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By Courtesy: Army Athletic CommunicationsDecember 2, 2008
WEST POINT, N.Y. - One of the most storied rivalries in all of sports resumes on Saturday when the Army-Navy contest will be played in Philadelphia for the 81st time in the 109 games between the two service academies.
It is the fifth time that Lincoln Financial Field will host the rivalry. CBS will broadcast the game to a national audience for the 13th consecutive season. Kickoff is scheduled for noon.
Army is looking to snap a three-game losing streak after a 30-3 defeat at Rutgers on Nov. 22. The Black Knights last victory came on Oct. 25 against Louisiana Tech.
The annual rivalry game will feature two of the most prolific rushing offenses in the nation. The Black Knights, in their first season running the option since 1999, boast the country's ninth-rated rushing offense at 254.09 yards per game. The Mids lead the nation, averaging 292.00 yards per contest. The two teams are 118th and 119th out of 119 Division I Football Bowl Subdivision teams in passing offense. The Mids average 63.50 yards per through the air while Army throws for only 45.73 yards per game.
The Army defense is hoping for a repeat peformance of last year's game when the Black Knights held Navy, the nation's number one running team at nearly 350 yards per game, to 287 yards on the ground and forced the Mids to punt a season-high six times. The 2008 Black Knights rank 32nd in the nation against the run, allowing 124.82 yards per game. No team has gained more than 184 yards rushing against Army this season, and the Black Knights have held three foes to under 100 yards. In its first service academy game this season, Army held Air Force, the nation's sixth-ranked rushing offense to 142 yards, its second-lowest output of the season.
Navy enters the 109th meeting between the arch rivals with a 7-4 record. The Mids have already accepted a bid to play in the inaugural EagleBank Bowl that will be played in Washington, D.C. on Dec. 20. It will be the program's sixth straight bowl game.
Head coach Ken Niumatalolo is in his first full season as the Navy mentor. The longtime Mids' assistant took the helm on Dec. 8, 2008. His first game as the new head coach came in the 2008 Poinsettia Bowl, a 35-32 loss to Utah.
The Mids secured their sixth straight season with at least seven wins when they defeated Northern Illinois, 16-0, on Tuesday, Nov. 25 in their final tune-up before the Army-Navy Classic. Sophomore QB Ricky Dobbs made his first career start, rushing for 124 yards and a touchdown. Senior FB Eric Kettani ran for 92 yards on 19 carries with one touchdown.
The Navy offense is predicated on running the triple option. The Mids have been one of the most prolific running teams since installing the system, and have continued their success in 2008. Navy averages 292 yards per game on the ground to lead the nation.
Senior RB Shun white leads the Mids with 873 yards on 105 carries despite being held to no yards on only one attempt against NIU. White is also tied for the team lead with seven touchdowns.
Kettani is next on the list with 811 yards and three touchdowns. Dobbs, despite playing in only seven games and starting once, is the third-leading rusher with 493 yards and paces the Mids with eight rushing scores.
Senior QB Jarod Bryant played in each of the first 10 games, making six starts. He ranks fourth on the team with 481 rushing yards and is third on the squad with six rushing touchdowns. Bryant is the team's leading passer, completing 19 of 37 throws for 275 yards, two touchdowns and three interceptions. Dobbs is 9 of 16 through the air for 212 yards, one interception and one touchdown.
Kaipo-Noa Kaheaku-Enhada, last year's starting quarterback, has played in only four games this season while battling injuries. He has run for 169 yards and thrown for 211 yards and two scores (13-18, 0 INT).
As a team, Navy is allowing 358.9 yards and 23.4 points per game. Junior LB Ross Pospisil leads the team with 81 tackles. Jabaree Tuani leads the Mids with 8.5 tackles for loss, while Matt Nechak owns a team-high 4.0 quarterback sacks. Rashawn King and Emmett Merchant each have three interceptions.
Matt Harmon is 15 for 17 on field goal tries and is tied for 27th in the nation with 1.36 field goals per game. Kyle Delahooke also ranked among the nation's leaders with a 42.00 yards-per-punt average (29th).
While Army enjoyed the upper hand against Navy during the majority of the decade of the 1990s, Navy has turned the tide in recent years. The Midshipmen have captured nine of the last 11 meetings, including the past six, to grab a 52-49-7 advantage in the classic rivalry. The Mids current six-game winning streak is the longest in the series by either academy.
Taking a broader view, the last 22 meetings of the storied rivalry that dates back to 1890 have been split down the middle.
Hard-fought Army victories were commonplace in the 1990s, with the Black Knights prevailing in seven of those 10 matchups. Those seven Army victories came by a total of just 24 points, with an amazing six-game stretch of Cadet wins decided by a total of only 14 points.
The point differential over the course of the 108-game series stands at a rather microscopic 261 points (an average of 2.4 points per game). That figure stood at 92 entering the 2002 contest, but Navy has outscored Army 240-71 the last six years. The Mids blasted Army 58-12 in 2002, setting a series-record scoring total in the process, then followed with 34-6, 42-13, 42-23, 26-14 and 38-3 victories the past five years.
Aca,!Ac Snap Army's three-game losing streak.
Aca,!Ac End the Black Knights' six-game losing skid to Navy.
Aca,!Ac Even Army's Commander-In-Chief's Trophy record at 1-1 in 2008 (lost at Air Force) and create a three-way tie for the trophy.
Aca,!Ac Be the Black Knights' 50th win against Navy (49-52-7).
Aca,!Ac End Army's six-game losing streak against its service academy rivals
Aca,!Ac Be Army's first win against Navy at Lincoln Financial Field (0-4)
Aca,!Ac Surpass the Black Knights' win total from last season and mark the third time since 1997 that Army has won as many as four games in one season.
Aca,!Ac Be the 638th win in the 119 seasons of Army football (637-448-51; .583)
Senior FB Collin Mooney ran for 112 yards on 20 carries at Rutgers to move into second place on the Black Knights' single-season rushing ledger with 1,285 yards. He needs only 54 yards in his last game to break the Army standard of 1,338 set by Mike Mayweather in 1990.
Mooney is the 10th Army player ever to rush for 1,000 yards in one season. Those 10 players have accomplished the feat a total of 13 times.
Mooney is ranked 11th in the nation with 116.8 rushing yards per game. He has five 100-yard performances this season which is tied for the fifth-best season total in Academy history. It is the most 100-yard games by an Army player since Michael Wallace had six in 2000. In two of those games, he has bested the 200-yard plateau.
The Black Knights have held its opponent to 13-or-fewer points in each of its three victories this season. The 13 points allowed at Tulane and versus Eastern Michigan marked the first time since the 1996 season that Army has held its foes to less than 14 points in two straight games. The '96 squad scored a 34-10 win versus Tulane on Oct. 19 before defeating Miami (Ohio), 27-7, on Oct. 26.
Army allowed a season-low seven points versus Louisiana Tech. It was the defense's best day since limiting Rhode Island to one touchdown in a 14-7 overtime win last season. It was the fewest points allowed to a Football Bowl Subdivision opponent since a 20-0 shutout of Akron on Oct. 22, 2005.
The 16-7 loss to Air Force stopped a seven-game Army winning streak when allowing 17 points or less. Since the start of the 1996 season, Army is 21-5 when the opponent tallies 17 or less. In that same span, the Black Knights are 16-95 when opposing teams tally 18-or-more points.


