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The stock market recuperated some of its losses Friday following a dramatic week of sell-offs. The Dow Jones industrial average ended the day up 61 points, or 0.5 percent. Stocks of many major Minnesota companies also saw some improvements over Thursday's steep decline.
That was true at companies including, but not limited to, 3M, the Mosaic Company, Target, Best Buy, Hutchinson Technology, General Mills, Medtronic, UnitedHealth, and St. Jude Medical.
Most of those stocks finished down for the week. Shares of fertilizer maker Mosaic were down 10 percent since Monday. General Mills dropped about 1.6 percent over that same period.
The stock price of Ameriprise Financial and U.S. Bank continued to slide on Friday.
"Given what we just went through in 2008 with the financial industry and banks and the industry itself almost completely going out of business, everyone is acutely sensitive to the financial sector. And when they're concerned about the market, they're concerned about those stocks," said portfolio manager David Heupel at Thrivent Financial.
On the whole, Heupel said there is little correlation between the stock price declines this week and individual companies' performance. He notes that 3M recently reported strong earnings but still saw its stock price drop off. 3M's stock fell about 4.6 percent since Monday.
And a drop in stock price doesn't mean companies have less money to play around with.
"Your stock price doesn't impact your balance sheet. If you have cash, you have cash. Your company's market value declined as the stock declined, but your balance sheet is as strong as it was," Heupel said. "And I think some companies will be opportunistic and invest some of that cash in their own stock when they feel it's depressed."
It is possible that the big stock market correction this week will make companies assess how their business is performing, analysts said.
"The big sell-off is driven by multiple issues, one of which is concerns of slower economic growth," said Jeff Windau, a research analyst for Edward Jones. "From the company perspective, it does start to matter what they're going to be spending on and how they're going to be looking at growth programs going forward."
Windau notes that the sell-off this week could prompt investors to ask more questions about a company's expenditures on capital projects or whether they're cutting costs.
However, one potential benefit of the big correction, according to Heupel, is that big companies might be able to snap up smaller ones for less than they thought they would have to pay.


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While males and females might sometimes act as though they come from different planets, a new study in flies suggests they are both equipped with a largely unisex brain.
By artificially triggering the neurons responsible for singing--normally a male only activity--the researchers made female flies play their first tune, as reported in the April 18th issue of the journal Cell, a Cell Press publication.
" You might expect that the brains of the two sexes would be built differently, but that does not seem to be the case," said Gero Miesenböck, formerly of Yale University and now at the University of Oxford. "Instead, it appears there is a largely bisexual or 'unisex brain' with a few critical switches that make the difference between male and female behavior."
Male flies have to work hard to convince females to mate with them, he explained. They do it by showing their talents--sticking out one wing and vibrating it to produce sound. Earlier studies had identified the neurons responsible for the male singing behavior. But it seemed that females had that circuit too, even though they don't sing.
" The mystery at the root of our study is the neuronal basis of differences in male and female behavior," said Miesenböck. "Anatomically, the differences are subtle. How is it that the neural equipment is so similar, but the sexes behave so differently""
To answer that question in the flies, the researchers used a special technique they developed in which the singing circuit could be turned on in either males or females with a simple flash of light. First, they confirmed the connection between that circuit and the courting behavior in males.
When they triggered the same circuit in members of the opposite sex, the otherwise quiet female flies immediately began acting like males. "They just stuck out their wing and started singing," Miesenböck said. However, the rookie females did sing off key.
" If you look carefully, the females do sound different," he said. "They have a different pitch and rhythm and aren't as well controlled." He thinks those distinctions probably stem from real, if subtle, differences between the male and female brains, not from a lack of practice.
Nevertheless, the findings in flies suggest that the circuits for maleness are present but dormant in females.
In an earlier study in mice, other researchers found that females took on masculine behaviors when a particular pheromonal cue was blocked, suggesting that male behavior is actively repressed in the rodents.
" In flies, you don't see a spontaneous emergence of male behavior when you block pheromonal cues," he said. "Rather, it requires an artificial trigger. Female flies have the program, but they seem to lack the activating command. Either way, the principle is the same [in flies and mice]: males and females are not as different as you might think."
The new findings suggest that flies must harbor key nodes or "master switches" that set the whole system to the male or female mode, according to the researchers. Their next goal is to find those controls.
The researchers include J. Dylan Clyne, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT; and Gero Miesenbock, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.

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The dingy smoke from Donovan's cheap cigarettes was cast aglow in the single lightsource in the claustrophobic little room and drifted around his chiseled face, though he artfully kept his eyes in the dark.
I remained silent, my wrists instinctively struggling against the duck tape that bound them to the back of the rickety little chair.
"You're not guilty, are you?"
My throat, longing for the familiar swish of whiskey much like my hand longed for the ivory grip of my 1911, felt like dust. I broke my silence.
"I've - cough - I've told you morons a thousand times. No. I'm not guilty. You've got the wrong guy. It's Thibaudet and his goons-"
"Then why are you running?"
"I can't tell you that right now."
I could tell Donovan was angry, angrier than I'd ever seen him. I wasn't scared of him, but Donovan was a big guy, and had at least 20 pounds on me. In case of a fight, he'd squish me like he just squished the embers of his odorous little cigarette on the dirt floor.
"Let's try a different tack, Howard. The money is behind the painting of Mr. Swenson, isn't it?"
"Damn straight it is. That painting is now on the back of a truck bound straight for Cuba. Stolen yesterday: the 6th of May, 1938. It's gone, Donovan. You follow it, they'll kill you."
Donovan slammed his fist down on the table in front of me, rattling the tire iron which was obviously there for reasons I didn't want to think about, at least not yet. "You thought you were being clever, didn't you!?" he yelled in my ear. "The phone number of your accomplices was a fake. There are no accomplices, are there!? You're alone in this robbery! It's all fake! FAKE!"
"DAMN you, Donovan!! I had to do it. They said they'd kill Lottie if I didn't. I can't let that happen."
I bit my lip, resuscitating the little pain that had first been so graciously given by my interrogator in an alleyway a few hours before. I winced. Donovan, furious and at a loss for words, resorted to taunts like so many bullies do.
"You live alone, and lead a sad life. Why the hell am I even talking with you? What do you have for me? You're just a dumb private eye, and not a very good one at that. How about if you just give up now, and we can take you calmly down to the police station?"
