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HAGERSTOWN, Md. - Hagerstown Community College's annual Martin Luther King Jr. Diversity Celebration will be from 1 to 3 p.m. Jan. 21 in its Kepler Theater.
New Joy Fellowship Seventh-day Adventist Mass Choir is to begin the program, which will end with a dramatic rendition of Dr. King's "I Have a Dream" speech, performed by the Rev. Darin Mency of Greater Campher Temple. Mency also is the keynote speaker.
Included among the other performances and readings will be a presentation on the culture of Trinidad.
Admission is free.
For information, call (240) 500-2265.
Schools must register by Feb. 8 for archery program
STATE COLLEGE - Schools participating in the National Archery in the Schools Program must register by Feb. 8 for the state NASP tournament scheduled for March 8 in Penn State University's Multi-Sport Facility, University Park.
There is no fee. Registration opens Jan. 25 and can be completed online at http://nasptournaments.org or through a link on Pennsylvania Game Commission's website, http://www.pgc.state.pa.us. Space is limited.
Last year, 494 students from 23 school districts participated in the state competition. This year, organizers expect nearly 900 participants.
To organize NASP in a Pennsylvania school, contact Samantha Pedder at 787-4250, Ext. 3327.
Also find "PA NASP" on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/PennNASP.
PASR members to reserve seats for buffet and book sale
CHAMBERSBURG - The annual breakfast and book sale for Franklin County Chapter of Pennsylvania Association of School Retirees and 1st Ed.
Open to retired professional and support staff from any public school, the event will be in Solomon's Lutheran Church, 4856 Wayne Road, Chambersburg.
Deadline for all reservations is Jan. 28.
The program will feature Ruth Muehl, a Tuscarora School District retiree, who will talk about solo travels to foreign lands and helping at the Olympics.
A Lutheran Social Service representative also will explain the new phase of assistance, living independence for the elderly (LIFE).
Each attendee is asked to bring a limit of five used books to be sold to benefit the chapter's elderly and shut-in members.
To reserve seats, mail $9 to Glendora Moul, 6849 Hades Church Road, Chambersburg 17202.
Retirees who are not members are considered guests and will get a free breakfast, but must make a reservation by calling 264-3981 or 263-5553 by Jan. 28.


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Nine Entertainment Co
Posted 13 February 2012 - 07:01 AM
Posted 23 February 2012 - 10:36 PM
I know that Ten was owned by CanWest which was Canadian so...
Edited by tmorgan96, 23 February 2012 - 10:36 PM.
Posted 24 February 2012 - 07:24 AM
Not when Nine is such a big hole. More likely that an Asian company might buy them out these days to get a foothold in Western markets.
Is it possible an American network or conglomerate (such as Warner Bros. or I daresay CBS) to buy out Nine? Would an Australian Television Network be a good investment for an American company?
Edited by J Bar, 24 February 2012 - 07:26 AM.
Posted 27 February 2012 - 08:17 PM
Hopefully some souless company will pick at the carcass of NIne when they finally fall in a heap and cant make their interest payments.
Posted 27 February 2012 - 09:06 PM
Posted 27 February 2012 - 10:13 PM
Hopefully some souless company will pick at the carcass of NIne when they finally fall in a heap and cant make their interest payments.
Far out, talk about DRAMATIC! Was that you I saw at the Oscars ceremony?
Edited by jimbo, 27 February 2012 - 10:13 PM.
Posted 28 February 2012 - 12:30 AM
Warner Bros. would be the most likely if an American company were to buy it.
Posted 28 February 2012 - 07:22 AM
Warner Bros. would be the most likely if an American company were to buy it.
Because WB has a good relationship with Nine for the past four decades. WB also has substantial investment in Australia, namely Movie World on the Gold Coast.
Posted 28 February 2012 - 07:42 AM
Edited by J Bar, 28 February 2012 - 07:42 AM.
Posted 28 February 2012 - 09:59 AM
Village Roadshow bought out the Time Warner part-ownership of both the theme park and studios in 2006. The studios are now called the 'Village Roadshow Studios', and Village has a licence to use the WB name for the theme park. Warner do have a substantial presence in Australia, but it's not at Oxenford.
Because WB has a good relationship with Nine for the past four decades. WB also has substantial investment in Australia, namely Movie World on the Gold Coast.
Posted 18 March 2012 - 11:51 PM
Private equity firm CVC is pulling out of Australia, Asia Pacific's biggest buyouts market, as it faces one of the largest ever losses for a firm in the region and rapidly fading bank support, people familiar with the situation said. The firm's high-profile struggles in Australia are a cautionary tale for the large global private equity funds, many of which expanded rapidly into new geographies during the 1990s and early 2000s.
In 2008 CVC CVC.UL raised $4.2 billion for its third Asia fund, still one of the biggest ever for the region.
But the firm has stopped doing new deals altogether in Australia and is cutting staff, the people said, as it stands on the brink of a disastrous loss from its foray into media group Nine Entertainment. That deal alone could see CVC lose more than $2 billion, knocking returns for investors in not one but four separate funds.
Posted 19 March 2012 - 01:57 PM
CVC Capital Partners and Goldman Sachs have struck a deal in which $975 million Australian dollars (US$1.03 billion) of mezzanine debt in Nine Entertainment Co. will be converted into equity on the condition that CVC is able to refinance the entertainment company's burdensome senior debt, people familiar with the deal told Deal Journal Australia.
CVC is kicking off a roadshow in the U.S. and U.K. this week to test investor appetite for the refinancing of Nine's A$2.7 billion in senior debt which matures in February 2013, ...
