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Foreign-reaching enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act's (FCPA) prohibitions on corrupt payments to foreign officials is alive and well. The prohibitions are intended to induce the recipient to wrongfully obtain or retain business for or with, or to direct business to, any person. The language of the United Kingdom's Bribery Act, which recently celebrated its one-year anniversary, potentially makes the cross-border reach of the new law even greater than the FCPA in certain respects. However, there have been a limited number of cases resolved thereunder and there is much uncertainty regarding exactly how far U.K. law enforcement authorities can and will reach.
The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
By the language of the FCPA, the books and records controls it imposes are limited to issuers of securities that have been registered in the U.S. or that are otherwise required to file periodic reports with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) pursuant to its rules and regulations. The anti-bribery proscriptions, however, are not only applicable to issuers, but also more broadly applicable to domestic concerns. As the term applies to organizations, a domestic concern is any corporation, partnership, association, sole proprietorship or other organizational entity—regardless of whether it issues securities—which has its principal place of business or which is incorporated in the U.S. The anti-bribery provisions also apply to all U.S. citizens, nationals or residents, wherever they are located.
Coupled with the provisions of the act that make foreign companies and organizations culpable under the FCPA if they cause, directly or through an affiliate or agent, an act in the U.S. in furtherance of a corrupt payment, the FCPA has real reach outside U.S. borders. The distance that U.S. officials cast the enforcement net is demonstrated by cases in which U.S. securities listings or the conduct of either a U.S. or foreign agent was sufficient to ensnare foreign companies for conduct that happened almost entirely abroad.
For instance, in the December 2011 Magyar Telekom case, Hungarian and German telecommunications companies agreed to pay nearly $64 million in criminal penalties relating to the Hungarian company and its subsidiaries' payment of bribes to Macedonian officials through various foreign agents for licensing and regulatory benefits. The trading of Magyar Telekom Plc's and the German majority owner of Magyar Telekom's American Depository Receipts (ADRs) on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) was enough to make the companies issuers under the FCPA. ADRs are the domestically registered and traded representative securities of foreign-traded stocks. Moreover, the secret agreement to make corrupt payments passed through and was stored on email servers located in the U.S.
Similarly, in a May 2011 enforcement action, Luxembourg Company Tenaris S.A. entered into the first-ever deferred prosecution agreement (DPA) with the SEC and agreed to pay $5.4 million in disgorgement and prejudgment interest for violating the FCPA in bribing Uzbekistan government officials during a bidding process to supply pipelines for transporting oil and natural gas. Tenaris also agreed to pay a $3.5 million criminal penalty in a non-prosecution with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). Jurisdiction in both cases was based on Tenaris's listing of ADRs on the NYSE.
In another case, which was finally resolved in January, the DOJ entered a series of DPAs and guilty plea agreements beginning in 2008 in connection with a decade-long scheme to bribe Nigerian government officials to obtain engineering, procurement and construction contracts in connection with a project to build liquefied natural gas facilities on Bonny Island, Nigeria. The defendants included the foreign and domestic member companies of the four-company joint venture that sought to obtain the contracts, a Japanese trading company headquartered in Tokyo that acted as an agent for the joint venture to pay bribes—some of which were routed through U.S. bank accounts—on behalf of the joint venture, and several individuals who either served as foreign agents of the joint venture or were U.S. nationals. In reaching resolutions with the parties, the government relied on the "issuer" and "domestic concern" definitions in the act and the application of the agency language therein. The broad enforcement of the FCPA has been effective for enforcement authorities: The DOJ and other U.S. and internal enforcement authorities recovered more than $1.7 billion in penalties and forfeiture orders from the prosecution of the Bonny Island case.
The U.K. Bribery Act
The Bribery Act, enacted in the United Kingdom in April 2010, came into force on July 1. After a year on the books, few cases have been brought or resolved under the law. Similar to the FCPA, the anti-bribery provisions apply to U.K. companies, citizens and residents, regardless of where the bribery occurred. They also apply to individuals and companies, irrespective of nationality, when the violations occurred within the U.K. Unlike the FCPA, listing securities on a U.K. exchange or the transmission of a single wire in furtherance of a corrupt payment is not enough alone to subject a company to the jurisdiction of the Bribery Act. However, by its terms and pursuant to the guidance issued by law enforcement and the banking trade association, the reach of the U.K. Bribery Act is even broader than that of the FCPA in certain other respects.
Any international company which "carries on a business, or part of a business" in the U.K. can be subject to liability for failing to prevent bribery by persons associated with the organization. The term "carrying on a business or part of a business" is not defined in the act, is not more specifically defined in the published guidance and is, as of now, untested. Thus, the potential reach of this provision is far and its potential impact is significant. The uncertainty surrounding the interpretation that U.K. enforcement authorities will give to this provision leaves in-house counsel charged with ensuring compliance, defense counsel charged with advising companies and legal commentators with uncertainty surrounding such questions as:
- Is a foreign corporate parent with a wholly-owned U.K. subsidiary engaged in making corrupt payments in a foreign country subject to Bribery Act enforcement?
- Is that foreign parent subject to the Bribery Act through the corrupt payments of an agent that operates on behalf of the parent in the U.K.?
- Will the availability of a company's website for ordering goods and services to be shipped to or provided in the U.K. be considered "doing business" in the U.K.?
The answer to any of these questions is potentially yes or potentially no, depending on how U.K. enforcement authorities determine to interpret and apply the term. Until such time as we are given more certainty, companies committed to doing business on the up-and-up and with any direct, affiliate or third-party relationship that touches the U.K. should ensure that they have adopted and implemented Bribery Act-compliant policies and training.


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Links to External Resources
The external resources identified in this section are selected works of scholars, higher education associations, and higher education or athletics administrators. If you have produced information or a study relevant to this topic that you would like to have posted, please go to the Contribute Content page to create a submission request. The Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics does not necessarily endorse all of the recommendations or opinions expressed in these resources but supports engagement, dialogue and research by all stakeholders.
- Trust, Accountability, and Integrity: Board Responsibilities for Intercollegiate Athletics (2012).
Also see: Association of Governing Board's Statement on Board Responsibilities for Intercollegiate Athletics. Adopted by the AGB Board of Director's on Nov. 16, 2007 and updated with an "illustrative policy" in April 3, 2009.
- NCAA Division I Institutional Performance Program
A central part of the Commission's "one-plus-three" model, the NCAA's athletics certification program was approved at the 1993 Convention. This program certified an institution's compliance with key operating principles. In 2012, the program was overhauled and is now called the Institutional Performance Program. The new assessment is more of a report card on the health of a school's athletics program.
- Campus Athletics Governance, the Faculty Role: Principles, Proposed Rules, and Guidelines, Coalition on Intercollegiate Athletics (2004)
"This document focuses on the faculty role in campus athletics governance. It articulates a set of principles, proposes a set of uniform rules, and discusses in detail guidelines that, when adapted and applied by individual campuses, can help ensure the proper function of this faculty role. In focusing on the faculty role, this document assumes the leading role of campus presidents, the ultimate authority of the institutional governing board, and practical centrality of athletics directors and coaches."
- Coalition on Intercollegiate Athletics
COIA, an alliance of university faculty senates founded in 2002 to provide a faculty voice in the national discussion about the future of intercollegiate sports, consulted with the NCAA and other national groups to develop its best practices, which were published in Framing the Future: Reforming Intercollegiate Athletics in 2007. Researchers at the John Curley Center for Sports Journalism, housed in the College of Communications at Pennsylvania State University, surveyed schools participating in the Football Bowl Subdivision in 2009 to determine the extent to which they implement COIA's best practices. The results were published in the Journal of Intercollegiate Sport, along with detailed case studies of six universities that most fully implemented those best practices. The results and case studies can be found here:
- Faculty Athletics Representatives Association (FARA) Web site
The official site of the Faculty Athletics Representatives Association (FARA) provides resources pertaining to the role of the faculty athletics representative in intercollegiate athletic governance.
- Ultimate Sports Insider
UltimateSportsInsider.com provides news, observations and commentary about college athletics with a particular focus on the relationship of athletics to higher education as a business and educational enterprise.

