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Tetragon Financial Group Limited (TFG) Monthly Update For October 2012
20 Nov, 2012, 07:00 GMT
LONDON, November 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --
Tetragon Financial Group Limited (TFG) is a Guernsey closed-ended investment company traded on the NYSE Euronext in Amsterdam under the ticker symbol "TFG".
In this monthly update, unless otherwise stated, we report on the consolidated business incorporating TFG and Tetragon Financial Group Master Fund Limited.[1]
Net Asset Value Estimates as of October 31 2012
(Amounts provided are unaudited and subject to change)
(in millions except per share data) Estimated Fair Value of Investments: $1,324.7 Cash and Cash Equivalents: $352.1 Net Other Assets / (Liabilities): $13.2 Estimated Net Asset Value: $1,690.0 TFG Shares Outstanding: 133.0 Net Asset Value per Share:[2][3] $14.88
Expected Upcoming Events Date November 2012 Monthly Report December 20, 2012 (approx)
1.) TFG invests substantially all its capital through a master fund, Tetragon Financial Group Master Fund Limited ("TFGMF") in which it holds a 100% share.
2.) Excludes 6.5 million shares held in treasury, 1.2 million shares held by a subsidiary and 11.7 million shares held in escrow.
3.) NAV per share was reduced by $0.115 in October 2012 to reflect the approval of the quarterly dividend relating to Q3 2012.
This release does not contain or constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to purchase securities in the United States or any other jurisdiction. The securities of TFG have not been and will not be registered under the US Securities Act of 1933 (the "Securities Act"), as amended, and may not be offered or sold in the United States or to US persons unless they are registered under applicable law or exempt from registration. TFG does not intend to register any portion of its securities in the United States or to conduct a public offer of securities in the United States. In addition, TFG has not been and will not be registered under the US Investment Company Act of 1940, and investors will not be entitled to the benefits of such Act. TFG is registered in the public register of the Netherlands Authority for the Financial Markets under Section 1:107 of the Financial Markets Supervision Act ("FMSA") as a collective investment scheme from a designated country. This release constitutes regulated information ("gereglementeerde informatie") within the meaning of Section 1:1 of the FMSA.
Tetragon Financial Group Limited (TFG)
Monthly Update For October 2012
Investment Composition:
As of the end of October 2012, the majority of the net assets of the company were invested in the equity tranches of U.S. CLOs. The remainder of net assets was invested in cash or equivalents less certain net liabilities, U.S. senior secured loans, equity tranches of European CLOs, asset management businesses, real estate funds, and CLO mezzanine tranches.
The geographical allocation of TFG's CLO equity, direct loan, and real estate fund investments was weighted primarily towards the United States, at 90.9% of such assets as of the end of October 2012. European exposure was approximately 8.9% and Asia was approximately 0.2%. TFG's ownership of asset managers is excluded from the geographic allocation above as such managers are global in nature.
Additional Information:
Net Asset Value per Share for TFG as at October 31, 2012 was $14.88, up from $14.29 as at September 30, 2012.[4]
As announced on October 29, 2012, TFG acquired Polygon Management L.P. and certain of its affiliates (collectively, "Polygon"), an alternative asset manager, for approximately 11.7 million TFG non-voting shares (the "Escrow Shares) in an all share deal on October 28, 2012 (the "Polygon Transaction"). For further information on the transaction, please see the applicable press release and investor presentation on the company's website (http://www.tetragoninv.com).
TFG financial reporting is based on U.S. generally accepted accounting principles ("US GAAP"). With respect to the Polygon Transaction, certain US GAAP rules applicable to the acquisition of management contracts and investments, the purchase of minority interests, and the use of deferred shares in business combinations, resulted in, among other things, the recognition of the value of certain of the acquired Polygon assets on the company's balance sheet as at October 31, 2012 and the Escrow Shares not being recognized as issued in terms of the calculation of NAV per Share until such shares fully vest.
4.) Excludes 6.5 million shares held in treasury, 1.2 million shares held by a subsidiary and 11.7 million shares held in escrow.
Accordingly, the acquisition of Polygon had the effect of increasing NAV per Share by $0.482 as at October 31, 2012. No incentive fees were earned or paid as a result of the Polygon Transaction as the transaction was treated as a capital adjustment for the applicable calculations.
The table below shows the main elements of the movement in the NAV per Share in October 2012:
$ per Share NAV per share as at September 30, 2012 14.292 Add: EPS per Share for October 2012 0.217 Less: Payment of Q3 2012 dividend (0.115) NAV per Share before Polygon Transaction 14.394 Increase due to Polygon Transaction 0.482 NAV per Share as at October 31, 2012 14.876
For further information, please contact: TFG: David Wishnow/Yuko Thomas Investor Relations firstname.lastname@example.com Press Inquiries: Brunswick Group Andrew Garfield/Gill Ackers/Brian Buckley +44-20-7404-5959 email@example.com
SOURCE Tetragon Financial Group Limited


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By: Marty Callaghan
In its written testimony for an April 30 congressional hearing, The American Legion shared two key points emerging from an online survey it conducted last February on veterans who suffer from traumatic brain injury (TBI) and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD):
• Medication appears to be the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) front-line treatment reported by respondents
• A sizeable proportion of respondents reported prescriptions of up to 10 medications for PTSD/TBI across their treatment experiences.
The Legion's testimony, "Overmedication: Problems and Solutions," was submitted for a Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs hearing.
Results from the Legion's survey, based on answers from more than 3,100 respondents, will be highlighted at its June 24 symposium in Washington: "Advancing Care and Treatment for Veterans with TBI and PTSD." The event will also focus on complementary and alternative treatments for the two conditions.
Referring to anecdotal accounts of veterans struggling with the over-prescribing of medications, the Legion stated that TBI/PTSD treatments should "include alternative treatments and therapies, and they need to make them accessible to all veterans. If these alternative treatments and therapies are deemed effective, they should be made available and integrated into the veterans' current health care…."
