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The mayor wasn't eating.
This was noteworthy for several reasons, not the least of which is that our mayor, if nothing else, is a man of enormous appetites--for politics, for the spotlight, for animated conversation, for a rousing ball game on TV, for good food and drink.
So it was unusual, to put it mildly, that Mayor Ron Kirk had gone to a restaurant--especially one that serves tasty, calorically significant Santa Fe-style food--at 7 o'clock on a Wednesday evening and had not ordered dinner.
"Kirk didn't eat," Loma Luna restaurant manager Trey Harris told me with authority last week after checking with the chef. "He picked off another person's plate."
It's not particularly significant what he was picking at--in this case, the restaurant's signature dish of blue-corn cheese enchiladas (served flat, not rolled, and accompanied by a traditional, Santa Fe side dish of posole, or hominy stew.) What is enormously significant, though, is that the plate the enchiladas were sitting on belonged to John Scovell, chairman and CEO of Woodbine Development Corp., the well-known, Ray Hunt-owned, real-estate company that has very deep, consistently influential roots at Dallas City Hall.
Scovell and Kirk were not dining alone. They had come to Loma Luna with Dallas school board president Bill Keever. The three had agreed to meet there--on the ground floor of this shiny bank complex at the corner of Preston Road and Sherry Lane, a stone's throw from Scovell's house--to forge a peace. It was a peace between Kirk and Keever--at this moment two of the city's most high-profile, most strikingly at-odds elected officials.
For several weeks now, Keever had been taunting the mayor publicly--calling on him to take a strong stand against the handful of increasingly noisy and aggressive black activists who were incensed that yet another white man had acceded to the Dallas Independent School District board throne.
"I want Mr. Kirk's help...in alleviating the concerns of the African-American community," Keever said on May 19--shortly after being elected board president and just a few days after a small group led by the New Black Panthers had momentarily shut down his first board meeting.
Kirk replied--quite clearly--that he wasn't going to do that. "I ran for mayor of the city of Dallas, not the Dallas public-school board," Kirk was quoted saying.
But Keever persisted. He brazenly repeated his challenge over and over--throwing it out whenever a TV or newspaper reporter interviewed him about escalating racial tension, chanting it like a mantra during several radio appearances with KRLD's morning talk-show host Rick Roberts.
But Kirk wouldn't budge. He was so adamantly against becoming involved in anything controversial--anything that even smelled like a political land mine--that he wouldn't even return Keever's telephone calls.
Finally, Keever turned to someone he knew could help him--his No.1 political benefactor, John Scovell, who had been equally instrumental in getting Ron Kirk elected mayor. Unlike Keever, Scovell had absolutely no problem getting Kirk to return his phone calls--and he had absolutely no trouble getting Kirk finally to call Keever.
"John got Ron to return my phone calls," says Keever. "I really do appreciate John's role in this. He played a pretty major role in getting Ron to step up to the plate."
The initial Kirk-Keever conversations, conducted over Kirk's mayoral cellular phone, had been unpleasant for Keever. That's because, along with his enormous appetites, Kirk has a notoriously short temper, which results in his getting royally pissed off at people who disagree with him, and then letting them know that in no uncertain terms. But over time, thanks to the soothing balm of a political heavyweight with deep pockets like Scovell getting up in your face, Kirk had calmed considerably. It also didn't hurt that other city leaders, including some Kirk allies, were beginning to take up the Keever mantra in the wake of the New Black Panthers' threat to bear arms at the June 11 city-council meeting.
Tonight's dinner, though, was the crowning achievement of the Scovell efforts--a Dallas version of the Arab peace talks.
As the three men ordered frozen margaritas--with salt--and munched on chips and salsa, Kirk told Keever he was prepared to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with Keever at a massive press conference the following afternoon at City Hall to decry these hoodlumesque tactics the New Black Panthers were employing to get everybody's attention. In return, Keever and his fellow board members would publicly commit to start working out their own stupid problems--beginning the process at a board retreat to be held later in the month.
Flushed with excitement at the Margarita Agreement with Kirk, Keever didn't know he still had more humble pie to eat, mainly in the form of the Keever Apology, wherein Keever stood up at the press conference and apologized for ordering the Dallas cops to remove the Panthers from Keever's second school board meeting, prompting the arrests of three New Panthers. It wasn't until Keever got to City Hall the following afternoon, just before the press conference, that he was handed a script and told he had to read it. Though he was allowed to rewrite some of his remarks, Kirk, Scovell, and Pettis Norman--a black Dallas businessman, former Dallas Cowboy, and chief hostage negotiator for the black activists down at DISD--instructed Keever that, if he took out the apology, Norman would pull all the blacks off the podium in the middle of Keever's remarks for the TV cameras and reporters to see. Nice touch.
