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Londo Mollari was at a bar in the Zocalo, drinking a generous glass of Brivari, his favourite beverage. Unlike most of the times, he was not alone. Vir Cotto, who had returned from Minbar two days ago, was with him. However, Vir wasn't enjoying his own drink. He was pleading to Ambassador Mollari to see how the original version of his report was better than the one Londo had corrected for him.
"Londo, just look at this." – Vir began reading another excerpt of his report. – "'The Minbari don't disdain the others for their differences in culture; they instead embrace them.'"
"Yes, Vir I'm sure that's true, you were always very observant. But this is about politics, not truth." – Londo replied dismissively – "You should scratch that and put it like 'The Minbari have no sense of culture whatsoever, that they're ready to adopt the costumes of others.' That will make the Emperor think the Minbari are completely blind when it comes to making alliances. He will enjoy that."
"Londo, that's…"
"Vir, Vir, Vir." – Londo shook his head, taking a sip of his drink. – "To the Royal Court, what matters is what you say, not the truth. If you want to keep your position, you have to say what they want to hear. Unless you want to end up like Lord Jano."
"What do you mean?" – Vir questioned, confused. He remembered Londo spoke about Lord Jano briefly before G'kar had attacked him, a few weeks ago (Episode: Dust to Dust). – "You said he was married to Lady Arno, so he was never sterilized."
"Yes, Vir. He was never sterilized. He was castrated, instead." – Londo responded, which made Vir trembled. Still the younger ambassador persisted.
"But if I'm the only ambassador that actually reports the truth, maybe that would be good for the Republic. To compensate for the er... lack of honesty." – at this, Londo chuckled:
"Vir, if you want compensation go talk to an Earthforce official. The Human capital ships are all about compensation." – the older Centauri's comment attracted the attention of a certain Human who was standing in the bar.
"And what's that supposed to imply, Londo?" – Michael Garibaldi whispered sternly holding a glass of water. The two Centauri only then noticed the man's presence.
"Ah, Mr. Garibaldi" – Londo greeted loudly. He was rather surprised; lately, Mr. Garibaldi hasn't been very friendly towards him. – "I didn't know eavesdropping on conversations was your pastime."
"I'm head of Security for some reason. Now why don't you spill it out?"
"I'm sorry, but no. This is Brivari and I wouldn't spill a single drop of it, even for you my good friend." – Londo grinned, though he knew what Mr. Garibaldi was implying. When the man gave an even sterner look, he obliged. – "You see, the design of your warships intrigued me ever since I saw one of them. At first it looked gray, plain and ugly. Totally unpalatable!
"Then it struck me! It's as if your engineers only focus on building warships with a greater length and a relatively small width, than any other ship of any other race. I realized they do it to compensate the small self-esteem of your race, Mr. Garibaldi."
Londo's explanation didn't clarify Garibaldi at all. And neither did it to Vir, who listened the conversation in his corner.
"Londo, what makes you think Humans have low self-esteem?" – Vir asked. Garibaldi returned to his water, not bothering to fully listen to the Londo's apparent senseless crap.
"Vir, just picture a male Human in your head. Then picture an Earth Alliance capital ship, but much smaller, inside that same Human's pants." – Londo's answer made Vir, who knew a little about Human masculine genitals, to gasp. Garibaldi, who overheard the last part, choked on his water and spit the all thing out. Londo chuckled at both their reactions.
"Hey!" – Garibaldi faced the ambassador, his male-pride urging him to it. – "I'll have you know…"
"Don't be so insulted, Mr. Garibaldi." – Londo grinned. – "There is no shame on that. It's perfectly acceptable for your race to try showing a…more respectful show of your manliness when you go into battle."
That however didn't turn off Garibaldi's irritation.
"I'll have you know, Mollari, that my people have a longer 'self-esteem' than all your 6 'self-esteems' combined."
"Oh?" – Londo spotted another chance to tease the man. – "And does that also applies to Human females?"
For those who don't get the idea, Londo was implying that Human males have incredibly small penis. That's why Humans build long warships. To compensate for their relatively small reproductive appendages. So Humans try to show a better exhibition of their manliness to the galaxy through their warships. Let's not forget that Centauri's male genitals are six long tentacles, ok.


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The founder and CEO of software company Oracle Corp. His company successfully went public in 1986, but suffered from quality-control problems in 1988. These issues led to cash flow problems, operating losses, a declining share price and near bankruptcy a couple years later. New top management worked with Ellison to turn these problems around by 1994. Ellison was also early to recognize the importance of the internet and positioned the company to benefit from the dot-com boom. His net worth has repeatedly ranked him as one of the richest men in the world.
BREAKING DOWN 'Larry Ellison'
Born in New York City in 1944, Ellison did not graduate from college. Instead, he found that he was skilled at software programming. He worked as a computer programmer for about 10 years before founding Oracle in 1977 - although the company did not take that name until 1983. It was initially called Software Development Laboratories. Harvard Business School named him Entrepreneur of the Year in 1990.

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RCM is a matrix describing risks in businesses and the statuses of corresponding control activities. Risk Control Matrix.
Overview of RCM
RCM is a table (matrix) that describes the relations among risks and methodologies to control each risk (countermeasures to deal with each risk) and is deeply related to one of the six factors of Internal Control,
- "Evaluation and Response to Risks"
Companies are required to analyze and evaluate factors that could disturb the accomplishments of their own goals, which are to be considered as risks, and thereby, based on those results, the companies are required to deal with the risks. RCM is a document that aggregates the statuses of the company's Internal Control over such risks. The primary purpose of RCM is "visualization of risks."
Contents of RCM
RCM (Risk Control Matrix) is one of the three tools recommended for (Japanese) internal control reporting system defined in (Japanese) Financial Products Trading Law (Three-piece Set). The important risk item in RCM is "a risk that could jeopardize the credibility of financial reports," so the control over the important risk items must be intensively considered and practiced as well as elaborated in RCM. The specific contents are shown below.
- Risk
- Details of risks
- Related account items
- Items in statement of accounts that are affected by the risks
- Assertion (Audit Point)
- Assertions about decentness of reports by management statements. They are categorized into five types.
- Assertion about existence and occurrence: This is an assertion about the fact that assets, liabilities, and transactions exist during the corresponding financial period. It proves that there is no record about fictitious transactions etc.
- Assertion about completeness: This is an assertion that all transactions and issues to be recorded are actually included in the documents.
- Assertion about valuation and allocation: This is an assertion that assets, liabilities, capital, profits, and costs are appropriately included in financial documents.
- Assertion about rights and obligations: This is an assertion that rights over the assets and obligations about liabilities are pertained to the company.
- Assertion about presentation and disclosure: This is an assertion that specific components in financial documents are appropriately classified, described, and disclosed.
- Assertions about decentness of reports by management statements. They are categorized into five types.
- Significance of Risk
- Degree of the impact and probability of occurrence of risks
- Control
- Control over the risks
- Detail: Detail of concrete measures to control risks
- Frequency: How frequently the measures are executed (e.g. Monthly, weekly, as needed, etc.)
- Object: The part of risk factors to be covered (e.g. Integrity, accuracy, legitimacy, continuity, etc.)
- Type: How the control measures influence the risks (e.g. Automated control or manual control, proactive or heuristic, etc.)
- Control over the risks
- Risk Evaluation
- Overall evaluation of risks based on the importance of the risks, controls over them, and so on
Creation of RCM
The process to create RCM is as follows.
- Specifying Activities
- Identifying Risks
- Classifying Risks
- Analyzing and Evaluating Risks
- Responding to Risks
Specifying Activities
First, we need to specify the range of corporate activities and define all business processes. By doing so, the activity range of the company and the details of activities are clarified. This phase is common with "business flow diagrams" and "business description documents," which are the other two components of Three-piece Set.
Identifying Risks
Risks are the factors that could disturb (negatively impact) the accomplishments of company goals. More specifically, there are external factors shown below.
- Aggravation of market competition
- Change of market rates of currency exchange and materials
Also, there are internal factors like the followings.
- Breakdown or failure of information systems
- Occurrence of fallacy and dishonest act in bookkeeping
- Divulgation of personal information or information concerning a top-level decision-making in business
We need to grasp the issues that could affect the accomplishments of company goals, and then we can identify the risks among them. Risks have a variety of phases from company-level ones to business-process-level ones. Therefore, it is important to appropriately identify risks in each phase.
Classifying Risks
Identified risks are classified here. The criteria for the classification are as follows.
- Company-wide Risks or Business-process Risks
- Antecedent Risks or Unprecedented Risks
Company-wide Risks or Business-process Risks
Company-wide risks are risks that could disturb the accomplishments of goals of the entire organization. For example, the following risks are included.
- Abnormal shift in the cash-flow status
- Dependency on some specific partners, products, technologies, etc.
- Occurrence of law cases etc.
- Dependency on the individual executive officer
To counter these risks, it is required to prepare and operate controls over the entire organization, including definition of clear business policies and strategies, reinforcing the functionalities of the board of directors, auditors, and audit committee, and so on.
Business-process risks are risks that affects the accomplishments of a goal of each business process. The following risks are included here.
