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Hi Dr. Cordain this is Dan.
Dr. Cordain
Hi there. Thanks for talking to me again, I've been looking forward to it.
Dr. Cordain
No problem.
Thank you so much for your ongoing research into the diet and acne connection. I just can't wait until we figure out a way to help most people through some sort of holistic method, whether that be diet or supplementation or what have you.
Dr. Cordain
Well I think you're right Dan. I've spoken to many people in the dermatology community around the United States and all over the world and I think it's high time we get to the bottom of what causes acne and the notion that we've stonewalled diet for 30 years on no good rationale or logic or even scientific studies is I think very much recognized now and there is an emerging group of scientists and dermatologists who now believe that diet is not only just a minor part of acne but it is the major underlying environmental factor.
It makes a lot of common sense, so I'm curious to see what comes out. Could you describe the Paleo Diet, if you had to distill it down into a 30-second bit? How would you describe the Paleo Diet?
Dr. Cordain
It's real easy. It's unlimited lean meats, seafood, fish, as much fruits and vegetables as you want to eat. That's the diet in a nutshell, what you don't want to eat is processed foods, refined sugars, salts, cereal grains or dairy products.
Great. So before I launch into my other questions I think it's important that I present my bias at the top of my interviews.
Dr. Cordain
My bias is that I actually tried the Paleo Diet as strictly as I possibly could. I was totally committed. I tried it for about two and a half months, six months to a year ago. I was extremely strict, except I did eat nuts on a daily basis. I had vinegar on my salads almost daily after about a month or so. I started cheating and had vinegar in my salads and I did not always slow-cook everything. I think I may have gone off of it just slightly here and there inadvertently, say if I ate out to a restaurant, I'd get steak and some vegetables and I don't know if when they cook a steak they put a little sugar in there, I'm not positive. I was as strict as I could possibly be and what happened with me was I felt amazing. I've literally never felt better in my life. My energy was even, my emotional state was great, nice and even as well, and I was able to get off my Regimen, my topical anti-acne Regimen, for the first two months or so. I was very excited. I was convinced diet and acne were related and I was ready to tell everyone about it. Then I was posting my success online and there was a user on my message boards who kept saying to me, "The reason that your skin is clear is because you're losing weight and taking in less calories. You're going to see that as your weight levels out your skin will go back to how it was." I didn't believe him but he was very persistent, and sure enough after about two months–that was the point I stopped losing weight on the diet–my skin started going back to having minor problems. Then there was a period of about a week, week and a half, before Christmas where I just started eating more. I'm not sure why, I think I was just hungrier. And my skin was awful. I had a cyst on my chin, I had probably five or six other pretty bad comedomes on my face. It was the worst my face has been since I can remember, for at least a decade. So I immediately went back on the Regimen at that point. Can you explain why that may have happened to me?
Dr. Cordain
Well you know Dan, we're at the very beginning of understanding how diet causes acne. We just completed the first clinical trial. There are two epidemiologic studies that were completed by the Harvard Group. As is the case with anything in science that is new, we don't completely understand the underlying mechanisms and I would be not completely forthright if I did not say that to you. But we have mechanisms that we suspect, and I think you're absolutely right, when you lose weight and you reduce your calories it immediately improves insulin sensitivity no matter what you're eating. We believe one of the primary mechanisms that underlie the development of acne is insulin resistance. Why do I say that? I say that because adolescence is a time when virtually all people in the Western World experience some type of acne. Adolescence is a period of natural insulin resistance because insulin resistance is a physiologic state that allows for rapid growth. This is why adolescents become insulin resistant during those growth years, is that it facilitates growth. We believe that tacked on to the typical Western diet, which is a high glycemic low diet, which also exacerbates insulin resistance is one of the major underlying factors and with Neil Mann's study, he was able to show that insulin resistance is linked to acne. Now, how does insulin resistance in and of itself can cause acne without lying those mechanisms. In a series of scientific papers that I've written, we believe that insulin is a master hormone and it causes a cascade of other hormones, which ultimately affect the pilosebaceous unit. The unit that actually causes it, a comedome or zit. I can go into more detail but for your listeners I don't know if that kind of detail really matters.
I'm going to link to your website and they'll be able to find your book and learn about all that stuff. It's incredibly interesting stuff. I'm hoping to keep this as much as real plain English as possible.
Dr. Cordain
So that's pretty much what we think is going on. That's the mechanism. The Harvard Group has identified milk drinking as a liability factor and a number of dermatologists on the East Coast actually do that with teenage acne patients, they just have them stop drinking milk, and a good percentage have complete remission of symptoms or improvement. I have been in contact with Dr. Bill Danby and his group and Balory Traylor, they're both MD dermatologists and use diet to affect it. They're also publishing literature and got their own books out on it. We think milk drinking is also involved with acne besides the high glycemic load diet, and we think there are a number of factors in which milk may promote or exacerbate acne symptoms. In addition to getting rid of processed foods, sugary and so forth, we think that milk drinking and dairy products are not a good thing, for a number of reasons. As scientists we speculate what the mechanisms are but it will probably be a decade or more before we find out exactly what's going on. What we've done now is we've really raised the bar and we've raised the eyebrow of the traditional dermatology community who forever and a decade stonewalled the idea that diet and acne were related. Now we have the first clinical trials showing that indeed a low glycemic load diet improves symptoms. So you're actually right. There's an interaction with calories that will take a while for us to figure out with more clinical trials.
