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Ikanos Communications Announces Results For The Third Quarter Fiscal Year 2012
Ikanos Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: IKAN), a leading provider of advanced broadband semiconductor and software products for the digital home, today announced its financial results for the third quarter of 2012, ended September 30, 2012.
"For the third quarter, we met our revenue guidance of $31.4 million while achieving GAAP operating expenses of $21.1 million, below our guidance of $22 to $23 million," said Dennis Bencala, CFO of Ikanos. "We continued to effectively manage our business and our cash position, which totaled approximately $33.4 million at quarter end, up slightly from the preceding quarter."
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. In Chapter 7, Reacher and Bobby have an interaction, and Reacher takes the upper hand. Who is watching this exchange?
(a) The assassins.
(b) Ellie.
(c) Carmen.
(d) Rusty.
2. Where do the assassins hide their target's body?
(a) In the river.
(b) In the trunk of the car.
(c) In a small ditch.
(d) In a pile of brush.
3. What message does Reacher send to Carmen while she is in jail?
(a) He loves her.
(b) He is going to stick around.
(c) He will take care of Ellie.
(d) He is leaving town.
4. Where does Bobby tell Reacher he will have to accompany Billy and Josh?
(a) To the barn.
(b) To get feed.
(c) To look for Sloop.
(d) To get gas for the tractor.
5. When Reacher returns to Alice's office from getting the money from Brewer, she tells him someone wants to see him. Who wants to see Reacher?
(a) Bobby.
(b) Rusty.
(c) Carmen.
(d) Hack.
Short Answer Questions
1. After being told he wasn't invited for lunch, where does Reacher go?
2. There are two men and a woman traveling separately in Chapter One. Who are they?
3. What tells Reacher he is in trouble when he goes with Billy and Josh in Chapter 6?
4. What are the only real weapons that Reacher notices where Josh and Billy take him?
5. What does Ellie want when she comes out to the bunkhouse?
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(Updates with Rothschild, FSA fine in Compliance Action; UBS-Finra in Courts/Arbitration Panels.)
June 14 (Bloomberg) -- Unusual share price movements in the two days before takeovers announced by U.K. companies last year fell 9.4 percent, in a sign that insider trading may be decreasing.
There were "abnormal pre-announcement price movements" before 21.2 percent of the 118 deal notices in the U.K. in 2010, the Financial Services Authority said in its annual report, published yesterday. That was down from 30.6 percent in 2009, and the lowest rate since 2003.
Factors other than insider trading, such as speculation by analysts or the press about an upcoming deal, or information leaks, could be the cause of the share price movements, the regulator said. The FSA has made market abuse and insider trading by top bankers a focus of its enforcement efforts.
Also over the past year, the FSA required all banks and building societies to carry out reverse stress-testing, where firms list scenarios that could lead to a financial collapse. The watchdog said it will review the results "over the next year or so" and respond to the firms that took part.
The FSA implemented rules approved by European Union regulators last year intended to curb incentives for excessive risk-taking last year, imposing limits on cash payouts and the size of bankers' bonuses.
Compliance Action
Rothschild Loses to Evercore as Boutique Left Off FSA Bonus List
Evercore Partners Inc. and Greenhill and Co. will be able to pay employees guaranteed bonuses forbidden at rival deal advisers such as NM Rothschild & Sons Ltd., after escaping scrutiny from the U.K. Financial Services Authority.
Evercore, founded by former U.S. Deputy Treasury Secretary Roger Altman, is among companies offering financial advice such as Gleacher Shacklock LLP and Moelis & Co. that aren't on a list of 2,776 firms covered by FSA bonus rules. Competitors including Rothschild, New York-based Perella Weinberg Partners LP and Lazard Ltd. are on the list, obtained by Bloomberg News after a Freedom of Information request.
The guidelines apply to firms taking risks with their own cash or that of clients, leading to the exclusion of advisory firms that may not manage money in the U.K. Companies covered by the rules, which must be implemented by next month, can't offer multiyear guaranteed bonuses and will only be able to pay one- year guarantees in "exceptional circumstances," the FSA said.
The rules enact guidelines approved by European Union regulators last year to curb excessive risk-taking. The FSA expanded the firms covered by bonus rules a hundredfold from the 27 biggest banks to more than 2,700 entities last year to conform to the European guidelines.
Joseph Eyre, FSA spokesman, declined to comment, as did officials at New York-based Moelis, Perella Weinberg, Rothschild, Evercore, Greenhill, Lazard and London-based Gleacher Shacklock.
The agency applied the guidelines from the EU to its revised bonus rules and separated financial firms into four groups based on their size.
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U.S. Regulator Says Taxpayers Still at Risk From Fannie, Freddie
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the mortgage companies operating under U.S. control, are improving their financial condition but remain a risk to taxpayers, the companies' regulator reported.
In its third annual report to Congress released yesterday, the Federal Housing Finance Agency said improved underwriting on the loans that the companies package into mortgage-backed securities helped slow the agencies' losses to $28 billion in 2010, from $93.6 billion a year earlier.
The agency "has improved underwriting standards for loan purchases in the past two years," Edward DeMarco, its acting director, said in the report.
Still, DeMarco said, the companies "remain critical supervisory concerns," largely because of a backlog of bad loans originated from 2005 to 2007.
