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Celebrated cuisine that embraces purity and understanding, with no décor to speak of, just a warm heavenly atmosphere for vegetarians. Reminiscent of boarding school dining rooms, Govinda's serves economical meals just south of Durban in the suburb of Chatesworth.
With a timeless essence wrapped in a mellow old-world setting, The Royal Carvery peruses the palate with sophisticated cuisine capturing the traditional elegance of English gourmet dining. Situated in pulse of Durban central, this grand Hotel offers unsurpassed views of the city and yacht mole lit by the ambient lighting of the city at night and flickering candlelight for intimate experience second to none. Serving traditional English gourmet cuisine, diners can expect a traditional intimate dining experience set in the heart of Durban.
This authentic Irish restaurant boasts a unique ambience where conversation and the good old cheer of life beacons patrons to kick back and relax. Situated in the heart of Westville, Waxy O' Connors serves wholesome and hearty pub grub with delicious home made pies and casseroles like the georgie porgie pie - cubed beef and button mushrooms slowly cooked in a red wine, ale and brown onion sauce or the beef guinness casserole, cubed beef, slowly stewed with guinness, bay leaf and carrots. The speciality dishes include the green peppercorn fillet stuffed with mushrooms, green peppercorns, and mozzarella served with a fresh peppercorn sauce or Waxy's chicken, crumbed, stuffed deep-fried chicken breast, with bacon, mushroom, mozzarella and topped with a tangy cheese sauce, served with vegetables and fries. Savour traditional Irish pub grub and authentic ambience at Waxy O' Connors, a place where you can relax and yourself.
*Distances are shown as the crow flies and are not necessarily the actual travelling distance.
With wonderful views and a setting inspired by sailors at sea, Charlie Crofts Dockside Diner warms the palate with a pub atmosphere and salty sea air. Dine alfresco on the large balcony by lingering daylight or romance the night away with the gentle flickering of candlelight and lapping shores. Charlie Crofts Diner captures simple ocean dining in a rustic setting reminiscent of sea faring days.
This culinary journey onboard Allen Gardiner Harbour Cruise Restaurant offers a different and exciting fine dining experience. Sailing all year round and within the scenic and tranquil waters of Durban Harbour, diners experience a spacious and elegant dining saloon, flanked by scenic ocean vistas and marine wildlife. Serving freshly prepared fine foods for breakfast, lunch, dinner and champagne sunset; the menu extends varied choices and dining styles. Choose from the American-style brunch – This 2 1/5 hour 3-course American style brunch cruise welcomes aboard with a glass of fresh orange juice, and 3-course brunch complete with a full English breakfast, hash brown potatoes, hot muffins, apple pie and cream. The a la carte lunch and candlelit dinner cruises from 12noon to 3.00pm. The Dinner cruise is from 7pm to 10pm. The fork lunch and dinner is a three hour cruise, during which a two course meal is served, with choices from the a la carte menu suitable for eating with just a fork. Finally the champagne sunset welcomes aboard with a glass of champagne, and a fully-stocked bar. Throughout the course of the cruise the galley crew serve trays of hot and cold canapés. The Allen Gardiner Harbour Cruise Restaurant offers diners the chance to explore the scenic surrounds of Durban harbour while tantalising the taste buds with decadent fare.
Dressed in bold statement colours and vibrant atmosphere warmed by dark wood and clean lines, Green Mango tantalises the palate with delicious fresh sushi and Japanese cuisine. This modern sushi establishment is a popular haunt with locals and is often vibey and bustling. Diners can tickle the taste buds with delectable sushi and Japanese fare indoors or alfresco.
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Erste Group Bank AG (EBS) of Austria will take a 300 million euro ($400 million) goodwill impairment, mainly associated with its struggling Romanian unit.
The writedown, along with losses from the sale of a Ukrainian subsidiary, means Erste will post net profit of about 450 million euros last year, the Vienna-based bank said in an e- mailed statement today. It reported 597.3 million euros net income in the first nine months.
Erste will "fully service participation capital as well as pay a dividend on ordinary shares for the 2012 business year," it said. "As goodwill is excluded from the regulatory capital calculation, Erste Group will report significantly improved capital ratios as at year-end 2012."
Goodwill typically reflects the value of intangible assets and may arise when one company is purchased by another.
The firm fell 1.5 percent to 26.19 euros at 12:42 p.m. in Vienna. That reduced its 14-day relative strength index to 68.9, below the level of 70 suggested in technical analysis that the stock may be overbought. The benchmark Euro Stoxx Banks Index (SX7P) declined 0.3 percent.
Erste has been struggling to contain a rise in bad loans at its subsidiary in Romania, Banca Comerciala Romana SA. The lender sold Erste Bank Ukraine for $83 million in December, booking a 151 million-euro loss.
The company reiterated its guidance for full-year operating performance provided in October, when it forecast operating profit "slightly behind" the 3.63 billion euros reported the previous year.
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SS is starting to see...
He is really starting to view his mom more clearly! This is not to say he doesn't love her, of course he does...BUT...he has for sure removed the rose-colored glasses. He doesn't believe everything she says and he's starting to see that she's a little....wacky.
Last night...I picked the kids up from school. DH has ben working later lately---we're going on vacation next week and he's trying to get everything tied up before we take off.
So he got home around 6:30, we ate dinner, kids took baths, and then DH went down to the basement with them to play the Wii.
Around 8 pm, we were putting them to bed and, like ALWAYS, DH handed SS the phone and said "here, call your mom to say goodnight."
A minute later, SS came out of his room holding the phone, and looking all angry/exasperated. BM was still talking and DH and I could HEAR her ranting to him, she was so loud!
"WHY didn't you call me earlier?"
"I haven't talked to you at all since you got home!"
"I was worried sick!"
"I am so mad at you and your dad!"
And SS kept interjecting "But MOM, we were playing the Wii..SORRY...we didn't hear the phone ring...MOM, I'm calling you NOW."
But he wasn't apologetic, or guilty sounding, he sounded disgusted and angry.
And then the psycho HUNG UP ON HIM after she got done chewing him out.
I was totally expecting him to cry, poor guy, but he didn't...he honestly was just shaking his head in disgust and he just shrugged his shoulders.
How AWFUL is that that she lays into her son for---GASP--being out of touch for 4.5 hours?!
Then she called this morning to "apologize" and DH put SS on the phone. I wasnt there, but DH said he could hear BM sniffling and crying and she kept asking SS over and over if he was mad at her.
I would bet a bunch of $$$ she's drinking!
