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DTEND:20130425 DTSTAMP:20160829T063003 DTSTART:20130424 GEO:25.7534653;-80.3733264 LOCATION:The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum\,10975 SW 17th Street \nMi ami\, FL 33199 SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Spanish Colonial Art UID:272944 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:
Jane Manus shares a vision to create new and dynamic spaces with abstract\, yet solid form. The exhibitio n at the Armory art Center will feature six of her large-scale works placed \, as they are meant to be seen\, in the outdoor sculpture garden. Though c oncrete and heavy in themselves\, Manus's sculptures are artfully connected planes of line and geometric shape\, joined as to invoke a complex\, shift ing array of transparent spaces and paradoxically unsubstantial solid forms . Her work actively engages her audience\, as the shapes and spaces form an d reform as the viewer moves closer to them\, further away and around them. While seemingly at odds with their setting\, Manus's sculptures are meant to be seen in the ever changing conditions of nature. her work forms a rela tionship with the play of shadow and the passage of time.DTEND:20130426 DTSTAMP:20160829T063003 DTSTART:20121201 GEO:26.6987365;-80.061843 LOCATION:Armory Art Center WPB\,1700 Parker Avenue \nWest Palm Beach\, 3340 1 SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:GEOMETRY OF SPACE\, Jane Manus UID:247845 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND:20121130T200000 DTSTAMP:20160829T063003 DTSTART:20121130T180000 GEO:26.6987365;-80.061843 LOCATION:Armory Art Center WPB\,1700 Parker Avenue \nWest Palm Beach\, 3340 1 SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:GEOMETRY OF SPACE\, Jane Manus UID:247846 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:
View special access\, interior and exterior photographic images from Charles Deering's former Spanish\, h istoric properties\, Palau Maricel de Tierra and Castillo Tamarit. Exhibit will be on display March 15 - April 26\, 2013.DTEND:20130426 DTSTAMP:20160829T063003 DTSTART:20130315 GEO:25.6159691;-80.3084164 LOCATION:Deering Estate at Cutler\,16701 SW 72 Avenue \nMiami\, FL 33157 SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Between Sea and Sky: Dreams of a Visionary (Entre el Mar y Cielo: S ueño de un Visionario )\, Patricia Gonzalez-Osorio UID:267553 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:
Nina Dotti (B.1968) is a Venez uelan artist who lives and works in Miami\, Florida. She has a Bachelor's i n Museum Studies and Art History from Jose Maria Vargas University in Carac as. Dotti also specialized in photography at Roberto Mata School and went t o the Art Student League of NY for sculpture and drawing. Galerie 13 Jeanet te Mariani in Paris has represented her since 2006. Exhibitions include Par is\, New York\, Miami\, Buenos Aires\, Caracas\, Berlin\, Basel\, and Shang hai among others. Her main focus is performance\, installation\, video and photography.\n
Nina's inspiration deriv es from social clichés attached to women and female behavior in general. De fined as a new media contemporary artist and a "pluralized woman" by French critic Frederic Charles Baitinger\, Nina attempts to evoke through her wor k\, women's role in the XXI century.\n
"Tipping Point" is her fourth solo show. This body of work is made up of ph otographs\, sculptural objects and fixtures of golden tones that attempt to convey a statement on the balance between being\, feeling\, thinking and d oing that we all desire to achieve.\n DTEND:20130430 DTSTAMP:20160829T063003 DTSTART:20130314 GEO:25.8416557;-80.1893117 LOCATION:Dot Fiftyone Gallery\,7275 NE 4th Ave. \nMiami\, 33138 SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:TIPPING POINT\, Nina Dotti UID:257328 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:
Over the course of a year ( 2010 &ndash\; 2011 )\, a foundin g member of PRIMARY &\; the notorious Miami mark maker &ldquo\;PUCHO&rdq uo\; had the pleasure of traveling together weekly from Miami to Ft. Lauder dale. On average\, their 35 minute commute consisted of dialogues where the state of Miami graffiti and street art was a topic in question. Somewhere in these undocumented\, private communications\, a bond was developed &\ ; a common foundation was established . . . A passion for vandalism.\n< p>Both having grown weary of the mural movement that had long been appropri ated by the surrounding business communities and luxury brands\, the conver sation soon found itself on darker grounds. Here you were guaranteed to fin d that a small action has the strength to summon a massive response\, simpl y by leaving one&rsquo\;s mark on another man&rsquo\;s property. A treasure d way loved by few and hated by many.\n
You could argue that this pro ject is not truly an act of vandalism. Good for you. No one cares.\n
At the end of the day this is not an attempt at convincing the public to co nsider this project a work of art. This is a project that is recognizing a bold response to living every day. This &ldquo\;act&rdquo\; is a conversati on being had between an elite group whilst delivering a general message to the illiterate masses and executed by &ldquo\;us&rdquo\; in celebration of one man&rsquo\;s dedication to fucking shit up.\n
 \;DTEND:20130430 DTSTAMP:20160829T063003 DTSTART:20130201 GEO:25.781236;-80.1911219 LOCATION:Primary\,151 N.E. 7th St. \nMiami \, FL 33132 SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:An Act of Vandalism\, Pucho UID:373263 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND:20130201T200000 DTSTAMP:20160829T063003 DTSTART:20130201T180000 GEO:25.781236;-80.1911219 LOCATION:Primary\,151 N.E. 7th St. \nMiami \, FL 33132 SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:An Act of Vandalism\, Pucho UID:373264 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION: DTEND:20130430 DTSTAMP:20160829T063003 DTSTART:20130405 GEO:25.7326119;-80.2583978 LOCATION:The Americas Collection\,4213 Ponce de Leon Blvd. \nMiami\, FL 331 46 SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:ENTRE ATAVIOS Y OTRAS COSAS\, Karen Estrada UID:270196 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION: DTEND:20130430 DTSTAMP:20160829T063003 DTSTART:20130405 GEO:25.7326119;-80.2583978 LOCATION:The Americas Collection\,4213 Ponce de Leon Blvd. \nMiami\, FL 331 46 SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:BARBA VIEJA\, Veronica Vides UID:270197 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:
David Castillo Gallery is proud to present Far From Apple Hill\, new photography by Francie Bishop Good for the artist's second solo show with the gallery.\n
Far From Apple Hill reveals far as a relative term. To experience Bi shop Good's large-scale\, digital photographs is to fall between antipodes- - cut through the center of the Earth on the straightest path between diame trical opposites-- slip from memory to lived experience. The artist compres ses place and time like folding a map\, making visible an expired wind in t he shape of trees or the passion in muscle memory.\n
You can't go home again\, cautions Thomas Wolf. Bishop Good r eaches impossibly toward her distant past in Apple Hill\, Pennsylvania from her present South Florida\, itself a transient region shaped by pirates\, political refugees\, and seasonal tourists. The resulting images draw from these varied locations\; familiar bodies and strangers\; specific cultures and diasporas\; reconstruction and autopoiesis. Bishop Good's photographs a re monuments to Walter Benjamin's notion of memory not as "an instrument fo r exploring the past\, but rather a medium."\n
Bishop Good depicts the place and time of the other\, who\, as in f olklore\, is also a familiar. Bishop Good sets upon the world with a keen vision\, filtering the darkness of time and place-- moment and memory -- sign and signifier so that the vulnerability of early childhood\, the bo som of a landscape\, or the trauma of a torn umbrella is yours\, and you can recognize it\, suddenly\, as clear as a photograph. Bishop Good's work resonates exponentially at the roots of collective memory. Far From Apple Hill is inspired and troubled by memory in hyperreality\, both p ainfully removed and staggeringly intimate.\n
Francie Bishop Good lives an d works in Fort Lauderdale\, Florida. Recent museum acquisitions include th e Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art\, Hartford\, Connecticut\; The Patricia &\; Philip Frost Art Museum\, Florida International University\, Miami\, Florida\; and Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art\, Fort Lauderdale\, Florida. T he artist's solo show at the Hollywood Art &\; Culture Center\, Florida\ , opens November 2013.DTEND:20130504 DTSTAMP:20160829T063003 DTSTART:20130411 GEO:25.7902946;-80.1323063 LOCATION:David Castillo\,420 Lincoln Road \nMiami Beach\, Florida 33139 SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Far From Apple Hill\, Francie Bishop Good UID:268560 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND:20130411T220000 DTSTAMP:20160829T063003 DTSTART:20130411T180000 GEO:25.7902946;-80.1323063 LOCATION:David Castillo\,420 Lincoln Road \nMiami Beach\, Florida 33139 SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Far From Apple Hill\, Francie Bishop Good UID:270361 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:
Carol Jazzar is pleased to pre
sent Reigning Men\, a solo exhibit by Miami artist David Rohn. This will be
Rohn's fourth exhibition at the gallery.
Miami-based artist Da vid Rohn will present a series of 12 self-portraits of male types distilled from performance. The soldier\, the country guy and the money manager\, am ong other identifiable types\, are explored in the context of traditional ' male' markers such as power and dominance. For Rohn\, "facial expression an d body language are arguably more basic\, more telling\, than spoken langua ge." He maintains that the expanded definition of femininity that began in 1960s and '70s is incomplete until an equivalent of what we consider mascul ine has also taken place. Some of his characterizations reveal less apparen t aspects of male-ness\, such as vulnerability and weakness\, as they are e xhibited in varied social and professional roles.
Rohn has inha bited many roles\, some subtle\, some exaggerated\, many offering sly comme ntaries on art world characters. Most recently\, he received "calls" from a nd conversed with viewers at Scope-NY during the Armory week and Scope-Miam i during ArtBasel/Miami Beach in December 2012 as Walt Whitman\, inhabiting a wood crate with fish-eye lenses revealing an elaborate 19th century stil l-life interior. An interest in mise-en-scéne and period costume has been a focus for Rohn\, in his installations\, performances\, videos and still ph otographs exhibited previously at the gallery and elsewhere. "Using still p hotography to capture a moment of performance reveals what can be masked - and lost - in moving images. This continues to challenge me as much as the prospect of bringing to life invented characters\, which are always an acut e response to social and personal experiences."
