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Looks like Justices on the left and right are wondering why this is even an issue before the court ....
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Looks like Justices on the left and right are wondering why this is even an issue before the court ....
Technically, it follows that a ruling that declares the proponents of Prop 8 lack standing would result in the Justices determining that these same proponents lacked standing in the 9th Circuit as well. If this is the case, then the Justices could vacate the trial (where Walker presided) entirely, leaving everything back at square one, where Prop 8 stands and the District Court challenge has to be started anew.
But Kennedy has correctly identified why it would be dangerous to deny standing for the proponents in this case. And it is because it would give the State a one-way ratchet in terms of the formation of laws. If an initiative they like is challenged they can defend it, and if they lose, they can appeal it (with obvious standing). If an initiative they don't like is challenged they can choose not to defend it, thereby denying the ability of proponents of the law to appeal due to such standing rulings.
Roberts will OK it with the other liberals of the court. Constitutional legality doesn't matter as we saw in the last two land mark decisions with health care and immigration in Arizona.
I think the Constitution will be upheld and the rights of gays will be upheld.
Prop 8 is going to get tossed on standing, which then means its a states rights issue by default. The court has never once issued a ruling on a case where the petitioners, who won their case in a lower court, then asked for SCOTUS to rule. The lower federal court ruling will stand as the precedent.
DOMA was a bad law to begin with since it singles out groups and, judging by the questions asked, it too is going to be tossed. IMO, 6-2 in favor of ruling it unconstitutional, with Alito and Scalia dissenting.
End result that it's a states rights issue, which is where all marriage needs to be dealt with to begin with. The 10th Amendment is rather clear on this issue.
The issue with standing is admittedly tricky but only because the State of CA has chosen not defend its own law. What happened was:
-CA SPCT ruled same-sex ban unconsitutional according to CA consititution
-Prop 8 passed amending the CA constitution and banning same-sex marriage
-Same-sex marriage proponents sued in state court
-CA SPCT ruled Prop 8 was lawful
-Same-sex marriage proponents sued in federal court
-The defendents (state of CA, AG Brown and Gov Schwarzenegger) declined to defend the law but indicated that proponents of Prop 8 could defend in their stead and the case should be heard
-US Federal District Court (Walker) overturned Prop 8
-Proponents of Prop 8 appealed to 9th Circuit
-9th Circuit when addressing the issue of whether the proponents had standing to defend, kicked the question back to the CA SPCT
-CA SPCT ruled that they did
-9th Circuit heard case and upheld Walker's decision 2-1 that Prop 8 remain overturned
-Proponents of Prop 8 appealed decision to SCOTUS
-SCOTUS granted certiorari in the case and are now hearing arguments as to standing
It is not a given that SCOTUS denies standing to the proponents at all. As Kennedy said, it opens up a dangerous precedent that States could abuse in order to have an oversized impact on how citizen-led ballot initiatives function. It allows a one-way ratchet whereby the State can abandon duly-passed initiatives by simply refusing to defend them in court. In addition, if SCOTUS rules that these proponents somehow do not have standing now, they could (and should) rule that these proponents had no standing in the first place in Walker's trial. Vacating that original decision and having the whole thing start over is possible in that case.
As for the prospects of Prop 8 assuming the proponents are given standing, they are not that bad under the law (obviously as I said before, the law takes a back seat to politics in this day and age even at the SCOTUS).
The issue in terms of Consititutionality has to do with which equal-protection standard is applied in the case. "Rational basis" standard is the loosest and the one that has most often applied to sexual orientation discrimination cases. All that is required to uphold the law under this standard is to find that the state has some interest in the issue of marriage and that Prop 8 is rationally related to the interest.
If a higher form of scrutiny is applied, like "strict" scrutiny then law is less likely to be upheld, but that would be an unusual level of scrutiny for these kinds of cases.
DOMA does not regulate marriage at all. It defines the word so that there is no misunderstanding as to the effects of the various federal laws that contain the word. The "federalism" argument against DOMA is extremely weak. States have the same rights to decide their own definition of marriage as they always have.
As Alito wisely asked, "Well, Congress could have achieved exactly what it achieved under Section 3 by excising the term "married" from the United States Code and replacing it with something more neutral. It could have said "certified domestic units," and then defined this in exactly the way that Section 3 — exactly the way DOMA defines "marriage."
Would that make a difference? In that instance, the Federal Government wouldn't be purporting to say who is married and who is not married; it would be saying who is entitled to various Federal benefits and burdens based on a Federal definition."
And obviously, if one is to conclude that DOMA's definition in some way impinges states' rights, then so would a federal definition of marriage that included same-sex marriage.
The bottomline is, much like the Obamacare decision, the Court could rule in any number of ways, and it is as or more likely it rules based on politics as law at this point.
I don't understand the idea that marriage rights is a states issue. Marriage is, like it or not, a government institution and as such is expected to conform to constitutional guidelines in regards to equal protection clause of the constitution. States can regulate marriage licenses and what not, but they can't decide who has the right to marry outside of federally defined age of majority and in rare cases, determine competency (a mentally handicapped person who wants to marry for example.) it's unconstitutional to ban interracial marriage for example, why shouldn't it be equally unconstitutional to bar same sex marriage?
Universal suffrage was probably once considered a states issue as well but I'm sure there are women and blacks in the Deep South who were glad that it was decided on the federal level.
Federal law does have to conform to constitutional guidelines.
The Equal Protection Clause has limits. It does not mean that laws cannot operate differently for different classes of people. It just sets rules in terms of how the classifications can be set up.
In general, any classification must be ruled to be reasonable and not arbitrary ('rational basis' scrutiny). Also in general, the burden of proof in challenges to laws lies with the challenger.
There are however higher levels of scrutiny of laws that classify people ('strict' scrutiny) that apply to established "suspect classes," defined as people that have been historically subject to greater discrimination. Race is a suspect class. National origin is a supect class. Disability is not (thusfar). Thusfar, sexual orientation has not generally been considered a "suspect class."
The arguments involving equal protection (not the ones regarding standing) are focusing on both whether sexual orientation should be considered a "suspect class", i.e. whether strict scrutiny should be applied to the classification test, and whether, if rational basis scrutiny is applied, whether the classification is reasonable and not arbitrary.
Hence, we hear arguments over whether same-sex marriage proponents have political power or not, which relates to whether they should be considered a suspect class, and whether there is any rational case to be made that promoting opposite-sex marriages benefits society (in childrearing, presumably), which relates to whether the law passes scrutiny.
