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Active Decisions and Pro-social Behavior: A Field Experiment on Blood Donation
In this paper, we propose a decision framework where people are individually asked to either actively consent or dissent to some pro-social behavior. We hypothesize that confronting individuals with the choice of engaging in a specific pro-social behavior contributes to the formation of issue-specific altruistic preferences while simultaneously involving a commitment. The hypothesis is tested in a large-scale field experiment on blood donation. We find that this "active-decision" intervention substantially increases the stated willingness to donate blood, as well as the actual donation behavior of people who have not fully formed preferences beforehand.
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Nine dead in Omaha mall shooting
Witnesses said the gunman fired down on shoppers from a third-floor balcony of the Von Maur store.
The gunman was found dead on the third floor with a self-inflicted gunshot wound, and his victims were discovered on the second and third floors, police said.
"My knees rocked. I didn't know what to do, so I just ran with everybody else," said Kevin Kleine, 29, who was shopping with her 4-year-old daughter at the Westroads Mall, in a prosperous neighborhood on the city's west side. She said she hid in a dressing room with four other shoppers and an employee.
Keith Fidler, a Von Maur employee, said he heard a burst of five to six shots followed by 15 to 20 more rounds. Fidler said he huddled in the corner of the men's clothing department with about a dozen other employees until police yelled to get out of the store.
Sgt. Teresa Negron said the gunman killed eight people, then apparently killed himself. His name was not immediately released, and authorities gave no motive for the attack and did not know whether he said anything during the rampage.
Police received a 911 call from someone inside the mall, and shots could be heard in the background, Negron said. By the time officers arrived six minutes later, the shooting was over, she said.
A witness, Shawn Vidlak, said he heard four or five rapid shots "like a nail gun." At first he thought it was noise from construction work going on at the mall.
"People started screaming about gunshots," Vidlak said. "I grabbed my wife and kids we got out of there as fast as we could."
Shortly after the shooting, which came three weeks before Christmas, a group of shoppers came out of the building with their hands raised. Some were still holding shopping bags.
President Bush was in town Wednesday for a fundraiser in Omaha, but left about an hour before the shooting.
The sprawling, three-level mall has more than 135 stores and restaurants, according to the Web site for General Growth Properties, the manager of the mall. It gets 14.5 million visitors every year, according to the Web site.
Associated Press writers Anna Jo Bratton, Josh Funk and Eric Olson contributed to this report.
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Social Media Style Guide for Journalists
A free guide for all journalists and writers
April Fools' Day
Also April Fool's Day. Traditionally observed by news outlets by spreading as much misinformation as possible.
Arcane remnant of Old English. Avoid where possible.
Preferred, but optional.
Benny Johnson
Used primarily by news outlets as a wry commentary on the state of journalism.
Standard-bearer for the ideal manifestation of journalism.
capital letters
As unpaid interns have gone out of vogue crowdsourcing has become the favored method of soliciting unpaid labor.
Ellipses can be useful for ending thoughts you don't have the intellect to finish.
fanboi, fanboy
Prefer fanboi when lying.
good tweet
Phrase used to indicate a bad tweet.
Hacker News
A good place to promote incredibly offensive articles.
Term used to indicate articles longer than 800 words.
Henry Blodget
Publisher of Business Insider, dog.
Acronym for "in case you missed it." Typically used to re-promote articles of low quality that failed to meet pageview goals.
Used to indicate something that is not true.
lmao, lmbo
Are you Max Read? Then it's lmao.
manual RT
A technique used by journalists who don't know how to use Twitter; avoid at all costs.
Clearing house for writing no publication in their right mind would run.
Modified tweet. Used to signal a quote that has been edited to fit Twitter's 140 character limit, often without regard for context or intended meaning.
Pando Daily
A startup marketing company often mistaken for a news publication. Avoid.
A community of pedophiles and misogynists; used for free publicity by the morally bankrupt.
Shorthand for "something."
social media editor
A lifestyle, not a job title.
stand by for news
Phrase used to create hype for news that would otherwise be ignored.
Shorthand that roughly translates to "part of a thought."
See trolling
See troll
uhhhh, ummmm
Often used to preface good counterpoints.
weird twitter
A collective term for a subset of Twitter users who are not funny.


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Justin Rose beat European Ryder Cup teammate Lee Westwood by a stroke Friday to win the eight-player World Golf Final in Belek, Turkey, and earn a career-best $1.5 million.
The fifth-ranked Rose shot a five-under 66 in the all-English final at the Antalya Club to finish 5-0 in the $5.2-million event. Rose birdied the opening hole on the Sultan Course and led the rest of the way against the fourth-ranked Westwood, who earned $1 million.
John Mallinger opened a four-stroke lead in the Frys.com Open at San Martin, Calif., making an eagle and two birdies on the final four holes for a nine-under 62.
Mallinger eagled the par-five 15th and closed with consecutive birdies to cap his second straight bogey-free round and reach 14 under. He matched the CordeValle Golf Club record with the 62.


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Joseph Frank Cunningham
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Party Recap
For my daughter's baptism the theme and color we chose was different shades of pink with touches of gold. I designed and handmade everything from the invitation, to the candy bar, desserts, favors, centerpieces and also my daughters head crown. It was truly and amazing experience and day filled with love and support from our family and friends.


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Fashion festival opening night2:07
Models hit the catwalk on the opening night of the Virgin Australia Melbourne Fashion Festival
AUSTRALIA'S kaftan queen, designer Camilla Franks, will open two new Queensland stores in the next 12 months, with the Sunshine State one of the biggest markets for her signature range.
The 37-year-old exclusively told The Courier-Mail she would launch one store in Indooroopilly Shopping Centre, which is currently being redeveloped.
Franks said she was also trying to settle on a Gold Coast location, either at Marina Mirage in Main Beach or Pacific Fair.
"We want more in Queensland. I would have them all over," she said.
Topshop Topman's Brisbane store suffering post-Christmas lull
'Bedlam' predicted as UK's Topshop Topman nears opening in CBD
Her Fortitude Valley store is her busiest, generating around triple the sales of her other seven outlets.
"I think it's definitely the climate and it's more of a relaxed lifestyle and my fashion is quite relaxed," she said.
Last night the designer wowed a capacity crowd of 1500 at the Virgin Australia Melbourne Fashion Festival with her tribal-themed Grand Showcase.
Franks' star model, Georgia May Jagger, had to pull out at the last minute following the death of her father Mick Jagger's girlfriend, designer L'Wren Scott. The parade did go on with Melbourne beauty Montana Cox stepping in.


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Currently I'm trying to fix timing issues by putting some D-type positive edge triggered latches between PORTC and the 3:8 line decoder, clocked on the rising edge of XLAT, but this doesn't seem to help. I'm bringing the circuit in to the logic analyzer this weekend to see exactly when the ISR runs and how long it takes to shift in the GS data.
ISR(TIMER1_OVF_vect){ if (!isShifting) { isShifting = 1; TlcMux_shiftRow(shiftRow); // This activates pins to facilitate multiplexed power PORTC = shiftPower[shiftRow]; // -- THE IMPORTANT BIT -- // digitalWrite(BLANK, HIGH); // 3 x 62.5ns = 187.5ns (Blank needs to exceed 300ns to avoid shortening the GS cycle) __asm__("nop\n\t""nop\n\t""nop\n\t"); digitalWrite(XLAT, HIGH); // XLAT for 62.5 ns __asm__("nop\n\t"); digitalWrite(XLAT, LOW); // Another 187.5 ns safely exceeding the minimum 300ns BLANK requirement __asm__("nop\n\t""nop\n\t""nop\n\t"); digitalWrite(BLANK, LOW); // -- End THE IMPORTANT BIT -- // if (++shiftRow == NUM_ROWS){ shiftRow = 0; } isShifting = 0; }}
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A 17-year-old high school honors student on his way to prom with three other friends was killed when his car hit the back wheels of a tractor-trailer as he merged onto a New York highway Thursday night, authorities said.
State police say Armando Colon, a student at Middletown High School, tried to merge onto I-84 from State Route 17 and was speeding on the wet roadway.
His Acura skidded into a tractor-trailer in front of him, then veered off the road. Police said there was no indication that drugs or alcohol were involved.
Colon was killed in the crash. A 19-year-old student in the passenger seat was treated for a broken collarbone, and two other passengers in the back seats were not injured, police said.
On Friday, Colon's family said he participated in ROTC and aspired to join the military. They said he had gotten his suit for the prom custom made and had been excited to show off his outfit.
"He was the best son that anyone could ask for," said Colon's sobbing mother, Elicia Hendrickson. "I can't believe he's dead."
Middletown Schools Superintendent Kenneth Eastwood said Colon was an honors student with a bright future.
"This is a very tragic event for us," Eastwood said.
School was not in session Friday but Eastwood said crisis counselors would be on hand Monday when students return.
"He was a great kid, he had no enemies," said Stewart Benitez, Colon's friend. "He was great."


