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NZ v England: Brendon McCullum inspires Hamilton win
First one-day international, Hamilton:
New Zealand 259-7 (48.5 overs) beat England 258 (49.3 overs) by three wickets
New Zealand took the lead in the three-match one-day series after beating England by three wickets in Hamilton.
Put in, England's Ian Bell, Jonathan Trott and Joe Root made fifties but the last six wickets fell for 38 in six overs and they were all out for 258.
Kane Williamson kept New Zealand in contention with an assured 74.
Brendon McCullum fired 69, sharing 41 in three overs with Martin Guptill (27) who returned after retiring hurt as the Kiwis won with seven balls to spare.
After three one-sided matches in the Twenty20 series won by England, the opening 50-over international was an intriguing contest in which both teams faltered after solid starts.
"That was a very impressive win, England's bowling plans were odd, they haven't bowled much in these conditions, they've been used to the sub-continent, but there was a lot of short stuff flying around.
"It is difficult with these new field restrictions but New Zealand played really well."
England's victorious run chase in Wellington on Friday saw openers Michael Lumb and Alex Hales reach their target of 140 in 12.4 overs, and batting first on a tranquil afternoon at Seddon Park was always likely to be rather more somnolent.
Neither Lumb nor Hales are part of the 50-over set-up, and England's conventional top three were all playing their first innings of the tour.
Skipper Alastair Cook was bowled through the gate by chiseled left-arm seamer and part-time model/TV extra Mitchell McClenaghan in the fourth over but Ian Bell, dropped on 26, played some typically attractive strokes.
He reached his 25th ODI half century in 67 balls with an elegant straight drive for six, sharing 84 in 20 overs with Trott, whose last innings for England was in the India Test series two months ago.
Trott hit only two fours from his first 66 balls but added three in his next eight deliveries to reach his 19th ODI fifty before he was bowled off the inside edge backing away.
Although a platform had been set, almost 39 overs had elapsed by the time Eoin Morgan arrived at number five, with the run rate around 4.7.
The left-hander was superbly caught low at backward point for only a single but the methodical Root impressed again, combining authentic strokes with the occasional innovative scoop to reach a half century from 57 balls, his second ODI fifty in only his sixth match.
England wicket-takers
529: J Anderson (288 Test from 77 matches, 223 ODI from 165 games, 18 T20 from 19 matches)
528: I Botham (383 Test from 102 matches, 145 ODI from 116 games)
466: D Gough (229 Test from 58 matches, 234 ODI from 158 games, 3 T20 from 2 matches)
Jos Buttler hit two sixes, one remarkable pull shot soaring over long on into the first aid enclosure, but England lost their final four wickets in as many overs, McClenaghan, a bachelor of commerce in marketing and accounting also on his CV, recording his second four-wicket haul in only his fourth international, before leaving the field with a side strain.
Concerns of a low total soon dissipated when James Anderson struck in the first over of the New Zealand reply, the floodlights in operation despite bright sunshine from a delightful clear sky.
In his first match since the India Test series, the 30-year-old Lancastrian surpassed Sir Ian Botham's record as England's leading international wicket-taker when he swung one back through the defences of BJ Watling.
Problems quickly escalated for the home side when Guptill strained a hamstring on three and with the new laws banning the use of a runner he was unable to continue, but the well-organised Williamson drove authoritatively, with smooth timing.
He shared 73 with Ross Taylor (22) before the former captain hooked the final ball of the 20th over to fine-leg.
Williamson added 49 with Grant Elliott (22), who was struck on the visor by a Stuart Broad bouncer and drove the next ball he faced straight to backward point to give Chris Woakes a second wicket, bringing skipper McCullum to the crease with 135 needed from 20.3 overs.
With the required rate in excess of seven per over and McCullum struggling to find his range under the lights, Williamson was run out as Woakes superbly collected a low return and took the bails off in one movement.
McCullum pulled Anderson into the crowd and added two fours from the next two balls, while brother Nathan dispatched Graeme Swann into the sponsors' tent, before he became the sixth wicket to fall, to leave a requirement of 73 from 54.
The captain reached his 23rd half century from 48 balls and survived a chance to Trott in the outfield.
As England's bowlers persisted with the short ball, McCullum and Guptill cut loose against Steven Finn, Woakes and Broad as the Kiwis, who had lost 11 of their last 14 matches, recorded their fifth successive ODI win against England.
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Comment number 121.mrnoneofyourbusiness
19th February 2013 - 17:54
@99, if Pietersen was in the squad for the ODIs in NZ he'd bat at four instead of Root. As well as Root is playing at the moment there just isn't room for him in a full strength England ODI team. England's top five for the Champions Trophy in the summer will be Cook, Bell, Trott, Pietersen and Morgan with either Bairstow or Buttler at six and keeping wicket.
