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High Prices Partly to Blame for Slow New Home Sales
The spring selling season for newly built homes has started more slowly than many builders and economists anticipated and lofty prices might be as much to blame as unusually harsh winter weather.
Builders "were amazingly aggressive in raising prices" in the past year, said Thomas Lawler, an independent housing analyst and former Fannie Mae economist in Leesburg, Va. "And now that we're heading into the spring selling season, that's impacting demand."
U.S. home buyers in February signed contracts to buy new homes at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 440,000, down 3.3% from January's tally, which itself was revised down, according to U.S. Census Bureau data released Tuesday. Last month's sales estimate marked a decline of 1.1% from February last year.
At the February rate, new-home sales amount to roughly 59% of their annual average since 2000. Prices, in contrast, have reached their earlier peaks, exceeding $300,000 on average in every month of 2013 and so far this year, a threshold they rarely had exceeded since 2008. Several national, publicly traded builders have increased their prices by double-digit percentages in the past year.
Early reads on the spring season differ, but many indicate that this spring's initial pace is just matching last year's or falling short of it. That has some economists concerned that there is more at play than the supply issues often cited in the past two years, which include shortages of build-ready home lots and construction labor.
"People are coming out and shopping [for new homes], but they're not buying," said Brad Hunter, chief economist for home-construction analysis and consulting firm Metrostudy, a division of Hanley Wood LLC. "My analysis is that a lot of this has to do with sticker shock."
Mr. Hunter and other housing-market observers theorize that sales volumes won't pick up markedly until builders rein in their price increases and first-time buyers and less-affluent buyers are ushered back into the market by better job and wage growth and a slight loosening of mortgage-qualification standards.
Tony Baroni, who leads a team of real estate agents at Keller Williams Realty in Brandon, Fla., says buyers of new homes often are taken aback by prices. Still, most will stomach high prices to buy a house with the amenities they prefer built in. "There is sticker shock," Mr. Baroni said. "But they come to grips with it and typically move forward, based on the product."
Builders typically reap 30% of their annual sales in the heart of the spring season from April to June. Home shopping, however, often picks up as early as February.
A prime culprit in the softening of demand is that prices gains for both new and existing homes have far outpaced wage increases in the recovery. Last year, the median price of a new home increased by 8.4% and that of an existing home increased by 11.4%. In contrast, average hourly earnings in the U.S. increased by 2.2% in February from a year earlier, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Tim Gehan, chief executive of closely held Gehan Homes in the Dallas suburb of Addison, Texas, said his prices have increased by 15% from last year to an average of $305,000. He expects to post a gain of 5% in homes sold this year, though he doesn't foresee this spring being as robust as last.
"We're cautiously optimistic that we'll have a slightly more subdued spring this year than last, but still positive overall," Mr. Gehan said.
National builders have reported mixed results so far. Hovnanian Enterprises Inc. said that new orders in December, January and February "have not met our expectations." Luxury builder Toll Brothers Inc. posted a 6% decline in orders for its quarter ended Jan. 31. Meanwhile, average prices at Hovnanian and Toll increased by 10% and 21.4%, respectively, in the past year.
Other builders reporting more recently posted gains. KB Home last week reported a 5.6% gain in sales contracts in its quarter ended Feb. 28 from a year earlier when analysts expected it to post a flat result or a decline. Leading national builder Lennar Corp. on Thursday registered a 10% increase in orders for its first quarter, slightly below analysts' forecasts. Average prices at KB Home and Lennar increased by 12% and 18%, respectively, in the past year.
Despite their gain last quarter, Lennar executives on a call with investors last week refused to declare the spring season an early success or disappointment. "This is a normal progression [in sales] that we would expect going into a spring selling season, and we'll wait and see what happens for the next three months," Lennar Chief Financial Officer Bruce Gross said.


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Sarah L. Patrick, PhD, MPH
Associate Professor of Epidemiology
Research Interests: Epidemiology
Courses: PUBH 235 Contemporary Issues in Global Health; EPI 523 Applied Epidemiology; EPI500 Introduction to Epidemiology; PUBH-497-01-Directed Research Public Health; EPI 512 Global Noncommunicable Disease Epidemiology
Education History: MPH, PhD, University of Pittsburgh BS, University of Illinois,
SLU faculty since: 2011
Sarah Patrick, PhD, MPH is an associate professor in the Department of Epidemiology. She was trained at the World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Diabetes Registries, Research, and Training at the University of Pittsburgh.
For over twenty years, she has toggled service as a public health practitioner and as an academician and researcher. In practice, she served as an Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) Officer for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention assigned to the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, State Epidemiologist in South Dakota and later in Missouri, and a contract epidemiologist for the Aberdeen Area Indian Health Services and the Training Programs in Epidemiology and Public Health Interventions Network (TEPHINET), working with the field epidemiology training programs in the Middle East and Northern Africa.
Academically, she has directed the Institute of Rural Health Studies at Idaho State University and the Center for Rural Health Improvement at the Sanford School of Medicine at the University of South Dakota, where she also was director of the Center of Excellence in Women's Health. She has taught global health to undergraduates and various epidemiology, research methods, and scientific writing courses to students in MPH and PhD public health programs, medical students, physical therapy doctoral students, and practicing medical epidemiologists.
Community-based participatory research methods are key to her research efforts and topics mirror the needs of communities with which she has worked. Some examples include: type 1 diabetes incidence in Hawaii, a social network analysis of syphilis among young adults and youth, substance abuse prevention among children of substance using parents, motor vehicle crash deaths among adolescents, factors associated with seat belt use among adolescents, human papillomavirus infections among women in rural and frontier areas, factors associated with primary care provider participation in immunization registries, pertussis case control study among children 0-60 months of age, and factors associated with the increase in heroin-related deaths in a metropolitan area.
Intercultural features implicitly exist in almost of all of this work, though the need for practical resolution to pressing and real health problems was the impetus for the collaborative, team efforts. She believes field epidemiology work is part of the 'nitty gritty' with which we are asked to engage and she is honored to do so.
"Solidarity is learned through 'contact' rather than 'concepts'. Students in the course of their formation, must let the gritty reality of this world into their lives, so they can learn to feel it, think about it critically, respond to its suffering and engage it constructively. They should learn to perceive, think, judge, choose and act for the rights of others, especially the disadvantaged and the oppressed."


