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The Pound declined to the lowest level in almost five years against the Dollar yesterday, while the UK currency also slumped to a near all-time low versus the Euro following reports that UK house prices dropped by the most in since records began in 2001 and UK stocks continued the downward momentum built up from last week.
The FTSE 100 Index fell to the lowest level in five years, led by a decline oil service companies and commodities producers, as crude oil prices retreated to the May 2007 low amid concerns that a global recession will slash fuel consumption.
UK stocks lost a further 0.8% on the session after earlier falling as much as 5.6% at the open and the index has now slid 21% so far in October on concerns that a global slowdown will curb corporate profits, while the decline in stocks has coincided with the slump in Sterling, which has now fallen over 12% against the Dollar in October alone.
According to a report from Hometrack Ltd, property prices fell the most in at least seven years this month as the average cost of a home in Britain slipped 7.3% to £163,200 and prices will keep declining over the coming months as the economy deteriorates and edges closer towards a recession.
The seizure in global credit markets has made banks and lenders reluctant to lend and the subsequent reaction on consumer spending saw economic growth slip into negative territory for the second successive quarter in the three months through September, while unemployment has climbed by the most in over two years.
The heightened expectations of a forthcoming recession combined with the rising jobless rate will continue to undermine demand for housing and the London based research group said that 'continued price falls are inevitable' over the coming months.
UK house prices are expected to decline by 25% by the end of next year from the highest point in the third quarter of 2007, while the Centre for Economic and Business Research said in a separate statement that prices will come back towards the 2004 levels.
The Pound subsequently fell for the seventh consecutive day against the Dollar, trading at a low of $1.5280 earlier in the session before bouncing back towards $1.5600 at the close of trading last night but the general consensus suggests that a 1% drop in UK interest rates could bring the Pound down to the 1.4000 levels.
The UK economy contracted 0.5% in the third quarter in the official statistics released last week as the decline in housing is accompanied by a downturn in services and manufacturing, while speculation continues to mount that the Bank of England could reduce borrowing costs aggressively on November 6th.
The former chairman of the Financial Services Authority Howard Davies concurred with that sentiment, saying yesterday that the Bank of England may need to consider lowering its benchmark interest rate by a full percentage point as the turmoil sweeping through financial markets shows few signs of abating.
The heightened speculation surrounding the rate announcement has continued to weigh on Sterling sentiment as the Pound declined against 14 out of the 16 most actively traded currencies, while the rising appetite for risk aversion means that the higher yielding currencies will continue to struggle as investors seek the security of the U.S Dollar and Japanese Yen.
BNP Paribas have recently altered their predictions to reflect a 100 basis point reduction and yesterday Goldman Sachs Group Inc also said that the Central Bank will bring borrowing costs down to 3.5% next month in a last ditch attempt to bring some stability and confidence back to the banking system.
The Prime Minister Gordon Brown also weighed into the argument yesterday and said that central banks around the world have the scope to reduce interest rates and even indicated in an interview with the BBC that the escalating crisis may warrant another emergency reduction this week after the UK economy contracted by the most since 1990 in the third quarter.
The deteriorating outlook of the global economy has also hurt the Euro in recent weeks as the single currency slips to a fresh two year low versus the Dollar as European stocks continue to slide and business confidence in Germany declines to the lowest level in five years.
The Ifo sentiment index showed that confidence slipped to the lowest since January 1991 as the escalating financial crisis dimmed the outlook for growth, while the report also reiterated that the German economy is struggling to recover from a second quarter contraction and that may force the ECB into action.
The Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet said yesterday that policy makers may consider cutting interest rates next week, less than a month after a coordinated 50 basis point reduction that has thus failed to bring stability back to the market.
In a speech in Madrid, Trichet said that he would "consider it possible that the Governing Council would decrease interest rates once again at its next meeting" but he declined to comment on the scale of the reduction.
Data Released 28th October
U.K 11:00 CBI Distributive Trades Survey
U.S 13:00 Case Shiller House Prices (August)
U.S 14:00 Consumer Confidence (October)
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The UK budget, the banking crisis, and a surprise move by VW in its tortuous relationship with Porsche have been among the highlights of this week's coverage.Our budget coverage – online and in print – was tremendous. We had a series of strong scoops on the contents in the days leading up to Wednesday from Chris Giles, Alex Barker, George Parker and John Reed, while Jim Pickard and Alex Barker's analysis of the slow fulfillment of last autumn's stimulus promises was very timely. Chris Giles and Jean Eaglesham wrote a powerful yet subtle Analysis Page of whether the British economic model is bust.
On Wednesday itself we had fast, authoritative and innovative coverage online. The video team produced a strong series of videos which complemented our coverage. Special mention to Josh de la Mare who produced a thought-provoking strand of interviews with past Chancellors (www.ft.com/chancellors) offering their experiences during recessions and advice for Alistair Darling. The videos elicited some wonderful gems including a robust rejection of the Tory accusation that the fate of all Labour Chancellors is to run out of money. "Absolute bloody nonsense" says Denis Healey. On the day, a number of FT experts gave their instant reactions on camera, led by Chris Giles' magisterial summary of the main points and Matthew Vincent's take on the personal finance implications for high earners. Dan Garrahan organised and fronted videos from Westminster including a really punchy one with Vince Cable which provided the quote of the day for the splash – a good example of the need to mine all our own material for good lines.
The Budget blog organised by Sarah Laitner got a lot of hits and comments. Sarah, Richard Martin, and Claire Bryan from product development organised the budget live innovation, in which Robert Shrimsley, Jamie Chisholm and Matthew Vincent bravely blogged along as the Chancellor spoke – and attracted a very substantial community of readers and commentators.
The reporting and analysis was all so good – and quickly delivered – it seems almost invidious to single out individuals, but special mention should go to Chris Giles and George Parker for their economic and political coverage, to Matthew Engel for his beautifully judged colour piece, to Sharlene Goff and Matthew Vincent for their personal finance overview and to our team of columnists: Martin Wolf, Philip Stephens, Gillian Tett, Willem Buiter, Paul J Davies, Nick Timmins and Jonathan Guthrie – with his image of the Mondeo chancellor heading to the scrapyard. Lex was also excellent throughout the week on the UK economy and Andrew Hill on Lombard was equally pithy. Many congratulations to Andrew on his success at the Business Journalist of the Year awards, picking up not just the best columnist award but that for Decade of Excellence.
Elsewhere online, Jeremy Lemer and Cleve Jones organised a really strong interactive graphic on Obama's 100 days, while our malaria map to go with the special report was really informative. Plaudits to Steve Bernard, Tom Griggs and Keith Fray.
The Combating Malaria report was a quintessential FT subject – science and medicine meet public policy – superbly executed. Originally conceived as a four-page report to mark World Malaria Day, it grew to 12. Alongside our recent inaugural Financial Times Health magazine, the malaria report has identified health policy as a subject of growing interest to our readers and advertisers. Combating Malaria was a team effort, but special thanks to Andrew Jack who, along with Clive Cookson and our foreign correspondents, provided first-rate writing, and Seb Morton-Clark who coordinated the video interviews with the Nigerian health minister and others.
The scoop of the week award goes to Daniel Schafer for the revelation that VW is considering a bid for Porsche, but we have had a strong batch of exclusives, including:
Krishna Guha kept us ahead of the US bank bail-out throughout the week with a series of policy scoops, together with Dan Dombey and Francesco Guerrera, and a magisterial Monday Analysis Page on stress tests of bank balance sheets.
The Friday for Saturday splash from Krishna and Francesco was way ahead of the competition. Unlike any other major US paper, we named names, revealing that government officials had indicated to Citigroup that it might have to raise additional capital. Meanwhile Francesco and Joanna Chung detailed discussions held by senior FDIC officials over whether Vikram Pandit will be fired if Citigroup needs more government money to survive.
Sarah O'Connor got great online following for her excellent scoop on how the US recession is opening up a huge gap between male and female unemployment. Tom Mitchell reported the head of China's flagship sovereign wealth fund thanking European snubs for helping him save money on poor investments; Pan Yuk revealed that Heineken had snapped up GlobePub company's debt; John Reed and Daniel Schafer reported GM was willing to dispose of its Opel/Vauxhall operations for nothing, and Nick Timmins reported threats to cut budgets of Whitehall departments that don't achieve efficiency savings.
Kate Burgess, together with Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, revealed that Pearson had got the brush off from shareholders for a share placing. James Wilson and Ralph Atkins had an interview with Axel Weber, the Bundesbank head, in which he was highly critical of Brussels, setting off a row with the EU. Kathrin Hille revealed that even Chinese brands are now being hit by trademark pirates, while Nikki Tait unveiled EU plans to cap bankers bonuses. Tim Johnston and David Pilling had an interview with the Thai prime minister, while Gerrit Wiesmann, Alex Barker and Sylvia Pfeifer reported an Anglo-German row over paying for Eurofigher
Among notable analysis, Richard Lapper and Tom Burgis provided strong, colourful coverage of the South African election, Anousha Sakoui and John Reed explained the ramifications of a GM bankruptcy filing, Peggy Hollinger examined accusation of EDF spying, Ed Luce examined the marginalisation of the Republicans, and Najmeh Bozorgmehr explained how a potato distribution policy was causing a stir in the Iranian election.
Richard Milne in Business Life gave an insight into how companies were collaborating in low carbon businesses. Saskia Scholtes kicked off the US housing market series with a nice analysis of woes. Chris Flood wrote a very prescient piece on doubts over the base metals bounce, while David Oakley and Michael Mackenzie examined the perils facing the gilts market and Aline van Duyn delved into bondholders' legal threats to the US government.
Notable Comment included Roula Khalaf on Arab concerns over Iran consolidating its power in the Middle East; Martin Wolf's wonderfully sobering riposte to signs of green recovery shoots, and Lex on US bank stress tests.
Bernard Simon wrote a wonderfully colourful piece on the modern equivalent of the Tupperware party – selling your gold – while Saturday's paper was full of great, engaging writing, with a particularly strong opinion page, featuring Matt Garrahan's Man in the News on JJ Abrams, John Gapper on the new Yankee stadium, Chris Caldwell on the economics of piracy and John Kay writing superbly on Labour's failure.
Arnie Wilson's obit on Shane McConkey, the man who liked to ski off mountains with a parachute (with amazing video links online), was compelling, while Sam Jones wrote a fascinating magazine piece on the maths formula that brought down the world's banks. House & Home had a nice design edition with a strong cover story on attempts to turn Milan into a more bustling city, while Money had a very strong set of pieces following up the Budget.
Finally, we wrote an excellent Saturday leader on the bond market and the UK government – as well as a very witty piece on the letters of the alphabet used to describe economic conditions.

