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Simmons First National Corp. of Pine Bluff and Arvest Bank of Fayetteville have come forward as bidders for Metropolitan National Bank of Little Rock, according to legal notices and documents filed this week.
Simmons First has submitted a bid of at least $16.9 million to acquire Metropolitan National Bank of Little Rock, the minimum required to overbid the "stalking horse" bidder, Ford Financial Fund II of Dallas, the according to a document filed Wednesday with the U.S. Securties & Exchange Commission. Arvest's intention to bid was apparently filed with the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis sometime last week and disclosed in a legal notice placed in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette's Thursday newspaper.
"Simmons First, if it is successful in its attempt to acquire MNB, will combine the operations of MNB with Simmons First National Bank and continue to provide the highest quality customer service throughout the combined service area," the publicly traded bank holding company told the SEC.
Metropolitan is being offered for sale through the bankruptcy of its holding company, Rogers Bancshares Inc. The historic auction, the first of its kind in Arkansas banking history, starts at 9 a.m. Sept. 9. A hearing before Bankruptcy Judge James Mixon is scheduled for Sept. 12 to consider approval of the winning bid.
It is unclear if any other companies have submitted bids. As a publicly traded company, Simmons is required to notify the SEC of any "material event" that investors should know about.
Arvest, the largest bank chartered in Arkansas, is privately held. The legal notice did include a dollar figure, sating only that Arvest "intends to apply to the Federal Reserve Board for permission to merge with Metropolitan National Bank."
Simmons, Arvest and any other bidders will compete for Metropolitan against Ford Financial Fund II, a $750 million investment fund out of Dallas led by Gerald J. Ford and Carl B. Webb, which has offered $16 million for 100 percent of the bank's stock. Metropolitan announced Ford's offer in July.
As the stalking horse in the bankruptcy reorganization, Ford Financial will have the opportunity to match a more favorable bid submitted by other entities. If Ford ends up being outbid, Rogers Bancshares will have to pay Ford a $640,000 "break-up fee," which will also require the judge's approval.
The Metropolitan auction comes after years of suffering from problem loans in northwest Arkansas, which led to almost $100 million in losses beginning in 2008. The bank remains under a supervisory agreement with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, filed in May 2008.
Metropolitan had worked since 2009 to find a partner to recapitalize the bank. Other banks also circled, conducting due diligence to possibly make an acquisition offer or be prepared to buy should the bank fail and the FDIC swoop in.
Ultimately, the bank reached a deal with the Ford Fund. On July 30, the fund said that, in addition to the $16 million in cash it offered for Metropolitan, it planned to make a $74.2 million capital contribution to the bank — enough to recapitalize it to the level required by federal regulators.
Metropolitan had assets of $1.03 billion and equity capital of $65.7 million as of March 31. It reported net income $1.28 million in the second quarter of 2013, $662,000 in the first quarter and $761,000 in the fourth quarter of 2012.
Simmons First National is a $3.6 billion financial holding company with 91 offices in 54 communities, in Arkansas, Kansas and Missouri.
Simmons, which trades on the Nasdaq exchange under the symbol SFNC, has made no secret of its desire to grow through acquisition. Last year, it won a bid to acquire Excel Bank in Sedalia, Mo., in an FDIC-assisted deal. It made two FDIC-assisted acquisitions in 2010, one in Springfield, Mo., and one in the Kansas City suburb of Olathe, Kan.
With assets exceeding $11 billion, Arvest is the largest bank in Arkansas. Owned by Wal-Mart founders the Walton family, it has more than 240 locations that are part of 16 locally managed banks in in Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and Kansas.
Earlier this year, Arvest closed on its purchase of 29 bank branches in four states, including Arkansas, from Bank of America Corp.


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Patient and Tumor Characteristics can Predict Non-Diagnostic Renal Mass Biopsy Findings. J Urol. 2014 Dec 10;
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Volumetric Analysis of Colonic Distention According to Patient Position at CT Colonography: Diagnostic Value of the Right Lateral Decubitus Series. AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2014 Dec;203(6):W623-8
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Early Small-Bowel Ischemia: Dual-Energy CT Improves Conspicuity Compared with Conventional CT in a Swine Model. Radiology. 2014 Nov 26;:140875
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Evaluation of a Thermoprotective Gel for Hydrodissection During Percutaneous Microwave Ablation: In Vivo Results. Cardiovasc Intervent Radiol. 2014 Nov 14;
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Lubner MG Ziemlewicz TJ Hinshaw JL Lee FT Jr Sampson LA Brace CL .
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Primary malignant tumors of peritoneal and retroperitoneal origin: clinical and imaging features. Surg Oncol Clin N Am. 2014 Oct;23(4):821-45
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Moreland AJ Ziemlewicz TJ Best SL Hinshaw JL Lubner MG Alexander ML Brace CL Kitchin DR Hedican SP Nakada SY Lee FT Jr Abel EJ .
High-powered microwave ablation of t1a renal cell carcinoma: safety and initial clinical evaluation. J Endourol. 2014 Sep;28(9):1046-52
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Percutaneous tumor ablation tools: microwave, radiofrequency, or cryoablation--what should you use and why? Radiographics. 2014 Sep-Oct;34(5):1344-62
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Kitchin D Lubner M Ziemlewicz T Hinshaw JL Alexander M Brace CL Lee F .
Microwave ablation of malignant hepatic tumours: intraperitoneal fluid instillation prevents collateral damage and allows more aggressive case selection. Int J Hyperthermia. 2014 Aug;30(5):299-305
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Prospective evaluation of prior image constrained compressed sensing (PICCS) algorithm in abdominal CT: a comparison of reduced dose with standard dose imaging. Abdom Imaging. 2014 Jun 19;
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Volumetric evaluation of hepatic tumors: multi-vendor, multi-reader liver phantom study. Abdom Imaging. 2014 Jun;39(3):488-96
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Raptis CA Mellnick VM Raptis DA Kitchin D Fowler KJ Lubner M Bhalla S Menias CO .
Imaging of trauma in the pregnant patient. Radiographics. 2014 May-Jun;34(3):748-63
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Kim DH Hinshaw JL Lubner MG Munoz del Rio A Pooler BD Pickhardt PJ .
Contrast coating for the surface of flat polyps at CT colonography: a marker for detection. Eur Radiol. 2014 Apr;24(4):940-6
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Patel SR Wagner LE Lubner MG Nakada SY .
Radiopacity and hounsfield attenuation of cystine urolithiasis: case series and review of the literature. J Endourol. 2014 Apr;28(4):472-5
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ScoutAnalytics currently works with NASDAQ and Internal Securities Inc. ŌĆ£WeŌĆÖre trying to increase revenue per reader by looking at loyalty and trying to monetize that loyalty,ŌĆØ says senior vice president of marketing and strategy Matt Shanahan.
