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S&P500 Dividend Yield vs 10 Year Treasury
by Barry Ritholtz - November 26th, 2008, 2:30pm
Randall Forsyth of Barrons pointed out that the dividend yield on the SPX has surpassed the yield on the 10 year, and asked a few people what this might mean.
Fascinating data point. I wrote back that this tells us a few things:
1) After a 47% freefall, Stocks have gotten relatively cheap, at least on the basis of this one metric;
2) Yields are unusually low, thanks to Fed rate cutting and a flight to safety (i.e., US Treasuries);
3) Despite the earnings carnage in the financial sector, there are many well run companies selling goods and services profitibly.
4) You can fake earnings through accounting hankypanky — but you cannot fake dividends.
5) My only caveat — if the recession is far deeper and more prolonged than even the most pessimistic forecast is for, some dividends may end up getting cut.
Bloomberg's Chart of the Day
Reversal of Fortunes Between Stocks and Bonds
Barron's, NOVEMBER 19, 2008
S&P 500 Payout Tops Bond Yield, a First Since '58: Chart of Day
David Wilson
Bloomberg, Nov. 19 2008
Please use the comments to demonstrate your own ignorance, unfamiliarity with empirical data and lack of respect for scientific knowledge. Be sure to create straw men and argue against things I have neither said nor implied. If you could repeat previously discredited memes or steer the conversation into irrelevant, off topic discussions, it would be appreciated. Lastly, kindly forgo all civility in your discourse . . . you are, after all, anonymous.
41 Responses to "S&P500 Dividend Yield vs 10 Year Treasury"
leftback says:
Nice chart Barry. I think this is also telling you that the 10-year note is a dogshit investment at this point and we might be about to see a bear market rally.
DL says:
On the subject of dividend cuts:
Mike in Nola says:
I suppose great minds think alike. Cramer's program last night dealt a lot with high yielding stocks, esp. what he labelled as accidentally high dividend stocks.
Anyone have any recommendations on stocks with safe dividends?
KJ Foehr says:
I just moved my wife's 401Ks out of long-term T funds into MMFs today. There is probably not much more blood to squeeze out of those turnips.
I think the worm is going to turn and we will see higher long-rates eventually (soon?).
Current divvies, like bank book values last year, are historical artifacts that are meaningless going forward, IMO.
Estragon says:
It might be interesting to include buybacks in this analysis, as this was an important method of returning cash to shareholders until recently.
leftback says:
@ Mike: I like COP, which I own, and SGP, which I don't at present, but is on my radar screen, although I am a bit concerned about future legislation in the prescription drug arena. RTP's dividend yield is bigger than it was 2 days ago, and I now own that too.
If you believe that the commodities slaughter is almost over, then many of the integrated oils/refiners (VLO) and some of the larger gold miners and ag stocks look good and have a decent yield here. Obviously dividends among the financials could disappear at any time. The key to all of this surely is to stay away from companies with high levels of debt. Like the man said, be wary of very high dividends, they may not be around for long.
Anyway, there is no rush, there will surely be another down day coming along in no time at all, so we can all fill our boots once again. Last week I nibbled on GMO and some uranium producers which had been absolutely left for dead. Between those stocks and my position in F I have had a monster week.
Andy Tabbo says:
nice rally from last Thursday's rally. I see some resistance coming up 906-914 zone. Last weeks bottom pickers should consider scaling out into the 900′s. We may get a rally all the way to 1008 eventually, but it will NOT be a straight line.
DKTrader says:
I'm thinking we may hit 900′s on Friday, followed by some sell-off early next week. Hell at thsi rate, we may hit 900 today! Crazy, but I'm glad I'm long here.
MarkTx says:
What is truly astounding is that the more debt that is added in the US, the lower yields on the 10yr treasurys go.
Vermont Trader says:
Hey we are 20% off the lows!!!!
It's a new bull market.
AGG says:
This is temporary. Dividends can change rom quarte to quarte and they will with less profits. Unless you can lock in a certain dividend level (preferred stock, anyone?) for the duration of your asset purchase, your risk is very high. At any rate, the Volker rally should last until January so Merry Christmas to all the longs!
kiltartan says:
Shocking. Took some off the table this afternoon. Wish I had conviction to stay longer, but not sure that I buy the rally on the light volume.
leftback says:
AT, I think that will prove to be a sound call. 906-914 resistance – pulling back to the 840-850 area or to the weak 870 level before we boomerang upwards again towards the 975-1000 area.
I have my eyes on 905, have already been pulling back a little bit (sold some GDX and PAAS) to raise cash. Gold seems due for a rest after a really big move up.
A pause in that 900 area would give shorts time to reorganize and we should see some re-entry into SKF and SRS at that level. No point getting short at 900, SKF still has head and shoulders and needs to come off here.
BKM says:
I will be scaling out of some longs soon and trail the rest until a brake above 1100. I am still looking for new lows though.
leftback says:
Vermont Trader Says: November 26th, 2008 at 3:17 pm
"Hey we are 20% off the lows!!!!
It's a new bull market."
LOL. Welcome to Cramerica, dude.
Yes, Virginia, there will be a Santa Claus rally.
But remember, the bill comes due in January.
Happy Thanksgiving to all, and a bailout on every table…..
Mannwich says:
I'm starting to come around to a pretty solid Santa Claus rally as well but the real gift (or Thanksgiving feast, if you will) will be after the holidays when the shorts take over and reality sets in again in early '09.
DKTrader says:
Am I the only one who thinks we've come too far, too fast in the last 5 days? I agree with some upside into Christmas, but I'm thinking a decent pullback is due(profit taking) and debating whether or not to sell today or just ride it out (in my 401k) and hope the pullback isn't too severe.
Mannwich says:
I still think we breach 7,000 on the Dow and 700 on the S&P before either gets a whiff of 10,000 and >1,000 respectively…….
TrickStar says:
I'm just confused. Really. I've been sitting on my hands all week.
DKTrader says:
I just hope we go another leg up in the last few minutes, so I can get out even higher.
kiltartan says:
I am now 87% cash, which means the market will leg up higher…..
DKTrader says:
go baby go!
Mannwich says:
Up four days in a row. Nice rally into the close. Will it continue on Friday? Tough one but I think it will continue on light rally but then pull back pretty big next week on much heavier volume.
DeDude says:
Considering the rates, it seems to me that the government should be selling a lot more of those 30 year and 10 year treasuries. A year or two from now we will really need the money, but the rates will likely be a lot higher by then.
DKTrader says:
I think the markets may be up early on Friday and tehn negative by the close. I decided to sell out at the close just in case. Pigs get slaughtered and 20% in 4 days is not bad when most are still down 40% on the year. This terrorism presents more risk that most of us have not had in our minds in awhile. Let's all hope nothing further happens. Happy Thanksgiving all…
leftback says:
DK: I cut my risk back at the close as well, not bearish here but agree that a 20% 4-day rally is a big move. Besides, I had made some selections that I regretted, and I managed to dump them with a gain. Which is awesome, really.
Will take a brief peek on Friday but I am not expecting anything of significance. Looking ahead to next week, the data later in the week seem more likely to be negative (factory orders, continuing claims), but I am starting to feel that we are in a range here and the market will obey technicals rather precisely. So I will follow AT closely.
