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In New Jersey, Wealth is Health, According to Report Being Released Today

Study finds that nearly 40 percent of New Jerseyans get less than seven hours of shuteye a night

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There remains a strong correlation between income and health, at least in New Jersey's wealthiest and poorest counties, according to the most recent County Health Rankings report.

Released today by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute, the report found Hunterdon County, which has the highest median household income in the state, also ranked healthiest, while Cumberland, with the lowest income, ranked worst. The report scores counties based on health outcomes -- such as premature death, low birth-weight babies, and poor health days -- and the factors that influence them -- including rates of smoking, obesity, and unemployment.

Some of the counties in the middle of the rankings did move up or down in one of the dozens of measures gauged. Among these was Atlantic County, which, while near the bottom of the rankings statewide, rose two spots from 2015 to rank 18th in health factors. Several county and health officials are planning to gather today in Atlantic City to discuss the results of this seventh annual report.

“We’re really heartened to see Atlantic County’s progress, especially its improvement in premature death, our most important measure of health outcomes,” said Robin Mockenhaupt, the chief of staff for RWJF who also oversees its grantmaking in New Jersey. “In fact, across New Jersey, premature deaths are well below the national average. We hope the new data will help communities across our home state to target and address their most pressing health concerns.”

Atlantic County has implemented a number of initiatives to try to expand health opportunities for residents, including the Care AC coalition, led by AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center, which works with several agencies to provide access to healthy foods and create opportunities for physical activity for Atlantic City residents. Care AC is one of 10 first-round recipients for New Jersey Health Initiatives’ Building a Culture of Health in New Jersey -- Communities Moving to Action grants, funded by RWJF.

“The Care AC coalition is one of the many we see coming together across the state finding new ways to look at how to improve health in their communities,” said Bob Atkins, director of NJHI, the statewide grantmaking program of RWJF. “Examining all of the many different factors that influence health in any community -- from food access to the number of mental-health providers -- illustrates why we need to include diverse, cross-sector perspectives to find the best solutions.”

This year's rankings added six new measures: frequent physical distress, frequent mental distress, drug overdose deaths, two separate measures of residential segregation, and insufficient sleep.

The category measuring sleep habits shows 38 percent of New Jerseyans not getting at least seven hours of sleep a night. The greatest proportion of the sleep-deprived, 42 percent, live in Hudson County, while the most rested are at either end of the state -- in Sussex and Cape May counties, 31 percent of residents did not get enough sleep.

Mary Adekunle, clinical director of the Bacharach Sleep Disorders Center in South Jersey, said insufficient sleep is tied to a host of problems, including higher levels of stress, hypertension, heart and kidney disease, motor vehicle accidents, and suicide.

“In children, a sleep disorder can contribute to obesity, bedwetting, nightmares and difficulty in school,” she said.

While the ranking of countywide health outcomes seems to get the most publicity, the report's goal is to focus attention on improving those factors that can influence a person's health positively or negatively. Rankings and the data behind them are available for the entire nation. One key finding from the national data that seems to hold true in New Jersey: Rural counties have the highest rate of premature death.

Disclosure: The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation provides funding for NJ Spotlight’s health coverage.

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Rice wrote and produced the follow-up to 2002’s ’O’ as well as designing the cover art.

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Franz Ferdinand frontman Alex Kapranos has said he wants to write a musical.

The singer, who is on tour with his band in Australia at present, told radio station Triple J that he’s had an idea about a musical for some time now, though he hasn’t got round to writing it yet.

“I did have this amazing idea, I’ve been keeping it a secret for ages!” Kapranos said. “I think it would make an amazing musical.”

Kapranos added that the musical would be about a modern day celebrity.

He added: “The thing is, what would make a great musical would be to pick a contemporary figure, like somebody from either current times of the last 10 years. Somebody who’s had a big impact. And write it about them.”

Kapranos then confirmed that he does have a celebrity in mind for the musical, but wouldn’t say who. However, he did state that it wasn’t a musician.


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Recent Decisions of Interest (No. 6)

This week's Recent Decisions highlights a jury verdict in Arkansas arising out of the sale of an accounting practice. In Creed Spann v. Lovett & Co., 2012 Ark. App. LEXIS 192 (Ct. App. Feb. 1, 2012), the Court of Appeals of Arkansas affirmed a verdict where the purchaser of an accounting firm's client list received $434,777 in lost profits after the seller worked with certain restricted clients following the sale.

The decision does not necessarily break any new ground, but it does highlight a couple of important realities clients need to consider when pursuing or defending non-compete suits.

First, the plaintiff - the acquiring firm - retained a lost profits expert to show the amount of damages which would have been realized had the defendant - the selling firm - not worked with restricted clients. The jury accepted the expert's estimation of damages down to the dollar. It did not appear that the defendants put forth a rebuttal expert, suggesting that the expert witness was highly persuasive to the jury. Because damages are so difficult to prove when they are non-liquidated - such as a projection of lost income - experts are essential to a plaintiff's case. Without one, it is highly likely that a court will be left without a basis to award recoverable damages even in the event of breach.

Second, the plaintiff's legal fees in the case totaled over $250,000, an amount it recovered under Arkansas' prevailing party statute. Compared with the verdict award, the amount of fees incurred is relatively high. However, it was far from unreasonable. Competition disputes cost a lot of money, particularly when discovery focuses on triaging the issue of breach, identifying lost clients, and examining what the defendants did with those clients. Preparing for and presenting experts is costly, as well. The opportunity to resolve a case usually is lost once counsel incurs a substantial amount of these fees. Therefore, the best time to explore a business resolution outside of court is right after the issues have been framed in the suit and before discovery begins.

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Burgers are a favorite of mine because there are literally thousands of different versions you can easily make at home.  Here is a Caramelized Onion and Gruyere Cheese Hamburger that is a pretty frequent player is my burger rotation.  The onions are cooked until tender and golden brown and give off a sweetness that nothing like raw onion.  And then the gruyere, similar to Swiss has a great nutty, savory flavor.  I throw on some ketchup, mayo and mustard, but frankly the burger will taste great on it’s own.  Hope you enjoy it!

Recipe Overview and Keys to Success

To make sure this burger comes up the best it can, just make sure to do the following:

  1. I like to use ground beef that 20% fat for burgers.  The fat, provides more flavor, juice and a better texture.
  2. Let the hamburger patties come up to room temperature before cooking
  3. Make sure to season the ground beef before making the patties.  That gives the salt and pepper a chance to season evenly through the meat, rather than just on top
  4. When cooking, use a nice hot pan, only flip the burger once, and don’t press down, unless you want a more dry hamburger – as pressing drives out the juice
  5. Finally, I like to make sure the cheese is melted, so put it on the burger right after the flip, and then cover the pan for the last couple minutes of cooking to ensure it melts nice and evenly.