The formula is simple: take the publicationŌĆÖs revenue and divide it by audience size, similar to the mobile phone industryŌĆÖs Average Revenue Per User metrics. ŌĆ£This is a quick, easy metric to figure out if this business is on track and how is it benchmarked against other people,ŌĆØ says Shanahan. ŌĆ£Immediately you would say, ŌĆśWait a second, thereŌĆÖs all kinds of different revenue streams,ŌĆÖ and we agree. But the fundamental thing the publisher is monetizing is the audience. If youŌĆÖre selling audience circulation data, youŌĆÖre monetizing the audience. If youŌĆÖre charging subscriptions, youŌĆÖre monetizing the audience. If youŌĆÖre selling impressions to the advertiser, youŌĆÖre monetizing the audience. We try not to worry about channels such as print versus digital. Where print versus digital comes into play is print has much higher overhead.ŌĆØ
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1.1.7 update of Smurfs' Village players at level 19 or higher are introduced to Dreamy Smurf and the S.S. Smurf II ship. Once unlocked, users are able to travel to a remote island where they can start a second village. Although these additions to the game are extremely exciting it will require a large amount of coins and time in order to start your own smurf island. This guide will help you in the process of transitioning from the mainland to the tropics.
Whether you're beyond level 19 or nowhere close, it's important to prepare early. Everything on the Island will cost twice as much including select crops. Players need a minimum of 50,000 coins before venturing into the high seas. I started out with a little over 56,000 coins and regretted not having more. Boost income by growing short length crops that have higher coin profits. A few good crops that quickly earn for less are raspberries, blackberries, and brussel sprouts. Blueberries are a time-tested favorite for generating free coins. When you're actively playing try to plant as many as you can. Another excellent method to attain wealth is by growing golden corn. Anyone who has purchased the harvest wagon in the Smurf Shop will have access to this specialty crop. Golden corn yields a 154 coin profit per plot. It takes 10 hours to ripen allowing players the opportunity to plant them twice a day. Special items like the wishing well and clothes line are also considered great extras to have when accumulating coins.
The first task on the empty isle is to add a smurf hut. Go ahead and plant several. You'll need the smurfs later. Adding garden plots to allow farming is next. Similar to when you first started out in Smurfs' Village space on the island is limited. Players begin with a small area of grassland and sand that can be expanded as they progress. An integral part of island life is exploring. Many of the quests will require players to send their smurfs out to explore the sea and search for supplies. Papa Smurf will request users to build a rafting hut and to send out a raft. Multiple rafts can be owned but it requires players to upgrade their raft hut. Although the hut only costs 400 coins to build, to upgrade it takes 10,000 coins and the price doubles each time. It's wise to have at least two rafts or more at your disposal since quests will often come from multiple smurfs that might need to set sail.
Remember, your main village will still have quests and need upkeep. A tap on the S.S. Smurf II ship will take players back and forth between both smurf locales. This new feature will require users to continually build and manage both villages. Papa Smurf, Dreamy Smurf, and Brainy Smurf will be commuting. The population on the island is counted separate from the main village. Players have to slowly re-populate the island as they expand it. A player's level, coins, XP, and Smurfberries stay the same.
When you have a handful of mushroom homes, a decent size garden going, and at least two rafts connected to your hut your island is well on its way.
Hi! I have a problem in smurf island! Papasmurf tells me to build a new hut but when I try to build it said all my smurfs are busy… I wait and then nothing… what must can I do? Thanks for your time
You have to have a free smurf in order to build the hut. Either cancel a crop you are growing or wait until they are finished doing whatever task they are on and then build the hut.
No I don't have any smurf free… Only Papasmurf, Brainy and Captain smurf! I don't know what to do… many months…
You need to open a ticket with Beeline at http://beeline-i.com/support.php
Hi, sporty smurf ask me to tap the portrait to the left what does it mean?
Tap the icon of Sporty Smurf so you can see where he is on the island. Then tap Sporty on the island to get the quest he has for you.
Papa Smurf gives me a quest to "add a Smurf Hut". I purchased a Small Pink Hut (the one with Papa Smurf's icon next to it) twice, so that now I can't get any more before advancing to lv. 21.
But nothing happened! Papa still asks me to "add a Smurf Hut"! How can I mark this quest as complete?
The quest will only complete when the hut has finished building, have you only placed it or is the hut finished already? If it is the later, this seems to be a bug and you should contact Beeline about it.
Papa smurf has told me to tap the ship to start an island but there is no ship i haven't got the extra land and I have no beach please help
Build a large wooden bridge over the left river
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Other side. Beach side?
Ive already built a hut and upgraded it, but its nothing happen, when i click on papa smurf he still ask me on the same thing, ask me to built a hut. but i already built the hut.. :'(
Papa's face icon will be on the hut he wants you to build. Make sure you are building the right one. Also, tap Papa and tap ok to the quest before building another hut.
What does the blueprint voyage. Du
It gives you a chance to earn a blueprint found in Handy's shop. Blueprints are required for hut customizations.
I have been trying to figure out which flowers to plant by the raft hut..I tried every one! There are no flowers next to the purple mushroom on my menu (I have a Kindle Fire HD 7"). Please help!
The flowers are labeled "color of the flower tall flower" (example: purple tall flower) and they come in several colors. They cost 150 coins.
Thank u! My flowers aren't labeled but they were on my daughter's Nexus so thank u again!
YouNre very welcome.
Hi, every time I try to build the raft hut it says that I cannot build it regardless of where I place it and a phantom raft hut will appear next to the boat but disappears once I cancel. Please help!
The raft hut will change from red highlight to green highlight when you have it in the right spot. Make sure your beach is clear of decorations and mushroom huts. It needs to sit on the edge of the beach in the water above where Dreamy's ship docks. The island starts to curve left at that spot.
Also when placing the raft hut….I had to line up the two images exactly within each other.
i m at level 23, it says send out a raft. lets send a smurf to delivery my letter! send out a raft for 24 hours.
i have 4 rafts but they are not going anywhere when i touch them. what to do???
when you tap the rafts, do you see the menu pop up to choose which raft voyage to send out?
hi!, nabila again. i am at level 23 and i m in the island…. a surprise bottle asking Dreamy needs some supplies for S.S ll. Send 4 smurfs.
Quests complete 0/4
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i seriously need help in this
I replied to your other comment on this same topic. Pleasw submit your questions and commets only once, as duplicates take time away from helping others.
hi!, nabila again. i am at level 23 and i m in the island…. a surprise bottle asking Dreamy needs some supplies for S.S ll. Send 4 smurfs.