Posted 09 April 2012 - 01:05 PM
Posted 24 May 2012 - 08:20 AM
Interesting move there, and kind of reversal of fortune for Nine Entertainment Company. Its predecessor PBL bought shares in production company Regency Enterprises in the 1990s to push into Hollywood, and in doing so gained rights to several movies including Fight Club, Big Momma's House, Mr and Mrs Smith, Alvin and the Chipmunks, and TV series Malcolm in the Middle.
Posted 24 May 2012 - 08:48 AM
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Posted 31 May 2012 - 09:11 AM
DEBT-LADEN Nine Entertainment has emerged as a wildcard potential acquisition target for Telstra, reviving memories of the telco's failed bid for Kerry Packer's Publishing & Broadcasting group 12 years ago.
The telco indicated possible interest to Nine a month ago, and since then has been crunching the numbers with its investment bank adviser Credit Suisse.
One senior banking source outside the deal yesterday claimed Telstra had a significant team working on a potential deal, but the telco had yet to follow up its earlier notification of interest with a valuation or firm offer.
Posted 31 May 2012 - 08:53 PM
Posted 31 May 2012 - 09:16 PM
Can use Hungry Jacks as a rough example here (Jack Cowin owns about 10% of Network Ten, you see a lot more advertising for HJs on Ten then any other network)
Posted 14 June 2012 - 04:27 PM
Source: http://www.tvtonight...joins-nine.html
Edited by tmorgan96, 14 June 2012 - 04:28 PM.
Posted 14 June 2012 - 05:59 PM
I doubt she'll be able to overcome the blokey culture at Nine and probably won't last a year. Any bright programming ideas she has will be destroyed by the time they filter through the layers of management who all insist on having input and tinkering with good original concepts.
Courtney Gibson has joined Nine for the position of Programming Production Executive. She has been involved in projects like Spicks and Specks, Summer Heights High and the Chasers.
Source: http://www.tvtonight...joins-nine.html


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CLEVELAND -- Last year in the wake of summer political conventions, there was a lot of buzz about Cleveland making a bid for one or both of the 2016 political conventions.
Cuyahoga County Executive Ed FitzGerald was the chief cheerleader.
But seemingly little has been done in the public eye about the effort since then.
FitzGerald says behind-the-scenes discussions are taking place and that a decision will likely be made by the end of the year.
The city's in a much better position to make a case. It has a state of the art convention center that might be part of the event, and it will have a lot more downtown hotel rooms than it did in 2016, including a new supersize convention center hotel.
Both local political parties are strongly supportive of a convention bid. Chairmen Stuart Garson and Rob Frost are both upbeat, saying Cleveland remains the key city in the key county of key swing state Ohio.
Mayor Frank Jackson's team says, "We'll get back to you when there's something new to say."
But other cities have started to proclaim their "in it to win it" convention intentions.
Cleveland will have had practice hosting bigtime events including the Senior Games and Gay Olympics.
A convention brings a lot of free publicity, visitors and dollars. But there are also headaches and hassles.
And the business and civic leaders who would have to provide the money, time and energy to lead a convention bid may get the last word.


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LAS VEGAS (AP) - Say goodbye to Bill's Gamblin' Hall & Saloon on the Las Vegas Strip.
The Old West-themed casino will close for remodeling in February, and is expected to reopen in 2014 under a new name.
Caesars Entertainment Corp. announced this week that it had secured $185 million to gut Bill's Gamblin' Hall and convert it into a boutique hotel and club.
The casino kitty-corner to the Bellagio was known as the Barbary Coast until 2007.
The planned renovations include the addition of a 65,000-square-foot rooftop pool as well as a nightclub with a panoramic view of the Strip.
Caesars Entertainment chairman and chief executive officer Gary Loveman said in a statement that the project will help the company "attract a broader spectrum of visitors."
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Lindsey Poteet was at New Life Lodge to kick her drug addiction and make a better life for daughter Arwen. / SUBMITTED PHOTO
About New Life Lodge
Beginnings: New Life Lodge opened in 1983 to serve as a rehabilitation center for Tennesseans battling addiction to drugs and alcohol.
Owners: CRC Health, a private company based in California, purchased the nonprofit operation in 2006. The facility underwent a $10 million renovation and expansion project, which was completed earlier this month.
Safety: New Life Lodge executives say the facility has had only one patient death in its 27-year history, but public documents bring that claim into question.
'Tennessean' Investigation
For Lindsey Poteet, Sept. 1, 2010, was supposed to be the day she finished a monthlong drug rehabilitation program, giving her a fresh start to care for her 17-month-old daughter, Arwen.
Instead she lay brain-dead and on life support in a Nashville hospital bed.
The 29-year-old had checked into New Life Lodge, a residential drug rehab facility in the secluded town of Burns in Dickson County, in early August, but within weeks became very ill.
The circumstances of her death have brought an array of unanswered questions from her family and shined a spotlight on the oversight of the largest drug rehabilitation facility in the state that is also one of the largest providers of state-subsidized care and rehabilitation for drug and alcohol addicts. It treats adults and youths.
Why was Poteet, who had come down with pneumonia, placed in a van and driven 30 miles to Nashville when Horizon Medical Center was just 8 miles from the rehab center? Why was the van driven by a woman who didnt know how to discern during a 911 call if Poteet was breathing or not?
Why did it take so long to get Poteet the proper medical help when she was at a health facility that specializes in helping people like her recover? Poteets autopsy said she died of combined drug toxicity, a mix of anti-depressant and therapeutic drugs. It was ruled accidental.
Amerigroup, the TennCare insurance company paying for Poteets treatment, conducted a review of New Life Lodge after her death. A TennCare spokeswoman said Amerigroup is no longer contracting with New Life to handle patients but couldnt say why.
A months-long investigation of New Life Lodge by The Tennessean uncovered deaths of patients in 2010, but just how many is unclear in conflicting accounts that New Life Lodge declines to clarify, citing patient privacy protections.
