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RSPCA vet Bairbre O'Malley, one of the team at the Harmsworth Memorial Hospital in north London which features on BBC1's Animal Hospital, said: "Films such as Jurassic Park and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles have fuelled a demand for reptiles among children which new 'pet supermarkets' have been only too happy to supply. And the sort of men who might in the past have bought an animal with a macho image, such as a Rottweiler, may now choose a reptile or snake instead."
Last month Ms O'Malley attended a course at Whipsnade Zoo aimed at bringing vets up to date with the latest treatments for exotic animals. She said: "The main problems we see are down to bad housing and malnutrition which result from ignorance on the part of owners. People with no experience whatsover can buy a reptile or a snake over the counter, on impulse."
Nearly all the iguanas brought to the Harmsworth had brittle bone diseases, due to dietary deficiencies, and often had broken limbs, Ms O'Malley said.
Most reptiles were dehydrated because of poor diet. Snakes were frequently brought in with burns after lying on incorrectly adjusted heat mats (a condom slipped over the affected area makes an effective lubricated bandage, apparently).
The craze for unusual pets extends beyond reptiles. North American chipmunks - cute, stripey, squirrel-like creatures - are increasingly popular as presents for children. Unfortunately they are very sensitive to high- frequency sounds and can go into shock or suffer heart failure when a TV remote control or burglar alarm is operating. They should therefore only be kept outdoors, said Ms O'Malley.
Dermod Malley (no relation), a vet at Wickford, near Chelmsford, Essex, said: "There has been a phenomenal increase in the past 10 years. I now see at least one reptile, usually an iguana, every day. People can go along to a pet shop and buy a 'starter kit' which consists of a box with a lamp and a reptile in it. This is a hell of a different environment from the canopy of the Central American jungle, which is what these creatures actually need to thrive.
"When people say they are considering buying an iguana I'm tempted to repeat Mr Punch's advice to those about to marry - 'don't'. Certainly don't get one without doing a lot of homework, including reading some expensive books and joining a club such as the British Reptile and Amphibian Society.
"Then you may need to shell out pounds 200 or pounds 300 on a decent vivarium (reptile house) and be prepared for veterinary fees of perhaps pounds 100 a time if the animal gets sick."
Mr Malley said people imagined iguanas to be sleepy, docile creatures because most of those living in Britain were in poor condition. "The healthy adult iguana can be an aggressive bugger," he said. "They can make very engaging pets, but it really does involve a lot of effort on the owner's part."
Mick Powell, secretary of the British Reptile and Amphibian Society, currently shares his house in Barking, Essex, with 30 snakes and reptiles waiting to be re-homed, including a 14ft Burmese python. Most are brought to him by the RSPCA. He gets eight to 10 enquiries a day from worried pet owners.
"Most of the blame lies with the pet shops," he said. "Most of them haven't a clue what they are selling. It's irresponsible to sell a cute 18-inch snake for pounds 60 or pounds 70 which is going to turn into a 10ft python in a couple of years."
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Above, watch the illustrious JoCo play his best-known song, "Code Monkey". It's an anthem for the nerd proletariats stuck in dead-end IT jobs with managers who lack web savviness. Especially those of us who are too shy to talk to people we have crushes on. Also known as, almost everyone who attends PAX East.
The Video Game Orchestra opened their Saturday night concert with this medley of classic Super Mario tunes, and followed that up with some equally familiar Super Mario Galaxy. The rest of their set included songs from Chrono Cross, Chrono Trigger, a metal version of Castlevania's music, some Silent Hill, and more.
As I write this, I am waiting for the Video Game Orchestra to begin their set at Saturday night's concert – yes, this blog is as live as it gets, since I'm sitting on the theatre floor with my laptop out. The in-between set playlist included DJ Party Ben's "Galvanize the Empire," a mash-up that any Star Wars fan would almost certainly enjoy, so props to the sound guys for seeing to it that the wait is no chore.
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Sally Bercow, the wife of the Commons Speaker John Bercow, has signed up as a columnist for the Daily Star Sunday following her reality television debut, prompting further howls of contempt from Mr Bercow's parliamentary colleagues.
The 41-year-old, who on Friday became the first contestant to be evicted from the Celebrity Big Brother house, has hit back at rumours of a divorce, insisting her marriage is "as solid as a rock", despite her husband's misgivings over her involvement.
Mrs Bercow, who has three children, said she was keen to take part in other television shows, but admitted her appearance had caused "the biggest fight" of her marriage.
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After a volatile year, stocks are heading into the homestretch about where they began. The benchmark Standard & Poor's 500 Index finished the week at 1255, within a percentage point of where it started the year. The Dow Jones Industrial Average is up 5% in 2011, largely reflecting the strength of a single stock, IBM IBM -0.3996331236897275% International Business Machines Corp. U.S.: NYSE USD152.03 -0.61 -0.3996331236897275% /Date(1495573374564-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 2399415 AFTER HOURS USD152 -0.0300000000000011 -0.019732947444583305% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 165088 P/E Ratio 12.505449490421235 Market Cap 143404822922.67 Dividend Yield 3.9465894889166613% Rev. per Employee 191576 More quote details and news » (ticker: IBM), which has risen 32% to 194 and dominates the price-weighted index owing to its lofty absolute share price.
