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Two Successful Student Companies Advance to Next Stage in NIIC’s Student Venture Lab Program

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OFabz Swimwear and Signed Visuals, LLC leverage coaching and early stage capital funding from the Northeast Indiana Innovation Center (NIIC) to be accepted at the next level of NIIC’s nationally recognized student entrepreneur startup program.

Olivia Fabian, Founder & CEO, OFabz Swimwear

For the last six years, we have invested in students and their dreams. These investments in the "home town team" are a core part of our passion and purpose," stated Karl R. LaPan, President and CEO, NIIC

The Northeast Indiana Innovation Center ( is pleased to announce the advancement of two successful student venture companies in NIIC’s nationally recognized Student Venture Lab program. OFabz Swimwear and Signed Visuals, LLC have both been successful in creating high-growth-capable companies will work with the Innovation Center at the next level to pursue growth and funding.

As part of the NIIC Student Venture Lab program (, student companies receive early stage funding investment and office space & business services at the Northeast Indiana Innovation Campus in exchange for a small amount of equity in the student venture in each of three six-month gated phases. Ventures receive one-on-one coaching from Mike Fritsch, the Innovation Center’s Entrepreneur-In-Residence ( and must be invited to advance to the next phase based on progress in the previous phase.

Throughout the three phases of the Student Ventures Lab program, NIIC could invest over $11,500 in business funding and $9,000 in office space and services in each company. At the end of each six month term, each venture demonstrates their product and their customer-validated business model at Demo Day to investors, bankers, and other leaders of the region’s business and technology community.

Accepted into the third phase of the program, OFabz Swimwear, led by founder Olivia Fabian, offers both men's and women's suits, focusing on vintage designs and active lifestyles. Ofabz designs are being manufactured in the USA and are being sold by an increasing number of brands across the country. Olivia can be reached at ofabian(at)ofabz(dot)com.

Accepted into the second phase of the program, Signed Visuals, LLC, led by founder Mattthew Burris, a Huntington University DMA student, produces independent films. He has one film in post-production and is currently rounding out business funding for a second. Matt is also actively working to help expand the budding Fort Wayne, Indiana film scene. He encourages anyone who wants to get involved to contact him. Matt can be reached at mburris(at)signed visuals(dot)com.

“The student founders of these two companies are perfect examples of what we look for in all our entrepreneurs,” said Mike Fritsch, NIIC Entrepreneur-In-Residence, “Olivia and Matt both started with a dream that they were very passionate about and now they are making it happen despite all the obstacles that get in their way."

NIIC’s Student Venture Lab is made possible by generous contributions from The Lincoln Financial Foundation, iAB Financial Bank, The Edward M. & Mary McCrea Wilson Foundation, and private individual & corporate donors. Any future proceeds from NIIC’s equity investments in Student Venture Lab ventures will be reinvested in support of the mission to grow the next generation of student entrepreneurial leaders. Interested in applying for an investment in your student venture or business? Contact Mike Fritsch for more information.

Northeast Indiana Innovation Center (NIIC) - NIIC is a non-profit, community-based incubator and entrepreneurial resource center that assists in the growth and development of technology-based companies in Northeast Indiana. For more information, contact the NIIC Entrepreneur-In-Residence, Mike Fritsch at 260-407-1754 or mfritsch(at)niic(dot)net.

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Ride Safer® Travel Vest Announces the Use of the Travel Vest 2

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Ride Safer®2 Travel Vest offers secure traveling without the bulk of a car seat. Ride Safer® is proud to announce a new video demonstrating the mobility and application of the Travel Vest.

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Ride Safer® Travel Vest 2 presents an easy and informative video about the application and use of the Travel Vest.

Ride Safer® makers of the Safe Ride Travel Vest announce the ease of use and proper installation of the Travel Vest 2 to be used with older toddlers.

The Ride Safer 2 Travel Vest headrest may be removed and, depending on which side of the vehicle the child will be seated, the shoulder strap seat belt clips can be moved to either side of the vest. The harness built into the vest offers front panels that protect the child with the cross strap of the seat belt in the event of a crash. The travel vest can be adjusted with easy Velcro and clips to protect intermediate toddlers of just about any size.

In addition to the vest, the Ride Safer® alternative to car seats come complete with a crotch strap and seat belt strap, which is supported over the back seat of the vehicle. Once assembled, the Ride Safer® Travel Vest doesn't need to be assembled other then being applied to the child.

Ride Safer® offers alternatives to bulky car seats with a safe, effective, and US Federal Government approved Travel Vest that follows the child, creating more room in the vehicle and a safer ride.

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Recording Artists Project Youngin & TEO Release New Mixtape "PINE COUNTY FINEST 2"

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Coast 2 Coast Mixtapes announces the release of the new mixtape by Project Youngin & TEO currently seeking blog placements and interviews.

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Today Coast 2 Coast Mixtapes announces the release of “PINE COUNTY FINEST 2”, the latest mixtape by Team Bigga Rankin artists Project Youngin & TEO. The mixtape is currently available for streaming and download at the Coast 2 Coast Mixtape website.

The mixtape features 18 tracks, including those below:

1. Countdown
2. Ova Here
3. Posed Too
4. Right Der
5. Won't Change
6. Rollout
7. Pine County Finest
8. She Ready
9. Snaptro 1
10. 2 Cups
11. Shots Fired
12. Snaptro 2
13. ANP
14. Fuck Around
15. Hold Me Down
16. Swangin
17. Lay It Down
18. Outro

Project Youngin & TEO are currently seeking press opportunities, interviews, features, and more. They can be reached through the Team Bigga Rankin website.

For more info on Team Bigga Rankin artists visit

About Coast 2 Coast Mixtapes: Coast 2 Coast Mixtapes are the most widely distributed mixtapes in the world, with over 100 million downloads/plays generated by over 300 volumes officially hosted by major artists. Coast 2 Coast has a solid reach in the new music industry with a digital magazine, DJ coalition, industry tips blog, yearly convention, and more. Coast 2 Coast Mixtapes represents a unique opportunity for artists of all urban genres, from major to indie. For more information, visit

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Brainier Brings Home Second Stevie® Award

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Company commended for customer service quality while undergoing rebrand

Brainier, creator of the award-winning learning management system (LMS) élan, announced today it has won an international Stevie® Award for Customer Service Department of the Year – Computer Software.

This win comes hot on the heels of the company being voted the public's favorite provider of customer service in software technology in the 2016 People's Choice Stevie® Awards.

“Last year, we served many new customers due to our expanding client base, hosted our largest E3Learning user conference, and underwent a company rebrand, all while increasing our customer-satisfaction numbers,” said Jenny Ellingen, vice president, Customer Experience & Marketing Services, Brainier. “This award is a testament to the unwavering commitment and skills of our customer experience team.”

Taking notice of Brainier’s ability to meet its customers’ needs despite logistical challenges, one judge gave this feedback: “Great to see you maintained your level of service during a rebrand, which can be difficult at times.”

Brainier is the only company in its industry to win a Stevie® Award in the Customer Service Department of the Year – Computer Software – Up to 100 Employees category.

“We strive to be leaders in the LMS market through the ease of use of our products and the excellence of our service standards,” said Jerry Cox, CEO, Brainier. “Winning this Stevie® Award bolsters confidence and pride in our teams that their tireless efforts, indeed, serve to fulfill our mission.”