BTW, the gays atty is Ted Olson who was the Solicitor General under W's administration and W also gave us Roberts. Galen should be thanking W instead of all the mockery he did.
Haloti --
You keep giving me the lineage of the Prop 8 case. I understand how it was ruled upon and the issues it addresses.
And I don't think you're properly using "standing". SCOTUS hears cases from those who did not get relief from their lower court case (either in a lower state court or in a lower federal court).
Prop 8 was eventually ruled unconstitutional in federal court, giving relief to gay rights supporters. They won. But it's those same gay rights supporters who petitioned SCOTUS to hear prop 8. That's the conflict with this case -- the petitioners, who won their lower court case, are the same ones that brought this issue to SCOTUS. Prop 9 supporters are not the ones who took this to SCOTUS. That's why its unprecedented and why pretty much all of the justices were asking why the case was even in front of them since gay rights supporters got their relief.
To have standing with SCOTUS, you must show you were injured in a lower court. The petitioners, those opposed to Prop 8, were not injured by the lower courts ruling. They won their challenge and Prop 8 was nixed.
Click on "Standing" here for a better summation. DOMA is in jeopardy of the same fate.
The DOMA case is strange in that the US government has appealed its loss on DOMA despite the Administration publicly saying they think the law is unconstitutional (since Obama flip-flopped on gay marriage). So the strangeness is that they could have just refused to appeal since they want(ed) to lose, but yet they appealed just so they can argue against their own side and lose (read: now win after flip-flop) at a higher, more important, and final level. Now for DOMA the entity defending the law, since the Administration will not, is Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group of the House of Representatives (the BLAG). There is a question as to their standing as well. But this is different than the Prop 8 situation.
The petition (appeal) for Prop 8 was filed by proponents of Prop 8. Look it up. You can even click the Read the petition for certiorari under the Prop 8 section of your own link to see the petitioners. Or check Wikipedia or any other mention of Hollingsworth vs. Perry. Like here:
I understand Standing and the aspects of both cases very well. I already mentioned the nuances of the Standing issue in these cases.
And, no, to get Standing you do not always need to show injury. The State can designate other parties to defend or assert its interest. That is what happened here, the State of California stopped defending Prop 8 but designated the Proponents to do so. And they have, up until this point.
Unanimous CA SPCT ruling:
"it is essential to the integrity of the initiative process" that "the official proponents of an initiative (in light of their unique relationship to the initiative measure under [California law])" be able to "assert the state's interest in an initiative's validity on behalf of the people when the public officials who normally assert that interest decline to do so."
"As a consequence, California courts have routinely permitted the official proponents of an initiative to intervene or appear as real parties in interest to defend a challenged voter-approved initiative measure in order 'to guard the people's right to exercise initiative power'"
As Kennedy said, this makes sense considering the one-way ratchet that would exist if proponents of initiatives had no standing.
He also said that regulating marriage is equivalent to a police state. He's definitely struggling with the decision but appears to be leaning left as far as I can see.
But that's what we've been doing for 250 years. Gay marriage has just come up. It was never even discussed til now.
As far as states rights, that's what the country was founded on til the states decided to leave it and the federal gov't said no. The states never contested the gov't again. Then the gov't started supporting people with FDR and has gone even further than ever before with this administration so states have no say on anything now but there was a time when the average person never even heard from the fed gov't. NO tax forms to file, no nothing. My grandfather didn't pay taxes 100 years ago as a young adult and neither did my dad when he started working in 1936. Only the rich paid taxes til WW2.
Now half the country gets some form of gov't wellfare including me with my Soc Sec checks but I"m getting back what I paid into it for now. If i'm still getting the checks 10 yrs from now I'm officially on well fare. Soc Sec is the main pension check for 80% of all retirees. Fortunately, that's not me. I'm getting 80% of my salary plus SS. There was no SS 100 years ago.
Well I'm a dolt. Lol.
Yeah, I confused the two cases. Excuse me while I beat my head against the wall.


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My question is whether there is a clever way to identify the stubnames
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This data-set contains the following variables which I want to -reshape-:
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I want to -reshape- by stubnames x_ and y_.
In my "real" data-set, I know that all variables I want to end up with
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after the underscore, but there is no regular pattern there.
Now, I am generating a -macrolist- with unique stubnames, but this seems
like a detour to me, especially the loop:
ds *_*
foreach v in `r(varlist)' {
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di "*** `n' ****"
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Two questions:
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It wouldn't be so bad if we knew why there was such a decline, but really at this point it really isn't our place to ask.
It is a beta test for all....them and us. They can flux as much as they want, we also have the right to participate or not. We can choose how WE want to use the beta and to what degree we want it to effect our income. If we notice declines, we change what we need to keep our income where we want it.
In response to the decline, we made adjustments by removing ads and replacing them with a different program...it saved the day. There was life before YPN and our goal is to maintain that life and increase it wherever possible, testing new programs is part of the game!
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Country clubs are in crisis, make no mistake about that. Forget about the never ending increase in insurance premiums (public liability player insurance).The biggest problem that most country clubs face nowadays is the issue associated with players chasing the $$$ to play football. Smaller clubs won't continue to survive if they are forced into the prospect of trying to compete against major towns in order to retain quality players. The excuse that most of these players make is that they wish to play in a higher standard of competition, however if every club was able to keep a hold of these quality players then, maybe the players would realise that their own current competition isn't that bad after all. If this fails to materialise, then the current events will force at least 30% of teams in Victoria to either merge with other clubs or cease to exist totally. What effect will that have on a town?? Most country towns survive on their local football teams each week to generate income, interest, hope for a better word in that the club brings people together. With country clubs facing the very real prospect of not being around, what will happen to the towns?? More importantly, what will the young children look forward to each week?? Are the players really becoming bigger than the game ???An example I can provide is a senior team (Kilmore - RDFL) in 2001 went through the year premiers and champions, on top of which the reserves also won the grand final that very same year.The next year from the Senior side alone 17 players didn't line up in the first game. A few retired, but the majority were poached by other clubs who promised to pay them exorbitant amounts of money.We were a club that prided itself on not paying players, but instead by rewarding them through incentives each week for being in the best players. How can we compete against clubs paying players $200 - $700 a game ?? What is the answer??If you can figure that one out then you are a smarter man than the rest of us!
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The decline of country football is not a result of the current drought - population decline in many rural areas has resulted in less people being available for teams, particularly as the population ages. It's a phenonemon that in some cases has been occurring for decades. Have a look at DOI's regional atlas of Victoria for more info - there's a section devoted to this very issue.
