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I was outraged to read in a recent budget newsletter that the Huntington Public Library board has decided to close the main branch on Fridays at 6 p.m., three hours early, starting in July. This plan is part of the proposed budget for 2013-14.
On March 15, I received an email to announce a meeting of the board on March 19 to discuss the proposed budget -- a meeting I could not attend on such short notice. The vote on the 2013-14 budget is set for April 16, too soon to hear any reasonable objections from taxpayers.
The board says it chose not to exceed the New York State tax levy cap of 2 percent, and it cites the financial challenges of participating in the state employee retirement system, rising health care costs and increasing contractual salary obligations for its employees as the main reasons for the budgetary difficulty. This is surprising because of the recently proposed plans to renovate the library, a building that was extensively and expensively renovated in 1998, and which seems more than adequate for the average user.
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If Bud Selig's new round of playoff expansion is motivated by another sinister and unstated goal — to give the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox more chances to win the World Series — the honchos at Major League Baseball probably ought to think of another way.
By checking regular-season win-loss records since 1995, the overlords would find that the Red Sox and Yankees would have made the playoffs only one additional time each because of an extra wild card spot. Both of those instances came in the past three years — the Red Sox this season and the Yankees in '08.
On two other occasions, the Red Sox finished with the best record among non-playoff teams, but would have needed tiebreakers to make the playoffs. And only one other AL East team — the 1998 Toronto Blue Jays — would have benefited from a second wild card spot.
So, the Yankees and Red Sox franchises in this way aren't much different from the Angels, Indians and Athletics; those teams "missed out" on two AL playoff spots apiece since '95.
But you know who really got shorted? Your reigning World Series champion San Francisco Giants, that's who. The Gi'nts would have made the playoffs four more times (including 2009) if the National League had offered a second wild card spot.
Four times! So the commissioner simply is scheming to get the Giants into the playoffs more often — I knew it! Joking aside, how else would life have been different had Selig instituted two wild cards in 1995 instead of waiting 15 years to propose lending a rope to a second wild card team?
• The recent division tiebreakers in the AL Central would have been unaffected; The Minnesota Twins and Detroit Tigers in '09 and the Twins and Chicago White Sox in '08 would have gone to a 163rd, winner-take-all game regardless.
• The 1995 Los Anaheim California Angels would have made the playoffs despite the epic collapse that opened the door for the Seattle Mariners' magical run to the ALCS.
• The 1998 tiebreaker between the Chicago Cubs and Giants would have been unnecessary because both teams would've received berths. Same goes for the 2007 tiebreaker between the San Diego Padres and the Colorado Rockies. No need to slide face-first, Matt Holliday(notes)!
• The Philadelphia Phillies would be on a streak of six postseason appearances because they would have earned entry to both the 2005 and 2006 postseasons.
• The Mariners might have as many as four more playoff appearances; They would have made it in 2003, and would have been part of ties three other times, including a three-way-tie in 1996 with the Red Sox and White Sox. It would have been amusing to see how MLB figured a way through that.
• Don't like the idea of another second-place team making the playoffs? Well, at least seven third-place teams would have found their way into the playoffs with the fifth-best record in the league — '98 Blue Jays, '02 Dodgers, '06 White Sox, '07 Padres, '08 Yankees, '09 Giants and '10 Red Sox.
• Sorry Cubs! The Cubs would not have been helped by another wild card, not one bit. (Although the '95 Cubs would have won the old NL East title under the old four-division format. So there's that.)
• The 1996 Montreal Expos would have had a chance to right the wrongs of 1994.
There are plenty of other neat "what-ifs?" The ripples of possible change to history would be infinite, though we must acknowledge that things may have played out differently if an actual race for a second wild card spot were going on at the time.
But just judging from records, here's the complete list of teams that would have made it:
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Objectives Edit
Ulfang has asked you to collect the Eyes of the Eagle. Return to him in disguise in the Rivenwood after you have done so.
If you somehow lose the [Worg Disguise], return to Watcher Moonleaf for a replacement.
Description Edit
Garwal hides himself behind an unnatural magic. None can see him unless he wants you to. There may be one chance we can take, though.
My enemy, the great eagle, Talonshrike, is said to have eyes that can see anything. If you were to take her eyes, then you would surely be able to see Garwal.
Talonshrike keeps her nest at the base of a waterfall just to the southwest of the vrykul place called Skorn. If you touch the eggs in her nest, she will come down from the sky to kill you.
Get her eyes.
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You have the eyes of the eagle?
Completion Edit
<Ulfang howls loudly at your defeat of his great eagle enemy.>
The honor of the kill is yours. I wish that it had been my maw to finally close upon her neck.
Let us not waste the sacrifice that she has made for us. Here, eat them!
Notes Edit
Follow the road all the way down to Whisper Gulch. Immediately before crossing the north-south bridge just east of the gulch, take a left and run down the hill towards the waterfall. Talonstrike's nest is located at [41.4, 37.7].
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Hail to the Chief (And His Massive Cargo Planes)
Preparations for U.S. President George W. Bush's arrival in Israel this Wednesday have moved into high gear. Five enormous C-17 cargo planes carrying mainly security equipment for the visit are scheduled to land at Ben-Gurion International Airport today, Haaretz has learned. The cargo includes armored cars, and helicopters that will escort the president throughout his visit to Israel.
Bush will be welcomed at the airport Wednesday with an official state ceremony, which will follow the same format as the one held in honor of his previous visit a few months ago. A dress rehearsal for the ceremony will take place tomorrow.
Bleachers will be erected for invitees to the welcome ceremony, who include Israeli ministers, police commissioner, Israel Defense Forces chief of staff, Supreme Court president, chief rabbis and other VIPs.
The planned etiquette includes a trumpet fanfare preceding Bush's exit from the presidential jet, Air Force One and an IDF honor guard. The IDF band will play the national anthems of both countries.
Bush tops the list of some 20 former and current world leaders scheduled to arrive this week in Israel for events marking the country's 60th birthday. These include: former British prime minister Tony Blair, who is already in Israel; former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev; former German foreign minister Joschka Fischer; and former U.S. secretary of state Henry Kissinger.
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Don't say that University is a waste of time! Sometimes, through all the reading and studying, you actually learn practical applications for running a successful business. In my 3rd year Advertising course, I learned about implementing a successful IMC strategy. IMC in this case stands for Integrated Marketing Communications. Just think of some of the best brands out there: Coca Cola, McDonald's, Intel, Mac, Nike... the list goes on and on. You don't even need to see their name, sometimes all you need is their colours or fonts and you automatically think of them!
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Skipton is 'undermined by parking piranhas'
9:00am Thursday 20th February 2014
9:00am Thursday 20th February 2014
Traffic wardens have been accused of acting like "piranhas hunting in a goldfish bowl".
The claim comes from county and district councillor Robert Heseltine who is concerned about the "strange" enforcement of traffic regulations on Skipton High Street setts.
Over recent weeks, numerous tickets have been issued to motorists who have taken advantage of the non-appearance of traders on market days and parked on the setts.
North Yorkshire County Council – which is responsible for enforcement – says the wardens have no discretion.
But, Coun Heseltine claims the wardens turn a blind eye to traders' vans that are parked on double yellow lines all day. "This is clear discrimination," he added.
Now, he has called for a "full and comprehensive" review of the regulations by the council's Craven Area Committee when it meets on March 13.
"I am proposing that on market days any market pitch which is not occupied by its tenant by 9.30am is available for free parking for the rest of the day," said Coun Heseltine.
He said the problems were an "unwanted, unreasonable and unwarranted consequence" of the decriminalisation of parking. It had given responsibility for enforcement to the county council, which had contracted the task to Harrogate Borough Council.
"The image of our market town is being very seriously and consistently undermined and damaged by the Harrogate officers with their strange interpretation of parking on the High Street setts on market days, "It appears that market traders have a dispensation from the enforcement officers to park all day on the setts, but when any other vehicles, whose occupants are either shopping or doing business in the town, are on the setts on market days they are immediately served with a contravention ticket and fined."
A spokesman for North Yorkshire County Council said: "Civil parking enforcement is about the enforcement of parking restrictions and it is important that this enforcement is undertaken in a consistent manner.
"The Traffic Regulation Order for Skipton Market Place prohibits all vehicles from parking in the reserved area on market days and this is signed in accordance with the appropriate legislation.
"There is no scope for local discretion in terms of civil enforcement officers deciding when and when not to enforce restrictions and in any case this would lead to confusion among motorists.
"The only exception to this is that it has been agreed with the town council, who manage the market, that on market days when there are high winds traders can park their vehicles adjacent to their stalls to protect them from the wind."
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North Loup-Scotia Public School
Greeley Wolbach and North Loup Scotia have entered into an interlocal academic agreement for the 2013-2014 season. Music classes have been combined, meaning the bands also have combined. The two schools remain separate entities however.
School Mascot: Wildcats
School Colors: Black/White
When was your school founded? 1959
Is your school consolidated? Yes
When did it consolidate? 1959
With what other towns? North Loup, Scotia and Coresfield
How many people live in your town? North Loup: 320-ish, Scotia: 300-ish
How many years has your band been attending the Harvest of Harmony? 54
What songs will the band be playing this year? "Party Rock Anthem
Queen Candidate: Robin Hermsmeyer from Scotia
Drum Majors or Majorettes: Miranda Essman from North Loup
Band Director: Leslie Essman and Mark Hiebner (combined bands)
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British Maxi Pad Company Tells Men The Truth About Periods
Women hate menstrual product commercials. They're embarrassing to watch and they are such nonsense. But it turns out, there is a perfectly good reason why period product commercials look the way they look. I caution you, gentlemen, you're about to learn the cold, hard facts about women's periods.