You refer to that one clinical trial. That was one of my questions. How much clinical evidence do we have to back up the diet and acne connection and how conclusive is the evidence at this point?
Dr. Cordain
We have single study that came out of Neil Mann's laboratory from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. The design of the study was impeccable from the scientific perspective, but it's a single study and science moves slowly, and one study does not change a discipline, so we need what are called replicate studies and these are in the offing right now. I know a number of groups around the world are in the process of, or have trials currently being conducted. I think that once we have a single trial, like with Neil's study, then it's going to promote interest in it. The way to do these studies is with government funding through NIH, National Institute of Health, through the various boards, and we have to get scientists that are interested and then get funding to do the study, because these studies are expensive where we involve humans. And science moves slowly. The Mann Study took two years to complete and another year and a half to two years to get into the scientific literature. So this is why I say it would be probably a decade or decades before the dogma is completely reversed.
Now you referred to the Harvard Group and a milk connection. Is that a study that the Harvard Group did?
Dr. Cordain
Yes. They published two papers on it and these are what is referred to as epidemiologic papers. The Mann Study was a controlled randomized clinical trial, in which we actually altered the diet of people and used the number of zits or comedomes as the outcome variable. With the Harvard School of Public Health they published their two studies in the epidemiologic literature, and what that is is they look at a large, large groups of people. The Nurses Health Study involves 80,000 women and they look at an association between diet and disease. And what they found, and there are different ways of looking at this, one was looking at a 'retrospective cohort', meaning that you look at people backwards in time and then they did a more powerful study called a 'prospective cohort', meaning that they follow people over time and they monitor their diet. And in both of these studies what they found was that milk drinking was associated with the development of acne.
One followup question on the milk studies. In your professional opinion, do you think we're referring to milk here or any dairy product?
Dr. Cordain
I suspect it's any dairy product and I suspect there may be degrees of how bad one dairy product affects things. We don't know what element in milk is causing the association between milk drinking and acne. I was at a conference at Harvard where we talked about this last October. There's a couple of lines of thought. The first is that there are hormones in milk that actually get past the gut in tact and enter human circulation. This, to my way of thinking, is somewhat unlikely in that most of the gut hormones are broken down by enzymes in the gut. Secondly, these large protein molecules cannot get past the gut barrier. However, there is one exception to this. It's a hormone in milk called betacellulin. And betacellulin survives the gut enzymes and it also can get into circulation because there is a hormonal receptor in the gut which specifically binds this hormone and draws it into the body. So we believe that there is at least one cow hormone called betacellulin that can get into the circulation. Betacellulin, once it gets into the circulation, can bind other hormonal receptors in the pilosebaceous unit and the function of this hormone is to cause growth. And one of the problems with acne is that there is excessive growth of the cells lining the pilosebaceous unit. So we think that the betacellulin milk may be one of the factors. The other factor that we believe that may be responsible of why milk drinking is associated with acne is that milk paradoxically has a low glycemic index but has a high insulin index, meaning that it doesn't spike your blood sugar but it makes your blood insulin levels go up. We believe that when blood insulin levels go up it causes this cascade of hormonal effects. It elevates IGF-1 and depresses another hormone called IGF-binding protein-3. And we believe that these hormonal changes cause an increase in the secretion of androgens, male hormones that both women and men secrete, that increase sebum secretion in pilocaebacious unit, which also underlies acne. There's a variety of factors in milk that scientists suspect may underlie the association of milk drinking in acne. This is why chocolate, forever and a day, has been implicated in acne. When we think about milk chocolate candy, it's made out of milk solids which contain the same hormones. It's also made out of sugar which has a high glycemic load. So we believe this is why chocolate may be particularly effective at eliciting acne symptoms.
Interesting. Getting back to the Paleo Diet again for a moment if we can, I know that a lot of the listeners to this will probably want to try the diet. I noticed that it was incredibly hard for me to stick to the diet, and I was totally committed. You were nice enough to donate about 20-25 of your e-books, and I had a bunch of people on my website try the diet as well. No one really came close to following it as strictly as I did. Do you think it's really possible for people in the 21st century to follow a caveman-type diet?
Dr. Cordain
Well this is actually how we came to the conclusion that diet and acne were related is that our first study that we published in 2002 were the result of almost a decade worth of research. We went down into very primitive places in the world where the Western culture is absent. We went to an island off the coast of Papua New Guinea called Kitaba and we studied about 3000 people there including almost 300 teenagers and in that entire group of 300 teenagers, we didn't find a single case of acne, whereas the prevalence of acne in Western teenagers approaches 85-90%. So that kind of tipped us off that it probably is environmental and logically diet in nature. We did another study in which we went down to the jungles of Paraguay and we followed around a group of hunter/gatherers for a two year period, and this was a different approach. This was a longitudinal approach instead of just looking at them in a cross-section. We followed them over a two year period and once again we didn't find any acne in the entire population. And even though these were two different ends of the world, there were universal characteristics of their diet that kind of stood out for us. One was that they were fairly high in protein and they had virtually no processed foods, and they had a low glycemic load. They obviously didn't have any dairy products and they didn't eat any grains either. So, those are the characteristics of the diet that we thought would be helpful and with the Mann study they actually just looked at two elements, the protein and the glycemic load. So to answer your question we've kinda been spoiled, the horse is out of the bag. We've grown up in the Western world with hamburgers and french fries and pizza and Coke and white bread and donuts and you name it and everything that most of us eat on a daily basis. And you're absolutely right, I think that it is difficult for people, particularly adolescents and young people to follow this type of a diet. But people that are sick people, the original Paleo Diet wasn't designed for acne patients, it was designed for people that have serious health problems, cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, morbid obesity, and what we found was that when people are with their back to the wall and the alternative is death or serious illness, following this diet becomes second nature. I think that there is a lead in period that takes people probably six months or longer to be able to do it and during that period they kind of have ups and downs and in both our books we describe the little tricks or methods used to help do this. For some people, going cold turkey works, for others they need to go back and forth. My feeling is that you can get substantial health effects when you're 85 percent compliant. We also believe that there are different genetic factors that may underlie acne. Your case is one of them, maybe you have a strong genetic susceptibility for these diseases of insulin resistance. We just don't know. I haven't seen your blood work up. Other people report dramatic effects when they're roughly 80-90% compliant.
