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There Is No Dog
by Meg Rosoff
There Is No Dog Chapter 36 Summary
- For once, Mona is trying to be a good mom. She wants to put an end to this whole Lucy thing, but Bob is a spoiled whiny brat and isn't listening.
- For once, she also has a good point. We imagine that Lucy will be a little freaked out when she learns that she just had sex with God. Just a little.
- And, we can admit it: for once, Bob is trying to do the whole thing right. He's not turning into a swan or something and getting rid of her when he is tired of sex.
- Really? We don't see it lasting. (And neither does Mona.)
- Then another shocker: Mona lets it slip that Mr. B might not be around to pick up the slack forever, so Bob should maybe try to step it up at work.
- Just then, Bob notices a sign that says, "There is no God."
- Not quite correct.
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Senior Damon Magazu
Oct. 19, 2013
By Bill Woodward
GREENVILLE, N.C. - East Carolina senior safety Damon Magazu has had a nose for the football lately.
Magazu intercepted a pass for the third-straight game in Saturday's 55-14 rout of Southern Miss. It's about making plays when the opportunity is there, the three-year starter said.
"When the play comes to you, you just have to make it," said Magazu, who picked off a Nick Mullens pass in the second quarter. "If you try to force plays, that is when you mess up or give up the big play.
"As long as everyone is doing their part and the play comes to you, you have to make it. It's not just the (defensive back) making the play. It's the defensive line putting pressure on the quarterback and the linebackers doing their job."
It's not totally by chance, either. Pregame preparation helps lead to being in the right spot to take advantage when the quarterback makes a mistake.
"I think it's kind of reading body language and reading route combinations and that comes earlier in the week," Magazu said. "The defensive coaches do a great job with that. They give us all kinds of route combinations, so if you see one thing happen, you know what's going to happen next.
"It's just reading that with the body lean of the receiver and reading the quarterback. If you can do all that at one time without staring at one person, it's going to help a lot. I think (defensive coordinator) Coach (Rick) Smith has done a great job with teaching us how to do that."
Magazu had six interceptions in his first three seasons with the Pirates. This year, he has three in the first seven games.
"Mags has made plays from high school on," ECU coach Ruffin McNeill said of the former Charlotte Providence High School star. "Mags could play wide receiver here. He reminds me of Wes Welker because Wes could play defensive back too. They are both smart football players."
Magazu smiled when told of the comparison to Welker, the 5-foot-9 NFL star who has been a perennial All-Pro and led the league in receptions in 2007, 2009 and 2011 despite his stature.
"Maybe it's about stature, I guess," said Magazu, who is 5 feet 11. "I think Welker might be a little bit better with the ball skills than me. I got tackled by the quarterback (after Saturday's interception). I was a little bit upset about that. I got a little bit of grief from my teammates about that.
"But I'll take that comparison any day. He is a great athlete."
Like Welker, there is more to Magazu than the physical side of the game, McNeill said.
"People underestimate Mags, which is a mistake," McNeill said. "It is like mistaking someone's kindness for weakness. He has that competitive desire and understands the game. He's smart and savvy.
"The first time (he makes an interception), it might be luck. The second time he does it, it might be luck. The third, fourth, fifth and sixth time, it's not luck."
For Magazu, the interceptions are fun. But the impact of the play on the game is more important than the individual achievement.
"It kind of brings the other offense down," he said. "Interceptions, fumbles, a fourth-down stop, that is diminishing for the other offense. Any time we can do that, it's huge."

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The global financial crisis that started in 2008 severely contracted the Gross Domestic Product and employment in European and Central Asian (ECA) countries. To support affected households, the governments of the region began scaling up labor market and social assistance programs. The depth and breadth of the crisis, however, brought about unprecedented social consequences. Thus, ECA countries were eager to learn from other middle-income nations around the world that had successfully improved policies to address gaps in anti-crisis employment programs. Through the Global Development Learning Network (GDLN), World Bank staff connected government representatives from Kosovo, Moldova, Serbia, Turkey, and Ukraine with a representative from the government of Argentina and Bank experts. The objective was to help ECA policy makers increase their technical knowledge to strengthen safety nets and implement counter-cyclical employment strategies.
The ECA participants, who were grappling with the social consequences of the financial crisis, learned directly from policy makers in Argentina who had faced a labor market crisis a decade earlier. The exchange helped ECA officials understand that they faced common challenges and setbacks in implementing safety nets to mitigate the impact of the crisis. Participants were especially interested in public works programs because of their potential to provide beneficiaries with needed income while also maintaining links to labor markets when job opportunities were scarce. The exchange therefore enhanced the network of public sector professionals both within ECA and among Argentine experts. The exchange also enhanced participants' knowledge and skills in designing and implementing sustainable public works and health insurance programs.
The Global Development Learning Network (GDLN) supported the knowledge exchange though a series of videoconferences and electronic interactions. Claudia Berra, the Senior Advisor to the Secretary of State for Employment in Argentina's Ministry of Labor, described the 2001 crisis in Argentina and presented the flagship safety net, the Jefes de Hogar (Heads of Household) and Employment Insurance Training Programs currently in use in Argentina. Ms. Berra also talked about designing and implementing employment policies that target the general population and vulnerable segments such as youth and women. Kalanidhi Subbarao, a global expert on public works, presented information about public works programs from his work around the world. Ihsan Ajwad, Senior Economist at the World Bank and author of "The Jobs Crisis: Household and Government Responses to the Great Recession in Eastern Europe and Central Asia,"2 provided ECA-specific information and then facilitated an interactive discussion based on each country's experience.
The learning sessions concentrated on five sets of major technical questions.
The knowledge exchange participants requested a number of Bank technical reports, including the policy notes emanating from the just-in-time crisis monitoring effort in ECA, the evaluation of Argentina's public works program, and a number of country-specific reports (e.g., Latvia) as supplements to the learning activities.
The 2008 global financial crisis hit Europe and Central Asia (ECA) severely. During 2009, across the region the average Gross Domestic Product (GDP) contracted more than 5 percent, with 20 out of the 29 economies registering negative growth. Households felt the crisis through labor market deterioration: firms laid off workers and stopped hiring new employees to reduce their wage bills. Year over year increases in unemployment in ECA countries averaged 30 percent —an absolute increase from 9.4 million to 12.2 million between December 2008 and December 2009. In the face of sharp GDP contractions, many countries implemented or scaled up policies and programs to protect and create jobs, as well as to provide unemployment benefits. Support for affected households included scaling up passive and active labor market programs, strengthening social assistance, and maintaining or increasing minimum pensions. The World Bank has been working closely with the governments in ECA to design tools to mitigate the impact of the crisis on households.1 Bank staff identified a recurrent demand: to learn about the policy responses and experience of both other ECA countries and middle-income countries in other regions.
Using funding provided by the World Bank Institute, Bank staff organized a knowledge exchange between Kosovo, Moldova, Serbia, Turkey, and Ukraine and experts from Argentina to learn about anti-crisis employment policy responses. Argentina was chosen because it is a middle-income country similar to the participant countries and because it had suffered a crisis a decade earlier. In addition, the exchange aimed to address several gaps in technical knowledge, such as how to design effective counter-cyclical employment strategies, how other countries with similar profiles dealt with labor market issues in times of crisis, and how to choose and design the right tools that lead to meaningful policy reforms.
