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I'd like to give everyone an idea of how we chose our winners. If you notice on your raffle ticket, you may have seen a 3 digit number repeated on your ticket. It appears on the top, left, and right of the ticket. These numbers are meant to assign you into a tier. We had 5 tiers in all, ranging from Tier 0 to Tier 4. These numbers were assigned at the time the entry fee was paid, or at random. From there, we chose one tier, through the use of a random number generator, as the winners.
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Boston (CNN) – Democrat Martha Coakley called Republican Scott Brown Tuesday night to concede in the Massachusetts special Senate election, CNN Chief National Correspondent John King reports.
"She congratulated Scott Brown on the campaign and wished him well in the very consequential days he has ahead as he goes to Washington to take the seat that Edward M. Kennedy, the liberal icon, held for 46 years," King said, reporting from Brown's Election Night gathering.
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I have a friend; he's a conservative Democrat back in Georgia. He's quite socially conservative and he's someone who I often sparred with over the subject of the Blue Dogs — the "fiscally conservative" Democratic coalition that tends to vote with the Republicans rather than with its party's progressive base. He always defended the Blue Dogs and assured me they had a vital part in the party and that the Democratic Party should be wary of being too liberal and that they were trying their best. I of course was the pinko commie in relation to this guy, and though we argued incessantly, we both agreed to disagree and admit we tended to be on opposite sides of the political spectrum within our battles for the soul of the Democratic Party. I thought Democrats did too little to advance social progress and wean off its addiction to corporatism, and he thought they were in danger of doing too much and being too liberal so as to alienate voters. Well, this is his response today to Senate candidate Martha Coakley's loss to Scott Brown — meaning a Republican now holds the seat of the grand liberal Ted Kennedy in one of the most progressive states in the nation:
And can I say this? F*ck the Democrats. They couldn't get shit done with 60 seats, why the hell would I care if they have 59? Fuck them seriously we deserve to lose Congress this year. And don't bitch and whine about it either how much has changed since we took over in 2006? Ain't shit as far as I can tell. We capitulated to Bush, then capitulated to Republicans and now are just capitulating to ourselves.
Fuck it dude, I mean Republicans get whatever the fuck they want with 50 seats and we can't do fuck all we deserve to lose.
I want Democrats to look at this. I want the people who run the DSCC and DCCC, the DLC, the DNC, members of Congress, and everyone up to and including the White House to look at this statement.
There's always been this mantra that kind of hangs around the necks of the Beltway establishment that warns of the mythical plague of Being Too Liberal. We heard it from the likes of Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) today on Fox News, where he ominously warned that we were doing "too much" on health care and were scaring away independents. Surely, the punditocracy will already be screaming from the rooftops that now the Democrats must pull back on their agenda, that they are simply Being Too Liberal and that Americans are responding to Big Government and Big Taxes and the Scary Progressive Agenda. I know this because this is what always happens when Democrats lose and Republicans win. It's seen as a repudiation of the ideas that the Democratic base holds dear. It works like clock work and it happens every single time.
Well, this loss had nothing to do with Being Too Liberal. This loss had to do with Not Accomplishing Enough. True, those of us here in the capital of the country have been fighting like hell to do more for average working people, and running up against people like Lieberman has obstructed that agenda at every turn. But at the very end of the day, we have 10 percent unemployment, expanding and seemingly endless war, and the people that seem to be doing best are the very same people that got us here — the bankers who developed the CDO and crashed the world economy, the pharmaceutical companies that successfully threatened Barack Obama into dropping his promise for drug reimportation, the insurance corporations that assassinated the public option and are greedily awaiting the influx of 30 million new customers.
To many of those in the Beltway liberal establishment, those concerns are just those of radical leftists — those pajama-clad bloggers, sign-waving demonstrators, and Very Unserious People. Well, guess what. My conservadem friend and many others I know who usually vote for the Republicans and who decided to give progressives a shot this time aren't upset because progressives were able to this year make tweaks to SCHIP or expand anti-discrimination protections. They don't look at sort of meandering around the edges of policy as great successes — like so many Beltway pundits and politicos do. They want real significant change they can see, and if they don't get it, they very well are likely to go and do that favorite sport of the American two party system — Vote The Bums Out.
And that means handing a Republican the keys to a Massachusetts senate seat, a feat few would have ever thought would ever be possible.
