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Tale of a Bubble
Martin Bouygues thought he was the only sane man left in Europe. The cautious Frenchman ran Bouygues Telecom, France's No. 3 cell-phone network, and in the spring of 2000 he was under intense pressure to bid billions of euros for licenses to operate the so-called Third Generation (3G) of mobile networks. The technology behind 3G was certainly intriguing: It would turn a cell phone into the ultimate portable computer, the key to the mobile Internet. But shelling out billions just for a license in an unproven technology? To Bouygues, the scion of a French construction empire, this was sheer madness, a tulipmania that would bankrupt the entire European telecom industry.
So on May 6, he sat down to write a letter, a warning to the entire Continent. Three days later, it appeared on the front page of Le Monde. Many operators faced a grim choice, wrote Bouygues, between quitting the business--the price of not bidding for a license--or drowning in debt. "What should I tell my employees?" wrote Bouygues. "That we have a choice between a sudden death and a slow one?"
Few heeded Bouygues' warning. But sure enough, in the two years since he wrote that letter, the easy money has dried up. Europe's phone giants--after spending half a trillion dollars on licenses, acquisitions, and networks--are treading madly to stay afloat in a sea of debt. Chairman Ron Sommer of Deutsche Telekom (DT ) is sitting on $60 billion in liabilities and casting about frantically for assets to sell. Onetime golden boys, such as Vivendi Universal's (V ) Jean-Marie Messier and France Télécom's Michel Bon, are struggling to hang on to their jobs. Handset manufacturers, such as Alcatel (ALA ), Royal Philips Electronics (PHG ), and even Ericsson (ERICY ) are hurrying out of the business, and Nokia (NOK ) Chairman Jorma Ollila has seen his high-flying stock fall by 75%. Even Vodafone Group PLC's (VOD ) Chris Gent, 3G's biggest cheerleader, has fallen hard. In early 2000, he barely broke a sweat putting together $163 billion for his stock-and-cash takeover of Germany's Mannesmann. Now, Vodafone directors are debating whether to take a write-down on $25 billion to $50 billion of acquisitions purchased at the top of the bubble--a bubble Gent helped inflate to unheard-of proportions.
And the mobile Internet? Oh that. In fact, the high-speed project known as 3G is plowing ahead, though on a smaller scale than anticipated and a year or two behind schedule. Throughout Europe, phone companies are setting up the first transmission towers and testing the handsets that as early as next year will be able to shuttle data at the speed of a broadband connection--or even faster. But this time around, there won't be any blowout launch parties. Europe's phone industry has discovered that when 3G is mentioned, investors run. "3G is a frightening word," says Roel Pieper, a former executive at Philips and president of Favonius Ventures, an Amsterdam venture-capital firm.
What happened? Nothing less than a Continental debacle. This project for a new, high-speed wireless Internet was Europe's audacious bid to lead the world in a crucial 21st century technology. For Europeans, it was a megaproject, the equivalent in size, vision, and expense of America's Apollo space program in the 1960s. Yet 3G has stumbled from the get-go, a victim not just of miserable market timing but also of a host of local problems ranging from shortsighted and greedy national politicians to a regional policy that imposed a single expensive technology and pushed all countries to adopt it in lockstep. Compounding the damage, an industry built on transmitting the spoken word has failed utterly to create data services that customers will buy. "The industry has not been looking at the user," laments Niklas Savander, vice-president for mobile software at Nokia (NOK ). "It's been looking at its own navel."
True, Europe has plenty of company. America had its dot-com implosion, and the U.S. phone business is wading through its own crisis. But the Old World has no computer industry to fall back on and, with the exception of Germany's SAP, is an also-ran in software. From Nokia and Ericsson to Vodafone and Deutsche Telekom, the phone biz is the soul of Europe's tech industry. Each of these companies was intent on riding 3G to global stardom.
And what do they get for it? Technology delays, downgrades on their bonds, and swooning stocks. Now Europe, which bet much of its tech future on a single technology, sees its champions bogged in a swamp of 3G debt. Consequently, the region is fast losing its edge in wireless. "The balance of power is shifting across the Atlantic, to Microsoft Corp. (MSFT ) and other companies that understand applications," says Keith Woolcock, an analyst at Nomura Securities Co. in London.
This is the story of a monumental gamble and the blinders worn by a gaggle of eager telecom executives, technologists, bankers, investors, and, yes, journalists. Together, they toasted an industry that promised instantaneous information everywhere. And while some true believers still cling to that vision, Europe's painful stumbles in the past two years show what happens when a single shining dream lands in a maddeningly complicated region just as the easy money runs dry.
Anssi Vanjoki, Nokia's executive vice-president, remembers his first notion of the mobile Web. It was 1993, and Nokia, having bet heavily on digital mobile phones, was just starting to establish itself as a force in the industry. Vanjoki saw one of his new hires hunched over a strange-looking database on his PC and asked him what it was. Turned out the newcomer was online, using the Gopher search engine to browse through the library at the University of Texas. Vanjoki recalls: "I thought if he could do this on the computer, could we do the same thing someday on our digital phones?"
Across Scandinavia, lots of engineers were having similar thoughts. And what seemed like a fantasy in '93 was downright mainstream by mid-decade. Propelling it was Moore's law. With ever cheaper, stronger, and smaller microprocessors, developers not only envisioned shrinking an entire computer into a mobile handset by the turn of the century, they went to work on the project. As they pieced together 3G prototypes, the Internet was developing into a consumer business and Web startups such as Netscape Communications Corp. were stock market darlings. Maybe there would be enough Web-phoria in the markets to foot the bill for Europe's 3G build-out.
