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Friday, 25 January 2013
Black Frock Friday
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Ooooooh I love it!!! There's so much detail and beautiful trims! I'm having oppie withdrawal at the sight of you, I haven't been all week - eeeek! xoxoReplyDelete
That frock has got it going ON! It's fabularse, darling! Perfect style, and with the gorgeous ric rac,floral and chevrony stipey bits it just makes me Squee! The little bag is a honey! I have a small collection of wee bags, I should show them off sometime.ReplyDelete
Ohhh now that's a black frock I'd like and wear with a gorgeous floral pattern like that. The blue and pink really is a sweet combo and the ric rac adds a touch of fun. You truly are the queen of accessorising, once again you've pulled it together with perfection. XReplyDelete
It's a beautiful frock, Leisa, I can completely see why it's one of your absolute favourites. Gorgeous print and I love all the cute details. You look so put-together and ladylike, as always! xxxxReplyDelete
Your dress is really pretty and looks gorgeous on you. dee xxReplyDelete
GORGEOUS dress!!! Sarah xxxReplyDelete
What a beauty! (The dress isn't half bad either!) Loving that cute purse and the rocking nails, too. xxxReplyDelete
Hi VBG, the dress is just lovely and I can see why you like it so much. I really like the neckline and chevron pattern on the fabric. You always look so cool. calm and collected. :-)ReplyDelete
lovely dress *_*ReplyDelete
That is one very cute wee dress!!!!! I think you look so sweet in her!!!!ReplyDelete
Pretty dresses that's what makes op-shopping so much fun.
Hoping you have had a wonderful and happy weekend.
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I really love this dress, it's fantastic! That pattern!! It has a dirndl look about it. I think it's worth the money, you'll definitely wear it a lot. Also love that little bag too!ReplyDelete
I heart that bag! Ah, we all gotta have a splurge once in a while, and when it's something we still continue to love, it's well worth the money xxReplyDelete
Have never seen turquoise set quite like that. Very, very nice.ReplyDelete


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Dark Delicacies
If, as Howison writes in his afterword, "Horror has always been the blues of literature," then this anthology of 20 new tales of the macabre is an all-star concert whose performers work haunting riffs on gutbucket themes. In "The Reincarnate," Ray Bradbury makes a reanimated corpse the focus of a poetic reverie on death and loss. Clive Barker serves up a pastiche of the antique penny dreadful in "Haeckel's Tale," but with the traditional subtexts of sex and death unapologetically exposed to view. Supernatural and psychological horror interweave seamlessly in John Farris's "Bloody Mary Morning," a tale of modern horror with a classic Ambrose Bierce–style twist. In Ramsey Campbell's fiercely funny "The Announcement," a writer's psychological meltdown plunges him into a paranoid conspiracy distilled impurely from The Da Vinci Code . Howison, the proprietor of Burbank, Calif.'s Dark Delicacies horror bookstore, and Gelb, co-editor of the Hot Blood anthology series, have plundered their Rolodexes to recruit a formidable lineup of horror's top creative talents. Agent, Jabberwocky Literary Agency. (Oct.)
Release date: 09/01/2005

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Beijing : China has said that more talks were needed to build a consensus on which countries can join the 48-nation Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) following the United States' push to include India in the elite group.
"China notes that some non-NPT States parties wish to join the NSG. For the "non-NPT States parties" to join the issue of how to do this group of countries, China has always advocated a full discussion of this first group to seek consensus and decisions by consensus," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said in an statement.
With Beijing already leading its stance in opposing inclusion of India in the NSG, reports now suggest that other countries, including New Zealand, Turkey, South Africa and Austria also oppose New Delhi's membership.
The Foreign Ministry spokesman in a veiled statement said that many other countries hold similar position on India's entry to the group.
"NPT is a political and legal basis for the international non-proliferation system. This position applies to all "non-NPT States parties", which is not for the specific non-NPT States parties. In fact, there is not only within China, many countries in the group, also holds the same position," he clarified.
He said that large differences remain over the issue of non-NPT countries joining the NSG.
"Since recent times, within the group of "non-NPT States parties" to join this group of countries the problem was some discussion, but there are really big differences," he said.
"The next step, China supports the Group continued to discuss this further, to an early consensus on this. China will continue to participate in constructive discussions," he added.
The countries, who oppose India's membership, argue that its inclusion in the group would further undermine efforts to prevent proliferation and also infuriate New Delhi's rival Pakistan.
Islamabad, which enjoys the backing of its close ally China, has also responded to India's membership bid and asked for its admission as well.
The decision on Indian membership will only be decided at the NSG plenary meeting in Seoul scheduled on June 20.
While reports surfaced that Beijing would try its best to stop India's entry into the group, Washington has already vouched its full support during Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to United States earlier this week. (ANI)


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He's definitely still learning, but Memphis fans knew that was the case when he was hired. Today's game, when Memphis was purposeful about getting the ball inside to Tarik Black, SM had no answer. Toward the end of the first and second halves, Memphis built leads because of it. Where was it the rest of the game? Frustrating.
