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Jay Leno really went after NBC executives during his Tonight Show monologue Friday.
First he joked about having a knife stuck in his back for three years, and then said NBC wants to make up with him by sending him and his wife on a Carnival Cruise (video follows with transcript and commentary):
JAY LENO: Doctors in Canada were shocked after pulling a three-inch knife blade from the back of a 32-year-old man. The knife had been in there for three years. Imagine that. Guy had a knife in his back for three years. So, he must have worked at NBC, too. I can't believe that. I couldn't believe that. I was stunned by that. I was stunned by that.
Have you heard about this alleged feud that I'm having with NBC? Well, I think it's going to be okay. This is real. I had dinner last night, I did, I had dinner last night with a bunch of NBC executives. And to make up to me, listen to this, to make it up to me, what they did, they are sending my wife and I on an all expenses paid Carnival Cruise. How about that, huh? Wow. How about that? So, it looks like it's going to be okay. Fantastic!
For those that haven't been following this ongoing saga, NBC has made it very clear that it's going to be replacing Leno with Jimmy Fallon next year if not sooner. Apparently a studio is already being built for Fallon in New York City.
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In surprising switch, Amherst board rejects plan to rezone parcel for apartments
Plans for market-rate apartments and townhouses in Amherst were voted down on Monday, and they went down in grand fashion.
The Amherst Town Board voted 5 to 1 against rezoning four acres at the end of Linwood Avenue and South Forest Road for 55 units proposed by developer Andrew Romanowski.
But here's the twist.
Just minutes earlier, the board had voted 4 to 2 in favor of the rezoning, eliciting groans and a little heckling by the half-dozen opponents in attendance at Monday's meeting.
"Thanks for selling us out," one woman yelled from the audience.
But as the opponents started to leave the Town Board meeting, Council Member Barbara S. Nuchereno asked if she could change her vote.
The board spent the next several minutes deliberating the matter, as Town Attorney E. Thomas Jones checked the legality of Nuchereno recasting her vote.
The board voted again and this time it was a 5 to 1 vote against rezoning the property from residential to multi-family residential – in essence rejecting the 55-unit project.
Supervisor Barry A. Weinstein and Council Member Mark A. Manna – who voted against the project in the first vote – were joined by Nuchereno and Council Members Richard "Jay" Anderson and Guy R. Marlette in the second vote.
Council Member Steven D. Sanders was the only one who voted for the rezoning both times.
"I'm shocked," Linwood Avenue resident Donald Montalto said of the turn of events.
Nuchereno thought the project on the table was the lesser of two evils, because it didn't propose the extension of Linwood Avenue, she explained after the meeting.
Residents have been adamant about not extending Linwood, which is a dead-end street.
The current zoning of the property still allows the developer to build a modified project on the site with five apartment buildings containing 31 units. And that alternative option calls for the extension of Linwood.
Nuchereno believes residents may be disappointed by the alternative, but after hearing the heckling from the crowd decided to give residents what they want.
Meanwhile, Council Member Mark A. Manna said he would submit a resolution on behalf of the neighbors early next year seeking to down-zone the property for single-family homes. Residents acknowledged they feel they are being squeezed by this project on one end and the new Wyndham Garden Hotel at Main Street and South Forest on the other.
Sean W. Hopkins, the attorney for the developer, has been representing developers in Amherst for years and was surprised by the change of Monday's vote. When asked after the meeting whether he had seen such a turn of events, Hopkins said: "I've seen it, but not in a long time."
In other business, the board voted 5 to 1 to rezone two separate East Amherst parcels for commercial buildings proposed at 9500-9510 Transit Road, north of Casey Road, and 9480 Transit, across from Miles Road in Clarence.
The project at 9500-9510 Transit calls for two single-story commercial buildings – one 3,850 square feet, another 8,800 square feet – to go along with the 236-unit apartment project already under construction on the site.
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"Sit and sit and sit…" Screen to Pittman. Troy reverses the field on the option keeper. 3rd down TD to Nicol. 7-3 Buckeyes. Knockout hit by Hartline on the ensuing kickoff. Defense goes three and out. IU puts a sloppy punt out of bounds on the 47. Nice gain by Beanie Wells. Troy Smith scrambles and hits Ginn for a TD on a "backyard" broken play. "BAM". 14-3 Buckeyes. Folks, the Dow Jones just shot up 3% in the blink of an eye. Hoepner had to be saying, "What the heck just happened?"
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I don't buy into the Hart/Smith argument for Heisman. A few prognosticators are claiming the winner of that OSU/Michigan game will claim the Heisman Trophy winner. With all due respect to Hart, his blue-collar production will not be enough to take that throne away from Troy. Granted, Troy needs to stay healthy, but 4 more TD's and yet another interception-free afternoon just pushed him even further from the field. When you watch highlights of college football, you see Troy dazzling. You see Hart chugging with 4 yards here and 6 yards there. That is a coaches dream, but Hart's highlight reel is not that of Reggie Bush or Matt Leinhart. The Heisman has as much to with marketing, and Troy has marketed himself with both quiet results and loud results since Northern Illinois. If Troy was shaky early on, it could have fooled me. Before I knew we had entered the 2nd quarter he had 80+ yards and two touchdowns – not to mention the option keeper in mid field.