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The New York Knicks decided not to buy out the contract of point guard Chauncey Billups on Wednesday, ensuring he will be with the team for his full $14.2 million salary for the 2011-12 season.
The Knicks had until Friday to pick up the option or pay Billups a $3.7 million buyout.
"Chauncey, Amare [Stoudemire] and Chauncey [Billups] are a great nucleus, as we continue to look to improve our team going into the offseason," Knicks president of basketball operation Donnie Walsh said in a statement.
"Chauncey is an extremely talented and experienced point guard -- we are very happy to have him back."


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Remember that huge five week long game drought we just went through? We didn't get official word from Microsoft until the fourth straight week without a release, after the drought had almost passed (and not for lack of trying on our part). As every week went by, your humble author and most avid Windows Phone gamers became increasingly distressed. The whole situation brought to light the ever-worsening handling of Xbox games for Windows Phone by the platform holder.
It also led to the creation of this very series of editorials about how Xbox games for Windows Phone can be turned around. Microsoft has a wonderful gaming synergy on its hands with Xbox Live and Windows Phone, if only they will make proper use of it. We've already explored several ways to do so: overhaul the certification system that's completely inappropriate for mobile games, get internal forces within Microsoft on the same page about the value of Xbox Live, and then promote Windows Phone directly alongside Xbox consoles.
Today we follow up on that last point by looking at the lack of public relations management that affects mobile Xbox games and makes it difficult for both Windows Phone and Windows 8 developers and publishers to promote their own games.
Microsoft's E3 keynote presentation may have left Windows Phone cold in the dust, but that doesn't mean the company has completely neglected their mobile platform at the event. They're showing off several new Xbox Live games and a few that were previously announced but haven't been mentioned in a while.
Head past the jump for screens and details on all 7 upcoming titles.


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Here's a presentation from Bert DuMars, Newell Rubbermaid's Vice President of E-Business and Interactive Marketing. Delivered at BlogWell, Atlanta, "Social Media from a Multi-Brand Perspective" covers how the company is using different social media approaches across its many brands.
The case study includes advice about how to approach multi-brand social media as an ecosystem, how to test small ideas and then scale them up, and how to engage your fans in social dialog. Both the video and deck are available below.
- Focus on your customer target
- Set clear goals and objectives
- Measure before, during, and after you engage
- Immerse yourself to better understand the ecosystem, culture, and potential uses
- Integrate with overall marketing plan, but understand social media is a long-term commitment
- Based on above, select tools and services that reach and engage your customer target
- Social Media is about people engaging with people — not robots. Show you care.
(Via GasPedal's Word of Mouth Marketing Blog)


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SANTA CRUZ -- Australian 24-year-old Matt Wilkinson took two heats decided by less than 1.5 points at the Coldwater Classic on Monday, earning his best result of the year and some new friends on the cliff at Steamer Lane.
After he cracked a series of backhand blasts in his afternoon heat against Damien Hobgood and an aggressive Adriano De Souza, Wilkinson looked up on the cliff to a group of fans cheering for him.
"What did I get for that one?" Wilkinson asked.
"A nine!" someone yelled.
"That's it?" Wilkinson asked, laughing.
For Wilkinson, who is No. 30 in the world and on the verge of not qualifying for the 2013 World Tour, it was no laughing matter when he faced Owen Wright on Monday morning. If he didn't get past Wright, he might not have enough points to stay on tour.
In crisp shoulder-high waves, the two long-haired goofyfoots had a familiar clash, having grown up competing against each other in Australia. Now elite Rip Curl team riders, they also were staying at the same house in Santa Cruz.
Wright needed a 7.07 with 13 minutes remaining. Wright caught a decent right and bashed it with less than a minute left.
The horn sounded to end the heat, but the scores had not dropped on Wright's last wave.
Unsure who won, Wilkinson walked up the staircase and clutched the metal railing in anticipation of the score on the loudspeaker. It was a 6.23. Wilkinson advanced.
"I'm shaking right now. I'm freaking out," he said moments later.
"It's massive for me. It's the first time I've made it passed the first round this year. I really need points," he said.
Wilkinson, who won the Coldwater in 2010, later tweeted to his 16,620 followers, "Oh that felt very nice."
Wright, Yadin Nichol, C.J. Hobgood and Pat Gudauskas were the only surfers knocked out of the competition during Round 3 Monday. The three-man, no-elimination Round 4 also was completed, setting the stage for Round 5 and the quarterfinals on the last day of competition.
Temperatures soared to 84 degrees in the air and 58 in the water Monday.
The highest heat score belonged to Brazilian Adriano De Souza, who attacked waves on his forehand and took inside position from Wilkinson several times in high-tide waves at the Slot. World No. 1 Joel Parkinson continued to look sharp, along with fellow Australian Taj Burrow.
Burrow has quietly won all his heats and threw one of the biggest maneuvers of the day, a huge blow tail with his back foot completely off the board.
"Even on the good ones, they were tricky to ride," Burrow said. "It's kind of fun getting a hold of that ledgy, warbly part (of the wave) and just throwing yourself into it."
World No. 2 Kelly Slater had a wild heat in which he placed third with some big turns, falls, and a board change. He creased his four-fin Channel Islands Fred Rubble model, so his caddy tossed him a new board off the cliff.
It was within the rules only because it was thrown on to the west side of the Slot and not into the lineup.
Jamilah Star, a Santa Cruz big-wave surfer, jumped in the water in a bikini and retrieved Slater's board.
"I was all over the place," Slater said after the heat. He said he preferred the new board, which he rode to victory at the Hurley Pro at Lower Trestles in September.
The board "felt glued to my feet," Slater said.
Contest organizers plan to make a call for Round 5 at 6:15 a.m. Tuesday for a potential 6:45 a.m. start.
Gretchen Wegrich contributed to this report.