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Stevie® Awards competitions receive more than 10,000 entries each year from organizations in more than 60 nations. Honoring organizations of all types and sizes and the people behind them, Stevie® Awards recognize outstanding performances in the workplace worldwide. For more information, visit

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Based in Minneapolis, Brainier has been helping clients discover a better approach to learning and development since 1995. Products offered by Brainier include: élan LMS, Chameleon 2.0 (developed by BI WORLDWIDE) and Legacy LMS. They continue to win top industry awards. For more information, visit Brainier is part of BI WORLDWIDE, a global employee engagement agency that uses the principles of behavioral economics to produce measurable results for its clients. BIW continues to bring best-in-class solutions to its global and regional customers. For more information, visit

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    The PSI/EFSPI expert working group on Confidentiality of Interim Results are planning to meet face to face on 11 May.
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    Following on from the successful and thought-provoking presentation at last year’s PSI conference by Paul Wicks from PatientsLikeMe, this webinar will continue to explore the ways in which patients are influencing the design of new clinical trials.
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    This joint Basel Biometric Society / PSI one day meeting will present an overview of the science and potential statistical challenges across a range of topics covering early and late phases of development, regulatory and health technology assessments.
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2011 Research Day Winners

The Department of Psychiatry held its 11th Annual Research Day on June 2, 2011. This year’s event attracted over 250 attendees and featured 98 poster presentations from faculty, trainees, residents, and staff.  The day also included oral research presentations by four Department of Psychiatry faculty and a special keynote address by Boris Birmaher, MD, Endowed Chair in Early Onset Bipolar Disease and Professor of Psychiatry.

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Waldo’s Hawaiian Holiday

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Based on a script that never got filmed, Cox’s long-overdue sequel to his cult classic film Repo Man is every bit as fractured and uneven as its predecessor, but it too has its own kind of loopy charm. Protagonist Otto (who now believes his name is Waldo) finds himself in a late-’90s American city that looks like a composite of a dozen stereotypical war zones, the last 13 years of his life gone from memory. His dreams hint at a recent stay on Mars, but he’s too busy trying to eke out a living in a city that doesn’t bathe to pay them much attention. Between jumping from one dead-end job to another, and jumping in and out of bed with inscrutable hottie Velma, readers get hints of overarching conspiracies and alien puppet masters. Hints, but not much more—by book’s end just as many questions are left unanswered as answered. Still, it’s a ride that should appeal to fans of the original, and Bones’s overly colorful and densely chaotic visual style gleefully explores this mess of a world Cox has so lovingly built. The script’s jabs at American consumerism, which have Waldo falling for every buy-now-pay-later sales pitch imaginable, resonate particularly well. (Apr.)

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With more than 335,000 copies of Mugglenet.com's What Will Happen in Harry Potter 7 in print since its November 2006 publication, Berkeley, Calif.—based Ulysses Press plans to use the more than $2 million it will earn from its bestselling title to help continue what it calls “auteur publishing.”

Ulysses copublisher Ray Riegert said the press developed the auteur acquisition strategy about three years ago—Ulysses looks for areas in the marketplace where there's a publishing opportunity, then comes up with a book idea and the right author to make the project happen. “The change in philosophy to originate projects, rather than get things shopped to them, has made all the difference,” said Sara Rosenberg, marketing director at Publishers Group West, Ulysses's distributor. The new approach, which led to the creation of the Mugglenet book, helped Ulysses land on PW's Fast Growing Small Press list for the first time this year and weather the PGW bankruptcy.

Riegert said Mugglenet is just one example of the press's acquisition strategy. It begins with an acquisition meeting with Riegert, sales and marketing manager Bryce Willett, editor Nick Denton-Brown and publicist Karma Bennett to examine Nielsen BookScan numbers. When the group agrees there is a publishing opportunity that is being overlooked, they put together a team to develop a new title.

Riegert is aware that a book like Mugglenet will not contribute to its backlist, so the press also uses BookScan to guide acquisitions of titles like Complete Krav Maga: The Ultimate Guide to Over 200 Self-Defense and Combative Techniques, a book about self-defense techniques used by the Israeli army. Since it was released in May, Krav Maga sold out the 10,000 first printing and Ulysses has gone back to press.

Riegert founded Ulysses in 1983 with his wife and copublisher, Leslie Henriques, to publish his book Hidden Hawaii. The press expanded the Hidden series to include other locations and now has 35 titles in the line, which it is redesigning. In addition to travel guides, Ulysses publishes titles on fitness, martial arts and mind/body/spirit. Ulysses will use some of the Mugglenet money to begin publishing full-color high-end books like the forthcoming Mega Picture Puzzles. But Riegert is being careful not to overexpand, and intends to continue to produce 50 books a year with a 12-person staff.


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This week, Maurice Sendak's final book, body snatchers, and two books of poetry. Plus: a Woody Guthrie novel edited by Johnny Depp.

Miracles of Life: Shanghai to Shepperton, an Autobiography by J.G. Ballard (Norton/Liveright) - Completed just before he died in 2009 at age 79, this compelling memoir by SF novelist Ballard vividly portrays the vanished world of the British upper classes in Shanghai and Cambridge before and after WWII.

A Natural History of Dragons by Marie Brennan (Tor) – Complete with gorgeous illustrations, this novel takes the form of protagonist Isabella’s memoir of her youthful adventures, in a world where fantastical creatures roam. A rich and absorbing tale of discovery. Check out Brennan’s exploration of the novel’s dragons.

City of a Thousand Dolls by Miriam Forster (HarperTeen) - Forster makes a strong debut with a fresh South Asian–inspired fantasy/mystery crossover. Abandoned as a child, 16-year-old Nisha Arvi has grown up within the private walled estate known as the City of a Thousand Dolls. There, orphaned or unwanted girls are raised in six specialized houses, and when they start to go missing, Nisha tries to get to the bottom of it.

Schroder by Amity Gaige (Hachette/Twelve) - Written as an apology (in both the Socratic and emotional sense) to the narrator’s ex-wife as he awaits trial for taking his six-year-old daughter on an unsanctioned road trip, this novel is quiet and deeply introspective.

Out of the Black Land by Kerry Greenwood (Poisoned Pen) – In this gripping thriller set in ancient Egypt, the new pharaoh, Akhnaten, holds the heretical religious view that there’s only one god, and acts to spread this idea by banning the worship of the traditional deities. Two charismatic figures—Ptah-hotep, plucked from obscurity to become the Great Royal Scribe and Mutnodjme, Akhnaten’s sister-in-law—display a gift for surviving palace intrigue.

House of Earth by Woody Guthrie (Harper) - Guthrie’s multifaceted legacy lives on (and combines beautifully with his affecting 1930 autobiography Bound for Glory) with this posthumous Texas plains novel set during the Dust Bowl era. Includes a preface by Johnny Depp, who polished the rough manuscript.

The Lady and Her Monsters: A Tale of Dissections, Real-Life Dr. Frankensteins, and the Creation of Mary Shelley’s Masterpiece by Roseanne Montillo (Morrow) - A macabre romp through 18th and 19th century Europe, Montillo’s debut illuminates the circumstances and inspiration behind one of gothic literature’s most notorious tales. Grim body snatchers, cadaver-carving surgeons, and nefarious alchemists litter the pages.

Wise Men by Stuart Nadler (Little, Brown/Reagan Arthur) - Nadler’s portrait of doomed romance, along with dissections of wealth and success worthy of John Cheever, are brilliantly related in this epic account of lawyer Arthur Wise’s ascent in the post-WWII era through the eyes of his son, Hilly.

Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition by David Nirenberg (Norton) - Based on a decade of exhaustive research, this book explores “anti-Judaism” as an intellectual current (as opposed to its overtly political and social analogue, anti-Semitism) from ancient Egypt through to the Frankfurt School and just after the Holocaust. Nirenberg contends that anti-Judaism is “one of the basic tools with which [Western thought] was constructed.”

Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry edited by Charles Henry Rowell (Norton) - This important if sprawling collection might be the first to give such a full and various account of its subject: African-American poets since the 1960s, and especially since the 1980s, in much of their ambitiously pluralist, confident, and energetic variety.

My Brother’s Book by Maurice Sendak (HarperCollins/di Capua) – In Sendak’s final work, a series of small, jewel-like watercolors shows two brothers, lithe as acrobats, floating through a desolate world of murky forests and starry skies. The brothers' names are Jack and Guy. Sendak's beloved older brother, Jack, the brother of the title, died in 1995.

Incarnadine by Mary Szybist (Graywolf) - In this highly anticipated second book from Szybist, love poetry and poetry of religious faith blend and blur into one transcendent, humbled substance, in which a beloved is asked, “Just for this evening, won’t you put me before you/ until I’m far enough away you can/ believe in me?” This is essential poetry.

Wash by Margaret Wrinkle (Atlantic Monthly) - In this deeply researched, deeply felt debut novel, Wrinkle aims a sure pen at a crucial moment following America’s War of Independence when the founding fathers yearned to free the country from the tyranny of slavery. At the center of this story stands Revolutionary War veteran Gen. James Richardson and his slave, Wash.


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As September gives way to October, three of nine regional bookseller associations have held their annual fall trade shows. As usual, booksellers and publishers managed to generate lots of excitement for the holiday books, even as traditional bricks-and-mortar stores face unprecedented challenges from digital books. To help boost the morale of independent booksellers, Jonathan Evison, author of West of Here, recited a prose poem he calls "Ode to Bookselling" at the Saturday breakfast of the Mountains and Plains Independent Booksellers Association meeting. Below is Evison's ode in its entirety.

A Bookseller's Love Story

For thirteen years I've been stocking the shelves at the Book Cathedral, and it is my love story.

You will probably not remember me by my name, but call me Ishmael. Or Tom Jones, or Tom Sawyer, or Elmer Gantry, or McTeague, or The Idiot, if you like. You may not remember me for my wispy hair, or brick-shaped loafers, nor for the wealth of cat hair clinging to the seat of my faded Dockers. I distinguish myself by my love of books, and by never using the search function—I've no need of it.

Ask me who's between Allende and Sherwood Anderson, and I shall tell you without pause, Martin Amis; between Sartre and Schulberg, Saunders; and at the end of the line, you'll find Zusak, unless of course we're out, in which case you'll find Zafón. Blindfold me and spin me around in circles, then set me straight and run my fingers down the spines, and I'll tell you when we get to Proust, or the shorter novels of Melville. Ask me where to find Silas Wegg, and I shall point you to Dickens. Ask me, where is Oskar, and I'll tell you he's banging his tin drum between Golding and Graves. And if it's Sancho Panza you're after, you'll find him chasing windmills with Quixote just to the left of Chaucer.

Ask me All About Lulu. Ask me For Whom the Bell Tolls. Ask me where A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, or What Makes Sammy Run, and I shall tell you without hesitation that the answer to the universe is 42. Or that it's never too late to have a happy childhood. Or that A Good Man Is Hard to Find. Or that The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter. Or that You Can't Go Home Again. I will show you the beating heart of Ragtime, drag you kicking through Hard Times, In Our Time to Places Where I've Done Time, through The Age of Innocence, The Age of Reason to The Winter of Our Discontent. You'll meet The Sleeping Father, The Time Traveler's Wife, A Bigamist's Daughter, and Wittgenstein's Mistress. I'll lead you to the Shining City, beneath The Sheltering Sky, past Lions and Shadows to The Dark Side of Guy de Maupassant—and if it pleases you, to the very Heart of Darkness itself. I will tell you The History of Love, The Brief History of the Dead. I will tell you The Secret Life of Bees. I'll tell you A Tale of Two Cities that will make All the Pretty Horses whinny and All the King's Men weep. I will explain The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, How the Dead Dream, and The Way of the Pilgrim. I will talk Of Mice and Men, Of Time and the River, of Leaves of Grass, until finally, at the end of the night, when The Moon Is Down, the sun will also rise, and everything will be illuminated.

Now, ask yourself: where else on earth else are you gonna' get this kind of service but an indie book store?

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GPs’ diagnostic skills could be obsolete within 20 years, says Hunt

The health secretary has claimed that GPs in 20 years’ time will not have to make diagnoses due to increasingly powerful diagnostic tools, and the NHS must position itself to be ready for the technology when it becomes available.

Speaking at a fringe session at the Conservative party conference on Monday, Mr Hunt informed delegates that Silicon Valley tech ‘gurus’ were confident diagnosis by humans would be obsolete within two decades.

He also said that this would open up an exciting new prospect for medicine where problems can be identified and tackled before they even become symptomatic, although he did concede there was a lot of work to do to make this a realty.

Mr Hunt has long championed wider adoption of technology in the NHS, and at the same session he reminded delegates of his pledge to make the NHS paperless by 2018 – conceding that despite best efforts there may be ‘one or two bits of paper floating around’ by the deadline.

The health secretary was responding to a question on how the NHS can win the public’s trust for record-sharing initiatives, in the wake of the botched rollout of the GP record-sharing scheme, which has been delayed since early 2013.

Mr Hunt said that the Government still had to win the trust of the public, but added that technological developments were ‘exciting’.

He told delegates: ‘If you talk to technology gurus in California and ask what’s going to change in the next two decades, they say “in 20 years’ time, no doctor will ever give a diagnosis”.

‘They say “You can get 300,000 biomarkers from a single drop of blood, so why would you depend on a human brain to calculate what that means when a computer can do it for you?”.

‘I think it’s really important that we’re ready in the NHS to harness the power of data to give us more accurate diagnoses, in particular with that example.’

He added: ‘What’s happened in medicine for the last two millenia is that you wait until you have a symptom and then a doctor tries to interpret the symptom.

’What this will mean, is we can identify problems before they’re symptomatic and therefore have a much better chance of tackling them. So it’s a pretty exciting prospect but there’s lots of work to do.’

NHS England recently produced an animation outlining its digital vision for the NHS, including health apps that upload information directly to the GP record and telehealth consultations.

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  • In 20 years time there won't be any GPs to MAKE a diagnosis.

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  • Wouldn't it be nice to make Health Secretaries obsolete too?

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  • Pretty sure he is on wrong dose of SSRI.
    This article was the final straw. M never coming back to NHS.

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  • according to 1960s sci-if , we should all by now be doing weekend trips to the planet Zog and living on space dust.

    can't someone teleport this twit to another planet so he can preach to someone else?

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  • And of course silicon valley got things so right back in the dotcom bubble, and they are all health experts, who understand false positives and diagnostic uncertainty. Oh dear.

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  • I think he is largely right about diagnosis but explanation, caring and complex personalised management will still be required. Think Star Trek style medicine.

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  • Technology may be able to diagnose/show biological marker but who the ---- is going to interpret it?. Let another 100 years go and doctors will be still and treating patient. AND most importantly can this country afford it. Yes USA will afford it because of amount of money it spends on Health care. The people in this country are used to having everything free and not used to pay for anything. One simple thing he doesnot understand is technical advances will simply make medicine more expensive.

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  • How long can he get away with spouting this sort of nonsense and still hold office!?!?

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  • Mr Hunt has long championed wider adoption of technology in the NHS

    Like homeopathy!

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  • I'm not going to disagree this MIGHT happen.

    But seriously, should this come from a health secretary? It's equivalent to MOD saying they don't need ground units in 20 years time as androids would have replaced them.

