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You cannot hire someone to coach the Pima College men's basketball team unless his career itself has gone off the tracks and been left in debris. Unless you know how to react to a crisis, you are not qualified.
The last man to coach the Aztecs exited to an 18-game losing streak. He would look across the court to the league's best team, Central Arizona College, and see a lineup of players from New York, Seattle, Africa and Minnesota, and a point guard being recruited by UCLA.
The Aztecs lost games 80-32.
Pima College hasn't won an ACCAC championship since 1980, and in four decades has had just two players, Greg Cook, 1981, and Mark Sanchez, 2007, accept Division I scholarships.
So when Aztec athletic director Edgar Soto prefaced the hiring of the school's 11th basketball coach last week by saying "he's such a good fit for us," you didn't know if that was a compliment or some type of disparagement.
Brian Peabody knows what it is to lose. When he struck out for the big time, a 2005 cross-country venture to Division I Western Carolina, the Catamounts opened the year 0-5, closed the year 0-5 and in between went 0-8.
Everybody got fired.
The Aztecs initially tried this nine years ago, when Peabody was Tucson's ranking prep basketball coach, coming off 241 victories and two state final appearances in 10 Salpointe Catholic seasons. But the timing couldn't have been worse.
It was the start of Chancellor Roy Flores' chaotic reign at PCC, a period of discord so great that, after five months, he ordered Peabody to leave, if for no other reason than to show the wonder coach from Salpointe who was boss.
"I started in October that year," Peabody remembers. "I had to pull some guys off the baseball team just to fill the roster.
"Had the Pima thing worked out the first time, I wouldn't have had the opportunity to coach Ironwood Ridge (which went 128-52 and won the 2008 state championship). I wouldn't have been able to get the Tucson Heat (AAU program) going the way it is. It just feels right this time. I've had a good journey. I'm happy."
No high school coach in Tucson won as many games (443) as Peabody across the last 25 years, or reached as many state finals (six). No one even comes close in numbers of players sent to Division I schools. Along the way, Peabody found enough time to create and develop the AAU Tucson Heat, which he calls the largest basketball club organization in Arizona.
On the day he was hired last week, Peabody went directly to McKale Center to run this new project by Sean Miller, who gave it his blessing.
Over 40 years, Pima's men's basketball team enjoyed periodic success under Norm Patton, Michael Lopez, Randall Moore and Karl Pieroway, but always in a burst and never in a sustained pattern.
The Aztecs have been bullied and beaten by the ACCAC's traditional powers, especially nearby Cochise College, and more recently by Central Arizona and Arizona Western, who dominated this year's all-conference team with players from Minnesota, Alabama, Texas and Los Angeles.
At some point, Peabody is going to have to match those clubs player-for-player, and if that means going outside the state lines to get a D-1 prospect, he's got the resources to do so.
"I'm bringing in eight kids, recruits from Southern Arizona this week," he says. "The first thing I did was to reach out to their coaches. I want their kids. I want the coaches on board. My club team starts with kids in the third grade; I'm going to develop those kids while making them aware of what we've got going at Pima."
Unlike his first, brief stint at PCC in 2003-04, when Flores forbade out-of-state recruiting, Peabody won't be neutered by the inability to be competitive. A federally mandated student exchange system permits him to pursue a limited number of national-level recruits.
"My vision is to take the eight or 10 best Southern Arizona kids and go find five or six others who can play," he says. "We're going to need both."
A good start, potentially, would be to deploy redshirt guard Lester Medford of Amphi's 2011 state championship team, with former Tucson High and Wyoming Cowboys guard Shakir Smith. That would be the top backcourt in the ACCAC.
Peabody is a Dick McConnell protégé, part of the Sahuaro High School legend's coaching tree and a former Sahuaro player. Shortcuts? Nope. Peabody started at Green Fields Country Day School, went to St. Gregory's and even coached the baseball team at Emily Gray Junior High.
This is no one's idea of a lucrative payoff for time served, PCC's coaching position pays $16,000, but that doesn't deter Peabody. It might as well be $160,000 given the time he'll need to restore credibility to the school.
"When Brian came in last week it was like, 'I'm home,'" says Soto. "It was like a shot of adrenalin for us; all that energy.
"I truly believe he'll catapult us to the next level."
The next level? Pima was 1-21 in the ACCAC this year. That's last place.
The only place to go is up.
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Pepperell girls 60, Chattooga 50
The Lady Dragons used a strong first half to roll to the 7-AA win.
Anna Kate Rickman finished with 13 points, and Caroline Holbrook had 9 points, all of which came from three 3-pointers.
The win moved Pepperell into a tie with Murray County for fifth place, and later Friday night, Pepperell won a coin toss to gain the No. 5 seed for next week's region tournament.
Murray County will be the sixth seed.
Pepperell will play Chattooga on Tuesday in the opening round.

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With Christmas upon us, there is no time to rest for
In the rush of the past six weeks, about 3300 puddings will have been sold, more than 1000 hampers – priced from $80 to $250 – delivered, and there's sure to be a rush on the last of the 140,000 mince pies for 2013.
It is all hands on deck at the Armadale, Melbourne headquarters of her landmark Phillippa's Bakery and Provisions store, which opened in High Street in May 1994.
As the 20th year looms, it will only get busier for Grogan, who is visibly tired as she takes a rare moment off her feet, but never really takes her foot off the pedal.
"It's very draining to deliver 11 out of 10 [quality]," she sighs. "Eight out of 10 can be thrown out and nine out of 10, I'm not happy.
"If people want to drive across town for Phillippa's goods, that's the best marketing you can get."
That philosophy has underpinned the success of the business, which is based on the local French community bakeries so loved by Grogan, who modelled her business on the famed Sally Clarke of Clarke's of London, where she worked for 10 years before returning to her home town of Melbourne, armed with the vision, in 1993.
Revenues have reached nearly $10 million for the past year for her five Melbourne sites: an Armadale cafe, bakery and production kitchen; a Brighton bakery; a CBD premises; and the main bakery and an outlet shop in Richmond.
All premises are leased, and Grogan employs about 78 permanent full-time staff.
She also takes a stall at farmers' markets each month, and holds occasional cooking classes and bakery tours.
Recipes your grandmother should have taught you
For the past three years, Grogan says the business has plateaued, deliberately, to allow for an internal restructure, new compliance and quality control regimes and consolidation in preparation for a soon-to-be celebrated 20th year of operations and planned expansion.
Phillippa's has been rebranded recently with a new chic, navy-blue logo strip, accompanied by a range of tea towels to herald the change for Christmas. And ,of course, there's the book; a two-year project due for release early next year, featuring all the old-fashioned recipes "your grandmother should have taught you".
Grogan says she always had a keen eye for marketing, and cultivated relationships in the food industry to promote Phillippa's, such as with
Grogan has never resiled from the fact it was always about the bread, and traditional practices.
