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Stephen Mangan has revealed that Matt LeBlanc has invited him onto the new Top Gear, but he thinks it's only to humiliate him.
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Good control of diabetes at an early stage of the disease is important
Those with diabetes are at increased risk of chronic kidney disease and chronic renal failure. This is because elevated plasma glucose damages nephrons by conjugating cellular proteins and forming advanced glycation end products (AGE). These end products of glycosylation tend to progressively damage tissues and organs and may continue to perpetuate organ damage even when plasma glucose is well controlled at a later stage. This tells us that it is important not only to control plasma glucose well but also to control it at an early stage of diabetes before too much cellular damage has been done. A recent publication in the New England Journal of Medicine titled: Intensive Diabetes Therapy and Glomerular Filtration Rate in Type 1 Diabetes (see here) tells us that good diabetic control for 6.5 years in early Type 1 diabetes reduced the risk of renal failure 22 years later. This study was based on the trial called DCCT where those with Type 1 diabetes (having diabetes for an average of 6 years) and no microvascular complications, were divided into two groups. One group was treated intensively with insulin and they achieved an average glycosylated haemoglobin value of 7.3 percent while the other group was treated with insulin only to reduce hyperglycemic symptoms. This conventionally-treated group had an average glycosylated haemoglobin value of 9.1 percent. After six and half years, at the end of the DCCT, these two groups were treated in a similar manner and a majority of them were followed by in an observational study called the EDIC study. During this EDIC study, the differences in diabetic control between the two groups began to narrow. The group that originally had the intensive treatment now had a HbA1c of 8 percent; the conventionally treated group now had a HbA1c of 8.2 percent. When evaluated twenty-two years after the end of the DCCT study, it was found that the group treated intensively with insulin for the initial 6.5 years had a fifty percent less risk of impaired renal function and end stage renal failure.
Thus the message to us is clear: Treat patients with Type 1 diabetes with the aim of keeping their glycosylated haemoglobin levels below 7 percent (or as close to 7 percent as possible) from an early stage itself. The good that comes from these early interventions will be seen only a couple of decades later. Conversely, if we neglect good diabetic control in these early years, our efforts to do so at a later stage may not be as beneficial.


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#AskAlcorn Live Twitter Q&A
I really enjoy hearing from readers of my books. I also enjoy hearing from followers on social media, so on Thursday, May 14 the EPM staff will help me host a live Twitter Q&A from 12-1 p.m. PT.
If you're on Twitter (and even if you're not and just want to follow along), I'd love for you to join. Here's how:
- Submit your question in a tweet to @randyalcorn, with the hashtag #AskAlcorn. Feel free to ask your question before the live Q&A time. (Please keep in mind the brief nature of Twitter.)
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- If you wish, it may be easier to follow the conversation hashtag by going to www.epm.org/askalcorn.
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Telecoms: Commission opens new round of infringement proceedings, but also sees positive results of previous ones
In a further round of infringement proceedings concerning the EU's telecom rules, the European Commission has decided to take Sweden and Poland to the European Court of Justice for failing to implement EU rules on electronic communications. In 12 cases from the previous infringement rounds, the Commission has sent reasoned opinions (step two in the infringement procedure under Article 226 of the EC Treaty) to the Czech Republic (2), France, Greece, Latvia, Malta, Poland (2), Slovakia, Germany, Finland and the UK. These countries now have two months in which to respond. They could also face action before the European Court of Justice if they fail to comply with the EU telecom rules. In addition, the Commission has sent letters of formal notice (step one in the infringement procedure – failure of a Member State to fulfill an obligation) to the UK, Portugal, Cyprus, the Czech Republic and Lithuania. At the same time, the European Commission is closing 9 cases from previous infringement rounds, as the Member States concerned have meanwhile ensured effective implementation of the EU framework for electronic communications.
"Implementing EU electronic communications rules is essential to enable competition and to deliver improved services. I find it regrettable that since the entry into force of the new rules in July 2003, the Commission had to open altogether more than 50 infringement procedures to remedy shortcomings in implementation," said Information Society and Media Commissioner Viviane Reding. "However, I am pleased that our efforts are now showing positive results in a number of Member States and that we can close today a whole series of cases. I encourage all Member States against whom infringement proceedings are still pending to get the job done as soon as possible, as further delay could seriously endanger growth and jobs in this key sector of Europe's economy."
The Commission has decided to bring EU Court of Justice cases against Poland, for failing to ensure effective availability of number portability, and against Sweden, for failing to maintain market safeguard regulations from the previous framework until market analyses have been completed. However, in both cases, the Commission expects that promised corrective action will be taken by these Member States before it will formally lodge the proceedings with the Court.
The Commission has also sent reasoned opinions to the Czech Republic, France, Greece, Latvia, Malta, Poland and Slovakia for failing to ensure a comprehensive directory service. More reasoned opinions have also been sent to Czech Republic, for failing to ensure number portability, and to Germany, Finland and Poland because their national legislation provides insufficient powers for their national telecoms regulatory authorities.
In the current round, the Commission has also sent letters of formal notice to Cyprus, Portugal and the United Kingdom for failing to ensure a comprehensive directory service, to Lithuania for lack of number portability and to the Czech Republic for insufficient protection of users against "spam".
The Commission has at the same time closed nine procedures following corrective measures, including amendments to legislation, in the respective Member States. Three cases were closed following notification by France of measures transposing EU rules into national law, and two more closed following transposition by Spain. Further closures were made following the publication of a reference unbundling offer (enabling alternative providers to use the incumbent's access lines to offer services to customers) in Malta, the full provision of the Single European Emergency number 112 in Poland and the publication of a comprehensive subscribers' directory in Lithuania. This means that reference unbundling offers and 112 emergency numbers are now available in all Member States.
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Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Adventures in Stencils and Spraypaint
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Good idea. They are awesome!
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These are gorgeous "vivid layers"! Maybe put the papers up for a bit. Usually a bit of time and distance away helps me.
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Well, I didn't see that coming on The Vampire Diaries "You Made a Choice to Be Good" last night, which simultaneously tore my heart in two and left me so shocked that it took me a half-hour to figure out how to write an introduction to this review.
So first and foremost: Enzo is dead and Stefan is human. All in the span of the final five minutes of an otherwise monotonous episode of Damon and Stefan running about doing Cade's dirty business.
Do I blame Bonnie? Hell yes. I feel absolutely horrible for her because her relationship with Enzo was the cutest, sappiest, make-my-heart-flutter romance since Delena's demise, but normally the bad stuff that happens to Bonnie is a result of Bonnie doing things without 1. Telling anyone or 2. Really thinking of the consequences and 3. Being so god-damn loyal to your friends that it screws you over every time. In this case, Bonnie never bothered to tell anyone that she bought a house (with what money? Who knows) and moved Elena's body there so any vampire that wants get near has to be invited in.
She also doesn't tell anyone her plans of giving the cure (Elena's blood) to Enzo so they can live a normal life together. This plan massively backfires when Cade comes to town, and in the first scene runs into Bonnie at a coffee shop, reads her mind and learns the location of Elena's body. He then comes up with the diabolical plan of making Stefan and Damon either kill 100 innocent people or each other's girls.
With Damon, Caroline and Matt (whose attitude towards vampires is becoming almost unbearable to watch at this point) dealing with Cade in Mystic Falls, Stefan is halfway to New York where Bonnie's safe house is and intent on drowning Elena in the bathtub.
The most ridiculous thing I've ever seen happens. Stefan happens to run into the realtor who sold Bonnie the house at a gas station and compels her to do hours of paperwork on the roof of her car to sign the house over to Stefan. Once the transaction is complete, Enzo is shot out of the house while Bonnie is trying to blood-jack Elena.