Follow Sentinel reporter Stephen Baxter on Twitter at Twitter.com/sbaxter_sc
Heat 9: Jeremy Flores (FRA) 9.50 def. Yadin Nicol (AUS) 8.66
Heat 10: Matt Wilkinson (AUS) 14.83 def. Owen Wright (AUS) 14.00
Heat 11: Damien Hobgood (USA) 14.26 def. C.J. Hobgood (USA) 12.56
Heat 12: Adriano de Souza (BRA) 16.97 def. Patrick Gudauskas (USA) 15.23
Heat 1: Taj Burrow 15.47 (AUS), Gabriel Medina (BRA) 15.13, Travis Logie (ZAF) 12.67
Heat 2: Joel Parkinson (AUS) 14.77, Raoni Monteiro (BRA) 11.93, Alejo Muniz (BRA) 7.37
Heat 3: Jeremy Flores (FRA) 15.87, Michel Bourez (PYF) 13.50, Kelly Slater (USA) 13.00
Heat 4: Matt Wilkinson (AUS) 16.60, Adriano de Souza (BRA) 15.20, Damien Hobgood (USA) 10.37
Heat 1: Gabriel Medina (BRA) vs. Alejo Muniz (BRA)
Heat 2: Raoni Monteiro (BRA) vs. Travis Logie (ZAF)
Heat 3: Michel Bourez (PYF) vs. Damien Hobgood (USA)
Heat 4: Adriano de Souza (BRA) vs. Kelly Slater (USA)


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text: Winfield beats GW in overtime By Tommy R. Atkinson November 7, 2012 Story Share Chip Ellis Winfield's Makenzie Arthur (right) gets tangled up with George Washington's Haley Claudio. There was no stopping Winfield's Jayne Lawman or the rest of her teammates Wednesday.The sophomore scored back-to-back goals 65 seconds apart to send the Generals past George Washington 4-2 in overtime of the Class AAA girls high school state soccer tournament championship game. A crowd of about 600 attended the first all-Kanawha Valley final since the girls tournament began in 1995.The two teams were scoreless in the first mandatory 10-minute OT period before Lawman struck like lightning in the second 10-minute extra period.Lawman received a pass at midfield then dribbled into the penalty box and sent a shot past GW sophomore goalie Olivia Miller with 9:20 left. Lawman then gained control of the ball at midfield and dribbled in again for her second goal with 8:15 to go to seal the victory."I finally won [the ball] so I was driving and driving,'' said Lawman, who was scoreless until OT.""They were extremely well-placed shots,'' added Miller. "Winfield capitalized on every opportunity they had.''The Patriots didn't get any more scoring opportunities the rest of the way. Miller finished with three saves, including a diving stop in regulation.Freshman M.E. Zulauf and senior Emily Cole each scored goals in the opening half to stake the No. 3 Generals (20-1-2) to a 2-0 lead. No. 6 GW (18-5-1) battled back behind a pair of goals from senior Andrea Breeden to knot the game at 2-all. Breeden, who tallied three goals during the state tournament, missed several weeks with an injury during the regular season. "We kind of got lax,'' said Cole. "You want it so badly. We worked so hard we knew we could do it. We could have done two more overtimes and still played with the same intensity. We were ready.''Winfield captured its first title since winning the first three from 1995-97. It was Winfield's second OT game of the postseason, following a 1-0 win over Huntington on Lawman's goal in the first five-minute sudden-death period.Winfield has had crushing defeats the past two years at states, losing 1-0 in a penalty-kick shootout to Morgantown in last year's title game and falling 1-0 to eventual state champion University two years ago in the semis on a last-second goal."It's been a long road,'' said Winfield senior keeper Faith Burchett, who finished with four saves. "We definitely deserve this. I'm proud of every single girl, all 31 of our teammates. I'm really glad that I can say my team is the best team in the state now.''"We set a goal almost a year ago to get back here and finish it,'' added Winfield coach Marshall Hoff. "It takes a lot of dedication and a lot of drive. It takes a special bunch to do that. You can't do it without the discipline and the days that seemed like would never end.''GW upset defending state champion and No. 1 Morgantown 2-1 in OT during Tuesday's semifinals. The Patriots are still seeking their first championship in spite of nine trips to states. It was their third runner-up finish to go with losses in 1999 and 2010."I'm very proud of our girls,'' said GW first-year coach Derek Ragle. "They could have just quit. They responded to the challenge.'' Reach Tommy R. Atkinson at email@example.com or 304-348-4811. Story Share Story Share Trending Now 1 Facebook founder visits Cabin Creek Health Systems 2 WVU hopes to get injured defenders back for TCU 3 Teen pleads guilty to voluntary manslaughter in Oakes Field shooting 4 Huggins, WVU tap South Florida hoops talent 5 Safety shutoff disabled prior to June coal-mining death, report says Martin hoping to make most of opportunity Previous Story Karma's not been kind to WVU's Alston Next Story


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Alysia Montano extended her streak of 800-meter national titles Sunday at the U.S. Outdoor track and field championships, with Duane Solomon snapping an impressive run by Oregon Track Club Elite's Nick Symmonds at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa.
Dalilah Muhammad and Ryan Wilson, 32, both delivered breakthrough efforts, one coming after a coaching change, the other more than a decade in the making.
And Allyson Felix encountered another legitimate challenger in pursuit of the 200 gold medal at the IAAF World Championships in Moscow in August.
Montano, a Canyon graduate, won her fourth straight 800 title and fifth overall in 1 minute, 58.67 seconds, holding off a late surge from former UC Riverside star Brenda Martinez (1:58.78).
Harvard-Westlake graduate Amy Weissenbach -- sixth at the NCAA final during her freshman season at Stanford -- was seventh in 2:01.74, her second-fastest time after clocking 2:00.98 to reach the final.
"I can't see what's happening behind me," Montano said. "I don't have eyes in the back of my head, but I knew it was going to be a race and I was excited for it."
Solomon, a former USC standout, halted Symmonds' streak of five consecutive 800 national outdoor titles, prevailing 1:43.27 to 1:43.70 to capture his first outdoor crown.
"I felt really good coming into today, so I knew I could do it," Solomon said. "I knew, in order to make the team, I needed to be on my `A' game. If I came with anything less, if I brought my `B' game, I probably wouldn't make the team. I came with my 'A' game and did what Coach (Johnny Gray) told me to do today and it worked out."
Brandon Johnson, a former hurdler at UCLA, placed third in 1:43.97.
"It feels amazing. Hard work don't stop believing in yourself. I'm a true testament to that," Johnson said. "You can literally do whatever you want. If you would have told me I was going to run an 800 two years ago I would have told you you're crazy."
Wilson, the 2003 NCAA champ at USC and Trojans assistant, captured his first major outdoor title since in the 110 hurdles in 13.08.
"It's about time. Ten years of hard work is starting to pay off," Wilson said. "This is the best hurdle nation in the world, always has been. To be the No. 1 finisher, in a great field, the resumes of those guys are incredible."
Muhammad, a USC graduate who has been training at College of the Canyons with reigning 400-meter hurdles world champ Lashinda Demus and coach Yolanda Demus, knocked off 2012 U.S. Olympian Georganne Moline 53.83 to 53.88 for her first national title.
UCLA grad Turquoise Thompson hit the first hurdle and took sixth in 55.63.
"My main goal was making the team. I knew I had a chance to win so I just went for it and that's what I did," said Muhammad, the 2007 World Youth champion.
"Just a new coach, training partner and strength coach. It's all been coming together for me ... I ended up in a really good position."
Felix, an L.A. Baptist grad, was passed in the final 50 meters by three-time NCAA 200 champion Kimberlyn Duncan of LSU, who edged the reigning Olympic gold medalist 21.80 to 21.85. Former Long Beach Poly standout Shalonda Solomon was fifth in 22.33.
"I felt like I had a lead coming off (the curve)," Felix said. "I felt good coming down the homestretch, but Kim came down and got me."
Oakwood graduate Aric Van Halen, an All-American at Colorado, was ninth in the 3,000 steeplechase final in 8:38.85.


text: 'Shrapnel': It's not just flying metal that can wound By James E. Casto October 1, 2012 Story Share "Shrapnel." By Marie Manilla. River City Publishing. 335 pages. $26.CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- In 2010, Marie Manilla, a Huntington native who teaches creative writing at Marshall University, published an outstanding collection of short stories, "Still Life With Plums." Now she has published an equally outstanding first novel.Judging from its title, a reader picking up a copy of "Shrapnel" might think it's a war novel. It's not. It offers no heated exchange of gunfire, no battlefield heroics. Instead, Manilla's novel explores the legacy of war as seen in three generations of men from the Butler family -- Bing Butler, his late son Roger and his grandson Brian.Webster defines shrapnel as "fragments thrown out by an exploding bomb or shell." In the heat of battle, those flying fragments of hot metal can easily kill or maim. Manilla's unspoken premise in "Shrapnel" is that cruel and thoughtless words and attitudes can wound just as deeply as any bomb or shell.In the novel's opening pages, the reader is introduced to 77-year-old Bing Butler, a widower who has reluctantly decided he can no longer safely live on his own, that the time has come when he must sell his home and move in with his daughter.A World War II veteran and vocal patriot, Bing is a die-hard right-wing type who wants nothing to do with blacks, Latinos or gays. He's not much of a joiner, but he'd be right at home in the front row at a tea party rally.In contrast, his daughter Susie is a feminist with deeply held antiwar views. Their sharp differences sparked lots of angry shouting when she was a teenager still living at home. And while Bing appreciates his daughter's invitation to come live with her and her family, he's by no means looking forward to it.What's worse, accepting her invitation means packing up and moving from his beloved Texas to godforsaken West Virginia, of all places. Bing doesn't know much about West Virginia, but what he does know he doesn't like. How the heck can Susie be happy in a place where people talk funny, live in shanties and don't wear shoes?Arriving in Huntington, where Susie and her husband, Glen, teach at Marshall, he finds they have a handsome home in a nice neighborhood. "There's the phone," says Glen, "so you can call your buddies back home and tell them we have indoor plumbing." Bing sells off most of his possessions at a hectic yard sale before departing for West Virginia, but among the things he holds on to is a stack of letters from his son Roger, who was killed in Vietnam. And, too, he holds on to a terrible secret. Roger didn't want to join the Army, but did so only after his father bullied him into it. Thus, Bing feels that he, not a Viet Cong sniper, was responsible for Roger's death.And as the days go by, Bing learns another secret -- Susie's young son Brian is planning to sneak off and join the Army. The boy confides in him, but begs him not to tell his mother. Bing promises he won't betray the boy. But he remembers how Roger's death broke his mother's heart. Can he keep the boy's secret and risk subjecting Susie to the same devastating grief that consumed her mother?Ultimately, Bing's move to West Virginia becomes a voyage of discovery. He learns a great deal about himself, his family and others as well. He learns, for example, that despite his lifelong homophobia, the lesbian who lives next door to Susie and Glen can be a good friend (and a great cook). And he learns too the value of listening to other people, even when you disagree with them.Even though the novel deals with weighty themes, it's nonetheless laced with comic moments. Consider, for example, how Bing, on his way to Frank's Barber Shop on Fourth Avenue for a badly needed haircut, gets kidnapped by a bunch of drunks who hustle him off to the dog track at Cross Lanes. (Local readers will enjoy coming upon the several real places Manilla tucks into her narrative.)The publisher's blurb for "Shrapnel" describes it as "at times funny and at other times frightening -- and frighteningly honest." And that it is.It's also more evidence of Manilla's extraordinary talent as a writer. Apparently the editors at one of the book industry's best-known publishing houses, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, also recognize that talent. They've purchased her next novel, "The Patron Saint of Ugly," also set in West Virginia, and have scheduled it for a spring 2014 release. 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Editor's note: Last week, President Obama announced that he would limit deportation proceedings against certain young, undocumented immigrants who were brought to the U.S. prior to turning 16 and have no criminal background.