DP says:
All playing out a little too conveniently? 4 day rally in stocks leading up to "Black Friday" – people will spend more on Friday than they would have if this had been a 4 day downward move and Friday's numbers will come in better than expected. Next week the auto-makers get bailed out and, possibly, we'll hear more about Obama putting tax increases on hold. All leading into a nice end of year rally.
January is a tough call. One the one hand there's the temporary "euphoria" of the new administration being sworn in. I fully expect large public "no more bush" parties (whether you agree with the politics of that or not), so we might hold up a little early January. On the other hand, earnings will be terrible because of the "system shock" of this October and November. Even if those earnings are only temporary smashed because of this Oct/Nov they'll have a big impact on the market.
Once you get past mid-January, what is there to look forward to? That's when reality sets in.
Anecdotally, I'm spending big this year, but I'm buying things that will provide me plenty of entertainment (books, video games, a new tv, etc) and allow me to spend less on entertainment next year.
Mark E Hoffer says:
I still think that BR's Wyckoff Spring post was, really, his 3rd 'bottom' call, to go with 10/10 y 10/24..
That's Insane(-ly) good, BR do your clients how good of a Trader you are?
DL says:
"Next week the auto-makers get bailed out…"
Bush isn't going to veto that? (They're auto-makers, not bankers).
Mike in Nola says:
Glad I lowered the price on my DUG order. Shows the occasional lack of correlation of the ultrashorts with the underlying stocks. Had an order in to buy at 31, but it had collapsed to 33 Monday, so I moved it down to 29. Then today, it looked like the market was starting to feel its oats, so I lowered it to 27. The low at the peak of the oil bubble was 25.41.
I think oil will continue to rally a bit, or at least the oil stocks will, on the alleged improvement in outlook. I may even try to get it at a lower price.
Like most everyone here, I think this is a bear market rally, but it may go farther than we think. All those fund managers and individuals who got beaten up badly in the crash have a lot of cash. And the gullibility of people is greater than we think.
Steve Barry says:
This chart interpretation is right out of Kudlow's playbook. A closer look though will show that stocks historically (let's say 1940-1990) bottom at a div yield of 6% and top at a yield of 3%. For the last decade, we have been below 3% until recently…but at 3.51, we are nowhere near the 6% that would truly be a buy signal. Furthermore, looking at treasury yield (the risk free rate) is only half the battle…you must take into account corporate spreads and beta to properly develop a cost of capital (discount rate)for a company's earnings…and brother, spreads and beta are blown to record highs, rightfully so, due to the yet to deflate credit bubble. Comparing the yields as they do in this chart is as useful as comparing the temperature to the points scored by the Knicks.
Maybe you could look into whether buybacks make dividends less important, but I doubt it.
philipat says:
On the other hand, "Long Treasuries, short every index" had become as jaded as its predecesor, "Long commodities, short Financials". The next fashion trend is still being sought. As I suggested in another thread, perhpas Treasuries and the Dollar will be the last bubbles to burst. And what then?
RiskAverseAlert says:
Staying long the stock market until the S&P 500 exceeds its election day peak… Analyzing today's conditions in the context of post-WWII history largely is an exercise in insanity… yet understandable, though … because looking at the Treasury Secretary's actions, insanity quite evidently is in vogue.
DavidB says:
@Mike in Nola November 26th, 2008 at 2:42 pm
I'm currently accumulating INTC right now. They had a big pop today but their yield is sitting at 4% and their payout ratio is a relatively safe .4. Their balance sheet is pretty clean. They are very Buffetesque too. Ubiquitous, high barrier to entry, not going anywhere soon. They are the safe side of my portfolio. I like to say to people these days they are safer than a bank. You may want to wait until January after all the tax loss selling for the year is washed through the system but I think INTC has seen its low. It might test it again but I don't think it will go much lower.
Mike in Nola says:
For those with really strong opinions, you can try out the 3X ultra's. Apparently they are becoming quite popular. Don't see a replacement for QID, though. So, I suppose Steve will just to be content with 2X leverage.
David Merkel says:
Barry, the critical valuation metric is the yield on BBB bonds less 4% vs earnings yields. Right now, it favors BBB bonds and high yield debt over stocks.
Steve Barry says:
Another simple conclusion…buy stocks when treasury yields will be falling (1982-2007)…sell them when yields will be rising (1964-1982). Today would be a bad time to buy stocks, as treasuries will not go much lower and as they debase the dollar, could rocket higher. (I read a paper by Buffett that said the same thing about 10 years ago). Actually the period of 1964-1982 had good economic growth, but it didn't matter.
Steve Barry says:
Deflation has arrived for the holidays.
Steve Barry says:
Here is that Buffet piece I talked about:
Warren Buffett (July 2001):
The last time I tackled this subject, in 1999, I broke down the previous 34 years into two 17-year periods, which in the sense of lean years and fat were astonishingly symmetrical. Here's the first period. As you can see, over 17 years the Dow gained exactly one-tenth of one percent.
Dow Jones Industrial Average
Dec. 31, 1964: 874.12
Dec. 31, 1981: 875.00
And here's the second, marked by an incredible bull market that, as I laid out my thoughts, was about to end (though I didn't know that).
Dow Jones Industrial Average
Dec. 31, 1981: 875.00
Dec. 31, 1998: 9181.43
Now, you couldn't explain this remarkable divergence in markets by, say, differences in the growth of gross national product. In the first period–that dismal time for the market–GNP actually grew more than twice as fast as it did in the second period.
Gain in Gross National Product
1964-1981: 373%
1981-1998: 177%
So what was the explanation? I concluded that the market's contrasting moves were caused by extraordinary changes in two critical economic variables–and by a related psychological force that eventually came into play.
Here I need to remind you about the definition of "investing," which though simple is often forgotten. Investing is laying out money today to receive more money tomorrow.
That gets to the first of the economic variables that affected stock prices in the two periods–interest rates. In economics, interest rates act as gravity behaves in the physical world. At all times, in all markets, in all parts of the world, the tiniest change in rates changes the value of every financial asset. You see that clearly with the fluctuating prices of bonds. But the rule applies as well to farmland, oil reserves, stocks, and every other financial asset. And the effects can be huge on values. If interest rates are, say, 13%, the present value of a dollar that you're going to receive in the future from an investment is not nearly as high as the present value of a dollar if rates are 4%.
So here's the record on interest rates at key dates in our 34-year span. They moved dramatically up–that was bad for investors–in the first half of that period and dramatically down–a boon for investors–in the second half.
Interest Rates, Long-Term Government Bonds
Dec. 31, 1964: 4.20%
Dec. 31, 1981: 13.65%
Dec. 31, 1998: 5.09%
The other critical variable here is how many dollars investors expected to get from the companies in which they invested. During the first period expectations fell significantly because corporate profits weren't looking good. By the early 1980s Fed Chairman Paul Volcker's economic sledgehammer had, in fact, driven corporate profitability to a level that people hadn't seen since the 1930s.
The upshot is that investors lost their confidence in the American economy: They were looking at a future they believed would be plagued by two negatives. First, they didn't see much good coming in the way of corporate profits. Second, the sky-high interest rates prevailing caused them to discount those meager profits further. These two factors, working together, caused stagnation in the stock market from 1964 to 1981, even though those years featured huge improvements in GNP. The business of the country grew while investors' valuation of that business shrank!
And then the reversal of those factors created a period during which much lower GNP gains were accompanied by a bonanza for the market. First, you got a major increase in the rate of profitability. Second, you got an enormous drop in interest rates, which made a dollar of future profit that much more valuable. Both phenomena were real and powerful fuels for a major bull market. And in time the psychological factor I mentioned was added to the equation: Speculative trading exploded, simply because of the market action that people had seen.