As painful as these things may be for SS, I think in the long run it is GOOD for him. I've noticed with him more and more when she calls several times a night he doesn't want to get on the phone with her. He'll groan and say "but I just talked to her." I think DH needs to help SS be firmer. The prob now is that DH will MAKE him get on the phone with her.
Grrr... Yup - It's crazy-making.
Can you help SS put together a few simple sentences he can say when he doesn't want to talk on the phone anymore? Or a signal he can use to let you or Dad know he wants to be called away? (I'm not a phone person, and when I was a young teen, I'd keep a 'help' sign by the phone. Whenever I flashed Mom the 'Help!' sign, she'd yell at me to get off the phone and Do My Homework Right Now!)
How aware is your SS about the drinking piece? It is always such a difficult and touchy subject. Maybe when she callss and you or DH know that she's had a few, you can just say or signal, BM is not at her best and let SS decide whether he wants to talk to her that way.
Or just run some interference? Of course, that might make a bigger problem. Either way, I agree with Sweeby, you need some system to filter these crazy calls for that boy.
Good luck.
geez, drunk dialing your own kid. I like Sweeby's hand signal suggestion for SS. Definitely have either you or DH talk to Mom first to scope out her sobriety, if she is loopy I would use a simple answer why he can't come to the phone "it's not possible, he's cleaning his room."
Definitely document every time she calls drunk, document that call the other night and the morning after apology call. That's just insane.
I know your DH doesn't like rocking the boat but this is extremely unfair to your SS, he may need to talk to BM about acceptable times to call, the length, how many times a day and sober. He's the adult, quit letting him pretend everything is a ok.
she drinks, that day she called and yelled she was drunk and then next day she fell guilty and called apologizing. simple. if she continues calling drunk then it is time to go back to court. i agree with nivea, document every phone call and what was said and take her to court if it doesn't stop
"i thought she already had a baby, too many BMs pregnant to remember LOL"
She has a 2 year old, but she is due again in May.
"But do we really credit her with the sense to not drink while pregnant?"
NO WAY. With her last pregnancy (her 2 yr old little girl) I was HORRIFIED. This was during the time period where she was trying to be my "friend" and I cannot tell you how many times she called me or DH, crying/sobbing, and absolutely wasted. She got kicked out of bars many times. It was disgusting.
I actually changed my opinion this time, though, I don't think she was/is drinking. What bothers me even more, though, is that her behavior/attitude is still the same.
I think she's been on her best behavior in the last year due to all the court stuff. And I do think she's managed to stay sober. BUT--what bothers me is that I feel like her drinking is really just a symptom of her issues. Alcoholics don't change---they might become a 'dry drunk' but the behaviors don't go away without counseling or working a 12-step program. IMO.
I'm really, really worried about after the baby is born. With SS and her DD, she had terrible PPD issues that really seemed to cause her to go off in the deep end. She was out drinking and saying she got raped not 3 weeks after her daughter was born! :( She really went nutso after DD was born, and DH said she was the same after SS was born, which really caused the demise of their relationship. He said the first 10 months of SS's life, he would come home from work, she'd pass him the baby and walk out the door and come home drunk at 2 AM.
This is one of the reasons I am going to at least attempt to renew my order of protection. I don't know how she is going to be once this baby is born and it scares me to death. Her attitude towards me is still one of jealousy/anger/hatred/hurt. Her strong feelings towards me remind me that she could lash out again.
"If she's prone to PPD, she needs HELP! Serious mental health help, and it would be a great kindness (not to mention responsible parenting to SS) to see that she gets it. Can Hubby talk to Mom's BF/DH/BabyDaddy"
Been there, done that, Sweeby.
Unfortunately, BM's DH is....a loser. Sorry, but he is. The guy has an 11 year old DD whom he barely sees. He used to all the time, but BM did not like her SD and basically shoved her out of his life. When their now 2 year old was born, BM made her SD share HER room.
When her DH was working out of state, he went months at a time without seeing his DD, even though he was supposed to have 40% custody. When he would come back in town for a weekend, BM would INSIST that he not get his DD for the weekend because they needed "couple time." This guy would LIE to his DD and tell her he was still in Texas, when really he was HOME for the weekend, 15 mins away. :( THen to make it worse, if it happened to be a weekend SS was with US, BM would call and ask if they could have him for Sunday breakfast so SS could see his stepdad!!! But they wouldn't get his DAUGHTER.
i know all this because all of this was going on while BM was reaching out to ME and DH for support/friendship.
Just recently, for example, BM called us while SS was with us. She wanted to talk to SS.
THe jist of this was--BM and her DH were out shopping for a new bed for his DD. BM wanted to ask SS if HE would rather have a new bed.(He had a bunk bed.) Of course, SS said "yes, I want a new bed."
So SS got off the phone and told us that his mom was going to give his step-sister his old bed, and they were going to buy SS the new bed.
I mean, how does that work??? The girl is treated like the red headed step child and it is DISGUSTING.
I could go on and on about how she has been treated. We have heard many a terrible thing from SS about it.
My point is---her DH is an @$$. He and BM hate each other half the time. He didn't care when she was out drinking last time she was pregnant, he would swear at her and call her a loser, but he really didn't care, so long as he could run off to "work" out of state and probably cheat on her.
DH & I think he pretty much sticks with her b/c otherwise, he'd been stuck paying child support for THEIR two kids, when he already pays a pretty hefty amount to his older daughter's mom.
He doesn't care.
Nor does anyone in her wacky family.
Aside from all that...WE are not responsible for BM's choices over there. Yes, it would be "responsible parenting" of us to do that but we cannot MAKE her do anything. We already tried that the second go around in court with trying to force her into alcohol treatment. She balked and refused and eventualy weasled her way out of it by not signing the release form from the courts to relay the proper information to the treatment center.
DH and I can only do so much, you know?
Hey LH? You said "When their now 2 year old was born, BM made her SD share HER room."
We only have a two bedroom place. DSS is going to have to share his room with baby when that time comes for us...
I don't know that I'd paint BM as a monster for needing the person who is there the least to share their bedroom. (Obviously there may be parts of the story I don't know)
"Hey LH? You said "When their now 2 year old was born, BM made her SD share HER room." "
I wasn't saying that sharing a bedroom is bad. I guess I just thought it was kind of weird that BM would make HER share a bedroom. At the time her daughter was born, her SD was still on the 40% visitation--coming over every Monday, Thursday and EO Sat/Sun nights.
It was my thinking that given the fact that she was the oldest (SS was only 5.5 at the time) that maybe she should remain in a private bedroom; and SS and the baby could share. It kinda seems to me that the being the oldest comes with certain privileges and one of those would be having one's privacy if it's available. I would think SS would have "cared less' about sharing his room than a pre-adolescent girl who already feels treated unfairly in the home.