The standard Beltway reply to this is, and I've heard it time and time again from all sorts of people working in the Democratic establishment, is that Change Is Slow and We've Done So Much and We're Doing Our Best. I have no doubt, given the political realities here on the ground, that all of that is (mostly) true. But there's an alternate reality out there in the rest of the country that still feels the force of the recession that ravaged our economy, where people can't make ends meet, continue to be thrown out of their homes, see their kids shipped off to Afghanistan for a third tour, and pick up the newspaper every day to see that Goldman Sachs executives are treasuring their taxpayer-subsidized bonuses. In that reality the best that the Beltway has been able to produce — and we've certainly done some good things, as any cursory review of the legislation that passed in 2009 will show — simply isn't good enough.
Take the stimulus battle earlier in 2009. We heard time and time again that the economic stimulus bill, jammed full of tax breaks and special interest giveaways, was the Best We Could Do. "Fiscally conservative" senators complained that the stimulus bill had to be cut down, that it was too big, and that it would be irresponsible to spend more. As millions of Americans file listlessly into unemployment lines, those complaints look even more vapid and elitist now than they did then. The next meme we heard is that we can't possibly do a second stimulus, which could've kept unemployment much lower, because that was "politically impossible." The Democrats just lost a Senate seat to the Republicans in the only state whose electoral college votes went to McGovern in 1972. It sounds like the politics ended up punishing the people who didn't do enough to fight unemployment. What's politically impossible now?
And at the end of the day, it's the people of the country that decide if the best the politicos provide is good enough. Right now, it just isn't. No matter how much the chattering class complains about that, at the end of the day, people want results, and they want them much faster than Washington has been able to deliver them.
My honest opinion of Scott Brown is that he is a smart politician but that he didn't offer much in the way of compelling policy ideas. But at the end of the day, he campaigned against the status quo, and the status quo sucks. He painted Coakley as the out-of-touch elitist who didn't know her Boston baseball (remarkably) and who dined with lobbyists representing the pharmaceutical and insurance industries (pathetically). So he won. Americans did the best they could to affect the political system — they voted against the status quo.
So we can learn from Scott Brown. Instead of co-opting big interests because it makes our lives easier, we can mobilize the people against them. Instead of toning down our rhetoric because we're scared of being too populist, we can turn up the volume. Instead of ranting about the merits of marginally changing the economic circumstances of people, we can demand a complete re-working of the system to make it so that no one in this country has to willfully stand in an unemployment line or take food stamps because every person who works hard deserves a living wage and if employers don't want to stand by workers then by hell the government will. We need to give people change they can see, and we'd better do it fast, because otherwise we might just be looking at President Sarah Palin in 2012, and that's a fate too cruel to wish on any country.
UPDATE: A new poll from the Progressive Change Campaign Committee and Research 2000 confirms a lot of my suspicions about the election. 59 percent of Mass. voters who stayed home said they opposed the health care bill because it didn't go far enough, and plurality of Brown voters had the same conclusion. The poll also concluded that voters overwhelmingly believed that Washington's policies were too supportive of Wall Street over Main Street.
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Short Communication
Tsuji–Trost N-Allylation with Allylic Acetates by Using a Cellulose–Palladium Catalyst
Version of Record online: 30 OCT 2012
DOI: 10.1002/ejoc.201201241
Copyright © 2012 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim
European Journal of Organic Chemistry
Volume 2012, Issue 34, pages 6707–6709, December 2012
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How to Cite
Vaddula, B. R., Saha, A., Varma, R. S. and Leazer, J. (2012), Tsuji–Trost N-Allylation with Allylic Acetates by Using a Cellulose–Palladium Catalyst. Eur. J. Org. Chem., 2012: 6707–6709. doi: 10.1002/ejoc.201201241
Publication History
- Issue online: 20 NOV 2012
- Version of Record online: 30 OCT 2012
- Manuscript Received: 18 SEP 2012
- Allylic compounds;
- Amines;
- Allylation;
- Palladium;
- Heterogeneous catalysis
Allylic amines were synthesized by a simple procedure using a biodegradable and easily recyclable heterogeneous cellulose–Pd catalyst through N-allylation of primary and secondary amines. The scope of this protocol includes aliphatic and benzylamines with substituted and unsubstituted allyl acetates and culminates in high yield syntheses. The highlights of the protocol include a ligand-free reaction, simple workup, and catalyst recyclability.