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Kate Gosselin's Daughters Say She is 'Annoying,' Teens Defend Reality TV
Kate Gosselin and her brood of eight children earned international fame on TLC's "Jon and Kate Plus 8" in 2006, and now, seven years later, the Gosselin kids are speaking up.
TLC's reality series about the unique family even survived the Gosselin parents' divorce in 2009 when the show became just "Kate Plus 8."
However, many viewers chastised the Gosselins for exploiting their children for fame and fortune.
Taking aim at critics this week are two of the Gosselin children themselves. The two eldest children of the Pennsylvania family, twins Cara and Mady, opened up about their childhoods in the spotlight while speaking to People magazine.
As it turns out, the twin girls are much like teenagers everywhere who find their parents "annoying."
"People expect us to be damaged," said Cara, according to People.
"They think we're supposed to be so messed up, like, 'ooh, the poor Gosselin kids, they're going to be scarred for life, waaaah,'" Mady added.
"It's so false, we're fine," Cara chimed in. "We're better than ever, actually."
The twin sisters were born six minutes apart and share six younger siblings- sextuplets who are nine years old.
"Kate Plus 8" stopped filming in 2011, but Cara and Mady updated readers on their family, including their 38-year-old mother.
"She is so annoying," Mady said, according to People.
Cara went on that their mom was "annoying on purpose."
"Like, she does it just to bother us," the teen said of her mother, who appeared on "Dancing With The Stars" in 2010.
Getting more specific, the twin girls described how their mother gets under their skin.
"Like, she says 'spensive.' I'm like, 'Mom, it's ex-pensive," Mady explained. "Spensive isn't a word! Stop it!'"
Cara added, "She totally does that just to annoy us."
Meanwhile, Kate and her ex-husband Jon Gosselin remain contentious over their reality television series and have publicly feuded about the "development" of their eight children.


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Mossi Johnson thought he would play quarterback this season but in Los Angeles Crenshaw's first game he was at wide receiver and he could move to running back.
On defense, the 6-foot-1, 170-pound recruit played linebacker and safety.
Johnson, who looked outstanding as a wide receiver this summer at the B2G Elite Camp, plans to be used as a jack-of-all-trades this season and he's fine with it as long as he can make good things happen for his team.
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"I was happy with how I played in the first game," Johnson said. "I was also happy with how my teammates played, too.
"Finally we got to play and show what we practice for. We had a reason to practice and it came out well for us."
UNLV has offered Johnson, a three-star prospect by Rivals.com after he was arguably one of the top two receivers at the B2G camp this summer.
Arizona State had been showing more interest and Johnson said he remains in contact with the coaching staff but it's not too serious yet.
No other programs are involved with the Los Angeles Crenshaw standout. He's hoping after a few more strong performances in the coming weeks that more schools will get involved.
It's unknown whether switching positions all the time is a plus or minus to his recruitment but Johnson is focused on helping his team out and he's willing to do whatever it takes to win.
"I want to wait a couple more games and then I'll plan some visits," Johnson said.
"I might just switch from receiver to running back. I played running back last year but we don't know what to expect this year."
Johnson and his Crenshaw team won't be short of exposure. The next few opponents on the schedule include powerhouses Norco, Calif., Westlake Village (Calif.) Westlake, Fresno (Calif.) Edison and Westlake Village (Calif.) Oaks Christian.


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I tried to resist. I really did.
As someone who has never played an Animal Crossing game before, I couldn't fathom the appeal of Animal Crossing: New Leaf, the cheery town simulator for the Nintendo 3DS that has shot the handheld gaming device to the top of the sales charts.
"So let me get this straight," I said to my friends who implored me to give the game a try. "You run a cutesy little town full of talking animals, and you have to catch bugs and plant trees and decorate your house and send people letters? That sounds fantastic… if you're a seven-year-old girl."
Eventually my curiosity got the better of me, and I hopped on New Leaf's virtual train to Megaton, the town I named in honour of Fallout 3, a grown-up game for grown-up people. Once there, I assumed the mantle of mayor. I bought a house. I fished. I caught bugs. I dug up fossils, shopped for clothes and painstakingly rearranged the furniture in my house until I was happy with the look and layout.
Somehow, I was hooked.
Although New Leaf came out in early June, it's a game that defies a timely review. You don't blow through Animal Crossing in a few days and then put it away; it can last for months or even years, with an ever-evolving town, events tied to real-world holidays and seasons that change according to the calendar.
In fact having "only" played it for a few weeks, I feel like it's too soon to really talk about New Leaf as a whole, as there's tons of stuff I've yet to discover. But since there might be other cynical souls who immediately dismiss it as too childish, the word needs to be spread.
Yes, it's goofy and sweet and charming and silly. But you'd surprised what an amazingly refreshing break that can be from the pile of grim, bloody shooters and such that clog up our gaming arteries.
New Leaf offers some nifty online social features, like allowing you to visit friends' towns to hang out with them, undertake co-op challenges or simply raid their trees for exotic fruit to sell back home. And by enabling the game's StreetPass feature, you can download other players' houses when they're nearby, using this collection of virtual homes as a catalogue from which to order furniture and other cool items.
And that's where New Leaf really sinks its fuzzy claws into you: it offers the constant carrot of a bigger house, a new town project, a fresh gameplay mechanic or simply a cooler collectible that you didn't even know existed before that day.
My only regret is that New Leaf exists in this information-saturated era we live in. Armed with Google, it's easy to learn every surprise, catalogue every item and plot every strategy for success. But don't do that, OK? The less you know about Animal Crossing: New Leaf – even if it means asking friends not to spoil developments coming to your town in the weeks ahead – the more fun it is.
And it is fun, I swear. Stop resisting. Cast aside your doubts. Get on that train. You'll thank me later. Possibly even years from now.