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This war novel provides a background to a story about men and women who lost faith about us, our way of life, and the people that are responsible for our future and our children.
Chief of Staff is Ram Oren's 19th book, and was published by Keshet in 2007. Ram Oren's Chief of Staff has become a best seller. Chief of Staff includes magical music.
Please note: this title is in Hebrew.
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"Great Thriller but Lousy Narrator"
Ram Oren writes a very interesting an suspenseful book. The problem is that the book is narrated by someone who seems to be reading a book for children and even that is done in a very monotone and slow intonation.
I'm an avid audio book listener and this narrator is probably the worst narrator I've listen to in many years.
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In the past my running has come to a halt because of lateral knee pain. After taking time off and assessing my form I discovered and starting reading about chirunning. I now understand that my knee pain is associated with IT band syndrome. As a result I have been doing additional core work and focusing on the form technique of leveling my pelvis while running. The issue that I keep running into is that when I engage my core I can't seem to help but engage my glutes while running. I assume that I need to continue to strengthen my core but do you have any additional advice that would be helpful?
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Hypnosis Support for Cancer Treatment
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- Release Date: 4/13/2009
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Hypnosis Support for Cancer Treatment Relax and surrender to the soothing voice and images as Gwen guides you along a peaceful journey which will encourage an enhancement in the positive effects of cancer treatment. Repeated listenings will also stimulate a reduction in the experience of side effects. Gwen Randall-Young is a psychotherapist and author whose work bridges the worlds of psychology and spirit. Her "gentle voice of change", and soul-centered approach as expressed in her books and CDs continues to transform and uplift the lives of many throughout the world. For more titles, articles and information, please visit Gwen's website www. Gwen. Ca.


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Land claims on track in Free State, N Cape
Most of the land claims in the Free State and Northern Cape are on schedule to make the cut-off date in March next year, newly appointed regional commissioner Sidney Hlongwane said on Tuesday.
He said at least 90% of claims lodged at the two provincial offices have been settled. "It should be noted that according to our schedule we are indeed on par in settling all claims before the date as per presidential directive."
In the Free State 182 claims are still outstanding, and 465 in the Northern Cape.
Hlongwane said most of these claims are "rural and complicated" in nature and his office faces various challenges in dealing with them. Among these are protracted negotiations with current land owners, untraceable claimants, and community and family disputes.
He said plans are in place to settle all the outstanding claims within the next seven months.
These plans include the batching of claims, which means claims with similar circumstances of dispossession will be grouped together and dealt with together; increasing office capacity; and the "parallel implementation" of certain restitution processes.
Hlongwane said there are no immediate plans in the two provinces to expropriate land, although the option still exists. "We have no claims targeted for expropriation at the current time. Negotiations in all claims are going well."
Regarding earlier problems with the Pniel claim near Barkley West in the Northern Cape, Hlongwane said the court-appointed referee has to report back to court by the end of October.
The Northern Cape High Court earlier appointed a referee to negotiate various disputes among the Pniel claimants, their representative committee and the land-claims commission to finalise the country's first successful land-expropriation exercise.
In regard to the Lohatla (army training area) claim, Hlongwane said the government has already bought six farms to resettle these claimants on alternative land in the Northern Cape. "The original land is not restorable."
The commission is looking for about 85 000ha to settle this claim.
"We are busy buying a further six farms which was negotiated," said Hlongwane.—Sapa