The following is a PorkNetwork exclusive Q&A with Craig Regelbrugge, co-chair, Agriculture Coalition for Immigration Reform, about the announcement.
Q: Is President Obama's immigration announcement good policy?
A: Political motivations aside, it's hard for anyone other than the most hard-line anti-immigrant people in our society not to struggle with what to do about young undocumented immigrants who have their whole life potential ahead of them…or not. Many of them have little or no recollection of their country of birth.
The original DREAM Act, which sought to address the issue, was a bipartisan legislative proposal with strong backing of Utah's senior Senator Orrin Hatch among the Republican champions. But that initiative was stalled at the end of 2008.
Q: Will the announcement lead to permanent U.S. immigration reform?
A: What the President has done is more of a stopgap measure than a real solution. A real solution will take an act of Congress. Sen. Marco Rubio's, R. Fla., recent efforts being the exception, there's little evidence of real bipartisan commitment in Congress to resolve the fate of these young people, or agricultural workers whose labor sustains whole industries.
Q: How many agriculture workers will the announcement affect?
A: I have not yet seen any good estimate of how many undocumented agricultural workers may fall into the covered class under this recent action. Certainly, there will be some. For anyone who qualifies, and is already in deportation proceedings, it's a no-brainer to pursue the possibility of "deferred departure," the chance to remain here two years with authorization to work.
The trickier question is, should someone out of status come forward and admit their legal status? There will be risks. Often, such policies are unevenly implemented. Will the courts intervene? Will a change in administration result in a change in policy?
If I were a currently-employed farm worker with false papers who might qualify, I think I'd be cautious for now.
Q: Will the announcement increase illegal immigration?
A: It may be a factor, but a small one. Other factors which may limit illegal immigration from Mexico and Central America include the anemic U.S. economy, the deteriorating security situation in Mexican border regions, and enhanced enforcement.
Market forces, though, have had a greater impact on peoples' decisions to come, or stay, or return, than any other factor. Mexican migration is now said to be "net-zero" and it is worth noting that Mexico's fertility rate has dropped to 2.2, just a fraction above the U.S. rate. It was just announced that there are more Asians immigrating to the U.S. than Hispanics.
Q: Will other initiatives for immigration reform benefit agriculture?
A: There are only two other strongly relevant aspects of immigration reform right now. One is the need to modify our policies to allow more educated immigrants to live here and innovate here and contribute to the high end of our economy. The other is the need for agricultural workers.
There is no clear path to achieving either right now given the level of dysfunction in U.S. politics. But for agriculture, the nation would benefit from some way for experienced workers to enter into a legal working status.
Better legal paths for future workers on a temporary basis are part of the answer. The realization in the United States is growing that we need something other than the flawed H-2A structure, such as more modern, flexible, and market-based immigration reform.


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December 27 2013 12:01PM
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It is a great time of year to be a hockey fan. As is boxing day tradition, I am sure many of us set our cell-phones for a painfully early wake-up on boxing day to take in the most hallowed of holiday traditions, the Spengler Cup. As I am sure you all know, Byron Ritchie helped Canada to a 5-4 win over Viktovice Steel of the Czech league which delighted the entire family I am sure.
It is important to remember that in the eye of the 'Spengler Hurricane' as it were, that is the non-stop wall-to-wall coverage of Team Canada in Davos (who will Alexandre Bolduc be playing with?! Is this Glen Metropolit's last Spengler?!) there is still NHL action to consider, and for Flames fans it doesn't get much better.
It is the 213th installment of the Battle of Alberta tonight and both teams are coming off big victories. With their respective wins in their last games, the Oilers (12-24-3) just snapped a six-game losing streak while the Flames (14-17-6) won for the first time in four games.
Here is the exact same lineup that shocked the world by erasing a two-goal deficit and beating the Blues in a shootout. Big thanks as always to DailyFaceoff.com for the info.
- Cammalleri - Backlund - Byron
- Galiardi - Stajan - Stempniak
- D. Jones - Colborne - Hudler
- Bouma - Monahan - McGrattan
- Giordano - Smid
- Butler - Brodie
- Breen - O'Brien
- Berra
After taking a nasty knee-on-knee hit from St. Louis' David Backes, Many assumed that Matt Stajan would be missing some significant time. Those people forget that Matt Stajan is not just simply a 'player' in our little game called 'ice hockey'. Matt Stajan does not just take up a roster spot and soak up minutes. Matt Stajan is an idea, an idea that can never be defeated by knee, stick, or discouraging word. Matt Stajan makes me want to be a better man.
Because the hockey gods harvest my tears and use them as fuel for the furnace they use to toss ex-Flyer goalies into, Paul Byron might not be able to go tonight after taking a spill in practice. Byron has been playing exceptionally well of late, including a behind the back, no-look pass to Mike Cammalleri in the last game against St. Louis. It does seem as though the accident in practice wasn't too serious, leaving the ice only for precautionary reasons and will be in the lineup for tonight.
Chris Breen draws in again tonight, so Mark Giordano should prepare to play 59 minutes.
Reto Berra is getting another crack at the Oilers after allowing a Taylor Hall goal when he was less than five seconds away from his first career shutout in his last outing against the Oil. Against St. Louis, Berra was solid, making 32 saves and winning in a shootout. The Oilers will likely try to put a lot of pucks his way tonight as they have had success from let's say interesting angles against Berra in the past:
Hopefully, Berra has a short memory because that one still stings to watch.
Sean Monahan continues to play on the fourth line while he struggles to re-adjust to game speed after the hairline fracture of his foot. You can look up his numbers over the past few games on ExtraSkater.com but I would recomend that you don't. Just know that things have not been going very well for the youngster of late. What has masked Monahan's unceremonious fall from grace has been the ascension of Backlund so it isn't all bad news down the middle for the Flames.
- Hall - RNH - Perron
- Joensuu - Gagner - Eberle
- Smyth - Gordon - Hemsky
- Gadzic - Lander - Yakupov
- Ference - J. Schultz
- N. Schultz - Petry
- Belov - Potter
- Dubnyk
Both the Flames and Oilers are coming off big victories as the Oil beat the Winnipeg Jets 6-2 on Monday. A game in which Nail Yakupov finished with two points and 12 minutes in penalties. He seems to be adapting well to his new role, playing with Luke Gadzic.
