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By ERICA GOODE
Published: August 29, 2006
It is a good thing the manatee has thick skin.
To the dolphins, the whales, the sea otters go the admiring oohs and ahs, the cries of, ''How sleek!'' ''How beautiful!''
The manatee, sluggish, squinty-eyed and bewhiskered, is more likely to have its rotund bulk compared to ''a sweet potato,'' its homely, almost fetal looks deemed ''prehistoric'' -- terms applied by startled New Yorkers this month to a Florida manatee that made an unexpected appearance in the Hudson River.
Cleverness is unhesitatingly ascribed to the dolphin. But the manatee is not seen leaping through hoops or performing somersaults on command, and even scientists have suspected it may not be the smartest mammal in the sea. Writing in 1902, a British anatomist, Grafton Elliot Smith, groused that manatee brains -- tiny in proportion to the animals' bodies and smooth as a baby's cheek -- resembled ''the brains of idiots.''
Yet the conception of the simple sea cow is being turned on its head by the recent work of Roger L. Reep, a neuroscientist at the University of Florida at Gainesville, and a small group of other manatee researchers, including Gordon B. Bauer, a professor of psychology at New College of Florida, and David Mann, a biologist at the University of South Florida.
In studies over the last decade, they have shown that the endangered Florida manatee (Trichechus manatus latirostris) is as unusual in its physiology, sensory capabilities and brain organization as in its external appearance.
Far from being slow learners, manatees, it turns out, are as adept at experimental tasks as dolphins, though they are slower-moving and, having no taste for fish, more difficult to motivate. They have a highly developed sense of touch, mediated by thick hairs called vibrissae that adorn not just the face, as in other mammals, but the entire body, according to the researchers' recent work.
And where earlier scientists saw in the manatee's brain the evidence of deficient intelligence, Dr. Reep sees evolution's shaping of an animal perfectly adapted to its environment.
Dr. Reep -- a co-author, with Robert K. Bonde, a biologist at the Sirenia Project of the United States Geological Survey, of a recently published book, ''The Florida Manatee: Biology and Conservation'' (University Press of Florida) -- argues that the small size of the manatee brain may have little or nothing to do with its intelligence.
Brain size has been linked by some biologists with the elaborateness of the survival strategies an animal must develop to find food and avoid predators. Manatees have the lowest brain-to-body ratio of any mammal. But, as Dr. Reep noted, they are aquatic herbivores, subsisting on sea grass and other vegetation, with no need to catch prey. And with the exception of powerboats piloted by speed-happy Floridians, which kill about 80 manatees a year and maim dozens more, they have no predators.
''Manatees don't eat anybody, and they're not eaten by anybody,'' Dr. Reep said.
But he also suspects that rather than the manatee's brain being unusually small for its body, the situation may be the other way around: that its body, for sound evolutionary reasons, has grown unusually large in proportion to its brain.
A large body makes it easier to keep warm in the water -- essential for a mammal, like the manatee, with a glacially slow metabolism. It also provides room for the large digestive system necessary to process giant quantities of low-protein, low-calorie food.
The manatee must consume 10 percent of its 800-pound to 1,200-pound body weight daily. Hugh, 22, and Buffett, 19, captive manatees at the Mote Marine Laboratory in Sarasota, Fla., are fed 72 heads of lettuce and 12 bunches of kale a day, their trainers say. And in a 2000 study, Iske Larkin, a researcher in Dr. Reep's laboratory, used colored kernels of corn to determine that food took an average of seven days to pass through a captive manatee's intestinal tract -- a leisurely digestive pace comparable to that of a koala or a two-toed sloth.
The smooth surface of the manatee's brain -- it generally has only one main vertical fissure, or sulcus, and no surface ridges to speak of -- is more puzzling, Dr. Reep concedes. The brains of virtually every other mammal bigger than a small rodent show some degree of folding. And scientists have generally taken the human cortex, a study in ridges and crevasses, as a model of higher-order mental process, assuming accordingly that brain convolution is a sign of intelligence.
''I would make a guess that if you showed a manatee brain to a modern neuroscientist, to this day, most would consider that the manatee is not very smart, that idea is so ingrained,'' Dr. Reep said.
But he added that scientists still know almost nothing about what drives the development of brain formation. Evolutionary lineage appears to have an influence. The brains of primates tend to have different patterns of convolution than those of carnivores, for example. And mechanical factors like brain size and the denseness of neural tissue in the cortex may play a role.
Manatees have a relatively thick cerebrum, with multiple layers that may, Dr. Reep suspects, indicate complexity despite a lack of folding.
In any case, he said, brain convolution ''doesn't seem to be correlated with the capacity to do things.''


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INDEPENDENCE -- Mike Brown thinks of himself as a family man, first, and basketball coach, second.
On both counts, Brown was mightily pleased Wednesday as he officially embarked on his second stint as head coach of the Cleveland Cavaliers.
"This city is fantastic. The fans are fantastic," Brown said during a press conference at Cleveland Clinic Courts, the team's practice center in Independence.
Flanked by Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert and general manager Chris Grant, Brown on several occasions said he was grateful for the opportunity to return to the job he held from June 2005 until he was fired in May 2010 after a disappointing playoff series loss to the Boston Celtics.
