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In a night full of emotional performances, Madonna's powerful tribute to her close friend Prince was the perfect way to close out Sunday's Billboard Music Awards.
When it was announced that Madonna would be performing the first nationally televised tribute to the late singer, some observers weren't sure what to make of the choice. Madonna is prone to theatrics, and perhaps a tribute of this nature called for someone with more of a subtle touch.
She sure showed us.
Clad in Prince purple, the Queen of Pop performed a touching rendition of "Nothing Compares 2 U," followed by a showstopping "Purple Rain" duet with none other than Stevie Wonder.
However, the reaction online was mixed. BET fired this warning shot while Margaret Cho tweeted "Crying. Great tribute. @Madonna and #StevieWonder are beautiful." The positive reactions were in stark contrast to the backlash that emerged when Madonna was chosen as the artist most qualified to honor Prince. In fact, some were so against the decision that an online petition was started, prompting the show's executive producer Marc Bracco to release a statement.
"Listen, I think everybody is entitled to their opinion and everyone can have their own opinion, but I will say that we are honored and could not be more excited for Madonna to be on the show and to pay tribute to someone that was her friend and her peer and her colleague," he said at the time. "I think it's going to be fantastic."
Questlove, who introduced the tribute, took to twitter after Madonna's performance to address the haters. "Every Prince rendition will not be a life changing orgasmic xperience. Just to SING his work is brave enough. Again feeling are on high," he wrote, adding "And EVERYBODY wants and deserves a chance to say goodbye in their own way. But remember: there will be AMAs, SoulTrain, NAACP, mtv, GRAMMYS. And a gazillion other tributes. But the point is let's not get ugly w playing the 'Prince would and wouldn't approve' game."
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SBI Mutual Fund has launched Gold Fund, an open ended fund of fund to enable the common man to invest systematically in gold and take advantage of the current rally. The NFO period is from 22nd August to 5th September.
The fund is designed in such a way, that an investor can invest through a single investment or through systematic investment plan (SIP) as per their convenience. The minimum denomination of investment is kept as Rs100, which is very affordable for a common man.
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The crash of KS Oils Ltd underlines the perils of how PE funds can also get it very wrong
Private equity (PE) players, who come with billions of dollars of cash, pick up significant stakes in firms and often work with managements to improve performance and exit at a profit. Their stock picking is supposedly based on excellent research of companies, sectors and markets. But it's quite a different experience for these players who happen to step into the Indian corporate sector which is a minefield of poor corporate governance. The recent crash of KS Oils is a classic example.
On 16th August the company's share price crashed by a whopping 32% on the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) following months of steady decline. Its biggest lender, Sicom Ltd, sold around 23.84 lakh shares which were pledged by the company.
That same day, Edelweiss Finance and Investment Limited sold around 44.50 lakh shares on the BSE at Rs9.13 a share. Earlier, on 12th August, Sicom had sold 25.78 lakh shares of KS Oils at Rs12.96 on the National Stock Exchange. The company has pledged around 80% of its shares against loans. There are stories doing the rounds that funds have been grossly mismanaged.
KS Oils, whose scrip has plunged by 90% since January 2010, had received investments from some large PE funds. In May 2009, Rajat Gupta-promoted, Asia-focused New Silk Route (NSR) invested around Rs135 crore through preferential equity shares. Also, Citigroup Venture Capital and Baring Private Equity Partners Asia invested Rs49 crore each through subscription to convertible warrants.
Currently, NSR Direct owns a 9.5% stake and Baring has 5% stake in KS Oils, which produces cooking products like mustard oil, rapeseed oil plus others like refined blended oils, vanaspati and also non-edible solvent oil. Baring bought into KS Oils when it acquired 50,000 acres of its palm oil plantations in Indonesia.
The third largest private investor in KS Oils is astute NRI businessman Siva Sankaran, who has an over 8% stake in the company through Siva Ventures. Siva has been the last resort for troubled businessemen. Those who know Siva well believe that he would not be a sitting duck, unlike some other private equity funds, and that he would find a way to get his money back. Siva also has a stake in Ruchi Soya, India's largest soya processing company.
It is most strange that Barings and NSR picked KS Oils from among a host of Indian companies that have comparatively better governance and stable finances.
Moneylife had earlier reported that the Intelligence Bureau in December 2010 noted massive price rigging and insider trading in KS Oils. (IB report available with us.) The company has also been accused of tax evasion. So what did the philanthropic Mr Gupta find attractive about this investment?
Two years back, New Silk's investment in high-profit 9x media group crashed and burned. 9x News was spun off from INX Media, after apparent large-scale mismanagement. It was probably the first case in India where private equity investors asked promoter-shareholders to get out of the management.
In a filling to the Bombay Stock Exchange on Wednesday, KS Oils informed that its chairman Ramesh Chandra Garg has sold 3.05% of his holding. With this sale, Mr Garg's share holding has is now down to 8.23%. Other institutional investors continue to offload shares.
While the government is facing difficulties due to the global situation, finance minister Pranab Mukherjee said he would not use proceeds from disinvestment to meet capital expenditure needs beyond March 2012
New Delhi: Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee today said he would not seek proceeds from disinvestment to meet capital expenditure needs beyond March 2012, despite facing difficulties due to the global economic situation, reports PTI.
"I would not like to seek a further extension even though I am in a difficult situation," Mr Mukherjee said replying to supplementaries during Question Hour.
