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Source: Darin Gantt, Pro Football Talk [1]
[2]Chicago Bears wide receiver Brandon Marshall, as promised, wore green shoes last week to bring attention to Mental Health Awareness Week.
And as promised, the NFL fined him for it.
Marshall just shared his fine letter on Twitter, which shows he was hit for a $10,500 donation to the league's charitable causes for his display. He said he planned to match any fine with a donation.
Bears' Marshall Tweets Fine Letter by Sports Talk FloridaFootball is my platform not my purpose. This fine is nothing compared to the conversation started & awareness raised. pic.twitter.com/P9GNygFpH9 [3]
— Machine Marshall (@BMarshall) October 16, 2013 [4]
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Lonely Lenny as mates abandon him
Len Brown is literally a man alone.
Even The Gurnard took time out from writing puff pieces about the Fat German to knock up a few words to that effect.
You know things are serious though when the Herald abandons you, and left wing commentators are kicking you in the cods. Selwyn Manning, Simon Wilson and Chris Trotter both say that Len Brown is a corpse. Now Tim Watkin weighs in.
It's all just rather pathetic really, isn't it? Yes, I'm talking about Len Brown. From the affair itself to the Auckland mayor's response and on to the council's limited options for censure, pathetic seems to me the best word to sum up the whole shooting match.
Today the council officially and unanimously "censured" Brown, according to Stuff, for "his behaviour during a two year affair with Bevan Chuang". The Herald adds, thankfully, that it was "for failing to declare free hotel rooms and upgrades and the fallout over his two year affair with Bevan Chuang".
He will have to pay some money back and contribute to the EY report costs. A committee will decide how much and – unacceptably – that will be confidential. That's one part of the story that should still have legs; of course Aucklanders deserve to know how much they're paying and how much is the mayor's share.
As Mike Lee said today such a censure is unprecedented and the strongest condemnation the council can make of the mayor. It is also, as Cameron Brewer said, "a wet bus ticket". Such is the sorry state of affairs we're left in. One job should now be on the agenda is to explore other ways that holders of this office can be held to account for misbehaviour, mis-spending and ultimately misleading the public.
The censure comes after the Herald also took unprecedented action, calling for an Auckland mayor to resign. Yet Brown has ridden that out and now has the Christmas break for the immediate pressure to ease. This is as bad as it gets.   Read more »

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Asset-based fees here to stay, but conditions will apply
PUBLISHED: 03 May 2013 06:03:31 | UPDATED: 06 May 2013 03:44:03PRINT EDITION: 03 May 2013Alex Malley, CPA Australia: The new rules are welcome PHOTO: Louie Douvis
Nassim Khadem
APES 230 gives accountants the all-clear to charge asset-based fees, but there's a catch. Accountants wanting to charge their clients asset-based fees or obtain commissions from third parties to sell their products can continue to do so after a remarkable about-face on the issue from the accounts standards body.
After months of lobbying, the major accounting groups finally got their way on APES 230, with the Accounting Professional and Ethical Standards Board (APESB) backing down on its earlier commitment to force accountants to charge their clients fixed fees.
The APESB is the body that sets ethical standards for the accounting industry and is funded by three major lobby groups: CPA Australia, the Institute of Chartered Accountants Australia (ICAA) and the Institute of Public Accountants (IPA).
The suggestion that accountants might be required to stop charging asset-based fees, also known as percentage-based fees, was enough to send the accounting groups into a frenzy.
Their members, who have long charged their clients asset-based fees and/or received commissions from third parties, had threatened to end their membership with the accounting groups if the decision went ahead.
At the time, Count Financial executive chairman and industry veteran Barry Lambert said that the original APES 230 proposal had the potential to destroy businesses.
"Provided accountants are giving good value and service, the way the fees are charged is not of great concern" he said.
Debate over standards
The release of APES 230 follows more than five years of public and industry consultation and the new standards will take hold from July 1 next year (with the exception of the remuneration provisions, which will start on July 1, 2015).
