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The National Alliance to End Sexual Violence stands with all victims and survivors of sexual violence and fully affirms their right to decide for themselves what happens with their bodies and with their lives. Rape is never the victims' fault, and no one can instruct someone brutalized by this crime how they should view it or how they should manage their own survival and healing. While national candidates play politics with this most sensitive of issues, the Violence Against Women Act languishes in Congress, rape crisis centers struggle to provide the most basic services without adequate funding, federal funding for rape prevention efforts are receding, and the rape kit backlog remains a national disgrace. If our leaders are serious about addressing the crime of rape and supporting victims, they must stop pontificating about what victims should do in the aftermath of this heinous crime and do everything in their power to ensure our nation's laws and budget reflect compassion for women, children and men whose lives have been devastated in the most intimate way imaginable.


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On a balmy Friday night, the first revelers are trickling into the cool of Bemelmans Bar at The Carlyle hotel on Manhattan's Upper East Side. The Chris Gillespie Trio is getting to work, with Gillespie twisting slightly on his piano bench so he can engage patrons even in the corners of the room. From her perch on a banquette, beverage director and resident mixologist Audrey Saunders grins hello to the regulars while eyeing the orders on the trays her waiters are whisking by.
So far, most guests are playing it safe with wine and sidecars, a traditional brandy and Cointreau cocktail. But once in a while an order comes in for one of Saunders' more inventive intrusions into the classical canon: her Old Cuban, a $17 mojito topped off with Champagne instead of club soda, or her $13 Dreamy Dorini Smoking Martini, which melds vodka with, of all things, one of the smokiest of single-malt scotches.
Saunders, who abandoned a lucrative drape-cleaning business six years ago to practice the art of mixology, does with cocktails what Gillespie does on a keyboard. She keeps the reliable standards fresh with nifty interpolations of the ingredients. Only, unlike Gillespie's always-composed trio, Saunders occasionally lets loose -- as in the Dorini -- with the cocktail equivalent of an ear-splitting screech on the saxophone.
That combination of classical balance and unbridled whimsy -- along with a fanatical devotion to fresh and unusual ingredients -- has been crucial to reviving the night life at Bemelmans. The bar is named for children's book author Ludwig Bemelmans, who wrote the Madeline series and in 1947 painted the walls with charming renditions of his creations. Following a $2 million renovation of the tobacco-stained room three years ago, Dale DeGroff, the cocktail consultant brought in to devise a new menu of drinks, recommended his young protégée for beverage director. (Long fascinated by drinks, she took his mixology course and then worked with him for free at benefits around the city to learn the craft.)
That has left Saunders, 40, in a highly visible position in what remains very much a man's preserve. She has used Bemelmans as a pulpit from which to preach the fresh-and-inventive gospel she learned from DeGroff, while demonstrating an equal dexterity at designing great drinks and attending to the business of the bar.
What Saunders and her friend and sometime collaborator Julie Reiner of New York's Flatiron Lounge have brought to mixology is a more culinary approach. They pay far greater attention to ingredients and the proportions in which they're combined than traditional bartenders. That's no mean accomplishment in drinks, which too often tend to be thrown together.
Even today, with a cocktail revival in full swing, Saunders laments the trend toward oversweet concoctions made from pre-mixed ingredients. Such drinks erase the character of the liquors and forego the fresh fruits and herbs that should be the joys of a well-constructed cocktail. Vanilla martinis? Not at Bemelmans. Sour mix dispensed from a "gun" behind the bar? Saunders would sooner shoot herself.
Instead, Saunders ransacks such 1940s bibles as David Embury's The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks or Charles Baker's The Gentleman's Companion to learn how to balance sweet, sour, and strong ingredients, or bittersweet and strong ones. "Once you know the basic ingredients, it's easy to pull out one and put something else in," she says.
For a base, Saunders most often uses gin, thanks to the range of flavors provided by various brands. She has been among those lobbying to revive long-overlooked rye whiskey, for its powerful spiciness. But she thinks America's most popular spirit, vodka, is overused: "Why would I want to use vodka when there are so many other interesting spirits out there? Vodka's a no-brainer. Put juice with it and you've got a fruit smoothie, not a real cocktail."
Saunders argues it's more important to explore unjustly neglected spirits and aperitifs -- names like Chartreuse, Punt e Mes, Fernet Branca Menta, Crème d'Yvette -- that elicit blank stares from many bartenders today. Rather than look to the distillers for innovation, Saunders invents her own new tastes by infusing (or steeping) into spirits exotic ingredients that might be overwhelmed if simply mixed in -- say, Earl Grey Tea for the famous Earl Grey "MarTEAni" she created two years ago for a Thanksgiving celebration at the Ritz Hotel London.
Visitors to Saunders' apartment describe it as a riot of infusion experiments -- coffees, juices, herbs, spices, whatever. "Audrey's a bit of a mad scientist," says DeGroff. Once she has uncovered an interesting flavor combination, Saunders will tinker with it endlessly until the proportions are just right. "Her attention to detail amazes me," says her friend Reiner. "I'll do 15 or 20 versions of a cocktail, but she'll do 100" before settling on the best.
The results can be startling. Saunders' most audacious concoction, the Dreamy Dorini, is named for a whiskey-drinking friend, Dori. Though martinis had been created using blended scotch whisky instead of vermouth, Saunders went further, using a peaty single-malt whisky called Laphroaig. Its smoky taste would have overwhelmed its companion, Grey Goose vodka, except for Saunders' inspired idea of adding a few drops of Pernod as "the lion tamer." It's not clear why that should work, but it does.
Such virtuosity has convinced the cocktail crowd that the drapes lady is a true original. "Audrey seems able to envisage flavors that will marry well even if they haven't been tried before," says whisky expert Gary Regan, who has a Web site, ardentspirits.com, and was an initial skeptic. While Regan himself has long urged that single malts be used in mixed drinks, "it was the whole recipe that astounded me. As you know, the Libation Goddess was right," he says, calling Saunders by her e-mail handle.
As the first Dorini of the night passes by on a tray, Saunders allows that "it's a bizarre drink, and if you don't like it, that's O.K., too." Even that radical recipe, though, boasts simplicity and balance. "You can create new things, but they have to stem from history. We make them fun and delicious, but we haven't strayed very far," she says. Spoken like both a true revolutionary and a keeper of tradition.
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Beautiful natural landmark is Leang Pute sinkhole in the Southern Sulawesi.
Leang in Makassarese language is "cave", "pute" - a species of white dove - thus the sinkhole has been named after birds living on inaccessible walls of this giant hole.
Leang Pute is located in Maros limestone karst complex - area with countless caves, often adorned with prehistoric paintings. This area is covered with primeval tropical forest and here have been found numerous unique species of plants and animals - and many certainly still are waiting for their discoverer.
The sinkhole is available after a walk through a jungle and the rims of this hollow are covered with very dense vegetation. Also the dark bottom of the sinkhole (as large as two soccer fields) is covered with lush vegetation - here grow even some trees, live countless snakes, spiders, frogs, millipedes. The overhanging walls of the sinkhole are adorned with countless stalactites.


