What are the costs and benefits of having a protected coastal area in your backyard? That's what a research team at Duke University's Nicholas School for the Environment aims to find out for communities in Tanzania.
Only a small fraction – about eight percent – of the world's oceans are considered "protected" by parks and marine reserves. Conservationists worldwide hope to increase this number up to 30 percent by 2030.
In these protected areas, certain activities, such as fishing and tourism, are limited to keep the ecosystems healthy and minimize the long-term negative impact of human activity. Yet restrictions might also cause some more immediate concerns for people living along the coast.
Environmental protections in certain marine areas may limit access to food, resources, and ways to make a living, which are already issues in regions with high poverty.
For a decade, Murray has studied how communities manage natural resources in Tanzania, where residents near the ocean often rely on the local marine environment for food and other resources.
There are many questions about how poverty in these areas may be linked or not linked with marine protected areas, says Dana Baker, a doctoral student in marine science at Duke who works with Murray.
Baker and Murray want to better understand how people make decisions about the environment, and they're focusing on the costs and benefits of having a protected area in your backyard.
In January, they traveled to Tanzania with a grant provided by the Global Enhancement Fund from Duke's Office of Global Affairs. The early work on the project included several meetings with local universities and government organizations, as well as visits to three protected areas in Tanzania.
One of the local experts they worked with, Enock Makupa, a professor in the University of Dodoma's geography department, says that the Duke team's approach stood out to him.
"In many cases, we experience outside researchers defining our problem and giving their solution without full engagement of the people where the study is being conducted," Makupa says.
He adds that marine conservation in Tanzania, in particular, suffers from insufficient information. The popular game reserves and national parks on land tend to draw more attention from the scientific community.
During their three-week trip to Tanzania, the Duke researchers invited local experts to join them in round-table discussions. There, the groups worked together to describe research needs based on current management issues in coastal areas.
One local practice, dynamite fishing, shows the complexity of finding environmental solutions. Fishers will make homemade bombs to stun and kill fish, in an effort to gather as much fish as quickly as possible. But the bombs also destroy the coral reefs where the fish live.
During the January trip, the team realized they needed better spatial information, such as maps of the coastal ecosystems that show where people fish or where resources have been degraded or destroyed.
The collaboration will work with the Tanzania Marine Parks and Reserves Unit and the University of Dodoma, as well as Tanzanian drone experts (with support from Duke's Marine Robotics and Remote Sensing Lab) to fill in these gaps. They recently received an additional grant from the World Wildlife Fund to hold a series of workshops next year with drone experts in Tanzania to begin the mapping.
These early steps, says Baker, help build the long-term relationships needed for robust international research programs.
"We're learning across an entire network of collaborators and actually building our research agenda together," Baker says.
To foster interdisciplinary collaboration and establish strategic partnerships, Duke's Office of Global Affairs awards grants to faculty members for projects in East Africa, Brazil, and India. Priority will be given to projects that forge or strengthen connections with in-country collaborators and extend original areas of research. Read more about the Global Enhancement Fund.


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ADAPTING TO CLIMATE CHANGE NEEDS TO BE A TOP PRIORITY
Climate change adaptation has once again taken a back to seat to carbon budgets in the latest report by the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment (PCE), says the Insurance Council of NZ. ICNZ's comments follow the release this afternoon of a PCE report on the establishment of a climate change commission and legislation to enact the Zero Carbon Act. "It is disappointing more prominence has not been given to how New Zealand will adapt to climate change impacts," said ICNZ Chief Executive, Tim Grafton, "because no matter how successful New Zealand is in achieving greenhouse gas reduction targets, we will still have to deal with the increasing frequency and severity of extreme weather events." "Greenhouse gas emissions are cumulative, which means rising temperatures, increased flood risk in some parts of the country and increased risk of drought in others. Unless we adapt, there will be significant economic, social and environmental costs," said Grafton. Last year, extreme weather events caused more than 25,000 claims from homes and businesses at a total cost of over $240 million in insured losses. If there were to be a 30cm sea level rise between now and 2065, a relatively conservative possibility, what are today considered extreme, 1-in-100-year high water levels will occur annually in both Wellington and Christchurch. There are 32,000 homes within 1.5m of the current mean high tide level. "How we become more resilient and reduce these risks is what adaptation is all about. New Zealand needs its central government to take ownership of identifying and reducing risks to people, property and the environment, and providing clear guidance to local government as that is where many decisions are made," said Grafton. "This requires dedicated resources, coordination across Ministries and bipartisan political commitment towards achieving over the long term. These matters need to be at the heart of the package of reforms the Government is considering alongside climate change mitigation. As the Commissioner notes, New Zealand is one of the few OECD countries to not have a national adaptation strategy and that should be provided for in legislation." Monitoring how well New Zealand is reducing its climate change risks should be done independently and transparently. Responsibility for coordinating planning should rest with a central agency that has an overview of nationally significant risks.

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Learn more about our educational programs including Government: It's Your Business, Women in Business Conferences, Servant Leadership Classes, Youth Leadership Bedford County, Community Reading Day, Educator in the Workplace, BASICS Career Programs, Technology Events, Agri-Business Education Events, Distinguished Speaker Series, Health & Wellness Symposium, and more.
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GIYB events offer sponsorship and networking possibilities above and beyond their educational value. Call the Chamber office to register for our next event, or to learn more about sponsoring our Government Affairs Speaker Sere.
Leadership Bedford County is a year-long "class" dedicated to education and servant leadership. Participants meet for a 2-day retreat to kick off the class in September and then get together monthly to explore various aspects of the Bedford County Region. The class meets business leaders from many backgrounds, including History & Heritage, Education, Economic Development, Health & Human Services, Agriculture, Recreation & Tourism, Government and the Judicial System. They also take part in a Regional Leadership Session with classes from neighboring counties.
Often defined as a "life-changing" experience, Leadership Bedford County also provides valuable networking opportunities, and class members often say they cultivate deep friendships with those who share in their experiences. For more information, call Rick Smith: 814.623.2233. Click here to learn more.
The Chamber's Women in Business Conference has become the premier event for professional women of the Bedford County region: a day of networking, education and enlightenment. Drawing attendees from throughout the state, the event, which sells out at 150 guests, offers keynote speakers and panels, breakout sessions, networking, vendor displays, gift bags, breakfast and lunch and much more. Hosted by the Omni Bedford Springs Resort and Spa, special overnight rate are available. Call the Chamber for more information: 814.623.2233 or Click here for details.
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BOW – How do you replace a star center midfielder?
That question is being asked this fall by some of the top soccer programs in the area, including the boys' teams at Bow and John Stark. When those two met last year in the Division II quarterfinals, they both had talented, skilled and physical distributors acting as fulcrums in that central midfield role – Bow's Chris Gallier and John Stark's Jake Reynolds.
But those two, both 2017 First Team D-II picks, graduated and are now playing college soccer – Gallier at St. Michael's and Reynolds at Saint Anselm. So this fall the Falcons and the Generals have been figuring out how to fill the large cleats left by their former leaders, and on Friday Stark had the answers in its 2-0 win at Bow.
Both teams were 2-2 heading into Friday's game, and some of the inconsistency that led to those .500 records was evident early on in, you guessed it, the midfield. Neither team could gain much traction in the center of the pitch, where there were as many turnovers as completed passes.
