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Oil prices dip as traders keep cashing in on April's fast run
On Monday, crude oil prices edged down as profit-taking offset positive sentiment from descending American crude oil output as well as a weaker greenback.
The profit-taking actually arose close to the end of last week, when oil hit this year's peaks as market participants pinned their hopes that oil inventories would keep falling, even ignoring today's glut in the energy market.
In New York, June delivery oil futures were worth $45.56, showing a 1% tumble. In London, June Brent crude futures slid 1.3% at $46.76 per barrel.
Wednesday's reports issued by the US Energy Department revealed a dip in domestic oil output for the seventh week, cutting production by approximately 300 000 barrels since the dawn of 2016.
In the United States crude oil inventories are still going up. Respectively, output is only heading south, thus reflecting the overall flexibility of American shale oil. Obviously, higher prices could prevent any further reduction in production.

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- By Blake Hounshell
Blake Hounshell is managing editor at Foreign Policy, having formerly been Web editor. Hounshell oversees ForeignPolicy.com and has commissioned and edited numerous cover stories for the print magazine, including National Magazine Award finalist "Why Do They Hate Us?" by Mona Eltahawy. He also edits The Cable, FP's first foray into daily original reporting, and was editor of Colum Lynch's Turtle Bay, which in 2011 won a National Magazine award for best reporting in a digital format.
Blake joined Foreign Policy in 2006 after living in Cairo, where he studied Arabic, missed his Steelers finally win one for the thumb, and worked for the Ibn Khaldun Center for Development Studies. Blake was a 2011 finalist for the Livingston Awards prize for young journalists for his reporting on the Arab uprisings, and his Twitter feed was named one of Time magazine's "140 Best Twitter Feeds of 2011." Under his leadership, in 2008, Passport, FP's flagship blog, won Media Industry Newsletter's "Best of the Web" award in the blog category. Along with Elizabeth Dickinson, he edited Southern Tiger: Chile's Fight for a Democratic and Prosperous Future, the memoirs of former Chilean president Ricardo Lagos, published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2012.
A graduate of Yale University, Blake speaks mangled Arabic and French, is an avid runner, and lives in Washington with his wife, musician Sandy Choi, and their toddler, David. Follow him on Twitter @blakehounshell.
NBC News is reporting that Susan Rice has asked President Obama to withdraw her name for consideration as his next secretary of state. The network's Tracy Connor writes:
"If nominated, I am now convinced that the confirmation process would be lengthy, disruptive and costly – to you and to our most pressing national and international priorities," Rice wrote in a letter to President Obama, saying she's saddened by the partisan politics surrounding her prospects.
"That trade-off is simply not worth it to our country…Therefore, I respectfully request that you no longer consider my candidacy at this time," she wrote in the letter obtained by NBC News. […]
"The position of secretary of state should never be politicized," she wrote, adding, "I'm saddened that we have reached this point, even before you have decided whom to nominate. We cannot afford such an irresponsible distraction from the most pressing issues facing the American people."
FP has obtained a PDF of the full letter, which you can read here. Rice's withdrawal would seem to clear the field for Sen. John Kerry, who is widely thought to be high on President Obama's now slightly shorter shortlist for Foggy Bottom. Coming along with Bloomberg's story today claiming the former Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel is likely to be nominated for the Pentagon, it looks like the president's second-term national security team is taking shape. Now we just need to figure out if Tom Donilon will remain the national security advisor, and who will fill David Petraeus's shoes at the CIA.


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Wired Magazine today announced that former creative director Scott Dadich will rejoin the publication as its editor in chief, following the surprise announcement earlier this month that Chris Anderson was leaving the post after 11 years.
Dadich, whose claim to fame was a low-budget side project for Wired's digital edition that ended up becoming the template for all of Condé Nast's tablet strategy, is returning to the magazine immediately.
Dadich served as creative director of Wired from 2006 to 2010, where he notably led the magazine to three consecutive National Magazine Awards for design. After developing Wired's widely praised iPad edition, he was tapped in 2010 for the larger corporate role of vice president of editorial platforms and design.
Anderson, the editor since 2001, said he is leaving to become the full-time CEO of 3D Robotics, a company he co-founded in 2009. A student of quantum mechanics with a varied career as a science journalist, book author and founder of 3D Robotics, Anderson was a defining personality for the magazine.
According to AdWeek, Dadich was a favorite to head Wired. "He already knows the brand and the company, and there's less urgency for someone in his recent position, now that the company's tablet strategy is up and running," wrote AdWeek's Lucia Moses. "Dadich also has a wonky side that fits with Wired, having studied engineering at Texas Tech University."
One of the few "suits" in Wired's San Francisco office, Dadich is known for his exacting standards, often sending work back multiple times for revisions, said Moses.
The news was announced to Wired's staff by Conde Naste president Bob Sauerberg in San Francisco with Wired vp and publisher Howard Mittman and outgoing editor Chris Anderson.
Adweek said other candidates Condé Nast is said to have considered included Bloomberg Businessweek editor Josh Tyrangiel; Bob Cohn, a Wired vet and editorial director of Atlantic Digital; LinkedIn's Dan Roth; and Andrew Essex, CEO of agency Droga5. Internally, Wired executive editor Thomas Goetz and Wired.com editor in chief Evan Hansen were also believed to have been considered.
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The Austin-Healey Sprite was the entry level British sports car in the 1960s. The Austin-Healey Sprite Mark IV represents the final development of the Sprite line. This model was a true convertible, meaning that it had roll-up windows and a permanently attached folding top. It was still the same handsome car as its predecessor, but now with a 1275cc engine that produced 65 hp. Small and light, its performance often matched the larger MGB, at a much lower price. The difference in price was due to the Sprite being smaller and "creature comforts" were sparse. The value for performance ratio was hard to resist, and the Austin-Healey Sprite remained in production as the Austin Sprite and then the MG Midget until the 1980s, when U.S. emission and safety regulations made it cost-prohibitive.


