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Summary: The popular culture of urban and rural tsarist Russia revealed a dynamic and troubled world. Stephen Frank and Mark Steinberg have gathered here a diverse collection of essays by Western and Russian scholars who question conventional interpretations and recall neglected stories about popular behavior, politics, and culture. What emerges is a new picture of lowerclass life, in which traditions and innovations intermingled and social boundaries and identities were batt ...show moreered and reconstructed. The authors vividly convey the vitality as well as the contradictions of social life in old regime Russia, while also confronting problems of interpretation, methodology, and cultural theory. They tell of peasant death rites and religious beliefs, family relationships and brutalities, defiant peasant women, folk songs, urban amusement parks, expressions of popular patriotism, the penny press, workers' notions of the self, street hooliganism, and attempts by educated Russians to transform popular festivities. Together, the authors portray popular culture not as a static, separate world, but as the dynamic means through which lowerclass Russians engaged the world around them. ...show less
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Novartis AG's U.S. unit agreed to pay as much as $152.5 million to settle a gender-discrimination class action brought by female workers.
As part of the settlement, Novartis will distribute money to eligible class members and spend an additional $22.5 million over three years to improve its personnel policies, the Basel, Switzerland-based drugmaker said yesterday in a statement.
The settlement, which was filed in federal court in Manhattan yesterday, follows a May 19 jury verdict in the case awarding $250 million in punitive damages to a group of 5,600 employees. The settlement must be approved by the judge overseeing the case before it can take effect.
"The terms of this agreement allow for full compensation of both former and current female field force employees, ensuring that every woman who worked at Novartis over the past eight years has been compensated fairly," David Sanford, lead counsel for the plaintiffs, said in the statement.
The settlement wipes out the May verdict, which was subject to challenge in post-trial motions or on appeal.
"While we believe that there was not systemic discrimination at NPC, the trial revealed that some of our associates had experiences influenced by managerial behavior inconsistent with our values," Joe Jimenez, Novartis AG's chief executive officer, said in the statement.
As part of the settlement, Novartis won't oppose a request by the class attorneys for $40.1 million in fees and expenses, which must be approved by the judge.
The settlement money will go to the class, which is made up of current and former women employees who held sales positions at Novartis from July 15, 2002, until yesterday.
The case is Velez v. Novartis Corp., 04-cv-09194, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York (Manhattan).
Bayer Loses Fifth Straight Trial Over U.S. Rice Crops
Bayer AG lost its fifth straight trial over contaminated U.S. long-grain rice to a Louisiana farmer who claimed the company's carelessness with its genetically engineered seed caused exports to plunge.
A jury in St. Louis said yesterday the company should pay damages of $500,248. The company previously lost two trials in state court and two in federal, for a total of more than $52 million in jury awards.
It faces about 500 additional lawsuits in federal and state courts with claims by 6,600 plaintiffs. It hasn't won any rice trials so far. The Louisiana grower, Danny Deshotels, and his family claimed the company and its Bayer CropScience unit were negligent in testing their genetically modified LibertyLink seed, causing a dive in exports to Europe.
"Five different juries under the laws of four different states in both federal and state courts now have unanimously found that Bayer was negligent and liable to rice farmers for damages," Don Downing, Deshotels' lawyer said after the trial. "Not a single juror in any of the five trials found for Bayer."
Bayer, based in Leverkusen, Germany, denied it was negligent and disputed the damages claims. It said after yesterday's verdict it "will consider its legal options."
The case is In Re Genetically Modified Rice Litigation, 06- md-1811, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Missouri (St. Louis).
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Ex-IKB Chief Ortseifen Convicted Over Subprime Risks
Former IKB Deutsche Industriebank AG Chief Executive Officer Stefan Ortseifen became the first person in Germany to be convicted over the financial crisis and was given a 10-month suspended sentence by a German court yesterday.
The Dusseldorf Regional Court convicted Ortseifen for misstating IKB's risks regarding asset-backed securities tied to the U.S. mortgage market in a press release, which his trial centered on. The former executive has denied wrongdoing. In addition to the suspended term, Ortseifen must pay 100,000 euros ($127,000) to charities.
"It wasn't our task to investigate the reasons for the financial crisis, the role of the banks or the rating agencies," presiding judge Brigitte Koppenhoefer said after the verdict. "We simply had to look into whether Mr. Ortseifen violated criminal statutes by the acts he was charged with."
Ortseifen was accused of misleading investors by downplaying the effect of the U.S. subprime crisis in the July 20, 2007, press release. IKB received a bailout package 10 days later and subsequently got as much as 12 billion euros in guarantees from Germany's bank-rescue fund.
Ortseifen's lawyer, Rainer Hamm, had asked for an acquittal and said his client would appeal yesterday's decision.
Prosecutor Nils Bussee had sought the 10-month suspended prison term and an "adequate" penalty.
IKB's shares dropped starting in April 2007 over rumors of its subprime risks and Moody's Investors Service said in early July 2007 it needed to revise its ratings on some asset-backed securities. Ortseifen wanted to react with a release that also addressed the bank's quarterly results, Koppenhoefer said.
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Nomura, Hogarth Davies Settle U.K. Lawsuit Over Hires
Nomura Holdings Inc. settled a U.K. lawsuit brought by an executive-search firm that had claimed the bank owed it millions of pounds for helping to recruit hundreds of bankers from Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.
The case filed by Hogarth Davies Lloyd, which was in the second week of trial in London, was settled yesterday, Nomura spokeswoman Beth Brophy said in a telephone interview. She declined to give further details.
