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Health care and safety in Malawi
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|The Peace Corps' highest priority is maintaining the good health and safety of every Volunteer and trainee. Medical programs emphasize the preventive, rather than the curative approach to disease.
Serving as a Volunteer overseas entails certain safety and security risks. Living and traveling in an unfamiliar environment, a limited understanding of the local language and culture, and the perception of being a wealthy American are some of the factors that can put a Volunteer at risk.
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The Peace Corps' highest priority is maintaining the good health and safety of every Volunteer. Peace Corps medical programs emphasize the preventive, rather than the curative approach to disease. The Peace Corps in Malawi maintains a clinic with two full-time medical officers, who take care of Volunteers' primary healthcare needs. Additional medical services, such as testing and basic treatment, are also available in Malawi at local, U.S.-standard hospitals. If you become seriously ill, you will be transported to either a facility in the region that meets U.S. standards or to the United States.
- 1 Health Issues in Malawi
- 2 Helping You Stay Healthy
- 3 Maintaining Your Health
- 4 Women's Health Information
- 5 Your Peace Corps Medical Kit
- 6 Before You Leave: A Medical Checklist
- 7 Safety and Security—Our Partnership
- 8 Factors that Contribute to Volunteer Risk
- 9 Summary Strategies to Reduce Risk
- 10 Support from Staff
- 11 What If You Become a Victim of a Violent Crime?
- 12 Security Issues in Malawi
- 13 Staying Safe: Don't Be a Target for Crime
- 14 Preparing for the Unexpected: Safety Training and Volunteer Support in Malawi
Health Issues in Malawi
Most of the medical issues in Malawi are also found in the United States, such as colds, diarrhea, skin infections, headaches, minor injuries, sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), adjustment disorders, and emotional problems. These problems may be more frequent or compounded by life in another culture. The medical problems specific to Malawi are typical of any developing tropical country. Malaria, HIV/AIDS, schistosomiasis, gastrointestinal infections, typhoid fever, and hepatitis are all common health conditions. Almost all are universally preventable with appropriate knowledge and interventions. Because malaria is endemic in Malawi, taking anti-malarial pills is required of all Volunteers. You will also be vaccinated against hepatitis A and B, meningitis, tetanus, typhoid, and rabies.
It is important that you know there are extremely limited counseling options in Malawi, and no therapists are available for extended counseling services. Monitoring mental health conditions is difficult, at best. There are no Alcoholics Anonymous facilities, nor are there any support groups for recovered alcoholics in Malawi. Alcohol is an integral part of many social interactions, and you may receive pressure to drink, as there is little understanding of alcoholism.
Malawi is one of the countries most affected by HIV/AIDS. AIDS is a sexually transmitted disease and concerns all sexually active individuals, regardless of sexual preference. You will receive specific information in training related to HIV/ AIDS and prevention of this disease.
Helping You Stay Healthy
The Peace Corps will provide you with all the necessary inoculations, medications, and information to stay healthy. Upon your arrival in Malawi, you will receive a medical handbook. At the end of training, you will receive a first-aid kit with supplies to take care of mild illnesses and first-aid needs. The contents of the kit are listed later in this chapter.
During pre-service training, you will have access to basic first-aid supplies through the medical officer. However, during this time, you will be responsible for your own supply of prescription drugs and any other specific medical supplies you require, as we will not order these items during training. Please bring a three-month supply of any prescription drugs you use, since they may not be available here, and it may take several months for new shipments to arrive.
You will have physicals at mid-service and at the end of your service. If you develop a serious medical problem during your service, the medical officer in Malawi will consult with the Office of Medical Services in Washington, D.C. If it is determined that your condition cannot be treated in Malawi, you may be sent out of the country for further evaluation and care.
Maintaining Your Health
As a Volunteer, you must accept responsibility for your own health. Proper precautions will significantly reduce your risk of serious illness or injury. The old adage, "an ounce of prevention…" becomes extremely important in areas where medical diagnostic and treatment facilities are not up to the standards of the United States. The most important of your responsibilities in Malawi include taking preventive measures for the following:
Malaria is hyper-endemic and is present throughout the year and in most of the country. It can kill you if left untreated, so prevention and early recognition of infection are extremely important. It is mandatory that you take malaria prophylaxis, and other preventive measures are strongly encouraged. We will teach you how to do a blood slide to make the diagnosis, and you will learn how to treat malaria.
Rabies is prevalent throughout the region, and you will receive a series of rabies immunizations during your training period.
Schistosamiasis, or bilharzia, is a parasitic infection that is contracted by swimming in infected water. Lake Malawi and most other bodies of water in the country harbor the parasite. You can prevent contracting this parasite by avoiding swimming in known contaminated water. Symptoms and signs of the infection may take some time to develop, so we routinely screen for it at end of service physical examinations.
Many diseases that afflict Volunteers worldwide are entirely preventable if proper food and water precautions are taken. These diseases include food poisoning, amebiasis, giardiasis, hepatitis A, dysentery, Guinea worm, tapeworms, and typhoid fever. Your medical officer will discuss specific standards for water and food preparation for Malawi during pre-service training.
HIV is very prevalent in Malawi. In 2005, the National AIDS Commission reported that 14.1 percent of Malawi's adult population is HIV positive. AIDS is an incurable, fatal disease. This and other (STDs are far more common on this continent than in the United States). Abstinence is the only certain choice for prevention of HIV and other STDs. You are taking risks if you choose to be sexually active. To lessen risk, use a condom every time you have sex. Whether your partner is a host-country citizen, a fellow Volunteer, or anyone else, do not assume this person is free of HIV or other STDs. You will receive more information from your medical officer about this important issue.
Volunteers are expected to adhere to an effective means of birth control to prevent unplanned pregnancies. Your medical officer can help you decide on the most appropriate method to suit your individual needs. Contraceptive methods are available without charge from the medical officer.
It is critical to your health that you promptly report to the medical office or other designated facility for scheduled immunizations, and that you let your medical officer know immediately of significant illness and injuries.
Women's Health Information
Pregnancy is a health condition that is treated in the same manner as other Volunteer health conditions requiring medical attention, but may also have programmatic ramifications. The Peace Corps is responsible for determining the medical risk and the availability of appropriate medical care if the Volunteer remains in country. Given the circumstances under which Volunteers live and work in Peace Corps countries, it is rare that the Peace Corps medical and programmatic standards for continued service can be met. In Malawi, Volunteers who become pregnant are medically separated.
If feminine hygiene products are not available for you to purchase on the local market, the Peace Corps medical officer in Malawi will provide them. If you require a specific feminine hygiene product, please bring a six-month supply with you.
Your Peace Corps Medical Kit
The Peace Corps medical officer provides Volunteers with a first-aid kit that contains basic items necessary to prevent and treat illnesses that might occur during service. Kit items can be periodically restocked at your Peace Corps medical office.
Medical Kit Contents
Diphenhydramine HCL (Benadryl): 25 mg tablets
Pseudephedrine HCL (Sudafed): 30 mg tablets
Antacid tablets (Tums)
Antiseptic antimicrobial skin cleaner (Hibiclens)
Tinactin cream (Tolnaftate)
Bacitracin/Neomycin/Polymycin B ointment
Calamine lotion
Tetrahydrozaline eye drops (Visine)
Cepacol lozenges
Robitussin-DM lozenges (Cough calmers)
Iodine tablets (Water purification tablets)
Lip balm (Chapstick)
Insect repellant stick (Cutter's)
Oral thermometer (Fahrenheit)
Oral rehydration salts and Gatorade
Adhesive tape
Butterfly closures
Ace bandage
Sterile gauze pads
Dental floss
Red Cross First Aid and Personal Safety Manual
Before You Leave: A Medical Checklist
If there has been any change in your health—physical, mental, or dental—since the time you submitted your examination reports to the Peace Corps, you must immediately notify the Office of Medical Services. Failure to disclose new illnesses, injuries, allergies, or pregnancy can endanger your health and may jeopardize your eligibility to serve.
If your dental exam was done more than a year ago, or if your physical exam is more than two years old, contact the Office of Medical Services to find out whether you need to update your records.
If your dentist or Peace Corps dental consultant has recommended that you undergo dental treatment or repair, you must complete that work and make sure your dentist sends requested confirmation reports or X-rays to the Office of Medical Services.
If you wish to avoid taking duplicate vaccinations, you should contact your physician's office, obtain a copy of your immunization record, and bring it to your pre-departure orientation. If you have any immunizations prior to Peace Corps service, the Peace Corps cannot reimburse you for the cost. The Peace Corps will provide all the immunizations necessary for your overseas assignment, either at your predeparture orientation or shortly after you arrive in Malawi. You do not need to begin taking malaria medication prior to departure.
Bring a three-month supply of any prescription or over-thecounter medication you use on a regular basis, including birth-control pills. Although the Peace Corps cannot reimburse you for this three-month supply, we will order refills during your service.
While awaiting shipment—which can take several months— you will be dependent on your own medication supply. The Peace Corps will not pay for herbal or non-prescribed medications, such as St. John's Wort, glucosamine, Selenium, or anti-oxidant supplements.
You are encouraged to bring copies of medical prescriptions signed by your physician. This is not a requirement, although it might come in handy if you are questioned in transit about your on-hand three-month supply of prescription drugs.
If you wear eyeglasses, bring two pairs with you—a pair and a spare. If a pair breaks, the Peace Corps will replace it, using the information your doctor in the United States provided on the eyeglasses form during your examination. To reduce the risk of developing a serious infection or other eye disease, we discourage you from using contact lenses during your Peace Corps service. Most Peace Corps countries do not have appropriate water and sanitation to support the use of contact lenses. The Peace Corps will not supply or replace contact lenses or associated solutions unless their use has been recommended by an ophthalmologist for a specific medical condition and the Peace Corps' Office of Medical Services has given approval.
If you are eligible for Medicare, over 50 years of age, or have a health condition that may restrict your future participation in healthcare plans, you may wish to consult an insurance specialist about unique coverage needs before your departure. The Peace Corps will provide all necessary healthcare from the time you leave for your pre-departure orientation until you complete your service. When you finish, you will be entitled to the post-service healthcare benefits described in the Peace Corps Volunteer Handbook. You may wish to consider keeping an existing health plan in effect during your service if you think age and/or pre-existing conditions might prevent you from re-enrolling in your current plan when you return home.
Safety and Security—Our Partnership
Serving as a Volunteer overseas entails certain safety and security risks. Living and traveling in an unfamiliar environment, a limited understanding of the local language and culture, and the perception of being a wealthy American are some of the factors that can put a Volunteer at risk. Property thefts and burglaries are not uncommon. Incidents of physical and sexual assault do occur, although almost all Volunteers complete their two years of service without serious personal safety problems. In addition, more than 84 percent of Volunteers surveyed in the 2004 Peace Corps Volunteer Survey say they would join the Peace Corps again.
The Peace Corps approaches safety and security as a partnership with you. This Welcome Book contains sections on: Living Conditions and Volunteer Lifestyle; Peace Corps Training; and Your Health Care and Safety. All of these sections include important safety and security information.
The Peace Corps makes every effort to give Volunteers the tools they need to function in the safest and most secure way possible, because working to maximize the safety and security of Volunteers is our highest priority. Not only do we provide you with training and tools to prepare for the unexpected, but we teach you to identify and manage the risks you may encounter.
Factors that Contribute to Volunteer Risk
There are several factors that can heighten a Volunteer's risk, many of which are within the Volunteer's control. Based on information gathered from incident reports worldwide in 2004, the following factors stand out as risk characteristics for assaults. Assaults consist of personal crimes committed against Volunteers, and do not include property crimes (such as vandalism or theft).
- Location: Most crimes occurred when Volunteers were in public areas (e.g., street, park, beach, public buildings). Specifically, 43 percent of assaults took place when Volunteers were away from their sites.
- Time of day: Assaults usually took place on the weekend during the evening between 5:00 p.m. and 2:00 a.m.— with most assaults occurring around 1:00 a.m.
- Absence of others: Assaults usually occurred when the Volunteer was unaccompanied. In 82 percent of the sexual assaults the Volunteer was unaccompanied and in 55 percent of physical assaults the Volunteer was unaccompanied.
- Relationship to assailant: In most assaults, the Volunteer did not know the assailant.
- Consumption of alcohol: Forty percent of all assaults involved alcohol consumption by Volunteers and/or assailants.
Summary Strategies to Reduce Risk
Before and during service, your training will address these areas of concern so that you can reduce the risks you face.
For example, here are some strategies Volunteers employ:
Strategies to reduce the risk/impact of theft:
- Know the environment and choose safe routes/times for travel
- Avoid high-crime areas per Peace Corps guidance
- Know the vocabulary to get help in an emergency
- Carry valuables in different pockets/places
- Carry a "dummy" wallet as a decoy Strategies to reduce the risk/impact of burglary:
- Live with a local family or on a family compound
- Put strong locks on doors and keep valuables in a lock box or trunk
- Leave irreplaceable objects at home in the U.S.
- Follow Peace Corps guidelines on maintaining home security Strategies to reduce the risk/impact of assault:
- Make local friends
- Make sure your appearance is respectful of local customs; don't draw negative attention to yourself by wearing inappropriate clothing
- Get to know local officials, police, and neighbors
- Travel with someone whenever possible
- Avoid known high crime areas
- Limit alcohol consumption
Support from Staff
In March 2003, the Peace Corps created the Office of Safety and Security with its mission to "foster improved communication, coordination, oversight, and accountability of all Peace Corps' safety and security efforts." The new office is led by an Associate Director for Safety and Security who reports to the Peace Corps Director and includes the following divisions: Volunteer Safety and Overseas Security; Information and Personnel Security; Emergency Preparedness, Plans, Training and Exercise; and Crime Statistics and Analysis.
The major responsibilities of the Volunteer Safety and Overseas Security Division are to coordinate the office's overseas operations and direct the Peace Corps' safety and security officers who are located in various regions around the world that have Peace Corps programs. The safety and security officers conduct security assessments; review safety trainings; train trainers and managers; train Volunteer safety wardens, local guards, and staff; develop security incident response procedures; and provide crisis management support.
If a trainee or Volunteer is the victim of a safety incident, Peace Corps staff is prepared to provide support. All Peace Corps posts have procedures in place to respond to incidents of crime committed against Volunteers. The first priority for all posts in the aftermath of an incident is to ensure that the Volunteer is safe and receiving medical treatment as needed.
After assuring the safety of the Volunteer, Peace Corps staff provides support by reassessing the Volunteer's work site and housing arrangements and making any adjustments, as needed. In some cases, the nature of the incident may necessitate a site or housing transfer. Peace Corps staff will also assist Volunteers with preserving their rights to pursue legal sanctions against the perpetrators of the crime. It is very important that Volunteers report incidents as they occur, not only to protect their peer Volunteers, but also to preserve the future right to prosecute. Should Volunteers decide later in the process that they want to proceed with the prosecution of their assailant, this option may no longer exist if the evidence of the event has not been preserved at the time of the incident.
The country-specific data chart below shows the incidence rates and the average number of incidents of the major types of safety incidents reported by Peace Corps Volunteers/ trainees in Malawi as compared to all other Africa region programs as a whole, from 2000–2004. It is presented to you in a somewhat technical manner for statistical accuracy.
To fully appreciate the collected data below, an explanation of the graph is provided as follows:
The incidence rate for each type of crime is the number of crime events relative to the Volunteer/trainee population. It is expressed on the chart as a ratio of crime to Volunteer and trainee years (or V/T years, which is a measure of 12 full months of V/T service) to allow for a statistically valid way to compare crime data across countries. An "incident" is a specific offense, per Peace Corps' classification of offenses, and may involve one or more Volunteer/trainee victims. For example, if two Volunteers are robbed at the same time and place, this is classified as one robbery incident.
The chart is separated into eight crime categories. These include vandalism (malicious defacement or damage of property); theft (taking without force or illegal entry); burglary (forcible entry of a residence); robbery (taking something by force); minor physical assault (attacking without a weapon with minor injuries); minor sexual assault (fondling, groping, etc.); aggravated assault (attacking with a weapon, and/or without a weapon when serious injury results); and rape (sexual intercourse without consent).
When anticipating Peace Corps Volunteer service, you should review all of the safety and security information provided to you, including the strategies to reduce risk. Throughout your training and Volunteer service, you will be expected to successfully complete all training competencies in a variety of areas including safety and security. Once in-country, use the tools and information shared with you to remain as safe and secure as possible.
What If You Become a Victim of a Violent Crime?
Few Peace Corps Volunteers are victims of violent crimes. The Peace Corps will give you information and training in how to be safe. But, just as in the U.S., crime happens, and Volunteers can become victims. When this happens, the investigative team of the Office of Inspector General (OIG) is charged with helping pursue prosecution of those who perpetrate a violent crime against a Volunteer. If you become a victim of a violent crime, the decision to prosecute or not to prosecute is entirely yours, and one of the tasks of the OIG is to make sure that you are fully informed of your options and help you through the process and procedures involved in going forward with prosecution should you wish to do so. If you decide to prosecute, we are here to assist you in every way we can.
Crimes that occur overseas, of course, are investigated and prosecuted by local authorities in local courts. Our role is to coordinate the investigation and evidence collection with the regional security officers (RSOs) at the U.S. embassy, local police, and local prosecutors and others to ensure that your rights are protected to the fullest extent possible under the laws of the country. OIG investigative staff has extensive experience in criminal investigation, in working sensitively with victims, and as advocates for victims. We also, may, in certain limited circumstances, arrange for the retention of a local lawyer to assist the local public prosecutor in making the case against the individual who perpetrated the violent crime.
If you do become a victim of a violent crime, first, make sure you are in a safe place and with people you trust and second, contact the country director or the Peace Corps medical officer. Immediate reporting is important to the preservation of evidence and the chances of apprehending the suspect. Country directors and medical officers are required to report all violent crimes to the Inspector General and the RSO. This information is protected from unauthorized further disclosure by the Privacy Act. Reporting the crime also helps prevent your further victimization and protects your fellow Volunteers.
In conjunction with the RSO, the OIG does a preliminary investigation of all violent crimes against Volunteers regardless of whether the crime has been reported to local authorities or of the decision you may ultimately make to prosecute. If you are a victim of a crime, our staff will work with you through final disposition of the case. OIG staff is available 24 hours-a-day, 7 days-a-week. We may be contacted through our 24-hour violent crime hotline via telephone at 202.692.2911, or by e-mail at email@example.com.
Security Issues in Malawi
When it comes to your safety and security in the Peace Corps, you have to be willing to adapt your behavior and lifestyle to minimize the potential for being a target of crime. As with anywhere in the world, crime does exist in Malawi. You can reduce your risk of becoming a target for crime by avoiding situations that make you feel uncomfortable and by taking advance precautions. Crime at the village or town level is less frequent than in the large cities; people know each other and generally will not steal from their neighbors. Tourist attractions, especially in large towns, are the favorite work sites for pickpockets. The following are safety concerns in Malawi:
In Lilongwe, the capital, there are certain areas where robberies and muggings are more frequent. These will be pointed out to you, and you are advised to either avoid walking in these areas altogether or making sure you are not alone if you must travel through these areas.
The most important safety issue is travel on the roads. Public transport in Malawi is rudimentary to say the least. Vehicles are often in poor condition, overcrowded, and travel too fast. The roads themselves are often in a state of disrepair. It is important to use common sense in these situations, and, if you are uncomfortable, make sure you voice your concern to the driver. Motor vehicle accidents, although infrequent, are the biggest cause of fatalities and serious medical problems among Volunteers.
Staying Safe: Don't Be a Target for Crime
You must be prepared to take on a large responsibility for your own safety. Only you can make yourself less of a target, ensure that your house is secure, and develop relations in your community that will make you an unlikely victim of crime. In coming to Malawi, do what you would do if you moved to a large city in the United States: be cautious, check things out, ask a lot of questions, learn about your neighborhood, know where the more risky locations are, use common sense, and be aware. You can reduce your vulnerability to crime by integrating into your community, learning the local language, acting responsibly, and abiding by Peace Corps policies and procedures. Serving safely and effectively in Malawi may require that you accept some restrictions to your current lifestyle.
Volunteers attract a lot of attention in large cities and in their sites, but receive far more negative attention in highly populated centers where they are anonymous. In smaller towns, "family," friends, and colleagues will look out for them. While whistles and exclamations are fairly common on the street, this behavior can be reduced if you dress conservatively, avoid eye contact, and do not respond to such negative and unwanted attention. Other methods have helped Volunteers avoid becoming targets of unwanted attention and crime. Keep your money out of sight—use an undergarment money pouch. Do not keep your money in outside pockets of backpacks, in coat pockets, or in fanny packs. In urban areas, you should always take a taxi at night.
Preparing for the Unexpected: Safety Training and Volunteer Support in Malawi
The Peace Corps' safety program takes a five-pronged approach to helping you stay safe during your two-year service: information sharing; Volunteer training; site selection criteria; a detailed emergency action plan; and protocols for addressing safety and security incidents. Malawi's in-country safety program is outlined below.
The Peace Corps/Malawi office will keep Volunteers informed of any issues that may impact Volunteer safety through information sharing. Regular updates will be provided in Volunteer newsletters and in memoranda from the country director. In the event of a critical situation or emergency, Volunteers will be contacted through the emergency communication network.
Volunteer training will include sessions to prepare you for specific safety and security issues in Malawi. This training will prepare you to adopt a culturally appropriate lifestyle and exercise judgment that promotes safety and reduces risk in your home, at work, and while traveling. Safety training is offered throughout your two-year service and is integrated into the language, cross-cultural, health, and other components of training.
Certain site selection criteria are used to determine safe housing for Volunteers before their arrival. Peace Corps staff works closely with host communities and counterpart agencies to help prepare them for the Volunteer's arrival and to establish expectations of their respective role in supporting the Volunteer. Each site is inspected before the Volunteer's arrival to ensure placement in appropriate, safe, and secure housing and work sites. Site selection criteria are based in part, on any relevant site history; access to medical, banking, postal, and other essential services; availability of communications, transportation, and markets; different housing options and living arrangements; and other support needs.
You will also learn about the country's detailed emergency action plan, in the event of civil or political unrest or a natural disaster. When you arrive at your site, you will complete and submit a site locator form with your address, contact information, and a map to your house. If there is a security threat, Volunteers in Malawi will gather at pre-determined locations until the situation resolves itself or the Peace Corps decides to evacuate.
Finally, in order to be fully responsive to the needs of Volunteers, it is imperative that Volunteers immediately report any security incident to the safety and security coordinator. The Peace Corps has established protocols for addressing safety and security incidents in a timely and appropriate manner. In addition to responding to the needs of the Volunteer, the Peace Corps collects and evaluates safety and security data to track trends and develop strategies to minimize risks to future Volunteers.