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I have to frequently copy bug IDs from plain text emails to the Bugster web interface. Really wears me down. I even think my wrist is growing one of those tunnels named after military personnel. So I decided to sit down and do something about it. Because I was already sitting, half of the job had been accomplished, and that gave me strength.
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 My name is Artem Kachitchkine2, I'm an engineer in the Operating Platforms Group. Since I joined Sun a few years ago (virtually straight out of college) I've been working on a number of I/O related projects. I started by fixing bugs in Solaris serial and parallel port drivers, then participated in the bringup of the Sun Blade workstation series. After that, I moved into the USB land and later took ownership of the 1394 (FireWire) framework in Solaris, during which I wrote av1394(7D) and scsa1394(7D) drivers and introduced framework extensions to support new drivers. I was also part of the team that ported Solaris Fibre Channel stack aka Leadville to x64 platforms. Lately I've been busy working on various aspects of mass storage and removable media management in Solaris.
 Update Oct 2007: After finishing Tamarack and starting WWAN OpenSolaris projects, I joined the networking group and now contributing to Brussels.

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bonito, oceanic bonito, Katsuwonus pelamis(noun)
fish whose flesh is dried and flaked for Japanese cookery; may be same species as skipjack tuna
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Posted: 12/15/2009 - The first units in the planned troop surge soon will leave for Afghanistan from a North Carolina Marine base.
Posted: 12/15/2009 - The first units in the planned troop surge soon will leave for Afghanistan from a North Carolina Marine base.
Posted: 12/14/2009 - President Barack Obama says he'll know by the end of 2010 if his Afghan strategy is working.
Updated: 12/14/2009 - Governor Perdue visited the military base that is preparing to send hundreds of troops to Afghanistan before Christmas.
Updated: 12/15/2009 - The great grandniece of Wilbur and Orville Wright will be a guest speaker at the 106th anniversary celebration to honor their first flight on the Outer Banks. The event is free to the public and will involve local school students and a fly-by.
Posted: 12/13/2009 - A Coast Guard plane from Elizabeth City helped rescue three people off a French yacht hundreds of miles out in the ocean.
Posted: 12/12/2009 - A 90-year-old Medal of Honor winner in Richmond, Virginia says he plans to fly Old Glory "without interference" for the rest of his life, now that his fight with a homeowners' association is over.
Posted: 12/11/2009 - The Army's largest post, Fort Bragg, is tackling the problem of traffic gridlock with a lane for high occupancy vehicles.
Updated: 12/10/2009 - A Camp Lejeune Marine is now charged in the November shooting death of a 34-year-old Daytona Beach man.
Updated: 12/10/2009 - Corporal Xhacob Latorre of Waterbury, Connecticut died Tuesday of wounds he received August 10th in the Helmand province.
Posted: 12/10/2009 - President Barack Obama, accepting his Nobel Peace Prize, says all nations must follow standards on the use of force.
Updated: 12/09/2009 - The former Camp Lejeune Marine accused of killing his wife pleaded not guilty in an arraignment Wednesday.
Updated: 12/09/2009 - North Carolina's two senators are again pushing the Navy to fund a critical study on contaminated drinking water at a Marine base.
Updated: 12/09/2009 - Camp Lejeune says a leaking joint in a 24 inch pipe was discovered around 3:30 p.m. Tuesday. Now the state has closed parts of the New River to fishermen.
Posted: 12/09/2009 - The senior American general in Afghanistan is predicting success for President Barack Obama's revamped war strategy, telling Congress it's the best available approach.
Updated: 12/09/2009 - North Carolina-based Marines are returning from a seven-month deployment that sent them to seven countries and included use of the MV-22B Osprey in Afghanistan.
Posted: 12/08/2009 - U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates says the U.S. is committed to Afghanistan for the long haul.
Updated: 12/08/2009 - The Marine once at the center of an international manhunt makes a court appearance in Onslow County Tuesday.
Updated: 12/07/2009 - Joint Chiefs Chairman Admiral Mike Mullen was at Camp Lejeune, giving the Marines who will soon deploy a pep talk.
Updated: 12/07/2009 - The passing of 68 years has not dulled the memories of those who endured the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, which ushered the United States into World War II.