In celebration of MOCA's 15th Anniversary\, collectors Irma and Norman Braman and Rosa and Carlos de la C ruz chaired the museum's 15th Anniversary Collection Committee and worked w ith MOCA Executive Director and Chief Curator Bonnie Clearwater in attracti ng major works for the museum's permanent collection. These works will be u nveiled together for the first time in this exhibition. Among the featured artists are: Rita Ackermann\, assume vivid astro focus\, Bhakti Baxter\, To m Burr\, Joseph Cornell\, Nicole Eisenman\, Inka Essenhigh\, Naomi Fisher\, Mark Handforth\, Roni Horn\, Ragnar Kjartansson\, Pepe Mar\, Malcolm Morle y\, Albert Oehlen\, Gabriel Orozco\, Jorge Pantoja\, Jack Pierson\, Matthew Ritchie\, Onajide Shabaka\, Yinka Shonibare\, Xaviera Simmons\, Robert The rrien\, Ryan Trecartin\, Rick Ulysse\, James Welling\, Juan Carlos Zaldivar and others.\n
Pivot Points: 15 Years a nd Counting showcases these recent acquisitions and works by many of the ar tists who are part of MOCA's history.DTEND:20130505 DTSTAMP:20160829T063003 DTSTART:20130322 GEO:25.8903941;-80.183318 LOCATION:Museum of Contemporary Art - North Miami (MOCA NOMI)\,770 NE 125 S treet \nNorth Miami\, Florida 33161 SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Pivot Points: 15 Years and Counting\, Naomi Fisher\, Inka Essenhigh \, Joseph Cornell\, Bhakti Baxter\, Tom Burr\, Nicole Eisenman\, Assume Viv id Astro Focus\, Gabriel Orozco\, Yinka Shonibare\, Xaviera Simmons\, Rita Ackermann\, Mark Handforth\, Roni Horn\, Ragnar Kjartansson\, Pepe Mar\, Ma lcolm Morley\, Albert Oehlen\, jorge pantoja\, Jack Pierson\, Matthew Ritch ie\, Onajide Shabaka\, Robert Therrien\, Ryan Trecartin\, Rick Ulysse\, Jam es Welling\, Juan Carlos Zaldivar UID:262284 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND:20130321T210000 DTSTAMP:20160829T063003 DTSTART:20130321T190000 GEO:25.8903941;-80.183318 LOCATION:Museum of Contemporary Art - North Miami (MOCA NOMI)\,770 NE 125 S treet \nNorth Miami\, Florida 33161 SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Pivot Points: 15 Years and Counting\, Rita Ackermann\, Bhakti Baxte r\, Tom Burr\, Joseph Cornell\, Nicole Eisenman\, Inka Essenhigh\, Naomi Fi sher\, Mark Handforth\, Roni Horn\, Ragnar Kjartansson\, Pepe Mar\, Malcolm Morley\, Albert Oehlen\, Gabriel Orozco\, jorge pantoja\, Jack Pierson\, M atthew Ritchie\, Onajide Shabaka\, Yinka Shonibare\, Xaviera Simmons\, Robe rt Therrien\, Ryan Trecartin\, Rick Ulysse\, Assume Vivid Astro Focus\, Jam es Welling\, Juan Carlos Zaldivar UID:262285 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:
We are proud to host an important exhibition of orign al works and screenprints by the ledgendary contemporay artist\, Alex Katz. Alex Katz (born Brooklyn\, New York\, 1927) is one of the most important a nd respected living American artists with a career that spans over six deca des. "Face to Face" brings together original paintings and prints from seve ral decades of the over 60 years of the artist's career.
Katz' s bold paintings are defined by their flatness of color and form\, their de ceptively simple use of line and their cool but seductive emotional detachm ent. Using categories\, such as\, portraiture\, land and seascape\, figure studies and flowers\, many of Katz's works picture an everyday America in t imes of leisure and recreation. A recurring subject is Katz's wife and muse Ada\, whose iconic image has appeared in his work since the 1950s.
< br /> Influenced as much by style\, film\, poetry and music as by art histo ry\, Katz works in the tradition of European and American artists like Edua rd Manet\, Henri Matisse and Edward Hopper. He began exhibiting in the 1950 s\, when Abstract Expressionism was the dominant movement in American art l ed by figures such as Jackson Pollock\, Mark Rothko and Willem de Kooning. Katz admired these artists but rather than follow in their wake\, he instea d developed a contemporary figurative language combining the enlarged scale of American abstract painting with the bright colors and graphic style of advertising billboards. An influential precursor to Pop Art in the 1960s\, Katz has famously said\, 'I wanted to make paintings you could hang up in T imes Square'.
Alex Katz has exhibited widely all over the world. His work has been the subject of many major sol o exhibitions and is included in the permanent collections of over 100 impo rtant museums worldwide\, including The Museum of Modern Art The Metropolit an Museum of Art\, and the Whitney Museum of American Art in new York\; The Smithsonian Institute\, Washington\, D.C.\; Carnegie Museum of Art\, Pitts burgh\; The Art Institute\, Chicago\; The Tate Gallery\, London\; the Centr e Georges Pompidou\, Paris\; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia\, Ma drid\; Metropolitan Museum of Art\, Tokyo\, and the Nationalgalerie\, Berli n\, to name a few.DTEND:20130506 DTSTAMP:20160829T063004 DTSTART:20130309 GEO:25.8143749;-80.190795 LOCATION:Adamar Fine Arts\,4141 NE 2nd Ave. Suite 107 \nMiami\, 33137 SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Face to Face\, Alex Katz UID:263560 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND:20130309T213000 DTSTAMP:20160829T063004 DTSTART:20130309T183000 GEO:25.8143749;-80.190795 LOCATION:Adamar Fine Arts\,4141 NE 2nd Ave. Suite 107 \nMiami\, 33137 SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Face to Face\, Alex Katz UID:263562 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:
Raymond Elman exhibits a selec tion of his notable portraitsat the Williams McCall Gallery South of Fifth. Kicking off with an artist reception that is open to the public on Friday\, April 26 at 6 pm\, the exhibit will run until May 6th.\n
The Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery has acquired several large scale Elman portraits. Most recently\, it acquired Elman's portraits of Pulitzer Prize recipient JhumpaLahiri and U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky. These acquisitions joi n Elman's portraits of Pulitzer Prize recipients Alan Dugan and Stanley Kun itz in the museum's permanent collection. Elman's 1991 portrait of poet St anley Kunitz standing in his beloved garden following its devastation by Hu rricane Bob is included in a current exhibition at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery titled Poetic Likeness: Modern American Poets. T hat exhibition continuesuntil April 28\, 2013.\n
Elman has made over 200 paintings in this series of notable talents such as Norman Mailer\, Robert Motherwell\, Douglas Huebler\, Justin Kaplan\, Joel Meyerowitz\, Annie Dill ard\, Mark Strand\, Sebastian Junger\, Alec Wilkinson\, E.J. Kahn\, Jr.\, V arujanBoghosian\, Al Jaffee\, Lee Falk\, Elise Asher\, Anne Bernays\, and R uth Reichl. The dimensions of most works are either 60 x 43 inches or 40 x 30 inches.\n
Elman has maintained a studio on the tip of Cape C od in the Provincetown Art Colony since 1970. In 1989\, after a half-lifet ime of making only abstract art\, he started portraying the Provincetown Ar t community at leisure – what people do when they are not working – the fab ric of life that draws people back every year. Now a full-time Miami Beach resident\, Elman has turned his focus to portraying the people and culture of Miami.\n
DTEND:20130506 DTSTAMP:20160829T063004 DTSTART:20130426 GEO:25.783312;-80.1484407 LOCATION:Williams McCall Gallery\,110 Washington Avenue\, CU3 \nMiami Beach \, Florida 33139 SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Solo Show\, Raymond Elman UID:272940 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND:20130426T210000 DTSTAMP:20160829T063004 DTSTART:20130426T180000 GEO:25.783312;-80.1484407 LOCATION:Williams McCall Gallery\,110 Washington Avenue\, CU3 \nMiami Beach \, Florida 33139 SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Solo Show\, Raymond Elman UID:272941 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:
BFI presents T. Elliot Mans
To celebrate the wonderful news that Miami based artist T. Elli ot Mansa was accepted into the prestigious Yale painting MFA program\, the BFI #BigFutureInitiative is hosting an exhibition of his newest work.
Please note\, this is a fundraising exhibition: All profits from e very sale of Mansa's Artwork will go directly to help fund Mansa's expenses while at YALE. We want Mansa to thrive!
Mansa\, born in Miami\, is a product of Miami-Dade's magnet programs. H
ome was a very different place than school. At home in the early 80's he wa
tched as his stepfather grappled with crack addiction. In school Mansa bega
n to navigate the dichotomy of these two worlds. He began to use Art as a p
lace to question these contradictions around him. Though he graduated from
the esteemed New World School of the Arts\, Mansa still had to avoid the ev
er-present temptations of gangs and drugs. Despite watching a number of his
friends dabble in the drug trade\, some even falling to gun violence along
the way\, the temptation to follow in this illicit life path for Mansa was
After battling depression following the death of his mo ther\, Mansa again looked to painting. He explored auto-biographical tropes in his Mother/Son series. Logically\, Mansa began to explore his relations hip with his father in his work. It seemed painting was becoming his saving grace. Looking at his own life Mansa saw that through Art he had been able to accomplish more than his peers around him\; namely\, he had managed to graduate college and avoid the label of felon\, two things his siblings had been unable to achieve.
As Mansa questioned the relationship s between Sons and Fathers and ideas behind the worship of 'the hustler' in hip-hop's urban culture\, he was able to draw closer to his brothers and f ather. This was a fleeting joy. Unfortunately on Easter Sunday\, Mansa woul d lose his father to cancer as well. Mansa received his notice of acceptanc e to Yale the night before his father's funeral.
T. Eliott Man sa will be exhibiting recent portraits that bridge the gaps between sociolo gical and autobiographical narratives\, mixed with elements from the mythol ogies of the West African Yoruba cosmology. The figures painted in acrylic\ , often of family and friends\, emerge in rich details from graphite washes . These young men\, brothers\, uncles and father(s) of the artist\, are all convicted felons. The paintings portray the subjects\, often African-Ameri can men\, both in urban settings and as African deities\, or Orishas\, usin g the metaphor of possession to examine the role of hero-worship in Mansa's subjects' socialization.


