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The Pittsburgh Penguins agreed on a three-year extension with winger Chris Kunitz that carries a $3.85 million cap hit through 2017.
Kunitz, 33, had a career year in 2013, totaling 22 goals and 30 assists in 48 games, and has three straight seasons of at least 22 goals. He's effectively ridden shotgun with both Evgeni Malkin and Sidney Crosby, managing to create space for the all-world centers while cashing in on scoring opportunities. It's a good move, even if his production declines as he ages.
It also may give a clue into how the Penguins are negotiating with winger Pascal Dupuis, who is five months older than Kunitz and, similarly, has gotten more productive with age.
Dupuis doesn't play on the power play, but is a good penalty-killing forward and one of the league's better even-strength goal-scorers. Eighteen of Dupuis' 20 goals in 2013 were without the man advantage; in 2011-12, it was 25 and none.
Dupuis also plays on the top six, virtually always with Crosby—and Crosby likes playing with him. At 34, he's on his last shot to sign a big contract. Given the dearth of productive forwards on the market, he could likely make more than $11.55 million overall, which is the total value of Kunitz's deal.
From Rob Rossi of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review:
(Penguins GM Ray) Shero is in negotiations with agents for Dupuis and (forward Matt) Cooke, each 34.
However, the Kunitz signing could impact the Penguins' plans for those players, each of whom is seeking a deal longer than two years in length.
The Penguins do not favor having too many older players committed to long-term contracts because of problems that could pose under the NHL salary cap, which for next season will be $64.3 million.
Kunitz is only the second player in his 30s that Shero has signed to a deal longer than two years. He signed Cooke, then 31, to a three-year contract in June 2010.
It's easy to see Dupuis signing a deal similar to Kunitz's—and it's just as easy to see him take a better one elsewhere. If the latter were to happen, it'd mean more space for Norris finalist defenseman Kris Letang, who has one year left on his deal and may be traded at the draft in the absence of a new one. Letang could easily wind up making more than $7 million, wherever he ends up.


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Microsoft: Office 365 for iOS 'Step in Right Direction,' Says Nomura
Nomura Equity Research's Rick Sherlund this afternoon writes that the announcement today by Microsoft (MSFT) that its "Office 365" productivity suite is available for Apple's (AAPL) iPhone is a "very limited first step in the right direction of delivering Office functionality across platforms that compete with its own Windows platform and, for now, not tablets."
The "Office Mobile" app for iPhone is available to subscribers of Office 365, which is the online, cloud-based version of Microsoft's venerable Microsoft Office productivity program for PCs. The service costs $9.99 per month, or $99.99 per year, and the Office Mobile app is only available to subscribers who pay that fee. The app lets iPhone users edit Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files, and to store them via Microsoft's "SkyDrive" online storage service.
The announcement today comes following Monday's announcement by Apple at its developer conference that it will make its own productivity programs, "Numbers," "Pages," and "Keynote," available on PCs via the Web as a hosted application.
Sherlund, who has a Neutral rating on Microsoft shares, and a $38 price target, thinks there's 'strategic value" to Microsoft releasing Office on multiple platforms beyond the PC, given that the PC market is experiencing declines "over time."
Sherlund opines that Microsoft may be holding off on providing a version that's optimized for Apple's iPad, and for other tablets, in order to give its own Windows 8.1, the forthcoming update to Windows, more of a chance to gain ground in the tablet market, where Microsoft has virtually no share:
competing alternatives to Office, Microsoft has yet to release an Office
application for the device. Currently, iPad users only have the option of accessing Office via Office Web Apps, or versions of Word, Excel, and
PowerPoint designed for access via browsers. Launching Office Mobile on the iPad could present additional competitive pressure for Windows 8 and Surface. Microsoft may be dragging its feet on Office for the iPad and Android for competitive reasons intended to give Windows 8 and Surface a chance to gain traction. Our view is that this delay is enabling competition for Office to entrench itself on these platforms and Office is a bigger business for Microsoft than Windows, so we see more urgency to preserve and extend the Office franchise cross platform. Office will necessarily have different capabilities on alternative form factors to optimize for each of these devices with touch controls, but the key is the need for cross-platform consistency in accessing, creating, editing, and sharing Office document
Microsoft shares today fell 32 cents, or 0.9%, to close at $34.40.

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lyndon taylor wrote:I'M really anti nuclear but I was thinking, two horrific accidents in 30-40 Years?? of nuclear power out of how many plants? Imagine if we had never had nuclear power and all that electricity had to be produced by conventional means like coal, would we actually be better off environmentally???? Even wind power kills native birds, I guess solar power is the least dangerous, but basically right now most of our power world wide comes from coal, is coal safer and have a better track record for the environment than nuclear??
lyndon taylor wrote:Obviously looking to the future we need to focus on renewable energies, but if we look at the present crisis in Japan, the closing of all the nuclear plants has been 90%+ replaced by excess coal sourced power, not solar. So it is a very complicated issue, with no easy answers, while renewables are the future they still only amount to a very small amount of power produced, shutting nuclear plants isn't really going to be a boost for renewables in the short term as much as it will increase reliance on coal.
chownah wrote:I just read at Slashdot that a couple of weeks ago a contractor working on the Fukushima nuclear powerplant cleanup reported a measurement of the radioactivity of the water which is seeping into the ground (I think) as being 100 millisieverts. It turns out that the meter they used to measure it COULD ONLY GO UP TO 100 millisieverts!!!!!!!....now, with better equipment they are reporting that THE ACTUAL RADIATION LEVELS IS 1,800 MILLISIEVERTS!!!!!!!.......enough to kill a person in 4 hours!!!!!!
Yes, but how stupid is this really you might ask. Well, how stupid would it be if Ferrari put speedometers in there sports cars that only went up to 20 kilometers per hour?
I suppose that anyone can make a mistake but should we allow an industry to continue to exist when its quality assurance protocols can allow this to happen within the context of a 40 billion dollar plus cleanup of a nuclear disaster? Can we really be sure that this was just a case of utter and total incompetence or might it have been a concerted effort to lie about the severity to minimize the seriousness of what was happening?
There was also a report of a solar disaster. A Jaguar (automobile) was parked near a very tall and wide building whose entire front was curved and since that face of the building is all glass it just so happened that the building reflected the sunlight and concentrated it onto the Jaguar (automobile) and melted one of its panels.....really, that's what happened or at least what was reported. Total cost of repairing the damage from the solar panel disaster.......less than 1000 Pounds.
JustinJones wrote:We need to understand the importance of nuclear and other renewable sources of energy.. Each country must try encourage usage of solar and wind energy to decrease our dependency on nuclear and fossil fuels.
