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All About Chickens: Understanding Chicken Behavior
We all behave in certain ways. Humans do and so do chickens. If you familiarize yourself with the way chickens behave, you can understand their basic needs and cater to them accordingly.
Pecking Order
This is where the chickens work it out amongst themselves. There's no point in trying to intervene. There's a dominant hen and she will and can peck any chicken that is below her. The second in line can peck any hen below them but NOT the one above them! Pity the bird at the bottom of the totem pole. They can and are pecked by all of the flock! Not fair!
As strange as it appears, the system does work. Once the flock has established its pecking order, it can co-exist in peace and harmony. Introducing a new bird upsets this order and the new addition may be bullied. It's best to add more than one hen at a time because this can ease matters.
Put them in an enclosure first so they can become acquainted while looking through safety wire. Then it's good to introduce them into an area with a lot of space so the new hens can escape the bullying behavior. Make sure you provide extra hiding places and perches around the run so the hens can get away to peace and safety. If things get out of hand, try removing the dominant bird to a new environment until the newcomers become established.
Yes, all chicken breeds crow but some are nosier than others. Believe it or not, the larger breeds tend to have a pleasanter-sounding crow. And if you believe roosters only crow at dawn, perish that thought. They crow throughout the day. And it's most likely they are crowing for the same reason that our songbirds sing at dawn. Not, as we like to believe, for the joy of singing, but to see if any neighboring bird didn't make it through the night and may have left prime real estate for them to move into!!!
Roosters will also crow in defiance and to let others know danger has passed. If they hear another rooster crow, they will answer with a blast of their own. You see how it can become quite noisy! If noisy roosters are driving you crazy, you can remove the offending birds to a dark box at night and return them to the run at a more suitable hour in the morning. To help dull the sound of the roosters, you can plant bamboo and conifers around their habitat. Low-toned wind chimes can help as well.
Chickens, also, have many different vocalizations. It is informative to learn to recognize the sounds. Hens have a soft, growling sound when broody. They cackle when they have just laid an egg. (so would I!) And they make a "took, took" sound to call their chicks to come and eat. Chickens will let off with a screech when alarmed. (same as I do) They make a burring sound to tell others about danger.
Courting Chickens
If a rooster finds an interesting treat, he will let the chickens know all about it. Now the hen isn't clueless. She knows he has more on his mind than those treats. There are some roosters that will be gentlemanly all year round but the majority will be using treats for one reason only!
If the hen comes near and accepts the food, the rooster will then prance around the hen with one wing dropped, before attempting to move in for action. If the hen accepts his advances, she will squat to allow mating to take place. Hens that are not ready to fall for the rooster's advances, will grab the treat and then take off like a bat out of hell so they can't be caught! LOL!
Spring and summer is the breeding season and some males can become very aggressive. For adults, it may be amusing but for children this behavior can be startling as the bird is batting furiously all over the place and could attack anyone within range.
Unfortunately, the aggressive birds are most in demand because they are the most virile and fertile. Unless needed for breeding, large fowl that are very aggressive are best suited to be on our dinner plates. This is because they hit too hard, jump too high and can cause injury.
To cure the habits of antisocial birds, many people throw water on them or dip them in a bucket of water. Others suggest cuddling. But these are temporary measures as the birds are soon back to their "beat up the human" game.
When you need to catch that aggressive bird, hold a coat in front of you to protect yourself and as the bird approaches, throw it over them. Pin the bird to the ground inside of the coat. If you don't want the bird to breed, put it in an enclosure that you don't need to go into often.
Do not pass on an aggressive male to an innocent buyer without telling them all about the bird's temperament. Good on you!
Egg Eating
As much as this distresses me, it can be a problem. If you collect your eggs on a regular basis, which you should, you are less likely to have this problem of egg eating. This can be infuriating. No sooner has the hen laid an egg and she will peck it open and eat its contents.
Not only that, but when other hens see that behavior, they start to copy it! You must intervene right away. If not, you will have the whole flock gobbling up their eggs. Don't let your hens find out how good the eggs taste! If you can find out which hen is doing this, remove her from the enclosure so she can't teach the other hens the bad behavior.
To prevent egg eating, make sure the nestbox is in the darkest part of the henhouse and facing away from any window. This makes it harder for them to see the eggs. You can make these boxes darker by hanging material over the boxes.
Make sure the wood shavings in the nest boxes are deep. 3-4 inches deep. Fluff up the shavings. This way the eggs will settle down and become less visible to the chickens. You can also leave a few fake eggs around the chicken run. This will discourage the hens.
Chickens are just as quirky as humans. To study and understand their behavior can go a long way in understanding and loving our feathered friends.
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Here are tonight's confirmed TNA iMPACT! matches:
* Bound for Glory Series Joker's Wild Match: AJ Styles & Samoa Joe vs. Jeff Hardy & Joseph Park
* Bound for Glory Series Joker's Wild Match: Magnus & Mr. Anderson vs. Jay Bradley & Hernandez
* Bound for Glory Series Joker's Wild Match: Kaz & Bobby Roode vs. Daniels & Austin Aries
* #1 Contender's Ladder Match: Gail Kim vs. Taryn Terrell
* Gauntlet Match: The match features the Joker's Wild tag match winners – 25 BFG Series points will be awarded to the winner of the gauntlet.
Full **SPOILERS** for the show are posted on the main newsboard.
im looking forward to seeing the ladder match
i got to give Taryn Terrell my utmost respect because i thought oh no great a diva but damn she has proven herself as a great addition to the knockouts and a woman who is willing to pull out the stops
the knockouts over the last 2 years have suffered and changed a lot but the knockouts on tna show the whole world just how good womens wrestling is (shimmer and glow maybe better but they dont have the exposure tna have )
tna need more knock out ladder matches between 2 solid wrestlers and personally id like to see tara in a serious roll again and feuding with mikie james
Looking forward to the #1 contenders
Knockout match hope it's a sic as the
Last knockout standing match
people bashing rampage for being in the MeM is a joke .. Rampage jackson has headlined ppv events that get 1 mil buys…somoa joke cant event put 5 asses in the seats at a house show..

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However, four other trusts who were up for consideration have not been given the go ahead.
Monitor, the independent regulator, has deferred consideration of two applications, and two other trusts have withdrawn their bids for further work.
Foundation trusts have more freedom to control their own finances, and the way they develop services.
Monitor has said it may take a further decision on both trusts at a later date.
The two applicants that withdrew - Nottingham City Hospitals NHS trust and Burton Hospitals NHS - said they planned to re-apply in the future.
Stephen Humphreys, director of communications for Monitor, told the BBC News website: "All those involved in the process are gaining a much better understanding of what is required to become a foundation trust, and have recognised that it is quite demanding.
"Trusts need to be able to manage their own affairs, be well governed and financially viable - that is all quite challenging."
The government wants all NHS trusts to be in a position to apply for foundation status by 2008.
However, last month Monitor removed the chairman of Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, after it ran up millions of pounds of debt.
Other foundation trusts have also had to agree plans with the regulator to boost their performance, amid concerns about the difficulty of making the transition from central control to running their own affairs.
Scrap call
Of particular concern was the government target to have 15% of hospital patients treated in new private-sector diagnostic and treatment centres, which diverted routine work away from NHS trusts.
Former health secretary Frank Dobson called for foundation trust project to be scrapped.
He told the BBC Radio 4 World at One programme:"The policy should be reversed because the whole concept of trying to raise standards by introducing competition between different parts of the NHS is stupid and damaging."
At current rates, it would be 20 years before the Government achieved its
target of granting all NHS trusts foundation status, he said.
Big improvements
Health Minister John Hutton said: "I'm delighted that five more hospitals can enjoy foundation status.
"Today's announcement marks a further step on the road to decentralisation, freeing up more of the NHS from day-to-day Whitehall control and giving local patients more power to influence local services."
Mr Hutton said foundation trusts were making clear improvements in the quality of care for their patients.
"The new status has in effect given NHS Foundation Trusts the freedom to think differently, and they have been using their new capital and management freedoms to respond much more quickly to the needs of their patients."
