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Gold? Sure, We'll Take More of That, Says CME
CME Group will today increase to $500 million the amount of physical gold its U.S. clearing members can post as collateral for margin requirements, from the existing $200 million.
The step is the latest in a string of moves by exchanges and other financial services firms to increase the use of gold as collateral, which essentially places the precious metal in the top tier of asset classes.
CME said that by increasing the cap on the use of gold, it aims to help traders "manage their risk, while allowing them to take advantage of increasingly attractive gold lease rates."
The new limit will initially just apply for members of the exchange's U.S. clearing house, which has allowed firms to post up to $200 million worth of gold as performance bond collateral since late 2009. However, managing director of metal products Harriet Hunnable said the exchange is working on similar arrangements for its European clearing division, and expects this to be in place well before the end of the year.
"We have had a number of clients asking us to raise the collateral level above $200 million," she told Dow Jones Newswires in an interview Monday. "There is a lot of gold activity at the moment, and this form of collateral is highly attractive for bullion banks."
The change to the collateral levels for CME's U.S. clearing members will take effect from close of business Monday, the exchange said.
It was back in October 2009 that the CME Group announced it would allow physical gold to be used as collateral for margin requirements. Rival IntercontinentalExchange Inc. followed suit in November 2010.
Then last February, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. also said it would start accepting physical gold as collateral in some financial transactions.
Meanwhile, the World Gold Council also is gaining traction in its push to have the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision accept the precious metal as a Tier-1 asset for banks, along with government bonds and currencies.
Market participants say such moves are re-establishing gold's role as a monetary and financial asset.
However, Hunnable didn't rule out the possibility that other commodities may be considered for use as collateral in the future.
"Gold is a widely-held metal, and it is the material for which we have been asked to increase our collateral provisions. But would we look at other assets? Never say never," she said.
"The world is changing, so we will have to see what comes next. Our risk management group does a lot of work to make sure we are ready to meet the next areas of high demand," Hunnable added.


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Layoffs and buyouts have become commonplace at newspapers throughout the country. But few regions have been hit as hard as the San Francisco Bay Area.
By Paul Farhi Senior contributing writer Paul Farhi (email@example.com) is a reporter for the Washington Post.
For a few hours on July 2, journalists at the San Jose Mercury News waited anxiously for news about themselves. That morning, managers of the paper told editorial employees to stay home and await further instructions. Anyone whose job was being eliminated would receive a call from the paper by 10 a.m.; those who didn't get called could come in to work. By the end of the morning – quickly dubbed "Passover" – the bell tolled for 31 of the Mercury News' 246 newsroom employees.
The layoff-by-phone drill represented yet another backpedal from the lofty rhetoric of just 11 months earlier, when William Dean Singleton's MediaNews Group bought the paper and its suburban cousin, the Contra Costa Times. MediaNews acquired both dailies in a complicated deal with McClatchy, which in turn had purchased them a few weeks earlier from Knight Ridder, the Merc's deceased and dismembered former owner. "We have bought the crown jewels of Knight Ridder," Singleton declared at the time. "They are excellent papers that we expect to make better."
Perhaps he meant "smaller." The first layoff at the Merc newsroom (15 people) came just four months after Singleton, known in some quarters as "Lean Dean," assumed control. A series of resignations starting in June trimmed 15 more jobs. Combined with the Passover cuts, the newspaper's staff had shrunk by 22 percent in the first year of the Singleton era.
The Mercury used to have more than a dozen reporters in its San Francisco peninsula bureau located about 15 miles from San Jose. Now there's just one. The Merc gets most of its peninsula news from the short-handed San Mateo Times and the Palo Alto Daily News, a free tabloid MediaNews acquired in the Knight Ridder deal last year. Some parts of the paper's newsroom have simply just disappeared, among them a five-member projects team that included 40-year Merc veteran Pete Carey, who was part of a group that won a Pulitzer for foreign reporting in 1986. Carey is now a business reporter.
Some 40 miles north of the Mercury in San Francisco, another newspaper is undergoing its own wrenching contraction. In mid-May, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Bay Area's largest paper (daily circulation: 386,564), announced it would reduce its editorial staff. When the numbers were finalized a few weeks later, 90 journalists (23 percent of the Chron's newsroom) had either simply resigned or agreed to take buyouts offered by the paper's owner, Hearst. Among those who've recently left the paper are Managing Editor Robert J. Rosenthal, two deputy managing editors and the editors of the paper's opinion, business and Style sections.
There's nothing remarkable about layoffs and buyouts in newsrooms these days, as newspapers everywhere struggle to adjust to the Internet age. But perhaps no region has suffered from the news blues quite as grievously as the San Francisco Bay Area. Indeed, it's unlikely that any other major metropolitan paper in the country has fallen as far, or as fast, as the Mercury and Chronicle have since their peak at the height of the dotcom boom seven years ago.
"I used to tell job applicants that the Merc was the only paper in the country to double its newsroom staff in the 1980s and early '90s," says Jerry Ceppos, a former executive editor and managing editor of the Merc during its Pulitzer Prize-winning heyday more than a dozen years ago. "The update now would be that the Merc might be the only paper to halve its newsroom workforce" since 2000.
Ceppos, who was Knight Ridder's vice president/news from 1999 until he took early retirement in 2005, estimates that the Merc's newsroom is now about the size that it was in 1980. That's a remarkable retreat, he says, given that the population in the paper's immediate circulation area, Santa Clara and Alameda counties, has grown by 35 percent in that time. "The whole capacity to do newsgathering in the Bay Area has been harmed," he says. "I'd love to be a crooked politician [here] right now," because journalistic accountability is so impaired.
Most observers think the Mercury News (circulation: 230,000) is still profitable. The paper was making 12 percent when Singleton's Denver-based company acquired it last year. But hard numbers are difficult to find because MediaNews is private and doesn't report its results. Suffice it to say that the arrows keep pointing down, Singleton said in an interview. In a dismal time for the newspaper industry, he says the region's papers are doing relatively worse. "It's been a tough year," he says.
Asked if he would buy Knight Ridder's Bay Area papers again knowing what he knows now, the normally gung-ho publisher hesitated. "I don't know the answer to that question," he replied. "It's hard to put yourself back then. The fact is, I didn't know then what I know now. But we're happy we bought them."
The Chronicle, meanwhile, has been bleeding red ink for several years, though it's not clear how much (Hearst is also privately owned and doesn't disclose its financial results). A 2004 audit by the Newspaper Guild, however, pegged the paper's losses at about $62 million annually. One business executive formerly affiliated with the paper and intimately familiar with its finances says that losses have grown since then; if severance costs are added in, he guesses that the Chronicle's annual operating loss would now approach $100 million.
