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Located on the tranquil South Eastern coast and the pristine beach of Zanzibar, The Palms
is a boutique hotel, which philosophy is all about exclusivity and sophistication. Each of the six beautifully designed villas is over 140 square meters and features a bedroom, living room, full en suite bathroom, dressing room, extra room with its own en suite bathroom, large furnished terrace with views of the Indian Ocean and its own bar! The villas overlook an award winning beach (chosen by Conde Nast Traveler magazine as one of the top 30 beaches in the world). Private thatched "bandas" shelter personal day beds and loungers to provide intimate beachfront privacy.
Lying adjacent to the Palms, Baraza Beach resort, its sister property offers 30 stunning
and spacious villas, disseminated among lush and colorful gardens or facing the
same beach of Bwejuu. Rooms evoke the heritage of Zanzibar dating back to the Sultans. There are 14 one bedroom villas, 15 two bedroom villas and one Presidential Villa.
Each feature Swahili arches, beautiful antiques and hand-made furniture, a large bathroom,
dressing room, a large terrace with its own plunge pool.
Each of the 12 bungalows has been built in harmony with the surroundings, on top
of a cliff edge with the Indian Ocean lapping against it. Each suite has its
own decor. Matemwe Lodge provides an amazingly relaxed atmosphere.
Watch the fishing boats go to work from your terrace or make use of the
private beach and feel the white sand between your toes.
On top of being the ideal spot for relaxing, Matemwe offers a number of
activities from snorkeling at Mnemba Atoll to deep sea fishing in the Pemba
channel. Matemwe Lodge is perfect for those looking for a romantic break.
Located in the center of the old Stone Town, Emerson and Green is a small hotel with 17 rooms each designed with individual character and charm. All rooms have a romantic bath and are furnished in antique Zanzibari style. grandeur, the Zanzibari night.
The rooftop restaurant provides wide and airy views of the town and harbor, and excellent meals in an ethnic style.
It should be noted however that while charming, the hotel can be quite noisy at night and in the early morning hours.
Located on the northernmost peninsula of Zanzibar Island, Ras Nungwi Beach
Hotel overlooks an expanse of azurean water and pristine sand. Its whitewashed and palm thatched cottages are set in rich tropical gardens. The lush gardens drop down onto one of the finest and most unspoilt beaches on the island. Apart from the chalets, there are lodge rooms for the more budget-conscious guest. Each room with a private balcony and en-suite facilities. For those seeking a truly exclusive hideaway , Ras Nungwi's unique 5+ stars Ocean Suite provides one of the finest beach accommodation on Zanzibar Island.
Located in Pingwe on the north-east peninsula of Zanzibar, this large resort hotel offers 28 standard (Garden) rooms. These are located some distance back from the ocean front and beach and are basic but pleasant. All are en suite with air-conditioning and ceiling fans, hairdryer, mini-bar, safe and telephone. The cottages are closer to the beach and have far superior views. Additional facilities include verandas, private garden entrances, and dressing rooms. They are also larger. Junior Suites are larger than the cottages and offer a closer proximity to the ocean. They are also beautifully decorated.
Located right on the seafront of Stone Town, Zanzibar Serena Inn is a peaceful
retreat from the city hustle and bustle. that overlooks the traditional dhows ply their way to and from the harbor as they have for centuries. Each one of the rooms and suites is designed in traditional Swahili style with high ceilings, arched niches, shuttered windows and cool, white walls. All are sea facing, with romantic four-poster beds and a spacious balcony with a large free-standing hammock.
Set in lush green gardens, and located by a white sandy beach this resort hotel offers a large number of high quality and wide ranging facilities. Rooms and suites are all built in traditional African style roundhouses, featuring modern creature comforts that include full air conditioning, satellite television and radio, direct dial telephone, mini-bar, hair dryer and en-suite bathroom. All rooms are a good size and sea facing with large doors that open to
a private patio or balcony and come complete with comfortable twin or king size beds draped with mosquito netting.
Located on the Stone Town seafront, the Tembo House Hotel offers 36 spacious rooms and 4 apartments. Most of the rooms have large poster beds; a few of the rooms in the old wing have balconies facing the inner court yard and the swimming pool. All rooms are equipped with air condition, ceiling fan, mosquito nets, cable television, free Wi-Fi connection, telephone, and fridge/mini-bar and en suite bathroom. All four apartments have three bedrooms with large poster beds, a kitchenette, large spacious living / dining room area. The master bedroom has en suite bathroom,The hotel's location makes it easy to access shops, restaurants and historical sites that Zanzibar Stone town has to offer.


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People struggling to get on the housing ladder have added their voices to the growing debate about what to do with a much-loved open space.
The future of Evergreen Field, just off Wanstead High Street, has been thrust into the spotlight since developer Dalbir Singh Sanger announced plans to nine homes and two shops on the site.
The proposal was met with fury from conservation groups, and prompted a pledge from Redbridge Council to use all their powers to keep the field free from housing.
Advertising executive Matt Keen, 39, rents a flat with his wife in New Wanstead, and the couple have been hoping to buy a home for the past five years.
He said: "My wife and I both have good jobs, but we have found getting on the property ladder difficult.
"We had a look at houses on the Chepstow development and starting prices were around £265,000 for a one or two bed home - it's just out of budget.
"At some point, someone will build on the Evergreen site, and it's a case of what ends up being built there, so let's put our heads together and build something for the benefit of the community.
"I mean what is the council protecting? It's a rat-infested field at the end of the day."
Teacher Conor Walsh, 32, lives in a one-bedroom house in New Wanstead, and has been saving for a deposit on a home of his own for the past eight years.
He said: "The land is just sitting there doing nothing and it's been like that for years.
"I love Wanstead and want to stay here, but the price some estate agents want for houses is diabolical.
"As soon as they know you are not a cash buyer, they become so arrogant.
"I need to live, I need to survive. I can't have 60 to 70 per cent of my salary spent on a mortgage."
Mr Sanger has said he intends to apply for permission to develop the site, but has not yet confirmed when he will do that.

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Consumer noncyclical stocks finished flat on Tuesday on Wall Street.
More broadly, the Dow Jones Industrial Average pushed 0.5% higher, the Nasdaq increased 0.8% and the S&P 500 pushed 0.5% higher.
Some of the biggest gainers among consumer noncyclical stocks include:
- Treehouse Foods (THS): THS stock is up 1.3% today.
- Mccormick & Company Inc (MKC): MKC stock is up 1.0% today.
- Pilgrim's Pride Corp (PPC): PPC stock is up 0.9% today.
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///M3Evolution R1.221 Dynavin Android Rom
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Ive been working on a new ROM for the Dynavin and should be available soon after final bug testing.
I have built newer versions of Android from source Gingerbread and ICS but without touchscreen working it would be hard to further debug and use.
You said SetCPU worked with the stock rom? Were you actually able to change the cpu speed and governors? What does SetCPU show as the cpu speed in the stock rom and what does it show in my rom?
I dont have any control over Google Navigation I just updated it to the latest version and included that in my rom. You might have to downgrade to a different version of Google maps if those others work better for you.
The Pandora thats included in the rom has unlimited skips. You can install a different version if that one doesnt work for you. Pandora also needs to have the date and time set correctly everytime it starts and it only works in the US. So if your clock is not set correctly and you are not already connected to the internet it will not work.