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Boston picked up a convincing win over the Chicago Bulls Saturday, winning on the road 106-80 to pick up their 10th straight win. With the win, the Celtics extend their Eastern Conference lead over Orlando to two games.
Things didn't always look that way, though, as the Bulls got out to a quick 6-0 lead. Boston first scored on a Paul Pierce three 2:40 in, then tied the game on another Pierce three 24 seconds later. Chicago must have been angry having blown an early lead, as Brad Miller basically horse collared Rajon Rondo 3:28 in. In the NFL, it would have been 15 yards, a fine, and probably an ejection, but it got Miller a flagrant one foul from the NBA officials, though a flagrant two would definitely have been warranted.
A Celtics three-point lead after the first quarter was continually challenged by Chicago, who kept things in check for much of the half. The Celtics briefly opened up a double-digit lead late in the half, but Chicago kept the game from getting completely out of hand, and held Boston to an eight-point halftime lead. The threes helped for the Celtics (3/10), while Boston held Chicago to mostly two point shots (0/3 on threes).
After the half, the Celtics started the blowout and never looked back. The Celtics outscored the Bulls 29-17 in the 3rd quarter to take a 20-point lead into the final twelve minutes. Eddie House highlighted the run by running in out of nowhere to seize a pass from Chicago's Joakim Noah, and after a give and go with Rondo, he hit a jump shot for two.
Boston finished off the game by holding the Bulls to 17 points in the final quarter again, and teasing the 30-point differential threshold. They're really starting to look like the championship team they were from two years ago. At this rate, they'll wind up 68-14 and beat L.A. once more. Just translate the NBA-best 11-1 road record into home performances and it won't be a problem.
It was a balanced attack. Seven Celtics (including all five starters) scored in double figures, but nobody got to 20 points. There is no "I" in team.
If you really need something, I guess we should expect more from Brian Scalabrine in 16:22 than no shots, two rebounds, an assist, a block, and two fouls.
"We got multiple stops, then you have the chance to get multiple scores." – Doc Rivers on the Celtics' defense.
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Surprise: Palin's bus tour to roll into Iowa this week
posted at 5:58 pm on August 10, 2011 by Allahpundit
Perry's not the only one who knows how to leverage the media's focus on Ames into some extra buzz for their own maybe-candidacy. Another X factor to liven up the straw poll:
After a nearly three-month hiatus, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is planning to crash the presidential party once again with a heartland-themed re-launch of her "One Nation" bus tour this week in Iowa, according to a Palin fundraising email obtained by CNN.
Palin is bringing her Constitution-themed bus to the Iowa State Fair, just 30 miles south of where the Republican presidential field will take the stage on Thursday for a presidential debate in Ames.
It's not yet clear which day the tour will begin, but her surprise arrival in Iowa will happen before the closely watched Ames straw poll. Palin is not on the straw poll ballot…
Palin's re-emergence in Iowa just hours before the debate is a reminder that the 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee intends to remain part of the presidential discussion as long as possible, despite being largely dismissed by party insiders.
The poll's only three days away so the tour will have to begin tomorrow or Friday if she plans on being there beforehand. That's the smart way to play it, too: If she showed up on Saturday and drew reporters away from the poll, it might antagonize easily-antagonizable Iowans. If she showed up next week she'd come off like an afterthought, especially if Bachmann wins on Saturday. Popping in now to remind people that she might still get in is the best way to short-circuit some of Bachmann's buzz.
Reporter Mike Memoli asks a good question, though: "Is Palin more interested in trumping GOP candidates or Pres. Obama as he is set to begin his own bus tour in Iowa next week?" The One will be in Minnesota, Iowa, and Illinois next week and Palin's expected to hit Missouri and Illinois after visiting Iowa. Drawing a contrast with Obama is smart insofar as it elevates her vis-a-vis the rest of the field; that's been Romney's strategy all along, of course, and Perry's planning to adopt it himself next week when he holds an event in Iowa on Tuesday to coincide with Obama's visit. That's the most surprising thing about his rollout to me — as bold as Palin is in showing up at the state fair before Ames and running her own bus tour as a contrast with Obama's, Perry's being even bolder in trying to bigfoot Ames with his announcement and attacking The One with some sort of speech (presumably) while he's in the state. Not a guy prone to half-measures, I guess.
Here's the new ad released by Sarah PAC in connection with the tour. Sure looks like a campaign spot. Exit quotation from Reuters, which has a piece out today gauging Perry's support among the grassroots: "Tea Party activists interviewed by Reuters voiced most enthusiasm for former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, who has been coy as to whether she will run. They were also curious about Perry, but said they knew less about him."
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NO ONE, not even the fiercest and the strongest army with the most advanced weaponry can take us down but ourselves. The moment the great hulk of a shadow of doubt befall us from within, it becomes necessary to heed the yellow sign of warning, that we would need a helping hand from the people who have nothing but love and understanding for us, and our frailties, and that there can be no one but our family.
The death of Robin Williams, a most revered actor/comedian of our time, has opened many the eyes among us peoples on the seriousness of this quite illness, which are often hidden because of the taboo connected to it.
I have learned about how fatal depression can get when a very close kin decided to do away with his life without even giving us the chance to bail him out from the quagmire that he found himself in, almost two decades have passed. The hurt did not left me for years, as I inevitably thought that I could have helped him somehow, he could have been still with us, enjoying his jolly company.
Each time I thought about him, some kind of misgiving would envelope me, even when I thought I have already forgiven some people who could have pushed him to the edge. All through the years, I found myself trying to accept that he had been responsible for his actions and no one else, and each time, the ugly head of doubt would pop up to taunt my resolve.
The sore in my heart has refused to heal, even as most of his loved ones have moved on with each of their own lives. And then, one day, I have made myself believe that he was not gone forever but just taking a long vacation. I have to think about it that way just to move on.
