The Excelsior, a culturally rich, working-class neighborhood of San Francisco, experienced eight violent murders in 2008. After nearly 9 months with no homicides, Excelsior is shocked with the news of a vicious and unprovoked murder on October 12, 2009. This random act of violence throws the community into a turbulent state, uncertain about their neighborhood's safety. Through the voices of community leaders, local activists, and neighborhood residents, EXCELSIOR RISING explores the mechanics of how a small, close-knit community begins to take steps to strengthen relationships and improve safety by starting right at the heart of the community.
This discussion guide is a tool to promote a deeper discussion about public safety in the classroom and in the community with residents, government agencies, community based organizations and other stakeholders. A resident's contribution in their neighborhood is the most powerful force to change their community.
- Violence in our communities: prevention, response, and action.
- Political, police and community strategies for public safety.
- Community responsibility: making a difference in your neighborhood
- In 2008, the Excelsior had eight, violent homicides. What response would you want from your police department, political leaders, and fellow residents?
In Excelsior Rising, Professor Vivian Chavez describes healthy communities as places where "members care about each other: their health is important and other's health are important."
- What do you think makes a healthy neighborhood?
- What kinds of projects are happening in your community?
- How are you, your family, and friends involved in your community?
In the Excelsior community meetings, residents talked about how "getting to know your neighbors" is a great way to strengthen the bonds of your community.
- Where can people in your community gather to socialize?
- Do you know your neighbors?
- What do you think are the benefits of knowing your neighbors?
- What might be the challenges in getting to know them?
In the film, community members were part of neighborhood groups such as the Excelsior Action Group (EAG) and the Excelsior District Improvement Association (EDIA) to address public safety issues, strengthen community relationships, and to beautify the neighborhood.
- What are 3 issues that affect your community?
- Do you know of community groups for the issues?
- Could you create a community meeting to discuss an important issue in your neighborhood?
In the film, Excelsior residents spoke to their local police and political representatives about getting involved in an effort to prevent violence in the neighborhood.
- What is the community policing in your neighborhood?
- What kind of relationship would you want with the police?
1. In the United States, almost 30% of violent crimes occurred in or near the victim's home. For violent crime, about half occurred within a mile from home and 76% within 5 miles.
2. Ethic Diversity in Excelsior: White 30%, Black 7%, Hispanic 26%, Other 13%, Two or more races 5%, Pacific Islander 1%, Native American 1%.
3. Community policing is a strategy that promotes organizational strategies, which supports the systematic use of partnerships and problem-solving techniques, to proactively address the immediate conditions that give rise to public safety issues such as crime, social disorder, and fear of crime. Collaborative partnerships between the law enforcement agency and the individuals and organizations they serve to develop solutions and increase trust in police.
4. Community partnerships are about the tremendous power created when organizations and individuals come together to act proactively on important issues in their towns, schools or neighborhoods.
5. Advocacy is making your organization heard to those elected officials who are making decisions and choices for your community.
1. United States Department of Justice
2. SF Gov www.sfgov.org, Statistics from 2000 Census
3. United States Department of Justice, COPS- Office of Community Orientated Policing Services
4. and 5. Hogg Foundations Publications - "Civic Link: A Guide to Civic Relations and Community Advocacy"
1. Excelsior District Improvement Association (EDIA)
2. Excelsior Action Group (EAG)
3. San Francisco City and County Board of Supervisors
John Avalos, District 11
4. San Francisco Police Department
Captain David Lazar- Ingleside Station
KEVIN BURKS, an amateur photographer, writer, and budding filmmaker, has graduated from San Francisco State University with a major in Cinema Production. From his early days as a child shooting his Legos on his first webcam, to avid filmmaker for social change, his passion to become a director of films has only increased tremendously over the growing number of years. "Excelsior Rising" is his first documentary and hopes to continue to explore the journey of film making by participating in future documentaries while also pursuing a career in narrative directing to find new way to evoke emotions, tell humanistic stories, and to hold up a mirror to those who recognize themselves in the refection.
CLAUDIO CAPELLINI is an Italian study abroad student at San Francisco State university, coming from Italian accademy of fine arts "nAba" in Milan where he is a media design major. Always interested in storytelling, drawing and arts, during his last year in nAba he fell in love with the documentary practice of filmaking after had seen The Wild Blue Younder of Werner Herzog. Once at San Francisco State, he decided to follow the documentary of social and health justice with the wish of improving his skills in documentarys technics and to find a way to be socially engaged with his work. He did.
CARRIE HOLLIDAY graduated SF State in Spring 2010 with a degree in Radio & Television. Her dream job is a creative, meaningful career of visual arts and social consciousness. EXCELSIOR RISING is Carrie's first film, and she hopes to work on future documentary projects. She is also exploring interests in video editing, creative writing and musical theater. Radio was her first media passion; Carrie has been known on the air as "Zoe" since 2005. Her love of radio stems from years of experience at KVHS "90.5 The Edge," in Concord, CA, where she held the positions of Operations Manager, Public Service Director, Prize Wheel Operator and Station Tour Guide for Cub Scouts. Carrie enjoys dark comedy, thrift stores, music festivals, social activism, and kittens.
*The information on these pages is provided by the student film makers and does not represent an endorsement or verification of statements from the Health Equity Institute


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In his 48th movie and his 77th year Woody Allen has pulled a pearl out of the bag. Aided and abetted by Cate Blanchett, on absolute fire, Blue Jasmine is just wonderful.
The directing is effortless, the writing so miraculously real that you almost wonder if there IS a script. It feels so like real life.
It’s a story barely worth telling because the plot is really quite slight; but it matters not one jot.
Beautifully photographed by Javier Aguirresarobe (who also shot Vicky Christina Barcelona) it has a sumptuous feel in keeping with the past lifestyle of Cate Blanchett’s titular character, Jasmine.
The story centres around the attempt by Jasmine to piece her life back together with the help of her adopted sister Ginger (played wonderfully by Sally Hawkins) after her marraige to playboy Alec Baldwin (who is so cool it’s unbelievable).
Whilst Jasmine has plenty of admirers her rather less fortunate sister is also on the road to romance with a blue collar worker, played affectingly by Bobby Cannevale. But Jasmine dissaproves. In fact Jasmine pretty much disapproves of everything in her new world; working, her sister’s flat, San Fransisco…you name it.
What makes the movie really work is the central (surely to be Oscar nominated) performance by Blanchett who simply sizzles from start to finish.
It’s not often you like an absolute bitch on screen but Blanchett pulls it off in a booze and drug sozzled role that never reaches extremes and demonstrates what an outstanding acting talent she is.
Woody is working on his (unnamed) 49th movie right now. Here’s hoping he makes it to the half century because in the last five years we’ve had the aforementioned VCB and Midnight in Paris. Both absolute toppers.
This is no exception.

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"Co-workers become trapped in an elevator when The Infection breaks out. They must rely on each other to survive, but is trust that easy for everyone?"
I gotta tell ya, I am super pumped that my work is hitting comixology right now. This introduces my work to a whole new group of people. That being said I hope they stick with it and see the growth in the story and art I feel has happened. #FingersCrossed! Stay awesome, friends.
Happy Hallowe’en friends! I know I have been keeping the Stranger love away from you as I work with Ricky Lima on the Deep Sea Graphic Novel, but I still have to get my zombie fix in every once and…
I should also mention that these two pages will be for sale at Halloween ComicFest in Brampton on Saturday October 26! This marks the first time that ANY pages from Stranger will have been available for sale.
Stadium Comics is a comic shop that has been serving the Brampton area for over 20 years. We specialize in comic books, hard covers, trade paperbacks, graphic novels, posters, action figures, and t-shirts.
Hey Friends! On Saturday October 26 I will be here trying desperately not to look out of place with all the fantastic talent that will be here. I’ll also have the two new pages of Stranger ( “The Halloween Special) available for sale! Come by! Say Hi! Apple Pie!
Hot on the heels of the announcement of Stranger being made available on Comixology comes news that Of Stone is in works for the Digital Comics Platform! This is awesome news as those of you who just can’t get a physical copy in your hands for whatever reason will have the opportunity to purchase it digitally! I’ll keep you posted as to the progress!


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Former President Barack Obama sent a tweet to mark his wife Michelle’s birthday that was full of love and a reminder of when America had a real first family.
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) January 17, 2020
Compare the loving pictures of the Obamas to what we have now:
The current First Lady didn’t even want to live in the White House with her cheating husband. Every time that Trump tries to touch his wife for the cameras, she behaves like touching costs extra.
Everything about the Trump family is cold and transactional.
Seeing the pictures of Barack and Michelle Obama should remind the country that presidents and their families set the cultural tone for the nation, and America should expect nothing less than a good example from the First Family.
For more discussion about this story join our Rachel Maddow and MSNBC group.
Mr. Easley is the managing editor. He is also a White House Press Pool and a Congressional correspondent for PoliticusUSA. Jason has a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science. His graduate work focused on public policy, with a specialization in social reform movements.
Awards and Professional Memberships
Member of the Society of Professional Journalists and The American Political Science Association

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All the persistence of metrics goes first to the ring buffer. Then, the threads from the writer pool are responsible for grabbing data from the ring buffer and send it to Cassandra.
When the ring buffer is full, the Newts writer starts to drop data and an error message is logged. I think that besides logging an error is would be very useful to count how many metrics we are dropping, so we can estimate better if we should increase the thread pool, or the ring buffer, or both.
Of course, you might need an external tool like Hawtio to extract the data, as for obvious reason, it might be possible that it won't be available on Cassandra, if there are issues with the cluster, which is exactly the kind of things I'm interested on.