Most of the changes in my rom are in the background like swap memory, the extra speed and performance boost from v6 supercharger built in. Many people had issues just installing apps with the stock rom which they have no problems installing with my rom.
if anybody needs help with the rom send me an email
i cant guarantee ill have an answer to the issue but i will always try to help.
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I have tested the M3Evolution rom on my D99+ for one week and my personal conclusion is that it doesn't have much noticeable benifits besides that it looks more fancy than the stock rom.
Issues so far found with the M3evolution ROM:
Not able to add contacts account (gmail) to show contacts. (Black screen).
With the stock rom I could add this
No re routing within Google Navigation
Re routing worked in the stock rom
Pandora crashes frequently
Not happening with the stock rom
SetCPU not working (maybe reinstall needed, not tested yet)
Worked with the stockrom
When I saw the list of benifits on
I was very impressed and did the donation of $30 dollar. To be honest I am very dissapointed with it. Especially to know that I paid $30 dollar for only a fancy black theme statusbar.
@M3Evelotion. I understand that your not updating the ROM anymore since your working on the //Avin system. Then in my opinion please share the knowledge how you created this ROM so that other can continue working on it.
Just making profit out of a product that isn't even finished yet is the same as lack in development as Dynavin does if you ask me.
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All summer long I've been watching my Snail vine suffer from a full-on assault by aphids. Every time I watered I blasted them with the hose, but they kept coming back and bringing their friends. It's been so frustrating to think that this vine could be so beautiful but between the frosts last winter and the aphids this summer, it's looking really pathetic. It was time to bring in the troops.
I ordered some Sta-Home Lady Beetles from Gardens Alive and tonight I released them in the garden. The complaint that I've always heard about using ladybugs for aphid control is that you can release hundreds of them and they'll quickly disappear from your garden. But these ladybugs supposedly arrive ready to lay eggs. The eggs hatch within a week, producing an entire crop of very hungry larvae that can't fly away and that are capable of consuming even more aphids than the mature ladybugs. Within a month the original order of 900 ladybugs will produce 10,000 larvae. Now that's a surge!
A friend has also told me that a heavy aphid infestation is an indication that the soil is lacking in phosphorus. I guess the next step is adding regular doses of bone meal to the soil. Any other suggestions? I'm in a take-no-prisoners sort of mood.
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
Ladybugs to the Rescue
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I don't know what I think about that... especially in light of the high amounts of phosphorous that we are putting into the soil and water all the time. Can you do a soil test first to see where you are in terms of phosphorous, and find out if there is indeed a correlation?ReplyDelete
Also check to see if the snail vines naturally attract more aphids than other plants... I know that my asclepias tuberosa is a known aphid magnet like that. I just pack them in with other plants to "hide" the ugly parts--the bright orange blooms go a long way toward hiding them too, though.
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-----Forwarded Message-----
From: Marten <wleiden at xs4all dot nl>
To: Radoslaw Krupa <aeon at tech dot us dot edu dot pl>
Subject: Re: [m0n0wall] Avaya/Orinoco/Lucent/Proxim Hermes based wireless PCMCIA Card under M0n0
Date: 17 Oct 2003 18:34:51 +0200
On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 17:09, Radoslaw Krupa wrote:
> Hi, I'm having problems with Hermes-based Avaya/Lucent Orinoco Silver card
> on pcmcia<-> ISA SCM SwapBox.
> Controller is detected, card insertion/removing appearing in logs but I can
> not configure it. M0n0wall is stating that it doesn't have any wireless
> interfaces :(
isa (io-ports / irq) needs to be configured in
-kernel ( or for the kernel in > 5.0 freebsd. I am not sure in 4.8)
> Oct 17 02:15:17 wh179 /kernel: pcic2: <Vadem 469> at port 0x3e0-0x3e1 on
> isa0
> Oct 17 02:15:17 wh179 /kernel: pcic2: Polling mode
> Oct 17 02:15:17 wh179 /kernel: pccard0: <PC Card 16-bit bus (classic)> on
> pcic2
> Oct 17 02:15:17 wh179 /kernel: pccard1: <PC Card 16-bit bus (classic)> on
> pcic2
I am not sure, but is polling mode not something for pci-cards?
I have good experiance with sweex or E-tech ricoh chip 5c475 in Award
of ami boises ( and not old phoenix and compaq!)
These are pci.
What does dmesg say about you controller and wi card ?
What io irq settings you use in other os's?
You migth consider to build a kernel with these settings
> As far as I know this card works under FreeBSD under control of wi.
true... only in client modus ( no ap)


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Canucks' Gillis gets contract extension; fan sues Flyers
VANCOUVER (AP) – The Vancouver Canucks agreed to a contract extension with general manager Mike Gillis on Monday.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
"There've been moments where I reflected and wondered if the amount of energy and the amount of opportunity to be evaluated by everybody was the right thing for me, but I felt that it was," Gillis said. "I felt that we had unfinished business for sure here, and this team was on the right track."
Gillis was entering the final year of a five-year deal that he signed when he took over the team in 2008.
"This is a significant announcement for our hockey club," chairman Francesco Aquilini, whose family owns the team, said in a release.
"These past four years have been the most successful in Canucks history. Mike and his management team have done an excellent job to position us for long term success on and off of the ice.
"We believe Mike's presence in this organization is important to the long-term success of this hockey club and we are confident that we will continue to compete at the highest level under his leadership."
The announcement, which came after Gillis met with Aquilini earlier in the day, ended speculation about the GM's future, which had percolated for two weeks after Vancouver's elimination by the surging Los Angeles Kings in five games.
"It just took a little while, which was not uncommon, to have everybody get together, and it was my preference to wait a little bit longer in order to make sure that everyone was level-headed and not emotional about what had happened when we had such high expectations," Gillis said.
Now that he has secured a new deal, Gillis will address coach Alain Vigneault's status soon. The GM said it is his decision whether Vigneault remains behind the Canucks bench, and he wants the coach to continue with the club.
"He's done an excellent job, and he'll obviously be the first thing on the agenda once I have an opportunity to execute on the plan we have," Gillis said.
Vigneault has guided the Canucks to back-to-back Presidents' Trophies. He has served for six seasons with the club after being hired by former GM Dave Nonis prior to the Aquilinis' purchase from former Seattle-based owner John McCaw in 2008.
Several Canucks players, including Alex Burrows and Ryan Kesler, have expressed their desire for Vigneault to stay on. Gillis said Vigneault has given "every indication" that he wants to remain with the club.
Vigneault, a former NHL coach of the year whose future has come under speculation, is entering the final year of his deal.
In addition to Vigneault's status, Gillis needs to resolve the club's goaltending situation after Cory Schneider displaced Roberto Luongo during the playoffs. Schneider, who started three of the five games against the Kings, is due to become a restricted free agent July 1.
Luongo said after the Canucks were eliminated that he would accept a trade if the club asks him to waive the no-movement clause in his $64 million contract that has 10 years remaining.
Gillis must also decide whether he wants to re-sign pending restricted free agent winger Mason Raymond and 37-year-old defenseman Sami Salo, who is due to become an unrestricted free agent. Several other players are facing free agency or entering the final year of their deals.
"We have a number of situations that we need to resolve," Gillis said. "I'm eager to get started on them, and I will get started on them as quickly as possible."
Flyers' owner sued over Winter Classic tickets
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Lawyers for a Philadelphia Flyers season ticketholder have sued the team's owner over its policy for tickets to the outdoor Winter Classic. The team calls the lawsuit frivolous.