Shadow Health Secretary Andrew Lansley said the foundation hospital policy was "piecemeal and restrictive".
"Labour have put Foundation Trusts in a bureaucratic straitjacket. The overwhelming majority of Foundation Hospitals need greater freedom if we are to see the NHS innovate, expand and respond to patients' right to choose."
In total, 20 trusts were given the go ahead to pursue foundation status last July. A decision on the second batch of those applicants will be made in April.


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Space: Apache OpenOffice Community (https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS) Page: Branding Style Guide (https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Branding+Style+Guide) Edited by Graham Lauder: --------------------------------------------------------------------- {toc:outline=true\|indent=25px\|maxLevel=3} h2. {color:#0e85cd}Introduction{color} This style guide is loosely based on the original OOo style guide produced by Bernhard Dippold and Steven Shelton. This guide is produced for a number of reasons, but the main one is to achieve a consistent look to present to the world across all media, whether print or electronic. The aim is to achieve a high level of brand recognition with a brand that reflects the values and strengths of the project and product. This is achieved by ubiquity, consistency, uniqueness, quality and recognisability The challenge faced by the Community is to achieve quality and consistency when pieces are being produced by volunteer artists, most often working alone . Not only are there issues in matching fonts, text styles, and other elements of design, but there are also technical issues surrounding different colour standards for different media. For this reason this Style Manual will be here to assist artists in creating promotional pieces that will have a unified look and feel, as well as render and print consistently. Each change in version and style would require the manual to be up dated, so specific pages will be added for each new release and completed in a timely manner well before feature freeze that allows any new style elements to be integrated into the release and so any style updates will speak to marketing materials for that release. h2. {color:#0e85cd}Pallet{color} h3. {color:#0e85cd}Short Term Pallet for 3.5 release{color} Pallet is yet to be defined, however for the first ApacheOO release, consensus is that retention of the latest Oracle OOo colour pallet is the best course. [OOo3 Visual design|http://www.openoffice.org/ui/VisualDesign/OOo3_refresh.html] covers most of the colour elements. || colour || RGB \\ || CMYK \\ || Hex \\ || Pantone \\ || | !0E85CD.png|border=1! | 14 133 205 \\ | 93 35 0 20 \\ | 0E85CD \\ | | | !87C2E6.png|border=1! | 135 194 230 \\ | 41 16 0 10 \\ | 87C2E6 \\ | | | !CFE7F5.png|border=1! | 207 231 245 | 16 6 0 4 \\ | CFE7F5 | | | !ECF5FB.png|border=1! | 236 245 251 \\ | 6 2 0 2 \\ | ECF5FB | | | White | 255 255 255 \\ | 0 0 0 0 \\ | FFFFFF | | | Black | 0 0 0 \\ | 0 0 0 100 \\ | 000000 | | !OOo_colors.png|border=1! The above are usage cases, desirable and undesirable within the range of the pallet. h3. {color:#0e85cd}Future Pallet{color} For ApacheOO 4.0 (If we retain the present version sequencing) there will need to be a new Pallet drafted to give the brand a new lift. Historically the pallet has changed through various shades of blue from the beginning of the OOo project with each new release bugs have come and gone and new design elements introduced. There is no reason that the 4.0 release should not have a entirely new brand, new bugs, new style, to signal a new beginning. h2. {color:#0e85cd}Logo{color} h3. {color:#0e85cd}Logo Usage{color} {color:#000000}It is recommended to use the OpenOffice.org logo without modifying it, although you will probably have to scale it down to the appropriate size. Remember the proportionality of the logo when you rescale it and use the appropriate logo for your purpose (with or without the version designation) as previously discussed. 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Except under very special circumstances, the logo should not be modified to display with different fonts, colours, or elements than those currently included in the adopted version.{color} h3. {color:#0e85cd}Bugs{color} {color:#0e85cd}{*}The bird or "Seagull"*{color} {color:#000000}element of the OpenOffice.org logo may be used as a "bug" (design element to be incorporated into background images, icons, bullets, etc.){color} !gulls3.png|align=right,border=1! {color:#000000}in either black, gray, or RGB 14:133:205 (or its CMYK or Pantone variants). It should not be used in any other colour except when referring to a specific component of the OpenOffice.org suite, in which case it should be rendered in the colour that matches the icons of that component. (For instance, the "Impress" bird bug could be rendered in RGB as R249, G101, B1; "Calc" as R157, G201, B21; and so on. See the section on "colour Usage" for more details.) However, the complete logo should be included somewhere within the piece.{color} {color:#0e85cd}*"wire gulls" or "wireframe gulls"*{color} {color:#000000}have been used in the background of the splash screen f{color}{color:#000000}rom OpenOffice.org 2.{color} !wire gulls.png|align=right,border=1! {color:#000000}This design is available from{color} {color:#000000}[here|http://marketing.openoffice.org/art/galleries/marketing/design_elements]{color}{color:#000000} in both raster and vector formats. While the wire gulls are not part of the official logo and should not be used as a "bug", they do make an attractive background for both print and web pieces. Artists are encouraged to use the wire gulls in this manner. The wire gulls may be cropped and scaled (and will likely{color} {color:#000000}{_}have{_}{color} {color:#000000}to be cropped or scaled in most usage), but as with the OpenOffice.org logo, any resizing should be proportional (if the wire gulls are scaled to 45% horizontally, they should be scaled to 45% vertically). General colour usage guidelines apply: under most circumstances, the wire gulls will probably be rendered in black{color} {color:#000000}or RGB 14:133:205 (or its CMYK or Pantone variants{color} {color:#000000}and screened to approximately 30%, but a different colour might be appropriate in some contexts (for instance, a piece promoting a specific OpenOffice.org component).{color} {color:#000000}Be aware of rendering problems when printing the wire gulls: at 100% of its normal size (704 x 546 pixels), the line width of the graphic's smallest line is 0.01 pixel and the thickest line is 1.0 pixel. 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H&R Block is a great place to get your taxes done this season. Unless, of course, Ellen is in their ear! The hidden camera prank Ellen loves is back!
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Videos from Röyksopp and KAYTRANADA, a new record by Solange, Ryan Hemsworth's mixtape and more
Solange: A Seat at the Table
Since announcing new music earlier this week, Solange Knowles just released her lush, thoughtful and political album A Seat at the Table. Knowles has been working on the record for four years, and the result is powerful, soulful and tender—with a little romance and plenty of the frustrations and fears that come with being a black person in current-day United States. With cameos from Kelela, Lil Wayne, The-Dream, Sampha, Q-Tip and frequent collaborator Dev Hynes, the album is an exquisite artwork that will oftentimes make you think twice.
KAYTRANADA feat. Syd: You're The One
Never-fail producer/DJ KAYTRANADA has released a video for his sparkly, soulful "You're The One," featuring lush vocals from Syd (aka Syd The Kid). Directed by Shomi Patwary (who also made Ty Dolla $ign's "Drop That Kitty"), the video is based on the "Coming to America" storyline but, according to the director, also pulled stylistic influence from "black sitcoms from the early '90s—from Martin to Living Single and UPN sitcoms." The song is from 99.9%, which won the 2016 Polaris Music Prize earlier this month.
Sarah Chernoff: Warm Nights
The first track off Sarah Chernoff's forthcoming solo album, "Warm Nights" offers a sultry glimpse at what can be expected from the singer (and member of CH favorite Superhumanoids). At times breathy, frequently ethereal and smooth through-and-through, the single feels much like an invitation with the lush orchestration acting as an open door and Chernoff's vocals as an outstretched hand.
Röyksopp feat. Susanne Sundfør: Never Ever
Röyksopp's "Never Ever" is a five-minute-long disco dream. The song (which features vocals from Susanne Sundfør) was released earlier this month, but now has a psychedelic, '70s vibed video to match. With some Tim-and-Eric-meets-Eric-Andre tinges, the clip's creative director and animator is Blør and it's glitzy, cheesy and playful—just like the track itself.