In 2010, The American Legion established a committee to investigate existing science and procedures for treating TBI and PTSD, including complementary and alternative methods. Its findings and recommendations were published in the September 2013 report, "The War Within" go to http://www.legion.org/veteranshealthcare/217116/legion-releases-report-tbi-and-ptsd.
To read The American Legion's complete written testimony for the hearing go to http://www.legion.org/documents/pdf/svac_hearing_4-30-14_overmedication_problems_and_solutions_the_american_legion_for_the_record(final).pdf .


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The debate over Medicaid expansion in Missouri began in earnest in late 2012.
Hospitals, chambers of commerce and others lined up to urge the General Assembly to accept expansion, while Republican legislators made it clear Missouri would turn the proposal aside. Medicaid expansion became a political football, putting the future health care of nearly 300,000 Missourians who would have qualified for help at risk.
The Affordable Care Act – widely referred to as Obamacare – uses federal tax dollars to fund Medicaid expansion to cover adult Medicaid eligibility to 138 percent of the poverty level. That means that individuals earning up to $15,850 a year and families of four with an annual income of $32,500 would be covered.
Missouri and more than 20 other states have said no to expansion or are considering refusal. The Missouri Hospital Association and local health-care providers said that decision will have a significant impact on hospitals, especially those in rural communities, and will ultimately cost the state much-needed jobs.
Currently, low-income parents with children are eligible for Medicaid. Adults with no children are not eligible unless they are disabled. Expansion would provide health-care coverage to an estimated 280,000 currently uninsured Missourians, including some adults with no children. The office of Gov. Jay Nixon, who began promoting expansion in November 2012, puts the figure at 300,000.
The federal program fully funds the cost of expansion through 2016. States would pick up 5 percent of those costs in 2017 and 10 percent by 2020.
An important part of the funding package includes disproportionate share hospital payments. The DSH payments have long been critical to hospitals, compensating for care provided free to low-income patients who cannot pay and are not covered by insurance or other programs.
When the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act in June 2012, it also ruled that states are not required to accept Medicaid expansion, but it made no exception protecting states from new funding mechanisms. Two of those are reduced payments to Medicare in the state and a reduction in DSH payments. Thus hundreds of millions of dollars worth of unpaid care will not be reimbursed to Missouri hospitals, putting them at risk of drowning in red ink. As many states this year balked at expanding Medicaid, the Obama administration late in the spring pushed back the reduction in DSH payments by a year.
Despite the urging of organizations across Missouri and Gov. Jay Nixon to expand Medicaid and keep funding mechanisms in place, the General Assembly did not include expansion in the state budget. Instead, the Senate named a committee and the House named two committees to look into the issue. One of those House committees, the Citizens and Legislators Working Group on Medicaid Eligibility and Reform, was chaired by Rep. Noel Torpey, R-Independence, and held meetings in Independence and five other cities across the state to get citizen comments.
Torpey said it appears that "many if not most Missourians want Medicaid expanded" and said his group would file a report with House Speaker Tim Jones with recommendations on how to handle expansion during the 2014 legislative session.
One member of Torpey's group was Dr. Bridget McCandless, recently named president and CEO of the Health Care Foundation of Greater Kansas City. She co-founded the Shared Care Free Clinic in Independence in 2001, and she remains, as a volunteer, its medical director. She said those those who spoke to the committee were overwhelmingly in favor of expanding Medicaid.
"I hope that message came through loud and clear to legislators," she said.
Among the issues that came to light, she said, is the number of people who are poor but healthy – and who want to stay healthy but have limited access to care. In Missouri, adults generally have to be sick to the point of disability to qualify for Medicaid. Advocates of expansion have pointed out that many of those not now covered – in rural, urban and suburban parts of the state – are working two or even three low-paying jobs, none of which offer health coverage.
Expanding Medicaid to the level envisioned under Obamacare would change that drastically.
"What that would mean is that the majority of the people I see would have access to comprehensive coverage," McCandless said.
Failing to expand Medicaid also creates a needlessly complicated situation, she said. For example, many earn too little to qualify for federal health-insurance subsidies but, in Missouri, too much to qualify for Medicaid. Patients, McCandless said, find that confusing.
"I think it's also very frustrating for doctors providing care," she said.
The Missouri General Assembly could consider Medicaid expansion in the 2014 session beging in early January. Federal funding for expanded Medicaid begins Jan. 1, but Missouri has already lost out on that first year of funding.
The Missouri Hospital Association will move quickly in the new year to support legislative acceptance of expansion. An association poll taken last spring indicates 56 percent of Missourians favor expansion.
According to the association, the high rate of the uninsured, and expanded use of hospital services by the uninsured, has led to a significant increase in hospital uncompensated care costs.
In 2011, hospitals provided $1.3 billion in uncompensated care statewide. Without additional coverage, hospital uncompensated care is expected to increase to $3.5 billion annually by the end of the decade, according to the association.
Hospitals receive some funding through Medicaid and Medicare to offset the costs of providing uncompensated care, but much of the remaining cost of caring for the uninsured is shifted to commercial insurance carriers, increasing the cost of premiums paid by employers and/or individuals.
Jeff Fox of The Examiner contributed to this report.


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LITTLE ROCK — The state House on Tuesday voted 76-24 to appropriate a new round of federal funding for the so-called private option, resolving the issue that has dominated the fiscal session.
LITTLE ROCK — The state House on Tuesday voted 76-24 to appropriate a new round of federal funding for the so-called private option, resolving the issue that has dominated the fiscal session.
The Senate passed the $915 million appropriation last month in a 27-8 vote. The House failed in four previous attempts to pass it, each time falling a few votes short of the three-fourths majority, or 75 votes in the 100-member House, needed to approve any appropriations bill.
Senate Bill 111 goes next to the governor, who said Tuesday he would sign it.
"This means a lot. It means a lot for the state," House Speaker Davy Carter, R-Cabot, told reporters after the vote.
