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Novartis Takes Top Spot, Previously Held by GlaxoSmithKline Since June 2006
PHILADELPHIA and LONDON, Oct. 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Thomson Scientific, part of The Thomson Corporation (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC) and leading provider of information solutions to the worldwide research and business communities, today announced the availability of its most recent quarterly review of scientific literature on drugs and therapies. "Who is Making the Biggest Splash?" was created to provide an objective assessment of how this tremendous volume of research is being received within the clinical community and to give expert measured insight into organizations that helped to shape professional opinions. In this quarterly review, Thomson Scientific has assessed the quantity and quality of the materials published by pharmaceutical companies, research institutions and other non-commercial from April - June 2007 to identify which organization has made the biggest splash.
Novartis gained pole position in this quarter's analysis, knocking GlaxoSmithKline out of the top spot for the first time since June 2006. Researchers affiliated with the firm issued 82 articles, abstracts or scientific posters between April and June 2007, more than the 73 identified in the previous quarter. The company maintained its solid Thomson Source Score of 76. Three of the other organizations at the top of the list (AstraZeneca, GlaxoSmithKline, and Eli Lilly) this quarter also ranked in the top five last quarter.
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Duggar Family Names Unborn Child, Plans Services
According to the Hollywood Reporter, the '19 Kids and Counting' family will hold a private memorial service for Jubilee, who would've been the couple's 20th child.
"Earlier today at a routine doctor's appointment, Michelle and I received the sad news that we lost the baby," Jim Bob Duggar said in a statement on Dec. 8. "Michelle is resting comfortably at home with the support of the entire family. We are grateful for all the thoughts and prayers, but ask for privacy during this difficult time."
Michelle Duggar Miscarries 20th Child
The 45-year-old reality star was in her second trimester.
"After the appointment, we came back home and told the children," Duggar told People. "We had just been talking about baby names last night and they were getting excited about naming a boy or a girl. It has been a real sad disappointment."
Jim Bob Dons a Kilt With the Family in Scotland on '19 Kids and Counting' (VIDEO)
Their clan was so impressive that the organizers of the festival they were at redubbed them the MacDuggan clan. And while everyone embraced the fellowship and fun of the day, Jim Bob was a little reluctant to fully get into the spirit. They got him into a kilt, but the get-up looked rather silly with the ends of his jeans sticking out of the bottom.
Michelle Duggar Defends Her Decision to Have Another Baby
So why can't the couple stop having babies? The Internet rumor mill's been working overtime, and theories being bandied about include: Is Michelle addicted to being pregnant? Do they procreate to get attention? Are they making too much money from their reality show to give it up? Or, are they, as Michelle told Ann Curry yesterday, just staying true to their motto of "There's always room for one more?"
Now Michelle -- who has suffered twice from pre-eclampsia -- defended her decision to have another child, telling 'People' that if the prospect of potentially life-threatening prenatal complications were going to deter her, then "we would have stopped back with our second birth. ... There are many women who have experienced pre-eclampsia and have gone on to have more children."
The Duggars Are Expecting Baby Number 20 (VIDEO)
Telling Ann Curry that she's three and a half months pregnant, 45 year-old Michelle said "We're due in April and we're just thrilled!" Ever the joker, Jim Bob quipped "We don't know how it happened!" Michelle added, "We are so excited. I was not thinking that God would give us another one, and we are just so grateful." The couple had hinted last night on their blog that they'd be making a "special announcement" this morning, but many assumed it would be about another grandchild.
When Curry asked the question that most of us are thinking -- WHY?! -- Michelle said they live by the motto "There's always room for one more." Plus, as Jim Bob says, one kid just moved out to start his own family so there was space available in Casa Duggar.
Watch the happy couple's announcement after the jump.
The Duggars welcome number 17 to the clan
If you're a fan of the channels that make up the Discovery Communications kingdom then you have probably seen Michelle and Jim Bob Duggar and their 16 children in one of their specials. Maybe it was Raising 16 Children, where we were introduced to the Duggar clan, or On the Road With 16 Children, which focused on their trip to Disneyland. Or, perhaps, you may have caught Creating an Independent Country With 16 Children, which was shown only once and removed from the air by the government (and, if you watched that special, they would like to have a word with you. Something about conspiracy).
Well, get ready for another slew of specials because Michelle, Jim Bob, and all of their J-named children have welcomed a new baby girl into the brood. Jennifer Danielle Duggar was born on August 2nd at 10:01 in the morning. She weighed 8 pounds, 8 ounces and measured 21 inches long. Jennifer is the seventh girl to be born to the Duggars, who previously had six girls and 10 boys, including two sets of twins. Mother and baby are doing just fine and Michelle is already saying she'd love to have more children.
By the way, I was serious about a new set of specials. Discovery Health will premiere a new Duggar show in September that will feature Jennifer Danielle shortly after her birth and at home with her family.
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Lancome have really stepped up their game recently with their palette design and presentation. I'd never been that excited to try a powder from them, until I saw this baby. Glossy black case, shimmery shades and a pretty floral imprint? Check, check and check, Lancome has just hit all three points on my lust at first sight list.
Part of Lancome's (seriously, I refuse to do the acute when typing in Blogger, and you can't make me do it) release for Spring 2012, Lancome des Delices, La Roseraie is marketed as an illuminating powder. Playing around with just the pink portion, it would easily do as a blush for the more pale (cough) amongst us. Swirled together creates a pink-hued highlighter which I would stick to using on cheekbones etc, as it could get a little too shimmery as a cheek colour.
Annoyingly, the glue under the powder had loosened, so much that it's rattled around the compact and left marks from where it has smacked into the mirror. Nothing a little Tarzan Grip won't fix, but still very uncool.
|Totes looks like aphids got in my make-up bag, I know.
|Both shades swirled
The final effect reminds me of a powder version of Benefit's High Beam, great for picking up areas you want to focus on and highlight. This is a product for cool toned gals though, with the pink a tad too unnatural on yellow tones and the deeply tanned.


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Wie leads US Open but M.J. Lee contends
BY Bruce Young | LPGA Tour | 2014 US Women's Open | Round Two | 21 Jun 2014
American Michelle Wie continued her recent run of form by taking a three shot lead into round three of the US Women's Open at Pinehurst No 2.
Wie's powerful game, which allows her to control and spin the ball perhaps more than any other female golfer, has assisted her in negotiating the demanding Pinehurst layout and in her current form she appears the likely contender for the title on Sunday.
Wie added a second consecutive round of 68 to move past the overnight leader Stacy Lewis and into that three shot lead over Lexi Thompson with world number one, Lewis, Korean, Amy Yang, and West Australian and world number one amateur Minjee Lee, one shot further back.
Wie was excited but cautious about her chances for the weekend. "You never really know at U.S. Opens," she said. "I'm just going to go out there and have fun. I'm really grateful for the opportunity that I have. Being in contention, having the clubhouse lead for now, I'm just really excited for the weekend. I'm really excited that
I have chance and I'm going to have a lot of fun this weekend.
"It's definitely one of the Majors that I really want to win. I think the U.S. Open as an American is one of the most important tournaments. But at the same time Sunday is a very, very long time, far away. Just take it shot by shot.
"You really can't think about Sunday, 18th hole, now. You have 36 holes to play. So I'm just going to go out there and just try and do what I did the last two days and just focus on every shot and try not to think too much about the past or the future, just really try to stay in the present.
"Pinehurst is awesome. Just playing here, playing, seeing all the history and the golf course is great. I love the way the USGA set it up. It's a great golf course. I feel like we're making history this year playing at Pinehurst, same stage as the men. I just was very excited watching the men play on Sunday and just to kind of see what they hit and kind of try to do the same things, it's a lot of fun. It's great."
Lee, the winner of the last two Australian Amateur Championships and a player many think could go on to become one of Australia's best ever, was happy to see her tee to green game improve.
"I hit it better today. But my — I didn't putt as good as yesterday. So when I was trying to make up-and-downs it was a little bit more harder. But I'm happy with my 1-over. I think that the pins are playing pretty tough, although some of the tees are up today and you can drive one of the par-4s. But I think that the pins are playing pretty tough.
