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I don't see this posted yet. I enjoyed the broadcast last year. And there's plenty of new players to meet this year.
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I don't see this posted yet. I enjoyed the broadcast last year. And there's plenty of new players to meet this year.
Seems like the Video part of Video chat was left out. Lol.
yea i reloaded the page and now it works. i missed blake.
Blake seemed like a nice guy. Mentioned that he had played some with Ian and Hill in San Antonio.
The moderator posted my question to Brian Shaw: How did you recover from the Family Feud incident? :laugh:
I saw that and laughed for a good 10 minutes. LOL
I will say, after watching the Pacers for years, I can't remember a team that seemed this close.
The video part still isn't working for me. I can't even hear them answering questions.
It seems that every player has brought up DJ and his passing ability. Kinda makes you a bit excited doesn't it.
Lost feed here
Edit: reloaded again, works fine
nothing big but Lance seems to have changed his number to 1
Lance wearing #1 now
does anybody know if Lance is suppose to get minutes this year? Wanna see him play! Hopefully he has improved his jumpshot, love his passing ability and court vision
It's painful to listen to an interview with Lance Stephenson.
After that, my feed dropped and I had to leave for a moment. What did Danny say?
Well nice to sit and watch nba tv for an hour for the east previews and not here a word about the pacers already starting
Green can really talk the talk, really learned from his mistakes
Gerald Green is impressive. He has a great attitude.
There seem to be a lot of players picking numbers in the 20s.
Gerald Green seems so passionate about being on the team, and is showing his increased maturity in his interview. I am so impressed with him, and he seems excited to be here. I cannot wait for this season!!!
"Ooooo, you say my name RIGHT!" -- Ian Mahinmi, to Chris Denari.
So, I liked Augustin in Charlotte, and I know this is the most talent he's ever had around him, but could he really be as good as everyone is making him out to be? I mean everyone on the roster has singled him out specifically this offseason.


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WalMart fire in Bangladesh kills 117 workers
117 dead in Bangladesh as WalMart clothing factory burns. In these photos taken by citizens of Dhaka, we see relatives mourning the charred remains of the dead. Some had jumped from windows to escape the uncontrolled blaze.The scope of the disaster approaches the infamous Triangle Shirtwaist fire of 1911, where 146 died in the worst factory fire ever, in an almost identical scenario. Even today, the death toll continues to rise. Subsequent reports have noted clothing made for Sears and Disney in the debris.
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Walmart caught lying about connection to deadly fire
by Murshed Zaheed
(DHAKA 11-26) This past weekend at least 117 workers were killed in a devastating fire at a garment factory in Bangladesh — Tazreen Fashion Ltd. — which had been making clothes under a Walmart brand.1
The stories coming from the surviving workers are horrifying. They were trapped in the fire as there were no emergency exits and an exit door was locked.2 According to a report, "fire extinguishers didn't work and apparently were there just to impress inspectors, and that when the fire alarm went off, workers were told by their bosses to go back to their sewing machines."3 Shockingly, 12 people died at hospitals after jumping from the eight-story building.4
Walmart initially tried to evade responsibility by claiming it was not aware of any connection to that factory. But the corporation was finally forced to admit the connection after photos were published that showed clothing with Walmart's exclusive "Faded Glory" label at that factory after the fire.5
Bangladeshi factory workers are protesting the abuses of Walmart in the streets. And they are demanding that Walmart take responsibility for fire safety conditions in factories. Walmart must join the fire safety inspection program that brands like Tommy Hilfiger and Calvin Klein have endorsed to raise the standard for working conditions and prevent a tragedy like this from happening again to Bangladeshi workers.
Walmart claims that Tazreen Fashion Ltd., was subcontracted by one of its suppliers — the Tuba Group. But the fact is that Walmart's "elaborate system of contractors and subcontractors" is designed to allow the giant retailer to evade any real responsibility in tragedies like this while it continues to exploit cheap labor.6
Walmart happens to be the largest buyer of garments from Bangladesh, which has a notorious record of ignoring the safety of workers and suppressing their attempts to improve their conditions.7 Yet Walmart appears not to have taken the necessary steps to enforce safe conditions of those workers, including making sure its contractors and subcontractors were complying with basic fire codes to protect workers.
Walmart did not end its relationship with the supplier that had subcontracted to Tazreen Fashion, even though "the safety risk posed by Tazreen's substandard equipments was understood well before Sunday's blaze."8 Walmart ended its relationship with the supplier after the deadly fire, when it was publicly forced to admit that its products were being made at the factory.9 This is not acceptable.
Walmart, of course, has an appalling record10 that includes blatant disregard for the human rights of workers, discrimination against women, and infliction of damage on small businesses and the environment. As reported by the Nation's Josh Eidelson:
We cannot let Walmart get away with ignoring claims of basic safety violations and human rights abuses.
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Thank you for taking action.
Murshed Zaheed, Deputy Political Director
1. Farid Hossain and Julhas Alam, "Walmart Admits Bangladesh Factory Was Making Clothing For Retailer Before Fire," AP, November 26, 2012.
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A newly published book has documented the "dramatic" changes to the architectural fabric of Bury over the past 30 years.
Graham Cooper has collected the works of his father Joseph, who died in 2001, and produced a book which compares his work to modern-day Bury.
Joseph worked at Bury Town Hall as a rates evaluation officer for much of his career, after attending Bury Grammar School, and also being conscripted during the Second World War based in South Wales, where he met his future wife Margaret.
After retiring in 1974 he took up painting as a pastime, and was interested in depicting scenes in his locality which fuelled his imagination.
He held an exhibition at Bury Art Gallery in 1978 alongside his son to display his works, and in 2009 more than 50 of his paintings depicting scenes in Bury were donated to the Bury Art Museum.
The paintings were then displayed on the BBC website as part of an initiative to document works of art in museums and galleries across the country, which influenced Graham to publish the book.
Graham, aged 64, said: "It was a very proud moment, because it is a national collection and they must have been deemed worthwhile for people to look at. I then thought maybe I can do something with it.
"For some time, I had been thinking about how Bury had been changing. A lot of the places have vanished. The town has lost a lot — that is what the book is all about.
"We have lost our seven cinemas, we have lost lots of churches of architectural interest, we have lost more than 60 pubs, a lot of them over the past couple of years.
"It was quite revealing really, there has been a dramatic change and whether it is for better or worse is arguable."
The book features the changing faces of areas such as The Rock, Bury Market, Kay Gardens and the Old Market Hall.
It also gives a rollcall of all the pubs that no longer exist in the town.
Joseph lived in Bury until moving to Sidmouth, Devon in 1997, where his son Graham now lives.
Graham added: "He had a great ability for drawing and was struck by the architecture, old buildings and familiar landmarks and tried to capture them.