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Equitable Mortages' receivers expect to repay between 65% and 70%
Equitable Mortgages' receivers say they expect loan recoveries may ultimately enable them to repay between 65% and 70% of the principal owed about 6,000 investors, or between $124.9 million and $134.6 million.
Monday, 20 February 2012
by Jenny Ruth
Grant Graham and Brendon Gibson of Korda Mentha say in their third statutory report they have repaid the government about $50 million so far, about 26% of he $192.3 million owed debenture holders when the company went into receivership on December 17, 2010.
About $178 million of the principal owed was covered by the government guarantee and the receivers say, as at January 27 this year, the Treasury has advised about 97% of those investors by value had been repaid.
A related company, Equitable General Insurance (EGI), had issued loan loss cover policies in respect of Equitable's advances, the receivers say.
"We are assessing the claim that can be made under these policies and discussing with EGI its ability to meet these claims which we expect will significantly exceed EGI's reserves. Our recovery estimate above does not allow for any recovery from these policies."
The receivers expect there will be a shortfall in returns owing investors not covered by the guarantee and that it is "extremely unlikely" unsecured creditors owed about $25 million will be paid anything.
Graham and Gibson are receivers for another finance company, Numeria Finance, and in a report on that company they say debenture holders owed $3.9 million are likely to receiver a final distribution of one cent in the dollar, bringing their total repayments to 37 cents in the dollar.
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League champions Tondu reach Silver Ball final!
A defensive performance which was second to none won this Silver Ball semi-final for a Tondu side brimming with confidence after being crowned Division 2 West Central champions last weekend.
The Waterwheelers were never fazed against their higher opposition and from the outset took the the game to a Treorchy side lacking in ideas.
The first try came from strong forward pressure resulting in captain Hywel Davies grabbing the ball and crawling over to give the underdogs the lead. Josh Tatchell slotted the conversation to give Tondu an early 7-0 advantage.
Treorchy had plenty of possession in that first half but were unable to breach an astute Tondu defence, then towards the end of the first period the Treorchy backs fumbled the ball in their own half, which was collected by Tondu outside half Paul Smithson before releasing to Tatchell.
He set scrum half Gareth Lindenburn free on a 20 metre break to put wing Matthew Murphy in for a magnificent try, making the half-time score Tondu 12, Treorchy 0.
The second half was almost all Treorchy but it only succeeded in bringing out one of the best defensive performances you will ever see at this level from a Tondu side.
Playing with their backs to the wall, the Waterwheelers shute their opponents out even though they had to endure three yellow cards in this hard-hitting encounter.
Garin Daniels did manage to get a try from a pushover scrum for the Zebras, converted by Jorden Lloyd, but it was too little too late for the Zebras, and it's Tondu that deservedly reach the final at Aberavon on May 20.
Head coach Matthew Tatchell was full of praise for his team's effort: "What a performance! There was commitment and enthusiasm in abundance against this Division 1 team.
"We set our stall out early in the game and never looked back. We dominated the first half, going in at the break winning 12-0, and it was a tremendous defensive effort to keep Treorchy out until three minutes to go, as well as having our own chances to go further ahead to be honest.
"Everbody gave their maximum and it's a well-deserved cup final place for the boys. Once again I'm really proud of evey one of them, and big thanks to the two buses of noisy supporters."


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Although going down to Dungannon in their away encounter last week, Clogher Valley still remain serious contenders for the league title.
The Fivemiletown team dropped to second place after this defeat, but only trail new league leaders Dungannon by the single point with both having four fixtures remaining, two away and two at home each.
Ballybay who hold third position, cannot be written off at this stage, and with a game less played than the leading two could supply a major input into deciding who will collect the 'silverware' this season.
Enniskillen 8 points (63 shots) Sionmills 2 points (40 shots) With neither of these teams now in contention for league honours this season, this game was played at Celtic Park in a relaxed manner and thoroughly enjoyed by both.
Enniskillen looked to be winners from the early stages and eventually ended coming out on top comfortably in three out of the four games played.
David Dickson's Enniskillen rink of Teresa McCourt, Dennis Thornton and Dennis Croot dictated play in their encounter against Sion's Martin Rice and at the end of the 12 had gone into a convincing 17 shots to 5 lead. Although the visiting rink won all of the remaining three ends, David's team ended comfortable winners by 17 shots to 11.
Enniskillen continued their successful evening's play when Eric Hamilton accompanied by John Corrigan, Alex Morrow and Dessie Brown romped home to victory against P Martin. The Enniskillen rink chalked up a six in the third end and a five in the 11th to run out easy winners by 21 shots to 8.
A similar story on rink two where Wilfie Crawford skip, David Reilly, Janet Brown and Jude Morris for Enniskillen never really looked like losing to R Patton's Sionmills rink and eased victory by 15 shots to 8.
Enniskillen's only defeat of the evening took place on rink three where Andy Wray skip, Willie Coalter ,James McCaffery and Raymond Gault were evenly matched against P Rice's Sion rink, right up to the half way stage. After the visiting rink collected a total of nine shots in four consecutive ends they went on to edge victory by 13 shots to 10.
Dungannon 8 points (71 shots) Clogher Valley 2 points (40 shots) This important top of the table game in Dungannon could well have been the decider in this season's outdoor league and ended in what was expected, a win for the home team.
Clogher Valley were fully aware of the uphill battle this was going to be on the grass surface which they are not accustomed to and going home with two points was a satisfactory result for them.
Once again it was the consistent Clogher Valley rink of John Burrell skip, Frances Cartwright, Noel Clarke and Blayney Cartwright who were their only point winners. Although the Clogher Valley rink found themselves six shots down after the first four ends against Dungannon's J Haydock, they came back brilliantly to chalk up a game winning five shots in the tenth end and continue on to win by 13 shots to 10.
Willis Armstrong, James McAnenly, Maurice Malone and skip Billy Dunlop for Clogher Valley found their opposing rink skipped by A Rafferty all in superior form on the night and went down by 21 shots to 8 in a game that was always going to be won by the home side.
In a similar story Ernie Clarke's Clogher Valley rink of William Rutledge, Billy Kirkpatrick and Norman Browne never really got over the early shock of dropping seven shots to Dungannon's D Hughes and were completely outplayed to go downy a scoreline of 20 shots to 7.
Although Matt Livingstone skip and his Clogher Valley rink of Rosmary McAnenly, Ken Givens and Harold Nelson collected a four in the sixth end against Dungannon's B Cardwell, to level the score at six shots each, it was mainly downhill from then on, with Dungannon completing another victory by 21 shots to 12.


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Amazon Kindle Fire HD 8.9-inch hands-on
0. phoneArena posted on 06 Sep 2012, 18:54
Amazon also introduced the all new 8.9-inch Amazon Kindle Fire HD. At only 20 ounces, and with a full 1920x1200 HD LCD display, it presents crisp images and performance...
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1. imkyle (Posts: 1086; Member since: 18 Nov 2010)
This one does look nice. The 7inch size IMO belongs to the Nexus. I would consider this.
2. doejon (Posts: 406; Member since: 31 Jul 2012)
the last 20 news are about kindle
whats this? lol
today is phonearena kindlearena..
4. downphoenix (Posts: 3165; Member since: 19 Jun 2010)
This is true but other than the Kindle announcements, its been a slow day.
3. PhoneCritic (Posts: 926; Member since: 05 Oct 2011)
Is it me or does anyone else see it resembling the Motorola Xoom (from behind away)?
Looks as thick as a Xoom as well.
Good price this is what the Xoom should have been priced at earlier and it would have craved a large part of the tablet market for itself.
5. krimHD (Posts: 106; Member since: 23 May 2012)
it looks like the touch is not all that responsive. in the 2 videos they had to tap tap and tap. nice looking tablet and good pricing
6. phitch (Posts: 214; Member since: 06 Mar 2012)
Holy Bezel Batman!
7. pikapowerize (banned) (Posts: 1869; Member since: 03 May 2012)
whats the OS? android rip off?
9. doejon (Posts: 406; Member since: 31 Jul 2012)
actually this is android :D
8. gcogger (Posts: 4; Member since: 29 Aug 2012)
I've been looking for a tablet to replace my Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9, which is great but limited by its Tegra 2 chipset. (I don't want a 10" tablet, as I find them too big and heavy for comfort). Unfortunately the Kindle Fire HD is not it! It's over 100g heavier than the Samsung and bigger in every dimension. This is the weight, and almost the size, of a 10" tablet, but with the disadvantage of a smaller screen.
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guys im not fimilar to this but does kindle fire hd has google play??


