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PITTSBURGH (NewsRadio 1020 KDKA) – Over St. Patrick's Day weekend, many people flocked to the city to enjoy the festivities. But as is the holiday tradition, some of those visitors were enjoying a few alcoholic beverages.
A small group of men had an altercation with the Pittsburgh police that day, resulting with a video exposing the officer performing, what could possibly be perceived as excessive force towards one of the men.
This video has become viral in the news-world, as questions arise as to what should be considered as excessive force.
KDKA Radio's Mike Pintek spoke with the Executive Director of the Citizen's Police Review Board, Beth Pittinger, on what kind of force is too much. Mike asks that if a man falls as hard as it appears in the video, did the officer use excessive force? He also suggests that the suspect might have been acting because he knew that his friend was filming.
"The officer's conduct is where he is at fault. He brandished his Taser, admittedly, to scare the man," said Pittinger. "The man could even argue that the officer was impeding on his freedom of speech by using official oppression."
The two also began discussing Marty Griffin's breaking news story about a man who claims he was beaten by multiple police officers.
Pittinger explains that this story is still being investigated, and to her knowledge, not much is known on the identity of the officers. She explains that police officers have the responsibility to gain control of every situation and remain in control until the conflict has ended.
"In this situation maybe a Taser would have helped to subdue the suspect," said Pittinger. "But if he was pushed around and kicked by the officers, then that's a whole different story."
When you add alcohol to an already aggressive person, the situation escalates faster and more intense than it should have. Sometimes officers do need to use restraining force for the protection of themselves and others. A question came from a Dollar Bank Instant Access listener addressing this description.
"We shouldn't be telling police officers that even a little bit of force is too much. What about the drunks leaving the bar, heading for their cars to drive home, where they could potentially cause a car accident?" she said. "What's next, telling them to use pink-furry handcuffs? Some force is necessary to stop further injuries."
While Pittinger agrees that some drunks are difficult to handle, she begins to wonder if maybe those that are being hired as police officers are being hired under the wrong pretenses.
She believes that police need to be trained in personal skills as well as the technical and physical aspect of the job. The police have the authority to respectfully interact with all types of people, even if they're hostile in response.
"We need to look at who we are hiring and make sure that we consider all officers for every aspect of the job," said Pittinger. "Not just brawn over brains."
The two agree that the officer might not have used his Taser or even intended to use it on the suspect. But the reality is that he did plan on using the Taser as a scare-tactic to control the situation. Now the question comes, is that excessive force?
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Davidsonian supervenience is insufficient for physicalism, since it fails to rule out doubled qualia. Physicalism thus requires fine-grained supervenience to augment Davidsonian supervenience.
Davidsonian Supervenience:
(1) No two entities can differ at a time with respect to their mental properties without differing at that time with respect to their physical properties.
(2) No single entity can change with respect to its mental properties without changing with respect to its physical properties.
Fine-Grained Supervenience:
(FGS) If, at a given time, a single entity instantiates two distinct mental properties, it must do so in virtue of instantiating two distinct physical properties.
Doubled Qualia.
Doubled qualia occur when two minds, one whose qualia are inverted with respect to the other—a "green mind†and a "red mind,†respectively—share a supervenience base. What it means to share a supervenience base is that there are no physical differences in virtue of which the red mind and the green mind differ. Davidsonian supervenience, the conjunction of (1) and (2), does not rule out doubled qualia. To imagine doubled qualia, begin by imagining someone other than you, Person X, who is not your physical doppelganger. Let us stipulate that there is some physical difference between you and Person X. Unlike you, let us suppose, there are two minds inside of Person X—a red mind and a green mind—where you only have the standard-issue red mind. Suppose further that all and only the physical properties that give rise to X's red mind are the same physical properties that give rise to X's green mind. If you are having a hard time imagining this, that is likely due to your tacit or explicit acceptance of FGS. Your acceptance of (1) and (2) can't explain this. In particular, the difference between you and X—the fact that you have only a red mind where X has a green one as well as a red one—is fully consistent with (1), since we have stipulated that there is a physical difference between you and X. Do you think that doubled qualia are weird? If so, then you will find the following intolerably bizarre.
Intermittently Doubled Qualia.
To get warmed up for intermittently doubled qualia, stop to appreciate the following stipulation about Person X: the red mind and the green mind need not have any awareness of each other whatsoever. What this means, then, is that for all you know, your qualia are doubled right now. For all you know, there's someone else "in there†with you right now and what it's like to be them is just like what it's like to be you except for the inversion of the color qualia bit. Now, imagine further, that you undergo the following recurring physical change. The set of physical properties P1, that suffice to instantiate just the red mind are replaced by a set of distinct physical properties P2, that suffice for both a red mind and a green mind. So, according to the intermittent doubled qualia thought experiment, you change from P1 to P2 and back again which changes you from un-doubled qualia to doubled qualia and back again.
Perhaps you think that intermittently doubled qualia are impossible. You may be right. But here's one thing that won't rule them out: clause (2) of supervenience. Clause (2) prohibits you from changing mentally without changing physically, but the intermittent doubled qualia thought experiment stipulated that there were physical changes accompanying the change to a doubled state. Davidsonian supervenience rules out only some of the obvious impossibilities concerning qualia. (1) rules out (a) inverted and (b) absent qualia. (2) rules out (c) fading qualia and (d) dancing qualia. Neither (1) nor (2) rules doubled qualia. And I'm betting physicalists would very much like to rule out doubled qualia. Then physicalists should explicitly embrace FGS.


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We cannot let this opportunity go to waste, so I am urging you to testify before the committee and tell the legislators how important this local treasure is to you. Please, share in your own words why this piece of property deserves to be a priority in our region.
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For the hat, I'm double-stranding the alpaca with the yarn you see on the left in the photo. Some of you might recognize it from the first finished pair of socks I ever made. It's leftover from that little project. I made a lot of progress on it this weekend, but I think I screwed up when I started the decreases, so I might have to frog some of it and start over. Mixing the black yarn with the self-striping sock yarn looks really cool, though. It's almost like there are little red, yellow and orange jewels throughout the hat.
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The distance between them is, by ol' Pythagoras,
Now, can you finish?.
Vehicle A is 25km due east of vehicle B. A moves due west at 60km/h and B moves due north at 80km/h. Find an expression for the distance of separation for the two vehicles t hours later. After how many minutes is this separation distance a minimum and what is this minimum distance?
Im really just not sure how to find the expression, but i think i know how to find at how many minutes the separation distance is minimum (differentiate the expression then make f'(x) = 0. Right?)
I found the expression for distance as d = 25 + 85x, but this is wrong. Apparently (according to my teacher) i need to use the Pythagoras theorem, so i guess that means im finding displacement and not distance.... now that i reread the question thats actually pretty obvious because its distance of separation not distance travelled. :/. oh well.
Anywho, any help in finding that expression is appreciated. Thanks.
Im unsure how to differentiate this (very new to it- just started intro-calc a couple of weeks ago) but i think im on the right track.
s = √((25-60t)² + (80t)²)
s = √(625 - 3000t + 10000t²)
s = 25 - 54.77t^(1/2) + 100t
s' = -27.58/(√t) + 100
0 = -27.58/(√t) + 100
100√t = 27.58
t = 0.075 h
t = 4.5 min
but this is wrong, the answer is double this - its 9. Im really not sure what im not getting, this question has been bugging me all night. :/
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Pym Says There's No Goalie Controversy in Calgary
by Theresa Smith | Special to Lacrosse Magazine Online
Goalie Matt King, who got hot to lead the Roughnecks through the 2009 NLL playoffs to a championship, has company now with NLL Overall Player of the Week Mike Poulin, who relieved King in a 10-8 win over Toronto.