Jenkintown, Pa.-based Stern & Eisenberg filed the suit against Comcast-Spectacor in New Jersey's Mercer County Superior Court on Friday. The lawsuit says team owners breached the contract by forcing season ticketholders to purchase tickets to the Jan. 2 Winter Classic at Citizens Bank Park separately and at a higher price.
The suit says fans who bought a 44-game season ticket package for 2011-12 got only 43 tickets. The plaintiff says those who bought season tickets were told they would have to purchase Winter Classic tickets separately.
Attorney Evan Barenbaum calls the policy "illogical and unfair" and says thousands of ticket-holders could be affected. Comcast-Spectacor calls the suit frivolous and says it will "vigorously defend" itself.
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The Georgia Straight presents Kate Nash at Electric Owl
Live Nation has announced that London-based indie-pop singer-songwriter Kate Nash will perform a show at Electric Owl on Tuesday, May 14, in support of her upcoming album Girl Talk.
Born and raised in London, the 20-something Nash considered a career as an actor before a broken leg left her housebound. To alleviate the young singer's boredom, her mother brought home an electric guitar, and songwriting became her obsession. She released her smash debut Made of Bricks in 2008, and has been on a whirwind rise to fame ever since.
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PHILADELPHIA - In a rare occasion, the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton University women's track and field programs will face off in a dual meet Saturday afternoon. The Quakers will serve as hosts to their rivals at Franklin Field.
The dual meet will begin at River Fields with the hammer at 1:30 p.m., followed by the shot put, discus and javelin. Inside Franklin Field, the long jump and pole vault begin at 3:30 p.m., while the first track event - the steeplechase - is set for that same time.
This weekend is usually reserved for the tri-meet with Yale. Princeton won the P-Y-P meet last year and the Quakers were the runner up. Princeton won with 106 points, while Penn finished with 67 and Yale placed third with 28. In 2010, the Quakers won their first P-Y-P title since 2006.
This past week at the Penn Invite, the Quakers posted seven wins, several changes to the school record book and had a representative in the top five of every event they entered. Penn posted a win in the 4x100-meter relay with the fifth-fastest mark in school history. The Quakers have consistently hit that illustrious 47-sec mark since 2010, including Saturday's winning time of 46.59. Junior Jillian Hart reached 3.75 meters (12 feet, 3 1/2 inches) in the pole vault. That had only been accomplished once before in the history of the program. Her current vaults coach, Sam Crook, holds the school mark at 4.00 meters. In the javelin, junior Morgan Wheeler had the fourth-best day in the history of the event at Penn. She had a season-best effort of 43.91 meters on her first toss.
A full recap of the meet will be available at PennAthletics.com shortly after the completion of the day's events.
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Black Moth Butterfly dream interpretations
Moth Dream Explanation
— (See Butterfly)
Butterfly Dream Explanation
— (Moth; Silkworm) In a dream, a
signifies ignorance, lack of experience with people, or inexperience with the proper protocol. A
in a dream also could signify love and sacrificing one's life for others. A
in a dream also represents fire worshipers, fear, or a weak enemy who speaks big words. If a farmer sees butterflies in his dream, it means hardships and lack of work, or consenting to evil by associating with evil companions, or befriending vile women.
Butterfly Dream Explanation
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is a weak person with a big mouth.
Butterfly Dream Explanation
— A silkworm in a dream represents the best of people who spend in charity from their best and who curtail their evil, or it could represent children who live a short life in this world, or people who leave a sizeable estate for their posterity. A silkworm, or a
in a dream also could signify a short life, the near end of one's life, a miller, or it could represent a painter. (Also see Magician)
Black Dream Explanation
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. Otherwise, as for those who are not used to wearing
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Black Grapes Dream Explanation
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. Therefore, in view of this incident, there is no benefit in seeing
Black Stone Dream Explanation
— If he sees the pilgrims searching for the
Stone but cannot find it in a dream, it means that he thinks of himself to be right and the rest of the people to be wrong. It also could mean that he possesses a knowledge which he hides from others. If he touches the
Stone in his dream, it means that he follows the teachings of an Imam from among the Hijazite Arabs. If he sees the
Stone being a castle for himself in a dream, it means that he follows religious innovations. If he swallows the
Stone in his dream, it means that he is a affected person who will mislead people. (Also see Kabah; Corner Stone)
Black Stone Dream Explanation
— (The corner stone of the Kabah; Allah's House in Mecca) Seeing or holding the
Stone of the Kabah in one's dream means paying allegiance to the ruler, or it could mean repentance from sin at the hand of a pious Imam, or it could mean kissing one's son, wife or bosom friend. It also means serving people in the government. If one sees himself touching the
Stone in his dream, it means that he will follow and learn at the hand of one of the Imams of the Arabian peninsula. Seeing the sacred
Stone in a dream is perhaps an indication of going to perform one's pilgrimage. If one sees himself cutting into the
Stone in a dream, it means that he wants people to follow his personal opinions.
Dream Explanation
— (Also see Kabah.)
• Touching the
Stone at one of the corners of the Kabah (the Muslims holiest shrine at the Haram Mosque in Mecca (Makkah)): The dreamer will take his lead from an imam (Muslim spiritual leader) from among the people of Hijaz.
• Removing the
Stone from the Kabah and taking it for oneself: The dreamer will come out with a heresy.
• Finding back the
Stone and replacing it in the Kabah after all people thought it had been lost: The dreamer thinks that he alone is right and all the rest are wrong.
Black Coin Dream Explanation
coins that are counterfeit symbolise deception, lies and quarrelling.
Black Hair Dream Explanation
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suggest that his present condition will be transformed.
Black Colour Dream Explanation
colour in all things is regarded as good and pleasant except in grapes. There is no good to be expected in them.
Black hair Dream Explanation
— If a woman sees herself having a thick
hair in a dream, it means that she will marry a respected and a handsome looking husband. If she sees herself having a charcoal colored hair in the dream, it means that she will live satisfied with her husband's wealth or inheritance. (Also see Strand of hair)
Horse Dream Explanation
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Mare Dream Explanation
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Ass Dream Explanation
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Cow Dream Explanation
— It symbolises a good and prosperous year.
Black magic Dream Explanation
— (See Magic arts)
Black mud Dream Explanation
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Black pepper Dream Explanation
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Big embarrassment to US: Secret Service scandal
This is a major embarrassment to the US gov't. Sec service agents in Columbia were involved with prostitutes and even argued with them over the amount they charged. They were reported to the police who contacted the State Dept who dismissed the agents in the biggest scandal in agency history.
Adding salt to the wound, it seems to have spread to the military.
The links makes an interesting point how under-financed and trained the
agency's agents are. They don't even get the up-dated best weapons
then Chaney's daughter gets a supervisor removed for not taking her
friends to a restaurant.
That wasn't his job.
Re: Big embarrassment to US: Secret Service scandal
Have they heard the stories of the Navy & Marine Corp visiting Thailand, Singapore, and Japan?
I know an old salty Sailor who had done something like 15-16 years in the Navy, ported in Thailand, did his "thing" there and now he has HIV.Disclaimer: The content posted is of my own opinion.
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Re: Big embarrassment to US: Secret Service scandal
There is a HUGE difference between random servicemen getting laid off and eleven members Secret Service Presidential Protection Division bringing hookers to the very hotel that's going to house the President while in a foreign and border line hostile country.
Re: Big embarrassment to US: Secret Service scandal
I was just pointing out that a lot of government and federal employees traveling abroad make the "most" of lax prostitution laws in other countries. Meaning, it shouldn't come as a shock that some SS guy wants to take in a little "culture" when he's abroad.