Most equity strategists are optimistic at best about 2012. They're worried that earnings growth and strong corporate balance sheets will be offset, in investors' minds, by the tough economic backdrop and the European debt crisis. Barry Knapp, Barclays Capital's chief market strategist, recently set an S&P 500 target of 1330, 6% above Friday's close. He expects a "difficult" first half followed by a second-half rally.
The important offset to the economic and political situation is valuation. U.S. stocks look reasonably priced, especially with 10-year Treasuries yielding 2% and short-term rates near zero. The S&P 500 is valued at 13 times projected 2011 profits and about 12 times next year's projected earnings. Bulls cite the combination of attractive valuations and super-low rates. "I feel like a kid in a candy store…I don't know where to begin," said Joe Rosenberg, chief investment strategist at Loews, told Barron's in last week's interview ("The Best Opportunities in a Half-Century," Dec. 5). Rosenberg is partial to a range of blue-chip stocks.
We compiled a list of 10 stocks that could reward investors in 2012, including blue chips like Berkshire Hathaway brka 0.21195421788893598% Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Cl B U.S.: NYSE USD165.48 0.35 0.21195421788893598% /Date(1495573317119-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 3094124 AFTER HOURS USD165.58 0.100000000000023 0.06043026347594876% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 258039 P/E Ratio 18.101071975497703 Market Cap 407472162396.908 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee 637609 More quote details and news » (BRKA), Procter & Gamble pg -0.15079457139542976% Procter & Gamble Co. U.S.: NYSE USD86.08 -0.13 -0.15079457139542976% /Date(1495573274778-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 3759281 AFTER HOURS USD86.11 0.0300000000000011 0.03485130111524164% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 634844 P/E Ratio 24.49560342619732 Market Cap 220491901777.087 Dividend Yield 3.204460966542751% Rev. per Employee 619819 More quote details and news » (PG), Royal Dutch Shell (RDSA) and Britain's Vodafone Group (VOD). In this diversified selection, nearly all pay dividends, the exception being Berkshire, which is understandable given CEO Warren Buffett's extraordinary investment skills. The average yield is 3%, in line with that of the 30-year Treasury. Half of them have price/earnings ratios below 10 on next year's projected profits. The most expensive stocks, Berkshire and P&G, are valued at about 15 times estimated '12 earnings.
Four of our top 10 are European, reflecting depressed markets and high dividend yields there. European investors and managements have a preference for dividends over share repurchases, the reverse of the situation here.
We initiated this 10-stock compilation at the start of this year ("Hear, Hear," Jan. 3, 2011). That group has trailed the market this year (see table) mostly because of declines in General Motors gm 0.9113001215066828% General Motors Co. U.S.: NYSE USD33.22 0.3 0.9113001215066828% /Date(1495573208338-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 17369648 AFTER HOURS USD33.21 -0.00999999999999801 -0.030102347983142687% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 204530 P/E Ratio 5.142414860681114 Market Cap 49678483423.3392 Dividend Yield 4.575556893437688% Rev. per Employee 756956 More quote details and news » (GM), JPMorgan Chase jpm 1.2514757969303423% JPMorgan Chase & Co. U.S.: NYSE USD85.76 1.06 1.2514757969303423% /Date(1495573202860-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 11148668 AFTER HOURS USD85.76 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 604151 P/E Ratio 13.214175654853621 Market Cap 300922484152.82 Dividend Yield 2.332089552238806% Rev. per Employee 440858 More quote details and news » (JPM) and United Continental ual 0.13938165230613278% United Continental Holdings Inc. U.S.: NYSE USD79.03 0.11 0.13938165230613278% /Date(1495573218117-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1792646 AFTER HOURS USD79.03 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 29244 P/E Ratio 12.426100628930818 Market Cap 24438051415.4248 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee 417966 More quote details and news » (UAL). Through Thursday, the 10 stocks were down an average of 6.9%, versus a 1.9% drop for the S&P 500. All our new favorites have the potential to generate 15% to 20% total returns in 2012. Here's a closer look.
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Our 10 stock selections for 2011 fell 6.9% on average, compared with a 1.9% drop in the S&P 500, dragged down by GM, JPMorgan and United Continental.
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Berkshire Hathaway
Warren Buffett rarely comments on the stock, but he sent a strong signal that he felt it was undervalued in September when the company announced its first share-buyback program in his 46-year tenure as CEO. The buyback announcement didn't amount to much because Berkshire set a limit on what it would pay -- a 10% premium to book value -- and the stock quickly traded above that threshold.
While the Class A shares have moved up 15% since the buyback announcement to around $116,000, they look appealing, trading for less than 1.2 times our estimate of year-end 2011 book value of $102,000. Class B shares trade around $78 and are valued at 1/1,500 of an A share.
Berkshire is in its best shape ever with a diversified business mix producing profits of about $7,500 per share annually, or $12 billion. Berkshire offers exposure to an improving economy, an upturn in property and casualty reinsurance rates and a rising stock market thanks to its $70-billion-plus equity portfolio, including a new $11 billion investment in IBM. Barclays analyst Jay Gelb carries an Overweight rating with a price target of $127,500. The chief negative is Buffett's age -- he's 81 -- and the lack of an obvious successor. Yet a healthy Buffett hopes to run Berkshire for at least another five years.