"I knew I had to get the word out and these were influential food people," she recounts.
Influential business people have also been part of the business strategy. Early on – as suggested by her father, Owen Grogan, a former Melbourne stockbroker – an advisory board was appointed to cover corporate governance. Among the luminaries over the years have been Lindsay Maxsted, the highly respected board director, and advertising guru David Mattingly, a force with Melbourne's Monahan Dayman Adams in the 1970s. The board meets once a month, 11 times a year and has done so for 18 years.
Grogan owns the business 50-50 with her father. She made truffles in her home kitchen to start, and Jocelyn Hancock was the original baker of bread and croissants when they first opened in May 1994.
Grogan's husband – Andrew O'Hara, a baker who joined the business a year after launch – has recently taken over as general manager to drive future growth. They have three children, 14, 11 and 7.
Last word on quality control
Grogan says: "I didn't set up the business to run it myself, and I knew others had better skills to drive that."
However, she will always have the last word on quality control: "I won't put my label on anything we don't make."
Phillippa's does sell a small amount of third-party produce – olive oil, cheese and olives. The "seconds" store in Richmond, adjacent to the main bakery, sells goods which did not make the 11-out-of-10 grade. All jams and preserves are produced in Armadale. Savoury biscuits, cookies, and assorted nuts and muesli items are packaged in "the most expensive cellophane bags", sold through her stores and wholesaled to about 300 shops around Australia.
Revenues are shared about equally between the wholesale and retail channels.
Grogan is planning to bring back some "deleted" items like oatmeal biscuits and grissini sticks for 2014.
She moves about $4500 worth of bread and bakery items through the Armadale store on any given day.
Bread forged Phillippa's reputation
Grogan recalls how demand for bakery items put pressure on capacity in Armadale and, after two years of contemplation, they leased the current bakery site in Richmond in 1999. Turnover that financial year neared $3 million.
"We closed the shop, moved the oven, installed it at Richmond and baked the next day," she says. It is the bread that forged the Phillippa's reputation, as it did for Clarke's of London. Either traditional yeasted bread or sour dough, there is absolutely no room for compromise.
"We do not control the fermentation by adding a bottle of improver, or gluten or malt or Vitamin C," she insists.
"We let it happen naturally."
Now she bakes about 7000 pieces a day and believes there is room to grow that market, reckoning that "if Poilâne of Paris can produce 15,000 loaves a day to distribute all over Europe, it can be done".
Indicative of the obsession with quality control, Phillippa's makes about two tonnes of candied peel in-house each year, using oranges sourced from Mildura, to be used in puddings and mince pies, but especially for hot cross buns. The figures are astonishing;of 40,000 buns, 22,000 were baked and sold on Easter Thursday.
That's still a few months away. For now, there's a book to complete, social media to develop for further engagement with customers but, most importantly, with five days to go, endless opportunities to move more mince pies and puddings.
And don't forget the bread.
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Mischa Barton Says She's All Better Now
Fear not, concerned citizens; Mischa Barton may have had more than her fair share of difficulties lately, but she wants us all to know that she's doing much better now.
Free from her involuntary psych hold, Barton took to her official Web site today to tell everybody that she's hard at work on her new show The Beautiful Life, and she's totally grooving on the wonders that life has to offer.
"I know it's been a while since I've updated my site but I've been insanely busy with work and what not in NYC," Barton writes, employing an interesting choice of words. "I've been fully immersed in production on my upcoming show The Beautiful Life and I've been loving every minute of it. I have my dogs Charlie and Ziggy with me here so I've been hanging with them in my downtime, as well as hitting the gym as often as I can."
Port also notes that she'll be co-hosting a Versace event at the Whitney Museum in New York on October 19, which she's "absolutely thrilled about!!!"
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By RANDALL CLEMONS The Tennessee Bankers Association held its annual convention in New York this week at a time in the history of our country when everyone is trying to gain insight about the future of our economy.
Our country is experiencing the longest and deepest downturn since the 1930s. The main question is where are we now in this downturn?
As Tennessee Bankers listened to different economists, the consensus was that we have begun recovery from this downturn. The stimulus package will now begin to make a difference, as we see consumer spending stabilize. We will see less decline in the Gross National Product in the second quarter due to inventory levels being low. We are seeing an increase in consumer confidence and the sense of panic is over.
We will continue to see unemployment be a problem with job growth predicted for the fall. Our biggest challenge continues to be in the housing sector. There is currently some improvement in housing permits and sales with greater stability needed in home prices. The nation is currently seeing the most affordable housing market we have experienced in many years with extremely low mortgage rates.
There remains great concern about our government spending, deficit and debt. Our government will see less tax revenue as a result of corporate profits being down nationwide. As a result, we will see greater inflation as we look toward 2012.
Looking at our current banking environment, we see that 95 percent of the banks in our nation are well capitalized. We now have 8,500 banks that remain a safe place to keep your money, with no insured depositor losing a single dime in the 75-year history of the FDIC. It is important to remember that traditional banks didn't cause the problem of recent months. Banks have more money to lend than ever with the personal savings rate up to 5.75 percent.
As we are coming out of this downturn we each can make a difference as it is important for each of us to move forward with a positive focus on the future. Editor's Note: Randall Clemons is chairman and chief executive officer of Wilson Bank & Trust.


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Justices Kennedy, Roberts, Alito, Thomas, and Scalia overruled Sotomayor's decision in Ricci.
The right has also made a great deal of hay out of Sonia Sotomayor's decision in the case of Ricci v. DeStefano.
It chanced that I found myself alone in one of them with Mme. Ricci.
He even granted permission to Ruggieri to call Ricci from Macao.
Father Ricci died in the year 1610, at Pekin, which was his station.
The trial of Father Ricci was amazing both in its procedure and its length.
The petition could not have been more humble or more just, but it brought down a storm on the head of Father Ricci.
Ricci convened the famous Synod of Pistoia, on July 31, 1786.
Carlevaris and Ricci are names likewise highly esteemed in architectural painting.
Father Ricci had a larger work in hand, and so he stopped at Pekin.


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Am 20.05.2011 17:24, schrieb Nick Cox:
We're talking style, and long ago wise people warned de gustibus non est disputandum.
But, sincerely...
How does the extra code make it easier to understand? The presumption is that a reader needs the clue
local mean = r(mean)
to realise that r(mean) contains the mean. Really???
There is a huge difference between your example here and my code!
The "mean" in the case at hand is just the single value of price in the year 2005
which serves as the base value and thus using the scalar base_value makes this very clear!
Reminds me of those places that give you warnings about hot drinks being hot. Also, the price
is confusion for anyone who has no idea what a local is. So, the target readership is: people
who know about locals, but not about means.
I hope you are just a funny guy (i.e. a person with a good sense of humour) and not trying
to make fun of me...
The -scalar- is no more necessary than the -local-.
The scalar solves the precision problem. I never said it is necessary, just in my opinion
useful to clarify the code.