With the Brussels government mapping out the timetable and technology, Europe prepared to create a Continental network on a single 3G standard. A decade earlier, similar central planning had helped transform the region into the world's richest wireless market and turned Europe's wireless players, from Nokia to Vodafone, into global phenomenons.
But the mobile Net would prove far trickier to orchestrate. In the cell-phone business, operators simply invested in networks and sold handsets and the business took off. Subscribers produced their own content simply by talking. In the mobile Internet, operators would again focus on what they knew best, building costly and complicated networks. But this time, handsets are a problem. 3G phones may well cost $800--and devour batteries. Worse yet is the dirty secret of bandwidth: Without compelling content and services to sell, high-speed networks are a waste of money. "The [phone companies] are paying through the nose for something that's not very valuable," says Francesco Caio, founder of Omnitel, an Italian mobile company now owned by Vodafone.
The Europeans, of course, knew that software was crucial. In the late 1990s, planners in Scandinavia settled on a two-pronged strategy to turn Europe into a development mecca for the wireless Web. First, in 1998, they teamed up with the phone manufacturers in a London joint venture dubbed Symbian. This company would provide operating systems for 3G phones. The clear goal: to keep the predatory Microsoft from hollowing out the profits in the next Internet. "We understand mobility. Microsoft doesn't," said Juha Christensen, a prime mover of Symbian and the company's first marketing manager.
At the same time, the Europeans counted on venture capital to seed software startups throughout the region. These shops would produce the games, news services, and e-commerce programs to bring the mobile Web alive. Sure enough, the VC funds arrived as scheduled--and shook up entire societies. In Stockholm, students at the prestigious Royal Academy of Economics started to drop out en masse and write wireless business plans.
The 25-year-old Per Mosseby typified the trend. In 1998, he launched Melody, a Stockholm software company specializing in business applications for the mobile Web. Within a year and a half, he landed $10 million in venture financing, and Melody grew to 70 employees. And yet for Mosseby and hundreds of other Netrepreneurs, the timing was off. They were writing code for a mobile Net that barely existed. For most, the money ran out long before the first 3G transmission towers went up across the Old Continent. Early this year, Mosseby folded what was left of his company into a more successful mobile-music company, Mobilehits. "They're actually making money, which is very rare," he says.
But that rude awakening was in the future. While Mosseby and other twentysomething Netheads were landing some VC funds, their elders were gambling with bigger stakes. On the night of Oct. 19, 1999, Canning Fok, managing director of Hong Kong's Hutchison Whampoa Ltd., pulled off a sale that would ignite a buying frenzy. Following a week of round-the-clock negotiating, Fok and his bankers from Goldman, Sachs & Co. managed to sell Hutchison's European phone business, Orange, to Germany's Mannesmann for a rich $30 billion. Fok celebrated the deal with his bankers at 3 a.m., ordering hamburgers with onions at London's Sheraton Park Tower Hotel and washing it all down with a bottle of Chateau Petrus grand cru.
The chain reaction of deals had started. Buying Orange put the German carrier into direct competition with the titan of Europe, Vodafone. This would unleash the biggest hostile takeover in history. The Orange deal not only provided Mannesmann Chairman Klaus Esser with a valuable foothold in Europe but also amounted to a $30 billion poison pill. Mannesmann, he concluded incorrectly, was now too big to be swallowed. But the very night of the takeover, Vodafone's Gent summoned his bankers and organized his counterstrike.
What followed was a pitched two-month takeover battle. The race between Gent and Esser focused almost exclusively on the companies' stock valuations. Vodafone stock, after all, was Gent's currency, and a rich stock was Esser's defense. In this battle that raged at the height of the dot-com bubble, both men drove up their stocks by positioning their companies as masters of the next great thing, the mobile Net. In the end, Gent won by securing an alliance with Vivendi's Jean-Marie Messier. Together, they promised to deliver the entire digital world--television, music, e-commerce, and cell phones--from a single portal called Vizzavi to some 70 million subscribers. Vizzavi would provide services, said Gent, "through any device that accesses the Internet, to anyone who chooses to use it, wherever they may be." Vizzavi has since fallen flat in the marketplace. But its announcement helped drive up Vodafone's stock, securing the Mannesmann deal.
More important than Vizzavi, though, was its implication. In coming years, mobile-phone companies would be competing in a dizzying range of Internet services. For this, it appeared at the time, they would require big chunks of the digital economy, from phone companies to Internet businesses and even cable-TV stations. And in this period of plenty, they bought like mad.
Take France Télécom. In Britain alone, Chairman Bon spent more than $40 billion to buy Orange from Vodafone and gobble up Britain's leading Internet service company, Freeserve, and 18% of the cable company NTL. Deutsche Telekom's Sommer matched him nearly step for step, buying Internet businesses in France and laying out $50 billion for the U.S.'s VoiceStream. "We all had easy money," says Bon.
Then came a surprise. It started in March, 2000, with a handful of British government employees in a single room in London. They had 13 phones, one for each bidder for British 3G spectrum. The Blair government imported the American auction system, judging that it was the fairest and most transparent contest.
Reducing the 13 bidders to five survivors took seven weeks and an exhausting 150 bidding rounds. It produced a windfall for British coffers and a disaster for the industry. Trouble was, as Martin Bouygues had noted in France, a loss in the auction was seen as a death sentence. So bidders didn't have much choice. What's more, investors were all too willing to bid up the stocks of the bidding companies--and punish them if they bailed. "If we dropped out, our market cap would fall by far more than the price of the license," said an exec at Spain's Telefónica at the time.
There was one crucial difference, though. Operators would pay for licenses in cash, not high-flying stock. As the bids passed $1 billion per license and then $2 billion, $3 billion, and $4 billion, investment bankers put aside their carefully conceived earnings and cash-flow models. In a battle for survival, as the London auctions appeared to be, the numbers were mere details. "The bidding is not based on rational decisions," said one American banker advising Vodafone.