    There is a difference between future planning and fantasy speculation. Latter is fine for a talk in the pub with mates, not very fine for talk as public fgure such as conservative conference.

    He's bonkers!

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Tuesday, February 15, 2011

snow day

It's not every year that it snows in San Antonio, in fact we've never seen snow since we moved here three and a half years ago...but some people haven't seen snow and they've lived here their whole lives. So wouldn't you guess, that it would snow in San Antonio the weekend that Greg and I were out of town (visiting the congregation in Jackson, TN that has extended him a call to be their pastor and by the way, he'll make a decision and announce to both churches on Sunday morning). But at least the big kids were home with grammy and papa and got to experience their first San Antonio snowfall....or should I say snow dusting. Yes, folks the city shut down (so I hear) and yes it was less than 1/4 of an inch of snow. But when you don't ever see snow it is a big deal.

The kids had to make their snow angels on the driveway because the grass was too warm for the snow to even stick. My parents bundled them up nice and good so they would stay warm in the 20 degree weather... I know that's nothing for you northerners (trust me I know I lived in Milwaukee till I was 24) but when it's 80 one day and then 20 the next, it feels pretty cold. They enjoyed the snow for the little time it was around and Naomi is already asking for more. Sorry sweetheart I don't think it will snow anymore in San Antonio this year!

Here are some photos that my mom took of the kids playing in the snow!

Kendra Lepak said...

I think it is cute that they made snow angels in the driveway. :) and i love your pics!! I had to giggle when i saw how much snow it was!! lol :) It was 40 degrees here in WI this weekend and I was out in my sweatshirt thinking, "oh, it's so warm!" lol :) I'm just hoping for no more snow storms!!!! :)
You have such cute kids, Jamie!! :)

Theresa said...

Love the snow angels in the driveway :)


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Pure Punjabi Ltd selected for SmallBiz100 2016

Pure Punjabi Surinder & Safia SmallBiz100 2016 winners

In the August of 2016, we were thrilled and delighted that our small business, Pure Punjabi, was selected for SmallBiz100 2016. We’d wanted to apply the year before, but circumstances had delayed us in getting our information together, while trying to run and expand the cookery school, food events and spice product business.

The application process.

SmallBiz100 Blue Tie Ball Pure Punjabi

Applications opened for the 2016 Small Business Saturday on the 1st of June and the deadline to apply was midnight of Thursday the 30th of June.

The application also required a video to be produced, but unfortunately, Safia was away in London when we realised, that we ideally needed to be at the same location, in order to put the video together and get it uploaded.

Not to be deterred, Safia set about recording the introduction and the ending to the video by balancing her iphone on a washing line in the London flat and then sending me the recordings via WhatsApp.

Meanwhile,at Pure Punjabi HQ in  Downton on the Hampshire /Wiltshire border, I set about editing various video clips and photos from previous pop-up restaurants, cookery schools and events from the last three years. I had never done any video editing or even opened the imovies application on my Macbook before, so this was initially somewhat challenging, however, I soon got to grips with it, although it took a solid couple of days to complete the video.

Here’s how the video turned out…luckily good enough to get us through!

We got the video uploaded to YouTube just in time, with the usual deadline angst, and then decided to forget all about it!  What absolute joy when we got the email to say that the decision had been made for the selection of the 100, and we had been chosen! Of course we had to keep absolutely quiet about it until the Small Business Saturday team in London were ready to release the details.

The Small Business Saturday campaign focuses upon featuring 100 small businesses from across the United Kingdom and from every sector and industry, over a period of 100 days. Each business is allocated a specific day, within the 100 day period, culminating in the final day, which is the first Saturday in December. This officially marks the first day of Christmas shopping. The campaign encourages the consumer to support small business by shopping locally and it highlights the contribution that the 5.4 million small businesses make to the economy.

The 100 days.

We were finally allowed to tell friends and family the exciting news about our selection as one of the SmallBiz100, once we got the official go-ahead from the Small Business Saturday team on the 12th of August. (The Guardian newspaper had actually printed the list of the chosen 100 that same day. Click here for the list of 2016 businesses).

As soon as we knew the names of the other 99 SmallBiz100, we immediately started connecting with them on Twitter and following them on Facebook and Instagram and starting to get involved in the campaign and raising awareness of small business.

However, in early August, we still didn’t know which of the 100 days would be ‘our’ company day? We knew that the campaign started on August the 26th, so when we asked which day would be ‘our’ day, we were really delighted to be told that…

we were Day 1…

and that we would be the first of the SmallBiz100 to be featured and would kick off the launch.

Having got to grips with imovie, we felt it was time to make a Day 1 thank you video.

On the big day, Friday the 26th of August, we were glued to our social media channels, from first thing until past midnight,  tweeting and posting on Facebook and Instagram as the Small Business Saturday team put out information about us, mainly on Twitter, throughout the day. Then over the next 99 days, we stayed extra-active on social media and connected with each of the other 99 small businesses as we watched their videos and learned about their businesses.

James Caan follows SmallBiz100 Pure Punjabi on Day 1 of Small Business Saturday
Just amazing to have James Caan as a Twitter follower!

The Blue Tie Ball

Although this was the 4th year of the Small Business Saturday campaign in the U.K. the London H.Q. had decided to hold the first Blue Tie Ball, to raise money for the Royal Marsden Hospital and to celebrate the life of SmallBiz alumni, Francesca Kemp.

SmallBiz100 Blue Tie Ball Pure Punjabi
On the way to the ball!

On Thursday the 8th of September…wearing saris in shades of blue, we made our way to Bankside Hilton Hotel in London for a sumptuous dinner and the opportunity to meet the other SmallBiz100 and the Small Business Saturday team.

SmallBiz100 Blue Tie Ball Pure Punjabi
Final check of the saris!
Pure Punjabi Surinder & Safia SmallBiz100 2016 winners
Pure Punjabi Surinder & Safia SmallBiz100 2016 official photo

SmallBiz100 Blue Tie Ball Pure Punjabi
The tables are ready!
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Meeting other guests at the Blue Tie Ball
SmallBiz100 Blue Tie Ball Pure Punjabi
Cathryn from the Small Business Saturday team
SmallBiz100 Blue Tie Ball Pure Punjabi
Ben from Hygrove homes, named Small Business Saturday Champion at the Blue Tie Ball.
SmallBiz100 Blue Tie Ball Pure Punjabi
Alison Edgar – The Entrepreneur’s Godmother, named one of the top 50 most influential entrepreneurs in the U.K.

From Downton to Downing Street

The campaign neared the final days with an exciting, once-in-a-lifetime’s invitation for Pure Punjabi to attend a reception at No. 10 Downing Street. As only one person per business could attend, Safia had the privilege and honour of representing our business.

No. 10 Downing Street invitation for Pure Punjabi Small Business saturday SmallBiz100
A once-in-a-lifetime invitation

It was quite a surreal experience, especially when Safia was inside Downing Street, coming down the staircase looking at portraits of all the Prime Ministers and came level with the portrait of Winston Churchill, signed by the man himself. It’s certainly something to be remembered forever.

Pure Punjabi Ltd invited to No. 10 Downing Street as part of SmallBiz100 UKPure Punjabi Invited to No. 10 Downing Street

Pure Punjabi invited to No. 10 Downing Street
The official Downing Street photo

What would we say to other small businesses in 2017?

We’d thoroughly recommend that all small businesses, as well as consumers, get behind the Small Business Saturday campaign and make the effort to apply to be part of the SmallBiz100 chosen each year. We’d advise getting your video planned out well in advance and start collecting suitable photos, video clips, testimonials and product information as soon as possible. We found that using imovies to record our video was very user-friendly and easy to pick up, although some of the SmallBiz100 did have professional videos made.