For example, state officials say that two deaths at New Life Lodge were reported to them in 2010 by the facilitys executive director, who later told The Tennessean that only one patient had died in New Life Lodges history.
The date of Poteets death does not match the dates on the state reports, raising the possibility that there were three deaths in one year.
The Tennessean investigation also found:
The state in 2008 vastly reduced oversight of residential treatment facilities such as New Life, eliminating pages of regulations. And because of cost, the Department of Mental Health stopped doing its own health-care quality inspections of these facilities, instead relying on a private accrediting agency. The result has been that details that might bring greater understanding of a facilitys health-care record are kept secret.
The medical license of the new head physician hired in 2011 at New Life Lodge has been on a five-year probation since May 2010 after he failed a drug test at his previous employer and had admitted his own addiction to street drugs, according to public records. He retains the right to practice medicine.
At least four New Life Lodge staffers operate halfway houses as side businesses. According to former co-workers, the staffers sometimes steer New Life Lodge patients to their own facilities.
Patients have at times dealt with overcrowding, sleeping on couches, and former employees have cited strained working conditions, such as being asked to conduct tasks for which they were not trained.
New Life Lodge Executive Director Rebecca Gaskin said her facility provides a crucial service to Tennesseans by offering residential rehabilitation services, while also operating a detoxification center. In a recent news release touting the facilitys $10 million renovation, New Life Lodge said 92 percent of its patients completed treatment.
Between TennCare and state contracts with the Department of Mental Health and the Department of Childrens Services, New Life Lodge benefits from about $10 million annually in government funding, according to public records. The facility is owned by California-based CRC Health, which bought the operation for $3.8 million in 2006. CRC itself was bought the same year for $720 million by Bain Capital.
Though she declined to discuss details surrounding Poteets death because of patient confidentiality laws, Gaskin said the event was a traumatic one for the facilitys staffers.
It was horrifying, and it was sad, and it was heartbreaking, Gaskin said. And theres not a one of us who survived that who did not walk away in a different place. It was personal for us. It still is.
Poteets mother, Kathy Mauk, said, however, that her biggest questions about her daughters death have never been answered.
In the days leading up to her death, Poteet phoned family members several times. During those conversations, Poteet had a heavy cough, had difficulty breathing and could barely talk, according to her mother. A friend of Poteet also said she was very ill.
A 911 call on Aug. 31 and conversations with people at New Life Lodge describe what happened that morning when critical decisions were made to get Poteet to a hospital.
So weak she could not walk on her own, Poteet was placed in a van to be taken to Saint Thomas Hospital in Nashville. Dr. Jonathan Butler, New Life Lodges physician at the time, called Saint Thomas to alert them of Poteets arrival.
En route, she became unresponsive and the vans driver called 911. During the call, the dispatcher asked if the driver could tell if Poteet was breathing or not.
How would I do that? Im not a nurse. Im not sure, the driver responded, before being asked by the dispatcher if Poteets chest was rising. No I dont see it.
Butler, who no longer works for New Life, did not respond to a detailed request for comment.
Mauk said she has not been told why her daughter was transferred by a van to Nashville instead of an ambulance to the nearby hospital.
Im still confused about why she was transferred by private vehicle, Mauk said. Why she died in the back of a van. Why she wasnt given treatment sooner. And why I was given the runaround by the place that let it all happen.
An autopsy report conducted by the state medical examiner showed that Poteet had severely congested lungs and pneumonia. The autopsy also revealed she had heart surgery years earlier to repair her mitral valve.
But according to the autopsy, neither the pneumonia nor the heart surgery caused her death, but rather a combined drug toxicity. Poteet had elevated levels of the anti-depressant drug citalopram and therapeutic levels of trazodone. Poteets death was ruled an accident by medical examiner Dr. John Brentley Davis.
Gaskin said New Life Lodge acted as soon as possible once it realized Poteet was ill.
We do know that, once the patient began showing signs of distress, our staff immediately took action to get her the professional help she needed, she said.
Records indicate other deaths among patients
Public records indicate Poteet was not the only patient at New Life Lodge to pass away in 2010. According to the Department of Mental Healths response to a public records request, Gaskin reported two deaths in 2010 on July 16 and Aug. 21. No deaths were reported on the date Poteet died, according to Department of Mental Health spokesman Grant Lawrence.
Records from 911 calls and interviews with the Burns Fire Department show that New Life Lodge requested emergency assistance on the eves of the two reported deaths.
On July 15, the fire department and the Dickson County ambulance service responded to a call from a New Life Lodge nurse about a male patient in his mid-20s in the detox unit who was not breathing and unresponsive.
Burns Fire Capt. Brannon Wilkerson, who responded to the scene, told The Tennessean the patient ultimately passed away at Horizon Medical Center. The patient who died was on TennCare, according to department spokeswoman Kelly Gunderson.
Records from a 911 call by a New Life Lodge nurse on Aug. 20 indicate a patient in the detox unit suffered multiple seizures and was unresponsive. Because of claims of patient confidentiality law, The Tennessean could not confirm the patients identity or whether that person ultimately died. New Life Lodge would not comment on whether the call was related to a patient who died.
Officials with Dickson County Emergency Medical Service and the Burns Fire Department said they could not reveal the identities of the individuals named in their reports, stating patient confidentiality laws prevented it.
When confronted with the states records of two deaths, Gaskin insisted that the facility had only one patient death in its nearly 30-year history.
In addition, it seems necessary to reiterate that just because a facility informs (the department) of an incident does not mean the incident took place on facility grounds or as a result of any action taken by, or fault of the facility, Gaskin said.
Nonetheless, state officials said no New Life deaths were reported on Sept. 1, which is the date Poteet passed away. In an interview with The Tennessean, Gaskin referred to Poteets death without saying her name.