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Sitting here at my desk in London, I simply can't imagine how dry and dusty the grounds must be as pre-season swings into action for a majority of country clubs albeit it was a dozen years ago that I pulled on the blue puma boots for the first run of the season. My memories from when training commenced for the year was of a lush outer from the cricket season but a rock hard cricket strip to be avoided at all costs until the rains turned up. This applied from the my school ground at St Patrick's, Ballarat to St Mary's in Geelong. However, it was always the stinging sensation of losing the first layer of skin of the season on either the elbow or knee after a tussle on the wing that signalled footy had arrived. I guess with your report on the state of the grounds at present, one's whole body is in jeopardy of ben skinnned alive !. I salute those who carry on with such passion.
Michael Benyan
Yes! by all means the 2003 football season should be cancelled and let the land recover.
No AFL
Country football has long been the backbone of Australian rules. Many contry players have worked in teh city and gone home to play on weekends. Maybe the AFL could put back something and organize venues?
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This time it's a liberal press critic who has unkind words for the New York Times. Jay Rosen, author of the PressThink blog, thinks the Grey Lady is no longer "the greatest newspaper in the land." What has replaced it, "some time in the least year or so," is the Washington Post.
The Post, I believe, is our great national newspaper now; the Times is number two, with the Wall Street Journal close behind. Still a strong fleet. With a new ship in the lead perhaps it will sail to unexpected places.
The Web has a lot to do with it, for the Post has been bolder, more willing to experiment online, less hung up. TimesSelect has something to do with it, too, for the reasons I explored in an earlier post. The breakdown in controls in reporting Weapons of Mass Destruction is, of course a factor— along with earlier episodes: Jayson Blair, Wen Ho Lee, Paul Krugman's correction trauma. It's an accumulation of things; the Post is just more agile, better able to adjust to a changing world, and to the exploding marketplace in news and views.
The switch happened a while ago, but I only realized it last night, as I was about to read Katharine Seelye's account of Judith Miller's return to the newsroom of the New York Times. When I clicked on the story about 1:00 am I thought to myself… They're not up to it. And while it may seem strange to some PressThink readers, I had never really felt that way before in reading a news story in the New York Times.
The point most likely to trouble liberals is that the Times is no longer the "base line for the public narrative that it once was." This means that the New York Times no longer decides what becomes news.


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Been playing Dark Souls: Prepare to die.
As much as I love RPG's, this one seems to rub me up the wrong way.
That was my favorite RPG this gen (PS3 version). What problems are you having? If it's the controls then you should use a gamepad as from what I hear the PC controls aren't good.
A few (long) tips that will help you enjoy the game more starting out:
1. Stamina is the most important stat (level up endurance to get more of it). You need it to run, roll, swing your weapon, block, everything. This is the #1 most important thing in the game stat/combat wise.
2. Keep in mind the game is unforgiving and expects you to die...a lot. You need to make use of all your different style of attacks for different enemies and only fight 1 vs 1 if possible. You need to think of the combat as if you were really there, block all the time, play defensively, only attack when you create an opening. Lean the enemies "tells" so you can see when they are going to attack and how, and attack/block accordingly. This is not a hack and slash RPG, it's a very methodical game that requires precise attack/defense to do well.
3. Learn the healing spell, to do this you need to get to level 12 faith (you use souls to level up at bonfires), get a tailsman (in the area with the graveyard but not the graveyard just the area, you find one in a chest), you equip the tailsman in one hand and the heal spell in the other (bought by the covenant guy in this same area) and then you can use it.
4. Kindle bonfires that you seem to be using often. To kindle a bonfire you use a humanity (it's an item you get), and it turns you into a human, then you need to use another humanity while in human form at the bonfire (sit at the bonfire and an option will pop up asking if you want to kindle bonfire). This gives you double the healing potions when you die (permanently, it always stays kindled), you can kindle a bonfire quite a few times to get massive potions, but you need to learn to do that later in the game, for now you can kindle it once to get 10 potions instead of 5.
5. The best 2H weapon in the game is the Zweihander and you can pick it up in the graveyard after the tutorial level, just make a suicide run (you will die if you go get it) passed all the skeletons and find it, then just let one of them kill you (you keep your items when you die, you only lose souls). You need to get some titan shards (by killing black knights which don't respawn and are located in specific areas as you go through the game), and level that 2H up to maximum with those shards (which you can't do right away, you need to get to the first blacksmith).
6. You can shoot the dragon's tail early in the game under the bridge for a strong sword that will last you until you can fully utilize the Zweihander. Just Google "Dark Souls Drake Sword how to get" or some variation (YouTube has videos for exactly how), it's very much worth getting.
7. Vitality (health increase stat) is not that important but Endurance is. Endurance increases your stamina which increases how fast you can move, how fast you can roll, how smooth your movement is and how heavy of armor you can wear how often you can block, etc. Dark Souls is about avoiding attacks, not tanking damage. The vast majority of your points is going to go into endurance and your weapon stat of choice (STR for 2H, Dex to 1H). Put a few points in vitality here and there, but certainly not a lot.
8. Always, ALWAYS have a shield equipped. Weapons have stat requirements to use, so get those before you use them. For example the Drake Sword can be wielded 2H without any stat requirement, however to 1H it with a shield you need 16 STR, so don't use it until you have 16 STR so you can 1H it with a shield. For reference the Zweihander requires 24 STR to use properly with 1H.
9. Weapons are good and bad based on their unique attack skills rather than their raw power. For example the Zweihander is the best 2H in the game (IMO) because of it's special downswing attack that stuns almost every enemy in the game for a few seconds, and if you have enough Endurance (as I sad this is the #1 most important stat), you can swing it 3-4 times in a row, stun locking one or even a group of enemies and kill them before they get a chance to hit you. It is that special ability that makes it so good, not its raw power (although when crafted higher using titan shards it becomes very strong). So keep that in mind when deciding a weapon choice.
10. Not all shields are created equal. The most important stat of a shield is the physical damage reduction. You want this number to be very high (at least 95% but 100% is best), which means that when you block the shield blocks 100% of the damage. If it's 95% then it blocks 95% of the damage, so you want this stat to be high. IMO there's only 1 shield in the game worth dropping the 100% damage reduction for and that is the Grass Crest Shield (best shield in the game IMO), which increases your stamina regeneration rate and drops your reduction to 95% instead of 100%, and it's worth that 5% loss IMO.
Those are the tips I can think of off the top of my head. Just remember Dark Souls is a game that does everything but hold your hand. It's designed from the ground up to be difficult and complex without telling you what you need to do (it never tells you how to use magic for example), as such don't let it frustrate you, if you keep dying it means you are doing something wrong and you need to figure out what that is. People can go through it without dying once as they learn the game and understand the techniques/strategies required for the enemies/bosses, it's all about learning and understanding how the game works rather than how you think it should work.