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wikiHow to Make an Elephant Fly in Halo 3
The Elephant on halo 3 is a massive cargo carrier thing that only makes an appearance in the Sandtrap map. There are several ways to mess around with it, all of which result in a bizarre and spectacular show.
1Go to forge and start a session on Sandtrap. The first thing you want to do is delete all the fusion coils and plasma batteries that are on the map. Then, drive one of the elephants out to a flat open area. Next, stack every single fusion coil in the middle of the bottom floor, but spread them all over the middle or else it won't work, and don't forget to set the respawn time to 10 seconds and the maximum/minimum time to the highest number.
2Go to the front of the elephant and stack all of the plasma batteries in the front, basically right next to the fusion coils. Set the times for respawn just like the fusion coils.
3Go to the back of the elephant again and shoot at only one of the fusion coils, then stand back and watch the most amazing form of the flying elephant. It will do flips and rise up really high, then fall down and rise up again, and it usually makes its way around the map, unless you do it a certain way.
4Another way is to put as much junk as you can pile on and try to drive it. What typically happens is called "LAG" which is when you have to much stuff together and causes the elephant to "LAG" into the ground. After awhile the game will get angry or whatever and make your elephant barrel roll, but in the more severe cases, the lag can send your elephant across the entire map. This is considered to be a relative to the "Bump", which is the annoying "bump" that items do when you try to form objects with turret cases and stuff like that, and it usually screws everything up and makes it all fall down.
5One of the more simple ways to fly the elephant is to simply take a scorpion, warthog, or anything else with a good size and hold on to it as you make it get stuck in a corner or where the driver is and fly away, and the elephant should follow you wherever you go.
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- If you really want to have fun with the flying elephant, set a spawn point in the elephant and set off the fusion coils. As the elephant freaks out up in the air, go around the map and delete all the other spawn points except one, then if you die and spawn in the elephant you get a good view of the map from the elephant's perspective.
- If you decide to try the "Lag" method, stack single crates and stuff like that in neat rows and columns, and try to ignore the bump as it will always screw with your efforts to build.
- With the "Lag" method you should keep all other players away from the elephant when you drive it fully loaded, or else when it flips it could crush and destroy all people and vehicles in its way.
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San Juan Capistrano, Calif. EarthLCD, a wholly owned subsidiary of Earth Computer Technologies, Inc. has released a 2.7-inch, 240 x 160 small form factor TFT color LCD display, and ezLCD-001-EDK Evaluation Kit. The display is available as a complete assembly with a built-in Earth LCD controller card mounted onto an evaluation board for easy interfacing to the LCD controller through integrated USB and serial connectivity.
Targeting OEM customers, the company has also launched a lower priced ezLCD-001 display module that excludes the evaluation board. Incorporating a 240 x 160 2.7-inch serial TFT color graphic LCD module with multi-font text layer, and RS232 and USB interfaces, the new display module offers a default serial data rate of 115200 bauds that is user changeable to any standard speeds between 2400 and 115200 bauds.
In addition, the ezLCD-001 includes SPI and I2C serial interfaces and 20 discrete inputs/outputs, and can be powered by any USB port or external power supply. An internal dc/dc converter accounts for a wide supply voltage range of 3 to 7 Vdc.
The ezLCD-001 is driven by an extensive set of graphic, text and system instructions including DOWNLOAD_BITMAP, SET_COLOR, SELECT_FONT, PRINT, LINE, CIRCLE, POINT, and SET_BAUDRATE. The firmware may be updated through the embedded RS232 interface.
The ezLCD-001 can be used as a PC status monitor, embedded system display, or integrated into a variety of industrial products. A touch screen version is planned.
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PALOS VERDES ESTATES, Calif. At 93, Buddy Ebsen still moves with the smooth grace of a vaudeville hoofer, which he once was. With his dancing and acting days over, he has found a new occupation: author.
A voracious reader, Ebsen has published a novel of his own, "Kelly's Quest," which made No. 3 in the Los Angeles Times paperback best-seller list in mid-May, with a little help from bookstore signings in the Los Angeles area.
It's a slender volume Buddy is parsimonious with words about a feisty young woman named Kelly Ryan who is fired from her movie job and flees Hollywood in search of "a man who will make her feel like a woman."
The star of TV's "Davy Crockett," "The Beverly Hillbillies" and "Barnaby Jones" still looks every inch the Hollywood celebrity. Flowing, silvery hair, ruddy face, clear eyes. Silk scarf at the neck, black velvet jacket, gray flannel slacks, black loafers. Tall and erect and elegantly thin.
His hearing may not be the best, but his memory is plenty OK; he can recount incidents, including names of people, that happened 75 years ago.
And Ebsen hasn't lost the dancing skill he showed in 1930s MGM musicals and duets with Shirley Temple. He demonstrated how he learned his first tap steps (front, back, step) out of a book his father bought. And he tapped the "shim-sham-shimmy" he had learned in New York from Bill "Bojangles" Robinson.
Speaking of his new career, Ebsen explains that he's been writing since high school. "I've written some plays, and some of them have been staged. But this is the first novel I've attempted. I read 'The Bridges of Madison County,' and I said, 'I can write that well.' So I started to write this notion I'd had for 20 years.
"I have this faculty or weakness that when I see a face in a crowd or walking down the street or driving by, I can think about their whole life and what has happened to them. When I was playing in vaudeville, I'd go to a restaurant between shows and look at people and figure out their lives."
He worked out a regimen of rising at 4 a.m. and writing five pages in longhand until sunrise or when the phone started ringing. During the day, he would correct the pages. He discovered as most authors do, that producing a book is not about writing, but rewriting.
Then Ebsen discovered another lesson of first-time authors: finding a publisher is harder than writing. Nine publishers rejected "Kelly's Quest," some with sympathetic comments, some with form letters.
He decided to self-publish. They used to be called vanity books, but now they have a modern twist. 1st Books Library, based in Bloomington, Ind., offers to publish books online for $459. Authors also have the option of having the books printed either in hardcover or paperback and made available to bookstores for the additional fee of $350, plus a charge for each book printed.
The company also gets a 20 percent royalty on all books sold. Unlike normal publishers, 1st Books proclaims that it "does not make value judgments about the literary merit of books, nor edits manuscripts for style or content."
Ebsen seems exhilarated by his new career and is contemplating three other ideas for novels. His last TV series, "Barnaby Jones," ended in 1980, and he last appeared in a movie in 1993 a clever cameo as Barnaby in the otherwise anemic feature "The Beverly Hillbillies." Does he miss the studios?
"No," he quickly responds. "I was 50 percent in show business and 50 percent in sailing. I really only worked so I could buy better sails to make my catamaran go faster. The studios helped me put both of them behind me. They don't hire anybody of my age anymore, because they have to pay too much (insurance) premium. I don't know how George Burns got away with it, but he did."
Ebsen became a star in every entertainment medium he entered. He and his sister, Vilma, played the New York Palace, vaudeville's Valhalla. They danced in hit Broadway shows, including "The Ziegfeld Follies of 1934."
Yet his greatest fame came with television: Walt Disney's "Davy Crockett" (1954-1955), in which he played the frontiersman's sidekick; "The Beverly Hillbillies" (1962-1971), as clan patriarch Jed Clampett; and the title role in the detective drama "Barnaby Jones" (1973-1980). All are among TV's most successful shows.
Jones missed becoming a movie icon, all because of misapplied makeup.
"I was scheduled to play the Scarecrow in 'The Wizard of Oz,"' he recalls. "Then one day Ray Bolger walked on the set with his agent. I said, 'There goes my part!' I had seen Bolger do the Scarecrow dance in vaudeville, and he did it perfectly. They switched me from the Scarecrow to the Tin Man. It almost killed me.
"We rehearsed for two months and shot 10 days. (For the Tin Man makeup) they powdered me with aluminum dust; you breathe some of that and it's no good for your lungs."
One night he woke up screaming. His legs and arms were cramped, and he had trouble breathing. Aluminum dust had coated his lungs. He spent weeks recovering; meanwhile MGM cast Jack Haley as the Tin Man.
Sixty-three years later, Buddy Ebsen has something to remember the experience by: a persistent bronchial cough.
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Kenilworth's students can apply for up to £2,000 a year to help them study thanks to new initiative from a town charity.
The William Edwards educational charity trustees are offering annual bursaries to help undergraduates gain qualifications in core subjects.
The charity helps provide money for schools and groups in need across the town to further education and learning.
It already offers help for families and postgraduate students, but the new initiative extends to students who may be struggling with fees or living expenses.
Applicants must be under the age of 25, living in Kenilworth with parents living in the town or have been to school there. They must also show a clear need for financial assistance in the application.
The competitive awards are open to those looking to go into IT, science, technology, engineering or maths subjects as well as foreign languages and medicine.
To apply or find our more, contact the clerk, J Hathaway at email@example.com or on 492407.


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function fadeIn(elem){
element = elem.nextSibling;
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I have used the opacity property to make fading element like fadeIn() function in jquery , and i have used onfocus event to execute the code .Problem exists in setTimeout function, this function Does not work But the code works without this function
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I have used the opacity property to make fading element
Sometimes the content of the inner function can be quite complex, so when you revisit the code later on, it can be tricky to determine the reason for why this design of code has been done. By calling the outer function with the variable(s) that you need to retain, that helps to inform you about why such a technique is used.
It also means that the inner function is not relying on an assumption that the variables that it requires will be available at some higher scoped level. Instead, you are explicitly making sure that the requirements for the inner function are provided, which is a better type of coding technique to apply.
When the setTimeout calls fadeIn() it is doing so without passing a value for elem.
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You can pass the value to an anonymous function, which then returns an inner function (which remembers the passed value) which properly calls fadein
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Bovine viral diarrhea virus has been described as one of the most serious pathogens in beef and dairy cattle.
It is responsible for causing early embryonic death and abortion, severe diarrhea, suppression of the immune system and a systemic condition known as mucosal disease, which usually results in death.
Persistently infected animals are the main source of the virus in cattle populations. Persistently infected calves are infected with the virus as fetuses between 40 and 120 days of gestation.
The fetus can become infected if an unvaccinated pregnant cow is exposed to the virus during this critical time period, and the calf will be born persistently infected with BVD virus.
These calves do not recognize BVD virus as a foreign agent, and their immune system will allow it to replicate freely in their bodies. They become walking virus factories.
Many of these animals eventually die of mucosal disease, but they are an important source of the virus while alive.
Estimates vary, but .3 to .5 percent of weaned calves are persistently infected with BVD virus.
Despite a relatively low prevalence, these persistently infected animals can spread the virus if mixed with other animals.
BVD virus is also known to severely suppress the immune system when cattle are exposed to the virus. This may result in making them more susceptible to other infectious diseases such as respiratory disease.
Scientific studies have attempted to measure the health and disease effects of being exposed to BVD virus in feedlot cattle.
Dr. Dan Grooms from Michigan State University and his coauthors recently published an article in the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, which again tried to answer this question.
Grooms' study involved three trials in which he compared groups of weaned calves that were exposed to persistently infected BVD animals with groups of weaned calves that had no exposure.
He and his colleagues then recorded health and productivity measures to determine if being exposed to a persistently infected animal made weaned calves more likely to get sick.
The study was also designed to allow researchers to examine the effects of vaccinating calves to see if it reduced the effects of being exposed to BVD virus.
The results were varied, but in general the experiments showed that persistently infected cattle adversely affect the health and performance of weaned calves in the feedlot.
Cattle that were exposed to BVD virus tended to be more likely to be treated for respiratory disease.
These results are similar to other larger studies that have examined the effect of BVD virus in feedlot cattle. Some studies have shown that being exposed to a persistently infected calf in the feedlot pen can make cattle more likely to get sick, although the effects have not been consistent across every study.
Some of Grooms' experiments were able to show a protective effect in the calves that were vaccinated for BVD virus.
It would appear that BVD virus can have negative consequences for feedlot cattle, but the magnitude of the effect probably depends on the strain of the virus, the type and age of the cattle and management practices.
Feedlot producers typically vaccinate incoming cattle for BVD virus, but this management practice does not eliminate the persistently infected animal.
These animals were infected as a fetus, and the only way to prevent this from happening is to ensure the mother is properly vaccinated against BVD virus.
Vaccinating for BVD virus on arrival at the feedlot may have some benefits in terms of protecting other calves if a persistently infected calf is bought as part of a group of weaned calves.
However, significant exposure and transmission of the virus may occur before immunity from the vaccination has time to take effect.
BVD has important economic consequences for cow-calf and feedlot producers. The ultimate control of this disease rests in the hands of the cow-calf sector. Consult a veterinarian for advice about the most appropriate vaccination program to protect a herd from this virus.
It is important to remember that our vaccination program for BVD is designed to protect the fetus from becoming infected and therefore must focus on protecting the cow during early gestation.