Nomura acquired Lehman's operations in Asia and Europe, including about 8,000 former Lehman workers, after the New York investment bank filed for bankruptcy in 2008. While Hogarth Davies asked Justice David Steel to assess damages, the firm sought as much as 35.1 million pounds ($53.6 million) in a court filing earlier this year.
Hogarth Davies didn't respond to a phone message seeking comment. James Hogarth, one of the firm's founders, didn't respond to an e-mail.
In court papers, Tokyo-based Nomura said the fee should be around 2 million pounds and called the sum sought by Hogarth Davies "commercially absurd."
Hogarth testified last week that the job was "one of the biggest headhunting exercises the market has ever known."
The case is: Hogarth Davies and Lloyd Ltd. v. Nomura International Plc, 09-519, High Court of Justice, Queen's Bench Division Commercial Court.
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Federated Agrees to Settle Market-Timing Suit for $1.82 Million
Federated Investors Inc., the third-biggest manager of money-market funds, agreed to settle a 2003 class-action lawsuit alleging improper trading for about $1.82 million.
A legal notice announcing the proposed settlement, which received preliminary approval from the U.S. District Court of Maryland, was published yesterday in the Wall Street Journal. The settlement was agreed to in December.
The suit accused Federated of engaging in so-called market- timing and late-trading practices that allowed large clients to buy and sell mutual funds in ways that diluted the gains of long-term shareholders. Pittsburgh-based Federated agreed in November 2005 to pay $100 million to settle similar allegations from regulators. Federated was among 30 companies to resolve claims of improper trading.
The court scheduled a hearing on Oct. 21 and 22 to consider final approval of the settlement, according to the notice. Federated managed $350 billion for investors as of March 31.
Meghan McAndrew, a spokeswoman for Federated, declined to comment.
The case is Mutual Funds Investment Litigation in re Excelsior, Federated, Scudder and AMCAP, 1:04-MD-15861-CCB, U.S. District Court of Maryland (Baltimore).
DBS to Pay $84 Million in Hong Kong Lehman Settlement
DBS Group Ltd., Southeast Asia's biggest bank, agreed to repay HK$651 million ($84 million) to Hong Kong clients who bought notes linked to the collapsed Lehman Brothers Holdings Ltd.
DBS (Hong Kong) Ltd. has agreed to make the payments to clients it classified as having a low or medium investment risk profile, the Securities and Futures Commission said yesterday.
"This will serve as a useful guide for other distributors in resolving complaints from customers," said Martin Wheatley, the commission's chief executive. Over 60 percent of clients who bought the so-called Constellation Notes from DBS will get back their full investment back with interest, he said.
Hong Kong investors bought a total of HK$6.5 billion worth of the notes, of which HK$1.3 billion were sold by DBS. Yesterday's agreement follows a settlement arrangement last July in which 16 Hong Kong banks including DBS agreed to pay at least 60 cents on the dollar, for a total of HK$6.3 billion, to buy back a batch of credit-linked notes linked to Lehman, known as mini-bonds.
"Resolution payments are being offered, without admission of liability, in the interests of our relationships with our customers and in the broader interests of the Hong Kong financial system," DBS said in an e-mailed statement yesterday.
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Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac Sued Over California Claims
California Attorney General Jerry Brown sued Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac over claims the companies thwarted a program that allows property owners to pay for energy upgrades over time through special tax assessments.
The suit, filed yesterday in federal court in Oakland, California, is based on the Property Assessed Clean Energy program. Under the initiative, local governments pay to make properties more energy efficient and owners then repay the costs through the special property tax levy, according to the complaint.
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have blocked the program by improperly characterizing the assessments as loans, and telling lenders that they won't fund mortgages on properties that participate in the program, according to the suit.
"Because Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac control the mortgage resale market, lenders will not issue mortgages that do not meet Fannie Mae's and Freddie Mac's requirements," according to the complaint. "As a result, Fannie Mae's and Freddie Mac's determination -- which misrepresents California law -- essentially forecloses residential Property Assessed Clean Energy programs."
Fannie Mae spokeswoman Janis Smith said the company declined to comment.
Freddie Mac spokeswoman Stefanie Mullin declined to immediately comment.
The case is California v. Federal Housing Finance Agency, 10-3084, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California (Oakland).
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Sands Sues Singapore Law Group Again for Unpaid Bills
Las Vegas Sands Corp.'s Singapore casino has filed a second lawsuit against a lawyers' group that refused to pay its bills for a May conference, even though both sides are discussing a settlement of their dispute.
The latest complaint, following one in May, comes after Sands Chairman Sheldon Adelson said June 23 that he was ready to settle with the lawyers "any day they want" and he would "rather make love than war."
Marina Bay Sands Pte, a unit of Sands, is now seeking S$641,246 ($466,496) from IPBA 2010 Pte over unpaid bills, more than double the original claim, according to a lawsuit filed with the Singapore High Court on June 28.
The organizer of the Inter-Pacific Bar Association conference said in its own counterclaim, filed June 8, that Sands owed the group compensation for misrepresenting its casino as a world-class venue at a time some rooms were unfinished and some facilities were closed.
Sands, which hasn't served the latest complaint, and IPBA representatives met for settlement talks late last week, Yap Wai Ming, chairman of IPBA's organizing committee, said July 13 in an e-mailed response to questions.
The casino resort has six months to formally turn over the papers to IPBA, following which the law group will have eight days to respond, according to court papers.
Lisa Williamson, a spokeswoman for Marina Bay Sands, declined to comment.
IPBA paid S$200,000 of the S$841,245.75 bill, according to court papers. Sands will deduct S$300,000 from its latest claim if it manages to recover the amount from an earlier lawsuit, the resort said in court papers.