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They speak the same language, are comfortable with quirky personalities like their own, and support each other because of an automatic empathy factor.
The enigmatic relationship between goalkeepers is one of the realities of lacrosse.
Separated from the rest of the team by their unique position, goalies are bonded by their common task: stop balls fired at 100 miles-per-hour, by any means necessary.
At the same time, they are competitors, fiercely fighting for the starting job.
In Calgary's situation, the defending National Lacrosse League champions traded for Boston backup goalkeeper Mike Poulin after a 1-3 start.
Poulin replaced Chris Levis, who was dealt to Colorado.
Matt King, the Roughnecks' starter, naturally saw the competition Poulin presented, yet also found himself with a potential confidant.
King, who shared the position for most of the 2009 regular season with Pat Campbell, then emerged as the hot stopper down the stretch and through the Champion's Cup final, started the first two games after the trade.
In the second game, last Sunday in Calgary, King allowed five goals on 14 shots over the opening 17 minutes, 32 seconds. Following a goal by Colin Doyle, King was pulled for Poulin.
The rest is history, as evidenced by whom the NLL named its Overall Player of the Week -- Mike Poulin.
All Poulin did over the last 42 minutes against East Division-leading Toronto (6-2) was limit the Rock to three goals, enabling the Roughnecks to rally for a 10-8 Valentine's Day victory.
Poulin, a 24-year-old from Kitchener, Ontario, made 28 saves.
On Wednesday, Calgary coach Dave Pym was quick to point out that there is no goalkeeper controversy.
"Mike and Matty, I think, have already solidified a fantastic relationship, similar to what Matty had with Cannonball [Pat Campbell] last year," Pym said.
"They're gonna feed off each other; they're going to push each other to be better goaltenders, even though there's really nothing to any story about these guys rushing each other out of the way or any of that kind of stuff.
"We're gonna ride our goalies as we see fit, and we have two great ones.''
Goalie depth is a luxury.
Poulin, for the moment, has shown that the Roughnecks possess
Comeback Trail
Amid the upset of Toronto, Pym discerned shades of his 2009 champions.
"Last year, we learned to love pressure, which allowed us to avoid some of the distractions and deal with some of the adversity that occurs during a game," he said.
"And I thought we did a much better job of staying focused in
the moment, and what's next in our game, and sticking with our game
plan. I felt we took a great step forward in our game against the
Rock in doing that and hopefully, we can do that against the
Chink in the Armor
The Stealth joined the ranks of the defeated, falling 16-12 to Minnesota, to drop to 6-1.
"Our game was inconsistent and not fundamentally sound," said Washington coach Chris Hall. "We'll work on some of those things in practice this week, and hopefully, get back to where we were at the start of the season."
The Stealth defense has slipped a bit lately and is weakened by a few injuries.
Minnesota (2-4) racked up 79 penalty minutes. Three Swarm players were assessed game misconducts, including Joe Cinosky and Sean Pollock in the first quarter.
Washington was penalized 52 minutes and Mike Grimes was ejected for his involvement.
If the Swarm was looking for fights to minimize the high-caliber skills of the Stealth, Hall wasn't crying foul.
"The rules are the rules," he said. "We're happy to play within the rules. If the cheap stuff is called early in games and there's control of that, we're happy to move forward.
"We have to try and maintain our discipline and understand that
teams are going to try to get some of our players off their
Rookies Rock
Move over Garrett Billings. Another Toronto rookie, Stephen Leblanc is tearing it up for the Rock.
Leblanc scored four goals with three assists in the Rock's 16-7 pounding of Edmonton to earn his second straight NLL Rookie of the Week award.
An NCAA Division II standout at Queens University of Charlotte (N.C.), Leblanc was the No. 11 overall pick in the 2009 draft. The Restoule, Ontario resident is tied with Washington's Jeff Zywicki for second in NLL scoring with 47 points, on 16 goals and 31 assists.
Colin Doyle leads the league with 50 points, including 38 assists.
Billings and teammate Blaine Manning are tied for fourth in the NLL with 46 points each. Manning scored five goals on only eight shots, and made five assists in the triumph over Edmonton.
Toronto players own four of the top five point totals, but the Rock is the only NLL team that has played eight games.
All NLL teams have played at least six games, except Orlando
(3-1). The Titans' game at Philadelphia, originally scheduled for
Feb. 6, was postponed by a blizzard.
Road Woes
With just one win on the road this year, Knighthawks coach Paul Gait has altered his players' travel routines. Instead of arriving the morning of an East Coast-based game, the team will check into a hotel in the Philadelphia area on Feb. 19, the night before Saturday's game against the Wings (1-5).
Gait's team is 4-3 overall, but just 1-3 on the road. He will also emphasize smart play.
"We need to stay out of the penalty box," he said.
Gait need only remind his players of recent history. In a 14-8 loss at Boston on Feb. 6, two of his charges were assessed game misconducts, and the Knighthawks rolled up 41 penalty minutes to the Blazers' 17.
In contrast, a rematch on Feb. 13 in Rochester yielded an 11-9
win for Gait's team, with no game misconducts and only 16 minutes
of penalties, just four more than Boston.
Hunting for Victory
Philadelphia (1-5) owns a league-worst, four-game losing streak.
"We've got to get a win,'' said coach Dave Huntley. "We need to
do whatever it takes to get a win."
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Assisting clients with their marketing programs in compliance with federal and state consumer protection laws, such as do not call laws, the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, the Telemarketing Sales Rule, CAN-SPAM, Gramm-Leach-Bliley, CFPB regulations, state point of sale laws affecting credit card transactions, advertising and information collection and sweepstakes law
Working with clients to negotiate contracts with acquiring banks and card associations, and for payment processing software used by a large retailer, information security, private label credit cards, marketing, and product placement
Benita is a vice chair of the American Bar Association (ABA) Consumer Protection Committee, a member of the ABA, the Ohio State Bar Association, the Columbus Bar Association, the International Association of Privacy Professionals and is a Certified Information Privacy Professional(CIPP).
Benita has given presentations on a variety of topics relating to privacy compliance for advertising and marketing initiatives, and customer data security and compromises of retail data to numerous retail associations and professional associations, including the International Association Privacy Professionals (IAPP), National Association of Convenience Stores (NACS), the American Bar Association and Infosec.
Benita received her J.D. summa cum laude from The Ohio State University Michael E. Moritz College of Law, where she was a member of the Order of the Coif. She received her B.A. cum laude from the University of Akron.
Professional and Community Activities
- American Bar Association, Privacy and Information Security Sub-Committee of the Antitrust Section, Vice Chair, 2007-present
- Energy and Mineral Law Foundation, Member, 1982-1999; President, 1996-1997
- Franklin County Children's Services, Board of Directors, 1989-1997; Chair, 1990, 1991, 1995
Honors & Awards
- Chambers and Partners, Leading Lawyer in Privacy & Data Security, 2009-2014
- Columbus CEO, Top Lawyers in Columbus, 2010-2014
- Fellow of the Columbus Bar Foundation since 1998
- Ohio Super Lawyers, Information Technology, 2004, 2007-2017
- Ohio Super Lawyers, Top 25 Women Columbus Area Super Lawyers, 2014-2015
- Best Lawyers in America, 1999-2016
- Martindale-Hubbell AV Peer Review Rated
- 12/2/2016Vorys is pleased to announce that 58 attorneys from the firm have been named 2017 Ohio Super Lawyers and Rising Stars.