"Things work in mysterious ways," Brown said, smiling.
He pointed to the front row of seats in the packed media work room and publicly thanked his wife, Carolyn, and his teenage sons, Elijah and Cameron.
The Brown family soon will re-locate to Northeast Ohio after spending the last two years in the Los Angeles area.
Brown coached the Lakers during the 2011-12 season and for five games of the current season before he was fired in November 2012.
"This city, the whole state of Ohio, is a place where we want to be," Brown said. "Cleveland has always been special in my heart and my family's heart."
After the press conference, Brown confirmed a report that even before he first started talking to Grant last weekend about possibly returning as Cavs head coach, he and his wife had decided they were going to move back to the Cleveland area.
The plan was to purchase a home in Westlake so Cameron could spend his senior year at and graduate from Westlake High School.
Living here also would make it easier for Brown and his wife to watch Elijah, a promising basketball player, continue his career at Butler University in Indianapolis, Ind.
"As parents, what matters most is doing right by your children," Brown said.
According to various reports, Brown will be paid $20 million over the next five years to, hopefully, lead the Cavs to the NBA title that eluded the franchise during his first stint on the bench.
"I'm definitely excited about rolling up my sleeves and getting after it with this team," Brown said.
Several questions posed during the press conference probed the issue of former Cavs superstar LeBron James possibly returning to the Cavs when he becomes a free agent after the 2013-14 season.
James was the dominant force on Brown's five playoff teams. Many fans think he quit on Brown and his teammates during the fateful 2010 playoff series against Boston and set the stage for Brown's firing.
Gilbert said the Cavs are focused on the present and not on future events over which they have little or no control.

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Wal-Mart: All the Right Moves?
Last week, Barron's took a bearish view on Wal-Mart (WMT) and its small-store strategy. UBS, however, has reiterated its call to Buy the stock.
Wal-Mart sure needs to do something. During the last 12 months, its gained just 4.9%, lagging Costco Wholesale's (COST) 16% rise and Dollar General's (DG) 33% advance. It has outpaced Target (TGT), however, which has dropped 5.7% during that same period.
UBS analysts Jason DeRise and Mark Carden explain their bullishness:
The productivity loop (higher revenues, leveraging expenses and reinvesting in price) has always been critical to the Walmart business model. But, we believe the focus within the productivity loop has shifted from leverage to revenue growth. The messages from the new CEO, new head of international and various levels of management seem to be aligned: growing revenues is the most important objective. Success in revitalizing sales growth should unlock valuation upside. eCommerce and small formats will be the key growth drivers in the US long-term, and [Wal-Mart] continues to invest behind those drivers.
Walmart announced it would accelerate the openings of its small store formats in the US. This makes sense because Neighborhood Market now generates similar ROIC as Supercenters.
Shares of Wal-Mart have gained 1.8% to $74.63 at 3:26 p.m. today, while Costco has ticked up 0.2% to $115.70, Dollar General has risen 3% to $59.76 and Target has jumped 6.7% to $60.29 after beating earnings.


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Fri Nov 30, 2012, 05:37 PM
HereSince1628 (36,063 posts)
FYI. My penis and my gonads are not weapons of conquest or dominance
Never have been, and for documentable psychological and physiological reasons never will be.
I'm not an alpha male, I am not even a beta male. My nation DID call on me for military service because I had these organs, but it didn't actually expect me to use those organs in national service.
Although my spawn was never cast upon any 'blue dresses' or in the reproductive tracts of half awake, drunken, besmitten or sleeping females, it is in all probability true that my spawn has been cast in the reproductive tracts of bored females.
I'm just another guy.
I find being treated as a CATEGORICAL enemy because I have a Y chromosome and associated androgenized anatomy laughably unrealistic.
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Response to HereSince1628 (Original post)
Sat Dec 1, 2012, 02:44 PM
Denninmi (6,581 posts)
1. Honestly, if someone is so radical they believe that rhetoric
I wouldn't even worry about what they think. I would just lump them in the "divorced from reality" crowd, along with Birthers, tea party types, religious radical fundamentalists.
We're all "just another guy" with the same capacity for love and hate, good and bad, kindness or cruelty of any man, or any human for that matter. And sex is just another biological urge, like thirst or hunger. No need to apologize for it, or for who we are. Women who are willing partners obviously don 't feel this way, and I'm sure they would have the same attitudes towards ultra-radicals.
Live a good live, treat others with respect, and that is all anyone need do, male or female.
Response to HereSince1628 (Original post)
Sat Dec 1, 2012, 03:32 PM
DavidDvorkin (14,985 posts)
2. For myself, I'll add that
I don't accept any particular for the actions of other men just because they and I are of the same sex. Rapes committed by other men are not my responsibility, and I have no responsibility to change their attitudes.
Response to DavidDvorkin (Reply #2)
Sat Dec 1, 2012, 04:36 PM
Denninmi (6,581 posts)
3. True.
I consider myself a nice guy, always respectful of other humans of either gender, and "quietly a gentleman" (ok, those are lyrics I ripped off from a favorite O.A.R. song).
What do I have in common with a rapist or pedophile just because we both have Y chromosomes? Nothing.