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"You're going to get fat. And then you're going to die."
"Oh gracious! I dont want to obesitize!"
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Last year, we carried out a test on 4 taggers: the Prospero "Parser"
(telephone Mike Oakes on 0181-741-8531 for details), one from John Carroll
at Brighton University, an old ACQUILEX tagger written by David Elworthy at
Cambridge University, and our internal sense tagger. No ambiguous or
unknown tags were permitted, punctuation tags were certainly not counted
(unlike some other scores given in the literature!), and we had strict
rules about coding participles as attributive adjectives if that was the
function they were performing in the sentence. This is rather unfair on the
taggers but reflected the results that we wanted for our corpora. The
accuracy rates on a 4000 word sample were low, ranging from 87% to 90% (for
approximately 50 tags), Prospero coming out top.
Jochen Leidner <firstname.lastname@example.com> considered this a
serious issue, and provided lots of helpful information. Being unaware of
systematic studies in the field, he himself set out on undertaking just
such an analysis. The technical report that contains the tagged data is
available from
and the data files from
Philip Bralich <email@example.com> agreed there were very few studies,
suggesting only the MUC conferences at
Eric Atwell <firstname.lastname@example.com> has *nearly* finished a paper comparing
accuracy rates etc, for submission to Computer Speech and Language (special
issue on evaluation). His gut feeling is that there's little difference in
accuracy, most work about 90-95% depending on tagset, language genre, and
application-dependent factors. He recommends not his tagger but (i) the
English Constraint Grammar tagger/semiparser at Helsinki, which in addition
to PoS categories marks subject, object, and some dependency relations; and
(ii) Alex Fang's AUTASYS tagger and ICE parser, which adds PoS tags and
full parse-trees according to ICE markup scheme. However, this isn't
really based on "official tests", just personal assessments...
Klas Prytz <email@example.com> has done some evaluation of the ENGlish
Constraint Grammar (ENGCG) and the recall seems quite high but precision is
much lower. No official paper yet.
Djoerd Hiemstra <email@example.com> reported that Martin Rajman
<email@example.com> of EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in
Lausanne, Switzerland) is working on a large scale comparison of taggers
and parser for POS-tagging, which he thinks is to be published next January.
Leidner also comments that the topic of evaluating the accuracy of taggers
and parsers is very difficult, because there is a lot of diversity wrt
tagset size (some tagsets are rather crude, others include
subcategorization information or even semantic subclasses), so n%
correctness using tagset A is perhaps still worse than (n-1)% correctness
using a more detailed tagset B. The AMALGAM project at ULeeds is concerned
with mapping different annotation models
The question of speed is usually not properly addressed in the literature
because in most cases no detailed information about the hardware is given
(specINT95, memory size, user mode, ...). Dimitrios Kokkinakis
<email@example.com> reported that Cooke's semanTag on Swedish is 9 times
faster than the Brill tagger.
SOME WEB POINTERS (Jochen Leidner)
At http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/~avoutila/cg/index.html you can test
EngCG-2, IMHO a high-quality, rule-based parser (by Lingsoft).
The BRILL-TAGGER is available via FTP at blaze.cs.jhu.edu/pub/brill/Programs
The XEROX-TAGGER is available via anonymous FTP at
For morphological analysis, you can download either PC-KIMMO 2
from ftp://ftp.sil.org/software/unix/ or Malaga from
http://www.linguistik.uni-erlangen.de/Malaga.en.html (both without
ling. descriptions).
For info on the "AD ENGLISH LEMMATIZER" contact Bruno Maximilian
Schulze (IMS Stuttgart) <email@example.com>
The ENGTWOL Tagger and lemmatizer can be also bought from Lingsoft,
EVALUATION OF MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYZERS, TAGGERS AND PARSERS (Jochen Leidner)
Tapanainen, Pasi and Atro Voutilainen, "Tagging accurately - Don't
guess if you know" In the proceedings of the Fourth Conference on
Applied Natural Language Processing (ANLP'94). pp.47-52.
Stuttgart, Germany, 1994.
Samuelsson, Christer and Atro Voutilainen, "Comparing a Linguistic and
a Stochastic Tagger." In Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of
the Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 246-253, ACL,
1997. [Also available online as cmp-lg/9706005.]
E. Black, S. Abney, D. Flickenger, C. Gdaniec, R. Grishman,
P. Harrison, D. Hindle, R. Ingria, F. Jelinek, J. Klavans,
M. Liberman, M. Marcus, S. Roukos, B. Santorini, and T.
Strzalkowski. A procedure for quantitatively comparing the syntactic
coverage of English grammars. In Defense Advanced Research Projects
Agency: Proceedings of the Fourth DARPA Speech
and Natural Language Workshop, Pacific Grove, California, February 1991.
Morgan Kaufmann.
P. Harrison, S. Abney, E. Black, D. Flickenger, C. Gdaniec,
R. Grishman, D. Hindle, R. Ingria, M. Marcus, B. Santorini, and
T. Strzalkowski. Evaluating syntax performance of parser/grammars of
English. In Proceedings of the Workshop On Evaluating Natural
Language Processing Systems. Association For Computational
Linguistics, 1991.
Hausser, Roland (ed.): The coordinator's final report on the first
Morpholympics. LDV-Forum, 11(1):54--64, 1994. available via
Cole, Ronald A. (ed.): Survey of the State of the Art in Human
Language Technology, Chapter 13, e.g. at
Karlsson, F. et al (eds) (1995): Constraint Grammar, esp p269-83, pp359
Andrew Harley
Systems Manager - ELT Reference
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Asmus Tietchens (born 3 February 1947, Hamburg), who also records under the monikers Hematic Sunsets and Club of Rome, is a German composer of avant-garde music.
Tietchens became interested in experimental music and musique concrète as a child, and began recording sound experiments in 1965 with electronic musical instruments, synthesizers and tape loops. In the 1970s he met producer Okko Bekker, and the two formed a decades-long partnership. Peter Baumann (of Tangerine Dream) heard a recording of Tietchens' music and offered to produce an album; the result was Nachtstücke, Tietchens' 1980 offering on Sky Records. His early recordings feature more accessible synthesized music, but beginning with Formen Letzer Hausmusik, his 1984 release for Nurse With Wound's label United Dairies, he began moving toward more abstract sound collages. He has taught acoustics in Hamburg since 1990.
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A Series of Unfortunate Events Leads to $1.26 Billion Judgment
We know that more than a few legal secretaries read the Law Blog. Let this post serve as a cautionary tale to all those hard-working men and women who type up time sheets, remind lawyers of appointments, prepare pleadings, and help keep track of important dates and deadlines.
The strange and sympathy-inducing story goes like this:
In April, according to this story in the National Law Journal, two men, Charles Joyce and James Voigt, sued PepsiCo and two of its distributors in Wisconsin state court, claiming PepsiCo had stolen trade secrets from confidential discussions the plaintiffs had in 1981 about selling bottled water. PepsiCo later used the information to develop and market Aquafina.
Notice of the lawsuit was delivered to an agent for PepsiCo in North Carolina, where the company is incorporated. But — yipes! — PepsiCo says its law department at the company's Purchase, N.Y.-based headquarters was not notified until September.