Ingredients (for 2)

  • ¾ lbs of ground beef
  • One medium yellow onion
  • Gruyere cheese
  • Extra Virgin Olive oil
  • Hamburger buns

Caramelized Onion and Gruyere Hamburger

  • Peel, core and slice the onion into ¼ inch strips
  • Heat a medium to large sauté pan over medium heat and coat the bottom of the pan with olive oil
  • Add the sliced onion and season with a couple pinches of salt
  • Toss in the oil, and continue to cook, tossing every few minutes until caramelized – about 15 – 20 minutes
  • Set the onions aside in a separate dish to cool
  • Put the ground beef into a mixing bowl, season with salt and pepper and mix together
  • Divide the meat in half, and form two hamburger patties; allow the patties to come to room temperature before starting to cook
  • Wipe out/clean the pan you cooked the onions in, and put back over medium high heat
  • Once the pan is hot, coat the bottom with a little olive oil, and add the hamburgers
  • Allow them to cook for 2 – 3 minutes for medium, without flipping, pressing or otherwise touching
  • Gently flip the burgers over, top with the caramelized onions, and the gruyere cheese, and then cover the pan with the lid, or a clean mixing bowl
  • Cook for another 2 – 3 minutes, or until desired doneness
  • Remove the pan, and allow the burgers to rest for about 2 minutes before serving
  • Serve ‘em up with your favorite condiments and enjoy!

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Hearing loss among most common birth defects

If you can’t hear, it’s very difficult to learn to communicate through speech. That’s why as part of our standard of care at Northside Hospital, we screen all babies for hearing loss before they go home.  Hearing loss is one of the most common birth defects in the U.S.  About 12,000 children are born each year with permanent hearing loss. Out of 1,000 children, 3 are deaf or hard of hearing. Undetected hearing loss can lead to delays in speech and language development, social and emotional development, and negatively impact academic achievement.

Babies often sleep through their first hearing test. The screening tests are simple and painless and take only a few minutes. Our audiology program starts with providing newborn hearing screenings, but we provide follow up tests for infants and young children as they grow.  We also provide hearing evaluations, vestibular evaluations, hearing aids and auditory processing evaluation for school aged children and adults.

In the past, we had to wait until infants were six or seven months old to get an idea of what they could hear.  Children with hearing loss often went unidentified until they were 2 ½ or 3 years of age, until parents became concerned about their children not talking or interacting like other children.  This meant that their children were already behind.  Advancements in technology have allowed us to test babies a day or two after they are born.

The primary technology we use to screen for hearing loss in infants is called Otoacoustic Emissions (OAEs). The OAE device sends a soft sound into the ear through a small probe.  A microphone in the probe picks up energy that the ear creates in response to sound, and the device registers a “Pass” or a “Refer” based on the sound measured. Babies who don’t pass are seen for follow up testing.

The earlier we can identify hearing loss, the fewer detrimental consequences for that child and for the family later on. If we find hearing loss early, children are not behind yet. We also know that hearing loss can develop after birth.  We work closely with pediatricians to identify late – onset hearing loss and to monitor speech and language development.  Maybe we can’t make it perfect, but with hearing aids and cochlear implants we can help alleviate some of those detrimental outcomes that we used to see.

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By completing this section, you not only put your existing users’ storage into a managed state and set it up for ongoing management through Novell Storage Manager, but you also learn the basic procedures for reporting and for setting user policies.

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How do I format a USB Flash Drive to NTFS file system?

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  1. Right click My Computer and select Manage.
  2. Open the Device Manager and find your USB drive under the Disk Drives heading.
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  3. Right click the drive and select Properties.
  4. Choose Policies tab and select the "Optimize for performance" option.
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  2. How does NTFS compared to FAT32 in Windows XP, and which is faster?
  3. Is it possible to convert a FAT32 Hard Drive to NTFS without losing all data on the drive? I like to change from FAT32 to NTFS, my operating system is Windows XP PRO, how can i do that? Without the lost of my programs?
  4. How can I copy files from a hard drive formatted to NTFS, to a FAT32 hard drive ?
  5. Which version of NTFS is installed on my Windows XP system ?
  6. When I use the following command "FORMAT" on a volume (Windows XP) what is really written on this volume ?
  7. I am using a 249 megabyte drive as a backup drive on my XP system. I have it formatted in NTFS and compressed, yet the size of the drive is still the same as before I compressed it. Why?
  8. The files I place on the compressed drive are only compressed from 1.15MB to 1.14 MB , is it normal this should be only 100kb of compression per MB?
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  10. How can one revert a disk with NTFS to FAT 32 to install older software which won't run on WinXP?
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Newcastle Player Really Sad About Losing Again

We were very pleased to see 22 year-old Spanish U20 International Ayoze Perez start for Newcastle yesterday, but we lost the game in the first half and just like at West Ham on Monday night we conceded in the first 10 minutes.

Both first half displays in our last two games have cost us the game, and Newcastle must start much better against Chelsea in the late kick-off game next Saturday.

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Ayoze Perez – disappointed at the final whistle

Before the Chelsea game we entertain Sheffield Wednesday on Wednesday night in the League Cup and that´s a good time to see our fringe players put in their claim for a start against Chelsea.

Ayoze was pleased to start the game yesterday, but he was upset the lads lost again.

This is what he has said on the Newcastle web-site:

“We are really sad because it is another game that we have lost, and it is not what we wanted to happen.” “In the first half we deserved what happened. We improved in the second half but it wasn’t good enough.”

“I don’t know why it is not happening at the moment but we have to stay together and take our quality onto the pitch. During the week we can see a lot of quality in training but we have
to do it in matches.”

“I hope it happens soon, and we have to keep working towards this. If we keep working hard then it is not too far away, I’m sure.” “I was pleased to start the game but I cannot be happy because we lost.”

“We weren’t good enough and we have to try to get points as soon as possible.”

Newcastle have four new players in the side and McClaren and his coaching staff are new at Newcastle – so that´s one reason we  have started slowly.

But other managers have got off to great starts at their news clubs – and they include Quique Sanchez Flores at Watford, Claudio Ranieri at Leicester City, and Alan Pardew has already built a good side at Crystal Palace after joining them in January.

We have to remain patient and trust that McClaren and his coaching staff – along with the players – can turn this thing around.