The Generals finally strung together some touches in the 26th minute as Cameron Doyle worked a nice give-and-go with Emmet Rinehimer, and then played a through ball to Riley Brooks, who beat one defender and finished inside the far post to make it 1-0. All three of those Stark players came off the bench.
"The guys coming off the bench, they keep the pace or help generate a goal, and you can't ask for any better than that," Marceau said.
After halftime, the Generals found their groove. As you also may have guessed, it revolved around their offensive center midfielders, seniors Jared Peterson and Aaron Robertson.
They weren't, however, directly involved in the second goal. That credit goes to a pair of speedy forwards – Tony Leary, who fired a hard cross in from the left wing, and Jon Rizzitano, who touched it home in the 44th minute for a 2-0 lead.
Rizzitano benefited from plenty of Reynolds's passes last year, so he understands just how important it is to have players with vision and skill in the middle of the park.
It makes sense that Stark found that control on Friday. The Generals had an obvious line of succession when it came to restocking their midfield. Peterson played next to Reynolds last year, so he simply stayed put and gave Stark an experienced and talented building block. And Robertson was the holding midfielder last year, so it was a simple transition for him to move up from that defensive role into an the attacking midfield spot.
Bow also had a midfield succession plan, but the player who was projected to replace Gallier, junior Matt Ferland, is battling a back injury and hasn't seen the field this fall.
This experience will surely help Selleck and Leuchtenberger in the future, which might come as soon as this season. But right now they are on a learning curve due to lack of experience – Selleck played mostly on the wing last year while Leuchtenberger was used as a defender, and both were substitutes. Compare that to the starting experience of seniors Peterson and Roberston and it's easy to understand why Stark had the upper hand on Friday.
These two teams aren't the only ones adapting to life without their playmakers. Concord, the defending D-I champ, is 2-0 despite graduating Taylor Silverstein, the central midfielder who set the school scoring record last year, was the state's Gatorade Player of the year and is now a teammate of Reynolds at Saint Anselm. Pembroke Academy, the defending D-II champ, is 3-0 despite losing midfielder Damon Smith, a D-II First Team pick along with Gallier and Peterson.
Hopkinton, the 2017 D-III runner-up, has gotten off to a bumpy 3-2 start after graduating their talented playmaker, Max Rossignol, a First Team D-III pick last year. And Pittsfield, a 2017 D-IV semifinalist, is also 3-2 after losing midfield workhorse Matt St. George, a Second Team D-IV selection.
Highlights: Corbyn scored 15 minutes into the match and helped Kearsarge take a 3-1 halftime lead. McCullough and Fedas scored in the second half.
Highlights: After a scoreless first half the Giants made some halftime adjustments and it paid off with a win.
Highlights: The Hawks scored three goals in a seven-minute span, the first goals Prospect Mountain allowed all season, to take a 3-0 halftime lead. The Timberwolves got one back in the 66th minute, but Beckwith's first varsity goal in the 74th sealed the victory. defensive midfielder Benny Madden played solid defense and then assertively worked forward on offense. Steven Newton-Delgado was solid at outside back.
Highlights: The Raiders led 3-0 at halftime and Deware stopped a penalty kick in the second half to preserve the shutout.
Highlights: Devanny's game-winning strike three minutes into overtime, the first goal that the Blue Hawks have allowed all season, kept Concord undefeated. Plante received the ball on the corner of the 18-yard box and her cross found Devanny at the near post.
Highlights: Hubley scored an early goal and Hebert stopped a Bow penalty kick with five minutes late in the second half to hand the Falcons their first loss of the season.
Highlights: Hannah Brown anchored a midfield that produced a goal 48 seconds into the match and the Spartans held on for their second shutout of the season.
Highlights: The Giants fell behind 3-0 in the first half and couldn't overcome the deficit to lose their first match of the season, despite playing with more intensity and confidence in the second half.
Highlights: The Generals sent a barrage of shots at the Sanborn, who kept the Indians in the game in the first half, but eventually John Stark wore her down. The Generals adapted after the first half and changed strategies to take advantage of voids to create different opportunities.
Highlights: Van Gerena made some big saves in net and fellow captain Olofson capiltalized on a drop pass from Laird in the 61st minute to give the Bears their first win of the season.
Highlights: The Panthers missed some golden opportunities in the first half and the score was 0-0 at halftime, but St. George scored on a penalty kick at the 12 minute mark of the second half and then struck again on through ball from Lee. Panthers The defense shut down Gorham, only allowing seven shots, helping Pittsfield pick up its first win of the season.
Highlights: The Hawks trailed 3-0 less than 20 minutes into the match, but broke onto the scoreboard in the 35th minute and tied the game on a free kick from Morrall in the 67th.
Highlights: Warren scored one goal in the first half and wrapped up her scoring with a fourth tally with two minutes left in the match.
Highlights: Vandersea connected on a 35-yard field goal with 44 seconds left in the game.
Highlights: The Falcons shutout the Knights in the first half and evened their record back to .500.
Highlights: Laconia scored on a TD pass with 3:38 left in the game to take a 21-18 lead.
Highlights: The Tide took advantage of its penalty corners and held the lead despite strong and gritty counterattacks from the Blue Devils.
Highlights: Freshman midfielder Cochran scored a breakaway goal with four minutes left in the first half to tie the game, but the undefeated Raiders outscored the Cougars in the second half to hand Kearsarge its first loss.
Highlights: The Generals controlled most of the second half after playing the Bobcats even, 1-1, in the first half, but just couldn't find the back off the net until Bolduc knocked home her second goal of the season and Stark's defense held on from there.
Highlights: Freshman Kate Bouchard played excellent defense to help McCluskey earn her first varsity shutout. Seniors Wood and Amelia Thomas also played well, helping the Hawks take a 4-0 halftime lead.
Highlights: The Golden Tornadoes fell to one of the top teams in D-III.
Highlights: The Bears had a strong night at the serving line, combining for 23 aces out of 75 points, to make quick work of the Wildcats, 25-6, 25-5, 25-14. Winnisquam is undefeated heading into a rematch of last year's D-III championship at Inter-Lakes on Wednesday.
Highlights: A well-rounded effort pushed the Cougars to their first victory of the season.


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One of the things I've found in reading random autism-centric blogs, written by people on the autism spectrum, is that much of what has been known about autism has been wrong. This is likely because previous information was gathered by non-autistic people observing autistic people.
With computers, the Internet and the Web, people on the spectrum are able to start telling their experiences in life. I find it interesting to read the experiences of others on the spectrum and see just how similar their experiences are to my own. Within the past few years, I've gone from seeing myself as someone abnormal in a world of normal people, to seeing that there are plenty of people out there just like me.
Today at work was a good example of where my mindset operates differently from the neurotypical mindset.
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Legislation, Civil Commitment - Subject of Petition
In proceedings for the involuntary "commitment, recommitment, or emergency commitment" of a developmentally disabled individual to a residential facility, "the court shall" direct the state public defender's office to appoint counsel for the individual pursuant to the MPDA. See Mont. Code Ann. § 53-20-112(3). See also § 47-1-104(4)(b)(v) (implementing provision of MPDA). Upon request, the court shall also direct the state public defender's office to appoint counsel for the parents or guardian, if determined to be indigent pursuant to MPDA eligibility rules. See § 53-20-112(3). See also § 47-1-104(4)(a)(vii) (implementing provision of MPDA). See generally § 47-1-111 (MPDA eligibility rules).