Officials at Nokia and Ericsson were getting alarmed. They had scheduled an orderly rollout of pricey networks and handsets for each stage of the mobile Internet. But the auctions, while ostensibly designed by the governments to speed rollouts, could drive small players out of the market and force even big ones to slow their capital spending. "I went to Chris Gent and told him it was madness," says an executive at Nokia. "He shrugged and said, `What can you do?"'
At the London auction, investors ignored not only the numbers but also early strong evidence that the mobile Internet was going to be a tough slog. Already, the first smart phones were hitting Europe. Their makers hoped to replicate the success of i-mode, the mobile Net service offered in Japan by cell-phone operator NTT DoCoMo (DCM ). Yet compared with the zippy i-mode, Europe's services were slow and primitive. In March, 2000, at the massive Cebit technology fair in Hanover, Germany, Alcatel officials displayed a traffic map of Paris that looked, on the tiny black-and-white screen of a sample cell phone, like a pulsating amoeba.
It wasn't just that applications were in short supply. The service also failed to adjust to changing borders and languages--key issues in Europe. German travelers in Spain could check weather and movie schedules back home in Frankfurt but got nothing for Madrid. The phone was mobile, but the service usually was not.
The turning point for Europe's wireless industry came in Germany, where seven groups pledged a total of $45 billion for chunks of precious spectrum. The U.S. dot-com bubble had burst four months earlier, and some of the new skepticism, with its focus on the bottom line, was washing across the Atlantic. Hutchison Whampoa's Fok felt the change in mood. Halfway through the auctions, he stunned his partners, NTT DoCoMo and Royal KPN, by withdrawing from Germany. "It was just too much money," said Fok.
The party was over. Stocks plummeted across Europe. While the investment bankers considered their dubious handiwork, the rating agencies' time had come. They promptly downgraded the ballooning debt of France Télécom, Deutsche Telekom, and KPN. Operators promptly slammed the brakes on spending. These days, it's as if Europe's mobile Net existed solely as a gloomy debt story.
Saddest of all, in the more than two years since those phones were introduced, Europe's offerings on the mobile Web have barely improved. To be sure, European telcos have slowly upgraded their systems for a faster data service known as 2.5G. But as if embarrassed at the hype they generated during the bubble, they barely promote the services. Instead, they focus on dependable revenue generators such as voice calls and the primitive short-text messages so popular among kids. These messages, which can be transmitted over any phone, now account for 10% of the operators' revenue. Some phone execs fear that if they promote the more elaborate Internet applications, they risk slowing the flow of profitable mini-messages.
Martin Bouygues had the last laugh. To entice him to even bid for a license, the French government had to slash the fees from $4.4 billion to $557 million. Bouygues now plans to roll out his new network--slowly.
Now, the leading company to trumpet its 3G offering in Europe is foreign: Hong Kong's Hutchison, which kept a European presence after selling Orange, is proceeding on a long-shot plan to roll out the high-speed service late this year in Britain, long before its homegrown competitors do. And after two years at Europe's ambitious software startup, Symbian, Juha Christensen tired of the feuding among the partners and went to work for the arch-enemy, Microsoft. "These guys understand the importance of applications," he says from his house in Seattle.
Nokia, Europe's only consistently profitable cell-phone maker, now appears to be bypassing Europe's application woes. The goal now, building on the success of short messages, is to encourage users to create their own content. One new line of phones, for example, features digital cameras. The idea: Users will snap pictures and spend perhaps 75 cents to send them to a friend's phone or e-mail. "People have little moments in the day with time to kill," says Nokia's Savendar. "If we can sell them something for those spare 5 or 10 minutes, it could turn into a big market."
Maybe. For now, though, it appears that Europe's telephone giants are content to service their huge debts and wait for the data markets to evolve. Analysts predict that 3G isn't likely to take off in Europe until the second half of this decade. The risk, of course, is that by muddling along, Europe once again will end up an Internet laggard.
The mood is grim. Just ask Anssi Vanjoki. The Nokia executive was gunning his Harley-Davidson through Helsinki last fall and got nailed with a $103,000 fine--the equivalent of 14 days of his stock-option-laden 1999 pay. (In Finland, speeders get fined according to their ability to pay.) Vanjoki appealed, noting that both the industry and his pay had taken a dive. The judge agreed--and this spring, lowered the fine to $5,500. Thus have the warriors of wireless fallen. These days, even traffic judges pity them.
By Stephen Baker
With Mark Clifford in Hong Kong
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THE promise by the NSW Premier, Barry O'Farrell, to set up ''drunk tanks'' across Sydney has been labelled ''Barry's Fight Club'' by police, who fear locking up hordes of drunk revellers will lead to more violence and may result in deaths in custody.
Police are angry the government is ramping up plans for a sobering-up centre, claiming it will be a waste of money and a misdirection of overstretched police resources.
Mr O'Farrell first proposed the idea as a pre-election promise in 2010 when launching the Making Our Streets Safe Again policy and repeated the idea after 18-year-old Thomas Kelly died in Kings Cross in July.
The Sun-Herald understands police will be given discretionary powers to assess whether people should be placed in a sobering-up centre.
The NSW Council for Civil Liberties president, Cameron Murphy, called it ''extremely dangerous'' because large numbers of people would be incarcerated for dubious reasons, with a risk to their health and safety. ''This will be misused by police. It's an absurd and expensive idea that doesn't reduce the core problems of alcoholism, violence or public safety,'' he said.
A police source told The Sun-Herald the government had not allocated funding for a scheme that, he said, would become a ''vomitorium of punch-ons''.