In November 2009, the government had granted one-time exemption to utilise the proceeds from disinvestment of Central Public Sector Enterprises (CPSEs) for meeting capital expenditure requirements of selected social sector programmes.
The proceeds from disinvestment are channelised to a National Investment Fund (NIF), set up in 2005. 75% of the interest generated from the fund would be used to finance selected social sector schemes, which promote education, health and employment.
The remaining 25% would be used to meet capital investment requirements of profitable and revivable CPSEs.
Mr Mukherjee said no deposits were made to NIF from 2009-10 to 2011-12. During this period nearly Rs48,000 crore have been realised through disinvestment of CPSEs.
He made it clear that the government would not let its equity below 51% in any of the CPSEs.
Mr Mukherjee said government has already approved disinvestment of 5% paid up equity capital of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) and Steel Authority of India (SAIL).
He said approval has been granted for disinvestment of 10% paid-up equity capital of Hindustan Copper (HCL) and National Building and Construction Corporation (NBCC).
The disinvestment of HCL and SAIL is in conjunction with the issue of fresh equity of 10% and 5% respectively.
Proposals for disinvestment of 5% paid up equity capital of Bharat Heavy Electricals (BHEL) and 10% of National Aluminium Company (Nalco) are at various stages before seeking government approval, Mr Mukherjee said.
The minister said the budget estimates for disinvestment proceeds are Rs40,000 crore for 2011-12.

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A recent profile of Gareth Bale revealed that, on a trip home to Wales, he wore a magnetic earring to wind up his traditionalist father.
So goodness knows what Bale senior made of the boy's latest look, sported on his return from a long weekend in Marbella — pink T-shirt with matching baseball cap worn the wrong way round.
To be fair to Bale, this is probably the best way to blend in with the Puerto Banus crowd and maybe he just forgot to change on the flight back. But he is the Footballer of the Year and the sooner he dresses for the part the better, even if it's in the white shirt of Real Madrid rather than Tottenham, who seem already to have spent the 100million they are to receive for him.
Which of the clubs have done the better business remains to be seen. It will be judged in the weeks and months that follow the true start of the season next Tuesday. If the 20 clubs who make up the Premier League have any sense, they will use their next meeting to resolve that all transfers be concluded before the big kick-off next year, leaving other European leagues to make their own decisions.
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Good luck to him. We soon forget how lightly some players treat contracts. I just wish we had been spared the leaks of Bale's "anguish" and even "anger" as Daniel Levy behaved in the interests of Spurs, making the best of an unwanted situation. Those words were no better chosen than the pink ensemble.
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So, I think that rap I did kinda got me back into the writing spirit, if just for Christmas. Anyway, not sure how I feel bout this one, but please let me know what you think. Thanks
I spent one too many Christmases exposed to my parents' ceaseless arguing over the subject of Santa Claus; my mom, of course, felt the need to defend physics and outright logic, while my dad, a lovable guy who really was a child at heart, took the guy in the red suit with a long white beard to the grave. In their need to defend what they believed to be right—protect the sanctity of their childhood or that of science—my mom and dad seemed to forget their two children, my sister Jazz and I, and we found ourselves amidst something that felt uncannily like a war, and in many ways it was. Of course, we did not celebrate Christmas—we might have a present or two beneath the tree, but it usually consisted of a wad of money or a gift card, because lord knew my parents were too preoccupied to waste time selecting presents—but our normal lives seemed to stop as well. Not only did their ghost inventions quickly come to a halt, but my mom stopped cooking meals for us as December twenty-fifth approached, and my dad never lectured us, even if we came home with news of a failed test.
Instead, my parents spent the days harassing the poor guy who'd donned the Santa costume and scarring the small children who'd gone to have their wishes granted. Of course, this was incredibly humiliating, as I often found myself being dragged to the mall by Tucker and Sam, and I would've sworn they were purposely choosing times when they knew my parents would be there, shrieking over one another the laws of physics and the prospect of childhood and tradition. When I saw them, not only did I feel the need to curl up in the darkest corner, but did I feel my sanity begin to slip, and experience brief moments of thought in which I would recognize that there was something very wrong with the way I lived—after all, my biggest issue with my parents was not a partner, as like is with most other kids my age. As I watched them thrust their opinions at one another, I would wonder what a normal Christmas would be like; sometimes, I tried to envision myself nestled against someone before a fire, eating turkey and clutching one of the hand-selected things I'd received to my heart.
During one of these degrading performances my parents put on, the town's mayor, a man who doubled as my arch nemesis, Vlad Masters, walked up to me and laid a hand on my shoulder. I can remember tensing—his presence was not only unexpected, but it was unwanted, of course, because I recognized that I had probably never looked weaker. When I looked at him, however, I saw he was smiling, and not in that disgusting way he does, seeming to be forever plotting, calculating your demise behind a mask of false kindness and gentility which allows him to play the role of this town's leader. In fact—and call me crazy, because even I still can't believe it—I saw that his smile was soft and that his eyes were sympathetic, and I did a double take, blinking; when I opened them again I saw that this expression—whatever it was or what it truly consisted of—was still present, and my mouth must have been hanging open a bit, because he gripped my chin (very gently, mind you) and carefully pushed my jaw back into place.