Comment number 120.DrCajetanCoelho
19th February 2013 - 17:46
Bell, Trott, Root, Williamson and B McCullum made handsome contributions with the bat. Good close fight between these two supremely gifted sides. Well played.
Dr. Cajetan Coelho
Comment number 119.oddsonjohn
19th February 2013 - 10:57
I posted this before and I will again as I get so tired of this 'England should be thrashing NZ' waffle.
Of the 68 odd ODI's between NZ and Eng over 45 years...NZ are ahead by 6! So forget a rather flawed ranking system and remember this is the 5th victory in a row for NZ over Eng and historically NZ have proved the stronger ODI team. Now just relax and enjoy good close games when they happen.
Comment number 118.JimmyK
18th February 2013 - 23:30
Who cares about the Ashes, NZ is a very small country compared to England yet every time they manage to punch well above their weight. England were ranked secound in the world going into the game NZ 8th England should have cleaned up
Comment number 117.graham
18th February 2013 - 22:16
Just checking if this comment gets posted....BBC on strike ...hahaha
Comment number 116.Maksi
18th February 2013 - 19:42
Jimmy, we have grabbed four out of the last five ashes series'. Most cricket fans on our shores like that :p
We will soon make that six out of seven too :)
As you say, win or lose we are always there competing and most nations seem to like playing us. That will do me nicely.
Comment number 115.JimmyK
18th February 2013 - 19:28
England should be destroying New Zealand in the Cricket, however lets face the facts England competes in all areas of sport but that is all they do compete they do not have the X factor in their teams to be champions as they usually too busy gloating over soft wins to produce any major upsets.
Comment number 114.Maksi
18th February 2013 - 16:06
Pakistan are much better than you. As they recently proved when they battered you on your home ground.
Comment number 113.lloydy
18th February 2013 - 10:08
Following on 112, the rest Morgan & Buttler (who didn't look great behind the stumps) failed, and we did well to reach 258 in the end. Probably 20 or so light, but for much of NZ's reply it looked like it would be enough until McCullum got in, and then we helped with some poor death bowling, too many short ones - could've done with Goughie yorkers.
Also not having a warm up game, again bad.
Comment number 112.lloydy
18th February 2013 - 9:57
Was at Hamilton yesterday, I don't think the result was a surprise as despite being ranked 8th in ODI's, historically NZ have a decent record in the one day game, they usually progress further than England in the World Cup, and had beaten England in prev 5 ODIs, though last was in 09.
I felt we (England) batted too slowly despite decent knocks by Bell, Trott & Root, left the rest with lots to do.
Comment number 111.oddsonjohn
18th February 2013 - 9:51
Jimmy - Sorry to inform you that Eng have never won the cricket World Cup. They did win the Twenty20 Cup but as we know from this board earlier in the series no one seems to think its more than a hit out circus... esp when you lose. And no I don't think an island of 60 million is small esp when its one of the largest economies. Thats more than a dozen English to every Kiwi! You should be winning.
Comment number 110.Harry
18th February 2013 - 9:08
we normally blame away losses on having to adapt to conditions, but as NZ's are similar to here, that's tricky. the reality is that the NZ team is hardly full of match winners, but as with Dhoni in India, we can't dismiss their best player. not sure Broad backs up his sizeable ego with his perfomances - he needs to get back to basics and focus on his cricket rather than his perceived status
Comment number 109.Harry
18th February 2013 - 8:56
another abject display from England who find it hard to play with consistency. the issue today seemed to be a complete lack of common sense. the pitch wasn't responding to the short pitch bowling that was being sent out of the park by NZ, but instead of adapting, they persisted with it and paid the price. the game obviously demanded pitched up bowling, how did they not realise that?
Comment number 108.StuzaTheGreat
18th February 2013 - 7:39
Watching the Kiwi coverage and they said during Trotts innings that he should fake an injury to avoid powerplay and come back later, he didn't of course. Oddly, Guptil then goes off with hamstring, commentators say thats "weeks out" and yet he comes back on? Is this a tactic that England need to watch out for or just coincidence?
Comment number 107.Koyomi
18th February 2013 - 1:50
For a nation with the population density and size that NZ has it has decent-brilliant sporting calibre across a fair few sports. One of the worlds best rugby sides, a decent Cricket team, a fooball team that qualified for the last world cup and despite being knocked out was also unbeaten and thats just the popular worldwide sports. people do care about NZ's sports.