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Thanks for using JustAnswer.com, I'm Dr. Dan and I'll try to help you.
Was any blood work or other testing done before the phenobarbital was started?
Dr. Dan
Thanks again for the information.
I think it was not a terrible decision to try the bird on phenobarbital as epilepsy is very possible in any bird.
One place where your vet is mistaken is that blood can't be taken from a budgie, if the correct lab is used and the correct technique is used plenty of tests can be run on a budgie very safely and effectively. We draw blood on canaries and finches (not to mention budgies) frequently.
Right now I think the chain needs to be removed and you need to find a vet who can draw blood (and you are more confident in) and feels comfortable treating birds. This bird needs to be tested for zinc and possibly lead. Many toys especially cheap ones made in other countries have zinc in the metal or lead solder which which are very toxic and will cause the exact signs you are describing and phenobarbital will not help.
If your bird tests positive for zinc or lead (I'm quite suspicious it will) then a drug called calcium EDTA can be used to bind the zinc/lead and return your bird to health. I think the dark stuff you are describing is a side effect of zinc toxicity as zinc can cause certain tissues to bleed. I hope this helps, best wishes.
Thanks Dr Dan.....
I'll call the vet next week.
He's the only avian vet in the area, so my options are limited, but once I discuss the possibility of poisoning, which both my wife and me never really even considered until a recent visit to a hardware store in the chain section and the lightbulb went off, i'm thinking he'll probably go for a blood test. in retrospect, i'm thinking it's more my wife who's afraid he'll die from a blood test then the vet, but worth talking to him about it.
We lost a english budgie last april who had discharge on her cere shortly before she died, so I'm a little panicky with my male, tweedle dum. he's still kicking, which supports the poisoning theory....not enough to kill him, but enough to make him ill...he's really scared both of us on more then one occasion with the seizures. most birds don't necessarily survive seizures based on what i've read online, and that was certainly the case with my english budgie.
we watch him on a webcam from work to make sure he's ok. he's fairly active of late:
http://kfacens.camstreams.com/ is the link if your curious.
Thanks again......worth the money to help put my mind more at ease.
You are quite welcome, best of luck to you all.
If your vet is open to it, this is the lab we use and they except extremely tiny samples of blood.