- Lack of resources used in the process
- Dependency on one single task
- False reports about tasks
We can handle these risks by means of in-business controlling activities, such as the establishment of KPIs that are useful to grasp the status on the way and introduction of BAM that monitors the business execution in a real-time manner.
Antecedent Risks or Unprecedented Risks
Risks can be classified based on the past business history. Responses to "antecedent risks" can be plotted based on the responses taken in the past. We must pay more attention to responses to unprecedented risks. However, sometimes antecedent risks could mutate to novel risks owing to the external changes etc., so we must be careful about them.
Analyzing and Evaluating Risks
Through the analyses of the probability of occurrence of risks above and impacts of them, we then need to estimate the significance of risks. Then, we should evaluate what countermeasures need to be taken, starting from the risk of high priority.
Responding to risks
Responses to risks include the followings.
- Avoid
- Mitigate
- Transfer
- Tolerate
- Combination of the above
Avoiding Risks
This means to stop the activities causing risks. If the probability of occurrence of risks or impact is very large or the risk management is difficult, this option is chosen.
Mitigating Risks
This means to establish a new control to reduce the probability of occurrence of risks and impacts.
Transferring Risks
This means to reduce the impacts of risks by transferring the risks to external entities. (E.g. Buying insurance, etc.)
Tolerating Risks
This means not to take any countermeasures and tolerate risks. This option should be taken when the cost for proactive measures outweighs the effects or when countermeasures can be taken even after the risks are actualized.
After the approaches to the risks are determined, the following details should be determined.
- How often they should be executed
- Which part of the risk, for example integrity, accuracy, legitimacy, and continuity, are covered
- Whether countermeasures are executed automatically or manually, and whether they are proactive measures or not
Regarding the format of Risk Control Matrix, the sample presented in "Execution criteria of evaluation and supervision concerning internal control over financial reports" by Financial Service Agency consists of the 6 items shown below.
- "Business Process Name"
- "Detail of Risk"
- "Detail of Control"
- "Audit Point"
- "Risk Evaluation"
- "Detail of Risk Evaluation"


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The singles was nearly as dominant and just as successful, sweeping all four matches. At No. 1 doubles, Tayler Banitt won 6-1, 6-1 over the Ramblers' Kylie Modieski. Then at No. 4 singles, Cannon Falls' Grace Rutter won 6-1, 6-0 against Anna Kvasova.
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RomRaider/Ecuflash getting started FAQ
Q: How does RomRaider allow me to tune?
You must first retrieve a copy of your ECU's image from your vehicle by using an additional program called EcuFlash (discussed below). A special cable, manufactured by Tactrix, is used to connect your laptop to the OBD-II port in your car (which is located below your steering wheel). Once a copy of your image (also known as a ROM) is downloaded from the vehicle's ECU to your computer, you can then use RomRaider to make tuning changes to this ROM. Once you've finished with your changes, you can then save a copy and transfer this edited image back to your vehicle's ECU in a process known as flashing. As long as you keep a back-up copy of your original image, you can revert back to it at any time. In addition to tuning, RomRaider also allows you to data log your Subaru to monitor the results and safety of your tune.
Q: I want to log and/or tune my Subaru with RomRaider. What do I need to do?
1. Purchase a Tactrix OpenPort cable
2. Download and install the latest version of
3. Download and install the latest RomRaider
4. Download and install the latest RomRaider
ECU definitions
. There are two versions. Choose standard units if you wish to tune in imperial units (ex. psi, degrees F, mph, etc.) or metric units for metric units (ex. bar, degrees C, kmh, etc).
5. Download and install the latest RomRaider
logger definitions
. Choose standard or metric units.
6. Download and install the latest version of
. Note: EcuFlash Windows versions 1.30 and later are only compatible with WinXP and Vista.
7. Download and install the latest EcuFlash
ECU definitions
. Choose standard or metric. Note: these updated definitions are only compatible with EcuFlash versions 1.31 and later.
Note: If you are attempting to flash a CANbus ECU, you must use EcuFlash version 1.40 or later (do
use older versions).
Note: Some of the download links above require you to register to the respective forum in order to download.
Q: Can I potentially tune any Subaru with the OpenPort cable and EcuFlash/RomRaider?
NO, older models are not supported by the hardware and software. You
tune the following:
* ANY 2001 and prior USDM Subarus, USDM 2002-2003 Impreza RS/Legacy/Forester, USDM 2004 Impreza RS
* ANY 2000 and prior ADM/EDM/JDM Subaru, 2001-2002 (and some 2003) ADM/EDM/JDM non-WRX/STi models
Q: Which version of the Tactrix OpenPort cable do I need?
Q: How exactly do I install the ECU and logger definitions?
For RomRaider versions 0.5.1b and later:
To install the ECU definitions:
1. Download the latest ECU definitions file available
. Download the file of the units you prefer (either metric or standard).
2. Unzip the ecu_defs.xml file into your main RomRaider directory (or in another directory of your choice where it is unlikely to be moved or deleted).
3. Run Romraider and select "ECU Definitions" -> "ECU Definition Manager" from the menu bar.
4. If any definitions files are listed, select each file and click "Remove".
5. Click "Add" and select the location of the unzipped ecu_defs.xml file.
6. Click "Save".
To install the logger definitions:
1. Download the latest logger definitions file available
. Download the file of the units you prefer (either metric or standard).
2. Unzip the logger.xml file into your main RomRaider directory (or in another directory of your choice where it is unlikely to be moved or deleted).
3. Run Romraider's logger ("Logger" -> "Launch ECU Logger") and select "Settings" -> "Logger Definition Location" from the menu bar.
4. Select the location of the unzipped logger.xml file.
For EcuFlash:
1. Download the latest EcuFlash definitions file available
. Choose the file with the units you wish to use (metric or standard).
2. Delete the Subaru folder (backing up if necessary) in the Metadata directory specified in File->Options menu of EcuFlash (ex. C:\Program Files\OpenECU\EcuFlash\rommetadata\).
3. Unzip the new Subaru definition folder into the same directory.
Q. I'm having problems installing RomRaider with Windows Vista. What am I doing wrong?
Unzip and then right click the RomRaider installer and select "install as administrator".
Q: Why do I need to install the ECU and logger definitions? Doesn't the latest RomRaider download include the newest definitions?
The RomRaider software (starting with version 0.5.1b) does not ship with any ECU or logger definitions. These will have to be downloaded and installed by the user in order for the software to be functional. This is to ensure that you have the latest version of the ECU and logger definitions at the time when you first install RomRaider. You also want to periodically check to see if there are new versions of the ECU and logger definitions in the future as these updates may include bug fixes, additional tables/parameters and additional ECU support.
Q: I have everything installed and ready to go. How do I start tuning?
(describes how to read/flash your Subaru ECU with EcuFlash).
The basic procedure to tune is as follows:
1. Read the ROM from the car's ECU with EcuFlash, if necessary (if this is the first time you are tuning the car, it is always a good idea to read the ROM, keep this original in a safe place, and tune from a copy of it).
2. Open the ROM file in RomRaider (File->Open Image) or EcuFlash (File->Open ROM) to tune. Note: After reading a ROM, EcuFlash will attempt to open the ROM for tuning if it is supported by the ECU definitions. Both RomRaider and EcuFlash are ROM editors, so which one you use for tuning is a matter of preference. However, only EcuFlash can read/flash the ECU and only RomRaider can data log, between the two.
3. Make your tuning changes and save (RomRaider: File->Save, EcuFlash: File->Save ROM or Save ROM as)
4. Flash the new ROM file (or modified ROM file) to the car's ECU with EcuFlash to apply your changes. Your changes are now permanent until the next flash even if power is removed from the ECU or the ECU is removed from the car.
Q: I'm having problems reading/flashing my ECU. What can I do?
Follow the troubleshooting steps here:
Q: How safe is tuning and flashing my ECU? What is the worst that could happen?
Q: Why do I get the error message "ECU Definition Not Found" when I attempt to open my ROM in RomRaider?
Assuming you've installed the ECU definitions and they are the latest version, it's possible that your ROM revision is not currently supported. You can post your ROM in the ECU and logger definitions sub-forum at the RomRaider site to see if someone in the community may define it for you (Note: we do not allow commercial ROMs to be posted).
Q: Is there a list of ROM revisions supported by the latest ECU definitions?
Yes. Check
Q: Can you give me a step-by-step on how to log with RomRaider?
1. Turn on your laptop.
2. Connect the USB end of your tactrix cable to the laptop and the other end of the cable to the OBD-II port on your car (underneath the steering wheel).
3. Start RomRaider. Select Logger -> Launch Logger from the top menu.
4. In the logger's Settings menu, make sure "Control File Logging with Defogger Switch" is selected.
5. Turn the ignition key to on or start the vehicle.
6. Choose the correct COM port for your tactrix cable from the drop down box in the upper left hand corner of the logger.
7. Select the parameters you wish to log in the left pane (the greater the number of parameters selected, the greater the sampling interval will be).
8. When you wish to log to a file, turn on the defogger. When you wish to end writing to that file, turn off the defogger. Each on/off sequence of the defogger will generate a separate file.
Q: Where are my log files saved?