The exchange enhanced the knowledge and skills of the participants in designing and implementing sustainable public works programs. It raised awareness of some of the common issues and setbacks when implementing public works programs. The participants also improved their understanding of certain related topics, such as health insurance and wage setting. The knowledge exchange also enhanced the network of officials in the participating ECA countries, so they may continue to share experiences and overcome challenges in implementing public works. By talking to other policymakers, the participants understood that their problems are not unique and that they can in fact learn from each other's successes and failures.
The videoconferences paved the way for more information sharing between World Bank experts and the participating officials. Upon request, Kalanidhi Subbarao sent out several reports on Public Works and Social Audits in India to the ECA officials. Similarly, Polly Jones, who is a principal Operations Officer at the World Bank, shared information about health and accident coverage in Argentina. The ECA participants understood that they have to be prepared for future crises and thus need to have the capacity to design and implement responsive and scalable employment programs. They also need sufficient reserves to draw on in case of a crisis.
Overall, the discussions enhanced the debate about public works in the region, which is crucial for ECA because of its weak history of public works. Having a policymaker who had managed the Argentine program as a resource person was thus very beneficial. In addition, having one recipient country answer the questions posed by another recipient country was very effective because it gave the sense that all participants work together to overcome common challenges rather than receiving advice from outsiders.
A number of aspects of the event could be sustainable. For example, setting realistic objectives, design and targeting criteria as well as outcomes and monitoring came out very strongly and are likely to lead policymakers to take particular account of these factors in the future. In addition, participants understood that public works can be used effectively as a counter-cyclical tool, another realization crucial for responding to future crises.
The knowledge recipients were senior officials from the governments of Kosovo, Moldova, Serbia, Turkey, and Ukraine in charge of public works programs and post-crisis labor market response.
1 Especially through the Technical Assistance on the Human Development Impacts of the Financial Crisis project. The objective of this work is to support ECA clients in responding to the crisis. The project includes monitoring and analyzing impacts on households (social assistance tracking, labor market monitoring), analysis of microsimulations (in poverty, employment, education, and health consumption), policy responses with social safety nets and employment programs, and social sector public expenditures.2 To read the report, please go to: http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/COUNTRIES/ECAEXT/0,,contentMDK:22840795~pagePK:146736~piPK:146830~theSitePK:258599,00.html


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Crack is Whack, Especially on an Airplane.
So a few days ago I only had 2 legs to get home and finish my hellish 4-day long Thanksgiving trip. Those in "the biz" are well aware of how the shit always seems to hit the proverbial fan on what we call "go home day".
It's Murphy's Law, and Murphy was obviously a huge asshole.
Anyway, the aircraft is boarded (and of course completely full – fuck you holiday travelers!) and we are soooo ready to get the hell out of there…and just as we are about to close the door (thank you baby Jesus!!) in slowly strolls the typical late douchebag. I will try my hardest to describe this guy. He was probably in his mid-fifties (but looked 70+), and was a hot disheveled mess. He had longish, shaggy & greasy hair, was wearing a flannel shirt, dirty jeans, and a beautiful black leather FANNY PACK straight out of a 1982 Penny's catalog . The best way I can describe this hot mess, is that you would totally see him on a Law and Order: SVU episode living under a bridge and being interviewed by detectives Benson & Stabler.
Upon close examination I deduce that he is not intoxicated, but only bat-shit crazy…and very unkempt. Not a crime. During the last few minutes of preparing to close the door, etc., his open and overflowing bag starts to lose all of its contents while he is attempting to stow it; an apple, change, random papers, receipts, you get the idea. Shit is just falling out, covering the floor of the aisle, and naturally I'm trying my damnedest not to bust out laughing (or punch the fucker). My inner voice is screaming BE PROFESSIONAL! which can be incredibly difficult most days, but whatevs.
We finally get the hell out of dodge and begin our beverage service. Naturally the guy asks for an alcoholic beverage (SHOCKING!), and I tell him "no". He asks "Oh, so you don't have ANY alcohol on the plane"? My answer: "That is correct". No big deal, he doesn't throw a fit – but the passengers on the other side of the aisle about are about to give birth to a cow. "YOU DON'T HAVE ANY ALCOHOL"? they ask. I look at them, give a little wink and quietly mouth the words, "yeah, we do" while nodding my head. They were picking up what I was putting down, and I ever-so-slyly sneak them a few drinks so that whatshisface couldn't see. All is well.
After completing our various in-flight duties, we start our descent. I am in the back galley and start heading up to the front, when all of a sudden the shit hits the fan. I look up and I see the the dreaded flashing red light and hear the now activated smoke alarm ringing loudly throughout the cabin. It looks and sounds horrific as it is nighttime and pitch black… so naturally everything is amplified by 100x. I about shit myself right there (as do the passengers), but I hustle my ass up front (my inner voice is now yelling: HOLY FUCKING SHITBALLS! Fire+Plane=FUUUUUCK!), as I am looking foward hauling balls up front I notice the bat-shit crazy guy is stumbling out of the lavatory. I immediately grab the halon fire extinguisher, pull the pin and start ripping apart the lav. I ransack the shit out of it. Of course all the while I am yelling at the guy "WHAT DID YOU DO?" "WHERE DID YOU PUT THE CIGARETTE?"
Well, after seeing the smoke and smelling the nastiness permeating throughout the front of the plane I soon realized that it wasn't a cigarette. My ex-cop self kicks in and I start yelling, "WHAT THE HELL DID YOU DO"?? His reply (wait for it.…): "I caught my hair on fire". Me: "WHAT. THE. FUCK." Of course I start all the ex-cop questioning and he explains, "I was in the bathroom trying to find something in my bag (bag=beautiful black 1982 Penny's catalog leather fanny pack) so I used my lighter to see". Me: "You used a lighter to see in a LIT bathroom? I don't think so" "Try again, dude". I grab the flashlight, shine it on his head – and he was right. He burned most of the hair on the top of his head off. Me again – WHAT. THE. FUCK. You know that distinct burnt hair smell? Yeah, it's fucking disgusting and is wafting throughout the front of the cabin. The top of his head is basically smoking at this point.
After a few large men in uniform carrying guns (a.k.a. the po-po), take him off the plane (all the while he is asking if he is going to make his connection while we taxi in – BWAHAHAA!!) it is discovered that he had a crack pipe on his person.
So yeah, the bottom-line; THIS ASSHOLE WAS SMOKING CRACK ON THE PLANE IN-FLIGHT AND CAUGHT HIS HAIR ON FIRE.
P.P.S. My captain was stuck in security at the same airport prior to this flight for 35 minutes whilst they ransacked HIS bag. Yes, the captain flying the fucking plane. But yeah, the crack pipe held by the obviously bat-shit crazy & disheveled guy got through no prob. Oh the irony.
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On the eve of Independence Day, a local disabled veteran feels that he has lost his independence - and his best friend. On Thursday, July 3, Q13 Fox News reported that the dog of Robert Mitchell of Olympia, Wash., was stolen from his backyard while he slept. The four-month-old pit bull puppy, named Maximus, was in training to become his medical alert service dog.
"He didn't just run away," stated Mitchell. "He wouldn't take his toy and his blanket with him to run away."
According to Mitchell, his pit bull, Max, was stolen out of his backyard between 4:30 a.m. and 9:00 a.m. on Monday. The yard has a six-foot-tall wooden fence and the gate was still locked.
