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Fortress Paper CEO Defies Investors to Buy Into Pulp Plan
Fortress Paper Ltd. (FTP) Chief Executive Officer Chad Wasilenkoff says his strategy of buying unprofitable Canadian pulp mills will either spark a rally or push him to buy the whole company.
Wasilenkoff is betting idled paper-grade pulp mills can be transformed into some of the world's lowest-cost makers of the pulp used in synthetic fabrics and LCD screens. Fortress bought a second Quebec mill last month and the CEO said he's in talks to acquire another in North America and one in Europe.
The growing market for so-called dissolving pulp, combined with Fortress's cheap acquisition costs, government financial support and wage concessions from workers, will generate "staggering" returns for investors, Wasilenkoff said. Fortress's market value has declined 56 percent in the past year.
"We are going to see a significant upward movement in the shares in the next 12 months," Wasilenkoff, who also is chairman, company founder and its largest shareholder, said in an interview near Fortress's North Vancouver headquarters. "If we don't, I'd consider taking the company private."
Fortress is moving into an industry that has been stung by the U.S. housing slowdown, the strength of the Canadian currency and plummeting use of newsprint and magazine paper as the Internet and personal tablets gain in popularity. Direct jobs in the C$57 billion ($55.9 billion) industry declined by 35 percent to 233,880 in the last 11 years, according the Forest Products Association of Canada.
'Good Talker'
Wasilenkoff faces a global expansion of dissolving-pulp production capacity, said Brian McClay, founder of Brian McClay & Associates Inc., a Montreal-based pulp-industry consultancy. Still, Wasilenkoff is helping to defy the perception that the Canadian forest-products industry is in irreversible decline.
"He's a larger-than-life character, a good talker and a dealmaker," McClay said in a telephone interview. "There are a lot of reasons why dissolving pulp should do very well."
A fourth-generation Russian-Canadian and a former investment adviser at Canaccord Capital Inc., Wasilenkoff, 40, isn't averse to taking a contrarian position.
Fortress acquired its first Quebec mill in 2010, a facility near the town of Thurso held by bankrupt Fraser Papers Inc. At the time, Fortress's main assets were a wallpaper mill near Dresden, Germany, and a banknote-paper making operation in Switzerland.
'Outside the Box'
The Quebec move was so unexpected for Daryl Swetlishoff, a Vancouver-based forest-industry analyst at Raymond James Ltd., that he described it as a "Crazy Ivan," a term in Tom Clancy's 1984 novel "The Hunt for Red October" that refers to a bold, yet risky submarine-warfare tactic.
Wasilenkoff took the comment as a compliment.
"It was a recognition that we really were outside the box, creating opportunity where others couldn't see it," Wasilenkoff said in the interview.
Fortress completed the purchase last month of its second Quebec mill near Lebel-sur-Quevillon for C$1. Domtar Corp. (UFS) permanently closed the mill, 500 kilometers (311 miles) northwest of Montreal, in 2008 citing "deteriorating conditions" for the global pulp market.
Fortress, which declined 2.7 percent to C$16.49 at the close today in Toronto, has dropped 38 percent this year. In that time, Jacksonville, Florida-based Rayonier Inc. (RYN), the world's largest maker of specialty dissolving pulp, rose 2.2 percent in New York. The pulp is so named because it's dissolved in chemicals before use to make products from rayon and cigarette filters to the nose cones of the now defunct NASA space shuttles.
Cost Overruns
The transformation of Thurso, about 100 kilometers west of Montreal, from a mill that made pulp for paper to a producer of dissolving pulp was slower and more expensive than expected.
The project was first forecast to be completed by mid-2011 and to cost C$153 million, according to a March 2010 statement. Production began in December and the project is now projected to cost C$210 million, Sean Steuart, a Toronto-based analyst at Toronto-Dominion Bank (TD), said in a June 12 note to clients.
That contributed to a "tight" cash position for Fortress, Steuart said.
The company consistently missed "ambitious" targets, said Paul Quinn, a Vancouver-based analyst at Royal Bank of Canada.
"The market will not pay up for lower costs until they begin to show up in financial performance, especially considering how Thurso's conversion cost guidance has continued to increase over time," Quinn said in a May 16 note to clients.
Quarterly Losses
Fortress reported net losses in five of the last six quarters and analysts project a second-quarter loss excluding one-time items of 20 Canadian cents a share, the average of four estimates compiled by Bloomberg.
The company said yesterday it sold 7 percent debentures in an offering to raise C$69 million to help complete construction of a power plant at Thurso and to fund the restart of Lebel-sur- Quevillon.
The "convertible debentures issue takes liquidity concerns off the table," Quinn said today in a note to clients.
Fortress isn't the only company in North America now seeking to exploit the market for dissolving pulps.
Aditya Birla Group, based in Mumbai, said last week it will buy and upgrade a mill in Terrace Bay, Ontario. Paper Excellence BV, a unit of Jakarta-based Sinar Mas Group, is investing in dissolving-pulp capacity at a mill in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. And Johannesburg-based Sappi Ltd. (SAP) is upgrading a mill in Cloquet, Minnesota.
'Timing Is Everything'
Global production capacity is set to rise 36 percent by 2015 to about 8.1 million metric tons, according to McClay, helping to contribute to an oversupply of viscose staple fiber, a pulp derivative used to make rayon fabric.
"Right now in China the price is probably $950 a ton, down from about $1,500 a year ago and $2,650 at its peak in April 2011," said McClay, referring to the type of dissolving pulp made by Fortress. "Timing is everything in this business."
A key assumption for Fortress is that increasing demand in China and India will lift cotton prices, helping to spur demand for dissolving pulp and rayon, a cotton substitute, Wasilenkoff said.
"You really need some big issue in cotton that drives prices up so high that people start to look for alternatives, which would be rayon," Kevin Mason, managing director of Gibsons, British Columbia-based ERA Forest Products Research, an independent forest-industry research company, said in a telephone interview last week.
'Pure Play'
Cotton futures have plunged 23 percent this year in New York amid concern global economic activity was slowing and demand from manufacturers in China was falling.
Wasilenkoff said Fortress may consider concentrating its operations on dissolving pulp within three years by spinning off its wallpaper and banknote-paper businesses.