When asked if she thought she had what it took to win LPGA events Lee responded, "I think so. Well, I was quite close at the Aussie Open the beginning of the year and a couple of the other tournaments beginning of the year, so, yeah, I think I have the ability to contend and I think in the future I'll be able to win some tournaments."
Lee also acknowledged the help she had received through Karrie Webb. "I got the chance to stay with her at the U.S. Open last year. I got to watch with one of my friends who also won the Karrie Webb Series Scholarship. So, yeah, we got to spend a week with her at the Open, which was priceless. It's like the best experience ever. So, yeah, it was good last year."
Webb, herself, started her second round slowly and through ten holes she was four over for the day and the tournament. She fought back but a bogey at her last hole, the par three 9th when coming up short with her approach, left her at 3 over and although seven shots from Wie she is still very much in the picture.
Katherine Kirk is in 22nd position and Nikki Campbell was the only other Australian to make the cut when she finished on the cut score of 9 over.


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text: How does media influence a girl's self-image? Share this story email Share this story «Previous 7 of 11 Photos Next » Read the story « » How does media influence young girls? KVAL News went to Kipster's Gymnastics in Eugene to share the paper doll study with some mothers and daughters. "One's a little bit more sexy definitely," said LeeAnn McBee of Springfield.Bethani Rivera also has a 6-year-old daughter in the gymnastics class. "I think it's sad and I think it's a testament to the power that advertisement and pop culture has on our young children."Nicole Comstock from KVAL News looked at the research and talked to girls and their mothers for a story set to air on KVAL News at 5 p.m. Thursday, November 15.


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"With our new production of Wagner 's Lohengrin we pay tribute, in his anniversary year, to one of the most inspiring,controversial and significant figures of our European culture.
Wagner's restless creative energy provoked him constantly to challenge the boundaries of musical, theatrical and spiritual possibility. Lohengrin already hints at the path that would lead him to Parsifal, and beyond that, to a vision of the Buddha which he did not live to compose.
This is the cue for Jonathan Harvey's astonishing work, Wagner Dream which takes as its starting point Wagner's preoccupation, in his dying days in Venice, with the Buddha, and the idea of renouncing the world and embracing a spiritual reality. Harvey, himself a Buddhist, has created an awe-inspiring score of great beauty and power, using primarily electronic means to evoke the scale and power of Wagner's soundworld."
David Pountney
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Sit onstage as a multi generational cast of over 60 performers take you on a nostalgic journey through the last 100 years of the Park and Dare Theatre, Treorchy, with an iconic soundtrack of hits from each decade performed by The Siren Sisters.
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Join David Pountney as he talks with Philip Hensher, Independent columnist and novelist, about and his legacy in his biecentenary year. Hosted by Nicola Heywood-Thomas.
22 May - 10 June
The perfect way to prepare for the Wagner Dream season. Our team of experts will expertly introduce you to the stories, music and background of each opera.
24 May
The day after the first night, Director Antony McDonald, Associate Director Helen Cooper and Peter Wedd who sings Lohengrin, discuss WNO's new production of Wagner's great opera - a sublime confrontation between good and evil set in an epic symphonic scale, at Hay Festival, Hay-on-wye.
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This concert, at Hay Festival, Hay-on-wye, celebrates the centenary of the great Welsh Poet features William Matthias' setting of The Seven Poems Of RS Thomas and Henry Purcell's Abdelazer Suite. It is performed by WNO ensemble, directed by David Adams, with tenor Mark le Brocq
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A special masterclass involving young singers setting out on exploring the music of this great composer.
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Wagner Dream
Welsh National Opera is proud to present the UK staged première of the late Jonathan Harvey's extraordinary opera. Wagner Dream is part biography, part fantasy that will transport you into another realm.
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Strauss' glowing Symphony, Byrd's joyful March and the infectious West Side Story Suite is performed in contrast to Britten's Russian Funeral Music, is an impassioned dedication to those fighting against fascism on the eve of WWII.
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Reserve Primary Fund
The Reserve Primary Fund was a large money market mutual fund.
On September 16, 2008, during the Global financial crisis of September–October, 2008, it lowered its share price below $1 ("breaking the buck") because of exposure to Lehman Brothers debt securities. This resulted in demands from investors to return their funds as the financial crisis mounted.[1] Normally, the net asset value of money market funds is kept at $1.
The Reserve had multiple other funds frozen because of this failure. It has liquidated a few funds, and post periodic updates about plans to liquidate other funds on their website.
As of October 27, 2009, more than $3.5 billion sat in the Primary fund, most in a special reserve held aside to be used for costs and expenses, including legal fees.[2] In November 2009, a U.S. district judge ordered the fund to make pro-rata distribution of almost all remaining assets to shareholders.[3] As of July 2011, the fund had paid out 99.04% of its assets.[4]
External links[edit]
- Reserve Fund website
- "Fund Update tax reporting", December 14, 2011
- Reserve Fund website
- "The Primary Fund-In Liquidation, The Yield Plus Fund-In Liquidation"
- ^ "Money Market Funds Enter a World of Risk" article by Tara Siegel Bernard in The New York Times September 17, 2008
- ^ Attorney: Court Order On Primary Fund's Unwinding Days Away
- ^ Reserve Primary Fund Ordered to Make Pro-Rata Payout (Update2)
- ^ Primary Fund-In Liquidation Update, July 29, 2011
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Arizona authorities arrest fugitive
TUCSON — The U.S. Marshals Service and Pima County sheriff's deputies say they have arrested a fugitive wanted for months in connection with a fatal shooting in the Tucson area.
Authorities say detectives had been monitoring a vehicle that they believed was being used by Carlos Zacarias. They positively identified the 29-year-old man during a traffic stop Wednesday.
Zacarias was taken into custody and booked into the Pima County jail on several outstanding felony warrants, including one stemming from the shooting death of Gray Eagle Joseph Ortiz last August.


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The Week AheadUp Next: UW-Parkside & UW-WhitewaterNo. 23 Wisconsin travels to Whitewater, Wis., to take the mat against UW-Whitewater and UW-Parkside in a double dual on Friday night. The Badgers will wrestle the Rangers at 6 p.m., followed by the Warhawks at 7:30 p.m.
LAST TIME OUTThe Badgers traveled east for five duals last week. UW opened the season with a pair of dominating wins at Chattanooga, taking down Cumberland 51-0 before defeating the Mocs 37-3. Wisconsin hit a road block at the Hokie Duals, grinding out a two-point win against No. 14 Virginia but dropping two tight contests against North Carolina and Old Dominion.
BADGERS IN THE POLLSWisconsin fell three spots to No. 23 in the USA Today/NWCA/AWN Division I Coaches Poll this week. Big Ten teams occupy five of the top 10 spots and 10 of the top 25. Senior Tyler Graff is ranked No. 2 at 133 lbs. following a 5-0 start last week. Graff posted a pair of falls and three wins by major decision. Last season, Graff earned his third All-America honor with a third-place finish at the NCAA championships. Redshirt freshman Jesse Thielke fell from No. 10 to No. 17 at 141 lbs. after posting a 2-3 record last weekend. Thielke fell by fall to then-No. 5 ranked Evan Henderson of North Carolina, by decision to then-No. 19 Joe Spisak of Virginia and then-No. 12 Chris Mecate of ODU by major decision. Redshirt freshman Isaac Jordan remained at No. 7 following a perfect 5-0 start to his season last weekend. Jordan posted a pair of falls and a sudden victory win in his opening weekend. Senior Jackson Hein, an NCAA qualifier at 197 lbs. a year ago, moved up a spot to No. 12 at 184 lbs. Hein posted a 4-1 record last weekend, highlighted by a sudden victory decision over No. 9 Jon Fausey of Virginia. 2013 Big Ten Freshman of the Year Connor Medbery stayed at No. 6 following a perfect 5-0 start last weekend. A pair of tech fall wins a pin highlighted Medbery's weekend.
GRAFF GRAPPLES WITH CAREER RECORDSenior Tyler Graff's .836 winning percentage (102-20) is 10th on the UW career list. He is also 11 wins away from earning a spot on the career win record list, as Andy Rein ranks 10th with 113 career victories.
