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Without Cayne, Are Investors Able?
The anticipated departure of Bear Stearns CEO James Cayne boosted shares of the venerable investment-banking institution, which have lost 53% of their value since the beginning of 2006. But the rally has already faded — one can get burned only so many times before developing an aversion to fire, it seems.
Furthermore, the haircuts (or rather, beheadings) given to major Wall Street institutions, along with U.S. banks, has produced, not surprisingly, an itchiness among investors eager to jump back into the fray.
The worry, though, comes from the uncertainty surrounding coming events, such as earnings reports out of Citigroup and Merrill Lynch, both of which analysts expect to announce writedowns exceeding $10 billion. (Today, Merrill analysts pegged possible Citi writedowns at $16 billion.)
"A number of readers ask if this is not the time to get aggressive and go long financials, a derivative version of the 'must bounce' mindset," writes Christopher Whalen of Institutional Risk Analytics, in commentary today. "If you have deep pockets and lots of patience, the answer may be yes, but we continue to believe that financials will be net consumers of capital for much of 2008."
(Book values for major firms; Data from most recent earnings)
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Part of the reasoning revolves around book value – basically, a measure reported by the firms that values all of the company's assets if it were to go out of business immediately. When financial stocks fall below their book value, many analysts consider them a bargain. For example, at the end of November Bear Stearns had a book value of $84.09 a share — today it was traded at $76.47, or a price-to-book ratio of 0.91. Even Mr. Whalen suggests this is a value.
But the other major Wall Street firms aren't anywhere close to this, and with the credit crunch spreading to other supposedly conservative banks such as National City, many anticipate more pain to come, complicating the picture for investors who view financials as a bargain.
"With average price/book ratios of around 1.75, banks are likely to be even more overvalued than the market in general, unless balance sheets significantly understate net worth," writes Andrew Smithers, of Smithers & Co., a London-based investment advisory.
In commentary today, PIMCO fixed income head Bill Gross says bond defaults have not yet risen to historical levels, and the forthcoming quarters suggest a period of retrenchment for financial institutions, limiting earnings growth. The "current surge is spent," he writes. "Investment survivors will have to learn to live in a different world, filled with new risks, lower leverage, and at some point, hopefully greater rewards."


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China at Risk with Venezuela Oil Bet
From Asia Times
By Matt Ferchen
Referring to the evolving political crisis in Venezuela, a Shanghai Academy of Social Science scholar, Zhang Jiazhe, recently remarked, if Hugo Chavez dies, "the diplomatic effect on China won't be large because China-US competition is in Asia not Latin America. Economically, China-Venezuela relations are based on oil and weapons sales".
Back in 2006, Beijing University Professor Ha Daojiong, however, sounded a more skeptical note when he wrote, "The search for overseas oil supplies has led Beijing to pursue close diplomatic ties with Iran, Sudan, Uzbekistan and Venezuela – all countries that pursue questionable domestic policies and… foreign policies". [1]
These two different Chinese foreign policy perspectives highlight an ongoing debate – and not only inside of China – about how Chinese state-owned enterprise (SOE) pursuit of global energy supplies was or was not leading China into unwanted and unhealthy foreign entanglements.
The logic of Chinese SOE energy investments in all these "questionable" countries is straightforward: China needs more energy than it can produce domestically and its SOEs are "going out" to help supply domestic demand. In Sudan and Iran, however, Chinese national oil companies' (NOCs) investments exposed Beijing diplomatically to internationally controversial political regimes.
Chinese state-to-state energy ties to such "pariah states", including more recent examples in Libya and Burma (Myanmar), have mostly been based in the Middle East, Africa or closer to China in Central and Southeast Asia. [2]
The geographic focus, however, has now for the first time shifted to China's presence in the Western Hemisphere as Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez' health crisis evolves into a broader political crisis not only for Venezuela but for his regional allies and potentially for China.
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This morning, Chairman Thanh Nguyen and members of our Foundation boarded a plane for a 2 month trip to Vietnam. While overseas, they will engage in another round of remains recovery, assisting a new group of families locate and recover the remains of their relatives in the isolated jungle camps. Over the next 2 months, more of these brave family men will finally be reunited with their families and given the honorable burial they deserve.
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Here in South Carolina, where we are relieved to be nearing the end of another quiet hurricane season, we recently witnessed the destructive force of torrential rainfalls.
Almost as devastating as the physical property loss in a flood is the emotional impact of seeing your home damaged or destroyed. We've all seen these tragic stories on TV – home improvement projects ruined and washed away, priceless family photos and heirlooms lost and on and on.
Studying the lives of people in the Bible can bring hope to believers today. The life of John Mark in the New Testament illustrates the truth that failure is not final for believers.
John Mark was the son of Mary, an affluent godly widow in Jerusalem who allowed believers to meet in her home for prayer.
John Mark likely had contact with many wonderful people who took part in that fellowship. At some point the apostle Peter led him to the Lord, because he later called him his spiritual son.
At the beginning of October, Lancaster County homeowners received their tax bills, which are due by Jan. 15, 2014, without penalties.
If you have not received your tax bill, please contact our office to see where your bill went and make sure we have the correct address on file for you. Please do so as soon as possible to make sure your taxes are paid on time so you can avoid late penalties.
If you are paying into an escrow account as part of your mortgage you should have received a bill, so that you would know how much you are paying in taxes.
If you have children in South Carolina public schools, you've probably heard the term "Common Core" several times by now. It's the name for a nationalized set of academic standards to which South Carolina public schools are now required to conform.
Did you vote for Common Core? Did you have any say in it at all? No, you didn't.
One very important reason for Congress to expedite work toward a new Food, Farm and Jobs Bill is to continue today's rapid growth in local and regional marketing opportunities for American agriculture.
From local farmers markets to regional food hubs, these new opportunities benefit a wide range of Americans from all walks of life.
They benefit farmers and ranchers who are looking to start selling locally or scale up to regional sales.
"More babies are dying in SC." That was the banner headline in the Charleston Post and Courier recently.
To me, it was both shocking and impossible to ignore. And I would bet most South Carolinians felt the same way. Unfortunately, to many of our state government political leaders, it was just another day at the office.
The proposed cluster development ordinance passed first reading at the Lancaster County Council meeting Nov. 25. The reason stated was to get the issue on the table and talk about it.
The values of the important parameters included in the cluster development version passed by council are the very small numbers required to permit Mattamy Homes to develop the Treetops site to 933 homes. We will call these values the Mattamy Homes Treetops profit numbers (MHTPN).
The General Assembly is considering legislation which intentionally damages the fiscal and societal well-being of the citizens of South Carolina. The bill, couched under the clever title "the business freedom to choose act," is in fact special interest legislation at its rankest.
The deficit in Washington is growing – and I'm not speaking about our nation's floundering finances.
The trust-deficit between Americans and policymakers is distressingly large – with only 19 percent of Americans, according to an October Pew poll, who say that they have faith that the government will do what is right just about always or most of the time.
There are many honors and responsibilities that come with being a legislator. But none is more profound than sharing a community's appreciation to the men and women who have put service above self, and made the commitment to go wherever they were sent for the purpose of protecting the freedoms that we hold dear.
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The man the U.S. alleges is the top al-Qaida operative who orchestrated the 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania has pleaded not guilty to the charges at a federal court in Manhattan. The case has brought the High Value Interrogation Group back into the spotlight. It was created by the Obama administration to extract valuable intelligence from terrorists, but national security experts say there have been too few cases to judge its promise.