Quests complete 0/4
2 days 1 hour left!
i seriously need ans to this asap!
the problems with MIAB began late last week. Beeline needs to provide a fix for it, which we hope will be soon. You may certainly open a ticket with Beeline if you like at http://beeline-i.com/support.php
Please help Beeline week ago I sent two rafts which have not yet returned. please help quickly greet
FYi, this is a fan site not affiliated with Beeline. You might want to recover your village data. Go to Options, tap Papa's head 16 times. Tap Recover Village. Your backups should appear. Go through them and see if you can get your rafts.
I have been told by slouchy to put some flowers by the raft hut and I have but he is telling to to keeping doing it help me what do I have to do
Ignore it for now.
I have been told by slouchy to put some flowers by the raft hut butt which 1 doe's he needs ?
I guess anyone
I have build the raft hut and upgrade it. Now i have 4 rafts and another upgrade will coast 10 smurfberrys did i get with the upgrade 1 or 2 rafts?????? (I cant remember if i paid for the other upgrades berrys or not). How many rafts can be maximum bought?
The maximum number of rafts is 5. You get one raft per upgrade, as far as I remember the first to upgrades are available for coins, the last two for Smurfberries (5 and 10)
Hi, i'm a loyal fans of Smurf Village game and had been following this games since day one. But currently i had a problem with the raft hut. I've built and upgraded my raft hut till i had 3 rafts. However, the 3 rafts sent out did not return for almost 3 months time. Hence, i upgraded the raft hut again in order to complete some of the mission. Currently i had 5 rafts but only two working rafts. The other 3 never return till now. What is the problem with this situtation? Beeline, please help me on this. As i'm really into this game and i love smurfs very much. Thanks in advance.
Beeline cannot give you your missing rafts back. It's too late to recover them so I'm affraid you lost them.
I don't about 25.00 on smurfberries and progressed quite far in my village then the game crashed and I ha to restart the game, all of my smurfberries and progress failed to reload and I had to start from the beginning. I wouldn't mind but I spent a fair amount of real money on this game. Any ideas how to get smurfberries back?
You should open a ticket with Beeline support. You should provide the receipt transaction numbers for the smurfberries. Explain what happened and that you weren't able to recover your game data. I hope they are able to help. Here's their url: http://beeline-i.com/support.php
I just got the island and papa smurf said to build the raft hut, so I did and before it was done I went back to the main village and now I don't know how to go back on the island because I don't have a boat.
What should I do?
How long does it take to build the raft hut?
Papasmurf tells me to visit the island by tapping the ship but theres no ship to tap, what do i do?


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This statue of Beecher sits in Columbus Park in front of Brooklyn Borough Hall. The figure was designed by John Quincy Adams Ward (best known for his George Washington in front of Federal Hall) and dedicated in 1891, just four years after Beecher's death. The pedestal here is no less austere; it was designed by Ward's frequent collaborator Richard Morris Hunt, who had recently worked on a significantly bigger pedestal -- for the Statue of Liberty.
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The Foothills Falcons made a statement at a girls high school basketball tournament this weekend. That statement was: "We belong at the 4A high school provincials."
The Falcons finished in third-place at the Bobcat Bowl at Bishop O'Byrne High School in Calgary — knocking off a pair of ranked 4A schools along the way.
Foothills outlasted the Sir Winston Churchill Bulldogs — the seventh ranked team in the province — 56-53 in the bronze medal game Saturday.
Foothills found themselves behind 27-23 at halftime, but they didn't panic.
"I told the girls: 'Hey, you know what it takes to win and what we need to do to get it done," Falcons coach Lana Gwilliam said. "When we needed a big stop and the end, the girls came through and pulled it out."
The Falcons spread their scoring around evenly. Grade 11 guard Lauren Bailey and point guard Kennedy Burgess led the team with 11 points. Tournament all-star post Kalli Turbach crashed the boards with eight rebounds, and contributed eight points. The Grade 12 post said it was a big win for the Falcons.
"We all knew we had to work together and get a lot of stops — our defence played very well on that front," said the five-foot-10 Turbach. She said with the Falcons going to provincials at the end of March, it is a huge confidence boost.
"We are going to provincials to compete, not just to show up," Turbach said. "Our league doesn't have any 4A teams, so to beat these teams in tournaments is really important for us."
Foothills opened the tournament by bouncing the William Aberhart Orange 52-51 Friday night. Aberhart has earned an honourable mention in the rankings.
"We had lost to Aberhart earlier in the year so that was big to get that win over them," Gwilliam said.
Turbach had another monster game under the boards, snaring 14 rebounds to go with her six points. McCarthy had a team-high 13 points. Mariah Hoare also finished in double digits with 10 points.
Burgess also had 10 points.
The Falcons appear to like the colour orange a whole lot more than blue.
The Falcons only loss was to the Paul Kane Blues 66-41 in the semifinal Saturday morning. Foothills played like they had set their clocks ahead a few weeks before daylight savings. They seemed to be an hour behind.
Foothills fell behind 22-2 in the opening quarter.
"We started slow and the girls were kind of tired, but I told the girls you have to come out and play every game — hey, the other team played at the same time," Gwilliam said. "We came back and actually cut it down to 10 points in the third quarter."
However, there's a reason the winner of the marathon doesn't usually find herself six miles back in the race. It's tiring to catch up.
"When you are down for most of the game it is tough to mentally do the little things you need to do to come back," Gwilliam said.
"We made some little mistakes in the fourth quarter and before you knew it, we were down by 20 points."
Burgess led the Falcons with 12 points.
Gwilliam wasn't singing the blues after the tournament as they prepare for provincials.
"To be able to beat some of these good teams, it's good to see," Gwilliam said. "We have played well against good 4A teams before and just weren't able to finish them. This weekend, we were able to finish two out of three."
The Falcons resumed Foothills Athletic Council play last night by downing the Highwood Mustangs 67-36 Monday in High River. The Falcons are a perfect 6-0 in FAC play.
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Planning for the most complicated scenario
I'm already super-duper excited about and planning for my very first Disney cruise in Sept. 2015 to Alaska. This will be my 30th birthday gift to myself so I'm planning on splurging big time and booking a Royal Suite. We also have some extended family who will be joining us although the exact numbers are still to be determined so I'm trying to sort out as many details as I can by imagining the most complicated scenario possible and preparing for it so anything less will seem like a piece of cake! While we are all seasoned cruisers with another line, we are still trying to figure out all the details of how things work with Disney. As this is "my project" I'm the one responsible for getting it sorted out and making sure everyone know what to do and how/when/where to do it!
