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Teaching about bin Laden's death
The death of al-Qaida Led light base leader Osama bin Laden was a teaching point for Grand Forks history teachers on Monday, whose students reacted to the news and possible outcomes with mixed feelings.
"Before I could even bring it up in class, it was the main discussion among my eighth graders for history," said Jenny Mastel, a seventh- and eighth-grade history and geography teacher at Twining Middle School on Grand Forks Air Force Base.
"A lot of the kids had stayed up and listened to the President, and quite a few had gone on the Internet to see what actually had happened. Being out here on base, they talked about the military and their influence."
At Valley Middle School, eighth-grade history teacher Sherry DeMaine showed students several video clips to spark conversation. DeMaine started the hour with 10 seconds of President Barack Obama's Sunday night speech announcing bin Laden's death. She followed it with a four-minute music video about Sept. 11, "Have you forgotten?" by country singer Darryl Worley. Images of the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and United Airlines Flight 93 flashed across the screen.
Because the eighth-graders were ages 3 or 4 when Sept. 11 happened, DeMaine explained, she wanted to refresh students' memories.
Some of them were still figuring out who bin Laden was Monday. Others had been the ones to alert their parents to the news Sunday night.
"Brandon texted me, and I'm like, 'For real?'" a boy said. "And I'm like, 'Mom, bin Laden's dead. Turn on the TV.' "
"What now?," was one of the most frequent questions raised by students.
Dealing with questions like those, DeMaine said she tried to inform students without aggravating their anxieties. However, she did not shy away from asking a few probing questions.
"Let me put this in perspective for you. There are a lot of people out there who lost loved ones or family members," DeMaine told students. "Now let me ask you this: What if someone came into your home tonight and took away one of your loved ones and then got away with it? Would you want this person brought to justice?"
There was a surprising amount of nuance during DeMaine's class discussion, said Principal Kevin Ohnstad. Students discussed whether bin Laden's acts of terrorism were equal to the deaths Adolph Hitler caused in the 20th century and whether it was right to celebrate bin Laden's death.
"An eighth-grade girl Led light base said, 'I'm a little bit sad that people are rejoicing over another person's death," Ohnstad said.
Ohnstad and his wife, Michelle, broached the subject with their own children ages 14, 11, 7 and 5. The 7-year-old, Carson, was particularly fascinated with the story, the couple said, so they let him watch the TV news coverage Monday morning and Michelle was fielding questions in the afternoon.
"He's very into discussing it for whatever reason," Ohnstad said. "I was dropping him off at swimming, and he told me, 'Yeah, mom, they just put his body in the ocean.' He wanted to know if it would sink."
Students in Bill Landry's 12th-grade history class at Central High School were in third-grade on 9-11. Monday, they watched President Obama's nine-minute speech, then discussed the operation that led to bin Laden's death and what might happen next.
"I heard that al-Qaida was gonna, like, avenge his death somehow," one student said.
Landry prompted students to discuss various angles of the event.
"Let me ask you this," he said to students. "Should the United States be in the business of killing people?"
A few students answered, "Probably not," and "Not really." One boy spoke in support of protecting "the lives of innocents."
"I've got to say it was a good thing, what happened, because one man we've been hunting for 10 years has finally been taken down," said senior Chris Rethemeier. "I'd guess there's going to be retaliation coming pretty soon."
Fellow senior Isaac Hale said he was glad bin Laden was killed. He, too, worries about retaliation, and he also wonders whether the effects of the news on U.S. politics will be justified.
"One of my biggest things is I hope Led light base people don't re-elect Obama for this one event," Hale said. "I think this doesn't show his ability to govern a nation."


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The reality is that there isn't too much information out there when it comes to exercise… especially in significance to those that suffer from hypothyroidism.
You'll find that there are some so called experts that claim that exercise is really beneficial for those people that suffer with hypothyroidism, whereas there are other people out there that disagree with this fact.
What is the truth you ask?
Well to be honest, you can experience some great benefits from exercise but you need to realize that not all exercise has been created equal. The reality is that the vast majority of the exercises out there will cause even further damage to your thyroid. Having a low thyroid is damaging enough would you really want to make the thyroid disease even worse?
There's plenty of research out there that shows that there are some beneficial forms of exercise that when applied as part of a broader hypothyroidism treatment plan can help to get your thyroid up and running again. Exercise can also help to relieve a lot of the hypothyroidism symptoms that you may be experiencing right now. But you need to remember that treating hypothyroidism with diet is one of the most effective ways to get into great health.
Of course while doing the right exercises can be very beneficial it's even more important to realize that while exercise is great for helping you overcome hypothyroidism and get your overall health into tip top condition, your results will be even better if you get on the right low thyroid diet. The link between hypothyroidism and diet is very important hence why you must get it right! A good subclinical hypothyroidism diet might also be in order but to make sure you should definitely get in touch with your doctor. Your number one priority should be to find and implement the most natural thyroid treatment out there. Do this and you will usually find that thyroid supplements are not really needed.
What Are The Wrong Types of Hypothyroidism Exercise
Now you have hypothyroidism, you need to realize that the vast majority of the exercises out there are not going to benefit you and will only make your condition worse.
The reason this is the case is because the vast majority of the exercises out there will cause way too much stress on your body.
Just think for a second on exactly how exercise actually works and what it does to your body…
Only after you have stopped exercising will your body get to work to repair itself up and recover from all the stress that you have put on it. In the process of rebuilding itself the body will work to make your stronger than before.
The above description is the ideal scenario and is exactly what happens when you're perfectly healthy. However the issue is that when you're suffering with hypothyroidism your body is just not going to be able to recover from the stress you cause on your body from doing that exercise.
So while you're down at the gym hitting those weights hard, thinking that you are doing your body some good you are actually breaking it down more and more because your body just isn't able to keep up and repair itself.
Eventually your body just breaks down and the best case scenario will be that you're just not going to have the energy you need to actually get into the gym and do exercise.
But in most cases what happens is that you're going to end up injuring yourself which will force you to stop going to the gym.
You might not realize it, but this happens quite a lot to those that have an underactive thyroid because of the calcification of your soft tissues.
There are many studies out there that show that doing the wrong forms of exercise when you're suffering with hypothyroidism can result in your body stopping the production of the thyroid hormone T3 completely. This is a very serious problem that should make you wake up!
