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Who says crime doesn't pay? Probably not Sergey Pautov.
He stole seven Scratchers lottery tickets from a Rocklin mini-mart on May 29, 2011. He didn't hit the jackpot with the tickets, but he tapped Placer County's till for $825,000 because an off-duty sheriff's sergeant shot him three times in the posterior as he tried to flee.
In a federal civil rights lawsuit, Pautov sought money to compensate him for damages to his body and psyche, as well as "lost earnings" and "loss of earning capacity."
Pautov's employment prospects were not that great before he was shot. Although he is only 23, he has compiled a record of arrests and convictions going back to his juvenile days. In fact, while the Placer County criminal case was pending, he was being prosecuted in Sacramento County for three other lottery ticket thefts at gas station mini marts. He pleaded no contest to one of them a year ago and was sentenced to four months in jail as part of five years on probation.
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Pautov, of Rancho Cordova, was sentenced March 27 in Placer Superior Court for the Rocklin theft, given nine months in jail as part of three years on probation.
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text: Mortality Measurement: The Veterans Health Affairs Experience in Measu Presentations from a November 2008 meeting to discuss issues related to mortality measures. By Marta L. Render, M.D. and Peter Almenoff, M.D.IntroductionThe Veterans Health Affairs (VA) began a national program to measure and report risk adjusted mortality and length of stay in its intensive care units (ICU) in October of 2004 expanding to all patients admitted for acute medical or surgical conditions in October of 2008. The program, the VA Inpatient Evaluation Center (IPEC), uses a validated risk measure.1-3 The VA IPEC uses electronic data to measure, people resources to drive change. This brief paper provides an overview of the VA risk methods and lessons learned since implementation.Risk Adjustment MethodologyThe hallmark of the VA risk model is its reliance solely on electronic elements from the VA medical record. Data is directly extracted from the patient treatment file, patient file, laboratory file, and radiology file of each site using customized programming and sent encrypted to the central data repository located at the Cincinnati VA Medical Center. Diagnosis, comorbid disease burden, source of admission (emergency room/outpatient clinic, operating room, nursing home, ward, or outside hospital) are included as categorical variables, while age and the worst measured value of 11 laboratory tests (sodium, blood urea nitrogen, creatinine, bilirubin, albumin, glucose, hematocrit, white blood cell count, pH/paCO2, and PaO2) are treated as cubic splines. Patients are assigned to one mutually exclusive diagnosis using ICD-9-CM coding from the ICU bedsection. Comorbid disease burden is assessed using Elixhauser's approach.4-5 The risk model in intensive care unit patients has excellent calibration and discrimination when used to predict hospital mortality (validation set of 220,813 cases: c statistic 0.892, Hosmer Lemeshow Chi square 376) or mortality at 30 days (validation set of 193,944: C statistic 0.87, Hosmer Lemeshow goodness of fit statistic chi square 161). Advantages of use of a wholly electronic dataset includes access to reliable laboratory values, improved face validity, reduced cost compared to manual data extraction with the attendant opportunity to extend mortality measurement across an entire system, and ease of updating the models.Preferred attributesVA Risk modelsICUAcute CareClear definition of patient sampleAll patients admitted to any ICU in the VHA, defined by treating specialty in EMR.All patients admitted to acute care, excluding rehab, psych, NH.Clinical coherence of variablesIncludes variables available in the EMR and included in other ICU risk models, substitutes laboratory abnormalities reflecting variation in organ perfusion for physiology variables.Sufficiently high quality and timely dataData directed extracted from hospital computer system, reported quarterly.Appropriate reference time before which coviarates derived and after which outcome occursLab values from 24 hours surrounding ICU admission; Outcome hospital and 30-day mortality.Lab values from 24 hours surrounding admission to hospital - 30 day mortality after admission to hospitalApplication of analytic approach accounting for nested dataSMR's and 95% confidence intervals using 2 level random effects model.SMR's and 95% confidence intervals using 2 level random effects model.Methodology disclosurePublished models and updates. Measures Derived from Mortality DataFrom the risk model, for each intensive care or hospital, a standardized mortality ratio (SMR, observed/predicted deaths) is determined using a 2-level hierarchical random effects model for outcomes of death at hospital discharge and death at 30 days from admission. The random effects model accounts for nesting of data in each ICU or hospital to improve estimate accuracy. An observed minus predicted length of stay is also determined. Use of the difference between predicted and observed length of stay allows estimation of the cost avoidance or opportunity loss when a unit OMELOS is multiplied by the daily cost of an ICU day and the annual census. We also now track unadjusted mortality at hospital discharge and 30 days for both the acute care and ICU patients and have piloted the unadjusted mortality of patients transferred from the ward to the ICU as an indicator of the ability of a hospital to detect and rescue deteriorating patients. Finally, using the same risk model, we created a physiologic case mix index where the numerator was the predicted mortality for patients in the specific ICU and the denominator the predicted mortality for patients in all VA ICUs. Because the proportion of operative cases (those with surgery in the 24 hours surrounding ICU admission) significantly influenced results when aggregated with non-operative cases, case mix indices were created separately for operative and non-operative and then a weighted measure based on the proportion of each was determined.ResultsThe coefficients or weights of the predictors of the model, developed on a pilot dataset from 2002-2004, were fixed to allow tracking of ICU performance overtime, and SMR drifted significantly downward. This drift made interpretation