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The progress of your neighbour can undermine your own growth rate.
That is one possible scenario for Nigeria in the second quarter of this year, if the oil prosperity in the United States of America comes of age. This is because oil export remains the major source of fiscal and export revenues in Nigeria. Oil is responsible for 75 per cent of fiscal and 95 per cent of export revenues.
Bismarck Rewane, chief executive officer of Financial Derivatives Company (FDC) said this structure leaves the country highly vulnerable to either price or production shocks.
"We have attempted to calibrate the impact of price changes on leading economic indicators. The regression and outcomes confirm the fears of a profound impact of price changes on the Nigerian economy", he said.
The implication of price volatility is that Foreign Exchange (FOREX) inflows could shrink if prices of crude oil declined.
"FOREX inflows to the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) is positively correlated to the movement in oil price. Hence, a decline in oil price($1) would lead to a decline of 0.03 per cent in forex inflows given that other sources of forex inflows and oil production remain constant", said Rewane.
It is expected that a decline in Nigeria's oil price to $90pb would result in a decline of the monthly oil revenue to $3.36 billion, a 38.91 per cent drop from $5.5 billion recorded in November 2012.
Also, a fall in crude oil price could weaken the naira. Thus, there is a positive correlation between oil price volatility and the ex-change rate in Nigeria due to the dependence on foreign currencies by oil companies.
It is estimated that for every $1pb fall in the price of Nigeria's Crude, the naira depreciates by 0.8 per cent given that the external reserves are not used to support the naira.
"Hence, if Nigeria's oil price falls to $90pb, the naira could depreciate to N177.26/$. However, we expect that the reserves will be used to support the naira and this could imply a slower depreciation against the dollar", said Rewane.
Also, oil price movement has a significant and positive correlation with external reserves accretion. Our investigation shows that a drop in oil price will lead to a 0.85 per cent decline in the reserves levels, holding other sources of reserves accretion constant.
Therefore, if oil price falls to $90pb from current price of $117, the external reserves should decline to $35.05 billion from the present level of $46.63 billion. This would put the country in a chaotic situation that includes a threat to government expenditure which may lead to increase in debt, a depreciation of the naira which will increase the cost of imported materials/ cost of inputs for manufacturers and a drop in general economic out- put.
Thus, the shale oil revolution taking place in the US poses grave implications for Nigeria's trade pattern. The excess crude that will result from the halt in consumption by the US will have to find its way to other markets probably China and India. The intense competition that will take place is going to have a downside effect on global oil prices which will be dis- ruptive for the heavily oil dependent Nigerian economy. The ripple effect will trickle down from a decline in oil receipts to a decline in government revenue, depletion of external reserves, pressure on the naira and overall macro-economy.
Oloye Gideon, an analyst in Lagos compared what will happen to the danger the vandalisation of oil installation in the Niger-Delta by militants poses to the country's economy before the amnesty programme initiated by the late president Musa Yar'dua.
According to Oloye, the easiest way to bring any government in Nigeria to its knee is by dealing a blow on the oil and gas industry. He thus advised the government, particularly the National Assembly bent on higher bench-mark price, and the governors who want everything in sight to be shared to be wary of a rainy day.
Analysts said Nigeria has a subsidy plan that lowers the price of fuel for its citizens. The pressure will be intense to maintain this and also keep the government afloat.
"By the second quarter of this year, we will stop importing West African light, sweet crude into the Gulf," says Morse, the Head of Commodities research at City Group Global Markets. Sometime before mid-2014, he predicts that the US and Canada will stop importing crude from West Africa.
It is no longer news that the US will be self sufficient in its oil consumption in the not too distant future. However, the latest report that predicts the most powerful country will completely halt oil importation of West African sweet crude by 2014 has sent the alarm bells ringing.
Nigeria, a highly dependent hydrocarbon economy is one of the highest producers of sweet crude in West Africa, alongside Angola with each producing 2.02mbpd and 1.74mbpd respectively according to OPEC's January 2013 report.
A review of the US imports of crude oil and petroleum products from Nigeria according to the Energy Information Administration (EIA) shows that the US imports from Nigeria has been on the downward trend from January 2011. US oil imports from Nigeria declined by 46.8 per cent to 543,000bpd in October 2012 from 1.02mbpd in January 2011. In addition, a further study of US import of Nigeria's crude reveals that the decline in the US' import of Nigeria's crude is insignificant to Nigeria oil revenue.
Rewane said to see this clearly, we consider two periods where US' con- sumption of Nigeria's oil declined. In February 2012, US' consumption of Nigeria's sweet crude hit its record low of 353,000bpd, representing a decline of 30 per cent from the previous months' 504,000bpd. This decline was attributed to the drop in crude lifting as a result of production shutdown in some terminals but not as a result of US' decision to reduce its demand.
The decline in US' consumption impacted negatively on Nigeria's oil revenue for February. Also in July, the US's consumption of Nigeria's crude declined but this time, as a result of reduced oil demand by 28 per cent to 372,000bpb from 515,000bpb in June.
However, Nigeria's oil revenues rose by 9.14 per cent despite the huge reduction in US import. This shows that the increasing demand for Nigeria's crude from Asia, notably China and an oil price (bonny light crude) above $115pb was able to quell the nega- tive impact from the decline in US demand.