The case is Marina Bay Sands Pte Ltd. v. IPBA 2010 Singapore Pte Ltd. S464/2010 in the Singapore High Court.
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Rajaratnam, Chiesi Get Details of Case, Judge Says
Raj Rajaratnam and Danielle S. Chiesi, co-defendants in the biggest hedge-fund insider-trading prosecution, are entitled to learn more about the government's case against them, a federal judge ruled.
Rajaratnam, 53, and Chiesi, 44, are among more than 20 people accused since October in overlapping criminal and civil insider-trading cases. U.S. District Judge Richard J. Holwell in Manhattan said prosecutors must give the co-defendants more details about the nature of the inside information they are alleged to have exchanged.
Holwell, who is presiding over the criminal case, said in a ruling dated July 13 and made public yesterday that the government has amassed a substantial amount of evidence. The charges span six years, involve "dozens of stocks, dozens of co-conspirators, and a total of seven conspiracies as charged in the indictment," he said.
"The merits of such a charge depend heavily on the facts and context," Holwell said. "A defendant might argue that the information he sought to obtain was not material, or that it was already public at the time he tried to get it. But he can only do that if he knows what the information is and when it was conveyed."
Prosecutors in the office of Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara opposed further disclosures, saying the government had already provided "sufficient information" about the nature of the charges.
Robert Hotz, a lawyer for Rajaratnam, didn't return a voicemail message left at his office seeking comment. Alan Kaufman, a lawyer for Chiesi, said he was still reviewing the decision and didn't have an immediate comment.
Rajaratnam, co-founder of New York-based Galleon Group, is accused of using secret tips from corporate officials and hedge- fund executives including Chiesi to earn millions of dollars in illegal stock trades. The allegations involve trading shares in 12 companies, including Intel Corp., International Business Machines Corp., Akamai Technologies Inc., Google Inc. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc.
The criminal case is U.S. v. Rajaratnam, 1:09-cr-1184; the civil case is SEC v. Galleon Management LP, 09-cv-08811, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York (Manhattan).
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Nigerian Bank Wins U.K. Freezing Order Against Ex-CEO
Intercontinental Bank Plc, a Nigerian lender bailed out by the country's central bank, won a U.K. court order freezing 83 million pounds ($127 million) in assets held by its former chief executive officer.
The bank won the global-freeze order in January in a lawsuit accusing Erastus Akingbola of using the bank's money to help buy apartments in London and enrich entities he controlled. The bank yesterday won permission from a judge to add new claims to the case, alleging that Akingbola wrongfully directed the lender to buy its own shares, resulting in a loss.
The money was "misappropriated by the defendant and is due to the claimant," the bank said in court papers. Akingbola used the money in "breach of fiduciary duty."
The Central Bank of Nigeria said the country had asked the U.K. to extradite Akingbola so he can face charges, which include mismanagement of Intercontinental. Companies outside Britain frequently use London courts to secure global freezes, including Glitnir Bank hf's freeze this year on assets of former Baugur Group hf Chairman Jon Asgeir Johannesson.
Akingbola's lawyer, Ed Crosse of Osborne Clarke in London, declined to comment. Akingbola's defense papers filed March 19 say the alleged transactions were either valid or were mischaracterized in the lawsuit.
The Nigerian bank's lawyer, Segun Osuntokun of Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP in London, declined to comment.
The U.K. Home Office didn't immediately have a comment yesterday on Nigeria's extradition request. Akingbola has been living in the U.K. since last year.
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Ex-Morgan Crucible CEO Said Not to Direct Shredding
Ex-Morgan Crucible Co. Chief Executive Officer Ian Norris didn't order the destruction of documents about price-fixing meetings with competitors, a former executive of the ceramics maker testified in Norris's criminal trial.
Robin Emerson, who retired from a Morgan Crucible unit that makes carbon-based engine parts, said he was ordered by Norris's subordinates to destroy files detailing secret talks among European makers of carbon and graphite products about how to fix prices in a cartel lasting more than a decade. U.S. prosecutors extradited Norris from the U.K. on conspiracy and obstruction of justice charges tied to the destruction of company documents about the cartel.
"Mr. Norris never instructed you to destroy documents?" Christopher Curran, a lawyer for the former CEO, asked Emerson yesterday in federal court in Philadelphia. "That's correct," the ex-executive replied.
Norris retired from Windsor, England-based Morgan Crucible in 2002 after battling prostate cancer. U.S. prosecutors alleged he colluded with rivals to fix prices on carbon parts and then orchestrated a cover-up of those activities. The cartel, which originally operated in Europe, spread to the U.S. in 1989 and continued until 2000, according to a U.S. indictment.
The case is U.S. v. Ian Norris, 03-CR-632, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia.)
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Mortgage interest rates moved lower for the second consecutive week, Freddie Mac reported Thursday.
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Character actor Ned Wertimer, known to fans of "The Jeffersons" as the doorman Ralph Hart, has died, CNN confirms. He was 89.
Wertimer made appearances in a wide variety of classic TV series, including "Mork and Mindy," "WKRP in Cincinnati" and "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," but he's perhaps best known for his work on "The Jeffersons."
Wertimer stayed with the comedy, which portrayed Sherman Hemsley and Isabel Sanford as the newly wealthy African-American couple George and Louise Jefferson, for 11 seasons. (Hemsley died in July 2012 at the age of 74, and Sanford died in 2004.)
A rep for Wertimer tells CNN that the actor passed away January 2 from complications stemming from a fall he sustained in his Burbank home in late November.
