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Dragon Age Journeys - Blog #3
by Dhruin, 2009-10-20 19:53:38
The third blog entry for the upcoming Flash-y Dragon Age game Journeys covers "the little things", such as the rules for the tactical combat:
At its heart, Dragon Age Journeys: The Deep Roads is a tactical RPG. We employ a hex based combat system reminiscent of the classic Heroes of Might and Magic series, but instead of giant armies of units, you control up to three heroes with stat systems and talent trees taken directly from Dragon Age: Origins. Over time, these heroes gain experience, level up, learn new talents, get new loot … all the familiar RPG elements. This allows you to take on bigger and badder enemies from the Dragon Age world, such as darkspawn monsters Genlock Alphas and Ogres.
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Sivananda Day-to-day (440)
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- Om Namo Bhagavate Sivanandaya!
Om Namo Bhagavate Chidanandaya!
Om Namo Bhagavate Krishnanandaya!
Friday, December 17th, is Gita Jayanti. This marks the
birthday of the Bhagavad Gita. In honour of this
occasion we posted Sri Swami Sivanandaji's 1942 Gita
Jayanti message at:
We have also uploaded an article by Sri Swami
Sivanandaji titled "Philosophy of Proverbs" at:
Please do check out the page on this week's book
"Essence of Vedanta". It has an excellent introduction
to Vedanta:
The following book chapters have been uploaded to Sri
Swami Krishnanandaji's site:
1) Book chapters from "Universality of Being":
Chapter 3: Things Are Not Outside
Chapter 4: The Seven Gatekeepers to the Absolute
2) Book chapters from "The Process of Yoga":
Chapter 5: The Stages of Practice
Chapter 6: The Process of Meditation
Yours in the service of Gurudev,
Book Synopsis
Essence of Vedanta
By Swami Sivananda
Vedanta is the crest jewel of all schools of
philosophical thought which preaches the Unity of
Existence, or Oneness of Consciousness. It proclaims
that all these innumerable beings are, in essence, one
and the same. It thrills and widens the heart,
brightens the intellect, and makes one experience the
Absolute Being, the Only Reality. Goodness of heart
and intelligence of brain, which the whole world
considers as a marvellous possession, is superseded by
the Divinity of Absolute Consciousness through direct
intuitional cognition of the Universal Soul!
"Essence of Vedanta" is a priceless jewel from the
diadem of Sivananda Literature.
Sri Swami Sivanandaji Maharaj, unlike many other
Vedantins, is a practical Vedantin. This glorious
characteristic runs through all his writings. This
wonderful scripture bears witness to it.
Students of Vedanta and seekers after Truth who have
chosen the path of Jnana (Knowledge), will find in
this volume a great practical guide to Self
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IS GOD PARTIAL?: A bunch of litchis was presented to
the Master at the night Satsang. The devotees present
were eagerly hoping that he would distribute the fruit
to them. However, he took the whole bunch and gave it
to one person only. A packet of sweets also was handed
to the Master. Again he gave the whole packet to
another person. The devotees were disappointed.
This unusual behaviour raised a doubt in the mind of
Hridayananda Mataji and she questioned the Master
about it.
"Swamiji, I am not able to understand why yesterday
you did not distribute the litchis and sweets equally
to those present. Could you kindly explain to me why
you did this?"
"Oh! You think I am partial?" interjected the Master.
"No, I do not know, Swamiji. I would like to know."
"Is God partial or not?"
"He is impartial, Swamiji."
"Does He love everyone alike?"
"Yes, certainly."
"Then why are so many people poor and starving while
others are very rich? Are they not all His children?
Why is He partial to some? You don't call God partial
but you feel that I am partial. Do you think that I am
acting with my own mind? It is the Cosmic Mind that
directed me to give the whole bunch of litchis to that
person. I did not decide beforehand that I was going
to give it to him. Perhaps he deserved it. That is why
God has done this. Do you understand now?"
"Yes, Swamiji."
"In advanced stages of meditation, two types of
reaction are set up - the objective reaction from the
cosmic forces themselves, and the subjective reaction
from the potencies of desires that are lying unseen
and unfelt in the recesses of our own personality. So
when we enter into deep meditation, we have to be
prepared to meet these encountering powers within as
well as without. If we read the lives of saints, great
masters who practised yoga and underwent the hardships
of meditation, we will know what these hardships could
be. They never leave a person, whatever be his
advance." - Swami Krishnananda
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Phillip Phillips' smash hit coronation song, "Home" is now the best selling single from an American Idol alum ever! Yahoo Music has the details
Phillip Phillips' "Home" this week surpasses Kelly Clarkson's "Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)" to become the best-selling song ever released by an American Idol alumnus. "Home" has sold 4,262,000 digital copies. "Stronger" has sold 4,245,000.
"Stronger" wore the Idol sales crown for about eight months. It surpassed Carrie Underwood's "Before He Cheats" on July 1, 2012. Underwood's smash held the title for nearly five years. It surpassed Clarkson's "Since U Been Gone" on Aug. 19, 2007.
Although Phillip has surpassed Kelly Clarkson's "Stronger," the original flavah Idol still has four songs among the top 10 Idol best-sellers to date.
Carrie Underwood's "Before He Cheats" is now in third place, with sales of 3,735,000. "No Air" by Jordin Sparks & Chris Brown is in fourth place, with sales of 3,531,000.
Here's an interesting tidbit.
While "Home" has drawn frequent comparisons to Mumford & Sons, it has done better than any of that British group's hits. Mumford & Sons' best-selling song is "Little Lion Man" (2,326,000). Its highest-charting hit is "I Will Wait" (#12).
Maybe that's why members of the band have dished a little snark over Phillips' success.
Phillips' album, The World from the Side of the Moon, has broke a little record too.
Phillips' debut album, The World From The Side Of The Moon, has sold 792K copies. It has spent seven weeks in the top 10 on The Billboard 200. It's the first debut album by an Idol winner to log seven or more weeks in the top 10 since Underwood's Some Hearts spent 30 weeks in the top 10 from 2005 to 2007.
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CONCORD, N.C. — The No. 4 Red Bull Toyota wasn't perfect early Saturday night — far from it, in fact. But as driver Kasey Kahne said: "These races are so long and you have so much time to move up and think about pit stops and making your car better. When you have 500 miles, you have enough time."
After a green-flag pit stop for adjustments with 139 laps to go in the Bank of America 500 at Charlotte Motor Speedway, Kahne, who had fought a rear-end up and front-end down handling issue most of the race, radioed to his team, "Oh, yeah. It's going now."
He was ninth at that point — driving the fastest car on the track — and moved into the top five 40 laps later. Then he improved to third after a speedy stop by the No. 4 crew under the race's fifth caution flag. Kahne seemed to be in contention for his fourth Sprint Cup victory at the 1.5-mile track.
Enter lap 293, when Matt Kenseth had a slow restart, pinching Kahne between David Ragan's No. 6 on the bottom and Jeff Gordon's No. 24 on the top. The result? All three went spinning, and Kahne retreated to the pits for tires and to repair cosmetic damage. He went from third to restarting at the tail end of the lead lap. "We can get back into the mix," crew chief Kenny Francis told his driver.
Indeed he did. With only a dozen or so cars on the lead lap, Kahne moved into the top 10 with 25 laps to go. With 17 laps remaining, Jimmie Johnson absorbed a hard hit to bring out the eighth and final caution. Some cars pitted, Kahne stayed out and pulled out a scrappy fourth-place finish.
It was the third consecutive top five for Kahne and his sixth overall at Charlotte. For Red Bull Racing Team, it was the best finish at the track since Brian Vickers finished fifth in the 2009 600.
"We had a great Red Bull Toyota. The guys did an awesome job," Kahne said. "It was just a fine line of being really good or a little off. We kind of went over it throughout the race. That one restart — Matt got a bad start and I was trying to push him and Ragan got to my inside and Jeff must have thought that we were only two-wide and we were three and we ended up all wrecking. Then we had to fight back after that. It was just kind of being in the wrong spot at the wrong time. We had a really good car and it was another positive race for us."
No. 83 driver Vickers had an unexpected passenger leaving the pits during a stop on lap 45. Apparently, the jack called shotgun and went along for the ride as Vickers exited his pit box — a definite no-no in NASCAR's eyes. Moments later, Vickers was slapped with a stop-and-go penalty for "removing equipment from assigned pit area" and returned to the race two laps down in 36th. "It's a long race," crew chief Ryan Pemberton said. "We got ourselves in a pile of crap early. We'll get our chances to get it back."
Vickers spent the rest of the night fighting for free passes and taking wave-arounds, which eventually put him only one lap down in the closing stages. But by then, his chances of ever returning to the lead lap were nil because only 15 cars completed all 334 laps. He finished 20th.
With five races remaining this season, Kahne improved a position in the driver standings to 15th — eight behind 14thplace AJ Allmendinger and 11 behind Clint Bowyer in 13th. That's the best ranking a non-Chaser can achieve. Vickers moved up to 25th — still 40 points behind Jeff Burton in 24th.


