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YWCA USA Responds to the 2014 State of the Union Address
Washington, D.C. – After President Barack Obama delivered his State of the Union address, Dara Richardson-Heron, M.D., CEO of the YWCA USA, issued the following statement:
“In his fifth State of the Union address tonight, President Obama delivered an ambitious agenda that will positively impact the lives of women and their families. The President elaborated on key economic and fiscal challenges in the coming year, citing the importance of raising the federal minimum wage, reducing income inequality, and expanding early education nationwide. We were particularly pleased with the President’s strong commitment to making sure that women earn equal pay for equal work, have the opportunity to raise a family without sacrificing her job, and can benefit from fair workplace policies. As the world’s oldest and largest multicultural organization dedicated to eliminating racism and empowering women, we firmly agree with the President when he says ‘when women succeed, America succeeds.’
“Four in 10 American households with children are supported by women who are the primary or sole breadwinners. Given how family dynamics are changing, policies that support women and their families, such as access to health care services and expanding the Earned Income Tax Credit, are now more critical than ever before.
“The YWCA also proudly stands with the President in his renewed commitment to passing comprehensive immigration reform. 2014 provides us a unique opportunity to bring 11 million aspiring citizens out of the shadows, many of whom are women and girls. The YWCA will continue advocating for immigration reform that provides a fair path to citizenship, keeps families together, and protects victims of violence and human and sexual trafficking.
“While we applaud the President’s ambitious agenda for our country and his ardent support for our men and women in uniform, we believe that ensuring fairness and justice for victims of assault is yet another true opportunity to protect our service members and veterans. We look forward to learning much more about the President’s plans to address the prevalence of rape and sexual assault across the nation, particularly in the military.
“The YWCA continues to support legislation that helps women achieve economic self-sufficiency, fights racial discrimination, and alleviates poverty. We will work actively with Congress to ensure that legislation supports YWCAs across the United States in their provision of critical human services.”

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The National Commission for Women on Tuesday asked the Director General of Police of Rajasthan to ensure a swift and speedy probe into the gang rape of a woman in Bikaner.
A married woman, who had gone out to collect firewood, was sexually assaulted allegedly by three persons at an isolated place, the police had said on Sunday. The incident took place on May 15. The woman reached the police station with her husband on May 18 morning to lodge a complaint.
NCW chairperson Rekha Sharma in a letter to Rajasthan DGP Kapil Garg said, “The NCW is deeply disturbed by the media report ‘Married woman gang-raped by three in Rajasthan’s Bikaner’ on May 20.”
She said that the NCW is concerned about the recent rise in heinous crimes against women in Rajasthan despite the enactment of the Criminal Law (Amendment) Act, 2013.
“Considering the gravity of the matter, it is requested to ensure swift and speedy investigation in the matter and the Commission may be apprised about any action taken in the matter at an early date,” she added.
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Introduction: California Snow Man Draft Stop
I was at my aunts house and happened to see that she had recently purchased this funny little snow globe , but it had water in it so I was curious. I picked it up and read it. LOL, it was a California snowman.(pictured above) I thought it was the cutest thing since we are known for warm weather in California. I had been wanting to make my dad a draft stop and I thought this was perfect for him. He has always been a bit of a jokester. So this is how I made it. :)
Step 1: You Will Need:
2 sheets of black felt
1 sheet of orange felt
1 sheet of red felt
needle and thread to hand sew
scissors and/or rotary cutter and mat
about 4 lbs. of beans
fluffy white material - about 1 yard
polyester fiber fill
green felt or cut out a piece of a patterned fabric to decorate the hat a little (see step 4)
Step 2: Getting Started
First I made the draft stop part. I wanted it to be pretty sturdy so i made the inside of it.the part that holds the beans out of a piece of old bed skirt. I cut a piece that was 8 x 42. sewed all the edges except one of the short edges.Then I turned it inside out. I also cut a 9 x 42 inch piece of the fluffy white fabric. Sew all three edges. Turn it inside out. Now put the thinner fabric tune into the fluffy tube and fill it with beans. Sew it closed. Then you can sew the fluffy one closed also.
Now to start the fun decorations of the draft stop. For the eyes I cut 2 circles and used a hole punch to make the holes to make it look like it has button eyes.
Step 3: Carrot Nose and Coal Pieces
Now take your orange felt and fold it over to make a long triangle. Then sew it on the long side. Now cut off the excess and flip the carrot inside out.Lightly fill with polyester fiber fill and sew closed.
The coal for the front of the snowman: Cut a piece of black felt 4 x 9 inches fold it over long ways. and cut 3 x 2 inch squares. It is actually going to be 2 inch squares. The extra inch is for seam allowance. Sew up the 2 sides and leave one side open. Flip them inside out, but don't poke the corners out really well, this will give the coals a more realistic look. Sew up the final edge of the coal.
Step 4: To Make the Hat
Draw a rough draft of what you want the hat to look like. It doesn't have to be perfect. Cut it out and pin it to your black felt. Cut it out.
Cut a red strip of felt and pin it on your hat.Sew it on and then trim the edges.
For the mistletoe, I happened to have an applique that my aunt gave me. But you can make it out of green felt and the leftover red felt.I carefully cut the applique out.(that took a lot of patience) and glued it on with fabric glue. The hat is my favorite part. :)
Step 5: To Make the Melting Snowman
Fold the fluffy material over so that it is doubled, pin it. Draw a shape similar to mine. Basically its a misshapen snowman head that is melting into the draft stop. so measure your finished draft stop so you can match it up. Be creative.After I drew what I wanted it to look like , I went back and drew in a seam allowance. Pin it in a lot of places and cut it out. I only had remnant pieces of this fluffy material so that is why in the pics below you see more steps. I had to piece together the length of the draft stop.
Sew all around except leave a 5 inch gap on the bottom. Flip it inside out and lightly stuff with your fiber fill. You want it more flat like. once you achieve your desired look. Sew the gap closed.
Now its time to connect your 2 pieces. Pinch the 2 seams(the bottom of the snowman and the seam of the draft stop part.) Use your hand needle and sew all along the 2 pieces to connect them. I lined them up and started at the middle and worked my way over. Then did the other side. For a more rounded look on the 2 ends I grabbed the stop of the point and tacked it down with a couple of stitches.
Step 6: The Final Step
Use white thread to sew on your snowman pieces. Place the hat on so you can kind of get an idea of where you want the carrot nose to be. Sew it on. then just sew on the hat, button eyes and pieces of coal. remember it is not meant to look perfect. the snow man lives in sunny California and is melting. :)
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Syracuse, N.Y. -- A growing number of potential U.S. military recruits are too fat to enlist, according to a study by Cornell University researchers.
The number of women of military age who exceed the U.S. Army’s enlistment standards for weight-to-height ratio and body fat percentage has more than tripled over the past 50 years, the study shows. For military-age men, the figure has more than doubled.
A total of 5.7 million American men and 16.5 million women of military age were ineligible for duty because they were overweight or obese between 2007 and 2008, according to John Cawley, Cornell associate professor of policy analysis and management, and Catherine Maclean, a Cornell economics doctoral student.
The researchers say their findings are cause for alarm for the four U.S. military branches, which together must attract more than 180,000 new service members annually. Their findings were published last month by the National Bureau of Economic Research in a paper titled, “Unfit for Service: The Implications of Rising Obesity for U.S. Military Recruitment.”
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He said the problem is another example of the underappreciated public consequences of obesity.