"Bugs will fly in there and lay eggs, you know," he said, and paused briefly to chuckle at my nothing-less-than-stunned expression, but resumed quickly, choppily, with no transition present, "I thought I'd just make it known to you, Daniel, that I'm going to be home on Christmas Eve, and I will have an abundance of food. That is, if you've had your share of…that," he gestured to my parents with the hand that was not holding my chin. My mother was saying something about the speed of light and the effects this would have on Santa's face.
There was a small moment in which time seemed to stop as I stared into his sparkling blue eyes; normally, if Vlad Masters had dared to touch me, I would have gone ghost and attacked him, even if it meant morphing in front of all these people, but on this day I found myself almost tranquillized by those thick, crystalline pools, which had drawn me to them and invited me in to swim in their sincerity as an oasis in a desert will a weary and sun-beaten traveler. When I looked into those eyes I felt my body relax and my mind melt—no more did I sense danger in Vlad Masters/Plasmius, but something which was beginning to emerge in this fog of ugliness which had encompassed his spirit, like a beacon in the night, one which was bringing me nearer and nearer, for safety and warmth. This hateful nature was where my struggle lie, but beyond it, these eyes were paradise, and seemed to testify that there was some treasure in this deadly sea.
However, it was only a moment, and my world seemed to shatter around me as I came out of this hazy state, for everything I'd come to know and take comfort in knowing was being turned on its head, and although these things that were embedded in my brain were anything but pleasant—things that testified to Vlad's evil nature which would never change—they were familiar and safe, and I'd always believed they'd remain constant. Frankly, I felt violated, but I found myself too stunned to even consider formulating a reply, and after a brief pause he pulled away, removing his hand but pausing to ruffle my hair before he walked off, glancing amusedly at the stage on which my parents were feuding as he passed. I watched him leave the mall in astounded silence, unmoving; my parents' little argument no longer seemed to matter.
Tonight—Christmas Eve, perhaps my least favorite night of the year—my parents were arguing more fiercely than ever; my mom's sarcasm and mimicking of my father's beliefs heightened, and my dad was becoming more violent, his teeth ground together and fists clenched, as if trying to keep himself under control, and it really hurt me, because I could see that he wanted nothing more than to hit her. I was glad, at least, that Jazz had retreated to her bedroom, pausing however to pluck her present from beneath the tree, a box that was not wrapped and on which her name was messily scribbled in permanent marker, so she did not have to witness my father's undiluted rage (one, I should mention, that is rarely ever seen on such a face as his). However, her headphones must have been stronger than mine, and I did not think I would be able to simply block out the noise of my parents' heated discussion, and so I left, at first believing this action had no purpose but knowing in the back of my mind that I intended to go to Vlad's. My parents were too distracted to care.
Whether my course was planned, my actions intentional, I found myself wandering to city hall on this cold night, and although I might have liked to, because it would have been easier, although so ungodly painful, to sit down on the bench in the park and sleep this night away, I did not stop myself, for when I thought of turning back, I saw his eyes, those beautiful blue eyes that had drawn me in and only let me go when they'd let me taste and made me yearn for more. At some point in time, I would wonder exactly what I was yearning for, but where truth lay in this mind of mine, I knew that too—I was yearning for affection on this painful night, and those eyes seemed to testify that in Vlad, affection I could find. Because if there was any reality this night, it was that no one wanted to be alone, and I certainly didn't, but it began to dawn on me swiftly that neither did Vlad, and that—although it certainly did hurt to admit—if anyone was to deserve my presence, it wasn't my feuding parents, who didn't give me the time of day, even on Christmas Eve, but someone who really needed it. And while my lower brain may label this as a terrible idea, my memory did not cease to function, and I saw those eyes. Those eyes said it was okay.
"Hello, dear boy," he said when he opened the door, and I don't think he'd actually taken a look at who stood before him before the words left his thin lips. Questionable this may have been, I could see his face light up immediately, and I knew that no matter how uncomfortable I may be initially, no matter how I might twist my foot in the snow or scratch the back of my neck and avoid eye contact, I was giving him something, and suddenly, almost unreasonably, that was enough for me. "I knew you'd come."
"Did you?" I said, although I think I had the minute he'd smiled at me at the mall.
"Oh, yes," he said, and there it was again—an expression which was light and excited, void of all maliciousness and ill-intent, the scheming forgotten. Simply, he seemed to be happy to be living in this moment at this time; it was as if he was just beginning to learn to be thankful for what he had and to be appreciative for the bones God threw to him every so often, and maybe he was. "Come in."
I did, very slowly, but I came in. He led of me out of the area of the place where business was conducted, or so I guessed, and into the little place for which he'd renounced his castle—one, I will admit, that is pretty freaking amazing—and now called home. The main area of his new home was very dark, dimly lit by a fire and a few lamps emitting faint glows. There were some Christmas decorations scattered about the place, but they were relatively interchangeable, looking as if you could leave them up all year and get away with it—a few woven-wire deer, a couple of religious statues, some red and green candles, and a pot containing red flowers. These things sat on bookshelves—sporting his favorites (one shelf was consumed by several volumes of "Romance for Rich Creepy Dummies", and the black and yellow streaks of the spines of the book along its length gave it the appearance of a bumble-bee) and cluttered the tops of darkly-colored furniture. In all honesty, I hoped he did not put too much thought into these so-called decorations because in them I found no cheer…but that was not what seemed to suck any Christmas spirit from my veins.
