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The Authors Guild has responded to the news of the upcoming Penguin Random House merger, calling for "close scrutiny from antitrust officials at the Justice Department or the FTC" before the publishers combine forces.
The Guild feels that the super-publisher will control more than 35 percent of the "fiction and narrative non-fiction market," a worrisome development for the group. Authors Guild president Scott Turow had this comment:
Survival of the largest appears to be the message here … Penguin Random House, our first mega-publisher, would have additional negotiating leverage with the bookselling giants, but that leverage would come at a high cost for the literary market and therefore for readers. There are already far too few publishers willing to invest in nonfiction authors, who may require years to research and write histories, biographies, and other works, and in novelists, who may need the help of a substantial publisher to effectively market their books to readers.


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The Battle of Drainesville
The Battle of Drainesville
On the twentieth of December,
Eighteen hundred and sixty-one,
In the afternoon, at one o'clock,
The Drainesville fight begun,
The Third Brigade the gallant crew,
To forage were they sent;
And before the dawn of day,
They on their way had went.
To Drainesville did they wend their way,
Their forage to obtain;
And no Sesechers did they meet,
Until that place they gained,
But scarcely had they there arrived
In that much noted place.
Before the Rebels, in ambush, fired,
As if they had a race.
The Second Brigade the firing heard,
While lounging around their camp,
And to go and help the gallant Third,
Were we anxious for the tramp,
We soon received our orders,
To fall-in without delay,
And for the field of battle,
To quickly make our way.
To reinforce the gallant Third,
That noble bold Brigade,
With gallant ORD to lead them on,
They never were dismayed,
Fall-in we did, at a very fast rate,
And started for the fun,
But on the ground we came too late,
To see the Rebels run.
The Bucktail band they could not stand,
Their metal was too tough,
A retribution did they demand,
For the battle of Balls Bluff,
They left their guns, their haversacks,
Canteens and all behind,
And to run away they turned their backs,
For so they felt inclined,
The Bucktails then a volley fired,
And shot them in the back,
And here and there a Rebel lay,
A bleeding in his track,
Our boys they whipped the Rebel horde,
We whipped them two to one,
The shameful flight they made them take,
It by far, eclipsed Bull Run.
Then McCALL the hero bold,
Ordered his men to halt,
A hundred Rebel dead had told,
They had given them pepper and salt,
The Rebel loss was very great,
The number of a hundred and sixty,
Will never again tread any state,
Down South, in the land of Dixie.
Now to bring my poem to an end,
In Pennsylvania's name,
The gallant Third has gained a name,
A never dying fame,
We have shown the Rebel traitors horde.
That Pennsylvania's sons,
Will have no such defeat affairs,
As Balls Bluff, or Bull Run.
Camp Pierpoint, Va. Dec. 31 1861.

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A delightful insulated wicker picnic basket and serving set for two.More Details >
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'Easy In The Water, A Pinball Fête'
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Zepubicle, the improvisational music trio of Killick, Marshall Marrotte and Jeff McLeod, will be joined by Colin Bragg and Id M Theft Able to create and interweave five compositions inspired by the game of pinball. Tickets are $6 to $9. www.myspace.com/zepubicle.
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The Classic City Rollergirls will face the Columbia Quad Squadin an epic roller derby battle. Local blues, jazz and funk band Elijah will play at halftime. Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for children, ages 6 to 10. Children younger than 6 get in free. www.classiccityrollergirls.com.
10th Annual Grace's Birthday Party
3-6 p.m., Ashford Manor, Watkinsville
This party is for the dogs! Dress your dogs in Mardi Gras costumes and celebrate the 10th annual Grace's Birthday Party, which raises funds to support the Grace Memorial Foundation at the University of Georgia's Veterinary Hospital and several other local animal advocacy organizations. Your pampered pooch can enjoy doggie games, contests and refreshments and more. Tickets are $15 for adults, $5 for children and free for dogs. www.gracesbirthday.com.
Georgia Guitar Quartet
3 p.m., Hodgson Concert Hall
Four classically trained guitarists, Jason Solomon, Phil Snyder, Brian Smith and Kyle Dawkins, make chamber music exciting with interactive and spontaneous performances inspired by classical composers and modern music like Radiohead. Matthew Anderson, a doctoral student in guitar performance at UGA, will lecture before the concert at 2:15 p.m. Tickets are $19 to $24. (706) 542-4400.
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The 1962 Lodi Ya Ya Ladies have been getting together since their graduation from Lodi Union High School. Usually they meet for lunch once a month, but occasional cruises, play, shopping sprees, ferry rides, BART rides and wine tasting trips are always fun.
We have 12 to 20 ladies from different cities in Northern California who get together on the third Wednesday and share laughter and camaraderie. We have special get-togethers when out-of-state ladies come to Lodi. Nobody wants to miss a lunch!
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Câmbio e crescimento: teoria e implicações de política econômica
This paper aims to analyze the relation among exchange rate, distribution and economic growth from a short-term Keynesian-structuralist perspective. The domestic absorption is the cornerstone of the analysis, inasmuch as an exchange rate devaluation leads to an expansionist result in the profit-led accumulation regime and a contractionist outcome in the wage-led case in the traditional approach. The sophistication of the model proposed in this paper comprises the introduction of indirect effects upon the investment function which emanate from distributional shifts. Besides the accelerator effect and the profit share, capital accumulation also responds to the innovation rate, credit availability and expectations regarding the price level. Nevertheless, the introduction of new mechanisms led to ambiguous results. Since the analytical solution turned out to be quite complex, numerical simulation seemed appropriate. This method revealed that devaluation may have positive effects upon the economic performance in the wage-led case. Thus it was possible to reconcile the available empirical evidence with a consistent theoretical model. This result in turn has important implications for the conduction of economic policy.
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Bentley Provost Seminar Series Explores Open Source Software Development
March 18, 2004
WALTHAM, Mass. - As part of its emphasis on promoting practical research that addresses current and future issues in the world of business and society more generally, the 2003-2004 Provost Seminar Series at Bentley continues with a lecture by Georg von Krogh entitled "Open source software development and the private-collective innovation model." An expert in software and innovation, von Krogh is among several internationally recognized professionals and researchers invited to Bentley this year to discuss topics for scholars and practitioners dedicated to a transdisciplinary treatment of key issues in the modern world. The seminar will be held on April 23 in the LaCava Campus Center at Bentley. The program is free and open to the public.
Dr von Krogh will investigate the model of innovation behind open source software, examine the implications for practice and provide directions for future research. "Most innovation today is private. The manufacturer develops and markets technology, and expects appropriate returns from the innovation," he says. "This requires a regime of intellectual property protection. Conversely, open source software is developed in communities of software programmers, and is freely shared. Free and open source licenses guarantee the rights of future users to use, inspect, modify, and redistribute source code for free."