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Rudy’s Milky Way: An Administration “Of, for, and by White People” Has No Time or Room for Blacks
With special reporting by Nicole White
HIS WORLD IS AS White as Seinfeld’s, a slice of the city so comfortably one-dimensional that even the popular star of the ongoing Giuliani serial cannot see his own, peculiarly un-New York, isolation.
Not since the days of Vincent Impelliteri nearly half a century ago — through the tenures of Robert Wagner, John Lindsay, Abe Beame, Ed Koch, and David Dinkins — have there been so few black faces in high places in a city administration. Never before has 80 percent of any ethnic group rejected the reelection campaign of an incumbent mayor, as exit polls said blacks did in 1997, preferring a white woman they barely knew who had no chance to win.
And never before have more of a mayor’s targets — squeegees, cabbies, street vendors, public hospital workers, welfare recipients, police-brutality victims, CUNY students, and the dispersed elderly ill from Neponsit nursing home — been so consistently of one hue while his beneficiaries — cops, firefighters, hotel operators, express-bus riders, tax-break developers, Staten Islanders, and Yankees and Jets owners — been so consistently another.
All his life Rudy Giuliani has occupied a milky universe — raised in a blanched Nassau suburb, educated at insular Bishop Loughlin High School and Manhattan College, shuttling twice between the colorless cubicles of the Justice Department in Washington and the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Manhattan, practicing law at three mainline firms where not just the shoes were white.
As a kid born in Brooklyn, he rooted for the all-white Yankees while Jackie Robinson crossed the color line at Ebbets Field, just a couple of miles away from his home. He so craves the familiar he married his own cousin. He quarantined Haitians in Florida camps for the Justice Department. The first home he ever bought was an apartment in the East 80s, and he has never lived, like so many white New Yorkers, on a block alive with human diversity. The only two blacks he regularly talks to at City Hall today are both named Rudy, but neither Crew nor Washington has been able to help him past his racial wall.
Now focused on a Senate race just a year or so away, he knows every button to push to reach white voters but did not, even with a bottomless campaign treasury in 1997, buy a millisecond of advertising in any black medium. One of four mayors who replaced black incumbents in recent years — including those in L.A., Chicago, and Philadelphia — he is a national emblem of urban reassurance, a tamer of the tribe. He always has his defeat of the city’s first black mayor as a ready excuse for black hostility to him five years later, an alibi that saps any obligation to bridge what has become a gulf of fearful proportions.
Blacks are a grand abstraction to him. He rarely hosts town meetings in their neighborhoods. He frequently lectures them about everything from their child-rearing habits — attacking a mother for allowing her teenage son to be out bicycling at 2:30 a.m. when a cop gunned him down — to their work ethic. He’s spent the year riding the sky from one Republican capital to the next, engulfed by a party so fair it cannot be fair, telling Arizonans in April that Phoenix feels “like home” and that “the issues” in that 5 percent black town “are very much the same” as in 25 percent black New York. He is never heard discussing racism or poverty as if they are real facts that a mayor could actually combat.
He is too busy crediting himself for crime reductions to ever mention that the communities ravaged a decade ago by crack and guns might have had something to do with the decline, helping to deliver themselves from a culture of death. He is certain that work resurrects the dependent even when it takes good mothers away from their children to push brooms on city streets without any promise of a genuine job. Not only is he ready with a knee-jerk benefit of the doubt virtually anytime a cop goes head-to-head with an African American, he does not appear to have a doubt.
In his first weeks in office in 1994, Giuliani refused to meet with Al Sharpton and others over a police raid at a Harlem mosque. It worked so well he’s been rejecting black guests or invitations ever since. He said no when David Dinkins asked him to his home for dinner after a war of words over Crown Heights. The new borough president of Manhattan, Virginia Fields, who ran on the Liberal line with him last year and is known for her warmth and equanimity, begged for a meeting during the recent Million Youth March controversy and was instead denounced as a “coward,” along with the rest of the African American leadership.
Carl McCall, the highest ranking black official in state history, takes trips to Israel with a Republican governor, but was stood-up when he tried to arrange a sit-down with the mayor. Neither did Rudy have time for the cabbies, who are now mostly African and South Asian, even when they believed by the thousands that his new taxi rules threatened their livelihoods. A Voice survey of 35 black leaders, 30 of them elected, identified many who’d reached out to the mayor on issues ranging from AIDS funding to the Harlem march, usually without so much as a callback.
The city’s Equal Employment Practices Commission, a quasi-independent body that is supposed to monitor minority hiring, said in its annual report in 1996 that it “looked forward to a meeting with Rudy Giuliani” to discuss the draft of a new equal opportunity plan. Even though the city charter requires both a plan and a mayoral consultation with the EEPC, according to Abe May, the commission’s executive director, “none ever occurred.” Jointly appointed by the mayor and the council, the mildly critical commission Rudy would not meet with is, to this day, chaired by Charlie Hughes, the scandal-scarred D.C. 37 union president who appeared in Giuliani television ads in 1997.
Yet Priscilla Wooten, the city councilwoman who endorsed Giuliani last year and was the only leader surveyed by the Voice to praise him without caveat, tells the story of how her husband was recently awakened from a daytime nap on the porch of their East New York home by a tap on the shoulder. Wooten’s husband “though he was dreaming when he saw Rudy smiling in his face,” the councilwoman said. All it takes is a lot of amens, and Rudy is, after all, willing to minister to a select black flock.
As painfully apparent as this chasm is, the Times’s endorsement of Giuliani last year did not make a single cautionary mention of race. When Reverend Calvin Butts, a prominent Harlem minister, branded the mayor a racist this May, a Times editorial characterized Giuliani’s relationship with minorities merely as one “marked by clumsiness and needless tension.”
While the Times has acknowledged that blacks “feel bruised and excluded” by the administration, the paper of record has yet to examine Giuliani’s anti-black underside in any comprehensive or ongoing fashion. Remarkably, black management drew far more attention in the less-polarized Koch era, and David Dinkins absorbed three nonstop years of media body blows as a supposed anti-Semite. Yet the whiteout of the Giuliani — in the Times and elsewhere — has marginalized blacks, misinformed whites, and allowed Rudy to continue to portray himself like he did in his now laughable 1993 campaign slogan, as the mayor of “one standard, one city.”
The Times has brilliantly dissected Giuliani’s welfare agenda, for example, but it hasn’t connected these policies to his overall impact on blacks, thereby contributing to the color-blind camouflage concealing the administration’s seemingly irresistible targets. The paper’s excellent coverage of Giuliani’s overnight evacuation of the Neponsit nursing home in Queens last year, resulting in daily $3050 fines by federal health authorities for violations of commonsense safety regulations, did not mention that most of the evicted residents who appeared at a City Council hearing were elderly blacks living with every kind of affliction.
When the Council of Black Elected Officials convened in Harlem shortly after the Million Youth March to assail Giuliani as “unconscionable” and to claim he’d given their request for a meeting “the back of his hand,” no city daily wrote a word. The Council includes officials representing 2.5 million people.
Black voices of outrage are seldom aired. Distilled facts are presented again and again in story after story. All that’s missing is the context of continuous attack that most black New Yorkers now understand instinctively.
Indeed, Rudy has managed to so bury the race question — converting anyone who raises it into a proverbial arsonist — that even his liberal opponent last year, Ruth Messinger, seldom dared. Only the brutality issue is regularly presented in unavoidably racial terms.
But even there, Giuliani’s incident-by-incident indifference, the sacking of his own post–Abner Louima task force, his resistance to a twice-passed council bill for an independent commission, and his police commissioner’s rejection of abuse cases substantiated by the Civilian Complaint Review Board have hardly become a media censure of him. White editorial boards forget black agony over this five-year mountain of CCRB complaints, which increased again in the data that was released last week, when they write their periodic paeans to the mayor.
Rudy kept at his side a deputy mayor whose “watermelon” reference to a black-owned financial company and “two-white-men-have-run-New-York-for-200-years” comments were called “racist” by the Times. He said nothing during an on-air appearance with his then-friend Bob Grant when Grant called Congressman Charlie Rangel a “pygmy.” Asked by The Washington Post to defend his record on minorities, he said: “They’re alive, how about we start with that,” which he later explained as a reference to plunging homicide rates. He was once quoted as saying that it would be “a good thing” if poor people “left the city,” conceding that driving them out of town through welfare cuts was “not an unspoken part of our strategy; it is our strategy.”
In his first months in office, he eliminated the special assistants who acted as liaisons to particular ethnic groups, including blacks, but the worst-kept secret at City Hall was that one of his top aides continued to perform that function with the Jewish community for years. He also wiped out Dinkins’s set-aside program for women and minority contractors, promising to increase minority contracting without any formal preference program. He has never offered a scintilla of evidence since then that he’s done that.
