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I took my son to the doctors on wednesday for a very nasty nappy rash, she had a look and gave us a cream to us (Hydrozole) 3 times a day. On the visit he had the nappy rash over his testicles, and half on his penis.
i didnt get the cream till thursday which we have been using now for the last 16 hours.
But my question is: The tip of his penis is inflamed and red and when i go to touch around his penis he tries so hard to get away from me. I need to know what is happening and what i should do?
I had to google hydrozole, since we don't have it in the US under that name.
It seems to be a basic all purpose anti-fungal (looks similar to monistat which is available in the US.) So it sounds like your Dr suspects a fungal infection. This seems a good first course of treatment, but if it doesn't work go back for a culture. When treating a minor infection on the genitals it's always good to treat for fungal first.
If putting it on him is too much of a struggle, try putting it on while he is sleeping. You could also put some on a tissue and put the tissue inside his diaper when you change him, the cream will rub off the tissue on to his penis and testicles when he moves around.
Also, make sure he gets some naked time to let things air and dry out.
If you use cloth diapers, they will need to be sanitized.
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I agree to let things air out. Also, when my son had a similar problem, I put a drop of my breast milk on the tip at each diaper change. Momma's milk is so powerful. Good luck.
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Straight from the file marked Operation Baldrick, it was a cunning plan to slay the Aussies in their own back yard.
England's Ashes tour included three quick bowlers from the land of the giants - Steve Finn, Chris Tremlett and Boyd Rankin - and the Splice Boys were going to hit the splice with their extra bounce, making Michael Clarke's top order hop around like pneumatic teenagers at a hip-hop rave.
It was a plan so cunning that the Aussies would look back and admit they never saw it coming.
Well, the Australian batsmen never saw Finn coming, that's for sure - and nor did anyone else. England kept him hidden in the pavilion .
Tremlett played in the first Ashes Test before anyone among England's platoon of coaches seemed to notice his pace had dropped from mean and moody on the 2010-11 tour to military fast-medium on this ill-starred trip.
And Rankin, desperately short of match practice and rhythm, was called up for the three-day peep show in Sydney, where he suffered an attack of nerves and cramp on his Test debut.
Although Rankin's baptism was by no means a total write-off, it is unlikely we will see Tremlett play another Test... and it's anyone's guess what happens to Finn next.
Ten months ago, the Middlesex totem was peppering New Zealand batsmen at 90mph-plus with the white ball and looking every inch England's next leader of the pack.
The Watford Wall even chipped in with a five-hour shift as nightwatchman to help save a Test in Dunedin, earning cases of wine from skipper Alastair Cook and opening bowler Jimmy Anderson as private incentives for surviving each session.
But what has happened to Finn in the last six months lodges another question mark against Andy Flower's coaching regime.
In last summer's Ashes, when England were flattered by their 3-0 winning margin, Finn took the new ball with Anderson in the dramatic opening Test at Trent Bridge.
After England's slipshod subsidence to 215 all out, it was Finn who returned fire with two wickets in two balls before, it must be said, excitement got the better of him when No.11 Ashton Agar's incredible 98 gave the Aussies an unlikely first-innings lead.
Finn should still have played in the next game at Lord's, his home ground, where he has taken 29 wickets in five Tests at 20.65 each - but England knew better, omitting him to accommodate Tim Bresnan.
Finn has not played a Test since then, and the confidence he harnessed so effectively in limited-overs cricket against New Zealand last winter has evaporated to the point where he has been sent home , as excess baggage, from Australia.
Thanks for coming, Steve. We only lost 5-0 in the Ashes and got trollied in the first one-dayer, but off you go, there's a good chap.
Throughout the tour, the feedback on Finn's form has been lukewarm - but he did not deserve to spend three months as one of the world's tallest drinks waiters only to be told to pack his bags.
And Finn's unravelling form adds yet another uncomfortable question to the slate when Flower is called to account for the great shambles Down Under.
Team director Flower has had an undistinguished winter, and he has already tried to call the shots on what happens next to his only box-office batsman, Kevin Pietersen, when the Ashes favourites have just been marmalised 5-0. Right now, he has no right to call the shots on a game of darts.
But in the official post-mortem, Flower might also care to explain what happened to that cunning plan - the one where England were going to bombard the Aussies into submission with pace and steep bounce.
Tremlett turned out to be innocuous, Rankin was thrown in the deep end when everyone else was already out of their depth and the strange case of Steve Finn is hardly a ringing endorsement of England's management.
It's one thing tinkering with a fine prospect's run-up and approach to the crease so he doesn't knock the bails off with a wayward knee in delivery stride.
It's quite another for a fast bowler to board the plane for Australia with high hopes - and to fly home with a speeded-up version of the yips.
Once again, Operation Baldrick has been as successful as Captain Blackadder's company going over the top in the trenches.

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Every moment, we face a thousand seemingly inconsequential choices that can have the most profound impact on our lives and those around us. In "Frequency," a fireman gets a message from his son, 30 years in the future, to turn the other way when he is trying to escape an upcoming fire. That night, in 1969, when the father takes another exit from a burning warehouse, we see the policeman in the present as his mind fills up with 20 more years of memories of life with his dad.
As the movie begins, John (James Caviezel), the policeman, is deeply sad in a way that isolates him even from his wife, and we see that this relates to the loss of his father. When he is able to talk to Frank (Dennis Quaid) over his old ham radio, his yearning for a way to express his feelings is truly touching, as is his joy in having had his father alive for 20 more years. But in changing history, John and Frank have set into motion a chain of events that will result in an even deeper tragedy. John finds himself even more bitter and devastated, because his father's survival left his mother in a location that led to her being the victim of a serial killer.
The story turns into a tense mystery-thriller as the policeman and the fireman, thirty years apart, try to find the killer before he can find John's mother (Elizabeth Mitchell). As every event in 1969 has ripple effects into 1999, only John can remember all of the parallel strands. Old newspaper clippings change before his eyes and events from 30 years before change the way he sees the world in the present. When his father was killed in a fire, he was so hard to live with that his wife left him. When his father survived but his mother was murdered, he was so unable to open himself up to another person that he never married. Like George Bailey in "It's a Wonderful Life," John gets to see how one person can make all the difference.
Caviezel perfectly conveys John's sense of loss and his integrity, subtly showing us how each set of experiences affected his behavior and his life in a different way. His talks with Frank are very moving. Quaid has his best role since "The Big Easy," and gets a chance to let us see his enormous charm in the character's devotion to his family and his job. Mitchell is lovely, warm, and, in a scene with André Braugher as Frank's policeman friend, as strong and determined as her husband and son.
It does get pretty confusing. This is one of those movies where the audience walks out saying things like, "Wait a minute! You mean when the guy came down the stairs it meant….?" "How did that other guy get there?" But it is good enough that like "The Sixth Sense," it may attract a lot of second-time viewers just to straighten it all out. Warning, though: it has some of the worst old-age make-up ever.
Parents should know that there are some very tense scenes, with characters in peril, and that there are some grisly shots of dead bodies. A character drinks to anesthetize sorrow. There is a lot of smoking, though the movie makes it clear that smoking leads to lung cancer.
Families who watch this movie should talk about the interconnectedness of everything we do – and don't do. Talk about the way that John and Frank made their talks about baseball into a way for them to feel close to one another. Watching this movie can be a good opportunity to talk about how we tend to take precious family connections for granted until they are gone, and to ask family members what they would say or ask if they had a chance to talk to someone close to them who has died. It can also be a good opportunity to remind us to say those things now, while we can.
Families who enjoy this movie will also enjoy another drama in which a father and son reach out to each other across the time-space continuum, "Field of Dreams."