In the logger, go to Settings->Log File Output Location to view or change the directory where the log files are saved.
Q. How do I open my log files?
Use any spreadsheet software that supports .csv files.
Q: Do I need to install EcuFlash if I am just logging with RomRaider?
Yes, installing EcuFlash also installs the drivers for the Tactrix OpenPort cable which are also necessary for logging.
Q: Do I need to connect the green test mode connectors to log?
No. These should only be connected when reading/flashing the ECU, NOT logging.
Q: Does RomRaider support aftermarket wideband O2 sensor logging?
RomRaider version 0.5.1b supports the following wbO2s:
Innovate LC-1
Innovate LM-1
AEM UEGO - functionality for the AEM UEGO is currently spotty
Q: I have further questions that are not answered in this FAQ. Are there other resources?
Try the primary RomRaider and reflashing FAQ which goes more in-depth on a number of topics:
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The table means you won't ever get confused by the differences between ENSEMBL, PRANK, BLAT and PARTEK, and also includes information on when the various elements became available. A slider in the table also allows you to go back to 1970 and see what tools were available back then, and compare the progress that has been made in bioinformatics through the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s and right up to the present day.
Richard Holland, Chief Business Officer at Eagle, said: "Although a relatively new area of research, this table shows the progress that has been made in developing bioinformatics as an important research tool. From just the one tool in 1971, to the wide range now we now have, this shows just how active the community has been in developing the right tools to support life sciences research."
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By the Project for Excellence in Journalism
The most important issue facing journalism is whether the Web will ever deliver the kind of revenue that legacy platforms once did.
If there were doubts before, 2008 made it all but certain that the traditional advertising revenue model — retail, display and classified from print, and traditional image video ads from television — would not come close to being enough.
Even before the recession hit full force in the fall, indeed as far back as 2007, online advertising for news sites was already slowing down. The deteriorating economy only made a difficult situation worse.
It is now obvious that if the news business is to survive in any recognizable form it must invent a new economic model in which traditional advertising is at best only part of the revenue equation.
"The notion that the enormous cost of real newsgathering might be supported by the ad load of display advertising down the side of the page, or by the revenue share from having a Google search box in the corner of the page, or even by a 15-second teaser from Geico prior to a news clip, is idiotic on its face," a 2008 research report from Sanford C. Bernstein & Company concluded.
Yet by all signs, only marginal progress seemed to have been made in developing any new ways to monetize the Web. Much of industry was simply trying to keep its head above water.
And the evidence suggested that new forms of advertising and new platforms of delivery offered little hope of reaching adequate scale anytime soon. Video advertising, for instance, grew rapidly early in the year, but the numbers are still quite small and they slowed considerably as the year ended. Advertising on mobile devices, where distribution and use are growing rapidly, is also small and projected to remain so.
Online Ad Revenue Growth Slows in 2008 (updated April 1, 2009)1
Over all, online ad spending for all websites, news and otherwise, rose in 2008, but the rate of growth slowed.
Ad revenues online totaled $23.4 billion in 2008, up 10.6% from the $21.2 billion posted in 2007.2
The rate of growth in 2008 was less than half the rate recorded in 2007, when revenues were up 26%. "A weakening economy will continue to be a challenge to all forms of advertising-supported media, said David Silverman, a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers.3
And 2009 is expected to be the first year since the start of the decade in which some components of interactive advertising will show little or no growth, according to an outlook report from Borrell Associates, the media research firm.4
For news, the prospects are even dimmer. While search advertising was expected to grow, the category that news sites depend on most, display (which includes graphical banner and pop-up ads), was projected to decline. Even if the nation's economy improves, the Borrell report said, advertisers are likely now to opt for search over display, with display having already seen its most lucrative days.5 "No form of advertising yet invented has grown forever," it said. "Interactive ad spending is no different."6
The result is that online ad growth for legacy media like newspapers is not coming anywhere close to making up for the losses in the old media platforms. In its newest report, Veronis Suhler Stevenson, the private equity investment company, estimates that newspaper ad revenue — both print and online combined — declined by 15.6% in 2008 and would fall another 19.1% in 2009.7
The long-term problem here becomes obvious. Print is shrinking. The Internet is not coming anywhere near those old newspaper levels, especially for news sites. (eMarketer projections put newspaper ad revenue from online and print both in 2012 at $28.4 billion. That would be roughly 40% less than the industry took in during 2006).
The math seems increasingly inescapable. Advertising on the Internet, at current rates projected out, will never resemble the kind of economic foundation newspapers enjoyed in print, or that flowed to news on television.
Ad Revenue and the News
How much of this Internet advertising does go to news?
One research group tries to isolate this. TNS Media Intelligence develops an estimate of the top 25 websites in the United States based on display advertising, not including search or video. It then breaks those sites down by category.8
Its analysis suggests news represents only a minority of the display ad revenue attracted online.
Its two categories of news sites, local news and guides and national news and current events sites, together made up 19% of the revenue among these top websites in 2007, the latest year available.9 And that is the area of online advertising where they have the biggest presence.
If that number is at all representative, it suggests that display advertising online would have a long, long way to go to make up for declining ad revenue in print and television. Even before the financial credit crisis hit in September, Veronis Suhler Stevenson projected that for the two online ad categories most oriented to news, display and classified, spending would reach $16 billion by 2012. If news sites represented 20% of that, it would amount to roughly $3 billion, or less than one tenth of what newspapers alone took in during 2008.
Online news professionals point out that even these numbers may inflate the potential for newsgathering, as opposed to news aggregating. David Payne, former senior vice president and general manager of CNN.com, warned that news organizations will be disappointed if they are expecting online ad revenues to make up for the traditional sources of revenue they have long counted on. Payne wrote in a column for Media Week: "it should be no secret that news organizations — even those with the most successful online properties — are in for some serious adjustments in the future. Most have the vast majority of their budgets tied up in headcount and newsgathering. When there is pressure on those budgets in a declining revenue state, heads roll and newsgathering is slashed, initiating an ugly spiral."10
Top 25 Website Categories by Display Ad Revenue, 2007
Dollars, in Millions
|Type of Site
|U.S. Ad Spending
|% Change '06 to '07
|% Share 2007
|Multi-purpose Portals, search engines, ISPs
|Business, finance, investing
|Local news, guides
|News, current events
|General interest/general entertainment
|Computing, technology
|Movies, videos, TV, cable
|TV stations
|Portals, search engines
|Health and fitness
|Music, broadcasts, radio
|Internet service providers
|Cards, screen savers
|Real estate
|Special interests/hobbies
|Common cultures/communities
Source: Data from TNS Media Intelligence on more than 2,800 sites.
Note: Dollars are in millions for calendar 2007 and represent only display advertising; excludes search and broadband video. Percent change computed vs. 2006 data, not shown. No 1 is multiservice such as MSN, Yahoo and AOL and No. 10 is just portals and search engines such as Ask .com and About.com. Categories are from TNS.
Another problem, already noted, is that display advertising, the category flowing more to news, has already begun to slow down, and now the industry expects that trend to continue.
This bears a little more detail.
Even before the economic meltdown in the fall, Veronis Suhler Stevenson projected that the growth rate of display advertising revenue online would slow to 13.9%, down from growth rates of 15.6% in 2007 and 38% in 2006.11
Later in 2008, the market research firm eMarketer projected an even steeper drop in the growth rate. In December, it estimated that by year's end online display advertising would have grown by only 3.9%.12
Display advertising online comprises two categories, national and local. In 2008 national display was hurting most. According to Borrell Associates, by the end of 2008, national display advertising revenue was expected to fall by 13% from a year earlier. And the firm predicted that trend was expected to worsen, falling 14% more in 2009.13
Local display, by contrast, was expected to remain healthier in 2008 before falling in 2009. It was projected to rise in 2008 by 23% and then decline by 4% in 2009.14
And the growth rate is expected to slow even further in the years ahead. Veronis Suhler Stevenson estimates that display advertising will grow at an annual compound average of 10.6% between 2007 and 2012, half of the 20.3% annual growth rate it had between 2002 and 2007.
"The sparkle of banner advertising has dimmed," Borrell Associates said in its 2009 outlook report. "Advertisers are turning their attention toward newly sparkling formats that may hold greater efficiency" like search and streaming video.15
One reason that online display revenue is slowing is falling prices. Average display ad rates slid during the third quarter of 2008, according to PubMatic, an ad consulting firm for online publishers.16 Measured as the cost of reaching 1,000 website users, the rate fell from 50 cents at the end of 2007 to 26 cents at the end of 2008.17
"It's not surprising that [the rate charged for display ads has] been trending down, but what is surprising is the size of the drop," rather than the rate charged for ads said Rajeev Goel, president and co-founder of PubMatic.18
Rick Edmonds of the Poynter Institute cites two factors for the declines. First, the oversupply of space online, including blogs, YouTube and social networks had already begun driving rates down. Then the economic downturn of 2008 cut ad budgets further across all platforms.
Certainly some of the industries that use display advertising most heavily – auto and retail for example – cut their ad budgets after the financial crisis in September.