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Tottenham Hotspur Message Board
Comercial Shyte.
Alright, titter as you may. But don't you guys sometimes think, does it flash across now and then. You didn't have this multi millions shyte going on, who can we buy this week--who can take the place of him or him, he's had 3 mediocre games on the belt so he'll have to go. Plus the fact, you're paying mega bucks to watch guys who can't even speak your language. If you were in a lower league, your players all British and playing their hearts out in the hope of progression, chances are you'd have closer contact with the real game.
Chances are, our present full and under 21's wouldn't be a constant worsening joke on the world stage, and that's my frustration rant for the evening over.
H---Observer of the daily foreign import updates boring #$%$
H---Hartlepool United season ticket holder, £125--just been relegated but looking forward to next season.Sort: Newest | Oldest | Most Replied Expand all replies
Stolen Thread---Daily Mail
Wondered why Joe Bernstein from Mail On Sunday bought me a pint in my local last week.
STOP BUYING FOREIGN PLAYERS he pens out this morning. Back page Sunday Mail.
Ashley--Pardew--Kinnear, all we need now is a lead singer. I've got Dennis Wise on the way up, he's a gobshyte. What a load of geographical misplaced madness. Anyway, Alan Pardew can smile in secret---the contract deal he signed up to.
H---head won't stop shaking.
...and now Bale has registered his 'trademark' goal celebration 'heart' hand shape....
I recall having a plain white long sleeved sport shirt as a kid, and getting the Spurs cockerel and having it sewn on. Wonder what the big business thought police would make of that nowadays. Transportation for life at a minimum I would reckon.


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Ok I've got a REALLY annoying issue that's been bugging me for a while now. In fact I've actually gone as far as to build a good spec PC just for media streaming, to help cure the issue and future proof my setup.
So here is what I have......
i7 3770k OC'd to 4.5ghz
8GB DDR3 1600 Ballistix RAM
Asus P8z77-V Pro MB
750GB SSD/Hybrid Primary
Samsung Spinpoint drives for storage
Win7 X64
Firewall port open
PMS 1.70 running as a service
Everything is wired via my Virgin Media Superhub, no Wireless is being used for media streaming.
The only other thing I can think of note is that I have a second router wired into the primary to extend the network upstairs, not using the WAN port.
The issue is that during playback of AVI files, randomly, the audio will pause while the video continues. The video will then pause, error 80710092 will come up and the audio will then play. Once the audio catches up the video again plays fine for a while. As I say this happens randomly, and the files that are being streamed are by no means large. For example, I'm currently watching an episode of Stargate Atlantis and it just paused and did as above. The video stream is showing between 800kbps and 2Mbps while the audio is showing a fairly constant 130kbps. Surely this shouldn't be making any part of my setup even breath hard? There isn't even any transcoding that could explain the issue.
On the flip side I have a 18GB MKV file, a backup of my Wifes Pearl Harbour, and it seems to play flawlessly. Granted I haven't actually sat and watched to see if it pauses throughout the entire movie but surely if it gets even a few minutes in without a glitch it shows that the network isn't exactly in short supply of bandwidth.
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SAN JOSE -- The Earthquakes basically stood pat after their uplifting run to the MLS Supporters' Shield as the team with the best record.
Now, in a league full of upgraded rosters and confronting a taxing 2013 schedule, are the Quakes poised for an MLS Cup or a hard dose of reality?
Coach Frank Yallop, whose team opened camp for the new season Monday, is clearly expecting the former.
"We had some terrific performances, not just individually but collectively as a team," Yallop said. "Why mess with that? This group's a strong group. Why change what's done well in our league? ... Most of the big players from last year are obviously back, and we'll be adding some players to that."
The gung-ho club returns almost intact after a 2012 thrill ride in which it scored 72 goals and delivered a league-record nine strikes in stoppage time. The season ended against the Los Angeles Galaxy in the MLS Western Conference semifinals just 21/2 months ago.
Like their coach, Quakes players expect another step forward.
"Our final goal is to hold the championship at the end," veteran defender Jason Hernandez said last week. "It's definitely, for myself, a huge motivating factor coming into this year, and I would imagine a lot of my teammates all feel the same way."
Depth will be critical again as the Quakes must negotiate a rugged MLS schedule along with U.S. Open Cup and CONCACAF Champions League play -- the latter a reward for having the best record in 2012. They open March 3 at Buck Shaw Stadium against Real Salt Lake.
Along those lines, making their camp debuts on Monday were the club's two draft picks last week: defender Tommy Muller of Georgetown (No. 15 overall) and midfielder Dan Delgado of University of San Diego (No. 33), along with veteran forward Mike Fucito, whom the Quakes acquired in a draft-day deal with the Portland Timbers for a second-round pick.
Also on hand were re-entry draft selections defenders Dan Gargan and Ty Harden.
Several key people were missing on a light day of conditioning. Target forwards Steven Lenhart and Alan Gordon remain out after offseason procedures, Gordon having had a left hip arthroscopy to fix a torn labrum and Lenhart a right knee arthroscopy on his lateral meniscus.
"A lot of players are out right now with international duty or with a few injuries and guys recovering from surgery, but in general good," Yallop said of the first day of camp. "We had a good meeting this morning. We're just kind of loosening up and getting through the first few days, not pushing too much."
Absent were MLS Player of the Year Chris Wondolowski and Justin Morrow, who are training with the U.S. national team for its Jan. 29 friendly against Canada. However, Steven Beitashour, who underwent offseason surgery for a sports hernia, will be returning to the Quakes from national team camp after experiencing soreness, Yallop said. The club offered no timeline for his return.
"He didn't re-aggravate it, but it's just a little sore so they decided to send him back," Yallop said of Beitashour.
Hernandez and midfielder Sam Cronin signed new deals in November, leaving only the return of English striker Simon Dawkins in question. Dawkins blossomed last season on loan from the Tottenham Hotspur, but his return hinges on how much the English club demands for his selling rights.
The pieces all fit together last season, when the Quakes (19-6-9) had a smashing goal differential of 29, tops in MLS by 11. The Quakes scored 30 percent of their goals in the final 15 minutes of games.