I don't know...I see your point in "the kid who is there the least" sharing, but really, at this point in time, SS and SD were both there almost the same amount of time--SS one extra day a week than his stepsis.
But with BM--it was never any question that OF COURSE her son would remain in his room, and SD would be the one to have to share.
Maybe that was a bad example...but trust me...the woman has RUN THIS KID out of her DH's life. This girl barely comes over anymore and SS has freely told us it's because his mom and her don't get along. :( DH and I have talked about it many, many times and how this girl truly gets treated like the "red headed step child." DH has even said things to BM about it---because the division between SS and his stepsis is VERY obvious, and SS has (in the past) said really mean things about her to us.
DH tried to speak wtih BM at one point about being kinder to this girl b/c it wasn't setting a good example for SS, but BM never hears it. Ultimately, we decided we can only control what goes on at our house.
Ahh, OK. I see now why you used it as an example.
Since things were pretty equal for the amount of time your SS and her SD were at the house, then it's a little odd that she wouldn't put the younger two in together.
If this was JNM's BM, I'd say "She probably just wanted the 11yo to take care of the baby for her"
But I'm not sure why she'd want to put her baby in with a kid she doesn't like (other than to drive the kid away).
"But I'm not sure why she'd want to put her baby in with a kid she doesn't like (other than to drive the kid away)."
I know why. This was all going on at a point when she was trying to be my friend and was calling me many times a day, generally with one drama or another. She as much said that she didn't want SS (ie--HER KID) to have to give up his own room.
Now---I have to admit--I can understand, as a parent AND a stepparent, that motherly instinct. BUT when you're a stepparent, as we all know, you have to do your best to look at situations with objectivity and see what makes sense for ALL involved. And maybe that might mean giving the OLDEST child the privilege of having his/her own bedroom, if sharing is an issue.
IMO it would make more sense to put HER two younger bio-kids in a room together. It also makes more sense *to me* to have a 5.5 year old and a baby share a room.
Then they moved when the baby was about 1 yr old, anyway, and they now have enough bedrooms, but apparently, the damage was done. After her DH had been working out of state for months on end, his relationship with his DD had fizzled. From what we know now, the girl really doesn't come over on any sort of regular basis.
My whole point of this was to show the kind of man that her DH is. Sweeby was suggesting DH or I talk to him out of concern for BM and her PPD issues. My point was--he is the kind of guy that really doesn't care about anyone but himself. I don't know how he is now, I am guessing nothing much has changed in the last year. When BM was friendly to me, her DH was rude and hateful to her a lot. He would call her a loser, and much more vulgar names. Then she'd get upset, go out and drink, and feel bad about herself even more...and the cycle would repeat.
I am sure the guy hates me b/c that night last April---when BM was crying at my house---I was encouraging her to reconsider her marriage! I was encouraging her to enroll in this RN program she was interested in, to get herself on a path to independance and productivity. I was telling her how GREAT that would be for her kids to see, and how she would be bettering their lives by doing that.
But, as you can see....nothing much has changed.


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Wednesday, Mar 3, 2010, 5:46 am
Troublemakers Go to 'School' in Boston
BOSTON—More than 90 union members, students and community activists jammed the SEIU Local 888 union hall here on Saturday for a "Troublemakers School" sponsored by Massachusetts Jobs with Justice.
IBEW Local 2222 Business Manager Myles Calvey gave a rousing welcome to kick things off. "We're not going to get labor's problems solved in Washington or on Beacon Hill unless we take a page from the civil rights and gay rights movements," said Calvey, a former New England telecom strike leader. "We've got to be a lot more aggressive so that politicians are forced to deal with our issues. We've got make our problems, their problems!"
Calvey was followed by a panel of local organizers from the United Food and Commercial Workers' Angelica Laundry strike, Service Employees' Local 1199's Caritas hospital campaign and American Federation of Government Employee's Transportation Safety Officers organizing drive. Their presentations were followed by a wide-ranging discussion about organizing strategies and reports from other workplace struggles. (To learn more about these campaigns, go here, here and here.)
Participants at the February 27 event next attended one of seven workshops to share creative strategies and smart tactics for building their unions and fighting corporate greed. Workshops included:
- "Building a stronger local union"
- "Organizing in the face of weak labor laws"
- "Winning contract campaigns"
- "Fighting layoffs and outsourcing"
- "Organizing immigrant workers"
- "Political action for tough times"
- "Understanding the economic crisis"
For more than a year, the Detroit-based labor newsletter Labor Notes has been sponsoring similar Troublemaker Schools around the country to help sharpen organizing skills and strengthen connections between activists at the local level. After attending JWJ's event in Boston, Labor Notes Editor Mischa Gaus, an occasional contributor to this blog, said, "I really enjoyed the opportunity to see a solid cross-union group in action, ready to support each other not just in telecom, but in the Stop & Shop fight, the airport campaign, local political battles, etc."
Troublemaker School organizers hoped that the rank-and-file strategy sessions would encourage more activists to participate in local JWJ committees. JWJ staffers Jen Doe and Edwin Argueta wrapped up a closing session about the coalition's ongoing support for local, regional, and national campaigns for jobs, healthcare reform and workers' rights plus local anti-concession struggles. (More info about JWJ committees can be found here.)
There was widespread interest in building for the March 24 noon-time rally to "Make Wall Street Pay" at Bank of America's regional headquarters in Boston. (More info about that here.) Many activists focused on a possible strike by grocery workers at Stop & Shop, a grocery store chain. If that occurs, UFCW members will need labor and community allies to bolster their local store's picket lines throughout the region.
Jobs with Justice Director Russ Davis was encouraged by the energy and enthusiasm activists brought to the meeting despite challenging circumstances. "I think everyone left with a renewed commitment to building a grassroots movement for workers' rights," Davis said. "We've got to work more closely together at the workplace and community level."
Pictures from the Troublemakers School Boston event can be viewed here.
Rand Wilson, AFL-CIO Communications Coordinator
Rand Wilson is communications coordinator at the AFL-CIO Organizing Dept.'s Center for Strategic Research. He has worked as a union organizer and labor communicator in the United States since the 1980s. For more information about Wilson, visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rand_Wilson
More by Rand Wilson, AFL-CIO Communications Coordinator
- Rite Aid Workers Continue Calls for Affordable Healthcare at Shareholders Meeting
- After Half-Decade Struggle, Rite Aid Workers Form Union at Giant Distribution Center
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Situated directly on the legendary Oceanfront Walk, facing the Pacific, AIR is a seaside sanctuary in one of the most vital areas of Los Angeles. Originally built as the Ocean View Hotel, AIR was once home to both Charlie Chaplin and a prohibition era speakeasy.