The press conference was produced by Kirk's hired-gun public-relations guru, Carol Reed, who had proved her mayoral marketing brilliance long ago by staging a Coke-on-the-mountain-type assemblage of folk in the City Hall Flag Room on the day in January 1995 when Kirk formally announced his candidacy. All the bit players were being summoned downtown again for the bail-out-Keever press conference--a warm and fuzzy group to help Kirk get through the riskiest political move to date in his political career.
It was a fragile partnership, this Keever-Kirk axis, and one that could only be attributed to Scovell's delicate mediating and Keever's absolutely unwavering commitment to get City Hall's Mr. Stop-the-Blame-Game to come stop the biggest blame game this town has ever seen, no matter how long it took him or how it was finally pulled off.
"He had run on this issue of race relations, and I was over here getting my butt kicked on a daily basis, and the way I saw it, I had to call on the one person who had the power to help," Keever says. "I had to. What did I have to lose? I was dead."
But with an impossible mission accomplished, a man tries to recover his pride and dignity, which brings us back to the mayor's apparent lack of appetite that night.
It turned out that the meeting--which was surprisingly jovial in tone now that the deal had been cut--had gone on longer than anybody had anticipated, and it was obvious that Kirk wasn't going to get home to either his dinner or his NBA playoff game anytime soon. Which meant he was going to be hungry. Scovell, having more than 20 years experience in keeping mayors and city managers happy, graciously asked the waiter for an extra plate when his enchilada dinner arrived and promptly whacked off a portion of his own meal for the mayor's eating enjoyment.
Before handing the mayor his plate, though, Scovell gave Keever a look--a hint that Keever should throw a symbolic peace offering upon the plate of political sacrifice.
"John just kind of looked at me like I was expected to give up some food, too," Keever says. "And I said, 'No, this is mine--this is my dinner.'"
The Loma Luna dinner is a nearly perfect metaphor for why this city has intractable racial problems, and why we can never fix them.
First we have a bunch of nutty, completely unproductive black hoodlums dressed like they're in a bad Woody Allen movie running around town threatening the proverbial long, hot summer--never mind that this is Texas, where it's already 100 degrees in June--if we don't run the white man out of the public schools.
Then we have the city's first black mayor--a man who, despite his nearly empty public-service portfolio, was overwhelmingly voted into office because his No.1 promise was to stop all the insane racial bullshit. Seven months after the election, he began running as fast as he could away from the DISD race circus--and he's been running from potential controversy ever since. In fact, the only thing Kirk has shown he's willing to pound the table about is the prospect of a new area code for Dallas.
Then we have the DISD's new baby-faced board president, Keever. Here's a guy who clearly has more ambition than sense: Why else run for the city's biggest lose-lose job when the best school board president DISD has probably ever had was just beaten to a bloody pulp, vilified as a racist for demonstratively improving the quality of education?
Keever has not only spent the last month running around the city like a guy with his pant leg on fire, but he doesn't seem to grasp the fact that no matter what he says--and, surprisingly enough, he has plenty to say--no one will be able to focus on the message until he finds a way to get rid of the Nixonesque five-o'clock shadow that makes him look downright shiftless on the 10 o'clock news. (School officials are trying to cajole Keever into applying a bit o' pancake makeup for his official board-presidency photograph; so far he's not willing.)
Then, of course, there's the Dallas trademarked corporate knight in shining armor--the guy who invariably saves the day. This time it was John Scovell who came rushing in; last time, in the middle of the Townview magnet school controversy, it was Pettis Norman; sometimes it's been Schepps Dairy CEO Pete Schenkel or the late TI chairman Jerry Junkins. What in heaven's name would the eighth largest city in America do without a handful of well-connected, self-appointed powerbrokers who somehow find time in their busy schedules to step forward and pistol-whip our dumbass, ego-raging, completely incompetent public officials into submission?
The most bizarre part of it all, of course, is that if everybody would just put forth a little effort--answer the school board president's telephone calls; give the mayor a bite of the cheese enchilada--we might get something accomplished in this city.