The government-run enterprises, which own or guarantee more than half of the $10 trillion U.S. mortgage market, operated as private companies before they were taken into government conservatorship in September 2008 after soaring losses linked to subprime home loans. Since then, Washington-based Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac of McLean, Virginia, have survived on a promise of unlimited U.S. aid and drawn more than $160 billion in Treasury Department funding.
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OCC Extends Deadline for Mortgage-Servicer Action Plans
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, at the request of the U.S. Department of Justice, has extended the deadline for action plans required under consent orders issued on April 13 against eight residential mortgage servicers.
The 30-day extension will allow coordination by federal and state agencies, the OCC said yesterday in a statement.
Barclays Will Pay U.K. Customers' Payment Insurance Claims
Barclays Plc will reimburse the full payment-protection insurance premiums plus 8 percent interest to customers whose claims were put on hold during a court challenge.
The bank will compensate customers sold payment-protection insurance without being told they could buy it from another lender, Barclays said in an e-mailed statement yesterday. The British Bankers' Association, an industry group, lost a court challenge in April to the Financial Services Authority's PPI guidelines.
Barclays, Lloyds Banking Group Plc and Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc were given more time to handle the customer complaints by the FSA yesterday after the court challenge created a backlog. Barclays said in May it would set aside 1 billion pounds ($1.63 billion) to resolve the claims.
The banks have as much as 16 weeks to respond to the complaints, rather than eight weeks, the Financial Services Authority said in a statement yesterday.
PPI generates as much as 5.5 billion pounds in annual revenue for U.K. banks, the FSA has estimated.
ECB-German Standoff Risks Damage That May Force Compromise
The confrontation between the European Central Bank and Germany over bailing out Greece risks causing so much damage that officials may be forced to compromise.
ECB President Jean-Claude Trichet and German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble are at odds over investors' role in the second Greek rescue in 14 months. The dispute turns on how politicians make good on a promise to push creditors to pay some of the cost, a step that Trichet said on June 9 could be an "enormous mistake."
Unless a deal can be struck to guarantee Greece's financing needs for the next 12 months, the International Monetary Fund has threatened to withhold its share of what remains of Greece's original 110 billion-euro ($159 billion) bailout. Finance ministers have called a special meeting scheduled for today as they try to avoid what European Economic and Monetary Affairs Commissioner Olli Rehn called a "Lehman Brothers catastrophe on European soil."
The cost to insure Greek debt against default, already the most expensive in the world, rose to a record yesterday and bonds of Europe's bailed-out nations slumped. The swaps indicate a 74 percent chance of default in the next five years.
The debt crisis has already forced Trichet to tear up the rule book. The ECB is lending unlimited amounts of cash to support banking systems and has relaxed collateral requirements.
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Lloyds Poised to End Bank of England Support, Canaccord Says
Lloyds Banking Group Plc, the U.K.'s biggest mortgage lender, may wean itself off emergency central bank funding support by the end of the month, according to an analyst at Canaccord Genuity Ltd.
The Bank of England yesterday said lenders had reduced dependence on its Special Liquidity Scheme to 37 billion pounds ($60 billion) at the end of May, from 185 billion pounds in January 2009. Lloyds, led by Antonio Horta-Osorio had about 26 billion pounds of support from the program remaining at the end of March.
Lloyds, 41 percent government-owned, and Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc, Britain's biggest taxpayer-owned bank, were the biggest users of the scheme, introduced during the 2008 banking crisis to allow lenders to swap hard-to-trade mortgage- backed securities for government bonds and so improve liquidity. The termination of government and central bank support is a vital prerequisite for the sale of taxpayer's bank stakes, analysts have said.
Horta-Osorio, who succeeded Eric Daniels in May, will outline his strategy for Lloyds on June 30.
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Ex-Trader Alexander to Pay $1.6 Million for Manipulating Shares
A self-employed trader was fined 700,000 pounds ($1.15 million) and ordered to pay more than 300,000 pounds in restitution for manipulating the price of shares traded on the London Stock Exchange.
Barnett Michael Alexander, a former private-client stockbroker, made multiple small buy and sell orders in an effort to manipulate the price of contracts-for-differences, or CfDs, and spread bets so he could benefit, the Financial Services Authority said in a statement today. He generated a 629,130-pound profit over 16 months, the FSA said. The regulator banned him from working in the finance industry for five years.
The regulator obtained a permanent injunction against Alexander committing market abuse. The Glasgow-based trader qualified for the FSA's standard 30 percent discount for cooperating with the probe and must pay restitution of 301,005 pounds to City Index Ltd., 4,609 pounds to London Capital Group Holdings Plc, and 17,204 pounds to Monecor (London) Ltd.
A number for Alexander wasn't available from the FSA registry and the agency couldn't immediately provide contact information for his attorney.
Courts/Arbitration Panels
UBS Loses Finra Arbitration Case Brought by Former 76ers Owner
UBS AG, Switzerland's biggest bank, will pay Pat Croce, former part-owner of the Philadelphia 76ers basketball team, about $2 million to compensate for losses on structured products backed by Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.
A Financial Industry Regulatory Authority arbitration panel ruled June 9 that UBS is responsible for $1.52 million plus interest in damages. A UBS broker sold $2 million of "principal-protected" Lehman notes to Croce and his wife, Diane, on June 25, 2008, less than three months before the bank failed, said Jacob Zamansky, their attorney.