For anyone judging from afar, the papers' difficulties seem almost perverse. The Bay Area, after all, is hardly Detroit or Buffalo. One only needs to travel between the Mercury's suburban offices and the Chronicle's dingy downtown digs to sense the region's wealth, from the glittering Silicon Valley office parks clustered near the Merc's headquarters in San Jose to the million-dollar condos sprouting on San Francisco's bayfront. Glancing out a window in the Chronicle's newsroom one recent morning, Phil Bronstein, the paper's editor, acknowledged the obvious: "San Francisco is booming."
What's more, Hearst and MediaNews have the region's newspaper market all to themselves. After last year's deal-making, the two companies now control all of the 12 metropolitan and suburban papers in the Bay Area's six most populous counties. The lineup is simple: Hearst owns the Chronicle, and MediaNews owns everything else.
Plotted on a map, MediaNews' 11 daily newspapers form a necklace around San Francisco Bay. The chain stretches from Marin County north of the Golden Gate Bridge, east to Contra Costa and Alameda counties, south to San Jose and Santa Clara County, and up the peninsula into San Mateo County. The Chronicle is ringed by this necklace (see "Surrounded by Singleton," June/July 2006).
But while they are rivals in the Bay Area, the two companies are allies elsewhere. In fact, Hearst is a part owner of some of MediaNews' newspaper holdings outside the Bay Area. It acquired the stake last year when it provided Singleton with $288 million to help him buy the Mercury News and Contra Costa Times, giving him his near-monopoly on the Bay Area's daily newspapers.
Just a few years ago, no one foresaw such an unusual concentration of ownership, or the market's meltdown. As recently as 2000, the Bay Area's newspapers seemed to be sitting on a mother lode. The dotcom economy, centered between the poles of San Jose and San Francisco, was roaring, spinning out millions of dollars in new advertising, from help wanted and real estate listings to display ads.
The good times helped compel Knight Ridder to move its corporate headquarters from Miami to downtown San Jose in 1998. It also spurred a more important change: the undoing of a joint operating agreement (JOA) that had locked Hearst's afternoon Examiner into a 35-year-old business alliance with the morning Chronicle, then owned by the descendants of the paper's founders, the de Young brothers. The JOA had made the papers marginally profitable over the years, and with the agreement set to expire in 2005, Hearst made its move. It bought out the Chronicle's family shareholders for $660 million and took over the morning slot.
But it turned out Hearst had bought at the top. Not long after it completed its purchase in July 2000, the Internet bubble, which had been inflating through the late 1990s, burst.
The technological dynamism that once enriched the two papers now seems to be slowly suffocating them. The slow exodus of newspaper classified ads and listings to such free Internet sites as Craigslist and e-Bay had already begun at the peak of the dotcom boom. The bust of 2001–03 turned this into a free fall, as troubled tech firms stopped hiring.
P. Anthony Ridder, Knight Ridder's chairman and chief executive (and a Mercury News publisher in the mid-1980s), estimates that the Merc lost about 80 percent of its help wanted listings between 2001 and 2003. This decline lopped about $100 million a year off the paper's revenue, he says. But just as this ad category began to turn positive as Silicon Valley recovered around 2003, Ridder says, other kinds of advertising – automotive, national ads, the newly consolidated retail industry – began to turn soft (the Merc itself reported in June that its overall revenue has declined 36 percent since 2000).
To his growing unease, Ridder could sense Wall Street's impatience with newspaper stocks, particularly that of his company, which owned papers in troubled metropolitan areas. Soon, a Knight Ridder shareholder and money manager named Bruce Sherman was publicly demanding that Knight Ridder slash its costs and raise its stock price – or sell the company to someone who could (see "Sherman's March," February/March 2006). "We were the most vulnerable [of the newspaper companies] because we had only one class of stock," Ridder says. "I asked Bruce why he was after us and he said, 'Because I can.'" Sherman's campaign eventually led to Knight Ridder's sale and breakup.
Some suggest the Merc and Chron were slow to recognize the deteriorating conditions and bring their costs in line. The Chronicle, in particular, seemed bloated after its staff was merged with the Examiner's. Hearst had pledged no layoffs to the Chronicle's powerful labor unions when it bought the paper in 2000, even though it soon found itself with the manpower to produce two papers instead of one.
At its peak, the Chronicle's newly enlarged news staff numbered 575. Even Bronstein, the paper's editor then as now, looks back with some regret and a touch of exasperation. "The staff had two of everything. We probably had two dance critics," he says glumly.
Ridder thought at the time that the Chron would use its new editorial muscle to launch a major editorial and circulation thrust into Knight Ridder's strongholds in Contra Costa and the South Bay. The Merc even beefed up its San Francisco bureau in anticipation of fighting back. But Ridder was surprised when the offensive didn't materialize. "I don't think [the Chronicle] improved with all the extra staff they had," he says today. "They didn't suddenly become a much better paper."
The real question now, of course, is what's next.
Hearst executives declined to be interviewed for this article. Asked about the outlook for the Chronicle, Hearst spokesman Paul Luthringer would only say: "We are committed to the Chronicle as evidenced by the fact that we've entered into a long-term contract with Transcontinental to print it."
But it's clear the company would prefer cooperation to competition with MediaNews. According to documents made public in a lawsuit challenging terms of MediaNews' purchase of the Knight Ridder papers last year, MediaNews and Hearst had talked about combining their distribution and national advertising sales operations in the Bay Area. But a federal judge blocked any attempt to do so last year, and in settling the lawsuit (brought by political consultant Clint Reilly) last April, the two companies agreed to keep their business interests in the Bay Area separate.
Which has left the newspaper owners with the same strategy: a grinding series of cost-cutting and consolidation moves.
In relative terms, the biggest impact of the cutbacks has fallen on Singleton's 10 smaller dailies in the Bay Area, from the Independent Journal in Marin County to the Oakland Tribune and Tri-Valley Herald in the East Bay. All of these papers have lost local newsroom resources as MediaNews has moved to centralize many editorial functions.
No longer, for example, does each paper field its own sports reporters to cover the region's professional teams; that assignment is handled by a MediaNews reporter whose stories are fed throughout the chain. Business news, feature stories, copy editing, even editorials are run much the same way. Many of these tasks are the responsibility of a MediaNews team that works out of an office in the East Bay town of Pleasanton.