At this point, my "most complicated" scenario will involve DH and I plus a few other family members in the Royal Suite. DH's parents and grandmother in a verandah room, and DH's step-sister and her two boys in an inside room. The ideal would be for the parents and step-sister to be across the hall from one another. DH's grandmother is to the age where standing or walking for too long is difficult and uses a wheelchair (her "chariot") when traveling. I'm going to be booking all of the rooms at the same time so I'm assuming we would have the same booking number (although I recognize that may be an incorrect assumption!). We will be staying at the PanPacific at least one night before the cruise so in theory that should at least help with having to haul all everyone's stuff for check-in.
I know the policy on Carnival is that if, even if you are in separate staterooms and only one of those has VIP status, as long as you are on the same shipboard account you can check in together through VIP. Does the same apply to Disney? Would we be allowed to check in together if we're all on the same booking number but use different charge accounts? And if we do all have to check in separately and they can't go through the concierge line with us, can we at least all board together? I would never ask/expect them to be able to board with us as concierge, but will we be allowed to wait on them? I would assume we could but you never know! If we do end up needing to wait, would we be better off getting in line very early and waiting to board or would it be better to wait until at least 12 and hope we could all get on together fairly quickly? From what I have read (and assuming nothing changes in the next two years) one of the "perks" of staying there pre-cruise is late check-out so we could hang out in the rooms until we're ready to go down to check in so the whole "getting there" thing isn't an issue. I know being in Vancouver and not at Port Canaveral can change things a bit.
Feel free to throw in any helpful info about things I haven't even thought to ask about yet, too!
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DCL no longer allows other staterooms to check-in with the concierge people. Yes, you can delay your check-in to board with the rest of your group.
With that many people going, I would delegate the dooties of booking your reservations to a qualified travel agent to make sure all the reservations get booked correctly. He/she can do that for you the first day the 2015 bookings open, and you won't have to stay on the phone line forever waiting your turn.
Since your grandmother uses a royal carriage, would she prefer a handicapped stateroom?
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Regarding staying at the Pan Pacific, it doesn't get any easier than that! Just notify bell services that you need your bags picked up that morning and they will come get them from your room and take them down to the ship. You will see them next outside your stateroom door.
Everything else addressed above is correct. You will have to wait for the rest of your traveling party's highest boarding number if you want everyone to board together. The same will apply to your booking window for Palo, excursions and the spa. With a large group you may want to look into booking a group tour with a private vendor. There is a great thread about Vancouver here on this forum with lots of great information and feedback from 2011 & 2012 cruises to Alaska on DCL.
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I have used a travel agent before with another line for other family cruises that were much larger (our largest was about 40 people!) and while it worked, I haven't been overly impressed. The last group cruise we did DH and I didn't use the travel agent and I just booked us on our own and everything was actually much quicker and easier, and at the end of the day we were generally happier with what we had and had a better time than everyone else! If anyone has a specific travel agent they've just been absolutely thrilled with I'd love to hear the recommendations but I'm VERY hesitant when it's such a relatively small group.
I figure at most we might have 13, and that's being really hopeful that everyone I want to come with us will be able to! Since we'll only have the three staterooms, I'm going to plan to book them all at one time and pay everyone's deposits so that it's actually one reservation, not simply "linked rooms". I figure the "worst case" would be that it'll just be us and my in-laws and we can all share the suite which would solve all the problems, but a more realistic scenario would be that it'll end up being two rooms and my mother-in-law's attitude will be "well, since we already saved the money for the extra room for them and they can't come, we might as well upgrade and be right by y'all!" which would again solve a lot of things for me!
I've already been spending way too much time reading the Vancouver thread and reviews of various alaska excursions. DH, his parents, and his grandmother all went to Alaska about 10 years ago when his mom and step-dad got married. His grandmother was really sick during most of that cruise so she wants a do-over and I've never been so I'm trying to cross everything off my list of things I want to do while still honoring what DH wants to do. I think the only Disney excursion we'll book will be Liarsville with the characters.
I may or may not already have a folder on my iPad with 10 different documents about the various aspects of this cruise. Nobody can accuse me of being unprepared or uninformed!
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Ok so I can straighten a few things out....... Every single stateroom has its own reservation number regardless of who booked it or paid for it so the only way to recognize existing group is going to be to link them together. Keep in mind if using a TA = RESEARCH THEM FIRST. I am sure there are people on here who could recommend some great TA's. If you think you need more control over your reservation I personally would tell you not to use a TA because they wouldn't be available to you 24/7. Know that once a travel agent has your booking any questions or changes dealing with your reservation have to go through them and not DCL because of contracts they are not allowed to discuss most details of your reservation with you. If you are booking the Royal Suite that is the easiest part of you booking because that only leaves one of two rooms so I would figure out where the inside room needs to be first and then see what kind of categories of staterooms with verandas are available. There are a lot less inside rooms then there are verandas. Your room would not be on the same deck as your other 2 rooms because the only staterooms on the deck you are on is Concierge, Cat 4s and Cat 5s, if you want the other rooms to be near one another. Book early!!! Royal Suites for Alaska cruises and Med cruises go fast as well as handicap accessible rooms as well. Hope some of this helps!! Good luck in your planning!!
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Deck 8 on the Magic/Wonder only have concierge cabins and Category 4 cabins.
OP - what you are looking at doing doesn't qualify for a group booking since that usually involves 8 or more cabins. You would be booking 3 separate cabins that will each have their own confirmation number, that's how DCL does their reservations.
With all this planning you are doing I hope DCL does go back to AK in 2015.
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I'm way ahead of you on scoping out various rooms/categories and have all my preferences appropriately documented!
If Alaska isn't an option by then, I'll have no problem adjusting our plans for a cruise out of Port Canaveral. My priority is celebrating my birthday with Mickey. That would also solve all my people problems because most of our extra people wouldn't go! Oh well, their loss! I'm sure we'll do Alaska one of these days, but if I can't do it with Disney it drops down the priority list.
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BiographyMy research efforts have focused on elucidation of the mechanisms of cytotoxicity and resistance for the antimetabolite class of antineoplastic agents. Specifically, my research group has studied the fluoropyrimidines, 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) and capecitabine, the two most active single agents currently available for the treatment of human colorectal cancer and used in the treatment of a broad range of cancers, including breast and other GI malignancies. Our basic research studies have provided new insights as to how tumors become resistant to the effects of cancer chemotherapy, and his laboratory discovered a novel translational autoregulatory mechanism that controls the expression of the chemotherapeutic target thymidylate synthase. Based on these molecular studies, we are also focused on the design and development of novel treatment approaches for human cancers, with a specific focus on colorectal cancer. I have been actively involved in the clinical translational research of colorectal cancer, and my specific area of research interest has been on clinical drug development for colorectal cancer and other GI malignancies. As part of this effort, I have been actively involved in clinical trials that incorporate Chinese herbal medicines as part of standard cytotoxic chemotherapy in order to modulate clinical activity by reducing toxicity and enhancing efficacy.