The Buckeye offense was a coaching clinic case study against Indiana. If the Hoosier safeties addressed the play with intentions of stopping the pass, we would give it to a tailback. If the safeties felt it was appropriate to line up with intentions of fitting up in the running game, we would throw ball. Tressel and Bolman took what the defense was giving them. It will be very difficult to stop this offense if you declare which dimension of Ohio State you will place emphasis on.
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Antonio Smith – Did AJ Hawk come back and play a game in Antonio Smith's body. That guy was everywhere. Big Ten Defensive Player of the Week? I haven't seen many performances better than that.
Jay Richardson – There had to be three guys wearing #99 on defense at once because he was all over that backfield. No way could one person cover that much ground.
Jake Ballard – I drink a lot of that Rory Nicol Kool-Aid. I love Nicol and insist he will be one of the premier tight ends in the country sooner rather than later. However, it was Ballard's TD grab that left people talking. A true freshman stepping up into the "Big Boy Club."


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Pacific Rim Bureau (CNSNews.com) - The Australian government Thursday dismissed claims by a controversial sect that a woman gave birth to a cloned baby boy at a Sydney hospital last week.
Clonaid, the human cloning group linked to the alien-worshipping Raelian sect, asserts that the alleged birth in Australia is the sixth clone it has successfully created, and the first in a "new series."
Another seven cloned babies in this "second generation" would be born in various countries in the next two weeks, it said.
In the absence of proof or independent verification, the group's claims have been widely dismissed as fraudulent.
Australian Health Minister Tony Abbott said the latest claim was "the medical equivalent of a UFO story."
The sect that controls Clonaid says it believes humans were created by extra-terrestrials. In 1997 the group, led by former French journalist Claude Vorilhon, who goes by the name "Rael," opened a theme park in Canada called "UFOland."
Abbott told Australian television cloning was "illegal, immoral and dangerous."
Clonaid said no laws in Australia were broken, because the baby had been conceived in another, unspecified country.
Several Australian lawmakers Thursday called for police to investigate the claims.
Neither the state police in Sydney, the Australian Federal Police, nor the office of Australia's Attorney-General, could shed any light Thursday on whether anyone was investigating whether Clonaid had broken any laws in the country.
Cloning involves the creation of an embryo using a patient's DNA and an egg cell from which the DNA has been removed. The child would be a genetic copy of the person whose DNA was used, and share some of that person's physical characteristics.
Proponents say it offers 21st century options to those who are unable to conceive, same-sex couples, and parents who have lost a child.
Despite strong medical, religious and ethical opposition, and moves to outlaw the activity around the world, Clonaid and several other maverick scientists have been racing to be the first to pioneer a successful clone birth.
While Clonaid claims already to have done so -- now six times -- another would-be cloner, U.S.-based fertility expert Panos Zavos, said last month he had transferred a cloned human embryo into a woman. On Feb. 4, however, Zavos said the pregnancy had failed.
'The world isn't ready for proof'
According to Clonaid vice president Thomas Kaenzig said the latest baby was born last Thursday to an infertile Australian couple, who were not members of the Raelians. They had since taken the boy home, where he was being monitored by a local pediatrician.
In a phone interview Thursday, Kaenzig said the man's DNA had been used to create the clone, and his partner herself - as opposed to a surrogate mother - had been able to carry the baby to term.
The process had been monitored in Sydney by Clonaid head Brigitte Boisselier, a chemist who is also a "bishop" in the Raelian movement.
Since the alleged birth of the first Clonaid baby, Eve, in December 2002, the company has provided the world with no proof of the cloning, nor indeed of the babies' existence.
Kaenzig said Clonaid had compiled plenty of evidence from "multiple testing" in each case, but would not release it until "mankind is ready, or public opinion is ready."
He said attempts to outlaw human cloning internationally included a proposal by France to jail for 20 years any French citizen involved in the practice, anywhere in the world. Boisselier is a French citizen.
Producing proof that the babies were clones would simply be providing evidence that could be used in court against Clonaid scientists.
Kaenzig shrugged off skepticism and ridicule, saying Clonaid's responsibility was to its investors and to the families "we have been able to make happy."
"Let [other] people think what they want. We are proud of what we did. We will never be able to convince religious fanatics who oppose human cloning [and] forever skeptical scientists."
He said Clonaid's first priority was to the families of the babies. After the birth of Eve, Boisselier had had to choose between her "credibility as a scientist" and the families' privacy.
Kaenzig expressed optimism that public opinion was shifting away from opposition to human cloning. "It's only a matter of time -- time is on our side."
'Free advertising'
Some critics say scientists like Zavos and Boisselier are chasing publicity rather than an actual breakthrough, and have urged media organizations not to report on their claims.
"We appeal to those making the decisions about the priority given to these stories to wait until real evidence appears before providing these individuals with such a prominent platform in the future," a group of top reproductive biology scientists in Britain said in a recent open letter.
Since Dolly the Sheep was cloned in 1997, human cloning is no longer deemed scientifically impossible. With groups like Clonaid vying to be first, some pro-life campaigners argue that what they do and say cannot be ignored, but at the say time are concerned about the PR aspect.