"He had all these paintings showing different views of Bury and we were saving them over the years.
"After he passed away occurred to me that there was a whole series of images showing how Bury was."
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Sydney-based cash exchange firm Technocash was named by United States prosecutors in connection to the arrest and indictment of the alleged founder of Silk Road, the website used to traffic drugs and other illegal goods.
The US Justice Department arrested 29-year-old Ross William Ulbricht on Tuesday in San Francisco, seizing $US3.6 million ($3.8 million) worth of the digital currency Bitcoin and shutting the infamous website believed to have acted as a conduit for more than $US1 billion in sales of narcotics and other goods.
In a criminal complaint filed in New York, prosecutors claimed Mr Ulbricht was behind online alias "Dread Pirate Roberts", the mysterious figure who founded and maintained the Silk Road website since at least January 2011.
A separate indictment also alleged Mr Ulbricht had contacted an undercover agent posing as a user of Silk Road to contract the murder of an employee of the website suspected of stealing money from Mr Ulbricht.
The indictment alleged that after dealing with the undercover agent since at least April 2012, Mr Ulbricht transferred two tranches of $US40,000 to the agent in February and March, via an account registered with Technocash in Australia.
The allegation makes it the second time the exchange firm has been drawn into international money laundering allegations.
In May, it was linked to a $US6 billion global money laundering scheme after it was found to be holding $US36.9 million in funds on behalf of clients at Westpac. It was also brought up in a separate court case filed by the US Securities and Exchange Commission linking the company to the investment in a fraudulent pyramid scheme.
The company shut its money transfer business in June following the allegations, which Technocash managing director Paul Monsted said had caused "significant distress" for the firm's clients.
When contacted on Thursday, Mr Monsted said he had no knowledge of the claims or the Mr Ulbricht.
"One I don't know anything about it, and secondly it wasn't to Technocash, it was obviously one of our account holders, just like a payment [made via] Westpac is not to Westpac. There's a difference," he said.
Silk Road popular in Australia
Australians were named as the third-most prevalent users of Silk Road, according to an affidavit filed by FBI agent Christopher Tarbell in New York on Tuesday.
Mr Tarbell said the FBI had seized information on the website from servers located in the US and globally on July 23, revealing 957,079 registered user accounts on Silk Road.
Of these, 83 per cent of accounts revealed their country of origin, with up to a third of all users located in the US. Users from Britain were named as second-most prevalent, with Australia listed third.
Despite nearly a million registered users, the affidavit stated that between 2011 and 2013, only 146,946 unique accounts were seen to have purchased goods in more than a million separate transactions.
The value of those transactions was estimated at more than 9.5 million Bitcoins, the digital currency traded on the website.
Silk Road was part of what has become referred to as the "dark web", having no conventional or publicly listed web address.
Instead, users and visitors to the website were required to hide their location by using anonymous web browsing service Tor, which itself has come under FBI scrutiny, in order to access the site.
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I certainly hope you won't give up praying for your cousin. Occasionally, I receive letters from people who've prayed for someone (such as their spouse) for many, many years -- and finally their prayers were answered. God's timing isn't necessarily ours!
Does God ever give up on someone? We don't always know what God is doing in someone's life -- His ways are often hidden from us. But we do know this: When someone truly turns to God -- even after years of rebellion -- God always forgives them and welcomes them into His family. I'm sure the prodigal son's father must have wondered if his rebellious son would ever return, but he kept watching, and one day his concern was rewarded. The Bible says, "But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and... ran to his son" (Luke 15:20). No matter how rebellious we've been, God yearns to welcome us home.
At the same time, the Bible solemnly warns us not to assume we can leave our repentance to the last minute. The more we resist God, the easier it becomes to keep on resisting Him -- until suddenly it is too late. The Bible warns, "Disaster will overtake him in an instant; he will suddenly be destroyed -- without remedy" (Proverbs 6:15).
Continue praying for your cousin, that God will convict him of his sin and his need for Christ. In addition, ask God to give you opportunities to express your concern to him, and to urge him to give his life to Christ.


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The two largest and most well-known poker tournaments are the World Poker Tour championship event and the World Series of Poker, both held in Las Vegas, Nevada.
The 2005 World Series of Poker was the first held outside of Binion's Horseshoe Casino, though the final few days of the main event were held in the legendary Benny's Bullpen. Future tournaments have been held at one of the Harrah's Entertainment properties; since 2005, the Rio has served as the host venue.
Arguably the most publicized European poker tournament is the Poker Million, which began in 2000 on Sky Sports, following on from the success of the Late Night Poker television show.
In addition to these poker events, there are other major poker tournaments throughout the year. The World Poker Tour broadcasts a series of open tournaments throughout the U.S. and Caribbean with buy-ins from $5,000 to $25,000, as well as a European event.
Additionally, tournament directors perform such other tasks as adjudicating disputes between dealers and players and also among the players themselves. Tournament directors are (generally) employees of the casino that the tournament is being hosted at, although this varies. For example, Matt Savage has appeared at various made-for-tv tournaments such as "King of Vegas", which do not take place at his place of employment.
Robert Thompson is another famous tournament director who has appeared on Bravo's Celebrity Poker Showdown ever since season one. Robert is known for saying the famous words of "Shuffle Up and Deal" occasionally throughout each episode of the show. Robert would also help out when some of the players wanted to make a bet or a raise, assuring that the proper amount of chips were put out.


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This may be impossible, but let's try again. I hope it isn't too painful for Miss Mac. Here's Lois:
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What a setting! I'm not sure I will be able to settle for in front of the evergreens or at the bottom of the stairs ever again.
- 10:12 AM, October 17, 2006
Love the red dress.
Next time I'm gonna wear a red dress. Should there ever be a next time -- as if lightning ever struck twice.
Oh well, I had a great time the first time around -- wearing for the first time ever, a little black dress.
But next time, I'm gonna wear red.
- a fan
- 10:48 PM, October 17, 2006
She looks pretty classy to me!
- 1:41 PM, October 18, 2006
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Lois Ehlert is THE most fashionable woman in Chidren's Literature. With Mrs. Mac close at second.
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The "Zig-Zag" Fed Zaps the US Dollar, Ignites Gold Rally
"Everything depends on proper listening. Of ten people who listen to the same speech or story, each person may well understand it differently; perhaps only one of them will understand it correctly." The Fed's June 29th communiqué on monetary policy was the most anxiously awaited decision this year. And when the dust had settled, the zig-zag Fed fooled traders who bet on a half-point rate hike, and pleased traders who expected a pause and a peak in the fed funds rate.
The Fed's June 29th communiqué was riddled with ambiguity about the future direction of US interest rates, and perhaps the only thing that everyone understands correctly, is that Fed chief Ben Bernanke zig-zagged from its hawkish rhetoric of June 5th. The Fed did leave itself some room for maneuver for hiking rates further, but the growing consensus is the Fed is going on vacation this summer.