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It's a special title given to me (and invented by) Adam. It appears there are no new 'official' titles after acolyte.
If ans when i reach your high levelof posts, I would like to request the title "leper messiah." Thank you all for your attention "If you don't have anything nice to say about somebody, sit right here by me"
Oh thanks. :)Btw, I like that 'leper messiah' idea for one of the high titles.----------~I'm floating in a most peculiar wayAnd the stars look very different today~
Well since Adam gave you that title, can't he just extend it to all posters at your level? Or at least create another one since Sysiyo needs a special title? I really didn't realize that Adam could create titles. I guess that should have been pretty obvious, but you know me. The Leper Messiah idea sounds interesting.I cannot understand the way I feelUntil I rest on lawns of dawns
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Adam, when I hit 5000 posts will you give me a special title too? It should happen any day now; I only need to make 4746 more posts. I'm invisible and dumb, no-one will recall me
I'm only up to 3200-something now, but that's ok because I couldn't think of a title anyway. I'd spend weeks fretting over it. <--- Hot jelly baby
I'm less confuzzled now. And I think it is a good policy that once a poster reaches the 5000 mark they can get their own customized title. Not a bad deal at all. And Claude has 5143 posts. I didn't know that off-hand. I cannot understand the way I feelUntil I rest on lawns of dawns
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yes, Claude needs to be honored with his own title too!I'm invisible and dumb, no-one will recall me
We should call him "The Great Poster"! "People say, how can I help on this war against terror? How can I fight evil? You can do so by mentoring a child; by going into a shut-in's house and say I love you."


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Questions about a special meeting called by Tullahoma Mayor Lane Curlee in October which was attended by members of the Tullahoma Board of Education may have violated the state's open meetings act has led to a move to form a special ethics committee. The Board of Education will meet Tuesday night in a study session.
Chairman Pat Welsh said he was asked to have an ethics committee investigation initiative on the agenda, stemming from the October meeting that was attended by the mayor, some aldermen and Board of Education members. Board of Education member John Manis, who was not at the October meeting, said he made the request to have the special committee because he believes ethics violations have occurred. He said he believes the meeting was not properly announced, plus some board members may have taken other action that has violated the board's operational policy.


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Georgia Law graduate named finalist for UGA presidency
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Jere Morehead, a 1980 graduate of Georgia Law, was named the finalist for the University of Georgia presidency in an announcement made by Board of Regents Chair "Dink" Nesmith and University System of Georgia Chancellor Hank Huckaby. Morehead currently serves as the senior vice president for Academic Affairs and as provost at UGA. The Board of Regents will take final action on the selection of the next president of UGA at a future meeting.
Human rights expert William Schabas to speak at UGA School of Law
Monday, January 28, 2013
William A. Schabas, an internationally respected expert on human rights law, genocide and the death penalty, will present a lecture on "Human Rights and Culture" at Georgia Law on Feb. 7 at 4:30 p.m. in Classroom J. Schabas' presentation will address the long-neglected association between human rights, culture and the arts, and is co-sponsored by the school's Dean Rusk Center and by the Willson Center for Humanities and the Arts.
Second-year law student Jenna Jackson crowned Miss UGA
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Congratulations to second-year law student Jenna L. Jackson, who was recently crowned Miss University of Georgia 2013. Jackson will compete in the Miss Georgia Pageant in June, with the winner of that pageant going on to the Miss America Pageant later in the year. Second-year law student Utrophia D. Robinson was also honored during the competition, where she tied with Jackson for the "best interview" award.
U.N. World Food director to speak at symposium
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Georgia Law will welcome Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Programme Ertharin Cousin on Feb. 5 as the keynote speaker for the Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law's conference titled "International Law in a Time of Scarcity." The daylong symposium will begin at 8:30 a.m. in the Larry Walker Room of Dean Rusk Hall, on North Campus, and will address global policy in relation to the scarcity of resources.
Noted Russian historian to lecture on "memory laws" at Georgia Law
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Nikolay Koposov, currently a visiting professor of history at Johns Hopkins University, will present "Memory Laws in Europe: A New Civil Religion" Jan. 28 at 4:30 p.m. in the Larry Walker Room of Dean Rusk Hall. During his talk, Koposov will provide a general overview on legislation dealing with historical memory, from post-war anti-fascist legislation through the lois mémorielles in France in the 1990s and up to contemporary battles over acknowledging the past in Eastern Europe and Turkey.


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Not a total musical like "Umbrellas" was, and no connecting characters between the two, just a brief mention of the town of Cherbourg. This one has the same longing tone as the previous film in parts, but mostly it's a much sunnier film, a loving, colorful, musical tribute to Hollywood escapist classics.
At this point, Demy was far out of touch tonally with his French New Wave contemporaries. "Umbrellas" characters were at least affected by the ongoing war, but "Rochefort", coming long after "Muriel" and "Paris Belong To Us", and after "The War Is Over", is in its own insular world for the most part. A few years later, after the May '68 riots and Godard's and Marker's hard turns to the left, after even Demy's wife Agnes Varda had filmed "Black Panthers" and contributed to the "Far from Vietnam" project, Demy would continue to go his own way, filming a musical fantasy fairy-tale with Deneuve and Jean Marais in 1970. By that point, I gather that he was not well-liked by his New Wave filmmaker/critic contemporaries. I don't think he is well-liked still… I've been reading that his career was pretty uneven, and only a quarter of his films are talked about regularly. I guess Demy's films have had to be recontextualized to be appreciated, removed from the radical French 60's and enjoyed as pure cinema.
Danielle Darrieux (star of Madame De… and the cheating wife in La Ronde, later in 8 Women & Demy's Une chambre en ville) plays Yvonne, mother of Catherine Deneuve, her tragic real-life sister Françoise Dorléac (of The Soft Skin and Roger Vadim's La Ronde remake) and young Boubou.
Yvonne regrets having left Boubou's father Simon Dame (Michel Piccoli) ten years ago. Delphine (Deneuve) keeps missing her dream man, an artist/poet doing his military service, Jacques Perrin (of Donkey Skin, Cinema Paradiso, the Kieslowski-penned 2005 Hell). Solange (Dorléac) dreams of meeting famous American composer Andy Miller (Gene Kelly). And they all (more or less) meet up and fall in love at the end of the movie.
Guess I'm not so musical-savvy, don't know what to say about this one stylistically. I mean, it's bright and colorful and fun, less sense of loss and longing than "Umbrellas", but I kind of miss that. Gene Kelly is a cutie, fits in just fine.
Katy asks why the mother has to work all day at her diner to get by, while her daughters live high in their fancy apartment and pretty dresses from teaching song and dance lessons. Are the realism and the fantasy rubbing against each other uncomfortably, or is the mother paying for Boubou's school and still helping to support the girls until they get married? If the latter, I'd hope they'd take a shift at the diner once in a while.
This and "Umbrellas" had a funny combination of set and location shooting, with Demy doing location shots in the actual towns, but repainting the storefronts to his liking. Nice music, nothing memorable for me, having heard it just once. The girls refer to "Jules and Jim" and composer Michel Legrand. The camera should count as a cast member since it is engaged by the other characters and dances around with them. A self-reflexive movie then, both in its use of the camera and its reference to musical convention. Bright, solid primary colors abound. The DVD looks lovely. I'd definitely like to watch it again soon.
Agnes Varda made a 60-minute film in 1992 called "The Young Girls Turns 25", which of course would have made for a fantastic DVD extra, but of course is not included on the barebones U.S. release.
Jonathan Rosenbaum: "There are English-dubbed versions of both Umbrellas and Young Girls; I haven't seen the latter, but the English version of Umbrellas is so unrelievedly awful that I'm happy to have missed the dubbed Young Girls." Although if the IMDB trivia page is to be believed, "Rochefort" was fully shot in English as well as French, so it might be worth hunting down an English version if it still exists anywhere.
Caroline Layde for Senses of Cinema:
"However undemanding and lollipop Demy's films may appear, they present some nuance and sophisticated intertext, and they share a certain charm, vivid and unified. His films inhabit worlds in themselves that may peripherally refer to social reality and the real world but remain content as alternate realities of poetry, color, and music.
"Demy's consistency of vision itself justifies his inclusion among the "auteurs", defined by André Bazin and François Truffaut and expanded by Andrew Sarris as distinguishing themselves with their salient visual language from mere metteurs-en-scène. Demy certainly created a signature style of poetry and innocence and clung to it. Yet this quality also has a sophisticated aspect, suggesting the dream worlds of the surrealists and of Demy's inspiration, Jean Cocteau. It is fitting that the American critic Gary Carey has described Demy as "the Joseph Cornell of French cinema".


