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Sept. 14 (Bloomberg) -- The slide in overseas interest rates is spurring Japanese insurers to dump foreign debt in favor of domestic fixed-income securities, supporting demand at the nation's bond auctions.
Germany's 20-year bonds yield 69 basis points more than similar-maturity Japanese debt sold yesterday, near the lowest in at least 17 years. The rate advantage of 10-year Treasuries shrank to 91 basis points on Sept. 9, the narrowest in two years. Japanese life insurers sold a net 550.6 billion yen ($7.16 billion) of foreign debt last month, the most since December 2008, Ministry of Finance data showed.
The lower yield advantage of overseas bonds has coincided with heightened volatility in currency markets, with the euro falling to a decade low against the yen. That's spurred domestic financial companies to funnel more funds into Japanese government bonds, helping the world's most indebted nation borrow at the second-lowest rates globally after Switzerland.
"High yields are what make foreign bonds attractive, so the narrowing yield differences diminish their allure," said Shinichi Horikawa, general manager at the accounting and investment department of Mitsui Sumitomo Kirameki Life Insurance Co. in Tokyo., which manages $16 billion. "In relative terms, Japan's government bonds have become more attractive."
Yesterday's 1 trillion yen sale of 20-year Japanese bonds drew bids valued at 3.39 times the amount on offer, the highest since the offering in May. Twenty-year yields slid 2.5 basis points to 1.740 percent after the auction, and the advantage they offered over five-year notes declined to 139 basis points, or 1.39 percentage point, the least since Sept. 29, 2010
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"The auction results were pretty good," said Tetsuya Miura, chief market analyst at Mizuho Securities Co., one of the 25 primary dealers obliged to bid at government debt sales. "The bullish trend for longer-term bonds is likely to last for a while."
Germany's 20-year bonds yield 2.44 percent, compared with 1.75 percent for Japan's, and the gap between the two narrowed to 66 basis points on Sept. 12, the least in Bloomberg data going back to December 1993. The rate on Switzerland's 20-year security is lower at 1.44 percent.
Sumitomo Mitsui's Horikawa said his company's holdings of Japanese debt are centered on maturities from 10 and 30 years. Life insurance companies typically try to match the maturities of their assets and liabilities to minimize the effects of interest-rate fluctuations.
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Insurance companies owned 20.2 percent of Japan's outstanding debt as of March 2011, the second-biggest holders after banks with 44.8 percent), according to the latest data from the Ministry of Finance.
Japanese government debt due in 10 years or longer has handed investors a 3.16 percent return this year, compared with a 0.27 percent gain for bonds maturing between one and three years, according to indexes compiled by Bank of America Corp.
"Short-term notes offer too little income," said Mitsui Sumitomo's Horikawa. "To gain sufficient income, investors have to buy longer-maturity bonds."
The yen climbed to a postwar high of 75.95 per dollar on Aug. 19, even as the nation sold 4.51 trillion yen that month to weaken the currency, the biggest foreign-exchange intervention on a monthly basis since 2004. The yen reached 103.90 per euro Sept. 12, the strongest since June 2001.
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Treasuries have returned a 0.63 percent in the past three months to investors who converted proceeds into yen, compared with 4.94 percent in dollar terms, a Bank of America index showed. The comparable returns for German debt were negative 1.86 percent and positive 7.57 percent, the indexes showed.
Currency-hedged yields on 10-year U.S. Treasuries stood at 1.83 percent today, down from 3.18 percent at the end of last year. The fees to borrow the U.S. currency to cover dollar investments are based on the difference between the London interbank offered rates for three-month dollar and yen loans.
Currency-hedged yields on Germany's 10-year debt were 0.46 percent. Japan's 10-year government bond yield stood at 0.995 percent today.
The dollar Libor rate climbed to 0.347 percent yesterday, a level unseen since August 2010, according to the British Bankers' Association.
"Because of rising dollar Libor, currency hedge costs are increasing," said Makoto Noji, a senior debt and foreign-exchange strategist at SMBC Nikko Securities Inc. in Tokyo, another primary dealer. "Japan's government bonds are relatively more attractive than overseas debt, and they are even more attractive if hedging costs are taken into account."
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Credit-default swaps insuring Japan's sovereign debt for five years reached 123 basis points on Sept. 13, the highest level since CMA started gathering prices in 2004. That compared with 85.5 basis points to protect German debt and 52.2 for U.S. bonds, according to CMA, which is owned by CME Group Inc. and compiles prices quoted by dealers in the privately negotiated market.
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Nearsightedness, or myopia, is a vision condition in which nearby objects are clear and distant objects appear blurry. This may be caused by excess corneal curvature or an oblong rather than a spherical shape to the eye, both of which affect the way light is bent upon entering the eye and whether it focuses properly on the retina.
Almost a third of people in the U.S. experience some degree of nearsightedness, which normally emerges by age 20. Symptoms include difficulty focusing on objects in the distance, such as a chalkboard or TV. There is some evidence that it is caused or worsened by sustained focus on nearby objects. Nearsightedness may also be hereditary.
Farsightedness, or hyperopia, is the condition in which the eye focuses on distant objects better than on objects closer to the eye, so nearby objects appear blurry. This happens when light rays refract, or bend, incorrectly in the eye. The eye is designed to focus images directly on the surface of the retina; when the cornea is incorrectly curved, light rays focus behind the surface of the retina, producing a blurry image.
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Initial plans for the seven-story structure were revealed at the city's architectural review board Thursday, said Mark Wasserman, senior vice president for external affairs and development for the medical system.