"I'm proud of the members, I'm proud of everybody coming together," he said. "I think the story is about political courage. I think it's about Arkansas doing something different than the rest of the country. I think we are moving towards market-based health care, coupled with the reforms we've put in place. I hope the rest of the country is watching, because Arkansas has tackled this issue, in my opinion, together, better than anybody else in the nation has."
"Obviously I'm pleased," Gov. Mike Beebe said, noting that the bill's passage with a vote to spare was a surprise after the House's previous struggles to pass it.
The private option is Arkansas' alternative to the expansion of state Medicaid rolls that was proposed under the federal Affordable Care Act. The state obtained permission from the federal government to use the federal Medicaid money that would have gone to state Medicaid expansion to subsidize private health insurance for people earning up to 138 percent of the federal poverty level.
About 94,000 people have enrolled in private plans through the program, and another 11,000 who applied have been enrolled in traditional Medicaid because that program is more suited to their needs, according to the state Department of Human Services. About 105,000 people have applied since the program launched in October.
Carter said previously that if the measure did not pass Tuesday the Legislature could either go into a temporary recess or end the session without completing the budget process. Tuesday's vote apparently made those options unnecessary.
Beebe had said that defunding the private option not only would take insurance away from more than 100,000 Arkansans but also would require adjusting his proposed budget to eliminate $89 million in anticipated savings from the program.
Opponents have questioned whether the state will be able to afford its eventual 10 percent share of the program's cost. In debate on the House floor Tuesday, Rep. Joe Farrer, R-Austin, asked, "How are we going to pay for it?"
Rep. Kim Hammer, R-Benton, said on the House floor that he had decided to vote "yes" after voting against the appropriation earlier in the session.
"There are people that would be hurt if I don't vote for this, and I don't want to see those innocent people get hurt because of that," he said, adding that he would continue to fight for changes to the program and that he would vote against it next year if it does not produce the promised results.
Also voting for the program, after voting against it as recently as two weeks earlier, were Reps. Skip Carnine, R-Rogers, and Mary Slinkard, R-Gravette.
Carnine said later he has many reservations about the program, but he said the Legislature will have other chances to revisit it.
"Now was the time to move on," he said.
Last week, some legislators had discussed the possibility of creating a limited enrollment period each year for the program as a way to win more votes. That idea ultimately was dropped, DHS Director John Selig said Tuesday, noting that some lawmakers did not like the prospect of placing people in traditional Medicaid if they applied outside of the enrollment period.
The Legislature did amend the appropriation earlier in the session to bar the state from promoting the private option or the Arkansas Health Insurance Marketplace and to do away with the guides and navigators who have been helping people enroll in the marketplace. Rep. Nate Bell, R-Mena, proposed that amendment as an intended compromise between opponents and supporters of the private option, but in the votes taken immediately after the amendment was adopted, only Bell switched from voting "no" to "yes."
Carter said Tuesday the Legislature should be able to wrap up the session quickly now that the private option funding has passed, although he did not know whether that could happen this week.


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NLCS Game 6: Must-see story lines with Dodgers-Cardinals series on the line
Here's a radical idea. Let's stop talking about this insane, blown-way-out-of-proportion nonsense about the St. Louis Cardinals way (painted as stodgy guardians) vs. the Los Angeles Dodgers way (painted as the fun-loving, devil-may-care team).
Both caricatures are only loosely rooted in truth. And this garbage about some vast gap between the fans in St. Louis and the fans in Los Angeles? Baloney. This is true lowest common denominator stuff here, folks.
Tonight is Game 6. Tonight, we're going to be treated to an incredible pitching matchup between L.A. ace Clayton Kershaw, who has a 0.47 ERA in the playoffs, and St. Louis rookie Michael Wacha, who has a 0.64 ERA in October.
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Isn't that enough? It definitely should be, but here are six other legitimate storylines for Game 6 tonight at Busch Stadium.
1. What will the Dodgers get out of their banged-up stars? Hanley Ramirez is hampered by the rib injury from being drilled by a Joe Kelly fastball in Game 1, and Andre Ethier's ankle isn't 100 percent. Ethier is hitting .176 in the series and his range in center field is painfully limited.
If Ramirez, especially, has been significantly helped by the day off, health-wise, that's a huge boost for the Dodgers. He hit .345 in the regular season and .500 in the NLDS against the Braves — with six extra-base hits and six RBIs in those four games — but is batting .167 with a pair of singles against the Cardinals.
2. The Cardinals have just a .164 team batting average in this series, but they have a 3-2 lead largely because they've been opportunistic at the plate.
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Sure, they've failed in several key situations, but in a series where runs are scarce and home runs have been hit in two of the five games, every tiny success is magnified. The Cardinals are hitting .310 (9-for-29, plus a walk and a sacrifice fly) against the Dodgers with runners in scoring position, and they have 10 RBIs in those situations. Los Angeles has had more opportunities (44 plate appearances) but only a .216 average and nine RBIs.
When the Cardinals faced Kershaw in Game 2, they only moved a runner past first base twice. They failed to score Matt Carpenter in the first, but Jon Jay's sacrifice fly in the fifth inning accounted for the game's lone run. They must be opportunistic again tonight if they want to wrap up the series and avoid a do-or-die seventh game.
3. Will the managers help or hurt their teams tonight? It's not been what you'd call a stellar series for either Don Mattingly or Mike Matheny, two still-relatively-new managers, though a couple of Matheny's Game 4 moves paid immediate dividends (such as inserting Pete Kozma as a defensive replacement at shortstop late in the game).
For the most part, this series has been a second-guesser's dream. In the opener, for example, Mattingly replaced Adrian Gonzalez with pinch-runner Dee Gordon in the eighth inning of a game that wound up going 13 innings. Gonzalez's spot came up twice in huge situations, and fill-in first baseman Michael Young hit into rally-quashing double plays both times.
Oh, and stop bunting so much. Kershaw and Wacha are tough enough to beat without the opposing team giving away outs like mini Snickers bars on Halloween.