To condemn all guys for the acts of the few is stupid. Should we condemn all women or at least women who are mothers because of the fact that Susan Smith in S. Carolina and that woman in Texas drowned their children? That would be just as asinine.
Response to Denninmi (Reply #3)
Sat Dec 1, 2012, 08:41 PM
ProudToBeBlueInRhody (16,399 posts)
4. "Nice guys"
Don't say that around here.
Response to DavidDvorkin (Reply #2)
Sun Dec 2, 2012, 02:46 AM
Major Nikon (25,957 posts)
5. I don't apologize for the behavior of someone else
I just never felt the need. I have enough trouble keeping up with my own mistakes.
Response to HereSince1628 (Original post)
Mon Jan 28, 2013, 08:32 PM
Warren DeMontague (80,708 posts)
6. It is worth repeating that "Men" as a category are not IN NEED OF REPAIR.
As much as some seem to labor under the impression that the factory is churning out nothing but deeply defective models.
Response to Warren DeMontague (Reply #6)
Mon Jan 28, 2013, 08:44 PM
Denninmi (6,581 posts)
7. I agree.
Ok, here goes what will get me in trouble with prying eyes. But, a lot of women are not easy to get along with.
Response to Denninmi (Reply #7)
Mon Jan 28, 2013, 08:55 PM
Warren DeMontague (80,708 posts)
8. AFAIC, a lot of humans aren't easy to get along with.
And I'm a likeable, affable sort even.
Response to HereSince1628 (Original post)
Mon Jan 28, 2013, 10:55 PM
Gore1FL (15,662 posts)
9. Mine totally are
I think I have footage of the SALT talks.
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Thu Jan 31, 2013, 01:56 AM
Warren DeMontague (80,708 posts)
10. "I see your Schwartz is as big as mine"


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Thick, coarse and wiry hair can be a problem for men too. Should you have a good thick solid neckline, make sure this is cut clean for you. None is more ineffectual and distasteful than to see a huge full head of hair on a man that needs to be controlled, unless you are a rock star. With this kind of hair you can do just about anything. If you are an athlete, a good clipper cut all around the sides fading into your short crop in the crown can look very macho and extremely attractive to the ladies. Your top should be about two inches at the most. When you sit in the stylist's chair, tell her you want a square cut. This does not mean you are going to have a flat top or a buzz cut. What it does mean is that she is going to expand on your manly features. The barber or stylist should already know to give you a square cut as you never give a man a round cut. Especially if you have a round face, you ask for a square cut, as this will even out your attributes. The clipper closes in to the sides with square on top. Like a box. With the right barber or stylist you will see magnificent results immediately. With a good gel and blow dry this could be your perfect new look. If you are too busy for that blow dry, then take the gel in your hands, close your eyes and mess it up real good. Let it dry while you are driving. It's a no prob job.
I have noticed that even with radically curly hair that is full of cow licks going everywhere at once when given the square cut makes an exceptional difference in the facial features of a man. When you can go from looking good to best, why not try it out?
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When you sit in that chair for that million dollar style, when you get up, you should feel at least 10 years younger and look it too; so you can say mission accomplished. Make sure your barber or stylist is taking a small inch held clipper just for your ear / nose hair and cleaning you up. Science may tell us, the hair is there to help shield you from those strange things floating in the air; but they won't tell you what it does to your love life. So make sure your technician clips everything off and that includes thinning out wild and wooly eyebrows too.
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The Second Pakpao Thai is Open in Preston Hollow Village
Final touches on Pakpao's exterior happened Friday afternoon.
The much-anticipated second location of Pakpao quietly opened its doors and handed over the chopsticks to their first customers on Friday evening. The new spot is in Preston Hollow Village, a relatively new shopping center off Walnut Hill Lane filled with the likes of Modmarket, Trader Joe's, Vertskebap and more than a few spa and fitness options. The last few details have been slid into place — every last Tiger beer and tiny ceramic dipping bowl. Art has been hung and the moving dust has been freshly swept away. Pakpao's kitchen will be firing off a limited menu for lunch and dinner at first, followed by the full menu on September 12, adding brunch service after that. The look and feel of the second Pakpao is strikingly similar to the original in the Design District, but it's larger, presumably for more pad Thai eating and Chularita drinking. Take a peek at the new space before you head in for a taste.
Interior of Pakpao facing the kitchen.
A colorful frozen Chularita at Pakpao.
The bar at Pakpao, aka where Bryan and John Paul get their Chularitas.
The interior of the new Pakpao at Preston Hollow Village. If you look closely, you can see John Paul Valverde admiring his design work.
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Dear Soapdom,
I hope, at some point, there will emerge evidence to prove that Daniel is innocent. I have speculated over several possiblities. (Y&R), please don't do like you did back when Phyllis ran over Paul. The truth never came out that I know of.
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Dear Lucille,
Thank you for your comments. Stay tuned to Y&R next week (the week of July 4, 2005). The Daniel storyline is likely to come to a head at that time. Let's hope that the truth does come out.
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Benzie County man arrested on drug and firearm charges
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A Benzie County man is behind bars after he opened fire inside his home early Friday morning after an argument with his roommate.