Through all those years, he taught me a lesson that I have never learned from the narrow confines of my thoughts, and even from the great walls of the educational institutions that taught me values and all. In his death, he showed me what it means to really love without asking to be loved in return.
They call it UNCONDITIONAL love. Sometimes, romantic love makes a person long to be loved in return, some even demand that such be the case, and most often, such kind of approach fall short of breaking relationships. But then perhaps it is the 'rootedness' of relationships that made them last.
Depression can be a tough wall to break. Even some renowned psychologists were not spared from the scythe of this dreaded ailment, mainly because the enemy is entrenched within.
It is a reality that is yet to be addressed by so-called experts in this field. Though I have gone through the quagmire myself, and I also found myself trapped not inside visible prison cells but within the dark corners of my mind where the shadows of an invisible monster lurked.
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I use the old fashioned way, soap slivers, if I am marking my lines. Just mark a few at a time.
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I haven't quilted anything yet but I have used soap slivers and crayons before and they worked. I have never tried tailors chalk, would it work? Or is that the chalk everyine is refering to?
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.......giving myself the vague idea of where to go just looks like i had a vague idea of where i was going...
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I also use the pens and love, love them. They have ironed out on all of my fabric.
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Schwarzbach earned All-Santa Cruz Athletic League honors as a senior at San Lorenzo Valley High in Felton, Calif... Was named 2002 San Lorenzo Valley High Athlete of the Year... Named to the San Jose Mercury News first team as a senior... Also ran on the cross country and track teams... Cross county team won the 1999 and 2000 Division III state championships... Holds the school record for the 400 meters and competed on the school record-setting 4 x 100 meter relay... Member of the California Scholastic Federation... Played for the Pleasanton Rage club soccer team that won the 2002 U-17 U.S. Youth Soccer national championships... Played on the 2000 ODP Cal-North state soccer team.
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I just got my jack two weeks ago- he is not eatting much and has lost a little weight I am concern? and sheddind
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Yes, you should definitely be concerned. Get an appointment at the vet's office ASAP.
Cookies 'n' Creme (1998-2011) answered on 9/14/09. Helpful? / 0
Don't know the age or where the dog came from but my first concern would be parasites. He should see the Vet immediately.
If he had a bath just before/after he came home that can increase shedding. Shedding due to malnutrition should not be this sudden. External parasites could cause hair loss.
Snickers answered on 9/14/09. Helpful? / 0
it could just be the stress of a new home. More so if he is overweight and a strange new food too. Your dog definitely should be narrower at the waist than the hips and chest. You should be able to easily feel the ribs, but not see them. Each dog is different. Standard recommendations are a good place to start, but each dog must have its food and exercise adjusted to its individual needs. Here is a link to a good illustrated guide, www.longliveyourdog.com
Any time you get a dog, it is a good idea to take any medical records you have with it to the vet for a check up. In this case, ask the vet about its weight.
If you have changed food, and it otherwise seems OK, you may stick to the new one.
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Aster answered on 9/14/09. Helpful? / 0
Jack Russells shed ALOT. My parents vacuum everyday and I still leave their house with dog hair on my clothes so that's not unusual but his not eating and weight loss are something you should be concerned about. Get him checked out and good luck, Jack Russells are great dogs, lots of fun, high energy, intelligent and they really fall in love with their families. :)
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Take him to the vet ASAP! We just lost ours and are heartbroken! If you are concerned about your dog, NEVER EVER second guess yourself. Better safe than sorry!
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It is routine to get your new dogs a vet appointment the following week or same week if possible.
A new home and new surroundings can be very stressful, be patient the first few days.
But, always a vet can sometimes pick things we don't see out, so maybe the vet is good ideal.
Terriers are seasonal shedders also.
My dog has blown most of her coat now the other two smooth coats are doing it now as well. Buy a very soft paddle brush for him.
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The bird kills within a five-mile radius of John F. Kennedy Airport, including some areas on the Rockaway peninsula, began last Monday, and will continue until more than 750 Canada geese are gone, says Senator Kirsten Gillibrand.
The killing began after Gillibrand's push to cut through bureaucratic tape and remove the geese, which, she says, pose a public safety risk to air travelers.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) last week issued its final decision to adopt their final environmental impact study laying out a combination of lethal and non-lethal methods for reducing the risk of bird strikes at JFK Airport. At the same time, the Interior Department moved forward on Monday with the removal of these birds that pose a risk to public safety.
The announcement comes after Gillibrand pushed the USDA to expedite this final decision, and in a phone conversation, she had urged Interior Secretary Salazar to quickly issue new permits for the removal of geese from the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge immediately upon this formal acceptance of the study. The feds are now taking action today to mitigate the Canada geese during the critical molting period when they are flightless.
"We could not afford to sit back and wait for a catastrophe to occur before cutting through bureaucratic red tape between federal agencies," said Gillibrand. "We are finally taking action to help reduce bird strikes and save lives. I thank Secretary Salazar for his leadership in moving this process forward."
Last month, Gillibrand requested the expedited removal of 200 geese at two landfill areas along the Jamaica Bay shoreline, which the Interior Department had the existing authority to carry out and was able to complete two weeks ago. Gillibrand introduced federal legislation in May to reduce bird strikes that was adopted into the underlying 2012 Farm Bill which passed the Agriculture Committee.
With the USDA's environmental impact study, which examines effective, safe ways to reduce bird strikes, now finalized, the Interior Department issued U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service permits needed to remove an estimated 1,000 additional geese.
The National Park Service, which manages the wildlife refuge, has cited the need for the completion of this study before allowing USDA workers to remove birds from the refuge area.
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THE Labor Party is pushing ahead in the Victorian seat of McEwen, but with nearly 5000 votes still to count the outcome remains far from certain.
The incumbent Rob Mitchell is ahead of his Liberal rival Donna Petrovich by 312 votes, his largest lead since vote counting began.
However on Thursday morning there were 4791 still to be counted.