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(Feb. 28, 2012) -- The UTSA University Health Professions Office and University Career Center will host the 22nd annual Health Professions Day career fair from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Thursday, March 1 in the University Center Ballroom (1.104) on the Main Campus. Free and open to the public, the fair features health organization and school representatives who will provide information about various health occupations.
The event helps individuals explore health profession programs such as medical, dental, pharmacy, physical therapy, nursing and other programs. Additionally, there will be panel discussions and one-on-one conversations with more than 60 program representatives from U.S. and international health professions schools.
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Who Introduced Who?
The Jacksonian Era
Life on the Square, post-West
Bug in Our Ear
Who Introduced Who?
The connection was Councilman Chris Woodhull , who half-jokingly asked Rogero if she would be interested in the job. Rogero said she would love it.
Woodhull let Haslam know Rogero would be interested and things transpired. It was a political coup for Haslam, who faced the delicate job of hiring someone to replace Rene Kessler , whose being replaced sparked a protest by the NAACP, concerned about a lack of minority representation in the office. Rogero has impeccable credentials as a community activist, she is a Democrat and cannot be accused of being a political crony of Haslam.
The Jacksonian Era
The series is the most complete compilation of the papers of one of America's most influential presidents. In fact, few presidents have ever earned this degree of scrutiny. Volume VII concentrates on one year, 1829, the eventful first year of Jackson's two-term administration.
We're sure they can't wait to get the whole series behind them. There will be 16 volumes when it's all done, and considering they commenced the project in the late '70s, at the current rate, they may be finished as early as 2040.
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Instructions for Scheduling Instruments
All calendars will move to iLab as of July 1, 2014
Sorters - MoFlo, MoFlo XDP, FACSAria II
The sorters may only be scheduled by appointment with Facility staff. Please contact the staff member primarily responsible for the sorter on which you want to sort.
- MoFlo -Janet Dow: firstname.lastname@example.com 919-966-1530
- MoFlo XDP - Felicia Heyward: firstname.lastname@example.com 919-966-1530
- FACSAria II (BSL-2 Cell sorting) - Evan Trudeau: email@example.com 919-966-1530
You are required to complete and email a "Sort Request Form" and if you have biohazardous samples, a "Biosafety Form".
Analyzers - FACSCalibur, CyAn, LSR II, Analysis Computer
Once trained, Investigators may schedule their own time for the aforementioned instruments.
Use Your Flow Cytometry-assigned Login and Password
For appointments that require Flow Facility staff participation please ONLY schedule time AFTER making an appointment with us.
To schedule Time:
1. Set up an account with iLab:
Register for an iLab Account:
1. Complete the iLab Account Sign-up Form: https://my.ilabsolutions.com/account/signup/279?sc_id=3267
To register, you will enter:
- Your contact information
- PI name
- PI email
- Billing address
- Department accounting tech name
- Department accounting tech phone number
- Department accounting tech email address
2. in iLab, select "Reservations' Tab
3. Select the instrument you wish to reserve and drag your cursor over the available time that you wish to reserve.
1. Refer to the Service Request Help Manual for additional guidance.
2. Refer to the Scheduling Help Manual for additional equipment scheduling guidance.
Technical Support:
If you have any questions or comments, please use the 'leave iLab feedback' link in the upper right corner
once you are logged in. Alternatively, you can email the iLab Support Team at email@example.com.
Core Users Manual for iLab Solutions
Also if you are scheduling the FACSCalibur you must submit a "Biosafety Form":
Editing Rules:
- Outside of the lockout period you may make any edit you wish including deleting.
- During the lockout period you may not delete or shorten your appointment.
- During the lockout period you may edit your start time (earlier or later) but you are not allowed to move the start time off of the lockout period nor off of the originally scheduled day (the end time may extend past the lockout period or the end time may extend into the next day - i.e. past midnight).
- During the lockout period you may extend your time unless the appointment time has already commenced in which case you must make a new additional appointment to extend your time.
- During the lockout period the software will prevent you from deleting or shortening your scheduled appointment - to do so you must contact Facility staff.
- If you finish an appointment early please let the Facility staff know so we may make the time available to others.
- For the FACSCalibur, we are waiving the Cancellation Penalty if you must cancel your time within the 36-hour lock out period. This is to encourage users to schedule experiments with some uncertainty on these instruments. If you must cancel, please contact the facility at 6-1530 to notify us that your experiment was cancelled. This has been put in place to accommodate investigators with clinical patients that may not show up or cancel their appointments.
Self-made appointments on analytical cytometers
The scheduling software locks you out from deleting/reducing your scheduled time 36 hours before your appointment.
You may add, extend, move (within the same 36 hours)
If you find you cannot make a scheduled appointment (after the lockout) you will be charged for all of your scheduled time.
In all cases, if you are able, call us to let us know. We often have people waiting for time and if someone else uses your scheduled time (new appointments only - not just convenience shifts) you will not be charged for the time they use. If you have an allowed excuse (you are sick, kid is sick, etc.) we will waive your charges.
If you do not call before your scheduled time we will charge you unless you have an excuse that prevented you from calling. Reasons which will not excuse your time are - cells died, Ab/reagent did not arrive in time, my alarm clock did not go off, I forgot, etc. If you repeatedly make appointments and do not use the time, we will have a conversation with your billing PI.
- If you use the machine without scheduling on-line you will be billed a $10.00 surcharge (recorded by the computer) for our time to extract your info from the computer and enter it in the calendar for our archive records required for auditing purposes.
- Also if you are on the machine without an appointment entered in the on-line/web calendar and another user books on-line all or part of the time you planned to use you MUST leave the machine when that user arrives.