- 12/2/2015Vorys is pleased to announce that 63 attorneys from the firm have been named 2016 Ohio Super Lawyers and Rising Stars.
- 8/17/2015One-hundred and eighteen lawyers from Vorys were recently selected by their peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® 2016.
- 12/3/2014Vorys is pleased to announce that 74 attorneys from the firm have been named 2015 Ohio Super Lawyers and Rising Stars.
- 8/18/2014One-hundred and ten lawyers from Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease were recently selected by their peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® 2015.
- 5/23/2014Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease is pleased to announce that 39 of the firm's attorneys have been recognized among the leading practitioners in the country in the 2014 edition of Chambers USA.
- 12/23/2013Benita Kahn, a partner in the Vorys Columbus office and the chair of the technology and intellectual property group, was profiled in the Law360 Female Powerbrokers Q&A series.
- 12/4/2013Eighty-one attorneys from Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP have been named 2014 Ohio Super Lawyers and Rising Stars. 57 Vorys attorneys were named 2014 Ohio Super Lawyer and 24 Vorys attorneys were named 2014 Ohio Rising Stars.
- 8/14/2013One hundred and eleven lawyers from Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease were recently selected by their peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® 2014.
- 5/24/2013Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease is pleased to announce that 39 of the firm's attorneys have been recognized among the leading practitioners in the country in the 2013 edition of Chambers USA. Chambers USA conducts in-depth research and ranks the leading firms and attorneys in an extensive range of practice areas throughout America.
- 4/4/2013Vorys Partners Benita Kahn and Alycia Broz were quoted in a Law360 story titled "Big Retailers May Regret Moving Tracking Suits To Fed. Court." The story was about lawsuits filed in 2010 claiming that online retailers' use of Flash cookies on visitors' computers violated consumer privacy.
- 1/25/2013Benita Kahn, a partner in the Vorys Columbus office and chair of the firm's technology and intellectual property group, was quoted in a Columbus Business First story entitled "Legal landscape taking shape around cyber security as threats rise."
- 12/17/2012Seventy-Seven attorneys from Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease have been named 2013 Ohio Super Lawyers and Rising Stars.
- 8/23/2012One hundred and twenty-six lawyers from Vorys were recently selected by their peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® 2013.
- 6/7/2012Vorys announced that 35 of the firm's attorneys have been recognized among the leading practitioners in the country in the 2012 edition of Chambers USA.
- 4/6/2012Benita Kahn and Jonathan Airey, partners in the Vorys Columbus office, were featured in a Columbus Business First story about central Ohio attorneys who do legal work for clients across the country.
- 12/16/2011
- 9/6/2011
- 6/10/2011
- 3/17/2011
- 8/9/2010
- 6/24/2010
- 4/6/2010
- 12/22/2009
- 8/4/2009
- 3/4/2009
- 12/29/2008
- 10/29/2008
- 3/2008
- 9/19/2007
- 2/10/2015Vorys partner Benita Kahn served as a moderator for the panel titled Consumer Protection Update, hosted by the American Bar Association's Section of Antitrust Law on February 10, 2015.
- 5/2/2013Vorys attorney Benita Kahn presented Data Breach and Privacy Liabilities – What's Out There at the 2013 InfoSec Summit.
- 4/24/2013Vorys attorneys Benita Kahn and Lisa Pierce Reisz presented "Managing Compliance and Privacy Risks" for the Columbus Chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel.
- 2/1/2013Benita Kahn presented at the 12th Annual Privacy and Security of Consumer and Employee Information Conference.
- 1/8/2013Vorys attorneys Benita Kahn and Eric Whisler presented the January 2013 American Bar Association Privacy and Information Security Update.
- 3/9/2012Benita Kahn presented "Avoiding an FTC Privacy Investigation (and What To Do When You Find Yourself the Target of One)" at the 2012 IAPP Global Privacy Summit.
- 2/2/2012Benita Kahn presented at the 11th Annual Privacy and Security of Consumer and Employee Information Conference.
- 4/21/2011
- 3/9/2011
- 2/16/2011
- 2/3/2011
- 6/3/2010
- 3/10/2010
- 12/14/2009
- 10/21/2009
- 8/5/2009
- 1/26/2009
- 6/23/2015Client Alert: FTC Revises Endorsement FAQs, Provides Additional Answers to Endorsement Disclosure QuestionsThe Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has recently released its updated "What People are Asking" FAQs regarding its Endorsement Guides. The FTC's Endorsement Guides help define what the FTC would consider to be a deceptive practice when using endorsements in advertising.
- 1/14/2015Earlier this week, President Obama gave a speech at the FTC laying out an agenda on privacy and data security issues, and indicating that the topic is important enough to the administration that it will be included in his upcoming State of the Union address. Generally, the initiative's goals include tackling identity theft, protecting the privacy of student data and working toward a general privacy "bill of rights" to provide comprehensive data and privacy protections.
- 6/30/2014On June 20, Florida's governor signed into law a replacement to its former breach notification statute, called the Florida Information Protection Act of 2014. This law is going into effect very quickly (July 1, 2014), and will be one of the most robust breach notification laws in the country. The Florida law did not necessarily break new ground, but it incorporated into one law many of the recent trends that have been passed in other states.
- 4/18/2014Client Alert: Federal Court Rules That Zip Code Alone is Not an Address Under D.C. Credit Card Transaction LawFifteen states and the District of Columbia have laws that restrict the collection of personal identification information at the point of sale when payment is made by a credit card. Retailers received good news recently from the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in Hancock v. Urban Outfitters.
- 7/1/2013Benita Kahn and Eric Whisler authored an article for STORES Magazine titled "Regulators' Scrutiny and Guidance for Mobile Apps." In the article, the authors state that the increase in consumers' use of smartphones and tablets has caught the attention of regulators.
- 12/10/2012On November 29th, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) granted a request for declaratory ruling filed by Soundbite Communications Inc. (Soundbite). The FCC held that a one-time text message confirming a consumer's request to opt-out of receiving text messages, if it meets specific requirements, does not violate the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA).
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Ballet Arizona - Play at Joyce Theater
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The company makes its Joyce debut with Play "a masterful ballet" by Ib Andersen, "a deeply gifted choreographer" (Dance Magazine). Described by Andersen as a "seven-course meal," Play is an evening length work composed of seven ballets set to the rich music of Mozart, Schubert, Britten, and Stravinsky. With its style and mood changing from passionate to playful, from evocative to elegant, the piece virtually plays with "constant changes of tone and musical attentiveness" to reveal "remarkably skilled dance-making." The New York Times
Venue Description: An inexpensive dance theater located in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood, inside the former Elgin 1940's movie house. Renowned companies such as Complexions, FOCUS DANCE, MOMIX, Parson, and many others make this their NYC stop.


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The Concordia Kids Wrestling Club hosted its Con Kids Open Tournament on Saturday.