CHASING PERFECTIONWisconsin opened its season on the road, traveling to Chattanooga for a double dual and the Hokie Duals for three matchups, Nov. 8 -10 and five guys returned home unbeaten. Senior Tyler Graff, freshman Isaac Jordan and sophomore Connor Medbery each posted perfect 5-0 records, while freshman Ryan Taylor finished the weekend 3-0 and Ben Cox posted a 2-0 record.
FANS ON FACEBOOKA fan vote on the Badgers' Facebook page determined match order at the Intrasquad Scrimmage and it was a perfect choice. The final bout was at 149 lbs., between TJ Ruschell and Rylan Lubeck. It took two tie-breaks before Ruschell was able to claim a 2-1 decision.
RETURNERSUW returns eight of 10 starters from last year's squad, including NCAA qualifiers Tyler Graff, Jackson Hein and Connor Medbery.
BIG TEN CHAMPIONSHIPSWisconsin will host the 2014 Big Ten Wrestling Championships on March 8-9 in the Kohl Center. It is the sixth time the Badgers have hosted the championship event and the first time in the Kohl Center.
Tickets to the two-day event are available at UWBadgers.com.
FAMILY AFFAIRThe Badgers boast three sets of brothers and a pair of guys with UW family connections on this year's squad. Brothers Scott and Seth Liegel, Brandon and Justin Weber and TJ and assistant coach Kyle Ruschell, along with Isaac Jordan (son of Jim, 1983-86, nephew of Jeff, 1985-88 and brother of Ben, 2009-12) and Jarod Donar (brother of Jake, 2005-08) make up this year's roster.
HULL ADDED TO STAFFFormer UW All-American and Big Ten champion Mitch Hull is back in the Wisconsin wrestling room as a member of the Badgers' administrative staff. Hull joins the UW coaching staff as a volunteer administrative assistant after previously serving as the National Team Director for USA Wrestling.
WATCH THE BADGERSThe Badgers' dual meet at Michigan State Dec. 8 will be aired live on BTN. The network will also air championship Sunday of the 2014 Big Ten Wrestling Championship. Home meets will stream online at InsideBadgerSports.com.
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Cairo Cairo Paradise Hotel
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41 Sherif Street, Downtown
we offer a free airport pick up for booking 2 nights
Customers can cancel their reservation free of charge up to 2 Days before arrival. After this date, charges will be applied by the property up to the full cost of the reservation. Deposits paid are non refundable.
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we offer a free airport pick up for booking 2 nights
Customers can cancel their reservation free of charge up to 2 Days before arrival. After this date, charges will be applied by the property up to the full cost of the reservation. Deposits paid are non refundable.
Cairo Paradise Hotel is newly opened on June 2010.It is located on the city centre of Cairo Downtown.
Enjoy the real atmosphere of cosy Cairo through your rooms amazing views. All rooms are decorated romantically. Well trained, professional, bilingual staff are waiting for you. All rooms have bathrooms, showers, an air-conditioner, TV, satellite, balconies, and hairdryers. Free map of Cairo upon your arrival
Free Airport pick up for Booking 2 nights in Superior Rooms.
2 Minutes' from Metro station (Nasser)
5 Minutes' walk to Bus Station
10 Minutes' walk to Egyptian Museum
10 Minutes' walk to the Nile
30 Minutes' from Airport - Bus or Taxi
5 minutes' Railway Station ( Ramses Station )
30 Minutes' to Pyramids - Bus Or Taxi
Several Egyptian and international restaurants including KFC, Hardies, Mac, pizza hut and shopping markets are based in the surrounding area.
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Excellent location, near everything such as the Egyptian Museum, Metro, food places and shopping district
Clean place with nice and comfortable beds. And we got a big room with high ceiling
The staff are very friendly, willing to answer any of our questions. And they speak fluent English.
And there was a free airport pick up since we booked two nights with them. It made the journey from the airport to the hotel a smooth one that marked a good beginning to the whole trip.
And Ahmed, the manager treated us to lunch which was our first introduction to Egyptian food.
We booked 2 tours with them, one to the Pyramids and to the Baharia desert oasis. One of the best tours we went on during our entire stay in Egypt. The driver that was assigned to us speaks good English and explained to us the history of Egypt. There was no pushing to buy any thing or additional services.
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Free pick-up from the airport came with no strings attached!Staff were very polite and helpful. Room was very large with an excellent very clean bathroom. Good value and I would stay here again.
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Very good location, good price and satisfactory tour.
Some older facilities, the bathroom is inside the room but without roof.
Request a room that is not on the side of the street, because at 4 am reciting the Koran and speakers are too close!
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All four guys that worked there were extremely nice, honest, hilarious and helpful. They saved our lives when I got extremely sick when it came time to fly back to Italy. We had went from the Sinai Peninsula to the airport back in Cairo and I couldn't board the plane therefore returning back to their hotel unexpectedly at 3 in the morning. When my boyfriend and I arrived, we looked at each other and laughed as they were surprised to see us back when we had left a week ago onto our next journey. We asked if they had any rooms we could stay in for a couple days until we sorted out our next flight out and they happily set up a room for us and said stay as long as you like and pay us whenever. Before we arrived we knew they would welcome us back and they even helped us out with my sickness and gave us a free ride back to the airport since we didn't set one up prior to our arrival. They were amazing and I cant thank them enough. If you guys read this...Max and Alicia miss you!! Free tea, breakfast and conversations and really nice rooms. I would not stay anywhere else. Location is great we walked everywhere...museum and talbot square (i think its called), and short cab rides to coptic/islamic cairo. STAY HERE.
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"I have discovered the secret to successful career reinvention," confides Alan Gratias, the former trade negotiator for Agriculture Canada who negotiated his own retirement from public service at age 49 to pursue a second life as a private investor and bon vivant.
"Avoid golf, bridge and sailing."
It's a basic principle that the one-time Ottawa mandarin who helped establish the Office of Public-Private Partnerships at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, among other government agencies, swears by.
Instead of teeing off, he restores vintage real estate, writes books and newspaper appreciations for dearly departed friends, runs an art gallery and markets a trivia game called Gravitas –"the little box of big questions" – which the 66-year-old invented a few years ago in time left over while developing his own Prince Edward County winery. But that's another story.
For a guy on the go, Mr. Gratias (sounds like "gracious") takes his financial decisions slow.
The founder of Beyond Government Inc., a non-profit foundation dedicated to the development of alternative ways of providing public goods and services, draws inspiration from what he calls Buddha investing, "the realization that everything is one and interconnected. Any one unpredictable event anywhere in the world – the euro collapse, terrorist attacks, oil spills – can trigger consequences in the market which no one can anticipate or control."
If there's one thing Mr. Gratias can't stand it's not being in control – of his money, that is. Call it a learned reaction.
His late father, Orvald Arthur Gratias, a physicist with a PhD from Oxford, parlayed an MBA into a second career as a research analyst with the Montreal blue-chip firm MacDougall, MacDougall & MacTier, becoming in-house guru of market movements.
His father's investment mantra was buying stocks that paid dividends and offered growth potential, and holding them long term, says Mr. Gratias, who has always followed his advice when possible.
His other mentor in the game of investment has been his twin brother. "He's a star accountant, banker and tax adviser. But twins being twins, we have tended to be competitive and singular, so often I ignored his counsel in a bid to be independent."
That independent streak has sometimes cost him.
Even though armed with a master's degree in political economy from the London School of Economics, the sociable, stalwart and still handsome former bureaucrat stumbled badly when playing the stock market in the late 1980s.
Straying from his father's investment advice cost him dearly. "For a number of years I took lots of flyers on equities and projects I had little knowledge of, or control over. And I lost my shirt on most of them," he says.
"Increasingly put off by the fees, self-servicing greed of the financial services industry – in which almost anything, as long as it is convoluted and profitable, can be securitized or commoditized – I wanted out," he says. "There is so much capital chasing unrealistic returns that there never seems to be a shortage of sucker investors for such products as mortgage-backed securities."
After a number of expensive failures and high-tech collapses, Mr. Gratias left the stock market altogether and focused on what he thought would yield a better investment income – real estate.