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The financial media are major purveyors of information on the mutual fund industry as a whole, as well as on individual funds. The quality of this information varies greatly. Oftentimes, this content is fairly shallow and aimed at the short term, such as covering which particular fund or fund category is "flying high." While interesting and somewhat informative, it would be a mistake for investors to base their mutual fund investing decisions on this rather "lightweight" material, which doesn't come close to substantive analytical research.
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Green tech finds (5/20/10)
Poop, planes, and bikes… it's green tech finds time.
- Poop-powered data centers: Want to run a data center more sustainably? Start shoveling! Scientists from HP's sustainable IT ecosystem lab presented the idea of powering these energy hogs by farm wastes at the ASME International Conference on Energy Sustainability. (via GreenTech Pastures… how appropriate!)
- The low-emission airplane? A research team at MIT has presented an airplane concept to NASA that "…is likely to use 70 percent less fuel than existing ones while slashing noise and emission of nitrogen oxides."


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I want this program to scan a text file (given as an argument) and just put the alpha characters it finds. Why isn't it working? Thanks!
Code:#include <stdio.h> #include <ctype.h> int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { int ch; FILE *input = NULL; if(!(input = fopen(argv[1], "r"))) { printf("Error opening file!\n"); return 1; } while(ch = fgetc(input) != EOF) { if(isalpha(ch)) putchar(ch); } return 0; }


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Discussion in 'Playstation Consoles' started by h2ojames93, Jul 31, 2009.
Whos you fighter in tekken mine are Ling and lili
well i love tekken alot but i'm unable to get Tekken 6 due to no PS3 or PSP.... But overall I'm best with the following:
Devil Jin
Tell me how Armor King is
its not comming out for the psp and its comming out on the 360
Law & Steve fox
This game is gonna be online right?
Just wanna know.
it is being released for PSP....
Mine - Paul and Eddie
Thank goodness it will be released for PSP too :yesnod:
-Asuka Kazama (my avy)
Just those 2
Hows Tekken 6 so far? I wish i can join you guys
lol the last time i played was on Tekken 4.
i played most as Hwoarang and Jin.
BUT i liked playing as Christie / Eddy (I Believe Christie is Tekken 4 Exclusive but they still have the same move set) because they were really cheap when it came to playing against others
Where are the King lovers at?
I good with King and I'm also good with Steve and Miguel...xP
Wheey, i use Steve Fox too. Love his punches
Xaiyou, Asuka, Jun, Jin (karate), Heiachi, Kazuya, Hwoarang, Baek, Anna, Roger Jr., Feng Wei, Marshall Law, Paul.
My focus has been on Xaiyou lately. (shoe me!)


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Hi Yvonne. I'm so sorry, it appears your post somehow got over-looked..... We do our best not to let things slip through, but sometimes the odd one 'escapes'.
Your visitor is an ichneumon, a parasitic hymenopteran. This is a female and the long 'tail' is an ovipositor.
Ichneumons are difficult and there are many of them, but the size of this one should help narrow things down.
Hopefully this reply will provoke a response from someone more knowledgeable than I,,,!
And the name is .....
Gasteruption jaculator and although it is a parasitic wasp it is placed in the family Gasteruptiidae.The wasps are parasitoids of solitary bees, the Gasteruption larvae feeding on both the larvae and the provender (pollen and nectar) of the bee. They can often be seen nectaring from flowers or flying up and down walls and moribund tree trunks looking for the nest holes of their solitary bee hosts. If you see them in flight, the abdomen is carried at about 45 degrees inclined and the heavy back legs dangle at 45 degrees declined and must act as counterbalance in flight. It is probably the commonest recorded Gasteruption in the UK, though this is doubtless because it is the most readily identified.


