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Wal-Mart's Big Business in Cheap Booze
Back in mid-2005, the WSJ reported on the early results of an ambitious push by the world's largest retailer:
Two years ago, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. held a series of meetings with the world's top liquor makers at its alcohol-free headquarters in the middle of a dry county. The subject, say several people who were there: What did Wal-Mart need to do to sell more vodka, whiskey and rum?
The results of those meetings are now starting to hit store shelves. In a move partially meant to spur flagging growth at stores open more than a year, Wal-Mart is pushing into hard liquor, one of the rare product categories where the world's largest retailer is very small.
Things were different back then. To begin with, Wal-Mart's home town of Bentonville, Ark., is no longer located in a dry county: Retail alcohol sales were legalized by vote in late 2012 — thanks to a campaign financed in large part by members of the Walton family.
Another difference: Wal-Mart was still somewhat of a novice in the booze business. Today, the company is aggressively discounting its alcohol offering in a bid to snatch up market share, the classic Wal-Mart method of getting more customers in the store and more scale in its sales. "We have been continuing to move prices lower," on alcohol, the company's U.S. chief William Simon told an investor conference last week, "and seeing returns in the form of market share gains."
Those lower prices — "investing in price," to use the industry parlance — mean Wal-Mart is offering beer at much thinner profit margings than many other products, Bloomberg reports today:
The markup on a 36-pack of Coors Light cans at a Los-Angeles-area store was 0.6 percent, compared with 16.2 percent for a package of Flaming Hot Cheetos, according to internal documents reviewed by Bloomberg. Companies typically don't release information about markups so the March data provide a rare glimpse of Wal-Mart's alcohol pricing strategy.
While beer was being sold almost at cost, products like bottles of Coca-Cola or Quaker Quick Oats were being marked up by 30% or more, Bloomberg reports. A Wal-Mart spokesman quoted in the story declined to comment on whether the L.A. store's markups were similar to others across the country, but said it is "nothing new that we're investing in price in adult beverage."
Whatever the company is doing, it's working in pushing out more booze: In the most recent quarter, alcohol sales rose by a high single-digit percentage over the year prior, Mr. Simon said on an earnings call in mid-August, while total sales grew by 2.1%, and grocery sales were "slightly negative".
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Wal-Mart Sells Coors Almost at Cost to Be Largest Beer Seller – Bloomberg|
Wal-Mart Deepens Gloom as Retailers Feel Left Behind – WSJ


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There was a famous story told once in awhile – I would listen closely.
An owner of a vineyard went to town looking for folks to harvest his vineyard. Before they went to harvest he explained how he was going to pay everyone. They agree and started harvesting. and he explained and they all agree. Evening came and each and every person got paid according to the original agreement. The morning crew were upset, but he said, "You folks agree to the pay."
The United States is considered the land of equal opportunity but why are people not getting the same pay as everyone else. If we were all getting paid the same as other folks are then the country would run smoother. We wouldn't have the same problems that we have now. In fact, I think a lot more folks would be happier and less health problems, and we could all afford things and nothing would be too high for consumers. Gas would be cheaper as well as food. Think about it!
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Xcode is Apple's IDE for making OS X and iOS software.
Xcode is primarily built around using Objective-C, although it also includes first-class support for C, C++, and Objective-C++. You can also use it to edit source files in numerous other languages, including Java, Python, and Ruby, and non-source files such as plists and xibs.
Many older books were written for Xcode 3 and the accompanying but separate General/InterfaceBuilder application. You should not attempt to use these with Xcode 4, no matter how good anyone tells you such a book was. The differences are too great.
== Key features ==
- Toolchain for turning source code into OS X or iOS apps
- General/InterfaceBuilder for graphically designing graphical user interfaces
- Integrated debugging environment
- General/Instruments for profiling of usage of memory, processor(s), long-term storage, and more
== Workflow optimization ==
=== The lay of the land ===
[TODO: Screenshot]
Jump Bar
Editor (main)—may contain any kind of file: project, source, interface, plist, etc.
Editors (assistant)
=== Navigation ===
First, we must take a moment to understand what "navigation" means—it has a very specific (and yet very broad) meaning in Xcode.
"Navigation" is any action that causes a file to be loaded into an editor, or if it is already loaded, any action that may change the selection within that editor (e.g., navigating to a build error). This includes:
Clicking a file in the Project Navigator Clicking an issue in the Issues Navigator Clicking a search result in the Find Navigator Choosing anything in an editor's Jump Bar *Pressing OK (including Return/Enter) in the Open Quickly panel
=== Tabs ===
It may not be immediately obvious, but Xcode 4 supports multiple tabs within each workspace/project window.
You absolutely should familiarize yourself with tabs. They take Xcode 4's General/UserExperience|UX from painful to workable.
⌘T creates a new tab that is a clone of your current tab, but as we'll see, there are better ways to create tabs most of the time.
Each tab defaults to showing the name of the file in its main editor, but you can set a specific name for the tab by double-clicking on it. This becomes important for setting up behaviors (described below).
=== Optional navigation ===
Recall the definition of "navigation" above.
The first thing you should do in Xcode is, in its Preferences, set the "Optional Navigation" to "Uses Separate Tab". "Optional Navigation" is navigating with the Option key held down. This includes all of the navigation actions listed above, from Option-clicking a file in the Project Navigator to holding down Option while pressing OK in the Open Quickly panel.
After you've set optional navigation to "Uses Separate Tab", all of the above will perform that navigation into a new tab.
(Xcode is smart enough to reuse a tab if you so navigate from some other file. So, for example, if you're in Foo.m and optionally-navigate to somewhere in Bar.m, and you have a tab for Bar.m already, Xcode will activate the existing Bar.m tab. On the other hand, if you're in Bar.m already and optionally-navigate to something else in the same file, Xcode will always create a new tab.)
=== Behaviors ===
While these may seem to be a power-user feature, they're actually essential to bending Xcode to how you think it should work. (Or, to look at it another way: All programmers are power-users, so you should get used to using power-user features in your tools.)
Behaviors enable you to tell Xcode what you want it to do in each of a variety of circumstances. Available triggers include build failures, a program being debugged emitting output, a program being debugged abnormally terminating, and so on. Available actions include activating a specific tab, showing a specific Navigator, showing a specific Inspector, showing the Debugger pane, and so on.
=== The power of shift-option ===
The shift-option modifier combination applies to every navigation action, just as option does in "optional navigation".
You choose what optional navigation does in advance, but you choose what shift-option does at the time that you do it. Shift-option navigation brings this up:
[TODO: Screenshot]
In this popover, you choose exactly where the navigation should go to:
An existing editor in the same tab A new assistant editor in the same tab The main editor in another existing tab A new tab *A new window
As with optional navigation, all of the navigation actions listed above can be augmented with shift-option. Try them yourself!
=== Tying it all together: The two workflows ===
There are basically two ways to use Xcode 4.
Open one tab for each file. When you want to work on a file you don't currently have open, Option-navigate to it. When you're done working on a file, close its tab.
Open one tab for each task. Have one tab for project management, one for source editing, one for interface editing, one for build logs, and one for debugging. Use Behaviors to automatically switch tabs when needed (e.g., when a build fails or the program crashes).
== History ==
Xcode replaced an older IDE called General/ProjectBuilder, which dated back into the NeXT days. (Xcode 3.x was clearly descended from it.)
Xcode 3 and older used the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) for the build toolchain, and the GNU Debugger (GDB) for the debugger. As noted above, these have since been replaced.
Some Xcode features have come and gone. For example:
- General/FixAndContinue, which let you make a change to one file, recompile it, and load it into the running executable, WITHOUT quitting, relinking, and relaunching the whole thing… when it worked.
- General/ZeroLink, used only during development to speed up compiling by skipping the linking step and instead having the executable load the .o files as needed. Many developers accidentally left this on in Release builds and shipped non-functioning executables to testers and/or end users. In the end, the time savings was negative.
=== Xcode 4 ===
As of 4.x, General/InterfaceBuilder is part of Xcode; it's the nib/xib and storyboard editors.
Xcode 4 uses Apple's own Clang compiler, and introduced a related Low-Level Debugger (LLDB).
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Sick boy helps other kids get wishes grantedUPDATED 11:35 PM EDT Jun 09, 2013
Elijah Hill hopes to be a hero to other children who are given life-impacting diagnosis, after doctors told his parents he suffered from sickle cell anemia.Video Transcript
DIAGNOSIS... THAT COULD MEAN A SHORTER LIFE... TURNS IT INTO AN OPPORTUNITY TO BE A HERO FOR OTHERS. LAURA BORCHERS HAS HIS STORY. (Elijah Hill - Diagnosed with Sickle Cell) ("I wasn't feeling well.") THE SYMPTOMS WERE SCARY... AND THE SICKLE CELL ANEMIA DIAGNOSIS WHEN ELIJAH HILL WAS JUST 6 MONTHS OLD WAS EVEN MORE FRIGHTENING. (Ronnie Hill - Father) ("We'd heard of it, but we'd heard the worst things about it.") ELIJIAH HAS BATTLED THE INHERITED BLOOD DISORDER FOR SEVEN YEARS NOW. AT ONE POINT.... SICK AND HOSPITALIZED FOR A MONTH AS DOCTORS TRANSFUSED LIFE-GIVING BLOOD. (Ronnie Hill - Father) ("He wasn't bouncing back like he was supposed to, his blood counts weren't where they were supposed to be.") (Elijah Hill - Diagnosed with Sickle Cell) ("I can't hold my breath for a lot, but I can only hold my breath a little bit.") ELIJAH IS STRONG AGAIN. HE MANAGES HIS DISEASE AND HAS LEARNED HIS PHYSICAL ABILITIES MAY HAVE BOUNDARIES... BUT HIS DREAMS DO NOT. MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION ENCOURAGED HIM TO AIM HIGH, BY GRANTING HIS WISH TO MEET HIS HERO. (Elijah Hill - Diagnosed with Sickle Cell) ("I got to see Peter Pan at Disney World.") (Ronnie Hill - Father) ("Make-A-Wish helped out a lot. Introducing him other kids that have things wrong with them, to show them just because there's this one thing wrong, there's still a lot of things you can do with your life.") ELIJAH AND HIS FAMILY PLAN TO SUPPORT OTHER FAMILIES LEARNING TO LIVE WITH UNCURABLE DISEASES... THEY'RE LEADING THE MAKE A WISH WALK NEXT SATURDAY AT SAWYER POINT. YOU CAN REGISTER TO JOIN THE HILLS THROUGH A LINK ON WLWT.COM. LAURA BORCHERS, WLWT NEWS 5. A LOCAL 10-YEAR-OLD... RAISING
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A scientist, poet, and cancer survivor, Steingraber makes a passionate and lyrical case for eliminating carcinogens, which are ubiquitous in our environment. A movie based on her book Living Downstream was released in spring 2010.
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Tips For Making Your Home Business Quite Profitable
Starting a home business requires money, skill, and most importantly, solid advice from the experts. In this article, you will find some tips that will help you get your home business started. If you put the advice contained in these tips into practice, it should be easy to start making money from your home business.
You need to make sure that you get business cards made for your home business right away. It is important to have the business cards so that you can hand them out whenever you meet potential clients. The card should contain the company name, phone number and address at the very least so that the clients are able to easily contact your business.
To make sure you focus on your home business, establish boundaries in your home around it. Set aside one room to dedicate to it, or least a corner of one room. Find your most effective hours for working and let everyone know that you are off limits during those time periods.
At the end of each day, set your goals for the next work day. It is up to you to build a consistent work system that will propel your home business forward. By simply setting up your goals the day before, you are allowing yourself to jump right into work immediately in the morning, which is often the time that you are freshest.
Find a local group focused on home business ownership. Join that group and participate in its activities. This gives you a network of contacts outside the home to interact with, plus a pool of potential contacts or resources if you need advice or support. Often these groups feature speakers or events built around home business considerations. So, the time investment is well worth it!
Getting your home business off the ground is tough, so you can use all the help you can get. If you work hard and put the tips you just read into practice, you will start to notice that your income is increasing, which means that you are well on the road to home business success.