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Developer Curve Digital has announced that their sci-fi shooter Velocity Ultra will be available on Steam on the 12th December for £6.99 / $9.99 / €8.99.
Velocity Ultra was originally released on the Vita, and includes a teleportation mechanic, adding a new puzzle dimension to the arcade-style shooter. The developer promises the PC version will run at 60 FPS, along with customisable controls, and full Steamworks support including leaderboards, trading cards and achievements.
Velocity Ultra hitting Steam on the 12th December
04 December 2013 | By JonahFalcon
- Related Games:
- Velocity Ultra

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Big Brother Naija season 5 finalist, Vee was overwhelmed with joy after her fans alias Veehives, gifted her some household appliances.
The reality TV star cum singer, who recently got a new apartment, revealed that she received a refrigerator, a washing machine and a sound system.
Taking to her Instagram stories, Vee expressed her sincere gratitude to her fans for the thoughtful gifts and she also mentioned that she loves them so much.
Read Also: My 1% got me to 1 million – BBN graduate Vee shades haters as she hits 1M followers On IG
See the screenshot of her post below:
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Today, Strasbourg judges have rejected a complaint against expulsion to Russia brought by a man whom German authorities feared might be a future terrorist.
In its decision in the case of X v. Germany (application no. 54646/17) the European Court of Human Rights unanimously declared the application inadmissible.
The decision is final.
The applicant is a Russian national who was born in 1999 in Dagestan in the Northern Caucasus (Russia), and grew up in Germany.
In March 2017, the applicant’s deportation to Russia was ordered by the German authorities, as he was suspected of being willing to participate in or carry out a terrorist attack in Germany and was therefore considered to constitute a threat to national security. He was placed in detention pending deportation.
Like the domestic courts, the European Court concluded that there were no substantial grounds for believing that the applicant, if deported to Moscow, would be exposed to a real risk of being subjected to treatment contrary to Article 3 (prohibition of torture and of inhuman or degrading treatment) of the European Convention on Human Rights as he had no connection with the conflicts in the Northern Caucasus.
In particular, the court saw no reason to depart from the domestic courts’ decisions, which had carefully weighed all the evidence and had made a comprehensive assessment of the applicant’s case.


Monday, October 23, 2017
Thomas Ades, Asyla, Tevot, Polaris, London Symphony Orchestra
Asyla, Tevot, Polaris (LSO 0798) and the brief "Brahms" canvas an enchanting and stirring terrain that tightly knits original content with brilliant orchestral apportioning. One feels with all of this music that Ades is in his element, that there feels like there is a one-to-one relationship between musical ideas and how they are shaped by the orchestral mass.
"Polaris (Voyage for Orchestra)" (2010) explores, in Ades' own words, "the use of star constellations for naval navigation and the emotional navigation of the absent sailors and what they leave behind." It is a deeply spacial and ghostly panorama that pits brass choirs off stage with myriads of rapidly moving but quietly articulating points of musical light. All twelve tones are utilized with three poles of magnetic pitch centers holding sway one by one. It is as if the vivid night sky reminds us of the sailors who have left us on a journey no longer dependent on currents and oceanic spans.They now are within those constellations, journeying forward outside of our standard accessible material world? Maybe.
Brahms (2001) is a brief homage to what Ades refers to as the logic of Brahms' music, as aside from the warmth and beauty of it. Samuel Dale Johnson on baritone presents an expressive text atop an orchestral atmospheric.
Backtracking to the opening "Asyla" (1997), it centers around places of safety, of confinement, of last resort, away from a mad world. They are epitomized by the concert hall and the presence of orchestra, a place where "we feel at home, or where we once felt at home." There is something remaining of the madness of life present in the score, a holding in place and aestheticization of the danger outside, a cultural domestication. The music is pointed, colorful, and resituated within itself in ways that evoke the refuge and the thing from which we flee, if I can take the liberty of my own reading of it all.
"Tevot" (2005-6) is effectively Ades' second symphony, based on the Hebrew "tevot" which means both the bars in a musical score and words. In the Bible it refers to Noah's Ark and the reed basket fashioned by Moses' mother to take him down the Nile, in both cases places of refuge, structures made of "firm materials." Ades conceived of these complexes of meanings in a totality, where the bars of music act as vessels for the music and its journey through fluid danger. The music creates organic periodic repeating and variational snippets bordered by bar lines. It is ingeniously structured and fashioned, containers and their contained. Brilliant in its immediacy and parcelling out. It is that.
So we have the sum of what we most willingly hear on this new collection of Ades' works. Each is striking, seemingly inevitable yet paradoxically surprising in its individual outcome. Ades is like that. You get what you have every reason to expect, but in that getting you are moved into the realm of the unexpected.
The CD comes in two versions on two discs, the standard two-channel CD audio version and the multiple voiced BluRay.
Either way this is extraordinary music, landmark-scapes of richly varied orchestral sense. Get it by all means!


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In this week’s collection of stand out news brand content from the last seven days, there’s a new life-sized Lego creation and a new world walking achievement and baby banks give back…
1. A walk around the world
Tom Turcich has completed his goal and became the 10th person to have walked the word, the Guardian reported. With a new perspective on the meaning of life after a close friend’s death and inspired by the film Dead Poets Society, Turcich walked 21-24 miles a day for roughly half of the seven years he was away. In total, he walked 28,000 miles and his dog Savannah 25,000 miles.
Eleven months of the first year was spent walking and sleeping out – typically behind churches and in woods. He came across tarantulas and snakes, particularly on the palm plantations where he slept in Costa Rica.
He said: “The first two years were about me and the mind. After that, it became much more about the world. I started to understand it more. I became more interested in what influences people and why countries are the way they are,”.
2. Ready? Lego
The world’s first life-sized Lego Ferrari Daytona has been revealed, as seen in The Independent’s TikTok post. It will go on permanent display at Legoland Windsor’s latest attraction, Lego Ferrari Build and Race, which opened last Saturday. The life-sized creation is made from 402,836 Lego bricks and weighs more than1.5 tonnes. A team of designers and builders spent 2,000 hours to replicate the sports car.
3. Giving back
On its YouTube channel, The Sun on Sunday’s Fabulous Magazine highlighted Little Village – a baby bank supporting families with children under the age of five living in London and are experiencing financial hardships.
The clothing bank takes in donations of preloved clothes to pass onto families who need extra support. Families can get assistance through a referral partner such as a midwife, social worker, or food bank, with the budget-squeezing effects from cost of living pushing the demand ever higher.
4. Island inclusivity
For the first time in Love Island history, the new islanders have recorded self-descriptions, meaning visually impaired fans will be able to learn identity characteristics such as skin colour and hair length. The latest move to be more inclusive by the ITV2 dating show has been praised by the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB).
Sonali Rai, RNIB’s Broadcast and Audio Description Manager, said in a press release reported by the Evening Standard: “RNIB research shows that a significant portion of TV programmes lack traditional audio description (AD), often due to challenges such as limited pauses in which to add AD, so we welcome this creative exploration in enhancing accessibility for blind and partially sighted viewers.”
5. Is khaki the new black?
Is khaki the new colour of the season? The Times’ fashion editor Harriet Walker asked whether black has been supplanted as the ultimate summer shade, as latest trends show how greens from olive to forest and camo can be integrated into effortlessly chic outfits. With the colour now seen on everything from stylish safari-style jackets and boiler suits to chinos and combat trousers, will you be keeping black in the wardrobe this season?


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The association of early life exposure to antibiotics and the development of asthma, eczema and atopy in a birth cohort: confounding or causality?Clin Exp Allergy. 2008 Aug; 38(8):1318-24.CE
In general, studies reporting positive associations between antibiotic exposure and respiratory and allergic disease have been unable to determine the nature of this association.
To examine the association between antibiotic exposure in infancy and the development of asthma, eczema and atopy in early childhood.
In a birth cohort study, we collected reported antibiotic exposure before 3 months and before 15 months along with outcomes (wheeze, asthma, eczema, rash, inhaler use) at 15 months (n=1011) and 4 years (n=986). Atopy was measured using skin prick tests at 15 months.
We found significant univariate associations of antibiotic exposure before 3 months with asthma developing between birth and 15 months [OR 2.32 (95% CI 1.45-3.69)]. After adjustment for chest infections, this association reduced (OR=1.58, 95% CI 0.96-2.60) becoming marginally significant (P=0.07). A marginally significant association of antibiotics with atopy (OR=1.44, 95% CI 0.96-2.14) in the univariate analysis also reduced after adjustment for chest infections (OR=1.36, 95% CI 0.91-2.05). There was no effect of antibiotic exposure before 15 months on asthma developing after 15 months and present between 3 and 4 years (OR=1.35 95% CI 0.85-2.14). Antibiotic exposure before 3 months was not associated with eczema and rash developing between birth and 15 months but exposure before 15 months was related to eczema [OR 1.83 (95% CI 1.10-3.05)] and rash [OR 1.61 (95% CI 1.02-2.53)] developing after 15 months and remaining present at 4 years. These effects reduced in the multivariate analysis.
Our findings suggest that the effect of antibiotics on respiratory disease may be due to confounding by chest infections at an early age when asthma may be indistinguishable from infection.