Hence, the major challenge given the above would not be the reduction or halt in US' import of Nigeria's crude, but how to deal with factors such as theft, production slowdown, and difficulties in shipping to Asian countries compared with shipping to the US among other challenges. The Nigerian oil industry has been subject to leakages in the form of oil theft ($7 million annually) and pipeline disruptions. The direct relationship between production and revenue calls for an effective production process to boost growth in oil output.
Also, Nigeria has four refineries with a combined installed capacity of 445,000bpd which are in a dilapidating state. The pe- troleum industry bill (PIB), a reform that is expected to alter the fiscal and regulatory framework of the industry and usher in the much needed investment is stuck in limbo at the National Assembly. Meanwhile, an early passage of the bill will improve the oil industry activities and growth.
Price, another important variable, has been robust in the last 12 months, with Bonny Light trading at an average of $117pb, Brent crude at $115.22pb and West Texas Intermediate at $97.62pb.
The high oil prices pose serious threats to crude shipment from Nigeria due to Asian buyers' demand for discounts as a result of the long distance of shipping. Given the changing global energy dynamics, the current trend of high oil prices may not be sustainable in the long run.
The major challenge to oil price sustainability is the growing production of shale oil and gas through fracking. According to a report by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), frack ing if deployed to other parts of the world could depress global oil prices. PwC further predicted that an increase in shale oil/gas production to about 12 percent of total oil production could reduce oil prices by 25-40 percent.


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Thanks for posting your experiences with your vitamin D blood levels, I think the information is very interesting. It would be nice to see a few well conducted studies on this issue.
While your results are interesting, they are not conclusive since the actual vitamin D levels present in both the products were not known before your experiment. It could be that one or both of the products had more or less vitamin D than was stated on the label, which could account for varying blood levels. Ideally, before an experiment like this, you would run at test on the two products to see that they have near the same amounts of vitamin D (close as possible). It would also be ideal to use the same raw materials (same batch of D3) for each of the two products.
Other things could cause blood levels to vary such as different amounts of sun exposure during the two time periods, medications, something you ate or drank that might effect Vitamin D blood levels and even stress levels during the two different time periods may effect the blood test results. If this was in the winter and you're above Atlanta, then perhaps the sun is not an issue, but remember, if you're doing this experiment over a 6 month period, then the amount of vitamin D generated by the sun is probably gradually changing over this time, unless you live on the equator. You may have started when not much D was being generated by the sun and finished when higher levels were being generated, or finished at the start of spring when the production of vitamin D from the sun just starts to kick in. Considering the high amounts of vitamin D generated by the sun, it might not take that much sun exposure on a fairly small percentage of your body to mess with your blood test results. I had read once that vitamin D blood levels don't truly level off until after about three years of supplementation, but I do not know if that is true or not.
Also, how steady are vitamin D blood levels even when only using one type of supplement & dose, do they go up and down by a certain amount in general ? Another thing to consider is what type of accuracy tolerance do vitamin D blood tests have and were the tests conducted at the same labs according to the same standards ?
The results of the 25-Hydroxyvitamin D blood test can be given in nanograms per milliliter ( ng/mL ) or nonomoles per liter (nmol/L). The conversion factor is 2.496 so if you have a blood level of 32 ng/ml this converts to about 79.872 nmol/L. I cannot help but think this is causing some confusion when people report differences in test results. Could they be overlooking that the results from different tests may be using different units ? To add to the confusion, some doctors wrongly order the 1,25-Dihydroxyvitamin D test, which generally uses different units and different level reference ranges.
At the link directly below, Dr. Micheal Holick answers a question related to this subject.
From the link above:
You mentioned Vit D could be taken w/ or w/o food, but I thought it needed fat for absorption. Please elaborate.Response: As I mentioned above, it doesn't matter whether you take vitamin D with or without food. Fat is not necessary for vitamin D to be absorbed.
At the vitamin D council link directly below, the very first question addresses this absorption issue. Basically, Dr. Cannell says that the dry tablets should absorb fine unless you have some other issue that would prevent absorption.
Presently, I don't' think anyone really knows for sure and it may well vary from one person to the next.
I take the nature-made brand dry white vitamin D3 tablets, but I take them with two fish oil capsules. I also take 250 mg of magnesium at the same time, not to aid in vitamin D absorption but just because it's convenient to take the magnesium at the same time. The magnesium should help with absorption if anything. I read the heart-scan blog by Dr. William Davis and his reported problems with nature-made vitamin D. I contacted nature-made and after practically having to twist their arm off, they sent me a certificate of analysis showing the results for the lot numbers of D I was using. The D amounts for the 1000 IU tablets were very slightly over 1000 IU. Nature-made said their dry tablets are made in accordance with USP standards and they are in the process of getting all of their vitamin D USP verified (presently just their 400 IU gel caps are USP verified).
Here are some good vitamin D youtube videos to watch..
Dr. Robert P Heaney: What is vitamin D deficiency (I like watching this guy, he seems to put things in a straight forward common sense manner, and he's kind of funny sometimes)
Edward Gorham, PhD
Vitamin D: UV The Original Source - How to Use It
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Seems like a conscientiously done personal experiment and thanks for bringing this to the forum. (Costly though.) I do wonder if you had any other perceptions about the two forms of D3 you could add to your results and share.