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Autopsy set for decomposed body found along NKY interstate
Authorities unsure if body is male or female
UPDATED 11:30 PM EDT Aug 27, 2013
Deputies are investigating a decomposed body found along Interstate 75 in Kenton County.
The sheriff's office said the body was found Tuesday morning by a maintenance crew working along the southbound lanes near the truck scales between the Walton and Crittenden exits.
Photos: Body found
Investigators weren't able to determine the person's race, sex or age.
Authorities said they hadn't found any other evidence around the remains.
After the autopsy, investigators will work with other agencies to match evidence to missing person cases.
Autopsy is scheduled for Wednesday.
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Work has yet to being to build a new road through a sharp curve on Kewanee Church Road in eastern Lauderdale County.
District 2 Supervisor Wayman Newell says the county road manager will have to make the call to start once the ground dries out enough.
The question is, what will happen when crews do arrive on the scene?
"We're still going to try to block it," says resident Arthur Tooles, one of several Kewanee Road residents against the project, "if necessary we will try to stand in front of the equipment, and we will try and block this any way we can."
Newell says he hopes it will not come to that, and he stands by his decision to try and give drivers another route on the rural road.
"[The landowner] has made out a deed to the county to give Lauderdale County that right of way so we could take that curve out, he also donated the dirt," explains Newell, "so that's two pluses there where I felt that was a plus in straightening out a 90 degree curve."
The group of concerned residents who have been speaking out against this project for weeks say the project is not worth it, and they say there are other areas, like parts of Johnson Road less than a mile away, that need more work.
"Everybody thinks it's for Kewanee residents, but it's going to cost around $200 to $300 thousand before they finish doing this road," says Tooles.
"If somebody else wanted us to look at a bad spot, and if they are willing to give the county that property," says Newell, "we'll be ready to look at it, and see if we can't make it better while we're out there."


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A selection of stories, videos and galleries from the County News Center, a government public-relations outlet.
A recent feature story with lots of photos highlighted couples getting married at the clerk's office on 12-12-12.
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An article about top administrator Walt Ekard's departure quoted every county supervisor praising him. "You never lost sight of the importance of every community and that we have a responsibility to every citizen, every resident," said Supervisor Dianne Jacob." And today the way our county government operates stands as a model for other public agencies."
A car show at Edgemoor skilled nursing facility was featured in a photo slideshow on the County News Center. Here is a 1951 Studebaker.
The County News Center has not featured critical grand jury reports, but gave this one a headline.
A feature story about a county welfare worker complimented his approach during a home visit. The article says, "The woman, seemingly responding to Ruff's professional and calm mien, herself grew more collected."
When other news outlets wrote about a backlog in county road projects, this was the County News Center headline.
A video on the site features supervisors praising county administrator Walt Ekard upon his departure. Supervisor Greg Cox calls him "a leader among leaders." Supervisor Bill Horn credits Ekard with opening eight libraries in his district. etc.
A story about top administrator Walt Ekard's departure quoted all five supervisors lauding him. "Our county motto is the noblest motive is the public good," said Supervisor Greg Cox. "Well the noblest public servant is Walt Ekard."