We face no greater environmental challenge than climate change. Nuclear power, though, is no panacea. What we can do, and must, is to invest in what we know will make a difference: clean up our power plants, make our economy more efficient and get power from the wind and sun.
lyndon taylor wrote:Wind and solar alone can never power the grid because they only work in sunlight or when the wind blows, they are great to supplement power that can be generated any time of day or night, but obviously a clean source of power for when the suns gone and the wind is not blowing is of the utmost importance. Fortunately we do use more power during daylight, so solar can go a long way to reduce reliance on other forms of power, but there are not, and presumably never will be batteries big enough to store gigawatts of power during the day from solar and use the power at night.
chownah wrote:Back to the batteries. Seems like there are about 230,000,000 cars on the US. The Tesla model S can be bought with an 85 kilowatt hour battery (standard equip is 65 kilowatt hours). If every vehicle had this same size battery they could collectively store 19,550,000,000,000.......that is 19,550 gigawatt hours. (Do check my math.) From this I would say that it is very likely that in the future there will on fact be enough battery storage to supply night time demand (even though with the advances like I mentioned above there will probably be no need to rely on batteries).
The province of Fukushima in northeast Japan, devastated nearly three years ago by the earthquake and tsunami that caused a nuclear meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, has pledged to go 100 percent renewable by 2040.
The energy will be generated through local community initiatives throughout the province of nearly two million. Announced at a Community Power Conference held in Fukushima this week, it goes against Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's agenda to reboot nuclear power throughout the country.
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Some dark prospects for Fukushima from David Suzuki
chownah wrote:I could be wrong but the idea (from the video clip just presented above) that the collapse of the fourth reactor at Fukushima would be "bye bye Japan" or require the evacuation of west coast US is just fear mongering and I was disappointed to hear it voiced there as it tends to undermine the credibility of the event where it was voiced and the credibility of the person speaking it.
Kim OHara wrote:chownah wrote:I could be wrong but the idea (from the video clip just presented above) that the collapse of the fourth reactor at Fukushima would be "bye bye Japan" or require the evacuation of west coast US is just fear mongering and I was disappointed to hear it voiced there as it tends to undermine the credibility of the event where it was voiced and the credibility of the person speaking it.
Yes, it is problematic, but working out what information Suzuki is relying on is quite likely impossible. (Incidentally, I did find the earlier discussion of that clip - over on the other DW, starting at http://www.dharmawheel.net/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=6973&start=500#p194072. It doesn't add a lot, though.)
I think "Bye-bye Tokyo" is entirely credible. After all, there was talk of evacuating the city during the crisis - not that they could have done it.
Japan without Tokyo is nearly "Bye-bye Japan." California, though? Much less likely, and probably dependent on the details of the final collapse.
Yes, it is problematic, but working out what information Suzuki is relying on is quite likely impossible.
Kim OHara wrote:Chernobyl woke a few people up, but Fukushima has been a better eye-opener in that we have been given a good look into how and why it happened and then into the incompetence and denialism of the authorities. They really don't know how to fix it and, until they show that they do, we know that any future event can be just as disastrous and just as unfixable.
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DETROIT -- For just the fifth time this season, Miguel Cabrera was not in his usual No. 3 spot in the Tigers' batting order on Tuesday night.
Instead, he batted cleanup. Detroit manager Brad Ausmus hinted that the decision to bat Cabrera fourth had more to do with Rajai Davis' numbers against White Sox starter Jose Quintana than anything else.
"More of a matchup issue," the skipper said.
Third baseman Nick Castellanos was scratched from the lineup about an hour before first pitch because of a right index finger contusion. In his place, Cabrera moved over to third, and Victor Martinez played first.
Davis, who batted second, entered the game with eight hits in 20 at-bats against Quintana. This is the first time Cabrera's been out of the third spot in an American League park.
A reporter suggested to Cabrera that the lineup change might lead to more baserunners when he comes to the plate.
"Yes, please!" he said.
Cabrera committed an error during Chicago's seven-run seventh inning as the White Sox ran away with an 11-4 victory.
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QuestionMy family is in bad financial shape. We bring in a total of 2128 net. My husband and I don''t use credit cards, don''t dine out, don''t smoke, don''t fill our tanks up; have shut off notices for everything because of the way bills come due compared to pay cycle and we can''t seem to get on top and stay on top. I have student loans in forebarence, car insurance, car payment, electric and phone shut off notices. Can you please help us organize our payments so we constantly don''t fall behind. I want to be able to enjoy living instead of never having enough to live on.
I would suggest a couple of things 1) Do a very detailed buget that breaks your expenses down between committed and discretionary or contact a CPA/PFS financial planner that works on a fee-only basis who has experience preparing budgets for clients. 2) If you find that most of your expenses are committed (required) you may want to contact Consumer Credit Counseling Services - they may be able to restructure some of your debt with your creditors and bring your cash outflows in line with monthly inflows. They can''t work miracles but I have sent clients there before with some success. I think it''s worth checking out.
Concerning student loans: You can apply for undue hardshop petition. It sound like you already looked into this since your loans are in forebearance. You can also talk to the Federal Student Aid Ombudsman and perhaps they can work something out with you: http://www.ombudsman.ed.gov/
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Top prospect Nelson throws seven scoreless
Right-hander Jimmy Nelson, the Brewers' No. 1 prospect and No. 81 overall, threw seven scoreless innings to lead Triple-A Nashville to a 7-0 victory Monday night at Omaha. It was the Sounds' first shutout of the season.
Nelson struck out nine and allowed just two hits and one walk to earn the win. Using his sinker, he was able to work efficiently. He generated six ground-ball outs and threw 96 pitches.
Once Nelson exited the game, left-hander Brent Leach threw two perfect innings to complete the two-hit shutout.
With his sterling start Monday, Nelson lowered his ERA to 1.80. In 25 innings this season, he has struck out 24 batters and walked seven.
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Work has begun on the next Gordon Science Center renovation.
Utica, NY (05/30/2013)- The Community Foundation of Herkimer and Oneida Counties Inc. has granted $50,000 to Utica College for the renovations of the microbiology lab in Gordon Science Center.
These plans for these renovations have been years in the making, said Dr. Lawrence Aaronson, Harold T. Clark Jr. Professor of Microbiology. The objectives for the renovations are twofold. First is student safety; through the years, as the lab has accumulated more equipment, it has become less efficient and more difficult to maneuver. The new design will be much more efficient and ergonomic.
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Hey this has been a long time problem for me. Forget sitting cross legged but if I can remember back I think I still had the same issue with that. I would clear the mind and start fading away and my head would keep falling over to the side and I'd have to keep throwing my head back up. I just sit in a chair, sitting up-right, and it is very comfortable, straight spine, well nothing forced, fully relaxed while still trying to sit comfortably straight. Anyways, I don't think it's so much the back but its the weight of my head perhaps. I start going into the non-perceptive void in a sense, without even wanting to really. It's not like sleeping if you know what I mean. I just fixate on any object, or feeling in my body, my energy, like a spot on my head, crown or otherwise, I just feel around sometimes and see what subtle things feel they want attention. Anyways.. it doesn't matter what I do really.. eventually I start to go deeper and my head will either want to fall forward, to the side, or whatever, and it takes my body with it. :p
So my question then is how the hell can i make my head stay up? cuz I'm really in a nice place I like to stay in. If I lay down, THEN i just go to sleep. Sometimes I just let my head go where it wants to and I'm there slouched over in a fuzzy thoughtless state. It's hard to explain, I can't explain another state like this, but I'm aware that i am there.. or that I exist, so I know i'm not just unconciously unaware sleeping. But maybe, I think sleep is hard to define and not so much the off switch we think it is and more of a transitional thing and a loss of time or blank state just has to do with our untrained brain that can't translate the experience perhaps. Something like that.
basically I don't know what's going on. I can't say I'm a trained buddhist student by any means. I just try to live good and happy, conscious and aware and rid my energy of any bad, distorted or distracting feelings.