In the center of the room, there was a small coffee table. On it, there was one present—silver with a sleek black ribbon. But there was no tree.
I was left to stare at this barren sight, but he was already making himself comfortable on the maroon-colored couch. He patted one of its cushions gently. "Come here, Daniel."
I did not move from where I stood; simply, I gazed at the place where this celebrated icon should have gone, feeling a tired sense of a familiarity—after all, if I'd come to learn anything about Christmas, even if I did not readily celebrate it, it was that all families had a tree, and I began question why I'd come here, because I had of course been striving for celebration of the season, and Vlad seemed to have misplaced his ax or lost the keys to his car when it'd come time to chop one of them down. I began to theorize that I could have stayed home, wasting much less time and effort, and had just as much a disappointing Christmas as I would here, and without so much unneeded awkwardness. I thought how nice it might have been to have known that before I walked all the way over here in the freezing cold.
"Danny, come here," he repeated, and patted the couch again. "I have a present for you."
Ignoring his command, I said softly, my eyes unmoving from this empty void, "Where is your tree?"
Smiling, he picked up the silver box and set it in his lap, seemingly unfazed by my question, which felt so dreadfully important to me, as if it were a matter of life and death. "Why would I need a tree, Daniel?"
I paused to consider this a moment, but soon responded with the quip that can easily fool my own mind but has no real relevance to anything outside the sanctity of my head, "Well, it's Christmas. If you're going to celebrate Christmas you need a tree."
"A tree is simply one part of Christmas, Daniel, and it is not for me," he said offhandedly, staring down at his gift almost absentmindedly, but his gaze soon shifted to me and he motioned for me to come to him. "Come here, Danny. Have a seat."
"What do you mean, 'it's not for me'?" I asked, still unmoving, and significantly confused. Mechanically, I assumed that he was referring to Christmas itself, which was of course unfitting; this room was littered with symbols of God and so he must believe in Christianity, after all. I wondered vaguely if he'd simply picked and chose things he'd liked from Christianity to believe in and made up his own wacky religion, in which trees were the devil, and chose to profess this rather than the version they teach you at church.
His gaze had begun to harden, and I realized that he'd begun to understand that I did not take this tree lightly, nor was willing to let it go so I could see whatever he'd wrapped up in a pretty box to give me at the last minute. "Well, Daniel, as you might have noticed, I have no family."
My face twisted in bewilderment, and I lifted my hands up in a "what?" gesture, and I think he realized he would need to elaborate further, because I was thoroughly confused, and I knew I advertised this clearly on my face. I think the moment he seemed to grasp my unfamiliarity with what he was talking about, he was all-knowing, and had a newly cultured hold of a problem, as a student does in math class after having finally corrected a mistake they've made—he had a eureka! moment, one in which he breathed a sigh of relief and self-effacing amusement. The smile returned then, and he stood, placing my present back down on the cherry-colored coffee table, and took a step toward me.
"You don't know what a Christmas tree really is about, do you, Danny?"
I bet I was looking at him like he was crazy, but how couldn't I, really? "It's about Christmas…Christ…Jesus...right?"
He approached me easily and placed his hands on my shoulders, gripping firmly, reassuringly, but gently, and shook his head. Softly, he asked, "Do you have a tree in your house Danny?"
I nodded, shifting in his grip in discomfort, because his eyes were not enticing me as they had at the mall and lord knew that I associated those hands of his with destruction and evil. However, I was not expecting to escape him any time soon, because I was instilled with the knowledge that he could have squeezed my shoulders until the bones were dust, and I was looking to make it out of this with all my limbs intact, although in the back of my mind I could not ignore the truth thoughts as they shrieked my safety—that is, I knew he would not hurt me, and though I was uncomfortable, I felt no need to go ghost and propose a fight. If I'd had the notion to, I'd remember those eyes and be calmed once again.
"Do you like it?"
"No," I said honestly, and shifted again, unable to make my gaze meet his, staring distractedly at the bumble-bee line of manuals for romance.
"Did you enjoy decorating the tree?"
"No," I answered again, remembering how my mom quote unquote accidentally broke my dad's favorite ornament—a Santa Claus in his sleigh traveling around a deep blue globe. As you can imagine, a fight ensued—the worst yet, one that ended with my mom's favorite vase lying in pieces on the floor. "My parents…they fought the entire time."
"Daniel, my family was very poor when I was a boy," Vlad said after a small pause of consideration, and smiled reminiscently, the way my dad does often when recalling the glory days. "When Christmas rolled around, my father had to work extra hours to buy a turkey for us to have for dinner. My sister and I would go and chop down a tiny tree in the woods out back, because we weren't strong enough to carry a big one inside. And when we decorated it, we used paper snowflakes and strings of popcorn. We didn't have any lights to put on it, or fancy glass ornaments, but we did what we could, and we loved it. And when it was done, of course it looked like garbage, but we thought it was beautiful, because we made it together."
It was then that I had my eureka moment, and I was removed from my haze of stupidity—but it was one that I think my parents' ceaseless fighting induced, for how could I have seen that a tree was anything other than a symbol of religion when my parents made the process of decorating it anything but cheerful? Again, I felt that my world had been shaken and rearranged, like a sliding puzzle, and the pieces were just beginning to form a cohesive picture. It was, without a doubt, very empowering knowledge, one which opened up a book of new possibilities of emotions and feelings that season could evoke, gave me something that resembled control, but with it came something that removed any sense of enlightenment I'd been given and replaced it with undiluted sadness—the reason Vlad did not have a tree was because he had no one to enjoy it with.
