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The Great Mosque, located at 30 Huajue (Change Feeling) Lane in the center of the city, is the largest and one of the most important Islamic places of worship in China.
It's construction started in 742 AD, the first year of the Tianbao Era of Emperor Xuanrong's reign in the Tang Dynasty, and additions were made during the Song (960-1279), Yuan (1271-1638), Ming (1368-1644), and Qing (1644-1911) dynasties, which makes it an ancient architectural complex representative of many periods of time.
In the Tang dynasty, Islam was introduced to China by the Arabian merchants. Many Muslims settled in China and married Han people. The Great Mosque was constructed at that time to honor the founders of Islam in China. Since then many other mosques have been erected across the county.
Covering an area of 6,000 square meters, the whole complex can be divided into four courtyards. In the first courtyard, there is a wooden arch. The arch is nine meters high, with glaze-covered tiles, and can be traced back to the seventeenth century. Three chambers stand either side of the arch, in which is now displayed some furniture preserved from the Ming and Qing dynasties. In the center of the second yard stands a stone arch with two steles on both sides. On the steles are famous calligraphic writings from prominent ancient calligraphers. The fourth courtyard contains a big prayer hall which can accommodate over a thousand people.
The mosque is a combination of traditional Chinese architecture and Islamic art. In Chinese style, there are a series of pavilions, with the four courtyards of the mosque between them. The wall, however, is decorated with Islamic art.
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Partial care is the care of more than six children on behalf of their parents or caregivers for a temporary period during the day and could include overnight care. Access to partial care and Early Childhood Development (ECD) services are important for child development. South Africa does not have minimum standards for provision of ECD and funding for it is limited. A Children's Bill has been proposed to replace the Child Care Act no 74 of 1983. In the proposed Bill, both partial care and early childhood development will be regulated. This study attempted to explore partial care and early childhood development in Cato Manor, an informal settlement in the process of development. The study was qualitative with a sample of twelve facilities selected from partial care facilities in the community. Interviews were conducted with facilitators from the facilities about their experiences and challenges of providing partial care in the community, using a semi structured interview schedule. Observation of the facilities was also made using an observation checklist to ascertain resources and the physical environment.
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The holidays are fast approaching and with it, the annual rush to send cards and presents. Millions made their way to post offices and mailing centers across the country on Monday. In fact, Fed Ex called it, their "busiest day in history." The company expects to move 19 million packages in just 24 hours. Many consumers are trying to get a jump start on their holiday shipping. "Do it now, do it now," said Brenda Oxenham. "Because the last minute just gets people short tempered and not happy. And lose that Christmas spirit feeling so it's fun to get it started early."
The major reason for the rise in shipping has to do with the growth of online shopping. Experts forecast a growth in web shopping by 17% this holiday season. The convenience is what attracts Oxenham. "Feet up, glass of wine, punch in those little numbers into the computer," she said.
Fed Ex is not the only carrier that's extremely busy. The United States Postal Service is already seeing huge numbers. To help ease the stress, some are opening this Sunday to offer their customers another day to ship. The Palm Desert Hovley Lane office is the only one in the Coachella Valley who will open their doors on Sunday. "It's the need for business we have to, we have to give it to our customers, give them what they're paying for, and we do it day in and day out," said operating manager of the Hovley location Frank Lemos.
The post office's willingness to give its customers more options is not going unnoticed. "I think it's wonderful," said Gail Marovitz. "I think it's a great service."
Here are some important dates to make sure you get your presents to their location by Christmas:
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Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE:A) today announced it has extended a co-marketing agreement with MRM Proteomics Inc., a leading provider of advanced protein quantitation, biomarker and proteomic services. The agreement expands on an existing collaboration established in 2012 and will allow both organizations to bolster their combined proteomics solutions, comprising reagent kits, hardware and software.
"MRM Proteomics is a pioneer in the development of mass-spec-based methods for protein quantification and a leading provider of technologies for the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries," said Steve Fischer, market director for Agilent's Life Science Research Group. "This collaboration further reflects our commitment to building a comprehensive portfolio of quantitative proteomics solutions for those growing industries."
Proteomics is the study of the structure and function of proteins and how they interact within a complex biological system. Agilent's integrated proteomics workflow provides the industry's highest analytical performance and features unprecedented plug-and-play flexibility. Interchangeable workflows simplify setups and let researchers quickly switch between different methodologies. Offering the industry's highest sensitivity and highest throughput quantitation, the Agilent 6495 Triple Quadrupole MS/MS provides targeted MRM peptide quantitation at attomole detection levels.
The field of mass spectrometry continues to widen to meet the growing demands of fundamental proteomics research, biomarker discovery/validation and drug development. MRM Proteomics specializes in the provision of services and kits for the highly multiplexed absolute quantitation of proteins in complex biological samples, such as blood, cerebrospinal fluid and urine, through MRM-MS using isotopically labeled internal standards.
"MRM Proteomics is delighted to expand upon our complementary partnership with Agilent," said Christoph Borchers, chief scientific officer at MRM Proteomics. "Agilent is an ideal partner because of its cutting-edge and high-sensitivity mass spectrometry technologies. The company shares our focus on delivering complete turnkey solutions for targeted quantitative proteomics."
About MRM Proteomics
MRM Proteomics is a leader in providing services and consumable kits for advanced protein quantitation and proteomics to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and diagnostics industries. The company's key technology, targeted quantitative proteomics by MRM-MS, is highly suitable for biomarker discovery/validation, clinical studies, diagnostics and toxicology. Information about MRM Proteomics is available at www.mrmproteomics.com.
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Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE:A) is the world's premier measurement company and a technology leader in chemical analysis, life sciences, diagnostics, electronics and communications. The company's 20,600 employees serve customers in more than 100 countries. Agilent had revenues of $6.8 billion in fiscal 2013. Information about Agilent is available at www.agilent.com.
On Sept. 19, 2013, Agilent announced plans to separate into two publicly traded companies through a tax-free spinoff of its electronic measurement business. The new company is named Keysight Technologies, Inc. The separation is expected to be completed in early November 2014.
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Digitization is driving a fundamental change in society that is transforming the way businesses work with their customers, their supply chains and their people. Digital transformation leverages DevOps best practices, such as Agile Parallel Development, Continuous Delivery and Agile Operations to capitalize on opportunities and create competitive differentiation in the application economy. However, information security has been notably absent from the DevOps movement. Speed doesn't have to negat...
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I'm sure some of you out there are asking yourselves: Why bother doing this? Why not just stay in the suburbs and raise your kids, like everyone else?
And they have a point; that would be the safe thing to do. It would be the prudent thing to do.
But life is an adventure. Mother Theresa said that. "Life is an adventure," she said. "Dare it."
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Barry Spikings
Barry Spikings (born 23 November 1939) is a British film producer who worked in Hollywood. Spikings is best known as a producer of the 1978 film, The Deer Hunter, which won five Academy Awards.
Spikings was born in Boston, Lincolnshire. After leaving Boston Grammar School he joined the local newspaper, the Lincolnshire Standard, as a trainee reporter. Later he joined the Farmers' Weekly, where he won a Golden Ear award for a fifteen-minute film that he produced and directed himself.