"We are moving in the direction of a pure play," Wasilenkoff said. "We think it would attract more investors" and help the company to escape its "holding-company discount."
In the meantime, the plan is to begin production at Lebel- sur-Quevillon and show that the transforming company can generate consistent profits, Wasilenkoff said.
"This is the year to rebuild investor confidence," he said.
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Manager Dean Saunders has urged his Doncaster squad to show the same fighting qualities he displayed as a player in order to battle their way off the bottom of the npower Championship table.
Rovers took a solitary point from games with fellow strugglers Watford and Millwall over the past six days to prolong a run of one win in nine matches. And former Liverpool and Aston Villa striker Saunders believes a strong work ethic on the field will appeal to Doncaster fans in the potentially difficult weeks ahead.
"If you give everything you've got the fans will forgive you for losing or things you can't do," said the ex-Wales international.
"I always prided myself on that.
"I'd miss sitters but the fans would forgive me because they knew I was having a go, playing with enthusiasm and I wanted to win as much as they did."
He added: "I've been in football a long time and there's more pain to come.
"It happens, when you're rebuilding bad things happen to you. You've just got to keep picking points up.
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text: I have the Viking Topaz 20 and the largest hoop is 260 x 200 - what I will warn you that "fonts" is not an alphabet. You code in one letter at a time. So be sure to know what you want before you buy it. Also, before you buy it check to see what the type of format the machine uses. I do wish I had gotten the one that can do the Disney designs - but I am happy with the machine I have, but thought all machines would do all designs and that is not just the case.


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(BOISE) – Attorneys are defending the state's new legislative boundaries before the Idaho Supreme Court. Twin Falls County officials say the county-splitting map puts their voters at a disadvantage. The state counters that the plan meets the one-person, one-vote requirement, divides counties only where necessary, and joins similar communities. Another hearing is scheduled for Jan. 5.
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Oh God, have I turned into a prude? Have I finally arrived at the dreaded door marked "stuffed-shirt old bore who cannot be doing with rude words and ruder acts on the telly"? Hell (oops) I hope not. Actually I'm pretty sure I haven't. But I couldn't help but wonder, during the first episode of the new season of Californication (TV3, Mondays, 9.30pm), about how in the hell (oops) this show gets played on New Zealand television. Or on Anywhere television.
This made-for-cable show is rude. Very, very rude. In the space of the first half hour I lost count of the number of impolite, uncouth and downright vulgar sentences that were uttered by Hank and his baldy, loser sidekick Runkle. Frankly the Herald doesn't have enough asterisks available for me to quote all the four letter words used in Californication - in just one (or rather two, played back-to-back) episode. There were even two uses of my second favourite word starting with "c". And then there was the bare bum (oops) and boobs (oops).
Surely it's only a matter of time before the real prudes - the crabby, wanting-to-be-offended, letter-writing prudes who complain to the networks and the Broadcasting Standards Authority - start a bad-tempered, priggish campaign to get this show off the air. I hope not. But the bores are, of course, already busy. Why, only last month I was reading in this newspaper that TVNZ and MediaWorks were in the High Court appealing against BSA decisions hostile to TV2's Hung and "slightly saucy content" on TV3's drab but benign teen soap Home & Away. Evidently the major networks reckon the BSA, which has new members, has embarked on a more conservative and possibly activist approach to anything that can't be said or seen at school, in church or in missionary bedrooms, particularly if it screens inside the so-called watershed before 9.30pm.
The trouble is, I think, these bores don't have the right definition of offensive. Now I find quite a lot of television offensive. I find MasterChef offensive. I find Big Fat Family Challenge offensive. For Jebus (oops) sake I find the really rather harmless American Idol offensive. I find them all loathsome because there's not one single original thought between the three of them. They are unutterably dull without even the mitigation of being worthy.
Californication, despite being gleefully, wilfully rude, is at least fun like you've never had it. The dialogue, littered as it is with expletives, is written in some sort of rapid-fire Californian patois, with one perfectly formed hipster one-liner followed by another.
And Hank is, thanks to a bravura performance from David Duchovny, an utterly charismatic anti-hero who despite his appalling behaviour is so cool he could only exist in fiction.
"Is he retarded?" Hank's lawyer asked Runkle this week.
"He's actually," responds Runkle, "quite a good guy once you get to know him. He's very pleasant, very agreeable."
"Good to know," continues the lawyer. "Because on paper he looks like a total piece of shit."
Indeed he does. Thank goodness, then, we can again watch him on TV. And the good news is this: the next episode of Californication is on Monday. For all you prudes, that's Easter Monday.


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In the heart of Yaounde, Hotel Le Relais Saint Jacques is close to Musée d'Art Camerounais and Mvog-Betsi Zoo. This hotel is within close proximity of National Museum of Yaounde and University of Yaounde.
Make yourself at home in one of the 40 individually furnished guestrooms. Cable television is provided for your entertainment. Private bathrooms have deep soaking bathtubs. Conveniences include phones and desks, and housekeeping is provided daily.
Take in the views from a terrace and a garden and make use of amenities such as complimentary wireless Internet access. Additional features at this hotel include a television in a common area and a picnic area.
Satisfy your appetite at the hotel's restaurant, which serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner, or stay in and take advantage of room service (during limited hours). Quench your thirst with your favorite drink at a bar/lounge.
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Featured amenities include complimentary high-speed (wired) Internet access, multilingual staff, and laundry facilities. Guests may use a roundtrip airport shuttle for a surcharge, and free self parking is available onsite.
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Organ donor podcast
Tue, May 1, 2012 at 10:30 AM by Dave Winer.
I am an organ donor, but when I heard this
, I came to understand that no one really knows when death occurs. Sometimes it's cut and dry, but other times, not so.
"Dick Teresi wanted to write about how science determines the point between life and death. After a decade of research, Teresi says he still doesn't know what death is, but that the breadth of his ignorance has been widely expanded."
Would you donate organs if you're alive and could be revived?
On the other hand, organs that could have saved lives are buried because the dead person never got around to signing the form or the family didn't want to deal with it.