"Why not the kennel, you odious bulldog," I replied, knowing I'd pay but giggling because I couldn't help running my mouth. Donovan stared at me with his beady little eyes and exhaled in a desperate attempt to remain calm, running his hand over his five o'clock shadow.
"No? Wise guy, huh? I thought so. We'll get to the bottom of this. Mark my fucking words."
He then socked me across the jaw in a swing that gave me painful reminders about the Great War. I toppled over, bringing the chair with me and hitting my head on the floor. One of my left molars now rattled around in my mouth, the empty cavity throbbing. Blood oozed out of my mouth, through my teeth and into the dirt. The taste was as familiar as whiskey.
I sneered through the pain as Donovan prepared to have another go: but he wouldn't be expecting me.
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The Burial of Civil Marriage
In Israel there are over 300,000 men and women whose mothers are not Jewish and who are not willing to be "reborn," with a new name, by means of a conversion process that forces them to accept cult laws that are foreign to them, to send their children to ultra-Orthodox institutions and to live under rabbinical supervision.
Israeli citizens are divided by law into 12 religious groups. Each person is born into his own group: The Jew whose mother is Jewish is subject to the tyranny of the rabbis, the Muslim to that of the kadis, and the Druze have their own religious leaders, as do the Christians, the Armenians and all the others. And they cannot marry one another, since Israel has no civil marriage. This entire arrangement of no civil marriage, in a country that pretends to be democratic, came into the world only in order to preserve the purity of the Jewish genius.
It's true, according to religious sources, that at the time when our nation lived on its land, when it became assimilated, it was assimilated, and this was not questioned, and anyone who invalidated another was actually accusing him of his own defect. But that was when there was wisdom and the leadership understood that a minority is assimilated into a majority - into its language, into its culture.
On the other hand, here we have to satisfy the inclinations of the religious parties. Therefore, in 1970, then prime minister Golda Meir and justice minister Yaakov Shimshon Shapira anchored in law an amendment stipulating that although the right of return would also be granted to the son and grandson of a Jew and to his/her spouse (apparently for demographic reasons), a "Jew" according to their definition was "someone who was born to a Jewish mother, or who converted and is not a member of another religion."
In Israel there are over 300,000 men and women whose mothers are not Jewish and who are not willing to be "reborn," with a new name, by means of a conversion process that forces them to accept cult laws that are foreign to them, to send their children to ultra-Orthodox institutions and to live under rabbinical supervision.
Now the justice minister has come along and, together with the chief rabbi, has decided to establish a new, separate group of gentiles, who are allowed to marry one another as long as they don't marry a Jewish man or woman, God forbid. That is the salvation they are being offered.
That is how the purity of Judaism, which is preserved under the watchful eye of the religious establishment and the justice minister, is preventing some of the citizens of this country and their children from assimilating among the citizens of the state who have Jewish mothers. It's true that they'll attend the same educational institutions, will study Hebrew and Bible and history - but they will not be allowed to marry "kosher" Jews, because we are the Chosen People, holy seed.
In effect the proposal of the justice minister, who believes it is liberal, was meant to give a donkey's burial to the agreement reached on the issue of "rishum hazugiyut" (registration of people living as couples) as a way of overcoming the failure to provide the right to marry in a civil marriage. This process enables people who love each other and who are not members of the same religion or group, as well as secular people, to start a family whose rights will be recognized by the government and the public. Now the minister and his friend the rabbi are establishing a separate group of religion-less people, and this disgrace is directed first and foremost at immigrants from the former Soviet Union; it's no wonder that people are beginning to organize to oppose it. And, in fact, the time has come for the citizens, the press and all the media to wake up and do something to save democracy and to prevent racism, which must be eliminated from the world.
I was astonished to read that some people see the establishment of a "sect of secular people," whose members are permitted only to one another and not to anyone from the outside, as a first step to civil marriage for all: That is not the case. Here they have buried civil marriage as well as the idea of registering couples. Apparently this proposal suits a society of messianists, who are longing to return to the days of Yehoshua bin Nun, when it comes to the occupation of the land, and a return to the times of the Temple and the sacrifices. All these people will probably get what they want. After all, it was their rabbis who ruled that one should not assimilate among the other nations: "... then thou shalt utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor show mercy unto them" (alternatively: "nor allow them to dwell among you") (Deuteronomy 7:2).
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You don't know me, but, I threw and hand painted cone 10 porcelain for many years and now I'm into glazing! Testing glazes, how they interact with each other and my clay etc. Handpainting gets easier and faster... in time. I think your handpainted work is Beautiful. It looks free and spontaneous - I love that. I love the interplay of the colors, shapes and negative spaces.
- March 22, 2012 at 9:10 AM
- alexander solla said...
Are you photographing these yourself Tony or do you have someone doing them for you?
- March 22, 2012 at 2:13 PM
- Joe Troncale said...
Really nice colors!
Keep making those!
- March 23, 2012 at 6:13 AM
- Ron said...
I really like these Tony. It is nice that you can do more work and re-fire. I think this work is fun and very contemporary.
- March 23, 2012 at 7:39 AM
Just got into your Blog to see your new eware, Tony. You and Sheila are on your way to the jackpot with your new look, very cool. That's it, Pollack and Kadinsky with a little bit of circus thrown in. Applause for the linear brushwork!
Great new business card too!
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Friday, November 20, 1998 Published at 07:36 GMT
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Ballot papers under AV Top-Up show candidates' names
As the European Elections Bill was bounced to and fro between the Commons and Lords, the government insisted it was committed to introducing the closed list system.
Nothing else would do. In fact, before the final Lords' vote, Downing Street warned that if peers voted against it for a fifth time, they would "kill the Bill" and the elections would have to be held using the first-past-the-post system.
But only weeks ago, ministers were welcoming Lord Jenkins' report recommending another system of voting for Westminster elections.
So, why was the government so insistent on closed lists rather than choosing an alternative such as AV Top-Up for future European elections?
Privately, Labour officials admit that criticisms from some backbenchers over party managers' anxieties to keep control over the candidates' selection process were close to the mark. Labour chiefs want control over the crucial ranking of candidates on lists.
A Home Office spokesman told BBC News Online: "The government has said all along it is committed to the closed list system.
"Lord Williams said on 13 November that open lists can lead to those with most votes losing.