Spikings then moved to the entertainment world. Initially, he promoted pop music festivals and later films. In the 1970s, he became the co-owner of British Lion Films; Spikings later joined EMI when it took over British Lion. For the 1978 film, The Deer Hunter, Spikings won an Academy Award for Best Picture. The film also garnered awards for several of its actors.
In 1985, Spikings formed a Canadian company, Nelson Holdings International, with British financier Richard Northcott, to purchase entertainment firms. Nelson later acquired the home video assets of Embassy Pictures from Coca-Cola and film production companies Galactic Films and the Spikings Corporation, and formed Nelson Entertainment.[1][2] Spikings served as president of Nelson Entertainment through the early 1990s. Afterwards, he formed a production partnership with Eric Pleskow.[3]
- 1975: Conduct Unbecoming (producer with Michael Deeley and Andrew Donally)
- 1976: The Man Who Fell to Earth (producer with Michael Deeley)
- 1978: Convoy (executive producer)
- 1978: The Deer Hunter (producer with Michael Deeley, Michael Cimino, and John Peverall)
- Academy Awards 1978: Best Picture, Supporting Actor (Christopher Walken), Director (Cimino), Film Editing, and Sound.
- 1990: Texasville (producer with Peter Bogdanovich)
- 1991: Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (executive producer)
- 1991: Picture This - The Times of Peter Bogdanovich in Archer City, Texas (producer)
- 1991: The Taking of Beverly Hills (executive producer)
- 1994: The Favor (executive producer)
- 1994: There Goes My Baby — also known as The Last Days of Paradise (executive producer)
- 1995: Beyond Rangoon (producer with John Boorman and Eric Pleskow)
- 2013: Lone Survivor (producer with Peter Berg, Sarah Aubrey, Randall Emmett, Norton Herrick, Akiva Goldsman, Mark Wahlberg, Stephen Levinson, Vitaly Grigoriants)


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Henry Trendley Dean
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Henry Trendley Dean (August 25, 1893 – May 13, 1962), was the first director of the U.S. National Institute of Dental Research and a pioneer investigator of water fluoridation in the prevention of tooth decay.
Dean was born in Winstanley Park, Illinois (now part of East St. Louis) on August 25, 1893, the son of William Ware and Rosalie Harriet Dean; his mother's maiden name was Trendley. He received his dental degree from St. Louis University in 1916 and entered private practice that year in Wood River, Illinois. During World War I, he served with the United States Army until 1919, when he returned to his practice. Dean married Ruth Martha McEvoy on September 14, 1921. In 1921, he also entered the United States Public Health Service and was stationed in several US Marine Corps hospitals until 1931 when he was placed in charge of dental research at the National Institute of Health, advancing to director of the dental research section in 1945. After World War II, he directed epidemiologic studies for the Army in Germany. When Congress established the National Institute of Dental Research in 1948, Dean was appointed its director, a position he held until retiring in 1953.
Dean's legacy comes almost entirely from his research into fluoridation. At the urging of Dr. Frederick McKay and others concerned with the brown-staining of teeth in certain regions of the country, Dean was asked to make this his first assignment at the Institute. With the help of his fellow investigators and the cooperation of dentists and other health workers in the field, it was established that high amounts of fluoride in drinking water caused mottled enamel on the teeth, while at the same time precipitating lower rates of dental caries (cavities). The rest of Dean's professional life was spent finding the optimal level of fluoride that would prevent tooth decay yet avoid staining teeth.
After his retirement, Dean joined the American Dental Association as Secretary of its Council on Dental Research. In this role, he continued to advocate and defend the addition of fluoride to public drinking water. He was frequently called to speak on the subject in the United States and abroad, mostly to refute the arguments of those who opposed water fluoridation. In 1949, he was presented with the Gorgas Medal from the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States (AMSUS). He died in 1962, after a long battle with asthma and emphysema.
The International Association for Dental Research has an award named after Dr. Dean, called the H. Trendley Dean Memorial Award, recognizing meritorious research in epidemiology and public health.
- Division of Oral Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. H. Trendley Dean, D.D.S. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 1999;48(41):935. Reprinted in: Division of Oral Health, CDC. Achievements in public health, 1900–1999: fluoridation of drinking water to prevent dental caries. JAMA. 2000;283(10):1283–6. doi:10.1001/jama.283.10.1283. PMID 10714718.
- History of Medicine. National Library of Medicine. H. Trendley Dean Papers 1914–1961 (bulk 1931–1961): biographical note; 2008-10-22 [reviewed 2008-12-10; updated 2009-08-27; Retrieved 2009-12-31].
- The American Catholic Who's Who. Vol. 14. Grosse Pointe, MI: Walter Romig; 1960–1961. Dean, H(enry) Trendley, D.D.S. p. 99.


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Meet Naseem Saiyed
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Karachi, Pakistan in the 1970's was hardly the economic center of the world, and my family could barely support the six of us. As a child, I was not aware of the difficulties that lay ahead, I just wanted to fly airplanes, to be free like a bird. My dream of becoming a pilot, however, was an extremely distant possibility. In the 70's my family, settled in the USA. This was the opportunity of a lifetime. My Mom always emphasized the importance of getting an educationI followed her advice and took classes in aeronautics, math, and physics. My love of airplanes grew even stronger in school.
I got here?
I had worked hard in flight school, and received grades that were good enough to win me scholarships at the University of Portland. These scholarships reduced my tuition significantly. I made up the difference by working 2030 hours a week as tutor, lab assistant and student engineer. I continued the momentum from flight school and took tough coursessometimes five or six in a semester. This hard work paid off when, four years later, I was offered a position at NASA Glenn Research Center (then NASA Lewis Research Center) 3 months before graduation in 1987. I did not stop going to school after joining NASA. NASA in fact encourages its employees to continue learning. I went back to school while working full time at NASA Glenn, and received a Master of Science in Fluid and Thermal Engineering from Case Western Reserve University.
What have I done?
I then moved to aeronautics, working in the Acoustics Technology Branch. I led several experiments at the AeroAcoustic Propulsion Lab (AAPL) to reduce the exhaust noise from the High Speed Civil Transport (a 2.2 Mach commercial airliner), from medium and long-range aircrafts, and from business jets. Once proven to work on model scale in the AAPL and elsewhere within NASA, we went on to test these noise reduction technologies on full scale engines, on engines mounted on pods, and finally on real airplanes. Click on video (2.8 MB) to view and to listen to one of our tests, where we compared the improved exhaust nozzle design on NASA's Learjet 616 to the original design (baseline). If you listen carefully, you'll notice the reduced noise levels in the improved design.
Last year I was selected to participate in a year long NASA Professional Development Program (the PDP). The participants in this program choose to enhance their careers by developing leadership skills in any part of NASAhence continuing education and experience. I choose NASA HQwhere I currently work. I do not know exactly what I will be doing after the professional leadership training ends, but I know that it will be even more exciting than before. I am looking forward to the future. We write reports on everything we do, so we can communicate what we learned with our colleagues around the world, and with future scientists and engineers like yourself.
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Instructions that provide almost all of the information necessary for a living organism to grow and function are in the nucleus of every cell. These instructions tell the cell what role it will play in your body. The instructions are in the form of a molecule called deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA.