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BUYER’S GUIDE 2014 — Catalog of guns, knives, lasers and lights.
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GUNS Magazine Combat Winter Spring 2013 Special Edition
The word “combat” conjures up different meanings for different people. For example, the combat members of the military face abroad can be different from the situations police officers encounter here in the US; when citizens are attacked on the streets or in their own homes, they face a different kind of combat. Regardless of where the fight for your life takes place, it’s still combat.
One of the best ways to prevail in a combat situation is to have the appropriate gear and know how to use it. Firearms, knives and equipment are a big part of combat and much of Combat Special Edition is dedicated to them. In this issue, both body armor and Under Armour’s merits are touted in articles by Jacob Herman and John Russo, Pat Covert gets serious about tactical knives and tools and the “extreme power” of the Barrett .50 BMG is explored by Todd Burgreen. And, as always, there is much, much more.
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Barrett .50 BMGs: 30 Years Of Awesome Firepower.
Rifle Dynamics Saiga S12: 12-Gauge Reaper.
Rock River LAR-8: A Rifle For Many Roles.
Masterpiece Arms MPA57SST Pistol: Reviving The Mac-10.
Martial Fitness: It’s Up To You!
PWS Long-Stroke Piston Driven AR Tandem: MK107 Diablo & MK112.
Serious Steel!: Latest Trends In Tactical Knives And Tools.
SIG556 SWAT Patrol: Viable Option To The AR And AK.
Body Armor Today: A Lot Of Bang For The Buck.
A Cache of Kimbers: .38 Super, 9mm, .45 ACP & 10mm.
Under Armor: Battle-Ready Gear.
Accuracy International: AE MkIII Rifle.
Weatherby, Leupold & Black Hills: Legitimate Long-Range Combination.
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SERIOUS FUN: S&W M&P15-22
DEL-TON EXTREME DUTY 316: An Ultra-Reliable AR
THE HARD HITTING 300 AAC: Gets Put Through The Wringer
PATRIOT ORDNANCE FACTORY P308: Made In The USA
A PAIR OF H&K 416S: One With The Fun Switch
LWRCI M6A2 SPR: A “Svelte” Piston-Driven AR
AMBUSH FIREARMS 6.8: Ready For The Woods
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Chainsaw Creates New Combat Options
The 2012 GUNS Magazine Combat Special Edition features the Mossberg 500 Chainsaw, plus other combat-inspired, heavy-duty guns and gear.
While the Mossberg 500 Chainsaw does well at range shooting, John Russo explains how this purpose-designed shotgun really excels at breaching in “The Chainsaw Breaks Down Barriers.”
“Take an unloaded [standard] shotgun and hold it against a door, now imagine how you will manage the recoil and also quickly cycle the action after firing it at this awkward angle. This is where the Chainsaw truly shines. The pistol grip and new fore-end grip take advantage of these angles, maximizing the shooter’s ability to control the weapon while using it as effectively as possible.”
MGI Military’s MGI Marck-15, or Hydra, looks like a fairly ordinary AR-15, until you convert it to one of the many different calibers and conversion kits—in just a minute and a half. In “The Hydra: Strikes Hard with Many Heads,” Pat Cascio was happy to have his doubts about this handy AR proved wrong.
Michael Janich writes that in most close-quarters situations, guns skills are not enough on their own. In “Ass Kicking for Gunfighters: You Gotta Be Well-Rounded,” Janich explains empty hand skills that will let a shooter stay alive long enough to have the opportunity to draw his firearm.
Every war of magnitude has brought about extraordinary advances in weapons and gear, many of which translate over into the public sector. John Connor’s “Combat Spin-Offs” details just a few of the numerous innovations companies are now offering that originated in recent combat situations.
American Handgunner Editor Roy Huntington recently visited American Spirit Arms’ shop and watched the crew there hand build his test rifle. In “ASA’s Modern Defensive Rifles,” Roy writes of the precision and detail that go into making this custom ASA rifle, and the improvements he noticed on the shooting range.
Inside The GUNS Magazine Combat 2012 Special Edition:
ROBAR PRECISION HUNTER 6.5 CREEDMORE: The Total Package
FROM BRASS TO GUN: Building A Wildcat .20 Practical
THE CHAINSAW BREAKS DOWN BARRIERS: Mossberg 500 Chainsaw
A NEW AGE .45 SMG: Kriss Super V SBR
SMITH & WESSON’S PISTON GUN: M&P-15 PSX
THE HYDRA: Strikes Hard With Many Heads
ASS KICKING FOR GUNFIGHTERS: You Gotta Be Well-Rounded
WORLD WAR II SUBMACHINE GUNS: Amazing Force Multiplers
OWNING THE NIGHT: With ATN Night Vision
THE SHADOWLAND COMMANDER: Lightly Customized
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Kannapolis, N.C. — The 2015 inductee class for the North Carolina Music Hall of Fame Museum was announced Thursday.
The induction ceremony is scheduled for Thursday, Oct. 15 at the historic Gem Theater in Kannapolis. This event is open to the public. VIP and general admission tickets go on sale this summer at the North Carolina Music Hall of Fame Museum.
Here's a look at the honorees:
- Gerald Alston – Lead singer of the popular R&B/POP group the “Manhattans” – Henderson, NC.
- Eric Church - Country Rock Musician/Singer - this year’s Country Music Hall of Fame nominee – Granite Falls, NC
- Chuck Jackson - R&B/POP singer of the huge, national top selling hit recordings, “Any Day Now” & “I Don’t Want To Cry” – Winston Salem, NC.
- Warren Haynes - Southern Rock guitarist/singer with the “Allman Bros. Band” & founder/member of the “Gov’t Mule Band”- Asheville, NC
- The Fantastic Shakers - A popular, pioneer Carolina Beach Music Band - Lincolnton, NC.
- Jay Spell (deceased) – Musician/Arranger - Performed with Hall of Fame artists Ronnie Milsap, Jimmy Buffett and others - Spivey Corners, NC.
- Nappy Brown (deceased) –Popular Blues/R&B singer during the late 1940’s and the early 1950’s – Charlotte, NC.
- The Rev. F.C. Barnes (deceased) - Gospel Singer/ Songwriter of a national hit gospel song “Rough Side of The Mountain” – Rocky Mount, NC.