Through the years, Venice itself has had several lives. In the early 1920s it was a popular amusement destination. In the 1950s it was home to writers and artists of the Beat Generation. The late 1960s brought a rock scene which produced legendary bands like the Doors. Since the early 1990s, Venice has been flourishing as a place to find art galleries, fine dining, night clubs and leading edge boutiques.
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This was a fine place to stay the night. We had a small room with a very small bathroom, but it was clean and quiet and comfortable. There wasn't breakfast or really anywhere to hang out. The stairs were super steep and the walls were a bit thin, but the hotel is about a block from the beach. There's free parking down the road a bit at a city lot. It was a good base for exploring up and down the coast.
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2 Pistols - Private Dancer
Private Dancer 2 Pistols
New 2 Pistols SingleListen to 2 Pistols's new song Private Dancer, which was released on Monday, August 15th, 2011.
Stream Private Dancer, the newest drop from 2 Pistols. The cut was released on Monday, August 15th, 2011. 2 Pistols continues to impress with each new leak, and Private Dancer is no exception. It's strengthens 2 Pistols's already impressive body of work, which has seen positive change over the years. We're most definitely anticipating 2 Pistols's next offering.
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Dungen Announce Album Tracklisting, Release Date
Sweden's psychedelic quartet Dungen have announced a May 1 release for an as-yet-untitled album on Kemado Records. The forthcoming material, recorded by multi-instrumentalist /songwriter Gustav Ejstes, will be compiled into the band's fifth full-length release, their follow-up to 2004's critically-lauded Ta Det Lugnt. Judging by track titles, we can expect songs to be sung in Dungen's native tongue.
Here's the tracklisting for Dungen's yet-to-be titled album:
1. "Intro"
2. "Familj"
3. "Gör Det Nu"
4. "Caroline"
5. "Du Ska Inte Tro Att Det Ordnar Sig"
6. "Mon Amour"
7. "Sa Blev Det Bestamt"
8. "Ett Skäl Att Trivas"
9. "Svart Är Himlen"
10. "En Gang I Ar Kom Det En Tar"
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In honor of National Trivia Day (who knew?), it's time to crack your knuckles, put on your thinking cap, and get ready for the most fun you can have as a marketer. We've put together 20 multiple-choice conversion brain teasers, each worth 5 points.
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Remember to choose what you think is the best answer to each question. How hard can it be?
What is the most used testing method for improving conversions?
When you optimize, you should optimize for:
When does conversion rate optimization give diminishing returns?
What percentage of companies use split testing software?
What is the MOST important thing to test?
For every $92 spent acquiring customers, How much money is spent converting them?
What is the average amount earned per click on a banner advertisement?
48% of people clicked an ad because it showed a product they were already interested in.
What does HiPPO stand for?
When did A/B Testing originate?
In 2011 alone, Google ran roughly ______ A/B tests.
A page with video is _____ time more likely to appear in Google search results.
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More than ____% of companies say they don't have a landing page testing strategy.
What is the purpose of a transactional landing page?
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One Direction: 1D Mania
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Harry Styles offered film role by Weinstein
1D memorabilia sales beat Elvis, Beatles
One Direction make US album chart history
1D invite you on a date in new video
1D: 'We want to take a hold of our career'
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Postpartum anemia II: prevention and treatment
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This review focuses on the prevention and treatment of anemia in women who have just given childbirth (postpartum anemia). The problem of anemia both prepartum and postpartum is far more prevalent in developing countries than in the Western societies. The conditions for mother and child in the postpartum, nursing, and lactation period should be as favorable as possible. Many young mothers have a troublesome life due to iron deficiency and iron deficiency anemia (IDA) causing a plethora of symptoms including fatigue, physical disability, cognitive problems, and psychiatric disorders. Routine screening for postpartum anemia should be considered as part of the national maternal health programs. Major causes of postpartum anemia are prepartum iron deficiency and IDA in combination with excessive blood losses at delivery. Postpartum anemia should be defined as a hemoglobin level of <110 g/l at 1 week postpartum and <120 g/l at 8 weeks postpartum. Bleeding exceeding normal blood losses of approximately 300 ml may lead to rapid depletion of body iron reserves and may, unless treated, elicit long-standing iron deficiency and IDA in the postpartum period. The prophylaxis of postpartum anemia should begin already in early pregnancy in order to ensure a good iron status prior to delivery. The most reliable way to obtain this goal is to give prophylactic oral ferrous iron supplements 30–50 mg daily from early pregnancy and take obstetric precautions in pregnancies at risk for complications. In the treatment of slight-to-moderate postpartum IDA, the first choice should be oral ferrous iron 100 to 200 mg daily; it is essential to analyze hemoglobin after approximately 2 weeks in order to check whether treatment works. In severe IDA, intravenous ferric iron in doses ranging from 800 to 1,500 mg should be considered as first choice. In a few women with severe anemia and blunted erythropoiesis due to infection and/or inflammation, additional recombinant human erythropoietin may be considered. Blood transfusion should be restricted to women who develop circulatory instability due to postpartum hemorrhage. National health authorities should establish guidelines to combat iron deficiency in pregnancy and postpartum in order to facilitate a prosperous future for both mothers and children in a continuing globalized world.
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- Title
- Postpartum anemia II: prevention and treatment
- Journal
Annals of Hematology
Volume 91, Issue 2 , pp 143-154
- Cover Date
- 2012-02-01
- 10.1007/s00277-011-1381-2
- Print ISSN
- 0939-5555
- Online ISSN
- 1432-0584
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
- Additional Links
- Topics
- Keywords
- Anemia, Iron deficiency
- EPO protein, Human
- Hemoglobins
- Iron
- Iron i.v.
- Postpartum hemorrhage
- Postpartum period
- Pregnancy
- Industry Sectors
- Authors
- Nils Milman (1) (2)
- Author Affiliations
- 1. Departments of Clinical Biochemistry and Obstetrics, Næstved Hospital, Næstved, Denmark
- 2. Lindevangen 87B, 2830, Virum, Denmark


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Nurse that took the Hoax call from Australia is found dead.
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Posted December 7, 2012 at 3:35PM
The Nurse that took the Hoax call from Australia is found dead.
It is not known how she died yet but if it was due to the hoax call from 2 Australian D js they have a lot to answer to.
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Posted December 7, 2012 at 3:37PM
Should have added this from the BBC.