"I came down at 9 to feed him, and the other dog was here, but he wasn't," Mitchell recalled.
Mitchell began an immediate search of the neighborhood, but days later, Max is still missing.
"I never would have imagined in a million years that someone would jump the fence and take him," Mitchell said.
Mitchell filed a police report and Thurston County sheriff's deputies went door-to-door looking for the missing service dog. For Mitchell, the loss of Max is profound.
"Never had a dog. I feel like … I feel like I let him down," he stated through tears. "He's not just a pet."
Mitchell, who served 20 years in the Army, including the first Gulf War in Iraq and a deployment in Bosnia, suffers from PTSD and life-threatening seizures. He was forced to retire in 2008 because of his seizures and his doctor advised him to get a service dog.
Max was training to be his medical emergency service dog and the pit bull puppy had just begun his training to become a service dog. According to Service Dog Central, it typically takes 18 to 24 months to fully train a service animal.
"Him being gone, it's just about to kill me," Mitchell stated sadly.
This disabled veteran said that he won't press charges - he only wants the safe return of his dog.
If you have any information about Max or know of his whereabouts, please call the Thurston County Sheriff's Office at (360) 786 5500.
In Washington State, there are multiple resources for missing pets, including the Missing Pet Partnership (MPP), Three Retrievers Lost Pet Rescue, the Facebook page Lost & Found Pets Wa State, the Facebook page Help FIND Nahla, and the Facebook pages Stop Pet Theft and Helping Lost Pets.
Many of these resources have successfully returned missing and stolen pets. In 2013, Help FIND Nahla helped track down Nahla the dog, who was taken from Seattle in September of 2012. Lost & Found Pets WA State has also helped hundreds of missing dogs and cats return home.
Helping Lost Pets is a National Pet Registry that sends email and text alerts to members in the area where the pet was lost. It is connected with humane societies, animal shelters, animal rescues, veterinarians, and many other pet businesses and organizations.
The MPP provides lost pet recovery work throughout the Puget Sound area. Their cutting-edge recovery techniques and dedication to finding lost pets are at the heart of their success. The MPP offers phone consultations with tips on how to find missing cats and dogs. To learn more about the Missing Pet Partnership, visit their website here.
Three Retrievers Lost Pet Rescue has been helping pet owners throughout the greater Seattle area find their missing cats and dogs since 2008. Founder James Branson first volunteered with Missing Pet Partnership before starting Three Retrievers in 2012 and he has experience with more than 2000 missing pet cases. To learn more about them, visit their website here.


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Chic Parisian women have an established tradition of crossing the pond to tell American women what they are doing wrong and how they can do better. The French, legend has it, do not get fat, age gracefully, and their children are impeccably behaved.
Enter Florence Escaravage, the founder and CEO of Love Intelligence, the leading French love counseling company in France and Europe, now offering an auto-coaching Method centered on the 5 keys to find love. I call in to her office in Paris's gorgeous ninth arrondissement and we set up in a boardroom with vibrant blue-hued nudes. She is dressed simply in a white shirt and skirt.
Much more than the "French touch"
First things first. The "French touch", she insists, is the least interesting thing about her program. "I don't think I discovered my method because I'm French. My message, it is universal because it is all about creating the conditions necessary for what I call the "love state" to occur, which is the same everywhere in the world. It works between two Indians, two Americans, two French people. In all situations the method works to rid us of our obsession with control to allow this love state to come into being."
If French women do have an asset over their American counterparts, it is that they have a little bit less control in their lives, though it remains a big problem. "I have a lot of Wonder Women, businesswomen, who come to see me and as soon as they understand that they need to relinquish some control, to let down their guard, as soon as, you know, I take three quarters of an hour to explain this to them, that's it, they have understood. The problem is that until you explain this to someone, they just don't get it. Us woman who work have a natural tendency to replicate our way of being in our professional lives in our love lives; this is very negative and we don't realize it. I know many women whose husbands left them, whose husbands asked them for a divorce because they are women who are too in control and finally they don't give their emotions anymore, so there is no longer anything being shared in the couple, and the man can no longer find his place beside his wife."
Why we let love pass us by
She seems genuinely appalled by how easily such failures could be avoided. "I created Love Intelligence in 2007 because I had the conviction in me that certain people let love pass them by without seeing it. I actually found this rather intolerable and I wanted to give them, as regards emotional maturity, what it seemed to me was important to know. It really struck me that all the psychology and therapy available didn't really respond to this, the books you could buy were not enough, and I had the impression that there was a real demand to gain emotional maturity and to stop letting love pass us by over the years."
And so she set up Love Intelligence with an expert committee including Sylvie Tenenbaum and Serge Hefez, two of the biggest names in psychiatry and psychology circles in France. It was quite the career change – she had previously been a business consultant; she thinks that she brought this structured, pragmatic way of approaching problems to her new role. Were her friends surprised by her decision to become a love coach? "Honestly they thought it was a natural fit for me. They weren't surprised at all. They were always inundating me with questions about their love life. Ever since I was a little girl – I'm a bit like Obelix, I fell into some love potion, and so before even creating Love Intelligence, I was already inundated with people asking me for my advice."
Does she like helping people then? "Yes… or rather I like helping people in the area of love – for everything else, I don't care." She laughs. "Really though, that's what gets me up in the morning. I love moving people forward in their love life, watching them progress. I think about my clients all the time."
"There is no one who finds themselves stuck in a rut in their love life, who can come to me and explain their situation, and I can't tell what's going on in their life. I know it all. People naturally confide in me and I have this need to get to the bottom of things."
It's an impressive claim. Does she ever worry about putting herself on a pedestal? She is married with three kids – is she superstitious? "No," she says flatly, pragmatic as ever. "But what I do feel is that I don't have the right to fail in my relationship, if I did that it would mean I hadn't understood anything. Sure there is always the risk that a relationship could end but – one of my favorite quotes is "loving is wanting to love" and so, in 6 months, if I want to and he wants to, there's no reason for us to separate."
Tapping into our seductive power
"I think the reason I am at ease in the area of love and relationships is because I haven't subscribed like others to this whole fantastical side of love, I mean I love the magic of love and the love state but I don't like the illusionary side of love. I don't like – in fact I detest the idea that love hurts. I really believe that love, it does us good, and so when I see people who are hurting in love I can't stand it."
"What frustrates me most is this immense emotional immaturity I see out there. You know, as soon as people understand their seductive power, it's amazing what they can achieve. I've seen people be a victim of their own success in three weeks, even though they might have gone 8 years without kissing a boy. The power of love, it's incredible. I had a client who was 1 metre 49 tall (4 foot 8), who was hunchbacked – an intelligent woman, a professor at a university but all the same who didn't have a lot going for her, and who, a few months after, had found love, even though her mother had said to her that with her physical appearance she would never find love, because when you understand what is unique about you and you reveal it to others, this is very very powerful. Seduction is really powerful. We have it all inside us. It is a sin not to reveal it!"
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David Doherty - UK-US Communications Officer - Love Intelligence


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Former Wildcat standout Allison Napier enters her fourth season as an assistant coach at Arizona, where she will assist in recruiting and the day-to-day team operations both on and off the court.
