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Lima et al1 presented a 74-year-old man who showed extensive ischemia associated with cardiac arrest during exercise stress myocardial perfusion scintigraphy (MPI). The authors concluded that MPI after cardiac arrest is able to illustrate the pathophysiology of cardiac death.
To expand further on this point, we would like to add a rare experience in which MPI was able to show the consequence of cardiac death during cardiac arrest.
This is a 48-year-old woman who was referred to our department to be assessed for coronary artery disease. She had been hospitalized because of diabetic foot. She also had a history of hypertension.
The patient underwent dipyridamole 99mTc followed by gated myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) 90 minutes later. During image acquisition (at frame 59 of 64), she showed cardiac arrest with asystolic cardiac rhythm. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation was started immediately, and it was successful.
The MPI showed decreased perfusion of most left ventricle segments and just preserved septal and anteroseptal walls (Fig. 1).
This is a rare report of cardiac arrest 1.5 hours after dipyridamole stress, which was recorded by a gamma camera.
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The Lady Vandals dropped to 0-3 Tuesday night, falling to Effingham, 17-1.
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Texting a girl to induce her in an early ad successful dating is an art. As a boy and potential lover you have to learn and master this art. Here are a few useful tips.
Select a Suitable Time For Texting
A quiet and lonely time is best suited for texting. This is the time when the girl will be free from her daily routine and will be receptive for what all you want to convey. Obviously night is the best time for this. After studying the girl for sometimes you will know very well what is her leisure time and when is she free. You may start contacting her from evening on-wards and the texting may go well into midnight, depending upon your mutual intimacy and frankness.
Do Not Text When She is Busy
The girl should be away from her work or studies at the time when she receives your text. Similarly she should not be in the company of her friends. There may be many people around her with whom she may not like to share your text messages. She needs solitude and isolation to read your text and understand what all you want to convey to her.
Fix a Time For Texting
It is better that you fix a time for texting her and then send messages at that time only. This will make her mentally prepared to receive your texts and she will be waiting anxiously for that. Arousing interest in her for your message will be a great success by itself. As the girl will be ready for your texts she will indulge in longer and more intimate conversation with you at the appointed time.
Send a Warmer Message
If it is the first message that you are about to send then make a simple message. You may casually send her a message to ask about her health or where-about. A piece of poetry or even just a smiley face will be adequate. This will act as warmer message and will set a pace for your subsequent texts. Her response to your text will also guide you as what to send next.
Keep the Texts Short
Once regular texting starts between you, it is recommended to keep your texts short and simple. This will ensure that the conversation will continue for a longer duration which is the aim of this exercise. Lengthy messages tend to get bore and they are difficult to read as well.
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Your texts should be inquisitive and interesting so that she understands that you are interested in her. Avoid flirting her very frequently despite the fact both of you already know each other. Make her believe that you are really interested in her personality and her way of life.
Get Naughty When Opportunity Permits
Being naughty with a girl you like is just like adding sugar to your cup of tea. This will create aspirations within her and she will also start liking you. While texting you can pass funny remarks and expect the same from her.
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I talked to Sanchez yesterday, just as he was arriving to his hotel room.
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Steffie and I had a voucher to have dinner at the Fernsehturm in Mannheim, so we eventually got around to making a booking and we went on Tuesday to dine out. We jumped on the tram to Mannheim, which dropped us right out the front at the popular boathouse and we walked across the road and down to the underground entrance.
The tower itself is a revolving restaurant, transmission tower and observation lookout built 40 years ago and commanding a good view over the plains that surround it. It is definitely a part of the Mannheim skyline. With the sun hanging low over the west and the restaurant rotating every hour, we were assured of some good views.
Mannheim is a sprawling industrial city at the confluence of the Neckar River into the Rhine River and home to a large harbour including BASF
The weather has been good this week and I have been back on the bike riding to Heidelberg every day. I had my first week of block week, which means that I have just been learning about the hotel industry. It is interesting and boring at times because it has to do with a lot of statistics and of course plenty of new words. Who travels from where, to go where, with what, for how long and why! At least I know the difference between a 3 star and a 5 star hotel now!