Throughout his career, the Buffalo, New York native worked extensively on Broadway and appeared in more than 100 TV programs.
Who?? What about the guy who played the parking attendent on the show. He died, too. Is there no justice for the dead?
back when tv was good
Ralph was very funny as well as the whole cast of "The Jefferson's" – one of the best sitcoms ever! What a cast!!!!!! RIP Louise, Ralph and George.
Ralph was great for the show! I loved him. That serious tip look always made me laugh. Great man may he rest in peace. God bless his family
love the show was a great era some espoides dealt with real life issues even today we can learn from r.i.p all those legends from past tv shows and the legends we loss jt recently on tv and in the movies
He did the roll well. Couldnt be done toda. May you rest in peace sir...all the dumb dumbs posting irrelevant comments. If you ever are important enough for an obituary hope the same is done in your name...
'The Jeffersons' is one of my all-time favorite TV shows, and Ralph's constant pandering for tips from George was just one of the many things that makes the show timelessly hilarious.
May Ned Wertimer rest in peace.
He was a GREAT actor ! R.I.P : )
He's, moving on up.
So I guess Florence is the only one of the regular cast that is left... Unless you count Lionel and Jenny but they were really more All in the Family regulars.
The Lionel character played by Mike Evans died last year. The other Lionel I think is still alive
mike evans died in 2006
Great show.
Because you are an imbecile and not funny in the least?
i loved when he did that lil dance at the start of the show. Very funny rip
Love is always there
wonder if the hudson brothers were in on it too...geeze all of you rip
geeze. what a day.
Sanford was gross
Rip loved him
Ralph with his hand extended.... Great television!!
why would u do that? this is not about me...this is about your dysfunction...you bloggers are so immature... i can't stand most of you.
he better stay in that bathroom until god calls him.....what a maroon...
Once they take a fall at that age, it seems like it is the first sign of the grim reaper coming soon. RIP Sir and thanks for the laughs.
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My deeped on his passing
in all lines, cuts off conversations and is a disturbance we need to look at her as person of interest....
your writing sucks..its all the same sh-t...
I have returned.
and they never follow through..they are always crying for attention and offer nothing.
and they just die and you lose hope –
all there, clicks and cuts lines off in the middle of conversations...RIP
don't call people stupid...how's are the hard drives doing....mothers computer is blocked fix it...
why do people always write stupid it!
as you can see i am not black from your computer screen...we have blacks wh0 are doctors and lawyers. this is 2013...
the jeffersons was a very funny show and people did not appreciate it because these people were black and whites have a tendency even today to look down upon blacks.
Oh that makes sense given the show was resoundingly so popular for over a decade while being on the air 30 years ago...give me a break.
we have others...
until target is named... thanks. can't be nice...proceed.
I loved the house keeper keeping George in check.
its great writing but its the same thing. i have a right to an opini0n.
its still the same story, 7,489,272 times....its written well but its still the same personal problems this blogger is having turned into the storyline of a show....are you the one that cannot find your boyfriend since august?
forever...thank you.
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can't figure out whats real or fake anymore...
he has soooooooooo many other ways now
My condolences to his family. Seemed like he was in EVERY 1970's sitcom there was.
the jeffersons was a hysterical show...i still laugh at the beginning of the show when george and his wife get out of the car strutting to the elevator to head to his apartment in the sky.
because we make sure they are not...duh...what planet are you on...
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Three years ago he bought some bitcoins, forgot about them, then reading about increase in value found they're worth $690,000 now so bought apartment. article about them
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A Norwegian man who purchased $24 worth of bitcoins and then promptly forgot about it for four years, was able to buy an apartment in central Oslo thanks to the massive appreciation of the virtual currency.
In 2009, Kristoffer Koch was doing research on encryption and on a whim decided to invest a small sum in the recently created bitcoins -- a means of payment over the Internet.
Koch, now 29 and working as an engineer, only remembered the investment in April of this year when he read an article about the soaring value of bitcoins.
His 5,000 bitcoins were suddenly worth around $690,000 (500,000 euros).
After spending a full day trying to remember his password, Koch cashed in 1.1 million kroner (135,000 euro, $186,000), by selling a fifth of his newly acquired fortune.
After deducting 28 percent in taxes, the money was enough for the downpayment and restoration of a flat worth 2.6 million kroner in central Oslo, one of the world's most expensive cities.
"Not in my wildest dreams could I have imagined that they would have soared like this," Koch said.
"It's bizarre, these psychological reflexes that make us attach a value to something that doesn't have any in itself."