The Zurich-based bank sold $1 billion of the Lehman products to U.S. investors, according to spokeswoman Allison Chin-Leong. It's been ordered to repay investors some or all of their losses in seven of the eight cases involving the securities that have been decided by Finra panels.
The broker who sold the notes has since quit the firm, saying he was misled by UBS, Zamansky said. The New York-based lawyer has more than 40 pending cases against UBS for Lehman "100% Principal-Protection Notes," totaling more $25 million, he said.
"The vast majority of Lehman notes were sold appropriately," and the failure of Lehman was "unexpected and unprecedented," Chin-Leong said. The panel voted 2 to 1 and didn't provide a reason for its decision.
Banks create structured products by bundling debt with derivatives and offer them to individual investors as an alternative to traditional investments.
Ex-Galleon Trader Zvi Goffer Convicted of Insider Trading
Former Galleon Group LLC hedge fund trader Zvi Goffer was convicted on all counts by a federal jury in Manhattan in the second trial to result from the U.S. government's nationwide crackdown on insider trading.
Goffer's brother Emanuel and Michael Kimelman were also found guilty of conspiracy and securities fraud yesterday by a jury that began deliberations June 2. The verdict comes about a month after Goffer's boss, Galleon co-founder Raj Rajaratnam, was found guilty in the same courthouse of directing the biggest hedge fund insider trading scheme in history.
Rajaratnam and Zvi Goffer were key players in three overlapping insider-trading conspiracies that implicated banks, technology firms, hedge funds and so-called expert networking firms.
Goffer, 34, his brother and Kimelman were charged with using tips from two lawyers to profit on trades in 3Com Corp., Axcan Pharma Inc., Kronos Inc. and Hilton Hotels Corp.
Zvi Goffer's lawyers argued their client sometimes bluffed about having inside information to impress other Wall Street traders. Lawyers for Emanuel Goffer and Kimelman said that their clients weren't part of any alleged conspiracy with Zvi Goffer.
Rajaratnam, who was convicted on all 14 counts against him, faces as long as 19 1/2 years in prison when he's sentenced on July 29.
The case is U.S. v. Goffer, 10-cr-00056, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York (Manhattan).
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Cohan Says 'No Question' Goldman Shorted Mortgage Market
William Cohan, author of "Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World" and a Bloomberg Television contributing editor, talked about Goldman Sachs's position on mortgage securities before the market's collapse.
Cohan spoke with Erik Schatzker and Deirdre Bolton on Bloomberg Television's "InsideTrack." (William D. Cohan is a Bloomberg View columnist. The opinions expressed are his own.)
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Goldberg Says Banks Beginning to Experience Loan Growth
Jason Goldberg, senior analyst at Barclays Capital Inc. discussed the potential impact of new federal government financial regulations on U.S. banking industry earnings.
Goldberg spoke on Bloomberg Television's "InBusiness with Margaret Brennan."
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Comings and Goings
Obama Picks Martin Gruenberg to Succeed Bair at FDIC
President Barack Obama intends to nominate Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Vice Chairman Martin J. Gruenberg to succeed Sheila Bair as chairman, according to a White House statement.
Gruenberg has served as the agency's vice chairman since 2005, and served as acting chairman for six months in 2005 and 2006. Obama announced his selection in an e-mailed statement June 10. Bloomberg News previously reported Obama's decision.
Gruenberg would replace Bair, who took office in June 2006. Before joining the agency, Gruenberg served as senior counsel to Senator Paul Sarbanes, a Maryland Democrat, and as staff counsel to the Senate Banking subcommittee on international finance and monetary policy.
His nomination is subject to confirmation by the Senate.
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"This terrifying, remarkable work examines the attitudes, perceptions, and behavior of U.S. fighting men in the Pacific theater during World War II." By Benjamin Schwarz
A review of Marianne in Chains (September 2003)
"In his nuanced and intricate work of historical reconstruction Gildea has grappled heroically with the ambiguity at the heart of history and in the heart of man." By Benjamin Schwarz
"A Maverick Historian" (February 2001)
Rarely has comedy of manners been so artfully infused with pathos as in Evelyn Waugh's recently reissued Sword of Honour trilogy. By Penelope Lively
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Interviews: "An Insidious Evil" (February 11, 2004)
Christopher Browning, the author of The Origins of the Final Solution, explains how ordinary Germans came to accept as inevitable the extermination of the Jews.
Interviews: "'Neither Heroes Nor Villains'" (November 5, 2003)
Robert Gildea, the author of Marianne in Chains, talks about his efforts to demystify the French experience under Nazi occupation.