So to help you out and make sure that you avoid causing any further damage to your thyroid, I'm now going to list the exact exercise's you should avoid from now on…
1. Avoid Any Form of Cardiovascular Exercise
I really find it troubling to see that there are so many so called experts out there that claim that cardio is a really good form of exercise for those that suffer with hypothyroidism.
Cardio is one of those things that most people don't do lightly but rather they really push themselves to their absolutely limit… which makes the situation even worse.
By doing intense forms of cardio on a regular basis you are going to be causing chronic stress to your body which is very catabolic.
Yes, you'll likely lose a little bit of weight but the reality is that this is not going to be fat but rather muscle mass you are going to be losing. And note that not only is this going to be stressful and inflammatory to your body but it will result in your hypothyroidism getting worse and worse over time.
2. Avoid Doing Intense Forms of Exercise
Lately I've seen a large decline in the popularity of cardio because it plain and simple just doesn't give the results that people are looking for.
So rather than spend hours on end doing cardio exercises people are resorting to doing far more intense and shorter forms of exercise. But again this is not a good idea when you're suffering from hypothyroidism.
When you have a low thyroid you are already going to be struggling to store sugar in your liver.
The reality is that these super intense workouts result in your body using a massive amount of sugar in a short period of time.
And if there isn't much sugar available in your body then your body starts to really get messed up. Your stress levels rise a lot which makes it that much harder for your body to recover and therefore your thyroid ends up getting worse and worse.
So What Sort of Exercise Should You Do?
You see conventional wisdom dictates that the harder you work when you exercise the better your results are going to be. But when you're suffering from hypothyroidism the opposite is true. Doing less will actually get you better results. This will be especially helpful to relieve those hypothyroidism symptoms in women.
To help you guys get onto the right track I'm going to be sharing 3 exercises which will help you a get into great health in no time at all even though you're suffering from hypothyroidism. The reason why these exercises are good for you is because they are not catabolic at all and therefore don't cause your body tissue to break down.
Rather they actually help to promote and stimulate your body's rate of repair and help your body get stronger and stronger.
Of course there are a ton of similarities between these three different exercises and I think it will be wise to let you know what they are before we get into the details of each exercise.
The number one similarity is the fact that there main emphasis is making sure that you're breathing properly. And trust me this is a lot more important than you might think.
Ensuring that you breathe properly is what will activate your parasympathetic nervous system and doing this will ensure that your body's natural repairing system is working as it should be.
You should also note that none of the exercises I mention will be intense. The focus will be on more than just giving your muscles a workout.
These exercises will help to balance your energy levels, your hormones and all the other processes inside your body which help to keep you fit and healthy.
Rather than increase the stress that is caused by conventional forms of exercises, these exercises will actually lower stress levels.
Now onto the actual hypothyroidism exercises that I recommend you check out. You need not do all of them, but give them all a go and see which one you actually enjoy the most and then do that on a regular basis. You see there are plenty of natural cures for hypothyroidism, you just need to take the time to find them.
1. Tai Chi
I personally love this exercise the most, simply because the benefits of doing it are just amazing.
It's widely known that your thyroid will weaken with age and often times the illnesses and health issues that elderly people face are because they are suffering from hypothyroidism.
Tai Chi has been so successful and effective that it has become quite the hit among the elderly population.
Slowly but surely elderly people everywhere are joining up clubs to partake in Tai Chi… and the results literally speak for themselves.
Now just imagine if it's good for the elderly, it will be 10 times greater, if not more for the younger generation.
2. Qigong
Qigong is another truly great exercise that you might want to check out if you're suffering from hypothyroidism. While there are a lot of differences between Tai Chi and Qigong, they are also very similar in the effect they produce and ultimately the results they give to the person who practices them on a regular basis.
The major difference is the fact that Tai Chi is a lot more structured whereas Qigong is far more free flowing.
I'd highly recommend that you check them both out and see which one you prefer.
3. Yoga
The one exercise that you are going to want to be a little more careful about is Yoga.
You ought to be careful because there are a ton of different types of Yoga and not all of them are the same.
You are really going to want to only take part in that form of Yoga that isn't too intensive and actually focuses on breathing techniques and flexibility rather than the more intense type.
By the way I found this cool video that explains in detail how Yoga can help you relieve the many symptoms of hypothyroidism and get your thyroid glands working as they should be. Do check it out…
So there you have it, the three types of hypothyroidism exercises that will help you get into great health in no time at all. Of course you should implement them as part of your broader hypothyroidism treatment plan. Don't forget to stock up on the best foods for hypothyroidism. This will surely get your thyroid glands working as they should be in no time at all.
Keep taking action daily and it'll only be a matter of time before you get into amazing health! And don't forget to stay away from those nasty hypothyroidism diet pills, because they just plain don't work. Finding and using natural remedies for hypothyroidism (such as diet and exercise) is the only way to get long lasting results that will help you get into amazing health.


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Launched on November 1, CPTV Sports is available on Comcast cable channels 185, 187 and 744 and on the Cox Communications cable system channel 144. High school sports and CIAC championship games are sponsored by New England Musculoskeletal Institute at UConn Health Center, Connecticut Lighting Centers and the Hospital of Central Connecticut. In addition, high school football is made possible in part by Connecticut Rental Centers.
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A partial knee replacement is surgery to replace only one part of a damaged knee. It can replace either the inside (medial) or outside (lateral) parts of the knee.
Surgery to replace the whole knee joint is called total knee replacement .
Partial knee replacement surgery removes damaged tissue and bone in the knee joint. The damaged areas are replaced with a man-made implant, called a prosthetic.
Before surgery, you will be given anesthesia, which is medicine that blocks pain. You will have one of two types:
The surgeon will make a cut over your knee. This cut is about 3 to 5 inches long.
Unicompartmental knee arthroplasty; Knee replacement - partial; Unicondylar knee replacement; Arthroplasty - unicompartmental knee; UKA; Minimally invasive partial knee replacement
The most common reason to have a knee joint replaced is to relieve severe arthritis pain.
Your doctor may recommend knee joint replacement if:
You will need to understand what surgery and recovery will be like.
Partial knee arthroplasty may be a good choice if you have arthritis on only one side of the knee, and you:
However, most people with knee arthritis have a surgery called a total knee arthroplasty (TKA).
Knee replacement is most often done in people age 60 and older.
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Always tell your doctor or nurse what drugs you are taking, including herbs, supplements, and medicines bought without a prescription.