If Berkshire trades at a modest 1.2 times estimated year-end 2012 book of $112,000, the stock would trade around $135,000, 16% above current levels. Downside seems limited with the buyback in place, buttressed by $31 billion in cash.
The big U.S. life insurer looks appealing based on two key measures: earnings and book value. At $31, the shares are valued at less than seven times projected 2011 profits of $4.92 a share and for a similar multiple of estimated 2012 EPS of $5.06. And the stock trades at just two thirds of estimated year-end 2011 book value of $49 a share. This is a conservative measure of book value, or shareholder equity that excludes investment gains.
MetLife met 0.7178464606181456% MetLife Inc. U.S.: NYSE USD50.51 0.36 0.7178464606181456% /Date(1495573206035-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 5818223 AFTER HOURS USD50.51 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 117995 P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap 54184480994.3363 Dividend Yield 3.1676895664224904% Rev. per Employee 1105220 More quote details and news » (MET) gave an upbeat view on 2012 last week, noting that it has significant excess capital and will likely build even more next year, which would allow a higher dividend payout and significant buybacks.
After the analysts meeting, Nigel Dally of Morgan Stanley wrote that "the outlook looks significantly better than what is reflected in the current stock price." He has an Overweight rating on the stock and a $45 target price.
MetLife is expanding overseas, as well. Following its deal in 2010 to buy some of American International Group's life-insurance operations, MetLife now gets more than a third of its profits from outside the U.S.
Negatives include a low-rate environment that hurts reinvestment income and overall profits and a modest looming hit to shareholder equity from regulatory changes. These issues aren't major and appear well discounted in MetLife's depressed stock price.
This big French drug concern should more than survive its major patent expirations this year. It could generate some of the best growth among its peers starting in 2013. Sanofi (SNY) has an attractive drug portfolio that isn't well appreciated by U.S. investors, including treatments for diabetes, cancer and cardiovascular disease, vaccines and animal-health compounds.
The U.S. listed shares, now around $35, trade for under eight times estimated 2011 profit of $4.58 a share and yield 5%. Sanofi's valuation is one of the lowest among major drug companies. Next year's profit is expected to decline about 10% but then expand in 2013 and potentially increase 10% in both 2014 and 2015.
"Sanofi trades at a discount to almost every other large-cap" drug company, "yet its longer-term financial average is better than the group average," wrote Bernstein analyst Tim Anderson in a note last month. He has an Outperform rating on the stock with a $44 price target -- 25% higher than the current quote.
There's some debate about whether Sanofi overpaid when it bought biotech Genzyme for $20 billion earlier this year. Barron's argued that a buyback would have been a better use of corporate cash, but CEO Chris Viehbacher sees Genzyme as a key part of Sanofi's post-patent growth engine. One believer is Warren Buffett, whose Berkshire Hathaway has been a sizable holder.
Seagate Technology
Summer floods in Thailand have temporarily washed out about 25% of global disk-drive production and hurt Seagate's stx -0.32733224222585927% Seagate Technology PLC U.S.: Nasdaq USD42.63 -0.14 -0.32733224222585927% /Date(1495573200167-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 2627686 AFTER HOURS USD42.63 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 74469 P/E Ratio 17.54320987654321 Market Cap 12702690135.9558 Dividend Yield 5.911330049261084% Rev. per Employee 242176 More quote details and news » chief rival, Western Digital. wdc 0.05683109797681291% Western Digital Corp. U.S.: Nasdaq USD88.03 0.05 0.05683109797681291% /Date(1495573200461-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 2463307 AFTER HOURS USD88.03 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 199048 P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap 25623472524.3109 Dividend Yield 2.2719527433829376% Rev. per Employee 243503 More quote details and news »
That is producing a financial windfall for the unaffected Seagate (STX) that may last through 2012. Beyond the supply disruptions, Seagate should benefit from consolidation. Likely to be winnowed down to just three main producers shortly -- Seagate, Western Digital (WDC) and Toshiba -- the industry should see greater pricing power and discipline.
Seagate trades for under six times estimated profit of $3 a share in fiscal 2012, which ends in June. Needham analyst and Seagate bull Richard Kugele has an above-consensus estimate of $3.92 a share for the current year and a $35 price target. The shares recently traded below $16. "Seagate is going to throw off more than half its market value in cash during the next four quarters," Kugele says. The company could boost its dividend, now providing an ample yield of 4.6%, buy back stock or reduce debt.
Bears say disk drives are on their way out as solid-state memory supplants them. Yet personal computers aren't going away and the explosion of Internet content creates storage demand that can be met economically only with disk drives. Seagate also benefits from a savvy and shareholder-friendly management team led by CEO Steve Luczo that is moving to cement Seagate's competitive position in an improving industry.
U.S. utility stocks -- telecom and electrics -- are among the richest sectors of the stock market, trading for about 14 times projected 2012 profits.
Yield-oriented investors can do better in Europe, where Vodafone, the leading global wireless company, trades at a discount to its U.S. counterparts and yields a fat 5%. Its U.S.-listed shares, now trading around $27, fetch 10 times estimated profit in the current fiscal year ending in March. That's a sharp discount to Verizon Communications (VZ), which trades for 15 times estimated 2012 profit.