Comment number 106.Jimmy
18th February 2013 - 0:57
@103. I believe we have won the world cup in cricket/rugby/football, who cares about netball or hockey? yes i know we invented all these sports but I doubt even you can recall many hockey players. @104 classic example of you stereotyping a nation when most of the comments in this "article" are complimentary towards the kiwis. I believe we also got 3rd at the olympics, not bad for a small island.
Comment number 105.graham
17th February 2013 - 23:54
@102 Jimmy
After winning a test series in India ,we should not be under any delusion of being a great sporting nation.Way to go mate.
Comment number 104.kiwiandproud
17th February 2013 - 23:45
#102 - what a Jimmy. Classic example of why the rest of the world think the Poms are arrogant tools - all you're doing is giving those of your compatriots who aren't such idiots a bad name.
England played poorly, they won't be that bad again, but we're just happy to have picked up a result!!
Comment number 103.oddsonjohn
17th February 2013 - 23:36
Jimmy - Take your trolling comments to the Daily Mail page please.
Rich sporting history? Yes it is rich as is Australias as is New Zealands as are many countries. For a country so rich in sporting history you dont seem to hold many of the World Cups on offer in the main participation sports... Cricket, Rugby, Rugby league, Football, Netball, Hockey. NZ hold 3 of those. Rich, rich, RICH!
Comment number 102.Jimmy
17th February 2013 - 23:24
No one really cares about New Zealand. All we want is the Ashes or the World Cup. Congrats on winning a friendly game of cricket though. Beating England is always something that gets other countries animated and excited, whereas we with our rich history of success in every sport generally beat teams with a "so what" attitude. Thats why England is the greatest nation on this planet. Take care.
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- The effects of size on local banks´ funding costs (2008)
- Motivated by the recent discussion of the declining importance of deposits as banks´ major source of funding we investigate which factors determine funding costs at local banks. Using a panel data set of more than 800 German local savings and cooperative banks for the period from 1998 to 2004 we show that funding costs are not only driven by the relative share of comparatively cheap deposits of bank´s liabilities but among other factors especially by the size of the bank. In our empirical analysis we find strong and robust evidence that, ceteris paribus, smaller banks exhibit lower funding costs than larger banks suggesting that small banks are able to attract deposits more cheaply than their larger counterparts. We argue that this is the case because smaller banks interact more personally with customers, operate in customers´ geographic proximity and have longer and stronger relationships than larger banks and, hence, are able to charge higher prices for their services. Our finding of a strong influence of bank size on funding costs is also in an in- ternational context of great interest as mergers among small local banks - the key driver of bank growth - are a recent phenomenon not only in European banking that is expected to continue in the future. At the same time, net interest income remains by far the most important source of revenue for most local banks, accounting for approximately 70% of total operating revenues in the case of German local banks. The influence of size on funding costs is of strong economic relevance: our results suggest that an increase in size by 50%, for example, from EUR 500 million in total assets to EUR 750 million (exemplary for M&A transactions among local banks) increases funding costs, ceteris paribus, by approximately 18 basis points which relates to approx. 7% of banks´ average net interest margin.
- Der Einfluss von Diversifikationsstrategien auf den Aktienkurs deutscher Unternehmen (2008)
- Sowohl die Diversifikation als auch die Fokussierung von Unternehmensaktivitäten werden häufig mit der Maximierung des Unternehmenswertes begründet. Wir untersuchen die Auswirkungen auf den Aktienkurs für 184 Akquisitionen sowie 139 Desinvestitionen deutscher Konzerne im Zeitraum von 1996-2005. Unternehmensdiversifikationen üben, entgegen der oft geäußerten Kritik, keinen signifikant negativen Einfluss auf den Marktwert aus. Fokussierende Unternehmensakquisitionen hingegen sind mit einem signifikanten Wertaufschlag verbunden. Der Verkauf von Unternehmensteilen führt generell zu einer Marktwertsteigerung. Dabei führen Abspaltungen außerhalb des Kerngeschäfts zu einer – allerdings insignifikant – höheren Wertsteigerung als Desinvestitionen von Kerngeschäftsaktivitäten. Statt eines systematischen Diversifikationsabschlags finden wir somit einen "Fokussierungsaufschlag" für den deutschen Markt.
- Board committees, CEO compensation, and earnings management (2007)
- We analyze the effect of committee formation on how corporate boards perform two main functions: setting CEO pay and overseeing the financial reporting process. The use of performance-based pay schemes induces the CEO to manipulate earnings, which leads to an increased need for board oversight. If the whole board is responsible for both functions, it is inclined to provide the CEO with a compensation scheme that is relatively insensitive to performance in order to reduce the burden of subsequent monitoring. When the functions are separated through the formation of committees, the compensation committee is willing to choose a higher pay-performance sensitivity as the increased cost of oversight is borne by the audit committee. Our model generates predictions relating the board committee structure to the pay-performance sensitivity of CEO compensation, the quality of board oversight, and the level of earnings management.