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Milton school history club gets stuck in historic New England storm
About 95 Milton High School students were returning from a trip to visit historical sites in Boston, Mass., on Saturday afternoon when they found themselves in the middle of the snowstorm that raged across New England over the weekend.
The group, which included about 15 chaperones and was split up in two charter buses, had planned to travel all night Saturday and arrive in Milton at mid-day Sunday.
Milton High School Principal Jeremy Bilhorn said the group made it as far as Lee, Mass., on Interstate 90 near the Massachusetts/New York state border when conditions became too treacherous to continue.
By then, the storm had dumped close to 20 inches of snow, and more was falling, said Bilhorn, who was in Wisconsin but communicated with chaperones throughout the storm.
He said students used Internet-equipped cell phones to communicate bus to bus and to find a motel near Lee that had 35 vacancies.
The group stayed at the motel overnight and got back on the road Sunday when the storm had begun to let up.
Bilhorn said the group got off the road Saturday just a few hours before New York and Massachusetts officials shut down many major highways.
The group got back about 4 a.m. Monday.
Bilhorn said the students were given an excused absence so they could sleep in, although some began filtering into school after lunch Monday.
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An up-and-coming mobile player in China, but still little-known on the Western hemisphere, Oppo pondered a while ago an appearance at Barcelona's Mobile World Congress for Find 7's glitzy intro. Ultimately, the N1 makers decided to pass and chose a friendlier, more familiar venue – Beijing.
Probably a smart call, as was the announcement's scheduling for March 19, which just happens to be slightly behind MWC. Clearly, Oppo can't imagine it will steal Samsung Galaxy S5 or Sony Xperia Z2's thunder in three weeks.
What it can definitely do is cleverly mock its much more reputable rivals, thus scoring free media exposure, as well as a possible prestige boost in the long run. Enter Oppo's latest Find 7 teaser image, a simple, clean, hilarious jab at Samsung.
The handheld to be presented on March 19 is advertised as "greater" than S (or 5). Translation: the Find 7 will be better than the Galaxy S5. Which you can't really argue with, since Oppo has basically confirmed a Quad HD display and quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 chip as the spec sheet's headliners.
Meanwhile, the S5 also packs an S801 CPU, but settles for Full HD resolution. Even worse, it comes with 2 GB RAM in tow, whereas the Oppo Find 7 is tipped to carry 3. Battery size might be another department where the underdog one-ups the frontrunner, though in the end, Oppo is obviously too tiny a manufacturer to threaten S5 global sales.
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Trade Union reforms to cost Labour £5million
ED MILIBAND'S reforms to end the trade unions' stranglehold on Labour could lose the cash-strapped party more than £5million a year in contributions, critics warned last night.
The Labour leader's shake-up will also reduce the influence over leadership elections and policy decisions by MPs and MEPs.
Under Labour's current electoral college system, MPs and MEPs get a third of the votes to select a new leader, trade unions get a third and party members another third.
The reforms will see party decisions taken on a one-member, one-vote basis, which Mr Miliband says is "completing unfinished business from the past 20 years and creating a One Nation Labour Party".
For now at least, unions would maintain their 50 per cent vote at conference.
Critics warned that far from diluting union influence, the proposals, which emerge as Londoners face two days of Tube strikes, would see union supporters out-number ordinary voters by 10 to one. They also say it will leave party mandarins having to court unions for discretionary donations to plug the financial black hole.
A new measure to give "affiliated" non-full members a right to vote may also be manipulated by union leaders at crucial votes.
Labour stands to see the £8million it rakes in annually from 2.7 million politically affiliated members drop to just £2.7million
A Labour source refused to speculate on how much the party stood to lose through the reforms, but admitted: "We've always said there will be financial consequences from the loss of affiliation fees. Many who pay those don't know they are being used for votes and many don't even support Labour.
"We think it's right the only people who give money to Labour are those who give active and positive consent, and that's what's going to happen now. For too long we have been reliant on single, large donations."
The party hopes that by charging affiliated members a "small fee" and tapping individual donors directly it will eventually refill its treasure chest. They will have a mountain to climb. According to Unison, one of the few trade unions to offer members an opt-out, just 450,000 of its 1.3 million members chose to pay a £3 political levy fee last year.
Based on this, Labour stands to see the £8million it rakes in annually from 2.7 million politically affiliated members drop to just £2.7million, when the reforms take full affect in five years' time. Having already alienated big business by threatening to raise corporation tax, Labour would have no choice but to go cap in hand to unions for hand-outs.
"The Labour Party would still be vulnerable to attacks from David Cameron saying, you are still funded by the trade unions," said Prof Jonathan Tonge, of Liverpool University.
"The fact is the Labour Party can't survive without trade union funding unless we introduce state funding for political parties, and that's a hard sell."
Tory party chairman Grant Shapps dismissed the move as "same old Labour", adding: "After these changes, it will be even easier for union barons to buy Labour's policies and even easier to pick the leader."