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her at a premium to what she had been making at Salomon.
Its like when baseball players get traded,
says Zelman, who moved up one notch in the ranking that year,
narrowly losing to Dwyer (she also got married that year and
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There are a lot of great sporting events that are going on this weekend. La Monte High School is ready and waiting for the Wentworth Dragons, and it should be a great game! The Board of Education is is hosting their annual soup/chili supper on Friday, Jan. 10. to warm you up and keep you in great spirits to cheer on the Vikings.


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The term application posture characterizes the nature of a software application's interaction with its user.
The term was coined by software design visionary Alan Cooper, who characterized four 'postures' for applications: sovereign, transient, daemonic and parasitic.
- A sovereign application is a program that monopolizes the user's attention for long periods of time.
- Cooper defined transient applications thus: 'A transient posture program comes and goes, presenting a single, high-relief function with a tightly restricted set of accompanying controls. The program is called when needed, it appears and performs its job, then it quickly leaves, letting the user continue her more normal activity, usually a sovereign application.'
- Daemonic applications are background processes that require no direct user interaction.
- Parasitic or Auxiliary applications are similar to transient applications in providing a limited, focused set of functionality and occupy a small space, but they are shown persistently and can be used for a long period of time.
See also[edit]
- About Face by Cooper, Alan, Reimann, Robert & Cronin, David ISBN 978-0-470-08411-3, 2007
- Ernest Kinsolving & Jörg Beringer. "The Posture of Portals". sapdesignguild.org.
- O Moravcik, D Petrik, T Skripcak, P Schreiber. "Elements of the Modern Application Software Development" (PDF).


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Well, I just got off the phone with you guys, checked for the blog and it is awesome. The scenery, the mountains is just beautiful ! we had a nice day yesterday, we all went to Carey & Joe's for the block party, Dad made it to 9:00P.M. then he came home but I stayed the extra hour for the fireworks. Today we are cooking out down Uncle Sal's, it will be just us, then Aunt Kathy & Art will go to Aunt Ginny's for the fireworks. I hope you are all safe today, love you all.
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After getting back to the marina, we decided to head out for our horseback riding adventure. It was in a very remote spot, 7 miles down a gravel road but worth the drive
I was behind Robbie on Red Bird. He was a nice horse but liked to eat on the go. He also did not prefer to walk in the deep water or muddy spots, instead making his way around them but never veering far off the trail. He was amazingly sure footed. It always amazes me when I go on trail rides how the horses seem to know just where to place their feet without stumbling. The horse was rather tall and Cara told me I looked like a midget on it.
Cara did not want to join us at first but then succumbed to the pressure. She was placed on Casper, a nice horse who just followed along behind me, stopping and going whenever I did. She ended up having a great time and made it across the streams with getting minimally wet.
Big Rob was placed on Big John, another apt pairing. Big John was just that very big! Rob did well handling the horse and encouraging Jenna along. We did a number of stream crossings and Big John had no problem at all. Rob took most of the pictures along the way. About 2/3 of the way through he handed the camera off to me to get some shots of him. It is pretty difficult taking pics while balancing on a horse I'll tell you. Rob and Jenna took turns bringing up the rear.
Jenna was the last on to be assigned a horse, OLD SATAN. Can you believe it? I thought she'd have a heart attack right there after hearing the name but thankfully did not know what Satan meant.Old Satan was old I guess. He took his time and didn't want to keep up with the group unless Big Rob and Big John were behind him. Jenna looked terrified at the first stream crossing and Old Satan didn't seem to want to go either. We all encouraged both of them and they finally made it across. Jenna stayed in font of Rob for a while and started to get more comfortable. Until the last river crossing when again Satan wouldn't go into the water. He stood in the deep part for a while so Jenna's feet got soaked. She toughed it out and didn't shed any tears until the last 5 minutes
After this we headed back to camp for some down time. I relaxed with a book, the girls worked on postcards and their journals and Rob and Robbie went fishing. I dozed off and was awoken about 30 minutes later by the girls yelling for me to look at Robbie. I asked if he caught a big fish and the response was yes, himself! Apparently, he fell into the icy cold lake twice! The water is 45 degrees! He was cold and wet but laughing a bit. I got him warmed up and he too took a nap( that never happens!)
We had dinner and headed out for an evening at the rodeo. I wasn't sure what to expect but had a good time. There were little kids mutton busting. They were about 5-7 years old riding sheep. It was too funny. There was some bull riding and barrel racing. All of the animals looked healthy so I was relieved about that. Robbie went down into the arena for the calf scramble. This is when all the kids are invited to try to get a ribbon off the tail of a calf. It was pretty funny. I don't think he knew what he was doing but he ran around with the crowd and had fun.
On the way home we spotted some fireworks in the distance so we stopped and watched for a while. All in all a very good day. Going on a float trip tomorrow with Jenna and Robbie while Rob and Cara hit the white water. Not me I'm too chicken especially after hearing about how Jill was thrown from her boat on her white water trip!
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Who walked you down the aisle?
I know the tradition is generally that your father walks you down the aisle on your wedding day to give you away. But for some of us, for whatever reason this is not possible. For me personally my dad passed away late last year and just the thought of walking down the aisle without him makes me tear up. I know there are so many other people that are close to me that could and would love to do it but it breaks my heart.
So my question.... Who walked you dont the aisle? Or did you go it alone?


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It is amazing how fast U.S. energy production has gained traction in our imaginations. One minute, the country is talking up a need to move toward energy independence; the next, it is on the verge of becoming the world's largest oil producer, according to the International Energy Agency.
James Hamilton at Econbrowser highlights the transition this way: Just eight months ago, the U.S. Energy Information Administration estimated that crude oil production from "tight formations" (accessed through fracking) would total 2.3 million barrels a day in 2013; now the EIA is estimating production of 3.5 million barrels a day this year.