Singleton argues that this gives his Bay Area papers more local news and editorial strength. In effect, he says, each of the papers now has access to 600-plus MediaNews journalists in the Bay Area, instead of the few dozen they formerly employed as stand-alone papers.
Such resource-sharing arrangements win grudging praise from Alan Mutter, a former editor at the Chronicle who is now an independent investor and media industry commentator in San Francisco. "I know it's not fashionable to say nice things about MediaNews, but they have been quick to restructure the huge embedded costs of putting out a newspaper," he says. "They have tried to find economies of scale to maintain the business. Give the devil his due. If [Singleton] didn't do this, some of those papers wouldn't be there. Is some coverage of Oakland better than none? Of course it is."
But news from Oakland might not be what readers in San Mateo have in mind when they think of their "local" paper. In fact, MediaNews' centralization strategy has had a noticeable effect on the character of the papers and their Web sites, transforming them from community-based dailies into more regional, homogenized news sources. On a recent Friday, readers of the Mercury could find MediaNews-generated stories in the paper's main news section, its local news section and its entertainment and sports sections. Many of these same stories ran that day in MediaNews' other Bay Area papers.
Singleton won't get much praise from John Bowman, a former MediaNews editor. When he was managing editor of MediaNews' San Mateo County Times between 2002 and 2004, Bowman worked with three other editors and had 12 reporters under him. In April, when he briefly returned to the Times as executive editor, the paper was down to eight reporters and three editors.
That meant that the Times newsroom was stretched impossibly thin in trying to cover a county with 705,000 residents, he says. Times' reporters (who earn about $35,000 a year in one of the most expensive housing markets in the country) regularly cover double and triple beats. According to the Times' masthead, reporter Rebekah Gordon covers politics, the board of supervisors and senior issues; Julia Scott covers seven coastal towns as well as county environmental news.
Bowman says that a centralized news department often has little awareness of the people and the issues that affect a local community and drive a local paper. He blames the central copy desk, located 30 miles away, for mistakes that have crept into the Times' headlines and captions; a recent headline told readers that an event took place in Pacifica, when the story plainly said it occurred in nearby Half Moon Bay. "Everybody has swallowed the Kool-Aid about the future of newspapers being local, local, local," says Bowman, who quit the paper in dismay this spring after only seven weeks on the job, "but nothing takes more resources than covering local news. You can't cut your way to prosperity."
The Chronicle's and Mercury's top editors admit they don't have any easy answers. But both also believe that the worst is behind them. "I don't expect to grow, but I don't expect to shrink, either," says Carole Leigh Hutton, who took over the Merc when Editor Susan Goldberg left for Cleveland's Plain Dealer in May (see "Transforming the Architecture").
Hutton offers no grand designs for her paper's future; she says instead that she'll listen to what readers want in a "rethinking" exercise that the paper launched over the summer. "The flaw in newspapers is we tend to think we can answer our own questions," she says. "We always think we should do what we're comfortable with. But it's never that simple."
Bronstein, who still wears cowboy boots to the office, just as he did when he was a foreign correspondent 20 years ago, thinks there may be something to a phrase coined by William Randolph Hearst – "the journalism of action." He wants the Chronicle to "engage readers more in their civic lives, and give them ways to act instead of just saying things are bad. We have the technology and the tools to have a different relationship with our readers." Even if, he acknowledges, that means "day to day, there might be less of 'here's what happened at the Richmond City Council.'"
From a practical standpoint, Bronstein can see the advantage to the Chronicle in Singleton's editorial retreat ("It's a shame that their quality is dropping, but as a competitor I'm happy," he says). Yet he recognizes that this is a danger for his paper, too. "The problem is, you can get into a death spiral, where you're less and less effective each time you have to cut something," he says. "I can't tell you that that's where we're at now. But is there a point when you're no longer effective to readers? Probably there is. Is it a danger? Yes, it is."
Ridder, who was widely criticized for cutbacks at Knight Ridder during his tenure, thinks the Bay Area's papers are rapidly approaching enfeeblement. He still reads his old newspaper, the Merc, every morning, but with a mounting sense of disappointment and sadness. "There's less there there," he says, and reflects: "Most newspapers are so incredibly important to the area they serve. Most of the great enterprise journalism is done by newspapers. They keep the government honest. They tell us about the state of the educational system. Who's going to do it when they no longer can?" (Singleton's MediaNews Group sued Ridder's son Par after Par Ridder left his position as publisher of MediaNews' St. Paul Pioneer Press to become publisher of Minneapolis' Star Tribune. In September a judge ordered Ridder to leave his job for a year.)
Singleton refuses to be chastened, even as he presides over an ebbing tide. "The newspaper business today is a marathon, not a sprint," he says. "We're going to have some unhappy days the next three or four years, but I think long term this is a very good business."
He tells a story he thinks is instructive. As a junior executive at the old Washington Star some years back, he once got a phone call from the paper's owner, Joe Allbritton, who told him to meet him at the airport that night.
"Where are we going?" the young Singleton asked his boss.
"We'll gas up the plane and keep flying until we feel like coming down," he remembers Allbritton telling him.
That night, the two men flew for several hours. They finally put down in Bismarck, North Dakota, a place Singleton had never visited before. "We went downtown and had a steak dinner. We had a great time. I'll never forget it."
To Singleton, it's not just an anecdote – it's a metaphor for the uncertainty surrounding the newspaper business. "We don't know where we're headed or when we'll get there or what we'll find when we get there," he says. "But I can tell you this: We're going to have fun getting there."
Paul Farhi (firstname.lastname@example.com) is a Washington Post reporter who writes frequently about the news media for the Post and AJR. He wrote about hyperlocal news Web sites in AJR's June/July issue.

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In February of 2007 a world record attempt proved unsuccessful at the department store Harrods in London. Where Harrods failed, however, 99.7 KYYS morning show hosts Max Floyd and Tanna will succeed.On June 3, 2007, 2,000 guitarists of all ages and skill will gather at Community America Ballpark in Kansas City for the largest ensemble performance of the same song in history. Should the attempt succeed, it will break a world record which has stood since 1994. Representatives from Guinness will be on hand to verify the record has been broken. Celebrity guitarists will also be participating in the history making event. The song of choice for the event is "Smoke on the Water", made famous by the band DEEP PURPLE. "The first song everyone learns on guitar is 'Smoke on the Water', so we thought this would be a good song to try and break the record with," Max Floyd said. Participants in the event have been, and may continue to sign up via 99.7's web site, www.kyys.com. The event is completely free to anyone wishing to attend and will begin at approximately 12:00 p.m. "We're pretty confident we're going to break the record," Tanna said. "We know our listeners are going to rise to the challenge or else we wouldn't even attempt this."