I highly recommend listening to this podcast before making a decision.
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chevy 3.1 question.
I have some questionon a chevy 3.1 v6 motor. They are not super performers I know but what are some ways of freeing up a little horsepower out of the motor? Also this may sound like a really stupid queston but does any one know what a 1990 lumina runs int a 1/4 mile. Trust me i know its not fast and it has to be around 18 seconds but im just curious.
well in a cavalier they run 16's but im not sure in a lumina. heres a link for some cheap performance mods. its a cavalier site but its the same engine, there is one member on this site that runs 12's with his turbo charged 3.1.
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If the hinge screws have broken out of a particleboard door and taken chunks of the particleboard with them, the right glue can usually fix the damage.
Chisel out the damaged wood and enlarge the area slightly to give the adhesive more area to grip. Remove all loose chips and blow off any remaining dust.
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It doesn't take much of a blow to break hinge screws out of a particleboard door. If the screws just stripped and pulled out cleanly, you could fill the hole with toothpicks and wood glue, then reinstall the screws. But if the surrounding particleboard has broken away, it's quicker to fill the void with gap-filling glue (Loctite Go2 Glue is one choice, and is available through our affiliation with Amazon.com).
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Update on injured bicyclist Tuesday a.m.?
Original post made by Jennifer, Old Mountain View, on Apr 14, 2009
When I drove by, she had just gone down and a driver was beside her on the phone making the 911 call. Thankfully several people ran over to the cyclist to aid her. (That's always reassuring to see.) I had to keep driving so as not to block traffic, but I hoped that the cyclist was not seriously injured.
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I was wondering the same thing. I overheard via my Caltrain conductor's radio that the cyclist was hit by a car. My train passed by very close to 8:45, and emergency crews were there already.
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Thanks, Richard. I'm glad to know the emergency crews got there. I overheard the woman making the 911 call, very upset, yelling at the dispatcher to send paramedics and then hanging up abruptly. She was calling from a cell phone, so I hoped that she had been connected to the right municipality and gave the right location. In moments of stress, sometimes it's hard to remember what to do...


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"Out of Cordoba," a documentary film about Jewish-Muslim relations past and present, will screen March 24 at Or Shalom Jewish Community in San Francisco.
Directed by Jacob Bender, who will be at the screening, the film explores the lives of two 12th-century philosophers from the Spanish city of Cordoba — the Muslim Averroes and the Jewish sage Moses Maimonides, each of whom influenced the other.
"Out of Cordoba" asks the question: Are Jews and Muslims eternal enemies, incapable of peaceful coexistence? Those interviewed include a Spanish Muslim cleric who declares a fatwa against Osama bin Laden after an al-Qaeda attack in Madrid; a Jewish physician in Morocco; Egyptian human rights activists; and a rabbi in Israel who defends Palestinian homes against demolition by the Israeli army.
The film also captures the personal journey of director Bender, an American Jew and peace activist who travels around Spain, Morocco, France, Egypt, Israel and the Palestinian territories in the wake of the 9/11 attacks.
The event is sponsored by a number of religious and interfaith groups and the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley.
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|Celtics summer league scouting reports: Marcus Smart, James Young, Terry Rozier, R.J. Hunter and Jordan Mickey
|07.08.15 at 1:03 pm ET
Before we get to our Celtics scouting reports, a few quick thoughts …
- Are we ever going to see Colton Iverson in a Celtics uniform?
- Isn't it time CSNNE stops advertising its free agency coverage?
- Has somebody told C.J. Fair to stop shooting yet?
- Should we be concerned when Marcus Smart, James Young, Terry Rozier, R.J. Hunter and Jordan Mickey closed Monday's loss to the Utah Jazz as a unit, and Rodney Hood was the best player on the floor?
- How long until Jay Larranaga becomes a head coach in the NBA?
… OK, now to the scouting reports. We've seen some good and some bad from each of the young C's in Monday's 100-82 loss to the Jazz and Tuesday's 76-62 loss to the Philadelphia 76ers. Below are the pros and cons we've seen so far.
- Jazz 100, Celtics 82: 26 points (6-20 FG, 2-10 3P, 12-13 FT), eight assists (2 turnovers), five rebounds, two steals and one block in 30 minutes.
- Sixers 76, Celtics 62: DNP (rest)
+ Getting to the rim: Using strength to get to basket and draw fouls more often
+ Court savvy: Drawing fouls, posting up smaller defenders, etc.
+ Elite defender: Stopped quick guards Dante Exum and Bryce Cotton in tracks
+ Pick and roll: Improved orchestration of game's most important offensive play
+ Grit: Constantly fighting for position and not afraid of contact on both ends
+ Court vision: Improved decision-making on interior passes
+ Defensive rebounding: Size and strength helps assist bigs on the glass
— Shot selection: Way too many contested long 2's and 3's early in the shot clock
— Shooting form: Still doesn't square up his feet enough
— Gambler: Can be beat backdoor defensively off the ball
— Reputation: Seemingly inadvertent elbow on Jack Cooley earned a flagrant foul
- Jazz 100, Celtics 82: 12 points (4-11 FG, 1-5 3P, 3-4 FT), three rebounds and one assist (1 turnover) in 30 minutes.
- Sixers 76, Celtics 62: Nine points (2-11 FG, 1-7 3P, 4-5 FT), one rebound, one steal and zero assists (0 turnovers) in 21 minutes.
|Marcus Smart struggles from field as Celtics open summer league action with win over Heat
|07.05.14 at 2:49 pm ET
The Celtics kicked off summer league play with an 85-77 victory over the Heat on Saturday in Orlando.
The game featured 22 lead changes and 12 ties before a 25-13 Boston run to close out the contest helped the Celtics seal the victory.
Kelly Olynyk led the Celtics with 20 points (8-of-17 shooting) and eight rebounds while forward Mike Moser contributed 17 points (6-of-11) in 24 minutes off the bench.
Celtics rookie guard Marcus Smart struggled from the field (2-of-8), but made his presence felt across the stat sheet, finishing the day with 10 points, five rebounds, three assists and five steals.