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Stream Who I Am (Prod. By DJ Mano & Kanye West) [CDQ], the newest drop from Pusha T which features Big Sean & 2 Chainz. The cut was released on Thursday, June 13th, 2013. Things are looking better for Pusha T with each new release, which Who I Am (Prod.


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I recently read a post on a forum frequented by systems administrators titled "I'm scared".
The text of the post contained something like "they all have local admin access. All of them."
A few days ago I had a conversation with a colleague about what a small company actually needs in terms of information security. I am used to working in places like international banks and big pharmaceutical enterprises – companies that require a lot of data confidentiality and integrity, and which work under significant regulatory pressure. But what about your typical SME or startup?
It occurred to me that there are three basic categories in the security space that such companies need:
1. "Security management" – this is comprised of setting security policy, understanding what "what" and "why", performing audits, and generally keeping track of things.
2. "Dedicated security" – the slightly more advanced elements of securing a firm. This includes firewalls, VPN concentrators, intrusion detection systems, threat management, incident response, etc.
3. "Security operations" – the bread and butter stuff. Authentication, data encryption, etc. A good example of this would be login passwords, or Windows group policy.
Category #1 is a control function that oversees the company's security, from policy and architecture to reviewing implementation and results. Although it's sensible to have someone dedicated in charge of this, most SMEs will not be able to afford the kind of full-time expert they would need to do it right (which raises the question of whether such a person or function really needs to be full-time in a small firm?)
Category #2 – An SME or other small organization will not, beyond certain very strict limits (e.g. putting black box appliances on its network) have the know-how, time, or money to deal with high-end security technology. Companies hosting their email with an external provider already do this, as do those with managed networks, cloud hosting, etc.
Category #3 consists of tasks and capabilities which really should be integrated in any firm's day to day IT work. It's part of what a system administrators must cover as part of his daily responsibilities.
And therein lies the problem for many small companies. Because category #1 is often missing, policy, enforcement, and review is usually weak. People become accustomed to doing stuff by themselves, leading to lack of control, and ability to deal with stuff when it goes wrong.
Let's say you're the poor systems admin whose post I read. You start work at a firm with a few dozen employees, a couple of servers, not much in the way of IT budget and a product that, while it relies on IT working, isn't yet profitable enough to hire a full-blown professional IT organization. Let's also assume that the first guys to start the company did everything themselves (hooray for startups) and that this idea of "if you want it done right, do it yourself" still permeates your informal culture.
What do you do?
The short answer: risk management 101.
Part of your job as the IT guy is to make sure (a) you've identified what's missing, (b) you've suggested ways to fix it, and (c) you've made the Powers That Be aware of this and the potential consequences in a way that they understand. If you're lucky, (c) will lead to a bunch of budget and a mandate, resulting in (d), actually making things better. After all, that's what you do, right?
This is nothing more than a simplified description of what a proper risk management organization does – make sure there's sensible rules, make sure everyone's following the rules, and if someone's not following the rules, show the people with the money why this is bad and how they can fix it.
Step 1 Policy and Rules. Figure out whether there are adequate security policies in place. These don't have to be overly complex. Use best practices you find online, shamelessly plagiarize from others, but keep it simple and to the point. Is someone in charge of these? Are they aware of this? Who is allowed to access what? Are you following principles like that of least privilege/need to know? for access control? What are the consequences for not following the policy, and is HR/management/aware of these and do they support it?
Make sure it's short, sweet, understandable, and sensible (i.e. don't make up stupid, complicated rules for no reason other than the security policy seems too short.) Provide concise reasons – this will also help you avoid making rules for their own sake.
Basically this should help your organization define its "risk appetite". This is a fancy term for what it's willing to accept and how much it's willing to spend money on. The key is to make management understand exactly how much risk they face so they can make an educated and informed decision.
Microsoft has some examples to work with. So does NIST. A quick Google search for "small business security policies" or "small business security best practices" will turn up any number of guides.
From this, you can derive your processes – again, don't overcomplicate things. Who is responsible for what? How do you handle joiners / leavers? How do you regularly review access rights? How is data destroyed when no longer needed? Does everyone have a deputy, and is everyone aware of their rights and responsibilities?
