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Human resources for maternal health: multi-purpose or specialists?
Peer reviewed article
This paper reviews the current human resource situation for the provision of maternal health services to meet the MDG5 goal. The paper also discusses whether countries should give priority to producing large numbers of multi-purpose community health workers with inadequate training, capacity, support, authority, or whether they should support the option of giving priority to quality of care rather than coverage, offering an adequate number of skilled professionals, strongly supported by a well performing system.
The paper suggests that no significant progress in maternal mortality reduction can be achieved without a strong political decision to empower midwives and others with midwifery skills, and a substantial strengthening of health systems with a focus on quality of care rather than on numbers was required to give them the means to respond to the challenge.


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President George W. Bush met with congressional leaders from both parties on Tuesday, Jan. 22 to discuss the upcoming economic stimulus package expected to be rolled out later this month. In general remarks made by the President on Jan. 18, he set out broad principles to guide the discussion between the administration and Congress.
During his comments, Bush indicated that the package should be about one percent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) or about $140 billion including both tax incentives for business and rapid income tax relief for American people, including small business owners. While avoiding making specific proposals for the stimulus package, Bush did say that it must be temporary and not include any tax increases.
A key piece of any effective growth package is the inclusion of tax incentives for small businesses. Charged with creating 60 to 80 percent of all net new jobs, small-business owners carry significant responsibility for economic growth on their shoulders. It is crucial that, in any economic slowdown, small business is taken into account. NSBA urges Congress and the President to include the following provisions in the economic stimulus package:
R&D Tax Credit
While this incentive expired on Dec. 31, 2007, it is an important tool that remains critical for innovation, productivity and competitiveness. NSBA believes that R&D tax provisions spur economic growth and should be made permanent.
Small Business Section 179 Expensing
Increasing the amount of expensing levels that small business can immediately write off has made a critical difference in capital investment for equipment and other purchases. NSBA believes Section 179 expensing benefits the U.S. economy and our global competitiveness.
Bonus Depreciation
Allows for businesses to invest in their companies and enables them to deduct 50 percent of business investments made this year. In order to reduce the cost of capital assets and property, NSBA supports restoring the bonus depreciation write-off as it provides a powerful incentive for business owners.
Net Operating Loss Carry Back
This deduction allows business owners to offset one year's losses against another year's income. NSBA supports extending the NOL carry back provisions because it will provide additional money for further investment and job creation.
Similar to the NSBA suggestions, Republican Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va.) introduced a proposal, the Middle Class Job Protection Act (H.R. 4995), for small business tax cuts, which he hopes will be included in the anticipated stimulus package. H.R. 4995 is aimed at helping to ensure continued expansion of our economy and further job creation for American families.
Cantors legislation would cut the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 25 percent, provide for a 50 percent bonus depreciation through 2009, and increase Section 179 expensing limits to $250,000 for purchases of machines and equipment worth up to $1 million for 2008 and 2009. H.R. 4995 also would allow a 5-year carry back of Net Operating Loss and an extension of the carry back period for business tax credits for 3 years.
NSBA will work to ensure that an effective stimulus package includes incentives for small businesses to invest now in order to expand their operations, create new jobs and inject new energy into the economy.

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Building of the Day: 404 Gates Avenue
Brooklyn, one building at a time.
Name: United Pentecostal Faith Church, originally a music hall, then theater
Address: 404 Gates Avenue
Cross Streets: Nostrand and Marcy Avenues
Neighborhood: Bedford Stuyvesant
Year Built: 1910
Architectural Style: Neoclassic
Architect: Thomas Bennett
Other work by architect: Rows of houses in Sunset Park, flats buildings on 3rd St. Park Slope, and buildings in Philadelphia
Landmarked: No
The story: Nostrand Avenue, at Gates Avenue used to be one of Bedford's busier corners in the early 20th century. The Jenkins Building, on the southwestern corner was home to a large and important bank, the Jenkins Trust, a Williamsburg-based bank that had several branches in Brooklyn before they were taken down in a huge banking scandal towards the end of the first decade of the new century. Above the bank was a cold storage facility, where wealthy people stored furniture and other goods, as well as furs and perishable valuables. Across Gates Avenue was Arlington Hall, a late 19th century event and lecture hall, where local clubs and fraternal organizations met until 1918. Nearby were churches, stores and a firehouse. A block away on Gates and Marcy was the Gates Avenue Court House, and St. George's Episcopal Church. This was a busy intersection, so it should come as no surprise that someone decided it was a great place for a small theater.
The records show that in 1910, architect Thomas Bennet was commissioned to build a small music hall. The building cost $9,000, and featured hardwood finishes, a North Carolina pine floor, gas and electric features and water closets. It was owned by a Harry Waters, and in 1914 was called the Princess Theater. Bennet had a good career, designing handsome flats buildings for Louis Bonert on 3rd Street in Park Slope, and a lot of row houses in Sunset Park, including 514-560 44th Street. He split his time between his office in Sunset Park and his office in Philadelphia, where he also had a busy practice.
The Princess Theater apparently began early in showing motion pictures, the silent films that made up the early cinema. They probably had a pianist to accompany the films. In 1912, the theater owner was one Harry Walrich, of Manhattan. That year, he was fined $100 for hiring an underage boy actor, 12-year-old Kenneth Casey, to help him with the movies. The child's mother was also in court for allowing the boy to be employed. The theater didn't last long.
In 1914, the artist Mme. Lillian DeSeverinus Sombrakos opened her art studio in this building. Lillian, born Lilian Georgina Drawater, in England, was a well-known artist in Brooklyn, the wife of a wealthy man named Theodore Sombrakos. She had had a gallery and school since 1898. She offered gallery space as well as room for lessons in drawing and painting. Mme DeSeverinus was quite the artist herself, and gave many showings of her own work in the gallery.
She was passionate about sharing art with all of Brooklyn, and stated, "the art of a nation is a reflection of its ideals, the artist the mirror through which they are reflected." She didn't believe that students needed to go to Europe to study art. "We want American art, national art!' She later stated that "Art in America is here to stay."
Art may be here to stay, but the wealthy Mr. and Mrs. Sombrakos family liked to travel. They made frequent trips to Europe, but almost got caught up in war. In 1914, they were travelling through Germany when World War I broke out. He and his wife had to escape from Germany, as that country was shutting its borders in anticipation of war, and soldiers were on patrol in the streets of Paris. They made it back to New York, just before transatlantic shipping became dangerous. The DeSeverinus Studios stayed in business here until 1922. Madame maintained a studio until her death in 1941. She had quite a career, and was an excellent artist.
The building next passed on to Congregation Ahavath Achim. They maintained the space as a synagogue from 1922 until the 1940s. The former theater, art studio, synagogue and now church seems to have been in the possession of various Pentecostal churches ever since. Who knew? GMAP
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|AARP Secure Horizons HMO, HMO/POS, PFFS from UnitedHealthcare
UnitedHealthcare's Medicare Advantage Plan
|Advantra HMO, PPO, and POS from Coventry
|Aetna Better Health of Nebraska (Formerly Coventry Cares of Nebraska)
Nebraska Medicaid Managed Care Plan
|Arbor Health Medicaid
Nebraska Medicaid Managed Care Plan
|Blue Cross Blue Shield of Iowa
In Iowa only. See Wellmark, below
|Blue Cross Blue Shield of NebraskaBlue Cross Blue Shield of Nebraska Network Blue Plans Effective 7/15/2015
CHI Health facilities and CHI Health Clinic providers remain out-of-network for the BCBSN SelectBlue plan.
|Care Improvement Plus
Medicare Advantage Plan for Chronic Conditions
Under Midlands Choice Network
|Cigna Behavioral Health
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|Coventry Health Care of Nebraska/Aetna
Coventry Carelink powered by Alegent Creighton
Coventry PPO/Health Assurance
Coventry HMO, POS, Open Access
Coventry Healthcare National Network (formerly known as First Health Direct)
First Health PPO Network
|Coventry Total Care (HMO) in partnership with UniNet
Medicare Advantage Plan
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Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services Program
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See Coventry Healthcare of Nebraska
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Standard PPO
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UnitedHealthcare Choice HMO
UnitedHealthcare Choice Plus PPO
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UnitedHealthcare Options PPO
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Lancashire v Durham
Monday, Old Trafford
Glen Chapple will return to captain the Lancashire side after being rested for Sunday's CB40 game against Glamorgan.
Callum Thorp is a doubt for Durham after suffering a calf injury against Hampshire last week. Mitch Claydon is in line to replace him.
Somerset v Hampshire
Monday, Taunton
Somerset are unchanged from last week's game against Kent, with Jos Buttler set to retain his place despite making a pair at Canterbury.
Dan Christian and Simon Jones could come into contention for Hampshire after both played in Sunday's one-day game against Durham.
Derbyshire v
Monday, Chesterfield
Pace bowler Graham Wagg could make his first start for Derbyshire since April after successfully recovering from a torn calf muscle.
Mal Loye will return at the top of the order for Northants, who also bring Andrew Hall back into their squad after he recovered from illness.
Glamorgan v Worcestershire
Monday, Colwyn Bay
Glamorgan will rest James Harris as they continue their promotion chase, with medium pacer Will Owen set to take his place.
Worcestershire will include young pace bowler Chris Russell in their squad, but are likely to keep the XI that played against Gloucestershire last week.