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Microsoft opening retail stores
After years of rumors, Microsoft today confirmed that it's delving into retail. The company is hiring an executive "to create a better PC and Microsoft retail purchase experience for consumers worldwide through the development and opening of the company's own retail stores," according to this news release.
From Benjamin J. Romano's Microsoft Pri0 blog
After years of rumors, Microsoft today confirmed that it's delving into retail. The company is hiring an executive "to create a better PC and Microsoft retail purchase experience for consumers worldwide through the development and opening of the company's own retail stores," according to this news release.
To lead the effort, Microsoft hired a retail executive with 25 years of experience at Wal-Mart. David Porter, most recently head of worldwide product distribution at DreamWorks Animation, will report to Chief Operating Officer Kevin Turner, who rose from checkout clerk to chief executive of Wal-Mart's Sam's Club division. Turner joined Microsoft in September 2005.
[Updates throughout, 5:04 p.m.]
Microsoft has taken tentative steps into retail in recent months. As part of its broad Windows marketing campaign, the company launched "Windows-branded sales environments and store-within-a-store concepts" at Circuit City and Best Buy. It created a team of "Microsoft Gurus," similar to Nordstrom's personal shoppers to help people shop. It also built a "Retail Experience Center" in a Redmond warehouse to study PC buying.
It will be up to Porter to determine the when, where and what of the retail stores. A spokeswoman said via e-mail the company will target "a small number of high profile experience stores in a few major cities around the world."
The purpose of the stores, according to Microsoft's release, "is to create deeper engagement with consumers and continue to learn firsthand about what they want and how they buy."
As far as products, expect the stores to carry Microsoft software and hardware -- including the company's Xbox 360 game consoles. Microsoft is still determining whether the stores will sell PCs and other products from the company's partners.
As bluejava2 pointed out in comments on this post, Microsoft had an earlier retail presence in San Francisco's Metreon mall.
The store was called microsoftSF, according to the spokeswoman. "The space was owned and operated by Sony Retail Entertainment," she added via e-mail.
Of course, people are immediately comparing Microsoft's retail efforts to Apple, which has had immense success with its retail stores. The Apple Stores, like the company as a whole, have a following that borders on the religious. The ifoAppleStore blog covers every detail of Apple's retail outlets, including how the company arranges the table displays.
And today's report on ifoAppleStores underscores just how tough a comparison it will be: "Apple plans to entirely reorganize and refocus space within the stores to emphasize customer education, and software over hardware. ... The front section of the store will promote, 'Why You'll Love a Mac,' catching visitors when they first enter the store. The section will have signage and brochures pointing out the advantages of a Mac over a Windows PC."
Some initial reaction to Microsoft's retail moves:
Mary Jo Foley: "I've been very vocal in complaining about the dwindling number of retail stores where users can evaluate Windows PCs from different vendors, side-by-side. ... I'm doubtful Microsoft is going to be able to pull off anything as sleek and hip as Apple has with its retail stores."
Sam Diaz: Gateway, "[t]he once-strong PC maker, which is now part of Acer, tried desperately to make a retail store work years ago. It added training classes, a service department and even made room on its shelves for other electronics devices that interacted with a PC - such as mp3 players and digital cameras. But nothing paid off. I don't know if Microsoft - which really has no brand cachet for physical products other than Xbox (and maybe Zune, too) - can pull off a retail model any better than Gateway."
More, 5:32 p.m.:Joe Wilcox reminds us that he has prodded Microsoft to open retail stores for two years running. "There will be fear of channel conflict. But c'mon. CompUSA is gone. Circuit City is going. Who can guess which Microsoft retail partner is next. Microsoft is right to open stores. It's retail partner ranks are shrinking."
Emil Protalinski notes that Fudzilla actually reported this rumor in April 2008. His take: "A store full of software and PCs running them isn't enough to keep me interested. A fun-filled lounge-like environment though, I could see working quite well in Microsoft's favor." He also dug up the image above from The Simpsons.
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ARB staff will hold the next round of workshops to discuss updates to the Carl Moyer Program guidelines on the following dates. July 9 in Sacramento at the Cal/EPA Building + webcast July 12 in El Monte at the ARB Building July 18 in Fresno at the San Joaquin Valley APCD Building The workshop notice is posted on ARB's website at: http://www.arb.ca.gov/msprog/moyer/2008guideline_updates.html At the workshops, ARB staff will present draft project criteria for the source categories fundable under the Carl Moyer Program. Staff will also report on the progress of two work groups developing proposals for updated program administration requirements and for a new off-road fleet modernization (equipment replacement) project category. Staff will post draft concepts on ARB's web site approximately one week prior to the first workshop. These proposed guideline revisions are scheduled to be presented to the ARB at a public meeting in February 2008. Please contact Mr. Joe Calavita at (916) 445 4586 or email@example.com if you have questions regarding the guidelines or the workshops. You are receiving this single arbcombo email because you are a subscriber to or have made a public comment to one or more of the following lists: avrp, moyer.