At approximately 1:41a.m. officers from the Benzie County Sheriff's office were dispatched to an assault at a home on Aylsworth Road in Benzonia Township. Officials report that 27-year-old Steven James Loope got into a verbal fight with his roommate and another mutual friend, retrieved a handgun and fired off multiple shots inside of his home.
The two victims were able to escape the house without any injuries. When deputies arrived and ordered Loope out of the house, a pit bull attacked officers, and was shot and killed.
Loope had two felony warrants out for his arrest for controlled substance-delivery and manufacture of Psilocybin (psychedelic mushrooms), and the delivery and manufacture of marijuana.
During a search, a stolen .45 handgun was located, hidden in the suspect's bedroom that matched the description of the weapon used during the assault. Spent .45 casings along with other evidence and narcotics were also located during the search.
The Benzie County Prosecutor issued felony warrants for weapons-firearms-receiving and concealing, assault with a dangerous weapon, and firearm used during the commission of a felony. Bond has been set at $250,000. Additional drug charges are anticipated by the Traverse Narcotics Team.
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Welcome to the ODAC Newsletter, a weekly roundup from the Oil Depletion Analysis Centre, the UK registered charity dedicated to raising awareness of peak oil.
World Energy ministers met this week in Cancun for the latest session of the International Energy Forum. The meeting resulted in a declaration committing its 66 signatories to an "enhanced global producer-consumer energy dialogue". As if on cue, the oil price reached its highest point in 2010 on Wednesday at over $83/barrel to remind ministers why they were there. Everybody knows it's good to talk, but it will take more than that to deal with a coming demand/supply imbalance. UK Energy Minister Lord Hunt was quoted as saying "We need a shared understanding of what triggered the volatility of 2008 and 2009. We need the analysis to make sure we do not face the same energy price volatility again." Looks like DECC hasn't quite got peak oil yet after all.
A blog published this week on Le Monde based on an interview with Glen Sweetnam, a Director at the US Department of Energy, suggested that Washington may accept the idea of a peak in liquid fuels from as early as 2011 followed by an "undulating plateau". Whether this was a factor in President Obama's energy security speech on Wednesday is difficult to say. The President announced the opening up of selected offshore areas to drilling in order to reduce America's dependence on "foreign oil" as a necessary measure to support economic growth during a transition to cleaner fuels. The move is seen by many as an olive branch to Republicans in order to revive stalled climate change legislation and would do little to ensure US energy independence.
In the UK this week, as another energy company chief warned of a looming power crunch due to unclear energy policy, the government's renewables plans got a fillip as Siemen's became the latest engineering company to announce plans to invest in wind turbine manufacturing or research facilities in the UK. The controversial FiT scheme also came into effect on Thursday which is expected to result in a huge boost to the take-up of PV solar. The risk of a lot of badly installed inefficient solar panels and micro wind turbines on poorly insulated houses has been widely discussed, but the guidelines are also broad enough to allow for the formation of community energy schemes which have the potential to make a big impact on public perception of energy generation.
Energy ministers demand oil market transparency
World energy producers and consumers pledged greater cooperation and called for transparent markets here on Wednesday to tackle oil price volatility seen as damaging to economic recovery.
"With regard to energy market volatility, energy markets should be as transparent as possible," said a joint declaration issued by the International Energy Forum at the end of a two-day meeting in the beach resort of Cancun…
China invited to join IEA as oil demand shifts
The head of the International Energy Agency, the developed world's energy watchdog, has called for China to join the agency and warned that the institution risked losing relevance as energy demand shifted eastward away from its current members…
Saudi's Al-Naimi 'Hopes' Oil Stays in $70-$80 Per Barrel Range
Saudi Arabian Oil Minister Ali al- Naimi said he "hopes" prices remain in the $70-a-barrel to $80-a-barrel range, signaling the world's largest producer may be willing to boost output if crude accelerates further.
The country could boost production by as much as 4.5 million barrels a day and is "waiting" for demand to rise after increasing capacity to 12.5 million barrels, Al-Naimi told reporters yesterday in Cancun, Mexico. Prices in the $70-to $80- range are "as close to perfect as possible," he said, adding today that he "hopes" prices remain in that range…
Washington considers a decline of world oil production as of 2011
The U.S. Department of Energy admits that "a chance exists that we may experience a decline" of world liquid fuels production between 2011 and 2015 "if the investment is not there", according to an exclusive interview with Glen Sweetnam, main official expert on oil market in the Obama administration.
This warning on oil output issued by Obama's energy administration comes at a time when world demand for oil is on the rise again, and investments in many drilling projects have been frozen in the aftermath of the tumbling of crude prices and of the financial crisis…
Obama Announces Expanded Offshore Oil Exploration
President Barack Obama proposed drilling for oil and natural gas off the U.S. East Coast while scrapping development in Bristol Bay, Alaska, part an effort he said will boost energy independence and protect the environment.
The president would permit exploration in the Atlantic Ocean from south of Delaware and, if a congressional moratorium is lifted, in the Gulf of Mexico 125 miles (201 kilometers) off the west coast of Florida. Obama said the plan is part of the transition to a new-energy economy…
Oil Surges to 17-Month High, Gasoline Rises, on Economic Growth
Crude oil surged to a 17-month high and gasoline rose on signs that global economic growth is accelerating, bolstering optimism that fuel consumption will increase this year.