I am the founding Editor-in-Chief of the clinical journal Clinical Colorectal Cancer and is the Chairman of the International Colorectal Congress, which is an annual international meeting focusing on the latest developments in the management and treatment of colorectal cancer. In addition, I am the author of the Physician' Cancer Chemotherapy Drug Manual, which is now in its ninth edition, and this drug manual includes a comprehensive review of all of the main drugs and drug regimens currently used in clinical practice for oncology.
I have been actively involved in the clinical translational research of colorectal cancer, and my specific area of research interest has been on clinical drug development for colorectal cancer and other GI malignancies. As part of this effort, I have been actively involved in clinical trials that incorporate Chinese herbal medicines as part of standard cytotoxic chemotherapy in order to modulate clinical activity by reducing toxicity and enhancing efficacy.
- M.D., Brown University , 1983
Selected Publication
- Ju, J., Schmitz, J.C., Song, B., Kudo, K., and Chu, E: Regulation of p53 expression in response to 5-fluorouracil in human cancer RKO cells. Clin Cancer Res 13, 4245-4251, 2007. Schmitz, J.C., Tai, N., and Chu, E. Translational autoregulation of thymidylate synthase and dihydrofolate reductase and therapeutic implications. Frontiers in Biosciences, 2007. Chu, E. and DeVita, V.T.: Principals of Chemotherapy. In: DeVita, V.T., Lawrence, T., and Rosenberg, S.A. (Eds.), Cancer: Principles and Practice of Oncology, Eighth Edition, J.B. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia, 2008 Chu, E. and Cartwright T.H.: The pharmacoeconomic benefits of capecitabine-based chemotherapy in metastatic colorectal cancer. J Clin Oncol, 26, 2224-2226, 2008. DeVita, V.T. Jr., Chu, E.: A history of cancer chemotherapy. Cancer Res 68, 8643-8653, 2008. Saif, M.W., Choma, A., Salamone, S.J., and Chu, E.: Pharmacokinetically-guided dose adjustment of 5-fluorouracil: a rational approach to improving therapeutic outcomes. J Natl Cancer Inst, in press, 2009.
Spring 2007
Colorectal Cancer: Evidence-Based Chemotherapy Strategies
edited by Leonard B. Saltz, M.D., with contributions by Edward Chu, M.D., professor of medicine and pharmacology,...
Winter 2008
Physicians' Cancer Chemotherapy Drug Manual, 2007
by Edward Chu, M.D., professor of medicine (medical oncology) and pharmacology, and Vincent T. DeVita Jr., M.D., HS...
Winter 2008
Pocket Guide to Chemotherapy Protocols, 4th ed.
by Edward Chu, M.D., professor of medicine (medical oncology) and pharmacology (Jones & Bartlett Publishers)...
Autumn 2005
Physicians' Cancer Chemotherapy Drug Manual 2005
by Edward Chu, M.D., professor of medicine (oncology) and pharmacology, and Vincent T. DeVita Jr., M.D., HS '66, the...
Autumn 2006
Cancer Center moves forward after vote by New Haven Board of Aldermen
New Haven's Board of Aldermen cleared the way for the construction of a new cancer facility
Spring 2007
New deputy director at Yale Cancer Center
Edward Chu, M.D., was named deputy director of Yale Cancer Center (YCC), effective January 1. He succeeds José Costa,...
Fall/Winter 2004
Two appointed to Cancer Center posts
Ira Mellman, Ph.D. '78, chair and Sterling Professor of Cell Biology and professor of immunobiology, has been named...
Winter 2010
Making cancer personal
The new Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale-New Haven is built around a new philosophy of patient care.
Autumn 2003
Building a better drug
The rational approach to drug discovery is changing pharmacology, but serendipity and imagination still play a starring...
Spring 2007
From the potion to the pill
By characterizing and quantifying the active ingredients in traditional Chinese herbal remedies, Yale scientists hope...


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August 6, 2010
Congressman Neal Tours Webster Campus
WEBSTER, Mass. - August 6, 2010 - Harrington HealthCare at Hubbard welcomed Congressman Richard Neal to its Webster campus Friday, August 6. The Congressman toured the facility with several members of Harrington administration and sat down for a round table discussion.
"We were proud to show Congressman Neal all the positive changes we have made in Webster," said Ed Moore, Harrington President and CEO. "We have done a tremendous amount in the last 15 months and we are eager to display the improvements and talk about the future."
The Congressman, accompanied by two legislative aides, toured building with four members of Harrington senior administration. The tour began inside the renovated Harrington physician office suite, home to Drs. Jeffrey Cohen, Afshin Nasseri and Nurse Practitioner Heather Briere. Next month, Harrington welcomes a new Internal Medicine and Rheumatology physician, Dr. Charles Mills, to that practice.
The tour also revealed Webster's advanced radiology department, cardiopulmonary services and same-day surgical unit. Harrington administration explained to Congressman Neal the number of improvements and upgrades they have made to the facility since May 2009.
The tour spent considerable time in the Emergency Department area, which Harrington plans to renovate and upgrade in the future. Congressman Neal commented on the importance of a 24/7 emergency facility to the community.
"It's a big deal for the community to identify with the services here," he said.
Emergency Room Physician Brian d'Angona spent several minutes with the Congressman, discussing the wide range of capabilities the department possesses, despite its necessary need for change.
"We do a lot of things very well here," Dr. d'Angona said, highlighting their Stroke Protocol with Mass General Hospital and urgent care patient services. "We want the community to utilize us for their total access of care."
Dr. d'Angona added the campus has wonderful radiology, surgical and laboratory outpatient services, as well as specialty physicians that can consult with patients on obstetrical and orthopedic issues.
In the fall, the Webster ER will be upgraded to an Electronic Medical Records (EMR) system, which will enhance the technology of the unit, as well as offer real-time connections between the Webster and Southbridge facilities.
Congressman Neal commended Harrington on its efforts, not only in Webster but across the Southern Worcester Country region. He toured the Southbridge campus last year, and attended the new Harrington HealthCare at Charlton Grand Opening in May.
"I was stunned," he said. "I couldn't believe the things you had done."