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BeschreibungThis interdisciplinary collection demonstrates the purchase of cultural studies frameworks for thinking about legal questions beyond the reach of the Law & Economics framework.
PortraitAustin Sarat is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College. He is president of the Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities and past president of the Law & Society Association. He has written and edited many books, including "When the State Kills: Capital Punishment and the American Condition."Jonathan Simon is Professor of Law at the University of Miami School of Law. He is the author of "Poor Discipline: Parole and the Social Control of the Underclass, 1890-1990" and coeditor of "Embracing Risk: The Changing Culture of Insurance and Responsibility."
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Siemens Financial Services
|Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung
|Traded as
|1997 in Munich
|Munich, Germany
Area served
Key people
|Roland W. Chalons-Browne (CEO), Dr. Peter Moritz (CFO),
|Equipment financing & leasing, vendor finance, asset-based lending, private equity, project and equity participations, project and export financing, industrial insurance solutions, private finance solutions, asset management, treasury solutions, structured financing, banking
|Business services, financing
Number of employees
Siemens Financial Services GmbH is a subsidiary of Siemens. The company's global headquarters is in Munich, Germany. The Financial Services division of Siemens (SFS) offers international financing solutions in the business-to-business area. Financial Services serves Siemens as well as other companies – primarily in the energy, industry, healthcare and infrastructure & cities markets. The division finances infrastructure, equipment as well as working capital investments, and acts as a manager of financial risks within Siemens AG. The network of financing companies coordinated by Siemens Financial Services GmbH in Munich comprises about 2,600 employees worldwide.[1]
The Siemens Group first bundled its financial activities into an organizational unit in October 1997. In addition to developing the financial business, the main focus at the time was to increase transparency for investors – by creating a separate financing balance sheet. Since 1999, Siemens Financial Services has been the center of expertise for financial services and the provider of financial risk management for Siemens in the market for business-to-business financial solutions.
From the very start, SFS' responsibility included Siemens' leasing and alternative forms of asset and equipment financing as well as project financing and equity participations. SFS was also put in charge of Siemens' treasury and payment-transaction solutions as well as of the financial management of pension assets. In 2000, these responsibilities were expanded to include Siemens' insurance operations – and later its venture capital activities.
In addition to the expansion of business operations, SFS' international presence has grown (including the acquisition of Schroder Leasing in Great Britain in 2000).
In recent years, expansion has taken place not only in the established European and North American markets, but also increasingly in emerging markets. In March 2005, Siemens Financial Services established its own leasing company in China, Siemens Finance and Leasing Ltd. (SFLL) with headquarters in Beijing. At the start of 2011, Russia's Federal Antimonopoly Services approved the acquisition of ZAO DeltaLeasing, a provider of equipment financing in Russia. On October 1, 2011, DeltaLeasing was renamed OOO Siemens Finance.[2]
In June 2011, Siemens Financial Services Private Limited was established in India[3] and was granted its non-banking finance license (NBFC license) from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI).[4] Since then, the subsidiary has been providing financing solutions for Siemens' customers in India.
At the end of 2010, Siemens Financial Services received its banking license[5] in Germany from the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority. Siemens Bank GmbH adds loans and guarantees to the SFS product portfolio particularly in the sales-financing area.
Executive management[edit]
- Roland W. Chalons-Browne, CEO of Siemens Financial Services GmbH since February 2010.
- Dr. Peter Moritz, CFO of Siemens Financial Services GmbH since March 2006.
Business units[edit]
Siemens Financial Services (SFS) has eight Business Units:
- Commercial Finance (COF), CEO Jonathan Andrew
- Project & Structured Finance (PSF) Energy, CEO Kirk Edelman
- Project & Structured Finance (PSF) Infrastructure and Cities & Industry, CEO Johannes Schmidt
- Project, Structured and Leveraged Finance (PSLF) Healthcare, CEO Anthony Casciano
- Venture Capital (VC), CEO Ralf Schnell
- Insurance (INS), CEO Alexander Mahnke
- Treasury (TRE), CEO Hans-Peter Rupprecht
- Financial Services and Investment Management (FIM), CEO Hans-Peter Rupprecht
Global reach[edit]
As a worldwide financial services provider in the business-to-business area, SFS has an international network of financing companies at its disposal (as of Sept. 30, 2011).
- North and South America
- Total assets €6.4 billion
- Project volume with financing requirements €8.7 billion
- Europe, Africa & CIS
- Total assets €7.8 billion
- Project volume with financing requirements €22.6 billion
- Asia, Australia, and the Middle East
- Total assets €0.4 billion
- Project volume with financing requirements €11.4 billion
The company provides research covering aspects of finance. Research reports written over the past four years include:
|The Affordable Metropolis[6]
|Energy down, momentum up 2010
|Riding the Storm – A study on the current financing situation
|Counting the Cost - analyzing the real impact of the international financial crisis on relationship banking for European business
|Investment in Focus
|Navigating uncertain waters
|Maintaining the green momentum – A study of European private sector investment in green equipment and technologies
|Putting Capital to Work - A study of private sector working capital in Europe and the United States
|Medical Equipment and Frozen Capital
|Energy Efficiency - Trends, Investment Challenges & Financing Solutions
|Productivity – Providing answers to a dynamic global market
|Integrated Healthcare – Challenges in the medical sector
External links[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- Feldenkirchen, Wilfried (2000). Siemens, From Workshop to Global Player, Munich.
- Feldenkirchen, Wilfried / Eberhard Posner (2005): The Siemens Entrepreneurs, Continuity and Change, 1847–2005, Ten Portraits, Munich.
- ^ Siemens AG (2011). "Siemens AG Annual Report 2011" (PDF). Siemens AG. Retrieved 30 November 2011.
- ^ "Delta Leasing adopts Siemens name - Next phase of ambitious growth plans". Finanzen.net. 2011. Retrieved October 2011. Check date values in:
- ^ "Siemens sets up financial services arm in India". The Financial. 2011. Retrieved 16 March 2011.