So, in other words, the lawsuit sat in North Carolina for months and months. Finally, in the face of PepsiCo's silence, a default judgment was entered, and a damages award tallying $1.26 billion (yes, $1.26 billion) was entered on Sept. 30. PepsiCo filed motions to vacate the order and dismiss the claims on Oct. 13, saying it wasn't even aware of the lawsuit until Oct. 6.
"The bottom line is there was a defect in the process for us, but also for" the plaintiffs, said PepsiCo spokesman Joe Jacuzzi, who called the case "highly dubious."
In court papers, PepsiCo claims it first received paperwork from North Carolina agent on Sept. 15 when a copy of a co-defendant's letter was forwarded to Deputy General Counsel Tom Tamoney in PepsiCo's law department. Tamoney's secretary put the letter aside and didn't tell anyone about it because she was "so busy preparing for a board meeting," PepsiCo said in its Oct. 13 motion to vacate.
Another breakdown, according to the AmLaw story: Lawyers for PepsiCo distributors Wis-Pak Inc. and Carolina Canners Inc. made court appearances in June and July. PepsiCo was at a loss to explain why it hadn't heard about the case from them. "It's just another unfortunate thing that didn't come together," Jacuzzi said.
In seeking to dismiss the case, PepsiCo argues that the statute of limitations should preclude the lawsuit. Furthermore, "the $1.26 billion judgment that has been entered is unprecedented in size and justice requires that PepsiCo have a chance to defend itself," the company said.
The lead plaintiffs lawyer, David Van Dyke of Chicago-based Cassiday Schade, told the National Law Journal that Wisconsin courts have been "pretty clear that they don't like" vacating default judgments. "There is a possibly that a judge may say we're going to litigate the damages aspect of it," Van Dyke said.


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I was reading Congressman Emerson's article in the April 13 Democrat about the farmer's 95-gallon fuel tank on the farm tractor. How about the 250 to 300-gallon tank on an 18-wheeler? It cost the truckers about $450 to $480 to fill their tanks. It costs the truckers about $1500 to go around 3000 miles. Also they have upkeep on the trucks, same as farmers do on their equipment. Just think if it wasn't for truckers, farmers wouldn't have a job either. Also the farmers are home every night with their families where the truckers aren't. If their trucks break down all their profits go down the drain. I'm not a farmer or a truck driver, I'm just telling it like it is.
In response to the "Back to Jail," the person who claims to work at a prison. Here are some facts that I am sure you are aware of. Perhaps you would like to explain to the taxpayers of Missouri why inmates cannot get decent medical care from the Missouri Department of Corrections. I am sure you are familiar with correctional medical services also known as CMS which is a for-
profit company located in St. Louis. Missouri tax money is paid to this company each year for contract medical services through the Missouri Department of Corrections. This year the Missouri House of Representatives budget committee has allocated $91,226,092 in House Bill Section 9.220 to CMS. That would be great if CMS would give the medical care to inmates that they are paid to do. However, CMS' bottomline is cost-reduction. In other words, the inmates are not getting the healthcare that Missourians are paying for. This is an in-excusable problem in all Missouri prisons. The Missouri Department of Corrections goes to great lengths to keep this information from the public. CMS works hard to operate with gross indifference concerning healthcare for inmates. I hope and pray, you a prison employee, never ends up on the other side of the cell brothers. You spoke as if inmates have a nice, peachy time during their incarceration. Unless you have ever been an inmate, you have no business making such comments. You complain about the few things the inmates are allowed such as recreation time or canteen privileges. Yes, I send my inmate-son money for canteen so he can buy stamps to mail letters to me. Have you forgotten that since 2002, families cannot send stamps to prisoners? The money I send my son is none of your business it comes out of my pocket, not yours. Instead of griping about the few blessings prisoners have, why don't you try to do something about the lousy or non-existent healthcare they receive. Try this Website for some enlightment on the subject: www.showmenews.com/2002/Set/
20020929Feat007.asp. See you don't have all the facts either, Mr. Prison Employee. Prisoners can not sue at the drop of the hat. There are prison rules that inmates have to follow. Normally the only lawsuits filed are from by inmates' families for wrongful death due to lack of medical treatment.
City Manager Doug Friend offered the following response to a Speakout published April 19 on the fence at the airport: The fence at Rotary Park was not funded by Homeland Security grant. The fence was a cooperative effort of the City of Sikeston, Rotary Club and the maintenance personnel of the Sikeston Country Club. The city paid $5,500, the Rotary Club donated $2,000 and the Country Club staff cleared out the old barbwire fence and other vegetation for installation. The Homeland Security grant of $83,540 will be used for securing the perimeter of the airport with 6,582 feet of 6-foot chain-link fence and the City Council is considering the installation of security cameras at the airport with the remaining grant funds.
Trying to raise a nation up into prosperity by heavier and heavier taxes and regulations is like a man standing in a bucket trying to raise himself by pulling up on the handle. Adding a few more pounds of rocks and pebbles into his bucket will do nothing to help his upward mobility. Nor will your jumping in the bucket with him, and duplicating the process.
Sikeston has a lot of idiots and here goes another with a comment about a nice white fence around a park. Just what do you want you idiot razor wire. Dahh.


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4: approximate weeks until my cruise
12.8: times each day The Daver references my cruise by saying "well, I don't know what I am going to DO without you for those 5 days!"
90: times a year that Dave mentions that he'd be "just fine" if left as a stay-at-home parent.
90: times I roll my eyes when he says that because brother, he's talking out of his asshole.
0: times a day I plan to call and check in with him from the cruise to hear, "pant, pant, pant *crash* THESE KIDS ARE INSANE! PLEASE COME HOME, I WILL CALL THE COAST GUARD NOW."
0: idea of where this cruise is going because frankly, big boat in the middle of the ocean where I can pee alone (but probably not IN the ocean)? Doesn't matter where the hell we're going.
7: bushes I pulled out yesterday (from a view that I didn't even show you), thereby rendering me unable to move today without swearing wildly.
68: times my son has said, "OUCH, SHIT" when he moved, just repeating what I've said.
68: times I've wondered if I should probably cut out my tongue.
12,000,000: times I said, "I. Fucking. Hate. Bushes." in my best Clint Eastwood voice, which, let's be honest, isn't very good.
87: times I cursed the previous, PREVIOUS owners of my house for loving both bushes and wallpaper. Fucking wallpaper.
3: times a day I have to put eye ointment into my poo-eating dog's eyes.
16: pounds my poo-eating dog weighs
2-3: people it takes to restrain my poo-eating dog in order to put the ointment in his eyes
.2 million: times I've wondered if my poo-eating dog was actually a mutant Incredible Hulk dog.
0: times I have eaten beef sticks, even though they are technically encased meats (which I adore).
90,093: times Daver has eaten beef sticks.
84: times I have gagged, thinking about Daver eating beef sticks.
2: times I have enjoyed American Idol this season
infinity: amount of love I have for Glee, even though the show contains NONE of my boyfriends.
4: current television husbands.
infinity: dorkiness quotient I will achieve after going to the Glee concert (oh yes, yes I am).
0: likelihood of Daver eating beef sticks at a Glee concert.
0: likelihood of me caring about American Idol, even though one of my husbands was on that show.
0: likelihood that I will ever learn how to properly use a comma or apostrophe.
12.8 million: likelihood that you will go read this, my post about the Grand Gesture guy.
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80 billion: The number of times I have enjoyed your writing.
Fucking wallpaper.
The previous owners of my house were clearly insane.