DNA is the chemical responsible for preserving, copying and transmitting information within cells and from generation to generation.
In humans, the DNA molecule consists of two ribbon-like strands that wrap around each other, resembling a twisted ladder. This is often described as a double helix. DNA is contained in tightly coiled packets called chromosomes, found in the nucleus of every cell. Chromosomes consist of the double helix of DNA wrapped around proteins. The DNA molecule contains genes that direct the production of proteins.
Proteins are molecules that play a critical role in the structure, function, and regulation of your body's cells, tissues, and organs. Every protein is made up of a chain of building blocks called amino acids. The code that is carried by DNA determines which amino acids will come together in what order to form a given protein. Genes act, or "express," themselves by dictating the order of amino acids used to make proteins.
The twisted ladder is made up of repeating units called nucleotides, each of which is a single building block of DNA. Nucleotides are composed of one sugar-phosphate molecule (the linear strands or outer rails of the ladder) and one base. DNA consists of two nucleotide strands joined by weak chemical bonds between the two bases, forming base pairs. A base pair is a rung or step on the ladder of the DNA. The bases are called A (for adenine), C (for cytosine), T (for thymine) and G for guanine.
DNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid, is the hereditary material in humans and almost all other organisms. Nearly every cell in a person's body has the same DNA. Most DNA is located in the cell nucleus (where it is called nuclear DNA), but a small amount of DNA can also be found in the mitochondria.
DNA provides the set of coded instructions required by every organism for specifying its traits. The DNA molecule also provides for a reliable way for parents to pass their genetic code from one generation to the next. Heredity refers to this passage of these instructions from one generation to another.
Gene-Chromosome Model
Hereditary information is contained in genes, which are composed of DNA, located in the chromosomes of each cell. Chromosomes are found in the nucleus of each cell.
Each gene carries a separate piece of information. An inherited trait of an individual can be determined by one gene, but is usually determined by the interaction of many different genes.
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Operative approach is considered:
to be an integral part of a procedure no code assigned except rarely
When conversion from a -scopic to an open approach becomes necessary
only the open procedure is coded
Biopsy code is not assigned:
when a lesion removed for therapeutic purposes is sent to the laboratory for examination.
When biopsy is incidental to removal of other tissue during a procedure
both the procedure and the biopsy are coded-more definitive procedure sequenced 1st.
Biopsy performed immediately before a definitive procedure is begun
therapeutic code sequenced first
Frozen-section examination of open biopsy of left breast mass followed by left radical mastectomy
85.45 -- Unilateral radical mastectomy
85.12 -- Open biopsy of breast
Exploratory laparotomy with needle biopsy of pancreas.
54.11 -- Exploratory laparotomy
52.11 -- Closed [aspiration] [needle] [percutaneous] biopsy of pancreas
Coronary angioplasty is:
inherent in the placement of a coronary stent
code angioplasty00.66 or 36.03 stent insertion 39.90 or 00.55
00.44 -- Procedure on vessel bifurcation
Is used to identify the presence of a vessel bifurcation. It doesn't describe a specific bifurcation stent. maybe used only once per operative episode regardless of the number of vessel bifurcations.
Other immobilization, pressure, and attention to wound
93.59 Assigned for placement of a headframe fro steriotactic radiosurgery
Arthrotomy of right knee with excision of right medial meniscus and patellar shaving
80.6 excision of meniscus
77.66 shaving of patella
Right frontal craniotomy with resection of osteoma of frontal bone
01.6 -- Excision of lesion of skull
Dilation and curettage, uterus
Cervical biopsies, punch
Multiple vulvar biopsies
69.09 -- Other dilation and curettage
67.12 -- Other cervical biopsy
Punch biopsy of cervix NOS
71.11 -- Biopsy of vulva
Atherectomy of iliac artery with injection of thrombolytic agent and stent insertion
39.50 -- Angioplasty or atherectomy of other non-coronary vessel(s)
99.10 -- Injection or infusion of thrombolytic agent
39.90 -- Insertion of non-drug-eluting peripheral vessel stent(s)
00.40 Procedure on a single vessel
00.45 Insertion of one vascular stent
Exploratoy laparotomy
Incidental appendectomy
Intraoperative cholangiogram
Common bile duct exploration with dilation of sphincter of Oddi
(omit code-operative approach)
51.22 -- Cholecystectomy
47.19 -- Other incidental appendectomy
87.53 -- Intraoperative cholangiogram
51.81 Dilation of sphincter of Oddi
51.51Exploration of common duct
Single vessel percutaneous coronary angioplasty with use of thrombolytic agent and insertion of stent
00.66 Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty [PTCA] or coronary atherectomy
99.10 Injection or infusion of thrombolytic agent
36.06 Insertion of non-drug-eluting coronary artery stent(s)
00.45 Insertion of one vascular stent
00.40 Procedure on a single vessel
Endoscopic insertion of stent in pancreatic duct
00.45 (Okay, but 00.45 not needed with 52.93)
Removal of acoustic neuroma
via Stereotactic Cobalt-60 radio surgery
Placement of head frame
Computerized axial tomography of brain
Tab list for V codes located:
immediately after the final chapter of the main classification in vol.1
V codes as first listed diagnosis
specific aftercare like removal of orthopedic pins
sole purpose of special therapy IE radiotherapy, chemotherapy, or dialysis
Person not ill, but organ donor, receives prophylactic care, or counseling
Birth status of newborn
After care variety
surg for Neoplasms V58.42
injury and trauma V58.43
surg. to spec body systems V58.71-V58.78
Rape is not a medical diagnosis:
but a matter of jurisprudence. Do not assign V71.5 is rape is confirmed
status V codes
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On Friday 28 March 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote:[color=blue][color=green][color=darkred]
> > > Could somebody please fix the RTC mess in kconfig now ?[/color]
> >
> > My version has been sitting in MM for a while now.[/color]
> could you please provide an URL or the patch itself so that others who
> hit this issue and read this thread can apply the fix?[/color]
I merged the two patches (gentle, then harsh) so the result is
smaller. Here you go.
- dave
Prevent the most significant RTC configuration problems:
- If the new RTC framework is enabled, don't allow any of the
legacy drivers to be configured.
- When using generic RTC on x86, enable rtc-cmos by default.
It seems too many people are used to enabling a legacy RTC despite
the Kconfig help/comments; the gentle approach hasn't worked.
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <firstname.lastname@example.com>
drivers/char/Kconfig | 8 ++++++++
drivers/rtc/Kconfig | 5 +----
2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
--- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/char/Kconfig 2008-03-28 02:35:58.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6/drivers/char/Kconfig 2008-03-28 02:39:17.000000000 -0700
@@ -704,6 +704,12 @@ config NVRAM
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
module will be called nvram.
+# These legacy RTC drivers just cause too many conflicts with the generic
+# RTC framework ... let's not even try to coexist any more.
+if RTC_LIB=n
config RTC
tristate "Enhanced Real Time Clock Support"
depends on !PPC && !PARISC && !IA64 && !M68K && !SPARC && !FRV && !ARM && !SUPERH && !S390
@@ -812,6 +818,8 @@ config DS1302
will get access to the real time clock (or hardware clock) built
into your computer.