- ^ "Siemens granted non banking finance license in India". APN News. 2011. Retrieved 27 May 2011.
- ^ "Siemens will expand financing opportunities for its customers with its own bank". The Financial. 2010. Retrieved 7 December 2010.
- ^ "The affordable Metropolis". finance.siemens.com. 2011. Retrieved May 2011. Check date values in:


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The question is whether you know the bios password or not... if you do, then just go into the bios and disable it.
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Foam party in Parliament
On Friday, 12 March 199, during the "debate" in Parliament about the budget allocation for the Ministry of Home Affairs, a Member of Parliament, Mr Peh Chin
Hua, said,
I was out of Singapore at the time, so only portions of the MP's statement, and even less of the Minister's reply, came to me, through email. The emails carried the header, "Homophobic asshole in Parliament". Stirred by that, I began to sharpen my knives in preparation for writing a defence as soon as I got back to Singapore.
On return, I got hold of the Straits Times report (13 March edition), and managed to read the gist of the Ministry's response. I found the Ministry's reply even more curious than the MP's "question". What had been emailed to me as a gay issue rapidly became, as I thought further about it, a broader one. This episode, in my opinion, was symbolic of all the things that are wrong with Singapore's politics and civil liberties, gay and straight.
From the Straits Times, I gather that Minister of State for Home Affairs, Ho Peng Kee, said this in reply:
In reply, Prof Ho said discos and lounges are subject to licensing conditions which aim to prevent law and order problems such as fights, over-crowding, immoral and indecent activities an underage drinking.
At some point in his reply, the Minister of State also said that,
A disco operator who staged a dance performance by transvestites was charged in court for infringing his licensing conditions and fined $2,000.
The Straits Times said that the Minister of State "… assured Mr Peh Chin Hua (Jalan Besar GRC) that the police monitor nightspots closely to ensure that illegal or immoral activities do not take place at such places."
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I have so many broadsides to fire, I don't know where to begin. But let's start with Mr Peh's "question" to the Minister.
What, in effect, the Member of Parliament wanted was for the police to pressure nightspot operators, so that nightspot operators would be compelled to enforce Mr Peh's idea of moral dress and hairstyles on their women patrons. The poor businessmen would be made into moral vigilantes (on pain of having their businesses shut down) to stop the women from binding their breasts, wearing men's shoes and sitting on each other's laps.
Mr Peh offered no justification in law for such action. He merely said he could not "believe that these kinds of things happen on the tiny island of Singapore" (what has the size of our island got to do with it?), and that "principals and teachers … would feel sad about this". To win his argument, he invoked phases like "going astray". As if outrage alone is sufficient to override the rule, and the protection, of law.
It's not a gay and lesbian issue. It's an issue of civil liberties. Do we let MPs and the police trample on our freedoms as they see fit, even when there is no justification in law?
The principle is the same: if women cannot bind their breasts, then perhaps men should be prevented by the police (or bouncers at doorways) from wearing overly tight underwear. Perhaps glossy hairgel and men's shoes should only be sold by prescription to persons whom doctors have certified to be biologically male. And police should feel free to butt in and stop women from (a) wearing T-shirts and (b) hugging each other -- both, as you would note, specifically mentioned by Mr Peh as among the horrors of last November.
I think it is damaging for what little democracy we have that Members of Parliament can say such things that are so in disregard of the law and liberties of citizens. Mr Peh obviously belongs to the school of thought that says people's lives are meant to be lived within prescribed social roles. Women must be "women" (i.e. a certain type of women, dressed in a certain way, behaving in a certain way) and men must be "men". By the same token, the same school of thought easily extends to saying that Chinese must be Chinese (e.g. must speak Mandarin), low-caste must be low-caste (i.e. never touch a Brahmin), girls cannot aspire to be engineers (a very unfeminine profession), and so on … and that the "community" can enforce the prescribed role upon you.
If anyone of us cares about retaining some control over our own lives, we must reject such tyrannical ideas.
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What was even more disappointing was the Minister of State's response. The Minister tacitly agreed with the thrust of the MP's argument, when he "assured Mr Peh Chin Hua … that the police monitor nightspots closely to ensure that illegal or immoral activities do not take place at such places." The minister should have confined himself to "illegal" activities, not "immoral", because the powers given to him and the police are powers in law. Morality or immorality is beside the point.
To be fair, he took care to make reference to the scope of the law when he said, "discos and lounges are subject to licensing conditions which aim to prevent law and order problems such as fights, over-crowding, immoral and indecent activities an underage drinking." But nowhere did he rebut Mr Peh's presumption that binding breasts and cutting one's hair short were things that the State should act against. This is a serious failing on the part of our government. They shy away from standing on principle and saying, hey look, our citizens have rights and liberties, and it is the constitutional duty of the government to protect them.
The Minister of State should have said categorically that binding breasts, cross-dressing and sitting on others' laps are not at all against the law, and that it would be oppressive of any government in today's Singapore, to try to make them so, or worse, to take action against such personal decisions without sanction of law.
So, the Minister's reply was at its core, hollow. It did not express clearly the obligation of the government to act lawfully and constitutionally, and it did not hew to any sound principle of fair and liberal governance. It did not rebut the attempt by the MP to push it into trampling on our freedoms.
More sadly, the Minister of State gave examples of how the Ministry has acted recently, against the foam parties [1], and against a venue that held a transvestite show. The minister's examples went along the same grain as the MP's "question", in trying to show that the ministry does indeed act against "immorality" in a rather heavy-handed way.
Its lever of control is the "licence" and its conditions. As one can see from the reply, the licence conditions govern the entertainment provided, the opening hours and other aspects. Businessmen have long complained about silly conditions that ban entertainers from mixing with the audience (so audience participation is largely ruled out), and until recently, how at pop concerts, the audience must SIT DOWN.