- Home biased? : A spatial analysis of the domestic merging behavior of US firms (2006)
- Using data of US domestic mergers and acquisitions transactions, this paper shows that acquirers have a preference for geographically proximate target companies. We measure the 'home bias' against benchmark portfolios of hypothetical deals where the potential targets consist of firms of similar size in the same four-digit SIC code that have been targets in other transactions at about the same time or firms that have been listed at a stock exchange at that time. There is a strong and consistent home bias for M&A transactions in the US, which is significantly declining during the observation period, i.e. between 1990 and 2004. At the same time, the average distances between target and acquirer increase articulately. The home bias is stronger for small and relatively opaque target companies suggesting that local information is the decisive factor in explaining the results. Acquirers that diversify into new business lines also display a stronger preference for more proximate targets. With an event study we show that investors react relatively better to proximate acquisitions than to distant ones. That reaction is more important and becomes significant in times when the average distance between target and acquirer becomes larger, but never becomes economically significant. We interpret this as evidence for the familiarity hypothesis brought forward by Huberman (2001): Acquirers know about the existence of proximate targets and are more likely to merge with them without necessarily being better informed. However, when comparing the best and the worst deals, we are able to show a dramatic difference in distances and home bias: The most successful deals display on average a much stronger home bias and distinctively smaller distance between acquirer and target than the least successful deals. Proximity in M&A transactions therefore is a necessary but not sufficient condition for success. The paper contributes to the growing literature on the role of distance in financial decisions.


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The Weekly Wrap-Up: April 26-May 2, 2009
Instead of specific films, TV shows, or books, the April 26-May 2, 2009, edition of the Weekly Wrap-Up focuses on the men and women behind them. The unsung heroes who give us their blood, sweat, and tears to ensure we have a good time while watching the screen or reading the page. To them, this Woman says, "Thanks for your efforts! And keep 'em coming!"
Magnolia Procures The Eclipse at Tribeca
Established playwright Conor McPherson can add another feather to his cap now that Magnolia has acquired his debut directorial project, The Eclipse (not to be confused with Eclipse, the 2nd Twilight sequel), at Tribeca 2009. The deal is also notable as the first major sale at the fest for the past several years.
Kevin Grevioux to Direct The Pale Horsemen
Kevin Grevioux is a very busy guy these days. Along with developing I, Frankenstein at Death Ray Films, the prolific writer will be making his directorial debut with the theatrical adaptation of his graphic novel The Pale Horsemen, which will be produced by Larry Meistrich's NEHST Studios.
Bob Dylan True Blood Promo
HBO is pulling out all the stops to promote the Season Two "True Blood" premiere. They've even enlisted the legendary Bob Dylan to lend his talents to the effort!
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Dark Tower Talk
Get ready, King faithful. It looks like a big screen adaptation of The Dark Tower may be a little closer than we thought. JJ Abrams recently sat down with both IGN and MTV and slipped in a couple of slivers of Dark Tower-y goodness!
Submitted by Steve Barton on Fri, 05/01/2009 - 6:47pm
H2: The Haddonfield General Massacre
Even though Rob Zombie is hard at work editing the follow-up to his 2007 film, he did take a moment to slide fans a particularly gory still from Halloween 2 as per usual on his MySpace page.
Submitted by Steve Barton on Fri, 05/01/2009 - 5:58pm
UPDATED: Oh, Christ! Peter Jackson Back to Horror?
While the mainstream may know Peter Jackson from a series of small low-budget films like The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, horror fans know him from his very roots as a filmmaker when he was turning out fare like Bad Taste and Dead Alive. It was an amazing time to be a fan back then, and if all goes well, we may just be revisiting those glory days once more!
Submitted by Steve Barton on Fri, 05/01/2009 - 4:50pm
More Dead Rise! The Butcher Comes!
In this age of Swine Flu or whatever they're calling it today, we need a hero. And Sideshow Collectibles is giving us a 12" undead one as part of their stellar Dead series. Ladies and gentlemen, here's a sneak peek at Subject 16566: The Butcher!
Submitted by Steve Barton on Fri, 05/01/2009 - 3:20pm
US Trailer for Blood: The Last Vampire, Site
Finally there's some word on the US release of Blood: The Last Vampire! Hell, there's even a trailer and a website to dig on! It's a glorious day!