Posted: 12/07/2009 - The passing of 68 years has not dulled the memories of those who endured the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, which ushered the United States into World War II.
Posted: 12/07/2009 - The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is coming to Camp Lejeune Monday, to give Marines and sailors facing deployment a pep talk.
Updated: 12/04/2009 - The marines and sailors are part of the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit from Camp Lejeune and Marine Corps Air stations New River and Cherry Point.
Posted: 12/04/2009 - It's a big homecoming for many families in eastern Carolina as 1,700 Marines and Sailors are returning from Afghanistan.
Posted: 12/04/2009 - The Navy will pay for the re-analysis a 10-year-old government study on whether contaminated water harmed babies at Camp Lejeune.
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El perfume : Historia de un asesino (original 1985; edition 1992)
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Great Novel, the movie really downgraded it
The story is about different odors and the Hero Jean-Baptiste Grenouille.
Grenouille, is born without odor of his own, that is he is odorless. But he has a strange ability to identify different odors and tell exactly what is it, where is it, who is it and also recreate it again.
He finds out that he is been avoided as if he doesn't exist, by people because he is odorless. So he sets out to make human odors, to be loved by people and in process commits horrible murders.
The way the narration goes, it shows that Grenouille is not aware of these murders as a crime but just as a process for making perfume. Just like crushing any ingredient while creating a perfume. He succeeds in recreating the human odor perfume but gets caught for his murders.
The funny thing was the perfume he created helps him to get away from the sentence.
The narration is good and the way the different smells are shown through words are really beautiful.
I was originally put of by this books popularity, but I'm glad I gave it a try. The plot is dark and unique, and despite sounding weird (okay, a little bit silly) it works really well. But honestly it was the writing style that made me fall in love with this book. Read it in German if you can, because the language is beautiful.
There are geniuses in our midst - painters, musicians, writers, chefs, persons who work in mediums that one can see and hear and feel and taste - mediums that last. But for author Patrick Süskind, that wasn't enough.
In 1985, Süskind published what would become his best-known work internationally: Perfume: The Story of a Murderer. And while little has been seen of, or from, the author since the novel's publication (and subsequent translation from the original German, plus a feature film in 2006) one is certain that within this medium lies his greatest strength; it's a kind of magical realism that pulls on the source of endless memories, and which relentlessly binds the reader to that world.
Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, born into abandonment with no scent of his own, carves his way through life in pursuit of what one can only call the scent of pure love - that essence which he has been denied since before his untimely birth. This is not simply a novel about that fifth sense to which the title alludes, but about a man for whom that sense is so keen, and whose beacon of purpose shines so brightly, that the reader cannot help but urge him on to the finale. The protagonist (though I almost hesitate to call him that) is not your average serial killer, and his story certainly borders on the unusual.
Süskind's intoxicating prose is embellishment itself - labeling each and every scent of the world as if the olfactory genius is recalling them by scientific name and spitting them out like ticker tape onto the page. This kind of barrage of words might seem affronting, but in Suskind's hand it's magical and enticing. The words race towards the climax which is nothing short of a literal orgy which Grenouille has induced.
The film adaptation (which stars Ben Whishaw, and features Alan Rickman, Dustin Hoffman and Rachel Hurd-Wood) is a visual stunner that develops some of the finer points of Grenouille's education very nicely but, without the omniscient prose of the novel, much of the richness and detail is lost in the medium translation. One countdown (Laure's approaching birthday) is replaced with another (the 13 essences) more effective device, bringing things to a conclusion more swiftly, but losing delicate layers of aromatic ambience that make the novel shine. The film is a splendid portrayal of scent as a medium, but the novel is significantly more gratifying, and far more varied and interesting a feast for the consumer.
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Set within 18th century France, Perfume was a delight to read. The language used was so rich and descriptive, and it was fascinating to read about Grenouille's unique perspective of Paris as shaped by his extraordinary olfactory abilities. I am sure many cities in the 18th century just absolutely stank and Perfume does an amazing job of describing just how disgusting it could be.
Grenouille straight up gave me the creeps, he is just such a disconcerting character and not somebody I would want to meet in a dark alley that's for sure. The book did a great job of building up a sense of foreboding. Grenouille was an absolute psychopath with a bizarre obsession, even as a baby he creeped me out - but I was absolutely fascinated by him.