At a time when the US capital markets require $3.2 billion every business day to cover the country's external deficits, foreign currency traders who bought the US dollar since Bernanke's hawkish outburst on June 5th, wanted to hear Captain James T. Kirk, preparing his crew for an epic battle against the global inflation dragon. Instead, what traders heard on June 29th, was a two-handed Princeton economist, whose tough rhetoric about fighting inflation, had come down several notches from just 24-days earlier.
One the one hand, "Moderation in the growth of aggregate demand, should help to limit inflation pressures over time. Ongoing productivity gains have held down the rise in unit labor costs, and inflation expectations remain contained." However, on the other hand, "the high levels of resource utilization and prices of energy and other commodities have the potential to sustain inflation pressures," the Fed said.
The June 29th propaganda that "Inflation expectations remained contained," stands in sharp contrast to Bernanke's tough rhetoric on June 5th. The Fed "must continue to resist any tendency for increases in energy and commodity prices to become permanently embedded in core inflation. These are unwelcome developments. The medium term outlook for inflation will receive particular scrutiny. Possible future increases in these prices remain a risk to the inflation outlook," Bernanke said.
Bernanke's balancing act pleased everyone except short sellers betting on a tougher Fed. The Dow Jones Industrials soared 217 points in a knee jerk reaction, its best day in two years, and Treasury note prices rebounded about 1% on short-covering. Faced with a choice of defending the US dollar or defending US home prices, Bernanke dropped the greenback, catapulting gold 7% higher or $40 per ounce, silver soaring 10% or $1 per ounce, and crude oil jumping $2 per to $74 per barrel.
But "Helicopter" Ben Bernanke's reputation as a super-dove on monetary policy, has been impacting the global money markets since his nomination to lead the Fed on October 24th. Since then, the gold market in US$ terms has advanced by 33% to roughly $620 per ounce, while the US Treasury's 10-year note yield has climbed roughly 70 basis points to 5.15%, a four year high.
On May 1st, Bernanke confided to CNBC's Maria Bartiromo, that "it's worrisome that people would look at me as dovish and not necessarily an aggressive inflation-fighter". To shed his dovish feathers and appear more like a wise old owl, Bernanke authorized three quarter-point rate hikes to 5.25% under his watch. But dusting off his dovish reputation won't be so easy, as evidenced by last week's plunge in the US dollar, and surging commodity and gold prices, after Ben's zig-zag on June 29th.
Bernanke's hawkish outburst on June 5th, declaring all-out war against inflation, hammered the Chicago Eurodollar futures contracts to new contract lows. The only question was whether the Fed would go for a half-point rate hike on June 29th, or hint at a second quarter-point hike on August 8th. But now, a second quarter-point rate hike seems remote, as the finely balanced Fed statement of June 29th, suggests that US central bankers could go on extended vacation this summer.
The American public has turned against the Fed's 2-year campaign of interest-rate increases, concerned about rising mortgage payments, and deflating home prices. A Bloomberg/LA Times poll conducted June 24th to June 27th, showed by a 65% to 22% margin, Americans oppose another rate increase by the Fed. High home prices allow US households to keep on spending and not saving. The US personal saving rate, as a percentage of disposable income, slipped to a negative 1.7% in May.
The Fed is not interested in knocking US home prices sharply lower. Instead, it simply seeks to smooth out prices increases, following the blueprints of the Bank of England's "asset targeting" model. The betting is the Bernanke Fed will follow the politically correct course and pause its rate hike campaign on August 8th, to survey the results of the past three rate hikes on second quarter US growth.
"There is, after all, a time lag between monetary policy actions and their ultimate effect on inflation. That is, even though the recently reported inflation numbers have been edging upward, I think that the current 5% level of the federal funds rate is near a point that is consistent with a gradual improvement in the inflation outlook," said Cleveland Fed chief Sandra Pianalto on June 12th.
Bank of Japan to lift overnight loan rate, First in Six years
The Bernanke Fed is sub-contracting the job of fighting inflation to the other two big-central banks, the Bank of Japan and the European Central Bank. Other mid-tier central banks around the globe are also on course to raise rates this year, and the Bank of China, and Bank of India, the largest emerging economies with explosive money supply growth, are vowing to drain liquidity in their local markets.
A pause in the Fed's rate hike campaign in August comes at a critical time when the Bank of Japan is laying the ground work for a quarter-point rate hike to 0.25% on July 14th. The BOJ is set to raise rates for the first time in six years as the Japanese economy is posting 57 months of solid growth, and is finally pulling out of deflation, with core consumer prices rising for seven straight months through May.
"Monetary policy decisions should be made early, and changes should be made in small increments. But at the same time, it should be done in a gradual manner. Changing interest rates will prevent an overheating in the economy, minimize swings in economic cycles, and lead to a long-lasting expansion, said BOJ chief Toshihiko Fukui told the National Press Club on June 20th.
Foreign currency traders knocked the dollar 2-yen lower to 114.50-yen, after the Fed's zig-zagged and signaled it was close to the end of its rope of raising rates. The upcoming week's main event will be US non-farm payrolls data for June, due on July 7th. Also, traders want to see if the BoJ has enough independence to buck the ruling LDP party, which wants rates kept at zero percent.
Japan's government has 774 trillion yen ($6.7 billion) of outstanding debt, or 150% of its GDP, and wants to avoid paying higher interest rates. "Monetary policy is up to the BoJ, but the bank needs to continue working as one with the government to insure that the economy will not go back into deflation," said LDP Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe on July 3rd. "The BOJ needs to continue zero interest rates for the time being to support the economy," and to keep the yen weak.
Japanese Economics Minister Kaoru Yosano told the BOJ on July 3rd, to keep the overnight loan rate at zero percent. "Looking at growth data and other economic indicators, it's accurate to say that conditions are not in place for an end to abnormal monetary policy, and that they are just starting to fall into place," he said.
Japan's Nikkei rebounded 10% from a panic bottom low of 14,000 on June 13th, to above 15,500, on ideas the Fed is done raising rates for now. Meanwhile, Japan's jobless rate fell to 4.0% in May, an eight-year low, and consumer core prices were 0.6% higher from a year earlier, reinforcing expectations the BoJ will raise interest rates on July 14th. The number of salaried Japanese employees rose above 55 million for the first time ever last month.
The recent turmoil in the Nikkei-225, which sliced off $864 billion of market value in four weeks, won't deter the BOJ from hiking rates. "Central banks in three major industrial nations have clearly changed course on monetary policy. As the markets realize this, it is natural for traders to be more cautious. There is no indication that falls in share prices have affected the real economy. Recent falls in share prices are within reasonable adjustments to earlier rises that had been prompted by loose monetary conditions," said BOJ chief Fukui on June 20th.