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Posted December 7, 2012 at 3:38PM
A tragic turn of events - difficult not to pre judge what has happened here and the pranksters now have a lot to live with
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Posted December 7, 2012 at 3:55PM
You can listen to the prank call from here.
What started off as a prank has ended up a bit of a disaster ending with the premature death of one of our nurses.
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Posted December 7, 2012 at 3:57PM
The radio station concerned still think it's funny enough to have it at the top of their home page http://www.2dayfm.com.au/ Highly inappropriate although I note they are getting deluged with adverse comments.
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Posted December 7, 2012 at 4:06PM
What a shame for the poor nurse and her family, friends and colleagues. A seemingly practical joke has turned into a tragedy.
This sort of thing has happened before with DJ's doing this sort of prank, albeit without the tragic end result. I would of thought that when a member of the royal family was admitted to hospital, they would of had their own staff deal with enquiries as to their well being. I am surprised that a young nurse has had to take the calls regarding the health of one of our royal family.
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Posted December 7, 2012 at 4:16PM
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I was assuming Sky was correct.Like you I thought that it would have been to early to tell.
I can only assume that she must have left a note.
al's left peg
You are right it has happened before from Australia but cant blame them alone I am sure it has been done by persons from the Uk in similar jobs.
A couple of names come to mind but I am not 100% sure.
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Posted December 7, 2012 at 4:49PM
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Nurse Jacintha Saldanha only answered the phone, then passed the call to the Duchess's room, where her personal nurse answered the enquiry.
She answered the phone because it was 5:30am and there was no reception cover.
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Posted December 7, 2012 at 5:00PM
None of you have any idea how or why the Nurse died.
"'difficult not to pre judge what has happened'
But, it is essential."
That is just stupid. Not only do you have no idea how she died but, there is no way the pranksters could have foreseen that someone could have died two days later, nor any reason they should have considered the possibility. Prank phonecalls have been a part of radio for decades.
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Posted December 7, 2012 at 5:13PM
We used to get these calls on BBC Radio Merseyside but they were stopped a long time ago because of the potential damage they could do. Well done BBC.
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Summer Fest: 6 Ways to Cook With Plums
by Allison Milam in In Season, July 18, 2012There are more uses for the juicy plum than eating around the pit and nose-crinkling when a prune comes into view. People love plums, of course, but they haven't reached the status of the heavy hitters: the oranges, apples and bananas. Even when it comes to antioxidants, that pesky pomegranate gets all of the attention. However, like many of our favorites, this stone fruit has some serious culinary chops, especially when they're in season and literally overflowing with ambrosial juices. Not to mention, this purplish-red beauty is brimming with nourishment and health benefits. It's about time we rethink the perks of the plum, people.
If there's anything we value in the kitchen, it is versatility. Try one of these spins on the fresh, in-season plum:
Grill It
There's something about cutting a ripe plum in half, clawing out the core and then getting it on the grill. It needs nothing more than some heat and maybe a brush of olive oil for the flesh to soften and caramelize and for a nice char to build up. It's as simple as that. After grilling, drizzle plums with a balsamic and black pepper syrup, bring in some brown sugar or stick them on a skewer. And the plum doesn't need to go it alone; combine it with other stone fruits for a grilled treat.
Puree It
Blend plums with a few apples, cinnamon sticks, apple juice, sugar and for a killer (not to mention beautifully-colored) plum applesauce (pictured above).
Drink It
Orange juice. Apple juice. Lemonade. But what about plum drinks? No, we're not talking prune juice. Slurp down Bobby's Plum Prosecco Cocktail, which is laced with honey, bubbles and, of course, plum.
Sweeten It
Plums are as sweet as sugar. But when dessert rolls around, sometimes you need a bit more than a slice of fruit. Alton Brown's Honey Plums add sweet to sweet by cooking under-ripe plums in honey until soft but not cloyingly sweet.
Cook It
Believe it or not, plums — both dried and fresh — work well with their fair share of proteins. For a meal with sweet-and-sour flavors, go for Apricot Glazed Chicken With Dried Plums and Sage; it has a shot of vinegar offsetting the sweetness of the dried plums. More of a pork person? Rachael Ray's pork tenderloin shines with her plum barbecue sauce. Instead of getting her plum sauce from the jar, she uses fresh plums and the essences of ginger, five-spice powder and hoisin sauce.
Bake It
As a fruit, the plum does wonders when it meets a little butter, sugar, flour and egg. Take it from Ellie Krieger; her Plum Tart With Almond Pastry Crust centers around the purple fruit, which she poaches, skins and then bakes into an almond crust. Into crisp? Try Food Network Magazine's Plum Apricot Crisp, and go heavy on those plums.
Tell us: Do you cook with plums?
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Talking about summer fest. I have never thought there could be so many fabulous recipes with plums! They all look so yummy. Thanks for sharing!
How I used to love watching Kathleen Daelemans on Food Network! I will absolutely try her recipe for Plum Apricot Crisp! Thansk for sharing!
Here's an Italian plum recipe to try:
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Didn't know there were so many "exotic" uses for it.. Usually just eat it in the summer, and for the rest of the year forget about it. But grilling it, want to try that, that's clever.


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Marxism and religion
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The founder and primary theorist of Marxism, the nineteenth-century German thinker Karl Marx, had an ambivalent and complex attitude to religion,[1] viewing it primarily as "the opium of the people" that had been used by the ruling classes to give the working classes false hope for millennia, while at the same time recognizing it as a form of protest by the working classes against their poor economic conditions.[2]
In the Marxist–Leninist interpretation of Marxist theory, developed primarily by Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin, religion is seen as retarding human development, and socialist states that follow a Marxist–Leninist variant are inherently atheistic. Due to this, a number of Marxist–Leninist governments in the twentieth century, such as the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China, implemented rules introducing state atheism. However, several religious communist groups exist, and Christian communism was important in the early development of communism.
Marx on religion[edit]
Karl Marx's religious views have been the subject of much interpretation. He famously stated in Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right
"Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness. To call on them to give up their illusions about their condition is to call on them to give up a condition that requires illusions. The criticism of religion is, therefore, in embryo, the criticism of that vale of tears of which religion is the halo.