Submitted by Steve Barton on Fri, 05/01/2009 - 3:03pm
Cold Spots: The Battery Carriage House Inn
Charleston, SC – In the night a woman wakes. There's someone in her room. She can hear him walk across the floor, feel his presence as he watches her still form, and can feel his weight when he lies down next to her, draping his arm across her body. She turns to see a pale figure, almost transparent in the moonlight, and screams. The figure gets up and makes a hasty retreat through the nearest wall. Outside her room something else awaits, its hideous growls resounding from its headless body. She looks from wall to door. Which should she choose?
Warner Acquires Rights to Death Note
If you've never checked out the Death Note series, brothers and sisters, you've been missing out. It's easily one of the single most captivating and visually arresting franchises around, and now through the magic of the remake, American audiences will be getting their very own version of the tale.
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Marcus Nispel Boards the Demeter
Done screwing with our favorite slasher franchises for the time being, Marcus Nipel is in talks to offer his lens flare laden slant on yet another famous horror tale, The Last Voyage of Demeter, for Phoenix Pictures.
Russell Mulcahy: From Razorbacks to Tigershark Bait
Russell Mulcahy is no stranger to making movies involving ill-tempered animals. After all, this is the guy that gave us the killer giant boar flick Razorback, unleashed killer birds in Resident Evil: Extinction, and let's not forget he survived working with Alec Baldwin in The Shadow. So with the Piranha remake poised to make 3D killer fish movies all the rage, Mulcahy has signed on to direct the 3D tiger shark flick Bait.
Daimajin Returns to Japanese Television
Everyone knows Godzilla, most everyone knows Gamera, and lately even Guilala has been getting its due, but how many of you are familiar with Daimajin, the giant stone samurai statue that came to life to unleash hell upon evil shoguns in three Daiei films back in the Sixties? The giant stone samurai is roaring back to life this fall on Japanese TV.
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Sasquatch Assault Trailer and Future Synthetic Monsters
What do you get when you cross Assault on Precinct 13 with a Bigfoot movie? Something that might look a little like Sasquatch Assault.
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Windows Sapphire
Welcome to Windows Sapphire. This is your Start Screen. It's used to access your files, apps, and widgets. Think of it as your "Dashboard". In your settings, you have the option of booting to "Start Screen" or "Desktop".
* Custom Start Screen Backgrounds
* Custom Tint Colors
* Start Screen Transparency Options
* Use "Desktop Background" Option
* New Start Menu is "Pinned" to the Desktop (by default), and can be unpinned
* Start Screen Preview can be seen by hovering over the bottom-left corner, as visual clue slides in.
The Problem
Windows 8 Start Screen backgrounds are limited. Tiles cover up most of the screen and block off what's seen in the background. So in this case, what's the point of having "locked-down" wallpapers focused on design elements on the top and bottom? Giving the user ability to shift tints of color overlays is the best option.
Some users won't have a lot of tiles on their screen and would prefer a wallpaper in full blown-out color, or maybe even something fun and creative that "plays with the way the tiles are seen". Some users like to have their Desktop and Start Screen with a cohesive look and feel, but maybe with a little tint change.
This is the "start" of a fun Desktop and Modern UI user-experience, on update Windows 8.
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Transparency in Action
Tint Slider in Action
Start Screen is activated by hovering over the bottom left corner, icons slide over to reveal the visual cue of the "Start Screen".
Start Menu is "Pinned" to Desktop, and can be unpinned. When clicked, the Start Menu Slides in. User can use the Start Menu the exact same way as the traditional Start Menu, drag/drop documents and run applications.
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Chong Hing Bank, a small family-owned lender whose profit slumped 88 per cent last year, said earnings were expected to grow this year.Thursday, 5 March, 2009, 12:00am
Shares of Nine Dragons Paper (Holdings), the containerboard maker controlled by the mainland's second-richest woman, Cheung Yan, fell as much as 8.38 per cent yesterday after the company announced full-year earnings rose a slightly slower than expected 45.7 per cent.21 Sep 2007 - 12:00am
About a year ago SHK Financial Group began coverage of the world's second-biggest mini-motor producer, Johnson Electric, with a 'hold' recommendation, fearing a bottleneck in company growth. The broker set a 12-month target price of $7.20. At the time the counter was trading at $7.50.28 Aug 2005 - 12:00am
Falling volume sales and rising costs at Yanzhou Coal Mining in the first half have prompted JP Morgan to cut its earnings forecast for this year and next and downgrade the stock from 'over-weight' to 'neutral'.28 Aug 2005 - 12:00am
Highly indebted property developer Lai Sun Development expects to secure an agreement with its creditors for a debt restructuring plan this year, according to company management.