Napier ended her career at Arizona with 1,008 kills in 110 matches, averaging 2.86 kills and 1.55 digs per game over four seasons as an outside hitter. She helped lead Arizona to a Sweet 16 appearance in 1999 as a junior, and the school's first Elite Eight finish her senior season in 2000 as a First Team All-Pac-10 honoree. She led the Wildcats in 2000 with 440 kills and a 4.04 kills per game average, the fifth best single season mark in school history.
After her playing days at Arizona, Napier played professionally in Puerto Rico during the 2001 season for Indias Mayaguez, and was selected as an All-Star.
Napier earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English literature from UA in 2002, and spent two years working for ELLE Magazine in New York as a publishing assistant. Before taking over as an assistant coach at Arizona, Napier was the public relations coordinator for TSE Cashmere.


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Arizona Head Coach Lute Olson
Radio Quotes
"I thought Mustafa played really well tonight. He had six assists and no turnovers. The thing he is really doing well is that he is attacking the defense so well. He seems to be more and more under control and comfortable with what he is doing."
"Our balance was the key tonight. You can see we had all five guys (starters) in double-figures (scoring). Marcus Williams had eight rebounds, Chase Budinger had eight, Ivan Radenovic and Jawann McClellan had nine boards. Not only did we have balanced scoring, but we were balanced on the boards, too."
On Fendi Onobun:
"He can get to the glass. When he does, he is very valuable for us. That's the biggest thing with him. He has a nice shooting touch, too. He can hit the 15-17-footer as well as anyone. He is very strong and physical. He showed tonight he can take the ball to the hole. That's what we need out of him more consistently."
Postgame Press Conference Quotes:
"We had good balance both in points and rebounding. It was really good to see the way we rebounded. It's really important to us. We had all four guys involved on that glass that need to be involved. Mustafa has the defensive balance, so he won't get a lot of rebounds."
On the status of sophomore guard J.P. Prince:
"It's a personal matter, which I won't comment on. That is all I am going to say."
On the team's defensive effort:
"I thought we displayed good patience. We did not give them a lot of opportunities for back-doors. We gave them some, but they are going to get some against pretty much anybody."
On the play of freshman guard Nic Wise:
"Nic played well. A couple of his threes went half-way in and then back out. He really shoots the ball well. We're trying to get him some more minutes to help him gain more confidence."
On the team's improvement defensively:
"We're getting there. We scrambled better tonight when we had to help. We did a better job scrambling to the open man. When he ( a driver) penetrates and passes it to an open guy, we need to force that one more pass. We need to utilize our quickness and get out to the pass receiver. We were more active than before.
On showing multiple defensive looks in the first half:
"We kept them off balance by switching from zone to man. In the first half, I think we played three different defenses. Sometimes that change up can keep a team out of rhythm."
"I think it's important (to use its athleticism as an advantage). Anytime a team can shoot well, they are dangerous. It's good to get the crowd involved. Any team that comes in here is in a bit of trouble. The longer you let them stay in the game, the more confident they can get. We've done a nice job of getting good leads on all three teams (this year at home."
"Marcus was more active on the glass, as was Jawann. The good thing with him was that he was active one the defensive glass, too. He attacks so much on the offensive end, but he attacked more on the defensive boards tonight."
On Samford's
"We wanted them to have to hit the three, with some of their guys. Some of their guys we didn't want that, like (Randall) Gulina. The emphasis with him was to make him put the ball down. He got 10 attempts (made five) tonight. Sometimes we stood off. When you have a guy like him, you have to make him put it down and use your quickness."
On the slow-down style of play by Samford:
"They aren't a fun team to play. It's like going to the dentist, a bad dentist."
On the slow-down style of play by Samford:
"We play teams like this because we have teams like this in our league. We have to learn defensive patience."
Freshman Forward Chase Budinger
"We've been jumping out of the gates fast all year, that continued tonight."
"They were matching up in a zone defense. So when our guards got into the paint it gave everyone else open shots."
Looking forward to UNLV
"We're going to keep working on defense... that and rebounding. Those are two big things for us right now,"
Junior Guard Jawann McClellan
"We played defense in the second half as if the score was 0-0. We need to keep that kind of effort up."
"We have a tough schedule coming up. So we have to bring it every game, just like we had to bring it tonight."
On teammate Mustafa Shakur
"To me, he is one of the best point guards in the country. Especially considering all of the criticism he's taken."
Senior Guard Mustafa Shakur
"Every night I'm looking to put the ball on the floor and get my teammates the ball."
Sophomore Guard Marcus Williams
"We have so many athletes on this team. I honestly don't think anyone's going to want to run with us."
"We have got to focus on defense... Make sure we get everyone on the other team out of their comfort zone."


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It's official! The Ellen Show now can be seen by one billion people in China. News of the first American talk show to hit the airwaves was announced by Ellen DeGeneres on Tuesday's show and the star couldn't be happier to share the news with her fans. According to the Los Angeles Times on Tuesday, this is the first time a syndicated talk show has been distributed in China. After welcoming the new viewers and reminding them she has a website to buy products, Ellen DeGeneres shared how it would be different than other places who watched the show.
'We became the first American talk show," said Ellen DeGeneres on The Ellen Show. "It's basically the same show but with subtitles."
Chinese viewers can see all of Ellen's guests, check out her funny dance routines and even catch a little bit of American culture. And with the subtitles, they can even follow along if they don't speak English (unless their eyes are closed.)