+endif # RTC_LIB
config COBALT_LCD
bool "Support for Cobalt LCD"
depends on MIPS_COBALT
--- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/rtc/Kconfig 2008-03-28 02:35:58.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6/drivers/rtc/Kconfig 2008-03-28 02:39:12.000000000 -0700
@@ -20,10 +20,6 @@ menuconfig RTC_CLASS
if RTC_CLASS
-if GEN_RTC || RTC
-comment "Conflicting RTC option has been selected, check GEN_RTC and RTC"
config RTC_HCTOSYS
bool "Set system time from RTC on startup and resume"
depends on RTC_CLASS = y
@@ -303,6 +299,7 @@ comment "Platform RTC drivers"
config RTC_DRV_CMOS
tristate "PC-style 'CMOS'"
depends on X86 || ALPHA || ARM || M32R || ATARI || PPC || MIPS
+ default y if X86
Say "yes" here to get direct support for the real time clock
found in every PC or ACPI-based system, and some other boards.
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by Hilary Cosell
Cyndi Lauper has told us that Girls Just Want to Have Fun and Madonna-ism suggests that maybe it's time to trade in those leather briefcases, ladies, for some hot-pink number from Frederick's of Hollywood. Cosell (yes, she's Howard's daughter) is second-guessing the feminist "have-it-all" thinking in another way. A former dresser for success, Co-sell says she once did have it all or most of it: power, independence, money and a glamorous TV job producing sports segments for NBC. "So imagine my shock, my near-trauma, when I realized that I wanted something else," she writes. "When I realized that I loved my job and hated it. That it was my whole life. That it was no life at all." So she got married and life became rosier; she also began interviewing successful but conflict-ridden women. Co-sell argues that no matter what a woman tells her shrink, broker or health club guru, deep down she considers herself a true success only if she is married and has children: "I think that when you toss away the rhetoric and push the manifestos off the tabletop, there are very few women who do not define success primarily in terms of...their marital status and motherhood." Cosell's interviews focus so heavily on the negative side of building a career that one wonders why any woman in her right mind works. "Life is too short to spend all your days maneuvering toward a chief-executive-officer post," says one jaded interviewee. Most of the women say they have friends who devoted their 20s and 30s to their careers and find at 40 that they are only overworked and underloved. Yet on page 126 Co-sell states, "As I write these words I feel like running to the mirror to see if I have turned into Phyllis Schlafly." Cosell herself is obviously guilt-wracked by her feelings; one symptom is her repeated apologies for feeling the way she does. She is an energetic writer and raises provocative questions, but the book often comes off whiny and defensive. Why not face it: For years men have complained that success is not always what it's cracked up to be. Isn't it only true equality that women now find that out, too? (Putnam, $14.95)
Picks and Pans Review: Woman on a Seesaw
updated 05/27/1985 AT 01:00 AM EDT
•originally published 05/27/1985 AT 01:00 AM EDT


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I'm bullish but today I think it will trend down due to massive buying yesterday. I sold this morning and will buy back later. I don't think the NYT earnings announcement will help us as they are projected to lose money.
I'm out....and happy to take the profit. GCI is moving with the market and the stock should pull back before trending up again -- the money flow is over 100 way overbought. JMO good luck to all the longs. I'll buy back next week once more earnings are out.
You sound like a trading addict. You're going to miss the long-term gains here, by finding yourself out, when it suddenly makes a dramatic move, in the next few weeks/months.
I think you're being penny-wise and pound foolish. MAKE NO MISTAKE: the Street-beating profit, and statements of management in the conference call and press release represent a SEA CHANGE for this company, that the Street has ONLY begun to digest. Just keep repeating the mantra: $1.50 in EPS in 2009, and $2.50 in 2010....and you'll understand why selling this thing at 3x 2009 EPS and 2x 2010 EPS is INSANE.
I USED to have sell orders in at $4.95 or so (and that's after buying a lot more at $3.20-3.75)....but, after the earnings release, my lowest sell order is like at $6.95 now....and that's for a very small percentage (5%) of my total holdings.
This stock is going to EXPLODE, when the Street sees a turnaround in ad spending, over the next few-several months. I'm guessing $15-20 in a year, actually.
You will regret it soon!
Stock does look strong....looks like alot of short covering buying. Volume is quite high. GCI will move with the market; if the market ends up we might close above $4.60.
Looks like we will consolidate here for a bit. Chart looks like it wants to pull back as the RSI and money flow are closing in on 100. It really depends on the market and the shorts. If the S&P shoots past 950 the shorts will be forced to cover and may push the stock over $6. But with 85% of companies yet to report I think we will move with the market. But if you are a long term investor close your eyes for a year and come back to a $10 stock.
When I woke up and heard about the CIT fiasco I knew the market would pull back so I sold. I still believe that the long trend is up as we are undervalued. I also know NYT is scheduled to report next week...they are not doing well like GCI and will lost $.
I will wait for the $9 or $10 per share buyout bid in a few weeks to sell my shares!
Once the first salvo is fired, we could see a rush of potential activity and competing bids for GCI before the end of the year.
A final $12-$14 takeover price by October or November seems fair to me.
i,ll buy and wait for your mother naked.thanks.
I was abit early with my call but it can't go up in a straight line...a significant pull back is coming.
It's interesting. Gannett skyrockets ... McClatchy skyrockets ... Media General skyrockets ... but the New York Times beats the street and does nothing and even drops some.
Eight cents a share (what it earned excluding tax gains and charges) beats the four cent expected loss.
Is that the problem?
Yes, it's down 5 cents at this moment on very high volume of 1.64 million shares, less than one hour into trading. But given the overnight strength and this small pull-back it doesn't look so bad. Not as bad as I thought the profit taking would be following Wednesday's run-up. This looks like strength to me. I am holding for a limit price north of $5 but would never fault profit taking. Of course, at 4 p.m. we may be sub-$4 and I'll look like a chump. I don't think so, though.


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wondering if anyone knows anything about this man or his hunting operation. located in alaska. hunts the alaska range around wood river?? did a search in the archives, not much there. any info is appreciated. specifically looking for moose in alaska info.
P.M. sent
Hunted bear with him in 93 so he's been around a long time.
Hunted sheep with him in 08. modest camp but great guides and hunt.
Hunted with him last year. Great outfit and great guides. I shot a nice dall sheep and a huge moose. PM me for more info if needed.


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Prayer Warrior. EXTREMELY dependable friend who would drive miles just to cheer up a friend. And...no matter what anyone says...SHE is the blackest girl you will ever meet. She also has a lot of opinions.
OMG, Chelli, I need you to pray for me!
Chelli, you so gangsta.
A Chelli always says, "I have a lot of opinions."
Chelli, you so gangsta.
A Chelli always says, "I have a lot of opinions."
by C-RIZ January 24, 2010
Trending Now
Can you define these popular missing words?
The act of fluffing a mans balls, similar to tossing an actual salad
My boyfriend began performing a chellis on my balls.
by kaleidoclops May 13, 2010
A fat stupid beast that was born from a lump of shit, and as a result of the earlier anal sex the cum and shit formed a "person" a very very stupid, annoying asshole that should die and rot in a festering pile shit.