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Power Consumption Tests
Using our new PROVA Power Analyzer WM-01 or "Power Thingy" as it has become quickly known as to our readers, we are now able to find out what kind of power is being used by our test system and the associated graphics cards installed. Keep in mind; it tests the complete system (minus LCD monitor, which is plugged directly into AC wall socket).
There are a few important notes to remember though; while our maximum power is taken in 3DMark06 at the same exact point, we have seen in particular tests the power being drawn as much as 10% more. We test at the exact same stage every time; therefore tests should be very consistent and accurate.
The other thing to remember is that our test system is bare minimum - only a 7,200RPM SATA-II single hard drive is used without CD ROM or many cooling fans.
So while the system might draw 400 watts in our test system, placing it into your own PC with a number of other items, the draw is going to be higher.
At stock the SC systems power draw is below our testbed. Overclocked at idle shows it's still below and under load it's just 2 watts higher.

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Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister
by Robert Browning
Stanza 6 Summary
Get out the microscope, because we're going through this poem line-by-line.
Lines 41-48
Oh, those melons! if he's able
We're to have a feast; so nice!
One goes to the Abbot's table,
All of us get each a slice.
How go on your flowers? None double?
Not one fruit-sort can you spy?
Strange!--And I, too, at such trouble,
Keep them close-nipped on the sly!
- The speaker then narrates his half of a conversation with Brother Lawrence.
- He asks how Brother Lawrence's melons are coming along in the garden.
- Brother Lawrence says that if the melons are good, they'll have a "feast." One of the melons will go entirely to the Abbot (the head of the monastery), and the other monks will each get a slice. (You should note that a sweet, juicy melon would be a big treat in a monastery where food was generally very simple and they didn't get a lot of sweets.)
- "So nice!" says the speaker, dripping with sarcasm.
- He imagines asking about Brother Lawrence's flowers – "none double?" – i.e., none of the flowers has a double head?
- Brother Lawrence apparently answers in the negative, because the speaker responds by saying that that's weird (…especially since he's been sneaking out to nip the buds off Brother Lawrence's flowers "on the sly").


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SIKESTON - Raynett Moll, 82, died March 30, 2003, at the Sikeston Convalescent Center.
Born March 3, 1921, in Sikeston, daughter of the late Raymond A. and Myrtle Sheppard Moll, she was a member of the First United Methodist Church.
Survivors include: two brothers and sisters-in-law, Ray Allen and Delores Moll and Miller and Charlotte Moll of Sikeston; one sister, Lavina Gardner of Sikeston; five nephews, George W. Gardner of Greenville, S.C., Geoffrey Gardner of South Carolina, Mark Allen Moll of Fort Smith, Ark., Mike Moll of Sikeston and Bill Moll of Canal Winchester, Ohio; two nieces, Elizabeth Marshall of Sikeston and Susie Kurtz of St. Louis; great-nieces and nephews, Michele Moll and Alison Moll of Sikeston, Tommy Moll, Mimi Moll and Callie Moll of Fort Smith and Katrina Moll of Canal Winchester; great-great-nieces and nephews, Austin Marshall and Catherine Marshall of Sikeston and Erick Kurtz and Spencer Kurtz of St. Louis; five first cousins, Joe B. Moll of Jeffersonville, Fla., Olivia Moll of Sikeston, Don Scales of San Diego, Calif., Anna Belle Hartle of Millersville and Linda Ross of Memphis, Tenn.; and a special friend, Sue Gardner of Sikeston.
Visitation is from 10 a.m. Friday until time for a memorial service at 11 a.m. at the First United Methodist Church. The Rev. Sandra Schaller, associate pastor, will officiate.
Ponder Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Memorial contributions may be sent to:
the First United Methodist Church Memorial Program P.O. Box 682 Sikeston, MO 63801
Missouri Delta Medical Center Foundation 1008 N. Main St. Sikeston, MO 63801
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The number of outsourcing contracts involving cloud has doubled worldwide over the past two years, a new report by consultancy Information Services Group (ISG) suggests.
An analysis of ISG's own clients revealed an even higher uptake, with the proportion of its advised contracts with cloud scope rising from nine per cent in 2010 to 27 per cent in 2012.
Anticipating a continuation of the global trend, which saw the number of such agreements rise from 110 in 2010 to 220 in 2011, ISG has predicted that a total of 300 contracts featuring cloud will be awarded by the end of 2012.
The company has also published results from its quarterly survey of service providers, which revealed that cloud is now a feature of at least 25 per cent of respondents' pipeline opportunities.
Stanton Jones, emerging technology analyst at ISG, said, while the adoption of cloud is on the rise, not all categories are seeing the same rate of growth.
"We are seeing the greatest potential for growth and momentum in Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) – especially for human resources, customer relationship management and collaboration. We project that Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) will lag behind SaaS in terms of enterprise-wide adoption," Jones said.
Pontus Noren, director and co-founder of Google Apps and Amazon Web Services reseller Cloudreach said of ISG's findings: "This report demonstrates how cloud computing is living up to the hype – it is one of the only areas in IT that is rapidly growing.
Noren also said cloud's continuing growth "can only be good for the global economy", as it frees companies up to focus on their core activities, rather than purchasing and managing IT..
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FNUniv Partners With Medicine Chest Task Force
September 11, 2009
Saskatoon Campus – The First Nations University of Canada will partner with Treaty No. 6 Chiefs to support the Medicine Chest Task Force (MCTF) on Indian Control of Indian Health.
The official announcement was made at a special signing ceremony held last Friday at the First Nations University of Canada in Saskatoon.The Task Force will provide new opportunities for FNUniv professionals in health, sciences, and social work to contribute to the research, planning and development of First Nations traditional and contemporary health system as it falls under First Nations jurisdictions and laws.
"We are thrilled with this new partnership," said Charles Pratt, President of the First Nations University of Canada. "It provides an opportunity for our academics and technical professionals to help better the First Nations current health and health care systems by allowing our staff and faculty at the University to contribute to the development of these projects."
The University is also committed to helping develop funding submissions for projects related to health, social development and the environment.
First Nations Governance Expert Sol Sanderson and MCTF Chair Eldon Okanee look forward to the new partnership with the University.
"The establishment of the most effective and efficient organizational infrastructure at the beginning of this initiative is absolutely critical," said Okanee. "Through this new partnership, we are excited about the level of expertise the FNUniv will bring to help further developing this process."
MCTF is administered and operated by Thunderchild First Nation, comprising of leaders from Thunderchild First Nation, Big Island Cree Nation, Battleford Agency Tribal Chiefs, Moosomin First Nation, Onion Lake Cree Nation, Beardy's and Okemasis First Nation, Poundmaker Cree Nation, Battlefords Tribal Council, and the Confederacy of Treaty 6 Nations.
The mission of the First Nations University of Canada is to enhance the quality of life, and to preserve, protect, and interpret the history, language, culture, and artistic heritage of First Nations.
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So I had an estradiol test done today and the doc said I had very high levels. Is this good or bad? After one week of follistem they said I had 3 matured follicles that will be ready for fertalization. I am still concerned about the high levels. Can anyone help???
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They didn't mention anything about anymore testing. They just told me to take my ovidrel (HcG) injection and to have intercourse. I am still concerned about them saying I had high estrodial levels. She also said I had a lot of activity going on in my ovaries and that there was quite a bit of follicles but only 3 were mature.