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NORFOLK, Va. -- A National Guard cargo plane that crashed in March, killing all 21 people aboard, encountered a violent storm that subjected it to disastrous gravitational forces, The Associated Press has learned.
The Florida Army National Guard C-23 Sherpa crashed in heavy rain in a muddy field south of Macon, Ga., as it was returning 18 Virginia Air National Guard passengers from a two-week training stint in Florida. Three crew members from the Florida guard also were killed in the worst domestic air crash this year.
A source familiar with a report on an investigation by the Florida guard told the AP that the plane flew near a thunderstorm that caused it to experience nine times the force of gravity. The source said that strong a force could break cockpit instruments or cause them to malfunction.
At the time of the March 3 accident, investigators had said they would look into the possibility that bad weather played a role.
The source, who spoke only on condition of anonymity, said crash investigators also focused some attention on crew error, including apparently incorrect loading of passengers and gear so that the plane carried too much weight at the back.
The source said there were other factors as well but declined to identify them.
''They all worked together to set in motion the tragic chain of events,'' the source said.
The AP could not determine whether the report explains how the plane came to be flying near the storm.
Lt. Col. Chester C. Carter III, spokesman for the Virginia National Guard, declined to comment and referred all questions to the Florida National Guard.
Maj. Ron Tittle, a spokesman for the Florida guard, also declined to comment on the source's information. He said a copy of the report would be released Monday in Florida, after all the victims' families had been briefed this weekend.
''Unless the report is presented in full, people will not understand the full concept,'' Tittle said. ''Anything short of that is speculative and takes it out of context and is not doing a service to our American people.''
John Cain, a professor of aeronautical science at Florida Institute of Technology and a former Air Force F-16 fighter pilot, said violent thunderstorms can exert powerful gravitational forces on airplanes.
''One moment you could be going up very dramatically at three or four thousand feet per minute,'' Cain said. ''The next moment you can be going down that fast. You would be going up and down in a very short period of time and that causes the G loading.''
Cargo planes typically are built to handle 4 Gs, or four times the force of gravity, Cain said. Cargo pilots who are unprepared can start losing consciousness at around that level of force, he said.
''If you go beyond 4 Gs, then the airplane would likely bend, warp or pop some rivets. There will be a little bit of damage,'' Cain said. ''If you go beyond 6 Gs, a wing is going to break, a tail is going to break.''
At the crash site, investigators found two clusters of debris a quarter mile apart. One witness was quoted at the time as saying he saw several pieces fall off the plane as it plummeted to the ground.
Cain and other experts interviewed for this story were not familiar with the crash report but spoke based on their knowledge of aeronautics and physics.
John Delos, a professor of physics at the College of William and Mary, said powerful winds could cause a plane to experience 9 Gs.
If the plane were jerked downward with that amount of force, Delos said, the effect on passengers or crew could be to produce excessive blood pressure in the brain, which could cause blood vessels to burst or the person to have a stroke.
The C-23 Sherpa aircraft can carry up to 30 passengers and provides troop and equipment transport, airdrop and medical evacuation.
The 18 Virginia guard members who died were assigned to the 203rd Red Horse Flight, a civil engineering unit based at the Camp Pendleton state military reservation in Virginia Beach.
The three Florida guardsmen who died were assigned to the 171st Aviation Battalion.
Tittle, the Florida guard spokesman, said teams including a chaplain will visit relatives of the crash victims this weekend to brief them. Each family group will receive a copy of the report, which will include a transcript of the audiotapes from the cockpit voice recorder, Tittle said.
Associated Press writer Bill Baskervill contributed to this report.
This article published in the Athens Banner-Herald on Saturday, August 4, 2001.
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The production of Lost filmed three different endings to last night's Season Four finale as a means of confounding any spoilers and sneak peeks. The NY Mag has some video screens.
There were three endings, one real and two alternate endings filmed for the Season Four Lost finale in an attempt to keep the real ending a secret.
Dharma Initative
In 2001, after Stuart Radzinsky's alleged suicide in The Swan, Kelvin Inman, a man who found Desmond adrift on the beach, was still working for the Dharma Initiative in the Swan station.
Lost producer Carlton Cuse confirms in a podcast that Kelvin was indeed a member of the Dharma Initiative.
In the "Lost Experience", an actor portraying fictional Hanso Foundation executive Hugh McIntyre appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live, where he stated that the Foundation had stopped funding the Dharma Initiative in 1987.
However, in season 2, an air drop of supplies arrived for the Swan station. As an airdrop would require a cargo plane, pilots, parachutes, a loadmaster, and the supplies themselves, this would suggest someone is still providing funding for its activities.
Video: Lost
The series uses pop culture songs sparingly, and used a mainly orchestral score (consisting usually of divided Strings, Percussion, Harp and 3 Trombones.)
When it features pop songs, they often originate from a diegetic source. Examples include the various songs played on Hurley's portable CD player throughout the first season (until its batteries died in the episode "...In Translation", which featured Damien Rice's "Delicate), or the use of the record player in the second season, which included Cass Elliot's "Make Your Own Kind of Music", and Petula Clark's "Downtown" in the second and third season premieres respectively. Two episodes show Charlie on a street corner playing guitar and singing the Oasis song "Wonderwall". In the third season's finale, Jack drives down the street listening to Nirvana's "Scentless Apprentice", right before he arrives to the Hoffs/Drawlar Funeral Parlor, and in the parallel scene in the fourth season's finale he arrives listening to "Gouge Away" by Pixies. The third season also used Three Dog Night's "Shambala" on two occasions in the van. The only two pop songs that have ever been used without an on-screen source (i.e., non-diegetic) are Ann-Margret's "Slowly", in the episode "I Do" and "I Shall Not Walk Alone", written by Ben Harper and covered by The Blind Boys of Alabama in the episode "Confidence Man". Alternate music is used in several international broadcasts. For instance, in the Japanese broadcast of Lost, the theme song used varies by season; season one uses "Here I Am" by Chemistry, season two uses "Losin'" by Yuna Ito, and season three uses "Lonely Girl" by Crystal Kay.
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The DHARMA Initiative conducted research and other activities on the Island in a number of stations. They all have (or have had) power (from an unknown source) and a water supply as well as various kinds of equipment (e.g. machinery, living quarters, computers, medical equipment, etc). Each facility also has its own octagon-shaped logo, utilizing a different symbol to designate which station items or personnel correspond to.
There are several recurring elements and motifs on Lost, which generally have no direct effect on the story itself, but expand the show's literary and philosophical subtext.
These elements include frequent appearances of black and white, which reflect the dualism within characters and situations; as well as rebellion in almost all characters, especially Kate; dysfunctional family situations (especially ones that revolve around the fathers of many characters), as portrayed in the lives of nearly all the main characters; apocalyptic references, including Desmond's pushing the button to forestall the end of the world; coincidence versus fate, revealed most apparently through the juxtaposition of the characters Locke and Mr. Eko; conflict between science and faith, embodied by the leadership tug-of-war between Jack and Locke.


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Ukraine moves troops, armour to border with Russia – media
16 March 2014, 18:31 -- Ukraine's '24' television news channel said Ukraine is moving troops and armoured vehicles to the border with Russia.
The aired footage showed a railway train carrying tanks towards the border. The news report offered no hint where the picture was taken. The subtitle merely said that 'military hardware is being moved towards Russia.'
In another episode the train was shown at an anonymous station. Tanks and armoured personnel carriers on open flatcars could be seen.
'Troops are being moved to Russia's border, too,' the subtitle said.
According to local residents, the train arrived at the Kondrashevskaya Novaya station, 10 kilometres away from Lugansk, on March 15. There have been reports that civilians from nearby villages prevented the unloading of combat vehicles.
Some protesters used a shunting engine to pull the train into a siding and blocked the exit with heavy metal structures.
Most of the military on the train stayed calm and offered no resistance to the civilians.
At a certain point there was a brawl. A group of unbadged gunmen armed with automatic rifles attempted to force the military unit's commander to 'obey orders,' to drive the villagers back and to unblock the rail track. The clash with local civilians that followed ended inconclusively.
The military retreated. The protesters placed round-the-clock posts around the train to prevent the unloading of armoured vehicles.
Voice of Russia, TASS
Source: http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_03_16/Ukraine- moves-troops-armour-to-border-with-Russia-media-1399/
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We know you've been asked to vote often recently. You've probably voted in your state/territory's primary elections. We KNOW you voted for all the excellent nonprofit panels on the SXSW panel picker. Well, we need you to exercise your right to vote just one more time — this time for NTEN's fantastic 2011 Nonprofit Technology Conference.
Since all the panels up for evaluation deal in some way with nonprofit technology goodness, we're just going to point you in the direction of what we think is a stellar line up of panels that we have submitted for inclusion. We'd love your vote — and would especially appreciate any comments on what you'd like to see in these or future panels.
Practical HTML5/CSS3 for Nonprofits (or "How to Party Like it's 2011 When it's Really Still 1999″)
More neat stuff is being done with HTML5 and CSS3 every day and we all want to jump on the bandwagon and make Web sites that are really, truly, awesome. But what does HTML5 really mean? Non-profits have unique technology requirements, including the need to support visitors to your site who may be browsing on really old browsers over really slow connections, so will HTML5 even be viable? ("This will work in IE6, right?") Will HTML5 make our site work on mobile devices? Is it the Flash killer that you may have heard it was? (spoiler alert: a REALLY BIG "maybe") Can you start using it right now? ("Please oh please oh please".)
You can hack it… but should you?
You're adding a new feature to your website; maybe an online community, or peer-to-peer fundraising, or better Facebook integration. What's more expensive: investing in a new piece of software, with a new set of features, and integrating it with your existing system? Or stretching the limits of your existing system, making it meet your changing needs? Sometimes it's worth the cost to make updates with the click of a mouse, instead of making your developer tear her hair out to achieve the same result. Other times, your tools may surprise you, and a little hacking can go a long way. Learn the tricks for extending your existing toolset, and guidelines for deciding which route to take. We'll share examples of how tools like Convio, WordPress, and Ning can do more than you'd expect… and some cases when they can't do quite enough.
Money for Nothing and your Software for Free
Free beer! Free kittens! Free software! We all love to get something for free, especially when budgets are tight. We dream of the product that will, like magic, solve our problems without costing a cent. (If you aren't, your boss probably is.) But free things almost always come with hidden costs, and free software is no different. It won't give you a hangover, or get fleas, but it could eat up your staff time, control your data, or change the rules on you without notice. This was spectacularly clear when Ning eliminated free accounts, leaving nonprofits with the choice of paying up, or losing years of hard work. Or when Facebook suddenly turned fans into "likers," forcing page administrators to change their outreach strategy. But not all free software is created equal, and it's not just about open source vs. closed source. Some tools give you great power – but you have to know how to use it. Others may limit your options, or ignore what you really need. But some may be just what you're looking for. We'll explore the ins and outs of free and low-cost software, and ask: what does free software really cost?
Guerrilla UX
While the importance of web usability is indisputable, the sad truth is that paying for usability experts, their tools and facilities often doesn't fit into the nonprofit web budget. Turns out, it doesn't have to be this way. You can go guerrilla with usability testing in either your approach and/or the tools you use and still achieve effective results.
Method Tweeting for Nonprofits: Much Ado About Something
When organizations use Twitter to promote themselves, it's largely about playing a role. The person tweeting is tasked to be on message as the voice of the organization while creating a unique and engaging personality to draw an audience in. At the theater, we gladly accept this fake-me-out, but in social media where do we draw the line between being the playwright and playing a character?
Just 'Cause: Can Technology Make Brand Irrelevant
Thanks to technology, the line is starting to blur between the power of a household name brand and the passion of scrappy mission-focused organizations. Yet when it feels like nothing short of a crisis will engage people with your cause, how do you compel them to act? The battle of Cause vs Brand is on.