Like for example, the August situation with the Amerigroup patient, she was a New Life Lodge patient. Clearly she deceased, she was in our care, Gaskin said.
Cynthia Tyler, who is the Department of Mental Healths director of the Office of Licensure, said it would be a violation of state regulations for New Life Lodge to fail to report a patient death. Gaskin said New Life has followed all state regulations in reporting deaths.
Overcrowding described
Interviews with former New Life Lodge patients, staffers and public officials from Dickson County indicate other concerns with the rambling facility that sits on 120 wooded acres.
Between its adult program, youth program and detox center, New Life Lodge is licensed to house 228 people. The next-largest facility in the state, Nashvilles Cumberland Heights, has a capacity of 130.
According to the Dickson County Sheriffs Office, deputies responded to 178 calls for service in 2010, many of them for runaway youths. Cumberland Heights by comparison had 28 calls for service, according to the Metro police department.
Dickson County Sheriff Jeff Bledsoe said in a recent interview he wanted to discuss with New Life Lodge leadership his issues with the facilitys operations. The primary issue, Bledsoe said, is the time and resources his deputies devote to calls from the facility. A spokesman for the Burns Fire Department said it is not uncommon for there to be four calls for emergency service during a 24-hour shift.
We have some concerns, Bledsoe said. Ive been talking to some of the administrative staff when I took office about sitting down and discussing the issues and seeing how we can work together to address the problems they do have.
According to Malea Stevens of Murfreesboro, who became friends with Poteet shortly before her death, the facility was sometimes so overcrowded that patients were sleeping on the floor and on couches.
They had three or four people in a room and there were people sleeping on cots and sofas. There were supposed to only be 60 or 70 people, but they had over 100.
Stevens said that in the days leading up to Poteets death, she had become sicker and weaker and had to be carried the night before to a couch, where she spent the night.
She was very sick, Stevens said.
Gaskin dismissed complaints of overcrowding and said any issues had been remedied by the recent renovation, which doubled dormitory housing to 200 beds.
Michael Casey worked as a technician at New Life Lodge for nearly a year in 2010. Casey said he was sometimes asked to perform tasks outside of his training, such as administering medication and posing questions typically asked by a professional counselor.
They were having me do casework. I felt very uncomfortable, Casey said, adding that he believed other staff also were asked to perform tasks outside their training. It was crazy.
Addict hired as doctor
Earlier this year, New Life Lodge hired Dr. Kevin Collen as its primary physician, even though Collen had recently completed a drug rehab program in Alabama.
After failing a drug test conducted on Jan. 21, 2010, by his previous employer, Nashville-based Mental Health Cooperative, Collen admitted that he had an addiction to street-level methamphetamine and benzodiazepines for more than one year, according to records maintained by the Tennessee Department of Health.
Collen was fined $5,000, and his medical license was placed on a five-year probation.
Gaskin said she viewed Collens addiction struggles as an attribute and said his medical license has no restrictions.
Dr. Collen is in recovery with monitoring, an attribute that proves invaluable when helping patients overcome their own addictions, Gaskin said. After all, ours is a business of rehabilitation, redemption and second chances.
Casey, the former staffer, said he also was troubled by the fact that four New Life Lodge employees make money on the side by working for or operating their own halfway houses. A halfway house is a transitional living facility where recovering addicts sometimes live before they can find permanent housing.
Casey and other former New Life employees said the staffers sometimes refer New Life Lodge patients to their halfway houses after their stay at the rehab facility is complete. Gaskin denied that claim and said patients are provided with a list of potential halfway houses and are free to make their own selection.
The four New Life Lodge employees could not be reached or declined to comment.
None of (the staffers) are able to refer patients, Gaskin said. And to tell you the truth, I couldnt tell you which staff have halfway houses because, since Ive dropped into Tennessee, it seems like thats a common practice. But none of that staff that you mentioned have any ability to refer patients any place.
Casey said he believed New Life Lodge was staffed with people who genuinely wanted to help others overcome their addiction. The problem, he said, was the for-profit facilitys fixation on the number of patients.
New Life is helping people but its all about the numbers, Casey said.
As the one-year anniversary of her daughters death approaches, Mauk said she feels New Life Lodge failed its top mission. The family is preparing a lawsuit against the facility.
Im overwhelmed and broken-hearted. No mother should ever have to turn off her 29-year-old daughters life support because there is no hope. There are no words to describe how that feels.
People are supposed to be safe in medical facilities, Mauk said. I had no idea from talking with (a nurse at New Life Lodge) how bad it was. Of course I wanted answers, but no one at New Life Lodge would give us any. Im not getting the chance to be with Lindsey once she got her life turned around.
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I knew I was in love the minute I met my husband, Justin. It was the first day of High School, and he had just walked into my math class. I can still remember what he was wearing – Lucky jeans, K-Swiss shoes, a navy blue shirt, and he had cute spiky hair (gotta love 1999!). Every girl in the sophomore class was drooling over this kid who was the Class President. He was nice to everyone and I was totally smitten.
I asked him to Sweethearts Ball right after I turned 16, and had the best time! He had fun, but that was it for him. At the end of that year his family moved out of state and I thought I'd never see him again. However, luck was on my side! He moved back our Senior Year of High School, but we were just friends and in a few classes together. I thought I had moved on until he asked me to our Senior Prom. From there we dated until I left for BYU and he left for a mission. We wrote, but I also dated.
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I am starting to wonder whether it's a bit much. But it's intended for somebody who has a knack for over-the-top colour and I think it'll be okay. It helps that I've seen her wearing a burnt-orange coat this winter.
And maybe it won't be quite so ZING in real life?