Phil Pressey was solid as the team's starting point guard, scoring nine points (3-of-9) while dishing out seven assists. Pressey also impressed many with a nasty crossover move on Miami rookie point guard Shabazz Napier.
Forward James Ennis led the Heat with 17 points (5-of-11) and eight boards. It was a rough debut for Napier, who scored 12 points but off a horrible 20 percent shooting percentage from the field (3-of-15) while recording just two assists and eight turnovers.
Celtics rookie guard James Young, taken with the 17th overall pick of the 2014 draft, did not play in Saturday's game for precautionary reasons after injuring his neck in a car accident a few weeks ago.
Boston's next summer league matchup will be on Monday, when the Celtics take on the Pacers.
|Celtics lose early lead and game to Sixers
|07.06.10 at 8:30 pm ET
76ers 86, Celtics 69
After coming up short on Monday against the more talented Thunder squad in the first day of Summer League, the Celtics once again lost a lead on Tuesday in a loss to the 76ers.
Boston (0-2) came out and quickly took an early 15-3 lead in the first quarter on the strength of Tony Gaffney's play. After struggling in nearly 25 minutes of play on Monday, Gaffney was much more productive and filled the stat sheet against Philadelphia with 10 points, five rebounds, one assist, one steal and one blocked shot.
The 76ers (2-0), however, went on a 20-4 run through the end of the first and beginning of the second quarter to take a six-point lead. Boston was unable to cut down the deficit and went into halftime trailing by four points.
Philadelphia continued its strong play in the second half and built its lead up before eventually winning, 86-79. The 76ers had five players in double digits, with Jodie Meeks leading the way with 18 points on 6-for-11 shooting from the field and 2-for-3 shooting from beyond the arc. Jaycee Carroll and Luke Harangody each had a team-high 14 points for the Celtics, with Harangody pulling down a game-high 12 rebounds.
Boston couldn't find its stroke from 3-point land, where it was only 1-for-11, compared to 5-for-11 for Philadelphia. The Celtics also struggled to keep possession of the ball, turning it over a total of 20 times. Point guard Oliver Lafayette committed five turnovers himself after being hounded by second-year man Jrue Holiday on the perimeter.
Boston returns to action tomorrow at 1 p.m. when it squares off against the Bobcats.
|Familiar Faces at Vegas Summer League
|07.20.09 at 1:35 pm ET
Even though the Boston Celtics already participated in the Orlando Summer League earlier this month, there were still plenty of familiar faces on hand at the 2009 Las Vegas Summer League last week:
– A relaxed Paul Pierce, who has a home in Vegas, donned a backwards Red Sox hat and sunglasses to a few games last Wednesday. Later that afternoon he was joined in the stands by Celtics GM Danny Ainge during the Milwaukee Bucks/Chicago Bulls match up.
– Celtics co-owner Wyc Grousbeck traveled to Las Vegas for the NBA's Board of Governor's Meeting. Grousbeck was appointed to the league's Labor Relations Committee. While in Vegas he emphasized the Celtics commitment to winning next season to WEEI.com.
– Sam Cassell looked like the Mayor of Summer League when he made his first appearance, being swarmed by friends before sitting courtside with Celtics assistant coach Tom Thibodeau, who spent the week eyeing talent. Cassell, of course, was sporting a huge smile but this time he had traded in his uniform for a polo and khaki shorts as assistant coach for the Washington Wizards. He was at the helm on Sunday when he led the Wiz to a victory over the New York Knicks.
– Ryan Gomes and Sebastian Telfair were in town training at Joe Abunassar's Impact Basketball facility. Both players spent their mornings working out before checking out some Minnesota Timberwolves' action from the bench. Click here to read more on Gomes' role reversal.
– James Posey also came to Vegas to support his team. He watched the New Orleans Hornets take on the Los Angeles Clippers from their bench.
– Patrick O'Bryant chatted with a reporter as he was late chasing a loose ball out of bounds with the Toronto Raptors. O'Bryant averaged 11.2 points, 6.4 rebounds, and 1.6 blocked shots.
– Brandon Wallace returned to Vegas, the same place where the Celtics signed him to his first NBA contract two years ago. Wallace suited up for the Wizards after spending last season in Poland. He posted 3.5 points and 1.8 rebounds per game under assistant coach Cassell.
– Kevinn Pinkney is giving the NBA another shot after playing in Italy the past two seasons. Pinkney, who had a brief stint with the Celtics during the 2006-07 season, averaged 2.4 points and 2.6 boards for the Clippers.
– Orien Greene came to Vegas as a spectator hoping to catch on with an NBA team next season. He recently returned home from playing in Amsterdam.
For more on the 2009 Las Vegas Summer League check out the five things we learned, including why the league is talking Sheed.
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He indicated that advertising and marketing of drugs and medical devices represent the most frequent subjects of criminal investigation. He said the rise in criminal cases is related to the fact that federal Medicare/Medicaid programs are paying for a larger percentage of the costs.
Another important "driver" is related to increased reports by "whistle blowers," or qui tam cases brought under the False Claims Act, Thirolf said.
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A comparison of the effects of a chlamydial vaccine administered during or after a C. muridarum urogenital infection of female mice
Carey, Alison J., Cunningham, Kelly A., Andrew, Dean, Hafner, Louise M., Timms, Peter, & Beagley, Kenneth (2011) A comparison of the effects of a chlamydial vaccine administered during or after a C. muridarum urogenital infection of female mice. Vaccine, 29(38), pp. 6505-6513.
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There are approximately 92 million new chlamydial infections of the genital tract in humans diagnosed each year, costing health care systems billions of dollars in treatment not only of acute infections, but also of associated inflammatory sequelae, such as pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) and ectopic pregnancy. These numbers are increasing at a steady rate and, due to the asymptomatic nature of infections, the incidence may be underestimated and the costs of treatment therefore higher. Over the previous few decades there has been a large amount of research into the development of an efficacious vaccine against genital tract chlamydial infections. The majority of this research has focused on females, due to the high rate of development of associated diseases, including PID, which can lead to ectopic pregnancy and infertility. In light of the increasing infection rates that have occurred despite the availability of antibiotics, and the asymptomatic nature of chlamydial infections, it is imperative that an efficacious vaccine that protects against infection and associated pathology be developed.