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Baseball: Bemidji VFW season begins Monday
The Bemidji VFW baseball team launches its 2009 campaign tomorrow playing a district conference double header at Perham.
They will be the first of 23 games listed on the slate though Coach Brad Johnson hopes to add more before the year ended.
The District 9 Conference has lost Thief River Falls this year when that community was unable to field a team.
But it has regained East Grand Forks which went through the same problem in 2008. Moorhead, Detroit Lakes and Fergus Falls join Bemidji, EGF and Perham.
They will play their usual round robin home and home schedule facing 20 league games.
The other three will come at the Grand Forks tournament late this month.
Johnson hopes to find at least one more tournament to enter.
He begins his fourth year at the helm with a 47-46 record but is still looking to take his first team to the state. Bemidji went 2-2 in the district meet last year, bowing to champion Fergus Falls and runner-up Perham. That pair finished 1-2 in the regular season race with Perham tying Moorhead for second.
Bemidji was fourth at 10-10 beating DL and TRF.
As always, the Vets have a heavy turnover from year to year with most of last year's players advancing to the Legion ranks this year.
Replacements move up from the 15-U All Star team which had a fine summer under Carl Jacobs last season.
Most played on the record setting 29-2 freshmen team with the high school this spring with some on the B Team that ended 11-8.
Back from 2008 are Ernie Heifort, Booster Russ, Matt Schneider, Zach Solheim and Ryan Stevens.
Stevens was among the mound leaders at 3-0 while Heifort ended 1-0 in limited opportunities.
Solheim, Schneider and Russ also pitch as do Cole Bardwell, Mason Bellew, Kris Berndt, Mitch Hendricks, Trey Johnson, Collin Leif, Chase Vogt ,Jake Urban and Remer's Kevin Murphy who played this spring for Tim Vagle at Northland high. His older brother played Legion ball here the past two summers.
Leif and Alex Lucas will provide two solid catchers with Bellew, Heifort, Hendricks, Johnson, Russ, Schneider, Solheim, Urban and Vogt infielders by trade with Bardwell, Berndt, Murphy and Stevens outfielders when not on the mound.
Only Bellew, Hendricks and Leif are 15 this year with the remainder seeing their final year at the VFW level.
This marks the 30th year of VFW play for a team founded by Frank Pelawa in 1980 when it was the only team in the district meet and advanced to the state tournament.
It returned in 1981, 84 and 85, winning the title the final year.,
The following summer Bemidji lacked enough players to field a team but returned for the 1987 campaign and has been on the diamond since.
It returned to the state meet in 88 and 89, launching a nine year run from 1992-2000, winning the consolation championship in1997.
Since 2001, however, it has gained the state meet only once, going in 1995 under Rick Looker.
Bemidji makes its home debut June 16 with Fergus Falls.
It will play most of its five home dates at Sagedahl or the Arena diamonds with some possibly at BSU when that field is available.
It has the prospects of making a run again for the district title this year.