A spokesman for the Police Minister, Michael Gallacher, said "several options'' were being considered and it was hoped an announcement would be made ''shortly''.
The NSW Police Commissioner, Andrew Scipione, and senior police were working with the government to deliver this, he said. Mr Scipione and the Assistant Commissioner Mark Murdoch, who have campaigned against alcohol-fuelled violence, declined to comment.
The Opposition Leader, John Robertson, said the centre was ''a recipe for disaster''. "This is bad policy, made worse by the fact that Barry O'Farrell won't pay for any additional police to staff his ill-conceived drunk tanks,'' he said.
The president of the Police Association of NSW, Scott Weber, said the proposal was ''a Band-Aid solution''.
''Putting a large group of intoxicated people in one location is absolutely ridiculous and a huge drain on valuable police resources,'' he said.

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Google on Tuesday announced its new Google App Engine, and opened a preview version to the first 10,000 users to sign up. The service essentially does for Web apps what Google Blogger does for bloggers: provides a hosting solution for Web developers to build their apps on top of, integrating with other Google services and sparing developers the trouble of server maintenance and scalability. Basically, Google wants to be your (free) sysadmin.
As Google says in Tuesday's press release, "The goal is to make it easier for web developers to build and scale applications, instead of focusing on system administration and maintenance." This looks to be a good way to counteract the "TechCrunch Effect"server slowdown in the early days due to the traffic crush from early adopters. Google App Engine gives users enough CPU power and bandwidth to handle around 5 million page views per month.
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It is high time changes to the provincial land transfer tax were made. Did you know that if the price of a Honda Civic had risen at the same rate as the land transfer tax went up since it was introduced in 1987, you would have to shell out $117,300 to buy one this year? To fill it up, you would pay $5.51 a litre. The minimum wage would be $55 an hour, so if you did own a car or rented one, you would at least have more money to pay for gas.
It did not start out this way. In fact, the original intent when the provincial government brought in this tax on buying a home was to be revenue neutral. It was to help offset the cost of running the land titles operations. The government of the day was sensitive especially to those Manitobans of more modest means. There was an exemption from $0 to $30,000 and the next tax rate was 0.5 per cent for the next $60,000.
It is an entirely different story in 2013. While Manitoba still has some of the most affordable house prices in the country, prices have gone up. Note: A BMO first-time homebuyer poll released this week shows the average first-time homebuyer purchase price in Manitoba is $259,397, higher only than in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.
Nevertheless, 76 per cent of single-family home sales this March through Winnipeg Realtors Association's listing service sold for over $200,000. For every dollar amount above $200,000, the land transfer tax rate is two per cent. So, for each additional $50,000, you pay another $1,000 in land transfer taxes.
As you can appreciate, in short order this tax at higher sale prices takes a real bite out of your home purchase budget. For first-time buyers, in particular, it may mean the high up-front closing cost obligation of paying $2,650 in land transfer taxes, which must be paid at the same time as the down payment, for a $250,000 home is too much for them to afford.
In a survey of our realtors this year on whether they are finding it more difficult to find a home first-time buyers can afford, over 90 per cent agreed to some degree this is now a reality. The significant drop-off in sales activity in March was far more pronounced in the first-time buyer market price ranges than upper ones. The highest price range of $500,000 or more actually performed better than March 2012.
The provincial government is well aware of our long-standing concerns over this runaway tax that has generated a lot of revenue. In the 2011-2012 budget, land transfer tax revenue went up 14 per cent to $67.3 million.
What they fail to realize is this tax discourages home buying activity and can impact it directly as well. Why then are they content to let it remain this way?
This revenue source is not sustainable in the long run if the first-time buyer market softens as it has a ripple effect through the entire market and economy. First-time buyers enable owners of the home they purchase to move on with their plans and the cycle follows all the way up the housing ladder. For every house sale, there is $40,000 in ancillary expenditures.
The federal government recognizes how important first-time buyers are by offering them up to a $750 tax credit. Sadly, in the four short years this tax credit has been in place, Manitoba's land transfer tax for an average priced home has increased over $1,000.
This is a little bit like robbing Peter to pay Paul, and no one wins. You keep potential home buyers as renters when, with more encouragement through tax relief, you could free up scarce affordable rental units for those Manitobans unable or not interested in buying a home.
In summary, Manitobans are hurt by high land transfer taxes.
The provincial government says it is choosing instead to offer homeowners an education property tax credit, but that is disingenuous because renters receive the education tax credit, too.
Further, the education property tax credit was brought in for the purpose of helping reduce Manitoba's heavy reliance on requiring property owners to fund our education system, not to reward those able to afford a home so they can get an education property tax credit that they receive already when they rent.
It is time the provincial government stops punishing Manitoba homebuyers.
Peter Squire is the Winnipeg Realtors Association's residential market analyst.


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Screening at the 2012 Chinese Visual Festival.
"Once Upon a Time Proletarian" is a 2009 documentary feature from acclaimed director, novelist and poet Guo Xiaolou, also known for her award winning fiction films "She, A Chinese" and "UFO in her Eyes". The film offers a fascinating and often darkly humorous deconstruction of modern Chinese society through a series of interviews and snapshots with a variety of people in different stations in life, and having played at several prominent international festivals including Venice, Pusan and Toronto, it now screens in London at the 2012 Chinese Visual Festival.
With a running time of around 75 minutes, the film is split into 12 chapters of roughly equal length, separated by black and white footage of young children reading out stories and fables. The 12 chapters each focus on a different individual through a mixture of interviews and footage following them in their daily lives, revealing the hardships they face, and their views on modern Chinese society and the radical changes it has undergone since the days of Mao and the great revolution. The people selected are an eclectic and interesting bunch, including a foul mouthed old peasant, a young man from the countryside who now washes cars, a woman who runs café at a bus station, fish sellers, hotel workers and more.