Georg F. von Krogh is professor of Management at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, and a member of the board of directors of its Institute of Management. He studied engineering at the Norwegian Institute of Technology where he graduated in 1986. In 1990 he received his PhD from the division of organization and work science at University of Trondheim. Previously, he was an associate professor of strategy at the Norwegian School of Management and director of the School's MSc Program in International Strategy and Marketing. He has held teaching positions at SDA Bocconi, Milan, Italy, the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), UK and Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan. His present research interests are in the area of strategic management; cooperative strategies; strategic processes including organizational learning, knowledge and competence development; strategic management practices in emerging industries; the foundations of qualitative research in the field of strategy.
The seminar will be held on Friday, April 23, 2004 from 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. in the LaCava Campus Center, Danielson AB, immediately followed by a reception. The event is free but pre-registration is requested. RSVP for the seminar and reception to Diane Whelan, Office of the Provost and VP for Academic Affairs at (phone) 781.891.2471 or email: firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Alumnae Honored During Reunion Weekend
CANTON - Nancy Frank '67, Lennelle Dougherty McKinnon '58 and Christine Koski '79 were recently honored during St. Lawrence University's Reunion Weekend, held May 30 through June 2.
Frank was the recipient of the University's Sol Feinstone Award for Humanitarian Service, while McKinnon and Koski were both recipients of an Alumni Citation. The three honorees received their awards in front of most of the more than 700 Laurentians who attended the weekend's events.
The Feinstone Award is presented to a St. Lawrence graduate who, through devotion of his or her resources or personal effort, has demonstrated deep commitment to the advancement of the freedom of people to pursue and attain personal, professional and economic freedom. With the exception of St. Lawrence employees, all graduates of the University are eligible for the Feinstone Award. Nominations are solicited annually by the Membership and Honors Committee of the Alumni Executive Council. The Committee recommends a finalist to the Board of Trustees.
Alumni Citations, a tradition at St. Lawrence since 1949, are awarded annually to graduates for long-term and exemplary service to the University or for exemplary professional accomplishment or community volunteer activities. All graduates of the University are eligible, though University employees are not. The Alumni Executive Council's Membership and Honors Committee selects a slate of three to five candidates with special attention given to candidates who will celebrate their Reunion during the year in which they are honored. The slate of candidates is forwarded to the Board of Trustees.
Nancy Frank '67
"Where Nancy sees a need, she creates an organization to address the situation," her nomination said. "Whether it be fundraising to rebuild an inner-city playground, inspiring local churches to have a interfaith hospitality program where their space is utilized to house the homeless, sponsoring the refugee Sudanese in a better life here in the United States or committing to the building of water wells in Africa, she is not afraid to act."
Frank has been an active volunteer in her community since moving to Rochester in 1972. She has been a board member of the Child Development Center, Junior League of Rochester, Baden Street Settlement, Pre-Trial Release, Downtown Development Corporation, the Toy Library, Family Service's Awareness Theater, and the Grantmakers' Forum. She was a founder in the formation of Project Intervention (a drug and alcohol education awareness nonprofit for educators), a program that was reviewed in 1987 by then Lt. Governor Stanley Lundine as a model for New York State.
More recently, Frank saw a need in her community for housing for homeless families. Learning about the Interfaith Hospitality Network in other places across the country, she felt it could also benefit Rochester. In 2004, she had acquired the seed money necessary to start the Rochester Area Interfaith Hospitality Network (RAIHN). RAIHN now has 1,800 volunteers and 36 congregations involved in providing shelter for homeless families. Frank is currently president of the RAIHN Board of Directors.
In 2005, Frank founded the American Friends of the Episcopal Church of Sudan (AFRECS), a national nonprofit organization, and became its first executive director. This is a network of individuals, churches, and other organizations that seek to focus on the needs and priorities of the Sudanese people. They advocate for public and private assistance to Sudan as well as working to advance peace and stability in the region.
In addition to her work with "the Lost Boys" and the Sudanese community in Rochester, she has traveled to Sudan to teach a women's leadership course in a Sudanese village, be present for the election of the new Anglican archbishop, and raise funds for housing for student's families at the Berea Theological Seminary. Grateful for Frank's work, the school named a building in her honor.
Frank was instrumental in starting Water for Sudan and on one of her trips she organized a group from Rochester to visit a Water For Sudan drilling operation in one of the more remote areas of Southern Sudan, Bahr el Ghazaal. She currently serves on the board for Water for Sudan.
Lennelle "Lennie" McKinnon '58
Described by her peers as "an ambassador of St. Lawrence," McKinnon, a Canton, N.Y., native, has been a leader among her classmates since she was a student, graduating with highest honors in English and being elected to Phi Beta Kappa. One nominator wrote, "Lennie has touched generations of Laurentians. She has been a supporter, friend and surrogate parent to many." McKinnon has served St. Lawrence in several capacities, including leadership roles during class reunions, fundraising initiatives and other events, as her class reporter and as a member of St. Lawrence's Alumni Executive Council for six years. In addition, she has been an integral member of the leadership for the Tri Delta Beta Chapter at St. Lawrence, where she has served in numerous capacities and worked with current members.
McKinnon's service extends beyond St. Lawrence. She was a teacher for more than three decades in Canton and was recognized with an Outstanding Educator Award by Kappa Delta Pi. She has been a member of the Edward John Noble Guild of Directors for 25 years and served as president twice in addition to being a member of the Board of Directors Advisory Board. Currently, and for the last 18 years, McKinnon has chaired the committee for the Canton-Potsdam Hospital Guilds Golf Tournament, which has raised almost a quarter of a million dollars for the local hospital.
Christine Koski '79
During her time on campus for Reunion Weekend, Koski offered a continuing education session and met with Laurentians to discuss the importance and responsibility of giving back to St. Lawrence. She has served as a development chair for her class reunions and brings family members and friend's children to visit campus as they consider colleges and universities. She has hosted presidential visits and dinners for traveling St. Lawrence sports teams and is the chairperson of the Kappa Delta Sigma Alumni House Fund.
Koski has spent almost 20 years in the chemical industry and is the president and CEO of nMetric, which is headquartered in California and specializes in scheduling and task-tracing software for complex high-mix, high-change environments, particularly in discrete manufacturers. Prior to joining nMetric, Koski founded Koski Consulting Group, which consulted with small firms on issues of strategy and marketing.
She serves on several boards of directors including Sun Hydraulics, Oragenics, and Cheltec. In addition to her leadership and board responsibilities, Koski also works with nonprofit organizations.


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Designing Experiments with Functional MRI
Just the notion that the data they were working on was from their brains was exciting for them. Instead of working through Excel sheets, they were looking at pictures of their brains while they were doing something interesting.
BW: How would you describe your project?
SE: The basic idea was to teach a lab course in psychology where people learn the basics of experimental methodology and how to do good science. We try to make it exciting by teaching them to work with functional MRI; they design psychology experiments that measure brain activity while subjects perform various tasks.
RP: They learn the skills and the techniques for designing experiments and interpreting data from those experiments, skills you need in order to do any kind of science. The difference between the standard course in cognitive psychology and the one that we teach is that this one uses the cutting-edge technology that's being used in the field.