The Oilers are missing Marc Arcobello to a rib injury and Philip Larsen to the flu which explains why Roman Horak was recalled yesterday. However, it does not look as though the Flames will get to show their Horak tribute video tonight as he will likely be watching from the press box.
The Oilers start beleaguered tender Devan Dubnyk tonight whom is currently sporting a sub .900 SV% and a 3.38 GAA. Dubnyk has had a rough ride this season in Edmonton but it he is hardly the reason that the Oilers are angling for a top-five pick again. However, he has let in some groaners this season from distance, the type of which that gets the fanbase to turn on you in a hurry.
Tactics-wise, tt is the same old story with the Flames and Oilers, they are going to watch to push the pace and turn the game into a track-meet and the Flames will want to try to establish their offensive pressure below the dots. At times this season, the Oilers defense, and the defensive zone coverage from their forwards and in particular their centremen, has been frightening. The Oilers are dead-last in the NHL in goals allowed with 134 and goals allowed per game with 3.44 (though the Flames are third-last so let's not get too uppity).
This particular Battle of the QE2 doesn't have any post-season implications and it features two of the Western Conference's worst teams. But who cares? These games mean something. The last two games against the Oilers, the Flames blew leads in the third period which garnered special attention from Brian Burke during his press conference after Jay Feaster's firing.
I know that we all are realistic about the team this season and most of us have succumb to the idea that losing a lot this season is probably a good thing for the long-term health of this franchise. But you always want to beat the Oiler because, well, it just feels so damn good. So make it happen Flames.
The Puck drops tonight at 7:00 pm MT on SNET West.
December 28 2013, 09:11AM
Bad Eggs on both sides dude. Don't disagree on the class level of A.K.A.'s post though.
Suba Steve?
December 28 2013, 11:10AM
I don't know what you're talking about Spengler cup games dont start until 11am pacific.
This is the first time I've visited flames nation and I didn't know it was such a pity party!
Now you know what the knobs around here sound like. Enjoy the W Oiler fan. You're up to, what now? 12?
December 28 2013, 03:37PM
Calgary sucks. Go put on your cowboy hat and cry in a corner, you sad sacks.
this could just be the beginning of edmonton turning it around eh??? hahahaha
Calgary sucks, but is so far ahead of you that you can't even see the dust.. LMAO
December 28 2013, 05:55PM
Claiming the Flames are better off than the Oil in any capacity is akin to claiming your colonoscopy was a pleasant and memorable experience.


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Farmers plan to plant a record 78.1 million acres of soybeans this year, according to the Prospective Plantings report released by USDA yesterday. That would be a 1 percent jump in bean acres.
Corn acreage is expected to be up 3 percent or 2.32 million acres to 88.8 million. That would be the second largest area planted to corn since 1947, behind 2007. One reason for the rise in corn acres is that it was not possible to plant winter wheat in some areas due to wet weather. Corn acreage jumps of 300,000 or more are expected in Illinois, Kansas, Missouri, and Ohio. Biggest drops in corn acres could come in Iowa (-200,000 acres) and Texas (-150,000).
The largest gains in soybean acreage are expected in Iowa and Kansas, up 300,000 and 400,000, respectively, while Illinois, Nebraska, and North and South Dakota each show gains of 100,000 acres or less.
USDA also released its quarterly stock reports yesterday. Corn stocks on March 1 were put at 7.694 billion bushels compared to 6.954 a year ago. Soybean stocks were put at 1.270 billion bushels compared to 1.302 a year ago.
The corn and soybean acreage estimates were slightly higher than what had been expected by the trade. So those numbers should be viewed as favorable for those on the buy side of the corn and soybean equation.
The trade had expected somewhat smaller corn stocks and had expected soybean stocks to be about what they were.
Corn futures at the Chicago Board of Trade dropped about a dime a bushel yesterday after the reports came out. May, July, and September corn closed at $3.45, $3.56, and $3.66, respectively.
May and July soybeans dropped about 30 cents a bushel to $9.41 and $9.50.
Soybean meal futures went down, as well. May dropped $17 to $266; July dropped $14 to $265; August was down $12 to $262; September slid $10 to $257; and October fell $6 to $250.
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Marouane Chamakh admitted he was pleased to do his former club Arsenal a big favour last night by helping Crystal Palace stun Everton 3-2.
The result means the out of sorts Gunners, who were completely outplayed and outclassed 3-0 by the Toffees just 10 days earlier, are back in the driving seat for Champions League qualification despite having already been hammered away at all of the sides around them.
Chamakh wasn't exactly a fans' favourite with the Emirates crowd during his three three-year spell in north London.
But there is clearly no bad feeling on the Crystal Palace striker's part as he wished Arsene Wenger's side all the best in their bid to pip the Toffees to fourth spot having done them a massive favour last night at Goodison Park.
He said: "I'm happy because I want to see Arsenal in the Champions League next season.
"I'm more happy that we won - but happy for Arsenal too."
The result at Everton took Palace to 40 points, 10 clear of the relegation zone with four games to play.
But the Chamakh insisted that Palace will remain focussed in the remaining matches and try to pick up as many points as possible.
He added: "We aren't going to stop after this.
"We are happy and confident and will be like that until the end of the season.
"There's a really good atmosphere with the staff and the players."
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The year its doors first opened, movies such as "The Gold Rush," "The Phantom of the Opera" and "Ben-Hur" may have been flickering, silently, on the screen. John T. Scopes was found guilty of teaching evolution in a Dayton, Tenn., high school, and F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" was published. The Jazz Age was, quite literally, in full swing across America.
It was 1925 and, by some accounts, Clark Theater, at 308 Main St., was an entertainment hub for the then-small town of Vacaville.
The single-screen movie house closed nearly 25 years ago, a victim of time, circumstance and multiplexes.
But by late fall or early winter this year, it will come back to life, if all goes according to plan, as Theatre DeVille, a venue for live music concerts, comedy, classic movies, community theater, motivational speakers, festivals, special events, science and educational theater, with the space available for rent.
In a recent interview inside the all-but-gutted theater -- as Hearn Construction employees buzzed their electric saws, hammered nails and removed dry-rotted boards -- project developers Royce Farris and Jason Johnson said they will pour an estimated $2 million into the refurbishing project.
With architectural plans spread out before them, they described their vision for the first of possibly several Theatre DeVilles in Northern California. When completed, it will have room for up to 600 people, including balcony and side-area seating, with 40 percent removable seating to open up a dance area, depending on the musical act or venue needs.
The stage will be approximately 28-by-34 feet, not including a green room, or small backstage area. They plan to install Dolby Digital sound, top-of-the-line LED lighting, and a full kitchen and bar. Plans are to restore the theater's 1920s-era proscenium and incorporate some chandeliers into the theater's lighting scheme. Above the proscenium will be the DeVille logo, an oval with the name superimposed over a 1940s-style metallic microphone, said Johnson.
Wearing hard hats for safety, they said their business objectives are to provide a community resource in Vacaville and become one of the top developers and operators of performance venues in Northern California.
Farris said the plan is to create "a DeVille brand" of renovated single-screen theaters in select medium-sized cities where the demographics favor their vision.
He credited Johnson, 40, a self-described longtime music fan who has lived half his life in Solano County, for the idea of bringing the DeVille to downtown Vacaville. Johnson is the son of Willis J. Johnson, the founder and CEO of Copart Inc., which has made a successful worldwide business of auctioning used and salvaged vehicles to auto parts dismantlers, rebuilders, used car dealers and wrecking yards, among other things. The younger Johnson is retired from the company.
"We want to change the synergy of the downtown," said Farris, a Vacaville native and graduate of Vacaville High School. "We're local boys with big ideas."
He believes the theater, once opened, will bring increased business to Main Street restaurants and shops, and nearby gas stations and hotels.
Farris said three-quarters of the planned bookings will be musical acts.
"We're trying to get some A-list acts," said Don Matthews, a commercial real estate broker and spokesman for the project. "It's Royce's vision, as well."
Noting that more than 1 million people live within an hour's drive of Vacaville, Farris conceded the project is "a gamble," adding, "We're cautiously optimistic. Jason had a vision."