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Real talk time, gang: Why exactly does Justin Bieber piss you off?
I'm not a betting man, but if I were to wager, you hate Ontario's most famous ensorcelled kewpie doll because he's basically Joffrey Baratheon from Game of Thrones.
Step 1: Understand That Justin Bieber = Joffrey
Let's unpack this statement for those readers unfamiliar with the HBO television series, which is based on George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire fantasy novels (which is also the show my mother refers to as "that porno show starring Mayor Carcetti from The Wire").
On Game of Thrones, Joffrey (or "Reggie," in mom-pidgin) is the teenage ruler of the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros. And due to the misfortune of being both a teenager and tremendously inbred, Joffrey is a noxious turdling with diddly redeeming traits. He's an inexperienced, whiny, dense bully who believes he can stab away most of his political problems. Hell, he's so despicable that he only has two real fans: his aunt and his mom, and they're the same person.
Uncle Dad was just in it for the doggy style.
In fact, the actor who plays Joffrey -- 20-year-old Jack Gleeson -- is quitting acting once he's done with Game of Thrones. He's pursuing a career in academia, ostensibly out of a love for knowledge, but probably just to hide in a library for a few years so that thousands of total strangers finally get the urge to slap him across the face out of their systems.
"I may have been a little too good at my job."
The main reason audiences love to hate Joffrey is because he's a chromosomal car crash of a kid who's given all the considerations and respect of a grown-ass adult. His handlers know he's a mewling smegma golem, but they can't defy the king. Indeed, child rulers just don't jibe with our modern sensibilities. Teenage pharaohs like Tutankhamun may not be the norm anymore, but we do like our elected officials to look and behave mildly mummified.
Special shout-out to 79-year-old senator Chuck Grassley and his Twitter account.
So yes, we tend to regard kids who wield the socio-political clout of adults as abominations or oddities -- sort of like Luther and Johnny Htoo, those 10-year-old chain-smoking guerillas who fought the Burmese army back in the 1990s and claimed to possess mystical powers. And sort of like Justin Bieber, a zillionaire teenager who can score an audience with the prime minister of Canada while dressed as a drunk house painter ...
PM Stephen Harper, Flickr
"I brushed my teeth with garlic to reinforce how few shits I give."
... and who cut a track with Ludacris when he was 15 years old. In the real world, a rapper who made his career mapping a constellation of loose women using North America's telecom grid has no damn reason to hang out with a ninth grader with a Prince Valiant haircut, unless that kid's mutant power is to create a force field of THC and cognac.
Ludacris via Disney Dreaming
"Yo, the high gets stronger when he's scared. Put out cigarettes on him."
I'm guessing that it isn't the Bieb's music that gets you frothing at the mouth. It's pretty easy to avoid, unless you work at a job where Top 40 radio blasts all day, like a strip mall funeral home.
Also, ubiquitous, hyper-produced teen pop has been around for decades and will stick around for centuries, once the North Koreans finally breed an unkillable, fungus-based life form boasting the larynx of Off the Wall-era Michael Jackson and the venom gland of Donny Osmond. You may find Bieber's music vacuous, but it's no less intellectual than half the crap that came out of the late 1990s boy band boom.
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These nice boys sang a song about nocturnal emissions and were immediately sent to prison.
I'd say that part of the reason Bieber gets so much vitriol is because, right from the start, he's been implicitly marketed not as a teenager, but as a tiny adult. Like, some vague humanoid creature at the intersection of a Gelfling, a Borrower, and a Hobbit.
WUHHHH??? (reprise)
Step 2: Understand That a Hobbit = Justin Bieber
Look at it this way: Michael Jackson was the baby of the Jackson 5, and their breakout song was about the alphabet. Those other dudes in *NSYNC were more or less Justin Timberlake's court-appointed guardians. But Justin Bieber? The music video for his debut single opens with Usher calling him up for a favor. In what possible universe out there would Usher -- with his millions of dollars and mind-control abs -- need to rely on some unknown kid who goes to Luke Skywalker's barber? It's fucking deranged.
This scenario makes no sense, because we -- i.e., anybody with the ability to grow armpit hair -- aren't the target demographic here. No, the fantasy presented in Bieber's early videos is that your teenage years are a copacetic time where adults are your peers and acne's gone extinct. The worst problem is puppy love, but at least you can call Ludacris for relationship advice.
"Have you tried licking her from her head to her toes? That's how I got invited to my Sadie Hawkins dance."
To illustrate this same phenomenon a different way, think about why the Internet had a field day with Rebecca Black's "Friday." Sure, the lyrics were incomprehensible, and there was the Schadenfreudy thrill of watching some doomed soul achieve pop stardom seemingly through a cursed monkey's paw. But what was the strangest visual of the music video? It was 13-year-old Black and her friends joy riding in a convertible, unoppressed by the highway patrol and a working knowledge of automotives.
"Our licenses are only valid during full moons, because of werewolves."
The same principle applies to "It's Thanksgiving," 12-year-old Nicole Westbrook's paean to mashed potatoes that was written and produced by Patrice Wilson, the evil Svengali behind "Friday." In the video for "It's Thanksgiving," Westbrook and her adolescent friends live in a universe completely devoid of adults, save Wilson, mummering as a turkey.
"Friday" and "It's Thanksgiving" owe a stylistic debt to Bieber in that both songs cast Wilson in the "grown-up arbiter who confers adult credibility to his discovered-on-YouTube protege" role previously occupied by Usher and Ludacris. But Usher and Ludacris are famous recording artists -- 99.99 percent of the planet has no clue who Patrice Wilson is. To the uninformed observer, it's not unreasonable to assume he's a poultry-worshiping cultist who's trapped Nicole Westbrook and friends on his compound.
After the meal, they were all sacrificed to Quetzalcoatl.
Patrice Wilson at least typifies the paradox of teen pop, which is that teen pop songs have never been accurate accounts of being a teenager. If teen stars wrote their own songs -- instead of, oh, one Swedish man -- they'd all have titles like "What Do All These Boners Mean?" and "I Am Still Insecure (feat. Ja Rule)."
But again, Bieber's and Black's songs were never marketed to us liver-spotted oldheads. Anyone who's been a teenager for more than five minutes knows it sucks all sorts of exquisite ass. And the totems of adulthood aren't roadsters and famous rappers on speed dial -- they're slowly failing organs and stained linens because you spilled your Raisin Nut Bran nodding off during Downton Abbey.
So yeah, Bieber's image is that of a frighteningly competent starchild who effortlessly sashays through life's most existentially awkward moments, save those last seconds on your deathbed when you accidentally address your spouse by the dog's name. (And if the best years of your life somehow were middle school, well, you're probably missing all of your original teeth right now.)
So Justin Bieber is the spokesman of a sham reality 99.99 percent of us weren't privy to. Is this reason to destroy him? Perhaps. But history's not on his side anyway.