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Sharon Wolf and Jere Behrman presented findings from two rigorous studies on teacher training and efforts to improve early childhood education in Accra, Ghana. Read more about their presentation and projects in the Ghana News article.Date posted: 10/24/2017 | View listing
Jordan Weiss co-authored Physical Activity and Negative Affective Reactivity in Daily Life in Health Psychology.Date posted: 10/24/2017 | View listing
Congratulations to Emily Hannum for being elected to the PAA 2017 Board of Directors!Date posted: 9/26/2017 | View listing
Hans-Peter Kohler and Frank Furstenberg were recently awarded funds from the National Science Foundation for the Global Family Change Project. The project has collaborators at Oxford University, Bocconi University, and the Autonomous University of Barcelona and includes Penn GGD students Luca Maria Pesando & Andrés Felipe Castro Torres, and new PSC associate Pilar Gonalons-Pons. Read more about the project in the Penn Current.Date posted: 9/15/2017 | View listing
Sam Preston and Andrew Stokes have just published in the American Journal of Preventative Medicine. The full text of their new article "Prevalence and Trends in Lifetime Obesity in the U.S., 1988-2014" is now available online. Boston University, where Stokes teaches global health, has published a press release about their findings. Obesity affects the health of more than half of adults in the US and the PSC is proud to support the researchers investigating this epidemic.Date posted: 9/8/2017 | View listing
Be sure to add the PSC/PARC colloquium series to your calendar. Next Monday (9/11) begins with Randall Kuhn, followed by Jesús Fernández-Villaverde (9/18) who will be presenting in Spanish (flyer in English and Spanish)!Date posted: 9/6/2017 | View listing
Emilio Parrado has recently been elected to the Sociological Research Association (SRA). The Association elects up to 14 new members annually. The SRA is an honor society of sociological scholars which was founded in 1936.Date posted: 8/25/2017 | View listing
Courtney Boen has received the graduate student paper award from ASA's Section of Aging and the Life Course at the annual meeting in Montreal. Her paper is entitled, "The role of socioeconomic factors in Black-White health inequities across the life course: Point-in-time measures, long-term exposures, and differential health returns," and can be read here.Date posted: 8/25/2017 | View listing
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Dennis Culhane comments on a new Zillow study on how rising rents drive up homelessness rates in LA Times article.Date posted: 8/7/2017 | View listing
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Jason Schnittker is featured in a Penn News article about his new book The Diagnostic System: Why the Classification of Psychiatric Disorders Is Necessary, Difficult, and Never Settled.Date posted: 7/18/2017 | View listing
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Tukufu Zuberi, Emilio Parrado and Hans-Peter Kohler are quoted in a new Omnia article: "The Past, Present, and Future of Human Migration."Date posted: 6/30/2017 | View listing
Penn News features the Quartet Pilot Program winners and the program is discussed by Irma Elo and Kevin Volpp: Six Research Projects at Penn Bolstered Through Quartet Pilot Competition Funding.Date posted: 6/30/2017 | View listing
Sarah Tishkoff participated this month in a World Science Festival Event: The Evolution of Evolution. Click watch to view the panel discussion.Date posted: 6/28/2017 | View listing
Dorothy Roberts and Sarah Tishkoff are featured on the University website this week after speaking about the relationship between genetic classifications and race.
Congratulations to Grace Kao on being elected Vice President of the American Sociological Association.
Angela Duckworth's role as an academic advisor is discussed in an Omnia article about "Creating Intellectual Risk Takers."Date posted: 6/13/2017 | View listing
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Yana Vierboom authors a new working paper in the PSC/PARC Working Paper series in the Scholarly Commons entitled "The Contribution of Differences in Adiposity to Educational Disparities in Mortality in the United States."
Babatunde Osotimehin, Executive Director of the UN Population Fund, who was the recent keynote speaker at the Perry World House Global Shifts Conference (pictured here with PSC Director Herb Smith) has died. He was a strong advocate of reproductive and population health. He is already missed.Date posted: 6/5/2017 | View listing
Theodore Schurr was featured in Penn News and OMNIA "Using DNA as a Tool to Understand Human History".Date posted: 6/1/2017 | View listing
Behrman, Elo, Hannum, Tishkoff named among the inaugural recipients of the Dean's Global Inquiries Fund.Date posted: 5/18/2017 | View listing
Last week students, staff and faculty gathered to celebrate the influential and wonderful Grace Kao at the University of Pennsylvania! Kao has been a Professor of Sociology, Education, and Asian American Studies since 1997 and has touched the lives of many. Grace will soon be moving to Yale so to say goodbye and good luck a few of her students and colleagues shared words of encouragement and gratefulness. Thank you, Grace, for all that you have done here and we wish you the best! Here are some photos.
Aashish Gupta, graduate student in Demography and Sociology, has co-authored an article that is forthcoming in the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. The piece is currently available online, found here.
Onoso Imoagene spoke with Omnia last week about her new book "Beyond Expectations: Second-Generation Nigerians in the United States and Britain."
Last week it was the pleasure of many esteemed colleagues to gather for a presentation about the Challenge of Cities in honor of Janice Madden's retirement. The talks were followed by a lively cocktail party to celebrate Janice's long and fruitful career. Feel free to take a look at the wonderful photos (credit to Marcus Wright) http://bit.ly/2q87oxs
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Herb Smith participated in the annual Global Shifts conference as an expert and discussant.Date posted: 5/2/2017 | View listing
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Herb Smith, director of the Population Studies Center, co-authored a paper at Session 147 Improving Health and Mortality Measures this year at PAA.Date posted: 4/25/2017 | View listing
Sam Preston and Andrew Stokes are quoted in new Washington Post and Forbes articles about mortality and Diabetes.Date posted: 4/14/2017 | View listing
Andrew Stokes discusses his paper in the Annals of Internal Medicine on the "obesity paradox" and being overwight in USA Today article.Date posted: 4/6/2017 | View listing
Jere R. Behrman, the W. R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Economics and Sociology and Research Associate of the Population Studies Center at the University of Pennsylvania, received the biennial Irene B. Taeuber 2017 award at the Population Association of America Annual Meetings in Chicago on 28 April. The Irene B. Taeuber award is presented in recognition of an unusually original or important contribution to the scientific study of population, or for an accumulated record of exceptionally sound and innovative research. Behrman's research is in empirical micro economics, economic development, early childhood development, labor economics, human resources (education, training, health, nutrition), economic demography, household behaviors, life-cycle and intergenerational relations and policy evaluation. His network of collaborators spans the globe, ranges across multiple disciplines, and includes scholars from all career stages. He has published 415 articles in leading demographic, economic, sociology, public health, nutritional and biomedical journals and 35 books, and served on 157 Ph.D dissertation committees.
Penn faculty and alumni were very present during the awards ceremony: Jere R. Behrman was presented the Irene B. Taeuber award (by Douglas Massey, a Penn alumnus). The Dorothy Swaine Thomas award is named after a former Penn faculty and first woman president of the American Sociological Association. The Harriet B. Presser award recipient, Frances Goldscheider, is a Penn alumna; so too is Robert J. Lapham award recipient was Cheikh Mbacke, a Penn alumnus. Cheikh could not attend, so this award was accepted by Ayagah Bawah, another Penn alumnus. Penn News also covered this occassion.
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PSC Research Associate Irma Elo, on behalf of PAA's Committee on Population Statistics, convened a group of experts on race/ethnicity to a meeting at the Population Reference Bureau in Washington, DC to give feedback to Census Bureau staff on the Bureau's 2015 National Content Test research for improving data collection on race/ethnicity.Date posted: 3/29/2017 | View listing
Demography Ph.D. candidate Jeylan Erman's article, "Parental Separation and School Performance Among Children of Immigrant Mothers in Sweden," has been published in the European Journal of Population.Date posted: 3/27/2017 | View listing
Angela Duckworth is involved in a new Coursera class on Positive Psyhology.
Daniel Aldana Cohen is featured in the OMNIA podcast "The Politics of Climate Change".
Angela Duckworth is cited in New York Times article "What Does It Take to Climb Up the Ladder?"
Kathryn Bowles has been selected for induction to the International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame.Date posted: 3/20/2017 | View listing
Emilio Parrado and Tukufu Zuberi are featured in a video from the Immigration and Global Inequality Panel.Date posted: 3/10/2017 | View listing
Sam Preston is quoted in new U.S. Health News article about the diabetes death toll.Date posted: 2/27/2017 | View listing
Michel Guillot is quoted in RTL article about methods of projecting life expectancy.Date posted: 2/23/2017 | View listing
Sam Preston is quoted in new Washington Post article about declining Life Expectancy in the U.S.Date posted: 2/22/2017 | View listing
Angela Duckworth is interviewed in Forbes "A passion is more developed than it is discovered".Date posted: 2/21/2017 | View listing
Kevin Volpp is featured in a new Prevention Health Research at Penn video.Date posted: 2/21/2017 | View listing
Dennis Culhane is quoted in an New York Times article about aging homeless populations.Date posted: 2/14/2017 | View listing
Tomorrow the Perry World House Seminar Series: "The Demographic Logic of War, Peace, and Politics in Multi-ethnic States" by Margarita KonaevDate posted: 2/14/2017 | View listing
Jere Behrman participated this week in the Mexican launch of the 2017 Lancet Series on Early Childhood Development at the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City. The audience was about 400 people from academia, the Mexican government including the Ministers of Health and Finance, international organizations, and the press. Jere Behrman and Rafael Peres-Escamilla, Professor of Epidemiology at Yale, gave the presentation after Gilles Bergson, Director of the Sackler Institute at the New Your Academy of Science, introduced them (photo: Jere Behrman on the left, Gilles Bergson on the right, and Rafael on the far right). This is one of about 10 launches of this series worldwide – Behrman has also participated in launches in India in October and in Chile in December 2016. This the third Lancet Series on Early Childhood Development; Jere Behrman was a co-author in the 2007 and 2011 Lancet Series, which have had considerable impact in making early childhood development a much higher priority on the global agenda and the agendas of many countries. The current series estimates that about 250 million children under five years of age in low- and medium-income countries are at risk of not fulfilling their potential, with substantial costs to society, and evaluates alternatives for alleviating this problem. To learn more about other Lancet series on Early Childhood Development click here.Date posted: 2/10/2017 | View listing
Richard Berk is quoted in recent Washington Post article about government data.Date posted: 2/2/2017 | View listing
Samuel Preston and Andrew Stokes' new study about Diabetes is discussed in Le Monde article.Date posted: 2/1/2017 | View listing
Daniel Polsky is quoted in Philadelphia Inquirer article about his research and data collection that monitors the Affordable Care Act.Date posted: 1/30/2017 | View listing
Laura Kelly is cited in 2016 Lancet article about respiratory health in the UKDate posted: 1/26/2017 | View listing
Sam Preston and Andrew Stokes are quoted in Penn Current article and Penn News Today about a study focused on the deadliness of diabetes.Date posted: 1/26/2017 | View listing
Mark Pauly is featured in Philly.com video about Obamacare.Date posted: 1/23/2017 | View listing
Herb Smith and Emilio Parrado participated in the experts meetings for the Global Shifts Conference at Perry World House. The two-day conference is structured to advance substantive, policy-relevant work and public awareness around the pressing global challenges at the intersections of urbanization, migration and demography. Displacement to development: How marginalization and inequality shape Global Shifts, is an invitation-only experts meeting, convening a select group of scholars, policymakers, and practicioners for a series of substantive conversations looking at the ways in which marginalization and inequality shape global shifts. Smith was a discussant with the keynote speaker Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin, Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund. In the afternoon Emilio Parrado discussed strengthening urban inclusion of refugee and migrant populations with Ahmet İçduygu, Kathleen Newland, Anne Richard, and Hilmar von Lojewski.Date posted: 1/20/2017 | View listing
Jeremy Greenwood investigates the Role of Marriage in fighting HIV in a new working paper.Date posted: 1/17/2017 | View listing
John Trojanowski is quoted in a recent Penn Medicine article which features a new online publication.Date posted: 1/17/2017 | View listing