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Anatomy of Human Resources in Reserve Bank of India (RBI)
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has the responsibility of handling assorted functions ranging from monetary policy, maintaining financial stability to regulating and supervising banks and non-banking financial companies. The quality of governance by RBI as banker's bank for the delivery of multi-dimensional tasks professionally, human resource development (HRD) and organization management is crucial. It is a established reality that human resources at RBI handled global financial crisis competently but there is a news that RBI has hired services of six external agencies to suggest measures for improving their quality meaning there by we need to do more on HRD as aspects in RBI. Therefore, there is a strong case for analyzing the strengths and weaknesses of human resources in RBI for future growth. We have analyzed the quantity and quality of human resources at the RBI including organizational structure whose quality plays vital role for good governance. Then we have highlighted current status as well as the structure of human resource at the RBI keeping in view its composition on various bases like departments, classes and categories and observed that it is a fair practice, gender sensitive and equal opportunity institution but at the same time suggested to explore the synergies of new department of HRM after combining the DAPM and HRDD. Key words: RBI, HRM, HRD , Good Governance as SMART & SIMPLE
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Reducing energy and resources use in the built environment is my goal. Paramount to achieving this is integrative design and life cycle analysis. I hold a BS Biology from Arkansas Tech University in Russellville and a MSc Renewable Energy from Murdoch University, Perth, Western Australia. I've worked in residential energy efficiency and energy conservation since 2006. I taught English as a Second Language in Thailand from 1999 to 2005 and with Everblue Training Institute since 2012. Along with the literal jugging I do, I manage to juggle my time between a curious 6 year old son and a newborn girl.


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WINFIELD brings their W logo to the Cyan Trucker snapback cap. This New Era 9Fifty uses White mesh back panels with a Cyan front and bill. Winfield's W is embroidered in flat White embroidery. All in all a nice summer cap that will keep you cool in the breeze. Available now exclusively at www.winfieldcaps.com.


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HOSPITAL staff will have to wash their soiled scrubs at home as part of plans to upgrade the quality of their uniforms.
Staff at Salisbury District Hospital will be given better quality scrubs but as they are more expensive, nurses, midwives and ward staff will need to launder them, saving the cost of cleaning them in the hospital's own laundry.
The new scrubs will come in three different colours, according to the role and seniority of staff, and they are expected to be in place later this year. Staff have raised concerns about the spread of infection, and staff unions have this week voiced their worries over the impact on staff.
Mark Wareham, speaking on behalf of the joint Staff Side unions, said they are concerned about the "extra burden upon staff" who will face the costs of cleaning their uniforms.
"Whilst we accept that many employees wanted to take on these duties, and feel able to cope with the additional burden," he said. "We are concerned for the impact on the low paid, mainly female worker who will be most detrimentally affected by this change," he said.
"There is little good news in this proposal for them other than a possibility of some tax relief, and the hospital may be able to assist them with purchasing new washing machines."
He added: "This comes at a time when NHS staff are facing year on year real cuts in their standard of living as a result of government austerity measures and with the trust continuing to pose the threat of imposing even worse pay and conditions on staff through their membership of the south west pay cartel."
Fiona Hyett, deputy director of nursing, said the decision is based on feedback from patients and staff, who expressed a preference for better quality scrubs.
She said: "Before the implementation of scrub suits in 2006, uniforms would have been cleaned at home and this remains the case in the vast majority of other hospitals across the country without creating a risk of spreading infection and compromising infection control procedures."
Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust will now carry out a formal tendering exercise to choose a company and uniforms, with staff being fully involved in the process.


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The Freak Bar™
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Finally The Freak Bar™ has come back!
The Freak Bar™ is a patent pending plate loaded exercise bar that allows you to push and pull on a horizontal,vertical, axis using internal and external resistance in the form of springs while simultaneously being able to lower and press the bar on a horizontal axis.
By causing the user to apply internal and external forces against the given spring resistance will stimulate the muscles of the upper body along with the connective tissue, tendons and ligaments of the arms and shoulders. The user can spread the bar inward and outward while performing various motions such as but not limited to
- Bench Pressing
- Overhead pressing
- Grappling
- Deadlifting
- Shrugging
How DoesThe Spring Resistance Work
The resistance used is provided by standard Straight Coiled Helical Compression Springs as they provide the most efficient linear compassion forces. The individual springs are carefully placed over a cylindrical bar and can easily be adjusted to increase or decrease linear resistance. We have strategically placed 2 x 4 inch handles within the spring arrangement for optimal grip and for frictionless movement. Each individual spring has ground ends which provides greater stability and smoother movement when loads are applied.
The internal and external forces used to cause the Freak Bar to move linearly is what stimulates the muscles, soft tissues, ligaments and tendons to become developed.


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Glimepiride 4 mg Tablets Under Non-Fasting Conditions
This study has been completed.
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First received: January 30, 2009
Last updated: September 1, 2009
Last verified: September 2009
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The objective of this study is to compare the relative bioavailability of glimepiride 4 mg tablets (manufactured by TEVA Pharmaceutical Industries, Ltd. and distributed by TEVA Pharmaceuticals USA) with that of AMARYL® tablets (Aventis) in healthy, adult, non-smoking subjects under non-fasting conditions.
|Drug: Glimepiride 4 mg Tablets Drug: AMARYL® 4 mg Tablets
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|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Crossover Assignment
Masking: Open Label
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|A Relative Bioavailability Study of Glimepiride 4 mg Tablets Under Non-Fasting Conditions
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Drug Information available for: GlimepirideU.S. FDA Resources
Further study details as provided by Teva Pharmaceuticals USA:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- Cmax - Maximum Observed Concentration [ Time Frame: Blood samples collected over 24 hour period ]
- AUCinf - Area Under the Concentration-time Curve From Time Zero to Infinity (Extrapolated) [ Time Frame: Blood samples collected over 24 hour period ]
- AUC0-t - Area Under the Concentration-time Curve From Time Zero to Time of Last Non-zero Concentration (Per Participant) [ Time Frame: Blood samples collected over 24 hour period ]
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|March 2003
|Study Completion Date:
|March 2003
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|March 2003 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
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Experimental: Glimepiride
Glimepiride 4 mg Tablet (test) dosed in first period followed by Amaryl® 4 mg Tablet (reference) dosed in second period
Drug: Glimepiride 4 mg Tablets
1 x 4 mg, single-dose non-fasting
Active Comparator: Amaryl®
Amaryl® 4 mg Tablet (reference) dosed in first period followed by Glimepiride 4 mg Tablet (test) dosed in second period
Drug: AMARYL® 4 mg Tablets
1 x 4 mg, single-dose non-fasting
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Criteria for Evaluation: FDA Bioequivalence Criteria
Statistical Methods: FDA bioequivalence statistical methods
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|18 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
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Inclusion Criteria:
- All subjects selected for this study will be non-smokers at least 18 years of age. Subjects will have a BMI (body mass index) of 30 or less.
- Each subject shall be given a general physical examination within 28 days of initiation of the study. Such examination includes, but is not limited to, blood pressure, general observations, and history.
- Each female subject will be given a serum pregnancy test as part of the pre-study screening process.
Adequate blood and urine samples should be obtained within 28 days before beginning of the first period and at the end of the trial for clinical laboratory measurements.
Clinical laboratory measurements will include the following:
- Hematology: hemoglobin, hematocrit, red blood cell count, platelets, whit blood cell count (with differential).
- Clinical Chemistry: creatinine, BUN, glucose, SGOT/AST, SGPT/ALT, bilirubin, and alkaline phosphatase.
- Urine Analysis: pH, specific gravity, protein, glucose, ketones, bilirubin, occult blood, and cells.
- HIV Screen: pre-study only.
- Hepatitis-B, C Screen: pre-study only.
- Drugs of Abuse Screen: pre-study and at each check-in. Subjects will be selected if all above are normal.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Subjects with a significant recent history of chronic alcohol consumption, drug addiction, or serious gastrointestinal, renal, hepatic or cardiovascular disease, tuberculosis, epilepsy, asthma, diabetes, psychosis or glaucoma will not be eligible for this study.
- Subjects whose clinical laboratory test values are greater than 20% outside the normal range may be retested. If the clinical values are outside the range on retesting, the subject will not be eligible to participate in the study unless the clinical investigator deems the result to not be significant.
- Subjects who have a history of allergic responses to the class of drug being tested will be excluded from the study.
- Subjects who use tobacco in any form will not be eligible to participate in the study. Three months abstinence is required.
- All subjects will have urine samples assayed for the presence of drugs of abuse as part of the clinical laboratory screening procedures and at each dosing period check-in. Subjects found to have urine concentrations of any of the tested drugs will not be allowed to participate.
- Subjects should not have donated blood and/or plasma for at least thirty (30) days prior to the first dosing of the study.
- Subjects who have taken any investigational drug within thirty (30) days prior to the first dosing of the study will not be allowed to participate.
- Female subjects who are pregnant, breast-feeding, or who are likely to become pregnant during the study will not be allowed to participate. Female subjects of childbearing potential must either abstain from sexual intercourse or use a reliable barrier method (e.g. condom, IUD) of contraception during the course of the study (first dosing until last blood collection) or they will not be allowed to participate. Female subjects who have used hormonal oral contraceptives within 14 days of dosing or implanted or injected hormonal contraceptives within 180 days of dosing will not be allowed to participate.
- All female subjects will be screened for pregnancy at check-in each study period. Subjects with positive or inconclusive results will be withdrawn from the study.
- Subjects who do not tolerate venipuncture will not be allowed to participate.
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The deal is a boost for about 200 workers who have been involved in early development work on the F136 engine for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.
Rolls will team up with US peer General Electric for the US government deal that is expected to run until 2013.
The news comes as Rolls-Royce suffers its first official strike for 20 years.
Workers at its Bristol plant walked out following the sacking of a union official.
Jerry Hicks was sacked over misconduct claims, but an employment tribunal provisionally found he had "probably been dismissed on trade union grounds".
The stealth deal is the second involving Lockheed Martin's F-35 Joint Strike Fighter after Pratt & Whitney secured development work on an F135 engine for the plane.
The F-35 will be powered by Pratt & Whitney engines until 2012.
After that, GE Aircraft Engines and Rolls-Royce will compete with Pratt & Whitney for engine placement deals.
Production of the fighters could reach 6,000 over the next 30 years and include a long-term replacement for the UK's Harrier and Sea Harrier.
Lockheed Martin is leading the project, which also involves BAE Systems, in order to replace several aircraft including the F-16 and F/A-18.
It has already produced a prototype of the plane and first jets will go into service in two year's time.
"This is going to be the mainstay of our military engine business going forward," said GE's Jean Lydon-Rodgers, programme director of the new engine.
GE has a 60% stake in the programme, with Rolls also carrying out work on the contract at its plant in Indianapolis, United States.