"Once Upon a Time Proletarian" gets off to a very memorable start, with some superbly bleak cinematography and a real shocker of a character in the old peasant, who spends almost all of his segment swearing, cursing, ranting against the other people living in his rundown village and lamenting the loss of Mao and the communist spirit. The film continues from here in shifting, often unpredictable fashion as it runs through its short, well-paced sections, painting a picture of an incredibly complicated society and of people trapped by the past and old notions while struggling to find their place in the modern world. Where the film really succeeds is in that despite covering some potentially very depressing and damning ground, Guo Xiaolou directs with a cynical, though non-judgemental eye, and never falls back on obvious anti-government criticism or a simply black and white dichotomy of the rich and the poor.
As a result, the film feels less about exploitation or trying to assign any kind of blame, and more a Marxist themed exploration of the question of identity, with its subjects talking about their hopes and dreams for the future. Although grim in places and flirting with nihilism, the film still manages to attain an all-important human connection, and this helps to keep the viewer engaged throughout. The film also benefits from a fair amount of dark comic relief, with some ironic use of patriotic imagery and songs making for an amusing and telling comparison between the past and present, highlighting the often strange ways in which people have clung to propagandist legends and have worked them into their lives and belief systems. Several of the characters are similarly quite funny, including an overzealous park worker and the unforgettably bitter peasant of the opening scene.
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Oct 29, 2013 - The Associated PressWyoming coach Dave Christensen fired defensive coordinator Chris Tormey on Tuesday after two straight losses in which the Cowboys surrendered more than 50 points a game.
"I felt that we needed to make a change at this time to give our football team and the young men on it the best opportunity to win our remaining four regular-season games," Christensen said in a statement.
"The last two weeks, our defense has not performed up to the expectations of our coaching staff, our players, nor our fans."
Christensen named defensive line coach Jamar Cain as interim coordinator.
Torme had been Wyoming's defensive coordinator for the past two seasons.
He will be paid through his contract, which expires in December, according to the university.
The coaching change comes after news last week that UW President Bob Sternberg had hired an outside consultant to evaluate the school's football and men's basketball programs.
Wyoming (4-4, 2-2 Mountain West) has a bye this week. The Cowboys next play No. 16 Fresno State in Laramie on Nov. 9.
In the last two games, both against conference opponents, Wyoming lost to Colorado State 52-22 and to San Jose State 51-44.
Wyoming is giving up 31.6 points and 465.8 yards per game this season. Among the 123 FBS teams, Wyoming ranks 93rd in scoring defense and 105th in total defense.
In addition, the Cowboys are 116th in rushing defense, giving up an average of 236 yards a game, and 64th in passing defense, surrendering an average of 229.8 yards a contest.
Cain is currently in his seventh year as a college coach at the NCAA Division I level. He joined the Cowboy staff this past spring after coaching at Cal Poly in the Big Sky Conference.
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Coupon site Groupon Inc. plans to begin marketing its initial public offering to investors before the end of October, three people with knowledge of the plans said.
Meetings could start as early as next week, said two of the people, who asked not to be identified because the discussions are private. Groupon, based in Chicago, is seeking as much as $750 million in its IPO, according to a June filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Groupon delayed earlier plans to pitch the offering to investors in September amid stock-market swings, people familiar with the matter said at the time. The company also needed extra time to address regulators' questions, including possible revisions to a controversial accounting method used in its filing, the people said.
Those events, combined with the loss of two chief operating officers in six months, have made investors wary and may force the company to pare back the size of its IPO. When Groupon met with underwriters earlier this year, the company's potential valuation was said to be pegged at $25 billion.
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Kourtney and one-month-old Penelope Scotland are joined by Scott Disick at the Westfield Topanga mall for a shopping spree.
Kourtney Kardashian made a first public appearance in Los Angeles, a month after giving birth to her second child with boyfriend Scott Disick. The mother of two wore a long-sleeved loose top, jeans and flat sandals. She came out of the car holding a baby carrier with her daughter inside.
The "Keeping Up with the kardashians" star went shopping at the Neiman Marcus in the Westfield Topanga mall. Covering little Penelope with a blanket, she was accompanied by baby daddy Scott who donned a t-shirt, baseball cap and shorts. Their son Mason was absent from the outing.
"Kourtney was looking happy as any new mother would look," a source told E! News. "Scott was with them and he was very happy as well." Together with Mason, they previously posed in a family portrait for a spread in Us Weekly's latest issue.
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After years of neglect, the theme of employment has returned to the forefront of the international development agenda, following on the heels of the global financial crisis and its aftermath.
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March 20, the 3rd UN International Day of Happiness, marked a flurry of activity and articles around the world on the importance of happiness – or subjective wellbeing – to individuals, businesses and policy-makers.
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The title of the UNDP's latest Human Development Report (HDR), published just a couple of months ago, proclaimed 'The Rise of the South'. The wording was designed, no doubt, to catch the headlines, and it did so very successfully.
"People are the real wealth of a nation." That sentence opened UNDP's first Human Development Report (HDR) in 1990, as the Cold War was ending and mobile technology belonged largely in the realm of science fiction.
People everywhere face various kinds of inequalities. We live in a very unequal world, in which the top 20 percent of the population enjoys more than 70 percent of global income, while the bottom quintile shares a meagre 2 percent.
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The Broadway star has been taking care of things on the home front this week while his wife Sarah Jessica Parker is busy promoting her latest film I Don't Know How She Does It in Australia.
The Sex and the City actress put in an ultra-stylish appearance at Thursday's Ladies Day 2011 Spring Racing Carnival in Melbourne, where she sipped champagne with model mom Elizabeth Hurley and her new fiance Shane Warne.