This led him to adopt a simpler life in Ontario's Prince Edward County, where in 1998 he began investing in income properties and vacant land: "things I could see, walk and harvest wood on."
His mania, what he describes as a weakness bordering on obsession, is crumbling houses, which he fixes up and sells at a profit. But that's not the only reason he does it.
"Somewhere along the way," Mr. Gratias says, "I became a believer in the notion that if we save our built heritage we save ourselves because what is past is prologue."
Over the past 15 years, he has restored dozens of dilapidated buildings with character in Ottawa, Lunenburg, N.S., and parts of Quebec.
In Prince Edward County he owns a 200-year-old Loyalist farmhouse on eight acres, which he has painstakingly been renovating himself over a 12-year period, stripping the floors, repairing and painting the walls and furnishing it with elegant antiques and eclectic art.
"I enjoy it tremendously," says the unmarried self-starter, "because there's a direct correlation between input and output." The property overlooking Lake Ontario has a boutique vineyard yielding a Chardonnay called, cheekily, Deo Gratias.
By combining his passion with his investment interests, Mr. Gratias has negotiated his retirement well, says Arpad Komjathy, a certified financial planner with Equity Associates Inc. in Toronto.
"This is usually a good recipe for success," Mr. Komjathy says.
"As a retiree with a need for income, he mainly invests his time and money in areas that he knows and controls. At this stage of his life, it is appropriate to focus on debt elimination, to adopt a conservative investment strategy when it comes to the stock market, and to derive regular income from real estate investment properties.
"That he does it while living an active lifestyle in a heritage home surrounded by a gorgeous vineyard in the peaceful countryside is the cherry on top. It reads like a life dreamed up by a Hollywood movie."
But Mr. Gratias isn't done yet.
Having written about life as a trade negotiator in 1989's The Completely Civil Servant, he delights in writing about his investment strategies as developed through a lifetime of experience.
"I have settled out on what I call 'GQ' (stands for Gravitas Quotient) investing," he says, "based on an accumulation of observations about how people and the markets behave."
The key message of GQ investing is to focus on paying down debt and initiate "sensible, cautious returns to the market with stocks in banks, insurance, the resource sector and mortgages as well as equities, bonds and convertible debentures."
RRSPs are part of the strategy, "but because of my years with the federal government, and now receiving a defined benefit pension which I regard as a safety net, my contributions then and now are less than the maximum," he says. His total RRSPs, he continues, add up to less than $500,000.
Still, it's not a bad little nest egg. It helps him do what he wants. And that includes travel.
On a recent vacation to Puerto Vallarta Mr. Gratias sent the following e-mail, direct from the beach, sharing more of his retirement secrets:
"Though not part of my investing strategy," he wrote, "standing on my head and skipping rope, which I do every day, means never having to join a fitness club, a savings of $100 a month."
Goodness Gratias yes, infinitely better than golf.
Alan Gratias's home-grown investing tips:
1. Money is not turned into capital until it is invested.
2. Ignore the ads and promise of drooling returns.
3. You have accumulated wisdom. Use it.
4. Sprinkle growth in your dividend mix.
5. Open a tax-free saving account (TFSA).
6. Give as much as you can afford to your heirs and beneficiaries while you are alive, and then the rest to your charities. There is nothing wrong with a zero probate.
7. Treat personal debt as a first obligation. Make the sacrifices because getting rid of debt is always smart.
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Camp Jacobs in Mississippi is on the cutting edge of the green movement! The Jacobs staff continue working to "close the loop" by reducing resource use and landfill waste, and teaching campers and their families what they can do at home. The Jacobs staff uses training in ecology and Israeli permaculture techniques to change attitudes and behaviors at camps. They recently replaced paper napkins with linen "enviro naps" that are good for 500 washes and will save the camp hundreds of dollars on paper goods over time. They are reducing hot water use to cut energy costs and encouraging parents to send fewer packages to cut resource use at camp.
Campers are a major part of the action, learning about food issues while hanging out with chickens at camp. They are programming with recycled materials like cardboard boxes to learn about recycling and materials use, and this summer they'll see mud huts and other natural materials construction on camp.
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text: Charles Vocalis | IBDB: The official source for Broadway Information IBDB: The official source for Broadway Information Official Broadway League sites: - sites - broadway.org broadwayleague.com broadwayfanclub.com kidsnightonbroadway.com stagespecs.org tonyawards.com Quick Search For: In This Category: All Show People/Org. Theatre Season Charles Vocalis Stage Manager, Performer Male Productions ProductionsDate of ProductionsA Girl Can Tell[Play, Comedy, Original] Stage Manager: Charles Vocalis Oct 29, 1953 - Dec 19, 1953Julius Caesar[Play, Tragedy, Revival] Performer: Charles Vocalis [Servant To Antony]Jun 20, 1950 - Jul 15, 1950 Find out where Charles Vocalis and are credited together © 2001-2015, The Broadway League, All Rights Reserved. (Copyright and Disclaimer)


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What an exciting week this has been! It was our first FULL week publishing posts for Between Designs! It seems like it was only yesterday that I attended our first blog meeting and now here we are! Every Friday, we'll end the week with a short round-up of our favorite items from the blog and other exciting treats which may include a special recipe, behind the scenes TGK news or a silly photo.
- Do you know what a Helianthus annuus is? You can find out on Moncia's post this week.
- Planning a wedding with chartreuse and sapphire? Get inspired from Kristin's Color Theory inspiration board.
- In the market for a wedding band? Check out Fabuluster's fingerprint jewelry highlighted in Kristin's Fresh Forward post.
- Finally, 'Roo Katie will author our monthly column, Uniquely You, highlighting our customer's unique events. Let us know if you are a TGK bride and interested in sharing your special day with us!
We had some exciting news in the studio this week. TGK was honored to hear that we'd been featured on page 48-49 of My Sunny Wedding!
Between Designs has some great posts coming next week including the first in our Handmade and Ask a 'Roo series. We are looking forward to these articles and we hope you, our readers, are as well. So come back on Monday!
Now, we plan to start a little Between Designs tradition and leave our readers with a fun question every Friday for you to answer. Since the weather has been a little gloomy lately we thought many of you might be planning on curling up with a good book over the weekend.
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'House' - 'Lockdown' Recap
(S06E16) "I'm going to be dead in a few hours. Your secrets couldn't be safer, unless you're keeping them from yourself." - Nash to House
'House' entered into one of television's most overused cliches last night: the "randomly stuck together somewhere plot line." It's happened so many times that attempting to count all of them would require a NASA scientist, a team of fact checkers and one of those slick-looking slide rules that only a handful of people left in the universe know how to use.
This time, the team gets separated into different parts of the hospital during a lock down. Each has their own interesting stories to tell as they whittle away the hours, and each have varying degrees of success.
'House' - 'Black Hole' Recap
(S06E15) I couldn't find a really good quote to transcribe or even characterize this week's episode, because the whole turn of events are a jumbled lump of clay in my head.
Normally, a show that goes by so fast that I need a drag chute just to figure out what's going on would turn me away from it, but the dramatic tension that 'House' creates kept me velcroed in front of it all the way to the end.
Sure my head still hurts from trying to understand the science of it all, but the dramatic and even comedic angles makes for some fine-tasting Advil.
Dr. House Caught Sexting Taub's Wife on 'House' (VIDEO)
That's pretty much how it went down tonight on 'House' (Mon., 8PM ET on Fox), when House confiscated Taub's phone and sexted his wife with it. If it has to do with being seedy and underhanded, you can bet Dr. House is onboard.
"Trust me, this is gonna help," House tells a frustrated Taub, who's trying to grab the phone away from him. We're pretty sure Taub knows just as well as we do that trusting House is the last thing he should do. Especially since House has had soooo much success in his own personal life.
Watch the video after the jump.
Review: House - Teamwork
(S06E07) "I'm living my life. For the first time, I'm not going to change that because of how it might affect him -- or you." -- Cuddy to Wilson, who asked her what she sees in Lucas
I just want to shove House and Cuddy into a room together and let them figure out their relationship. It's clear that even though she's trying to be happy in her current relationship, she just can't get House out of her head, no matter how much she declares that she has or is going to.