The application process itself was very easy as well, and subscribing to the Small Business Saturday newsletter kept us informed. Our entry video was not only a collection or timeline of past events and achievements, but also closed with our plans for the future, which were to go global with e-learning video tuition of our cookery workshops. The filming had taken a year, but our strategy to have a plan to scale up on a global level across e-learning English speaking platforms and to show that we were planning for a future business that would embrace technology and the online digital world showed our potential for future business growth.

We’re so glad that we took the time to stop working in our business and work on it by making the application for SmallBiz100. It’s been a fantastic experience!

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To create a new Script, use the Scripts|New menu item, or corresponding shortcut. Make sure you have used the Preferences to set all the default options that you wish to have in newly created scripts.

Once your new script is created, a few messages will appear in the messages window. I suggest you use these as a checklist of what needs to be done to make your new script "runnable". To do this :

Click on the first message and select one of the options proposed to you. If you are not sure of the meaning of the different options, use the HELP menu item at the bottom of the popup menu.

Go to the next message and repeat until all messages have disappeared, or you are confident that you can ignore the remaining messages (this will rarely happen; Q++ messages always have a good reason for appearing).

Note that as you "correct" some messages, some other messages might appear. For example once you correct the "No Template Selected" message by selecting a template, 2 messages will appear to the effect that the height and width have not been set. That is normal.

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Niko's Database 3.0

My very first mod! :) Updated Database with new realistic features! Updated tiers, engines, etc

  1. Niko_1599

    Niko's Database v3.0

    This is my very 1st mod, so feel free to make any review or tell me what can I Improve :)

    - Select Normal 2014 Calendar or Alternative Calendars .
    - Select which option you prefer for the Race Distance (Normal 25%, 50% and 100% version or Shorter 15%, 30% and 60% version). In case you selected alternative calendars, choose one of the 6 options.
    - Copy database folder into F1 2014 directory and replace the file.
    - Recommendation: Create a new profile and start you career mode again to avoid any conflicts!
    - ENJOY!

    - Updated Team Tiers so now:

    Tier 1: Mercedes, Red Bull, Williams
    Tier 2: Ferrari, McLaren, Force India
    Tier 3: Toro Rosso, Lotus, Sauber
    Tier 4: Marussia, Caterham

    - Updated Engines (i.e. Marussia had Cosworth and now is Ferrari; Williams had Renault and now is Mercedes, Toro Rosso had Ferrari and now is Renault)

    - Real Tier between engines, so you will feel more power in a Williams than in a Red Bull:

    1st Tier Mercedes (Mercedes, Williams)
    2nd Tier Mercedes (McLaren, Force India), Ferrari (Ferrari)
    3rd Tier Ferrari (Sauber), Renault (Red Bull)
    4th Tier Ferrari (Marussia), Renault (Toro Rosso, Lotus)
    5th Tier Renault (Caterham)

    - Adjusted Driver's virtual performance for all drivers (i.e. Ricciardo and Alonso are the best drivers on the grid (best driver doesn't mean victories, because they don't have the best car) while Hamilton and Hulkenberg are lowered)

    - Adjusted Team's virtual perfoarmance according to 2014 Season (i.e. Now Red Bull is likely faster than Ferrari, and Marussia sometimes could be competing against Sauber)

    - Daniel Ricciardo is now Red Bull's 1st Driver.
    - Valtteri Bottas is now Williams' 1st Driver.

    - Safety Car chance option is now at high on all tracks and can come out 4 times each race.

    - Updated tyres compounds for last three races (USA: Soft and Medium; Brazil: Soft and Medium; Abu Dhabi: Super Soft and Soft)

    - Ajdusted Career Mode Team's Prestige so driving for historic teams will give you more prestige and XP:

    1st - Ferrari - 501
    2nd - McLaren - 500
    3rd - Williams - 402
    4th - Red Bull - 401
    5th - Mercedes - 400
    6th - Lotus - 301
    7th - Sauber - 300
    8th - Toro Rosso - 201
    9th - Force India - 200
    10th - Marussia - 102
    11th - Caterham - 100

    - Updated order of teams in menu according to 2014 Constructor's Championship.

    - Updated stats (Podiums and Wins) for all drivers (until 2014 Abu Dhabian Grand Prix).

    - Optional Short Race Distances: 15%, 30% and 60% races with scaled Fuel Distance and Tyre Wear (Note: In the Game will still appear 100%, 50% and 25% options, so you must know that 100% = 60%, 50% = 30% and 25% = 15%).

    - Adjusted Driver's fake qualifying ability for all drivers (When you start a "Race Only" GP, the order of the grid will be more realistic acording to 2014 season)

    - Pastor Maldonado and Sergio Perez have now Monaco as their favourite track so they will have a better performance (this is acording to some real life interviews and because they were the only drivers that didn't have a favourite track assigned)

    Career Mode Improvements:
    - Silverstone, Monza (historic GPs) and Abu Dhabi (IS DOUBLE POINTS BABY!) are now also Jewel Races.
    - Malaysia is now Caterham's home race (Silverstone, too)
    - Added some important races for some teams beacuse of the nationality of their drivers:

    1. Australia - Red Bull (Ricciardo)
    2. Spain - Ferrari (Alonso)
    3. Great Britain - Marussia (Chilton)
    4. Germany - Sauber (Sutil)
    5. Japan - Caterham (Kobayashi)
    6. Brazil - Williams (Massa)

    - Added original files.

    - Added 6 new 'realistic' calendar options for your long career mode!

    I got inspired by some of the best F1 Seasons ever to create five alternative calendar options for each season of your career mode. Yes, that's true...now every season will be different from the rest!

    Every season has 19 races (different order, of course) and pretend to be as realistic as possible (not traveling from Germany to Singapur and then back at Monza...and then back to Australia, hope you understood).

    That's not all, I've also included a 2014 Reverse Calendar option if you still need another calendar to play your career!

    Alternative Calendars:
    2014 Reverse Calendar
    Custom Calendar [1976 inspired]
    Custom Calendar [1988 inspired]
    Custom Calendar [2006 inspired]
    Custom Calendar [2010 inspired]
    Custom Calendar [2012 inspired]

    How to use it properly:
    -Enter "Alternative Calendars" folder and select which race distance do you want.
    - Select one of the alternative calendars.
    - Copy database folder into F1 2014 directory and replace the file.
    - At the start of a new career mode season, select another alternative calendar and repeat the process.
    - Every season of your career mode should now be different!

    UPLOADED by Niko_1599 for RaceDepartment.

    It's strongly recommended that you create a new profile and start your career mode again for this database working properly!

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    very good ;) , it will be excellent if the drivers are like 2015 season
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      Thanks! I will think about it :)


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2015 Hobart Guineas Field & Barrier Draw

The Listed Hobart Guineas (2100m) has attracted a field of 11 potential stayers to tackle the middle-distance race this Saturday.

Regan Bayliss (pictured here on Beliveau) will ride Fifty Eight Facets in the Hobart Guineas.

Regan Bayliss (pictured here on Beliveau) will ride Fifty Eight Facets in the Hobart Guineas. Photo by Adrienne Bicknell.

Half siblings Geegees Goldengirl, Geegees Classicboy, and Geegees Brightstar are all set to take each other on after each horse’s respective trainers accepted on Wednesday.

Stuart Gandy’s Geegees Goldengirl is the highest rated nominee after finishing runner-up in the Listed Tasmania Guineas (1600m) on January 11. The three-year-old filly has finished in the first three in nine of her twelve career starts and will get a good start from barrier four with Ms Sigrid Carr to ride.