The ingredients are all there.
No matter how many times the New Black Panthers--all five of them--call Bill Keever a devil and a racist and demand his resignation, the truth is he's a bright guy. An articulate guy. A guy who has said--and this is significant--that he only wants to be president for one year so he can continue the reform movement just a bit longer and implement some specific changes. And the changes he's talking about are good.
Keever wants zero-based budgeting implemented at DISD so the board can attempt to clear the decks on an annual basis and examine the grotesquely bloated administrative budget that Superintendent Chad Woolery keeps stuffing with patronage positions. Not a half-bad idea when you consider that since the racial shenanigans began seven months ago, Woolery, without any input whatsoever from the board, has attempted to appease various unhappy factions by creating three brand-new, top-level administrative positions: one for deposed Townview principal Ora Lee Watson, whose total compensation is $83,862; one for new deputy superintendent Yvonne Gonzalez, who makes $123,600; and one for new chief of staff Shirley Ison-Newsome, who will now make something above her current salary-plus-car-allowance of $92,877.
Ison-Newsome's new position, chief of staff, is particularly intriguing since absolutely no staff members report to her--not one employee. Woolery somehow believed that giving veteran DISD employee Ison-Newsome, who is African-American, such a high-ranking title would appease black activists like the New Panthers and John Wiley Price. Instead the activists say the "gopher" position is insulting to African Americans. So, once again, the joke's on the taxpayers since Ison-Newsome's old position, where she used to do something, has been filled by someone equally expensive.
Keever also wants to take the concept of accountability to the next level by directly linking teacher performance to kids' test scores--and lest anyone forget what kids we're talking about here, black and Hispanic kids now make up 89 percent of the school district's enrollment.
But Keever has other ideas. "I think we have to lay the foundation for another bond program," Keever says. "We're growing by 5,000 to 7,000 more students a year. And I know more about the bond programs than the average board member."
As chairman of the board's business committee last year, Keever is intensely aware that the district's student population growth is far outstripping the district's ability to pay for a decent education. "We haven't had a tax increase in four years," says Keever, who's gutsy enough to say he's thinking about one this year.
Keever is not the Antichrist. In fact, we don't really know what he is--save for an ambitious, yes, acerbic, politically starry-eyed, 35-year-old pup--because the Panthers have never given him a chance to conduct an entire meeting, let alone punch the green button on anything.
'Tis true that Bill Keever is not anyone's ideal choice to head the school board. The ideal school board president would have the intellectual depth of Sandy Kress; the experience and grasp of history of Yvonne Ewell; the patience and compassion of Kathleen Leos; and, yes, the scrappiness and guts of Bill Keever--who must be given enormous credit for yanking the grossly self-absorbed mayor of Dallas by his silk tie and making him finally step up to help his school district and his city.
Lucky for Dallas, Keever has two little girls in the public schools, which in case nobody's noticed, need all the middle-class students and all the pro bono parental help they can get. Keever's kids see that their daddy is being vilified in the press. They also have had cops living in their house for several weeks because he was getting death threats, threats based on the color of his skin, not his actions.
Perhaps someone should point up the fact that the three black DISD board members, for all their constant howling about exclusion, could not even get it together enough to nominate any one of themselves for the position of board president. Hollis Brashear wanted the position badly, but Kathlyn Gilliam not only wouldn't support him, she worked against him in his re-election campaign this spring. Without a unified front from all three blacks, Brashear didn't have a chance; and even if Yvonne Ewell had wanted it, Brashear certainly wasn't going to allow her the pleasure of a nomination since he couldn't have it.
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It should also be pointed out that Keever took his girls, ages 7 and 8, up to Greenville recently to participate in the support rally--the worship service--led by Gov. George Bush. "I thought it was good for my children to see that," says Keever, who's been a Sunday-school teacher at the Lovers Lane United Methodist Church for the past seven years. "This church-burning thing is just horrendous. We're pretty close to our church, and if someone burned our church down, it would be pretty painful for our family."
Bill Keever is not perfect. He suffers from being graceless and overeager: The way he orders food from a nervous waitress during our lunch in a hotel restaurant is awfully brittle, let alone the way he handles a bunch of media-hungry hotheads looking for any excuse to crucify him. He's had a rough road so far in his presidency, and he knows it--he didn't need the mayor's script shoved down his throat to tell him that.