APESB chairwoman Kate Spargo said remuneration for financial advice was the area of most heated debate.
She said the original proposal to completely do away with percentage-based fees had been aimed at eliminating or reducing "the threats created by the conflicted remuneration methods of asset-based fees and third party payments".
But she was now convinced that with the introduction of the federal government's Future of Financial Advice reforms, "we are operating within a new framework".
Spargo also accepted the argument that banning asset-based fees would unfairly disadvantage accountants in comparison with other financial services industry players, who only have to adhere to FoFA restrictions.
Despite this, she says the board's "strong preference is for accountants to be remunerated on a fee-for-service basis" and "strongly recommends" accountants charge their clients fixed fees to "minimise the opportunity for conflicts of interest".
"The board has determined to also permit the use of asset-based fees and third-party payments, but only in circumstances where the accountant is able to obtain informed consent from the client and complies with the additional requirements specified in APES 230," she says.
Additional safeguards
Accountants who want to continue to charge asset-based fees will be required by the board to:
obtain written informed consent from the client before providing them with financial advice;
disclose three comparative quotes where available;
make annual disclosures to the client on the estimated and actual amount of third party payments received and financial planning services;
where applicable, disclose to the client the impact of any proposed changes to existing life insurance and other risk contracts and loans.
The APESB says informed consent "requires that the client has a clear appreciation and understanding of the relevant facts in relation to the charging for services, as well as the implications of what the client is agreeing to".
If the accountant does not get written informed consent and is using asset-based fees and third party payments then they will be subject to disciplinary action and quality control procedures, the APESB says.
But how regulators will monitor that level of disclosure isn't clear.
Spargo says the APESB will monitor and review the industry, and "if the safeguards prove to be inadequate, we will readdress the issue of conflicted remuneration in the future".
New obligations
The IPA vehemently opposed the original decision to ban asset-based fees, saying it would not adhere to the proposal. Meanwhile, CPA Australia and the ICAA led the lobby effort to have the board change its mind.
In a joint statement, CPA Australia and the ICAA welcomed the new regulations, saying they would provide their members with additional training on the new obligations imposed under APES 230.
"The end result of the five-year consultation is a new professional standard that requires higher levels of professional service and disclosure than the law," says CPA Australia chief executive Alex Malley.
"At the same time it balances these obligations with the evolving environment in which financial planning and credit advice is provided to consumers."
ICAA chief executive Lee White says the need for sound financial advice has never been greater and APES 230 raises the bar.
"Australians deserve up-to-date, high-quality financial advice," he says.
IPA chief executive Andrew Conway acknowledged the recent lobbying efforts of the two other groups, but has left open the option not to follow the new APESB proposal.
"We will analyse the revisions to APES 230 closely to compare them with the FoFA provisions," he says.
"We will also engage with our membership, as we have throughout this debate, and our board of directors reserves the right to issue a pronouncement if it believes the proposed standard is contrary to our members' best interests."
The IPA has called on the federal government to make financial planning advice tax deductible in the May budget in order to encourage more Australians to get financial advice. Conway says only about 20 per cent of Australians currently use a financial planner.
"Right now, the absence of a tax deduction for these fees discourages many Australians from pursuing strategic advice which would help them to organise their finances and increase their financial independence," Conway says.
"The cost of tax deductibility for financial planning advice will be significantly outweighed by the longer term benefits of assistance provided to taxpayers as they plan for independent retirement."