"We haven't been at the top of the table in a couple of years, so that was a great accomplishment, but at the same time a lot of us understand that we came up short," Hernandez said. "We have a lot of unfinished business, and we're definitely looking forward to the challenge. We definitely have the guys and the character to go in and face a challenge like that."
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Over the past year, Regence BlueCross BlueShield has partnered with Oregon Food Bank through a generous donation of food, funds and friends. By supporting OFB as a Regence Community Partner Organization, they have strengthened our efforts to fight hunger by introducing us to business executives in Portland, media connections throughout the state and Regence employees and their families, who have become supporters of OFB.
Their generosity brings to mind the African proverb, which says, "It takes a village to raise a child." If hunger is OFB's child, then Corporate Donors of the Month, like Regence, are the village that provides the crucial support to help OFB make a difference.
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1. Creating Passionate Users: Ten Tips for New Trainers/Teachers
Kathy Sierra does it again! In Ten Tips for New Trainers/Teachers on her blog about Creating Passionate Users, Kathy lists 11 things every teacher should know and 10 tips every teacher should follow.
There's a reason why she's one of my idols. Fangirl, fangirl, fangirl...
Even if you're not officially teaching or training someone, you're going to find it useful. READ IT! NOW!
そのコンピューターはかなり時代遅れだったので役に立たなかった。 The computer was so outdated that it was good for nothing.
2. Rediscovering the art of writing
Charo Nuguid totally rocks. This pen-obsessed girl just gave (gave!) me an extremely pretty glass pen, the one she's been raving about for the past few days. Now pens and I don't usually get along. I have a callus on the wrong finger (ring instead of middle) due to incorrect writing habits, and although I favor signpens and gel pens, I can't write with a fountain pen for fear of bending the tip.
But ooh. Glass. With, like, an ink bottle and stuff. A quill, really. A very fancy quill with grooves near the tip to hold ink. Whoa.
And I have very nice monogrammed cards to use with it, too...
最近パソコンを初めた。 Recently it is beginning the personal computer.
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Region 12 schools chief not listening to high school parents
As concerned members of the Shepaug Valley High School Parent Council, we oppose the planned elimination of block scheduling in Region 12. We also object to the refusal by our new schools superintendent, Patricia Cosentino, to enter into a thoughtful community dialogue to address our considerable — and growing — concerns about the direction of her recent academic and administrative decisions. While we respect Dr. Cosentino's determination to make our schools better, we are worried she may be doing so without regard to the special qualities that make our schools outstanding.
We do not oppose change. We are open to substantive regionwide discussion of how change will benefit our schools and heartily welcome intelligent, thoughtful, well-conceived conversations. We also appreciate that declining enrollment has created new financial challenges for the school. Nevertheless, we insist on a respectful dialogue between our superintendent and the constituencies she serves. That includes us, the parents, students and taxpayers who make our schools what they are today.
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10.67 m
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13,470 lbs.
6,109 kg
10' 9''
3.28 m
|Tested Weight
.99 m
|Weight Capacity
|Draft Up
|Person Capacity
|Draft Down
|Fuel Capacity
172 gal.
|Air Draft
|Water Capacity
29 gal.
|Length on Trailer
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5' 10''
1.77 m
|Height on Trailer
|Bridge Clearance
9' 5''
2.87 m
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|Prices, features, designs, and equipment are subject to change. Please see your local dealer or visit the builder's website for the latest information available on this boat model.
|Std. Power
|2 x 430-hp MerCruiser 8.2 MAG High Output ECT Bravo IIIX DTS
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Here is a shot of the team detailing the FX6 to perfection. By the time they're done, the boat looks like it should be under glass in a museum. Please oh please let the owner of this boat be well versed in the use of fenders when docking.
If Looks Could Kill...
As the saying goes, one will never get a second chance to make a first impression, and as first impressions go, the FX6 has little to worry about. Formula pulled out all the stops on this line and it shows at every turn. They couldn't just "do" anything, but they had to do it to the Nth degree throughout. Simple upholstery is out in favor of thicker vinyl protected from stains, and it surrounds flow-through padding that won't hold water. All seat frames are composite material that allows the water to drain and resist rotting. And then to top it off, the upholstery is custom embroidered with the FX logo, just to add frosting on the cake. Even the carpeting is custom embroidered. And there's so much more. It's an interesting mix of retro-class and contemporary flair, all in one boat.
Highlights of Features
Suffice it to say that there's too much on this boat to write about, but let's go over some of the notables. First, is the construction. Formula uses a chemical bond to join the hull and deck together and it joins the two as one.
The hull is finished to perfection in Imron paint. This is something very few builders in class even attempt. The reason is that it is costly, time-consuming, it must be done in environmentally-correct paint booths, and the people applying the polyurethane paint must be specially trained. Where gel coat is good enough for most builders, Formula wants a high-gloss finish that only polyurethane can produce. It also needs far less maintenance and its luster will last longer than gel coat.
Buff and Fluff
After the painstaking Imron process is applied, the boat is sent for detailing. Here a team goes over the hull with compound to remove any indication of orange peeling that may be present. Then it's on to the waxing and buffing and waxing and buffing... over and over again. My last visit to the Formula plant showed a team of four spending 8 hours each on this buffing process alone. Lights are shined at all angles to show the slightest defects, of which I found none, but that didn't stop the crew from smearing even more wax on and buffing it all over again. I doubt that any premium coach maker such as Bentley or Maybach does anything remotely close to Formula.
The cockpit is a continuous molded liner with more of the high gloss Imron paint that we saw on the exterior being used to cover detail items all over the interior. Imron painted interior? Look for that on other boats and tell me what one finds. One would be hard pressd to find any paint at all.
Notice the various texture lines of the FX6 that divert the eye from what would otherwise be just plain topsides. The stainless rub rail follows a nice contour curve to the swim platform. And notice the stainless cover over the engine vents.
Before the boat gets detailed, it's tank tested and all the critical components are run up for the first time. Notice the extended swim platform that runs well past the outdrives. And we love the look of the thru-hull exhausts. With the engine hatch in the elevated position (electrically actuated of course) the boater can see the aft sun pad / rumble seat with the custom embroidery work.