Giuliani has hired 1500 investigators to scrutinize the desperate claims of the welfare poor even while he’s cut the inspectors and attorneys who insure housing code compliance to a mere 243. He’s created a test for homelessness that requires shelter seekers to prove they aren’t warehousing castles.
These are the barely noticed racial anomalies of life in Rudyland. They flit on and off our pages and our screens. But they are, in a city where blacks have long since transcended Ralph Ellison’s telling title, a constant challenge and concern.
We are a better city than Rudy will let us be. Municipal governments are not corporations judged only by bottom-line stats of tax and welfare cuts. There is a love here he can’t feel, one that is not just tough.
Research: David Kihara, Will Johnson, Coco McPherson, Soo-Min Oh, and David Shaftel
The Hit List: Five of Rudy’s Worst Shots at Blacks
Here are highlights of Rudy Giuliani’s record with blacks, minus the familiar issue of police brutality:
Reversing a Historic Tide
The black share of city jobs, as well as the raw number of city workers who are black, has declined continuously since Giuliani became mayor in 1994, reversing a steady trend of upward black employment since the fiscal crisis of the mid ’70s. As quiet as it is kept, the city payroll route up the cross-generational career ladder, straddled by black families since the Great Depression, has been pulled out from under thousands of workers in the Giuliani years.
The percentage of blacks in the city workforce has declined from 36.6 percent under Dinkins to 33 percent under Giuliani. This dramatic reduction occurred between December 31, 1993, Dinkins’s final day, and June 30, 1997, the date of the most recent data available from the Department of Personnel. While the city mayoral workforce declined by 17,933 positions in that period, black employment dropped a disproportionate 11,267. Though whites account for nearly half the workforce, white employment only dipped by 2802. These figures do not include either the Health & Hospitals Corporation, where layoffs and buyouts decimated a largely black workforce, or other non-mayoral agencies like the Board of Education.
Giuliani’s sharply tailored cuts, boosting police and fire while slashing every social service, produced this largely unnoticed interruption of a historical trend. The Department of Social Services alone, the unit within the Human Resources Administration that administers all public assistance, witnessed a loss of 8245 black jobs, with administrators and officials plummeting from 478 to 162 and black professionals dropping by almost 7000 (some of this was attributable to a shift in functions to another agency). The predominantly minority DSS lost 12,722 positions over these four years, while the police department not only gained jobs, but employs 5293 more whites than it did in 1993.
Two and a half years into his first term, Giuliani named his first black deputy mayor, Rudy Washington, ending the longest stint in the modem history of the city when there was no black deputy in the government. No observer of the administration believes that Washington, a onetime hanger-on in Queens Democratic clubs who hitched his star to Giuliani in the 1989 mayoral campaign, has significant policy influence. Blacks hired to fill official or administrative titles in the mayor’s office hit 30 percent in 1993, 5 percent in 1995, and 9 percent in 1997; the percentage of professionals dropped from 29 percent to 9 percent over the same four years.
While blacks headed behemoths like HHC, HRA, the Health Department, and Housing Preservation and Development early in Giuliani’s reign, housing is now the only unit particularly impacting minorities that is run by a black commissioner. Blacks have lost, however, 348 positions at HPD since Giuliani took office. HRA commissioner Jason Turner routinely appears at City Council hearings without a single black aide among the 10 or so who accompany him — a picture so out of whack it has a ’50s air to it. The new black head of the transportation department sits atop an agency that had 234 blacks with administrative and professional titles in 1993 and 38 in 1997.
Color-Blind Name Change
The new city charter drafted under Ed Koch in 1989 attempted to guard against precisely the sort of discriminatory employment practices implicit in these numbers. It created the Equal Employment Practices Commission to monitor city employment. It required every administration to adhere to an Affirmative Employment Plan. But, though no city daily has reported on it, Giuliani refused from the beginning to abide by the plan installed by Dinkins, delayed the introduction of a replacement for more than two years, and then even refused to call his new program by the name spelled out in the charter.
Giuliani calls his version — stripped of all goals and timetables — an Equal Opportunity Employment Plan. EEPC’s Abe May, who testified at hearings urging a renaming and other revisions in the plan, said he “can’t respond” to the question of whether the plan complies with the charter. Reduced to level-playing-field platitudes, the Giuliani plan does not even require advertising any vacancies in minority newspapers, as Dinkins’s did. As vague and unenforceable as the plan is, the administration did not even require agencies to develop their own programs to implement it until July 1997, meaning that no apparatus at all existed for almost the entire Giuliani first term.
Even the EEPC, whose scant budget is wholly dependent on Giuliani largesse, concluded in its annual report that the “extensive delay” had “negatively impacted on the administration of equal employment opportunity programs in city government.”
Cutting the Bootstraps
Flying in the face of bootstrap Republican ideology and a state law cosponsored by Staten Island Republican John Marchi, the mayor has insisted on forcing thousands of minority students at the City University to choose between retaining their meager public assistance and dropping out of college. The administration began in the spring of 1995 to require home relief recipients — single adults without children — to do 20 workfare hours a week, and it assigned those who were then CUNY students to job sites regardless of their college schedules or locations. A year later, it did the same for women with dependents on welfare. Even after Marchi’s bill pushing on-campus assignments became law, the administration stonewalled.
The Voice has learned that since 1995, the number of CUNY students on home relief has plummeted 86 percent, from 10,512 to 1459. Since 1996, when workfare was extended to AFDC recipients, their CUNY ranks dropped 46.3 percent, from 17,108 to 8836. No one knows how many recipients left school as opposed to how many students left the rolls. But Giuliani’s stubborn suspicion, as expressed by aide Tony Coles, that these students were “using welfare as a scholarship program” has led the mayor to literally change the lives of thousands. He apparently preferred punishing those trying to lift themselves out of poverty by learning, to running the risk of rewarding those few who might be scamming the city.
While there are certainly many welfare recipients, unlike those at CUNY, who have benefited from Giuliani’s workfare demands, his refusal, as City Council welfare chair Steve DiBrienza puts it, “to do any linear tracking of what happens to those who leave the rolls” has allowed the mayor to tour the country making “wildly unsubstantiated claims.” HRA’s Turner has tried to suggest that as many as 54 percent got full- or part-time jobs based on what DiBrienza says is a skewed sample of a mere 126 participants, most of whom were better educated and more stable than the typical recipient. But Turner’s predecessor once conceded in a meeting with advocates that only 4 percent got jobs.
For the 40 percent of workfare participants who are “sanctioned” by Giuliani supervisors — meaning knocked off the rolls, or cut in benefits, for missing an hour of work or other violations of what the mayor calls a “social contract” — the program appears to be more intent on reducing caseloads than introducing “ennobling” work.
Likewise, the more recent Giuliani initiative of “inventing hoops” for welfare applicants “to jump through” before qualifying for benefits, including even food stamps and medicaid, is, according to DiBrienza, denying entitlements to those in legitimate need. Seventy-five percent of welfare applicants at Giuliani’s new “job centers” are rejected, triple the turndown rate in 1994. The number of fair hearings of DSS rejections and cutoffs has grown by 70 percent — to 130,000 in 1997 — and the city loses 87 percent of those cases.
The sanctions and rejection rate feed the mayor’s hunger for an ever bigger number on the national, and now Senate, tour, where New York’s “disappeared” — the 400,000 who’ve left welfare for nowhere — are celebrated as a personal triumph.
The searing budget cuts under Giuliani that have hit blacks hardest include: the virtual end of city subsidies to HHC, three years of slashes at the Board of Ed before an election-year boost, the decimation of city capital funding for housing, the near-elimination of new units for the homeless, the youth agency shutdown, and the gutting of HRA. Nothing comparable happened in an agency that did not disproportionately serve blacks.
CUNY’s Language Exemption
John Morning, a black Republican appointee of Governor Pataki to the CUNY board who also was named by Giuliani to a cultural commission, blamed the mayor in a Voice interview for the new remediation policy that he fears “will significantly impact on minority access” to the university. Describing the policy that ends remediation at senior colleges and requires applicants to pass three tests for admission “punishing,” Morning has recently begun saying that the CUNY board would not consider doing it but for the “interference” of politicians, namely Giuliani.
Some studies indicate the new policy could cut the student population by half. But few have noticed — besides Morning and CUNY vice chair Herman Badillo — that an exemption to the resolution may result in an even more focused impact on blacks than on other minorities. This exception allows English-as-a-second-language students born “abroad” to still enter senior colleges, and get remediation, meaning many Russian, Asian, and Hispanic immigrants may be less affected.
This article from the Village Voice Archive was posted on May 6, 2019