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[5 April 1845]
Dearest Babbie
Expect no comfortable letter from me this day either— If you have had any thing like the same amount of East wind in Liverpool which has been taking the skin off the INSIDES of us poor wretches here; you will not be surprised that I should have no good to say of myself— My cough is quite gone however—that is so far well—but for the rest; I am—what shall I say? sick upon my honour1— I should like to have a feeling of being well again tho' it were only for five minutes— I feel as if I should be able to DO such wonderful things, if I had only the physical force and freedom from physical depression which so many people enjoy without knowing their happiness—but—there's no use wishing— — I "should be thankful" as the Annandale Man suggested "that I am not in Purgatory"2— I wonder after all if Purgatory be much worse than the sort of thing one has to go on with here week after week, month after month—year after year—heigh ho!—
Well! I should be glad today—should feel "a good joy," for behold me seated here in the midst of "virtue's own reward,"3 in shape of new sofa and chair covers &c all realized by my own genius and industry— All this week I have done nothing else but drive my needle, and if you only saw "the little Babylon which I have builded"4 you would declare it "most expensive!5 that is to say not expensive at all for the cloth was 7d ½ per yard but most pretty and clever—this time; being in advance of my age in the matter of upholstery, I have hit on a plan of making the "loose covers" look exactly like tight nailed on ones—which keep clean much longer and look much tidier to begin with— Actually since Monday I have made covers for the large sofa, four pillows, the two easy chairs and one footstool!! not before they were needed but what set me on the them just this week with such particular vengeance was a sort of reactionary movement against all that Minerva press nonsense which has been transacting itself at Manchester— The whole love affair is blown up—for the present—but I am greatly mistaken if Geraldine so soon as she finds that the man takes no further notice of her, do not be at him again—and he is such a simpleton poor Robertson, that anybody with half Geraldines art might wheedle him into anything— Frank Jewsbury has conducted himself like "a mad" thro the whole business, and his two last letters to me were not the least mad part of his behaviour—seeing there was no likelihood of his ceasing to pester me with his nonsense I poured out a few drops of vitrol on him last Saturday which brought him to his senses with a suddeness!— Also on Geraldine a few drops of vitrol—which brought her to her senses so far as I was concerned—by monday's post I had a letter from Frank Jew, making humble apologies,—from Geraldine Jew, making impossible justifications, from Robertson goodnaturedly regretting "the immense botheration he had given me who so little needed it" but the greatest consolation of all has been a packet of caricatures from Mrs Paulet which made me laugh till the tears ran down— I have seen poor Robertson twice since then and have brought him pretty well to his senses—his "madness" is the only excusable madness among them—for besides that it was really a mortifying thing for the man to have a second marriage break down with him within two months,6 a marriage too which was none of his own seeking—he has poor fellow a constitutional tendency of blood to the head which when any thing excites him violently produces a sort of brain-fever— Geraldine's conduct thro the affair has been that of an arrant fool, tho she should have written not one, but twenty clever books— Now she is off to Paris to get the cobwebs blown out of her brain—off with Frank and the—Egyptian!!7— I am disgusted upon my honour. and she judged well not to see him on her way but to defer that pleasure "till any provocation had subsided."—
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4,000 sculpted people, 5,000 in the stained glass windows, built following the fire which ravaged the previous building in 1194, teeming with details, such that a single visit, no matter, how long can only give a brief overview! The two tall spires and the Royal doorway make up one of the most attractive examples of French religious art. The doorway is a marvel of Romanesque art where the faces are animated intensely with life. Note also the North doorway, the severity of the flying buttresses of the chevet before entering this huge church bathed in semi-darkness. You will be struck by the marvellous decorated windows dominated by the famous «Chartres blue» as clear as it is deep. It is impossible to detail everything here but you should not miss admiring the Notre-Dame-de-la-Belle-Verrière, spared by the fire in 1194and which plays with a whole range of blues. Do not neglect the other riches of the Cathedral, such as the enclosure for the chancel begun by Jean de Beauce where 41 sculpted groups illustrate the lives of Christ and of the Virgin, the crypt with its radiant chapels, the saints-fort well, with doubt Gallo-roman in origin, which is 33 m deep or furthermore the chapel of Notre-Dame-de-Sous-Terre...Unless you prefer to absorb the height and, at the top of 195 steps visit the lower gallery of the new clock tower where a whole host of statues gargoyles await you.
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Some great investment resolutions to consider for 2011
Investment Corner
From December 29, 2010 issue
At the end of past years I have developed a habit of setting myself up for failure. Making predictions about the direction of prices in the financial markets is a hazardous business where guessing right 50 percent of the time is good. But yet, there is an expectation among the majority of investors that individuals who provide investment advice should be able to predict the future, somehow magically providing all the right tips to help them succeed at an above average rate.
I'm a little embarrassed to say that I'm just now reading "The Intelligent Investor," by Benjamin Graham, after being in the investment profession for about 23 years. Graham is not exactly a household name, but if you knew that he taught Warren Buffett at the Columbia University Business School you might pay attention. Buffett credits Graham with being the most important influence in his life after his father. Graham's track record as an investor left his peers envious.
Graham's opinion about the role of an investment advisor was one in which the value of the advisor to the client was in the form of helping the client avoid mistakes, not one in which the advisor generated excessive returns. Of course, avoiding mistakes does potentially help the rate of return become higher.
It has been amazing to me to read Mr. Graham's book written in 1948, fresh with memories of the Great Depression and World War II, and to relate the fear and greed cycle of investor emotions of that period to what we have experienced in the last 10 years. They are the same. The descriptions of the speculative market phase in 1929 could have been used as a great description of the technology stock bubble of 2000 and few would know the difference.
His recommendations for how investors should approach investing is very sound and includes criticism of taking too much risk in an effort to beat the market, short-term trading and viewing investments in equities as speculating as opposed to investing as an owner of the business. Interestingly, he was also a fan of formula based investing, which is the concept of using a set of rules to buy and sell stocks as a way to avoid the emotional mistakes which lead so many to sub-par returns.
So, as we approach a new year, it's my hope that a list of resolutions might be helpful as you consider your investment planning for 2011 and beyond. In the spirit of Benjamin Graham's vision of an advisor – client relationship, I hope they might help you avoid mistakes.
Don't take too much risk
The fund managers with the best track records we know of generally earned them by putting a higher priority on avoiding losses during tough times than generating the largest gains when things were good. Recovering from a 50 percent loss requires a 100 percent gain, and most investors have left the scene of the crime after absorbing a large loss and don't participate in the recoveries.
I would venture to say that for most investors, a plan averaging 6 to 8 percent with lower risk of failure will end up providing a better result than a more aggressive approach.
Don't fall in love with past success
There are exceptions, but every short and medium term trend that has ever existed has caused losses for those who came in too late. Stories from friends about their great success with some investment theme are great influences, but if they've already made a lot of money, isn't it time to consider when that game might end? They all do. Instead, consider what is being viewed in a pessimistic light as the bargains to consider for the winners of the next few years.
Be optimistic
Every crisis the U.S. economy has experienced felt like the world would never be the same and our best days were behind us. This has been going on for more than 200 years, but yet our standard of living keeps rising, personal wealth keeps rising, and our lives are longer and healthier than ever before when considering the population at large.
Returns from investment in stocks, bonds, and real estate have been very positive over periods of time that your investment planning horizon should encompass (10 to 20 years). You can always say, "It's different this time," but that has always been a losing bet.
I hope you enjoy a prosperous 2011, and wish you all the best for a happy and healthy new year.
Tom Breiter is president of Breiter Capital Management, Inc., an Anna Maria based investment advisor. He can be reached at 778-1900. Some of the investment concepts highlighted in this column may carry the risk of loss of principal, and investors should determine appropriateness for their personal situation before investing. Visit www.breitercapital.com.


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College Hockey:Rare Marciano double sends Colorado College past Alaska-Anchorage, into WCHA semis
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Just like that, Joe Marciano's career goals total tripled.
The sophomore defenseman scored two second-period goals, the second a game-winner as Colorado College beat Alaska-Anchorage in the WCHA Final Five quarterfinals Thursday at the Xcel Energy Center.
Marciano was soft-spoken about his night.
"It felt pretty good," Marciano said.
The Tigers advance to the semifinals and will face No. 1 North Dakota at 7 p.m. CST Friday.
"We knew it was going to be a difficult game because Anchorage is playing as well as anyone in the country right now," said CC coach Scott Owens. "We saw them five times throughout the year so we knew how physical of a team they are."
CC went into the locker room after the first period with a 2-0 lead on goals by William Rapuzzi and Tim Hall. Marciano struck first, 4:39 into the second period, on a floater from the top of the right circle.
UAA got one back 10 minutes later but Marciano had the answer with just 17.7 seconds left in the period.
"The first one I just got to the front of the net and it happened to go off one of their guys," Marciano said. "Second one, we had guys working hard down low and they got the puck out to me. I wound up again and that went in, too."
Marciano didn't score in the 2009-10 season and had just one goal through 41 games this season. He has eight assists playing right defense on CC's second defensive pair.
Meanwhile, the Seawolves missed a pair of chances to score while down two goals.
Jade Portwood had CC goaltender Joe Howe completely beat but missed on the backhand attempt. Craig Parkinson had an opportunity to score on a centering pass redirect attempt but it hit the side of the net. Sean Wiles sent a shot in from the halfboards on a rush, catching the outside of the post because Howe was so far out of position.