The John Luttrell-trained Geegees Classicboy was eighth in the same race and will have to overcome a start from the widest gate in the 2015 Hobart Guineas while Geegees Brightstar just missed out on a placing and will get an ideal start from barrier two with Daniel Ganderton.

Jerome Hunter’s Warrior Of Fire will enjoy the rails run after drawing barrier one. This is a good advantage for the gelding who has finished in the first three in just one of his seven career starts.

Peter Moody is one of only two trainers along with Hunter venturing across the strait, accepting with Fifty Eight Facets in the Hobart Guineas.

The three-year-old filly based at Caulfield has placed in all five of her career starts but didn’t win her maiden until January 7 at Sandown. As one of just two fillies lining-up on Saturday, Fifty Eight Facets will carry the 55kg minimum and jump from barrier eight. Regan Bayliss has retained the ride after the pair won earlier this month.

Check out the complete field and barrier draws for the 2015 Hobart Guineas below.

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2015 Hobart Guineas Field & Barrier Draw

No Last 10 Horse Trainer Jockey Barrier Weight Hcp Rating
1 11122×4845 CALAVERA Barry Campbell Brendon McCoull 3 57kg 66
2 42211×2364 GEEGEES BRIGHTSTAR Rodney Seymour Daniel Ganderton 2 57kg 65
3 549x1x4717 VALDEZ Graeme McCulloch & David Keating Anthony Darmanin 10 57kg 65
4 6531054128 GEEGEES CLASSICBOY John Luttrell Troy Baker 11 57kg 62
5 x165x54326 SHIRALEE Gary White Dean Yendall 6 57kg 61
6 6×313 FOLLOW MY DUST Scott Brunton David Pires (late alt) 5 57kg 63
7 8x54x9418 WARRIOR OF FIRE Jerome Hunter Daniel Stackhouse 1 57kg 63
8 270×753891 DON’T TELL KAYLA Graeme McCulloch & David Keating Jordan Childs (a) 9 57kg 58
9 63323 LIVERMORE Brendan Mcshane Bulent Muhcu (a) 7 57kg 58
10 2341×11532 GEEGEES GOLDENGIRL Stuart Gandy Ms Sigrid Carr (a) 4 55kg 74
11 32×321 FIFTY EIGHT FACETS Peter G Moody Regan Bayliss (a) 8 55kg 66

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A preview of Radiolab's live show Apocalyptical: dinosaurs, death, destruction... plus cinematic live scoring and comedic mayhem from Reggie Watts and Kurt Braunohler. Feast your eyes on more video -- including a cut of the full show! -- at

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bob from ashland or

It looks like the experiment videos are in the Live Video Of the Show.
I imagine the producers are all excited about the live show but guess what??
We the fans enjoy the audio version of the show . I don't want to watch it. However I do want to watch the experiments.
I guess I'll have to muddle through the video to find the experiment videos.

Dec. 19 2015 04:23 PM
bob from ashland or

Hey guys
Such a great show I just gave $100 bucks . That's a lot for me.

but if you read these comments HELLO!! you'd know folks are having a hard time see the experiments. The video they said we could see at the website.
We listened on the radio and now we want to see the experiments.

If they are here they're hard to find.

It would be good if you read these comments and responded to them

Dec. 19 2015 04:17 PM
Troy from Colorado

I keep getting a 'page not found' message when I try to find the full video of the Apocolyptical show. Is it no longer available?

Nov. 09 2014 06:42 PM
Anna Rezende from Sao Paulo - Brazil

Thanks for this show (podcast and video)!!!!
I'm from Brazil, I'm RadioLab addictive, I listen you in my car , during my bike rides .
If you need something from Brazil, please let me know, I wonder working with you someway, somehow.I'm finishing my PhD (Motion Graphics design). I was as a scholarship (Fulbright) at Stamps School (U Michigan) 2013/2014.
You are amazing!

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Just wanted to thank to the RadioLab team; amazing show!!

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Jay Babcock from St. Louis, Missouri

That's a lot worse than I ever thought it would be.

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Audrey from Alabama

I too must be search challanged, because I can't find it either. Could someone use my Email address and let me know STEP BY STEP how to somehow join the visual fun I was hearing, or is there a disc I can purchase?

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Joanne - here's a link

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Joanna from Oregon

I heard the Apocalyptic show on the radio here and was given the impression, when it ended, that I could watch the video on…. I have gone everywhere on your site, and the only thing that seems to be available is a video of your sound effects. Please, please tell me how I can see the video of the show.

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The changing freight car landscape

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A shifting traffic base is generating improved designs, and a building boom not seen in years.

The North American freight car market has changed dramatically in the past few years. Where coal gondolas and hoppers and intermodal platforms once accounted for the bulk of builders’ order books, tank cars and covered hoppers now dominate.

Based on strong first-half 2014 orders and a backlog approaching an astounding 100,000 units, Economic Planning Associates has once again raised its estimate for 2104-2015 freight car deliveries. “In spite of a lackluster economy, second-quarter 2014 railcar orders of 33,912 units far outpaced deliveries of 16,056, raising mid-year backlogs to a formidable 99,782 cars and platforms,” EPA said in its most recent forecast. EPA raised its short-term railcar deliveries estimate to 66,300 cars this year and 72,000 cars in 2015. Beginning in 2016, annual railcar assemblies will “ease very moderately, at historically high levels,” from 63,300 to 62,500 cars and platforms in 2019.

Tank cars remain dominant in terms of total railcar backlog share, but demand for other types of equipment “has increased significantly thus far in 2014,” EPA noted. “We are especially enthused by the strong demand for all types of covered hoppers, mill gondolas, intermodal equipment, and Class F flat cars. However, the star of the railcar industry remains tank car equipment, primarily crude oil service cars. Demand for tank cars has escalated once again. After three relatively modest quarters, orders for tank cars surged to 10,629 units in the second quarter, taking backlogs to the mid-year level of 52,589 cars.”

Longer term, EPA is hopeful that “stronger economic activities will provide support for certain railcar assemblies while an improvement in the financial environment, high gasoline prices, and strong government backing stimulate greater demand for ethanol and DDG cars. Replacement pressures and technological advances as well as legislative measures will also play a role in promoting the demand for a variety of railcars. Construction activities are expected to continue to advance, which should support movements of aggregates and structural steel products.

GBX Side View“Continued expansion in demand for crude oil, petroleum products, chemicals, and food and beverages will prop up haulings of a variety of liquid products and the demand for tank cars. Growing worldwide nutritional needs and expanding exports will pressure current grain service cars as we proceed through the longer term while long-neglected segments such as equipment to haul waste, aggregates, and limestone show signs of revival and should add to the railcar delivery mix in the years to come. However, the most dynamic element in the long-term railcar environment will be tank cars to transport ever increasing volumes of oil and petroleum products.”

Based on its most recent information on the continued expansion in U.S. oil production and the need to upgrade tank car equipment, EPA anticipates further growth in demand for rolling stock. “Spurred by hydraulic fracturing, U.S. oil production has jumped from 5.0 million barrels per day in 2008 to 7.4 million last year and is expected to average 8.5 million this year and 9.3 million next year, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration,” EPA said. “This boom, along with a rise in natural gas liquids production, has dramatically lowered petroleum imports. The share of U.S. liquid fuel consumption met by net imports, down from 60% in 2005 to 33% in 2013, is expected to fall to 22% in 2015, which would be the lowest since 1970. The U.S. and Canada are expected to account for most of the world’s projected growth in production of oil and other liquid fuel through 2015, while China and less developed countries will drive most of the growth in consumption, according to the EIA’s July forecast.”