I agree: -meanonly- is likely to have a trivial efficiency effect here. But it's worth learning about, and telling other people about, for problems where it matters.
As I said, I completely agree with you on this point.
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TNM has been crashing a lot lately, namely when i try to edit monitors for our devices. I get errors like abnormal program termination. Or it starts to crash and bogs down the whole system.
Do I have too many monitors?
I only have about 100.
It uses 25 MB of Memory when first starting up to scan.
Any thoughts.
I am running XP with 2 GB of ram and a Pentium 4 at 3.4 GHZ
TNM Crashing
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Unfortunately TNM is not very stable on some systems while working normally on others. I can only suggest to try to run it on another computer.
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Sean Ward: Linfield title bid won't falter
When Sean Ward left Glentoran to join Linfield last summer he expected to become involved in a title charge – that's how they conduct their business at Windsor Park.
But the centre-back also expected a rough ride at the top and that's just what he and his colleagues are getting.
It will surprise no-one that champions Cliftonville are still the team the Blues must beat as the finishing line draws near.
David Jeffrey's side, re-energised after last season's trophyless campaign and their recent County Antrim Shield success, may be two points in front of the north-Belfast side with seven matches remaining but the destination of the Gibson Cup is still as predictable as tonight's winning National Lottery numbers.
In short, it's too close to call and any slip-up could be ruthlessly punished.
Ward knows it will be a fight to the finish and with the title dreamers set to clash at Windsor Park on Saturday, March 29, the pressure and tension is expected to reach fever pitch.
Whoever triumphs in the end will be able to reflect on a remarkable achievement with immense pride.
"Every game is crucial now and we can safely say that whoever wins this title race will fully deserve their moment of glory," said Ward.
"They will be worthy winners. I've read comments for and against the league split but what we are guaranteed is some fantastic battles. League titles have to be earned and sometimes won the hard way.
"That's the case in our league as teams have a lot to play for after the split, like European qualification. When it's all over we can say the best team has won the league because they will have deserved it.
"There will be no arguing with the final result and no-one can say they got lucky. Both teams know what they have to do and every single game is so important."
Linfield welcome Dungannon Swifts to Windsor Park today and the Tyrone men have never won at the south Belfast stadium in 11 seasons as a Premiership team.
The Blues will be focused on taking care of their own business while hoping relegation threatened Warrenpoint Town frustrate Cliftonville at Stangmore Park.
"The great thing about this league is that all the sides are capable of taking points of one another and that's testimony to how those teams have strengthened," added Ward.
"But I went to Linfield to win trophies like my team-mates and that's what we want to do. The manager stepping down at the end of the season adds an emotional element into everything but winning silverware has always been the motivation.
"After the County Antrim Shield win there were very little celebrations because we know the league title is the prize we are after."
Meanwhile, Ward is devastated to learn that that both he and Philip Lowry will be suspended for the crucial post-split clash with Cliftonville at Windsor Park.
The title chasers are scheduled to clash on Saturday, March 29 and Blues boss Jeffrey has confirmed that Lowry and Ward will be suspended for one game from Monday, March 24.
"I've got to say I'm highly frustrated by these suspensions coming in at this time of the season," Jeffrey told the club's website.
"My frustration is simply borne out of the fact that the two bookings that brought them up to the first disciplinary point were in my opinion, neither bookings nor free kicks.
"When I think of some of the challenges that our players have been subjected to this season, I'm highly disappointed that what at best were in my view, fairly innocuous challenges were punished by yellow cards.
"Having said that, these things are part and parcel of the game and we've got to get on with it.
"While those players will be sorely missed, their absence will give opportunities for others."
Ward has tried to absorb the news with some humour, saying: "I heard about it at training on Thursday night – the first suspension of my career. Maybe I don't tackle enough!"
Ward and Lowry have been among the Blues' top performers this season but in a cruel twist of fate they will miss the biggest game of the season.
It's another turn in an unpredictable and enthralling title race.
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This year has been favorable for American stocks; the return of the S&P 500 index year-to-date (including dividends) is at 29.13%, while the return of the European EURO STOXX 50 Price EUR index is at 17.80%, and the return of the Asian S&P Asia 50 CME is only 4.11%.
A Ranking system sorts stocks from best to worst based on a set of weighted factors. Portfolio123 has a powerful ranking system which allows the user to create complex formulas according to many different criteria. They also have highly useful several groups of pre-built ranking systems, I used one of them the "All-Stars: Lynch" in this article. The ranking system is based on investing principles of the well-known investor Peter Lynch.
The "All-Stars: Lynch" ranking system is quite complex, and it is taking into account many factors like; trailing P/E, relative P/E, PEG ratio, institutional ownership, liabilities, sales growth and EPS growth, as shown in the Portfolio123's chart below.
In order to find out how such a ranking formula would have performed during the last 15 years, I ran a back-test, which is available by the Portfolio123's screener. For the back-test, I took all the 7,014 stocks in the Portfolio123's database.
The back-test results are shown in the chart below. For the back-test, I divided the 7,014 companies into fifty groups according to their ranking. The chart clearly shows that the average annual return has a very significant positive correlation to the "All-Stars: Lynch" rank. This brings me to the conclusion that the ranking system is useful.
After running the "All-Stars: Lynch" ranking system on the companies which are included in the S&P 500 index and pay a dividend with a higher than 1% yield, on December 09, before the market open, I discovered the twenty-best dividend stocks, which are shown in the chart below. In this article, I describe the ten-best stocks according to this ranking system. In my opinion, these stocks can reward an investor a significant capital gain along with a solid dividend. I recommend readers use this list of stocks as a basis for further research. All the data for this article were taken from Yahoo Finance, Portfolio123 and finviz.com.
Murphy Oil Corporation (NYSE:MUR)
Murphy Oil Corporation engages in the exploration and production of oil and gas properties worldwide.
See my article from November 03, 2013.
Chart: finviz.com
Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM)
Exxon Mobil Corporation engages in the exploration and production of crude oil and natural gas, and manufacture of petroleum products.
See my article from November 26, 2013.
Chart: finviz.com
Leggett & Platt, Incorporated (NYSE:LEG)
Leggett & Platt, Incorporated designs and produces various engineered components and products worldwide.
See my article from December 01, 2013.
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CA Inc. (NASDAQ:CA)
CA, together with its subsidiaries, provides enterprise information technology management software and solutions that help customers manage and secure IT environments in the United States and internationally.
See my article from November 09, 2013.
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Halliburton Company (NYSE:HAL)
Halliburton Company provides a range of services and products for the exploration, development, and production of oil and natural gas to oil and gas companies worldwide.
Halliburton has a trailing P/E of 24.08 and a very low forward P/E of 11.93. The PEG ratio is low at 1.10, and the average annual earnings growth estimates for the next five years is very high at 21.97%. The forward annual dividend yield is at 1.19%, and the payout ratio is only 21.2%.