Keever has spent the past few weeks calling on a regular basis--often daily--a handful of people including Sandy Kress, John Scovell, and Keever's former pastor at Lovers Lane Methodist. He's been in high panic, wanting their advice at every turn, wanting to know how he looks on TV, wanting to know how his long-term political prospects look. The feedback can't be good.
Keever needs to slow down, take a big breath, and look inside his own head and heart for answers. It's Keever time--time for the boy to grow into the man. Maybe even share those enchiladas.


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Tabard were forced to work hard for their 36-21 win at rivals Welwyn in London League North West Two.
The visitors were helped by fly-half Jack Reilly who returned from injury to score 16 points.
Tabard started the game more slowly than usual and after a brief flurry they found themselves back in their own half.
An infringement enabled Welwyn to take the lead with a penalty from centre Lynch.
This galvanised Tabard into action and from a lineout drive close in, they passed the ball out and Reilly opened their scoring with a well-taken try which he then converted.
The game then settled down with both sides having some good chances before Welwyn took the lead with a try from flanker Picken, following a kick through Tabard's defensive cover.
Just before half-time, a smart lineout move brought Tabard their second try.
The ball was thrown from the lineout and flanker Jamie Philson took the ball, coming round the front, and fed prop Bill Lake for the try which Reilly converted to bring the score to 14-8 to Tabard at the break.
After the break Welwyn quickly drew level with two penalties from Lynch before Tabard scored again.
This time they went through the phases and, eventually, the Welwyn defence was caught flat footed and centre Scott Stoba raced through for the try which Reilly converted.
Tabard scored again just after, this time from open play, when Reilly made the initial yards before feeding centre Tryfan Edwards [pictured] for the score which was converted.
Welwyn kept their interest up with another try from hooker Williams, when they ran a short penalty close to the Tabard line, with Lynch converting. Then, with time running out, Reilly kicked a penalty for Tabard before Lake went over for his second try of the game just before the final whistle.
Tabard are away to Chiswick this weekend.

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This paper presents a Probit model explaining the expansion of part-time farming in the German State of Hesse. Particular emphasis is placed on the personality traits of the agricultural entrepreneur and the labour market. The regression is based on a cross-section data from 74 Hessian farms. The results suggest statistical significance of the personality traits on employment decisions. Other significant variables include the number of adult household members and the intensity of agricultural land use.
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COLBERT - A weekend fire that touched off a gunpowder explosion and killed a popular postal carrier and her brother left Colbert residents and firefighters reeling Monday.
Lisa Shubert, 42, of 32 Colbert School Road, and Terry "T.J." Cotton, 39, of 46 Madison Ave., got trapped by the fire in a shed behind the mobile home Shubert rented just outside the Madison County town, county Coroner Michelle Cleveland said.
Colbert and Hull volunteer firefighters, who responded shortly after 1 a.m. Sunday, pulled both victims from the flames, but resuscitation efforts failed.
Shubert's boyfriend, Jerry Scott Payne, 39, also of 32 Colbert School Road, escaped the building but was burned over 60 percent to 70 percent of his body, said Jimmy Patton, chief investigator for the Madison County Sheriff's Office.
Madison County first responders treated Payne on the scene, and he was flown by helicopter to an Atlanta hospital.
Investigators are not exactly sure what sparked the fire, but firefighters have speculated that one of the three adults might have put a cigarette out on the concrete floor of the storage room, igniting a fire that set off the gunpowder.
The fire started near the front door, preventing them from escaping, said Tim Wyatt, chief of the Colbert Volunteer Fire Department.
"We had five guys there within a minute of the call, but there was nothing they could do," Wyatt said.
Shubert, Payne and Cotton had a yard sale Saturday and had planned to leave their stuff out in the yard so they could continue the sale Sunday, witnesses told firefighters. However, sometime after midnight, they heard it was going to rain, so they rushed out to move their things into the storage shed, Wyatt said.
The late Pat Patterson, who had owned the house and shed Shubert was renting, had used the shed as a gun shop and later converted it to storage after moving his firearms repair business into his basement.
An old wooden cabinet in the shed "looked like it had several cans of gunpowder in it," Wyatt said.
Wyatt and fire investigators are hoping to search through the shed today to figure out exactly how the fire started.
Wyatt, Cleveland and Patton said they consider the fire accidental, though the state fire marshal is investigating the official cause, and the victims' bodies were taken to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation crime lab for autopsies.