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King of Bollywood Shahrukh Khan who also owns the IPL franchise Kolkata Knight Riders has finally spoken out over the spot fixing scandal in the cricket league.
Shahrukh sounded very upset and disappointed over the whole controversy. On Sunday, June 9th, Shahrukh said that the owners of the teams should not indulge in any such betting practices. Shahrukh's statement is coming after two franchise owners have been allegedly involved in the betting row.
The Chennai Super Kings' team principal Gurunath Meiyappan was arrested for the betting scandal and was later released on bail. He also confessed to betting and was blamed for supplying important information about the team to bookies. Raj Kundra, the co-owner of Rajasthan Royals also landed in the same controversial pit and was questioned for 10 hours by the Delhi Police and his involvement in betting was also confirmed by Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar.
Shahrukh said, ""I'm sure he (Raj Kundra) will fight this battle legally and something will come out of it. Raj is one of my friends and he doesn't need it."
Rajasthan Royals has said that Kundra shall be suspended and his shares will be forfeited if he's found guilty in the IPL spot fixing and betting row. Ranjit Barthakur, Rajasthan Royals chairman and Raghu Iyer the chief executive said that the franchice was helping the Delhi Police in the investigation.
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Are "fascism" and "socialism" just 2 sides of the same coin?
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Seahawks' Luke Willson celebrates touchdowns like Wayne Rooney
Seattle Seahawks tight end Luke Willson has a signature touchdown celebration where he stretches out his arm and lets out a scream.
Where did Willson get his celebration? Manchester United star Wayne Rooney.
Here it is! pic.twitter.com/tHKXiy3YPp— Luke Willson (@LWillson_82) December 11, 2013
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"Tim McGraw" is the debut single of American country pop artist Taylor Swift. She was sixteen years old when she debuted with the song, which she co-wrote with Liz Rose. The song tells of Taylor's remembrance of a summer love, and how an un-named song by country music artist Tim McGraw (identified later on as "Can't Tell Me Nothin'" from his Live Like You Were Dying album[2]) brings back memories of that love.
Swift has said she wrote the song during math class in high school. The song, she says, is about her and her boyfriend, when he was moving away to go to college, and they would eventually have to break up. Taylor goes on to say, "I started thinking of all the things that reminded me of him."
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The idea for the song came to Taylor during math class. "The song means so much to me and that's why we wanted it to be the first track on the album," Swift said. The song, which appears to be centered on a summer romance is actually about her boyfriend who moved away. Sitting in her math class she just started to sing to herself "When you think Tim McGraw" over and over. Soon after she left the classroom and recorded a voice memo about the song. After school she went downtown with her co-writer Liz Rose, sat down at the piano and they had finished the song within 15 minutes.
Swift said, "I wrote the song in my freshman year of high school. I was dating a guy who was about to go off to college. I knew we were going to break up so I started thinking of all the things that I knew would remind him of me. Surprisingly, the first thing that came to mind was that my favorite country artist is Tim McGraw."[3]
You said the way my blue eyes shine put those Georgia stars to shame that night
I said "That's a lie."
You're just a boy in a Chevy truck
That had a tendency of getting stuck
On backroads at night, and I was
Right there beside him
All summer long
And then the time we woke up to find that
Summer'd gone
But when you think Tim McGraw
I hope you think my favorite song
The one we danced to all night long
The moon like a spotlight on the lake
When you think happiness
I hope you think that little black dress
Think of my head on your chest
And my old favorite blue jeans
When you think Tim McGraw
I hope you think of me
September saw a month of tears
And thanking God that you weren't here
To see me like that.
But in a box beneath my bed
Is a letter that you never read
From three summers back
It's hard not to find it all a little
But looking back on all of that, it's
Not stupidly
And I'm back for the first time, since then, I'm
Standing on your street
And there's a letter that's on your doorstep
And the first thing that you read
Is, "When you Think Tim McGraw
I hope you think my favorite song
Someday you'll turn your radio on
I hope it takes you back to that place
When you think happiness
I hope you think that little black dress
Think of my head on your chest
And my old, faded blue jeans
When you think Tim McGraw
I hope you think of me."
Said the way my blue eyes shine, put those Georgia stars to shame that night
I said "That's a lie."
Alternate versions
On the album version of the song, the first stanzas are sung a second time at the end; the radio edit ends after the last chorus.
The line "Someday you'll turn your radio on" in the final chorus was altered in some markets, with "your radio" being replaced with either the name of the radio station or some popular show or host featured on that station. A similar change was made for the song on Bob Kingsley's Country Top 40, a radio countdown show, wherein the line was altered to "And turn the Bob Kingsley Countdown on." When Swift performed at Wembley Arena in 2009, she changed these lyrics to "Turn London radio on."
Chart performance
The song debuted at #60 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, and spent 26 weeks on the chart before reaching a peak of #6.[4] The song also peaked at #40 on the Hot 100 chart, the first of thirteen consecutive top forty hits as well as the first of her twenty charted hits in the last three years.
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Louie's dad is a wrestler. He might not be famous, but he's still a hero in Louie's eyes.
By day, Louie's dad is a storeman. But at night he becomes a wrestler called THE PERCOLATOR! The Percolator gets injured a lot … and he usually loses. But that doesn't stop him from being Louie's hero.
A hilarious and heart-warming story about a boy's hero worship of his dad, a battling part-time wrestler.
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Matt Zurbo is the author of three young adult novels, Idiot Pride (shortlisted for the CBCA Awards, Older Readers), Flyboy and the Invisible and Hot Nights, Cool Dragons. He has also written five picture books, including I Got a Rocket!, which has been made into an Emmy award-winning television series. Matt has worked as a comedian and radio presenter, and contributed to numerous editions of Australian Short Stories.