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Eovaldi, placed on the DL the day before the season started, is scheduled to make two more rehab starts, beginning Thursday for Class A Jupiter.
Marlins manager Mike Redmond said on Tuesday that Eovaldi likely will throw Thursday for Jupiter and then complete his rehab stint at Double-A Jacksonville.
Eovaldi made his first rehab start last Saturday for Jupiter, giving up one run on four hits with five strikeouts in five innings.
"He just needs to get his pitches in," Redmond said. "Whether that is two more starts in Jupiter, or we move him up to Jacksonville. That's probably what we'll do is one more in Jupiter, and one more in Jacksonville, and then decide.
"All the reports are good. He says he feels great. Right now, he's just building up and it looks good for him."

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Nearly 700 Louisiana businesses received violations of COVID-19 state guidelines
Officials say most violations were addressed, fixed immediately
MONROE, La. (KNOE) - The Louisiana State Fire Marshal’s Office says more than 8100 businesses have been inspected to ensure COVID-19 restrictions are being followed. Nearly 700 Louisiana businesses were found violating at least one of those restrictions.
In Ouachita Parish, 40 businesses have had at least one COVID-19 violation. The most common violation: employees wearing PPE incorrectly. Officials say most of them have been addressed and resolved immediately.
“Early on in this stage, there was a lot of uncertainty and a lot of not knowing on a lot of restaurants part,” says Joey Trappey, owner of Fieldhouse and Trapp’s.
He says inspectors visited both to ensure they were in compliance. “They asked us to remove a few more outdoor tables and spread things out a little bit more. Not that we weren’t in compliance,” Trappey says. “I guess that’s kind of what they dinged us for, but all of our servers and all of our staff wear masks. We have tables shut down, turned over and flipped over where you can’t sit at them.”
He says he was shocked to see one of his restaurants on the list of 698 businesses with at least one COVID-19 violation.
State fire marshal Butch Browning says that number is less than 10 percent of all the businesses in the state, which he says is “phenomenal. I am grateful and happy with the overwhelming compliance that’s occurring across the state,” Browning says. “We’re trying to create a new habit. We’re trying to create a new level of personal responsibility.”
However, 14 businesses across the state have had repeated violations in multiple inspections.
“Every restaurant out there wants to do it right, but you can’t control patrons as well as you can control your employees,” Trappey says. “If you don’t want to wear your mask and you’re one of my employees, you can go home. A patron doesn’t understand that.”
Trappey says he, like most owners, is still navigating the new guidelines and continuing to serve his customers. “We look forward, and we’re excited on moving forward and keeping things going in a positive direction.”
The Alcohol Tobacco Control has suspended bar permits for four south Louisiana businesses for continued violations of the governor’s order.
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Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker (R) on Thursday signed the bill package of cannabis industry reforms, which includes social-equity provisions, tax reforms for the industry, and a reworking of the state’s host community agreements, Axios reports. The measure also includes a re-tooling of how the state expunges previous cannabis convictions and includes a pilot program for cannabis cafés.
The new law alters the state tax code so cannabis businesses can write off business expenses like non-cannabis firms. Previously, the state did not allow cannabis businesses to take normal business deductions.
Under the law, communities can still impose a limited-time “impact fee” on cannabis businesses that seek to open shop in their municipality, but that fee is now limited to 3% of the business’s total sales. The so-called community host agreements came under fire following the arrest, and ultimate conviction, of former Fall River Mayor Jasiel Correia who extorted cannabis businesses under the guise of the host agreement.
Baker did veto part of the bill that would have led to a study on pediatric medical cannabis consumption in schools.
“I support many of the provisions this bill adopts to improve regulation of the cannabis industry, and I support the bill’s efforts to expand opportunities for social equity businesses. I have serious concerns, however, about [the study]. The language of the section is highly prescriptive – making it clear that the agencies charged with producing the study must identify ways to make medical marijuana widely available within schools, rather than considering whether such an allowance is advisable.” — Baker, in a signing statement, via the Boston Globe
Lawmakers had approved the omnibus cannabis bill unanimously in the Senate and 153-2 in the House. Massachusetts lawmakers could decide to try and override Baker’s veto of the section providing for the study, but the state’s formal session has ended.
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How the Quick Hitch Makes Work More Efficient
If you’ve ever put off a project because you didn’t want to take the time and effort to change out attachments, you’re not alone. Even for experienced operators, changing attachments and implements can still be intimidating. Often, there are many moving parts and you have to make sure each component is accounted for. If you’re tired of these headaches, learn why the Yanmar Quick Hitch is just the solution you’ve been looking for.
What is a Quick Hitch?
When you’re researching quick hitches, you may notice there are a number of different options. At the most basic, a quick hitch is a 3-point hitch mounted device that allows 3-point attachments to be easily connected and disconnected from the tractor. In some instances it may also be referred to as a “quick coupler.”
The most common type of quick hitch is the 3-point hitch. Just as the name implies, it means there are three key connection points between the tractor and desired attachment – two lower arms and a top link with mounting pins that lock each point into place.
However, not every quick hitch works with every tractor. They are broken into distinct categories that tell you what size attachments and implements it can handle according to the tractor’s horsepower and mounting pin size. Categories 0 and 1 are ideal for sub-compact tractors up to 45 HP with smaller pins, while category 4 is meant for industrial machines with more than 180 HP and larger pins.
Understanding this basic functionality will help you make the right decision when you’re looking for a hitch that works with your machine and any needed attachments. In addition to convenience, some of the other benefits of a quick hitch include:
- One machine, many attachments. Spare yourself from collecting numerous specialty tools. With a quick hitch from a brand like Yanmar you can trust it’s compatible with their lineup of attachments.
- Across-the-board savings. With a quick hitch you’ll see cost savings in many different areas. Whether that’s in less time spent swapping out implements or buying fewer tools to get the job done.
- Don’t have to leave your seat. When we say a quick hitch is meant for convenience, we’re serious. Many 3-point hitch attachments can be changed out without ever having to leave the operator’s seat.
The Yanmar Quick Hitch
The Yanmar Quick Hitch is built to help you tackle a wide variety of tasks so you have more time to spend on what’s most important. It’s designed to meet the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) standards, and is constructed of heavy-duty steel for maximum durability.
This category 1 hitch is perfect for the full lineup of Yanmar tractors. It includes ?-inch mounting pins and adapter bushings, an adjustable top-link ball bracket, and comes standard with a bracket you can use with attachments that have a floating top link. With lower arms that lock automatically, you don’t have to get your hands dirty and can keep the toolbox in the garage.
When you have a Yanmar Quick Hitch, you can count on it being compatible with the majority of Yanmar attachments. This includes box scrapers, finish mowers, tillers, and many others.
4 Other Ways to Increase Your Efficiency
It’s clear that the simple addition of a quick hitch can increase efficiency, saving you valuable time and money. But why stop there? Here are some additional tips that can help you increase efficiency when working on your land.
- Regular maintenance. The time spent on regular maintenance will surely be less than if something goes wrong and you lose your tractor for repairs. Simple things like changing engine oil, replacing filters, and lubricating grease points will keep you up and running for the long run. You can even keep a Yanmar maintenance kit handy that has the majority of the parts you need.
- Proper storage. Many tractors spend the winter months safely away from the elements in storage. If your tractor is waiting out the snow and cold in your barn or garage, ensure you winterize it properly so you can hit the ground running in spring. Not sure where to start? This tractor winterization guide will walk you through best practices.
- Minimize idle time. When we say minimize idle time, we don’t mean sitting around on the couch. Instead, be thoughtful about when the engine needs to be running and when it can safely be turned off. If you stop to have a conversation or work on other chores, don’t leave the engine idling until you return. This will minimize fuel waste and help extend engine life.
- Stay balanced. Adapt to the elements and make the necessary changes in ballast and tire pressure to meet the conditions. Even tires underinflated by 10% can reduce tire life by 15%, and proper ballast and weight distribution will help increase your overall fuel efficiency.
Explore Tractor Attachments
Features like the Yanmar Quick Hitch open up a whole world of possibilities. Discover which attachments are compatible and how they can help you work more efficiently every day.