The oil/dry issue was a huge one for me when I was taking PS (phosphatidylserine) which I judged by its effectiveness. The dry form really did nothing for me, but the oil based form was very effective for sleep and arresting middle of the night pounding heart episodes. I have since been unable to take PS because of a reaction (perhaps a soy reaction) or perhaps a buildup of it's active ingredient due to a possible change in lipid metabolism that if it occurred. This has also affected my use of fish oil, D3 (oil) and other oil based product such as vitamin e and cod liver oil.
Bottom line for me seems to be that oil based supplements are metabolized quite differently, and probably "hang around" a lot longer, staying active due to this difference.
I cannot take D anymore as it can make me feel quite bad and will trigger pretty serious
. If I'm careful, I can take small amounts of cod liver oil. As
is still quite a mysterious condition, this is difficult to understand, but the hair like receptors in the cochlea may be affected by calcification (one theory for
) or other minerals. The first trigger I ever had for
was calcium supplements (Alkaselzer Gold), then a few other minerals seemed to join in, such as zinc supplementation and decades latter even magnesium supplements can trigger
if too massive. Food containing these elements in abundance never causes
lipid metabolism
Vitamin D
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I notice this has already been said, but it bears emphasizing.
There are water soluble vitamins, and fat soluble vitamins (A, D, E etc).
If you are taking fat soluble ones, then take them at the end of the meal that has the most fat content.
They CANNOT be absorbed into the blood stream, unless they are transported during the digestion of a fatty meal.
I suppose that the tablet form might work, if you follow the above rules, but I would be biting them, prior to swallowing them.
If you have a choice then get an oil based one, to be sure.
There were books written (in the US) by Adelle Davis.
I read them cover to cover in the 60's.
They (and she) were brilliant.
Her first book was " let's eat right to keep fit "
It should be required reading at school.
Even today most of what she said still applies.
She was the first to campaign against trans fats.
She advises that you must eat meals with complete proteins, or mix foods with incomplete proteins (Baked beans on wholemeal toast).
I could go on and on, but do yourselves a favor and read the book.
Rob (Down Under)
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One thing to consider is that it appears fat malabsorption affects the ability to absorb Vitamin D. At 10,000IU/day my level was 109ng, much too high, but at the same amount my wife's level was only 55ng, and she weighs less than me. Her cholesterol was also much lower than mine although we eat roughly the same food, which could also point to fat malabsorption. She has in the past been diagnosed with various autoimmune diseases (sle,ra,etc) only to have doctors later claim she didn't have them after even more extensive testing. I'm pretty sure they were right but that somehow the diseases went away, as I saw her with the lupus face rash. I'm going to have her tested for celiac as it is apparently seen often with the other autoimmune diseases she has been diagnosed with, and one of its most common symptoms is fat malabsorption.
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PITTSBURGH, Pa. ‑ A resident of Allegheny County, Pa., has been sentenced in federal court to 42 months probation and ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $33,946, on his conviction of theft of government property, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
United States District Judge Terrence McVerry imposed the sentence on Kenneth Zang, 59, of Turtle Creek, Pa.
According to information presented to the court, from November 2004 through July 2008, Zang converted to his own use approximately $34,000 in Social Security retirement benefits which had been paid to Mary Whetsell, Zang's companion, after her death in October 2004.
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For those unfamiliar with Dennis Avery, he is a rather recent convert to the
bandwagon idea of global cooling, having very recently been an advocate of "unstoppable" global warming. As for his great cherry pick (0.6º C in two years – we're doomed!), this appears to simply be made up. Even putting aside the nonsense of concluding anything from a two year trend, if you take monthly values and start at the peak value at the height of the last El Niño event of January 2007 and do no actual trend analysis, I can find no data set that gives a drop of 0.6ºC. Even UAH MSU-LT gives only 0.4ºC. The issue being not that it hasn't been cooler this year than last, but why make up numbers? This is purely rhetorical of course, they make up numbers because they don't care about whether what they say is true or not.
FERRE: Avery points to a lack of sunspots as a predictor for lower temperatures, saying the affects of greenhouse gas warming have a small impact on climate change. Believers in global warming, like NASA researcher, Dr. Gavin Schmidt disagree.
I was interviewed on tape in the afternoon, without seeing any of the other interviews. Oh, and what does a 'believer in global warming' even mean?
DR. GAVIN SCHMIDT, NASA: The long term trend is clearly toward warming, and those trends are completely dwarf any changes due to the solar cycle.
FERRE: In a speech last week, President-elect Obama called for the creation of a green energy economy. Still, others warn that no matter what you think about climate change, new policies would essentially have no effect.
FRED SINGER, SCIENCE & ENV. POLICY PROJECT: There's very little we can do about it. Any effort to restrict the use of carbon dioxide will hurt us economically and have zero effect on the Chicago mate.
Surely another typo, but maybe the Chicago mate is something to do with the man-maids? See here for more background on Singer.
FERRE: As Singer says, a lot of pain, for no gain.
Huh? Try looking at the actual numbers from a recent McKinsey report. How is saving money through efficiency a 'pain'?
FERRE: And three independent research groups concluded that the average global temperature in 2008 was the ninth or tenth warmest since 1850, but also since the coldest since the turn of the 21st century.
DOBBS: It's fascinating and nothing — nothing — stirs up the left, the right, and extremes in this debate, the orthodoxy that exists on both sides of the debate than to even say global warming. It's amazing.
This is an appeal to the 'middle muddle' and an attempt to seem like a reasonable arbitrator between two opposing sides. But as many people have previously noted, there is no possible compromise between sense and nonsense. 2+2 will always equal 4, no matter how much the Hudson Institute says otherwise.