Criticism has plucked the imaginary flowers on the chain not in order that man shall continue to bear that chain without fantasy or consolation, but so that he shall throw off the chain and pluck the living flower. The criticism of religion disillusions man, so that he will think, act, and fashion his reality like a man who has discarded his illusions and regained his senses, so that he will move around himself as his own true Sun. Religion is only the illusory Sun which revolves around man as long as he does not revolve around himself."[3]
According to Howard Zinn, "He [Marx] saw religion, not just negatively as 'the opium of the people,' but positively as the 'sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, the soul of soulless conditions.' This helps us understand the mass appeal of the religious charlatans of the television screen, as well as the work of Liberation Theology in joining the soulfulness of religion to the energy of revolutionary movements in miserably poor countries.".[4] Some recent scholarship has suggested that 'opium of the people' is itself a dialectical metaphor, a 'protest' and an 'expression' of suffering[5][6]
Lenin on religion[edit]
Vladimir Lenin was highly critical of religion, saying in his book Religion
Atheism is a natural and inseparable part of Marxism, of the theory and practice of scientific socialism.[7]
In About the attitude of the working party toward the religion, he wrote
Religion is the opium of the people: this saying of Marx is the cornerstone of the entire ideology of Marxism about religion. All modern religions and churches, all and of every kind of religious organizations are always considered by Marxism as the organs of bourgeois reaction, used for the protection of the exploitation and the stupefaction of the working class.[8]
However, while Lenin was critical of religion, he also specifically made a point to not include it in Our Programme or his ideological goals, saying
But under no circumstances ought we to fall into the error of posing the religious question in an abstract, idealistic fashion, as an "intellectual" question unconnected with the class struggle, as is not infrequently done by the radical-democrats from among the bourgeoisie. It would be stupid to think that, in a society based on the endless oppression and coarsening of the worker masses, religious prejudices could be dispelled by purely propaganda methods. It would be bourgeois narrow-mindedness to forget that the yoke of religion that weighs upon mankind is merely a product and reflection of the economic yoke within society. No number of pamphlets and no amount of preaching can enlighten the proletariat, if it is not enlightened by its own struggle against the dark forces of capitalism. Unity in this really revolutionary struggle of the oppressed class for the creation of a paradise on earth is more important to us than unity of proletarian opinion on paradise in heaven.[9]
Nikolai Bukharin and Evgenii Preobrazhensky on religion[edit]
In their influential book The ABC of Communism, Nikolai Bukharin and Evgenii Preobrazhensky spoke out strongly against religion. "Communism is incompatible with religious faith", they wrote.[10]
However importance was placed on secularism and non-violence towards the religious.
"But the campaign against the backwardness of the masses in this matter of religion, must be conducted with patience and considerateness, as well as with energy and perseverance. The credulous crowd is extremely sensitive to anything which hurts its feelings. To thrust atheism upon the masses, and in conjunction therewith to interfere forcibly with religious practices and to make mock of the objects of popular reverence, would not assist but would hinder the campaign against religion. If the church were to be persecuted, it would win sympathy among the masses, for persecution would remind them of the almost forgotten days when there was an association between religion and the defence of national freedom; it would strengthen the antisemitic movement; and in general it would mobilize all the vestiges of an ideology which is already beginning to die out."[10]
Lunacharsky on religion[edit]
In self-identified "Marxist" states[edit]
Religion in the Soviet Union[edit]
The Soviet Union was an atheist state,[11][12][13] in which religion was largely discouraged and at times heavily persecuted.[14] According to various Soviet and Western sources, however, over one-third of the country's people professed religious belief. Christianity and Islam had the most believers. Christians belonged to various churches: Orthodox, which had the largest number of followers; Catholic; and Baptist and other Protestant denominations. The majority of the Islamic faithful were Sunni. Judaism also had many followers. Other religions, which were practiced by a relatively small number of believers, included Buddhism and Shamanism.
The role of religion in the daily lives of Soviet citizens varied greatly. Two-thirds of the Soviet population, however, were irreligious. About half the people, including members of the ruling Communist Party and high-level government officials, professed atheism. For the majority of Soviet citizens, therefore, religion seemed irrelevant.
Prior to its collapse in late 1991, official figures on religion in the Soviet Union were not available.
State atheism in the Soviet Union was known as "gosateizm"[15]
Religion in the Socialist People's Republic of Albania[edit]
Albania was declared an atheist state by Enver Hoxha,[16] and remained so from 1967 until 1991.[17] The trend toward state atheism in Albania was taken to an extreme during the regime, when religions, identified as imports foreign to Albanian culture, were banned altogether.[17] This policy was mainly applied and felt within the borders of the present Albanian state, thus producing a nonreligious majority in the population.
Religion in the People's Republic of China[edit]
The People's Republic of China was established in 1949 and for much of its early history maintained a hostile attitude toward religion which was seen as emblematic of feudalism and foreign colonialism. Houses of worship, including temples, mosques, and churches, were converted into non-religious buildings for secular use.
This attitude, however, relaxed considerably in the late 1970s, with the end of the Cultural Revolution. The 1978 Constitution of the People's Republic of China guaranteed "freedom of religion" with a number of restrictions. Since the mid-1990s there has been a massive program to rebuild Buddhist and Taoist temples that were destroyed in the Cultural Revolution.[citation needed] However, the Communist Party of China still remains explicitly atheist, and religion is heavily regulated with only specific state-operated churches, mosques, and temples being allowed for worship.[18]
Religion in Democratic Kampuchea[edit]
Pol Pot, leader of the Khmer Rouge regime, suppressed Cambodia's Buddhist religion: monks were defrocked; temples and artifacts, including statues of Buddha, were destroyed; and people praying or expressing other religious sentiments were often killed. The Christian and Muslim communities were among the most persecuted, as well. The Roman Catholic cathedral of Phnom Penh was razed. The Khmer Rouge forced Muslims to eat pork, which they regard as an abomination. Many of those who refused were killed. Christian clergy and Muslim imams were executed.[19][20]
Religion in Laos[edit]
In contrast with the brutal repression of the sangha undertaken in Cambodia, the communist government of Laos has not sought to oppose or suppress Buddhism in Laos to any great degree. Rather, since the early days of the Pathet Lao, communist officials have sought to use the influence and respect afforded to Buddhist clergy to achieve political goals, while discouraging religious practices seen as detrimental to Marxist aims.[21]
Starting as early as the late 1950s, members of the Pathet Lao sought to encourage support for the Communist cause by aligning members of the Lao sangha with the Communist opposition.[21] Though resisted by the Royal Lao Government, these efforts were fairly successful, and resulted in increased support for the Pathet Lao, particularly in rural communities.[21]
Communism and Christianity[edit]
Christian communism can be seen as a radical form of Christian socialism. It is a theological and political theory based upon the view that the teachings of Jesus Christ compel Christians to support communism as the ideal social system. Although there is no universal agreement on the exact date when Christian communism was founded, many Christian communists assert that evidence from the Bible suggests that the first Christians, including the Apostles, created their own small communist society in the years following Jesus' death and resurrection. As such, many advocates of Christian communism argue that it was taught by Jesus and practiced by the Apostles themselves.