Top 10 U.S. Internet Display Advertisers, 2007
Dollars, in millions
|U.S. Ad Spending
|% Change from 2006
|General Motors Corp.
|Experian Group
|Apollo Group
|Verizon Communications
|E-Trade Group
|Ford Motor Co.
|FMR Corp. (Fidelity Investments)
|Microsoft Corp.
|Source: TNS Media Intelligence
Search Advertising
The advertising category growing most online is search, which to date has not substantially benefited news.
In this form of advertising, the consumer is presented with ads based on the search term he or she types into Google or another search provider. It commands most of the revenue in online advertising, and it was expected to weather financial storms and remain strong in 2009.
Before the credit crunch hit in September, eMarketer projected paid search advertising would increase by 40% during 2008. After the crisis, they revised that downward, to 21.4%.19
Even the reduced rates will be difficult to sustain as the Internet matures. Between 2007 and 2012, for instance, Veronis Suhler Stevenson projected revenue from search to grow at a compound annual rate of 16%, to $26.2 billion. The preceding five years it had grown at a compound annual rate of 42%.20
News sites receive some revenue from search advertising, although PEJ was unable to locate anyone in the industry with specific estimates. Search engines such as Google and Yahoo share some ad revenue with a news website that uses their search technology. Presumably, a news website may also benefit indirectly when a Google search drives traffic to its story, where a user is exposed to display ads.
As growth slows, search is also expected to lose some of its total share of online ad spending. According to estimates from Veronis Suhler Stevenson, search's share of online advertising revenue is expected to fall from an estimated 42% in 2008 to 37% in 2012.21 Two smaller categories — social networking and online video — are expected to grow more strongly.22
Still, that is a much higher growth rate and share of ad spending than projected for display.
The estimates from eMarketer, which are much lower, are in the table below.
Projected Growth for Online Advertising Spending, by Category
Dollars, in billions
|U.S. Ad Spending, 2008
(Dollars, in billions)
|Growth 2008-2012
|Rich media
|Lead generation
|Total Internet Advertising
|Source: eMarketer
Video Advertising
As growth in display advertising slowed, experts wondered whether video ads had the potential to inject new life into revenue for news websites.
The answer, offered in 2008, is that despite rapid growth, video is still a small revenue source and has yet to show real promise for the future.
Advertising in online video and rich media — which refers to any moving or dynamic web content such as a news ticker that scrolls across a web page or streaming video — was projected to grow by 44% in 2008, to $3.6 billion, from $2.5 billion a year earlier. The good news is that the rate of growth here is expanding. In the preceding five years video ad revenue grew by an annual compounded rate of 33%.
The bad news is that the figure of $3.6 billion represents only 10% of Internet advertising, which itself is not as large in 2008 as people expected.
Veronis Suhler analysts forecast that online video would grow by annual compound rate of 39% by 2012 to $12.7 billion, a significant amount. By then, they estimate, it would represent 18% of total Internet ad spending. Only ads on social networking sites, which represented about 7% of Internet advertising in 2008, were expected to grow faster.
The effectiveness of video ads, however, is still largely an unknown, and growth could be slowed by the recession. "It's harder to prove that ads … embedded in a video are effective in luring Web surfers to a site or enticing them to make a purchase," said Russell Fradin, president of Adify, a company that helps firms set up online advertising networks.
Even if these ads prove effective, the question remains: how many of these news sites will succeed in capturing enough ad revenue to stay in business?
Advertising on the Cellphone
One other potential source of expanding the universe of digital advertising is mobile.
The jump in mobile technology with the advent of faster 3G networks raised expectations about rapid growth in advertising. Apple released the 3G iPhone and Google the Android operating system, which allows smartphones to operate much like an iPhone. The Google operating system can be run on almost any mobile phone, permits free wireless use and allows for the easy addition of applications from anyone who takes the time to create one.
There are about 40 million active users of the mobile Web, according to Nielsen Mobile.23 As that number increases, there will be an increasing demand for information on mobile devices.
Advertisers have taken note of these increases and have shifted spending to mobile devices. They were expected to spend $1.3 billion in 2008, up 59% from a year earlier, according to data from Veronis Suhler Stevenson.
The rate was expected to slow somewhat, to a compound annual rate of 34% between 2007 and 2012. That would put mobile ad revenue $3.6 billion at the end of the period.
Local vs. National Advertising
One other concern for news online is what has happened with local advertising.
Online advertising buys have tended to be aimed at national audiences through large national websites and portals such as Yahoo. In recent years, those national websites have taken aim at the billions of dollars spent on local advertising, a direct threat to regional and local media that hoped to lure their most important advertisers to their Web sites.
A decade ago, 80% percent of Internet advertising was national and 20% was local. By the end of 2008, Veronis Suhler Stevenson estimated the gap had narrowed to 70-30 as local merchants grew more comfortable advertising on Google, Yahoo and Monster and other "pure play," or Internet-only, sites. Projections call for that same ratio to continue through 2012.24 Another estimate, in the chart below, estimated the gap reached closer to a 60-40 ratio in 2008.
Local vs. National Online Ad Spending
|Design Your Own Chart
Source: Borrell Associates, Inc.
But as local advertisers have become more comfortable with the Web, they increasingly are spending their money on these national sites and away from local news. In 2007, for instance, the share of local online ads spent on newspaper sites fell to 25%, down from 36% the year before. Meanwhile, the share of local ads going to pure play Internet sites such as Google jumped to 57% from 33% the year before.25
Local Online Ad Share by Medium, 2008
|Design Your Own Chart
Source: Borrell Associates, Inc.
Other Models
The most obvious question is if advertising, the foundation of the news industry for much of the last century, won't work online, how much progress has the industry made in developing an alternative?
In 2008, our sense is very little. The industry has toyed with some other ownership models, particularly nonprofit ones. We discuss these in the New Ventures Section.
But existing news organizations by and large have little history innovating new economic alternatives. The industry has seen a host of opportunities slip over the last decade and a half. In 2008, it was preoccupied with the economic slowdown. Many, if not most, traditional news operations, professionals told us, operated at what has been described as a straight line model. If revenues declined by 10%, costs needed to be cut by 10%. That cost cutting, rather than invention, commanded everyone's attention in the last year.
"Frankly, when I have been at meetings about innovation, what I have heard has mostly been hand wringing," said one news executive at a private meeting with potential nonprofit funders.
In the end, the economics of the Web seemed to be moving even farther away from news in 2008, and the recession is only making that problem harder. It seems increasingly clear that news sites need to move further into search, but it is not clear they are succeeding, and the shift of local advertising to national portals may be especially ominous. The prospects of new technology, such as mobile and video, are promising, but the scale is not yet there, and there is no certainty that news will capture these either.
The solution, increasingly, seems to point to new models. But the innovations here seem small and experimental. There is, in short, a long way to go for news economics online, and abundant reasons for concern about whether it will ever happen.
1. The updated figures in this section are for total online advertising revenues as reported by the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB). At the time of original release of the State of the News Media, IAB had data for online advertising for just the first three quarters of 2008. Through that time, IAB was reporting about 14% growth for that time period. On March 31, 2009 IAB released year-end estimates of 10.6% growth for the entire year. We have updated the narrative and charts to reflect the year-end figure.
2. "IAB Internet Advertising Revenue Report," Interactive Advertising Bureau, March 2009. By PricewaterhouseCoopers.
3."Internet Advertising Revenues in Q3 '08 at Nearly $5.9 Billion," press release, PricewaterhouseCoopers, November. 20, 2008
4. Gavin O'Malley, "Interactive Ad Spending Will Top Out in 2009: Report," Online Media Daily, November 6, 2008
5. Gavin O'Malley, "Interactive Ad Spending Will Top Out in 2009: Report," Online Media Daily, November 6, 2008
6. Gavin O'Malley, "Interactive Ad Spending Will Top Out in 2009: Report," Online Media Daily, November 6, 2008
7. Veronis Suhler Stevenson, Communications Industry Forecast, 2008-2012
8. Data from TNS Media Intelligence, Top 25 Web Site Categories by Display Ad Revenue
9. This category includes 32 news websites with a national focus, including Yahoo! News, MSNBC.com, AOL News, and NYTimes.com. However, it does not include CNN, one of the most-visited news websites. Local news attracted up to 10% of online ad revenue in 2007 (up from 8% in 2006). The national news & current events category held steady with 9% of the revenue.
10. David Payne, "Doing the ugly math: without changes, news operations will suffer in digital times," Media Week, November 10, 2008
11. "Communications Industry Forecast 2008-2012," Internet & Mobile Services, Veronis Suhler Stevenson, 2008
12. "eMarketer Revises Online Spending Predictions," eMarketer, December 1, 2008
13. "2009 Outlook: Big Slowdown Begins for Local Advertising," Borrell Associates, November 8, 2008
14. "2009 Outlook: Big Slowdown Begins for Local Advertising," Borrell Associates, November 8, 2008
15. "2009 Outlook: Big Slowdown Begins for Local Advertising," Borrell Associates, November 8, 2008
16. Michael Learmonth, "Online Ad Network Display Ad Rates Take a Dive," Advertising Age, October 14, 2008.
17. Douglas Quenqua, "Display Ad Prices Fell 50 Percent in Q4," ClickZ, January 15, 2009
18. Joe Mandese, "Online Display Ad Prices Fall To Lowest Point This Year," Online Media Daily, October 14, 2008
19. The early projection is from "February 2008: Search Marketing, the Behemoth Online Advertising Format," eMarketer, accessed February 5, 2009. The revised projection is from "eMarketer Revises Online Spending Predictions," eMarketer, December 1, 2008.