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Formicidae, Hymenoptera, Insecta, Arthropoda, Animalia
Currently known only from Costa Rica. Collections are known from midelevation wet forest sites in the Cordillera de Tilaran (Monteverde, Penas Blancas Valley, Laguna Arenal), Cordillera Volcanica Central (north of Volcan Barba), and Cordillera de Talamanca (Hitoy Cerere Biological Reserve).
Mesosomal dorsum with erect hairs; opening of propodeal spiracle viewed perpendicularly slit-shaped, more than twice as long as wide; mandible with approximately 13 teeth; dorsal outline of mesosoma interrupted by a distinct, impressed propodeal groove, so that the mesonotum forms a convexity separate from the more or less convex propodeal dorsum; in full-face view, a line drawn through the centers of the eyes falls near head mid-head, crossing near posterior limits of frontal carinae; cheeks with a distinct carina reaching from clypeal wing to eye margin; anterior face of petiolar node perpendicular, forming an angular anterodorsal summit; sides and posterior face of petiole smooth, not rugulose; anteromedian portion of clypeus transversely rugose.
Natural History
This species is a specialist inhabitant of Cecropia saplings. It is relatively common in Cecropia saplings in mature forest gaps.
Most Cecropia species are specialized ant-plants with a suite of adaptations associated with being inhabited by ants. These include hollow stems (internodes) that provide a nest site, thin spots in the stem wall (prostomata) that facilitate access to the nesting space, and dense pads of hairs (trichilia) that produce food bodies (muellerian bodies) on which the ants feed. The dominant plant-ants associated with Cecropia are members of the genus Azteca, but a number of species of Pachycondyla are also known to depend on Cecropia. For example, P. luteola is a specialized Cecropia ant known from Peru (Davidson et al. 1989, 1991, Davidson and Fisher 1991).
The following observations support the claim that P. insignis is an obligate plant-ant on Cecropia: (1) I have never collected or seen workers away from Cecropia; (2) I have collected founding queens in Cecropia internodes; (3) all nests I have observed have been inside Cecropia stems; (4) I have seen workers harvesting muellerian bodies, (5) I have found muellerian body caches inside the nests; and (6) workers and queens use the prostomata, rather than some other part of the stem wall, to gain entrance to the internodes.
Cecropia occupied by P. insignis are fairly easy to discern in the field, because the entrance hole is very large and circular, much larger than entrance holes made by Azteca. Other non-specialized species of Pachycondyla may be found nesting opportunistically in Cecropia stems (e.g. crenata, striatinodis), but their entrance holes are often more irregularly shaped, and often enter through an irregular hole or wound in the plant, rather than through the prostoma.
Among plant-ant species that are obligate inhabitants of Cecropia trees, all are not equal with respect to behavior and effect on the hostplant. Some species, such as Azteca constructor, Azteca xanthochroa, and Pachycondyla luteola, are highly aggressive defenders of hostplants. They swarm out at the slightest disturbance, readily attacking perceived enemies. In contrast, Azteca alfari, another obligate Cecropia ant, is less aggressive. Workers do not emerge as readily on disturbance, and their trees are often smaller, more vine covered, and more herbivore damaged than trees inhabited by the more aggressive species. However, large A. alfari colonies can be found in reproductively mature Cecropia trees. Pachycondyla insignis represents an extreme in the direction of reduced investment in the defense of a host tree. Colonies are small and exclusively inhabit small saplings. Workers are timid and run inside or flee on disturbance. Presumably the colonies are short-lived, because I have never seen a large colony in a mature Cecropia tree. Either the colonies are being replaced by Azteca colonies as the sapling grows, or the saplings are dying young, before reaching reproductive maturity. I think the latter is more likely, since the presence of a Pachycondyla colony probably inhibits colonization by Azteca queens.
Most ant-plant systems do not represent cases of co-cladogenesis, in which one lineage of ants becomes associated with a lineage of plants and speciates in tandem with plant speciation. Instead, ant-plant systems often appear to be the result of multiple independent colonizations of a plant lineage by diverse ant lineages. Pachycondyla insignis may represent an independent colonization of Cecropia. Pachycondyla insignis is nearly indistinguishable from P. villosa and P. bugabensis, species that are generalized foragers and opportunistic cavity nesters. Pachycondyla insignis differs only in having transverse rugae on the clypeus. Perhaps the rugae function in the excavation of the prostoma; alternatively they could be involved in the gripping of muellerian bodies. Pachycondyla insignis is a local endemic which could have evolved through a sympatric speciation mechanism from P. bugabensis, P. villosa, or some ancestral version of them.
I have made the following collections/observations of P. insignis:
Hitoy Cerere Biological Reserve
JTL0974: lone founding queen in an internode of a Cecropia insignis sapling.
16km N Volcan Barba
JTL1372: nest in internode of Cecropia insignis sapling; entire nest contained 4 workers, 1 dealate queen.
North side Laguna Arenal
JTL1713, JTL1722: two nests observed in Cecropia saplings.
Rio Penas Blancas
JTL1591: Nest in 10 internodes of Cecropia insignis, most of colony collected; 33 adult workers and 1 dealate queen.
JTL1604-s: Lone foundresses in Cecropia insignis internodes.
JTL1619: Nest in internodes of Cecropia insignis. Two saplings in a clump had fallen over where the bank had slumped into a small creek. Parts of the saplings were dead or dying. Ants were in live portions.
JTL2030: Lone queen in C. insignis sapling internode.
JTL2524: a small Cecropia insignis tree on the riverbank had multiple stems sprouting from a thick base. A nest occupied a contiguous series of 22 internodes. The nest contained 15 adult workers, 2 adult males, 13 cocoons, and a few larvae and eggs. I did not find an adult queen. I opened the cocoons and found 2 with adult males, 5 with male pupae/pharate adults, 3 with prepupae, and 3 with unrecognizable goop. There were no muellerian body caches. There was a single large opening at the top, through the prostoma. Every other internode had a scar over the prostoma, of the same size as the opening at the top. It appears that the Pacycondyla continually open a new entrance in each successive internode. The septa each had a single large circular hole 6-7mm wide. The entrance hole was elliptical, 5.5x3mm. The colony was concentrated in the third and fourth internodes down. The lower internodes contained frass and old cocoon shells.
Carrillo, Braulio Carrillo National Park
JTL2098: Lone founding queen with brood; in single internode of Cecropia insignis sapling. No muellerian bodies in internode, although there was a large open entry hole and abundant mullerian bodies on trichilia.
Casa Plastico, near Rara Avis
JTL2243-s: In C. insignis sapling along road through tall forest.
JTL2293: Lone queen in internode of Cecropia insignis sapling.
JTL2295: Nest in Cecropia obtusifolia sapling. No cache of food bodies present; ants occupying area of former scarab damage, very wet and messy inside.
JTL2570: colony in 237cm tall Cecropia obtusifolia sapling; in scrubby second growth vegetation. I first observed this colony on 28 May 1989. At 0700hrs I passed the sapling, tapped it, and noted no response. At 1945hrs, I passed it again, and observed a worker take a muellerian body. It kept working at it, leaving and then returning. It finally worked it free and took it into the entrance hole. Two other workers were out on the shoot tip, walking from trichilium to trichilium. On 11 June I collected the top 147cm of the sapling. When collected, several workers were out on the shoot tip. Their response to the disturbance was to immediately go into the stem. They did not emerge while I walked to the house with the entire cut stem. Brood and muellerian bodies were intermixed in the active nest space. The entire adult population was 35 workers and 1 dealate queen. There was a single large entrance hole near top, over the prostoma, and numerous abandoned, grown-over entrance holes below. The internal septa, which separate internodes, were also perforated in the active nest space. Each septum had a central hole similar in size and shape to the entrance hole.
Detailed internode contents, starting at top:
1. unoccupied, still sealed.
2. workers, 1 cocoon.
3. workers.
4. workers, 4mm diameter round hole over prostoma (entrance to nest).
5. 1 egg, 2 larvae, muellerian bodies.
6. 1 larva, 1 egg, muellerian bodies.
7. 8 eggs, 2 larvae, muellerian bodies.
8. empty, but part of active nest space.
9. pile of brown, chewed pith with large larva just spinning a cocoon; larva entirely embedded in pith pile.
10. 6 eggs, 3 larvae, muellerian bodies; possible woodpecker damage; there was a hole, fairly fresh, which had been plugged from the inside with a wet, slimy mass of the chewed pith material.
11. 25 eggs, 6 larvae, muellerian bodies.
12. 1 egg.
13. similar damage to internode 10.
14. similar damage.
15. 10 eggs, 1 larva, 1 cocoon, muellerian bodies; similar damage.
16. 1 larva, 1 cocoon; similar damage.
17. 3 larvae (one spinning cocoon in pith pile), 2 cocoons; similar damage.
18. 1 egg, 2 larvae, 4 cocoons; wet pith pile.
19. 4 larvae, 3 cocoons; similar damage.
20. 1 larva.
21. 2 larvae.
22-26. empty but with perforated septa, part of active nest space.
27-32. with perforated septa; filled with old chewed pith, frass, old cocoon shells, old insect parts, including dead Azteca xanthochroa queens. This appeared to be the bottom of the active nest space.
33. similar damage; water-filled; septa entire, without holes.
34. sealed; 2 dead Azteca constructor queens.
35. sealed; remains of a black Azteca queen.
36. completely water-filled; looks like a former Pachycondyla entrance hole, but now nearly completely filled in, with only 1mm diameter hole remaining.
37. weevil larvae; frass.
38. frass.
Internodes 12, 16, 17, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 26, 32, 34, 36, 38 had former exit holes over prostomata, grown closed with callous tissue.
The internodes below 38 showed no signs of previous Pachycondyla occupation. There were some sealed internodes with dead Azteca constructor and xanthochroa queens. Some contained weevil larvae and frass, and some had round weevil exit holes.
Internodes 1-26, the main active space of the nest, together were 61cm long. Internodes 27-38 were 46cm long. Internodes 39-56 were 40cm long. The bottom 90cm of stem was left in the field; not dissected. Thus the sapling was 237cm long. The sapling had 6 leaves total.
Pachycondyla insignis was a Bill Brown manuscript name, based on a full nest series I sent him in 1988. Mackay and Mackay (2010) formally described it, from material Brian Fisher collected in Peñas Blancas.
Literature Cited
Davidson, D.W., R.R. Snelling and J. T. Longino. 1989. Competition among ants for myrmecophytes and the significance of plant trichomes. Biotropica 21(1): 64-73.
Davidson, D. W., R. Foster, R. R. Snelling and P. W. Lozada (1991) Variable composition of some tropical ant-plant symbioses. In P. W. Price et al. (eds.), Herbivory: Tropical and Temperate Perspectives. John Wiley and Sons, New York, pp. 145-162.
Davidson, D. W. and B. L. Fisher (1991) Symbiosis of ants with Cecropia as a function of light regime. In C.R. Huxley and D. Cutler (eds.), Ant- Plant Interactions, Oxford Univ. Press, pp. 289-309.
Mackay, W. P., and E. E. Mackay 2010. The Systematics and Biology of the New World Ants of the Genus Pachycondyla (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Edwin Mellon Press, Lewiston.
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Lions Dominate Distance Events at Malibu Invitational
LMU won every race on Friday at the Malibu Invitational.
Oct. 22, 2011
MALIBU, Calif. -
Malibu Invitational - DistanceThe LMU swimming team dominated competition at the Malibu Invitational on Friday at Pepperdine's Raleigh Runnels Memorial Pool, winning all three distance swimming events.
The Lions posted the top-two swimmers in the 1650 freestyle event, including the winner, Mary Kate Short, in a time of 18:07.89. Short was followed by Terry Rinder at 18:27.40.
LMU ran away with the 400 individual medley race, placing each of the top-five swimmers in the race. Christina Cannata stopped the clock at 4:41.19 to finish first, followed by Yvonne Le (4:43.17) and Tammy Choy (4:46.40).
The 500 freestyle followed suit for LMU, as the Lions placed each of the first six swimmers in the event. Katie Rick claimed first place at 5:17.61, followed by freshmen Maddie Vanderpoel at 5:22.46 and Diana Safa at 5:26.19 in second and third, respectively.
The Malibu Invitational continues today with the sprint events slated to be contested starting at 9:30 a.m.
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Christian Comment with Andy Harding of Psalms Strategic Youth and Sports Minster ON March 17, 2012 people from all ages, backgrounds and communities joined the Pray for Muamba campaign. His wife said every prayer makes him stronger, to God be the glory. It was considered a complete miracle that Fabrice Muamba began to rapidly recover, given that he was effectively dead for 78 minutes. What was described across the media was initially miraculous then became remarkable and then became virtually forgotten. That is until he walked out before last weekÕs Bolton match.
Muamba was clearly emotional, shedding tears. What was unthinkable and beyond people's wildest expectation had become the reality. Muamba could walk, talk and even contemplate a return to the Premier Football League. We turned to God in despair, he answered... but we forgot and moved on. In desperation we deem it acceptable to turn to God Ð and it is.
But God wants to be involved in every aspect of our lives. He wants to walk and talk with us, throughout our daily struggles and joys; our achievements and failings. It isnÕt that he ignores our 999 prayers in our darkest moments. It is more that the same God who created us, came to earth to ride the rollercoaster of life alongside us. God wants us to pray to him. God wants individuals, communities and nations to unite in prayer. Praying for our wellbeing, our families, our community, our nation, and all other areas of life that are important to us: and therefore important to God. Let us unite in prayer as so many of the football world did on the weekend of March 17. God listens and responds.