Steve Barry says:
Panasonic slashes profit estimate…get this…90% (not a typo)…and this all has happened since Oct. 28.
Panasonic Cuts Profit Forecast on Prices, Demand Drop (Update2)
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By Hiroshi Suzuki
Nov. 27 (Bloomberg) — Panasonic Corp., the world's largest consumer-electronics maker, slashed its full-year profit forecast by 90 percent as the global recession damped demand and product prices fell.
Net income in the year ending March 31 will be 30 billion yen ($315 million), Panasonic said today. That's less than the 310 billion yen estimate reaffirmed on Oct. 28 and the 281.9 billion reported a year earlier.
Panasonic said prices for flat-panel TVs will probably drop 30 percent this fiscal year, more than its earlier forecast for a 20 percent decline, because of deteriorating demand for consumer electronics. Osaka-based Panasonic joined Sony Corp. in cutting annual profit estimates and said reorganization costs and erosion of stock investments contributed to the worsening outlook.
"Even such a successful company as Panasonic can't weather this harsh economic environment," said Naoki Fujiwara, who oversees about $720 million at Shinkin Asset Management Co. "Plasma TVs, digital cameras, camcorders and DVD players: demand for these products has completely died down."
Panasonic fell 4.7 percent to close at 1,284 yen on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, before the announcement on the forecast. The benchmark Nikkei 225 Stock Average gained 2 percent.
"The company's business conditions are deteriorating sharply," Panasonic said in a statement. "The current financial crisis originated in the United States, has spread across the world, and the business sentiment in Japan and overseas has significantly worsened."
Lower Operating Income
Full-year operating profit, or sales minus cost of goods sold and administrative expenses, will be 340 billion yen, 39 percent less than earlier estimated, Panasonic said. The electronics maker had operating income of 519.5 billion yen last year.
Sales will total 8.5 trillion yen, down from the previous projection of 9.2 trillion yen and revenue of 9.07 trillion yen a year earlier.
Still, Panasonic has succeeded in cutting costs and compared with Sony, its operating profit is at an "acceptable level," Fujiwara said.
"Though the stock may be sold tomorrow, they will likely come back to its current level soon," he said.
Hitoshi Kuriyama, an analyst at Merrill Lynch & Co., yesterday estimated annual net income of 220 billion yen and operating profit of 420 billion yen and warned the projections might not represent "the worst-case scenario."
Kuriyama also cut his investment rating on Panasonic to "neutral" from "buy," citing weaker consumer sentiment.
Increased Expenses
The company said today that expenses to reorganize its business will increase by 130 billion yen this fiscal year, while losses on stock investments will widen by 60 billion yen.
The yen's gains will cut full-year operating profit by 22 billion yen, and increased material costs will reduce earnings by 38 billion yen, Panasonic said.
The latest forecast is based on a projection for the euro to average 125 yen in the second half to March 31, compared with 135 yen estimated previously. The company maintained its estimate for the dollar to average 100 yen during the period.
The yen has gained 17 percent against the dollar this year, making it the best performer among 16 major currencies tracked by Bloomberg.
The lower earnings outlook is a setback for President Fumio Otsubo's target of 10 trillion yen sales in the year ending March 2010.
Panasonic is also trying to gain a controlling stake in Sanyo Electric Co., and is in talks with three creditors to buy their holdings.
Goldman Sachs Group Inc., the largest U.S. securities company to convert to a bank, yesterday said it broke off negotiations with Panasonic because of disagreements over terms.
Sanyo Impact
The company hasn't taken into account any effects from the planned Sanyo acquisition in its latest forecasts because nothing has been finalized in discussions with the banks, Director Makoto Uenoyama said at a briefing in Tokyo.
With the latest profit forecast, Panasonic's return on equity will be 0.8 percent, Uenoyama said. Return on equity, or profit divided by book value, measures the earnings generated on the investment by shareholders. The company left unchanged its 10 percent return on equity target for the year ending March 2010.
To contact the reporter on this story: Hiroshi Suzuki in Tokyo at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Last Updated: November 27, 2008 06:52 EST
Its_Science says:
"5) My only caveat — if the recession is far deeper and more prolonged than even the most pessimistic forecast is for, some dividends may end up getting cut."
That didn't take long: Dividends being cut at fastest pace in 50 years


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Thursday News: Kindle iOS App Brings COLLECTIONS aka folders; Lance Armstrong's...
I might have released an audible squeal upon learning that the updated Kindle App for iOS7 has folders. You can easily create as many folders you like and then inside the folder, you add and delete at will. Plus, your collections are synced with your account so the collections on your Kindle paperwhite appear on your Kindle iPad on your Kindle iPhone. I suspect that the Kindle Fire and the desktop apps are yet to come. I've got some work to do.
The World's 60 Largest Book Publishers, 2013 – Pearson is on top of the list of book publishers but was is driving the bottom line (other than huge phenoms like 50 Shades) is specialized technical books, education and then trade. Trade books encompass books sold to the general public rather than a special segment of society. Pearson and Reed Elsevier (who owns Thomson/West the legal and financial publishing companies) are the top two and Random House comes in 5th with Hachette close behind them. Interestingly, of the top 10 top publishing groups, almost all of them had more revenue in 2012 than 2011. Big publishing isn't going away anytime soon. Publishers Weekly
It's not about the drugs: Lance Armstrong lawsuit fails – Lawless sent me a link to Rebecca Tushnet's dissection of the Lance Armstrong decision. As Kim, a commenter, had noted, the dismissal of the petition was based on California's ANTI-SLAPP statute. The crux of the decision rested on a finding that Armstrong's speech was not "commercial speech." Commercial speech is regulated for more heavily than non commercial speech.
"Under Bolger, speech can be characterized as commercial when it's admittedly advertising, references a specific product, and is spoken with an economic motive. Commercial speech inextricably intertwined with otherwise fully protected speech becomes fully protected."
None of the statements Armstrong made about his non use of rugs proposed a commercial transaction nor did the publicity efforts surrounding the book. And that even if they were, the commercial and noncommercial speech were inextricably entwined. Rebecca Tushnet's 43(B)log

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In a recent article another victim of Tim Draper's (founder of VC firm DFJ) delusion of positivity spreads the word about the "Draper Wave".
The recurrence of the wave by which Tim describes the purported cyclical nature of investing, is a desperate tool to keep Limited Partners from fleeing the asset class altogether and sell the pipe dream of defunct venture capital economics – incompatible with finding the outlier of innovation – to the greater fool.
Instead venture capital is in a regressive downward spiral that makes even Draper's investor refer to its returns as "the most disappointing asset class over the past 10 years".
The wave of rebuttal
Here is how we set Tim Draper's delusion straight:
The only cyclicality in Venture Capital is a need for venture capitalists to raise another fund, ignoring comfortably that the marketplace they created is in violation of free-market principles and therefore by definition subprime and regressive. I feel sorry for the Limited Partners who buy into this cyclical thesis and ignore the fact that without the proper economics deployed to Venture Capital, innovation will never be able to scale with the 80% greenfield that still awaits. It's time for renewable economics to be deployed to Venture Capital.
Now, I don't question Tim's desire to reinvigorate the need for groundbreaking innovation to help dig us out of the economic slump we are in. I too have an endless desire to perpetuate innovation that drives authentic social economic value.