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Epithelial lining fluid penetration of temocillin administered by continuous infusion in critically ill patients with nosocomial pneumonia
VISEE, Clotilde ; LAYIOS, Nathalie ; MISTRETTA, Virginie et al
Conference (2017, April 23)
The administration of 6g per day of temocillin by continuous infusion in critically patients with severe nosocomial pneumonia allows a penetration ratio, measured by the ELF/plasma ratio of AUCs, of 0.14 ... [more ▼]
The administration of 6g per day of temocillin by continuous infusion in critically patients with severe nosocomial pneumonia allows a penetration ratio, measured by the ELF/plasma ratio of AUCs, of 0.14 and 0.57 and a mean (± SE) ELF concentration , in mg/L, of 9.8 ± 1.3 and 9.8 ± 1.6 for total and free drug, respectively. Standard error of AUCs should be calculated by the Bootstrap method and Monte Carlo simulations should be performed for subsequent PK/PD analysis. [less ▲]Detailed reference viewed: 16 (4 ULg)
Decreased antibiotic consumption in the Belgian community: Is it credible?
FRIPPIAT, Frédéric ; VERCHEVAL, Christelle ; LAYIOS, Nathalie
in Clinical Infectious Diseases : An Official Publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (2016), 62(3), 403-404Detailed reference viewed: 41 (7 ULg)
Elevated basal levels of platelet-bound fibrinogen predict the occurrence of sepsis in ICU: a prospective study.
Delierneux, Céline ; LAYIOS, Nathalie ; Hego, Alexandre et al
Conference (2015, October 19)Detailed reference viewed: 44 (7 ULg)
Prospective analysis of platelet activation markers to predict severe infection and mortality in intensive care units
Delierneux, Céline ; LAYIOS, Nathalie ; Hego, Alexandre et al
Poster (2015, June 23)Detailed reference viewed: 38 (9 ULg)
Evaluation of a commercially developed semi-automated PCR-surface enhanced raman scattering assay for the detection of Candida species in blood
HAYETTE, Marie-Pierre ; WERY, Marie ; BOREUX, Raphaël et al
Poster (2015, April 25)
Objectives Microbiological diagnosis of invasive candidiasis is still dependent on culture-based methods. The use of beta-D-glucan antigen detection is included in the EORTC microbiological diagnostic ... [more ▼]
Objectives Microbiological diagnosis of invasive candidiasis is still dependent on culture-based methods. The use of beta-D-glucan antigen detection is included in the EORTC microbiological diagnostic criteria but is rarely available in the clinical labs. On the other hand, PCR-based methods lack standardization. The RenDx Fungiplex® is a new commercially available semi-automated PCR SERS assay designed for the detection of Aspergillus sp. and Candida sp. including the differentiation of resistant strains as C. glabrata, C. krusei and A. terreus. This study was performed for sensitivity and reproducibility testing of the method on 8 different Candida species. Methods The study was conducted on EDTA-blood collected from a healthy donor. Blood samples were spiked with 10 Candida reference strains: C. albicans ATCC 10231, C. albicans NEQAS 1206 and C. albicans NEQAS 2359; C. glabrata ATCC 90030 ; C. krusei ATCC 6258 ; C. tropicalis NEQAS 1036 ; C. guillermondii NEQAS 1035 ; C. parapsilosis ATCC 22019 ; C. lusitaniae NEQAS 1511 and C. dubliniensis IHEM 14280. Spiked samples were diluted at final concentrations ranging from 1 CFU/mL to 1000 CFU/mL. Cultures on Sabouraud dextrose agar were performed in parallel to control yeasts dilutions. DNA extraction was performed by using proteinase K-based method followed by purification on QIAcube automate. The RenDx Fungiplex®kit (Renishaw) was used for the amplification process and the final detection was processed on the SP-1000 sample analyzer. Reproducibility testing was performed on the three C. albicans reference strains by repeating each test 5 times. Results A total of 142 samples were included in the study. A sensitivity of 10 CFU/mL was reached for C. glabrata, C. krusei, C. tropicalis, C. dubliniensis spiked samples while C. lusitaniae and C. tropicalis performed better at 1 CFU/mL. The three tested reference C. albicans strains and C. guillermondii gave the lowest sensitivity (100 CFU/mL). The reproducibility of the assay was 96% Conclusion RenDx Fungiplex®kit allows the detection of the most frequent Candida species responsible for invasive candidiasis in spiked blood samples. The sensitivity of the test is comprised between 10 and 100 CFU/mL for most Candida sp. and reproducibility is very high. This evaluation allows us to consider this commercial kit for inclusion in a clinical study on invasive candidiasis in comparison with non-molecular diagnostic assays. [less ▲]Detailed reference viewed: 96 (16 ULg)
Serum markers of sepsis in burn patients: it takes more to convince!
ROUSSEAU, Anne-Françoise ; LAYIOS, Nathalie
in Critical Care Medicine (2015), 43(3), 100-1Detailed reference viewed: 20 (2 ULg)
Prevention of ventilator-associated pneumonia and ventilator-associated conditions: A randomized controlled trial with subglottic secretion suctioning
DAMAS, Pierre ; FRIPPIAT, Frédéric ; ANCION, Arnaud et al
in Critical Care Medicine (2015), 43(1), 22-30Detailed reference viewed: 113 (41 ULg)
Evaluation of Temocillin for treatment of nosocomial infections
LAYIOS, Nathalie ; CIUTEA, Mirela ; et al
in Intensive Care Medecine (2014), 40(supplément 1), 1940704Detailed reference viewed: 57 (19 ULg)
Modelled target attainment after meropenem infusion in patients with severe nosocomial pneumonia: the PROMESSE study.