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Just now joined group and looking forward to sharing ideas. My Robo-Magellan project is built and I am in the process of programming it. Once I start field testing I am sure to be making changes.
I have made a big change in my Robo-magellan by puttung it on a Minds-i 6 wheel rover. Which I believe Eric also did with his Robo-magellan. There are photos of it on my Facebook page and also on the Robothon Facebook page. Please check it out.


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Tuesday, November 11, 2003
More Blacks are Conservative than Liberal: Who's the "Race Traitor" Now?More on that new Gallup poll...
In it, more blacks (30 percent) say they are conservative than say they are liberal (22 percent). 47 percent say they are moderate.
(Yet, liberal U.S. Senators are planning to filibuster a qualified black judicial nominee because she's not liberal -- as if not being liberal makes her some kind of race traitor. Maybe the true race traitors are Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and their ilk.)
The corresponding numbers for whites are 43 percent conservative, 18 percent liberal and 38 percent moderate.
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FLIR Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:FLIR) Given Consensus Rating of "Buy" by Brokerages
FLIR Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:FLIR) has received an average rating of "Buy" from the eleven research firms that are covering the stock, MarketBeat Ratings reports. Four research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating, five have assigned a buy rating and two have issued a strong buy rating on the company. The average twelve-month price target among analysts that have issued a report on the stock in the last year is $37.63.
A number of equities research analysts recently issued reports on FLIR shares. Zacks Investment Research raised FLIR Systems from a "hold" rating to a "buy" rating and set a $39.00 price target on the stock in a research report on Tuesday, June 27th. BidaskClub raised FLIR Systems from a "sell" rating to a "hold" rating in a research report on Monday. Stephens began coverage on FLIR Systems in a report on Friday, July 7th. They issued an "overweight" rating on the stock. Raymond James Financial, Inc. raised FLIR Systems from a "market perform" rating to a "strong-buy" rating and set a $43.00 target price on the stock in a report on Monday, July 10th. Finally, UBS AG raised FLIR Systems from a "market perform" rating to a "strong-buy" rating in a report on Monday, July 10th.
In other FLIR Systems news, Director William Wright Crouch sold 38,800 shares of the firm's stock in a transaction on Wednesday, June 14th. The stock was sold at an average price of $35.95, for a total value of $1,394,860.00. Following the sale, the director now owns 36,006 shares of the company's stock, valued at approximately $1,294,415.70. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is available at the SEC website. Also, SVP Travis D. Merrill sold 4,000 shares of the firm's stock in a transaction on Tuesday, May 2nd. The shares were sold at an average price of $37.23, for a total value of $148,920.00. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. In the last ninety days, insiders sold 71,771 shares of company stock worth $2,625,195. Company insiders own 3.00% of the company's stock.
Several large investors have recently added to or reduced their stakes in the stock. Cribstone Capital Management LLC purchased a new stake in FLIR Systems during the first quarter valued at $106,000. TrimTabs Asset Management LLC purchased a new stake in FLIR Systems during the first quarter valued at $112,000. FTB Advisors Inc. purchased a new stake in FLIR Systems during the first quarter valued at $130,000. Mn Services Vermogensbeheer B.V. increased its stake in FLIR Systems by 4.7% in the first quarter. Mn Services Vermogensbeheer B.V. now owns 3,638 shares of the scientific and technical instruments company's stock valued at $123,000 after buying an additional 163 shares during the period. Finally, Daiwa Securities Group Inc. increased its stake in FLIR Systems by 21.9% in the first quarter. Daiwa Securities Group Inc. now owns 3,900 shares of the scientific and technical instruments company's stock valued at $141,000 after buying an additional 700 shares during the period. 91.83% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors.
Shares of FLIR Systems (FLIR) traded up 0.48% during mid-day trading on Monday, reaching $37.94. The company had a trading volume of 411,536 shares. FLIR Systems has a 12-month low of $28.26 and a 12-month high of $38.94. The firm's 50 day moving average is $36.65 and its 200-day moving average is $36.28. The stock has a market capitalization of $5.18 billion, a P/E ratio of 25.28 and a beta of 0.58.
FLIR Systems (NASDAQ:FLIR) last issued its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, April 26th. The scientific and technical instruments company reported $0.36 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, hitting the Zacks' consensus estimate of $0.36. The business had revenue of $406.80 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $408.57 million. FLIR Systems had a return on equity of 13.58% and a net margin of 12.32%. The firm's quarterly revenue was up 7.2% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the business posted $0.30 earnings per share. On average, analysts expect that FLIR Systems will post $1.85 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.
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FLIR Systems Company Profile
FLIR Systems, Inc (FLIR) designs, develops, markets and distributes thermal imaging systems, visible-light imaging systems, locater systems, measurement and diagnostic systems and threat-detection solutions. The Company's segments include Surveillance, Instruments, Security, OEM & Emerging Markets, Maritime and Detection.
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Yet what should have been an orgiastic love fest, was, surprisingly, far more muted.
Hence among primitive peoples New Year is often characterised by orgiastic rites.
Beginning with the two "calves," they proceeded to lewd and orgiastic idolatries.
But it had one curious feature which seemed rather to be primitive and orgiastic.
Even the Dry-towners shunned the orgiastic rituals of Kamaina.
The fact that the rites were called Dionysiac is no reason for denying the fact that some orgiastic rites were practised.
The worship of the gods assumed a more terrific and orgiastic character.
All was confusion, all a kind of wild and orgiastic dream, culmination of heredity, of a spirit run amok.
They show no cannibalism, probably no totemism, certainly no orgiastic excesses.
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If your son or daughter's piggy bank is nearly overflowing, it may be time to consider opening up a bank account for them. An account helps teach children how to keep track of money easier. There are a few different types of savings accounts that you should consider for your child.
As soon as your child has money of their own, they can start a savings account. Find a day with free time and make a trip to your bank branch. Tell the bank associate there that you are interested in setting up a child's savings account.
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Chaos in Venezuela: Maduro's madness
Chaos that Venezuela's socialist ruler unleashed by outrageously seizing stores selling electronics and extending blanket price controls elsewhere is a cautionary tale for all who think every problem's answer is more government intrusion and control.
That "state knows best" attitude, personified by the late President Hugo Chavez's penchant for nationalizing industries, has made Venezuela an economic basket case: 54-percent inflation, with such basics as milk, toilet paper and flour in short supply. Yet with municipal elections a month away, President Nicolas Maduro on Friday doubled down on his predecessor's ill-advised approach.
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O.C.G.A. § 34-9-221. Procedure; payment controverted by employer; delinquency charge; enforcement
(a) Income benefits shall be paid periodically, promptly, and directly to the person entitled thereto, without an award, except where liability is controverted by the employer. Payments shall be made in cash, by negotiable instrument, or, upon agreement of the parties, by electronic funds transfer.
(b) The first payment of income benefits shall become due on the twenty-first day after the employer has knowledge of the injury or death, on which day all income benefits then due shall be paid. Thereafter, income benefits shall be due and payable in weekly installments; provided, however, that the board may, in its discretion, authorize payments to be made in different installments if it determines that this would be beneficial to all parties concerned. Such weekly payments shall be considered to be paid when due when mailed from within the State of Georgia to the address specified by the employee or to the address of record according to the board. Such weekly payments shall be considered to be paid when due when mailed from outside the State of Georgia no later than three days prior to the due date to the address specified by the employee or the address of record according to the board. Such weekly payments shall be considered to be paid when due at the time they are made by electronic funds transfer to an account specified by the employee.
(c) Upon making the first payment and upon suspension of payment for any cause, the employer shall immediately notify the board and the employee, in accordance with forms prescribed by the board, that payment of income benefits has begun or has been suspended, as the case may be.
(d) If the employer controverts the right to compensation, it shall file with the board, on or before the twenty-first day after knowledge of the alleged injury or death, a notice in accordance with the form prescribed by the board, stating that the right of compensation is controverted and stating the name of the claimant, the name of the employer, the date of the alleged injury or death, and the ground upon which the right to compensation is controverted.
(e) If any income benefits payable without an award are not paid when due, there shall be added to the accrued income benefits an amount equal to 15 percent thereof, which shall be paid at the same time as, but in addition to, the accrued income benefits unless notice is filed under subsection (d) of this Code section or unless this nonpayment is excused by the board after a showing by the employer that owing to conditions beyond control of the employer the income benefits could not be paid within the period prescribed.
(f) If income benefits payable under the terms of an award are not paid within 20 days after becoming due, there shall be added to the accrued income benefits an amount equal to 20 percent thereof, which shall be paid at the same time as, but in addition to, the accrued benefits unless review of the award is granted by the board.