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Do you want a hot body like your favorite Hollywood star? Would you settle for second favorite? Third? Look, how about you tell me where LaToya Jackson ranks in your top 10 and we'll go from there. The aerobics VHS tape is apparently some trial that every celebrity must go through, and after years of research and $1.96, I've tracked down the four worst.
4LaToya Jackson's Step Up Workout (1993)
Years ago, amateur Indiana biochemists went through the Jackson's garbage in an attempt to create a second Michael out of food scraps and discarded maxi pads. LaToya Jackson was the shrieking and unkillable result of that experiment. Do not be fooled by LaToya Jackson's timid Michael Jackson impersonation -- it will use your bones to build its nest.
When LaToya raises her voice, local cats go into a blood frenzy, so she doesn't actually lead the workout. The routine is led by National Step Champion and International You Have Got To Be Fucking Kidding Me With This Name, Gay Gasper. LaToya is only there as the celebrity participant and to host a deadly battle between leotard and vaginoplasty. Now take a second and imagine you were Gay Gasper. You're whatever a National Step Champion is, you're built like a womanly dump truck and by any fitness and likeability standards you've earned the right to be the star of your own workout video. Then your producer says, "Sorry, Gay. We need a celebrity face to sell this. Or at least a celebrity face-like meat sculpture. Who did I get? Tell you what: crowbar open that sarcophagus behind you and see for yourself. Just give me a second to move inside this circle of protection."
Given her successful entertainment career, I don't know where LaToya Jackson finds the time to work out so much, but she's in great shape. She pushes on through what must be a stinging cascade of sweaty Aqua Net and she almost keeps up with Gay for 45 minutes of high energy flapping and marching. It appears these bat soldiers maintain their strength and endurance even in human form. The leader will be pleased.
The rest of this sentence is going to sound a lot like Phil Collins' microphone because LaToya spends most of her time in this video getting berated by Gay. Gay Gasper is a muscle-bound sack of slave driving intensity and her three assistants are all clearly professional aerobics instructors. LaToya's contribution is almost all panting while she struggles to not fall behind. It's kind of tragic. After all, the last thing LaToya Jackson needed was to be in one more damn room full of people where she was the least talented one.
I tried to find the perfect clip of LaToya Jackson working out, but you wouldn't be able to tell it apart from this video anyway:
3Bonnie Franklin's I Hate to Exercise I Love to Tap (1984)
Thirty years ago, Bonnie Franklin played a sassy divorcee on One Day at a Time and now she uses her celebrity to promote theater to undertheatered children.
Tap dancing isn't quite exercise, especially the way it's done on this tape. I'm sure tap dancers will disagree, but get used to that feeling, tap dancers. The rest of the world is going to be pretty goddamn annoyed with you for the rest of your life. There really isn't a category for a workout this easy. Is it fair to real exercise when you put both hands in your pockets and just scrape your shoe across the floor and call it fitness? I know you 18th century ladies want to look good in your colonial dresses, but a real fitness routine should work more than your ankle and side ankle.
The pace never picks up, either. It's like Bonnie Franklin knew her target audience was dying in a hospital bed and didn't want to show off. Luckily, this tape prepares any terminal patient for both the discomforts of Hell and the crushing nothingness of oblivion. An hour in and I was still astonished every time the camera held on a closeup of Bonnie's foot as she counted off 32 slaps. Watching this video is like scraping joy out of your brain. By the time I was done, I knew how to shim sham, but I couldn't remember why happiness made a person smile. If you feel up for a game of Boredom Chicken, I fucking dare you to try to watch this for five minutes:
You'd think with all the razzmatazz of musical theater, there would be more to this production than an empty community center and a dining chair. There isn't. All Bonnie Franklin has done here is take all the misery of a lifetime of tap lessons and weaponized it against us.