One bathroom STILL has red magnolia wallpaper hanging in tatters-they must have used superglue to put that shit up because it will not come off and we have tried everything.
Also, when the wallpaper they hung without superglue started to come loose, they just painted over it.
So now we have loose, painted wallpaper walls-because paint is not going to attach wallpaper to a wall.
I'd like to track them down and punch them in the face.
1: the last marriage propsal you'll get from me.
Seriously, you slay me.
0: times I've enjoyed American Idol
Infinity: times infinity that I love your post.
I can't believe you've never eaten a beef stick! Just one taste and you'll wish you had those years back. I recommend Jack Link's "Sasquatch Big Stick." The "Happy" flavor yields results that make the flavor name quite fitting.
35.7: number of times I laughed from this post
3.5: number of people who stared at me when I had tears rolling down my face from GrandGestureGuy blog…(the .5 is for the hefty man to my left)
I love you so much, Aunt Becky. You always put a smile on my face. Like 25.6 times a day.
Crap! do you need someone to use a spare ticket for the Glee Concert?!??!?!! I would SO be that person. You know, to sacrifice my gas and time to drive out there to hang with you and help you utilize your tickets to the fullest extent. 😀
using wallpaper should be punishable by law with monetary restitution and compensation for pain, suffering and loss of consortium.
76,532 times you have cracked my ass up.
Aren't you a fello Fibro patient?? If so, can I be the first to say, "what the HELL were you thinking?!?!?"
If not, as you were.
Aren't you a fello Fibro patient?? If so, can I be the first to say, "what the HELL were you thinking?!?!?"
If not, as you were.
You so kickass.
Beef stick suck. Beef jerky rocks my party!
4. Number of bushes I need to pull out of our yard.
0 chances of me doing it THIS weekend.
Tons How much I love your writing. 🙂
$35 million: minimum amount of money we could make by giving you a job at my work and putting the whole thing on TV. It's already pretty damn amusing, but you'd have that star quality and over the top-ness to make it a blockbuster…
It'd have to be on HBO though. I'm amazed that I got through the above paragraph without fucking swearing!
Our very nice (I'm just sure) previous, previous previous owners not only wallpapered every inch of the house – but did so DIRECTLY onto the drywall.
847,382: times I've wanted to bitch slap the ppp owners for doing that.
Peeing by yourself? What is that? I don't know who's worse for barging in – my husband or my daughter. The women at work know that they're not supposed to talk to me when I'm in the bathroom. I like to maintain the illusion that I'm alone. Also, it makes them all crazy. 🙂
8,532,809,0243,805: number of times I've given you the proper use of a comma or apostrophe
0: number of times I wished you'd bother someone else.
Oh the numbers. The NUMBERS! Ever wonder why the word "numb" is in there? I'm an accountant and numbers make me numb. ANYway – the whole "not caring where the cruise is going" or "not calling home?" AMEN, Sister! This is true Aunt Becky Time. Take it! And pee in private. A billion times 😛
I must have missed the memo on glee. I seem to do this on all very popular shows…. 0: times I have been able to sit through an episode.
I don't do the Glee either. I think it might be the NAME Glee that turns me off.
I would so be at the Glee concert in a fast second if they were coming to Dallas. Sigh. I'll settle for one of my current TV husbands though: Conan O'Brien.
I don't want to marry any of the guys on Glee (ok, except maybe Puck and Mr. Shue), but Kurt is totally my gay BFF. I think he would help me be FANCY again (you know, like not having to wear elastic waist maternity pants even though I've lost 15 pounds this pregnancy – yeah, this is FUN)
My brain hurts too much today to think about numbers so I'll leave you with this…
You better have fun on your cruise because SERIOUSLY? I going to be living vicariously through you and I know you don't want to let me down.
4: number of times during the reading of this post that I turned around to coo to my cat, "I'm so glad you don't eat poo."
Statistics don't lie. Just sayin'.
11 gajillion: The amount of times I can read your posts and still be entertained.
0: My favorite number because this one I know how to multiply.
I got lucky, the house we bought had been on the market for over 18 months with only one offer that fell through and at about 16 months they had a 'stager' come in and tell them to strip the 1978 wall paper and paint the walls white. Two months later we saw the house and made an offer.
I've seen photos of the wallpaper. If I knew who that stager was I'd give him a nice big blow job in appreciation.
At elast they didn't leave you carpet int he bathrooms. I still have nightmares…
While my dog doesn't eat poo, he did once get an infection in his pee-hole that required me to twice daily fill a syringe(no needle) with medication, insert it into his pee-hole, depress the plunger and squeeze his pee-hole shut for one minute while massaging the fluid around in his penile sheath. After one minute I let go and the fluid would dribble back out. I love this dog, but after the first few days he was giving me these looks and laying down on his back whenever he saw me….it was not a lovely 10 days…for me.
I had a totally witty comment, carefully crafted in my head but I completely forgot what I was going to say… BUT I WON'T LET THAT STOP ME! 😀
Oh, man, I feel your pain about wallpaper. My uncle's house was covered in layer after layer of wallpaper, and getting it off was like a mission from hell. It's still to this day (15 years later) not done. Wallpaper should be banned. Period. It's evil.
Congratulations on the bush removal. You need to soak your body in epsom salts now. I know that it is not going to happen, since you can't even pee by yourself (I'm currently in that boat too), but try it if you can. I'm so jealous about your cruise, and Glee tickets too, that I think I'm going to work on doing something like that with my local mom peeps, though if we all leave at once, I don't know what the husbands will DO without us around. Scary thought. But the peeing alone is so enticing, I might do it anyway.
So, as the owner of a poo-eating dog, would you recommend getting a dog? You don't have to answer that question, I think the decision has been made .. but actually, an answer would be instructive, I haven't thought of how I would handle poo-eating.
And a cruise, you're going on a cruise?! I'm so jealous, and I've been away for too long. It's good to be back and see you in such fine, bush-pulling form.
I did make it to the other website, and I did read what you wrote on grand gestures, and it was worth it.
Meanwhile, over here: I've just made up mind. It'll take some doings, but I have decided that I need to divorce my husband, so I can marry you.
I would be very happy.
Beef. Sticks. It's just wrong.
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Beef stick? I don't even know what that is but it sounds like something I wouldn't want to put in my mouth. Unless it was a different kind of beef stick.
I never understood why people like wallpaper. It's annoying and ugly.
"beef stick" *shiver*
Congrats on the bushes. 7 is better than 0. Congrats on your cruise as well. I am itching for a just me get away but do not have one in sight. I admire your strength to not call home and check in. I don't trust my husband or our offspring enough. Have fun girl!
12: Number of margaritas you must drink for me while on your cruise. My grown-up vacation got CANCELED *shakes fist*, and I figure that's the minimum # of drinks I would have had while away from the spawn. Somebody has to do it. I'll even let you pick the flavor. Just think of how it will help you pee more ALONE.
I am SO with you on the freaking wallpaper.
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Ok, am home so was able to read about grand gesture guy. That was a stalker! Creepy.
I have some gawd awful 70s style truly FUGLY wallpaper in both of our bathrooms. I so need to get rid of that.
tis actually more like THREE EFFING WEEKS til our cruise.
but i'm not counting.
i'm also lying.
I also love Glee, which is unfortunate, as it is on as the same time as a bunch of the crap (I said that lovingly, right??) C watches!!