Vodafone and Verizon share ownership of Verizon Wireless, the No. 1 U.S. cell-phone company and each company's best asset. Vodafone owns 45% and Verizon 55%. Investors haven't given Vodafone full credit for that valuable stake, which could be worth $75 billion, or more than half the company's market value. That will change in early 2012 when Verizon Wireless pays $10 billion in dividends to its corporate parents ("It's Time to Ring Up Vodafone," Nov. 14).
Last month's article opined that Vodafone could hit $35 in the next year, a 30%-plus total return. That's a nice potential gain for a low-risk stock.
Royal Dutch Shell
The three major international integrated oils -- ExxonMobil, xom 0.352412200753433% Exxon Mobil Corp. U.S.: NYSE USD82.58 0.29 0.352412200753433% /Date(1495573223174-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 6267762 AFTER HOURS USD82.7 0.120000000000005 0.1453136352627755% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 588943 P/E Ratio 34.51908205492622 Market Cap 348684632341.247 Dividend Yield 3.7297166384112375% Rev. per Employee 2902010 More quote details and news » Chevron, cvx 0.14134941575574822% Chevron Corp. U.S.: NYSE USD106.27 0.15 0.14134941575574822% /Date(1495573235154-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 3186458 AFTER HOURS USD106.27 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 270662 P/E Ratio 69.46659694077657 Market Cap 201050394768.986 Dividend Yield 4.065117154417992% Rev. per Employee 2151270 More quote details and news » Royal Dutch -- all look reasonably priced, trading for eight to 10 times projected 2012 profits. What differentiates Royal Dutch is the highest dividend yield among the trio at 4.7%, double that of Exxon (XOM) and two percentage points higher than that of Chevron (CVX).
The bull case on Royal Dutch is that cash-flow growth is accelerating as new energy projects in places like Qatar and Canada come on stream and that its dividend, unchanged since 2009, will start to rise in the next year. Net debt levels are down sharply, falling to $20 billion in the latest quarter.
"We estimate Shell's free cash flow will outstrip its current dividend by 50% to 100% consistently during 2012-2014," wrote Morgan Stanley analyst Martijn Rats, who sees 9% annualized dividend growth in the next three years.
Shell's U.S. listed shares, now around $70, could top $80 in the coming year, according to Morgan Stanley's projections.
Freeport McMoRan Copper and Gold
Copper is critical for developing economies and Freeport McMoRan Copper and Gold fcx 0.42265426880811496% Freeport-McMoRan Inc. U.S.: NYSE USD11.88 0.05 0.42265426880811496% /Date(1495573283035-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 11482913 AFTER HOURS USD11.88 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 166305 P/E Ratio 43.18429661941112 Market Cap 17115797540.9841 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee 487700 More quote details and news » is the largest investor-owned producer in the world with a diversified resource base on four continents.
Freeport shares, around $39, are attractive based on several measures, including earnings, dividend yield and asset value. The stock is down 36% this year thanks to a 20% decline in copper prices to $3.40 a pound. Yet Freeport is very profitable at current copper prices, given mining costs of less than $1 a pound. The stock trades for eight times both 2011 and 2012 profits. It yields 3.7%.
Recent copper-mining transactions suggest that Freeport is significantly underpriced. If Freeport ever went on the block, it likely would fetch a nice premium and attract a range of bidders, including mining giant BHP Billiton (BHP) and even China, which accounts for over a third of world-wide demand.
Freeport has a great balance sheet with no net debt and huge reserves of nearly 100 billion pounds of copper, plus a large amount of gold. Investors worry about a drop in Chinese demand and a labor strike at a large Indonesian mine that has effectively shut down production. The China risk seems already reflected in the stock price and the Indonesian strike probably gets settled next year.
The cable-TV industry doesn't receive much credit on Wall Street for its dominant position in providing high-speed Internet access to consumers.
And for Comcast, cmcsa 0.7343631299063054% Comcast Corp. Cl A U.S.: Nasdaq USD39.78 0.29 0.7343631299063054% /Date(1495573200398-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 14904318 AFTER HOURS USD39.84 0.0600000000000023 0.15082956259426847% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 583160 P/E Ratio 21.159574468085108 Market Cap 187267836943.54 Dividend Yield 1.583710407239819% Rev. per Employee 516201 More quote details and news » the country's largest cable provider, the lucrative Internet business may now be more important than TV services. "Cable companies are infrastructure companies, not media companies, and they're winning the battle in most of America" versus the telecom industry, notes Craig Moffett, the cable and telecom analyst at Bernstein. Moffett has an Outperform rating and $32 price target on the stock.
Comcast (CMCSA) shares, at $23, trade for 12 times next-year earnings. Moffett expects the company to lift its dividend and boost its share-repurchase program during 2012 using its growing free cash flow. The stock yields 2%.
Comcast is still working to turn around the flagging NBC broadcast-TV business, which is in last place in prime-time ratings and losing money. Fortunately, NBC represents just 6% of Comcast revenues and probably has nowhere to go but up. Investors have been waiting for Comcast to aggressively return cash to shareholders, and that may start in 2012.