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|Title:||Invasive and non-invasive congeners show similar trait shifts between their same native and non-native ranges||Authors:||García, Yedra
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|Issue Date:||2013||Publisher:||PLOS||Citation:||GARCÍA, Yedra [et. al] - Invasive and Non-Invasive Congeners Show Similar Trait Shifts between Their Same Native and Non-Native Ranges. "PLOS one". ISSN 1932-6203. Vol. 8 Nº. 12 (2014) p. e82281||Serial title, monograph or event:||PLOS ONE||Volume:||8||Issue:||12||Abstract:||Differences in morphological or ecological traits expressed by exotic species between their native and non-native ranges are often interpreted as evidence for adaptation to new conditions in the non-native ranges. In turn this adaptation is often hypothesized to contribute to the successful invasion of these species. There is good evidence for rapid evolution by many exotic invasives, but the extent to which these evolutionary changes actually drive invasiveness is unclear. One approach to resolving the relationship between adaptive responses and successful invasion is to compare traits between populations from the native and non-native ranges for both exotic invaders and congeners that are exotic but not invasive. We compared a suite of morphological traits that are commonly tested in the literature in the context of invasion for three very closely related species of Centaurea, all of which are sympatric in the same native and non-native ranges in Europe and North America. Of these, C. solstitialis is highly invasive whereas C. calcitrapa and C. sulphurea are not. For all three species, plants from non-native populations showed similar shifts in key traits that have been identified in other studies as important putative adaptive responses to post-introduction invasion. For example, for all three species plants from populations in non-native ranges were (i) larger and (ii) produced seeds that germinated at higher rates. In fact, the non-invasive C. calcitrapa showed the strongest trait shift between ranges. Centaurea solstitialis was the only species for which plants from the non-native range increased allocation to defensive spines, and allocated proportionally less resources to reproduction, patterns contrary to what would be predicted by theory and other empirical studies to enhance invasion. Our results suggest caution when interpreting the commonly observed increase in size and reproductive capacity as factors that cause exotics to become invaders.||URI:||http://hdl.handle.net/10316/81144||ISSN:||1932-6203||DOI:||10.1371/journal.pone.0082281||Rights:||openAccess|
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Elmhurst Symphony Musicians at Mayslake Series Opens Season November 18
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Oct 23, 2018 | 2:26 PM
The Elmhurst Symphony Musicians in Performance at Mayslake series opens its 2018-19 season with "Bolling: Toot Suite" at 3:00 p.m. on Sunday, November 18, at Mayslake Peabody Estate, 1717 W. 31st St. in Oak Brook. The Bolling Team Ensemble, flutist Claudia Cryer, pianist Jeremy Kahn, bassist Alison Gaines and Andrew Cierney on drums, will play Claude Bolling's Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano Trio No. 1. The program also includes music by Villa-Lobos, Fauré, Bach and Duke Ellington. Come and enjoy a delightful autumn afternoon with this stellar group of musicians in the beautiful setting of Mayslake.
Tickets are $25 for adults and $12 for students. Call 630-941-0202 or visit www.elmhurstsymphony.org for tickets and information.
This concert is sponsored in part by 90.9FM WDCB, Chicago's Home for Jazz.
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Nov 26, 2014
The city of Irving, Texas has experienced five earthquakes in four days, leading some critics to blame increased seismic activity on nearby fracking operations.
The first earthquake, Saturday night, was a magnitude 3.3 quake that was felt by hundreds of North Texans. A 2.5-magnitude quake hit on Sunday, followed by two more on Monday, magnitudes 2.2 and 2.3. And a fifth 2.7-magnitude earthquake was reported Tuesday evening just east of the University of Dallas campus.
Residents and city leaders point to area oil and gas disposal wells, where fracking wastewater is injected deep underground, as likely culprits. There is a wastewater disposal well near the epicenter of Saturday's quake.
"We are guinea pigs in the middle of this fracking experiment. Texas homes are built to withstand wind, not earthquakes," Sharon Wilson, an organizer for the advocacy group Earthworks, toldReuters. "Who will pay for the damage to private property?"
Luke Metzger, director of Environment Texas, agreed: "People are scared," he toldNewsradio 1200 WOAI. "They are not used to waking up to find their homes shaking. The connection between fracking and earthquakes is obvious."
A study published last month backs up such claims. Looking at data from National Science Foundation seismographs located near fracking sites, scientists in Ohio were able to make direct connections between at least 400 small "micro-earthquakes" and nearby fracking operations in that state.
Earlier this year, U.S. Geological Survey and the Oklahoma Geological Survey stated that wastewater injection was "a likely contributing factor to the increase in earthquakes" in Oklahoma. "This phenomenon is known as injection-induced seismicity, which has been documented for nearly half a century, with new cases identified recently in Arkansas, Ohio, Texas and Colorado."
WOAI reports that "[t]he Texas Oil and Gas Association says it is open to an investigation into the connection between hydraulic fracking and earthquakes which have become more common in Texas since the widespread practice of shale fracking began in 2009."
"The oil and natural gas industry agrees that recent seismic activity warrants robust investigation to determine the precise location, impact, and cause or causes of seismic events," Todd Staples, president of the Texas Oil and Gas Association, told the station.
Irving is located just 35 miles from Denton, Texas, where residents recently voted to ban fracking within city limits. In the days after the vote, the Texas Oil and Gas Association filed an injunction to prevent the ban from being instated; the Texas General Land Office filed a separate lawsuit to block the new rule; and a local regulator said she would not enforce the ban.
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IT’S NOT ROSES ALL THE WAY, AFTER ALL- ON THE WAY OF ROSES!
If relaxed long distance rides are not enough when you are adventure cycling, and you are looking for terrains that are challenging and exciting, then the Way of the Roses cycle route is perfect for you. The ride is not just a visual treat; it also provides the adrenalin rush for the adventurists.
Way of the Roses is touted to be one of the best routes for the avid cyclists. It is 171 miles of spectacular coast to coast ride, through both the red rose county of Lancashire and the white rose county of Yorkshire. Beginning in Morecambe in the North West coast of UK to Brilington in the East, the long distance ride is a treat for the nature lover. The spectacular route is challenging too and includes everything from traffic free paths and on road cycle lanes to cinder track, tarmac, earth and stone.
Be ready to be breathless both physically as well as mentally. Breathless physically, as the route will throw up quite a few challenges that will be a bit difficult- you can’t complain, this is what adventure cycling is all about. And breathless mentally- as the spectacular and breathtaking views you will encounter are bound to leave you short of breath.
Buddy, your bike better be prepared for the jerks and impacts that it could face on the steep hills in this ride, which are quite a few. East of Dunnington for around half a mile you will bump into an unmade earth and stone track with firm ground. But this could take its toll on you as well as your bike. Particularly the decent from the Greenhow Hill into the Pateley bridge. It is a tricky descent with a gradient of 16%, with uneven surfaces and sharp bends.
Which reminds- getting your bike protected with a Bike Blanket is of paramount importance. Bike protection is imperative not just while you are adventure cycling but even when the bikes are being transported by cars or by public transport. Though bike bags and bike boxes too, offer efficient bike protection but they can be very inconvenient to carry for long distance rides. The Bike Blanket is a far better and a more effective option.
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in green bay the story line for much of the off-season was wideout Javon Walker's contract woes. After leading the team in catches (89), receiving yards (1,382) and touchdowns (12), Walker said he was unhappy because the Packers wouldn't redo a deal that calls for him to make $515,000 in salary this year, and he threatened to stay out of camp. The issue flared when quarterback Brett Favre criticized Walker in the media, saying the receiver should honor his contract.
So last week, when Walker surprisingly showed up on the first day, he was the big story again. "Pretty weird," he said as he walked off the practice field in Green Bay last Friday. "But people love football. People love drama. I gave them both."