I also love Glee, which is unfortunate, as it is on as the same time as a bunch of the crap (I said that lovingly, right??) C watches!!
You know, I did yard work yesterday and haven't been able to move since. And it got my allergies going…
But it sure beats the hell out of shoveling snow!
Oh, snap… I'm totally jealous that you're going to the Glee concert!
Biatch, MY boyfriend is gunna be on Glee.
Neil Patrick Harris. He will totally turn straight for me. I KNOW IT.
Absolutely do not phone home. You are so right. Maybe send a drunken email one night.
I heart glee! There is a concert?
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Seriously? You've never had a beef stick?? Take it from me, you're missing out on a great thing… almost holy… if you fore go The Slim Jim. Just don't read the ingredients.
Dude, you may have ruined beef sticks for me forever 😉 And OMG I hear ya about the wall paper. The people who previously owned and decorated my parents' house LOVED BROWN AND BLACK AND SILVER wallpaper. In every freaking room. Also: on the ceilings. Weird 60's shit. My mother thinks it's delightful. Number of times I've begged her to let me redecorate? 899 billion. Number of times I think about how seriously awesome you are? Everytime I read your blog or you happen to pop into my mind. Have a good day! ~Susan
Not to be all crazy-stalker lady, but what cruise are you going on? I am going on one May 15th from Galveston, TX 🙂
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Typically in Call of Duty, the green guy is the dick who fools around and makes all of the teammates worse off. They often troll the team purposely, causing them grief and anger.
The green guy got me killed again.
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Green guys are your teammates in a Call of Duty game who are not part of your party: they show up as green triangles on the minimap, as opposed to party members who show up as blue triangles. In other words, green guys are pubbies who are probably useless if not actually a liability to you.
Fucking green guys keep following me around and getting me killed!
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In reference to Call of Duty. These are players who are not in your party, and most likely random fools. They are the best players....... FOR THE OTHER TEAM. Usually the reason you are getting shot in the back, noob tubed, or killed by a killstreak, thank your local green guy.
Fucking green guys, get the fuck away from me; Find a corner and STOP FUCKING DYING!!!!!
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I don't want them to think I'm a green guy.
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Skip to comments.New analysis counters claims that solar activity is linked to global warming
Posted on 07/11/2007 3:40:02 AM PDT by liberallarry
It has been one of the central claims of those who challenge the idea that human activities are to blame for global warming. The planet's climate has long fluctuated, say the climate sceptics, and current warming is just part of that natural cycle - the result of variation in the sun's output and not carbon dioxide emissions.
But a new analysis of data on the sun's output in the last 25 years of the 20th century has firmly put the notion to rest. The data shows that even though the sun's activity has been decreasing since 1985, global temperatures have continued to rise at an accelerating rate.
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
How would you explain global warming on Mars and Pluto?
Corelation does not prove causation, and the inverse is also true.
Sorry, one study with such limited parameters isn't all that convincing, despite the control freaks' desperate attempts to establish a new reality in their favor.
"Activity" of what kind? Gross solar radiation? Flares that manage to roil the earth's magnetosphere?
The certainty of this statement immediately makes me doubt the veracity of this report.
This isn't completely a joke. There is Martian warming going on right now, as I understand it.
Why? No link to any study. Just news fabricators talking to a couple of their solid sources for GW.
My thoughts as I read were from a Horse instead, but the sentiment is the same.
The article doesn't say which set of data he's using. If he's using the ground weather monitoring stations there's a problem. The data obtained from those has been called into question. The temp data from satellites is more accurate.
I wouldn't attempt it. Ask those who study climate.
Read the article more carefully. Solar activity was dismissed long ago as a cause of modern global warming by most of the scientific community. This study was designed to address a very specific objection...and it did.
Does either discuss the physical findings of evidence of periods of cooling and warming in the past in the absence of human activity.
Actually, it's Mars and Neptune. But, yes, how do they explain the warming on those planets without solar activity being a factor? Idiots...
Well, we could rule out human activity, can't we? It would be somewhat difficult to blame Bush for global warming on Mars or Pluto, correct??
Don't you just love it when arrogant people proclaim, "The debate is over!"
Whenever I hear this, it means, they can no longer defend their positions, so they are hoping everyone now accepts whatever is said henceforth.
Sure, the part of the scientific community who has a vested interest in freaking people out for funding leverage.
Nope, not convincing. There's too much job security to be gained by these people.
These scientists are not idiots (like the general public). They are aware of the weaknesses and strengths of the underlying data. That's why they're called professionals.
I doubt the Guardian's data. Variation in insolation (incident solar radiation) is the only factor that can explain the mediaeval warm period and the little ice age. The Guardian is printing nonsense.
Our sun is a variable star. Turn off the sun or block a portion of it's output and tell me global warming has nothing to do with the sun.
Actually, it's the opposition which is far more often motivated by ideology and monetary worries...and the Bush administration is dominated by such views.
Why is anyone even giving "The Guardian" the time of day?
GW is a multi-billion dollar gravy train for scietists that believe.
Your statement does nothing to answer the question as to where the data he used originated. I'm sure you'll be distressed to discover that a great deal of the data proving global warming exists is obtained from the ground based stations. Guess the professionals didn't get the word. As for your contention that the general public are idiots, I won't dispute that since the majority accept the global warming claims of Al Gore et al at face value.
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You mean monetary worries, like the destruction of Western Civilizations' economy, PERHAPS in hopes of MAYBE effecting .7 degrees difference?
Yeah, I'd say that's a fair trade off.
Poverty is the greatest polluter. This is historically documented and demonstrated daily.
With respect - and I'm on your side with this - doesn't most atmospheric CO2 come from oceanic outgassing? The oceans contains colossal amounts of CO2 some of which is released in an average ~ 800 yr lag after a period of high insolation. The famous Vostok Ice core data shows this lag:
Because NASA has extensive research proving that the SUN is raising temperatures across our entire Solar System. We have experienced INCREASED Solar bombardment on the ISS (trying to figure out how to keep our guys from frying on a trip to Mars).
It is in the 2017 to 2020 window that the Suns output is predicted to plummet and sink us into another ice age... Also New data out yesterday PROVES that the ICE SHELF in Greenland NEVER MELTED during the last WARMING PERIOD 100,000 years ago... WHEN IT WAS 9 degrees (F) higher average than today. It is ALL BS!
"has finally put the notion to rest."
if you accept any ozzer point of view ve vill be forced to re-educate you.
There is NO global thermometer. No one is making anything but a wild guess as to any number that is a claimed to be a "global" temperature.
True...damn poor reporting by the Guardian.
Here's a better reference to it. Still not perfect (I didn't want to take the time to track it down completely) but at least you know where to look.
If it's gore-BULL warming... it's all BULLS***.
It said firmly..... how much more do you want /sarc
Studies reported in the Guardian. Whatever would lefties do without them.
"has finally put the notion to rest."
insufferable, totalitarian punks.
Quite so. The distribution of the temperature has to count for something as well. Otherwise we end up with absurdities like the claim that a guy standing in boiling water with his head encased in ice is, on the average, at a comfortable temperature.
BS from a hack.
Academia is full of marxist/socialist idealoges. If you want to find propaganda that would be a good place to start.
I'm old enough to remember the "Global cooling" and "Population Explosion" which the scientist where so sure would end the world before the year 2000.