Analysts recommend the stock. Among the 31 analysts covering the stock, eleven rate it as a strong buy, sixteen rate it as a buy, three rate it as a hold and only one rates it as an underperform.
Halliburton has recorded strong revenue and EPS growth, during the last three years, as shown in the table below.
On October 21, Halliburton reported its third-quarter financial results, which beat EPS expectations by $0.01. The company reported that income from continuing operations for the third quarter of 2013 was $745 million, or $0.83 per diluted share, excluding restructuring charges of $38 million, after-tax, or $0.04 per diluted share. This compares to income from continuing operations for the second quarter of 2013 of $677 million, or $0.73 per diluted share, excluding a $35 million charge, after-tax, or $0.04 per diluted share, related to a charitable contribution to the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation. Halliburton's total revenue in the third quarter of 2013 was $7.5 billion, compared to $7.3 billion in the second quarter of 2013. Operating income was $1.1 billion in the third quarter of 2013, compared to operating income of $1.0 billion in the second quarter of 2013. The Latin America and Europe/Africa/CIS regions were the primary drivers of this sequential improvement.
Halliburton has recorded strong revenue and EPS growth, and considering its cheap valuation metrics, its strong earnings growth prospects, HAL stock can move higher. Furthermore, the solid dividend represents an income.
Risks to the expected capital gain and to the solid dividend payment include; a downturn in the U.S. economy, and a decline in the price of oil and natural gas.
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Chevron Corporation (NYSE:CVX)
Chevron Corporation, through its subsidiaries, engages in petroleum, chemicals, mining, power generation, and energy operations worldwide.
See my article from December 04, 2013.
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Newmont Mining Corporation (NYSE:NEM)
Newmont Mining Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the acquisition, exploration, and production of gold and copper properties.
Newmont Mining has a very low forward P/E of 13.41. The price to book value is very low at 0.99, and the price-to-sales ratio is at 1.33. The forward annual dividend yield is quite high at 3.48%.
Newmont Mining has recorded revenue and EPS and growth, during the last three years and the last five years, as shown in the table below.
On October 31, Newmont Mining reported its third-quarter financial results. EPS came in at $0.46 a $0.14 better than analyst expectations.
Third-Quarter Highlights
- Consolidated spending down $700 million year to date, or 13% compared to the first nine months of 2012;
- All-in sustaining costs of $993 per ounce, down 16% from the prior year quarter;
- Gold and copper costs applicable to sales of $649 per ounce and $2.63 per pound, down 6% and up 11%, respectively, from the prior year quarter;
- Attributable gold and copper production of 1.284 million ounces and 34 million pounds, up 4% and down 3%, respectively, from the prior year quarter; attributable gold and copper sales of 1.261 million ounces and 35 million pounds, up 4% and down 5%, respectively, from the prior year quarter;
- Revenue of $2.0 billion, a decrease of 20% from the prior year quarter;
- Cash flow from continuing operations of $443 million, a decrease of 23% from the prior year quarter;
- Average realized gold and copper prices of $1,322 per ounce and $3.10 per pound, down 20% and 13%, respectively, from the prior year quarter;
- Sold investment in Canadian Oil Sands Limited for $587 million resulting in a pretax gain of $280 million; and
- Fourth quarter gold price-linked dividend of $0.20 per share6 based upon the average London P.M. Gold fix of $1,326 per ounce for the third quarter.
Although Newmont Mining Corporation has decreased its dividend payments in the last quarters, its forward annual dividend yield is still high at 3.48%, and considering the fact that NEM stock is trading below book value, NEM stock price should recover together with the price of gold.
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Helmerich & Payne Inc. (NYSE:HP)
Helmerich & Payne, Inc. engages in the contract drilling of oil and gas wells.
See my article from November 15, 2013.
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National Oilwell Varco, Inc. (NYSE:NOV)
National Oilwell Varco, Inc. provides equipment and components for oil and gas drilling and production; oilfield services; and supply chain integration services to the upstream oil and gas industry worldwide.
See my article from November 15, 2013.
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CF Industries Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:CF)
CF Industries Holdings, Inc. manufactures and distributes nitrogen and phosphate fertilizer products worldwide. It operates in two segments, Nitrogen and Phosphate.
CF Industries has a very low trailing P/E of 8.86 and a very low forward P/E of 11.59. The PEG ratio is at 1.81, and the average annual earnings growth estimates for the next five years is at 4.90%. The price to free cash flow is at 15.56, and the current ratio is very high at 3.40. The forward annual dividend yield is at 1.72%, and the payout ratio is only 6%. The annual rate of dividend growth over the past three years was very high at 58.51% and over the past five years was also very high at 37.95%.
The CF stock price is 6.90% above its 20-day simple moving average, 9.03% above its 50-day simple moving average and 19.40% above its 200-day simple moving average. That indicates a short-term, a mid-term and a long-term uptrend.
CF Industries has recorded strong revenue, EPS and dividend growth, during the last three years and the last five years, as shown in the table below.
Most of CF Industries' stock valuation, margins and return on capital parameters have been better than its industry median, sector median and the S&P 500 median, as shown in the tables below.
CF Industries returns value to its shareholders by price appreciation and by increasing dividend payments, as shown in the charts below.
Source: Citi Basic Materials Symposium Presentation
On November 04, CF Industries reported its third-quarter financial results, which beat EPS expectations by $0.05 and missed on revenues.
Third Quarter Highlights
- Net earnings attributable to common stockholders of $234.1 million, or $4.07 per diluted share, compared to earnings of $403.3 million, or $6.35 per diluted share, in the third quarter of 2012.
- Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) of $477.7 million compared to $729.1 million in the third quarter of 2012.
- Increased quarterly dividend 150% to $1.00 per share.
- Company announced a set of strategic agreements with the Mosaic Company, including an agreement to sell the phosphate business for $1.4 billion and two long-term ammonia supply agreements.
- Attractive crop economics, strong product demand and CF Industries' North American cost advantage continue to support the company's long-term earnings prospects.
CF Industries has recorded strong revenue, EPS and dividend growth, and considering its compelling valuation metrics, its solid earnings growth prospects, and the fact that the stock is in an uptrend, CF stock can move higher. Furthermore, the solid growing dividend represents a nice income.
Risks to the expected capital gain and to the dividend payment include a downturn in the U.S. economy, and a decline in the price of agriculture products.
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Disclosure: I am long CA. I wrote this article myself, and it expresses my own opinions. I am not receiving compensation for it (other than from Seeking Alpha). I have no business relationship with any company whose stock is mentioned in this article.


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Windows 8 is the next Vista. It sucks. Metro UI blows.