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Hoyer plans cannabis banking vote this month
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer intends to put cannabis banking legislation on the floor this month, a historic step toward legitimizing the marijuana industry nationwide.
A Hoyer spokesperson said the Maryland Democrat was discussing the matter with members but hasn’t scheduled the vote just yet. He shared his plans at a whip meeting yesterday. Other House Democratic aides said they expected the bill to be on the floor during the week of Sept. 23.
The bipartisan legislation would shield banks from federal penalties if they serve cannabis-related businesses in states where the drug has been legalized. Banks have been lobbying for the bill because cannabis remains banned at the federal level.
The new movement in the House comes as the legislation appears to be getting unexpected traction in the Senate, where Banking Chairman Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) is planning to hold a vote on a cannabis banking bill this year.
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Ancient China, Han Dynasty. A slave girl saves the life of an ageing dragon and escapes her brutal master. Pursued by a ruthless dragon hunter, the girl and the dragon begin an epic journey across China. They carry with them a mysterious stone that must be protected. Dragonkeeper is the story of a girl who believes she is not worthy even of a name, but finds within herself the strength and courage to make this perilous journey – and do what must be done.
Dragonkeeper is the first novel in the internationally bestselling and award-winning Dragonkeeper series from Australian author Carole Wilkinson. This gripping junior fiction fantasy is the perfect read for secondary school age children. Continue the story with the other books in the series: Garden of the Purple Dragon (Book 2), Dragon Moon (Book 3) and Blood Brothers (Book 4). Carole can be found online at: www.carolewilkinson.com.au
Very fun and nerve wracking book. I did it for an essay at school
9/10 many plot twists and sad moments would recommend
This book is very exciting and interesting, I myself have read this over and over again. I may only be 11 but i have been reading The Dragonkeeper for a few years. I would stay cooped up in my room for hours on end reading every single detail and book. Since last year iPI have been waiting on The Dragonkeeper no.7 please continue on writing I am curious to see what happens next.
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Our Family of 5 went to Waikiki for Christmas! Waikiki is a bustling neighborhood with tall buildings and busy beaches in the city of Honolulu, on the island of Oahu.
The restaurants below are all suitable for families with kids of any age. Most of them have high chairs or booster seats available. All but the Monkeypod restaurant, which is about a 45 minute drive from Waikiki, are in Honolulu. The total bill for our meal is included for each one, but keep in mind our family is now comprised of 2 teens who are grown-man-sized, a young adult male, and my husband and me. So a family with little ones won’t need to spend as much for food!
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This link takes you to the restaurant’s website page showing Google’s 360 view of inside their restaurant! This location sits inside a strip mall. We were craving some Hawaiian classics like Loco Moco, a Plate Lunch with macaroni salad, and other combo plate items. It is very casual, cute and bright, with metal-legged tables and chairs, and table service – a waitperson takes your order and serves the food. There is a counter to buy food to go as well. Our total came to $86.97.
One day we drove around the perimeter of the entire island. We gawked at the tropical lushness, and watched the crowds heading to surf the north side. At some spots, the traffic was stop and go. For dinner, we ate at the upscale Monkeypod, at the location in the Ko Olina Resort, near Aulani Disney Resort. Though the restaurant is set in a small shopping center, the décor is beautiful. The walls are open, letting in the breeze and partial views. The menu includes wood fired pizza, burgers, fish and steak. There were many families, some with little kids, eating here. Our total came to $182.23.
Another local favorite, this eatery has two Honolulu locations. We walked from our rented Waikiki condo all the way around a golf course to get to this one, which is in an office building. We waited for a table on a busy evening. It was worth the wait. The atmosphere is casual and fun, with people of all ages there for some plentiful food. The menu is huge and includes ribs, fish, salads, chicken and much more. Some customers order for take-out. Our total came to $129.50.
In the mall complex called Ward Village (previously in downtown Honolulu), this modern, sort of industrial art style eatery, where you may wait for a simple table, each with views of the kitchen, puts out scrumptious food. The restaurant is open for breakfast and dinner. We ate here for breakfast and the flavors were amazing. For just four of us, our total came to $71.78. An expensive breakfast, but gourmet-level food for a nice treat.
Borrowing from a fairly new Japanese custom cooked up by KFC itself in 1974 (read this informative Smithsonian magazine article describing the trend) we had KFC on Christmas Day! That’s right, fried chicken and sides from a chain restaurant. The location near our rented condo advertized the Christmas Day option, and we placed our order in the morning for pick up at dinner time. Delicious! Our total came to $53.39. The Waikiki KFC doesn’t have its own website, so the link is from Google, with a photo.
6. Frost City
A unique dessert item we tried was snow ice, a mix between shave ice and ice cream that is popular in Taiwan. We drove to Frost City to try it. The area was not great, at least after dark when we were there, but the customer service was wonderfully friendly. The tables are squeezed into the small shop, and there are games available to play and fun things to look at. Our total came to $30.13. There are all kinds of flavors, including chocolate which is always my favorite. Each mound of ice cream comes with candies and fruit placed like garnish on the plate. We all tried the fruity items, but only one of us really liked them. But we definitely all liked the ice cream part! See the photo of the mound of strawberry flavor dessert!
7. Home Bar & Grill
This last restaurant is suitable for kids up until just past the dinner hour, when the nightlife scene begins. My husband and young-adult son ate here prior to the rest of us arriving in Waikiki. They always enjoy any grill foods! The two of them had delicious Korean barbecue. The restaurant doesn’t have its own website, so read about it on Yelp or Facebook. The two of them ate for $40, including tip.
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Cities like Acapulco, Cancun, Cozumel, and Puerto Vallarta have made many individuals notice that you may journey to Mexico with little issues or bother. Individuals are likely to have much more free time than they ever did earlier than, this allows them to take holidays and go to locations that will never be thought-about in previous years. With its superior nightlife, splendid seashores and tranquilizing life-style, you can get drenched within the ultimate expertise of pleasure and tranquility.
That includes a wide range of accommodation options, resorts and an enchanting stretch of sandy seashores, tourists often go to right here to have some beach extravaganza and take in some solar whilst getting drenched in the unimaginable vary of activities accessible right here.
Orchard (Huerta Saucedo) Vacation Village, MulegÃ©, Mexico – With its inviting riverfront, RV travellers venturing to Mexico discover much consolation on the white seashores of Bahia de la Concepcion. Develop your taste buds, romance and far more whilst you visit this high journey vacation spot.
The charming metropolis of the West Coast which is also the house of the well-known Hollywood sign, Los Angeles is among the hottest and thriving getaway choices in the complete nation, prominently visited by the aspiring artists to test their luck and skills among the many big crowd of people who want to shine like a star in the sky.
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The 5 Most Well-liked Travel Destinations In Thailand
Phuket, the “Pearl of the South”, is Thailand’s largest island (48 km in size, 21 km large) mendacity in the Andaman Sea off the country’s southwestern coast and is connected to the mainland by a bridge.
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Looking for a while to calm down is a process in itself. Paris, France, residence of the famous Eiffel Tower, stays one of many world’s high journey destinations for honeymooners and travelers alike. Located within the Japanese Mediterranean sea, Cyprus is a great summer trip vacation spot for all. If you wish to avenue occasion with a number of the most beautiful people on the planet, then you definately might wish to e-book your trip time during the height of the city’s Carnival festivities.
Phuket, the “Pearl of the South”, is Thailand’s largest island (48 km in size, 21 km broad) mendacity in the Andaman Sea off the nation’s southwestern coast and is linked to the mainland by a bridge. Dwelling of the safari, travel to the renowned Maasia Mara or recline on the white sand beaches get pleasure from that good summer trip.
What would all people want after a protracted period of work? One of the most visited travel destinations in Thailand is Phuket. Paris is very influential in tradition, artwork, trend, meals and design and is considered the preferred tourist destination on the planet. People who have been … Read More..