Johnson's vision may include getting some of the bands booked into the recently announced BottleRock Festival, May 8 to 12, at Napa Expo and Uptown Theatre in Napa. Not divulging details, he and Farris are financial partners with Will Power Entertainment, which has lined up groups such as The Black Keys, Furthur (featuring Phil Lesh and Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead), Jackson Browne, The Kings of Leon, Blues Traveler, Dwight Yoakam, Mavis Staples, Ben Harper and Charlie Musselwhite, The Zac Brown Band, Jane's Addiction, Primus, Train, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, Brandi Carlile, The Carolina Chocolate Drops, The Avett Brothers, Michael Franti and Spearhead, to name several.
Not only do they want to make business connections during the festival, Farris and Johnson hope to hire some of those acts -- and some local bands -- to perform in the DeVille.
"One of our goals is to be a launching pad for local talent," said Farris, adding that he and Johnson also aspire to artist management and development.
"We want to bring the next level" of entertainment offerings to Vacaville, he said.
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City officials reported Wednesday that progress was being made toward beginning work again at downtown Ukiah's Palace Hotel.
Council member Mary Anne Landis told her fellow council members at the Feb. 6 meeting of the Ukiah City Council that she spoke this week with the building's presumed owner, Eladia Laines, on the telephone.
"We hope we can say that (Laines) is the owner," said Landis, asking City Attorney David Rapport, "Have we gotten there yet?"
"We're getting closer," said Rapport, who participated in the conference call with Laines. Landis and Mayor Doug Crane make up the council's Palace Hotel ad-hoc committee, and the two speak with Laines regularly to find out what progress she is making in her attempt to rehabilitate the formerly grand hotel.
"Work was stopped most recently because the consultant who was brought in to look at air quality issues, specifically asbestos and lead, wasn't paid, and he put a lien against the property," Landis said. "That spurred (the Mendocino County Air Quality Management District) to shut the job down.
"Since that time, the lien has been removed," Landis continued. "We've been told he was paid and there's a notarized release of the lien, though we haven't seen it yet."
"I think (Laines) said she had identified another consultant who could come in who she was going to hire," Rapport said, adding that "when we get the title issues straightened out, a permit could be issued" once a consultant is hired again.
In August, Laines announced that she had hired the certified consultant, a step that was required by the MCAQMD before it would give permission for any debris removal.
However, Laines told the council at its Jan. 16 meeting that the "asbestos consultant we had retained resigned on Dec. 22," explaining that "there was some miscommunication with his bill.
"I'm not sure why he got as upset as he did," Laines continued. "I understand (the consultant) sent out a lot of e-mails to local agencies because he was mad. It was unfortunate. I don't know what else to say."
When asked if she could show proof of a clear title, Laines said she had restored Unique Properties, the new name of the corporation that includes the hotel in its assets, to "good standing" and hoped to be able to print out evidence to that effect for the meeting, but could not.
The Ukiah City Council has received a monthly report from Laines since April of last year, when it first considered a resolution that would allow the city's Public Works Department to take over abatement of the rotted building, which has been unused for decades.
The council has delayed voting on the resolution, agreeing to allow Laines to demonstrate progress while repeatedly asking for proof that she owns the building and waiting for the city's building official to issue her a permit to allow major work to occur inside the structure.
When asked after the meeting how much more time the council would likely give Laines, Mayor Crane said there was no easy answer.
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Is John Cena the Leader of The Shield?
by, 01-23-2013 at 12:45 PM (18285 Views)
Hey guys Knox here hoping all is well. I wanna blog about the possibility of Cena being the leader of The Shield. Now I know its a long shot but I have some great points that could be Cena's motive. Again, I'm 100% sure none of this will ever happen because they refuse to turn Cena heel but hear me out, hope you enjoy.
Who Has The Shield attacked?
The Miz
Randy Orton
Daniel Bryan
KaneNow of those names I mentioned, they all got revenge in some way. Daniel Bryan, Kane & Ryback had a great match with The Shield at TLC even in a losing effort. Orton has been out almost every week trying to attempt to atleast get revenge on them along with Sheamus.
The Shield's Survivor Series Debut: Cm Punk vs Ryback vs Cena
Now in this match the Shield debuted and attacked Ryback and put him thru a table. Now notice the fact that they left Cena alone, I don't think they bothered Cena and if so it was quick. They left Cena alone and allowed Punk to pin him but they basically came out and destroyed Ryback.
The Shield attacks Cena:
They actually did attack Cena one time I believe on Raw against The Big Show. What I think is it was a way to swerve us. Cena never got any real revenge for it and just swept it under a rug.
John Cena - The Nexus:
Now storyline wise, The Nexus gave Cena all the hell he could handle but it was one of the first times in his career he was booked to look weak. Cena knows the true power and benefits that a stable can provide to your career. What if he's finally realizing this and on the low started a stable of his own in The Shield?
2012 Was Cena's Worst Year Right?
Cena said 2012 was his worst and most embarrassing year. He vowed on Raw that 2013 would bring a huge drastic change in the career of John Cena. Am I right? What if this is the change. What if Cena hired an insurance policy to protect him throughout 2013 and help get him back to the top? Really think hard about it.
Hogan-Cena NWO Connection:
People constantly everyday compare Cena to Hogan. They call Cena a modern day Hogan which is true. What if Vince's plan is to turn Cena heel in typical stable fashion just like when Hogan turned heel by joining the NWO. What if Cena turned heel by joining The Shield? I can honestly see it happening and that would be the heel turn of the century and it would be icing on the cake if they rehashed it to look like Hogan's heel turn.
Survivor Series 2013 - Boston Massachusetts - CENA TURNS HEEL:
This is the perfect place for it to happen. A year after The Shield's debut at Survivor Series 2012. And live in Cena's hometown of Boston should be where its revealed that he's the leader of The Shield and his heel turn takes place.
Typical 5 on 5 Survivor Series Match - Kane, Daniel Bryan, The Miz, Alberto Del Rio & Sheamus vs Roman Reigns, Seth Rollins, Dean Ambrose, Big E. Langston and a "Mystery Partner"
The last two remaining guys in this match are Sheamus and Dean Ambrose. Sheamus gets the pinfall and he's in the ring celebrating. Crowd is going wild.
"Lights Go Out"......Its pitch black dark in the arena and everyone assumes Undertaker is coming since it is his traditional Survivor Series PPV and the lights are out..........
"Lights Cut Back On"......Sheamus is laid out in the ring unconscious............
"Light Cut Back Off"........Crowd is going crazy at this point.
"Lights cut back on" and all the members of the Shield are hovered over Sheamus and the ref comes in and makes another 3 count. Everyone at this point is confused.............
As each Shield member stands up from trampling Sheamus. All you see is Cena on top of Sheamus pinning him to the mat. The crowd goes absolutely nuts. Cena has this dry look on his face and stands up. He then rises his hands with the members of The Shield and puts on a cocky Jericho like grin signifying that he was the mystery partner that got the pin on Sheamus.
The crowd reaction at this point would be so awesome you wouldn't know how to predict it. Kids would be going nuts in tears. The real fans would probably be cheering, it would be total chaos.
What a Cena heel turn does for wrestling?
I think it gives the business a fresh facelift that it so desperately needs. People say wrestling died when Austin & Rock left. Since then its been dominated by a bland John Cena doing the same thing for 7 years. Him turning heel would actually revitalize wrestling because its the one thing every major fan has been demanding. ESPN, and other outlets actually bash Cena's character which tells you something.
The product isn't good anymore, Cena has to go heel. It would have the world buzzing. People make a claim about Cena's merchandise sales but I guarantee the sales in Cena Shield shirts would double. When Hogan joined the NWO you would literally see atleast 5 people in an NWO shirt a day in the general public. People would respond to a Cena heel turn.
Drop the media propaganda trying to be this image friendly company and do something big for the business. People don't realize that a Cena heel turn will actually damn near double ratings, people will buzz about it and numbers will see a huge increase. What does the WWE have to lose? They've proven that the old way isn't working. Bring in something fresh and that would be a Cena heel turn in his hometown of Boston.