Team also makes some bone-headed plays, and not sure if that's coaching or players who just don't handle decision making very well. Adonis Thomas throwing the ball in with 3 seconds to go; you have 3 timeouts. Anyone who has responsibility to inbounds the ball should know this. Second, don't throw into traffic given you have those timeouts. Memphis similarly gave up a lead in the last minute of their conference tourney championship game. All that said, I'm just glad they won a tournament game.
Believe it or not, coaches can call TOs when their teams possess the ball or during dead balls.
Pastner should have realized his team was panicking. Instead, he went full Haith.
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Last July, soon after the Mumbai train blasts, Merrill Lynch Technology Services (MLITS) called in a psychiatrist to its office and asked him to offer trauma care advice to all its employees.
This January, a large Bangalore-based software consulting multinational company (MNC) held a week-long health awareness drive on its premises, driving home the message of prevention through a series of posters, flyers, promotional brochures and emails. It roped in a group of volunteers from among its employees who went around educating others on hygiene, checking each and every facility and highlighting the best practices, even seemingly mundane ones such as weekly drying of utensils in the sun by the cafeteria staff and so on.
These are just two small examples of how corporate India is moving towards a new mindset as far as the well-being of its employees is concerned. From the "treatment or curative" approach that was largely restricted to reimbursements for medical expenses to the preventive mindset of today that includes executive check-ups, insurance and talks on stress management, it's taken a long time for this attitudinal shift to happen. But now, the good news is that companies are going beyond preventive action and getting into what Dr S.M. Shanbhag, president, Indian Association of Occupational Health, terms as a "promotive" mode by addressing issues of fitness, hygiene, pre-employment health check-ups and so on.
With more and more companies increasingly becoming conscious that they need to address more than just the physical well-being of their employees, Employee Assistance Programmes are gaining popularity. As Dr Samir Parikh, chief, department of mental health and behavioural sciences, Max Healthcare, points out, companies are now addressing the "missing factor" in their organizational behaviour chain—looking at the individual psyche. And as companies try to instil "coping skills" among their employees, this has led to a host of "pre-emptive" actions.
Take the case of a large MNC, which was recently in the midst of a massive restructuring exercise, and called Max Healthcare's organizational psychology department with an unusual request. It wanted a team of psychiatrists to be stationed full-time at its office during the downsizing exercise as it wanted to avoid undue mental trauma among its workforce. Such services are fairly common among companies in the West, but a relatively new phenomenon in India.
Indeed, Vishal Bali, chief executive officer, Wockhardt Hospitals, points out how most of the wellness programmes emanate from the MNCs, as there has been a lot of investment in wellness worldwide. Now, the practice is percolating down to their Indian counterparts.
Talk to the corporate hospitals and they will give you countless examples of companies approaching them with unusual health-care needs. Mukesh Shivadasani, executive director, Max Healthcare, describes how a number of corporates have, in recent months, approached it with requests relating to teaching employees basic life-saving skills so that they could handle emergencies in office, conducting stress audits, and maintaining monthly medical updates on health hazards such as dengue and bird flu, which they can email to all their employees, especially those who travel a lot on work.
Bangalore-based Wockhardt Hospital reports that it has been approached by corporates asking for tie-ups for emergency services. It has also received requests for regular vaccination camps to be conducted at the corporate's office premises, open to all employees and their family members.
And as more such requests pour in, corporate hospitals are fine-tuning their offerings and coming up with innovative products of their own. For instance, the basic executive health check-up package is now undergoing a lot of customization. As Vishal Bali, chief executive officer, Wockhardt Hospital, says: "Everything is now industry-specific." So, for IT companies, Wockhardt does an executive check-up that looks into osteoarthritis, musculoskeletal disorders and repetitive stress injury (RSI), while for the call-centre industry, it conducts lifestyle modification workshops on sleep hygiene and so on. Max Healthcare, for its part, has customized check-ups for call centers, which will look into issues like hearing loss and problems relating to posture.
With corporates also increasingly becoming gender sensitive and looking into the special needs of women executives, several packages customized to the requirements of women have come up. Says Bali: "Women face a much larger need for work-life balance as they typically take on too much on both fronts."
So, Wockhardt offers special sessions aimed at helping women executives as well as customized health check-ups for them.
According to Bali, 30% of Wockhardt's revenues today come from its corporate clientele and this is the segment that is going to grow as the focus on employee well-being increases. Shivadasani of Max, for whom 20% of revenues are generated from corporates, says he expects these to double soon. He also points out that within this segment the maximum action is going to come in the area of mental health. As he points out, companies are today gearing up to address the physical, mental and spiritual needs of their employees and Max wants to offer its services in the first two segments.