"In one breath I'd say any reporting on the media on this would need to be done, and done extremely skeptically," David Cotton of New South Wales Right to Life said from Sydney Thursday.
"On the other hand, no matter what reporting is done, it is just playing into their hands - free advertising for themselves," he added.
Australia's parliament in August 2002 unanimously banned human cloning, whether to produce babies, or for the harvesting of stem cells from cloned embryos - a practice proponents call "therapeutic cloning" because of potential future medical benefits from stem cells, and pro-lifers call "destructive cloning" because the embryos is killed in the process.
But Cotton pointed out that, even with this "extremely tight legislation," groups like Clonaid were still making their "outlandish claims."
Whether true or not, Cotton said the announcement "demonstrates the Raelians' lack of concern for the baby but rather the dominating concern for their advertising, or possibly for the infertile couple who they allege they've now provided a wonderful baby for."
The group was not considering the risk and potential damage to the child allegedly created, he said.
"Also, what about all the failures? They don't look at that side of things, do they?"
He recalled that Dolly's creators said the sheep was the first success after some 270 failed attempts, including miscarriages and serious medical defects.
Asked about the medical concerns, Kaenzig dismissed them, saying it was wrong to look at failures in some species of animals and assume there would be the same problems in humans.
Some species had shown themselves to be highly resistant to cloning, while others were easily cloned.
He said the eight successful pregnancies in Clonaid's "second generation" arose out of 20 implantations, and acknowledged that the others had ended in miscarriage. But, he added, there were failures in in-vitro-fertilization (IVF) treatment too.
Opinion polls routinely indicate that the vast majority of people oppose human cloning.
Zavos has argued that there was similarly strong opposition to IVF when first pioneered three decades ago.
One of two British scientists who pioneered IVF and oversaw birth of the first test-tube baby, Robert Edwards, last month appeared to give cautious backing to Zavos' work, telling a Scottish newspaper that once the "temporary problem" of defects was overcome, "then the true ethics of cloning will emerge, free from arguments about malformations."
"Will there be any real harm in helping the occasional infertile couple to have their own child, while controlling the excesses of cloning?" the Sunday Herald quoted Edwards as saying.
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Re: st: Plot probability function after xtlogit, re - how to interpret constant?
Thu, 23 May 2013 15:27:28 +0200
Dear Maarten,
thanks for your suggestion to use margins. I will certainly have a
look at my predictions with marginsplot as well.
But as you already stated, that does not really solve my problem.
The following example shows what I mean:
webuse union
xtlogit not_smsa age, re
twoway function befristet= exp(_b[_cons]+_b[age]*x)/(1+exp(_b[_cons]+_b[age]*x))
logit not_smsa age
twoway function y= exp(_b[_cons]+_b[age]*x)/(1+exp(_b[_cons]+_b[age]*x))
the relative frequency of not_smsa is about 0.28
the logit estimation suggests probabilities around 0.2 depending on age.
the xtlogit, re estimation however suggests probabilities around 0.005
depending on age.
*centering age does not change these results substantially*
So my question remains how to interpret these probabilities.
On 23 May 2013 13:52, Maarten Buis <email@example.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 1:19 PM, Felix Wilke wrote:
>> I have some longitudinal models (xtlogit, re) containing interaction effects.
>> Now I would like to plot the effect of the interaction effects.
>> Therefore I use a function like the following (x2 being a dummy
>> variable):
>> twoway function
>> y0=exp(_b[_cons]+_b[x1]*x)/(1+exp(_b[_cons]+_b[x1]*x)), range(0 4) ||
>> function y1=exp(_b[_cons]+_b[x2]+_b[x1]*x+_b[interaction_x1x2]*x)/(1+exp(_b[_cons]+_b[x2]+_b[x1]*x+_b[interaction_x1x2]*x))
> This strategy may work, but it is just too easy to create a typo or
> bug this way. It is much safer to use -margins- and the -marginsplot-
> command.
> *------------------ begin example ------------------
> webuse union
> xtlogit union age grade i.not_smsa south##c.year
> margins, at(age=30 grade=12 not_smsa=1 ///
> south=(0 1) year=(70/88)) ///
> predict(pu0)
> marginsplot, x(year)
> *------------------- end example -------------------
> (For more on examples I sent to the Statalist see:
> http://www.maartenbuis.nl/example_faq )
>> The shape of the function display the effects as expected. My problem,
>> however, is the estimated probability. It is unrealistic low - if I
>> repeat the same regression as a cross-section analysis I get proper
>> probabilities.
>> I guess the constant in an xtlogit,re model is to be interpreted
>> differently than in a cross sectional logit model. Is this right?
> Not really, it is still the expected log odds of success when all
> covariates equal 0. This now includes the group level error term, but
> the value 0 there refers to an average group, so that is not the
> source of your problem.
>> And how do I interpret the estimated probabilities in a xtlogit, re model?
> Just as you would any other probability.
> Hope this helps,
> Maarten
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Improving retail sales data, solid margin growth and an uptick in consumer confidence have sparked significant gains in the retail sector, rewarding the patience of long-suffering investors in the consumer discretionary space.
After weakness in the last few months of 2012, retail sales rose by a seasonally adjusted 0.9 per cent in January, spurring hopes for a long-awaited rebound in discretionary spending.