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"It's all about trying to get everybody included and involved," Anderson said in a phone interview. "We try to bring the party up on the stage. For us, it's just getting out and meeting these great country music friends and fans of ours."
Although he isn't familiar with the Sikeston Jaycee Bootheel Rodeo, Anderson has played at several rodeos this year and has childhood memories of attending a county rodeo in his hometown in Oklahoma every year. "I loved it," he said.
Performing at a rodeo is different -- and more intense -- than at regular concerts. "They get rowdy," Anderson said of the fans. "And we love it."
The Sikeston Jaycees are preparing for Anderson and other performers at the 54th Annual Jaycee Bootheel Rodeo, scheduled for next week. "We're recarpeting the stage and installing new hydraulic lines," said Tim Jaynes, entertainment committee chairman.
Following in the likes of other rodeo entertainers, like George Strait and Garth Brooks, who have gone on to become huge hits is a dream of Anderson's. "To be in the position to follow in their footsteps and take the same path they did -- it's a great honor," he said.
Anderson's debut album "Three Chord Country and American Rock and Roll" was released in 2005. His current hit single, "Every Time I Hear Your Name," ranks at No. 6 on the charts, and the video has been a No. 1 hit on Great American Country. "Pickin' Wildflowers" was also a Top 10 hit, which came in at No. 8.
The tracks are a hit among cowboys, too. "Bull riders and bronc riders are cranking up "Pickin' Wildflowers,"" Anderson said. "That's the song they play to get riled up."
He's not sure which single will be released next, but Anderson said it will either be a remix of his title track, "Three Chord Country and American Rock and Roll" featuring Steven Tyler, lead singer of Aerosmith, or "Podunk."
Keeping in shape is key to Anderson, who tries to work out every day, even while on tour. "First thing when we get up, we look for a gym," he said. "Sometimes we just can't get a gym, then we throw on the tennis shoes and run -- it's just way too important."
Anderson has become a certified personal trainer at the famed Cooper Institute in Dallas. Additionally, he has an engineering degree from Oklahoma State, which he pursued while "tinkering" with music, as he had in high school. For a year and a half, he worked for a construction-engineering firm in Dallas, before deciding to focus his full attention to music.
"It was a hobby, but at that point it came to me that that's what I wanted to do," he said.
Anderson is also an accomplished songwriter. His Grammy-nominated "Beer Run" was a duet recorded by Garth Brooks and George Jones, and "The Bed" was recorded by Gretchen Wilson as a vocal event with Big & Rich.
"I just like it all," he said. "As a songwriter, you pull your emotions and true life experiences into your song."
Most of Anderson's songs are upbeat, and all reflect a personal experience.
Some, like "Every Time I Hear Your Name," are a bit more serious. "It's a true story about a broken heart," Anderson said. "Life's not always going to be up tempo."
In-depth, introspective songs are Anderson's favorite to write. But no matter what, writing is always a "cerebral" process for him.
"It's like taking three ACT tests when you've finished a song, you've accomplished something so big," he said. "A lot of times it's therapy just to get your thoughts down."
And once on stage, Anderson said it is like "an athletic adrenaline rush. We're excited to come in and ready to come out and party."
Tickets are still available for Anderson's performance, plus for the performances by the other three musicians: Trace Adkins, Terri Clark and Craig Morgan. For more information or to purchase tickets, contact the Jaycee Rodeo Ticket Office at (573) 471-7196 or visit the Web site at www.sikestonrodeo.com.


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Release Date : September 30, 2000
Minnie's and Daisy's uncanny resemblences to their boyfriends was
worth parodying. But the makers didn't seem to be able to come up with
anything interesting to do with this idea. The short instead came off
as a meandering collection of unrelated scenes. The makers ate up a
lot of time on "who's-on- first" arguments with Goofy (TWO instead of
one, and the first short already had one even). And actually the large
number of cameos also felt like the makers were using them to pad out
the short. Clarabelle's scene didn't make any sense. What was she getting
at if she knew that was really Mickey and Donald? Some of the jokes
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by Craig Weatherby
The positive results of a large clinical trial from Japan reinforce the value of supplemental fish oil, and show that it can add heart-health benefits even to people who already enjoy diets rich in fish.
The trial, called the Japan EPA Lipid Intervention Study or JELIS, involved 18,645 Japanese people with high cholesterol levels, all of whom were taking cholesterol-lowering, anti-inflammatory statin drugs.
Key Points
Their stated goal was to test the hypothesis that long-term use of omega-3 EPA supplements would prevent major coronary events in Japan with high cholesterol levels who already consume lots of fish.
By major coronary events they meant sudden cardiac death, fatal and non-fatal heart attacks, unstable angina pectoris, or surgical interventions (e.g., angioplasty, stents, and coronary bypasses).
(Reductions in surgical interventions might be less meaningful as markers of reduced risk of major coronary events in the US, where their excessive use persists despite clear evidence that drug and diet/lifestyle therapies are comparably effective.)
The Japanese team wanted so see whether high daily doses of omega-3 EPA (1.8 grams per day) would provide further help to patients with elevated cholesterol levels, who were already taking cholesterol-lowering, anti-inflammatory statin drugs.
This goal is logical, since its certain that supplemental omega-3s do three things, all to very substantial extents:
- Lower high blood triglyceride levels (a major cardiac risk factor).
- Reduce risk of arrhythmias: the fatally erratic heart beats responsible for fully half of all heart-related deaths.
- Reduce inflammationa major cardiac risk factormore than statin therapy alone.
(NOTE: EPA is probably not more valuable to cardiovascular health than DHA, the other major omega-3 in fish oil. The two exert overlapping, complementary effects. The EPA-only omega-3 supplements were donated, so that's what the researchers used.)
The participants were followed for an average of 4.6 years, with interesting results for those who already enjoy lots of fish.
Omega-3s add heart benefits to fish-rich diets
Only a few participants in either group had major heart problems during the study period. This is probably because, like the average Japanese person, they ate lots of fish, whose inherent omega-3 content works to blunt the three major risk factors listed above.
But there were substantial benefits:
Compared with those only taking statins, the participants who also took omega-3 EPA supplements enjoyed a hefty 19 percent reduction in the risk of suffering a non-fatal adverse heart event ( 2.8 percent in the EPA-plus-statin group versus 3.5 percent in the statin-only control group).
We must curb our infatuation with downstream risk factors and treatments, and focus on the fundamental risk factors for cardiovascular disease: dietary habits, smoking, and physical activity. -Mozaffarian, M.D.
The EPA-plus-statin group did not experience any greater reduction in fatal heart events, another effect likely due to the fact that the Japanese participantslike their countrymenconsumed so many omega-3s from their fish-rich diets.
As the researchers said, their results indicate that EPA is a promising treatment for prevention of major coronary events, and especially non-fatal coronary events... (Yokoyama M et al 2007).
Since these benefits occurred in fish-loving Japanese with high cholesterol levels, it is reasonable to propose that similarly afflicted Americanswho eat much less fish on averageshould benefit from omega-3 supplements even more.
A renowned heart researcher's cogent comments: Dariush Mozaffarian, M.D.
Readers of Vital Choices may recall our coverage of studies led by Harvards Dariush Mozaffarian, M.D.: a leading researcher into the connections between dietary factors (especially omega-3s) and cardiovascular disease, who we heard and spoke with at the Seafood & Health scientific conference in 2005.
He penned some incisive expert comments about the new study for The Lancet: the British medical journal that published the JELIS study.
Dr. Mozaffarian contrasted the outcome of the JELIS trialin which fish oil did not reduce the subject's very low cardiac death rates any furtheragainst those of Italy's landmark GISSI-Prevenzione trial, in which fish oil supplements reduced cardiac death rates by a whopping 45 percent.
This large trial of fish oil supplements involved more than 11,000 Italians, who would have eaten far less fish on average than the Japanese in the JELIS trial likely did (Marchioli R et al 2005).
The key difference, as he pointed out, was that the Italian trial involved subjects who ate much less fish than the Japanese in the JELIS trial would have, and were therefore more likely to enjoy dramatic reductions in risk of death as the result of taking supplemental fish oil.
As he noted, the average Japanese person eats one 3 oz serving of fish, containing about 900 mg of omega-3s per day, while 90 percent of Japanese individuals eat fish at least once a week.
This places most Japanese people's omega-3 intake above the level shown to provide a major drop in the risk of cardiac death.
Consuming more omega-3s than the average Japanese person doesnt seem to reduce the risk of heart-related death any further, but the new trial's results indicates that adding more dietary omega-3s via supplements may reduce the rate of adverse but non-fatal cardiac events.
Dr. Mozaffarian expressed some appropriately vinegar-tinged views on the state of modern cardiology practice, in light of the new trial's positive results, and the pro-omega-3 findings of most of the well-designed clinical trials and virtually all population studies (Mozaffarian D 2007):
If any placebo effect could reduce total mortality by [about] 20% [as in the JELIS trial] and sudden death by 45% (the results of GISSI-Prevenzione), we should all be taking such a placebo.
Compared with drugs, invasive procedures, and devices, modest dietary changes are low risk, inexpensive, and widely available.
We must curb our infatuation with downstream risk factors and treatments, and focus on the fundamental risk factors for cardiovascular disease: dietary habits, smoking, and physical activity.
We couldnt agree more with his wish that more doctors will act on the evidence in favor of fish oil and other easy nutritional interventions.
*Note: As weve reported, patients with implanted cardiac defibrillators or diagnosed with congestive heart failure should discuss omega-3 fish oils with a cardiologist experienced in their use. Higher omega-3 intakewhether from fish or fish oilcould increase the risk of arrhythmia or sudden cardiac death.
- Yokoyama M et al for the Japan EPA lipid intervention study (JELIS) Investigators. Effects of eicosapentaenoic acid on major coronary events in hypercholesterolaemic patients (JELIS): a randomised open-label, blinded endpoint analysis. The Lancet 2007; 369:1090-1098; DOI:10.1016/S0140-6736(07)60527-3. Accessed online March 31, 2007 at http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140673607605273/fulltext.
- Mozaffarian D. JELIS, fish oil, and cardiac events. The Lancet 2007; 369:1062-1063 DOI:10.1016/S0140-6736(07)60504-2. Accessed online March 31, 2007 at http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140673607605042/fulltext.
- Yokoyama M, Origasa H; JELIS Investigators. Effects of eicosapentaenoic acid on cardiovascular events in Japanese patients with hypercholesterolemia: rationale, design, and baseline characteristics of the Japan EPA Lipid Intervention Study (JELIS). Am Heart J. 2003 Oct;146(4):613-20.
- Marchioli R, Levantesi G, Macchia A, Maggioni AP, Marfisi RM, Silletta MG, Tavazzi L, Tognoni G, Valagussa F; GISSI-Prevenzione Investigators. Antiarrhythmic mechanisms of n-3 PUFA and the results of the GISSI-Prevenzione trial. J Membr Biol. 2005 Jul;206(2):117-28.