Not surprisingly, both Max's Organization Psychology Initiative, headed by Dr Samir Parikh, and Indraprastha Apollo Hospital's department of psychiatry, are getting busier. At Max, the first level of involvement with corporates is interactive workshops on stress management. The second stage is stress audits—detailed surveys as to what is causing stress among employees, followed by counselling for those who need it.
The most evolved offering is the counselling implant—where an expert visits the company every three weeks, stress audits are conducted once a year and one interactive seminar is held every three months.
At Apollo, programmes like "coping with retirement" are also gaining popularity.
According to Dr G.K. Kulkarni, editor of the Indian Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, companies are increasingly realizing that there is a thin line dividing the problems at home and the problems at the workplace. Employees having problems in their marriage, with their in-laws, or those who have to deal with health or behavioural issues relating to other members of the family, are often inattentive at work and have problems in their interpersonal relations in the office. So, employers are now realizing the merits of counselling services at work.
Puneet Jetli, vice-president, People Function, MindTree Consulting, says: "We found that there were several issues that a line manager was just not equipped to handle and this is where professional counselling helps." According to Dr Parikh, in most cases stress is generated less due to role issues and more due to interpersonal issues, which is why it makes sense for the HR department to work in tandem with a psychologist. "That is the way forward," he says.
Dr Kulkarni also points out how chronic fatigue syndrome or burnouts, that are increasingly a common occurrence at corporate workplaces, are the result of new business dictates such as performance-based incentives. Stress audits conducted at various workplaces where detailed surveys were done to arrive at the root cause of stress—was it the boss, was it the work culture—revealed that the fear that they should not lose out on incentives as being a big factor.
ome companies are also experimenting with the idea of offering health-based perks. V.R. Chandramouli, chief executive officer, LifeCell, describes how several firms are tying up with them for cord-blood banking services for its employees. Starcom India and Hindustan Lever Ltd (now Hindustan Unilever Ltd) have picked up the Rs70,000-plus tab involved. Then, there have been instances of a large Indian software company and several banks picking up the bills of Lasik surgery and certain other cosmetic surgeries that their employees have undergone.
Initiatives like the one taken by MLITS are also coming to the fore. The company now covers hospital expenses for its employees' in-laws too. With about 450 employees on its rolls, the company offers this benefit to every single employee, cutting across hierarchy.
The rationale: to discourage employees from false practices like trumped-up medical bills to claim their reimbursements. "I will not entertain food/entertainment vouchers passed off as medical expenses," says Murali Subrahmanyam, managing director and chief operating officer, MLITS. In the bargain, it's also a strong loyalty tool for the company as such perks are cherished more by employees than, say, a travel incentive like a European sojourn or a Kenyan safari.
Ultimately, it all boils down to economics, says Max's Shivadasani, pointing out how all these preventive and pre-emptive measures are beneficial—either in terms of having a more productive workforce or as a powerful tool of employee retention.
Employee Assistance Programmes
Employee Assistance Programmes, or EAP, as they are popularly called, are old hat in the West, but a relatively new phenomenon in India. An EAP is essentially a custom-made programme providing confidential, professional assistance to employees and their families who are experiencing problems which affect their personal lives or job performance. It's a voluntary programme and the details are kept strictly confidential.
Puneet Jetli, vice-president, People Function, MindTree, describes how it initiated this programme seven months ago. It was not an easy one to introduce, as he points out, because of the negative reaction that the term counselling evokes here.
Says Jetli: "The challenge was how to position this programme positively. So we branded it internally as "Be Positive" and designed a specific logo for it, to make it proactive and a positive service."
In order to avoid any suggestion of "sickness" to be associated with the programme, MindTree also consciously avoided associating itself with hospitals or organizations like the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences for this service, instead opting for a company specializing in employee-assistance programmes—in this case, 1to1help.net. "We also insisted on an anonymous service, telling the service provider that we did not want any individual data," said Jetli.
He feels that all these steps have paid off in making the service popular as more than one-third of MindTree's employees have used the counselling service.
Texas Instruments, IBM India, HP-GDIC, i-flex solutions, Metlife Insurance, GE-ITC, Dell International Services, EMC2 , Oracle and L&T Infotech are some of the other companies where EAPs are running — in many of these places it's an offshoot of the global programme.
As more and more Indian companies go in for EAPs, it's attracting global service providers in this area like PPC Worldwide, which made its entry into India last year. Typical counselling issues covered include relationships, substance abuse, family matters, health issues and performance issues.
Another counselling-based programme gaining currency among Indian corporates is "Trauma care services". Essentially, help is sought when a traumatic incident occurs in or around the workplace, such as an industrial accident, a restructuring programme, a case of fraud. A team of mental health activists conduct debriefing sessions on site, do crisis counselling and are available for consultation and follow-ups.
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NEW YORK (Sep. 14)
"The greatest Ganger confronting the Zionist ##se at the moment is undue complacency and exaggerated optimism regarding the out### of the political and military struggles which are still in progress," Dr. Emanuel ##mann, president of the Zionist Organization of America, told a press conference ## today upon his return from Israel.