of the SMR more difficult. For example in 2007, the VA SMR nationally was 0.8. Hospitals or ICUs with SMR only slightly above 1 then appeared on face to be "average" (where SMR of 1 = observed/predicted deaths) but in fact might have a 20% difference in risk adjusted mortality. To avoid confusion, the risk models are now recalibrated at the beginning of each year on the prior two years data, and the fixed weights of the predictors then applied to the new year as well as the prior years (to 2002). The reason for the downward drift is unknown, although temporally related to VA initiatives to improve implementation of evidenced based practices. Standardized mortality ratios varied somewhat based on the type of the ICU and level of complexity of the ICU. The ability to stratify by type or level of ICU and create benchmarks that were ICU specific improved the early face validity and acceptance of this measurement approach.Figure 1. VA SMR30 and SMR HospIn some ICUs, there was a dramatic difference between the SMR that predicted death at hospital discharge (SMRhosp) from the SMR predicting death at 30 days (SMR30). Anecdotal follow-up suggested that variation in discharge practices related to the availability of long term acute care units and palliative care units were important in hospitals with large differences when their SMRhosp was subtracted from SMR30. Variation in unadjusted mortality of patients transferred from the ward to the ICU also varied significantly (2004 : overall 20%, range 6-36%, 2008: overall 16%, range 4-32%) and has fallen across the VA coincident with implementation of rapid response teams.Figure 2. Variation in SMR Stratified by Type of ICU and Level of ComplexityUse of multiple mortality measures improves confidence in using the results. For instance, a small ICU with a higher SMR at hospital discharge and a normal SMR at 30 days likely has "normal' performance" and the high SMRhosp is related to limited resource for long term acute care patients (on vents, severe debilitation). When death occurs in a patient at this hospital even after a year of inpatient care, it counted toward that hospital's mortality; while similar patients in other hospitals were "discharged" when sent to long term acute care hospitals or rehab facilities, and counted as survivors. The signal to noise ratio appeared improved when multiple mortality measures were tracked and concordant (SMR at hospital discharge, unadjusted mortality, mortality at transfer to the ICU from the ward). Similarly, given an imperfect model, when VA case mix was low and SMR elevated again the signal increased. The VA case mix also allowed tracking of the relative severity of illness of hospitalized patients in a system with hospitals with varying services and complexity.MeasureSMRSMR30Unadj HospMortUnadj 30dMortUnadj TXMortCase MixYear2006Hosp 10.9891.04110.54%12.49%25.16%1.318Hosp 20.8220.6818.85%7.87%16.67%1.401Hosp 31.0551.03813.04%13.85%29.67%1.456Hosp 41.1580.99711.43%11.18%33.33%0.900Hosp 51.3321.29112.42%13.80%24.18%1.056Year2007Hosp 10.6860.6807.50%8.25%15.41%1.469Hosp 20.6830.7017.04%7.95%16.23%1.396Hosp 30.9760.93210.67%10.75%26.14%1.430Hosp 41.2441.03111.52%10.53%30.36%0.970Hosp 51.2991.25712.62%13.93%23.60%1.101Year2008Hosp 10.7510.7358.73%9.57%16.89%1.365Hosp 20.5090.4975.26%5.76%12.09%1.303Hosp 30.6910.7847.40%9.39%17.17%1.296Hosp 40.8240.7708.20%9.62%16.90%0.953Hosp 51.1991.17211.95%14.02%20.21%1.173Lessons LearnedFollowing 4 intense years of building a system that measures and reports risk adjusted mortality in 138 hospitals nationally, we have some lessons regarding structure of a national measurement system outside of the VA that might be valid. First, a risk adjustment model that predicts death at 30-days in addition to a model predicting death at hospital discharge will be important to avoid gaming. Next, resources and expertise to support recalibration of the weights of the model at appropriate time frame, using a large dataset will be needed as part of the infrastructure of the program. Use of laboratory data which provides a surrogate for variation in physiology will likely 1) improve face validity, 2) is probably possible now given the use of computerized systems for laboratory data retrieval in most hospitals, and 3) likely neutralizes the impact of gaming using administrative data. Fourth, regionalization of the results (as has been done with Healthcompare) and/ or stratification by mission or complexity of facility will improve the usability of the results. Finally, because all performance measures inherently will be gamed, thinking about mortality measures as a bundle of indicators rather than a single gold standard might improve the information created by the models.References 1. Render, M.L., et al., Automated computerized intensive care unit severity of illness measure in the Department of Veterans Affairs: preliminary results. SISVistA Investigators. Scrutiny of ICU Severity Veterans Health Systems Technology Architecture. Crit Care Med 2000. 28(10): p. 3540-6.2. Render, M.L., et al., Variation in outcomes in Veterans Affairs intensive care units with a computerized severity measure. Crit Care Med 2005. 33(5): p. 930-9. 3. Render, M.L., et al., Veterans Affairs intensive care unit risk adjustment model: validation, updating, recalibration. Crit Care Med 2008. 36(4): p. 1031-42. 4. Elixhauser, A., et al., Comorbidity measures for use with administrative data. Med Care 1998. 36(1): p. 8-27. 5. Johnston, J.A., et al., Impact of different measures of comorbid disease on predicted mortality of intensive care unit patients. Med Care 2002. 40(10): p. 929-40.Current as of February 2009Return to ContentsProceed to Next Section Current as of March 2009 Internet Citation: Mortality Measurement: The Veterans Health Affairs Experience in Measu. March 2009. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/professionals/quality-patient-safety/quality-resources/tools/mortality/VAMort.html


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In a new scientific study, conducted 31 college-age students, experts discovered that more than half of teenagers listen to their music player on the volumes in five years (for example), leading to massive loss of hearing. The science team, based at the University of Southern Mississippi, says the new study was done on a small lot of people, institutions and the lab was not necessarily an expression of people's behavior would normally take when listening to their MP3 players.