God, Chelli is such a stupid bitch...


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• We report a 14-year-old boy with severe hypertension who was cured by surgical removal of a pheochromocytoma. The tumor was shown biochemically and morphologically to secrete predominantly noradrenaline. The metabolic effects noted in this patient were raised free fatty acid levels and depressed insulin levels, hyperreninemia, hypercalcemia, and hypercalciuria with normal parathyroid function. All these abnormalities returned to normal after removal of the tumor. It is suggested that these effects were mediated via β-adrenergic stimulation of the excess noradrenaline.
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Morten Hansen
Focus: Creating great companies, collaboration, corporate transformation, leadership
Morten Hansen's most recent book is Great by Choice, co-authored with Jim Collins. You can visit Morten's webpage for more information on this and his other book "Collaboration," www.mortenhansen.com.
Prior to joining the I School, Morten T. Hansen was professor at Harvard Business School and at INSEAD, France, where he retains a part-time role. He holds a Ph.D. in Business Administration from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. His award-winning research has been published in Administrative Science Quarterly, Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Journal, Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, among others. He speaks and consults for large companies throughout the world.
What is the best thing about working at the I School?
What information issues interest you most?
Your current research focuses on business administration and management. What do you see as the greatest management challenges in the information arena?
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on 1 Jan, 1970
A few hours ago, the press embargo on 'Inception' was lifted and the reviews have been pouring in! And they're absolutely raving! To get an overview – without getting spoilers – please visit Nolan Fans' Review Post. Here some Marion quotes I found:
Marion Cotillard, who keeps surprising us with her versatility. She explodes off the screen here – like a vivid flame, flickering in and out.
– Awards Daily
And although she has less screen time than the rest of the cast, Cotillard shines as the film's cloest thing to a femme fatale. She's certainly better served here than she was in Public Enemies.
The actors certainly give it their all: Cotillard is a presence both sultry and menacing.
– Variety
A terrific Marion Cotillard
– Box Office Magazine
In Inception that loss of control – the scariest thing Nolan can imagine, it seems – is represented in the haunting beauty of Marion Cotillard.
There's another very good comment about Marion from HitFix.com – but it's a bit spoiler-ish so I'm putting it below the cut.
Cotillard spends the entire film as a ghost, an echo, a memory that manages to keep opening fresh wounds in Dom's heart and his mind, and it's agonizing work to watch. All of the film's mysteries hinge on Cotillard's character, and I'm amazed how uncomfortable she made me in the film. There's no make-up on her, no special effects to make her frightening. It's the emotional content of the sequences she's in that left me deeply unsettled, and in a way, my one hesitation about the film is just how raw and difficult it is.
– HitFix.com
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oh my! this is awesome! and now i'm even MORE excited to see the film.Jul 06, 10 at 3:40 pm
Was the whole film a dream? If so, WHOSE DREAM??Aug 06, 10 at 8:13 pm
the ending of the movie was very rosebud-esk, here is a joke I saw about inception,


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What is scabies?
Scabies is a skin condition that is caused by scabies mites. Scabies mites are tiny bugs that burrow, lay eggs, and live underneath the skin.
What causes scabies?
Scabies is spread through close contact with a person who has scabies. This includes having sex, sleeping in the same bed, or sharing towels or clothing. Scabies spreads quickly and must be treated as soon as it is found.
What are the signs and symptoms of scabies?
Most people do not know they have scabies until a few weeks after mites are under the skin. Scabies mites are too small to be seen on your body. You may have bad itching that is usually worse at night. Signs of scabies include red, raised bumps, or burrow marks. Burrow marks look like short wavy lines on the skin. They may be found on and between your fingers, wrists, ankles, elbows, groin, armpits, and breasts. Children may also have them on the hands, feet, body folds, and head.
How is scabies diagnosed?
Your caregiver will examine your skin. He will put mineral oil on your skin and scrape across it with a tiny blade. The skin scraping will be checked for eggs, mites, or their droppings under a microscope. Sometimes caregivers do not find signs of mites from scraping, but may treat you for scabies anyway.
How is scabies treated?
There is more than one medicine cream that may be used to treat scabies. Always read the directions and follow your caregiver's directions for scabies medicines.
- Your caregiver may tell you to rub a thin layer of the medicine onto your entire body from the neck down. For babies and toddlers, you may also be told to rub the medicine on the scalp.
- Leave the cream on for the amount of time that is required for the medicine you are using. This may be between 8 to 14 hours.
- Take a bath or shower to wash all medicine from the skin after the scabies treatment is over.
- Put on clean clothes after you have rinsed the medicine off. You may need another scabies treatment in about 7 to 10 days if you continue to have symptoms.
What can I do about the itching?
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How do I prevent the spread of scabies?
- Treat all family members with scabies medicine. Tell all sex partners and anyone who has shared your clothing or bed for the past month about the scabies. Tell them to use scabies medicine even if they have no itching, rash, or burrow marks.
- Wash all items that you have used since 3 days before you learned about your scabies. Use hot water to wash all clothing, bedding, and towels. Dry them for at least 20 minutes on the hot cycle of a dryer. Dry clean items that cannot be washed in a washing machine. Place any clothing or bedding that cannot be washed or dry cleaned in a closed plastic bag for 1 week.
- Do not have close body contact with anyone until the scabies mites are gone.
When should I contact my caregiver?
Contact your caregiver if:
- The bites become filled with pus or crusty.
- The itching gets worse after the scabies treatment.
- You have new bite or burrow marks after your treatment.
- You have questions or concerns about your condition or care.
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Seek care immediately or call 911 if:
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Any solid group should have two things: big deals and lots of them.
A colleague of mine once put it more colorfully: "I'm not a big deal. I just close them."
Most bankers would agree that they got into the field to affect great change in a sector through strategic decisions (e.g. mergers and acquisitions) – or at least, that's what they told the interviewers.
And it's hard to beat the basic materials sector if you want to make big changes: where else could you buy and sell entire gold or diamond mines?
"Basic materials" refers to discovering raw materials and processing them; the 3 main sectors are i) metals and mining, ii) paper, packaging and forestry products, and iii) chemicals.
It's sort of like a collaboration between industrials and natural resources, with an emphasis on cross-border transactions.
In the first part of this mini-series, we'll cover the metals and mining angle and you'll learn:
- How to break in
- What goes down in Team Mining
- How the coverage universe is broken down, including industry and valuation drivers
- Analytical topics, including operating and valuation metrics for both companies and mines
- Life after getting out of the most underground banking department
Now, off to the mines…
Out of the Classroom and Into the Mines
Q: Where do metals/mining bankers come from?
A: Canada (laughs). And Australia!
I'm kidding.
Most people in my group were placed here through the campus recruiting process, and some of the senior bankers lateraled over from other banks' M&A departments.
One guy I know was even recruited from the Colorado School of Mines.
The backgrounds here really run the gamut, and a geology background is neither necessary nor sufficient.
It may help to shape your story, but that can easily be accomplished with other means (ex: extracurriculars).
I read an article about how a senior financial institutions banker was inspired to pursue the calling based on her family's ownership of a private banking business. And there are plenty of other examples – such as a US Marine Corps officer joining an aerospace/defense banking coverage group.