Oil advanced above $84 after reports showed U.S., Chinese and European manufacturing expanded, while pessimism decreased among Japan's largest industrial companies. Government data tomorrow may show that U.S. employers added about 180,000 jobs in March, a Bloomberg News survey showed…
BP wins support against oil sands move
BP has scored a twin success in its battle to block a shareholder resolution that raised doubts about its proposed investment in Canada's oil sands, with a group of local authority investors and a leading advisory service recommending a vote against the move…
Falklands delivers poor results for Desire Petroleum
Hopes that the Falkland Islands would emerge as a significant oil producer were dealt a significant blow yesterday when it emerged that the first well to be drilled in the region for more than 12 years had yielded only small traces of oil and gas.
The announcement from Desire Petroleum sent its shares plunging 48 per cent to 50½p, wiping about £160 million off the company's market value to £163 million…
Texas Proposes $10 Billion 'Ike Dike' for Storm-Surge Shield
The elected leaders of six coastal Texas counties are forming a public corporation to seek as much as $10 billion for a 100-mile (160-kilometer) network of levees, seawalls and football-field-sized floodgates that can protect the region from hurricane storm surges.
The Ike Dike is named for the 2008 hurricane that swamped Galveston Bay with more than 20 feet of water and came within 50 miles of drowning the nation's largest concentration of refineries and petrochemical plants and the second-biggest U.S. port. The proposed system would help protect the coastline from Houston to the Louisiana border against storms such as Ike, which caused about $30 billion in water and wind damage…
IHS CERA: Big, But Potentially Limited, Output Growth in Iraq
Iraq's current "highly ambitious plans" to expand oil production are unlikely to be fully realized given political, security, operational and infrastructure challenges, according to a new report, Fields of Dreams: The Great Iraqi Oil Rush — Its Potential, Challenges, and Limits by IHS Cambridge Energy Research Associates (IHS CERA).
Iraq currently plans to expand production to as much as 12 million barrels per day (bpd) in the next six to seven years. Achieving levels around half that in the next decade would be more likely and would still constitute "a significant expansion," the report emphasizes. IHS CERA's current outlook for Iraq is 4.3 mbd in 2015 and 6.5 mbd in 2020 — still big growth numbers…
Iyad Allawi struggles to turn Iraq election victory into ruling coalition
A commission tasked with weeding Ba'athist elements from public life in Iraq is today poised to make a surprise intervention into attempts to form a government, by claiming that some candidates in the recent election, won by Iyad Allawi, should not have been allowed to stand.
The accountability and justice commission claims to have identified several candidates from Allawi's winning list who it had earlier tried to bar…
UK to rule out national gas storage to secure supply
Britain will this week rule out stockpiling national reserves of gas, despite concerns about the country's lack of storage and over-reliance on foreign imports, according to industry sources.
It is understood that the Government has decided against keeping national stocks of gas, which is the practice in some European countries such as Holland. The decision will be contained in a paper examining Britain's security of gas supply…
Russians prepare £1bn grab for UK fuel supplies
GAZPROM, Russia's state-owned gas giant, is preparing an audacious bid to become one of the biggest fuel suppliers in Britain.
The company is expected to lodge an offer this week for a network of 800 petrol stations and the Lindsey oil refinery at Killingholme, Lincolnshire. The assets have been put up for sale by Total, the French oil group. It has hired JP Morgan, the investment bank, to sell its UK business, which employs 5,000 people. The business is expected to fetch more than £1 billion…
Big investments boost UK's green sector
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The ham is a traditional cure with nitrates. The cure is only mildly sweet and in balance with salt and smoke notes so that you can actually taste the pork and not just sweet/salty. While it is water-added, the flesh is firm and not mushy or oozing liquid. It did not shrink much. The ham is not fully cooked, so one needs to bring it fully up to temperature. The advantage of this is that the marbled meat stays moist and did not dry out on heating. As can be seen in the photo below, the ham's well-trimmed with just a thin layer of outer fat.
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The front panel has recipes and an illustration of a cow's head in the bottom right corner. The back panel has illustrations of three faces in the upper right corner with more recipes.
Donor: Sliker, Shirley Brocker
Brand Name: NoneSuch
Publisher: Borden Co. (New York, N.Y.)
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Citation: Borden's None Such Mince Meat. The Alan and Shirley Brocker Sliker Collection, MSS 314, Special Collections, Michigan State University Libraries. Available at http://www.lib.msu.edu/exhibits/sliker/detail.jsp?id=2339


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Erick Schonfeld is the co-founder of TouchCast, the executive producer of DEMO, and a technology journalist. He is also a partner at bMuse, a product incubator in New York City.
Schonfeld is the former Editor in Chief of TechCrunch. At TechCrunch, he oversaw the editorial content of the site, helped to program the Disrupt conferences and CrunchUps, produced TCTV shows, and wrote daily for the blog.
He joined TechCrunch as Co-Editor in 2007, and helped take it from a popular blog to a thriving media property. After founder Michael Arrington left in 2011, Schonfeld became Editor in Chief.