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By Donald Simanek
The Spinning Cylinder Illusion
This is a toy, a puzzle, and an illusion all in one, with only one
moving part. No batteries are required. I like simplicity, especially
when it produces puzzling complexity.
» I've not been able to track down the origin of Here's a sequence of photos showing the cylinder
this homemade toy, but it isn't very well known beginning to spin (Figure C), not quite settled down
outside the community of physics teachers. It's (Figure D), and finally spinning in one place with
a kinetic illusion, one that depends on physical nearly constant angular speed (Figure E). These
motion to make you see something that isn't there. photos were taken with a digital camera, but they
A familiar example of a kinetic illusion is the show approximately what appears to the eye.
strobe effect sometimes seen in old movies, causing All these photos are taken from the same camera
the spokes of a carriage wheel to seem to be turning position and distance, and reproduced at constant
in the wrong direction. scale. Therefore lengths on the pictures may be
In its simplest form, this toy consists of a hollow directly compared. Notice that a stable illusion
cylinder of rigid plastic. The version in these photos showing 4 equally spaced dots occurs when the
is 4cm long and 1cm in diameter, with 2mm wall cylinder rotates about its center, and both ends
thickness. It was cut from a piece of polyethylene traverse the same circle, which has a diameter
plastic tubing that happened to be lying on my equal to the length of the cylinder.
workbench. Whatever tubing you use, be sure to The puzzling outcome is that when the cylinder
choose a very straight piece. settles down to a uniform spin rate at a particular
This material can be cut easily with a single-edged location on the table, you see only one color dot
razor blade, scrap of board, and hammer. Use heavy (red, in this case), repeated N times, where N is
gloves and goggles in case the razor blade breaks. the ratio of the cylinder's length to its diameter.
Or use a hacksaw, then smooth up the cut with fine The dot you see is the one at the end you pressed
sandpaper. Cut the piece initially a bit long, then with your thumb to launch it. You don't see any
shorten it to optimum length by trial. I've made evidence of the dot at the other end (green, in this
small ones in 2-, 3-, 4-, and 5cm lengths. I've also case). Launch the cylinder by pressing the green
made them from the barrels of old ballpoint pens, dot end and then you see only the green dot, and
and larger ones from PVC plumbing pipe. not the red one.
Glue or paint a red dot near one end and a green How can we explain this unexpected behavior?
dot at the other end, or use a felt-tip marker to Note that translational motion of the cylinder's
make distinctive symbols at the ends. center of mass stops just before stable dot patterns
become visible. Note also that what we call the
"stable motion" occurs when the ends of the
cylinder trace a circle.
When you think you've got it figured out, test
your understanding by considering this follow-up
question. If you spin this toy on a glass sheet, and
someone looks up at it from below the glass, which
colored dot would that observer see? A glass-topped coffee table is good for this experiment.
What would be the optimum length-to-diameter
The Vanishing Dot
Place the cylinder on a flat surface. It's best to
choose a surface that won't dent or scratch, like a
smooth, hard floor. Press down on 1 side of 1 end
with your thumb, as shown in Figure B, until the
cylinder slips away from your thumb and flies off
spinning. It will settle down, revolving about its
midpoint and at the same time spinning about
its long axis (Figure A).
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Is the Best House on a Bad Block Still a Good Bet?
You've heard it many times lately: you should be buying U.S. stocks because, well, because they're better than any other asset you're thinking of throwing money at.
But is the relative value argument really a good investment strategy? MarketWatch's Mark Hulbert dropped in on the MoneyBeat show today with his take. Here's an excerpt from his column:
Consider what Vincent Deluard, European Strategist for Ned Davis Research, found when analyzing the historical support for the relative-valuation argument. For every year since 1945, he calculated the difference between the S&P 500's so-called "earnings yield" and the yield on the 10-year Treasury. (The S&P 500's earnings yield, of course, is the inverse of the P/E ratio, so whenever the market's P/E falls its earnings yield will rise. Currently, based on trailing 12-month earnings, the S&P 500's earnings yield is 5.4%. That's 2.6 percentage points higher than the yield on the 10-year Treasury.)
If the relative-valuation argument were correct, then the stock market historically should have performed better whenever this spread was greater — and vice versa. In fact, though, Deluard found no consistent relationship — little more than "statistical noise," he told me in an interview. And he found the same result when focusing on Europe.
He therefore calls the argument based on relative valuations "the most overrated argument in favor of equities."


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There's a knack to seeing them, but listening for them helps. If you can sit and do nothing you'll crack it
Here's a useful wildlife tip. Pour yourself a generous quantity of champagne into a really quite expensive glass. Not a flute, it won't work. After taking the edge off your thirst, dip your index finger into the champagne and run it lightly round the rim of the glass: about half a circuit. Remember the sound it makes and it'll help you to find kingfishers.
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Company rumored to be buying IBM's Essex Junction plant solicits jobs in Burlington paperUPDATED 5:00 PM EDT Jul 13, 2014
Global Foundries, the company widely reported to be the likely buyer of IBM's chip division, is soliciting jobs in IBM's back yard. The New York Times says Global Foundries will be buying the Essex Junction and Fish Kill, NY IBM plants for about $2 billion in the near future.
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Hitting the road this summer? Better get booking.
As the busy summer car-rental season begins, prices are expected to climb. "In early June through the end of August, these rates will spike," said Neil Abrams, president of Abrams Consulting Group, which tracks the car rental industry. Last July, for example, the average rate for a weekly airport rental of a compact car booked seven days ahead was $369.62, or 56 percent more than the $236.73 charged in March, according to the Abrams Travel Data Index.
Here are some tips to keep costs down.
1. Let go of name brands: Look beyond Avis, Hertz and other big national chains to independent agencies such as Payless and Fox Rent a Car. Because of lower operating costs, their cars, which can be found at websites such as CarRentals.com and CarRentalExpress.com, typically cost 15 to 30 percent less than rentals from mainstream agencies. Another company with an unfamiliar name, at least to most Americans, is the German agency Sixt, which has begun opening branches in the southeastern United States, including in Atlanta, Miami and Orlando, Fla. To boost brand recognition, the company, whose fleet includes BMWs, Mercedes-Benzes and Volkswagens, is offering deep discounts.
2. Dig for virtual discounts: Search for discounts and coupons on such sites as Promotionalcodes.com and CouponWinner.com, or type in the name of a rental company and "coupon code" into Google to see what turns up. Rental car companies offer discount codes to members of frequent-flier programs and other organizations they partner with, including AAA, Costco and BJ's, so check those sites if you're a member. However, don't stop there. Most major car rental companies allow you to combine frequent-flier discount codes with a coupon code.
3. Track rates through Autoslash.com: This site, which continually checks for lower rates and coupons until your trip date, can be used in one of two ways: You can track the price of a rental booked elsewhere, or you can book directly through Autoslash, which works with Payless, Sixt, Fox and E-Z Rent-A-Car, and the site will apply any discounts it finds.
The drawback with the second option is limited inventory. Major companies don't like the idea that Autoslash capitalizes on the fact that consumers can usually change or cancel car reservations at any time without penalty. Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group, which includes Hertz and Advantage, recently pulled its inventory from the site. Enterprise, which owns National and Alamo, won't let AutoSlash list its cars, either.
4. Avoid the airport: Off-airport locations typically are less expensive than airport locations, which tack on fees that can raise the price by 30 percent or more. For example, a compact rental from Hertz at Boston Logan International Airport over the Fourth of July weekend was recently listed at $50.49 a day, or $219 a week with taxes at Carrentals.com, a unit of Hotwire. By taking the subway to the Arlington stop and walking a couple of blocks to the local Hertz lot, a traveler could cut costs to $39.98 a day, or $146.65 with taxes for the week.
5. Reserve the car for longer than you need it: This may sound counterintuitive, but tacking an extra day on to that weekly rental or even adding a couple of hours to extend it over a weekend -- with no intention of returning the car that late -- actually can lower your rate. The strategy takes advantage of lower prices aimed at leisure travelers who are more likely to travel on weekends, said Marty Paz, a Las Vegas businessman who has become a car rental pricing sleuth since he began avidly renting cars to pad his frequent-flier account. (Last year, he rented more than 100 vehicles, accumulating a quarter-million miles.)
Paz said that you essentially are tricking the system into thinking you're booking a two-day weekend rental, which typically has a lower base rate, with the goal of returning the car early. For example, the rate for a midsize car rental from Alamo at the Las Vegas airport, from noon on Thursday, June 7, to noon the following day was recently listed on Alamo's website for $35.95 (or a base rate of $27.27 plus $11.41 in taxes and fees). But extending the return time to 2 p.m. -- two hours after the weekend rates "officially" kick in -- drops the base rate to $15.18 a day. Though the overall estimated cost shows an additional $10.12 extra in hourly charges, you still can return the car at noon and get the lower rate, said Paz, who added, "Oops, you got there early."
6. Negotiate: Even after you've booked the best possible rate, it can be worth swinging by the rental counter to see if you can finagle your way into a better car. "You don't ask, you don't get," said Abrams, the rental car consultant. Success with this strategy can depend on everything from the type and number of cars on the lot to the mood of the clerk, he added. Some companies are happy to put you in a bigger, or less popular, vehicle for the cost of a compact -- if it's in their interest. "I frequently need minivans for the volunteer activities I do with teens," said Paz, who has noticed by perusing the parking lot that there often is a glut of minivans at one location he frequently rents from on the weekend. "Often times I've reserved an economy car for a Friday and just offered graciously: 'If there's a van, I'll take that. I don't mind,' and for the price of the economy car I get the minivan." (A larger vehicle, of course, will require more fuel.)
7. Prepay: Taking a page from hotels, rental car companies are offering discounts of as much as 20 percent to travelers willing to prepay. In a recent search for weekly rentals at Boston's airport in mid-June, for example, Hertz was offering economy cars for $173 a week at the "pay now" rate. The "pay later" rate was about $30 more. The trade-off? Cancellation penalties ranging from $10 with Budget to $50 if canceling within 24 hours with Hertz. And don't forget about Priceline.com and Hotwire.com, which offer deep discounts to travelers willing to be locked into a preset price before finding out the rental car company.