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Christian Care Foundation for Children with Disabilities
Christian Care Foundation for Children with Disabilities (CCD) - non-governmental organization in Thailand.[1] Established in 1986 by Christian Outreach for Relief & Development (CORD), UK. Located in Nonthaburi, north of Bangkok.
The Foundation helps abandoned children with disabilities, regardless of gender, nationality, creed or religion. By May, 2007, it provided rehabilitation to about 500 children from the government homes in cooperation with local authorities. It also supports families who have children with disabilities living at home in rural areas, and provides physical therapies, advice, training, and develops parent support networks. CCD have provided training for organizations from Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam on how to develop services to the disabled in these countries.
CCD projects include:
- Four day-care centres
Rainbow Day-care - CCD centre for community children and children from Baan Feung Fah Government Children's Home. Baan Feung Fah - CCD centre based at the Government Home for children up to 7 years of age. Baan Rachawadee Girls - CCD centre based at the Government Home for girls and young women age 7 plus. Baan Rachawadee Boys - CCD centre based at the Government Home for boys and young men age 7 plus.
- Small residential care homes
Rainbow House - residential care for approximately 10 children. Happy Home - independent living home for 6 young men. Vision House - independent living home for 6 young men.
- Community-based rehabilitation programs (CBR)
CBR1 - serving families in Nakhon Pathom province. CBR2 - serving families in Nonthaburi and Pathum Thani provinces. CBR3 - serving families in Chai Nat province.
Some of the disabled and needy kids have been adopted by new parents with the help of the Christian Care Foundation.[2] There are former CCD children living in the UK, USA, Australia, Europe and in Thailand.
Donors to CCD are private citizens, humanitarian organizations, business companies, religious organizations.[3]
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Process validation officially became part of the FDA's Quality Systems Regulation in 1997. Fifteen years later medical device manufacturers still struggle with determining which processes require validation. The confusion traces back to two words, "fully verified." What does "fully verified" mean? What do I do if I determine that process can't be "fully verified?" And, equally important, what are the FDA's expectations when I can't?
The answer to the "fully verify" question can have big consequences. Failure to identify a process that requires validation can cause compliance issues, including warning letters, delays in pre-market submissions and field actions. A conservative approach of validating everything can be costly. And worse yet, some people erroneously think that if they can fully verify something, the verification has to be 100%. This approach, unless automated, may be a statistically invalid approach because even manual 100% inspection is statistically not 100% effective.
The goals of this article are to clarify 1) how to determine if something can be fully verified, 2) how to plan validation and process control for those that can't be fully verified; and 3) how to monitor and control processes using a risk-based approach.
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If you work in the life science industry, it is always a good habit to periodically check the FDA's website for enforcement actions and warning letters. You can glean important insights from the mistakes and weaknesses of other companies in your industry, maybe even your competitors. You will see what the FDA is emphasizing in inspections, perhaps see some trends.
For the purpose of this article, that's what I did. Specifically, I checked how many warning letters related to CGMP and CGTP violations were sent to pharmaceutical, blood/biologics, and medical device companies in the first quarter of 2012. I counted 35 such warning letters.
With the help of a spreadsheet and lots of coffee, I reviewed the information available from the FDA website. I made a list of all 35 life science companies that received warning letters between January and March 2012 and identified their top five violations only. Some companies had only two or three violations; others had more than five.
I categorized violations by the regulation cited. In some instances, especially with pharmaceutical and blood/biologics companies, I combined related observations. For example, I combined 21 CFR 211.192 and 21 CFR 211.188 because the observations were all related to batch.
Out of the 35 warning letters, 23 were sent to medical device companies, nine to pharmaceutical, and three to blood/biologic companies.
The warning letters originated from the CDRH (11), CDER (eight), CBER (1), and also from FDA district offices in New Jersey (3), New York (1), Cincinnati (1), Philadelphia (2), New Orleans (2), Los Angeles (2), Atlanta (1), Kansas City (1), Minneapolis (1), and San Francisco (1).
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Was it yesterday when our faith was strong?
We had such clarity and knew what was right and wrong.
Age and experience sometimes brings confusion to a simple faith.
Yet it was that simple faith that made us feel safe.
Worldly wisdom is good but it shouldn't hinder or detract.
It can help us steer our course and keep on track.
Life is a marvellous journey we all have to walk.
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President Obama just announced a tentative deal with Republicans on extending the sweeping tax cuts signed by President George W. Bush nearly a decade ago.
The deal extends all the tax cuts for two years, including those on upper-income Americans that Obama wanted to end. As a result, the debate over the tax cuts will have to be joined again during the 2012 presidential campaign.
Obama won a 13-month extension of unemployment insurance, a reduction in employee payroll taxes next year, and the continuation of a variety of tax credits aimed at lower- and middle-income Americans.
The payroll tax cut would save a worker with $40,000 in income $800 next year. For someone making $100,000, the tax break would be $2,000.
The payroll tax cut and unemployment insurance extension should provide at least $176 billion in economic stimulus next year, the White House said.
Republicans won a cut in the estate tax to 35% and a higher $5 million exemption on assets.
"There are things in here that I don't like," Obama said. But he said refusing to compromise would create a stalemate, which he called "a chilling prospect for the American people."
"We have arrived at a framework of a bipartisan agreement," Obama said. "For the next two years, every American family will keep their tax cuts."
The outlines of the deal emerged from the White House and Republicans in Congress after Obama met with congressional Democrats late this afternoon. Those Democrats stressed that the deal isn't final until they run it by their colleagues, probably on Tuesday.
Here are details of the emerging deal:
Republicans in Congress endorsed the tentative deal. Rep. Dave Camp, R-Mich., who will chair the House Ways and Means Committee next year, said it "will allow us to extend all current tax rates and give economic recovery and job creation a chance. The failure to reach and pass an agreement preventing a tax hike would have been devastating for families, especially those who are still looking for work."
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said: "I appreciate the determined efforts of the president and vice president in working with Republicans on a bipartisan plan to prevent a tax hike on any American and in creating incentives for economic growth. Their efforts reflect a growing bipartisan belief that a new direction is needed if we are to revive the economy and help put millions of Americans back to work."
Democrats weren't as effusive. Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid's office issued a curt, one-sentence statement from spokesman Jim Manley. "Now that the president has outlined his proposal, Senator Reid plans on discussing it with his caucus tomorrow," Manley said.
Obama stressed that he didn't like two elements of the deal -- the temporary extension of tax cuts for upper-income Americans, which he said would have cost $700 billion if stretched for the entire next decade, and making the estate tax exemption more generous for the same time period.
In two years, he said, "It will become apparent that we can't afford these tax cuts any longer." The White House said it expects a vigorous debate about that during the 2012 presidential election.
Obama said he favored compromise over gridlock because the latter "would have raised taxes by $3,000 for a typical American family."
While Democrats and Republicans do battle in Washington, he said, "These are not abstract fights for the families that are impacted."
(Posted by Richard Wolf)
David's journalism career spans three decades, including coverage of five presidential elections, the Oklahoma City bombing, the 2000 Florida presidential recount and the 9/11 terrorist attacks. He has covered the White House for USA TODAY since 2005. His interests include history, politics, books, movies and college football -- not necessarily in that order. More about David
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text: My problem is this, I just install SBCL 1.0.29, in /usr/local: INSTALL_ROOT=/usr/local sudo sh install.sh I have an Intel MacBook, with OS X 10.5. At the end of the installation I get the following message: SBCL has been installed: binary /usr/local/bin/sbcl core and contribs in /usr/local/lib/sbcl/ And aparently everything is fine, but when I try to run sbcl I get this error: (progn (load "/Library/Application Support/Aquamacs Emacs/SLIME/swank-loader.lisp" :verbose t) (funcall (read-from-string "swank-loader:init")) (funcall (read-from-string "swank:start-server") "/var/folders/xa/xaxgji46FmOJfRG2eRG5K++++TI/-Tmp-/slime.1517" :coding-system "iso-latin-1-unix")) This is SBCL 1.0.29, an implementation of ANSI Common Lisp. More information about SBCL is available at <http://www.sbcl.org/>. SBCL is free software, provided as is, with absolutely no warranty. It is mostly in the public domain; some portions are provided under BSD-style licenses. See the CREDITS and COPYING files in the distribution for more information. fatal error encountered in SBCL pid 1534: can't load .core for different runtime, sorry Error opening /dev/tty: Device not configured Welcome to LDB, a low-level debugger for the Lisp runtime environment. ldb> unknown command: ``(progn'' ldb> unknown command: ``:coding-system'' ldb> ldb> What is this? How can I solve it? I already try downloading the source, and installing the source, but it still don't work. If I run the previous version that I have install (23) it works just fine. I have this other one in: ~/usr/local/ Can somebody help me? Any ideas of what might be happening? Thank you! Guido