FERRE: When I spoke to experts and scientists today from one side and the other, you could feel the kind of anger about —
That was probably me. Though it's not anger, it's simple frustration that reporters are being taken in and treating seriously the nonsense that comes out of these think-tanks.
DOBBS: Cannot we just all get along? Ines, thank you very much.
Joining me now three leading experts in Manchester, New Hampshire, we're joined by Joseph D'Aleo of the International Climate and Environmental Change Assessment Project. Good to have with you us.
JOSEPH D'ALEO, CO-FOUNDER WEATHER CHANNEL: Thank you, Lou.
DOBBS: He's also the cofounder of The Weather Channel. In Washington, D.C., as you see there, Jay Lehr, he's the science director of the Heartland Institute. And in Boston, Alex Gross, he's the cofounder of co2stats.com. Good to have you with us.
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THAT is FAR TOO organized and clean!!! Where's the bits and pieces of feathers, tinsel, thread and all the other crap???
There's something wrong with a fly tyer who is THAT neat
I've decided what I really need is a permanent, fully equipped tying station in every room in my house. it drives my wife batty how I will drag all my tying stuff around to whichever room we happen to be hanging in, and I end up leaving a trail of materials and tools through the house. My desk is in my bedroom but I find it much more enjoyable to bring my stuff out and tie around my family instead of alone in the bedroom
Something on wheels.
Thanks for posting this picture of how your space looks, I was begining to develop a complex about the state of my own space.
Okay... THAT's more like it! Looks familar.
Thanks for all the help RESISTING the urge...NOT!!! I just placed the order ...should have it on Friday.
Damnit Bitteroot..... Now I'm gonna have vise envy!
We're always happy to help
Make that two of us. If I do buy another vise it will be a J.
I will return the favor and tempt you all with photos when it arrives!
So you ordered from Wasatch I presume? Curious to see what you think of their base.
Yes, ordered from Wasatch. I looked at the vises at the show and liked the base. The wooden bases from Jvice in S. Africa are nice as well and have a lot of cool features.
"Should be here Friday" What does shippping run ordering through Wasatch? How do the bases differ?
Well, let me put it this way about shipping...it's negotiable.
The bases from Jvice are more of a laptop tying table. The Wasatch bases are a block of maple.
What jaws did you order?
The Wasatch vise comes standard with the Stainless steel Pro jaws, which would be an upgrade if ordered from S. Africa.
Pretty danged fancy.... but for the life of me, I couldn't determine what the thing costs on their site.


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The NFL Draft rolled into the second round Friday and when the proceedings started, the Arizona Cardinals owned the 38th overall pick.
However, GM Steve Keim engineered a deal in which the Cardinals traded that pick to the San Diego Chargers for the 45th selection and an additional fourth round pick.
The Chargers selected infamous linebacker Manti Te'o from Notre Dame in the spot they moved into following the swap.
The Cardinals followed suit and picked a linebacker of their own -- Kevin Minter of LSU.
"I'm a very passionate player," Minter told Doug and Wolf on Arizona Sports 620 Friday. "I'll go out there with an attitude. I want to make every tackle, regardless if it's downfield or in front of me.
"I'm an all-around linebacker. I'm good in pass drops, I'm good in man-to-man, but I'm really a run-stopper and I feel like I can bring a lot to the Arizona organization."
Minter had 130 total tackles, 15 tackles for loss and four sacks for a stingy LSU defense that was ninth in the nation against the run in 2012, allowing 101.68 yards per game. The Georgia native was a Butkus Award finalist and doesn't lack for confidence on the football field.
"My only weakness is my experience. I'm a rookie so I've got to get in there and get my feet wet," Minter said. "The sky's the limit for me, I feel like I can really contribute to this team."
The 6-foot-2, 245-pound linebacker played three seasons at LSU, including 2010 when he was part of a defense that featured cornerback Patrick Peterson. The two will again be teammates, this time at the professional level.
"Coming in, he was the man...it was Pat," Minter recalled. "You thought what he did in the games was amazing, you should have seen him in practice.
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JOS, Nigeria: Raids and reprisal attacks have left 52 people dead in Christian villages near a Nigerian city where authorities have struggled to contain religious violence, officials said Sunday. Mustapha Salisu, spokesman for a special task force made up of policemen and soldiers deployed in the area to curb years of violence, said assailants launched "sophisticated attacks" on several villages near Jos early Saturday.
"They came in hundreds," said Salisu, "Some had [police] uniforms and some even had bulletproof vests."
He said the task force fought for hours and lost two policemen in battle.
He said 37 people were killed including 14 civilians and 21 assailants.
However, later in the day, Nigerian Red Cross Andronicus Adeyemo said that aid workers had counted 52 dead and more 300 displaced people from the attacks. He did not give a breakdown.
He said two lawmakers were ambushed and killed Sunday afternoon on their way to the victims' mass burial.
Authorities declined to comment on who they suspect, but similar raids have been blamed on Muslim herdsmen.
Mark Lipdo, who runs a Christian advocacy group known as the Stefanos Foundation, gave a list of the 13 villages where he got reports of attacks. He said they were all Christian.
He blamed Muslim herdsmen of the Fulani ethnic group for the attacks. However, Nurudeen Abdullahi, Plateau State Chairman of Miyetti Allah Fulani Herdsmen Association, denied any involvement by the herdsmen.