What would have prevented Formula from just cutting a hole and adding drink holders? Nothing except the fact that it wouldn't have fit the theme of elegance that the FX portrays. So it's stainless drink holders mounted to an Imron finished piece of trim -- this is more like art than anything else..
Dual Livorsi Monster and Redline engine instruments are the size and type that professional racers use so they can read at a glance what is going on. A moving map display is to one side, and the Vessel View display is to the other. Notice the sterndrive joystick in the upper right. I love the carbon fiber hub in the color-matched wheel. The circuit breakers are below on the starboard bulkhead, out of the way, but still easy to reach.
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For hundreds of years, forests of piñon pine, ponderosa pine and fir trees have covered millions of acres of mesas, plateaus and mountains in the semi-arid southwestern United States. Like forests everywhere, they provide food and shelter for countless species and help anchor vital watersheds and soils of the region.
But their days may be numbered. Based on a new study co-authored by the USGS, projected climate change impacts suggest a grim picture for current forests in the U.S. Southwest.
Research led by A. Park Williams of the Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory came to this conclusion by comparing the tree-ring record to climate data collected in the Southwest since the late 1800s. The researchers aligned some 13,000 tree-core samples with known temperature and moisture data, further blending in known historical events such as documented megadroughts that drove the ancient Pueblo Indians out of longtime settlements such as Mesa Verde, Colorado.
Worst Forest Drought Stress in 400 Years
What they found was this: since 2000, southwestern U.S. forests have experienced more drought stress than during any other period in more than 400 years. What's interesting about this is that precipitation totals since 2000 haven't been exceptionally low, but temperatures have been exceptionally high. These high temperatures have caused the atmosphere's ability to evaporate water from soil and plants also to be exceptionally high.
Think of the atmosphere as a water-thirsty sponge: the warmer the air, the thirstier the sponge. When the summers are too hot and dry, the trees lose much of the water that they otherwise would have used for growth. If this happens too often, trees become stressed and more vulnerable to disturbances like forest fires and bark beetle infestations.
Forest Growth Rates Predictable Using Climate Records
When Williams and the other researchers, including USGS scientist and study co-author Craig D. Allen, compared southwestern tree-ring records to climate records, they found that southwestern forest growth rates can be predicted very effectively using just two climate variables: winter precipitation and summer-fall atmospheric evaporative demand.
The researchers were able to predict future forest growth rates using these climate and tree-growth relationships, combined with projections of future climate trends. The results: all climate models project warming to cause large increases in summer-fall atmospheric evaporative demand (thirstier sponge). No models project large increases in winter precipitation. If the climate models are correct, forest growth will decrease substantially in the coming decades primarily due to increasing drought stress from warmer growing season temperatures.
Tree Rings Link Past and Current Drought Stress
The tree-ring records in the Southwest extend back in time for more than 1,000 years. This allowed the researchers to investigate how future forest drought-stress likely will compare to periods of major drought stress in the past. The tree-ring records indicate that two "megadrought" events, during the 1200s and again in the 1500s, occurred in the past 1,000 years. Past research has shown that both of these events probably coincided with widespread forest die-off in the Southwest. So, the researchers treat forest growth rates during those extreme megadroughts as a benchmark for drought conditions strong enough to cause widespread forest die-off. If warming occurs as rapidly as projected by climate models, forest drought-stress conditions are likely to exceed those historic megadrought conditions on a regular basis by the 2050s. In fact, the study forecasted that during the second half of this century, about 80 percent of years are projected to exceed those megadrought levels.
Williams says the current drought event, which began in 2000, demonstrates how close southwestern forests already may be to reaching drought-stress levels unprecedented in at least a millennium. The team concluded that forest drought stress during 4 of the past 13 years (about 30 percent), including 2011 and 2012, matched or exceeded megadrought-type levels. The only other 13-year periods when megadrought-type conditions were reached with such frequencies in the past 1,000 years were during the megadroughts themselves.
What's Going to Happen to Southwestern Forests in the Future?
As trees become more stressed from increasingly hot, dry summers, eventually they will not be able to continue to grow in their current locations, and fires and beetle infestations will take an increasing toll. We can expect to see increased numbers of trees dying, with many not being replaced. Eventually, if warming trends continue as projected by state-of-the-art climate models, the current forests will give way to ecosystems more tolerant of prolonged, severe drought. This would mean substantial changes in forest species composition to more drought-tolerant trees, or even forest-replacing shrublands and grasslands.
The article, "Temperature as a potent driver of regional forest drought stress and tree mortality," appears in the October 2012 Nature Climate Change. Authors are A. Park Williams (LANL), Craig D. Allen (U.S. Geological Survey), Alison K. Macalady (University of Arizona), Daniel Griffin (University of Arizona), Connie A. Woodhouse (University of Arizona), David M. Meko (University of Arizona), Thomas W. Swetnam (University of Arizona), Sara A. Rauscher (LANL), Richard Seager (Columbia University), Henri D. Grissino-Mayer (University of Tennessee), Jeffrey S. Dean (University of Arizona), Edward R. Cook (Columbia University), Chandana Gangodagamage (LANL), Michael Cai (LANL), Nate G. McDowell (LANL).
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A Guide To Meats
- By Matthew Kadey
- Published Feb 24, 2014
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The various guises of meat provide essential amino acids necessary for muscle recovery, iron to energize working muscles and zinc to boost immune defense during intense training. But not all meats are created equal—here's how to select the best products for your body (and the planet).
Choose: Grass-fed beef
According to a 2010 study, grass-fed beef is a worthwhile splurge. Compared to their soy- and corn-stuffed brethren, grass-fed meat has higher levels of omega-3 fats, a beneficial fat called conjugated-linoleic acid (CLA), vitamins A and E as well as antioxidants such as glutathione. It also contains less saturated fats.
Smart buy: Look for the label "100 percent grass-fed and finished." Or better yet, the green American Grassfed logo, which guarantees no antibiotics or hormones. Cuts that say "loin" (as in sirloin) and "round" (such as eye round roast) are the leanest.
Budget tip: Cuts on the bone are cheaper than options like tenderloin because processors charge extra for deboning.
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Good going, program keeps getting better and better.