Can I ask about that? I had dramatic effects as well but they only lasted about two months while I was losing weight. When you hear these dramatic results from people, at what time period is it that you hear the results?
Dr. Cordain
I've reported them in my books, people write in and tell me how they've done. Wiley keeps track of these things. We've reported about 20 or 30 cases that people can read and each one of them slightly different. We have people of all ages, all walks of life, all genders that have reported success.
My question I guess is how long into the diet do they report success because if one of my theories is correct, anybody who goes on a calorie restricted diet is going to see an improvement in acne symptoms. And it may simply be that.
Dr. Cordain
I wouldn't say that's a theory. I would say that's a pretty good supposition. We believe the same thing. Calorie-restricted diets, no matter what you eat, are going to improve insulin sensitivity because there's an interaction between calories and insulin sensitivity and we haven't untangled that interaction as I mentioned we've only got a single study, and that was a confounding factor of Neil's study so we need to determine what the role of caloric restriction is versus glycemic load. That has yet to be worked out. I honestly do believe that no matter what they eat, if they calorically restrict will have an improvement in acne symptoms. If you have what's called an isocaloric diet and your reduce the glycemic load, that will be the next experiment that needs to be conducted is to keep the calories constant and reduce the glycemic load and see if acne symptoms subside. We also suspect besides milk and the glycemic load and calories we also suspect that there are certain foods that may interact with the pilosebaceous unit, one of them is peanuts. Peanuts contain a substance called PNA or peanut agglutinin we believe that PNA binds the same gut recepter that betacellulin does. We know from studies in England that PNA gets right into the bloodstream and if it does, then it in all likelihood it is binding these keratinous sites, these cells that line the pilosebaceous unit, if it binds those, and it causes a hormonal effect, like when it binds its own receptor, then it will also increase proliferation. We think that this is why some of the anecdotal evidence suggests that peanuts also exacerbate acne symptoms.
Interesting. Would you be able to give a few suggestions on how everyday people could modify their diet to improve their acne symptoms?
Dr. Cordain
I think everyday people eat white bread or white flour almost every day of their life, also refined sugars every day of their life. The average American eats close to 160 pounds of sugars on a yearly basis. We eat about a quarter of our calories in white bread. We eat a substantial amount of potatoes. All three of those foods, sugars, potatoes, and white flours yield a high glycemic load so at every turn of the screw, whenever possible, try to avoid those foods. I would also try to avoid dairy products as well. I think that most people, those simple suggestions of reducing or avoiding those types of processed foods will experience significant improvement in their symptoms.
Would you include peanuts on that list?
Dr. Cordain
Once again, we have no experimental data. What we have is a theoretical basis for this. It's kind of like putting the dots together. We know that when people eat peanuts, we have scientific evidence to show that a substance in peanuts immediately appears in the bloodstream and we know that it binds a receptor that is located in the pilosebaceous unit. We haven't put all the dots together. We haven't actually had people eat peanuts, measure it in their blood, then measure it in the pilosebaceous unit, measure the activity of the pilosebaceous unit and then measure acne symptoms. Those four dots have not been connected they are all isolated at this point. It's kind of like putting together a detective story is that you see a footprint leading into a house, and then you don't see it again until it's in the bathroom and then you don't see it again until it's someplace else. And so, that's what we're looking at. We see these footprints, these suggestive mechanisms in the body, but we actually haven't been there to witness the entire series of events and so that's what future research will focus on is how all of these things work together. Clearly we don't believe that acne evolves just from a single dietary element, nor do we think that these dietary elements affect all people in the same manner. We think that some people have a much greater genetic susceptibility to acne than others. It's a moving target right now and that genetic susceptibility makes things tough and unfortunately, I wish you were one of those people who genetically would have right off the bat improved, like other anecdotal stories that have come in. Whether your story would have worked or not would've never made any difference in the scientific community. It would have for you, and maybe for your listeners, but it would have not changed one iota in the scientific community. What is required are empirical database studies. That's a slow process, so what we're seeing now if the beginning of that process. Unfortunately for you, and others who grew up at this period, you'll say, "Geez, I wish the scientific community would have figured this out two decades earlier". Part of it is dogma, and it's hard to get around the dogma. Through my publications, most of the dermatology community realizes that there is not any good evidence to make the suggestion that diet doesn't cause acne. We pointed that out. The most frequently cited studies, the Fulton study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association and another one in the Family Practitioner, we blew those out of the water. I teach a research design class at the University and we routinely show that there's a hole big enough in both of those studies that you can drive a Mack truck through. They're not good science.
That sounds like a really big step to me. At least we've realized that diet and acne may be related, but maybe the bottom line at this point is that more research is required.