The problem of innovation is venture capital
But venture capital's merit as the arbitrage of innovation is in serious question, and proven not to be the proper construct to promote outlier innovation. More specifically to the article, my point is that its performance degradation is systemic, and not a wave. Unless you want to describe the cadence of a downward spiral as a wave too:
- Venture capital has underperformed the organic adoption rate of consumer technology during the same period.
- Venture capital has performed at minus(!) 4.6% IRR during the same period in which other arbiters of innovation produced 400%. Market excuses are therefore moot.
- The number of venture capital firms (out of the 790 original posers) with any verifiable merit is about one handful, equal to how the sector started some 50 years ago.
- Venture capital is unsuccessful in making a dent in the 80% technology greenfield that awaits, while other forms of innovation arbitrage have.
The merit of arbitrage
The fundamental disagreement I have with Tim is that groundbreaking innovation can only be found if the merit of the innovation arbitrage is held to the same standards as innovation itself. And that means instead of drawing a wave, Tim should simply make his merit of investing in innovation transparent to those who seek it.
Because with that information we can all conclude for ourselves whether Tim's extensive investment network, in which he admits to smoothing out investment commitments, still deserves to have the right to govern innovation, and speak for its potential on our behalf.
Same standards
I do believe we can resurrect innovation, but it can only with the renewable economics that hold innovation and its arbitrage to the same rigorous standards. And I am afraid (and have some proof of resistance) Tim Draper is quite unwilling to reinvent himself to achieve a brighter future of innovation.
[The article that spawned this rebuttal of The Draper Wave can be found here]


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After storming through their respective regionals with perfect 3-0 records, the Florida State and Indiana baseball teams might prefer to get back on the diamond as soon as possible.
But if the Seminoles and Hoosiers were awake late Monday night - or actually early Tuesday morning - they learned that their NCAA Super Regional will not begin until Saturday at noon. The Sunday game will begin at 1 p.m., and the Monday game (if necessary) also will be at 1 p.m.
While the times and dates were scheduled to be released at 11 p.m. Monday, they were delayed by late regional championship games in Oregon and ...


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Capital punishment appears to be dying out in the United States, a victim of the difficulty of ensuring fairness.
In 2013, nine states executed 39 prisoners, most of them in Florida or Texas. This marks only the second time in the last 19 years that the number of executions has fallen below 40.
Six states have abolished capital punishment in the last six years. Thirty states, the federal government and the District of Columbia have not carried out any executions in the last five years.
North Carolina is one of the 30. The last person executed was Samuel Flippen, on Aug. 18, 2006. "Since that time," according to a UNC School of Government report, "there has been a de facto moratorium on executions, as a result of several related challenges to the death penalty system."
Only 11 people have been sentenced to Death Row in North Carolina in the last five years, only one of them in 2013.
Why the slowdown? There always have been those who oppose capital punishment on the grounds that government has no business putting people to death, period. Those people, however, remain in the minority.
Then there are those such as Steve Monks, a self-described "staunch conservative" and former chair of the Durham County GOP, who argue that the death penalty is too expensive and has no demonstrated deterrent effect.
Mostly, however, the growing opposition concerns the question of fairness. A Gallup Poll shows that while 60 percent of our people still favor capital punishment - in itself the lowest number in four decades - 40 percent do not believe the death penalty is administered fairly.
Since 1989, according to the Innocence Project, 311 prisoners have been exonerated due to DNA evidence. Eighteen of them had served time on Death Row.
In North Carolina, Alan Gell was freed from Death Row in 2006 because prosecutors had withheld key evidence. The state subsequently paid Gell $3.9 million to settle his lawsuit.
Whether a defendant will receive a death sentence depends on a lot of factors besides the question of guilt. One is geography. Two percent of the counties in the U.S. produce most of the death sentences.
Another is the broad discretion prosecutors have as to whether to seek the death penalty. "Human beings have differing opinions on what counts the worst," says Equal Justice USA, "making it impossible to create a human system that is objective and consistent in selecting people for death."
A death sentence is more likely if you are poor of if your victim is white. Much has been made of the idea that African-American defendants are at greater risk of a death sentence, which they probably are, but studies show the greater bias is due to the race of the victim rather than that of the defendant.
In North Carolina, political leaders are falling over themselves to get executions started, blithely ignoring the social trends around them. The General Assembly has repealed the Racial Justice Act, a move that leaders freely admitted was aimed at getting executions under way.
The state Republican Party is on record supporting a speed-up in executions. The Department of Corrections has approved a single-drug protocol to meet objections about the three-drug system.
"Fairness in the death penalty is a moving target," Equal Justice USA says. 'Tinkering will only make the system more complex - not more fair. After 30 years, we have not found a way to make the death penalty any less arbitrary. And when a life is on the line, good luck simply isn't good enough."
More and more people seem to agree, even if their leaders do not.


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Phlo Finister – Crown Gold
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We first introduced you to Phlo Finister with her Mobb Deep/Nancy Sinatra interpolating track 'Bang Bang.' If you liked that you're going to love Crown Gold. 6 new tracks including 2 produced by our guy Jay Curry. You'll hear familiar sounds from The Doors, Dr. Dre & Tupac. Drink it in.
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Our ESP (English for Specific Purposes) Courses consist of Medical English, Legal English and English for Tourism, or any other particular subject a group may wish to study. The courses are designed according to participants' specific needs and their future objectives. Students are given the opportunity to improve their ability to communicate in English, using generic jargon whether medical, legal, that used in the tourism sector, or any other specialist field. Please note that these are specialist courses and therefore require a minimum of 4 students per class. For individual bookings please refer to our English Combination Course (am200105a OR am200105b) which will allow you to participate in General English group classes and specialise in your chosen subject with Individual Tuition.
This course includes:
- Welcome pack including free vouchers
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- Free use of WIFI in the school
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- 24/7 assistance
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- Film Viewing and Discussion – 1per week
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This vacuum will not keep running with a bag in it. Take the bag out and it runs fine, but put a new bag in and it will run for 30 seconds or so. I have no idea how to disassemble this thing.
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sounds like your bag is not letting enough air through it to keep the motor cool .
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Brand new electrolux bag. This vacuum has a sensor that automatically cuts the unit off when the bag is full. I suspect the sensor is bad, but I don't have a clue how to get to it.
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Lake Wazeecha is among 300 lakes in the Central Sands area. The Department of Natural Resources will analyze the affects of water uses to protect groundwater and surface water resources in the area.
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To help find ways to sustainably manage groundwater and surface waters in Wisconsin's Central Sands region in the future, the state is launching an effort to collect, analyze and report the latest scientific, natural resources and socio-economic information relating to groundwater and surface waters in the eight-county area, state water officials say.
The strategic analysis aims to characterize the environmental effects of water uses and to consider alternative courses of action to protect groundwater and surface water resources, said Dan Helsel, who leads water programs in ...


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Nokia E65 in development for business users?
updated 12:25 pm EST, Fri January 5, 2007
Nokia E65 in development?