4. The Cardinals can clinch their fourth trip to the World Series in the past 10 years. And, while maybe it's true that familiarity breeds contempt, no matter how you slice it that's incredibly impressive. Only two players — Yadier Molina and Adam Wainwright — are left over from the 2006 team that beat the Detroit Tigers in the World Series, and only Molina remains from the 2004 team that lost to the Boston Red Sox in four games.
5. The Dodgers can move one win away from their first World Series berth since that unforgettable 1988 season headlined by Orel Hershiser and Kirk Gibson. And even though the 2013 Dodgers are down three games to two, it's still their best shot to reach the fall classic since 1988. They've only been to the NLCS twice since then, in 2008 and 2009 with Joe Torre as the manager. Those didn't exactly play out well for the Dodgers.
In that first one, aside from their Game 3 victory, they had the lead for two full innings against the Philadelphia Phillies, who won the series in five games and then knocked off the Tampa Bay Rays in the World Series. In 2009, they played the Phillies again and split the first two games at home. But back in Philadelphia, the Dodgers were outscored 26-8 and the Phillies wrapped up the NLCS in five games.
6. And then there's this little nugget that everyone in Busch Stadium knows: The Cardinals are the only team in MLB history (well, since the LCS was introduced in 1969) to twice blow a 3-1 series lead in the LCS. They lost to a superior Atlanta Braves team in 1996, and then repeated the dubious feat last year against the San Francisco Giants.
They lost Game 5 in L.A. 6-4, and the path they face isn't easy. Yes, they're at home, and yes, they have Wacha and ace Adam Wainwright lined up for the last two games. But they face the consensus best starter in baseball tonight (Kershaw) and if they lose this one, they have to face Huyn-Jin Ryu, who hasn't allowed an earned run against the Cardinals in 14 innings this season. In a winner-take-all game, anything can happen.


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New Haven butcher aids Yale students test new imaging technology (video)
NEW HAVEN -- Generally speaking, ground-breaking scientific discoveries don't require a consultation with the local butcher.
Yet when Yale University researchers were ready to test a new, 3D magnetic resonance imaging technology that peers into solid matter, they headed straight for Ferraro's Market and butcher Robert Bonanno.
"This was truly a town-gown project," said Sean Barrett, a professor of physics and applied physics at Yale. "None of our physics would have mattered if we didn't have good, usable bone samples."
Barrett and his team have discovered a way to do three-dimensional MRIs on solids by focusing on their phosphorous content. It can't be used on living bone or tissue, but it nonetheless has major potential for future applications.
The new technology eventually might be used to look at biopsies, search for natural gas and oil deposits within solid rock, and examine archeological artifacts.
"We're just at the beginning of this," said Merideth A. Frey, a doctoral student in physics at Yale who was lead author of a scientific paper about the discovery earlier this year. "Scientists at large are looking for different ways to see the interior of opaque objects."
Up to now, MRI technology has been used primarily on matter that is surrounded by water, including organs within the human body. Bone, on the other hand, contains little water.
Of course, none of this was what Barrett and his team were trying to learn in 2001, when the project began. Back then, they were attempting to build a quantum computer "to solve problems existing computers have a hard time solving," Barrett says.
As happens often in scientific investigation, the research led in another direction entirely. The team had been working with silicon powders, and came across some confounding data. It was a new "pulse sequence," involving the radio waves used in magnet resonance imaging.
It would be several more years before Barrett would refine the data, understand the phenomenon and see where it could be used.
"The question was, can you use something going on during the pulses to do something new?" Barrett said. "All of a sudden, aha! We had it. It's so disrupting to have a solution that comes out of left field."
Or, in this case, the meat market and the pet food store.
Barrett obtained pig and rabbit bones from Ferraro's Market and a dry cow bone from the natural chew toy section of Petco in Hamden.
"He was here at least three times," recalled Bonanno. He reached into a refrigerated case and found a wrapped package of soup bones to illustrate.
"I'll get requests from schools and teachers every so often for things they need," he explained. "It's usually hearts and things. (Prof. Barrett) had some special, more unusual requests."
When Barrett and his team announced their breakthrough recently, they sent a copy to Bonanno.
"It's amazing," Bonanno said. "Even my wife, who works at Yale, couldn't get over that I was participating in something like this."
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The auction of ill-fated publisher THQ's assets was held a short time ago and Holygrenade has details along with analysis of each purchase.
I'm wondering what specifically happened to the Red Faction and Destroy All Humans IPs.
Farewell THQ, you made good games and brought a lot of smiles to gamers everywhere, you will be missed. Here's hoping those who lost their jobs get back on their feet hopefully back into the gaming industry where they can utilize their talents further.


text: Perhaps not surprisingly, the Audi quattro Concept shown in Paris seems to have been the star of the show. With a longitudinally mounted version of the 5-cylinder turbo FSI engine from the Audi TT in a lightened and shortened A5/S5 derived chassis, the car certainly struck a cord in many who saw it there or lusted over photos online. Even more interesting then is this design model shown tucked away


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We leave today on our Disney vacation!
We're ecstatic! It's been 2 years of planning & saving.
We are so blessed.
I may (or may not) drop in here, on Facebook, or on Twitter for a few updates here & there. We'll see. :)
I hope you're having a fabulous summer!
We're back in the middle of August.
Disneyland or bust!


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They're not exactly sure who's asking the questions, but some Baltimore residents in recent weeks say they've been queried by a polling group seeking their opinions about a list of people some have speculated could be interested in running for mayor in 2016.
Stephen J. Gewirtz, a Charles Village resident, said he was polled by telephone last month and asked for his opinion about Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, former Mayor Sheila Dixon, City Council President Bernard C. "Jack" Young and author Wes Moore, among others.
Gewirtz said the polling firm asked him questions about numerous Rawlings-Blake policies and then for his opinion of people rumored to be considering runs against her.
"They asked me, 'What do I think of different people? Do I like the stuff Rawlings-Blake is doing to cut property taxes? Do I like the way the way she's reforming pensions?'" Gewirtz said. "I think it was a very early attempt to see what people think about some issues."
He said the pollster asked him to rate different candidates, and repeatedly mentioned Moore, the author, which surprised Gewirtz, because Moore is not a politician, and has said he has no intention to run for office.