Inexorably they invade publishers' lists. Relentlessly they occupy the bookstores. Overwhelmingly they seize the commanding heights of night tables (at least on the husband's side of the bed). Books on the Second World War. Of course, most of them are abysmal. But the war is, as John Keegan has written, "the largest single event in human history." It started with cavalry charges on the plains of Poland and ended with the atomic bomb. It ranged from the Arctic to Burma. It embraced nearly every conceivable dimension of organized human activity, at the most sophisticated and the most depraved levels. It consumed more than 60 million lives. There is no richer subject. In the past few years we've praised the best current titles about the war (Peter Schrijvers's The GI War Against Japan and Robert Gildea's Marianne in Chains, for example), revisited a few of the most lasting works (Evelyn Waugh's Sword of Honour trilogy, among others), and even excoriated some of the more sentimentalized books (see "The Real War," June 2001 Atlantic). This spring brings a new crop of titles—some notable, and this one, which is extraordinary. Browning's is the first volume of Nebraska's authoritative and monumental Comprehensive History of the Holocaust, a series of at least fifteen volumes to be published over the next decade (this and two other volumes will examine Nazi policy; most of the remaining ones will assess the impact of that policy on each of the national Jewish communities in Europe). This book, which opens with the German conquest of Poland, in September of 1939, and ends with the first deportations of Jews to the death camps, in the spring of 1942, will almost certainly be the most important. Browning—one of the world's greatest scholars of the Holocaust, and the author of the meticulous, nuanced, and disturbing Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland—has taken on the most contentious and knotty aspect of the Final Solution: how and why Nazi policy evolved, in the brief period between the autumn of 1939 and the autumn of 1941, from the persecution and planned expulsion of Jews to the detailed strategy of systematically murdering all Jews within Germany's grasp. (Debate on this topic has engendered a highly publicized, sometimes contrived, and increasingly arcane argument between historians in the "intentionalist" camp, who hold that from the 1920s onward Hitler intended to kill the Jews, and those in the "functionalist" camp, who argue that the Holocaust evolved piecemeal, as one set of opportunities and policies led to another.) This is a maddeningly convoluted question—the scholar must distinguish ideological pronouncements from the implementation of policy; the acts of, say, frontline SS units from the plans and intentions of the Nazi leadership; the roots and manifestations of murderous anti-Bolshevism from those of murderous anti-Semitism (to give but a few examples). This historical thicket is rendered all but impenetrable by the facts that, as Browning lucidly and vividly demonstrates, German anti-Semitism was hardly a fixed concept but, rather, evolved and mutated with the ever shifting circumstances; that the Nazi regime and its chains of command and decision were highly decentralized—which meant that at any given moment the interpretations and conceptions of, say, Goebbels and Rosenberg concerning the timing and realization of the Final Solution could vary significantly from those of Himmler and Heydrich; and, most important, that the documentary evidence is both vast and frustratingly incomplete. Scholars sometimes seem loath to acknowledge this last point, for fear that Holocaust deniers will use such recognition to support their contentions. But in trying to reconstruct and impose some narrative order on a tortuous set of political, military, bureaucratic, and administrative processes, the historian confronts gap after gap, because the relevant files of Himmler and Heydrich, the main architects of the Final Solution, were destroyed; we're left, Browning explains, "with copies of a few key papers ... that Himmler and Heydrich sent to others, but not with the vital internal working papers at the coordinating center." This means that much of the story this book sets out to tell must, perforce, be a matter of informed speculation. Here is where Browning triumphs. He's obviously mastered every pertinent document available—from archives in Germany, the United States, the former Soviet Union, and Israel—and assimilated them all into his sometimes day-by-day account of the development of Nazi policy. In sifting the evidence he makes clear what's known and what's not, what's probable, what's possible, and what's unlikely; with rigor and an unusually incisive writing style he places events, decisions, and debates in a precise historical context, paying heed both to strict chronology and to more amorphous considerations, such as the relationship between Germany's military fortunes in the East and shifts in the German public's and the Nazi hierarchy's mood and outlook. And above all, with exactitude he lays bare his own suppositions as he transparently builds his arguments and his narrative. A masterpiece of the historian's art, Browning's work should also force those scholars still contending with the rival concepts of functionalism and intentionalism to pursue more-fruitful arguments. He convincingly demonstrates that Hitler's abiding obsession with solving "the Jewish question" spurred the regime to ever more radical and comprehensive measures (and that the Führer participated in and approved of all major changes in policy toward the Jews). But he shows equally clearly that those changes in policy were often highly contingent and improvised. Perhaps most important, Browning sets what the Nazis called their "war of destruction" against the Soviet Union at the very center of his story. For all the executions and vicious abuse of Jews in Poland, for all of Hitler's nebulous exhortations and prophecies, it was the unprecedented scale, scope, and ferocity of Germany's race war on the Eastern Front—the mass murder there of millions of non-Jews and Jews alike—that truly radicalized Nazi policy and crystallized the vision of exterminating European Jewry. Browning inextricably links the history of the Holocaust to the history of the war itself (obvious as this approach may seem, the scholarly field of "Holocaust studies" has often drifted far from examination of the Second World War). His work serves as another reminder that if the war is the hinge of modern history, the hinge of the war was the epic clash in the East—the main scene of the Nazis' defeat and the largest and most terrible conflict mankind has yet fought.
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Speaking Two Languages May Ward Off Dementia
Posted By alz01 On June 3, 2014 @ 9:26 am In Prevention and Wellness | No Comments
People who speak two languages develop Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia nearly five years later than their peers who speak only one language. It is the largest study to date to show that acquiring a language, an intellectually challenging task, can help to keep the brain robust into old age.
For the study, published in the journal Neurology, researchers studied 648 men and women in India who had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's or other forms of dementia. Sixty percent of them were fluent in two or more languages. Some could not read, though India is a society where people often learn to speak more than one language, regardless of whether they are formally schooled.
On average, those who spoke more than one language were notably older when they were diagnosed with dementia than those who spoke only one. Those who were bilingual developed memory loss and other symptoms at an average age of 65.6 years, compared to 61.1 years for their monolingual peers.