2,000 Guitarists To Perform DEEP PURPLE Classic In World Record Attempt
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Translation of knuckle in Spanish:
- 1 (finger joint) to be near the knuckle (British) [colloquial]pasarse de castaño oscuro [colloquial]to give somebody a rap or to rap somebody on or (esp British) over the knuckles(rebuke) llamarle la atención a alguien
echarle un rapapolvo a alguien (Spain) [colloquial]
darle un café a alguien (Río de la Plata) [colloquial](lit: hit) darle en los nudillos a alguienExample sentences
- Brian rubbed his thumb back and forth over my index finger knuckle, tickling me a little bit.
- Raising his right hand, he laid the knuckle of his index finger against his chin.
- Today there's only a miniscule red patch next to the knuckle of my ring finger which isn't even sore.
- 2(of pork) codillo (masculine)(of veal) morcillo (masculine)
jarrete (masculine)Example sentences
- Her recipe for an olio required 'a fowl, a couple of partridges, a piece of a leg of mutton, a knuckle of veal, and a few rump steaks; also a piece of good streaked bacon or ham'.
- There are also culinary records indicating its use for pickled pigs feet, breaded veal knuckles, and sweet breads.
- I'm still not sure what 'capilutes of lamb' are, but can vouch for the pork knuckle which one of my companions ordered.
- 3also: knuckles(US) → brass knuckles
Phrasal verbs
ponerse a trabajar en serioto knuckle down
va a ser mejor que te pongas a trabajar en serio
cederto knuckle under
pasar por el aro
pasar por el aro
finalmente cedió a la presión/accedió a lo que exigíamos
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The fact that our novel is named after Emma doesn't give us too many choices here. Sure, Emma's the obvious protagonist. But she's also obviously flawed. This is where the fun starts. She's got too much going for her, for one thing. She's pretty, respected, and as powerful as a young woman could ever hope to be. If this novel is supposed to be a bildungsromän (that's a fancy German term for a novel that traces the growth of a young hero), we've got a few problems. Where can she go from here?


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Kentucky possesses a 17-8 overall record and an 11-4 mark in Southeastern Conference action after posting its fifth-straight win on Sunday in a 3-0 sweep of South Carolina. The Blue and White reached the 17-win plateau for the eighth-consecutive season. UK coach Craig Skinner is the only coach in program history to lead his team to 17-or-more victories in each season at the helm.
Alabama enters the weekend with a 15-12 overall mark and a 4-11 clip in SEC action. The Tide are coming off a victory over Mississippi State in its last action of the year.
Senior libero Stephanie Klefot tallied 15 digs in UK's win over the Gamecocks to become just the fourth player in SEC history to amass 1,800 career digs or more. She's posted 10 or more digs in 90 times in her career including both victories last week.
Sophomore Lauren O'Conner had 12 kills in both of UK's wins a week ago including leading the team in the win over South Carolina. O'Conner smashed her kills utilizing a .455 hitting percentage in the victory.
Senior Ashley Frazier has logged 10 or more kills in four-consecutive wins for the Blue and White including posting a career-high 20 kills in a win over Ole Miss. Frazier has logged 64 kills for an average of 3.76 on a .358 hitting percentage in the last four wins.
UK owns the all-time series record with the Tide with a 24-13 mark. The Blue and White has notched two-straight wins in the series, but has also grabbed seven wins in the team's last eight matchups.
Senior outside hitter Kayla Fitterer leads the Tide's offensive attack with 273 kills (3.64 K/Set). On defense, junior libero Cristina Arenas leads the team with 354 digs (3.69 D/Set).
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First of all, barring a total collapse of the economy, there are going to be more than 900,000 motorcycles and scooters sold this year, or about as many as were sold in 2003 (922,000), and if you look back, 2003 was a pretty good year.
Second, you're selling the king of fuel-efficient vehicles; most of the products on your floor are capable of 40 to 50 mpg and some even more when used in a lawful manner.
Third, you're selling fun and recreation, something folks need when the rest of their life is headed for a face-plant.
Finally, motorcycles and scooters have an almost mystical attraction to a very large group of people.
Due to the wide appeal of two-wheeled vehicles, particularly to that core demographic (18-54), your local rock station probably would lend a friendly ear to a discussion about the mutual benefits arising from a joint promotion that would attract new listeners to the radio station and give the DJs something to talk about during their shows for a few weeks. It also would give you and your products some additional exposure in exchange for a motorcycle or scooter.
You need to agree on the amount and kind of exposure you're getting in exchange for the vehicle. It may be that the perception of the value of the total promotion will drive the exchange value up in your favor.
If you live in a town that's big enough, consider staging a contest: Who can get from the edge of town to the central business district in the least amount of time and for the least amount of cash — someone driving a car, or someone riding a two-wheeler? Be sure to include time spent parking (and looking for parking).
It would be even more interesting if the two contestants were rival DJs. The station could do on-air promotions, asking listeners to guess which one is going to win and what the cost and time of the winner will be. The DJs could trash-talk over which one will be the eventual winner. The listener coming closest to the winning time and cost would win the vehicle, which would be given away at your dealership during a live broadcast where you're offering free hot dogs and soft drinks, giving away a couple of T-shirts each hour, and providing deals on bikes and gear.
So let's review: Basically what you want to do is 1) negotiate a favorable value for your product, 2) structure a program with the station that drives traffic for both of you, 3) promote the concept of a motorcycle as an economical and fun way to commute, run short errands, or just to enjoy the back roads on a sunny day, and 4) sell a few bikes and some products as a result.
You've got desirable products for these times. Radio stations, confronted with fewer advertising dollars, have lots of excess airtime. They can't inventory or store the airtime, so they're probably willing to exchange it for something they can turn into value for their customers, their advertisers or their salespeople. Your upside is that you have cleared at least one motorcycle off your floor, received good value, and made thousands more aware of your place of business and the benefits of the products you sell. It's a win for everyone.
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CFO Moves: Ezcorp, Adamas Pharmaceuticals
Ezcorp, a financial services firm based in Austin, Texas, said Chief Financial Officer Mark E. Kuchenrither, who has also been serving as interim president and chief executive since July, will now hold the latter two roles on a permanent basis. He will also continue to serve as CFO until the company names a permanent replacement for that role.