Slovakian site MobilMania claims to have acquired photos of the Nokia E65, an upcoming mobile aimed at business users. It appears to be a slider phone, 0.5 inches thick, with buttons suggesting possible VoIP functions. Specifications indicate that it's a GSM quadband unit, with further support for EDGE broadband and 2,100MHz WCDMA. Local connectivity is made possible through Bluetooth, infrared, 802.11b/g and a POP port, which can accept USB 2.0 signals only through a Nokia connector. The camera is a two-megapixel model, and the screen sports an impressive 16 million colors at 352x416. Files are stored on 52MB of internal memory or a removable microSD card. Initial reports peg the phone for the second half of 2007, selling at a price of �340 ($445). Click through to see larger photos.


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Opinio Juris - My blogospheric colleagues have begun debating whether the Administration has sufficient domestic legal authority to proceed with what the Times has called a "targeted, highly selective campaign of airstrikes against Sunni militants in Iraq" – reportedly now under contemplation.
Newsday - With 29 exonerations since 1989, New York State has the third-largest number of wrongful convictions overturned by DNA testing in the country.
New York Law Journal - The Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law announced Thursday that it will offer a Data Law Initiative program this fall, with the goal of graduating tech-savvy lawyers to help businesses and law firms as more of the world's data and communication moves online.
Vice Dean Edward Stein Stepping Down, Professor Melanie Leslie to Become First Alumna to Serve as Vice Dean
Dean Matthew Diller has announced that Edward Stein will step down from his role as Vice Dean on July 1, 2014, and Professor Melanie Leslie will become the first Cardozo School of Law graduate to take over the Vice Dean position.
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CJCR Honors Jed Melnick '99, Names its Annual Symposium the Jed D. Melnick Annual Symposium of the Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution
In recognition of distinguished alumnus Jed Melnick's service to the law school and his generous gift in support of the Kukin Program for Conflict Resolution, Dean Matthew Diller has announced that the Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution's annual symposium will now be titled the Jed D. Melnick Symposium of the Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution.


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Sens look to deal at draft, eye Oilers' No. 1 pick
The Senators are ready to deal at the draft.
GM Bryan Murray, assistant Tim Murray and director of player personnel Pierre Dorion are listening to all offers as they head to St. Paul, Minn., this week to prepare for the draft beginning Friday.
Speaking to reporters at Scotiabank Place on Monday, Tim Murray said the club will attempt to trade up from the sixth overall pick — and wouldn't rule out trying to pry the No. 1 selection away from the Edmonton Oilers.
"The decision on whether we can do it has been made. If the scenario works, we will do it," said Murray.
"We're certainly willing to move up to No. 3 (held by the Florida Panthers), to No. 1 and if that doesn't work and we look at our list and we can move down two spots to get more assets to get the same player we like … we've gone through this a hundred times, formally and informally. We've shown we can manoeuvre picks. That's what we like to do."
With six picks — including at No. 6 and 21 in Round 1 — in the first 66 selections, the Senators are in a position of strength. They've got assets to play with, including three picks in the second round that can be used to move up.
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University home > Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children > Participants > Young people
More than 14,500 young people born in the greater Bristol area between April 1991 and December 1992 have been involved in Children of the 90s since before they were even born.
Their mothers agreed to take part in Children of the 90s during pregnancy and since then their children (now in their early 20s) have answered thousands of questions, donated biological samples including baby teeth, nail clippings and blood, and attended many Focus visits so we can chart their health and wellbeing in incredible detail.
If you are one of the young people in Children of the 90s, we'd like you to take part in Focus@24+ our first Focus visit for seven years. If you haven't had a chance to complete our latest questionnaire (Life @ 22+) yet, it's not too late. Just get in touch if you'd like us to send you one in the post.
Children of the 90s research uses your official records to help with our research. Read on to find out more:
Now that you are adults you can help Children of the 90s to build a better future through contributing to ground-breaking research on the causes of the world's most important health and social problems.
To do this we're asking for your permission to keep your contact details on our file so that in future we can ask you whether you'd like to fill in a questionnaire or come to our focus research clinic to give us information about you.
With your permission Children of the 90s would like to follow your health and life events by linking to your official records; such as those held by the NHS, the education system and the benefits and earnings department. For some of you this will also include information about criminal convictions and cautions. We call this way of collecting information 'data linkage'.
Data linkage gives us information that is difficult to get using questionnaires or at a clinic. Some of it you wouldn't even know, for example the precise dose of an antibiotic you were given as a baby.
Please think about all the information, get in touch if you have any questions, and let us know what you decide to do by returning the PEARL Consent Form V7.1 (PDF, 217kB) we sent out in the pack (If you need another consent form then please let us know)
Remember: we're very careful to keep all of your information confidential. With everything we do at Children of the 90s we want to protect your privacy. To do this we will make this our commitment to you.
Taking part in the study is voluntary, you are free to do as much or as little as you like. If you change your mind about taking part in some or all of Children of the 90s then let us know.
Feel free to get in touch. If you want to talk about this or need more information then feel free to get in touch. Thank you for taking the time to think about this, remember what you do can really make a difference!
Your records will probably be accessed once or twice a year to allow our researchers to measure changes over time. This will allow us to keep up to date with your health and the other big events in your life.
How a person or organisation can or cannot lawfully use your personal data is set out in the Data Protection Act 1998. The responsibility for making sure your information is used within the law rests with the organisation which determines the purposes for and manner in which your personal information is to be collected and used. This makes this organisation the data controller for this personal information.
Children of the 90s (part of the University of Bristol) is responsible for the information you give us at a focus clinic or in questionnaires and we decide how it is used in order to comply with your rights. Therefore, for the purposes of the Data Protection Act, the University of Bristol is the data controller for personal information it collects from you for the purposes of this study.
Organisations that collect your information for official records, (e.g. the NHS collects information about you for your health records) are the data controllers for this information.
Children of the 90s will collect these records under a data sharing agreement with the organisation that has collected your records. . Once Children of the 90s have received your records then the University of Bristol will be the data controller for this information.
Children of the 90s want access to your health records. These records include information such as:
Health records are collected by:
These records will include hospital treatments and your doctors (General Practitioner or 'GP') records. The NHS Information Centre and the National Information Governance Board (NIGB) control researcher access to your NHS records.
The NHS maintain a record of everyone's contact details, they call this the NHS Central Register. The NHS Central Register has a computerised record of everyone registered with a GP in England and Wales, who their doctor (GP) is and the address they have given their doctor's practice. It is also used to let research projects know who has died and who gets cancer. The NHS Central Register is part of the NHS Information Centre.
Your records are collected by your GP's practice.
Companies such as a dentists and opticians that provide your health care will also collect your health records.
School education records are collected by the Department for Education (http://www.education.gov.uk/). School education records are held in the National Pupil Database (NPD), a longitudinal database for all children in maintained schools in England, linking information about them (e.g. age, gender, ethnicity, attendance and exclusions) to school and college learning aims and attainment. It also holds education attainment information for pupils in non-maintained and independent schools who take part in the tests/exams. For the purposes of the Data Protection Act (1998) the Department for Education is the data controller for the NPD.
Children of the 90s (at University of Bristol) want to be given information about you from your education records. These records are:
We want to use this information, along with any information about you that we have already collected from other organisations (or from focus clinics you have attended, or questionnaires that you or your parents have filled in) for research purposes only. We will use this information to study how experiences of school and education impacts on the lives of the young people taking part in this study.
Further education records are collected by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (http://www.bis.gov.uk/). Further education records are kept in the 'Individualised Learner Record'. This is a collection of records about pupils who undertook further education and the institutions where they studied.