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Antonio Lopez
Houston, Texas
Not Just Tree-Huggers
Lots of regular folks oppose an airport at Homestead: As usual Jim DeFede was right on target in his article "Enough Is Enough" (May 17). It is maddening that my tax dollars are being used to continue an ignorant and petty lawsuit on behalf of Miami-Dade Mayor Alex Penelas and his HABDI friends against the federal government because former President Clinton had the decency to reject proposals to turn Homestead Air Force Base into a reliever airport for MIA. Never mind that I, as well as many other citizens of South Miami-Dade, do not want such a monstrous facility in the area. Although I may not live next to the base, where do you think those planes will be flying on approach and takeoff? It would not only be over the two national parks but also over our quiet neighborhoods of the Redland, Cutler Ridge, Palmetto Bay, Naranja, Leisure City, Pinecrest, and the upper Keys.
What is also maddening is that throughout the earlier debate over this facility, only the existence of the two national parks was played up in the media, not the broad citizen opposition to the airport. But when citizens spoke loudly in Miami Lakes, Opa-locka, and Hialeah in opposition to developing the Opa-locka Airport as a reliever facility, their representatives listened and the media responded. The same commissioners, however, seem not to give a damn about our rights in South Miami-Dade.
The existence of two national parks is enough reason to oppose such a facility, but it would be nice if citizen opposition would also be recognized by our commissioners and the media. Our county commissioner, Katy Sorenson, has done an excellent job in opposing plans for an airport at Homestead, but her fellow commissioners -- as well as the mayor and county manager -- apparently have wax in their ears. They support this lawsuit and spending money on it that could go to schools, transit, and social services.
Now more than ever I support incorporation or the creation of a new County of South Miami-Dade. Our current county government is a joke, if not actually unconstitutional. How about a property-tax boycott? Now there's an idea.
Paul E. Czekanski
Cutler Ridge
Here's a Ticket to Ride
And here's hoping you ride far, far away: After reading Lissette Corsa's article about police dumping homeless people in the City of Miami ("Finally a Solution to the Homeless Problem," May 17), I believe I have a good solution: Offer these people a one-way ticket on a bus to a destination of their choice.
The ACLU should agree it's fair, and it just might relieve us of this problem.
Rhoda Oppenheimer
Miami Beach
A Time-Honored Tradition
Homeless-dumping fondly remembered: Where have you guys been? Dumping the homeless has been going on for many, many years. I'm a lifelong resident of Dade County with relatives in various police departments now and in the past. Miami Beach Police Chief Rocky Pomerance used to dump homeless in Miami. Miami Police Chief Walter Headley dumped them right back on the Beach. Everybody dumps, but today it seems like Miami is the major dumping ground. The flood of people has overwhelmed the city.
God forbid the high and mighty in Coral Gables should wake up and see a homeless person on Miracle Mile. The police would be barraged with calls from the elitist bastards. What do you expect from a community that will not even allow a pickup truck to be parked on the street overnight? If you haven't guessed by now, I have no love for Coral Gables.
Ron Benefield
North Bay Village
Guns R Not Us
Take it from an expert in cold steel and hot lead: Although I generally agree with Roger Gathers's statement in his letter to New Times (May 3) that "media people rarely get anything right about guns," he is wrong in this instance. Beretta does make a .45-caliber semiautomatic weapon (actually two models). They are the model 8045 Cougar and model 8045 Mini-Cougar. These are available in 9mm, 40 S&W, and .45 ACP.
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As part of our recent release, we added every survey submitted about our agents to our agent profiles. To prep for this, we needed to do a mail merge with each survey response, which we exported from a Postgres database. The problem was, when our users submitted their answers, they used the skills their grade 3 English teacher taught them and wrote in paragraphs. But all the common export formats indicate new records by using line-breaks, so we needed a way to clean the whitespace from these surveys.
As it turns out, Postgres has some very useful regex functions that make string operations a breeze. But since no one wants to have to reconstruct the appropriate syntax every time they need to clean whitespace, you can make a Postgres function that wraps the functionality:
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION clean_whitespace(to_clean text) RETURNS text AS $$ BEGIN RETURN regexp_replace(to_clean, E'[ tnr]+', ' ', 'g'); END; $$ LANGUAGE plpgsql IMMUTABLE;
This replaces each group of whitespace in the argument with a single space. The immutable flag indicates that the function will have no side-effects, and thus allows it to be used in indices. Also notice that we only want to match occurrences of length at least 1 (by using "+" rather than "*"), because otherwise you end up with a space between every character!