Step 2 Document and Classify. Create a mechanism for classifying your assets. Again, not overly difficult. You can use the standard CIA (Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability) way of looking at information, services, applications, and infrastructure. Measure it from 1-3, 1-5, low to high, whatever. Just make it realistic and consistent, come up with a sensible methodology used to rate and sign off on this, and make sure everyone knows about it.
Step 3 Audit. Compare what is to what should be. Who has access to what? Is this stuff being reviewed regularly? By whom? What happens with there results? Who checks logs and who reports anomalies to whom? If you see something wrong, document (1) what's bad, (2) how bad it is, and (3) why it's bad.
Does stuff violate your policy, best practice, or just common sense? How? What are the consequences of not doing anything about it? Is it not even possible to find this stuff out (Donald Rumsfeld's "unknown unknowns")? Or does your security policy just plain suck? All of these are risks and should be clearly and succinctly documented. The risk severity is nothing more than some function of an asset's value (Step 2), the likelihood of something happening to it, and the severity of the consequences if something does happen to it.
This can be an educated guess. In fact, most risk management is as much subjective art as science. Just make sure you use consistent logic, rely on policies and standards as much as possible, and be prepared to back up your reasoning.
Step 4 Recommend Solutions. Recommend what needs to be done to fix this. How much will it cost, how much time will it take, and what will the consequences be? I.e. Bob from accounting may have to wait a day for someone to commit changes to his database rather than being able to do it directly himself, but as a result, you'll have a properly backed up and redundant centralized system rather than a crappy seven-year-old Access installation on a PC in the corner of the office.
Step 5 Obtain Sign-Off. The best policy or audit is useless if it's not made adequately clear to someone who has the authority to make a decision about it. This is the part where you have to explain clearly, simply, and understandably what you came up with in the above steps – why stuff is broken, why it's bad, and should be done to fix it. Do you understand this, boss? Can you repeat it back to me in your own words? Great. Now can you please sign it and confirm that you get it? Wonderful. And if not, escalate up the food chain, and create a paper trail that shows you've done everything you can to make those ultimately accountable thoroughly aware of all of the above. Because once you have done this, it's time for
Step 6 Sleep Comfortably. Your ass is covered. You can't save the world, but you've done your best. If your boss wants to stick his head in the sand and refuses to let you help, you've now got proof that you really, really tried.
Sometimes you can't win, and it's usually very difficult to make people care who don't want to care – congratulations, this is now no longer your problem.


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While infecting a PE EXE file, the virus encrypts itself and writes itself to the end of the file. The virus patches the startup code of the program with a short routine that passes control to the main virus code. While affecting DOS's COM files, the virus writes a short routine to the end of the file which has no infection abilities, but just displays a message on the 7th of July:
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Thieves who stole four bicycles from a Wanganui property soon decided they preferred another mode of transport and abandoned them by the road.
Vincent and Sue McBride are keen cyclists who have done extensive two-wheel touring. Mrs McBride was alarmed when she went to their garage on Friday morning and discovered the bolted door of a tiny adjoining shed was open.
"Bloody hell, I thought - I bet our bikes have gone."
As she feared, the expensive fold-up bikes custom-built for herself and her husband were gone. She didn't know it then, but two other bicycles from the garage were also missing,
Her husband wasn't home, having spent a night in hospital after an operation to repair the tendons in his hand. It was injured in a bicycle accident where he had the right of way at the notorious Victoria Ave/London St intersection but was hit by a car.
Mrs McBride picked her husband up, and he rang Wanganui Police about 11am that day. Within an hour they had three bicycles back, and were told the fourth had been abandoned in Great North Rd opposite Virginia Lake.
The others had been left behind a few streets away, where a utility parked with keys in it was missing.
"Lucky for us, and unlucky for the owner of the utility."
They're guessing that an unknown number of thieves found the bicycles more difficult to ride than they expected. The gears of the United States imports may have been trying, and there were signs an attempt had been made to fold them up, but it had proved too hard.
There was also a trail of bicycle debris between their Great North Rd house and the place where the utility was stolen - several helmets and a a pannier.
The McBrides are happy to have their bicycles and accessories back, with no more damage than a cracked rear-view mirror. The machines have accompanied them across the world and are not replaceable.


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You know how NASA occasionally comes out and announces an asteroid nearly missed Earth? And you can't help but think about the disaster that was averted?