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Elections in Jerusalem
The Central Elections Commission (CEC) denounced the series of arrests led by the Israeli occupation authorities against Legislative Council candidates, particularly those running in occupied Jerusalem.
The Palestinian leadership addressed a letter to the Israeli authorities reaffirming its intentions to conduct elections in the West Bank, Jerusalem, and Gaza Strip in accordance with existing protocols. Similar to previous elections, Jerusalemites are scheduled to vote at six post offices in East Jerusalem, which hold a maximum capacity of 6,300 voters. This action requires Israeli approval due to post offices remaining under Israeli control.
There are still approximately 150,000 eligible Jerusalemite voters that are expected to vote throughout Jerusalem neighborhoods, which does not require Israeli approval. The CEC has provided 11 polling centers in Jerusalem suburbs to enable these 150,000 Jerusalemites to vote without prior registration, and has trained the technical teams needed to carry out this task. Approximately 60 Jerusalemites were nominated within the various electoral lists.
On April 30, 2021 the election campaigning period for the legislative elections will begin, which is set to include Jerusalem. In the event of the Palestinian leadership not receiving a response from the Israeli authorities before the commencement of the election campaigning period, or within a reasonable timeframe, the CEC, serving as an executive authority, is prepared to take additional measures. These measures will be based on the direction of the political leadership and consultations with both the Islamic and national political factions who have made great strides in forming their electoral lists.


Abstract: As a real-time industrial Ethernet technology, EtherCAT (Ethernet for control automation technology) has a flexible network topology, which also can be configured easily and transmitted with high speed. Distributed systems can realize the separation between the data acquisition
of remote site and the control of local human-machine interface by using the modern network communication technology. It can interconnect the control center of test line and a number of auxiliary equipments via communication network to achieve the purpose of resource sharing and working together.
It is also easy to realize decentralized centralized monitoring, control, fault diagnosis and distributed data management. In order to improve the efficiency, reliability and maintenance simplicity of the inspection process for cotton bales import and export, the distributed cotton bale inspection
and management system based on EtherCAT was developed in this study, which realized a automatic process of the continuous works as weighing, sampling and marking in the cotton import, export and storage of national cotton. In the control scheme of single inspection line, the PLC + inverter
+ intelligent motor method is utilized to make system control logic simple and clear, which controls 11 inverters and 300 common IOs at the same time, and met the requirements of efficient sampling (the overall efficiency is 40 bales/min with the sampling rate of 10%). On the organization
and management of off-site and multiple lines, we proposes a distributed communication scheme suitable for regulating and scheduling based on EtherCAT, which achieves transparent management and seamless connection with control layer, device layer and management layer. In the EtherCAT-based
distributed applications, the control object includes the Ethernet devices of factory enterprises, factories, process, and field level. Specific devices contain the EtherCAT local rack, EtherCAT remote I/O sub-station, the EtherCAT distributed I/O device, ConneXium extended and managed switch,
which can be pre-configured for using as a dual-loop switch. Hot standby configuration can be used with configuring the remote I/O, distributed I/O device or the third-party devices of distributed I/O devices. Through the daisy chain loop architecture of communication module, the entire system
can achieve the performance of automatic network recovery and uncertainty remote I/O less than 50 ms. It has connected single control equipment to the whole EDCB-IMS (EtherCAT-based distributed cotton bale inspection and management system) for having the transparent access and control of businesses,
factories, process and field equipments. The EDCB-IMS system has a design of the pipeline running mode, which makes the cotton mechanical devices automatically sample, analyze the sampling cotton bale, weigh and print barcode. According the operating frequency of each module, the system will
arrange the work time of each step, such as separating the sampling bales with the other bales, analyzing the sample, passing through the RFID (radio frequency identification) system, weighing, and data management of sampling data. The experimental results show that it has greatly enhanced
cotton bales inspecting efficiency from 5 bags/min to 40 bags/min. The data transmission speeds are 7.5Mbps (Modbus on EtherCAT) and 15 Mbps (CIP on EtherCAT) respectively and with low data loss. It provides a good real-time performance and is easy to do extensions, which can be a good reference
for the automation research on application and technology of distributed quality-test system.
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The path through the woods...the way home, I think. Love it. & nice collaboration with Jerry!Carol
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Here's a look at the plans for tomorrow:
Military Arms Deal
As Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates head out on a trip to the Middle East, the United States announced a military arms deal with certain countries. Tomorrow Jim Miklaszewski will explain the details of the military aid package.
Most Prescribed Drug in US
What is the prescription written most often in the United States? You might be surprised to hear what it is. We'll tell you which drug prescription is filled the most for Americans.
Top Medical Mistakes Parents Make
Raising a child can be an overwhelming process. Times can get even more stressful when injuries or illness hit. As a parent you never want to harm your child, but could you actually hurt your child more then help in a time of sickness? Tomorrow Dr. Nancy Snyderman will tell us the top five medical mistakes parents make.
Check back later to see which stories stick, which move and which get shelved for a later day.

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There are so many names and faces in American politics, and sometimes one will explode into relevance one day, and blow up in scandal the next, careers made and destroyed in relatively short order. And that's a description that fits a certain former senator from North Carolina pretty well — whatever happened to John Edwards?
For those of you who don't keep up with politics that closely, or those of you who've forgotten about the high-profile, tawdry scandal that scuttled Edwards' once-promising political future, here's some background: Edwards, now 62, was the Democratic Party's candidate for vice president back in 2004, running with Massachusetts Senator John Kerry against incumbent president George W. Bush and vice president Dick Cheney.
The Democrats lost that race, obviously, but Edwards was back in 2008, this time running for president in his own right. But it was during that presidential campaign that all of the drama, scandal and controversy would start: Edwards had an extra-marital affair with a woman named Rielle Hunter, eventually fathering a daughter named Quinn with her, while his wife, Elizabeth, was stricken with terminal breast cancer. She ultimately separated Edwards before she died, though not immediately — she stood by him after he admitted the affair, but when he confessed to fathering the child, she started divorce proceedings.
That wasn't the end of Edwards' troubles, however. With his political career already in shambles, and considered a pop-cultural punchline and a cruel pariah for cheating on his gravely ill wife, Edwards then faced down criminal allegations that he misused campaign funds to try to cover up the affair with Hunter. He was indicted by a North Carolina grand jury, and faced six felony charges in 2012, as CNN detailed: conspiracy, four counts of illegal campaign contributions, and giving false statements.
His defense team was successful in the end, however — they successfully argued that Edwards' actions might have been immoral, but not criminal. As the Los Angeles Times detailed at the time, attorney Allison Van Laningham defended Edwards in court as having "committed sins but no crimes," arguing that it was "humiliation he was trying to avoid all along." He was ultimately cleared on one count, received a mistrial on the other five, and was home free when federal prosecutors dropped the case weeks later.
So, what is Edwards up to these days? According to The Washington Post's Michael Leahy back in 2012, months prior to Edwards' acquittal, his life was pretty normal, if plagued by a lot of stress — amid spending time with his children, and residing at the estate that he'd left behind when Elizabeth filed for divorce in 2010, he also suffered a heart scare that momentarily delayed his legal proceedings.
Nowadays, however, he's back at the job that once earned him millions, and helped set the stage for his leap into elected politics. According to USA Today back in April 2014, Edwards is practicing law again, having opened up a law firm called Edwards Kirby, named after himself and his partner, David Kirby. His daughter Cate is also an attorney with the firm. They specialize in personal injury cases, which was always part of the right-wing knock on Edwards as a politician — fairly or not, personal injury lawyers are often labelled as "ambulance-chasers."
Basically, if you're a sucker for a good political redemption story, you'll likely be disappointed in this instance. Simply put, there's been absolutely no public indication Edwards will ever mount another run for office, and it's not hard to see why. Simply put, the combination of factors that led up to his fall from grace — a relatively usual political sex affair, amplified by the sleazy betrayal of his dying wife, and the tabloid headlines it generated — has basically closed the book on John Edwards, politician.