There is one other thing. If I take time to really feel awareness of my body, it can sometimes root and anchor me in such a way that I can't reach these states, or I do but it comes slower. I reach these states within.. 5 minutes sometimes. I don't know how to define the ideal characteristics of a meditation for me. Oh man, I know nothing. But yeah. Head falling over, kind of a big problem.
I've been meditating consistently for around 6 years. Fighting with my mind isn't so much a problem anymore. I can trance out no problem. It's just about keeping my damn head up.
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San Bernardino County Sheriff John McMahon on Tuesday gave his first interview since the deadly Feb. 12 standoff between disgruntled former Los Angeles police officer Christopher Dorner and sheriff's deputies in the San Bernardino Mountains.
Sitting in his office at Sheriff's headquarters in downtown San Bernardino, McMahon, who had been sworn in as sheriff less than two months before Dorner engaged deputies in the deadly gun battle in Seven Oaks, reflected on the magnitude of the event, the impact it had on his department and the law enforcement community in general, and his department's handling of the situation.
"This type of an event is tragic, and no law enforcement leader ever wants to be in that position - where you lose an officer and one gets seriously injured in a gun battle," McMahon said. "It's tragic. It's terrible and I hope I'm never in that position again. "
Dorner, who unbeknownst to deputies barricaded himself inside a vacant cabin on Glass Road in Seven Oaks, ambushed deputies who had just happened to have rendezvoused in the street outside the cabin to formulate a game plan on where they were going to search, McMahon said.
"There was no information to suggest he was there, the truck was not visible," McMahon said. "They get out of their cars, they see some tire tracks in the fresh snow, and within seconds they start taking gunfire from the cabin. Our guys are hit real quick. "
Deputies Jeremiah MacKay and Alex Collins were the first hit. MacKay died at the scene. Collins, MacKay's partner, suffered multiple gunshot wounds to his face, wrist and leg.
"It sounded like a war zone. There was gunfire like crazy," McMahon said.
As Dorner continued firing from inside the cabin, deputies scrambled to clear the injured deputies from the road and get them to safe ground.
"There's some heroic efforts with our guys trying to rescue our injured guys and trying to get them out of there. Then the SWAT guys and all the other law enforcement officers got there and set up a perimeter," McMahon said.
McMahon said Collins recently underwent surgery on his leg, and his doctor is very optimistic about Collins' recovery.
"He's in great spirits and making an incredible recovery. He's looking forward to coming back to work and we're looking forward to having him back," McMahon said.
McMahon came under fire from the news media for a SWAT team's use of pyrotechnic tear gas, inserted into the cabin during the standoff, which set the cabin afire. Suspicions arose as to whether authorities intended to burn the cabin down in order to flush out Dorner, who is believed to have taken his own life, with a single gunshot to the head, shortly after the fire ignited inside the cabin.
"I'll continue to stand by my statement that we did not intentionally burn that cabin down," McMahon said. "We did introduce pyrotechnic tear gas as the next level of force to try and get him to give up, but we did not intentionally burn that cabin. "
Suspicions about the SWAT team's methods arose when one deputy, who McMahon said was not part of the SWAT team, was heard over the police scanner shouting, "Burn the (expletive) down!" A SWAT commander was also heard saying, "We're going to go ahead with the plan "" we're going to go ahead with the burn. "
As to the SWAT commander's comment, McMahon said that was police terminology for using pyrotechnic tear gas, and the commander did not mean they were going to intentionally burn the cabin
down. The fact that the cabin caught fire was incidental.
As to the non-SWAT deputy's comment, McMahon acknowledged it was inappropriate, and if he finds out who made the comment he will deal with it appropriately.
"But understand that these folks, these officers, were just involved in probably one of the most significant gun battles in the history of law enforcement, at least in California, if not the nation. They were taking rounds. Two officers are down. Emotions are running high," McMahon said. "Certainly, what I heard is not what we encourage and certainly isn't something we condone "" using that kind of language and making those types of comments. "
For the most part, McMahon disregarded the media's criticisms, including one by East Coast-based investigative journalist Max Blumenthal, who said during an interview that the Sheriff's Department intentionally set fire to the cabin and engaged in an "extrajudicial execution" of Dorner.
McMahon said the actions of his department's tactical team were by the book, and that Dorner was given plenty of verbal commands via a public address system to surrender with his hands in the air, which went unheeded.
The trail of victims and firearms Dorner left behind during law enforcement's pursuit of him was more than enough to warrant the actions taken to subdue Dorner, McMahon said, adding that guns were found in Dorner's scorched pickup in Big Bear Lake, the maroon Nissan he stole the day of the standoff and even in the snow outside the cabin where the standoff occurred.
Dorner, who launched a killing spree to send a message about corruption at the Los Angeles Police Department following what he said was his wrongful termination, is also suspected of killing the daughter of a retired LAPD captain, her fiance, and a Riverside police officer.
The standoff drew a throng of police officers from agencies across Southern California "" Los Angeles, Irvine, the CHP, the Forest Service and Cal Fire to name a few. They all came to assist in any way they could. Many of the responding units were on standby at San Bernardino International Airport, where they remained.
By the time many of the backup law enforcement agencies arrived in the valley below, Dorner had already been cornered in the cabin on the mountain and the sheriff's SWAT team had already established a perimeter, McMahon said.
He said that was one of his biggest challenges: coordinating with all the agencies who came to assist.
"Although it's a big advantage when everybody starts coming up to help, managing the response from other law enforcement agencies that are truly trying to do the right thing, who want to come up and help, managing those responding units sometimes becomes a little difficult," McMahon said.
McMahon said he was highly impressed with the men and women of his department during the nearly weeklong search for Dorner, which saw searchers trudging terrain in blizzard conditions.
"The men and women of this department went up there every day and did absolutely their best trying to find this guy and keep anybody else from being hurt," said McMahon. "They didn't give up in that weather. They kept searching. They didn't complain. The work ethic and commitment of the members of this department was just extraordinary. "
And he was overwhelmed by the support extended to his agency during the search and subsequent standoff.