Damon is racing to New York, but he's too late. Stefan arrives and rips out Enzo's heart right in front of Bonnie. In a rage, Bonnie stabs Stefan with the cure, and the episode ends with her sobbing on the ground making the air pulse around her.
What was that pulse? Did the pain give Bonnie her magic back? Did it create another dimension like Cade's pain did when he was killed? Will even Damon be able save Bonnie from herself after this? And what's going to happen to Stefan now that he's human? One thing for sure is that he's going to be a broken man when his humanity floods back, but after what he did to Bonnie and Enzo, I can't see anyone forgiving him.
Episode Rating: 9/10
The Vampire Diaries airs Friday at 8 p.m. on The CW.


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Made this its own thread, since it's really fan art rather than a translation of official material.
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Sunday, 4 December 2011
Beach Hut 4
Tonight we were treated to the beauty of starlight both real in the sky and imagined by artist Nick Sayers in hut 79a. Nick makes everyday objects such as cable ties, coathangers, plastic bottles and bicycle reflectors, beautiful by turning them into spherical sculptures which glow with internal light.
The simplicity of these objects spoke powerfully of the simple trust shown by those who followed the star at that first Christmas and the way God can transform the ordinary into the extraordinary.
The interplay of light and shadow in and around the hut created a wonderful atmosphere as the children ran around, carols played and the crowd gathered to wonder at the star and the miracle of light shining through the darkness.
There was a calmness and serenity about the event tonight as we watched the waves roll under a glistening moon and fall onto the beach. This was emphasised by the wide promenade and the broad expanse of Hove Lawns behind Fiona MacFarlane's hut which was the perfect setting for these sculptures which seemed very at home.
Our next hut is back towards the lagoon and is number 332.
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Bishop Travels to Africa to Fight Malaria
Western Pa. United Methodist Bishop Thomas J. Bickerton, a South African superstar, government officials and other religious leaders have been helping to distribute 30,000 insecticide-treated bed nets in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where malaria is a leading cause of death. The net distribution began with a public event April 16.
According to the World Health Organization, malaria infects an estimated 23.6 million people in the DRC each year, and causes an estimated 96,000 deaths. One in five children in the Congo dies from malaria before their fifth birthday.
The nets are being given to families in the Bongonga neighborhood of Lubumbashi as a kick-off event for World Malaria Day, April 25. The date also marks the official launch of The United Methodist Church's Imagine No Malaria campaign, a comprehensive effort to raise $75 million to eliminate death and suffering from malaria in Africa by 2015. The campaign is supported by a partnership with the United Nations Foundation.
"Churches like ours are often the only organizations serving rural communities 'at the end of the road'," said Bishop Bickerton, chairman of the United Methodist Global Health Initiative. "That's one of the reasons faith communities are such a vital part of efforts to eliminate death and suffering from malaria. We provide education and resources in out-of-reach areas with no access to a health care facility."
In Western PA, United Methodists have raised funds for the long-lasting, insecticide treated bednets for years through Nothing But Nets. Now congregations are taking the next step by getting involved in the Imagine No Malaria campaign. Several will hold special events, sleep-outs or other events to raise awareness the weekend of April 23-25, dubbed the Change the World weekend. Congregations here and throughout the world will also participate in outreach activities to help others in their local communities. Learn more about Change the World.
On April 15, Bishop Bickerton, South African singer and malaria Ambassador Yvonne Chaka Chaka, Ktanga Province Gov. Moise Katumbi Chapwe, four other United Methodist bishops and leaders of other faith groups, will travel down a rough, muddy path to thje neglected neighborhood, bringing hope wrapped in square plastic bags.
Never has a VIP visited the community of more than 8,000 poor families, but now the governor of Katanga, the "Princess of Africa" and other high officials will be walking into local homes to hang mosquito nets.
The United Methodist Church and its partners of Coalition Religieuse pour la Santé (CORESA), a faith-based coalition of health organizations in Lubumbashi, have been laying the groundwork for the event that will celebrate the first distribution of nets.
CORESA, a multi-faith coalition formed in 2008 to implement community-based health programs in DRC, is coordinating the nets distribution. Along with the nets, the coalition works to instill a "net culture"—a community-wide understanding of the protective value of the nets, as well as how to use and maintain them. The United Methodist Committee on Relief was a leader in forming the coalition and designing this project.
The United Methodist Church also provided $150,000 towards the distribution effort—money raised through donations to Nothing But Nets, a global, grassroots effort to save lives in Africa through the distribution of nets. The United Nations Foundation granted $30,000 to conduct the initial strategic planning and training program for CORESA member organizations in January. NetsforLife® will supply the nets. NetsforLife® works in remote communities not reached by national health programs, using a network of local churches, faith-based groups and NGOs.
"In this country, we are born with malaria and we are dying with malaria," said United Methodist Bishop Nkulu Ntanda Ntambo of the North Katanga area. Ntambo says it's critical for the church to teach people about malaria, how to avoid it, and the importance of health care.
Besides Bishop Bickerton, other United Methodists from the U.S. in DRC to help distribute the nets include: Bishop James Dorff of the San Antonio area, Bishop Earl Bledsoe of the Dallas area, and representatives from UMCOR and United Methodist Communications.


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Do you really know how to read, comprehend, and decipher the nutrition labels on your favorite foods? If not, that's okay, most people don't, in fact, most trainers don't know either.
My clients are always asking me questions about products, if they are "good" or "bad," whether they can eat it, and if it'll help them lose weight. I always ask, "did you read the nutrition label?" they'll usually send me a photo because they have NO CLUE how to decipher the random little label with what seems to be random numbers, and odd percentages.
Truth is, most "healthy-foods" are advertised using buzz words like, "sugar-free," "organic," "gluten-free", "antioxidants" and my favorite, "fat-free" however, the numbers within the labels don't back their claims. Products with misleading claims are counterproductive to our fitness goals, and derail our overall progress.
An easy rule of thumb, is to check "the top 5!" Check the Serving Size, Fat, Carbs (sugars, fibers), Protein & ingredients.
Step 1 – Serving size – Serving Size is where so many of us make our first mistake. Back in 2008 I would easily eat a box of Cheez-It Crackers. I never looked at the nutrition label, and really wasn't concerned. I later read the label and found the actual serving size is just 27 crackers! I was consuming about 11 servings, no surprise why I couldn't lose my belly.
Tip: Serving size should be the first thing to read since it shows you how many tablespoons, cups, or pieces, make up 1 serving. By reading the serving size you'll know how much to eat, and the nutritional make-up of just 1 serving.
Step 2 – Fats – There are 4 categories concerning fat on a nutrition label
- Total fat: the total percentage of all fats included in your container.
- Saturated fat: comes from animal fat products, like cream, cheese, butter, whole dairy, and fatty meats.
- Trans fat: artificial fats added to vegetable oil to make it more viscous (thick).
- Cholesterol, which is a waxy, fat-like substance that's found in all cells in the body. There are 2 types of cholesterol, and your body needs both types of cholesterol to create hormones and enzymes to digest food.
- Low-density lipoproteins (LDL) – LDL is often referred to as the "bad" cholesterol. This is the kind that clogs arteries and over time can result in major heart issues.
- High-density lipoproteins (HDL) – HDL is the kind your body wants.