"The difference was early when we didn't capitalize on scoring chances," Shyiak said. "They got some puck-luck goals early and that's the nature of the game. I thought we played well enough to win but we could not find a way to score early."
Mickey Spencer finally put UAA on the board with 5:03 left in the second period on a shot from the point, and Luka Vidmar brought the Seawolves within two again with 1:01 left in the game on another long-distance shot that got past Howe.
The Seawolves finished their season 16-18-3.
"It was a great season," said Parkinson, a senior for the Seawolves. "There's a lot of good guys in the locker room and I wish I was coming back. It's a good stepping stone for this program."
UAA starter Chris Kamal was pulled from the crease 4:39 into the second period after Marciano's first goal. He allowed three goals on four shots but his coach and teammates didn't put the blame on him.
"Chris has been great, stringing five wins together," Shyiak said. "Three of the goals were in off skates. It wasn't at all his fault and it was really nobody's fault."
Added Parkinson: "We told [Kamal] to keep his head up. It wasn't his fault. I had two goals go off me, basically. He's done so much for us and he deserved better."
Rob Gunderson came in and gave up a goal on nine shots.
Notes: Tyler Currier received a five-minute major and a game misconduct when he was called for checking from behind on CC's Dakota Eveland with less than five minutes remaining in the game. … Attendance for Thursday's two-game session was 13,131, the lowest single-session turnout since 2003.
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If you think "small-ship Greek Isles cruise on a shoestring" is a bit oxymoronic, there's a relatively new player in cost-conscious Greco-sailing that might make it seem less so. Since 2005, Variety Cruises and Zeus Casual Cruises -- Variety's more informal arm -- have been offering intimate, seven-night Eastern Mediterranean cruises on an eclectic mix of vessels with no more than 54 passengers each.
Now the line is aiming to convince North American passengers that they can, indeed, afford a small-ship cruise, as reported in a recent profile by the San Francisco Chronicle.
Slightly reminiscent of easyCruise -- the one-ship budget line known for its Greek Isles cruises, heavy on in-port time and light on onboard superfluity -- Variety Cruises is all about the destination, featuring highly unusual port calls (like Spetses, a traditional Greek fishing village that's free of cars), regular stops for swims off the ship and extended port stays, with ships often docking overnight.
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Mid-range "Jewels of the Cyclades" itineraries -- aboard the 52-passenger, multi-masted Galileo -- are priced from $1,450 to $2,350 per person. Sailing roundtrip from Athens, they call on ports that include Poliegos, Folegandros, Santorini, Ios, Paros, Mykonos, Kea and Sounion.
At the top end, "Classical Greece" cruises are offered aboard Harmony V, the line's newest and most modern yacht. Prices start at about $2,290 and reach $3,390 per person. The ship sails from Athens and stops at Kea, Mykonos, Santorini, Crete (two stops), Nafplion and Spetses.
Note: Low season discounts of 20 percent are offered on select April and October cruises.
Again like easyCruise, fares include breakfast and either lunch or dinner, so it's up to each passenger to account for the third square onshore. As an added bonus, wine and ouzo with meals are also included in the base price. Optional for-fee excursions are available in some ports. Although more expensive and upscale than easyCruise, Variety offers terrific value for such an intimate and unique cruise experience.
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As Young As You Feel Day is here this 2014, and this unofficial holiday — celebrated annually every March 22 — is a great time for people of all ages to look and feel young again. A day to look back on the past and lose one's inhibitions, As Young As You Feel Day serves to remind all people that for many, age is but a number. Days of the Year News reveals new information on this noteworthy date and updated ways to celebrate the time this Saturday, March 22, 2014, from dressing up youthfully to simply thinking with a fresh mindset.
Although many important and traditional holidays are honored throughout the year, As Young As You Feel Day is a special one for those who think their greatest years are behind them. People of all ages can enjoy this unofficial March holiday, but it is likely most fondly celebrated by those who live in relative good health yet believe they are limited in the ways they can currently behave due to societal or age-related restrictions.
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William and Uberta were both in arranged marriages that didn't turn out so wellMaybe they were in love with each other, before marriages were arranged with other people, maybe they just both ended up unhappy in their marriages, but whatever the reason, William and Uberta were in marriages arranged with other people, and the marriages weren't the happiest ones. This is why, when they had kids, they were willing to spend essentially every summer trying to get their children to get along, instead of just shoving them at each other at the age of majority, and telling them that they were engaged- they wanted their children a chance to fall in love with each other. Of course, they probably didn't foresee how much they would fight with each other, or anything, but they at least wanted to give their children a chance.
Derek and Odette planned their whole relationship from the beginning.After the initial meeting, the two made up and decided that they liked each other, and that getting twice as many subjects and wealth when they grew up was a sweet arrangement. However, they pretended to fight and not get along for the next decade or so to troll William and Uberta. They were in a serious relationship and intended to get married since their teenaged years, and planned the whole "Is beauty all that matters to you?" incident ahead of time for fun. The next step in their plan would have been a big reconciliation, but Rothbart kidnapping Odette screwed that up. Once his lifelong friend and lover was taken away, the gloves came off and Derek stopped pretending.
Adult Odette is an imposter.The actual Princess Odette that Derek spent his summers with died of illness or an accident, so King William adopted a niece or young cousin or something and passed her off as the real thing the next summer. Derek and the Imposter Odette already knew and liked each other, but were unable to be together because he'd been betrothed to the real Odette all his life. When they replaced Odette with the girl he liked, Derek went along with the operation enthusiastically. However, he got tongue-tied when the Imposter Odette asked him about his feelings for her, and gave her the wrong idea that she was just a pretty Replacement Goldfish for the real Odette. After Derek went to such lengths to free Imposter Odette from the spell, however, she realized that it really was her that he loved all along and not the real Odette, and the two never told a soul who she really was.
Jean Bob really is a prince.Why not? Rothbart can turn people into animals. Given Jean Bob's general attitude, he was probably abducted as a tween, turned into a frog and lived there for quite awhile, likely presumed dead by his people. He's foreign enough that it wouldn't compete with the rest of the plot, and otherwise—how would a random frog know French? Speed's probably still a turtle though.
Derek really did break the spell upon Odette at the ball.Rothbart could have added another spell so that Odette would die if Derek had made the vow to the lackey who impersonated her, but he may have kept the original spell on Odette active, thinking that it would not come true at all at this point. What Rothbart might not have realized was that even though Derek thought the lackey was Odette, the real Odette's presence at the ball when Derek made the vow would still be enough to break the spell. It's also possible that the spell breaking "cancelled out" Odette's death (a la Beauty and the Beast), and Odette merely passed out rather than died in the scene before Rothbart and Derek had their battle.


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Chairman Richie Garcia of the Philippine Sports Commission (PSC) has been appointed as chief of mission to the 17th Asian Games in South Korea, the Philippine Olympic Committee (POC) said yesterday.
POC secretary-general Steve Hontiveros made the announcement on instructions of POC president Jose 'Peping' Cojuangco Jr., who wants an early preparation for the Sept. 19 to Oct. 4, 2014 sportsfest that will be hosted by the city of Incheon.
The appointment was made even before the Southeast Asian Games is held in December this year and more than a year before the actual event in South Korea signifying the POC's intent to improve the country's fortunes in Asia's biggest sports competition.