I have noticed that a lot of times after an update certain functions wouldn't work properly anymore i.e. filetypes like .raw .flac and embedded subs.
We should also try to get some sort of standard qualtity control to verify everything is still working after developing an update.
I have experience in pharmaceutical manufacturing and there we use standard forms to check for a variety of specifications, this could also be applied to
software QC. For example we make a package with a variety of files and check whether these are still played properly.
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This is driving me nutz and keeping me from enjoying an otherwise brilliant piece of software. I have seen mention of this specific but no resolution that works (I must have checked a hundred pages on these forums). Here is the problem:
When I open a folder of videos on my PS3 (via PS3 MS), all videos are listed fine (No slow down in listing them or scrolling). But the thumbnails only draw 10 (approx) at a time and when I scroll down it draw the thumbs for the newly visible items - BUT when I scroll back to the top the first thumbs are gone and its starts redrawing them again (takes a sec or so for each). So there are never more then 10 thumbs or so - it must always redraw when i scroll or go to a new folder.
- I have checked 'Enable the Media Library' option in PS3 MS (i clicked 'reset media library' as well). Aside from checking that box - am i supposed to do anything else for the media library?
- I have tried with folder.jpg (a smallish 35KB jpg) for some folders (i.e. TV show) and although it does use that jpg instead of generating a thumb, I STILL get the same problem of constantly redrawing/regenerating as I scroll. I have also used this folder.jpg file WITH and WITHOUT Thumbnails Generation checked - no difference.
- I have tried without folder.jpg, with Thumbnails Generation checked. Still same problem.
- I have tried all of the above with 'Use MPlayer for Video Thumbnails' and it doesn't make a difference.
- I have tried restarting PS3 MS and the PS3 when these changes were made
So what am I missing? The only answer I have seen mentioned on the forums is something like: "check the 'enable the Media Library' option and that will only cause the generation of thumbs to happen only once". Well I have tried that and it doesn't work - still redraws slowishly whenever I scroll. BTW: When this option is checked I am not sure if I am supposed to go into my normal shared folder on the PS3 (i have a'Video' folder that I added via PS3MS shared folders) or the 'Media Library' folder that appears - but either way it the same problem.
Everything else works great. No problems transcoding and I am getting great network performance via my Wifi.
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BRENTWOOD -- Doug Adams' first day as the interim superintendent of the Brentwood Union School District on Thursday started early and was filled with meetings with staff and parents, which is what he did on a daily basis during his 17 years as the district's leader.
"I love getting in those classrooms," Adams said of his planned school visits. "What I love best is to listen to people."
Adams was selected as the district's temporary superintendent by the Brentwood school board after it opted to fire his replacement, Merrill Grant. The Wednesday night closed-session vote to terminate Grant came nearly a week after the board announced it was placing him on paid administrative leave and taking disciplinary actions against three unnamed district employees.
These recent board actions come in the wake of a public outcry from Brentwood parents over the district's handling of special education teacher Dina Holder, who was convicted of kicking a 5-year-old student with autism in 2010 but allowed to continue teaching.
In addition to his own reputable history with the district, Adams' late mother, Jeanne Adams, taught for nearly 30 years in Brentwood schools, including special education classes.
"It is not a job. This is a matter of the heart," Adams said of his return this week. "The district has been struggling for the last couple of months. It is my responsibility to help it out and get it back on track."
Brentwood school board President Carlos Sanabria said parents and staff are gratified to see Adams return. He added that Adams has helped other school districts "through different crises" since his retirement from the district in 2007.
"This sets a different tone," Sanabria said of the leadership shift on Thursday. "He sets a positive tone."
Adams said he has performed consulting work in recent years for struggling districts and has coached new superintendents, which the Brentwood school board has shown some interest in for the district's future leader. Adams said his immediate focus is on the continued staff training on mandated reporting of abuse incidents; fostering ongoing parent involvement in the district; and the immediate search for a permanent replacement for his temporary position.
"We are going to find a top-quality, new superintendent who is a good fit for Brentwood," he said.
The district plans to have a permanent superintendent in place by June.
Meanwhile, the Brentwood Community Advisory Committee and district leaders have been working to improve the district's approach to mandated reporting, effective documentation of employee concerns and complaint procedures.
Brentwood Community Advisory Committee co-chairwoman Marie Fajardo has said that the special education advisory committee is a connection between the board and families with special-needs students, but it wants to expand its outreach to all of the campus PTAs.
"The communication among the special ed community is great, but now we need to reach out to the general ed parents because we need to realize that this has not only affected us but also them," she said.
Other recent or future actions include ongoing online training for all district employees on mandated reporting; collaboration with the Child Abuse Prevention Council; training of all substitute teachers; parent forums in April; and possible student training. The Community Advisory Committee also plans to review the district's documentation procedures.
During his tenure, Adams oversaw the opening of seven campuses in Brentwood. He said he is also focused on the July opening of Mary Casey Black Elementary School.
Upon his retirement, Adams was described by colleagues and peers as bright, reasonable, open, honest and a good problem-solver. Jana Aubert of BUSD Concerned Parents and Teachers said Adams' return should help build trust within the district again.
"I'm hoping that by his coming back, he knows that parents are extremely displeased with the district, and he would continue to make changes for the school district and not allow administrators to let this happen again," she said. "This type of behavior will not be tolerated."
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2010 Iowa Traveling Team Tournament
Jones Disc Golf Course on Saturday April 3rd, 2010. 8 teams to participate.
10 Person teams made up of 5 Open, 3 Advanced, 1 Master, 1 Woman
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The advanced player will not have a rating higher than 960. Your final rating from 2009 will determine your division level eligibility. This update should be in January 2010 and will not be an issue because the next rating update will not come out until mid April.
The format will be singles match play. Each player will play 7 matches against the same number seed of every team. The TOP 2 Teams will go on to play 10 man alternate shot SAFARI match-play finals.
Positions are open to anyone. Best players for the 10 positions will be decided among everyone who is interested 2 weeks before the tournament. If you are at all interested let Garrett or myself know, we need 10 people for the categories above.