EPA believes that the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on so-called HHFTs (high-hazard flammable trains) that carry crude oil, ethanol, and other volatile commodities should positively impact demand for oil carrying tank cars. The proposed rule calls for older DOT 111A tank cars (pre CPC-1232 cars, the rail industry’s voluntary standard in effect since October 2011) used for the shipment of Packing Group I flammable liquids, including most Bakken crude oil, are to be retired within two years unless retrofitted to comply with updated standards—whatever those will be.

The DOT’s open-ended NPRM “does not directly answer the question of what car is preferred for hauling crude oil, but it does provide some thoughts about how the process might move forward,” says Railroad Financial Corp. Senior Vice President and Railway Age Contributing Editor David Nahass. “It is clear that the DOT would prefer the 9/16-inch-steel car design. That standard should have been established and the issue should be put to rest. Unfortunately there are so many hands in the cookie jar regarding this issue that a straightforward proclamation seems unfeasible right now. If the DOT had established the 9/16-inch standard earlier without delay, all parties in the industry would have processed the change in specification and moved beyond it. Then the issue of retrofits could have been handled separately, with a critical eye and a focus on the business and safety aspects of a massive shift in transportation fundamentals.”

For tank car builders, “the solution is easy,” says Nahass. “Start selling the 9/16-inch car exclusively. A universal decision by the five carbuilders (Union Tank Car, Trinity, ARI, National Steel Car, and Greenbrier) to move to this design would end the debate and allow the regulatory agencies to focus on the retrofit issue exclusively. The mixing of the two issues—new car design and retrofit—makes the solution and final resolution that much more complicated and invites an endless parade of commentary and debate. There are already too many parties involved in the decision-making process; inviting more to the party will make users and the public wonder if there will be a final resolution within the next 12 months.”

Cars for downstream petroleum products

Petrochemical Downstream ChainThe other market segment experiencing rapid growth is covered hoppers—not just small-cube cars for the extremely dense sand used in hydraulic fracking, but high-cube models designed specifically for such downstream petroleum products as plastic pellets and chemicals, demand for which is expanding. EPA reports “significant strength in each of the covered hopper segments.” High-cube cars accounted for 2,950 units in this year’s first half, and a rebound in grain hauling and reports of equipment shortages drove an increase in first-half orders for mid-sized cars. As expected, the escalation in fracking activities raised demand for small-cube equipment in the first half, and strong delivery levels are anticipated both this year and next.

One of the newest high-cube covered hoppers comes from The Greenbrier Companies, which last month introduced an all-new, 6,250-cubic-foot plastic pellet car. Railway Age got a close look at this car, both inside and out, at its unveiling for customers at Greenbrier’s Cleburne, Tex., shop. Designed with input from more than 50 plastic pellet shippers, the new car “has hit the marketplace with a lot of attention and orders,” according to Vice President Marketing Tom Jackson. Among Greenbrier’s first customers is Formosa Plastic Corp. USA, the U.S. subsidiary of Taiwan-based Formosa Plastics Group, a global producer of petrochemicals and plastics.

Miner Gate“Low natural gas prices have made the U.S. competitive again in the world energy market, and we are now headed for the second round of the ‘Energy Renaissance in America,’” observes Jackson. “On the rail equipment side, the first round was dominated by small-cube covered hoppers and large tank cars for frac sand drilling and crude oil transportation. The second round of equipment demand will be for specialty tank cars and large covered hoppers required for products such as plastic resin, petrochemicals, and fertilizers. We believe that North American chemical and plastics production will double by 2020, generating $67 billion in new chemical industry shipments.”

GBX Top EndGreenbrier’s new “6250,” which is being built at the company’s Gunderson-Concarril Plant 2 in Mexico City, is specially lined and equipped with four Miner aluminum pneumatic discharge gates that “make it ideally suited for the storage and transportation of free-flowing, light-density products,” says Senior Design Engineer Mike Gillis. “Its curve-sided, all-welded design and ten 20-inch-diameter hatch covers—four vented and six unvented—protect against vacuum pull and product contamination.”

This Plate C car, built to AAR’s M-1001 specification, features a continuous side sill, with side sheet reinforcement between 35-degree transverse slope sheets, 55-degree sideslope sheets, and a protected brake rod that runs through the side sill, with a slack adjuster inspection portal. With a GRL (gross rail load) of 286,000 pounds, load limit of 219,000 pounds, and light weight of 66,500 pounds, it measures 67 feet, 10 inches in length (over couplers), 62 feet, 9.625 inches inside length, 15 feet, 6 inches in extreme height, 10 feet, 4.75 inches in extreme width, and 54 feet, 2 inches between truck centers. Curve negotiation radius is 180 feet (uncoupled), 256 feet (coupled to a similar car), and 253 feet (coupled to a base car). The car rides on Amsted Rail ASF-Keystone® M976 Motion Control trucks and is equipped with Amsted Rail couplers and draft gear and Ellcon National handbrakes. Safety appliances are designed to AAR S-2044 requirements.

Greenbrier says its new 6250 can be configured with a variety of hatches, outlet gates, and interior coatings.

“Plastic pellet cars make approximately four turns per year, and typically sit in storage for three months or more, in SIT (storage-in-transit) yards,” notes Greenbrier Vice President Sales and National Account Executive Tim Schitter. “We project that every one billion pounds of plastic produced requires about 1,000 railcars. We’ve seen delivery projections of about 27,000 cars through 2018, but we believe that actual demand will be around 33,000 cars, with a peak in 2016 of 10,480 units.”

Beyond tank cars and covered hoppers

Looking at other car types, Economic Planning Associates points out that mill gondolas “exhibited strength in second-quarter orders, responding to a rebound in domestic steel shipments and strong growth in steel imports. Demand for three- and five-unit intermodal platform cars have picked up, and given the rising trend in intermodal traffic, we have raised our short-term forecast for intermodal equipment assemblies. But we continue to be concerned about the underwhelming growth of the economy as manufacturers, oil and gas producers, and coal companies struggle with the increasing number of government regulations that are dampening our economic potential. Hopefully, our economy can eventually embark on a stronger path of growth that will improve railroad traffic, revenue, and investments, leading to continued healthy growth in railcar demand.”

And what about the industry’s old standby, the coal car? “Even with an anticipated rebound in coal hauling this year, we remain cautious on the outlook for coal cars, primarily because we have heard that customers prefer to rebuild rather than purchase new equipment in the currently dismal coal environment,” EPA said.

Standard Car TruckEPA is also cautious about the motor vehicle market, noting that North American light vehicle sales dropped in January and February, and then rebounded through June as sales expanded to 16.92 million units. “We are factoring in some moderation in sales in the months ahead, and we continue to remain leery on the future course of auto sales through the next two years,” EPA said. “Until the economy is on more solid footing, employment advances at a more significant pace, and consumer income growth increases, we expect quarterly auto sales to remain relatively flat at high levels during 2014 and 2015.”

In other words, as Walter Brooke said to Dustin Hoffman in 1967’s The Graduate, “I just want to say one word to you. Are you listening? Plastics.”

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Saturday, September 5, 2009

Health Care - A Condition, not a Commodity

Let's get on with it, Mr. President. We're up the proverbial creek with spaghetti as our paddle. This health care thing could have been the crossing of the Delaware, the turning point in the next American Revolution — the moment we put the mercenaries to rout, as General Washington did the Hessians at Trenton. We could have stamped our victory "Made in the USA." We could have said to the world, "Look what we did!" And we could have turned to each other and said, "Thank you."
As it is, we're about to get health care reform that measures human beings only in corporate terms of a cost-benefit analysis. I mean this is topsy-turvy — we should be treating health as a condition, not a commodity.
 Bill Moyers, September 5, 2009

This is Saturday night on the Labor Day weekend, and I have no illusions about anybody stopping whatever they're doing to read this, so I won't take long.