"I am thankful for the trust and confidence being given to me by the POC," said Garcia, admitting that the coveted post carries "a big responsibility."
Besides Garcia, POC chairman Tom Carrasco and POC treasurer Julian Camacho were also considered for the post.
Garcia said the POC's decision to name him means that Cojuangco wants to see the PSC and POC put the Asiad quest in motion immediately.
"We'd like to identify talents at the soonest possible time so they can train and hone their skills," said the 67-year-old Garcia, who plans to name some members of the national team as early as January.
Thirty-six sports, majority of these Olympic sports, will be played in Incheon and 437 gold medals will be up for grabs.


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Rita Redberg: It's Fine for Simple Issues
Should doctors communicate with their patients via email?
Email is handy for certain questions and certain patients. For more straightforward information or scheduling questions, it sure beats trying to schedule a phone call or visit. But for more nuanced or complex questions, it is hard to replace a phone call or visit. In general, I think we need to increase opportunities for patients and physicians to have meaningful conversations, which can lead to better understanding, care most suited to patient preferences and more satisfaction for both patient and doctor.
Rita Redberg (@RFRedberg) is a Professor of Medicine and a cardiologist at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) Medical Center.
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Over the last few months I have kept going back and forth on Professor Clayton Christensen's paradox he has named "The Capitalist's Dilemma." This 'hit the world' when he wrote a piece in the New York Times last November, 2012. I gather this has been one of his best, if not his best read article ever.
As I'm sure you are aware Professor Christensen must be regarded as if not the top, then one of the top experts, on innovation. For me he sits at the top, so when he explores a theory, you stop to think about what he is trying to explain. It takes some of us mere mortals awhile to grasp and relate to these ideas and theories.
So why has this caught my attention?
Simply incremental innovation (sustaining, efficiency innovation) is getting us no-where fast. You see so many people within many of our organizations, big and small, working longer hours, feeling reduced identification with what they are doing and lacking that sustaining satisfaction.
There are millions out of work that could offer positive economic activity contribution. We could have innovation that is exciting, that is empowering and this does come from working on challenges that are game-changing concepts, those we often suggest today as distinctive, disruptive, breakthrough, radical and certainly become empowering.
So what makes "the Capitalists Dilemma" so relevant today?
The basic concern today in most of our developed economies there is this lack of real growth. The worry continues that each capital stimulus round seemingly does not create and offer that number of new jobs you would expect. Old ones are being constantly being stripped away at a much faster rate. We are seemingly caught in a broad jobless economic recovery.
At the heart of this 'dilemma' seems to lay the issues of the type of innovation being employed, more incremental and short-term, then the way we measure profitability and where this capital is being invested to offer increased returns. We lack the political and leadership will, or understanding, to change this often short term result orientation.
Again when you read the article Professor Christensen talks of a doctrine of New Finance, taught over recent years by him and countless others in Academia, of failing to catch up with the new realities and teaching theories we need to operate in a changing world.
We seem to be faced with focusing on jobless innovation outcomes that are measured by magnifying each dollar invested by the classic ratios of RONA (return on net assets), ROCE (return on capital employed) and I.R.R (internal rate of return), used more when capital was scarce and costly so you 'husband' your resources.
We are not thinking about accounting more in creating new jobs and encouraging that people are (gainfully) employed within any existing capital equation. We are looking for 'just' wealth creation and not job creation.
Yet today capital is abundant and cheap
Today capital is abundant and cheap yet new skills are becoming scarcer, education is lagging the new knowledge economy and its increasing need and we continue to apply these old rules of measuring outcomes in the wrong way in a rapidly changing world. Professor Christensen argues that successful companies are making the right economic decisions within the wrong situation or economic needed times. Capital is not scarce, it is abundant, yet it seems we are investing in the wrong types of innovation. We still are measuring capital as though it was scarce when it is not.
Companies continue to drive assets off their books, they choose innovations that provide fast returns, they continue to outsource and they consistently keep the time horizons deliberately short for improving the rates of return and constantly higher dividends in focusing on the quick wins.
Professor Christensen suggests there are three types of innovation where jobs occur or are lost.
Empowering innovations: these create jobs, because they require more and more people who can build, distribute, sell and service these products. Empowering investments also use capital — to expand capacity and to finance receivables and inventory. Empowering innovations are essential for growth because they create new consumption.
The second type is "sustaining" innovations: these replace old products with new models. They replace yesterday's products with today's products and create few jobs. They keep our economy vibrant — and, in dollars, they account for the most innovation. But they have a neutral effect on economic activity and on capital.
The third type is "efficiency" innovations: these reduce the cost of making and distributing existing products and services. Taken together in an industry, such innovations almost always offset the net number of new jobs, because they streamline processes. But they also preserve many of the remaining jobs — because without those, entire companies and industries would disappear in competition against companies abroad that have innovated more efficiently.
Efficiency innovations also emancipates capital. Without them, much of an economy's capital is held captive on balance sheets, with no way to redeploy it as fuel for new, empowering innovations until it is released.
Professor Christensens view here is that "as long as empowering innovations create more jobs than efficiency innovations eliminate, and as long as the capital those efficiency innovations liberate is invested back into empowering innovations, we keep recessions at bay" but suggests we are today not doing that.
The innovation machine is out of balance today
Today, our innovation activities are out of balance. I can strongly relate to this on where organizations are spending their innovation dollars: in short-term fixes, incremental thinking and efficiency relating projects, not on deepening innovation capacity.
We are presently encouraging our managers to measure profitability based on a return on net assets, or return on capital employed. That encourages companies to liberate their capital, so they invest in efficiency innovations, which means they can make even more money with fewer resources, so why would they invest in those more-longer term capital-intensive innovation projects under "empowering innovation?"
Professor Christensen offers this thought "what the economy ultimately needs are empowering innovations—like the Model T, the transistor radio. Empowering innovations require long-term investments, which tie up capital for years and years. So companies are using capital to create more capital, and the world is awash in the result, more capital but the innovations we need to advance aren't there"- this accumulating capital is remaining idle.
Today's growth sustaining challenges are not framed properly
The need is to "unlock" the right type of innovation that creates a renewed, sustaining wealth for economic and industry revitalisation. There needs to be a shift from investing in efficiency innovation that tend to cut out jobs, where the focus is constantly on focusing on less capital in use and fewer people so that the extra release of capital is re-invested in more efficiency, not in disruptive or empowering innovation. The present day realities within business are how success is measures and if that is on RONA, ROCE and I.R.R then that is where the focus will remain.
Changing the existing paradigms takes time and convergence.
Empowering innovation takes time – anything from six to twenty years depending on many of the necessary long-term wealth creation factors required based on research and vision.
Two factors are well in place. We have capital, almost at zero borrowing rates, that the future net present value of any future stream of growth is identical to one that yields a return in weeks. We have a growing and compelling set of social needs to resolve many grand societal challenges that come more from empowering innovation.
Offsetting this we have a powerful set of factors to change if we see job creation as part of any economic recovery. We first have this current risk-aversion prevailing and we spend public capital on propping up ailing industries but do not pursue the alternatives with a grander vision and plan.
A bolder innovative framing is necessary
We need bolder re-framing of our challenges, a clear recalibration of our measuring success and a set of cohesive strategies, policies and political judgements. What will eventually bring this to the boil is the unrest, unemployed, stagnating economies, risks of growing debt and loss of property and capital achieved from the past unless those in policy decision don't 'face up' and make bolder, imaginative steps.