"If the government says it's committed to closed lists, it's committed. If they had wanted to compromise, they would have done so but didn't want to compromise.
"They feel the closed list system is the best."
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When the New York Giants have succeeded in the past couple of years, it has been on the back of the pass rush from their front four. This season, though, that unit has struggled at times, leading to some suspect performances by the entire defense.
It is no coincidence that the Giants throttled the Green Bay Packers last week when the defensive line showed up, sacking Aaron Rodgers five times and pressuring him all day, with four knockdowns and 17 more hurries. Only one of those total pressures (Chase Blackburn's sack) came from a player that wasn't seeing most of his time with his hand in the dirt along the front four.
But the bottom line is that the Giants' defensive line has been inconsistent this year, and if New York wants to make another playoff run, that unit will have to improve. What can the Giants do to find more consistency on the defensive line?
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The key to the Giants' pass rush in previous seasons hasn't been any one dominant pass-rusher, but rather a group of players all capable of winning one-on-one matchups across the formation. Pressure coming from one spot can often be negated by a great quarterback, or by scheme or additional blocking help, but if the pocket collapses in several spots, the quarterback has nowhere to go.


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Earlier this year Nokia design chief Marko Ahtisaari teased his company's plans for an upcoming tablet, saying that he's spent a third of his time working on a new slate for Nokia. Now another Nokia employee is in the news talking tablets as well as other new devices that are in the works at the Finnish firm. Speaking to the Financial Times, Nokia chairman Jorma Ollila has said that his company will release a range of tablets and "hybrid" smart devices to help it better compete in the mobile marketplace. "Tablets are an important one, so that is being looked into, and there will be different hybrids, different form factors [handset designs] in the future," Ollila said. The exec didn't offer any other details on these new products.
While we don't yet know exactly what Nokia has up its sleeve for a tablet, previous rumors have suggested that the company is cooking up a Windows 8-powered slate, a move that'd make sense considering how buddy-buddy Nokia and Microsoft have been. It's not yet clear exactly when we could see a Nokia tablet debut, but considering the praise that Nokia has received for the design of devices like the Lumia 900, it should be interesting to see what it does a tablet. More as we get it.
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Two Coral Springs Police officers were being investigated after allegations they may have lied under oath against a woman who was arrested while calling for a tow truck.
The case against Susan Mait has been dropped, the state attorney's office told NBC 6 after an Oct. 4, incident where an off-duty officer stopped to help her with her two flat tires after her car had struck the median on Royal Palm Boulevard, the South Florida Sun Sentinel reported.
Officer Derek Fernandes, who was no longer on duty, told her she either had to call a tow truck or he would call a more expensive city contractor, the newspaper reported. She called her insurance company to arrange the car transport.
While Mait was on the phone with her insurance company arranging to get her car towed, on-duty officer Nicole Stasnek came to the scene. And according to a phone recording, Stasnek swore at Mait, who was eventually arrested and charged with driving under the influence of drugs and resisting an officer with and without violence, the newspaper said.
A urine test showed she had a prescription anti-depressant in her body, and prosecutors ultimately dropped the felony charges. The misdemeanor charges weren't dropped until her attorney was able obtain the recording of some of the exchange with the officer, the newspaper reported.
It also recorded Stasnek and Fernandes talking about how to deal any internal investigation, the newspaper said.
"The two officers have been sent letters by our office sayign they are being investigated for allegations of filing false documents," the state attorney's office said in an email statement to NBC 6.
The newspaper reported that Stasnek testified that she did put her hand up to say, "Talk to the hand," and the recording also shows Mait told the officer "Did you not see me on the phone?"
Stasnek was quoted by the newspaper as saying "give me your f***ing license," on the recording.
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Manly Arts: Masculinity and Nation in Early American Cinema
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Gerstner fathoms the decisive part played by film in constructing a masculine ideal of American life in his reassessments of such early movies as Manhatta (1921) by J. Stuart Blackton and Theodore Roosevelt; Within Our Gates (1920) by Oscar Micheaux; and Cabin in the Sky (1943) by Vincente Minnelli. He explains how filmmakers forged a national aesthetic that equated democracy with masculinity. Gerstner observes the emergence of an aesthetic of cultural excess that united white and African American cultural enterprises—commonly gay—and problematized the equation of national arts with masculinity. David A. Gerstner is an associate professor of cinema studies at the College of Staten Island and on the doctoral faculty in theatre at the Graduate Center.
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The chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Attahiru Jega, has said he will not accept a tenure renewal even if he is offered.
The tenure of Mr. Jega, appointed by President Goodluck Jonathan in 2010 to replace the then chief of Nigeria's electoral management body, Maurice Iwu, will expire in June this year.
Mr. Jega, a professor of political science, acknowledged that the task of leading INEC was a difficult one adding that he was not interested in tenure renewal and would not accept an offer of extension.
"I am grateful to God. I was asked to come and contribute my own quota to the national development and I have done my bit to the best of my ability," he said.
"Whatever assignment one will do for five years – just like this difficult one — to me if one is able to successfully accomplish the task, someone else should be given the opportunity. Because for me I am not interested and if I am requested to serve again, I will not do it, by God's grace."


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IDEAS & TRENDS; When the Acting Is a Little Stiff, What's a Director to Do?
By THOMAS VINCIGUERRA
Published: June 4, 2006
Before Marlon Brando died in 2004, he spent six months working on a movie directed by a Tunisian filmmaker, Ridha Behi. The uncompleted work is now being reconfigured as part fiction and part documentary. Retitled ''Brando and Brando,'' it will be about Mr. Behi's budding friendship with the actor.
Mr. Behi is the latest filmmaker who has been forced to deal with the death of a star in the middle of production. Today, thanks to digital technology, editors can insert a dead actor into almost any scene. This was the case with Brandon Lee, who was killed in an accident during filming of ''The Crow'' (1994), and with Oliver Reed, who died during ''Gladiator'' (2000).
Before the computer revolution, however, filmmakers went to considerable lengths to cover up for actors who had the bad judgment to succumb on the job. Here are some notable examples. THOMAS VINCIGUERRA
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MOVIE: ''Saratoga,'' 1937
ACTOR: Jean Harlow
WHAT HAPPENED: Harlow was about three-quarters through the production when she died of kidney disease at 26.