While the adoption rate of Windows 8 may model that of Vista- but who can tell the future?- Windows 8 is a completely different animal than Vista. In fact, the main problem with Vista (pre SP1) was that it was bloated and killed legacy PC's that tried to use it. No drivers were available anywhere for tons of legacy devices like printers and scanners. It was also more than twice the price of Windows 8. Microsoft had a solid enough following that they felt they could rely on their ole cash cow. They've learned that lesson with 8 and are making it so accessible that many will upgrade just 'cause they can and it's so cheap.
Windows 8 is the exact opposite in regard to operating well on legacy systems. As noted
in this article
where the author installed it with great success on his circa 2009 PC's.
On every single one of these systems, the performance improvement over Windows 7 is noticeable. Boot up is much, much faster as well as general application and network responsiveness, particularly with the new Internet Explorer 10 browser. And all of my Windows 7-compatible application software is working perfectly.
Secondly, the reason for all of this working so well is a completely redeveloped kernel that is shared across the phone, the tablet (RT), and the Enterprise/Pro versions. Why is that common kernel important? One app can now be written and applied across the multiple platforms. The things that Windows 8 can do with memory have not been seen out of Microsoft before. I have actually seen first hand that the system effectively draws an app down to zero percentage of resources when it is simply minimized or deselected. What does this mean to average Joe? No more 24GB systems. The Great Race for RAM is over. You can do a lot more with a lot less because of these advancements. I predict that we see suffering tech companies who have hung their hat on end users needing more and more memory.
This TechNet article
talks about that a deep level, but it's a nice reference for noting how different things are under the covers.
Windows 8 can efficiently write the whole (private) working set of a suspended Modern app to disk in order to gain additional memory when the system detects pressure. This process is analogous to hibernating a specific app, and then resuming it when the user switches back to the app. In this case, Windows 8 takes advantage of the suspend/resume mechanism of Modern apps to empty or re-populate an app's working set.
And then there's the MetroNowCalledModernUI. I think the adoption of this interface will be driven through the tablet and Windows phone markets. I have used a Windows phone as a work device for a few years, now. Of course, my personal choice is not a Windows device, so this is far from an endorsement. Rather, I can suggest that we will see folks who understand the way the Modern UI works and evolve to being comfortable with it in tablet and- eventually- on their touch screen desktop. The interface is not horrible. It's just different.
Finally, where will this mobile adoption come from? Enterprise shops across the world who have been waiting for the promised off-the-shelf secure mobile platform that can finally dig them out of the RIM/BES licensing horror. With TPM and real processing power in tablet form, users will finally be able to hold restricted or heavily regulated data types with security right out of the box and administered from a single, familiar enterprise management console.
Of course, all of that is only if the thing actually works. I've used it for a few months and can get around with a mouse as well as I require. Any reasonable person can work through the uncomfortable changes and find their own peace with it. The nerdy things it does under the covers just have to be enough to motivate us 'upgraders' to adopt the change.
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The second ITU symposium on ICTs and climate change closed June 18 with a call for ITU to increase its activities in three areas: reducing energy consumption of ICT equipment; promoting efficiencies to be gained through the use of ICTs in other sectors; encouraging behaviour change – both in business and consumers.
"We are here because we are seeking to find the best ways to make ICTs a critical element in addressing climate change, and to identify the work that must be carried out in standards development, environmental monitoring, climate change mitigation and adaptation," said Malcolm Johnson, Director of ITU's Telecommunication Standardisation Bureau.
In a message to the symposium, UN Secretary-General, Mr Ban Ki-moon commended ITU for working with partners inside and outside the UN family to give high priority to actions in this field. "The information and communication technology sector has much to offer in creating a cleaner, greener world," he said.
Since the adoption of the Kyoto Protocol, in December 1997, the number of ICT users has tripled worldwide. The ICT Sector produces between two to three per cent of the total emissions of greenhouse gases, but if applied to reducing emissions in other industry sectors such as energy, transportation and buildings, could reduce global emissions by between 15 to 40 per cent depending on the methodology used to make these estimates.
The first ITU symposium on ICTs and climate change, held in Kyoto April 15-16, and co-organised by MIC Japan, drew attention to the wide variation in estimates on the impact of the fast paced ICT evolution on the global climate and recommended that ITU standardise methodologies for estimating the impact of ICTs on climate change both directly and indirectly. This was confirmed in London.
The chairmen's reports of the two symposia will now be forwarded to the G8 Summit, to be held at Lake Toya, Hokkaido Prefecture in July 2008, and to other relevant meetings.
"We must remind ourselves that this is only a first step on the long road to finding and implementing global solutions to the challenge of climate change through the use of ICTs. What is important is not so much what we say this week, but how we act and follow up on the momentum we have created" said Johnson.
Speaker Luis Neves, chairman of the Global e-Sustainability Initiative (GeSI), a group comprised of key technology companies and organizations (including ITU) said that communications technology is a part of the climate change solution. A GeSI study on facilitating the low carbon economy in the information age has been published.
The London symposium was chaired by Mr. Tom Walker, Director, Europe and international Business Relations, Department for Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR), UK.
During the opening session BT chairman Sir Michael Rake accepted a Queen's Award for Enterprise - recognizing the company's efforts in the field of sustainable development. The award - also received by BT in 2003 and which runs for five years - was presented by the Lord Mayor of the City of London Alderman David Lewis on behalf of Her Majesty the Queen.
The ITU is expected to conduct most of its work using remote collaboration tools. It may also undertake a gap analysis of work being carried out among other standardization development organizations so as to better focus its activities. In the closing session Johnson strongly encouraged all the attendees, as well others, to participate in this work.
Presentations from Kyoto and London can be viewed here.
See also climate change news feed.
A new ITU-T standard unifies identification schemes used for example in multimedia mobile applications. Currently no uniform way exists to reconcile the many different ID schemes in place now, or to be defined.
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Soundgarden Cornell's stalker arrested
A kooky Soundgarden fan was arrested on Friday after being accused of stalking Chris Cornell and his family for months. Jessica Leigh Robbins, 32, is said to have forced the frontman and his wife to move their two children from school after they became convinced she planned to hurt them.
It's believed she tried to enter their Miami, Florida, home last year after a seven-hour drive in an attempt to speak to Cornell. She'd previously claimed to be the mother of one of his kids and is thought to have falsely reported the singer's wife for child abuse.
Administrators of the band's website also reported strings of suspicious comments, up to 100 a day, posted under 37 different usernames but believed to come from the same source. One example, discussing Cornell's wife, said: I'm done playing games with her - she is not going to be able to hurt him ever again by the time I'm done with her."


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spate (spt)
1. A sudden flood, rush, or outpouring: "It issues a spate of words from the loudspeakers and the politicians" Virginia Woolf.
2. Chiefly British
a. A flash flood.
b. A freshet resulting from a downpour of rain or melting of snow.
c. A sudden heavy fall of rain.
We've had a regular spate of messages and new, wonderful topics in another MG, I wish that was happening here. Sigh.