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Most patients go home the day after surgery .
You can put your full weight on your knee right away.
After surgery, you will be encouraged to do as much as you can for yourself. This includes going to the bathroom or taking walks in the hallways with help.
Most people recover quickly and have much less pain than they did before surgery. People who have a partial knee replacement recover faster than those who have a total knee replacement.
Many patients are able to walk without a cane or walker within 3 to 4 weeks after surgery. You will need physical therapy for 4 to 6 months.
Most forms of exercise are OK after surgery, including walking, swimming, and biking. However, you should avoid high-impact activities such as jogging .
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Patil S, Colwell CW Jr, Ezzet KA, et al. Can normal knee kinematics be restored with unicompartmental knee replacement? J Bone Joint Surg Am. 2005;87(2):332-338.
Richmond J, Hunter D, Irrgang J, et al. American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. Treatment of osteoarthritis of the knee (nonarthroplasty). J Am Acad Orthop Surg. 2009;17:591-600.
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Hi I am a white male! I am pleased to meet you.
I am automatically racist and privileged. I make more money than you. I cannot grasp the concept of racism nor can I feel its effects because I am white, hence empathy is impossible for fair skinned folks like me. I am a bad person for being White. Shame on me! Thanks for teaching us so much about equality and prejudice, MLK!
^ Holy hell that's a HUGE arena!
Holy jeebus! I have heat! And AC! I don't have to go another winter and summer without them! Whoooo!
I am jealous, moot, I really am. That's so awesome. I haven't been to a concert in a while, now that I think about it, and it's never been a band as well-known as Coldplay. I saw Skillet live twice, if anyone's heard of them.
Hi, I'm part of the staff on Pokemon Showdown!, if you have any questions or need any help, VM or PM me.
I seen one of Roger Waters' shows but I missed his most recent one which I totally regret. He put on a really good concert!
Rammstein was a totally sick show as well!
I worked during Tool when I used to work at our event stadium and checked them out after my shift. Would LOVE to see Muse live!
I've seen so many other bands that I won't mention them all.
I missed the chance to see Roger Waters last time, sadly. That and missing King Crimson are my two biggest concert-related regrets.
i saw rammstein and tool at the same festival, so rammstein pretty much opened for tool. that was a good couple of hours lol, then the next night i saw tool on their separate show and their opening band who i had never heard of are now one of my favourite bands http://youtu.be/XFAQa3HlYYw
i haven't actually listened to king crimson beyond these two albums:
i listened to in the court of the crimson king ages ago but i am going to try and find them on vinyl before listening to them now so i can hear them the way they were meant to be heard (like i am doing with the beatles). i found a first press copy of islands but it was absolutely wrecked to shit and i nearly cried, might go back to the other store to see if they still have lizard
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I have never gone to a concert for fun, like ever. I did plan on going to go see Versailles and Kaya at few conventions I went to, since I already payed my way in, but in one instance the line was insane, and in the second my significant other wanted to go home early.
As much as I enjoy music, I don't feel like I am missing out on that much.
I haven't been to a concert in a long time. Most of my concert going was done in high school, so I saw some pretty crappy bands. I didn't listen to great stuff for a while there.
Latests shows I've been to were to see Flogging Molly, once on St. Patricks day and the other the day before St. Patty's. Both shows kicked my ***.
KMFDM is in Chicago in a few months. I plan to go.


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Following on from John Garnaut's look at China and its move to shift away from coal, BusinessDay's Paddy Manning has garnered some opinion from Australia's coal industry, which doubts China will be able to cap its coal use by 2015, without abandoning its commitment to economic growth.
UBS commodities analyst Tom Price said it was ''too late'' for China to cap coal use at 4 billion tonnes, as in 2012 it consumed 4.05 billion tonnes, counting raw production of 3.8 billion tonnes plus net imports of 227 million tonnes. China's gross coal imports jumped 32 per cent last year, he said.
Mr Price said China's monthly raw coal production statistics did not factor in coal washing which could reduce yields and increase calorific values.
''It will be hard to pin them down on this,'' he said.
Here's what you need2know this Wednesday evening:
- The ASX200 jumps 0.8%, ending a two day run of losses.
- The dollar slides to its lowest point this year, around $US1.0347
- The Nikkei is up 3.6%, Hang Seng up 0.7%, Shanghai down 0.1%
- Wall Street futures are about 0.1% higher; FTSE100 futures up 0.1%
- Gold flat at $US1672.90, while WTI oil flat at $US96.66
- Time for change: China flags peak coal usage
- Not a merry Christmas for battling retailers
- Retail sales – missing ingredient in the RBA stew
- US slaps $USb lawsuit on S&P over GFC
- Unemployment rate: expected 5.5 per cent
- NewsCorp (Q2): Net profit - US1.001b; Div:US10c
- Tabcorp (HY): Net profit: 93m; Div: 10c
- Telstra (HY): Net Profit: 1.6b; Div: 14c
Here's a look at the best and worst performers on the ASX200 today:
Among the sectors, financials and energy both gained 0.9 per cent, materials rose 0.8 per cent and consumer staples added 1.6 per cent. Telecommunications bucked the trend, falling 0.7 per cent.
The market has finished higher, shaking the losses of the last two days. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 jumped 38.3 points, or 0.8 per cent, to 4921, while the broader All Ords added 37.9 points, or 0.8 per cent, to 4940.5.
Mongolia will press Rio Tinto to explain a spike in costs at the huge Oyu Tolgoi copper and gold mine, a government source told Reuters, warning that it could threaten efforts to finance other projects in the country.
Oyu Tolgoi, 34 per cent owned by Mongolia and controlled by Rio Tinto, produced its first concentrate last week and is on track to start supplying metal and paying royalties by June.
But the government, which is due to hold talks with Rio Tinto on Wednesday, is under pressure to plug a budget deficit and increase its share of the wealth.
A Labor MP has accused tech giant Apple of dodging tax and operating in a "cloak of invisibility" in a scathing speech to parliament.
NSW MP Ed Husic said Apple appeared unable to explain why it deserved to pay only a fraction of 1 per cent of its global turnover to the ATO.
''They have a head office here, but you would not know it because they maintain a cloak of invisibility and their key management team dodge any scrutiny and refuse to even engage on public policy issues,'' he said in a speech on the government's new international tax laws.
''Given the lack of work they do on that front, you would hardly say that it cost $5.5 billion to maintain a head office here and dodge that limelight.''