Ryan Hemsworth: 3AM O4W Mixtape
Canadian DJ/producer Ryan Hemsworth has just released his "3AM O4W" mixtape, and it's full of unreleased remixes and reworks of tracks by the likes of Kornél Kovács, Lucas, Kodak Black and more. (His take on Jazz Cartier's "Red Alert" is especially satisfying.) With some spacey vibes, some pathos and unexpected moments, the 50+ minute mix is a moody journey.
Francis And The Lights feat. Kanye West: My City's Gone
Francis and the Lights (Francis Farewell Starlite's project) has just released a gorgeous, minimal but still grand track called "My City's Gone." The song features Kanye West, but in a way that might not be obvious or expected: West's contributions are mostly subtle, auto-tuned back-up vocals—somewhat akin to those on his 808's and Heartbreak. From the record Farewell, Starlite! (which also features Bon Iver), the song is sentimental without being sappy, and full of tangible pathos.
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One Tuesday, I went to the Mountain View library to do the adventure theme. A volunteer told me to make a name tag and go into the community room where the organizer and librarian Sharon McClintock welcomed me. I gave her my project that was about the book I picked to read from the READ Quest booklist. Around 20 kids were there at the the library and there were several helpful volunteers. I saw a table of adventure books that were already provided for us to pick.
First, we introduced ourselves and we also talked about our hobbies.
Second, Ms. McClintock read a folktale about pirates to us. A high school student played a violin to to go with the story. Third, we did some drama and put on crazy costumes. Then we did pirate moves.
When it was time to go, I found a book, "Island of the Blue Dolphin,'' that was already provided in the community room. Several weeks ago, I wanted to get the book, but I couldn't find it. Now I have it!
On Saturday when my family went to the library, I proudly showed them the project I did!
At first, I thought I wouldn't like adventure books, but after the theme, I liked them much more. I recommend this program to ages 7 to 9.


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It appears that Jennifer Aniston and Conde Nast Traveler readers have something in common…they're both fans of the One & Only Palmilla Resort in Los Cabos.
Spotted enjoying a luxurious getaway at One & Only Palmilla Resort just this month, the lovely Jennifer Aniston retreated once again to one of her favorite spots in the Baja California Peninsula. Was the trip's purpose to contemplate lingering feelings for Brad Pitt? Who cares! She's in paradise. Let's leave her alone for once.
But there is a reason Condé Nast Traveler readers selected this property as one of the best places to stay in the world, for the past five years. (And why Jen has returned to one of her and Brad's favorite destinations from the past.) Having experienced a lavish $90 million rebuilding and expansion in 2004, this incredible property is the ultimate private retreat complete with intuitive butler service and other countless thoughtful details scattered throughout the resort.
Attracted by the privacy of this gorgeous resort in Mexico, and the deep-sea fishing location, some of the One & Only Palmilla's earliest guests includes celebrities like John Wayne, Bing Crosby, Lucille Ball and United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
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Allison Lauderdale, Woodward sophomore, has been awarded the Randy Murrow Memorial Scholarship at Northwestern Oklahoma State University. Lauderdale has been chosen based on her academic achievements, participation in leadership and student activities and her overall general attitude. She is a psychology major.
Currently, Lauderdale serves as the Northwestern Scholar Ambassador (NSA) president.
While attending Northwestern, she has helped to enhance arts education in Alva and participates in the annual NWOSU Art Society Art Show. Other ways Lauderdale showcases her campus involvement is through serving as an NSA clothes drive coordinator, Ranger Connector, Freshman Orientation leader and by being involved in intramural sports at Northwestern.
The Randy Murrow Memorial Scholarship was established following his untimely death shortly after his graduation from Northwestern in 1969. Murrow served as the Student Senate president from 1967-1969. Funds were given in his name from Phi Lambda Chi fraternity, various campus organizations, and voluntary gifts from students, faculty, former students, family and friends.
Other members of Murrow's family have been memorialized with the scholarship, including his mother, Dolores Murrow, and his grandparents, A.L. "Lute" and Mildred Murrow (Lute represented Woods and Woodward counties in the Oklahoma House of Representatives representing Woods and Woodward counties from 1956 to 1966) and Sam and Oneita Riggs.
Northwestern's Student Government Association scholarship committee chooses a recipient based on his or her responses on the application. Undergraduate students who are actively involved in campus activities are eligible for the scholarship.
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In Year 7, all students study French, German and Spanish. In each language pupils learn how to speak and write about themselves, their family and pets, their school, their home, their leisure activities, their town and their holidays. They also understand others talking about these topics.
In Year 8, students choose to continue with two languages.
Grammar is further developed with a particular emphasis on both the past and future tense in all three languages.
As pupils grow more mature in their tastes and outlook, the topics covered begin to reflect this: modern media and entertainment, the environment, future career plans, the global world, homelessness, problems of young people.
In all 3 languages, the use of the present, past and future tense is consolidated and students and pupils learn how to formulate their ideas using some more complex structures in preparation for the GCSE course.
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The NRC application is available for free from the Apple App Store. Once you download the app install it on your device, you must authenticate it.
To authenticate the NRC app:
1. Log into Nursing Reference Center.
2. Click the Nursing Reference Center iPhone/iPod Touch Application link at the bottom of the page and enter your email address. An email with an authentication key is sent to you.
3. Access the email from your device and click the link found in the email to authenticate the application. You have 24 hours to access the key from your device to authenticate the app. If the key is not used within 24 hours, it expires and you will need a new key.
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Two years ago, a dejected Tony Gonzalez stood on the sidelines as yet another playoff game ended in defeat for the veteran tight end and his Atlanta Falcons.
The Green Bay Packers had come into the Georgia Dome and routed the Falcons 48-21, and Gonzalez, a record setter in most categories a tight end is measured by, was still looking for his first career playoff win.
The Californian was injured in the third quarter and while he got taped up and returned to the bench, the Falcons' chances fizzled out. As Gonzalez limped off the field, his body language led to inevitable speculation over his NFL future.
Gonzalez, whose career playoff record dropped to 0-5 after last year's first-round loss to the eventual Super Bowl champion New York Giants, said in his gloomy interview after the Packers game that retirement was a possibility.
But it proved too soon for the top level college basketball and football player to give up on his goal of winning, if not a Super Bowl, a playoff game.
Last Sunday, on that same sideline, Gonzalez's emotions told another story as he fell to the ground in tears following Matt Bryant's 49-yard field goal in the final seconds that earned Atlanta a dramatic win over Seattle.
"I was on the ground, sobbing like a baby," said Gonzalez.
After 16 seasons in the NFL, the future Hall of Famer finally had a playoff victory, putting him one win away from his first appearance in the Super Bowl in what he says is likely to be his final season.
Sunday's NFC Championship game with the San Francisco 49ers now stands between the 36-year-old and a trip to New Orleans for the National Football League's championship game. Despite his age and his self-defined '95 percent' chance of retiring this year, Gonzalez remains central to top-seeded Atlanta's offense.
On the decisive final drive of last week's game, Falcons quarterback Matt Ryan made Gonzalez his target for the 19-yard pass that would set up the game-winning field goal.
"It is the most important catch I've ever had in my life and I'll never forget it. It was wonderful," said Gonzalez, who owns the NFL record for career receptions by a tight end.
Ryan, as usual, had no hesitation turning to Gonzalez, who has surpassed 1,200 receptions in his career, and speaking this week the quarterback said he knew exactly what to expect from his team mate.
"He's a consummate professional," said Ryan. "He shows up every week, he handles his business; he's fun to be around, he's got a great personality in the locker room and he's just been himself this week."
Gonzalez spent the early parts of his career honing his catching skills, for hour after hour, with the help of a machine that fires out balls for receivers.
The drills paid off handsomely but there is no machine that can help collate the experience and football intelligence that allows Gonzalez to get open when it matters most and take advantage of weaknesses in opposing defences.
Falcons linebacker Sean Weatherspoon compares having Gonzalez to being able to get the inside advantage in a video game.
"He definitely has the cheat code," said Weatherspoon. "That basically means that he has the experience and definitely has the playmaking ability to go out there and make plays on anybody."
It would have been cruel if a player of Gonzalez's talent and commitment, the NFL record holder for receiving yards (14,268) and touchdowns (103) for a tight end, would have bowed out without even a shot at the Super Bowl.