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Minch launches "Brutal" film during horror season
Most people who know Milwaukee's Nuna Minch, think of him as a musician in his eponymous band -- Nuna -- and especially as a musician who has overcome some serious obstacles. Two days after a serious car accident, Minch performed at Summerfest in a wheelchair and wearing braces on his neck and back.
But when Minch's debut film, "Brutal," screens Thursday, Oct. 30 at 7 p.m. at the Downer Theatre, that all might change.
Minch shot the full-length horror flick with a single digital camera and his friends starring a group of ghost hunters and documentarians searching a haunted river site in Caledonia for a missing boy.
"It is sure to push buttons and generate some controversy as most films that strive to go past the usual do," says Minch via e-mail. "The cast is new and fresh and much of the action is 'real.'
"Budgets didn't provide for breakaway or padded walls or fake instruments of death. Concussions, broken bones and real blood were a daily outcome of shooting."
In addition to Minch, the cast includes Anya Minch, Andrea Minch, Mark Minch, Paddy Fineran, Mclain Kittleson, Michael Viers, Jacqulyn Rousseau, Roni Alwaise and Mike Schoen
Although the screening has sold out, there is am after party at The Monkey Bar, 1619 S. 1st St., and Fineran, Minch's manager, says other opportunities to see the film are in the works.
"As the Oct. 30 show sold out 12 days in advance a lot of people got stuck without tickets so we're going to try to get the movie into places like UWM Union Theater and Marquette and obviously hope for distribution," he said.
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Bobby Brown: I'm "Not the Reason" Behind Whitney Houston's Death
In his first interview since his ex-wife's death, Bobby Brown sat down with the "Today Show's" host, Matt Lauer to say, "I'm not the reason she's gone."
The R&B singer vividly opened up to say that he's "very much clean and sober from narcotics," and tells Lauer about the last time he saw Whitney Houston and how he reacted when he found out about her death.
The 54-year-old host confronted Brown about the public's speculation that he is the reason the late singer's life took a turn for the worse, and he responds, "It makes me feel terrible."
"If anyone ever knew us, if anybody ever spent time around us instead of time looking through the bubble, they would know how we felt about each other," he added. "They would know how happy we were together."
Lauer asked Brown about the last time he saw Houston, which was about a week before she died, and he said, "she had this glow about her that was just, you know, incredible. I'm saying to myself, you know, 'She must be ... she must be doing really well,' because she looked really well."
Adding that he thought she was in a "good place." The two were married for 15 years and he claims that he was not the one who introduced her to narcotics, saying, "I didn't get high [on narcotics] before I met Whitney," Brown said. "I smoked weed, I drank the beer, but no, I wasn't the one that got Whitney on drugs at all."
He added that it was painful to see her suffering and eventually lose her life as a result of the drug use.
"I was hurt. I was hurt ... because, you know, me being off of narcotics for the last seven years, I felt that she was, you know, I didn't know she was struggling with it still. But at the same time, you know, listen, it's a hard fight. It's a hard fight to, you know, maintain sobriety that way."
The 43-year-old performer said that based on the last time he saw his ex-wife, it had to be the result of one day of cocaine use, and not a long term effect. "It had to be that one, because that's all it takes," Brown said. "One hit, you know ... it could definitely take your life away from you. And, unfortunately, that was it."
The interview is set to air Wednesday on NBC's "Today."
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The United States took a step this week toward regulating GHG (greenhouse gas) emissions like carbon dioxide: The EPA has proposed that climate-warming GHGs pose a danger to human health and welfare, according to various reports.
The EPA's finding makes a report released today by 1E and the Alliance to Save Energy all the more significant: Unused PCs -- that is, computers that are powered on but not in use -- are expected to emit approximately 20 million tons of CO2 this year alone, roughly equivalent to the impact of 4 million cars. If that's not enough to compel companies to power down PCs after hours on weekends, consider this finding: U.S. organizations alone waste $2.8 billion annually to power 108 million unused machines.
[ Learn about the various approaches and benefits to PC power management. | Subscribe to InfoWorld's free weekly Green Tech newsletter. ]
On a more granular level, companies can save more (sometimes far more) than $36 per desktop PC per year through PC power management. Those savings can add up quickly, and in this economic climate, every dollar counts.
[ Learn more about the ROI of PC power management. ]
As noted by the report, titled "PC Energy Report 2009," select utility companies around the United States and Canada offer rebates as incentives to organizations that adopt PC power management software. They include Avista in Washington and Idaho, Austin Energy in Texas, Xcel Energy in Minnesota and Colorado, Oregon Energy Trust, New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, Pacific Gas and Electric in California, and many others.
"PC Energy Report 2009," which also examines power management trends in the United Kingdom and Germany, is available for free.


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Easy-peasy PHP 2 : Comments
July 11, 2005
I'm glad to see the authors demonstrating the switch/case control structure for conditional includes. So much cleaner and easier to code and understand than a pile of nested if/elseif/else statements. Good work! ~d
Great! Thanks so much for all yout time & effort. I was following a link to the old version of this tutorial for a while and things wern't going right. Now it's all OK – brilliant!
Thanks again Jim and Mike and all other contributors.
Thanks for the great tut!
...though I notice that if I place the 'navigation.php' include code anywhere other than where it is in your (more advanced) downloadable sample files – the 'currentpage' CSS indicator stops working! Weird…
Anyone know why this might be or how I could alter the PHP code to allow me to place the 'navigation' anywhere I choose whilst retaining the 'currentpage' state?
I'm no expert with PHP, but I found you can even do away with a switch statement by doing where $path is the path to the includes folder + the name passed in through the querystring. I have used a switch statement cos I've got different include folders, but if all your includes were in the same location, it seems like you wouldn't need a switch statement.
Sorry, having to post twice cos the previous version stripped out some code even though it looked OK in the preview. Between doing and where, it should say include ("$path.inc");
Ok … I adapted the code a bit and got it to work. I click and fetches the id and it displays what I want it to display.
My question is how I can get it to display to a particular cell in a table.
I've attempted to do this by various means without success. I can get it to display at the top of the page before the table begins or I can get it to display in the top cell but it pushes the contents of that cell down in order to do so.
Any advice?
One important note with the includes. It is much more secure to define a site root via PHP define, and then use that in the include statements instead of $_SERVER[ 'DOCUMENT_ROOT' ].
So you would define('SITE_ROOT', $_SERVER[ 'DOCUMENT_ROOT']) and then use SITE_ROOT in place of the document roots.
Very good for beginner PHP...


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Rockstar London is the European publishing headquarters of Rockstar Games, set up in a development studio in the heart of London.
Rockstar London developed Manhunt 2 in 2007 for the PlayStation 2 and Microsoft Windows, PSP with Rockstar Leeds and Wii with Rockstar Toronto.
Rockstar London has also released Midnight Club: LA Remix in 2008 for the PSP.
The studio also worked alongside other Rockstar studios on Max Payne 3 and Grand Theft Auto V.