Higher education records are collected by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (http://www.bis.gov.uk/), and are kept by the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) (http://www.hesa.ac.uk/). This is a collection of records about pupils who undertook higher education and the institutions where they studied. If you have applied for a university place then your application records are collected by the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) http://www.ucas.ac.uk/
Children of the 90s want access to your benefits and earnings records. These records include information such as:
Benefits and Earnings Records are collected by The Department of Work and Pensions http://www.dwp.gov.uk/ and Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs http://www.hmrc.gov.uk
Children of the 90s want access to information about any criminal convictions and caution records you may have. These records include information such as details of any crime for which you may have received a caution or an offence of which you have been convicted, and details of any decisions made by a court. We also want to use your contact details which appear in these records to make contact with you if we lose touch. Children of the 90s will access this information held in the Police National Computer system through The Ministry of Justice http://www.justice.gov.uk/
These include your name, date of birth, address, phone number(s), email address and study status: i.e. what you have agreed to take part in. You can update your personal details by contacting us.
Under the Data Protection Act 1998, you have a right to know what personal data belonging to you that we hold. Where requested, we will provide you with a readable copy of your personal details and study status we hold, by contacting us at the address below. We will need to confirm your identity before supplying you with this information to ensure confidentiality and to comply with the Data Protection Act.
Where the data has been collected by Children of the 90s (University of Bristol) we allow you to challenge the data we hold about you and where appropriate you may have the data erased, rectified, amended or completed. For complaints or queries about the privacy policy or data protection queries generally please contact us at:
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Phone: 0117 33 10010
By post: Children of the 90s, Oakfield House, Oakfield Grove, Bristol BS8 2BN
If you would rather speak to someone outside of Children of the 90s then you can contact the independent ALSPAC Ethics and Law Committee. One of their roles is to see the study from the point of view of the families involved.
Chair of ALSPAC Ethics and Law Committee
University of Bristol
Oakfield House
Oakfield Grove
Email: email@example.com
Or, you can speak to someone from the University of Bristol who is not part of Children of the 90s.
Information Rights Manager
University of Bristol
Senate House
Tyndall Avenue
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
If you are not satisfied with the reply you receive, you can contact the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the UK's independent public body set up to promote access to official information and protect personal information:
Information Commissioner's Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Tel: 01625 545745
Email: via website
Children of the 90s research uses your health records to help with our research. There is general information about how we do this in the Playing Your Part information leaflet. Over the past few years we have written to all of you to ask if you are happy for us to use your records in this way. We fully accept your right to decide that you don't want us to access your records, and if you feel this way it is important that you tell us.
Many of you have sent back a consent form letting us know how you want your records used. We will always respect the decision you tell us.
In some circumstances, where research is in the public interest, researchers may be allowed to extract information from your records and use them in research without your consent. This includes information from your health and education records and any criminal convictions or cautions you may have. This only happens when we have asked for your consent and you haven't responded. It does not let us access the records of people who have told us they don't want this to happen. For this reason it is important that you return your consent form, particularly if you don't want us to link to your records.
The research projects listed on this page all need information from official records. Please let us know if you have any questions or if you object to your records being used:
Email: email@example.com
Phone: 0117 33 10010
By post: Data Linkage Team, Children of the 90s, Oakfield House, Oakfield Grove, Bristol BS8 2BN
If you let us know before the project starts then we can exclude your records from the research. Once the research has started it will not be possible to exclude your records.
If being a preterm baby impacts on later exam results
Most women go into labour after being pregnant for between 37 and 42 weeks. Babies who are born before the 37th week of pregnancy are known as 'pre-term babies'. This research investigation aims to establish if preterm babies, as a group, have lower 'Key Stage' school exam results than people who were born after 37 weeks of pregnancy.
Findings from this research may improve the understanding about preterm birth and exam results. If so, this new information could be used to help target teaching resources to those in most need. In this way we hope to improve the public good.
|Who will carry out the research?
|Researchers at the University of Bristol
|Whose records are being used?
|The Children of the 90s young adults
|Which records are being used?
|NHS pregnancy and birth records and Department for Education school exam records
|The project start date:
|3rd April 2015
Remember: you need to let us know by the date given above if you do not want your records used in this way.
Investigating the accuracy of current estimates of self-harm
One in five people have harmed themselves by age 20. Self-harm is a sign of people's distress. Self-harm is also a strong risk factor for later suicide. Half of all people who take their own lives have previously self-harmed.
Self-harm is therefore a major public health concern. Despite this, our knowledge of the long-term consequences of self-harm is limited. This project will use information you have given to Children of the 90s in questionnaires and at focus clinics. The research will also use hospital self-harm records (if there are any).
This research will greatly improve the understanding of self-harm. It will provide valuable findings about:
This information is of critical importance to prevent over or under estimation of self-harm. This will help as health policies based on inaccurate information may lead to the wrong policy decisions and incorrect prioritisation of particular health risk factors.
Findings from this research may improve health policy by raising awareness about the importance of self-harm. The findings could lead to increased help for people who self-harm. In this way we hope to improve the public good.
|Who will carry out the research?
|Researchers at the University of Bristol
|Whose records are being used?
|The Children of the 90s young adults
|Which records are being used?
|Self-harm records from English hospitals
|The project start date:
|1st August 2014
If there is something we can do to help you take part in Children of the 90s then feel free to get in touch. We will gladly arrange for British Sign Language interpreters, interpreters if English isn't your first language, and large print materials or interpreters.Information in audio format:
We always try to make the information we send out as easy to understand as possible. If we don't manage to do this, or you have ideas on how we could do this better then please get in touch, or you can get in touch with OCAP, a group of young adults who take part in the study and advise Children of the 90s staff on the research work we do. Children of the 90s is part of the University of Bristol. Read the university's accessibility policy.
University of Bristol,
Senate House,
Tyndall Avenue,
Bristol, BS8 1TH, UK
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Marketing Objectives
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Importance Of Marketing Objectives
Marketing objectives of the highest order has to be in place if you want your business to be in perfect working order. There is no point in making some of the best products and staking it in your warehouse. It is very important for you to have a good market plan with proper marketing objectives in order to sell your finished goods either through online retail stores or through the brick and mortar stores in the marketplace. The marketing objectives that you have must finally become the basis through which you will be able to achieve the goals set by the company and finally it is through these objectives that the company will see good profits. One of the best marketing objectives that you can plan for any company is to go for internet marketing strategy in order to be visible to many people all across the globe in a lesser amount of time than offline marketing strategies.
Study Carefully Before Setting Marketing Objectives
It is very important for you to make a thorough investigation about the internal as well as external environment of your company before getting started to plan your company's marketing objectives. The strengths and weaknesses of your company in comparison with the other similar companies will help you to assess your internal situation very easily. The exterior conditions like social, technological as well as political front in your area should also be taken into consideration when planning marketing objectives and strategies for your company. It is only after going through the positives and the negatives of the internal and the external conditions of the company should the objectives of marketing be laid forward by your company.
Setting Marketing Objectives
It is very important for any business to make sure that they set the marketing objectives of their firm keeping in mind precisely what the company intends to achieve in the future. It is ideal for the objectives to be measurable and quantifiable. This will be a proper guideline for you to know how near or how far your company is when compared to the marketing objectives that you have set. It is important for you to set realistic objectives and goals that can be easily attainable. The existing resources must always be kept in mind when detailing your company's marketing objectives. It is vital for you to set the objectives that are time-bound and make sure that it is achieved within the stipulated time. So, keep in mind that the marketing objectives of your company has to be based on the following principles of being measurable, attainable, specific to the core, time-bound and reliable.