Concordia had 53 wrestlers place in the top five in their respective divisions. Those placing first include:
Carter Eakins, 46 pounds A, 6-and-under; Tristen Cuellar, 58 pounds, 6-and-under; Ian Ketterman, heavyweight, 6-and-under; Hayden Dvorak, 49 pounds, 8-and-under; Logan Leiszler, 58 pounds C, 8-and-under; Keyan Miller, 76 pounds, 8-and-under; Phoenix Vansant, 76 pounds B, 10-and-under; Hunter Schroeder, 82 pounds, 10-and-under; Wyatt Trost, 90 pounds, 10-and-under; Bradley Edin, 120 pounds, 10-and-under; Blake Leiszler, 80 pounds, 12-and-under; Zachary Strait, 88 pounds, 12-and-under; and Tracer Workman, 120-125 pounds, 14-and-under.
Second-place finishers include:
Warric Eakins, 37 pounds B, 6-and-under; Rush LeDuc, 40 pounds A, 6-and-under; Kale Schroeder, 40 pounds B, 6-and-under; Maddox Frey, 46 pounds C, 6-and-under; Drew Sterrett, 46 pounds D, 6-and-under'; Dustin Sterrett, 49 pounds, 8-and-under; Kadryn McMannus, 52 pounds B, 8-and-under; Braxtin Mason, 64 pounds, 8-and-under; Sajen Kemling, 52-55 pounds, 10-and-under; Shelby Giersch, 100 pounds, 10-and-under; and Eyann Zimmerman, 150-170 pounds, 10-and-under.
Third-place finishers include:
Cierra Cyre, 40 pounds B, 6-and-under; Zane Cuellar, 43 pounds B, 6-and-under; Easton Swihart, 49 pounds, 6-and-under; Tristan Allsman, 64 pounds A, 6-and-under; Justus Trost, 67-70 pounds, 6-and-under; Joshua Bray, 73-80 pounds, 6-and-under; Jayden Christianson, 61 pounds, 8-and-under; Kameron Knox, 67 pounds B, 8-and-under; Drew Brown, 70 pounds, 8-and-under; Kassidy Leiszler, 58 pounds, 10-and-under; Cade Anderson, 72 pounds B, 10-and-under; Jaiden Hinzman, 110 pounds, 10-and-under; Blaze Payeur, 140-155 pounds, 14-and-under; Brent Beaumont, 160-165 pounds, 14-and-under; and Baley Kindel, 175-205 pounds, 14-and-under.
Fourth-place finishers include:
Chris LaPolice, 40 pounds A, 6-and-under; Jagger Johnson, 55 pounds, A, 6-and-under; Torxten Kindel, 49 pounds, 8-and-under; Caitlyn Cyre, 55 pounds B, 8-and-under; Gage Smith, 80 pounds, A, 8-and-under; Andrew Mikesell, 80 pounds B, 8-and-under; Zane Reed, 73 pounds A, 10-and-under; Caden Womack, 79 pounds A, 10-and-under; Layton Kindel, 82 pounds, 10-and-under; Tryston Jochems, 110-115 pounds, 12-and-under; and Keaton Rudolph, 115 pounds, 14-and-under.
Fifth-place finishers include:
Thomas Genereux, 61 pounds A, 8-and-under; Taskin Kindel, 85 pounds, 10-and-under; and Aaron Thorton, 95 pounds, 10-and-under.
The Concordia Kids Club had four wrestlers place in the Herrington Tournament on Sunday.
Easton Swihart, 49 pounds, 6-and-under; Braxtin Mason, 64 pounds, 6-and-under; and Jaiden Christianson, 61 pounds, 8-and-under, recorded first-place finishes.
Carter Eakins, 46 pounds, 6-and-under, placed first.


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By Jason Herbert
The old tom came in silent, and neither of us made a sound until I coaxed one obligatory gobble out of him. That was the last sound that bird ever made. I didn't want the season to pass without hearing at least one sweet call of spring.
Turkeys can be hunted like deer. In fact, all game animals have the same basic needs: food, water, and shelter. And of course, the hunter's "ace in the hole," the animal's desire to breed. I like to pattern my turkeys, and simply get between point A and point B at the appropriate time to kill one as he walks by. If that doesn't work, then I'm decoying, and calling and running all over trying to punch my tag.
When scouting, I first look for a roosting area. In my neck of the woods, birds tend to roost high in steady old oaks or seek shelter from the weather in mature pines. Turkeys also like to roost off hills, allowing them to get safely high in a tree with little effort. The terrain I hunt is relatively flat, so anytime a bird has a chance to roost off of a hill, he usually takes advantage of it. The best way to confirm the location of a roost area is to sit and listen from a distance, in the wee early morning hours or at dusk. During both of these times, toms will usually gobble. If time won't allow for an observation, suspicion of a roosting area can be confirmed by locating piles of droppings, feathers, and scratch marks in the leaves. I've noticed that the birds tend to fly down into the wind, and certainly away from the sun. Generally, the turkeys will leave the roost and then head off to who knows where, leaving a trail of scratch marks behind. The scratches will indicate the direction where the birds traveled, with the pile of leaves being pushed behind them as they walk away.
Like a child on Christmas Eve, the night before the turkey opener is a close second to the evening before archery deer season begins. I have so much fun preparing for the season that it has become an early spring ritual for me. I'm really excited this year to use my Thunder Chicken vest from ScentBlocker. This is by far the sweetest turkey hunting vest I've seen yet. Designed in part by The Bone Collector himself, Michael Waddell, this vest has everything a serious turkey hunter could ever need. I really appreciate its plentiful pockets placed logically through the vest, its Realtree Xtra revolutionary camo pattern, the orange safety flap on the back, and most of all, the quiet, magnetic comfortable pad that folds down from the back.
Along with my vest and some good rubber boots, I wear my fall hunting gear in the spring as well. Even though we don't need to worry about human odor when we turkey hunt, I appreciate how comfortable and dry my RainBlocker clothing is. With the newest camo patterns like Realtree Xtra and Mossy Oak Breakup Infinity, those old toms will never know what hit them!
I start each preseason ritual by taking everything out of my vest and re-assessing its value. A turkey hunter can never have too many calls, but there are a few things each year that don't get invited back in the vest for the following spring. I also recycle old water bottles, thrown away all the junk I've collected, chalk up my box calls, sand my pot-n-peg calls, and get rid of my old diaphragm calls. I'll of course invest in a few new diaphragm calls, and throw in some fresh granola bars and a couple of water bottles as well.
Even though my turkey gun is tried and true, I re-sight in each spring. Not only for the confidence and practice, but because I feel it's important to retrain the muscle memory of slowly raising a gun and squeezing the trigger.
Once I've located a roost area and have a rough idea of where the birds will head next, I try to find a decent place along the way to setup. I like to get against a big tree, in a thick pile of brush, or in some cases, set a popup blind. When bowhunting turkeys, a popup or permanent blind is almost essential. A turkey will almost always pick up on a bowhunter trying to draw on him, unless his movements are concealed in some sort of blind. The setup needs to be easy to access, without a lot of noise, and the hunter needs to be in it really early. I don't call much at this point, or use decoys. I simply rely on my scouting to put birds in front of me. If my intel didn't pay off, then it's time for plan B.