The poll's sponsor "must be concerned about Wes Moore the way his name popped in all the time," Gewirtz said.
Asked about the poll, Dixon, Moore, and Young's office denied involvement. Dixon said she'd heard from two women who'd been polled, but didn't know who was behind it.
Rawlings-Blake's campaign treasurer, Charles G. Tildon III, said he knew nothing about the poll.
As for Gewirtz, he says he wasn't asked the one question he really wanted to sound off about.
"My big hatred is for all these subsidies for developers," he said.
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Conserving locally caught tuna, Italian style
Improbable as it may have seemed a few years ago, canned tuna is one of the hottest ingredients around today. Good quality stuff, of course, not lunchbox fare. Imported from Spain or Italy, it can sell for as much as $50 a pound. And if it's ventresca, the richest meat from the belly of the tuna, prices can go even higher.
Paying that kind of money for canned tuna may be surprising, but what's downright shocking is how amazingly simple it is to make something quite like it at home.
Tuna prepared this way is somewhere between fresh and canned. Let's called it "conserved," to honor its inspiration, the old Italian tradition of preserving meat under olive oil, sometimes called conservata.
Especially now, when Southern California's summer albacore run is heating up and neighborhood fishermen are bringing home their catch, this is something you've just got to try.
Here's how you do it: Cut fresh tuna in big chunks and poach it in olive oil flavored with garlic and spices over very low heat just until the meat begins to flake -- about 15 minutes. Cool in the pan and then store, in the flavored olive oil, in the refrigerator.
The flavor is rich and pure without a trace of fishiness and the texture is downright meaty -- none of that mealiness you sometimes get with commercial stuff. And because you're controlling the process, you can flavor the oil any way you want, lending subtle hints you won't find in regular canned tuna.
You can use this conserved tuna in any way you'd use the best canned stuff: make a salad with potatoes and green beans as they do in southern France, or with white beans as they do in Spain. Mix it into a spicy fresh tomato sauce for pasta. Fold it into a caper-y mayonnaise. Stuff it into roasted red peppers. Or just top bruschetta with little chunks of it, being sure to spoon over some of that good olive oil.
About the only thing you can't do with this tuna is stick it in the pantry and forget about it. Because tuna and other meats are so low in the acidity that would prevent bacterial growth, they must be pressure-canned to be absolutely safe.
On the other hand, conserved tuna will last quite nicely in the refrigerator for a week or more. And this process is so easy you can make it with only a pound or two at a time. Once you taste it, there's no way that much will last that long.
This quickly conserved tuna has become popular with some chefs and has been included in several recent restaurant cookbooks. I found examples in "The Young Man and the Sea" by David Pasternack of New York's Esca, the upcoming "A16: Food & Wine" by San Francisco's Nate Appleman and Shelley Lindgren, and the ever-reliable "The Zuni Cafe Cookbook" by Judy Rodgers.
As I tried out the recipes, the first thing that became apparent was how flexible the technique is. You can cook the tuna briefly or for a long time. You can cook it in water or you can cook it in oil. You can flavor the oil or you can leave it plain.
All of the techniques work, though each results in a slightly different dish. Cooked in water, tuna tastes more purely of fish and the texture is firmer and meatier. Cooked in oil, the flavor is more complex and the texture is softer and richer. Cooked for a long time in oil, the tuna absorbs even more of the garlic and spice flavors, but dries out a bit. Cooked briefly, the flavor isn't quite as developed, but the texture is nicer.
In the end, I settled on adapting a little bit from several different recipes, cooking the tuna relatively briefly in olive oil flavored with garlic, red pepper, a bay leaf and a big piece of lemon peel.
Along the way, I learned a couple of things. First of all, the quality of the tuna you start with does make a difference but thankfully not as much as you might think. This is important, because fresh tuna can cost the Earth these days.
Though the yellowfin tuna that cost almost $30 a pound at the gourmet grocery was a bit richer in flavor and texture, the $6-a-pound frozen albacore from Trader Joe's was still very, very good (after thawing overnight in the refrigerator).
The best option, of course, is having a neighbor who's a fisherman. If you should find yourself in that happy situation, be sure to ask for the fattier belly portion, which they will probably be only too happy to give you (most folks prefer the leaner steaks).
Cut the fish into the biggest chunks you can while maintaining something approaching a cube shape (this will ensure that it cooks evenly). If the tuna's about an inch thick, that's how wide you should cut the chunks. Generally, the bigger the chunks, the better, up to about 2 inches.
It's important to use as small a pan as will hold the tuna and to crowd the chunks of fish together as tightly as possible. Use only enough oil to cover; the flavor seems to be richer this way. I used a 1-quart saucepan to cook 1 poundof tuna, and it took only 1 cup of oil.
Probably the most important thing is controlling the temperature. If the oil gets too hot, the tuna will turn tough. Start the fish in cold oil and cook it over the lowest flame you can manage.
If you see more than an occasional bubble, use a flame-tamer to reduce the heat further.
Turn the heat off as soon as the fish begins to flake. It will continue to cook slowly as the oil cools. The color will change from pink or red to creamy tan, but it will certainly never brown unless the oil is way too hot.
Once the tuna is cool enough to handle, transfer it to a clean, lidded container and pour as much of the flavored cooking oil as will fit over the top. Whatever is left over, spoon onto warm toast, including as much of the sludge of seasonings from the bottom of the pan as you can.
Eat this by yourself and try to keep from laughing. Fishermen are notorious for keeping their secrets, and fish cooks deserve a few of their own.
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This rich soup is hearty enough to serve as a main course. Dried tangerine peel and star anise impart an exotic note, and pickled mustard greens provide contrast to the beefy broth.