Prior to TechCrunch, he was Editor-at-Large for Business 2.0 magazine, where he wrote feature stories and ran their main blog, The Next Net. He also launched an online video series with CNN/Money and hosted regular panels and conferences of industry luminaries.
Schonfeld started his career at Fortune magazine in 1993. In 1999, he won the prize for best information technology submission at London's Business Journalist of the Year Awards, and in 2001 he won the prize for best space submission at the Aerospace Journalist of the Year Awards in Paris. In 1996 and 1997, Schonfeld was recognized in the TJFR Business News Reporter's list of the best and brightest financial journalists under the age of 30.
He appears regularly on CNBC, CNN, and NY1, and is a frequent speaker at industry conferences.
Schonfeld graduated magna cum laude from Cornell University in 1993.Crunchbase profile →
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St George's school in Sevilla has 'parted company' with primary school teacher Wayne Millard, after he failed to reveal that he had been struck off in Wales for misconduct.
The school was alarmed to discover that Millard had not informed them of his six-month ban for manipulating test results and correcting mistakes in his previous job.
The former deputy headteacher lost his job at Rogerstone Primary, in Newport, after it emerged he had acted 'dishonestly' in official exams in 2013.
The 46-year-old was also found guilty of attempting to interfere with the investigation and was banned until this month in Wales.
However, the Olive Press can reveal Millard was able to hide his disciplinary case to start working at St George's School in Sevilla last year.
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The 49-year-old father-of-two, a university lecturer, complained several times to the local authority about Millard's conduct, leading to the initial investigation.
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"I am pleased he has finally been caught out in Spain as well."
St George's school confirmed it had received a good reference from Millard's former school and that it had now parted company with the teacher.
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Many places in north Georgia are expected to experience their first freeze of the season this weekend.
Sunday morning is likely to be the coldest, with AccuWeather.com forecasting a low of 28 in Gainesville, 27 in Buford, 26 in Winder, and 27 in Cumming.
A 28 is also expected in Cornelia but the further north you go, AccuWeather.com is forecasting temperatures that are well-below freezing... a 21 in Blairsville, 22 in Clayton, and 20 in Blue Ridge. Many of these mountain regions experienced their first freeze several weeks ago.
Daytime highs over the weekend are expected to be in the 40s and 50s across north Georgia.
But the cold snap won't last long. By Monday, temperatures are expected to moderate considerably.
Meanwhile, Hurricane Sandy was a sign of what is to come for the East during winter of 2012-2013 with an active coastal storm track expected, AccuWeather meteorologists agree.
In reviewing the original winter forecast, meteorologists now expect more weak, fast-moving snowstorms and cold for the Midwest than previously forecast. Meteorologists originally forecast a near-normal season for lake-effect snow in the Great Lakes, but they now forecast above-normal snow for some areas.
Meanwhile, California and the Southwest may be drier than the region was initially forecast for the winter.
Above-normal snow is forecast for the I-95 cities, including Boston, New York City, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., this winter with an active coastal storm track expected.
As for the southeast, AccuWeather.com is now forecasting above-normal snowfall across northern Alabama and Georgia and parts of South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, Kentucky and West Virginia. Winter time temperatures across much of the southeast, including parts of the Florida Panhandle and southern Louisana, are expected to be one-to-two degrees below normal, on average.


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Ok so we all know 4 team deals are tough. In this scenario however you have 4 teams that have needs. We all know the Pacers needs so I wont go into that. Chicago has been publicly linked to trying to acquire a better SG to put alongside Rose. Sacramento has been trying to acquire a young PG prospect to pair with Evans. Charlotte is trying to start over and move some long term contracts. Enter this trade scenario.
Indiana gets:
1 - Gerald Henderson
2 - Jason Thompson
3 - Beno Udrih
4 - Sam Dalembert - Expires
5 - Brian Scalabrine - Expires
Charlotte gets:
1 - T.J. Ford - Expires
2 - Lance Stevenson
3 - Jeff Foster - Expires
4 - Ronnie Brewer
5 - James Johnson - Prospect
6 - Hassan Whiteside - Prospect
7 - Sacremento top 5 protected 1st
Sacramento Gets:
1 - D.J. Augustine
2 - Gerald Wallace
3 - Boris Diaw
4 - Sherron Collins
5 - Solo Jones
6 -James Posey
Chicago gets:
1 - Stephen Jackson
2 - Luther Head
Indiana - We get our coveted young big in Jason Thompson as well as a young swingman in Gerald Henderson who should thrive with a change of scenery. We get Dalembert who can help this season backing up Roy and he expires at seasons end. Scal is a throw in who we probably just cut. Udrih isnt a bad PG either and would be good backing up Darren if we still dont think AJ is ready. Another integral part of this machine for us is moving Posey's deal for a cheaper, more tradable Udrih.
Charlotte - Im not sure how much Charlotte values jettisoning the older longer contracts which is honestly what this deal hinges on. This deal completely blows them up only hanging onto Derrick Brown and Tyrus Thomas to build with. They pick up some young prospects in James Johnson, Lance Stevenson and Hassan Whiteside as well as Ronnie Brewer who is a more proven commodity with a good contract. Ford and Foster are just stop-gaps that expire. Also get a 1st rounder out of Sacramento. With this deal Charlotte now has cap space to look forward to as well as young upside guys at spots 2-5.