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Route Grade Votings
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14m. Start as for Off With His Head but at the roof step right and pull through just right of the scar to join The Guillotine.
Feels quite independent from Guillotine, and is definitely the way to climb this piece of rock. With the direct start the ordinary gillutine finish feels, err, tough!
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Why You Should Grind Grains Other Than Wheat . . .
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After living in Beijing for nearly three years, I came to understand the importance of soybeans in food storage. The Chinese people first record use of soybeans in 2383 B.C. (...)
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If you're just starting out, building a long-term food storage supply can seem a little overwhelming—but it doesn't have to be. About two years ago we published an article giving you Read More
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DIY SuperPail Step-by-Step
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The Do-It-Yourself SuperPail ™ Combo is an excellent way for you to store your favorite bulk foods in your long-term storage.
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Having food storage of any kind is a step in the right direction--to really make your storage work well for you and your family, think about the things you love to eat on a day-to-day basis, and plan to store ingredients that will make those meals possible. (...)
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America is the land of plenty; a place of security and shelter for its citizens. Would we ever really need to use food storage here? This is a thought-provoking question. Research has shown that the average American household has less than a week's supply of food on hand. (...)
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"What should I buy?" "How much should I store?"
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Lacey Mason, wtop.com
WASHINGTON - As I write this, I'm sitting in the WTOP offices.
But I'm also watching a woman carrying a big red bag get her photo taken at 47th and Broadway in Times Square.
She doesn't know I'm watching her from the little camera tucked away near a sign with twinkling red and yellow lights.
Creepy? Nah, it's fascinating, and the 47th and Broadway camera is one of several in Times Square. It's also part of a worldwide network of cameras seen by people in 192 countries.
Started in 1996, EarthCam became famous for its Times Square cameras, but continued to grow its audience with a webcam network that provides views at Abbey Road Crossing in London and various sites in New York City and Hollywood. Cameras in exotic locales and zoos have been added to EarthCam's collection, and the site eventually earned a "Webby" - the Internet's version of an Emmy.
If you're looking for something cute, one of the most popular cameras EarthCam recommends is none other than the National Zoo's Pandacam.
And, keeping with the animal theme, check out the Peregrine Falcon Cam. (They're so ugly, they're cute).
Click here to see all the animal cams available. There's everything from honey bees and giraffes to puppies and bearded dragons.
A great category: Weird & Bizarre. Some of the cameras in the section even get microscopic.
Some of the cameras that earned EarthCam the illustrious award of being ranked "among the top 1 percent of all websites" - according to EarthCam - are the ones that gave people around the world the ability to watch the new World Trade Center being built after 9/11.
Check out the live cams outside 1 WTC or watch this 10-year time-lapse video of Ground Zero from cleanup and mourning to rebuilding and remembrance. Warning: It's pretty moving.
Though the videos on EarthCam aren't embeddable, the site offers great links to share with friends and even an EarthCam for Kids.
And, hey, if you're planning on being in Times Square sometime soon:
Follow @LaceyWTOP and WTOP on Twitter.
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Music of the Sea Symposium
The Music of the Sea Symposium explores the interaction between sea, music and song. As an integral part of the Museum's annual Sea Music Festival, this two-day collaborative program between Mystic Seaport, the U.S. Coast Guard Academy and the University of Connecticut at Avery Point, explores subjects from history and folklore, to literature and ethnomusicology and many other related topics.
Previous symposium topics have included shipboard work songs, songs of maritime or other occupational trades, songs of rivers and lakes, seafaring cultures and cultural change, ethnicity and ethnic influences, cultural exchanges, ballad and broadside traditions, technology, regional interests, the use of sea music in literature, and popular culture.
The first day of the symposium is free and will be held at the Avery Point campus of the University of Connecticut, 1084 Shennecossett Road, Groton, CT, in the auditorium of the Academic Building.
The second day of the symposium will be held in the Greenmanville Church, Mystic Seaport, 75 Greenmanville Ave., Mystic, CT. The cost of the symposium at Mystic Seaport is included in admission to the 35th Annual Sea Music Festival.
35th Annual Sea Music Symposium Schedule
Friday, June 13, 2014
UConn Avery Point, Auditorium in Academic Building
- 8:30 a.m. Coffee and danish
- 8:50 a.m. Welcome: Moderator Craig Edwards
- 9 a.m. Peter Wood, "Not Bold Nelson's Praise: Songs About Horatio Nelson and Trafalgar"
- 9:45 a.m. Cindy Campbell-Stone, "The Lady In the Lighthouse: The Catherine Gallagher Story"
- 10:30 a.m. Coffee and danish
- 10:45 a.m. Robert D. Madison, "The Other Little Nell"
- 11:30 a.m. Stephen N. Sanfilippo, "Chanteys and Masculinity in the Works of Dana, Melville, London, and O'Neill"
- 12:15 p.m. Lunch (can be purchased at Mort's Cafe in the UConn Avery Point Student Center)
- 1:45 p.m. David Peloquin, "Ahab's Tear: Melville's Mystic Heart"
- 2:30 p.m. Soft drinks and cookies
- 2:45 p.m. David Webber and Anni Fentiman, "Of Whales and Men"
Please join us at Mystic Seaport following the Friday symposium for a special presentation by the Barrouallie Whalers.
Saturday, June 14, 2014
Mystic Seaport, Greenmanville Church
- 9:30 a.m. Welcome: Moderator Craig Edwards
Lawrence C. Kaplan, "E. Gale Huntington's 'The Gam' and the Collector as Scholar"
- 10:15 a.m. Marc Bernier. "Music, Media, and Memory: Acquisition of Repertoire Across Generations"– Panel discussion with John Roberts, Don Sineti, Marc Bernier, Craig Edwards, Nicole Singer, and Erin Breen


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Osho continues:
"Even the sharing will be corrupted by the greed, because you cannot practice anything against your understanding, beyond your understanding. You cannot force your life into principles unless those principles are of your own experience.
"But so-called religious people try to practice virtue – that's why they are the most unvirtuous people on the earth. They try to practice love, and they are the most unloving people on the earth. They have created all sorts of mischief: wars, hatred, anger, enmity, murder. They practice friendship, but the friendship has not flowered on the earth. They go on talking about God, but they create more and more conflict in the name of God. The Christian is against the Mohammedan, the Mohammedan is against the Hindu, the Hindu is against the Jaina, the Jaina is against the Buddhist – that's all they have been doing.