BW: Where and how did your project begin?
SE: When I came to UCLA, another expert in this field and myself had the idea of teaching an undergraduate lab course incorporating functional MRI. It's an advanced topic that people usually get into in graduate school, or even later. Eventually we got support from the psychology department, and we're very grateful for that. When it came time for actually doing it, Russ had shown up on campus, and he seemed like a natural participant. Initially, we were motivated by the challenge of trying to bring people into the field. We wanted to get people interested at an early level. Since then, the field's grown exponentially, so that isn't such a motivating factor any more. But in the future we'd like to work towards getting high school kids involved in our discipline.
BW: Can you describe how the technology is incorporated into the course?
RP: We start by introducing them to the concepts behind the technique. The technique uses magnetic resonance imaging, which is a relatively new method of imaging the insides of people's bodies, non-invasively and without injecting anything. We spend the first part of the course teaching the students about the kinds of data the technique yields, and how to interpret those data. Then we jump right into how to design experiments that use the technique. Just as you might use the Skinner Box or some other piece of equipment, we use the MRI as a jumping-off point for designing experiments, thinking about how to ask a question, then once you've done the experiment, how you interpret the data to determine what the answer to the question is. It's a fairly complex procedure--we spend several weeks talking about the different aspects of data analysis, which involves both processing the signals that come out of the scanner and running statistics to figure out what parts of the brain are active when the subject is performing particular tasks. They spend a good deal of time doing exercises with canned data that teach them how to do the various operations involved in analyzing it.
In the latter third of the course, the students break into groups and design experiments that they run on the MRI scanner. The last time we did it, there were four groups. One of them was looking at different visual processes; another was looking at the differences in activity when trying to remember words in Spanish versus English. Whatever question they're interested in, they come up with an experiment to ask that question.
There's usually one person in each group that becomes the leader and pushes the agenda, and that's fine. At first they sit together for a couple of sessions talking about what their experiment will be, and then with our guidance they come up with the specifics of the design. When it comes to running the experiment, it's generally computerized, so that when the person is in the MRI scanner we can use the computer to present stimuli. For example, we might show words or play sounds to the subject in the scanner. We help the students implement the computer programs to run the experiment. When we take them over to do the scanning at the Ahmanson Lovelace Brain Mapping Center, they are each involved in collecting the data.
Once the experiments are complete, we load the data onto computers in one of the labs over in psychology, and they walk through each of those operations. They divide up the tasks involved according to their strengths, so each member of the team contributes to the data analysis. They each have to write a paper, but they present their experiment to the class as a group.
SE: The course is still evolving. We've taught it twice now, and I think it's gotten better each time. We've scaled it up to teach more students, and we're hopeful that this award will help us to go even further with it, so we're grateful for that. It's continued to evolve in complexity, and we're constantly trying to be more efficient in covering the technological side of it.
BW: Were there any surprises? Did they take it in directions you didn't expect?
RP: Certainly, in terms of the kinds of questions they wanted to ask, they went in directions that I don't think we would have ever imagined. They were very creative, and worked off of what they had learned in their previous psychology classes. There were a few experiment ideas that were just too far out there, or required methods we couldn't implement. But in general, we were really impressed with the creativity that they brought to this task. I think they all came out of it feeling like that had really produced something. For many of them, it was probably the first real experiment that they'd ever run in their lives, where they came up with the idea and actually collected the data. When it works, it's satisfying, and for all of the groups that did experiments this year, it pretty much worked.
BW: What has been the students' reaction to the use of this technology?
RP: There's been a range of reactions. I think most of them were excited by it. They have to learn a lot of difficult material to be able to understand these things, and some are in a better position to do that than others. But even if they don't fully understand the MRI part of it, they understand how to design experiments and how to interpret the data. Many of them get really excited and end up working in one of our labs doing research once the course is over.
SE: Just the notion that the data they were working on was from their brains was exciting for them. Instead of working through Excel sheets, they were looking at pictures of their brains while they were doing something interesting. I think that really helps to motivate them. For a lot of people it's eye-opening, also, in that they don't expect psychology as a discipline to be this high-tech. They're in psychology because they want to be a therapist or a clinician, and their technology's a note-pad and pen. To see this side of it, where we're using this fancy medical equipment to take these images of peoples' brains, really showed them what the field is and could be. Working with the images gives you the feeling that the data's real and so you can more easily visualize what's happening and understand it. Personally, I like that about the field, and I think a lot of the students get that feeling as well.
BW: Does this project energize them for the rest of the course?
RP: They actually do their experiments towards the end of the quarter, and I think a lot of the excitement arises from their awareness that they get to go do that. Certainly once they're finished and have written their reports and presented them to the class, a lot of them want to do research with one of us, or to take further courses, to learn more about these techniques.
SE: The practical experiment methodologies we teach in the course are clearly very important--in some sense more important because you really have the potential to waste a lot of money, effort and time using these fancy technologies, if you're doing stupid things with them or if you're designing bad experiments. So what we try to do in the first half of the course is not only point out what you can do, but show them a lot of examples of things you really don't want to do. It's definitely our hope that using this exciting method will motivate them to learn this material. When they put their friends in the MRI scanner, the stakes are actually quite high, and they can imagine the immediate consequences of a badly-designed experiment because they're so involved in the work. So I think they are motivated to get through the basic material with a good understanding.
BW: Was it worth the effort?
SE: Yes, I think it definitely was worth the effort. Psychology is a very large major, and so in a lot of our classes we're dealing with hundreds of undergraduates. To have a smaller group, and to be able to work with people closely and see their enthusiasm really was a big payoff, both in terms of motivating me for teaching, but also, for research, because when you see them so excited by this technique and what it can do, it feeds back into your own enthusiasm. Teaching what you love to small groups of motivated people--it just doesn't get any better than that.
RP: I agree that it's been rewarding with respect to both research and teaching. We've seen students who have come through this course come to our lab very excited about doing research. Because this 121 course is something they take fairly early in their careers, if we can excite them at that point, they have a lot of time to really get into the research before they graduate. It's nice to be in one of the few places in the world that actually teaches this technique to undergrads. We have one a course here for graduate students as well, but teaching it to undergraduates is something that I think a lot of people have assumed is just too hard, because there's too much to learn. We've shown that we can do it with the help of these technological tools.
SE: We feel like this course offers a unique undergraduate opportunity that you can only get at a university that's really top-notch in both research and teaching, like UCLA. By bringing in this cutting-edge technology into the undergraduate curriculum, we give students an experience that they're not going to get at a small liberal arts college. That's really valuable for undergraduate education.
BW: What's in the future for this course?
SE: We're going to continue improving it. Part of that involves improving our guidance of the students in designing interesting, practical experiments. We also hope to make the introductory materials more topical and interesting, to smooth out the lab exercises before they get to their big final project. Beyond that, we're hoping to present the course at the International Neuroscience Conference in the fall. They have a section on educational techniques for neuroscience and we're pretty hopeful that people will be interested in this, so that maybe the course will spread to other universities.