Dr. Cordain
I've never suggested anything other than that. All I've suggested is that the dogma that diet doesn't cause acne is not a good position for anyone to take or to believe.
I guess what confused me as far as what you've put out there is the name of the book is "The Dietary Cure for Acne" and so, from that title, I assumed that you were saying that there is a dietary cure for acne.
Dr. Cordain
I believe there is, but again, I'm a scientist and until the science definitively shows that, what I'm giving is my hypothesis and my hypothesis has not been shown to be wrong by the three studies that have come out. All three are in agreement with what we're saying.
Okay, well thanks so much for your time. I really appreciate everything that you're doing.
Dr. Cordain
Okay Dan, well you're a real warrior and a spirit and hopefully your grassroots effort is going to make a difference.


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In cafes and bars in Sydney and Brisbane, Australia, in Queenstown, Wellington and Tauranga, New Zealand and in Dundee, Scotland, I worked as a both a barista and a bartender. That's barista as in someone who makes coffee, by the way, not the commonly confused barrister – a type of lawyer. Kind of an important distinction, unless you don't mind your local waiter writing your will.
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Pandit has been reducing the bank's stake in Primerica since selling a portion in a March 2010 public offering. Pandit, 54, included the firm among more than $600 billion of businesses and assets he wanted to sell or wind down after Citigroup took a $45 billion bailout from taxpayers in 2008.
"The sale is consistent with our strategy to reduce non- core assets in Citi Holdings," said Shannon Bell, a spokeswoman for Citigroup.
The bank will remain among Primerica's largest shareholders. Warburg Pincus LLC held 22 percent as of July 1 and Ruane Cunniff & Goldfarb Inc. controlled 5 percent as of June 30, according to Bloomberg data.
Primerica fell 3.9 percent to $21.74 at 4:15 p.m. in New York trading. The shares have fallen 10 percent this year. Citigroup fell 7.7 percent to $29.17, bringing its decline for the year to 38 percent.
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December 11, 2012 marks the day that my life as I know it changed forever . . . or at least for the next several months. Possibly years.
On that fateful day, I made a decision that has haunted me since.
I decided to cut my hair.
The result? Age-otori. (That's Japanese for looking worse after a haircut.)
I'm not fishing for compliments. My sister has (begrudgingly) confirmed this to be true.
hair: a metaphor for life
Cutting my hair was a risk. Definitely not a life or death kind of risk. Few risks are. But as I haven't had hair this short since I was maybe two years old, I couldn't be sure of the outcome.
So I took the risk. I took a chance.
In life, we can't always be guaranteed of the end result of the decisions we make. Does that mean that we shouldn't make them? Of course not!
I'd been considering cutting my hair ever since the idea of walking the Camino de Santiago entered my mind. I thought short hair would be so much easier to take care of (lies).
Plus, what could be more minimalist than short hair?
Fast forward to December when I asked myself what I was waiting for. Why not just cut my hair now? So I did.
If I'd just cut my hair a little shorter or even up to my shoulders, I'd still of wondered what it would've looked like if I'd gone really short.
Sometimes you have to go all the way to find the place where you want to end up.
this too shall pass
My hair is going to grow back.
Even though it may take months for it to get to the point that I like it more, I still don't regret cutting it.
I now have one less "what if" on my list.
Truth be told, I almost had a Jo March, Little Women, moment when she cries over selling her long, beautiful hair.
But then I thought, it's just hair.
Revealed: This is what my hair looks like under that hat . . . just kidding.


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Jackson Makes It A Trilogy! — 'The Hobbit' To Be Split In Three (UPDATE: New Poster)
[UPDATE #4] Check out the new "sword weilding" Bilbo Baggins poster for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey after the jump.
[UPDATE #3] Say what?! There's a new trailer for The Hobbit Part One and several alternative endings. [Ed. note: Of course, only fans of Peter Jackson would need 5 alternate endings for a trailer. Sigh. I'm fed up already.]
Alternate endings:
[UPDATE #2] Want more photos of "hobbits" and all general Peter Jackson-esque from his upcoming trilogy The Hobbit? Well, then see a whole bunch after the jump.
[UPDATE] Its official folks, Peter Jackson's Hobbit trilogy has some new titles. The second film is being retitled to The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, while the third film is The Hobbit: There and Back Again which concludes July 18th, 2014 a mere 7 months after the second installment. Thankfully they're not dragging this out.
[Original] It began with the forging of the great Hobbit movies. Three were gifted to the race of Warner Brothers executives, who, above all else, desire power. With the recent news that Peter Jackson is splitting his Hobbit adaptation into three films, one has to wonder what else he's up to. You can just imagine he's in an edit bay somewhere right now, forging a secret master film from the fires of Mount Doom. The One Film to rule all his other Middle Earth films, and in the darkness, bind them.
Yes, Peter Jackson announced that he is adding an extra installment to his Hobbit franchise, with the film to expand Bilbo Baggins' world, based on appendices found in J. R. R. Tolkein's Lord of the Rings novels (which is only slightly more exciting than actual appendicitis). Reasons behind the expansion are unclear, could it be studio pressure? Or could it be that Peter Jackson wants the studios to spend more and boost the economy of his beloved New Zealand (making him even more of a God there), and at his Weta Digital special effects house (money back to his own pocket).