I think it was then that I stopped feeling sorry for myself for once on Christmas Eve—I did not care that my parents had ruined my experience with our trees in the past, or, for that matter, anything that concerned Christmas, because I knew that there was no changing that and never would be. But I was suddenly instilled with the knowledge that if I could not have the Christmas I'd always dreamed of, I could at least try to give someone else the holiday of their dreams. And it looked like Vlad was my guy; while we might have a rivalry, it's easy to see how this guy can be so disturbed, and if just this once, I thought he deserved some sympathy.
So I said, "You got an ax lying around? I saw a tree a little ways from the park that'd fit perfect."
I don't think I'd ever seen him smile more widely.
"Of course, little badger. But open your present first."
Inside there was a ticket to one of the shows the planetarium in another town was putting on. It was something I'd been asking my parents to take me to see for a good portion of the year but had been since denied. And I was smiling—something that did not happen very often on Christmas Eve…and widely.
"Thank you," I said.
He smiled and reached out a hand and ran it through my hair for a moment before pulling it back and groping at the inside pocket of his suit coat and removing an identical ticket to the show. He waved it in front of my face and winked.
"So you don't get lonely."


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Some mornings, she'd storm into their office with that look on her face. That look where her eyes were hard, glassy, saw straight through you, and her jaw was clenched so tightly it looked like it could shatter at any moment. The look that told you if you even tried her, she'd kick your ass into next Friday.
He'd follow her upstairs and watch her make coffee, always too busy before she left home to do it then, but as soon as she was at work, that she was safe, she'd be straight to the coffee machine, her arms folded across her chest as she waited.
He remembered the first time it'd happened, he'd been on the receiving end of a death glare and followed her up, wanting to apologize, but instead finding himself fascinated by the almost ritualistic way she would make her coffee.
She'd noticed him staring, and though her tone was blunt, there was no sarcasm there when she told him that sometimes, she liked it black. She said it in a way that suggested this piece of information was like a secret she'd just given away.
To him, it almost was, and he filed it away for later reference, noticing every time after that, when she was in one of her moods, the first thing she'd do in the morning was to punch the elevator button and head straight for one black, one sugar, courtesy of the FBI's coffee machine.
Black and white, straight to the point. Just like Scully.
She didn't watch television. He often teased her for it, letting references fly straight over her head as she raised an eyebrow and almost smiled at him, Antarctica eyes melting just a little.
She told him that she didn't need it, she had better things to do with her time.
That's what she'd said about the baseball.
So he'd always have the TV on when she was over, just to irk her and deter her from engaging him in intelligent conversation. He liked the time they spent together in his apartment, it was relaxed, a discussion that could only lead to argument could ruin the peaceful feeling that settled over them when they sat on his couch or were childish and lay on their backs in the middle of his living room.
He liked it when she was like that. Uninhibited and saying things that she didn't normally say, simply because the ridiculousness of being on the floor made her do it.
More pieces of his Scully puzzle to wonder over, wander over, when she'd gone away.
He would add her intimidating presence to her piercing eyes and come up with something almost too indestructible, and though she'd like to think she was, she wasn't that way. He'd add her vulnerability, and think of how he felt he could see her soul through her tears, but she still wasn't human like that. It was the tiny things, the insignificant ones that would be looked over, how she held a wine glass, how she'd smile awkwardly whenever he said something inappropriate in the company of someone else. But he didn't know all these things about her. He didn't understand why she thought the way she did about simple things that it seemed no one but he cared to know about.
She saw the world differently than he did, and he'd figure her out eventually.
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The hosts meet Australia in a day-night encounter at the Premadasa Stadium on Friday to decide India's opponents in the September 29 final. "We know they are playing well in every department of the game, we will have to be at our best and we are confident of beating them," Jayasuriya told reporters. Dav Whatmore, the Sri Lankan born Australian coach said, "They are a side with claims to be the world's best. We will have the crowd support and we play better under local conditions." Sri Lankans are expected to be backed by a sell out home crowd, which loves to hate Australia. The two sides have been engaged in many a battle of attrition since the Australians refused to tour Colombo citing security fears during the 1996 World Cup, which the Sri Lankans eventually won by beating them in the final played in Lahore, Pakistan. Jayasuriya dismissed reports that Sri Lanka's champion off spinner Muthiah Muralitharan may not take part in Sri Lanka's tour of Australia in January for the one-day triangular series also involving England. "Murali will tour Australia", Jayasuriya said. Muralitharan was called for throwing by Australian umpires Daryll Hair and Ross Emerson in each of the previous two tours, in 1995-96 and 1998-99. Emerson's calling of Murali in January 1999 almost led to a Sri Lankan walk out at a One-day international in Adelaide.
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This 9-storey, family-friendly city hotel faces onto a landscaped square, and park and was designed by artists. It comprises a total of 148 rooms and is ideal for business travellers and holidaymakers alike. Facilities on offer to guests of this air-conditioned establishment include a lobby area with a 24-hour reception and check-out service, a hotel safe and lift access. It offers a caf�, a bar and a restaurant with views of the Thermaic Gulf and business travellers will appreciate the conference facilities, including 3 conference rooms for 10 to 200 people, and the WLAN Internet access. Guests can also take advantage of the room service for an additional fee and there is indoor and outdoor parking for their convenience (charges apply to both).
