a pretty nifty way of experiencing the island. You have no worries about maps or directions, and can happily watch the countryside glide by in comfort. Bus Éireann in the Republic of Ireland and Translink in Northern Ireland run coaches all around the island. You know more of a road by having travelled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world. AUTHOR AND PHILOSOPHER WILLIAM HAZLITT There's also a huge selection of private coach tour operators, with scheduled tours, airport transfers, city-to-city trips, extended tours, themed trips, corporate travel, social excursions, golf trips and private holidays. Coach tours afford you the chance to let someone else worry about getting there, so you can sit back, relax and experience the glories of Ireland at your own pace. Travel cards in Dublin and Northern Ireland Dublin: The Leap Visitor Card is a prepaid pass that allows you to travel on all Dublin Bus, Airlink 747 buses, as well as the Luas and DART for a whole 72 hours (3 days) from its first use. Simply use your card to Touch On Leap Card Validators before or as you board the bus/train/tram; for the train or tram, remember to Touch Off when you alight or leave the station and the journey is registered on your Leap Card. It's that easy. Being a foreign exchange student is an advantage, too: the Leap Trainee Card is available through your language school and directly from Dublin Bus. You can avail of a 1-week up to 4-week card, meaning you can hop on to the Luas, DART, Iarnród Éireann's short-hop zone and Dublin Bus at your convenience. The Leap Card isn't just good for getting around the city: you can use it to explore Dublin far and wide, including coastal villages, suburban towns and everything in between. Buy your Leap Visitor Card online and get it delivered to your home before you travel. OR Pick up your card when you arrive from a number of different agents in Dublin. Northern Ireland: Use iLink in Northern Ireland. Similar to the Leap Card, iLink is a smartcard that gives you unlimited daily, weekly, and monthly bus and rail travel. The iLink smartcard is available for Metro, NI Railways and Ulsterbus services within 5 zones. You can also top up your card at selected stations. Read this handy user guide for information on full iLink services. Explore more By roadIf you're planning on driving in Ireland, here's what you need to know about driving laws, tolls and parking. Rental vehiclesFrom cars to motorcycles to camper vans, renting a vehicle in Ireland puts the island in your hands. Internal flightsIreland's compact size means air travel is not essential, but if you need to fly here's how you do it.


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As derailed tanker lifted, N.J. residents still worried
- Train carrying hazardous materials derailed in Paulsboro, N.J., on Nov. 30
PAULSBORO, N.J. -- A giant crane lifted a damaged rail car from Mantua Creek in Paulsboro, N.J., on Tuesday afternoon, marking a milestone in cleanup efforts in the wake of the Nov. 30 derailment that left several tankers carrying hazardous materials in a tangled pile.
At a community meeting Tuesday evening, some residents expressed frustration and fear over the continuing impact of an accident that sent a cloud of toxic gas over their neighborhoods.
"I just want to go home," said Paulsboro resident Terry Manning, one of about 30 residents for whom an evacuation order remains in effect. "Am I going to be home for Christmas?"
"I have a son who is wheezing and my daughter is bleeding out her nose," said Michael Hamilton, who expressed concern about the long-term impact of a chemical, vinyl chloride, that was released by a damaged tanker car. "I could taste the chemical in my mouth. What are you going to do down the road when I get cancer?"
Officials at the meeting acknowledged that a system to notify residents had not worked properly in the accident's wake. But they said progress was being made in the cleanup and that air monitoring in recent days has shown no traces of vinyl chloride -- a chemical used in the production of plastics that often is transported as a liquid.
The officials also vowed to do everything they could for affected residents.
"Whether you have a business here, you have kids here, or you live here, we are working for you," said Coast Guard Capt. Kathy Moore.
She said crews are working day and night at the accident scene, and expressed hope that all residents could be home by this weekend.
The car that was hoisted Tuesday was the one that leaked vinyl chloride after the derailment. Five intact cars remain at the accident scene.
"In the coming days, teams will remove three derailed cars containing vinyl chloride, on the east side of the East Jefferson Street Bridge," the Coast Guard said in a statement Tuesday. Once those cars are gone, it said, "crews will work 24 hours a day to repair the train track and bridge."
Two derailed cars near the creek's west bank will be removed after track and bridge repairs are complete, the Coast Guard said. One of those cars holds vinyl chloride. The other is loaded with ethanol.
Moore said the cleanup's next phase involves diving and crane operations. The swift current in Mantua Creek has limited diving times, but by monitoring the tides, crews have been able to dive morning and night.
"Diving at night is very dangerous," Moore said. "We are trying to beat back our constraints so we can operate as safely and as much as possible."
Crews are now working to remove the rail car that has been called "the rocket" because of its vertical position in the water. Moore said they hope to have this completed by Friday.
Many residents at the meeting expressed outrage over a perceived lack of communication since the spill and expressed concern over the state of the Conrail bridge.
"With all the industry that is around us I want to know why we don't have a better evacuation plan in place," said Judith Lock. "Five years ago that bridge needed to be replaced, but they put Band-Aid on it instead. We are not expendable."
Rob Fender, a Conrail representative, could not answer questions on the bridge's structural integrity, but he said the rail line will continue to help residents.
Fender said Conrail, which has already been sued by at least one borough resident, has provided more than 1,000 nights at hotels for people affected by the accident. About 780 people have received vouchers for things such as food, clothing and gas.