- To make changes that require modifying someone else's scheduled time (e.g. when someone finishes early) you must contact Facility staff to update the schedule. Failing to do so may mean you are using the machine without an appointment and subject to the rules listed above.
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Good Vibrations
Once it was a secret; then it was a "right"; now it is a duty. So daunting a duty is orgasm that men, as Jonathan Margolis admits in his 400-page paean to sexual climax, go wild with glee when offered an electronic implant that can relieve them of the onerous duty of bringing their girlfriends to ecstasy all by themselves. Women, for their part, fake it rather than risk the traumatization of their mate. Sex in the twenty-first century is a performance sport: We are told we must "demand" orgasms; we are told we must demand lots of orgasms (for we are "multi-orgasmic"); we are told we must seize our own orgasms and offered an array of fancifully colored vibrators to stash in our bags lest any toilet break go unexploited. Men know this and they feel intimidated. Women know this and they feel inadequate. The bedroom, too often, has become a site of fear.
It's not that the sexual revelations and revolutions of the recent past have not brought considerable good. It's great that men know more about women's bodies than they did, great they no longer imagine, like the cad in Milan Kundera's 1972 novel The Joke, that any sexual exchange short of intercourse is emasculating. What's bad is that now we have books like Margolis's O: The Intimate History of the Orgasm, which insistently and insipidly fetishize orgasms--adding, thereby, not just to our fears in the erotic realm but also, paradoxically, to our boredoms. What may be worse is that such books are in sync with the zeitgeist.
To call Margolis's volume a "history" is a stretch, since he can't get basic dates straight. Shakespeare's early modern verse, for example, is discussed in a chapter on the Middle Ages. The book is better viewed as an amorphous compendium of sexual trivia, a cluttered attic of erotic curiosity. The only organizing principle in evidence is Margolis's impassioned desire to persuade us all to orgasm more "swiftly, reliably," promiscuously, frequently, independently and, above all, with less emotional and moral hocus-pocus. To this end, he tells us of Mangaia, an island in the South Pacific where everybody sleeps joyfully with everybody else and boys "are taught always to bring their partner to orgasm several times before allowing themselves to ejaculate.... The female's final orgasm should coincide precisely with the man's. The typical 18-year-old Mangaian couple," according to a 1971 study, "make love three times a night, every night."
Margolis lauds the "unusually healthy acceptance of masturbation" in Indonesia, where "parents of young children reported happily watching...their children masturbate to orgasm" and approvingly quotes a "respected academic anthropologist" who laments that most "high school students [are] induced to enjoy Elizabethan drama but in virtually no school system offered helpful hints on enjoying physical pleasure by themselves." Masturbation, it would appear, is Margolis's cause célèbre. He assesses the liberation of a society by the warmth of its celebration of masturbation.
Margolis's book provides endless opportunities to observe the limits of social science. The study that showed Mangaian women as sexually delighted was followed by studies that showed them as severely battered, for example. Margolis mentions these studies, but they in no way move him to question the initial study or to qualify his judgment of Mangaia as "a South Pacific paradise." "How do I know that [my husband] loves me if he doesn't beat me?" a typical Mangaian research subject asked when quizzed about her wounds. Suffice it to say that it is hard to imagine a man about to beat his wife to a pulp bothering to selflessly provide her with "several orgasms" beforehand. It is equally hard to believe the first study could have obtained any of its precise figures credibly: exactly three simultaneous climaxes a night, every night, always? Know the Mangaians no variety, no fatigue? Or were they simply misleading the scientists as surely as the Sudanese women who told their interlocutors they had earth-shaking climaxes after their clitorises had been cut out: "This was verified," writes the anthropologist in charge, "by their happy and highly animated demeanor as they described it." If this is science, don't give us literature.
Alas, Margolis does, and a mighty mess he makes of it. It is hard to imagine anybody reading Aldous Huxley's dystopian novel Brave New World and taking the anonymous copulation and orgasm-inducing machine in its pages for a beautiful ideal rather than bitter satire, but Margolis manages. In fact, he gamely remarks, some of Huxley's vision had already been "aspired to and achieved" in the 1960s! Only the machine itself, the "Orgasmatron" made famous by Woody Allen in Sleeper, remains frustratingly unavailable. What Margolis does for Huxley he does for the King James Bible. Champion of the clitoris that he is, he finds instructions for its use all over the Old Testament. When the female speaker in the Song of Solomon says, "Let his left hand be under my head and his right hand embrace me," Margolis can reach no other conclusion than that the Song, in this line, "certainly advises a man as clearly as possible to stimulate manually his lover's clitoris." As clearly as possible, indeed: With directions like that, no wonder it took men a few more millennia to catch the drift.
Margolis relishes the Old Testament for lines like this one but condemns the New Testament for its "blithe lack of concern" with the sexual quandaries by which he is so exercised. What was Jesus thinking? He should have written a treatise on masturbation instead of founding a religion. Columbus is taxed with the same failure. Having quoted with admiration from the Ananga Ranga, an Eastern sex manual written in the 1100s, Margolis sourly notes: "That Christopher Columbus was engaged in the rather more macho business of exploring the globe as the Ananga Ranga was being written provides a fitting illustration of the apparent austerity that was the norm under the Christian sphere of influence in the Middle Ages." Quite aside from the spectacular conflation of dates here--Columbus did not live in the Middle Ages, and the Ananga Ranga was done well over 300 years before he began his work--it's a preposterous point: Columbus, apparently, shouldn't have bothered with the discovery of America; his time would have been better spent exploring his privates.