"Nobody is prepared to declare victory yet, but I do think there's an increasing level of confidence, and that the worst has passed for the consumer," said Matthew Riordan of Paradice Investments. "If you look at what the retailers themselves are saying, January was definitely positive for them, and they're saying that the momentum is continuing into February."
Some experts, however, are questioning if the share price run can continue.
Merrill Lynch says current share prices appear to be factoring in earnings upgrades next financial year of more than 20 per cent, which may not be achievable in the absence of a "meaningful" retail recovery.
Credit Suisse analyst Grant Saligari said the January sales data may have been buoyed by one-off factors including the government's school kids bonus payments and better seasonal weather.
"We know that household discretionary often tightens up again once these one-off payments work their way though the system," he said. "But it appears on anecdotal feedback that February has been pretty solid."
Deloitte Access Economics expects retail sales to remain subdued this year but says there are positive signs on the horizon as lower interest rates, rising house prices and improving consumer confidence filter through to spending. It expects real retail sales growth to rise to 2.5 per cent in 2013/14 and reach 3.6 per cent the following year, compared with 2.2 per cent this year.
Deloitte notes that the household savings rate has levelled out around 10 per cent after reaching a 23-year-high during the global financial crisis. However, Mr Saligari says the historically high savings rate and volatile global economic conditions may continue to hinder a retail recovery.
"Sustained acceleration in spending will require some reduction in the savings rate," he said. "Consumer sentiment has been shown to be quite sensitive to outside information. The Australian consumer seems to take quite a bit of notice of what's happening in the global economy."
Arnhem Investment Management portfolio manager Martin Duncan says many retailers now look fairly valued. "I think some of these retail stocks are likely to take a breather at this point because price to earnings multiples have re-rated quite strongly," he said.
Myer, which will report half-year earnings on Thursday, trades at about 13 times earnings, while fellow
However. UBS retail analyst Ben Gilbert believes there is scope for further share price gains for retailers such as JB Hi-Fi and Harvey Norman, which are still trading below their peers despite scope for margin-driven earnings upgrades.
Mr Gilbert said retailers managed to overcome lacklustre top-line sales growth in the December half by lifting gross margins and cutting costs and this trend should continue in the June half.
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One of the most expensive free agent signings for the New York Mets this winter has barely taken the field. Outfielder Chris Young signed a one year, 7.5 million dollar contract in the offseason and was expected to be a starter in the outfielder. Injuries derailed the start of Young's season, as a right quad injury limited him to half an inning in the season's second game before he was sent to the disabled list. Young is, however, on the road to recovery, Mike Puma of the New York Post reports.
Young has played two games of extended spring training and is headed to Triple-A Las Vegas today for extended playing time. Young will likely remain with the 51's for the next few days, and he could return to the Mets in time for their next homestand on Friday night. Young's return could provide an offensive boost to the struggling Mets, but it does create an interesting dilemma.
When spring training ended, Chris Young was likely going to be the club's primary left fielder with Juan Lagares in center, Curtis Granderson in right, and Eric Young Jr off the bench. EY, however, has started hitting very well over the last week and has resembled the igniter the Mets had over the second half of last season. Lagares has hit as well, and he has been arguably the team's most consistent offensive player. Granderson is hitting the worst of the three outfielders, but with a 60 million dollar contract and a proven track record Granderson will be given every opportunity to succeed.
Manager Terry Collins didn't address the playing time situation when asked by reporters yesterday, but if we were to guess we would assume EY loses some playing time for now. Chris Young is capable of being the team's leadoff hitter, and Juan Lagares is hitting better than Eric Young anyway. Lagares is also the best fielder of the group, so as long as he is hitting he should see every day playing time. Eric Young will likely transition into a fourth outfielder/supersub role that he was eyed for in the spring, but he will likely get some playing time as well. For once, the Mets' outfield depth is a good problem to have as opposed to a troubling situation.
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Since its inception in 1999, the Coalition has battled on many fronts against the statewide property tax to fund education, including in the courts and the Legislature. It also has undertaken studies in-house and also hired the highly respected firm of Almy, Gloudemans, Jacobs and Denne (AGJD), which concluded that it's "impossible" to implement the state property tax in a proportionate and constitutional manner.
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Grilled Vegetable Salad with Pistachio Vinaigrette
The secret to this delicious salad is the way the nutty pistachio oil contrasts with the sweet balsamic vinegar (Chef George Mahaffey recommends using Cavalli balsamic seasoning).
Slideshow: Terrific Green Salads
- Servings: 4
- 1/4 cup olive oil
- 1 large garlic clove, minced
- 1 tablespoon minced fresh flat-leaf parsley
- 2 teaspoons minced fresh thyme
- Kosher salt and freshly ground pepper
- 1/2 pound fresh chanterelle mushrooms, thickly sliced if large
- 1/2 pound thin asparagus, trimmed
- 3 tablespoons balsamic vinegar
- 5 tablespoons Toasted Pistachio Oil
- 6 cups mesclun (about 6 ounces)
How to make this recipe
Preheat the oven to 500°. In a bowl, combine the oil, garlic, parsley, thyme, salt and pepper. Spread the mushrooms on a baking sheet and toss with half of the herb oil. Roast for 4 to 5 minutes, stirring, until tender and browned. Transfer to a plate.