"This [is] a usual propaganda used on our people but we are not the ones that attacked the villages in the area," he said
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(Sports Network) - The Los Angeles Dodgers have made a big move in hopes of
bolstering their playoff prospects. It just wasn't the one everyone had
Hours after reportedly acquiring star infielder Hanley Ramirez, the Dodgers
take the field against the St. Louis Cardinals tonight as the teams continue a
four-game series at Busch Stadium.
Los Angeles had been believed to be in the market for a starting pitcher in
the days leading up to the July 31 trade deadline, with Chicago Cubs hurler
Ryan Dempster presumed to be the team's top target. The Dodgers instead
switched gears and landed the three-time All-Star Ramirez from the Miami
Marlins in exchange for rookie pitcher Nathan Eovaldi and minor-league right-
hander Scott McGough.
Ramirez, a career shortstop who shifted to third base when the Marlins landed
free-agent Jose Reyes in the offseason, is a lifetime .300 hitter who won the
2009 NL batting title. The talented 28-year-old also hit 21 homers or more
four times during his seven-year tenure in Miami and has six seasons of at
least 20 stolen bases to his credit.
The Dominican slugger has had a down 2012 campaign, however, hitting a career-
low .246 with 14 homers and 48 RBI in 93 games.
It's unknown as to whether Ramirez will be available for tonight's contest, in
which the Dodgers will face 10-game winner Kyle Lohse.
Lohse has emerged as the ace on a St. Louis staff that also contains injured
former Cy Young honoree Chris Carpenter and onetime 20-game winner Adam
Wainwright, with the 33-year-old having compiled a stellar 10-2 record and a
2.71 earned run average in 20 starts. He enters this evening's tilt having won
his last four decisions and has permitted two runs or less in each of his last
six outings.
The right-hander was on his game once again this past Friday, limiting the
Chicago Cubs to one run over seven innings to reach double-digit victories for
the season. Over his past six starts, Lohse is 4-0 with a 2.16 ERA and held
the opposition to a .221 average.
Lohse wasn't overly sharp in a May 20 assignment against the Dodgers in Los
Angeles, however, allowing three runs and a season-high 11 hits in a 5 2/3-
inning no-decision, and is just 2-3 with a 5.36 ERA in nine career meetings (7
starts) with Los Angeles.
He'll be attempting to back up Wainwright's solid performance on Tuesday, in
which the Cardinals' right-hander spun 7 1/3 strong innings to lift his club
to an 8-2 triumph and even this series.
Wainwright held the Dodgers to two runs and struck out seven while issuing
just one walk as the Cardinals halted a string of eight consecutive defeats to
the Dodgers dating back to last season. He received plenty of support from his
teammates as well, with St. Louis battering 2011 NL Cy Young Award winner
Clayton Kershaw for eight runs in 5 2/3 innings.
"He pitched a great game. It was nice to see," Cardinals manager Mike Matheny
said of Wainwright. "He's fun to watch when he has everything working."
Wainwright helped his own cause at the plate as well, delivering an RBI double
in the fifth inning and drawing a bases-loaded walk against Kershaw as part of
a six-run sixth that snapped a 2-2 tie.
"If I get Adam Wainwright out [Tuesday] I probably give up maybe one run,"
said Kershaw, who was tagged for seven hits and walked three before exiting.
"It's just frustrating. There were some things that could have been avoided by
Ex-Dodger Rafael Furcal went 2-for-4 with three RBI to help St. Louis move to
4-1 on its current seven-game homestand, while Allen Craig added a two-run
double during the Cardinals' sixth-inning outburst.
Los Angeles had a five-game winning streak snapped and fell to 2 1/2 games
back of first-place San Francisco in the NL West standings. The Dodgers are
also just a half-game behind Atlanta and Pittsburgh, the current front-runners
for the two Wild Card berths, with St. Louis two back of the leaders in the
The Dodgers will hand the ball to Aaron Harang in tonight's bout, with the big
right-hander seeking to win a third consecutive decision.
Harang is 2-0 with a 2.37 ERA over that three-start stretch and is coming off
a winning effort against the New York Mets on Friday. He worked five innings
that night and surrendered three runs, only one of which was earned, and
fanned five.
The 34-year-old has not had much success when facing the Cardinals over the
course of his career, however. Harang is 7-13 with a 4.47 ERA in 24 lifetime
appearances against St. Louis, most of which came during his tenure with the
Cincinnati Reds, and has dropped four straight decisions to the Cards. He last
bested St. Louis on May 9, 2009 while then a member of the Reds.
The Dodgers swept a three-game series from the Cardinals in Los Angeles from
May 18-20 and are 4-1 in their last five trips to Busch Stadium.