The MPDA gives the court discretion to appoint a public defender, pursuant to § 53-21-116, for an indigent person subject to proceedings for involuntary commitment for mental health treatment. See § 47-1-104(4)(a)(viii). However, § 53-21-116 in turn provides that "If the person is indigent or if in the court's discretion assignment of counsel is in the best interest of justice, the judge shall order the office of state public defender, provided for in [section 1], to immediately assign counsel to represent the person at either the hearing or the trial, or both" (emphasis added). "The right to counsel may not be waived." § 53-21-119(1)
In proceedings to commit or recommit a person for involuntary alcoholism treatment, "[t]he court shall inform the person . . . of the person's right to . . . have assigned counsel pursuant to the [MPDA], if the person wants the assistance of counsel and is unable to obtain private counsel." See § 53-24-302(9). See also § 47-1-104(4)(a)(ix) (permitting appointment for an indigent person "as provided in" § 53-24-302). Further, "[i]f the court believes that the person needs the assistance of counsel, the court shall . . . assign counsel . . . regardless of the person's wishes." § 53-24-302(9).


When first setting up a business, the entire scope of the enterprise can quickly be somewhat overwhelming. There are dozens of aspects to even something as simple as a bakery, florist or newsagents, all of which need to be seen to and addressed quickly.
However as your business grows and expands, logistics and warehousing will also increasingly become an issue that needs attention. In short, logistics and warehousing involves all aspects of stock, where it is, where it's going and how it gets there.
At the start of things, all aspects of stock will largely be kept within one building. For some businesses it may well remain this way too. If you own a restaurant, for example, it's unlikely you'll ever need a dedicated warehouse space as the movement of goods is very one way.
You receive food, you prepare food, and the prepared food goes straight to the consumer. Waste food is thrown away. All this can take place under one roof. However a business such as a courier, which involves the delivery of goods on behalf of other companies, requires much more stringent logistics and warehousing.
Working out exactly what sort of stock you'll be handling and where it's most likely to go is the first step to getting to grips to the issue of logistics. For example, if all your stock will be kept within the company from start to finish, then its oversight will be far more simple than goods being received from second and third parties.
Its easier to co-ordinate with your own people than it is the people of another company. Likewise if your business is contained within a single building, then chances are you'll be dealing with a dedicated stock room rather than a warehouse.
Another thing to consider is distance. Will your goods be kept within the county? Or is your business more regional, national or even international? If so, you'll need to plan for things such as ship and air transportation. These carry their own trials and costs that you would do well to acquaint yourself with, such as packaging fees and tariffs.
Remember also the sorts of good you'll deal with. Dairy products, meats, certain chemicals and flowers, for example, are all products that will need to be kept chilled. This will require a means of refrigeration.
If they're in bulk, you'll probably need extensive storage place, which will probably require a specialised building. You can hire storage space from a third party, if you so wish, and doing so is quick and convenient, freeing up attention away from logistics and warehousing towards other areas. However, in the long run, it's always more efficient cost- and energy-wise to acquire your won in-company storage facility. Doing so allows you greater personal oversight into how it runs and operates.
As your business grows and its operations expand, it may become necessary for you to acquire a team specifically orientated around logistics and warehousing. In that instance, you can either hire a consultancy to assist you in that regard, or hire one for yourself. The latter case is fastest to do and cheapest short-term, however a dedicated team allows for better growth and optimisation.


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Talk Set on Climate Change and the Military
02/19/2019 by	Staff Report
WILMINGTON — The changing climate's effects on national security, including the damage inflicted by Hurricane Florence, will be the focus next week during a discussion with military officials aboard the Battleship North Carolina.
Stephen Cheney
Retired Marine Corps Brig. Gen. Stephen Cheney is slated to be joined by Wilmington Mayor Bill Saffo and retired Navy Capt. Terry Bragg 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 26, at the battleship memorial to discuss how North Carolina's installations and military families are affected by climate change. The event, National Security Impacts of Climate Change & North Carolina's Military Community, is to include a luncheon with remarks and audience Q&A.
Cheney is the CEO of the American Security Project. He is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and served more than 30 years as a Marine. His career included a variety of command and staff positions.
Bill Saffo
"Hurricanes and the flooding they leave in their wake are not new to eastern North Carolina, although a troubling pattern has emerged in the last 10 years," said Cheney. "Climate change has the potential to exacerbate many of the challenges we are dealing with today, from infectious disease to terrorism."
Organizers of the event noted that Mayor Saffo had engaged the city in work to improve its resiliency by integrating flood-risk management with solutions to longstanding challenges related to transportation, public safety and infrastructure.
Terry Bragg
"More frequent, more extreme weather patterns, combined with rising sea levels are having a major impact on this part of the state," said Saffo. "We are collaborating with surrounding communities to advocate for more resources to be dedicated towards planning and resiliency in anticipation of next storm."
Retired Navy Capt. Terry Bragg, executive director of the USS North Carolina is hosting the event. Organizers said the battleship, a state historic site and part of Wilmington's tourism economy, is being directly affected. Rising sea levels and flooding have periodically made the battleship inaccessible to staff and visitors in recent years. Bragg is set to share an update on the campaign, "Living with Water," established to help mitigate this issue.
The event is open to the public and free of charge, but registration is required. The Battleship North Carolina is at 1 Battleship Road, Wilmington.
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Q: Can't stash in SourceTree I have a problem, when I try to stash my changes on a source tree or when using the git terminal (from source tree) I get this error
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Published: 29 June, 2007
Two of my biggest French influences have run themselves into mountainsides in helicopters," laments 37-year-old Alastair Gourlay of The Real Patisserie, signalling the treacherous trappings of top-flight bakery. Gourlay is of course talking about Lionel Poilâne of renowned bakery Poilâne and Delice de France's Philippe Signolet. "I was shocked both times," he recalls. "They were big figures, on a different level to me, but there were elements of what they did that I very much looked up to and respected."
Not one of those businesses with rampantly ambitious targets, Real Patisserie has no plans to hit £X-million turnover within two years or sell up for a fat wedge of cash; this is a simple product and people-centred firm that is loath to over-reach itself. A helicopter landing pad would be an unlikely, if impressive, addition to this two-shop Brighton-based bakery.
Built on the French patisserie model, the emphasis is firmly on customer service and honesty of product. "From very early on, I got an awfully big kick out of making the customer happy, genuinely. When you read people saying that kind of thing, you think 'what a cliché', but it's great when you give people something that everyone loves, like cake," says Gourlay. Extolling the virtues of his particular sponge trade over another, he adds: "It so much more personal than selling, say, loft insulation."
British-born Gourlay learnt his trade while living in France for six years, achieving a Diploma Boulangerie Patisserie. An apprenticeship and four years working at several Paris patisseries preceded a move back to Brighton and a desire to set up shop 12 years ago.
Starting small, with just three employees, it has since grown steadily year after year. It now employs 42 staff, has 130 wholesale customers and runs one busy shop, while a second shop has been added on Western Rd, run by Franck Cleret and Marie-Dominique Doht. Wholesale customers comprise independent shops, sandwich bars, cafés and restaurants in a tight geographical net around Brighton. They predominantly buy breads, including traditional English white and farmhouse sliced sandwich loaves, baps and rolls, pastries such as almond croissants, pains au raisin and various Danishes. But the bakery specialises in continental-style breads.