Really, the sky is the limit when it comes to your story, so put on your thinking cap and learn to spin your way into sounding relevant.
Metals and Mining 101: Scoping the Project to Assure Value
Q: So what does your coverage universe look like? And where do you find metals and mining groups at banks?
A: My group can be found in the industrials group, the natural resources group, or in a team called basic materials – so really, we could turn up anywhere.
Geopolitical factors aside, the main demand-side factor with any mineral is end use, while supply-side factors include operational issues, production constraints, and capacity.
Production constraints aren't a limit on machinery; it's a limit imposed by a sort of collusion among producers.
For example, if there's too much aluminum in the market, producers will agree to limit production to prevent further declines in the mineral's price. It's similar to what OPEC does for oil, only it doesn't seem as controversial since aluminum prices attract less attention.
Moving to a broader perspective, the universe can be divided into these sectors:
Diversified: (key players: Glencore, Vale, BHP Billiton, Anglo American)
BMO Capital Markets noted that holding companies such as Glencore trade at a discount to the sum of their asset values due to a lack of specific access to cash flow, the fact that any bid to subsidiaries would result in a share ownership transfer, and the fact that subsidiaries' dividend tax is relegated to the parent.
(NB: For an in-depth overview of the market for any of the following minerals, please refer to the US Geological Surveys Mineral Information)
Base Metals:
Aluminum: (key players: Alcoa, UC Rusal, China Aluminum Corp – CHALCO)
Historically, producers in this area have selected capacity such that price is equal to the marginal cost of production. In the case of alumina, the input costs include fuel oil, natural gas, caustic soda, and bauxite.
For primary aluminum, the inputs are alumina, electricity, carbon, and materials (source: Alcoa company data).
Compared to other base metals, aluminum is a dominant component used in transportation and packaging. If you're asking about the price of aluminum, you'll need to refer to the London Metals Exchange.
Copper: (key players: Freeport McMoran, Southern Copper)
In contrast to aluminum, the New York Mercantile Exchange (COMEX) and the Shanghai Futures Exchange (SHFE) also influence the price of this mineral.
Not surprisingly, diesel, coal, natural gas, and electricity are important inputs. Copper demand reflects construction and industrial production.
Mining operations' output and recycled scrap material contribute to the supply of copper (source: Newmont Mining company filings). Copper is a dominant component used in infrastructure and electrical applications (source: Brook Hunt).
Iron/Steel: (key players: Arcelor Mittal, Gerdau, Nucor)
These producers compete on quality, cost, and innovation (research for new uses of the minerals).
The demand-side factors, as with any industrial item, include inventory levels, currency fluctuations, and import/export activity. The raw materials here include iron ore, sinter ore, coal, coke, and steel scrap (source: US Steel company filings).
Flat rolled products are a dominant component used in automotive parts and construction products. Tubular goods are heavily used in oil/gas operations.
Nickel: (key players: Norilsk Nickel)
Applications include the production of stainless steel and in the creation of alloys. Compared to other base metals, nickel is a dominant component used in consumer durables and industrial equipment.
Zinc: This mineral can be used in batteries or in the creation of alloys; it's also used as a catalyst and in the production of white paint. Compared to other base metals, zinc is a dominant component used in construction.
Precious Metals:
Gold: (key players: Barrick, Goldcorp, Newmont Mining)
This might come as a surprise to you, but the end product of a gold miner is not gold, but doré bars.
These items are made of gold, silver, and other minerals, and are then sent off to refiners to be finished into what you and I would expect to see.
The applications for gold include investment and fabrication (ex: jewelry and decorative uses). Gold owned by governments, corporations, and individuals contribute to the gold supply supported by mining operations.
Silver: (key players: Silver Wheaton, Pan American Silver Corp, Coeur D'Alenes)
The demand for silver is fueled by its most common uses – coins and awards, household wares, industrial uses, and photography.
Q: That was a pretty thorough walkthrough of your coverage universe. But the name of the game is "metals and mining" – where are diamonds in all this? Were they stolen in a heist?
A: Some banks have a coverage team devoted to this area.
You know how San Francisco is home to technology investment banks, and New York has plenty of financial institutions groups (FIG) bankers; South Africa is where it's at when it comes to diamonds.
Standard Chartered actually has a team there devoted to diamonds and jewelry coverage.
Mining Equipment Equivalents: Your Transferable Skills
Q: So how do analysts and associates compare mining companies or mining projects to each other?
A: Let's start with a few trading multiples and operating metrics:
Comparable company metrics include:
- Price / NAV (Net Asset Value): With this one, you value the mining company's assets (gold, silver, etc.), subtract its liabilities and divide by the share count to get NAVPS.
- Price / NPV: (Shown as a percent)
- Dividend Yield
- Commodity Exposure (see pg. 7): Portfolio summary of what a mining company's business entails.
- Reserves and Resources: Reserves are minerals that are more certain to be extractable and to hold value that's confirmed by an assessor. You go through a process of converting metals into "equivalent" units so you can compare, for example, a copper producer to a gold producer.
And you would use the following multiples for Reserves and Resources:
- Enterprise Value / Mineral. Eq. (Ex: Cu. Eq. = Copper Equivalent) Reserves
- Enterprise Value / Mineral. Eq. Resources
With mining, there is also a distinction between "Resources" and "Reserves" – Reserves are more likely to be extracted from the ground.
Reserves can be split into "Measured" and "Indicated" categories (often abbreviated to M&I, how fitting), while Resources can be split into "Measured," "Indicated," and "Inferred."
Technical reports are based on Reserves because they are more conservative, but investors also look to Resources for a truer picture of what the company's assets might be worth.
It's similar to what oil & gas companies do with their reserves, but there are more categories and sub-categories here because there's more subtlety with determining whether or not mineral resources are truly viable – and there may be more steps to complete when extracting them.
Operating Metrics for Mining Projects include:
- Mineral Eq. Grade: Essentially the concentration of the desired mineral. It's just the ratio of the amount of mineral desired / (amount of mineral desired + unwanted ore).
- Stage: How far along the mining project has progressed. If you're interested in equity capital markets, or equity origination, less certain projects might be of interest to traders and speculators; more stable projects are of interest to institutional buyers (ex: endowments, pensions funds, etc.). The stages include Scoping Study (for early-stage projects – includes inferred resources), Pre-Feasibility (Stricter calculation requirements and includes reserves and resources), Feasibility, Construction, and In-Production.
- Average Mineral Production
- Reserves and Resources Composition
- Cash Cost of Net Product Sold, By Product (Currency / Mineral): This is similar to Cost of Goods Sold for manufacturing or retail companies – it would include all of the expenses for producing each unit of mineral, plus potentially other payments such as royalties.
- Development CapEx
Then there are different ways of looking at transaction metrics for both mining projects and mining companies. For mining projects, you might look at Precedent Premium Analysis (for 1-month, 1-week, 1-day, and so on).
The numbers there would be affected by the Approach – Hostile deals usually have higher premiums than Friendly deals – the Stage (Development, Production, or Mix) – you would pay more for a more certain cash flow stream – and the Commodity (Copper, Gold, Aluminum, etc.).