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This is not the first study to illustrate this danger. In Europe, plans similar studies for a while, and the European Commission is currently forcing carmakers to improve safety and limited in their music player to add. Of course the Commission can not impose a total ban, so that users will be able to protect and listen to a maximum volume. But EU officials say it still counts as preventive measures against a growing phenomenon that millions of teenagers and children at risk of losing their hearing see.
According to the United States Department of Labor's Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA), a 100 dB level should only be endured by the workers for less than two hours, while a 115-dB level in more than 15 minutes. On the decibel scale is a 10-db increase of ten times the sound becomes more intense, said the ministry. Some researchers add that in the case of children, it is very difficult for parents or teachers to talk about when listening to music at volumes that could be dangerous.
Lead researcher and audiologist Goshorn Edward explains: "Previously, it was in the past, so that [in] somebody who goes around with a boom box or radio, you hear how they create volume, and if you are an authority as a parent or a teacher or supervisor, you can tell them that too high. "More information about the study will be presented on 27 October in San Antonio, Texas, at the 158th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America


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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)--Venezuelan democracy activists used the anniversary of a dictator's overthrow in 1958 to mount protests against Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in Caracas, as well as Miami, Fla.; Madrid, Spain; and Bogota, Colombia.
Jan. 23 marked the 53rd anniversary of Gen. Marcos Perez Jimenez' ouster and the establishment of democracy in that country. Chavez' opponents compare him to that dictator, saying both men censored news media, jailed adversaries and violated basic freedoms.
"The big lesson from Jan. 23 is that we must fight for democracy and freedom every day," opposition lawmaker Maria Corina Machado said, according to the Associated Press. "In a country where dissidence is constantly attacked, there's no true democracy," rally organizer Virginia Zamora said.
Chavez' allies also took to the streets of the capital, rejecting claims that "El Comandante," as the former paratrooper is popularly known, is becoming increasingly authoritarian in his efforts to impose Cuban-style socialism on the South American country, the AP reported.
"Chavez has demonstrated again and again that he's a democrat. It's absurd that some think he's a dictator," Chavez supporter Alejandra Gonzalez said, according to the AP.
"Democracy was lost in Venezuela a long time ago," Marcos Ferreyra, a former Venezuelan soldier who demonstrated in Miami, told the AP.
CHRISTIAN WOMAN MARTYRED IN SOMALIA -- A mother of four was killed for her Christian faith by Islamic extremists Jan. 7 on the outskirts of Mogadishu, Somalia.
Asha Mberwa, 36, was killed in Warbhigly village when members of the al Shabaab militia cut her throat in front of villagers, the Compass Direct News reported Jan. 17. A relative, who asked to remain anonymous, said al Shabaab learned Mbwera had become a Christian by monitoring her phone calls and the woman had received threatening messages. Mbwera had phoned the relative Jan. 5 to try to make arrangements for moving her family out of the area.
A "good Samaritan" in Mogadishu was caring for Abwera's four children -- ages 12, 8, 6 and 4 -- and her husband (who was not home at the time she was apprehended) has fled to an unknown location, Compass Direct reported.
1,500-YEAR-OLD CHURCH FOUND IN ISRAEL -- Israeli archaeologists announced they have been excavating a newly uncovered 1,500-year-old church building in the hills southwest of Jerusalem.
Researchers at the site initially thought the building, which sits on an uninhabited hill not far from an Israeli farming community, was a synagogue, until the dig revealed stones carved with crosses, the Associated Press reported. The ruin also contained a well-preserved mosaic floor with images of lions, foxes, fish and peacocks. Stone steps lead down to a small burial cave, which tradition says might have been the burial place of the Old Testament prophet Zechariah.
The Byzantine church building had been erected on top of another structure, dating 500 years earlier, the AP reported. Underneath the structure researchers found a network of tunnels they believe were used by Jewish rebels fighting Roman armies in the second century A.D.
Because Israel's Antiquities Authority discovered thieves had begun plundering the ruins, the site will be buried again until funding is obtained to open it as a tourist site, the AP said.
U.S. INTERVENES FOR JAILED AFGHAN BELIEVER -- The American embassy intervened on behalf of an Afghan Christian who was arrested in April 2010 after images of Afghans praying and being baptized were broadcast by a television station in Kabul.
Sayed Mussa, 46, was transferred to a detention center in Kabul in December from a prison where Mussa says he was beaten by guards and inmates, The New York Times reported. Mussa's family fled to Pakistan for safety and he told The Times he has not been represented by a lawyer.
During a reporter's interview with Mussa, a guard rose to beat the prisoner when he said he loved both the Quran and the Bible, The Times reported. The jail commander, who also was present for the interview, waved the guard back.
While a senior prosecutor told The Times Mussa might be released, diplomats have been unsuccessful in getting Mussa freed to seek asylum in another country. U.S. congressmen have expressed reservations about the Afghan government's failure to ensure religious freedom.
"We cannot justify taxpayer dollars going to a government that allows the same restrictions on basic human rights that existed under the Taliban," Reps. Trent Franks of Arizona and Doug Lamborn of Colorado wrote last fall to Ambassador Karl W. Eikenberry.