This is like that.
6Dolemite (2001), Starring LL Cool J
If you've seen the original Dolemite, then you know that it's a completely bug-fuck insane mix of classic blaxploitation, bad kung fu, pimping and some kind of bizarre poetry about monkeys, lions and the Titanic.
If you haven't seen the original Dolemite, feel free to go ahead and do that now. We'll wait.
What Went Wrong?
We could go on all day about the immense bitchslap involved in casting particularly-unlikable plank of wood LL Cool J as the Human Fucking Tornado, but that's not the worst that this project had going for it.
No, the worst was that some clever devil at Dimension Films (possibly screenwriter Buddy Johnson of Scary Movie and several episodes of the Wayans Brothers) decided that Dolemite would be a much better character if he wasn't a pimp, and if he was framed for a crime he didn't commit, and if he had three female sidekicks who most definitely were not hookers. Apparently if he really, really sucked.
What Went Right?
Delays. Fallout Entertainment has picked up the rights to Dolemite (though it seems no amount of money would be sufficient to buy them). LL Cool J is no longer attached to the project, and rumors have the infinitely more appropriate Snoop Dogg in the running for the lead.
What You Can Watch Instead:
The Dolemite Explosion.
Fuck. Yes.
Despite apparently being the greatest film ever made, The Dolemite Explosion has not yet been released, possibly due to some kind of elaborate evil scheme that can only be stopped with kung fu hookers and magic lightning bolts.
5Ghengis Khan (2002), Starring Steven Seagal
As historical badasses go, they don't get much more badass than Ghengis Khan. The Mongolian warlord's story is full of revenge, crazy adventures and enormously bloody battles. Hell, he was still commanding armies at the age of 72 (and this was in 1227, so that's like being 150 today, you know, after inflation) if you believe some of the records, anyway. We're talking about a badass for the ages.
What Went Wrong?
Did you know that Steven Seagal is white? Seriously, he's not even slightly Asian.
It sounds like the kind of casting choice you'd get from a stereotypical coked-out Robert-Evans-style lunatic of a Hollywood producer ("That lead role for the big Chinese period piece? I've got two words for you: Steven Seagal!"). No, this was Seagal's dream project.
He scouted locations in China himself and auditioned Chinese people to play his relatives. And, somehow, no one thought to let him in on that one little detail: That the whole project was a really fucking retarded idea.
This often happens
What Went Right?
The Mafia. Seagal's producing partner on this project, a guy named Julius Nasso, made the slightly-misguided career move of bringing in thugs from the Gambino crime family to try to intimidate Seagal into a new contract.
Since there are actually a couple of laws against that kind of thing, Nasso spent a few years in jail, and Ghengis Khan went right into the crapper.
What You Can Watch Instead:
This sprawling epic has the advantage of actual Asians in the cast. Like The Dolemite Explosion, Mongol hasn't gotten a full US release yet, so there's not much to say except that it looks pretty damn gory, and we can always get behind that.


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Settlement of the Asterias rubens occurs along the rocky shores of the Atlantic Ocean. Studies performed along the coast of Nova Scotia show the tendency of these starfish to be found in kelp beds; they were the only echinoderms found on the kelp fronds. Further studies have shown that the population density of the Asterias rubens is correlated with subtidal blue mussel, Mytilus edulis, beds. These Mytilus edulis beds are short-lived due to intense predation; therefore, this influences the location of the Asterias rubens. (Barbeau, et al 1996)
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Today's top college football juniors are tomorrow's top NFL rookies.
With the best of the best often forgoing their final seasons of eligibility for the pros, the junior class is perennially the most talented and accomplished group in the college game.
That makes ranking the 50 best juniors in the FBS heading into the 2014 season like putting together a way-too-early draft big board.
Ranking the top freshmen and sophomores in college was hard enough, but there are so many great juniors set to hit the field this fall that plenty of worthy candidates will miss the cut.


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A message from Amy Wieczorek, a member of Eta Sigma Gamma: "Two years ago my best friend, Morgan Hohnbaum was killed by a drunk driver (along with her boyfriend Josh Milana). Burying her was the hardest thing I have ever done. It was even more difficult for her parents.