Being bilingual provided advantages even in those who were illiterate and had little formal education. Having few years of schooling has been recognized as a risk factor for Alzheimer's.
"Our study is the first to report an advantage of speaking two languages in people who are unable to read, suggesting that a person's level of education is not a sufficient explanation for this difference," said study author Suvarna Alladi, DM, with Nizam's Institute of Medical Sciences in Hyderabad, India.
The researchers suggest that being bilingual provides regular brain stimulation since it requires that someone switch regularly between different sounds, words, concepts and grammatical structures. That's one reason that some advocate that to keep mental skills sharp, we regularly engage in crossword puzzles, word games and other intellectually stimulating activities
The results provide further evidence for the so-called cognitive reserve hypothesis of brain function. According to this theory, intellectually challenging activities build a robust network of connections between brain cells. If, later in life, a disease like Alzheimer's destroys brain cells, enough connections remain to keep memory and thinking skills sharp, at least for a time.
"These findings suggest that bilingualism might have a stronger influence on dementia than any currently available drugs," said Thomas Bak of the University of Edinburgh's School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, another study author. Until more effective treatments for Alzheimer's become available, intellectual stimulation – whether it involves completing a regular crossword puzzle, taking a language course, learning to play a musical instrument or reading a novel -- may be a wise investment in your brain health.
By ALZinfo.org [1], The Alzheimer's Information Site. Reviewed by William J. Netzer [2], Ph.D., Fisher Center for Alzheimer's Research Foundation at The Rockefeller University.
Source: S. Alladi, TH Bak, V Duggirala, et al: "Bilingualism Delays Age at Onset of Dementia, Independent of Education and Immigration Status." Neurology, Nov. 6, 2013.
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Happy Monday everyone! Sorry I'm so late. I have company visiting and deadlines at work so my time is very short for the fun stuff!
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|Mon, 07-29-2013 - 10:45pm
Donna here with 4 y/o Greyhound Dante in the Phoenix, Arizona area. Had a nice weekend. Went to see the movie, R.I.P.D. with the every so handsome Ryan Reynolds! The movie was so so but the eye candy was excellent - LOL! Then went to lunch with my sister to a chinese restaurant that we used to love, they closed down for a year, then reopened and YUCK! Wow the food was horrible! Too bad really because they used to be excellent! Sunday, Dante & I went to Petco for our monthly meet 'n greet and Dante enjoyed himself very much! He is such a people-dog! Loves everyone! Then after that we went over to my dad's for dinner - it was some chicken in wine sauce thingy he crock-potted all day - wasn't good. Then my Aunts showed up from California which was so wonderful. They haven't been out here to Arizona since my mother passed away 7 years ago. They're staying with me so they get to see my "new" house and everything. Anyway, enjoying them very much! We usually meet in Las Vegas every July but this time they wanted to come out here to say good-bye to my nephew who is going into the Marines in a few weeks. So busy weekend for me when normally I do nothing - LOL!
|Mon, 07-29-2013 - 11:32pm
Gaye here in Arlington, Texas. Pugs: Anya (11), Jabaar (10), Roo Ben (9).
Worked the shelter offsite adoption event at PetSmart Saturday. We adopted out five of the twelve dogs we took.
My daughter, Amy, flew in from her vacation Friday night, and came Saturday afternoon to get her little dog. I've had him for most the past six or seven weeks, because she had broken her wrist and her orthopedic surgeon advised placing the dog elsewhere until she healed.
Sunday morning was church. The last Sunday of choir vacation. Back to the choir loft and hot black robes next Sunday.
Sunday afternoon, I attended the meeting of the friends of the shelter associaton.
|Tue, 07-30-2013 - 9:30am
Terre from Arkansas checking in with Jack and Taz, Toy Fox Terriers. Jack is 10 and Taz is 9. Didn't do much over the weekend. I've been alone since dh ihas been gone...but he returns TONIGHT! He's been gone 10 days so I am so happy he is finally returning.
Saturday did some weeding outdoors (wish the gardener did that job). With all the rain we got now the weeds are really coming up. Nothing kills them LOL! Drove dh's new car to church to show it off.
Sunday - didn't do much but catch up on reading and watch Jack and Taz snooze. I swear they sleep sooo much on the weekends. ;-)
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Molded entirely out of metal, the accent figurine celebrates the art of abstract pieces. The top and base are made out of a sturdy aluminum sculpture, with an enamel base ensuring the longevity of the accent figurine in your home. Featuring a dramatic wiggly shaped structure, the accent figurine will add an aesthetic flair to any room it is placed in. Burnished with a rich buffed aluminum finish, the accent figurine is sure to catch the attention of your family and friends. The lustrous shades of aluminum blends exquisitely with the black enamel base, highlighting the avant-garde design of the accent figurine. Designed for decorative use, the accent figurine will bedeck the room with a touch of charisma.
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The Russells recalled how they rushed to support their friends after hearing about the tragic blaze, at Victory Road in Derby on 11 May 2012, on the news.
They described going with them to view the bodies of the children - all aged between five and 13 - as "the worst thing we've ever had to do".
"He (Philpott) was crying, but there were no tears," Sharon Russell told This Morning.
Both Sharon and her husband, also Mick, described 56-year-old Philpott's behaviour at the hospital as "very strange for a grieving father".