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Rob's created the March 2017 edition of the club's newsletter:
March 2017 newsletter
The full set of newsletters can be viewed on the newsletters page.
Who are we?
We are the Phoenix Bowmen, a target archery club based at Illingworth in Halifax, Yorkshire. We are a well-established club with a growing and active membership.
We are affiliated to the Grand National Archery Society, the Northern Counties Archery Society and the Yorkshire Archery Association.
Our location is at Halifax RUFC's ground on Keighley Road (the A629). We shoot both indoors and outdoors, depending on the season and the weather. We shoot recurves, barebows, compounds and English longbows. All shooting at the club is target shooting, but our members also take part in field archery and clout archery shoots.
We usually shoot imperial rounds, but also shoot metric rounds. Our main shoot is on Sundays from 11:30 AM. We also shoot outdoors on Saturday mornings from 10:30 AM.
All practising, prospective and returning archers are welcome. We can lend club equipment to people wanting to give archery a try. The facilities are safe for children.
Please note that we do not have suitable facilities for crossbows (and our constitution excludes the use of crossbows at the club) and we may not be able to handle very large groups.
Learning, or having a go
We run have-a-go sessions regularly. We have run many sessions for schools, scout groups, Boys Brigades and community groups. We often provide have-a-go sessions for individuals and groups during our regular shooting sessions.
We run beginners courses during the outdoor season - see the Beginners page for more details. Please note that for safety reasons we don't accept juniors aged under 11 years onto a course.
Our May 2017 courses are now underway. Our next courses with available spaces will start in September 2017.
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Proudly celebrating our 45th year…
2017 – SPA Annual Meeting
Mark your calendars now for our 2017 Meeting on July 11.
Mission – The Sakonnet Preservation Association is dedicated to preserving the rural character and natural resources of Little Compton for the lasting benefit of the community.
Area Map – Click here to view a map of the Little Compton's conserved areas with public access. (This map does not include all conserved areas of Little Compton).
What is the Sakonnet Preservation Association, Inc.?
The Sakonnet Preservation Association, Inc. (SPA) was founded in 1972, the first private, non-profit land trust in Rhode Island.
SPA accepts tax deductible gifts of land and conservation easements as well as monetary contributions, gifts of securities, and bequests to further its mission of conserving and stewarding Little Compton's natural landscapes and resources.
Over the years, our nonprofit organization has dedicated the efforts of its all volunteer Board of Directors to fulfilling the mission stated above. These efforts, supported entirely by annual membership donations and gifts as well as the generosity of donors of land and conservation easements, have resulted in the permanent preservation of over 60 properties totaling over 420 acres of Little Compton land.
Other helpful info: Please click here to view "Building with Little Compton in Mind – A Handbook of Ideas and Resources".


text: Talk about a sign of the time. The Judson ISD today became the first school district in Bexar County to establish its own police SWAT Team. Police chief Teresa Ramon says it's technically not a SWAT unit, because they don't use 'Special Weapons.' But they are four highly trained officers who are the equal to anything that may happen in the sprawling district. "This is something that has been in the back of my mind for years," Ramon says. "Not just Newtown, but Columbine, we're talking years and years of school shootings. The Judson Emergency Response Team, as it's called, will work with local city, county, and state police units to help keep the environment on campus as safe for students, teachers, and staffers as possible. "I don't want to be left out in the open," she said. "Seconds count." The four Judson ISD officers have received special certification to respond to emergency situations in schools, protecting students while dealing with a situation like an active shooter or a student holding a knife on somebody.


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Translocation carriers have an increased risk of miscarriage or the birth of a child with congenital anomalies. Preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) is performed in translocation carriers to select for balanced embryos and, thus, increase the chance of an ongoing pregnancy. However, a common experience is that reciprocal translocation carriers produce a high percentage of unbalanced embryos, which cannot be transferred. Therefore, the pregnancy rates in PGD in this patient group are low. In a cohort of 85 reciprocal translocation carriers undergoing PGD we have searched for cytogenetic characteristics of the translocations that can predict the percentage of balanced embryos. Using shape algorithms, the most likely segregation mode per translocation was determined. Shape algorithm, breakpoint location, and relative chromosome segment sizes proved not to be independent predictors of the percentage of balanced embryos. The ratio of the relative sizes of the translocated segments of both translocation chromosomes can give some insight into the chance of transferable embryos: Very asymmetrical translocations have a higher risk of unbalanced products (
Since 1997 preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) has been performed worldwide to allow translocation carriers to conceive balanced offspring and decrease the risk of miscarriages. However, it has become clear that reciprocal translocation carriers produce many unbalanced embryos [
Translocations are present in 0.2% of the general (neonatal) population [
To significantly reduce the chance of conceiving unbalanced offspring PGD can be performed. In this procedure, an
The unbalanced products are the result of the segregation of the chromosomes involved in the translocation during the first meiotic cell division of gametogenesis. Reciprocal translocation chromosomes pair their homologous segments, forming a quadrivalent figure, which can segregate in five different ways: alternate (producing balanced or normal gametes), adjacent-1 and adjacent-2, 3:1, and 4:0, all of which will produce unbalanced gametes [
Most reciprocal translocations are private,
We hypothesized that differentiation of reciprocal translocations based on particular characteristics may be used in predicting the chance of transferable embryos in PGD cycles, and subsequent live birth rates.
We performed a retrospective cohort study in all couples in the Netherlands undergoing PGD for translocations from October, 1997, until December, 2010. Only couples that had at least four embryos biopsied were included in the study. Couples in which both partners were carriers of a translocation were excluded, as well as PGD cycles for complex translocations (
Structural chromosomal abnormalities were detected by routine karyotyping of lymphocytes.
All reciprocal autosomal 2-breakpoint translocations were categorized using different systems as explained in
Possible categories of reciprocal translocations.