The country's 2004 constitution guarantees Afghans the freedom to exercise their faith, but it also says the courts may rely on Islamic Sharia law, strict versions of which consider leaving Islam an offense punishable by death, The Times noted.
The Afghan government has not executed anyone for religious crimes since the Taliban's fall, according to The Times, but radical elements in Afghan society exert great pressure on the government to punish people who criticize or leave Islam.
Mussa, an ethnic Hazara who grew up a Shiite Muslim, became intrigued by Christianity during Afghanistan's civil war when two foreign women braved gunfire to help a neighbor dig through the rubble of his home, looking for family members after his home was bombed by a jet fighter, The Times recounted.
"When I saw these women and their compassion for my people, it affected me," Mussa told The Times. "I asked people who they were and they said they are the followers of Jesus Christ." Musa located an Afghan Christian in his neighborhood, received a copy of the New Testament and eventually was baptized.
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Tichondrius is the #1 server for high level pvp and arena, anyone who wants to be taken seriously in Arena pvp goes there, thats why its population is so high.
that's a pretty baseless comment and has been for quite some time.
If you're that stupid that you pick a single server out of a whole battlegroup for those things, then I don't think you're one of those elite PVP'ers in the first place.
There's no world PVP either, that's long since been dead since the Arena came around. Any other server in the battlegroup would put you up against the same competition. Only a moron would transfer to a nearly full server (and thus create the stupid queue problem) JUST to PVP with the people on Tich.
I'm hoping enough people transfer tomorrow to just stop the queues. It's bad enough that the raid scene is pretty terrible for a full server, but it's even worse when I can't even get on the server in general. If it's still queued, I think I'm going to have to transfer just to not have to wait 20+ mins to log in every night, thus ruining my chances of raiding at all, ever.


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Why the stock market avoided a meltdown
Stocks looked headed toward an ugly day, until the head of the Boston Fed suggested higher interest rates are not yet necessary.
It didn't take the big dive. And it didn't take the big dive because interest rates stopped rising. The 10-year Treasury yield hit 2.17% just after the stock market opened and spent the rest of the day slipping back, ending at 2.124%
The Dow Jones industrials ($INDU), down as many as 180 points in the morning, slowly started to move up, finishing the day with a 107-point loss to 15,303 -- about where it finished on Friday.
Futures trading suggests a flat open for stocks on Thursday. And interest rates may be headed lower.
Is the stock market that obsessed with the level of interest rates? Of course -- and not always.
Right now, investors are trying to infer a certain date on when the Federal Reserve will start to raise domestic interest rates.
As Wednesday began, the story was that rates were about to burst. But Eric Rosengren of the Boston Federal Reserve Bank reminded investors in a Minneapolis speech that staring to dial back the Fed's policy now doesn't make sense. The economy hasn't clearly shown it can grow on its own, he said. After a few more months of consistent job growth, maybe the Fed can ease off the throttle.
There's an irony in this situation. All the gnashing of teeth may mean that interest rates may not rise much at all.
Interest rates will move up -- briefly -- and threaten to choke off the economy. Something like what's happening now happened a year ago. And the Fed will say -- as it has for several years now -- it will cut rates until it gets a sustainable recovery. And rates will move lower.
It sounds cynical, but that's how the central bankers of the world are playing the markets.
The bottom line of what happened on Wednesday was this. The market slumped in the morning and recovered about 40% of what it had lost in the early selling.
The Dow was off 107 points, not a great day but nowhere near the 265-point loss the index suffered on April 15.
The Standard & Poor's 500 ($INX) was off 20 points and ended down 11 points to 1,648. The Nasdaq Composite Index ($COMPX) had been down as many as 38 points; it ended the day with a loss of 21 points to 3,468.
The Dow is still up 16.8% for the year. The S&P 500 is up 15.6%, and the Nasdaq is up 14.8%.
But the interest-rate sensitive sectors of the market fared less well on Wednesday.
The Dow Jones Utility Average ($UTIL) was off 8 points to 485. It's off 9.8% this month.
The Philadelphia Housing Sector Index ($HGX) fell 6 points to 198. It's up 1.9% in May after rising 1.1% in April and 12% in the first quarter.
The iShares Dow Jones U.S. Home Construction exchange-traded fund (ITB), which tracks home builders, fell 77 cents to $24.70. While it is up modestly in May, it is still up 22.3% this year.
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Artificial and superficial placation isn't going to hold the inevitable off much longer. Can't we get RID of these grossly incompetent people and get the economy going again? It's impossible to paper push a recovery and while the over-educated are trying, the substance of our economy is dying. The world is more than a quadrillion in debts at near-zero interest rates. Imagine your life when they bump those rates to just 1%. Your paycheck would be next to nothing. Crash it now while you have something to gain... like a life.
Nothing like fueling the next big bubble with that cheap money!
Right now in my area they are building everything they can while the rate stays low. The new Exxon center project has over 15 crane going at it. As you drive down another freeway we have 8 large buildings going up. Each must be 12 floors or more. Then they are building warehouses left and right. We just had five new hospitals built within the last five years and now they say another one is coming soon.
What I would like to know is where are all of these people going to come from in order to run and work in these places? I thought they over built in the 80s and by the looks of this that was nothing. Pretty scary if you ask me. This means that a lot of construction workers are going to be without a job once these project finish and the rate goes back up.
Unfortunately, it is very clear that the stock market is not a reflecftion of the real economy.