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Dr. Gersh is Professor of Medicine at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine having received his undergraduate degree at the University of Cape Town and obtaining a D.Phil at Oxford University. He also has an Honorary PhD from the University of Coimbra, Portugal. He has published approximately 880 manuscripts, 140 book chapters, and has edited 15 books. He has served on multiple editorial boards and is currently Deputy Editor of the European Heart Journal. Prior awards include the Silver Medal of the European Society of Cardiology, the James B. Herrick Award, the Distinguished Achievement Award of the American Heart Association, Master of the American College of Cardiology, and the Hatter Award for the Advancement of Cardiovascular Science from the University College London and the University of Cape Town. Dr. Gersh is the 2015 recipient of the Mayo Clinic Distinguished Alumni Award.
Prof. Alain Cribier, MD, has been for 20 years Chief of Cardiology at the University Hospital Charles Nicolle of Rouen, France. He became widely recognized for having developed new interventional technologies for the treatment of valvular heart diseases: Balloon Aortic Valvuloplasty in 1985, Mitral Commissurotomy in 1994, and after 15 years of research the Transcatheter Implantation of Aortic Valves (TAVI), performing the first world case in Rouen in 2002. This last breakthrough technology which is now widely used in the world with more than 300 000 patients treated and an explosive growth will have a durable impact on the pattern of medical practice. Prof Cribier has received a number of prestigious scientific distinctions and awards for his pioneering work. He has published more than 600 indexed articles in the fields of interventional cardiology, valve disease and innovative technologies.
This year, three ESC Gold Medallists receive ESC honours:
Professor Keith Fox, Professor Michel Haissaguerre and Professor Richard Popp
ESC: Professor Fox, you have a long association with the ESC. How did it all start?
KF: I was one of the founding Fellows of the ESC back in the 1990s and since then have been responsible for several studies in acute coronary syndromes and thrombosis, with key results incorporated into European guidelines. Some of our results from the GRACE study, for example, have provided strong evidence on risk assessment and its timing in acute coronary syndromes. At a more formal level I was a board member of the ESC from 2008 to 2010 and from 2012 to 2014, and also Chair of the Scientific & Clinical Programme Committee for the ESC. Last year there were more than 30,000 taking part and a record number of abstracts submitted. That's plenty of work for the Programme Committee!
And your principal scientific and clinical interests?
Acute coronary diseases and atherothrombosis - in fact, the whole pathway from plaque formation to clinical manifestations. So this has involved me in studies of disease mechanisms in ACS to the assessment of antiplatelet and anticoagulant therapies. Presently, we are looking at the influence of genes and inflammation on plaque rupture events.
Which of these studies are you most proud of?
Well it's difficult to say. They seem to have happened in a series of chapters, starting with our first studies on tPA in St Louis. But I guess I must be most proud of those whose outcomes have been implemented into guidelines and everyday practice in ACS. So to that extent I'd note our studies from the GRACE registry programme, and the RITA, ROCKET-AF and OASIS programmes. The RITA-3 trial in 2005, for example, compared a strategy of routine angiography and revascularisation in non-STE ACS patients with a non-intervention strategy of watchful management. There was uncertainty about this at the time, but our results over five years clearly showed the benefit of routine intervention. So now, for higher risk patients we adopt a routine strategy of early angiography and intervention. More recently we've updated the algorithms derived from the GRACE registry data into a simple web-based and app risk calculator. The original risk prediction model was based on outcomes from more than 100,000 ACS patients, and now the risk scores we calculated have been validated externally and prospectively.
What does an ESC gold medal mean to you?
Of course, I feel very honoured, but also a little embarrassed to be in such company. My contributions to cardiology and the ESC seem somewhat modest alongside those of other gold medallists, but it s a great honour and one that I feel very proud of and very grateful for.
ESC: How did you first become interested in cardiology?
MH: Initially, I decided to study medicine because I was interested in psychology. But during my second year internship with Professor Jean Francois Warin in Bordeaux I became fascinated by the way 12-lead ECG traces could describe an invisible electrical mechanism operating within the heart.
What have been your main research interests?
Once simple arrhythmias became, in the words of Douglas Zipes, 'an endangered species', the last big hurdle to overcome was cardiac fibrillation. My research team's contribution has been to demonstrate that these chaotic wavelets have discrete origins, with the igniting sparks located mostly in the pulmonary veins in the atria or Purkinje cells in the ventricles.
How did radio ablation for atrial fibrillation come about?
With Pierre Jais, Mélèze Hocini, Dipen Shah and others I began mapping the first premature beat that initiates fibrillation. We found the sources of AF were not in the atria, but fired from cells in the pulmonary veins located in the vascular wall. It took about four years to be sure of our results – 99% perspiration for 1% inspiration. Now over 300,000 patients have been treated by targeting the pulmonary veins.
Have you done the same for VF?
The same mapping concept was performed for patients with repetitive VF, but proved challenging because of the rapid syncopal nature of VF and isolated runs of ventricular ectopies. We found Purkinje sources initiating VF in both normal hearts and nearly all types of cardiac disease, with confirmation by discrete successful ablation. Such findings could have large therapeutic implications.
What does your new institute hope to achieve?