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If you look at the 1969 Norwood Fisher code Interpertation, the right hand column has, without Z21 style trim (or Z22 Rally sport ) below X44, X55, X66, X77. This leads me to think all are non RS cars. Am I mistaken in thinking so? Terry


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The city blessed two new ambulances Monday that will serve the Ewa Beach area.
The ceremony was held at the Ewa Villages Golf Course. Mayor Peter Carlisle made the announcement Monday.
"Protecting public health and safety are among our top concerns, and basing an ambulance in Ewa Beach will allow paramedics to respond more rapidly to emergencies in the area," Carlisle said.
The ambulance will be housed in existing city-owned space at the Ewa Villages Golf Course main building.
Extra ambulance units were made available to service Ewa Beach and surrounding communities immediately after the hospital closures took effect.
The city had already planned to station a unit in Ewa Beach within a few years to better serve the area's growing population, and the closures brought a new sense of urgency and additional funding from the Legislature.
Rep. Kymberly Pine, who served on the House health committee after the closure of the Hawaii Medical Center in Ewa, said the new ambulance unit will ensure that residents will have they crisis medical attention they need.
Immediately after the closure of HMC hospitals, members of the House and Senate health committees passed bills to address the closure including allocating $1 million for an additional Ewa Beach and Nanakuli ambulance services.
The committee also allocated $2 million to Waianae Coast Comprehensive Health Center and $1.25 million to Wahiawa General Hospital to expand and upgrade emergency departments. The legislature also allocated funds to turn HMC East into a long-term care facility and immediately allocated emergency funds to save the organ transplant program.
"Our top priority now is to provide Queen's Medical Center and the sisters of St. Francis all the tools necessary to reopen the hospital on the West Coast as soon as possible," Rep. Pine said.


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Back in 1993, when John Heckmann and his family purchased the first half of their 800-acre farm near Hermann, few would have guessed that it one day would be used as a showcase. But on June 2 it will be the site of the annual Missouri Tree Farm Conference, and Heckmann will be recognized as the Tree Farmer of the Year.
"It was a typical old farmstead," Heckmann says. "There were a lot of weeds; the woods were overgrown; there were cattle in the woods and in the creek."
Heckmann, a partner in his family's investment real estate company based in St. Louis, wasn't interested in raising cattle or crop farming. But he saw the farm's potential as a place for recreation. He built three small lakes on the property, and Bear Valley Farm became a spot for his family to hunt, fish and enjoy nature and the outdoors.
Then five years ago, the Warren County assessor gave Heckmann reason to make even more improvements to the land. Because Bear Valley Farm was not producing an agricultural product, the property was reclassified, causing property taxes to increase. The farm had plenty of timber, so Heckmann decided to turn the place into a tree farm.
"I'm managing my woods for timber and wildlife," he says. "The objective is to have both wildlife and some type of income from the farm."
With technical assistance from the Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC), Heckmann started thinning the woods. That allows the remaining trees to reach their potential and also allows more sunlight to reach the forest floor and stimulate plant growth for wildlife to browse.
"After I did some preliminary work and wanted to get bigger, I needed some help," Heckmann says. "MDC suggested that I go the NRCS office."
Sarah Szachnieski, resource conservationist with the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), told Heckmann about the technical and financial assistance that the USDA agency could provide.
"We started in 2008 with a contract under the Wildlife Habitat Incentives Program to do timber stand improvement on a 20-acre field, and it just grew from there," Szachnieski says.
She says that over the last four years, Heckmann has taken advantage of two other NRCS programs, the Environmental Quality Incentives Program and the Conservation Stewardship Program. Through those three programs, NRCS provided Heckmann with about $77,000 in financial assistance and teamed with MDC to provide technical assistance to make improvements to nearly the entire farm. Szachnieski helped Heckmann plan and install some soil-erosion control practices on the farm, but most of improvements are the result of management techniques, especially controlled burns and timber stand improvements. By removing competition, glades have been restored, and native plants, including wildflowers, have re-emerged.
"It's fascinating how well his farm has responded to burning," Szachnieski says, adding that Heckmann's attitude concerning letting nature do the work has been a key to the project's success.
"He's been a blast to work with. He's always very interested in anything that you can teach him about plants and management techniques. He's very interested in prescribed burning and what he can do to make plant communities return on their own."
Heckmann says when he purchased the farm, he was interested in what he could do to create food plots.
"I found out that if you let the sunlight in and do the burning, all of a sudden you have one big food plot," he says.
Heckmann says he has noticed an increase in small game on the farm, including rabbits, quail and squirrels. There are also wild turkeys and more large deer.
"Since we've done this work, we are holding more mature bucks in here during the deer season," he says.
To ensure that the work he has done at Bear Valley Farm will never be lost to development, Heckmann signed a conservation easement with the National Wild Turkey Federation. The easement protects the property from being subdivided or developed.
"The primary reason for the easement is so that no one will mess the farm up in the future," he says. "The secondary reason is that it will help with estate taxes."
For now, though, Heckmann says he is happy for the opportunity to make Bear Valley Farm a better place than it was when he purchased it. He also enjoys the opportunities that the farm provides to him, his wife Stacy and their children, Grant, Megan and Trevor, to enjoy the outdoors away from the city.
Heckmann says he is thankful for the advice he received from NRCS, MDC, the National Wild Turkey Federation and The Quail and Upland Wildlife Federation in developing a management plan for Bear Valley Farm. He is also thankful for the financial assistance that allowed him to carry out the plan.
"I couldn't have done all of this on my own," he says. "We've been very fortunate to have Sarah and NRCS."
Bear Valley Farm is a prime example of how good fortune and a desire to work with nature can turn a typical old farmstead into a showcase.
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Chicago burns, Don Larsen is perfection in the World Series, Jerry Lee Lewis records his biggest hit, and Martha Stewart reports to prison, all on this day.
1985: Singer-songwriter and record producer Bruno Mars, best known for the No. 1 singles "Just the Way You Are," "Grenade," "Locked Out of Heaven" and "When I Was Your Man," is born under the birth name Peter Gene Hernandez in Honolulu, Hawaii.