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Allow me to set up a hypothetical situation. Say you and some other people are having a wonderful, fun time on a nice, peaceful boat ride, when you suddenly come across a land that seems to having animals and beasts of all different kids that are made out of pickles, hamburgers, bananas , cakes and tacos. Would your first reaction be to drop your jaw and stare at the scene in awe? If you answered yes, then you should find the new poster for Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs 2 quite relatable.
The brand new one-sheet has appeared over on Yahoo!, and if you can look past the ridiculously scaled sailing vessel (is that a row boat painted like a cruise ship or are the characters 80 feet tall?) it's actually a pretty fun design. I particularly enjoy the green onion dinosaurs, but what's your favorite food/animal hybrid? Check out the poster below and see it full size over at the source.
Featuring returning stars Bill Hader, Anna Faris, James Caan, Andy Samberg, Terry Crews, Neil Patrick Harris and more, the sequel picks up with Flint Lockwood (Hader) living a happy life and working his dream job at The Live Corp Company. Things start to go terribly wrong, however, when he learns that not only is his machine still active, it's been creating troublesome living pieces of food. Cody Cameron and Kris Pearn take over directing duties from Phil Lord and Chris Miller, and Horrible Bosses screenwriters John Francis Daley and Jonathan M. Goldstein took care of scripting duties.
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Recently I found a couple of fascinating blog posts on how to mashup data from anywhere on the web with Google spreadsheets and Yahoo pipes. To see the exact steps on how to do this please refer to those 2 articles. It's explained there much better than what I can recreate, but I wanted to get into the possibilities of what you can do with these kinds of tools.
You're probably at least somewhat familiar with Google Docs. If not you can check out a few of my previous posts on Using Google Docs for Wedding Invitations or Using Google Docs at Work. One of the great things about Google Docs is that it lives online, whereas an Excel document is static and saved on your local computer. With Google Docs you can specify a specific URL to take data from, and your spreadsheet will update whenever that web page is updated. The function you use is the "importHTML" function in Google Docs.
So let's say you want to do some data analysis for your fantasy football league. You want to see what players on your team are underperforming and see if there are any replacement players that you'd like to trade for. ESPN.com has all the stats you would need available on their site. Once you find a page that has the exact data you want you can use the "importHTML" function to throw it into a Google spreadsheet. Now you can run any custom formulas in your spreadsheet to see how different players are performing to the standards you set. Every week that page on ESPN.com is going to be updated with new data. Instead of having to download that again (like you would in Excel) your data will automatically update in your spreadsheet.
Yahoo Pipes is a web application that might not be as well known. It's essentially a tool that allows you to take information from any web service, slice it any way you want if you have the technical know-how, and then create custom RSS or XML feeds that can be used with other services. One of the applications that is quite useful is taking location data from a website and putting that into a map on Google maps.
So, say you have a list of cities on a concert tour, and you'd like to see these laid out visually on a map. One option would be to use a service like BatchGeo if you have all of the address data already formatted nicely in a spreadsheet. However, what if that data is stored on a Wikipedia page. Here's how you could create the map.
1. Use the "importHTML" function to pull data from that table into a Google spreadsheet.
2. Use Yahoo Pipes to pull the data from your spreadsheet into the KML format that is needed for Google Maps. Within the Yahoo Pipes interface you can sort by date so that you can number the concert stops according to the dates they occur.
3. Export the data in the KML format and paste the new URL into Google Maps. The tour locations will be displayed with date labels on your new map.
There are a lot of cool applications that I can see with this type functionality.
- Create maps of sales targets for a business to give to their sales associates to use when they're out in the field
- Manage your fantasy team with custom metrics that you build in a spreadsheet
- Track all your interactions on social networks and pull them into a spreadsheet to use as a CRM database so you can set reminders on when to contact someone again
I'm excited to play around with these tools and see what else is possible.


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This hasn't happened to me since I was fresh out of college, but it looks like I'm going to be short on my credit card bill this month! I put aside the cash that I needed to cover everything I charged during the billing cycle — or so I thought. It turns out that I completely forgot about an automatic renewal for a subscription that I've had for years.
It's no biggie, really, since I'll still pay what I can and then have a small balance to carry forward for next month. I just hate getting charged those high interest rates for a stupid mistake that could have been avoided. I guess I should start using household budgeting and planning software so this doesn't happen again!