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The forum that I found most interesting in the monetary policy conference was the opening dinner led by Jeffrey Frieden, who spoke on macroeconomic international cooperation between states. During the forum I was pleased to note just how much I understood about what he was describing from what I've been learning in my classes. In his opening remarks on the status quo of international political economic politics, for example, he alluded to the two prevailing theories of the modern age, one of which is too cynical, the other too utopian. It was exciting to catch the reference to the international relations theory which I'm learning about in one class, and how that pertains to real-world dynamics in IPE of which I'm learning in another. To hear him explain how multilateral liberalization and exchange rates lead to lower consumer prices domestically, was sometime I (who until this semester has zero knowledge of economics) had just learned a couple weeks prior in the case of China artificially undervaluing their currency for the benefit of both Chinese industries and American consumers. The brief discussion he gave on Great Britain as being the only historical example of unilateral liberalization was something I was vaguely aware of from Britain's hegemonic precedent but hadn't fully considered until then. The phenomenon of large consumer benefit and great industrial cost (which ultimately affects policy-making more drastically) poses an interesting question for me as to why multilateral liberalization in two different markets can offset the relative harms. Surely Chinese consumers must be hard-pressed with the rise of American partnership in business just as American businesses struggle to compete with foreign prices of labor and manufacturing. What makes multilateral liberalization and cooperation fundamentally different or less harmful than a purely domestic market policy, where in Frieden's terms there "are more winners than losers?"
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The most provocative section of Frieden's discussion however, was his speculation towards the end on how this should impact policy –in effect his argument. From what I understood, he made the claim that since leading banks don't factor domestic economic impact into their behavior they should not be expected to contribute in any significant way to domestic policy. The nature of a bank, as with any corporation, is to maximize the profits of today in order to stay afloat in the economy. The lack of foresight therefore is not irresponsible so much as it reflects the prioritization of survival. Thus the burden of national, long term best interest, he argued, should fall on politicians who are more equipped to consider bigger-picture impacts of economic policies. The idea of international macroeconomic cooperation comes into play when politicians could be influenced by the approval of their congregation from said collaboration. I believe the term he used was "public attractiveness;" though, I'd be curious to know how much of politician's constant striving for re-election that Frieden considered in making this theory. His argument that banks are not fit to make long-term decisions because of the competitive nature of their environment and their constant plight for self-preservation seems to hold especially too in the political arena as well. In terms of the broader analysis of international relations I must admit that I am encouraged to see him taking a stance in favor of being "too utopian" than "too cynical." From what little I've learned about international relations liberalism seems to be the laughing stock of the majority of experts, and, perhaps in the naivety of youth, I would like to maybe enter the arena one day with the hope of making international interdependence more feasible than the pipe-dream that it is largely perceived as at present. Without a doubt there were a lot of points to Frieden's argument that I didn't understand fully or that just passed me by, but in the bigger picture I have to agree with the merits of his proposal more so than the downsides, and I'm very appreciative of the opportunity to hear his thoughts at the forum.


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The green machine moves in mysterious ways these days, wind power, wave power and now solar power, of course there is nothing new about solar power, we all know that it does not work, if you want to power a calculator then that is fine, but anything substantial like a light bulb of heating then […]
Vacuum Innovation: A Brick-Laying, Cleaning Machine
March 18, 2007 by zac439 | Leave a Comment
Changing the vacuum bag or cleaning the inside of a bag-less vacuum can be a real hassle. The mess and dirt the time and effort, not to mention the mess from bag-less vacuums, make cleaning your house a chore. With the invention of the LG Kompressor, you can now clean your house- and forget about […]
Get In The Game: Use Your Head
March 16, 2007 by zac439 | 3 Comments
Emotiv Systems has recently unveiled a revolutionary creation at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. This new gadget, nicknamed "Project Epoc", can literally take commands from you- without a controller. The new product can do many things- move objects in a virtual world, show facial expressions based on your mood, respond to emotions like […]
Adidas Introduces Virtual Shoe Fitting
March 10, 2007 by J1mmy | Leave a Comment
Quite a few of us probaly hate shoe shopping. Having to try on about 273 shoes to finally find one you like slightly, really isn`t the best way to enjoy your saturday afternoon. All this is about to change thanks to Adidas and their virtual show fitting. They have introduced a virtual mirror at its […]
Samsungs new broad 256 channel display driver.
March 5, 2007 by davidallen | Leave a Comment
Announced today in Seoul, Korea, the well known company Samsung Electronics have announced that they have a new broad 256 channel display driver for plasma display panels, is now in mass production. This new driver will reduce the power consumption required to production the crystal clear displays. Over the past couple of the year the […]
South Koreans Have a New Battle Tank.
March 3, 2007 by Static | Leave a Comment
Do you remember the days when you had that little mini tank and a remote controller? You'd make it roam the grass, but when it hit a little puddle, the next thing you remember would be crying? Then, you'd wish that you actually had a real tank fully loaded with Magnums and AK-47s sticking out, […]
Ubiko To The Rescue!
March 2, 2007 by Static | Leave a Comment
Sooner or later, it seems as if fire sprinkler manufacturing companies will be out of business. Kyushu University and the Kanazawa Institute of Technology teamed up with a robot manufacturer known as tmsuk to develop a robot that can detect smoke when there is a fire. Ubiko, which is the robot that was developed, is […]
Sony's high speed 1/1.8″ CMOS sensor
February 18, 2007 by poeloq | Leave a Comment
Sony has announced a new high speed 1/1.8″ CMOS sensor, which is an important because it offers seamless transition between still image capture and video capture with up to 6.4 Megapixel and 60 frames/second (~=380 Megapixel/second). More technical information over at Digital Photography News.
AMD licenses technology
February 15, 2007 by davidallen | Leave a Comment
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) will be making its technology for mobile devices available for licensing, the first company to sign up for this licensing opportunity is the Swiss company STMicroeletronics who have licensed the graphic cores for 2D and 3D graphics and other associated software, the company will be using this technology in conjunction with […]Next Page »


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BROWNSTOWN TWP. -- "I can say with 100 percent confidence that we have found Lizzie Mae."
Deputy Police Chief Robert Matthews uttered the words township police have wanted to announce for more than six years now.