The plan was unveiled as the property firm posted a loss of $167.12 million for the six months to January.17 Apr 2004 - 12:00am
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Closing price: $36.90
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Mainland property play Tomson Group's profit surged 51.5 per cent to HK$161.15 million last year. Fully-diluted earnings per share were 14.85 HK cents, against 9.89 HK cents previously. Holding company Rivera (Holdings) recorded a HK$28.63 million loss, compared with a HK$539.33 million loss a year earlier. No dividends were declared for either company.16 Apr 2003 - 12:00am
Toll-road operator Road King Infrastructure's 2001 net profit dropped 43.7 per cent to HK$240.8 million, the company reported. Road King attributed the drop to some projects recovering their investment and entering the payback period during which the company shares a smaller percentage of the revenues. Earnings per share fell 47.4 per cent to 40 HK cents.21 Mar 2002 - 12:00am
Growth Enterprise Market-listed Chinese medicine-maker Tong Ren Tang Technologies last year had an 83.52 per cent surge in net profit to 99.79 million yuan. Turnover was 497.37 million yuan, up 46.84 per cent. Earnings per share on a diluted basis were 55 fen, up from 44 fen a year earlier. A final dividend of 30 fen will be paid.19 Mar 2002 - 12:00am
Growth Enterprise Market-listed SIIC Medical Science and Technology (SIIC MedTech), a manufacturer of modern Chinese medicine and bio-pharmaceutical products, experienced a strong 2001. For the nine months to September 30, net profit and earnings per share surged fourfold.27 Jan 2002 - 12:00am


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Despite trying to jam pack the college baseball tournament with East Coast teams year after year in what appears to be a desperate effort to pump out yearly East Coast National Champions, the NCAA Committee has failed miserably for the second consecutive year in achieving such slanted results.
The UCLA Bruins went undefeated in this year's NCAA Tournament, becoming the second consecutive Pac-12 team to go undefeated and win the CWS Championship outright despite being heavily misrepresented. In the CWS, the Bruins went 5-0 against teams from the ACC and SEC and outscored them 19-4. Last year, the Arizona Wildcats had similar results in the CWS, going 4-0 against teams from the ACC and SEC and outscoring them 23-8. This year, the NCAA Committee invited 17 teams from the ACC and SEC and only four teams from the Pac-12 (despite the fact the Pac was ranked the 3rd strongest conference in the nation), and the ratio of last season's selections were essentially the same. The result of the NCAA's (East Coast bias) selection practices have led to Championship series that have been lopsided snoozers: Arizona and UCLA went 4-0 against their final opponents (South Carolina and Mississippi State) and outscored them 20-3.
A quick look at over a decade of college baseball suggests the NCAA should go back to the drawing board when it comes to tournament selection, and may want to consider giving the West Coast respect where respect is far overdue. Since 2002, only two teams (South Carolina (2) and LSU) have represented the East Coast as college baseball champions. The rest have hailed from the states of Oregon (Oregon State (2)), California (UCLA, Cal State Fullerton, Fresno State), Arizona and Texas (Texas (2), Rice).
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Caught On Tape: Fla. Cop Threatens To 'Put A Round' In Black Men During Traffic Stop | News One
Within the last two months, Eric Garner, 43, unarmed, was killed on July 17 by NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo who placed him in an illegal chokehold while questioning him for allegedly selling untaxed cigarettes; John Crawford, 22, unarmed, was shot and killed on August 5 by two Ohio police officers, David Darkow and Sean Williams, in Walmart after he was spotted holding a toy rifle; 18-year-old Mike Brown, unarmed, was gunned down by Ferguson, Missouri police officer Darren Wilson while walking with a friend in his neighborhood; and Ezell Ford, 24, who was also unarmed, was shot and killed by unnamed officers in the LAPD on August 12.
In the wake of these tragic events and renewed intense conversations surrounding police brutality against Black men, a video of police in Boynton Beach, Florida threatening to "put a round" through four Black men during a routine traffic stop has emerged and begun making the rounds on social media.
One of the occupants in the video records the interaction, even after the officer tells him to stop, to which he responds:
No, I have rights. I'm not intimidated. I have rights.
Sir, I'm recording your ass. What the f*ck you going to do?
B**ch, you're on camera. What the f*cks wrong with you. Stupid ass cracker.
The driver of the car repeatedly asks the officer who stopped them for his badge number. The officer provides his name, but not the number, prompting the driver to attempt to take a picture of his badge. The officer slaps the phone out of his hand, pulls him from the car and places him face down on the ground.
That's when another officer, presumably his partner or back-up rushes to the window, gun drawn, and says:
"I'll put a round in your ass so quick," with his weapon threw the window pointed directly at the men.