20. "Communications Industry Forecast 2008-2012," Internet & Mobile Services, Veronis Suhler Stevenson, 2008
21. "Communications Industry Forecast 2008-2012," Internet & Mobile Services, Veronis Suhler Stevenson, 2008
22. One worry among search advertisers is "click fraud," in which they pay for hits to their ads that are not from legitimate consumers. One study found that the rate of click fraud fell slightly in 2008 but remained a serious problem The report, by Click Forensics, estimated that the rate of click fraud stayed basically at 16 percent of all clicks, industry-wide. "The overall rate continues to dip, as advertisers continue to take more initiative [in monitoring click fraud] and as search engines are starting to take things a bit more seriously," said Tom Cuthbert, president of Click Forensics, which provides services to monitor ad campaigns for click fraud. "That's favorable, but 16 percent is still a very high number, still something to be concerned about." Click fraud occurs when someone, often using automated software, causes clicks to be made on sponsored ads. Rivals may do this to drive up a competitor's ad costs. More often, Web publishers who employ links by search companies such as Google or Yahoo do it in order to receive more income in revenue-sharing from the search companies.
23. "Moving to Mobile," Newspaper Association of America, press release, accessed October 10, 2008
24. "Communications Industry Forecast 2008-2012," Internet & Mobile Services, Veronis Suhler Stevenson, 2008
25. "What Local Media Websites Earn: 2008 Survey," May 2008. Directories such as the Yellow Pages garnered 8% in 2007, broadcast TV got 7%, and radio and other print (such as local magazines), drew a combined 3%.


text: Politics 4 April 2011 In Kazakhstan, where elections are superfluous While Nursultan Nazarbayev is around, there's little chance of marching in the streets of Astana and Sign up for our weekly email * Print HTML Across Astana, Kazakhstan's shiny if somewhat soulless new capital, election posters are being taken down after Sunday's snap presidential poll. The country has just held a surreal election that offered the semblance of a democratic event: the faces of the four candidates adorned billboards, television and newspapers built up suspense about the results, and officials talked excitedly about the new technologies on offer in the voting booths. But these were mere trappings for an election that was a foregone conclusion. No one had the slightest doubt about the winner. Nursultan Nazarbayev, the strongman president who has led Kazakhstan for the past two decades, was returned to power, winning a monstrous victory. And by monstrous, that means 95 per cent of the vote, according to official figures. This was up from the last presidential election in 2005, when his 91 per cent score was only marginally more modest. In fact, so confident was Nazarbayev of returning to power this time round, he didn't even bother campaigning, leaving his rivals to tour the country, attempt to woo crowds and debate among themselves. One of the three challengers, the environmental activist Mels Yeleusizov, even admitted that he, too, had voted for Nazarbayev. Beat and block Although this year's Arab awakening suggests noisy people power could penetrate parts of the world previously thought resistant to western-style democracy, the Asian steppe seems immune to the phenomenon. While the elections at least took place in Kazakhstan, they were more a confirmation than a contest. Nazarbayev himself seems to have little doubt about the vote. "You've given me carte blanche to continue the course of economic, political and social reforms," he said Monday morning at the headquarters of his party, Nur Otan. Nazarbayev insisted that the election was "open and fair", and officials brashly predicted that the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), which had 300 election monitors in the country, would agree. But that did not happen. The OSCE, Europe's main poll-monitoring body, found irregularities, citing ballot-box stuffing, spurious rules for candidate registration, intimidation and media bias. There were minor improvements since the 2007 parliamentary elections – when Nur Otan won 88 per cent of the vote and picked up all 98 seats in the Majilis, or lower house. However, the OSCE said the overall effect of the restrictions – whether formal or unsaid – was to quench debate and dissent. "This election has showed that the country still needs to make improvements to meet democratic commitments, particularly in the fields of freedom of assembly and media," said the OSCE's head mission observer, Tonino Picula. There were reports of journalists being beaten, websites being blocked and activists being detained. Criticising the president is sometimes interpreted as libel, which is a criminal offence, making self-censorship another issue. The main opposition candidates boycotted the election (raising questions about the reported 89.9 per cent turnout). The three official opponents – from the Communist People's Party, the environmental union Tabigat and the Patriots' Party – were considered no-hopers, there to offer the veneer of competition. There are wider democratic concerns about the country. A survey last year by the Washington-based rights group Freedom House declared Kazakhstan "not free". A February report by the International Crisis Group said: "Kazakhstan has made patchy progress in some sectors and conserved Soviet endowments in others." And Transparency International, which monitors corruption, placed Kazakhstan 105th out of 178 countries surveyed in 2010 – though this is up from 145th in 2008. Nazarbayev's entourage is unfazed by criticism. "He's very popular. That's just how it is," says one of his aides, Yermukhmamet Yertisbayev. "He has that personality. It's like Muhammad Ali or Mike Tyson: there is just no one who can fight him." And – in an echo of the arguments used by the Arab autocrats allied with the west – he underlines Nazarbayev's strategic usefulness. "He has fought nationalism and religious extremism," Yertisbayev adds. Stability is all Many of us know Kazakhstan only through Borat, football qualifiers and, more recently, Prince Andrew's dubious connections. Thanks to oil and gas money, however, Kazakhstan has become a regional linchpin. Eleven times the size of Britain, this nation of 16 million brands itself as the economically dynamic, politically stable link between Europe and Asia. It is a member of Europe's football union Uefa, chaired the OSCE last year but takes part in the Asian Games, and is also set to chair the Organisation of the Islamic Conference this year. Diplomatically, it has adroitly played off Washington, Moscow and Beijing, all of whom want to exploit the country's oil and gas fields. Nazarbayev, 70, has been in power since 1989 when Kazakhstan was still part of the Soviet Union. He sees himself as his country's George Washington, and was named "Leader of the Nation" last year, granting him immunity from prosecution for life and the power to approve important policies even after he retires. Last year, he urged his country's scientists to develop an elixir of life to keep him going, saying they should study "rejuvenation of the organism". But it would be too glib to dismiss him as a neo-Soviet autocrat with a cult of personality, offering authoritarianism-lite. Kazakhstanis don't worship Nazarbayev, but most credit him for steering the country out of Soviet rule to become central Asia's most vibrant economy and freest state. Last year, Kazakhstan enjoyed 7 per cent growth. The country currently holds 3 per cent of global oil reserves and is the world's largest uranium miner. Since independence, per capita output has risen more than twelvefold, while foreign investment into the country has totalled $120bn. As for the Arab spring, there is a cautionary tale closer to home. Last year, a bloody revolt deposed the president of Kyrgyzstan, a nation that remains crime-ridden and split by regional clans and ethnic divisions. Certainly stability, more than freedom, appears important to the average Kazakhstani. "There are many examples of putting political reform before economic growth, and it has not always been successful," says Nurlan Baiyuzakovich Yermekbayev, another presidential aide, referring to Kyrgyzstan. "It may be difficult to believe, but he really is that popular." The chances are that Nazarbayev would win handsomely even if the elections were as free and fair as election observers might hope for. But the constant emphasis on stability puts heavy strains on the system. There is no heir apparent: when he goes, there are fears the country will descend into a vicious power struggle. While Nazarbayev is around, there is little chance of marching in the streets of Astana and Almaty. But – as events in the Arab world have shown – stability without democracy brings its own risks, too. Leo Cendrowicz is a correspondent for TIME magazine › Cut and paste baroque Subscribe from just £1 per issue More Related articles Britain cannot shirk its duty to defend Hong Kong from China's authoritarianism The NHS's sustainability is under threat if more isn't done to look after its staff How the Saudis are making it almost impossible to report on their war in Yemen Subscription offer 12 issues for £12 + FREE book LEARN MORE Close This week's magazine


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Merci concept store in the third arrondissement has only been around
for a couple of years but the merchandise has completely changed since the last time I was there.
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I bought two easy to pack rolls to take home as gifts.
The Porte de Vanves flea market still has some deals to be found.
I bought the little pitcher for two euros and the silver soup ladle was twenty euros.
I also bought this vintage Chanel silk scarf.
and they save forever for the real thing and go for quality over quantity.
My point is, I am pretty sure the scarf is authentic and the quality is beautiful BUT
there are a couple stains that the dry cleaners could not get out (any suggestions?).
C'est la vie. The pattern is busy enough, they are sort of hidden.
offering a 10% tourist discount anymore, but
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Ed Schultz Falls Flat on Face, Says Dems Were 'Brilliant on the Basics' in Wisconsin
MSNBC host Ed Schultz wants to be taken seriously as a TV host, but he hasn't yet learned not to promote victory for liberal Democrats before the results are all in. On Tuesday night, even after the polls closed, Schultz was touting a possible Democratic wave. Twice, he proclaimed before his 10 pm show came on that Democrats were "brilliant on the basics" in the Wisconsin ground game -- before they lost four and won two.