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The bedroom scene involves roller skates as it shows the on-screen couple played by the 'Bad Teacher' co-stars decides to spice things up.
The first official look at Jason Segel and Cameron Diaz in comedy "Sex Tape" has hit the web. Diaz is seen lying on the bed wearing only red panties and a white top, while Segel is about to take off her roller skates and join her on the bed.
"Sex Tape" will follow a married couple played by the "Bad Teacher" co-stars as they wake up to discover that the sex tape they made the evening before has gone missing, leading to a frantic search for its whereabouts. Supported by Jack Black, it is due in the U.S. on July 18.
Segel lost some weight for the raunchy film. "I took heat for 'Forgetting Sarah Marshall', where I was completely nude," he recalled. "But different characters require different body types. This time when I take my shirt off, I've made a promise to myself, it doesn't have to be funny."


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My 5 year old(in feb) hasn't nursed since he was 33 months old, but over the past year, and very much these past few months, has asked to nurse many times, saying that he wishes he were a baby so he can still have titty, that he misses them. He always looks so sad that he can't have them anymore, but happy reminiscing. Well today, after getting home from visiting with Grandma for a couple of days, he said it again. I told him he's too big, there's no more milk, but that I love hugging him, hugged him, but then made my breast available to him. He put the nipple in his mouth, obviously not latched on, and just held it there for about 10 seconds while putting his face into my breast. I asked, "Is that better?" and he said yeah. SO here's my question- Is it actually okay and healthy to let him have a couple seconds of "titty"(his word for nursing, don't remember how that came about) if it makes him feel better? Is it possible that giving in will help make his desires go away, or am I just setting myself up to have him ask to attach more? I just feel bad because I know when I weaned him it wasn't in the most gentle, caring manner, it was sudden and just badly timed. I feel like if I had gone on just a little longer, and ended things slowly, he wouldn't be so sad now.
It does not sound healthy to me. I can also imagine someone reporting you to CPS if your child is exposed orally to your breasts and there is not milk.
My child asked for that, and I let her do it once, but when I realized she couldn't suck, I told her that was the end. That was really the only time she wanted to do it, so it's possible it will be just a one time thing.
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It doesn't strike me as inherently unhealthy. Nursing 5-year-olds are not unheard of (since the normal range is 2-7), and the caveat that there is no milk...well, lots of moms let their kids dry nurse throughout a pregnancy, or prior to fully weaning (when supply has dwindled to nil). It's familiar and comforting for him.
Also, like dalia mentioned, I'd guess this is probably just a passing phase, not a long-term desire for breastmilk. Has anything in his life changed lately? Any new fears, apprehensions (going to school, growing up)? It would help if you can get him to open up to you a bit, about what's going on to cause his desire for extra comfort or to be a baby again (does he need more time to connect with you during the day?). It might be easier, then, to work together to find effective alternatives to nursing (beside hugs).
To me, this seems like one of those "give the child what they want, need will be met, they will move on" kind of things. Maybe don't hang out a banner or tell the neighbors, but as long as it isn't sexual (which it certainly doesn't seem to be), I wouldn't worry too much about misperceptions. For all anyone else knows, you are still nursing him - and again, I don't think it will last long enough to make the news.
eta - it also is the closest you can come to a "do over" in terms of weaning him - letting him fake nurse for a bit, until he is ready to stop - it might be therapeutic for him to be in control of that decision
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I think that the way you handled it was fine. I nursed my oldest until a few months after he turned four, so a child that age nursing certainly isn't unheard of.
It sounds like he's looking for a little reassurance and remembers his time spent nursing as comforting. Since it's been quite a while since he weaned, I would look for other ways to fill up that emotional "tank."
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That you all for your kind words of encouragement.
I would agree with Dalia, Picle18 and those mammas who think that it is not a big deal and may turn out to be a passing phase. It may just be due to emotional need of your DS, Ying Yang DDG and such moods to pass . Inty, my eldest DS, when he was freshly admitted to a regular school about three years ago (he is now 9+) would make such a demand on returning from school. He had self weaned only a few months ago then. In the privacy of the room he would just put the nipple into his mouth for 15 minutes or so without sucking. Interestingly, I was making a lot of milk those days and tandem nursing two of his younger siblings, and often felt let down. Sometimes I would wonder whether he was practicing restraint feeling committed to self-imposed weaning. His behavior changed after a few weeks. Perhaps he had acquired confidence into the new routine of schooling. So I never felt a problem in that respect.
I do think he might lose interest, if not a little bit of comfort nursing should be totally fine. At least it will calm whatever he is missing.
I don't think he is too old either, older than most but children are designed to nurse until 6/7 ish if they must.
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I kinda disliked it because I felt like it was too much like a VN. This is a different medium, and should be accordingly adapted and dealt with as such. I feel that Kyoani understood this (thus the exclusion of characters from Clannad), J.C. Staff on the other hand feels that they absolutely HAVE to please everyone because they want the ratings, and thus, the sales of Blu-Ray and DVDs. On top of that, a movie deal as well for Little Busters!, taking the honor away from Toei.
While it actually wasn't too bad, (It was actually watchable and the story held up), I still feel that I should criticize it as the Komari arc seemed too forced. The actual conflict of the arc was introduced in an odd and unnatural exposition that I would expect from a VN, but just didn't work for an animated adaption. The problem was just the way it was written.
I am going to keep watching, but I expect more from coming arcs. I hope that they do their exposition right so I won't be hit by another quick forced ending.