The sun has no effect on the earth warming is absurd. The earth has been warming and cooling for millions of years before "carbon footprints" and "carbon credits" were ever conceived by left wing idealoges.
I with ya' ...hence my tagline...
Global Warming is the new Eugenics...and Al Gore is the new Margaret Sanger
Lockwood & Fröhlich don't consider the effect of the vast ocean heat sink on temperature variations.
Florida hotel owners know that if it was sunny two weeks ago but cold today, their open-air pools will be warm. And vice versa. That's a small-scale version of the ocean heatsink at work.
The ocean heatsink effect is a real effect that buffers insolation change - it can't be left out of any exploration of insolation forcing.
More pertinently perhaps: there is no way to explain the sinusoidal variance of global climate over (say) the last 2000 years without reference to insolation change. Insolation (including the modulation of the Milankovith cycle) is the only theory that fits all the facts
That seems to be a wise approach with all of this GW crap. It's a political game, and they try to impress you with their certitude.
The shakier the foundation, the more solidly they build the roof to make up for it.
I never thought of that! Good analogy.
Unfortunately, the whole article is not available on line without an expensive subscription only the abstract is shown.
Some comments:
1. The authors of the article do not explain why the solar hypothesis worked in the past, but does not work now.
2. They do not explain why the solar hypothesis stopped working in the 1980s, long after the Industrial Revolution was under weigh.
3. The graph given on the BBC coverage does not give units for temperature. Presumably, the temperatures are in °C. A good high-school science teacher would tell them "Always use units with your data, or else it is all just numbers."
4. Critics of the greenhouse model of anthropogenic global warming point our that the GW hypothesis predicts increasing temperatures of the upper troposphere. However, the graph shown on the BBC report is for surface temperatures, which are subject to many other variables.
5. The Royal Society site trumpets the new article with a headline, "The Truth about Global Warming." That is rather unusual for the presentation of a scientific article. It is more bombastically propagandistic that scientific. It really makes one wonder what is going on here.
Milankovith = Milankovitch
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Researchers Kyle Burger and Eric Stice of the Oregon Research Institute in Eugene studied how the brain responds to eating ice cream over time, and made a fascinating discovery: The more ice cream you eat, the more you need to eat in order for your brain to sends signals that it's enjoying the treat!
Burger and Kyle surveyed 151 teenagers with healthy body weights about their food cravings. Then, they showed the teens pictures of a chocolate milkshake while scanning their brains to see how strong their cravings were. Then, they gave the teens real milkshakes while scanning their brains again. The results? The teens who reported eating the most ice cream in the few weeks prior to the study enjoyed the shakes the least, according to scans that tracked activity in the brain associated with reward.
"Our results provide novel evidence that frequent consumption of ice cream, independent of body fat, is related to a reduction in reward-region responsivity in humans, paralleling the tolerance observed in drug addiction," the researchers say in the study. In other words: The more you have it, the more of it you need in order to experience pleasure from it.
SELF contributing editor, Janis Jibrin, a registered dietician, believes the answer is yes. "This study is consistent with other research that shows there is definitely something about the brains of people who report being addicted to foods," she says.
"It seems to be twofold — if you eat these sugary, high-fat foods regularly, you build up a kind of tolerance and you need more and more to get the same hit," Jibrin says. "Some people might also have a genetic predisposition to food addition, and then we live in an environment where it's so easy to access these types of food.
"We are inundated with foods that don't come from nature," she adds. "If you look at the kind of foods people are addicted to, they're very high in fat, salts and sugar; no one's addicted to broccoli or apples." Jibrin surmises that there's an evolutionary reason for the biology behind this — back in the caveman days, it was adaptive to enjoy eating something high in fat and have it trigger the pleasure center of your brain. Cavemen, alas, could not head out in the middle of the night to satisfy their Haagen-Dazs and french fry cravings. Fat was hard to come by, unlike the convenient world of today.
So, if you think you might have a food addiction, what should you do? Here's Jibrin's advice:
– First of all, take heart. Jibrin says you can retrain your taste. If you stop eating those foods that cause the strongest cravings, she says, "You WILL eventually stop craving them." She says it takes about a month, for example, to get adjusted to a much lower-sodium diet.
– Try distracting yourself when you are hit with a craving. "Teach your brain that it doesn't always get rewarded when it craves something," she says. Your brain will learn!
– When you do resist a craving, reward yourself with praise. "Resisting a craving that has been your downfall is such a powerful feeling, so focus on that feeling of accomplishment," says Jibrin. Tell yourself, "Look how in control I am!" Your brain appreciates that.
– Plan ahead. Jibrin says it's much easier to resist cravings throughout the day if you plan for when you're going to eat, and what you're going to let yourself have during the day. "That doesn't mean you can't enjoy food," she says. "Eat food that's enjoyable, but not filled with crazy amounts of fats, salts or sugars, especially in combination." For example, you might plan to indulge in a Skinny Caramel Latte, because you know you won't go crazy with it, but avoid the glazed donuts because you know you'll have a hard time stopping after just one.
Finally, if you feel that you have a serious issue with food, or are headed down that road, Jibrin advises reaching out for professional help. She says organizations like Food Addicts Anonymous and Overeaters Anonymous can be tremendously helpful. "There are a lot of tricks you can learn from those places, and you're with people in the same boat, so you don't have to feel ashamed or embarrassed; instead, you can focus on the next steps, instead of how 'bad' you are," says Jibrin.
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Published: Wednesday, September 18, 2013 at 7:00 p.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, September 18, 2013 at 7:59 p.m.
Dear Editor: As a 12-year resident of County Commission District 3 in Tuscaloosa County, I'm increasingly more disappointed in the leadership representing this district. The Tuscaloosa County Commission has promised for the past 12 years to pave the remaining unpaved section of Hargrove Road East, but so far the residents have seen very little consistent progress.
A few years ago, pink flags were inserted along a proposed path of road work to be accomplished at some later date. Most recently, new culverts have been installed along the road when the pink flags are barely visible any longer or not at all. Why flag the road for work that can't be completed because it has been said that landowners haven't all agreed to have their property taken? I'm guessing this is another stalling tactic by the Tuscaloosa County Commission.
For the experience, maybe the current leadership should drive the unpaved section of Hargrove Road East once daily for a week during this recent dry spell and deal with the dirt and dust we deal with every day. The taxpaying residents of Tuscaloosa County District 3 deserve better.
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This is a sampling from Bay Area News Group's Political Blotter blog. Read more and post comments at www.ibabuzz.com/politics.
May 16
Rep. Jackie Speier may be the first Bay Area House member to speak out for digging deeper into the IRS scandal that has dogged the White House for the past week.
Speier, D-San Mateo, issued a statement today saying she agrees with President Obama that the IRS' targeting of conservative organizations for special scrutiny of requests for tax-exempt status was "inexcusable," with a level of wrongdoing that's "particularly disturbing."
The acting IRS commissioner's resignation was "necessary, but insufficient," she said. "It is clear that officials at many levels of the IRS were aware of these activities, and they must be held fully accountable."
She wants to see all of the Treasury Department inspector general's recommendations implemented immediately, but she also wants a bipartisan, independent commission "to examine what went wrong, who was involved, and why it was allowed to continue for so long."