Like many sexologists, Margolis is harsh on Christianity: Its restriction of sexual freedoms leaves him extraordinarily bitter, often understandably. On the other hand, he gets a huge amount wrong about medieval and Renaissance Christianity. "Thinking of sexual and religious rapture in the same breath is, of course, anathema" to Christians throughout history, he states with trademark self-assurance. If American hippies tried to conflate the two, it is "obviously," he continues, for just this reason. But Christianity did not need hippies to mingle religious and erotic rapture; its own greatest and most persuasive voices have done so since the, um, Middle Ages. Medieval religious lyrics routinely refer to Jesus as the speaker's "lemman," or "lover." In the Renaissance era and the seventeenth century, deeply Christian poets--from the parish priest George Herbert and Richard Crashaw to the Dean of Saint Paul's, John Donne--wrote verses to God that ring with erotic passion: One of the most gorgeous sonnets in English, "Batter My Heart, Three-Personed God," concludes with Donne essentially inviting his God to rape him: "For I," he declares, "Except you enthrall me, never shall be free/Nor even chaste, except you ravish me." Earlier in his life, the dean had written to his mistress in similar ecclesiastic-erotic language, "canonizing" her in his poetry and elevating her to the status of a saint--the very thing, indeed, Romeo calls Juliet in Shakespeare.
Early modern Christianity was all about mingling the passions, far more so, it is true, than present-day Christianity--and far more so, in particular, than Margolis. For it is he who wishes to keep sex and spirit surgically separate, he who views spirit as a pox upon sex, and vice versa. It is he who mocks "woolly" thinkers who would see carnal love as an occasion for mystical union; he who scorns Simone de Beauvoir as "pretentious" for suggesting a woman can feel "borne by waves, swept away in a storm" in the embrace of her lover, that "her ego is abolished" and "she becomes one with" something larger than herself. For Margolis, sex is a simple little convulsion, akin, as he so charmingly puts it, to a "sneeze," a "hiccup," an "urgently needed bowel movement" or "common-or-garden urination from an overfull bladder." And herein lies the gravest problem with Margolis's erotic agenda: In wanting to keep sex unencumbered by emotion, morality or mysticism so that we can have as much of it as easily as possible, he altogether depletes it. He makes it dull and small--at best an agreeable snack for the sensations and at worst a forgettable hiccup, but never a sublime experience.
And that is tragic. For sex is a powerful force; if harnessed rather than simply sprinkled hither and thither, it can take us places. It can burst through barriers that would otherwise remain unbroken, accomplish in one explosive clap what decades of whittling away at someone else's or our own defenses could not. It can throw us into the core of a Strange Other or into the still center of our own souls. At its best it is two things Margolis disdains: mystical and transgressive. That is why it has so often been shot through with spirituality--by twentieth-century hippies, seventeenth-century poets and contemporary Tantric theorists alike. That is why it has so often been curbed: But to curb, in many such cases, is to strengthen. Much as nudist beaches are not erotic, people sitting around openly masturbating, as Margolis envisions, are not erotic. It is secret love that is the strongest. It is forbidden fruit that is the sweetest. In that sense maybe we can thank Christianity for making sex harder; in so doing it has made it more intense. Women comfortably comparing vibrators over lunch are not for that reason in possession of the most beautiful erotic experiences. Portnoy masturbating around the clock is not the happiest guy on earth--though Margolis's arguments would make us think so.
We have demystified orgasm enough over the decades; perhaps it is time, now, to remystify it. Margolis rightly blames the church for having attempted to make sex a mere tool for procreation: God, he says, gave us a race car; why use it as a tractor? No, God has given us a chariot to the sun, and Margolis, alas, is using it as a Honda Civic. Always reliable, generally available, but just not a lot of magic. Sex is many things to many people and that is as it should be, but the last thing we want is orgasms on tap; an erotic culture of infinite availability and amiable innocuousness is an erotic culture that is bland. There will always be those for whom sex is a snack or a sneeze, but let us leave room for sex as communion, sex as spirit made flesh, sex as a brush with the feathered glory of Leda's swan, a brush with the divine.


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I am using Chris' BandWebsiteTemplate from awhile back. Just trying to get the shows portion to work.
It functions correctly but there is a space being generated by some code that I cannot find.
The page is here.
The unwanted space is in the main content area between "Dates, Event & Venue, Address, Time" and the list of shows.
Any help is much appreciated.
The showrow's need overflow:hidden
I added overflow:hidden; to
.show-row-dates, .show-row-event-venue, .show-row-address, .show-row-time, .show-row-head, .show-row-admin
Still have the space issue.
Any other thoughts?
First of all, a table is the most correct mark-up for this information!
Barring that, you need to add overflow: hidden to #table-container (I don't believe a ruleset exists yet).
Why the extraneous clearing divs? Why the breaks for spacing?
Thank you wolfcry911. Adding that ruleset did it.
Thanks also for the other info. I believe it is a table generated by js and php. This is a template Chris built. I don't really know what I'm doing outside of HTML/CSS which is why I am using his plugin. Hopefully, I am not doing something completely stupid. :-)
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The following people helped produce or distribute last week's (Feb. 2) Corner Forum: Marc Borbely, 536 13th St. NE (editing, compiling events, distributing); Tammi Cioffi, 536 13th St. NE (proofreading, folding).
The following people attended last week's (Feb. 1) Corner Forum planning meeting (held every Saturday at the Northeast Branch Library at 10 a.m.): Sharon Cochran, 1300 block of Emerald St. NE; and Marc Borbely, 536 13th St. NE.
There are 51 households in the area that have subscribed to the Corner Forum (20 on Emerald Street, 14 on E Street, 12 on 13th Street, and five on Duncan Place). Thank you. §


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I've started tidying up some of the half-finished stuff I've got lying around - I've just uploaded a Low Resolution Water Jar Prop to both ShareCG and Renderosity.