At least the actual weave is going to work this time. Here's the one I finished before, in darker colours:
Shortly after I finished this scarf, which I considered to be quite attractive, I was given a scarf of woven silk that looks like fine wool, feels amazing, and is charcoal grey on one side and black on the other so that when you tie it around your neck you get both sides showing.
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On the upside, did I say handwoven? And also: one of a kind. (probably never doing this again though, unless I use handspun as well.)
As a public service I feel I should mention that there is a problem with this particular yarn combination, or rather with using Malabrigo's baby merino laceweight as a warping yarn, and that is durability. Malabrigo is barely spun anyway, and in laceweight there's not a lot of fiber density to stand up to the heddle moving up and down with every beat.
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"No Country For Old Men?" Bernanke Plan To Exterminate Savers Is Unsustainable
Bernanke's recognition of his penalizing savers with low rates as an 'issue for people' sparked an interesting note from the WSJ on how sensible and stoic savers are being herded (unsafely) into risky investments. Bernanke's insistence that "our savers collectively have to hold all the assets of the economy and a strong economy produces much better returns in general" must be juxtaposed with comments from a money manager that "I don't think that's a fair-trade" for money intended to be invested safely. By removing the last shred of hope for a rise in savings rates anytime soon, the Fed is once again creating the potential for major unintended consequences as the 30% drop in interest income for US savers from the 2008 peak forces them to extend duration (TSYs), lower quality (corporate bonds), and/or increase leverage/risk (equities). One only has to look at Treasury yields, Muni yields, investment-grade bond yields, and now high-yield bond yields for how tempted investors (retail and professional 'insurance/pension' assets) have become to take their safest net worth asset (low risk liquidity) and expose it to the business/credit cycle and all its myriad event risks. While reducing the rate of savings might seem sensible for the short-term from the Fed perspective, it leaves a wholly unsustainable recovery (or bubble in who knows which asset class next) and as Nordea notes this week, based on their models, a considerably higher savings rate will be needed going forward (for any sustainability) even as 'saved money' is rotated into risk or spent on quality-of-life maintenance. Perhaps it is time for many to listen to the sensibilities of the WSJ's last (75 year-old) interviewee who notes "At my age, I can't be a risk-taker anymore" as maybe it is time to consider the reality of the recent good US data in relation to coinciding elements such as inventory build-up, plummeting household savings, and lower gas prices when adding to that risky investment.
Wall Street Journal: Itchy Investors Ramp Up Risk
Robert Marcotte can't afford to play it safe anymore. With interest rates likely stuck near zero for nearly three more years, the 61-year-old retired telephone-company manager is about to ramp up his holdings of stocks and municipal bonds, using money now at the bank in certificates of deposit.
"It gets me a little uneasy," says Mr. Marcotte. "Since I'm not working, I am very risk-averse, but still need to generate income."
The Federal Reserve is presenting a broad swath of conservative investors, from retirees and college savers to banks and insurance companies, with a tough choice: move into riskier investments or continue coming up short from low-risk investments that aren't even keeping pace with inflation.
The Fed has "removed the last shred of possibility that interest rates were going to revert to normal in the near future," says Johns Hopkins University economics professor Christopher Carroll.
In congressional testimony on Thursday, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke acknowledged that low rates penalize savers. "We understand it's an issue for many people," he said. "That being said, our savers collectively have to hold all the assets in the economy and a strong economy produces much better returns in general."
The low interest rates of the past several years have taken a toll on U.S. savers. All told, Americans collected interest income from CDs, savings accounts, insurance products and other sources at a seasonally adjusted, annualized rate of $976 billion in the fourth quarter of 2011. That's down nearly a third from the peak rate of $1.42 trillion in the third quarter of 2008.
One worry is that some investors will take on risks they aren't prepared to handle.
Brent Burns, an investment manager who builds bond portfolios for financial planners, says that since the Fed announcement he has fielded a flurry of questions from advisers considering high-yield and international bonds, and real-estate investment trusts. "I don't think that's a fair trade" for money intended to be invested safely, he says.
It isn't just retirees who are taking on more risk. Sotirios Keros, a 39-year-old pediatric neurologist in New York, says he plans to shift his emergency reserve to a long-term municipal bond fund when his CDs mature this summer. "I would still like to keep that as liquid as possible and as risk-free as possible, but I'm not really happy with the available options," he says. The Fed's decision makes it clear that "there's no value in waiting" for higher rates, he says.
Low rates are also pressuring life-insurance companies, which rely in part on returns from high-quality bond investments to pay their obligations. "We have about $175 billion in cash and investments, and 94% of that is conservatively invested," says Chris Blunt, executive vice president of New York Life.
After waiting three years for rates to rise, Jenny Fleming, a financial planner, is putting client funds into dividend-paying stocks. One of her clients, Margie Stewart Alford of Austin, Texas, is using dividend-paying stocks to provide interest income that might normally come from CDs. While Ms. Alford, 75, still plays Friday-night poker, she says she can't afford to boost her stock exposure too much. "At my age, I can't be a risk taker anymore," she says.
From Nordea Bank this week - Households´ savings have plunged
One likely factor holding up personal consumption is that US households have diminished their savings ratio at a rather brisk pace in H2 2011. While one can argue about the reasons behind this, we believe that it is unsustainable. On the contrary, our models suggest that savings actually should increase (see fig 4 above).
The average savings ratio since 1960 is 7% and considering the appalling fiscal situation (and the lack of will to do anything about it), a higher savings ratio is most definitely in the cards going forward.
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I don't understand why everyone is against ZIRP. Bernanke is leaving the choice up to the people. You can greedily horde your dollars, and have them become worthless, or you can participate in the common good and invest in Americas future. If the currency collapses under hyperinflation it will nobody's fault but the people, their hatred, masochism, and greed. Bernanke is just pushing you to take the high road, and do the morally correct thing.