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This is an excerpt from EERE Network News, a weekly electronic newsletter.
March 05, 2014
EPA Sets Cleaner Fuel and Car Standards
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on March 3 finalized emission standards for vehicles and gasoline that will significantly reduce pollution while enabling efficiency improvements in the cars and trucks. The fuel economy and greenhouse gas standards covering model year vehicles from 2012-2025 are projected to save U.S. families more than $1.7 trillion in fuel costs.
The standards establish a 70% tighter particulate matter standard and virtually eliminate fuel vapor emissions. These standards will also reduce vehicle emissions of toxic air pollutants, such as benzene, by up to 30%. Additionally, new final fuel standards will reduce sulfur levels in gasoline by more than 60% in 2017. Reducing sulfur in gasoline enables vehicle emission control technologies to perform more efficiently.
The final standards will work together with California's clean cars and fuels program to create a harmonized nationwide vehicle emissions program that enables automakers to sell the same vehicles in all 50 states. The standards are designed to be implemented over the same timeframe as the next phase of EPA's national program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from cars and light trucks beginning in model year 2017. See the EPA news release.


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OTISVILLE — After more than two decades behind bars for a murder he always maintained he did not commit, Lebrew Jones will be released this November, thanks to a surprising and rare decision this week by the state Board of Parole.
Jones, 52, had no criminal record when he was sentenced in 1989 to 22 years to life for the brutal slaying of Michaelanne Hall, a young prostitute from Buffalo. His conviction has been under review by the Manhattan District Attorney's Office since 2007, when a Times Herald-Record investigation raised doubts about his guilt.
Prompted by Jones' story, published in the Record in early 2008, attorneys for the Innocence Project and Davis, Polk and Wardwell, a Manhattan law firm, stepped forward to represent him pro bono.
On Wednesday, Jones had his first parole interview, and on Thursday, the Board of Parole said he will be released on Nov. 19.
"No doubt, this is due in large part to (the newspaper's) wonderful efforts," said Rebecca Brown, policy advocate for the Innocence Project.
It is rare for an inmate convicted of a violent felony to be paroled after the first interview, according to parole officials.
Of 308 violent felons who had their first parole interview in 2008, only 24 were granted parole, said parole spokeswoman Heather Groll.
"The decision depends on a lot of things," Groll said. "What happened during the interview, the inmate's behavior in prison, letters and comments from the public in his folder. Every decision is made on an individual basis."
Among those who wrote letters supporting Jones' release was the victim's mother, Lois Hall of Buffalo, who has doubted Jones' guilt since his 1987 arrest.
"Oh my God, I'm so happy," said Hall, upon hearing he will be released. "The only sad part about this is he had to do 22 years — 22 years for something he never did."
Robert Beecher, Jones' original defense attorney, also wrote a letter urging the board to grant him parole.
"This is a man who would not hurt a flea," Beecher said. "He's going to be a productive citizen and member of the community. He's a total gentleman, and he's proven that ever since he's been incarcerated."
Still, Beecher said he was "shocked" to hear Jones had been granted parole on the first try, calling it "almost unheard of."
Beecher added it is likely the newspaper's investigation also played a part in parole's decision to release Jones.
"The reporting moved people in that direction," he said. "There were so many significant issues raised. And this would not have happened if the DA's office had made an objection. If they had weighed in with any kind of force, he wouldn't have been released."
Efforts to prove Jones' innocence will continue, his attorneys said.
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Where There's Smoke, There's Conservation
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By Randy Edwards
At the Big Bend Campground in the Monongahela National Forest, sunburned anglers and car-camping families rest in the relative coolness of Smoke Hole Canyon and enjoy the spectacular scenery surrounding them along the South Branch of the Potomac River.
Few of the campers probably realize that the vertical cliffs of the canyon rim supply more than just beautiful scenery. They also support some of the rarest plant communities in West Virginia, such as limestone glades and dry limestone white cedar woodlands found only in the Central Appalachian Mountains.
Ashton Berdine, The Nature Conservancy's private lands manager, says that one such cliff near the summit of High Knob harbors at least seven rare plant species and affords one of the best views he's seen of Smoke Hole Canyon. That could mean only one thing: "Sooner or later, someone would have wanted to put a cabin here, with the deck built right out to the edge of the cliff," Berdine says.
But now, thanks to the landowners' great love for the property and desire to forever protect the view, no building will ever destroy the rare plants on the cliff or interrupt the natural scenic view from the Big Bend campground.
Working with the Conservancy and the West Virginia Outdoor Heritage Conservation Fund, landowner William Puffenberger and his sons, Erik and Mark, donated a conservation easement that will forever protect 200 acres along the canyon rim—land that adjoins the Monongahela National Forest's Spruce Knob-Seneca Rocks Recreation Area. The property, a hunting retreat that has been in the family for three generations, will remain in family ownership but with development restrictions now permanently protecting the conservation values of the property.
"It's a perfect example of the recreational value of West Virginia's forests," Berdine says. "The family loves to hunt. While they could have made more money in the near term selling the land for development, they were very serious about making sure they were leaving something for future generations to enjoy."
The easement will be held and enforced by the Outdoor Heritage Conservation Fund, the organization established in 2009 to protect the Mountain State's important natural areas. The easement is the Fund's second land protection project and demonstrates its growing maturity as a land conservation organization, Berdine says. The Conservancy assisted in negotiating the Puffenberger easement and has been helping to build the Fund's capacity, working side by side with it to inform the Fund's first few agreements.
The Puffenberger easement is the latest chapter in the Conservancy's efforts to protect the unique habitats of Smoke Hole Canyon, an effort that began with the 1,600 acres of land the Conservancy protected under an easement there in 2004. But conservation work doesn't end with protecting the land. The Conservancy has worked with the Potomac Highlands Cooperative Weed & Pest Management Area to fight spotted knapweed, viper's bugloss and other non-native invasive plants that threaten the rare limestone communities in the canyon. The Conservancy has also worked to restore red cedar woodlands and their prairie-like understories, creating a demonstration area to inform other canyon land managers of useful management techniques for the rare plant communities.