When she was killed her parents had to drive almost 2 hours to use Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) services. I wanted to raise money to bring more services to Omaha and benefit MADD Nebraska as a whole. It's a scary thought that there are more drunk driving fatalities in Omaha than homicides. Omaha has a huge drinking and driving problem and you can help...seriously!"
Amy is a fashion model and a community health major. In organizing this event she used both of these skills to raise awareness and funds for Mothers Against Drunk Driving.
All donations were made in memory of
Morgan Hohnbaum (1988-2007) and given to MADD Nebraska.
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Javier Gomez (ESP) finished up his season the same way he started it - winning. Despite soaring temperatures and humidity, Gomez collected his 14th World Cup title with an impressive ocean-side run. Aurelien Lescure (FRA) was second, while Dmitry Polyanskiy (RUS) took third.
"It was a very tough race. It was extremely hot out there," Gomez said. "I was dead on the run. The last 1km I tried to hang on and give my all the last 100m. I was sick for a few days this week, so I wasn't really sure, but I'm happy to win."
Tommy Zaferes (USA) and Marcus Vinicius Fernandes (BRA) were out of the one-lap ocean swim first, followed by Polyanskiy. The sprint swim did little to break up the long start list, as a massive group of men formed together on the bike.
Pre-race favourites Ben Kanute (USA), Steffen Justus (GER), and Gomez were amongst those in the dense cloud of men. The group continued to swell over the four-lap bike course until the third lap when Gregor Buchholz (GER), Carlos Arcadia (MEX), Travis Johnson (RSA), Fabio Carvalho (BRA) and Oscar David Preciado (COL) engineered a break.
But it wasn't enough to hold off the golden Gomez, as he shot off as soon as he racked his bike in transition. Despite the unforgiving temperatures, Jarrod Shoemaker (USA) and Polyanskiy answered the pounding pace. Behind them, Lescure began consistently picking off the competition and in a surprising burst of speed, the Frenchman blew past Shoemaker and Polyanskiy, pulling up to Gomez right before hitting the finish chute.
But when the pair crossed onto the blue carpet, Gomez gunned it and left the competition behind him to finish his season with a World Cup win, which is exactly how he started it in Mooloolaba seven months ago. Lescure crossed over just two seconds after Gomez to earn his first World Cup medal since 2011.
"I worked to beat Gomez at the end, but he was too strong – the best in the world," Lescure said. "I'm not so good at sprint finish, so I tried to make the gap earlier in the race."
After finishing just off the podium in his last two races, Polyanskiy engaged in a down to the line battle with Shoemaker. In a photo finish, it was determined Polyanskiy earned bronze in 53:31.
In her debut return to ITU racing since winning gold at the 2012 London Olympics, Nicola Spirig joined Javier Gomez, along with Mexico's Claudia Rivas and Crisanto Grajales to talk to press at the Cozumel World Cup.
For the second consecutive weekend, ITU will host a World Cup with the circuit stopping for a second time in Mexico this weekend. World Champion Javier Gomez and Olympic gold medallist Nicola Spirig headline the start lists.


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Besides the clinics there are a multitude of other options for getting (and understanding) "cross." Molly Hurford, better known as 'The Girl with the Cowbell Tattoo' for her column of the same name at CX Magazine, has pulled together a comprehensive guide to Cyclocross.
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A Crazy, Happy Circus: U.S. CX and Molly Hurford's Mud, Snow and Cyclocross
'Cross ain't easily explained. And to understand how it seems to instantly hook almost everyone who bumps into it, you just have to go, just once, even just to watch (although you'll wish you'd brought your bike). Otherwise, thankfully, there's now Molly Hurford's Mud, Snow, and Cyclocross: How 'Cross Took Over U.S. Cycling. Bound in bacon, smelling of frites and beer, and shipped to your door in a bucket of mud, Hurford's new book may be as close as you can get to the greatest sport in the universe without actually freezing your ass off.
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The New Timer
I used to write all the race reports for Dirty Deeds. It was a pretty fun job, I gotta admit, even if it was time consuming. As well as getting to make any number of jokes about Lewis' foot fetish, I got to tell the stories of the races, and that's always the best bit. An added bonus I didn't anticipate, however, was that I got to know a whole bunch of the folks I was sending these reports to.