Middlesex v Leicestershire
Monday, Lord's
Middlesex are likely to remain unchanged from the side that beat Surrey by an innings in their last game, although Danny Evans and Tom Smith have been brought in as bowling cover.
Paul Nixon is set to return to the Leicestershire side after sitting out Sunday's Pro40 game against Kent at Canterbury.
Surrey v Sussex
Monday, Guildford
Surrey will keep faith with most of the side that was humbled by Middlesex in their last Championship outing.
Pace bowler Chris Liddle is in contention to start for Sussex after continuing his recovery from an ankle injury in Sunday's CB40 match.


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Album Rating: 4.5aha!!!!! so you are a fraud
cuz surfer rosa is better
Album Rating: 5.0how can surfer rosa be better if doolittle is the best album ever?
Doesn't make sense
Digging: Julien Baker - Turn Out The Lights
Album Rating: 4.5well you got me there
Album Rating: 5.0surfer rosa is better. just by a hair
Album Rating: 5.0it's the tits isn't it
Album Rating: 5.0something against you, oh man sounds ska at the beginning
Album Rating: 4.5they're pretty close for me
Digging: Burger / Ink - Las Vegas
Album Rating: 5.0SURFER ROSA KILLS DOOLITTLE
Album Rating: 4.0both albums sound completely different
therefore they're both amazing in their own right
Album Rating: 5.0...........no
Album Rating: 4.0yea
doolittle better
Album Rating: 4.5yea but surfer rosa sounds better so theres that
haven't heard yet, doolittle has higher score, must be better
Album Rating: 5.0yeah, and dark side of the moon is as good as OK Computer
different bands, different genres wow wtf
Album Rating: 4.5the hell
Album Rating: 5.0LMFAO
Album Rating: 4.5nice review, niiice album.
Album Rating: 4.5good review. this album is just about perfect. something against you, brick is red, bone machine, break my body, river ruphrates - all perfect.
Bands: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z


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Baku, Azerbaijan, March 14
By Sabina Ahmadova - Trend:
The city of Jeddah in Saudi Arabia is to host the Coordination Committee for the Islamic Solidarity Games and the second Conference of Ministers of Youth and Sports.
A report on the IV Islamic Solidarity Games will be presented during the Ministerial Conference on March 17, the National Olympic Committee of Azerbaijan reported on March 14.
The Minister of Youth and Sports Azad Rahimov, Vice-President of Azerbaijan's National Olympic Committee and vice president of Islamic Solidarity Sports Federation Chingiz Huseynzade, the Head of International Relations Department of the NOC, the member of the executive committee ISSF Kenul Nurullayeva and others plan to attend the first meeting of the Coordination Committee on March 16.
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Edited by C.N.
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Tyrone power home in big finish
Tyrone 2-12 Louth 0-10: From a Tyrone point of view this was the proverbial game of two halves at Healy Park on Saturday afternoon as, in the end, they secured an emphatic victory over Louth in the All Ireland qualifiers.
Tyrone supporters would have been living on their nerve ends at half-time as they had only a two- point advantage against the Leinster men but they needn't have worried as the second half proved to be a procession with Emmett McKenna's goal after 15 seconds being followed minutes later by one from Stephen O'Neill to end the game as a contest.
Those two strikes knocked the heart out of the visitors and after that it was only a matter of what the winning score would be on a day when Sean Cavanagh, Darren McCurry and Connor McAliskey amassed 15 points between them with keeper Niall Morgan also weighing in with four.
Tyrone took the chance to get back to winning ways after their disappointing Ulster championship defeat at the hands of Monaghan by racking up a big tally in this victory and, while much tougher tests lie ahead, there were plenty of positives, not least Joe McMahon first taste of action, from the bench, this season.
The home side began in a confident fashion and they established a 0-3 to 0-0 advantage by the fifth minute thanks to two points from McCurry and Cavanagh. Moments later though Louth were almost level when half back Adrian Reid flashed a shot just past the right hand post.
A superb pass from O'Neill put McKenna through but he kicked a poor wide and moments later Ciaran McGinley was off target as well with only keeper Neil Gallagher to beat. Either side of those misses Louth had registered a point via exciting teenager Ryan Burns as they began to come into the game.
With Colm Cavanagh getting through a mountain of work in midfield Tyrone were still the dominant force and a McAliskey brace from play coupled with a McCurry free left them 0-7 to 0-2 to the good. They then switched off though to allow Louth to hit back with scores from Brian White, Conor Grimes and Andy McDonnell and while Cavanagh responded with two frees it was the visitors who had the final say of the half through a well struck White placed ball to leave it 0-9 to 0-7 at half-time.
The home side had the wind at their backs for the second period and they got off to the best possible start with those two early goals. Morgan then landed three placed kicks including a '45' with Cavanagh also knocking over a free before McGinley drove over from play.
Burns opened Louth's second half account with a well struck free but their opponents had a vice-like grip on proceedings at this stage and there was no way back. McKenna and McCurry added points and they should have had another goal 10 minutes from time but Shay McGuigan hit the bar.
Another long range Morgan free was followed by McAliskey's fourth of the day from play, Late points from Colm Judge and Grimes for Louth were academic.
Tyrone: N Morgan [0-4, 3f, 1 "45], A McCrory, R McNamee, PJ Quinn, R McNabb, Mattie Donnelly, P Harte, C Cavanagh, S Cavanagh [0-5, 4f], E McKenna [1-1], S McGuigan, C McGinley [0-1], D McCurry [0-6, 3f], S O'Neill [1-0], C McAliskey [0-4]. Subs: P Kane for O'Neill, Joe McMahon for C Cavanagh, N McKenna for S Cavanagh, R McKenna for Quinn, Justin McMahon for Donnelly, M Penrose for McCurry
Louth: N Gallagher, P Rath, D Finnegan, J Bingham, J O'Brien, D Crilly, A Reid, P Keenan, M Fanning, A McDonnell [0-2], B White [0-2, 2f], D Maguire, C Judge [0-1], S Lennon, R Burns [0-3, 1f]. Subs: C Grimes [0-2] for Lennon, D O'Hanlon for Rath [black card], E Lafferty for Crilly, C Rafferty for White, K McLaughlin for McDonnell, J Stewart for O'Brien [black card]
Referee: M Duffy, Sligo
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Chuck's column: Out sick
So, last week was a long week. Just sayin'. Despite the fact I was in my room for only three of the potential five days, it was a long week. The inevitable cold hit my head and body, and I was dealing with a tooth issue as well. I ended up having to miss two days of school. Back-to-back days.
I don't remember the last time I missed two days in a row. It's not something I choose to do, nor is it something I do easily. I know other teachers think the same way. The general public doesn't know what it entails for the classroom teacher to be gone from class for one day, to say nothing about multiple days.
For starters, I go back and forth about whether or not to call in each and every time. It's not like I'm sick a lot, but when I am sick, it always seems to be at an inopportune time. I would have to be on my deathbed to be missing from class on the day of a test or a quiz. I fight my conscience, for some stupid reason, when the possibility of being gone occurs on the day a major paper or project is due. I tend to not miss those days either. There have been plenty of days in my tenure where I probably should have been home but just felt I couldn't miss class.
Part of what makes the decision difficult to be gone on key days is the fact we have to return and deal with having been gone. I know that sounds ridiculous to most, but it's one of those situations that you might better understand if you were to be one of us. I guess it's all about ownership and letting go from time to time when the body needs to mend.
Once the decision has been made, there is the issue of Sub Notes. I tend to be anal retentive about leaving sub notes. They go on and on and on. I leave little to the decision-making ability of the sub. I lay it out rather detailed. And I over-think everything. "What if..." or "If this happens, then..." Seriously, my sub notes are mini-instruction booklets. I try to imagine every possible thing that could go wrong and I address it for the sub like a prophet would predict the future. I'm sure the sub is thrilled that I am so thorough. Ha!
I also feel compelled to explain the seating chart. The seating chart! And then there's the issue of giving passes to students for the bathroom. I'm sure I don't need to explain that to the sub, and I could just as well let them do what worked for them on any given day, but nope ... I make it a point to tell him/her my pass policy. Serious issues, huh?
Most importantly in all this is that we make the day as productive as possible, considering we won't be here. Our task is to make it worthwhile for the students but one where the substitute teacher won't be overwhelmed by the task we ask of them. Folks, it's just never that simple.
Many of our retired teachers/administrators/counselors have returned to the classroom to sub in their "golden" years. It sometimes helps to know who is stepping in when we're gone because ... well, take my word for it. It just does. I've been asked if I'll sub once this career ends. Seriously? I think I'd prefer serving coffee at Starbucks or taking money from customers at Barnes and Noble. If I were to sub, I fear my need for order and structure may have to be put on hold.
No, I don't think subbing will be in my future after this stage of life is behind me. However, I've been wrong in the past! Rarely, mind you, but it's happened.
Bye-bye February. Hello March!


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During the period July 2009 to June 2010, Defence continued its
engagement in military operations around the world.