Colbert volunteer firefighters seldom deal with fire fatalities, and many of the men were shaken.
"It was probably one of the worst we've seen," Wyatt said. "I mean, we've worked bigger fires, but this was the worst just in terms of the fatalities and just the situation. It's not very often that we work fatal fires."
The department had a debriefing meeting Sunday evening to go over what happened that morning.
"People just got some stuff off their chest," Wyatt said. "But everybody's doing OK now."
In town Monday, friends and Colbert residents gathered at the Bread Basket deli, where Shubert was a regular.
"Especially in a small town like Colbert, everyone knew her," said Colbert resident Melissa White, who was eating lunch at the Bread Basket on Monday.
Everyone knew Shubert from her mail route or just from around town, and everybody liked her, said Tonya Maddox, a former neighbor of Shubert's.
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Case Studies on US sugar substitute industry.
Case F:
1. We see HSC gearing up quickly to enter the US market. Evidently the announcement of the Gravelines plant did not dissuade HSC from expanding. Any comments on HSC's actions?
2. How do you gauge the tone of the statement emanating from HSC?
Case G:
3. As HSC, how do you view the latest developments in the US market?
4. Why have Coke and Pepsi signed up again with NutraSweet, rather than waiting for HSC's extra capacity to come on stream?
5. What is going on in the tabletop segment?
a. NutraSweet is breaking the peace by going after Sweet 'N Low users. Is this a good move?
Final Evaluation Questions
6. How effective as a strategist has NutraSweet been in the game as described in the case?
7. How effective as a strategist has HSC been?
8. What transformation in HSC thinking about NutraSweet's fight/accommodate decision in Europe/Canada can you observe?
9. How did this influence the HSC thinking about NutraSweet's fight/accommodate decision in the US?
10. Does HSC have to try to sell to Coke and Pepsi?
In order to help, i can send the initial part of the case part A, B, C and D by e-mail due to restriction in added files
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On seeing HSC gearing up to enter the US market.
The announcement of the Gravelines plant did not dissuade HSC from expanding. On a simplistic level HSC capacity after the expansion would be 2000 tonnes total. HSC supplied 30% of the EU market, 5 % of the Canadian Market and that meant sales of about 440 t. This meant that about 1560 tons were to be sold in the US market. Now the US market was estimated to be about 8000 tons, so even if HSC sold its 1560 tons in the US market, there would still be market of 6440 tons left for NS Ajinomoto.
On the tone of the statements emanating from HSC:
The tone of the statements emanating from HSC is optimistic. The company is confident of capturing 10 - 20 % of the market. That should meet the quantity objectives of the company. In addition, the statements emanating from HSC are aggressive towards NS for example Ken Dooley said "[We are] looking forward to moving the war into the US". The optimistic statements are justified because the capacity expansion is important for economies of scale and to maintain a competitive cost, however, the "war" is not warranted. If NS Ajinomoto decides to go on war with HSC, it would be HSC that would lose the battle.
On Developments in the US market:
From the perspective of HSC the development in the US market does not auger well for it. HSC, which has a variable cost of $30 per pound, had hoped that NS would thrive in the large US market without triggering a price competition. NS on the other hand having a variable cost of $17 per pound has a tactical advantage if there is a price war. First, the contracts that NS made with Pepsi and Coke at around $30 were designed to out compete HSC in that segment. Second, the launching of cutthroat competition in ...


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She's always been known as a model, but these days Kate Moss is proving to be the unexpected poster girl for start-ups. Recently we told you about Kate's desire to open her own nightclub and not long before that, we were impressed by her skill as an interior design consultant on a luxury Cotswolds development, The Lakes by Yoo. While the nightclub business has yet to materialise, Kate is now taking concrete steps to turn another passion into a paycheck — and this, she says, has been a lifelong dream.
The 42-year-old global runway star is launching her own talent company; and she's emphatic that it isn't just an agency for aspiring and established models. "I want to focus more on managing people's careers than just running a modelling agency. I don't really want pretty people; I want people that want to sing and dance and act — I want to create stars," says Kate, outlining her dream job. Sadly the first step to setting up this business was parting with Storm Models; the agency that has represented Kate for 27 years. "It was like leaving home," the supermodel explains, adding, "I had to leave, and they were very understanding about it."