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Every parent knows the feeling: Your child has just drawn on the wall or refused to get dressed or mouthed off to you for the millionth time. And you're absolutely at your wit's end.
For some children, these moments of defiance are just that—moments. But for strong-willed children, these "moments" are a way of life. And they can zap the resolve of even the most patient parent.
In her book "You Can't Make Me, (But I Can Be Persuaded)" (Water Brook), learning expert Cynthia Ulrich Tobias helps parents get inside the head and heart of the strong-willed child to find ways not only to cope with a stubborn child, but to bring out the best in that child.
We talked to Cynthia to find out how all parents can use her ideas to restore peace to our homes and learn to see the best in our kids.
Let's start with the obvious: How do you define a strong-willed child?
A strong-willed child (SWC) is one who loves to challenge the rules. This is a child who knows that anything is possible. It might take longer or be inconvenient to do it, but it can still be done.
That's frustrating to parents who try to motivate their kids with absolutes. If Dad says, "You'll never get to college if you don't study," the SWC will respond, "Really? You mean no one's ever done it?" There's that little glint in the eye as they challenge the limits of "never" and "can't."
The SWC knows there's nothing he really has to do. So when parents issue edicts and ultimatums, the SWC will take the consequences rather than do what he's told. The SWC wants to have a sense of control over his or her life. If you find you're in a constant battle of wills with your child, there's a pretty good chance that your child, and possibly you, are strong willed.
To some degree, that sounds like most kids. How can a parent know the difference between a child who's just being defiant and one who qualifies as a SWC?
The difference really is about temperament. A defiant child has trouble with authority. But a SWC will fight against the way authority is communicated. The SWC wants to have a say in things. He or she typically won't resist the idea of authority.
But I want to make it clear that rebellion, defiance and disobedience are wrong regardless of a child's temperament. If a SWC does something that doesn't honor God, if it's in defiance of his or her parents, if it's destructive or hurtful, that can't be blamed on a strong will.
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The Great Wall of China. The Pyramids in Egypt. Man landing on the Moon. The invention of the computer. Certainly man has accomplished some amazing things. However, each of the things listed here, as Christ tarries, will someday crumble and be eclipsed by even bigger and more impressive accomplishments.
My challenge to students this summer has been not to attempt hard things or even great things for the sake of human achievement in-and-of-itself; but, to set our hearts on doing "big things" for God – things that will pass the test of time, and in fact, last for eternity.
The Apostle Paul has something like that in mind when he penned his last words to his student (Timothy) in 2 Timothy 4. Paul writes that he knew that his time on earth was limited and vanishing with each day (see verses 6 through 8.) In his final list of memories, he names several people – some of whom were friends and coworkers and others were enemies and deserters of the faith. Yet, his primary focus here was on the Lord. He remembers how the Lord "stood with" him in days past and the Lord would bless him in the days ahead for his faithfulness to Him.
I love Paul's language in verse 17, "the Lord stood with me and strengthened me, so that through me the proclamation might be fully accomplished, and that all the Gentiles might hear…" Even at the end of his life, the great Apostle, kept his dreams and goals. He was absolutely committed to fulfilling God's grand purpose for his life. Notice the scope of his proclamation in that verse: ALL THE GENTILES.
Wow, that's big!
I believe that God wants each of us to consider "big things" – things that will last for eternity. Even at the end of his life, Paul had big dreams and big goals. He was incredibly passionate about accomplishing things that would last for eternity. That must be our passion as well. We must be about the business of trusting God to use each of us to accomplish BIG things for His glory. The truth of it is that it is God Himself who is doing big things.
Here's how I ended my challenge to students this summer: "What are those things that are so BIG that only God could accomplish them?"
Here's the point. The Apostle Peter sums it up very well in 1 Peter 1:24 – "the glory of men is as the flower of grass. The grass withers and the flower falls off…" All human accomplishments will fade and fall, but what we do for God lasts forever.
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OK the best thing about this is that it started to make the noise after i brought it to the dealer a previous time to get my tranny fixed. There was no noise for a bout a week then i started to hear a little tap noise when i up shift hard. then another week went by and the tap turned into a klunk!!! i was like what the hell was that. Now i get the noise when i up shift down shift and when i shut the car off it hits something 3 times and shakes the whole car!!! it did that jus the past 3 days but it seems like something is coming loose. i was wondering if you guys have any idea whats making that noise. oh and the noise sounds like it coming from the in between the tranny and it sounds like its hitting the firewall. so does anyone have a clue?? thanks in advance!!!
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look for the mount bracket on the trans for the downpipe...could be loose. and make sure all the rest of the brackets are in the right position, and not hitting. exhaust hanger? doubful, but check them anyway. with the car raised up, and off, smack the exhaust in several places to see if its hitting anywhere. just my thoughts
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i found out whats wrong....
It seems the dealer forgot to tighten what they call "stopper bushings" and so it was giving too much play with the tranny so it was making noise. thanks for your input tho.
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Leaving America: Our federal tax system is a bigger burden than some companies want to deal with. Just what more is it going to take to get Washington to wake up to the urgent need for corporate tax reform?
In recent months, we've seen giant firms wuch as drugmaker Pfzer threaten to become froeign companies. Now Medtronic, 65-year-old manufacturer of medical devices such as heart pacemakers, has announced that it will merge with Dublin-based Covidien and move operations and jobs to Ireland.
Former Medtronic CEO Bill George told the New York Times that taxes were a major factor in sealing the deal. The corporate tax rate in Ireland is 12.5%; here, the average combined federal and state rate is 39.1%.
These moves are called corporate inversions. They happen when U.S. companies merge with foreign firms located in nations with lower tax rates. The merger results in the new, supersized firm taking on residence in the foreign nation in order to save on its tax liabilities.
American companies can move to just about any other nation in the world and pay lower business tax rates. We've gone from being a below-average corporate income-tax nation in the early 1990s to the highest rate in the industrialized world.
This is economically masochistic. It is like putting a tariff on our own goods and services.
More than a dozen major corporate inversions have taken place in the past several years, and the trend is speeding up. If it continues, soon there might not be many multinational firms still based in the U.S.