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"Maypole / Take No Prisoners," 2007
Handprinting on aluminum, ribbon, steel chain, and aluminum pole with steel base
35 x 30 x 30 feet. Installation at the Venice Biennale, 2007. Photo by: Giovanni Pancino.
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You've watched John Carpenter's "Halloween" countless times. You've waded through the entire "Friday the 13th" oeuvre, including that putrid remake. For this Halloween, you're craving something different, new DVD blood, if you will.
To help in your scary movie-watching pursuits, four horror buffs on our staff came up with their Top 5 picks of blood-curdlers, gorefests and offbeat ickiness that might have flown beneath your radar.
Barry Caine's Picks
"The Descent" (2005): Women, some with guilt, some without, get trapped in a deep cave with pale, flesh-eating creepy things; claustrophobia plus mini melodramas and things that lash out in the dark — life is good.
"Feast" (2005): Monsters move like darts, devouring human sushi, bone in or out, just because. A fine rush. Mostly nameless bar denizens such as the bozo, the beer guy and the heroine curse, battle and drink — like at work.
"Fido" (2006): More a shaggy zombie story than a spook fest. A boy named Timmy dubs his new zombie pal Fido. Fido sparks with Timmy's unsatisfied mom, proving you can't keep a good dead man down. Satisfying gore and laughs.
"Lady in White" (1988): Spooky spirit. Locked in his school's cloakroom late one autumnal evening, a schoolboy (Lukas Haas) is jarred awake by the ghost of a little girl (ooooo), gets involved with murder; tasty atmospheric supernatural thriller.
"Puppet Master III: Toulan's Revenge" (1991): The nice puppeteer and his tiny band of living puppets throttle Nazis; it doesn't get much better than this.
Karim Amara's picks
"REC" (2007): Yes, a film with subtitles, oh the horror. Trust me, the last 15 minutes of this Spanish film will have you sitting upright with the lights on.
"Excorist III" (1990): A true sequell to "The Exorcist," unlike the dreck that is "The Exorcist II: The Heretic." It's 15 years after the first film and George C. Scott takes on the devil.
"Videodrome" (1983): A film that foresaw the vanishing divide between flesh and media long before the internet, social-media, and good taste.
"Grace" (2009): Willing your stillborn baby back to life is never a good idea. As the director, Paul Solet, said, "I wanted a film that punched you in the soul."
"Ravenous" (1999): Guy Pearce, Robert Caryle, 1840s, Sierra Nevada mountain range and vampires. Nuff said.
Jim Harrington's picks
"Basket Case"(1981): Frank Henenlotter's B-grade masterpiece, even better than "Frankenhooker," spins a sick story of a boy and his murderous "side kick."
"Zombi 2" (1979): Italian gorehound classic, with the an eye-gouging scene that will make you squirm and a hilarious underwater zombie vs. shark battle. Also known as "Zombie."
"Black Christmas" (1974): If you haven't seen this film then you haven't seen the best holiday-related horror flick — it's better than "Halloween." Just make sure that you watch the original, not the recent remake.
"Eaten Alive" (1977): Tobe Hooper's scariest film is "Texas Chainsaw Massacre," but the director's creepiest is this story of a hotel with one unwanted guest, a hungry gator.
"DinoCroc" (2004): The funniest film ever made about a prehistoric carnivore with a taste for B-movie actors.
Randy Myers' picks
"Midnight Meat Train" (2008): A psycho walks loudly and carries a bloody mallet on the N.Y. subway (not an entirely foolish notion) in a freaky adaptation of a Clive Barker story. There's gore galore in this ominously directed, nicely acted — especially from "The Hangover's" Bradley Cooper — E-ticket ride to hell.
"Trick R Treat" (2009): Tossed inexplicably to the direct-to-video heap, this chilling quartet of intertwined tales takes place during one particularly nasty Halloween night. Love the first story featuring a psycho killer daddy. Ditto an ensuing chapter with Anna Paquin as a virginal lass with a dirty little secret. A Halloween classic is born.
"Rogue" (2007): A big, grumpy croc chows downs on tourists boating their way along the gorgeous, isolated rivers of Australia. Intense and briskly paced, "Rogue" is nearly plausible, until an over-the-top finale that is as stupid as it is satisfying.
"Vacancy" (2007): A bickering couple (Kate Beckinsale, Luke Wilson) get stranded in motel hell, a dingy claptrap where lodgers become unwilling players in a lethal peep show. Frank Whaley puts his best Norman Bates on in this pulse-pounder from Nimrod Antal (remember that name). Be warned, though, he ending cops out in a huge way.
"Wrong Turn 2: Dead End" (2007): Reality show contestants get their just desserts (Jon and Kate: where are you?) in this splatterfest that joyously rips off "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" and tons of other horror flicks. The sickening intro literally left me speechless, and sets the gut-busting tone as director Joe Lynch insanely goes all out on the carnage. One of the most twisted and sickening movies I've seen. Can't wait to watch it again.


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"If Americans want to live the American dream, they should come to Denmark"
( Richard Wilkinson, Co-author of "The Spirit Level". )
One of the things I like the best about America is your FIRST Amendment, and I have pointed to it in several articles, – this, for instance: "Crimethink" – the legacy of totalitarianism..".
On the other hand, I don't care that much for your SECOND Amendment, but, nevertheless, I have been following some of the heated and rather hysterical debates recently. One debate I saw was on CNN, hosted by Englishman Piers Morgan, and I gotta tell you this: I totally understand all Americans who'd like to grab this extremely arrogant Brit by his… and kick him the hell out ! – I'm saying so exclusively on the basis of his patronising attitude.., – what the man actually says is another story, and I probably agree with most..
That, however, is in no way going to stop me from being somewhat patronising myself.., so now that we've set that straight, let us procede..
It is understandable that the debates have been circling, above all, around the correlation of gun-ownership, i.e. number and calibre of guns, and homicide rates by country, but even so it appears to me as a narrowminded and superficial approach..
In his FAQ on Violence , – ( a follow-up to his The Riddle of the Gun ), – author and Neuro-Scientist Sam Harris points out that gun-free countries are not as peaceful as many think:
Now, I am not copying this here as an argument in favour of unlimited gun-ownership (!), – I just think it would be beneficial to widen our horizons a bit, i.e. take a look at overall wellbeing, and – not least – its roots..
I could talk at length about homogeneity, race, history, culture, religion, etc., as I believe these factors all play a role, but that would lead too far, and I have chosen here to focus on social ilnesses as a function of inequality.. – I will leave it up to you to draw your own conclusions from these charts I am going to present. I will also tell you – in short – what I think is the right remedy for curing these ilnesses, – see below charts.
Best insurance against future troubles: Child well-being ! – Anyone who disagrees ??
Improved Child well-being would, all things being equal, lower rates of Mental ilness, – right ?
Adversely, levels of trust are higher in more egalitarian societies..
Apparently, that goes for the U.S. as well..
No, – correlation does not prove causation, – (I thought I'd say so before you did), – but what do you make of this.. :
– and this ?:
One more chart before I tell you what should be done..
Social mobility:
the ability of individuals or groups to move within a social hierarchy with changes in income, education, occupation, etc. dictionary.reference.com/browse/social%20mobility )
Ok folks, make your own conclusions, – call these charts Communist propaganda or anything you like, but.. assuming they get a point or two across, what should be done to cure these social illnesses, including homicides, school-massacres..
When I was interviewed by Hank Pellissier for the article: Happiness, Freedom, Equality, Rudeness: Welcome to Denmark , he asked me this question:
Hank: How would you change the United States, to make it more egalitarian like Denmark?
My answer:
First and foremost: a change of mentality—coming to terms with outdated models of who works and who cares for families. Then I would mandate, for starters: public childcare, higher minimum wage, more equal pay, more flexible work schedules for families, and redesigned family and medical work leave.
Denmark should invite over here a greater number of Americans—preferably of a Republican bent—to show those enemies of the state, extensive welfare, high taxation, etc. that there are many advantages in our system, not only for the poorest 10%, but also for the wealthy, in terms of mutual trust, lower crime rates, and so on.
I hear that these days a lot of women actually make more money than men, and I'm not sure to which extent models of who works and who cares for families are still outdated, but that would only make a stronger case for public childcare, for starters..
If you pressed me, I could no doubt be more patronising, but I think I'll leave it at that. How many guns – and of which calibre – you should keep in your house is entirely your own business and I will not stick my nose into that.. , but, – on the other hand, I find it interesting to look to a country like Israel..
(Note: I am Danish, and I might as well have compared to Denmark, but I think Israel is rather more interesting, for obvious reasons.. ).
I've spent a couple of years in Israel – in the 70'ies – and I remember how you'd see people carrying guns everywhere, – e.g. in Kibbutzes, at busstops, – soldiers on their way to / from home. Anywhere I looked really. Most of these guns however, – all, probably, were in the hands of either soldiers or civilians with a license, and here comes the interesting part: Israel has – ( surprisingly perhaps), – rather strict gun laws. Incidentally, the Homicide rate is very low: 0.83 per 100.000 population (2008 ).
Again, make your own conclusions, but consider also the following, quoted from article in Jerusalem Post: Israeli gun control regulations 'opposite of US' :
Yaakov Amit, head of the Public Security Ministry's Firearms Licensing Department:
"There is an essential difference between the two. In America the right to bear arms is written in the law, here it's the opposite… only those who have a license can bear arms and not everyone can get a license."
"- gun licenses are only given out to those who have a reason because they work in security or law enforcement, or those who live in settlements, where the state has an interest in them being armed"
Some facts:
- Anyone who fits the requirements, is over age 21 and an Israeli resident for more than three years, must go through a mental and physical health exam, then pass shooting exams and courses at a licensed gun range, as well as background checks by the Public Security Ministry.
- Once they order their firearm from a gun store, they are allowed to take it home with a one-time supply of 50 bullets.
- The gun owner must retake his license exam and testing at the gun range every three years.
- As of January, (2013), a new law will go into effect requiring gun owners to prove that they have a safe at home to keep their weapon in.
- there are about 170,000 privately-owned firearms in Israel, or enough for around one out of every 50 Israelis.
- approximately 2,500 people in the country have gun licenses for hunting, and they must first get approval from the Israel Nature and Parks Authority.
Apart from Israel's strict gun-laws, what other reasons might explain the low Homicide-rate ?
Yaakov Amit says:
"the lack of mass shootings can be attributed to the country's closely knit family structure, small size and intimacy and informality between strangers or the universal health care which makes mental health services available for all".
"There is no full-auto Friday or Ladies night at the "Lahav" gun store in Tel Aviv, a store that bears little resemblance to its US counterparts"…
So, all is rose-red then.. ?
Not quite, according to gun-store owner (…) Yiftach Ben-Yehuda, 30, whose grandfather Yisrael opened the store – Israel's oldest – with two friends in 1949:
"The problem is that the law makes it very difficult for the good people to get guns. The number of legal guns in recent years has gone to around 170,000, but there are a half a million illegal guns floating around the Arab sector, no one knows how many. There's no reason someone who was a fighter pilot shouldn't be able to get a license to carry a gun."
So do I personally support strict gun-laws ? – You bet ! – Yet I'd say this:
It amounts to no more than treating the symptoms, and does not cure the disease !
Related articles
- Report: U.S. life expectancy lowest among wealthy nations due to disease, violence (cbsnews.com)
- Violence plays role in shorter US life expectancy (newsobserver.com)
- U.S. gun sales hit a record high since Obama's re-election (mcclatchydc.com)
- Comprehensive public health approach urged to curb gun violence in U.S. (mwoods228.wordpress.com)
- Geoff Johnson: Guns have no place in our classrooms (timescolonist.com)