Hope you guys enjoyed this, please leave feedback. I'm sure this won't happen but a man can dream right? Thanks guys, be safe. Until then.


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I hope that the Mayan calendar shift brings us new fast food places that don't serve fried pink slime and call it nutritious. McDonald's (MCD) is currently into a very important resistance zone. With that in mind, I'm betting on the short side in this one. That being said, I might be too early on my entry and I will explain why by showing you more than one time frame chart for this stock.
Let's take a look at the daily chart. A vote for this bearish case comes with price being below the 200 SMA. The 50 SMA does not support it, however. It is better when both the 50 and 200 SMA's support a trade setup, but it is not a deal breaker. The sell setup is based on symmetry with the prior rally swings on this daily chart. On the daily chart, I have illustrated the prior rally swings that I have used in this analysis. The ones I measured were $7.40, $7.85 and $7.94. I projected 100% of these prior rallies from the November lows and have come up with a resistance decision at the $90.71-$91.84 area. This zone includes three 100% price projections along with a .786 retracement. Now, I did see a sell trigger against this zone on both the aggressive entry chart (15-minute) and the regular swing trade trigger chart (30-minute). So I bought puts and my maximum stop is above the recent high made at $90.85.
I think my distaste for the type of food they serve up has colored my judgment on the stock. The trade might still work for me (after all, I did see a trigger according to my trading plan, but I could have waited for the safer bet. Now you can learn from what might potentially backfire or come back to haunt me. I do still like this setup, but the odds for it to play out would be much higher if I hadn't been in such a hurry and was willing to wait for a break of the key support on the 30-minute chart just came on the flip side. So let's take a look at that next.
So I also ran my work on the 30-minute chart of MCD, and on this time frame, there is actually a bullish setup. I wanted MCD to break below this level because I placed the bearish bet. But when I looked at the intraday chart after the market closed, I got a little upset with myself for not waiting for these two time frames to be in agreement -- or at least exiting the trade when the support on this 30-minute chart was not taken out.
For the time frames to be in agreement, we would need to see a break of the 30-minute support ($89.00-$89.47) and then take out the prior swing low at $88.50. If this occurs, then the odds for a decline continuing from the recent high are much higher. The odds will also be much higher if the 5 EMA crosses below the 13 EMA on the daily chart. The downside potential if this setup does start to play out is the $81.26 area.
Well, my stop is in place above the recent high and your choice will be whether or not you like this setup. If you do, will you wait for the higher probability entry -- like I didn't? In prior articles, I have mostly just discussed simple trigger rules. In a future article, I may address how matching up the time frames will provide the higher probability setups. For example, Apple (AAPL) on the daily chart is bearish and my 30-minute sell setup that I posted in Columnist Conversation was in agreement with that. I don't know if that setup will play out fully or not, but I certainly feel a bit more comfortable with that trade as the daily and 30-minute charts are in agreement.


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It wasn't always pretty, but the Buffalo Sabres pulled away from the Philadelphia Flyers and won 5-2 today at First Niagara Center. Thomas Vanek was in on every goal, scoring 2 of them, and Steve Ott scored in his first game. Tyler Myers and Cody Hodgson had the other tallies.
It felt like Buffalo came to play in the first, always close to the puck and pushing play up the ice. They fell away from that early in the second period, however, and that's when the Flyers took over and got their 2 goals. Vanek tied it later though, and the Flyers' dead legs didn't do them any favors in the third.
Who I liked: Vanek, of course, and Cody Hodgson came on as the game went on, too. Drew Stafford attempted to fight Scott Hartnell the second time the stupidest Flyer tried to ram a Sabre into the boards from behind. Miller was very solid in the net, with both goals being deflected or screened. He wasn't grabbing as many pucks and freezing it as often as he usually does, but that may be the rust. Ennis won 64% of his faceoffs, and Hodgson and Grigorenko were both positive as well.
What I didn't like: John Scott was on the ice for 3 shifts totaling 2:10. Why? I realize Gerbe and Leino are both out but if you don't trust him to play, dress someone else.
Things I still don't believe: Vanek played 19 minutes, and took 9 shots. NINE. SHOTS. I dream of games like that from him.
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The driver of the car, Andrew West, a 59-year-old man from Teignmouth, sustained serious injuries and was pronounced deceased at the scene.
The road was closed for five hours for police to investigate the scene.Police are appealing for witnesses to the collision.
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Bronchitis occurs when the air passages in your lungs become inflamed. Bronchitis can be acute or chronic. Acute bronchitis is usually due to a viral infection -- such as a cold -- that starts in your nose or sinuses and spreads to the airways. Acute bronchitis usually lasts a few days, although you may have a cough for weeks afterward. Chronic bronchitis, on the other hand, occurs most often in people who smoke and, together with emphysema, is known as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Chronic bronchitis is characterized by a productive (wet) cough that is persistent. The mucus that's produced by the inflamed airways eventually causes scar tissue to form in the lungs, making breathing difficult.
See also: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Acute bronchitis:
Chronic bronchitis:
Acute bronchitis is usually caused by the same viruses that cause colds. But exposure to cigarette smoke or pollution, a condition called gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), and bacterial infections can also cause bronchitis.
The main causes of chronic bronchitis are cigarette smoking and prolonged exposure to air pollution, dust, and environmental tobacco smoke. During their lifetimes, 40% of smokers develop chronic bronchitis. One study shows that snoring is also associated with chronic bronchitis.
Your doctor will listen to your chest and back, look at your throat, and may draw blood and take a culture of the sputum from your lungs. If your health care provider is concerned about possible pneumonia or COPD, your health care provider may order a chest X-ray or a lung function test (which measures the amount of air in your lungs).
The best way to prevent chronic bronchitis is to avoid smoking and to stay away from air pollutants. For acute bronchitis, take steps to avoid colds and respiratory infections, such as washing your hands frequently, getting an annual flu shot, and (if you are over 65 or have a chronic illness) asking your health care provider about the pneumococcal vaccine (Prevnar).
Acute bronchitis from a virus generally clears up on its own within 7 - 10 days. Using a humidifier, taking a cough medicine that contains an expectorant (something that helps you "bring up" mucus), and drinking plenty of fluids can help relieve symptoms. If a bacterial infection is the culprit, your doctor may prescribe antibiotics.
For chronic bronchitis:
Bronchodilators -- increase airflow by opening airways and help make it easier to breathe
Corticosteroids -- reduce inflammation; either inhaled with an inhaler or taken by mouth, they are usually used to treat moderate to severe COPD
For acute bronchitis:
Cough medicines -- Two types of cough medicines, cough suppressants (for a dry cough) or expectorants (for a wet, productive cough that brings up mucus), are available over the counter and by prescription. Usually doctors recommend not suppressing a cough in cases of acute bronchitis, unless your cough is keeping you from sleeping at night.
Antibiotics -- Studies show that antibiotics are not an effective treatment for acute bronchitis and may contribute to antibiotic resistance.
Because supplements may have side effects or interact with medications, you should take them only under the supervision of a knowledgeable health care provider. Be sure to talk to your physician about any supplements you are taking or considering taking.
N-acetylecysteine (NAC, 400 - 1,200 mg per day) -- NAC is a modified form of a dietary amino acid that works as an antioxidant in the body. Several studies indicate that it may help relieve symptoms of COPD by acting as an antioxidant to reduce oxidative stress on the lungs (damage caused by free radicals, particles that harm cells and DNA). Although not all the studies agree, some suggest that taking NAC can reduce the number of attacks of severe bronchitis.
Because bronchitis often follows a cold, some of the same supplements used to prevent or treat a cold may be helpful.
The use of herbs is a time-honored approach to strengthening the body and treating disease. Herbs, however, can trigger side effects and can interact with other herbs, supplements, or medications. For these reasons, you should take herbs with care, under the supervision of a health care provider.
For acute bronchitis/Preventing respiratory infections:
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South African geranium (Pelargonium sidoides) -- Although scientific evidence is preliminary, a specific extract from South African geranium did show positive results in a few studies. In one study, people with acute bronchitis recovered faster when taking this extract than those who took placebo. In another study, people who took the extract did as well as those who took antibiotics, but without some side effects of the antibiotics. More studies are needed.