After a few hours I'll either have a dead bird in my truck or have moved to another location. I like to move to a strut zone. A strut zone is where a lonely tom will usually be found mid-morning, showing off in the bright sun, looking for a hen. Strut zones are typically open fields, river bottoms, ridge tops, or anywhere the bird can be seen, and see, from a distance. A strut zone is a good place to use a decoy, making sure to face it toward the hunter. When bow hunting a strut zone, remember to get a blind in place ahead of time, just in case. If the strut zone didn't produce a tom, the day's not over. I then go to plan C.
I spend the rest of the day moving from farm to farm hitting every strut zone I'm aware of until I've killed a bird. If I don't kill one, I at least have a good idea where to start the next morning. If hunting different properties isn't an option, take a break and head back out with different calls. Try a new location such as a water hole or dust bowl, and be patient. The turkeys are out there someplace! Eventually they'll come back. It is important, when considering an all-day turkey-hunting marathon, to be sure to check the state hunting regulations, because not all states allow for afternoon or evening turkey hunting.
With a little preseason scouting and homework, the odds — for anyone from rookies to veterans — of killing that wise old spring longbeard will increase. And if you are a rookie, let us be the first to welcome you to your newest addiction! Learn a few basic calls (such as a cluck, yelp, cutt, or purr), get a good shooting gun, a few decent decoys, and some nice camouflage, and hit the woods! Have fun, be safe, and be sure to take good pictures to share with us!


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A reader emails:
Labour have been sending begging letters to their local electorate members, asking for donations. I was shown one from Moira Coatsworth.
At this time of the year, when the typical Labour supporter is struggling to pay for the expenses of Christmas, it is a hell of a cheek for some beltway person in their Head Office to try to sponge money from the rank and file.
Also, attached is an emailed notice which urges members to make a ridiculous attempt to flood John Key's email box.
Who thinks up this rubbish? How much do they get paid? Have they ever heard of filters, junk mail settings etc?
Is this the best bright minds can come up with in opposition?
God knows how they would run a government!


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tesliin. no. you just missed learning it by one. book says you can try again by studying for 10 minutes and trying again. but saying that...i think an oppurtunity just arrived...
|A'Mar of House Issola
I can't tell if she is with us or agaisnt us, but she doesn't look safe out there, these murderous swine will attack her if she knows it or not
Having no idea about wards, Axe swats the ward with his sheild wondering what it is and how strong it is.
|Tesliin Sedai
"It doesn't appear there is much to be done at present. The barrier blocks your weapons as well as the One Power. All we can do is watch."
Went through the book, I honestly can't find anything about removing this. If there is anything, can someone point it out.
|Tesliin Sedai
The ogier dodges about, deftly avoiding your slashes at him. A look of understanding begins to form on his face as he steps in and attacks you.
1d20 + 5 ⇒ (14) + 5 = 19
1d8 + 9 ⇒ (1) + 9 = 10
they are up in the dressmaker district. If we hurry, we can make it before they act up too much the unnamed Aiel says as he sets off out the door.
i will say that in 3 rounds, so round 5, rhoekk will be joining the fun
Jolial, shall i assume that you are still hanging back?
TO make this a little easier for me, i am asking the PCs to continue to post in the following location .
|Amorial Suth
Amorial grunts in pain as the Ogier strikes him with a solid blow.
The time for discussion ended Amorial sets to the grim task of striking down this foreign tree-brother.
Greataxe Attack #1 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (7) + 8 = 15
Greataxe Damage #1 1d12 + 3 ⇒ (10) + 3 = 13
Greataxe Attack #2 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (11) + 3 = 14
Greataxe Damage #2 1d12 + 3 ⇒ (7) + 3 = 10
Rizzen please add any bonuses for the Axe properties.
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Question (about Cash Registers)
Reprogram Royal cash register 325cx?
I need to know if anyone can help me on reprograming the date, time, and item keys for my Royal cash register model # 325cx? I do not have a instruction manual, so anything would be great.
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NZtech | New ZealandHi.
There is a manual for a 425cx on this page
It might be close enough to your model to help with the programming. Since Royal are not a world wide brand, we don't get them here in New Zealand, so I can't help any further.
Mark I.10 Nov 2004 + Great Answer! (0★) Report
anthud7 | United States, California | Subject Experience (showhide)That is the best online source for Royal register units. I use this site quite a bid and you can download the manuals.
Good luck and thank you for your question.
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are you sure it's not:
I am trying to understand how this method for simplifying the decryption process works. I understand that if I have the message c raised to the public exponent modulo the modulus, then to decrypt it, I need to raise the encrypted message to the private exponent modulo the modulus.
Say I have a public key (13, 673627) and a private key (103381, 673627) and I want to read the message 174277, I understand that I can do this by raising and taking mod 673627 to get it. However, I have a guided question that goes through a method that doesn't require as much computation and I don't quite understand it.
It says "find the other information in (103381, 673627), is chosen so that , chosen so that and chosen so that .
I factored the modulus to get 673627 = 919*733 =
I found that:
How do I use them to decrypt 174277?
If it helps, here is a walk-through that parallels the guided question. I completed all the steps but couldn't get the answer 10000 - perhaps I am misunderstanding part of it. I can't be sure which variables are which in my question. I found all the values that satisfied the equations successfully but completing the final computation gave me something different to .
Finally compute:
Method is from notes, question is from a handout.
So, in that case,
But a doesn't seem to be used :S
How would you find the message with your method and maybe I can extract what I need to do from that.


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Are there Jewish scouts? In the exhibition "Chaverim Chasak!" we tell you about the Jewish youth movement Hashomer Hatzair and what the chaverim and haberer did together. The creative modeling program is based on Hebrew letters, a fire logo, flags, and t-shirts.For people over 8 years.Children and an accompanying adult have free admission! In cooperation with wienXtra!Registration requiredCommunication & Education, tel. +43 1 535 04 31-130 and -131 or e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
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|[CQ-Contest] SAC-logs - PLEASE HELP!
|"Jan-Eric Rehn (SM3CER - 7S3A)" <email@example.com>
|Wed, 6 Oct 2004 04:01:36 +0200
Hello contest friends,
A sad story:
We have no "robot" sending confirmations for received logs for the Scandinavian Activity Contest. I have to act the robot myself and check the incoming logs manually. That takes lots of time!
Very early last Wednesday morning (29th September) I was checking attached SAC-logs in my e-mail program, Outlook Express. I checked if the Cabrillo logs had correct headers and if the log was OK and followed the Cabrillo specification. I sent a confirmation if the log looked OK and asked for additional information if the log had errors. Then I also saved the log on another location and also on another media (USB memory).
When I was to tired to continue at 0230 UTC and was preparing to go to bed, I got a message on my computer telling me there were updates to do from Windows Update. I accepted as I usually do. I shouldn't have done that!
Windows Update started to install SP2 for Windows XP and when that was finished after 45 minutes, I was asked to restart the computer. I did that - but the computer was stone dead. I went to bed and when I woke up later that day, I tried to start the computer again. No luck! I had to send the computer for repair. They managed to save everything stored on my hard drive, but they had to format the hard drive and install Windows XP from scratch.
During the repair I borrowed my wifes computer to be able to receive and send e-mails.
I just got my computer back. Windows XP Pro with a functional SP2 and Norton AntiVirus installed. That's all. My old files were saved in a separate folder. I started to configure the new Outlook Express and went to the folder with my old files to get all my stored e-mails. They were not there! Even my profile was gone. Of course I had most of my data files backed up on other media anyway, but I hadn't thought about backing up the e-mail folder. I talked to the guys repairing my computer and they thought my profile and all the e-mails stored were destroyed during the Windows Update. They had done a mirror copy of my hard drive, so everything I had stored should be saved.