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Based on real experiences, 'Look what you
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Suffolk Constabularies' Digital Media Team
that highlights the work of the Sexual Assault Referral
Centre (SARC) in helping three victims of rape and sexual
The film was released at the launch of Rape: Time to Stop - a
joint campaign across Norfolk and Suffolk to prevent and reduce
rape and sexual violence.
One of the main parts of the film is an emotive poem that
is read by the three people that conveys their emotions and acts as
a spoken dialogue to tell their story.
The film follows the journey that these victims take and the
difficulties they were forced to face by what had happened to them,
hence their narration "look what you did
to me".
The support of the SARC has helped people rebuild their
life and confidence, and many victims have expressed a 'thanks' for
the assistance they have received, hence the closing line and play
on the title, "look what you did for
The background music is 'Getsemani' by Ricardo Henriquez that
was acquired via istock.photo.com at no cost.
Would you like to know more about the SARC? Then go behind the scenes to the film with our
mini-documentary that is now available.
Cast and crew
Written and directed by Ian Shearman (Digital Media Officer),
'Look what you did' features actors working within the field, and
volunteers supporting the 'Rape: Time to Stop' campaign.
Lily Betts, a student in music and musical
theatre, plays 'Chrissie', a young woman on a night out who is
raped. The film starts with her being taken to the Sexual Assault
Referral Centre (SARC) in a police car.
We don't see what happened, where it happened or who did it.
However her narration via the poem suggests it was someone she had
spent some time with, maybe a date, as the man who did it would say
that she actually 'welcomed his touch, drank too much, dressed as
such' – these are addressing common myths when it comes to
This young woman represents the higher risk group of 17-24 when
it comes to victims of rape and sexual assault. The SARC provides
24hour support and she is met at the centre in the early hours of
the morning by one of the crisis workers.
Sexual assault and rape affect both male and female, and can be
recent incidents or historical. This is true in the case of 'Alex',
who was sexually assaulted in the past. Alex is played by
Andy Mazzei, an Advanced Sexual Health
We don't know to what extent or by whom, yet his narration in
the poem mentions that it is something he thinks about often, as a
'truth from the past, never shared with friends or family'.
Whatever happened, it still affects him as he
cuts himself off socially whenever he finds things too difficult to
cope with. Searching online for help is how he finds out about the
Sexual Assault Referral Centre.
In his scenes, the case goes to court where we
see him with an ISVA (Independent Sexual Violence Advisor), who
based at the SARC provide support for victims throughout the
Lucy Baxter, a High School student, plays
'Melissa', a young school girl who has been raped. We don't know
who by, but from the poem, we know that it was someone who she saw
friendship with, and her parents felt trust. This could indicate a
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The fact that she faces a forensic examination indicates that
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For months, Republican activists in the Houston area have been wishing out loud that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton would win the Democratic presidential nomination. Conservatives' visceral dislike for the former first lady would drive them to the polls in November to vote against her, the theory went, and help negate Democrat-friendly demographic changes in Harris County that otherwise could place the county's many elected positions into Democratic hands for the first time in 14 years.
But now that it looks like Barack Obama could clinch the nomination tonight, county GOP chairman Jared Woodfill has a different view.
In December, when Republicans cultivated their Clinton wish, "Nobody knew who Barack Obama was," Woodfill said today. "Now we are discovering who he is. At the same time, Sen. Clinton has become more popular and less vitriolic, shall we say . . . I think that the table has completely turned in the last six months."
In other words, Woodfill asserts, Republicans in Harris County are happy to see Obama on the ballot in the wake of controversies such as the inflammatory statements by his former pastor, Jeremiah Wright.
Here's what the blog knows: Both major parties will now start contemplating the effects of a very strong pro-Obama turnout in November by local black voters. Whether that, by itself, would be enough to change local election outcomes is an open question.


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To shed some light on the hen fruit fertility question...
"Don't count your chickens before they hatch" is one proverb this poultry raiser has learned to take literally. I know from experience just how frustrating it is to have a hen (or an incubator) waste time trying to hatch an unfertilized egg. However, since I put together my homemade egg candler — a device that allows me to see inside unhatched eggs — not only can I glean the chicks-to-be from the mere omelet fixings, I can also check the freshness and purity of those infertile, "eating-grade" hen fruits. Best of all, my tester was fashioned from a few inexpensive parts and took only minutes to make!
The main component of my little lantern is a good-sized metal can with a lid (mine happens to be a candy container, but a coffee can or any canister with a tight fitting lid would serve just as well). To make the candler, I first positioned an ordinary light fixture inside the can... punching a few mounting holes in the container's bottom... and then securing the fixture in place with a couple of small nuts and bolts. I made one other opening in the bottom of the canister for the light's electric cord.
On the free end of this wire, I attached an electric plug, and then (for convenience's sake) I added an in-line switch to the cord. To make a "porthole" for illuminating the eggs, I cut a 1 1/2" diameter hole in the container's lid. A 2 1/4" diameter cork gasket glued around that opening prevents any egg from cracking, should it accidentally bump the can while being examined. (If you have a hard time finding such a part, cut your own from gasket material, felt, or rubber.)
I added four legs to the side of my candler to allow for horizontal viewing. These supports were easily made by cutting two 6" long strips from thin sheet metal and then bending each strip to form a pair of legs, which I secured to the can's side with sheet metal screws (you could use pop rivets instead). I also punched a few holes in the container's sides for ventilation before adding a quick coat of high temperature auto engine paint to produce a really snazzy looking finish. Once that had dried, I screwed in a 40-watt light bulb, plugged the contraption in, and darkened the room. With that, I was ready to start candling my eggs!
I've found it best to test the fertility of white eggs around the fourth day after they've been laid. Dark ones, on the other hand, give the most accurate results after about a week. Any dirt on the shells should be gently brushed — not washed — away. To check for signs of fertility, carefully place an egg's wide end to the candler opening so that the entire oval is illuminated. In a fertile, hatchable egg there will be a fine network of veins running out from a dark center. "Clears" (those with no visible embryonic development) are ones that never were fertilized, while the few with small blood spots could be either fertilized eggs in which the embryo has died or unfathered fruits that have simply had some veins rupture.
Incidentally, you can candle not only to pick out the potential chicks, but also to check the quality of eggs going to market or into the kitchen. Here again, the oval is held with its broad end to the light opening, but in this case, it's given a few quick turns so that the contents rotate within the shell (to promote fuller viewing). A fresh egg will have an air space 1/8" (or less) in depth and a yolk that's free of foreign particles, blood rings, large spots, and other defects. (You probably won't want to sell the eggs with blood spots... but if you merely remove the specks with the tip of a knife, they'll do just fine for your own table.)
Well, that's that. My candler, I'll admit, is a fairly simple gadget. But, for the few minutes it took to build, it's sure saved me (and my hens) a whole lot of time!
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John Mack's No. 1 Issue Facing Wall St.: Compensation
Bank of America Corp. wasn't the only big bank having its annual meeting Wednesday. Morgan Stanley convened its own annual meeting in Purchase, N.Y. 674 miles to the north of Charlotte, N.C.
Without the lightning rod of the controversial Ken Lewis, Morgan Stanley shareholders engaged in a more philosophical and civil discussion about the future of their firm and the brokerage industry.
John Mack, Morgan Stanley's chief executive, said the biggest issue facing Wall Street during the next two years will be compensation. Mack said the taxpayers' desire to rein in pay is at odds with the long-standing bonus model employed in the industry and Mack's firm.
Mack called the tension between the interests "a balancing act" and said that the firm had seen "an exodus of key people," a statement he later downplayed saying the firm had lost just a few but hired away others. He also defended Morgan Stanley's pay structure in the current environment by pointing out that compensation costs were 50% lower in 2008. The average bonus at the firm was $143,000.
One way Morgan Stanley may be trying to deal with the compensation issue is by spinning off parts of the firm that traditionally have higher bonus pay. Last week, the WSJ reported Morgan Stanley is considering spinning off Process-Driven Trading, a quantitative investment group that is essentially a hedge fund.
But spinning off that unit could have consequences beyond evading pay limits.
Mack says he's sensitive to regulators and taxpayer concerns. He said the firm is working closely with the Federal Reserve as it considers changes. The brokerage also is conscious of public sentiment against bonuses. "We understand the American people are upset because they've lost their jobs."


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ROCKFORD (WIFR) -- Every second counts in an emergency. That's why OSF Healthcare System is updating its fleet of medical air ambulances.
OSF Aviation has four new helicopters. One of them will be stationed in Rockford. The new Lifeline helicopter is larger and allows the medical team to treat up to two patients while in the air.
The new choppers replace the current fleet, which is about 15-years-old. That means they are outfitted with new technology including a warning system that lets pilots know if they are too close to the ground and includes night vision goggles.


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The day after Christmas Mesa Mall was full of life as stores and Grand Valley residents met for the post holiday rush. While you might think stores were in the red with all the returns and exchanges, they say that wasn't really the case.
It was a long day for Michelle Reed and her staff at The Buckle, opening earlier and getting the store ready for the day after Christmas.
"So far so good," said Reed. "Everyone seems to be in a good mood."
Much to her delight, a day that is usually known for returns and exchanges turned into a day of sales.
"This weekend we will have a ton of exchanges in general, but people are definitely coming in with cash they got for Christmas and gift cards as well," said Reed. "So they're ready to spend it and get some new stuff."
Other stores in the mall say they're seeing the same thing.
"It's been pretty busy, pretty steady," said Jarod Coniff, Assistant Manager of No Fear. "It didn't slow down at all after Christmas. People are spending gift cards and Christmas money and we haven't done too many returns."
And for good reason. We asked mall shoppers what brought them into the mall Friday and were hard pressed to find anyone who was strictly returning something.
"The great sales," said Bonnie Kirkpatrick.
"Buying new stuff," said the Adamson family.
"Lots of gift cards and money to spend," said Clint Schaeffer.
"I'm just along for the ride," said Rob Adamson.
Shoppers say the combination of winter blowout sales --
"Pretty much all of our winter stuff is on sale, our hoodies, our coats, any of our long sleeved woven shirts," said Reed.
"Nineteen ninety-nine hoodies, we've got some nine ninety-nine t-shirts," said Coniff.
--and all those gift cards and checks they received for Christmas make for one fun time, especially as most shopping budgets tighten.
"It's exciting because you've asked for what you wanted and you get it -- then you can go pick out what you really, really want," said The Adamsons.
"You can get in trouble spending a lot of money after Christmas," said Schaeffer.
That's just what the economy stricken retail industry is banking on.
"We kind of look forward to it," said Coniff.