Tip: Mostly everything we eat contains fat, from protein, carbs, some veggies, and of course foods considered fats like nuts, avocado, oils and dairy. My suggestion when eating pre-packaged foods is to keep the "total fats" between 0-8g, and be conscious of the amount of saturated fats, trans fats & cholesterol. Note, items with 0g of trans fat are awesome, but if the item has less that 1g of trans fat they company us legally allowed to list it as 0g. So, sometimes items that state 0g may have more
Step 3 – Carbohydrates – Nowadays everyone wants to "low carb" their life, and totally ignore the importance of carbs. Complex carbohydrates (i.e., the carbohydrates in natural, fibrous foods like fruits & vegetables) are better for you than simple carbohydrates like refined sugar
Carbs will not make you fat, your body uses carbs for fuel, and energy, so a lack thereof, the more sluggish we become. By cutting carbs we cut the supply of fuel/energy for our organs, nervous system, and fiber needed for healthy digestion. Yes, if you eat carbs excessively you will gain weight, but note, not eating enough carbs can cause your body to work inefficiently.
Tips: Just keep it simple by choosing complex carbohydrates, and by keeping added sugars to a minimum. For further advice email me at email@example.com
Dietary Fiber – Fiber & carbs go hand & hand, fiber is vital in creating a well-balanced diet. Consuming carbohydrates with higher amounts of fiber will keep your fuller, lowers bad cholesterol levels in your bloodstream, passively aids in weight-loss, and improve the functionality of your digestive system. Eliminating fiber can cause one to become constipated, gain weight, or suffer from heart disease.
Tip: The American Dietetic Association recommends 25g of dietary fiber for adult women and 38g for adult men per day. You'll want to split the daily recommendation throughout a the day.
Sugars – When we consume carbohydrates our body converts those carbs into sugar, so think of your oatmeal, brown rice, whole wheat toast and rice cakes as a natural source of sugars. Processed sugars are considered an empty calorie because yes, they supply you with energy but they add no nutrition value. In excess, sugar can negatively affect your health by:
- Cause weight gain & possible obesity
Tip: White sugar is extremely processed, and has been stripped of other nutrients. Look for less-processed sugars such as brown rice sweeteners, honey, agave, molasses, which contains trace minerals such as calcium, potassium, iron and magnesium.
Step 4 – Protein – You all know, I LOVE MY PROTEIN. Yes, protein keeps you tight & lean, but protein is essential to your diet, and most people don't consume enough. Amino acids are the building blocks of protein all of which help our bodies create healthy hair, nails and lean muscle mass. Protein will also regulate your hormones, creates enzymes, and helps with stabilizing your blood.
Tip: Choose lean or low-fat cuts of meat like, skinless chicken and turkey breast, lean ground turkey, round or sirloin and ground beef that is at least 90% lean. Trim or drain fat from meat and remove poultry skin.
Step 5 – Ingredients – It's easy, if you cant pronounce it you need to bounce it. All natural, healthy snacks/food should have a simple ingredients list. You shouldn't have to ask yourself "what's that?" & if you do, put it back on the shelf.
Tip: Less is more! If you cant pronounce the ingredients it's probably best to not eat it.
Notes From Lana
You're now equipped to read, decode and decipher "healthy" nutrition labels from those that make false claims. If you become confused remember this rule of thumb, look for foods with no more than five ingredients. Lengthy lists are usually a sign that a product has unnecessary extras such as artificial preservatives. Many packaged foods hide the unhealthy ingredients that will hinder your progress, so pay attention, and do your homework. Just because it claims to be healthy, low fat, low sodium, zero sugars, and fat free it doesn't mean that it is!


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Thai king visits palace in first trip outside of hospital
Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej leaves hospital to visit projects at his Bangkok palace. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
ROUGH CUT (NO REPORTER NARRATION). STORY: Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej left hospital on Monday to visit his Bangkok palace, the first such trip since he was admitted last year, which is likely to comfort many who revere him as the arbiter of decades-long, sometimes violent, political divisions. Bhumibol, 87, the world's longest-reigning monarch and considered "father" of the nation, was admitted to Bangkok's Siriraj Hospital in October where he underwent surgery to remove his gallbladder and treatment for an intestinal infection. The king's absence during an annual public audience to mark his birthday in December heightened anxiety over his health. A Reuters reporter at the scene saw the king leave in a royal convoy and return to the hospital after spending around an hour at the palace. During the trip King Adulyadej visited various projects at Chitralada, including an experimental rice mill and a solar house. Some well-wishers lined the streets calling out "Long live the king" as Bhumibol, wearing a yellow checked shirt, waved back. Bhumibol has in the past intervened during Thailand's often messy political show downs. In 2006, the king called on judges to resolve a pending constitutional crisis.


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Every year Lake Havasu City celebrates the building of the iconic London Bridge with a series of events titled London Bridge Days. One event held for charity is the Jailathon. Mrs. Whelan asked me if I would cover this event because it is such fun. She is such a great lady, I said yes. Instead of me being the only reporter I took Jolene to do some interviews with the people involved. This is my report.
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There are many people who disappear mysteriously and they have not been abducted or murdered. There is a logical "physical" explanation to these disappearances, although at the present time scientists have not yet discovered the mechanism of these "dimensional cracks"
The problem with scientists is that they limit themselves by saying "this cannot be possible" and we are not talking about religious beliefs or nonsensical ideas, but simply of physical events that have connection with quantum physics.
Today, dimensional doors are considered by many people as Science Fiction and even some scientists believe so, but keep in mind that two centuries ago a space ship on the moon was also part of Science fiction.
Dimensional doors are the physical solution of unexplained disappearances like these:
And the strange disappearance of Percy H Fawcett and Lt. Alejandro Bello.
Medium Jorge Olguin.
Entity that came to talk: Johnakan Ur-El
Interlocutor: I have watched some documentaries and I also read in books cases of certain travelers that simply took a deviation, they entered into a place which is not in the maps, they conversed with the villagers, maybe they ate and they spent the night and then they continued their trip.
The strange thing is that later on they talked about their experience to the inhabitants of closer towns and they informed them that that place didn't exist and they considered them as hallucinated people.
These travelers try to repeat the experience,but they are not able to find that place again. In addition, there is the strange fact that the place they had arrived to doesn't belong to our time, but to one century ago for example.
Johnakan Ur-El: There are two options. We could call to one of them "logical" and to the other "fantastic".
The logical option is that they go to a normal and common town, in the present time, and they are so astonished, so dazzled that in a part of their brain- this is already physical- there is a "clic" and they no longer find it again even though they want it.
In other cases, two things can happen: on one hand, they might have seen a dimensional hole and they can go to a parallel universe or to take a trip through time and travel to a century ago.
the most possible thing is the trip to a parallel universe, because I understand that people have their reasoning and they can ask if there is some newspaper in the area and see if it shows the name of the town and the date, for example 1887.
Interlocutor: You are offering it as an alternative, but according to the story of those travelers the fact is certain and it has happened. Is that so really?
Johnakan Ur-El: Correct, because the planet Earth is surrounded by meridians and energy parallels and in the crossings of those meridians and parallels there are dimensional short circuits and many things can happen there.
Interlocutor: I understand. The second question I have is if those dimensional doors can only be found by chance or there would be some scientific way to find them and enter to those parallel worlds.
Johnakan Ur-El: They can be found scientifically, but this science is not yet developed on Earth, in other planets this science has been developed.
Interlocutor: What is the key to develop it?
Johnakan Ur-El: Quantum physics.
Interlocutor: Is the United States advanced on this aspect?
Johnakan Ur-El: They are advanced in particles and even with some animals. And not only the United States but also Japan.
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What is Osteopathy?
Dr. Andrew Taylor Still an American Osteopath was the founder of Osteopathy in the late 1800's. He coined the term "Osteopathy" to denote the important role that osseous tissues play in the structure and function of the organism.