Ryan believes there remains a chance that a glory-filled end to the season could lead Gonzalez to delay his retirement plans once again.
"I talk to him about that all the time. He says he's 95 percent sure and I keep telling him that I'm convinced of the other five percent," said Ryan.
"I think he can still play. Whatever he chooses to do, it's been an unbelievable run for him."


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An indictment for an accused kid killer
(Wayne County, OH) - An indictment has been formally handed up in Wayne County to 24-year old Jerrod Metsker.
The Smithville man is accused of killing 9-year old Reann Murphy who vanished while playing near her Smithville trailor home last Saturday.
The girl's body was found in a trash dumpster about five hours after she went missing. Metsker is charged with aggravated murder and kidnaping among other counts.
He remains jailed on 1-million dollars bond. Metsker could face the death penalty if convicted of aggravated murder.
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AN Orford solicitor, who repeatedly lied to clients and took thousands of pounds of their money and ploughed it into another company he owned without consent, has been banned from practice.
Ian Hall, who operated from Hall & Co on Orford Lane, has been stuck off the Roll of Solicitors at a Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal after he willingly admitted that he had 'deluded himself that he was an efficient businessman'.
The former solicitor, who was first admitted to the Roll of Solicitors in May 1994, was found to have continually ignored clients' fruitless pursuit for information, failed to comply with court direction and attend legal hearings.
He also provided misleading information to the Legal Ombudsman, who was looking into Mr Hall's conduct following a string of complaints.
Mr Hall also transferred more that £50,000 of a client's money to a company called Building Dispute in August 2012 as a share purchase.
He claimed he was not the owner of the company despite an incorporation document and the latest annual return stating that he owned 90 per cent shares.
The client had no idea why the money had been transferred.
Mr Hall, who claims he has debts of £400,000 and anticipates to be made bankrupt later this year, did not contend any of the allegation against him.
He claimed that he had been the victim of a serious assault five years ago, which has left him suffering with cluster headaches that had gotten worse over time.
This has resulted on him having to take time off work, however, very little medical evidence was given to the tribunal with regards to the condition.
The tribunal heard that Mr Hall had embarked on a number of ventures and took on 1,000 cases without planning, forethought and funding.
Mr Hall said he was 'desperately sorry for what happened' and is now seeking employment in a different profession.
Following a two day hearing, the panel concluded that the poor service and lack of co-operation was of 'chronic proportion' and the breaches of account rules were 'blatant and deliberate'.
Mr Hall was not present to hear the verdict after he claimed he was unable to pay for a hotel in London, where the tribunal was taking place, and was forced to return home after the first day.


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I'm quite certain that all those pretty pictures in Olivier Smolders Nuit Noir must mean something but as for what that might be, I have no clue whatsoever ...
A dark, surreal film that taps into the creepier side of the subconscious Nuit Noir is gorgeously photographed with a virtually non-stop barrage of beautiful, unsettling imagery, but is so thoroughly inscrutable on first viewing - my guess is this will take at least three to really begin to unpack - that it makes for difficult viewing.
Oscar is an insect specialist at a local museum founded by his father. He spends his evening stending to the cages of eggs, pupa and grubs in his home before taking the full grown specimens to the museum by day, bound for the killing jar and display boards. And when I say 'day' I mean only the period of time between 9 AM and 5 PM, which in Oscar's world is otherwise indistinguishable from the night because the world receives only fifteen seconds of sunlight per day. Museum management occassionally reads poetry over the institution's PA system. Oscar's therapist peers into his ear through a metal funnel to see his dreams acted out on a puppet theater stage. There are sets of twins everywhere. Oscar believes he killed the sister that his therapist says he never had in the first place and, thus, could not have killed. And one day Oscar returns home from work to find a naked, feverish, African woman in his bed. The next day she's pregnant. The next day she's dead, possibly killed by the ghost of Oscar's non-sister. The next day the blankets Oscar shrouded her in have turned to a coccoon. The next day she is born as a beautiful, naked, young white woman whom Oscar promptly beds. How long will it take him to remember that female insects frequently eat their mates?
And here you see the dilemma in talking about - and viewing - a film such as this. Imagery? A plus. Coherent, linear plot? Not applicable. Nuit Noir is a continual stream of metaphors, layers upon layers of images, all of which mean something other than the literal and the trick is puzzling it out, which is no mean feat as the stream never slows down enough to give you time to think. Names such as Svankmajer, Lynch and Quay were being bandied about the theater and on a visual level fans of Gilliam and Jeunet will find a kindred spirit in Smolders.
Surreal is one word for it. Dream-like, another. Pretentious is one many will apply, though I hestitate to go there myself before working at the puzzle a little longer. After all, it's only pretense if you don't have the goods to back it up. All indications are that Smolders does, it's just up to me to catch up.


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The Herald has expended plenty of time criticising the excesses of the drinking culture in and around clubs and pubs. However, we believe the NSW government wants to introduce an excessively onerous burden by requiring hotels and nightclubs in Kings Cross to install scanners to check the identity of every person who seeks entry after 7pm, and during all trading hours on Fridays and weekends.
This is both intrusive and expensive. It will cost the venues many tens of thousands of dollars to install the equipment and pay staff to operate them. It is another example of the NSW government, ostensibly the natural foe of big government, red tape and excessive intrusion in the private domain, exhibiting a heavy-handed attitude to regulation.
The proposed legislation restricts mandating scanners to late-night venues with a capacity of more than 120 people. This frees small bars from the big brother treatment.
Scanning would ruin small bars and it would clearly damage larger bars and clubs by imposing a high cost. That cost would be passed on to patrons and reduce the number of people who agree to be subject to scanning when they want to go out for a drink. The object of this legislation is to exert more control on the 35 hotels and nightclubs in Kings Cross that have been identified as having a high risk of alcohol-fuelled incidents.
Scanners would certainly deter under-age drinkers. They would also identify people who have been banned from pubs for unruly or illegal conduct.
But the overwhelming majority of people who would have to put up with this imposition would have no cause and no reason to have their identity document scanned by people acting on behalf of the government.
If the O'Farrell government was serious about returning Kings Cross to its cosmopolitan glory, making it a place where tourists could safely flock and dine at night, and liberate the area from its cesspit underbelly, it would get serious instead of tinkering endlessly at the edges.
In Kings Cross, police are expected to maintain a blind eye for some illegal behaviour while dealing with the impact of excessive drinking at late-night venues. It is a mixed message that comes directly from the top.
There needs to be greater police visibility and resources in, and around, Kings Cross. There also needs to be continuing vigilance over the propriety of the area's operators of licensed premises.
This scanning measure could also have unforseen privacy concerns. We would expect a far greater level of public consultation for such a potentially far-reaching initiative. Another concern is the displacement effect such a measure would probably have, given its geographical targeting.
We don't need the Australian Hotels Association to tell us this proposed scanning legislation is a bad idea. The alcohol and gambling industries, via the AHA, expend a great deal of money lobbying the government for favourable treatment while binge drinking and gambling addiction remain social problems about which the Herald has expended a great deal of energy.
We note that even the AHA accepts the idea of using scanners after 9pm on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights at large venues at the Cross. But the AHA also believes the cost of the measures proposed under the scanning legislation is ''outrageous'', imposing a cost of about $180,000 a year on each venue, and more for some.
If the industry is willing to put up with some scanning at some venues, fair enough. But the impositions proposed in the legislation are indeed outrageous.
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Happy New Year!
Osaka - Kyoto - Kobe
29.12.2012 - 04.01.2013
New Years is probably my favorite holiday because it is the only time I am expected to hang out with friends all night long.
This is the first time I'm celebrating New Years in another land, far away from my friends and the mandatory оливье . Still, I had fun learning the Japanese customs and traditions during New Years.
Japanese people usually head to their hometowns to celebrate New Years with their extended families, causing train stations and airports to be crazy crowded. My host family and I traveled to Osaka, my host mom's hometown, to celebrate New Years with her parents.