On the baking sheet, toss the asparagus with the remaining herb oil and roast for 6 to 7 minutes, stirring, until tender and browned. Cut the asparagus into 2-inch lengths and add to the mushrooms.
In a bowl, blend 1 1/2 tablespoons of the vinegar with 2 tablespoons of the Toasted Pistachio Oil and toss with the mesclun. Season with 1/2 teaspoon salt and 1/4 teaspoon pepper and mound the salad on 4 plates.
Add the mushrooms and asparagus to the bowl, toss with the remaining balsamic vinegar and arrange on the salads. Drizzle the remaining Toasted Pistachio Oil over and around each salad.
Suggested Pairing
The pistachio dressing and vegetables are best paired with a crisply acidic white with herbaceous flavors. Try a Sauvignon Blanc, such as the Matanzas Creek or the Grgich Hills Fumé Blanc.


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Teen Hurt In Md. Go-Kart CrashAnne Arundel County officials say a 13-year-old boy was injured when his go-kart flipped in the Shady Side area.
2 Seriously Hurt After Car Crashes Into Md. StoreTwo men have been seriously injured after a car crashed into a Sam's Club discount store in Gaithersburg.
2 Men Rushed To Hospital After Possible Lightning Strike In AnnapolisTwo young men are rushed to the hospital after they may have been struck by lightning in Annapolis.
Toddler Injured After Lawnmower Overturns At Md. HomeThe Carroll County Sheriff's office says a 2-year-old boy was critically injured when the lawnmower he was riding with his grandfather overturned into a stream.
2 Hurt In Hampden House FireA house fire in northwest Baltimore sends two people to the hospital.
Driver Killed In Crash; Officer Hurt In Rescue TryPrince George's County Police say a driver was killed in a single-vehicle crash and an officer who tried to free him from the burning wreckage was injured.
Md. Revokes Assisted-Living Home's LicenseThe Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene says it has revoked the license of a Boonsboro assisted-living center where an 84-year-old Alzheimer's patient was badly hurt in a fall through an unfinished floor.
Baltimore Firefighter Hurt In Rowhome FireAn investigation is underway after a Baltimore city row-house goes up in flames.
Woman Hurt In Middle River House FireInvestigators are trying to figure out what sparked a house fire in Middle River.
4 Injured In Baltimore City Detention Center StabbingA Maryland corrections official says four men were taken to hospitals after a stabbing at the Baltimore City Detention Center.
Md. Trooper Hurt In Finksburg CrashMaryland State Police say a trooper was injured when his vehicle collided with a tractor-trailer in Finksburg.
Woman Critically Hurt In Prince George's House FirePrince George's County firefighters say a woman has been critically injured in a house fire in Temple Hills.


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Twenty months into her tenure as Yahoo's CEO, the refreshingly blunt Carol Bartz sat down with the Wall Street Journal to make her case that turnarounds take time, and that's what she needs more of in the face of pressure to increase the Internet pioneer's stock price and improve its competitive footing in an ever-changing online landscape.
"You don't come in and do fairy dust. You upgrade technology, you see what drives engagement," she told the WSJ.
Bartz is 100 percent correct, of course. Fairy dust being in relatively short supply these days, companies competing in the digital landscape need to figure out what their customers want and how to deliver it in a way that generates profits and, hopefully, increases the company's share price. That's no easy task during a recession and in an environment where advertisers are tight with their dollars.
But in making her case, Bartz misstated a bit of history. According to WSJ, Bartz said that "Apple's stock-market capitalization was 'dead ass flat' for a number of years after Steve Jobs returned in 1997."
I was curious about Bartz's colorful assertion and, being into metrics, charts and such, decided to look into it. I discovered two things:
1) It was exactly 13 years ago today that Jobs became "interim CEO" of Apple following the disastrous tenure of Gil Amelio. Happy anniversary, Steve.
2) Bartz was "dead ass wrong" about Apple's market fortunes in the wake of Jobs's return.
Perhaps ironically, I found Apple's historical stock data in Yahoo's excellent finance section. You can view the chart here, but below are some relevant stock prices from that long-ago era.
September 1997: $5.42
December 1997: $3.28
February 1998: $5.90
September 1998: $9.53
May 1999: $11.01
That last price, by the way, was 20 months after Jobs's reinstatement as Apple CEO. Shares climbed as high as $33.95 in March 2000. Then the Internet Gold Rush came to an abrupt halt, and Apple's stock price plummeted along with virtually every other tech company's, falling as low as $7.11 in April 2003. Since then it's been on a remarkable run, even given the economic nosedive that began in 2008. Today Apple is trading at $272.
There's no doubt that Bartz and Yahoo are operating in a much more difficult economic environment than was Apple back in the late '90s, and no reasonable person can expect her to work miracles overnight with a company that had become bloated and lost its competitive sense of direction. And while I wouldn't even compare Yahoo's current situation with Apple's back in 1997, Bartz did. And she got the facts wrong.
No big deal, I know, but public figures often misstate things that then are taken as fact or gospel. Sometimes it's worth checking into them, just to set the record straight.