RESOLUTION: Some of Harlow's lines were given to other characters. Elsewhere, the script was rewritten to explain her absence, e.g., ''She's got a slight headache, she's staying in her room.'' For five key scenes, Harlow's face, body and voice were doubled by Geraldine Dvorak, Mary Dees and Paula Winslowe.
REACTION: The New York Herald Tribune described Harlow as ''looking ill much of the time.''
MOVIE: ''Solomon and Sheba,'' 1959
ACTOR: Tyrone Power
WHAT HAPPENED: After shooting eight takes of a sword fight with George Sanders, Power quit the set, shaking uncontrollably and saying he was cold and aching. Within minutes, he was dead of a heart attack. He was 44.
RESOLUTION: The movie was refilmed with Yul Brynner (above) in Power's part.
REACTION: Bosley Crowther of The New York Times wrote that as Solomon: ''Yul Brynner is as specious as that hair they have pasted (or he has grown) on his head. Neither it nor he suits the character.''
MOVIE: ''Plan Nine From Outer Space,'' 1959
ACTOR: Bela Lugosi
WHAT HAPPENED: The director, Edward D. Wood Jr., who had previously worked with Lugosi on ''Bride of the Monster'' and ''Glen or Glenda,'' filmed him for approximately two minutes in 1956 as he fumbled around the doorway of a house and lurked behind a tree. Days later, Lugosi died of a heart attack at 73.
RESOLUTION: Wood rewrote the script and cast Tom Mason, a chiropractor, to finish Lugosi's part as The Ghoul Man. Wood concealed the fact that Mason (above) was taller than Lugosi by having him hunch over. He also had Mason cloak his face with a Dracula-like black cape.
REACTION: In ''The Golden Turkey Awards'' (Perigee, 1980) Harry and Michael Medved declared that ''Plan Nine'' was the worst film of all time.
MOVIE: ''Trail of the Pink Panther,'' 1982
ACTOR: Peter Sellers
WHAT HAPPENED: Sellers, who was to reprise the role of the klutzy Inspector Jacques Clouseau, died of a heart attack in 1980, before filming began, at 54.
RESOLUTION: Blake Edwards, the writer-director, took outtakes and clips from previous ''Pink Panther'' movies and combined them with new footage of regulars from the series.
REACTION: ''For half an hour or so the ploy works,'' wrote Richard Corliss in Time. ''Then Clouseau's plane is reported missing and an embarrassing elegy begins.'' Sellers's widow, Lynne Frederick, sued the producers for insulting her husband's memory; a British court ordered them to pay her $1 million in damages and a percentage of the film's profits and gross receipts.
MOVIE: ''Brainstorm,'' 1983
ACTOR: Natalie Wood
WHAT HAPPENED: Wood had three weeks of filming left when she drowned off Catalina Island in Southern California. She was 43.
RESOLUTION: Wood's remaining scenes were rewritten for another character. The director, Douglas Trumbull, also cut scene of Wood and her co-star, Christopher Walken, in a canoe because he thought it would remind audiences of Wood's death.
REACTION: ''This is hardly her finest role,'' wrote David Ansen in Newsweek, ''but there are special moments when her distinctive poignance and sparkling passion shine through.''


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Tuesday, 31 December, 2002, 07:38 GMT
Fowler linked with Man City
City boss Kevin Keegan is believed to be ready to swoop for the former Liverpool forward, who has just returned to action following a lengthy lay-off with a hip injury.
Keegan has confirmed he wants to reinforce his squad for an assault on a European spot when the transfer window opens on 1 January.
Leeds have denied that there has been contact with the Maine Road club, but they may want to cash in on the 27-year-old as they attempt to reduce their huge debts.
"We are looking at one or two areas but we just need a few things to drop into position," said Keegan.
"We have a friendly bunch of players and no prima donnas. Everyone wants to take the club forward and is willing to put in the hard work.
"We've got a real togetherness which, combined with the talent we have got, gets results."
Leeds would be reluctant to let Fowler go, though Terry Venables knows he must sell before he can buy.
The sticking point could be the fee. Leeds would be keen to recoup as much of the £11m they paid Liverpool for Fowler a year ago.
But Keegan is unlikely to have more than £7m to spend when the transfer window opens.
Marseille's Algerian midfielder Djamel Belmadi is another target for City should there be any cash remaining from a possible Fowler deal.
Keegan has targeted a top-six finish for his players and recent results have pushed the club up to ninth place.
"Three or four weeks ago I felt the club was turning the way we wanted it to, now we have turned we have to keep steaming on," Keegan told the Manchester Evening News.
"I still think we should aim for the top six because if you don't set a target for players which stretches them, they might settle for mid-table.
"You cannot possibly compete in this division without a big squad and ours isn't big enough yet. That is something the board have to realise.
"I will keep driving the board on and if they want to we can make this a bigger club."
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Airline passengers could be faced with "ludicrous" new changes to airport security in the wake of the al-Qaeda parcel bomb plot, industry figures have warned.
Airport screening changes would leave passengers facing a raft of "ineffective", "useless" and unnecessary safeguards, warned Michael O'Leary, the boss of budget airline Ryanair.
But while he cautioned against overreacting, some industry experts called for an urgent overhaul of passenger security and the introduction of "package to package" checks.
A review of airline security is now likely after investigators concluded that the terrorists had designed a package to blow up passenger jets in a Lockerbie-style terrorist outrage.
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Basketball Brackets Proven To Be A Boost In Workplace Morale
I don't know squat about basketball. Yet like many others around America and the world today I will make a guess on the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament in hopes of winning fame, fortune, and notoriety around the office.
It's funny how I will play the basketball bracket game but I won't touch those stupid
Super Bowl uh, "big game" square things.
That's because picking basketball games is at best a crap shoot, it's a lottery played on the backs of young men. Just like war, we send the young out to do all the work while we, the older generation sit in our recliners and complain.
One of the reasons a lot of offices and companies such as this one have bracket contests is simply for the fun of it. Sure there are prizes available for those who can pick the winners but the biggest winner might be the company itself.
It's been proven these kinds of bracket challenges among employees is a real morale booster. It's one of the few things that almost every employee can agree on, follow privately or publicly, and can participate in without feeling like an outcast.
Like I said, I don't know squat about basketball but for a couple of days in March every year I turn on the television and I watch. I'll watch teams I've never heard of play teams I don't know anything about. I will revel in the last second shots, the heartbreak, and the joy of picking Winthrop to win it all.