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Numerical fiscal rules in practice
Despite four year of unprecedented fiscal consolidation efforts, Greece does not yet have (national) numerical fiscal rules, which could help contain primary expenditure and anchor expectations about public finances in Greece. This paper examines practical aspects associated with the implementation of such rules. Issues including what categories of expenditure should be subject to the rule, how inflation is dealt with, how expenditure categories which fluctuate significantly across the cycle are treated and the extent to which the rule should apply to future years are all examined. Additionally, there is a discussion of how revenue projections and the targeted fiscal balance are used to determine the expenditure ceiling. Finally, the paper analyses how "indirect rules", such as the "debt brake", can operate as effective expenditure rules.
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- Jarrow, Robert A. & Turnbull, Stuart M., 2000. "The intersection of market and credit risk," Journal of Banking & Finance, Elsevier, vol. 24(1-2), pages 271-299, January.
- Antonella Foglia, 2009. "Stress Testing Credit Risk: A Survey of Authorities' Aproaches," International Journal of Central Banking, International Journal of Central Banking, vol. 5(3), pages 9-45, September.
- Jokivuolle, Esa & Kilponen, Juha & Kuusi, Tero, 2007. "GDP at risk in a DSGE model : an application to banking sector stress testing," Research Discussion Papers 26/2007, Bank of Finland.
- George A. Akerlof, 2009. "How Human Psychology Drives the Economy and Why It Matters," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, vol. 91(5), pages 1175-1175.
- Drehmann, Mathias & Sorensen, Steffen & Stringa, Marco, 2010. "The integrated impact of credit and interest rate risk on banks: A dynamic framework and stress testing application," Journal of Banking & Finance, Elsevier, vol. 34(4), pages 713-729, April.
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America's Worst Wind Energy Project
October 17, 2011
The more people know about the wind energy business, the less they like it. And when it comes to lousy wind deals, General Electric's (GE) Shepherds Flat project in northern Oregon is a real stinker, says Robert Bryce, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute.
The arguments being put forward by wind energy proponents are similar to those that the Obama administration is using to justify its support of Solyndra, the now-bankrupt solar company that got a $529 million loan guarantee from the federal government. In some ways, the government support for the Shepherds Flat deal is worse than what happened with Solyndra.
- The majority of the funding for the $1.9 billion, 845-megawatt Shepherds Flat wind project is coming courtesy of federal taxpayers.
- That largesse will provide a windfall for General Electric and its partners.
The Obama administration's loan guarantee for the now-bankrupt Solyndra has garnered lots of attention, but the Shepherds Flat deal is an even better example of corporate welfare. Several questions are immediately obvious:
- Why is the federal government providing loan guarantees and subsidies for an energy project that could easily be financed by GE, which has a market capitalization of about $170 billion?
- Why is the Obama administration providing subsidies to GE, which paid little or no federal income taxes last year even though it generated some $5.1 billion in profits from its U.S. operations?
- How is it that GE's CEO, Jeffrey Immelt, can be the head of the President's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness while his company is paying little or no federal income taxes?
Green jobs are costly. If we ignore the value of the federal loan guarantee and only focus on the $490 million cash grant that will be given to GE and its partners when Shepherds Flat gets finished, the cost of the projected 35 permanent "green energy" jobs will be about $16.3 million each.
Source: Robert Bryce, "America's Worst Wind Energy Project," National Review Online, October 12, 2011.
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Raider girls skate to 6-0 start
The Hudson High School girls' hockey team continued its winning ways with three victories in five days last week, as six different skaters scored goals.
The Raiders have opened the season with six victories and lead the Big Rivers Conference with a 3-0 record. The three conference wins are more than the Raiders registered all last season.
Hudson picked up a 3-1 BRC victory over Chippewa Falls last Tuesday before registering nonconference wins over Academy of Holy Angels (Richfield, Minn.), 3-2 in overtime Thursday, and Hayward, 3-0 Saturday.
Coach Dan Dietrich and his Raider squad will play Winona on Tuesday, Dec. 22 at 5 p.m. at Hunt Arena at UW-River Falls. The team will play in the Schwan Cup High School Tournament Dec. 28-30.
Last Tuesday, the Raiders faced off against Chippewa Falls in a BRC showdown in Hudson. The Cardinals had recorded seven consecutive victories over the Raiders since Chippewa's girls' hockey program started in 2006-2007. The streak, however, ended in Gornick Arena that evening by virtue of a 3-1 Raider win.
Hudson's Alex Willi opened the scoring at 11:27 of the first period, assisted by Emily Stankevitz. Stankevitz put Hudson up 2-0 on a shorthanded goal at 5:00 of the second with an assist from Amy Hutchison.
At 3:21 of the third period, Chippewa's Allie Tanzer pulled the Cards to within one, 2-1. But four minutes later, Hudson's Bonnie Meyer sealed the win, assisted by Abby Singerhouse and Willi.
Hudson's Alise Riedel stopped 32 of the 33 shots she faced while Chippewa's Lauren Scobie had 15 saves.
Thursday at home against Holy Angels, the visiting Stars jumped out to an early 2-0 lead in the first seven minutes of the game on goals by Claire Coulter and Dakota Iverson.


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Brookhaven College in Farmers Branch was locked down for about an hour after a report that a suicidal student with a gun was barricaded in a campus bathroom.
Brookhaven College president Richard McCrary said the student wasn't found Monday during a search by campus police, who were confident the area was secure.
McCrary said the initial call went to Dallas police, who notified campus officials. McCrary said Brookhaven police contacted the student, and he said he wasn't on campus. McCrary declined to speculate on what prompted the initial call.
Dallas police spokeswoman Senior Cpl. Janice Crowther said police found the student, who was not armed, in front of his Carrollton home. The student has been hospitalized for a mental evaluation.
Witnesses told police the student called several people saying he wanted to kill himself.
A message posted on the school's website notifying students of the situation said the following:
The Brookhaven College campus is currently on lock down; no one may come in or out of any campus building. There is an armed intruder on campus. If you are on campus, please find a safe place and stay there until an all-clear is given.
Brookhaven College is part of the Dallas County Community College District.
Last week, a University of Texas student shot himself to death in a campus library after opening fire on campus.


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Subject: [CRF-L] Poem: This Child Is A Loaner! ~*~*~*~
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 20:25:35 -0500 (CDT)
This Child Is A Loaner!
"I'll lend you for a little while
A child of mine, "God said.
"For you to love while he lives,
And mourn for when he's dead.
It may be six or seven years
Or forty-two or three.
But will you, til I call him back,
Take care of him for me?"
He'll bring his charms
To gladden you and--
(should his stay be brief)
You'll have his lovely memories
As a solace for your grief.
I cannot promise he will stay,
Since all from earth return;
But there are lessons taught below
I want this child to learn.
I've searched the whole world over
In my search for teacher's true.