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This month cartoonist Cathy Guisewite will retire her infamous Cathy cartoon strip.
Today many people might argue that the character — who was obsessed with chocolate, dieting, and dating — is anything but a feminist heroine. But Jessica Wakeman at Ms. helps put Cathy in perspective:
When the "Cathy" comic strip started in 1976, some victories of the women's movement were still fresh on people's minds. The birth control pill had been around for over a decade. Yale University had begun admitting women seven years earlier. Ms. had been on newsstands for five years. Abortion had been legalized three years before. All this is to underscore the point that at the time the "Cathy" strip first appeared, it was an exciting and liberating time to be a single woman.
A single women, I might add, with a job at which she wore a suit and made money:
At the time, as Wakeman points out, the idea that a life like that was even "worth exploring" was rather new. However antiquated Cathy seems now, we still very rarely see any cultural product led entirely by a female protagonist. Cathy, however stereotypically girly, offered us something rather unusual, then and now.Lisa Wade, PhD is a professor at Occidental College. She is the author of American Hookup, a book about college sexual culture, and a textbook about gender. You can follow her on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.


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KitKat coming to Motorola Moto X and the latest Motorola DROID models
0. phoneArena posted on 31 Oct 2013, 19:11
Motorola updated its website on Thursday in order to reveal which of its more recent models will be getting updated to Android 4.4; according to the site, the Motorola Moto X will receive the update to Android 4.4 as will the Moto X Developer Edition. Also receiving the update will be the Motorola DROID Ultra, Motorola DROID Maxx and Motorola DROID Mini...
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1. D.Aceveda (Posts: 396; Member since: 30 Jun 2012)
Is anyone surprised by this? Lol
12. Mxyzptlk (unregistered)
When it's Motorola, yeah.
2. fanboy1974 (Posts: 1345; Member since: 12 Nov 2011)
It's not a matter of if it will receive 4.4 it's a matter of when. Samsung is rolling out 4.3 to many devices but their all behind again. My Note 10.1 is still at 4.2.
4. bibekpachhai (unregistered)
My Note 10.1 is still in 4.1 -.-
8. fanboy1974 (Posts: 1345; Member since: 12 Nov 2011)
Thanks for the correction. I thought I was only 2 updates behind. With 4.4 I'm 3 updates behind.
3. Sniggly (Posts: 7305; Member since: 05 Dec 2009)
I'm particularly impressed with the speed with which Motorola made this announcement. I look forward to seeing KitKat on my Mini.
6. JC557 (Posts: 1794; Member since: 07 Dec 2011)
My Droid Razr M is still on 4.1.2 and hasn't seen 4.2.2. I really hope Motorola comes around and adds 4.4 bypassing 4.2 and 4.3 altogether.
My LG Spectrum was updated around the same time as my Droid Razr M. That's pretty horrible considering how LG is with their updates.
10. roldefol (Posts: 4365; Member since: 28 Jan 2011)
I would hope Moto can bring the 2012 Razr lineup to KitKat. Those phones are only a year old, and 4.4 is optimized for lower memory devices. If an S4 and 1 GB aren't enough, there's little hope for other 2012 phones. It's just a matter of Motorola putting in the effort and Verizon testing it.
13. Droid_X_Doug (Posts: 5993; Member since: 22 Dec 2010)
KitKat on the Maxx here. Woohoo!
Just a matter of when, not whether.
I wonder if there will be an intermediate release of 4.3; or is Moto going straight to 4.4?
25. Berzerk000 (Posts: 4275; Member since: 26 Jun 2011)
Motorola never released any 4.3 update plans to my knowledge, so it seems like their jumping over 4.3.
26. roldefol (Posts: 4365; Member since: 28 Jan 2011)
Suits me just fine. Unless there's something in 4.3 I'm not aware of, skipping to 4.4 would be ideal. Why waste time on a minor update?
27. Berzerk000 (Posts: 4275; Member since: 26 Jun 2011)
Exactly, especially when we all knew that 4.4 was coming out just 3 months after. I mean, the only thing that might make you miss 4.3 are the speed improvements, but it's nothing major. I would rather wait a few more months for a 0.2 update rather than get a 0.1 update sooner and another later.
24. Berzerk000 (Posts: 4275; Member since: 26 Jun 2011)
Do you think that's why Motorola hasn't updated the Moto X and Droids to 4.3 yet? Rather than developing for 4.3 then 4.4, they just sent out a maintenance update to improve some things and plan to jump from 4.2 to 4.4. Motorola never really did mention any plans for 4.3, so that's what it looks like.
By the way, have you gotten the test update for the new Droids yet? I signed up 4 days ago, but haven't gotten anything.
32. rabidhunter (Posts: 90; Member since: 05 Jul 2013)
I'm digging it myself, too. On 4.2.2 the Mini is an awesome device at a great price. I hope that soon it will be released. It's going to be sweet.
5. downphoenix (Posts: 3165; Member since: 19 Jun 2010)
so much for Google's ownership of Motorola ensuring they would improve their software support. I still remember Moto neglecting the Photon even though it wasn't even a year old on the ICS update.
7. Sniggly (Posts: 7305; Member since: 05 Dec 2009)
They aren't ignoring anything here. So...yeah, the griping is likely unwarranted here.
9. JC557 (Posts: 1794; Member since: 07 Dec 2011)
I could understand the Photon as it didn't really sell all that well. I just hope Motorola comes around on the rest of their Razr lineup.
16. Mxyzptlk (unregistered)
That's not really a justifiable reason.
19. JC557 (Posts: 1794; Member since: 07 Dec 2011)
It sort of is because it does cost quite a bit to program software for these phones. Google laid the ground work but it's up to the devs to code for different specs as well as obtaining drivers from various sources.
Every company does something similar. If a product wasn't really popular to begin with then it'll be under limited support.
Otherwise you should go get a real job and see how sh*t works in the real world. Your Apple biased BS is getting annoying.
11. Mxyzptlk (unregistered)
I think it was more of a patent thing. But that's why I never suggest Motorola phones period because of the support issue.
14. DukeX (Posts: 327; Member since: 28 Aug 2013)
It blows my mind how you still hold on to how moto was back in the day. I hear you have been doing this for 2 years. Just give it a rest man...better yet just quit. STOP. Every time I see a moto article you bring up the same bs. How many times has Sniggly called you out for this?
15. Mxyzptlk (unregistered)
Some of you are hypocrites. Android OEMs still delay updates, Motorola isn't an exception. Some of you still harp on apple about antennagate and their business philosophy with the iPhone and you're telling me to give it a rest?
Sniggly only calls me out because I won't agree with him and it bugs him that I won't see him eye to eye.
18. VZWuser76 (Posts: 4786; Member since: 04 Mar 2010)
Apple who you hold so dear has at anytime an update comes around 3 different models to update, where other manufacturers have anywhere from 5 to 15 models to update. If a device doesn't sell well, they're going to have a hard time justifying expending that many man hours with their profits from a poorly selling device. I guarantee it would be no different if the same thing happened to Apple. The closest to their business strategy is Microsoft, and how many updates did the KIN phones receive?
As far as being a hypocrite, when you can admit that their are problems with ANY OS or manufacturer, then maybe you can start throwing that word around.
At this point they're telling what phones will definitely be updated. Of course off the top of their head they will list the ones produced this year, then they go back and see if there will be any issues porting the update to their older phones. The update just dropped today, how about give them sometime to get their ducks in a row before you start bashing them. And the difference updates between Android and Apple and is that Android OEMs have to get the update from Google, and then see about what can or cannot be updated. Where in Apple's case they as a manufacturer and software provider already have access to the update ahead of time. I have no doubt now that Nokia's phone manufacturing arm is under MS that it will be the same with them.
20. Sniggly (Posts: 7305; Member since: 05 Dec 2009)
Actually, I only call you out when in the course of defending your opinions, you make false statements which you pass off as fact.
You're free not to like Motorola and not to recommend them. However, I'm free to point out that your condemnation of Motorola's software support is based on a single incident which happened a year ago, and you steadfastly refuse to consider the rest of their track record, which is either on par with or better than the records of its competitors in the Android marketplace.
22. roldefol (Posts: 4365; Member since: 28 Jan 2011)
I could choose to be like Mxy regarding HTC support, based on my own experience. I don't though. I try to give companies the benefit of the doubt and look at their recent track record. Am I less likely to push HTC when a friend asks for phone recommendations? Yes. But that's different from trolling every article and continually bashing the company and its products.
The fact that Mxy directs most of his ire at Motorola makes him more hater than Apple fanboy. Why keep wasting keystrokes? Enjoy your chosen device and let others enjoy theirs. Especially when your gripes are 2 year old news.
23. techguyone (Posts: 208; Member since: 18 May 2013)
Yes give it a rest, no -one cares about your 2 yr old endless griping with motorola, you just sound like a 12 yr old whiny girl chuntering on endlessly.
17. BattleBrat (Posts: 1476; Member since: 26 Oct 2011)
Motos support is on par with google, google dropped the galaxy Nexus, and Moto dropped the RAZR, I'm sure the HD's will get kit kat'd
34. rabidhunter (Posts: 90; Member since: 05 Jul 2013)
I checked the Motorola update portal for a friend's RAZR M, it said that update plans were being made. It did not say specifically that it was getting the update, but then it didn't say that it wasn't either. I'm thinking that they're going to update their older devices eventually; however, they need to take care of their newest devices first. That only makes sense, it would make a lot of people upset if their new phones were not getting the update right away, but the older ones were.
21. oNEWorld (Posts: 140; Member since: 01 Aug 2013)
Samsung isn't any better with the updates.
28. AJmeBOY (Posts: 34; Member since: 16 Dec 2011)
Moto RAZR MAXX: I know it's older. Was planning on Verizon getting the Nexus 5.
Plan B: Get help/guidance rooting it to 4.4 (when available). I've never rooted a device before. Where does one go for easy to follow directions to complete this task without losing everything?


