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• Most people have heard of “hand-me-downs” and probably have worn them. Blue jeans are especially known for this explosives, plastics and other products. They are also because of their durability. Hand-me-down blue jeans were COTTON (continued): incorporated into high quality paper products and processed taken to a new level in 2006 when Cotton Incorporated • Cotton is used more than any fiber, natural or manmade, in into batting for the padding used in mattresses and cushions created a marketing initiative to recycle denim for insulation for housing. the world. It is a daily part of our lives and is still today one for furniture and automobile seats. of the leading cash crops for farmers in the United States. • The cottonseeds are a valuable byproduct as well. They • The “Cotton. From Blue to Green. ®” denim drive was Every part of a cotton plant is useful. are crushed and separated into three products: oil, hulls and a student-run campaign on several college campuses to • The most important part of the cotton plant is the fiber, meal. Cottonseed oil is used for salad dressing, cooking educate students on the renewable and recyclable attributes or lint, which is used to make cloth. The fiber has to be oil and shortening. Cottonseed oil has no cholesterol has of denim. Blue jeans were donated and then given a “new separated from the seeds, which are quite sticky. This is little or no trans-fats, making it a good option for healthy life” as housing insulation for houses. In the spring of 2007, 30 homes were built for families by Habitat for Humanity why the cotton gin was so important. When the fiber and cooking. of Greater Baton Rouge (Louisiana) who lost their homes as seeds had to be separated by hand, it took many laborious • The meal and hulls are used for livestock, poultry and fish a result of Hurricane Katrina. Twelve of those homes were hours. feed and also fertilizer. After all of these parts are taken insulated with UltraTouch™ Denim Insulation. • “Linters,” the short fuzz remaining on the seeds after away, the remaining leaves and stalks of the cotton plant are • A campaign by National Geographic Kids Magazine in separation of the lint, provide cellulose for making plowed under to enrich the soil.

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In order to provide ongoing paychecks to a large group of retirees both now and in the future, pension plan operators must integrate a wide range of variables to determine how much money will be required for successful operation of the program. These factors include the number of retirees, 3. In a separate bowl, beat two of the eggs and stir in the 1/2 life expectancy, marital status in retirement, the age at cup cream or buttermilk. Stir the egg mixture into the dry which retirement will begin, and an assumed annual rate of ingredients. Stir in the raisins or currants. investment return. 4. Turn the dough out onto a floured board and gently press Of these factors, the assumed annual rate of return, also it together into a single lump. If it doesn’t hold together, called the discount rate, is arguably the most subjective. add more cream or buttermilk, a tablespoon at a time, until The discount rate represents what a pension fund believes it does. Don’t overwork the dough. it can realistically earn from its investments on an annual 5. Roll the dough out to a thickness of 1 inch. Cut into rounds basis when averaged over the course of 20 years or more. In with a fluted pastry cutter or into triangles (instructions any given year, investment returns are likely to be higher or below). Prepare your baking sheet pan by greasing it with lower than the long-term assumed rate. butter or shortening, or line it with parchment or wax paper, or use a silicone baking mat. Place scones on the prepared Short term, moving this number up or down can greatly baking sheet. affect current funding requirements. Long term, when real 6. Separate the third egg and set the yolk aside. Beat the returns show a minor deviation from expected returns, egg white and the remaining tablespoon of the cream or either up or down, it can result in a tremendous difference buttermilk together, then brush the tops of the scones with in how much it costs (in taxes) to provide pension benefits. the egg-white mixture. Sprinkle with sugar. Bake 15 minutes A March 21, 2011 posting on the New York State Teacher or until golden. Makes 8 to 12 scones. Retirement System website (www.nyssba.org), noted that a 1% increase in annual return over a teacher’s working Variations: lifetime would result in a 26% funding reduction. For triangular scones, turn the dough out and separate it into two halves. Form each half into roughly circular shape, Recently, the discount rate for The California Public being careful not to overwork the dough. Then roll each Employees Retirement System (CalPERS) came under half to 1-inch thickness and cut into wedges with a knife. scrutiny because the fund’s actuary recommended lowering Proceed with recipe. the discount rate from 7.75% to 7.5%. Lowering the rate would mean higher funding obligations, a tough requirement Spiced Scones: Add enough cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves and for a state already struggling to balance its budget and avoid allspice to the dry ingredients to total 1/2 teaspoon. insolvency. After dozens of local officials met with the Raisin Wheat Scones: Substitute white flour with whole- fund’s actuaries in mid-March to indicate their municipalities wheat pastry flour or half and half white and wheat. Use would be hard-pressed to deliver the increased funding that brown sugar instead of white and plain yogurt instead of a lower discount rate would require, CalPERS announced whole milk. on March 21, 2011, that the rate would remain at 7.75%. Walnut Scones: Add 3/4 cup finely chopped walnuts. Cheddar Scones: Add 1 cup grated Cheddar cheese and 1/8 When some commentators questioned the wisdom of teaspoon dry mustard. maintaining the higher investment assumption, CalPERS Chocolate Chip Scones: Add 1/2 cup white or dark officials noted that “over the past 20 years, including the chocolate chips and 1 teaspoon vanilla to the basic recipe. two recent recession years, CalPERS has earned an average Lemon Scones: Add the juice and zest of 1 lemon and 1 annual 7.9% rate of return,” and also added that its discount tablespoon sugar to the basic scone recipe. rate was below the average for other public pensions in *** the U.S, citing statistics on the 126 largest public pensions Angela Shelf Medearis is known as The Kitchen Diva! provided by the National Association of State Retirement She’s the executive producer and host of “The Kitchen Administrators. Diva!” cooking show on Hulu.com. Medearis is an award-winning children’s author, culinary historian The data provides an interesting look at the return and the author of seven cookbooks, including “The New expectations of institutional investors, and gives some African-American Kitchen” and her new cookbook, “The answers to the question “What is a reasonable long-term Kitchen Diva Cooks!” Visit her website at www.divapro. rate of return?” com. (c) 2011 King Features Synd., Inc.