The Australian Defence Force (ADF) was involved in 15 operations both
nationally and internationally in areas such as East Timor, Solomon Islands,
Papua New Guinea, the Middle East, Iraq and Afghanistan.[1]
ADF also assisted with a number of natural disasters in Tonga, Papua New
Guinea, Fiji, Indonesia, Samoa, Pakistan and Haiti.[2]
In 2010 Operation CATALYST, the ADF's contribution to the United
States-led multinational effort to develop a secure and stable environment in
Iraq, concluded.[3]
The review of the Defence Annual Report is an important task and an
opportunity for the Defence Sub-Committee of the Joint Standing Committee on
Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade to inquire into a broad range of Defence
issues as part of the process of accountability of Government agencies to
Parliament. The Sub-Committee takes this responsibility very seriously.
The Sub-Committee took evidence from senior Department of Defence
officials at a public hearing held in Canberra on 25 March 2011. The
transcript of the hearing is available on the Committee's website.[4]
The proceedings of the hearing were webcast over the internet through
the Parliament's website, allowing interested parties to watch the proceedings
as they occurred.
The Committee advertised the inquiry and received one submission. The
Sub-Committee thanks that organisation for their contribution.
The Sub-Committee would also like to note that the Defence environment
is a dynamic one. This report covers the financial year 2009-2010 and, unless
absolutely necessary, does not refer to information after this period.
The sub-committee selected a broad range of issues for examination at
the public hearing. In broad terms, the focus areas were:
n Strategic Reform
n Personnel
-> People in
Defence Strategy
-> ADF Pay
Mental Health Reforms
n Justice and Security
-> Military
-> Security
of Vital National Assets in the North West of Australia
-> Border
Protection Command
-> ADF Base
n Defence Materiel
-> Reform
and Procurement
-> Projects
of Concern
-> Specific
Due to the size and complexity of the Defence Department, the Committee
Secretariat offered to assist Defence in its preparation for the public hearing
on 25 March 2011. Unfortunately, other than the Secretary, the Chief of the Defence
Force (CDF) and those officers representing DMO, Defence officials seemed
poorly briefed and ill prepared for the hearing.
This lack of preparedness was compounded by the delay in the provision
of answers to questions taken on notice.
The Committee contends that proper planning would have ensured that
Defence had an appropriate senior officer available at the hearing to answer
questions put to it.
The Sub-Committee held its public hearing into the Defence Annual Report
2009-10 on 25 March 2011. Twenty seven questions on notice with an additional
three written questions were confirmed with Defence on 18 April 2011. Defence were
asked to provide responses as one submission by 7 June 2011 and, after being
unable to provide responses by that date, were asked to provide responses by 1
July 2011. This timeframe was also not met.
Responses were received as follows:
n Answers to questions
1, 2, 5, 6, 11, 16 and 17 on 11 August 2011;
n Answers to questions:
3, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 24, 25, 26, 27 and
written questions 1 and 2 on 15 August 2011;
n Answer to question 23
on 23 August; and,
n Answer to written
question 3 on 20 September.
Answers to questions on notice were provided some five months after the
hearing. The Committee acknowledges there are many pressing matters for the
Department but believes this delay is unacceptable The Committee cannot be sure
if the hold-up was in the Minister's office, was due to Defence Ministerial and
Executive Support or from the line areas responsible for drafting answers to the
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text: RNS Number:9309W SABMiller PLC 13 January 2006 The following replaces 'Investment in Vinamilk' which was released today at 15: 00 GMT under RNS announcement 9249W. The headline should read 'Investment in Vietnam'. Ref 01/2006 SABMiller plc announces investment in high growth Vietnamese beer market London and Johannesburg, 13 January 2006. SABMiller plc ('SABMiller') announces that it has entered into a joint venture with Vietnam Dairy Products Joint Stock Company ('Vinamilk') to establish a greenfield brewery in the Binh Duong province in southern Vietnam, subject to certain conditions being fulfilled. Under the terms of the agreement, SABMiller and Vinamilk will each hold a 50% interest in the joint venture investment vehicle, for which the total initial investment capital will be US$ 45 million. SABMiller's share of the investment will be settled in cash from existing resources. The initial capacity of the brewery, which is expected to be operational by 2007, will be 500k hectolitres, with the ability to expand production to 1 million hectolitres. Such expansion would be funded from operating cashflows. Vinamilk is a widely recognised and successful company in Vietnam, and with an estimated 70% market share in milk and related products and beverages, is the national market leader in this sector, with a strong distribution network throughout Vietnam. The Vietnamese Ministry of Industry estimates that the beer market in Vietnam has grown from 13 million hectolitres in 2003 to 15 million hectolitres in 2005. The Vietnamese beer market is one of the fastest growing beer markets in the world and is considered to have favourable future prospects. The transaction reflects SABMiller's continued strategy to enter high growth developing beer markets. The joint venture will initially focus on developing a Vietnamese mainstream brand which will be complemented by a premium brand from the SABMiller portfolio of international brands. The joint venture will firstly concentrate on serving the local market in southern Vietnam, but plans to expand nationally in due course. Andre Parker, SABMiller's Africa & Asia managing director, commented: 'We are delighted to have reached agreement with Vinamilk to enter the high growth Vietnamese beer market. Vinamilk has an extensive distribution network, which will give us access to more than 20,000 outlets in southern Vietnam which retail beer. We believe that the combination of both parties' expertise will result in a very successful venture'. Mai Kieu Lien, Vinamilk's general director, commented: 'With SABMiller's experience in beer markets and Vinamilk's knowledge of Vietnam, we believe that the joint venture will be extremely successful and will make a considerable contribution to our society.' Ends Notes to editors SABMiller SABMiller plc is one of the world's largest brewers with brewing interests or distribution agreements in over 60 countries across five continents. The group's brands include premium international beers such as Miller Genuine Draft, Peroni Nastro Azzurro and Pilsner Urquell, as well as an exceptional range of market leading local brands. Outside the USA, SABMiller plc is also one of the largest bottlers of Coca-Cola products in the world. In the year ended 31 March 2005, the group reported US$2,194 million pre-tax profit and a turnover of US$14,543 million on a UK GAAP basis. SABMiller plc is listed on the London and Johannesburg stock exchanges. This announcement is available on the company website: www.sabmiller.com High resolution images are available for the media to view and download free of charge from: www.vismedia.co.uk Vietnam Dairy Products Joint Stock Company ('Vinamilk') Vinamilk is the leader in the Vietnamese dairy products market, with its distribution network in all of the 64 provinces of Vietnam. The company has been voted first in the 'Top Ten Vietnamese High-quality Goods' survey by consumers since 1995. Vinamilk has achieved growth of over 20% in recent years. In 2005 the company generated US$355 million turnover and an after-tax profit of US$38 million. Vinamilk is scheduled to list on the Ho Chi Minh City securities exchange before the end of January 2006. Enquiries: SABMiller plc Tel: +44 20 7659 0100 Sue Clark Director of Corporate Affairs Tel: +44 20 7659 0184 Gary Leibowitz Vice President, Investor Relations Tel: +44 20 7659 0174 James Crampton Media Relations Manager Tel: +44 20 7659 0172 This announcement does not constitute an offer to sell or issue or the solicitation of an offer to buy or acquire securities of SABMiller plc (the 'Company') or any of its affiliates in any jurisdiction or an inducement to enter into investment activity. This document includes 'forward-looking statements'. These statements may contain the words 'anticipate', 'believe', 'intend', 'estimate', 'expect' and words of similar meaning. 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MCX-SX's entry into equities trading was expected to hurt BSE the most, since BSE has always been a distant number two once NSE overtook it in the mid-90s.
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MCX-SX's entry into equities trading was expected to hurt BSE the most, since BSE has always been a distant number two once NSE overtook it in the mid-90s. While most industry players were skeptical of MCX-SX's claim of expanding the market, they felt it would not be difficult snatching market share from BSE. But little over a week into its operations, MCX-SX may have realised that eating BSE's lunch may not be that easy; brokers do not easily switch loyalties between exchanges unless they have a good reason to.
Daily traded turnover in MCX-SX's cash and derivative segment combined has ranged between Rs 7-20 crore. That explains the bourse's hastiness in announcing a 'Liquidity Enhancement Scheme' in the cash and equity derivative segments as it tries to woo brokers to trade on its platform. Under the scheme, brokers and investors who put their trades through MCX-SX's equity platform will get a commission for the turnover they contribute.
According to a MCX-SX media release, incentives provided for cash market trades will offset around 64 percent of the Securities Transaction Tax (STT) charges, and those for stock futures trades will offset around 37 percent of STT. On passive orders (to buy or to sell at a price below or above prevailing market price), investors will get a full waiver on transaction costs and an additional incentive that equals 50 percent of transaction costs.
MCX-SX may take pride in being the "first exchange to offer incentives for liquidity enhancement in equity cash market." But the bourse is merely following the footsteps of BSE, which is desperately trying to boost its equity derivative turnover by offering incentives to brokers and traders under its Liquidity Enhancement Incentive Programme. The LEIP is now in its ninth season, having got yet another extension.
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And while BSE may have managed to boost turnover in its derivative segment, the true test will be when the incentive scheme is withdrawn.
Since September 2011 when BSE first introduced the scheme, the bourse has paid out around Rs 116 crore by way of incentives to its members. In put that number in context, BSE's net profit for the half year ended September 2012 was about Rs 34 crore. And while derivatives turnover may have surged, it is still not contributing to the operating income, which has been stagnant for the past many quarters now.