I'll take "hatred, masochism, and greed" for $600 Alex.
+1 for good sarcasm. I think a few people missed it though...
There are many ways to cull the herd. Death to the moron sheeple!
""At my age, I can't be a risk taker anymore,"
My Dad said those very words to me last night. He is age 70 and lives in the UK. He said he is calling his broker and selling all his shares now the market has recovered to somewhere near the old highs.
He said he is happy to live off his inflation index linked private annuity pension and state pension and live within that limit. He is not splashing out and does not need to. This is what all 'baby boomers' are going to do.
My dad is doing the samel but if you read When Money Dies it seems like this could be the exact wrong time to do it. The pensions are "linked" now but if 10-13% inflation hits that link may be undone. The main things that seemed to work in Wiemer were farm land, gold, rental property, real stuff and stocks.
I think they are worried about the upcoming shrinking tax base. As baby boomers leave the work force they won't be contributing. They need to slow that exodus. One way is to affect the value of an individual's primary investment. Another way is to affect the value of equities. Have to keep them working and contributing, and not cashing out.
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Phrasing... I feel a Dalek moment approaching!
(in a metallic, ring-modulated voice): Savers detected in sector four. All Dalek patrols proceed to this location. Print, Hypothecate, Exterminate! Print, Hypothecate, Exterminate!
Ha ha, bank CDs are safe investments...ha ha...that's a good one....
In the long run (the one where we are all dead) I believe gold will be risk free. I struggle with suggesting it to older folks though because while I am willing to roll the dice I do not want to be the one who caused them to go on a catfood diet just because gold was pushed down for another few years.
Ultimately gold will come back as a monetary metal for savings. It will compete with fiat currencies and keep them well behaved. At that point it will be nice to have a good store of gold. The way points to that place zig and zag however.
Here in Australia we just had a politician call for a law against high interest rates....because it is killing our exports.....
Buy physical gold. It has been returning an average of 22% per annum over the past 10 years.
We already know that Betsey Wetsy, chief economist at BLS, doesn't think that old people count, so why should the Fed?
This weeks FOFOA is a great reference on the role of savers. Charlie Munger (Warren Buffet's future cellmate) said they were evil jerks if they did not buy his paper risk be damned. FOFOA has a kinder and more realistic approach. Look what our government has do to our elderly. It is truly shameful.
Anyone think older savers who never saw such bad interest rates will stampede to Obambi's opponent in November? While he might not be better he couldn't do worse than 0%. (Yeah, president doesn't control interest rates, but they don't know that, they only know O is prez, things are bad.) Landslide bitchez!
The old savings rate was 7% and will be even higher? Please more detail on that with all the people going from $80k a year to nothing like I have. My savings rate is fucking negative.
Bernanke sez 2% inflation target and 0% interest rates = robbing savers is now the official policy of the USA. But all "for the common good."
No doubt, this will build trust in the USA to look out for savers - right?
I say exterimate Ben and the Fed...maybe Ortho can come up with RIDBEN.
That's why Obama is called the food stamp president ....he won't be happy untill every man Jack one of us in on em' !
A normal government (US, UK) would stop taxing so much, stop spending so much and raise interest rates immediately. That's what normal people would do. But we are not suffering under the boot of normal people.
Eeny meeny miney moe.... ( no, lets not go there....) . Better, " None for You, One for Me". .....who will dare write THAT book? How long would the ponzi exist with any modicum of stability if "savers/ seniors/planners" determined that a sound retirement plan consisted of " x" ounces of gold for each actuarially computed month from ( delayed) retirement, to death. Cash one in a month into whatever piece of fiat shit is being offered at the time, and i expect you will have a very reasonable chance of preserving purchasing power through your retirement years.........better chance than with almost any other fiat investment vehicle you can think of
Ps , would also bring on the reset that much sooner.....so bonus bonus bonus.
This may be our last chance to SELL gold before it bottome out!
Are Diamonds the NEW gold?
This may be our last chance to SELL gold before it bottome out!
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Low interest rates work in lieu of "death panels."
Attention everyone who depended upon savings interest:
Convert all your fiat into gold. You won't receive "interest" (technically speaking), but you'll do vastly better than throwing dice in the wall street casino. If you had wised up to this 3~4 years ago, the value of your gold would have doubled as measured in fiat dollars. So you could now sell half your gold and still have the same number of dollars. That's something like a 20% ~ 25% return. Not too shabby. Whatever you do, stay as far away from wall street as possible. They are thieves.
I don't have the answers. To be fair, I don't think anybody does.
Having said that, there's stuff that those of us in the know can do, day by day, month by month. And keep on doing it.
-Only buy stuff that lasts, hang on to it, maintain it, and don't let advertising tell you you need to replace it. Stop being a consumer sheeple.
-Take all of your money out of conventional bonds and stocks. Stay liquid with basic accounts, keep some cash on hand.
-Buy gold and silver. Just buy it. However much you can. And keep it secret and safe.
-Try to get out of debt, and try to take on as little debt as possible.
-Maintain the health of your body. Don't enrich the tobacco, health insurance, or pharmaceutical execs. Maintain your mind. Be curious and pay attention to what your senses tell you. Read, try to understand how the world works. Reject propaganda from all sides. Don't pollute the body or mind with junk.
-If they fight, fight back. And keep on fighting till the bitter end.
Wonder who will blink first? Bernanke or me? I can hold out keeping my assets in risk-off for a while...can Bernanke hold his breath that long?
please send to ny times and mr krugman who I have sent many examples (including the pap)er the other day that talks how the low interest rates and leverage hel0p mainly the financial industry) on how he endorses polices that hurt the poorest in society.
funny how mr liberal goody too shoes really backs the status quo and when push comes to shove he endorses elitist polcies with the best of them. the guy has so many people fooled about his true nature.