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Arsenal striker Robin van Persie wants to become the best player in the world.
"I want to become the best player in the world," he told the News of the World.
"I find it hard to sleep after a game and I'll get up and write notes about how I played. I study all my matches and am a very harsh critic of myself. I haven't yet reached the level I am capable of. If I were a true world-beater, I would have been voted the best player in Europe, I would have trophies.
"If our team had won the Champions League, the Premier League or the FA Cup maybe I'd have been a candidate for such an award. Only then could I say I'd reached the top - and that's not the case yet.
"But I see the potential at Arsenal. We have to do it. One fact which aggravates me is that in the five years I've been at Arsenal, we've won exactly the same number of trophies as I did at Feyenoord - ONE - that's not enough. When I arrived here, Arsenal were winning trophies for fun.
"But, if everyone is fit, we have a heck of a team and it's up to me to ensure we go out and win these trophies."
Gunners boss Arsene Wenger is desperate for Van Persie to sign a new contract. And the player admitted: "I'm not in negotiations with any other club - just Arsenal. I want to become the best player in the world. My career will only be a success when I consider myself the best. Anything less, won't do."


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About Companies Association
The Companies Association "Slavyanka" has been working for more than 80 years offering the widest choice of high quality products to its customers.
The Companies Association "Slavyanka" is one of the biggest Russian holding companies, which consist of 4 historically significant confectionery manufactures: Confectionery factory "Slavyanka", "Factory named N.K. Krupskaya", Confectionery factory "Volzhanka", Confectionery factory "Confi".
Besides in the structure of company there are modern cocoa beans processing plant, packaging manufacturing plant, mechanical plant with a foundry shop and machinery production, and also leisure center – "Slavyanka" resort.
Today the Companies Association "Slavyanka" is
- the company, which is one of the leading Russian confectionery manufacturers;
- 4 confectionery manufactures placed in different cities of Russia;
- sales geography from Kaliningrad till Vladivostok;
- corporate chain "Slavyanka";
- wide range of products with unparalleled quality, meeting international quality standards ISO.
For 80 years "Slavyanka" gladdens consumers by confectionery products for any taste and budget, treating millions of sweet-teeth with not only classical desserts, but also delectable specialties. Product range of Companies Association "Slavyanka" is represented by over 460 items of sugar and flour departments, including chocolate, fruit jelly, different candies and sweets with cream filling, bars, biscuits with original filling and many other things.
Special place in product range take undisputed leaders of the market - "Step", "Squirrel", "Bear on the North", "Little miracle", "Levushka", "Kid's souvenir", "Special", "Bird's sweet", "Baked milk", "Zhaklin", which represented at all places of Russia and in 18 countries across the world. For example people in Tadjikistan, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, Kirghizia, China, America and Germany prefer products of Confectionery association "Slavyanka".
In such a case the total volume of export supplies is amount to 13% from the whole production of the company – it is not a few, but it is far from limit.
Every manufacturing facility is equipped with European hi-tech machines which are certified in accordance with international quality standards. Continuous control of row materials and semi-finished product during all the production steps provides high quality of ready products. For quite a short period of time by historical standards continuous work on improving recipes and technological processes, increasing customer experiences, aspiration of company staff members to achieve new tops of professional skills and new production levels allowed the Companies Association "Slavyanka" to become one of the biggest companies in Russia with quite a rich history.
Confectionery factory "Slavyanka" was established in 1932 on base of the oldest facility in Stary Oskol – Confectionery factory named 1-st May, the history of which begun in 1970s of 18th century. Establishment and development of the company, and also demand for the product in the market became the main reasons of question about increasing production power, solution of which concluded in establishment of new production facility on 1-y Konnoy Armii st., 65. For the rest 10 years, maintaining tendency of growth and modifying as technically as technologically, "Slavyanka" continues to work for the future, playing an important role in economic and social life of the city.
In a coin box of the company there are constant participation and wins in many prestigious competitions and exhibitions such as: "World Food Moscow", "ProdExpo", "Golden Mercury", specialized exhibition "Agroindustrial complex of Russia", "Russian organization of high social performance", and also gratitudes for help in organization and participation in youth forums, international competition of children art, city life and many others significant public events.
Confectionary factory named N.K. Krupskaya is placed in St. Petersburg. The history of the factory goes back in far 1938, but conservation of traditional taste and quality of favorite from childhood confectionery products still is considered to be the main priority. Moreover the chocolate production from unchanged leader of North-West region market – famous brand of Russian cultural capital. Evidence of high products quality are rewards and diplomas of different Russian and international exhibitions and competitions, including: "Expocenter", "The good of the year", "100 of the best goods in Russia", "World Food Moscow".
Confectionery factory "Confi" was established in 1991 on a base of "Sverdlovsk confectionery factory No.1", established on September of 1967 in Yekaterinburg. During fledging 10 years the company became the most famous in Ural region. The product of confectionery factory more than once was honored with highest awards on exhibition in London and Vienna, won the highest awards in Russian and international fairs: "Quality prize" (Switzerland), International "Quality prize" established by Trade Leaders' Club (France), "Golden Mercury" and others.
Confectionery factory "Volzhanka" in Ulyanovsk is not only one of the most favorite food industry facilities in the Volga territory with more the 40 years history, but also the first confectionery factory in our country, that received international quality certificate ISO.
Several times the factory was laureate of "100 of the best goods in Russia" competition and awarded with diploma of Moscow International Advertising Festival.
"Cocoa-product" LLC is one of the biggest cocoa beans processing company in Russia. The company was established in 2004. The enterprise available technology makes it possible to obtain cocoa products of the highest quality with excellent technological and microbiological properties.
All the company's products quality and safety are proved by declarations of conformity and conformity certificates. The integrated management system meeting international quality standards ISO 9001:2008 and ISO 22000:2005 (HACCP) is introduced into production/
"Polygraphia-Slavyanka" LLC, was established in 2008. This year is a period of time when high-performance import equipment for corrugated board packaging production was purchased and installed. At the present time our facility is one of the biggest corrugated board manufacturers in the whole Central Black Soil Region. The production shop is equipped with modern machinery for corrugated board production. "Polygraphia-Slavyanka" LLC offers ecologically clean production ongoing technical and laboratory tests on Swedish laboratory equipment. The production quality is proved by the certificates and meet all the customer's requirements. "Polygraphia-Slavyanka" LLC packaging is used in many industrial sectors: food-processing, tobacco, chemical and light, for porcelain and ceramics packing, etc.
The most important events of packaging production establishment were: commissioning of production workshop and equipment for complex rotary die-cutting production (2010), opening of polygraph production (2011) and beginning of the new project – organization of flexible packaging with flexography printing (2012).
"Starooskolskiy Mechanical Plant" is the oldest of the holding company with more than 100 years of history, specializes in manufacturing equipment for the food and mining industry, shaped castings by casting technology in cold-hardening mixture, which allows to obtain high-quality: steel, cast iron and aluminum castings. The company also accepts orders for manufacturing of garden equipment, sports and children's playgrounds, consumer goods, as well as parts of polyethylene and polyamide.
"Slavyanka" resort is one of the modern hotel complex located on the banks of the reservoir Oskol. Fresh air, peace and quiet of nature combined with comfort and high availability of infrastructure and sports facilities converted into holiday pleasure.
Several modern facilities, a wide range of products in a variety of manufacturing industries, a strong position in the Russian market and confident look into the future - it's all possible thanks to the fact that we are not afraid of difficulties, we work with love, care about the consumer and are proud of what we do
Slavyanka - Native. Favorite. Delicious!