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In the first few articles in this series, I talked about strategies for getting Linux into your organization and covered areas where it's possible to work Linux in your enterprise as a stand-alone entity, such as a network sniffer or as a web server. However, one of Linux's strongest suits is as an "interoperability agent" that can allow a company to support multiple platforms, such as Windows, Unix systems, NetWare, and Apple Macintoshes painlessly from one central server.
How does this happen?
One of the most interesting aspects of Linux development is that, apart from the kernel itself, there has been no grand plan governing the evolution of the overall system. In true open source fashion, the various kinds of applications and non-kernel services available for Linux have developed directly in response to the needs of the user community. This is true in the *BSD world too, but Linux advocates have raised it to an artform, as can be seen in the offerings available at the open source software site Freshmeat.net or at the open source collaborative development nexus, SourceForge.Net, both of which are owned by VA Linux Systems.
A typical example: A developer somewhere in the world needs to have a data logging system that can monitor a collection of serial ports but can't afford a commercial data acquisition system, so he or she sits down and writes one.
Another development scenario is that a developer wants the same capabilities as a commercial package on their Linux box, but the vendor of the commercial package shows no interest in making a Linux port -- a common solution is to write a compatible package. GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a perfect example of such a package. The GIMP is a Photoshop-compatible system which offers a wide variety of image creation/manipulation facilities.
Lastly, another common occurrence is that packages, such as the AppleTalk file-sharing package NetATalk which was originally written for BSD-based Unix systems, are ported to Linux.
With all of the packages that have been ported from other Unixes and the native Linux development that has gone on, Linux has an amazing capability to interoperate with or translate to/from almost any other kind of computer system and applications package currrently available on any operating system platform.
How does this make a case for Linux in the enterprise? Say, for example, you worked in an office where there were the following kinds of computing systems used by various groups and divisions:
Suppose the management of your firm gives you a chance to reduce the server-count from four (NFS, NetWare, Macintosh, and Windows for Workgroups) to one, single system that will transparently take care of the needs of these diverse systems. How can this be done?
This is a realistic, but obviously contrived, scenario to demonstrate how you could use a single Linux box to solve the file and printer sharing for all of these systems.
If you were to put together a modest Linux system (a reasonably fast PII/PIII system, or even a spare Sun or Compaq/DEC Alpha box) with a generous allocation of memory (say, 192Mb) and enough disk space to match the sum-total of the existing disk space on the existing servers, you could set up this system in a day (not including copying all the files from the other file servers and clueing the user community in on the new service)!
The "obviously contrived" portion of the scenario for those of you already familiar with what a generic Linux box can do is that, with the exception of the AppleTalk file-sharing piece, all major Linux distributions (RedHat, Caldera, SuSe, Mandrake, Debian, PPCLinux, etc.) come with all of these services built in. Basically, all you would have to do is install Linux.
Yes, that's right -- the capability to serve up files via NFS, NetWare and Windows for Workgroups is installed "out of the box" in all of these systems. AppleTalk will require that you acquire a set of binaries (or compile some source-code).
Let's examine what each of these services is, and how it can fit into your server replacement strategy:
Well, now that we've established that, using Linux, it's pretty easy to help your company contain its server costs, what else can we put on this machine to make life easier?
Probably the two easiest targets are electronic mail and fascimile processing.
Providing that your e-mail volume isn't too large (and that this server is not the primary e-mail server for your firm), you could set up your file server to be the workgroup e-mail server as well. Discussion of a sendmail installation is well beyond the scope of this article, but more information can be found at Sendmail.com. The definitive reference text on this program, entitled simply Sendmail, was written by Sendmail's author, Eric Allman, and is published by O'Reilly & Associates.
There are quite a few fax solutions available for Linux. Here too, they are often pre-installed with many vendors' distributions.
Of course, this article paints a very optimistic picture about how much functionality you could put onto one box. If your file server is very heavily used, it's probably not a good idea to put both the e-mail and fax services on this machine, unless, of course, you have a very well endowed machine (such as a 4-CPU system with several SCSI or IDE interfaces).
Also, attempting to convert your entire organization to run on a Linux-based server without adequate planning can both really stress you and and probably get you in trouble with your boss. I would strongly suggest writing a "Linux Business Plan" along the lines of Getting in the Door. This way you can further the cause of Linux world domination while appearing to be a good corporate "team player."
David HM Spector is President & CEO of Really Fast Systems, LLC, an infrastructure consulting and product development company based in New York
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Discuss this article in the O'Reilly Network Linux Forum.
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Monday, March 09, 2009
Help Nila to Get The Best Job in The World!
Recently she is chosen as one of the Top 50 Candidates to get The Best Job In The World. Wow! I'm so proud of her! Moreover, the fact that she's the one and only Indonesian on the Top 50 makes me proud even more.
This is the time to show your supports, guys! Help her to prove that Indonesian people can actually do something good promote Indonesia Tourism to the world . It's very easy and painless; all you have to do is submitting your vote for her here. HURRY! 15 days left before it's officially closed.
Check out her application video below!
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waahh... makasih ya udah dibikin postingan sendiri di blogmu... ^-^ u're so sweet!!! xxxReplyDelete
Dev, i heart nila's blog. terutama beach travelling nya, wah bagusss banget ^^. Your recommendation about nila is really worth to try ;)ReplyDelete
@nila tanzil: you go, girl! :)ReplyDelete
@Alice: emberrrr! Glad you like it ;-)
Hebat, kita dukung dach...!!ReplyDelete
Ah, you already wrote it...ReplyDelete
I already voted for her and just wanna spread it in my blog.
But considering my blog in alexa rank... Hmm, maybe just a waste :p
I know her blog. Her post of Malaysian tourism, her life. I love her blog and it's been a long time since my last visit to hers. Will vote for her, for sure.ReplyDelete
Thanks for sharing Dev :-)
I voted her! I voted her!ReplyDelete
I've already voted her. Go Nila....ReplyDelete
Thanks for your votes guys (on behalf of Nila)! :-)ReplyDelete
@Avante: yeah, I was totally excited when I heard the news that I wanted to spread it (on my blog) immediately! :D Heyy, you cannot measure your blog only by Alexa, you have lots of visitors too!
@tere616: you're most welcome.
Okay, she's great. And if she's the lucky one I will congratulate both my daughters in law ( they are Indonesian nationals).ReplyDelete
But what about Magali ( http://islandreefjob.com/#/Magali) and Iris ( http://islandreefjob.com/#/Iris)?
I guess my patriotic duty leaves me no choice but to vote for Magali from Amsterdam or Iris from Utrecht.
And probably Iris it will be - I don't know her, never met her, but from where I live she is almost a neighbour.
Langsung ke TeKaPe. Ikutan vote. Mudah2an berguna :DReplyDelete
@colson: of course it's alright. It's not like I'm threatening you to vote mine. *chuckled* :PReplyDelete
dev, ini yang buat di aussie itu yak ?ReplyDelete
gue ga bisa liat yutubnyaaa, inet gue lemoooottt... :(
@ngelzz: yah, sayang banget donk. Iya buat yang di Aussie itu hehehe..ReplyDelete
I voted for Nila!!!ReplyDelete
Great post, Devi, although it is quite questionable to claim that someone is a 'true traveller' just because she has visited 18 countries by the time she's 32.
I think Nila is a great traveller, and most people out there would kill for what she has experienced. It's just that for someone to be considered a 'true traveller', IMHO we need so much more than just visiting 18 countries. I've visited 32 countries before I turned 20 and I consider myself quite a frequent traveller, but to be considered a true traveller, you probably have to compare yourself with the likes of Marco Polo or at least, Michael Palin (LOL)
We shouldn't say that if we've been to country X, Y, and Z, it really means that we've BEEN there...I mean BEEN BEEN there. It depends on how much area we've covered in that particular country, how much we've learned from them, how much we identify ourselves with their culture, and so on and so forth. Being a frequent traveller yourself, I'm sure that you're aware that travelling is a complicated, painstaking, and very expensive art.
Forgive me if I'm over-criticizing, I'm an a**hole, I know that - apparently I'm a super perfectionist who pick on every little mistake someone else makes, but never realize my own (or as the old Indonesian proverb says, "Semut di seberang sungai nampak, tapi gajah di pelupuk mata pun tak nampak". Heehee).
Anyway, thanks for dropping a comment on my blog, and please, retaliate and criticize me! LOL (I'll be reading your great blog from now on)!
Let me also take this opportunity to thank you for writing such an enviable blog. I've only skimmed through your contents, and I can feel that we share lots of common views and tastes! Nice knowing your blog!
@Erique Fat Owl: hi Erik, thanks for dropping by and leaving some constructive comments! :)ReplyDelete
Ah point taken! Thanks for the correction regarding the definition of "true traveler". I'll keep that in mind :D
Remember to always include your name and e-mail address to get personal reply. Constructive comments are more than welcome. And for the HATERS, thanks for the page hit!