While the recovery is there, it is slow and it is not creating the same type of jobs that existed pre 2008.
75% of the new created jobs are $35k orless per year, they are paying lower than the average salary in the US (around $49k).
At the current level, the market is grossly overvalued, and the indexes should be around 20% lower than where they are today.
We have a combination of companies hoarding cash and hiring and investing an absolute minumum and counting on diminishing productivity gains, and a market artificially maintained high with massive fcantral bank subsidies (QE3 in the US and other incentive accross the world).
Adding to the issue is a complete political gridlock in the US where nothing is happening except political gamesmanship, sequestration and other short term ridiculosities, a slowing economy in China and several large countries in Europe that are back into a recession (I doubth they ever went out of it to begin with).
This is not sustainable and will come to an end. We do not know when but we will experience a massive correction that will bring the markets back to reality.
A wake up call indeed. Everybody knows that as soon as the FED stops pumping money into Wall Street, this illusion of a recovery will go off a cliff that will make 1929, 2009, and the Great Depression look like a sunny day at the beach.
Maybe now Wall Street is starting to catch on. The bond market sure seems to be. Maybe Wall Street will do something about rescuing this economy, like creating jobs. Wait, can Wall Street create jobs? No, that's Ben Bernanke's job. Wall Street does nothing except create fake wealth and very real crashes. Wall Street creates nothing. Wall Street manufactures nothing, except maybe dissent.
This market is so manipulated. If Wall Street is so concerned about interest rates, why doesn't it just control them like they have controlled everything else?
Obama will never let the market fail he has too many good ole boys working there and the ones who caused the stock market problems to begin with are now working for Obama. Yea houses are selling, to investors. The average taxpayer can't afford a house even in this market and even if they have the down payment the banks won't talk to them. Got to love a government that is more interested in FU(KING the taxpayer than fixing the country.
"that's how the central bankers of the world are playing the markets"
Yes, they are "playing" the markets. At least they're admitting it now, which leaves us all with one dilemma. How do you beat a "player" in the market who can print all the money they need to "play" with. It's like allowing a gambler to keep doubling down on their bet at a table without limits until they finally draw a winning hand. I'm sure we all wish we could "play" by those rules. The problem is, once we accept it even for one "player", it's no longer a market.
The Markets continually have avoided a massive dive due to premature shorts and Global Feds funding Stocks purchases. Pull that away, the Markets drop like a brick.
Eventually the Global FEDS will lose Control, next stop, Global Depression.
Conservatives in banking threatening the President. Old news.
Conservatives got us into this mess, into Iraq, shipping jobs overseas et al.
Fear and involuntary servitude are their tools.
Imagine, they told us Wall Street bonuses had to be made or they would lose their good people.....to where?
Workers are stressed and most upper management is reaping (more like raping) the rewards.
Median income stagnant for 12 years, slightly higher under Obama.
Republicans want the Notch Babies on Social Security to die rather than pay them properly.
Republicans are the financial crisis in every boardroom.
These people invaded Iraq, the worst debacle in American History on a scale with the First Crusade.
The rich are buying congress and getting super wealthy on the backs of everyday Americans and the fools are loving it.
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Looking for something to do this weekend? Here are five fun, family-friendly events happening around the Bay Area. 1) Tricycle Music Fest West Finale, San Francisco. The San Francisco Public Library and Friends of the San Francisco Public Library present "the biggest little music series in San Francisco." This free family rock show series concludes […] [Read More]


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If you frequently ride a bike on asphalt, then it's entirely possible that sooner or later you're going to wipe out and end up with some nasty skin abrasions. While such "road rash" can occur just about anywhere on the body, the shoulders and hips are particularly prone to it, as they're the parts of the body upon which cyclists quite often end up sliding across the road. In order to help protect those areas, Scott Sports has announced a new line of cycling clothing made to protect against road rash ... with a little help from ceramics and carbon fiber. Read More
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The higher the temperature at which an aircraft engine is able to run, the more efficiently it uses fuel. In order to run at those high temperatures, the metal components of airplane engines are presently treated with heat-shielding coatings. Scientists at Sweden's University West, however, are developing a new such coating that is said to be far more effective than anything presently used – it could extend the service life of engines by 300 percent. Read More
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Using StarMine models, Thomson Reuters senior analyst John Kozey has come up with 28 businesses that share similar characteristics to those that were purchased by Warren Buffett in the past. In previous articles, I have talked about several stocks on the list, including Mosaic, Johnson Controls, Sysco, Archer Daniels Midland, Coca-Cola Enterprises and The Hershey Company. In this article, I will dig deeper into another business in the list, Parker-Hannifin (NYSE: PH), to see whether or not investors should initiate a long position in this stock now.
Business snapshot
Parker-Hannifin, incorporated in 1938, is considered a global leading manufacturer of motion and control technologies and systems, such as electromechanical controls and fluid power systems, in around 47 countries, operating in three main segments: Industrial, Aerospace, and Climate & Industrial Controls. The company has a wide, diverse customer base of about 465,000 customers, and no single customer represented more than 3% of the company's total sales.
The majority of its revenue, around $10 billion or 76.6% of total revenue, was generated from the Industrial segment. The Aerospace segment ranked second, with $2.1 billion in 2012 revenue, while the Climate & Industrial Controls segment contributed nearly $970 million in revenue. The Aerospace segment seems to be the most profitable segment, with the highest operating margin of 13.8%, while the operating margin of the Industrial segment and the Climate & Industrial Controls segment were 8.95% and 8.7%, respectively.