Osteopathy involves the assessment of the patient as a whole, which encompasses the body, mind and spirit combination. Osteopathic practitioners use precise palpatory skills to assess and treat the bones, muscles, viscera (organs), nervous systems, circulatory system / fluids and the cranium.
OSTEOPATHY is using one's hands to engage a therapeutic process governed by the Health of the patient.
James Jealous D.O.
The goal of Osteopathic treatment is to find and treat the area(s) dysfunction within the body which are affecting the normal function of the anatomy and physiology. The areas of dysfunction can be in any of these systems;
"To find health should be the object of the doctor. Anyone can find disease".
The Osteopathic practitioner acts as a fulcrum for the health to express itself. The Osteopath is a facilitator, and the human body does the work.
All people have the ability to stimulate healing. All healing and health comes from within the body. Many old Osteopaths refer to treatment as "awakening your inner physician".


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Cottage Retreatinstalled sideing donated by our handyman painted the run and trim
We took inspiration from 2 coops we saw on BYCs' home page.
This is what we came up with.
Coop 5'x4' Run 5'x10' Cost $1,200.00 3 weeks to build
I had a basic idea of what I wanted. I warned my husband that I was designing on the go, and to expect changes mid stream.
We started by digging a 12" deep foot print of the coop and run. We laid hard cloth using cable-ties to connect the seams, insuring no preditors will be able to get into the coop from below. We set the footings for the raised coop and cemented them in. Followed by the platform/base for the coop.
I needed to decide on windows and locate a source before they could frame. I ordered shed windows on line from shedwindowsandmore.com The company is great the windows arrived really fast!
Sheathing for roof, base for chicken run
Framed the run, sheathing on walls, felt paper on roof
Here is where I had a big ah ha moment! I read that chickens like alot of light to optimize egg production. I searched BYC for inspiration and came up with a new roof line. Of course my husband and our handy man friend, were not surprised at my mid construction design change, as I had alerted them of the possibility before we started. I showed them pictures of my idea from a coop on BYC and said can we make it happen? Of course they said. They cut off a portion of the sheathing on the peak to accomodate the new roof line. We kept the roof beams in place to make it easier and for the integrity of the roof. Could have cut them and framed the peak differently but would have been more involved and didn't seem necessary for unused space in the coop. Took this time to prime the beams and run while we had access.
Big changes today, cut out the openings for doors and windows, built top cupola, shingled the roof. This is the first time I have been able to really see where we are going with this coop.
We covered the walls of the coop with shower wall covering. It comes in 4x8 sheets and is waterproof for easy cleaning, installing it with liquid nails.
framed the nesting boxes
Had extra felt paper, so we used it to cover the sides of the coop. Shingled the roof and installed the transome windows from shedwindowsandmore.
New view of roof line from inside
Finishing touches, put hardwire cloth on run, finished painting, made ramp, installed back doors, including a screen door for ventallation. I put UV film on the windows to try and keep out alittle of the hot Florida sun!
poles 24" up 12" from wall removeable screens on windows
painted nesting box black
Nesting box lid held with gate latch
dust bath, grit in rabbit feeder run
drink cups box on side of coop houses 5 gallon bucket for automatic poultry drink cups, ordered from Randalls Poultry Supply. Love them, I put pieces of grass in the cups to get my 2 month old pullets to notice the cups. It worked! They were using them within minutes. We installed the cup at a height of 12" correct for adult hens. Pullets couldn't reach them so I placed bricks below the cups for them to stand on.
view of finished coop from entrance of garden. Street lamp from our home town.:Things I would do differently Biggest change... I would make the run tall enough to walk in. It is really hard on the back to stoop over every time we want to enter the coop. My husband would have made the coop square (5x5) instead of (4x5) it would have made the roof framing much easier!
Future additions: I ordered awning fabric and sailboat snap fasteners from a company called Sailrite. I am going to make an awning cover for the run. The snap fasteners screw into the wood of the run, and I will be able to remove the awning if desired. Feel the girls need more protection from the Florida sun. Also we are going to install fans, one in the coop and one under the run. I have a battery operated fan from Home Depot we are using now. The girls hang out under the coop all day, the awning will give them the whole run access during the day.my baby girls!
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Brian and Alex did a great job and a great different war it experience part of Yellowstone
Awesome tour! Relaxing yet engaging. Professional, personable, and knowledgeable guides.
We had so much fun on this trip. Peter and Jason were terrific in leading the group and sharing information about the area. Would definitely recommend this to anyone coming to Yellowstone!
It's pretty expensive but provided a unique viewpoint of the park. We got to see a couple eagles, which was great but no wildlife otherwise. It was hard to hear the guide at times, even though there was only 7 in our group, it was hard to stay right near the guide. Our meeting time was 9 am. Three of us were there on time. two more showed up about 1/2 hour late, and we didn't leave until 10 after the last two showed up. Wasn't happy that the first hour of the tour was spent waiting in the parking lot. The trip description says 9 - 3, but we were back at 2, even with starting at 10. It was like we were in a race to get back - got very tiring to keep paddling with no break.
Our guide, Alex, was very knowledgeable about geysers, geology, the lake, fish, history, etc. etc. as well as kayaking. He was friendly, had a sound sense of humor and answered all questions. This, plus the actual experience of kayaking on Yellowstone Lake, made for a most enjoyable day. We've never kayaked before but Alex made us feel at ease and kept a constant lookout to be sure we were OK. Highly recommended!
We enjoyed the tour and our guides were great. It was fun getting to see a geyser erupt that no one on land could see and then feel how hot the water became. That being said, it was hard getting back because it was against the wind. My kids weren't too happy about that, but I had a great time!
Alex and Jason were great, low key and knowledgeable guides. Trip started a bit late due to miscommunication in the reservation confirmation I received, but that was the only glitch. Once we got on the water we had an amazing time. Pretty strenuous, but well worth it to see the geysers up close from the water. We were lucky, had a beautiful day. Highly recommend.


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Bianca Jagger (born Bianca Pérez-Mora Macias, May 2, 1945) is a Nicaraguan-born social and human rights advocate and a former actress. Jagger currently serves as a Council of Europe Goodwill Ambassador, Founder and Chair of the Bianca Jagger Human Rights Foundation, Member of the Executive Director's Leadership Council of Amnesty International USA, and a Trustee of the Amazon Charitable Trust. Over the past thirty years she has written articles and opinion pieces, delivered keynote speeches at conferences and events throughout the world and participated in numerous television and radio debates, about numerous issues including genocide, the war in Iraq, the war in Afghanistan, the war on terror, war crimes against humanity, crimes against future generations, the Former Yugoslavia, Sri Lanka, Central America, Iran, Iraq, India, children and women's rights, the rights of indigenous peoples, climate change, the rainforest, renewable energy, corporate social responsibility, the ensuing erosion of civil liberties and human rights, and the death penalty.
She was formerly married to Mick Jagger, lead singer of The Rolling Stones.


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Rutgers WR Leonte Carroo was arrested on simple assault charges in a domestic violence incident involving a team recruiting ambassador.
Rutgers receiver Leonte Carroo was arrested by the Rutgers University Police Department on Saturday and charged with simple assault under domestic violence, according to Rutgers University chief of police Kenneth Cop.
According to a report from the Daily Targum, Rutgers's student newspaper, one of the women involved in the altercation was a recruiting ambassador who worked for the football program as a hostess for recruits on game days and at other events.
Coach Kyle Flood announced Sunday that Carroo had been suspended indefinitely after an incident that occurred outside Rutgers' home field following the team's 37–34 loss to Washington State.
Rutgers dismissed five football players on Sept. 5 after they were arrested on assault charges. On Friday, fullback Lloyd Terry was let go after he was arrested in connection to alleged home invasions.