Procter & Gamble
With its broad array of popular brands -- including Tide, Bounty and Pampers -- and its global marketing muscle, P&G offers a low-risk way to play the growth in developing countries. The stock, a laggard in recent years, trades around $65, or 15 times projected profits in its current fiscal year, ending in June.
P&G yields over 3% and another dividend increase is likely in 2012. Throw in buybacks and P&G is returning about 7% to shareholders each year. If dividends increase in the next 10 years at anything like the pace of the past decade, P&G could be yielding 5% or more by 2020 based on the current share price. P&G is like a bond with an increasing yield.
Wall Street has been critical of the company for focusing too much on developed markets and higher-priced products, but P&G's strategy is changing. Bernstein analyst Ali Dibadj has argued that P&G needs to undertake a large restructuring initiative to cut costs and shift its "center of gravity" from its headquarters in Cincinnati to the emerging markets, where it gets about 30% of sales.
The company believes it's capable of high single-digit to low double-digit annual earnings growth. That's double the growth of electric utilities, whose shares trade in line with P&G. Dibadj, who upgraded P&G to Outperform in the summer, has a target price of $73 on the shares.
Luxury-goods makers ranging from Coach and Tiffany to LVMH and Richemont, are in vogue with investors, but the maker of Mercedes Benz, arguably the ultimate vehicle brand, is very much out of favor.
Daimler's U.S.-listed shares (DDAIF) trade around $45, down from a peak of $79 in the spring, and fetch just six times projected 2012 profit. They yield 6%. Investors are worried about several issues, including costs, an aging lineup of high-end Mercedes cars, the lack of profit momentum and troubles in Europe, where Mercedes gets half its sales.
Yet Daimler has a great balance sheet with more than $15 a share in net cash and investments. It's also one of the largest global makers of trucks, and its Mercedes franchise is strong in status-conscious China. Even detractors concede Daimler looks appealing based on a sum-of-the-parts analysis. It's one of the world's great industrial companies. The stock looks too cheap to ignore.
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Hard work earns crucial home win ...
Carlisle United grabbed a vital win against play-off chasing Swindon Town thanks to their fourth clean sheet in five games and a neat finish from Owls loanee Gary Madine.
A bright start from the home side brought an early corner which Foderingham had to punch clear. Thirlwell popped it back to the edge of the box but a push on Stephens gave the visitors a free kick which eased the pressure.
A high ball forward found Madine with space and his chest control opened a gap for a volley. He took it as it hit the floor and it spun wide of the upright off the top of his boot.
Madine almost turned provider as United stayed on the front foot but his through ball for the late run from Berrett had just too much on it and the keeper was able to clear.
A foul on Michael Smith from Chimbonda gave the Robins their first chance of the afternoon but the outswinging set piece was an inch in front of Stephens. And the same player was invited to run forward moments later when a half clearance fell at his feet. He let fly from distance but it was always going over the bar.
Carlisle regained the initiative and nice football left Redmond with the ball at his feet on the edge of the box. He hesitated, but Berrett followed up with a piledriver which had to be blocked. Madine rose highest to meet the corner but he couldn't keep the header down and it rose high over the bar.
A cross shot from Potts caught Swindon light at the back but Madine and Amoo were left with their heads in their hands as they left it for each other and the ball ran harmlessly away to safety.
Swindon tried to slow things down and Miles Storey tried his luck from distance when he was allowed to creep forward. It was a good connection but he couldn't keep it down.
It was a better spell for the Robins as they controlled the midfield play but it was Carlisle who almost opened the scoring when Berrett sent a lovely delivery into the box. Madine powered onto the header but Foderingham somehow stretched himself to make a fantastic save.
The lobbed clearance from the acrobatic stop found Michael Smith with grass to run onto and he had support as Cox and Kasim strode forward. The cross was teasing but O'Hanlon protected his goal as he stepped in front of the attackers.
The pace of the game slowed as both sides sat deep with the ball but United sparked life into the crowd when Chimbonda found Potts just inside the Swindon half. His forceful run took him to the byline and his cut back was perfect for Madine to control. Two touches got the ball out of the big striker's feet and he finished it off beautifully as he spun and poked a shot into the bottom corner.
United ended the half on top with Madine and O'Hanlon sending efforts wide, and Redmond had a shot blocked as the whistle blew to thundering applause from an appreciative crowd.
A free kick on the right gave Swindon the first chance after the break and Pickford had to dive across to save as Alex Smith sent it over the wall. Stephens got to the corner when it dropped at the near post but he couldn't guide his header on target.
United broke forward as they cleared their lines and Chantler put Potts on the overlap with a well timed pass. He crossed on the run but it bobbled agonisingly across the face of goal, as Foderingham fell to the floor, until Luongo swept it clear.
Swindon came right back into it as they pushed men forward and Michael Smith had a wonderful chance when he was sent clean through by Kasim. He hurried his effort and Pickford was able to make a comfortable save.
Substitute Alex Pritchard then had options left and right as the Robins kept probing and he was left to apologise for his wastefulness when he opted to shoot and left it easy for Pickford.
A run of corners followed for the Robins and former Blues loanee Troy Archibald-Henville popped a header over from close range as the pressure started to mount.