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Sounds like it's rather unique, but some of the game parts may not work so well.
The Humble Bundle Weekly Sale is 1C and just went live.
It is the King's Bounty and Men of War series, three of each.
Kings Bounty Armoured Princess was a mostly great fun 32 hours of my life according to Steam. Some annoying wandering back and forth to replenish troops but that never takes long. A few dickish bossfights but they tend to be optional and you can come back later to crush them.
Isn't it a bit strange having both Crossworlds and AP in the bundle though? I thought one (CW) was basically the other (AP) plus some other stuff.
The Steam versions are actually two different full installs, so Crossworlds isn't just an add-on. Not sure why.Quote:
Isn't it a bit strange having both Crossworlds and AP in the bundle though? I thought one (CW) was basically the other (AP) plus some other stuff.
But yeah, since you can play the original AP from Crossworlds, it seems a bit odd to include them both.
Ahhh damn those bundles, they're to blame for 90% of my "backlog". If I'm to be realistic, ie playing one of the Bounty-games, which should it be?
If you have Crossworlds, you might go for that; the main campaign is AP with extra bits (although the original AP has more than enough bits already, really).
I prefer exploration in the Legend, but they tweaked combat to make it better in AP. Quite honestly, you'll be satisfied with whatever one you chose, and gameplay doesn't change much game to game.
I just got Steamrolled. I wanted to buy the Quake pack only to learn that "You already own everything in this pack".
So I bought the Heretic and Hexen pack instead. It doesn't have Heretic 2, which is a shame...
PSA: Don't neglect Quake's mission packs. I played through Scourge of Armagon a few years back and had a lot of fun.
Sleeping Dogs is also 75% off, good amount of fun to be had. Personal recommendations for DLC are Year of the Snake, Zodiac Tournament and some outlandish cosmetic stuff (Nightmare in North Point was OK).
Skulls of the Shogun 4-pack is 75 % off on Gamersgate (single games aren't discounted for some reason). I bought a 4-pack with an additional 20 % off. Anyone interested? It should be about £2.50.
EDIT: It's now 25 % off. Gotta love GG mistakes. Anyway, the price stands. Let me know. 2 left.
EDIT 2: They're gone.
Ooh, me, mememe!
If you still have a copy, count me in!
I guess I'll give Armored Princess a go over the weekend then, thanks for opinioning.