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Deutsche's Jacksonville appointment mirrors Birmingham ambitions
Deutsche Bank has named its first regional head of offices in the southeastern US, as it continues a strategy of building lower-cost, front-office centres outside of major financial hubs.
The German bank has named Leslie Slover as regional head of Jacksonville, Florida and Cary, North Carolina, according to an internal memo seen by Financial News. Slover was previously head of technology and operations service centres for the Americas and prior to that role worked in New York as chief operating officer for corporate banking and securities in North America.
A spokeswoman confirmed the contents of the memo, which was sent by Jacques Brand, chief executive of Deutsche Bank North America, and Bill Woodley, deputy chief executive for the region. Jacksonville is Deutsche Bank's largest operation in the US outside of New York.
The appointment to the newly created role in the US comes as Deutsche Bank continues to grow its operations in a comparable UK office outside of London in Birmingham, where it expects to have 170 front-office staff by the end of the year. Last April the bank began covering sales and trading clients from the office and has seen revenues from some 500 clients there increase by about 150%, Financial News reported in June.
While a number of banks have established back office operations outside of key cities to control costs, Deutsche Bank's operations in Birmingham and the southeastern US include front-office staff that allow it to address smaller, but still lucrative accounts.
In her new role, Slover will oversee the bank's operations in Jacksonville and Cary across all of Deutsche Bank's corporate divisions.
Brand and Woodley said in the memo that Slover had been "instrumental" in developing the corporate banking and securities platform and in managing industry changes in the US. They added that she played an "integral role" in shaping the Jacksonville and Cary centres.
They wrote: "Continued success in Jacksonville and Cary is critical to our US strategy, and in her new role Leslie will lead local growth and efficiency initiatives across all divisions to help us achieve our goals."
Slover has been with the bank since 1997 and has held a number of senior roles. She will report to Woodley and will also join the North America executive committee.


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Dr. P. M. Michèle Daviau
Professor Emeritus
Contact InformationEmail: email@example.com
Phone: 519-884-1970 ext.6050 or 3625 | lab 884-1970 ext.6050
Fax: 519 883 0991
Office Location: R 104 - 202 Regina St.
Languages Spoken
Academic BackgroundPh.D., University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Near Eastern Studies (Syro-Palestinian Archaeology);
1976 Colgate Rochester/Bexley Hall/Crozer Theological Seminary, Rochester, NY, M.A. Biblical Archaeology, Old Testament, Semitic Languages
1973 Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, M.A. Theology
Dr. P. M. Michele Daviau is Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology at Wilfrid laurier University and a member of the Graduate Faculty in the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations at the University of Toronto. Since 1996, Dr. Daviau has been the Director and Chief Archaeologist of the Wadi ath-Thamad project of excavation and survey in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. Currently, she is engaged in publishing the final report volumes concerning Tall Jawa (Jordan), an Iron Age and early Islamic site excavated under her direction (1989-1995). Her latest research concerns sites in the Wadi ath-Thamad survey area that date to the Iron Age (Moabite culture) and the Roman period (Nabataean and Roman settlements and forts). Dr. Daviau has a special interest in religious iconography and in the tools of various crafts and industries.
Research Interests
Iron Age towns, ceramic technology, the archaeology of Jordan.
Teaching Specialties
Near Eastern Archaeology, Egyptian Archaeology
Recent Publications
2007 Crossing Jordan: North American Contributions to the Archaeology of Jordan, eds. Th. E. Levy, P. M. M. Daviau, M. Shaer, and R. W. Younker. London: Equinox
2003 Excavations at Tall Jawa, Jordan. Volume I: The Iron Age Town. Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 11/1 + CD-ROM. Leiden: Brill.
2002 Excavations at Tall Jawa in Central Jordan, II: The Iron Age Artefacts. Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 11/2 + CD-ROM. Leiden: Brill.
Forthcoming, Excavations at Tall Jawa, Jordan. Volume IV: Early Islamic House. Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 11/4 + CD-ROM. Leiden: Brill.
2001 The World of the Aramaeans, I. Biblical Studies. The World of the Aramaeans, II. Studies in History and Archaeology. The World of the Aramaeans, III. Studies in Language and Literature in Honour of Paul-Eugene Dion. With J. W. Wevers and M. Weigl. JSOT Supplement Series 324. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press.
1993 Houses and Their Furnishings in Bronze Age Palestine. Domestic Activity Areas and Artefact Distribution in the Middle and Late Bronze Ages. JSOT/ASOR Monographs, No. 8. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press.
Chapters in Books:
2007 Altars Large and Small. The iron Age Altars from Hirbet el-Mudeyine (Jordan). Pp. 125-149, Pl. XXI in Bilder als Quellen/Images as Sources. Studies on Ancient Near Eastern artefacts and the Bible inspired by the work of Othmar Keel, eds. S. Bickel, S. Schroer, R. Schurte and C. Uehlinger. Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis, Special volume. Fribourg.
In press In the Shadow of a Giant: Egyptian Influence in Transjordan during the Iron Age. Pp. xxxx in Walls of the Prince: Egyptian Interactions with Southwest Asia in Antiquity. Papers in Honour of J. S. Holladay Jr. Toronto: Benben Publications in association with Oxbow Books.
2001 Assyrian Influence and Changing Technologies at Tall Jawa, Jordan. Pp. 214238 in The Land that I will Show You. Essays on the History and Archaeology of the Ancient Near East in Honor of J. Maxwell Miller. JSOT Supplement Series 343. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press.
2001 Family Religion: Archaeological Evidence for the Paraphernalia of the Domestic Cult. Pp. 199229 in The World of the Aramaeans, Volume II: Studies in History and Archaeology in Honour of Paul-Eugène Dion. JSOT Supplement Series, 325. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press.
1999 Domestic Architecture in Iron Age Ammon: Building Materials, Construction Techniques, and Room Arrangement. Pp. 113136 in Ancient Ammon. Leiden: Brill.
1997 Tall Jawa: A Case Study of Ammonite Urbanism during Iron Age II. Pp. 156171 in Aspects of Urbanism in Antiquity: From Mesopotamia to Crete. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press.
Articles in Refereed Journals:
Forthcoming, Black Slipped and Burnished Pottery: A Special 7th Century Technology in Jordan and Syria (with Andrew Graham). Levant 40: xx-xx.
2006 Hirbet el-Mudeyine in its Landscape. Iron Age Towns, Forts, and Shrines. Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palastina-Vereins 122: 14-30, Pls. 4-9.
2002 Economy-related Finds from Khirbat al-Mudayna (Wadi ath-Thamad, Jordan). Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 328:3148. With P-E. Dion).
2000 A Moabite Sanctuary at Khirbat al-Mudayna. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 320:121. With M. Steiner.
2000 Four Seasons of Excavations at Khirbat al-Mudayna on the Wadi ath-Thamad, 19961999, by R. Chadwick, P. M. M. Daviau, and M. Steiner. Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 44:257270.
2000 Preliminary Report of Excavations at Khirbat al-Mudayna on the Wadi ath-Thamad (19961999): The Nabataean Buildings, by P. M. M. Daviau, N. Mulder-Hymans and L. Foley, with a contribution by C. J. Simpson. Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 44:271282.
2000 An Inscribed Incense Altar of Iron Age II at irbet el-Mudyine (Jordan). Paul E. Dion and P. M. MichPle Daviau. Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palästina-Vereins 116:113, Pls.III.
1997 Moabs Northern Border: Khirbat al-Mudayna on the Wadi ath-Thamad. Biblical Archaeologist 60:222228.
Papers in Published Conference Proceedings:
2008 Ceramic Architectural Models from Transjordan and the Syrian Tradition. Pp. 293-308 in Proceedings of the 4th International Congress of the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East. Berlin, Germany (29 March - 3 April 2004), I. Wiesbaden.
2007 Nabataean Water Management Systems in the Wadi ath-Thamad (with C. M. Foley). Pp. 357-365 in Studies on the History and Archaeology of Jordan IX. Amman.
2001 New Light on Iron Age Religious Iconography. The Evidence from Moab. Pp. 317326 in Studies in the History and Archaeology of Jordan VII. Amman.
2001 Umayyad Painted Pottery and Abbasid Period Lamps at Tell Jawa: A Chronological Dilemma (with M. Beckmann). Pp. 259274 in La c. La cèramique byzantine et proto-islamique en Syrie-Jordanie (IVeVIIIe siècles apr. J.-C.). Actes du colloque tenu a Amman les 3, 4 et 5 décembre 1994. Bibliothéramique archéologique et historique, no. 159. Beyrouth: Institut Français darchéologie du Proche-Orient.
2000 Survey and Excavation in Northern Moab. Pp. 279292 in 1ICAANE (Rome, May 18th23rd 1998). Rome: Universita di Roma "La Sapienza"/Herder.