I never get the hang of this code formatting, let's see if I can get the code to post in human-readable format:
protected override void OnLoad(System.EventArgs e)
Source.Selected += new DataSourceStatusEventHandler(Source_HandleErrors);
Source.Selected += new DataSourceStatusEventHandler(Source_HandleEmptyResult);
Source.Filter += new FilterEventHandler(Source_Filter);
Source.Filter += new FilterEventHandler(Source_Sort);
SearchArea.Visible = true;
Form.DefaultButton = SearchButton.UniqueID;
SearchArea.Visible = false;
PropertyCriteriaControl tagCriterion = new PropertyCriteriaControl();
tagCriterion.Name = // Omitted lines to set up criteria...
protected void Search_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
Source.SearchQuery = SearchText.Text;
Source.OnlyWholeWords = this.SearchOnlyWholeWords.Checked;
protected void Search()
Result.Visible = true;
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I looked at the code using Reflector and as far as I can see the Filter event is never raised if executing a property search. This is documented - in a way. My interpretation of the documentation was that if you perform a free text search, any proprety criteria are used to filter the result set (using automatically created handlers for the Filter event). However, any manually added filter should still be executed. This is not the case. Is there a good reason for this behaviour, is it a bug, or did I miss something?
I worked around the problem for now by not using the SearchDataSource for my property search but using FindPagesWithCriteria directly to get hold of the PageDataCollection and filter it.
Is the SearchDataSource.Filter event raised only under certain conditions? I have a page template that I use in two different "modes", either to execute a property search defined by page properties (by adding propertycriteria in codebehind) or if no such search is defined as an ordiary free text search. In free text mode the Filter event is raised just fine, but when property search is active it isn't raised. The Selected event is raised in both cases.
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South Brunswick police are asking the public to be alert for an increasing number of thefts during the overnight hours, Chief Raymond Hayducka said,
“The catalytic converter problem in New Jersey is at epidemic levels," Hayducka said. "We are partnering with county and State law enforcement to track these suspects, but there are multiple crews operating throughout the state.”
Suspects have intensified their recent efforts in southern Middlesex County with 29 thefts in South Brunswick in 10 days, Hayducka said.
Catalytic converters look like a metal hot water bottle, are found in the car’s underbody and are part of its exhaust system. The ingredients of that chemical catalyst are the precious metals rhodium, palladium and platinum. Each converter contains several grams of each metal and is sold to scrapyards. The converters can be clipped off a car in minutes.
Hayducka said he is frustrated by any unscrupulous scrapyards in the tri-state area who buy stolen converters.
Captain Jeff Russo, the head of South Brunswick Police Criminal Investigations Division, said that the majority of thefts take place overnight between 11 p.m. and 5 a.m. and involve Hondas.
South Brunswick police have twice encountered suspects, they said. Both times the suspects escaped police at high rates of speed, causing a risk to the public, they said.
"Residents have already made a number of calls and we have created saturation patrols to increase our detection," Hayducka said.
"There is no one answer to the problem, but collectively we make a difference."
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Riverdale is back, and there's a whole new killer in town for season 2... The smash-hit adaptation of the Archie comics premiered its second season with a tense episode that picked up where season 1 left off: with Fred Andrews (Luke Perry) shot by a hooded man in Pop's Chok'lit Shoppe. The fallout from that cliffhanger was the core of the season 2 premiere (although Cheryl (Madelaine Petsch) and her new psycho side got a look in as well) as Archie (KJ Apa) and the gang waited at the hospital for news about his Dad.
There was a little extra intrigue as well, of course - this being Riverdale and all. Veronica (Camila Mendes) stepped it up as a girlfriend, and challenged her mother over this interestingly-timed shooting. Betty (Lili Reinhart) tried to deal with Jughead's (Cole Sprouse) new connections to the Southside Serpents, and the Angel of Death struck a second time. In amongst all that drama, it was easy to miss a throwaway line that references Archie's heroic tendencies, but comic fans caught the reference to Archie the Superhero.
JugHead's Easter Egg
After Archie's father is shot at the diner, Archie drives him to the hospital himself because the ambulance is taking too long to arrive. Once he's there, and Fred is in surgery, his friends arrive to comfort him and wait with him to hear any news. Archie is berating himself, wondering if he should have waited for the ambulance, if it would have been better for his Dad to wait, rather than driving him to the hospital himself (and as we see later, he's berating himself for not doing more in the diner, as well). It's at this point that Jughead is quick to chime in and reassure his friend that he did everything he could, and that he saved his father's life by getting him into surgery as quickly as possible.
Are you kidding me? You saved your Dad's life. First Cheryl, and now your Dad, if you keep this up you are going to need a superhero name. Pureheart the Powerful.
Jughead has a point - this is the second life that Archie has saved in as many episodes. In the season 1 finale, Cheryl Blossom tried to kill herself in the frozen river, to be with her twin, and it was Archie who managed to drag her out and give her mouth-to-mouth. Now, he has managed to bring his father in to the hospital just in time to save his life, too.
Comic Captain Pureheart
For fans of the Archie comics, of course, the name Pureheart the Powerful was a little more than just a Jughead Jones joke. Back in the '60s, Archie Andrews actually did become a comic book superhero, if only for a short while. In 1965, the Archie gang actually all got super-powers, probably because of the huge success both Marvel and DC were having with their super-people.
Archie became, of course, Captain Pureheart, who later became Pureheart The Powerful. Pureheart can tap into superpowers because he is (you guessed it) pure of heart - and those powers included superstrength and the ability to fly using jet boosters. He wore a costume with a heart on the chest bearing a 'P' symbol, that was either red or orange with a blue cape. In many ways, he was modeled on Superman, with a similar chest symbol and powers. Captain Pureheart never wore a mask (or even glasses), but was still never recognized as Archie.
The rest of the gang also got powers of their own in this alternate Archie universe. Betty became Superteen, Jughead became Captain Hero, and Veronica becoming Miss Vanity. Even Reggie turned into Evil Heart. Most of their powers are roughly the same, super strength, a measure of invulnerability, etc, although Captain Hero also had a collection of gadgets to help him fight evil, and a magic incantation to chant when he wanted to power up. The team had a short run in the '60s, followed by a brief resurrection in the '90s, before being put to bed (for now).
Could Archie Become Riverdale's Superhero?
Although this Easter Egg is a whole lot of fun for comic fans, it's highly unlikely that Riverdale is going to start introducing actual superpowers anytime soon. Although the CW has had huge success with their DC TV Arrowverse, Riverdale is a very different kind of show - and not one that really lends itself to superpowers. Instead, the focus is on murder mysteries and the dark secrets of a sleepy town, something that works beautifully as it is, but wouldn't necessarily mix well with a caped hero diving in. Who would Captain Pureheart even fight, when the premise of each season is that no-one knows who the bad guy is?
We may not be seeing Archie in tights any time soon, but Jughead has a point with his flippant comment; Archie seems to be developing something of a hero complex. This is actually far more interesting for the show than a teenage boy gaining super-strength, and the premiere made it clear that Archie's new drive to protect his family is going to be a major part of his story arc this time around. Hero complexes rarely bode well for the heroes, either, so this may be something that drives Archie to neglect the rest of his life, potentially even driving a wedge between him and Veronica as the season continues. We'll have to wait and see what 'Captain Pureheart' does next, but we're betting it'll still be in his Letterman jacket, not new jet boosters.
Riverdale season 2 continues next Wednesday @8pm on The CW.