It consists of three separate props - the terracotta jar, a weathered wooden lid and a coconut wood scoop.
There are also Smart+ prop version of the scoop for Poser 6+ and DAZ Studio 3+, which will not only put the scoop in the left/right hand of Aiko 3, David, Hiro 3, Laura 3, Luke 3, Michael 3, Stephanie Petite 3, The FREAK, The Girl, Victoria 3, Michael 4, Victoria 4 (and variants), Genesis (base figure), P5 Don, P5 Judy, P6 James, P6 Jessi, Miki 2, G2 James, G2 Jessi, Behemoth (origginal), PH Female, PH Male, Antonia, Apollo, F202 Dollie, Kirwyn's K, and MayaDoll, but will also apply a basic handgrip pose!
The Poser textures are procedural, but the DAZ Studio texture use images (I've been having been problems trying to reproduce Poser procedural textures in DAZ Studio Shader Mixer and eventually gave up!)


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The Oakland County Sheriff's office is asking for the public's help identifying a suspect in a commercial burglary that took place in Independence Township on May 12.
Conviction Tossed In Case Of Man Who Acted As His Own Lawyer
Jimmy Aldaoud admitted taking tools from a Ferndale garage in 2012 but claimed it was a misdemeanor, not a felony.
Hungry Thief Takes TV Dinners, Groceries During Flint Break-In
Police say a burglar was apparently feeling some hunger pangs when they broke into a home in Flint.
Farmington Police Warn Residents Of Burglary: Lock Your Windows, Doors
Police in an affluent suburb of Detroit are warning residents to be vigilant after someone broke into a home while a family was sleeping inside.
3 Charged With Break-In At Home Of Family Attending A Wedding
The Sterling Heights residence was found to be ransacked, according to police.
Cops: $60K In Cash, Checks Stolen From Pontiac Water Department
The Oakland County Sheriff's Office is trying to figure out who broke into a safe at the Pontiac Water Department, making off with more than $60,000.
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Some of the stolen narcotics include Dilaudid, methadone, morphine, Oxycontin, Focalin, Norco and Vicodin.
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Auburn Hills Police Search For Gas Station Burglar
Police are asking for the public's help in identifying a suspect who broke into am Auburn Hills gas station to steal cigarettes.
DNA Links Burglaries Committed 7 Years Apart
DNA pulled from evidence in two southwest Michigan burglaries separated by seven years has authorities believing the same man committed both crimes.


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One of the greatest assets to any iOS device is the ability to listen to your favorite music, audiobooks, or your favorite apps. There is nothing more annoying than trying to do so with earphones that simply ruin the experience with their shoddy qualities. Most of us aren't in the market for expensive earphones that can cost over $200, so what's out there for those of us who want to find a balance between sound quality and cost? V-Moda and Arctic each have earphones in their lineups that try to reach such a balance. How do they compare?


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Manager Peter Taylor made no apologies for rotating his Gillingham squad at Oldham.
And the Gills boss will continue to make changes as he attempts to keep the club in League 1.
He said: "If we are going to stay in this division, it will be the squad that keeps us up, not 11 players."
Taylor made six changes to his starting XI at the weekend, with leading scorer Cody McDonald among those missing out.
He said: "The whole idea of Saturday was to keep everyone on their toes and to keep the competition healthy every time we train and play. The players that came in did some good things. I have certainly got no complaints at the way we played."
Gillingham lost 1-0 but had numerous chances.
Explaining his reasoning for leaving strikers McDonald and Adebayo Akinfenwa out of the side, Taylor said: "Bayo played 90 minutes the other day and the only other 90 minutes he has played was against Brackley.
"People probably shouldn't have been surprised that he didn't start.
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"If you then don't take advantage of your squad players, you are going to have an unhappy camp because they will all be thinking 'I am never going to play'.
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"I would love to play everyone but at times you have to play a fair XI and give fresh legs a chance.
The Gills finished the weekend 12th in League 1 – six points above the bottom four.
Taylor said: "There is still a long way to go and we still need to win more matches."
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In 1864, in an anonymous article in Macmillan's Magazine, Charles Kingsley accused both the Catholic clergy and John Henry Newman, who had already converted at that time, of not regarding truth as a virtue. Newman complained to the editors because of this "slander". Then, Kingsley revealed himself to be the author of the article; a correspondence between him and Newman ensued, and ultimately Kingsley published his pamphlet What, then, does Dr. Newman mean? in support of his earlier accusations. Newman answered this with his Apologia pro Vita Sua. This edition was very polemical and directly attacked Kingsley. In the edition of 1865, however, which today is the one most commonly read and reprinted, Newman …
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In March I was contacted by Microsoft and was asked to attend a written test at janakpuri at Meritrak center. They called me for the position of Associate consultant entry level. Fortunately I cleared the test and got the call to come for an interview at ambassador hotel on Saturday.
I was happy, excited and confident that I will crack the MS interview. 20-25 people were already there waiting for the interview. I had to wait for 2 hours for my first round of interview.
In first round he asked some recursion, .NET and Mathematics questions (the questions were pretty simple and could be easily answered). I was satisfied with answers I gave and the interview also seem so. The duration of this round was around 1 hour.
HR told me that I have cleared first round and will again have to wait for next round.
Then after a wait of around 3 hours, my second round of interview began, In which they asked me some questions about team handling, production issues, and some Microsoft tools.
This round went for another 40-45 minutes and then HR told me that they got a very good feedback from interview panel and I have to come next day for director round. I was very happy and called everybody, to share my MS interview experience.