This is a very petty way of governing. The police attach conditions as they see fit, and there is very little a businessman can do to change them. If the police say you have violated the conditions, and wish to penalise you for it (e.g. insisting you close at 1 a.m.), you have very little recourse. For a "business-friendly" country like Singapore, this is intolerable interference. If the problem is one of customers getting rowdy, then deal with the rowdy guests. What has earlier closing hours got to do with it?
More alarmingly, as the Minister pointed out, one of the violations of the licence would be "immoral activities" -- a broad term which can mean anything, and therefore can be abused by the authorities to mean anything.
In his reply, the Minister cited the example of the transvestite show which was found to have violated licence conditions, but gave no details why cross-dressing would be a violation [2]. He gave another example of how through the threat of licence action -- in other words, intimidation -- the foam parties have been "toned down".
Frankly, there was nothing wrong with the foam parties. The customers were enjoying themselves. They chose to come. They chose to participate. So what if it was slightly lewd to outside eyes? Outside eyes didn't have to look. The customers either didn't think it was lewd, or else, they wanted it to be lewd. It was fun to be lewd. What business is it of the State to say its citizens cannot make personal decisions to be lewd?
The Minister's reply and examples were, in the final analysis, frothy asides that, instead of rebutting the illiberal demands of Mr Peh, only buttressed the commonly-held view that what we have is an instinctively intrusive government.
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It is not that our ministers are incapable of rigorous replies, arguing for principle and rebutting questions, but in this instance, we have to bear in mind that Mr Peh was an MP from the ruling People's Action Party ("PAP"). No minister can afford to be seen to demolish the views of his own backbencher. So the reply must be crafted in such a way as to agree, more or less, with the MP's "question".
This happens all too often, since 81 of the 83 elected MPs in Parliament belong to the PAP. Parliamentary debate suffers when so many are trying to be gentle with each other, nobody cutting to the issue. MP offers foamy question. Minister offers foamy reply. Nobody defends the principle of civil liberties for our citizens. Everybody in Parliament is happy.
But this does not mean that people are convinced or happy. Take the foam parties episode of last year (I think it was August). The New Paper and the Straits Times interviewed a number of people for their views. It was far from unanimous that the government should interfere with the events. Lots of Singaporeans felt it was a private matter, and that it was heavyhanded of the government to shut them down.
The government's reiteration of its illiberal position may have pleased backbenchers like Mr Peh, but it risks alienating a whole generation of Singaporeans, to its future electoral peril.
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/// TV Nets Sue Dish Over Auto Hop
You could see the lawsuits coming the second Dish Network announced Auto Hop, a feature that allows viewers to skip commercials entirely when they play a program back on their DVRs. Fox Broadcasting Co., CBS and NBCUniversal filed separate suits today against the satellite TV service, alleging that Dish violated copyrights and breached retransmission consent agreements. The TV network suits were filed in the U.S. District Court for the central district of California. In response, Dish counter sued ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC in the U.S. District Court for the southern district of New York, asking for a declaratory judgment that Auto Hop does not infringe on copyrights and is in agreement with its carriage contracts. The networks are seeking injunctive relief and compensatory and statutory damages. "We were given no choice but to file suit against one of our largest distributors, Dish Network, because of their surprising move to market a product with the clear goal of violating copyrights and destroying the fundamental underpinnings of the broadcast television ecosystem. Their wrongheaded decision requires us to take swift action in order to aggressively defent the future of free, over-the-air television," Fox said in a statement. Fox claims its carriage agreement with Dish does not allow Fox to retransmit in real-time Fox broadcast programming, nor does it allow Dish without a license to make its own copy of programming and distribute a commercial-free version. CBS is making similar claims. "This service takes existing network content and modifies it in a manner that is unauthorized and illegal. We believe this is a clear violation of copyright law and we intend to stop it," CBS said in a statement. "Dish simply does not have the authority to tamper with the ads from broadcast replays on a wholesale basis for its economic and commerical advantage," added NBCUniversal in a statement.
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James Milton Teague was born Feb. 24, 1925 in Manchaca, Texas. The son of Calvin and Octavia Ward Teague, he grew up in Manchaca and attended school and church in Westfield where he was baptized at St. Matthews Lutheran Church. James worked as a dairy hand with his father until he joined the United States Navy. On Oct. 15, 1954, he was honorably discharged after serving for many years, having attained the rank of Gunner's Mate, Third Class. James lived in numerous places before moving to Hempstead where he was employed at Hawkins' Exxon Station. He has made his home in Bellville since the early 1980s where he worked as a meter reader for the Austin County Water District until his health forced him into retirement. He was a life member of the Bellville VFW Post 6522 and a member of Bellville American legion Post 115. He passed away Saturday, Feb. 5, 2005 in Bellville at the age of 79. Survivors include his daughter Beverly Wienecke and her husband Floyd of Bellville; step sons Olen Taylor of Brenham and Bill Wunderlich of Magnolia; 2 grandchildren Donald Paulson Jr. of Bellville and Kimberly Meed of Missouri; 2 great grandchildren, Krystal and Justin Meed, also of Missouri; sisters, Mary Hagan of Yoakum and Betty Jalufka of Kennedy; brothers, David Teague of Bandera, Joe Teague of Oak Hurst and Marshall Teague of Conroe; and numerous nieces, nephews, other relatives and many friends. He was preceded in death by his parents, 2 sisters, 5 brothers and his step daughter Kathy Cummings. Graveside service was held at 2 p.m. Monday, Feb. 7, 2005 at the Pilgrims Rest Cemetery in Bellville with the Rev. Larry Welsh officiating. Honorary pallbearers were members of the Bellville American Legion Post 115 and Bellville VFW Post 6522. In lieu of usual remembrances, friends who wish may make memorial gifts to the Austin County Unit of the American Cancer Society, the Bellville American Legion Post 115 or the Bellville VFW Post 6522. Funeral arrangements were under the direction of the Schmidt Funeral Home in Bellville.