And from all those that crowd life's lane,
I have chosen you.
Now will you give him all your love?
Not think the labor vain?
Not hate me when I come
To take him back again?"
"I fancied that I heard them say---
"Dear Lord, Thy will be done
For all the joys Thy child will bring
The risk of grief we'll run.
We will shelter him with tenderness,
We'll love him while we may.
And for the happiness we've known
Forever grateful stay.
But should Thy angel call for him,
Much sooner than we've planned,
We'll brave the bitter grief that comes
And try to understand."
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A 59-year-old San Jose man died Friday morning as the California Highway Patrol was chasing a stolen Volkswagen Passat.
The driver who started the chain of events -- Dario Dwayne Taylor, 23, of Pittsburg -- was arrested in connection with driving drunk and being unlicensed, according to the CHP.
The identity of the man who was killed was not immediately released.
A CHP officer saw the burgundy 1999 Passat without license plates exiting U.S. Highway 101 on eastbound McKee Road near North 33rd Street Thursday about 9:30 p.m. The officer took an open container of alcohol from one of two female passengers, police said.
The officer then ordered Taylor out of the car, and police said that's when Taylor took off, striking a parked Honda, and ramming into a parked Volkswagen Golf on 33rd Street past Alum Rock Avenue.
The 59-year-old man got stuck between the two cars, and he died Friday about 7:30 a.m. at Regional Medical Center, police said. A 31-year-old woman standing nearby suffered moderate injuries, and her 11-year-old son avoided being hit, police said.
Taylor continued on, hitting more cars. He finally smacked into an oncoming Chrysler and the collision set both vehicles on fire, police said.
Taylor's injuries were not severe. The two women in his car haven't been found.


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Over at The Ramblings of JoBildo, JoBildo floated the idea of getting a guild together from the blogging community. He wants to start an Order guild. I'd love to play in that guild but I'm not rolling up an Order character as my main. Sorry. 😉 With that in mind, I thought I'd offer web space, Vent Server, mindshare, and if you all want it, management and leadership for a WAR Destruction guild.
You don't have to be a blogger to participate, you just have to read blogs and find this via this blog or JoBildo's or similar.
So this post is to gauge interest in the idea of a blogging community guild based around the idea of grown-ups with jobs and lives playing together for fun and infamy. If you are, please post below. It's not a blood oath, but it will give me an idea if this is something worth pursuing or not. I have the enthusiasm, ability, and inclination to do this. Do we have numbers?
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The roller coaster ride in investment markets over the last two years highlights the need for investors to have a disciplined approach to investing.
Shane Oliver explains...
The last two years have been tough for investors. Since 2007, the markets have been on a roller coaster ride, first having their worst bear market in generations only to be followed by a rapid 50% or so rebound. And most other assets - bar government bonds and cash - have been on a similar ride. Timing any of that has been particularly challenging. Whats more, there is no end of experts with widely differing opinions of where things are going. Some think that the next great depression is still just around the corner and that the recovery we have seen over the last six months is nothing more than a bear market rally. Others, myself included, are of the view we have begun a new cyclical bull market with more upside to go. So what should investors do? There are several highlevel rules worth following. These are particularly pertinent in the current economic environment.
Forecasts must be treated with caution The first thing to note is there is no easy way to predict where markets will go. If there was a foolproof method then I wouldnt be writing this and you wouldnt be reading it! The difficulty in forecasting is highlighted by the experience of economic forecasters. Surveys of economic forecasts are regularly compiled and published in the media. It is well known that when the consensus (or average) forecast is compared to the actual outcome, it is often wide of the mark, particularly when there has been a major change in direction for the variable being forecast, as has been all too obvious over the last two years. The difficulty with forecasting applies not only to economists forecasts of economic variables but also to equity strategists share market forecasts and share analysts forecasts for company profits.
Of course, this problematic track record has led to plenty of jokes about economists: economists were invented to make astrologers look good, an economist will know tomorrow why the things he or she predicted yesterday didnt happen, economists have predicted five of the last two recessions, and so on.
There are numerous examples of gurus using grand economic or financial theories - usually resulting in forecasts of new eras, great booms ahead or, as is more fashionable at the moment, great depressions ahead - who may get their time in the sun but who also usually spend years either before, or after, losing
money for those who follow their grand calls. Sure, some did get it right in terms
of the global financial crisis last year, but as former Reserve Bank of Australia
Governor Ian Macfarlane observed; Everyone who predicted what has
happened [in 2008] has been predicting it for 10 years. And thats not a great
track record. No guru or expert will get it right all of the time.
Prognosticators of doom can be particularly alluring. Firstly, because its
easier to sound logical and inquiring when painting a bearish picture regarding
the outlook than a bullish one. As JK Galbraith once observed, we can all
agree that pessimism is a mark of a superior intellect. Secondly, numerous
studies show most investors are far more worried about a loss than a gain. This
natural wariness and twitchiness on the part of investors probably explains
why, historically, share markets in stable countries have provided a higher return
premium over safe assets like bonds and cash than can theoretically be justified.
The trouble with forecasting
Forecasts for economic and investment indicators can play a useful role but need
to be treated with care:
- Forecasters are not immune from the psychological biases that beset everyone. These include the tendency to assume that the current state of the world will continue into the future, the tendency to look for evidence that confirms ones views as opposed to evidence that contradicts them, the tendency to only slowly adjust forecasts to new information, and overconfidence in their ability to foreseethe future.
- Precise point forecasts convey no information regarding the risks surrounding the forecast. They are also conditional upon the information available when the forecast was made. As new information appears, the forecast should change. Setting an investment strategy for the year ahead based on forecasts at the start of the year and making no adjustment as new information arrives is often a great way to lose money.
- Economic forecasts can be selfdefeating for example, economists forecasts for a recession in Australia this year were in a large part headed off by fiscal and monetary stimulus which themselves were a response to forecasts for a recession.
- When it comes to investment management, what counts is the relative direction of one investment alternative versus others; the precise point at which they end up is of secondary importance.
- The difficulty in forecasting financial market variables is made harder by the need to work out what is already factored in to markets. And rules of logic often dont apply in investment markets. While precise economic forecasts can be useful, particularly in communicating a view, investors need to recognise that they have limitations.
So if there is no easy way to predict the market, what should investors do? There are several rules worth following:
1. Respect the market
It is well known that investment markets are not always rational. But, there are numerous examples of investors who came a cropper because they thought they were better than the market. JM Keynes observed that the market can stay irrational for longer than you can stay solvent. In other words, you may even have a view that ultimately turns out to be right, but could end up losing a lot of money if you get the timing wrong. Take the well known story of a wealthy Australian investor who, in the mid 1980s, (rightly) thought shares were heading for a fall, but lost a fortune because he shorted the market too early and by the time he had to buy the shares back they had actually gone up further in value. Of course a little while later we had the 1987 share market crash. There is often a big difference between being right (ie, getting some sort of forecast right) and making money, and many investors just dont realise this.