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Radius Networks scores another iBeacon deal with Baseball Bulls (via Bulls to host mobile scavenger hunt with proximity technology :: Editor's Blog at WRAL TechWire)
Nice iBeacon Comparison list (incomplete, but useful) from Fosbury
— Jessical Gelman, VP customer marketing for Kraft Sports, operator of the New England Patriots and the Gillette Stadium Sports arenas marketing with Apple's iBeacon hope to offer relevant info without 'spamming' fans
B2B iBeacon Use case: PlaceForge (from TimeForge) uses BLE Fobs to track assets and staff in Grocery, Hospitality, Restaurant and Retail Sectors. As they say themselves - "seamless real time staffing and asset use analytics." (via PlaceForge | be everywhere)
Nice analysis of Beacon scanning behaviour and battery drain. (via In terms of battery life, Android devices are more optimized for iBeacons than iPhones — Tech News and Analysis)
Beacons Market Forecast throwing some big numbers around on the future of proximity and iBeacon (via Beacons Are The Most Important New Retail Tech - Business Insider)
Enterprise Beacon Tech from New Zealand : Roam Creative (via Fixing iBeacon: Roam's Dropin system steels beacons for the enterprise | ZDNet)
Ifinity's atmospheric video showcasing the potential for iBeacon and Proximity use cases. Just raised a seed round, valued at $12M according to Techcrunch.
Really useful piece covering the in-depth issues around background iBeacon scanning from Indoors
Appflare tried to shift retail inertia by offering iBeacon hardware and installation for free.
Of course, the hardware, and the installation, is a minor cost in a real deployment, so this looks like a PR-savvy move, if not exactly a great deal. Still - it worked in terms of some PR and awareness, so kudos to them for that!
From $12.2 Billion to now $43.3 Billion? What the hell happened?? :-)
Nice video explaining SKTelecom's Indoor Location Platform WizTurn.
We bumped in to the SK Telecom Folks at the excellent Place2014 Conference in New York a few weeks ago. One of the folks we chatted to was from SK Telecom - where it turns out - they have built out their own end to end indoor location / proximity platform called WizTurn. It seems to be the full soup-to-nuts platform - everything from maps to proximity, apps and APIs. Fair play to them. Plus they have quite a few use cases to discuss (they were in the slides from the event). Will also post their rather cool video explaining it all…
— Simon expands iBeacon program to outfit more smart malls - Mobile Commerce Daily - Software and technology
The relentless adoption of iBeacon continues apace, with the first swathe of mobile-first marketing automation companies all adding support for iBeacon in various ways to their platforms. The first major adopter of note was push messaging juggernaut UrbanAirship, back in February.
Last week, Irish-based SWRVE joined the gang, adding iBeacon support to its core platform. So now you can use the fine grained control offered by BLE / iBeacons to modify how and when a message might be delivered to a mobile app user. It makes total sense, and we expect to see all the main Mobile MA vendors stitch support for Beacons and Proximity in to their platforms over time.


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The Gunner Kiel era at Notre Dame is reportedly coming to an end.
Gunner Kiel is reportedly leaving Notre Dame after one year.
According to Irish Sports Daily, the highly touted Class of 2012 product intends to transfer after enrolling in classes at South Bend last year following an early graduation from Columbus East High School (Columbus, IN).
The 6-4, 210-pounder was the Fighting Irish's scout team quarterback last year while Everett Golson started and Tommy Rees came off of the bench. Andrew Hendrix was also ahead of Kiel on the depth chart. The nephew of former ND quarterback Blair Kiel ultimately was redshirted.
Because of his strong arm and prep accolades, Kiel will be highly sought if he decides to transfer. Before ultimately electing to play for Brian Kelly and the Irish, he was committed to Indiana and LSU.
After his transfer year, the former five-star QB would have three years of eligibility remaining.
Kiel likely is leaving South Bend because Golson has a strong handle on the starting quarterback job after helping the Irish to a 12-0 regular-season record and a trip to the BCS national championship game. With Kiel on the way out, Rees, Hendrix and freshman Malik Zaire (who enrolled in January) will get reps behind Golson.
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When my husband mentions that he teaches business ethics, one occasional comeback is, "Isn't that an oxymoron?"
In fact, it's not. Business is not an intrinsic evil. And, as the Occupy movement unintentionally made clear, it's incoherent to bash corporations in general while gobbling up the goods and services they offer so as to enhance your anti-business hipster chic.