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Potato chips, fries linked to cancer
"When potato products are fried in oil at high temperatures, they produce a chemical called acrylamide that can cause cancer. And a new study in the British Journal of Cancer adds to the mounting evidence against the chemical, showing that acrylamide is associated with a 20 percent increased risk of breast cancer in pre-menopausal women.
Back in July 2010, a study published in the journal Breast Cancer Research and Treatment found that women with the highest intake of acrylamide were 31 percent more likely to develop ER+ breast cancer, 47 percent more likely to develop PR+ breast cancer, and 43 percent more likely to develop ER+PR+ breast cancer, compared to women who consumed the least or no acrylamide.
In 2009, a study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that acrylamide intake caused an increase in oxidized low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol levels, increased inflammation markers in antioxidants, which would otherwise remove acrylamide, and other neurological damage.
And in 2008, a study published in the journal Cancer Epidemiology found that women who eat roughly one serving of potato chips a day are twice as likely as those who do not to develop ovarian or endometrial cancers.
Fried potatoes are not the only foods that contain acrylamide, though. Any starchy foods that are cooked too long or at too high a temperature can form acrylamide, including even grilled meats and vegetables with grill marks on them. Toasted breads and cereals, baked foods, browned meats, and even some dried fruits also contain acrylamide.
ScienceDaily reports on a new study from Poland published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Marek Naruszewicz and colleagues followed participants who ingested acrylamide foods. The results suggested acrylamide, found particularly high in potato chips and French fries, may increase the risk of heart disease. Acrylamide has already been implicated as a carcinogen and neurotoxin." Learn more: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090213161040.htm
What is acrylamide?
Acrylamide is a chemical used primarily as a building block in making polyacrylamide and acrylamide copolymers. Polyacrylamide and acrylamide copolymers are used in many industrial processes, such as the production of paper, dyes, and plastics, and in the treatment of drinking water and wastewater, including sewage. They are also found in consumer products, such as caulking, food packaging, and some adhesives. Trace amounts of acrylamide generally remain in these products.
Is there acrylamide in food?
Researchers in Europe and the United States have found acrylamide in certain foods that were heated to a temperature above 120 degrees Celsius (248 degrees Fahrenheit), but not in foods prepared below this temperature (1). Potato chips and French fries were found to contain higher levels of acrylamide compared with other foods (2). The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) stated that the levels of acrylamide in foods pose a “major concern” and that more research is needed to determine the risk of dietary acrylamide exposure (2).
Are You Eating This All-Time Favorite "Cancer-in-a-Can" Snack?
Stackable chips oftentimes contain so little actual potato that they cannot, technically, be considered “potato chips”
One of the most hazardous ingredients in potato chips is not intentionally added, but rather is a byproduct of the processing. Acrylamide, a cancer-causing and potentially neurotoxic chemical, is created when carbohydrate-rich foods are cooked at high temperatures, whether baked, fried, roasted or toasted
According to a 2005 analysis, ALL potato chip products tested exceeded the legal limit of acrylamide by 39 to 910 times, and baked chip products oftentimes contain more acrylamide than their fried counterparts
There are more than 800 different heat-induced compounds, 52 of which are potential carcinogens. Three of the most well-known, aside from acrylamide, include Heterocyclic Amines (HCAs), Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs), and Advanced Glycation End Products (AGEs)
Ideally, you should consume foods that are raw or minimally processed to avoid these types of toxic byproducts of high-heat cooking and processing. The more raw food, the better, but strive to consume at least one-third of your food raw to protect your health
To understand the nature of Pringles and other stackable chips, forget the notion that they come from actual potatoes in any recognizable way.
The Pringles Company (in an effort to avoid taxes levied against "luxury foods" like chips in the UK) once even argued that the potato content of their chips was so low that they are technically not even potato chips.
So if they're not made of potatoes, what are they exactly?
The process begins with a slurry of rice, wheat, corn, and potato flakes that are pressed into shape.
This dough-like substance is then rolled out into an ultra-thin sheet cut into chip-cookies by a machine.
"The chips move forward on a conveyor belt until they're pressed onto molds, which give them the curve that makes them fit into one another.
Those molds move through boiling oil ... Then they're blown dry, sprayed with powdered flavors, and at last, flipped onto a slower-moving conveyor belt in a way that allows them to stack.
From then on, it's into the cans ... and off towards the innocent mouths of the consumers."
I suspect nearly everyone reading this likely enjoys the taste of potato chips. However, they are clearly one of the most toxic processed foods you can eat—whether they're made from actual potato shavings or not.
Potato Chips are Loaded with Cancer-Causing Chemical
One of the most hazardous ingredients in potato chips is not intentionally added, but rather is a byproduct of the processing.
Acrylamide, a cancer-causing and potentially neurotoxic chemical, is created when carbohydrate-rich foods are cooked at high temperatures, whether baked, fried, roasted or toasted. Some of the worst offenders include potato chips and French fries, but many foods cooked or processed at temperatures above 212°F (100°C) may contain acrylamide. As a general rule, the chemical is formed when food is heated enough to produce a fairly dry and brown/yellow surface. Hence, it can be found in:
Potatoes: chips, French fries and other roasted or fried potato foods
Grains: bread crust, toast, crisp bread, roasted breakfast cereals and various processed snacks
Coffee; roasted coffee beans and ground coffee powder. Surprisingly, coffee substitutes based on chicory actually contains 2-3 times MORE acrylamide than real coffee
How Much Acrylamide are You Consuming?
The federal limit for acrylamide in drinking water is 0.5 parts per billion, or about 0.12 micrograms in an eight-ounce glass of water. However, a six-ounce serving of French fries can contain 60 micrograms of acrylamide, or about FIVE HUNDRED times over the allowable limit.
Similarly, potato chips are notoriously high in this dangerous chemical. So high, in fact, that in 2005 the state of California actually sued potato chip makers for failing to warn California consumers about the health risks of acrylamide in their products. A settlement was reached in 2008 when Frito-Lay and several other potato chip makers agreed to reduce the acrylamide levels in their chips to 275 parts per billion (ppb) by 2011, which is low enough to avoid needing a cancer warning label.
The 2005 report "How Potato Chips Stack Up: Levels of Cancer-Causing Acrylamide in Popular Brands of Potato Chips," issued by the California-based Environmental Law Foundation (ELF), spelled out the dangers of this popular snack. Their analysis found that all potato chip products tested exceeded the legal limit of acrylamide by a minimum of 39 times, and as much as 910 times! Some of the worst offenders at that time included:
- Cape Cod Robust Russet: 910 times the legal limit of acrylamide
- Kettle Chips (lightly salted): 505 times
- Kettle Chips (honey dijon): 495 times
Beware: Baked Chips May Be WORSE than Fried!
If you think you can avoid the health risks of potato chips by choosing baked varieties, which are typically advertised as being "healthier," think again. Remember that acrylamide is formed not only when foods are fried or broiled, but also when they are baked. And according to U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) data on acrylamide levels in foods, baked chips may contain more than three times the level of acrylamide as regular chips!
Interestingly, the same trend holds true for other foods, too, which suggests that baking processed potatoes at high temperature may be one of the worst ways to cook them. For instance, according to the FDA's data, Ore Ida Golden Fries contained 107 ppb of acrylamide in the regular fried version and 1,098 when baked. So remember, ALL potato chips contain acrylamide, regardless of whether they are natural or not; baked or fried. Likewise, they will ALL influence your insulin levels in a very negative way.
Acrylamide is Not the Only Danger
Acrylamide is not the only dangerous genotoxic compound formed when food is heated to high temperatures.
A three-year long EU project, known as Heat-Generated Food Toxicants (HEATOX), whose findings were published at the end of 2007, found there are more than 800 heat-induced compounds, of which 52 are potential carcinogens. In addition to their finding that acrylamide does pose a public health threat, the HEATOX scientists also discovered that you're far less likely to ingest dangerous levels of the toxin when you eat home-cooked foods compared to industrially or restaurant-prepared foods.
Additionally, the HEATOX findings also suggest that although there are ways to decrease exposure to acrylamide, it cannot be eliminated completely.
According to their calculations, successful application of all presently known methods would reduce the acrylamide intake by 40 percent at the most—which makes me wonder whether chip manufacturers have really succeeded at this point in reducing acrylamide levels to within legal limits... There's no updated data as of yet, so there's no telling whether they've been able to comply with the 2005 settlement.
For more in-depth information about acrylamide, I recommend reading the online report Heat-generated Food Toxicants, Identification, Characterization and Risk Minimization. In general however, just remember that cooking food at high temperatures is ill advised. A few of the most well-known toxins created in high-temperature cooking include:
- Heterocyclic Amines (HCAs): These form when meat is cooked at high temperatures, and they're also linked to cancer. In terms of HCA, the worst part of the meat is the blackened section, which is why you should always avoid charring your meat, and never eat blackened sections.
- Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs): When fat drips onto the heat source, causing excess smoke, and the smoke surrounds your food, it can transfer cancer-causing PAHs to the meat.
- Advanced Glycation End Products (AGEs): When food is cooked at high temperatures (including when it is pasteurized or sterilized), it increases the formation of AGEs in your food. When you eat the food, it transfers the AGEs into your body. AGEs build up in your body over time leading to oxidative stress, inflammation and an increased risk of heart disease, diabetes and kidney disease.
How Many Toxins Are in Your Potato Chips?
Acrylamide is a dangerous chemical present in foods such as french fries, potato chips, breakfast cereals, cookies and crackers.
But it's difficult to determine exactly how much of the chemical, which is a natural byproduct of cooking starchy food at high temperature, is present in any given food.
High levels of acrylamide in food were first reported in 2002, and, currently, little is known about how acrylamide forms, exactly how it affects people or what to do about it.
No manufacturers provide information on how much acrylamide is present in their products, and the most recent FDA data is more than two years old.
Studies have shown that acrylamide causes cancer in lab mice and rats. The federal limit for acrylamide in drinking water is .5 parts per billion, or about .12 micrograms in an eight-ounce glass of water. However, a six-ounce serving of french fries can contain 60 micrograms of acrylamide.
In case you were curious about your specific brand of chips you might want to review an article I previously ran on the Five Worst Brands of Potato Chips.
On This Day: Dec 2, 2001:
Enron files for bankruptcy
"On this day in 2001, the Enron Corporation files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in a New York court, sparking one of the largest corporate scandals in U.S. history.
An energy-trading company based in Houston, Texas, Enron was formed in 1985 as the merger of two gas companies, Houston Natural Gas and Internorth. Under chairman and CEO Kenneth Lay, Enron rose as high as number seven on Fortune magazine's list of the top 500 U.S. companies. In 2000, the company employed 21,000 people and posted revenue of $111 billion. Over the next year, however, Enron's stock price began a dramatic slide, dropping from $90.75 in August 2000 to $0.26 by closing on November 30, 2001.
As prices fell, Lay sold large amounts of his Enron stock, while simultaneously encouraging Enron employees to buy more shares and assuring them that the company was on the rebound. Employees saw their retirement savings accounts wiped out as Enron's stock price continued to plummet. After another energy company, Dynegy, canceled a planned $8.4 billion buy-out in late November, Enron filed for bankruptcy. By the end of the year, Enron's collapse had cost investors billions of dollars, wiped out some 5,600 jobs and liquidated almost $2.1 billion in pension plans. "
Jay and I covered the aloe vera in my back yard. Sheets of fabric were laid across the 10" wide, over 50' long wooden trough, and screwed down with screws and washers. It is supposed to be 29 deg on Monday night.
The northern side of this house gets very cold in the winter with nothing but fields between it and the cold winds. This was taken from the inside through the grooming room screen.
After all these years of wrapping the aloe trough, we found a helpful trick to stop the fabric from winding around the screws as they are being inserted. Use washers that are metal on one side and rubber on the other, usually used with metal roof screws, and turn them upside down. The metal part is against the fabric, and stops the screw from grabbing.
James of http://residentialvehicleliving.blogspot.com/, (he lives a "Storage Wars" life) had both of their computers go out at once, and he had found a great deal for refurbished desktop computers at TigerDirect. I ordered one too and it arrived yesterday, a day early.
I also got a wireless All-in-One printer WITH FAX, for the same price that I paid for one without wireless and Fax at Walmart. The cord kept on coming out of it's socket and I had to tape it together, so I have a legit reason to take it back.
I didn't want to discombooberate my present 1GB one, so I found another flat screen monitor in amongst my
junk treasures, and set it up next to my old one through my router. The new keyboard and mouse are on top of the old desktop under the desk, and I can used them by pushing the black mini-keyboard into it's nook under my monitor and putting them on the desk. Just a temporary situation. I never thought that it could be done in this crowded computer corner. Now I have to try to get it the way I want it, even with my computer illiteracy! I haven't even started on the printer yet, which is to the right of this picture.
The weather was great to be working outside. This is more like our normal winter. After a low of 33° it warmed up from 52 to 69° while we were out there. Then the high was 70° yesterday.

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A Comprehensive Model of the Photophoretic
Force on a Spherical Microparticle
A.B. Pluchino and S. Arnold
Opt. Lett. 10, 261-263(1985)
The photophoretic force is described by a comprehensive model containing aspects of both the optical local-field and gas-dynamic properties. It is shown that the model is in good agreement with detailed experimental data and provides a new means for measuring optical constants of microparticles.


The ‘Urban Car’ category at the 2017 World Car of the Year awards features two entries from Suzuki. Among the two nominees is the Suzuki Baleno that was first sold in India last year and then later offered in Europe.
To be eligible for the category, the car must be suitable for driving in city conditions (check), should be on sale across at least two continents (check) and must have a length under 4 metres (3.7 metres for the Baleno – check).
One of the key features of the Baleno is that it’s one of the first cars of its kind to be offered with the Smart Hybrid Vehicle System or SHVS (Read more on that: What is SHVS). Internationally, the car is powered by a 1.0 litre Boosterjet engine and a 1.2 litre Dualjet engine. But the India-spec Baleno shares the 1.3 litre DDiS and the 1.2 litre petrol units with the Maruti Suzuki Swift. The premium hatchback is sold exclusively through the Nexa showroom in India.
Also read: DESIGN DIARY: 2015 MARUTI SUZUKI BALENO
The other Suzuki nominee for World Car of the Year is the Ignis crossover that’s powered by a 90PS 1.2-litre Dualjet petrol engine and offered with an optional four-wheel drive. The World Car of the Year is judged by a panel of 73 autojournalists out of which eight belong to the UK and the Republic of Ireland.