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When Matt Generoushttp://www.hs.fi/haku/?search-term=matt+generous first arrived in Finland to play ice hockey, his club already had a place for him to live, and he benefited from a built-in social network with other players for Rauma club Lukko.
Speaking on HSTV's English-language current affairs show Newsmakers, Generous says the support helped him fit in quickly to life in Finland, and although his situation isn't the same as arriving asylum seekers, there are some lessons to be learned.
"I think my experience is a little bit different [than the migrants]. I had a job lined up before I came here, the team took care of apartment, car, things like that" says Generous. "So it made the transition to come to Finland quite easy".
While the Finnish government has been exploring ways to limit the number of asylum seekers arriving in the country, like imposing restrictions on family reunifications; it has also been looking at options to encourage more skilled professionals to come to Finland.
Drawing from his own experience, defenseman Generous - now playing for Helsinki club HIFK, his fifth season in Finland's top hockey league - sees ways to help better integrate new arrivals.
"Maybe some type of education programme where you can learn some of the cultural differences, maybe learn a little bit of Finnish, and just be able to navigate your way around the city and have some type of social network, I think that would help with transitioning" he says.
The subject of the migrant crisis has been a topic of conversation among Generous and his HIFK team mates. Generous says they've discussed the conditions that asylum seekers are being housed in. However, the Connecticut native, who was drafted to the NHL by Buffalo Sabres in 2005, recognises mostly the importance of the support network offered to him at Finnish clubs as being vital to his integration.
"For me, I have 25 guys on a team that I can go to every day and be like 'where should I go for lunch, or if I want to do this, or that' and they'll steer me in the right direction" says the 30 year old. "For other immigrants I think it's a little bit different. They don't have that direction and guidance".
Generous come to Finland after several seasons playing in lower-tier US ice hockey leagues, with gruelling travel up and down the country, playing more than 80 games per season. "Playing three games in four days is just really taxing on your body and on your mind" says Generous "so a lot of guys look to make the jump over here to Europe where travel's a lot easier, you can sleep in your bed most nights".
He says he was "pleasantly surprised" by the quality of hockey being played in Finland, after an agent placed him with Rauma. "The thing about Finland is that it's pretty similar style to North America. It's more 'north-south', it's pretty physical hockey".
With changes in the capital city hockey landscape over the last few years, with Jokerit moving to play in the Russia-centric KHL, Generous thinks there are still enough other quality players in Finland that the Liiga is not diluted by Jokerit's absense.
Although HIFK no longer have a cross-town rival in the domestic league, they have a neighbourhood rival in Tapiola-based Espoo Blues, a club beset by recent financial problems. "Hopefully they can bounce back in future years" says Generous. "They have a nice rink there, it's fun to have a team close to us, so hopefully they can figure something out" he adds.
Looking towards his own future, Generous says he's concentrating foremost on helping HIFK win this year's Finnish Championship, with only ten games left to play in the regular season.
And after that? "Play as long as I can really" says Generous. "Obviously the goal is to play in the NHL. That will always be my goal while I'm wearing hockey skates".
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A new study released by Pew suggests that many traditional news outlets, including TV news outlets such as CNN and ABC News, are having a hard time getting their legacy advertisers to follow them online.
CNN.com is one of the most prominent news websites online, but the advertisers are starkly different than those that pay big money to appear on CNN's cable channel. Digital revenue is still tiny compared to traditional TV revenue.
The kinds of products and services being advertised online were quite different than in legacy platforms, and often were seen across multiple websites. On CNN cable television, for instance, the top three advertising categories were motion pictures and television, insurance, and telecommunications companies; on CNN.com they were financial ads, toiletries and cosmetics, and job search.
Professor Turow notes that the absence of legacy advertisers from the Web domains may reflect a problem. "Figuring out what they are doing instead, and why, might be a first step in trying to get some of them back."