Also, the surge in traded turnover in the derivative segment has not been consistent. For instance, turnover climbed to 9.78 lakh crore in July 2012, fell to Rs 2.97 lakh crore two months later and again rose to Rs 9.23 lakh crore in January. Also, statistics on the payout to market makers published by the BSE show a high degree of concentration.
For instance, the top two market makers accounted for nearly 60 percent (Rs 3.73 crore) of the Rs 6.38 crore paid out as incentives last month.
Also, a change in one of the rules last week following a Sebi directive could make matters difficult for market makers. Sebi has instructed exchanges not to pay any incentive on trades where the buyer and the seller is the same party.
MCX-SX may not have had any option other than to incentivize brokers/investors to trade on its equity platform. But if BSE's experience is any indication, it will have to be prepared to dig in for the long haul and to also burn a good deal of cash.


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They didn't have to hoist up their T-shirts to show me their bellies. In fact, their bellies ballooned so unapologetically above their hip-fixed tracksuit bottoms that they looked like ships in full sail. Yet they hoisted away until I was nose-to-tum with sticky-out navels and livid stretch marks, all accompanied by girlish shrieks for me to reveal my own burgeoning pregnancy. When I started working with the "scourge" of society, this really wasn't what I'd expected.
Yet the unexpected is exactly what you get when you hang out with pregnant girls aged 12 to 15. Thanks to media coverage, it's easy to believe that we know all about teenage mothers. The promiscuity, the stupidity, the lack of ambition, the laziness, the claim for a council house. We've started to forget that they are even human. Somehow, they have become mythical creatures who gobble up our hard-earned taxes, cackle at morality, and claw at the hearts of our communities.
For me, that myth exploded in 2007, the moment I stepped into Books and Babies, a local authority-run project for pregnant schoolgirls living in Rhondda Cynon Taff in the south Wales valleys. It allows pregnant teenagers to study for their GCSEs, while giving them the emotional support they need to thrive.
I was there as a volunteer on the school's Teen Mams and Dads magazine, which is produced every year with the support of Rhondda Cynon Taff Community Arts. My role was, and still is, to encourage the pupils to write about their experiences, hopes and dreams, helping them with their studies and giving them a voice.
"People think we are slags and that we get pregnant to get benefits, but it just doesn't work like that," says 15-year-old Megan Thomas (not her real name), who has attended Books and Babies since getting pregnant at 13. She gave birth to her son at the age of 14, and as she speaks he grizzles on her lap, due to a bout of vomiting. "The whole idea of doing it to get a house is pathetic. I still get scared when I am in my mam's house on my own.
"Anyway, these things happen. I'm not an alcoholic and I don't take drugs. I've been through something life-changing and have coped with it. Just because I am young it doesn't mean I am wrong."
And just because I am more than twice the age of Thomas, it doesn't make me right. When I first went to Books and Babies, I was 36 years old and five months pregnant. I believed the teen mum hype. Yet suddenly those conniving and faceless creatures metamorphosed into hopeful and hilarious girls who had done nothing more terrible than I had: conceive. Not quite what the bad press would have us believe, is it?
Just as for Thomas and the rest of the girls, my pregnancy had come as a shock. Yet I thought I was the better person. I had a career, house, husband, car, great friends and a lifetime of travel. What did they have apart from a single bed in a back bedroom and a worrying dearth of qualifications, ambition and cash? Well, determination, perspective, honesty and the knack of being youthfully laid-back, for a start. That and a furious reaction to the ubiquitous label of "scroungers".
"We are not given the chance to explain what this life is like," explains Zoe Davies, 17, the mother of 14-month-old Jack. She attends Books and Babies when she can. "It would be nice if people were open minded and ready to listen to what we are going through, but they are not. I feel misunderstood and out of control of how people see me. It's as if there is nothing I can do to change people's minds."
This is something Davies has to wrestle with every day of her life, and is one reason why Books and Babies is so popular among its pupils. Not only is it a non-judgmental environment, but it helps them to cope with the ups and downs of teenage pregnancy. And it's a far cry from the gossip and stigmatisation that they face from the rest of society.
Demi Morgan, 17, gave birth to Harley when she was 14, and I worked with her at Books and Babies until she left at 16. She's talking to me in the living room of her new house, her walls already adorned with enormous photos of her son. She recalls catching the bus and asking for a child ticket. "The bus driver told me that I couldn't be under 16 because I had my baby with me. Then a woman I knew, who was also on the bus, shouted out that I had my baby when I was 14, so I was telling the truth. But should I really have been made to debate this in public when all I wanted to do was buy a bus ticket?
"There's only so much we can do about getting pregnant. The babies are here for a reason, and we just have to get on with it. OK, so I never wanted to have a kid at this age, but that's life. You know, what I really wanted was to be a lawyer."
It's a philosophical approach, and one I wish I had taken during my own pregnancy when I was knee-knockingly terrified of having a child and putting myself under cruel pressure to be a successful child-rearing, globe-trotting, size 8 journalist. It was listening to these girls that got me through it.
That wasn't the only thing I learned from them. I also discovered a group of girls so emotionally complex that it makes a joke of the generalisations. Their streetwise language and antics sometimes give way to timid questions about what it means if a boy ignores you.
Capable of flitting between childhood and adulthood at ridiculous speed, they snort at patronising chats about periods, before asking you how to spell the word babies. It's hard to keep up. It's also shocking, in this information-rich age, that girls who you would assume are knowledgable still fall into the pregnancy trap.
"Before I had my own baby, I used to see pregnant girls and think that they should be ashamed of themselves," Thomas admits. "But then I got pregnant and could see how things really are. I didn't have any sex education because I had been skipping school, but I wouldn't have listened anyway. I just never thought that I'd get pregnant."
They also probably never thought they would develop a level of cynicism that would take most of us a lifetime to master. Ever listened to a man-hating, pregnant 12-year-old? It's an eye opener. Let's just say that my status as a woman with a supportive, hands-on husband has been a source of wonderment.
Davies, for one, makes no bones about her feelings towards blokes. "They're a waste of time," she tells me, "I've felt like this since Jack's dad decided to not bother with him. He'd be great when we were alone, but would demand DNA tests when he was with his mates. That's when we fell apart.
"I see him hanging around, but he doesn't look at Jack. I think: 'But he is your son! How can you do that?' I hope the way I feel about boys will change, but that's not going to happen just yet."
Davies isn't the only one who feels this way. Morgan tells me: "I'll never trust a boy again. I worry that they think I'm a slag and don't want me for the right intentions. I can see myself being single for the rest of my life." Thomas simply says: "I hate boys. Hate them. I had to grow up when I got pregnant, but Kieron's dad chose not to. When Kieron is older, what am I supposed to tell him?"
Yet underneath this fury, these are girls who want respect and love. One pupil, no longer at Books and Babies, would sometimes sneak up to me for a cuddle. Another would confide secrets because I was happy to listen. And almost all of them respond to praise. They all thrive on knowing that, for once, they are not being blamed for the nation's ills.
So, yes, this could be a depressing tale of society gone wrong, communities crumbling and abandoned morals, but my experience has been different.
Knowing the girls at Books and Babies has enriched my life. There's rarely a day when, wrestling with my own 14-month-old baby, I don't think of them. I remind myself of their determination and fight, and it steadies me for whatever aspect of child-rearing I dread next. Even better, there's rarely a day when they don't make me belly laugh. Tell me, how could you keep a straight face when discussing the shape of willies with a group of cackling 13-year-olds?
And then there is their refreshing honesty and openness that reminds me of what life was like before mothers started competing over buggies and nativity plays. I'm deeply grateful to have known them, and lucky to have been befriended by them.
That's why Davies gets the last word: "Teenage mothers aren't as bad as people make out, you know. All I have done is have a child. It shouldn't matter whether I am 16 or 60. I'm a mother, and mothers are supposed to get some respect ... aren't they?"


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Over Saturday, Sunday and Monday, both batsmen will play against Mumbai A at the swanky DY Patil Sports Academy in Navi Mumbai, an outlying part of this vast metropolis, while Cook watches closely from the sidelines.
After making a hundred in the opening match, Cook is happy with his own form to hand the reins to Stuart Broad, his recently appointed vice-captain.
"It's a cut-throat business and they both have an opportunity to score runs and push their claim," said Cook of Compton and Root, after ruling out any idea that Jonathan Trott might open for England during the Tests. "They're at different stages of their career. One's far more experienced and has got more runs behind him. The other one's a lot younger and has impressed everyone at every stage of his career. We're still waiting to see so these will be an important few days."
When the tour party was announced, many felt Compton, more experienced at 29, would assume the Andrew Strauss role and that Root, a stripling at 21, was along for the ride to learn good habits. But Cook scotched that theory on Friday, emphasising no favourite had emerged in either his or Andy Flower's minds.
"It was totally open when we picked the squad," said Cook. "Andy and I haven't seen a huge amount of either. I've played against Nick a couple of times, and I played in Joe Root's first ever game (for Yorkshire, v Essex in the CB40 at Headingley in 2009). It was important we came here with a clear mind and I think we've done that."
Many who know Root well claim he is not quite ready for Test cricket yet, as an opener, and in most parts of the world they would be right. But India, with its benign pitches, is hardly a baptism of fire for those facing the new ball and even spinners generally have to wait until the last five sessions of the match before finding anything extravagant in the surface.