But maybe its not about the money, maybe Jackson isn't simply following in the golden footsteps of the Harry Potter, Twilight, or the Hunger Games franchises. Maybe Jackson is simply just overly obsessed with Middle Earth, an example of what happens when Tolkein's #1 fan is handed the keys to a production studio and near unlimited resources.
But really, what did Jackson find in these LOTR appendices to constitute a third Hobbit film? He crafted what is argubly cinema's best trilogy out of three separate books, each one of which is longer than The Hobbit on their own, and now he thinks he can repeat his success with what was essentially a children's book written in 1937?
But who knows, maybe Jackson can spin something out of nothing. Maybe the Hobbit trilogy will join the lofty ranks of Jackson's LOTR, George Lucas' (original) Star Wars, or Sergio Leone's Man With No Name trilogy. Whatever happens, you'll be able to catch it all in eye-popping 3D! Especially now that the marketing geniuses involved whipped up these lady-killing 3D Hobbit glasses, guaranteed to get you super super laid.
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey will be released December 14th, 2012, The Hobbit: There and Back Again will be released December 13th, 2013, and the brand new third film will be released sometime in Summer 2014.
Three movies. So be it. They shall be the Fellowship of the Hobbit.
Source: THR, Movie News
UPDATE: /Film, Movie News, First Showing, First Showing, First Showing


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2003 Appliance Industry Forecasts
2003 Forecast Latin America: Bouncing Back in Latin America
by Linda Abu-Shalback Zid, Associate Editor/Newsletter Editor
If all goes well, economies in Latin America are expected to recover from recession, political unrest, and financial turmoil in 2003.
"Although the next few years are not going to be fantastically good (for Latin American growth), we hope there is going to be a gradual recovery that will turn into a sustained one," Sebastian Edwards from the National Bureau of Economic Research told Reuters in November. He said a financial crisis in Argentina, political upheaval in Brazil and Venezuela, and a slower-than-expected recovery from recession in Mexico affected 2002 regional growth, but that export outlooks and expected U.S. economic improvement would contribute to a "moderate" growth.
Brazil: Keeping it Real
By November 2002, Brazil's currency, the real, lost about 37 percent of its value against the U.S. dollar, and inflation had exceeded the Brazilian government's "tolerance level" of 5.5 percent and was expected to jump even further. A New York Times article attributes the real's loss largely to investor worries on the rise of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of the left-leaning Workers' Party to president, although he vowed to keep a lid on inflation with a tight monetary policy.
Shipments of small appliances and brown goods, such as VCRs and sound equipment, have suffered in Brazil with estimates of a 1-percent drop of brown goods in 2002, when compared with 2001, and a 12-percent drop in small appliances, according to Datamark Ltda, a research firm in Brazil. White goods were estimated to increase 4 percent in 2002, and IT equipment, such as PCs and printers, were expected to see a 10-percent increase by the end of 2002.
"Brown goods are static, white goods are recovering, and small appliances are not doing well," said Graham Wallis, CEO of Datamark.
"Things may improve in 2003 if the Brazilian government manages to redistribute income without fueling inflation...Brazil is expecting a bumper Christmas so that may help," he told APPLIANCE. "The 5-year projection suggests that things will improve for electrical appliances, but with the current over-capacity, investment is unlikely."
Whirlpool Corp. (Benton Harbor, MI, U.S.) was also carefully optimistic about the outlook for Brazil. The company reported in October that its third-quarter Latin American appliance industry shipments increased 1 percent. Whirlpool had utilized Brazilian government export incentive tax credits (Befiex) in 2002, but did not anticipate using additional credits in the first quarter of 2003.
"Despite an uncertain economic and political outlook for Brazil, the operation's ongoing focus on its brands and customers, efforts to increase pricing, and benefits from restructuring are expected to lead to a continued solid performance," the company said in a statement.
Brazil's participation in the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the Common Market of the South (MERCOSUR) are also incentives for expansion there. At the end of 2001, LG Electronics established an air-conditioner production line at its Manaus plant, with plans to produce 500,000 units a year by 2003, and to promote the plant as the base for its entry to Central and South America. The company said that preference for Asian brands has been on the rise in Central and South America, providing a good foundation for independent entry to these markets.
Movement in Mexico
In a budget proposal to the U.S. Congress, Mexico predicted a 3-percent increase in its 2003 economy. While analysts say this is a reasonable forecast, the potential increase is largely dependent on the economy of the U.S., since about 85 percent of Mexico's exports are sent to the U.S., according to Bloomberg News.
Another concern that is evolving in Mexico is that although many companies, such as Whirlpool and Maytag, have expanded efforts there, partially due to low labor costs, other companies are moving to the even less costly labor of China.
According to a Bloomberg News article, Mexican factory workers earn about U.S. $3,300 a year without bonuses and benefits, while skilled Chinese laborers earn about $2,000. In the first half of 2002, direct foreign investment in Mexico dropped 15 percent to $6.1 billion, while investment in China rose 19 percent to $24.6 billion, according to China's Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation. This has been attributed in part to China's entry into the World Trade Organization in December 2001 giving China greater access to the U.S. Another reason for the trend is that along with low labor costs and rising productivity, China offers foreign investors a strong base of suppliers, tax breaks, well-trained engineers and managers, and efficient ports, according to the New York Times.
While government figures show that the electronics industry in Mexico has suffered most, with an 8.8 percent drop in production last year, bulky items are likely to stay in Mexico to save on shipping costs, according to the article.