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text: LONDON, Dec 4 (Reuters) - European shares headed for a stronger open on Thursday, tracking gains in the United States and Asia, with improving U.S. economic outlook and expectations of further stimulus from the European Central Bank boosting sentiment. ECB President Mario Draghi will present the bank's updated forecasts for growth in output as well as inflation at a policy meeting later in the day. The ECB could extend a scheme to buy rebundled debt to purchasing corporate bonds, but it is unlikely to announce any radical immediate move such as printing money to buy government bonds. "We will be looking at the exact wording of the introductory statement," Credit Agricole said in a note. "If the reference to sovereign debt purchases appears in the statement, then it would be the clearest sign that the ECB is ready to deliver sooner rather than later, probably with a comfortable majority." The Federal Reserve's vice chair Stanley Fischer was quoted as saying in an Italian newspaper that the ECB should follow the example of the U.S. central bank and buy government bonds to prop up the tottering euro zone economy. At 0733 GMT, futures for Euro STOXX 50, Germany's DAX and for France's CAC were 0.2 to 0.3 percent higher. The pan-European FTSEurofirst 300 index ended 0.5 percent higher at 1,399.97 points after climbing to its highest level in more than two months in the previous session. The index has gained 15 percent since a one-year low in mid-October. In the United States, the Dow and S&P 500 share indexes closed at record highs on Wednesday after data showed U.S. services sector rose more than expected in November. Japanese stocks jumped to a near 7-1/2-year high on Thursday. On the macroeconomic front, focus will be on U.S. initial jobless claims data, a day after due at 1330 GMT. In France, unemployment rate rose to 10.4 percent in the third quarter from a revised 10.1 percent in the previous quarter, data published by the INSEE national statistics office showed on Thursday. Investors' focus will also be on energy stocks after Brent crude oil prices rose above $70 a barrel, gaining nearly a percent along with U.S. futures, as a fall in crude stockpiles in the United States supported prices. The Investment Management Association (IMA) said on Thursday that Allianz Global Investors, Aviva, Friends Life, Legal and General, Prudential and Standard Life intend to make investments of around 9 billion pounds in private placements and other direct lending to UK companies. COMPANY NEWS LAFARGE Lafarge and its Swiss peer Holcim are set to win the European Union's approval for their merger deal to create the world's biggest cement maker, two sources with direct knowledge of the matter said on Wednesday. LUFTHANSA Pilots at Lufthansa are on strike on long-haul and cargo flights on Thursday. Lufthansa has said it would cancel about half of long-haul flights and a third of cargo flights. CLUB MED The board of Club Med on Wednesday reiterated its support for the bid presented by Chinese billionaire Guo Guongchang, owner of Chinese group Fosun . FERROVIAL, FCC, BANKIA Spanish infrastructure firm Ferrovial has withdrawn from the process to acquire the concessions company Globalvia, controlled by FCC and Bankia, Expansion said on Thursday. CENTRICA Britain's energy regulator Ofgem has fined the country's largest energy supplier 11.1 million pounds ($17.4 million) for failing to meet energy efficiency obligations by a 2012 deadline. GLAXOSMITHKLINE The drugmaker said on Wednesday it would shed "several hundred" U.S. commercial jobs and a similar number of research positions as it restructures operations in its biggest market, where drug sales are flagging. AREVA Areva's Luc Oursel, who resigned last month as chief executive and chairman for health reasons, has died, the nuclear energy group said on Wednesday. SKY Pay-TV group Sky said on Thursday it had agreed to sell a controlling stake in Sky Bet to CVC Capital Partners in a move which values the online betting business at 800 million pounds ($1.3 billion). TUI TRAVEL British travel group TUI Travel, reporting its last set of annual results before it merges with Germany's TUI AG, said profit rose 11 percent, beating forecasts, and the coming tie-up would accelerate long-term growth. ENI Plans by Italian oil major Eni for major asset sales to help fund exploration and its dividend payments have hit problems due to diving oil and gas prices, sources say. SOCIETE DES PRODUITS MARNIER LAPOSTOLLE Societe des Produits Marnier Lapostolle, the company behind spirits brand Grand Marnier, denied press reports it planned to sell the control of the company. ALSTOM It will take more than the abrupt cancellation of a high-speed train deal with Mexico to derail China Railway Construction Corp's ambitions to become a global force in transport projects and take on the likes of Siemens, Alstom and Bombardier. ALLIANZ Pacific Investment Management Co posted net outflows of $12.59 billion across its open-ended funds in November, down considerably from $48.3 billion of cash withdrawals the previous month, according to Morningstar data on Wednesday. THYSSENKRUPP The industrial group reached an agreement with unions over cutbacks at its Acciai Speciali Terni (AST) stainless steel plant in central Italy. VOLKSWAGEN Premium carmaker Audi aims to continue to expand its network of dealership in Russia despite being hit by the weaker economic outlook and the weak rouble there, Chief Executive Rupert Stadler told Sueddeutsche Zeitung. 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LUXOTTICA, INTEL The luxury eyewear maker is joining forces with U.S. chipmaker Intel Corp to develop glasses that combine its top fashion brands with technology that could allow wearers to access information about their health or location. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ MARKET SNAPSHOT AT 0719 GMT: LAST PCT CHG NET CHG S&P 500 2,074.33 0.38 % 7.78 NIKKEI 17887.21 0.94 % 166.78 MSCI ASIA EX-JP 473.82 0.62 % 2.92 EUR/USD 1.2297 -0.11 % -0.0013 USD/JPY 119.95 0.15 % 0.1800 10-YR US TSY YLD 2.280 -- -0.01 10-YR BUND YLD 0.751 -- 0.01 SPOT GOLD $1,204.00 -0.43 % -$5.19 US CRUDE $67.97 0.88 % 0.59 MACROECONOMIC EVENTS (GMT) 1200 GB Bank of England bank Rate 1245 EZ ECB rate 1330 US Initial Jobless Claims > ASIA CHEERED BY U.S. ECONOMIC RESILIENCE, EURO STRUGGLES > CYCLICALS LEAD WALL ST HIGHER; DOW, S&P END AT RECORDS > NIKKEI HITS NEAR 7-1/2-YEAR HIGH ON WEAK YEN, US ECONOMIC OPTIMISM > TREASURIES-PRICES MOSTLY STEADY AS LONG BOND GAINS > EURO ON THE DEFENSIVE AS ECB EYED; DOLLAR SETS 7-YEAR HIGH VS YEN > GOLD EASES ON DOLLAR STRENGTH AHEAD OF ECB, U.S. JOBS DATA > COPPER EDGES UP ON OIL, CHINA SERVICE SECTOR DATA > BRENT HEADS ABOVE $70 AFTER U.S. CRUDE STOCKS DROP Europe bourses in 2014: (link.reuters.com/pad95v) Asset performance in 2014: (link.reuters.com/rav46v) (Reporting by Atul Prakash; Editing by Alistair Smout)


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- State lawmakers take pass on proposed leadership changes at UMC
- Commissioners OK plan to consider change of UMC governance
- Commissioners testify against bill to reshape UMC governance
- County puts off UMC vote; union leader warns, 'I'm going to fight you'
- County may look into forming hospital district to help fund UMC
- Commissioners to mull countywide tax to help fund struggling UMC
Clark County commissioners are taking a step back and turning over most of their oversight authority of the financially challenged University Medical Center to an independent advisory board a little more than a year after a similar setup was shut down due to lack of effectiveness.