Even under heavy LDP pressure to keep rates at zero percent, the BOJ is still expected to move rates gradually higher, while keeping a close eye on the Nikkei-225 and dollar/ yen exchange rate. "Movements in financial markets could affect overall economic conditions by having an impact on corporate and consumer sentiment, so we need to carefully monitor them," Fukui added. (Tokyo would remain the cheapest source of global liquidity and continue to fuel asset inflation).
Bank of Korea meets on July 7th to discuss Rate hike
Across the Sea of Japan, traders are waiting on the Bank of Korea's July 7th policy meeting, amid speculation that the central bank will authorize another quarter-point rate hike to 4.50%. The BOK shocked the markets on June 8th, and raised its overnight call rate target by a quarter-point to 4.25%, the fourth rise since October. Bank of Korea Governor Lee Seong-tae explained, "The BoK views the economy as continuing to exhibit upward momentum, with exports, private consumption and capital investment all growing."
"Although a strong won and a fall in farm product prices have helped contain inflation, oil prices will likely remain firm and with the recovery in domestic demand lasting more than a year, inflation pressure will grow. We will have to keep watching the trend in real estate prices because they continue to increase despite various efforts by the government to curb them," BoK chief Lee said.
South Korean exports in June jumped to a record $28.27 billion in June, or 19.2% higher from a year earlier, led by increased shipments of flat screens and ships. Imports rose 22.1% in June from a year earlier to $26 billion, thus generating a trade surplus of $2.28 billion, just below a $2.42 billion surplus a year earlier.
BoK chief Lee Seong-tae indicated on June 12th, that the central bank will tighten its monetary policy again to absorb liquidity in the market. "While effectively coping with economic conditions, we are going to run our monetary policy in a way to preemptively react to inflationary pressure," he said. South Korean consumer prices rose 2.6% in June from a year earlier, and the annual core inflation rate of 2.2% was its highest since hitting 2.3% in June 2005.
Following the Fed's zig zag on June 29th, the US dollar plunged 18-won to 944.5 Korean won on July 3rd. Earlier, the dollar has staged a rally from a eight-year low of 925-won, on expectations the Fed would carry the fed funds rate to 5.50 percent. However, another BOK rate hike to 4.50% this summer, would narrow the interest rate gap with the US$, and make the Korean won an attractive Asian alternative.
The Korean won is tracking the Japanese yen /US$ exchange rate, which makes it easier for the BOK to hike its overnight loan rate, without hurting the competitive position of Korean exporters against their Japanese rivals. Beijing allowed the dollar to fall below 8-yuan last week, amid signs of a tighter Chinese monetary policy, and forward traders in Hong Kong, expect the dollar to fall to 7.71 yuan next year.
European Central Bank could surprise with July 6th rate hike
The ECB has raised rates 25 basis points during the last month of each quarter since December 2005, to 2.75%, and is signaling a tighter policy this year. "All the recent data indicate that risks to price stability are on the upside and have increased. We have to look at them next time and see whether we have to move sooner rather than later," said Greece's central banker Nicholas Garganas on June 27th.
"Should the need be for a more aggressive interest-rate adjustment, there is nothing to stop us from taking that decision. I would not rule out a higher adjustment to rates than 25 basis points, nor a faster pace of rate increases than once per quarter," the ECB's Garangas added.
Euro-zone interest rates do not suit the real economy and must rise further, said Bundesbank chief Axel Weber on June 30th. "We have to normalize monetary policy, this no longer fits with the real economy, and normalization is necessary to rein in liquidity dynamics. Markets have understood that the ECB will act when necessary, only under this condition can we anchor inflation expectations."
In his final confession as the ECB chief economist, Otmar Issing admitted on May 28th, that, "very expansive monetary policies led to a strong increase in liquidity globally and in the Euro area. The high liquidity contains an inflationary potential." Issing confessed after the Dow Jones AIG commodity index doubled from its 2001 low, and leaves the ECB far behind the commodity inflation curve.
That opens up the possibility of a surprise ECB quarter-point rate hike on July 6th to 3.00%. Private lending in the Euro zone hit a record high of 11.4% YoY in May, raising pressure for higher interest rates. Euro money growth also kept up its healthy pace, with M3 expanding at an 8.9% year-over-year rate, its highest in just over three years and up from 8.7% in April. Super easy money in Europe, in turn, fuels speculation in commodities and contributes to global inflation.
The ECB is not stuck in a fixed pattern of interest rate rises and a quick change in policy is always an option, warned Luxembourg's central banker Yves Mersch on June 28th. "Vigilance for the Euro system requires keeping all options open, including a quick change in policy of the Euro system if warranted by new incoming information. There is no pattern of historical monetary policy decisions that would simply be repeated mechanically or extrapolated into the future," he warned.
The tough ECB jawboning helped to put a floor under the Euro at $1.25, before the Fed's zig-zag on June 29th launched the Euro towards $.128. Clearly, the ECB is lingering far behind the monetary inflation curve, and could decide to move faster or more aggressively in lifting its repo rate this summer, while the Bernanke Fed goes on vacation, and watches the US Dollar get zapped.
The United Arab Emirates is sticking with plans to convert up to 10% of its $23 billion in foreign currency reserves into Euros. Central bank chief Sultan Nasser al-Suweidi said on July 2nd, the bank could also convert up to 10% of its reserves into gold. "I don't think it's appropriate to buy gold now, it's too expensive. The appropriate time might come very soon. We could go up to 10%," he said.
The central bank controls only part of the foreign exchange reserves of the UAE, an oil-exporting federation of seven emirates. Other major holders include the investment arms of the emirates' governments. Suweidi said the US dollar continued to suffer from pressure due to its twin budget and trade deficits, and the Euro was an attractive currency, because the interest rate level in the Euro has gone up.
Swiss National Bank Tracking higher ECB Rates
The Swiss National Bank will hike interest rates again, if the Swiss economy keeps growing at its above average pace. "If the economic situation continues to develop favorably, further corrections to the level of our benchmark rates will be needed," SNB Chairman Jean-Pierre Roth said on June 20th. "Despite our latest correction, Swiss monetary policy is still not a hurdle for the economy."
The SNB raised its official interest rates by 25 basis points on June 15th, aiming for 1.5%, the mid-point of a 1.0% to 2.0%, 3-month Libor target band. Swiss factory orders soared 15.5% in the first quarter, and Switzerland is enjoying one of the strongest first-quarter growth rates in Europe. Swiss economic output rose 0.9% in the first quarter of 2006, in line with a 3.5% annual expansion rate. The Swiss economy rose just 1.9% last year.