Multinationals such as Apple and Google will be forced to reveal how much tax they pay the Australian government under a plan to name and shame firms that use tax havens to doge tax.
CBA is ramping up its push into the lucrative market serving self-managed super funds and retail investors, as banks expand their presence in wealth management.
In a move planned to deliver CBA a bigger slice of the $440 billion self-managed super sector, the bank has launched a new online platform that aims to make it easier for the general population to invest in shares, fixed income and other financial assets.
The platform allows customers to invest in shares, exchange traded funds, bonds and term deposits. It also provides access to internet banking services and financial news.
Here's an interesting read from India's Economic Times, Macquarie Capital is raising a $1.06 billion fund to invest part of the money in India's structure.
Investment in infrastructure has long being the victim of partisan politics in the sub-continental nation, but with such a large institution willing to invest, times could be changing.
BHP Billiton has told workers at its Olympic Dam project about further losses as the global miner seeks to slash costs.
The world's largest resources company would not say how many workers would go at the massive Olympic Dam copper-uranium-gold project, after reports that more than 100 workers could lose their jobs.
Those affected will mostly be Adelaide-based contractors from its corporate human resources, finance and administration areas and not from the mine site itself.
BHP shares are up 0.6 per cent to $37.41.
With just under an hour before the close of trade, here's a look at markets are the region:
- Nikkei(Japan): +3.1%
- Shanghai: -0.1%
- Taiwan: +0.5%
- South Korea: +0.1%
- Singapore: flat
- New Zealand: flat
John Garnaut's exclusive on a possible imminent peak in China's coal consumption is getting some traction, both online and in the Twittersphere.
Here's a chart showing nicely just how much coal China has been burning over the past years - and that an imminent peak would mark a stunning turnaround:
Steelmaker Arrium has taken a heavy $474 million write-off against its manufacturing division, principally its Australian Tube Mills unit, since any sale of the unit will not achieve the book value of the business.
The heavy write-down reflects its view that the Australian dollar will remain overvalued and that the domestic construction industry will remain under pressure, it said.
Of the write-offs, $431 million involves its manufacturing arm and a urther $43 million off its distribution arm.
Arrium shares were down 0.5 per cent at 93 cents.
The Australian National Retailers Association, which called for a cut to the cash rate yesterday, has again pushed for a lower GST-free threshold on items purchased overseas to reduce Australians shopping on international websites.
"We estimated about 8 per cent of Christmas sales were lost to overseas competitors in the later stages of 2012," ANRA chief executive Margy Osmond said.
"Looking at these numbers, we might have to revise that number up. Retailers have come out fighting with greatly decreased prices and consumers are buying - but margins remain tightly squeezed. With three years of low growth the retail sector is now at tipping point."
News Corp companies have been targeted again by Chinese hackers, Rupert Murdoch says.
''Chinese still hacking us, or were over the weekend,'' the News Corp chairman and chief executive tweeted today.
It comes after the Wall Street Journal claimed last week that it had been targeted by Chinese hackers ''for the apparent purpose of monitoring the newspaper's China coverage''.
The Journal's parent company Dow Jones, a unit of News Corp, suggested that Chinese spying on US media has become a ''widespread phenomenon''.
The New York Times and a number of other US media outlets also claim to have been targeted by hackers in recent months.
Twitter revealed on February 1 that it had been affected by a ''sophisticated'' cyber attack and that the passwords of about 250,000 users were stolen.
Financials are having a strong run today, with good performances from all of the big four:
- Nab: +1.1%
- Westpac: +1.1%
Reuters has compiled some interesting reader comments on the US government's lawsuit against ratings agency S&P. Click here to see them.
The US Federal Reserve said overnight that one of its internal websites had been briefly breached by hackers, though no critical functions of the US central bank were affected by the intrusion.
The admission, which raises questions about cyber security at the Fed, follows a claim that hackers linked to the activist group Anonymous had struck the Fed on Sunday, accessing personal information of more than 4,000 US bank executives, which it published on the Web.
"The Federal Reserve system is aware that information was obtained by exploiting a temporary vulnerability in a website vendor product," a Fed spokeswoman said.
"Exposure was fixed shortly after discovery and is no longer an issue. This incident did not affect critical operations of the Federal Reserve system," the spokeswoman said, adding that all individuals effected by the breach had been contacted.
A lot has been made of the higher Australian dollar and the adverse impact on domestic exporters, CommSec economist Savanth Sebastian says in a reaction to the tourist numbers:
- However the same impact does not seem to be playing out when it comes to the tourism sector.
- In fact despite the high Aussie dollar, a record number of tourists are coming to Australia, with much of the growth from China and other Asian countries.
- And more importantly an ongoing improvement in the global economy will continue to be of benefit to the tourism sector.
- A growing tourism sector acts to diversify income flows to the country away from resources and rural exports.
A set of data that has been a bit ignored today is the rise in the number of tourists to a new record - despite the strong dollar.
The number of tourists arriving in Australia rose by 1.6 per cent in December to record highs. Tourist departures rose by 0.1 per cent in the month with 8.2 million Aussies travelling overseas in 2012 - the highest result on record.
In December 56,000 tourists from China came to Australia, up 17.2 per cent on a year ago. China has continued to extend its dominance as the second largest source of tourist arrivals with a record 643,800 Chinese tourists visiting Australia over 2012.
One sector happy about the heavy rains is Australia's struggling beef industry, which has received a much-needed boost from the deluge as it will increase grass growth to fatten up herds in the world's third-biggest beef exporter, producers say.
The wetter conditions in the aftermath of Cyclone Oswald mean farmers will keep cattle in herds for longer to add weight, taking some Australian supply out of the market over the next few months before an increase later this year.
Global beef prices have hit record highs this year as US cattle numbers fell for a sixth straight year in 2012 due to high feed costs after the worst drought in half a decade.
"I think through March, April and May, we will see a tightening of (Australian) supply," says David Farley, chief executive of Australian Agricultural Company, the country's largest beef producer.
This has already shown up in local prices with the Eastern Young Cattle Indicator, a benchmark collected by Australian Meat and Livestock Authority, rising to $3.335 a kg last week, the highest since November 26, before edging back slightly.