"That commission should also examine the dramatic increase in the number of organizations applying for tax exempt status as social welfare organizations following the Supreme Court's decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, and whether additional clarifications are needed on the use of tax exempt status by organizations engaging in political activities," Speier said. "It is completely appropriate to examine whether organizations claiming exemption as exclusively social welfare 'charitable' and 'educational' are actually charitable and educational."
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The Bay Area was heavily represented as California Attorney General Kamala Harris convened a group of county district attorneys Friday in Los Angeles to seek ways to reduce gun violence through enforcement of existing laws and prevention efforts.
Among the 11 DAs present were Nancy O'Malley of Alameda County, Jeff Rosen of Santa Clara County, Stephen Wagstaffe of San Mateo County, Edward Berberian of Marin County and Gary Lieberstein of Napa County; also present were the top prosecutors from Los Angeles, Merced, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino and Santa Barbara counties, Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck and former Assemblyman Mike Feuer, a Democrat now seeking the Los Angeles City Attorney's office.
"Gun violence continues to be a distressing and persistent problem in the United States, but California is leading the nation in smart, common-sense gun policies designed to protect our communities," Harris said in a news release. "By working together, law enforcement and our state's district attorneys can make a difference by improving enforcement and increasing prevention to help keep all Californians safe from gun violence."
This "leadership group" will prepare a report of best practices that will serve as models for law enforcement in other communities to adopt and use as models for potential legislative reform.
Harris took the opportunity to once again tout the Armed Prohibited Persons System (APPS), which matches lists of handgun and assault-weapon owners to updated lists of convicts and mental-health patients so that firearms can be seized from those barred by law from owning them. Gov. Jerry Brown recently signed into law SB 140, which diverts $24 million into the badly backlogged APPS program from a surplus of background-check. In the first four months of 2013, agents have collected 461 firearms and 23,080 rounds of ammunition statewide.


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I'm curious how often your wee one cries and sleeps day/night?
My precious cutie has been having more crying times lately it seems. About three times a day he cries (more like screams) for about 5-20 minutes for a reason I can't figure out
He's full, clean diaper, and in my arms, but still cries himself to sleep. I know some colicy babies cry for much longer periods, I don't consider him that, but it is tough when I can't seem to soothe him...Anyone have any advice?
Also, my lil man doesn't sleep that much during the day. He's so cute, he doesn't want to miss out on anything! He can be up for 4-5 hours without a nap. He's great at night, only wakes to feed a couple times, then falls right back asleep.
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Freya sleeps loads during the day!! She has a little peep at whats going on then goes right back to sleep! she has an alert and awake time around about 7.00 for about half an hour then goes to sleep! She sleeps ok at night but is awake around 6.00am and ready for a little play.
Freya also had peirods of screaming and no matter what i did she would not settle. I realised it was trapped wind and with regular use of infacol she is much happier.


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Former Orinda City Councilman Gregg Wheatland's complaint against McCormick "does not contain evidence to allege a violation of the Political Reform Act's conflict of interest prohibition," according to a letter from Roman Porter, the commission's executive director.
A copy of the letter, dated Oct. 28, was sent Sunday to the Times; Porter confirmed Monday that it was sent to Wheatland and McCormick.
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In the complaint, Wheatland argued that McCormick violated conflict of interest laws by heading a city task force that made zoning recommendations for the downtown despite owning a home nearby.
McCormick said he was advised his actions did not violate the law because the task force made no formal decisions and dealt with issues involving the entire city.
"It's unfortunate that some of the old guard continues to try to attack people," he said Monday. "They're missing the issues. We need to focus on positive things and focus on issues, not on making personal attacks."
Wheatland said he was surprised at how quickly the commission made a decision.
"I do plan to ask them what information, if any, they received from Mr. McCormick or the city attorney that informed their opinion on this issue," he said.
State law gives the FPPC two weeks to decide whether to act on a complaint, but the commission can make that decision earlier if the facts warrant it, said Porter, who did not have additional details Monday about the commission's decision.
McCormick is still waiting for FPPC advice on whether or not he should participate in future council discussions on downtown. That advice is due to him by Nov. 23.
Contact Jonathan Morales at 925-943-8048. Follow him at Twitter.com/sosaysjonathan.


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Although a majority of respondents (62%) reported that their companies had an increase in sales in 2008, this level was down from 2007, when 76% reported an increase, and 2006, when 79% reported a gain. And for 2009, only 61% of companies expect to realize a sales increase.
CMOs also had a slight decline in capacity utilization for 2008, when the survey reported an average capacity utilization among respondents of 72.7%. This level compares with 76.2% in 2007 and 75.7% in 2006.The outlook for contract API manufacturing is still positive, but expectations are lower. Seventy-five percent of respondents expect more projects to be outsourced during the next three years. This level is down from the 80% in 2007 that felt that outsourcing was going to increase near term, but up from the 70% in 2006 that projected an increase.
So what is the bottom line? Despite downward indications, a majority of CMOs still expect sales gains in 2009, a fortunate development given the uncertain economy and difficulties other industries face.
Patricia Van Arnum is a senior editor of Pharmaceutical Technology. Read Patricia's blog posts atPharmTech Talk


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Morning MoneyBeat: What's One Day? Or Five? Or 31?
MARKET SNAP: At 5:55 a.m. ET, S&P 500 futures up 0.1%. Treasury 10-yr note yields 2.98%. Nymex crude down seven cents at $95.37. Gold up 0.7% at $1233.40. In Europe, FTSE 100 up 0.2%, DAX up 0.2% and CAC 40 up 0.6%. In Asia, Nikkei 225 was closed and Hang Seng ended 2.2% lower.
WATCH FOR: Weekly EIA Crude Oil Stocks (16:00 a.m. Eastern Time): seen -2.2 million, previously -4.73 million. Outgoing Federal Reserve President Ben Bernanke speaks at the American Economic Association annual meeting. Lindsay Corp. is expected to report results.
Okay, so U.S. stocks are starting off 2014 in the red.
The Dow fell 0.8%, and the S&P 500 dropped 0.9%. So what, you say. It's one day. How could first trading day of a year have any predictive power as to what's in store for the market over the ensuing 363 days? Did anything change from Dec. 31 to Jan. 1?
The macro backdrop is starting off 2014 in much the same way that it ended 2013.
Developed markets are steadily if not spectacularly growing, and emerging markets are mostly struggling. Central banks are pumping liquidity into the global economy.
But the recent history of the market suggests the first day may be a harbinger.
In 20 of the past 26 years, according to the WSJ Market Data Group, the Dow has moved the same direction for the year that it moved on the first day. This trend has occurred every year, in fact, since 2005. The correlation is weaker for the S&P 500. That index has moved in the same direction as the first trading day in 14 of the past 26 years.
Going back even further, in the Dow's history, there have been 76 years where the first day and the year matched, and only 39 where it did not. One year, 1936, it was unchanged (additionally, the stats group threw out 1914, when the index jumped from 12 to 20 members.) For the S&P 500, it's almost literally a coin flip: there have been 42 years where it did correlate, 42 years where it did not, one year where the index was flat for the year.
The first five days hold some predictive power, as well. For this we turn to our venerable Stock Trader's Almanac. The Almanac tells us that the first five trading days of January are an early warning sign for markets. The indicator, interestingly enough, works better for up days than down.