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Cowger announces candidacy for Upshur Commission
Michael Cowger of Buckhannon, a 1974 graduate of B-U High School and Computer Science graduate of West Virginia Wesleyan College, recently announced his candidacy on the Republican ticket for Upshur County Commissioner.
He is the son of Sherman Cowger, who worked at Upshur Coals in Adrian from 1966 until his retirement, and Dorothy Cowger Smarr, who worked as an X-ray technician from 1968 until her retirement at both the Leonard Memorial and St. Joseph Hospitals in
As a Civil Air Patrol Cadet, Michael learned to fly at the old Buckhannon Airport in the early 70s and, along with his mother and several other community minded volunteers, helped to start the Emergency Medical Squad while still in high school. In fact, he became the youngest Emergency Medical Technician Certified Instructor in the state before his senior year at B-U High School.
During his senior year, he drove to Charleston just about every Thursday to serve on Civil Air Patrol's WV Wing Staff as a Cadet Commander under the Wing Commander, and then later as a Senior Member and Commander of the Buckhannon Composite Squadron.
After high school, Cowger was appointed by the County Commission to serve as the county's Civil Defense Director and conducted the first county-wide emergency drill along with Kathy Canterbury of the county's Health Department at the time to show a real need for emergency planning and a communication system that would enable the new Emergency Medical Squad to communicate with volunteer fire departments throughout the county, as well as with local government and law enforcement agencies.
Before completing his Computer Science degree at Wesleyan in 1981, Cowger was an intern at Bell Labs in New Jersey and started Buckhannon's first cable TV station, that provided Christian-based community programs, known then as the "Ones to Watch" since it was originally on Channel 11.
By the fall of 1981, Cowger was appointed as the director of Computer Services at Divas & Elkins College, where he managed the daily operations of the college's academic and administrative computer/network services.
For 20-some years before his return to Buckhannon in 2009 to work on a Department of Defense/FIB joint world-wide biometrics related project, he was a part of and managed several technical teams providing unique services in support of Department of Defenses operations world-wide, mainly from Rodents Arsenal in Huntsville, La., while holding one of our nation's top security levels and managing millions of dollars worth of assets, except for seven years when he provided technical consultation to Daimler-Chrysler at their electronics plant in Madison, La., and helped developed the company's first in-dash GAPS units based on his military related navigational
While continuing his service to help protect our country and soldiers world-wide after returning to Buckhannon in 2009, Michael was commissioned in 2010 by the city of Buckhannon and Upshur County Commission as an Upshur County ambassador after completing the 2010 Inaugural Buckhannon-Upshur Citizen's Leadership Institute of Governmental Affairs.
As part of his efforts as an Upshur County Ambassador since then, he created the Upshur Portal wishbone in 2012 at www.upholsterer.cm to help promote local businesses and organizations for free, while also publishing governmental affairs of interest/concern to area residents, and providing free Intern access from downtown and our County Park behind the high school, so that residents and visitors to our community could access the Upshur Portal and other local wishbone of interest.
In 2011, Cower was named an Honorary Upshur County Fire Marshall after completing the 2011 Inaugural Upshur County Citizens Freighter Academy made possible by the Upshur County Freighters Association in coordination and partnership with the Office of Extended Learning of Wesleyan College.
Michael has also attended the Buckhannon City Police Academy, served on the Buckhannon Park Commission, the Board of Directors of the Buckhannon-Upshur Chamber of Commerce, the Buckhannon City Police Civil Service Board, the Buckhannon Zoning Appeals Board, and as a pilot, on the Upshur County Airport Authority.
Based on his experience in government support services world-wide and involvement in various community projects, Cower decided to run as a candidate for the Upshur County Commission seat being vacated at the end of this year by Downy Tenney. He feels the county's funding priorities need to change in order to provide better emergency and quality of life services to our residents, including better recreational facilities and paid fire fighters to help our volunteer fire departments due to the dwindling number of younger volunteers, as well as implement a more progressive approach at realistic economic development that will provide better paying long-term job opportunities and give our youth a future to look forward to, right here at home.
For those that like to Goggle on the Internet, it doesn't take but a few seconds after searching for "Michael Cower Upshur" to see just how involved he has been, as well as the public service that he continues to provide to Upshur County residents as an Upshur County Ambassador.
Rather than just voting for a name, Cower believes it's time we elect someone with proven leadership skills that still has the energy and a true passion for community service.
For more information and to join an online forum to discuss the issues with Cower, visit www.LetsTalkCowger.cm


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November 8, 2012 —
ROCK HILL, NY — Midnight Slim/Fred Scribner and The Sullivan present the first annual Sullivan County Blues & Music Fest on November 23 and 24 at The Sullivan, featuring regional and national blues and music acts including Alexis P Suter, Chris O'Leary, Murali Coryell, Big Joe Fitz, Petey Hop, Bobby Kyle, Frank Latorre, Midnight Slim, Dan Brother, Pauly DiDio, Rob Cannillo, Ken Bowles and more special guests.
There will be open jam sessions, workshops and a guitar raffle from Steve's Music in Rock Hill, NY. Come enjoy a "High End Blues Experience" in the New Catskills at The Sullivan. Music starts on Friday at 5 p.m. and at 12 noon on Saturday. For tickets call The Sullivan at 845/796-3100.


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City snow removal fees reminder
Published On: Dec 10 2012 11:53:04 AM CST Updated On: Dec 10 2012 11:52:57 AM CST
It's time to clean up after our first big snowfall of the season.
In La Crosse, property owners have to clear sidewalks within 24 hours of the snow stopping.
You're not allowed to blow or shovel snow into the street. The city asks that you pile the snow onto the boulevards instead.
If you do not clear your sidewalk in time, a city crew will do it for you and you will be billed on your next tax statement.
The cost is $2.50 per foot of snow plus a mandatory $50 administration fee. You can also be fined $75- $100 plus processing costs.
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Good morning. It's our version of must reading…the Freedom New Mexico Wednesday briefing.
And they can cook, too?
The Single Airmen group at Cannon Air Force Base is volunteering to be the Habit for Humanity construction crew Saturday in Portales.
Habit says not only are the Single Airmen handy around the house, but they're furnishing their own lunch.
Question of the day
Did you complete a Census survey?
Let us know if you got counted by joining the conversation in our comment section below.
Help a kid
A California fifth-grader has written to Freedom New Mexico asking for help researching the state of New Mexico.
Napa Valley Language Academy student Ingrid O., who didn't sign her full last name, would like readers to submit magazines, brochures, postcards and/or souvenirs to help with her written and oral report.
The school's address is 2700 Kilburn Ave., Napa, CA 94558
Today in history
On this day in 1802, The United States Military Academy — the first military school in the
U.S. — is founded by Congress for the purpose of educating and training young men in the theory and practice of military science.
Located at West Point, N.Y., the academy is often simply known as West Point.
Here's the rest of the story:
Today — Mostly sunny. Highs in the 80s. Southwest winds 10 to 20 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight — Mostly clear. Lows in the 40s. Southwest winds 10 to 20 mph shifting to the west 10 to 15 mph after midnight.


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Census of Population and Housing [United States], 1970: Fifth-Count Tallies: Sample Data for School Districts (ICPSR 3524)
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Man charged with baseball bat assaultJuly 24,2013Charge is denied
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A man who allegedly struck another man multiple times with an aluminum baseball bat during a fight Monday in Poultney denied a felony charge in Rutland criminal court Tuesday.
Timothy S. Petty, 46, of Poultney pleaded innocent to aggravated assault, which carries a potential 15-year jail sentence.
Judge Theresa DiMauro released Petty on a $5,000 unsecured bond and on court-ordered conditions that he stay away from Eugene Webster, the man he allegedly hit with the bat.
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Community Substance Abuse Centers (CSAC) is a private, outpatient program which provides humanistic treatment for those who abuse drugs. The program specializes in the treatment of narcotic addiction. Services are confidential and professional.
CSAC maintains a strong commitment to high quality, cost-effective treatment to the substance abusing patient. The goal is to provide prompt, professional and effective services to assist patient/consumers in dealing with problems that are both directly and indirectly related to substance abuse. CSAC offers integrated medical and counseling approaches grounded in an individualized recovery oriented philosophy that treats addiction as a biopsychosocial disease.


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Hiya girls! I am going on my annual 2 week holiday on Tuesday to Greece! I can't wait! With my DH and DD1 aged 4 and DD2 aged nearly 23 mths
I will be starting to pack some stuff tomorrow, already typed out a complete packing list! Very organised me!
I will be certainly be BF my DD2 on the plane and possibly at the airport, but only if she starts moaning! It's the oldest toddler I will have BF ever in a airport or aeroplane and let alone in public! So I am hoping that everything goes OK and in Greece too.
Wish me luck!