United were denied what was a clear penalty midway through the half when a dinked touch from Madine was stopped by a hand as he tried to spin away. The referee waved play on much to the disgust of the crowd.
Chances were at a premium through the closing stages and Louis Thompson showed his frustration when he shot from long range when he couldn't find a way through. Pickford was happy to see it go wide.
The Robins were restricted to shots from distance as Carlisle played on the break, but midfielder James Berrett added to the Brunton Park selection worries when he received a second yellow card deep into time added on.
But it was the result the home side deserved and the crowd showed their appreciation for what was another gritty performance when the final whistle eventually blew.
United - Madine (37)
United - Berrett (33 & 90)
Swindon - Stephens (17)
Carlisle United - Pickford, Chimbonda, Thirlwell, O'Hanlon, Symington, Chantler, Potts, Berrett, Amoo, Madine, Redmond (Brown 62). Subs - Fleming, S Byrne, Brough, Guy, Meppen-Walter, Novo.
Swindon Town - Foderingham, N Thompson (N Byrne 65), Luongo (L Thompson 70), McEvely, Kasim, Storey, A Smith, Cox (Pritchard 46), M Smith, Stephens, Archibald-Henville. Subs - Belford, Waldon, Branco, Gladwin.
Referee - Mr Nigel Miller
Attendance - 4,055 (288)
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When, 21 years ago, Sir Adrian Cadbury published what became the foundation of today's Corporate Governance Code, he had two main aims.
The first was to restore trust in business, a trust that had been badly dented by the scandals surrounding Robert Maxwell and Asil Nadir.
Second, he wanted to improve standards of governance and board oversight without usurping the right of managers to manage. The intention was to make it less likely businesses would get into trouble.
Sir Adrian was, and indeed still is, an honourable, thoughtful and decent man — but by these yardsticks the exercise has been the most abject failure.
Trust in business today is massively lower than it was 20 years ago, at least in part because of the explosion in executive pay the governance industry in part spawned, and certainly sought to legitimise.
Business scandals are still with us too. There is no shortage of over-mighty executives willing and able to lead their businesses on to the rocks regardless of the controls now allegedly in place. And there always will be because, until they overreach themselves, such executives are invariably fêted as winners.
Einstein said that to repeat an action while expecting a different outcome was a sign of madness. But the governance industry has never heeded this warning.
Each time the code has been found to be inadequate in coping with the turmoil of business life, the answer has been to revise and extend it.
Jon Moulton, one of Britain's best-known private equity financiers, is surely not alone when he protests against the constant stream of initiatives that in his view make company reports bigger, more unreadable and by extension increasingly useless.
Cadbury little knew at the time that his slim booklet would spawn an industry. One suspects the thought would have horrified him.
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At some point, surely, there will be a questioning as to its value — or a demand for a cost benefit analysis.
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One does also wonder how shareholders, customers and employees will react if one business in a sector feels it can safely look only a relatively short period ahead while another, more gung-ho, rival shows no such restraint.
The other main change concerns pay. The FRC is scrapping the wording that puts a focus on using pay and bonuses to attract and retain executives. It says arrangements in future should home in on performance and be structured in a way that will encourage management to think long term.
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Review/Theater; New Era for 'Grapes of Wrath'
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Though trimmed since its premiere in Chicago in 1988, Act I of ''The Grapes of Wrath'' still requires perseverance. Mr. Galati, like Steinbeck, demands that the audience sink into a jerky, episodic journey rather than be propelled by the momentum of character or story. Act II pays off with the flood sequence - spectacularly realized here with a curtain of rain pouring down on men shoveling for their lives - and in remarkably fresh realizations of some of the novel's most familiar scenes. When Ma Joad - in the transcendent form of the flinty, silver-haired Lois Smith - delivers her paean to the people's ability to ''go on,'' it isn't the inspirational epilogue that won Jane Darwell an Oscar but a no-nonsense, conversational reiteration of unshakable pragmatism. When Mr. Sinise leaves his already disintegrated family to join a radical underground, his ''I'll be all around in the dark'' soliloquy is not Fonda's Lincolnesque address but a plain-spoken statement of bedrock conviction.
Like the superb Miss Smith, Mr. Sinise and Mr. Kinney, the other good actors in this large cast never raise their voices. Such performers as Jeff Perry (Noah Joad) and Robert Breuler (Pa Joad) slip seamlessly into folkloric roles that are permanent fixtures in our landscape. They become what Steinbeck believed his people to be - part of a communal soul that will save America from cruelty and selfishness when other gods, secular and religious, have failed.
Can they make us believe, too? The evening concludes with the coda the movie omitted, in which the Joad daughter, Rose of Sharon (Sally Murphy), her husband gone and her baby just born dead, offers to breast feed a starving black man (Lex Monson) in a deserted barn. As acted and staged, in a near-hush and visually adrift on the full, lonely expanse of the wooden stage, the tableau is religious theater in the simplest sense. There is no pious sermon - just a humble, selfless act of charity crystallized into a biblical image, executed by living-and-breathing actors, streaked with nocturnal shadows and scented by the gentle weeping of a fiddle string.