I feel for her, because once they end up getting together -- if they don't by the time the series ends, I'll be ticked -- she'll have a long road ahead of her. Or not. People change. There's a good heart beating inside House's damaged psyche. It could work.
House: The Greater Good
(S5E13) "What's going on with everyone today?" -Kutner
"It involves House, Foreman and Thirteen which means it's either dumb, dangerous or tragic..."-Taub
Is House actually becoming a nice guy? One of the most interesting things about this episode was the absence of his trademark jerkiness. Whether he was dealing with an upset Cuddy or trying his best to counsel a disbelieving Foreman, House not only seemed sympathetic, but empathetic as well. I was surprised by the genuine concern he showed for Thirteen and Foreman during the blindness scare and his willingness to be Cuddy's whipping boy.
Again, the patient of the week wasn't very memorable to me. I find myself not even really caring about them aside from how their illness will reflect the doctor's personal problems. That conceit has gotten so obvious it's hard too look past it and see the patient's as real people who are suffering. Is anyone else having this problem?
House: Let Them Eat Cake
(S05E12) Last spring, I went to hear Ira Glass give a talk about his popular NPR radio (and now TV) show This American Life. He outlined the formula for the show's success, and he also talked about House. Websites have documented the formula for every episode: Every episode is essentially the same. So, why does it work every time? Last night, I was hooked by Emmy the trainer rolling down stairs, and I was then hooked by the discovery of her surgery. I know that every single diagnosis and test and treatment is going to be bunk until the big, strange reveal at the end. However, it's almost like I am the same as House with my need to know what that weird reveal is going to be.
House: Wilson's Heart (season finale)
"Are you sure it wasn't the bus that landed on her?" House.
The season finale of House packed a wallop. I let my Tivo get ahead of my watching it so I wouldn't have to see the commercials, and I had barely begun the episode when my next-door neighbor burst into my living room exclaiming, "Have you seen House???" We barely had time to hit the pause button while yelling at her to leave and leave quickly without saying anything. But that is the kind of impact this kind of episode has. The season finale, which started last week, covered a bus-load of big themes: fear, wish-fulfillment, anger, risk-taking, the nature of friendship, remorse, and love. The episode was written by four writers, including producer David Foster: that was one of my first clues that this episode was going to be significant. They called in the big guns.
Get ready for House to berate five new cast members next season
Three out, five in. With the resignations of Doctors Eric Foreman and Alison Cameron and the firing of Doctor Robert Chase during the third season finale of House there isn't really anyone that Gregory House can abuse anymore. Don't despair, though, because five new actors are joining the cast of the FOX medical procedural for House to
play with like a puppy's chew toy mold into fine healers.
Being added for the fourth season (which begins on September 25th) are Olivia Wilde (The Black Donnellys), Kal Penn (24, Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle), Peter Jacobson (The Starter Wife, Transformers), Anne Dudek (Big Day, Bones) and Edi Gathegi (Lincoln Heights). They will all be in recurring roles for a undetermined amount of episodes; however, I have a feeling if one of their characters clicks with the viewing public they may be promoted to full-time status.
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As most of you know by now, Saddam was executed last night in Iraq. Allah has a great round up of updates, as well as a video of the evil dictator walking to his death. The London Times has a 4 page obit that details in length the evil this man spewed upon the world, starting when he was young.
There is also the predictable response from the left, which is somehow still disturbing. The NYT's John Burns says:
As I write this, flying hurriedly back to Baghdad from an interrupted Christmas break, Saddam makes his own trip to the gallows with an indecent haste, without the mercy of family farewells and other spare acts of compassion that lend at least a pretense of civility to executions under law in kinder jurisdictions. From all we know of the preparations, Saddam's death was to be a miserable and lonely one, as stark and undignified as Iraq's new rulers can devise.
The "indecent haste" is the biggest complaint the left can come up with, since none of them with any intellectual honesty could argue that Saddam did not deserve to be executed. Burns talking about "the mercy of family farewells" is actually ironic, since its been reported that Saddam's half brother was hung along with him. I doubt there are many family left that would have shown up to his execution, even if they'd been allowed. Does Burns really think this murderer deserved anything better?
Gay Patriot has more links of lefties who are seriously messed up in the head (calling for George Bush to be executed?!), and I'll link them since I can't bear to put the actual links here on this blog.
From Allah:
[...] the more I watch it, the more it looks like a hit instead of a state execution
Also, Allah and Atlas have links to the full execution, if you are so inclined. I haven't watched it yet, and I'm not sure I'm going to. Seeing his face as he walked up there, it was the first time he seemed even remotely human, but only for a fleeting second. I had a massive feeling of satisfaction and creepiness that swept over me that I'd prefer not to repeat for a long time.
I did end up watching the video, but honestly its almost impossible to hear what anyone is saying (obviously, since no one is speaking English), and the person taking the video has a hard time even keeping Saddam in the shot. Seeing Saddam's face close up (the video in wide release on Fox, et. al.) had a much bigger impact than this sketchy video from a cell phone.
Also, from Healing Iraq, we finally have a full translation of Saddam's last words:
This should dispel all rumours and conflicting media accounts about Saddam's last words and the reaction of the audience.
Saddam (as the noose is put around his neck): Ya Allah (Oh God).
Someone in the audience: Mercy be on those who pray for Mohammed and the household of Muhammed (Everyone repeats the prayer, including Saddam) -
Executioner and two people in the audience: … And hasten his return (the Mahdi), curse his enemy and grant victory to his son, Muqtada, Muqtada, Muqtada! (This is a common Sadrist chant.)
Saddam (smirking): Muqtada? Is this your manhood? (unclear)
NSA Muwafaq Al-Rubai'i: To Hell!
Saddam: (laughing) … disgrace to you. (unintelligible)
Prosecutor Munqidh Al-Far'awn: Please, no.
Muwafaq Al-Rubi'i: Longlive Mohammed Baqir Al-Sadr!
Someone in the audience: To Hell!
Prosecutor Munqidh Al-Far'awn: No. Please, no. I beg you.
Saddam (solemnly recites the Shahada prayer): I witness that there is no god but Allah, and that Mohammed is the messenger of Allah. I witness that there is no god but Allah, and that Mohammed is the- (trap door is opened).
Audience: Prayers for Mohammed and the household of Muhammed.
Someone: The tyrant has fell. May Allah's curse be upon him.
Someone: May Allah's curse be upon him.
(commotion in the hall)
Someone: No. No. Stay back.
Someone: Leave him for 8 minutes, boys. Don't take him down.
Someone: Everyone. Stay back. Everyone. Back.
There was no denouncing American and Persians after his last prayers, as this New York Times story says, but perhaps that was before he was led to the gallows.
It utterly disgusts me that Sadr's supporters have infiltrated every level of the state, and that the witnesses, including Iraqi government officials, have made this look like a sectarian issue. They were doomed to repeat Iraqi history by hanging their former oppressor and labeling it as justice. In a perfect situation, Saddam's execution would have united Iraqis, but thanks to the actions of the new Iraqi rulers, it will only serve to divide further. I doubt any of them will prevail as much as Saddam did, though.
It would have been much more respectful and civil if the US or one of its allies had done the execution, but then we'd once again be the bad guys. Saddam did not deserve respect, but it would have benefited the whole world to have him just GO, with minimal circus. Like a common criminal. Seeing these supporters of Sadr (remember, Sadr is NOT our friend) taunt Saddam, then celebrate his death, doesn't take away the satisfaction of Saddam being executed, but it does remind us that we have a long way to go in this battle on terror.
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Last night, we attended the Scion Racing Pre-SEMA Media Invitational event that promised a sneak peek at the cars entered in the annual Scion Tuner Challenge. Although we enjoyed checking out the three 2014 Scion tCs in the contest, there was clearly one car that stole the show – The GReddy Racing 2JZGTE powered Scion FR-S that was built for Formula Drift star Ken Gushi. (more…)
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Attendees got the opportunity to meet and interact with some of the brightest stars from the Formula Drift Championship and some of Southern California's most popular import models, as well as several fresh new faces. While spectators gathered trackside to watch the 86FEST autocross experience, most attendees were busy participating in the 86FEST Parts Raffle.