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Blindspot Snags Full-Season Order
Jane Doe's past might be a little fuzzy, but her future is very clear: NBC has picked up the back nine episodes of Blindspot, making it the first 2015-16 freshman series to land a full-season order. READ MORE
Jane Doe's past might be a little fuzzy, but her future is very clear: NBC has picked up the back nine episodes of Blindspot, making it the first 2015-16 freshman series to land a full-season order. READ MORE
ABC is going all the way with Cristela.
The network has picked up the promising rookie comedy's "back-nine," bringing the show's Season 1 total to 22 episodes (AKA a full season). READ MORE
Much like its immortal protagonist, Forever has cheated death.
ABC handed the freshman drama a back-nine order on Friday, TVLine has learned. READ MORE
The mystery of whether Debra Messing will have a job for the rest of the season? Solved.
NBC on Tuesday ordered an additional nine episodes of Mysteries of Laura, which will bring the freshman drama to a full season READ MORE
It's a clean sweep for the Eye!
CBS has handed full-season orders (AKA 22 episodes) to all four of its new fall dramas — Scorpion, NCIS: New Orleans, Stalker and Madam Secretary, TVLine has confirmed. READ MORE
The Mikaelson clan's centuries-long lifespan shows no signs of ending: The CW has picked up Vampire Diaries spin-off The Originals for a full season. Additionally, the network has also extended back-nine orders to its two other freshman dramas — Reign and The Tomorrow People. READ MORE
ABC has granted full-season pick-ups to The Goldbergs and Trophy Wife and has ensured that Super Fun Night will go on at least a little longer.
On Friday, the network ordered additional episodes of the Tuesday-night comedies …READ MORE
Fox has officially picked up its much-maligned rookie comedy Dads for a full season. READ MORE
Brooklyn Nine-Nine received a double dose of good news Friday.
Not only did Fox pick up the Andy Samberg-fronted police satire for a full season, but the network announced that the rookie series will join New Girl in a "special one-hour comedy event" after Super Bowl XLVIII on Sunday, Feb. 2, 2014. READ MORE
Dysfunctional families for the win!: CBS has handed full-season pickups to its comedies Mom, The Millers and The Crazy Ones. READ MORE


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Continuing an ongoing trend in the light portage and personal transportation segment, electric vehicles are projected to take an increasing share of this segment of the small, task-oriented vehicle market reaching nearly 300,000 units by 2012, representing over 70% of the market. Privately-owned vehicles such as NEVs and golf cars used in gated communities will continue to be a significant driver in electric vehicle market share.
In the heavy-duty utility vehicle segment, gas and diesel vehicles will continue to dominate. While a few manufacturers are innovating with electric vehicles in this segment, IMS does not foresee significant inroads for electrics by 2012 unless improvements and cost efficiencies are realized in battery and AC drive technologies.
IMS says the small, task-oriented vehicle industry marked several milestones in the past two years that will help drive expansion in the next five years. These include:
- Key new product entries and innovative technologies that boost performance and comfort, including the first adaptation of AC electric power to a major golf car-type vehicle manufacturer's product line;
- Continued evidence of the globalization of the small vehicle industry, particularly in the sourcing of parts and accessories;
- A major concentration of sales efforts and capacity expansion in off-road vehicles;
- A tightening of used vehicle supplies, pointing to increases in the privately-owned (personal use) market.
In the study's key forecasts, IMS projects:
- Substantial gains for new, privately-owned vehicle (including neighborhood electric vehicles) and utility vehicle segments, where double-digit growth is forecast;
- Increased sales of electric-powered vehicles in all segments, growing at an 11.5 percent clip through 2012. (Small, albeit significant inroads of electric power in the heavy duty utility vehicles are also likely.)
"Heading into an environment of continuing increases in the cost of hydrocarbonand bio-based fuels and stringent regulation of emissions, IMS sees major opportunities for small vehicle manufacturers across all segments, especially when it comes to electric power," says Stephen Metzger, IMS Managing Director and principal author of the study.
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The Handmaid's Tale
by Margaret Atwood
The Handmaid's Tale Chapter 11 Summary
Waiting Room
- The narrator thinks about how she went to the doctor the previous day. It's the only activity she gets to do by herself, and even then she's not alone. A Guardian drives her there.
- She has to visit the doctor each month to have her fertility and health checked. In the waiting room, all the other women are dressed in red too.
- When it's the narrator's turn, she goes into a white room and gives a urine sample. Then she undresses and gets under a sheet. A second sheet covers her face so the doctor won't see it.
- The doctor comes in to examine her. He speaks to her, even though he shouldn't. While he performs his invasive examination, he offers to help her. He lifts up the sheet and looks at her face.
- At first she thinks he means help her with news of Luke. But he's offering to have sex with her so maybe she'll get pregnant. He insinuates that the man she works for is sterile and that he could help her—he's done it for other people.
- It's dangerous to say that men are sterile, because the society blames infertility exclusively on women.
- The narrator thinks vaguely that if she can't have children, she might die.
- The doctor seems genuine, but it's hard to tell. He could be a spy, and if they got caught, it would mean death. The narrator has to be cautious, though, because he could report her if she doesn't give him what he wants.
- He leaves and she feels anxious but isn't sure why. The memory ends.


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I'm just checking in today to celebrate Kevin and my five-year wedding anniversary. There won't be much romance tonight, but there's more love than ever.
Although, I can't leave out the fact that he did go and buy me a bottle of wine I'd been eying. After feeding Ethan his dinner, I enjoyed a celebratory glass last night with some of the lasagna my mommy made us. I'll have one more celebratory glass tonight. Woohoo – first glass since preg journey began!
By the way, thank you thank you thank you for all the kind words about Ethan's arrival and his birth story!