A consistent historical performance
Parker-Hannifin has demonstrated a great operating performance record in the past 10 years, with consistent growth in revenue, EPS, cash flow, and dividends.
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In the past 10 years, revenue has increased from $6.4 billion in 2003 to $13.15 billion in 2012, while EPS has grown 7 times from $1.12 to $7.45 in the same period. In 2012, it generated more than $1.3 billion in free cash flow, and paid $1.54 in dividend per share. Although the dividend has increased by nearly 240% over the past decade, Parker-Hannifin seems to be quite conservative in its dividend paying policy. Its payout ratio is currently quite low at 20.7%.
What interests me is that Parker-Hannifin has strong balance sheet. As of December 2012, it had $5.33 billion in total stockholders' equity, $500 million in cash, nearly $2 billion in debt, and $1.7 billion in pension and other benefits. In the past five years, the company has been quite active in buying back its stock. Thus, the treasury stock amount has increased from $863 million in 2008 to $2.25 billion in 2012.
Peer comparison
At the current trading price of around $98 per share, Parker-Hannifin is worth nearly $14.6 billion. The market is valuing the company at 8.52 times EV/EBITDA. Compared to its peers, including Emerson Electric (NYSE: EMR) and Honeywell International (NYSE: HON), Parker-Hannifin is the smallest company.
Emerson is trading at around $57 per share, with a total market cap of $41 billion. Emerson is a bit more expensive than Parker-Hannifin at 8.8 times EV/EBITDA. Honeywell is the biggest company among the three, with nearly $58 billion in total market cap. At the current trading price of around $74 per share, Honeywell has the most expensive valuation at 11.25 times EV/EBITDA.
Among the three, Emerson is the most profitable, with 17% operating margin, while the operating margins of Parker-Hannifin and Honeywell were 12% and 11%, respectively. Among the three, Parker-Hannifin is paying the lowest dividend with a yield of 1.8%. Emerson offers shareholders the highest dividend yield at 2.9%, while Honeywell's dividend yield is 2.2%.
Foolish bottom line
Parker-Hannifin seems to be a decent stock for long-term investors. Among the three, I would prefer Emerson due to its highest operating margin, highest dividend yield, and reasonable valuation. However, investors need to dig deeper into Emerson's business model to determine whether or not Emerson is suitable for their portfolios.
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6 ways to save money on video games
Find out where smart gamers go to find bargains.
Video gaming can be an expensive hobby.
The $200-plus you've just spent on that new game console is just a start. Throw in some extra controllers, cables and a stack of A-list titles and you're talking about a big chunk of change.
So how can a video gamer on a budget save money? That's where David Abrams steps in. Known as CheapyD in the gaming community, Abrams is the founder of Cheap Ass Gamer, the de facto Web site for video game bargains.
Abrams and his legion of frugal gamers have turned the six-year-old site into a thriving community of budget-conscious shoppers. To put it simply: If it's a good deal, it'll be listed on his site.
With the help of Abrams, we've compiled a list of smart ways you can save on video games. (If you're a nongamer, and you have gamers on your Christmas shopping list, skip to the bottom of this post). Here are six ways to save:
1. Shop smart
The usual shopping strategies apply to video games: Buy on sale, shop the clearance bins, use coupons and rebates, etc. You can make this task easy by visiting Abram's site (free registration required). Once there, a great place to start is the weekly "Best of the Sunday Ads" post, a roundup of gaming bargains found at major retailers.
"Our community posts every video game sale, deal and promotion," Abrams says. "Sure, you can do all the legwork yourself . . . but why bother when all this information will be listed on CAG?"
2. Rent first
If you're unsure if you want to pay top dollar for a new release or you just want to satiate your curiosity, you can try before you buy.
Two rental options exist:
- Brick-and-mortar video stores such as Blockbuster, Hollywood Video or your local mom-and-pop shop.
- Online game rental outlets, which operate similarly to Netflix. The most popular is Gamefly (free trial codes are easy to find).
"A lot of games are worth playing through but don't necessarily deserve a purchase at full price or a place in your collection after they've been beaten," Abrams says. "For the gamer who wants to play these types of games soon after they are released, and not wait for a sale or price drop, renting is a great way to play more for less."
3. Go old school
It's simple: The newest and most popular titles cost the most. Most games, on average, fall in value by at least a half a year after release.
If you can live without cutting-edge graphics, games for older consoles such as the PlayStation 2, the original Xbox and GameCube sell for cheap (As in less than $5). Used consoles can be found for a fraction of their original price, often bundled with a stack of games.
4. Buy used
Great deals abound in retailers' used game sections, on online auction sites such as eBay, through Craigslist or even at garage sales. Just be sure games are not scratched or otherwise damaged (reputable retailers will allow for returns; GameStop's is 30 days). If you're buying a used PC game, make sure it includes the activation code.
It's a mistake, though, to assume that buying used is always the best deal, Abrams says. "Some online retailers will discount new copies of games more than another store's used copy."
5. Play then trade (or sell)
If you finish a game, or start one and give up, don't let your disc sit on a shelf collecting dust. If you're never going to touch it again, trade it in at a retailer or sell it on eBay. The longer you wait, the more your game decreases in value.
"The key to reselling your games is to be well-informed," Abrams says. Know how much your game is worth and find out if any retailers are offering promotions (Amazon, Toy 'R' Us and GameStop frequently try to one-up each other).