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After having been accused, and in some instances charged, for disregarding the privacy of its users, Google and Facebook are now showing signs of having changed their attitude and policies on this matter. Along with eBay, Dailymotion, Yahoo et al, all gathered under an organization entitled ASIC. The ASIC will file a complaint against the French State Council and its ruling on preserving connection data of users for 12 months and hand it over to French authorities if requested as part of an investigation.
According to the decree, connection data includes full names, associated postal address, pseudonyms, associated email addresses, telephone number, passwords and data used to check or modify them. Benoit Tabaka, the head of ASIC, not only considers the decree issued in March to disregard the users' privacy, but considers the involvement of the European Commission as imperative since ASIC members have businesses established in several European countries. Tabaka also states that it is impossible for companies to comply with the regulation as at the moment these companies do not store the passwords in full.
Funnily, it was France pointing at Google and fining it for collecting unauthorized Wi-Fi data via Google Latitude, consisting of e-mail addresses, URLs and passwords. France is fishing in troubled waters, and for a different point of view we might as well take a look at the data security breach that the online marketing firm Epsilon faced. Epsilon, with a client portfolio including JPMorgan, Dell, Marriot, US Bank, Citi, Best Buy, MoneyGram, Verizon and many retailers, is undergoing a communication crisis as well as up to this moment has not offered any detailed information on the security threat.
Considering that at least 2% of Epsilon's customers have been affected by the security breach, the chances of phishing threats are significantly increasing as millions of email addresses have been leaked. Adding to this last week's security breach within EMC's security division, RSA, it is becoming harder and harder for security providers to promote their services.


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I had to wipe down my brush quite a bit so the white coat went on very lightly.
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Lisa, the display is beautiful, but you might want to double check the meaning of the words in your "Ikea" sentence. I'm pretty sure you didn't mean "pederast". :)ReplyDelete
Thanks Kara! I just edited the post again and found an embarrassing amount of typos! Hopefully I've found them all and corrected them.Delete
This looks great....what a neat idea!! Love the display and the wood background!ReplyDelete
Great idea Lisa! Love the look of your pedestal.
The pedestal came out great. Love the look you gave it. Have fun with the kiddo's home.
Your new pedestal turned out great! Isn't it great to finish projects. My boys are home today too - -25 wind chills - too cold to be outside for any length of time. I was so happy to not have to get up early :) I kinda like snow days too!ReplyDelete
What a great idea, it really looks great!ReplyDelete
It's funny that you have had the pedestal for so long. I can hardly remember why I bought some of the things I have. I love the pedestal you made and the paint finish you put on it. Useful for so many things - food, candles and your flowers. :)ReplyDelete
So clever! It does look like zinc! Hard to believe you are having icy weather, it is sweltering here, ice would be most welcome. Xx SharonReplyDelete
Great idea it looks great!ReplyDelete
That turned out great...looks like you bought it at a high end store.ReplyDelete
I love the way that turned out! It looks perfect.
It's beautiful and I love the lavender on top - one of my favorites to grow.ReplyDelete
Lisa that turned out great...love it!!ReplyDelete
It's beautiful Lisa and I actually think it looks so pretty the way that you have it with the bunched lavender! It will be great to have for displaying food at parties too!ReplyDelete
Lisa, I love how this turned out! And I think it looks great with the lavender bundle :)
Super cute. Great project.ReplyDelete
Hi Lisa! I love your pedestal! It does look kinda like zinc. Very nice...I'm sure you will find many uses for it. Thanks for sharing your tutorial with us. I saw your post over at "Wow Us Wednesday" blog party.ReplyDelete
Amazing as always!ReplyDelete
I love this project.
I just bought a mini cloche and I think I need to make a pedestal like yours for my cloche.
i love it!ReplyDelete
What a good idea! That turned out great, Lisa. Maybe you could use it for candles? :)ReplyDelete
Wow that's so pretty. Looks like an old zinc piece.ReplyDelete


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Agile Principle 1: Active User Involvement Is Imperative
In my mind, active user involvement is the first principle of agile development.
It's not always possible to have users directly involved in development projects, particularly if the agile development project is to build a product where the real end users will be external customers or consumers.
In this event it is imperative to have a senior and experienced user representative involved throughout.
Not convinced? Here's 16 reasons why!
- Requirements are clearly communicated and understood (at a high level) at the outset
- Requirements are prioritised appropriately based on the needs of the user and market
- Requirements can be clarified on a daily basis with the entire project team, rather than resorting to lengthy documents that aren't read or are misunderstood
- Emerging requirements can be factored into the development schedule as appropriate with the impact and trade-off decisions clearly understood
- The right product is delivered
- As iterations of the product are delivered, that the product meets user expectations
- The product is more intuitive and easy to use
- The user/business is seen to be interested in the development on a daily basis
- The user/business sees the commitment of the team
- Developers are accountable, sharing progress openly with the user/business every day
- There is complete transparency as there is nothing to hide
- The user/business shares responsibility for issues arising in development; it's not a customer-supplier relationship but a joint team effort
- Timely decisions can be made, about features, priorities, issues, and when the product is ready
- Responsibility is shared; the team is responsible together for delivery of the product
- Individuals are accountable, reporting for themselves in daily updates that involve the user/business
- When the going gets tough, the whole team – business and technical – work together!
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10 Responses to "Agile Principle 1: Active User Involvement Is Imperative"
There should be no 'users' in agile. The results of agile should be so pervasive to an individual's needs that the product is an appendage to their needs. When was the last time you read a 'user guide' or specified 'user requirements' for your arm or leg?
On a slightly different note, involvement of any individuals is simply part of a full series of activities involved in "Design Research". The artifacts of Design Research are the elements used to support "Evidence-Based Design".
I don't agree with this comment. Although scrum team is a *team* and the project goals are *team goals*, there must be a "user" role in the team. Although everyone should care about the user, someone must have specific knowledge and understanding of the user's needs, because a software product with no users has no value.