There is a lot of detail about perfumes and how they were made which I found to be so interesting. One of my favourite parts of the whole book was when Grenouille started to enter the amazing world of perfuming and like Grenouille, I was similarly full of wonder. There were plenty of parts in the book however, where it was unnecessarily slow or took some strange detours away from the main plot.
This book has one of the most shocking endings I have ever encountered. Such a horrific finale that I never could have predicted. Perfume was such a worthwhile read for me and I would heartily recommend it.
Just as Grenouille can manufacture a perfume that infallibly conjures up the same response in anyone who senses it, so Mr. Suskind creates words that provide a satisfying illusion of another time. Grenouille the perfumer becomes a kind of novelist, creating phantom objects in the air, but Mr. Suskind himself is a perfumer of language. This is a remarkable debut.
A delight to the senses, disturbing serial killer, must read!
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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0375725849, Paperback)An acclaimed bestseller and international sensation, Patrick Suskind's classic novel provokes a terrifying examination of what happens when one man's indulgence in his greatest passion—his sense of smell—leads to murder.
In the slums of eighteenth-century France, the infant Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born with one sublime gift-an absolute sense of smell. As a boy, he lives to decipher the odors of Paris, and apprentices himself to a prominent perfumer who teaches him the ancient art of mixing precious oils and herbs. But Grenouille's genius is such that he is not satisfied to stop there, and he becomes obsessed with capturing the smells of objects such as brass doorknobs and frest-cut wood. Then one day he catches a hint of a scent that will drive him on an ever-more-terrifying quest to create the "ultimate perfume"—the scent of a beautiful young virgin. Told with dazzling narrative brillance, Perfume is a hauntingly powerful tale of murder and sensual depravity.
Translated from the German by John E. Woods.
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Follows an odorless baby found orphaned in Paris in 1738 as he grows into a monster obsessed with his perfect sense of smell and a desire to capture, by any means, the ultimate scent that will make him human.
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MONROE -- An ongoing fire caused 49 families to evacuate the Hidden Trail Apartments in Monroe, Mich., today.
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no please, make more! don't make me beg!
Who is Nigel Montgomery?
This is simply hilarious...really, I would not mind if you made more of these.
Please sir, may I have some more?
I need more of these in my life.
For Queen and Country!
This,... this Is GLORIOUS.
I say, how rude!
Regardless though, good stuff indeed. I demand continuation!
Regardless though, good stuff indeed. I demand continuation!
This is hilarious beyond words XD please keep em coming, old chap!
Lord Nigel Montgomery Shepard strikes again!!!
Jolly good show, old bean!
So... what would the Paragon option be, and what would you name it?
I can't breath. I'm-that was great!
More! More we say, you rascal!
Glorious work bty!
Glorious work bty!
*Garrus go back to C-SEC*
"I'm too old for this calibrating sh*t"
"I'm too old for this calibrating sh*t"
Having seen all 4 seasons of Blackadder, I now say that I want Lord Nigel Montgomery Shepard to be played by Stephen Fry.
Please, please continue this. You are a blessing on the entire world.
ahem in the words of these, poor poor, orhpaned souls... "please sir, Can we have some more?"
Every new one is proof they should not end. Top shelf.
Please don't end this. These are amazing.
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Yeah, this totally happened when I forgot to change the grenades the first time I played. I like to think my squad had the same reaction as here.
My fiancee is actually the inspiration for this one. She mowed down that entire colony, and the whole time she thought she was racking up paragon points. Like, "YEAH. WE DID IT. SAVED 'EM."
Aww, no more? Nooo, I want more Rapscallion Shepard! He's most irregular, such a scandelous beast!
Never stop. It's not british enough yet.
The BIGGEST rapscallion in the UNIVERSE! This is excellent!
+ 10 Rapscallion lol fuckin ace
awww i like these XD then again im British so i get them a tad more than others.
great work!
great work!
+10 Rapscallion... I'm 110% percent done. My sides hurt, my sinus' are sore. You've nearly killed me!
I'm English and I have no idea what any of those options mean.
Awh, Garrrus' reaction :Đ
More! More! There must be more!
I love the World War One era Brodie Helmet that Lord Nigel pulls out of nowhere.
Way to blow the riffraff out of the water! Bravo, old Bean!
OH EASE UP GARRUS. it's all jolly good fun!