Carroo, a senior, broke Rutgers's all-time receiving touchdowns record (22) in the team's season opener against Norfolk State.
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Click on the dolphin for more information about Kratie, its Irrawaddy dolphins and the Mekong Wagtail
Click here for the "Roka Kandal handicraft centre and lodge"
This Website is designed to promote tourism and handicraft in the Eastern province of Cambodia, Kratie, and to support the protection of IRRAWADDY dolphins in Cambodia.
Since June 2001 Frank Ludwig, a German native and founder
of Monsoon Tours, and the Cambodian Craft Cooperation (CCC) have initiated several
projects to contribute to the development of Kratie province in the Eastern part of
Cambodia. Monsoon Tours and CCC have worked together with the Wildlife Conservation
Society (WCS) and the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society (WDCS).
The Cambodian Craft Cooperation has been support by the German Handwerkskammer Koblenz
(Chamber of Trade & Skilled Crafts of Koblenz City). Main achievements are:
- activities to protect the Cambodian river dolphin
- the renovation of a unique pagoda from the 18/19 century (Wat Roka Kandal) as a handicraft centre - the "Roka Kandal pagoda & lodge"
- the historical museum of Kratie
- two small wicker-work centres 25 km south of Kratie
You are invited to have a look at this beautiful place along the majestic Mekong river.
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A little about the dress: This is an ethereal ivory floor-length gown, perfect for reception or for relaxed garden party-style nuptials. It's made of beautiful, flowing chiffon, which cascades to the floor from a plunging surplice neckline. It has a chic ribbon detail on the belted waist (instantly slimming!) and features a slit up the thigh that adds the right amount of sexiness. The back is a deep-V open back that is trimmed in delicate lace. About a size 2-4. It can be picked up locally or mailed.
It'd be great for an intimate wedding or even as a reception gown. It's new and has never been worn, so you can rest easy knowing it's in pristine shape.
The dress is fitted to around these measurements: 32-26-36, though there is some give.
It has been sealed and protected in a plastic garment bag, locked away in a barely accessed closet.
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text: FROM the operations of Mars, they made an image in the hour of Mars (Mars ascending in the second face of Aries), in a martial stone, especially in a diamond; the form of which was a man armed, riding upon a lion, having in his right hand a naked sword erect, carrying in his left hand the head of a man. They report that an image of this kind renders a man powerful in good and evil, so that he shall be feared by all; and whoever carries it, they give him the power of enchantment, so that he shall terrify men by his looks when he is angry, and stupify them. They made another image of Mars, for obtaining boldness, courage, and good fortune, in wars and contentions; the form of which was a soldier, armed and crowned, girt with a sword, carrying in his right hand a long lance; and they made this at the hour of Mars, the first face of Scorpio ascending with it.


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Birds of Steel Review: WWII Flying At Its Best
Birds of Steel
PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
Birds of Steel is a World War II flight sim that gives you the type of gameplay everyone wants. If you like true sims when it comes to your flight games then this game is for you. However, if you are someone who likes the experience to be a little more helpful and less sim like, this game also has the option of making it easier to handle and more fun for that type of player. For example, if you try a hard right turn and pull up on the true sim, you could find yourself in an uncontrollable spin. However, on the simplified mode you can turn and pull with ease and not have to worry about entering a spin.
The gameplay handles very well no matter what setting you decide to play the game on. Once you get the buttons down you will be heading right into a fun-filled action title with dogfights and bombing runs. You will also get to experience a lot of take-off and landings, and that includes on aircraft carriers which will take patience as you learn to do that correctly. They certainly didn't make that part easy on you, but once you get it down you will have a lot of fun in your attempts. There are many different aircraft and each handle well. You can sense the different speeds with each aircraft and how well each handles. I should also mention that at first I had a difficult time lining up enemy aircraft to shoot down. It will take you some time to get good at it. It's nice that they didn't make it overly easy or that would have been problematic, especially when it comes to online play.
One of the first things you will notice is the long tutorial process that you need to go through to start the historical campaign. It goes over every detail with you on the controls which is very useful and that makes the length of the tutorial worth it. Not only is there the historical campaign, but there is also a dynamic campaign with more missions for you to complete. You can also choose single missions, and a mission editor which allows you to set the conditions to your liking as you create your own mission. You are treated to a plethora of missions in this title making it worth it on that account alone. The missions are well done, though some are a little too short. For the most part, the lengths of the missions are about right.
The other great thing is the online multiplayer modes that are available to choose from. You can play versus combat where you go head-to-head in dogfights online against others in rooms of up to 16 people. You can also choose to play co-op missions with up to 4 players. Both add even more depth and fun for gameplay options that you will surely enjoy. The only issue I had was with the versus mode. Sometimes in a full room of 16 players I experienced moments where it dropped the entire room or had a room full of "skippy" planes where it makes it hard to track them down and shoot. Other than that I've had a heck of a good time playing online against others.
Overall, this is a must own title for anyone who is a fan of flying and likes the old World War II aircraft. I would say that this is my favorite World War II flight title because you have so many different aircraft options. Plus, you can also choose mission editor and just do a free flight if you want to simply just fly one of the aircraft around. Another one of the fun features is the ability to customize each aircraft by placing decals on them. There are a number of decals to choose from, some you will have to unlock. As you play the game you will unlock a number of items and that includes aircraft. You will also gather points for you to purchase these aircraft once they are unlocked. All in all, this is a very good game and one that will keep you entertained for quite some time.
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The Nun Jefimija
The Nun Jefimija was born in 1350 but it could not be precisely determined the time of her death. It is clear only that she died after the 1405.
Helena (later on became nun Jefimija ) was daughter of a prominent Serbian aristocrat Caesar Vojhine, at the court of Emperor Dušan. Her husband was a despot Jovan Uglješa Mrnjavčević who has with his brother Vukašin imposed for a powerful ruler in the southern areas of the Serbian Empire against the Uroš and Dušan's widow, Empress Helena, later abbess Jevrosina. They ruled from the city Ser (Serres in Greek) whom John Cantacuzenus (Byzantine emperor and the main opponent of Emperor) called "big and beautiful city. "
Helena's happiness and welfare were short-lived. First her father died and then died the four-year old son and at the end died her husband Uglješa in 1371 in Černomena battle. She lost family, property, income and country at the very short time.
As customs of the Middle Ages required, she took the monastic vows, and from then she was known as nun Jefimija. She found her piece and shelter in the country and on the court of the Prince Lazar. Here she became a witness to the many sufferings of his people including the tragic battle at the 1389 in Kosov when, beside most of the aristocracy, were killed also her patron, Prince Lazar.
In those evil times she stayed on the court in Kruševac, with Empress Milica, Serbian ruler, who also became a nun, known as a nun Eugene. Empress respected very much opinion of a nun Jefimija, particularly in relation and politic towards the Turks and the rival family Branković.
Soon the two nuns went right to Ser to Sultan Bayezid to justify and defend the young Stefan Lazarević, Milica's and Lazar's son who was in prison at the court of Sultan Bayezid and accused of infidelity and the planned betrayal, and they asked to bring relics of St. Petka in Serbian.
It is very important to mention the willingness and strength of this humble woman who was willing, now as wretched and the poor nuns walking through the city (Ser), where once she ruled and in that same, once this palace was her, begs for mercy Bayezid and the Turks who destroyed her life.