The following metrics and multiples are specific to company acquisitions:
- Tangible Asset Backing: Corporate acquirers use this framework to determine the value-add of what was acquired. This approach assumes the target's machinery is still in use.
- Multiple of Net Assets
- Market Price / Gross Cash Flow
For the diversified companies, it may be useful to compare the NPV (asset sum taking out debt and cash) to a Sum-of-the-Parts analysis.
I've seen a couple variations on the latter; some analysts like to compute a DCF value for each division (NB: use EBITDA – Capex as a proxy for FCF), while others like to collect a set of trading comparables and multiply their range by the EBITDA of the individual departments.
Q: Wow, I can't imagine that anyone will actually mine for more metrics or multiples after all that. What really drives valuation for mining companies, though?
A: Cash flow. You see there are a lot of approximations around how much of a mineral a mining company can produce, and that's because they're using the production levels to approximate cash flow.
The values of these individual mining projects contribute to the total value of the company.
If you are going to acquire a mining company, you're essentially buying land, equipment, and the management know-how to tap resources – assuming, of course, that the top brass stays at the firm following the integration.
A press release on the discovery or confirmation of a mine's potential will lead a company's stock price to pop up.
Q: Got pitch books?
A: Sure, here are a few you can look at:
- Continental Minerals: by BMO Capital Markets
- Konkola Copper Mines: by Rothschild
- Gerdau Ameristeel: by RBC Capital Markets
Also, refer to the following valuation letters and fairness opinions:
- Smelter Acquisition: by Xstrata
- Alpha Natural Resources / Massey Energy: by Morgan Stanley and Perella Weinberg
As you can see in the Alpha Natural Resources / Massey Energy pair of fairness opinions, the valuation metrics can be very similar to those used in the industrials sector.
You've got EV / EBITDA and Price / EPS. To the list of valuation approaches, you could add:
- Illustrative Future Stock Price: Start with Historical Enterprise Value / NTM EBITDA, and find out the average share price. Use a multiple to find the future enterprise value, and from there calculate the average share price again. Convert it into today's currency using the Cost of Equity (see: page 105 of Alpha Natural Resources / Massey Energy).
- Implied Exchange Ratio Analysis: Essentially you assume an all-stock transaction and divide the target's price per share by the acquirer's price per share.
Out of the Mines and Into the Molehill?
Q: So what should our readers look at if they're interested in metals and mining?
A: For starters, the Bloomberg command METT <GO> provides mining sector news.
Financial Times, The Economist, Wall Street Journal, and the book Fisher Investments on Materials are all good resources.
Going beyond the usual suspects, Big Four accounting firms such as Ernst & Young do publish thought pieces on the sector.
In terms of industry newsletters, you should look at Metal Miner, Metal Bulletin, and Platts.
If you want something from an investment bank, run a search for 'HSBC Metals Quarterly.'
Also check out Miningfeeds.com – as you probably know, the internet provides way too much data that can be analyzed. So you've got to pick and choose for yourself what you think is relevant.
In your industrials article, you mentioned primers on aerospace and defense. Here's a rather dated, but similar and still high-quality primer: "Hard Rock to Heavy Metal Amid Scarcity" by UBS.
For a fundamental perspective, you can try Ian R. Campbell's series on mining company valuation, which discusses in great detail the more qualitative aspects (read: risks, macro-view, etc.) of mining company analysis.
Lastly, a more academic perspective can be found published by Basinvest.
Q: Wow, thanks for all that. If you're reading this, you have no excuse for not performing well in any IB interviews with metals & mining groups.
What are the most common deal types in your group?
A: Metals and mining is definitely known for cross-border mergers and acquisitions.
You've got to deal with currency fluctuations and, of course, the legal aspect of whether the target is a "strategic asset" in the eyes of the government.
If you're looking for a strong investment banking experience (e.g., advisory and capital markets assignments), look no further than JP Morgan, Citi, and Goldman Sachs – in that order.
Q: So do people in your group really come from Canada? And if so, where do they go afterward?
A: Many mining bankers can be found in Canada (Toronto), United States (Chicago, New York), and the UK (London). Australia is also a huge center for mining, with a lot of activity in Perth but also in Melbourne and Sydney.
As with any other group, activity will be strong where mining companies are active – you don't exactly see any mines in Manhattan, but there are mines in some of the surrounding areas on the East Coast.
A good number of commodity funds specifically ask for a mining background. Some other buy-side shops also appreciate the background.
At the same time, I've seen former metals/mining bankers move into corporate strategy within an investment bank, or join or start a start-up in the sector (not exactly a capital-efficient industry, but hey, it's an interesting ride nonetheless).
As you may already know, it's not so much what you do in an investment banking division, but how much you can accomplish with what's on your plate.
Q: Thanks so much for your help!
A: Anytime. If you have questions, please leave your comments below.


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A 46-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the murder of prison officer David Black, the Police Service of Northern Ireland said today.
Over 1,000 mourners thronged Molesworth Presbyterian Church and adjoining hall in Cookstown, Co Tyrone, yesterday, for the funeral of Mr Black, the 52-year-old the prison officer murdered on his way to work in Maghaberry Prison, last Thursday.
He was the first prison officer to be murdered in the North in nearly 20 years.
The man was arrested in the Lurgan area. He has been taken to Antrim police station for questioning.
Three men previously held in connection with the murder have been released without charge.
Two were arrested on Friday morning in the Lurgan area and both were released unconditionally on Sunday night, according to the PSNI.
A 29-year-old suspect arrested in Co Leitrim on Friday night was released from Garda custody on Monday and a file is being prepared for the DPP.


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Lies. Chocolate is HIGH in phytic acid. It is a bean. It has many other plant toxins like all other seeds, legumes, kernels, nuts, grains and whatever else the reproductive thing of a plant is called. It doesn't want to be eaten, period.
Chocolate will make the tooth fluids run the opposite way, discolor your teeth and eventually start a small cavity. Chocolate is extremely BITTER in its natural state, only when binding it with other 'agents' and sugar is when it becomes palatable to us.
Go buy 100% cocoa and try and eat it...you'll see.
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There's only one store in my area that carries the Black & Green chocolate, but the highest % is 70%. I bought it because I'm still enteringthe world of dark chocolate, so I need to work my way up with higher %. Anyway, I found Lindt chocolate that goes up to 90%, but wasn't sure on the quality. I know I can order online, but money is a big factor for me. I'd rather just not have the chocolate and spend my $ on more meats and veggies. If the Lindt is good quality though, I would buy a bar because it will last me awhile as I don't have it every day.
So can anyone give me advice/ opinions on the 90% Lindt?
85% cocoa Lindt for me. Or EV coconut oil mixed with unsweetened cocoa + stevia. Sometimes I'd throw some all natural almond butter into the mix.
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FRIONA - A Hereford woman will take the city manager position in Friona, beginning next week, said Friona Mayor John Taylor.
Terri Johnson, the city secretary of Hereford, will take over the position vacated by Paula Wilson. Wilson, Friona's city manager for 10 years, starts as Tulia's city manager today.
The Friona city council approved Johnson's hiring March 24.
Johnson, who has worked at the city since 1978, said she is a little overwhelmed at the prospect of being the one in charge.