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Our Office History
Wagner and Associates Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Consultants of Indiana was established and opened its doors to new patients on March 1, 2004. Dr. Wagner and his staff have worked together for over 13 years at Indiana University. Our staff are broadly experienced in plastic and reconstructive surgery and treat a wide range of cosmetic and reconstructive plastic surgery problems. We are proud to serve as a referral resource for particularly complex plastic and reconstructive problems, with renowned expertise in skin cancer and melanoma. Dr. Wagner has served as an educator at Indiana University School of Medicine and has helped train many plastic surgeons in the state of Indiana and elsewhere. Our main office is located in Northeast Indianpolis in the Indiana Surgery Center Building, Suite 570, 8040 Clearvista Parkway in Indianapolis, Indiana. This state-of-the-art ambulatory surgery facility and office building is located on the campus of Community North Hospital, conveniently accessible just off I-465 and highway 69 on the Northeast side of Indianapolis, Indiana.

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If Wednesday night was any indication, there's no hangover at Arsenal. There's no burnout from last season's title push or letdown after their Premier League disappointment. No, this was a team that is starting as they mean to go on as they battered the MLS All-Stars 5-0 on Wednesday night.
There were familiar sights of same old Arsenal: a highlight-reel pass from Martin Odegaard to Gabriel Martinelli, some fantastic defending from William Saliba, Bukayo Saka running down the wing with no defender able to stop him. But this was also a glimpse into a new-look Gunners team from Mikel Arteta that has more options than they did before.
New signings were on full display here: Kai Havertz, Declan Rice and Jurrien Timber all got their first minutes in an Arsenal shirt. Havertz, in fact, scored the fifth in the 5-0 win, a thumping finish in a game that had a whole bunch of them.
Arsenal were at their merciless best against an overmatched MLS team. Their American adventure has just begun, but it's off to one heck of a start.
GOAL looks at what we learned during the clash at Audi Field...


DOWNTOWN NEW HAVEN, 2008. Nobel laureates and esteemed university professors mill about in the lobby of a large Yale research building. Standing in the center of the foyer is an unassuming man, frail and wearing thick-framed glasses, who shies away from the handshakes.
At age 88, Raymond Sackler had amassed wealth that would have made the Vanderbilts green-eyed: his family’s net worth now stands at 13 billion dollars. The ceremony honored Sackler’s multimillion-dollar gift, which established the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Institute for Biological, Physical and Engineering Sciences at Yale University.
Yale School of Medicine Dean Robert Alpern recognized the Sacklers’ “commitment to advancing science” as “impressive and inspiring.” But Alpern did not mention the more contentious element of the Sacklers’ legacy: their role in the opioid crisis, which many doctors and advocates believe began when the Sacklers’ company, Purdue Pharma LP, started misleadingly marketing dangerous opioid painkillers in the late 1990s.
The Sackler family’s public image is caught in a tug-of-war between its philanthropic generosity and its role in initiating the opioid crisis. As evidence of the family’s charitable giving, the Sackler name is inscribed in a Yale institute and two endowed professorships. But unlike another Yale institution whose name has been questioned and changed—Grace Hopper College, which was named after slavery advocate and Vice President John C. Calhoun (YC 1804) until 2017—the Sacklers’ gift has gone largely unnoticed, despite the family’s divisive legacy.
Few Yale students know who the Sacklers are, let alone criticize their controversial business. Patrick Radden Keefe LAW ’05, the New Yorker staff writer who investigated the family’s links to the opioid crisis in October 2017, believes the silence may be related to the Sacklers’ donor potential. “Perhaps it’s because the Sacklers, unlike the Calhoun family, still have a fortune to give away,” he wrote in his article.
Yet the consequences of the Sackler family’s misdeeds continue today: 49,000 people died in 2017 alone from opioid abuse.
Purdue Pharma LP has built an empire revolving around pain management medication, branding itself a “pioneer in developing medications for reducing pain, a principal cause of human suffering.” Its website is filled with images of smiling patients and physicians; the top of the screen reads, in bold white lettering, “a positive impact.”
But there is a dark side to Purdue’s pain pills. Released by Purdue in 1996, the drug OxyContin was approved by the Food and Drug Administration to treat “moderate to severe pain.” Now, it is infamous as one of the key causes of opioid drug abuse. Mike Moore, a former Mississippi attorney general who is leading a new, multi-state suit against Purdue, told The Politic in an interview that in its advertising, the company “minimized the dangers of addiction, which was one of the major causes of this opioid epidemic.”
“They’re essentially heroin pills,” Andrew Kolodny, co-director of the Opioid Policy Research Collaborative at Brandeis University, told The Politic.
According to Kolodny, heroin and oxycodone, the active ingredient in OxyContin, produce indistinguishable effects on the brain. After becoming addicted to prescribed OxyContin, patients often transition to non-prescription drugs like heroin and the even-deadlier fentanyl—another opioid 100 times more potent than morphine—when physicians discontinue their prescriptions.
When Purdue released OxyContin in 1996, it simultaneously launched a multifaceted campaign to misinform the medical community about opioids’ risks, Kolodny said.
Purdue hired prominent pain specialists to exaggerate the problem of untreated chronic pain and to overstate the supposed benefits of using opioids to treat patients’ pain. The American Pain Society, which received large donations from Purdue, published research supporting the use of opioids to treat pain of all severities. And as physicians bought into the campaign, the prescription of opioids soared into today’s public health catastrophe.
Over 200,000 Americans have died from overdoses related to the misuse of OxyContin and other prescription opioids since 2002. Four in five people who try heroin today have previously used prescription painkillers, and 115 Americans die each day from opioid overdoses.
“The Sackler greed led to tremendous pain and suffering and loss of life,” Kolodny said. “They created a very expensive problem in some communities. They’re running out of money for caskets. The medical examiners and coroners are quitting because they can’t handle the workload of opioid-abuse deaths.”
Moore also stressed the massive scope of the opioid problem.
“Let’s just say 100 opioid pills should have been sold to the country,” he said. “Purdue Pharma marketed and sold, instead, 100,000 opioid pills.”
Purdue Pharma is still privately owned by the Sackler family, but the family consistently avoids publicizing its connection to the business. No member of the immediate Sackler family holds an executive position today, although eight Sackler family members sit on the company’s board. Richard Sackler served as Purdue’s president from 1999 to 2003, when OxyContin sales were at their peak.
“The Sackler family owns this company,” Moore explained. “I can promise you, if I owned a company and was making billions of dollars, I think I would probably know a little bit about it and about what was going on with my number one blockbuster drug.”
Raymond and his older brother Mortimer grew up in Brooklyn in a middle-class family. They trained as physicians and later developed what has become one of the world’s most successful pharmaceutical companies. Forbes reported in 2016 that the Sacklers were the nineteenth richest family in America. Their net worth of 13 billion dollars puts them ahead of some of America’s most famous families, including the Rockefellers and the Mellons.
In 2007, Purdue paid 600 million dollars in one of the largest lawsuits ever against a pharmaceutical firm. Three of its top executives, none of whom were Sacklers, were found guilty of misinforming physicians and government officials of the drug’s addictive potential.
Nine years after Yale established the Sackler Institute, it renamed Calhoun College. The Committee to Establish Principles on Renaming determined that no Yale building should bear the name of John C. Calhoun, whose principal legacy is his fervent promotion of slavery. This set a precedent for future cases in which a namesake’s legacy conflicts with the university’s values.
Lynne Regan, a professor emeritus of biochemistry and former director of the Sackler Institute, told Esquire journalist Christopher Glazek ’07 GRD ’07 last year that neither students nor faculty have ever brought up the OxyContin connection.
“Most people don’t know about that,” she said in the interview. “I think people are mainly oblivious.”
In contrast, Nic Muñoz MED ’20, who leads the Addiction Medicine Collaborative, told The Politic that he has heard professors criticize Purdue Pharma.
“Purdue Pharma’s been mentioned as a link in the progression [of] our current opioid epidemic and a poster child of the consequences of the intense marketing by pharmaceutical companies on provider prescribing,” he said.
Even though some Yale faculty members feel comfortable condemning Purdue Pharma in the classroom, they have been more hesitant in conversations about the Sackler family, particularly in public.
The Politic reached out to Charles Fuchs, MD, MPH, who holds the Richard Sackler and Jonathan Sackler professorship, for comment on the Sacklers’ relation to the opioid epidemic but instead received an email from Thomas Conroy, director of Yale’s Office of Public Affairs and Communications, with a press statement on Yale’s research combating the opioid crisis. The email did not mention the Sackler family. Of the 28 administrators and professors The Politic contacted for interviews, including two that hold Sackler professorships, not one gave comment.
Kolodny believes that if the university wants to help “families who have been affected” by the opioid crisis, “Yale should give the money back to the Sacklers.”
Kolodny added, “It’s blood money.”