Cook made his Test debut as a 21 year-old in India in 2006, after he replaced an injured Michael Vaughan, so if anyone is prepared to give youthful talent its head, it should be him.
"Joe wouldn't be in the squad if we didn't think he was ready to play," said Cook. "My own situation was helped by the fact I'd been in Pakistan (the tour before India) with the team as cover for somebody and got to know the England system better. Without that I'd have felt very uncomfortable turning up in Nagpur where I made my debut. But Joe's been here since the start of the tour and has got to know the lads." Of the two, Root probably has to impress slightly more than Compton, as the latter was included for the first warm-up match, though his third-ball duck will add that extra bit of pressure this time. But he is a man who has dealt with failure before, having tasted England Lions at an early age only to suffer a prolonged dip in form that culminated in him changing counties from Middlesex to Somerset.
One thing that will not distract the pair, as newcomers, is Pietersen's re-integration which even a gnarled old pro like Graeme Swann is saying has gone like a dream. "It's been a seamless process and it needed to happen," said Swann on Friday. "Everyone was wondering how it would go and if it would be as easy as it has been, but a lot of credit has to be given to Kevin for the way he has come in."
Swann will also sit this game out along with Matt Prior, the rehabilitating Steve Finn and two others, but he played with Pietersen in the opening match, so has spent three days in close company with him. It's just business as usual and the dressing room is a very happy place. And that's what we need to be if we are going to have a chance of beating India over here - we need to be a very united dressing room."
According to Swann there has not even been any awkwardness and even the mickey taking, which perhaps got out of hand with the parody KP Genius Twitter account, has resumed.
"No one is safe in the changing room and he's the butt of as many jokes as Cooky. He takes it fine, so it's great. Because of the meetings beforehand where a lot was got out into the open and put on the table it was fine — with him walking back in and carrying on as if he'd never been away."
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Soodhu Kavvum is a 2013 Tamil comedy film directed by Nalan Kumarasamy of Naalaya Iyakunar fame.[3] The film's main concept is about how baloney has engulfed people's day-to-day life and modern society.
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NASCAR's longest night started in heavy humidity, heat and sunlight. The heat was the biggest story of the first quarter of the race as drivers battled to stay hydrated and cool. Greg Biffle struggled the most with a malfunctioning cool box, berating his crew over the radio in frustration.
The early laps were fairly competitive after Brad Keselowski and A.J. Allmendinger led the field to the green flag. Carl Edwards eventually made his way to the front as everyone just worked to survive the early miles. Both Edwards and Kyle Busch took turns dominating at various points in the night.
Jamie McMurray was the first casualty of the distance. He led after a caution and looked strong until his engine gave out in a plume of smoke. After the race crossed half distance, the competitors started falling victim to contact and mistakes. Even the mighty Hendrick Motorsports fell victim to the distance when Jimmie Johnson's engine expired, setting up a green-white-checkered showdown that would leave everyone wondering who had enough gas to make it to the end.
As the final green flag flew Kasey Kahne dropped from second with no fuel, causing a stack up that sent cars piling into one another. It looked like Earnhardt Jr.'s race to win, with a charging Denny Hamlin, when both cars ran out of fuel in the final corner. That allowed Kevin Harvick to come from nowhere to take his third victory of the season.
Greg Biffle – Including the NASCAR Sprint Cup All-Star Race, Biffle racked up four top-10 finishes in six races before entering the Coca-Cola 600. He suffered through problems with his cooling box through more than the first quarter of Sunday night's race, which is not easy in the Charlotte heat. He was also in the lead at the end before being forced to pit for fuel due to a green-white-checkered finish. He ultimately finished Sunday night's race a disappointing 13th. With two wins in the last five Kansas races, Biffle should be your fantasy favorite in the STP 400. He scored two other top-5s in that span and earned an average finish of 4.0, tops among current drivers.
A.J. Allmendinger – Starting from the front row Sunday evening was deserved for the flashes of promise that Allmendinger and Richard Petty Motorsports have shown this year. The team ran well in last weekend's All-Star event and backed it up with another run in the 600. Allmendinger led a share of laps and ran at the front through the beginning, holding on at the end as well. The finish was his first top-5 of the season and comes with plenty of newfound confidence. With just two top-10 finishes this season before the 600 the No. 43 hasn't realized its full potential. Allmendinger appeared quick at times this season, and should be quick in Kansas as well. His average finish in three starts at the track is 12.0 with two top-10 tallies.
Kevin Harvick – After his first two wins of 2011 Harvick's performances took a small dip. He only scored two top-10 finishes in the five races since those wins, but roared back in Charlotte. He finished ninth in the All-Star event and won the 600 a week later. Harvick put himself in position to finish strongly Sunday night, and luck went his way as those in front ran out of fuel. The team appears to be back in the swing of things and expects a good performance in Kansas, as well. Harvick netted a top-5 and three top-10s in the last five races at Kansas Speedway. His average finish in that time is 10.8, and should be a confident choice for fantasy players this week.
Clint Bowyer – Outside of an accident in the Showtime Southern 500, Bowyer has been on a roll. He finished six of the last seven races in the top-10, including two top-5s, and was eighth in points before the start of the Coca Cola 600. His night in Charlotte wasn't a good one as the team had to make a camber adjustment, no small feat, on pit road to help cure a terrible car. He salvaged a 15th and valuable points by enduring the distance Sunday night. A top-5 and two top-10s help push Bowyer's average Kansas finish in the last five events to 11.8. Richard Childress Racing is often very quick in Kansas, which makes Bowyer a driver you should definitely consider adding to your lineup this week.
David Ragan – The last two weeks have been impressive for Ragan. He won the Sprint Showdown and then came home second in Sunday's marathon race. The finish was Ragan's second top-5 of the season, and you can see the top results coming more frequently after a slow start the season. Ragan has a decent record at Kansas Speedway as well. In his four starts at the track, he has an average finish of 18.8 with one top-10. He finished on the lead lap three of those tries, and has not recorded a DNF. With the momentum from Sunday's strong finish he could be a promising pick for the STP 400. If you are looking for a third driver, Ragan might be a decent selection.
Ryan Newman – Poor performances have been the trademark of Newman the last seven races. While he scored a top-5 in the Southern 500, he hasn't been the picture of speed and consistency every other week. He ended the Coca-Cola 600 caught in a wreck after a disappointing first half of the race. Newman needs to get his season back on track if the team intends to remain in contention for a spot in the Chase for the Championship, but it will first have to overcome Kansas, where Newman's results haven't been impressive. Newman's last five Kansas races only averaged a finish of 22.8. He finished on the lead lap two of those tries and scored one top-10 finish. He's a risky play in Kansas.
David Reutimann – The 2011 season has not been good to Reutimann. His best finish came in the non-points All-Star Race where he finished third. It was always expected that Reutimann could be strong at Charlotte, and he was, finishing ninth after running well all night. While Reutimann was strong at Charlotte the last two weeks, he may be up against it next week in Kansas. In the last four races at the track, Reutimann has only averaged a finish of 23.2. He didn't record a DNF in that time, but still only managed to finish on the lead lap once when he finished in the top 10. Reutimann is not a driver to put into your fantasy lineup at Kansas, and maybe not until the series returns to Charlotte.
Joey Logano – With just one top-10 finish this season prior to Sunday night, Logano is not living up to the hype. You can still see the talent, and there is no doubt he'll climb back up the charts again soon. The disappointing results may have ended with his third-place run Sunday, but there is still a long way to go before he matches the feats of teammates Hamlin and Busch. Only three finishes in the 11 races this season before Sunday's 600 doesn't cut it. Logano's three starts at Kansas Speedway have not earned him a strong finishing record. His average finish is 28.0 despite running at the finish each of those tries. His poor 2011 results combined with the series heading to one of his worst tracks makes him a driver fantasy owners should avoid this week.
Matt Kenseth – After three races of finishing 21st or lower, Kenseth got back in the thick of things by winning the FedEx 400 earlier this month. The season has been impressive so far, even with the 14th-place result in the Coca-Cola 600. Kansas Speedway is not a track where Kenseth has been consistent. His average finish is 21.8. He only finished on the lead lap two of those five tries, both of which were top-10s, though. His engine failed in the 2009 Price Chopper 400, and his career average finish at the track is 20.6 in 10 starts. Roush Fenway Racing Fords have been the fastest this season, and they should run well at Kansas too, but if you want to choose one of their drivers, you may want to go with Biffle's finishing record.
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Mike Tyson's 'Printhe' Tribute [PHOTO]Well done Mr. Tyson, well done!
Mike Tyson Falls Off Hoverboard [VIDEO]Tyson fell harder this time than when he was knocked out by Buster Douglas.
Does Evander Holyfield Think His Fight With Tyson Was Bigger Than Mayweather Vs. Pacquiao? [VIDEO]"The money let you know that. Each generation is supposed to take it to the next level and it's good to see that Mayweather and Pacquiao can have that much and it goes to show you that boxing is not dead."
5 Of Boxing's Most Controversial Fights EverDebate always follows any close boxing match. Here are five of boxing's most controversial fights.
5 Defining Moments In Boxing Over The Past 50 YearsEvery sport has those memorable moments that define it forever. These 5 moments changed boxing, for better or worse.