Adamas Pharmaceuticals, based in Emeryville, Calif., hired William J. Dawson as its CFO. He succeeds Anthony Rimac, who will continue to work with the company as a consultant. Mr. Dawson was most recently CFO of Catalyst Biosciences Inc. At Adamas, he will receive a base salary of $340,000 and be eligible for an annual bonus up to 30% of his base, according to a regulatory filing. He will also receive 130,000 stock options. Mr. Rimac received compensation last year valued at $423,871, according to an S-1.


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Racism, the result of a recessive brainrot eager to express itself."LOST CHURCHES OF NEW YORK AND NEW JERSEY"
When devastating hurricanes struck the East Coast,
even Houses of worship were not spared.
A local television station interviewed a woman from New
York's Harlem area and asked how the loss of churches
in the area had affected their lives.
Without hesitation, the woman replied, "I don't know 'bout
all them other peoples, but we haven't gone to Churches in
years. We gets our chicken from Popeye's."
The look on the interviewer's face was priceless.
They live among us, AND THEY HAVE VOTED.
Now do you understand how we got our president?
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#18113 Mar 7, 2013
My Mother was white and my Father was black, just like obama, especially since he didn't stick around either. My friend who sent that joke is also black. If you ever lived in some of the poorer Brooklyn neighborhoods you would know about Churchs Chicken and understand the humor. Instead you're a self-righteous liberal who looks down on everybody who doesn't bow to your elitist narrative, just like obama, you know what's best for us folks, and if we step off the democratic entitlement plantation, we's runaway slaves. Well despite my humble neighborhood I helped myself to attain my goals, victimized by no one, only fools allow themselves to be enslaved. Unlike you, when I vote I follow the tenets of Dr. King, I judge the man on the content of his character not the color of his skin. You're an obama water boy. A racist? People often view others as they are themselves.
#18114 Mar 8, 2013
Hear that self righteous liberals? Great points! Now back to asserting women who are raped can prevent pregnancy and evolution is a made up conspiracy by scientists... Excuse me...
#18115 Mar 8, 2013
I don't find your story credible
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#18116 Mar 8, 2013
Why you change your name, hillbilly boy?
#18117 Mar 8, 2013
Q.-Why did you deflect the subject?
A.- because you are lying.
#18119 Mar 8, 2013
Sounds like someone has a big pair of pants holding nothing up, you sure are more impressed than me. You see punks with a big mouth have nothing to back it up with except chump talk, I agree that this blowhard cannot even spell, much less fight. I would love to see this punk in action, I might even buy the popcorn.
Folks in the know will let you know in the right time, before you go to the dentist, first, weenie, leaarn how to spell before you threaten someone you do not now, easy way to get hurt. haha
#18121 Mar 8, 2013
Goober loves O-blomo, probably takes it in the back door
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#18122 Mar 8, 2013
Sounds like your pants are down around your ankles while your little friend palys hide the kielbasa in your polskie dupcha, princess.
#18123 Mar 9, 2013
Mr Mc Dingleberry, if you cannot speak or spell in a language, save yourself the embarASSment by trying to want to be, ha
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#18124 Mar 9, 2013
A typo, that's the best you got pierogi breath?
#18126 Mar 10, 2013
You are no nice fellow. You mean like man with few friend. No heart.
#18127 Mar 10, 2013
What a bunch of losers, matching wits with other ungifted twits....
#18129 Mar 10, 2013
This America is something to behold, a moron for a president and fools for subjects, what a shame, americans can only speak one language and barely that, they get government money because they are too stupid to work. Cretins are the best IQ you bunch can get up to. I bet you all work in some douchbag job, have fat, ugly old ladies, if you even have one, and are some fat slob yourselves, you cretins make me laugh, my English is my 4th language and a far sight better than yours, you bunch of morons. Lazy, fat, slobs, probably couldn't fight your way out of a wet bag. I have to laugh at the fat lazy Americans with the fat rotten tooth old ladies and very, very stupid children who have to take medication for their stupidity. And you have room to talk, that is all you can do is put someone down because when you look in the mirror, you are frightened at what looks back at you, ha, stupid Americans vote some a-hole one, and then again, very stupid Americans, you make me laugh, fat and stupid. Hahaha.
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To może inny sposób, np. kąpiel w wannie pełnej piany z aromaterapią, przy nastrojowej muzyce?
- E tam, Panie Doktorze, tego tez próbowałam piana mnie wkurwia, bo szczypie w oczy, muzyka mnie wkurwia, każda muzyka mnie wkurwia, ta nastrojowa najbardziej mnie wkurwia, a te olejki zapachowe, to dopiero wkurwiajace, kleją sie, lepią, plamią, nie, nie olejki najbardziej mnie wkurwiają!
- No dobrze, to może sex? Jak wyglada Pani życie seksualne?
- Sex !?
A co to takiego?
- Nie wie Pani co to sex!? No dobrze, zaraz Pani pokaże, proszę za parawan. Po chwili na parawanie lądują kolejne części garderoby: spodnie, spódnica, kitel, bluzka, biustonosz, majtki. Po kolejnej chwili słychać sapanie i wzdychania, wreszcie słychać głos kobiety:
- Panie Doktorze, proszę się zdecydować? Wkłada Pan czy wyciąga, bo
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In the situation room during the bin laden raid, obama started to cry when the first stealth chopper crashed, he turned to Hillary and said, "the election!, what am I going to do?"
Hillary stood up, walked over to obama and gently raised his head, then she bitch slapped him and said : "You can like a man"
#18133 Mar 10, 2013
You be trippin dawg, like delusional.
#18134 Mar 10, 2013
I purposely left the political forums alone. I expect you not to comment on the rest of threads.
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#18135 Mar 10, 2013
Well, shuts my mouth, sha zamm, and I expect obama to stop campaigning and start to work on the problems of the nation, but we knows both of dat s'it ain't going to happen, now don't we.
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Watch my smile, am I lying?
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It has to do with glucocorticoids -- the name of naturally occurring steroid hormones that I dare you to say five times fast -- but be advised these same hormones are apparently bad if you have prolonged stress and will then damage the skin. So you have to follow the Goldilocks principle and get just the right amount. I bet she had nice skin.
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All these are great -- as backups. But as we've learned with other tech solutions to life's problems, they won't replace common sense. If I want to know if it's dark outside, I'll just look out the window.
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He directed students to the places they were to pick up their schedules. With schedules in hand, students targeted Cummings, and any adult in the hallways, for directions to their first class.
"Right here. Fitness ed," he said, looking at a student's schedule in the main gym. "You're in the right place."
There was discipline among some of the conversations, but it came with a smile and a pat on the shoulder.
"You guys know where you're heading?" Cummings asked a group of friends who were standing in the hall rather than moving toward their classroom.