|Pachytene-diagram a
|Translocation predisposed to the adjacent-1 or adjacent-2 type disjunction
|Translocation predisposed to tertiary monosomy or trisomy (3:1 segregation)
|Translocation segregating by either adjacent-1 or 3:1 type
|Quadrivalent b
|Fairly symmetric quadrivalent
|One very small translocated segment
|Both translocated segments very small
|One very small translocated segment and one very small nontranslocated segment
|Location of breakpoints
|Both in the centromeric region
|Both in the middle of the chromosomal arm
|Both in the telomeric region
|Other combination
|Ratio of chromosomal length (cm)
|Length of largest translocation chromosome divided by length of smallest translocation chromosome (A/B)
|Ratio of chromosomal length with correction (cm)
|Abovementioned variable with correction for heterochromatine (in chromosome 1, 9, and 16) and acrosomes
|Ratio of the relative sizes of both translocated segments c
|Ratio of the relative size of one translocated segment (tA/A) and the relative size of the other translocated segment (tB/B) in such a way that the largest relative size is divided by the smallest relative size (tA/A)/(tB/B)
|Total length of the translocated segments c
|tA + tB
# Derivative chromosome; a Based on Jalbert
The shape algorithms used were based on Jalbert
Controlled ovarian hyperstimulation was performed using a long desensitization protocol with GnRH agonists, recombinant FSH and hCG. Oocytes were retrieved transvaginally 36 h after hCG administration. Fertilization was performed by IVF or ICSI. After three days of culture, the embryos were biopsied and one or two blastomeres aspirated. Genetic analysis was performed according to the PGD guidelines [
A linear regression analysis was performed, looking for independent predictors of the percentage of balanced embryos per couple. The predictors included in the model were the gender of the translocation carrier and the classifications summarized in
PGD was performed in 85 couples with 83 different reciprocal translocations. Two times, two couples carried the same translocation. In one of these sets, both carriers were female, in the other set the gender of the carrier differed. No couples with translocations between homolog chromosomes were referred for PGD during the study period. There were 41 female carriers and 44 male carriers. As a control group we analyzed 35 couples with Robertsonian translocations: 27 symmetrical, all (13;14), and eight asymmetrical (D;G). Most of the Robertsonian translocation carriers were male (25/35).
Results of the preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) analysis of 120 couples.
|Embryo Results per Couple
|Reciprocal Translocations
|Robertsonian Translocations
|85 Couples
|35 Couples
|Median (Interquartile Range)/Couple
|Median (Interquartile Range)/Couple
|{Total Number of Embryos}
|{Total Number of Embryos}
|Number of biopsied embryos
|16 (17) {1527}
|12 (8) {503}
|Number of balanced embryos
|2 (2) {194}
|3 (4) {123}
|Number of embryos with inconclusive results
|1 (3) {142}
|1 (2) {48}
|Number of unbalanced embryos
|12 (14) {1169}
|7 (8) {325}
|Number of excluded embryos a
|Percentage of balanced embryos
|11.43 (12.45)
|22.22 (22.84)
a Embryos that were biopsied, but not included because of: haploidy, triploidy, tetraploidy; no nucleus biopsied or lysis of blastomere. This never resulted in less than four embryos biopsied per couple.
Univariate linear regression analysis for 85 reciprocal translocation carriers, regarding the percentage of balanced embryos in PGD analysis.
|Median % Balanced Embryos
|Robertsonian Symmetrical
|Robertsonian asymmetrical
|Adjacent-1 or 2
|Adjacent-1 and 3:1
|1 small translocated segment
|Both translocated segments small
|1 small translocated segment en 1 small nontranslocated segment
|Both in centromeric region
|Both in middle of arm
|Both in telomeric region
|Other combination
The type of translocation was an independent predictor for the percentage of balanced embryos per couple. Both reciprocal and asymmetrical Robertsonian translocations produced significantly less balanced embryos than symmetrical Robertsonian translocations. There was no significant difference in the percentage of balanced embryos between male and female reciprocal translocation carriers. None of the studied classification systems showed a significant relation with the percentage of balanced embryos per couple at PGD analysis, except for the ratio of the relative sizes of the translocated segments (
In this study, we focused on the part of the PGD trajectory from oocyte retrieval to embryo transfer, as that is the success-limiting part in PGD for reciprocal translocations. The chance of an ongoing pregnancy after embryo transfer is comparable to PGD for other genetic indications [
The size of the translocated segments, calculated as the sum of the lengths from the telomeres to the breakpoints, did not influence the percentage of balanced embryos. One might hypothesize that this variable is a predictor of viability of unbalanced offspring, but that was not the subject of our study. On the other hand, a very large total length of translocated segments might result in embryos not reaching the biopsy stage of PGD, thus resulting in more balanced embryos and a positive correlation between total length and percentage of balanced embryos. Such an association was not found.
Research into segregation modes of translocation chromosomes in cleavage stage embryos is scarce, and studies consist of small numbers of embryos. Thus far, none of the studies have made clear whether the quadrivalent figure or the sizes of the translocated segments can predict the chance of balanced embryos during a PGD procedure. It is quite possible that other research into this subject has been undertaken, but not published, due to the unpredictability of translocations.
With this study, we have tried to find cytogenetic predictors for the percentage of balanced embryos in reciprocal translocation carriers. We hypothesized that more unbalanced embryos are produced in translocations that are more asymmetrical. A theoretical explanation for this might be that the alternate segregation, resulting in normal and balanced gametes, is more likely to occur in symmetric quadrivalents. Therefore, we expected the categories that reflect asymmetry in the variables "pachytene-diagram" and "quadrivalent" to produce more unbalanced embryos. However, in these variables, we did not find a significant difference between asymmetrical and symmetrical quadrivalents. This may be caused by the small numbers in the different categories of these variables. The calculation of the ratio between the exchanged segments of the translocation is more objective and reproducible. Furthermore, it is a linear parameter, which means that the cohort can be analyzed as a whole. In the present study, this calculated ratio of the relative sizes of the translocated segments is the only predictor of success in PGD in reciprocal translocation carriers. This ratio suggests that with a more asymmetrical quadrivalent, the chance of balanced embryos declines. By performing a multivariate regression analysis, the stepwise removal of non-significant factors has been evaluated. No other independent predictors of balanced embryos were found. Whether the ratio of translocated segments is indeed a good predictor of balanced embryos has to be studied in larger cohorts, preferably by using international databases, such as the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE) PGD Consortium data.
Another reason for not finding a correlation between the percentage of balanced embryos and the two ways of predicting the segregation mode of the translocation can be that the prediction models of Jalbert [
As the percentage of balanced embryos in our study was low (11.4%), we could only perform a univariate analysis. Therefore we could not formulate a prediction model for the chance of balanced embryos per individual translocation. The percentage of balanced embryos found in our study is in accordance with the data collection from the ESHRE PGD Consortium [
We have shown that the number of transferable embryos in PGD treatment in reciprocal translocation carriers is difficult to predict from the characteristics of the individual translocations. The ratio of the relative sizes of the translocated segments of both chromosomes involved in the translocation can give some insight into the chance of transferable embryos. The implications are that for translocation carriers the pregnancy rates per PGD cycle are low, irrespective of the translocation characteristics, due to a high number of untransferable embryos. Further studies are needed to establish whether the ratio of translocated segments can be used in the PGD counseling of couples. A sufficient response to oocyte stimulation remains an important requisite to increase the chance of transferable embryos. The counseling of couples with translocations remains very important, so they can decide which reproductive option (PGD, gamete donation, or natural conception) suits them best.
This study was supported by research grants from Merck Sharpe and Dohme BV, Ferring Pharmaceuticals, and Merck Serono, The Netherlands.
The authors declare no conflict of interest.


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Fairforest Baptist Church is a family of imperfect people striving to be completely committed followers of Jesus Christ. No matter where you are on life's journey, we hope you'll find a place to connect with God and others. That place might be with us!
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