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Slaughter and May's ultra-conservative policy of turning its back on globalisation has served the firm very well, but Dominic Egan reports that its big five rivals say Slaughters needs more than a little help from its best friends on Wall Street to get by in the next decade.
The Slaughter and May creed has always been a simple one: God is an Englishman and Slaughter and May is the best firm in the world. Foreigners and heretics can scoff all they want. The fact remains that Slaughters has more than its fair share of the best lawyers, the best clients and the best work.
And then there's the money. According to 1999's The Lawyer 100, Slaughters' partners remain the highest-earning solicitors in the country. In the last financial year, they enjoyed average profits per partner of £728,000 and top-of-the-equity earnings of £950,000.
That's not bad for a firm that continues to run itself almost as if the last 30 years had never happened. Although it now has 109 partners, Slaughters still conducts itself much like it did when it was a mere fraction of the size. It has virtually no management structure, partners still enjoy an enviable level of freedom in the way they choose to run their practices and, most remarkable of all, the firm has never bothered to develop a strategy beyond the basic principle of playing to its established strengths.
But that's the way the partners like it. They do not want the firm to change. They know they are on to a good thing and are determined to keep hold of it for as long as they can.
In the light of Slaughters' continuing financial success, the partnership's refusal to move with the times may well prove justified. However, the decision to sit tight while its rivals are merging with foreign firms and investing heavily in globalisation is one of the most crucial Slaughters has ever made.
The firm's future is at stake. Given their apparent inaction at this crucial time, just how will Slaughters' partners of today be judged by their successors tomorrow?
There is something quintessentially English about Slaughters. "They are a bunch of wacky, extremely talented guys," smiles a partner with a leading City firm. "They have a wonderful gentlemanly approach. They are so patrician! They really do wear double-breasted, chalk-striped suits, the stuff that nobody's been seen dead in – certainly east of Temple Bar – in the last 10 years."
And because the partners have refused to adopt modern forms of management the firm resembles a set of chambers, with partners being trusted to build and run their own practices and intrusion from central management kept to a bare minimum.
And there is no managing partner. Senior partner Giles Henderson plays the role of roving ambassador, working quietly behind the scenes to resolve conflicts and achieve consensus.
Henderson is one of the 10 members of a partnership board that meets monthly. He tends to hold informal meetings with practice area heads once a fortnight. However, the overriding principle is that meetings should be avoided unless there is an obvious necessity.
Despite the lack of a dominant management structure, the partnership remains a remarkably cohesive unit. Slaughters' partners would argue that the firm's highly tolerant culture militates against destructive splits. However, an equally important factor is an extremely conservative partnership selection process.
A very high percentage of Slaughters' partners did their articles with the firm and no lateral hire has ever been given a partnership immediately. Thus, by the time they make it to the top, partners are well and truly imbued with the firm's ethos.
Furthermore, those who are eventually chosen are never going to rock the Slaughters boat. Wacky eccentrics may be welcome, but genuine mavericks certainly are not.
Conservative it may be, but the Slaughters formula has worked wonderfully well. The foundations of Slaughters' success are no secret – it enjoys an unbeatable combination of innovative legal minds, top-quality lawyers and the strongest corporate practice in the country.
"It has more than its share of rocket scientists, but also more than its fair share of seriously impressive players, certainly in the corporate area," states a partner with a big five firm.
Indeed, he admits: "If I was running a large industrial company or a pensions fund, I'd go there rather than anywhere else."
Slaughters not only has more FTSE 100 clients than any other firm, it enjoys a remarkable degree of loyalty from them. As a lawyer with a major rival puts it, the refrain among many clients is: "You would be negligent not to use Slaughters."
And the firm's long-standing relationships with a string of leading legal practices all around the world – and in the US in particular – have always ensured a steady flow of top-quality referral work. Slaughters also used to enjoy extremely close ties with various merchant banks. However, takeovers and the unstoppable rise of the US investment banks have weakened its position in recent years.
Another important, but not so well-known, factor in keeping Slaughters at the top of the profits tables is the fact that the firm is run along extremely tight financial lines. With 109 partners responsible for 491 other fee-earners, the firm's leverage ratio is 1:4.5. And Slaughters' assistants and trainees certainly work hard for their money, being thrown in at the deep end from an early age, often with minimal partner supervision.
As the most profitable practice area, the corporate department, which has 61 partners and 215 other fee-earners in the London office, utterly dominates the firm. All other departments exist merely to service corporate and are kept as small as possible so that they do not become too much of a financial burden.
Nor is Slaughters particularly renowned for spending its money. The firm could never be accused of being at the cutting edge when it comes to investing in new technology and, for a practice of its standing, has some extremely tired-looking offices. Indeed, the London partners and staff are currently spread out over four buildings near Moorgate. The firm will finally move to a nearby single office site at Bunhill Row in 2002.
There are many who believe that it is the partners' reluctance to put their hands in their pockets that drives Slaughters' international strategy – or, to be more precise, lack of strategy.
"They're very profitable," says a partner with one of Slaughters' big five rivals. "They don't grow, but their bank accounts do swell."
The partners at Allen & Overy, Clifford Chance, Freshfields and Linklaters have all had to suffer the financial consequences of their firms' heavy investment in foreign offices. The partners at Slaughters, by comparison, have got off lightly. The firm has just five foreign offices, none of which is huge and some of which are tiny (see box 1). When its Frankfurt and Tokyo operations failed to meet expectations, Slaughters simply pulled the plug.
Rather than follow the same route as its four main rivals, Slaughters has chosen to develop what it calls a best friends strategy, allying itself to a highly impressive group of firms around the world (see box 2). Crucially, they include the top five on Wall Street and Hengeler Mueller Weitzel Wirtz, one of the premier German firms.
However, no commitments have been made. The friends may choose to refer work to each other and share information, but are not under any obligation to. The one crucial principle is that no friend should compete directly with another in its jurisdiction.
The loosest of associations, it is hard to take best friends too seriously. At first glance, it looks suspiciously like an international, upmarket version of the defunct Norton Rose M5 Group, an enterprise that singularly failed to take the English legal market by storm. The best friends strategy is surely no more than an attempt by Slaughters to take out a little insurance against a rainy day by improving its relations with some top-quality firms.
"It's now very, very close to Hengeler," says the managing partner of a big five firm. "If the ground is taken out from under its current strategy, it could be in bed with a lot worse than Hengeler." However, he has major reservations about Slaughters' policy.
"The best friends strategy is based on the premise that there will always be a high-quality independent around to do your work, who is not conflicted," he says. "And that's a pretty risky strategy. You can already see how that strategy simply will not work in certain countries."
Some of the best names in the Dutch and French legal markets are currently in turmoil, he says.
"I'm not saying they're under terminal threat, but they've been rocked by what has happened. They've down-sized, they've lost lots of able partners," he says.
"You can't compare all markets and say what has happened in The Netherlands and France will definitely happen in Germany, for example. But in nearly all markets in Europe now there are similar moves and there are very few quality candidates left who are still independent."
Turning to the critically important US market, Slaughters seems on safer ground. Given the size of its domestic market and its vastly superior profitability, it looks highly unlikely that the top Wall Street firms will be entering into international mergers in the foreseeable future. However, a partner with a big five City firm insists that Slaughters has misread the market.
"Increasingly, the US general counsel of a US-based multinational with business interests in Europe doesn't just have business interests in the UK," he says. "He has business interests across Europe. He's not looking for good law firms in London, Paris and Amsterdam to help him with his problems. He's looking for a one-stop shop – an international law firm, probably based in London, perhaps in Brussels, that can offer him solutions to European problems, not just a solution relating to individual inquiries of the UK business."
But the real problem with Slaughters' strategy goes much deeper than that. "The bottom line is you cannot be a leading player in London in 10 years time solely off the back of referrals from kindly friends on Wall Street," states a partner at a big five firm. "It is just not a strategy for growth. It's not a strategy for credibility."
Up to now, credibility has not been high on Slaughters' list of priorities. The firm has never been one to court journalists. Indeed, it has never employed even a single marketing or PR specialist. As a result, its relations with the legal press could at best be described as cool. Thus it came as no surprise when Henderson declined to talk to The Lawyer for this article.
However, the firm can no longer afford to ignore its public image. Law students are a lot more sophisticated these days and a far greater volume of information is now available to them. Many are highly suspicious of Slaughters' strategy and want to know why it differs so greatly from that of the other members of the big five.
Slaughters is clearly concerned about this. It has recently taken the somewhat extreme measure of bussing Oxbridge students to London to meet Hengeler Mueller partners and to talk about the two firms' international strategy. But is that really going to be enough?
The best young lawyers want to be with a firm that is exciting, one that they feel is going somewhere. Allen & Overy, Clifford Chance, Freshfields and Linklaters may not have all the answers, but they are clearly building for the long term. Many of their current partners will never see the fruits of the investment they are funding.
"We're not just trying to shape our own destiny," says a partner at one of those firms. "We're also trying to shape the destiny of the next generation of people who run this firm. We're not thinking entirely of ourselves."
At Slaughters, too great an emphasis has been placed for too long on short-term profitability and preserving the firm's culture. It is still a great law firm with a reputation that is second to none. But is it a better firm than it was 10 or even 20 years ago?
Slaughters' current crop of partners have been dealt a difficult hand. It is much too late now to start building an international network. However, they cannot afford to do nothing. So long as they continue with their current strategy, their destiny lies not in their own hands but in those of their powerful friends on Wall Street. A firm of Slaughters' stature and pride surely does not want to end up playing second fiddle to US lawyers. After all, isn't this the best law firm in the world?
Slaughters. The year so far
Linklaters and Freshfields top M&A league tables for Europe and Asia 17 January 2000
Claire Smith reports on a year of mixed fortunes for UK firms, after the release of figures on deals in Europe and Asia.
Linklaters & Alliance and Freshfields have knocked the US law firms off the top spot for European merger and acquisition work, announcing more deals than the US firms in the last year.
But, according to figures released by Thomson Financial Securities Data, Slaughter and May has recorded a disappointing year, slipping out of the top 10 ranking for European deals.
The fact that Linklaters and Freshfields are advising the major players in Vodafone AirTouch's hostile $149bn (£90.5bn) bid for Mannesmann – until last week the biggest deal ever announced – is said by some to be partly responsible for their performance. Linklaters is acting for Vodafone, Freshfields for Mannesmann.
Drugs giants merger fees may hit £30m 24 January 2000
Slaughter and May and Linklaters & Alliance could earn an estimated £30m in fees from the merger of drugs giants SmithKline Beecham and Glaxo Wellcome.
The £114bn merger is one of the world's largest.
SmithKline Beecham and Glaxo Wellcome are long-term clients of Linklaters and Slaughters respectively.
Slaughters' seven-strong team is led by corporate partners Robert Stern and Michael Pescod. The other partners on the team are Malcolm Nicholson (competition), Howard Nowlan (tax), Eddie Codrington (share schemes) and Howard Jacobs (employment).
Slaughters acts in Blue Circle battle 07 February 2000
Slaughter and May is being thrown into the fray to defend Blue Circle against a hostile takeover bid from French firm Lafarge.
Blue Circle is fighting off a £3.4bn debt and equity bid from the buildings materials business, which the UK cement maker has condemned as 'unsolicited and unwelcome'.
William Underhill, corporate partner at Slaughters, who is heading a team of five lawyers at the firm, says: 'In these situations there is no time for preparation and the response must be made quickly but accurately.'
Slaughters and A&O fail to make top table
14 February 2000
Slaughter and May and Allen & Overy have not been included in a global league of deals for 1999.
US firms dominate the table, which is based on deal value, but magic circle firms Freshfields, Linklaters & Alliance and Clifford Chance make it into the top 20.
The only other UK firm included in the table for leading legal advisers in worldwide M&A is Norton Rose, which is ranked in sixteenth place.
New York practice Simpson Thacher & Bartlett tops the table after working on 26.1 per cent of all deals during 1999.
Clifford Chance is ranked eleventh with $390bn (£242bn) worth of deals. Norton Rose, which acted for Mannesmann in the Vodafone bid, did $273bn (£170bn) worth of deals last year.
But City stalwart Slaughter and May, which has consistently resisted the creep of globalisation, does not figure in the tables.
Slaughters corporate partner Patrick Balfour denies that his firm has fallen behind. He says: 'Year on year firms go up and down the tables and I don't think that globalisation is just led by your ranking on a league table.'
Magic circle firms top charts among leading corporates
21 February 2000
Magic circle firms are pulling away from the rest of the pack when it comes to corporate finance work, according to a survey.
Slaughter and May, Linklaters, Freshfields, Clifford Chance and Allen & Overy were ranked one to five in the Consensus' Annual Broker Survey of more than 200 corporate finance clients.
The companies surveyed were asked to rate their three favourite firms in order of preference. The popularity ranking of each firm was then presented as a percentage.
But the survey showed a huge disparity in popularity even within the top five firms.
Slaughter and May was more than twice as favoured by corporate finance clients than Allen & Overy – scoring 19 per cent of votes in the popularity stakes in comparison with A&O's 9 per cent.
Linklaters scored 17 per cent, Freshfields 16 per cent and Clifford Chance 11 per cent.
Slaughters makes play for best friend in Paris
21 February 2000
Slaughter and May is grooming leading Parisian practice Bredin Prat to become its first French best friend.
Head of corporate Nigel Boardman says the firm has been talking to a variety of French operations, but adds that negotiations with other firms are now over.
'The relationship with Bredin Prat is much further ahead. We have met them and have talked about how we can work with them. We are developing a close working relationship.'
Although Boardman rules out immediately entering into a 'playground pact' with the practice, he says it could be a possibility in the long-term.
Bredin Prat partner Elena Baxter says: 'Slaughter and May is a prime example of the kind of firm we want and we have got to know a lot of the partners there very well.'
Insurers stick with CC and Slaughters 28 February 2000
Clifford Chance and Slaughter and May have been chosen to advise on CGU's merger with Norwich Union announced last week.
The decision sees both firms retain their regular corporate instructions from the insurance giants – Clifford Chance for CGU and Slaughters for Norwich Union.
Norwich Union says its current panel review, which includes an investigation into possible overcharging for bulk litigation work, had no effect on its choice of Slaughters for the deal.
'There is a review under way but for a merger of this size there is really only very few firms who can handle it,' says a Norwich Union spokesman. 'We saw no reason not to stick with Slaughters.'
The £19bn merger will create the UK's biggest provider of general insurance.
Slaughters' legal team will be headed by Glen James, with corporate partner Adam Signy taking on the same role for Clifford Chance. Slaughters corporate partner Jonathan Marks says the firm has a team of 15 lawyers to work full-time on the merger, including corporate partner Tim Clark, tax partner Howard Nowlan, EC competition partners Malcolm Nicholson and William Sibree and pensions/employment partner Jonathan Fenn.
'We expect to achieve completion by early June. There are many regulatory hurdles to overcome before we can proceed,' he says.
UK firms advise on Cap Gemini merger 06 March 2000
Linklaters and Slaughter and May are handling the merger of French management consultants Cap Gemini with Ernst & Young's consultancy arm.
Corporate partner Richard Godden is leading the Linklaters team, which is advising Ernst & Young on UK and French matters. Cleveland firm Jones Day Reavis & Pogue is representing Ernst & Young on US matters.
Slaughters company partner Christopher Saul is advising Cap Gemini on UK matters.