Most of our five days in Osaka were spent sitting around the kotatsu, reading, sleeping, or watching TV. We greeted the New Year by watching a live-broadcast of Japan's most popular artists and celebrities performing famous songs. Four hours and fifteen minutes of J-Pop O.o
Though I was far away from my оливье, I enjoyed having an authentic experience eating traditional Japanese food. On the first day of the New Year, Japanese people eat osechi - a big bento box full of food symbolizing long life or prosperity. I thought that most of the food was tasteless, but that's probably because my American taste buds are too n00b for real Japanese food.
On the first days of January, Japanese people go to a shrine to throw coins into a wooden box, ring bells, and pray for blessings in the New Year. Japan is congested as it is, so when everyone decides to go to the shrine at once, the result is tons of people waiting in long snake-like lines. Popular shines in Tokyo and Osaka have as many as 3 million visitors during the first three days of January.
With my host parents and grandparents at the Shine.
What I enjoyed most about my New Years vacation was a day trip we took to the nearby city of Kyoto. Kyoto used to be Japan's capitol before Tokyo and is distinguished by many old traditional buildings and beautiful nature.
The buildings in Kyoto are old and the streets are narrow, and some areas make you feel like you just transported into medieval Japan.
The government has worked hard to preserve the cultural significance of the city, even placing a height limit on buildings and a ban on blinking advertisements in order to keep the traditional atmosphere. It isn't uncommon to find people walking around in kimonos and hakamas or even see a geisha here and there. Another thing that makes this city so interesting is the abundance of ancient shrines and temples.


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York, UK (SPX) Aug 23, 2013
Our early ancestors had a taste for spicy food, new research led by the University of York has revealed.
Archaeologists at York, working with colleagues in Denmark, Germany and Spain, have found evidence of the use of spices in cuisine at the transition to agriculture. The researchers discovered traces of garlic mustard on the charred remains of pottery dating back nearly 7,000 years.
The silicate remains of garlic mustard (Alliaria petiolata) along with animal and fish residues were discovered through microfossil analysis of carbonised food deposits from pots found at sites in Denmark and Germany. The pottery dated from the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition from hunter-gathering to agriculture.
Previously scientists have analysed starches which survive well in carbonised and non-carbonised residues to test for the use of spices in prehistoric cooking. But the new research, which is reported in PLOS ONE, suggests that the recovery of phytoliths - silicate deposits from plants -- offers the additional possibility to identify leafy or woody seed material used as spices, not detectable using starch analysis. Phytoliths charred by cooking are more resilient to destruction.
Lead researcher Dr Hayley Saul, of the BioArCH research centre at at the University of York, said: "The traditional view is that early Neolithic and pre-Neolithic uses of plants, and the reasons for their cultivation, were primarily driven by energy requirements rather than flavour. As garlic mustard has a strong flavour but little nutritional value, and the phytoliths are found in pots with terrestrial and marine animal residues, our findings are the first direct evidence for the spicing of food in European prehistoric cuisine.
"Our evidence suggests a much greater antiquity to the spicing of foods in this region than is evident from the macrofossil record, and challenges the view that plants were exploited by hunter-gatherers and early agriculturalists solely for energy requirements, rather than taste."
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Watford bring the curtain down on their 2013/14 season on Saturday as they host 17th-place Huddersfield Town.
Mark Robins' side arrive at Vicarage Road having secured their Championship status for a third season since winning promotion under Simon Grayson in 2012 and have done so without the final-day drama of 12 month ago.
The Terriers played out a 2-2 draw with Yorkshire rivals Barnsley on the final day of last season - a result which suited the Tykes equally - knowing a point would be enough to keep them in the second tier.
Hopes were high Huddersfield would kick on this season and move towards the top half of the table and despite a good start to the campaign, the Terriers have slipped away in recent weeks without ever truly being sucked into the battle again the drop.
Indeed, it is only the run of two wins since March 1 that has seen Huddersfield slide from a comfortable mid-table position towards the lower reaches of the Championship at this late stage.
There can be little doubting the correlation between Town's form and the form of top-scorer James Vaughan when analysing Huddersfield's season.
On November 30, Vaughan scored his tenth and last goal of the campaign after a promising start, with the Terriers in 11th place in the table. Since then, Huddersfield have not been higher than 12th, with Vaughan spending time in the treatment rom.
The January arrival of Nakhi Wells from Bradford City has eased some of Town's goal-scoring concerns, but the over-reliance on former Everton and Norwich City forward Vaughan has led to the Terriers averaging just 1.2 goals per game.
For context, Beppe Sannino's Hornets have averaged 1.7 per game, despite being just four places and ten points better off.
Bermudan international Wells was one of the Football League's worst-keep secrets after scoring 42 times in just 65 league starts for Bradford City before joining the Terriers in the January transfer window.
Scoring the winner on his debut for the club against Millwall was as good a start to life at the Galpharm Stadium as Wells could have hoped for and the 23-year-old has scored six more in 20 starts for the club to take him up to 22 for the season in all competitions..
Part of the Bantams side which reached the 2013 League Cup final, Wells joined the Terriers for a club record fee, which had previously stood at £1.2m since 1996.
Midfielder Adam Clayton has been an integral cog in the side this term, the former Manchester City and Leeds United man helping himself to seven from the centre of midfield.
A former England Under-20 international, Clayton signed from Leeds in the summer of 2012, despite establishing himself as a regular in the Whites' midfield during the 2011/12 campaign.
Dangerous shooting from distance, the 25-year-old has scored 11 times for the Terriers in 83 league starts since his move across Yorkshire.
Instantly recognisable thanks to his bushy beard until a week ago, the all-action midfielder dyed his facial hair blue and white for Town's final home game of the season, raising over £3000 for charity before finally shaving following the 2-0 loss to Leicester City.
Clayton was subject of a £1m transfer offer from Championship rivals Brighton in January, but the Terriers turned down the Seagulls' bid in retain one of their key players.
Town are without Vaughan due to a knee injury, whilst Keith Southern is also sidelined with a groin problem.
Terriers boss Robins has revealed that he will make "one or two" changes as he assesses his squad ahead of the transfer window.


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Another perfect trip.: Star Princess Cruise Review by talltex3
Overall Member Rating
Another perfect trip.
Destination: Hawaii
Embarkation: Los Angeles
Overall I thought the cruise was perfect. We were on our Honeymoon and on L230 (Lido)
Hotel Staff and all the people we met always gave us a very nice hello when we passed. We are not drinkers so we did not participate in many of the club scene. The Décor in the ship was just awesome. Marble, Granite, and the deep tone woods gave it a very elegant look. Ship was always being worked on and painted as the day progressed. Weather was a little cold and windy going out and back but the Islands were great.
Food was well above average most of the time. Pasta was a bit underdone. Loved the server Nico with his great attitude and great big smile. All the people met in the serving lines are great.
Crown Grill had an awesome steak and deserts.
Recommendations. Bring a hanging bag or two that have zip pockets. They hang in the closet or on back of the door. Coffee More cards you should only need one. I bought two and can only be used on that cruise. You can get fresh brewed tea and coffee by showing the card. You can get the Princess travel cup when you are onboard. Bring a dvd player if you want to watch movies in the room. A computer can hook to the flat screen tv in room. Bring a cold bag. Food is free on the ship. I was getting burgers, pizza and fruit to take off the ship. They have ice in the horizon court.
One thing that would have been better is that the deck furniture be left out a little more. The back of the ship most of the chairs are stacked and tied down.
The entertainment was well above average. All the performers we saw either had albums for sale or have been on TV. I was amazed at the versatility of the Star Princess Band. They did it all. Well done.
The lectures and experts onboard answered all our questions with ease. Cruise directors was very Funny and amazingly and seemed to be at all the events.
Fun Fun Fun! Just booked my next Vacation with princess for next year.
Party people please see another cruise line, you will not be happy with the more laid back atmosphere of traditional cruises. No slides, zip lines, cars in the lobby. Aloha!
Thanks Princess 5 stars. Less
Published 04/16/14
Cabin review: L230
Lido deck is the best. It is close to the pools and only a half floor of hotel. No washers on this floor
Port and Shore Excursions
Great shopping and make sure you check out the seals
Waterfalls and the garden is so cool. The Garden is 15 dollars at the cash register per person
North shore beaches rock.