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text: hi gang, still tracking this problem, so let me reply to the two kind people that have written so far. to clarify, i am trying to RIP audio, not BURN it. it seems both folks started thinking about write permissions and not necessarily read permissions. firstname.lastname@example.com wrote: >>The easiest way is to chmod all of these entries to 777. You need to be able to >>write to your CD-ROM drive as a regular user, after all :) >> >> i have done this, and it makes no difference. also, being a member of group "cdrom" and "disk" doesn't make much diff, so i can't imagine that being in "cdromwriter", as you suggest elsewhere, would change this..... funny thing is that it ACTS like i haven't changed these permissions! as you can see below, when i try chmod 777, it doesn't affect it, even though i am 'su'... what am i doing wrong here? debian:/home/derek# chmod 777 /dev/sg0 debian:/home/derek# ls -al /dev/sg0 lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 36 May 19 22:15 /dev/sg0 -> scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/generic Paul Perkins wrote: >Under 2.4.x kernel (or earlier), burning CDs (and possibly ripping audio >CDs too) needs access to the "generic scsi" device for the drive (don't >you love those violent terms for copying data?). Conventionally called >/dev/sg0, device (21,0). The "0" may be another number if you have >multiple real or emulated SCSI devices. I'm not sure, but I think this >may change in the 2.6 kernel series. > i do have a /dev/sr0 lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 36 May 19 22:15 /dev/sg0 -> scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/generic and the new permissions for its target are as follows: debian:/# ls -al /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0/ total 0 drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Jan 1 1970 . drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Jan 1 1970 .. brwxrwxrwx 1 root cdrom 11, 0 Jan 1 1970 cd crwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21, 1 Jan 1 1970 generic once i changed the permissions sucessfully to those above, cdparanoia gives me this when i try to Query an audio CD: --------------begin debian:/home/derek# cdparanoia -vQ cdparanoia III release 9.8 (March 23, 2001) (C) 2001 Monty <email@example.com> and Xiphophorus Report bugs to email@example.com http://www.xiph.org/paranoia/ Checking /dev/cdrom for cdrom... Testing /dev/cdrom for cooked ioctl() interface /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0/cd is not a cooked ioctl CDROM. Testing /dev/cdrom for SCSI interface generic device: /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0/generic ioctl device: /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0/cd Found an accessible SCSI CDROM drive. Looking at revision of the SG interface in use... SG interface version 3.1.24; OK. CDROM model sensed sensed: TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-C2502 1711 Checking for SCSI emulation... Drive is ATAPI (using SCSI host adaptor emulation) Checking for MMC style command set... Drive is MMC style 004: Unable to read table of contents header Unable to open disc. Is there an audio CD in the drive? -----------------end so i am still not sure what the problem is.... >If some of the applications you are using are installed with set-uid, >(perhaps on a helper program rather than the main one), that would >explain why similar actions may only work as user root in one >application, but work as a normal user in another application. > none of the apps were knowingly installed set-uid... they all came from deb packages, though, so i know of no way to tell for certain. how to find out? how to change? it's stuff like this that makes me think my laptop is haunted ;-) thanks for your suggestions, derek >On Sun, 2003-05-18 at 13:03, derek holzer wrote: > > >>> i've been having a bit of trouble with playing and ripping CDs, maybe >>> someone here can help? >>> >>> i'm running Debian on a laptop, and as root i don't have any serious >>> problems doing either, but as a user it becomes a bit wierd... let me >>> explain... >>> >>> as user, i am in groups cdrom and disk. i have set permissions as follows: >>> >>> in /dev: >>> lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 13 May 18 17:31 cdrom -> >>> cdroms/cdrom0 >>> drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Jan 1 1970 cdroms >>> >>> in /dev/cdroms >>> lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 34 Jan 1 1970 cdrom0 -> >>> ../scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0/cd >>> >>> in /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0/ >>> brw-rw-rw- 1 root cdrom 11, 0 Jan 1 1970 cd >>> >>> i have none of these other cdrom devices listed in /dev: >>> /dev/hdc >>> /dev/sr0 >>> /dec/scd0 >>> but my drive appears to be ATAPI with SCSI emulation. i have added the >>> following to my /etc/lilo.conf to reflect this: >>> append="hdc=ide-scsi" >>> although commenting this out doesn't seem to do much. >>> >>> i can rip CDs as a user with Grip, but RipperX tells me i need >>> permission to access the CD drive [cannot open cdrom drive]. i can play >>> CD audio with Alsaplayer, but not with XMMS. likewise, xfreecd doesn't >>> find the drive, but workman does. very inconsistant! running cdparanoia >>> -vQ as user gives the following: >>> >>> Checking /dev/cdrom for cdrom... >>> Testing /dev/cdrom for cooked ioctl() interface >>> /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0/cd is not a cooked ioctl CDROM. >>> Testing /dev/cdrom for SCSI interface >>> No generic SCSI device found to match CDROM device >>> /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0/cd >>> >>> it seems that there are still some permissions to change somewhere, but >>> i can't for the life of me figure out where! >>> >>> what have i missed? >>> >>> thanks, >>> derek >> >>


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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa – As long as defense continues to be the thing that goes around de-yard, the Cedar Rapids RoughRiders are probably going to struggle.
The Riders gave up too many goals again Saturday night and lost to the Waterloo Black Hawks, 7-3, before 3,188 fans at the Cedar Rapids Ice Arena.
Cedar Rapids has dropped three consecutive games and seven of nine to fall to 7-8-2 overall. It has allowed three or more goals in seven straight games.
It's hard to win when you've got to outgun your opponent every night.
"I think it's been the same thing that you saw tonight. Pretty obvious," said RoughRiders Coach Mark Carlson. "Just not playing responsible."
Simply too many defensive mistakes allowed probably the USHL's most talented team too many quality opportunities. Waterloo (14-5) has a pair of NHL draft picks in forwards Zach Stepan and Vince Hinostroza and could have as many as four other guys taken in the 2013 draft.
The Black Hawks scored three times in the first period against Riders goaltender Chris Birdsall. Goals by Gerry Mayhew and newcomer Phillip Marinaccio (acquired last week in a trade from the Chicago Steel) made it a 3-2 game a little over four minutes into the second.