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DIARY: Phoney war, Sheldrake, Poppycock Watch: Activists, Plankton for tea, Lonely swan, Profundity of the Week
With the British political scene dominated by the Leveson Inquiry into media shenanigans, it sometimes appears as if these islands are insulated from the growing disaster across the water in the Eurozone.
Frau Merkel talks a lot about fiscal union and "more Europe" while doing nothing about it. David Cameron urges the Continent to coalesce into a country called Europe, while half-promising that Britain won't be involved.
Vetoes are whispered of into incredulous ears, and a referendum dangled in words as cheap as chips.
Let's face it, no-one will nail their colours to the mast until somebody else makes the first move and our wretched politicos can act without being blamed for the mess.
We have also had much chatter about "real Conservatism". Frankly, many of us would just like some Conservatism, real or not.
What the Prime Minister seems unable to grasp is that the more he imitates the vacuous Blair, the more a growing chunk of the electorate despises him. Does the man have no self-knowledge?
If he can leave his young daughter in a pub, surely he can leave the ghost of Tony somewhere appropriate?
Europe boils and bubbles, poised to shapeshift dramatically, almost all options for the worst. British politicians distance themselves from the darkening scene, but can't resist delivering the occasional pin-prick of defiance, utterly powerless to act.
It will remind older folk of the phoney war at the close of the 1930s. They will no doubt reflect that it didn't end well.
Rupert Sheldrake, whom I wrote about last week, has certainly stirred up some feedback here at Syntagma Towers, mostly positive. Read the article HERE.
Anyone near London interested in following this up might like to know that the controversial scientist will be live in dialogue with American evolutionary mystic Andrew Cohen at EnlightenmentNext Centre, 13 Windsor Street, N1 8QG on 20th June. Tickets £18 if booked early, £22 at the door.
I can't make it, alas, but it should be a very stimulating evening for those able to get there.
Poppycock Watch
Have you noticed the increasing number of dotty job descriptions that have sprung up in recent years? I met someone last week who said she was an Activist.
You mean a kind of lobbyist, said I. No, not central government, just general, all-inclusive stuff.
So, a multipurpose, multifunctioning busybody, thought I. A little bit of this and a little bit of that.
Social, political, scientific, any area of deprivation or unfairness, quoth she, with a hint of superiority over the rest of us who mind our own business.
But who pays people like that? It can't be the private sector. A company spokesperson wouldn't be referred to as an Activist, nor anyone else for that matter.
It must be the infinitely giving public sector, where no waif or stray is knowingly rejected and is provided with an all-inclusive income for doing daft things.
I wondered if I should reclassify myself as a Mystical Activist?
But nobody on earth would pay me for that.
An orange plume of oily gunge has appeared on our river in recent weeks. It has the air of something originating from a sewage outlet upstream.
The alarming thing is that the swans can't seem to get enough of it, scooping it up in their beaks with relish. What do they think they're doing? They have ample grazing land and lots of river life to feed on.
Then, our local Met Office man solved the riddle. It is a plume of phyto-plankton, of vegetable origin and, as Holland & Barrett reminds us, super-nutritious.
Animals are not as daft as they look.
Another little vignette of life's woe is being played out in the swan colony here.
Among the 200 or so white swans has appeared one black swan, an Aussie intruder into a living Tchaikovskyesque tableau. He (if it is a he — hard to tell) sails around on his own, seemingly shunned by the locals.
Yesterday, as if in despair, he plunged in amongst a group of fifty of them and uttered a cry of such anguish, head pointing to the sky as in prayer, that everyone stopped in amazement.
I should add, before Trevor Phillips or Polly Toynbee descend on us with cries of racism, the white ones are so placid it would be difficult to accuse them of anything at all. His only hope of finding a mate, I think, is if he comes across another swan as lonely as himself.
If Danny Kaye was still with us, I'm sure he'd have a song for it.
Profundity of the Week
"Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg." Hans Christian Andersen
John Evans
who is the author of The Eternal Quest for Immortality: Is it staring you in the face? Available from Amazon and all good booksellers.
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Lisa Reed knew just what she wanted in an engagement ring, so she took the search out of her fianceacute;'s hands. Lisa says several local stores in Honolulu were asking about $7,900 for a nearly flawless, just-shy-of-a-carat diamond ring. But Lisa, who's a cop, knew better than to stop her investigation there. She hit the Web and found a similar ring from online retailer Blue Nile for only $4,263 (and her fianceacute;, Peter Bracknell, paid the piper). "It looks absolutely brilliant," says Lisa. "It blinds you."
In an industry famous for high markups and perpetual closeout sales, diamond e-tailers have brought clarity and competition to pricing jewelry. Says Scott Devitt, a senior analyst at Legg Mason: "They expose diamonds for the commodities they are."
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E-tailers' costs are lower than for local jewelers because they spend less on labor and leases, and they keep their inventories lean. Compare Blue Nile with Zale Corp., which runs Zales stores, Bailey Banks Biddle and other brick-and-mortar chains. For every dollar that Blue Nile pays suppliers for stones and settings, it sells finished baubles for $1.30. But for every dollar Zale hands suppliers, it sells items for $2. Zale also stocks its merchandise for months before it sees a dime from customers, while Blue Nile orders merchandise only after customers pay. As a result, it has to keep items in inventory for only a matter of days.
The minute Lisa placed her order, Blue Nile bought her rock from a New York cutter, who shipped it overnight to Blue Nile's 13,000-square-foot warehouse in Seattle. There, a bench jeweler, peering through a magnifying visor and using files, pliers and hammers at a small desk packed with tool-laden drawers, married the diamond to its setting. Other workers bathed the finished ring in a tiny hot tub, blasted it with steam and packed it in a wooden box, inside a blue-and-silver box, inside a cardboard shipping box. It was then ferried on a rackety conveyor belt to FedEx for overnight delivery. The whole process took just three days.
The procedure is similar at other e-tailers, which as a group rang up about $340 million in engagement-ring sales in 2005. Most of those sales were to men, who, in general, love the Web way of jewelry-shopping more than women do.
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Skittish about buying baubles without seeing them in advance? That's an understandable hang-up. But this winter many of the best grading reports -- a cross between spec sheets and report cards for diamonds -- have added a measure that sums up a diamond's brilliance and sparkle and allows for easy comparisons among stones.
This cut grade differs from the cut -- one of the famous four c's that also include carat weight, clarity and color. Cut has long been listed on reports, and it speaks to a stone's shape and style, such as round or square, plus a few other measures. But, says Reneacute;e Newman, author of the Diamond Handbook, "cut doesn't tell you if you'll see brilliance and sparkle across the stone when you look at it face up."
Cut grade does. Stones with similar characteristics should be priced similarly, says Robert Hensley, a former diamond dealer who is co-owner of FindMyJeweler.com, a jeweler-rating service. If you find a stone priced less than like-rated stones, it's a bargain.