"When you look at the support, not only from inside the department but from the communities we serve as well as the state and the country, sometimes you lose sight of how much support there is out there for law enforcement," McMahon said. "And in an event like this you truly see how much support there is "" the e-mails, the phone calls, the letters, the donations for the injured deputies' families. It's just overwhelming the support that's out there in the community. "
Meanwhile, an extensive investigation into the standoff remains ongoing. A report will ultimately be submitted to the District Attorney's Office for review, which will ultimately release its findings to the public, McMahon said.
He said the standoff was a learning experience for all involved and the broader law enforcement community in general.
"As I thought about this, if it was not our department involved in this event we would be watching this event on TV, looking at what they were doing and asking ourselves, "If this occurred in our county, would we be prepared to deal with it and how would we deal with it?' McMahon said. "So this is a learning event for law enforcement across the country. This is a very significant event.
"Hopefully this type of event doesn't occur again, or if it does it's a long time from now. But clearly, everybody can learn something from an event like this, and I believe we'll learn some things from this event. Not that we did anything wrong, but maybe there's something we could have done better, and when you experience an event like this it's always an opportunity to learn."


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I've put up a forum at http://www.hamsterwheel.ca for the purpose of allowing people to post periodically about their meditation practice. I've found the forum useful thus far to keep up my own habit, and to see how others practice...
Currently there are only three users, but I'd like to get a group of 5-10 on there for mutual encouragement.
There are two forums, a 'discussion' forum where you can post whatever you want, and a 'check-in' forum where you can create your own thread about your practice. I'd like to keep the check-in threads free of other people's opinions on how one should practice, ("You're doing it wrong!" is a comment I'd like to avoid, people should be free to practice how they feel is appropriate.) so every thread in the 'check-in' forum should consist of a series of posts from the author of the original post.
You'll have to register. This is not in any way associated with Dhammawheel/Dharmawheel.
I acknowledge that people are likely rather reluctant to talk about their practice, as it's a rather personal thing and making it public leaves one vulnerable.. But you can post as much or as little information as you want. Also, admitting to missing days of practice isn't such an awful thing-- you'll see on the forum I have a lot of 'too drunk to meditate' days. Life happens. Hopefully everyone who posts on the forum will be supportive and understanding.


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A former worker at Bettencourt Dairies has been sentenced to probation for his role in abusing dairy cows at Bettencourt's Dry Creek Dairy facility near Hansen, Idaho.
According to a report by the Times-News, Twin Falls County 5th District Magistrate Judge Calvin Campbell ordered 25-year-old Jesus Garza to a year of probation.
As part of his probation, Garza will not be allowed to work with animals. However, because Garza has since secured employment at another dairy, Campbell is willing to reconsider the stipulation if Garza's new employer can ensure proper supervision and animal-welfare policies.
Campbell also stressed the importance livestock producers have to their animals.
"What we as people who work with animals cannot forget is that we are the stewards and we are the responsible persons for the animals to make sure that they don't suffer unnecessary cruelty, that they don't suffer cruelty," Campbell said. Read more from the Times-News.
The case made national headlines last year after an undercover video by animal activists showed several workers abusing animals. Read more about the case here.
In the wake of the video, management fired five employees identified in the video and has since made changes to their vetting and training process. Other Idaho dairies have been working to make improvements, as well. Read, "Animal abuse claim prompts improved employee training, vetting."


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Read for This Week's Study: Rom. 16:5; 1 Cor. 1:2; 1 Pet. 2:9; Matt. 28:19-20; John 17:21-22; Acts 15:1-29.
Memory Text: "These things I write to you, though I hope to come to you shortly; but if I am delayed, I write so that you may know how you ought to conduct yourself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth" (1 Timothy 3:14-15, NKJV).
Key Thought: "We should remember that the church, enfeebled and defective though it be, is the only object on earth on which Christ bestows His supreme regard." – Ellen G. White, Selected Messages, book 2, p. 396.
For many, church isn't what it used to be (whatever that was). Some people are even talking about "a churchless Christianity," a concept that is self-contradictory. Others rail against "organized religion" (what is better, "disorganized religion"?). The Bible teaches, clearly, about the importance of the church. It's not an option; it's a crucial component in the plan of salvation. No wonder, then, that as the great controversy unfolds, Satan works so hard against it, especially because the church is one important means by which sinners are brought into contact with God's offer of salvation. The church, wrote Paul, was "the house of God," even "the pillar and ground of the truth" (1 Tim. 3:15, NKJV). The church is not a human invention; it is was created by God for the purposes of bringing erring sinners into a saving relationship with Him.
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I wouldn't mind seeing him return to the wrestling business for a short stint. I really never been a huge fan but a return that's kept under the radar could have a big impact for a company like TNA who is struggling right now.
Yes, I mark out for Kurt Angle...hate me.
Favourite of all time in no order: Kurt Angle, Ric Flair, Chris Jericho, Undertaker, Stone Cold, Shawn Michaels, Booker T, Rick Rude, Mr Perfect and Sting.
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Cell Therapy in Severe Chronic Ischemic Heart Disease (MiHeart)
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Patients with advanced coronary artery disease usually undergo incomplete myocardial revascularization due to the extension and diffuseness of the disease, with very poor distal arterial beds unsuitable for direct revascularization.
This study was designed to test the hypothesis that direct, intramyocardial injection of autologous bone marrow cells may further improve myocardial perfusion in patients undergoing incomplete bypass surgery.
|Chronic Ischemic Heart Disease Coronary Artery Disease Angina Pectoris
|Procedure: Cell Therapy
|Phase 2 Phase 3
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|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Double (Participant, Investigator)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
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|A Multicenter, Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Study of the Efficacy of Intramyocardial Injection of Autologous Bone-Marrow Cells in Patients With Severe, Chronic Ischemic Heart Disease Undergoing Coronary Bypass Surgery
- Increase in myocardial perfusion [ Time Frame: 1, 6 and 12 months ]Patients will undergo myocardial perfusion assessment by MRI during pharmacological stress with adenosine or dipyridamole. Alternatively, cardiac scintigraphy can be used in patients with contra-indications to MRI.
- Improvement in LV function [ Time Frame: 1, 6 and 12 months ]LV function (global and regional) will be assessed by MRI.
- Improvement in angina functional class [ Time Frame: 1, 6 and 12 months ]Angina functional class will be determined using the Canadian Cardiovascular Society classification.
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|Study Start Date:
|January 2006
|Estimated Study Completion Date:
|July 2013
|Estimated Primary Completion Date:
|July 2013 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
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Experimental: Cell Therapy
Intramyocardial injection of autologous bone marrow-derived cells
Procedure: Cell Therapy
Intramyocardial injection of autologous bone marrow-derived cells
No Intervention: Placebo
Saline injection
Detailed Description:
All eligible patients will undergo coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) and, in previously identified areas of viable, ischemic myocardium unsuitable for direct revascularization, be randomized to either placebo (saline) or intramyocardial injection of bone marrow-derived cells (BMC) during surgery.