In Socialism: Utopian and Scientific, Friedrich Engels draws a certain analogy between the sort of utopian communalism of some of the early Christian communities and the modern-day communist movement, the scientific communist movement representing the proletariat in this era and its world historic transformation of society. Engels noted both certain similarities and certain contrasts.
Communism and Islam[edit]
From the 1940s through the 1960s, Communists and Islamists sometimes joined forces in opposing colonialism and seeking national independence.[22] The Tudeh (Iranian Communist party) was allied with the Islamists in their ultimately successful rebellion against the Shah in 1979, although after the Shah was overthrown, the Islamists turned on their one-time allies. However, the MEK, an exiled communist party which opposes the Islamic Republic still have some power in their headquarters in Camp Ashraf.
Communist philosopher Mir-Said (Mirza) Sultan-Galiev, Stalin's protégé at the Commissariat of Nationalities (Narkomnats), wrote in The Life of Nationalities, the Narkomnats' journal.[23]
Communism and Judaism[edit]
During the Russian Civil War, Jews were seen as communist sympathizers and thousands were murdered in pogroms by the White Army. During the Red Scare in the United States in the 1950s, a representative of the American Jewish Committee assured the powerful House Committee on Un-American Activities that "Judaism and communism are utterly incompatible.".[24] On the other hand, some Orthodox Jews, including a number of prominent religious figures, actively supported either anarchist or Marxist versions of communism. Examples include Rabbi Yehuda Ashlag, an outspoken libertarian communist, Russian revolutionary and territorialist leader Isaac Steinberg and Rabbi Abraham Bik, an American communist activist.[25]
Communism and Buddhism[edit]
Buddhism has been said to be compatible with communism given that both can be interpreted as atheistic and arguably share some similarities regarding their views of the world of nature and the relationship between matter and mind.[26] Regardless, Buddhists have still been persecuted in some communist states,[27] notably China, Mongolia and Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge.
Many supporters of the Viet Cong were Buddhists, strongly believing in the unification of Vietnam, with many opposing South Vietnam due to former president Ngo Dinh Diem's persecution of Buddhism during the early 1960s.
The current Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, speaks positively of Marxism, despite the heavy persecution of the Tibetan people by the post-Mao/post-Cultural Revolution Chinese government.
See also[edit]
- Anarchism and religion
- Antireligion
- Communism and atheism
- Liberation theology
- Marxist—Leninist atheism
- Red Terror
- Religion in the Soviet Union
- Religious persecution
- Staatssekretär für Kirchenfragen
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- ^ Marx, Karl. "Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right". Marxist Internet Archive. Retrieved 19 January 2012.
- ^ Zinn, Howard. "Howard Zinn: On Marx and Marxism".
- ^ McKinnon, AM. (2005). 'Reading 'Opium of the People': Expression, Protest and the Dialectics of Religion'. Critical Sociology, vol 31, no. 1-2, pp. 15-38 [1]
- ^ Roland Boer 'The Full Story: On Marxism and Religion' in International Socialism. Issue 123 [2]
- ^ Lenin, V. I. (2007). Religion. READ BOOKS. p. 5. ISBN 9781408633205.
- ^ Lenin, V. I. "About the attitude of the working party toward the religion.". Collected works, v. 17, p.41. Retrieved 2006-09-09.
- ^ Lenin, V. I. "Socialism and Religion". Lenin Collected Works, v. 10, p.83-87. Retrieved 2014-11-09.
- ^ a b Bukharin, Nikolai; Evgenii Preobrazhensky (1920). The ABC of Communism. pp. Chapter 11: Communism and Religion. ISBN 9780472061129.
- ^ http://www.jstor.org/pss/128810
- ^ Sabrina Petra Ramet, Ed., Religious Policy in the Soviet Union. Cambridge University Press (1993). P 4
- ^ John Anderson, Religion, State and Politics in the Soviet Union and Successor States, Cambridge University Press, 1994, pp 3
- ^ http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/archives/anti.html
- ^ Protest for Religious Rights in the USSR: Characteristics and Consequences, David Kowalewski, Russian Review, Vol. 39, No. 4 (Oct., 1980), pp. 426–441, Blackwell Publishing on behalf of The Editors and Board of Trustees of the Russian Review
- ^ Sang M. Lee writes that Albania was "[o]fficially an atheist state under Hoxha..." Restructuring Albanian Business Education Infrastructure August 2000 (Accessed 6 June 2007)
- ^ a b Representations of Place: Albania, Derek R. Hall, The Geographical Journal, Vol. 165, No. 2, The Changing Meaning of Place in Post-Socialist Eastern Europe: Commodification, Perception and Environment (Jul., 1999), pp. 161–172, Blackwell Publishing on behalf of The Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers)
- ^ Religious Freedom in China. Berkeley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, Georgetown University. http://berkleycenter.georgetown.edu/essays/religious-freedom-in-china
- ^ "Pol Pot - MSN Encarta". Archived from the original on 2009-10-31.
- ^ Cambodia - Society under the Angkar
- ^ a b c Savada, Andrea Matles (1994). Laos: A Country Study. Washington, D.C.: GPO for the Library of Congress.
- ^ "Communism and Islam". Oxford Islamic Studies Online. Retrieved 15 Nov 2008.
- ^ Byrne, Gerry (17 March 2004). "Bolsheviks and Islam Part 3: Islamic communism". Retrieved 15 Nov 2008.
- ^ Diner, Hasia R. (2004). Jews of the United States, 1654 to 2000. University of California Press. p. 279. ISBN 9780520227736.
- ^ http://seforim.blogspot.com/2008/03/rabbis-and-communism-by-marc-b.html Rabbis and Communism, a research article by Prof. Marc Shapiro
- ^ Sharma, Arvind (1995). Our Religions: The Seven World Religions Introduced by Preeminent Scholars from Each Tradition. HarperCollins. pp. 82–83. ISBN 9780060677008.
- ^ Mongolia. Encyclopædia Britannica Online.


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We started talking about this in a thread extolling the virtues of the Strugatsky brothers' Roadside Picnic, and I thought it might be a good idea to take our conversation here in case it gets out of hand and we get into trouble for messing up the site.
One of the most fascinating aspects of old science fiction is the author's concept of the then-near-future - is the Cold War still going on, has World War Three occurred in the meantime, has the world succumbed to eco-catastrophe or, as appears to be the most recent fashion, are the Chinese running it?