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I was remembering that great thread about the best razors / shaving equipment from lo these many moons ago, and thought perhaps you guys could help me out, in a similar vein.
So, I have this boyfriend, who's a geek. (Software engineer, actually.)
He recently quit his job to go back to school. In a sort of celebratory, sort of slovenly mood, he stopped shaving.
Three weeks later or so, he's faced with more serious stubble than he's ever dealt with, and he honestly has no idea how to go about removing it. He uses an electric razor, and it is useless if he's let it go more than a couple of days.
So, does anyone have any tips for me to tell him? He's thinking of just going to a barber, but do barbers deal with that kind of thing anymore?
Please, I would really appreciate any advice, because he's really dreading having to cope with this, and he's going to have to get rid of it soonish because he's in a wedding and the mother of the groom would murder him if he showed up looking like a dirty hippie. ;)
(There's sort of a shortage of men around to ask, and the women here have no idea, which is why I'm resorting to the collective wisdom of Foo...)
Anyhow, thanks in advance, and I've missed y'all. :)
Say I have a beard I don't want anymore...
Unless he plans on repeating the several-weeks-between-shaves routine there is no reason to buy anything. Look in the yellow pages under "barber" and call a couple. Most barbers still do shaves.
A real shave with hot towels/hot shave cream/old fashioned "cut-throat" razor/etc. is something he might get addicted to (expensive on a daily basis - like all addictions!) ... you might find it a very nice soft feel ... much closer shave than ever possible with an electric.
Hints for finding the right barber:
Absolutely MUST have the "barber-twirl" cylinder out front.
Lots of hunting mags in the waiting area. (Indicates the barber caters to a testosterone laden clientelle).
The floor should look like it's swept daily, but mopped monthly.
Plain white, or black and white checkered linoleum floor are good signs.
Overstuffed, old fashioned barber's chairs, upholstered in a dark burgundy or dark red.
The barber himself should look slightly grizzled, and over forty. An east-european accent is another good sign.
We're in Buffalo, NY, which has several sizable ethnic populations-- lots of little old Italian barbers. We should be able to find something.
I like the checklist. Now Dave's getting all nostalgic for George, the barber he went to when he was little-- had an AM radio the size of a love-seat, tuned to the only remaining AM music station... had hunting magazines, yeah, but also girlie magazines underneath 'em... He had a really big old blue barber's chair... One time Dave's dad asked for a wash & cut, and George took him in the back room and got out the hose and the galvanized tub.
A secondary question, then-- his electric razor, he says, is kinda goin' south. Now, not being a paid member of WebmasterWorld, I can't access the old thread about razors. This makes me sad. Any suggestions for good electric razors, to keep this from happening again? (Though, if he likes the straight-razor shave as much as you all seem to think he will, perhaps this may become a regular occurrence.)
If you don't want to pay up for a proper barber:
The first thing to remember is: Never attack it with a razor straight away.
Take a pair of clippers to it first and get it to a more managable lenght, then an electric razor and then a regular razor. Hot towel to the face before and in between each stage. [rant]Oh, and make sure he has a mach 3 turbo - 3 blades and the turbo makes it go faster... What's next? Mach 5 nitro?![/end of rant]
Alternatively - go to the barber... :-)
Y'know, that's what I said. I kinda like a hairy man, for a bit of a change. But he complains that he looks too much like kitschy pictures of jesus now (long blond hair and untrimmed blond beard), and it's just creeping him out.
Also, Mrs. P. would kill him if he showed up to Chris's wedding like that. She's also trying to convince him to cut off the ponytail. I would be sad if the ponytail were removed, however. We will see whose will is mightier in this matter. :) You'd think I'd have the final say, since I have to look at it every day, but you should never underestimate the might of a Catholic-grammar-school teacher.
Finding a barber is tricky, though. He's taken to approaching every guy he sees and asking him who cuts his hair. Answers received while "out" last night included : "my mom", "Supercuts", "Flowbie", "I shave it myself"... Obviously, that was not a well-groomed demographic. Hee hee.
Finding a barber is tricky, though.
The molehill is becoming a mountain before our eyes. Me thinks you need to take a walk, breath the fresh(?) summer air, and checkout one or more.
My barber is a lovely young woman - there is just that extra something about a womans breasts pressing up against your neck or side while she holds a razor at your throat! I tip well. Seems a good idea.
And I am sure he would look fabulous with a french braid. Just the fashion for a wedding. I mean, pony-tails are so ... well ... ordinary, don't you think?
Dragon Lady: if you like your boyfriend bearded, keep him bearded. Who is this woman whio tells her son's friends what to grow and what not to grow in the way of hair? It sounds like the 1950s back again.
Keep the beard. Trim it fairly short-ish for the wedding, and don't say anything to anyone....
Unfortunately, he disagrees. He says having a well-kept beard is more work than just shaving.
I guess it's his face, so... He's going to a barber tomorrow for one of those Disneyland-For-Your-Chin experiences. (Finally found a friend who actually has decent taste in personal grooming and could recommend one close by. Buffalo is, believe it or not, a big place. ;] )
After that I can start working on him again to just grow the darn beard...
Thanks for all the advice! :)