5 Big Boxing Upsets From The Last 30 YearsOne lucky punch has proved time and again that favorites don't always win in boxing. These are 5 of the sport's biggest upsets.
Oakland University Apologizes For Offensive Mike Tyson 'Thlow Down' Tweet [PHOTO]Oakland University has launched an investigation after someone tweeted out an offensive meme of boxer Mike Tyson from an official police account.
New Book Reveals Mike Tyson Confronted Michael Jordan Over Robin GivensCould you imagine being at this restaurant at that time? Now that's worth the price of admission.
Mike Tyson Tries To Beat Mike Tyson In Punch-Out [VIDEO]It's pretty funny to watch...
TTYM: Tebow's New Gig, Tyson's Tirade And McIlroy's Major MissSo, in case you didn't notice, the Ray Rice elevator video release dominated news this week, but life and drama in the sports world did go on. Here are the top 6 you may have missed this week.
Keidel: No Holy War For HolyfieldMike Tyson has been chosen to present Evander Holyfield for his induction into Nevada's Boxing Hall of Fame on August 9, in, of course, Las Vegas, the scene of many crimes, factual and fictional.
15 Brilliant Reactions To The Luis Suarez World Cup Bite On TwitterSuarez, who's been suspended twice before for biting and could be out for the rest of the tourney, is currently starring on social media. I mean if one player bites another at the World cup, you're gonna get some attention. Here are 15 amazing Tweets about the Suarez World Cup Snack.


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The City College of New York is investigating its use of former Apple exec Scott Forstall's photo in advertisements for the school's student ID card.
Cult of Mac contacted the college Wednesday afternoon about Forstall's strange appearance on the promotional materials. "I'm not commenting," said Ellis Simon, City College's public relations director, who added that he was aware of the situation but needed time to "get all the facts straight" before talking about the apparent mixup.


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The Minneapolis VA Medical Center will convert five old buildings at Fort Snelling into 58 apartments for homeless Veterans and their families.
Renovations work expected to begin in late 2013 or early 2014. The project represents one aspect of VA's nationwide effort to end Veteran homelessness by 2015.
"Building Utilization Review and Repurposing (BURR) is a Department-wide effort to identify empty buildings and land for repurposing," explained Ralph Heussner, public affairs officer for the Minneapolis VA. "This contributes to two important VA goals: fighting Veteran homelessness and decreasing VA's inventory of vacant and underutilized buildings.
VA's $15 million Fort Snelling project covers six acres and renovation of five buildings.
"A third benefit," he added, "is that it allows VA to preserve and restore some of its many historically valuable structures."
Fort Snelling is what is known as an 'unorganized territory' located near Minneapolis. It contains numerous military and other federal facilities, including historic Fort Snelling, its cemetery and the Minneapolis VA Medical Center.
The renovation of five historic buildings at Fort Snelling is part of a broader effort by VA to end Veteran homelessness by 2015. In November 2011 the Department announced plans to enter into agreements to provide more than 3,000 units of permanent and transitional housing for Veterans at 25 of its medical center campuses nationwide and that more agreements are planned for an additional 1,000 units. Proposed opportunities include housing for homeless Veterans, senior Veterans, disabled Veterans, other at-risk Veteran populations and their families.
VA's $15 million Fort Snelling project covers six acres and will include the renovation of Building 210, an old stable where cavalry officers once kept their horses and Building 211, where GIs repaired tanks during World War II. Fort Snelling was decommissioned as a military post in 1946.
"The five buildings will contain multi-bedroom units," said Lisa Pape, national director of VA's Homeless and Residential Rehab Treatment Programs. "This will likely make them attractive to Veterans with families, as well as the growing number of homeless women Veterans who have children."
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Manchester United AGREE £24m deal with Atletico Madrid for defender Miranda
ATLETICO MADRID defender Miranda is set to become Louis Van Gaal's first signing as Manchester United manager after the Old Trafford club agreed a £24m deal for the Brazilian defender.
United are thought to have met the £24m release clause in the 29-year-old's contract, and have offered him a bumper four-year deal.
Miranda, a surprise exclusion from Brazil coach Luiz Felipe Scolari's World Cup squad, played a key role in Atletico's La Liga title triumph and run to the Champions League final this season.
After the departure of experienced duo Nemanja Vidic and Rio Ferdinand, Van Gaal has been linked with a host of Europe's top defenders.
And the Dutch coach has earmarked Miranda as the man to shore up United's defence as they seek to return to title contention next season.
Spanish newspaper AS claims the defender has already started sounding out schools in the Manchester area ahead of his move to the north west.
The Brazilian joined Atleti in 2011 from Sao Paulo has since made 121 starts and netted nine goals during the Mardrid side's miraculous improvement under Argentine coach Diego Simeone.


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Full Comment's Araminta Wordsworth brings you a daily round-up of quality punditry from across the globe. Today: As any good card player knows, showing your hand too early can spell disaster.
That's what seems to have happened in Greece, where the far-right neo-Nazi Golden Dawn and its bullying leader interpreted a 7% vote in general elections as carte blanche to throw their weight around. At the first press conference post-poll, aides ordered the journalists to stand and salute Nikolaos Michaloliakos. Those who refused were forcibly ejected.
Golden Dawn's campaign slogan in TV ads is: "Let's rid this country of the stench." And no, they didn't mean the drains. Now, the failure of leading parties to form a government means voters get a chance to step back from the abyss. With luck, Golden Dawn's rise will quickly set.
Michaloliakos has cloaked himself in nationalism while abundantly signalling his disdain for democracy and free speech. Party members beat up immigrants, sometimes even killing them; they firebomb buildings housing mosques; and they want all non-Greeks, even legal immigrants, expelled.
In response, journalists are getting out the word on the party and its policies.
They also got to express their own disdain. When Greek President Karolos Papoulias, a veteran of the anti-Nazi resistance, was forced to receive Michaloliakos in coalition talks, they sat on the ground when he arrived and refused to ask questions when he left.
Interviewing a Golden Dawn spokesman, James Mates, ITV's European correspondent, found him in full obfuscation mode.
[Party] headquarters is in a middle-class suburb of Athens, only distinguished by the large Greek flag and a swastika like symbol outside. They insist it is nothing like a swastika, just an ancient Greek motif called a "meandros," but of all the ancient Greek symbols they could have chosen? Spokesman Theodoros Koudounas also insists the large statue of an eagle sitting on his desk is nothing like the eagle of the Third Reich. "Lots of countries have eagles. America, Poland, Russia. The eagle is a beautiful bird". Perhaps he doth protest too much. Choosing to conduct interviews wearing a black shirt and black wrist bands, though, was surely not a coincidence … "Are you fascists?" I asked. "No. Fascists were Italians who wanted to restore the Roman Empire. We are not Italians, so we can't be fascists." "Nazis then?" "Certainly not. They were Germans, and German nationalists. How could we be Nazis?" "So how would you describe yourselves?" "Popular nationalists."
As the group's racist and repressive policies gets wider publicity, it appears Greeks are more revulsed than attracted — support for Golden Dawn has reportedly slipped to under 4%. In a report for Reuters, Renee Maltezou and Ingrid Melander note,
Among the only voters who expressed regret [for the election results] were some of those who cast ballots for extreme-right Golden Dawn, out of concern for illegal immigration and rising crime. Many reacted with shock after the fringe nationalist party scored 7% in the election and media published photos showing a party member posing with knives and bullets. "I just wanted them to get into parliament but not to be so big. I just wanted them in to rock the system," said a clothing shop clerk who identified herself as Vaia, 30.
An open letter from the European Network Against Racism provides chilling detail on the group's agenda.
The party's political program includes several proposals that contravene fundamental rights, including: >> The immediate expulsion of all illegal migrants, to be followed by legal migrants [this is apparently anyone who arrived since the fall of the Colonels in 1974]. >> The introduction of border minefields to prevent incoming immigrants and zero tolerance to dissidents who should be treated as "traitors." >> The reinstatement of the death penalty for drug dealing. >> A ban on trade unions.
Xenia Kounalaki knows first-hand what it is like to be persecuted by the bully boys. As she tells Der Spiegel, she attracted their attention after she published an article in the Greek newspaper Kathimerini entitled "The Banality of Evil."
An anonymous reply to my article appeared on the Golden Dawn website. It was a 2,500-word-long personal attack in which the fascists recounted my entire career, mocked my alleged foreign roots (I was born in Hamburg) and even, for no apparent reason, mentioned my 13-year-old daughter. The unnamed authors indirectly threatened me as well: "To put it in the mother tongue of foreign Xenia: 'Kommt Zeit, kommt Rat, kommt Attentat!' In other words, watch your back." Most Greeks believe that Golden Dawn has connections to both the police and to the country's secret service. Nevertheless, I went to the authorities to ask what I should do. I was told that I should be careful. They told me that party thugs could harass me, beat me or terrorize me over the phone. It would be better, they said, if I stopped writing about them.
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the latest electronic versions available from the Michigan Court
of Appeals. Updates are posted as received from the courts.
Consult the advance sheets and bound volumes of the official
reports for final revisions and proper pagination. Errata and
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Washington Square Building, Lansing, MI 48933; (517) 373-0714.