In the 1970s, a US investment professional named Charles Ellis likened share market investing to playing a losers game. A losers game is a game where bad play by the loser determines the victor. Amateur tennis or boxing after several rounds are examples of losers games, where the trick is not to try to win but to avoid making stupid mistakes and thereby win by not losing! Investment markets are fickle, sometimes rational, but sometimes far from it and highly seductive, and thus are a classic losers game in which the winners win by simply not making stupid mistakes. Thus for many, the best approach to investing is to adopt and religiously follow a long-term strategy consistent with ones objectives. However, for those who want to take a more active approach and who are prepared to put the effort in, the next few rules may be of interest.
2. Have a disciplined process
This is absolutely essential for investors who want to move away from a long-term strategy and become more actively involved in timing investments into and out of markets or stocks.
This should ideally rely on a wide range of indicators - such as valuation measures (whether markets are expensive or cheap), indicators that relate to where we are in the economic cycle, measures of liquidity (or some guide to the funds available to come into markets), technical readings based on historic price patterns for the share market, exchange rate or whatever (the evidence suggests there is value in such analysis) and measures of market sentiment (the crowd is often wrong - so if everyone is bearish that is likely to be a good sign and if everyone is bullish that is likely to be a bad sign).
The key to having a disciplined process is to stick to it and let it filter all the information that swirls around financial markets so you are not distracted by the day-to-day soap opera that engulfs them. The huge flow of information often confuses rather than aids any investment decision making. And most of it is just noise anyway.
The problem is that having a disciplined process to actively manage investments can be costly and time consuming and well beyond what most investors are prepared to do.
3. Remain open minded and flexible
Markets regularly prove even the best investors wrong. One should constantly consider contrary views and test them against your own. It is useful to have some form of stop loss. In the past, I have ridden losing positions too long based on arrogant confidence I will be right (because a forecast says so). A stop loss (either in the form of a formal sell order to reduce/cut a position if the market goes through a particular level contrary to your own position or just a trigger for a review) is useful in forcing investors to consider whether they are on the right track or not.
4. Know your self and check your ego
Smart investors have an awareness of their psychological weaknesses and seek to manage them. Examples of these include over-confidence, the tendency to overreact to the current state of the world, the tendency to look for confirming evidence, and any innate bias towards optimism or pessimism. A key to successful investing is to leave your ego at the door. You cant expect to be always better than the millions of investors who make up the market.
It is tempting to think that it is easy to outperform the market or perfectly
time moves into or out of it over time. But it is never that easy. For most investors, the best approach is to respect the market and have a long-term strategy and stick to it. For those who want to delve more into active management of their investments, it is essential to have a disciplined process, to remain flexible and to know and control your psychological weaknesses.
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By Pat Hickey
MONTREAL —Josh Gorges is disappointed the Canadiens didn't see fit to give him a multi-year contract, but the defenceman can understand the team's decision.
"When I stepped back and I look at it from the team's point of view, I realized that it was a business decision," said Gorges, who avoided arbitration Friday when he agreed to a one-year deal worth US$2.5-million. "I'm coming off major knee surgery and I understand that they have some concerns about the injury.
"I'm happy that I got a contract because I never wanted to go to arbitration. I've been in this position before in my career. Every year since I've left junior I've been in a position where I have to prove myself, and I just have to go out and have the best year I can."
Gorges, speaking Monday by phone from his home in Kelowna, B.C., said he wasn't surprised it took a while for general manager Pierre Gauthier to get around to his contract.
"He had to deal with free agency, and there was no hurry to get my contract done," Gorges said. "The length of the contract was the only thing in question. We didn't even talk about money until the day before I signed."
When the Canadiens announced the one-year deal, there was speculation about the health of Gorges' knee, especially since the team gave Andrei Markov a four-year deal after he had undergone the same surgery for the second time in seven months.
But Gorges said his knee is sound and that he will be ready for the start of training camp on Sept. 15.
"I started skating in Montreal in April, but it was mostly power skating and working on being more efficient with my stride," Gorges said.
He played for several seasons with a brace to support a wonky knee, and said his blade was never completely flat on the ice. When he returned to the ice after surgery, he worked with coaches to help correct the positioning of his feet.
"When I've been working out with guys this summer, they've told me that I look more powerful," Gorges said. "With any knee injury, you have ups and downs, but I feel great on the ice and I've cut back on some of the weight work and I'm concentrating more on my footwork and agility."
Gorges has been working out in the off-season with former junior teammate Shea Weber for the past five or six years, and other players in the Kelowna area this summer include brothers Luke and Brayden Schenn, Dany Heatley and Scott Hannan.
"I see big things for our team this season," Gorges said. "Signing (Erik) Cole gives us a player we were missing up front, we have Markov back and it's good to hear that (Max) Pacioretty has made a good recovery.
"If you look at what we did last season, taking the Stanley Cup champions to seven games, who knows what would have happened if another bounce went our way. We have all the things we need to win; we just have to stay healthy."
Montreal Gazette


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Collusion and Durability
We develop a model to show that cartels that produce goods with lower durability are easier to sustain implicitly. This observation gen- erates the following results: 1) implicit cartels have an incentive to pro- duce goods with an inefficiently low level of durability; 2) a monopoly or explicit cartel is welfare superior to an implicit cartel; 3) welfare is non-monotonic in the number of firms; 4) a regulator may demand inefficiently high levels of durability to prevent collusion.
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- Bulow, Jeremy I, 1982. "Durable-Goods Monopolists," Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press, vol. 90(2), pages 314-332, April.
- Peter L. Swan, 1970. "Market Structure and Technological Progress: The Influence of Monopoly on Product Innovation," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Oxford University Press, vol. 84(4), pages 627-638.
- Faruk Gul, 1987. "Noncooperative Collusion in Durable Goods Oligopoly," RAND Journal of Economics, The RAND Corporation, vol. 18(2), pages 248-254, Summer.
- Jeremy Bulow, 1986. "An Economic Theory of Planned Obsolescence," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Oxford University Press, vol. 101(4), pages 729-749.
- Coase, Ronald H, 1972. "Durability and Monopoly," Journal of Law and Economics, University of Chicago Press, vol. 15(1), pages 143-149, April.
- Schmalensee, Richard, 1979. "Market Structure, Durability, and Quality: A Selective Survey," Economic Inquiry, Western Economic Association International, vol. 17(2), pages 177-196, April.
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it's not always the little rusted spring
that slipped off the governor
on the mower I borrowed
there's always a reason
it's not always the little rusted spring
it's not always the little rusted spring
that slipped off the governor
on the mower I borrowed
I sit reading Snyder
on a cedar log skateboard
there's a wattle tree
next to the river
I stand and go to it
to touch it's yellow existence
and while i'm still stunned by it
being here in california
a man walking his dog asks
about the log skateboard
and I ask him about the wattle
he's a landscaper
and doesn't know the wattle's name here
but knows there are very few
I tell him aboriginal tribes
favour the timber
for making boomerangs
and he asks again
about the cedar log
I made into a skateboard.