Lauding the Army of Israel as a "magnificent fighting force" and paying high ?bute to the statesmanship of the Government of Israel, Dr. Neumann said: "It is ## too evident that the enemies of the now-born state are making new and concerted sports to rob the Jewish people of the fruit of their labor and sacrifice by wring## from Israel political and terricrial concessions." He expressed the fear that ##se efforts will come to a head during the U.N. session in Faris and charged U.N. ##iator, Count Folke Bernadotte, with lending himself to those "maneuvers."Declaring that the indefinite truce in Palestine "represents a new strategy## the enemies of Israel to bring her to her knees by slow attrition," Dr. Neumann ##nted out that the Government of Israel is, as a result of the indefinite truce, expelled to keep all available manpower mobilized and all industries engaged in war production. "This means a gradual sapping of the economic strength of the nation and steady draining of its resources."
Indicating that the Israeli Government is not in a position to tolerate such truce indefinitely, the Z.O.A. president insisted on the withdrawal of all invading Arab forces from Palestinian soil. "Otherwise Israel must be driven by necessity to ##minate the truce by fighting it out–now," he said. He emphasized that the policy of the United States remains "a factor of supreme importance" in the Israeli situation.


text: How to Keep Your New Year's Resolutions If you have resolved to improve your company in 2017, check out these five tips for success January 3, 2017 No Comments We all know that New Year's resolutions are much easier to make than to keep. Yet we keep making them year after year. Most people have at least one or two things they'd like to improve on personally, and many people — including refrigeration contractors — make resolutions for their professional lives and their companies as well. Read More


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April 25, 2013
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MACON, Ga. – For many Georgians, one of the rites of spring is visiting a local farm and picking strawberries. At some Georgia farms, the 2013 crop was a little later arriving than in 2012, but at dozens of pick-your-own farms across Georgia, the berries and the on-farm fun are now ripe for the picking.
"There's a nice number of strawberries out there," said Jake Carter of Southern Belle Farm in Henry County. "We anticipate having a good few weeks of picking."
A trip to one of 31 Georgia Farm Bureau Certified Farm Markets that offer strawberries is the only first-hand experience many consumers get on the farm, and the strawberries aren't the only attraction. Many farms offer petting zoos and other outside activities, along with other farm products like fresh vegetables, jams and jellies and much more.
"Spending time out on the farm has become a family event for a lot of people," Carter said. "We try to have a good mix of things to do."
Many of the certified farm markets also provide educational experiences for school groups and other organizations. Carter said nearly 7,000 students are scheduled to visit Southern Belle this spring to learn about how farms operate, and similar programs are available at other farms around the state.
Strawberries are fat free and contain lots of potassium, fiber and folic acid. According to the Georgia Strawberry Growers Association, eight medium-size strawberries contain 160 percent of the USDA's recommended daily allowance of vitamin C.
Peak harvest time for strawberries typically runs into June but consumers should call ahead for availability.
"With all the experiences and products available, visits to strawberry you-pick markets offer consumers a great value," said GFB President Zippy Duvall. "The strawberries are delicious and people get to see some of what happens on a farm."
GFB's 2013 Certified Farm Markets brochures are now available, providing location and contact information for the markets.
For more information about Georgia Farm Bureau Certified Farm Markets, including a listing of markets in various areas of the state, visit http://www.gfb.org/commodities/cfm/default.html.
Founded in 1937, Georgia Farm Bureau is the state's largest general farm organization and has 158 county offices. Its volunteer members actively participate in local, state and national activities that promote agriculture awareness to their non-farming neighbors. GFB also has 20 agricultural commodity advisory committees that give the organization input on issues pertinent to the major crops and livestock grown in Georgia.
For high-resolution photos to accompany this release, click here (Strawberry Picking) and here (Strawberries).
(Strawberry Picking) Picking strawberries can be an activity for the entire family at many of the 31 Georgia Farm Bureau Certified Farm Markets that sell strawberries.
(Strawberries) Beautiful red strawberries like these are available now at many of the 31 Georgia Farm Bureau Certified Farm Markets that sell strawberries.


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JULIAN COLE tries making Pane Casereccio, a no-knead bread recipe
WHETHER or not to knead bread, and for how long, remains a contestable topic among bakers. Popular baker Dan Lepard has been suggesting repeated ten-second kneads for a while.
Suzanne Dunaway, a noted American baker, makes her position clear with the title of her new book, No Need To Knead (Grub Street, £18.99 – out on Thursday). Her recipes were developed over years of trial and error. They are a little challenging, but they do work (as do Dan's).
I have tried a few and may return to the toasted hazelnut and sage stick, but offer here Suzanne's recipe for an Italian bread also known as Housewife's Bread, clearly a very non-PC sort of bread. The main characteristic of her recipes is that the dough remains quite wet. The slow rise gives much more flavour.
The subtitle on this great new book reads: "Homemade artisan breads in 90 minutes". This is perhaps misleading as many, including this one, are spread over two days.