FRIPPIAT, Frédéric ; ; Seidel, Laurence et al
in Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (2014), 70
OBJECTIVES: The objective of this study was to propose an optimal treatment regimen of meropenem in critically ill patients with severe nosocomial pneumonia. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Among 55 patients in ... [more ▼]
OBJECTIVES: The objective of this study was to propose an optimal treatment regimen of meropenem in critically ill patients with severe nosocomial pneumonia. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Among 55 patients in intensive care treated with 1 g of meropenem every 8 h for severe nosocomial pneumonia, 30 were assigned to intermittent infusion (II; over 0.5 h) and 25 to extended infusion (EI; over 3 h) groups. Based on plasma and epithelial lining fluid (ELF) concentrations determined at steady-state, pharmacokinetic modelling and Monte Carlo simulations were undertaken to assess the probability of attaining drug concentrations above the MIC for 40%-100% of the time between doses (%T > 1-fold and 4-fold MIC), for 1 or 2 g administered by either method. RESULTS: Penetration ratio, measured by the ELF/plasma ratio of AUCs, was statistically higher in the EI group than in the II group (mean +/- SEM: 0.29 +/- 0.030 versus 0.20 +/- 0.033, P = 0.047). Considering a maximum susceptibility breakpoint of 2 mg/L, all dosages and modes of infusions achieved 40%-100% T > 1-fold MIC in plasma, but none did so in ELF, and only the 2 g dose over EI achieved 40%-100% T > 4-fold MIC in plasma. CONCLUSIONS: The optimum regimen to treat severe nosocomial pneumonia was 2 g of meropenem infused over 3 h every 8 h. This regimen achieved the highest pharmacodynamic targets both in plasma and in ELF. [less ▲]Detailed reference viewed: 79 (28 ULg)
Epidemiology of VAP and VAC
LAYIOS, Nathalie ; DAMAS, Pierre
Poster (2014, May)Detailed reference viewed: 20 (6 ULg)
Catastrophic antiphospholipid syndrome : case reports and review of the literature
; LAYIOS, Nathalie ; DAMAS, Pierre
in Acta Anaesthesiologica Belgica (2014), 65Detailed reference viewed: 35 (6 ULg)
Mortierella wolfii-Associated Invasive Disease.
LAYIOS, Nathalie ; ; Baron, Frédéric et al
in Emerging infectious diseases (2014), 20(9), 1591-2Detailed reference viewed: 24 (11 ULg)
First report of Mortierella wolfii causing human disease
LAYIOS, Nathalie ; HAYETTE, Marie-Pierre ; HUWART, Aline et al
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First report of Mortierella wolfii causing human disease
LAYIOS, Nathalie ; HAYETTE, Marie-Pierre ; HUWART, Aline et al
Conference (2013, September)Detailed reference viewed: 33 (7 ULg)
Procalcitonin for antibiotic treatment in intensive care unit patients.
LAYIOS, Nathalie ; LAMBERMONT, Bernard
in Current infectious disease reports (2013), 15(5), 394-9
Procalcitonin (PCT), a 116-aminoacids prohormone, has been substantially studied over the last 2 decades in the field of sepsis. Disappointingly low sensitivity values led to the abandonment of the ... [more ▼]
Procalcitonin (PCT), a 116-aminoacids prohormone, has been substantially studied over the last 2 decades in the field of sepsis. Disappointingly low sensitivity values led to the abandonment of the concept of it as a diagnostic tool and then to its being considered more as a prognostic marker with a good correlation with severe infection. Later on, growing concerns about multidrug-resistant bacteria in the ICU environment and about the cost and side effects of antibiotics suggested that PCT might prove to be a valuable asset in stewardship programs. Numerous but hardly comparable randomized controlled trials assessing either initiation or deescalation in ICU patients have been published. Stewardship encompassing PCT should focus on the latter, because of the high negative predictive value of this biomarker. However, there still would be safety concerns if a systematic implementation of PCT were to be considered in daily stewardship programs in the ICU, especially in extra-thoracic sepsis. [less ▲]Detailed reference viewed: 49 (2 ULg)
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LAYIOS, Nathalie ; DAMAS, Pierre
in Critical Care Medicine (2013), 41(3), 28Detailed reference viewed: 9 (3 ULg)
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DAMAS, Pierre ; LAYIOS, Nathalie
in Critical Care Medicine (2013), 41(2), 19Detailed reference viewed: 8 (1 ULg)
The severity of ICU-acquired pneumonia
; LAYIOS, Nathalie ; DAMAS, Pierre
in Current Infectious Disease Reports (2013), 15(5), 380-384Detailed reference viewed: 17 (5 ULg)
Antibiotic therapy and outcome in ICU
ANCION, Arnaud ; LAYIOS, Nathalie ; NYS, Monique et al
Conference (2012)Detailed reference viewed: 37 (17 ULg)
Procalcitonin usefulness for the initiation of antibiotic treatment in intensive care unit patients.
LAYIOS, Nathalie ; LAMBERMONT, Bernard ; CANIVET, Jean-Luc et al
in Critical Care Medicine (2012), 40(8), 2304-9
OBJECTIVES: : To test the usefulness of procalcitonin serum level for the reduction of antibiotic consumption in intensive care unit patients. DESIGN: : Single-center, prospective, randomized controlled ... [more ▼]
OBJECTIVES: : To test the usefulness of procalcitonin serum level for the reduction of antibiotic consumption in intensive care unit patients. DESIGN: : Single-center, prospective, randomized controlled study. SETTING: : Five intensive care units from a tertiary teaching hospital. PATIENTS: : All consecutive adult patients hospitalized for > 48 hrs in the intensive care unit during a 9-month period. INTERVENTIONS: : Procalcitonin serum level was obtained for all consecutive patients suspected of developing infection either on admission or during intensive care unit stay. The use of antibiotics was more or less strongly discouraged or recommended according to the Muller classification. Patients were randomized into two groups: one using the procalcitonin results (procalcitonin group) and one being blinded to the procalcitonin results (control group). The primary end point was the reduction of antibiotic use expressed as a proportion of treatment days and of daily defined dose per 100 intensive care unit days using a procalcitonin-guided approach. Secondary end points included: a posteriori assessment of the accuracy of the infectious diagnosis when using procalcitonin in the intensive care unit and of the diagnostic concordance between the intensive care unit physician and the infectious-disease specialist. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS: : There were 258 patients in the procalcitonin group and 251 patients in the control group. A significantly higher amount of withheld treatment was observed in the procalcitonin group of patients classified by the intensive care unit clinicians as having possible infection. This, however, did not result in a reduction of antibiotic consumption. The treatment days represented 62.6 +/- 34.4% and 57.7 +/- 34.4% of the intensive care unit stays in the procalcitonin and control groups, respectively (p = .11). According to the infectious-disease specialist, 33.8% of the cases in which no infection was confirmed, had a procalcitonin value >1microg/L and 14.9% of the cases with confirmed infection had procalcitonin levels <0.25 microg/L. The ability of procalcitonin to differentiate between certain or probable infection and possible or no infection, upon initiation of antibiotic treatment was low, as confirmed by the receiving operating curve analysis (area under the curve = 0.69). Finally, procalcitonin did not help improve concordance between the diagnostic confidence of the infectious-disease specialist and the ICU physician. CONCLUSIONS: : Procalcitonin measuring for the initiation of antimicrobials did not appear to be helpful in a strategy aiming at decreasing the antibiotic consumption in intensive care unit patients. [less ▲]Detailed reference viewed: 125 (16 ULg)


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Originally Posted by ironfistx
Some of the MII guitars I've played have been really nice, others not so much. The difference is mostly apparent in the neck. Some of those Wizard III necks need to have the fret edges filed down a bit.