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Sandy is a 20 lb. 13 year old shiba-inu /corgi mix. He was abandoned at a local shelter and slated for euthanasia. When we went to visit him in his kennel and he pranced and danced, we realized this sparkly guy had tons of life and love in him. Sandy would do well in most any adult home. He is well behaved and housetrained. He is so full of personality and loves to get and give lots of love. He is ok with other dogs but prefers the human species!!
Sandy is deaf but responds well to you, as if he can hear. He loves short walks and walks well on leash.
Sandy's update: We hospice-cared for Sandy until he passed over the rainbow. We will miss this sprightly gentleman. We know he had lots of love all the way to the end.
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JOHN-L ArchivesArchiver > JOHN > 2003-06 > 1055297374
Subject: [JOHN-L] James Monroe Johns
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 22:09:34 EDT
Re: James Monroe Johns. Check the Johns Family History Association
Genealogies for James Monroe Johns.
http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=johns
He was the son of Reuben Johns and Frances Garrett of Cumberland County,
grandson of Joseph Johns and Harriet Frances Tinsley of Cumberland County and
g-grandson of Thomas Johns and wife unknown. This line doesn't go back any
further, so I don't know about a connection to Richard and Jane Fox Johns of King
William County. Maybe someone else in the group can help with that connection.
>From what I can see, the documentation looks good. You might want to contact
Bob Newsome at , as he posted the information.
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I have read you can freeze your own fat. Is this true? Can this be used for structural Fat grafting? How viable are live cells with this process? Are they harvested the same?
Freezing Fat for Future Fat Grafting?
Doctor Answers 2
Freezing of fat and lipoinjection
Fat cells are harvested in the same physician regardless of subsequent management. However, the exact preparation to ensure optimal survival remains elusive. Despit being incredibly easy to gain weight and fat cells, the fat cells are extremely delicate and easily die once they are removed from the body. Long term survival with freeezing usually requires precise and scientifc treatment uder strict laboratory conditions. These are not the same as in a typical office setting. Therefore, although freezing is possible, it is not a popular procedure due to unpredictable survival rates on the cosmetic surgery setting.
Fat Transfer...Freezing Fat for Future Use
Hi Vickie,
Yes, many fat transfer physicians save the extra unused fat at the time of original harvest and treatment. The fat is frozen and later thawed and injected.
The result after 5 to 6 months after fat transfer is a permanent result, we are looking at fat grafts that have survived, established blood supply, and are your own living cells. Therefore, 5-6 months after the initial fat transfer, additional "frozen fat" may be injected during a "touch up" procedure in the office under local anesthesia.
Frozen fat viability is not as good as the freshly harvested fat, but does add to the ultimate result.
Good luck and be well.
Dr. P
These answers are for educational purposes and should not be relied upon as a substitute for medical advice you may receive from your physician. If you have a medical emergency, please call 911. These answers do not constitute or initiate a patient/doctor relationship.


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Hi, I was wondering if anybody could give me some help? I made the awful mistake of doing a fresh install of Leopard on my computer, it has wiped my hard drive. I haven't made a back of my files for so long that I have lost almost everything.
All my resources, psds, brushes, pics you name it. Is there anyway that I can get them back? I have most certainly learnt my lesson the hard way! Eeeekkk….............
I've never done this, but you might be able to recover it, just don't put any more files to that harddrive unless it's really necessary. Here is a software which can help you to recover it:
That software company also founded this:
If you lost some very very expensive data or you too scared of trying to recover it on your own, then I suggest you to contact a professional local service who does data recoveries. You will pay much more, even if the recovery fails, but they are professionals and it's highly unlikely that they would make some stupid mistake during the recovery. Ask around in your local AppleStore for contacts on recovery specialists, they could have some experiences that you might find useful.
Thanks so much! I have managed to recover my psd's – pheweeeeeeeeeeeee. Also jpgs. I haven't found my lovely PS brushes, styles etc. I will have to start again on that one. I am so grateful to you. Thanks again
You are welcome, I am glad it did worked out for you. Cheers!


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Shakespeare Electronic Conference, Vol. 6, No. 0428. Tuesday, 30 May 1995.
Date: Monday, 29 May 1995 19:38:03 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: The Director in the Elizabethan Theater
Not E.K. Chambers in his voluminous examination of the Elizabethan Theater, nor
M.C. Bradbrook, nor Gerald Bentley, so much as mention the role of director in
Elizabethan times. We have authors, actors as sharers, actors as hired men,
theater managers like Henslowe, company managers like Hemmings, but who did the
directing? These plays weren't mere plot outlines, as in the Commedia del Arte;
they required blocking. Ideas, anyone?
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Christmas Wish Fundraiser Saturday!
Mattingly-Palmer Promotions and Pangea Cafe are teaming up for a very special night of music, entertainment and fundraising. This Saturday night (Nov. 17th) is the Star Light, Star Bright silent auction and concert event for Christmas Wish, which is about the begin its 36th consecutive season of making sure every child in the tri-state gets a visit from Santa! So, you wanna know who's playing at the big show and what items are up for bid in the silent action? Keep reading!


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Yogi Berra is credited with coining one of the great clichès of sports:
"It ain't over till it's over."