The Swiss jobless rate dipped to 3.3% in May, from 3.5% in April. Unemployment should settle at 3% by December, said SNB chief Roth. But signs of inflation are picking up amid higher capacity utilization. Swiss producer prices rose 2.4% in May from a year earlier, while import prices were 3.7% higher. Roth estimated the country's potential output growth rate, or the maximum speed at which an economy can grow without stoking inflation, at a mere 1.5 percent.
The SNB usually coordinates its monetary policy with the ECB, in order to maintain a stable Euro /Swiss franc exchange rate. Exports make-up about half of Switzerland's economy and two-thirds of its exports are sold to the European Union. Both ECB and SNB lending rates are still hovering near historic lows, providing a cheap source of financing worldwide for hedge fund traders and corporate takeover artists.
The SNB is expected to continue lifting its Libor rate target by 25 basis points at each of its next two meetings, in September and December to 2.00%, and extending into 2007 to match the ECB. That could lift the Swiss franc against the dollar as the US rate rise cycle ends. Unlike other major central banks, the SNB has kept a relatively tight rein on its M3 money supply, expanding at 3.5% annualized rate in May, and could slow towards 1-2% growth as the SNB tightens liquidity further.
SNB vice deputy Niklaus Blattner hinted on June 15th, that the sell-off in the Swiss Market Index won't deter further rate hikes. "We've seen a rapid increase in the last three years in equity markets, which, as we pointed out, couldn't be explained easily from fundamental factors. It's plausible that one day there should be a correction, but that does not mean there should be a fundamental explanation," he added.
South African rand rebounds from 2-½ year low on higher Gold
A broad sell-off across emerging markets, a sharp correction in gold prices, and worries over South Africa's widening current account deficit, all conspired to hammer South Africa's rand to a 2-½ year low of 13.30 US-cents last month. Yields on South Africa's benchmark 10-year bond soared 140 basis points to as high as 8.80%, as the plunging rand generates inflation pressures in the local economy.
South Africa is the world's biggest producer of gold, platinum, and diamonds, and the rand's movements against the US dollar are often influenced by the direction of gold and platinum. In turn, South African miner profits hinge on the metal price and the rand /US$ exchange rate. South Africa's has enormous gold ore reserves, estimated at 40,000 tons, and one of the greatest sources of gold in the world.
The platinum deposits that stretch north of Johannesburg, account for 75% of the world's known reserves, and are enough to last 350-years at current production rates. Mining only accounts for 6% of South Africa's GDP, compared with 16% for manufacturing and 19.5% for finance, real estate and business services. Nevertheless, gold and platinum together account for roughly 25% of South Africa's exports, so they're important for the balance of payments.
South Africa is the world's largest gold miner, and is more exposed than any other country to slumps in the gold price because its deep level mines are the highest cost producers in the world. However, with gold rebounding 10% above its climactic low near $560 /oz, the rand is bounced back into favor, changing hands at 14 US-cents, but still finding resistance at 7-rand per US$.
The rand is one of the most volatile currencies in the world, with average daily trade volume climbing from $3.8 billion in the first quarter of 1998 to $13.8 billion in the third quarter of 2005. The problem is that more than half of the daily trade in the rand takes place offshore and is often driven by foreign portfolio and speculative flows. Japanese investors were large buyers of SA rand bonds last year, and were unwinding the "yen carry" trade as the BOJ tightens liquidity at home.
US Dollar is chronically weak despite Fed rate hikes
As the US Federal Reserve appears to be near the end of its 2-year rate hike campaign, foreign banks are starting to hike their rates, thus making the dollar less attractive. At the same time, the massive US trade deficit channels a huge outflow of dollars to other countries, as well as the need to finance the ever-bigger US deficit. Last year, the US trade deficit in goods and services hit a record $726 billion, as US imports far exceeded exports. The gap reached 6.4% of GDP.
Financing the current US trade deficit requires higher US interest rates. Most of that money comes from foreign central banks, which own large amounts of dollars. Recently however, the central banks of Sweden, Finland, Russia, and the UAE have said they will diversify their FX reserve holdings and reduce their US dollars. Behind the shift may be concern that the dollar will be devalued, making their US bond holdings worth less. Higher Treasury note yields are starting to reflect this risk.
Countries around the world should gradually rely less on the US dollar for trade and their foreign exchange reserves, said Wu Xiaoling, deputy governor of the People's Bank of China on June 27th. "Internationally speaking, the situation of over-reliance on a certain country's currency for international trade, settlements and reserve assets should be gradually changed," Wu said.
While the Fed has restored the fed funds rate to 5.25%, a five year high, the US dollar index remains 24% below it levels of 2001. What has unfolded over the past two years, is the US Treasury forced to offer higher interest rates to foreigners, to prevent the US dollar from falling under its own weight.
The Fed's June 29th zig zag on interest rates is fraught with many risks, such as tilting the balance in favor of a speculative attack against the US dollar, which could invite higher import inflation, or foreign central bank diversification into other currencies and gold. US import prices rose 1.6% in May, and 8.3% higher from a year earlier, far above the 5.8% pace notched in the 12 months to April. Oil import prices rose 5.2% in May and are up 45.7% over the previous 12 months.
Because exchange traded commodities are mostly denominated in US dollars, the Federal Reserve has a special role to play to defend the US dollar, and prevent global commodity inflation from spreading into producer prices. Gold traders have known for a long-time, that the hard dollars and cents flowing through the commodities markets, are a more reliable indicator of real time inflation, rather than inflation statistics fashioned by government apparatchniks.
The biggest threat to the US$ is the possibility that foreign central banks will dump the greenback. Beijing has been gradually diversifying away from US dollar assets in its $925 billion of foreign exchange reserves, the world's largest, but fears of a collapse in the US currency against the yuan, prevents it from making any dramatic shift. Japan is the second largest holder of the US$, and has reduced its holdings of US Treasuries by $50 billion since April 2004.
Yu Yongding, and adviser to the Chinese central bank warned on December 30th, 2005, that the Federal Reserve might stop raising interest rates in 2006 and start guiding the dollar downward, putting upward pressure on the yuan. "More seriously, China's economy would take a big hit if the US dollar weakened sharply due to such factors as a bursting of the US property bubble. The loss for China's foreign exchange reserves would be extremely serious."
Fed Zig-Zag Catapults Gold above $600 per ounce
Metals, energy, grains and soft commodities rallied strongly after the Fed's zig-zag on June 29th, laughing at the Fed's observation that "inflation expectations remain contained". Copper surged almost 4% in London and 2% in New York in early trade, after a sizzling US GDP revision to 5.6% growth in the first quarter. Gold sprinted $40 per ounce higher to $623 /oz in London on Jly 23rd, to regain its old footing above $600 an ounce. Silver surged almost $1 per ounce to $11.27 /oz.