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Is this Max Baucus' Obamacare train wreck or just close?
Irony, meet Max Baucus
Baucus, chair of the powerful Senate Finance Committee and a key architect of President Barack Obama's health care reform law, announced last spring that he was hanging 'em up after six terms as a senator from Montana.
Before he left, though, he famously offered the quote that would launch a thousand dire warnings about the Affordable Care Act: "I just see a huge train wreck coming down. You and I have discussed this many times, and I don't see any results yet."
That was at an April committee hearing on Obamacare implementation. Here are two bits of irony:
In September, Baucus had himself a little chuckle as he conceded that he no longer predicted trains flying off the tracks. He said what he said for effect, out of genuine concern that the rollout was in jeopardy. Less than a month before the Oct. 1 launch, he was satisfied.
"We'll see Oct. 1, but I think they are doing a pretty good job," Baucus said in an interview with Fox Business Network. "I think the train is going to keep running, maybe not totally on time, but it's going to be pretty efficient."
As we know in the clarity of hindsight, Baucus was right the first time. Or, at least, if this rollout isn't a train wreck, it's a 16-car pileup at the entrance to the train station.
The other irony is from Baucus' original quote. The someone he was addressing — "You and I have discussed this many times …" — was Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, the Obama administration official whose primary responsibility for the last three-plus years has been on display since Oct. 1.
Today, Sebelius is dodging further congressional scrutiny, although her office says she fully intends to testify "next week," after she clears more important items from her calendar. So a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing into her No. 1 project apparently will go forward Thursday without her perspective and expertise.
Her boss, meanwhile, was left to tout a 1-800 number in the White House Rose Garden yesterday like some cleaned-up but angry Vince Offer, while she sat quietly in the audience.


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Men's and Women's Cross Country takes part in CCSU Mini Meet
Men tied for third; women fourth
2011: Finished 21st at the Stony Brook Season Opener (20:53) ... took 25th at the Central Connecticut Invitational (16:19).
2010: Finished 30th at the Seawolves Invitational (22:42.48).
2009: Finished 24th at the Seawolves Invitational (22:17.11) ... placed 13th in a 3K quad meet at Van Cortlandt Park (9:20) ... America East Fall Honor Roll.
2008: Finished 21st at the Seawolves Invitational (23:26.56).
2007: Did not compete in Cross Country.
High School: Three-time letterwinner at Valley Stream Central High School ... competed in 1,600-meter, 800-meter, 1,000-meter and 600-meter ... received all-conference and all-county honors.
Personal: Shamell Michael Forbes ... born November 15, 1989 ... son of Carol Abrahams and Earl Forbes ... brother of Katya, Kaysha, Kyra, and Nikayla ... majoring in health science.


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Feiler-Artinger Pinot Cuvee Ruster Ausbruch 2001, 375 mlfrom Feiler-Artinger (View all)
The taste of the 2001 Ruster Ausbruch Pinot Cuvee is more a creamy, flowery style with vanilla, walnuts and chocolate from the wood. It also has a fresh apple fruit behind that. The Ruster Ausbruch has a potential of up to 50, 60 years of cellaring: it shows well in the first 2 years, then closes down in year 3 for about a year, and then opens back up with fruit and more complexity on the palate; more rounded and integrated. It holds at this perfect taste for 15 years. From that point on it slows development as it moves into its ripening period. The sweet impression of the sugar reduces during this final period, creating a more crispy, slightly drier finish. For the Ruster Ausbruch blends every grape is picked single varietal, at different times, and then after fermentation they are blended. This also helps to control the final feeling.' -Vintner Kurt Feiler This 2001 vintage was harvested at the end of October/early November, then fermented and matured in oak barrels for 16 months. It is a blend of 52% Pinot Blanc and 48% Pinot Gris. To carry the name 'Ruster Ausbruch' the wine has to have been created in the town of Rust, Austria, using the Ausbruch method which originally came from Hungary for the production of Tokaji.
- 52 % - Pinot Blanc (AKA Weissburgunder, Klevner, Beli Pinot, Pinot Bianco)
- 48 % - Pinot Gris (AKA Grauburgunder, Pinot Beurot, Gris Cordelier, Auvernat Gris, Fromentot, Rulander, Pinot Grigio)
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|91 - "A distinctly modern style of Ausbruch, this blend of Pinot Gris and Pinot Blanc is polished, velvety and clean, showing concentrated flavors of peach jam and dried apricot."
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The town of Rust is perhaps best known for its world-class late harvest wines, a specialty of which is known here as Ruster Ausbruch. The "Ruster" describes that it is from this town, and the "Ausbruch" describes the method of only picking out the most perfectly shriveled & botrysized grapes. Why are the wines from here so incredible? It might have something to do with the fact that in 1681 Rust was proclaimed a Free Town of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and this distinction came at a steep price: 10,000 liters of the Ruster Ausbruch wine had to be sent to the royalty every year. A practice for survival became the practice of something spectacular.
The Feiler-Artinger winery was established in Rust in the early 1900s by Gustav and Karoline Feiler. After the second world war, they were the first to restart the tradition of harvesting grapes afflicted with noble rot for the production of Ausbruch. In 1955 Gustav's son Hans took the reins and steered things well, and since 1994 the third generation, in the form of Hans' eldest son Kurt, has stepped into line. Their work has not gone unnoticed; in 1999 Hans and Kurt were jointly declared "Late Harvest Wine Makers of the Year" at the Wine Challenge in London, and Robert Parker Jr. of the Wine Advocate rates the winery as among Austria's best producers (giving it 4 1/2 out of 5 stars) In fact, critics from Wine Advocate to Wine Spectator have consistently rated these wines in the 90's. The winery has 64 acres with an annual production of 12,500 cases; 30% white, 55% red, and 15% sweet.
As Hans puts it: "I strongly believe that harmony in the family brings harmony to the wines." This must be one happy family.
Burgenland is made up of 4 "sub-areas" and covers 19,215 hectares, which is about 48,000 acres. The dominating geographical influence here is the Neusiedler Lake (Neusiedlersee), and the 4 subdivided areas are called Southern Burgenland (Südburgenland), Central Burgenland (Mittelburgenland), Neusiedler Lake (Neusiedlersee) and the Neusiedler Lake Highlands (Neusiedlersee-Hügelland)
From the northernmost Neusiedlersee area comes full-bodied white wines, including the countries best Chardonnays. This is also an area where great red wines are produced, including those from the "Pannobile" co-operative who age their wines in oak.
Due to the vineyards proximity to the lake and their location in the hot Pannonian climate zone, their grapes more often than not develop the "noble rot" (botrytis cinerea) which creates heady dessert wines. The region stretches along the Hungarian border, right across which Tokaji is being made.
The town of Rust, in the Neusiedler Lake Highlands, is where the famous Ruster Ausbruch dessert wine is made. This is also where storks come to roost every year, building their enormous nests on the roof of every building along the main roads. They make a clicking sound which is somewhere between a woodpecker and a jackhammer, and as you sit at the Heuriger (wine garden) drinking the afternoon away, the potential cacophony becomes something of a symphony.123
We are at the west side of the Neusiedler Lake.The Austrian wine establishment has now begun to call this region Leithaberg, after the local hillsides themselves, although it is hard to imagine winegrowing in this region without the beneficent influence of the lake. The free city of Rust has been famous for its sweet wines for centuries, now producing memorable reds and dry whites as well. The towns of St Margarethen, Donnerskirchen and Grosshöflein are all proving to be sources of excellent grapes from the varieties Blaufränkisch and St Laurent, as well as for the more surprising Sauvignon Blanc. The major municipality Eisenstadt is the capital of Burgenland; the area has been settled since the early Iron Age, and evidence of viticulture exists in Celtic hill burials from nearly three thousand years ago.