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At the Top of Her Game: Joan Payden '53, CEO, Payden & Rygel
By Elizabeth Palmer '92
"Quiet charm… friendships made with ease and kept with lasting loyalty… serenity punctuated with a lively sense of humor… broad fields of knowledge measured by a slide rule…"
So say the words immortalizing Trinity alumna Joan Payden '53 in her senior class yearbook. They evoke a mental image that is borne out in person; friendly and engaging, confident, keenly observant, and possessing of an intellect that has propelled her to the top echelons of investment management circles. Her presence is both powerful and non-threatening, a seamless blend of apparently complimentary contradictions.
This is a woman on whose counsel fortunes literally hang, yet surrounding her is a complete lack of pretense, an absence of any of the trappings of entitlement, however well earned, that have been the familiar hallmarks of high finance and money management.
I have come to ask this math major from Larchmont, N.Y. how she ended up here, at the top of her game.
…friendships made with ease and kept with lasting loyalty
She greets her visitor personally in the lobby of the 32nd floor Los Angeles offices of Payden & Rygel, now the nation's largest independent investment management firm with over $40 billion in assets.
She is welcoming and friendly with a quick smile and firm handshake. She guides a short tour toward her office, an area tastefully appointed, favoring elegance over opulence. The firm's art collection, including various mediums and styles, showcases local artists over the more traditional European painters. Staff move through the corridors with industrious efficiency, neither hurried nor harried, but purposefully engaged in the work of this firm that is the brain child and life's work of this Trinity woman.
The short walk from the reception area to her office suggests Payden's preference to remain close to the center of things, rather than secluded in a corner suite. The door to her office remains open, and colleagues periodically lean in for a moment of professional consult. Payden is in her element. She facilitates the collaborative decision making that distinguishes the Payden & Rygel signature service from a field dominated by corporate giants.
"Financial management is a process, not a product," she says. "We tailor our services to our clients' individual needs and goals."
To illustrate her point, she produces an article analyzing the New England Patriots' surprise Super Bowl victory over the heavily favored St. Louis Rams from a business perspective. Success, it is argued, can be attributed to matching the right people with the right product delivery process and bringing them together in a culture of teamwork. Everyone on the winning team is responsible for the victory, not just the quarterback.
This philosophy, coupled with a fierce commitment to remaining independent in the age of mergers and conglomerates, has left Payden & Rygel in a class by itself. The firm's clients are as diversified as their portfolios, and in recent years the firm took on additional diversification, first joining forces with Metzler Bank in Germany in 1998 and then opening offices a year later in the United Kingdom. Payden & Rygel Global Ltd. was established to provide service to European clients and to promote investment strategies in U.K. institutions. The Metzler/Payden venture provides clients with a full spectrum of investment opportunities.
The ongoing investment "process" involves economic analysis and proprietary research on individual issues, with an emphasis on risk management, Payden explains. By extensively exploring risks as well as opportunities, the firm is able to craft strategies that best serve highly customized client needs.
To better serve these varied interests and clients, Payden & Rygel remains steadfastly committed to its independent status. Strictly investment counselors, the firms does not draw income from individual stocks or transactional fees. They invest their earning potential the same way their clients do…in their financial advice. If the clients do well, the firm does well.
But business strategy alone did not build this empire.
…serenity punctuated with a lively sense of humor…
The afternoon sun dapples the walls of Payden's office, stretching across credenzas displaying an assortment of small toys, lighthearted quips and other mementos along with the financial reports, books, files and other tools of her trade.
Seated behind her large desk, Payden must certainly cut an imposing figure. She prefers to converse from a chair on the same side of the desk as her guest. She asks as many questions as she answers, and tends to deflect the focus from herself to the firm as a whole.
Despite this unassuming and gracious demeanor, Payden is a woman of great valor and resolution. In 1970, she boldly shattered glass ceilings, becoming the first woman vice president of Scudder, Stevens and Clark, one of the oldest and most well respected investment management firms in the world. Yet she is careful not to capitalize or allow too great a distinction between gender and achievement.
"I am either a good financial advisor or not," says Payden. "I am not a good woman financial advisor."
Following an enlightening and emboldening four month professional development program at Harvard University in the early 1980s, Payden made the unorthodox decision to forgo her prospects with Scudder, cash in her retirement savings and strike out on her own with fellow Scudder alumna Sandra Rygel.
Though this may have raised some eyebrows, Payden had already proven her mettle as a financial manager, and the firm's 1983 launch was everything she engineered it to be.
"When you jump in the lake, you can't think about drowning," explains Payden. "Of course we needed clients; I knew we'd get them, the important thing was to pull the right people together and that is what we did. At the time, and certainly it is clear now, the risk of 'not doing' outweighed the risk of 'doing.'"
Indeed it did. Payden & Rygel now employs more than 250 people in offices in the United States and Europe. The firm's dynamic management team continues to focus energies on delivering highly customized counsel to its expansive client base through ever evolving services.
…broad fields of knowledge measured by a slide rule
It does not take a great deal of imagination to see why some of the world's most savvy investors turn to Payden & Rygel. In an investment world of giants – giant firms, giant risks, giant payoffs and giant losses, Payden & Rygel is the independent voice of investment reason, strong, consistent and always growing.
Paydenfunds, the firm's family of 21 domestic and international mutual funds, debuted at No. 1 in its first listing in Global Investor, Europe's leading investment magazine, reflecting the esteem in which the firm's reputation is held internationally. The funds consistently perform among the top ranked, lowest expense ratio funds in the industry.
…a true Trinity woman
Payden is unimpressed by protestations from women who claim to be uninterested or uninformed about financial management, particularly their own.
"Women have been buying homes and cars, shopping for appliances and choosing family physicians forever. Financial management is really very similar; you have to ask a lot of questions and then make choices based on your assessment of the answers."
In a 1972 letter to her alma mater, Payden offered a glimpse of her own future success.
"I believe very strongly that this is a field where women can excel with the appropriate background in either economics or mathematics," she wrote. "It is helpful to have an advanced degree in economics or business, either an M.A. or an M.B.A."
But for women without this formal schooling, Payden recommends researching your investment opportunities and your investment advisor equally.
"Can you imagine choosing a doctor without asking whether he graduated from medical school or whether he takes your brand of insurance?" she says. "Of course not."
So how did Joan Payden end up here, at the top of her game? Hard work, determination and good sound management.
"There really is no free lunch," Payden says, cautioning anyone thinking of investing.
"You need to know what you are investing in, and make realistic projections for returns based on your risk management strategy."
Investment does begin at home, and Payden & Rygel is no exception. From the board services of the top brass to the local artistry adorning the walls to the interns drawn from local business liaison programs, the firm maintains an approach to corporate health that encompasses more than just the bottom line.
Payden's lifelong commitment to volunteer services and community involvement are thematic in Payden & Rygel's philosophy of what it takes to be a good corporate neighbor. The former Christ Child and Wekanduit Society member is a vital part of the Los Angeles philanthropic community and her efforts on behalf of such organizations as St. Anne's Home, St. Joseph's Hospital and other educational and social endeavors have brought enrichment to the lives of many.
We are standing in Joan's office, looking out across the Los Angeles skyline. It is time to wrap up our visit. I realize as I glance around, how reflective of Payden herself this office space is. Bright, welcoming, uncluttered, yet infused with personality.
A large painting of a locomotive seems to be ready to leap off the canvas and roll right out into the horizon. A portrait of an elderly man, painted by Payden's mother while traveling in Indonesia, keeps an eye on the people passing through the doorway. It is a comfortable place to ask a question, float an idea, or learn from a master.
There is something inherently impressive about a smart, confident woman. Joan Payden is such a woman. A Trinity woman, at the top of her game.
Elizabeth Palmer is a freelance writer and president of Palmer Fitzgerald Communications, a Democratic political consulting firm. She is a 1992 graduate of Trinity College with a degree in international studies. Currently, she lives in Colorado Springs, Colo., and serves on the Alumnae Association Board of Directors.


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The Arctic fox can be found in most Arctic ecosystems in the Northern Hemisphere, even in Iceland where it is the only native land mammal. It arrived in Iceland during the last Ice Age, where it journeyed over the frozen water to the volcanic island. This fox species is endangered in Scandinavia where it has been strictly protected for decades.


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SAN ANTONIO — In the wake of the controversial demolition of the former Univisíon building downtown, city officials are suggesting a future "cooling-off" period before certain structures could be razed.
Under current city code, once a board or commission signs off on a demolition, a permit for the work could be issued immediately.
However, Development Services Department Director Rod Sanchez and Shannon Miller, director of the Office of Historic Preservation, recommended to the City Council's Governance Committee on Wednesday that the cooling-off period be implemented.
They'd suggested waiting until 10 a.m. of the following business day after the Historic and Design Review Commission or other boards approved a demolition. But council members on the committee, including Mayor Julián Castro, balked at the timing.
"I would be more comfortable if we gave people 24 hours. Not everybody has a lawyer at the ready and the ability to make an appeal. We need to give them more time," Castro said. "Recognizing that people say 'time is money,' still, we need to give folks 24 hours."
The cooling-off period would not apply to demolition permits that don't need approval from a board or commission, officials said.
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'Bizarre' camp concludes – The Wash. TimesSpring training is finally over! Some say spring training is always kind of brutal, but this year was just ridiculous. Down in Fredericksburg, The Free Lance Star wonders if the Nats are ready. Nats' Young Star Isn't Kidding Around – The PostDutch! is precocious. He had a great spring,