Turning the page on that 'Storm' chapter, Kate is looking forward to her new venture with the enthusiasm of a beginner. With over two decades of experience in the entertainment industry, we're certain this will be another successful passion to paycheck conversion for Ms. Moss.
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Benjamin Wedro, MD, FACEP, FAAEM
Dr. Ben Wedro practices emergency medicine at Gundersen Clinic, a regional trauma center in La Crosse, Wisconsin. His background includes undergraduate and medical studies at the University of Alberta, a Family Practice internship at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario and residency training in Emergency Medicine at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center.
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Dr. Charles "Pat" Davis, MD, PhD, is a board certified Emergency Medicine doctor who currently practices as a consultant and staff member for hospitals. He has a PhD in Microbiology (UT at Austin), and the MD (Univ. Texas Medical Branch, Galveston). He is a Clinical Professor (retired) in the Division of Emergency Medicine, UT Health Science Center at San Antonio, and has been the Chief of Emergency Medicine at UT Medical Branch and at UTHSCSA with over 250 publications.
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- Introduction to men's health
- Prostate problems
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- Top 10 diseases that kill men
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- 2. Cancers
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- 6. Diabetes
- 7. Influenza and pneumonia
- 8. Suicide
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- 10. Alzheimer's disease
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Sexual health and function are important parts of a healthy lifestyle. The ability to participate in sexual intercourse depends upon the brain, hormones, nerves, and blood vessels that supply the penis. A variety of mechanisms and feedback loops need to work for an erection to occur. There are numerous causes of erectile dysfunction (ED, impotence) including:
Impotence is also a complication of prostate cancer treatment, which can include surgery and radiation.
Smoking is an independent risk factor for developing impotence.
Treatment of erectile dysfunction depends upon the cause but may include medications (for example, tadalafil [Cialis], sildenafil [Viagra], and vardenafil [Levitra, Staxyn], testosterone replacement therapy and, for some men, prosthetic devices surgically inserted into the penis.
Testosterone levels that are required for puberty, muscle, and bone development in young adulthood gradually decrease over a man's lifetime (sometimes referred to as Low T). Testosterone levels need to be at a certain level to maintain body and brain function. Numerous theories exist about the use of testosterone therapy routinely in older men, but these theories have not been widely accepted. There are however, a few health care practitioners that use testosterone to "prevent aging."
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Liturgical Year C
Psalm - Ps 126:1bc-2ab, 2cd-3, 4-5, 6
1 When the lord brought back the captivity of Sion, we became like men comforted.
2ab Then was our mouth filled with gladness; and our tongue with joy.
2cd Then shall they say among the Gentiles: The Lord hath done great things for them.
3 The Lord hath done great things for us: we are become joyful.
4 Turn again our captivity, O Lord, as a stream in the south.
5 They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.
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export CC=/usr/bin/gcc-3.2 - switch gcc version?
So, if I needed to have my default compiler be gcc and I have two versions (3.2 and 2.95) can I just use the:
export CC=/usr/bin/gcc-3.2
command before doing a kernel compile for instance to assure that the newer compiler is used?
2.95 is the stable and most reliable version of gcc, and I would not recommend you to use 3.2 as some errors may pop up,you can change the compiler in many ways (using alias,exporting as you did )
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FOOTBALL: Sussex and Hampshire to go head-to-head at Littlehampton07-Oct-2013
Sussex and Hampshire's cricketers are swapping googlies for goals as they take each other on in a 90 minute, 11-a-side football match at Littlehampton Town FC this Wednesday 9th October (7.45pm kick-off).
With the County season having recently finished, players from both Clubs will be winding down for the winter with a friendly to raise money for both the venue and Littlehampton Cricket Club.
Sussex's team will be made up of several first-team players and backroom staff, including Chris Nash, Ben Brown and Matt Machan. The Hampshire side has some footballing pedigree with former QPR trialist James Vince, Wessex Premier league players Liam Dawson, Hamza Riazuddin and Chris Wood and Southampton FC legend Jason Dodd amongst their ranks.
Sussex's Cricket Development Administrator Gary Wallis-Tayler said, "The game is in aid of not only strengthening the bond between the two local counties, but we'll be raising monies for local sport in the area and the community. It is great that we are able to help out in methods other than cricket."
Entrance is only £2 for Adults and £1 for Juniors and the address of the venue is:
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The "State of the World" Tour!