However, bringing them to hotel where the President will be staying is pretty dumb. Must've been thinking with his other brain.Disclaimer: The content posted is of my own opinion.
Re: Big embarrassment to US: Secret Service scandal
Maybe those agents were left over from the Kennedy administration when they snuck all those women into the places where he stayed including the White HOuse and including a MOB gal.
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I've read reports its against SS policy to engage in prostitution where its legal -- double whammy.
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Speaking of Kennedy, even IKE fooled around but one old girl friend wrote after his death that they never consumated the relationship because he couldn't get it up. He took it out by killing Hitler-lol.
Here's some of JFKs girl friends SS agents knew about both in the WH and in hotels including a German spy. The movie stars were set up by his pal Frank Sinatra who had them before he passed them off to Jack. Jackie knew about them all and even quipped:
all is not as it seems in Camelot.
Some of his more famous affairs were with Angie Dickinson, Kim Novak, and the most famous of all, Marilyn Monroe. JFK also had a suite on the 8th floor of Washington's Mayflower Hotel always on his beck and call for any of his extramarital affairs.
During his Presidential race with Nixon, Jack inquired if there were any girls waiting for him before one of their debates. An hour and a half before they were supposed to go on the air, Kennedy was in a hotel room with a hooker. He was also involved with a woman who was suspected of being a German spy at the time, named Inga Arvad who was being watched by the FBI.
Rumor has it FDR didn't die at his desk as reported by agents but on his sofa while screwing his secretary, a gal from Easton, MD.
The agents placed his body behind the desk to make it look like he was working.
What a way to go.
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Re: Big embarrassment to US: Secret Service scandal
Elsewhere, OBY says he'll be angry if these allegations are true.
The Hamster has spoken. No evidence yet on any of his
affairs, if any.
Re: Big embarrassment to US: Secret Service scandal
I haven't read it but heard about it. I'll read it to be sure.
Thanks, man.
The mob also had movies of Hoover and his guy Clyde which
people say that's why Hoover never went after them. Agents
called them Johnnie and Clyde after the movie Bonnie and
Clyde. At least that's what they said behind their backs-lol.
The Kennedys sure did and both ended up dead. So did
Marilyn Monroe whom the gov't thought might have had classified
information. She was going to come clean about the affair in
front of the entire country but died on a Saturday. The press
conference was scheduled on Monday.
Hoover had files and movies on almost everyone in the country
having affairs including Martin Luther King. Most people don't believe that about King but The Rev Jessie Jackson sure was caught in an affair and has a bastard child with the mother even calling her a miracle baby.
When Nixon was about to leave office because of those tapes, he
said, they would have never gotten out if Hoover were still alive.
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Re: Big embarrassment to US: Secret Service scandal
Air - it's funny that so many people think that MLK was this really nice and genuine guy, but he was actually kind of an asshole.
Check out this book:
It's a really interesting read and it totally makes you think about the stuff they teach kids in school about American History.Disclaimer: The content posted is of my own opinion.
Re: Big embarrassment to US: Secret Service scandal
The bad thing about this scandal is that we owe China billions and now the
gov't owes a Columbian prostitute $40.
Another good joke was with this Administration, on any given minute, somewhere in the world, someone is doing something stupid.
Scandal has now expanded to 20 people. Two were supervisors.


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Advice over tough rules for terrorism suspects rejected
THE NSW Minister for Justice, Tony Kelly, has rejected advice that the state's treatment of terrorism suspects in jail may be unlawful.
Last year Peter Moss, QC, head of a committee that advises on serious offenders, told the Government that the classification of unconvicted terrorism suspects as AA prisoners might be ineffective.
The classification - the state's highest - means the prisoners' mail is opened and copied, their calls are monitored, they are handcuffed, wear orange overalls and can be segregated.
Mr Moss, a former judge, told an upper house inquiry he was concerned about the validity of a law that treats terrorism inmates on remand - who have been refused bail or failed to meet bail conditions - as serious offenders.
Another former judge, David Levine, who has replaced Mr Moss as head of the committee, told the Herald yesterday: "The AA/Category 5 classification is a matter of importance and concern … and is still receiving continuing consideration, especially from the three judicial members of the Serious Offenders Review Council."
The Council for Civil Liberties was concerned the law infringed international human rights obligations. "In international law, national security is not a legitimate ground upon which to discriminate against remand inmates," it told the inquiry.
The inquiry, chaired by a Labor MP, Amanda Fazio, noted the concerns and last year recommended that the minister review the AA/5 remand classification. But Mr Kelly this week rejected the call and said remand inmates could pose as big a security risk as convicted terrorists.
In a written response to the inquiry's report, Mr Kelly said: "The classification is based on risk. No evidence has been produced to suggest that a risk to national security can only arise from a convicted inmate and not from a remand inmate; or that the risk from a convicted inmate is greater than a risk from a remand inmate."
Last year, during the trial of Faheem Khalid Lodhi, convicted of planning to blow up the electricity grid, a Supreme Court judge said that Lodhi's AA classification had resulted in harsh conditions.
The Greens MP Lee Rhiannon said AA prisoners were the "David Hickses of Australia".
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Are mothers held in contempt by society, as Naomi Wolf says? What are your experiences of the medical profession during pregnancy and childbirth? And do you consider Wolf's arguments to be trivial?
Please keep your responses brief and to the point.
What you said.
To Dear "D",
Well Said. I have done extensive travel in this world. One of the most amazing things I have ever seen was a Thai women working in the fields, I watched her stretch her hands above her head at which time I noticed her enormously large belly, primed and ready to burst. She took off her hat put it aside work off the field and got on a motor bike and rode away.
Three hours later I walked past this same field returning to where I came from to notice this woman back in the field. She had a woman or two around her, they stepped back to reveal her newborn baby who they assisted to tie her in a sling around this womans shoulders to rest on her back. She then stooped down and returned to work. I WILL NEVER COMPLAIN ABOUT A HARD LIFE AGAIN.
Nicole Wetzler
Predictably, Miranda Devine has written a (long) opinion piece that is built entirely on a logical error.
When she berates Naomi Wolf for "whinging" about the lack of support for mothers, she characterises Wolf as being ungrateful for the success that she seems to have had with a career, relationship, children etc.
Miranda, consider for a second that Naomi Wolf may be making a larger point about the lack of support from the government, business and society for women attempting to raise chidren and work, rather than having a personal whinge about her own circumstances.
SMH, consider for a second how cheaply you could hire a replacement middle-brow moron off the street to replace Miranda. Guaranteed $$ saved there.
male, childless, professional, feminist sympathiser
Most amusing that Miranda chooses this topic after what Virginia Hausseger wrote in her column during Miranda's recent break.
I am young and child-free, but it doesn't take a genius (or revered author) to point out that having children and managing your life with them takes some serious thought and consideration. It's not like anyone is chaining women up and forcing them to stay at home with child - they have the power to make their own choices!
Back in 1976 Adrienne Rich published a book "Of Woman Born" in which she drew a distinction between the experience and institution of motherhood, arguing that the actual experience of motherhood was affected by the social and material conditions of the society in which it occurred. Thus a woman can talk about the joy of being a mother and giving life, at the same time as railing against conditions which erode that joy - such as having to return to work too quickly for financial reasons, difficult and highly medicalised labour which makes recovery from childbirth slow and affects ability to do the physical work of caring for a new baby.