Before the central bakery opened, everything was baked on the small retail premises of its original Trafalgar St shop - which has just 16sq m of retail space and 45sq m of back
room. "Back then, we didn't have the proper ventilated ovens that we needed to make all the different types of breads we're making. Now we have proper steam tube deck ovens, which is the only sort of oven you can really use for the crust quality of French-style bread. I've always been attracted to baking bread, almost more than the patisserie," he says.
Moul-bie flours are used to make its biggest-selling speciality bread, Campaillou - known in the shop as "Chewy" for its crust quality. Other breads include organic seeded and organic white, ciabatta, a "whole army of focaccia types" and lots of rye breads, including walnut and rye, 100% rye sourdough and a light rye, which is cut 50/50 with other flours.
The common factor in their production is that they're all bulk-fermented, they all receive intermediate proves and the process can be long, lasting anything from two-and-a-half hours up to 15 hours for a small selection of breads.
The oven used is a heat-stable Bongard steam tube deck oven. The main bakery has a double rack oven and intermediate prover, a laminator, a croissant rolling machine, which makes 1,000 croissants per hour, mixers, a volumetric divider that's used mainly for the English breads, and a hydraulic divider which is more tender with the dough, if more time-consuming, says Gourlay.
The pastries arrive at the shop raw unproved and are retarded overnight and baked in the morning. Some patisserie is made from scratch on-site, such as lemon, pear and chocolate tarts, almond cakes, macaroons and éclairs. "The finer, super-decorated patisserie is not really my thing now. I'm more into pastry with really honest ingredients, generous portions, freshly made with tight quality control," he comments.
reasonable approach
The single most important thing to his business is not charging too much for products, to operate within a busy environment on a reasonable, but not excessive, margin, and without resorting to special offers, he explains. "Although we're providing what we feel is a very good product, we're not pitching into the luxury market, because it's not very big. I'd much rather give Mr and Mrs Everyone walking down the street something good for 90p than charge Mrs Fox-Fur-Coat £3.60."
Around 2,500 nearby office workers fuel a healthy lunchtime sandwich trade, amounting to around 160 baguettes a day. Unlike a typical French counterpart, sandwiches account for the bulk of sales although there is a French flavour to fillings including Brie and mountain hams. "I don't like admitting it but sandwiches are our biggest seller, followed by sweet pastries and savoury pastries," he says. Tarts are big weekend sellers, accounting for up to a third of turnover on Saturdays, while quiches are a particularly profitable line, with around 120 portions sold daily. All soups, mixes and preparations are made from scratch.
So why is this high street bakery thriving while others struggle? "The independent baker - if he's a good baker, treats his customers properly and has some capital behind him - can't go wrong. As long as you're not paying stupid rents, you're taking ingredients that cost very little and turning them into products that have quite a high value. If you're doing it on a small scale, you can pull in a lot of money relative to the amount of turnover, as we did with just one shop in the first five years," he says.
Since then, the company has invested in machinery and the near future will be about consolidating, as the bakery nears capacity, he says. "We haven't started refusing customers yet, but we're getting to that level. But it's making plenty of money and margins are ok. If we produce more, we will run into quality control issues. So if we're going to expand now, either we'll have to expand the bakery, which would be expensive, or we expand through retail."
Any future plans rest with other people within the business. "If we were to get any bigger, then I would definitely become very removed from a lot of people working on-site and I'm not sure that would be an easy jump to make. We're in a position right now where, as long as we're sensible, we can all live comfortably off what's in place.
"There are some people who have made fantastic bread and then done silly things, such as take on 900sq m premises on the back of seven customers, and then gone under. I respect those sorts of people for their energy, but they really haven't learnt to delegate and just run themselves into a wall."
He insists fostering the right in-house attitude will brush onto other people in the business and, importantly, new recruits. "Once that block of stone is in place, making it successful is just a matter of chipping away, repeating the same things to people. There's a very personal element to the company."
The idea of "giving to the customer" motivates everyone in the business, he adds. "Everybody's pretty nice here and that has been one of the main drivers of the business, because customers really like that. In some dusty, fusty old bakery shops you don't get that customer service. There are bakers who could do a lot better if they were more people-friendly." n
=== The Real Patisserie at a glance ===
Locations: two shops 25 Western Road, Hove, and 43 Trafalgar Street, Brighton; a central bakery in New England St, Brighton
Staff: 42 people, eight of which are bakers
Supply: half and half retail/wholesale split
Website: [http://www.realpatisserie.co.uk]


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Senate approves plan to end shutdown, reopen government
Posted 4:41 AM, January 22, 2018, by CNN Wire, Updated at 12:50PM, January 22, 2018
WASHINGTON — The Senate voted Monday to end the government shutdown, extending funding for three weeks, following a deal being reached between Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell regarding assurances related to immigration.
The bill now goes to the House, which is expected to pass it as early as Monday, and then on to President Donald Trump for his signature.
"We will vote today to reopen the government," Schumer said earlier on the Senate floor, saying he and Senate McConnell had reached an "arrangement."
The movement comes thanks in part to commitments from McConnell and other Republicans in bipartisan meetings, according to four Democratic sources.
The Senate passed the procedural vote earlier allowing the bill to advance 81-18.
Congresswoman Elizabeth Esty to refuse salary for the duration on government shutdown
House GOP lawmakers are largely united and it is expected to pass. But without a guarantee that the House will take up the expiring Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is planning to vote no, according to a senior Democratic source. That source said a large chunk of Democratic caucus is expected to remain opposed, but GOP leaders feel confident they won't need much help approving the latest stopgap bill.
The vote came several hours after the workday for hundreds of thousands of furloughed federal employees was supposed to have begun, and it comes three days after the government officially shut down Friday at midnight.
"I don't think this is the right way to get policy outcomes is to shut the government down. When we tried it, it didn't work well for us," GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina told reporters in advance of the vote, appearing alongside GOP Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Jeff Flake of Arizona. "Here's what I predict. Once we start talking about immigration and voting on immigration, we'll find 60 votes to make sure these DACA recipients' lives are not ruined by March 5."
The Senate vote was moved from 1 a.m. ET Monday to noon after it became clear Democrats would block the spending bill over disagreements on a variety of issues, most notably what do about young people affected by DACA.
Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn of Texas said he thought Schumer of New York agreed to push back the vote to give his caucus "a chance to chew" on a GOP proposal to break the impasse.
After outcry, deployed troops will get to watch football during shutdown
"It's better to have a successful vote tomorrow at noon than a failed vote tonight," Cornyn told reporters.
A senior Republican aide told CNN Monday that McConnell wasn't planning to provide any firmer commitment on immigration than he already has.
"If that's not enough for Democrats, then we're in this for the long haul," the aide said. "If it's enough for Flake, and Graham, and Collins — who want this done as much as they do — it should be enough for Democrats."
Flake said Sunday night he was now a "yes" on the funding bill and it was his hope that six or seven more moderate Democrats would come on board to get the continuing resolution over the finish line — to 60 votes — to end the shutdown.
White House targets filibuster, calls for 'nuclear option' as shutdown enters day 2
He said the Democrats still want something tangible on DACA but said it was problematic because it could run into the February 8 funding deadline.
He argued that they won a concession from McConnell that he isn't requiring President Donald Trump to sign off before an immigration bill moves to the floor.
"For the first time, we have the majority leader move off of we can only move something if the President agrees," Flake told reporters.
Earlier Sunday, Trump called for Senate Republicans to change the chamber's rules to resolve the funding impasse as the government shutdown continued into its second day. He tweeted a call for McConnell to invoke the so-called "nuclear option" and thereby remove leverage for Senate Democrats.