Bill Moyers has been tireless in his efforts to get through to the President the importance of universal, equitable health care.  This isn't something he--or we--can afford to put off.  Millions are without health care, millions are without jobs, millions are without homes, millions are without money.  If this isn't the time to push for health care as an inalienable right for all Americans, I don't know when that will be.

I wrote a letter to President Obama asking him to read the transcript and/or watch Bill Moyers' clip:

I have talked about labor issues and health care on my own blog, as have thousands of others, but I'm writing this today to beg you to watch and read what Bill Moyers said on his program last night.
President Obama, we need at LEAST a public option. Please stop letting the insurance providers set our health care policy. They've bamboozled and defrauded us long enough. Why on earth would you even think of rewarding them yet again?

You made promises about health care that encouraged millions of us to trust you, to vote for you, to work for you. With so many millions underpaid or out of work, we cannot afford to make weak compromises on the health issue. You need to be strong now, and you need to know that we're with you. People are suffering and you can make it right. Remember that when you give your speech on Wednesday night.

Not exactly Moyers quality, but I figure if each of us lets him know in our own words how we feel about the coming health care compromises he'll know it's not all teabaggers and townhallers out there letting their voices be heard.

Write him here and do it before Wednesday:  (I know it's a holiday, but it's a holiday commemorating and celebrating the American work force, past and present.  Do this for them  Please)

(Cross-posted at Talking Points Memo here.)

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Thursday, March 24, 2011

Women and Children and the Choices we Make

"I think everyone agrees with the goal of reducing abortion by encouraging consideration of other alternatives," [North Dakota governor] Daugaard said in a written statement. "I hope that women who are considering an abortion will use this three-day period to make good choices."

The governor said state attorneys have agreed to defend the law and that he's spoken with a sponsor who has pledged to finance the state's legal costs, the Associated Press reports.   --  Politics Daily, 3/22/11
I have met thousands and thousands of pro-choice men and women. I have never met anyone who is pro-abortion. Being pro-choice is not being pro-abortion. Being pro-choice is trusting the individual to make the right decision for herself and her family, and not entrusting that decision to anyone wearing the authority of government in any regard. --Hillary Clinton

 In the summer of 1954, just before we entered our Senior year, my friend Rosie, with no forewarning or even a goodbye, went to live with her aunt.  A week or so earlier, we were leaving a drug store after having a couple of cherry Cokes and she fainted dead away, crumpling to the ground right in front of me.  It was a hot day and she convinced me that the heat had caused it, but when I called her house and her mother told me she had gone to live with her aunt in a town many miles away I put two and two together and realized with a shock that she was pregnant (or PG as we said back then). None of us who had been Rosie's friends knew the torment she was going through; nor did we ever hear from her again.  Later, we heard that she had given her baby up for adoption.  Shame was the reason she didn't tell me there on the sidewalk, and shame was the reason she never kept in touch with any of us.

Shame was big back then.  When I was a young mother myself, living in neighborhoods where most of us barely had a pot to pee in, shame kept many of my friends from admitting they were pregnant until the evidence was beyond the point of ignoring.  Then the coffee table conversations went something like this:
 "Well, I'm PG again."
"Oh, no!"
"oh, GOD no!"
"_______'s gonna kill me."
(Crying here.  Sighing. Muttering.)
"I can't have this baby!"
"Maybe it'll be okay."
"No, it won't."

It was always the woman's fault.  Birth control was either with condoms or diaphragm or the rhythm method, and if they failed it was because the woman did something wrong.  That accusation was so ingrained, the women themselves believed it was their fault.  There were the lucky few who welcomed another pregnancy, but many, many more were devastated.  I can't say I knew any woman who went the coat hanger route, (mainly because they never would have admitted to it), but many of them tried drinking supposed miscarriage herbals or douching with chemicals or bumping into things or "falling" down stairs.

 The feminist movement and Roe v. Wade, if they hadn't ever done anything else, can be credited with changing the prevailing perception that there were no choices for a person in a woman's body.  The fact that the works for conceiving were built into them no longer meant that women would be forced to conceive.

That is the underlying wisdom of freedom of choice and it's what the Supreme Court saw as a constitutional right.

If, since Roe v. Wade, every child born in this country was afforded the kinds of protections necessary to ensure health and happiness, safety and well-being,  the argument that a fetus must be saved at all costs might hold water.

The sorry truth is that 14 million American children live in poverty right now.

Over 17 million children live in households where there is not enough food.

1.5 million kids go to sleep without a home of their own each year.

In 2007, approximately 5.8 million children were involved in an estimated 3.2 million child abuse reports and allegations.

A woman who makes the choice to abort a fetus can never be accused of doing it lightly.  That is a cruel falsehood perpetrated either by men who will never know the pain of having to live with either choice, or by women who consider their own life choices so superior they have no problem with forcing others of their own gender to bear children--which they then have no problem forgetting about completely and entirely.

None of them lose any sleep over their own actions, but will band together, collecting millions of dollars that could be used to save children living in misery and instead use it to convince the public and a few callous legislators that aborting a fetus is akin to murder and should be outlawed.

Children are our precious gifts and should be our foremost obligations.  There is something crushing and terrible about the fact that lawmakers across the country are systematically defunding social programs currently helping families to just get through the day, if nothing else.  Many of those same lawmakers vigorously support the supposed pro-life groups without once considering the damage they're doing to the children we need to protect.  These children, no longer fetuses, need us.  The women who make the decision to terminate a pregnancy are not pariahs.  Our moral obligations are to the lesser and to the helpless already in our keep.

Shame on anyone who works against that very basic societal tenet.  Most of us are better than that.

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2014 NFL Playoffs: Michael Crabtree’s Explosion Will Help San Francisco 49ers’ Offense

By Cody Williams
Crabtree 49ers Playoffs
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The San Francisco 49ers were able to outlast the Green Bay Packers on Sunday afternoon to advance to the divisional round of the 2014 NFL Playoffs. The Niners needed a Phil Dawson field goal as time expired to give them the 23-20 victory, but their victory was about way more than that.

For starters, San Francisco’s defense came up big on the enormous stage. The way they were able to pressure Aaron Rodgers and stifle Eddie Lacy was a tremendous help to their cause on Sunday. Moreover, Colin Kaepernick’s production both through the air and as a ball-carrier was big for the 49ers’ offense.

One of the big things that stood out beyond Kaepernick in the Niners’ offense, though, was the production of wide receiver Michael Crabtree. Crabtree missed the 49ers’ first 11 games of the season with a torn Achilles and had been inconsistent in the regular season since returning to the lineup. However, he came up huge in the wildcard game against Green Bay.

Crabtree was targeted 13 times on Sunday, by far the most on the team. He caught eight of those passes for 125 yards, dwarfing the production of San Francisco’s second-leading wide receiver in Anquan Boldin who managed just 38 yards receiving. Though Crabtree didn’t find the end-zone, his production helped open up the offense.

Having Crabtree as a viable option in this 49ers’ offense is huge for them going forward in the postseason. While he doesn’t need eight catches for 125 yards every week, the threat of him being that type of big performer opens up the running game, room for Kaepernick to take off and run, and for Kaepernick to spread the ball around in the passing game. It could be a blip on the radar, but Crabtree’s big game could be a fantastic sign of things to come.

Cody Williams is a Senior Writer with Rant Sports. Follow Cody on Twitter @TheSizzle20, add him on Google and like his Facebook page.

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