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Asparagus extracts may ease hangover: Study

By Stephen Daniells , 14-Aug-2009
Last updated on 17-Aug-2009 at 11:31 GMT2009-08-17T11:31:39Z

Asparagus extracts may ease hangover: Study

An extract from asparagus may increase the function of enzymes in the liver and boost the metabolism of alcohol, according to new research from Korea.

Results published in the Journal of Food Science indicate that the extracts could be obtained from the portions of asparagus normally discarded by processors and growers, such as the leaves, offering a cheap source of the bioactives.

“These results provide biochemical evidence of the method by which A. officinalis exerts its biological functions, including the alleviation of alcohol hangover and the protection of liver cells against toxic insults,” wrote the researchers, from Jeju National University.

Extracts from young shoots and leaves of asparagus were tested to discover if they could reduce liver toxicity in human liver cells exposed to hydrogen peroxide.

According to their data, the nutritional content, namely the amino acids and inorganic minerals, was greater in the leaves than the shoots.

When the leaf extract was tested in the liver cells, the Korean researchers measured the degree of reactive oxygen species (ROS) formation on exposure to hydrogen peroxide, and found a reduction of 70 per cent.

Furthermore, toxicity to the cells from hydrogen peroxide and ethanol “were also significantly alleviated [by] the extracts of A. officinalis leaves and shoots”, said the researchers.

The impact of the asparagus extracts on two key enzymes that metabolise alcohol (ethanol) was also studied. Both alcohol dehydrogenase and aldehyde dehydrogenase, were “upregulated by more than 2-fold in response to the leaf- and shoot extracts”, they said.

“Because excess ethanol generates ROS in its metabolic pathways, alcohol dehydrogenase-dependent elimination of ethanol is the principle involved in the protection of cells from oxidative stress,” noted the Jeju-based researchers.

“These results suggest that the extracts of A. officinalis exert a wide spectrum of activities including strong antioxidant activity and the ability to act as a potent catalytic factor to stimulate the enzymatic activities required to metabolise ethanol,” they added.

“Thus, the leaves of A. officinalis, which are normally discarded, have the potential for use in therapy designed to protect the liver from various harmful insults,” they concluded.

Asparagus is a popular vegetable in Europe and the US. The main growing countries are China, Peru, the US, Germany and Spain. The latter country produced some 50,000 tons of asparagus in 2005 – both the green and the white variants.

Source: Journal of Food Science
Published online ahead of print, doi: 10.1111/j.1750-3841.2009.01263.x
“Effects of Asparagus officinalis Extracts on Liver Cell Toxicity and Ethanol Metabolism”
Authors: B.-Y. Kim, Z.-G. Cui, S.-R. Lee, S.-J. Kim, H.-K. Kang, Y.-K. Lee, D.-B. Park

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Time and the elements can work together to push even the smoothest skin into wrinkles. Houston’s Dr. Christine Cheng works to educate patients about the source of fine lines and creases, explaining how repeated muscle use, diminished skin elasticity, and damage from the sun and environmental toxins combine to create those telltale signs of aging.

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Dispatch Route Planning Made Simple

Submitted by Varun Athreya, Business Analyst

As a dispatcher or shipper, you are constantly looking for the ideal tools that make building efficient routes both quick and easy. There are a series of requirements, however, that a tool would have to meet in order to truly transform how you do route planning:

  • Can I build a route from my warehouse or distribution center going to multiple destinations?
  • Can I build these routes based on stop-level attributes; for example, group all stops going to the 19040 zip code or the town of Hatboro?
  • Can I define maximum capacity for these routes or loads?  By volume? By weight?
  • Can I automatically assign built routes to certain carriers based on rules?  Can these rules be scheduled?
  • What about milk runs – those repeatable replenishment or restock orders every Monday, Wednesday and Friday going to the same locations, same product same quantities?
  • Even if you could find a solution that lets you set up scheduled building rules, how can you be sure that the routes are optimally built to take maximum advantage of your vehicle capacity and proximity?

How can you accomplish all of this?

The answer lies in advanced routing algorithms that look at all stops, trips, deliveries and make the best decisions to create loads or routes.  Instead of only looking at a subset of stops and stop level attributes, these engines can look at all stops and make routing decisions based on location, capacity and even time windows.

Sounds great, doesn’t it? But here’s the rub: While TMS solutions like this exist, they are often difficult and time-consuming to deploy, slow to release new functionality and features, overkill in what your enterprise needs, and most importantly…they’re just too darn expensive!

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The Florida Department of Health in Okaloosa County (DOH-Okaloosa) has issued a health advisory for the Gulf of Mexico in the vicinity of Emerald Promenade Beachwalk.

That is the last county beach access on Okaloosa Island before access is restricted due to Eglin Air Force Base.

The Department of Health conducts bi-weekly saltwater beach water quality monitoring at 11 sites through the Healthy Beaches Monitoring Program. Samples are collected from March through the end of October.

The water samples are analyzed for enteric bacteria (enterococci) that normally inhabit the intestinal tract of humans and animals and which may cause human disease, infections, or rashes. The presence of enteric bacteria is an indication of fecal pollution, which may come from stormwater runoff, pets and wildlife, and human sewage.

The Emerald Promenade health advisory is based on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s recommended standards for enterococci. This should be considered a potential health risk to the bathing public.


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India rape sets off debate over women's rights

NEW DELHI (AP) — India's army and navy canceled New Year's celebrations on Monday out of respect for a New Delhi student whose gang-rape and murder has set off an impassioned debate about what the nation needs to do to prevent such a tragedy from happening again.

Protesters and politicians have called for tougher rape laws, major police reforms and a transformation in the way the country treats its women.

"To change a society as conservative, traditional and patriarchal as ours, we will have a long haul," said Ranjana Kumari, director of the Center for Social Research. "It will take some time, but certainly there is a beginning."

The country remained in mourning Monday, two days after the 23-year-old physiotherapy student died from her internal wounds in the Singapore hospital where she had been sent for emergency treatment. Six men have been arrested and charged with murder in the Dec. 16 attack on a New Delhi bus. They face the death penalty if convicted, police said.

The army and navy canceled their New Year's celebrations, as did Sonia Gandhi, head of the ruling Congress party. Hotels and clubs across the capital also said they would forego their usual parties.

"She has become the daughter of the entire nation," said Sushma Swaraj, a leader of the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party.

Hundreds of mourners continued their daily protests near Parliament demanding swift government action.

"So much needs to be done to end the oppression of women," said Murarinath Kushwaha, a man whose two friends were on a hunger strike to draw attention to the issue.