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International Journal of Wildland Fire
Volume 27 Number 2 2018
This paper reviews firefighters’ sleep during wildfire operations, the operational and environmental factors that impact on sleep, and how sleep affects health and safety. For fire agencies to support firefighting personnel, strategies are needed to improve and manage firefighters’ sleep, and reduce any adverse impacts on firefighters’ work.
Firefighters are occasionally entrapped by wildfires. This paper presents an analysis of incidents in Australia over the last 40 years, and reveals the main contributing factors to those entrapments. The effect of a wind change on fire spread direction was found to be the principal cause of fatal fire entrapments.
WF17030A comparison of the US National Fire Danger Rating System (NFDRS) with recorded fire occurrence and final fire size
An analysis of the National Fire Danger Rating System for the conterminous US (2006–13). Fire danger indices are correlated with measures of fire activity in order to identify spatial patterns and discrepancies across the US and identify different aspects of wildfire activity along several fire danger spectrums.
This study provides information on how post-fire surface fuel loadings change within the first 9 years after forest wildfires in dry conifer and hardwood forests of California. Differences in post-fire surface fuel dynamics among fire severity classes – low, moderate and high – are identified.
WF17095Soil organic layer combustion in boreal black spruce and jack pine stands of the Northwest Territories, Canada
In this study, we assess soil organic layer (SOL) combustion in the Taiga Plains and Taiga Shield ecozones of the Northwest Territories, Canada, within the unprecedentedly large area burned by fires in 2014. We provide models and calibrations that should allow future research to more accurately estimate SOL burn depth in black spruce and jack pine boreal forests.
WF17107A method for extensive spatiotemporal assessment of soil temperatures during an experimental fire using distributed temperature sensing in optical fibre
This proof-of-concept experiment uses distributed temperature sensing (DTS) to measure soil temperatures during a managed fire. Using off-the-shelf 242-μm diameter fibre, we were able to collect temperature data every 20 s over a 5.5-h period at 1243 locations along 316 m length of fibre with a spatial resolution of 60 cm.
The peer-reviewed and edited version of record published online before inclusion in an issue
WF17049An analysis of the effect of aspect and vegetation type on fine fuel moisture content in eucalypt forest
The effect of aspect and vegetation structure on the fine fuel moisture content of different fuel strata was investigated. The effect of the percentage of fuel available for burning and when top litter moisture content fell into categories associated with severe fire behaviour and fire management planning was further discussed.
These articles have been peer reviewed and accepted for publication. They are still in production and have not been edited, so may differ from the final published form.
The effect of woody fuel characteristics on fuel ignition and consumption: A case study from a eucalypt forest in south-west Western Australia
Where wildfires destroy buildings in the US relative to the wildland-urban interface and national fire outreach programs
Development and validation of a model for predicting fire behaviour in spinifex grasslands of arid Australia
Automated location of active fire perimeters in aerial infrared imaging using unsupervised edge detectors
Use of ordinary kriging and Gaussian conditional simulation to interpolate airborne fire radiative energy density estimates
Estimating the Area Burned by Agricultural Fires from Landsat 8 Data using the Vegetation Difference Index and Burn Scar Index
Interpolation framework to speed up near-surface wind simulations for data-driven wildfire applications
An analysis of Southeastern U.S. prescribed burn weather windows: Seasonal variability and El Niño associations
An analysis of the effect of aspect and vegetation type on fine fuel moisture content in eucalypt forest
The Most Read ranking is based on the number of downloads in the last 60 days from papers published on the CSIRO PUBLISHING website within the last 12 months. Usage statistics are updated daily.
International Journal of Wildland Fire 27 (1)Lynn M. Johnston, Mike D. Flannigan
International Journal of Wildland Fire 26 (12)Michael Eburn, Geoffrey J. Cary
International Journal of Wildland Fire 27 (2)Grace E. Vincent, Brad Aisbett, Alexander Wolkow, Sarah M. Jay, Nicola D. Ridgers, Sally A. Ferguson
International Journal of Wildland Fire 26 (12)Sergi Costafreda-Aumedes, Carles Comas, Cristina Vega-Garcia
Simulating the effectiveness of prescribed burning at altering wildfire behaviour in Tasmania, AustraliaInternational Journal of Wildland Fire 27 (1)James M. Furlaud, Grant J. Williamson, David M. J. S. Bowman
International Journal of Wildland Fire 27 (2)Sebastien Lahaye, Jason Sharples, Stuart Matthews, Simon Heemstra, Owen Price, Rachel Badlan
A comparison of the US National Fire Danger Rating System (NFDRS) with recorded fire occurrence and final fire sizeInternational Journal of Wildland Fire 27 (2)Nicholas G. Walding, Hywel T. P. Williams, Scott McGarvie, Claire M. Belcher
Understanding forest fire patterns and risk in Nepal using remote sensing, geographic information system and historical fire dataInternational Journal of Wildland Fire 26 (4)Mir A. Matin, Vishwas Sudhir Chitale, Manchiraju S. R. Murthy, Kabir Uddin, Birendra Bajracharya, Sudip Pradhan
An empirically based approach to defining wildland firefighter safety and survival zone separation distancesInternational Journal of Wildland Fire 26 (8)Wesley G. Page, Bret W. Butler
International Journal of Wildland Fire 26 (11)Xinyan Huang, Guillermo Rein
International Journal of Wildland Fire 27 (1)J. R. Raposo, D. X. Viegas, X. Xie, M. Almeida, A. R. Figueiredo, L. Porto, J. Sharples
International Journal of Wildland Fire 27 (1)A. Lamorlette, M. El Houssami, D. Morvan
International Journal of Wildland Fire 27 (2)Bianca N. I. Eskelson, Vicente J. Monleon
Public information seeking, place-based risk messaging and wildfire preparedness in southern CaliforniaInternational Journal of Wildland Fire 26 (6)Anne-Lise K. Velez, John M. Diaz, Tamara U. Wall
International Journal of Wildland Fire 26 (7)Matthew P. Thompson, Francisco Rodríguez y Silva, David E. Calkin, Michael S. Hand
Indicators of burn severity at extended temporal scales: a decade of ecosystem response in mixed-conifer forests of western MontanaInternational Journal of Wildland Fire 26 (9)Sarah A. Lewis, Andrew T. Hudak, Peter R. Robichaud, Penelope Morgan, Kevin L. Satterberg, Eva K. Strand, Alistair M. S. Smith, Joseph A. Zamudio, Leigh B. Lentile
Trend analysis of fire season length and extreme fire weather in North America between 1979 and 2015International Journal of Wildland Fire 26 (12)Piyush Jain, Xianli Wang, Mike D. Flannigan
Air quality policy and fire management responses addressing smoke from wildland fires in the United States and AustraliaInternational Journal of Wildland Fire 26 (5)Joshua C. Hyde, Kara M. Yedinak, Alan F. Talhelm, Alistair M. S. Smith, David M. J. S. Bowman, Fay H. Johnston, Peter Lahm, Mark Fitch, Wade T. Tinkham
International Journal of Wildland Fire 26 (11)Miguel G. Cruz, Martin E. Alexander, Andrew L. Sullivan
International Journal of Wildland Fire 26 (10)İsmail Bekar, Çağatay Tavşanoğlu


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While the working class rejoices on approval of bill to increase tax exemption on bonuses, BIR (Bureau of Internal Revenue) on the other side of the fence foresees a big revenue loss towards the end of the year.
According to BIR, the enactment of bill to increase tax exemption on bonuses, now known as Republic Act 10653 will take away a big chunk of tax revenues for the coming year. BIR reckons a whopping 25 to 30 billion loss which in turn will affect government funds.
BIR revenue target for 2015was initially set at 1.723 trillion Pesos. Now with the implementation Republic Act 10653 -bill to increase tax exemption on bonuses, BIR’s revenue target is now downgraded to 1.674 trillion Pesos.
This is actually the 2nd time BIR adjusted their revenue target.As we recall, late last year, the list of tax exempted de minimis benefits was expanded to include benefits under collective bargaining agreements (CBAs) and productivity incentive schemes. BIR claims that this amendment will result to a P16.9 billion loss in tax revenue.
In an interview, here is what BIR Commissioner Kim Henares says about the implementation of the bill to increase tax exemption on bonuses – ” Wala naman na po tayong dapat i-argue kasi na-implement na po yan. At the end of the year, malalaman natin magkano ba talaga ang epekto nung 82,000″.
Furthermore on her stand on bill to increase tax exemption on bonuses, BIR Commissioner is actually in favor of Republic Act 10653 in the consideration of the low salary received by workers in the country particularly in the government sector. She wishes that the success of the bill to increase tax exemption on bonuses will not be used in any form political lobbying as election time is nearing, especially that it is the peoples’ livelihood that is at stake.
But despite her concurrence on bill to increase tax exemption on bonuses, Henares emphasized that ” Hindi po yan basta-basta ginagawa.Kailangan may balanse yan. Kung may binibigay tayo, kailangan may pagkukunan”.