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About the Book
The definitive story of Hollywood's most famous couple
He was a tough-guy Welshman softened by the affections of a breathtakingly beautiful woman; she was a modern-day Cleopatra madly in love with her own Mark Antony. For nearly a quarter of a century, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton were Hollywood royalty, and their fiery romance—often called "the marriage of the century"—was the most notorious, publicized, and celebrated love affair of its day.
For the first time, Vanity Fair contributing editor Sam Kashner and acclaimed biographer Nancy Schoenberger tell the complete story of this larger-than-life couple, showing how their romance and two marriages commanded the attention of the world. Also for the first time, in exclusive access given to the authors, Elizabeth Taylor herself gives never-revealed details and firsthand accounts of her life with Burton.
Drawing upon brand-new information and interviews—and on Burton's private, passionate, and heartbreaking letters to Taylor—Furious Love sheds new light on the movies, the sex, the scandal, the fame, the brawls, the booze, the bitter separations, and, of course, the fabled jewels. It offers an intimate glimpse into Elizabeth and Richard's privileged world and their elite circle of friends, among them Princess Grace, Montgomery Clift, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Peter O'Toole, Michael Caine, Marlon Brando, Rex Harrison, Mike Nichols, Laurence Olivier, Robert Kennedy, Tennessee Williams, Noël Coward, John Huston, Ava Gardner, the Rothschilds, Maria Callas, and Aristotle Onassis. It provides an entertaining, eye-opening look at their films, their wildly lucrative reign in Europe and in Hollywood—and the price they paid for their extravagant lives.
Shocking and unsparing in its honesty, Furious Love explores the very public marriage of "Liz and Dick" as well as the private struggles of Elizabeth and Richard, including Le Scandale, their affair on the set of the notorious epic Cleopatra that earned them condemnation from the Vatican; Burton's hardscrabble youth in Wales; the crippling alcoholism that nearly destroyed his career and contributed to his early death; the medical issues that plagued both him and Elizabeth; and the failed aspirations and shame that haunted him throughout their relationship. As Kashner and Schoenberger illuminate the events and choices that shaped this illustrious couple's story, they demonstrate how the legendary pair presaged America's changing attitudes toward sex, marriage, morality, and celebrity. Yet ultimately, as the authors show, Elizabeth and Richard shared something priceless beyond the drama: enduring love.
Addictive and entertaining, Furious Love is more than a celebrity biography; it's an honest yet sympathetic portrait of a man, a woman, and a passion that shocked and mesmerized the world.
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Hey there Islanders fans!
How was you all's weekend? Mine was pretty fun! We helped at the Conquer the Coast bike race on Saturday! Many of the bikers that rode to our station remembered many of us from last year's Conquer the Coast event. They really enjoyed themselves and we really enjoyed cheering them on like they cheer us on at the games. I have some random pics for you all from the event as well.
In other words, I have decided that I am going to go to a spa with Ashley Darley aka my sister! We went to get a foot massage in the mall this weekend and realized that maybe we need to just have a spa day because for as much pounding as our bodies go through, we need rejuvenation! Soooooo we are researching some good spas in Corpus Christi! Yay!
Basketball news ... next week is the week! First day of practice is Monday, October 4th!!!!! And it all begins! November 4th is our exhibition game against Texas Lutheran at the American Bank Center at 2 p.m. Come out and support your Islanders!
Alright fans well I'm about to go now and catch some zzzz's before class at 4! Catch ya next week so I can let you know how the first two days of practice goes! :)
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Writer Tim Daniel and artist Mehdi Cheggour add their twist to the giant monsters ravaging the earth concept in "Enormous," an original one-shot coming in July from Image Comics' Shadowline imprint.
CBR News spoke with "Green Wake" writer Kurtis J. Wiebe who yet another creator-owned series at Image Comics/Shadowline with the supernatural ghost romance story "Grim Leaper."
Courtesy of Image Comics and Shadowline, CBR presents an exclusive preview of Alex Link and Riley Rossmo's "Rebel Blood" #1. On March 21st, even the animals are zombies.
This month, Nick Spencer takes readers of his Image series "Morning Glories" on a twisting time travel path as issue #16 sees Casey confront her dead father and Ms. Hodge play God in some unexpected ways.
Jim Valentino's Shadowline imprint took a "Grim Leaper" during the Image Expo, hitting readers with news of new series "Enormous," "Debris," "Harvest," and "Rebel Blood" by Kurtis Wiebe, Josh Williamson and more.
Courtesy of Image Comics, CBR presents an exclusive look at Kurtis J. Wiebe and Tyler Jenkins' new ongoing series "Peter Panzerfaust." "Red Dawn" meets Peter Pan, on sale tomorrow.
Writer Nick Spencer is back on CBR to share new insights into the hit Image series "Morning Glories," delving into issues #14 and 15 with new info on the game of Woodrun, time paradoxes and a killer cheerleader named Zoe.
The artist behind creator-owned hits "Proof" and "Green Wake" takes a crack at writing his own zombie book for Image Comics' Shadowline Imprint. CBR spoke with Riley Rossmo for details.
CBR spoke with Image Comics founder and former Image Central Publisher Jim Valentino about the early days of Image, his Shadowline publishing imprint, "Morning Glories" and more.
"Green Wake" and "The Intrepids" writer Kurtis J. Wiebe mixes Peter Pan with World War II in his upcoming Image Comics title. CBR spoke with Wiebe about the February-debuting series.
Shadowline founder Jim Valentino spoke with CBR about "Morning Glories," "27" and other successful books in 2010, future titles including "The Infinite Vacation" and "Green Wake," and Shadowline's publishing process.
Jane Wiedlin (The Go-Go's) and Bill Morrison (Bongo Comics) blast off this July with the out-of-this-world space adventure "Lady Robotika" from Shadowline and Image Comics.
Some our most beloved fairy tales get a fresh perspective this July with the release of "Fractured Fables," an all-new anthology from Shadowline and Image Comics.
The author of the upcoming miniseries from Image Comics and Shadowline spoke with CBR News about the dangers of the desert, the hollow men of Hollywood and the cravings of cannibals. Plus, exclusive art!
The "Existence" and "Forgetless" writer spoke with CBR News about his upcoming Image Comics/Shadowline miniseries, which focuses on a homicide detective investigating murders that are seemingly commited by the dead.