Some commentators compared the rape victim, whose name has not been released by police, to Mohamed Bouazizi, the Tunisian street vendor whose self-immolation set off the Arab Spring. There was hope her tragedy could mark a turning point for gender rights in a country where women often refuse to leave their homes at night out of fear and where sex-selective abortions and even female infanticide have wildly skewed the gender ratio.

"It cannot be business as usual anymore," the Hindustan Times newspaper wrote in an editorial.

Politicians from across the spectrum called for a special session of Parliament to pass new laws to increase punishments for rapists — including possible chemical castration — and to set up fast-track courts to deal with rape cases within 90 days.

The government has proposed creating a public database of convicted rapists to shame them, and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has set up two committees to look into what lapses led to the rape and to propose changes in the law.

The Delhi government on Monday inaugurated a new helpline — 181 — for women, though it wasn't working because of glitches.

Responding to complaints that police refuse to file cases of abuse or harassment brought by women, the city force has appointed an officer to meet with women's groups monthly and crack down on the problem, New Delhi Lt. Gov. Tejendra Khanna said.

"We have mandated that any time any lady visits a police station with a complaint, it has to be recorded on the spot," he said.

Kumari said the Delhi police commissioner sent her a message Monday asking her group to restart police sensitivity training that it had suspended due to lack of funds.

There have also been proposals to install a quota to ensure one-third of Delhi's police are women.

There also have been signs of a change in the public debate about crimes against women.

Other rapes suddenly have become front-page news in Indian newspapers, and politicians are being heavily criticized for any remarks considered misogynistic or unsympathetic to women.

A state legislator from Rajasthan was ridiculed Monday across TV news channels after suggesting that one way to stop rapes would be to change girls' school uniforms to pants instead of skirts.

"How can he tell us to change our clothes?" said Gureet Kaur, a student protester in the Rajasthani town of Alwar. "Why can't girls live freely?"

Some activists have accused politicians of being so cossetted in their security bubbles that they have no idea of the daily travails people are suffering.

Kumari said the country was failing in its basic responsibility to protect its citizens. But she was heartened to see so many young men at the protests along with women.

"I have never heard so many people who felt so deep down hurt," she said. "It will definitely have some impact."

In Geneva, the U.N. human rights chief called Monday for fundamental change in India.

"Let us hope that 2013 will be the year the tide is turned on violence against women in India and all women can walk free without fear," said Navi Pillay, the U.N. high commissioner for human rights. "The public is demanding a transformation in systems that discriminate against women to a culture that respects the dignity of women in law and practice," she said in a statement.

Pillay, a South African of Indian origin, urged Indians not to give in to calls for capital punishment for rapists. "However terrible the crime, the death penalty is not the answer," she said.

Associated Press reporters Archana Thiyagarajan and Ashok Sharma in New Delhi and Frank Jordans in Berlin contributed to this report.

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Murfreesboro, Tennessee

Wildlife Rehabilitation: The Next Generation

Hosted by Walden's Puddle Wildlife and Education Center

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Mikaela Gray, Alma Natura North America Scholarship

This year is the first year that I have attended the NWRA Symposium. What I found when I walked in the doors was camaraderie, a wealth of intelligence, and experienced experts willing to divulge their stories in order to better the lives of future wildlife. I learned a great deal about mammals (and attended a few wonderful lectures on lizards and turtles), cage-building, and what it takes to run a wildlife rehabilitation center.

Heather Barron, DVM, William Jessen Memorial Scholarship

It was a wonderful conference and a great pleasure to attend and have the opportunity to share information with everyone. As this was my first attendance at an NWRA symposium, I was very excited to find the quality of information presented and the organization of the conference to be so excellent. I really enjoyed being able to network with so many knowledgeable wildlife experts. I can’t wait for next year’s conference!

Erica Eads, Eric Sticht Memorial Scholarship

If I learned anything at the 2014 NWRA Symposium, it was that almost no knowledge in wildlife rehabilitation is purely academic. I have attended various continuing education lectures and labs in other fields that have taught me about a topic. At this symposium, even anecdotes and statistics showed me how rather than about. When I heard about the natural history and habitat of a desert tortoise, I learned when, where, and how to release a desert tortoise. When I learned about pharmacokinetic studies on analgesic medications in avians, I learned how to ease pain in birds.

Anne Staudenmaier, Ed Hiestand Memorial Veterinary Student Scholarship

In veterinary school, the opportunities to learn more about wildlife medicine are often slim compared to the outlets for large and small animal medicine. At the conference, I was introduced to wonderful people and amazing experiences. The wildlife rehabilitation community is indescribably welcoming, and the continuing education offered through the labs and speakers revealed an entire world of knowledge I never before had the chance to discover.

Tracie Young, Deb Chandler Memorial Scholarship

This year was my first NWRA Symposium and I didn’t know what to expect. The week at the symposium was magnificent! I came away with so many new ideas, brilliant suggestions, and input from fellow rehabilitators of what works and what doesn’t. Not only is this type of information critical and valuable to this field of work, but also to the patients we are trying to help. I met so many new people, made new friends and contacts. The lectures were fantastic, and the amazingly unique topics to choose from made it hard to choose which one I wanted to attend. The knowledge and ideas I gained from the lectures and workshops were priceless.


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by Tim Jeal
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The upper Clyde has two gorges. In one of them, profit-sharing industrialism was born, at the mills which Robert Owen built at New Lanark. In the other, or rather in a stone house on its lip, missionary exploration found its father. David Livingstone, dead 101 years ago on his knees in Chitambo’s village somewhere to the south-southeast of Lake Bangweolo, was born here.

The house, a gray vernacular hulk of a place with outside stair turrets, is at Blantyre, close to Glasgow. It has become the Livingstone Museum; around it, Presbyterians have laid out lawns. A café sells nonalcoholic drinks and memorial teaspoons. Inside, there is a dark gallery where you pull down levers to illuminate diorama scenes of Livingstone’s life. The lion mauls his arm; he outstares the wild men; he accepts the challenge of Stanley; he dies, with faithful Susi and Chuma. After a few seconds, the light turns a nostalgic yellow and fades down: the lever returns to its position and you are returned to darkness, denied any permanent revelation.

Some of the dwelling-rooms have been restored to their appearance of 1813, the year of David Livingstone’s birth. Here is the box-bed, the kitchen range, the clock, and the neat dresser. The suggestion is of spare, hard living much turned toward cleanliness and a few improving books, a Scottish “Selbstbildnis.” But Mr. Jeal, the author of this biography, points out that matters for the Livingstone family were not so neat or improving. Nine people—the parents and seven children—inhabited this “single kitchen apartment house,” or one-room slum. David lived here fourteen years, working in the cotton mill from the age of ten as a “piecer” for over twelve hours a day. After the work, though his fellow children mocked him, he studied in that room for a further two hours. And from that mill and room, he got himself to Anderson’s College, Glasgow, and into the vocation of medical missionary. As Jeal says, this was

…something that statistics alone made grotesquely improbable. Of all the children put to work in mills during the first three decades of the nineteenth century, less than ten per cent learnt to read or write with any proficiency. Those who managed to do this and devote time to Latin, botany, theology, and simple mathematics were virtually unheard of.