Walking into one schedule pickup area, he signs off on sending three boys to the office to shave facial hair. Across the doorway, two girls are detained for dress code violations.
Back in the hallway, he points to earbuds (not permitted) and tells one boy to remove his earring. The student obliges, then makes a U-turn.
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Cummings is one of three first-year high school principals in the district of 58,000. His edge over Rowlett High's Michelle Bounds and Sachse High's Ray Merrill is that while they move up from the middle school level, Cummings has been an assistant principal at North Garland the last five years.
Theirs and other high school campuses in Garland ISD are undergoing expansion. That'll be great next fall, when the new classrooms are rolled out. Monday, it just made for another level of mess in the parking lot. The GISD security director pulled the principal aside as students were trying to access their reconfigured parking lot from the wrong street.
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In the developed world, girls now get their periods earlier, and women spend less time being pregnant and breast feeding on demand. This means that the average women can now expect to have more than 400 menstrual cycles in her lifetime (ESHRE, 2007). Even the use of most hormonal contraceptives (pill/patch/ring) will yield a monthly bleed. So it's no wonder that women are so concerned when their cycles seem to be longer and heavier than usual.
To address the most-pressing question, "When should I be concerned? What is the medical definition of too much bleeding?" there is a medical definition of "too-heavy periods." If a woman is bleeding 80cc (2.7 ounces — about 1/3 of a cup) or more, that is excessive bleeding. Trying to measure exactly the amount of bleeding is difficult even in a research setting, much less in a home bathroom! Some general indications of excessive bleeding can include:
* Saturating a maxipad or super tampon every 60-90 minutes for several hours.
* Passage of large clots (quarter-sized or larger).
* Significant bleeding for more than seven days.
Probably the most important factor would be if your bleeding is heavy enough to interfere with your normal activities.
So if your bleeds are too heavy, read on for some possible explanations.
Hormonal Causes
Hormonal causes are usually linked to missed or erratic ovulation. As you may know, in a normal cycle, estrogen is produced all month. Estrogen is responsible for building up the lining of your uterus so you have something to shed each month. In a normal cycle, progesterone production increases following ovulation. Progesterone "stabilizes" the uterine lining in preparation for a possible implantation of a new pregnancy. If you are not pregnant that month, the levels of estrogen and progesterone fall, triggering the release of the uterine lining — your period.
So if you do not ovulate, the estrogen build up of the lining continues, but without the usual ovulation-associated progesterone. Thus, the hormone levels don't decline, and the lining stays up inside the uterus as a missed/late period. Alternatively the lining can begin to shed under its own weight, producing prolonged bleeding. After several months of missed periods, the lining of the uterus can become very thickened. Prolonged and heavy flows are not uncommon after months of missed flows.
There are MANY causes for not ovulating including low thyroid, a benign pituitary growth ("adenoma"), or a problem with the hypothalamus. All of the stress-related causes of not ovulating (e.g., sudden increases in exercise, crash dieting, problems with relationships, financial worries, etc.) can be linked to the effects of stress hormones from the brain on the hypothalamus. Increased body weight may trigger hormone changes leading to polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS). A transient ovarian cyst can halt ovulation for a time.
There are treatments for each of the causes of heavy bleeding we have discussed. So if you or someone you know have episodes of heavy blood loss rather than a normal period, talk to your doctor because there are ways to stop going with the flow.
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The Art Collection
The Jewish Museum Berlin art collection shows German-Jewish history from the perspective of the fine arts.
In the works of Jewish artists and the expectations of Jewish commissioners, the imagery of the Jewish tradition combined with that of the present. The artists' works show how Jews participate in the cultural life of their time. They shape and interpret their environment, position themselves in German society, and reflect on their attitude to Judaism. Also as commissioners, for example of portraits, Jews play a significant role in the art world. Their aesthetic preferences are important evidence of their cultural identity for us today.
Documenting and researching this visual culture that evolved from many interrelationships is the role of the fine arts collection. The holdings currently comprise approximately 430 paintings, 5,000 art prints, 1,900 drawings, and around 150 sculptures and architectural models.
With its art collection, the Jewish Museum Berlin continues the tradition of the first Jewish Museum that was forced to close in 1938. It was explicitly dedicated to the works of Jewish artists of the time. The works of classical modernism collected at that time are also still a focus today: Max Liebermann, Lesser Ury, Ludwig Meidner, Jakob Steinhardt, Hermann Struck, Jankel Adler, and Otto Freundlich are only the best known names.
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Printed graphics are an extensive and important part of the art collection. It also includes posters and advertising art and is closely associated with the works of book art that have been collected in the library.
Among the subjects, biblical themes and Jewish motifs are naturally well represented but our interest is in all pictorial subjects, in particular the aesthetic processing of experiences of persecution and emigration.
As in any historico-cultural collection, portraits also play an important role in the Jewish Museum Berlin collection. Many of them belong to family history collections that also contain documents, photographs, and objects. In addition, the portraits of philosophers of the Jewish Enlightenment in the 18th century are especially noteworthy and are on long-term loan from the Israel Museum. They were originally part of the first Jewish Museum's collection.
Furthermore, together with our archive and photographic collection, we collect biographical and documentary material such as photographs, correspondence, and publications.
A further focus of the collection is contemporary art. Through its architecture and its self-conception, the Jewish Museum Berlin was concerned from the beginning with questions of the present. Consequently, documenting contemporary developments is part of the collection concept. Installations by Menashe Kadishman, Via Lewandowski, and Arnold Dreyblatt can all be found on a stroll through the exhibition and reflect the fact that a museum can only consider history from the position of the present.
Inka Bertz
Head of collections/Curator of art
Tel: +49 (0)30 259 93 414
Fax: +49 (0)30 259 93 409
The interest of an historico-cultural museum is also always a thematic one. We consider every artwork from the standpoint of the questions that the museum asks – questions of tradition and remembrance, of Jewish present and visions for the future.


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As you head out on your suburban safari, bear these points in mind.
• Avoid any plants that may have been sprayed with harmful chemicals. Stop using chemicals altogether, and you'll have a much wider range of plants to harvest safely.
• If your neighbor has a magnolia and you don't, ask for a few blossoms. Better yet, invite him or her over to enjoy the dish you make with the blooms. Besides expanding your picking grounds, you'll be forging connections with those who live around you.
• Pets and other critters roam the neighborhood, too. Wash all foraged herbs well before using. Some herbs, such as those growing in a dog run or splattered with bird droppings, should be avoided entirely.