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The excitement started as soon as the buses rolled in.
It continued to build as the 131 soldiers of the 1461st Transportation Company marched into the Jackson Lumen Christi High School gym, marking their return from Afghanistan.
For the family of Spc. Dustin Williams, the breaking point came when they finally saw their soldier.
"It's a shock, surprise...I don't know, it hasn't really hit yet, I guess," Williams' sister, Melanie Kirkland.
For Williams, the true excitement came when he saw his children, three-year-old Ethan and two-year-old Aubrey.
"When I left, they weren't even sitting up all the way," he said. "It was hard to keep it together."
Before they were able to see their families, the 1461st stood in a block on the gym floor as Capt. Melody Taylor, of Canton, proudly talked about her unit's work overseas.
"We hauled things, like tanks," said Taylor. "Different types of track vehicles, different types of wheeled vehicles."
But after 146 missions and more than 120,000 miles traveled, the only thing these soldiers wanted to do was go home.
"I just wanted out of formation to be honest," said Pfc. Kera Cameron, of Jackson, on waiting to see her family. "It was kind of hard, but I knew it would be over quick."
There are still more than 400 Michigan National Guard soldiers deployed worldwide.


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Easy-Money Addiction Could Hurt Performance
The big question worrying investors today is how markets will react when the Federal Reserve starts trimming its stimulus program, something that could happen as soon as this year.
The answer may not be that hard to figure out. The Fed has cut back on stimulus twice before in the past three years. Each time, the market hated it. There is every risk it will hate it again this time.
Investors cling to stimulus in part because it involves tens of billions of extra dollars injected directly into markets each month. It is a very welcome drug. And like addicts, markets have developed something resembling a dependence.
"I've heard a lot of methadone analogies the last few weeks," says Russ Koesterich, chief investment strategist at BlackRock, which oversees nearly $4 trillion in investments. "In a market that has benefited from very aggressive Fed action, it isn't surprising that investors are attuned to any change in that Fed action."
The first time the Fed pared stimulus, in March 2010, the Dow Jones Industrial Average responded with a 14% drop between April and July. The second time the Fed pulled stimulus back, in June 2011, the Dow moved in anticipation, slumping 17% from April into October.
Each time, the market recovered only after the Fed sent signals that it would resume stimulus. Late last year, the Fed actually expanded its stimulus program and the Dow reacted by rising 14% so far in 2013.
Now the Fed is again hinting broadly at another cutback. Surprise, surprise, markets have turned grumpy. Treasury bonds have suffered sharp selling. The Dow is only a few hundred points from its record, but it has become volatile. On Friday, it fell 209 points. It recovered 138 points on Monday before tumbling 76 points on Tuesday and 217 points on Wednesday.
The pattern seems clear. Markets love stimulus. They hate to lose it. It is easy to see why.
Fed stimulus keeps interest rates low, which keeps financial markets strong and helps companies achieve record profits. And stimulus also boosts markets in a very direct way, by funneling money straight to investors.
The most prominent stimulus today is the $85 billion the Fed injects into bond markets every month. That money doesn't stay in bonds, but leaks into other markets, giving investors enormous amounts of cash for riskier, more lucrative bets.
Stocks and junk bonds in particular benefited this year.
Little wonder investors get antsy when the Fed threatens to turn down the spigot.
If the economy were booming, investors mightn't worry as much about a cut in stimulus. But economic indicators remain uncertain, consumer spending is wobbly, manufacturing companies are pulling in their horns and unemployment, especially long-term unemployment, is far above normal.
Some analysts think the softness means the Fed will give up on withdrawing stimulus for the foreseeable future. But so far, the Fed is still signaling a desire to start cutting stimulus at some point.
Part of the problem the Fed faces is that it never before has tried to carry out this massive a stimulus program for such a long period. The Fed's role in markets is, in that sense, greater than ever before, meaning markets are more dependent on the Fed than ever before. Because of that, and because the economy is so fragile, the current period truly is an exceptional one, in some ways more like the 1930s than the 1990s.
Many analysts now are trying to predict the market's future based on what happened after Fed actions in the past 30 years. A better reference point might be the Depression, or Japan's two recent lost decades.
Both of those experiences were plagued by deflation, meaning falling prices, which can damage the economy even more than inflation and which has been largely unknown since World War II. Deflation is what the Fed is trying to prevent today.
In 1936 and 1937, the Fed, Congress and the White House thought, wrongly, that the economy was back on solid footing and that they could reduce that era's stimulus. Economists disagree on the details, but what happened was a resumption of the Depression.
Mr. Bernanke's challenge is to move the Fed back to a more normal role in financial markets and the economy, while avoiding the disastrous errors of 1936 and 1937. One problem he will face is that markets aren't likely to applaud cutbacks in Fed assistance.


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Definition of Monophysite in English:
nounChristian Theology
A person who holds that there is only one inseparable nature (partly divine, partly and subordinately human) in the person of Christ.
Example sentences
- He drew a distinction between Eutyches, who was condemned for teaching one, rather than two, natures in Christ, and the Monophysites.
- The Copts have been known ever since to the Chalcedonians as Monophysites (from monos, meaning 'one,' and physis, meaning 'nature').
- One of the attempts made on the Chalcedonian side to produce a formula acceptable to the Monophysites was Monothelitism: the teaching that although there are two natures in Christ, there is only one proper activity.
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- Having concerned himself with Arianism and Monophysitism, the matter of the Donatist controversy was brought to his attention by his friend Robert Williams.
- Newman's foray into Monophysitism, still operating from the hermeneutic established in his work on Arianism, helped to pave the way for his conversion.
- Just as Newman felt liberal politics was out to use the church for political expediency, he also saw this as an element of Monophysitism.
Late 17th century: via ecclesiastical Latin from ecclesiastical Greek monophusitēs, from monos 'single' + phusis 'nature'.
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PARKERSBURG -Sen. Earl Ray Tomblin said the state's financial stability will be his top priority if he serves as the state's acting governor.
Tomblin, D-Logan, acknowledged it's "more than likely" he will be acting governor by the end of the year, assuming Gov. Joe Manchin wins the special election for the late Robert C. Byrd's U.S. Senate seat.
The longtime state Senate president spent the day in Wood County Monday. In addition to visiting Hino Motors' Williamstown plant, Tomblin spent time at Wincore, one of the fastest-growing companies in the state.
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State Senate President Earl Ray Tomblin, D-Logan, talks to Sterling Simonton, vice president of manufacturing for Wincore, and Wood County Economic Development Authority President Keith Burdette Monday. Tomblin spent the day in Wood County, including a tour of the Wincore plant, just outside Parkersburg.
Tomblin, along with state and local development authority officials and Mayor Bob Newell, was given a tour of the plant. He came away impressed.
Wincore has hired 120 new employees this year, including 25 in the last few weeks.
"These are success stories," Tomblin said.
Tomblin told officials economic predictions for state government for next year are not good.
"Financial stability of the state will be the top priority," he said.
Tomblin said he and the governor are aligned philosophically in regard to fiscal matters.
"Philosophically, we are the same - moderate fiscal conservatives."
If Manchin wins the special election, Tomblin, as Senate president, would become the acting governor. He would be the first southern governor (south of Kanawha County) to hold office in more than 40 years, since Hulett Smith (1965-69).
Keith Burdette, president of the Wood County Economic Development Authority, served with Tomblin during his stint in the state Senate.
"He's a steady hand," Burdette said of Tomblin.
Tomblin, 58, was first elected to the state Legislature in 1974. In 1980 he was elected to the state Senate, where he has remained. He is the longest-serving Senate president in state history, having first been elected in 1995 when he took over from Burdette.
While Tomblin acknowledged the likelihood of serving as governor, he was coy about a run for a full term in 2012. He put little stock in a recent poll that stated Republican Congresswoman Shelly Moore Capito would soundly defeat any Democratic challengers for the governor's chair.
"Polls are polls," Tomblin said. "It never hurts to have experience."
For the time being Tomblin is focused on the immediate future, including the possibility of serving as acting governor. Tomblin said Manchin could leave office in early November though he could remain as chief executive until after Christmas. Either way, Tomblin said he'll have to concern himself with the State of the State address as well as preparing the upcoming budget.