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MD | 21 May 2010
The uncertainty of the past two years is certainly behind us. The world is looking up, and India has led this revival in more ways than one. The industry is looking at the near future with great hopes and aspiration as the size of the pie is going to grow exponentially in the next two years. The kind of advertising big bucks that went into IPL telecast is a clear indication of the good things to come. The industry is gearing up to meet the challenges and we too want to grab a large share of the growing pie.
Tapas Gupta has been a marketing and advertising professional with 25 years' experience in the Indian and international offices of McCann Erickson Worldwide. He started out with Clarion-McCann in 1977 as a management trainee and left as the General Manager, Kolkata in 1986.
Gupta has headed McCann Erickson's Delhi, Kolkata and Kathmandu offices as Senior VP and Director from 1987 to 1995. He has overseen M-EW Bangalore from 1991-93. He has worked on key global McCann accounts like Nestle, Gillette, etc., at McCann's international offices in Manila and Hong Kong.
Gupta was deputed by McCann Erickson to head M-EW's new JV agency, PSL-Erickson, in 1996 as President & CEO. He was CEO from 1996 to 1998.
He started Confluence Communication in 1999 simultaneously in Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata and has built it into a Rs 100-plus crore agency in nine years. He collaborated with BE International, a reputed mid-sized global agency in 2004, and became the Managing Director of BEI Confluence in 2004.
He is also the active Executive Committee member of AAAI, and has been the Convener of the Northern Region of Advertising Agencies' Association of India for the last five years.
In this interview with exchange4media's Shikha, Gupta speaks at length about the growth of BEI Confluence in India, overcoming the slowdown and the future growth plans of the agency.
Q. You had set a target of Rs 145 crore for 2009, how successful were you in achieving that? Did the slowdown play a damper in achieving your target?
We have achieved about Rs 134 crore in fiscal 2009-10 (20 per cent growth over the previous year) in three different ways. About 20 per cent from organic growth from some of our existing clients, by winning new brands from their portfolio. 35 per cent by winning new businesses across all our three offices: Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata. Lastly, 45 per cent through a process of coming together and amalgamation with one of the existing BEI companies in India. This process substantially added to our growth in turnover.
Q. What are the major developments to be seen in BEI Confluence for the year 2010?
The year has been a significant one for BEI Confluence. One of the most eminent practicing media professionals, Bashab Sarkar, who's been a leading media professional with over 25 years' experience in media planning at McCann Erickson, Contract and O&M, heading their media functions and later became the first Managing Director of Maximise (now known as Maxus, a leading GroupM company), and his team of seven media planning and buying professionals have got associated with BEI Confluence to build a cutting-edge media planning, buying and operations team, which is probably one of the finest in Delhi.
Devraj Basu, who was till 2007-08 our Chief Operating officer in Delhi and was re-located to head the BEI Singapore operations (overseeing Malaysia, Philippines and Thailand), has come back to the India operations in 2010 to head the company's operations as COO. This is a significant value-add to the senior management of the Group as Devraj brings with him a solid exposure and experience in handling trans-national brands in diverse cultural and socio-economic environments and markets.
The creative functions have been re-jigged to meet with the creative challenges of the present times and the future. Anwar Abbas, one of the founding members of BEI Confluence, has been promoted to take on greater creative responsibilities across the country as Senior Vice President (Creative) of the Group. Ammar Mohammed, one of the brightest young creative talents in
Delhi, having worked for 10 years combined at Dhar & Hoon, JWT (Pepsi, Hero Honda, etc.) and Percept, has joined BEI Confluence as Creative Director to strengthen the front line of BEI's creative talent pool in the country.
Q. Please take us through the restructuring in BEI Confluence? What prompted this change?
I have always believed that 'change is the only constant', and in order gear up the agency to meet the challenges of today and tomorrow, we needed to induct senior and top-notch professionals to head the agency. The move has also been prompted by the fact that we need to build a management team to leap-frog the agency from its mid-sized genre to a larger base to capture our rightful place in the top 20 in next three years.
BEI Confluence has now built a core senior management team in its group head office in Delhi comprising three of the leading professionals in the city: Bashab Sarkar, as Executive Director and a member of the BEI Confluence Board (whose background I have already given above), Devraj Basu, Chief Operating Officer, and Anwar Abbas, Senior VP and Head of Creative. Devraj comes with over 20 years experience at HTA/JWT, Clarion and Lintas before he joined the BEI Group in 2003. Anwar, a founding member of the team of BEI Confluence, has had vast experience at McCann and RKS/BBDO and is recognised as one of the leading creative minds in the city. This senior management team oversees the day to day management functions of the agency and reports into me as the MD of the company.
The Board of the company has really invested into the long term future of the company by inducting top level professionals with terrific track-record to take the Group to its next level.
Q. Do you think the uncertainty because of the slowdown is over? How is the industry looking now and what is the approach that you have taken?
The uncertainty of the past two years is certainly behind us. The world is looking up, and India has led this revival in more ways than one. The industry is looking at the near future with great hopes and aspiration as the size of the pie is going to grow exponentially in the next two years. The kind of advertising big bucks that went into IPL telecast is a clear indication of the good things to come.
The industry is gearing up to meet the challenges and we too want to grab a large share of the growing pie. In fact, we are frenetically working hard to stay a step ahead as we are still a moderately sized player, and we have aspirations to jump to the big boys' league in three years flat.
Our approach has been very simple and I dare say 'old fashioned'. This has always been a business of getting the right talent to create success stories out of the brands we handle.
Unlike big boys, we are not diversifying, but consolidating. There is consolidation and strengthening that we have achieved in the last six months through the integration of Bashab Sarkar and his crack media team, and have now been subscribing to all syndicated media studies and researches. We are today fully equipped to service with a high degree of professionalism and cut-through technologies and processes clients of any size, be it in 360 degree palette or in specialised areas like strategic, creative or media.
The process of consolidation and merging has really paid off: today while at one end we work as AOR for a large client like Hitachi, Nippo or work for full 360 degree services for clients like Costa Coffee, Crax Corn Rings, T-Series etc., we also work as a creative agency for a MIRC Electronic brand (makers of ONIDA) of durables under brand name IGO, Cinemall and Bioscope brands of Essel (Zee Group).
We also have a portfolio of public sector clients like NTPC, KRIBHCO, South Eastern Railway, Balmer Lawrie (last two out of our Kolkata office). NTPC is a truly national client utilising our services from all our four offices as well as our sub-offices in Patna and Bhuvaneshwar as NTPC has strong presence in the Eastern region of India. We have a four-person 'Public Sector' Division headed by a senior professional, who co-ordinates public sector client activities across the country and oversees the operations with regional reps in our various offices.
We are, therefore, an agency with diverse 'avatar' under one brand name – BEI Confluence. We do not have sub-divisions discipline wise, but our Group and its Directors own two agencies run as independent entities as these are different companies with separate management, creative and servicing teams under a set of different professionals. I am only the 'common factor' between all three. These agencies – Archive Communication and Spasht Communication – were formed to fulfill two different niches: Archive to be a creative boutique and Spasht to be our agency to handle mid-market brand meant for Tier II and below cities. These agencies were opened a couple of years back to also resolve the issue of brand conflicts and continue to prosper and proliferate in a competitive situation. Frankly, we haven't had the time to build these into strong brands, but hopefully now with BEI Confluence senior management team in place I will be able to delegate far more and concentrate on the niche agencies we have created.
Q. What are the big challenges for you this calendar year?
The challenge is to get back to the high growth trajectory our agency witnessed interrupted till 2008, of achieving at least 20 per cent growth from 1999 each year, till recession came and halted it. However, thanks to the process of consolidation and integration, in 2009-10 we were able to achieve 20-plus per cent growth in our top-line and we hope to achieve another 20-plus per cent growth in the current year. This year it's going to be a more difficult task as we intend to grow through linear business (read: revenue) growth, unlike last year, which was through integration and amalgamation. We expect 50 per cent of our growth through organic growth and another 50 per cent through new business wins.