Makes two loaves:
To make the 'biga' or starter:
Teaspoon fast-action yeast; 240ml lukewarm water, 65g wholemeal bread flour, 130g strong white flour, 45g of wholemeal rye flour.
Mix everything together in a bowl, cover with clingfilm and leave overnight at room temperature.
Bread ingredients:
480ml lukewarm water, 625g strong white flour, two teaspoons salt, wholemeal flour for dusting the loaves.
In the morning, mix the biga with all the other ingredients, using oiled hands to fold the dough over itself a few times. Cover with clingfilm and place in the fridge for five or six hours (or even overnight again).
Two hours before baking, remove bowl from the fridge and leave dough to rise again.
Dust two baking sheets with flour and carefully tip the dough on to one of the trays. It will be sticky. Cut in half carefully with dough scraper/big scissors and, using floured hands, shape into long and flattish loaves.
Cover and leave for 30 minutes. Ten minutes before cooking, heat oven to highest temperature, then reduce to 200C when ready to cook. Cook bread for about 40 minutes, remove from oven, take loaves off the trays then put them back on the oven shelves for five minutes. Cool on wire racks.


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Bucharest (Aug. 22)
An insistent and reiterated demand for a radical change in the Bessarabian administration is being made by the Bessarabian deputies at all meetings of the Parliamentary government party, it is disclosed today.
The Bessarabian representatives demand the dismissal of many Bessarabian officials and especially that of the Prefect of Balti, George Hianoff. Balti is the native town of the four Jewish quarry owners who were arrested and acquitted of signaling to Soviet frontier guards.
Hianoff openly assisted the anti-Semitic Party of Professor Cuza during the last elections.


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While plenty of high-yield opportunities exist, investors must always consider the safety of their dividend and the total return potential of their investment. It is not uncommon for a struggling company to suspend high-yielding dividends which could subsequently result in precipitous share price declines.
TheStreet Ratings' stock rating model views dividends favorably, but not so much that other factors are disregarded. Our model gauges the relationship between risk and reward in several ways, including: the pricing drawdown as compared to potential profit volatility, i.e. how much one is willing to risk in order to earn profits?; the level of acceptable volatility for highly performing stocks; the current valuation as compared to projected earnings growth; and the financial strength of the underlying company as compared to its stock's valuation as compared to its stock's performance.
These and many more derived observations are then combined, ranked, weighted, and scenario-tested to create a more complete analysis. The result is a systematic and disciplined method of selecting stocks. As always, stock ratings should not be treated as gospel — rather, use them as a starting point for your own research.
The following pages contain our analysis of 3 stocks with substantial yields, that ultimately, we have rated "Sell."
CYS InvestmentsDividend Yield: 14.90% CYS Investments (NYSE: CYS) shares currently have a dividend yield of 14.90%. CYS Investments, Inc., a specialty finance company, makes leveraged investments in whole-pool residential mortgage pass-through securities where the principal and interest payments are guaranteed. The average volume for CYS Investments has been 2,738,400 shares per day over the past 30 days. CYS Investments has a market cap of $1.4 billion and is part of the real estate industry. Shares are up 16.5% year-to-date as of the close of trading on Tuesday. TheStreet Ratings rates CYS Investments as a sell. The company's weaknesses can be seen in multiple areas, such as its disappointing return on equity and generally disappointing historical performance in the stock itself. Highlights from the ratings report include:
- Return on equity has greatly decreased when compared to its ROE from the same quarter one year prior. This is a signal of major weakness within the corporation. Compared to other companies in the Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) industry and the overall market, CYS INVESTMENTS INC's return on equity significantly trails that of both the industry average and the S&P 500.
- CYS's stock share price has done very poorly compared to where it was a year ago: Despite any rallies, the net result is that it is down by 29.37%, which is also worse that the performance of the S&P 500 Index. Investors have so far failed to pay much attention to the earnings improvements the company has managed to achieve over the last quarter. Naturally, the overall market trend is bound to be a significant factor. However, in one sense, the stock's sharp decline last year is a positive for future investors, making it cheaper (in proportion to its earnings over the past year) than most other stocks in its industry. But due to other concerns, we feel the stock is still not a good buy right now.
- CYS INVESTMENTS INC reported significant earnings per share improvement in the most recent quarter compared to the same quarter a year ago. This company has reported somewhat volatile earnings recently. But, we feel it is poised for EPS growth in the coming year. During the past fiscal year, CYS INVESTMENTS INC swung to a loss, reporting -$2.87 versus $2.75 in the prior year. This year, the market expects an improvement in earnings ($1.35 versus -$2.87).
- The net income growth from the same quarter one year ago has significantly exceeded that of the S&P 500 and the Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) industry. The net income increased by 906.6% when compared to the same quarter one year prior, rising from -$16.20 million to $130.69 million.