Japan's Nikkei average jumped 2.9 per cent to a fresh 33-month high today after a sharp fall in the yen on bets a decision by the central bank governor to step down early will bring forward aggressive monetary easing.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has put the central bank under relentless pressure to do more to drag Japan out of deflation and made it clear he wants someone in the job who will be bolder than the outgoing BOJ chief in loosening monetary policy.
Currency-sensitive shares jumped. Toyota climbed 4.6 per cent to its highest level since September 2008, also supported by a hike in its full-year operating profit guidance by 10 per cent on a weaker yen and a firmer US sales forecast.
The Japanese currency plumbed a fresh 33-month low of 93.80 yen to the dollar on Wednesday morning.
With a rebalance of the main sharemarket indices due from March 1, to take effect from mid-March, UBS thinks you need to trade a month ahead of the change to maximise the benefit from inclusion or to avoid being caught up in the wash from any exclusions.
For the ASX100 index, it reckons both Fairfax and Arrium will be removed, while tipping fund managers Perpetual and IOOF Holdings to be included.
In the ASX 200, it reckons Australian Infrastructure Fund, Gryphon Minerals, Bathurst Resources and Saracen Minerals will be excluded.
UBS believes that around 10 per cent of the shares in Gryphon, Bathurst and Saracen could be sold as a result.
Candidates to replace them are Trade Me, Premier Investments, Magellan Financial and Horizon Oil.
Inclusion could see more than 25 per cent of Horizon's shares bought, 20 per cent of Magellan and 10 per cent of Premier Investments, according to UBS's forecast.
With half of the trading day behind us, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 is up 41.7 points, or 0.9 per cent, to 4924.4, while the broader All Ords has jumped 40.9 points, or 0.8 per cent, to 4943.5.
Over the entire 2012 year, real (inflation-adjusted) spending at Department store rose by 1.9% - the strongest growth in four years! — Craig James (@craigjamesOZ) February 6, 2013
It's taken just 21 hours to make yesterday's Reserve Bank decision to sit pat look a little "brave" and not the sure thing market economists were tipping, writes BusinessDay's Michael Pascoe.
December retail sales were an important missing ingredient in the RBA lunch stew, making an argument for RBA board meetings to be held on the second Friday rather than the first Tuesday of the month.
If the RBA was relying on its industry liaison for a reading on the state of Australian shopping, the advice must have been the same as what retailers have told media, that Christmas was a little better than last year but nothing flash. And looking at the December-on-December trend Australian Bureau of Statistics trend series, that was the case: retail sales were up just 2.5 per cent on December 2011.
But the trend series shows the value of retail sales effectively flatlined over the last four months of 2012.
Here's a cracking read from Fairfax Media's China correspondent John Garnaut on rising power's changing attitudes towards energy consumption.
China's decade-long boom in coal-driven heavy industry is about to end as the leadership shifts priorities towards energy conservation, say officials and policy advisers.
The advisers predict China's coal consumption will peak at only a fraction above current levels after the State Council, or cabinet, last week set an ambitious new total energy use target for the five-year plan ending 2015.
"Coal consumption will peak below 4 billion tonnes," Jiang Kejun, who led the modelling team that advised the State Council on energy use scenarios, told Fairfax Media.
"It's time to make change," said Dr Jiang, who is director of the Energy Research Institute under the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC). "There's no market for further development of energy-intensive industry."
The imminent stabilisation of coal usage, if broadly achieved, would mark a stunning turn-around for a nation that is estimated to have burned 3.9 billion tonnes last year, which is nearly as much as the rest of the world combined.
If you want to get a feel for the extent of leverage to a rising sharemarket of fund managers, then have a look at the half yearly numbers out earlier from K2 Asset Management (KAM).
A strong uplift in December quarter performance of its funds enabled it to more than double net profit for the December half as it profited mostly from surging performance fees.
This not only pushed earnings up but allowed it to boost 'short term employee benefits' to $4.4 million up from $2.8 million.
With earnings a share more than doubling to 1.99 cents from 0.9 cents, shareholders will also benefit, with a 1 cent a share interim dividend.
But the real kicker is the big flow of bonuses. Expect an uptick in orders for expensive cars and high priced real estate to follow, if the market retains its strength.
The shares were ticked 3 cents higher to 60 cents; They have surged from around 35 cents since the start of the year.
The weak retail sales have pushed the dollar to its lowest point this year. The dollar has lost more than half a cent since the announcement.
NAB senior economist Spiros Papadopoulos said the weak retail sales outcome is further confirmation of how tough conditions are in the retail sector.
''It's a further sign that consumers are holding back at the retail level, holding back on the large discretionary purchases and, as a consequence, retail figures continue to be quite subdued,'' he said.
Mr Papadopoulos said households have been saving a lot more in recent years.
''They certainly seem to be in a fairly good financial position, but they're just choosing not to spend that money in the same way that they were prior to the GFC (global financial crisis),'' he said.
The poor retail sales results in December were very dependent on which sector is being analysed.
Other retailing, which includes pharmaceuticals and cosmetics, led the falls with minus 2.8 per cent, while eating out and takeaway services fell 1.1 per cent. Food retail edged down slightly by 0.1 per cent.
At the same time, clothing, sales in footwear and personal accessories rose by 2.1 per cent, more consumers bought household goods (0.8 per cent) and shopped in department stores (0.8 per cent).
NSW led the fall with a 0.7 per cent drop. Victoria slipped 0.2 per cent, Western Australia fell by 0.3 per cent and the ACT by minus 0.8 per cent. Queensland was unchanged.
Despite relatively subdued credit lending overall, the Australian housing market has shown intermittent improvement as the lagged effects of lower interest rates, said NAB chief economist Alan Oster.
- With very accommodative monetary policy now firmly in place, another 75 bps of rate cuts pencilled in by NAB this year and a continuing shortage of dwellings, it is possible that we will see resumption in national house price growth in the years ahead. However, job insecurity may act as a constraint during 2013.
- Our modelling indicates that capital city average house prices will rise by around 1.5 per cent through the year to end- 2013 and 3% in the year through to end-2014, which is slightly higher than the average survey forecast (we note however that the NAB survey was conducted in late-November/early-December when the downward interest rate bias was less apparent).
- House price divergence between the states will persist with the 'multi-speed' nature of the Australian economy also very apparent across state housing markets.
The dollar has slipped around a quarter of a cent after the weaker-than-expected retail sales results.
It traded above $US1.04 minutes before the release by the ABS and its now trading around $US1.0370.