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Jim Upchurch
President & CEO
Jim is President and Chief Executive Officer of Caltius. Prior to founding Caltius, Jim was the President of U.S. Bancorp Libra and its predecessor, Libra Investments, an investment banking firm focused on the sale, trading and placement of debt securities. Previously, Jim was a Portfolio Manager for high yield bonds at Columbia Savings and Loan Association, managing an investment portfolio of $4 billion. Jim began his career as Certified Public Accountant at KPMG. Jim currently serves on the board of directors of the following Caltius portfolio companies: Starpoint Health, The Institute of Audio Research, Kiss My Face, MCC Control Systems, Nicoat Acquisitions and Platt College Holdings. Jim received his B.S. in Accounting from Northern Arizona University.
Michael Kane
Managing Director
Michael joined Caltius Mezzanine in 1997. Previously, Michael was a Managing Director of Richard C. Blum and Associates, responsible for managing Building and Construction Capital Partners, L.P., a private equity fund focused on the building and construction industries. Prior to this, he spent seven years with the Industrial Finance Division of General Electric Capital Corporation, focused on making loans to companies in various sectors. Michael began his career with Metropolitan Life Insurance in the private placements group. He received his B.A. in Economics, M.B.A. and a Masters in Accounting from Rice University and is a Chartered Financial Analyst.
Greg Howorth
Greg joined Caltius Mezzanine in 1997. Previously, he was a Vice President at FINOVA Capital and a Senior Credit Officer responsible for pre-screening prospective transactions in FINOVA's Corporate Finance Group. Prior to FINOVA, Greg worked at Heller Financial for eight years and was responsible for underwriting cash flow based senior and subordinated debt transactions for California-based equity sponsors. Greg received his B.S., magna cum laude, from the University of Southern California.
Alisa Frederick
Alisa joined Caltius Mezzanine in 2000. Previously, she was a Senior Vice President and Portfolio Manager at Fleet Capital Corporation, where she served on the Fleet Capital Credit Committee and was responsible for managing a portfolio of over $500 million. Prior to Fleet, she served as Assistant Vice President and Senior Underwriter at Chemical Bank. Alisa received her B.A., cum laude, from Wellesley College.
Gavin Bates
Gavin joined Caltius in 2008. Previously, Gavin was a Director at CapitalSource, responsible for sourcing and underwriting cash flow based senior and subordinated debt transactions for equity sponsors. Prior to CapitalSource, Gavin worked for Compass Partners and Permira, two London based private equity funds, where he originated, executed and managed private equity investments. Gavin started his career with HSBC Investment Bank. Gavin received an MBA from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley and a BA with Honors from the University of Nottingham.
Rick Shuart
Rick initially joined Caltius in 1999. Previously, he was a Financial Analyst in the Construction and Forest Products Group at Dillon, Read & Company, where he was involved in several publicly and privately negotiated M&A and public financing transactions. Upon joining Caltius, he was an Associate with Caltius Equity, a position he held until 2002 when he left Caltius to attend the UCLA Anderson School of Management. Rick joined Caltius Mezzanine in 2004 upon completion of his M.B.A. Rick also holds a B.A. from Columbia University.
Don Jamieson
Vice President
Don joined Caltius in 2000. Previously, he was a Financial Analyst in the Acquisition Finance Group at Salomon Smith Barney, where he supported deal teams in underwriting leveraged loans and high yield bonds for private equity related transactions. Don received a B.A., cum laude, in Economics from Harvard University.
Lisa Day
Senior Associate
Lisa joined Caltius in 2017. Previously, Lisa was an Associate at Prudential Capital Group, responsible for originating, underwriting and managing private debt and equity investments in Europe, Australia and New Zealand. Lisa received a BBA from the University of Texas at Austin and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst® designation.
Bob Morrish
General Counsel & Executive VP
Bob has managed corporate governance, partnership and legal issues for Caltius since it was founded in 1997. Since 1994, Bob has been Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Libra Securities, an investment banking firm focused on the sale, trading and placement of debt securities. Previously, he was a partner at Riordan & McKinzie, specializing in corporate and securities law. Bob graduated from Harvard Law School, cum laude, and the University of California, Berkeley.
Greg Brackett
Greg joined Caltius in 2000. Previously, he was a Senior Accountant in the Investment Management Services Assurance Group of KPMG, where his clients included private equity firms, investment banks, mutual funds and credit unions. Greg received his B.A., magna cum laude, in Business Economics from the University of California at Los Angeles. Greg is a Certified Public Accountant and Chartered Financial Analyst.
Melissa Gee
Melissa joined Caltius in 2002. She participates in the areas of accounting, human resources and limited partner relations for Caltius. Melissa received her B.A., summa cum laude, in Mathematics and Psychology from Chaminade University of Honolulu.
Bruce Aiken
Accounting & Investor Relations
Bruce joined Caltius in November 2015. Bruce manages limited partner and public relations for Caltius and supports the CFO in the daily financial operations of the firm. Bruce graduated from the University of Southern California, with a B.S. in Business Administration, Finance.
Bruce joined Caltius in November 2015. Bruce manages limited partner and public relations for Caltius and supports the CFO in the daily financial operations of the firm. Bruce graduated from the University of Southern California, with a B.S. in Business Administration, Finance.
Marcelo Sciurano
Director of IT
Marcelo has worked with Caltius as an IT Consultant since Caltius' founding in 1997 and joined Caltius as its full-time IT Director in 2010. Marcelo has over twenty years of experience working as an IT Consultant for firms such as Libra Securities LLC, where he was responsible for their internal technology set-ups, desktop support and office relocations. His prior experience also includes IT setup and office relocations for Morgan Joseph TriArtisan LLC west coast offices as well as Software Support at Executive Life Insurance Company and at Mainsaver, a maker of software to track and manage machinery maintenance. Marcelo received his B.S. in Mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Donna Ashton
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Donna joined Caltius as an Executive Assistant in 2003. Her previous experience includes 15 years of administrative support and office coordination at Dorchester Capital Advisors, Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch and National Geographic in England and South Africa. Donna has an Associates of Fine Arts in Web Design and New Media at the Academy of Art University of San Francisco.