As a sub-set of our new business strategy, we intend to focus substantially on building a base of AOR clients to help the company to get good ROI on their investment in these consolidation processes.
Q. Tell us something about your plans for Hocus Focus, the film division arm?
We have focused on consolidation and have closed our group company Hocus Focus last year.
Q. How do you see BEI placed among the agencies in Delhi today?
BEI is a strong mid-sized agency in Delhi today and has high professional standing, strong teams and high profile brands. We are very strategically perched in this city. There are not too many mid-sized agencies here who have their core strengths and center of excellence in Delhi. In fact, here we are larger in revenue, infrastructure, talent and better set of brands than many large top 15 MNC agencies who have their offices in Delhi and India HQ in Mumbai.
In fact, our pitches and wins in this city are mostly against these MNC agency offices and many clients see us as a better agency on all aspects than some of the branch offices of MNC agencies of Delhi. Delhi has become a very large advertising market and competing with Mumbai for size and brand reputation. This city traditionally had either big agencies or briefcase agencies. Agencies like Anthem (now TBWA) and TSME (now McCann Erickson) started the mid-sized agency revolution here. Capital, Dhar & Hoon, Crayon and us are phenomena of the early 2000-05 to add on to the list.
So, agencies like us with Delhi as center of excellence have a lot to offer to national and international companies with solid brands. We understand the psyche of the northern India consumers, probably one of the most affluent in the country, better than many Mumbai-based agencies with branches in Delhi. This gives us a cutting edge in pitches with not so large MNC agencies with HO in Mumbai and branch in Delhi. We win many of them for this reason.
Therefore, we, as a Delhi HQ agency with international and national network, have the unique advantage of providing the clients the core strengths in the region. We have a six-member strong Hindi creative division led by a brilliant Hindi creative person and many of our campaigns are conceptualised and executed in Hindi. All these make us the agency of choice of many clients with national footprint in the city.
Q. How has the agency fared in other cities? The agency also has international presence, how is it doing there? Any plans to expand your footprint?
Our Kolkata office has done substantially well in the last one year and this is one office where we did not feel the heat of recession. In fact, besides Delhi, in Kolkata too we are recognised as a good mid-sized agency and that office boasts of businesses like Tata Motors (Commercial and Passenger – Eastern region only), Monginis, Kolkata's iconic brand of pastries, patties, cakes, etc., ISBM (International School of Business and Media), Shine Realtors, NTPC, etc. Our Delhi office has been back to its growth path big time after the recession, and is set to take off again in a big way. The strengthening of the top management has had its maximum positive impact in this city.
Mumbai had also suffered substantially during the recession, and is coping with its after-effects and getting back to its feet.
Internationally, like any US origin agency group, BEI suffered as much as most multi-national agency groups. But with the coming back to a growth path, we have re-couped substantially and are back to our winning ways.
Q. Do you see BEI as a small agency with big plans or big agency though it shies away from public glare?
We are a strong mid-sized MNC agency group. We are neither big nor small, have the tools, talent and technology (I strongly believe in the 3Ts) to handle clients of any size and demands.
We are, therefore, strategically perched in the middle: big clients can look at us as an agency that will be more involved and walk the extra mile with high top management involvement, mid-sized clients come to us naturally, and small, but promising brands, look at us to get the next level of professionalism network, talent, infrastructure and clout.
No wonder we work for big names like the Zee Group, Onida Group (MIRC Electronic through their brand IGO that recently shifted from McCann Erickson), global brands like Costa Coffee, Hitachi (where we work as their AOR) or large Indian brand leaders like Intex or T-Series, or iconic FMCG brands like Crax Corn Rings and Namkeens have been working with us.
Being a midsized agency with aspiration to enter the big league of top 20 in the next three years, we have the commitment and passion to walk that extra mile to see our dream come true. 'Nothing succeeds like success' and, therefore, the biggest formulae for growth is to create successful brands and showcase these to chart out and succeed in achieving our dream.
We are a little publicity shy agency, as I and my agency come from a stable where we believe our successful brands should be our biggest ambassadors.
Just watch out for a brand we are creating for one of the Hero Group companies in a very unconventional space: due to be launched shortly. We are confident that with the client we hope to create a new innovation in a brand concept in an unusual domain, and if it succeeds, possibly it will be a case study material for the posterity. Sorry, I am not boasting, but this is one brand jointly incepted by the client and the agency in a totally unconventional space, feasibility and concept research went in after that, product and possible name and branding options were tested at different stages by AC Neilson, and we are getting ready for a test launch shortly.
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Regarding the use of Chinese characters in Vietnam and Korea, Dipak Basu [in his Oct. 13 letter] is simply wrong.
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If you think that former coaches Mike Haywood and Todd Graham were bad hires for Pitt, you're right. Both were terrible, indefensible hires that set back the football program several years.
If you wish to criticize, berate and demonize the person who made those decisions — athletic director Steve Pederson — prepare to stand in a long line of critics.
Pederson blew it.
Are they fireable offenses? No. Unless there's specific legal language in Pederson's contract that he isn't permitted to make a mistake — or in this case, multiple mistakes — no way. Pederson has accomplished more good than bad at Pitt.
"If it wasn't for Steve Pederson, Pitt's not in the ACC," said former shoe executive and Trafford native Sonny Vaccaro.
Pitt chancellor Mark Nordenberg has taken the controversy in stride, and Pederson still has his job.
Nordenberg knows how valuable Pederson is to Pitt, and I mean that literally.
Pederson's magic touch enabled Pitt to evolve into one of the elite college basketball programs in the country.
Without the benefit of a top-20 football team, Pitt, on the strength of men's basketball, secured a deal with Nike in 2009 while also gaining membership in the ACC. Pitt's football team finished 10-3 in 2009 for its first 10-win season in 28 years.
If you insist on blaming Pederson for hiring Haywood and Graham, give him credit for the Panthers joining the ACC.
"Without basketball, Pitt would be like Connecticut — no place to go," Vaccaro said. "Pitt would be going to the Catholic 7."
Former Big East members Pitt, Syracuse, Louisville and Notre Dame jumped to the ACC. Connecticut, despite winning three national titles under former basketball coach Jim Calhoun, was left out.
Among Pederson's biggest supporters on campus is Jamie Dixon, the most successful basketball coach in Pitt history. Dixon said Pederson continued to influence him even after Pederson became Nebraska's athletic director before returning to Pitt in 2007.
"Steve didn't hire me as the head coach," said Dixon, who was Ben Howland's top assistant when he was promoted to replace Howland in 2003. "But he told me what Pitt could become, and he also convinced me when he wasn't here that this wasn't a place you needed to move from but a place you turn into the best job in the country.
"Steve has made so many great decisions, so many great moves," Dixon said. "Yeah, there's going to be one or two or even more that some people are going to question. But with the great moves and the rise in a number of our programs, you get held to a higher standard. As the rise came, standards became higher and expectations became higher."
While highlighting the substantial growth occurring in Pitt's athletic department, Pederson recalled when the Petersen Events Center didn't exist and there was so little money available that baseball players purchased their own cleats.
"We're talking 15 years ago, not 50 years ago," Pederson said.
"Adidas was very good to us. Nike's been superb since we made that transition," he added. "If you're not spending that much on equipment, you have a chance to put it in other areas we thought would elevate the program — a lot of that facility centered."
Department of Education statistics reported the Panthers were the 14th most profitable program in college basketball in 2009-10. The program netted $7.1 million.
In comparison, UCLA brought in $6.1 million and Kentucky $5.2 million.
Does Pederson have his faults? Yes. Has he made mistakes? To be sure.
But Pederson's track record at Pitt — first building and later housing the nationally-ranked basketball team in a state-of-the-art facility while maintaining the athletic department in the black financially — deserves praise, not scorn.
John Harris is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. Reach him at email@example.com or via Twitter @JHarris_Trib.