But Waterloo put it away with three more goals in the final seven minutes of the period. Vince Hinostroza (a Chicago Blackhawks draftee) had two of the three, including one off an odd-man rush that made it 4-2.
A minute later, Justin Kloos and Taylor Cammarata went in on a 2-on-0 break, with Kloos getting the goal. That came seconds after Birdsall stoned Cammarata on a breakaway.
As was said, too many defensive mistakes.
"We just didn't play smart enough," Carlson said.
Chad Catt replaced Birdsall for the third period, though that wasn't an indictment of his play. Birdsall, who turned 16 on Saturday, honestly wasn't given much of a chance by his team.
Cammarata scored in the third period to cap off the night for Waterloo. Judd Peterson had a goal for Cedar Rapids.
"This is sports. There's not a tragedy going on here, you know what I mean?," Carlson said. "They're working hard at it, and they're going to keep developing and stay positive. Like I say all the time, it depends on the tone that the coaching staff sets. We'll continue to be positive. We did a lot of good things in this game tonight, and to not recognize the good things would be completely idiotic. We've got to continue doing the good things and erase some of the irresponsible play."
On a positive note, Mayhew's goal allowed the fans to celebrate the annual Teddy Bear Toss night. Collected bears are given to Toys For Tots as Christmas giveaways to needy children.
The RoughRiders host Chicago on Thursday night.
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Following a rough end to their longest winning streak of the season, the New York Yankees are hoping Phil Hughes can continue his recent success and get them back on track. The Yankees will try for their seventh win in eight games overall and sixth in a row against the Kansas City Royals on Monday night in the Bronx. New York (48-40) had its six-game run snapped in stunning fashion Sunday, as Adam Jones hit a two-run homer off Mariano Rivera in the ninth inning of Baltimore's 2-1 victory. It was Rivera's second blown save in 31 opportunities. "Whenever it happens you're kind of shocked, that's how good (Rivera) is," manager Joe Girardi said. Rivera is looking to reach 30 saves for the 15th time, which would break a tie with Trevor Hoffman for the major league record. Hughes (4-7, 4.55 ERA) could give him the opportunity to achieve the milestone in this game, given how he has pitched in his last two starts. The right-hander has yielded three runs in 15 innings while going 1-1 in...
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BERLIN—The developer of a nearly billion-dollar retail-housing complex is betting that Germany will remain a haven for investors and global retailers in turbulent economic times.
Developer Harald Huth is building the Leipziger Platz Caree, a retail, hotel, entertainment, restaurant and residential complex at the historic Leipziger Platz square near Berlin's Brandenburg Gate. The project, due to open in 2013, is a joint venture between Mr. Huth's High Gain Haus Investments GmbH and Arab Investments, a London fund backed mainly by Saudi investors.
The project on the site of the prewar Wertheim department store is a bold investment in the once-divided capital city, which is marked by high unemployment and a large supply of new shopping centers. As the euro zone struggles with the debt crisis, Mr. Huth is banking on the strength of the German economy and the city's attraction for foreign tourists.
"This is going to be Berlin's new center, like a high street with a roof," he said.
When completed, the Leipziger Platz Caree will be the largest shopping center in Berlin, thanks to a decision in April to add another 25,000 square meters (270,000 square feet) of retail space, bringing the total to 150,000 square meters of floor area. This nearly doubled the cost to €800 million ($983 million) from €450 million. The additional financing came from the original lending banks.
New shopping-center construction is benefiting from a migration of property investors into Germany in search of safety. Last year, investors poured some $11 billion into German retail, an increase of 36% from the previous year, according to property-services company CBRE Group Inc.
Some of the largest shopping center transactions in Germany last year included the sale of a 50% stake in CentrO, Europe's largest retail complex valued at €1.28 billion, near Düsseldorf to Canadian pension fund CPP Investment Board and the sale of retail complex Perlach Einkaufs Passagen in Munich to TIAA-CREF for €404 million.
Investors are attracted by German retail's lack of volatility. "Cash flow and core retail are trumps, because investors are looking for safety now," said Tobias Just, professor for real estate at the University of Regensburg.
To be sure, investors in the German retail property sector face a number of challenges. German society is aging and online shopping is on the rise. Shopping center developers have to remodel their space to make it more accessible for older people, while young consumers stay at home and shop online. According to the German E-Commerce and Distance Selling Trade Association, revenue from online shopping rose 12% to €34 billion, or 8.2% of total retail sales, in 2011 from €30.3 billion the year before.
Also, while investors remain interested in the German retail property sector, they are selective, said CBRE, and are focusing more on only the best quality properties in the best locations. In addition, increased risk associated with the euro-zone debt crisis has slowed investment in the first quarter, said Shelley Matthews, European retail capital-markets director at CBRE. In the first quarter, investors poured €1.35 billion into the German retail-property sector, down 64% from the year-ago period.
But rent growth remains attractive. Rents have been increasing the past few years across the five most important German retail markets: Berlin, Munich, Frankfurt, Düsseldorf and Hamburg. The most recent data show that, on average, retail rent was up 7% at the end of the first quarter in 2012 compared with the same period a year earlier. In Berlin, where retail rent has risen significantly since 2009, rents were up 4% at the end of the first quarter.