Thousands of my stored e-mails in different folders in Outlook Express were all gone, together with my e-mail address book. Several saved rules and results I hadn't yet have time to update on my contest site and much, much more.
And - the worst - around 120 SSB-logs and 20 CW-logs for SAC, sent by e-mail, which I had stored in two different folders in Outlook Express and which I hadn't checked or sent confirmation for.
Now I also have some days work to re-install all my programs and make the computer look familiar again...
The moral is:
Never do an Windows Update (especially to SP2) before you've made a backup of your important data files!
And - DON'T FORGET TO DO A BACKUP OF YOUR E-MAILS!
IF YOU HAVEN'T GOT A CONFIRMATION that I have received your log for SAC - PLEASE SEND IT AGAIN!!!
Please send the logs in the Cabrillo format if possible.
If you cannot do that - send the log in ASCII format (plain text), readable in a simple text editor, and I'll convert them to Cabrillo for you. Then I also need a Summary Sheet. NO logs in Word, Excel or similar, please...
It seems if you have sent your log somewhere between Sunday 26 September 2300 UTC to Wednesday 29 September 0320 UTC and received no confirmation - I DON'T HAVE YOUR LOG!
If you sent it before or after that time period and also got a confirmation - I have it.
I'll send separate lists with OK received logs, so you can see if your log has reached me.
At the time I write this I've got 419 CW-logs and 204 SSB-logs sent by e-mail - safely stored and backed up.
For this reason we will extend the deadline to 30 NOVEMBER 2004, with hope of getting all those lost logs again.
I'm very sorry for all the inconvenience and trouble!
I also hope you've all learned something from my sad story...
I have!!!
Jan-Eric Rehn, SM3CER 2004 Scandinavian Activity Contest Committee
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Rated 5 / 5 stars
I do love a happy ending :)
I've already watched this twice and after i've written this review i will watch it on a continuous loop until i shrivel up and die fom lack of sustinance- join me...
Rated 4 / 5 stars
An odd mix.
I think you were trying to do something different with this flash in particular.
And by that I mean what you decided to convey. Alot of your cartoons usually have these odd meanings and juxtapositions, while others are just plain out comedies with odd conflict between odd characters.
And I think thats why alot of people are reviewing this confused. You really did do something different. Rather than making a cartoon with some sort of moral, or tragic story, or weird gleefully sadistic characters....you have shown us somewhat of another dimension. Its as if you've just given us a window into an entirely other world (a much happier and colorful one that usually we see in your flash), and have allowed us to just watch the little people deal with something they are unfamiliar with. No odd meanings, no kafka-esque dark subtleties, no twist ending. Just a spectacle of a little weird world full of little people reacting and having a short adventure with a scrote-like tree that changes their state of mind.
I can see why you are proud of this one. Its completely off in its own place. Not like anything on this website or anything like you usually make.
I noticed someone earlier complaining that the graphics "were not good" because the characters were almost like stick figures. And while, admittedly, there isnt as much detail on the actual backrounds and drawings as you usually do, its rather obvious thats the style you were going for. It was like colorful drawings children would do blended with your usual dark slighly Edward Gorey-esque drawing style.
Overall this was an odd little short, but entertaining. It moved along at a much slower pace than most of your films, and at times, one did sort of sit there and wonder "when will something happen?"
You've made enough films where I think this something you did on purpose and not some mistake on timing like many authors do in flash.
Overall, I think its good that you're back from wherever you were. This website has been horribley plagued with godawful Steve Irwin and sprite cartoons, so its good to see something worth watching again.
Boy, what a long a boring review I have written here. Its 4 am, and I should be asleep, but being an insomniac, its not going to happen at this point. I need to buy horse tranquilizers. asdasdjfhs,nbf.
Rated 5 / 5 stars
I loved it.
You are by far my favorite artist here and this movie is another example as to why. I agree, this is a more kid friendly video but it still maintained that weirdness factor that I love. I thought it was brilliant so I gave it a 10.
Rated 5 / 5 stars
Simply the best
I say, you should be proud of yourself david firth-man that was really good and ace heh
Your becoming a true cartoonist
*thumbs up*
Rated 4.5 / 5 stars
you never fail to amaze me
in all honesty when i first started loading this animation, i had no idea who created it. i didnt look. but right when i saw the style, i knew right away it was you david. once again an amazing flash. i applaud you.


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What is your favorite sport, which u and ur friends/family gather to watch or bet or etc, and which is your favorite team?
Im going with football "Soccer", my favorite team is juventus! :izuna:
so say which sport/team u like dont be shy!
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I have written much about my feelings of the word "pagan" on my primary religious blog, Of Thespiae. I've written about how the use of the word in the pagan community has become so loose that it's meaningless for all practical purposes. I've written about how, in spite of regular protests from the pagan community, the implicit "positive definition" of "paganism" ("positive definition" meaning "defining what something is"; whereas "negative definitions" define by what a word is not) is incredibly Eurocentric [2]. I've even mentioned how the "negative definition" of the word "pagan" isn't necessarily true, as the tradition of Christopaganism certainly makes it hard to say where the Christianity ends and the paganism begins. I've written about the incredibly secular climate of the pagan community in current culture.
The word "pagan" is not one I've been terribly fond of. Early on in my spiritual journey, earliest possible point being around either 1989 (when a nun at my old Catholic school gave me a copy of D'Aulaire's Book of Greek Myths and, I swear, I felt touched by Apollon in ways that Jesus and El Shaddai just never really could) or 1993 (when I first really started exploring ostensibly "pagan" paths), the word "pagan" was practically interchangeable with "Wiccan" or "witchcraft", or so it seemed when trying to find any books on the topic; there was a minority of books about Heathenry, Celtic polytheism, and neo-Druidry, but there was no uncertainty to the dominance of witchcraft-based paganism, and frankly, that only barely interested me, and not enough to really look too deeply into it. For a very brief time in high school, I practised a hodgepodge "Celtic reconstruction" of my own design, but I eschewed the word "pagan" because this didn't fit the common idea that most people had of "pagans" in the modern days, which was pretty much synonymous with "witchcraft", even if one knew that religious witchcraft wasn't as phantasmagorical as scenes from The Craft or even Practical Magic, they didn't really conceptualise it as simply "worshipping the gods of the British Isles", which is what I did, then. Toward the end of high school, I just gave up on my self-made Panceltic religion, cos most of those gods barely seemed "real" to me, and I joined the Church of Satan briefly, which is adamantly not pagan, in its self-definition, and though most members describe Satanism under the definition of Anton LaVey as "atheistic", further reading into LaVey's later essays, and not to mention certain interpretations of passages in The Satanic Bible and The Satanic Rituals, suggest that he himself was better defined as Maltheistic (a word of earliest use in print traced to Usenet in 1985, and defining one who ostensibly believes in one or more gods, but deems It/(S)He/Them as unfit for human worship; see LaVey's "God of the Assholes", which appears in Satan Speaks! ©1997, for the most clear evidence of LaVey's maltheistic, rather than atheistic beliefs). I was never a good atheist, somewhere in my head, I always believed in the gods of Hellas, and I was never maltheistic, either, because even if some deities don't want, need, or even deserve my worship, there are others that do, and by the time I was twenty-two, I basically outgrew the need for LaVey's church that I briefly had. But pagan? To see if that word fit, I put a toe in the on-line pagan community for the first time in six years when I was about twenty-four, and at that time, I'd discovered a vibrant and thriving community of Hellenic reconstructionists, most of whom had mixed feelings about the word "pagan". I pretty much only interacted with other recons for about another two or three years, and though I forget what ultimately teased me out, I had never really fully embraced "pagan" as a part of my religious identity....