Commissioners decided Wednesday during a UMC board meeting to begin the recruitment and selection process for what likely will be a nine-member board charged with overseeing the hospital's operations and long-term planning.
The decision to create an advisory board brings to an end months of at times acrimonious debate on the issue, which initially drew opposition from several commissioners, including UMC board Chairman Lawrence Weekly.
Initial plans discussed included turning the hospital into a nonprofit subsidiary of the county before attention shifted to a legislative bill that would have given commissioners more flexibility when setting up the independent board.
When that bill failed, commissioners regrouped and began discussing what changes are allowed under current state law.
A similar advisory board was established in 2010 and then disbanded 18 months later, but on Wednesday, Weekly said he thinks this time around will be different because commissioners have spent more time discussing what they want to accomplish, leading to a clearer delineation of responsibilities for the new board.
"It wasn't so much that we didn't want it; it was just the process and how we got there … for us to talk it out and work it out," Weekly said. "This time around we took our time. We really got into the weeds of directions and expectations. Last time we just said, 'Yes, let's do it,' and it was more politically driven."
The split between commissioners was mended in part with the help of Larry Gage, the founder and former president of the National Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems.
Acting as a consultant, for which he was paid $20,000, Gage spent the past two months interviewing staff and administrators from the county and UMC.
"You've brought a lot of our ideas a lot closer together than I thought they would come," commission Chairman Steve Sisolak, one of the leading proponents for an advisory board, said to Gage on Wednesday.
In his report to the commission, Gage, who created a similar report for the county in 2003, said in his opinion the best model for the hospital is to have an independent board responsible for oversight.
"Even I have been coming here for 10 years talking to you about these issues. Since my last appearance, the importance of dedicated governance for public hospitals has really taken on a tremendous urgency," Gage said. "Let me be clear: Creating a new governing board is not a panacea. It's not going to do it all by itself. It is a tool, but I think it's a very important tool. Hospitals that have taken this step along with many other steps have been more successful by and large than hospitals that have not."
Having an independent, dedicated governing board "tends to be the standard" among public hospitals and is a model used around the country in places such as Seattle, Atlanta, Minneapolis and Denver, Gage said.
Under the system proposed by Gage, commissioners would retain several duties while continuing to serve as the hospital's board of trustees, including final approval of budgets, making appointments to the advisory board and signing off on new building projects.
The advisory board would be given oversight of the rest of the operations, with the charge to develop and implement strategies to improve UMC's competitiveness and efficiency while also looking for new sources of funding to shore up the hospital's ailing finances, which required a $30 million subsidy from the county this year to make ends meet.
With commissioners' blessing Wednesday, the staff will begin drafting an ordinance to codify all of the proposed changes into law. At the same time, Gage will be working with county and hospital staff to put together a nominating committee.
That committee, which would be established in September, would be responsible for recruiting candidates for the advisory board, who would then need final approval from commissioners.
Weekly said the goal is to have the new board in place by January.
"What I want to accomplish is to make sure we have qualified individuals who have time to work closely with the CEO to help move this hospital forward," he said. "As we move forward into the Affordable Care Act, we have to make sure we're on the cutting edge and that we're able to compete so we don't get lost in the shuffle."


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In the service sector where employees have to interact with the general public, it has long been recognized that it is much easier to teach employees the skills they need to actually carry out their jobs than to teach them the kind of good attitude that will make a positive impact on customers. So "hire for attitude and teach the skills" has been a useful aphorism for them.
I was reminded of that when I read the news that the GOP is now coaching its congressional candidates on how to show more empathy to their suffering constituents, especially those whose unemployment benefits have been cut.
When coupled with their earlier attempts to teach them how to talk to women without coming across as crass, crude, clueless, and condescending, it struck me that the GOP problem is that they are recruiting candidates who are ideological automatons and trying to get them to learn human qualities. (The comic strip Doonesbury ran a series of six strips on the GOP's attempt to learn how to talk to women, starting with this one on December 23, 2103.)
Why not take a leaf from the service sector and recruit regular human beings who have the normal range of emotions that humans have and then teach them ideology? You might have much better outcomes.


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When I published Unfettered, I did so out of need.
Now that my medical debt from treating 2011's Hodgkin's lymphoma is gone, I can focus on helping others. I have been given a great platform; I plan on using it to help people. It's my way of paying it forward.
Unfettered II will publish in October 2015. It features a stellar line-up of science fiction and fantasy writers, all contributing short stories to raise money. Where will that money go? It will go toward alleviating medical debt for other authors and artists who find themselves in the same situation I was in.
In this way, we will protect those who bring us such entertainment and joy with their words and art. No one should have to go through the stress I did in 2011. No one.
Here is a list of the writers who have turned in their stories already:
- Joe Abercrombie
- Bradley Beaulieu
- Rachel Caine
- David Farland
- Charlaine Harris
- Mark Lawrence
- Seanan Mcguire
- J.A. Pitts
- Kat Richardson
- Anthony Ryan
- Django Wexler
That is about half of the list. When the other contributors turn in their stories, they will be announced here and on social media!
Unfettered II is coming in October 2015!