In 2012 we established the LIRYC Electrophysiology and Heart Modelling Institute in Bordeaux to develop a multidisciplinary programme dedicated to cardiac electrical dysfunctions such as AF, ventricular tachyarrhythmias and electrical ventricular dyssynchrony leading to heart failure using high-resolution mapping, cardiac imaging, signal processing and computer modelling. The institute brings together over 150 practitioners with multiple specialties in electrophysiology - from ion channels to whole heart and patient care.
What are your future research goals?
While we've made progress in understanding arrhythmia mechanisms, the identification of risk factors, genetic abnormalities and tissue biomarkers needs to be improved. We need to be able to recognise those individuals who are susceptible to VF and sudden death. Advances will hopefully help optimise screening and therapeutic protocols and reduce the burden of arrhythmic morbidity and mortality.
ESC: What first attracted you to cardiology?
RLP: The cardiac physical exam was the most fascinating thing I could imagine - I had always wanted to understand how the heart worked both normally and under the influence of disease.
Who have been your most influential mentors and how did they help your career development?
J. Michael Criley from Johns Hopkins got me involved in angiography and Harvey Feigenbaum from Indiana University was one of the first in the US to use ultrasound for cardiac imaging. I'd also like to acknowledge over 150 dedicated cardiology fellows who taught me an enormous amount and pushed me to answer their challenging questions.
What do you regard as your greatest clinical and or scientific achievement?
I was privileged to be part of the development of virtually all aspects of ultrasound cardiac diagnosis. My work was developing non-invasive ways to measure left ventricular volume, stroke volume and ejection fraction - and establishing standards for examination and measurement methods in echocardiography. With Liv Hatle I helped develop Doppler methods to measure gradients across heart valves and methods to recognise diastolic ventricular dysfunction. But one of my greatest achievements has been my involvement in the careers of a large number of leading academic cardiologists including Fausto Pinto and Jos Roelandt.
What do you regard as the most significant development in your field of cardiology over the last 20 years?
The fact that non-invasive methods have replaced invasive cardiac catheterisation for assessing structural heart disease is a major advance for patients allowing serial monitoring of the natural course of valve disease and heart failure.
Looking into a crystal ball how do you see your field developing?
Use of personal hand-held inexpensive ultrasound imaging devices will have a big role to play in augmenting physical exams. I believe that hand-held ultrasound units, the size of a cell phone, will ultimately replace the stethoscope.
What advice would you give to young cardiologists?
Providing 'patient centered care' with a team of healthcare providers should be your focus. Training to do everything the team can provide will not serve either you or the patient well.
How have you achieved a work life balance?
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The Hollywood Cog is reporting that producer/director Frank Marshall (Alive, Congo, Eight Below) will direct the movie, which would have the potential to be a franchise. The first novel in the series, Covert One: Hades Factor, was also made into a television movie in 2006 starring Stephen Dorff and Mira Sorvino.
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mentio-menu element is used to define the menu that appears during typing. You can use the
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Coffea (GitHub: caffeinery / coffea, License: BSD, coffea) by Daniel Bugl is an event-based IRC client library. It supports SSL, and the API seems very friendly to Node developers:
var client = require('coffea')({
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Marilyn (GitHub: alanjames1987 / marilyn, License: MIT) by Alan James Pub/Sub model API with a similar API to Mongoose. It's event-based, so you can hook into events that are triggered before and after CRUD operations.
You can create models like this:
var MyModel = Marilyn.model('someModelName');
The before and after events can be defined in the initialisation callback that gets passed to the model method.
Marilyn.model('someModelName', function() {
this.before('create', function(data, next) {
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Hi: I think a cache storage system is IMHO a very good idea. A piece of history: 1- Initial idea of using jisp: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xml-cocoon-dev&m=100781998632619&w=2 2-is this is still valid?: "B-Tree indexed file vs filesystem directory" http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xml-cocoon-dev&m=100816638410528&w=2 3-"The jisp store is definitely better..." http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xml-cocoon-dev&m=101120120825438&w=2 Well, I think all the pointed mails + others in the devel maillist clearly stated that it is better have a database in the storage than any filesystem. Did we need to retest it again? So I will be glad if people here seriously consider Apache JCS. It is used in many other Apache projects it is from our own workshop and it can work with jisp too. WDYT? Best Regards, Antonio Gallardo
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This portable set lets you launch into the classic drinking game at barbecues, tailgates, and beach parties without worrying about spills, losing the ball, or getting grass in your beer. Start by filling the shot glass-sized cups and placing them on the no-tip slots in the game board (dishwasher friendly for easy clean up). Players take turns using built-in launchers to fling their ball towards the opposing team's cups. If your opponent's ball lands in one of your cups, you drink. A light nylon cord keeps the ball from rolling away in the event of a miss. The game ends when one side gets their ball into all of the other team's cups, or the board becomes too blurry to continue playing. Made in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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North Star x Geoff McFetridge Pop-Up ShopJune 22nd - 28th, 2012
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Get into the Canadian spirit with North Star's limited edition Canada Day collection!
Magic Pony welcomes North Star, the classic Canadian sportswear brand, for a one week Pop-Up Shop June 22 to June 28. The Pop-Up Shop features a special collaboration with celebrated Canadian artist and designer Geoff McFetridge.