I'm not saying Jesus is an archetype to Christians (from an Eric perspective). I'm saying Jesus is *archetypal* to Christians. (
I meant "etic" not Eric -- damn spellcheck.
You mean autocorrect. Spellcheck just highlights or underlines the misspelled words.
So I'm just supposed to ignore the first portion of your comment, cos in juxtaposition with the rest, it clearly means what I infe
Surely you will agree that the type you described so lovingly does not represent a majority or even a plurality of self-described


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Western banks losing battle for Beijing
In the foyer of Morgan Stanley's London hub, copies of the China Daily newspaper are offered to employees and clients, alongside traditional titles such as Newsweek and Time magazine. But even as western investment banks stock up on China's official English language newspaper, their own standing in Beijing looks to be faltering badly.
Until recently, western banks dominated the league tables in China. In 2009, led by UBS, six foreign banks were in the top 10 in terms of equity capital market banking revenue in China, according to data from Dealogic. But in 2011, only three made the grade, with UBS coming fourth, Goldman Sachs ninth, and Deutsche Bank in 10th place.
According to data from research firm Freeman Consulting, Deutsche was the only non-Chinese bank to make it into the top 10 IPO underwriters by fees in 2011.
Although investment banking revenue fell in China over 2011, it still remained a significant market for western institutions. The country was the second most profitable region by revenue last year, bringing in $4.6bn in investment banking revenue, 20% down on 2010.
Meanwhile, the Chinese equity capital market volume reached $91.8bn through 491 deals in 2011, half of the record $182.8bn raised via 729 deals in 2010, but still amounted to the third-largest market outside North America and Europe.
Western banks are at risk of losing their grip on world's second-largest economy. Shaun Rein, managing director of Shanghai-based research firm China Market Research Group, said: "The market is really bad for the foreign banks right now. There are a lot of fears about dealflow, and fears about accounting flow. So a lot of firms are taking a step back."
Goldman Sachs has drastically cut back on underwriting initial public offerings in China. The firm was ranked fourth in terms of IPO underwriting fees earned in 2007 but by 2011 it had slipped to 27th, according to data from Freeman Consulting.
Rein said: "Western banks are wondering whether to take Chinese firms public. Some firms may have over-reacted [by cutting back on IPO involvement]. Goldman Sachs is one example, and I think they are hurting their image by not taking anything public. A lot of the top Chinese entrepreneurs are now wondering why they should go with foreign firms."
Other instances of increased caution on Chinese new listings include Fortune SG, a Chinese fund management joint venture between French bank Societe Generale and China's Baosteel Group, which announced at the end of last year that it would no longer participate in IPOs.
In a statement published in the last week of December, Fortune SG said: "In view of the recent concentrated number of new equity issuances, the breadth of the issuers' industries and their wide geographic distribution, our company is unable in the short term to complete full research into issuers or to give reasonable pricing opinions."
Western banks also face considerable barriers to entry in the Chinese market. Foreign firms must partner with domestic firms, and are not allowed to own majority stakes in the venture.
Joint ventures, however, can lead to management problems. Morgan Stanley launched the China International Capital Corp, the country's first domestic investment bank, with a number of Chinese firms in 1995. But the bank gradually lost management control of the venture, and sold its stake to a KKR-led consortium in 2010 for a pre-tax gain of $700m.
Last year, Morgan Stanley re-entered the market in a joint-venture with Huaxin Securities. Other major joint ventures in China include Goldman Sachs Gao Hua Securities; Zhong De Securities (Deutsche Bank and Shanxi Securities); Credit Suisse Founder; and UBS Securities, a link-up between UBS and Beijing Securities.
Sam Kendall, head of equity capital markets for Asia-Pacific at UBS, said: "There are only a handful of international investment banks that have been given licences."
But the buyside is critical of the international banks in China. One domestic fund manager, who declined to be named, said: "When we are talking to investment banks leading [IPO] transactions, we are talking to local investment banks. It would be very difficult, if not impossible, to make comparisons with the quality of the work between domestic and international banks. To put it simply, [the foreign banks] are not here at all."
The void left by overseas investment banks in Beijing means domestic players are busy making hay. Ping An Securities, the market leader, earned $201m in ECM revenue in 2011 in China, according to data from Dealogic.
Ping An also made it into the top 10 global IPO book-runners by volume, underwriting $4.57bn in 2011, according to Dealogic. It is now the third Chinese bank to break this barrier in as many years, with CICC ninth in 2010 and state-owned bank CITIC eighth in 2009.
One analyst based in China said: "Chinese firms, like CICC, are really getting aggressive, paying well, and have better connections."
This aggression involves poaching staff. Rein said: "A lot of the Chinese bankers we talk to feel that there are glass ceilings in foreign banks. They never make it to the management committee [within the region] but when they start working for domestic banks they are overseeing global operations."
But Kendall at UBS disagrees over the existence of any glass ceiling. "We haven't found there to be a shortage of skilled people in China. But if you look at when the Chinese capital markets began to open, it is only a five-year story. It's a big ask for anyone with that amount of experience to be running capital markets at a global bank."


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Vacations are a lot like Hollywood blockbusters: Both cost a lot of money, we go into them expecting maximum bang for our bucks, and the competition tends to be fairly fierce. So we approached representatives from six US National Parks and gave them an opportunity to pitch their park's perks directly to you, the traveler. Here, straight from the horses' mouth, is an inside scoop on the unique features, activities, and prime visiting seasons for some of America's best National Parks.
The Stats: 48 miles of river • 10,000 acres • 3.1 million annual visitors • Stocked with 23 species of game fish • Established in 1978
The Sell: "Our park is a little piece of wilderness right in the middle of a big city," says Chattahoochee River NRA Information Officer Rudy Evenson. "We've got hiking trails and mountain biking trails, and we've got the river for paddling. We're one of the southernmost trout streams in the United States. For people who want to get in a workout, I recommend the Cochran Shoals Fitness Loop, or the more secluded and scenic Indian Trail. On that trail, you feel like you're in the middle of the woods, even though you're in Atlanta."
The Skinny: The Chattahoochee is a favorite among fly-fishermen and kayakers, and perfect for those who want to get away from it all without having to leave the comfort of the city. The fact that it's 20 minutes from our house makes it a personal favorite of ours.
The Stats: 277 miles long • 18 miles wide • 1 mile deep • Considered one of the 7 Natural Wonders of the World • 5 million annual visitors • Established in 1919
The Sell: "No photo can capture the magnificence of a 277-mile long, 1-mile deep canyon filled with the brilliant colors of sunset," insists Gaelyn Olmsted, a park ranger who also blogs at GeoGypsyTraveler.com. "I'm biased, but I believe everyone should see the Grand Canyon with their own eyes. Most visitors enjoy seeing it from the rim, but hiking into the canyon is a different experience. The diversity of landscapes ranges from desert to forest, providing habitat for a variety of wildlife. It's the greatest Earth on show."