Overall I am a fan of the Wizard III neck, though.


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Six months or so after releasing its YP-U4 'Litmus', Samsung is back for another crack at the Shuffle-sized Mp3 player market with a new player, rather unimaginatively named the YP-U5. Looking back, I've a soft spot for this one's predecessor. While spoilt by average sound quality and a mediocre battery life, it was a nicely designed and very usable player, putting the vast majority of its competitors to shame on several counts. The U4 was extremely compact, made effective use of a tiny screen and had surprisingly practical controls.
All of which makes it a little odd that Samsung has junked so many elements of the design with its replacement.
Out, for a start, goes the colour graduated finish, in favour of a range of solid colours - red, white, pink or black. The unit is marginally narrower and thinner, but a couple of millimetres longer, and the clever slide-out USB connection of the original has now been swapped for a more conventional USB connector covered by a pop-off cap. Strangely enough, while the U5 is the new and improved version of the U4, it actually feels like a more conservative product.
Still, the all-plastic construction feels good and solid, and it's arguable that the standard USB plug fitted here offers a more robust connection than the slimmed down, coverless plug sported by the old U4. I suspect that might be the reason for the change.
Switch the U5 on and it's much easier to see the similarities between it and last year's model. The screen, a 1in, four line, 128 x 64 pixel OLED affair, is identical to the old version's, and while the touch-sensitive D-pad of the U5 has been replaced by a tilting, white directional ring surrounding a physical pause/play button, the player operates in much the same way.
The 'back' button is now mounted on the top of the unit (viewed horizontally) along with a context-sensitive function button, which does various things depending on what mode you have the U5 in. Volume is adjusted using the up and down directions on the white ring. The only other control is a dual function power toggle/lock button on the bottom of the unit, and it's this that brings me to one of my few complaints about usability. It's all too easy to accidentally engage the lock while you're trying to use the top mounted buttons, which is a small but irritating nuisance during everyday use.
OGG and FLAC support is why I like samsung :)
One thing that was surprising, perhaps I shouldn't really mention in this review as 1. nobody probably read this anymore 2. it's not really about this player, is that the earbuds I got from my YP-U3 is surprisingly good, sure, it has little to no bass, but compared to my Phonak PFE's, they're only a minor fraction behind in terms of clarity and punch. At first, when I got my Phonaks, I thought I was going crazy 'cos I couldn't tell major differences between the two even though the Phonak's are one of the clearest earphones out there.
Hello, does anybody know how different is this thing from Samsung YP-U3? The thing is that U5's price is lower than U3's, which confuses me a lot. I listen to rock and metal, so I'm afraid about buying U5, according to what they say in this review...
The review says you can enable gapless playback. How do you do that?
I have one and can't find it anywhere in the settings.
i bought a 2nd hand of yp u5, it's still in good shape and works perfectly fine. there are so many differences of u3 from u5, if you say that u3 is much costly than u5 it is because of the touch screen system and the technology that was based from. i had u3 before and loved it so much i just misplaced it unfortunately. if you own a u3 and want to upgrade to u5 it would be much better if you use your u3 till it wreck out, because it's like touch screen technology makes it pretty than u5, u5 don't have clip on the package that's the only thing i really hate. yet u3 is almost good for plain mp3 player.
i recommend it for it's design ang flexibility.
for those who are first timers and wants a cheap mp3 player i really recommend u5, though no touch screen technology it's all worth it and much techy than u3. and all the downside of u3 and u4 where improved by the u5. that's it!!
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Investigation launched in fiery crash killing 10 people
ORLAND, Calif. - Investigators spent all Thursday night and the early hours of Friday morning collecting clues that could potentially lead them to a better understanding of the fiery head-on collision that killed 10 people.
43 students from the Los Angeles area were on the bus, along with three adult chaperones, to take a college tour at Humboldt State.
The bus had one driver, and the FedEx truck had one driver and no passengers. The crash shut down northbound Interstate 5 for nearly 19 hours.
"We don't know whether the FedEx driver had fallen asleep, whether he experienced a mechanical failure, or if there was a separate collision on the southbound side to cause him to lose control," said Lieutenant Scott Fredrick of the California Highway Patrol.
Nine people were pronounced dead at the scene. One person suffered severe burns and died Friday morning at UC Davis Medical Center.
Five of the deceased were students, three were chaperones, and the two drivers also perished in the accident. Investigators said the bodies were burnt beyond recognition.
Right after the impact, there was a tremendous fire with very high temperatures.
The CHP said there were two people in a white sedan that was in front of the tour bus before the crash. The driver was identified as 53-year-old Bonnie Duran.
"They both sustained minor to moderate injuries," said Lt. Bruce Carpenter of the California Highway Patrol. "They were both transported to one of the hospitals."
The Glenn County Sheriff's Office said they will have to conduct cavity searches or DNA samples on the victims to the nature of their bodies.
"That means they [the families] are going have to sit there and wait until that positive ID comes," said Glenn County Sheriff Larry Jones.
The CHP said it could take up to six months before they fully know what happened Thursday afternoon.
The National Transportation Safety Board is also investigating the accident.


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Still want Wade vs Sheamus feud
Look, since Del Rio is WHC, and is obviously a face, there is no reason for me to think that Sheamus will be looking for a WHC shot. I just can't imagine the WWE getting creative, and having a face vs face WHC match. Barrett vs Sheamus is something that I feel would work very well with both stars. The best part is leaving the IC title out of the picture. Wade would claim that there is no way there is any Irish man alive worthy of competing for any title around his waist. Have the two going at it on with twitter 24/7.
Barrett would air vignettes about how awful of a country Ireland is during Sheamus' matches. I'm certain they could come up with various things to say about the Irish culture that jokes amongst the English. I'm not from either country, but it doesn't take a rocket scientists to figure this out. Although there is no legit country beef between Sheamus, and Barrett this seems like the most realistic option towards a feud. Perhaps Wade pulls a card on Sheamus being HHH's work out buddy, and the fact that Vince would never allow an Englishmen a chance at either the WHC, or WWE title because of his bias against the English.