Sacramento - gets some major talent here in Gerald Wallace as well as a guy in Augustine who is on the rise and with his outside shooting ability should fit in nicely next to Tyreke Evans. Diaw doesnt have the best contract but is still a legit starter in the league and his style fits nicely with Cousins as he is more of a jump shooting big to Demarcus's inside game. Sac really only gives up Thompson who they dont seem happy with and Whiteside who hasnt seen the floor with a 1st to get 3 guys who will probably start for their team.....cant imagine they would have a problem with this.
Chicago - Jackson is somebody they have reportedly been interested in and they give up very little to acquire him....enough said


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Shrewsbury pantomime Sleeping Beauty aims to draw in crowd of 35,000
[gallery] Shropshire's biggest pantomime is set to attract more than 35,000 visitors this winter and smash box office records for the second year running, according to theatre bosses.
Peter Nicholson, theatre manager for Theatre Severn, said early indications from ticket sales showed this year's production of Sleeping Beauty was due to beat the 2012 attendance figure when just under 35,000 people flocked to see Jack and the Beanstalk.
In 2011, about 33,000 people saw the production of Aladdin.
Mr Nicholson said ticket sales were looking "extremely good" on the same time last year as cast and crew prepare for the biggest pantomime yet – with 63 performances over five weeks from December 5 to January 12.
"We don't just want to match last year – we want to beat it," he said.
"The tickets are selling extremely well. This is the third year now that Evolution Productions has been behind the show and we're really starting to build a reputation for staging what is a quality production."
The theatre chief was speaking as cast and crew – complete with a fire-breathing dragon – attended the official press launch for the show at Shrewsbury Castle, in Castle Foregate.
The show features Brad Fitt as Nurse Nellie, BBC Radio Shropshire presenter Eric Smith as King Eric and comedian Adam Moss as Jangles.
Following the launch at Shrewsbury Castle, open auditions for this year's show were held at Theatre Severn.
Children aged between eight and 15 strutted their stuff for two hours in a bid to win a place in the dancing ensemble. They were taught a routine to learn for the show as part of the audition.
For the third year in succession the town's annual pantomime has been written and produced by Shropshire TV personality Paul Hendy, originally from Dawley in Telford, who made his name on shows such as Don't Try This At Home and Wheel of Fortune.
Mr Hendy, who has run Evolution Productions with his wife Emily Wood since 2005 and now holds eight productions across the country each year, pledged that this year's show would be the funniest yet.
"I am very proud to be here," he said. "I am Dawley born and bred and my family still live there and to win this contract three years ago with Theatre Severn was a dream for me.
"One of the reasons we're successful is the quality cast we've put together – we try to bring genuine West End talent to the stage in Shropshire and not just cast celebrities for celebrity sake like some shows do."
He said: "This show will really cement our reputation and it genuinely is the funniest one yet especially when two tonnes of water is used to drench Brad and Adam on stage."
The former TV star said he had named the fire-breathing dragon Helga, after his mother-in-law. Rehearsals start in mid-November, with tickets for the pantomime on sale now. For tickets call (01743) 281281 or visit www.theatresevern.co.uk
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Endogenous Uncertainty: A Unified View of Market Volatility
September 9, 1997 (Updated November 28, 1998) The theory of Rational Belief Equilibria (RBE) offers a unified paradigm for explaining market volatility by the effect of "Endogenous Uncertainty" on financial markets. This uncertainty is propagated within the economy (hence "endogenous") by the beliefs of asset traders. The theory of RBE was developed in a sequence of papers assembled in a recently published book (Kurz [1997]) and the present paper provides a non-mathematical exposition of both the main ideas of the theory of RBE as well as a summary of the main results of the book regarding market volatility. Section I starts by reviewing the standard assumptions underlying models of Rational Expectations Equilibria (REE) and their implications to market volatility. The paper then reviews four basic problems which have constituted puzzles or anomalies in relation to the assumptions of REE : (i) Why are asset prices much more volatile than their underlying fundamentals? (ii) The equity premium puzzle: why under REE the predicted riskless rate is so high and the equity risk premium so low? (iii) Why do asset prices exhibit the "GARCH" behavior without exogenous fundamental variables to explain it? (iv) the "Forward Discount Bias" in foreign exchange: why are interest rate differentials poor predictors of future changes in the exchange rates? Section II outlines the basic assumptions of the theory of RBE and the main propositions which it implies for market volatility. Section III develops the simulation models which are used to study the four problems above and explains that the domestic economy is calibrated, as in Mehra and Prescott [1985], to the U.S. economy. Then for each of the four problems the relevant simulation results of the RBE are presented and compared to the results predicted by a corresponding REE and to the actual empirical observations in the U.S. The paper concludes that the main cause of market volatility is the dynamics of beliefs of agents. The theory of RBE shows that if agents disagree then the state of belief of each agent, represented by his conditional probability, must fluctuate over time. Hence the distribution of the individual states of belief in the market is the root cause of all phenomena of market volatility. The GARCH phenomenon of time varying variance of asset prices is explained in the simulation model by the presence of both persistence in the states of beliefs of agents as well as correlation among these states. Correlation