The Bernanke Fed is either out of sync with market psychology, or prefers to be reactive, rather than pre-emptive in confronting inflation. But the sophisticated bond and gold vigilantes are not going to be duped by the Fed's brainwashing about "contained inflation expectations," and instead are closely tracking the direction of the global stock markets, for clues about economic growth rates and inflation pressures in the world economy.
Maybe the Fed is not too concerned about a weak US dollar, because the Euro and British pound are under the supervision of inflationist central banks. For instance, the Euro M3 money supply is exploding at an 8.9% annualized rate, while the UK's M4 money supply is 11.8% higher from a year ago. It's only a matter of time until Japan's ministry of finance starts to threaten intervention on behalf of the US dollar, and a half-percent BOJ overnight loan rate would still be abnormally low.
Foreign currency trading is often likened to a reverse beauty contest, where the best currency to own is the least ugly. But the alternative to inflated paper currency is glittering gold, whose supply cannot be manufactured by abusive central bankers. But gold is widely owned by investors around the globe, and big supplies can hit the market at a moment's notice, such as witnessed from 5/11 until June 13th.
However, Yu Yongding, the chief economist at the Chinese central bank said on June 1st, that Beijing should use its $925 billion of foreign-currency reserves, the world's largest, to buy gold and crude oil as a hedge to guard against the risk of a sudden drop in the US dollar. Beijing has only 1% of its reserves in gold, with more than two-thirds of its reserves invested in depreciating US Treasuries.
"China has more than enough foreign-exchange reserves. We don't want to cause dramatic fluctuations in the foreign-exchange and securities markets. But China needs to invest the reserves to seek higher returns and to avoid losses in case of a big depreciation in the US dollar. We need to use some of the reserves to buy other assets such as gold and strategic resources such as oil," said Yongding.
"Commodity Super Cycle" led by Crude Oil
With the zig-zag Bernanke Fed on vacation this summer, the "Commodity Super Cycle" can move higher with less resistance, led by silver, platinum, copper, zinc, and crude oil. While commodities are very volatile, tight supplies for base metals, and geo-political tensions in the Middle East, are lending strong demand. Central bankers can only keep a lid on the "Commodity Super Cycle" by raising their interest rates high enough to knock global stock markets to new low ground.
Higher crude oil prices are a nightmare for G-10 central bankers, because they trigger secondary knock-on inflation effects in oil importing nations. World oil demand should soar 37% from this year's almost 86 million barrels per day to 118 million bpd by 2030, the US government's top energy forecasting agency predicted on June 20th. The United States, China and India together will account for half of the projected increase in world oil use by 2030.
Also supporting oil prices is Iran's threat to unleash the oil weapon in a dispute over its nuclear weapons program. "If the country's interests are attacked, we will use all our capabilities, and oil is one of them," said Iranian Oil Minister Kazem Vaziri-Hamaneh. "The world needs energy and understands the effect on the market of oil sanctions against Iran, and no-one will make such an unreasonable decision," predicting sanctions against Iran could push crude up to $100 dollars a barrel.
In a letter to Rep Brad Sherman on March 21st, Fed chief "zig-zag" Bernanke said "Although US trade deficits cannot continue to widen forever, these deficits need not engender a precipitous decline in the dollar, nor should such a decline, were it to occur, necessarily disrupt financial markets, production or employment." Since then, two Fed rate hikes have put the global stock and commodities markets on a wild roller-coaster ride, but the US dollar remains chronically weak.
Yet in Chicago, despite widespread expectation the Fed will take a vacation this summer, fed funds futures traders are confidently predicting the US central bank will eventually hike its overnight loan rate to 5.50% by year's end. But timing is everything, and a Fed zig-zag in August, might allow the inflation genie to escape from its bottle again, confirming the suspicions of hawkish Chicago futures traders.
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Selected Writings
de John Millar
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Selected Writings from earlier books by this author including Haiku poems, free verse and color photographs. The poetry and photographs directly relate to nature as a subject.
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John is a registered professional biologist in British Columbia, Canada. His knowledge, understanding and love for our coastal landscape and its natural systems are deeply rooted as he grew up exploring the beaches, forests and rivers of Vancouver Island. His work as a professional fisheries and wildlife biologist in British Columbia over the past 30 years has provided the opportunity for John to live and work in many remote and pristine wilderness areas of British Columbia and Alaska. It is a pleasure for John to share his connection with and understanding of our coastal landscapes and particularly to help raise into awareness some of the more subtle features of this magnificent coastline's beauty.
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CLEVELAND (AP) -- Johnny Manziel has been slapped on the finger.
The NFL fined the Browns rookie quarterback $12,000 on Friday for
flipping his middle finger at Washington's sideline, a person familiar
with the penalty told The Associated Press. The person spoke on
condition of anonymity because the ruling has not been made public.
Manziel said he was reacting to incessant taunting by the Redskins
during Monday night's nationally televised game when he made the gesture
while running back to Cleveland's huddle.
"I had words exchanged with me throughout the entirety of the game,
every game, week after week," Manziel said. "I should have been smarter.
It was a Monday Night Football game and the cameras were probably
solidly on me, and I need to be smarter about that."
Manziel has never shied away from other gestures on the field,
notably the finger-rubbing "money" sign he made famous while winning the
Heisman Trophy at Texas A&M.
Manziel expects the trash talk to keep heading his way.
"Since my name has grown bigger and people have known who I am, it
just continues to go as the games continue to go on," he said following
Cleveland's 24-23 loss to the Redskins. "I don't know if there is a
single level of severity each game, but I know it's there and it's
present every game. I just need to let it slide off my back and go to
the next play.
"I feel like I did a good job of holding my composure throughout the night and you have a lapse of judgment and slip up."
His finger flipping didn't help his chances of winning Cleveland's starting job, which went to veteran Brian Hoyer.
Browns coach Mike Pettine felt Manziel should have known better than
to react to Washington's insults. He wants his high-profile rookie --
and Cleveland's other players -- to make mature decisions on and off the
field. Pettine said the 21-year-old's behavior factored into the team's
decision in naming a starter.
"We talk about 'Play like a Brown.' We want our guys to act like a
Brown," Pettine said. "We want to be a first-class organization. We have
hundreds, thousands of kids come to our training camp practices, and
look up to our players. That type of behavior is unacceptable. It's
something that's part of football that you have to maintain your poise
and your composure, especially at that position, and he should know
better than anyone that all eyes are on him."
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Poets on Art Part 1
There's been a flurry of discussions lately (or maybe there always is) over the importance of critical writing for poets and poetry. However, most of these discussions are focused on the writings of poets on poetry. Of course, there's a long parallel tradition of poets writing on art, and we're posting on two recent examples today.