"There are three hundred religions and they have all created fragments in the human mind; they have not been an integrating force, they have not healed the wounds of the human soul. Because of them humanity is ill, because of them humanity is insane – and the insanity comes out of one thing. That has to be understood as deeply as possible because you can also go in the wrong direction. The wrong direction has a tremendous appeal, otherwise so many people would not have gone in it. The appeal must be great. The magnetic force of the wrong direction has to be understood, only then can you avoid it.
"You can try practicing anything you like and you will remain opposite to it. You can enforce a sort of stillness upon yourself: you can sit silently, you can learn a yoga posture, you can make the body still, as if it is without movement, you can make the body like a statue. And by repeating a mantra or just by repressing the mind continuously for a long time, you can enforce a certain stillness upon your being – but it will be the silence of the cemetery, it will not be throbbing, alive, kicking. It will be a frozen thing. You can deceive others, but you cannot deceive yourself and you cannot deceive existence."
In this title, Osho talks on the following topics:
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Girl missing from Syracuse believed to be headed toward Utica area
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Authorities are searching for a teenage girl who went missing in the Syracuse area on December 29 and is believed to be headed toward the Utica area. According to Syracuse Police, Jessica Clarke, 15 was last seen in the area of Thompson Road and Salt Springs Road in Syracuse on December 29. She has brown eyes and light brown hair, weighing 130 pounds and is roughly 5'4" tall. Family says she also goes by "Jess" or "Jessie" and is believed to possibly be headed to the Utica area with another girl. Syracuse Police say she is a runaway from the Elmcrest Children's Center, but officials at Elmcrest could not confirm to the Syracyse Post-Standard whether the girl was a resident, citing privacy concerns. If you have any information on her whereabouts, you are asked to call Syracuse Police Missing Persons Department at 315-442-5233 or call Dave at 315-247-4972.


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Chef Judi Gallagher shares her favorite recipes and tips for preparing the classic Feast of the Seven Fishes.Read More >>
It started as a hot dog joint, and a darn good one, but let's face it—hot dog eaters don't necessarily make it their nighttime meal. Thus the change to Kacey's Seafood and More. Sure, those Chicago dogs, Cincinnati dogs and Rueben dogs are still on the menu–and as a matter of fact, those hot dogs […]Read More >>
It seems The Sandbar, at the tip of Anna Maria Island, has come of age. Not chronologically, of course, but in stature and style in both structure and menu. The Sandbar is not the fish sandwich shack on the beach anymore. Long known for its grouper sandwiches, fried fish plates, peel-and-eat shrimp, frozen mango and […]Read More >>


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Lo Bosworth Slurps Oysters, Dreams of Uni Toast, and Tries Her Very First Chicken Wing
"I've also been told I was intimately involved with a single slice of cheese pizza."
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"I've also been told I was intimately involved with a single slice of cheese pizza."
Plus: "Jamaican-Chinese-style" chicken.
Avoid overpriced prix-fixe menus at Marco's, Charlie Bird, Empire Diner, and more.
Plus: Reviews for RedFarm UWS, Shalom Japan, and more.
"I won't have a week the rest of the year that will be like this past week."
It's business as usual for Charlie Bird, Franny's, and ABC Kitchen.
For now, Ed Schoenfeld is only serving cocktails and snacks.
Plus: Steve Cuozzo likes Contra, and more, in this week's roundup.
It's staying open fairly late, too.
Piora, Franny's, and American cut have luxurious, secluded spaces.
There are a number of new dishes exclusive to this location.
Dinner service will launch "soon."
It's become much, much more.
Plus: City Harvest's Rosh Hashanah donation, and more, in today's Leftovers.
A reporter tests the lines at some of the city's busiest no-reservation restaurants.
"Anchovies don't play well in the newsroom."
Plus: goat cheese that's good for you, a "farm-to-fire" dinner series, and more.
It's only making way for RedFarm UWS because its sublease ran out.
This is bittersweet news for Asian-food hounds.
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14 December 2009
Special Envoy for Climate Change and Head of the United States Delegation UN Climate Change Negotiations, December 14, 2009
Press Briefing by Todd Stern Copenhagen, Denmark
MR. STERN: Hi everybody. Sorry we're doing this late. Intended to do it earlier, but events didn't allow that to occur. So let me just make a few quick remarks and then we can get to questions.
This weekend, Danish Minister for Climate [and Energy] Connie Hedegaard convened I think it was forty-eight ministers to continue working on the effort to get an agreement done. I think the discussions Saturday night, and particularly Sunday, were constructive and useful in identifying where there are still differences remaining. And I think there has been some progress made in the week that we have been here. But there is still a long way to go, if we are going to reach the kind of agreement that we need to reach. We are glad that Parties are back at the table, and again there is a lot of substantive work to focus on.
I want to make one brief reference to something that was outside of the realm of the actual negotiations, which was that today at the U.S. Center Secretary Chu served as a keynote speaker and joined ministers from Australia, India and Italy to announce a new program called Climate REDI – which is a quick-start technology initiative through the Major Economies Forum, intended to reduce emissions, save households money and fight energy poverty. And this is a concrete effort that by focusing on a few key technologies and beginning work immediately can demonstrate the kind of practical cooperation that we believe a successful international climate agreement can deliver at a much broader scale.
Through Climate REDI, the U.S. will work with some of our MEF partners and others to improve energy services for millions of households by accelerating deployment of affordable, high-quality solar home systems and LED lanterns in low-income countries, such as India and others. And reduce millions of tons of emissions by coordinating standards, labeling and incentive programs for high-efficiency appliances, and the like. As part of Climate REDI Secretary Chu announced that the U.S. intends to contribute to another, related program that is part of – now part of REDI, called Scaling-up Renewable Energy, through the World Bank. And these combined programs that were discussed today will have a budget of $350 million over five years, with a U.S. share of $85 million.
So that's – I mean, the thing that's relevant about this, and I think important, from our point of view, is that it is a concrete illustration of the kind of technology cooperation that we intended to be part of the mission of the Major Economies Forum. So when we started that Forum, in the spring, it was intended to both facilitate agreement here in Copenhagen, but also to serve as a platform for technology cooperation. And this Climate REDI program - that initiative that we announced today is a kind of first concrete example of what we hope will be much bigger and more important things over the years, as the Major Economies Forum goes on. I think with that, I'm happy to take questions.
QUESTION: Mr. Stern, you said that you made progress – some progress. Can you delineate what that progress is, and where are the trouble spots that are still there?
MR. STERN: Actually, that question – that's a two-part question, but it's really a sort of a one-part answer. We made progress on issues that are still some of the most difficult ones. I think that there was a lot of focus over the weekend in this kind of "friends of the chair" group of nearly fifty countries, mostly developing, but mixed, on the issue of the need in our view for the major developing countries to set forth their intended actions in this agreement and to indicate their resolve to implement them. That's – that is a key part of this overall agreement, as far as we're concerned. So that's just the top – that's the major developing countries, not everybody. All right, so that's one thing.