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Saline ground-water discharge to the Smoky Hill River between Salina and Abilene, central Kansas
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AbstractSaline water discharges from the alluvium into the Smoky Hill and Solomon Rivers near Salina, Kansas, at about 32 cubic feet per second. Chloride concentrations at base flow increase about 800 milligrams per liter in the Smoky Hill River and 550 milligrams per liter in the Solomon River. The source of the saline water is the underlying Wellington aquifer, a zone of dissolution, subsidence, and collapse that occurs along the eastern margin of the Wellington Formation. Locally brine from the aquifer moves upward through collapse structures in the confining layer at the base of the alluvium. The brine discharge ranges from 0.3 to 0.8 cubic foot per second and the chloride load ranges from 150 to 370 tons per day. Results from a mathematical model of the flow system indicated that recharge from periodic flooding, as in 1973, was sufficient to reverse the normal (1976-77) hydraulic gradient between aquifers. Although brine discharge was temporarily reduced, saline-water discharge to the rivers was increased. Brine in the Wellington aquifer could be intercepted by wells and pumped to deep formations or stored for release to the river during high flows. The freshwater in upstream base flow could be diverted, and saline-water discharge could be retained by low-head dams in the channel for release during high flows. (USGS)
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Great time in Alaska with my 4 year old
Destination: Alaska
Embarkation: Vancouver
I used Princess Air, and unfortunately it was not a direct flight. Same for the trip home. Very long day, and I would book a direct flight next time.
Arriving in Vancouver Airport, it was easy to get to the ship via the metro. Huge sign in the airport directing you to the Canada Place skytrain. The Waterport station is the last one and drops you off a block from the cruise ship. I researched how to get to the cruise ship since I didn't want to pay Princess's $29 fare times 2 when a taxi would be half that and I was actually on my way out of the airport to get a taxi, when I saw the huge Canada Line station sign. It was easy to buy a ticket, get on the train with my luggage, get a seat (lots empty) and go.
Boarding was easy, just long lines, but they moved fairly More quickly.
The nicest part was unlocking my cabin door. I booked oceanview obstructed and had gotten an email from Princess that I had been upgraded, so I was hoping for plain oceanview. They gave us a balcony! It was wonderful. E732 is at the back of the ship with a big balcony - at least 10 feet long, maybe 8 feet wide? There was more than enough room for my son and I to lie back in our deck chairs and enjoy breakfast or the view. For me, the best part was being able to pop out and take pictures while my son slept. I took a ton of pictures I wouldn't have been able to with an oceanview. And being at the back meant I could see both port and starboard views.
The Diamond Princess is a big ship, but except for a few long buffet lines, it didn't feel crowded. There are lots of small areas, lounges, bars, pools, hot tubs, etc so the crowds get broken up.
I did anytime dining and that is great if you are traveling with a small child. We ate at the buffet which had a wide variety of choices so I could usually find something he would eat. We ate at the Pacific Moon and the Santa Fe room 3 times - the menu was more limited for the kids - hot dog, hamburger, chicken fingers, or spaghetti for the main dishes. By the way, lemonade is free, also apple juice and milk for kids. We had the pizza by the pool a couple times - its thin crust and really good. You can watch the chef making it all day long.
My son loved the Fun Zone, Princess's daycare. The counselors/caretakers were great - Marina, Agnes, Hilda, and all the rest. The 3 to 7 year old set has a big room, with a secure door - you need to get buzzed in, and sign in and out, with id, so I had no security worries. The kids did arts and crafts, colored, played in the jungle gym, they had a wii and a playstation. There were theme days, like pirate day (my son got a hat), or nature day (the park ranger talked about animals and my son got a small stuffed eagle) or birthday bash (my son got a goody bag with small plastic toys). My son took a dislike to watching movies so after a while the counselors were warning me, at 8:30 they were going to turn on The Little Mermaid, so I could expect a page (they give you a pager so if something happens or your child needed you, they could get a hold of you)
I was only planning on using the Fun Zone a couple times, but my son loved playing with his new friends and started requesting it, so I would drop him off for a couple hours to play.
Since my son was entertained, I got a chance to take the photography class - I'm a beginner so I learned a lot. I also went to the culinary tour (most of it, I was paged during it) and one of the evening shows.
Service was good - the room got tidied up twice a day with mints on our pillows each evening.
2 nights before the cruise ended, we got our disembark instructions which were clear about when to put out your luggage and where and when to go in the morning. We took Princess's motorcoach from Whittier port to Anchorage airport and it left promptly at 7 and got us there by 8:30 am or so. Had plenty of time to check in, go through security and find our gate.
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Great balcony, great location at back of ship so you can see both port and starboard coasts. Tiny bathroom, I could stand in the middle and reach one arm to the mirror and one to the grab bar in the shower. I think the balcony was twice as big. Very quiet, since only 1 cabin next door and a very short hallway.Read All Balcony (BF) Reviews >>
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We took a bus to the Mendenhall glacier national park - did not book through Princess but bought one from a kiosk right next to the port. $24 for me and my son, much cheaper. Plus we took as long as we wanted at the park, took 2 hikes, played in the water, and did worry about the time spent.
We also picked up 3 more 'gold' coins for my son by visiting certain jewelry stores and giving our cabin number.
Since there's not much to do, my 4 year old and I just wandered around. Found a playground and went to it, looked at the water and spotted sea stars, crabs and a seal. The shopping coupon book from the ship had a set of 'gold' coins you could collect for free by going to certain stores and trying some jewelry on so my son and I did that - 4 stores in Ketchikan.
Bought train tickets directly from the train station - much cheaper than Princess. The train was fine, 3 1/2 hours to White Pass and back. Interesting history and I took lots of pictures. A little expensive, I don't think I'll do this again - $120 for me, and $60 for my son.
Last 2 'gold' coins from the cruise ship's shopping guide, by now all I had to do was show the book and give our cabin number and they just handed us the coin.
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