HALL v. GENERAL MOTORS
May 12, 1998
No. 196929
Wayne Circuit Court
GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION, LC No. 96-61966 NP
Before: Saad, P.J. and O'Connell and M.J. Matuzak,* JJ.
Plaintiff's personal injury, products liability claim against
General Motors Corporation ("GM") raises a
choice-of-law question of first impression under Michigan law: is
plaintiff's residency at the time of injury or at the time of
filing suit controlling? Because plaintiff resided in North
Carolina when injured, and in Michigan when he brought suit, we
must decide which residency controls. And, this determination
will dictate the outcome of plaintiff's claim, because, other
than the residency of plaintiff, all significant factors here
point to the application of North Carolina law. Plaintiff lived
and worked in North Carolina when he was injured by a vehicle
owned, registered, licensed and insured in North Carolina, and he
subsequently received medical treatment in North Carolina. The
only connection this incident has to Michigan is plaintiff's
post-injury move to Michigan.[1]
If North Carolina law applies, its six-year statute of repose
would bar plaintiff's claim.[2] Because the vehicle was sold in
1975 and the injuries occurred in 1994 (well beyond the six-year
statute of repose), plaintiff's claim would be barred under North
Carolina law. On the other hand, plaintiff's claim could be
pursued under Michigan law which has no statute of repose and
whose three year statute of limitations[3] would
not time bar plaintiff's 1996 suit arising out of a 1994 injury.
For the reasons discussed below, we hold that plaintiff's
residency at the time of injury is controlling under Michigan's
choice of law jurisprudence. Accordingly, North Carolina's
statute of repose bars plaintiff's claim. We therefore reverse
the circuit court's denial of GM's motion to dismiss, and remand
for dismissal consistent with this opinion.
In 1994, while a resident of North Carolina, plaintiff worked
as a mechanic for Bunn's Mobile Truck Repairs. In his capacity as
a mechanic, plaintiff injured himself as he worked on a 1975
Camero manufactured by GM. Plaintiff asserts that defective
design of the relevant part of the vehicle caused his injury;
therefore, plaintiff's claims are predicated on product liability
At the time of the accident, the vintage vehicle was
registered, licensed and insured in North Carolina and of course,
owned by a North Carolina resident. The vehicle was manufactured
at the GM/Norwood, Ohio plant. GM's world headquarters are in
Detroit, but GM does business in all fifty states.[4] GM
has facilities in North Carolina and does substantial business
there, including purchasing materials and parts to be
incorporated into its automobiles.
After plaintiff's injury, but before suit was filed, plaintiff
moved from North Carolina to Michigan. Following his move to
Michigan, plaintiff has continued to receive medical treatment in
North Carolina.
After plaintiff filed suit in Michigan, GM filed its motion to
dismiss contending that pursuant to Michigan choice-of-law
analysis, North Carolina law applied and that North Carolina's
statute of repose barred plaintiff's suit. In response, plaintiff
asserted that the law of the forum state (Michigan) should apply
because plaintiff's Michigan residency when the complaint was
filed should be determinative, and therefore both plaintiff
and GM were Michigan residents.
In denying GM's motion to dismiss, the trial court concluded
that residency is typically determined as of the date the
complaint is filed. Therefore, for purposes of its choice-of-law
analysis, the trial court incorrectly treated plaintiff as a
Michigan resident. The court also erroneously ruled that if
residency were determined as of the date of injury, Michigan law
would apply because this would be GM's expectation, given that
the vehicle was designed in Michigan. Finally, the court found
that North Carolina's statute of repose should not be applied
through Michigan's borrowing statute[5] because that statute permits
Michigan to borrow another state's statute of limitations,
not a statute of repose.[6]
In tort cases, Michigan courts use a choice of law analysis
called "interest analysis" to determine which state's
law governs a suit where more than one state's law may be
implicated. See Sutherland v Kennington Truck Svc, Ltd, 454
Mich 274, 278-286; 562 NW2d 466 (1997). Although this balancing
approach most frequently favors using the forum's (Michigan's)
law, Michigan courts nonetheless use another state's law where
the other state has a significant interest and Michigan has only
a minimal interest in the matter:
reason" to do otherwise exists. In determining whether a
rational reason to displace Michigan law exists, we undertake a
two-step analysis. First, we must determine if any foreign state
has an interest in having its law applied. If no state has such
an interest, the presumption that Michigan law will apply cannot
be overcome. If a foreign state does have an interest in having
its law applied, we must then determine if Michigan's interests
mandate that Michigan law be applied, despite the foreign
interests. Sutherland, 454 Mich at 286.
Here, we conclude that Michigan's interest is minimal and that
North Carolina has a significant interest in having its law
As noted above, plaintiff lived in North Carolina, worked for
a North Carolina employer, and was injured in North Carolina by a
vehicle owned, registered, licensed and insured in North
Carolina, and plaintiff subsequently received medical treatment
at Duke Medical Center in North Carolina. North Carolina,
therefore, obviously has a substantial interest in applying its
law to this dispute.
Michigan case law reveals additional reasons why North
Carolina has a substantial interest in applying its law to this
dispute. In Farrell v Ford Motor Co, 199 Mich App 81; 501
NW2d 567 (1993), plaintiff's decedent (a North Carolina resident)
was killed in an automobile accident that occurred in North
Carolina, allegedly as a result of a defective transmission. In Farrell,
defendant Ford made the identical argument advanced by GM
here — that North Carolina's six year statute of repose barred
plaintiff's claim. Applying Michigan's choice of law rules, Farrell
held that North Carolina law applied to bar the claim. The Farrell
court's conclusion and reasoning is significant and pertinent to
our inquiry:
Plaintiff contends that because the policy behind the statute
of repose is to protect manufacturers from "open-ended"
liability stemming from the manufacture or design of their
products, the only reasonable interest North Carolina can assert
is the protection of those who conduct manufacturing and design
activities within its borders. According to plaintiff, Ford has
no such facilities in North Carolina and thus North Carolina has
no interest in applying its law for the protection of Ford.
* * *
After thorough review, we are satisfied that North Carolina
has an obvious and substantial interest in shielding Ford from
open-ended products liability claims. Ford unquestionably
generates substantial commerce within the State of North
Carolina. * * * It is obviously in North Carolina's economic
interest to encourage manufacturers, such as Ford, to do business
in North Carolina. The sales taxes collected, salaries paid, and
materials purchased all contribute to North Carolina's economy.
The presence of a Ford manufacturing plant within the borders of
North Carolina is not dispositive with regard to the economic
interests at issue. Farrell, 199 Mich App at 92-93.
(Footnote omitted.)
Here, North Carolina has the identical interest in shielding
GM from "open ended products liability claims" that it
did in shielding Ford from such claims in Farrell: it is
in North Carolina's economic interest to encourage GM to do
business in its state. As in Farrell, we conclude that
North Carolina has a substantial interest in having its law
applied to this dispute.
On the other hand, the state of Michigan has a minimal
interest in having its law applied to this dispute. We again look
to Farrell, where our Court stated:
Michigan has little or no interest in this North Carolina
accident involving a North Carolina resident. Michigan has no
interest in affording greater rights of tort recovery to a North
Carolina resident than those afforded by North Carolina.
Michigan is merely the forum state and situs of defendant's
headquarters. Such minimal interests are insufficient to justify
the result-oriented forum shopping that has been attempted. Farrell,
199 Mich App at 94. (Emphasis added and footnote omitted.)
Similarly, here, the accident occurred in North Carolina,
injuring plaintiff who was at the time of injury, a North
Carolina resident working on a vehicle registered in North
However, plaintiff attempts to distinguish Farrell
(where plaintiff was a North Carolina resident both at the time
of injury and at the time of filing suit) by arguing that
plaintiff here is a Michigan resident (i.e. that although he was
a North Carolina resident at the time of injury, he moved to
Michigan prior to filing suit). He contends that, if plaintiff is
considered a Michigan resident, this fact is sufficient to
"tip the scales" toward application of Michigan law. As
noted above, the effect of a plaintiff's post-injury change of
residency on the choice-of-law analysis is an issue of first
impression in Michigan.
The only Michigan case which appears to address this specific
issue does not squarely hold that residency at the time of injury
is determinative. In Hampshire v Ford Motor Co, 155 Mich
App 143; 399 NW2d 36 (1986), plaintiff filed suit in Michigan
after being hit by a stolen vehicle in California. Plaintiff
alleged that the anti-theft device which Ford used caused Ford
vehicles to be more susceptible to theft than other makes. In
determining which state's law to apply, our Court noted,
"[b]oth plaintiff and the driver of the vehicle were
residents of the state of California when the accident occurred."
Hampshire, 155 Mich App at 145. (Emphasis added.) Later in
the decision, the Court stated:
Michigan has no significant interest in this litigation. The
plaintiff was a resident living in California at the time of
the accident and has never resided in Michigan. The
accident occurred in California and the Ford vehicle involved was
registered and licensed in California. The connections to
Michigan are limited to the fact that Ford's headquarters are
located in Michigan and the action was filed in this state. We
note that plaintiff is apparently now a resident of
Massachusetts. Hampshire, 155 Mich App at 147. (Emphasis
Our Court applied California law and affirmed the trial
court's grant of summary disposition. Though this case suggests
that residency at the time of the injury is dispositive, it falls
short of reaching this express holding. We therefore look to
decisions from other states that have addressed this precise
conflicts of law issue.