Senate rules impose a threshold of 60 votes to break a filibuster, and Senate Republicans currently hold a slim majority of 51 votes, meaning even if they can unite their members, they need nine more votes to end debate. The White House is calling for the Senate to change its rules and move the threshold to a simple majority of 51 votes.
A spokesman for McConnell said in response to the tweet that the Senate Republican Conference does not support changing the 60-vote rule, a reiteration of Republican Senate leadership's already-stated opposition to the move Trump has called for over the past year.
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Fox News Radio's Simon Owen was on the ground in Paris following the tragic Notre Dame Cathedral fire. He joined us live on Montana Talks where he covered not only the reactions from people in Paris, but also talked about all of the historic relics that were rescued in the midst of the fire.
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They voted present. Ahh yes, the chronicles of climate courage. But let's talk about what really happened here: a senator from the coal state of Montana refused to vote against the Green New Deal in the United States Senate.
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One of my very favorite butterfly photos. This gulf fritillary butterfly almost looks like a painting. I used the macro setting on my camera as I often do for closeup shots and this one turned out perfectly. The detail of the wing is exquisite. The gulf fritillary butterfly is a common sight in Florida and looks like a different butterfly when it's wings are closed opposed to when they are open. The opened wings are a bright orange color and not as detailed as the outside. If you have flowers in your yard there should be butterflies to enjoy.
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Homeland Security to scan fingerprints of travellers exiting the US
Posted by: PPH on: May 29, 2009
In: Facism
By Brett Winterford
29 May 2009 05:53AM
From June, US Customs and Border Patrol will take a fingerprint scan of travellers exiting the United States from Detroit, while the US Transport Security Administration will take fingerprint scans of international travellers exiting the United States from Atlanta.
Biometric technology such as fingerprint scans has been used by US Customs and Border Patrol for several years to gain a biometric record of travellers entering the United States.
But under the Bush Administration, a plan was formulated to also scan outgoing passengers – including US citizens.
Michael Hardin, a senior policy analyst with the US-Visit Program at the United States Department of Homeland Security told a Biometrics Institute conference today that the DHS will use the data from the trial to "inform us as to where to take [exit screening] next."
"We are trying to ensure we know more about who came and who left," he said. "We have a large population of illegal immigrants in the United States – we want to make sure the person getting on the plane really is the person the records show to be leaving."
The original exit scanning legislation planned by the Bush administration stipulated that airlines would be responsible for conducting the exit fingerprints.
But after much protest, Hardin said the new Obama administration re-considered this legislation two weeks ago and is "not as sold that private sector should be agency for exit fingerprints."
"The new administration feels that perhaps it is more appropriate that Government should take that role."
Mulling mobile biometrics
The exit fingerprint scanning is one of several fronts in which the DHS is using biometric technology to secure its borders.
Every day, the US-VISIT scheme uses fingerprint scans to enrol or verify the identity of 86,400 visitors to the United States.
These scans are conducted on a purpose-built, cube-shaped fingerprint scanner.
"We specified to vendors, it had to be no more than 6 x 6 x 6 inches – it had to fit on counter and light enough to walk around with," Hardin said. "We also told them the reader light had to be green – people tend to think red is hot to touch."
The DHS is testing whether it can adapt the same biometric technology to enrol or veify identities from remote locations using wireless connectivity.
Hardin said the DHS is seeking an identity verification system for the US Coast Guard, which tends to operate in a difficult environmental conditions.
"We'll do this the way we did the Cube at customs – we will go to the industry with some specifications and say, if you build it we'll buy it."
RF identity cards trial on track
The DHS is also set to go-live with a trial of RF-enabled biometric identity cards on June 1, aimed at securing the border between the United States and Canada.
U.S. and Canadian citizens will be authenticated to travel between the two countries using identity cards fitted with radio-frequency embedded chips.
Hardin said Americans and Canadians have traditionally been able to travel between the two nations with little fuss.
But since the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington, the DHS has insisted on the use of a passport, passport card, drivers license or some other form of documentation approved by U.S. States or Canadian provinces to verify identity.
As of June 1, travellers crossing the border will be asked to carry an RF-enabled card which transmits a passport photo image and information about the traveller to border control staff systems, who can then check that photograph against the physical appearance of the traveller or their vehicle.
Source: http://www.itnews.com.au/News/104310,homeland-security-to-scan-fingerprints-of-travellers-exiting-the-us.aspx
Tags: biometric, department, fingerprint, homeland, institute, security.customs
Study Finds High-Fructose Corn Syrup Contains Mercury
MONDAY, Jan. 26 (HealthDay News) — Almost half of tested samples of commercial high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) contained mercury, which was also found in nearly a third of 55 popular brand-name food and beverage products where HFCS is the first- or second-highest labeled ingredient, according to two new U.S. studies.
HFCS has replaced sugar as the sweetener in many beverages and foods such as breads, cereals, breakfast bars, lunch meats, yogurts, soups and condiments. On average, Americans consume about 12 teaspoons per day of HFCS, but teens and other high consumers can take in 80 percent more HFCS than average.
"Mercury is toxic in all its forms. Given how much high-fructose corn syrup is consumed by children, it could be a significant additional source of mercury never before considered. We are calling for immediate changes by industry and the [U.S. Food and Drug Administration] to help stop this avoidable mercury contamination of the food supply," the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy's Dr. David Wallinga, a co-author of both studies, said in a prepared statement.
In the first study, published in current issue of Environmental Health, researchers found detectable levels of mercury in nine of 20 samples of commercial HFCS.
And in the second study, the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP), a non-profit watchdog group, found that nearly one in three of 55 brand-name foods contained mercury. The chemical was found most commonly in HFCS-containing dairy products, dressings and condiments.
But an organization representing the refiners is disputing the results published in Environmental Health.
"This study appears to be based on outdated information of dubious significance," said Audrae Erickson, president of the Corn Refiners Association, in a statement. "Our industry has used mercury-free versions of the two re-agents mentioned in the study, hydrochloric acid and caustic soda, for several years. These mercury-free re-agents perform important functions, including adjusting pH balances."
However, the IATP told the Minneapolis Star Tribune that four plants in Georgia, Tennessee, Ohio and West Virginia still use "mercury-cell" technology that can lead to contamination.
IATP's Ben Lilliston also told HealthDay that the Environmental Health findings were based on information gathered by the FDA in 2005.
And the group's own study, while not peer-reviewed, was based on products "bought off the shelf in the autumn of 2008," Lilliston added.
The use of mercury-contaminated caustic soda in the production of HFCS is common. The contamination occurs when mercury cells are used to produce caustic soda.
"The bad news is that nobody knows whether or not their soda or snack food contains HFCS made from ingredients like caustic soda contaminated with mercury. The good news is that mercury-free HFCS ingredients exist. Food companies just need a good push to only use those ingredients," Wallinga said in his prepared statement.
The U.S. Agency for Toxic Substances & Disease Registry has more about mercury and health.
SOURCE: Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, news release, Jan. 26, 2009
Tags: corn, mercury, syrup
Charlie Osgood "global warming is a given to so many, it raises the question: Could another minimum activity period on the Sun counteract, in any way, the effects of global warming? "
In: Global Warming
Sun affect our climate……..no way! Yes, way!
Please visit The Osgood File transcript at: http://westwoodone.com/pg/jsp/osgood/transcript.jsp?pid=26416OF4-04/21/09 9:25 AM
A QUIET SUN DOESN'T HAPPEN OVERNIGHT.