The observation is true in the game at which Berra excelled.
Baseball has no clock. The game isn't over until the last man is out.
It's different in hockey … especially games involving your Montreal Canadiens.
A team that can't score is three goals down with 3:22 to play?
If that ain't over …
The grim finality certainly had occurred to fans in the Bell Centre. Almost half of the 21,273 had abandoned the premises when Lars Eller – LARD ELLER, for crying out loud! – scored the goal that began the Comeback of the Season.
Oh ye of little faith! Your expensive season tickets should be confiscated and distributed among fans who don't give up hope until the siren sounds.
If you can find any.
When the puck dropped to begin Saturday night's game, the Canadiens were 29th in the NHL in 5-on-5 scoring. And their power play had gone into the tank through the team's three-game losing streak.
Is this a club you expect to score three goals in less than four minutes?
Of course not. This is a club you expect to be tied 1-1 after outshooting Ottawa 17-4 in the first period.
It was dèja vu all over again. In their most recent loss, the Canadiens had outshot Boston 14-6 in the first period.
Not one of those shots got by Tuukka Rask, and the Bruins scored four unanswered goals to win easily.
But the Senators are not the Bruins. Ottawa scored three unanswered goals to take control of the game heading into the last four minutes.
Then they fell apart. And the loss likely doomed Ottawa's chances of making the playoffs.
What the win did for the Canadiens remains to be seen. But we won't have to wait long.
They play in Buffalo Sunday night. Carey Price didn't even make the trip, so it will be up to Peter Budaj to hold the fort against one of the few NHL teams that has more trouble scoring than the Canadiens.
He'll need better protection than Price got. In his first game since winning a gold medal in Sochi – playing behind Team Canada defencemen who were a tad better than Alexei Emelin, Douglas Murray, Mike Weaver and, yes, Overtime hero Francis Bouillon – Price was rusty and looked bad on Zack Smith's goal, which dribbled between his legs and lay there for the Senators forward to tap in.
But Smith's goal came on one of Ottawa's dismayingly frequent breakaways. And the Senators' other three goals were the result of woeful play by the Canadiens in their own end.
Lars Eller and Brendan Gallagher were on for all four Ottawa goals. Alex Galchenyuk was on for three of them.
It was good to see the EGG line reunited. And coming off an emotional win, we'll probably see them together again in Buffalo.
Galchenyuk and Gallagher will bounce back. But when Eller scored – for the first time since Jan. 2, a span of 24 games – he had been on the stat sheet for two penalties. And when he wasn't in the box, Eller was watching four Ottawa score four times.
Maybe the win will boost Eller's fragile confidence. He followed up his goal with an assist on Brian Gionta's.
And maybe the win will persuade Michel Therrien to loosen the shackles on P.K. Subban.
The reigning Norris Trophy winner played his best game since the Olympic break. With Ottawa in control and fans streaming toward the exits, Subban went full P.K. on the reeling Senators.
The stats: ToI of 28:55 to lead both teams, assists on all three comeback goals, seven shots on goal, to lead both teams, plus three that were blocked and two that missed the net; four hits, two takeaways and two blocked shots.
Comparable stats for Erik Karlsson: 26:00, two assists (including the unreal pass that sprang Smith), three SoG, plus five that were blocked; zero hits, one takeaway.
The game had its nasty moments. Some may suggest Brandon Prust's mugging of Milan Michalek woke the Canadiens up and keyed their comeback. Chris Neil, Dale Weise and Travis Moen got third-period misconducts after a scrum in Lehner's crease; and Bobby Ryan got a game for going berserk on the zebras after Frankie Boo's OT winner.
The team will meet for the fifth and last time April 4 in Ottawa. The Senators will be well out of it by then, which could make for a lively evening.
Where will the Canadiens be in 20 days?
It's still hard to say.
The win was emotional, uplifting and offered the fans who stuck around excitement that's been all too rarely on display at the Bell Centre this season.
But the futile first-period fusillade, the poor zone play in front of Price, the power play that sputtered through seven opportunities until DD's miracle goal …
In short, there are issues.
And 14 games to get them sorted out.


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Country Info: Nigeria
Economic Background
Oil-rich Nigeria has been hobbled by political instability, corruption, inadequate infrastructure, and poor macroeconomic management, but in 2008 began pursuing economic reforms. Nigeria's former military rulers failed to diversify the economy away from its over-dependence on the capital-intensive oil sector, which provides 95% of foreign exchange earnings and about 80% of budgetary revenues.
Following the signing of an IMF stand-by agreement in August 2000, Nigeria received a debt-restructuring deal from the Paris Club and a $1 billion credit from the IMF, both contingent on economic reforms. Nigeria pulled out of its IMF program in April 2002, after failing to meet spending and exchange rate targets, making it ineligible for additional debt forgiveness from the Paris Club. In November 2005, Abuja won Paris Club approval for a debt-relief deal that eliminated $18 billion of debt in exchange for $12 billion in payments - a total package worth $30 billion of Nigeria's total $37 billion external debt.
Since 2008 the government has begun to show the political will to implement the market-oriented reforms urged by the IMF, such as modernizing the banking system, removing subsidies, and resolving regional disputes over the distribution of earnings from the oil industry.