Someone should tell Washington's tax whizzes, who want to endlessly pump money out of corporate America, that a 39% tax rate on zero income yields zero revenues.
The international average on corporate tax rates in industrialized nations is 25%, according to the Tax Foundation. But many nations, such as Singapore and Indonesia, offer U.S. firms a sweetheart deal of zero income tax if the companies relocate inside their borders. These countries desperately want the jobs, and they are happy to steal them from U.S. factories and plants.
Washington makes it so easy. For American CEOs trying to maximize the return to the shareholders, the smart move is to pay 25% or less abroad, rather than 40% in the land of the free. With its low rate, Ireland is becoming a mecca for multinational firms.
That our corporate tax rate hurts American competitiveness is indisputable. Even President Obama's task force on tax reform has told him as much. Our corporate rate is an invitation for U.S. companies to pack up and get out of Dodge, and yet the Democrats in Washington keep pretending that tax rates don't matter even as the stampede accelerates and the job losses pile up.
Meanwhile, other nations are cutting, cutting, cutting. Last year, Japan slashed its business tax below that of America. Last week, Spain, which has an unemployment rate of 25%, announced that it would cut its corporate rate a full five percentage points to 25%.
Who gets hurt when companies outsource jobs? American workers, including union members. They're the big losers, as has been well substantiated.
Kevin Hassett of the American Enterprise Institute concludes that the high U.S. corporate rate means lower wages for workers.
A strong case can be made that America should junk the corporate tax altogether and let shareholders pay tax on company earnings passed through to them as dividends or capital gains. At the least, the federal corporate tax rate should be shaved to 25% to disincentivize inversion strategies such as that employed by Medtronic.
Once upon a time, America was a nation that businesses and workers fled to, not from, to lower their tax burdens. We were a tax haven, and it paid off in investment, jobs and competitiveness. Now the U.S. is a tax hell for business.
Congress accuses companies that leave of being "unpatriotic." Wrong. What's truly unpatriotic is that Congress and the White House know they are chasing companies away, and Washington still does nothing about it.


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Lili TeeModel Female Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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About MeAh we are beautiful people,
the elite of our race.
People would die for our beauty,
would kill for this face.
But the world,
it needs too much tits and ass.
Does my brain look good with this dress?
Or does it just clash?
Oh hell with it anyhow,
I'll just leave it at home,
I have no use for it now.
We call ourselves models
but half the time I think it's not so.
Are we not just escorts
putting on a very elaborate show?
It's not like most models
are looking for art.
It seems like most "models"
just want you to part
with that fat stack of cash.
And it seems like most of these cameras
aren't taking pictures to turn into art.
It seems like most of these "artists"
just want you to part
with all of your clothes.
And do we complain?
Do we question or whine?
Do we ask
"what will become of this picture
of my behind?
Do you want to make something real
or are you just looking for a way to feel
to someone
other than your mom?"
No questions asked.
No need for facts.
The clothes come off
the camera clicks
the day is done.
I am half sick of shadows,
half mad with the vanity
of us.
And though I preen and prance
in the spotlight,
eating up your lust,
don't think that I failed to notice
that my mind hardly matches my looks.
So before you shoot off that message,
before you think to ask me for my time,
I don't charge for my beauty.
I don't charge for my breasts.
I charge for my soul
and you will get nothing less.
So if you're looking for beauty
or breasts or ass or such and such
move along
because there is nothing of mine
that you can touch.
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UK Action Plan to prevent misuse of companies and legal arrangements
The UK is committed to fully implementing the revised Financial Action Task Force standards in order to improve the transparency of the ownership and control of companies and legal arrangements. This is a matter of good corporate governance as well as a means to tackle a wide range of illicit activity. The UK is committed to taking the following actions to do this.
Conduct, and share the findings of, a national assessment of money laundering and terrorist financing risks by 2014, co-ordinating action by the public and private sector to assess risks, apply resources and mitigate those risks.
Ensure the Companies Act 2006 and UK Money Laundering Regulations oblige companies to know who owns and controls them, by requiring that companies obtain and hold adequate, accurate and current information on their beneficial ownership.
Amend the Companies Act 2006 to require that this information is accurate and readily available to the authorities through a central registry of information on companies' beneficial ownership, maintained by Companies House. Consult on whether information in the registry should be publicly accessible.
Ensure that trustees of express trusts are obliged to obtain and hold adequate, accurate and current information on beneficial ownership regarding the trust.
Put in place mechanisms to ensure that the relevant competent authorities have access to information on trusts and ensure effective mechanisms to share this information with other jurisdictions, in line with bilateral and multilateral agreements.
Improve the supervision and enforcement of those who facilitate company formation in the UK. This will start with a review of supervision and enforcement of trust and company service providers. The review will include consideration of additional measures to ensure company formation agents conduct effective due diligence including the identification and verification of beneficial owners.
Review of corporate transparency, including bearer shares and nominee directors, by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills. This will start with the publication of a pre-consultation paper before September 2013.
Support the Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies to publish Action Plans setting out the concrete steps, where needed, to fully implement the Financial Action Task Force Standards.
Improve international cooperation including the timely and effective exchange of basic and beneficial ownership information.
Implementation of the measures will be through, and at the same time as, transposition of the 4th EU Money Laundering Directive and UK Money Laundering Regulations, changes to the Companies Act 2006, as well as through other relevant bilateral and multilateral agreements.


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On Sunday, April 7th, The Los Angeles Lakers lost their regular season, round four "Thriller In Manila" bout to the much improved, "Lob City" Los Angeles Clippers 109-95. The Clippers swept the Lakers all four regular season games.
The Lakers are fighting for their very playoff lives. They are on a 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 countdown, must win, playoff like games to secure the last playoff spot available in the Western Conference playoff race, maybe? The Utah Jazz is also in the hunt for the last playoff spot. If there is a tie at the end of the season between the Jazz and the Lakers, the Jazz will win the tie-breaker, because they have more wins against the Lakers during the regular season.
The loss to the Clippers on Sunday hurt the Lakers as every game down the home stretch is monumental and can easily decide their fate regarding making the playoffs. The Los Angeles Lakers kept hope alive last night as they beat the New Orleans Hornets 104-96 taking care of # 5 in the countdown run. The Oklahoma City Thunder helped the Lakers out by beating the Utah Jazz the same night as the Lakers victory.