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At Thursday's Community Redevelopment Agency meeting, the board and residents packed City Hall to hear from the developers, who are vying to put up their projects on Delray's main entrance from Interstate 95.
But before they shared their plans for the 6.23 acres of land between Southwest Sixth and Ninth avenues, the public voiced their opinions.
"We need to look at how this impacts local businesses, affordable housing, opportunities created, and how we preserve our local culture," said resident Chuck Ridley.
First up to take on that challenge was Equity Enterprises USA.
Representatives say their project, which includes a modern design for townhomes, offices and shops with covered walkways and a pocket park is what West Atlantic needs.
"We have a fresh, new look, not trite architecture, at the great entrance to our town," said local architect Bob Currie.
To make sure the plan reflects what the community desires, Equity wants to draft a contract that promises to provide benefits the residents want.
But CRA member Herman Stevens didn't buy it, even though the company say it has implemented these types of agreements before.


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The bulls are claiming a moral victory as the market bounced strongly following the gap down open, but it still was a clear victory for the bears. The indices were solid red with iShares Russell 200 (IWM) leading to the downside. Breadth improved from nearly a 10 to 1 negative reading to start the day but still saw only 1,600 gainers to 4,120 decliners. All major sectors except precious metals were negative.
Although the market recovered during the day, the fact that Wednesday's bounce failed so quickly and completely is a concern. That is a shift from the normal pattern of a couple of days of selling followed by an easy and complete recovery. The fact that there is still such strong dip-buying is a major positive, but they are using up their ammunition on days like this and slowly losing energy.
While many momentum and small-cap stocks have suffered lately, the major indices still haven't seen a major break of the uptrend line. They are definitely under pressure and another push down is going to do damage, but they are still holding key levels.
We do have more earnings reports rolling out next week, which should add catalysts, both good and bad. Typically, a theme emerges during earnings season, such as "buy the bad news" or "sell the good news," and we will have to watch that carefully.
Dip-buying saved the day for many, but this market is providing major challenges, and it is easy to take a hit if you aren't careful.
Have a good evening. I'll see you tomorrow.
July 10, 2014 | 8:01 AM EDT
An Ugly Trap
- Overnight news slammed the market lower.
Although Nasdaq breadth is still better than 4-to-1 negative most stocks are well off the early lows and selling pressure has relented. The indices are still solidly red and the only group in the green is precious metals, but the dip buyers did their thing once again and that always improves the mood quickly.
Buying a gap down open like we had this morning has consistently worked and I suspect that there are plenty of computer algorithms that are implemented when these conditions occur. The fact that there are still people who are impacted emotionally and sell into the weakness is the reason that this works. The programs are designed to exploit human emotion and they do a good job of it on a day like this.
So, is the worst over? Was this just another little blip that will be quickly forgotten or will the dip buyers take their gains and roll the market back over? The bulls were definitely caught by surprise this morning, but the tendency of this market has been to recover quickly. As I mentioned yesterday, we typically start seeing the underinvested bulls keep the bounces going. But some of them may be a bit nervous now after this surprise action today.
Despite the bounce off the lows this morning the uptrend is still under pressure and a higher level of caution is warranted. Many momentum and small-caps have already corrected quite severely, which has moved some of the hot money to the sidelines. Like this past March, much of the damage is not reflected in the senior indices.
At this point I'm staying with quick trades and a high level of cash. There are stocks I'd like to buy either on further pullbacks to resistance levels or on strong moves through overhead. At the moment, we are in the middle zone and there isn't too much that can be done.
July 10, 2014 | 10:22 AM ET
An Ugly Trap
- Overnight news slammed the market lower.
After two days of intense selling in momentum stocks and small-caps, the bounce Wednesday gave market players comfort. Those bounces have often turned into reversals that have performed well. This time the bounce turned into an ugly trap as a variety of overnight news developments came together to slam the market lower.
European stocks are down big and in the early going in the U.S., breadth on the Nasdaq is running 2,700 gainers to 2,200 decliners. We have big point losses and only a feeble bounce attempt so far. I suspect the dip-buyers will try again later in the day but they are feeling a little uncertain right now.
What is particularly tricky is deciding how to handle stocks that you are still holding that have suffered severe technical damage. Often our response is that it is too late to sell and that a bounce should develop soon. That is always what seems to happen when we quickly sell, but it is a difficult problem and there is no easy solution. Typically, I'm make partial sales and looking for further reductions later if the action doesn't improve.
The only bright spot this morning is precious metals. Gold gapped up strongly this morning and I've used the strength to cut most of my gold mining positions substantially, including the Direxion Daily Junior Gold Minors Bull 3X Shares (JNUG). Gold is always tricky trade and I'm happy to lock in gains in the group.
The market is starting to inch back up as I write, but a retest of the early lows wouldn't surprise me. Be very careful out there.
July 10, 2014 | 8:01 AM EDT
Buckle Up
- But don't panic. There'll be some good trading opportunities.
Always mystify, mislead and surprise the enemy if possible. --Stonewall Jackson
Early indications point to a sharply lower market this morning, and the media have offered a number of explanations regarding the poor action. Disappointing industry-production news in Europe, banking issues in Portugal and lower-than-expected exports in China are all receiving blame. Some news stories also attribute the selling to Wednesday's Federal Reserve minutes -- specifically, the mention that the quantitative-easing program will come to an end in October. Fed member James Bullard also commented that interest-rate hikes may come earlier than expected.
The likelihood is that the problem is rooted in a combination of all these things, in conjunction with a technically vulnerable market. The technical breakdown on Monday and Tuesday exposed some cracks in the market's uptrend. We saw a routine bounce Wednesday that many, myself included, expected might last another day or two. The quick rollover after yesterday's bounce is catching plenty of folks by surprise Thursday morning.
The key thing in all this is to make sure we are protecting our capital. Defensive action has become a lost art in this market, and that can cause some real pain when we do see these surprise selloffs.
Typically it is not a good idea to sell into a downward spike at the open. The dip buyers are likely to be quite active, but if they don't hold at the early lows, that is when bids can disappear quickly and when downside momentum can build.
If you are trapped in some long positions you want to exit, it is usually a good idea to wait a bit to see if the market can bounce back and then make some partial sales. Hitting the "sell all" button at the open is an emotional reaction that generally doesn't pay off. Even if this is the start of a sustained downtrend, there should be some opportunity for better exits along the way.
The bulls are going to try hard to shrug this off. They have been rewarded well for staying optimistic, so they are not going to give up easily. Playing defense has felt downright ridiculous at times -- but the market did give us a slight warning this week, and it is now time to be careful.
Gold is gapping up and will be viewed as a safe haven. I've been talking about Direxion Daily Junior Gold Miners Bull 3X Shares (JNUG) for a while, as it has developed very nicely, and I expect to see that action continue.
Buckle up. It is going to be a very bumpy ride today -- but don't panic. There will be some good trading opportunities.


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The contest for a Loretto City Council seat between Cari Girk and former City Councilor Brenda Lee Daniels was so close, that the city needed to recount the votes.
After the paper dust settled, Girk proved to be the winner by two votes. Both Girk and Daniels had the same number of votes after the recount as they did before. Girk received 148 votes, compared with Daniels' 146 votes. Henry Pepin also was elected to a council seat.
The City Council certified results of the recount, along with other city election results, at its Nov. 13 meeting. Here are some meeting highlights.
Councilors accepted the resignation of City Clerk Cindy Patnode, who has held her position for six years, and authorized the search for a new city clerk. Patnode's resignation is effective as of Dec. 31. She expected the City Council to approve her successor at its Dec. 11 meeting.
Turning to the topic of the Holiday Train, councilors learned that it would arrive at about 4:15 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 13. Activities will begin at 3 p.m. The council decided to allow Interfaith Outreach and Community Partners to conduct a sleep out in the city parking lot after the Holiday Train event to raise awareness for housing, employment, child care, food and transportation needs of families who are struggling.
The Council authorized a letter of support for the Loretto Fire Department for its grant application for development of standard operating guidelines and procedures with the Hamel Fire Department.
City Councilors chose Herb Koch and Cindy Patnode to receive snowmobile gift certificates donated by the Loretto Sno-Birds. The certificates are recognition of Koch and Patnode for their work and involvement with the city through the years.
Medina Police Chief Ed Belland recognized the Loretto Fire Department for using a new Lucas machine that was instrumental in reviving a heart attack victim in Loretto on Nov. 1. LFD firefighters recently received training on the machine, which was donated by the Loretto Lions.
The Loretto Lions were the subject of a City Council discussion on the Loretto community sign located next to the ball fields on County Road 19, Public Works Director Jeff Leuer said the Lions will form a sign committee to look at any complaints and work with the city on any unresolved issues.
After that the council approved a sign permit for an off-premises electronic sign at the Loretto ball field. The Lions will pay the cost of the sign permit. The resolution said, "The city reserves the right to regulate and control the content and message display of the sign."
The City Council also approved the purchase of a cube van generator from the city of Maple Plain at a cost of $1,500. The generator can be used for Loretto Fun Fest, the sewer ponds and general use during emergency situations.


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Talk To Me: The Story of James Patrick Peek
In support of the Bell Let's Talk Day mental-health initiative, TSN airs this documentary in which one of the sports net's producers sits down to interview his best friend, whose 17-year-old brother committed suicide. TSN, 7:30 p.m.
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Determined to build a greenhouse, Shaun decides to put Sarah in charge of the project. However, Sarah's plan to get the structure built as soon as possible results in a number of mistakes, not to mention a broken budget. W, 6 p.m.
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A teen with advanced brain stem glioma may benefit from an operation, but doctors must convince the youngster to give surgery one last try. Losing a patient shakes Ty, and Dr. Tierney pushes a resident to pronounce a patient dead. Bravo, 9 p.m.
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