Over the December quarter, retail sales rose by 0.1 per cent to $63.749 billion in seasonally adjusted volume terms.
The struggling retail sector has been dealt another blow after December sales fell by 0.2 per cent the Bureau of Statistics said in a report released today.
Retail sales fell 0.2 per cent in November to a seasonally adjusted $21.5 billion, the Bureau of Statistics said in a report released on Wednesday, disappointing economists who had expected a 0.3 per cent rise.
The life story of Gina Rinehart is heading for the small screen in a six-hour mini-series based on her best-sellng biography.
BusinessDay journalist Adele Ferguson has done a deal with Secreentime - the people who brought the Underbelly books to television - which will see a six hour mini-series on the life of one of the world's richest women.
Asked who she would like to play Gina, Ferguson said: "It's far too too early to say, it will be a very challenging role."
Iron ore may fall 35 per cent by the year-end after advancing to $US170 a metric ton in the first half as mines in China boost production, cutting import demand in the world's largest buyer, according to Westpac Banking.
The price of the steelmaking raw material may tumble to $US110 a ton by the end of 2013, according to Sydney-based senior economist Justin Smirk. Ore with 62 per cent content delivered to Tianjin was unchanged at $US154.20 a dry ton today, according to data from The Steel Index. Smirk is the most accurate base-metals forecaster tracked by Bloomberg in the past three quarters and correctly predicted a price slump last year.
Iron ore has surged from a three-year low in September as China's growth rebounded in the final quarter and imports rose to a record. Bank of America Corp. said last month the commodity may fall to $US110 a ton by the year-end, while Deutsche Bank AG and JPMorgan Chase & Co. also predict a second-half slump as worldwide supply increases. Some investors deem a drop of 20 per cent or more to be a bear market.
Turning to the US again, the US budget deficit will drop below $US1 trillion this year for the first time during Barack Obama's presidency, the Congressional Budget Office said overnight, but it warned that debt will swell to unsustainable levels without further action by lawmakers.
CBO forecast that the deficit for fiscal 2013, which ends September 30, will shrink slightly to $US845 billion after four straight years above $1 trillion. The reason is an improving economy and higher taxes paid by wealthy Americans.
The CBO analysis, which will feed into Congress' bitter debate over how to tame deficits, assumes that $85 billion in automatic spending cuts will launch as scheduled on March 1.
It said the fiscal tightening from those across-the-board cuts and from higher taxes will slow economic growth to an anemic 1.4 per cent by the end of 2013, causing the unemployment rate to edge higher to 8.0 per cent by then from about 7.9 per cent currently.
Now for a couple of tweets from Arab Bank's David Scutt on the retail sales figures due out later on today:
Since June 2011, every time AU retail sales have fallen in the prior month, the next month has logged an increase of at least 0.3% #fastfact
— David Scutt (@David_Scutt) February 5, 2013
If you exclude the back-to-back falls in May/June 2011, the trend in retail sales extends all the way back to July 2009 #ausbiz
— David Scutt (@David_Scutt) February 5, 2013
The best-performed stocks on the ASX200 this morning include:
- Atlas Iron: +3.51%
- Mesoblast: +2.97%
- Primary Healthcare: +2.90%
- Seven West Media: +2.59%
- JB HiFi: +2.15%
The big miners are all in positive territory this morning.
- BHP is 0.32% higher to $37.30
- Rio is 0.06% higher to $67.37
- Fortescue is 1.27% higher to $4.80
The banks are also doing well so far this morning:
- CBA is 0.54% higher to $64.65
- ANZ is 0.83% higher to $26.86
- NAB is 0.72% higher to $27.99
- Westpac is 0.75% higher to $28.13
It seems a fairly positive morning all round, but the good cheer isn't universal. The worst-performing companies on the AS200 so far this morning include:
- Cochlear: -4.24%
- Alumina: -3.65%
- Karoon Gas: -1.90%
- Wotif: -1.57%
- Tatts Group: -1.20%
All the sectors on the ASX200 bar Information Technology, which is down a barely-worth-mentioning 0.03 per cent, are in positive territory in early trade this morning. The best-performing sectors are:
- Finance +0.83 %
- Health +0.73%
- Utilities: +0.59%
- Consumer Staples: +0.57%
- Energy: +0.49%
- Consumer Discretionaries: +0.49%
The markets have opened and, in very early trade, they're heading upwards.
The market is moving higher this morning.
In early trade, the All Ordinaries index is 26.9 points higher, or 0.5 per cent, to 4929.5, while the benchmark S&P/ASX200 is 27.3 points higher, or 0.6 per cent, to 4910.0.
Walt Disney - the world's largest entertainment company - posted first-quarter earnings that beat analysts' estimates as the interactive unit registered its first profit and theme parks squeezed out more growth.
Profit excluding items was 79 cents, Disney said today in a statement, beating the 77-cent average of 26 analysts' estimates compiled by Bloomberg. Sales in the quarter ended December 29 rose 5.2 per cent to $11.3 billion.
The gain from interactive, along with higher profit from parks and the ABC broadcast unit, partly countered lower earnings from films and cable TV.
Disney said it will begin making movies based on Star Wars characters, in addition to the new movie trilogy already planned after the $4.05 billion acquisition of Lucasfilm last quarter.
The decline in Australian wine production is tipped to continue over the next five years but the industry could eventually be more sustainable and profitable as a result.
A new report released in London forecasts Australian production will be down 14.7 per cent over the next five years compared with the previous five.
At the same time world-wide production will decline just 2.3 per cent, according to a study commissioned by Vinexpo, the world's biggest wine fair.
''Australia for two decades has showed incredible growth around the world but is plateauing now and there's an adjustment on the production side which is totally normal,'' Vinexpo chairman Xavier de Eizaguirre said.
''It doesn't mean Australia is in trouble in terms of exporting, it just means there's a correction after years and years of spectacular growth.''
In earnings news today, here are couple of the companies we're waiting for:
- Primary Health Care release half year earnings: Forecasts - Net profit $69m, Div: 6c
- REA Group release half year earnings: Net profit - Forecasts $50.9m, Div: 16.1c
Another of the big stories from overnight is news that Dell has unveiled plans to go private in a $US24.4 billion ($A23.51 billion) deal, giving founder Michael Dell a chance to reshape the former No.1 PC maker away from the spotlight of Wall Street.
This one's been bubbling along for a few weeks but we now have some concrete numbers.