Walk your Skateboard!
Walk your board across the bridge!
I stop. Swap my ten month old daughter to my right arm
and kick the board to my other hand, call out
to my three sons on bikes to stop.
The uniform keeps walking but is looking back
knows I'm going to ask.
Sure. Umm bikes too?
No, bikes are fine.
Right, so, why must I
walk my skateboard
across this bridge?
It's policy.
Yes, I'm sure it is.
Why, is it policy to walk my skateboard
across this bridge.
It's policy.
I stare at him.
Then check that my three boys haven't already
crossed the bridge to explore the trails on the other side.
I look back at him, swap my daughter to the other arm
and lean the skateboard against myself.
He drops his head, steps a little closer to reduce any scene.
The glass panels
get broken by skateboards.
Right, thanks. I guess
the skaters who are
ollieing yeah? The type
without a baby in their arms?
I turn and walk my board and daughter
across the bridge.
We enjoy the ducks below
with their butts
in the air.
mango moon
don't go to sleep
I'm not finished with you
I haven't posted in a while and found this among my haiku sketchings. Just something hot and sticky while I watch the mountains turn white here in Northern California.
after putting the bins out
on the road
I take my daughter in my arms
and walk the trails behind our place
because sunset
has activated
the birds
and she says Oooh
as our eyes track a large dragonfly
around the oak
high over our heads
a woman walks by
cute baby
and I must admit
she looks like one
who'd put her head down
don't make eye contact
with anyone out here on the trails
but a bloke with a baby
in his arms
enjoying sunset
and the baby saying Oooh
at the birds
I've moved to northern California for a year or so. It's been
a big move but my family and I love it. I'll try to post some poems
and photos a bit more frequently but there's just too much to do here!
Hope you're very well, wherever you may be.
Love always
Andrew Phillips
I'm painting the house
the wrong colour
just a smidge
too yellow-based myurrrk
instead of the blue-based green
I wanted
the next coat will cover it
but I've got to use up this 15 liters
and each brush stroke is deeply
I look back at the last few hours
of weatherboard wall
wearing the wrong colour
I hand a pre-dawn pocket of coins over
her industrial estate face-for-the-boys
she'll sell fifty of these paper wrapped breakfasts before 7
thinly sliced pig, fried chicken fetus on
finely-milled bleached wheat
yeast-mixed, overnight baked
and sliced
and soggy pan toasted
and sauced
and I wash it through me with
roasted-bean infused water
and feel human again


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Preference shifts between consumption goods and sectoral changes
This paper analyzes under which conditions a shift in the relative preferences between consumption goods may induce a change in the equilibrium values of the sectoral variables in the same direction, compared with the previous static equilibrium.
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Issue (Month): 3 (June)
Pages: 213-216
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- Lawrence J. Christiano & Terry J. Fitzgerald, 1998. "The business cycle: it's still a puzzle," Economic Perspectives, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, issue Q IV, pages 56-83.
- Wen, Yi, 2007. "By force of demand: Explaining international comovements," Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Elsevier, vol. 31(1), pages 1-23, January.
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"Intermediate inputs and sectoral comovement in the business cycle,"
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Elsevier, vol. 40(3), pages 573-595, December.
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Carlos Quentin's ailing left knee won't require surgery. It will, however, likely sideline the Padres' beleaguered left fielder the rest of the year.
A second opinion on the bone bruise reiterated that rest is the best course of action to heal an injury that Quentin sustained while diving for a ball in spring training. The 31-year-old outfielder missed 39 games to start the year and has been limited to 50 games in his third season in this injury-plagued tenure in San Diego.
"It's looking more and more that his season might be over," Padres manager Bud Black said Monday afternoon as he laid out plans to play the hot hand among the nine players with outfield experience on the 25-man roster.
Quentin, who turns 32 on Thursday, hasn't been in the plans as often as the Padres have hoped – this year or his previous two in San Diego.
Since the Padres acquired him before the start of the 2012 season for two minor league pitchers, he has had three surgeries on his right knee. Along the way, Quentin has played in just 218 games for the Padres, has never hit more than 16 homers and hasn't driven in more than 46. He landed on the disabled list with left knee soreness for a second time this year in late July while sitting on a .177 average, four homers and 18 RBIs.
By the time this season ends, the Padres will have paid him $26 million.
They are also on the hook for another $8 million in 2015 for the final year of a three-year, $27 million extension that had become increasingly difficult to unload – even if he was willing to waive his no-trade clause – given Quentin's downward trends since arriving in his hometown.
The $8 million owed Quentin also might be too much to simply eat, leaving the Padres with little to do but hope that an offseason of rest can get their projected clean-up hitter right for the final year of his contract.
Surgery, at the moment, is not on the table as it was last year when the Padres declared his season over last August.
"When you have a bone bruise, the only thing you can really do is rest," Black said. "That's the course of action."
Gyorko, Cabrera updates
Although Jedd Gyorko was out of the starting line for a third straight day with a tweaked left hamstring, Black said his starting second baseman was not a disabled list candidate. Gyorko went through normal pre-game activities and is again available off the bench as he nears a return to regular action this week.
"He's feeling better; he's getting real close," Black said. "We talked today about starting him, but we decided to give him another day or two."
Shortstop Everth Cabrera, meanwhile, is at least a few days behind Gyorko. Nursing his own left hamstring strain, Cabrera jogged on the field for the first time Monday and hit on the field as he aims to return from a second trip to the disabled list.
"He's turned the corner on this," Black said. "His activity level is picking up."
- LHP Troy Patton (shoulder) has moved his rehab to Double-A San Antonio. Patton struck out four and allowed one hit in three scoreless innings in the Arizona Rookie League to start his comeback to the majors. The Padres will have to make room on the 40-man roster when they activate Patton from the 60-day disabled list.
- One of the youngest players in the Midwest League at 18 years old, 1B Jake Bauers was named to the circuit's postseason all-star team after hitting .291 with eight homers and 60 RBIs in 104 games at low Single-A Fort Wayne. The Padres drafted Bauers out of Huntington Beach Marina High in the seventh round in 2013.


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Fri 28th Oct 2011 10:00amSaltshots Photography's Godrevy Surf Report
A few small clean waves trickling through at Godrevy this morning. Looks fun for a longboard and may be shortboardable at low. Waves around the 1-2ft range with light southerly winds. See full daily surf reports at http://saltshots.com/surf-report/
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One of the greatest benefits to owning an iOS Device is the wealth of health applications available. Since smartphones have worked their way into our lifestyles, they may as well be healthy lifestyles, right? As such, Withings—a company that already specializes in health apps and hardware—has announced the free Withings Health Companion app.
Designed to be the "ultimate health and wellness application" Withings Health Companion enables iOS users to store, access and manage their weight, physical activity, and heart and sleep data on a single, user-friendly dashboard.