During follow-up, myocardial perfusion assessment will be performed to determine the improvement in treated areas compared to non-treated segments.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 80 Years (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- symptoms of angina or angina equivalent
- documented coronary artery disease (invasive angiography)
- documented myocardial ischemia (stress echo, cardiac scintigraphy, or MRI)
- unsuitable for complete myocardial revascularization (PCI or CABG) OR even if a complete procedure in feasible, it is anticipated that myocardial perfusion may not be restored due to poor distal beds
Exclusion Criteria:
- severe LV dysfunction (EF < 25% on echo)
- short life expectacy (below < 1 year)
- diagnosis of cancer in the past 5 years
- diagnosis of hematological diseases
- diagnosis of severe heart disease of other etiologies including valvular heart disease, Chagas' disease, etc)
- diagnosis of acute coronary syndrome in the past 3 months
- diagnosis of chronic kidney disease stage V requiring chronic dialysis
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01727063
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|Principal Investigator: Luis Henrique W Gowdak, MD, PhD
|Study Director:
|Jose Eduardo Krieger, MD, PhD
|Heart Institute
|Study Chair:
|Carlos Eduardo Rochitte, MD, PhD
|Heart Institute
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|Dr. Luís Henrique W. Gowdak, Clinical Coordinator, Ministry of Health, Brazil
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|NCT01727063 History of Changes
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|Study First Received:
|November 12, 2012
|Last Updated:
|November 12, 2012
Keywords provided by Dr. Luís Henrique W. Gowdak, Ministry of Health, Brazil:
Chronic ischemic heart disease
Coronary artery disease
Angina pectoris
Myocardial ischemia
Cardiac surgery
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Coronary Artery Disease
Myocardial Ischemia
Coronary Disease
Heart Diseases
Angina Pectoris
Pathologic Processes
Cardiovascular Diseases
Arterial Occlusive Diseases
Vascular Diseases
Chest Pain
Neurologic Manifestations
Nervous System Diseases
Signs and Symptoms
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Ah, Samhain-tide: a time when life and death balance on a razor sharp edge as we welcome in the Season of the Winter God. Rua, Fin and I will be tucked safely into our stalls this evening, away from those things that walk between the worlds. It's a time to stay firmly rooted in this world, while seeking predictions from the next. Your best tools on Samhain are sharp wits and clear vision. It reminds me of a stone we find here at the dairy. It's usually shiny and black (although it can be green, grey and even "rainbow"), and made from volcanic glass. It's called obsidian.
Obsidian was highly prized by Native Americans because of its use as a blade. It could be honed to the thinnest edge, and still be deadly sharp, so it was a perfect material for arrowheads. Even today, obsidian blades are used in surgery because they are many times sharper than steel blades, and have nice, smooth edges--and smooth blades mean less scaring. Obsidian has other properties that are especially useful this time of year. Wearing or holding the stone not only releases healing energy, but also keeps you grounded and balanced. That's especially important during a season when the worlds of the living and the dead touch.
Obsidian makes sure you stay put in the world where you belong. Yet, at the same time, obsidian balls, crystals and mirrors are used for scrying (crystal gazing) and allow visions and dreams of the future. If you use an obsidian as a scrying tool, keep it wrapped in a black cloth filled with a good helping of mugwort between uses. The black cloth keeps trivial images from being absorbed by the obsidian, while the mugwort keeps unwanted energies at bay. This way, your scrying tool is always ready to give you clear, meaningful visions. Like most black stones, obsidian is protective, warding off negative energy. (It would be a good idea to carry an obsidian stone in your pocket when you go Trick or Treating on Halloween). It stimulates your intuition, so you can sense things easier, like the intentions of a stranger or the mood of your parents! Finally, it opens up your creativity and allows positive energy to flow.
Enjoy your parties, parades and candy. Since Samhain is the Celtic New Year, my sisters and I will see you next year.
Cleas no' coir (class noh koh-ir)…Trick or treat!
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Lutz gaining comfort in role as bench player
CLEVELAND -- Since serving as a heart-of-the-order hitter for much of his ascension through the Minor Leagues, infielder Donald Lutz has had to grow accustomed to his new role as an occasional bench bat with the Reds.
Lutz entered Tuesday 7-for-36 at the plate this season after batting .241 through 34 games last year. As he continues to log more time in the Majors, however, the difficulty of only seeing game action every three or four days is beginning to prove less hindering for the 25-year-old.
"It's not easy," Lutz said on Tuesday. "What I've learned from last year is you can't get too upset with yourself. Say you get one at-bat and then get a couple days off, you can't sit on that at-bat if it wasn't successful. I remember last year, I kind of took that approach of, 'I wish I could get another chance.'
"If you get that one chance, you got to be ready to perform. There's no time to think about, 'Is this right?'"
The Reds, for what it's worth, would much prefer to see Lutz gain more seasoning in an everyday role with Triple-A Louisville, as he has only logged 119 at-bats at that level in his professional career. But with the club's infield already dangerously thin with injuries to Joey Votto and Brandon Phillips, manager Bryan Price has had little flexibility in the matter.
"I think Donald would benefit from playing more regularly," Price said. "But right now where we are with our 40-man roster, he's better suited to come up here and give us that bench support."
Though his overall numbers may not jump off the page, Lutz has gone 3-for-7 as a pinch-hitter since being recalled in July, including a ninth-inning double off Indians reliever John Axford on Tuesday.
"I remember last year was a little tougher," Lutz said. "I learned a lot from that. I've become a much more [comfortable] hitter in that way, in that role they need me in right now. I feel more comfortable."
Alec Shirkey is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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BANGOR — The former treasurer of the Bangor-Breakfast Kiwanis Club and Greater Bangor 4th of July Corp. has been charged with stealing more than $100,000 from the organizations.
Bruce Fowle was indicted Wednesday by a Penobscot County Grand Jury on theft charges.
Authorities say the 62-year-old Fowle had been stealing from the organizations for several years, although an investigation began in August only when members of the organizations realized money was missing.
No arraignment date has been scheduled.
The president of the Greater Bangor 4th of July Corp., which raised money for the city fireworks display, tells WABI-TV he was "greatly saddened" by the indictment.
Fowle is no longer involved with either organization.
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Apple's position in the Chinese smartphone market was bumped from No. 4 to No. 6 in the third quarter as China-based brands fire up the competition.
Apple, which previously held the No. 4 spot in the Chinese mobile phone market, slipped to No. 6 in Q3 due to its low number of shipments, according to research firm IDC. Out of China's 60 million mobile phone shipments in Q3, Apple's iPhone accounted for less than 10 percent.
China is the world's largest cell phone market with over one billion mobile subscribers at present. Chinese electronics brands have been pushing sales harder with better prices and enhanced features.
Another issue is that less than one-fifth of the one billion subscribers still use the 3G network, according to Reuters. Apple's iPhone 4S and previous do not
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, so other options in the market likely looked a lot more attractive.