They recounted how he was still laughing and making jokes, and how he even grabbed a woman's bum, as they walked through the hospital shortly after the children's deaths.
Mairead wanted to wear a certain outfit for the funeral and I was shocked ... Then she asked: 'Will it be all right for the after-party?'Sharon Russell, family friend
Mairead wanted to wear a certain outfit for the funeral and I was shocked ... Then she asked: 'Will it be all right for the after-party?'
Sharon Russell, family friend
The Philpotts went on to play the role of the devastated parents at an emotional press conference they called about the fire - which they were responsible for all along.
But while their friends were shocked at having been "conned", they admitted that they had always been wary of Mick Philpott in particular.
"I thought the way he lived was bizarre," Sharon said, as her own husband revealed he would never leave her alone in a room with Philpott.
"He was a very controlling person towards (his girlfriend) Lisa and (his wife) Mairead. He thought they were his property - he didn't see Mairead as his wife."
Former MP Ann Widdecombe backed up that view, based on her personal experience of meeting Philpott when she filmed a documentary about her bid to get him off benefits and into work.
She had been appalled by the way casual way in which he described the living arrangements and how he "serviced" his wife and live-in girlfriend on alternate nights in a caravan beside the house.
"He would address them as 'bitch'," she said. "You know: 'Come here, bitch. Do this, bitch.' Indeed, he tried that on with me a couple of times, addressing me in the same way."
He was having a child a year by each woman - I don't think I pass too harsh a judgement by saying what he thought he was producing were meal tickets.Ann Widdecombe
He was having a child a year by each woman - I don't think I pass too harsh a judgement by saying what he thought he was producing were meal tickets.
Ann Widdecombe
Mick and Mairead Philpott and co-conspirator Paul Mosley are now due to be sentenced on Thursday, after the judge suspended proceedings at Nottingham Crown Court on Wednesday.
It comes after a jury took eight hours to return guilty verdicts against their charges for the manslaughter of Jayden (5), Jesse (6), Jack (8), John (9) Jade (10), and Duwayne (13).
Former Met Chief Superintendent Sue Hill explained to This Morning that it would have been an extremely difficult case for Derbyshire Police, who investigated the blaze.
"From the very beginning, they had suspicions. Which we all did when we watched that press conference ..." she said.
"But it's all right having that suspicion - you've got to nail that in court."
For those six little children, justice has been served.Sue Hill, former Met Chief Superintendent
For those six little children, justice has been served.
Sue Hill, former Met Chief Superintendent
Tellingly, a photograph of the press conference held by the Philpotts showed Assistant Chief Constable Steve Cotterill with a look of obvious disbelief at the dry-eyed "performance".
Criminologist David Wilson also knew straight away that something wasn't adding up.
"I didn't know who Mick Philpott was, I simply happened to watch the press conference live and, within a matter of seconds, I was going: 'Oh gosh, this man is lying'," he said.
"This is a man who believes his can manipulate his public image."
Sue Hill said the case had been devastating for the emergency services who dealt with the aftermath of the blaze, and for the community who rallied round the family.
"Those two men who tried to save their lives, they've got a very clean conscience. They were amazing," she added, of the neighbours who actually apologised to the Philpotts for having failed in their desperate efforts to save their children.
"They did everything for those little mites to try to save them."
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PNF: Improving Trunk Function Through Distal & Proximal Input
Date: November 14 - 16, 2014
Time: 8:00 AM - 5:30 PM (Friday & Saturday); 8:00 AM - 3:00 PM (Sunday)
Instructor: Mary Massery, PT, DPT, DSc
Location: Sacred Heart University, Neuro-Cardio Lab (1-C-30), Cambridge Campus, 7 Cambridge Drive, Trumbull, CT
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The purpose of this seminar is to apply the philosophy and treatment concepts of the Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation (PNF) approach to the neuromuscular and musculoskeletal patient in both pediatric and adult populations. The emphasis of the course will be on refining the participant's handling and problem solving skills through lectures, extensive laboratory sessions, application of PNF to clinical problems, and an on-site patient demonstration.
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At the conclusion of the course, participants should be able to:
- Describe the philosophy and historical development of PNF.
- Demonstrate refinement in their PNF therapeutic handling skills.
- Expand their treatment planning ideas for patients with neuromuscular and/or musculoskeletal impairments through the use of on-going problem solving in class.
- Design a PNF-based intervention strategy in small groups for improved trunk function for a specific patient using the concepts presented throughout the course, and present the case back to the class.
Course Schedule
8:00 AM Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:30 AM Lecture: Introduction PNF philosophy and historical development
9:30 AM Lecture/Demonstration: Activities, Techniques, & Elements (ATE)
10:15 AM Break
10:30 AM Continued: Activities, Techniques, & Elements (ATE's)
11:15 AM Lab 1: UE patterns and selected ATE's
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1:15 PM Lab 1: Continued
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1:15 PM Lab 5: Developmental Activities: supine
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Dr. Massery received her BS in Physical Therapy from Northwestern University in 1977, her DPT from the University of the Pacific in 2004 and her DSc from Rocky Mountain University in 2011. Mary's extensive training in PNF forms the basis of her therapeutic approach to patients with neuromuscular and pulmonary impairments.