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Chingari team to shoot in Switzerland
The producers of Mahashaila Cine Sankula have signed actress Preethi Kamaiah as the heroine after Daisy Shah opted to quit the project. The producer has taken up this big project on a lavish scale by deciding to shoot some talkie portions of the film in abroad.
Actors like Yashas Soorya, Harsha, Srujan Lokesh and Pradip are playing important supporting roles in this movie. Famous choreographer Harsha has again turned director with this film. He has performed more than 1000 stage programs. He has gained popularity as a director by debuting with Geleya and then continued the success journey with Birugali. Chingari is the third film of Harsha as a director.
The music of this movie has been composed by V Harikrishna. Harsha has also written the story and screenplay of the movie. He is also the choreographer of the songs and HC Venu is the cameraman.
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Apple and the Rumor Mill
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Talk about a skittish market. Usually when stocks fall because of "rumors," the source is unclear, some kind of inter-trader chatter that causes enough heads to turn to cause shares in a name to bounce around. At least in this case, there's a paper trail.
Shares of Apple Inc., which opened marginally higher, briefly dipped on a CNN iReport that Apple CEO Steve Jobs had suffered a heart attack and had been rushed to a hospital. It's hard to overstate the lack of credibility this report has, but that doesn't stop short-term trading types.
The story was posted by a user named "johntw," and may have had an impact on the shares, which dropped sharply, to $94.65, before recovering. An Apple spokeswoman said this report was untrue.
Were this to have appeared on a random stock messaging board somewhere, it would likely have had little impact, but CNN has put its weight behind this iReport endeavor, saying on its Web site that "we've launched an independent world where you, the iReport.com community, tell the stories we're not used to seeing. And the most compelling, important, and urgent ones may get seen on CNN." They do say, however, that "the views and content on this site are solely those of the iReport.com contributors. CNN makes no guarantees about the content or the coverage on iReport.com!"
This is a particularly sensitive issue for Apple. The stock has come under pressure in the past after Mr. Jobs appeared thinner than usual in public, and analysts have discussed the Apple CEO's health in research reports from time to time.
Update: A CNN Worldwide representative emailed this statement: "iReport.com is an entirely user-generated site where the content is determined by the community. Content that does not comply with Community Guidelines will be removed. After the content in question was uploaded to iReport.com, the community brought it to our attention. Based on our Terms of Use that govern user behavior on iReport.com, the fraudulent content was removed from the site and the user's account was disabled."


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Monday, December 31st, 2012 1:08 pm
Takeovertokyo Trickcat Coverage.
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For this years installment of the Trickcat I was stoked to have my long time friend Jenn Wong out covering the event for Takeover Tokyo. She's busy busy like a lot of us so I've been patiently waiting for her to drop what I'm considering the "official" photos of the event. She got a good amount of shots of everyone and plenty of candid stuff as well. Hop over to peep the rest of the gallery.


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It's that time of year again, when stadium lights become strobe lights, sidelines become walls and the running game -- wait, what running game?
The Arena Bowl, Kern County's annual indoor high school football senior all-star game, is back for an 11th edition at 7 p.m. next Friday in Rabobank Arena.
After nine years of pitting East vs. West (with the West winning eight), Arena Bowl coaches Rick Van Horne and Eric Mahanke -- veterans of the defunct Bakersfield Blitz arena team -- drafted their teams for the second straight year.
Last April, that resulted in the most dramatic of the Arena Bowls, a 47-41 thriller with four second-half lead changes, the last a 25-yard touchdown pass from Frontier's Josh Legoretta to Centennial's Shawn Johnson to win it for the Black team.
This year, Van Horne's Gold team features a couple of prominent members of Bakersfield High's Central Section champions, quarterback Chris Hannible and defensive back Kevin Elijah, plus Fresno State-bound cornerback Shannon Edwards of Ridgeview and Tehachapi standout Cory Lange.
For his Black team, Mahanke used his first four picks on Frontier defensive back B.J. Nard (Cal Poly), Bakersfield running back Silas Nacita (Cornell), Centennial wide receiver Michael Martens and Liberty quarterback Kody Renz.
For complete rosters, check out the School House Zach blog at www.bakersfield.com/schoolhousezach.
All seating for this year's Arena Bowl will be reserved. All tickets are $10 and can be purchased through Ticketmaster or at the Rabobank Arena box office.
Teams to play for military
Centennial's baseball team will host its fourth annual Military Appreciation Game, against Independence at noon on April 21. Admission is free.
The festivities begin at 11 a.m., with free lunch for all active and retired military, veterans, reserve military and families. There also will be an information booth for veterans.
Centennial will wear camoflauge jerseys and hats, honor three local veterans in a pre-game ceremony and host a swearing-in ceremony for local enlistees.
For more information, contact Greg Hicks at (661) 706-3181.
Four days later, on April 25, West High will play Highland and honor veterans and wounded warriors.
The Vikings will serve a meal to veterans before the game, invite them on the field for a color-guard ceremony and national anthem and then invite them onto the field for baseball activities afterwards.
"It's a good day for our kids to realize there's a lot more to life than baseball," West coach Brandon Parks said. "We want to thank these veterans for the freedoms that we have."
Former Mustang honored
Former Stockdale softball standout Victoria Valos was named the Atlantic 10 Conference Rookie of the Week earlier this month.
Valos, a freshman at George Washington University, was 9-for-14 with a double and two home runs to lead the Colonials to a 3-1 record between April 2-8.
For the season, Valos leads GWU (12-24) with a .342 batting average, 20 RBIs and a .613 slugging average.
Baseball fundraiser
Stockdale's baseball program will hold a poker tournament to raise funds for new pitching machines, uniforms and other equipment on April 27.
The Home Run Hold-Em Poker Tournament begins at 5 p.m. on April 27 at the American Legion Hall at 2020 H St.
Tickets are $125 and include a deep-pit dinner and entry into the poker tournament, which begins at 6. Tickets are available from all players and coaches or at Stockdale home games Tuesday or April 26.


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And also for the second year in a row, the Sikeston Bulldogs boys team was seeded third in the district.
Sikeston (5-17) will open play against No. 6 seeded Ste. Genevieve (5-19) tomorrow night at 6:00. Dexter received the No. 1 seed followed by Fredericktown at No. 2.
Notre Dame (5-19) got the No. 4 seed while Perryville (5-17) pulled in No. 5.
Both Dexter (19-6) and Fredericktown (19-7) will have first round byes.
"Dexter is definitely the best team in the district right now," said Sikeston head coach Gregg Holifield. "Fredericktown is playing really well. Other than that, there's a lot of teams that are very similar in it. We open up with Ste. Genevieve. From what I understand about them, they're comparable to us. It should be a good first round game."
Sikeston has fielded perhaps its youngest team in school history this season.
On top of the fact that two sophomores and a freshman make up three of the team's top players, the Bulldogs also have one of the smallest lineups in recent school history with the tallest player on the team standing 6-foot-2.
"It's going to be a valuable experience for them," said Holifield. "Every game we go out there it's good experience. A big reason we have been up and down this year is because of our youth. This is a situation where it would be a great experience to advance as far as we could in it. If we play well, we've got a chance of competing with these teams and advancing on if we can put things together for a two or three game stretch."
What the Bulldogs do have going for them is that the district isn't very strong this year.
Dexter is the clear top seed, but after that the field is wide open.
The Bulldogs have already defeated Fredericktown 60-50 back in early January. They also split with Notre Dame this year, winning at Notre Dame High School in overtime and losing in the Superman Classic.
If Sikeston can get by Ste. Genevieve, they would get a rematch with Fredericktown on Wednesday at 7:45 p.m.
Without much of a post game, Sikeston has gone outside for their offensive answers. The team has been putting up 3-pointers at a record pace this season.
Sophomore Kash Bratcher, freshman Joe Lincoln and junior Marcus McCaster all have the capabilities of getting hot from beyond the arc.
All three have hit more than 30 3-pointers apiece this season. Bratcher and sophomore Trey Spence lead the team in scoring at 11 points per game each. McCaster scores 10 points per game and Lincoln follows up with nine points per game.
Top-seeded Dexter has one of the top post players in the region in 6-foot-6 senior Derek Demaree.
Senior guard Josh Miller can score in bunches and junior swing man Chris Guethle has improved steadily throughout the season.
Dexter will await the winner of the Notre Dame-Perryville game on Wednesday at 6 p.m.
In year's past, it was Notre Dame and then there was everybody else.
While the Bulldogs are still the team to beat in the district, they aren't the dominant force they've been the last several years.
"I don't see this district being lopsided like it has been," said Sikeston head coach Lee Brooks. "It can be anybody's ballgame. Notre Dame has the home court advantage and they have the mental advantage, they've done it before. They're not going to give it up easily. But I think they can be stopped. But you've got to be focused and hitting on all eight cylinders."
Sikeston enters the district with a 13-12 record and is seeded fourth. The team started out on fire, before hitting a tailspin in January, and then rebounding to win two impressive games last week against Cape Central and Malden.
Sikeston is led by Allison Blurton's 12 points per game. Mia Welch follows up with 10 points per game and Whitney McCray puts in 9.6 points and 5.2 rebounds.
The Lady Bulldogs will open against Fredericktown (10-14) on Tuesday at 7:45 p.m.
"This is some great competition in this district -- Fredericktown is always tough and they will play us tough," said Brooks.
Dexter is seeded second and could provide the biggest challenge to knocking Notre Dame from the top of the mountain.
Led by Rachel Blunt, the Lady Bearcats boast perhaps the top player in the district. She averages 19 points and 12 rebounds per game.
Taylor Nelson follows up with 12.5 points and eight rebounds per night. Charlotte Johnson pumps in 10.5 points per game.
It's going to be an exciting district," said Dexter head coach Gavin Miller. "Sikeston hasn't played well of late, but on any night you can count on Coach Brooks getting his team ready for the big games. They're always going to be exciting to watch. Perryville is seeded third and they beat us earlier in the year in double overtime. They're very well-balanced. They've got inside and outside scoring."
Perryville (18-6) got the No. 3 seed while Ste. Genevieve (7-17) is seeded seventh. Perryville has given Notre Dame its toughest game this year, losing just 61-53 last Wednesday.
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The three candidates running for Governor agree that smaller more efficient government, and private sector growth are key to turning around the state's struggling economy. All of them want to re-brand the state as pro-business and say now is not the time for any tax increases to pay for government services. KDNK's Bente Birkeland reports.