I also disagree. There are no requirements for an arm or a leg, because you just get one. You don't have a choice, you just get one (if you're lucky).
How can you design something that is "Pervasive to an individual's needs" if you don't have a "user" to design for?
Since there are always several ways to implement how a user interacts with an IT system, you shouldn't count on the designer to choose the right way. You must ask a user (and better yet, ask many users).
The real issue is active stakeholder participation, not just active user involvement. A few thoughts:
1. Users are just one of many stakeholders, important ones obviously, but not your only ones. If you ignore other stakeholders you put your project at risk.
2. Participation is better than simple involvement. If you don't find ways to enable them to actively participate you put your project at risk. Not only should stakeholders provide information and make decisions in a timely manner, they should also actively participate in the modeling effort themselves. You can do this by adopting inclusive modeling tools such as whiteboards and paper.
In Agile Modeling we made this very clear and included an explicit practice, Active Stakeholder Participation. There's a detailed article on this at http://www.agilemodeling.com/essays
There's also a detailed article on inclusive modeling at http://www.agilemodeling.com/essays
/inclusiveModels.htm . Enjoy!
– Scott
Another 'disagree' vote…although there is a sense in which removing the traditional concept of 'user' as a 'them', as opposed to 'us', is useful.
Actually, I'd love to have a user guide for my arms and legs. Unfortunately there's no-one qualified to write it. I have to make do with user guides for less customised versions of my arms and legs: health articles on the internet, medical encyclopaedias etc…and if I get in real trouble I have to go see a developer (sorry, 'doctor') — unfortunately I didn't negotiate the contract properly, so I often have to wait for weeks for an appointment…
I think Paula was not talking about agile development method, but more about the philosophy behind it. That the end product should be so intuitive to use for the user, that he does not feel like a user, but is just doing what he does.
If i understand her correctly, i'm sure that she agrees that this requires a very deep understanding of the user.
I don't think tho, that agile has failed if this is not reached. Agile has worked, if the end-user is happy with the product, even if it comes with a manual.
It is also mandatory that this user representative is part of the team, and not a taskmaster we are all serving. Presumed functionality preconceived in complete detail are not needs.
It is not uncommon for this supposed team member to sneak off and plan out detailed task-lists for months in the future, and then try to shape the present development around these visions of the future, rather than around identifiable needs that can be completely nailed down.
Agile folks focus on not identifying our user as alien and disconnected, but we also need to sell the idea that we are not a 'them' to the rest if the institution. We need to continually be clear that a team is a team, and a player who wishes to be the referee is unwelcome.
I have read several articles that advocate that the 'Agile' Team would be required to be co-located, but surely with modern technology etc and the fact IT suppliers are not always in-house that this is not a pre-requisite?
Steve, it is not always necessary to have the team co-located. There is some research about distributed Agile teams here http://www.projectsatwork.com/content/White-Papers/272852.cfm (which in the interests of disclosure I should say I helped put together). In short, it says that while it is always better to have the team co-located if you can, with today's teams stretching over different countries and time zones, you can make Agile work if you are not all based in the same location.
Wow that was odd. I just wrote an incredibly long comment but
after I clicked submit my comment didn't appear.
Grrrr… well I'm not writing all that over again.
Anyhow, just wanted to say excellent blog!


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On this episode of Herding Code, the guys talk to Jeff Atwood about the intersection of video games and learning, along the way discussing music, learning to program, casual games, bleeding edge games about bleeding (Battlefield 3), Kinect, Wii, and retro games.
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Harassed ... Mix's breakfast co-host Sammy Power.
Presenters can be vulnerable targets for stalkers.
Sammy Power, co-host of the Mix breakfast show, has spent the past six months dealing with a stalker. It started with letters, then phone calls and flowers, and later even cheques to pay her bills (politely returned). Then he began waiting outside the radio station in his truck at 4.30am as she arrived for work.
The problem escalated midyear when the man shifted his attention to a secretary at the station.
In a strange twist, he tried to take Power to court claiming she was harassing him and trying to block his relationship with the secretary. Both women have successfully obtained court orders preventing the man from making contact for two years.
"I think most people on radio have a story [of this kind] to tell, but it's something we don't like to talk about," Power says. "It sounds as if we're big-noting and there's also concern it might encourage others. We joke about it, but it's a very scary thing."
It's no surprise that radio presenters are among the most vulnerable when it comes to stalkers. It's such an intimate medium - a lifeline for the lonely and disturbed that can turn to obsession. The most publicised case involved Helen Razer, who left Triple J in 1998 after a deluded fan became convinced she was his wife and managed to get into the studio.
Many other incidents are kept private. Malcolm Lees has never forgotten heading into Triple J with Vic Davies early one Saturday morning during their Club Veg days. A listener greeted them outside and suddenly pushed a paper bag into Lees's back, telling him to "keep walking". After a few heart-stopping moments the man pulled a banana out of the bag and burst out laughing.
Lees had a more lasting problem later at a commercial station when a woman began writing 20-page letters to him almost daily, convinced he was Elvis Presley reincarnated. One night she approached him at a nightclub and later carved crosses on his car door. "It went on for three or four years and I remember thinking this is never going to go away and I'm powerless, I'm trapped."
Cath O'Connor, former Austereo executive, now at DMG, remembers a scare at Triple M involving then breakfast host Andrew Denton. Police informed the station that a man obsessed with Denton had escaped from a psychiatric institution. Extra security was hired and the guards were issued with photographs of the absconder, but
he didn't appear. "The police are usually disinclined to act unless a direct threat is made, so it's up to each radio station to take their own precautions," O'Connor says. "Most stations have security checks at the door and emergency buttons in the reception area."
Power says she feels sorry for the man who stalked her, but felt she was forced to contact the police out of concern for her safety. "It takes the wind out of your sails. You've got to go on air each morning and be funny, and I'd be thinking, 'Is he listening now? Should I say this, or will he take it the wrong way.' "
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