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In Iowa City, Iowa, a cop told a drunken man to get lost. The 21-year-old said the officer looked like he needed a hug. The cop warned him off. But even though it caused his arrest, Luke Schreder bravely gave that hug. (Thanks to NPR's Morning Edition for this news tidbit!)


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William J. Dengler, founder of funeral home
Dec. 30, 1926 – Nov. 22, 2013
William J. Dengler, the founder of a local funeral home and World War II veteran, died Friday in Kenmore Mercy Hospital after a short illness. He was 86.
Mr. Dengler, an Amherst resident, started the Dengler Funeral Home, which was first located on Leroy Avenue in Buffalo. Over the years, the business grew to seven locations throughout the Buffalo area – some of them known as Dengler Roberts Perna.
A native of Silver Creek, Mr. Dengler moved to Buffalo with his family when he was young. He attended Blessed Trinity School and graduated from St. Joseph's Collegiate Institute in 1944.
Mr. Dengler was a Navy veteran of World War II, and based in Korea and China.
He married the former Joyce Smith, a Buffalo resident, in 1948. Also that year, he graduated from the Simmons School of Mortuary Science and in 1951 launched the funeral business, from which he retired in 1988.
Mr. Dengler served as president of the Erie Niagara Funeral Directors Association. He also served as commander of both AMVETS Post 49 and the Buffalo Rotary Club.
He enjoyed tennis and sailing, and owned a sailboat, the "Escapade."
He and his wife lived in Amherst while raising their family, then moved to the Buffalo waterfront for several years before returning to Amherst.
Mr. Dengler was a member of the Holy Name Society of St. Benedict's Catholic Church, Eggertsville, his parish of many years. In recent years, he worshipped in St. Joseph's Cathedral, Buffalo.
In addition to his wife of 65 years, survivors include five sons, William J. Jr., Daniel J., David J., George S. and John S.; three daughters, Betsy Tilis, Bonnie Kurosko and Wendy Glauber; a sister, Joan Linde; and 19 grandchildren.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be offered at 10 a.m. Wednesday in St. Benedict's Church, Main Street and Eggert Road, Eggerstville.


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Evan Hazard: The Hebrew Bible's most difficult book: The Book of Job
My folks got "The New Yorker" and we/I have subscribed for most of our years in Bemidji.
The Dec. 16 issue included such a review of "The Book of Job: A Biography" by Mark Larrimore, director of The New School's religious studies department. The review itself, by staff writer Joan Acocella, is aptly titled "Misery: Is there justice in the Book of Job?"
I long ago read all of the Book of Job, probably in the Revised Standard Version, and have often reread, in various versions, chapters 38-42, in which Yahweh rebukes Job for questioning Him, describes the physical and zoological universe as then understood, and asks where Job was when Yahweh fixed Earth upon its pillars (chap. 38: verse 6), created Behemoth and Leviathan, and other cool stuff.
I have not seen Larrimore's book, and will not analyze Acocella's review here. But I browsed many websites, and also consulted "The Abington Bible Commentary," given to me (their faculty advisor) in '64-'65 by BSU students in Wesley Foundation. It is a 1929 anthology, with dozens of scholarly contributors, mostly Anglican, Congregational, Methodist, and Presbyterian sorts, from the U.S., England, Canada and Scotland.
Many authorities suggest Job is the oldest book in the Bible, while others insist that Moses wrote the Torah (the first five books), despite linguistic and historical problems. Some hold that every account in Scripture not specifically identified as a parable (e.g., "The Good Samaritan") is accurate in all its details; all is history except any passages declared to be fiction. Many commentators don't consider that issue at all, some insist everything in Job actually happened, others call it a legend for a variety of reasons. At least one source insisted Job was "good science," even though the sea monster Leviathan is said to breath fire.
Chapters 1, 2, and the last 11 verses of chapter 42 are prose. Chapters 3 through chapter 42: 1-6 are all rhythmic poetry, said by some experts in Hebrew to be the best poetry in Scripture. This seems an odd structure for an accurate biographical narrative. Also, Joan Acocella asks, "Is there justice in the Book of Job?"
Some ancient Hebrews and maybe some of you might say, "Yes. Job lost all his wealth and everything else he had, and suffered bodily, but at the end Yahweh made him twice as rich as he was before, including seven (14 according to some translations) new sons and three new daughters."
("There were no women in all the world so beautiful as Job's daughters; and their father gave them an inheritance with their brothers" Job 42:15). That last is actually more progressive than some of today's vocal "Christians."
Most of you will remember that Job starts with Yahweh, Satan, and other "members of the court of heaven" arguing about whether the virtuous rich man Job will remain loyal to Yahweh if he loses everything. So, in chapters 1 and 2, Yahweh allows Satan to deprive him of all his wealth, kill his seven sons and three daughters and various servants, and eventually deprive Job of his health. Job gets new kids at the end, but those servants and 10 kids are killed, having done nothing to deserve it.
Is this "justice?" Not in my book. And, incidentally, Yahweh does not claim he has done justice in chapters 38-42, his rebuke to Job.
There is another flaw in Job, one not the writers' fault. They wrote, after all, early in the development of Hebrew monotheism, surrounded by polytheistic cultures. (Actually, some experts find parts of Job rather similar to legends of the Hebrews' neighbors.)
The writers also lived on a flat earth, supported by pillars, under a solid vault or dome (Genesis 1:6), where rain came through holes in the dome, and where any significant good or bad fortune was Yahweh's doing.
I, and perhaps you, don't live there, but rather in an ancient and expanding physical universe (which astrophysicists understand much better than I), in which events in nature occur over time because of the natural properties of matter, energy, and space, a universe so well created (by God, I believe) that it works without God having either to push or "sustain" it.
How different is the book's "court of heaven," from Odin in Asgard deciding to punish Loki for mischief, or from Zeus and his fellow Olympians deciding to punish Prometheus for giving fire to mortals?
The writers of Job deserve no blame for this but today, I think, to insist on the accuracy of the behavior of Yahweh and his "court" in Job reduces God to the status of the gods of antiquity.
EVAN HAZARD, a retired BSU biology professor, also writes "Northland Stargazing" the fourth Friday of each month.


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Saturday, 1 December, 2001, 13:12 GMT
Bin Laden 'bought off' Taleban
Osama bin Laden had Taleban leaders in his pocket, frequently buying them off with huge cash payments, a senior defector from Afghanistan's former ruling movement has said.