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acquire: to get; to obtain - ได้มาซึ่ง
anonymous: not named - ไม่ระบุชื่อ
apartment: a set of rooms for living in that is part of a large building - ห้องชุด, อพาร์ทเมนท์
appreciation: increase in value - ค่าเพิ่ม
attach: to fasten or join one thing to another - ทำให้ติดกัน, ต่อ, ยึดติด
back up: to keep an extra copy of computer files to be safe, if computer crashes you do not lose files -
bizarre: very strange and unusual - แปลกประหลาด,วิตถาร,ผิดปกติ
code: a system of computer programming instructions - โปรแกรมคอมพิวเตอร์
complex: having a lot of details or small parts that make it difficult to understand or deal with - ซับซ้อน
currency: the system of money that a country uses - เงินตรา
digital: using a system of receiving and sending information as a series of the numbers one and zero, showing that an electronic signal is there or is not there - ซึ่งรับส่งข้อมูลด้วยการใช้ตัวเลข
down payment: a first payment that you make when you are buying something and are going to pay the rest later - เงินที่ชำระราคาครั้งแรก
encryption: when messages sent between use a secret code so that others cannot read the message - เปลี่ยนข้อความให้เป็นรหัส, การนำข้อความมาทำให้เป็นรหัส
engineer: a person who arranges for something to happen, especially in a skilful way - ผู้วางแผน
ensure: to make certain that something happens or is done - ให้การยืนยัน, รับรอง, ให้ความมั่นใจ
exchange: to give one thing and get another - แลกเปลี่ยน
extremely: very; to a very high degree อย่างสุดขีด, อย่างมาก, อย่างยิ่ง - อย่างสุดขีด, อย่างมาก, อย่างยิ่ง
faith: trust in somebody's ability or knowledge; trust that somebody/something will do what has been promised - ศรัทธา
flat: a set of rooms for living in, including a kitchen, usually on one floor of a building - แฟลต, ห้องชุด
fortune: a large amount of money - เงินมากมาย
host: to provide the space and other things necessary for a special event - ทำหน้าที่เป็นเจ้าภาพ, เป็นผู้จัดรายการ
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investment: the act of investing money in something - การลงทุน
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means: methods; ways - วิธี, วิธีการ
not in my wildest dreams: it is very surprising; I would never have thought this would happen -
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protocol: a system of fixed rules and formal behaviour - ระเบียบการ
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transferred: changed someone's job or responsibilities - โยกย้ายตำแหน่ง
value: how much something is worth in money or other goods for which it can be exchanged - มูลค่า
variety: many different types of things or people - ความหลากหลาย
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virtual: almost the same as - เกือบจะ
volatile: of something that may change suddenly or become more dangerous - ที่ปะทุได้ง่าย
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Most Tucson Electric Power Co. customers will see their power bills rise by about $7 per month on average for at least the next year, due to a regulatory adjustment related to Arizona's dalliance with electric competition more than a decade ago.
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WASHINGTON — They may not like it, but many House liberals look ready to accept a compromise health-care bill, putting Democratic leaders well on the way to delivering on President Obama's call for overhaul.
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Republican candidate Shaun McClusky filed a complaint against the Pima County Democratic Party on Thursday, alleging a flier that went to households last week violated campaign-finance laws.
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Every new school year brings change: The 2009-10 year will be known primarily for its physical changes.
Two new school facilities, along with upgrades at many other school locations and two more facilities in the plans, makes the Bullitt County Public Schools system look like a construction zone as well as an education zone.
Students, parents and school administrators all need to heed caution and be safe at the schools facing construction issues.
The Blazin' Saddles drill team competed in the district and state levels of 4-H Horse Club competitions.
The team, coached by Angela Branham, placed eighth in the state competition.
The drill team consists of:
*Rebekah McAuliffe with Twister
*Apryl Kapfhammer with Chief
*McKenze Branham with Jetta
*Brittney Blevins with Naomi
*Bridgette McAuliffe with Dipper
*Meaghan Metzmeier with Savannah
*Megan Meffert with Rusty
*Brooklyn Poteet with Starla
LOUISVILLE - A group of 23 area Boy Scouts and 10 adult Scout leaders went on a life changing 10-day summer trek through the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of New Mexico at Philmont Scout Ranch.
Philmont covers 214 square miles of vast wilderness. The property donated to the Boy Scouts of America by oilman Waite Phillips, and is maintained by BSA as a high adventure, camping and training center.
More information about the Scout Ranch can be found at www.scouting.org/scoutsource/HighAdventure/Philmont.
CEDAR GROVE - Bullitt County is the newest area to taste the snappy difference.
Snappy Tomato Pizza is open for business at the Cedar Grove Center.
Bret Witte, director of operations in the West-Central Kentucky territory, said the area offered unique opportunities to offer dine-in buffets and delivery orders.
The location will deliver to a 10-12 minute driving area.
The lunch and dinner buffet features all specialty pizzas along with pasta for $6.29. Buffets are available at lunch from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. and dinner from 5 to 7:30 p.m.
MOUNT WASHINGTON — Going back to school is an exciting time for many Bullitt County students. But for struggling families trying to make ends meet, sending children back to school can mean a tough financial burden with the rising cost of supplies and fees.
Some local realtors with Century 21 Advantage Plus' Mount Washington office recognize there are many local families financially unable to supply their children with the essentials to start the school year off right, so they banded together to help meet that need.
The Bullitt County 4-H Horse Club, the Blazin' Saddles, recently competed at the district and state levels in Frankfort and Louisville.
Each rider had to qualify at the district level to move to state competition.
Each of these riders excelled in competition:
*Rebekah McAuliffe on Twister -- DISTRICT: sixth place in showmanship; red ribbons in pole bending, barrel racing and stake race; STATE: red ribbonsin pole bending, barrel racing and stake race
The Bullitt County School System hosted its Kindergarten Kickoff for youngsters on Thursday at Paroquet Springs Conference Centre.
The event allows incoming Kindergarten students to visit their new teachers, counselors and principals prior to the first day of school.
Students received free backpacks, school supplies and other fun stuff, along with important information for themselves and their parents.
The Class of 2022 begins Kindergarten Tuesday, Aug. 12.
MOUNT WASHINGTON — Jacob Carter and Jacob Franklin knew there was work to be done at the Mount Washington pool long before the city made needed repairs earlier this summer.
Franklin and Carter, both of Mount Washington and Boy Scout Troop 333, enjoyed going to the pool as young boys. Although they couldn't make some of the most expensive repairs, they recognized a need for additional picnic tables and the restrooms to be renovated.