In July 2002, Whirlpool Corp. acquired Vitromatic S.A. de C.V., which is said to be Mexico's second largest appliance maker and distributor. Maytag also stepped up Mexico efforts by establishing an additional subassembly operation in Reynosa, Mexico to support its U.S. appliance operations and expand its ongoing cost competitive initiatives. Maytag's major appliance division President William L. Beer said, "Our expansion in Reynosa is a logical extension of our ongoing cost reduction initiatives in manufacturing, procurement, and distribution."
In October, Maytag announced it would close a refrigeration-parts plant in Galesburg, IL, U.S., and open a new refrigeration production facility in Reynosa in late 2003. "The changes that we intend to make in our refrigeration business are critical to improving our profitability in the very competitive appliance marketplace," said Mr. Beer.
The Latin American Outlook
Other countries within the Latin American region face their own struggles. Venezuela faces political conflict over the leftist rule of President Hugo Chavez and a steep recession. While Chile has seen an abrupt fall of its peso, the signing of free trade agreements with the European Union and South Korea in 2002 are expected to help with a rebound.
Although economic activity in Argentina was up nine-tenths of a percent in August, Argentina continues to fight to get out of its deepest economic depression in 100 years, according to the Voice of America (VOA), an international multimedia broadcasting service funded by the U.S. Government. At the Whirlpool refrigerator plant in the western province of San Luis, production has been reduced to one 8-hr shift. "Things may begin to move by next April, if this slight pickup of the economy continues, and if the exchange rate remains stable," Whirlpool general manager Victor Mario told VOA. He also said that because of a peso devaluation, his plant has begun buying its parts domestically instead of importing them, which, in turn has stimulated the rise of Whirlpool suppliers.
Signs of improvement such as that are surfacing throughout Argentina and the whole Latin American region. And despite their vulnerabilities, Latin American countries are expected to continue to see slow, moderate growth in 2003.
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PerformancePoint CTP4 is now available as of yesterday on the Connect download site.
Courtesy of Microsoft, here are the new feature lists.
PerformancePoint Planning
· Business Rule Templates. Several additional rule templates have been added.
· PPSCmd. The command-line tool had some additions to provide ability for scripting of overall system processes. For example, the ability to deploy and reprocess models and data.
· Migration. Additional feature work was done to enable migration of an application between two server environments.
· Jobs. Improved user experience for executing and managing jobs.
· Data Types. Dimension member properties now support more data types.
· Offline Cache. Improved management of locally cached objects.
· Templates. Additional report templates have been added.
· Review and Approval. Reviewers and Approvers can now manage submissions through a single dialog. Support has been added for bulk operations.
· Filters. Form and report filters now support dimension properties.
· Performance. Several changes were made to improve overall server performance. Additionally, Financial Job and calculations have specific performance enhancements.
· System Information. Error message reporting and system logging has been improved from prior releases.
· Associations. Improved capabilities for working with complex associations. Better performance handling large associations and movement of large data set.
· Security. Public interfaces have improved resistance to any potentially malicious attacks.
PerformancePoint Monitoring
· OLAP View Sorting/Filtering. Users can now sort (by column) and filter empty rows/columns in Analytic Charts and Grids.
· OLAP View Types. Users can now switch between grids and charts and also change chart types (includes bar charts, stacked bar charts, stacked 100% bar charts, line charts and combined bar/line charts).
· OLAP Member Properties in Grid. Users can now add attributes of a member into the OLAP grid.
· Cell Level Actions. Users can now see the cell level actions behind a value in an OLAP grid or chart.
· Export to PowerPoint. SharePoint users can now export dashboard views to Microsoft Office PowerPoint.
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Definitions for identifyaɪˈdɛn təˌfaɪ, ɪˈdɛn-
This page provides all possible meanings and translations of the word identify
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
i•den•ti•fyaɪˈdɛn təˌfaɪ, ɪˈdɛn-(v.)-fied, -fy•ing.
(v.t.)to recognize or establish as being a particular person or thing; verify the identity of.
to serve as a means of identification for.
to regard or treat as the same or identical; make identical.
to associate, as in name, feeling, interest, or action:
They identified him with the old regime.
to determine to what group (a given biological specimen) belongs.
Category: Biology
to associate (one or oneself) with another person or a group by identification.
Category: Psychology
(v.i.)to experience psychological identification:
The audience identified with the main character.
Category: Psychology
Origin of identify:
1635–45; < ML identificāre, der. of identitās identity
Princeton's WordNet
identify, place(verb)
recognize as being; establish the identity of someone or something
"She identified the man on the 'wanted' poster"
name, identify(verb)
give the name or identifying characteristics of; refer to by name or some other identifying characteristic property
"Many senators were named in connection with the scandal"; "The almanac identifies the auspicious months"
consider (oneself) as similar to somebody else
"He identified with the refugees"
conceive of as united or associated
"Sex activity is closely identified with the hypothalamus"
identify, discover, key, key out, distinguish, describe, name(verb)
identify as in botany or biology, for example
consider to be equal or the same
"He identified his brother as one of the fugitives"
Kernerman English Learner's Dictionary
identify(verb)ɪˈdɛn təˌfaɪ, ɪˈdɛn-
to recognize
We identified three species of fungus growing in the area.; Witnesses were able to identify the gunman.
identifyɪˈdɛn təˌfaɪ, ɪˈdɛn-
to find out or name
We identified the problem and discussed possible solutions
To establish the identity of someone or something.
To establish the taxonomic classification of an organism.
To equate two or more things.