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North American Switch Market Starts 2014 with Sales up 5% and Bookings 6% Lower than Q1 2013
Michael Schwert
Switches & Relays
Total reported sales for all switch categories in North America for Q1 of 2014 were 5% better than the previous quarter and 1% better than observed in the first quarter of 2013. Sales units for Q1 2014 came in 4% above units sold in Q4 2013 and 14% better than Q1 of 2013.
The total booking dollars reported for all switch categories in North America for Q1 2014 ran 6% less than the previous quarter and below Q1 2013 by 6%. The first quarter's book-to-bill ratio for dollars was 0.942. Booking units in Q1 2014 were down 7% from Q4. The first quarter's book-to-bill ratio for units was 0.929.
The first quarter versus the fourth showed total sales dollars up 5% and units 4% higher. This was driven increases in slide and snap action switches. Four of eight switch categories realized better unit sales with a 4% total increase. Prices were up just under 1% in total with half the categories improving. The comparison to the first quarter of 2013 yielded similar results dollars up in three of eight categories and 1% in total. Units were up for five categories and better in total by 14%. Pricing from a year ago was down in four of eight categories and in total by 11%.
Sales Growth by Switch Category
When compared to last quarter total booking dollars decreased 6% and units fell 7%. Dollars were down in over half of the categories and units fell in four of eight categories. Booked prices were up for half of categories and up 2% in total. Booked dollars in Q1 against the same quarter of 2013 were down for all but slide switches and in total by 6%. Units were down for most categories and but up 7% in total driven by slide and tact switches. Prices showed six of the eight categories decreasing and the total moved 12% lower.
Bookings Growth by Switch Catgory
The graph below shows total quarterly indexed sales and bookings in dollars and units for the reported data since Q1 CY 2012. All measures set two-year highs Q2 and Q3 0f 2013 and had been improving over the previous three quarters. In Q3, sales measures continued to improve as booking measures eased down the next three quarters. Sales measures dropped in Q4 of last year but rebounded in Q1.
Book-to-bill units have generally trended higher since the first quarter of 2012 until Q3 of last year when they started a trend lower. Book-to-bill dollars have generally trended lower over the last two years. The booking to selling price ratio has been trending lower until reversing in Q3 of 2013and is now above 1.0.
Indexed booking prices peaked in Q1 of 2012 and have trended lower since. Indexed selling prices reached an apex Q3 of 2012 then moved lower the next four quarters but rose in Q4 and Q1.
Statements of fact and or opinions expressed in MarketEYE by its contributors are the responsibility of the authors alone and do not imply an opinion of the officers or the representatives of TTI, Inc.
Michael is the founder of Cumulus, Inc. He has more than 30 years of marketing and sales as well as design experience in the electronic and electrical component industry. Prior to founding Cumulus, he was Director of Marketing for Cherry Electrical Products and held other marketing management positions with Panduit, BRK Electronics, and Ideal Industries.
Cumulus provides market information and consulting services for the global electronic components industry. The company offers three publications: Switch Tracks, a quarterly report with market information on component switches; the Relay Report, a quarterly report with market information on component relays; and Market Notes, a monthly report on sales, bookings, and business conditions in the relay and switch market. Cumulus also manages projects that help leading global suppliers in the relay and switch industry to develop new products and reach new markets.
Schwert provides MarketEYE with monthly articles that include timely and accurate market information for the electromechanical component sector of the electronics industry.


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Hello, I just came across this site and am hoping for some advice. I am not sure if this question was previously posted, I apologize if it is. I am 37 and recently diagnosed with Osteoporosis. I have a fractured rib and fractured spine and this is why I was sent for xrays and a bone density test. My T score ranges from -3.5 to -3.9. My dr wants to put me on Boniva and Miacalcin. Everything I read is that these drugs are for postmenopausal women and have severe side effects. I may want to have a child and don't want to be concerned with the longevity of the treatment affects. They do not know why I have Osteoporosis and I feel they should keep testing until they find out rather than just put me on drugs. They thought I had hyperparathyroidism but now say I don't. I need to get my bones back to good but I am not sure if I should be on bisphosphonates. Any thoughts/suggestions? Thank you so much!READ MORE
Greetings AJ,
At such a young age with a recent (fragile??) fracture and very low T-score (less than -3.0), I would strongly recommend seeing a super specialist, specifically a bone mineral specialist.
You will likely have to travel. One program is in St. Louis, MI:
Bone Health Program at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine is a national referral center for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of metabolic bone diseases, particularly osteoporosis and Paget's disease, with emphasis on patient care, research and teaching.
Another program is in the state of New York:
Winthrop-University Hospital has been internationally recognized as a leader in osteoporosis research, with supporting grants from many sources, including the National Institutes of Health and the pharmaceutical industry. The Hospital's bone mineral specialists conduct basic science and clinical bone metabolism studies, examining pathogenic mechanisms responsible for the development of skeletal fragility and osteoporosis.
For more information, please read my article When to Consult with a Bone Expert
Your health and possibly your child's health depends on you getting some expert care in this matter.
Dr. Christina Lasich, MD
Have you been tested for Celiac disease? I was recently diagnosed with this and am going for a bone density test today because that can increase the possibility of osteoporosis.
As you may know Celiac is an intolerace for gluten in many foods and affects the small intestines and the immune system which leads to malnutritian and malabsorbtion (sp?) of nutrients (such as vitamen D deficieny which weakens the bones). Condition improves with a gluten free diet.
It is one thing you could check with your doctor...best way to get diagnosis is a biopsy of small intestine through endoscopy at a gastro specialist.
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Yep! They tested me for Celiac and other diseases that may cause malabsorption. Several tests revealed negative for any of the above. Problem is, they still don't know why I have osteoporosis and have now found a third fracture in my spine. My dr claims I can get spinal fractures from sneezing! That's a little scary. So now I am taking high doses of calcium daily and will have a second density scan in Sept to see if this "natural" course of action is working. It is just such a long process.
I wish you luck with the test and pray you do not have osteoporosis!
did they do the biopsy of your small intestine or a blood test for celiac? I originally ad a blood test that came back negative, but the biopsy was positive.
I had severe respiratory issues for the past 8 months (I am 46, non smoker), went to 7 different doctors they thought I had acid reflux causing my cough and wheezing, out of frustration I made an appointment at the Mayo at the end of June and ordered copies of all of my xrays and CT's since Sept. I looked through the radiology reports and found that they had missed that I had pnemonia back in Sept. (and figured I may have had recurring pnemonia all winter). I coughed so hard the entire month of April, I ended up with a fractured rib last month....I then found out about the celiac and that can affect the immune system and bone density.....but if they all ready checked you for that I am not sure what would be the cause! Just don't give up, keep going until you find an answer, I found out you really have to take charge of your own health! The doctors may have medical degrees but they don't have the time to review all of your test results in detail!READ MORE
Wow, 8 months, I can't imagine! Sorry you have been dealing with it for so long. No biopsy, just blood tests...interesting that it came back negative for you but in fact you have it. Maybe I will push a little harder with my endocrinologists. I hear you on seeing so many drs....I think I am on number 5 now, it is very frustrating. You are absolutely correct in saying that you have to fight for your self, your health! I learned that even though they are drs, doesn't make them any smarter, as I have had to argue and push for answers. Some got mad that I did research on the internet, as if the internet is all false info. I am very cautious on what I read and feel it is important to educate yourself and reach out to others going through the same issues.READ MORE
Please, please go to the Topix site www.topix.com/
I think in that site, the discussion is identified as the Sally Field discussion or blog.
Read the testimonials there -- pages of them. Please, please do NOT take any of these meds, bisphosphonates. These meds work by stopping old bone removal, thus making the bones thicker [but brittle because it is old bone], AND ALSO stopping new bone building. It is new bone that gives bone flexibility. How can bones heal if no new bone is made? How can they not ache and not become brittle if there is only old bone and it is never shed? Take plant-source calcium, vitamin D and other minerals, a diet of high alkaline [low acid] foods, and do as much strengthening exercise as you can!READ MORE


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"Our original vision was that we would do a lot of what we had we done as volunteers, just full-time: write a lot of blog posts and op-eds, give talks at conferences, and maybe write a book or two. ... We ended up with something much more complicated and much more effective: a mix of conferences... Read more
Look at the founders of any Internet startup, and you're almost certain to find an open source expert among them. Take Google, the biggest Internet success story of them all. Co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin built and ran their brand-new web indexing tool on servers running the open source... Read more
I sat down with Leslie Hawthorn, Community Manager at Red Hat, and chatted with her about the 2012 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing conference that was held in Baltimore, Maryland this year. She confided that the theme, Are we there yet?, is a reference to the idea that while women... Read more


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Samsung Chromebook 2 gets faux-leather look - and bloatware
Samsung's new Chromebooks feature faux-leather stitching - and bloatware
Samsung has unveiled the Chromebook 2, furnishing its updated laptops with faux-leather lids, Full HD and its own pre-installed apps.
The Chromebook 2 will be available in two models, with an 11.6in or 13.3in display. Both ape a design feature seen on Samsung's Galaxy devices, with leather-like casing.
The laptops will arrive next month and are more expensive than other Chromebooks currently on the market, although UK prices and availability weren't immediately available.
The 13.3in model is the more expensive at $399.99 (£240). It runs on Samsung's 2.1GHz Exynos 5 Octa chip - so far reserved for mobile devices - and boasts an improved screen resolution of 1,920 x 1,080. The 16GB of storage is expandable via a microSD slot, and it features 4GB of RAM.
Samsung claims up to 8.5 hours of battery life. Ports include a USB 3 slot, USB 2 slot and an HDMI connector, and there's support for Bluetooth 4. The device weighs just less than 1.5kg and will be available in white and black.
The cheaper, $319.99 (£191) 11.6in model drops down to a 1,366 x 768 screen, a slower 1.9GHz Exynos 5 chip and up to eight hours of battery life. Otherwise the hardware specs look the same, though it's a little lighter at a shade more than 1kg and will only be available in grey.
Samsung's also pre-installing premium apps on the two devices. It may seem an odd move given Google intended Chrome OS as a lightweight operating system, but it follows Samsung using a skinned version of Android on its smartphones, complete with its own pre-installed apps.
The Chromebook 2 includes a paid-for version of AirDroid, a file management app that lets users transfer media between their Android phone and PC, or track and wipe a lost phone.
There's also collaboration tool Wunderlist Pro and educational tool LittleBridge. Samsung will throw in free subscriptions for a year; after that, users will have to pay for continued use.