Enterprise rental is walkiing distance from the ship.
Find out if you see the mountian with Puff the magic dragon song came from
firn Grato if booked independant is $20 a piece. The Smith family is great and will entertain you up and back on the boat ride. The Houla and Singing was a treat.
Atlantis Submarine
Atlantis sub was great. Bring your camera.
Enterprise on Maui needs to get there act together. Shuttle was not too be found on cruise day. Then after calling three times they answered and said the shuttle is on it's way. fifthteen min later they arive and then 30 min of waiting to load and they said we could only transprort the drivers to the rental place. Many people canceled in anger and walked off.
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How Can You Tell if You Have a Seroma or Just Swelling? I Had a TT 17 Days Ago and Very Puffy Under my Incision
How Can You Tell if You Have a Seroma or Just Swelling? I Had a TT 17 Days Ago and Very Puffy Under my Incision
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Swelling Versus Seroma
Go see you doctor. Its easy to tell. If seroma you will get fluid waves like in the ocean when you tap on one side. Look in a mirror. Tap The right side. Do you see a wave. Little seromas are hard to see but are insignificant so it does not matter anyway. Wear a tummy binder as much as you cah on lower abdomen. This corrects either problem. If seromadont worry. They go away 99.9% of time. Sometimes draining a seroma speeds the resolution. You will be fine. Best, Dr Commons
Sometimes its difficult...
The main way that the physician tells is if a fluid wave is present - think of tapping one edge of a water bed and feeling the wave come to the other side (I think that shows my age!) Soft tissue swelling is a little more firm with no wave. Basically, you need to see your surgeon for an exam. Good Luck!
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Most swelling resolves in six to eight weeks, but small amounts of swelling may persist for up to a year.Patients can minimize swelling with compression garments, massage and limitations on physical activities.It's important to remember that swelling is a normal part of wound healing and should resolve with time.
Occasionally seromas develop following abdominoplasty surgery.In most cases, seromas resorb without intervention.When larger seromas are encountered serial aspirations may be necessary in combination with compression garments.
If you're concerned about this issue, it's important to contact your plastic surgeon.Your surgeon should be able to differentiate these conditions and institute appropriate treatment.
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Diagnosing a seroma after a tummy tuck
You are in the right time frame for a seroma. It can be differentiated from tissue swelling clinically by tapping on one side of the abdomen and seeing a water-bed like fluid wave rumble across to the other side. If that doesn't happen, it is probably just tissue swelling. An ultrasound can also be done to be sure but the need for that is rare.
Seroma after tummy tuck?
Your surgeon is the best person to consult - you need a physical exam. Swelling below the incision line or in the pubic area is fairly common following tummy tucks, and this may take a while to completely resolve (but it will!)
Seroma vs. Swelling
Significant swelling early in the postop period after drain removal is always concerning for seroma formation. I will often recommend an ultrasound if I am unsure or sterile drainage if it is palpable.
I would recommend close followup with your plastic surgeon.
Your surgeon should know
Please discuss this with your surgeon, he should be able to tell you and reccomend treatment as indicated, good luck.
Seroma after Tummy tuck
As a patient you may be able to distinguish seroma from swelling by feeling for a fluid wave. If you place your hand on one side of the area of concern and you feel a "wave" sensation with your other hand (on the other side of the area of concern) you likely have a seroma. Your surgeon will be able to make the diagnosis; often, several aspirations may be necessary to resolve the problem.
I hope this helps.
Learn more: http://www.poustiplasticsurgery.com/Procedures/procedure_tummytuck.htm
"Puffy" abdomen following a tummy tuck
Seromas as well as significant swelling of the abdomen are very common during the period of time that you are at following your abdominoplasty. Typically a seroma will appear as an undulating fluid wave whereas swelling is more firm and fixed.
You should contact your plastic surgeon who can then assess your situation and take appropriate action if indicated.
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|BFA /BADance restructure
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|Fine & Applied Arts -- Julia Spiker x6518
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|April 15, 2004 by PR Nancy Stokes
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|Dance Program BFA and BA restructuring in keeping with National Association of Schools of Dance standards. Moving toward three tracks for BFA (ballet, modern, jazz/musical theatre) and pedagogy/preparation for graduate studies in the BA.
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First of all, some quests become inactive when you already have one of the same OR after you load a saved game. I kept on creating Quests with Altar's 100 Gildar cost quest item, and after a while, or after a load, none of the quests were triggering when walking on them.
Second, I got to the last stage of the Arena tournament, and then some level ups triggered after the battle had started, and then the battle got stuck. I'm not sure if the fact that a Henchman got killed (ie. wounded) at the previous round made the bug occur.
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Michael Chabon is writing about the films of Wes Anderson. So I have postponed my plans for the morning until I've read the whole thing.Here's how it begins... … [Read more...]
The Amazing Adventures of Anderson and Chabon
Michael Chabon's Famous, Unfilmed "Spider-man 2" Script is Yours
Michael Chabon, who I'll be seeing at Calvin's Festival of Faith and Writing next week, isn't just an acclaimed novelist. He also took a stab at the screenplay for Spider-man 2, and when I heard him speak about that in Seattle a few years ago, he talked about how the experience of writing a comic book movie for Hollyowod was not one he was eager to repeat.Now, the script he wrote is available for download, at least for now, via McSweeneys. … [Read more...]
What Will the Coen Brothers Direct Next?
It's common knowledge that the Coen Brothers' next feature is Burn After Reading, starring George Clooney, Brad Pitt, and Frances Macdormand. The synopsis from IMDB: "A disk containing the memoirs of a CIA agent ends up in the hands of two unscrupulous gym employees who attempt to sell it."And then comes Hail Caesar, about a 1920's theater troupe staging a production of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. That stars Tim Blake Nelson.But what's this breaking news? The Coens will then jump into … [Read more...]
John Wilson (Books and Culture) on the New Michael Chabon Novel
John Wilson reviews The Yiddish Policemen's Union: The Yiddish Policemen's Union is the best new novel I've read so far this year, and I won't be surprised if it wins another Pulitzer or some comparable recognition. It is also a deeply frustrating book... … [Read more...]


text: Kenneth Johnson: (about acting and being dyslexic) I have people read to me aloud. I can read it and read it, but it doesn't settle in. When somebody reads it aloud to me, I learn it very quick. The thing with dyslexia is that it's still there and I have that fear every time I grab scripts. Of course, I read if I have to, but it will take me four or five times longer than any other person. Reading is definitely one of the hardest things for me, but at the same time, it's good because it practices the instrument to get it better. Reading is great because creatively, it takes you to so many different journeys when you read the scripts.


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Stephen Hester, chief executive of RBS, gives evidence to the Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards less than a week after the bank was fined £390m by US and UK regulators for rigging the Libor rate. By Lina Saigol and Ben Fenton
3 RBS senior executives are giving evidence to the commission: John Hourican, who resigned as CEO of markets and international banking, Peter Nielsen, CEO of markets and Johnny Cameron, who resigned 4 years ago as chairman of global banking and markets.
Hourican and Nielsen have told the commission they took responsibility for the wrongdoing over Libor. Hourican resigned; Nielsen didn't. Hourican said he told Stephen Hester, the CEO of RBS, that "stakeholders would be better off" if Nielsen stayed in his post.
Cameron says he appointed a lay preacher as a senior executive "now a fully-fledged vicar" as he tried to instill an ethical culture in RBS.
"It's shattering to us because we tried to hire good people and lead well," Cameron says.
Hourican agrees there was a "wholesale failure of systems and controls" over Libor-rigging.
Cameron: "You can't impose moral standards on people who don't want to be moral."
Nielsen tells the commission that it is impossible for RBS to know whether or not the Libor-rigging made any profit at all for the bank, but it is possible that it did not make any.
Cameron says he and his team didn't think there was a risk of Libor being rigged, but in fact there was a cartel across a number of banks that was rigging it.
The bank had a cardiac arrest after the take-over of ABN AMRO, overleveraged and undercapitalised, Hourican says.
"It is utterly reprehensible that individuals chose that moment to behave like this, but we didn't spot it."