Jeal calls Livingstone’s reputation that of a “Victorian astronaut.” But he was twice a voyager: Was the distance from Loanda to Quilimane less than the distance from “Shuttle Row” at High Blantyre to mission college in the south of England, or the journey any less lonely? Livingstone left for southern Africa a gaunt, apparently slow-witted and emotionless young man with a Scots accent and a giant uvula which eventually had to be cut out so that people could understand his sermons. He went to the London Missionary Society’s settlement at Kuruman, in what is…

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The New York State Agricultural Society was organized in 1832 to Foster, Promote and Improve the New York State Food & Agriculture Industry through Education, Leadership Development & Recognition Programs

The Ag Society:

  • Sponsors an annual Agricultural Forum in conjunction with the Department of Agriculture and Markets to explore issues critical to the future of New York Agriculture.
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  • Supports the Empire State Food & Agricultural Leadership Institute (LEAD NY) and other leadership development efforts.
  • Recognizes Ag Businesses of the Year, Cap Creal/Ag Journalism, Ag Promotion, Bicentennial Farms, Century Farms, Distinguished Service to NY Agriculture, Farm Safety, Next Generation Farmers and FFA Chapters of the Year.
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I have witnessed firsthand the meaningful contributions the Ag Society makes to our farmers and food producers for a long time. In fact, the Ag Society has been an absolutely central part of New York’s agriculture story since even before Ezra Cornell – a one-time Ag Society President – founded the University that bears his name in 1865. Since then, the Ag Society has been a leading advocate in support of Cornell’s Land-grant Mission to provide knowledge with a public purpose to the citizens of New York, as well as to people everywhere.

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Hello District 13,

At the beginning of the month, the State Leadership Conference was held in Rochester, New York. I hope everyone who attended enjoyed their experience.

Please check out this month’s survey. I am looking forward to feedback from those who attended the State Leadership Conference.

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Eric M. Breindel, the former editorial page editor for The New York Post and the conservative moderator of a weekly news show on public affairs on the Fox News Channel, died yesterday afternoon. He was 42.

Mr. Breindel, a lifelong resident of New York City, died at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center. He was undergoing treatment for a liver ailment and suffered a massive hemorrhage, said Lally Weymouth, a longtime friend and columnist for The Washington Post.

Mr. Breindel, a senior vice president of the News Corporation, which owns The Post, was best known for his years as the leader of The Post's lively opinion pages, which hold a decidedly conservative edge.

He was hired as the editorial page editor of The Post in 1986, and in January 1997, he left that position to develop strategic policy for the News Corporation. He continued to write a weekly column in The Post and was seen by some as a tormentor of liberal politicians.

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''Whether he agreed with you or not, you always knew he listened to you and understood your point of view,'' said the City Council Speaker, Peter F. Vallone, a Queens Democrat.

More recently, Mr. Breindel was the host of a weekly television show that appeared on Saturdays on the Fox News Channel called ''Fox News Watch.'' The show analyzed the media's coverage of national news.

Mr. Breindel was a friend of New York City police officers, and he often criticized liberals and critics of the police. During last year's mayoral election, he branded the Democratic challenger to Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, the Manhattan Borough President, Ruth W. Messinger, a ''cop-basher.''

''Eric was a very close friend,'' Mr. Giuliani said. ''Even when there might be a media frenzy seeking to unfairly accuse police officers,'' the Mayor added, ''Eric was often one of the few who courageously stood up for them.''

Liberals were not Mr. Breindel's only targets. In 1990, under the leadership of Mr. Breindel, the son of Holocaust survivors, The Post published an editorial attacking Patrick J. Buchanan as an anti-Semite.

''Eric played a major role in the growth and development of The Post,'' said Rupert Murdoch, chairman of the News Corporation.

While Mr. Breindel's ideas carried influence with national and international leaders, particularly within the Zionist world, said Martin Peretz, editor in chief of The New Republic, he is perhaps known best in New York City for his coverage of the 1991 racial unrest in Crown Heights when a Hasidic motorist struck and killed a 7-year-old black boy. A Hasidic Jew was fatally stabbed during the unrest.

''He was the leading voice during the riots,'' Ms. Weymouth said. ''He found it outrageous that Jews were getting beat up. He was dedicated to his people.''

His death left some readers and journalists in a state of disbelief. ''It's shocking. His capacity to influence world affairs was growing,'' said Charlie Rose, the television talk show host.

Born in New York City, Mr. Breindel graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College in 1977, where he was editorial chairman of The Harvard Crimson. He received his law degree from Harvard Law School in 1982. He was United States Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan's legislative assistant for foreign policy and intelligence in 1982 and 1983 and then was a correspondent for the Public Broadcasting System. He also worked for a short time as an editorial page editor with The Daily News before joining The Post.

Mr. Breindel is survived by his parents, Dr. Joseph H. and Sonia Breindel of New York City, and a sister, Dr. Monique Breindel of New York City.

Funeral services will be held tomorrow at 11 A.M. at the Park Avenue Synagogue.

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Half of the water consumed in Phoenix homes is used for irrigating lawns. Credit Laura Segall for The New York Times

PHOENIX — The hiss of sprinklers serenades improbably green neighborhoods early in the morning and late at night, the moisture guarding against the oppressive heat. This is the time of year when temperatures soar, water consumption spikes and water bills skyrocket in this city, particularly for those whose idea of desert living includes cultivating a healthy expanse of grass.

Half of the water consumed in homes here is used to irrigate lawns, but there is a certain curiosity about the way water is used in Phoenix, which gets barely eight inches of rain a year but is not necessarily parched.

The per capita residential consumption here, 108 gallons a day, is more than in Los Angeles, where residents average 85 gallons a day. Still, while humid Southeastern cities like Atlanta have grappled with recurrent water shortages, there is no limit here to how many times someone can wash a car or water flowers in a yard.

“We’re often maligned as being an unsustainable place simply for existing in an arid climate,” said Colin Tetreault, senior policy adviser for sustainability for Mayor Greg Stanton. “But that’s just myopic.”