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ARLINGTON, Texas -- The Giants will start Pablo Sandoval at designated hitter for Game 3 of the World Series today, but manager Bruce Bochy said he plans to employ more than one player in that slot before the club returns home.
Bochy has hinted strongly that first baseman Travis Ishikawa will get a start in Texas -- probably in Game 4, with Aubrey Huff moving to DH. It would be a prime chance for Ishikawa, who is 2 for 7 off the bench and finished seventh in the NL with a .319 average as a pinch hitter.
Because of those exploits, Giants third-base coach Tim Flannery gave Ishikawa a nickname that stuck earlier this season.
"He's Smoky," said Flannery, a reference to famed pinch hitter Forrest Harrill "Smoky" Burgess. "My uncle Hal Smith played on the Pirates with him, told me all about him. He's a lot like Ishi, too. Off the field, he didn't cuss, smoke or drink -- a very spiritual man.
"And 50 years ago, this guy had huge pinch hits."
Burgess held the major league record for pinch hits before Manny Mota passed him in 1979. Lenny Harris holds the record now.
Ishikawa could be primed for a huge hit or two in Texas. The ballpark favors left-handed power hitters, and Ishikawa took advantage of livelier conditions, hitting .326 on the road this season.
"I've found a routine that's worked for me all year, and I've stuck to it," Ishikawa said. "I know it's going to get intense. But I try to stay as calm as possible and remember this is the same game we've played all year."
As for the nickname? Ishikawa finally understood what it means.
"They've been calling me Smokey all year," he said. "I didn't get it until they told me the story a couple weeks ago."
Flannery has a good feeling that Ishikawa will do something memorable in Texas.
"You look back on a man's career, and these times, these moments are what people are going to remember you by," he said.
Aaron Rowand roamed the outfield here many times while playing for the Chicago White Sox.
"They've lengthened the outfield grass since I've been here, but the ball squirts through the gaps," he said. "In the summertime, the infield can get rock hard. It was soft tonight. But definitely, you have to be aware that it's a quick field."
"I think this offseason I'll do a lot of woodwork, soak my hands in pine tar and take a lot of batting practice," Wilson said. "I need to learn to throw a spitball this offseason so I can effectively pitch with blood on my fingers."
Wilson reportedly used some kind of super glue to close the wound during the game; Bochy declined to make an issue of it.
There's a lesser chance the ceremonial first pitch will be bounced for Game 3. The honor belongs to Nolan Ryan, the Rangers co-owner and major league all-time strikeouts leader.
He points to those experiences in 2008 and '09 with the Hiroshima Carp in helping him gear up for the pressures of the postseason. Lewis twice pitched the Rangers to victories after their losses to the defending champion Yankees in the AL championship series. The Rangers now turn to Lewis to lead them in Game 3.
"We've got to win either way. That's just the way it is," Lewis said. "We have to win four out of five. So, there's no room for error. It's just a situation where we're back at home, and we played really well here. I'm looking forward to it."
The Associated Press contributed to this report. For more on the Giants, see Andrew Baggarly's Extra Baggs blog at blogs.mercurynews.com/extrabaggs.