Yes being a mum is a great experience, yes women can look forward to it, enjoy it and value the opportunity to raise the next generation (men do too). But the way in which childbirth and child rearing are organised, the sacrifices and difficulties parents are compelled to face, can make that really hard to see some times. many mothers don't have the financial resources Naomi has but they resonate with what she is saying because they share the same difficulties. If you doubt me then try spending some time with the mothers at your local playgroup.
Miranda Divine you are wrong. Perhaps you live in a pampered journalists world where you are repected, you have enough support as a mother and that you have enough money for your husband not to go back to work 2 weeks after your baby's birth. Naomi is right, motherhood is a thankless job as viewed by society and we have little control over our own bodies when we happen to have a child inside. Kvetch away!
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Of course mothers are held in contempt by society. Every mother knows that. The most important job in the world, bringing up the future, is valued less than some stupid bloke who can knock a small ball accurately around a large field. Miranda Devine should go write for the Telegraph.
Miranda ...
I am a mother or four children who are all under the age of 12 years. Being a Mum is a tough job, there are no two ways about it. But who ever said anything worthwhile in this life would be easy. It seems to me that if Mums feel undervalued then maybe they just aren't looking for the validation in the right places, or maybe they are mothers and not Mums! The smile on the face when they turn around and wave, that gawdy mutlicoloured egg carton monstrosity that was built with all the love in the world just for you - there is unlimited affirmations all around you now - just look for them.
There is one BIG thing that both Wolf and some self absorbed pesimistic readers have missed - the unconditional love that your children give you and the happy memories. I feel sorry for people like Wolf, who in focusing on the negative side of motherhood will only have those negative thoughts for their memories. I am proud to be a Mum. I have friends that ask me when I find the time for myself etc and start to crow the Wolf line. Whenever I am asked that I ALWAYS PROUDLY say - 'I have only a small amount of time with them while they are children. I will have my time when they are grown. Life IS about balance, but sometimes the scales take time to balance out. The one thing that being a Mum has taught me is that we all need to have a 'Pantene' approach to life - it won't happen overnight - but it will happen". It's not all petals and roses and sometimes it is REALLY tough (and yes I had PND) but its the most worthwhile thing in the world.
I rasie my four children on a single income and we struggle sometimes, but they always have everything they need. The haven't got gameboys, their own mobile phones, we don't go away every school holidays, and overseas trips are well.... But they do get private eductaion, weekend sport, a FAMILY holiday every year, regular time with their grandparents (which gives me a small holiday too)etc. So instead of complaining about not having enough money I make sure that we spend what we have on what is important for us.
I think people like Wolf and co just need to thank their blessings for what they do have instead of complaining about what they don't have.
NB: It would be interesting find out what Wolf's childs chance of survival had been if she hadn't had the C-section and then see if she complains - Seems to em some people are neve going to be happy no matter what you do!
Mother of Four
In today's society a person's status is defined by the type job they have and what they have achieved. Women are the primary nurturers and care gives of this society, it's no wonder when women start defining the whole existence on achieving a successful career they lose sight of what makes them different from men.
Husbands (if not all men) need to value their wives and put value back into motherhood. Women need to stop putting so much emphasis of striving for a successful career, having a career is great and it allows for so many freedoms, but motherhood also brings great rewards.
Naomi Wolf is writer out to sell as many books as possible, if motherhood was so burdensome why have a second child; she most probably has two or three helpers to take care of her children.
mothers are the best
To Nic Healey. Maybe you should try and do her job if think she's so bad at it. What do you do just sit on the internet all day?
Simple test - when you are next introduced to a roomful of people or even one or 2 and they ask what you do (for a living for eg) tell the you are a Mum or a Dad (nothing else). Watch the assumptions about you change before your eyes.
A friend and I amused ourselves by sampling various situations and introducing ourselves as either single mums (which we both are) or professionals (which we also both are)
At one particular party we had been invited to by people we didn't know too well the people looked horrified when I introduced myself as a single Mum (how did we let that slip through the door like dog shit underfoot) and actually took the trouble to take my mate aside and 'explain' to her that she needed to grow beyond her old single mum mates if she wanted to get ahead as a professional (it was her turn to be the professional).
Obviously not everyone treats you this way but the assumptions kick in the minute that most people see you as a carer (whether male or female - in fact blokes probably get it worse) The worst assumption is that you must be stupid.
I love my job and my kid!!
I agree with Anna Edwards comments. It appears also that Miranda Devine is justifying having a whinge or rant about people, in particular her pet hate "yuppies", because they apparently can't stop whinging about trivial things. So we have the whinge about the whinging and now you have my winge about the winge about the wingers. Anna Edwards, lets try to make a point instead of provoking conflict through using emotive words such as "yuppie" all the time.
Mark Harnack
I have one further whinge to add to Miranda Devine's collection: the inability of lactating mothers to combine breastfeeding with paid work. Even in most enlightened workplaces, there is no private place (other than the unhygenic toilet) for mothers to express breastmilk for another carer to feed to their babies.
I already know Miranda's response to this. In one of her other columns she stated that breastfeeding mothers should not work. (re: article about the breastfeeding MP in Parliament).
Perhaps Miranda is insensitive to most young mothers' need to work to pay off that first home (usually a flat).
Well done Miranda Divine, another negative, bias piece of propaganda to add to your scrapbook.
In this article Devine takes selective quotes from Wolf's book, places them in the wrong context and draws her own tiresomely negative conclusions, couching them in such a way that it appears to be Wolf's own opinion. Her reference to Wolf as a 'pop feminist' and a 'yuppie' attempts to undermine Wolf's credibility because Devine is unable to effectively tackle Wolf's piece outside the usual boring populist tactic of juxtaposition.
By placing Wolf's comments alongside her own opinion on the state of the AUSTRALIAN health system (despite the fact Wolf gave birth in the U.S) Devine attempts to undermine Wolf's comments without actually directly addressing them. Fantastic, we live in a society with an alright health system. This doesn't mean that it cannot be improved upon. Health experts have repeatedly cautioned their colleagues against using slash-and-burn tactics when it comes to female reproductive systems, and some of Australia's most respected health professionals have claimed that epidurals and cesarean sections are overused. But according to Devine, we shouldn't attempt to tackle these issues because we live in a country with a medical system better than China's.
Wolf repeatedly mentions her love for her children in 'Misconceptions, Truth, Lies and the Unexpected on the Journey to Motherhood'. Her negative experience in the HEALTH SYSTEM and the treatment of mothers and motherhood in a wider social context in no way impacts upon her love for her children. Any women who has attempted to breastfeed a screaming child in public, who gets up every two hours throughout the night, raises children, runs a household and attempts to lead a life of her own, only to have somebody tell her 'so your JUST a mum' will be able to relate to what Wolf is saying.
Devine has used Wolf's opinion that mothers and motherhood are under appreciated in western societies, and has convinced a bunch of Sydney Morning Herald readers that Woolfe hates her kids. For gods sake, Devine tries to tell us that The Beauty Myth, a serious and respected body of academic work is really about how "Lipstick crushes a woman's self worth". Either Devine is too stupid to thoroughly analyze academic work, or she thinks SMH readers are.
Rather than condemning Wolf on the basis of another in the long line of Devine's endless pieces of populist propaganda, perhaps you should actually read the book. Even if you don't agree, I'm sure you'll be able to criticize it in a more sophisticated manner than Devine.
E.L McCarthy
Dear Leave it to the women ... Gee whiz, motherhood is not about control, and when it is, its abuse. Motherhood is about love. Men are not to blame if things are not right in our lives. There is no conspiricy.
