Issue Brief: The Funding of State and Local Pensions: 2009-2013, by Alicia H. Munnell, Jean-Pierre Aubry, and Laura Quinby, Center for State and Local Government Excellence
"The financial crisis reduced the value of equities in state and local defined benefit pensions and hurt the funding status of these plans. The impact will become evident only over time, however, because actuaries in the public sector tend to smooth both gains and losses, typically over a five-year period. The first year for which the crisis will have a meaningful impact on reported funding status is fiscal 2009, since in most cases the fiscal 2008 books were closed before the market collapsed. After 2009, the funding picture will continue to deteriorate to the extent that years of low equity values replace earlier years of high values. The current and future funding status of state and local pensions is crucially important, as state and local governments are facing a perfect storm: the decline in funding has occurred just as the recession has cut into state and local tax revenues and increased the demand for government services. Finding additional funds to make up for market losses will be extremely difficult."

OSHA releases data detailing worker exposure to toxic chemicals
News release: "In keeping with the president's memorandum on open government, the U.S. Labor Department's Occupational Safety and Health Administration is releasing 15 years of data providing details of workplace exposure to toxic chemicals. The data is comprised of measurements taken by OSHA compliance officers during the course of inspections. It includes exposure levels to hazardous chemicals including asbestos, benzene, beryllium, cadmium, lead, nickel, silica, and others. The data offers insights into the levels of toxic chemicals commonly found in workplaces, as well as insights into how chemical exposure levels to specific chemicals are distributed across industries, geographical areas and time."

Eponyms
Caribbean Sea, named for the Carib, an American Indian people of the north coast of South America and the islands of the southern West Indies.
Geiger counter (Gieger-Müller counter), Gieger-Müller tube (GM tube) are named for Hans Geiger and Walther Müller.
Pasteurize, named for Louis Pasteur, one of the first to disprove spontaneous generation.

Gardens in Ohio I have enjoyed: Schedel (sheh-DELL) Arboretum & Gardens in Elmore
More than 17 acres bordering the Portage River, upland and lowland gardens, water features, stand of Dawn Redwoods started in the 1950s, descendents of seeds found in a remote valley in China, sculptures and exhibits in the Trellis Gallery http://www.schedel-gardens.org/
The University of Toledo's Stranahan Arboretum is a 47-acre site, about a 10 minute drive from the main campus, that consists of cultivated ornamental trees, rolling lawns, natural woods, ponds, wetlands and prairie. http://www.utoledo.edu/as/arboretum/General_Information.html
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Feng Shui (the Mandarin pronunciation is foong soyee, the Cantonese pronunciation is Fung Shwey) translates as "wind and water". "Feng" stands for wind, air, gas, clouds, storms, energy fields and radiation of energy. It can also be interpreted as the complementary set of structures directing the flow of the wind. These structures can be mountains or rocks, buildings or other man-made forms. "Shui" stands for water, lakes, rivers, brooks, waterfalls, swamps, rain, snow and ice, and also plants and other living organisms nourished by water, as well as so-called "dry water" ways, such as streets. For another clear view of the importance of wind and water, consider the name of that most beautiful archipelago, Hawai'i. "Ha" stands for breath, "wai" stands for water, and "i" stands for spirit. http://www.huna.org/html/fengshui.html
http://www.naturallyconnected.com.au/fengshui.htm