At 6 pm, Schultz told Al Sharpton "And if the Democrats are successful tonight, it is really the template on how to get it done. I mean, I think that the progressives in this state, as profound as it is, they have been brilliant on the basics. They have gone door to door. They have talked to their neighbors. They have taken people by the hand to do what they've got to do."
He added: "They have made the countless hours of phone calls. They have done all the things, you know, that -- it's the old saying, Al, you can't take my heart, you can`t take my soul, and you`re not going to take my vote. That really has been the attitude against this big money that has come into this state. And what we saw today and just the last couple months is the grassroots will get the back of people who stand on principle for core Democratic values."
At 8 pm, Schultz repeated this line to Lawrence O'Donnell:
I have talked to a number of grassroots workers today that have told us that they think that the ground game by the progressives to beat back these six Republican senators has been highly sophisticated. They have been brilliant on the basics. They have done everything they've had to do. I mean, this race has everything. It is so futuristic. It is so on the cutting edge. It is transforming how politics is going to be run, I think, in this country.
And it is a real message to Ohio with Senate Bill 5 that is now finally on the ballot, where they got far more signatures than they needed. It's a real message to Michigan where Rick Snyder and his radical agenda and some of the things they have passed in that state such as a financial management decision to come in and run a municipality if they don`t like the way it`s being run financially. I mean, this really is a message I think, Lawrence, to the rest of the country on what has to happen for the progressives.
The failure of the Democrats hadn't sunk in during Schultz's own 10 pm hour, as he asked Adam Green of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee:
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Joint Chiefs of Staff Lt. Col. by day, La Salle "Glitter Bro" by night
If you follow La Salle men's basketball, you already know who Doug LeVien is. But if you don't, here's a guide to the Explorers fan who stands out in a crowd.
LeVien is the guy who has warranted TV airtime during each of the Explorers' NCAA men's basketball tournament wins.
Yes, he was the La Salle "Glitter Bro" who stood out in the crowd by sporting a blue afro wig, metallic gold suit and face paint.
"I never came across 40-year-olds wearing face paint and wigs at games before, but hey, there's a first time for everything," LeVien said from his office in Washington, D.C. "It doesn't matter how old you are, the players appreciate what alumni or students are doing."
A U.S. Army lieutenant colonel for the Joint Chiefs of Staff — yes, you read that right — LeVien used vacation days to see the Explorers play in their first NCAA tournament appearance in 21 years.
He'll use more when he heads to Los Angeles for the Explorers' Thursday night game against Wichita State.
The sparkling road traveled
A 1994 graduate of La Salle, LeVien flew to Dayton, Ohio last week to cheer on the school's team against Boise State along with his college buddy, Joe Hohenleitner.
There, the pair headed to a local costume shop, picked out wigs and outfits with La Salle's colors and headed to the game.
"Our biggest motivation really was to fire up the team," LeVien said, adding that the duo may have distracted a few free throws in the process. "It's great, we feel like we're part of the action and part of the team."
They decided to follow the Explorers to Kansas City, Mo. for the Kansas State and Ole Miss games, meeting another one of their friends from college, Dan DeStefano.
A moniker is born
"We just said, 'Let's get rowdy even if we're now 40-year-old dudes," said DeStefano, who now lives in Chester County and works in research and development for a pharmaceutical company.
He donned a blue velvet suit, yellow wig and, of course, blue-and-gold face paint.
"You don't show up in the arena dressed like that and not expect to get on TV," he said.
And so it was that between plays during a game in Kansas City that the cameras found the three. Their, um, school spirit launched a thousand blog posts, at which time they were dubbed the "glitter bros."
"It's a lot of fun," LeVien said. "That's what college basketball is all about. The fun, the yelling and the face paint. Nobody reserves that for a certain age group."
To that end, LeVien has a gut feeling the "glitter bro" population will increase by Thursday's 10:17 p.m. tipoff at the Staples Center, a game which marks the Explorers' first Sweet Sixteen in nearly a half century.
The travel team
Other alumni are making travel plans for Thursday's game, as well.
Bro. Ed Sheehy, who graduated from La Salle in 1968, is no stranger to hitting the road for Explorers games.
The 66-year-old La Salle history professor has traveled with the team for the past 21 years as an advisor and spiritual counselor, a role he has held since the year after the Explorers' last tournament appearance.
"To go 21 years without this happening, it's almost like a dream," he said. "There's no way to describe it except to say that sometimes you have to pinch yourself to see if you wake up."
Sheehy was with the team in Ohio and Missouri, and said that the atmosphere of the arenas in both cities was "exhilarating."
He added that he was amused by the age of most La Salle students relative to the time it took the Explorers to make it back into the Big Dance.
"Most of them weren't alive when this happened last," Sheehy said. "I said to one of the students in the pep band last night, 'You'll remember this for the rest of your life."
For Wade Brosius, who graduated in 1984, the NCAA tournament has been a dream come true.
"I've been waiting for the chance to do this forever," Brosius said, adding that the last time the team went to the NCAA tournament he was medical school and couldn't attend.
He traveled from his home in Limerick to the games in Ohio and Missouri with his 10-year-old son.
"I told my youngest son that if they ever make it to the NCAA, we're going," Brosius said, who is heading west. "We just dropped everything and went."
The president of La Salle's Alumni Association, Paul Burgoyne, will be in Los Angeles, too. He was asked if he would join the "glitter bros."
"I'm a little less vociferous," Burgoyne said, noting that his title comes with "certain expectations of normalcy."
We'll check back in on that should the Explorers reach the Final Four.
For La Salle fans who can't get to L.A. this week, the school has just released a list of watch partes.
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014 1:00 AM
Philadelphia attorney Fenton B. DeWeese II was among 26 legal professionals honored Aug. 14 for their work providing civil legal assistance to the poor.
DeWeese served as executive director of the former East Mississippi Legal Services office from 1992 to 1996. He later worked as director of Choctaw Legal Defense, and administrator with the Department of Human Services. He currently serves as a staff attorney for the office of the Attorney General of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians.
Two weeks before he resigned the presidency, Richard M. Nixon signed the Legal Services Act that funds civil legal assistance for the poor.
Thursday night, Aug. 14, current and former Mississippi Legal Services attorneys and staff whose experience spans 40 years of fighting for the poor and powerless gathered in Jackson to celebrate their work, honor Legal Services leaders and staff, raise money to support legal aid, and talk about the future.
"You are the voice of so many people in this state who otherwise would not have a voice," keynote speaker Major General Augustus L. Collins, Adjutant General of Mississippi, told more than 300 people gathered at the Jackson Convention Center.
Lindia P. Robinson, executive director of the Legal Services Office of State Initiatives, said, "The passage of the Legal Services Act of 1974 was and important and central step toward the goal of justice, yet it has been the unwavering commitment and steadfastness of tonight's honorees that moved us from the ideal of equal justice to the reality of equal justice. Many were trailblazers who with courage and vision defined aggressive advocacy, and pushed against resistant communities to secure rights for those who had previously been denied access to our judicial system. And thankfully some were diplomats, turning opposers into our friends, justice partners, collaborators and funders."
The Mississippi Center for Legal Services represents low income people in 43 central and south Mississippi counties in civil legal matters including family law, housing and foreclosure, consumer issues and income maintenance. Legal Services also assists military families and provides civil legal assistance to victims of disasters. In 2013, the Mississippi Center for Legal Services assisted 12,771 people and finalized 4,497 civil cases for their clients.
Jackson Mayor Tony Yarber said that he learned to appreciate the work of Legal Services several years ago when a friend in dire straits asked for help with a civil matter. The late Mayor Chokwe Lumumba pointed him to Legal Services. "I want you to know that I am grateful," Yarber told the gathering.
Like the clients they represent, Legal Services offices struggle with slim budgets. At peak funding, 17 Legal Services offices with 48 attorneys served the south half of the state. Multiple programs were consolidated into the Mississippi Center for Legal Services. Now there are18 attorneys in five offices - not enough to handle all of the cases. That's an average of one Legal Services attorney for every 21,000 poor people eligible for legal assistance. The statewide Legal Services call center responds to an average of 2,500 calls each month. Nearly half of those needing and eligible for services are turned away.
Attorney Jennifer Ingram Wilkinson of Hattiesburg, co-chair of the Mississippi Center for Legal Services Fund-raising Campaign Committee, said, "If we are to live up to one of the bedrock principles of our country, that we provide justice for all, we must fully fund Legal Services."
"All Mississippians can face the crises of unexpected job loss, natural disaster, family violence, foreclosures, medical emergencies. For some, these events are financially devastating and lead to poverty and hopelessness," Wilkinson said.
The Congressionally funded Legal Services Corporation in Washington, D.C., provides about 70 percent of the budget of the Mississippi Center for Legal Services. Funding has declined. The 2010 fiscal year appropriation was $3.2 million. The 2014 appropriation was $2,598,661.
It's been a "slow bleed," said Hattiesburg Attorney Michael Adelman, chairman of the Board of Directors of Mississippi Center for Legal Services.