I've read enough of Naomi Wolfs work to believe that its pretty dumb and seems to display more of the post modern characteristic of late capitalism than the exposition of feminism. Her work is as much about feminism as Sex and the City is. Predominately white anglo middle class twaddle.
And since we're all having a go at Miranda. She comes from a cloistered upper middle class family and was given an expensive education and bourgeois socialisation. She displays neither exceptional intellect nor talent in fact her work too often displays a contempt for these qualities.
She is the epitome of journalistic mediocrity yet the ambition which has been instilled in her by upwardly mobile parentage and competitive peers and an instilled knowledge of how to passively aggressively manipulate the media environment to her ends has assured her a level of success beyond that which her talents should have taken her. She is a perfect example of the disproportioned results of the structurally unequal playing field which society is.
So many people achieve success by virtue of there socio economic inheritance alone. Had she the had the misfortune to have been born into a less well off situation in a family that through lack of exposure didn't value education so highly and spent her Saturday afternoons down by the local bus top with her mates instead of being taken to the opera by Grandma followed by a nice jaunt down to the David Jones Food Hall then we definitely wouldn't be able to kvetch about her today. Wouldn't that be nice. I thought I'd end by saying something nice about Miranda - she's marginally less offensive than Gerard Henderson.
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Blame me for not building enough attraction and running games early on in the pick up... I was way too focused on my career and was acting somewhat wussy in the past 1.5 years, the time i dated this HB9.
GF says she doesn't love me but want to marry me - HELP
She is a pageant, smart and beautiful, we dated because we know each other for a long time and had things in common. She is now 24 and she told me she sees me as a potential husband, wants to marry me and have future etc etc... but she said she doesn't feel that she love me... everything is too logical here: i am a good man and she is a good girl... we are a good "match"...!!
I need some advice over here... I am 32 and also looking to a longer term relationship and quit the gaming ... i really like her but want to do something to fix our relationship before taking the next step in our lifes... any body can give me some valuable comments or suggestions?? thx.
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Be a lover not a provider. She may want to marry you because it makes sense to her, but if you end up marrying her without getting out of your beta state and building passion, it's like admitting defeat and taking whatever you can get.
Look around, there are plenty of ideas to spice things up. Start with not being a pussy anymore. Even if you were busy with your career, be alpha about it. Tell her you're busy with work and you'll call her when you got time. Don't apoligize for following your dreams. Men do this with their wussy behaviour. Show her that you have more important things to do and if she doesn't like it then it's her loss. ..Next, take her out and do exciting things together. Try out new activities, go somewhere for the weekend, tease her, make love to her some days and fuck her hard on others. Get to know each other well and share experiences. After that you will know if she's for you.
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Urology Program at Children's Hospital of Wisconsin offers new treatments for kids
There are some exciting things happening in the Urology Program at Children's Hospital of Wisconsin. That's why I'm here. For years I was a pediatric urologist at American Family Children's Hospital in Madison, Wis., but I left that hospital earlier this year to come here and lead the pediatric Urology Program.
We are one of the busiest, most respected pediatric hospitals in the nation, and here I have the opportunity to treat kids with more complex problems. I joined a team of internationally known urologists who treat some of the sickest children in the Midwest. Through the Fetal Concerns Center of Wisconsin, we even can treat kids before birth.
Early this year, we began performing robot-assisted laparoscopic surgery, a type of minimally invasive surgery. We're the only children's hospital in the state with this capability. During these procedures, a surgeon operates with three interactive robotic arms while sitting at a console. The system interprets the surgeon's hand movements to the robotic instruments, which can move in a tiny surgical area with more precision and greater range of motion than the human wrist. Children who undergo robot-assisted laparoscopic surgery tend to have less pain, less scarring and shorter recovery times than those who undergo traditional open surgery.
I'm excited to be part of the innovative, compassionate care offered here at Children's Hospital, and I look forward to being part of this team that provides the best care for kids.
~ John Kryger, MD, medical director of Urology, Children's Hospital of Wisconsin
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The shock and sadness has worn off for Ed Davis, and he's getting used to life in Memphis.
Davis faced the Raptors for the first time on Wednesday since being traded for Rudy Gay three weeks ago.
Beforehand, Davis admitted that he was rattled by the move.
"Obviously, the trade was a surprise … I heard the rumours. I didn't really think much of it. Especially because it was my first time being traded, I didn't know what to expect," Davis said, adding that it's been tough not being around his best friend, DeMar DeRozan, all the time.
They still text every day.
"When it first happened, I was hurt. Coming in the locker room, it was tough on me. But that's over with. I'm just looking forward to this team and going to the playoffs."
Davis was crushed that night in Atlanta when he had to say goodbye to his teammates. A towel covered his head so that nobody could see his eyes, red from tears after an emotional team farewell behind closed doors.


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In his keynote speech on Britain's future in Europe earlier this year, Cameron argued a new settlement was needed before voters were asked if they wanted to end ties with Brussels and suggested some reforms would need treaty change.
Ahead of talks with French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, he told reporters three treaties had been put forward since he took the keys to No 10.
"So I'm sure there will be treaty change," he added.
"I'm absolutely convinced that there will be the need to reopen at some stage these treaties, not least to solve the problem of the euro zone.
"The euro zone in my view needs to have further treaty change, and just as euro zone countries will argue that it's necessary to have treaty change, I think it's perfectly legitimate to argue that non-euro zone countries might need to have treaty changes that suit them."
Cameron will make his first official visit to Madrid for bilateral talks with Spain's prime minister Mariano Rajoy on Monday before travelling to Paris for a working dinner with Hollande. He will meet with Merkel in Germany later this week.
Cameron insisted he was confronting the Brussels problem in Britain and told newspapers in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Poland reform was "not about cherry-picking" EU rules – something European leaders have claimed.
He said: "We are a major European power, a major European player. But do we think that the European Union has sometimes overreached itself with directives and interventions and interferences? Yes, it has. And that needs to change."
"There are some reforms I think we need to make. Already we're starting to make some of them."
He added: "I think the best outcome for Britain is our membership of a reformed European Union. But just as the two themes of my speech, if you like, are first that Europe needs reform, the second is that we need to recognise that consent for Britain's membership of the European Union, and all the ways that it's changed, has become wafer-thin in Britain."
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why would you congratulate that cheater. of course he jacked it, he's on seven different kinds of rhinocerous hormones. he's an a-hole, a criminal, a cheater, and a cancer on the american pastime. and in true bonds fashion, his team loses. that says it all for baroid.
oh yeah, there is a silver lining. at least we don't have to watch giants games on espn anymore. anyone for world poker tour? the only thing those guys are on is bourbon.
I can't, in good conscience, vilify Bonds for using steroids. Yes, I think he did it, but I'm just as sure dozens of other guys did as well (at least), including a few that I root for on a daily basis.
It was a level playing field, as far as I'm concerned. He was the best hitter w/out roids, and he was the best hitter w/ roids.
He still hit the home runs, he deserves to celebrate it.
And I kinda liked watching the Giants on ESPN. Did you notice that they were late getting to the game last night because a WNBA game went into double overtime. They almost missed Bonds' first at bat.
all im gonna say is this:
screw bonds, screw th 40 percent of baseball that probably used some sort of performance enhancing drugs (greenies, roids, hgh, doctoring the ball, etc).
Screw Bud Selig 1000000000000000000000 times more for allowing it to go on.