• Take a moment to teach children. You'll surely attract their attention as you gather your offbeat herbs. That is a good thing, but warn them that some plants are poisonous or may have been sprayed and teach them to respect the property of others.
Robert Henderson of Chilliwack, British Columbia, has spent most of his life chasing wild herbs and backwoods lore in the Pacific Northwest and around the world. He is currently working on a book on this subject, tentatively titled Subherbs, to be published by Chelsea Green later this year.
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Mobile phone SIM card reader/writer(1)
The BT Paragon has a built-in SIM card reader/writer so there's no need to re-enter all your contacts into your new phone. Just insert your mobile's SIM card into the BT Paragon and copy all the numbers from there. It's also a great way to keep a backup of the numbers stored on your mobile phone.
Answering machine with up to 32 minutes digital recording time
The answering machine has two pre-recorded male and female outgoing messages (answer & record and answer only option) or you can record your own. You can playback messages via the loudspeaker or privately through the handset and you can screen calls. There is a memo feature so you can leave messages for other handset users and you can access your answering machine remotely and listen to your messages when you are away from home.
Text messaging with message storage space(2)
Send and receive text messages from your BT Paragon phone. A flashing light on the base, a message on the display and an audible alert indicate that new text messages have been received.
200 Name and number directory
Your BT Paragon phone can store up to 200 of your most frequently used names and numbers to make dialling quick and easy. If you subscribe to a Caller Display service you can also assign group ringtones when you store directory entries - the assigned ringtone will then play when someone from a particular group calls you.
Caller Display with 50 number calls list(3)
See who is calling you before you answer the phone. The calls list holds details of your last 50 callers, including the phone number and time and date of the call. If a number matches a stored directory entry, the caller's name is displayed as well as the number.
Key features
- Digital Answering Machine
- Mobile phone SIM card reader/writer(1)
- Send and receive text messages(2)
- 200 Entry directory
- Caller Display with 50 number calls list(3)
- Handsfree
Additional features
- Call Waiting(3)
- 4 Line backlit, inverse display with contrast control
- 3 Quickdial numbers
- 10 Last number redial
- Secrecy feature
- Headset port (RJ11)
- Call and message indicator lights
- Inductive coupler for hearing aid compatibility
- BT Select Services button
- Clock, calendar and alarm functions
- Ringer volume control Ringtone options - 5 melodies/10 polyphonic
Earpiece volume control
Switchboard compatible (Tone/Pulse/TBR)
- Pause/Recall/PBX Access code (Auto Prefix)
Answering machine features
- Up to 32 minutes digital recording time
Pre-recorded male and female outgoing messages: Answer & record and Answer only
Facility to record your own outgoing message
- Answer delay setting
- Call screening/intercept
- Message counter
- Playback via the base or handset
- Voice prompts
- Playback volume control
- Memo facility
- Memory full alert
- Answering machine on/off timer function
- Remote access (security code protected)
What's in the box?
- BT Paragon 650 corded telephone
- Telephone line cord
- Handset with cord
- Mains power adaptor
- Desk mounting plinth
- Quick Start Guide
We do our best to supply our customers with the apparatus they ask for, but we may have to provide apparatus which does not accord exactly with the illustrations and shades of colour shown on the pack. This product is intended for connection to analogue public switched telephone networks and private switchboards in the UK.
1 3G and 5V SIM cards are not compatible with this product. Please check with your network provider first if you are unsure what SIM card you have.
2 You must subscribe to your network provider's Caller Display service for text messaging to work and you must not withhold your number. Your network provider may charge you for these services. Please note some other network provider lines may not be compatible with this text messaging service.
3 You must subscribe to a Caller Display or Call Waiting service for these features to work. Your network provider may charge you for these services.
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BT Paragon 650
Reviewed by Anonymous Review Posted 13/03/2015
I have one already and I am just replacing it.
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BT Paragon 650
Reviewed by Brenda Astbury. Review Posted 18/10/2013
BT Paragon 650 answerphone
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Great Phone
Reviewed by Tez. Review Posted 05/05/2010
You read a lot of negative reviews about this phone, but yet it is a great quality phone. Yes the ring tones are a bit naff, and the answer machine could be a bit louder, but if you pick up the handset, and listen to the messages, it's great. The quality of the hands free speaker is great, you can adjust the volume, and it's loud, also the call quality of the handset is excellent. I got mine for £24.99 from BT Outlet on ebay, so am well pleased.
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Reviewed by frances robertson. Review Posted 16/10/2015
compacted and looks easy to use.
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Ringtone solution
Reviewed by Richard. Review Posted 28/10/2009
Overall I'm happy with the Paragon 650. It's easy to use, and it looks like it means business - so it makes a good home office phone.
There is a solution to replace the ringtones for an extra £20 or so. You need to buy a 'Tonecaller II' and a splitter.
Plug the phone and the Tonecaller into the splitter, then plug the splitter into your phone socket. Then set the phone to silent by turning the ringer volume off, and the Tonecaller will ring instead.
Of the 4 ringtones available on the Tonecaller at least 2 of them sound like the good old-fashioned ring-ring, and you can set the volume to a level that's similar to the phone.
The Tonecaller is listed on the BT shop, but they sent me an incorrect item that didn't have a choice of tones or a volume control, so I am currently (still) trying to return it. I purchased the Tonecaller elsewhere. My advice is to shop around for the phone and Tonecaller, the 2 together didn't cost me much more than the phone is listed for here.
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ok ish
Reviewed by Paula Fisher. Review Posted 08/04/2014
Was ok until just over a year old, it suddenly started to not work properly, you would hear it ring and pick up the receiver and you couldn't hear the other person, if you quickly switched from handset to speaker phone and back again then it would sometimes work. 14 months for nearly £50? no i will find a cheaper model with a more than a years guarantee this time.
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Reviewed by JoJo. Review Posted 15/02/2013
dreadful ringtones backlight doesn't stay on long enough I wish I had the reviews before I bought the thing I wanted a proper home and answer phone not a substitute mobile
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BT Paragon 650
Reviewed by Dr J S Carlow. Review Posted 09/10/2012
Having used BT Paragon phones before we hoped that this new one would be an improvement in quality over the 500. Although the sound quality was indeed an improvement, we found such problems with the answerphone we are having to return the device to the shop. The problem stems from the fact messages are not easily linked to the number displayed on the calls list. With older people phoning in to the surgery leaving messages, they often do not say their contact numbers correctly and we need to check on the calls list. This phone makes it almost impossible except via timing and often there are several calls logged in the same minute. Result phone is useless!! Also the ring tone selection left us totally annoyed, being unable to set a standard ring, being stuck with a tune, to the annoyance of patients in the waiting room. The only positive item remaining is the ability to read a SIM card for a contacts list.