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WASHINGTON – A new analysis from Avalere Health released Tuesday found that consumers in exchanges receiving federal assistance to reduce their out-of-pocket costs may experience inconsistent reductions in spending depending on the plan they choose. Specifically, the data show broad differences in how issuers amend plan designs to meet cost-sharing requirements for those receiving cost-sharing reductions. While almost all plans reduce deductibles and out-of-pocket caps in CSR plans, many plans do not lower cost-sharing for other treatments and services, particularly specialty drugs.
"Many people assume that the lowest-income exchange enrollees will have reduced cost-sharing across all services, but the reality is quite different," said Caroline Pearson, VP Avalere Health. "While all plans must have reduced out-of-pocket limits for individuals earning less than 250% of poverty, how consumers will reach those limits differ significantly. For example, consumers may not experience reduced cost-sharing amounts for drugs or physician visits in many plans."
Avalere also found that average maximum out-of-pocket limits in CSR plans are lower than those required by the Affordable Care Act. Specifically, among 87% AV CSR plans, the average out-of-pocket limit is $450 (or 20%) lower than required, while among 94% AV CSR plans, the average out-of-pocket maximum is $1,140 (or 22%) less.
"Issuers will continue to have flexibility in how they design cost sharing reduction plans in 2015," said Dan Mendelson, CEO Avalere Health. "Looking ahead, consumers who qualify for cost-sharing reductions should look closely at how the plan benefit is structured because it could have a major impact on their actual out-of-pocket costs."