Mohammed Khaksar, former Taleban deputy interior minister, said Bin Laden freely distributed bundles of notes to officials to buy freedom of movement for his al-Qaeda network, which is blamed for the 11 September attacks in the US.
"He had the money in his pocket," Mr Khaksar told the Washington Post in an interview. "Any time he wanted, he would just pull it out and give it to them."
Gifts of expensive cars for officials or fleets of pick-up trucks to ferry fighters to the front were also used to secure influence.
"Al-Qaeda was very important for the Taleban because they had so much money," Mr Khaksar was quoted as saying. "They gave a lot of money. And the Taleban trusted them.
"There wasn't anybody who had power over Osama. He did whatever he wanted."
While Mr Khaksar's account is impossible to confirm, US intelligence reports have described in detail how Bin Laden bankrolled the Taleban with an estimated $100 million in financial and military help since seeking their protection in 1996.
'We don't need you'
Mr Khaksar, who changed sides as Kabul fell last month and now supports the Northern Alliance, is the highest-ranking defector from the Taleban leadership.
One of the key figures in the Taleban when it emerged in 1994, he was a one-time close friend of its reclusive leader, Mullah Omar and privy to some of the movement's most closely-guarded secrets.
"From the beginning, I was against Arabs and other foreigners coming to Afghanistan.
"I felt when foreigners come to our country, our country would be destroyed. And now you see what's happened," Mr Khaksar said.
He could not say whether Mullah Omar and other top leaders had prior knowledge of the 11 September attacks - but he had no doubt Bin Laden was behind it.
He said he had warned his colleagues before the attacks that "the guy would do something bad".
Mr Khaksar also said he met Bin Laden once, in 1996, and told him: "We don't need you.
"He got very upset and I never saw him again."
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I am disabled,visually impaired,and I was recently threatened a 2nd time on the property of our community complex.A police report was taken,but the management,again have turned a blind eye.Can the management be liable if I were to get injured,because of their refusal to evict the violent perpetrator?
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Management can be liable only if it is was foreseeable that you would be injured and you do nothing wrong to cause your injury. Just because a threat has occurred does not mean that it will be followed by a physical assault. Management would have to have evidence that the person plans and or means to follow up on the threats before they can evict. Based on a threat alone, they would most likely lose at any eviction hearing.
Also, keep in mind that if this person threatens you and you get into a screaming match or engage in other conduct that can escalate the situation, you will not have a claim. NC is a contributory negligence state. This means that if you are at fault in anyway for your damages, you cannot collect, even if your fault is only 1% out of 100.
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Vanilla has a class basic vanilla flavour, but not as fragrant/floral as Scoop's.
Coffee was excellent, a true milky coffee flavour.
Pistachio was indeed nutty, less of the greener pistachio flavour, and more of toasted pistachio.
Ecuadorian chocolate was solid, a pleasant deep choc flavour, with all the right fruity, nutty and woodsy notes.
Marron glace/chestnut had a good sweet chestnut flavour with a hint of powdery chestnut in the texture.
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SAO PAULO, Dec 10 (Reuters) - Brazil sugar and ethanol producer Tonon Bioenergia SA, which operates three mills with a total capacity to process 8.2 million tonnes of cane per year, has sought court protection against creditors, the company said late on Wednesday.
Tonon said its debt, largely denominated in dollars, soared following the recent weakening of Brazil's currency. The sugar group's debt in Brazilian reais jumped by 69 percent by the end of September to 2.66 billion ($707 million) compared to the same time a year earlier.
"The main objective of this request is to restore the capital structure and preserve business continuity," the company said in a statement.
More than 70 mills in Brazil have filed for court protection against creditors in the past three years as a long period of low sugar and ethanol prices has hurt their profitability.
More recently, the local currency's weakness, despite increasing the return in reais on sugar export deals, has raised indebtedness for companies with a large share of their liabilities denominated in dollars.
Tonon also said tough financing conditions in the Brazilian market further harmed its ability to manage its finances. To tackle inflation running in double-digits, the central bank has signaled it could raise interest rates in January from a nine-year high of 14.25 percent.
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Clanwilliam wage deal not discussed, says Agri SA
"Except through the media, we've heard nothing from the Congress of South African Trade Unions [Cosatu] or [its Western Cape secretary] Tony Ehrenreich regarding the deal," the union's labour relations head Elize van der Westhuizen said on Wednesday.
"This deal is typical of what we've asked our members to do since last year, where they engage directly with farmworkers and negotiate terms."
On Tuesday, Ehrenreich announced that a daily wage deal of R105 had been brokered with a "significant amount" of farmers in Clanwilliam.
He said Agri SA had to respond to his request by 1pm on Wednesday should they want the strike to be possibly suspended.
"This represents a significant move forward and puts the ball squarely in the court of the Agri SA to accept the terms and secure a suspension to the strike, as a matter of urgency," he said.
But Van der Westhuizen said that Cosatu should first contact Agri SA with information about his request before taking any action. Agri Wes-Kaap spokesperson Porschia Adams said it had also not heard from Cosatu or Ehrenreich.
She said that to her knowledge, the wage deal was agreed to by one farmer who owned a number of farms, rather than multiple farmers. Ehrenreich was not immediately available to comment.
In a statement on Tuesday Ehrenreich said: "This agreement represents a model agreement that would be used in the other areas and towns ... as soon as an agreement is concluded in a town, then that town would be exempted from strike action."
He said Cosatu would encourage workers to suspend the strike if Agri SA acknowledged the Clanwilliam agreement, and ensured no disciplinary action was taken against striking workers.
Farmworkers went on strike last year to demand their daily wage be increased from R69 to R150, and that a coherent land reform programme be implemented. The strike was suspended in December, but resumed on Wednesday last week.
Cosatu in Limpopo said they fully supported the demands of workers for better living and working conditions. Provincial administrator Mamodula Kgabo called on employers to accept the demands and for government to further research the conditions of such workers.
Principal provincial inspector Jacques Mostert said the N1 was closed at De Doorns, the epicentre of protest action. He said motorists would have to take the Orchards offramp to get to De Doorns.
On Wednesday morning, there were reports of stones being thrown at cars by protesters in Wolseley. Mostert said no casualties were reported. – Sapa