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Phoenix gathers its water from several places. It relies on melting snow in the north to feed the rivers that supply its water system: the Salt and the Verde, which begin and end in Arizona, and the overstretched Colorado, which slices the Southwest. It pumps from aquifers, strained by development over time, and then works to replenish them whenever water is in surplus, which happens occasionally.

To irrigate its many golf courses, it reuses most of the water drained from bathroom faucets and washing machines. It uses treated wastewater to cool a nuclear power generating station and to feed a man-made wetland complex known as Tres Rios, home to more than 150 species of birds.

A system of canals crisscrosses the city and stretches beyond its boundaries, a legacy of the prehistoric Hohokam Indians that allowed fertile farms to flourish in the desert. To this day, half of all the water used in the Sun Corridor, the area from Phoenix to Tucson, goes to agriculture, according to a 2011 report by the Morrison Institute for Public Policy at Arizona State University. Steadily, though, much of the farmland has given way to development.

Figuring out how water will be used here is like solving a puzzle speckled with blank pieces, in which the unknowns are the housing market and climate change.

Water managers weigh wet and dry cycles over the past 100 years against climate change models designed in the previous year and demographic projections. They also analyze the way parcels of land are zoned to make assumptions about how water will be used.

Over all, demand for water has declined steadily in this and in many other metropolitan areas, because of water-efficient technologies like low-flow toilets, and stricter building codes. Still, the draining of rivers and other water sources — from overdevelopment, poor management, climate change or a little bit of all of these — has forced communities to rethink their strategies. Some have used money as the main incentive to get people to give up their addiction to turf.

Tucson, where grass is hard to find and true desert living is a source of pride among residents, consumes less water than Phoenix, but it has a bigger problem. The city relies heavily on a dwindling supply of groundwater. To safeguard its supply, the city has an aggressive conservation campaign that includes rebates for residents who harvest rainwater or use water reclaimed from bathroom faucets for landscaping.

The city of Mesa pays residents $500 for every 500 square feet of grass they remove from their yards. Scottsdale, which has the highest per-person water consumption among Arizona’s cities, offers at least $125 for removing the same amount. Las Vegas pays $1.50 a square foot of grass replaced by landscaping appropriate for dry regions.

Phoenix, where water consumption is down from 250 daily gallons a person in 1990, does not have rebate programs. “It costs all the taxpayers money if you do that kind of thing,” said its deputy water services director, Brandy Kelso.

“I don’t want to mean that we don’t do conservation,” Ms. Kelso added. “We just approach it differently.”

A modest list of zoning and other rules — controlling responsibilities over leak repairs, limiting the amount of potable water used to irrigate 10 or more acres of grass, and imposing restrictions on the types of plants allowed in certain public rights of way, to name a few — have helped the city evenly reduce indoor water use over time, she said.

Reductions in outdoor use have been much less homogeneous, though. Affluent neighborhoods like Arcadia, a former citrus grove on the eastern edge of the city, remain lush oases. But in Phoenix’s outer ring, where most new housing has sprouted, grass has largely given way to rocks and dirt.

Master-plan communities like Fireside at Norterra, in the city’s northern fringe, go as far as regulating the kinds of trees, shrubs and flowers that can be planted.

“You may want to plant begonias,” Tamara Swanson, the development’s general manager, recalled having told prospective buyers, “but they wouldn’t do well here anyway.”

But is green in the desert a bad thing? Not necessarily. Dave D. White, a director of the National Science Foundation’s Decision Center for a Desert City, which studies water management decisions in central Arizona, said grass “cools off the landscape” and trees provide shade.

The idea, Dr. White said, is striking the right balance between conservation and growth. In the verdant corners of Phoenix, he and other researchers are looking at whether a homeowner’s switch to desert landscaping might cause a ripple effect that would eventually change the neighborhood.

“There’s a need to use water to make our community livable, but in an intelligent way that thinks about long-term sustainability,” he said. “Because there’s no new supply out there.”

Correction: June 26, 2013

An article and a picture caption on June 17 about the ways in which Phoenix manages its water consumption misstated the per capita residential daily consumption of water in Los Angeles. It is 85 gallons — not 123 gallons, which is the city’s overall daily gallons consumed per person, including residential, business and other customers. (The per capita residential consumption in Phoenix is 108 gallons a day.)

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SOMETIMES, there is an actual eureka moment. For Meredith Perry, it was in late 2010, during her senior year studying astrobiology at the University of Pennsylvania. She was searching for an idea to enter into the college’s innovation competition.

“It was my last year to do it,” she told me, “so I literally would just carry around a notebook and write down any annoyances, because that would be an opportunity to solve a problem and have an invention.” An admitted “professional Googler,” she’d been researching all day on her computer when she decided to pack it in for the night.

“I was just standing in my room,” she said, “wrapping up my laptop charger and trying to fit it into my bag and suddenly it occurred to me: Wow, this is so archaic. Why are we using these 20-foot wires to plug in our quote-unquote wireless devices?”

“See past old paradigms” is one of those cheesy riffs one might hear from an innovation expert working the business speakers’ circuit. Yet here it was, a question that inched just past what was simply accepted: Why, in a wireless age, do we still have electrical wires?

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As Ms. Perry soon learned, there are very good reasons that we don’t beam electricity through the air. Though you can transmit the entire electromagnetic spectrum, from radio waves to gamma rays, there are problems. “I realized that anything on the right half of the spectrum was too dangerous to beam,” she said, “and anything on the left half of the spectrum that was closer to radio was either too inefficient or tightly regulated by the government.”

So she started looking elsewhere and came upon piezoelectricity — a form of charge that is created in certain crystals and ceramics when vibrated. If you have seen Internet assertions about T-shirts “that charge your mobile phone while you wear them,” or about boots on the ground literally creating the charge for a soldier’s radio, you are familiar with the idea of piezoelectricity. Those applications rely on something that’s already in motion.

And here’s where the second eureka happened — enabling her to see how she might build a device to wirelessly charge a battery in a cellphone or a computer from across a room.

Meredith Perry with a covered prototype of uBeam’s wireless charger, which is under wraps until its release date. Credit Peter DaSilva for The New York Times

“How do I create vibration in the air without actually moving something?” The answer came instantly — it was almost like a stoner’s aha: “Sound is vibration in the air.”

Sound frequency “is basically how many cycles per second air is being pushed through a space,” Ms. Perry says. “We have little hairs in our ears that vibrate in response to sound. We interpret that change in air pressure as sound. But sound is something that exists outside of our head. Literally, it’s just air particles moving in an arranged fashion.” So was it possible to deploy sound waves that humans couldn’t hear or feel, in order to charge a phone?

Nothing in her training prepared her for this kind of research. She was an astrobiologist, after all. She was just 21 and had spent the previous two summers interning at NASA.