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According to Reuters, Mexico has begun marketing a new 100-year benchmark bond denominated in sterling. Yes, I had to read it twice too.
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According to Reuters, Mexico has begun marketing a new 100-year benchmark bond denominated in sterling. Yes, I had to read it twice too.
Do not charge your fellow man interest, whether on money or food or anything else that may earn interest.
This passage, and its paraphrase in Hamlet, comes to mind reading Bloomberg's account of the IMF's new thinking on sovereign loans. Perhaps one way to interpret the ancient text is as pointing out that debt – obligations that must be repaid on time – is inherently dangerous for both borrower and lender in that the former might not be able to pay promptly, and that can sometimes cause problems for the latter. Naively one might think that deferrable or bail-in'able instruments – like much bank debt these days – are better. Investors are compensated for deferral risk via the coupon, as well as plain default risk (which of course is now much lower as there would often be no need to default). Instead of railing against the IMF's thinking, as Bloomberg does, perhaps they could consider the stability benefits if all sovereign debt was deferrable?
The implementation date, as the Bond Vigilantes remind us, is 1st November, and boy is it having an impact on spreads:
Back in May last year, I wrote:
Greek CDS typically trade under Old R restructuring. That fact could be become rather important soon. In Old R trades there is no limit on the maturity of the deliverable obligation, and no tranching in the auction post credit event. That in turn means the cheapest to deliver option may be quite valuable – there may be quite a large spread between short and long-dated bond prices post restructuring. Thus going into the event you can expect the CDS spread/bond spread relationship to be interesting. Everyone who entered into negative basis trades on Greece knew all this, right?
People are now waking up to this. FT alphaville for instance says today:
…Old R trades won't have bucketed auctions even when the credit event in question is a restructuring.
So the question becomes whether anyone wrote CDS contracts with anything other than Old R trades on Greece. If there are MR or MMR trades there would have to be an auction with buckets.
Now, FT Alphaville didn't think anyone had MR or MMR trades on Greece. Or, if they did, we thought it would be a booking error that would be cleared up.
But then, we saw this in a note from JP Morgan on February 24th (emphasis ours):
A problem might arise with the CDS contracts that have Mod R or Mod Mod R clauses. Western European sovereign CDS generally use the clause "Old Restructuring" (Old R). Under Old R, there are no maturity limits on deliverables, hence for the majority of the Greek CDS contracts currently in place there will be a single auction with bonds up to 30y maturity deliverable without multiple maturity buckets. But there is a small portion of Greek CDS contracts with Modified Modified Restructuring clauses (Mod Mod R), which means that for these contracts there will be several auctions for multiple maturity buckets. For the settlement of these CDS contracts, there might be bond deliverability shortage for shorter maturity buckets up to 10 years, where only international law bonds will be deliverable, creating some room for a squeeze in the auction process. But again, the universe of these CDS contracts (Mod Mod R) is rather small.
Now, that's weird.
That was the first we'd ever heard of Greece CDS trades with MR or MMR. And we're still thinking that someone at some point made a mistake.
Not necessarily. Restructuring is just a convention. You can negotiate whatever you want. Maybe someone needs restructuring to get capital relief*. Maybe they are doing a basket and they want the same restructuring choice on all the names in the basket. Maybe they just ticked the wrong box. But once you have agreed to, say, MMR, changing it to Old R is going to cost something. Pretty soon we'll see if it was worth paying or not…
Now it is nearly the weekend, and I don't plan on spending it thinking about CDS, so let me leave you with one of the more interesting google hits on 'Old R'. Can anyone tell me what a single Oerlikon is and how it might help me in a bond auction?
*That, BTW, is why US corporates trade on XR – the FED does require restructuring as a credit event to give capital relief, while European regulators do. For extra amusement, read the letter from the insurers to ISDA over Xerox. It is in appendix one of this document, the choice sentence being 'The current definition of Restructuring is clearly not workable if it is susceptible to the misinterpretation, as it apparently is in the minds of certain market participants, that there has been a Credit Event with respect to Xerox.'
Try playing So, what would your plan for Greece be?; it's fun and insightful.
I got 52 the first time around, 5 the second. Interestingly reading the comments, those, 53, and 10 seem to be the most popular answers, with the full Argentina leading. My favourite comment though was the suggestion that the game should be called Dungeons and Draghi…
The last post, BTW, was no. 1,500. Thank you wordpress for your sterling service over one and a half thousand posts.
Now to substantive if not entirely serious matters. You see, I was musing given all the furore over Moody's placing us on negative outlook, shouldn't we really teach them not to mess with sovereigns? We have those men in Hereford who work for the government, so surely some gentle persuasion can be applied…
Seriously though, does anyone really feel comfortable with the power the agencies still have, despite their manifest failings? As Claire Hill puts it, the history of rating agency reform has not been inspiring. Perhaps it is time to have another go.
I am out of town so this will be brief, but there are a lot of good things around today:
All the other factors now driving the crisis speak against holding sovereign debt in banking books as well, increasingly. No?
They are of course right about that. But if the TB/BB boundary is flexible, in other words you can just move sovereign bonds that you had in the TB into the BB with no impact on strategy and a big saving on capital, why wouldn't you. A great question in this context is where is sovereign bond repo booked: TB or BB.
This picture is from Pictet (via the ever helpful FT alphaville):
Alphaville's question is, given this, was Union sensible? I think it clearly was; on a weighted average spread basis, the EZ countries are still doing better than they were prior to the Euro, and even if they weren't, those eight or nine years of low spreads were worth having (or at least they would have been if the money had been spent sensibly). In any event, what interests me more is why spreads were so low for so long. It seems to me that there are three (not necessarily mutually exclusive) possibilities:
I'm not sure where I come out on this yet…
Reports that Germany and France have begun talks to break up the eurozone amid fears that Italy will be too big to rescue
If this happens, it will make the aftermath of Lehman look like a day in the park. An utterly preventable disaster is now looking entirely possible. Truly our leaders have let us down.
Update. I strive not to be drawn into hysteria. As the economist says:
I hate to get this pessimistic about the situation. It feels panicky and overwrought. I can't believe that Europe would allow so damaging an outcome as a financial collapse and break-up to occur… the window within which something could be done to prevent it is closing, and fast. I hope to be proven astoundingly wrong in my assessment, but I'm struggling to see alternative outcomes.
These folks are not known for proclaiming the end of the world on a regular basis. Neither is Brad DeLong, and he says:
I have been complaining for some time now that Reinhart and Rogoff think that the time is always 1931 and that we are always Austria–that the great fiscal crisis is about to erupt and send us [i.e. the US] lurching down toward Great Depression II.A little historical perspective may be helpful. One of the first events in the Great Depression, and a major contributor to the loss of confidence, was the failure of Creditanstalt. This was a proto-investment bank, one of the largest in Austria; its collapse was unexpected – just like Lehman. So, um, yes Brad; it does look altogether too much like 1931 for comfort.
Well, right now guess what? The time is 1931, and we are Austria.
The Federal Reserve needs to buy up every single European bond owned by every single American financial institution for cash before the increase in eurorisk leads American finance to tighten credit again and send us down into the double dip.
The Federal Reserve Needs to do so now.
The forgive student debt movement seems to be gaining some traction. What I think is interesting about this – other than the fact that ex-students seem rather more deserving of forgiveness to me than sovereigns who have spent beyond their means – is the change in tone of the debate. Suddenly, partly thanks to the visibility of OWS, a lot seems possible. Now certainly history is littered with popular protest movements that came to nothing, but equally progressive change is unlikely without this kind of clamour. The autumn has signs of spring.
Update. I love the use of the term temporary autonomous zone for what is happening in Zuccotti Park. For more on that, including a lovely analogy from Slavoj Žižek (and a measure of utter nonsense), see here.
Mario Blejer, a former Bank of England adviser who took charge of Argentina's central bank after the 2001 default, has been reported on Bloomberg:
Greece should default, and default big,… Germany and France will have to bear the brunt of financing efforts to help Greece and other countries that default re-start their economies, he said.
For what it is worth, he has an interesting point. If default is inevitable, then get it out of the way, and then you can start to grow again. Clearly the lower recovery you give, the more debts are extinguished, and hence the better your chances of recovering. Sadly we have moved from 'if' to 'when' so my sense is that Blejer is right; an early default would actually allow us to move on from the Euro tragedy that is unfolding. (That's a German word, right, Eurotragik?)
Goodness, I like Charles' comment to my previous post more than the original. Let us indeed go with the Geuro (pronounced 'gyro'; it has got all the meaty countries in it) consisting of Austria, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Slovakia and Slovenia; and the Feuro (pronounced 'furo'; the countries in it are going to take a bath) for Belgium, France, Portugal and Spain. As Charles says, if Belgium splits, then Wallonia has the Feuro while Flanders goes with the Geuro.
I'm not entirely sure I buy the line about Italy having to be out, though; or at least (sorry Charles), I don't see the argument for excluding Italy as more persuasive than the one for excluding Spain. Indeed, the top half of Italy would perfectly naturally fit with the Geuro countries. It's the bottom half that causes the issues…
Buried in the recent Basel Committee FAQ on the market risk framework – basically a set of answers to questions banks have asked about how to interpret the rules – we find:
Should sovereign bonds be included in the IRC charge?
The definition of specific risk in paragraph 709(iii), first sentence, is quite generic. Consequently, it does not scope out any particular securities. When an acceptable IRC model identifies sovereign bonds as subject to migration and default risk, the capital charge should be determined accordingly. Even if certain sovereign bonds are subject to a risk weight of 0% under the standardised approach (cf. paragraph 710), they cannot be considered as free of default and migration risk. Therefore, sovereign risk should be included in the scope of the incremental risk capital charge. Sovereign bonds must therefore be included in the relevant model. A general partial use of the standardised approach for sovereign bonds, ie exclusion of positions subject to a risk weight of 0% under the standardised approach from IRC, will not be granted. Accordingly, they will attract a capital charge under the IRC, except where the output of the model happens not to imply a capital charge for these positions.
Now, to interpret this you need to know that the IRC or incremental risk charge is one of the new trading book capital charges imposed under the Basel 2.5 changes, and due to come into force on both sides of the Atlantic shortly. Most if not all large banks will have IRC models for their trading books. This 'interpretation' from Basel will therefore ensure that sovereign risk is properly capitalized in these banks' trading books. All this does of course is give the banks an even greater incentive to put such bonds in the banking book where they will be subject to the kinder disciplines of the IRB (where my guess is that some banks have the lowest permitted PD for sovereign exposures).
One question though – which idiot asked the Basel Committee to clarify this?
It is midsummer, there is no budget deal, the markets are quiet, and everyone is pig tired of dealing with crises. This could go badly. I'd say go to cash, but then the question is what currency – if a budget deal is done then the Swiss Franc will likely sell off fast, for instance; but if it isn't, it is a least a safe haven. Unless the Swiss intervene to prevent further appreciation. Now would be a good time for someone to come up with a genuinely uncorrelated asset…
Strauss-Kahn sex assault case 'close to collapse'. Score 1. (Deus Ex post here.)
French Finance Minister Lagarde chosen to lead IMF. Score 0. (Deus Ex post here.)
Greece Set to Get Aid Payment as Banks, Lawmakers Fall in Line on Crisis. Score 1. (Deus Ex post here.)
Total 2/3: pass but must try harder.
Much of the financial world seems to be waiting for a Greek default. I am still with Barclays; I don't think that it is happening, at least this year. OK, John Lipsky is a wildcard whose behaviour might turn the mildest of men into a conspiracy theorist, but this is still fundamentally about politics rather than economics. Krugman can huff and puff all he wants; self interest has rather little to do with this story.
Chrysia Freeland, meanwhile, reminds us of the positives of the European project amid the gloom: she asks what made the revolutions in Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic succeed and suggests that the answer is Europe and the promise of membership in the European Union. Quoting some lovely phrases of Wanda Rapaczynski's, Freeland describes the reforms that preceded membership in the European Union as a period of "sponsored transformation" and says "once the pressure of the beauty contest was off, the pace of reform slowed." At a moment when many are questioning the value and the durability of the European experiment, Rapaczynski's reminder of the positive power the European idea has had in the eastern half of the Continent is timely. Exactly right.
FT alphaville suggests that a consequence of the CFTC proposed rule whereby sovereigns (except the US, naturally) will have to post collateral to US swap dealers on OTC derivatives is that US swap dealers won't do many trades with sovereigns. They are of course right. The large European, Asian and Latin American debt management offices will not post collateral at the whim of the Americans – or anyone else.
Should they (and indeed the US government) be obliged to post? Well, it depends. If they had to, they would have to find the money from somewhere, and that would increase their levels of debt. On the other hand, one way CSAs, whereby the dealers have to post collateral to the sovereign but not vice versa, are a liquidity drain on the banking system.
The clinch argument for me, though, is CVA. Uncollateralised derivatives create a big CVA. (See here or here for a description of CVA and how it arises.) Basel 3 will require banks to hedge their CVA well or take capital against it. Critically this includes CVA from sovereign transactions. The way you hedge CVA is to buy CDS. Thus when you see a picture like these two from the Alphaville post:
What should ask yourself is 'how much of this increase in CDS trading is caused by CVA hedging?'
The prior post suggests that there is only $4-30 Billion net notional of CDS on even the biggest countries. My guess is that the major swap dealers need a good deal more liquidity than that to hedge their collective CVA position without moving the market.
The Basel 3 CVA rules, then, are a huge shot in the foot for governments. (A 50mm shell in the foot, maybe.) By forcing banks to hedge their sovereign CVA, they have increased the demand for sovereign CDS. That drives out spreads, which in turn increases borrowing costs for governments. The problem could be largely solved if sovereigns would agree to post collateral – but they won't.
This is data for the next post. It comprises the top twenty sovereigns by CDS net notional currently as reported to the DTCC.
|Notional (USD EQ)
… typically trade under Old R restructuring. That fact could be become rather important soon. In Old R trades there is no limit on the maturity of the deliverable obligation, and no tranching in the auction post credit event. That in turn means the cheapest to deliver option may be quite valuable – there may be quite a large spread between short and long-dated bond prices post restructuring. Thus going into the event you can expect the CDS spread/bond spread relationship to be interesting. Everyone who entered into negative basis trades on Greece knew all this, right?
Update. Here are a few more links: more on negative basis trades on Greece and Barcap's thoughts on how Greece will go (a soft restructuring which does not trigger CDS followed by a hard one a little while later that does).
Why rob a bank?
Because that is where the money is.
That's Sutton's law, and a lot of sense it makes too. So, if you are a sovereign without enough money, who do you go to? Someone with money.
This means that there are only a limited number of choices for solving the endebtedness problem in advanced nations. Your choices are one or more of:
The last won't work for ever; you can't keep increasing your borrowing as a percentage of GDP. Sovereign default or restructuring works, but it stops you from being able to borrow again for some time. Thus central bankers often think that you have to bear most of the burden internally. That makes it a pain allocation problem. Increase taxes; decrease services: these things are unpopular.
Reinhart and Sbrancia point out an interesting mechanism that allows governments to give some of the pain to bond holders without the stigma of a hard restructuring. From their abstract:
A subtle type of debt restructuring takes the form of "financial
repression." Financial repression includes directed lending to government by captive domestic audiences (such as pension funds), explicit or implicit caps on interest rates, regulation of cross-border capital movements, and (generally) a tighter connection between government and banks… Low nominal interest rates help reduce debt servicing costs while a high incidence of negative real interest rates liquidates or erodes the real value of government debt. Thus, financial repression is most successful in liquidating debts when accompanied by a steady dose of inflation.
Think of this as a subtle form of taxation. By providing negative real returns, governments can slowly take money from bond holders. Of course solving a government endebtedness problem this way also requires spending to grow less slowly than inflation, which is difficult. But it does provide a mechanism which many advanced nations will find attractive. The Bond Vigilantes don't think we are there yet. But I suspect that we will be in due course.