Advantages Of These Objectives
The main advantage that any company will get by going for proper marketing objectives is that they will be having proper set guidelines to follow and hence it will work out to make the company very efficient. The objectives laid down by the company will have a proper and perfect track of the marketing strategies from time to time. The synergy between the various departments of the company will be the telling point for the successful marketing of the products manufactured by the company. The marketing objectives will make sure that all the various departments of the organization, be it the marketing or the production or the retailing department, all work in unison towards achieving the goals set by the company. This marketing strategy is sure to bring in the desired results and will finally help in increasing the profitability of the company. If you are having clear cut marketing objectives set forth, then there is no force in this world that will stop you from growing and sustaining your business even during these turbulent economic conditions. There will be many a time when you will have simultaneous and multiple marketing objectives set in place for your business and it is ideal for you to make certain that the set objectives work in tandem with each other and to sustain your marketing vision and strategy.
There is no doubt that for a business to be successful, even during times of adversity and bad economic conditions, it is important to have a perfect marketing objectives plan in place that is tangible, specific and clear and is definitely time-bound.


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Short Form
New Individual Short Application For Insurance License is Available
[For Current Licensees Only]
Short Form - Ease of Use
The Short Form (LIC 441-17*) has only two pages for the applicant to complete in order to add another license type to his or her license. A life agent, for example, would complete only a two-page application (Short Form LIC 441-17*) to add a property and/or casualty license type to his or her license instead of having to complete the six page Individual Application form LIC 441-9*). It is no longer necessary for the licensee to provide the background information that Individual Application form (LIC 441-9*) requires each time the licensee adds a new license type to his or her license. That information is already in the CDI's licensing database. The Short Form's (LIC 441-17*) two-page application is convenient for licensees and, saves time and paper work.
License Types
This new two-page Short Form (LIC 441-17*) provides an easier application process for current licensees to add the following license types:
- Life-Only Agent
- Accident and Health Agent
- Limited Lines Automobile Insurance Agent
- Property Broker-Agent
- Casualty Broker-Agent
- Personal Lines Broker-Agent
- Surplus Lines Broker
- Special Lines' Surplus Line Broker.
If you have any questions about this form or the license information you retrieved, please see the most commonly asked questions in our License Questions and Answers section. If you need further assistance, please call CDI's Producer Licensing Bureau at (800) 967-9331 or (916) 322-3555. The Call Center is available Monday through Friday, 7:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., excluding State Holidays.
You may also send an e-mail to Producer Licensing Bureau. Please be sure to include your name, telephone number, license number and e-mail address in all correspondence with the CDI.
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Support Local: We build this city
It's clear that there's a lot of love for Ottawa these days. Heck, our city is even shaped like a heart. And so, to show our love for this city, we've brought Support Local month back for its fourth year. What is Support Local? It's a month-long series of unique, collaborative events, showcasing the best our creative side has to offer. We've got breweries taking over restaurants, crafters making small special batches of goods, and an awesome day out in Almonte on the 25th with pop-up shops and patio parties... | Continue reading article


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Transfer Deadline Day: Graham and Tomlin join Middlesbrough
Middlesbrough have signed Sunderland striker Danny Graham and Peterborough United forward Lee Tomlin on loan until the end of the season.
Tomlin, 25, has joined Boro with a view to a permanent move after scoring 10 times in 25 games this term.
Graham began his career at Middlesbrough and joins the Championship club after his season-long loan to Hull City was cancelled.
The 28-year-old was close to moving to Nottingham Forest earlier in the month.
Sunderland paid £5m to take the frontman from Swansea in January 2013, but he has spent a large part of this campaign at Hull, scoring one goal in 20 appearances.
Tomlin, whose eventual transfer fee is undisclosed, had made it clear he wanted to leave London Road this season, with Celtic having a bid rejected in August.
The former Rushden & Diamonds man has a chequered disciplinary record though, having been sent off eight times in his career.
He is currently serving a three-match ban following his third red card of this campaign.


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A man has died hours after being pinned between two dumpsters at a Lexington landfill.
It happened just before 11 Wednesday morning on Hedger Lane, just off Interstate 64.
Officials say 27-year-old Jesse Hodges, of Morehead, was unloading some material in one dumpster, when a chain connected to a second dumpster malfunctioned.
Hodges ended up trapped between the two dumpsters.
Hodges was taken by helicopter to UK Hospital, where the Fayette County coroner says he died just before 3 Wednesday afternoon.
The coroner says Hodges died from multiple blunt force trauma.


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About Us
iChatalot is a free online chat community. If you want to know more about who we are, why we came about and our plans for the future then read on!
Who are we?
To fully answer this question it is best to understand why iChatalot was created....
Why create iChatalot?
The roots for iChatalot begin way back when the modern day version of the internet was in its infancy. During this period online chatting was extremely popular, especially online chat rooms. It was so popular that it was easy to find busy chat rooms. It was also around this time that Instant Messenger applications started to sprout up too, making it even easier to chat online.
The great thing about online chatting is that anyone can chat to anyone else in the world. This would also assist a generation in the dismantling of cultural misperceptions. It bypassed other prejudices too, mainly personal appearances. This was back in the days before digital cameras, and camera phones, were common place and to get a picture online a physical photograph would have to be scanned. A lot of people didn't have access to a scanner, so most of the time online chatters would make friends with someone and have no idea what they physically looked like.
The popularity of chatting to online strangers proved to be its downfall. The big online players soon started buying up chat rooms and instant messenger services, but they didn't truly understand what online chatting meant to the people who used it. The plan of these online corporations was to make a quick profit by cashing in on the latest online phenomenon. Once popular chat services faltered under this new corporate management and died a slow sad death. Chat rooms were also heavily adversely affected by negative sensationalist stories in the media, which painted a false picture of chatting online and physical safety.
The internet has evolved from those early days and now social networking is aimed at people who already know one another, allowing them to keep in contact easily with people from their past and present. Online dating sites are also now completely socially acceptable. But what about people who just want to chat online with complete strangers, with the primary motivation of just wanting to chat to someone new with no strings attached?
There are still places out there that cater for online chat to strangers from around the world, but there aren't many of them. There are even fewer sites out there that truly care about chatting online or about the community that use their service. Most of them only care about $$$, and their sites are littered with fake profiles, spammers and bots. We know this because we use those sites ourselves to chat.
So, who are we?
We are people who love to chat online! Having become disillusioned with other sites that don't seem to understand the community they serve, we've decided to have a go ourselves at setting up the perfect online community for those who love to chat online with complete strangers.
We hope you enjoy our site and visit often, and we'd love to hear from you if you have any suggestions regarding improving the site or just to tell us what we're doing right..........or wrong!
Happy chatting!
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|Associations of intrauterine growth restriction with placental pathological factors, maternal factors and fetal factors; clinicopathological findings of 257 Japanese cases.