Thanks to Thomas Kellerer on the postgres message board for pointing us in the right direction with regards to the arguments we needed.
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Fundamental Fiesta!
Good Afternoon,
I am just getting back in the swing of things and since I am just starting to go through my technical analysis routine, I am going to save the charts until tomorrow. But, plenty to talk about on the fundamental side.
Tuesday: Bank of Canada Rate Announcement, G7 Meetings, ISM Services (be sure to look at the employment and new orders sub-components)
Wednesday: ECB Rate Announcment, AUD Employment
Thursday: claims, Bernanke, BOE Rate Announcment, Spanish and French bond auctions
Friday: Bernanke, CAD Employment
These are heavy hitters of data and they could add fuel to the fire, helping higher volatility markets to become even more volatile. Meaning, there should be the opportunity for multiple overbought/oversold opportunities throughout the trading day.
As I mentioned, a broad view of the charts will come tomorrow as I look to the broader trends to give me a fundamental opinion of bullish/bearish sentiment.
A question for you that you are welcome to comment on (and a segway into tomorrow's charts): Do you think the EUR/USD will get below the 1.20 handle regardless of what equity markets do?
Link to next Wednesday's Webinar: "Trading Around the Clock"
Happy Trading and Be Environmentally Cool
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Forex trading is one of the riskiest forms of investment available in the financial markets and suitable for sophisticated individuals and institutions. The possibility exists that you could sustain a substantial loss of funds and therefore you should not invest money that you cannot afford to lose.


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Best Indian Restaurant Miami 2006 - Raja's
On a scale from one to ten, the décor at Raja's hovers somewhere around zero, meaning nothing -- but it's very, very clean. Nonetheless this hole-in-the-wall is a tiny treasure well worth preserving. Yet considering the now-you-see-them-now-you-don't pace at which downtown development is obliterating low-rent operations, one cannot help but worry about Raja's. And it's not just because the mom-and-pop luncheonette is unique, or because the Kandaswamy family, who hail from Tiruchchirapalli, south of Madras, run the county's only South Indian restaurant. But to find a better version of this fare anywhere south of Manhattan's Little India would be more difficult than trying to pronounce the owners' hometown. Although the steam-table curries provide fine instant gratification, the must-not-miss items are the $4.35 dosai (light, lacy, thin rice/dhal-batter cr?pes wrapped around buttery spiced potato filling); slightly thicker fried uttapam pancakes ($6.99), crisp-edged but springy in the middle and topped with chilies or onions; and fat steamed idli patties ($5.50) ideal for dipping in Raja's sweet chutneys and salty sambars. A glass of excellent mango lassi ($2.50) will make the twenty-minute wait for these custom-crafted snacks pass painlessly.


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Things we say today which we owe to Shakespeare
London-based English Lit student Becky released her inner classic literature geek in the middle of the night last year to create a handy doodle detailing all the commonly used phrases we own to William Shakespeare.
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Healthy Swaps: Thanksgiving Fare
by Toby Amidor in Healthy Holidays, Healthy Tips, November 9, 2010Shopping for the right Thanksgiving ingredients can make all the difference. Simple changes can cut down on calories, sugar, fat and preservatives without compromising flavor. As you hit the market to pick up your Thanksgiving fare, think about making these swaps.
Instead of: Canned or jarred gravy
Choose: Alton Brown's Best Ever Gravy
The Payoff: If you're cooking up a turkey, just use the drippings to make this fantastic gravy as the name implies. You'll save on all kinds of processed stuff, plus it just tastes better.