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Reviewed by DaveC. Review Posted 24/05/2010
A good solid feeling phone but oh dear oh dear who came up with the ringtones ????? this is supposed to be a business/home phone who's little boy was given the task of choosing the tones. He has his computer games tones mixed up with the purpose of the ring on a telephone. In case you wonder I say little boy as a little girl would have done it much better, I know I have two of them. BT please bring out a modification I can use with this phone, a proper ring please or its money wasted for me.
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BT Paragon 650 - Mains failure
Reviewed by Robert SK. Review Posted 24/08/2009
I have used the BT Paragon 650 for some time now and find it to sit my requirements. However it doesn't appear to have a battery so when the mails fails, the date and time have to be set again. this is very inconvenient. Anyone else experience similar problems?
regards, Robert
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Investigation into suspicious package on bus continues
Authorities say no explosives found
The investigation into a suspicious package on board a city bus continues.
The Jackson County Sheriff's Office said a bus driver noticed the bag at about 11 a.m. and called police.
Police and the Independence Bomb Squad were called to Truman Road and 13th Terrace to investigate. Later, the Missouri National Guard arrived with equipment from Jefferson City.
"A lot of times we'll show up and it happens to be innocent material. In this particular case, it doesn't appear to be personal effects, so we thought we should call bomb technicians," said Rhonda Montgomery of the Jackson County Sheriff's Office.
The sheriff's office determined the device was not explosive, but said it was considered a threat.
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Carnival Cruise Lines believes that a good work environment and prevention of injuries is good business. We believe injuries and ill health can be prevented. Our goal is zero accidents.
No job or activity is worth risking injury. No job or activity will be performed without an appropriate risk assessment and taking preventative measures to avoid injury, including identifying proper and adequate protective measures.
Management will strive to continually improve safety performance thereby providing a safe working environment.
Integrate Occupational Health and safety into its decisions and provide for safe practices in ships' operation by establishing safeguards against all identified risks.
Make necessary tools and resources available for everyone to do their job in a safe way.
Continuously improve safety management skills of personnel ashore and aboard ship, including preparation for emergencies.
Comply with mandatory rules, regulations, applicable codes, and take into account guidelines and standards recommended by the organizations, administrations, classification societies, and maritime industry organizations.
Setting and reviewing Occupational Health and safety objectives.
Working safely is everyone's responsibility.
Each individual shares in the responsibility for the safety of themselves and others.
We will promote off-the-job safety for our employees. Carnival Cruise Lines cares about the safety and well-being of our employees, and will endorse safety and wellness programs. Master has overriding authority and responsibility. Carnival Cruise Lines recognizes that in emergency situations, it may be necessary for the
Masters onboard to make decisions and take action which deviates from the company rules and procedures to ensure the safety of the vessel.


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It crossed my mind
And lingered there
Like footprints in concrete
It invaded my heart
Made it home
Like a bird nesting
It lifted my soul
On waxen wings
I flew too close
Now I ask myself
My eyes closed
Was it worth it?
Lasting Impressions. by RidderkvindenWatch
©2013-2016 Ridderkvinden
Silly little poem Any and all feedback will be appreciated as always
It's about love isn't it. I always thought love was a good analogy to Icarus.
I am very happy you like it. And yes, it is about love, and ideas that settles in your heart and mind, not wanting to let you go until you have achieved the goal. It could very well be a poem of greed as well. Wanting to achieve power or something you cannot reach. It depends on what you read into it
I love the reference to Icarus... Great poem!!!
i don't think it's silly at all. I absolutely loved it
A fun, unsettling saga of inner life. Excellent!
Stylistically I don't know how I feel about the capital letters in the beginning of each line, but I really love the content. Really beautiful (as I have come to expect from you).
*Chuckles* Thank you very much for the sweet comment *Curtsies* I am happy you like the contents if not the style
I like the footprints in concrete, a sort of remaining in absence.
Footprints in concrete. Beautiful description!
its agreat poem
I like it because it's concise and simple, and it seems to be holding some powerful emotion
I love little, simple poems!
I love little, simple poems!
I really like this
I love the ring to it, and the rise and fall of the words as you read through. Good Work <3
Very purdy
Beautiful poetry! You're very talented! ^-^


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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
by Roald Dahl
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Chapter 21 Summary
Good-bye Violet
- And so Willy Wonka explains what's so special about this little piece of gum. It's an entire meal in itself: when you chew it, you taste a full meal, you feel it going down your stomach, and it fills you up. No more grocery shopping ever.
- Violet, of course, wants to try this gum, and even though Mr. Wonka asks her not to – he says it's not perfected – she grabs it and starts chewing.
- And... she loves it. She describes the taste: tomato soup, followed by roast beef and a baked potato and finally, blueberry pie.
- Her parents are cheering her on, Mr. Wonka is yelling, and Charlie is just watching her in shock.
- Suddenly, Violet's parents notice that she's turning blue and purple. Yep, she's actually changing colors.
- And sure enough, she starts swelling up and turns into a giant blueberry. Just like with Augustus Gloop, Willy Wonka doesn't seem to be too concerned about Violet. And just like with Augustus, he calls over a few Oompa-Loompas to take her to the Juicing Room.
- As they roll her out, the Oompa-Loompas start to sing about the revolting habit of chewing gum. This one's pretty funny – check it out (21.54).


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What Happens When You Start Your Car?
The staff at Zec Automotive not only want to make sure your car runs well and is totally safe but also that you can understand a little how your car works.
All our auto mechanics are knowledgeable in working on all parts of a variety of car makes or may specialize either in a specific area or in a specific make of car. In repairing cars, their main role is to diagnose the problem accurately and quickly. Our mechanics use both electronic means of gathering data as well as their senses. Their job may involve the repair of a specific part or the replacement of one or more parts as assemblies.
With the rapid advancement in technology, the mechanic's job has evolved from purely mechanical, to include electronic technology. Because vehicles today possess complex computer and electronic systems, mechanics need to have a broader base of knowledge than in the past.
Lately, the term "auto mechanic" is being used less and less frequently and is being replaced by the euphemistic title "automotive service technician". Fading quickly is the day of the 'shade tree mechanic', who needed little knowledge of today's computerized systems.
Due to the increasingly labyrinthine nature of the technology that is now incorporated into automobiles, most automobile dealerships now provide sophisticated diagnostic computers to each technician, without which they may be unable to diagnose or repair electronic issues in modern vehicles.
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