HILLVIEW – For months Hillview Mayor Jim Eadens expressed his approval of the Kentucky Transitional Assistance Program (KTAP), which assists local residents with acquiring necessary medication.
The program, originally presented by Gov. Steve Beshear's office, allows trained volunteers to assist communities and uninsured families with prescriptions and medication information.
Two Hillview city employees immediately volunteered to accept KTAP training. Now the city is receiving further assistance from a local business.
Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest celebrated its 80th Anniversary July 12 with a community wide bash for the whole family.
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Officials announced Thursday that Frank Reed has been appointed deputy commissioner.
Reed has worked for the department since 1999, serving most recently as interim deputy and commissioner.
Reed is a licensed clinical social worker. He has served as president of the Vermont Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers and as a behavioral health surveyor for the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities.
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Royals activate Chen, demote Collins, DFA Joseph
JUN 24, 2014 7:01p ET
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- In a flurry of moves involving left-handers, the Royals activated Bruce Chen, demoted Tim Collins and designated for assignment Donnie Joseph.
None of the moves was particularly surprising.
Chen was eligible to come off the disabled list Tuesday, and the Royals did so promptly. Chen will be used in long relief, manager Ned Yost said.
Collins, like Louis Coleman, has been a staple in the bullpen the last few years. But each has struggled mightily this season, and both now are in the minors.
Collins was 0-3 with a 4.15 ERA and had given up 17 hits and 10 walks in 17 innings. His main issue?
"Secondary pitches," Yost said. "When he was right, he had good fastball command, but his out pitch was with his secondary pitches. Curveball to lefties, changeups to righties, off-speed to lefties and so on. That's how he got guys out.
"And lately he really has increased the number of fastballs he throws because he needs them for strikes. He needs to go back and get confidence again that he can throw his secondary pitches for strikes."
Yost said the Royals by no means have given up on Collins or Coleman.
"This bullpen was built with (Greg) Holland and (Wade) Davis at the back end," Yost said, "but it's really important we have Coleman, (Aaron) Crow, Collins, and (Kelvin) Herrera to pick up the seventh innings and sometimes the eighth or ninth when Davis and Holland can't go.
"We need all of them."
Tuesday's moves also are a sign of faith in left-hander Francisley Bueno.
"He gives you a chance," Yost said. "He's not going to go out and get behind everyone."
And that was the problem with Joseph, who could actually clear waivers, Yost thought. Joseph got whacked for six runs in 2/3 of an inning last week in Detroit, and couldn't close out an 11-2 lead in the ninth.
"I think Donnie still has a chance to be an effective situational left-hander," Yost said. "But he has to throw strikes.
"I got to know what I'm getting at this level."
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Countdown to Wrath Giveaway: Day 1 - 60-day game time card {WoW}
Nov 12th 2008 4:16PM Will I win one of these? My guess... eh.. yes. So gimme.
Countdown to Wrath giveaway: Day 2 - Razer DeathAdder mouse {WoW}
Nov 11th 2008 9:49PM I just bought a new mouse... >_>
Countdown to Wrath Giveaway: Day 6 - 60-day game time card {WoW}
Nov 7th 2008 1:39PM Free $30 bucks? Dems some phat lewts.
Countdown to Wrath Giveaway: Day 7 - Wrath Collector's Edition box {WoW}
Nov 6th 2008 2:14PM Hmm... Wrath DVD dropped...
Ret to be nerfed "to the ground" {WoW}
Oct 16th 2008 10:55PM If you guys really want to know why your getting all this attention you need to understand this is situation. Everyone got new stuff, new abilities, cool new tricks, and they say, "Hey, lets try this stuff out in pvp" then before they even get to try out their new moves, BOOOOOOMM HEAADDDDSSHOOOT from 2-3 ret plds going around TEARING PEOPLES LIMBS OFF!!?!
See my point? See why we're pissed? Your buffs may have been warranted.. but our reason to be very pissed is too. This patch has RUINED pvp for everyone that isn't a ret pld. So.. yeah.. have fun with those 3-5+ man groups of ret plds with a contingent of people following you around trying to suck off the glory of your damage. Please. Shove it in our faces more that right now, your better than us, We'll shove back just as hard. The only way we can. NERF THEM!
PTR Brewfest includes summoned barmaid pets, rams and kodos segregated by faction {WoW}
Jun 25th 2008 5:13PM Gnomes on Kodo? No. Thumbs up to Blizz, they know this would be the most stupid thing evar.
WoW Moviewatch: The Crimson Sisters of the Scarlet Flame {WoW}
Jun 3rd 2008 10:19PM Quality Work, Can I haz moar Gnomechewer?
This guy deserves some serious acclaim for his movies. I know anything he farts out would be 1000x better than the winner of the L70 Tauren Chieftain winner.
Holy Paladin! A 3,000 team/personal rating {WoW}
Apr 29th 2008 5:33PM WOW Insider should NOT be so quick to congratulate these guys. A quick analysis of their team (makeup, enchants, etc.) and you guys would quickly realize these guys aren't a real top level arena team.
It is one of the many reasons Blizz is releasing the changes you guys reported in 2.4.2 for Arena. They need to stop teams like this from achieving high ratings. Hopefully, these guys will NOT be able to attain the coveted Arena Dragon Mount. It will be a disgraceful mark on Arena competition. Worse off, all of us that try hard and not cheat at arena and can not achieve ridiculous ratings will have to face facts the the 'champions' of Arena are no good cheaters.
So please WOW Insider, Do not reward these guys until they have been proven to be the real deal. We all know of the current controversial of win-trading. Dig some dirt before you sparkle these guys in gold.