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None of the wiring I touched is actually responsible for triggering the gate, so I'm reasonably sure the problem isn't there (I could be wrong). The keypad malfunction and the gate sticking started roughly at the same time, so that's a link that's worth investigatingĀ
 Someone who knows what they're doing will have to restart the payphone daemon; I personally wouldn't know where to start... once that happens, if the problem persists, we can start isolating the node that is causing trouble.Ā
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On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 12:10 AM, Jake <email@example.com> wrote:

 Are you sure that the gate buzzer is not being kept buzzed by the doorbell system, which you just worked on?

 The two ways the buzzer can be activated are the doorbell system (the DOOR button by the top of the stairs), and the computer called minotaur.

 If the payphone does not make any sounds other than short beeps when keys are pressed, it is an indication that the computer's keypad server is not running properly. ĀIt should send the payphone the command for a longer beep or buzz after a wrong code or a timeout on an incomplete code.

 However, you did just work with the wires for the doorbell/buzzer system.
 So I am not betting on which system is causing the buzzer to be stuck.

 But it should be easy to restart the computer daemon that runs the payphone.

 Anyone?

 -jake

 Asheem Linaval wrote:
 Buzzer buttons have been reinstalled, and the doorbell functions normally.

 Unrelated, but noticed in the course of testing:

 Ā - It appears that the computer gate control is failing in such a way

 Ā that the gate gets stuck open/buzzing (bizarrely, pressing a doorbell
 Ā button seems to stop it).

 Ā - Keypad is malfunctioning. Unsure what to make of this. It beeps on

 Ā keypress, but not much else.