Another option to consider: Trading games using an online middleman. The Game Trading Zone is a community of gamers where trades are listed online and worked out between members. Goozex uses a point system for game and movie trades: You send a game to another member and receive points based on its value. You then use the points to purchase a game from another user (a $1 fee is charged by Goozex for every copy you receive).
6. Start a game co-op
This idea is simple:
- Gather up your gaming buddies (conversing via e-mail will work).
- Make a list of game that everyone owns and is willing to trade.
- Make individual trading deals between friends (this works best if the games are close to equal value).
- Repeat as games are finished and keep the circle moving.
Of course, this strategy won't work if everyone wants to play the same online game together, but for single-player titles, it's a simple way to stretch gaming dollars.
Don't know where to start?
If you are clueless about games, and you have a gamer to shop for this Christmas, be sure to ask the recipient for specifics about what he or she wants. Blindly purchasing a game or going on the advice of a retail clerk is a recipe for disaster. Also, you don't have to focus on just games -- extra controllers, a new set of headphones or even a cool game-themed T-shirt might be appreciated.
Once you have your favorite gamer's wish list in hand, Abrams says the easiest way to get your holiday shopping done is to visit Amazon on the three-day weekend after Thanksgiving.
"Amazon had the best video game deals last holiday season, and I would imagine they will repeat this year," Abrams says. "Find out what holiday gifts you need to buy before Black Friday so you are ready to go."
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Chocolate Buttermilk Pie
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- 1 1/2 cups chocolate chips
- 1 1/2 cups sugar
- 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 6 eggs
- 1 cup buttermilk
- 1 1/2 tablespoons vanilla extract
- 1 pre-made store-bought (9-inch) deep dish pie crust
- Pre-made whipped cream, for garnish
Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. Position a rack in the center of the oven.
Place the chocolate chips in a double boiler and melt over low heat, stirring constantly.
In a medium bowl, whisk together the sugar, flour, and salt until well combined. In a large mixing bowl, combine the eggs, buttermilk, and vanilla. Add the sugar mixture and mix with an electric hand mixer or whisk vigorously. With a rubber spatula, stir the melted chocolate into the batter.
Pour batter into the piecrust; you will have about 1 cup of left-over batter. Place pie in oven on middle rack. Bake for 1 hour and 15 minutes to 1 hour and 25 minutes, or until the pie is crisp on top and a knife inserted in the center comes out with just a bit of moist chocolate on it.
Remove from oven and cool completely. Let stand at least 1 hour before serving. If not eating immediately, refrigerate pie. This pie can be served warm or chilled. Garnish with store-bought whipped cream just before serving.
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Report Shows Steep Costs of Alabama's Immigration Law
February 07, 2012
Samford University Leads Call for Rational Immigration Debate, Religious, Agricultural Leaders Voice Concerns
Birmingham, Ala. — As Alabama's 2012 legislative session kicked off today, the costs associated with the state's 2011 immigration law, HB56, continued to come to light. On a press call today, the author of a recent cost-benefit analysis of the law joined a Birmingham pastor and a member of the American Nursery and Landscape Association to discuss the law's costs, as well as two upcoming events at Samford University in Birmingham that will engage participants in values-based discussion regarding immigration reform.
On Feb. 9 and 10, the Birmingham Area Consortium for Higher Education (BACHE) is co-convening a public forum with Samford University on the impact of Alabama's immigration law, HB56. On February 23, Samford University will host the upcoming G92 South Immigration Conference, a gathering of evangelical leaders, students and pastors to promote a rational and biblical conversation on immigration.
Fred Shepherd, chairman of the political science department at Samford, is the co-director of this week's forum. He also noted that the list of notable speakers at the G92 conference includes Dr. Richard Land, president of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission. Shepherd said, "There is really a general ferment in the state for reassessing and questioning a law that has affected everyday lives in a lot of significant ways, whether in minor inconveniences experienced by the population in general or in more wrenching dislocations suffered by immigrants of a wide variety of legal and ethnic backgrounds. We feel this ferment especially on campuses and in faith-based communities." The forum and the G92 South Immigration Conference, Shepherd added, will "provide a nexus of sorts for university- and faith-based communities as they attempt to come to grips with what people of charity and good conscience … should do in the face of laws that both raise questions of justice and fairness."
Samuel Addy, Ph.D., Director and Research Economist at the University of Alabama's Center for Business and Economic Research, discussed his analysis, including findings that the law has cost the state 70,000 to 140,000 jobs and will cost the state between $2.3 billion and $10.8 billion annually in GDP. Addy also found that the law would cost Alabama and its localities tens to hundreds of millions of dollars in lost tax revenue. Addy said, ""If we are revisiting this law—and I would encourage that—the question is, are the benefits of this new immigration law worth the costs?" Four potential benefits cited in the law are not guaranteed, he added, and even if they were, the costs will exceed them: "There is a net cost to the state."
The Rev. Ron Higey, pastor at the Birmingham International Church, pointed out that the law has had a negative effect on congregations in Alabama. Higey posed three questions: "Is this a just law? Is it a merciful law? Is it a law that has been crafted with humility? From my perspective, I find the Alabama immigration law lacking on all three areas. … I personally find that this is a failing law and needs to be completely reworked."
"We're paying a high price in terms of the damage that is being done to human beings, whether they're here legally or not, that we have to talk about," he added. "And I don't see those discussions at the governmental level going on in a constructive fashion."