The wisdom and politics of the nun Jefimija was confirmed by the fact that she prayed relics of St. Petka from the Bayezid and he, indeed, happy allowed the relocation of the earthly remains of Saints Paraskeva, explaining that only with religious reasons. However, Jefimija has another intention in this act. Specifically, the St. Petka is a Christian Demeter, protector of the land, all crops that gives the ground. Farmers in those bad times leaved the country, but suddenly, the arrival relics of the Saint Petka, stop emigration and even they began to return to their homes. In this seemingly religious act, we see brilliant mind and wisdom of nun Jefimija.
Her wisdom and eloquence were described also by the Philosopher Constantine.
Her unfulfilled mother's love, wisdom and knowledge, Jefimija transferred to the young prince and then the Despot Stefan who sad for her that she was wisdom ruler, eloquent lady and caring mother at he same time.
Jefimija's saved legacy includes three writings which are certainly one of the best jewels of Serbian medieval literature, of which the most famous is the Praise to the Prince Lazar.
Jefimija died, as we have already said after the 1405 and was buried in the Ljubostinja Monastery where are her mortal remains even today.
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The way that the construction of each season's NFL schedule works, every team already knows 14 of the 16 teams they will play every season from now until such time that the NFL a) expands, b) realigns, or c) gets bored and changes the way they do the schedule.
Simply put, right now each team's schedule consists of all of their division games (6 games total), a rotating crossover with one AFC division (4 games), a rotating crossover with one NFC division (4 games), and two variable games. The variable games each season are determined by the previous year's standings.
Those other two games are against the corresponding placed teams from the two AFC divisions your team is not crossing over with that season. (I know, that's a mouthful.) Using the Texans as an example, this season they play the Ravens and Patriots, because like the Texans, both won their division in 2012. The Texans cross over with the entire AFC West.
I bring this up because from now until the end of time, Texan fans looking for a good road trip should be rooting for the Chargers to be in the same slot as the Texans every season, forever, on the oft chance it results in a road trip to San Diego.
Because San Diego is awesome.
So in honor of San Diego, maybe the nicest city on earth, we dig into last night's winners and losers from the Texans opener (plus a few other things)...
4. San Diego, the city After spending three days in San Diego, it's easy to see why so many of my fellow media members are so adamant about San Diego being part of the Super Bowl rotation. It's incredibly easy to get around, as the highway system makes everything a 15 minute drive away. (This is a big deal to people who cover the Super Bowl as oftentimes, most are forced to stay on the outskirts of town.) The weather is amazing, the food is varied and unique, there is a downtown area that is perfect for parties and bar hopping, and there's In N Out Burger! Hell, I even had a good time at the San Diego Zoo, and make no mistake, I abhor zoos. (By the way, the improvements I would make to the "zoo experience" may need their own post, and would all be frowned upon by conventional zoo goers and PETA. Just know that my zoo would have a VIP ticket that would allow the ticket holder to antagonize the animals. The "zoo experience" would be way more interesting getting to rattle cages, slingshot golf balls, and talk shit to the gorillas about how we humans have opposable thumbs.)
3. Earl Mitchell In the box score, Mitchell's first game as a starter was just your average affair (three tackles, a couple of the solo variety), but in one of the more underrated important plays of the game, Mitchell showed why the team had the confidence to hand the reins of the starting nose tackle spot to him this offseason. Tied at 28, and with the ball 2nd and 10 on his own 16, Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers threw a swing pass to running back Ryan Mathews who had a head of steam as he turned upfield. It was a play that looked like it could be a big gainer as it evolved, and if it had been, the Chargers would have momentum, field position, and eventually a chance to take the lead. However, before Mathews could break loose into the secondary he was chased down from behind by Mitchell, who managed to keep the Chargers in a third down situation (3rd and 2), and on the next play, some J.J. Watt pressure forced an incomplete pass. From there, well....we all know from there. Back to Mitchell, though. He was a high school running back himself at North Shore, and on that play he flashed the athleticism that has many around the team excited about the upgrade at that position this season. Put simply, no chance Shaun Cody catches Ryan Mathews from behind.
2. Adam Lefkoe Before you all waste your time rummaging through the box score trying to see if Adam Lefkoe is some obscure defensive tackle from the Chargers who perhaps made a play in the first half or something, stop. Lefkoe isn't a Charger. In fact, he's not even a football player. No, Lefkoe is a sportscaster on WHAS Channel 11 in Louisville, and he's come up with my new favorite "local sportscaster" gimmick that I've seen in quite some time. I started a couple Sundays ago with Wrestlecast (count the WWE references, including S.D. Jones!):
And it continued this past weekend with Seinfeldcast (41 references in all!):
I've already asked Lefkoe on Twitter that he let me help ghost write Sopranocast, if and when that day comes, but until that day, kudos to a local sportscaster in a medium sized market doing something memorable in the Viral Era.
1. Matt Schaub As many of you know, I spent the better part of a few thousand words questioning Matt Schaub's intestinal fortitude, testicular fortitude, and really most any of his other fortitudes in my cover story for the Houston Press print edition last week. I'm not ready to say that I was too harsh or even that I was wrong, but I will give credit where it's due, Schaub was a man on Monday night, going 34-45 for 346 yards and three touchdown passes. This, however, is where I issue not so much a word of caution as it is a statement of fact -- nothing will matter for most Texans fans as pertains to Schaub until he wins a big game in January. Just the harsh reality of the position he plays and the amped up expectations of the fan base. (Put another way, Texan fans all remember how warm and fuzzy they felt about Schaub after the Denver game last September, too, and I would guess there's a bit of a "fool me once" thing going on. I'll know more when I get on the radio today.) LOSERS
4. Philip Rivers I think that ultimately new Chargers head coach Mike McCoy will get it right with Philip Rivers and help rejuvenate him to some extent, and I am basing 95 percent of that prediction on the fact that McCoy made Tim Tebow look somewhat competent as an NFL quarterback in Denver. Using my "Tebow-to-actual compentent QB" conversion chart, this means that McCoy should be able to turn Rivers into something resembling the love child of Tom Brady and Joe Montana. To that end, the first two quarters and change went swimmingly, with Rivers accruing a 134.8 passer rating as the Chargers went up 28-7. After that? His passer rating was a positively Tebow-esque zero. ZERO.
3. Johnny Manziel's privacy The rematch everyone's been waiting for over the last nine months goes down on Saturday in College Station, Johnny Football versus Nick Saban. For fans or alums with a vested interest, easy enough to pick out a side. For much of the rest of the college football rooting world, this is like one of those late 80's WWE "heel versus heel" matchups designed to eventually turn one of the two into a babyface. (Think Randy Savage versus the Honky Tonk Man in late 1987. Just trust me.) It should be epic. And if you're into Johnny Manziel, well, it should be really epic, because on Saturday CBS, for the first time ever, will institute something called "Johnny Cam," a camera that specifically follows Johnny Manziel around the entire game -- on the field, in the huddle, "ignoring" Kevin Sumlin (you still suck, Mark May!), taking a leak, whatever. I'm not sure what's left to know about Johnny Manziel that we don't already know, but on Saturday, college football's tradition meets good old fashioned voyeurism in an attempt to find out.
2. All of your ears Traveling to San Diego for a game, while fun, is not an inexpensive proposition. For traveling Texans (or "Traveling Texans," as it were) airfare, hotels, meals, drinks, and insuring your Cowboy hat with horns glued to the side all add up to a collectively pricy experience. But as best I can tell from my Twitter timeline and text messages, it was worth every penny to avoid the all-out assault on the ears that Chris Berman unleashed on all of you on Monday night during the telecast. In fact, I just made an executive decision to give this its own post with embedded tweets. Let's move on...