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Expert at Mobile Commerce Forum surprisingly says an app.
I was surprised last week at the Mobile Commerce Forum by a presentation from Bryant Shea, vice president of the innovation group, which covers content management and mobile commerce, at consulting firm Isobar.
Conventional wisdom says when launching a mobile commerce program a retailer should begin with an m-commerce site, not an app, because a site offers greater reach than an app. Anyone with a mobile web browser can access a mobile-optimized site, whereas apps can only be accessed by users of the platforms for which those apps were designed. And the smartphone platform market is rather fragmented.
But Shea bucked conventional wisdom.
"If you're going to be focused on any area, it's apps for the iPhone and Android," Shea said, saying the vast majority of mobile web traffic comes from mobile devices using Apple Inc.'s iOS4 operating system and Google Inc.'s Android operating system. "Why do you want to focus on an app instead of a mobile site? Because the experience is better."
I wholeheartedly agree that the experience is better on an app. I think most smartphone owners would agree, as well. And I think apps have a very important role to play.
However, mobile web browsing is soaring, and when a smartphone user types in a URL, the expectation is that there will be a site optimized for their device. And the number of people who use their phones as their primary method for accessing the Internet is greatly increasing. This means they'll be hitting a retailer's site more often on their smartphone.
As a result of these factors, I think it's paramount to launch an m-commerce site before a mobile app. Retailers have to be ready for the onslaught of mobile web users. Once they have a mobile site in place, then retailers can create the super-rich experience of an app. (Though I should add that with the new mark-up language HTML5, retailers can create rich m-commerce site experiences that approach those in mobile apps.)
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Membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis (GN) type II is a kidney disorder causing decreased kidney function because of inflammation and changes in the tissues of the internal kidney structures.
Membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis (type II); Glomerulonephritis - membranoproliferative (type II); Mesangiocapillary glomerulonephritis (type II); Dense deposit disease; MPGN II
Glomerulonephritis is inflammation of the glomeruli, the inner structures of the kidney that help filter waste and fluids from the blood to form urine.
Membranoproliferative GN II is a form of glomerulonephritis. It is caused by an abnormal immune response. Deposits of antibodies build up in a part of the kidneys called the glomerular basement membrane. This membrane helps filter waste and extra fluid from the blood.
The changes in this membrane lead disrupt the body's ability to filter urine. Protein and fluid leak out of the blood vessels into body tissues, leading to edema. Nitrogen waste products may accumulate in the blood (azotemia) because of poor kidney functioning.
Membranoproliferative GN II is much less common than Membranoproliferative GN I and occurs in both males and females, usually under age 30. It also tends to get worse faster than does membranoproliferative GN I.
The disorder is often progressive and may result in chronic renal failure.
The results of a physical examination vary depending on the symptoms. Swelling may be present along with signs of fluid overload, such as abnormal sounds when listening to the heart and lungs with a stethoscope.
Blood pressure is often high because of increased water and sodium (salt) retention and and increased production of renin, a hormone that controls blood pressure.
Membranoproliferative GN II may present in several forms. It may be seen as acute nephritic syndrome, nephrotic syndrome, or an abnormal urinalysis without symptoms. Urine output decreases. Swelling may occur as sodium and water are retained in the body.
These tests help confirm the diagnosis:
A kidney biopsy confirms the diagnosis of membranoproliferative GN II.
Treatment varies according to the symptoms. The goals of treatment are to reduce symptoms, prevent complications, and slow the worsening of the disorder.
Dietary adjustments may include restrictions on sodium, fluids, protein, or other restrictions to control high blood pressure, swelling, and accumulation of waste products in the bloodstream.
Medicines used to treat this condition and symptoms may include:
Dialysis or kidney transplantation may eventually be needed to manage renal failure.
The disorder progresses slowly to chronic renal failure. Fifty percent of cases will develop chronic renal failure within 10 years.
Call for an appointment with your health care provider if symptoms indicate MPGN II.
Call for an appointment with your health care provider if symptoms worsen or new symptoms develop, including decreased urine output.
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The things we love have many names and this also goes for the king of Spain, Tempranillo. With so many regional synonyms, you will loose your breath trying to keep track of them all.
Whereas good Tempranillo wines are made in Portugal, Australia and the US, some of the best come from the two regions of Rioja and Ribera del Duero, known for their lively deep-flavored reds. While there are many great wines, popular labels include Soto De Torres' Ibéricos Rioja Tempranillo and Emilio Morro's Ribera Del Duero.
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The week ahead - Feb. 1
Home & home vs. Toronto; Friday at MSG
Monday, 02.1.2010 / 3:27 PM ET / News
By Eric Marin
|Brodeur begins the week as the League leader in wins (32) and shutouts (7).
Jersey's Team overcame a blown two-goal lead to top Toronto in overtime on Friday, then allowed two goals in the final two minutes of Sunday's 3-2 defeat to Los Angeles.
The Devils have dropped seven of 10 entering this week, but hold a three-point lead over Pittsburgh for first place in the Atlantic Division with two games in hand. The Penguins were set to host Buffalo on Monday.
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Toronto (17-28-11) is now a vastly different club from the one the Devils beat on Friday. On Sunday, Maple Leafs' President & GM Brian Burke swung a seven-player deal with Calgary that brought former Norris Trophy finalist Dion Phaneuf, along with forward Freddy Sjostrom and defensive prospect Keith Aulie, to Toronto. In return, the Leafs shipped forwards Matt Stajan, Niklas Hagman, Jamal Mayers, and defenseman Ian White to the Flames.
"Definitely a little overhaul out there. Not many guys in return though – a lot of guys leaving," Martin Brodeur said Monday. "It'll be interesting to see what kind of lineup they have for the next two games."
Phaneuf's first two games as a Leaf will come against the Devils, perhaps bumping talk of Brodeur and his Olympic role with Team Canada to the backburner for New Jersey's first visit to the Air Canada Centre.
The last-place Leafs are winless in six straight and went 3-10-2 in January. Head coach Jacques Lemaire has to prepare for a revamped opponent.
"The coach usually has a certain way to play and the guys that will be dressed will play the same way," he said. "That won't change."
In a second trade, Burke picked up goaltender Jean-Sebastien Giguere from Anaheim, sending forward Jason Blake and goalie Vesa Toskala to the Ducks. Giguere owns a mark of 4-8-5 to go with a 3.14 goals-against average and .900 save percentage in 20 appearances this season. He won the Conn Smythe Trophy as playoff MVP in 2003, when the Devils beat Anaheim in the Stanley Cup Finals.
"It's a big story for them, with Giguere coming in also," Brodeur said. "Phaneuf, it definitely will be interesting to see him jump on the ice and see how the fans react. I'm surprised Calgary would move a player like that. I got to play with him at Team Canada training camp and he's a good player."
Even with Toronto's roster shakeup, Brodeur is ready for all the attention that his trip into Toronto will garner. It will be the Devils' last stop north of the border before the Olympic hockey tournament opens in Vancouver on Feb. 16.