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iPhone 5 was released in the U.S. back in September
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The iPhone 5 finally has 4G compatibility and a larger screen at nearly 4 inches. These and other new features should make the newest addition to the iPhone family a competitive threat in the Chinese mobile market.
The ranking of electronics manufacturers in China's mobile market is as follows, from first to sixth place: Samsung, Lenovo, Coolpad, ZTE Corp., Huawei Technologies Co. and Apple.
"There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance." -- Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer
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By Hand and Foot
Once Almost Extinct, Butlers are Making a Comeback in the Homes of Wealthy Americans
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His listeners are as captive as an audience at the Vatican. Judging from their intent expressions, you would think the world revolved around the pleasure of a fine Havana. Indeed, pleasure would soon be their business--serious business. They are training to be butlers, and it is acutely essential that they learn every last detail about the things that make the employers of butlers happy. The field trip to Dunhill is the first of many to those rarefied sanctums of quality that cater to the discerning tastes of the rich. There will also be instruction about truffles and caviar at Selfridges, Champagne at Moët & Chandon, Port at Fortnum & Mason, suits at Gieves & Hawkes, shoes at John Lobb, Bootmaker.
The Class of '95, Ivor Spencer School for Butlers, is at the midpoint of its six-week course. Already it has been coached exhaustively on the ironing of newspapers, the organizing of theater supper parties, the packing of suitcases, the passing of the humidor ("Never neglect the ladies"), the overseeing of household accounts, the serving of the morning tray and the polishing of crystal--not to mention the proper telephone manner, the correct bow, and the art of the purchase ("Always deal with two suppliers; that way you'll build a healthy competition and get the best").
The group has also been thoroughly counseled on the myriad nuances and sticky situations that will doubtless arise on the job. There is, for example, the delicate matter of, uh, cleavage. Butlers, strutting about the manor as they do, see their employers in their most intimate modes--without teeth and toupee, in the buff, even flagrante delicto. Suppose a butler, upon serving the morning tray, finds in bed with Sir not Madame (who is out of town) but an unidentified woman with bare bosom. Ah, yes, well, he should look her directly in the eye, but only if she speaks to him. Otherwise, he must steadfastly avert his gaze and concentrate solely on Sir. Should the lady require a tray, the butler must place it on her lap, making certain that he is facing the foot of the bed. The future butlers were further advised that the rules of direct eye contact apply if Madame, who left town a 34B, returns a 38D.
The overriding tenet: Never Cross the Invisible Line. Again and again this universal code of butlerhood is imparted. "We can be friendly but not familiar," commands Ivor Spencer in the tone of an upper-crust drill sergeant. Spencer is the founder and head of the world's only butler school. A sartorial 64-year-old man with graying temples and a faint hauteur, he exudes the dynamism of an entrepreneur who came up the rugged way, which is precisely the case. The son of a fruit wholesaler, he rose to heady heights from London's hardscrabble East End. Ambitious from the start, he taught himself the speech of the aristocracy, eventually becoming England's toastmaster nonpareil. The emcee at more than 1,000 royal events (many of which he organized), he often mingled with moguls and show biz elite.
Fifteen years ago, a visiting American television producer was so taken with Spencer's style that he asked him to fly to California and organize two days of lavish entertaining at his Beverly Hills manse. Following the party, the producer asked Spencer what he thought of his home. "It's beautiful," came the reply, "but I think it's lacking something--an English butler." Intrigued, the producer conferred with his wife, and all agreed that Spencer would return to the United Kingdom and find a suitable man for them. But the task proved far more difficult than anticipated.
"No one I interviewed was up to the job of running a home from top to bottom with a huge budget," recalls Spencer. "I was looking for somebody who possessed the best qualities of the traditional butler and was also highly skilled at administrative duties. Such a person didn't exist."
Ultimately, he took under his wing an impressive young waiter at one of London's posh hotels, tutored him rigorously and put him on a plane to California. And it worked! Thus was born the Ivor Spencer School for Butlers, an outrageously successful program whose graduates have found employment with the Queen, the Duke and Duchess of York, King Hussein of Jordan and the Crown Prince of Bahrain (among other royals), not to mention an awesome galaxy of rock stars, sports icons, film idols, Arab oil barons and billionaire businessmen. "The demand for butlers is huge," observes Spencer. "The wealth out there is phenomenal. I've never seen anything like it."
Clearly there had long been a need for the revamping of Jeeves. Quite frankly, he had become a fossil. The old-style butler (as so movingly portrayed by Anthony Hopkins in Remains of the Day) was a housebound servant with narrow responsibilities. In the end he couldn't keep pace with a rapidly changing world in which nouveau megariche were eclipsing quiet aristocracy. His lot was swiftly dying out. Before 1939, there were 30,000 butlers in England. By the time Spencer started his school, their numbers had dwindled to 70. Staggering taxes (in the way of "death duties") have been forcing bluebloods off their estates and into apartments, leaving them no option but to terminate their cherished butlers.
If the noble occupation of butler was to survive, a new market had to be targeted and the job description expanded. The blatantly obvious new market was America, where cash flowed like tap water, and in-your-face status symbols were experiencing a revival (as witnessed by the hit TV soaps Dallas and Dynasty). To satisfy the mammoth needs of Yankee magnates, many of whom had yachts, private jets and several homes (each with a full staff), Spencer knew he had to provide a butler for all reasons, an indispensable majordomo capable of supervising everything and everyone associated with his boss's domestic domain. Accordingly, he devised for his students a fine-tuned syllabus with 86 lessons. Spencer's butlers would do it all: bookkeeping, purchasing, drawing baths, driving the children to school, whipping up 20-minute meals when the cook is out sick, overseeing the payrolls of staffs near and far, flower-arranging, menu-planning...he would even accompany his employer on business trips. Spencer's butlers would assuredly have a niche in the 21st century.
The Class of '95 is composed of seven Englishmen, one Swede, one Canadian, one Malaysian and three Americans. (The latter category includes--egad!--a female. Yes, the role of butler is so updated that even women are joining the ranks, albeit at a trickle. Hudson must be spinning in his grave!) And they come from all walks. Among the aspirants: Anthony Seddon-Holland, portly and courtly former security guard with thick black hair and handlebar mustache; Donald Aitken, tall, lean former banker and golf club manager who cuts the figure of a senior corporate executive; Nicholas Clayton, dapper, quick-witted former dental technician; Murdoch MacKillop, droll, pensive type--former chief steward on a globe-drifting yacht who hopes to put down roots as a butler; Johan Bergman, immaculate, square-jawed, fiercely intent young man who wears a watch fob and wire-rimmed glasses, will seek a position with a family back home in Gothenburg, Sweden, where his wife is a social worker.
Bergman seems the embodiment of the contemporary butler--innovative, savvy and hell-bent on doing things right. "I've wanted to be a butler ever since I was 13," he says. "I like working in the house. Growing up, I was always in the kitchen making sandwiches with my mother while my father and brother were working on the car. I'm not at all mechanically minded. I enjoy striving for perfection, creating an orderly home. That's what butlers do. I will always strive to be the best butler, not second best. I love competition."