Why Mount Hyjal and Black Temple attunements still matter {WoW}
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3) Profit.
Why is Kael a bad guy again? {WoW}
Mar 9th 2008 5:22PM Hey again guys,
You guys bring up some really good points about the back story of these important characters. I agree your not going to know what is going on if you skip past quest descriptions and don't read the novels. Ironically, that's exactly my point. The lore isn't constructed well enough to be able to understand without being able to write a freaking thesis in Azerothian History.
Why should it be that convoluted? Look at LOTR, All the characters have a clear desire to do right AND conflicting emotions about what they are doing. I know it goes down to Good vs. Evil in that story but when these characters are going from two polar opposites within the span of a year or two (Arthas- WC3 to TFT, Illidan - TFT to WoW, Kael - TFT to WoW) it just feels odd. Mainly because esentially all of the big ol' bad guys never did 1 thing. They never really questioned the path they were on. Any sensible person would question if they should pick up the big ass demon sword in order to save the alliance. Any sensible person would question if they should change their ways and fight their addiction after (hmm) 1000+ years of prison. Any sensible person would see that the big freaking FISH LADY is evil and really just wants to use your people JUST like the Alliance who used your people before. DURR!
Thats the problem. Even the most ridiculous villians question themselves (Gollum, Green Goblin, etc.) They become really 'bad' when they decide to make that decision to go ahead be that guy that we hate. Granted, Arthas basically turned into a "Supervillan."
Kael was really likeable as a sort of 'grey' hero. He certainly had the capacity to question his leaders orders when he worked for the Alliance. Why did he not question Illidan? We know what is going to happen in 2.4. I'd be nice if we could see him come full circle, but from what has happened to Illidan, it seems like that their story ends when they decide to become /sigh.. a bad guy. P.S. Sorry I haven't read 100% of the lore but neither have alot of people. Honestly, this stuff is really fascinating, but sadly kind of hard to follow. Much respect to you guys that owned me earlier :)


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Every time you trot out this known falsehood you sound like an idiot. They were political organizations that were required to do more work to prove that they were following the law and not taking advantage of hype in one area or another. The groups targeted were both left and right leaning groups and the leftists groups were the only ones denied anything. Stop lying or being misinformed. I'm so sick of people who can't see that they are being manipulated by political entities against their own self interest acting as the mouthpiece for their overlords. I'm not saying it's an issue that affects one political party more than another, but currently conservatives seem to be the ones more full of stupid. No one should be proud to be ignorant. We have enough real issues to deal with that this kind of childish distraction just gets in the way of getting things most Americans already agree on done.
Small issue with your "known falsehood"... The IRS Inspector General reported that in fact, the IRS DID target conservative groups to a greater extent than non-conservative. This report is what started the whole noise machine in the first place.


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9 p.m. — 1300 block of Charlotte Avenue. Motor Vehicle Theft. A woman asked to borrow her roommate's car to pick up a friend. The roommate awoke in the morning to discover her vehicle and the woman had not returned. The roommate contacted the woman, who said she would bring the car back in 20 minutes, but she never showed up with the 2000 Mazda. The woman was also driving with a revoked license.
March 17
12:42 a.m. — 300 block of Ringling Boulevard. Noise Violation. An officer observed the patio door open at a bar. The officer performed a meter reading at the property line, and the reading exceeded the city ordinance. The officer provided a copy of the 20-4 noise ordinance and issued a verbal warning to the bar owner. The bar owner posted an employee by the door to keep it closed as patrons walked in and out. The bar was entered into a noise-warning file.
2:02 a.m. — 1400 block of Main Street. Disturbance. A vacationer from Minnesota told police a woman hit her in the back of the head with a bottle of alcohol in the VIP area of a nightclub. The woman thought the vacationer had sprayed her with Champagne from an opened bottle. A police officer was unable to find any injuries to the vacationer's head. The officer requested video surveillance to see if anything was caught on video.
March 18
12:45 a.m. — 1500 block of Main Street. Unclassified. A resident reported an unknown woman on Main Street kicked a dog in the stomach. The woman was also yelling at customers.
10:43 p.m. — 1100 block of Central Avenue. Recovered Stolen Vehicle. Officers responded to a burglary call and noticed a stolen green Hyundai pull into a parking garage. Officers had the car towed to the police department to be processed for evidence. The car had been reported stolen twice over the past six months.
1 p.m. — 3800 block of Osprey Avenue. Criminal Mischief. An employee was leaving work and found the left side of her silver Saturn had been keyed. An officer took photos of the damaged car.
March 19
5 p.m. — 600 block of East Avenue. Loitering. A resident came to the police department to report narcotics activity at a home. Prostitutes also frequent the home, according to the resident.
March 20
2:38 a.m. — 1500 block of Main Street. Suspicion Person. An officer noticed a homeless man with a full beard sitting in a doorway. There was a beer car in the doorway area. The man said it was not his. The officer checked to see if the man had warrants, and he did not. The man left the area.
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Optimizing Imports
Sooner or later, some of the imported classes become redundant to the code.
Typically, you have to stop what you are doing, scroll to the head of the file, find the unused imports, and remove them. It is rather easy to forget to remove imports when you remove usages.
PhpStorm provides the Optimize Imports feature, which enables you, whenever it is convenient, to remove unused imports from your current file, or from all files in the current directory at once.
To optimize imports, follow these steps
- Do one of the following:
- On the main menu, choose Code | Optimize Imports .
- Press Ctrl+Alt+O.
- In the Optimize Imports dialog box, specify where you want PhpStorm to remove unused import statements from.
- To have unused imports removed from the current file, select the File option.