Next day I had to wait for 4 hours for my director round. In this round few general questions were asked and then they suggested that I should try for associate consultant lateral level and for that I have to come to Hyderabad for hands on, they specified that this round will also be an elimination round I happily and confidently agreed.
HR told me that they will send me the tickets in another 2-3 days and I will have to fly on Friday.
But that Friday never came….
However after an endless wait of 1 month I got the call from them. I reached Hyderabad on Saturday but they didn't organize any cabs from Hyderabad airport to MS office which they promised they will.
In the hands on round they game a problem of stock market to implement in 3 hours.
I did that using C#, ASP.NET, SQL Server and Linq. And I was pretty confident that this solution is good enough to be implemented in 3 hours.
After hands on we had a discussion for about 15-20 minutes and then they told me that they are not able to decide where I fit in hierarchy. So they will give me call either Monday or Tuesday and I can leave for the day.
As per my previous experience I was sure they are never going to call, so I called them and they told me that panel said u r over skilled for entry level and under skilled for lateral level.
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4.0 out of 5 stars It's Music HIStory
This compilation was originally released as disc one of Michael Jackson's 1995 History album and it was later reissued in 2001 as "Greatest Hits HIStory Vol 1". The music of course, is excellent; this is MJ we're talking about. History Vol. 1 covers songs from Jackson's solo career from 1979-1991, for most fans those were the best years of his career. This single disc...
Published on Oct. 15 2010 by Tommy Skylar
3.0 out of 5 stars Thoughtless re-issue of re-issued material
Though this is a great and enjoyable collection of pop music history especially suited for novices of Michael Jackson's music, for the majority of Jackson's fans it is merely just a re-issue of "History Begins", the first CD of Jackson's 1995 History double-CD album.
By having this familiar compilation re-issued as its own single-disc-priced release, it is obvious...
Published on Feb. 15 2002 by Richard Howard
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4.0 out of 5 stars It's Music HIStory,
Tommy Skylar (The Great White North) - See all my reviews
This review is from: V1 History Greatest Hits (Audio CD)
This compilation was originally released as disc one of Michael Jackson's 1995 History album and it was later reissued in 2001 as "Greatest Hits HIStory Vol 1". The music of course, is excellent; this is MJ we're talking about. History Vol. 1 covers songs from Jackson's solo career from 1979-1991, for most fans those were the best years of his career. This single disc compilation has not been altered in any way, it remains the original and it has its own album cover now. This greatest hits album is not the best of its kind on the market but you could do worse than pick this up, I mean the music is great and it offers 15 excellent songs (I know, I know it's 16 but to me track 15 and 16 go together). There are 3 songs from MJ's debut Off The Wall (1979), 5 from Thriller (1982), 4 from Bad (1987) and 3 from Dangerous (1991). When released on its own, "Greatest Hits HIStory Vol.1" went on to sell more than four million copies. If you're looking for a good compilation of the King of Pop's career this could very well be it, however, if you're looking for something that goes deeper into MJ's music then I suggest the excellent two-discs "The Essential Michael Jackson" which also includes songs from his years as part of the Jackson 5/Jacksons. I personally feel that "Number Ones" is a better single disc greatest hits collection because I prefer the song listing and it does have 2 more songs, this one is excellent and may very well be all the MJ you'll ever need. 4/5 stars.
5.0 out of 5 stars Michael's Magnum Opus,
Glenn Nippert "musicologist" (Alpharetta, Georgia United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: V1 History Greatest Hits (Audio CD)
Before the baby dangling, before the alleged molestation charges, before the plastic surgery, there was the music. And after the years go by and all the scandals and controversy have faded, there will still be the music. There are a few classics missing here-"Smooth Criminal", "Say,Say Say", and "Human Nature" to name a few. But the greatest hits disc amply displays how Michael singlehandedly dominated the charts from 1979-1992.
The new material on disc two is about half a disc of good material like "Scream" with sister Janet and "You Are Not Alone", written by R.Kelly and the haunting "Stranger in Moscow".
There are a lot of songs were M.J seems to be lashing out at those he feels were behind his legal woes at the time and the bitterness and anger of these songs does not suit him. "Childhood" and "Earth Song" are more his style, as well as a cool, funky version of The Beatles "Come Together" that should have been a hit. Overall, a good collection of the classics that were/are the soundtrack to our lives and 7 or 8 good new ones to go with them.** This review refers to History, Past, Present and Future Book One which is a 2 CD set of hits and newer material, which has since been re-released as 2 seperate discs.**
5.0 out of 5 stars Basically an unnescessary release, but of course superb.,
Kasper Michelsen "Alcibiades" (Copenhagen, Denmark.) - See all my reviews
This review is from: V1 History Greatest Hits (Audio CD)
Basically, I simply can't see the need of this re-release of the first disc of the HIStory set - HIStory was certainly a release no-one should miss, and even if the second disc contained several missers or mediocre songs ('Smile', 'Chieldhood', 'Come Together', 'This Time Around', '2Bad') it did contain a fair share of classics proving that Michael has - or had at that time, Invincible might certainly question this - not lost his touch as the King Of Pop - take songs like 'Scream', 'They Don't Care About Us', 'Stranger In Moscow', 'Earth Song' and 'You Are Not Alone'.
Instead, I think Michael should have waited a couple of years and grapped the opportunity to release a double CD with ALL his greatest hits - because there are SO many fantastic songs NOT included here - let me mention: 'Off The Wall', 'Workin' Day And Night', 'Human Nature', 'Say Say Say', 'Liberian Girl', 'Dirty Diana', 'Smooth Criminal', 'Leave Me Alone', 'Jam', 'In The Closet', 'Who Is It', 'Give In To Me', 'Will You Be There', 'Dangerous', the above mentioned HIStory songs, and from his recent Invincible release 'Cry' and 'Speechless'.