Have the heat between these transcend the ring. Show "staged" brawls between the two men in various areas of public consumption, or being. Perhaps pubs, night clubs, and parking lots. Anything to show how much these two hate one another outside of the ring. Allow Zach Ryder to air nothing, but footage of the hate between the two men. Let them work the staged fights stiff in order to sell the natural hatred, and tension between the two men. Barrett could taunt Sheamus during his matches perhaps by burning the flag of Ireland. Put them through a series of gimmick matches, and allow them to develop a real feud with one another.
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Brogue Kick vs Bullhammer!
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Both Non-American & both guys are so boring.
Re: Still want Wade vs Sheamus feud
Yes, I still want it, but Barrett needs build, a lot tbh. He was pumped and ready after EC, but now he's kinda down the ranks messing with Santino and actually being booked to put up a fight, and facing Ryder, so not now.
Re: Still want Wade vs Sheamus feud
I've wanted to see a proper Sheamus vs. Wade Barrett feud for a good long while now. I think once Barrett has moved up the card a little (out of the mid-card title picture) they can have a really great feud. Obviously they have the whole Ireland/England thing going for them and I'm pretty much just a little intrigued. Could be good if they take Barrett seriously over the next few months.
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my guess:WWE dont want to get into the politics with in Britain vs Republic of Ireland, pc and all that
Re: Still want Wade vs Sheamus feud
The should make this feud, England vs Ireland, since these two countires had problems in the past. And have theme wrestle in the UK in some major PPV. It will draw money imo
Re: Still want Wade vs Sheamus feud
It will be an awesome feud, seeing that they are both brawlers and will mesh together in the ring. Their matches in the past have been good too. But I think Barrett should be built up first. Once he drops the IC title and moves up from the midcard, they can start this feud, because right now Barrett isn't booked credibly enough to look like a legit threat to beat Sheamus.
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I already watched them wrestle each other and no thanks I know why you people like stiff matches I too but they still bored me even with that I had to look at my pc for any random stuff until their matches ended, promos could save the feud but lately Barret as been a boring on the mic, but well theres not much you can do with Kofi.
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Oklahoma City Thunder point guard Russell Westbrook marks the first time a professional athlete will cover Flaunt Magazine. Known for his explosive play on the court as well as his ability to drop sartorial dimes on members of the press – perhaps best known for his Lacoste Live fishhook print shirt paired with red glasses during postgame of the Western Conference Semifinals – Westbrook delves into a variety of topics that define him both as a person and a player. While a choice excerpt appears below, head over to Flaunt to read the editorial in its entirety.
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Today 6/11 was a no spend day. :)
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You need to be over 16 years old (or 14 if with a parent/guardian) to use the Fitness Centre (Gym) and customers will need to complete our online registration form and attend an induction before being allowed to use the equipment. We have fantastic rates for joining the pool and fitness centre. With the exception of some of the Pilates all classes are included in the full membership. You can also use the Fitness Centre on a pay-as-you-go basis, which includes concessionary prices for people on benefits or over 60 years old.
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The Fitness Centre is open from 6:15am to 9.30pm (Monday to Friday), 8:30am to 4:30pm (Saturday and Sunday). 09:30-16:30 on Bank Holidays. Christmas Eve & New Years eve 06:15-13:30. The last entry is 45 minutes before we close. A fitness instructor is present at all times. We have a number of membership options, but also customers can just come along and workout.
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Neil: Assistant Manager (Fitness) is a level 3 instructor and can instruct Exercise referrals, circuit training and manages the Fitness Centre, Group fitness classes & Exercise referral programmes.
Rebecca: Fitness Instructor/ Personal Trainer Level 3, Weight management, GP referrals, Circuits, Spin, HIIT classes and Balance
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The game averaged a 41.7 metered market rating in Birmingham, the fifth highest-rated regular-season college football game on ESPN in the market. The other top markets: Knoxville (27.6 rating), Nashville (15.5 rating), Memphis (10.4 rating) and Atlanta (6.2 rating).
ABC's Saturday Night Football Presented by Windows 8 - Baylor at Texas and Florida State at Miami - averaged 4,843,000 viewers on a 3.1 rating, making it the most-viewed game of the night and less than 60,000 viewers from the most-viewed telecast of the day (CBS's South Carolina at Florida matchup averaged 4,900,000 viewers on a 3.1 rating).
ESPN's LSU at Texas A&M Saturday noon telecast averaged 4,176,000 viewers on a 2.8 national rating (3.2 coverage rating). The top five metered markets for the telecast: New Orleans (18.7 rating), Birmingham (11.1 rating), Austin (10.3 rating), Knoxville (9.1 rating), Houston (6.9 rating) and San Antonio (6.9 rating).


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Tell me when 3D printers can print 3D printers.
Tell me when 3D printers can print 3D printers.
Tell me when 3D printers can print 3D printers.
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Peter P says
Tell me when 3D printers can print 3D printers.
When I can print my own aftermarket auto parts out of better materials (I.E. - make my own stainless steel radiator instead of crappy ones they make now with crappy plastic side tanks and crappy plastic threads on the drain valve). Now that would be something.
I want to print my own golf putter.
I want to print my own cat toys. A lot of them (especially the interactive ones) are made so cheaply that even an elderly cat breaks them in a short period of time.
i want to print my own concubine.
It's funny to me that they're called "3D printers" when the machine has a lot more in common with a CNC than a printer.
I think they technically are CNC's, though the traditional understanding of CNC is to create the part by removing material rather than adding it. You can buy regular metal CNC's for home use (even to make radiator parts!). They were not incredibly expensive the last time I looked.
Maybe the term "3D printer" makes it seem a lot more accessible to normal "non-shop" people. I dunno, I'm not a machinist but not scared of whirring motors and drill bits either.
Tell me when 3D printers can print 3D printers.
They can right now. Everything except electronics, but that's coming in the not-so-distant future.
3D printers will be as revolutionary as computers
This could very well be true. If manufacturing becomes something you can do at home just like desktop publishing in the Internet Age, then this will greatly affect the trade balance and the consumer's reliance on corporations. It will shake things up quite a bit. As such, the real consequences are unpredictable.
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There are conflicting reports swimming around the media right now. Nick Wright of 610 Sports Radio in Kansas City has been told "from a more than reliable source" that Kansas City Chiefs head coach Romeo Crennel and general manager Scott Pioli will "not be back next year." There are currently other reports that say this is not true, in particular, Pro Football Talk has recently denied the rumor saying that owner Clark Hunt has not told Crennel or Pioli that they will be fired.