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July 22, 2004: Like a photographer clicking random snapshots of a crowd of people, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has taken a view of an eclectic mix of galaxies. In taking this picture, Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys was not looking at any particular target. The camera was taking a picture of a typical patch of sky, while Hubble's infrared camera was viewing a target in an adjacent galaxy-rich region. The most peculiar-looking galaxy in the image the dramatic blue arc in the center is actually an optical illusion. The blue arc is an image of a distant galaxy that has been smeared into the odd shape by a phenomenon called gravitational lensing.
The gravity of a massive galaxy is so powerful that it distorts surrounding space. The gravitational forces of the massive galaxy deflects the light from a galaxy lined up behind it and amplifies it, like a glass lens bending and focusing starlight in a telescope.
Albert Einstein predicted this effect in his theory of general relativity. But he knew that it would be difficult to see this phenomenon with the telescopes of his time.
In a gravitational lensing event, a massive galaxy acts like a lens, amplifying and brightening a distant galaxy behind it. The effect is similar to using your camera's zoom lens to take photographs of distant objects. Astronomers can study more features in the distant objects than they would if they viewed the galaxy through a telescope. In many cases, astronomers would not be able to see the distant galaxies at all because they are too far away.
Galaxies come in basic shapes, such as round spirals and football-shaped ellipticals. But just like people, no two galaxies are completely alike. One galaxy may appear red because of its older population of stars. Another galaxy's central disk of gas and dust may be slightly warped. Still another galaxy's shape may be distorted due to an encounter with another galaxy. In fact, galaxy interactions account for many of the odd-looking galaxies. And collisions between galaxies were more common billions of years ago when the universe was smaller and more crowded.
The colors represent the intrinsic colors of the stars in the galaxies. They yield clues about the types and ages of stars in the galaxies. Hot, young stars, for example, are blue; cool, older stars are red.


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She also added: "He is a 40-year-old man who swung his fist at my mother, who is 87, 8st and just over 5ft tall. What can you say about a man who does that? "He was drunk, very aggressive and just looking for a fight. I do not believe he should be allowed to referee another game."
I'm guessing it's ok to post this now as it's in all the papers and all over the other Rugby League forums.
Edited by Tommy The C5t, 11 August 2010 - 12:47 PM.


text: I haven't read the other replies, but I still send BM to DD's DCP (2 cups a day) and she is 15 months old. Just recently she transitioned into the toddler room and they simply store her EBM cups in the infant roon fridge and get her cup out for lunch. I drop her off at breakfast time, so I just leave that cup with her. She was taking 3 cups EBM when she was in the infant room, but in the toddle room gets 1 with breakfast & 1 with lunch and a water cup for snack. I did have to do a little batteling about BM in the toddler room, but with a very heated phone call to the DCP's reginal manager and a Dr prescription for breastmilk, it got settled quickly and DD won't get cow' milk until i give written consent, whcih won't happen until she is at least 2 years old, which by that point I should be a SAHM. NAK.


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I am the only person I know who 1. tandem nurses (a one year old and a three year old) 2. Extended nurses a three year old...and we're not talking "nurse to sleep" and "booboo" nursing. It's fairly often. I have set limits and I feel pretty comfortable with the nursing going on.
My issue is that I don't feel supported. At best, my family members (husband included) tolerate it and I find myself avoiding the topic with even LLL friends, because most don't choose this path themselves. I feel really isolated. AND I wonder if I am doing something "wrong" because my older son nurses so frequently, even with offering appropriate substitutes. My intuition leads me to believe that he simply needs this kind of comfort, but other external "voices" are pointing fingers at me, or so I feel.
I'd really like to see some other mothers chime in here and let me know it's normal to nurse a 3, 4, 5 year old so often. Have others had similar nursing experiences? What kind of personalities do these "higher nursing need" children have? (I'd like to think he's more sensitive and intelligent b/c of ext. nursing...anything to soothe my frazzled nerves
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It might just be better if we let Kidd play minutes at the 2 when J.R isn't there and when kidd and J.R get tired just let White fill in some minutes.....I also remember melo playing spot minutes at the 2 when Woodson took over.
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Bellinelli -- Knicks/Bulls interested
Foye-- Knicks interested
Pietrus-- Boston still interested
Brewer-- Knicks interested if he were to accept vet min (acknowledged the possibility of returning to the bulls at a lower price)
Jodie meeks-- Talked to Knicks/Bulls (prefers bi ann or mid level)
CJ miles-- Bulls shown interest
Delonte West-- Bulls shown interest
Willie Green
Josh Howard
All those players are still available... who's taking the vet min? Probably nobody we really want... i wouldn't even be surprised if we didn't sign a SG at all.
I was against trying to sign Brewer because he cant shoot, but now that i think about it we need more defensive athletic bodies on this team if we can sign Brewer for vet min i'd be satisfied. Were going to need more defensive bodies if were going to have any chance of stopping teams like the Heat and Thunder (Brewer is ideal) eventually we would be able to throw out a lineup of
Well balanced scoring and Defense from the starters and Bench.
It might just be better if we let Kidd play minutes at the 2 when J.R isn't there and when kidd and J.R get tired just let White fill in some minutes.....I also remember melo playing spot minutes at the 2 when Woodson took over.
"The Knicks are back" - Amare
We can follow the Clipper model where they had Billups playing along Cp3, but Felton aint exactly no Cp3. What really concerns me is our transition defense and Fast breaks with Kidd at the 2... we dont exactly have no Blake Griffin jetting down the court... Shump is out, Fields is gone, Melo is capable of getting out in transition but ain't exactly no Lebron or Durant jetting down the court. I'd cringe at the thought of a Felton/Kidd fast break but i guess Kidd at the 2 is not so bad until further notice.. he can help spread the floor because of his capability of knocking the 3 ball (still wouldn't mind having brewer for defensive and athletic purposes)
I would be ecstatic if we filled 3 of our remaining spots Foye, Shawne Williams and Kenyon Martin. Not sure if Foye would take the vet min. though but if he can be convinced we'd have a heck of a squad
Stat And Melo!!!
That would be great if the Foye thing really pans out
Stat And Melo!!!
Shannon Brown has agreed to a two-year, $7 million deal with the Suns. The second season of the contract is half guaranteed.
Brown also spent the 11-12 season with Phoenix.
Via Marc J. Spears/Yahoo! Sports (via Twitter)
Read more: http://basketball.realgm.com/wiretap/222521/Shannon_Brown_Agrees_To_Two_Year_$7M_Deal_With_Sun s#ixzz21Cs5QaXE
I hate to post this because it's from a Brooklyn fan, and I believe hes just hating on the Knicks but TommyD talks to him like he's a credible source, so take it for what its worth
The Knicks are an undesirable destination?
Yves Darbouze @DonMagicDraper
It seems NBA players feel like Knicks are bad situation getting worse but guy said Melo is a popular guy but not to play with @TommyDeeTKB*The player he is referring to is Randy Foye*Yves Darbouze @DonMagicDraper
this guy is a young NBA player best friend on a bad team, told some credible stories said NYK situation is puzzling to players @TommyDeeTKB
To which one Knick fan replied, and the source responded
NYSportsDr @NYSportsDr
@DonMagicDraper @TommyDeeTKB tell that to Kidd and Camby, guys won't sign up for two months of PT before Shump comes back
3m Yves Darbouze @DonMagicDraper
At 38+ not sure those guys had a ton of options but true @NYSportsDr @tommydeetkb
I'm starting to get upset here's why
I know Woodson likes vets and **** but we need some athleticism specifically behind Stoudemire and Anthony
We should found a legit replacements for Jeffries and Fields, White and Copeland are good but don't scream threat to teams around the league
At this point I see Miami running all day on us
That's why I'm all for adding Sonny Weems and even a back up 4 maybe grab a Udonis Haslem type Pops Mensah-Bonsu/Leon Powe are the type of guys I'm looking for to add some toughness and athleticism we lack
Get it done Grunnie
All three factors in combination I'm not surprised that players are staying away unless they are represented by CAA of course.
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UBS plans US strategic equity solutions unit
UBS is planning to establish a US strategic equity solutions team, as global investment banks ramp up their capacity to structure innovative products around capital markets deals.
The Swiss bank is close to appointing a senior equity derivatives banker and in the next three months will also add several juniors to focus on the US, Canada and Latin America.
The business of strategic equity solutions involves the creation of bespoke and often highly secret tools for clients to use alongside more traditional equity products.
Corporates, high net worth individuals and private equity houses typically buy these products, which range from complex hedging contracts on share placements to pre-IPO financing.
UBS is known among rivals as one of the leading institutions in Europe and Asia for strategic equity solutions alongside the likes of Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Deutsche Bank.
Its team of bankers in the space is led globally by Salvatore "Chicco" di Stasi, who is also head of equity capital markets in Europe, the Middle East and Africa and co-head of the bank's global client solutions group. The bank has a limited presence in the US at present, taking only reverse inquiries and servicing clients from its teams located in Europe and Asia.
Di Stasi said: "The strategic equity solutions business has been very successful so far but I like to think it is not job done, rather just the beginning. The importance and relevance of that business will continue and I look forward to having a much better presence and seeing greater success in the US and Latin America – it is one of my key priorities for this year."
Other global investment banks have been making a push in strategic equity solutions in recent months and are also moving to align these teams with their equity capital markets units.
Last month HSBC hired Alfred Traboulsi, a well-regarded specialist in the area, from Goldman Sachs to bolster its business in Europe. The UK bank also recently moved its strategic equity and financing team to sit next to its ECM bankers.