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By Tony Wagner Citizen Columnist
Dear Mr. Fitness:
My trainer has scheduled me for three days a week for workouts with weights -- each day emphasizing a different body part. Sometimes I don't have enough time for the full regimen in one day, so the next day I start the workout where I left off.
Is this as effective as the way I was originally taught?
-- Out of sequence
Dear Out of sequence:
The answer to your question is simple: No.
If your trainer set up your exercise program in a particular order there was a good reason for it. Without all of your particulars, let me cite one of the many possible scenarios.
You are utilizing a three-day-a-week split routine. Let's imagine for this routine you are doing the following: First day is chest, shoulders and triceps; second day is legs; third day is back and biceps.
In this particular scenario, the trainer wants you to work each body part just once a week. This would allow for a full week of rest between exercise bouts for that particular body part.
Now, if on your first day of your routine you manage to exercise only the chest, foregoing shoulders and triceps, you can get into a bind. This means on day two you must do the two body parts missed on day one, plus try to do the leg muscles as well.
This would obviously compromise the leg workout. In fact, it may cause you to push the leg workout into the third exercise day, not having the time or energy to do all of the body parts.
Now the third workout day is ruined, too. You would be trying to compress your leg routine in with the back and biceps routines, negating any benefit from the design of the routine set up by your trainer.
You would also have jeopardized your ability to recuperate properly from a well thought out exercise program. Attempting to finish up missed body parts on a scheduled day of rest is certainly not helpful.
Remember that the rest between workouts is just as essential as the exercise itself.
My suggestion when you realize that you do not have the time to do your full routine on a given workout day is to reduce the sets or exercises done on each body part. This will allow you to do the intended body parts in a timely manner. It will also have the benefit of creating more intensity in your workout.
Doing a somewhat reduced version of your exercise program is far superior than being "out of sequence." Keep the intensity level up and keep it short. You'll be fine.
-- Mr. Fitness
Tony Wagner aka Mr. Fitness, has more than 30 years of fitness and nutrition expertise. A certified personal fitness trainer and author, he has helped thousands of people get into and stay in shape. Contact him at: email@example.com, Facebook us, and stop by Bodyzone Fitness Center, 2740 N. Roosevelt Blvd., 305-292-2930.