Tonight, the Lakers will play the second of back to back games against the Portland Trailblazers. They will be playing to improve their abysmal record against the Trailblazers with a win in Portland. The Lakers will need everything they can get from their starters and their bench. They have not won a back to back game in some time.
The Lakers have been without the services of Steve Nash who is out with tight hamstrings. Metta World Peace is suited up and ready to play for the Lakers against the New Orleans Hornets, after just coming off having knee surgery a few weeks ago.
Unlike previous regular season games against the Trailblazers, this game tonight is almost like a must win seventh game in the playoffs. It is one of those games where the past records and standings are thrown out.
One could imagine that some teams that have had trouble with the Lakers during the regular season and could face the Lakers in the playoffs may be cheering for them not to make the playoffs. Other teams who have had success against the Lakers this season may relish the opportunity to play the Lakers in the playoffs.
The game against the Portland Trailblazers is a must win game. In order for the countdown Lakers' victory #5 against the Hornets to have impact they must get a victory tonight.
The Lakers need to keep feeding the post consistently. Feeding the ball into Dwight Howard and Pau Gasol will open things up for Kobe Bryant and the other Lakers outside shooters. Feeding the post could get some very good looks when teams collapse to help out on Howard and Gasol. If the Lakers have a balanced inside out game and take the next level step defensively during the countdown run they may have a chance to prove to everyone they can be the Lakers who can do damage in the playoffs.
If they get in, can they win a championship? Dwight Howard's answer is "yes, we can!" But, if they can't cover on the 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 countdown wins they need . . . they're done!


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Re: How can i import Corel Draw vectorial files?
- From: Nikola Lecic <nlecic@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 04:43:36 +0200
On Thu, 9 Aug 2007 17:08:27 -0400
"Hakan K" <dominor@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 8/9/07, Damian Vicino <dvicino@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I am getting CDR files form another department (and they dont know
how or dont want to export as .ps).
I just need to open them to show my boss and give oks about the work
they doing.
Do you know any software in the port collection or somewhere else
that can open these files or at least export to another vectorial
format that can be open in some kde application or shell?
Thanks for any info.
*XnView* <http://perso.orange.fr/pierre.g/xnview/enxnview.html>
(xnview is available through graphics/xnview port.)
Yes, it's impossible to directly open and view a CDR file, you have to
convert it to something else first (preferably to SVG).
I've recently used UniConvertor
(http://sourceforge.net/projects/uniconvertor/) to convert several CDR
files to SVG. It supports the newest CDR versions. However, it isn't
ported, you have to compile it yourself.
% ./uniconv
Converts one vector graphics format to another using sK1 engine.
Allowed input formats:
AI - Adobe Illustrator files (postscript based)
CDR - CorelDRAW Graphics files (7-X3 versions)
CMX - Corel Presentation Exchange files (CMX1 format)
It's also recommended in Inkscape's (graphics/inkscape) FAQ:
Damian, if you want to try UniConvert and have troubles compiling it
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Tyson's Welfare Audit Program
The company plans to include chicken and cattle farms by January 2014
Wednesday, October 17, 2012 9:22 AM
Others on Welfare Audit Wagon
The food industry has seen a variety of companies taking measures to ensure welfare of animals.
McDonalds announced in February it would require all its US pork suppliers phase out the use of sow gestation stalls.
In March Burger King pledged to transition its US supply chain to 100 percent cage-free eggs by 2017, and only purchase pork from suppliers that can demonstrate documented plans to end their use of gestation crates for breeding pigs.
In July, Kraft Foods said it would eliminate gestation crates from Oscar Mayer's pork supply chain by 2022.
Just last month Dunkin' Donuts and ConAgra Foods pledged to eliminate the use of pork from gestation crates from their supply chain. At that time, Dunkin' also announced it will be switching to cage-free eggs in its breakfast sandwiches.
Tyson Foods, Inc. on Friday, Oct. 12 announced the launch of a program to audit the treatment of animals at the livestock and poultry farms that supply the company.
"We know more consumers want assurance their food is being produced responsibly, and we think two important ways to do that are by conducting on-farm audits while also continuing to research ways to improve how farm animals are raised," says Donnie Smith, president and CEO of Tyson Foods
Tyson works with more than 12,000 independent livestock and poultry farmers, including 5,000 family poultry farmers, 3,000 family hog farmers and 4,000 family cattle farmers. The company employs more than a dozen veterinarians and maintains an Office of Animal Well-being.
Tyson has started trial pilot programs at some hog farms; plans to expand to poultry and beef facilities.
Smith says he wants people to know that Tyson cares enough to check farms, "and we're determined to help find better ways to care for and raise healthy animals," he says.
"We believe the farmers who supply us are the best in the world, and I think the audits will verify this. But, if we find problems, we want them fixed right away. To our knowledge, no other major U.S. meat or poultry company offers this kind of service to its farmers, customers and consumers," Smith adds.
The audits - called the Tyson FarmCheck Program - have already begun on a trial basis on some of the 3,000 independent hog farms that supply the company. Auditors are visiting the farms to check on such things as animal access to food and water, as well as proper human-animal interaction and worker training.
The FarmCheck program has been under development since early spring 2012. Although Tyson personnel have been conducting the audits so far, the company plans to ultimately involve independent, third party auditors. It also intends to expand the program to include chicken and cattle farms by January 2014. The audits are being developed by veterinarians and animal welfare specialists and are expected to include measures that build upon current voluntary farm industry programs.
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The Texans claimed RB Jonathan Grimes off waivers from the Jets and waived LB Mister Alexander.
Grimes began the year with the Texans' practice squad before signing with the Jets. He played in three games and had two carries for six yards and two catches for seven yards.
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The Ph.D. Now Comes With Food StampsHistorians in the News
"I am not a welfare queen," says Melissa Bruninga-Matteau.