For two years running, the 86FEST Raffle has definitely remained the most popular element of the show, providing attendees with the opportunity to take home well over $15,000 in performance parts and accessories from top name brands like Hawk Performance, OEM Audio Plus, HRE Wheels, HPS Silicone Hoses, WinMax Brakes, RS-R, Cusco, Innovate Motorsports, Vortech Superchargers, Greddy, Jackson Racing, Mann Engineering, Depo, Essex Motorsports, JPM Coachworks, and Raceseng. Read more...
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Everyone who knows me personally knows that I have an enduring love and passion for the style and history of fine Japanese automobiles, especially those from a particular automaker - Toyota. As a driver, restorer, and collector of vintage Toyotas, I've owned something like 40 Toyota and Lexus vehicles in my lifetime, with tons and tons of rare parts and Toyota motorsports memorabilia in my private Cipher Garage Collection.
For those who also share the passion for Toyota automobiles, Toyota Motor Europe has graciously created a place for all of us to rendezvous. Read more...
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With help from sponsors like Falken Tire, OEM Audio Plus, Turn 14 Distribution, Whiteline Suspension, Motul, Spec Clutch, Mann Engineering, Flossy Shift Knobs, and M7 Japan, it's pretty crazy how quickly our inaugural 86FEST came together! Just a few weeks ago, I was driving at a Volkswagen event at Big Willow, and got to talking with the Speed Ventures organizers about how cool it would be if we could get a bunch of FR-S, BRZ, and AE86 owners together at a track day. They both expressed a lot of interest in the idea - especially since we have been thinking about ways to work together for nearly two years! Read more...
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The tried and true Import Showoff event thrown by legendary import carshow promoter Ken Miyoshi during Downtown LA's annual Nisei Week Festival in Little Tokyo is always a good time. Everyone knows that Nisei Showoff symbolizes the best of the best - the highest standard in modified import cars, with attendance by the OG crews that used to run the streets of Los Angeles when the sport compact scene was just beginning to blow up. The whole vibe at Nisei Showoff feels a bit nostalgic, to be honest. Can it be that it was all so simple then? Good cars and good friends in a relaxed atmosphere, surrounded by good Japanese restaurants and boutique shops in Little Tokyo.
However, some young car enthusiasts don't care about memory lane nostalgia or waxing poetic about the good old days. For this rapidly growing new generation of frame-scraping tire stretchers, the newly conceptualized Infamous show was thrown as a collaboration between the Fatlace and Canibeat Crews at the Queen Mary in Long Beach.
It's obvious that MotorMavens connects to both scenes and both types of automotive taste, so those who follow @MOTORMAVENS on Instagram and Twitter already know that we decided to hit both shows. Here's a quick gallery of images from both events! Read more...
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While other dealers concentrate on trying to move units, Scion salesman Jeffrey Chang and Longo Scion decided to sponsor the very first Scion FR-S Tour of LA driving event! Lots of great looking cars were in attendance, but I just couldn't take my eyes off the newly built Cusco Scion FRS, which was already outfitted with Toyota emblems, and the full line of Cusco suspension and accessories. Read more...
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As a member of the automotive media and an AE86 owner, it's no secret that I've been blessed with the opportunity to see the new FR-S up close on a couple different occasions, but this would be the very first time that I had any quality seat time with the car.
This being said, once I received the gracious email invite from Scion, I cleared my schedule and eagerly jumped on a plane to Las Vegas to find out what it would be like to drive the highly anticipated FR-S on a winding road, open highway, autocross course, wet skidpad, and perhaps the most enjoyable - a high speed handling test at one of Spring Mountain Motorsports Ranch's racetracks. Read more...
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I am a realist. Not everyone is down with the rationale of being hip to pitching and ditching. That statement is both literal and figurative. We now have three weeks remaining of games. I mean, you either want to win and go for it with whatever you have at your discretion, or you will just listen to the piper playing and roll off the side of the mountain with the other lemmings that will go by the best names possible on my roster wins. Sorry if I stand here in my skidz pajamas and call you stupid, but you stupid. Go to the bathroom, smash your head into the sink, and then splash some water your face. It ain't over until it's over, it wasn't over when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and it ain't over now. Go to our waiver wire, listen to what I have to say about streaming… It's really simple: Pitch twice and ditch, regardless of outcome or what J-FOH says about pitching, because little league was 25 years ago and pitching donuts is different than actually knowing baseball. So here is some late season K/9, usage and trends that I have noticed that's going on with the bullpens in the past few days. Cheers!Please, blog, may I have some more?
"Hey, Intern, let's get the Mayans on hold just in case we need them in a hurry. What? Who the hell is Ralph Mayan of the Mayan Empire and Grille in Norwalk? Your blank stare tells me nothing. Go buff out my El Dorado while I write this post!" So, I've seen The Theory of Everything, the story of Stephen Hawking and his wife. It touches briefly on his theorems and the universe's push and pull. Imagine the universe breathes in and out. The in is gravity and the out is energy generated by particles. However, the Cubs would breathe in, but when they exhaled it sounded like a wheeze. For over a hundred years, people thought it was dying. That constant wheeze of death. Then, Theo Epstein came along, kicked the Cubs in the ass and realized it wasn't a wheeze but there was something stuck in its throat. The Cubs won't breathe easy until they win a championship again, but the signing of Jon Lester should help. Last year, Lester had a 9 K/9 and a 2 BB/9. I just touched on this with the signing of Samardzija the other day, but a difference of 7 between K/9 and BB/9 is about the most beautifulest thing in the world, Keith Murray. For K-BB, Lester was 11th in the majors last year. Top ten is a who's who that's more glamorous than your Who's Who of American High School Students Who Paid $75 To Be In That Who's Who Book. I'll give you a little hint: if you were to just draft based on K-BB, you'd win your league. Why is K-BB so important? It's so basically basic basically basic it's silly. If you strikeout hitters and don't walk them, good things will happen. For 2015, I'll give Lester the projections of 15-9/2.92/1.08/206, which is number one fantasy SP numbers. Yup, he's going to be solid once again. Anyway, here's some more offseason moves for 2015 fantasy baseball:Please, blog, may I have some more?
Sell George Springer? Are you mad, man? You're not Joan, that's for sure. You could be Bertram Cooper, because you are dead to me. I know, it's blasphemy of the highest order. Springer, for Chris Cooper in Lone Star's sake, is on the cover of Sports Illustrated! Of course, that's assuming anyone actually sees a cover of anything. Are there magazines anymore? That's a question for Stephen Hawking's Speak 'n Spell! That would be a great trick question for an alien. True or false, the smartest man on the planet uses a toy for a 5-year-old to speak. Guarantee that I'd trip up Andrelton Simmons with that question. Any the hoo! Springer is striking out like an insane man. If he continues on this rate, he may not hit above .200. For serious. He's making Adam Dunn look selective. Since 2000, he has the 15th worst K-rate. Only two guys hit above .259 in that time frame with that bad of a K-rate, and one of them needed a .404 BABIP (that means he was lucky). Most guys averaged around .220. I don't doubt Springer will be great. Maybe even as soon as next year, but he needs to make some serious adjustments, and, with him on the cover of a magazine(!), he's getting so much pub that you can sell him for a lot more than he's actually worth. Anyway, here's some more players to Buy or Sell this week in fantasy baseball:Please, blog, may I have some more?
Happy Father's Day to all the dads out there. Go do some dad stuff today. Put on some plaid pants, play some golf, watch some baseball, fire up the grill, drink some Schlitz, and tell them kids to get off your lawn. When it comes to Papa Guru *cue "Cat's in the Cradle"* I got my love for baseball, gambling and fine scotch from the man we kids called "Run, dad's home!" When it comes to this fake baseball game we spend way too much time on while ignoring our own kids it all started for me when Papa Guru introduced me to Strat-O-Matic back in the 80's. I was forever hooked on baseball stats. It was a fun game for father/son bonding until the old man got sent to the hoosgow for safecracking – not the best profession for a man that suffered hearing damage in 'Nam. No, he wasn't hurt in the war, he just got a little too close to Ning Pam during her flaming ping pong ball trick. Think The Deer Hunter crossed with Porn Hub. Since I basically played Russian roulette with closers on all my RCL teams this year I've been getting my face blown off by the likes of Grant Balfour and Jim Johnson all season long. I'm not hurting so much with steals, but could use a multi-positional bench SAGNOFer to maximize at-bats and grab some cheap stats. Let's fire up the Jammer Crammer© machine and see if there's anything left for us SAGNOF! starved Razzaholics to salvage. Since it is Father's Day, I'll let Papa Guru give his opinion on each player – he's going to do it whether we let him or not. It's time for an encore edition of the SAGNOF! Jam it or Cram it.