1. Oklahoma State If you haven't read Part One of the SI.com story on potential NCAA violations in the Cowboys program, you need to give it a read. It's about as detailed an account as you'll find in a story like this, and the scary thing if you're a Cowboys fan is this is Part One of five parts. FIVE. (The other four parts are titled "The Academics," "The Drugs," "The Sex," and "The Fallout." I'm losing track of whether this is an investigation into a college football program or the sordid tale of some grunge band gone awry. My head is spinning.)
And because the two former OSU assistant coaches implicated in the story are Joe DeForest (now with West Virginia) and Larry Porter (now with Texas), the tentacles of this thing just in terms of distraction, if nothing else, extend as far as Morgantown and Austin.
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I think my buddy Jerry Barca, though, sums up my feelings best on all of this:
What did Ok St pay for? Only ranked three times in the final AP Top 25 between 1998-2013. No. 3 in '11, No. 13 in '10 and No. 16 in '08.
— Jerry Barca (@JBarca) September 10, 2013
At its very core, this has turned out to be an underwhelming investment for OSU, if winning games is the ultimate goal (if, in fact, any or all of this stuff is true).
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Could you please give us an updated prediction on Bongbong Marcos (BBM)? Will he win in the election protest he had filed in the Philippine Electoral Tribunal? What will happen to him in the future?
Thank you for asking, and here is what I see for Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr.:
I see a man who has been cheated in the past, and a very clear deception here. I must confirm backstabbing, enemies who tried to end him, and who are still trying their best to destroy him completely, which he needs to keep a check on.
However, he is seen to rise as a winner with achievements not one but two!
There will be a good new position waiting for him and he will be honoured with the same. He has a lot more to prove and he will do so but a lot of stress issues involved to prove what he wants, and he needs to take care of his health, too.
He is seen coming back in picture in a very decent, honest and a strong way. I see him as a fighter and a patriot soul.
He is definitely good for the government and for the country, and once he rises more, which possibly from now until the month of August, some exceptional law or rule can be set against corruption and perpetrators during this time. I see loads of legal documents that prove his power!
Philippines is seen moving in the right and a beautiful direction. Only what is right is happening, and any wrongful will not thrive!
He is seen to rise as a winner with achievements not one but two!
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Stores enjoy 'strong' Boxing Day sales
Boxing Day has been a strong trading day retailers report, after thousands of shoppers snapped up bargains.
Some stores opened for business as early as 06:00 GMT, while queues reportedly started in Birmingham at about 02:00 and in Leeds at 01:30.
Traders in London's West End said they had taken £15m in the first three hours of the sales, and retailers across the UK said they saw large crowds.
London shoppers faced some disruption after Tube drivers went on strike.
The 24-hour walkout was due to a dispute over pay.
BBC business correspondent Emma Simpson says it has been a difficult year for many UK retailers, some of whom have been discounting since November.
The Christmas period has also seen a surge in the number of people shopping online.
However, retailers have benefited this year from usual trading hours; last year 26 December fell on a Sunday and trading hours were restricted to six hours, hitting footfall.
'Strong start'
Jace Tyrrell, of the New West End Company, which represents traders on Oxford Street, Regent Street and Bond Street, said shoppers had been out in their hundreds of thousands.
Meanwhile, police made nine arrests after a man was fatally stabbed close to Bond Street Tube station, and many shops, at about 13:45. Oxford Street was closed around the scene.
Selfridges department stores said they had seen their biggest first hour of trading after opening four stores in England at 09:00, with hourly takings expected to peak at £1.3m.
Sue West, Selfridges' director of operations, said: "Despite Tube disruptions we've had a very strong start to our Boxing Day sale, with record sales in the first hour."
A spokeswoman for Westfield shopping centres said the Tube strike, which has disrupted services since midnight, had failed to put shoppers off visiting its London stores.
"Both Westfield London and Westfield Stratford City are seeing huge numbers so far this Boxing Day with well over 125,000 people across both centres so far," the spokeswoman said.
Brent Cross shopping centre in north-west London said 10,000 people had come through the doors within an hour of opening. The retail centre took up to £1,000 a second as shoppers snapped up bargains.
At Cabot Circus shopping centre in Bristol, some shoppers had queued from 05:00 to hunt bargains.
Centre director Kevin Duffy said in the week leading up to Christmas the centre had seen a 19% increase in shoppers compared with the same period last year. The centre was "very busy" on Boxing Day, he said.
Managers at the Liverpool One shopping centre said they were expecting an estimated 125,000 people to visit its stores. It saw almost 950,000 people visit in the week leading up to Christmas, an increase of 15.7% on last year.
At Birmingham's Bullring retail complex, which has attracted 1.3 million visitors in the past week, queues began to form as early as 02:00. The 160-store centre estimated that 9,000 visitors had hit its shops by 09:00.
"There is a lot of talk about internet shopping but people still like to come out to shop and feel the goods," said general manager Tim Walley.
Peter Cook, centre director at the White Rose Shopping Centre, in Leeds, said shoppers started to arrive for the Next sale at 01:30, with about 3,000 in the queue when the shop opened at 06:00. Mr Cook said he expected some 68,000 to pass through the doors by the end of the day.
In Scotland and Wales, sales were also strong.
Ryan Manson, general manager of Union Square in Aberdeen, said it had been "unbelievably busy". Braehead Shopping Centre in Glasgow said the number of shoppers was up on last year.
The Buchanan Galleries, also in Glasgow, reported a "great start" to the sales, as did The Centre in Livingston.
'Real surge'
Managers at the St David's Shopping Centre in Cardiff had estimated up to 200,000 shoppers would hit the retail complex on Boxing Day.
Steven Madeley, the centre director, said: "St David's has seen a real surge in Christmas shoppers over the past few weeks - a staggering 1.2 million customers visited the centre during the week of 12 December, which is an increase of 15% compared to the previous year."
Many people are believed to have gone shopping online on Christmas Day itself this year.
Debenhams said it saw a 75% spike in Christmas Day online traffic compared with last year.
John Lewis said it had seen 19% year-on-year increase in the value of online orders since starting its online clearance on Christmas Eve.
The department store group said it had received more than 1.5 million visits to its website on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, a 51% increase year-on-year.


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Private Equity KeyTrends #13 – July 16, 2013
A concise fortnightly distillation of key private equity news, with links to noteworthy PE articles and studies, edited by Palico – The Online Marketplace for Private Equity LPs, GPs and Advisers
THE U.S. AD BAN IS LIFTED, BUT DON'T "EXPECT THE AIRWAVES TO BE FILLED WITH ADS" on private equity funds, writes New York Times DealBook legal reporter, Peter Lattman, announcing the Securities and Exchange Commission's canceling of the general solicitation ban for private placements. The SEC's new rule states that general partners must still "have a reasonable basis to conclude that an investor is qualified" before engaging with them "and includes various verification methods, including reviewing tax returns." PE funds using advertising also must "notify the S.E.C. 15 days before the solicitation begins." It's early days, yet those requirements may prove cumbersome. In the U.S., "only 7.6 million households" are qualified for private placement investing, so "mass advertising through television or magazines makes little economic sense for most funds." Investors eligible to invest in PE funds "must have a net worth of at least $1 million, excluding their primary residence, or annual income of more than $200,000 in each of the previous two years."
IN THE U.S., INSURERS MAY SOON TAKE OVER THE PUBLIC PENSION PLANS that serve as key suppliers of capital to the world's private equity funds. The New York Times DealBook reports that legislation sponsored by Orrin Hatch, senior Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, would permit states and cities to voluntarily transfer responsibility and potential liability for defined benefit plans to insurers. Hatch "has devised a way for states and cities to exit the pension business while still giving public workers the type of benefits they want." Big insurers "like MetLife and Prudential might thus step into shoes now occupied by the likes of CalPERS. Life insurers would bear the investment risk, shielding both retirees and taxpayers." As operators of pension funds, PE would likely remain a popular form of investment for insurers, precisely because the asset class' high expected returns relative to other investments are a promising way to meet liabilities, despite insurers' need to set aside prudential reserves.