That's how she feels compelled to start a conversation about how she, a white woman with a Ph.D. in medieval history and an adjunct professor, came to rely on food stamps and Medicaid. Ms. Bruninga-Matteau, a 43-year-old single mother who teaches two humanities courses at Yavapai College, in Prescott, Ariz., says the stereotype of the people receiving such aid does not reflect reality. Recipients include growing numbers of people like her, the highly educated, whose advanced degrees have not insulated them from financial hardship.
"I find it horrifying that someone who stands in front of college classes and teaches is on welfare," she says....
A record number of people are depending on federally financed food assistance. Food-stamp use increased from an average monthly caseload of 17 million in 2000 to 44 million people in 2011, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Web site. Last year, one in six people—almost 50 million Americans, or 15 percent of the population—received food stamps.
Ms. Bruninga-Matteau is part of an often overlooked, and growing, subgroup of Ph.D. recipients, adjunct professors, and other Americans with advanced degrees who have had to apply for food stamps or some other form of government aid since late 2007.
Some are struggling to pay back student loans and cover basic living expenses as they submit scores of applications for a limited pool of full-time academic positions. Others are trying to raise families or pay for their children's college expenses on the low and fluctuating pay they receive as professors off the tenure track, a group that now makes up 70 percent of faculties. Many bounce on and off unemployment or welfare during semester breaks. And some adjuncts have found themselves trying to make ends meet by waiting tables or bagging groceries alongside their students.
Of the 22 million Americans with master's degrees or higher in 2010, about 360,000 were receiving some kind of public assistance, according to the latest Current Population Survey released by the U.S. Census Bureau in March 2011. In 2010, a total of 44 million people nationally received food stamps or some other form of public aid, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
People who don't finish college are more likely to receive food stamps than are those who go to graduate school. The rolls of people on public assistance are dominated by people with less education. Nevertheless, the percentage of graduate-degree holders who receive food stamps or some other aid more than doubled between 2007 and 2010.
During that three-year period, the number of people with master's degrees who received food stamps and other aid climbed from 101,682 to 293,029, and the number of people with Ph.D.'s who received assistance rose from 9,776 to 33,655, according to tabulations of microdata done by Austin Nichols, a senior researcher with the Urban Institute. He drew on figures from the 2008 and 2011 Current Population Surveys done by the U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Bureau of Labor....
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I had an endoscopic brow lift in the fall of 2006. I still had loose, crepey skin on my upper eyelids so my doctor told me to wait several months to "let things settle" he said, but after almost a year, my eyelids were still hooded, and I had loose, crepey skin. Now he suggest doing Laser resurfacing on my upper lids to tighten them. Will this actually solve this problem?
Laser Resurfacing for Eyelid Rejuvenation
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Nothing removes all lines unfortunately
It sounds as though you have had an agressive treatment program so far. It may have been a miscommunication from your MD but there are no treatments in existence that remove all lines. If you lasered deep enough into the skin to try to get this to result, you would have a dramatic increase in the rate of hypopigmentation where your skin permanently looses color. In addition, deep lasering carries an increased risk of scars.
Without seing you, one can't determine if a revision of your blepharoplasty might help but please alter your expectations to ones where a dramatic reduction in lines is the goal, not their total elimination.
Eyelid asymmetry
It is difficult if not impossible to answer your questions without seeing you in person.
Laser resurfacing will help tighten loose skin to some extent but it well certainly not correct significant asymmetry nor will it eliminate all lines or wrinkles from your skin.
You may wish to see other surgeons for a consultation before doing additional procedures.
We have had great results with Blepharoplasty followed by several sessions of resurfacing with coag....
We have actually had very good results with blepharoplasty followed by one or more sessions of resurfacing with coag. We use the Sciton platform and resurface with two passes of 80nm and 50nm. We add coag for improved skin tightening. Some patients have required up to two laser treatments for the full effect. This treatment seems to provide the tightening patients look for and seems to help thicken the skin for a more youthful look.
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Blepharoplasty better than laser resurfacing for upper eyelids.
The problem here is probably excess skin, and blepharoplasty fixes this best. Laser resurfacing has more of a role in the lower eyelids.
Upper blepharoplasty is required to remove excess crepy upper eyelid skin
Laser resurfacing is excellent for removing skin wrinkles. Only minmal skin tightening occurs with safe levels of laser resurfacing.
If you have significant loose, crepy upper eyelid skin, you will be disappointed with laser resurfacing of the upper eyelids.
Upper blepharoplasty is safe, effective with minimal recovery.
Web reference: http://drseckel.com/surgical-procedures/result-oriented-eyelid-rejuvenation-laser-blepharoplasty/
Laser Resurfacing on the eyelids
Laser resurfacing on the upper eyelids can tighten the skin. However, the results are usually minimal. Don't expect to set the world on fire with a laser resurfacing treatment on the eyelids. Unfortunately there is not much that can be done for this problem other than surgery.
These answers are for educational purposes and should not be relied upon as a substitute for medical advice you may receive from your physician. If you have a medical emergency, please call 911. These answers do not constitute or initiate a patient/doctor relationship.


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text: Liza Morgan earned the first America East Player of the Week honors of 2013 Monday. Courtesy: America East Communications Albany's Morgan, Heuser Earn Weekly Honors Release: 09/03/2013 Related Links Conference Standings Composite Schedule/Results Statistics Sign Up For Free Email Updates CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The 2013 America East field hockey season kicked off over the weekend six America East teams playing at least once. Reigning champion Albany came away with two wins and two Great Danes earned the first weekly awards: Player of the Week Liza Morgan, So., AlbanyDenver, Pa. Racked up five goals in two Albany wins last week. Scored three times in the Great Danes' 8-0 win at Bryant Friday and tallied two more in a 4-1 win at Providence Saturday. The five goals are more than she tallied all of last season (four goals). Rookie of the Week Paula Heuser, Fr., Albany Monchengladbach, Germany Tallied a goal and three assists in her first two college contests over the weekend. Scored and had an assist in Albany's win at Bryant Friday. Set up two of the Great Danes' four goals in a win at Providence Saturday. Around the League Albany's 2-0 start is its first since 2010. Fairfield opened its season with a 2-1 win at Lehigh Friday. UMass Lowell made its debut as a Division I program Monday, falling to Northwestern, 3-0.