- The gross profit margin for CYS INVESTMENTS INC is currently very high, coming in at 93.13%. It has increased from the same quarter the previous year. Along with this, the net profit margin of 154.90% significantly outperformed against the industry average.
- You can view the full CYS Investments Ratings Report.


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By Michael Leonard | Record Publishing Co.
COLUMBUS -- Field's Cory Simpson said his primary goal at the Division II state wrestling tournament was to finish higher than his eighth place rank last year.
Simpson accomplished that the moment he stepped on the mat on Saturday at Value City Arena.
Simpson was one of nine Portage County wrestlers to take part in the placement matches Saturday morning.
"It's good to get in the top four," Simpson said. "It's the best I can do. They're all tough at this point."
Simpson won his consolation semifinal bout 5-1 over Padua Franciscan's Paul Petras, but had to settle for fourth place after a 5-1 loss in the third-place match to Napoleon's Seth Beard.
"It's awesome," Simpson said. "I was a lot more calm this year."
Crestwood had three wrestlers going in the morning session, led by senior 132-pounder Conner Nemec. Nemec lost a tight 2-0 decision in the consolation semifinal to Perry's Aaron Gessic and lost 3-1 in overtime to Circleville's Tyler Knull to take sixth.
"Conner has always been someone you can count on," said Crestwood coach Dave Wrobel.
Red Devils senior 138-pounder Jake Zemaitis closed out his high-school career with a pin, as he stuck Chillicothe's Caleb Price in 4:42 to finish seventh.
"I'm proud of the way Jake has wrestled," Wrobel said. "That weight class was loaded."
Finally, junior 145-pounder Nick Wrobel held on for a 6-5 win over Oak Harbor's Ben Petersen to take seventh place for Crestwood.
"He came back home with a goal of making states, and he ended up on the podium," coach Wrobel said of his nephew. "I want him to step up next year. Being on the podium is a good start."
Ravenna 170-pounder Brendon Winning had to settle for eighth place after losing a 4-3 decision in the seventh-place match to Poland Seminary's Mike Audi.
However, Winning said he loved the state experience.
"It was probably one of the funnest things I've ever done," Winning said. "My goal is always to do better than I did last time."
"The kids will look up to him next year," said Ravens coach Mike Whitmore. "I wish I had a team full of guys like him."
Meanwhile, Aurora's first foray into the Division I state tournament ended with both of its wrestlers on the podium.
At 106 pounds, freshman Jarrod Brezovec won his consolation semifinal 3-0 over Brecksville's Jarod Bronstrup. However, he had to settle for fourth after a 5-2 loss to Lorain's Devione Edwards.
Brezovec tied Aurora's single-season wins record with 45, tying him with Aurora assistant coach John Papesh.
"He did a hell of job to get his far," said veteran Aurora coach Dick Bliss. "We're very, very proud of Jarrod Brezovec."
Meanwhile, Aurora heavyweight Josh Burger finished eighth after losing 6-1 to Teays Valley's C.J. Kinzer.
"We're happy he was able to place at states," Bliss said. "This give us a good starting point for next year."


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Heated confrontations between Oakland police and over 500 Occupy Oakland demonstrators during a march against police brutality on Saturday night threatened to turn into a repeat of Tuesday night's violence, but the tension dissipated as the march moved away from OPD headquarters and into West Oakland. The night ended peacefully and without arrests.
The march left Frank Ogawa plaza at around 8:30 pm and headed down Broadway. Many demonstrators held five-foot-tall wooden black "shields" showing the words "Stop Police Brutality" and images of skeletons. Some wore black hooded sweatshirts and black bandanas over their faces, while others were dressed in their Halloween best, some in outfits embellished with sparkling lights, and others with their faces painted ghoulish white with large black rings around their eyes. Several demonstrators shielded their faces with Guy Fawkes masks.
The crowd, more than 500 people, appeared to be headed towards OPD headquarters at 7th and Broadway when marchers met Oakland police for the first time. A line of two dozen officers wearing helmets and holding batons was stationed across Broadway, blocking the street. The crowd stopped at 8th and Broadway and chanted "Whose streets? Our streets!"
The march then turned west on 8thstreet and headed a block over to Washington Street, where another line of about twenty officers was waiting. Demonstrators holding peace signs quickly formed a line between police and the crowd of marchers, some of whom shouted angrily and tried to get in the police officers' faces. There was a clear split in the group between those trying to maintain non-violence and others who berated the "peacekeepers" for "protecting the cops."
Some people in the crowd told police, "Stand aside, we are peaceful"—while someone in the crowd responded, "Speak for yourself." After a tense ten minutes, the march continued without incident down 8th street to Clay St, where the marchers turned south to 7thstreet.
As a helicopter circled above, shining a spotlight on the crowd below, several in the crowd yelled, "Peacekeepers to the front." Once again, a line of demonstrators holding peace signs formed a barrier between the crowd and the police. The crowd alternated between chants of "Hey hey, ho ho, the martial law has got to go," and "We are Scott Olsen," referring to the Iraq War veteran who was injured during demonstrations Tuesday night.