Bonds, schmonds...
Now for a true diversion....
"The sport of Emperors and bandits." - Feng
(aka...Christopher Walken in a red dress and matching beanie)
(Sorry, Brian, I have the maturity level of a 5 yr. old but thought this is a harmless diversion from baseball).
You bring up a great point, why is Selig not being torn to shreds for the roid scandal? It all happened on his watch, isn't he just as much to blame as the players for turning a blind eye?
JJ, everyone can use a Wednesday distraction, thanks for the link.
last thing ill say about this , i promise.
Selig has been commish since 1992.
he has had money invested in the ever growing MLB since 1965....
I don't go to an ivy league school but i think he has sufficient reason to turn a blind eye. lol
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It wouldn't have got there ! It would have broken down 200 yards down the road.
Do you think the Tech at the dealer wouldn't smell the petrol or see how thin it was when he drained it ?
I think you just gotta take this one on the chinn, but a tleast your daughter is educated now!
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The first six months of 2011 have been remarkably violent in terms of catastrophes on a global scale. Megacastastrophes worldwide caused $260 billion in economic losses, surpassing the full-year of record, approximately $55 billion of which was insured—four times the average over the prior decade. In the United States at least $30 billion in economic losses, $19.7billion of which was insured, helped depress the property/casualty (P/C) insurance industry annualized statutory rate of return on average surplus to 1.7 percent during the first half of 2011, down from 6.4 percent from the first half of 2010 and 6.5 percent for all of last year. Profitability receded despite a surprising $1.1 billion or 4.5 percent improvement in investment earnings during the half and a respectable 2.6 percent increase in net premiums written, the strongest first half result since 2006. Perhaps most surprising of all is the fact that that capacity in the U.S. P/C insurance industry ended the catastrophe-wracked, bearish quarter virtually unchanged—down just 1 percent—from the record set just three months earlier. Overall net income after taxes (profits) for the first half plunged by 71.6 percent to $4.8 billion from $16.8 billion in first half of 2010. Indeed, net income through June 30 is actually $3 billion lower than it was as of March 31, largely due to outsized catastrophe losses in April and May. However, some $3billion to $5 billion in loss and loss adjustment expense—almost certainly a record—did wind up on the books of U.S. insurers that cover, reinsure or otherwise assume risk from catastrophic events abroad, including the March 11 Japanese earthquake and tsunami, the February 22 New Zealand earthquake, and severe flooding in Australia in January and February. Hurricane Irene, which caused an estimated $3 billion to $4 billion in insured losses during the third quarter, along with a slew of other catastrophes, will likely push the year-to-date tally above the $25 billion mark. Indeed, through September 30, the federal government issued a record 86 disaster declarations.
In one of the more positive developments for the industry since the end of the financial crisis, premium growth appears to be on a sustained upward trajectory, rising for five consecutive quarters. Although growth remains anemic at just 1.6 percent during the second quarter (2.6 percent in the first half), the very fact that the growth is sustained confirms that the era of mass exposure destruction in the property/casualty insurance industry is now over, with demand for insurance having stabilized and, in fact, growing (albeit slowly) in the aftermath of the "Great Recession." Underwriting losses, however, skyrocketed during the first half, with the combined ratio for the half rising to 109.4, after excluding mortgage and financial guaranty insurers (110.5 including them), compared to 100.2 a year earlier.
The industry results were released by ISO and the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI).
Policyholders' Surplus (Capital/Capacity): Barely Dented Despite Catastrophes
Policyholders' surplus totaled $559.1 billion as of June 30, 2011, the second highest figure in P/C insurance history. Policyholders' surplus did decline during the quarter, as expected, but fell by just 1.0 percent or $5.6 billion from the all-time record of $564.7 as of March 31, 2011. The June 30 figure remains 0.4 percent or $2.2 billion above the $556.9 billion in surplus at year-end 2010 (itself a record at the time). While a decline in surplus was all but assured during the second quarter due to high catastrophe losses and poor equity market performance, the small magnitude of the decline is surprising.
One outstanding question is whether the drop in the second quarter is a singular and temporary occurrence caused chiefly by surging catastrophe losses, or whether it is the beginning of a sequence of declines whereby excess capital is expunged from property/casualty insurer balance sheets as core (non-cat) underwriting losses mount and the ability to release prior-year reserves into the earnings stream diminishes. Historically, the latter has presaged a firming of markets whereas the former would suggest that weak market conditions could potentially linger into and possibly through 2012.
The record $559.1 billion in surplus as of June 30, 2011, exceeds the pre-crisis high of $521.8 billion set during the third quarter of 2007 by 7.1 percent—a difference of $37.3 billion. Irrespective of the prospect of further shrinkage in policyholders' surplus in 2011 following a first-quarter peak, the bottom line is that the industry is and will remain extremely well capitalized and financially prepared to pay very large scale losses, as necessary. One commonly used measure of capital adequacy, the ratio of net premiums written to surplus, currently stands at 0.78, close to its strongest level in modern history.
Profit Recovery: Shifting into Reverse?
Ever since plunging by 96 percent during the height of the global financial crisis, net income after taxes (profit) has rebounded fairly steadily and robustly as asset prices recovered, underlying claim frequency and severity trends remained relatively subdued and the release of prior year reserves bolstered the bottom line.
Through the first half of 2011, however, these three factors seem less capable of turbocharging the bottom line than in the recent past. Higher catastrophe losses provided another stiff headwind. As noted earlier, the P/C insurance industry reported an annualized statutory rate of return on average surplus of 1.7 percent during the first half of 2011 (2.3 percent after excluding mortgage and financial guaranty insurers), down from 6.4 percent from the year earlier half and 6.5 percent for all of 2010. Overall net income after taxes (profits) for the half plummeted by 71.6 percent or $12.0 billion to $4.8 billion from $16.8 billion in first half 2010.
While catastrophe losses were the dominant factor adversely impacting profits in the first half, the reduction in prior-year reserve releases also played a role. Indeed, billions in profits over the past several years were actually the result of downward revisions in the estimated ultimate cost of claims occurring in years past. During the first half, prior-year reserve releases fell to $7.3 billion from $9.1 in first-half 2010, a decline of 19.8 percent. The contribution to the bottom line from prior-year reserve releases is expected to continue to decline as the pool of redundant reserves diminishes over time, pushing the combined ratio up. This dynamic will contribute to higher underwriting losses in the future and eventually exert pressure on rates.
Of course, a firming in the pricing environment would help the bottom line on a sustained basis. While pricing in personal lines (which account for approximately half of all premiums written) has been trending positive for several years, commercial lineshad remained in negative territory since 2004. According to the Council of Insurance Agents and Brokers (CIAB), however, the average commercial rate change in the second quarter of 2011 was basically flat for the first time in more than seven years, down just 0.1 percent. This is marked improvement over the 6.4 percent decline noted in the same quarter of 2010. The CIAB survey indicates that commercial renewals have been negative for an astonishing 30 consecutive quarters—dating all the way back to the first quarter of 2004. The overall commercial lines price level today is equivalent to where it was in late 2000. In other words, the cost of insurance sold to businesses today is basically the same as it was more than a decade ago.
Top Line Growth Surprises to the Upside
Net written premiums were up 2.6 percent in first-half 2011. While the current tepid rate does not portend imminent hard market conditions, the improvement is evidence that commercial insurance renewals are no longer uniformly negative and that the property/casualty insurance industry is benefiting even from the miserably slow growth in the American economy, which is translating into a trickle of additional insurable exposures. On a quarterly basis, premium growth has been positive since the second quarter of 2010, placing the industry on a favorable growth trajectory for the remainder of 2011 despite the recent "soft patch" in economic growth.