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When you’ve spent your whole life building a legacy, you’ll naturally want to protect it as much as possible. A Trust is a popular estate planning tool that helps families minimize their estate’s exposure to probate, creditor claims, and taxes. There’s a diverse array of Trusts to choose from, with each of them serving different fiduciary arrangements and offering various advantages. One such Trust is a generation skipping trust. Keep reading to find out why some estate planners might choose to pass assets directly to their grandchildren.
What Is a Generation Skipping Trust?
A generation skipping trust is a fiduciary arrangement that is used to pass down assets and property to a later generation. The trustor, also called the settlor or grantor, skips over their own children to pass the inheritance to their grandchildren. The trust skips a generation, thus earning its name.
However, the GST trust doesn’t necessarily have to be for your grandchildren. It could be anyone who is younger than you by at least 37 ½ years. So in theory, it could be a niece, a great-nephew, or even your own child that you had later in life.
Any type of properly established trust is a legally binding fiduciary agreement. If you’re wondering “is a GST trust revocable or irrevocable,” the answer is irrevocable. If you remember from our other guides, although irrevocable trusts cannot be revoked or modified, they offer more tax and asset protection. Some individuals use the GST trust as a strategy to retain more wealth in their family by skipping one round of estate taxes.
How Does a Generation Skipping Trust Work?
According to U.S. generation skipping trust rules, the beneficiary must be two or more generations younger than the trustor. Mentioned before, this means that the beneficiary must either be the grandchild of the trustor, or anyone who is at least 37 ½ years younger. They do not have to be a blood relative as long as they reach the age requirement.
If you’re considering a GST trust, here is some additional information we want to make sure you know.
In the case of traditional types of trusts, assets are typically exposed to estate taxes. By setting up a GST trust, you get to avoid taxes that are normally assessed if your children were to inherit your assets. However, it should be noted that Congress enacted a generation-skipping (GST) tax to close this loophole that families discovered. Any distributions from a GST trust is subject to the 40 percent GST tax in addition to the general 40 percent gift and estate tax. Luckily, the current threshold is at $11.7 million. Unless you’re ultra-wealthy, your estate won’t owe any taxes.
Second, you might be wondering if there are any benefits for the generation that is being skipped over. There are no regulations that prevent the trustor’s children from accessing earnings made by assets held by the Trust. This means that they can also benefit from trust earnings, as long as the original assets are not distributed. These can only be released to the skip person.
Benefits of Generation Skipping Trusts
A generation skipping trust is a great estate planning tool for some estates, but not all. If you’re considering setting up one or more GST trusts, make sure that you would be able to take advantage of these benefits:
Great planning tool for larger estates: If you have a rather large estate, you can use a generation skipping trust to personally ensure that your family legacy is preserved for at least two generations. This means that not only will your own children benefit, your grandchildren will also be supported.
Skip a round of estate taxes: Because the assets held in the GST trust will not go directly to your children, you get to skip a round of estate taxes. Estate taxes will only be assessed when property is distributed to your skip person (such as your grandchild.) Had you passed your assets directly to your child, who then passed their assets to their own children, the family legacy would have been taxed twice.
GST trust assets are not included in your child’s estate: Any assets placed into a generation skipping trust cannot be included in your child’s estate. This protects their estate, and they can retain full control of their own trusts during their lifetime.
Drawbacks of Generation Skipping Trusts
Before you commit to establishing a GST trust, it’s also important to be aware of the potential drawbacks. However, in some cases, certain disadvantages won’t apply.
Generation-skipping taxes may apply: The generation-skipping transfer (GST) tax was established to circumvent families from escaping estate taxes over multiple generations. If your estate surpasses the $11.7 million exemption, it will be subject to both the GST tax (40%) and estate tax (40%) of the amount exceeding the exemption. Luckily, many families don’t exceed this exemption amount and will not be subject to the tax.
Administrative burden of running the trust: Although Trusts are a powerful estate planning tool, you should be made aware that trusts require some thought, energy, and resources. However, it’s completely worth your effort as they are designed to maximize and prolong the legacy passed down through your family. It’s best to work with an estate planning service or professional to help you set up the type of trusts that work best for your financial circumstances.
May not be ideal for children being skipped: The idea behind the generation skipping trust is to protect your children and later generations. With an estate large enough, your children can still benefit from profits generated by assets held in the trust without any penalty. If you wish to support your children financially, you will need to evaluate if any income produced by the trust is substantial enough.
Is a GST Trust Revocable or Irrevocable?
A generation skipping trust is an irrevocable trust. This type of trust cannot be changed or revoked. However, building an irrevocable trust does not necessarily mean that you relinquish all of your power. You can still build in provisions that give you the ability to determine how the estate is invested and how assets are distributed. For more information, visit our guide that explains the differences between revocable vs. irrevocable trusts.
Who Needs a Generation Skipping Trust?
A generation skipping trust is a powerful estate planning tool, especially for individuals with large estates. They are a great way to help your family avoid paying estate taxes twice, when the estate passes to your children, and then again to your grandchildren. Although your grandchildren (or any individual at least 37 ½ years younger than you) act as the beneficiaries, your children still benefit from the trust. Not only can they receive any income produced by the trust’s assets, they get to keep their own estate completely separate from it.
However the GST trust is not the right fit for everyone. Be aware that any trust exceeding the $11.7 million exemption can face a GST tax and estate tax double-whammy. In addition, this type of trust may not make sense for smaller estates, in which case you might want to pass assets directly to your children.
We always recommend working with a professional to help maximize your wealth and minimize your tax exposure! Trust & Will is here to help you. Not only do we provide easy, accessible and affordable Trust creation services, we have experts available to help you every step of the way.
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Welcome to Finger Lakes Distilling
We’re a craft distillery on the East shore of Seneca Lake in Upstate New York, and we make something a little different. Using locally sourced raw materials, a commitment to traditional methods, and our two copper stills, we produce some seriously good spirits. Our products include rich, aged sipping whiskies, smooth vodka, unique gins, a range of exceptional liqueurs, and more.
Take a look around our site and check out our products. We’re looking forward to seeing you at the distillery soon.


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A plant can be a thing of beauty and yet not be a joy forever. The bright trumpets of bindweed, a pasture that is sunny with buttercups, Queen Anne’s lace in a meadow – here are spectacles to delight the passing motorist. But a farmer finds them less delightful, for the bindweed strangles his corn, the buttercups contain an irritating juice that cattle dislike and Queen Anne’s lace, which is a wild carrot, harbours a destructive weevil. These and other plants that spring up unbidden the farmer call weeds. This name has nothing to with plant classification. A weed is any plant growing where it is not wanted.
No matter how much time and effort it took you to harvest a charming garden, stubborn weeds can halt that progress and ruin your garden’s appeal in a short time. However, here’s some good news: the wide range of garden maintenance and makeover services provided by Church Street Garden Service can protect your garden from such disasters.
But, for now, let’s learn more about weeds.
A dandelion in the front lawn is a weed – it is not weed when cultivated for fresh greens. Sweet clover sown in the meadow is not a weed. When some of the ripe seeds drift over on the wing to the flower garden, they grow into weeds.
Weeds do enormous harm. In actual figures, many billions of dollars a year are lost, over the world, because of weeds. The sum is greater than the combined loss due to both plant diseases and insects. The loss is likely to be the highest in regions where agriculture is most intensive and where the crops and land are of greatest value, but weeds in the open-range country are also costly.
The cereal-grain crops offer a good example of the tax we pay on weeds. Seeds of weeds in the grain field are harvested along with the grain. On the average, wheat brought to the elevators contains one per cent of weed seeds. This means that in say, a billion-bushel wheat crop, ten million bushels of weed seeds were harvested, threshed, stored, hauled to mills or terminals and there removed and disposed of. Even a small percentage of sees of certain weeds, if blended with the grain, would give an off flavour to the flour. The grower receives a reduced price for his grain when it contains weed seeds.
Did you know that some plant diseases have spread by means of weeds? The stem rust of wheat is caused by a fungus that spends part of its life on the barberry. To aid in controlling this disease, millions of ornamental barberry bushes have had to be uprooted and destroyed. the blister rust of white pines is caused by a fungus that spends part of its life on the leaves of wild and cultivated currant bushes. Some virus diseases that attack cultivated plants may be traced to weeds that not only serve as a source of the virus but also furnish a breeding place for leafhoppers, aphids and other insects that carry the viruses. A number of insects that directly injure cultivated plants breed on or in weeds.
Probably the greatest harm done by weeds is in competing with crop plants. The weeds grow rapidly and send strong root systems far into the soil. In less than three weeks of growth, a vigorous mustard plant in a grain field will produce more than four hundred feet of roots. A dozen of these plants will produce nearly a mile of roots in three weeks. They rob the crop plants of soil minerals and water and their leaves screen sunshine from the cultivated plants, further reducing the grower’s yield.
The seeds of some weeds can even lie under water for months or even years and can still remain viable.
Want to protect your potted plants and keep weeds away from your “planthearts?” Contact Church Street Garden Service!