Karel Capek's War with the Newts is a brilliant read as it stands, but it becomes disturbing and positively spooky when you know that it was written during the bit of the Third Reich that wasn't the Second World War (about 1936, at a guess, but I admit I haven't looked it up recently). The bit where the newts' works have cut Britain off from the European continent, and the British start digging up their cricket pitches and flower gardens to grow food, inspired by the example of the Prince of Wales who breaks the turf at Lords' with his own hands... ooeeooeeooee...
Ah, the future was so much better in the old days! These days it's always either abandoned earth boiling with toxic soup or heartless world run by clones or genetically engineered fascists or people with chips in.
Um, have you read The Night Land recently?
No, it's just that it was written in about 1912, and has quite the nastiest future of them all.
OK, I take that back: 'The Night Land' doesn't count, 'cos it's set millions of years in the future, when the sun's gone out. Anyway, E. M. Forster's 'The Machine Stops' is worse, and considering it was written in about 1919, it has a then-near-future that'll give you the creeps.


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Distinguished Financial Scholar William Poole Lectured on the Financial Crisis
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"If you follow the newspapers at all, you have a sense of how costly this period has been," opened Dr. William Poole as he delivered a special lecture on "Improving Financial Stability" on Wednesday, October 8th in the Ruby R. Vale Moot Courtroom. A sizable audience turned out for the lecture, which was sponsored by Widener Law's
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"Our fiscal policy is on an unsustainable course. How did this happen, and what can we do to stop it from happening again?" asked Poole rhetorically. He went on to discuss the roots of the financial crisis and indicated that the Federal government's unwillingness to let some of the nation's largest financial institutions fail will only cause those same institutions to try risky strategies again, calling the government bailout, "Insurance without charging an insurance premium."
Calling the financial collapse "not a failure of regulation, but rather a fundamental failure of economic analysis," Poole described the origins of the crisis, sighting unchecked lending including subprime mortgages, and the trading of bundles of those mortgages as mortgage-backed securities. He traced the origins of the crisis to the early 1990s, and described the entire system as a house of cards built on the idea that real estate prices would continue to rise. He dryly concluded, "The music stopped and we started to get defaults."
Moving beyond the origins of the crisis to what he thought should be done, Dr. Poole said, "We can't have a system where losses are socialized and gains are privatized." He suggested that creditors should be at risk in order to force them to have control over the situation. At the conclusion of the talk, he took questions from an interested audience.
A native of Wilmington, Delaware, Dr. Poole graduated from Swarthmore College, and has both an MBA and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. A former President of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, Dr. Poole was the Albert H. Goldberger Professor of Economics at Brown University, has served as a member of the Academic Advisory Panels of the Federal Reserve Banks of New York and Boston, and has served on the Congressional Budget Office Panel of Economic Advisors. He joined the University of Delaware faculty in fall 2008 as the Distinguished Scholar in Residence at the Alfred Lerner College of Business & Economics.


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WASHINGTON - Keith Littlepage, 50, of Washington, D.C., was found guilty by a jury today of first degree premeditated murder while armed and other charges in the March 2011 slaying of a woman in Southeast Washington, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced.
The jury also convicted Littlepage of felony murder while armed, first-degree burglary, and second-degree burglary. The verdict followed a trial in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. The Honorable Thomas J. Motley scheduled sentencing for Sept. 26, 2012. Littlepage faces a maximum sentence of life in prison without release, based upon the aggravating circumstances present in the case. Littlepage has a prior conviction for voluntary manslaughter dating back to 1981, though that fact was not presented to the jury.
According to the evidence at trial, Littlepage and the victim, Selina Knight, 36, had been involved in a romantic relationship that had ended at her behest before the murder. Littlepage engaged in a pattern of escalating, threatening conduct in the days leading up to the killing. For example, he ransacked Ms. Knight's apartment in the 3000 block of Nelson Place SE and threw her father's cremation ashes in the toilet. He also scrawled profane graffiti on the walls of the apartment. These threats culminated in the evening hours of March 4, 2011, when Littlepage stabbed Ms. Knight several times with a sharp object, killing her.
The evidence adduced at trial demonstrated that Littlepage had threatened Ms. Knight in a variety of other ways. For example, he threatened to kill Ms. Knight in a private phone call between himself and his sister several weeks before the murder and made numerous telephonic threats to kill her in the days leading up to the murder.
In announcing today's verdict, U.S. Attorney Machen commended those who worked on the case for the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD), including detectives, mobile crime technicians, and others. He acknowledged the efforts of those who worked on the case for the U.S. Attorney's Office, including Paralegal Specialists Fern Rhedrick and Theresa Nelson, Litigation Support Services Specialist Tracy Van Atta and Leif Hickling, and Victim Advocate Marcia Rinker.
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It seems as if an era has truly come to a close for the Cardinals, as second baseman/outfielder/Tony La Russa affection object Skip Schumaker is going to the Dodgers. In return the Cardinals get minor league infielder Jake Lemmerman, though honestly just about anyone would have likely gotten this deal done. With Schumaker scheduled to make $1.5 million in 2013 and having no role to fill, he seemed destined to end up elsewhere.
Schumaker famously learned how to play second base when TLR asked him to all those years ago, but he certainly never learned how to play it well. Schumaker's defensive ineptitude is a problem for a utility man; defense is usually a key component desired in a player performing this function. Offensively, Schumaker handles right-handed pitchers fine for a middle infielder even if he doesn't have any power. Problem is, he doesn't hit enough to balance out his glove, he can't even begin to do anything against lefties (career .205/.276/.245 line against them), and teams like their corner outfielders to occasionally produce an extra-base hit.
I don't want to spend the duration of this post railing against lil' Jared Schumaker, but I do want to stress that his time in St. Louis had certainly run its course as a baseball player. I'm sure he's a great guy, but there are other players on the roster who can fill his shoes while remaining younger, cheaper, and better. So good luck, Skip; the team you're going to now has infinite resources at its disposal and has recently announced plans to build a team water park in the clubhouse. We hear it has an awesome Indiana Jones ride. Hooray!
This Jake Lemmerman fellow, he'll turn 23 early next season and hasn't made it out of Double-A so far. He hit .233/.347/.378 in 449 PA last season, a line highlighted by a nifty 11.8% walk rate. Lemmerman isn't likely to be much of a hitter, and his ceiling is probably that of a utility infielder down the road. Kind of funny considering the man he was traded for, no? At any rate, Lemmerman can come play in Springfield for the Double-A Cardinals and maybe even drop by the official headquarters of StanGraphs while he's in the area. We'll have a more comprehensive look at Skipper's time with the Cardinals later, so stay tuned!


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