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While Idle No More protests and blockades continue sporadically across Canada, the Conservative's aboriginal caucus chair is busy tackling the outdated Indian Act.
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When Venezuela's bishops spoke out against postponing the inauguration of ailing President Hugo Chavez, the president's supporters accused them of meddling in politics, while government opponents praised their comments.
OTTAWA – Canada's Catholic bishops have denounced recent statements made in Canada by the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) superior that "the Jews" are the "enemies of the Church."
Horses and their riders attend an event for the blessing of animals outside St. Peter's Square in Rome Jan. 17.
As the Idle No More movement shows no sign of running out of steam, two observers urge a fresh vision for a new relationship between Canada and aboriginal peoples.
PARIS – A French bishops' spokesman urged politicians to "listen to the streets" after hundreds of thousands of people rallied against same-sex marriage.
OTTAWA - Canada's Catholic bishops offered prayers and encouragement prior to the meeting Jan. 11 between First Nations leaders and the prime minister amid signs of growing polarization.
Becoming a priest is never an absolute choice. "It's always conditioned," maintains Holy Cross Father Wilfrid Murchland. "There are always influences that help you decide."
The focus of this year's Week of Prayer for Christian Unity is on Christianity in India.
JERUSALEM – Bishops who traveled to the Holy Land to assess the local Church's needs noted the "profound anxiety" the "dark and dramatic events" of the past year have caused in the region.


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Neiman Marcus Group Inc. reported a higher quarterly profit Monday as high-end shoppers proved more willing to pay full price for the luxury retailer's expensive designer dresses, shoes and handbags.
Despite the gyrations in the financial markets in recent months that has threatened well-heeled shoppers' net worth, chief executive Karen Katz has not seen any pullback.
"We do remain concerned with the broader economy and its effects on our customer," Ms. Katz said. But, she added, high-end jewellery sales were a standout during the quarter, showing "that the most affluent luxury customer is spending with confidence."
To prove her point, Ms. Katz reported that Neiman quickly sold many of the outlandishly expensive "fantasy" gifts it offered in its annual Christmas book, including a $125,000 (U.S.) custom-built library from luxury book publisher Assouline.
Rival chains Saks and Nordstrom Inc. have similarly reported strong sales gains in recent months.
Earlier this month, Saks said it expects its same-store sales to be up by a "mid-to-high single-digit" percentage rate in the final quarter that includes the Christmas season.
Neiman, a privately held operator of a namesake chain of upscale department stores and outlets and of Bergdorf Goodman, posted net income of $48.4-million for the fiscal first quarter, which ended Oct. 29, nearly double the $25.7-million of a year earlier.
Neiman's revenue in the quarter rose to $1-billion from $927.2-million a year ago, helped by comparable sales gains, of 8 per cent at stores open for at least a year and online.
Ms. Katz said there has been no need to offer more discounts last quarter than in the year-earlier period.


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DaveB - probs best not to complain to the Police, cos the reg you quote is off of a Merc 'B' class.... So you either remember it wrong or he's a real villain and has cloned the plates off some poor old blue rinsers pride and joy....
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To the sanctimonious rider this morning on Hanover St, Edinburgh...
imagine if some of the money flushed down the toilet on the trams and EARL could have been spent on implementing some proper cycle lanes and traffic seperation in Edinburgh, sigh.
Oops, yes - it was SL10 ULU not SM.
a Bmw 118i M Sport according to the search I just did.
No interest in going to the police as I have no witnesses so doubt they would do anything anyway.
Y'all need to CTFO on your commutes.
Dave - worth reporting all the same - they will probably have a word with him, there might be cctv footage and he will get an anpr marker
If there is cctv you can get a prosecution.
Dave - worth reporting all the same - they will probably have a word with him, there might be cctv footage and he will get an anpr marker
Completely uninterested without witnesses/cctv IME.
"a Bmw 118i M Sport according to the search I just did."
I bet it was debadged, apart from an M ?
It was, which is why I didnt know the model until I did that search. I am pretty sure the M was gone as well.
Still not sure about going to the police but then again maybe if they did go round and talk with him it might make a difference, going by how much of a toss he was I doubt it though.
Would be worth trying to report it and seeing if they do anything. Edinburgh has a lot of cctv cameras per capita. To be honest, to me being threatened like that by a car driver is comparable to being threatened or attempted assault with a knife or a gun, could have had an equally bad outcome for you, ie dead.
Was out along Cramond earlier today with my two boys. They had overtaken some old geezer on his panniered up touring bike and I went to catch them up to get them to turn around and go back along the front to the car. Purposely got them to turn round to their right so that they would leave the old geezer plenty of room to get through (10ft of space if not more, with no need to take any avoiding action). I went to turn so that I could ride beside my boys, again leaving that same sized gap for the other old cretin. Next thing I hear is a skid and a barrage of abuse. Look round and its that old geezer, who has decided that even though the kids and myself were leaving him plenty of room and being very obvious about what we were doing had decided that coming up the blindside and being a knob was a far better idea. He didnt have an answer as to why he hadnt kept on going straight though.... Knob.
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For a second consecutive year, the University of Maine at Fort Kent has secured three national academic accolades to start the academic year. The trifecta of college accolades bodes well for UMFK, which this fall has seen a big increase in total student enrollment, returning students, and new enrollments of freshmen, transfers, and online students.
This past week, UMFK was named for second year as a College of Distinction, one of only 294 colleges and universities representing 42 states and two countries (United States and Canada) to be honored as Colleges of Distinction for the 2012-2013 school year.
Colleges and universities are nominated for participation in Colleges of Distinction through high school counselors' recommendations, as well as quantitative research. Schools featured on www.collegesofdistinction.com/ represent the cutting edge of higher education including experiential learning, study abroad, and internships.
The Colleges of Distinction recognition marks the third accolade for UMFK in the last three months.
In August, UMFK was named as a Best Northeastern College by the prestigious publication, "The Princeton Review." The honor marked the eighth-consecutive year that UMFK has been designated among the top schools in the 11-state northeastern region. The University is particularly proud of "The Princeton Review" designation, as it is an accolade derived primarily from student input.
In mid-September, the University was again ranked among the top 15 public colleges in the North, according to the 2013 edition of "U.S. News & World Report's" Best Regional Colleges. That designation denoted the third consecutive year of UMFK's meteoric rise up the ladder in the "U.S. News & World" Report rankings. Two years ago, the University broke into the top 50 (Tier 1) rankings. In 2010, UMFK was listed in the third-tier, non-ranked, status on the best regional public colleges list.
The U.S. News rankings are based on key measures of quality that education experts have proposed as reliable indicators of academic quality. The indices used for ranking Best Regional Colleges include: peer assessment, graduation and retention rates, faculty resources, student selectivity, financial resources, and alumni giving.
The U.S. News rankings rely on quantitative measures that education experts have proposed as reliable indicators of academic quality, and on U.S. News' researched view of what matters in education.
"I am excited that our campus has earned each of these distinctive recognitions yet again," said University President, Wilson G. Hess.
"Our focus on access to an affordable, quality college experience is one of the great value-added opportunities in Maine higher education. We focus on high-impact educational practices – learning communities, undergraduate research, and experiential education. It all adds up to student success, and it's great to have it confirmed by three quality organizations," President Hess added.


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