One of these folks was Molly Hurford of Cyclocross Magazine – the Girl With The Cowbell Tattoo herself. After the Australian season was over we kept emailing back and forth, and eventually became pretty good friends. I sent her a shirt from this year's DDCX and she asked me to review her new book – Mud, Snow and Cyclocross: How 'Cross Took Over US Cycling.
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Half Wheel Hell
Within one month's time, many racers across the Mid-Atlantic region will be pulling their skinsuits out again, visualizing hole-shots and packing their race bags for the opening race of the cyclocross season. It's a fall tradition with European roots. But it's a fall tradition that has taken off here in America with its own special flavors and characteristics. Love it or hate it (or do both in the course of single race!), 'cross is a trend in American cycling that gets bigger every year. This year, however, it gets its "getting bigger" chronicled, analyzed and explained in a new book by Molly Hurford, editor of Cyclocross Magazine. Mud, Snow, and Cyclocross: How 'Cross Took Over US Cycling will both whet your appetite for the coming season and help you understand a bit more about why we do 'cross the way we do it here, both in the Mid-Atlantic region and across the United States as well. If you race 'cross, you want to order this book and read it before you roll up to your first starting grid of the season. But you'll want to act quickly: the book is on pre-sale now and, just like pre-registration for a 'cross race, there are benefits to being first!
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Bangable Dudes in Pro Cycling
We've been utilizing our post-Tour vacances by getting busy and plotting our upcoming CX season. Posting will resume in early September, just before CrossVegas. In the meantime, we will be passing around HQ's copy of Mud, Snow, and Cyclocross, written by esteemed guest post author Molly Hurford. We love her writing, and as a bonus, many of our favorite Dudes were interviewed.
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Can government lending targets for banks work?
Banks are making big profits once again and the pressure is increasing to force them to lend more so that the rest of the economy can bounce back too. However it seems that while profits are going up lending is not. Many businesses need money lent to them if they are to be able to invest in order to grow so damaging a potential recovery. Yet at the same time we do not want our banks to dig themselves back into trouble by lending too much again. Will government lending targets really help either extreme case?
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Will stop protective lending
Banks are now in fear that they will lend to people who will not be able to pay back the debt. It is for this reason that small businesses and starting businesses send a code red to the banks. These small businesses may not have a high net worth, or much collateral for the loan. They have no proof of earnings and no guaranteed income. If the banks carry on giving these small businesses the red light what we will be left with is a protectionist policy on large corporations. Only they will be given the loans in order to expand their own capital gain. This is a protectionist method and the Government needs to intervene so that small businesses can compete in the market place.
What does the colour red symbolize? Danger! Danger is what small businesses are. They are risks, very high risks. After all the vilification the banks received for the credit crisis are you surprised that they are automatically rejecting those who pose such high risks?
Will help provide more jobs
If the banks are made to give a set amount to small businesses, small businesses would have a chance to flourish. This will result in more jobs. This will help our current epidemic of unemployment, currently standing at 2.46 million [[http://www.statistics.gov.uk/cci/nugget.asp?id=12]]. In turn, as people attain jobs from these small businesses, they will have more disposable income. They will use this disposable income and this will increase the opportunities for small businesses to set up. This will then create a cycle of more jobs, more money, and more opportunity. The Government needs to encourage and force banks to lend to small businesses in order to spark this cycle.
This is the thing. A loan will only help a successful business become more successful, per chance. But why should a bank lend to new starters who have no proof of even a chance of success? The chance is minimal in a post-recession market. People are still being very cautious with their disposable income. The banks have to assess the small businesses 'chance to flourish' and it is not the banks fault when evaluating that we are post-recession and flourishing is not likely. It is for this reason that banks are refusing loans and it is for this reason that the Government should not impose target loan amounts to banks.
Will stop the profits getting into the hands of the few
Currently, one of the only ways for a small business to get their hands on the money they need to expand their business is to give up shares in their company. This is called equity investment. However, the problem is that equity investors know that they are in a strong position. Small businesses want to expand their business and they need money to do so. Banks are unwilling to give out the loans, so an equity investor is one of the only options a small business has. This means that in negotiations, equity investors can be very shrewd and demand a higher percentage than if banks did lend to small businesses. This will mean that small businesses will not make all the profit, but instead will be forced to share a large percentage of it; with someone who already has a backlog of wealth. Saved money is useless to the economy and so the Government should set targets for banks lending to small businesses in order to keep the money from getting into equity investor hands.