"We have more than 200,000 people eligible for legal services in this state. We've got to have the underlying ability to do that," Adelman said.
During the past three years, the Board of Directors changed its operations, sought state funding and stepped up efforts to independently raise funds to supplement Congressional appropriations. "We had to transform from a program of dependence to a program of independence," Adelman said.
The $75 a person gala anniversary celebration raised more than $20,000, and earlier contributions pushed this year's fund raising past $60,000. The fund raising goal for this year is $100,000.
Former Gov. Ronnie Musgrove, co-chair of the fund-raising campaign, thanked Supreme Court Chief Justice Bill Waller Jr., Presiding Justice Jess Dickinson and Rep. Percy Watson for their support of legislation which will add funding for civil legal assistance. House Bill 579, which addressed funding at several levels of the judiciary, includes a $2.77 special assessment on some misdemeanor fines, generating money for the Civil Legal Assistance Fund. The legislation went into effect July 1.
Musgrove thanked Legal Services attorneys and staff for their hard work and dedication, telling them, "Over the past 40 years, hundreds of thousands of Mississippians, facing the greatest crisis of their lives, have turned to you." The work is thankless, but rewarding, and the lives touched are forever changed. "We should measure our success in the lives made better thanks to the work done by each and every person in this room, and especially the honorees," Musgrove said.
The 26 people honored are Fern W. Anderson, Jackson; Martha J. Bergmark, Washington, D.C.; Julia P. Crockett, Jackson; Fenton B. DeWeese II, Philadelphia; Maudine G. Eckford, Jackson; Jessie L. Evans, Canton; C. Joy Harkness, Meridian; Rev. Charles P. Leger, Westminster, Md.; Mary A. Marshall, McComb; John L. Maxey II, Jackson; Deborah A. McDonald, Natchez; Harrison D. McIver III, Memphis; Pauline McMorris, McComb; Solomon C. Osborne, Greenwood; Barry H. Powell, Jackson; Patricia A. Pittman, Hattiesburg; Alfred H. Rhodes Jr., Jackson; Social Security Administrative Law Judge Willie L. Rose, Jackson; Everett T. Sanders, Natchez; Constance Slaughter-Harvey, Forest; James Edwin Smith Jr., Carthage; Stanley L. Taylor Jr., Natchez; John L. Walker Jr., Jackson; Rep. Percy W. Watson, Hattiesburg; and Chancery Judge Johnny L. Williams, Hattiesburg.
The audience included attorneys, paralegals and staff who have spent their careers working in Legal Services, current and former board members, and members of the bench and bar who started out as legal aid lawyers. Hinds Chancery Judge Denise Owens and Judge James E. Graves Jr. of the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, a former Supreme Court Justice, worked as Legal Services attorneys early in their careers. U.S. District Judge Carlton Reeves is a former Legal Services board m Former U.S. Congressman and Secretary of Agriculture Mike Espy told the crowd, "I'm proud to say I'm a former Legal Services attorney."
Jackson attorney Suzanne Keys, now in private law practice, said, "What is great about what we did is what it made us become. What we did shaped who we are." Her voice choked with emotion as she said, "I am proud of who I have become."
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Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (VRTX) Q1 2014 Earnings Call Corrected Transcript: 01-May-2014
Corporate Participants
Michael Partridge - Vice President-Investor Relations, Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Jeffrey Leiden - Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer, Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Jeffrey A. Chodakewtiz - Chief Medical Officer and Senior Vice President, Global Medicines Development, Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Stuart A. Arbuckle - Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer, Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Ian F. Smith - Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President, Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Peter Mueller - Executive Vice President, Global Research and Development, and Chief Scientific Officer, Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Other Participants
Geoff C. Meacham - Analyst, JPMorgan Securities LLC
Geoffrey Craig Porges - Analyst, Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. LLC
Mark J. Schoenebaum - Analyst, International Strategy & Investment Group LLC
Michael J. Yee - Analyst, RBC Capital Markets LLC
Terence C. Flynn - Analyst, Goldman Sachs & Co.
Brian C. Abrahams - Analyst, Wells Fargo Securities LLC
Ying Huang - Analyst, Barclays Capital, Inc.
Howard Liang - Analyst, Leerink Partners LLC
Matt M. Roden - Analyst, UBS Securities LLC
Liisa A. Bayko - Analyst, JMP Securities LLC
Brian P. Skorney - Analyst, Robert W. Baird & Co., Inc. (Broker)
Koon C. Ching - Analyst, Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC (Broker)
Operator: Good day, ladies and gentlemen, and thank you for your patience. You have joined the Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated first quarter 2014 financial results conference call. At this time all participants are in a listen-only mode. Later we will conduct a question-and-answer session and instructions will be given at that time. [Operator Instructions] As a reminder this conference may be recorded.
I would now like to turn the call over to your host, the Vice President of Investor Relations, Mr. Michael Partridge. Sir, you may begin.
Michael Partridge, Vice President-Investor Relations
Thank you, operator, and good evening, everyone.
Joining me on tonight's call are Dr. Jeff Leiden, Chairman and CEO; Dr. Jeff Chodakewitz, Chief Medical Officer; Stuart Arbuckle, Chief Commercial Officer and Ian Smith, Chief Financial Officer.
Our agenda tonight is as follows: Jeff Leiden will begin by reviewing Vertex's strategic business priorities for 2014. Then Jeff Chodakewitz will review our clinical progress in cystic fibrosis including the results of the study of VX-661 in combination with KALYDECO in G551D F508del patients. Dr. Chodakewitz joined Vertex at the start of 2014 and we are happy to have him join us on this and future calls.
Next, Stuart will discuss KALYDECO product revenues and provide some commentary on the outlook for KALYDECO growth in 2014. To close Ian will review the financial results and discuss our updated financial guidance. Joining us for Q&A are Dr. Bob Kauffman and Dr. Peter Mueller.
We plan for the call to run for a total of one hour. Please be considerate and limit your questions to one with a related follow-up.
This conference call will include forward-looking statements, which are subject to the risks and uncertainties including those discussed in detail in our reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission including our 10-K and 10-Q. These statements including without limitation those regarding the performance of KALYDECO, our development plans and expectations and our guidance are based on management's current assumptions and are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual outcomes and events to differ materially.
Information regarding our use of GAAP and non-GAAP financial measures and a reconciliation of GAAP to non-GAAP is available in our first quarter 2014 financial results press release. This press release is on our website and I would also refer you to slide 4 of tonight's webcast.
Thank you. I will now turn the call over to Jeff Leiden.
Jeffrey Leiden, Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer
Thanks, Michael, and good evening, everyone.
Vertex is in many ways a company in transition. We have made cystic fibrosis a clear focus of our business and we've made a decision to no longer invest in hepatitis C. At the same time we're continuing to invest in early-stage research to identify compounds in CF and other areas that could become transformative medicines for patients with serious diseases as well as opportunities for Vertex growth.
This transition in Vertex business represents our continued execution against three strategic priorities for 2014. I talked about these priorities earlier this year and I'd like to review them again now.
First, focus on driving forward our cystic fibrosis development programs to enable the launch of multiple transformative CF medicines globally. Our clinical and commercial teams have made significant progress in CF already this year. For example we have expanded the U.S. KALYDECO label to include additional patients. We have now completed dosing in the Phase III studies of VX-809. We have recently received orphan status for VX-661 and we are today reporting positive clinical results for a study of VX-661 in patients heterozygous for G551D and F508del.
Second, continue to invest in research, internal research is critical growth engine for Vertex and we expect that it will produce more transformative medicines to provide sustainable growth in the future.
And third, maintain financial strength so that we can continue to invest in the discovery and development of our new medicines. We ended the first quarter with more than $1.3 billion in cash and with KALYDECO revenues of approximately $100 million that we expect to grow through the year and in future years. This financial position supports our investments for future growth.
Our goal in CF is to treat as many people as possible and to enhance the benefits to those that we treat. Jeff Chodakewitz will give you more detail on our recent CF clinical progress. But before I turn it over to him I would like to acknowledge that today marks the start of CF awareness month and recognize all the patients, families, doctors, nurses and caregivers who are involved in the treatment of CF. Thank you for your continued support as we seek to improve the lives of more people with this devastating disease. Our continued progress in CF clinical development is a strong sign that our commitment to people with CF is unwavering.


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Oceania Smokefree: big and the small unite against tobacco
Media Release
Friday 11 October, 2013
The big and the small unite against
Delegates from the largest and smallest Pacific countries, and those in between, will be flying into New Zealand later this month for a gathering of the most knowledgeable proponents of how to achieve a smoke-free society as the future norm.
The Cancer Society of New Zealand is hosting the biennial Oceania Smokefree Conference (23 – 25 October) in Auckland. Delegates from more than 16 nations in the Pacific rim and further afield will be attending the conference.
Over 400 delegates comprising leaders, researchers and field workers in tobacco control, will combine their expertise to address the long term goal of a smoke-free Oceania and how to achieve it.
The focus will be on four areas:
• more people quitting smoking at
a faster rate
• effective regulation and legislation
• encouraging young people not to start
• awareness of the tactics used by tobacco companies to subvert new tobacco control initiatives
"This is an important forum in tobacco control where we can reflect on what has been achieved since the last conference, learn from each other about what works, and set goals for 2015," said Dr Jan Pearson, Conference Convenor and Health Promotion Manager for the Cancer Society.