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If you guessed that they are all big in California—well, you're kinda right. But the more significant answer is that they are part of a growing broad array of the US economy that have united together to strongly encourage Congress to address abuses of the legal system by Patent Assertion Entities (... Read more
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Congress is beginning to focus on the abusive use of patents by Patent Assertion Entities (PAEs) with new legislative proposals. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte and a wide variety of witnesses highlighted the PAE problem in hearings last winter. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman... Read more
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Acted for the initial purchasers led by J.P. Morgan and TD Securities Inc. in connection with Air Canada's US$1.1 billion private placement offering of secured notes. The offering consisted of US$600 million of first-lien secured notes, $300 million of Canadian dollar-denominated first-lien secured notes and US$200 million of second-lien secured notes.
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Acted for Reitmans (Canada) Limited in regard to the acquisition of Shirmax Fashions Ltd. in a transaction valued at approximately $86 million.
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Acted for BELLUS Health Inc. in its restructuring of US$80 million of its outstanding convertible notes and an investment of $20.5 million in senior secured notes by Victoria Square Ventures Inc. and Vitus Investments III Limited.
Acted for Knight Therapeutics Inc., a TSX-listed, leading Canadian specialty pharmaceutical company, in connection with its reciprocal investment transaction with Medison Biotech (1995) Ltd., Israel's leading independent specialty pharmaceutical company, whereby the companies will work together to bring innovative treatments to patients in Canada and Israel.
Acted for J.P. Morgan Securities Inc. as joint book runner and representative of the initial purchasers in connection with US$400-million unsecured notes of Air Canada.
Acted for the purchasers of US$215 million senior secured notes due June 16, 2025 issued by Cogeco Cable Inc. to US institutional accredited investors on a private placement basis.
Acted for Kimco North Trust III, an indirect wholly-owned entity of Kimco Realty Corporation, in connection with its offering of $200 million unsecured notes on a private placement basis in Canada.
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On April 23, 2014, Neil spoke at the Davies Legal Update, Spring 2014 on the subject of: Recent Developments in Securities Law in 2014.
Neil is a contributing author to the Davies thought leadership publications, "2015 Canadian Capital Markets Report: Looking Back, Looking Forward" and Canadian Mergers & Acquisitions – A Guide for Foreign Investment Banks and Bidders.
Neil was a contributor to the International Securities Law Handbook authored by members of the World Law Group, published by Kluwer Law International and the co-author of "The Ontario Civil Liability Regime – Not Quite 10b-5 North" published in Corporate Liability Studies 2006, by Federated Press.
Neil was a member of the Editorial Committees of the ABA International Joint Venture Publication and the ABA 2015 Canadian Public Target M&A Deal Points Study.
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Ok, these houses will be set thoughout the region by difficult spots to get to. The main ranger there will always be able to heal your pokemon whenever you feel like it. its pretty much a pokemon center without a pokemon center around. here is a couple.
pics of the first ranger base:
so if you're ever in trouble or one of your pokemon are seriously injured, stop by one of these basses and im sure the officer ranger would be glad to help you out. and there is a possibility i might be adding minigames in these bases.
The next update will be me in the Goldrock city gym versing Jalen
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I have two monitors on my desk and a TV mounted above my desk; I often like to plug my HDMI from the TV into my PC to enjoy watching TV via Plex and other sorts of things. However, I have a couple issues. My TV and monitor have different over scanning options which cause things to be chopped off. I have to manually adjust this setting in my ATI Control Panel every time and it's a bit of a pain.
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Organization(s): USGS, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center
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Principal Investigator(s): John S. Schlee
Affiliate Investigator(s): Charles Hollister
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Data Type(s): Imagery: Photo, Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sampling: Biology, Sampling: Geology, Seismics: Sub Bottom Profiler
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Start Date: 1969-07-19
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Equipment Used: 3.5 kHz, Grab sampler - Van Veen , Corer - gravity, Dredge, Dietz-Lafond snapper, 35 mm camera, 70-mm camera, Raytheon radar, Loran-A
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Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Grab samples: 82; Cores: 4; Water samples: 6; Photos (35 mm): 245; Photos (70 mm): 93.