But, "it was an opportunity that I just couldn't turn down," she said. "It's going to be challenging."
Johnson started at Hereford as the city manager's secretary, which she has continued to do, along with additional job duties including accounts payable, purchasing and personnel. She has been city secretary for 11 years.
That experience is what attracted the Friona City Council to Johnson, Taylor said. He said she also just finished a certified public manager's course.
"We're glad to have her," said Taylor, who said Johnson beat out 11 applicants for the position. "We think she'll be an asset to the city."
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Before abruptly leaving for USC, former Tennessee coach Lane Kiffin had started to build a reputation for turning prospects who had already committed to other SEC schools. Turns out, the new guy isn't so bad, either.
Derek Dooley pulled one of Mississippi State's top recruits to Knoxville this week, as running back Rajion Neal of Sandy Creek High in Tyrone, Ga., committed to the Vols. Neal (5-11, 210), who just picked up a fourth star from Rivals.com, had been committed to Mississippi for several months but switched to UT this week after visiting Knoxville last weekend..
"We just felt that we committed kind of early and didn't get to see other schools and worried about hte over-recruitment of the tailback situation," Neal told Rivals.com. "(Tennessee) was a place that I was always interested in with it being close by and having friends and family out there and growing up watching them. Coach Lane Kiffin recruited us a little bit and then when coach Dooley got there, he came and watched my film and felt that I was a back that they wanted in their program."
Dooley also pulled a three-star prospect out of Alabama over the weekend, as Demopolis linebacker Martaze Jackson committed to the Vols. Jackson (6-2, 202) also had offers from Arkansas, UAB, Jackson State, South Alabama and Georgia State.


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Daisuke Murakami was born in Kanagawa, Japan, but competes for the United States. "My family moved to California from Japan in 1999 because my mother wanted me to have a better education," he said. He lives in Hacienda Heights, California and trains in Riverside.
Since reaching the national level, Murakami has skated well, placing fifth in intermediates in 2003, second in novice in 2004, and fourth in juniors in 2006. "My goal for the season was just to do well at Nationals," he said. "But after I was tenth in the short, my goal was just to have fun and skate a good long." He did just that and his entertaining free skate earned him a standing ovation in St. Louis.
The 15-year-old did well at his first major ISU championships, placing ninth in the free skate and 11th overall at the 2006 World Junior Figure Skating Championships. "It was a big surprise," he said. "I just wanted to qualify and skate well. I learned that you have to do something to make yourself stand out from the bigger boys." His previous international experience included a win in novice at the Triglav Trophy and 11th at the Junior Grand Prix in Harbin, China in 2004.
Murakami began skating when he was nine, after he had moved to the U.S. "I went skating because the mall near our house had an ice rink and it looked fun," he recalled. "I had been doing gymnastics since I was six years old because I asked my mom to put me in it. I liked the floor exercise because the back flip was my favorite move. But I quit about a year after I started skating. I like competing and entertaining the audience and the judges."
The gymnastics training was beneficial to his skating. Within three years, Murakami had landed his first triple jump, a triple salchow. Now he is including all of the triples, including the triple axel, in his junior programs. That includes a triple flip-triple loop in his short program and a triple flip-double toe-double loop and triple lutz-triple loop in the long.
"My favorite jump is the loop, but my weakness is the toe loop," he said. "I've been working on a triple toe-triple toe and I hope to start working on a quad toe in the summer. I worked on the quad salchow last season and have landed some, but not clean. My goal for next season is to be more consistent and really go after the jumps."
Murakami has trained with Tammy Gambill for the past three seasons. "Daisuke is a very hard worker," Gambill said. "He's so much fun to work with because he keeps us entertained at the rink." Murakami works three hours a day, five days a week on ice plus two more hours on Saturday. He does about an hour of off ice gym work every day.
Felicia Beck choreographed both of Murakami's new programs for the 2005-06 season, "Horobushka" by Bond for the short and "West Side Story" for the long. Gambill selected the music. "I wanted him to have something fun to do this year," she said. "He had a rough season last year and I wanted to use something that would bring out his personality and make him smile."
Wendy Burge also works with him on adjusting the choreography throughout the season. "She helps me to understand the music," he said. "I like to skate to fun and energetic music that everyone will remember when they leave the rink." For an exhibition program, Murakami used "Pump It". "I heard it at the rink and thought it would be great for Daisuke because he's so energetic," Gambill said.
"I usually like to change both of his programs every year to keep things fresh," Gambill said. "We'll definitely change the long but I really like the short. We'll only change it next season if I find something better." Off ice, Murakami listens to anything except country music. He used to play the piano in Japan and the trumpet in his school's band.
For fun, Murakami likes to hang out with friends, going to the mall, the movies, or Disneyland. He collects skating pins and hotel keys. He also likes to chat on the computer.
Murakami is currently in ninth grade in high school, where his favorite subject is math. Although he is undecided about a future career, right now he is considering coaching.


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Cleco updates officials on emergency preparedness
By Jamie Anfenson-Comeau
It's the start of another hurricane season, and Cleco plans to be ready.
James Lass, Cleco's general manager of distribution engineering and emergency management, spoke with local public officials, first responders and media representatives at LSUE Monday, reviewing the company's hurricane preparations and emergency procedures.
NOAA's Climate Prediction Center announced last week that the current season is expected to be a near-normal or above normal hurricane season, and the University of Colorado is predicting 15 named storms this season, including eight hurricanes.
Predictions for the two years following hurricanes Rita and Katrina have fallen flat, but, as Lass pointed out, "All you need is one hurricane to hit you and it's a bad year."
Once a storm is predicted to reach the state Cleco monitors two weather services, coordinating activities from its Emergency Operations Center in Pineville.
These forecasts help the company determine the number of contractor crews, supplies and materials needed for the restoration.
Cleco has a mutual assistance agreement with contractors and utilities outside the area, who will provide assistance, logistical services and security should a hurricane be about to hit.
Once the storm makes landfall, the teams are ready to perform their duties and are mobilized to the area impacted.
Cleco's priorities are to: 1), assess damage from the ground and from the air; 2) repair transmission lines and distribution substations; 3) restore power to critical services such as hospitals, nursing homes and police and fire departments; 4) repair lines that provide power to the largest number of customers the quickest; 6) systematically restore power to businesses and neighborhoods, followed by single residences.
"Safety's our number-one concern," Lass said. "If it takes a few extra minutes to get the lights on, we want to do it safely."
For first responders, Lass stressed that it is vitally important that they wait for trained Cleco personnel to arrive when dealing with emergencies involving downed power lines.
For the general public, Lass said it is important for people to notify Cleco when their power has gone out due to a storm.
"They should call Cleco's 1-800 number (1-800-622-6537) to report the outage, and then they should do what they need to in order to care for their families," Lass said.
Jim Ardoin, Manager of Distribution Operations for Eunice-Opelousas, said that many people assume their neighbors have already called.
"We might have miles of line out that we're not aware of. Please make that call. The more calls we get, it's like putting a puzzle together," Ardoin commented.
For those who have evacuated, the company's web site at www.cleco.com, provides a link which contains updates on where power is currently out as well as estimates as to how long it will be before power is restored.


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