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By Cash Michaels for The Chronicle
Posted October 15, 2015
Female members of NAACP chapters from across North Carolina expressed concerns about the legislative record of Sen. Richard Burr last week, charging that the North Carolina Republican, who is up for reelection in 2016, has a record that shows "a disregard and disrespect for the value of women in North Carolina."
Flanked by N.C. NAACP President Rev. Dr. William Barber II, members of the organization WIN (Women In the NAACP) and other members attending the three-day state convention in Winston-Salem on Friday, Oct. 9, Executive Director Rev. Michelle Laws charged that Sen. Burr has repeatedly stood in the way of women's issues.
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On 7th February 2014, the Belgian federal government issued a press release declaring that the draft Royal Decree creating a Belgian register for nanomaterials has been approved. The Royal Decree would enter into force on 1st January 2016 for substances manufactured at the nanoscale and on 1st January 2017 for preparations containing a substance or substances manufactured at the nanoscale. We provide here an overview of this future Belgian nano register and some suggestions to be ready for the 2016 and 2017 deadlines.Posted: Sep 3rd, 2014
Researchers have demonstrated the experimental realization of the first all-carbon optical diode that is ready for scalable integration along with being inherently broadband in operation with no restrictions on polarization or phase-matching criteria. As they show, harnessing the optical properties of graphene-based materials offers an opportunity to create the all-photonic analogs of diodes, transistors, and photonic logic gates that will one day enable construction of the first all-photonic computer.Posted: Sep 1st, 2014
Gene transcription is tightly regulated by proteins called transcription factors. These transcription factor (TF) proteins are master regulators of transcriptional activity and gene expression. Transcription factors are responsible for transcribing the correct genes and therefore for producing the right quantity of proteins. TF-based gene regulation is a promising approach for many biological applications, however, several limitations hinder the full potential of TFs. To overcome these problems, an international team of researchers has developed an artificial, nanoparticle-based transcription factor, termed NanoScript, which is designed to mimic the structure and function of TFs.Posted: Aug 28th, 2014
Nanotechnology applications are currently being researched, tested and in some cases already applied across the entire spectrum of food technology, from agriculture to food processing, packaging and food supplements. Specifically in agriculture, technical innovation is of importance with regard to addressing global challenges such as population growth, climate change and the limited availability of important plant nutrients. Nanotechnology applied to agricultural production could play a fundamental role for this purpose and research on agricultural applications is ongoing for largely a decade by now.Posted: Aug 25th, 2014
Nanotechnology, specifically nanomaterial engineering, has begun to find applications in agriculture and the food industry. Some nanomaterials have unique physicochemical properties that can be exploited for beneficial effects on foods, leading to increased shelf life, enhanced flavor release, and increased absorption of nutrients and other bioactive components. The ability to detect and to measure a given nanomaterial at key time points in the food lifecycle is critical for estimating the nanoscale properties of interest that dictate manufacturing consistency and safety, as well as understanding potential beneficial or adverse effects from food intercalation.Posted: Aug 22nd, 2014
The capillarity-driven uptake of liquids by porous solids can be experienced in daily life, e.g., when a sponge or fabric absorbs water. This spontaneous imbibition or capillary rise phenomenon is also one of the most vivid manifestations of the capillarity of liquids: surface tension. Researchers have now demonstrated a strategy for achieving control over the imbibition kinetics. They show that this process can be switched on and off reversibly when nanoporous gold takes the role of the sponge and an electric potential is used to control the surface tension.Posted: Aug 20th, 2014
Researchers have demonstrated an active glucose-responsive self-powered fluidic pump based on transesterification reaction of acyclic diol boronate with glucose. The scientific principle of the project is to use well-known glucose/boronate chemistry to design a self-powered micropump device. Instead of synthesizing some new molecules with glucose/boronate reaction, a miniature pump utilizes the energy of this chemical reaction and pumps drugs when glucose levels are high.Posted: Aug 19th, 2014
Cytosine (C) modifications such as 5-methylcytosine (mC) and 5-hydroxymethylcytosine (hmC) are important epigenetic markers associated with gene expression and tumorigenesis. However, bisulfite conversion, the gold standard methodology for mC mapping, can not distinguish mC and hmC bases. Recent studies have demonstrated hmC detection via peptide recognizing, enzymes, fluorescence and hmC-specific antibodies - nevertheless, a method for directly discriminating C, mC and hmC bases without labeling, modification and amplification is still missing. New results demonstrate that single base of C, mC and hmC can be discriminated at the latch zone of a nanopore.Posted: Aug 15th, 2014


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Missing 7-Year-Old with Autism Found Dead Near D.C. Home
Police have found the body of Michael Kingsbury, a 7-year-old with autism who went missing near his D.C. home.
Police say he was found inside a locked car behind a short fence on private property just two apartment buildings down from where he lived.
D.C. police and dozens of recruits went going door-to-door in the Trinidad neighborhood where Kingsbury was last seen.
Michael's mother, Katrina Kingsbury, thanked the community for coming out to help with the search.
Many who helped look for the little boy just can't imagine how they missed him.
"We were there four times," said Gaston McVea, who was one of the dozens of people who helped search for Kingsbury after he disappeared. "That was our central location and somehow we missed this."
Questions — about how Kingsbury died and how police and neighbors missed him during their search, among others — remain; Assistant Police Chief Peter Newsham said at a briefing that answers are being sought, reports the Washington Post:
The owner of the car was not immediately identified. A police source said that investigators were talking with the owner.
Newsham said it was not clear when the boy had entered the car, and he declined to say where in the vehicle the boy had been found. However, two police sources who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the investigation is ongoing said the body was on the floor of a locked sedan.
Newsham said police were assessing their search, trying to determine whether they had previously looked into the vehicle. Two police sources said that at least one officer had searched the sedan. Newsham declined to confirm that account but said that police were looking into it.
D.C. police have not deemed Kingsbury's a death a homicide, but are not ruling out the possibility of foul play.