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See Nate Eovaldi throw 99 MPH! Stop. In a part! Stop. Never before seen! Stop. As he takes on the role! Stop. Of Stanley Fastballski! Stop. He's got a method fastball! Stop. Adapted from the book! Stop. You Shall Know My Eovelocity! Stop. If you want to park in the underground garage! Stop. No, seriously, stop! Stop. We don't Eovalidate that garage! I loved what I saw the other day from Eovaldi. As Alicia Keys says, he throws fiiiiiiiiiiire! Fiiiiiiiiiire! Fiiiiiiiiiiire! He averaged over 96 MPH in his first start. That's really good. That would've been the best fastball velocity for any starter for all of last year. Better than Matt Harvey. I don't think he can maintain 96, but even if it falls to 94 on average, which it has been his entire career, he's still in the top 1% of all starters. Only seven guys threw that fast last year. The list is a who's who of guys you want on your team — Strasburg, Jose Fernandez, Samardzija, Homer Bailey, Cashner and the aforementioned Harvey. For his velocity alone, you should pick up Eovaldi in every league. Wins will be hard to come by, but a 3.50 ERA and a 7+ K-rate won't be. Anyway, here's some more players to Buy or Sell this week in fantasy baseball:Please, blog, may I have some more?
As spring training takes off, we, the wonderful people of Razzball, thought it would be a good idea to look into some intra-team rivalries. What positions are a lock? What positions are being fought over? What positions will they hire me to fill-in for (second base Blue Jays, I'm looking at you)? Find out as the start of this series will focus on NL East…Please, blog, may I have some more?
The first bullpen report of the year is always league-dependent, so read this with a grain of salt. Some of the top-chaps will be and should be rostered in most normal scoring leagues, while some are strictly reserved for Holds only leagues. For those of you with the ever trending upward Saves+Holds leagues (NSVH), (a trend I have tried for a few years that seems to work) the process isn't really a groundbreaking formula where you need a calculator watch and/or an abacus to figure out.Please, blog, may I have some more?
Yesterday, on Fifth Avenue, Bud Selig was seen going into a photo shoot. That photoshoot was for him to be dressed as Uncle Sam for posters that will go up around the country. Under Uncle Bud, it will read, "I Want You!" You see, MLB lost a lot of players yesterday to suspensions and now they need people to play baseball. Tryouts will begin early next week and no one will be turned away due to their sex or age. If back in the day your grandma used to don the rawhide in that baseball league of their own, pull up her knee-highs and get her out there! Everyone must do their part to keep baseball together and moving forward. We need some Rosie the Pivoters at middle infield in San Diego and Detroit with the loss of Everth Cabrera and Jhonny Peralta. We need some bombers with the loss of Nelson Cruz in Texas. We're gonna have some fatherless children on our hands with the troops heading off to battle on the diamond, but ironically Antonio Bastardo's kids will have their dad because he's being sent home. When we're in the bunkers amongst enemy pitchers, we'll need someone to believe in with the loss of Jesus Montero. We'll be without any guys that sound like names from a Harry Potter Name Generator with the loss of Jordany Valdespin, and we won't have anyone that looks like The Great Gazoo with the loss of Francisco Cervelli. It'll be a trying time for all of us, but we need to come together as a nation of Razzballers and fight through. Plus, really, for fantasy, we only lost Everth and Cruz, so don't get so bent out of shape. Logan Forsythe or Alexi Amarista will take over for Everth, probably a bit of both until one emerges. Neither have the value of Everth, but Amarista could have some speed and he knows how to make a great frappuccino. Forsythe has little speed and power, but is dealing with a knee problem, so he may not be at 100%. In Texas, Engel Beltre or Jurickson Profar could see more time, but so far in 49 games Profar has a .244 average and four homers and no steals, so I wouldn't go dropping anyone great in redraft leagues for him. Rangers also have Berkman coming back at some point in the next few weeks, so they could get crowded again. In Detroit, Jose Iglesias is the Indians' backup plan, but if I saw him on waivers, I'd back up. In all, a bad day to be a cheater, but a good day to be an American. Now everyone will have a shot to make it to the major leagues. Just don't be shocked if your grammie tests positive for HGH. She does, after all, take a lot of meds. Anyway, here's what else I saw yesterday in fantasy baseball:Please, blog, may I have some more?
You wrote a letter to your leaguemates, but before you sent it to them, you asked me to proofread it but not share it. Too bad, here it is, "Yo, what's up, snitches?! I have six closers and am sticking it to the rest of the league in their whole bum, then acting that out like Knight from MTV's The Challenge. I don't need no one! All I need is Huston Street, Kevin Gregg, Ernesto Frieri, Joaquin Benoit, Brad Ziegler and this chair, I need this chair. I got saves for days! Open up your 'kitten-playing-with-motherf**king-yarn' calendar and mark September 28th down for the day when you concede the championship to me. Use your rainbow-colored pencil. Is it okay to use that word? Any the hoo! Rather than recount all of that SAGNOF g'dness, let me take this time to instead ask you if you watched the most recent Top Chef Masters. I'm lonely and looking for friends." Solid letter, I probably wouldn't put single quote marks around kitten-playing-with-motherf**king-yarn but it's fine to send it off as is. The only other problem is you might also lose more than half of your closers in less than a week. This is also the last week when you and your opponents can gain major saves if you're hurting in that category. On July 31st there could be as many as 10 new closers. At no point from now until October do you have a chance for this much turn over. Guys that could move into the closer role in under a week includes, but is not limited to: Luke Gregerson, Blake Parker, Ryan Webb, James Russell, Antonio Bastardo, Carter Capps, Dale Thayer, John Axford (still even with Henderson taking over the job), Jose Cisnero, Pedro Strop and Antonio Alfonseca, because he has six fingers on each hand and you can't ever count him out, at least not without removing your pants and a shoe. Granted, guys like Huston Street or Tom Wilhelmsen or Glen Perkins might be traded and stay in the closer role on their new team, but that means someone else would lose their job. Or maybe Huston Street will go to the Yankees and become the 8th inning man and Robertson moves to the 7th. Or maybe Jonathan Papelbon goes to the Tigers and Benoit owners have to call the Ben-wambulance. A lot could happen in the next few days or nothing, but I'd absolutely stash as many middle relievers as I could right now. Anyway, here's some more players to Buy or Sell this week in fantasy baseball:Please, blog, may I have some more?
So down goes a top ten guy in an off week where I talk about set-up guys. Jason Grilli is beset with a forearm strain and up steps the league leader in Holds, Mark Melancon. Melancon has been spooktacular this year, and if wasn't owned prior to the injury then your league is hot garbage. Sorry, but truth is truth. So the pecking order in the 'Burgh now reads like this, which really isn't devoid of good RP this year. I see Tony Watson and Justin Wilson splitting the left-handed set-up duties and Bryan Morris and Vin Mazzaro to continue their RH dominance. If given the opportunity, Victor Black could be brilliant, so keep an eye on him. Not one guy is going to run away and garner the hold chances that Melancon has gotten to date this year so it is going to be a mish-mosh of hold chances. Also factor in that the Pirates are in some trade rumors for some end game help and the rosterability of all these guys is tough to call until we know how long Grilli is under the weather. Enjoy the week to come.Please, blog, may I have some more?


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MANILA – President Benigno Aquino III in his State of the Nation Address (Sona) on Monday said the country's economy is finally taking off, citing investment grade status from Moody's, Fitch Group and Standard and Poor's.