Each student paid a tuition of $5,000, a pittance considering their glowing futures. Unlike the butler of old, who received paltry wages and limped into retirement a virtual pauper, today's model can expect to receive between $40,000 and $60,000 in annual income, plus benefits, room, board, a car and private medical care. To ensure job security, Spencer only places his butlers with the severely wealthy.
He tells his students, "You'll never have the kind of employer who looks at the stock market and says to his wife, 'Oh, the shares have gone down; darling, sack the butler.' "
Classes are held in a hotel conference room in suburban London. On this particular morning, the day after the Dunhill expedition, an ardent, feisty little gent named Donald Weedon--Spencer's longtime able assistant--is grilling the students on all that they have absorbed to date. A key to the school's success is reinforcement. Lessons are repeated so often that they become permanently entrenched in mind, body and spirit. Like a prizefighter, Weedon is pacing back and forth, punching out quick, terse questions and waiting for the correct response with a steely glare.
"Anthony, give me three on napkins."
"Always wear gloves when folding them, fold extra ones for silver trays and if someone drops a napkin, pick it up and give him a fresh one."
"Excellent. Tom, show me how to crumb down." Using a candy box as a makeshift crumber, Tom demonstrates the proper stroke for removing crumbs from a table.
"Lovely. Raymond, what are three things a butler never does?"
"A butler never buys drugs or procures women for his employer, and he never becomes sexually involved with anyone in the household."
"Good. Ben, what must a butler carry in his pocket at all times?"
"A cigar cutter, breath freshener, phone cards, credit cards, cash and loose change, keys to the house, a comb, two hankies, a notebook and five pens--one to use, one to lose, one to lend, one for the appointment book and one to spare."
"Right. David, what must never be served at a shoot?"
"Alcoholic beverages of any kind."
"Indeed. And what if you notice a flask in someone's pocket?"
"Tell the gamekeeper."
Weedon now instructs the class to repair to the adjoining room and practice posture, walking and forms of address, fervently reminding them, "You're all actors! You're all acting a part! Of course you are, the whole time! Once you've learnt your lines it will be very easy, automatic!"
Soon the air is filled with a chorus of pomp and civility: "It's a pleasure, sir."
"No problem, sir."
"Mr. Leigh is expecting you, sir."
"I'll fetch it immediately, sir."
Later, students pair up for role-playing. Hypothetical potential disasters involving unsavory characters are dealt with. Among the classic offenders: the Drunken Guest, the Pilfering Guest, the Prying Guest. "A butler must never be caught off guard or overwhelmed by a surprise event," counsels Weedon. "He must always be prepared."
There'll be a grand graduation luncheon at the Savoy at the end of all this. Diplomas will be handed out and jovial impromptu speeches made. Spencer will negotiate all arrangements with prospective employers, endeavoring to secure the very best for his fledglings. And he'll always be on call to butlers urgently seeking his wisdom. But even after his students have become ensconced in formidable homes, he will continue to be the hard taskmaster. With a sly glint in his eye, he concedes, "We frighten them a bit so that they'll do it properly."
A number of his graduates have gone to the States and reported back on how amiable and generous Americans are. "They think it's going to be a piece of cake," Spencer notes with a smile, "but I say to them, 'They'll eat you up and spit you out for breakfast if you make one false move. Don't ever take advantage. Ever! On anything!' "
One Spencer alumnus, who fancies cigars, works for a London-based ambassador. His duties include looking after an immense and exquisite humidor--a gift to the embassy--containing 360 fine cigars. No one would know the difference if one was purloined now and then. But early on, Spencer thunderously admonished, "Never, ever, take one for yourself! If you ever do you'll be found out and you'll be crossed off my register. You'll never work again."
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With all of the crap that we have had to go through, and all of the injuries and suspensions, we are still in playoff shape. You cannot say enough about how well this coaching staff has done. I mean, as of today, we are tied for 7th in the east (as Orlando loses).
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Editor's note: This market commentary is provided by the Dairy Division at FCStone/Downes-O'Neill in Chicago, Ill.
The Class III futures market got a jolt despite more declines on the spot market. The spot market continued to decline with blocks dropping 2 cents to settle at $2.0350 with eight trades and an offer left uncovered, while barrels settled at $2.1025 on no activity. Class III's futures responded, though not quickly, by jumping anywhere from 18 to 30 cents from August through November, while all other contracts going forward were steady to 9 higher. Volume was solid with 975 contracts traded.
It was an additional buyer in the spot market and the possibility of further quantitative easing per Mr. (Federal Reserve Chairman Ben) Bernanke's comments that propelled Class III prices higher, though the timing of the rally in Class III futures had little correlation to any of the above stories, as most of the gains were posted just after the noon hour — well past the time when these stories hit the market. Futures prices tested and held levels of resistance, however, so we expect prices to retreat lower today.
Cash cheese futures saw 12 contracts trade with prices 0.008 cents higher in August, while all other months were steady.
This morning, we look for Class III to open mixed.
Following on the heels of overnight strength, grains briefly saw a limit-up move on a midday weather report that extreme heat in the Upper Midwest is expected to linger for an extended period of time with little rainfall on the horizon. If that wasn't enough, Bernanke's testimony prior to the opening of the grain markets indicated that additional stimulus would be coming if the economy remains stagnant. This promptly sent the U.S. dollar plummeting beginning around 9 a.m. By the time the grain markets opened, the dollar had lost roughly 500 points and was in free-fall, losing 300 points in the next 30 minutes, with fears that the U.S. will devalue the dollar, overshadowing the sovereign debt fears that have been crippling the Euro. All of this helped push corn in December 21.75 cents higher to settle at 679.75. Beans picked up 20.5 in July to close at 1387, while November finished 21.5 higher to 1379.75.
Earlier this week, we saw Chinese officials openly question the USDA's acreage numbers. Like many in the industry, they are skeptical that we actually got all the acres the USDA reported. The Chinese have lost 20.3 million acres over the last 12 years, as drought and industrial expansion have taken a toll on farmland. Inflation over there is the highest since 2008 — they've been increasing imports and are expected to import 5 million MT's of corn this year. They've been trying to keep purchases quiet while jawboning prices lower, but how many times can you see major shipments go to "unknown" buyers before the market figures it out? They're sitting on a massive reserve of U.S. dollars, spending it to buy some grain and to rebuild the reserves they've been depleting to keep prices under control. We shall see what export sales look like this morning.
We look for corn to open 3 to 5 cents higher and soybeans to open 8 to 10 higher.