The reality is that equity investors will not be content with earning the menial savings account interest that banks currently offer. They too would see this as dead money. Instead, they would take their profits and buy equity in other small businesses. Surely this will be good for the recession. Equity investors will keep on investing because they are getting part of the business out of the transaction. This means that many small businesses would prosper. Surely this is good for society? Yes, small businesses do not want to give away a percentage of their business, but expansion would lead to greater profits and so they would earn more than if they tried to enter the business world alone.
Proposals to banks cost small businesses money
Getting a loan for a small business is not as simple as one may think. It is not simply a case of walking into a bank and asking for the money with a decision being made there and then. Small businesses have to draft, re-draft and triple draft their proposals. They have to detail their current financial balance sheets, their plans and detail the financial forecast for their business. In order to put across the best report to have a greater likelihood of securing a loan, small businesses have to hire accountants to create these financial documents. This costs a vast amount, not to mention the time to attend meetings. The figures can be astonishing; Simon Green quoted his estimated spending at £8,000[[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-10841243]]. The result; no loan with no reasons given as to why not. Banks need to have a target of lending to give to small businesses in order to ensure that banks are not merely turning away small businesses based on the risk without even looking at the work presented to them.
Exacerbated lending lead to the problem in the first place
There is a reason why banks are not lending to these small businesses. It is because there is a small likelihood of them being able to pay the loans bank. Given that the bankers received such scrutiny from the media over their 'reckless lending' how can we know argue that they should give money to people that we do not know if they will be able to pay it off or not? We should let the economy grow naturally. Eventually the memory of the recession will die and the banks will feel free once more to lend to small businesses; of their own accord.
Yes, exacerbated lending did lead to the problem in the first place, but it is for this reason that the Government would set a target. A target implies that banks are to try and reach that level of lending, which means that Government do not want exacerbated lending, but enough lending to keep the economy going. The Government will draw in expertise from the Financial Services Authority and the market regulators and various other economists to draw together sensible levels of lending which are beneficial both to small businesses and the economy at large.
People should save if they want a business
The problem is that people have become too reckless with their money. In the boom period, people did not save to buy a house; they merely went to the bank and took out 110% mortgages. Surprise, surprise with that attitude to money they were not able to pay the mortgage repayments. We need to reinstall into people the art of saving, work for what you get. Small businesses should save their gross profits and use those to expand naturally.
Demand on loans is down
You cannot place loan targets for banks if there are simply not enough applications for loans to reach those targets. HSBC has released statistics showing that the demand is down. Overdraft usage is down 45%, loan applications are down by 20%. So even though the bank approves nearly 70% of all business applications[[http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/aug/02/hsbc-rejects-government-lending-targets]], the figures make it look like lending has reduced. But in percentages, the banks are lending businesses the same amount of money as they have done over the last three years.
The reason why demand is down is because confidence in the banking system is low. People know that they are unlikely to succeed in getting a loan. Small business owners are aware that they face tremendous accountancy fees for proposing a loan which they probably will not attain, or if they do, at a very high interest rate. If the Government put in place targets, small businesses would feel more confident in applying for loans and would therefore apply more. This would mean it would be possible for the banks to reach their Government set targets of business lending.
The Coalition has conflicting ideas
One of the many drawn backs of weak Coalition Government is at the forefront here. Mixed messages. The Coalition wants to condemn banks for their reckless lending. They want to change the procedures so that such reckless lending will not happen again. At the same time they are trying to get banks to lend money to high risk businesses and once again, at the same time they are asking banks to build up their liquidity. In April 2010, the Financial Services Authority was drawing up liquidity requirements for banks[[http://www.fsa.gov.uk/pages/Library/Communication/PR/2007/134.shtml]], once again more targets. Only a few more months down the line and they want to set up loan targets. The banks really cannot do this all! There are differing objectives here and the Government need to sort out which avenue they wish to go down before they start talk of issuing targets to profiteering banks like HSBC.