McFetridge has a prolific commercial portfolio and he has collaborated with Nike, The GAP, Greenpeace, and MTV; he also directed one of OK GO's music videos on toast! Magic Pony customers may know his work from Kidrobot x Colette 3″ Dunnyseries, his publishing collaboration with Nieves, and his Japanese toy series"Creature: Off My Back." This exclusive collection will be available at Magic Pony. Show off you national pride, just in time to celebrate Canada's 145th birthday on July 1st!
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McFetridge is a artist based in Los Angeles California. Born in Canada, he was schooled at the Alberta College of Art and the California Institute of the Arts. He is part of the Beautiful Losers Exhibition, and makes solo exhibitions from Los Angeles, Berlin, Paris, London, the Netherlands and Japan. Instinctively ignoring creative boundaries McFetridge is a truely multidisciplinary artist, 'an all round visual auteur'. From poetry to animation, from graphics to 3D work, from textile and wallpaper to paintings, McFetridge has complete control over these widely divergent disciplines.
Understatement is central to the impact of his work, inviting participation. It gets through the filters by offering the viewer an opportunity to play with a puzzle for a moment, a puzzle that doesn't have one simple answer. Often imitated, but never equalled, In the past ten years, Los Angeles-based McFetridge has created in his work and in his commissions a unique imagery, which is detailed and abstract at the same time. Full of hands and teeth, objects and animals, hands and heads.
McFetridge won public acclaim when he was still a student winning awards from the Art Directors Club and ID magazine for his thesis project "Chinatown". For two years, he was art director of the famous underground Beastie Boys magazine Grand Royal. Since then he has started the design studio Champion Graphics which has done pojects for numerous clients ranging from Nike, Pepsi, Stüssy, Burton Snowboards, Girl Skateboards and Patagonia. He made clips for Plaid, Simian, and recently also for The Whitest Boy Alive, and he created film title sequences for The Virgin Suicides and Adaptation
McFetridge has created a double helix of personal and commercial art projects, blending disciplines and purpose in almost every project he does.
"McFetridge is well-known within the graphic design community for imagery that is economical and spare, yet powerfully communicative. Geoff developed motifs echo themes found in sculpture, such as the relationship between man-made and natural forms, the interplay between two and three dimensional space and visual conundrums" said Michael Darling, Seattle Art Museum Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art.
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Great Cruise
Sail Date: November 25, 2012
Reviewed: 4 years ago
Traveled As: Couple
Room Type: Balcony
Pros: The experience on the cruise and my first time staying in a balcony stateroom.
Cons: The smoking on the ship and in the balcony staterooms that could be smelled while attempting to enjoy time out on the balcony.
Recommends Carnival Freedom? Yes!
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North West Sector is located at Chandigarh having operational jurisdiction of State of Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana and Union Territory Chandigarh. The sector is having two ranges, three Group Centre and fifteen General Duty Bns. The sector is providing
security to various state and central protectees and other vital installations like Burail Jail, Punjab Raj Bhawan, residential guards to Chief Minister and Dy. Chief Minister of Punjab. Battalions of this sector are deployed in Jammu & Kashmir, Punjab, Chhatisgarh
and Assam. CRPF campus Hallomajra is spread over anarea of 107. 34 acres having 1075 families quarters of various types. Various offices i.e. sector HQ, Range HQ Chandigarh, 5th Signal Bn, 51 Bn and IAP-IV offices are also situated in this campus.
The office of IGP, Sector –V, CRPF was established under Govt. of India Order No. C.IV.4/86-Org (Part-II)FP-IV dated 27/06/1986 and commenced functioning at tourist camping complex.
Near Sukhna Lake, Chandigarh w.e.f. 23/07/1986.Shri K.P.S. Gill, IPS, took over the charge of the sector on 01/08/1986. The sector was converted into the office of Addl DG, North West Zone on 24/07/1990 and it was again reverted back as North West Sector on
Since 22/01/2009, Sector is functioning under the Administrative and Operational control of Special DG, J&K Zone.Shri H.S.Sidhu, IPS, IGP, took overcharge of North West Sector on 23/09/2015.Presently Sh. Nalin Prabhat , IPS, IGP (OPS Kashmir) is holding additional
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Nice trip, nice ship
Sail Date: July 09, 2015
Reviewed: 1 year ago
Traveled As: Large Group
Room Type: Inside
First off, travelling thru Houston to reach Galveston is a huge pain in the rear compared to leaving from Florida ports. The trip is time consuming and all methods to get to the port are costly very costly, cheapest being the 45 per person charter. Will hopefully never have to do again.
Great fun and clean ship, most Carnival employees go above and beyond. Don't mind the upselling as they have to do what they can to make money but I avoid that stuff anyway.
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|Dolphin excursion was good but too much of a trap for the upsell of very, very expensive photos which I opted out of after trying to negotiate down. Also, description a bit misleading. Travelled with my 4 year old daughter and signed up for swim. When we arrived at departure we were told it would have to be downgraded and refunded to Dolphin Interaction without buffet. Alcohol was extra which it did not appear to be from description, misleading. I got refunded and booked the buffet and upgrade to unlimited alcohol which came to the same price of original booking. Food, service, pool, free sea lion show and drinks were awesome!
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|A bit unfriendly disembarkation from Carnival, somewhat condescending after we relayed we needed urgent early departure. As we are not platinum we had to wait around half an hour extra and therefore missed flight out, thanks Carnival! Need better communication there.
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Pizza was super and so were the burritos and tacos.
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