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TODAY'S FLOWER'S was created by our good friend Luiz Santilli Jr.
You can find beautiful and unusual flowers from all over the world by clicking here.
TODAY'S FLOWER'S was created by our good friend Luiz Santilli Jr.
You can find beautiful and unusual flowers from all over the world by clicking here.
Oh Yes, Denise! They definitely are flowers of the sea. The colors are gorgeous! Beautifully captured.ReplyDelete
Oh, glorious, wonderful sea garden! What a great choice.ReplyDelete
Amazing and beautiful captures!ReplyDelete
They are very beautiful - such amazing colours.ReplyDelete
thats so beautiful , looks like a gardenReplyDelete
Peaceful captures and it brings beauty to our hearts!
Thanks for sharing!
Hi Denise
Firstly many thanks for stopping by my blog, and hope you enjoyed it.
I have just taken a look through yours and enjoyed all the beautiful photo's.Especially the landscapes and the water plants.
So many thanks and I will visit again.
Great photographs, Denise. I would agree that they are flowers of the sea.ReplyDelete
Its certainly another world under the ocean.ReplyDelete
This is indeed a flower garden of the sea. What a great idea to show us these beautiful and varied anemones.ReplyDelete
What gorgeous colors and to think these are forever flowers. The fifth one down reminds me of a heart with fringes, very beautiful and thank you for sharing. Thank you also for coming by. Have a nice Sunday.ReplyDelete
Beautiful 'flowers of the sea' Denise... Love seeing them --and you took fabulous pictures.
Kay, thank you, so glad you enjoyed them.
Linda Reeder, appreciate the kind words.
corvedacosta, thank you also.
Regina, they are amazing aren't they?
Strawberry Jam Anne, indeed.
naveen, I thought so too.
Cezar and Léia, that's a great way to describe them. said...
Peaceful captures a
Monts, nice to see you here and thanks for the lovely comments.
Linda (PA_shutterbug), glad you enjoyed my 'flowers' :)
imac, I agree.
Carver, high praise :)
Margaret Cloud, I looked again and you're right. Have a nice Sunday too.
Betsy from Tennessee, thank you, so kind.
Oooh, those anemones are beautiful!ReplyDelete
My dear Denise, these anemones are really flowers of the sea.
Wonderful photos!
Great week to you!
This is an outstanding post! Very original and creative, and full of wonderful images!
By the way - I see you are one of the hosts of Today's Flowers. I accidentally entered the wrong link on Mr. Linky. So, I entered the correct link, but couldn't figure out how to delete the first entry. If you could delete the Misty's Words entry,I'd appreciate it.
Beautiful shots, the sea anemones are always my favorites at aquariums. They make a beautiful undersea 'garden'. Great choice for Today's Flowers.ReplyDelete
I am impressed with all these wonderful flowers of the sea. Thanks for sharing this post which is spectacular to me.ReplyDelete
those are such beautiful flowers.....
Gill in Canada
What a marvelous idea! I love these ... so many colorful varieties ... just lovely!
Hugs and blessings,
What a clever take on Today's Flowers!
They are gorgeous images that do indeed look like beautiful flowers!
Very nice shots!
Denise: An interesting idea for certain.ReplyDelete
Oh wow! What a wonderful choice for flowers, Denise. I never really thought of this! So pretty and colorful like the rainbow... beautifully done here!
Richard @ The Bewildered Brit, I thought so too :)
Rosamaria, hello my friend. Thank you and a great week to you too!
Misty Dawn, thank you. I will check on that for you.
SquirrelQueen, they are my favorites too. So happy you enjoyed them.
MedaM, you are so very welcome :)
Gill - That British Woman, thank you.
storyteller, so glad you liked them.
Carletta, thanks for the kind words.
This Is My Blog - fishing guy, thanks for stopping by.
Michele J, appreciate your kind words :)
I LOVE this post for Today's Flowers. And I've copied the soup recipe above. Thanks a ton. I also appreciate the tour of the Double Arches. I had no idea they were so huge.ReplyDelete
Wonderful post and yes they do look like flowers of the sea. Great captures and photos.ReplyDelete


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Internationally acclaimed award-winning author Lloyd Jones looks back at how rugby shaped his childhood, his worldview and his adult sensibilities. From childhood games in the suburbs of Wellington, to a reverence for the mythical members of the All Blacks, rugby provided a vast and complex sense of place.
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Curator Nan Rosenthal, 76, died Apr. 26th of heart failure in New York. Rosenthal is credited with making 20th-century art the subject of increased focus at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Born in New York in 1937, Rosenthal attended Sarah Lawrence College. She worked as a reporter for the New York Post, the London Evening Standard and the International Herald Tribune, and wrote for A.i.A. in the mid-1960s, before beginning graduate studies in art history. Specializing in post-WWII art, she earned a PhD from Harvard in 1976, and later served on the faculty of several institutions including Princeton University, New York University and the University of California, Santa Cruz.
In 1985, she became curator of 20th-century art at the National Gallery. During her eight years there, she organized critically acclaimed exhibitions such as "The Drawings of Jasper Johns" (1990), initiated the contemporary art lecture series "Conversations with Artists" and acquired works by figures such as Barnett Newman and Ad Reinhardt.
Rosenthal left the National Gallery in 1993 for the Met. As senior consultant of modern and contemporary art, she helped the museum acquire its first work by Johns. Over the course of her 15-year tenure there, she organized numerous exhibitions including "Willem de Kooning: Paintings" (1994); "Jackson Pollock: Early Sketchbooks and Drawings" (1997-98); "The Paintings of Judith Rothschild: An Artist's Search" (1998); and "Robert Rauschenberg: Combines" (2005-2006), retiring in 2008.


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Hello all,
I really reaching out on a limb here. I'm looking for a specif fabric and can't find it anywhere. I know it exist, I've seen pictures of it. lol. I'm looking for (I think it flannel) fabric that says ,"I love granpa". I have found plenty that say I love granme, but not grandpa. There is a place in california that is listed on the web, but I believe they went out of business. So any help would greatly be appreciated. I'm looking for two yards.
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Q. I have a Ford F-150 truck weighing more than 6,000 pounds and use it 100% of the time for business. Was the depreciation tax break for heavy vehicles like mine eliminated for 2012 as part of the fiscal cliff? S.C., via email
A. No. Under a special tax law provision, you can still claim depreciation deductions for a vehicle with gross vehicle weight rate (GVWR) above 6,000 pounds, regardless of the annual "luxury car" limits. The latest rules are covered in Rev. Proc. 2012-23. However, as of this writing, the IRS has not yet released Form 4562, Depreciation and Amortization (Including Information on Listed Property), for 2012 returns. It will be out soon.
Tip: Although this tax break may be eliminated in the future, any change isn't likely to be retroactive to 2012.