The Banks have no incentive to meet targets, and the Government has no means of enforcement
When the banks recently made fools of themselves by building a massive price bubble in property and other assets, the thing that was proved is that in these circumstances Government has no choice but to bail them out.
The banks have been largely permitted to walk away from their obligations to the Government and the public, secure in the knowledge that they will never be allowed to go bankrupt. They therefore feel free to do whatever they like to maximise their short term profits again.
At present, Banks can borrow at a fraction of a percent, and make a massive profit lending at rates often extending to double digits. They have no need to make large volumes of loans or take even modest risks to make their profits. Even when they would be prepared to lend to a small business for example, the rates and conditions are so punitive that the banks are more of a problem than a solution.
At present the Government does not have the power to force the Banks to act in the public interest. The only thing that would make the Banks sit up and take notice would be if the Government committed to running a substantial Nationalised banking sector in competition with the private Banks. The clear message would then be "If you do not perform, do not assume that we cannot do without you".
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It was a rainy start to the Hometown Fair on Friday, but that didnŌĆÖt take any of the fun out of it.
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The ride Vertigo swings its occupants around as it rises at the 2014 Hometown Fair on June 21, 2014.
Saturday also saw a little bit of rain and yet organizers said that lines for all gates were longer than last year. If thereŌĆÖs one thing that can be taken from this itŌĆÖs that there are a lot of happy and eager fair-goers in Moose Jaw.
New attractions were a hit. Shrieks echoed through the air as people rode on thrill rides. Music blared over the speakers. The fair was another success this year.
There might be people out there who compare Moose JawŌĆÖs Hometown Fair to ReginaŌĆÖs Queen City Ex. This is an unfair comparison. Yes, ReginaŌĆÖs event is bigger and it goes on for more days, but itŌĆÖs not fair to discredit Moose JawŌĆÖs fair.
ItŌĆÖs the perfect size for our community. Line-ups for popular rides were long, but not too long. Alleyways were full, but not over-crowded.
All of the fan-favourite rides were there anyway. If weŌĆÖre lenient to thrill rides, there was the Fireball and the Super Shot.
If we prefer spinning rides, there was Alien Invasion and Zero Gravity. If weŌĆÖre too small to experience crazy adult rides, there were tons of kiddie rides to choose from. There were even swings that soared everyone high up in the sky.
There were many shows as well, for kids and adults alike. Seating for those was ideal. The Safari Jeff reptile show was full and maybe couldŌĆÖve used some more chairs now and then, but it was nothing unmanageable.
The biggest line-up at the fair was always to get into the fair grounds. Once anyone gets in, there is no problem. ItŌĆÖs a size where we canŌĆÖt easily get lost or if we do, itŌĆÖs pretty easy to figure out where to go.
There were plenty of attractions to please everyone. This year even included a hypnotist and a laser show. Concerts were also put on and there were games and food to enjoy.
Moose Jaw isnŌĆÖt Regina just as Regina isnŌĆÖt Moose Jaw. For people out there who constantly compare us to our neighbouring city and put our city down, we shouldnŌĆÖt do that. We have a great community here and, as this weekend certainly proved, we also have a great fair.
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Environmentally Positive Ideas & Conversations
E.P.I.C. is a series of environmentally conscious lectures, demonstrations, and activities geared toward familiarizing the members of the USG community with what it means to be "green." This series is sponsored by our USG Green Committee.
Past Events
Gulf Oil Spill: An Inside Perspective with special guest James Johnson.
Mr. Johnson is the Reserve Engineering Officer for the Atlantic Strike Team (http://www.uscg.mil/hq/nsfweb/AST/astdefault.asp) He's been with the Strike Team for 2 years now, the Coast Guard Reserve for 13 years and the US Navy (active duty) for 12 years. He was assigned to the BP oil spill incident for 2 months, specifically August and September, 2010. Mr. Johnson's presentation was incredibly informative.
Green Wine & Spirits with Andy Meyrowitz, owner of The Wine Harvest & former UMES/USG Student
Talkin' Turkey! with Chef Franz Corrales, Green Grove Café
Cooking demonstration on how to prepare your Thanksgiving turkey - while keeping it green!
Watch the live demonstration on YouTube.


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