The Osgood File. I'm Charles Osgood.
I know you've already got a lot to worry about as it is, but something rather odd is going on — on the Sun.
The Sun normally undergoes an 11-year cycle of activity — and last year, it was supposed to have heated up — and, at its peak, would have a tumultuous boiling atmosphere, spitting out flares and huge chunks of super-hot gas.
Instead, it hit a 50-year low in solar wind pressure, a 55-year low in radio emissions, and a 100-year low in sunspot activity. Right now, the sun is the dimmest it's been in nearly a century.
Did you know that? It's true. Astronomers are baffled by it, but has the press covered the story? Hardly at all. Is the government doing anything about it? No, it's not even in the Obama budget or any Congressional earmarks.
But, sooner or later, I bet it will turn out to be our fault — yours and mine. And in Washington, where everything is political, they'll note that it began before President Obama took office — perhaps "another example of the failed policies of the Bush Administration."
At an upcoming meeting of astronomers in the United Kingdom, they'll be studying new pictures of the Sun taken from space, looking for any hint that the Sun will start heating up again and acting up again, the way it's supposed to. But there is no sign of that, so far.
In the mid-17th Century, there was a quiet spell on the Sun — known as the Maunder Minimum — which lasted 70 years, and led to a mini-Ice Age here on Earth.
Right now, global warming is a given to so many, it raises the question: Could another minimum activity period on the Sun counteract, in any way, the effects of global warming?
Hush, child! You're not even supposed to suggest that. The only thing that can change global warming is if we human beings — we Americans, especially — completely change our ways and our way of life.
I'm sure you'll be hearing more about this solar dimming business, now that the story is out. Remember, you heard it here first…
The Osgood File. Transcripts, podcasts, and Mp3's of all these programs can be found at theosgoodfile.com. I'm Charles Osgood on the CBS Radio Network.
The Osgood File. April 21st, 2009.
"Our government has now 'spent, lent, or committed' $12.8 trillion in its attempt to blunt the recession."
In: Finance
Gov. Sanford cites Bloomberg statistic that the U.S. has "spent, lent or committed" nearly $13 trillion to blunt the recession
South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford has been highly critical of the Obama administration for spending too much on the economic stimulus. Recently, Sanford cited a statistic compiled by the Bloomberg news service, that "our government has now 'spent, lent, or committed' $12.8 trillion in its attempt to blunt the recession."
It's a figure Sanford used in a commentary for Human Events, a conservative publication, and again in a letter to the editor of the State Journal-Register in Springfield, Ill.
It is taken from a March 31, 2009, Bloomberg story that begins, "The U.S. government and the Federal Reserve have spent, lent or committed $12.8 trillion, an amount that approaches the value of everything produced in the country last year, to stem the longest recession since the 1930s."
At the bottom of the story is a chart breaking down how the number was derived. The lion's share – $7.7 trillion – comes from money lent or committed by the Federal Reserve for such things as credit discounts, debt purchases and bailouts of several financial institutions. Another $2 trillion relates to the FDIC, including liquidity guarantees and the purchase of risky bank assets.
And lastly is the money the federal government is spending through the two stimulus packages (the $168 billion stimulus under President Bush and the $787 billion stimulus under President Obama), as well as the $700 billion Troubled Assets Relief Program, or TARP, used to buy toxic assets, the mortgage-backed investments that triggered the nation's financial crisis.
Economists caution that the government is not necessarily "out" all of that money.
In the case of TARP money, for example, "the estimates are that we will get most of the money back," said Jim Horney, director of federal fiscal policy at the left-leaning Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. And in the case of collateral extended to the Federal Reserve and FDIC, "that's basically pledging to back up the operations of those organizations. We're pledging this money as collateral for that organization."
It doesn't mean the money will ever be spent. And in the case of things like auto company bailouts, for example, the federal government got company stock and it's too early to know how much the government will get back on that. But presumably some. "At the end of the day, a large portion of that won't end up getting spent," Horney said.
We had initially set out to fact-check Sanford for comment he made in may 13 Fox Business Network interview when he said, "This stimulus package, this federal effort…At some point you know we spent about 20 percent of world GDP on this thing. You look at about $13 trillion last year and it's almost like you know Soviet-era grain quotas are saying you will produce this amount of grain in Kazakhstan, never mind the realities of what is going on, on the ground."
He's right that $13 trillion represents about 20 percent of the world GDP, but he left out the all-important qualifiers for the $13 trillion number, that it is money "spent, lent or committed," instead characterizing all of it as money the federal government "spent."
Economists hopped all over him for that one.
"If you are talking about an FDIC line of credit, there's a huge difference between that and spending X amount of dollars," Horney said. "Calling it spending is just wrong."
The comment even drew rebuke from the conservative American Enterprise Institute.
"Saying $13 trillion has been spent is definitely misleading," said Alan Viard, a resident scholar at AEI. "It's not fair to combine all that with the word 'spent.'"
The actual amount spent by the federal government to slow the recession is closer to $2 trillion, he said.
Sanford spokesman Joel Sawyer acknowledged that Sanford left out the "spent, lent or committed" qualifiers in the Fox interview. In TV interviews, he said via e-mail, "questions come fast and furious and it's easy to leave out some words." But, he said, it'd be unfair to judge Sanford on that lone response when he had twice cited the statistic correctly, in writing. We agree, although we'll be watching carefully to make sure Sanford includes the proper caveats.
Economists may disagree with this $13 trillion figure. There are many ways to calculate the amount the U.S. has pledged to stem the recession. But we think the Bloomberg calculation is one legitimate way. And we think it was certainly fair for Sanford to cite it, so long as he includes those all-important qualifiers. And on two occasions at least, he did. So we rate his comment True.
Source: http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2009/may/15/mark-sanford/gov-sanford-cites-bloomberg-statistic-us-has-spent/
US Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is approx. $14 trillion
Wikipedia Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)
Gitmo Detainee's 'Genitals Were Sliced With A Scalpel,' Waterboarding 'Far Down The List Of Things They Did'
In: torture
Last week, two British High Court judges ruled againstreleasing documents describing the treatment of Binyam Mohamed, a British resident who is currently being held at Guantanamo Bay. The judges said the Bush administration "had threatened to withhold intelligence cooperation with Britain if the information were made public."
But The Daily Telegraph reported over the weekend that the documents actually "contained details of how British intelligence officers supplied information to [Mohamed's] captors and contributed questions while he was brutally tortured." In fact, it was British officials, not the Americans, who pressured Foreign Secretary David Miliband "to do nothing that would leave serving MI6 officers open to prosecution." According to the Telegraph's sources, the documents describe particularly gruesome interrogation tactics:
The 25 lines edited out of the court papers contained details of how Mr Mohamed's genitals were sliced with a scalpel and other torture methods so extreme that waterboarding, the controversial technique of simulated drowning, "is very far down the list of things they did," the official said.
Another source familiar with the case said: "British intelligence officers knew about the torture and didn't do anything about it."
"It is very clear who stands to be embarrassed by this and who is being protected by this secrecy. It is not the Americans, it is Labour ministers," former shadow home secretary David Davis said. But one unnamed U.S. House Judiciary Committee member told the Telegraph that if President Obama "doesn't act we could hold a hearing or write to subpoena the documents. We need to know what's in those documents."