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I was wrong.
Not about the Minnesota Vikings beating the Dallas Cowboys, mind you. That one I nailed. My mistake was predicting that—short of a Super Bowl appearance—head coach Wade Phillips wouldn't return in 2010 and beyond.
Even in the wake of an embarrassing 34-3 dismissal from the NFC Playoffs in Minneapolis last Sunday, owner Jerry Jones inked Phillips to a new deal that will keep him coaching at Valley Ranch through at least early 2011.
Wade Phillips
Translation: The bar for Dallas Cowboys' football has been lowered further than I expected. Once upon a time this proud franchise—America's Team, anyone?—measured success via Super Bowl banners. These days it's Wild Card wins.
Phillips has been here three seasons. His Cowboys have one playoff victory.
Really, that's progress?
Ask yourself: Are the Cowboys any closer to winning a Super Bowl today than when they walked off the field after Tony Romo's botched hold in Seattle back in 2007? Maybe. But only marginally.
The Cowboys are 33-15 under Phillips, winning a pair of NFC East Championships and going 1-2 in the playoffs. In retrospect, the January 9 victory over the Philadelphia Eagles at Cowboys Stadium was the perfect poison.
With that result, Phillips' Cowboys are good enough to proclaim themselves winners; bad enough to never seriously threaten any real post-season hardware. But Jones—and the players—covet continuity, regardless that it's a continuity of mediocrity.
The combined score of Dallas' last two season-ending losses: 78-9.
"His record speaks for itself," Romo said last Monday afternoon while teammates cleaned out their lockers at the team's practice facility. "He's done a great job, kept the team together through a lot of tough times this year. He's done a fantastic job. I think it's always important to continue to have the same system in place. For players, it goes a long way to continue to build and continue to improve, because the system is a big part of it."
Added linebacker Bradie James, "It just wouldn't make any sense to let him go right now, with just the way that we played, the way that we ended the season. I don't think that it's broken."
No, but is it fixed?
"I'm disappointed," Jones said in the post-game locker room, "but not discouraged."
Face it, the Cowboys promptly fell down and farted on the big stage in the Metrodome. The 31-point loss to the Vikings is the second-worst in franchise history behind only a 38-6 shellacking against the Detroit Lions at the end of the 1991 season. In the end, the Cowboys couldn't block the Vikings' pass rush (six sacks), couldn't cover receiver Sidney Rice (three touchdowns) and couldn't do anything except whine (right, Keith Brooking?) like little crybabies when quarterback Brett Favre threw a rub-it-in touchdown in the final two minutes.
The Cowboys called the Vikings classless. Minnesota shrugged, then rejoiced while Favre coat-tailed the American Idol phenomenon and sang "Pants on the Ground" in the victorious locker room.
That, Cowboys fans, is a tough tablet to take.
Dallas promises it's already marked the calendar for a 2010 regular-season rematch with the Vikings. But will the Cowboys be any better next season?
In a lot of ways, January 2010 feels like January 1992. Back then a young team led by Troy Aikman, Emmitt Smith and Michael Irvin won a playoff game in Chicago before the humbling loss to the Lions. It was a significant improvement, and the defeat only temporarily paused the progression. The next season the Cowboys again made the playoffs and wound up winning Super Bowl XXVII.
This year a young team led by Romo, DeMarcus Ware and Miles Austin won a playoff game in Arlington before the humbling defeat in Minnesota. It was a season of significant, barrier-busting improvement, the defeat possibly pausing the progression. Next season...
"We now have the understanding of what it takes to do certain things," Romo said. "Now we know what to do to get to that point. Now we have to do even more to take the next step. We'll do that."
The Cowboys won in December. For the first time since 1996 they won a playoff game. Unfortunately, the next advancement—from good to great to elite—may be even more difficult.
Re-signing Austin is off-season priority No. 1. He's a genuine run-after-catch playmaker that opens options for everybody from tight end Jason Witten to running backs Felix Jones, Tashard Choice and Marion Barber. As a restricted free agent, the Cowboys can match any offer from another team. In other words, he'll remain a Cowboy.
Second on the list has to be finding a reliable kicker. Nick Folk wasn't the answer, nor was Shaun Suisham. It'd be a shame for the Cowboys to attain and acquire championship-level parts only to taint the whole operation with a Dollar Store kicker. Defensive end Marcus Spears is the only other front-line player who will require an off-season re-signing, putting the Cowboys in healthy shape roster-wise.
In the draft, they need an offensive left tackle. Flozell Adams is old and creaky and—though his injury against Minnesota was debilitating—the Cowboys were lucky he made it though 17 weeks. Doug Free proved himself serviceable, but after Adams' departure the Cowboys allowed four sacks, scored 0 points and went 0-9 on third down. Upgrading from Ken Hamlin at safety and Roy Williams at receiver are also on the front burner.
"I think we're close," Witten said. "We definitely took some steps in the right direction this season. It's disappointing that we lost like we did to end it again like last season, but it doesn't totally take away from the season we've had."
Said Brooking, "I'm not satisfied one bit. I didn't come here to win one playoff game and go home. We need to come back next season and be a better football team. This is unacceptable."
Even though the Cowboys ultimately didn't overachieve, Phillips did enough—by most fans' standards, anyway—to keep his job. He was a little tougher disciplinarian, with players' fines jumping from $100 to one game check. He was a little more demanding as far as accountability, with Patrick Crayton losing his starting job to Austin, and Folk—better late than never—finally getting cut.
I can't call Phillips Stumbledoofus anymore—not with a playoff win on his otherwise impressive résumé. But it's easy to be reminded why I tagged him that in the first place. It wasn't merely the fact that he didn't go for 4th-and-1 at Minnesota's 30-yard line on Dallas' second drive. It's the fact that after the game when he attempted to explain his lack of gonads he had no idea it was 4th-and-1.
"Well, it wasn't fourth and one," Phillips said. Yes, it was. Inexcusable.
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My dollar says Bill Cowher would not only go for it there, but he'd damn sure know why he went for it. But, alas, we'll never know.
Still, the question begs to be asked: Considering the evidence of three seasons, are you convinced Wade Phillips can take—can lead—the Dallas Cowboys to the next level, and the next, and the next, to a Super Bowl victory?
Sorry, I'm not.
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To date, studies of wealth effects on consumption have mainly used aggregate wealth definitions on a single-country basis. This study seeks to break new ground by analysing disaggregated financial wealth in consumption functions for G7 countries. Contrary to earlier empirical work, we find that illiquid financial wealth (i.e. securities, pensions and mortgage debt) tends to be a more important long-run determinant of consumption than liquid financial wealth. These results imply potential instability in consumption functions employing aggregate wealth. Our results are robust using SURE; when testing with a nested specification; and when using a linear model. Copyright 2003 Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
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In eighth grade, I went through a serious Dylan phase. I had borrowed Another Side of Bob Dylan from the library and copied it onto a cassette tape, which I probably listened to every day for several months. My favorite track was "Ballad in Plain D;" something about that song made me think about the girl I was crushing on at the time, and I'd feel this strange longing I couldn't identify.
I remember buying The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, The Times They Are A-Changin', and Another Side, packaged as a three-cd set, at the Natick Mall with my mom. Listening to those three albums became my after-school regimen, which occupied the three or so hours until dinnertime. I wanted to cry whenever I listened "Girl From the North Country," "Boots of Spanish Leather," and "Ballad in Plain D." I didn't understand it until years later, that this was the first time I ever had an emotional response to music.


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President Barack Obama kicked off a celebratory night of Memphis Soul performances in the East Room of the White House on Tuesday night by suggesting a small change in presidential tradition, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Give it up for our musical director, Booker T. and the Memphis Soul All-Stars," Obama told the audience, as Booker T. Jones wrapped up "Green Onions." "I just want everybody to know that it is now my second term, so rather than 'Hail to the Chief,' we're going with ('Green Onions') from here on out."
It wasn't a hard sell for this crowd, which gathered to hear Justin Timberlake, Alabama Shakes, William Bell, Steve Cropper, Eddie Floyd, Ben Harper, Queen Latifah, Cyndi Lauper, 2012 "American Idol" finalist Joshua Ledet, Sam Moore, Charlie Musselwhite, Mavis Staples and Jones perform a dozen Otis Redding hits as part of a night that event producer Ken Ehrlich dubbed "Otis for POTUS."
Before moving on with the music, Obama announced the engagement of two White House staffers, Kenny Thompson, the director of Vice President Joe Biden's messaging, and Jessica Wright, White House director of scheduling, according to a pool report. Obama said the two of them had worked for him since Iowa in 2007.
"A beautiful couple," Obama told the crowd. "We love them. They are wonderful. They've been loyal, shown such great friendship to me, and I'm so glad that they have gone ahead and taken the plunge."
After suggesting Timberlake as an excellent singer for the wedding reception (and noting that Timberlake recently married actress Jessica Biel, who was sitting in the front row), Obama said he has gained new appreciation for the Memphis Soul sound. "Tonight, I am speaking not just as a president, but as one of America's best-known Al Green impersonators," Obama said, jokingly.
"In the '60s and '70s, Memphis knew its share of division and discord and injustice. But in that turbulent time, the sound of Hi, and Duke, and Sun, and Stax Records tried to bridge those divides — to create a little harmony with harmony," Obama continued. "The great Memphis musician Don Nix went to an all-white school, and he described what it was like. He said, 'If you could imagine, nobody's ever heard R&B music before. White kids had never heard it. And you can imagine what that did to us.'
"So he and others kept playing music that everybody could get into. They created a whole new sound, and as they did, they broke down barriers."
Tuesday's event, called "In Performance at the White House: Memphis Soul," will be broadcast April 16 at 8 p.m. ET on PBS stations nationwide.
"We've got folks here who were there at the beginning, legends like Mavis Staples, Charlie Musselwhite, William Bell and Eddie Floyd," Obama said. "We've got artists like Cyndi Lauper, and Ben Harper, and Queen Latifah, who still turn to Memphis for inspiration. We've got Justin Timberlake, a proud son of Memphis who's never forgotten his roots, and the Alabama Shakes, who are bringing the Muscle Shoals sound to a new generation."
As Obama sat down in the front row with Michelle and their two daughters, Moore and Ledet sang a rousing rendition of "Soul Man."
Other performances included Timberlake and Cropper singing "Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay," Alabama Shakes and Cropper performing "Born Under a Bad Sign," and Lauper singing "Try a little Tenderness," with Musselwhite on harmonica.
Timberlake lead an all-cast finale of "In the Midnight Hour" as the Obamas mingled onstage.
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