''I believe this transaction will open an exciting new chapter for Dell, our customers and team members,'' Michael Dell said on Tuesday in unveiling the deal with equity investment firm Silver Lake, and backed by a $US2 billion ($A1.93 billion) loan from Microsoft.
The company said it had signed ''a definitive'' agreement to give shareholders $US13.65 ($A13.15) per share in cash - a premium of 25 per cent over Dell's closing share price on January 11, before reports of the deal circulated.
A bit of international news with local echoes. The US government is seeking $US5 billion from Standard & Poor's, accusing the ratings service of defrauding investors in a case linked to the financial crisis, just months after dozens of Australian councils celebrated a multi-million-dollar landmark victory against the ratings agency.
The United States said S&P inflated ratings and understated risks associated with mortgage securities, driven by a desire to gain more business from the investment banks that issued those securities. S&P committed fraud by falsely claiming its ratings were objective, the lawsuit said.
It follows a Federal Court of Australia ruling in November that found S&P would have to pay nearly $20 million in compensation and legal costs to 13 NSW councils, which collectively invested about $16 million in financial products nicknamed Rembrandt notes. The investments collapsed during the financial crisis and the councils lost 90¢ in every dollar.
Justice Jayne Jagot of the Federal Court also found that an S&P AAA rating for ''grotesquely complicated'' financial products created by ABN Amro was misleading.
US stocks climbed, recovering a day after the market's biggest sell-off since November, as stronger-than-expected earnings brightened the profit picture.
Dell Inc's stock rose after the world's No. 3 computer maker agreed to be taken private in a $US24.4 billion deal, the largest leveraged buyout since the 2008-2009 financial crisis. The stock gained 1.1 per cent to $US13.42. More on that in a moment.
All 10 S&P sectors were higher, and the S&P 500 and Nasdaq gained more than 1 percent.
The market's bounce follows a sell-off on Monday that gave the S&P 500 its biggest percentage decline since mid-November. The benchmark remains up 6 per cent since the start of the year and is less than 4 per cent away from its all-time closing high of 1,565.15 from October 2007.
Australian bonds futures are weaker following rallies on US stock markets.
RBC Capital fixed income strategist Michael Turner said US stocks rebounded overnight after selling off on Tuesday morning (Australian time) due to negative sentiment out of Europe.''People were pretty happy to buy the dip in equities,'' he said.
''US stocks were up more than one per cent and bonds were heavier as a result.''
Mr Turner said the key local driver for bond futures on Wednesday would be the release of official retail trade figures for December, at 1130 AEDT.
He said local bonds were also likely to track movements in US Treasuries. At 8.30am, the March 10-year bond futures contract was trading at 96.480 (implying a yield of 3.520 per cent), down from 96.530 (3.470 per cent) on Monday.
For a comprehensive look at this morning's business news, check today's need2know. Here are this morning's key markets numbers:
- SPI futures are 20 points higher at 4864
- The $A is lower at $US1.0391
- In New York, the S&P500 was 1.04% higher at 1511.29
- In Europe, the FTSE100 rose 0.58% to 6282.76
- China iron ore was flat at $US154.20 a metric tonne
- Gold lost 0.1% to $US1671.80 an ounce
- WTI crude oil added 68 US cents to $US96.85 a barrel
- Reuters/Jefferies CRB index added 0.4% to 304.14
Good morning folks. Welcome to the Markets Live blog for Wednesday.
This blog is not intended as investment advice
Contributors: Thomas Hunter, Jens Meyer, Max Mason, Richard Hughes
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quote:The gladiator thing seems completely out of place and random.
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Music Professor to Perform with State Chorale
Associate Director of the School of Music and assistant professor of voice Cristy Lynn Brown will perform as a guest soloist with the North Carolina Master Chorale.
Salem Athletes Honored at Great South Championships
The Salem College cross country team had 3 runners honored this weekend at the Great South Championships hosted by Spelman. The team finished 1 point behind the Champion Jaguars of Spelman in the meet.
Soccer Earns First Great South Regular Season Championship in School History
The Salem College soccer team clinched the first-ever Great South Athletic Conference (GSAC) Regular Season Championship in Salem College history today. The Spirits won 6-0 against Wesleyan College to improve to 9-1 in the Great South and 15-3 overall. Based on conference tie-breaker rules, the Spirits win the title over Covenant.
Soccer's Ketchum Selected Great South Player of the Week
Paige Ketchum recorded two shutouts this week in two very important Great South wins for Salem. She recorded seven key saves in a 1-0 win against Covenant, and three saves in a 2-0 win against Agnes Scott. The Spirits now have six straight shutouts and improve to 13-3 overall and 7-1 in the GSAC.
New Registrar Named
Jeannette M. Rork was recently named Salem's Registrar and Director of Institutional Research.
Salem to Break Ground for New Student Center
The groundbreaking, scheduled for December, will mark the first new building on campus since 1982.
Basketball Volunteers with "Walk A Mile In Her Shoes"
Members of the Salem team participated in the event to bring awareness to abuse issues.
Soccer's Hubbard Selected as GSAC Player of the Week
Stephanie Hubbard anchored a defense that recorded three shut-outs in a 4-0 week for the Spirits. Hubbard also scored 2 goals and added an assist this week for 5 points. Salem defeated Warren Wilson, Methodist, Huntingdon, and Wesleyan to improve to 10-3 overall and 4-1 in the Great South.
Ferguson Wins Second GSAC Soccer Player of the Week Honor
Ferguson scored 3 goals to help Salem to a 2-0 week. She scored game-winning goals in road wins over Ferrum and Agnes Scott to help the Spirits to a 6-2 overall record and 2-0 in the GSAC. Ferguson scored twice against the Scotties in a come from behind 2-1 victory.
Salem Hosted Inaugural Women's Conference
The conference featured workshops with business professionals and a keynote by actress Kathy Najimy.
Salem Professor Designs Presidential Holiday Card
Dr. John Hutton designed the 2012 holiday card for the White House Historical Association.
Salem Student Selected for National Leadership Summit
Barbara Sostaita will represent Salem at the Hispanic Heritage Foundation Leadership Summit in Washington, DC.
Ferguson Wins Great South Soccer Player of the Week
Another first-year dynamo, Ferguson has scored 6 goals and added an assist in the Spirits first five games of the season. Her 13 points to date have propelled Salem to a 3-2 start to the season. Ferguson also tallied game-winning goals for the Spirits against Emory & Henry and William Peace to show a flair for the dramatic and earn Player of the Week honors.