From the press release:
The Withings application acts as a user's personal health companion and becomes the hub for data collected from a range of internet connected devices or manually by the user. That data is then aggregated onto a simple and easy to use dashboard. The Withings Health & Wellness Cloud makes the app compatible with the Withings WiFi Body Scale, Withings Smart Blood Pressure Monitor, BodyMedia FIT armbands, Zeo Personal Sleep Coach and Runkeeper It also allows Withings users to seamlessly export their weight data to other 60 fitness friendly partner applications.
In addition to collecting and displaying data, this central application gives users a visual representation of their health in the form of a butterfly that is comprised of four colored wings: weight (pink), activity (orange), sleep (blue) and heart (green). These colored 'wings' represent how well users are monitoring their health and also whether the data collected by the health tracking devices show that goals are being met. The wing colors grow and shrink based on the users' data and gives them a quick glance at their comprehensive health without worrying about numbers.
Withings Health Companion features include the ability to:
- Easily access weight, activity, heart and sleep data from one centralized dashboard.
- Seamlessly import data from connected devices and apps, including Withings WiFi Body Scale, Withings Smart Blood Pressure Monitor, BodyMedia FIT armbands, Zeo Personal Sleep Coach, and Runkeeper.
- Log data manually for tracking without a connected device.
- Understand what impacts health and receive tips based on the data collected.
- Set reminders and weekly achievable goals to monitor progress.
- Visually see health progress at a glance from the dashboard for a comprehensive view.
- See historical health charts for each area of data: weight, activity, heart and sleep.
- Share results with physicians, family members, email or other external partners
Withings Health Companion is available now from the Apple App Store, and will soon be available for Android.


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2009 Honda Accord - Consumer Review
Build Quality
Reliability Value
Build Quality
Reliability Value
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Vehicle2009 Honda Accord EX V-6 4dr Sedan (3.5L 6cyl 5A)
ReviewThis is my fourth Honda, and the first one I
It's overly large, poorly built, and does not live up to Honda's legendary reliability and build quality.
The exterior is not unpleasant to look at, and with the EX V6, the sunroof, chrome trim, and rims don't detract.
However, the interior is way too heavy on plasticy bits, the carpet feels cheap, and things rattle like a 1990s GM product.
Too many buttons, etc.
Performance-wise, the auto transmission is atrocious.
I've taken to manually shifting it when I need to get into 1st in a hurry.
The gas mileage is awful (17 on a 70/30 city highway split, maybe 25 on the highway).
However, the engine is smooth and powerful.
Best FeaturesThe 6 cyl. Despite the AWFUL gas mileage, it's smooth and powerful, and quiet. The Eco mode is pretty cool. The ride quality is what I'd expect from Honda - firmer than your usual US car, but not what I'd call sporty.
Worst FeaturesHonda needs to ban the pleather door inserts. Go back to cloth for the cloth seats, leather for the leather seats. Upgrade the carpet and padding. Wayyyy less buttons on the center stack. Fix the problem that you can't see the radio display when the sun is even remotely shaving on it. Far less hard plastic.
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KARACHI: India has allowed Pakistani industrialists to set up industries in India, a move that has been welcomed by Pakistan. This initiative will certainly be accompanied by several attractive privileges and benefits for Pakistani industrialists.
I wonder whether Pakistani politicians are too naïve or imprudent to understand the long-term effect of this decision. Pakistani investors have already been shifting their investments out of Pakistan owing to the ever-increasing cost of doing business in Pakistan, terrorism, kidnappings for ransom, electricity shortages, increase in the crime rate and a never-ending list of snags obstructing business and economic activities. A large number of textile units have shifted to Bangladesh and Pakistanis top the list of investors in the UAE after Iranians.
However, allowing Pakistani businessmen to invest in India is calling for a disaster. India will certainly be offering lucrative incentives to Pakistani investors to establish industry in India. Many industrial units in Pakistan will wind up and shift to India, leaving thousands of workers jobless. This will give a further boost to terrorism, extremism and the crime rate. Export related production by Pakistanis in India will boost Indian trade, whereas Pakistan's trade deficit will increase further. Thus, severe harm will be inflicted on an already limping Pakistani economy.
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As one local resident says a speed limit reduction on Kennoway Road has led to a reduction in the number of crashes, a Lundin Links campaign group is calling for urgent action after six incidents on Largo Road in the last nine weeks...
A local resident who was part of the campaign to reduce speeding on Kennoway Road has said the new limit has made a difference – and believes the same could be achieved in Lundin Links.
Steven Watt, who stays on the through road from Kennoway to Leven, lobbied councillors and police for months to change the limit on the road after several crashes, many right outside his home.
In January, a report was put to local councillors to reduce the limit from 60mph to 40mph, which was approved, and new signage and road warnings were put in place in April.
Since then, Steven reports that there have been no crashes on the road and that he, his family and neighbours feel much safer.
"There's not been any crashes that I know of and we're happier that it is now safer," he said.
Steven noted that an increased police presence on the road had also helped to catch those who were not ad-hearing to the new limit, and Inspector Donald Jenks from Police Scotland confirmed that it was a "hot spot" which was given additional attention given the number of crashes.
"You do see people driving slower," Steven added. "Of course, you still get the odd idiot, but folk are definitely aware of it and are taking notice of the new limit."
Ian Smith, of Fife Council's transportation department, confirmed the change, and said: "Speed monitoring following the introduction of the 40 mph speed limit confirms that northbound speed has reduced by 4mph and southbound speed by 3mph."
Steven now believes that a new limit on the main road through Lundin Links could also help to reduce incidents and help make people feel safer. He said: "Personally I think it would be a really good idea. There are a couple of really bad corners, especially at the Lundin Links Hotel, so why wouldn't it help? I think if you're scared to go on the pavement as a pedestrian then there has to be a problem."
Meanwhile in Lundin Links, the campaign launched to reduce the speed limit on Largo Road from 30mph to 20mph has gathered new support and there are now 300 signatures on the 'Time for Twenty' petition.
Local residents started the campaign after becoming concerned about the number of incidents on the road, which connects Levenmouth to the East Neuk.
They called on Fife Council to reduce the limit to encourage safer driving, however Fife Council's transportation department has said there would be "no justification" for the change because it is a key arterial route.
According to the group, in the last nine weeks there have been six traffic accidents on Largo Road and Leven Road with four requiring police attention and two requiring an ambulance.
Campaigners believe reducing the speed limit to 20mph would help tackle speeding, reduce the risk of accidents at tight bends, and allow traffic to flow more safely through the village.
Heather Paterson, from 'Time for Twenty!' Action Group and a resident on Largo Road said: "We have had an excellent response on the doorsteps with hundreds of people keen to sign the petition.
"We have also had a great support from local businesses and community groups. This is a serious issue which has been neglected for years and years. Many people have said they have contacted Fife Council individually to voice their concerns but have never been listened to. We hope speaking with one voice will help us be heard this time."
A Time for Twenty Facebook group has now been set up enabling locals to log incidents, adn the petition can be signed at local shops, pubs and Mercury Motors.