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One of the busiest people in Boonetown has to be the person charged with updating the volleyball region championship banner at North Central High School. Then again, the flag made of felt never collects a whole lot of dust.
Sometimes, you just can't win for losing.
If imitation is, indeed, the sincerest form of flattery, North Central's offense could see pressure coming from all across the field from the Timmonsville defense tonight when the nights make the trip to the Pee Dee for their second game of the season.
If this is how North Central plays when it is jittery, just think of what the Lady Knight volleyball team will do once it settles down.
Telling anyone who would listen that just because C.A. Johnson was a Columbia city school without a rich football history that the Hornets were not a "cupcake" opponent, North Central head coach Louis Clyburn has the naysayers believing him now.
Jamborees are hardly the occasion to show a conference opponent your playing hand. But after watching Buford grind its way to 50 yards in an 11-snap opening drive, North Central head coach Louis Clyburn had no other choice than to switch into game mode.
Michael Williamson has yet to take a snap in a high school junior varsity or varsity football game. In fact, he has yet to enter the hallways of North Central High School for a class.
Each day, millions of Americans pull up to a fast food restaurant intercom, place their order and moments later, their food and drinks are handed to them and they are off and back on the road again.
Willie Taylor manned so many different positions on defense during his four seasons at North Central that adding a new place to play in college does not faze him one bit.
Ask any student-athlete about what number they want to be in anything and, more than likely, the answer you get will be "first."
In a game in which second place in Region 3-AA was hanging in the balance, Fairfield Central answered Tyler Bowers' two-run blast in the top of the sixth by pushing across the tying and winning runs in the home portion of the inning to take a 3-2 win over visiting North Central.
Usually, people give you presents on your birthday. Monday night, birthday boy John Bowers gave a gift to the North Central baseball team and their fans.
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What part of "I don't like you" prompted you to show up at my door with a bottle of wine last night? I thought I was being quite clear when I told you over the phone less than a half-hour earlier that I have never liked you and—while I would not be mean to you when we come into contact in public—I in no way want to spend even a millisecond of my personal time anywhere in your vicinity. I realize that you are my brother's best friend, and as much as it sickens me, we will have to be in social situations together from time to time. But I truly dislike every inch of you, and I will never EVER change my mind about that. Now kindly take your wine with you when you leave and whine to someone else about how sorry you are. I have guests to entertain.
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PALO ALTO, Calif. - Anacor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:ANAC) announced that the company's Board of Directors has appointed Paul L. Berns, Anacor's Chairman of the Board of Directors, to assume the role of President and Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately. Mr. Berns succeeds David P. Perry who has served as Anacor's President and Chief Executive Officer since 2002.
Mr. Berns has over 20 years of industry experience as an executive in biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies. He most recently served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Allos Therapeutics prior to its acquisition by Spectrum Pharmaceuticals, Inc. in 2012.
"We appreciate David's commitment to Anacor and the many contributions he has made over the past 12 years to help build Anacor into the company it is today," said Paul Klingenstein, Chair of the Nominating and Governance Committee of the Anacor Board. "We are delighted to have attracted a proven leader of Paul's capabilities to assume the role of CEO for the next phase of Anacor's growth. Having served as Chairman, Paul has a deep knowledge of Anacor's management team, strategy, partners and development pipeline, thus enabling a smooth transition. Additionally, Paul's significant commercial and product development experience, combined with his strategic and business development expertise, makes him ideally suited to lead Anacor as we seek to achieve our goals."
"I am honored to lead Anacor at a time when it has a number of promising product candidates," commented Mr. Berns. "We await action by the FDA this summer on our Kerydin NDA and look forward to launching pivotal studies of AN2728 in mild-to-moderate atopic dermatitis patients. We are encouraged by the progress of our lead programs and are confident in our financial strength and commercialization prospects. I look forward to working closely with the Company's talented team as we continue to make progress on the next steps for Kerydin and the ongoing development of AN2728."


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Truck show Saturday at Heisler's Dairy Bar
A truck show held in memory of Logan Farr will take place tomorrow at Heisler's Cloverleaf Dairy in Walker Township. The event is free to spectators. Farr graduated from Blue Mountain High School, where he also played football, in 2009. He died Oct. 30, 2012, at 21 after a long battle with Ewing's sarcoma, a type of cancerous tumor, that started in his spine. The show will run from 1 to 5 p.m. Organizers stated at all types of trucks are welcome, not just diesel.


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The latest RootsWeb Review has an interesting article about computer file formats. It discusses the pros and cons for choosing one format over another for backing up or archiving your electronic documents and photos. It also gives a good, concise review of the different graphics formats (jpg, png, tiff, psd, etc) that you find yourself having to choose among.
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Scientists from nine nations have set sail for the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) Tahiti Sea Level Expedition, a research expedition initiated to investigate global sea level rise since the last glacial maximum, approximately 23,000 years ago.
For six weeks, aboard the DP HUNTER, the expedition science party will work on the most extensive geological research investigation ever undertaken in a coral reef area. Off the coast of Tahiti, IODP scientists will take samples of fossil corals from the ocean seafloor to analyze the environmental records that are inside them.
Scientists expect the coral reefs to yield records on changes in sea surface temperature during the circumscribed period and information on climatic anomalies, including El Ni˝o/Southern Oscillation events.
Through this research expedition, IODP scientists aim to learn more about the timing and course of past global sea level changes to better understand present and future sea level rise due to global greenhouse conditions. Since the climax of the last ice age, global sea level has risen by about 120 meters, primarily because of the melting of large inland ice sheets and thermal expansion of the global body of ocean water - attributable to rising temperatures.
According to IODP scientists, Tahiti is well situated for these investigations because the island is located in a tectonically stable region. Consequently, changes in sea level here can be related solely to global effects. Because the corals off Tahiti have strict ecological requirements and are extremely sensitive to environmental changes, both natural and human-induced, they are accurate, sensitive recorders of past sea level and climatic change.
The science party will analyze fossil, i.e. dead corals, because they form archives that help decipher the long-term behavior of the tropical ocean-atmosphere system and how it has responded to manmade and natural impacts. Live corals will not be cored, nor analyzed.
Because corals live in a sufficiently narrow depth range, they can be used as absolute sea level indicators. Corals can be considered chronometers as they can absolutely date by radiometric methods, methods so accurate that even in the oldest coral rocks to be studied, scientists will be able to accurately determine the age of corals to within 50 years.
Expedition co-chief scientist Yasufumi Iryu of Japan's Tohoku University says, "We are very excited about being able to understand these past environmental changes in such detail for the first time."
French co-chief scientist Gilbert Camoin of the CEREGE Institute adds, "Understanding the rate at which sea level and environments have changed is vital to understanding the effects that human activity now have on Earth's environment."
At the conclusion of the expedition, the fossil coral core material will be shipped to an IODP core repository located at the University of Bremen, Germany. In mid-February 2006, IODP scientists will gather again in Bremen to further analyze the fossil corals and associated reef rocks in greater detail.
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Tuesday night's one-hour vigil -- led by Cardinal Roger Mahony, the archbishop of Los Angeles -- was private and said to be very emotional. More than 400 people attended. Sinatra's widow, Barbara, was comforted by her son, New York attorney Robert Marx. A medley of Sinatra songs was played, a choir sang and there were reminiscences by Sinatra's daughter Nancy and granddaughter Amanda. Tony Bennett also spoke before the rosary was recited. Choir member Chris Green quoted Bennett as saying of Sinatra: "We all fell in love, fell out of love, and fell in love again to the sound of his voice."
Mourners included Liza Minnelli, Gregory Peck, Kirk Douglas, Eydie Gorme, Mia Farrow, Milton Berle, Connie Stevens, Wayne Newton, Lew Wasserman, Tom Selleck, Paul Anka, Joey Heatherton, Tim Conway, Bob Newhart, Ben Vereen, Ed McMahon, Anthony Quinn, Red Buttons, Marlo Thomas and Angie Dickinson. Pallbearers included Steve Lawrence, Don Rickles and Tom Dreesen, the comic who opened for Sinatra for many years.