Poet Dana Ward, on the SFMOMA blog, writes on Cory Arcangel's video piece All the Parts from Simon and Garfunkel's 1984 Central Park Performance Where Garfunkel Sings with His Hands in His Pocket, which is exactly what the title implies. He writes:
So, what Cory's done in this piece is edited the concert film made on that occasion so we only see the shots during which we find Art singing with his hands in his pockets. The narrative flow of their performance, the emotional calibration of the set list, is broken up & restructured along the axis of this one increasingly enigmatic gesture. Who spends so much of their performance with their hands in their pockets, & why? It's a perfectly fine thing to do of course, but Cory's easy act of ostranenie made the question compelling & it wormed its way into my psyche, so whenever I had a free moment I found myself turning it over in my mind.
The sort of work Archangel is doing - reframing and archiving pre-existing material, obviously resonates not only with current poetic practices (as in flarf, conceptual, and documentary poetics) but also with contemporary debates around theory and canonization. Furthermore, as Ward points out, the work yields an unquantifiable emotional response, perhaps based on the targeted defamiliarization of the original material. Like much contemporary writing, Ward argues that Archangel's work is both art and research:
In that way Cory's work for me constitutes some really crucial research. The information it yields gives an affective pattern, a prosody, to that which one never knew one desired to know, & not needing to know it, found the body of that knowledge all the lovelier, & new. It reminds me that reverie is the scholarship of unproductive time, & that inquiry undertaken there is hard won & precious & just what the world of work seeks to undo.


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New York City Wal-Mart Stores Inc. plans to slash its global plastic shopping-bag waste by 33% over the next five years, eliminating more than 135 million lbs. of trash, according to the Associated Press.
If the plan succeeds, the company would cut the equivalent of 9 billion plastic bags from stores each year.
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Bokaclava by Anne-Marie Dunbar
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By way of a brief explanation - Bok is a gargoyle/demon in a classic Doctor Who story called 'The Daemons'. My partner, mere weeks after we first met, asked me if it would be possible to knit a 'bokaclava', complete with sticky out tongue.
(The answer to that was yes, clearly..)
A child's size (18-20") version of the pattern is also available
NB - The ravelry download published on 20/4/2008 has now been updated (21/4/2008) as the section for the ears was missing!
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In the international press, China's tensions with Tibet are often traced to the Chinese invasion of 1950 and Tibet's failed uprising of 1959. But for the Chinese themselves,...Read More
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Christmas Meringue Cookies
Hooray for holiday baking!!!! My kids and I love spending time in the kitchen together. We've tried so many new recipes but today we are sharing one of our favorites with you. When I say meringue cookies, my kids jump! This recipe for vanilla Christmas Meringue Cookies is so easy and so tasty (they practically melt in your mouth). They are perfect to bake on Christmas morning or for holiday parties. But, if you're anything like us, we just make them for fun!
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A local delivery service is a small business almost anyone can start. Such a service can be offered to those needing personal errands run or to businesses who need supplies or documents delivered, or even lunch. Although the start-up costs for a delivery service are small, treat it like any other business by first developing a comprehensive plan and researching what type of deliveries you want to start off making.
1. Call your county clerk's office and find out if there are any licenses or permits you need to apply for before starting out. Although the majority of your business will be done outside your home, because you will likely be using a home office, you might find you need to clear this with your county or city first. In Harris County, visit the website of the county clerk's office and download the form for the registration of a business name. The options depend on the number of employees and whether you are an incorporated business--most likely not, at this stage.
2. Fill out the form. You can bring it to the county clerk's office at 201 Caroline St. on the fourth floor with government identification as well as any other person you wish to list as an owner with you. If you want to mail in the form, have it completed and notarized before mailing. Send the completed form and the fee to: Harris County Clerk, P.O. Box 1525, Houston, TX 77251. As of June 2010, the fee was $15 for the first owner and 50 cents for each additional owner. For a delivery service in the state of Texas, no other licensing is required.
3. Call your car insurance company if you will be using your car (some use bicycles). You want to make sure you are covered for any issue that may come up as you will now be using your car for business purposes.
4. Make a list of the businesses in the area whom you believe could benefit from your services. These could be pharmacies, grocery stores, banks, restaurants, flower shops, hospitals, offices or gift shops. You can also list senior centers and make picking up items for seniors who can't drive part of your service. List businesses you think might like to have lunch delivered to them each day.
5. Create flyers, business cards and a website for your business. Once you've decided what services to offer, create an interesting flyer or brochure that you can post on public bulletin boards and bring to businesses you believe can benefit from your services. Your website should include your contact information and also an online form where customers can place their delivery requests.
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Typing Epilepsy
Epilepsy is the occurrence of sporadic electrical storms in the brain commonly called seizures. These storms cause behavioral manifestations (such as staring) or involuntary movements (such as grand mal seizures).
There are several types of epilepsy, each with different causes, symptoms, and treatments.
When making a diagnosis of epilepsy, your doctor may use one of the following terms: idiopathic, cryptogenic, symptomatic, generalized, focal, or partial. Idiopathic means there is no apparent cause. Cryptogenic means there is a likely cause, but it has not been identified. Symptomatic means that a cause has been identified. Generalized means that the seizures are involving the whole brain at once. Focal or partial means that the seizure starts from one area of the brain.
Major Types of Epilepsy
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|Generalized Epilepsy
|Partial Epilepsy
|Idiopathic (genetic causes)
|– Childhood absence epilepsy
– Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy
– Epilepsy with grand-mal seizures on awakening Others
|– Benign focal epilepsy of childhood
|Symptomatic (cause unknown) or cryptogenic (cause unknown)
|– West syndrome
– Lennox-Gastaut syndrome
– Others
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– Frontal lobe epilepsy Others
Idiopathic Generalized Epilepsy
In idiopathic generalized epilepsy, there is often, but not always, a family history of epilepsy. Idiopathic generalized epilepsy tends to appear during childhood or adolescence, although it may not be diagnosed until adulthood. In this type of epilepsy, no nervous system (brain or spinal cord) abnormalities, other than the seizures, can be identified on either an EEG or imaging studies ( MRI). The brain is structurally normal on a brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan, although special studies may show a scar or subtle change in the brain that may have been present since birth.
People with idiopathic generalized epilepsy have normal intelligence and the results of the neurological exam and MRI are usually normal. The results of the electroencephalogram (EEG — a test which measures electrical impulses in the brain) may show epileptic discharges affecting a single area or multiple areas in the brain (so called generalized discharges).
The types of seizures affecting patients with idiopathic generalized epilepsy may include:
- Myoclonic seizures (sudden and very short duration jerking of the extremities)
- Absence seizures (staring spells)
- Generalized tonic-clonic seizures (grand mal seizures)
Idiopathic generalized epilepsy is usually treated with medications. Some people outgrow this condition and stop having seizures, as is the case with childhood absence epilepsy and a large number of patients with juvenile myoclonic epilepsy.