So she did what most everybody else does. She clicked on Wikipedia. She started with the “ultrasound” page, then “acoustic.” Soon enough, she was reading academic papers at the forefront of various disciplines.

Her idea, she discovered, meant marrying the fields of sound, electricity, battery technology and other subspecialties. “It was such a multidisciplinary idea,” she said, “and everyone in each different department basically told me that there was basically no way that you could get past all the hurdles.”

She kept running into the same genre of problem. “I was working with a couple of different people at the beginning who would say there was no way to get this high-power sound over this distance without creating shock waves,” she said. “Of course, I would have my 10-minute panic attack and think the whole thing was over. Then I would do some research on my own, and figure out how to achieve high-power sound without creating shock waves.”

Afterward, she said, “I would go back to that person and he would say, ‘Oh, yeah, that should work.’ ” Each expert seemed to dwell in his own private silo, so that whenever she crossed from one discipline to another, she would run into the same wall of constricted thinking.

Even after winning attention at a D: All Things Digital conference, where she transmitted power an impressive three feet using piezoelectrical technology, she still couldn’t attract start-up money.

Some of Ms. Perry's old notebooks, in which she would record many of her ideas. Credit Peter DaSilva for The New York Times

“After being rejected by literally hundreds of investors — maybe not hundreds, maybe not literally — but lots of investors,” she said, she decided to research who had financed “crazy things,” and wound up gaining the attention of Peter Thiel, the former PayPal entrepreneur whose Founders Fund provides venture capital for unusual ideas.

Scott Nolan, one of the Founders Fund members who most enthusiastically backed Ms. Perry, remembered precisely what made her proposal stand out. “We invest in low single-digit percentages of what we see,” he said, but Ms. Perry had thought far beyond just the mechanics and technology of her idea. She had already done the advance work of contacting manufacturers and potential institutional customers.

“Obviously her ability to do power transmission wirelessly through sound was something that was fundamentally new,” Mr. Nolan said, but “people have this perception — ‘oh, if I build it, they will come.’ ”

It’s one thing to pull an idea out of your head and shape it into a prototype. But it’s a whole other thing to figure out how that device will get out of your test kitchen and into the marketplace. Mr. Nolan said Ms. Perry had shown that chain stores and some “quick-service restaurants” were eager to integrate a wireless charger into their plans. She “had addressed all these key risks and got them nailed down early,” he said.

After the Founders Fund signed on, more than a half-dozen venture capitalists also kicked in to create $1.4 million in start-up financing — including Mark Cuban, the Yahoo chief Marissa Mayer, the Andreessen Horowitz firm and even Troy Carter, Lady Gaga’s manager. At first, Ms. Perry thought of calling the company “Taking Charge,” but settled on “uBeam.” Based in Mountain View, Calif., it now has a half-dozen engineers working in labs on both coasts.

Ms. Perry has always looked out at the world and seen petty annoyances that she then tries to correct. In the third grade, she made her own pair of reading glasses with little lights on them. Later, she devised a bicycle umbrella, but never pursued it. “I wondered if I really wanted to pour my life into something like this,” she recalled. “Am I passionate about umbrellas?”

In the end, it’s the problem-solving and the fiddling that keeps her interested. “It’s like being on crack — don’t quote me on that — but it’s just so much fun you can literally get sucked into solving the problem and all you want to do is tell everyone about it.”

With venture capital to create wireless charging, it’s still a pleasure, if a bit different from bicycle umbrellas. “Now I’m not allowed to tell anyone anything,” she said, “which is less fun.”

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When I was somewhere between 1 and 2 years old, my parents sent me off for my first overnight to the home of a favorite aunt. At the end of the visit, my mother, anxious to hear the news of her firstborn and his emerging language skills, asked her sister if I had uttered any discernable words. The enthusiastic affirmative of my aunt’s reply must have sparked some inquisitive delight in my mother at the prospect of the emerging linguistic prowess of her young son. “But,” reported my aunt, “he really only has one word – ‘More!’ And he says it often, especially around food,” she recounted.

I still remember another visit to this particular aunt’s house some years later, when after showing obvious enjoyment of the first milkshake, I was allowed the glee of another, only to discover its unfortunate gastro-intestinal consequences. To want “more” seems to be a very fundamental human urge. So perhaps it is not surprising that we have built our businesses around an insatiable appetite for more of just one thing: profit growth. And yet, we are all well aware of the consequences of excess. “Too much of a good thing…” would seem to be an almost universal childhood lesson. I will not soon forget how my second encounter with those milkshakes was a direct result of the pleasure with which I had indulged them the first time around, and which did not outweigh the pain of the consequences.

In our post-modern, consumerist culture we have actively cultivated an appetite for “more” instead of “enough”. The post-war boom in consumer spending fueled by advertising may very well have turned the swords of a military-industrial boom that crushed Nazi-ism into the plowshares of consumerism, but it also shaped business into a growth-addict. The appetite for more profit growth, sustained for several generations now and which lies at the heart of our massive increase in wealth, has also produced a hangover of volatility as the growth drug becomes harder and harder to find.

To navigate the realities of such volatile times, a heritage concept will prove essential: temperance. Temperance is one of the 4 cardinal virtues, after prudence, justice and courage (or fortitude). If you’re like me, you learned temperance’s lessons of “enough” viscerally as a child and only later came to understand their full and helpful application to all spheres of life. Temperance is a distinctly human quality that requires maturity.

In mainstream business theory, the idea of “enough” is not a plausible threat to the status quo. In fact, I’d wager that most traditionalists don’t even consider it. Yet it is what must come to govern our practice of business if we will ever move beyond the “take, make, waste” economy that is slowly paving our road to ruin. For those of you who want to fight this addiction to “more,” temperance is what you’ll be aiming for, and learning it will be a gradual process.

Allow me to pass on an unique formula for success from a wise doctor at the health clinic I have been attending for the last year or so in order to try to reset some of my own long-practiced habits to seek “more” (which eventually led to an inevitable rendezvous with the emergency department at a Miami hospital). “Your ideal weight,” suggested the wise clinician as I went through the protocols in pursuit of a healthier equilibrium, “is the number that your body chooses for you when you eat as little as possible, exercise as much as you can and thoroughly enjoy how you feel.” While most certainly a “first world” problem in the context of a hungry world, these instructions are helpful as we explore a much broader problem: what it might require to temper the appetites of a business. Perhaps the structure of this solution the doctor presented me matches the ideal formula for the better businesses we will need to survive the future? In other words, they will: make as little profit as possible, only the amount required to retain the capital employed and grow impact (the “eat as little as possible” part of the equation), deliver as much social benefit as they can, and thoroughly enjoy an enterprise that is creating an entirely new form of return – the meaning delivered by making the world a better place.