(Hourican is saying that the problems elsewhere in RBS meant that senior executives were too busy trying to save its life to notice the malfeasance of relatively junior employees on the Libor desks.)
For those who want to read more about Johnny Cameron's role, here's the FSA report into RBS' failure:http://www.fsa.gov.uk/pubs/other/rbs.pdf
Jennifer Thompson, the FT's retail banking correspondent, sends this from Westminster
So far, few surprises. The outgoing head of RBS' investment bank has agreed with the view that the Libor scandal has caused massive reputational damage and caused a fresh loss of confidence in the bank.
"I do accept responsibility for the failings of our staff," John Hourican told the commission. Although there is no suggestion that he was involved in or knew of the Libor abuses, Mr Hourican's tenure coincided with the period when abuses took place.
Last week he resigned over the scandal and will leave within a year.
The focus is now why Peter Nielsen, markets chief, has not done the same. As with Mr Hourican there is no suggestion that Mr Nielsen knew of the Libor abuses but he was head of the global rates business under which Libor responsibility fell.
Mr Nielsen has told the panel he considered resigning, but Mr Hourican said he believed the bank would be in a stronger position if he stayed.
MPs are now asking why RBS failed to pick up the "wash trades" – the rewards paid by Libor traders to brokers with illegal bogus trades. Hourican says it was just the 21 individuals who were found responsible for Libor-rigging.
"We did fail to pick up the wash trades," Hourican says.
Lord Oakeshott, the Liberal Democrat peer, asks a question which may well get asked later in the afternoon:
Hourican and Nielsen say they knew nothing of Libor problems until US reglators told them in April 2010. There were some issues identified as problems by March 2011, Hourican says, but not all.
Nielsen says they started off looking at dollar-based problems identified by the US regulator (CFTC) first of all, so other problems weren't seen immediately.
The FT's leader on why now is no time to mess with RBS:
RBS's reputation may be at a low and there is little prospect of improvement soon. It will report more losses this month, making exit seem difficult. But now is a risky time to make politically driven statements about its future.
In recent months the shares have rallied, even rising after the Libor fines. There are signs investors believe the strategy devised by Stephen Hester, who was charged in 2008 with cleaning up the mess, might be working. By the end of 2013, its toxic assets will have been neutralised. By the end of next year it might even restart dividends as losses ebb and profits from the retail and corporate businesses rise to the surface. The investment bank, always the most politically difficult, now accounts for just 20 per cent of capital, down from 60 per cent. This should fall further. But some markets presence is needed if RBS is to retain its lead in UK corporate banking.
Nielsen admits that the bank reacted "too slowly" to being told about the failings in the bank.
"Once we found problems that we found in Yen and Swiss trades in July 2011, which we brought to attention of regulators, we did so extraordinarily fast" – Nielsen
The Financial Services Authority "just…just avoided accusing the bank of dishonesty" over Libor, the three bankers are told. They look very serious, but do not reply.
Nielsen: we are guilty of lots of things, but if we had that to do over again, if we take 10 or 20 per cent of effort that we made, then we had focused on that cultural situation, we would be in better shape.
Hourican: I think the cultural shudder we have sent down the spine of our organisation by taking responsibility is an important thing. I have told people not to 'waste my death' (resignation).
Hourican says it is "incredibly important" that the bank feels and recognises the anger towards Libor rigging and acts accordingly.
Commission chairman Andrew Tyrie asks if, given that these three are responsible for the original failures of RBS, the commission should trust their judgment over what has happened since and that they, particularly Nielsen, who is still there, are the people to clear it all up.
Having been a backmarker, we are and have been a forward marker since Stephen Hester took over in 2009, Nielsen tells the commission.
The Archbishop of Canterbury is now asking the questions. Hourican agrees with his suggestion that RBS was too big, with 52 countries in its global business, to manage.
The commission hears that RBS at its peak was engaged in "strategic tourism" when it grew as much as it did in the years before its financial collapse.
The Wheatley report, hastily prepared in September by the UK Financial Services Authority, and endorsed with equal haste by policy makers, can be read here:http://cdn.hm-trea…lreport_280912.pdf
Cameron says it is a very tricky philosophical question about how do you test for a moral compass.
He says the answer is that it was not envisaged that a cartel of traders would be able to rig Libor. Nobody in "risk" recognised the big hole in the system.
Archbishop asks how it will be possible in the future to stop this happening again. Cameron says it isn't easy and he hopes the commission will come up with answers. His colleagues don't really agree with that and Hourican says one answer was to pay bonuses in deferred manner.
(I don't think the RBS execs would like the commission to take up Johnny Cameron's invitation to dictate how the culture of banks is improved)
Hey, all of you out there falling asleep, a reminder of RBS' Libor emails might wake you up:
"If u cud see ur way to a small drop there might be a steak dinner in it for ya, ha ha," one broker – who was a former RBS trader – wrote to one of the bank's submitters
Nielsen asked what steps have been taken about the 21 people involved in Libor rigging, particularly, have potential future employers been warned. He says the FSA has been told about them. They find it very hard to be re-certified, he says.
Nielsen and Hourican have not been interviewed by the FSA over Libor. Cameron was investigated by them for a year after he applied for a job "somewhere else" in March 09.
Here's the UK regulator's Final Notice, with plenty of detail on Libor-related wash trades and the incentives for the RBS money market book: http://www.fsa.gov…pubs/final/rbs.pdf
Happy Reading!
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Ah the stutter every time they get a hard question.
Cameron asked by Tyrie: why are banks unable to remember mistakes of the past? You are old enough to remember the last property crash.
Cameron says it comes down to "Would you rather lend to Woolworth or to the owner of the property that Woolworths is sitting on?"
Cameron is unable to reassure Tyrie that regulators and bankers will recognise the next big problem before it happens.
Cameron: "The job of regulators is to lean against the wind. The question is to what extent. Can they stop people doing things as opposed to just advising them.
Tyrie asks Hourican whether he feels like the "human shield" who took the hit over Libor.
Hourican says you have to take responsibility sometimes and that this is the right thing for the bank and the right thing for me because I have to stick to my principles.
The commission has now finished questioning the less senior executives and after a 15-minute hiatus will begin its interrogation of Stephen Hester, the CEO of RBS and Sir Philip Hampton, the chairman.
Here is a quick read on how the position of Stephen Hester has changed in the past couple of years, from the FT's Jennifer Thompson
And a reminder of the way in which the FT reported the full scale of RBS's behaviour] and its subsequent [http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/fc3dbb14-7060-11e2-ab31-00144feab49a.html come-uppance over Libor rigging.
Then, if you still have time before the teams come out for the second half, here is the FT video on the dilemma faced by the UK government, who play the role of supporters for both sides in this Calcutta Cup of bank regulation:
Rory Phillips, council to the commission, starts off by reminding
Hester he said he wouldn't duck the difficult questions.
Phillips says misconduct at the bank continued for 2 and half years after Hester became CEO.
Hester is speaking very quietly, trying to be humble and contrite as he admits significant failings over control and risk by management.
Hester says the CFTC investigation was reported to the board's audit committee, but it was only an investigation at that stage, rather than an uncovering of wrongdoing.
The FT's Megan Murphy has been reading RBS submissions to the commission:
Phillips is trying to establish who knew what when at RBS, but Hester says the first time RBS learnt of the Libor wrongdoing was the Spring 2011.
Hester says the most serious failings were fixed within a handful of weaks, but different levels of fixing Libor are still going on.
Hester says: " I've been the captain on the bridge since the end of November 2008 and so am responsible for all the things going on at RBS."
The Commission seems bewildered as to why Hourican has left, but Nielsen hasn't taken any accountability.
The Commission is asking for reassurance that this won't happen again. Hester says that as long as he is in the post, he will do his best to eliminate control and reputational failures of this kind, but says it is impossible to provide guarantees it won't happen again.
Confused about Hampton's use of language on who is to blame? Here are some dictionary definitions:
culpability: blameworthiness: a state of guilt.
accountability: responsibility to someone or for some activity.
responsibility: The state or fact of being accountable or to blame for something.