Mohamed remains at Guantanamo Bay and "is currently on hunger strike." "All terror charges against him were dropped last year," the Telegraph reported.UPDATEToday in San Francisco, "a little-publicised court case into the treatment of Mohamed will open" in federal court. Andrew Sullivan notes that "we'll find out if the Obama administration intends to keep the evidence as secret as the Bush administration did."
SOURCE: http://thinkprogress.org/2009/02/09/mohamed-torture-uk-us/
The US social security and Medicare system, which provide pensions and health care for older people, is set to run out of money sooner than expected.
In: Social Security/Medicare
New estimates show that the Medicare trust fund, which pays for hospital care, will run out of money by 2017, and is already running at a deficit.
Social security funds for pensions will be exhausted by 2037, four years earlier than previously projected.
The news will increase the urgency of the need for health care reform.
The costs of these two government entitlement programmes has already reached $1 trillion (tn), or one-third of the entire Federal budget, and is expected to rise significantly as 80 million "baby boomers" reach retirement age over the next two decades.
The rising cost of providing health care – which is growing much faster than the overall growth rate of the economy – is also putting pressure on the Medicare budget.
Both Social Security and Medicare are funded by a tax taken from wages which is paid by workers and their employers, and the money raised is put into a trust fund that is supposed to build up a surplus big enough to pay all future claims.
The weaker economy, with more people out of work, has also reduced the payments received by the funds.
Currently 51 million people receive social security benefits, and 45.2 million are covered by Medicare.
The fund's trustees project an increase of 30% in the number of Medicare beneficiaries, to 58 million, in the next two decades, but also an increase of 50% in the average cost of health care for each person insured.
President Obama has already signalled that containing health care costs, as well as expanding coverage to the 15% of the population that is uninsured, is one of his top priorities.
His Treasury Secretary, Timothy Geithner, said that the only way to make the system solvent in the future was "to control runaway growth in both public and private health care expenditures".
There is bipartisan support for the effort to contain health care costs.
"We need to act now to address Medicare's fiscal sustainability," said Senator Charles Grassley, the leading Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, which oversees Medicare.
But there is less agreement on the overall approach to health care reform.
Senator Grassley attacked proposals by the Obama administration for a Federal-run health insurance plan to be made available to the uninsured in competition with private plans.
Meanwhile, some leading budget experts have suggested that in order to fund reform, health benefits paid by employers (which is the way most Americans receive their health care) should be taxable – something proposed by John McCain in the election campaign.
"I don't see how you can put a package together… unless you touch the exclusions," said Robert Greenstein, director of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
But other experts argue that ultimately, funding Medicare is going to require significant increases in payroll taxes.
"There is no way to balance Medicare without significant increases in taxes," said Henry Aaron of the Brookings Institution.
With the Federal budget deficit already projected to reach $1.7tn this year, and President Obama having pledged to cut the deficit by half by the end of his first term, entitlement reform could become the biggest political issue of his administration.
Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8047355.stm
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Joe Cordell On Asset Protection In Cohabiting Relationships
With the decline in marriage rates, and subsequently divorce rates, related to economic factors, more couples are cohabiting as they delay marriage.
But since many states do not recognize "common law marriage," cohabiting partners are left with little protection in the event of a breakup, Cordell & Cordell co-founder Joseph Cordell told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
As Cordell explains, the law treats ex-lovers like business partners dissolving their company: the only thing that matters is what's on paper.
So if the girlfriend solely owns the house, it does not matter if the boyfriend helped pay the mortgage if there wasn't a contract listing him as joint owner. He would have no claim to any equity since oral agreements aren't enforceable in real estate.
Cordell said cohabiting partners could protect themselves through separate contracts, sometimes called "cohabitation agreements." But this type of asset protection is complicated and requires a family law attorney's assistance.
Read the full St. Louis Post-Dispatch article on asset protection.
Tagged: asset protection, cohabitation, Missouri, St. Louis
Joe Cordell's State Of The Union Of Marriage
The marriage rate is at a record low as more couples are choosing to delay marriage and cohabit instead, according to the Pew Research Center.
Cordell & Cordell co-founder Joseph Cordell discussed this trend on the "Marriage Meltdown" special on KPLR 11 TV in St. Louis.
"There are no laws to protect and men and fathers in cohabiting relationships," Cordell said. "Bottom line is it's hard to protect yourself in a cohabitation scenario; there is no stability."
For those couples that do marry and want stability, prenuptial agreements are becoming more common particularly for older couples with more assets and those on second marriages. The problem is there is still resistance from the younger generation to move forward with a prenup.
"People under 35 traditionally have fewer assets and are just starting out in their careers," Cordell said, "so it's harder to persuade them to realize that if they get divorced say 15 years from now, virtually everything they own in this world will now be in a partnership that belongs to the other half."
Tagged: cohabitation, finances, Joseph Cordell, prenuptial agreement
Lawmaker pushes to decriminalize adultery cohabitation in Florida
A Florida lawmaker wants to do away with the second-degree misdemeanor for unmarried cohabitation, even though only 104 people have been arrested in the last 12 months for violating the state's often forgotten law.
State Representative Ritch Workman, a Republican, recently announced that the cohabitation ban must go, as should the law against open adultery, the Tampa Tribune reports.
Workman told the news source that he does not wish to encourage or condone these activities, which could lead to divorce or other relationship issues, but believes the laws make the state look "foolish." The law is rarely enforced, but that doesn't make the state's ban right, according to Workman.
"It's not a crime – or it shouldn't be," the conservative explained to the publication.
The news source reports that more than 1 million people in Florida are technically committing a misdemeanor by practicing unmarried cohabitation, which is punishable by up to 60 days in jail and a $500 fine.
According to State of Our Unions, the number of cohabitating, unmarried adult couples of the opposite sex has increase from approximately 439,000 in 1960 to 6.8 million in 2008.
Tagged: adultery, cohabitation, Florida, legal reform, Tampa
Study finds cohabitation not divorce is worse for family instability
It's long been held that children of divorcing parents face a number of societal challenges, but children with unmarried parents who live with each other or other adults may also be at risk.
Research conducted by the Institute for American Values and the National Marriage Project found that children of cohabitating parents deserve the same concern as the children of divorce, because the study claims that these kids are also at risk for trouble in school, psychological stress, poverty and physical abuse.
The drama facing families today is less about divorcing spouses and more about unmarried parents, National Public Radio reports. The study found that by the time they are 12, 42 percent of children will have unmarried parents living together or with other adults, while 24 percent of children born to married parents will see them divorce or separate.
"We're moving into a pattern where we're seeing more instability, more adults moving in and out of the household in this relationship carousel," Brad Wilcox, a co-author of the report and head of the National Marriage Project, explained to NPR.
The report studied more than 250 peer-reviewed journal articles and included additional scholarly analysis.
Tagged: cohabitation, relationships


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Of all the animals in North America's wilderness, none command such fear, awe, and interest as the bear. Creatures that fear little, bears now compete for survival with the only other animal that can threaten their existence, humans. This is the sometimes horrific yet instructive story of Bear and Man, written by the leading scientific authority in the field. This book is for everyone who hikes, camps, or visits bear country—and for anyone who wants to know more about these sometimes fearsome but always fascinating wild creatures.
Alan Precup disappeared while backpacking in the Alaskan wilderness. Days later, searchers found his campsite. In the bushes about 150 feet away, they found Precup's bare skeleton, one intact hand, and both feet, still booted. In his camera were the exposed frames of the bear that killed him.