The idea that temperance might actually take hold in modern commerce and stem our corporate thirst for profit seems almost illusionary. As I and many others know from personal experience, we temper our appetites when we get sick, and then only momentarily. So, what chance is there that we might do so for one business, let alone for enough to make a difference! The application of reason – the knowledge that “I would be healthier if I changed my behavior” – will not suffice alone. Behavioral economists tell us that the sirens of desire can sing loud enough to overcome even the clearest voice of reason and the strongest willpower – recall that Ulysses put wax in the ears of his crew and had himself tied to the mast in order to avoid the sirens they encountered? It seems we can be similarly spellbound from making wise choices when it comes to things like milkshakes and money.

If there was any doubt, to pursue temperance is to accept certain difficulty, whether personally or corporately. We might choose an easier path, and many have. Except, the massive environmental degradation of the planet, the widening wealth disparity, the grossly excessive consumption of resources in the form of consumerism, and a host of similarly significant consequences are byproducts of our insistence on growth at any cost. Even though the last half-century has made us all quite aware of its benefits, we must choose another way. Ultimately, like all virtues, temperance is a choice to sacrifice some possibilities (that might be good) for higher order (and therefore better) ones. As Aristotle reminds us, that intemperance creates a pain of withdrawal.

Can your business make it, even flourish, through a bad quarter or two, or three, or is it so hopelessly addicted to cash flow that it has limited resilience? Is there an exuberant joy in simply making boatloads of money and little else in the culture seems to offer meaning? Has the logic of the business been so rigidly structured around profit maximization that there is no desire to find any other kind of meaning, especially real demonstrable impact for others, and no remorse when this vital dimension of every organization that employs humans is simply ignored? Are the NASDAQ position and the share price valuation the only triumphs the CEO can trumpet at the employee all-hands gatherings? Have the senses of the organization been so dulled that continued personal enrichment is a self-sustaining rhetoric and no other logic is even remotely acceptable? Such dangerous intemperate corporate behavior and dependencies offer us some clues that there must be a better way.

If the answers to these questions or similar ones that come to mind are in the affirmative, an intemperate organization is the likely culprit. The good news is that this very process of thought and reflection, if it leads to a concerned understanding and a desire to change, is actually the first agent of temperance. When that concerned understanding produces action or restraint, the journey of temperance has begun.

Aristotle tells us that the sophrosyne (Greek for temperance) is part of the irrational part of the soul, and that the best way to temper the appetite for more is not to slay it with self-control, but to choose something else. As I learn how to temper my own disordered appetite for food, my counselor and guide suggested that I should find rewards for choosing different, beneficial patterns. This approach has been helpful for me, as seems to the case for many. It should also work for our businesses, if we would try it.

What I have called “the purposeful enterprise” represents that attempt: a company that has refocused its addiction for “more” of only one thing – profit – and chosen instead to persistently focus on delivering a telos, a purpose-for-others that has got hold of it and encapsulates the beneficial social impact it seeks. The purposeful enterprise puts that telos ahead of everything else. Profit is a means, not an end. The temperate organization has its passions rightly focused, is satisfied by “enough” and is only compelled by doing more for others. This is the healthier form of business that is emerging.

I have a very visceral sense of how hard it is to actually pursue temperance. I try – and fail – often. But I am certain that the pursuit of more profit has led to some of my worst business and personal decisions. The same is true of organizations. Just this morning, an email from a colleague called out the alarming path of a client organization whose, “business model is terminal – a true Kodak moment,” he wrote prophetically. Perhaps the most infamous of corporate suicides, Kodak will forever be a reminder of the ruinous effects of “more profit” and how temperance could have brought health. [Tweet that!]

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  1. Menzi Maseko

    Great lesson on temperance, I wish I could have written that story for my blog, but then again – great minds think alike 🙂

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James Matthew Corcoran, 52, Oregon, died Monday, Nov. 25, 2013 at OSF St. Anthony Medical Center, Rockford.

He was born Jan. 18, 1961 in Rockford, the son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Kereven) Corcoran.

He married Jillene Page on June 2, 1984 in Oregon.

Jim worked in Rockford at Amcore Bank for 20 years and then at Alpine Bank for the past five years.

He was a member of the Oregon Church of God.

Jim loved sports and he was a member of the Oregon High School 1979 sectional basketball championship team and went on to play basketball for four years at Beloit College.

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Survivors include his wife, Jill; daughters, Brittany (Adam) Groenhagen, Sarah Corcoran, and Anna Corcoran, all of Oregon; mother, Elizabeth Corcoran, Oregon; sisters, Jean (John) Deuth, Polo, and Jan (Richard) Alcumbrack, Michigan; brother, Tom (Peggy) Corcoran, Oregon; and several aunts, uncles, and cousins.

He was preceded in death by his father.

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Hot Dogs: How They Are Made and Its Effect To Our Health

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Hot dog is best eaten with bun. It is also delicious to eat plain hot dog with sauce. Some people prefer it boiled, while others like it deep fried. But do you know how hot dog is made?

What are hot dogs made of?
Hot dogs are a processed meat product. Pork is most often used but other types of meat such as beef, chicken, turkey or a combination of meat and poultry may be used. Meats used in hot dogs come from the muscle of the animal. Sometimes "variety meats" which include livers, kidneys and hearts maybe use in hot dogs. However, the hot dog producers must clearly label the product with the statement "with variety meats" or "with meat by-products."

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A major ingredient in this curing solution is salt. It is used to make the meat easier to work with, improve flavor, and inhibit bacterial growth. Water is another component of the curing solution. It has a variety of functions including helping create the necessary meat emulsion and adding to the meat's juiciness. Sodium nitrite is included in the curing solution to retard the development of rancidity and stabilize the meat color. Curing accelerators such as sodium ascorbate or sodium erythorbate may also be added to preserve the color of the meat during storage.

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Hot dogs are processed meats. Eating lots of processed meats has been linked to an increased risk of cancer. The risk of cancer probably cause by the additives used in the meats.

Sodium nitrite (or sodium nitrate) is used as a preservative, coloring and flavoring in hot dogs (and other processed meats), and studies have found it can lead to the formation of cancer-causing chemicals called nitrosamines.

MSG, a flavor enhancer used in hot dogs and many other processed foods, has been labeled as an "excitotoxin," which, according to Dr. Russell Blaylock, an author and neurosurgeon, are "a group of excitatory amino acids that can cause sensitive neurons to die."

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