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DEAR KAY: I don’t think there’s always a “best” puppy in a litter. However, there is the right “fit” for your family. For example, outgoing pups may do best with a family, while shy dogs work better with individuals.

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Because you will be spending quite a bit of money on a new dog, be observant during visits and ask questions. Make sure the puppies’ living area is clean and that they all look healthy, happy and relaxed. Hold and play with puppies that interest you and watch their behavior around your children. As the weeks pass, observe their growth and the maturation of motor skills and awareness.

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The breeder will be observing you during this time as well. After all, she doesn’t want to send well-bred puppies to owners who won’t care for them. It’s not unusual for professional breeders to refuse to sell a puppy to someone they have doubts about. Remember, the deal isn’t done until both sides agree that the dog you pick is the best fit for you, and the papers are signed.

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The breeder is offering to let you visit several times to find the best fit, which is a great selection method (and one mark of a good breeder). Often, such visits are spaced over several weeks, from a couple weeks after the puppies’ birth to the time they are ready to leave (eight or more weeks).

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• On April 25, 1719, Daniel Defoe’s fictional work “The Life and Strange Adventures of Robinson Crusoe” is published. The book, about a shipwrecked sailor who spends 28 years on a deserted island, is based on the experiences of Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish sailor who spent four years on a small island off the coast of South America in the early 1700s. • On April 29, 1854, the Ashmun Institute, the first college founded solely for black students, is officially chartered in southeastern Pennsylvania. Renamed Lincoln University after the Civil War, its graduates include poet Langston Hughes and Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. • On April 27, 1865, an explosion on a Mississippi River steamboat kills an estimated 1,547 people, mostly Union soldiers returning home after the Civil War. The Sultana was built to hold 376 passengers, but reports say that there were as many as 2,700 people on board. • On May 1, 1931, New York City’s Empire State Building is dedicated. The idea for the Empire State Building is said to have been born of a competition between Walter Chrysler of the Chrysler Corp. and John Jakob Raskob of General Motors to see who could erect the taller building. • On April 26, 1986, the world’s worst nuclear accident to date occurs at the Chernobyl nuclear plant near Kiev in Ukraine. An estimated 4,000 clean-up workers died from radiation poisoning, as many as 70,000 people suffered severe poisoning and a large area of land might not be livable for as many as 150 years. (c) 2011 King Features Synd., Inc.

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a huge value most would agree, but a pittance in comparison to what the schools receive, and hence, the street-corner references. The NCAA doesn’t like the analogy. “We get nasty communication pretty frequently,” NCAA Mike Emmert said in a defensive response to the comments. He dismisses the profit-sharing model. “[Students] are not employees, they’re students,” Emmert said. And, for some schools, the revenues don’t necessarily generate a surplus. Using Maryland again as an example -- a university that actively competes in most sports the NCAA It wouldn’t be the first time I’d have quoted him (or any offers -- its net surplus on the year came to a little more than other coach for that matter) in, shall we say, a relaxed $45,000. manner.

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The conclusion for now? Taking a cue from my chat with But the chat I had that day with University of Maryland Williams, maybe it’s time for all of us -- including the NCAA, head coach Gary Williams about the challenge the Terrapins with its overly restrictive rules on student compensation -stared into every year, faced with the considerable challenges to relax a bit. presented by Duke, the University of North Carolina and any of the other fine Atlantic Coast Conference teams, made Mark Vasto is a veteran sportswriter and publisher of The Kansas City Luminary. an impression. (c) 2011 King Features Synd., Inc. As if the contention on the court wasn’t enough, the real fighting took place in living rooms all across the country when Williams vied against Coach K and Dean Smith (at the time) for top-notch recruits. But as Williams dragged the Terps off of the NCAA’s death row -- no TV, no tournament in the wake of Len Bias’ death -- and turned them into perennial contenders before finally punching through to the championship in 2002 -- he also was criticized for his team’s academic and graduating status. In short, the record wasn’t very flattering. The Terps ranked toward the bottom of the ACC in terms of graduation and grade-point average. But after Joe Smith bolted from the school after his sophomore year and Steve Francis flew the coop following his freshman year, local media started to put the press on Williams. Williams’ explanation went a little something like this: Hey, basketball was their education. For some people, like ESPN.com’s Tim Keown, that’s not a good enough answer. “The NCAA should stop prostituting itself for the sake of the one-and-done players and release itself from the NBA’s rule against players heading to the NBA or the D-League out of high school,” Keown wrote. “The players are the indentured servants -- and no, don’t tell me a scholarship is adequate payment for the revenues received by the universities and the NCAA ... the NBA doesn’t have to pay to train its workforce, and the NCAA is fine with that.” Filmmaker Spike Lee takes the analogies a bit further -- and in less column space. “The NC-two-A are the biggest pimps around,” Lee said in a recent town hall on racial issues in sports. “They are pimping athletes.” Advocates of paying players for their time point to the NBA and NFL’s profit sharing model (they receive 57 percent and 58 percent, respectively). Under such a plan, players in larger programs like Texas would receive upward of $700,000 each season. But they don’t -- they get free tuition,

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