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Meet Lauren Fairweather, the person who is going to help us see the future next month at our annual gala, Future Creativity. In previous years, we entered the worlds of surrealism and fashion. At this year's gala, we head towards the Future.
As manager of development events, Lauren plans over 80 events a year at PEM, including the museum's private exhibition openings, board meetings, and, of course, the annual gala. Lauren is an expert in Greater Boston area event planning, having come to PEM from the New England Aquarium, John F. Kennedy Library and Museum and the Boston Museum of Science.
Lauren answered a few questions about how she develops the gala, as well as what to expect on Nov. 9.
Q: How did you get into event planning?
A: I've always been interested in creative pursuits and even considered the arts as a career. During my college days, I worked part time as an Events Assistant at the New England Aquarium. I realized how much I loved the business; it combines my passion for being creative with my ultimate objective of working with people and bettering lives (if only for the time they are at our party). I experiment with visual art, such as sketching and sculpture, and come from a very artistic family, so it's in my blood.
Q: Your job is incredibly creative and detail oriented – how did you learn all the elements of event planning?
A: Event Planning is really best learned by experience. Working in the field over the past 10 years has given me a great foundation to pull from in terms of organization and details. I can find inspiration almost anywhere and keep notes of ideas that will strike me at any time, like a performance I see on the street, a dish I see in a restaurant or colors found in nature. Usually I find that the best ideas come when I'm in my off hours. As a guest you do not necessarily notice all the detail that goes into an event, but you know how you feel when you are there. And at our events my job is to make you feel something.
Q: Can you tell us more about what to expect at the upcoming gala, Future Creativity?
A: At the gala, we'll explore some unexpected ways to think about art, food and experience the creative process in real time.
Q: We've heard this gala is unlike any other PEM has had before. What will make this gala so memorable?
A: I am working on creating an immersive environment within the space with lighting and design elements, such as simulated moonlight, dancers on the walls and unusual lounge décor. We are also working with artistic-minded individuals to develop unique rooms based around their creative process. My hope is that our guests will be surprised by what they find!
Additionally, we are offering a cocktail-style format this year with dinner by the bite and creative experience rooms throughout the museum. This will allow our guests to explore and move throughout the night rather than sit for an extended period of time. They will have more time to dance and interact with each other than ever before and be entertained for the entire evening.
Q: The food is supposed to be a whole experience in itself . Can you tell us what to expect?
A: I am working with The Catered Affair on producing a custom menu for the evening. Each small plate offering will feature one surprising element and, when possible, we are using technology to prepare components of each dish.
There will be hints to the future and what that might look like in fine dining, including dishes called "rations," which foreshadow elegant, pre-prepared meals. For example a deconstructed peanut butter and jelly bubble — which is an interactive dessert.
Q: What are you most looking forward to at the gala?
A: Seeing our guests enjoy their evening and be surprised, excited and entertained! My favorite moment at an event is when it all comes together and we can see our guests truly enjoying themselves. Of course, the dancers scaling the walls of the Atrium will be very exciting to see, as well, and the cuisine!
To learn more about the 2013 PEM gala, Future Creativity, and to purchase tickets, go to our website.


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Im looking to convert a 4wheel drum non power assist brake system to a power assist front disc brake system on a 69 chevy 3/4 ton truck. Any ideas?
Get a 1/2 ton doner 73 -87. Change the hole crossmember they bolt right in except for a couple holes you can drill them out. you can use the power steering, master cylinder with boster, and the rear end.CPP,Brothers, or Early Classic Enterprisses has the spring perches the put the rear in.Get 1/2 ton springs for the rear. Make sure you use the front sway bar,you will wish you had if you don't.
i have a 1965 chevy 1 ton panel truck with drum brakes i am looking to convert to power disc and keep the 8 lug pattern any help would be appreciated
Disc brakes must be very popular topic on the forums, I would think Brothers Trucks or LMC Trucks would have a kit available.
i agree with your decision i did the same to my 69 gmc and i tell you what it was worth it, and i would agree with curtisfox... find a doner best choice
hi i am new here and i have a 1970 chevy 1/2 ton truck that i would like to change the front drum brakes to disk brakes what i like to knoe what year of front end will work. now i have a 1974 chevy truck 1/2 with the front end redone on it lastyear will that be a good doaner. 2 i would like to know how to convert the coil springs to leaf springs is this posable and i hope that thes questions are not dum
We have an 8-lug conversion kit that work on your truck. Come with everything minus the lines and booster.http://www.classicperform.com/Store/1960_1972_Chevy_Truck/6370SWBK8S.htmThe booster will run you 299.00http://www.classicperform.com/Store/1960_1972_Chevy_Truck/6772BBD.htm
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So i have the front discs all bolted up and on, and I will mount my booster and master cylinder tonight or tomorrow... My questions is what is the easiest way to plumb it? I would like to use most of the existing brake lines (never had a problem with them) but how do I separate them into two separate systems (front and back) can I plug the hole where it sends it to the back and then connect a new line there?
do you have a pre67 system? that is a single system instead of a dual system??/some people have done it that way... please be sure to find inverted flair plugs...NOT PIPE PLUGS...they are available in most parts stores if you know who to ask...you are probably still going to need to make lines from the new master to which ever version of the proportioning block/safety switch you have.. and from there to the front crossover block.. and a new line from the block to the line to the rear....the 3/16 inverted flair plugs are dorman part number 490-490490-490 in boxes of 10 behind the counter490-490.1 in poly bags containing 1. in the drawers behind the counter.the 1/4" inverted flair plug in poly bags dorman 490-491.1at autozone and some other parts stores that sell AGS brand.. az has both sometimesAGS/3/16 in. tube size 3/8 in. - 24 thread inverted flare domestic brass plug for 3/16 in. domestic ports Part Number: BLF-60-CAGS does not show a 1/4 inch inverted flair plug.. in their catalog.. Edelmann - Inverted Flared FittingSolid Plug - 3/16" Tube (3/8-24 Male Thread)Part # : 120300 Edelmann - Inverted Flared FittingSolid Plug - 1/4" Tube (7/16-24 Male Thread) Part # : 120400
I got my master cylinder and brake booster off of a 91 camaro. BAD IDEA! I had to go from metric bubble fittings to regular fittings, not to mention I ended up having to run all new lines to the front, due to the proportioning valve having two outlets for the front brakes (Left and Right) It the motor had been out this would have been no problem, but it was a pain making brake lines with the motor in place. Note to the wise Buy an older SAE master cylinder LOL
I nave a 1960 chevy apache im looking to put disc brakes on the front I guess im wondering if I can use rotors and calipers off a 1991 chevy 1/2 ton van I know I would have to the brackets for the calipers or if theres any other years and chevt models that will match up to it thanks
I have a 1960 chevy apache im looking to put disc brakes on the front im wondering if the rotors and calipers off a 1991 chevy 1/2 ton van would work I know I would have to get the brackets to mount the calipers to or what others years would work for donor thanks


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Hey guys, I'm a complete newbie to my 04 WRX and AWD cars in general. All of the manual tranny cars that I've driven have been real wheel drive cars, such as my RX-7. Those guys you just dump the clutch at whatever RPM you feel like and it just spins if you gave it too much gas. Oh, another thing, I've never owned a turbo either, I need to learn that part as well. My WRX is bone stock as well.
Here is what I've noticed so far:
If I dump the clutch at 3k RPMs, it just takes off slow.
If I ride the clutch a little at 3k RPMs, this seems to give the best results so far, but if I go any higher RPMs I can sometimes smell the clutch burn a little.
If I dump the clutch at anything higher than 3k RPMs it jerks really hard, and sometimes bucks. I think I need to avoid dumping the clutch period.
Thanks for your help guys, I really love this car and so far, even though I don't have a really good takeoff I've pulled everyone that messed with me.