Instead of: Canned pumpkin pie filling
Choose: Canned 100% Pure Pumpkin
The Payoff: Instead of loads of sugar and preservatives go for 100% pure pumpkin where the only ingredient is pumpkin! It also cuts down on more than half the calories per serving, coming mostly from added sugars.
Instead of: Canned cranberry sauce
Choose: Make your own
The Payoff: You'll find high fructose corn syrup in most canned varieties. Instead choose to make your own which only takes 10 to 15 minutes to cook up.
Instead of: Whipped topping
Choose: Whipped cream in aerosol cans
The Payoff: 10 calories and 1 gram saturated fat less per serving. Although this may not seem significant, calories really add up when most people use more than 2 tablespoons (which is the standard whipped cream serving size).
Instead of: Packaged mashed potatoes
Choose: Make your own
The Payoff: C'mon, this is one easy dish to whip up in no time. Get some helpers in the kitchen to peel those potatoes or add some fiber to your mash and leave them on. You'll cut out on the laundry list of preservatives and it'll probably taste MUCH better than the boxed kind.
Wanna know how many calories in traditional Thanksgiving fare? Check out these numbers and see how you can skim them down.
TELL US: What classic Thanksgiving ingredients are you swapping out this year?
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The Nauti Hawg is a casual bar & grill nestled along the scenic banks of the Mississippi River in Diamond Bluff, WI. Welcoming guests stopping by in cars, boats and bikes!! The name "Nauti Hawg" came from a play on words for boats and bikes and has since made this small town bar known for a great place to stop.
Located off of Scenic Hwy 35 in Wisconsin and having gorgeous views of the river, indoor & outdoor dining, deck over looking the river and outdoor bar - your not going to wanna pass this stop by!
The Hawg has a full menu, drink & food specials, friendly and fun staff making this a place people want to be and visit often. Owners Janell & Mike are sure to welcome you and make you feel like family!!
Year round offering entertainment and events from Bingo, Flood Runs, Golf Tournaments, Car & Truck show, DJ/Karaoke nights, 4th of July Fireworks and much, much more! So be sure to check out our website often to see what NEW is going on at the Hawg...
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As a volunteer in the MTSU Partnership
Program you will work with students in the AVID program which
stands for Advancement Via Individual Determination, which is
designed for students in the academic middle who have the
desire to graduate and go to college. This is a great way to
increase your communications skills and build your resume for
the future.
MTSU is seeking volunteers for its AVID Partnership Program in
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Bell Financial faces $2m first-half loss
PUBLISHED: 03 Jul 2012 15:15:46 | UPDATED: 03 Jul 2012 15:17:17PRINT EDITION: 03 Jul 2012
Bell Financial Group has warned it faces a loss of up to $2 million for the first half of its financial year.
The stock broker and financial adviser on Tuesday said that a further deterioration in market conditions as a result of cautious investor sentiment had impacted on trading volumes.
"As a result, it is expected that the group will record an after tax loss in the range of $1.8 million-$2.0 million for the six months to June 30th 2012," Bell said.
The company said its earnings forecast included about $2 million in one-off payments and non-recurring expenditure.
It said its cash position remained solid, while its wholesale equities, commodities and margin lending businesses had traded profitably in the first half.
"Retail equities bore the major brunt of the difficult market conditions," Bell said.
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Harris, L., Martinez, S., Kyser, B., Dyer, W., and Johnson R. (2013) Functional analysis of TaABF1 during abscisic acid and gibberellin signaling in aleurone cells of cereal grains. Seed Science Research 23:89-98
Johnson, R., Shin, M., and Shen, J. (2008) The wheat PKABA1-interacting factor TaABF1 mediates both abscisic acid-suppressed and abscisic acid-induced gene expression in bombarded aleurone cells. Plant Molecular Biology 68:93-103
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While I'll be attending the keynote on Monday morning, at the "center of the app universe", but we're not going to live blog it. We've tried to give you live coverage of the keynotes in the past, but lets face it, others do it so much better. They take a team and just kick butt doing it. Here are a few tips on where you can follow along with the keynote live. Who does it well and who does it in ways they shouldn't do it.