GDP rose strongly in 2007-12 because of growth in non-oil sectors and robust global crude oil prices. President Jonathan has established an economic team that includes experienced and reputable members and has announced plans to increase transparency, diversify economic growth, and improve fiscal management. Lack of infrastructure and slow implementation of reforms are key impediments to growth. The government is working toward developing stronger public-private partnerships for roads, agriculture, and power.
Nigeria's financial sector was hurt by the global financial and economic crises, but the Central Bank governor has taken measures to restructure and strengthen the sector to include imposing mandatory higher minimum capital requirements. (Source: World Factbook, 2013)


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"Storage Wars" star Mark Balelo is said to have committed suicide over the weekend. Two days after Mark Balelo was arrested on drug charges, the 40-year-old reality star was found dead in his car.
According to TMZ, Balelo was arrested on Saturday on drug related offenses. The website said after he was released, he called his fiancée and asked her to come over to his office because he was afraid he might hurt himself.
Early Monday an employee found him dead in his car.
Sources say Balelo's car was running in his garage at his auction house.
Balelo, who was nicknamed "Rico Suave" for his flamboyant style, owned Balelo Inc., a business that specializes in asset liquidations and closeout sales. He previously ran a gaming store called The Game Exchange.


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GA-ROOTS-L ArchivesArchiver > GA-ROOTS > 2001-06 > 0991971061
From: "Cecilia Wood Church" <>
Subject: Re: [GA-Roots] Taylor and Meadows
Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 23:31:01 -0400
References: <firstname.lastname@example.com> <002101c0efc7$0be71d80$4b0d66a6@pavilion>
For which Wood and Jones families are you searching? I have a few.
> I also am sure that Wood and Mathis families are in that area too...Jones,
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A congressional subcommittee was told Feb. 27 that while testing for drugs in horse racing isn't perfect, the current model is both effective and ever-improving.
Alex Waldrop, the president and chief executive officer of the National Thoroughbred Racing Association, was one of several major sports executives to testify before the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection in a hearing titled, "Drugs in Sports: Compromising the Health of Athletes and Undermining the Integrity of Competition."
In his opening remarks, Waldrop said the Racing Medication and Testing Consortium provides a "credible, scientifically based, industry-led forum for addressing the multitude of drug and medication issues presented by modern day veterinary medicine.
"Is our testing protocol perfect? No. Can it be improved? Absolutely," Waldrop told assembled committee members. "But the major industry stakeholders are united in their commitment to address drug and medication issues on a national basis through the RMTC and RCI (Racing Commissioners International)."
U.S. Rep. Ed Whitfield of Kentucky, who in addressing an earlier panel Feb. 27 criticized horse racing's testing policies, later grilled Waldrop on a 2004 quote from a former leader of the NTRA, D.G. Van Clief: "We have endeavored to adopt uniform rules governing the use of medication for years without success – despite the clear need to do so." (Note: A story on the NTRA Web site quotes the last part of that statement as "despite the clear case for uniformity."
"Do you agree with that statement?" Whitfield asked.
"I do not agree," Waldrop replied. "Since that statement was made, a great deal of progress has been made."
Whitfield then talked in theory about forcing states to comply with a national uniform testing model by adding conditions to the federal Interstate Horseracing Act, which permits simulcasting.
"Would it be unreasonable to say if a state doesn't adopt (the rules), they could lose simulcast rights?" Whitfield asked.
"No. That would not be unreasonable," Waldrop replied.
Whitfield earlier asked Waldrop if steroids should simply be banned in all U.S. racing.
"There is a need to abolish them in competition," Waldrop said.
"So, if a horse tests positive for steroids, it shouldn't be racing," Whitfield countered.
"That is correct," Waldrop replied.
Waldrop was also asked why some states haven't adopted the model rule. Waldrop, like other panelists participating in the hearing, noted all testing isn't foolproof.
"It was interesting hearing the discussion about the human growth hormone and the differences in testing urine and testing blood plasma," Waldrop said. "That is the situation we find in horse racing where steroids are concerned.
"What horsemen are telling us is we want rules…you tell us what we can do to comply, and we will comply," he continued. "I have read all the clips and I know what they are saying all around the country and I have yet to hear a horseman say 'we do not want to stop using steroids.' What they are saying is we want a test for plasma. And that is reasonable. The RMTC is doing the research and we think by the end of the year they can get full compliance."
Waldrop was also asked about barring horses from competing in states that haven't adopted model rules.
"That would be unprecedented," he said. "The more important rule is that as more and more states adopt the model rule on steroids, other states that don't comply will have to if they (want horses to compete). You can't use steroids in one state and take that horse to another state that bans steroids because you are going to test positive."
Waldrop was part of an afternoon panel that included Jim Scherr, CEO of the U.S. Olympic Committee; and Myles Brand, president of the National Collegiate Athletics Association, among others. The morning panel included commissioners Bud Selig of Major League Baseball, David Stern of the National Basketball Association, and Roger Goodell of the National Football League, among others.
The morning session was televised live on ESPNews, while the afternoon session was available only via Web cast.
The Blood-Horse online managing editor Ron Mitchell contributed to this article.
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