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Jack "JK" Bailey, of Gulfport, Fla., died Sunday, June 30, 2013, on his 90th birthday, at Bay Pines VA Health Care System.
Born in Indianapolis, he moved to Florida from Noblesville, Ind., in 1993, where he retired as a partner with Warner Truck Body Co. He also worked for Indiana Bell Phone Co. for many years prior. JK was an Army veteran of WWII. He enjoyed tennis and was a member of So. Pasadena Yacht & Country Club.
Survivors include his wife of 20 years Estella; son Drake Kent Bailey of Marlinton, W.Va.; daughter Lee Bailey Sides of Roswell and two sisters, Bernice "Boots" Shake of Ogden, Ind., and Mildred "Mickey" Rowe of Indianapolis. He was preceded in death by his brother, Conrad Earl Bailey and sister, Ruth Louise Toole.
Interment will be held at Bay Pines National Cemetery, Bay Pines, Fla.
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This is a little old, but still strong brew: Katie Couric's TV commentary attacking the town-hall protesters for "disturbing attitudes and emotions," emitting the sound of "fear and frankly ignorance."
At a town meeting hosted by Senator Arlen Specter, a Pennsylvania resident stood up to say that the health care debate has "awakened the sleeping giant." Not exactly.
What's it's done, it seems, is stirred a hornets nest, and uncovered disturbing attitudes and emotions that have nothing to do with policy.
Are we really still debating health care when a man brings a handgun to a church where the President is speaking?
How does a swastika spray-painted on a Congressman's office further a discussion about Medicare?
These are tough and challenging times and lots of people are scared about their jobs and the economy. But we can't let fear and frankly ignorance -- drown out the serious debate that needs to take place -- about an issue that affects the lives of millions of people.
Can anyone tell the difference between a Couric commentary and a high school student newspaper editorial? A cheerleader could write this gunk with both pom-poms still in her hands.
She would never take one or two wild-eyed people at a left-wing protest and suggest the whole protest movement is full of "disturbing attitudes."


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100 Years of Indian Cinema: The first women directors
Fatma Begum is considered as the first woman director of Indian Cinema. She directed her first film in 1926.
New Delhi: The Indian film industry has seen the emergence of some critically and commercially appreciated female directors in last some years but the film business more or less remains dominated by their male counterparts. However, the scenario is bound to change as the indomitable spirit of female members of the film world is taking 'meaningful' strides in every direction.
Today, there are women who are well versed with the technique of filmmaking but there was a time when they were not imagined as something more than an actress, but then 'there is always a hero, in real life or in fiction,' in this case a heroine. Fatma Begum is widely considered as the first female film director of India, however this much is not sufficient as her introduction.
Born in an Urdu speaking family, Fatma Begum was related to Nawab Sidi Ibrahim Muhammad Yakut Khan III. She was the mother of Zubeida, Sultana and Shehzadi, who were popular actors of the silent era. She started working in films in 1922 after getting trained in plays. Fatma worked with filmmakers like Ardeshir Irani and Nanubhai Desai before founding her own production company Fatma Films which was later rechristened as Victoria-Fatma Films. 'Bulbule Paristan' that released in 1926, became the first Indian film to be directed by a female director. However, acting remained on her wish list and she continued to act till late 1930s.
Kommareddy Savitri (1935-81) honed her skills as a child artist in the Madras Presidency but she started fetching attraction after her association with NTR's theatre company. Later, Savitri started her own company Navabharata Natya Mandali.
Becoming a film heroine didn't come easily to her as she had to wait patiently before getting a good role. Savitri couldn't act in 'Agni Pariksha' (1949) despite being offered a role because she was just a 12-year-old teen then. She couldn't get anything better than a second lead role in LV Prasad's 'Pelli Chesi Choodu' (1952). But, here onwards she never looked back and acted in a number of Telugu, Tamil, Kannada and Hindi films.
She got married to one of the stalwarts of the Southern Cinema, Gemini Ganesan but kept it secret till she signed a commercial deal as 'Savitri Ganesan'. She gave several hit films with Gemini Ganesan as an actress but her directorial career took off with films such as 'Chinnari Papalu', 'Chiranjeevi' and 'Maathru Devatha' during 1968-69. She died at 46, but before that she had given female directors a launch pad to thrive on in three major South Indian languages.
Paluvayi Bhanumathi Ramakrishna (1925-2005) contributed in every department of filmmaking before making her presence felt behind the camera in Telugu and Tamil. Bhanumathi was associated with more than 200 films in her career but wielding the megaphone came her way in 1953 when she directed a tri-lingual film 'Chandirani' in Telugu, Tamil and Hindi. She continued to direct films till 1993 (Asathyaralu), and her prolific direction career was acknowledged when she received the Nandi Award in 1986. Bhanumathi emerged as an important filmmaker because of her aesthetic sense as she never got into double minds about experimentation. Many of her contemporaries praised Bhanumathi for her brave portrayal of female sexuality.
Arundhati Debi's (1925-90) personal life is no lesser than a celluloid drama. Though she was trained at Rabindranath Tagore's Vishwa Bharati University and had her roots in a family famous for cultural patronage but taking a leap of faith in acting was never easy in the conventional society of the East Bengal. Debi faced the camera for the first time in 1952 (Yatrik), and here onwards began a journey which culminated with her demise in 1990. Direction didn't come very late for her as she directed her first film after 15 years of starting her acting career with 'Chhuti' in 1967, she was 42 then. She went on to direct films such as 'Megh-O-Roudra', 'Padi Pishir Barmi Baksha', 'Deepar Prem' and 'Gokul'. Some film historians perceive Arundhati Debi as a lady who inspired a traditional society to break the shackles.
Prema Karanth (1936-2007) was the wife of the legendary New Wave dramatist and filmmaker BV Karanth but this was her secondary introduction as she herself was a known theatre personality. Her independent works had takers in almost every strata of the society because she started with staging children's plays and gradually moved on to other fields of mass communication. The National School of Drama played an important part in her life as this was the place where her ideas about the society and its immediate needs concreted. She directed her first film 'Phaniyamma' in 1983, and it is considered as the first Kannada film by a female director. 'Bandh Jharoke' (1997) was her last film as director but between 1983 and 1997, Prema instructed the actors in 'Sapne Huye Sakaar', 'Nakkala Rajkumari', 'Appiko' and 'The Jewel of Manipur 1 and 2' in both Kannada and Hindi. Her influence on Kannada filmmaking can be understood by analysing the rise of women characters on screen in last 25 years.
Like most of the female directors of 1950s and 60s, Vijaya Nirmala also started as a child artist and acted in more than 200 Telugu, Tamil and Malayalam films. Nirmala was just 11 when she was featured in 'Panduranga Mahatmyam' (1957) but her life changed after the hugely acclaimed 'Bhargavi Nilayam' (1964), in which she starred opposite Prem Nazir. Nirmala directed two films 'Meena' and 'Kavitha' in 1973. Nirmala's direction career is difficult to match for anyone as the Guinness Book of Records registers her as the female director who has made the highest number of films.
Sai Paranjpye's family's cultural history contributed a lot in her evolution as a filmmaker and when it happened it happened for good. 'Jadu Ka Sankh' (1974) set her for a long journey in filmmaking which Panajpye used to the optimum. 'Sparsh', 'Katha', 'Chashme Buddoor', 'Saaz', all her films showcased distinct themes in an easy way. Sai is not very active now but other filmmakers are using her films as a source of inspiration. David Dhawan's 'Chashme Baddoor' (a remake of Paranjpye's film) is all set to hit the screens.
Aparna Sen's stature as a film actress was so big that she had to come to direction sooner or later and it had to be a different film, thankfully she didn't disappoint her fans. '36 Chowringhee Lane' (1981) marked her foray into direction, it was subtle, emotionally charged and heavy in its outcome. The film was made in English but it connected with everyone with all its loneliness and subtlety and gave a new dimension to the idea of English filmmaking in India. Aparna Sen has dedicated her life to socially relevant cinema and is continuously exploring the visual medium. After 'Iti Mrinalini', she is gearing up for 'Goynar Baksho', in which she is once again directing her talented daughter Konkona Sen Sharma.
Mira Nair and Deepa Mehta are leaving their impression on the world cinema map while Kalpna Lajmi, Vijaya Mehta, Revathy, Suhasini Maniratnam and Tanuja Chandra have also done their part to pave the way for more women filmmakers in India.
With more serious women filmmakers like Meghna Gulzar, Leena Yadav, Zoya Akhtar, Reema Kagti, Kiran Rao, Farah Khan, Rajshree and Anusha Rizvi coming into the frame, the future of female directors in Indian cinema seems to be touching a new high soon.