The Skinny: There's a reason this family favorite is the #2 most visited National Park in America. It's big, it's bold, and it's unlike anything else you've seen– a must for any traveler's bucket list.
The Stats: 522,419 acres • 16 mountains with summits of 6,000+ ft • 10,000 species of plants & animals • 9 million annual visitors • Established in 1940
The Sell: "Great Smoky Mountains National Park has lush greenery that not a lot of places have," park ranger Jennifer Hale says. "We have nearly 900 miles of hiking trails, and there are driving tours where you can enjoy the scenery from your car, such as Newfound Gap Road and Cade's Cove. We also have lots of different species here, including 1,600 black bears, elk, deer and birds. The best time to visit is September, because most of the schools go back in session in August and the weather is cooler."
The Skinny: The most visited US National Park is also one of its most beautiful. With 95% of its acreage forested and teeming with wildlife, it's a protected haven for nature and nature-lovers alike.
The Stats: 265,761 acres • 359 miles of trails • 150 lakes • 450 miles of streams • 72 peaks above 12,000 feet • 3.1 million annual visitors • Established in 1915
The Sell: "If you picture the Rocky Mountains, we've got all of that– snow-capped peaks, high alpine lakes, waterfalls and, at certain times of year, a sea of wildflowers," says park spokesperson Kyle Patterson. "About a third of the park is alpine tundra, an incredible fragile ecosystem. We've got great wildlife watching: You might see elk, mule deer, big horn sheep, coyotes, and an occasional bobcat. People will come in the summer to hike or go fly fishing, then come back in the winter and go backcountry skiing."
The Skinny: The Rocky Mountains are undeniably picturesque in summer, but the park's autumn leaves and rugged winter beauty are arguably its most distinctive draws.
The Stats: 761,268 acres • 800+ miles of hiking trails • Elevation ranges 2,127 to 13, 114 feet • 3.8 million annual visitors • Established in 1890
The Sell: "Yosemite is known as a crown jewel in the National Park system for its scenic beauty," explains park ranger/Public Affairs Officer Scott Gediman. "Geologically, we're in the middle of the central Sierra Nevada Mountain Range. In Yosemite Valley we've got 3,000-ft high granite walls with incredible waterfalls, including the highest in North America. The bulk of our visitation is during summer, but winter is a great time to see Yosemite Falls. Seeing El Capitan blanketed with snow is spectacular."
The Skinny: Yosemite was a favorite destination for legendary naturalist John Muir and conservation trailblazer Teddy Roosevelt. If those guys considered Yosemite one of the best US National Parks, trust us, it's good enough for you!
The Stats: 750,852 acres • 1,200 miles of hiking trails (including 100+ Miles of the Appalachian Trail) • 1.7 million annual visitors • Established in 1918
The Sell: "White Mountain has six federally designated wilderness areas, which provide a more remote and pristine experience," says Assistant District Ranger Thomas Giles of the National Forest, which stretches from New Hampshire into Maine. "There are lots of camping, hiking, fishing and skiing opportunities, with alpine ridges on the summits and ridge lines which vary from 4000-6000 feet in elevation. But people have to be well prepared for weather systems that they may not expect. Most times of the year, weather here can be very severe."
The Skinny: When a ranger tells you that weather in his forest can be "very severe," you know it's a place where Mother Nature is not to be trifled with. –Bret Love
If you liked our story on the Best US National Parks, then you may also like:
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NORTH CAROLINA: Great Smoky Mountains National Park- Cataloochee Valley
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ALASKA: Denali National Park, Alaska: Exploring America's Last Great Frontier
There really is nothing better than National Parks to set yourself free whether it's getting into wilderness or history.
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Wow, I can see I've got some catching up to do on US national parks. Thanks for passing the word and pointing the direction.
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I love the parks in the US – can't wait to explore more of them
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Wow, I love this! Thanks for highlighting some great places to explore. We are heading over to the USA in the summer and are looking at planning a road trip so I'll bookmark this incase we pass by and of these natural gems!
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I don't think you can beat Yosemite or the Grand Canyon for scenery. I would never get tired of either place. I'd be interested in seeing Great Smoky National Park – preferably in the off-season and the White Mountains are definitely on my bucket list.
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Oh they all sound wonderful. I've been to several of the parks mentioned and they are just the best places. I have to say, though, that Yosemite is my favorite. When we lived in California, we spent a lot of time in that park. We didn't frequent the "touristy" part but rather hiked in from the back side. It was glorious!! We saw so many "critters" … even saw bear, up close and personal. Thanks for a great post … makes me just "itch" to be out there!
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A definite checklist for me to follow when I get out to the US one day!
Great choices, although I have a bias toward Glacier National Park in my home state of Montana. The hiking is amazing as is the wildlife watching.
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I think you mean Cades Cove in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
I've only been to one of these, but as soon as I move back to the US, the rest are on my list!
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Amazing pictures! Have to visit these national parks one day!
As far as I'm concerned, you can't go wrong with any National Parks in this country!
I love national parks, I haven't visited that many of them in USA, maybe 5 or 6. From your list it must be Yosemite but my favourites are places like Bryce and Zion.
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I've always loved the parks here in North America. There are a few here that I've yet to have visited; I think my plan for retirement is to just travel from state park to state park & work as a ranger. lol
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Great list! I challenge every person who has ever said they have no desire to travel to America to read this post. The US is such a diverse country with so much stunning natural beauty, and the national parks here are second to none. We're headed to Yosemite next and can't wait!
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They all seem stunning, though something about the Grand Canyon national park really draws me in. I've always enjoyed the colors in the rock formations.
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We have been to several parks and our favorite is easily Yellowstone National Park. Heaps to do and see.
Having said that if you could only pick one, you can't pass on the Grand Canyon.
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Smoky Mountains, I think. The mountainous parts of the south-eastern USA seems so mysterious, too.
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I can never get enough of the national parks. Rocky Mountain is one of my favorites.
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You can´t forget Yellowstone! That´s my favourite USA National Park. I want to visit all of them in the US though… it´s on my bucketlist!
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I love National Parks! We just visited the Grand Canyon and already want to go back for a longer visit to hike and raft. I loved the Great Smokey Mountains when I went as a child as well. I need to check out the others on your list now!
Glacier National Park, hands down. But then again, I might be completely biased (from Montana here!)
So many choices, so little time. I've only visited two on this list and my time spent there was too short.
I prefer the White Mountains over the Grand Canyon. For whatever reason, the latter seems less tranquil, perhaps because of the popularity of the Brady Bunch trip to the canyon 🙂
Last year on our trip, I bought a weekend of highly pampered spa treatments for my wife while the kids and I set up the campsite. When mom arrived on Monday, we started our group hikes. It was an amazing experience.
How did you choose these 6 parks? Would be great to open this up to all parks each year and hear a pitch from more park rangers. Each national park is special.
Yosemite is next on my list now that I live so close, but it looks like I have others to see, too!
We're planning a road trip in the USA this summer and this is going in my planning bookmark! I love the format here, it's so inspiring to hear locals pitch their favorite spots. Superb photography too, I hope we get some beautiful weather while we're over there.
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I'm a volunteer at the Chattahoochee River Nat'l Recreation Area. Thanks so much for the publicity, it is greatly appreciated. We are used to being an "under the radar" unit of the NPS so this article was quite a pleasant surprise.
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