With the path to OPD headquarters blocked, the crowd turned around and headed back the way it came, moving north on Broadway. Traffic was stopped as hundred of demonstrators blocked intersections up to West Grand Avenue. Reactions of stalled drivers were mixed. Some honked their approval, and one man got out of his car, dancing and cheering as the march passed by. One driver rolled down her window and yelled at the protestors, "I've got to get home!" After a heated exchange with a protester who refused to move, the woman eventually swerved around him and drove off.
A protester named Shannon, 27, who declined to give her last name, said she was not happy with the way police handled the protests on Tuesday night. She carried a sign that said "You fucked up," as she and fellow marchers headed north on Broadway. "We're marching to protest the police brutality that happened on Tuesday," she said as the sounds of drums, tambourines, and a banjo drifted over the chants. "We're here to express that we're not OK with how things went."
Shannon's friend Miko, 28, said she'd had enough. "Police can do whatever the fuck they want, and enough is enough," she said. "The cops need to be tried like regular people. Human rights over police rights."
Ahead of Miko and Shannon, the group chanted in unison, "We are all Oscar Grant!" and brandished signs that read, "Big Brother: We're watching you," or "We are awake," and waved large flags with a picture of Che Guevara.
At 9:40 pm, protestors stopped at West Grand and Northgate Avenue to figure out where to go next. "West Oakland!" a man cried over the megaphone. Someone from behind said, "Berkeley!" By 9:50 pm, a decision had been made, and protestors began marching towards West Oakland.
A few minutes later, the crowd turned down West Street into a residential neighborhood in West Oakland. Onlookers stood on their porches and in their doorways as the crowd moved passed. Most residents seemed to be in support of the march–one man held a fist in the air in solidarity and many others cheered. Some demonstrators stopped to take a photo of a spray painted message on a garage door that read, "Break the law."
"Oh, that's not good — I'm not here for that," said Daniel Ruxin, 53, pointing to the words on the garage door. He said he had been waiting in downtown Oakland to catch the next BART train when he saw the crowd and felt compelled to join the march. "I'm here to make a point," he said. Ruxin's gray hair was tied up into a ponytail. Describing himself as a former respiratory therapist forced to stop working because of illness, Ruxin said he is among what Occupy protestors have been referring to as "the 99 percent." "I want everyone who is hungry to get food to eat, and everyone who wants a place to sleep, gets one," he said. "Then I'll stop protesting."
Geronimo Simmons, a 31-year-old construction worker from West Oakland, was driving home when he came across the protesters marching. "I think the protests are needed, because obviously the politicians aren't doing anything," he said, from behind the driver's seat. Although he did join the march, he said he thought their message was important. "People got to speak their minds," Simmons aid. "Obviously the paper ballots are not working, so we need to figure out other methods to get the economy together."
No police presence had been visible, since the march left the downtown area surrounding OPD headquarters, until 10:13pm, when about 35 officers from the California State Highway Patrol were seen stationed at the corner of Brush Street and 18th Street. Suddenly, all of the officers quickly got into their cars and sped down Brush St. toward 14th Street. There they met up with fast-charging marchers.
In a chaotic scene, several sirens blared as demonstrators yelled at approaching CHP and OPD officers who initially tried to block the intersection. Lt. Freddie Hamilton, the commanding officer on the scene, quickly got out of his squad car and yelled, "Back up!" at the officers. They complied. The demonstrators cheered wildly.
A few blocks over, on Martin Luther King Jr. Way and 14th Street, several police officers rushed to their cars, turned on flashing sirens, and drove away from the crowd. Again, the crowd cheered as it marched behind the retreating cars.
Close to 10:35 pm, the march wound its way back towards the plaza. One demonstrator wearing a black hood and black bandana appeared to throw an object through a window, breaking the glass, at the OPD Recruiting office at 16thStreet and San Pablo Avenue, directly north of Frank Ogawa Plaza. As the man quickly ran away, photographers and demonstrators rushed to the broken window and arguments broke out among the crowd. Many in the crowd angrily asked, "Who did that?" and demanded that the march remain non-violent. Others appeared to applaud the action, shouting insults toward the police.
By 10:45 pm, the march concluded at the plaza. About a hundred stayed in the amphitheater to wrap up the night. "This shows that we can successfully end a march by ourselves," a young woman with short black hair announced over the megaphone. "Congrats on a successful march against police brutality,"
As the crowd cheered, the young woman continued that protesters must demand that Mayor Jean Quan be held responsible, that Interim OPD Chief Howard Jordan be fired, "and the officers who sent Scott Olsen to the hospital need to be sent to prison."
After the march ended, four OPD officers could be seen inspecting the broken window outside of the Recruiting Center. One passerby yelled, "Hey guys, we're sorry about that. We're going to try and find who did it."
"All right," one of the officers responded. "You do that."
You can see Oakland North's complete coverage of Occupy Oakland here.