But hey one thing you can say about the guy is no matter how much evidence to the contrary he always sticks to his positions. just like the church and galilleo (him being the church).
I suppose it has all been said before, but the dangers of ZIRP include...
---relatively painless increases in debt service, leading to greater sovereign debt levels that become excruciatingly painful in a rising rate environment
---penalties for savers, who either chase imprudent risk or reign in spending
---bank DISincentive to lend, fearing future funding risk of long term assets
---falsely large corporate profits that ignore pension underfunding
---oh, yes...then there's the inflation monster waiting in the wings (though Japan shows the wait might be long)
Haven't you already done enough, Ben? May you be gummed to death by a million yield-strapped, non-denture-wearing Seniors.
Well I'm semi-senile old fart and even I figured out that the only thing rreliably appreciating in value on the long was gold and silver. My "savings" each month goes to gold and so far it is beating the crap out all that other stuff Helicopet Ben wants to drive people into.
What gets me it the constant and contiuous lying about the state of the economy from "noted" authoriities. "There is no inflation" everytime I get gas or buy groceries, or get cabin fever and go to a fast food resturant I find price increases. Excuse me, I have to go to the closet and scream obscenities in the direction of Washington ,DC.
Predictable as the sunrise, they will swoop in to "solve this...crisis" for the elderly by "shared sacrifice". If you have money, you'll be putting more of it into social security (or whatever new program name they come up with).


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In a victory for gay rights advocates, a federal judge has ruled that state employees in California can sue for discrimination over the federal government's exclusion of their same-sex spouses from a long-term health care program.
U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken of Oakland denied an Obama administration request to dismiss the suit Tuesday and signaled that she is likely to overturn provisions of the 1996 so-called Defense of Marriage Act, which denies federal benefits to same-sex couples.
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The Internal Revenue Service is requiring registered domestic partners and married same-sex couples to split their income equally on their federal tax forms. This change in policy toward what is known as community property has been anything but easy to implement. And tax professionals are warning LGBT couples they need to begin thinking about their taxes now to avoid headaches later.
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Since then his wife Cindy has been documenting her process of surviving this tragedy.
The past four years have been filled with good days, bad days and days of taking notes.
"When you go through something like this, the lens of how you view life changes," says Cindy Winters, but she says somehow it makes you a better person.
Her world was flipped upside down on March 8, 2009.
Her husband Pastor Fred Winters was murdered in front of his congregation, when police say then 27 year old Terry Sedlacek walked down the center aisle and started shooting towards the pastor.
"I felt like evil penetrated our house and suddenly this good life that I loved and enjoyed was taken away from me, and I was really scared," says Winters.
She says scared of the unknown, her financial situation and her emotional stability.
But with pen in hand Cindy started to write and now the finished product, "Reflections from the Pit."
"Allows other people, to stop and process what they are feeling as well, regardless of whatever type of walk they might be on," says Winters of her book.
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Dallas' Rich Peverly lines up for a face-off on Monday. Peverley will not play again this season after he collapsed on the bench during Monday's game. One of Peverley's doctors said at a news conference Wednesday that the 31-year-old will undergo a procedure that was originally planned for after the season. He was diagnosed with an irregular heartbeat in training camp.
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1. In a medium saucepan, bring 3 1/2 cups water and salt to a boil over medium heat. Add oats and cook, stirring frequently, until creamy, 6 to 7 minutes. For a thicker consistency, cook for 1 to 2 minutes longer.
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Since last Wednesday's update, we published the winners of the Mobile Hack Roadshow and published a Developer Spotlight on iHeardRadio.
IPv6 Access
With the World IPv6 Launch coming on June 6th 2012, Facebook has committed to enabling IPv6 access for our users on most of our HTTP and HTTPS endpoints. Based on the results of last years IPv6 test on June 8th 2011, we are confident that enabling IPv6 on our platform will be a success. On May 18th, we will be enabling IPv6 on beta.facebook.com ahead of World IPv6 Launch to give our developer community time to discover issues and report bugs back to us.
IPv6 is vital because the Internet's original addressing system (IPv4) has run out of free space. Since every device on the Internet relies on a unique address to communicate, we must transition to IPv6 which provides over 4 billion times more addresses than IPv4. IPv6 will ensure everyone (users, ISPs, governments, and companies) have direct and open access to the Internet.
JS SDK Updates
We are in the process of updating the JS SDK to be more modular and strict. This means we will be enforcing the inclusion of the fb-root element and correctly initializing the SDK with FB.init.

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As announced on the Roadmap and Developer Blog, the following changes are going into effect on May 2, 2012:
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offline_accesspermission is deprecated and will be removed May 1, 2012. Until then, you can turn this change on or off using the "Deprecate offline access" migration. Please see the Removal of offline_access Permission doc for more details.
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Please check out the Developer Roadmap for more upcoming changes.
Bugs activity between Tuesday, April 10 and Tuesday, April 17
- 205 bugs were reported
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- 111 bugs were duplicate, invalid, or need more information
Changes pushed between Tuesday, April 10 and Tuesday, April 17
- Fixed bug - apps.facebook.com/ 404s when not logged into Facebook
- Fixed bug - Auth Dialog Preview link not working
- Fixed bug - IE 9 Like Button Error
- Fixed bug - Mixed Content (SSL) warning on IE from /connect/xd_arbiter.php
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- Fixed bug - Android: Clicking on requests and feeds shows a "No Internet connection" error
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The Sewickley Academy girls tennis team will be well represented at the PIAA Class AA individual championships to be held Friday and Saturday in Hershey.