Staff: David W. Folger, John S. Schlee
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Notes: Project = Continental Margin Program, Continental Margin Program
Cape Ann, Massachusetts Bay, Massachusetts, United States, North America, North Atlantic;
Buczkowski, B.J., and Kelsey, S.A., 2007, Archival policies and collections database for the Woods Hole Science Center's marine sediment samples: URL: http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2006/1187/.
Tucholke, B.E., Oldale, R. N., and Hollister, C. D., 1972, Map showing echo-sounding survey (3.5 kHz) of Massachusetts and Cape Cod Bays, western Gulf of Maine: , download PDF.
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Today I was asked by a new friend in the Clyde community quiet bluntly "Are you Gay?". I wasn't mad, I'm not ashamed, my answer was "Yes." He went on to tell me that he was just curious, and that he was suspicious that there were others he knew.
If this isn't the place for this kind of thread please moderator remove it! But Two months ago before I bought a bike I never imagined I'd find a community that had plenty of riders in my "weight class". Maybe it's not outrageous to think I'm not the only Gay clyde, so I'm willing to take the first step forward.
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On Wed, 2007-05-02 at 21:03 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:I got looking into this because of these review requests: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=235804 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=235805 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=235815 And I've come to the conclusion that we need some kinda ocaml packaging guidelines. Interesting with regards to this are: http://docs.pld-linux.org/ocaml.html http://pkg-ocaml-maint.alioth.debian.org/ocaml_packaging_policy.txtMaybe you could start an add something to the fedoraproject wiki, for example a Ocaml SIG. There has also been some interest in this by Richard Jones <rjones redhat com>.
Thanks for alerting me to this Gerard.I did post to caml-list a while back about the lack of a comprehensive range of OCaml packages in Fedora (versus the case with Debian, for example, where the supported packages are both comprehensive and of very high quality).
I didn't get much response, but I'd really like to help out.At my previous company I wrote and maintained a great deal of OCaml software: http://merjis.com/developers
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Over the past month, the Smead Discovery Center played host to a baker's dozen of monarch caterpillars. When they arrived, they were about a quarter of an inch long. They kept us busy with their demands for fresh milkweed to eat—we spent a fair amount of time in the staff parking lot snipping leaves for them!
Waiting to transform: Monarch caterpillars
After two weeks, they had grown to almost two inches in length. At that point they hung themselves upside down for about a day then, shaking and thrashing, shed their outer skin to reveal lumpy, pale pupa that quickly turned into a lovely, jade-green chrysalis decorated with a row of gold dots. Those dots looked like they'd been painted on with 24-carat gold. They were metallic and beautiful.
We were so excited on the days they were pupating, we kept getting pulled away from our work. We hung around the tank, waiting to see what was happening.
After that we waited. And waited. Patiently...and not so patiently. After the frenzy of feeding and cleaning the caterpillar tank this period was hard to sit through—when were they going to do something?! However, they were doing something in there, growing reproductive organs, sprouting wings, antennae and long, slim legs, redeveloping digestive tracts. These things take time!
About twelve days after they pupated, those jade green chrysalids turned startlingly transparent, revealing the black and orange wings of monarch butterflies. One by one the chrysalids split open and out swung a squat, ungainly bug with stumpy nubs for wings. We watched abdomens ripple, lengthening and narrowing to the more familiar butterfly shape as the wings slowly smoothed and spread.
We released the butterflies in the courtyard off the Museum's central lobby where they have plenty of flowers for nectar and milkweed to lay new eggs on.
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Metamorphosis is something that every child in Ohio learns about in school. As we get older, though, we sometimes forget the fun of what we've learned. We tuck facts away to just dust off occasionally for reference.
Getting to watch the process is a whole different ball game. The very best part of the whole experience was watching adults remember about butterflies. A dad's face when his four-year-old explains the life cycle, complete with the right words. Grandmothers realizing that this tiny creature may fly all the way to Mexico for the winter. Sharing something brand new that we just learned, such as how to tell male monarch butterflies from female. Those were the parts that made this a lot more than a lesson in life cycles. It was a chance for visitors to reconnect with nature and science and to learn that you're never too old to be amazed.
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- Stars, Goddard Space Flight Center- NASA
Reviews the various variables that help classify stellar objects.
- Star Life Cycles
Read another description of the life cycle of stars.
- New Hubble Image Shows Life Cycle of Stars, CNN
This short article reports on an advancement in understanding star life cycles.