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I generally like Gail's analyses, however this one bothered me - it seemed a little too pat. Pitfall 1 would have applied to wood during the period when oil was just emerging or nearly any resource as it was being replaced by another. 3 would not be an issue if conventional, non-emerging resource subsidization, along with renewables subsidization were ended; if not ended the situation is even worse with the non-green technologies. I don't agree with 4 at all, at least given an appropriate time frame. The assumptions inherent in 6 and 7 have been disproved in the European networks. Only 2 and 8 make sense but they are non-sequitors.
On Eight Pitfalls in Evaluating Green Energy Solutions
I generally like Gail's analyses, however this one bothered me - it seemed a little too pat. Pitfall 1 would have applied to wood during the period when oil was just emerging or nearly any resource as it was being replaced by another. 3 would not be an issue if conventional, non-emerging resource subsidization, along with renewables subsidization were ended; if not ended the situation is even worse with the non-green technologies. I don't agree with 4 at all, at least given an appropriate time frame. The assumptions inherent in 6 and 7 have been disproved in the European networks. Only 2 and 8 make sense but they are non-sequitors.
On Some Lessons Were Learned from TMI, Others Were Not
"Subsidy" is a loaded word, implying more than it should. Convential wisdom defines subsidy as an artificial (and unfair) reduction in the cost of renewables. These "subsidies" simply offset the total costs of energy from that source. Their "competition" in the market, however, are not costed at their total cost of energy. "Subsidies" would not be necessary if, for example, all tax credits and production incentives were removed from oil and gas; loan guarantees, production credits and Price Anderson support from nuclear; costs of respiratory health treatment and coal miner disease coverage for coal use; and the incremental costs of the military budget for oil protection were all reflected in what an end user pays for those resources. Let all of those additional costs be reflected in each energy resource and then make policy based on the economics.
On Some Lessons Were Learned from TMI, Others Were Not
Just to set the record straight, there were no out of court settlements over health claims at TMI. The cases that were filed were repudiated by several courts and courts of appeal for lack of evidence. The last appeal was in 1996. Epidemiology is a tricky science. For example, the levels of cesium in milk in the area around TMI were significantly higher as a result of fallout from Chinese nuclear testing than from anything that ever emanated from the site.
On Some Lessons Were Learned from TMI, Others Were Not
I'm not celebrating anything. I'm just mystified that many nuclear advocates seem to forget that this is a business in a marketplace. What a waste of energy to rail at the ignorance of the public with their overblown perception of risk or attack renewables as if nuclear is being displaced by them. Public perception is generally pro nuclear and has been for 30 years. Nuclear plants are certainly not in competition with any renewable resource at the moment (unless and until there is economic grid scale storage) because they are baseload only and therefore only compete with coal and gas, whether in a vertically integrated utility, a generation company or as a merchant plant. Nuclear plants are not being built because of a poor business case, period. There is a lot that's bad about the patchwork quilt of how electricity is generated, transmitted and distributed in the US and the regulatory framework in which it exists, but it is what it is - a market that is not conducive to nuclear technology. Nuclear advocates ought to focus on cost issues and articulate why it makes sense to pay a premium for nuclear power. See http://worthingtonsawtelle.com/where-are-the-smart-nuclear-advocates/
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I'm afraid you might misunderstand how our electricity delivery system works. The wholesale grids calls for power to meet demand. The order by which it calls for that power (and bids for power) is based on cost: lowest cost units first, highest cost units last. THis cost does not include capital- it is purely operating costs - fuel and O&M. What a bidder charges for their power is up to them. This is only "fossil fuel" centric because they happen to be the cheapest units available, as long as you buy the idea that their other costs (e.g., enivironmental) are externalities unless and until they can be monetized. Monetization requires either a value placed on emissions or lack thereof, either by cap and trade or by taxes.
If you build a nuclear plant your plant does not have very much cycling ability, so it must run baseloaded, so it can only compete with other units that are pricing out at less than 5 cents/kwh, sometimes less than 2.
But what you sell that power for and what you need to get to make a return on the investment are two very different things. No investor is willing to wait forever to get its money back, and therein lies nuclear's problem.
This is why nuclear is the quintessential technology for centrally planned economies where the units are owned, operated and regulated by the government. Only a government has the financial resources to cover the added expense of nuclear and/or the costs when something goes wrong. And only a government has the patience to get extremely long returns on its assets.
All this talk of considering the longevity of units in cost, by the way, is just a red herring. There are 10 coal plants that began operation in the 20's; another 20 that began in the 30's. The average age of the coal fleet is 47 years old. Nuclear plants are built by companies that are making an investment, and while you could claim an operating life of 100 years to make the capital recovery factor drop, no one is willing to wait that long for a return.
On Some Lessons Were Learned from TMI, Others Were Not
You are right- it's not entirely about overnight capital. It's about the overall busbar cost of electricity (as established by your allowed acounting system using a reasonable asset life) and how that cost competes in the wholesale power market. It's also about your perception of future financial risk.
Now,if you start at over $7,000/kW installed and assume the maximum lifetime, that means your busbar costs just for capital recovery is about 11 cents/kwh. Now add in fuel and O&M and you're in the 14 cents/kwh neighborhood. You might take a look at the daily transactions on any of the wholesale grid websites and compare a cost of generation in the teens/kwh with the going rate for baseloaded power.
So if you are the decision maker on building new generation, you ask yourself two questions: what best meets my new demand at a cost that is competitive in my grid; and of those options which has the least long term risk for added costs or premature shutdown.