The remains of Lizzie Mae Collier-Sweet were found during a search of one of the drains behind the Dawnshire subdivision just east of Allen and Sibley roads.
An extensive search involving the Wayne County and Downriver Mutual Aid dive teams was conducted at about 10 a.m. on several drains.
The teams focused on the Blakely, Clark, Marsh Creek and Gudith drains in the wooded areas between Sibley and King roads.
Plans for the search were set in motion after a human skull was brought into the Police Department on Feb. 15 by a hunter who was searching for deer antlers.
The search covered about 80 acres.
Collier-Sweet went missing Jan. 8, 2007, after a fire at her house. Her husband, Roger Sweet, has been a suspect in his disappearance. After Collier-Sweet's disappearance, police reopened an investigation into the death of Sweet's first wife, which originally had been ruled accidental.
Sweet was convicted in that case and is in prison.
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I got an invite from InterFM to attend Whiskey Live! , at Tokyo Big Sight in Odaiba. Although during the course of the day I realised that this is not really my choice of alcohol, I had a really good time soaking in the vibe of a surprisingly packed joint.
I don't know about you but I never pictured the average Japanese person to drink whiskey and if they did, I imagined they might be old, crusty guys. There was quite a mixed range of people. Even quite a few not too unattractive ladies.
A few guys had pen and paper scribbling down the details of what they'd just drunk. To me most of them tasted pretty much the same. One felt like it was evaporating in my mouth, it was so strong of alcohol. Unfortunately most of the samples were given out straight, while I prefer a mixer. Thankfully Suntory and Chivas gave out their offerings as "highballs" (mixes with soda), which made it go down much easier.
It didn't hurt that they had a few booth girls to make Chivas even more memorable to me.
It was nice that along with the entry ticket I also had a meal ticket for a nearby restaurant. No good drinking on an almost empty stomach. With the ticket we got a Whiskey magazine and a nice glass too.
They had an interesting idea of allowing artists to paint something while drinking whiskey for "inspiration". The Japanese painter did something pretty cool. The token gaijin did.. well, I'll leave that up to you!
There was also a surprise celebrity, Konishiki Yasokichi who was a special guest. They got him to taste/judge a whiskey cocktail. You can see him here along with InterFM DJ, Guy Perryman and Mari Stone.
The event was on from between 11am until 6:15pm, so as you can imagine there were a LOT of drunk Japanese sleeping in the foyer. The security was going up to them periodically to see if they were still alive.
I arrived there about 1pm. I decided to go to Odaiba by walking along the Rainbow Bridge again. This time I brought my SLR to do much better pictures and video.
An easy way to get there is to catch a Yamanote line train to the Tamachi station. From there, go out the east Shibaura exit and continue in the same southeast direction in a bee-line to the base of the bridge (Shibaura Anchorage).
Once off the bridge, I walked towards the ferris wheel and then along the Bridge of Dreams. Hotel Trusty (yes, that's seriously what it's called. I don't know who makes these names up) is an interesting looking building. In the gap you can see Tokyo Big Sight.
Seems like this place is quite popular with cosplayers. It wasn't too hard to find young people dressed up.
By the time Whiskey Live! finished up, I was nicely intoxicated. Until March the Rainbow Bridge is only open until 530pm. I COULD have caught the monorail back, but being me, I walked to Shin Kiba station to catch the subway directly back home.
Actually I could have got on at Tatsumi, slightly closer but I didn't know, nor see the station entrance there. I strongly discourage going this way though. I walked about an hour through a highway wasteland of nothing. Not much to see around these parts. Lucky I was too drunk to care.
Nevertheless I had a great day out. I want to extend my thanks to Guy and InterFM for the tickets. If they read this I don't mind if they throw tickets to any other upcoming functions my way. *hint hint*
Sunday, 21 February 2010
Somewhere Over The Whiskey Rainbow
I got an invite from InterFM to attend Whiskey Live! , at Tokyo Big Sight in Odaiba. Although during the course of the day I realised that this is not really my choice of alcohol, I had a really good time soaking in the vibe of a surprisingly packed joint.
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2 flee Texas jail, 1 faces capital murder charge
Two inmates with long criminal histories - including one awaiting trial for capital murder - were the focus of a manhunt involving dogs and a helicopter Tuesday after they escaped from an East Texas jail.
Brian Allen Tucker of Sulphur Springs and John Marlin King of Cumby escaped from the Hopkins County Jail around 8 a.m. Tuesday, officials with the Hopkins County Sheriff's Office said. Dispatcher Beth Renfro said a maintenance person noticed a problem with a fence around a recreation yard used by female inmates at the jail in Sulphur Springs, about 75 miles northeast of Dallas.
The two men are believed to be wearing white T-shirts and boxer shorts, Deputy Alvin Jordan said. Their black-and-white jail uniforms were found on rail tracks a short distance east of the jail.
Sheriff's deputies are combing through the woods east of the jail and have set up a perimeter around the area, Jordan said.
Tucker was being held on $1 million bond in the 2011 death of Bobby Riley of Mahoney. Riley was found strangled in his home and some music instruments and firearms had been stolen. Jury selection in his murder trial was set to begin June 3.
Tucker was previously convicted of burglary and driving while intoxicated, and has been arrested several times for violating parole.
King was being held on several charges, including evading arrest, burglary and possession of a controlled substance. He's been convicted previously of burglary and possession of a controlled substance. According to court documents, he pleaded guilty last month to the possession charge as a habitual offender and received a sentence of 40 years in prison.
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Brennan: Jordan Spieth could be young star golf needs
AUGUSTA, Ga. – At exactly 6:22 p.m. ET Saturday, Jordan Spieth's name popped to the top of the leaderboard at the 2014 Masters.
Bubba Watson had just bogeyed the 16th hole, falling into a tie with Spieth, but because the 20-year-old Texan was in the process of finishing with a par at 18 and farther along in his round, he received top-billing.
Little more than a year ago, Spieth was hoping to earn his PGA Tour card through the Web.com Tour. Now he goes into Sunday tied for the lead of the Masters, for when the third round was over, Watson could only match Spieth's total of 5-under par, ensuring that Spieth would be playing in the final pairing on the final day of his first Masters.