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When, Where: 7:30 p.m., Slaughter Field
RECORDS: Athens Christian 1-7, 0-3 Region 8-A; Athens Academy 5-3, 2-1
KEY PLAYERS: Athens Christian - QB Nick Dalton (6-foot-4, 185 pounds), RB John West (5-8, 160), WR Daniel Battinelli (5-9, 160). Athens Academy - QB Chris Rogers (6-1, 195), TE/LB David Blanton (6-1, 200), WR Brett Satterfield (6-1, 175).
LAST YEAR: Athens Academy won 42-7
NOTEBOOK: Athens Academy lost another running back last week when backup Fielding Calloway went down with torn ACLs in both knees. Starter Beau Gilmore was already lost with a broken foot. The Spartans will run tailback by committee, according to coach Michael Gunn. The committee may include starting quarterback Chris Rogers, who ran for 119 yards and all three Spartan touchdowns in the double-overtime win against Social Circle last week. ... Dalton is second in Northeast Georgia with 992 passing yards. Battinelli has 35 receptions on the season, already a school record. He also has 526 receiving yards and has caught four of Dalton's five touchdown passes. ... Gunn said his secondary will get its stiffest test of the season from the Eagles' passing game. ... Athens Academy would clinch a playoff spot with a win tonight.
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This Friday's The Grammy Nominations Concert Live! is shaping up to be nearly as big a spectacle as the actual Grammy Awards, which won't actually be handed out until the end of January.
LL Cool J is hosting, Ed Sheeran is presenting, and producers just announced the addition of Taylor Swift and Katy Perry to the list of previously announced performers, including Lorde, Robin Thicke, and Miguel & Keith Urban.
"But wait," you may be saying to yourself, "neither Swift nor Perry will even be in this country on Friday night, let alone at the Nokia Theatre L.A. Live in Los Angeles, where this is taking place!" Such is the magic of satellite technology: LL will be throwing to live performances in Canada (for Perry) and Australia (for Swift). Expect accented fireworks!
The one-hour special, which will air on CBS at 10 PM this Friday, December 6, will also, incidentally, roll out the nominations for the 56th Annual Grammy Awards, which will be handed out just across the street at the Staples Center on Sunday, January 26.
Music released between October 1, 2012 and September 30, 2013 is eligible, and based on sales, cultural exposure, and general Grammy warmth, expect Justin Timberlake to rack up a ton of nominations. Lorde is pretty much a lock for Best New Artist, and you have to assume both Kanye West and Jay Z will make some noise as well.
Who else's name deserves to be called this Friday night? And which performances make you the most curious? Let us know in the comments.


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A New York City child welfare supervisor charged in connection with the death of a starved and beaten 4-year-old girl says she told her superiors the caseworker couldn't handle his workload.
In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Chereece Bell says she had asked her bosses to transfer caseworker Damon Adams out of her Brooklyn unit three months before Marchella Brett-Pierce died. Adams is also charged in connection with the girl's September death.
Bell says she and her bosses also discussed taking Adams' cases away from him but that didn't happen.
Adams' lawyer tells the Journal he can't confirm that.
The Administration for Children's Services workers pleaded not guilty last week to criminally negligent homicide and other charges.
The Journal says the agency declined to comment.
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love the movie !!!!!!!!!! 5 stars !
unrealistic. stupid. crap.
Whats the song in the movie that goes 'She's my butterfly'?
PjKize Perfect site, i like it!
fUQIwC Excellent site. It was pleasant to me.
Scissors For Lefty - Got Your Moments is the song in the beginning of the movie
Scissors For Lefty - Next To Argyle is the song during credits
whats the song at the begging of the movie? It goes something like " i dont love you i love love love you." something like that.
it was pretty good. not the best ever but funny.
cute movie. not my taste, but cute nevertheless.
I thought it was funny ! I also want to know the name of the band playing during the credits PLEASE!
Song during credits is by Scissors for Lefty.
great movie but what is the name of the song played during the credits? someone plaese answer back.
Talentless actress!
cool movie. whats the soundtrack though
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Dilation and Curettage (D&C) (cont.)
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Dilation (the first step): While grasping the cervix with a clamp, the doctor will pass a thin, flexible piece of metal called a sound to determine the depth and angle of the uterus. These measurements allow the doctor to know how far into the uterus the curette can be safely inserted. The usual method of dilation is to insert a thin, smooth metal rod gently along the vaginal canal and up into the tiny cervical opening. The rod is left in place for a moment, then withdrawn and replaced by a slightly larger rod. This process is repeated until the cervix has expanded to about the width of a finger. This method takes about 10 minutes. If the patient is under local anesthesia, she may experience crampy discomfort caused by stretching of the cervical muscles to accommodate the rods. Another method being used with increasing frequency is to insert laminaria tents (cigarette-shaped pieces of a special dried seaweed) into the cervix 8-20 hours before the procedure. The laminaria absorb water from the tissues and swell up, slowly distending and dilating the cervical canal. This is less traumatic than using the metal dilators.
Hysteroscopy and curettage (the second step): After dilation, the doctor holds the vagina open again with the speculum. The doctor may also reach into the cervix with a tiny spoon to obtain a specimen of the cervical lining. At this point, the hysteroscope is usually inserted into the uterus so that the doctor may look at the inside of the uterus. The doctor may see fibroids, polyps, or overgrowths of the endometrium. At that time, instruments may be inserted through the hysteroscope and biopsy, or removal, of the fibroids, polyps, or endometrial overgrowths may be accomplished.
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Hyperbole for sure.
Skyrim and KoA are very different games despite being in the RPG genre.
KoA is a combat oriented RPG set in a directed world while Skyrim is more open sand-box (or as I read somebody put it - "a hiking simulator" ).


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Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency (G6PD deficiency) is a hereditary disease which can cause jaundice in newborn babies and haemolytic anaemia (when red blood cells break up) throughout life, usually triggered by an infection or exposure to certain foods or chemicals. One of the chemicals that can trigger severe symptoms in people with G6PD deficiency is primaquine, the only drug currently available to clear the relapsing life stages of the Plasmodium vivax parasite (one of the two major parasites causing malaria in humans) from the liver.
The gene that codes for G6PD has a number of variants; some code for normal levels of G6PD in the body, some cause mild deficiencies and some cause severe deficiencies. The gene is found on the X chromosome. Women have two copies of the X chromosome and therefore two opportunities to inherit a copy of the gene which codes for normal levels of G6PD. Men only have one copy of the X chromosome and therefore only one copy of the G6PD gene. Men are therefore more likely to suffer from severe G6PD deficiency.
G6PD deficiency can be common in populations with high levels of malaria infection caused by the parasite Plasmodium vivax. Malaria control programmes need to know this to inform their policies on using primaquine as a treatment and as a control measure for malaria in the population. Our research focuses on mapping the prevalence of G6PD deficiency and the genetic mutations causing it. We have also calculated estimates of the populations affected by the condition.


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Word, PDF, Excel, PowerPoint template mechanism (1 messages)
Is there a Java Technology that allows to generate Word, PDF, Excel and PowerPoint documents based on some kind of template?
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- Re: Word, PDF, Excel, PowerPoint template mechanism by pranshu jain on September 01 2006 11:42 EDT
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There are lots of third party libtaries ( mostly commercial) which let you manipulate office documents with or without having MS office available on the system. There are libraries and XSLFO for generating PDF. Just google for it. http://www.aspose.com/Default.aspx is one of these. iText is opensource component which helps you draw PDF http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/ will help you do the same, using OLE objects provided by microsoft applications. Also - the new MS office format (for office 2007/ office 12)is open - XML documents, and there is an industry standard ODF format coming up - which you might want to read about. You could also write java wrappers over VSTO ( visual studio tools for office) Pranshu Blog
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-Two word, keyword rich ,self descriptive domain name
-Well Aged (12 years old) created 28-dec-2001
-Direct reference to the banking and finance industry
-Highly sought after domain name that represents an Institution and Service that is used by everyday citizens globally.
-Investment grade domain name that can be used or sold to ANY mortgage firm or company anywhere in the world.
The potential value of this domain name is truely limitless because we all know there are THOUSANDS of Mortgage Firms around the world in every state and country globally.
Very High CPC of up to $12 per click, This translates into a massive profits via Google Adsense Revenue , advertisers are paying top dollar to target mortgage related keywords
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