makes beliefs either narrowly distributed (i.e. "consensus") or widely distributed (i.e. "non-consensus"). In a belief regime of consensus (due to persistence it remains in place for a while) agents seek to buy or sell the same portfolio leading to high volatility. In a belief regime of non-consensus there is a widespread disagreement which cause a balance between sellers and buyers leading to low market volatility. In short, the GARCH phenomenon is the result of shifts in the distribution of beliefs in the market induced by the dynamics of the individual states of belief. Turning to the equity risk premium, the key question is what are the distributions of beliefs which ensure that the average riskless rate is low and the average equity risk premium is high. It turns out that the only circumstances when the mean riskless rate falls to around 1% and the mean equity premium rises to around 5.5% arise when, on the average, the majority of agents are relatively optimistic about the prospects of capital gains in the subsequent period. In such a circumstance the rationality of belief conditions imply that the pessimists (who are in the minority) must have a higher intensity of pessimism than the intensity of the optimists. In a large economy with this property the state of belief of any one agent may fluctuate but on the average there will be a minority of intensely pessimistic agents. This asymmetry between optimists and pessimists flows directly from the rationality conditions of beliefs and implies that at most dates the pessimists have a stronger impact on the bill market. At those dates the pessimists protect their wealth by increasing their purchases of the riskless bill. This bids up the price of the bill, lowers the riskless rate and results in a higher equity risk premium. In sum, the theory of Rational Belief offers a very simple explanation to the observed riskless rate and equity premium. It says that the riskless rate is, on average, low and the premium high because at most dates there is a minority of pessimist who, by the rationality of belief conditions, have the higher intensity level of belief about high stock prices in the future. These agents drive the riskless rate lower and the equity premium higher. The "Forward Discount Bias" in foreign exchange markets is the result of the fact that in an RBE agents often make the wrong forecasts although they are right on the average. Hence, in an RBE the exchange rate fluctuates excessively due to the errors of the agents and hence at almost no date is the interest differential between two countries an unbiased estimate of the rate of depreciation of the exchange rate one period later. The bias is positive since agents who invest in foreign currency demand a risk premium on endogenous uncertainty which is above and beyond the risk which exists in an REE. The size of the bias is equal to the added risk premium due to endogenous uncertainty. JEL Classification Numbers: D58, D84, G12. Key Words: rational expectation equilibrium (REE), rational beliefs, rational belief equilibrium (RBE), endogenous uncertainty, state of belief, market volatility, equity risk premium, riskless rate, GARCH, forward discount bias, foreign exchange rates, OLG economy, correlation among beliefs, simulations.
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Grace is the word
In our house, that is. No meal can begin without our 3 year old stopping to say, "Wait! We forgot to say gwrace!'
What's funny, besides her insistence, is we didn't teach this to her. And I have no idea where she picked it up. I mean, we go to church most Sundays, but pre-meal prayers are not involved. And before she got on this kick, neither my husband nor I took the initiative.
Anyway, she wants to say "gwrace" no matter where we are. So yes, we've paused at the airport, at Moe's, and even at my friend's mom's house, seated at the table with her agnostic husband. Here's how it goes, a little different than I remember:
God is great,
God is good,
Let us thank him for our food.
By his hands
we all are fed,
give us Lord our daily bread.
I have to say, I'm thankful for her devotion.
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ISLAMABAD: The 82nd birthday of poet laureate, the late Ahmed Faraz, was postponed, on Thursday, because of the long march and the prevailing tense situation in the city.
According to sources, the seminar was scheduled for January 17, at the National Language Promotion Department (NLPD), in sector H-8. Around 600 invitations had been distributed.
Senior lawyer Abid Hassan Minto was supposed to chair the seminar. Ahmed Faraz's younger brother Governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Barrister Syed Masood Kausar was supposed to chief guest the occasion. Besides literary personalities, Dr Anwar Ahmed, Dr Hamida Shaheen, Agha Nasir and Kishwer Naheed were the speakers of the event.
At the event, a poet would have been nominated for the Ahmed Faraz Literary Award 2012.
An official of NLPD, requesting not to be identified said that no doubt that Ahmed Faraz was the greatest poet of the last two decades.
"His (Ahmed Faraz) son, Shibli Faraz who is Chairperson Ahmed Faraz Trust made all the arrangements for the seminar but unfortunately most participants excused themselves because of the prevailing situation," said the NLPD official.
The official expressed surprise that all literary figures excused themselves, even though the long march had been peaceful so far.
Ahmed Faraz was a dissentient poet and was arrested for reciting poems criticising military rulers. He also went into self-imposed exile to the United Kingdom, during the dictatorship of Ziaul Haq. During Benazir Bhutto's rule, Faraz came back to Pakistan and was appointed Chairman Pakistan Academy of Letters and later chairperson of the National Book Foundation. He was awarded numerous national and international awards. He died from kidney failure on August, 25, 2008.
Faraz's son, Shibli Faraz, while talking to Dawn confirmed that some of the guests refused to participate in the seminar because of the tension prevailing in the city, therefore the seminar was postponed.
"I am planning to hold the seminar in the first week of February," said Shibli Faraz.


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