- To have unused imports removed from all files in the current directory, select the All files in directory... option.
- Click Run.
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A 5% owner is defined as follows:
- If the employer is a corporation, any person who owns more than 5% of the outstanding stock of the corporation, or
- If the employer is not a corporation (unincorporated), any person who owns more than 5% of the capital or profits interest in the employer.
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After pairing with a Bluetooth-enabled phone via a four-digit PIN, the Minikit+ will automatically attempt to download the user's address book. An option to manually trigger an address book sync is also present in the device's menus. There's room in the internal memory for a claimed 2,000 contacts per paired phone, and since the Minikit+ can remember pairing data for up to 10 phones, that brings the maximum number of saved contacts to 20,000.
Not only can this speakerphone remember the last 10 phones it's connected to, but it can also pair with up to two of them simultaneously thanks to its implementation of multipoint technology. Now that doesn't mean that you'll be able carry on two simultaneous conversations, but the device will assign a unique ringtone to each of the two currently paired phone so that you'll know which line you're answering.
Also helping you to know who's on the end of that incoming call is a spoken caller ID system. Unfortunately, it only reads aloud entries that are already in you device's memory, but that's more of a "nature of caller ID for mobile phones" issue than a fault of the Minikit+ itself.
Speaking of speaking, you and the Minikit+ will be doing quite a bit of chatting back and forth because there's no visual readout to be found on the device. All of the device's menus, accessible by pushing and twisting the control knob, are spoken aloud to you as you go. Likewise, the unit can also recognize your spoken inputs for initiating, accepting, or rejecting calls. Simply tap the green Call button, speak the name of anyone in your synced address book, and the Minikit+ will initiate a call. In the event of multiple numbers for a contact, the unit may ask if you mean Home, Office, or Other. Or you could just bypass the second question by simply saying, for example, "Call Antuan at home," "Call Antuan at work," or even "Call Antuan at the office." Of course, you can also call people who are not named Antuan.
Additionally, when a call is incoming, the user can simply say "Accept" or "Reject" to accept or reject the call without even touching a button. Parrot calls this feature Magic Words.
The Minikit+ speaker's other trick is, as mentioned before, streaming audio from an A2DP Bluetooth device. Simply pair up and the Minikit+ will output any sound that your phone sends to it. While I used this function briefly to play back music and podcasts during our testing, I don't really recommend that you do the same in your day-to-day use. As I mentioned before, the audio quality is OK, but not what I'd call good enough for enjoyment of music playback; for that you'll want to look elsewhere. What it is good enough for is the playback of spoken turn-by-turn directions if you happen to also be using your paired smartphone for navigation or having text messages read aloud if you're running an app that enables such a thing.
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The Parrot Minikit+ packs all of the basic features that we expect in an in-car speakerphone. And although its screenless, knob-based menu system can be a bit tedious to use, the Minikit+ more than makes up for it with its great voice-activated dialer and hands-free Magic Word feature. Audio quality from the speaker is passably good, but could stand a bit of improvement. However, the great microphone's noise cancellation and echo reduction ensure that the caller on the other end hears you loud and clear.
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DON'T DISS PENNEY'S: Cintra Wilson didn't know what she was getting herself into when she wrote a scathing column about J.C. Penney's new Manhattan store in the Styles section of The New York Times on Thursday — and then herself came under intense criticism for it. At the beginning of the piece, she wrote: "Why would this dowdy Middle American entity waddle into Midtown in its big old shorts and flip-flops without even bothering to update its ancient Helvetica Light logo, which for anyone who grew up with the company is encrusted with decades of boring, even traumatically parental, associations?" Wilson went on to say it took a long time to find a size 2 among the racks. "There are, however, abundant size 10's, 12's and 16's." She added the store had the "most obese mannequins I have ever seen," adding "they probably need special insulin-based epoxy injections just to make their limbs stay on."
Wilson told WWD she hadn't heard from anyone at Penney's, but the outpouring of abusive comments and personal attacks from others have been "hair-raising."
"I made some comments about an oversize mannequin that somewhat erased the fine line between humor and offensiveness — and I had to concede that my tone was too harsh when some very nice people wrote to tell me why they were hurt by these comments," said Wilson. "This is what compelled me to apologize. It was a teachable moment, so I tried to take responsibility for the fact that I wasn't sensitive enough to people's feelings in that passage." She added the "beat down" she received from the vast majority of commenters, though, has been hateful and threatening.
A business writer at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel saw the piece, and wrote, "We should invite her [Wilson] to the Wisconsin State Fair and force-feed her a cream puff!" Meanwhile, a blogger at the Houston Press responded with an article, "Times Writer Dumps on Texas' J.C. Penney, Because We're Just So Damn Fat Here." Writer Richard Connelly said, "It's difficult to take in just all the sneering aimed at us corpulent, tasteless slobs between the coasts, but we'll try."
"The Critical Shopper column has always had an edge and a point of view — it is supposed to review, after all," said a spokeswoman for the Times. "Cintra Wilson felt, after the article went to press and after she received some complaints from people who felt offended by what she had written about 'obese mannequins' she saw at the store, that she had been less sensitive than she should have been to the feelings of readers who felt that the reference belittled them. She told her editor that she was going to say that on her personal blog. As far as the review itself goes, she stands behind it."
"It is interesting — if a big frightening — how much rage this article generated," Wilson added. "It did show me that weight issues in America are far more intensely painful for people than I ever previously realized. This hot button is so freakin' hot, it is thermonuclear."
As for whether Penney's will continue to advertise in the Times — that remains an open question. Penney's executives could not be reached for comment.
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