Given that, is it surprising that people are not lining up to buy new large nuclear generating stations?
On Some Lessons Were Learned from TMI, Others Were Not
The only places that can ignore the costs of nuclear are centrally planned economies where market economics do not matter and where the state has the financial resources to afford the technology and deal with consequences when problems occur. Under the current US system the choice of nuclear is in the hands of a buyer and that buyer needs to satisfy its stakeholder needs: shareholders, regulators and customers.
On Some Lessons Were Learned from TMI, Others Were Not
I'd like to add to your commentary on the lessons not fully learned. At the time of the accident there were pockets of small but rather vocal and visible anti-nuclear activists. For all practical purposes, they had little effectiveness in terms of achieving their goals, and public opinion was then (and continues to be) majority pro-nuclear. The hysteria that resulted was fueled by other factors. Two weeks before the accident the film China Syndrome opened and became a global hit. Its plot mirrored TMI somewhat, at least enough for people to draw direct comparisons, except there was no WIlford Brimley at TMI to keep a meltdown from happening. Secondly, as you noted, the plant management was both clueless about what was happening in the plant and, coming from the Rickover School of Communications, had no business talking to reporters. But most importantly was the role the NRC played in creating hysteria. At the time of the accident the only NRC voice came from DC and not from the plant. If reporters talked to the onsite NRC person, they could get a different story than from DC because neither knew what the other knew. NRC HQ was not getting instant information from the site, so when an operator said one thing and reporters asked HQ, they would deny it. Public officials had no idea what was happening and no confidence in what they were being told, so by Friday morning (30 March) evacuations were recommended. And then came the NRC HQ's baffling announcement Friday night regarding the possibility of a hydrogen explosion within the primary cooling loop, a possiblity any high chool chemist could quickly dismiss using Boyle's Law. A H2 explosion did ultimately occur, but inside containment, resulting in no external release.
I'd like to add another lesson not yet learned: it costs a lot more than you think to cleanup and accident and/or decomission a reactor. Before TMI decontamination insurance was limited to $300 million. Getting TMI to its current state, which is somewhat akin to the NRC entombment case but not quite (more interior decontamination would have to occur) cost a little over $1.2 billion. Decommissioning of the first generation reactors that had no accidents are costing about that amount. The NRC,however, is still approving site specific decommissioning cost estimates at around $300 million.
And then there's the lesson the industry thinks it learned: the 30 year hiatus in reactor construction occurred because of public fears resulting from TMI and Chernobyl. Public perception in the US (I think the EU is a different story) had nothing to do with the hiatus. It was all about cost and it is still all about cost. The last few reactors commissioned in the US in the mid 80's cost over $5,000/kW. That's $11,000/kW in 2014 dollars. The reactors now in construction are likely to come in at a little over $7,000/kW. Nuclear advocates haranguing the press about public risk perception and attacking non-baseloaded renewables are simply trying to divert attention from the real problem faced by nuclear: why would a plant owner risk the investment in a technology that is not competitive?
On Climate Skeptics Against Global Warming
If you read the Breakthrough "analysis" cited above, what it says is 1) take the fuel mix of 1940, assume it stays the same until present. 2) calculate the carbon emissions under that hypothetical. 3) calculate our actual carbon emissions since 1940, and, voila, look how great we've been compared with what we could have become. If we changed nothing since 1940, that is.
It also only uses the metrics of carbon emissions, energy intensity and carbon intensity, failing entirely to note that some of that reduction over 1940 came as a result of greater efficiency of generation, end use, and, lately, reduced demand in the economy. I bet those three items reduced far more carbon than the nuclear and natural gas contributions.
They ought to rename this organization the "Breathtaking Institute" because of the breathtaking extent to which they overreach.
On Nuclear Energy: Mark Bittman's Renewables Delusions
EIA's numbers are for a $5,400 kW installed cost plant with 2 cents/kWh for O&M. New nuclear is more like $7,000/kW awith higher O&M.
On Nuclear Energy: Mark Bittman's Renewables Delusions
First, a comment on comparing nuclear with photovoltaics that I posted a few days ago:
Until large scale economic energy storage becomes available, anyone who compares large nuclear plants- or any other form of central baseloaded generation - to renewables is advertising that they don't understand how electricity delivery systems function. When you can adequately aggregate intermittent generation through storage, then maybe a comparison could be made, as long as the incremental grid infrastructure is included in the equation. The question, of course, is whether the central generation model is still viable in all regions.
Regarding cost, with the exception of China, Russia, South Korea and India, where actual costs are not exactly transparent, installed costs for nuclear are averaging above $7,000 kW. Add in operating costs and the levelized buss bar cost for new unit is in the neighborhood of 14 cents/kwh.


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A healthy and filling middle eastern dip! Eat it as an appetizer or snack with some pita. Why buy your hummus ready made from the store, when you can make it yourself?
Submitted by GRANT_ME_WINGS
Carbs: 9.4g | Fat: 2g | Fiber: 3.1g | Protein: 3.1g | Calories: 69.3
This hummus and feta wrap is so quick and easy if you store pre-cut vegetables in your fridge. It is a great, lowfat, heart healthy lunch!
Carbs: 31.5g | Fat: 14.2g | Fiber: 11.7g | Protein: 21.1g | Calories: 295.2
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