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David Petraeus, the former CIA director, told congressional hearings on Friday that he had always known a terrorist group had been involved in an attack in Benghazi that left the US ambassador and three other Americans dead.
According to reports from members of Congress who attended the closed-door hearings, Petraeus said the information had been included in the original set of talking points prepared by the CIA for the Obama administration. But he said it was removed from the one provided to the UN ambassador, Susan Rice, who used it as the basis for a series of interviews on the weekend after the killings.
Rice is among the contenders to replace Hillary Clinton as US secretary of state. In a press conference this week, Barack Obama, angrily criticised two Republican senators, John McCain and Lindsey Graham, who threatened to block her nomination if the president put her name forward.
Petraeus, who gave evidence to both the Senate and House intelligence committees, said that references to the group alleged to have been behind the 11 September attack were in the CIA's classified talking points, which were classified, but removed from the unclassified memo relied upon by Rice. The reason, he said, was not to tip off the group about what the US authorities knew.
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Report: Dallas Mavericks targeting Rockets free agent Chandler Parsons
The Dallas Mavericks have shifted their attention to signing Houston Rockets restricted free agent Chandler Parsons, USA Today's Sam Amick reports.
It appears the Mavericks have fallen out of the race for Carmelo Anthony after meeting with him last week. After re-acquiring Tyson Chandler from the New York Knicks last month, Dallas has been looking to upgrade the wing position using its cap space.
With forwards Vince Carter, 37, and Shawn Marion, 36, both free agents, Parsons would provide young legs to a veteran group as Dallas tries to make one more run with superstar Dirk Nowitzki, who the team recently signed to a three-year contract extension.
Parsons, 25, averaged career-highs of 16.6 points, 5.5 rebounds and 4.0 assists for the Rockets last season. As a restricted free agent, Houston can match any offer that Parsons signs.
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I'm sorry it has been so long since I last posted. It is hard to find time to get on. Matthew has a bunch of medical issues that has us running around like crazy. All of our free time has been lost. But it is ok, I don't mind doing everything possible to help him get well. He has 2 surgeries scheduled already for September. 1 is for glaucoma in his right eye and the other is the brain surgery to unclog a ventricle and add a shunt. There is talk we may do a third this month as well. It is called a fundo and he will then get a G button as well. So please keep him in your prayers.
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A formal bill calling for elections to be held on July 23 was rushed through its required three readings in the Knesset today. It was passed unanimously by the 40 members present, in contrast to the drama and tension late last month when the Knesset voted 61-58 to hold early elections.
The only hitch that developed today was a protest by the religious parties that holding elections on a Monday would desecrate the preceding Sabbath. They were mollified when the Knesset agreed to ban election campaigning until one hour after termination of the Sabbath. The house also voted to reduce from 100 to 66 days the period before elections during which civil servants and military officers must submit their resignations if they wish to run for political office. The change applies only to the upcoming elections which will be held more than a year before the present government's term officially expires.
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Preheat the oven to 350°.
Combine the shallots, oil, sugar, salt and pepper in a shallow baking pan. Roast them in the oven for about twenty to thirty minutes, or until soft. Remove the shallots from the oven and allow to cool.
Blanch and chill the green beans.
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In one of the largest protest votes recorded this AGM season, 38 per cent of BlueScope shareholders opposed the 2011 remueration report, which gave board members bonuses of $2.6 million despite a 43 per cent slide in the company's share price over the 12-month period.
"The two-strike rule makes retribution for shareholders easier," he said.
Mr Kraehe said after the annual meeting in Sydney that BlueScope decided to award short-term incentive bonuses to avoid risking "a significant drain of talent" from its key ranks. "We think we made the right decision," he said.
Shareholder and retiree Michael, from Gosford, NSW, who declined to give his surname, said he did not buy the argument about retaining talent by paying bigger salaries. "I didn't think it was justified on the basis that they'd be headhunted," he said.
Both the Australian Shareholders Association and CGI Glass Lewis directed proxies against the remuneration report.
ASA director Vas Kolesnikov told the meeting that BlueScope had to do more to match its performance with returns to shareholders, many of whom have seen "their retirement savings fall through the floor".
Mr Kraehe said the board had a dual responsibility to shareholders as well as the company, emphasising the work of chief executive
"Those are not soft targets," Mr Kraehe said.
Mr O'Malley said the company was continuing to cut its costs beyond the $1 billion eliminated but had not delivered any new targets.
The company also cited soaring costs for iron ore and coking coal.
BlueScope policy also asked its directors to hold shares equivalent to pay, and Mr Kraehe pointed out that directors had also "taken a haircut".
Shareholders were also upset that management had awarded themselves bonuses after reducing staff numbers by 1000.
After facing heavy criticism over his own pay packet from politicians and unions earlier this year, Mr O'Malley said that 90 per cent of employees left of their own volition and that BlueScope would keep the job centres set up to find them new employment open for as long as it took.
The company had also contributed to a fund to supply capital to the Illawarra community and businesses which required seed funding.
"We feel we absolutely have an obligation to support our existing and past employees," Mr O'Malley said.
Commenting on the outlook, BlueScope confirmed guidance given in August for a small first-half underlying loss and hinted at a return to positive earnings in the second half.
Mr Kraehe said the export business had lost money at a rate equivalent with the second half during the first three months of the financial year before the company eliminated the capacity by closing its No. 6 blast furnace.
The company expected to free up enough working capital from its inventories to repay $400 million to $500 million in restructuring costs by the end of the year.
But it said local conditions were worse than in the second half of fiscal 2011, with Australian construction activity remaining muted and demand for steel at its lowest point in a decade.
The floods in Bangkok would also hurt the bottom line at BlueScope's Asian business, while its North American buildings business continued to operate profitably at 50 per cent of capacity.
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Real-time estimation of aircraft aerodynamic models is very essential for adaptive and indirect13; reconfigurable controLln this report a literature survey of some of the available real time techniques13; for aircraft aerodynamic parameter estimation is presented. A time domain algorithm based on UD13; factorization extenged Kalman filter (UDEKF) and a frequency domain algorithm based on recursive13; discrete Fourier transform (OFT) for real-time estimation of aircraft longitudinal and lateral13; aerodynamic parameters are implemented and validated using simulated data in PC/MATLAB13; environment. The robustness of the algorithms to noise, bias and drift is tested using simulated data13; of the longitudinal short period and lateral Dutch roll dynamics of an aircraft. A comparison is also13; made between the performance of the time domain and frequency domain techniques to ascertain13; their suitability for real time parameter estimation. It is observed that the OFT outperforms UOEKF13; in terms of parameter estimation error norm, error bounds and requires less computational time.
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text: Show Hide image Politics 30 November 2011 The NS Interview: Jonathan Sacks, Chief Rabbi "Blogs are the best disseminators of paranoia yet created" Sign up for our weekly email * In 2009, you published a book called Future Tense: a Vision for Jews and Judaism in the Global Culture. Why "tense"?Because there are tensions in the Jewish community. People are feeling and sensing a return of anti-Semitism - even in Europe, which, seventy years after the Holocaust, is a very scary thing. I think they are feeling that Israel is very isolated and doesn't always get what they see as fair treatment in the European media. Do you think Israel gets a fair treatment in the media?I honestly can't answer that question because I don't watch television, but I'm reporting on their feelings and I accept those feelings . . . What I wanted to do in Future Tense is to say, "Let that not be our definition of what it is to be a Jew." We once defined ourselves as a people loved by God. Let's not define ourselves as a people hated by Gentiles. You've described anti-Zionism as a "mutant form" of anti-Semitism. What does that mean?Anti-Semitism always mutates, because the body politic develops an immunity. A virus must mutate. The new anti-Semitism takes the form of focusing on Jews as a nation rather than Jews as individuals, focuses on Israel rather than diaspora communities, and focuses on the language of human rights rather than the language of race or, in the Middle Ages, on the language of theology. How do you draw a line between legitimate criticism of Israel and anti-Semitism?Criticism of Israel in terms of policy of a given government is clearly part of the normal cut and thrust of democratic debate . . . It begins to get anti-Semitic when people deny that Israel has a right to exist and when that is given some kind of theological or mythological dimension. It replicates some of the classic themes of anti-Semitism - the blood libel and The Protocol of the Elders of Zion are bestsellers in some parts of the world. In the book, you appear to imply that the virus of anti-Semitism has penetrated the United Nations . . .In terms of condemnation by the Security Council, Israel has been condemned out of all proportion to all other states put together. That's a documented phenomenon. Are Islamophobia and anti-Semitism two sides of the same coin?I don't know. Islamophobia is a complex phenomenon. How should the Israeli/Palestinian problem be resolved?A two-state solution. [Religious leaders] can shape an environment conducive to peace and we certainly have a role to play in protecting each other's access to holy places, but beyond that, politics should be left to politicians. A leading Palestinian negotiator said Israeli settlement-building and a two-state solution are "mutually exclusive". Do you agree?All I know, having spoken first to Tony Blair, then to Dennis Ross, then to Bill Clinton himself, is that the talks that Clinton convened at Camp David in 2000 and early 2001 came very, very close to agreement. At the end, many of the Palestinian delegation wanted to accept Ehud Barak's proposed offer. So I have never despaired of a two-state solution. Do you have sympathy with the people camped outside St Paul's Cathedral?If the whole system has no ethical dimension, it's going to give rise to problems that the system itself cannot solve. The market economy is very good at wealth creation but not perfect at all about wealth distribution. So, the protesters should be allowed to stay?I wouldn't comment at all about the protesters outside St Paul's. I would continue to insist that there are ethical imperatives that have to shape the way we conduct a market economy. Has the internet coarsened public life?Yes and no. The internet has made serious education possible in ways that were never possible before, so I tend to think that the good vastly outweighs the bad. [But] the internet through email lists and blogs is, unfortunately, the best disseminator of paranoia we have yet created, and it does tend to segregate people into sects of the like-minded. Do you vote?I do, but even my wife doesn't know how I vote. Is there anything you would life to forget?Everything. I only look forward. Is there a plan?Yes. God has written a script; it's just that He only lets us watch it episode by episode. Are we all doomed?Afraid not. There's always hope. You can lose everything else in the world, but Jews never lose hope. 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