First, without a doubt, Ryan Block and gdgt cover it better than anyone else. Their servers rarely have problem with the load, and they post lots of great pictures. They must be really fast typers. [ watch it here: gdgt live ]
Other live sources include the usual spots: Engadget, MacRumors, Gizmodo(oops!), Ars Technica, TechCrunch.
Then there are other sources that give you good commentary and not just recite what is going on. One such source is Jim Dalrymple at The Loop. Watch there for some insightful thoughts.
In addition to the places above, if you really want to see or hear it or maybe even see it live, there are some pleces you can look. First, search Twitter for keynote stream or something similar and see if anyone is posting a link to a live stream of the event. While Apple doesn't allow it, it's impossible to stop. Someone in the audience of thousands will have a stream up on UStream, Qik, or one of the other live streaming services. Search those services to see what is popular at the moment and you'll likely bump into one.
After the keynote is over, and we've had some time to digest it, we'll be posting a summary of the announcements along with our take on them. Look for that late in the day, following the keynote.
If I can get a connection, I may post some images and notes to our Twitter stream during the event. But no guarantees on that. This should be an exciting day, let's get going!
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To me, the most important thing about this cleanser is that it cleans quite well but does not make your skin feel dry and tight. Most of the times I use this cleanser and it is enough to give me that deep clean feeling.


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Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks
1505 Eastover Drive, Jackson, MS, 39211
Phone: 601-432-2400
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Play in the Rain(forest) at the Rainforest Adventure Exhibit!
Jackson, MS … Visit the Rainforest Adventure exhibit from January 26 - May 12, 2013 at the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks' Museum of Natural Science. "Rainforest Adventure is a multisensory expedition to the tropical rainforests of the world," explains Megan Fedrick, education coordinator. The exhibit highlights the challenges facing these unique ecological wonders. Visitors are introduced to scientists and the ways they study rainforests. Using costumes and props, children role-play as research assistants on a series of problem-solving adventures.
Rainforest Adventure topics include: tropical rainforests around the world, conservation, scientists, animals, plants, and global connections. The exhibit features over 40 interactive components, two computer games, a distance learning kiosk and plenty of expedition props including vests, flashlights, binoculars and more! After exploring the exhibit, shop for unique rainforest related gifts in the Museum's Dragonfly Shoppe.
Gear Up!
- Climb a 9' kapok tree
- Explore a gorilla nest
- Climb through a tree log to discover animals that make their homes there
- Meet scientists and explore the ways they study rainforests
- Become a research assistant through assignments, costumes, and props
- Take a closer look at plant and material slides through an oversized microscope
- Study plant and animal life in the different layers of the rainforest
For details, please call 601-576-6000 or visit www.msnaturalscience.org. The Museum is located at 2148 Riverside Drive in Jackson. Regular Museum Hours: Monday - Friday: 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.; Saturday: 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.; Sunday: 1 p.m. - 5 p.m. Regular Admission: $6 adults, $4 youth ages 3 - 18; $5 senior citizens (60+); free for children under 3; free for Museum Members; school teachers with classes: call for group information.
Rainforest Adventure was created by Stepping Stones Museum for Children with support from The Jaffe Family Foundation and MeadWestvaco Corporation. The exhibit is sponsored locally by the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks, Mississippi Museum of Natural Science Foundation, Sanderson Farms, Walker Foundation, Trustmark Bank, Paul T. Benton, Chisholm Foundation, Feild Cooperative Association, Inc., Chris and Steve Zachow, Brunini, Grantham, Grower and Hewes, Sean Wesley Ellis, Jackie and Avery Rollins, Karen Whitworth, Opal Dakin, Janice Larson, Halla Jo Ellis, Matt Holleman III, and other generous sponsors.
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