Salem to Celebrate Organ Legacy with Gala
The School of Music celebrates John and Margaret Mueller with a symposium and gala recital.
Basketball Assists Ronald McDonald House of Winston-Salem
The Salem College basketball team volunteered to raise funds for the Ronald McDonald House of Winston-Salem. There were 15 basketball student-athletes present for the service project.
Salem to Host Inaugural Women in Business Conference
Keynote speaker Kathy Najimy headlines the conference for college women.
Salem Welcomes More Than 200 New Students
This year's incoming class is one of the largest in school history.
New Music By Salem Alumna to Debut at Harvard
A new composition by Margaret Vardell Sandresky will debut at Harvard University in September.
Faculty Named to New Administrative Roles
Several professors take on department head and director positions.
Salem Adds Faculty
Six new professors and one returning emeritus professor will join the faculty this fall.
Salem Student Among First Graduates of New Statewide Internship Program
Charlene Hunt participated in a new North Carolina health care internship initiative.
Professor to Publish Political History Book
Dr. Daniel Prosterman's book on the history of democracy will be released in November.
Salem Students Study Business at Oxford
A group of Salem students gets first-hand international business experience during a summer study at the University of Oxford.
Hubbard Details Six-Week Experience in Ghana
Salem soccer player coached soccer and volunteered in the African nation.
Salem Chaplain to Present at Global Conference
Salem chaplain and professor Rev. Dr. Amy Rio-Anderson will present a paper at the 2012 Global Conference for Chaplains in Higher Education.


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Fluid Simulation Reduces Valve Prototype Development Time from 3 Months to 1 Day
Aerospace valve manufacturer Shaw Aero Devices, Inc., Naples, Florida, saved at least $9000 and three months in prototyping costs by using Flomerics' FloEFD computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software to iterate to an optimized design. The CFD results for each iteration provided insights into how the design could be improved. Rob Preble, Project Engineer for Shaw, created a design that provided the required pressure drop without the need to build a single hardware prototype. "CFD simulation dramatically reduced the time needed to meet our customer's demanding specifications," Preble concluded. "We moved from the beginning of the project to the development of an acceptable software prototype in only one day."
Shaw Aero Devices designs, develops and manufactures a wide range of products in the areas of fuel, oil and water/waste systems and components. Shaw's customer was interested in purchasing a large quantity of a solenoid valve similar to one of their standard products for an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The customer specified a pressure drop of 0.75 pounds per square inch (psi) at a flow rate of 4.45 gallons per minute (gpm) while Shaw's standard valve measured out at 6.09 psi. In the past, this would have required building and testing a series of designs in an effort to eliminate constrictions with no guarantee of success.
Instead, Preble simulated fluid flow within the original standard product design. FloEFD reduced the time required to simulate flow by analyzing the model and automatically identifying fluid and solid regions without user interaction. Preble then ran a series of simulations of the original design at flow rates from 1 to 5 gpm and the simulation predicted the pressure drop with an error of less than 10% at every point. Preble then created a series of design iterations, changing each design to reduce pressure drop guided by the CFD results of the previous iteration.
For example, in viewing the cut plot of the pressure gradient of the first design run, Preble noticed that the angled wing seat was causing a significant portion of the pressure drop. In order to address this issue he modeled the new valve with a larger opening below the solenoid poppet and removed the angled valve seat. The CFD simulation showed that this change substantially reduced the pressure drop to 1.09 psi. But it was still too high. Further changes to the design reduced the pressure drop across the valve to an acceptable 0.71 psi.
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USA Today wrote:An analysis of the 100 top-grossing movies of 2008 shows that men had 67% of the speaking roles; women had about half that, 33%.
Men also were far more likely to work behind the camera. For every five male directors, writers or producers, there was one female.
At the same time, female characters were more likely to wear sexy, provocative clothing than men (26% vs. 5%) or to appear partially naked (24% vs. 8%).
The sexualization of teen girls in the movies was the most troubling finding to the researchers at Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California.
Female teenage characters were more likely to wear sexy, provocative clothing (40%) than other women — even more than those age 21 to 39 (32%). And the teen girls were as likely to appear partially naked as the older women (30%).
Lead researcher Stacy Smith, a communication professor of entertainment at USC, says "the data speaks to an overemphasis on beauty, thinness and sexualization of women at younger and younger ages."
The study, to be released today, also found that 29% of teen girls were called attractive by another person in the movie vs. 18% of women ages 21 to 39 and 8% of women 40 to 64.
Marc Choueiti, the project administrator, says this sends a message to teen girls that they are "eye candy," which could affect the body image of some young female viewers.
For the study, researchers analyzed 4,370 speaking parts in the top 100 films from 2008, including The Dark Knight,Iron Man and Twilight.
"Women represent roughly half of the U.S. population and buy roughly half of the movie tickets, but they still represent only a third of the speaking roles in film," Smith says. "Females are missing in action when it comes to speaking roles."
Jennifer Stevens Aubrey, a University of Missouri researcher who studies the media's influence on young people and was not involved in this study, says the sexualization of girls is rampant in films, television, music videos and the marketing of clothing to children.
"This is sending a powerful message that it's important for girls and young women to be sexual objects from a very early age," she says.
I first found out about this from a toku-subbing site called TVNihon, and after reading this, I find it quite true that there were more male actors given speaking roles than females but it's obvious.
What caught my attention as a read though was the fact that females-specifically teenage girls-show more skin, as said in the article. However, it's not a surprise to me because teenage moe girls in Anime/Manga were like that too, although at a lower extent.


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Heikki Kovalainen has played down Mike Gascoyne's recent criticism, revealing he's still in the running for a Caterham drive.
Kovalainen, despite putting in some solid performances for the backmarker team, was left without a race-seat after last year's Championship.
According to Gascoyne, the Caterham Group's technical officer, Kovalainen had only himself and his management to blame as he "should have shown more respect."
The Rottweiler's comments hinted at the end of any chance Kovalainen had of retaining his Caterham seat. However, the Finn says there is still hope.
"I have always gotten on well with Mike and I do not believe this will cause a problem with him," the 31-year-old told MTV3.
"Mike is a professional and he and I have worked together for a few years.
"The fact is I am not negotiating wiht Mike Gascoyne. I talk to Tony Fernandes and Cyril Abiteboul.
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