To have a strong affinity with; to feel oneself to be modelled on or connected to.
To associate oneself with some group.
To claim an identity; to describe oneself as a member of a group; to assert the use of a particular term to describe oneself.
To map a number of points to one.
Origin: From identifier, from + facio.
Webster Dictionary
to make to be the same; to unite or combine in such a manner as to make one; to treat as being one or having the same purpose or effect; to consider as the same in any relation
to establish the identity of; to prove to be the same with something described, claimed, or asserted; as, to identify stolen property
to become the same; to coalesce in interest, purpose, use, effect, etc
"Identify" is a pop–ballad written by Billy Corgan and performed by Natalie Imbruglia for the soundtrack to the film Stigmata. The track was released as a single from the soundtrack on 22 March 1999. The single was only released promotionally, and was therefore ineligible to chart. The track also appears on the Taiwanese edition of Imbruglia's debut studio album Left of the Middle, and later as a bonus track on the Japanese version of her greatest hits compilation, Glorious: The Singles 1997-2007.
British National Corpus
Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'identify' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2095
Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'identify' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2299
Verbs Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'identify' in Verbs Frequency: #172
Translations for identify
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary
to recognize as being a certain person etc
Would you be able to identify the man who robbed you?; He identified the coat as his brother's.
- identifiseerAfrikaans
- يَتَعَرَّف على ، يُثْبِت هويَّةArabic
- идентифицирамBulgarian
- identificarPortuguese (BR)
- identifikovatCzech
- identifizierenGerman
- identificere; genkendeDanish
- αναγνωρίζωGreek
- identificarSpanish
- ära tundmaEstonian
- شناسایی کردن؛ تشخیص دادنFarsi
- tunnistaaFinnish
- identifierFrench
- לְזָהוֹתHebrew
- पहचाननाHindi
- identificiratiCroatian
- felismerHungarian
- mengenaliIndonesian
- þekkja, bera kennsl áIcelandic
- identificareItalian
- 確認するJapanese
- 신원을 확인하다Korean
- identifikuoti, atpažinti, nustatytiLithuanian
- identificēt, atpazītLatvian
- mengenaliMalay
- identificerenDutch
- identifisere, kjenne igjenNorwegian
- rozpoznaćPolish
- شناسایی کردن؛ تشخیص دادنPersian
- تشخيصول، هويت څرګندول: يوشان ثابتول يوډول كولPashto
- identificarPortuguese
- a identificaRomanian
- опознаватьRussian
- identifikovaťSlovak
- prepoznatiSlovenian
- identifikovatiSerbian
- identifieraSwedish
- พิสูจน์ว่าเป็นคนเดียวกันThai
- tanımak, kimliğini saptamakTurkish
- 認出Chinese (Trad.)
- розпізнавати, пізнаватиUkrainian
- شناخت کرناUrdu
- nhận ra; nhận dạngVietnamese
- 认出Chinese (Simp.)
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Eutaw is the county seat of Greene County and is located in west-central Alabama in the Black Belt region. It was a center of commerce during the plantation era and is home to a large number of historic structures from the period, many of which are on the National Register of Historic Places. The city is named for the Battle of Eutaw Springs, a decisive battle in the American Revolution in which troops led by war hero Nathaniel Greene (for whom the county is named) recaptured Charleston, South Carolina, from the British. The Eutaw Formation, a geologic feature that underlies parts of Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi, is named for Eutaw because it is most greatly exposed at the surface near the city. The formation contains numerous Upper Cretaceous fossils, including dinosaurs and sea-dwelling mosasaurs.
The town of Eutaw was settled around the same time that Greene County itself was created on December 13, 1819, and was originally known as Mesopotamia. In 1838, the county moved its seat of government from Erie to Eutaw to escape the flooding and disease that plagued the original county seat. The city agreed to change its name to Eutaw to honor the Revolutionary War victory. The town and its surrounding territory were originally settled by planters and merchants; during the first half of the nineteenth century, Eutaw was a commercial center of the cotton and shipping industry because of its location near the Warrior River. A company of soldiers from the town, known as the Eutaw Rangers, participated in the Battle of Vera Cruz during the Mexican-American War of 1846-48. In 1870, the town was the site of what has come to be known as the Eutaw Riot, in which a large group of disaffected black Republican voters were attacked by a party of white men belonging to the Ku Klux Klan. The event helped to tip the elections that year toward the Democratic Party.
During Reconstruction and its aftermath, Eutaw's economy suffered a serious decline, with a significant portion of its workforce employed as sharecroppers. By the mid-twentieth century, Greene County was one of the poorest counties in Alabama, and local businesses were subject to boycotts by African American residents during the civil rights movement. The city drew positive media attention in 1970, when African Americans were elected to a majority of the seats on the Greene County Board of Education, headquartered in Eutaw, and on the Eutaw City Council.
Eutaw's population at the time of the 2010 Census was 13,137. Of that number, 18.1 percent identified themselves as white, 80.2 percent as African American, 1.3 percent as Hispanic, 0.6 percent as two or more races, 0.4 percent as Asian, and 0.1 percent as Native American. The city's median household income was $29,196, and per capita income was $14,126.