Some of the audience seemed to be weeping, too, and not out of sadness, I think. The Steppenwolf ''Grapes of Wrath'' is true to Steinbeck because it leaves one feeling that the generosity of spirit that he saw in a brutal country is not so much lost as waiting once more to be found.
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Usually even the best Grinnell players don't play more than 20-25 minutes per game, but on Saturday Griffin Lentsch played for 36 and went off for 89 points in the Pioneers' 145-97 crushing of Principia. Lentsch scored the last 22 points of the game for the Pioneers.
Lentsch set the NCAA Division III record for single-game scoring, breaking the mark set by another Grinnell player, Jeff Clement, who scored 77 on Feb. 18, 1998.
Lentsch shot 27-for-55 from the floor, including 15-for-33 from three-point range in the win. He was 20-for-22 from the foul line.
The 89 points is the third-best in NCAA men's basketball history and the best since 1954.
"We knew Griffin had a chance to put up big numbers, but something like this is simply amazing," said Grinnell assistant coach David N. Arseneault, who will serve as the team's interim head coach during the second semester while his father, David Arseneault, is on sabbatical. "But it really was an entire team effort. The guys contributed in terms of setting screens and getting him the ball. It was incredible to watch. As Griffin scored more and more points, our bench got louder and louder."
Lentsch, who had 40 points at halftime, is still in awe of the record. "It's still setting in," he said. "I didn't think I would ever score that many points."
Lentsch said early on, he wasn't necessarily shooting well. "I was trying some 3s, but some of them weren't dropping so I started driving to the basket," he explained. "I figured if I could get some easier shots and also get to the free throw line, that would help me reset and get my shooting touch and confidence back."
Lentsch was quick to credit others for his record, though. "All the credit goes to my teammates, in all honesty," he said. "They did such a great job of setting screens and getting me open. I never would have come remotely close to doing this without them."
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my Motion contact told me, that if I use the SDK 2.0 on the C5, it will speak to the real hardware, and only on development machines it uses the Loopbacks, is this really correct? Because in the Intel docs I can only read, that this is not possible.
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Hubli, May 15 (UNI) Director General of Police R Sri Kumar today asserted that maximum precautionary measures had been taken in view of bomb blast in a court hall in this city and a call given by naxalites of CPI(Maoist) group for boycott of polls for smooth conduct of free and fair polling in the second and third places.
A bomb planted underneath the witness box had ripped through a court hall in the city court complex last week. The naxals who have presence in the borders of Udupi, Shimoga and Chikmagalur districts have given repeated calls to the people in the villages coming under Westren ghats to boycott elections.
Speaking to reporters after visiting the blast site at court complex and holding meeting of senior police officials, he said 225 companies of central para military force and local police including Anti Naxal Force would be deployed during the elections.
In the second phase, in which polling will be held in 66 segments across ten districts on May 16, a total of 56,000 police personnel will be deployed.
This included 21,000 civil police, 10,000 home guards, 22,000 para military forces and 3000 KSRP personnel, he said.
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Women's resilient struggle against HIV in rural Zimbabwe
May 18, 2011
In Easter, women are flocking in rural clinics to get injectable or oral contraceptives. Men come from South Africa to spend the holidays at home. Women know their husbands have sexual partners in the neighbouring country. They also know that injectable or oral contraceptives won't protect them from HIV and sexually transmitted infections. But at least they prevent from unwanted pregnancies and save innocent lives from falling into the clutches of the deadly virus.
"I'm afraid of my husband. He knows I'm positive but he lives in denial. And he has threatened with killing me if I bring condoms home," explains a woman to the counselor.
"I cannot bring my children for testing," says apologetically another woman who has tested positive and has been counseled to do so. "I'm scared. If my children are positive too, that's the end of my marriage."
Tsholotsho is a rural district on the West of Zimbabwe, bordering with Botswana and near Victoria Falls, one of the world's seven natural wonders. It is an agriculture-based society and there are no industries, apart from a small timber business. The area is prone to draughts so many people, especially young men, go to South Africa in search of jobs and better salaries.
Women stay behind, keeping the house, raising the children and suffering in silence. In this patriarchal society, the health of a woman is a family business. Women need to ask for the husband's permission to go to the doctor. In his absence, it is the female in laws (mother or sisters) who take the decision. Sadly, women are the victims and the executioners of their own repressive fate.
The activities to raise awareness in the communities are somehow paying back although they make the submissiveness even more painful. When women believe their husbands are having risky behaviours, they go to a clinic to be tested. But then, it is not easy to disclose one's positive status to the family, let alone to negotiate with the husband to have safe sex.
"The woman will be accused by the in-laws of bringing the disease into the family, as the husband is working in South Africa, and will be stigmatized," explains a nurse in MSF's Voluntary Counselling and Testing (VCT) centre in Tsholotsho. "Women don't talk about sex with their husbands. It is common believe that men know more about sexual issues than women. If they do, men will consider their wives are having extra-marital affairs and that would be the end of the marriage. One needs a lot of courage to come out. Even financial and educational empowerment does not help to challenge the husband."