Of the last 39 years where the first five trading days were positive, the market rose for the year in 33 occasions, an 84.6% accuracy rate. The average gain in those years was 13.6%. Of the past 23 years when the first five days were negative, the market fell for the full year 11 times, a 47.8% accuracy rate. It didn't necessarily spell doom, though: The market's average gain in those years was 0.2%.
Dismiss it all if you like. After all, there's no good reason why flipping a calendar should suddenly produce a different market, this market has been on a tear lately, and the Fed is still running a historically easy dollar regime. To that end, since 1927, the S&P 500 has made its year-to-date high on the final trading day of the year 11 times. In those instances, the stock index went on to finish the following year higher 10 out of 11 times.
The whole month of January also has some value in foreshadowing the year, too. January's results have presaged the year's results 62 of the past 85 years, according to Howard Silverblatt, the senior index analyst at S&P Dow Jones Indices. Good news for the bulls: there have been more up Januarys, 55 since 1929, than down, 30.
Morning MoneyBeat Daily Factoid: On this day in 1521, Pope Leo X issues a papal bull called "Decet Romanum Pontificem." Translated, that means "it pleases the Roman Pontiff," and what pleased the Pontiff was the excommunication of Martin Luther, a professor of biblical interpretation in Germany and fierce critic of the Catholic Church. Luther was the chief catalyst of the Protestant movement, and his fight with the Church changed the course of western history.
-By Paul Vigna; follow him on Twitter @paulvigna.
Shares of FireEye jumped in the after-hours session Thursday after the computer-security firm announced it had acquired another cybersecurity firm, Mandiant Corp., in a deal valued at $1 billion.
On Friday, auto makers are due to release their U.S. sales data for December. General Motors is expected to see a 0.8% rise in December sales to 247,686 vehicles, according to Edmunds.com. Ford is estimated to report a rise in December sales of 5.9% to 225,543 vehicles.
Storm Heads for Northeast U.S.: "The Northeast braced for a storm that was expected to blanket the region in snow and frigid temperatures Friday, a day after the same system swept through the Midwest, clogging roadways and snarling commutes."
Hezbollah Upgrades Missile Threat to Israel: "U.S. officials believe members of Hezbollah, the militant group backed by Iran, are smuggling advanced guided-missile systems into Lebanon from Syria piece by piece to evade a secretive Israeli air campaign designed to stop them."
India's Prime Minister Won't Seek Third Term: "India's two-term Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday announced he wouldn't seek another term in national elections this year, an apparent attempt by his embattled Congress party to signal leadership change at a time when there is widespread disillusionment with the current administration."
Portugal Proposes Expanded Tax on Pension Income: "Portugal's government said it will seek to expand a tax on pension income and reduce its contributions for public employees' medical coverage after the Constitutional Court struck down other austerity measures aimed at restoring the country's financial health."
Dollar Off to Roaring Start in New Year: "The dollar surged in the first trading day of 2014, reflecting expectations that a resurgent U.S. economy will attract investor funds from around the globe and allow the Federal Reserve to gradually withdraw monetary stimulus."
U.S. Factories Begin to Hit Growth Stride: "The nation's factories finished the year on a high note and look to be building momentum heading into 2014."
Chrysler Deal Not a Cure-All for Fiat: "Fiat CEO Sergio Marchionne won a decisive victory this week in his campaign to keep Chrysler from being prodded into an unwanted public offering. Now, the deal-master must prove he can forge two weak auto makers into one strong global player."
Labor Department Calls for End of Data Lockup: "The recommendation is the first formal call by a government entity to end media lockups and could hasten a move away from the government's decades-old practice of releasing sensitive economic data through the media."
Rémy Cointreau CEO Steps Down After Three Months: "The newly minted chief executive of Rémy Cointreau resigned at a board meeting on Thursday, the company said, leaving the French liquor company under interim management during a broader spirits slump in China."
Investors Still Sour on Samsung: "Samsung's market value dropped by nearly $9 billion as investors remained concerned about slowing profit growth at the company's mobile division."


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There were 92 bookings at the San Joaquin County Jail in the 24 hours ending at 8 a.m. Tuesday. At that time, there were 1,386 people held at the jail, which has an official capacity of 1,411.
Residential burglary: A 16-year-old girl was home alone about 8:55 a.m. Tuesday in the 3200 block of East Lafayette Street when someone began banging on her door. The intruder then kicked in the front door and went through an empty purse in the living room while the girl locked herself in her room and called police. There was no description of the burglar, who fled without taking anything.
Burglary arrest: A 55-year-old woman told police a man knocked on her door about 12:15 p.m. Tuesday, asked to use the phone and then kicked in the door to her home in the 3400 block of Forest Drive. The man fled without taking anything, but he was apprehended nearby. Ronald Moore, 40, was arrested on suspicion of burglary and obstructing a public officer. He also was arrested for an outstanding warrant.
Armed robbery: A man entered a store in the 3200 block of West Hammer Lane about 6:50 p.m. Monday, brandished a handgun and ordered employees to the ground. The man then instructed an employee to open the cash register. He fled on foot with an undisclosed amount of money. He was described as a black man 20 to 25 years old standing 5 feet 9 inches to 6 feet tall with a thin build, a black ski mask, a black hooded sweatshirt, camouflage shorts and gold teeth.
The California Highway Patrol did not submit an incident report.
The Stockton Fire Department responded to 103 calls for service in the 24 hours ending at 8 a.m. Tuesday, including six vehicle accidents, 73 medical calls and two structure fires.
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Canteen chef-owner Dennis Leary — who also owns House of Shields in addition to The Sentinel and Golden West — will be opening two new ventures by the end of the year, as the Chron is reporting. The first is a tiny new café with both day and night menus near the cable car terminus at California and Drumm, to be named Café Terminus (10 California Street). Next will be a new bar in the Tenderloin, a couple of blocks from Canteen, at Geary and Leavenworth, and Leary says it's going to be "intimate and beautiful," and "something that doesn't look like anything in San Francisco." It's currently RJ's Sports Bar (701 Geary), and Leary is partnering with House of Shields bar manager Eric Pasetti. They've hired New York designer Jack Dakin (who did La Esquina) to design both projects.
Leary's last couple of projects have all been big successes, but they all have little to do with each other. As he says to the Chron, "The brand is that there is no brand." He took over House of Shields in 2010 and gave it a much praised restoration, leaving it as an after-work bar which occasionally hosts private events catered by his next-door sandwich shop The Sentinel. That same year he also opened The Golden West, a bakery and lunch spot on Trinity Place.
In semi-related news, and following on the demise of brunch at Canteen, Leary has discontinued a longtime menu favorite at his flagship restaurant: the vanilla soufflé. Our condolences to its many fans, and we'll let you know if it ever returns.
Meanwhile, he's doing something ambitious and cool at Canteen that he dubs "The 100 Menus Project," which is expected to go on for a couple of years. Each week's menu is based on the 1971 cookbook The Hundred Glories of French Cooking by Robert Courtine. As Leary notes on the restaurant website, "It is a broad, though not exhaustive, compendium of regional French dishes — many of which are rustic in character." He says that the kitchen will be working through various parts of the book, repeating dishes that are the most successful, and the nightly menu is "somewhere between à la carte and prix fixe," with a limited number of choices, and a four-course option for "around fifty bucks." See this week's menu here.
Chalk up 2 more in '13 for Dennis Leary [Chron]
Earlier: The Times Pats Dennis Leary on the Back for Snagging the House of Shields