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Three thumbs up!
The Other Woman starring Cameron Diaz, Leslie Mann and Kate Upton is just plain hilarious! I haven't seen a movie that made me laugh like this in a long time. There's nothing like a woman scorned and in The Other Woman, there's three women scorned! Great comic revenge plot. I definitely give it three thumbs up (not just two)! A must see.
The Best Hollywood Boyfriends:
1. Noah Calhoun- The Notebook
"So it's not gonna be easy. It's going to be really hard; we're gonna have to work at this everyday, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, everyday. You and me… everyday."
2. Jack Dawson- The Titanic
"Winning that ticket, Rose, was the best thing that ever happened to me… it brought me to you. And I'm thankful for that, Rose. I'm thankful."
3. Harry Burns- When Harry Met Sally
"I came here tonight because when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible."
4. Leo Collins- The Vow
"I vow to fiercely love you in all your forms, now and forever. I promise to never forget that this is a once in a lifetime love. And to always know in the deepest part of my soul that no matter what challenges might carry us apart, we will always find our way back to each other."
5. Lloyd Dobler- Say Anything
"What I really want to do with my life — what I want to do for a living — is I want to be with your daughter. I'm good at it."
6. Sam Wheat- Ghost
"I love you, Molly. I've always loved you."
7. Westley- The Princess Bride
"Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while."
8. Patrick Verona- 10 Things I Hate About You
"It's not everyday you find a girl who'll flash someone to get you out of detention."
9. Augustus Waters- The Fault In Our Stars
"I'm in love with you and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I'm in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we're all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we'll ever have, and I am in love with you."
10. Phil- The Other Woman
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Southeast Asia Hits Hard in the Deals Ring
By Isabella Steger and P.R. Venkat
This will be remembered for being the year that Southeast Asia stole the limelight from China, playing host to some of Asia's biggest and most contested mergers and acquisitions.
Bankers say the trend will persist, as increasingly confident Southeast Asian companies vie for assets against multinationals or each other—potentially resulting in too many buyers chasing too few assets.
M&A activity involving companies in Southeast Asia, a region dominated by Singapore and Thailand, stands at its highest level since the 2008 financial crisis. Deals worth $105.4 billion have either been completed or are pending completion this year, an increase of more than 50% from the $68.6 billion involving the region last year, according to Dealogic. It also accounts for a bigger chunk of deal making in the Asia Pacific region outside Japan: 26% this year, compared with 18% in 2011.
Taking center stage is the fight for Singaporean conglomerate Fraser & Neave The fight began when a Thai billionaire bought stakes in the Singapore real-estate and soft-drinks firm and Asia Pacific Breweries, in which Fraser & Neave owned 29.7%, as the first step in taking over F&N. Dutch brewer Heineken responded by buying Fraser & Neave's stake in Asia Pacific Breweries for $4.7 billion. The billionaire, Charoen Sirivadhanabhakdi, then bid for all of F&N. A company owned by Indonesia's wealthy Riady family launched a rival offer with the support of Japan's Kirin Holdings, which owns 15% of F&N and would acquire the drinks business if that bid succeeds.
Fraser & Neave has said both existing offers from Mr. Charoen and the Riadys undervalues the firm.
Should F&N eventually be broken up, bankers say it would be just one of many major restructurings that could come for the region's large corporations, either through spinoffs or breakups.
The saga also highlights other important trends emerging in Southeast Asia's deal scene, say bankers. The first is Southeast Asia's booming economies. The second is the emergence of some of Southeast Asia's largest and wealthiest firms beyond their home markets, where they are dominant.
The F&N deal sees two Southeast Asian billionaires seeking to expand their geographic reach. Another Thai firm, Charoen Pokphand Group, an agriculture conglomerate, which is unconnected to Mr. Charoen, agreed to pay $9.4 billion for HSBC Holdingss entire stake in Chinese life insurer Ping An Insurance (Group) Co. of China Ltd in this month, as it seeks to capitalize on China's growth. That M&A deal is the biggest-ever bid by a Southeast Asian firm for an overseas asset.
"The presence of [Southeast Asian] private wealth in deals means you have a much more diversified group of buyers now in the region," said Therese Esperdy, co-head of banking for Asia Pacific corporate & investment bank at J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. Bankers "have to think out of the box all the time."
Financial services, agriculture and the resources sector should be the most active deal sectors in the region next year, said David Aronovitch, co-head of Morgan Stanley's Southeast Asia investment-banking business. Some of those themes were also visible in 2012.
State-backed Thai oil firm PTT Exploration & Production made waves this year when it beat out Royal Dutch Shellto acquire London-listed, Mozambique-focused natural-gas explorer Cove Energy PLC for £1.22 billion, or US$1.95 billion.
Philippine conglomerate San Miguel sold a majority stake in Bank of Commerce to CIMB Group Holdings Bhd. in May for 881 million ringgit ($288.3 million).
Some insurance operations of Dutch financial-services company ING Groep attracted much interest from Western and regional bidders this year AIA Group paid $1.73 billion for its Malaysian life business and Hong Kong tycoon Richard Li bought the Thai, Hong Kong and Macau businesses for $2.14 billion.
"There are good-sized markets [in Southeast Asia] where population and [economic] growth are coming to a stage where there could be explosive growth in insurance, and where there has traditionally been low penetration," said David Chin, head of investment-banking for Asia at UBS AG.
While Southeast Asia is hot, many companies are either family- or state-owned, leaving very few assets on the block for sale, say bankers. That scarcity factor means those that are for sale don't go cheap.
Heineken's offer for APB, the brewer of Tiger beer, represented a price-to-earnings ratio of 35.1 times estimated 2012 earnings, compared with multiples of 20.3 times for rival Carlsberg Brewery Malaysia.
This month, Singapore-listed Petra Foods Ltd. sold its cocoa ingredients business to Swiss chocolate maker Barry Callebaut for US$950 million to focus on making and distributing products like chocolate, wafers and biscuits. According to CIMB research, the price represents around 14 times Petra's 2011 operating profit. That is pricey compared with some of its listed peers; JB Foods, for example, trades at 4.6 times operating profit.


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Beat! Beat! Drums!
by Walt Whitman
Beat! Beat! Drums! Theme of Death
Death sneaks up on us in "Beat! Beat! Drums!" The first nineteen lines focus on the living, and then suddenly, in the final verses, we're confronted with the image of the dead under their shrouds, waiting for the hearse. After we read these words, the rest of the poem takes on a different, darker meaning. Goes to show you: death is such a forceful theme that one brief mention of it can tinge an entire poem.
Questions About Death
- How are we supposed to understand the reference to the dead at the end of the poem? How might these dead, under their shrouds, relate to the rest of the poem?
- Is it the possibility of death that makes the sound of the drums and bugles so terrible? Do you read the poem differently the second time around, now that you know that death is in the picture?
- Why does our speaker wait until the last two lines to talk about death? Especially in a poem about war, you'd think it would make its appearance a bit sooner.
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Try on an opinion or two, start a debate, or play the devil's advocate.
The image of the dead at the end of the poem is a metaphor: it suggests that the American way of life could also be brought to a sudden end.
The image of the dead at the end of the poem foreshadows the deaths of soldiers that will be caused by the Civil War.


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The Bulls pulled off another come-from-behind victory on Tuesday, defeating Owensboro 6-4 at VFW Stadium.
"Once again we're a comeback team," said Sikeston coach Jamie Puckett. "Our guys seem to rise to the occasion when they are against a wall. They will come out swinging and they won't go down without a fight."
It was a big victory for the team heading into a five-game road trip.
"The guys finally realized, 'hey, we've got to put some runs on the board,'" said Sikeston coach Jamie Puckett. "Our pitchers were doing a great job of keeping us in the game. A couple hits kind of sparks everything. The guys get excited and they want to be a part of it. As one goes, we all go."
Sikeston -- which trailed Farmington on Saturday 6-0 before rallying to win 9-8 -- fell behind 4-0 on Tuesday to Owensboro.
But the Bulls (8-7) scored two runs in the bottom of the sixth and two more in the bottom of the seventh to pull out the victory.
Owensboro took the lead with a four-run fifth highlighted by a three-run home run over the right field fence by Will Devick.
It was the only big mistake Sikeston hurler Robert Anders made.
The right-hander threw seven innings in picking up the win. He allowed four runs off five hits with four strikeouts and five walks.
"He pitched a great game," said Puckett of Anders. "He used his defense well and kept hitters off balance. It's a short porch in right field and that's normally a routine pop fly."
Jeremy Brinkmeyer threw one scoreless inning in the eighth. Todd Otto pitched a scoreless ninth to record the save.
Sikeston cut the Owensboro lead to 4-2 in the bottom of the sixth. Brett Miller and Troy Sitton each had RBI-singles.
Sikeston's Brooks Royer tied the game with a two-run single down the third base line.
Mason Mosby had a fielder's choice-RBI to give the Bulls a 5-4 lead.
Jared Hughes added a sacrifice fly to push the lead to 6-4.
Sikeston's offensive leaders were: Derrick Washington (2 BB, sacrifice bunt, run), Royer (1-2, 2 RBIs), Mosby (1-4, run, RBI), Miller (1-3, RBI, run), Hughes (1-3, sac-fly RBI), Sitton (1-4, RBI), Scott Hudgins (1-4), Chase Kittinger (0-3, BB, run) and Mike Sadler (1-2, HBP, BB, run).
Sikeston will play three games at Tradewater Thursday, Friday and Saturday. The Bulls will then play a doubleheader against Farmington on Sunday.
Sikeston will return home on Wednesday for a doubleheader against the Fulton Railroaders starting at 5:30 p.m.