The writer and co-creator of Image and Shadowline's "Existence" franchise speaks with CBR News about returning characters, new voices and various twists and turns to be found in the upcoming second miniseries, "Existence 3.0."
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Outline submissions on behalf of the First Defendant
15th May 2001
- The applications before the Court of Appeal
- The power of the Court of Appeal to admit fresh evidence
The questions for the Court of Appeal
- (1) Could the fresh evidence have been adduced at trial?
- (2)/(3) Is the "new" evidence apparently credible and would it probably have (had) an important influence on the result of the case?
- Conclusion
Outline submissions on behalf of the First Defendant
15th May 2001
The applications before the Court of Appeal
1. The Claimant ("Irving") has two applications before the Court of Appeal:
- 1.1Application for permission to appeal dated May 2000 (as amended in August 2000). The trial judge, Gray J, had refused permission to appeal on April 2000. Irving's grounds are set out in the Skeleton Argument dated 2nd August 2000.
- Under a direction made by Sedley LJ, the First Defendant made submissions in response to Irving's skeleton argument (6th September 2000) to which Irving replied (3rd October 2000).
- On 18th December 2000, Sedley LJ refused Irving permission to appeal, giving detailed reasons.
- Irving has renewed his application for permission to appeal at an oral hearing before the Court of Appeal.
- 1.2 Application for permission to adduce fresh evidence at the hearing of the application for permission to appeal (and, if successful, the appeal) dated 1st March 2001.
- The application is supported by a witness statement from Irving (27th February 2001) and a skeleton argument dated 1st March 2001 (Adrian Davies)
- The fresh evidence consists of a 384-page witness statement from Germar Rudolf (a chemist) and a short statement from Zoe Polanska-Palmer (who claims to have been at Auschwitz).
The power of the Court of Appeal to admit fresh evidence
2. So far as the admission of fresh evidence is concerned, the CPR provides1 :Although there is no requirement of "special grounds" under the CPR (contrast RSC Order 59 rule 10(2), which applied formerly), the principles set down in Ladd v Marshall [1954] 1 WLR 1489 at 1491 continue to have powerful persuasive force. The relevant conditions are:The Ladd v Marshall principles remain relevant to the Court of Appeal's discretion when deciding whether or not to admit fresh evidence: see Hertfordshire Investments v Bubb [2000] 1 WLR 2318.2 At page 2324, Hale LJ said:At page 2325 Hale LJ noted that "strong grounds" were required for the admission of fresh evidence.
"Unless it orders otherwise, the Court of Appeal will not receive:
- a) oral evidence; or
- b) evidence which was not before the lower court."
"To justify the reception of fresh evidence or a new trial, three conditions must be fulfilled: first, it must be shown that the evidence could not have been obtained with reasonable diligence for use at the trial; secondly, the evidence must be such that, if given, it would probably have an important influence on the result of the case, though it need not be decisive; thirdly, the evidence must be such as is presumably to be believed, or in other words, it must be apparently credible, though it need not be incontrovertible."
"There are, of course, strong reasons for this approach, which has a long pedigree. It is in the interests of every litigant and the system as a whole that there should be an end to litigation. People should put their full case before the court at trial and should not be allowed to have a second bite at the cherry without a very good reason indeed."
3. The First Defendant submits that it is for Irving to establish that each of the Ladd v Marshall tests is fulfilled and that he has not done so. So far as Rudolf is concerned, not only could the "new" evidence have been obtained with reasonable diligence for use at the trial (first test), it was in fact already available to Irving for that purpose. The evidence of Rudolf and/or Polanska-Palmer would not have had an important influence on the result of the case (second test); and their evidence is not apparently credible (third test).
4. There is obviously an overlap in this case between the second test and the question whether the original grounds of appeal disclose any real prospect that the appeal might succeed3 . The reason is that the "new" evidence relates to but one issue in the case (Auschwitz), so that its potential for having an "important influence on the result of the case" must be judged against all the other issues which were decided against Irving, including those which are the subject of the original grounds of appeal. If those grounds of appeal disclose no real prospect of success, then the only remaining question is whether the "new" evidence (assuming, which is denied, that it passes the first and third tests) is in itself so potentially influential on the result of the case that it must nonetheless be admitted For reasons which are given below, that question should be answered in the negative.
The questions for the Court of Appeal
5. The First Defendant submits that the Court of Appeal should consider the following questions:If this question is resolved in the First Defendant's favour, the court should exclude the "new" evidence on that ground alone, leaving only the question(s) arising from the original grounds of appeal to be decided. The next question for the court would then be (4) below.In order to deal with this question, the Court of Appeal would need to form a clear view of the case overall and of the merits of the original grounds of appeal. If those grounds have no merit, then all that remains is to see what, if any, weight the "new" evidence might have against the overall effect of the judgment (see paragraph 4 above).To an extent, this question falls for consideration with question (2) above. For if the "new" evidence is not credible in any significant respect, it is clear that that would necessarily involve a negative answer to question (2). And if the answer to question (2) is negative in any event, then question (3) becomes immaterial.
(1) Has Irving shown that the fresh evidence could not have been obtained with reasonable diligence for use at the trial (first Ladd v Marshall test)?
(2) Has Irving shown that the fresh evidence would probably have had an important influence on the outcome of the case (second test)?
(3) Has Irving shown that the fresh evidence is apparently credible (third test)?
(4) Has Irving established that there is any point arising from the original notice of appeal which has any real prospect of success?
In reliance on the Defendants' written submissions of 6th September 2000 and the reasons given by Sedley LJ on 18th December 2000, the First Defendant submits that the answer is "no".
6. The First Defendant wishes to rely upon the witness statements served by the Second Defendant on 27th April 2001, that is, witness statements from Professor van Pelt, Dr Richard Green and James Libson, as well as the witness statement of Mark Bateman served on 15th May 2001, in respect of the application to adduce fresh evidence.
(1) Could the fresh evidence have been adduced at trial?