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Editor's note: Richard Quest is CNN's international business correspondent and presenter of Quest Means Business; the definitive word on how we earn and spend our money. Check out his selfie challenge below and follow him on Twitter. CNN executive producer Penny Manis also embarked on a selfie challenge, of sorts. See hers with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and follow her on Twitter.
Davos (CNN) -- Selfie is the word du jour, and it became cause celebre at Nelson Mandela's funeral when the Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt took a selfie with U.S. President Barack Obama and UK Prime Minister David Cameron.
But there is no easy way to ask serious-minded men and women who hold high office, and who have matters of state on their mind, "do you mind if I take a quick selfie?"
To be sure, they know what it is and may even have engaged in selfie-ing themselves. But in the grand world of Davos, it is perhaps unseemly to be seen taking selfies.
Which is why I decided the selfie challenge was such a good idea. Who would and who would not agree to the selfie?
Out of consideration for their feelings I am not revealing who refused. Nor will I show you the selfie of the central banker that is best left in my iPhone.
No, what is here are the good and the great that said yes. And to be honest, most seem to enjoy it anyway.
The Royalty
My #selfie begins @davos with HM Queen Mathilde of Belgium #wef pic.twitter.com/PMBaL1WBeD— Richard Quest (@richardquest) January 21, 2014
CNN's @richardquest is on a #selfie challenge at #Davos: Double points for royalty with HRH Crown Prince of #Norway pic.twitter.com/DGiODB14M6— Ivana Kottasová (@IvanaKottasova) January 25, 2014
A great #selfie from @davos. Bono at #wef pic.twitter.com/PTS6xbnOzO— Richard Quest (@richardquest) January 24, 2014
(Ok, not exactly royalty in the traditional sense.)
The international leaders
With Ban Ki-Moon, the U.N. Secretary-General, and Christine Lagarde, head of the International Monetary Fund.
I did wonder about asking for #selfie from cardinal Turkson @davos he brought message from Pope pic.twitter.com/cvgA6CUIqv— Richard Quest (@richardquest) January 21, 2014
But a #selfie challenge is a challenge and His Eminence was happy to oblige. #wef— Richard Quest (@richardquest) January 21, 2014
The politicians
Top row from left: Tony Blair, former UK Prime Minister, George Osborne, the UK Chancellor and Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London.
Bottom row from left: Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's Prime Minister, Alex Stubb, Finnish Minister for European Affairs, and Pierre Moscovici, Finance Minister of France.
.@richardquest's #Davos selfie mission continues, with @MayorofLondon Boris Johnson... pic.twitter.com/HP0achdvfD— Jonathan Hawkins (@jonathanhlondon) January 23, 2014
The business executives
From left: Bob Dudley, chief executive of BP, Christophe de Margerie, chief executive of Total S.A., Christopher J. Nassetta, who heads Hilton Worldwide, and Jacob Frenkel, chair of JPMorgan Chase International.
The colleagues
With World Business Today anchor Nina dos Santos.
And here's executive producer Penny Manis with her selfie, featuring U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry -- or is it a photobomb?
See Richard Quest's full selfie collection below:


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I have a small database (<1G) But we have a lot of complex logiс in website and client complains on render time, which is 3-5 seconds. We are not google, and thousands of users a day is our dream, so size is not a problem, but speed is important. Can anybody share with experience with SSD drives for ASP.NET (MVC)/LINQ/MS SQL based application ? How you performance increased?
UPDATE: this whitepaper states that it will be 20 times faster. http://www.texmemsys.com/files/f000174.pdf


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