"Usually we try to manage it as good as we can," he said. "It's important to answer the questions, especially for me going back to Canada. I don't go there too often, so you want them to have the opportunity to be able to talk to me. But when there's a hockey game, you have to play. That's still what I need to do. It's a bit like what we had to go through in Montreal, probably on a bigger scale, when I tied Patrick Roy's (wins record last March). You do things accordingly."
Phaneuf will bolster a Toronto blue line that already features Tomas Kaberle, who's fourth among NHL d-men in scoring with 43 points (5g-38a). Defenseman Mike Komisarek, signed by the Leafs as a free agent last summer, has been limited to 34 games because of injury, and has not played since Jan. 2 (upper body).
Brodeur felt Toronto might have sacrificed some forward depth to land Phaneuf, who had 10 goals and 12 assists in 55 games with Calgary. The 24-year-old Edmonton native is in his fifth NHL campaign.
"They paid a price offensively with some of their skilled forwards – for now," he said. "Listening to the media, '(Burke's) open for business for more trades.' Right now, who knows what's going to happen before (the March 3 trading deadline)."
By the time the Devils visit MSG on Saturday, the Rangers (25-24-7) might be a different squad, too. They reportedly acquired forwards Olli Jokinen and Brandon Prust from Calgary for a package that included forwards Ales Kotalik and Christopher Higgins. That deal was said to be on hold as of Monday afternoon.
The Rangers split the first two outings of a three-game Western swing, and snapped a five-game losing streak with Sunday's 3-1 win at Colorado.
New York begins the week in a three-way tie with Philadelphia and Florida for the final playoff spot in the East. New Jersey has taken back-to-back wins over its division rival. After Saturday's contest, they close out the season series with games at Prudential Center on March 10 and 25.
"There's things that happen in our game that weren't there before. Whatever reason that is, we need to figure it out as quick as possible so we don't keep doing the same thing over and over. It comes to be something pretty hard. Right now, we're win one, lose one, win one, lose two, win one. We need to start building how consistent we are like we were early in the season. That's the bottom line. It's definitely a little harder. Teams are gunning more for us now knowing that we were on top for the most part. Teams are playing us well." – Martin Brodeur (Monday, Feb. 1)
Who's hot
In two games, the line of Zach Parise-Travis Zajac-Dainius Zubrus combined for five goals and nine assists. Lemaire indicated Sunday night that he's likely to break up the trio, however, moving Zubrus to center to relieve some of Rob Niedermayer's workload up the middle.
Zajac has five points in two games, including goals in back-to-back outings. Both were blasts from the right circle.
"It's just kind of been lucky, hitting goalies and going in," he said Monday. "I've been trying to shoot a little quicker before goalies get set up and have time to come out and challenge. Both goals were on the ice, five-hole or went off them. It seems to be working right now."
Zajac endured a 12-game goal drought from Dec. 9 to Jan. 2. Since then, he's notched seven goals and nine assists in 14 games.
"When you're scoring, you get more confidence to shoot the puck," he said. "That helps a bit, too."
The Devils assigned forward Nick Palmieri to Lowell (AHL) on Saturday. The 20-year-old right wing had an assist in his NHL debut on Jan. 20, and appeared in six games with New Jersey.
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Jan. 26 - OTT 3, NJ 0
Brian Elliott recorded 24 saves to lead the Senators to a 3-0 win over the Devils at Scotiabank Place. New Jersey saw its winning streak against Ottawa snapped at nine games, and had its bid foiled for consecutive sweeps of the season series.
Alexei Kovalev and Milan Michalek scored even strength goals as the Devils fell behind 2-0 for the fourth time in their last five road games. Jason Spezza added a tally in the second period to hand the Devils their fifth loss in seven outings.
Brodeur made his 30th consecutive start but was relieved by Yann Danis after the second period. Brodeur finished with nine saves on 12 shots. Danis, whose last start was Nov. 21 at Dallas, made his second relief appearance in a span of five games. He turned away all six Ottawa shots in the third.
The Devils were shutout for the third time in eight games, and second time in their last five. They had gone the first 43 games of the season without being blanked once.
Zubrus returned to action after missing 30 games with a leg injury.
Jan. 27 - BUF 2, NJ 1 SO
Jochen Hecht and Jason Pominville scored in the shootout to send the Devils to their sixth loss in eight games. Hecht deked at the left circle to avoid Brodeur's poke check, and Pominville snuck a wrist shot underneath Brodeur's catching glove. New Jersey dipped to 6-2 this season on shootouts.
In his 31st consecutive start and 38th straight appearance, Brodeur recorded 30 saves, including four in overtime.
Shootout attempts by Parise (forehand deke) and Jamie Langenbrunner (fake slapshot in slot, forehand) were stopped by Ryan Miller, who finished with 39 saves in the contest.
"We played better, definitely," said Lemaire. "We had a lot of good chances. We didn't capitalize as much as we would like, but our chances were there. They were there, and we didn't give up a lot. We gave them five, six chances, which is pretty good."
Buffalo's Adam Mair opened the scoring in the second. Brian Rolston's 16th of the season snapped a six-game points drought and tied the game, 1-1, later in the frame. Johnny Oduya hit Rolston with a long pass from his own zone, springing Rolston for a partial break and a blast from the left circle that beat Miller shortside. The assist was Oduya's first point in 10 games.
"We get more chances, you want to win," Lemaire said. "You get a point but this is a game that we felt we should've won because of the chances we got versus the chances they had."
Jan. 29 - NJ 5, TOR 4 OT
Call it the ZZZ line, but the trio of Parise-Zajac-Zubrus was anything but a snooze in Friday's overtime triumph over the visiting Toronto Maple Leafs. They combined for four goals and seven assists, led by Zajac's winning PPG with 45.5 seconds to go in in the extra session.
The Devils blew a 4-2 lead in the third period, but came back to snap a two-game losing streak and improve to 2-0 in overtime.
Zajac added three assists for his first career four-point outing. Parise, who leads the team with 25 goals, 32 assists and 57 points, had two goals and two assists for his first four-point game of the season, sixth of his career. Zubrus, in just his third game back since missing 30 with a leg injury, potted a goal and two assists.
Brodeur made his 32nd consecutive start and recorded 25 saves for his League-leading 32nd victory.
Patrick Davis notched his first career goal in his seventh career NHL game, and it wound up being a big one.
"When I scored to put us ahead by two goals, I really didn't think it was going to that important of a goal," Davis said. "When they scored the third one, I thought, 'I've got the game-winning goal right now with just five minutes left.' Unfortunately they did tie it up, but this was a great win for this team."
"I couldn't stop smiling," he continued. "It was a dream come true and I just can't put into words how it felt."
Jan. 31 - LA 3, NJ 2
Oduya and Zajac staked the Devils to a 2-0 lead before they allowed three unanswered goals – including two in the final 1:46 of regulation.
Oduya snapped a 26-game goal drought with his second of the season. His centering feed for Rolston deflected off the skate of Kings defenseman Jack Johnson and past Jonathan Quick 4:45 into the contest. Zajac's 16th was a right-circle slapper set up by Zubrus on a three-on-two with Parise.
Michal Handzus scored from the crease with 28.7 to go in the middle frame. Wayne Simmonds' sharp-angle shortside wrister on Brodeur tied it at 18:14 of the third. The Kings cashed in on Andy Greene's trip with a minute to go in the third. Drew Doughty's slapshot through traffic broke the 2-2 tie on the power play with 27.3 seconds left.
Brodeur finished with 19 saves, but the Devils suffered their seventh loss in the last 10 games.