Deconstructing the first half premium growth of 2.6 percent reveals several interesting trends. Personal lines net premiums written were up 2.7 percent during the first half (down from +3.5 percent growth in first-half 2010) while commercial lines insurers saw growth of 2.9 percent (up from a 3.1 percent decline a year earlier). Insurers with a more diversified book of business experienced growth of 2.2 percent during the first half of this year, up from 1.7 in the first half of 2010.
While any growth is welcome after three years of decline (2007–2009) and anemic growth (+0.9 percent) in 2010, the first-half figures are undeniably a welcome respite and hopefully a positive omen. Premiums in 2010 were held back in part by continued soft market conditions, primarily in commercial lines, which continued to grip the industry for a seventh consecutive year. The economy was also a factor (details below), though the massive exposure losses that plagued the industry in 2008 and 2009 are much less of a factor today. Indeed, the era of "mass exposure destruction" is over as the economy continues to recover—albeit weakly and unevenly. Although the nation's real (i.e., inflation adjusted) gross domestic product (GDP) actually began to expand during the second half of 2009 and further expanded, by 2.9 percent, in 2010, growth in P/C insurance exposure usually lags behind economic growth by a year or more. This is because the early stages of economic recoveries are always led by productivity gains rather than additions to fixed investment (e.g., plants, equipment) or hiring (which would add to payrolls).
Despite extreme economic pessimism through much of 2010 and the first half of 2011, the economy has so far avoided a much feared "double-dip" recession. Although real GDP growth came in at a disappointing 1.3 percent during the second quarter (on the heels of an even worse 0.4 percent figure in the first quarter), economic growth is expected to rise to about 2 percent in the second half of 2011, according to Blue Chip Economic Indicators.
As discussed in the previous section, softness in commercial insurance pricing remains a persistent, though somewhat less severe, problem for insurers. Lingering economic weakness also remains a problem, restraining the demand for many types of insurance. However, lines such as workers compensation have benefited from the fact that the economy has added 2.6 million private sector workers from January 2010 through August 2011, adding tens of billions of dollars in payroll, which is the exposure base for this large and compulsory line of coverage.
Investment Performance: Muddling Along
Net investment gains (which include investment income plus realized capital gains and losses) were up by $2.6 billion (10.0 percent) in first-half 2011 to $28.4 billion, from $25.8 billion in first-half 2010.
Net Investment Income
Net investment income during the first half of 2011 was $24.8 billion, compared to $23.6 billion in the first half of 2010. Most of this comes from the industry's bond investments, which are mainly high quality corporates and municipals. Yields on investments in corporate bonds made in the first half of 2011 ranged from 4.9 percent to 5.3 percent, based on Moody's Seasoned AAA averages. These yields were generally lower than those of older bonds being rolled over, constraining overall net investment income.
The forces that affected interest rates in the first half of 2011 are the same ones that have been at work for the past few years: unused capacity (in both capital resources and high unemployment), slack in the economy and low near-term future expectations leading to an unwillingness to lend/borrow and invest, and Federal Reserve actions to keep both short-term and longer-term interest rates low, all of which contributed to low inflation expectations. Yields on the benchmark 10-Year U.S. Treasury note began the year at 3.36 percent, rose in February briefly to 3.75 percent, then slid fairly steadily to 2.9 percent for much of June 2011.
Realized Capital Gains/Losses
Only realized capital gains and losses affect insurer net income; unrealized capital gains and losses affect policyholders' surplus. Realized capital gains from the first half of 2011 were $3.6 billion, compared to $2.2 billion in the first half of 2010.
As in the past, the downtrend in interest rates that constrains investment income pushed asset values of older bonds up, providing opportunities for capital gains on those bonds.
Although stock market investments are a modest portion of the invested assets of most insurers (typically in the 10-20 percent range), low returns so far in 2011 are a concern for insurers. The S&P 500 Index, which was up by 5.42 percent through the first quarter, was down 0.39 percent in the second quarter, so that most of the realized capital gains were taken in the first quarter. The S&P 500 fell an additional 12.1 percent in the third quarter.
The property/casualty insurance industry turned in a weak performance during the first half of 2011. Although profitability slumped amid high catastrophe losses, premium growth remained positive, investment earnings were more robust than anticipated and policyholders' surplus remained near its all-time record high. The outlook for the remainder of the year is a cautious one given continued high third-quarter catastrophe losses, the prospect of high underwriting losses associated with non-cat losses and more uncertainty in the investment markets.
Fundamentally, the property/casualty insurance industry remains quite strong financially, with capital adequacy ratios remaining high relative to long-term historical averages.
A detailed industry income statement for the first half of 2011 follows.
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Using an exotic form of silicon could substantially improve the efficiency of solar cells, according to computer simulations by researchers at the University of California, Davis, and in Hungary. The work was published Jan. 25 in the journal Physical Review Letters.
Solar cells are based on the photoelectric effect: a photon, or particle of light, hits a silicon crystal and generates a negatively charged electron and a positively charged hole. Collecting those electron-hole pairs generates electric current.
Conventional solar cells generate one electron-hole pair per incoming photon, and have a theoretical maximum efficiency of 33 percent. One exciting new route to improved efficiency is to generate more than one electron-hole pair per photon, said Giulia Galli, professor of chemistry at UC Davis and co-author of the paper.
"This approach is capable of increasing the maximum efficiency to 42 percent, beyond any solar cell available today, which would be a pretty big deal," said lead author Stefan Wippermann, a postdoctoral researcher at UC Davis.
"In fact, there is reason to believe that if parabolic mirrors are used to focus the sunlight on such a new-paradigm solar cell, its efficiency could reach as high as 70 percent," Wippermann said.
Galli said that nanoparticles have a size of nanometers, typically just a few atoms across. Because of their small size, many of their properties are different from bulk materials.
In particular, the probability of generating more than one electron-hole pair is much enhanced, driven by an effect called "quantum confinement." Experiments to explore this paradigm are being pursued by researchers at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colo., as well as at UC Davis.
"But with nanoparticles of conventional silicon, the paradigm works only in ultraviolet light," Wippermann said. "This new approach will become useful only when it is demonstrated to work in visible sunlight."
The researchers simulated the behavior of a structure of silicon called silicon BC8, which is formed under high pressure but is stable at normal pressures, much as diamond is a form of carbon formed under high pressure but stable at normal pressures.
The computer simulations were run through the National Energy Research Scientific Supercomputing Center at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, which granted the project 10 million hours of supercomputer time.
The simulations demonstrated that nanoparticles of silicon BC8 indeed generate multiple electron-hole pairs per photon even when exposed to visible light.
"This is more than an academic exercise. A Harvard-MIT paper showed that when normal silicon solar cells are irradiated with laser light, the energy the laser emits may create a local pressure high enough to form BC8 nanocrystals. Thus, laser or chemical pressure treatment of existing solar cells may turn them into these higher-efficiency cells," said co-author Gergely Zimanyi, professor of physics at UC Davis.
Other authors of the paper are Marton Voros and Adam Gali at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary. The work was funded by a National Science Foundation Solar Collaborative grant awarded to Zimanyi, Galli and colleagues at UC Davis and UC Santa Cruz in 2011. The project brings together experts in material science, chemistry, computer simulations and statistics to develop new approaches to solar power.
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