Daily CME spot market prices:
Block cheese: $2.035 (down 2 cents)
Barrel cheese: $2.1025 (unchanged)
Butter: $2.03 (unchanged)
Grade A NFDM: $1.625 (unchanged)
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Mark Lourenzo
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The Eel River Valley Huskies and the Ferndale Mustangs each sent two teams to the Six Rivers Youth Football playoffs, which commenced this past Sunday at two different sites. Out of the four teams qualified, it is just one team remaining and will be moving on for the semifinal round this coming Sunday. The ERV Huskies Double AA Blue made a big opening round statement by shutting out the Redwood Youth Football Knights, 36-0 and will be on home turf this coming Sunday for round two as the Eel River Association is one of two sites for the semifinal round. Both the Ferndale Mustangs Single A and Triple AAA teams lost this past weekend on home turf and the Huskies Single A Blue team lost to Eureka Red by a score of 18-6.
The ERV Huskies AA Blue cast no doubts as to whether they would move past the opening round as last Sunday they scored on their opening possession and never looked back. Hauling in a 40-yard touchdown pass from quarterback J.B. Lewis, Church Crenshaw opened the scoring of last weekends Double AA game. Lewis in turn caught a 45-yard touchdown himself as he changed to the wideout position and was on the receiving end of the pass from Zac Claus. Moving back to his quarterback position, J.B. Lewis also ran in a 2-yard sneak and the halftime score read 29-0.
The third quarter passed without additional scoring but Lewis dropped back to pass on the first Husky possession of the fourth quarter and the QB instead ran a draw up the middle of the Knight defense and weaved his way up the field to a 42-yard score. Husky linebacker Church Crenshaw recovered a Knight fumble in the first half and lineman Zach Carter recovered a Redwood loose ball in the 2nd half. The Huskies will play at Fortuna High, this Sunday at noon, against the winner of Eureka Green versus McKinleyville.
It will be a unusual site to not see the Ferndale Mustangs in a championship game of the Six Rivers playoffs as in prior years, the Mustangs have excelled and particularly have dominated the Triple AAA division of local youth football. But not this year as both the Mustang teams that made the postseason were beaten this past Sunday in Ferndale. The Single A Mustangs got off to a good start against the Redwood Youth Knights and led after one quarter 7-6 on quarterback Jenner Christiansen's bootleg run for a touchdown. The Stangs were still in the game in the 2nd period when Redwood answered with a score to go up 12-7.
The Knights threatened to expand their lead on two big pass completions just before the half but they ran out of time as they got as close as the Mustang four yard line when the gun sounded for halftime. Ferndale came out for the 2nd half ready to do battle but two whistles took the wind out of their sails. First came a referee's call that reversed a fumble recovery by Ferndale's Bronson Lewis. Later came a call that took away a 28-yard touchdown pass catch and run by Mustang fullback Lane Branstetter. Both of those game changing calls came in the third quarter. In the final period, Redwood's Elias Cappelen intercepted a Mustang pass and quarterback Lane Thrap ran in a 31-yard touchdown to ice the victory with the final score of 19-7.
The final game of last Sunday was the Mustang Triple AAA hosting the Redwood Youth Football Knights. Redwood jumped to a 8-0 lead after a very defensive minded first half of play. A pass from Knight quarterback Jack Rice to tight end Lane Gomes set up the only score of the half as Rice took in a 12-yard keeper for the score. Place kicker Hunter Stapp booted in the PAT, which is worth two points in youth football. Ferndale tried to make a game of it behind the hard running of fullback Blaine Zanone however, Redwood responded with tough running by fullback Warren Freeman and a touchdown pass reception by Lane Gomes and was able to lock up the 16-0 victory.
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Eel River Valley Double AA quarterback J. B. Lewis looks over the Redwood Knights defense as he attempts to find an open Husky receiver downfield. Lewis was part of four Eel River touchdowns as he threw, caught and ran in scores pacing the Huskies to a 36-0 shutout of the Knights in the opening round of the Six Rivers Youth Football playoffs.


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PORTLAND, Ore. (TheStreet) -- Christmas has some star power to it when it's the big draw behind a holiday movie, but sometimes it takes only a Christmas cameo to make a seasonal film favorite.
We've gone into some depth about the merits of the top-grossing Christmas movies of all time, but even classics including Miracle on 34th Street and It's A Wonderful Life start to lack freshness and narrow the audience a bit. By using a Christmas setting to touch on broader, more universal themes, holiday films can be just as beloved as seasonal standards, but far more lucrative.
The folks at BoxOfficeMojo note that the average $41 million brought in by Christmas-specific films is eclipsed by the $67 million that movies only set at Christmas yield in average box-office receipts. Change the criteria to wide releases and the disparity changes from $55.5 million per Christmas film to $78.4 million per Christmas-adjacent movie.
So what qualifies in the not-quite Chrismas category? Think of the Mel Gibson/Danny Glover 1987 buddy cop flick Lethal Weapon, which ranks No. 11 on BoxOfficeMojo's Christmas-set list after taking in $65 million in the U.S. during its original run. For a film that ends with Mel Gibson and Gary Busey fighting on a lawn lit by Christmas lights and acting about as uncorked as the average moviegoer believes them to be, this film ended up being a holiday gem and set a pattern for writer Shane Black -- who also set his trigger-happy films The Last Boy Scout, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and The Long Kiss Goodnight around Christmas.
Sometimes, it comes in the form of a film that does just about everything but tell some sort of holiday parable. The 2005 film The Family Stone (No. 12 with a $60 million take) goes into the perils of reuniting a family under the same roof for the holiday, the strain that places on personal relationships and the varying levels of importance placed on decorations and gifts when the person central to all of it is getting ready to die, but still is more of an interpersonal drama than it is a "Christmas movie."
Then there's Love Actually: The 2003 ensemble comedy that tries its hardest to tap into the meaning of love, but does so in the most secular series of Christmas stories put to screen. That made only $59.7 million here in the U.S., but took in another $187 million abroad, gained a cult following and remains a topic of heated debate around this time of year. The Atlantic, ThinkProgress and The Guardian have all committed considerable space to it merits and shortcomings this year -- which says a whole lot about this film's position in pop culture a full decade after its release.
Unlike the Top 10 highest-grossing holiday films of all time, the initial box office tend to have more effect on these films' staying power. The world knows It's A Wonderful Life only because it was a moviehouse failure that didn't even cover its production costs. The $3.2 million it made during its original release in 1946 would be roughly $38 million today -- making it less successful than 2011's Arthur Christmas and its $46 million take -- and briefly relegated its images to the public domain. That allowed local TV affiliates to air it with only minimal royalty fees in the late '70s and early '80s, making it nearly ubiquitous for impressionable Generation X kids.
A Christmas Story, meanwhile, made only $20.6 million when it was released in 1983 and never played in more than 950 theaters. That's $48 million in current dollars and firmly in Arthur Christmas territory, but that kept the price of the rights just low enough for Turner Broadcasting, Time Warner and their various networks to use A Christmas Story as cheap, inoffensive holiday filler and give a whole bunch of their staff the holiday off as it aired on repeat. TBS and TNT have been airing 24-hour marathons of the film since 1997, and the ratings for its Christmas Eve and Christmas morning showings just keep rising.