In Reich v Purcell, 432 P2d 727, 67 Cal2d 551; 63
CalRptr 31 (1967), the Supreme Court of California was asked to
apply California law where a family was involved in an automobile
accident in Missouri, while on their way from their home in Ohio
to consider relocating to California. (The two members of the
family who survived and maintained the wrongful death suit did
later move to California, and filed suit there.) In its
choice-of-law analysis, the Court declined to consider the
survivors as California residents, stating:
Although plaintiffs now reside in California, their residence
and domicile at the time of the accident are the relevant
residence and domicile. * * * [I]f the choice of law were made to
turn on events happening after the accident, forum shopping
would be encouraged. Reich, 63 CalRptr at 34.
(Emphasis added)
See also Perloff v Symmes Hosp, 487 FSupp 426 (DMass,
1980) (Massachusetts federal court applied Massachusetts law,
despite fact that plaintiffs moved to California prior to filing
suit); Summers v Interstate Tractor & Equip Co, 466
F2d 42, 48 n 3 (CA 9, 1972) (Oregon forum; plaintiffs' subsequent
relocation to be near relatives not to be considered in choice of
law analysis); Seattle-First Nat'l Bank v Schriber, 625
P2d 1370, 1374, 51 Ore App 441, 449 (1981).
In Ferren v General Motors Corp, 628 A2d 265; 137 NH
423 (1993), the Supreme Court of New Hampshire reached a similar
result. There the plaintiff lived and worked in Kansas from 1961
until 1974, and thereafter moved to New Hampshire, where fifteen
years later, he was diagnosed with an illness allegedly related
to his exposure to lead dust at defendant's plant in Kansas.
Kansas had a ten-year statute of repose which would have barred
plaintiff's claim; New Hampshire did not. The Ferren Court
articulated the parties' positions as follows:
The Ferrens . . . maintain that because they have resided in
New Hampshire since 1974 and because Mr. Ferren discovered his
illness while living in this State, these are "substantial
connections" to the facts and issues of this case to render
New Hampshire law applicable. In addition, the Ferrens argue that
as a matter of policy, "[s]ince Kansas would not provide any
type of remedy to the plaintiffs, [the New Hampshire court] should apply its own law in protecting citizens such as Dennis
Ferren from the harsh results of Kansas law.
GMC contends that the case is governed by the Kansas workers'
compensation statute because Mr. Ferren was an employee of GMC
when he was exposed to lead-containing products while residing in
Kansas and working in a Kansas battery-making plant pursuant to a
contract of employment that arose entirely in Kansas. The fact
that the plaintiffs moved to New Hampshire after the events
giving rise to the lawsuit is, GMC argues, insufficient to apply
New Hampshire law. Ferren, 137 NH at 425.
The Ferren court concluded that the employment
relationship arose entirely within the state of Kansas and that
the fact that the Ferrens resided in New Hampshire at the time of
suit was insufficient standing alone to warrant application of
New Hampshire law. Ferren, 137 NH at 426-427. See also Gutierrez
v Swaim, Inc, 1994 U.S. Dist LEXIS 1813, p 3; 1994 WL 62843
(SDNY, Feb 23, 1994); Murphy v Grumman Corp, 475 FSupp
284, 294 (SDNY 1979); Wheeler v Standard Tool & Mfg Co, 359
FSupp 298, 301 (SDNY 1973). Cf. Miller v Miller, 22 NY2d
12; 237 NE2d 877, 882-883; 290 NYS2d 734, 741-742 (Ct App NY
1968) (post-accident move of defendant from Maine to New
York was considered in determining whether to apply the Maine
statutory limitation on wrongful death action brought by New York
The rationale which permeates these decisions is a judicial
objective of preventing plaintiffs from forum shopping by
post-injury moves. While the record here does not reveal whether
plaintiff's motive involved forum shopping, we nonetheless
conclude that forum shopping would be encouraged if we adopt the
position urged by plaintiff. We see a grave danger in reaching a
decision that would permit post-injury events, exclusively within
the control of one party, to determine which state's law will
apply. This danger is particularly problematic where, as here, a
plaintiff's claim would be totally barred in the state of injury
and could only be restored by a move to a state with laws more
favorable to his claim.
For all these reasons, we hold that for Michigan choice-of-law
analysis, a plaintiff's residency is determined as of the date of
the injury, not as of the date of filing a lawsuit. In other
words, where as here, a plaintiff is not a resident of Michigan
at the time an injury occurs, but becomes a Michigan resident
before filing a lawsuit in Michigan, the plaintiff's residency at
the time of injury controls. Having reached this conclusion, we
find that plaintiff here was not a Michigan resident for purposes
of choice-of-law analysis. We therefore find the analysis in Farrell
to be determinative and conclusive:
Michigan has little or no interest in this North Carolina
accident involving a North Carolina resident. Michigan has no
interest in affording greater rights of tort recovery to a North
Carolina resident than those afforded by North Carolina. Michigan
is merely the forum state and situs of defendant's headquarters.
Such minimal interests are insufficient to justify the
result-oriented forum shopping that has been attempted. Farrell,
199 Mich App at 94.
In light of our conclusion that North Carolina law controls
this dispute, we need not address defendant's argument regarding
the effect of Michigan's borrowing statute, MCL 600.5861; MSA
27A.5861.[7] See Farrell, 199 Mich
App at 94. Michigan's borrowing statute basically provides that
whichever statute of limitations time-bars a plaintiff's claim
(i.e. the statute of the state where an injury occurs, or
Michigan's statute) should apply.[8]
However, without addressing the arguments posed by the parties as
to whether Michigan's borrowing statute applies to statutes of repose,
we note that the existence of this borrowing statute evidences,
at a minimum, legislative intent to discourage suits in Michigan
that would be time barred in other states. Our ruling today is
certainly reflective of the legislative scheme designed to
prevent forum shopping in order to resurrect time-barred claims
from other jurisdictions.
We conclude that North Carolina's law applies to this matter,
and based upon our reading of its statute of repose, NC Gen Stat
§ 1-50(6), plaintiff's claim is time-barred. The circuit court's
denial of defendant's motion to dismiss was erroneous and is
hereby reversed and this matter is remanded for entry of
dismissal. We do not retain jurisdiction.
Reversed and remanded.
/s/ Henry William Saad
/s/ Peter D. O'Connell
M. J. Matuzak, J. (concurring).
I concur in the result reached by the majority because I
believe that result is mandated by Farrell v Ford Motor Co,
199 Mich App 81; 501 NW2d 567 (1993) and MCR 7.215(C)(2). I write
separately to express my disagreement with the conclusion in the
instant case and Farrell. I do not believe that North
Carolina's interests in a products liability case against a
domestic automobile manufacturer somehow outweigh Michigan's
interests. Although General Motors has a distribution network in
North Carolina, GM's commercial relationship with that state is
insignificant when compared to its enormous economic presence in
Michigan and consequential impact on this state. I prefer the
analysis presented in Mahne v Ford Motor Co, 900 F2d 83,
88-89 (CA 6 1990), a factually similar case where the United
States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit rejected the
argument that a Florida statute of repose would apply over
Michigan law. GM's headquarters and a significant part of its
operations are located in Michigan, so applying this state's law
should not defeat defendant's expectations. Mahne, at 88.
Nor do I believe that North Carolina has any significant interest
in having its statute of repose applied in this case. The
automobile at issue was manufactured in Ohio and designed in
Michigan. Instead of protecting a North Carolina manufacturer,
the statute is being used to protect an out-of-state manufacturer
for injuries sustained in North Carolina arising out of wrongs
alleged to have been committed in Michigan or Ohio. Aside from
the binding effect of Farrell there is no good reason to
extend the benefits of the North Carolina statute of repose to
defendants. Mahne, at 88.
Nor do I believe that the North Carolina statute of repose
would apply under Michigan's borrowing statute, MCL 600.5861; MSA
27A.5861. Michigan law recognizes the significant difference
between statutes of repose and statutes of limitation. O'Brien
v Hazelet & Erdal, 410 Mich 1, 15; 299 NW2d 336 (1980); Pendzsu
v Beazer East, Inc, 219 Mich App 405, 410; 557 NW2d 127
(1996). The Legislature is presumed to intend the meaning plainly
expressed by statutory language. Pendzsu, at 409. Section
5861 refers only to "statute[s] of limitations" rather
than repose, and so should not be interpreted to import statutes
of repose.
/s/ Michael J. Matuzak
[1] Of course, defendant GM can be
found and sued here but GM does business in all states, including
North Carolina.
[2] The North Carolina statute of
repose at issue, NC Gen Stat § 1-50(6) provides that:
death or damage to property based upon or arising out of any
alleged defect or any failure in relation to a product shall be
brought more than six years after the date of initial purchase
for use or consumption.
[4] GM is actually a Delaware
corporation, with its principal place of business in Michigan.
[6] While we wish to make clear
that we do not adopt the trial court's reasoning on this point,
we need not reach this issue today.
provides in relevant part:
An action based upon a cause of action accruing without this
state shall not be commenced after the expiration of the statute
of limitations of either this state or the place without this
state where the cause of action accrued, except that where the
cause of action accrued in favor of a resident of this state the
statute of limitations of this state shall apply.
See the text of the borrowing statute, supra, note 7.