The Hon Tariana Turia will open the conference and key note and other speakers will address topics such as indigenous tobacco control, changing adolescent smoking behaviour and supporting smoke-free environments and constitutions. Members of Parliament will have the opportunity to assert their party's commitment to a smoke-free New Zealand by 2025, in a politicians panel.


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Learn about Kurosawa having to beg for more money because producers were convinced Seven Samurai was going to be a flop, or how Coppola asked Roger Corman for advice on shooting Apocalypse Now in the Phillippines and Corman wisely suggested, "Don't go," or how Bill Murray improvised the "Cinderella story" from Caddyshack in one take, based on two lines of direction from Harold Ramis. In short, don't plan on getting any work done for the rest of the day, because the list goes on and on.
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When children are little, you remember this, they love to be someone
else. They may play "Daddy" by simply wearing his shoes, clumping
around in them, or put his old, discarded tie or scarf on. They may
play "Princess," by wearing a crown and a ballerina 'tutu' skirt.
The best part about children's dress up clothes is that they are able to
use their imagination. A white coat or vest becomes the wardrobe of
a 'doctor' or 'nurse.' A fringed vest makes them a cowboy or cowgirl.
The way children love to try on different hats and come up with
their own choice of profession is amusing. Sometimes, my kids or
grandkids are 'proper ladies' while they also can be rowdy clowns
in the very same hats. The aprons I have can transform them into
a 'chef' or a 'butler.'
Taking off his shirt, my grandson, Micah feels he is ready to 'wash
dishes.' He cracked me up this weekend, by telling me his 'other'
grandmother"Mimi," paid him ten dollars for cleaning the toilet.
I told him I would pay him one dollar if he did the dishes after he
helped make pancakes. He followed this comment with a big grin
and said,
"That's a real deal, isn't it, for you?"
As I was watching the S.A.G. Awards, (Screen Actors' Guild), I was
picturing the times when I would get 'gussied up' in my childhood.
I also imagined those lovely dresses the women were wearing 'on
loan' for me to try on and play 'dress up,' once again.
The Red Carpet is always a fun place in my mind to be. Here are
some of the people who looked ravishing or handsome last night.
In the male category, there are only a few who I noted any kind
of unusual or fancy tuxedos.
~The Men~
1. Matthew McConaughey wore a azure blue tux with black tie
and pants. He had a nice look about him, although I am not as
crazy about his beard. He may be getting ready for another film,
but his beard was scraggly. And not like the '5 o'clock shadow'
stubble, which famous actors seem to gravitate towards, maybe
to look 'more masculine?' Not sure why this style is so popular.
Matthew was looking more healthy than last year, when he lost
a lot of weight to look like an AIDs victim in, "Dallas Buyers Club."
2. The British Eddie Redmayne looked outstanding. He was
wearing a traditional tuxedo, but his boyish good looks in such
contrast to the role he had portrayed for his award nomination,
Stephen Hawking. At the awards ceremony, his hair was nicely
styled combed back with a few strands coming forward.
(In the movie, "Theory of Everything"he wore his glasses off-kilter,
his hair not cut well, and of course, his posture was sometimes so
crooked, he looked like he might fall out of his wheelchair.)
*Eddie Redmayne WON the Best Male Actor in a Movie, 2015.
3. Michael Keaton, who wore his hair so closely shaved he
almost looked 'bald.' I am sure the military haircut was part of
his dressy attire. The tuxedo had a black velvet collar, which
matched his black velvet bow tie. He was very friendly with a
big smile, which made him more attractive in this event.
(He was nominated for his performance in "Birdman.")
*The movie WON for Best Cast in a Movie.
This is the equivalent to "Best Picture of the Year."
4. Kevin Costner looked handsome but his wife was his best
'accessory.' He also was wearing black sunglasses. She had
on a beautiful scarlet dress with half sleeves and her blonde
hair was flowing down her shoulders.
She said she loved his movie, "Black or White." He told the
interviewer he felt one of his legal speeches in the movie
was reminiscent to the one in "Inherit the Wind." If so, this
would be a great reason for his movie to be nominated next
year for the 2016 film awards.
I usually choose brightly dressed women, but there are a
couple of fabulous white dresses to note also.
~The Women~
1. Keira Knightley was simply gorgeous in her deep purple
dress, showing her 'baby bump' when the camera caught her
facing sideways. But the layers of the lacy, plum dress actually
hid her form when she was standing 'straight on.' as she
presented an award.
(Nominated for movie: "The Imitation Game.")
2. Viola Davis was stunning in her beautiful white dress which
accented her shapely figure with a 'throw back' style of a halter
dress. She looked thinner in this dress than any other gowns I
have seen her in this season. She had a short, styled 'fro, which is
the shortened way of saying she wore an 'Afro.' This hairstyle
went perfectly with the 70's style of her dress.
*Viola Davis WON for the television drama, "How to Get Away
with Murder."
3. Felicity Jones wore a beautiful pastel pink dress that criss-
crossed across her shoulders. It looked like an Audrey Hepburn
styled dress, while her dark hair was pulled back and up. She
was lovely in this and she held herself well, very mature in her
appearance. (She played Stephen Hawking's first wife and was
nominated for this role in "Theory of Everything.")
4. Reese Witherspoon was wearing white with her hair slicked
back into a pony tail. The hair was okay but her dress was very
classic and elegant. She created a lovely 'demure' look with this
white dress. (She was nominated for her role in "Wild," which
she was almost the only character and in every scene.)
5. Uzo Aduba wore a brilliant yellow dress with some designs on
it which made her look very pretty. She is a medium sized woman
who can also look masculine, while wearing her 'prison garb' on
the show, "Orange is the New Black."She looked radiant the whole
*Uzo Aduba WON for her Best Actress in Comedy Television Series.
She was exuberant.
6. Julianne Moore, with her auburn colored hair and her gorgeous
green dress looked like a young Irish lassie. Her emerald dress was
shimmery and almost like a mermaid in its appearance.
(The movie Julianne Moore was nominated for was in a recent post,
"Still Alice.")
*Julianne Moore WON Best Actress in a Movie.
7. Julianna Margulies wore a blue dress which was beautiful and
she looked regal. Her choice of wearing her hair pulled back
accentuated the dress, but I prefer her thick hair down. My
favorite time she appeared on an awards show this season was
when she was the one to give George Clooney his "Lifetime
Achievement Award," which made me smile. Did you ever watch
those two as a couple when he was a doctor; she a nurse on "E.R?"
The award was given at the 2015 Golden Globes.
(Julianna Margulies has been nominated for her role in "The Good
Wife" and won before.)
8. One of my favorite funny women, Julia Louis-Dreyfuss, wore
such a fabulous black, long-sleeved lacy dress. The sheerness of
the black lace and her long, curly hair style looked captivating.
I felt the black lace dress seemed 'vintage' and liked the way
it looked on her.
(Last year, she was nominated for her role in the late James
Gandolfini movie, "Enough Said.")
During the television program of the SAG Awards, there was a
preview commercial for a movie with live actors and actresses
in a new version of, "Cinderella." After watching all the fancy
dresses and tuxedos, I was wishing I could head on out to see
this upcoming movie.
I have always enjoyed both the Disney animated version of,
"Cinderella." Along with the various movies which have done
a 'take' on the idea of a mean stepmother and two self-centered
"Bippity boppity boo."
See you in my dreams, pretty Cinderella!


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Impact of the Pharmaceutical Care on the Quality of Life in Patients With Chagas Heart Disease (ChagasCare)
This study is currently recruiting participants.
Verified January 2016 by Gilberto Marcelo Sperandio da Silva, Evandro Chagas Institute of Clinical Research
Evandro Chagas Institute of Clinical Research
Alejandro Marcel Hasslocher Moreno, MD MSc PhD student
Andrea Costa, MD PhD
Andrea Silvestre de Sousa, MD PhD
Luiz Henrique C. Sangenis, MD MSc PhD student
Marcelo Teixeira de Holanda, MD MSc PhD student
Mayara da Costa Chambela - MSc student
Pedro Emmanuel Alvarenga Americano do Brasil, MD PhD
Roberto Magalhães Saraiva, MD PhD
Sergio Salles Xavier, MD PhD
Information provided by (Responsible Party):
Gilberto Marcelo Sperandio da Silva, Evandro Chagas Institute of Clinical Research
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First received: March 23, 2012
Last updated: January 20, 2016
Last verified: January 2016
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|Study Status:
|This study is currently recruiting participants.
|Estimated Study Completion Date:
|March 2017
|Estimated Primary Completion Date:
|January 2017 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
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Sperandio da Silva GM, Chambela MC, Sousa AS, Sangenis LH, Xavier SS, Costa AR, Brasil PE, Hasslocher-Moreno AM, Saraiva RM. Impact of pharmaceutical care on the quality of life of patients with Chagas disease and heart failure: randomized clinical trial. Trials. 2012 Dec 27;13:244. doi: 10.1186/1745-6215-13-244.