But teaching ethics to MBA types has its challenges. It's not that they can't understand truths about good and evil, virtue and vice. It's just that they can't hear those truths at all—unless you express them in a language they can understand. You can't be preachy,
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Ian, I couldn't agree more. I, too, am often irritated and dismayed by the way gender roles are discussed in Christian circles.
I got in a heated online exchaged recently over an article that extolled the male tendency to be domineering.
The author theorized that men need to be dominating, because they need to learn to dominate themselves, viz. their own fallen nature.
Women don't need to conquer our fallen nature. That comes naturally to us.
So, that was an instance of treating something common to all persons as if it's especially applicable to men, which is demeaning to women.
Then, the emphasis on roles very often neglects the individuality of persons, which always exceeds generalizations.
I think the problem becomes serious when we treat a general observation (e.g. "women are better at men than homemaking") as a moral prescripton: "Therefore no woman should work outside the home."
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No, just about everyone knows we need relationships. I will be thinking about how to express what I'm trying to say more clearly as I take care of some urgent things around here, because I want to do this discussion more justice than I can right now. Bis bald!
Aug. 29 at 10:54am | See in context
I highly recommend Thomas Dubay's Authenticity as further reading for this post.
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Do you think anyone really believes that?
Maybe I live in a bubble. But I know lots of people who think being Catholic (for instance) means "you have to stay in relationships" and that all concern for authenticity is a modernist cover for egocentrism, that annulments are nothing but ephemisms for divorce, and that if you're a mother it means that you "role" is to be a fulltime housewife, and so on and so forth.
I haven't met anyone who thinks we don't need relationships.
I know they're out there, but I don't come across them.
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Kate, yes, I was always struck by Karol Wojtyla's distinction between humanl acts and "acts of man": acts that emerge from your free center, and things that you do but that are just physiological or instinctive or reactive--acts that are "automatic" in some way, and don't fully involve your freedom.
The feminist ideas that Maggie Gallagher was writing against did have a large grain of truth. As we've been talking about here lately from many angles, for a long time, there definitely are people and relationships and cultures and mentalities that you do have to separate yourself from to find out who you even are, and to initiate action that really comes from your own free center.
Where many people go wrong, it seems, is in seeing the core of each person as totally unrelated to relations with other subjects. It's as if they think: if it's a relationship, it's not a reality, but just something that's "in your head" or something that belongs to the realm of feelings, understood in the most superficial and reductive sense.
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I like what you say here, Kate.
As someone who has had a lot to learn about personal authenticity, I have more sympathy (I think) than a lot of conservative Catholics—certainly more than I used to have myself—for the contemporary ways of talking about about the self.
I mean, I understand now in ways I didn't used to, for instance, that "me time" is something I need. I used to scorn the idea as selfish. "All of me and my time belongs to God and my husband and children." I didn't understand that this was a neglect of my own humanity.
I had to learn not to be driven by my "role" as wife and mother, and so on. I hadn't realized how alienated from myself I was, and how artificial many of my ideas of what I ought to do and be were.
I had to learn to "taken possession of the land" that is my self—take responsibility for my thoughts, feelings, acts, limits, etc.
Part of this entailed a discovery that some of my relationships weren't real.
I'm still learning.
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Sometimes I think that the "who you are" in "become who you are" refers to our acting and being--which are inalienable, really. So it's not really that we can ever be not ourselves, but we are less than fully ourselves when we abdicate responsibility for our actions, when we re-act rather than act, when we choose by failing to choose.
Which mean, I guess, that I am as fully myself in relationship as I am in a role or function, so long as I am fully present to the choices and persons around me, and fully choose to act out of my own gifts, abilities, and call to virtue. If I use a social construct, relationship, function, or even a 'vocation' as a prop, a layer of insulation against the terrible call to own my own actions and respond rightly to the goods around me, then they can be obstacles to my full development as "who I am."
I remember when Jen Fulwiler wrote about realizing that the best 'me time' is the kind that reinvigorates--which tends to be active: creation, exercise, service, self-development. These are responses to the goods in ourselves, the world, and others.
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Yikes! I would have done the same.
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In the case of the apostolate I mentioned that I used to support financially, I twice sent emails expressing my concern. I got no answer. Then I noticed on facebook that many others shared my concern. The public outcry became strong enough that the head of the organization wrote about it. He didn't just defend his organization, he touted the Christian heroism of its members. He didn't just disagree with the critics, he chastized them for their lack of charity.
That's when I determined to disengage, which is to say (in this case), stop sending them money.
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Thanks for your answer Katie. I can agree wholeheartedly. I would only hope that most folks wouldn't be too hasty in disengaging completely from something/someone without first letting the organization (or person) know what has happened and why. I suppose a healthy dose of discernment and prayer is also needed when things go awry. Thanks again!
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