Dr. Marvin Miller of the American Nursery and Landscape Association noted that the law's full effects lie ahead for the agriculture industry. "So much of agriculture is a seasonal issue, so I don't think we've experienced anywhere near the full effect in the few months that we've had since the law went into effect," Miller said. "What we are seeing now is businesses that are not planting to their potential because they don't have the labor and because they're not sure they've got the market that they once had."
"Ultimately what we need is to have the issue of immigration reform settled on the national level," Miller added. "When you have a state as an 'island' passing certain immigration laws, very often what happens is the surrounding states become the beneficiaries when people leave. And if we had a uniform law across the country, that would solve a lot of the issues that any one state may be facing."
For more information on the G92 South Immigration Conference, please visit: www.g92conference.org
To read the full University of Alabama study, "A Cost-Benefit Analysis of the New Alabama Immigration Law," please visit: http://tinyurl.com/7j27wtc.


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You know Justina Machado as Taye Diggs' girlfriend on the ABC medical drama "Private Practice" and Freddy Rodriguez's wife Vanessa Diaz on the late, great HBO funeral drama Six Feet Under. But now she takes on a different role on the NBC sitcom Welcome to the Family (premiering at 8:30 p.m. Thursday), which takes a slightly twisted look at an Anglo and a Latino family brought together by a pregnancy.
Machado talks about the show, how it feels to break away from drama, and exactly why she and Rodriguez had such great chemistry.
Tell us about "Welcome to the Family."
It's two families coming together with different personalities colliding and different philosophies of life colliding. My son, who's sort of the superstar of the family in that he's smart and he's gonna go to Stanford, impregnates their daughter, who's like a screw-up and doesn't go to school much, but is very lovable. And they get together, and because of that, now we all have to live together.
Was a role in a sitcom a big departure for you?
I think that people think it is, but for me it doesn't seem so. But yes, I think people are shocked because they're so used to seeing me so dramatic. But I love it — I'm happy that I can take a break from being a suffering Latina for two seconds!
Speaking of being a suffering Latina, everyone loved you in "Six Feet Under." Was that your big break?
I think it was, actually, because even though I've been a part of so many great projects, that really is the project that everybody remembers me from.
When you were filming it, did you realize something groundbreaking was happening?
Not at all. I had no idea until probably the third season. I don't know if it's because I was so much younger. One of the things that happened when I was younger was, I was always looking for the next job and never was in the present and happy about what was going on. So I didn't realize what a special thing it was until suddenly it was like, "Oh my God, people really like us!"
Do you still keep in touch with any of the cast?
Oh yeah. Freddy Rodriguez is like my brother. He and I grew up in the same neighborhood in Chicago, we're both Puerto Rican, and I've known him since we were like 16. I love him to death. He's the only one — I mean, I see everybody, but we don't keep in touch.
So you were friends going into the show?
Oh yeah. I think that's why we had such great chemistry, because we sounded like we spoke the same language because we came from the same place.
Was it weird portraying a romantic relationship with him?
Yes, totally [laughs]. We would die laughing for I don't know how many minutes if we had to do an intimate scene. It was ridiculous.
As a Puerto Rican girl from Chicago, what do you think of Miami?
Oh my God, I love Miami! Are you kidding me? The first thing I do is get a cortadito. I freaking love Miami. It's a sexy, fabulous town.
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Welcome to Jysk Musik & Teaterhus – located at the former Papirfabrik with wonderful views of Hjejlen, the paddle steamer, and the River Gudenå. Jysk Musik & Teaterhus was inaugurated in 2004, attended by Her Majesty the Queen. The theatre is owned and run by the Musik og Teaterhus Foundation, Silkeborg, with grants from Silkeborg Municipality. Jysk Musik & Teaterhus presents a wide programme of theatre, ballet, music, musicals, stand-up, shows, foyer concerts and much more. Ticket office, tel. +45 8920 3050 – daily, 12 noon–4 pm, Thursday until 17.00. There are a number of public car parks in the vicinity, four disabled spaces at the entrance, as well as a car park with a 15-minute time limit.
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Pre-readers relish this fast-paced game that calls on players to visually process and race to place the right face. Kids power up their matching skills, boost their concentration and build recognition skills as they search for a robot face match. The fast tempo of the game has been known to invent some silly social interactions ideal for all ages!
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Simple, fun, challenging. Should be 6+
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High quality board and "randomizer". game pieces are just cardboard.Fun and quick setup, challenging for all ages. However, only recommend at least age 6+, not 4+ as box states
Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
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Fun for the family!
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My family of 4 had lots of fun with this game. Though, it's pretty challenging for my 4 year old to find the right robot... I do believe with a bit more practice my 4 year old will get the hang of it and love it. My husband and I spent a lot of time playing with my 8 year old and we all enjoyed it. Since there aren't too many pieces we we able to take it with us while traveling too! This would be a great gift for a 5 or 6 year old.
So much fun!
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This game is so much fun! My 6 year old son and I had a blast locating the different robots. You shake the dome and there are four colors that fall in slots to show the different features of the robot. There is one additonal color that gets hidden and doesn't come into play for that round. Then the hunt is on to find the robot that matches. The game itself can go pretty quick (about 15 min for us), so it is great for those with shorter attention spans. Of course you could keep playing over and over like we did as there are so many different combinations! It would be easy for the youngest of players to understand how to play, Though if your child is under 4, you might need to motify play and focus on one or two features instead of all four. This game would be great for traveling as well as there are not too many pieces to keep track of. It has been a great addition to our family game nights!
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