Idiopathic Partial Epilepsy
Idiopathic partial epilepsy begins in childhood (between ages 5 and 8) and may be part of a family history. Also known as benign focal epilepsy of childhood (BFEC), this is considered one of the mildest types of epilepsy. It is almost always outgrown by puberty and is never diagnosed in adults.
Seizures tend to occur during sleep and are most often simple partial motor seizures that involve the face and secondarily generalized (grand mal) seizures. This type of epilepsy is usually diagnosed with an EEG.
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Its almost that time of year again!
Sunday 24th Feb 2013
Annual Swapmeet at Hurworth Grange nr Darlington, Co Durham
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been here the day got some good bargains , can any one tell me of other swap meets that are on in the near future
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well ,been here again today , was a bit dissapointed compared to last year . it was busy enough but not much on offer to my taste oh well next year
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The hardships and degradation suffered by the Jews imprisoned in the Belsen concentration camp were described yesterday at the fiftieth anniversary convention of the Federation of Jewish Women's Organizations held at the Astor Hotel here.
The effects of starvation on the Nazi victims were described by Maurice Eigen, JDC representative, who recently returned from a four-month tour of Germany. He quoted an eyewitness account of the burning alive of four truckloads of women, who were poured into a rearing pyre."
Mayor William O'Dwyer praised the women for spearheading a drive for collection of food and medical supplies for the surviving Jews in Europe. Dean Virginia Gildersleave of Barnard College and an American delegate to the San Francisco United Nations Conference, and other speakers urged the American mothers to show a "sense of responsibility" and to cease from "hysterical propaganda" to bring their boys home lest the results of the war be lost.


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If partial seizures originate in areas of the brain that cannot be removed safely, multiple subpial transections are an alternative. The surgeon makes a series of shallow cuts (transections) into the brain's cerebral cortex. These cuts are thought to interrupt some fibers that connect neighboring parts of the brain, but they do not appear to cause long-lasting impairment in the critical functions that these areas perform.
Multiple subpial transections can help to reduce or eliminate seizures arising from vital functional areas of the cerebral cortex. This procedure has been successful in an unusual type of epilepsy called Landau-Kleffner syndrome, at least for a limited time.
Bleeding at the site of the transection is possible, but the procedure is generally well tolerated. Major complications appear to be rare. Transections in language areas of the brain may mildly impair the language function served by that area.


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We at 100.5 The River, have teamed with WZZM13 this year in Toys For Tots, and we couldn't be prouder to be a part of a campaign to make sure that all children in need will have some toys from Santa this Christmas.
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Beef Demand: Recent Determinants and Future Drivers
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George ColeTweetUnited Kingdom (1810 -  1883 )
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George Cole - Harvesting Near Boston, Lincolnshire, England
Original 185528
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George Cole British, 1810-1883 Harvesting near Boston, Lincolnshire, England , 1855 Signed G. Cole and dated 1855 (lr) Oil on canvas 24 x 40 inches Provenance: Frost & Reed, London, no. 27030 Wax relined. Frame rubbing. Scattered craquelure throughout. Some light scattered touches of inpaint in the sky.
George Cole - Backwater, Windsor
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property from the Ronald F. Antonioli collection George Cole (British, 1810-1885) Backwater, Windsor signed 'G. Cole' (lower left) oil on canvas 18 x 28in Estimate: US$ 2,500 - 3,500 £1,600 - 2,300 €1,900 - 2,600 Footnotes PROVENANCE: with Frost & Reed. Category: Fine Art / Pictures Auction terms and conditions
George Cole - A Toy Spaniel
Original 1841
Auction: Bonhams -Feb 15, 2012 - New-yorkLot number: 17
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George Cole (British, 1810-1885) A Toy Spaniel signed and dated 'Geo Cole. 1841' (lower right) oil on canvas 24 3/4 x 29 3/4 in. (63 x 75.5 cm.) Footnote: This particularly fine portrait of a Toy Spaniel, a long established breed with Royal connections, is historically important because it could well have been used as a template by which the breed was assessed when dog shows started in the mid 19th century. George Cole first exhibited in London in 1838. His early work was characterized by experimentation as he explored still life, portraiture, genre, literary and animal subjects in an attempt to establish his true milieu. He would have seen the Old Masters in the country houses that he visited when undertaking commissions for animal portraiture and counted Sir Henry Peel, who probably commissioned the portrait of his Newfoundland dog, as one of his patrons. However by the 1850's Cole turned predominantly to landscape painting, initially in the style of the Old Masters, but soon developed his own unique style. He never entirely abandoned animal portraiture, and as late as 1862, he is recorded as having painted 'Poppetino' and 'Devil', the pet dogs belonging to the aristocratic collector and restorer of Walpole's Strawberry Hill, Frances, Countess of Waldegrave.
George Cole - Travellers Resting On A Track With Two Donkeys And A Cart
Auction: Gorringes -Feb 1, 2012 - LewesLot number: 1038
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Lot 1038 George Cole (1810-1883) oil on canvas, Travellers resting on a track with two donkeys and a cart, signed, 12 x 16.75in. Estimate £400-600 Descriptions provided in both printed and on-line catalogue formats do not include condition reports. The absence of a condition statement does not imply that the lot is in perfect condition or completely free from wear and tear, imperfections or the effects of aging. Interested bidders are strongly encouraged to request a condition report on any lots upon which they intend to bid, prior to placing a bid. All transactions are governed by Gorringes Conditions of Sale.
George Cole - The New Arrival
Original 1844312
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George Cole (1810-1883) The new arrival Signed and dated 1844 Oil on panel 30.5 x 40.5cm; 12 x 16in Provenance: Sotheby's 6 Nov. 1996 lot 121 13cm+ diagonal light crack to paint surface lower right otherwise good condition Estimate: £800-1,200 Lot: 312 Sale: Paintings (PW280911)


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New South Wales Waratahs flyhalf Bernard Foley did himself plenty of favours ahead of the Australian squad's selection for their Test series against France with a composed performance in his side's 41-13 Super Rugby victory over the Lions on Sunday.
Foley scored one try, set up another with a deft kick and added 16 points from the boot to remind Wallabies coach Ewen McKenzie he could potentially fill the pivotal role in the June test series after Queensland's Quade Cooper suffered a shoulder injury on Saturday and was ruled out for at least a month.
Kurtley Beale, Rob Horne (two) and Adam Ashley-Coooper also scored tries for the Waratahs, who moved into second place in the Australian conference on 34 points, one behind the ACT Brumbies.
Flyhalf Marnitz Boshoff added two penalties and converted Jaco Kriel's try from a well-worked rolling maul for the Lions, who have now lost six successive games and are in danger of finishing with the wooden spoon. – Reuters