Germany overtook the U.K. as Europe's largest retail market based on investment volume in the third quarter of 2011, but slipped back to No. 2 over the subsequent two quarters, largely because of a squeeze on supply and uncertainty caused by the euro-zone crisis.
"This does not imply a slackening of investor demand for German retail but rather investors are coming up against a lack of stock," said Peter Damesick, CBRE chief economist for Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
The Leipziger Platz project is located on the site of the original Wertheim Kaufhaus department store, built in 1897 by Georg Wertheim, a pioneer of German retail. Leipziger Platz is located in historic Berlin Mitte, in the former no man's land where the Berlin Wall once stood, right on the main tourist track in one of Europe's most-visited cities.
Mr. Huth said he is confident the new shopping center will catch on despite the many challenges and competition among retailers. Indeed, the complex is a stone's throw from the Arkaden shopping center on Potsdamer Platz and just down the road from Alexanderplatz, which sports two shopping centers and a number of superstores of retailers such as Saturn, C&A and Galerie Kaufhof.
Mr. Huth said he has been able to lease about 90% of the 50,000 square meters of retail space, about a third of the total complex, to German and European brands such as Zara, Bershka and Saturn since the project's launch in 2010.
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Source: George Richards, Miami Herald
Tim Thomas reminded his teammates that, yes, he had won a game at Vancouver's Rogers Arena before Tuesday's game.
During the game, Thomas made sure everyone wearing the Panthers sweater had as well.
By making 30 total saves, Thomas led Florida to its first win in Vancouver in three decades with a 3-2 shootout victory over the Canucks.
The win was just Florida's second in Vancouver and first since the Canucks moved to what is now known as Rogers Arena in 1995.


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DATE & TIME: Tuesday, November 20, 7 p.m. (et)
FACTS & STATS: Site: UCF Arena (10,000) -- Orlando, Florida. Television: None. Home Record: MT 1-0, UCF 2-0. Away Record: MT 1-0, UCF 1-0. Neutral Record: MT 0-1, UCF 0-0. Conference Record: MT 0-0, UCF 0-0. Series Record: UCF leads, 2-0.
GAME NOTES: The UCF Knights put their unblemished record on the line on Tuesday night, as they entertain the Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders in non- conference action.
Middle Tennessee is 2-1 on the young season, having taken care of Alabama State (97-53) and Savannah State (58-55) to kick things off, but then dropping a 66-45 decision versus No. 10 Florida on Sunday. The Blue Raiders are one of the favorites to challenge for the Sun Belt Conference crown this year, and they will play their first league bout at Louisiana on Nov. 29. The meat of their SBC slate begins with a Dec. 29 clash at home against FIU.
UCF has yet to taste defeat through three games, as the team has topped the likes of USF (74-56), Alabama State (85-56) and Savannah State (53-50). The Knights, who call Conference USA home for the final time (the school moves to the Big East Conference starting in 2013-14), are playing their third straight home game, and will take on the same Florida team that just beat Middle Tennessee this Friday in Gainesville. UCF, which has won 22 consecutive non- conference home games, opens C-USA play in Orlando against UAB on Jan. 9, 2013.
UCF has won the two previous meetings with Middle Tennessee, with both taking place in successive years (1999-2000).
Despite having 10 of its top 12 scorers from last season back for another go, the Blue Raiders are averaging just 66.7 ppg behind typical shooting percentages of .417 overall, .359 from three-point range and .675 from the free throw line. And that scoring average is skewed pretty heavily due to the 97 points Middle Tennessee put up against Alabama State in the opener. Defensively, the team has been as solid as they come, yielding a mere 58.0 ppg, with foes hitting their field goal attempts at a 40.9 percent clip, which includes a 29.4 percent showing from beyond the arc. The Blue Raiders goad the opposition into just shy of 18 turnovers per outing, while winning the battle on the boards by more than five caroms per contest. Marcos Knight is the team's only double-digit scorer at the moment, but his 12.3 ppg aren't about to intimidate even inferior opponents. Knight was on his average in the recent loss to Florida, and he was joined in double figures by Shawn Jones who tallied 10 points. Unfortunately, the team as a whole shot a dismal 32.0 percent from the floor, making only two of its 10 long-range attempts along the way.
UCF is getting it done at both ends of the court here in the early going, netting 70.7 ppg while allowing just 54.0 ppg. The Knights are shooting a healthy 50.0 percent from the field overall, but drain just 32.3 percent of their three-point tries and only 59.3 percent of their free throws. The enemy is only 37.6 percent accurate from the field, which includes a low 29.2 percent effort from downtown. UCF is also +9.7 in rebounding margin, and the team boasts three double-digit scorers, the best of the lot being Isaiah Sykes with his 21.0 ppg. A 63.2 percent shooter from the floor but just a 46.9 percent shooter from the charity stripe, Sykes adds 6.7 rebounds and a team- high 5.4 apg to his impressive stat line. Keith Clanton is averaging a monster double-double consisting of 17.7 points and 13.0 rebounds per game. UCF had all kinds of trouble finding the bottom of the net in the narrow win over Savannah State, shooting 32.6 percent from the field, and the team missed all seven of its three-point attempts. Clanton scored 17 points and grabbed a dozen boards, while Sykes finished with 14 points, five rebounds and five assists.
The Blue Raiders are sure to put up a fight, but they lack the overall talent and depth to challenge the Knights on their own floor.
Sports Network Predicted Outcome: UCF 71, Middle Tennessee 60