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Nation's best companies to work for? They may not be based in Tampa Bay but many operate here
The Container Store, which will open its store near International Plaza in Tampa in March, ranks among the companies considered tops for employees.
Wake up and good morning. Most of the national "best companies to work for" rankings tend to spotlight big corporations that are based far from Florida. That's easy, since Florida really has no truly big corporations based here. But many of those same top ranked companies do have offices in the Tampa Bay area and, combined, make up a significant piece of our regional economy.
So, based on multiple "Best Employer" rankings, who are these businesses that promise good working opportunities and operate in the Tampa Bay market? Let's explore:
* Out just this week, the first annual list of the best U.S. employers by Payscale and Business Insider evaluates companies by both pay and happiness. Here are some businesses from that list (with their ranking) that are significant employers here: Microsoft (#14); Booz, Allen & Hamilton (#19); Jacobs Engineering (#33); Raytheon (#37), and Duke Energy (#50). Read more about each of these companies here.
* Fortune magazine publishes its "Best Companies To Work For" list annually based on extensive employee surveys. Among those listed that operate in Tampa Bay, with rankings, are: Edward Jones (#8); Robert W. Baird (#14); The Container Store (#16); USAA (#40); Deloitte (#47); Ernst & Young (#57); CarMax (#74); Publix Super Markets (#77); Pricewaterhouse Coopers (#81), and Nordstrom (#88). Read more from Fortune here.
* And Workplace Dynamics has published its list of the top 150 U.S. workplaces that happens to include such locally based firms as Kforce, TECO Energy and Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, and St. Petersburg College. That same list also cites many others with substantial bases in the Tampa Bay region, including: Keller Williams Realty (#9); Toll Brothers (#58), and Cintas (#94). Read the whole list here.
By the way, the Tampa Bay Times has worked with Workplace Dynamics for years in conducting the annual Top Workplaces. Check out who won in the 2012 survey. The 2013 findings will be out this spring.
-- Robert Trigaux, Business Columnist, Tampa Bay Times


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On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 2:59 PM, Jasmin Dizdarevic <jasmin(dot)dizdarevic(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote: > >> I don't really like it. Sure, it doesn't look monotone, but it doesn't >> look good at all. It's just too much red. Yeah, I'm afraid I don't like the red either. > if we reduce borders, it shouldn't be to much (see P5) > Dave, could you send me the elephant as a single picture - best would be the > elephant and a transparent background? Sorry, I don't have it. That came from a developer who is no longer with the project. > And the font of "pgAdmin" on the top. I could do a little bit more if i got > these things. No idea. There's no reason either of those couldn't change though - I've wanted a new splash screen for a while too. >> You mean the red border or the shadow? Anyway, I don't like both. It >> doesn't look good in a big monitor. I much prefer when the website take >> all the space available. > > the 100% full space websites aren't really common nowadays (see github.com, > postgresql.org, and much much more), so i think we shouldn't keep it. > you're right, the border doesn't look very well, it could be more elegant. Having full width display is one of the changes that will almost certainly be required in the next update to www.postgresql.org. Maybe not 100%, but certainly variable. -- Dave Page Blog: http://pgsnake.blogspot.com Twitter: @pgsnake EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
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One facet of being a patriotic American is looking out for the nation's best interests at all times and particularly the interests of the people. Indeed, so-called patriots in the Bush administration cited protecting Americans' as one reason for going to war in Iraq and Afghanistan that garnered support from the populace because they believed fighting terrorists "over there" was preferable to endangering Americans at home. Republicans have not shown much interest in protecting Americans' jobs though, and even less so when it comes to creating new jobs as they promised in the lead-up to the 2010 midterm elections. In fact, when Democrats and President Obama sought to eliminate tax breaks for companies that sent jobs overseas, Republicans fought to protect corporate profits and foreign jobs to keep unemployment numbers high. Over the past two weeks, news of Romney's record of outsourcing American jobs has elicited denials, deflections, and accusations of dirty campaign tactics, but the practice of sending Americans' jobs overseas is a staple of Republican, and Romney's, corporate-friendly agenda for some time.
Last Thursday, in another attempt to protect corporations and kill American jobs, Republicans blocked a measure to reward companies that brought jobs back to America, and protect their candidate Willard Romney. Republicans in the Senate refused to allow a vote on a bill, The Bring Jobs Home Act, which provided a 20% tax break for costs related to moving jobs back to the United States,
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On Thursday August 16 for one night only the Rifftrax crew will be riffing on what is widely considered the worst movie of all time! If you saw their sendup on MST3K, this one will be bigger, better and live! Beamed via satellite to a theatre near you, you can see it in Madison at Point and Eastgate.
Never heard of Manos? Here is an endorsement from MST3K's and Rifftrax's Mr Kevin Murphy from the article linked below:
"Even an untrained eye can see it's a bad movie," Murphy said. "A 6-year-old can see it's bad. And not to insult 6-year-olds."
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