7. A short chronology showing some of the contact between Irving and Rudolf is attached to these submissions.
8. So far as Rudolfs evidence is concerned, the position appears to be this:
- 8.1 Paragraph 6 of the skeleton argument (dated 1st March 2001) served on behalf of Irving in support of his application to adduce this evidence makes it clear that Rudolf's witness statement is founded upon an earlier analysis by him of "the improbability or outright impossibility of the established historiography of Auschwitz". Irving knew of that analysis and had a copy of it (he posted a complete copy of the 1993 Rudolf Gutachten on his website in July 1999, but the evidence is that Irving was aware of it considerably earlier). There is nothing of any significance in Rudolf's current witness statement which is new; virtually all of it is based on material which was available before trial (see the witness statements of James Libson, Mark Bateman and the attached chronology).
- 8.2 Irving could have applied to put in an expert report from Rudolf at trial, but he did not do so. He did put in evidence (without objection from the Defendants) what purported to be a short account of the Rudolf Report, written by someone other than Rudolf. There is no explanation of his failure to apply to submit in evidence the full report itself (or any subsequent witness statement).
- 8.3 At pages 333 (line 12) to 334 (line 7) of his witness statement, Rudolf makes it clear that he would have appeared under subpoena as an expert witness for Irving, had Irving asked him to do so. He was not asked to appear as a witness, although he was asked to assist as an adviser. He supplied Irving with comments, which Irving used to cross-examine Professor van Pelt (again, the material supplied appears to form part of his current witness statement).
9. Thus the decision not to call Rudolf as a witness and/or to seek to put in a written statement from him and/or the original Rudolf Report was entirely Irving's own decision. it is therefore clear that the whole of Rudolf s evidence could have been before the court (and that some of it was before the court). It follows that there is no reason why it should now be admitted. On the contrary, there is good reason why it should not be (see the observations of Hale LJ)
(2)/(3) Is the "new" evidence apparently credible and would it probably have (had) an important influence on the result of the case?
10. The evidence of Rudolf and of Polanska Palmer deals only with Auschwitz. The relevance of Auschwitz to the case as a whole was summarised in the Defendants' response to the skeleton argument of 6 September 2000, paragraphs 52-54 (pages 13-14).
Germar Rudolf
11. Rudolf's approach is highly selective: he makes a number of small, discrete points, which do not address, still less disturb, the overall convergence of evidence described by van Pelt. As van Pelt points out. Rudolf takes no account of the historiography of Auschwitz, and provides no coherent alternative narrative which is apt to accommodate his various hypotheses. Moreover, Rudolf's hypotheses are to a large extent mutually contradictory, as well as historically, scientifically and logically wrong. Van Pelt in his witness statement deals in detail with the substance of Rudolf's witness statement, other than sections J and K, which are dealt with by Dr Green. A summary of the effect of van Pelt's and Green's responses to Rudolf is attached to these submissions. In the result, it can be seen that Rudolf s witness statement makes no credible impact on the evidence about Auschwitz that was given at trial or the judge's findings based upon that evidence.
12. Dr Green deals with sections J and K of Rudolf's witness statement.
- i) Rudolf does not claim his chemical analysis is decisive (even if it were correct). He has said "Chemistry is not the science which can prove or refute any allegations about the Holocaust 'rigorously'" (see Green page 59; see also Rudolf page 250);
- ii) There is an issue as to whether or not his chemical analysis is correct. Rudolf does not demonstrate that he is more likely to be right than Green (or Markiewicz).
- iii) Since no-one contends that the chemistry is decisive, the issue of Prussian blue staining (upon which Rudolf s hypothesis depends), when placed in the context of the whole of the evidence about Auschwitz, becomes inconsequential. The reasons for the absence of such staining in the gas chambers must be sought elsewhere. Such reasons have been convincingly proposed by Green and Markiewicz, who have shown that significant traces of cyanide may be found even where there is no blue staining.
13. The judge's overall conclusion, based on the evidence at trial, was in effect that Irving embarked on a mission to sink the "Battleship Auschwitz" without having any grounds to do so. Irving wholeheartedly embraced the Leuchter report as soon as it appeared and continued resolutely to adhere to it, even though he had received devastating critiques from others (including, most notably, Colin Beer) and even though, as he accepted at trial, it was largely worthless as evidence.
14. As was common ground at trial, what mattered in assessing Irving's honesty and integrity as an historian was the material he had before him when he wrote his books and made his statements. This was a subjective question and the Defendants proved that Irving's stance on Auschwitz from 1988 onwards was not based on any credible historical or scientific grounds. The "new" chemical evidence contained in sections J and K of Rudolf's witness statement makes no difference.
15. In any event there was abundant evidence that Irving had, for his own ideological reasons, "persistently and deliberately misrepresented and manipulated historical evidence" in order to exculpate Hitler (Judgment 13.167). As Sedley Li put it (see paragraph 11 of his written reasons) this was "the central issue" in the case. It follows that, even if the "new" evidence were admitted and accepted as being credible, it could not have "an important influence on the result of the case."
Zoe Polanska-Palmer
16. Even if her witness statement were wholly accurate and reliable, it would have no impact on the Auschwitz issue, since it is both tentative and wholly negative: all that she says, in effect, is that she did not actually see any gas chambers while she was at Auschwitz (although she did hear rumours of them and the Kapos speak of them) This proves nothing and certainly cannot provide an answer to the mass of positive evidence adduced by van Pelt. In any event, as the witness statement of James Libson demonstrates (paragraphs 81-87, pages 30-33), the inconsistencies between Mrs Potanska Palmer's present witness statement and her earlier autobiography are such that no reliance can safely be placed on her evidence. Thus her evidence is neither capable of having any influence on the outcome of the case nor credible.
17. The First Defendant submits that the Court of Appeal should dismiss Irving's applications.Richard Rampton QC
1 Brick Court, Temple Heather Rogers
Matrix Chambers, Gray's Inn 15th May 2001
1. CPR Pr 52 52.11(2); 2001 CPR page 993
2. In giving a ruling on 17th January 2001 in this case, Sedley LJ stated that "the principles stated Ladd v Marshall remain relevant, not as rules, but as matters necessarily to be considered in the exercise of the Court's discretion to allow further evidence on appeal in accordance with the overriding objective." The Court of Appeal had taker the same view in Hamilton v Ai Fayed (no 4) CA [2001] EMLR 15.
3. See CPR Pt 52.3(5), 2001 CPR page 384 (when permission to appeal will be granted by the Court of Appeal).