Seniors Samantha Gohh and Sydney Miggantz, the WPIAL champion and runner-up, respectively, will compete in singles. Seniors Amy Cheng and Jappmann Monga, WPIAL doubles champions, also will play.
But as much as coach Whitney Snyder would like to see the girls win, he said victories will be small consolation for the Panthers' loss in the semifinals of the state team championship.
"Everything is team-related," Snyder said. "You play (section and WPIAL) singles and doubles championships so you're ready for team tournaments."
Sewickley Academy, the WPIAL runner-up, lost to Mercyhurst Prep, 4-1, in the PIAA semifinals.
Sewickley Academy's only win came in first singles, which Mercyhurst Prep forfeited in the second set so its player would be rested for the final later in the day.
The Panthers, who were seeking their second PIAA title in three years, lost in second singles, 6-0, 6-4; third singles, 6-1, 6-0; first doubles, 6-1, 6-4; and second doubles, 6-0, 6-3.
In addition to individual state qualifiers, sophomore Lauren Ritz (third singles) and senior Sydney Joseph and junior Riley Roberts (second doubles) played.
Quaker Valley coach Christi Hays, whose team lost to Mercyhurst Prep in the first round, wasn't surprised by the outcome. Quaker Valley lost to Sewickley Academy twice in Section 6-AA play.
"Mercyhurst Prep was by far the best team we faced all year," Hays said.
Cheng said she and Monga look forward to redeeming themselves at the PIAA doubles championship.
Quaker Valley finished third in the WPIAL, and qualified for the state tournament.
"It was a rebuilding year," senior Isa Hubsch said. "We would have liked to have gone to Hershey, but to have made it to Erie (for a first-round match) was an accomplishment."
"To be one of the top 16 teams in the state is a remarkable accomplishment," said Hays, in her first year as coach.
Besides Hubsch, seniors Caroline Steliotes, Emily Veeck, Lydia Sopp and Emma McCormish, as well as sophomores Farrah Bojalad and Emily Kraus, competed.
Karen Kadilak is a freelance writer.
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The Amador-El Dorado Unit of Cal Fire will be holding its 11th annual Fill the Boot for Burns fundraiser on Saturday, Feb. 16 in Cameron Park. The fundraiser will run from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
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The Amador-El Dorado Unit of Cal Fire will be holding its 11th annual Fill the Boot for Burns fundraiser on Saturday, Feb. 16 in Cameron Park. The fundraiser will run from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
"There will be three locations where you can simply drive by and donate: the corner of Cameron Park Drive and Country Club Drive, Merrychase Drive and Cambridge Road and Green Valley Road and Cambridge Road," Unit Chief Kelly Keenan said in a press release. "Money raised from this event goes towards sending young burn victims to burn camps and to research programs for the advancement of burn treatment and rehabilitation practices."
The event raised $20,000 last year. This year the goal is to raise $25,000 for the Firefighters Burn Institute, Keenan said.
"I am in awe of how generous this community is and it is an honor to live and work here," he said. "Our neighbors are the best there are and I believe they understand that not only are burns are a lifelong injury but that they are especially devastating to children."
The Firefighters Burn Institute is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization founded by the Sacramento Area Firefighters Local 522 in 1973, for the purpose of establishing a local burn treatment facility; providing recovery programs for burn survivors; providing fire and burn prevention through public education; funding education for burn team professionals, firefighters, and burn survivors; and supporting burn treatment and rehabilitation research.


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'Parks and Recreation' Star Pamela Reed Chats with Nancy Guppy
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Fans of the TV show Parks and Recreation will recognize Tacoma-born actress Pamela Reed from her recurring role as Leslie Knope's mother. After countless roles on television and in local theater, Reed is now playing Martha in Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, made famous by Elizabeth Taylor. See her rise to the challenge in the Seattle Rep's production. 4/18–5/18. seattlerep.org
LOCATION: Caffè Zingaro on Queen Anne, a cloudy morning in February
REED'S ORDER: Nonfat, light-on-the-chocolate mocha latte
NG: You've been cast as Martha. Is this a dream role?
PR: Yes. When I was at the University of Washington, I read this play and I was like, "Oh my God, some day, some day."
NG: Could you have played Martha earlier in your career?
PR: Maybe. Not much earlier. It requires some life experience to play this part.
NG: Describe Martha.
PR: I see a tortured soul who is also very funny. Her wit, intelligence and relentless drive were nurtured in a field of neglect, and out of that emerges a full-bloomed woman who is now watered with alcohol.
NG: What do you value most in another actor?
PR: Their willingness to be present in the moment. To give over and not come with some preconceived idea about how things should go. We have this gorgeous invitation to find out what this production of this play is all about.
NG: How do you feel on opening night?
PR: Usually it's a feeling of "Finally! Let's get this puppy up." It's sort of like when my husband and I knew we wanted to get married, but he didn't ask me because he wanted to have the perfect place to ask me, and I was like, "Oh for God's sake, come on!"
NG: What gives you joy?
PR: I've made my living as an actor for 38 years and I love it to the quick. I love being on sets, the smell of the lights, the sound of the house, the back stage, the dressing rooms...I am at home most in the theater.
NG: As an actor, when do you know when you hit the groove?
PR: There are those performances where you're a vessel, a conduit. It moves through you and it's highly kinetic, and it happens, if you're lucky, a few times in a run.
NG: As an audience member, what turns you on?
PR: I love getting lost in the play and getting found at the same time.
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Google updates Google+ for iOS with photo editing, removes Hangouts
The Google+ app for iOS has received some updates, including some that were shown off at the Google I/O developer event. Photo editing features, such as Auto Engance and Auto Highlight, are included, along with automated hashtags, the ability to edit comments, and minor changes to the update stream, according to The Next Web. The refreshed Hangouts have been removed from the Google+ app and made into its own standalone messaging app.