PNoy: Nitong 2013, sa unang pagkakataon, nagkamit tayo ng investment grade status mula sa Moody's, Fitch, at S&P. pic.twitter.com/mPgxIZFwL9
— Official Gazette PH (@govph) July 28, 2014
"Mas maraming naaakit na mamuhunan sa ating bansa, at mas mabilis na natatamasa ng Pilipino ang benepisyo," he said.
"Talagang pa-take-off na ang ating ekonomiya at bansa, at inaabot na natin ang mas matatayog pang mithiin," Aquino added.
PNoy: 27.9% na poverty incidence natin sa unang semester ng 2012, bumaba sa 24.9% sa kaparehong panahon noong 2013. pic.twitter.com/Sn2j1Ri12h
— Official Gazette PH (@govph) July 28, 2014
He also mentioned the record drop in the country's poverty level from 27.9 percent in the first semester of 2012 to 24.9 percent in same period of 2013.
"Namumuhunan po tayo sa pinakamahalagang yaman ng bansa: ang taumbayan," he said.
The budget for the government's expanded conditional cash transfer program has been increased to P12.3 billion starting July.
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How could he not have seen it coming? House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) got on Facebook Wednesday to slam President Obama for threatening to usurp Congress' legislative powers by posting two contrasting photos and remarking on the President's aggressive language about resorting to executive orders.
On one side of the graphic, Boehner's photo post has a picture of President Obama with an overlaid caption: "President Obama Has His Pen And His Phone." A cartoon pen and phone have been Photoshopped into the image. On the other side is a picture of Boehner himself holding what appears to be some pocket version of the Constitution, with an overlaid caption that reads "We Have The Constitution" ("We" evidently means either Congress or all of America.)
Both pictures are accompanied by a comment from Boehner: "President Obama says he has a pen and a phone he can use to bypass Congress. Pens and phones are nice, but we have the Constitution…"
By late Thursday afternoon, the post had garnered nearly 3,000 comments. And nearly all of them said things like this:
- What's taking so long for YOU to do SOMETHING!? Appoint a special committee to investigate Benghazi, already! Impeach Eric Holder for lying to congress about Fast and Furious. And, prosecute those responsible for using the IRS to harass American citizens, all the way up to and including those in, the White House. Do it! Now!
- With All Due Respect Sir,The Constitution is Apparently Only As Good As Your Willingness To Up Hold It!
- Then cowboy up and use the dang thing! Notice how your playing nice with Ofraudulent didn't work out so well for you OR us. Do your job!!!
- I fear nothing will happen and John Boehner is an enabler.
- Yes Boehner you and the republicans have the constitution. Will you have the backbone and stamina to stand up in obama's face and use it. Your past record says no. You want to talk big for a while to try and make people think you are going to do something but when the time comes to prove it you cave and bow to obama. Move over and let Cruz take the wheel you have been blinded by obama's false light.
- Ha! Mr. Speaker, you have lost all appearance of having any authority as the leader of the most useless Congress in history. Please step aside.
- Then use it! Impeach him! and read the comments on this post.. The people of the country are tired of your words and no ACTION…Mr Speaker!
- Quit talking and DO something about it!
- At what point does your oath to protect us kick in?
- Stop dancing with him, and prosecute him!
- You apparently haven't read it.. If you had, you would have already impeached him….. And now you are acting like the democrats and passing a 1500+ page bill without reading it. You are not a leader, you are acting like his lap dog..
- Worst. Speaker. Ever.
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Rather than having the vertical links to Images, Videos, etc. at left on top of their background picture, in this test Bing has moved those links to the top of the screen and arranged them horizontally (but thankfully doesn't follow Google's lead with a "More" pulldown).
"We're always experimenting with new user experiences. These shots looks like 'flights' that we run with small percentages of users to gauge how successful/unsuccessful our ideas are," said Bing Director Stefan Weitz.
Here are the images (via Microsoft News). Click on any image for a larger version. First, the new layout:
The current Google design for comparative purposes:
And here's the current Bing design for the majority of users (and what I see on Bing):
Bing is also testing a new header on search results:
And here's what I currently see for the same image search:
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- Kelly Hansen – vocals
- Robert Sarzo – guitar
- Tony Cavazo – bass
- Jay Schellen – drums
- Take What You Want (1985)
- Over The Edge (1988)
- Slave To The Thrill (1990)
- Liquifury (2001)
- Take What You Want Remastered (2008)
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Hurricane was an often-overlooked melodic rock band that had some minor success in the late 80's. They will forever be remembered as being the band formed by the kid brothers of Quiet Riot's Carlos Cavazo and Rudy Sarzo.
Quiet Riot's Kevin DuBrow introduced Robert Sarzo (guitar) and Tony Cavazo (bass) to each other in the early 80's. When the duo finally decided to form a band together in Los Angeles, they recruited vocalist Kelly Hansen and drummer Jay Schellen. With little label interest, the band decided to release a mini-album themselves, Take What You Want. The album and constant touring led to their getting a major label deal.
Over The Edge proved to be Hurricane's crowning success, with the Top 40 hit "I'm On To You". However in late 1989, Sarzo left the group and was replaced by Doug Aldrich (ex-Lion). This lineup recorded one album before Aldrich moved on to House Of Lords and the rest of the group quickly disintegrated with the onslaught of grunge. Schellen recorded with both Unruly Child and Sircle Of Silence while Hansen did a considerable amount of session work.
Schellen suggested that Hansen help with the recording of Unruly Child's second release, and shortly after they agreed to resurrect Hurricane. Sean Manning (guitar), Carlos Villalobos (guitar) and Larry Antonino (bass) rounded out the new version of the band, and they released Liquifury.
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Centex Technologies worked with Pocketstop to integrate Pocketstop's Broadcast API
Through the collective efforts of the partnership between Centex and Pocketstop and the flexibility of the Broadcast API, the functionality and usability of the YES platform increased to meet the growing needs of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Texas and provided a win-win situation for all parties.
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Australia region Website for a Global Office Automation Giant
They had a complex promotional and corporate website where they have to manage large number of products, solutions and services. Their web site was quite distributed and data had to be entered at multiple locations.
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Bingo Management System (BMS)
The BINGO MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (BMS) is developed for US based charitable Bingo organizations. The age old methods of manually entering and recording all data for a Bingo Hall allowed many discrepancies items sold, recorded and accounted for. The manual entry of items purchased and sold was a problem as it allowed inconsistency in data recorded at various stages of the Bingo operations.
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Career Cluster Survey Application
Central Texas College is one of the numerous prestigious clients for which we have provided consulting and development activities. CTC wanted to provide a feature to its prospective students, which would allow them to make better choices in career path and provide them with a guidance tool to generate discussion regarding careers.
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Document Management System (DMS)
This application is a Windows based Electronic Document Management System (DMS) for an enterprise. It provides various features to manage documents in electronic form. The document can be PDF files, TIFF or JPEG images, MS-word files, Excel spreadsheets or Outlook Message files. It manages processing of documents as per the user requirement. The files can be fed into the DMS through a CD or from files received through an Email.
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Helicopter Mission Application
The Helicopter mission application was developed for a Australian charitable rescue operations provider. The application was build to track the mission details that pilots flew on day after day to rescue stranded humans. Each sortie is called a mission for the purpose of this application.
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Online Ecommerce Website with Paypal, Authorize.net, Fedex Shipping and Shopping cart features
Online Ecommerce Website with PayPal, Authorize.net, Fedex Shipping and Shopping cart features
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Scanning and QA application (A document Scanning and Quality assurance application)
This application is a Windows based document scanning and quality assurance application. It interfaces with Twain compatible scanners and allows user to Scan single or multiple documents in Batch scanning mode.
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UTHSCSA - Ecommerce Store
UTHSCSA - Ecommerce application for online purchasing of merchandise like T Shirts, Hoodies, Music CDs, etc.
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Youth Enrollment System (YES)
The Youth Enrolment System (YES) is developed for organizations involved in enabling all young people to be productive, responsible and caring USA citizens. The organizations like Boys and Girls Clubs of America, face enormous task of enrolling and managing thousands of members each year. They have to record and submit year end reports to the government and funding agencies.
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