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Frankie DiVita, radio personality for 96.7 KCAL Rocks, conducted an interview with Christian hard rockers STRYPER at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California as part of the 2011 NAMM (National Association Of Music Merchants) show, a massive music-products convention that took place January 13-16. You can now watch the chat below.STRYPER's new covers album, "The Covering", will be released on February 15. The CD, produced by frontman Michael Sweet, is unlike any previous STRYPER recording in that it's a collection of cover songs from bands that inspired them and helped to shape their sound and musical identity, including hits from JUDAS PRIEST, IRON MAIDEN, LED ZEPPELIN, KANSAS and many others. "The Covering" also includes "God", a new original recording from STRYPER. STRYPER recently released its covers of BLACK SABBATH's "Heaven And Hell" and KANSAS' "Carry On Wayward Son" via iTunes. STRYPER is preparing to enter the studio to start work on a new project as well as tour extensively throughout 2011-2012 in support of the "The Covering". The band also recently joined forces with Union Entertainment Group (NICKELBACK, HINDER, DEFAULT, CINDERELLA, MR. BIG).
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• The use of immunotherapy for acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) is controversial. Twenty-four trials have been reported in which 1,491 patients with AML received various forms of immunotherapy, including BCG, methanol extract residue (MER) of BCG, or Corynebacterium parvum. Some patients were immunized with allogeneic or autologous leukemia blast cells. In only four of the 24 trials was a significant prolongation of remission reported. Pooled data from all 24 studies were analyzed further. No statistically significant difference in duration of remission between patients who received maintenance chemotherapy alone and those who received maintenance chemotherapy plus immunotherapy was found. A significant survival advantage for those patients who received BCG and chemotherapy for maintenance therapy was detected. A beneficial biologic effect for the patients treated with BCG is suggested but this was not a disease-free survival advantage, and had no impact on cure of patients with AML. Immunotherapy, as currently conceived, seems to have no substantial benefit for patients with AML receiving optimal chemotherapy.
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Pennsylvania Passing League is hosting their 3rd annual
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B&Q owners to reduce energy consumption by 10% 17th June, 2013 Daniel Birkett
Kingfisher the owners of DIY and Home improvement giants B&Q have announced a commitment to reduce their energy consumption and give more back to the environment by 2050.
The initiative dubbed the �beyond zero� pledge aims to tackle four areas of the business which are timber, innovation, energy and communities and recent reports suggest progress has been positive. The retailer claims they have reduced their energy consumption by 10% and have lowered CO2 emissions by 3% since the financial year 2010/2011.
The report released by Kingfisher also shows that the sales of energy saving products have also led to a 5 TerraWatt saving by its customers in the last two years. Figures also suggest that a fifth of Kingfisher�s sales are products that could be classed as Eco-friendly. The Group Chief Executive, Ian Cheshire said: It is early days for Net Positive, but exciting progress is already happening.�
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Voices: John Bohnsack, On (Super) Customer Service
John Bohnsack is a client service associate at Briaud Financial Advisers in College Station, Texas.
Each week at our company staff meeting, we discuss ways we can improve our clients' experience. We talk about stories we've heard from other advisers, things we've read in the newspaper—even innovative customer service policies somebody may have observed at a restaurant or department store. We ask if there are any aspects of these observed strategies that we could adopt at our company.
It's made me realize that as advisers, we can make a big improvement in the way we treat our clients by making a few basic changes.
One particular idea that came out of a staff meeting is the practice that advisers meet their clients at the door, no matter what. And if it's raining, we bring an umbrella. When it rains here in this part of Texas, it rains really hard. So when we see a client pull up, we greet them at their car with our giant company umbrella. It's such a simple thing, but it shows the client we're looking out for them.
Another policy is to answer the phone by the second ring. A big reason many clients leave financial planning firms is that they don't feel the adviser is communicating with them regularly enough or returning their calls. When a client calls their financial planner with an urgent issue, they become more anxious with every ring.
We don't want to lose a customer because we're not answering calls, so we answer the phone in two rings. We also respond to emails the same day. Both of these things sometimes require a little extra effort, but the clients really appreciate it when you get their issues resolved quickly.
We also offer new clients a free search for any unclaimed property or assets. This information is typically available at the state treasury website, although we look for it in other places as well. For example, we search for any outstanding checks that didn't get to the client from a utility company if they moved or just missed a check. A lot of times we come up with hundreds of dollars that the client was completely unaware he was missing. It's something they really appreciate, and it's always fun to find money.
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I had instant burning pain, knowing immediately it was hurt. Swelling and severe bruising came next, then I realized that I could not put weight on my foot. I thought my foot was only sprained, since I had a range of motion - I was wrong! One week later the X-ray showed three broken toes.
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I was in an automobile accident. Not only did it break my heel bone it knocked half my teeth out shattered my right hand, broke my right wrist and broke the bone from my elbow to my shoulder. All 3 was fixed with surgery and hardware. It also ruptured 3 disk in my lower back. I had been in the hospital for two days before they looked at my foot after I had told them several times it was broken. They took a CT scan to look at it. All they did was wrap it, no cast, nothing. It stayed swollen for months, at first it was almost the size of a watermelon and was black; it looked and felt horrible and it hurt badly. It's been 5 years, it has not healed properly and hurts all the time. I feel I was mistreated by the doctor, he could have done more.
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I only had a dime-sized tender spot on the top of my foot. The bottom of my foot felt like the bone had dropped down, and it had, but it was not painful. After ice packs on and off for 24 hours, it was still swollen. I got an x-ray for safe keeping and was surprised it was broken. I later read that the small circular ache on top of the foot can be indicative of a stress fracture.
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GOP lawmaker accused of perjury wants charges dismissed
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MONTGOMERY | Lawyers for a legislator accused of perjury have asked for a speedy hearing on a request to dismiss the charges, citing the upcoming election.
Lawyers for Rep. Barry Moore, R-Enterprise, filed the motion Thursday seeking the expedited hearing.
Moore was arrested last month on four felony counts of perjury and making false statements to law enforcement officers.
"Timing of issuance of the indictment achieves interference with fairness and freedom from undue and improper influence in the electoral process in Coffee County, where the primary election will be held on June 3, 2014," defense lawyer Bill Baxley wrote.
The charges stem from Moore's appearance in January before a special grand jury convened by the attorney general's office.
Prosecutors accused Moore of answering questions falsely when Deputy Attorney General Matt Hart asked if he had told his primary opponent that Speaker of the House Mike Hubbard had threatened to hold up money for a local economic development project if he ran against Moore.
"OK, and you didn't assert to him that the speaker had, in fact made that threat?" Hart asked Moore, according to the indictment.
"No sir," Moore replied.
Moore's primary opponent, Josh Pipkin, had recorded a telephone conversation with Moore. Pipkin previously told The Associated Press that he had testified before a grand jury.
Baxley, in the motion, said Pipkin illegally recorded the discussion "for the express purpose of achieving interference" in the upcoming election.
Alabama law allows one person to record a conversation without the other person's knowledge.
However, Baxley is arguing that Moore was in Florida at the time. Florida law requires both parties in a conversation to consent to recording.
Baron Coleman, a representative of Pipkin's campaign, disputed Baxley's interpretation. Coleman said he would not comment on the pending case, but said, "Barry Moore has engaged in a pattern of dishonesty and deception."
A spokeswoman for the attorney general's office said the office would be filing a response in court.
Baxley filed a motion Wednesday seeking to dismiss the charges. He said Moore's testimony was materially honest and that prosecutors' questions were compound and vague. Baxley also argued that Hart and Acting Attorney General Van Davis did not specify what prosecutorial office they were representing.
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The West Virginia Division of Highways announced that a resurfacing project has begun, causing lane closures on I-77 Northbound and Southbound near Mineral Wells starting Wednesday August 28.
The resurfacing project will affect the stretch of I-77 between Buck Run Road and just south of the Mineral Wells exit 170.
Crews will be working Monday-Friday between the hours of 7:00 am and 7:00 pm. Work is expected to be completed on or before September 13, 2013 depending on inclement weather and unforeseen circumstances that may adjust the schedule.
*Important note to the construction schedule. All lanes will be open during the Labor Day Weekend as work will be suspended from Friday August 30th through Monday September 2nd.


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