Although very few studies have examined the effectiveness of specific homeopathic therapies, professional homeopaths may consider the following remedies for the treatment of bronchitis in addition to standard medical care. Before prescribing a remedy, homeopaths take into account a person's constitutional type. A constitutional type is defined as a person's physical, emotional, and psychological makeup. An experienced homeopath assesses all of these factors when determining the most appropriate treatment for each individual.
Aconitum -- for early stages of bronchitis or other respiratory disorders; this remedy is most appropriate for people with a hoarse, dry cough who complain of dry mouth, thirst, restlessness, and being awakened by their own coughing; symptoms tend to worsen in cold air or when when lying on one's side
Antimonium tartaricum -- for wet, rattling cough (that is usually too weak to bring up mucus material from the lungs) that is accompanied by extreme fatigue and difficulty breathing; symptoms usually worsen when lying on one's back; this remedy is particularly good for children and the elderly and is generally used during the later stages of bronchitis
Bryonia -- for dry, painful cough that tends to worsen with movement and deep inhalation; this remedy is most appropriate for individuals who are generally thirsty, chilly, and irritable
Hepar sulphuricum -- for later stages of bronchitis, accompanied by wheezing, scant mucus production, and coughing that occurs when any part of the body gets cold
Ipecacuanha -- for the earliest stages of bronchitis accompanied by a deep, wet cough, nausea and vomiting; this remedy is commonly prescribed for infants
Phosphorus -- for several different types of cough but usually a dry, harsh cough accompanied by a persistent tickle in the chest and significant chest pain; this remedy is most appropriate for individuals who are often worn out and exhausted, tend to be anxious and fear death, and require a lot of reassurance
Running a humidifier with an essential oil such as cedarwoord, bergamot, eucalyptus, myrrh, sweet fennel, jasmine, lavender, tea tree, or marjoram at night may help thin mucus and ease cough. Talk to an experienced aromatherapist to learn which oil, alone or in combination, is best for you.
For acute bronchitis, most symptoms usually resolve within 7 - 10 days, although a dry, hacking cough can linger for several weeks.
The chance for recovery is poor for advanced chronic bronchitis. Early treatment, combined with stopping smoking, can stop lung damage from progressing and improve quality of life.
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Hanzze wrote:Annapurna wrote:
Well, all these thoughts are clever, but redundant, when you look at the categories Buddha marked as sentient:
Humans and animals.
Is a mosquito an animal?
Therefore, it is sentient.
If it is sentient, killing it is breaking the first precept.
Quod erat demonstrandum.
I do not think that that catches the point. Taking life is taking life. Harming is harming. Do not look if it is a good being or a bad, an animal or something else. A plant or a ghost. Killing is killing. To think about if the being is sentient is dangerous.
Reduce your killing and harming. That is the practice at the very first beginning. Nothing else. As more complication are coming with the keeping of it you need to work on the roots of killing and harming. Mind. There is where you can handle it real. If they are uprooted, you will not need to decide anymore
I do not think that that catches the point.
Of course it does.
I think you could use a bit more information on what constitutes sentience in Buddhism and what doesn't.
Plants are not sentient, in Buddhism, -and we're not Jains.
And so far I haven't met a ghost yet, have you? ...
To think about if the being is sentient is dangerous.
No, it's not.
It's helpful and pivotal, -because you know that you can eat plants, and take antibiotics, and that you shouldn't kill animals and humans.
It really doesn't have to be any more complicated.
Mind. There is where you can handle it real.
Yes. With the facilities of the mind we can distinguish between plants and animals.
It would be killing an animal, but it would not be killing a plant, according to Buddhist understanding of sentience.
Or what would be left to eat???


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Lower water levels along the United States' major inland river system affects food and feed costs which can add to the cost of many commodities already magnified by months of drought.
Low water levels in a major shipping corridor between St. Louis and Cairo, Illinois has threatened to upset barge traffic since December. National Geographic reports Mississippi River water levels can drop about three feet from December to March as extra feed from the Missouri River is cut off when that river's navigation season ends, but levels are even lower as rain and ice melt have failed to refill reservoirs.
For every six inches of depth the river loses, barges have to subtract about a hundred tons of capacity. National Geographic reports barges may sink as much as four feet less than usual to avoid bottoming out. The low water levels mean barges carrying corn, soybeans and crude oil are carrying lighter loads, and using more fuel to do so. Midwest farmers along the river are paying a dollar more to ship each bushel of crops than are farmers on the lower Mississippi.
Reuters reports between 55 and 65 percent of all U.S. grain and soybean exports are transported to the Gulf of Mexico by way of the Mississippi River.
The costs add up as farmers are paying more for gas to fill equipment and grains to feed livestock. Those costs end up moving along the chain to consumers.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (TheStreet) -- We're just going to repeat ourselves in case the message didn't get through: The Winter Classic is the best idea the National Hockey League has had in a decade.
But it could be better.
I generally subsist on a television diet of Hulu and Netfllix (NFLX) offerings, with the occasional Amazon.com (AMZN) Instant Video program thrown in when I've signed up for a Prime trial.
I'm not a fan of cable. It doesn't like me, and we've reached a nice little mutual understanding about the whole thing. For the Winter Classic, however, I put the digital antenna to work and took in the whole spectacle on the local NBC affiliate.
This was the NHL in its ideal form and, as one Twitter (TWTR) follower described it, the NHL's Super Bowl.
Nearly 105,500 fans showed up to the University of Michigan's "Big House," as Michigan Stadium is known. That was the biggest crowd to ever attend a hockey game.
The fans clad in their blue Toronto Maple Leafs and red Detroit Red Wings jerseys gave the game a big-time feel. So did the presence of hockey's best play-by-play man, Mike "Doc" Emrick, and his boundless lexicon. And the 13-degree temperature, steadily falling snow and goalies wearing knit hats over their helmets added to the spectacle.
The 2-2 game, which ended only when the Maple Leafs' Tyler Bozak put one past Red Wings and Team USA goaltender Jimmy Howard, was like catnip for casual fans.
Its 2.9 rating matched the previous record for an NHL regular-season game, which was set by the 2009 Winter Classic between the Red Wings and Chicago Blackhawks.
Yet something seemed off. For what has become the NHL's premier event, there was a sense that the league wasn't pulling out all the stops.
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Town Supervisor Joseph Leggio said he isn't certain whether the board will add to the proposal.
As it stands, the proposed $6.64 million plan increases spending by 252,642, or 3.95 percent, but reduces the tax levy by $55,638, or 2.1 percent.
"I put together a budget I thought was appropriate," Leggio said. "When the rest of the board gets done with it, it might not look like that."
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Associate Professor of Transdisciplinary Design
Albert and Vera List Academic Center
Jamer Hunt is the Director of the MFA Transdisciplinary Design program at Parsons The New School for Design. Previously, he served for seven years at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia as Director of the Masters Program in Industrial Design, a graduate laboratory for postindustrial design. In his teaching and his professional work he focuses on design as a means for exploring the politics and poetics of the everyday. His practice, Big + Tall Design, combines conceptual, collaborative, and communication design, and he is co-founder of DesignPhiladelphia an initiative to energize Philadelphia's design community and foreground the city as a laboratory for innovative design projects. He has served on the Board of Directors of the American Center for Design, on the editorial board of the forthcoming journal Design and Culture. He co-hosted MIND08 with Paola Antonelli (MoMA) and Adam Bly (SEED Magazine), a conference run in coordination with the Design and the Elastic Mind exhibition at MoMA. He holds a doctorate in cultural anthropology and has consulted or worked at Smart Design, frogdesign, WRT, Seventh Generation, and Virtual Beauty. His written work engages with the poetics and politics of the built environment and has been published in various books, journals, and magazines, including I.D. magazine, which published his Manifesto for Postindustrial Design in 2005. He is currently co-authoring a graphic design textbook for Thames and Hudson entitled Form Follows Context.
cultural studies,design research,graphic design,transdisciplinary design
Transdisciplinary Seminar 1
Independent Study (Open Campus)