Chris Dunkley and three friends were hiking in Banff National Park. Suddenly a grizzly bear mother came galloping toward them. The first of three charges came so close that it broke a fishing rod in Dunkley's hand, yet none of the party was injured.
Keith Ecklund and Larry Reimer were fishing in central Saskatchewan one spring day when they were attacked by a black bear. Ecklund kicked the bear in the head to hold it off. Reimer came to help, was attacked, and while fighting with the bear, killed it with his filleting knife. An autopsy of the bear revealed parts of a third man, Melvin Rudd, in the bear's gut. The rest of Rudd's partly consumed body was found nearby.
What can we learn from these and hundreds of other attacks and non-injurious encounters with black and grizzly bears? Of all the animals in North America's wilderness, none command such fear, awe, and interest as the bear. Creatures that fear little, bears now compete for survival with the only other animal that can threaten their existence: humans. What do we know about black and grizzly bears and how can this knowledge be used to avoid bear attacks?
For more than three decades, Bear Attacks has been the thorough and unflinching landmark study of the attacks made on humans by the great grizzly and the less aggressive, but occasionally deadly, black bear. This is the sometimes horrific yet instructive story of Bear and Man, written by the leading scientific authority in the field. This book is for everyone who hikes, camps, or visits bear country—and for anyone who wants to know more about these sometimes fearsome but always fascinating wild creatures.
Stephen Herrero is recognised throughout the world as a leading authority on bear ecology, behavior, and attacks.
Their causes and avoidance
Stephen Herrero
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'If you're planning to travel to a bear country, this little book is a must-read...The book itself is an interesting read, filled with stories and useful tips on how to stay safe. The author explains really well why bears attack and why we can't always blame them for what happens. He wants everyone to realise that to stay safe in bear country, you need to understand the beast and its behaviour.' — BASC Magazine


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Technical Medicine
MSc Technical Medicine
The Delft University of Technology offers a unique interdisciplinary joint-degree Master programme in technical medicine together with Leiden University, Erasmus University Rotterdam and their academic medical centers.
The programme in technical medicine is a multidisciplinary programme which links science and technology with clinical practice and its professional medical procedures. It combines a thorough understanding of the functioning of the human body and the influence of disease processes with an equally comprehensive understanding of medical technology and professional medical procedures.
Dutch & English
Leiden University, the Delft University of Technology and Erasmus University Rotterdam wish to provide their students with outstanding, varied and innovative education that will enable them to address present-day and future issues. This new programme is the result of an extensive collaborative effort between the three partners, bottom-up research and cooperative network organisations such as Medical Delta.
Clinical Technicians create and apply new solutions for technical-medical problems in direct patient care by devising new, better and safe diagnostics and therapeutic proceduresies. You will be trained to work in the Dutch health care sector. Therefore the Master programme will be mainly taught in Dutch.
The Master programme offers two tracks:
Track Imaging & Intervention
This specialisation focuses on two important trends in health care: early diagnosis and developing the most targeted patient-specific treatment possible with the shortest possible recovery time and minimal side effects.
Track Sensing & Stimulation
In order to optimize treatment, it is necessary to closely monitor and manage the patient's health status by means of 'precision diagnostics and targeted therapy'. The specialisation combines the techniques and applications of these sensing (monitoring) and stimulation techniques.
Do you have any questions? Please feel free to contact us!
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Q: QGIS splits line feature at all intersections? I have a long GPS track that I've converted to a shape file. I need to divide it into segments. The first time I use the "split features" tool, it makes a cut where I draw my line, but also splits the line into separate features at every intersection.
So suddenly I go from having 1 feature, to having 1000... I don't want this, I want to split my one line feature into two at the point I chose. NOT a every intersection.
Is there a setting somewhere I'm missing, or should I file a bug report?


Marcos Alonso has confirmed he is close to signing a contract extension with Chelsea.
The Spain international still has two years remaining on his current deal. But with his impressive form piquing the attention of Barcelona and Real Madrid, Chelsea are keen to improve his terms.
And speaking after playing 90 minutes in the loss to England on Monday, Alonso revealed the new deal was imminent.
"I am very calm and very happy at Chelsea," Alonso told AS.
"The club must also be happy with me because, although I still have two years left on my contract, they have offered me an extension."
"We are talking about it and the talks to renew are already advanced. If everything goes well, I think I will renew before the end of this month - in the coming days."


I cannot believe our baby girl is graduating from elementary school. It's like the end of an era. No more primary school for our household and it's a little devastating and exciting all at once. Graduations are a big deal in our home and each kid knows that we celebrate several graduations with parties. There is the preschool graduation party, elementary school graduation, and we aren't there yet, but high school graduation. We skip middle school because it would be back to back parties with the way my kids are spread out in grades. And mama's gotta have a break some years!
In anticipation of Greta graduating I did a sweet photo shoot recently to capture this time in her life. As I was looking for photos to include on her school yearbook page I realized I didn't have any recent ones that weren't taken on an iPhone! So we decided to fix that and I just love how they turned out.
I also absolutely love the idea of a personalized graduation announcement. Back when my kids were born, paper announcements had fallen out of popularity and now I think everyone just uses social media to share their big news of pregnancies, birth, marriage, and graduations. But I sent out real announcements and I thought the whole experience of gathering addresses and names, carefully selecting the card stock and the design, and mailing off each announcement to those we love was just the best. And I still love the idea, I can't believe I didn't think about sending graduation announcements to those who live far and wouldn't be able to attend any ceremony or party. I am taking note of these adorable ones. And look at all the cute details you can include, how great would it be to also share where they may be attending middle school?!
I decided to show you how easy it is to play around with their website and grabbed a screenshot of a cute announcement as an example. This one took about 4 minutes once I chose the photo. I just loaded the picture and played around with the text location and size, changed some of the colors of the font, and voila! There are so many options, 180 color choices. But I know too many choices can be overwhelming too, so personally I love that they had text size, color and font already preloaded into the announcement so you can get a feel for what you like. I also could have added more details to the announcement below like city, state, the next school she's going to, and lots more. And the preview is instant, no waiting! They also have over 40 different envelope color choices so you can skip the whole boring plain white standard envelopes, and can I blow your mind for a second? The envelopes are peel and seal! No more dry mouth addressing these babies.
Another thing that I love about Basic Invite is that you can order a sample of your announcement or invite. Back when I ordered birth announcements for this cute graduate girl I remember my heart racing as I clicked the order button for 150 announcements without ever feeling and seeing it in real life. You don't have to do that anymore!
Are you a Basic Invite convert? Have I been under a rock and you all know about this invitation and announcement company already?! Where have I been?
*This post is in partnership with Basic Invite however all thoughts and opinions are my own.
This year has been a year of anniversaries! Big ones! Aaron and I celebrated our 15th in May, my grandparents celebrated 65 in July, we celebrated friends' 20th, and we had a belated 15th celebration (technically 16th) for my sister and brother in law because it was a year in the making. Finally some fun photos to share of the evening.
The request had been placed for dancing, so that's just what we did. My mom and my sister's good friend helped me put together a fun night of food and dancing in September. We converted our backyard by renting a dance floor, high cocktail tables, and we had a food truck in the front yard where we had salad and gourmet pizzas to order. Dessert was from Nothing Bundt Cakes, again, so delicious. The food truck was such a fantastic and different spin to the night. The food was fabulous and everyone loved it, not to mention I loved not cooking haha.


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