All of these songs are masterpieces, and many of them MUCH better than some of material included on this CD, even if all these songs are excellent.
I've seen listed - with no details - a forthcoming Cd and DVD combi-release titteled #1's - let's see what this brings, but probably not a complete collection of Michael's best works, unfortunately.
4.0 out of 5 stars Great hits- though needs more to be greatest,
Amir Haidar (Beirut, Lebanon) - See all my reviews
This review is from: V1 History Greatest Hits (Audio CD)
This album in itself is a masterpeice, and every single song is amazing. However, since you can all read the millions of praises from other reviews which I am not going to repeat, I am going to tell you the songs that in my opinion, should have been in this album to make it the greatest hits:
from Off the Wall: Workin' day and night/get on the floor/ off the wall
from Thriller: Baby be mine/human nature/(someone in the dark)
from Bad: Another part of me/dirty diana/smooth criminal/liberian girl/leave me alone/(streetwalker)/(fly away)
from Dangerous: Jam/in the closet/will you be there?/who is it?/give in to me/gone too soon
I know this is a long list, and I don't mean by it that this compilation isn't good, it's fabulous, but this comes to show how many amazing songs Mr. Jackson has made, that only one album cannot incorporate them all
If you want to start off your Michael Jackson collection, this is a perfect album to start with, advisebly along with the HIStory video or DVD (volume 1), they will make you love the songs even more
5.0 out of 5 stars They're missing some classics though!,
This review is from: V1 History Greatest Hits (Audio CD)
I'm not gonna subtract a star because they didn't have all the songs I didn't want you know. I also am not going to boycott Michael Jackson just because of some of the events that have taken place. I also don't care that he looks very different from his glory days as what someone looks like does not neccesarly mean they are untalented. Its pretty sad that we live in a world where beauty is power. Well MJ's power back in the 80's and early 90's was his talent and I'm glad to see that no one has forgotten about it.
This greatest hits track is brilliant and really does have his greatest hits. My first major gripe though, is that I really didn't like the song "The Girl is Mine". Instead it would've been better to replace that with "Human Nature". Also, we didn't get enough classics from OFF THE WALL or DANGEROUS. If there is a volume two I think I'd really like to see "Off the Wall", "Working Day and Night," "Jam" "Who is It" and "Will You Be There".
Also, from BAD and DANGEROUS, It'd be real nice to hear "Dirty Diana" and "Smooth Criminal" again. "PYT (Pretty Young Thing)" and "Human Nature" are also classics that shouldn't be missed.
I liked the songs they did choose for this Greatest Hits album though. They took too much from THRILLER and not enough from OFF THE WALL I feel. I'm sure by now we've all heard "Billie Jean" "Beat It" "Wanna Be Startin Something" and "Thriller" by now. The album is great nostalgia and portrays MJ's innocence before he started letting his music express his anger towards the media.
I'm still disappointed that DANGEROUS spawned 9 singles and only 3 were included on this album. OFF THE WALL...the entire album was a classic! And we only got three singles from that? Well, except "Heal the World" we got all the best from DANGEROUS at least. So overall I'm not disappointed, I just wanted more and therefore there should be a volume two someday in the future.
Perhaps on that one they can include some of the overlooked classics. When I say "overlooked" I mean the songs that could've/should've been included but weren't. So the "overlooked" stuff was what I mentioned above.
5.0 out of 5 stars Action Jackson shines again!!!!,
Da Peace Dogg (Hollywood, California - livin' humble) - See all my reviews
This review is from: V1 History Greatest Hits (Audio CD)
They don't call him "Action Jackson" for nuthin'!! This guy cleans house better than Bubbles the Chimp on housecleaning day - and he manages to do it with style and grace, never mind what you've been reading in the tabloids!!
Hey, Action Jackson might live life a tad different from you and I, but no one can argue with tunes like "Rock With You" and "Billie Jean" (was Michael Jackson the girl's lover - we'll never know!!). This is first-rate soul music, presented by a man who used to be a real class-act hit! Like I said, they don't call him "Action" for no reason, right?
With his shimmying, shakin'moves and perpetually high-pitched voice that somehow never developed, plus his sense of surprisingly keen melody, Michael "Action" Jackson might just be getting started in the music biz. It's only 2003, folks. If this guy doesn't flake out on us or go bankrupt, he might just be the next Janet Jackson. Let's hope!!!!!!!
And the hits on this splendid album are where it all began.
4.0 out of 5 stars It Feels Good...But At Its Core, Unsatisfying,
Troy Hartle (Bellefonte, PA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: V1 History Greatest Hits (Audio CD)
This is an idea of what HISTORY should have been- it should have only included just all of Michael Jackson's hits and nothing else (in other words, a majority of the second disc deserved to be ditched). Having this collection is very nice, but yet, it is hard for me to understand why Jackson would just release the first disc all over again instead of putting more hits into the collection and thus make it a double-disc album.
It does make some sense that Jackson would ignore all of his solo hits with Motown, as well as his hits with his brothers. But he is still missing a number of songs from his post-Motown career. It is one thing for "P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)"; "Another Part of Me"; and "Jam" to be MIA, but it is clearly another thing for number one hits to be missing ("Dirty Diana"; the R. Kelly duet "You Are Not Alone" and the Paul McCartney duet "Say Say Say"). I am also annoyed by the fact that nothing after DANGEROUS is represented here; even though Jackson's output has become quite patchy over the past decade, his albums over that time still often had their moments. With songs like these missing, it could be argued that this collection does not showcase a complete portrayal of the self-proclaimed King of Pop. (And I will not comment about the album's non-chronological sequencing, which is sometimes atrocious.)