All clear now about the difference between accountability and responsibility? Us neither.
Liberal Democrat Baroness Susan Kramer asking the questions now and is pushing Hester again on whether the bank failed to escalate internally what was going on with Libor.
Hester says it was not a conspiracy to hide the Libor wrongdoing.
Hester says it took 11 million documents to discover the wrongdoing and it wasn't easy to do.
Hester: I feel at least as much, if not more, anxiety as you do. Every day I live with the risk that we have not found things.
Hester's lament: "I wish we could have discovered everything quicker and changed it quicker but what happened is what happened."
Sir Philip Hampton says the bank took "brutal action" on those directly involved and that Hourican had to go because he was the "captain of that particular bridge".
We've all got shortcomings.
The RBS chairman says the board took the view that "there had to be a serious, senior, captain-on-the-bridge departure".
Tyrie says "well we have had a canter round that point" and now moves on to the question of Hester's bonus.
Ahhhhh, finally the questions on Hester's bonus.
Just to help consideration of the matter, here is the official position of the Labour party on Hester's bonus, courtesy of Treasury spokeswoman Cathy Jamieson:
Labour's Treasury spokeswoman Cathy Jamieson said about Hester's bonus:
The idea that one of the country's most senior bankers will accept this huge bonus at the height of Libor scandal will disgust ordinary people struggling to make ends meet as a result of the banking crisis.
We all hoped that lessons would be learned by the top bankers when they had to be bailed out by taxpayers but it appears to be business as usual.
Hester's bonus defence:
We have done huge things to rescue the bank for society and for its stakeholders and reduced the risk the bank has been exposed to. It is entirely appropriate we should be judged on what we have done. There was never any prospect we could have found and fixed everything immediately.
The Sun's business editor is listening hard:
HAMPTON: RBS was the biggest banking failure in the world and Stephen took it on. Stephen's basic is £1.2m a year and he is one of the least well paid relative to others doing these jobs.
Hampton and Hester are beginning to look very uncomfortable as Hester confirms the fine will be clawed back from the RBS bonus pool.
Hampton says Hester has been one of least well-paid and "relatively low paid". (Not sure this line of response wins many friends in the outside world.) Tyrie rather gleefully tots up what a basic salary of £1.2m plus twice salary for a bonus and a long-term investment plan of 3.5 times salary adds up to. His estimate of £5m is a bit short: it is in fact £7.8m.
Hampton points out that Hester will not receive anything like this because the incentives "do not trigger".
Hester says he doesn't know how much his bonus should have fallen – says it is for the remuneration committee to decide.
Tyrie says he wants the bank to publish what the bonus pool for 2012 would have been if it did not include a "clawback" to pay for Libor fines which are owed to US regulator.
RBS close to deciding bonus pool – says it was going to make significant clawbacks anyway
Steve Hawkes at The Sun is not impressed with Hester's knowledge of his own business:
This is what Labour former trade minister Pat McFadden said about Hester's bonus last week:
"There would be enormous anger if UK taxpayers pick up the tab for the individual sins of traders who were trying to rig Libor rates".
Pat McFadden, Labour MP, says he very much doubts the UK taxpayer would agree with Hampton that the £300m set aside from the bonus pool to pay Libor fines was "enough".
The most common phrases from RBS in this hearing have been:
It was before I arrived
I didn't know
It wasn't me.
McFadden asks if RBS is too big to manage?
RBS of that time was too big for its capacity to manage. Not impossible for a bank of that size to be managed, nor that small banks can't be badly managed, but that RBS at that time, with the addition of ABN-AMRO, was too big for its management to manage.
Hampton says the FSA is particularly focused on the control processes of RBS, but the bank is not on its own in that respect.
Here is Jennifer Thompson's summary of the first part of the hearing with John Hourican, Johnny Cameron and Peter Nielsen.
Hampton confirms that RBS is considering asking to former RBS directors to ask them to give back some of the bonuses they received during the period when Libor and other mismanagement took place, but he says he does not think that it would be worthwhile in terms of "bang for buck".
Andy Love, another Labour MP on the commission, says he assumes that includes writing to former CEO Fred Goodwin (who of course has already lost his knighthood) but Hampton decides not to answer that implied question.
Here's a refresher on George Osborne's blueprint for banking reform.
We have no contractual right to ask ex-directors for rewards back, so we can only put pressure on their 'good nature'
(Astonishing how many times the Commission has asked why Peter Nielsen didn't leave.)
Hester goes back to the culpability-accountability-responsibility thing See entry for 5.11pm for dictionary definitions demonstrating that there is no difference between accountability and responsibility.
The degree of self-servedness in the banking industry got to a wrong place.
"crookedness driven by excessive selfishness" – Hester defines the Libor-scandal when questioned by Lord Lawson, former Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Hester says the amounts of money people were playing with – and therefore the temptation – is greater than if you were selling credit cards.
Hester says the banking sector as a whole had developed "an excessively selfish and self-centred culture".
One of the first things Hester said he did at RBS was refocus the company around customers. Banks are there to serve customers.
Hester says the banking industry needs to be taken closer to the ideal of serving customers first. Whatever proportion of bankers is doing that already, it is not high enough.
Lawson makes the point that people like Libor traders don't actually have any customers.
Hester says:
You have to ensure the ethos of the bank, whoever it is, their job is to have an institution that serves customers well. It is a big task and we are part of the way to doing it.
Which? policy adviser Dominic Lindley asks:
Lawson asks if RBS could survive as a retail bank without any markets activity.
Hester says that to be credible to companies, the bank needed some markets, but nothing on the scale it used to be.
John McFall, the former chairman of the Treasury Select Committee, is worried that legal and compliance do not act on their own and are merely servants of the RBS board.
Hampton, asked by McFall to compare customer service between RBS and his former company, Sainsbury, says they are chalk and cheese.
People don't chop and change their bank accounts everyday. They may change their supermarket in a day.
Hester adds that banking relationships may last for decades.
Hester says every time he's looked at alternative structural solutions for the bank, they have been worse for customers and shareholders than the structure now.
There is no part of RBS we should be religious about. We are duty bound to assess all outcomes for every part of the bank.
We are custodians of this bank for stakeholders.
Andrew Tyrie, the commission chairman, has already issued a verdict on the evidence RBS offered on the payment of Libor fines from its bonus pool.
"RBS intends to pay its fines for fixing LIBOR and other important rates from past, current and future bonuses. It is logical to do so.
"We were not given sufficient confidence today that the arrangement for funding the fines from bonuses will do what it says on the tin.
"This must be more than an exercise in creative accounting. It would be all too easy to artificially adjust a bonus pool, the size of which is yet to be decided.
"RBS today undertook to show clearly where the fines are being paid from and who is bearing the losses. The Commission will look closely at these figures when they are published next month to establish whether adequate clarity has been provided."
Mark Garnier, conservative MP, asks for reassurance that RBS won't increase its bonus pool.
Garnier says Hampton could pay all of the Libor fine out of the bonuses they deferred last year.
Hampton says clawback should be focused on people most directly linked to the wrongdoing.
Our commenter Hamster81 has raised an interesting question about whether there is a correlation between bald men and banking calamity. Rest assured that the FT will be investigating this as a matter of urgency. (Although not perhaps tonight.)
Hampton refusing to criticize the role of the FSA in the Libor scandal, despite fact that the banking regulator did not write to him about it.
Hester gets a laugh from the Commission when he says he doesn't have a "network of secret informers".
The Commission has finished questioning.
There was no major news revealed in that session, but the Commission members seemed concerned about how far they could trust RBS to manage their bonus pool in the wake of the £390 Libor fine.


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I have a strange Problem:
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I have setup two DHCP Servers (there is no Bridging active),
cause i don`t want a direct connect from wlan users to my lan.
On LAN everything works fine. On WLAN i also assigned MAC
Adresses on the DHCP Server to bind defined IP Adresses for
known clients.
The first time it works fine, but if the lease time is gone out,
the DHCP Server will not assign the IP Adress to the client.
I have to reboot m0n0wall, after that the DHCP works fine.
How can it be, that m0n0wall assign only onetime an IP Address
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