APOLLO MAYBE ONE OF JUST A FEW PE FIRMS "ABLE TO GATHER A LARGER FUND than it did before the financial crisis," writes Bloomberg's Cristina Alesci and Devin Banerjee. "Apollo Global Management completed the first stage of capital raising for its newest flagship buyout fund with about $6.8 billion and has set a maximum target "of $15 billion." Apollo's last flagship fund raised $14.7 billion in 2008, the year Lehman Brothers collapsed and the financial crisis began. Alesci and Banerjee note, "fewer buyout firms are raising a larger share of capital as the industry consolidates, and investors, seeking to cut costs, allocate their money to a smaller group of managers."
"ASIAN PRIVATE EQUITY FUNDRAISING IS IN THE DOLDRUMS," reports The Wall Street Journal, citing data compiled by sister company LP Source. Asian fundraising "reached only $15 billion in the first half of 2012," versus $53 billion raised in full year 2012 and $64 billion raised in all of 2011. This is in contrast to the U.S. and Europe where, according to a range of data providers, fundraising was higher in the first half versus the same period last year. "Weighing on investor appetite are worries about the economic slowdown in China," by far Asia's biggest private equity market. The common theme to fundraising in Asia, the U.S. and Europe: resource-stretched limited partners are committing more money to fewer managers and often overlooking smaller, harder-to-research firms. The Journal points out that "the number of new funds with less than $1 billion in Asia dropped to 48 last year, compared with 78 in 2011 and 90 in 2010."
IN MENA, SMALL AND MID-SIZED COMPANIES ARE THE PLACE TO BE, POST-MORSI, implies GrowthGate Capital partner Karim Souaid, in a Financial Times opinion piece published the day Egypt's president, Mohamed Morsi, was deposed. In the Middle East and North Africa, "small and medium-sized businesses – defined as having a market value of between $25m and $250m – account for more than 90 percent of all companies." They have low debt and are "ignored by commercial banks," creating "an opportunity for private equity to inject capital." Meanwhile, in a Fortune magazine Q&A, Leslie Jump, a Washington, DC-based partner in Egyptian venture capital firm Sawari Ventures, says Morsi's deposition "is really a continuation, and hopefully a conclusion" to the revolution of 2011 when Egyptians "thought they were moving toward a more open government and a more open economy." Egyptian startups "could flourish" with "a modicum of rule of law" and "respect for intellectual property," she says. For details of Egypt's macro challenges, FT Data offers "The Egyptian Economy in 10 Charts."
PE MAYBE BETTER SUITED FOR AFRICAN INVESTMENTS THAN STOCKS, imply two articles, one from the Financial Times and one from Bloomberg. "Institutional investors that aim to play Africa's domestic growth story by buying into the continent's equity markets are missing a trick," writes the FT. In the article, Rory Ord, a consultant at Cape Town-based consultancy RisCura Fundamentals, argues that listed African equities "do not, by and large, offer significant exposure to the consumer sector," considered by many to be the most promising opportunity in Africa, given forecasts of rapid middle class growth. Meanwhile Bloomberg reports that celebrated stock picker Mark Mobius, "who oversees $53 billion in emerging markets," is "considering private equity investments as a way of tapping growth in Africa." Private equity should offer a considerably less volatile ride than thin local stock markets, where waves of euphoria and panic have caused extremely steep value swings.
A SURVEY OF THE 100 LARGEST ALTERNATIVES MANAGERS SHOWS PE IS KEY. Private equity assets account for 33 percent of the slightly more than $3 trillion in assets held by the world's top 100 alternative assets managers, according to consultant Towers Watson. Only real estate assets account for a greater percentage, edging out private equity at 34 percent of assets under management. The 97-page Global Alternatives Survey also shows that pension funds are the largest investors in alternatives, with some 19 percent of their capital invested in the area, up from 5 percent ten years ago. Private equity accounts for 14 percent of pension fund assets.
"MONEY MASTERS TALK PRIVATE EQUITY." Five limited partners, considered among the U.S's "best asset managers" by Institutional Investor magazine and honored this year as winners of the publication's annual Investment Management Awards, provide private equity allocation tips in this 12-minute video. Among the highlights: Joseph Boateng of Casey Family Programs explains that he never wants more than 25 percent of his aggregate private equity commitment held in un-invested dry powder since "it becomes a drag;" Katheryn Crecelius of Johns Hopkins explains that PE investments outside the U.S. are the most appealing "because there are fewer experts, more challenges and therefore more opportunities to make strong returns;" while Susan Racher of the Walter H. Coulter Foundation counsels peers to "invest in every single fund that a particular PE manager has," in order to avoid "stubbing your toe on a really bad vintage and not being able to make it up."
"ACHIEVE OUTSIZE PROFIT AND OUTSIZE IMPACT" – that's the promise Andrew Kuper, the founder of LeapFrog Investments, makes to investors in this case-study video from Privcap. Kuper argues that his firm's "profit with purpose" investment strategy in insurance serves the needs of some two billion consumers "rising out of low income into the middle class" in countries like Kenya, Ghana, Nigeria, India, Sri Lanka and the Philippines. In emerging markets, "the era of the specialist fund is really coming into its own," he says. Leapfrog launched a week after Lehman Brothers collapsed in September 2008 and took 20 months to finish fundraising, but it exceeded its $100 million target by 35 percent.
HERE'S A WEALTH OF STATISTICS ON U.S. PE DEAL-MAKING. According to Pitchbook's latest quarterly Private Equity Breakdown, "PE firms invested $71 billion across 318 deals in Q2, down from 420 investments in Q1 and far off last year's stellar fourth quarter, in which 671 companies received $141 billion in PE money." The report also observes that several factors are "compelling PE investors to pursue more minority deals, not the least of which is the fact that deal-sourcing is difficult and firms have a real need to put capital to work." A record amount of un-invested private equity commitments are likely to expire this year, meaning general partners who want to continue collecting fees on those funds are in a "use-it-or-lose-it" situation.


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Oh dear, this is why I went away. There's too much going on. I'll be back (today) as soon as I can.
It's still today, just. I think I'm suffering withdrawal symptoms - withdrawal from my retreat, that is. I'm not full of angst, not really stressed, just busier than I was with several disparate things. I get through as much as I can and then I get sleepy-tired and stop for a while.
Today on a bus a man tripped over the wheels of a grocery cart belonging to a man sitting down. I don't know which one snarled first but suddenly they were like cats hissing at each other. When the tripping one moved away, the sitting one shoved the wheels of his buggy against his assailant's legs. (Who was the assailant?) Then a woman across the aisle told him to behave. Then another woman a few seats down snapped at someone - who? And here was this mini-war that had broken out in a bus, for heaven's sake. No, not for heaven's sake. Were they all stressed? Very strange.
Perhaps I am not engaged enough to get so peevish. Perhaps I am too ladylike to yell in public. Most of the time I don't get angry, not stomping, shouting angry. I get resentful which is not healthy either, because resentment creates a slow burn. I have a friend who unknowingly telegraphs her anger by saying, "it makes me laugh" and then she tells you what insult or injury she has sustained or bad behaviour she has witnessed that makes her laugh. Not ha ha, not jolly laughter, more like rueful - or resentful. Resentment is not healthy, But neither is skirmishing in a bus.
Well, so, there goes another day. Anon, anon. It will be tomorrow very soon.