However, you still get many of Jackson's biggest hits from OFF THE WALL to DANGEROUS, including "Don't Stop Till You Get Enough"; "Billie Jean"; "Beat It"; "Bad"; "Man in the Mirror"; and "Black and White." These are the songs that should encourage casual fans enough to buy this album, but those people who want to give Michael Jackson more than a passing by (and believe me, there are millions of them) should just go and buy the four albums that this collection represents.
5.0 out of 5 stars I LOVE This CD But...,
This review is from: V1 History Greatest Hits (Audio CD)
...I don't see the point of this release. Michael Jackson just released The best Special Editions of albums known to man. ["Off the Wall", "Thriller", "Bad", & "Dangerous"]. Why did he re-release CD1 of HIStory?? Nevertheless. This CD is truly a work of art:
1) BILLIE JEAN - Michael's Biggest Hit, a cool song but not my personal favorite.
2) THE WAY YOU MAKE ME FEEL - One of my favorite MJ songs EVER!!
3) BLACK OR WHITE - The Best Pop song known to man, with the best video in the world!!!! My fav. MJ song!!
4) ROCK WITH YOU - This song is so old school , the best song from "Off the Wall".
5) SHE'S OUT OF MY LIFE - A very sad soulful song from Michael.
6) BAD - I really like the guitar and the beat. A true Classic.
7) I JUST CAN'T STOP LOVING YOU - A really good duet with Sediah Garrett.
8) MAN IN THE MIRROR - Also one of my favorite MJ songs.
9) THRILLER - The best Scary Halloween song EVER!!
10) BEAT IT - A little bit more of a rock edge than the others. Also a true classic.
11) THE GIRL IS MINE - With Paul McCartney. To be honest, I really don't like this song.
12) REMEMBER THE TIME - I LOVE this song. Definetely one of my favorite songs of the early 90's.
13) DON'T STOP TILL YOU GET ENOUGH - This song really gets me going. A Disco party classic.
14) WANNA BE STARTIN' SOMETHING - This song makes no sense, but it's still really cool.
15 & 16) HEAL THE WORLD/PRELUDE - I Like this song, but was it really an MJ Greatest Hit??
Overall, this album has a lot of Mj's hits, and it is worth the money, but not if you have the History, 2 CD Set.
5.0 out of 5 stars Why Did He Release The Same Thing?,
DJ Dip (JHB, South Africa) - See all my reviews
This review is from: V1 History Greatest Hits (Audio CD)
This is a great album. Michael's Jackson Greatest Hits is obviousely going to be amazing. It has almost all of his classics from Don't Stop Till You Get Enough to Remember The Time. Every singe song deserves to be on this album but he could have added a few more such as Smooth Criminal and Working Day & Night.
The only problem with this album is that it has been released before on HIStory the double album. Sure maybe it might be better suited to those not willing to fork out extra money for a double CD. It will not sell nearly as much as it deserves to.
I think that he should have waited until after he has released all the singles he wants to release from Invuncible before making this and add songs from HIStory disc 2, Blood On The Dance Floor and Invincible. I have heard that at the end of this year he will release a proper album with his greatest hits and a few unreleased tracks.
Although I gave this album 5 stars (It has brilliant tracks on it.) I think that you should rather wait until he releases his real Greatest Hits album. If you are an extreme MJ fan buy both.
3.0 out of 5 stars Thoughtless re-issue of re-issued material,
Richard Howard "aquabreeze" (Sydney, Australia) - See all my reviews
This review is from: V1 History Greatest Hits (Audio CD)
Though this is a great and enjoyable collection of pop music history especially suited for novices of Michael Jackson's music, for the majority of Jackson's fans it is merely just a re-issue of "History Begins", the first CD of Jackson's 1995 History double-CD album.
By having this familiar compilation re-issued as its own single-disc-priced release, it is obvious that this is just a profit-making exercise by Epic (Jackson's record label). If Epic had put more thought into the naming of this release they would have realized that by calling it "Volume 1", which covers hits off albums from Jackson's undisputed glory days (1979's Off The Wall, 1982's Thriller, 1987's Bad, and 1991's Dangerous), they would effectively dig themselves into a rut because a future "Volume 2" release, realistically-speaking, could not rival Volume 1 if it were to be solely reliant on material off Jackson's newer but comparatively-weaker albums (1995's History Continues [History Disc 2], 1997's Blood On The Dance Floor [mostly remixes], and 2001's Invincible). Instead, a "Greatest Hits Volume 1" compilation similar to the abandoned 1989 "Decade" greatest hits project, which was to have compiled songs from only his Off The Wall, Thriller and Bad albums, would have been a far wiser move by Epic. By including classic tunes such as Off The Wall, Human Nature, and Smooth Criminal in place of Black Or White, Remember The Time and Heal The World (which would be kept for inclusion in a "Greatest Hits Volume 2") would have firstly, actually offered Jackson fans something new therefore giving them an incentive to actally buy the compilation, and secondly, would have ensured a much stronger Volume 2 compilation for the future thanks to the strong material on the Dangerous album.
This release is a wasted opportunity for what could have been a solid definitive SERIES of Michael Jackson's greatest hits, however I'd recommend this CD over the recent "Number Ones" CD as this one does not contain "One More Chance", arguably Michael's worst song ever released. 5 stars for the music, and 1 star for this being a thoughtless re-issue of an already-available compilation of re-issued material - an average of 3 stars for this release.
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