Deadly denial
HIV is the major call for consultations in Tsholotsho District Hospital (TDH). According to MSF's consultation records, the positivity rate of HIV tests done in the health facilities is close to 30%. Among pregnant women, the positivity rate of HIV tests done at ante-natal care consultations is around 23%, well above the national estimates (16%) for this population group. Perhaps because they are the ones actually taking care of the family and probably because they have the responsibility to bear and bring new lives into this world, women are more conscious of the risks of HIV and the benefits of an early diagnosis.
Most men, on the contrary, prefer to live in denial. What it is even worse, knowing their positive status and taking anti-retrovirals (ARVs) themselves in South Africa, they prefer to hide it from their spouses and family, and practice unsafe sex with their partners at risk of infecting them and the newborns. Men's denial can go as far as being brought back very sick from South Africa and be dropped terminally ill at the hospital's door. This is not an unfamiliar scene in TDH.
Nurses and counselors say people are now more aware about HIV because they have witnessed their relatives getting sick and dying, or getting treatment and having a productive life. A lot of awareness raising activities is being done among chief elders and religious leaders who have a powerful influence in the community's social and cultural practices. "The change of behaviour is coming slowly," concedes an MSF's nurse in the Prevention of mother-to-child-transmission (PMTCT) programme in Tsholotsho. "It is not an easy road but there is light at the end of the tunnel."
Lonely struggle
Rufaro, not her real name, is a 26-year-old mother of two babies. She delivered her second baby less than a year ago in the clinic of Luveve, in Bulawayo City. Apparently, both mother and baby were healthy and looked healthy. But soon after, she felt so sick that had to go to TDH. She was advised to take an HIV test and was shocked when she learnt she was positive. In the light of the outcome, she was advised to test her newborn, wrapped and clinging from her back. Again, she was horrified when the baby tested positive as well. But she felt so sick and confused that she barely understood what the doctor and nurses were telling her to do to help the baby.
Fortunately, her first baby tested negative. Rufaro is coming today to Bubude, a rural clinic in Tsholotsho District. She wants to have her blood taken for a CD4 counting as well as her baby's dry blood spot taken for a DNA PCR testing (a technology used for HIV early infant diagnosis). The MSF's nurse looks concerned. According to the baby's health card, the test was carried out a few months ago but the mother has no idea where the official results can be. "I was so confused…", apologizes Rufaro. Nevertheless, dry blood spot samples are taken from the baby. But he looks sick and the nurse advises the mother to take him to TDH as soon as possible for a consultation with the doctor.
Rufaro looks resigned. She is employed to take care of a house while the owner is working in South Africa but has no money to take the baby to the hospital until she is paid. That may only happen when the boss comes back. Perhaps in one week.
Mentor mothers
In Tsholotsho District, the Ministry of Health has just one doctor for a population of 129,000 people approximately, 48% less than 15-years old. Nurses are manning the seventeen rural clinics and the doctor, who happens to be the District Medical Officer as well, needs to balance his time to respond to all his responsibilities, including the consultations in the hospital.
Generally, outpatient consultations in clinics are overcrowded. Pregnant women who test positive and need to be enrolled in the PMTCT programme don't have enough time to talk to healthcare staff to understand and cope with all the information that goes with it in a moment of total distress.
In an attempt to overcome this barrier, MSF has helped implementing a Mother to Mother programme in neighbouring Bulawayo, Zimbabwe's second city and less than two hours away from Tsholotsho. Based on volunteer work, positive women who have already gone through the PMTCT programme act as mentor mothers to provide peer support and first-hand experience to women newly enrolled in the programme. The result is so positive that MSF is planning to replicate the scheme in Tsholotsho.
"I learnt I was positive when I got pregnant. I didn't want to accept it. I disclosed it immediately to my husband because I felt so angry. But he didn't accept it either. Even worse, he didn't understand the PMTCT programme. I was alone in the whole process and I went through denial for a long time before accepting my status. Concerning my husband, he lived in denial until he got very sick. He started late on ARVs and passed away a year ago," recounts helpless Roselyne, not her real name, an HIV positive woman mother of a 7-year-old girl.
Roselyne and many others feel their support and experience is important. "Now mothers can accept their status more easily as they can see women who have gone through the same situation," tells Roselyne. "When we visit mothers, we also ask for the husbands, so that we can talk to them. Men involvement in the PMTCT programme is important although at present less than 18% do. Men listen to women, but it would be more effective if men talk to them. They believe they can't be told anything by women."
A dreadful nightmare is haunting these women, though. "After successfully saving our babies from an HIV positive destiny, we fear they will be infected when they become adolescents. It is a scary thought," adds Roselyne.
Aiming at facilitating universal access to HIV treatment and care, MSF is working in 13 out of the 17 rural clinics in Tsholotsho District as well as in TDH helping the MoH to decentralise the ARV treatment and the PMTCT programme. In addition to the hospital, there are already four rural clinics that offer ARV start-up and follow up consultations and two more clinics offering follow-up consultations (providing ARVs once treatment has been initiated in the hospital).The rest are only providing VCT yet. Early Infant Diagnosis (EID), available in the district since October 2009, was decentralized to all the 17 rural clinics in February 2011. Samples of dry blood spot are sent to Harare for DNA PCR. This system is relatively easy to use in rural areas. Still, children can only start ARV treatment in TDH but uncomplicated cases can be followed up in the six rural clinics that provide this service.