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European Bank Stress Gauges Hit Levels Not Seen Since Lehman
Measures that gauge the level of European banks' reluctance to lend to one another are approaching levels unseen since the aftermath of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. (LEHMQ)'s collapse.
Banks in the region are paying the biggest premium to borrow in dollars since December 2008, with the three-month cross currency basis swap falling to 90 basis points below the euro interbank offered rate today. The difference between three- month Euribor and the overnight indexed swap rate, a measure of banks' reluctance to lend to each other, jumped to 0.64 percentage point today, the widest spread since May 2009.
"We're going back to a post-Lehman scenario where banks are reliant on the ECB and funding is more expensive," said Marcello Zanardo, an analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. in London. "This may lead to a credit crunch" if banks can't pass on all their costs.
ECB President Jean-Claude Trichet last week offered banks unlimited money for six months and extended existing liquidity measures to quell concern that southern European lenders may struggle to borrow in the debt markets. The central bank has also started to purchase Italian and Spanish bonds to stem the sovereign debt crisis.
Banks deposited 145 billion euros ($207 billion) with the European Central Bank's overnight facility as of yesterday, the most since August 2010. ECB lending to banks rose by 7.75 billion euros last week to 505.1 billion euros.
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"Banks are beginning lend more cautiously, and increasingly park their money at central banks," ECB Governing Council member Ewald Nowotny told Austrian state radio ORF today. "Bank deposits at the ECB have risen massively. That's not a good sign."
The extra yield investors demand to buy bank bonds instead of benchmark German debt surged to 251 basis points on Aug. 8, or 2.51 percentage points, the highest since May 2010, data compiled by Bank of America Merrill Lynch show. The cost of insuring that debt against default surged to a record today. The Markit iTraxx Financial Index linked to senior debt of 25 European banks and insurers rose to 218 basis points today.
Credit Suisse Group AG fell below the lowest price hit during the financial crisis of 2008. The Swiss lender dropped 3.9 percent in Zurich trading to 21.75 francs, the lowest since March 2003. The Bloomberg Europe Banks and Financial Services Index was 0.4 percent higher at the close in London after falling as much as 4.9 percent.
"What you're seeing is a massive move to deposit cash at the shortest-term maturity, just like we saw a couple of years ago," said Simon Maughan, head of sales and distribution at MF Global Ltd. in London. "International banks are extremely unwilling to lend to southern European banks."
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The ECB's purchases of Spanish and Italian bonds may be draining liquidity from the interbank markets, analysts said. Unlike the U.S. Federal Reserve's quantitative easing program, the ECB sterilizes its bond purchases, using term deposits to reabsorb the same amount of cash it spends.
If the ECB chooses to sterilize its Italian and Spanish bond purchases by holding bank deposits of the same size, that could encourage banks to boost their deposits at the ECB rather than lend to each other, analysts said.
"The ECB needs to spell out what the strategy for its bond purchases is and the net cash impact," said Jonathan Tyce, senior analyst for the Bloomberg Industries European banking team in London. "Falls across the banking sector and a rise in Euribor-OIS -- despite falling Italian and Spanish yields -- suggest the market is concerned about sterilization and as a result, negative impacts on bank liquidity."
The yield on 10-year Spanish government bonds has fallen 120 basis points in the past week to 5.06 percent today. The yield on Italian debt of a similar maturity slid 95 basis points to 5.18 percent in the same period.
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US forces used napalm-like MK-77 firebombs against Iraqi forces in their drive toward Baghdad last spring, a Pentagon official confirmed today, defending their use as legal and necessary.
US Marine Corps jets dropped the firebombs at least once in March to take out Iraqi positions at the town of Safwan just across the Kuwait border from the US-led invasion force, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
"It is like this: you've got (an) enemy that's hard to get at. And it will save your own lives to use it, and there is no international contraventions against it," the official said.
"I don't know that there is any humane way to kill your enemy."
Marines used the napalm-like bombs on at least two other occasions during the drive to Baghdad -- against Iraqis defending a bridge across the Saddam Canal and near a Tigris river bridge north of the town of Numaniyah in south central Iraq, the San Diego Tribune reported this week.
"We napalmed both those (bridge) approaches," Colonel Randolph Alles, the commander of Marine Air Group 11, was quoted as telling the newspaper.
"Unfortunately, there were people there because you could see them in the (cockpit) video.
"They were Iraqi soldiers there. It's no great way to die."
The MK-77 are filled with a different mix of incendiary chemicals than napalm but have the same terrifying effect, a penetrating fire that seeps into dug-in infantry positions.
"The generals love napalm," Alles was quoted as saying.
"It has a big psychological effect."
The US military destroyed its stock of napalm bombs in 2001 because they were deemed an environmental hazard.
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I am all choked-up -- it's a beautiful thing.
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One reason you may not have heard of this story concernig the old Marine is that it is not a recent story. This occurred in South Florida at least 4-6 months ago.
As a professional piper I play lots of funerals: Former Marines attend, they screw the lid down on Ex-marines......there is a big difference.
Semper Fi, 'ya done good, dude!! Carry on.
Two against one 70 year old ex marine isn't a fair fight. They need to add one more bad guy. Good show. I'll bet the clerk was glad to see the GG show up.
Note: He is a retired Marine. EX-Marines are kicked out and no longer associated... like a EX-Wife...., those that didn't retire but are in good standing are referred to as Marines or "former" Marines....
Anyhow! Here it is...
PLANTATION, Fla. -- A retired United States Marine disrupted a robbery in progress when he shot two men who attempted to rob a Subway sandwich shop, fatally wounding one of them, police said.
According to Plantation police, two armed men barged into the Subway at 1949 Pine Island Road shortly after 11 p.m. Wednesday, demanding money from the employee behind the counter. When they tried to force John Lovell into the bathroom, he pulled out a gun and shot both men, police said.
Donicio Arrindell, 22, was shot in the head and later died at the hospital. Fredrick Gadson, 21, was shot in the chest and ran from the Subway, but police found him in hiding in some bushes on the property of a nearby BankAtlantic.
Lovell, 71, was the lone customer at the time. Police said he had a concealed weapons permit.
A witness who was about to enter the Subway at the time said he thought the shootings were justified.
"I think justice, you know, was served and a civilian was a hero for today," Sebastian Shakespeare said.
Exactly... I say "ex Marine" is like saying "ex mother".
Well Done!!! Carry On!!!!!!
While just cleaning up his Subway
Two guys entered and spoiled his day.
They forced him to the back room
Making him sense his own doom
He shot both, then things went his way.


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