The workforce in present-day Eutaw is divided among the following occupational categories:
· Educational services, and health care and social assistance (20.9 percent)
· Arts, entertainment, recreation, and accommodation and food services (20.3 percent)
· Manufacturing (17.2 percent)
· Transportation and warehousing and utilities (11.6 percent)
· Professional, scientific, management, and administrative and waste management services (10.6 percent)
· Retail trade (6.4 percent)
· Finance, insurance, and real estate, rental, and leasing (5.4 percent)
· Construction (5.9 percent) Retail trade (4.4 percent)
· Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting, and extractive (2.6 percent)
· Public administration (0.6 percent)
Eutaw schools are administered by the Greene County School System. The city has one elementary school, one middle school, and one high school serving approximately 1,300 students and employing approximately 80 teachers. The city also has a vocational school and a private non-sectarian K-12 school.
Eutaw is served by U.S. Highways 11 and 43, which run north-south through the city, and State Highway 14, which runs east-west and connects the city to nearby Interstate 20/59. Eutaw Municipal Airport serves general aviation.
Events and Places of Interest
Visitors interested in historic homes and architecture will find a wealth of structures in Eutaw, including the Coleman-Banks House (1847). The Greene County Courthouse Square Historic District has a particularly high number of historically significant structures. Each October, the Greene County Historical Society hosts the Eutaw Pilgrimage, during which many of the privately owned historic homes are opened up to the public. The society, housed in the historic Vaughan-Morrow House, operates a museum there related to town history. In August, the town hosts the annual Black Belt Roots Festival, which features blues and gospel performances, crafts, handmade quilts, and food.
Claire M. Wilson
Auburn University
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|Hi All,
I have been on this site for about 6 months now and I thought it was time I posted MY pools specs. We are in the middle of our build (began in Sept and sat all winter) and I am being told they will be back out tomorrow to start the spring work (not holding my breath). Now, if someone would explain to me how to post pics on this site I will be happy to show my pools progress. We are so excited for the completion of this project that we have been dreaming about for years. We are located between Baltimore and DC but my PB is out of Frederick, MD. All the pool equipment will sit on a concrete pad behind a "shed"/"pool storage house" that I bought.
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- Posted by megankheaps (My Page) on Sun, Mar 13, 11 at 17:33
|Did I see only one set of drains in the spa? Typically, with two different levels of loops, you need two pumps, one per loop. Two air sources are also normal, such as two blowers. This is because it is next to impossible to get the jets balanced with a single pump and two loops. Twelve jets is a lot to ask of one pump. Are the drains plumbed to a 2.5" line back to the equipment pad?
The slide specs and drawing don't seem to match.
The stone, coping and tile look very sharp and well done.
- Posted by megankheaps (My Page) on Sun, Mar 13, 11 at 22:16
|We just upgraded the slide within the last 3 weeks and the drawing was done in Aug. so it is not correct. The fire pit is not on the drawing either. The drawing was done for the 15' 5" slide. We are not sure exactly how the patio will be laid out yet either but we were quoted for 1300sq ft. They told me they would lay it out well in advance so I can move it if I would like more or less in a certain area.
As for the other questions I am not 100% sure. We told him we wanted the maximum amount of jets that we can have on that pump and still get max. pressure. There are pipes sticking out of the back of the spa with a separate valve, if that answers your question. I will have to get a pic of the back of the spa and post it. They have 2 valves under pressure at this time. One is out of the spa and one out of the deep end. The pad has not been laid yet and trenches have not yet been dug so I don't know about the line. They are planning to come out tomorrow to begin grading the dirt. We had 3+'" of rain here last week and it is still really wet. I have a shed that I bought that they need to place. All the eqip. will go behind the shed. My husbands biggest pet peeve is being able to see the eqip. in plain view.
Before I added the fire pit and larger slide he was telling me they had about 14 days of physical labor left, not counting permit checks. I was hoping to have it done by April 15th but between rain and other factors I don't see that happening. I really need time to get out and landscape before the pool party season begins. We have a grass service so we don't want any grass inside the fenced in area. We have a lot of work to do.
I was so happy with the spa stone. I was shocked when the were using individual stones. I assumed it would be stone veneer. The fire pit will have the same stone. As you can see they ran out of coping for around the spa but they will be back to do the fire pit coping so they will finish then.
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- Posted by megankheaps (My Page) on Wed, Jul 13, 11 at 16:13
|Sorry the above pics show me as signed in differently. It is all the same pool. I was not paying attention when I posted and didn't sign in to my account.
|megankheaps...turned out great!
The football sliding pics are hilarious...who did your slide...slidescapes or dolphin...ours is slidescapes and looks similar in construction with a couple small differences...just curious if these are changes that have been made since we installed ours in 2007 or just a different company design.
- Posted by megankheaps (My Page) on Wed, Jul 13, 11 at 18:52
|Trhought-our slide is a Dolphin in medium grey and it is 32'. There is still some tweeking that needs to be done to the slide but it the PB being anal, which is ok with me. I just don't notice the problems that he sees.
|megankheaps...Thanks...yeah...there is a lot to these type of slides...small things I noticed, but that is me being anal also...I'm familiar with these type of slides since I installed ours and have hands on knowledge...ours is 72 feet and beige but the actual slide segments look identical in design to yours.
|How are the spa's jets?
|Hi! You have my dream pool! I am in the process of getting quotes for an inground pool and I am in central, MD. Can you tell me who installed your pool and if you were happy with the process?? I am so nervous about hiring the wrong people. I have read so many nightmare stories about different companies. Thank you!
- Posted by banana_fanna (My Page) on Tue, Jul 19, 11 at 23:02
|It looks great. Congratulations! Someone in a football helmet ought to get a framed copy of that pic for his birthday. Sooo funny.
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