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|PMID: 23233065 Owner: NLM Status: In-Data-Review
|Intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR) is the leading cause of fetal mortality and morbidity. As an etiology, each of placental findings, maternal factors and fetal factors has been reported to be associated with IUGR, although a comprehensive approach to examine all of these parameters as a cause of IUGR has not been reported. In the present study, therefore, we comprehensively examined the placental findings and maternal and fetal factors in the cases of IUGR (n=257, mean maternal age, 30 years; gestational weeks, 34 weeks) and normal growth pregnancies (n=258, mean maternal age, 30 years; gestational weeks, 33 weeks), and determined risk factors for IUGR. The prevalence of pregnancy hypertension (PHT) (19% vs. 8%, P<0.01), smoking habit (3% vs. 0.7%, P<0.05) and fetal anomaly (3.5% vs. 0.8%, P<0.05) were higher in IUGR cases than normal growth pregnancies. Pathologically, the prevalence of infarction (33% vs. 14%, P<0.05), fetal vessel thrombosis (22% vs. 6%, P<0.001) and chronic villitis (11% vs. 3%, P<0.001) were higher in IUGR cases than those in normal growth pregnancies. A multivariable regression analysis revealed that maternal factors (PHT), fetal factors (anomaly), and placental findings (infarction, fetal vessel thrombosis, and chronic villitis) are independently associated with increased risk of IUGR (all P<0.01).
|Y Sato; K Benirschke; K Marutsuka; Y Yano; K Hatakeyama; T Iwakiri; N Yamada; Y Kodama; H Sameshima; T Ikenoue; Y Asada
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|Title: Histology and histopathology Volume: 28 ISSN: 1699-5848 ISO Abbreviation: Histol. Histopathol. Publication Date: 2013 Jan
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MADISON COUNTY, Ky. (WKYT) - We are learning more about a 14-year-old boy hit and killed by a train Saturday afternoon in Madison County.
Investigators say Andy Byrd was walking along the tracks near his home off Highway 388 when a CSX train turned a corner and struck the teen.
A student at B. Michael Caudill Middle School in Madison County, Byrd is from Wolfe County, but for the last year has been living with his grandparents in the Richmond area.
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Intel Penryn Nov. 11
Intel has narrowed down the clock speed for the first Core 2 processor based on its 45-nanometer Penryn architecture, claim Taiwan-area mainboard manufacturers. The semiconductor firm would reportedly launch a lone 3GHz quad-core processor, the QX9650, on November 11th and ship the following day. The design would run on the same 1,333MHz bus as today's desktop processors but carry 12MB of shared L3 cache. As a Core 2 Extreme model, the chip would likely be multiplier-unlocked and allow enthusiasts with the right cooling equipment and experience to overclock the design past its rated speed. Like most top-end Extreme CPUs, it would be priced at $999 in batches of 1,000 for system vendors but would cost more for the end user.
The update also contradicts previous reports and explains that all other desktop Core 2 processors built on the smaller, cooler process would be delayed until January. Three Core 2 Quad models at 2.5GHz (Q9300), 2.66GHz (Q9450), and 2.83GHz (Q9550) would be available at prices of $266, $316, and $530 respectively and with similar 12MB caches, save for the 2.5GHz model with 6MB. A similar number of Core 2 Duo models would follow with 2.66GHz (E8200), 3GHz (E8400), and 3.16GHz (E8500) speed grades and 6MB of L2 cache for all three to reflect their reduced number of cores. Prices would similarly dip to $163, $183, and $266 respectively, according to the report.
While no evidence has surfaced of pre-assembled systems that would use Penryn chips on launch, the release date and specifications provide a rough timeframe for when multiple PC manufacturers are most likely to update their systems and when Intel's workstation-class Xeon processors will receive their own update. The Xeon in recent months has often received a performance increase ahead of mainstream chips, such as the 3GHz quad-core model that appeared in Apple's Mac Pro this spring. Mobile Core 2 processors based on Penryn, which will use the Montevina platform and form the backbone of most of Apple's lineup, are not scheduled to ship until 2008.


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Lorin Henry Dettman
Lorin Henry Dettmann, 87, Monona, Iowa, died suddenly on Friday, September 13, 2013. Lorin was born on April 11, 1926, on the Dettmann Family Farm, south of Monona, Iowa, to John and Anna (Borcherding) Dettmann. He attended Pleasant Hill Country School through the eighth grade and graduated from Monona High School with the class of 1945.
Lorin served his country honorably in the United States Army and was stationed in Germany during the Korean conflict. Lorin was united in marriage to Phyllis Lamker on August 20, 1953, at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Monona, Iowa. Five children were born to this union. Lorin and Phyllis farmed together and raised their family on the family farm where Lorin lived his entire life.
Lorin was a member of the Monona Rural Fire Protection Board for nearly 40 years serving as its treasurer. He was a life-long member of St. Paul Lutheran Church in Monona where he served on the church council, was elected president of the congregation and later in life was the head usher for funerals held at the church. He was a long-time New York Yankees fan and enjoyed the outdoors, spending many hours tending his "award winning" rhubarb, potatoes, and squash. He spent many hours working with his firewood business and tending to his well-manicured lawn. He loved spending time with his family and friends and will be greatly missed by all who knew him.
Survivors include his wife, Phyllis Dettmann, Monona, IA; five children, Karen (Jim) Hackbart, Plymouth, MN; Barbara (Doug) Guinn, Richland Hills, TX; Darla (Jim) Olson, Chanhassen, MN; Brian (Kelly) Dettmann, Chicago, IL; Sara (Don) Edison, Grant, MN; eight grandchildren, Nicholas Olson, Benjamin Hackbart, Anna (Olson) Gradwohl, Jonathan Hackbart, Spencer Olson, Joseph Guinn, Robert Dettmann, Georgia Dettmann; two sisters, Gladys (Hu) Bierbaum, Denver, CO and Helen (Arnold) Schlueter, Fredericksburg, TX and several nieces and nephews.
Lorin was preceded in death by his parents, John and Anna Dettmann; one brother, Myron Dettmann, and two sisters-in-law, Margarete Dettmann and Luella Dettmann.
Visitation was held on Monday, September 16, 2013, from 4-7 p.m. at the Leonard-Grau Funeral Home and Cremation Service of Monona, Iowa, and one hour before services at the church on Tuesday.
Funeral services were Tuesday, September 17, 2013, at 11 a.m. at St. Paul Lutheran Church, Monona, Iowa. The Rev. Erika Kielstrup officiated. Burial followed at St. Paul Lutheran Cemetery, Monona, Iowa, with military honors.
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The Devils' biggest problem is that too many New Jersey hockey fans don't root for the New Jersey hockey team. And part of that problem is the fact that a lot of New Jerseyans don't identify with New Jersey as much as they do with New York or Philly, depending on which city they're living in a suburb of. Could marketing help with that? Maybe. But most of it seems to stem from "My Dad was a Rangers fan, so I am too." Commercials probably wouldn't lessen a boy's desire to bond with his father over a sports team.
The only solution is simple: Kick Rangers fans in the nuts until they are incapable of fathering Rangers fan children.
I dunno. I always identified with NY as a kid, and I moved there when I got out of college, and my dad's a Rags fan (though not a huge hockey guy, if we were talking Nets Knicks it would be a different story) but I became a Devils fan because I hated the '94 Rags, and one kid in my class was a huge Devils fan and turned me onto them. If I don't meet him, and later get attached to guys like Elias, Marty and Dog (because I had some years where I barely watched hockey, but rooted for both local teams), I don't become a Devils fan. That was dumb luck. Marketing can take the place of some dumb luck. Am I the exception? Probably. 9 out of 10 fans who hear about the Devils probably don't make the shift, but if a couple thousand get exposed to the Devils instead of a couple hundred, that makes a difference.


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