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Kobe Bryant's Comeback Quickly Derails
Forget the platitudes, the incoherent Lakers fans on Twitter, the amount of animal metaphors you can use to describe Kobe Bean Bryant. (A wounded hyena laughing maniacally as he lashes out at his attackers; a prowling leopard hunting for children; a proud elephant who remembers each and every slight; you get the idea.) The real fact is that men of Kobe Bryant's age do not come back from multiple serious leg injuries, especially not when their job is to run up and down a wooden floor for hours at a time.
This seems obvious. And yet there was still a reaction to the news that Kobe fractured a bone in his left knee that went along the lines of, "He'll be fine!" The official prognosis is just six weeks, but with the Lakers not exactly a contender with or without him—going into Friday they were sitting a game under .500—it wouldn't seem prudent to rush the healing process. Kobe was gung-ho to return after tearing his Achilles last season, and, well, this was the result. News that he'd apparently played out the rest of Tuesday's game after sustaining the injury seemed less the mark of a brave man and more the death wish of someone refusing to accept their body's limitations at this point in their career, with thousands of minutes accrued on those unforgiving courts. If there's any silver lining, it's that he doesn't need surgery—he just has to sit back and let his body work its magic without rushing the process. We already know what it looks like when things are expedited. "I take no joy in being correct about this, because the NBA is a better, more interesting and more purely competitive place with Kobe Bryant in it," Ken Berger writes for CBS Sports. "But the potential for injuries to parts of his body other than the surgically repaired left Achilles' tendon was the single biggest fear heading into his rehab and comeback."
Of course, the mitigating factor in his ability to return is the fact that Kobe, as much as he ever did, insists he is still one of the game's premier superstars, which is privately and publicly doubted around the league. "Six weeks beats six months, yes, but Bryant is 35 years old, and time is running shorter and shorter. Yes, it could've been worse on Thursday, but it's still so discouraging, so deflating," writes Yahoo's Adrian Wojnarowski Kobe Bryant isn't simply trying to play basketball again. He's trying to be great again, trying to chase his own standards, his own ghosts, and the climb back gets only steeper now." But Kobe can beat all of that, can't he? He's a hyena, a leopard, an elephant, the mamba, one of the game's elemental forces. He's also an old guy with a bum leg, which no amount of social media validation can change. Sports Illustrated's Ron Mahoney puts it best when he writes, "To those who believe Bryant to be above such conventional timetables – as if his every fiber were fundamentally stronger than that of a mere human — let this be a harrowing, unfortunate lesson."
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There are parts of Qatar that seem so ostentatious and aesthetically unexplainable as though the genie from Aladdin had suddenly decided to become a city planner. There is modern art that has been purchased from under the nose of the rest of the world's leading museums, contracted workers redefining the meaning of indentured servitude in the 21st century, temperatures that are charitable described as "oppressive" and will certainly make it incredibly difficult, if not outright impossible, for the World Cup to be played in 2022 without the players boiling to a crisp on the pitch. It's a city transformed by money, a testament to the power of capital when given free reign to transform what was formerly a desert patch into a futuristic metropolis; it's also just a deeply strange place, which former Fixer David Roth uncovered when he recently visited for SB Nation. In a five-part series due to conclude on Friday, he explores the city as a luxury brand and contemplates why the World Cup would be brought here. At one point, he observes a game of soccer between low-level visiting teams and imagines how things will be different in 8 years.
"This was the same game that would bring all those people to Qatar, of course, but also different. What the emir is buying from FIFA is a complicated investment product, which can indeed be bought and brought to the middle of the desert without any diminution in value. It is a thing traded among very rich people, like art or any other commodity," he writes. "This is not an idle comparison. Art has value because it has value; Qatar's whole brave, fraught investment in the World Cup has no value if not for the game that brought all those tired men to the Doha Sports Stadium that night. But the game, by itself, is just one of the world's favorite things to do; the World Cup is not just soccer. And anyway Qatar is not just buying the World Cup. It's an investment, like every dollar the nation spends on any other masterpiece."
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On the other side of the spectrum is Brazil, which will host the World Cup in 2014 and the Olympics in 2016 amidst wide inequality and a government-endorsed construction industry that's received inhuman amounts of money to build structures that will most likely not be finished by the time the events kick off. Despite the promise of transparency over how much each project costs, the irony is that the values differ depending on what website you look at. ESPN's Wright Thompson spent some time in Brazil with protesters of today and yesterday, the former eager to make a difference and the latter sitting in cautious skepticism because of their memories. He meets mothers of teenagers mistakenly shot by police, watches a budding photographer win a prestigious award for his work chronicling the violence, and arrives at a breathtakingly metaphorical conclusion too haunting to spoil. It's a place where something has to change, and a soccer tournament doesn't seem like it'll help.
"There's really no way to know if the World Cup will come and go peacefully or if a million people will once again demand change. Last month, when I went to Brazil looking for clues about what might happen next summer, I found all the players assembled for a battle that happens over and over again. It's reborn in every place and in every time, yet it still manages to surprise us, whether it's the cafés of Paris in 1788 or the mountains of Cuba in 1957, or perhaps, San Francisco in 1967," he writes. "Brazil in the shadow of the World Cup is one of those places, and right now is one of those times. The weird energy makes sense after a while: the alchemy of a dedicated minority of a generation first believing it can change a country, and being willing to derail the world's most famous sporting event to do so, set against the menace and authority of a nation willing to use violence to protect itself from the folly of youth."
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Flop Fellaini on his way to Napoli: Maroune Fellaini's "nightmare year" is set to end with a move to Napoli, reports the Daily Mirror and other papers. Fellaini cost Manchester United £27.5m a year ago but is first in line to leave Old Trafford as new manager Louis van Gaal plans a major clear-out of dead wood. Napoli want the Belgium midfielder, despite his failure to impress since David Moyes brought him to United from Everton. United accept they will be lucky to recoup half of what they paid for the 26-year-old but while they want to ditch him permanently, Napoli favour a loan deal due to financial constraints.
Paper Round's view: If he stays at United Fellaini will not get the new start he craves. Clearly he is not part of Van Gaal's plans - understandably so - and perhaps Serie A, which is not among the best leagues in Europe at the moment, may offer a better chance of rebirth. The shame is that he was a decent player for Moyes at Everton; he was just never able to step up to the highest level at Old Trafford. Napoli may offer redemption.
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Kagawa on his way out too: Shinji Kagawa is set to join Fellaini on his way out of Old Trafford, with Van Gaal equally intent on shifting on the Japan international. The Sun reports that Kagawa could be on his way back to Borussia Dortmund with United keen to recoup the £12m they paid the German club two years ago. The paper also reports that United are looking for buyers for Nani and Anderson. Nani interests Juventus and would fetch £10m, but finding a club interested in Anderson could prove more difficult.
Paper Round's view: Of course Fellaini wasn't the only player to disappoint at United last season; the above mentioned trio were equally anonymous. There just doesn't seem to be room in the United team for playmaker Kagawa and if Van Gaal is to avoid a bloated squad, he is exactly the type of player who needs to be offloaded. As for Nani and Anderson, well, they should have gone years ago.
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Chelsea desperately trying to find buyer for Torres: Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho will have to get rid of one of his foreign players to accommodate new signing Didier Drogba, with Fernando Torres the likely fall-guy. Due to home-grown player quotas, the Blues must free up a space for their Champions League and Premier League squads. Chelsea will try to sell Torres - who is expensive at £20m and demands wages of £175,000-a-week - and John Obi Mikel - for whom there has been little interest so far - but if they fail, they may be forced into selling Petr Cech to Paris Saint Germain, with Thibaut Courtois and Mark Schwarzer already on their books.
Paper Round's view: Torres may be expensive but surely the real reason no one will buy him is because he's not actually that good. Or at least he's a shell of the player who once terrorised opposition defences. Anyway, it does seem unlikely that a move back to Atletico Madrid will materialise, now the Spanish champions have signed Antoine Griezmann, and Chelsea may be forced to take a financial hit if they really are that desperate to get rid of him. However, offloading one of the aforementioned keepers might be a far more prudent idea, given that Cech is unlikely to stay if Courtois is number one, and Courtois is unlikely to hang around if he can't get into the team.
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Liverpool prepare Lavezzi bid: Liverpool are set to make a bid for Paris Saint Germain winger Ezequiel Lavezzi, according to a report in the Daily Star. That report cites other reports, in the Spanish press - namely Marca - which state that the Ligue 1 champions are willing to sell the Argentine in order to fund their bid for Real Madrid's Angel Di Maria. Lavezzi has also been linked with a move to Liverpool's Premier League rivals Chelsea, with Jose Mourinho a "huge" admirer of the player.
Paper Round's view: The reports of the reports (which we are now reporting) claim that Liverpool are plotting an £18m bid as they "go to war" with Chelsea over the player, but with the aforementioned home-grown quota problem Chelsea are facing, the Reds may well have the march on their Premier League rivals.
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Newcastle plot Remy swoop: With Loic Remy's move to Liverpool now dead, Newcastle are set to step in and take the France striker back to St James' Park on loan. The Daily Mirror reports the Magpies are keen to have Remy back where he played last season, despite him failing a medical to scupper a move from QPR to Anfield. Lyon striker Alexander Lacazette and Lorient forward Vincent Aboubakar are also under consideration by the Magpies.
Paper Round's view: QPR manager Harry Redknapp reckons there is nothing wrong with Remy medically, and that there must be some other reason for Liverpool having pulled the plug, but none of that should concern Newcastle, if they are planning a loan move. As long as they can get the best out of the player while they can, any long-term health defects - or not, as the case may be - will be incidental. The problem may now be that Redknapp is happy to hang onto Remy.
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