Our markets need stimulating and this will either be from importing the type of goods that meet our declining economic needs as those are produced more efficiently elsewhere. Not a good prospect to face.
Also, sadly the very company that needs financing does not get the financing it needs. Capital is presently hoarded in the billions on pristine balance sheets of the biggest corporations; billions are inert and un-invested in private equity funds, sitting in countless private bank accounts offshore. According to one recent report $1.8 trillion just sits in American listed firms alone.
We are failing to translate today's set of challenges because the metrics applied are inappropriate to our needs today and in the future. We are applying solutions often in their vacuum, they boost sufficiently in small ways but lack boldness, changing the dynamics and policies, the way we should be measuring and valuing success.
We need to reflect where we are in the West – far too timid, applying often just a real hard dose of harsh austerity, minimal structural reform that have a significant constraint on growth. We fail to bring people into their rightful place within the equation, they are being progressively written out of the capital model we seem to be locked into. We apply "selective" innovation solutions to meet mostly short-term gains.
As Professor Christensen observes we are in a real innovation dilemma, we need to re-think the way we measure and account for jobs and skills within any recovery, otherwise we will continue to be locked into this jobless era where capital on its own will not give us the real growth we need. Unless we change our economic thinking we might be facing a difficult future where innovation is far less attractive as it will not be empowering, just efficient or sustaining.
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Since moving to Texas three years ago from the east coast, my allergies have often been atrocious. This year, my nose has been nothing but a source of agony since February, which is the last time I was actually able to use it to breathe. Nothing has worked. Zyrtec, Claritin, Claritin-D, Benadryl, Tylenol Sinus, Sudafed, you name it. Nothing worked and whatever I took left me feeling groggy. I'd wake up with a puffy face, stuffy nose and crusty eyes almost every day. Visine allergy eye drops became part of my daily routine. Bad bouts turned into sinus infections. My symptoms became worse whenever I was outside for long spells (an hour or more) but being outside is unavoidable. I'm a gardener, a parent of energetic children, and a runner. I can't avoid the outdoors. So I finally called an allergist to see if I could find some effective relief.
The first thing they did was test my lung capacity, to ensure that the problem didn't include asthma. No problem with my lungs. Then they had me blow my nose into a piece of wax paper and hand over the sample. Then I was examined by the doctor. He agreed that given my active lifestyle, it would be impractical to avoid going outdoors. He told me I should have skin testing done to figure out what, specifically, I am allergic to. This will help me better understand my seasonal challenges and plan for them, rather than being caught off guard. He gave me a sample of Veramyst nasal mist, scheduled me for skin testing the next week and gave me guidelines on what what medications to avoid until then so they could get clear results.
The following Monday, I arrived at the allergist, prepared to stay there for 1 1/2 to 2 hours. The first thing the nurse did is give me two "control" pricks - one of histamine and one of saline.
That's when I realized they were going to give me 54 pricks, testing a variety of the allergens typically found in north Texas - dust mites, animals, molds, trees, grasses and weeds. 54. Gulp.
Here you can see that the following gave me a problem: dust mites (1, 2), all animals (3, 4, 5), some of the trees (21, 22, 32, 33, 35), virtually all grasses (37 - 43), and a few weeds (46, 48). The nurse measured the diameter of my welts to determine the severity of my sensitivities. My biggest sensitivities are to animals and grasses.
I got dressed and went to another room to consult with the doctor. He was able to tell me what months of the year each of my sensitivities would be a problem. He also told me that I am not allergic to the grass in my own backyard, which is well manicured. Rather, I am allergic to tall grasses - grasses that are allowed to flower and distribute pollen. I live in the countryside, so there's a lot of tall grass around. It's also quite windy here in Tornado Alley, so Cedar pollen blows up from the south year-round. Grass pollen also blows up from the south when it flowers earlier there than it does here - this lengthens the duration of my grass allergies. So, Fall and Spring are ultimately my worst seasons - but particularly Spring.
He took quite a bit of time with me, which I really appreciated. I told him I am the product of a highly allergic mother and a father who also has some allergies. My mother is highly allergic to mold, among other things, so I was surprised to see that this isn't a problem for me. He informed me that we can inherit an allergic gene from our parents, but what sort of allergies we develop depends on what we are exposed to as children. Since my mother really suffered from mold, she was very careful with our house while I was young and I was rarely exposed to it. I did, however, spend a lot of time outdoors as a child and we had many animals. So there you go!
Then we discussed a plan of action. I have two alternatives:
- Continue to treat it with nasal mist, which worked remarkably well for me over the course of one week. My nose is back to normal and I've noticed a dramatic and steady improvement in my overall itchiness and eyes.
- Start shot therapy to desensitize my body to these allergens, permitting me to one day be completely free of them and any medication I'm now taking to control them. I have to say, despite the inconvenience of weekly (in the beginning) shots, the idea of one day being allergy-free is extremely appealing. This is typically a 5 year process (weekly shots year 1, every other week year 2, monthly years 3-5) but can be accelerated to 4 years by doing a 1-day "RUSH". This involves being given multiple allergy shots over the course of one day with an RN staying with you the whole time to ensure nothing goes wrong. You are given antihistamines, etc, the day before, the day of and the day after the RUSH to control allergic reaction. It sounds a bit scary but gaining a year on the process is appealing.
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Geffrey "Geff" Francis, best known as Geff Francis, is a British actor who portrayed Lynford, a hoodlum in For Queen and Country. In 1986 he appeared as the title character in Channel Four's adaptation of Zastrozzi and in a minor role in The Singing Detective, as well as the title character's son in the Peckham set comedy Desmond's, before moving on to the spin-off series Porkpie. He has since become a regular character actor on British television. He portrayed the Metropolitan Police Desk Sergeant Sergeant Viv James in the 2008-10 TV series Ashes to Ashes. He also appeared in a 2013 episode of Doctor Who.
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- Dog Eat Dog 2001
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responsibility for the patrolling of Redbridge's Parks and Open
Spaces. Additionally the team take part in partnership
operations, focused on licensing and anti-social behaviour
The Redbridge Community Police Team consists of 12 constables,
two sergeants and are managed by an Inspector. The team have access
to additional resources, working closely with the Special
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If you want to speak to the team about an issue in a park prior
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The Council hosts weekly meetings with the Police, Vision Trust
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up-to-date information and intelligence about emerging
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The team patrol Redbridge's parks and open spaces, providing a
visible policing presence seven days a week. They work closely with
Vision Trust - Redbridge Culture and Leisure, Park Keepers and
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of the Park organisations along with other stake holders.
Twelve of the Boroughs larger parks have been allocated a member
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The Redbridge Community Police Team once again visited
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incidents that arose in their allocated parks. There will be
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out regular patrols in all Redbridge parks.
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The Right Rev Graeme Knowles has announced his intention to resign as Dean of St Paul's Cathedral amid mounting criticism of its handling of the protest camp on its doorstep.
Mr Knowles announced that he was standing down "in order to give the opportunity for a fresh approach to the complex and vital questions facing St Paul's".
He told the Chapter of St Paul's and the Bishop of London of his decision last night, and will submit his resignation to the Queen today. He has also removed himself from cathedral operations with immediate effect.
Mr Knowles's resignation follows that of