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Discriminatory to deny parental benefits to birth mothers because they received pregnancy benefits
In a rare oral judgment that was issued on November 12, 2014 - British Columbia Teachers' Federation v. British Columbia Public School Employers' Association, 2014 SCC 70 - the Supreme Court of Canada overturned a decision by the BC Court of Appeal and restored the decision of a labour arbitrator concerning top-up benefits provided to teachers who are new parents.
The labour arbitrator, John B. Hall, had ruled that it was discriminatory - under section 15 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and section 13 of the BC Human Rights Code - to provide the same amount of top-up benefits to birth mothers as birth fathers and adoptive parents.
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US National Labor Relations Board: Northwestern U scholarship football players are employees, can unionize
The US National Labor Relations Board (N.L.R.B.) ruled today that Northwestern University scholarship football players are employees and therefore can unionize and bargain collectively. The ruling was contained in a 24-page decision issued by Peter Ohr, a
regional director of the N.L.R.B.
The university has posted the following statement on its website in response to the ruling:
Statement by Alan K. Cubbage, Vice President for University Relations, in Regard to Decision by NLRB Regional Director
March 26, 2014 | by Alan K. Cubbage
EVANSTON, Ill. --- Northwestern University is disappointed by today's ruling by the regional director of the National Labor Relations Board finding that Northwestern University's football players who receive grant-in-aid scholarships are employees and directing that a secret ballot election be held to determine whether the football players should be represented by the College Athletes Players Association for purposes of collective bargaining with Northwestern University. read more »


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Rene Rivkin at the Australian Stock Exchange in Melbourne in 2001, when he was being investigated by a police taskforce.
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The disgraced stockbroker Rene Rivkin was a target of a top-secret NSW police investigation into drug dealing, according to highly classified police material.
At the same time Rivkin was being investigated by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission for insider trading in 2001, he was the subject of covert surveillance by police.
According to police documents stamped "highly confidential", Strikeforce Sweetsburg was a secret taskforce set up at the start of 2001 to investigate "organised criminal activity in Kings Cross", particularly the drug trade in Sydney's eastern suburbs.
Because of the high-profile nature of the targets, Sweetsburg was tightly controlled. "It was very secret for obvious reasons; he was a very high-profile player," said one of the police involved. The taskforce had eight targets. Two of them were prominent organised crime figures, one of whom was subsequently arrested and another was Rene Walter Rivkin.
During the investigation, police surveillance revealed Rivkin meeting one of the state's most notorious crime figures for coffee in inner-city Darlinghurst and in exclusive Double Bay. The figure, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was later arrested and charged over a cocaine shipment.
Surveillance also revealed that a serving member of the NSW police force, Constable Leif Gould, who was stationed at Sydney's Rose Bay, was moonlighting for Rivkin as a driver-cum-gofer. Gould has since resigned from the force.
For more than 30 years, Rivkin's name has found its way into the reports of a variety of law enforcement agencies. One of the earliest entries was a 1969 joint customs and Commonwealth agencies report.
Intelligence reports are not statements of fact and Rivkin has never been charged over any of these matters. Nor are there charges pending.
Strikeforce Sweetsburg was run from highly secure premises within the Sydney Police Centre and its officers were hand- picked and vetted by the NSW Police Integrity Commission. One classified memo, sighted by The Age, directed that under no circumstances were drug squad detectives in notorious Kings Cross to know of the existence of the taskforce or the identity of its targets.
It was very secret for obvious reasons; he was a very high-profile player.
- Police spokesman
Some time in mid-2001, according to Rivkin's associates, Constable Gould told Rivkin that police held intelligence reports on him. This led to Rivkin putting in a freedom of information application demanding all information the police had about him and his companies.
The matter dragged on in confidential court sittings until early 2002 when the parties granted Rivkin access to a small portion of their holdings.
Senior police maintain that despite Rivkin's legal action, the existence of the strikeforce remained secret.
Gould resigned from the police force on June 8, 2001 and continued to work for Rivkin until earlier this year.
Rivkin will suffer the ignominy of spending his 60th birthday behind bars next month as he serves out nine months of weekend detention after being convicted of insider trading.
And while no charges were ever laid against Rivkin over the Sweetsburg investigations, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission continues to investigate Rivkin's role in the Offset Alpine affair.
ASIC is investigating the ownership of a shareholding in the company at the time its premises burnt down in 1993. The fire delivered a $50 million windfall to shareholders.


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Perhaps most were coming to get their shot to impress the new coaching staff – would they be interested? Perhaps the coaching staff was trying to get a good handle on just were they were at in the recruiting process – was there anyone to toss a scholarship offer at? Perhaps it was a lot of both.
Unlike a Mark Richt Camp, where I know most high-level players by face, the basketball environment, of which I have spent a healthy portion of my competitive life, is different for me now. I don't know who the young point guard buzzing around the perimeter is; I couldn't tell you who #38 was, but I could tell you that he could shoot it. Obviously Fox knows much more of the details than I, which is a good thing.
What I got most out of this weekend's event was that this is going to be a process. It seems to be that Fox grasps that some common sense is involved in coaching Fox did not pick this weekend – the same weekend as SAT testing – to have his first camp. That was something he inherited from the previous staff. He is inheriting a dismantled roster. Fox is inheriting a fan base who wants to pull for the basketball program, but has never found their rhythm in doing so because the program has never been consistent. It is sort of like Georgia fans don't know how to pull for their roundball team because all through history that team didn't give them anything to cheer for.
Fox didn't do a lot of screaming and yelling during the camp. He stopped one game because the offense was not making the transition to defense fast enough – Fox was not having that. Still, most of the camp was spent watching and getting to know people there.
Making matters even more complicated is the fraternity-style living situation this staff is dealing with (or having fun with depending on who you ask). The adjustment, Fox is still living out of a suitcase and his children only completed school last week, has been a difficult one. The nights are late – in the office until about 11 PM. The bed? Not a familiar one. The clothes to change into? Most are left in the brand new basketball facility. The work? It has not slowed.
Will Georgia fans give Fox and company a chance? They need to. But patience will be a virtue. This program is not ready to win right now. The significant obstacle that is the 2009-10 Georgia Bulldog season should be understood. No matter if Fox or his coaching staff will admit it, the talent is not there to compete in the SEC this coming winter.
What must be watched now, and closely, is how well this staff of younger, capable men competes on the recruiting trail. Georgia has talent. I hate to constantly bring that up, but the state has talent. You cannot win without talent. Now Fox and company need to go get it.
And they will. In the meantime, those in Red and Black should secure season tickets now. This program will be better – it will compete at a high level – and there are only so many tickets in the Stegosaurus, after all. Also, just because you have tickets to basketball does not mean you will have your football tickets taken away from you – that is just a terrible lie. Football is still king in Athens, but just because you are good at one does not necessarily mean that you have to be poor at another.