The second thing is that the implementation of actions by developing countries that do set forth their plans needs to have adequate transparency. And that again is an issue that – where progress in the sense of clarifying and defining more clearly where there are differences… So that's why I said a sort of a one-part answer to a two-part question, because – it was useful, but there are still differences there.
And I think the third thing that we talked about a fair amount was the financial side of the equation, both money – and the architecture of financial contributions. There are other tough issues in the negotiation, but those are three that we spent a good deal of time on over the weekend.
QUESTION: Thank you. Mr. Stern, when will Mr. Obama be arriving and speaking here, and what kind of issues will be booted upstairs to him and the other heads of state?
MR. STERN: I don't have the exact time. It's going to be Friday morning, reasonably early, but I don't actually know the exact time. And as to the issues that will be booted upstairs, you know, I think that the desire will be that nothing's booted upstairs, because everything's resolved by then. And there are, you know, there are some countries that are kind of naturally more – it's probably not a country issue as much as who the leaders tend to be – but there are some who are more comfortable with the notion of actually trying to negotiate remaining issues and some who are less. But I think there's certainly a – there will be a desire, broadly felt, to get issues resolved in a way that is essentially done by the ministers, and not kicked upstairs. But I think my own view is it's entirely possible that, there will be an issue or two that does require the engagement of leaders. And from our point of view we're completely comfortable with that, if that's what happens.
QUESTION: Can you tell us, how engaged has the President been so far in the last week? Has he been calling other leaders to talk about these issues? And how has the timeline of heads of state coming in changed the dynamics of the negotiations here? Has it put more pressure on details to be resolved?
MR. STERN: The President has been very engaged on this issue, not just this week but for the last several weeks. I mean, he's been engaged in it throughout the year, but I mean he's been particularly engaged. And he has been calling some – I think he called some folks today, actually. And the – I'm sure the White House will put out whatever there is on that today. But I'm quite sure he made some calls today.
The – yeah, look, the pending arrival of well over a hundred leaders absolutely affects the negotiation. It's putting pressure – it's putting time pressure – on the negotiation. And not just time pressure. I mean – typically these negotiations have really always been conducted at the minister level. There's been occasionally a higher-level guest – I mean, all the way back when I was in Kyoto, Vice President Gore came for a day. But that was certainly a rare kind of situation. So this is a completely unprecedented situation, where you have a hundred and twenty, or whatever it is, leaders who are coming. And it puts pressure to finish earlier – not lots earlier, cause you know – it's pressure to finish by, say Thursday, rather than if the thing spills into Saturday, or something like that. And, you know, ministers who have their bosses coming – I mean everybody who's got their boss coming is particularly keen to have things in as good shape as possible. So I think it's putting pressure, but I think probably pressure of a salutary kind. I don't think it's bad pressure. I just think it's pressure.
QUESTION: Do you think the action by the G77 countries today created any sort of damaging delay to this process, and do you think that there will be any trouble as we get towards a conclusion from this group?
MR. STERN: Look, I think that we don't have very much time. All right? The clock is definitely ticking, sort of like a big hourglass that's running down right now, so any time that's lost, it is unhelpful. I mean, there's a cost to that. It is also true that there are legitimate concerns, that people have anxiety about how the process runs, about transparency and inclusiveness and all of those things. At the same time there is a very real need to not just have an inclusive process, but to have an effective process that can get things done. I think that the Danish presidency has been doing a very good job in a very difficult balancing act, trying to balance both of those things. Having progress happen, having it be an effective process, and at the same time, an adequately inclusive and transparent process.
You know, it is also true that in most any big complicated negotiation like this – and this is probably one of the biggest and most complicated of any kind, ever, probably – there are always – it never goes smoothly, it never goes as planned, there are always bumps, there are always zigs and zags and, you know, people getting up and down, and that's to be expected. But having said that, it is really important that countries focus on the essential and focus on the pragmatic and focus on getting this done. And, process can become your enemy if there's an insistence on discussing and going around the bend on process too much. There's a real cost. So today I think that the hope had been to get through the process part and into a point where the kind of informal consultation groups that the Danish presidency is setting up – I think there would have been a hope that those got actually going and in motion early in the afternoon, instead of just kind of barely starting now. So I think there was some time lost there. But again, to some extent, this kind of thing always happens and you just have to try and get your way through it.
QUESTION: What is your reaction to the developing countries' insistence on having a two- track process? Is it counter productive or is it something you can work with?
MR. STERN: Well, I – look, this is actually the one highly contentious issue that doesn't really involve the United States very much. I mean, the two-track question is: do you continue the second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol – the second period would start in 2013 – or does that get merged into a new agreement, and so that what has been two negotiating tracks merge into one? That's what the question is. And I think this is the area of one of the most contentious issues right now, with I think essentially the developed country Kyoto parties not very interested in continuing a process that – where not only is the United States not part of it but neither are any of the major developing countries - none of the developing countries, but I keep referring to the major ones, because that's where the emissions are. So, you know, if the Kyoto Protocol went on, probably only covering 30% of the emissions or something like that. So there's not a great desire on the part of the developed country Kyoto Parties to continue. But there is a great desire on the part of the developing country Kyoto Parties, and they are butting heads right now. And so we have got to find a way through that, so – I think a way that is without prejudice to either side. I don't think it's going to resolve right now, but again I don't really know. And it's probably the only issue that the United States doesn't have a big stake in, but it's a difficult one.
QUESTION: In terms of the final thing; what's the U.S. position on a new funding model reported by Mexico and Norway?
MR. STERN: You are saying what's our position on a new model for funding?
QUESTION: New funding model, proposed by Mexico and Norway.
MR. STERN: Ok, well the United States is strongly in favor of significant financing for adaptation, mitigation, forestry, etc. We have been in favor of establishing a new global climate fund. We called for that now for some time. We think that it ought to be – take the advantage of the expertise in an existing institution. It ought to have funding from – use for all of the major needs, and have a balanced governance that's sort of 50-50 between the developed and developing countries. And, I think that there is actually a fair amount of support for that kind of thing. There are a number of kind of fine points in the overall architecture of funding. I mean, our view is that there should be such a fund, but at the same time other sources of funding should also continue. I think that others, like the Europeans, have similar views, so that bilateral funding would still continue and hopefully ramp up and there would be different sources of funding. But we definitely favor a global climate fund that would have – might have different windows for different purposes. And so that is something that we strongly support.
Thank you.