Perhaps even more important, a major tournament that is so desperately in need of a serious jolt of star power without having either Tiger Woods or Phil Mickelson here on the weekend for the first time in 20 years now just might have it in Spieth. Were he to win, he would become the youngest Masters champion ever, beating Tiger, circa 1997, by nearly seven months. If you're missing a couple of big-name veterans, replacing them with the newest new thing isn't a bad alternative.
"I'm 20 and this is the Masters, and this is a tournament I've always dreamt about and, like Mr. (Ben) Crenshaw has always said, it brings out more emotion than ever in somebody," Spieth said after his second consecutive round of 70 followed his opening 71 Thursday.
"I'm able to take a lot of confidence out of today, a lot of positives," he said. "I wanted to get into contention, not just as a goal to get into contention, but to see how I can perform on a Sunday. Today was a day to stay patient and try and get myself a later tee time even than today, and that goal was accomplished. And tomorrow is about seeing how I can control my game and emotions out on the golf course against guys that have won here recently. That doesn't necessarily mean that they have an advantage in any way. I think that I'm very confident in the way things are going, and really looking forward to tomorrow."
Can you believe a 20-year-old who didn't make it through the second stage of Q School in 2012 and had no playing status on the PGA Tour at the start of the 2013 season is talking like this, with such poise and confidence? Or that he is in this position?
Even though Spieth is the only player besides Woods to have won multiple U.S. Junior Amateur titles, there is very little else about his rise to the top of the third-round leaderboard that is reminiscent of Tiger.
He was without a tour card when he started the 2013 season, but a tie for second in the Puerto Rico Open that March changed everything. Then he won the John Deere Classic in July by sinking a bunker shot to get into what turned into a five-hole playoff. At 19, he became the youngest winner on the PGA Tour in 82 years.
He then became the youngest player in U.S. Presidents Cup history and has finished in the top 10 four times this year on tour. But everything pales in comparison to what he has done here this week. The first two days, playing with Rory McIlroy, he beat him by seven strokes. On Saturday, he played with defending champion Adam Scott and beat him by six strokes.
Whether this can last is anyone's guess, but so far it's a dream come true for a kid from Dallas who has grown up trying to picture what it might be like to win the Masters.
"You draw on memories of guys that have made the putts on the last hole, from Phil to Tiger to last year with Adam on 18 and then on 10," said Spieth, who could be the first Masters first-timer to win since Fuzzy Zoeller in 1979. "You just dream of what it would mean and how cool it would be and all those putts I hit when I was real young with my friends trying to make it to win the Masters. I would love the opportunity to test it tomorrow."
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CONGRATULATIONS TO WINNERS Dawn Standke, Lori Key, Robert Bornstein, Holly Chaille, Debby West, Donna Walter, Jennifer Lachman and Amy Castillo. That's right, EIGHT of you. A tie of sorts. Each time I read the comments, I kept adding someone to the winners' list. I figured, Sunset is being very generous, so what's three more books? And if need be, I'll pick up the tab. Your community gardens and the people you feed from your garden…well, I wish you ALL could have won. As a consolation, I'll post Sunset's Chocolate Zucchini Rum Cake Recipe here in time for zucchini season. Some of you offered to send me your extra zucchinis, ha. (You were kidding, right?) Many thanks for visiting GGW. Come back and see us. You won't want to miss my next post, on bizarre cactus. Love you guys!– Debra
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|Essential hypertension
Hypertension is referred to as essential, or primary, when the physician is unable to identify a specific cause. It is by far the most common type of high blood pressure. While the causes of this type are unknown, they are likely to be a complex combination of genetic, environmental, and other factors.
Genetic factors
Several genetic factors play a major role in essential hypertension. One system of particular interest involves the genes that regulate a group of hormones known collectively as the angiotensin-renin-aldosterone system. This system plays a role in all aspects of blood pressure control, including how narrow or wide the blood vessels are, and how the body manages salt and water.
Experts believed that this system may have evolved millions of years ago, having the body hold on to salt and water to protect early humans during times of drought or stress. However, as humans have become more accustomed to industrialized living, this primitive system may make certain people more susceptible to developing hypertension.
Inherited abnormalities in the nervous system
Studies suggest that some people with essential hypertension may inherit abnormalities of the sympathetic nervous system. They are therefore more sensitive to the effects of adrenaline. This is the part of the nervous system that controls heart rate, blood pressure, and how narrow or wide the blood vessels are.
High blood pressure is strongly associated with diabetes, both types 1 and 2. For people with type 1 diabetes, kidney damage is generally the cause of high blood pressure.
For people with type 2 diabetes, being overweight or obese is associated with high blood pressure. However, even thin people with type 2 diabetes often have high blood pressure. Scientists believe that the inability of the body to use insulin (called insulin resistance, the cause of type 2 diabetes) may lead to retention of sodium -- a contributor to high blood pressure. Increased amounts of a protein called albumin in the urine is a warning that blood pressure and diabetes is harming the kidney and increasing the risk of other organ damage.
Diabetes in combination with high blood pressure is particularly dangerous. People with these two conditions have a higher risk of developing life-threatening problems such as heart disease, kidney failure, and stroke.
Obesity, on its own, has a number of possible effects that could lead to high blood pressure. For example, being overweight means the heart has to pump more blood to supply the extra tissue in your body. The larger blood volume increases the work of the heart and the pressure on blood vessels. Other factors, such as insulin resistance, abnormal fat regulation, and breathing problems during sleep, may contribute to the long-term risk of high blood pressure. Fat cells also produce hormones that may affect blood pressure. Weight loss alone can lead to marked reductions in blood pressure.
Low levels of nitric oxide
Nitric oxide (a gas) is produced in the body and helps keep muscle cells that line blood vessels relaxed and flexible. It may also help prevent blood from clotting. Low levels of nitric oxide have been measured in some people with high blood pressure (particularly in African-Americans) and may be an important factor in essential hypertension.
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