- A Star's Life, HubbleSite
Catch a glimpse of the fascinating life cycle of stars. This movie requires a plug-in to be viewed.
- How did galaxies form?, Origins Education Forum
This discussion includes the formation of galaxies in general as well as the Milky Way.
- The Milky Way - Our Galaxy, University of California, San Diego Center for Astrophysics & Space Sciences
This brief article on the origin of our galaxy also includes several images.
- The Birth of Stars, Cornell University
Page has information on how a star is born.
- Witness the Birth of a Star, NASA
Image of star birth.
- Star Nurseries, Discovery Channel
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Persuading a lawmaker to introduce a bill on an idea you support does not spell success in the legislative process.
Mike Seney, vice president of The State Chamber, took the 300 members of the Oklahoma Small Business Advisory Commission on a trip last week through the circuitous route by which a bill becomes a law, or not.
In all of his years of observing the system that develops the Oklahoma Statutes, Seney said he has discovered only one constant -- change. Rest assured, he said, that the precious proposal you hand a lawmaker to shepherd through the process will not be the same when it comes out the other end of the legislative machine. Another basic fact of legislative life, he said, is that less than one-quarter of measures introduced during a two-year legislative session survive. For example, Seney said, during the 1997-98 session, of the total 3,782 measures introduced, only 857 or about 23 percent were signed into law. Even if a bill sails through one legislative house, he said, its eventual success is not assured. "A bill may pass unanimously in one house because people know it won't be heard in committee in the other house," Seney said. It is in committee where most legislative changes are made, and where most measures die. Relatively few bills are killed on the floor of the House or Senate. In general, Seney told the business owners, lawmakers who chair the various committees control the legislative process. It is they who decide whether a particular bill will receive a committee hearing. The one exception is a House rule by which a bill must be given committee consideration if half of committee members request it. "You need to be aware of these facts, because we've got our work cut out for ourselves," Seney said. He said the process is essentially the same in both houses, although there is generally less public input in the Senate. …


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The Savings and Loan Crisis: A Recordkeeping Challenge
Barrese, Edward F., Records Management Quarterly
As an increasing number of savings and loan institutions headed toward insolvency in the 1980s, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) was asked to lead a joint effort to evaluate and oversee the operations of insolvent savings and loan associations. The Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation, the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, the Federal Reserve Board, and the Comptroller of the Currency also participated in the effort.
In August 1989, Congress passed the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act (FIRREA), establishing the Resolution Trust Corporation (RTC or Corporation). The mission of the Corporation was to manage and resolve failed savings institutions. The scope of the work of the Corporation in the savings and loan industry is unprecedented. As of spring 1992, the Office of Thrift Supervision had assigned 699 institutions to the Corporation, of which 651 had been either closed or sold. The Corporation had received over $250 billion from asset sales and collections, had a remaining inventory of approximately $114 billion in assets to be sold, and had protected nearly 22 million deposit accounts worth $212 billion.
As with other corporate programs, the records management effort was developed very quickly to deal with very large problems. Two simple statistics will provide some indication of the scope of the program. First, the Corporation has taken custody of nearly 1,800,000 cubic feet of records from failed savings and loan institutions; second, the corporate records management staff in field offices responds to over 130,000 requests for institution records each year. By way of comparison, the total volume of general program and administrative records stored by federal records centers operated by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) for all federal agencies is approximately 12,500,000 cubic feet. Each year, NARA's records centers respond to 2,500,000 reference requests, once again from all federal agencies, to these general records. Indeed, no federal agency in recent history has been forced to mount a records management effort approaching the scope of the program currently underway in the RTC.
The organization of the records management program in the Corporation follows the traditional framework established within the federal government. A small headquarters staff, the Records Management Section (RMS), provides the full range of records services to Corporate headquarters offices, and develops, coordinates, and issues policy guidance to corporate field offices. The Section consists of the corporate records manager, four management analysts, two management assistants, and a single clerk-typist. Two management analysts are devoted to field records issues while the remaining two analysts focus on directives management and other headquarters records areas. Initially, RMS was organized under the Office of the Executive Secretary, but in 1992 the unit was reorganized under the Office of Administrative Services in the Corporation's Department of Administration.
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This rather traditional records management organization has been challenged by a number of special management problems stemming from the uniqueness of the Corporation and its Congressional mandate. …