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Bad Girls Throughout History: 100 Remarkable Women Who Changed the World - Ann Shen (2016)
Born into slavery, Harriet Tubman (ca. 1822-1913) was easily one of the most courageous people who ever lived. Abused daily by her masters, Tubman became disabled after one threw an iron weight at her head, then left her unconscious and without medical care for two days. She survived, but suffered seizures and narcolepsy for the rest of her life. Tubman escaped slavery in 1849, yet returned to the South at least nineteen times over the next eight years, even with a bounty on her head, to usher over seventy runaway slaves to freedom through the Underground Railroad. When the Civil War broke out, Tubman served as a nurse, scout, and spy, even becoming the first American woman to lead an armed assault. She worked with Colonel Montgomery and his troops to raid plantations along the Combahee River, where they rescued over 750 slaves. Tubman received no compensation for her war services and lived in poverty most of her life because she gave so much away.
She managed to buy property in Auburn, New York, where she housed anyone who needed help getting back on their feet. Later in her life she worked alongside Susan B. Anthony and other suffragettes to fight for the vote, even though she had to sell a cow to buy a train ticket to speak at receptions honoring her service. In 1903, she donated her own real estate to a church in Auburn to open a care facility for elderly African-Americans, a place she called home a decade later. She passed away at the age of ninety-one, surrounded by friends; her last words were reportedly, “I go to prepare a place for you.”


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Children should not be kept behind bars, according to a new report that examines the ineffectiveness of youth prisons in Illinois and other states.
The research from The Annie E. Casey Foundation pulls together evidence of the failings of youth correctional facilities and recommends they all be closed.
Foundation president and CEO Patrick McCarthy says these prisons have high recidivism rates and do not improve long-term outcomes for youth.
"These institutions fail at protecting the community, they fail at turning young lives around, they are unconscionably expensive, they're prone to abuse, they defy reform and the bottom line is we have alternatives," he states.
The report notes that systemic maltreatment has been documented in youth prison facilities in nearly half of states since 2000, including Illinois.
The report recommends a four R strategy: Reduce the pipeline of youth into youth facilities; reform the corrections culture that wrongly assumes locking up youth improves safety; replace youth prisons with rehabilitative services; and reinvest in evidence-based solutions.
Elizabeth Clarke, president of the Juvenile Justice Initiative in Evanston, says Illinois already has started moving in that direction.
"Illinois has closed three of its state juvenile prisons and their detention has declined over the last 14 years in Illinois, so like the rest of the country, this is the direction we're moving in already," she points out.
Clarke says most of these detention facilities are in very rural communities and are out of sight, out of mind, but once the public is made aware of what happens there, and how ineffective they are, the public demands answers.
"Why are we paying over a hundred million statewide to support juvenile prisons that have poor outcomes?" she questions. "Why don't we take those very scarce public dollars and invest them in education and community alternatives that we know work more effective."


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Hi Shereds and welcome to the forum. Well, you cannot go wrong by selecting a game from an era you enjoy. Many like to start with the Roman era game, Alea Jacata Est. It is one of the least complicated, still tough to play, but the game system is more transparent. Its companion game, Wars in America is excellent if you are interested in colonial America.
I would say choose by your area of interest. There are excellent games on the Spanish Civil War and on the English Civil War. Of course the Russian and American Civil Wars are true studies of these conflicts.
Don't start with To End All Wars as it really takes an understanding of AGEOD games unless you are fascinated by the Great War. If so, buy TEAW, but also the expansion Breaking the Deadlock as the expansion game has many smaller scenario as a great way to learn the game.
If one of the reason you wish to get into AGEOD games is to play others, Pride of Nations is very interesting for multiplayer play, but if you are looking for solo play, the first two listed would be good.

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Free Shipping Included! Cup Turner Tumbler Cuptisserie Heat Gun Set, Cup Spinner for DIY Glitter Epoxy Crafts Tumblers by XU at Coastal Creations Art. MPN: CTHG. Hurry! Limited time offer. Offer valid only while supplies last. Package Includes: 1 x Clapboard (with Motor Part) 1 x Sideboard (Tube Holder) 1 x Baseboard 1 x PVC Tube 1 x Black Foam 1 x Rainbow Football Foam 4 x Screw 1 x Screw Driver 1 x Hot Air Gun ( Yellow ) 1 x Silicone Measuring Cup (100ml) 2 x Mini Silicon Mixing Cup 5 x Wood Mixing Sticks 6 x Latex Gloves (3 Pairs) 3 x Silicone Epoxy Brushes 1 x A4 Silicone Mat(Blue) 12 x Glitter Powder 1 x Dropping Pipette 1 x Silicone MoldEpoxy Glitter Tumbler Full Kits - 1 x Cup Turners Kit
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Package Includes: 1 x Clapboard (with Motor Part) 1 x Sideboard (Tube Holder) 1 x Baseboard 1 x PVC Tube 1 x Black Foam 1 x Rainbow Football Foam 4 x Screw 1 x Screw Driver 1 x Hot Air Gun ( Yellow ) 1 x Silicone Measuring Cup (100ml) 2 x Mini Silicon Mixing Cup 5 x Wood Mixing Sticks 6 x Latex Gloves (3 Pairs) 3 x Silicone Epoxy Brushes 1 x A4 Silicone Mat(Blue) 12 x Glitter Powder 1 x Dropping Pipette 1 x Silicone Mold
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Froggy Picks a Pumpkin is super cute for Fall! The book explores key themes and messages that resonate with young readers. It emphasizes the excitement and anticipation of seasonal traditions, such as visiting a pumpkin patch and carving jack-o’-lanterns.
Froggy Picks a Pumpkin Read Aloud
Are you headed on a field trip to a pumpkin patch? This read-aloud would actually give multiple “don’ts” to talk about!! Froggy Picks a Pumpkin read-aloud can be found on Youtube (search: youtube Froggy Picks a Pumpkin).
The book follows the adventures of Froggy and his friends as they embark on a class trip to the pumpkin patch. The trip is enlivened by a contest to find the biggest, smallest, prettiest, ugliest, and best all-around pumpkins. Froggy is excited about the trip and can’t wait to pick a pumpkin of his own. He dreams of carving a jack-o’-lantern and baking a delicious pumpkin pie. Throughout the story, Froggy and his friends encounter various challenges and learn important lessons about teamwork, friendship, and the joy of autumn festivities.
Froggy Picks a Pumpkin”Pumpkin Patch Scavenger Hunt
One fun activity inspired by the book is a Pumpkin Patch Scavenger Hunt. The class could visit to a pumpkin patch or even host one on the school grounds with a collection of pumpkins. We would take a list of items to find, such as a small pumpkin, a pumpkin with a stem, a pumpkin with stripes, or a pumpkin that is a certain color. This activity encourages observation skills, and attention to detail, and can also be a great way to learn about different types of pumpkins. I have also included in my packet wall pennants that are perfect to decorate the hall or a bulletin board!
Froggy Picks a Pumpkin Activities
The book promotes creativity and imagination as Froggy envisions the delicious treats he can make with his chosen pumpkin. This is a great opportunity for a class Pumpkin Carving or Decorating Contest. They can then showcase their creations and have a friendly competition to see who has the most creative or unique pumpkins. This activity allows children to express their creativity, practice fine motor skills, and engage in friendly competition. I have also added plenty of writing exercises to practice their writing skills.
Froggy Picks a Pumpkin is a delightful children’s book written by Jonathan London. London is a renowned author who has written numerous books for children, including the popular Froggy series. Overall, Froggy Picks a Pumpkin is a heartwarming and engaging story that teaches valuable life lessons while celebrating the joys of autumn.
Be sure to check out all of my favorite products for the Fall!!!


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ROCK SPRINGS, WYOMING (July 23, 2020) — The Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County (MHSC) has released the following statement regarding summer sports physicals:
“Going into the fall, school athletics may look a little different in light of the coronavirus pandemic.
One thing that won’t change is the need for a sports physical before your child can participate.
The primary care providers with the Specialty Clinics of Sweetwater Memorial also are doing things a bit differently this year to ensure patients and staff remain safe.
The same services will be offered at the same price as in the past, but with a twist.
Instead of setting aside one or two days for a clinic, sports physicals will be offered for high school athletes by appointment for the entire month of August.
Call your primary care provider at one of these Specialty Clinics: Family Medicine Clinic, Pediatrics, or Internal Medicine.
The $25 cost must be paid by cash, check, or credit card at the time of the visit.
The sports physicals will not be billed to insurance.
For more information on sports physicals, call 307-212-7708.
For details on all of the Specialty Clinics, go to sweetwatermemorial.com.”