Janet Jackson postponed her recent Unbreakable-supporting tour so she could give birth to her child, but she's back and better than ever now, and she's bringing her epic new "State of the World" Tour to the stage of the Legacy Arena on December 9th, 2017! Tickets for this Janet Jackson Birmingham concert are on sale now, but given the circumstances, you'll need to hurry if you want to catch the iconic superstar performing her newest songs alongside her all-time biggest hits — including "Miss You Much," "That's the Way Love Goes," and "Rhythm Nation."
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"Hancock" (the current vehicle for the biggest star in the world, Will Smith) is a superhero story that, on the surface, seems to offer something different to the super-spider-xmen films of the recent past. "Hancock's" protagonist is a drink-sodden flying strongman with amnesia. So far, so not your average underwear-on-the-outside embodiment of truth, justice, etc. Sadly, beneath the surface of this blockbuster beats a hollow heart, that not only adds little or nothing to our vision of what a hero can be, but reinforces the notion that more often than not, popular cinema's vision of heroism begins and ends with whoever can overwhelm the bad guy with the most spectacular force.
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New Canaan Schools Superintendent Dr. Mary Kolek expects public schools will be open on time tomorrow, Tuesday, Feb. 12, Kolek told the Advertiser.
"Right now the anticipation is that we will be up and running tomorrow morning," Kolek said. "We are watching the weather and trying to get in on time and to get the kids in safely."
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Though New Canaan has fared well through the weekend blizzard and its aftermath, many school district employees live in towns and cities that still have not been plowed. Kolek said most of the district's bus drivers live in Bridgeport and Stratford — two areas that have been hit hard during the storm. Those employees, she said, still cannot leave their homes.
She sent a letter to parents Monday explaining why New Canaan did not have school today. Read it here.
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SNC-Lavalin announces Rainbow Hospital Partnership's successful debt refinancing
Aug 06, 2013, 08:03 ET from SNC-Lavalin
MONTREAL, Aug. 6, 2013 /CNW Telbec/ - SNC-Lavalin (TSX: SNC) today announces that Rainbow Hospital Partnership (RHP), in which it holds a 100 percent interest, has successfully completed an agreement with lenders to refinance its project debt for the Restigouche Hospital Centre for psychiatric care in New Brunswick.
The agreement refinances an aggregate principal amount of $122.9 million, composed of: $51.5 million of short-term bonds due in October 2014, and $71.4 million in long-term 30-year bonds, the operation term of the project. This project debt is non-recourse to SNC-Lavalin.
"We are pleased to have successfully closed this project-debt refinancing, a milestone that reaffirms the support of the financial markets for our infrastructure projects," said Gerry Grigoropoulos, Senior Vice-President, SNC-Lavalin Capital. "These bonds, rated A (low) by DBRS and placed by Casgrain & Company Limited, were well received by the market."
In 2011, RHP was awarded a public-private partnership contract by the province to design, build, commission, finance and provide certain operation and maintenance functions for the hospital. The facility, being built by an SNC-Lavalin-led joint venture, will have 140 beds in seven in-patient units, and facilities for education and research, clinical support, administration and general support services. SNC-Lavalin will also provide operations and maintenance services for the hospital for a total of 30 years.
SNC-Lavalin is one of the leading engineering and construction groups in the world and a major player in the ownership of infrastructure, and in the provision of operations and maintenance services. Founded in 1911, SNC-Lavalin has offices across Canada and in over 40 other countries around the world, and is currently active in some 100 countries. www.snclavalin.com
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New Black and Gold Cannas
Seven years ago a new canna lily from South Africa took the gardening world by storm. ?Tropicanna? canna features bright orange flowers and multicolored leaves with pink, yellow, red, orange, and...
An Eye-Catching Golden Fern
Ferns are gaining in popularity as more gardeners are choosing these plants for shady spots in their yards. Ferns offer ease of care, and beautiful, textured fronds of varying shapes and sizes....
Antibiotics in Veggies?
Adding manure to vegetable gardens is a time-honored method of fertilizing plants. However, many animals are fed regular doses of antibiotics, and up to 90 percent of those antibiotics can pass...
Copper Blocker Mesh for Slug Control
Spring means wet weather, and wet weather means slugs. Many gardeners know of the efficacy of using copper wire or copper flashing as a barrier to repel slugs. The slugs get a small electrical...
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It's Tomato Time!
After a winter of bland, "store-boughten" tomatoes, it's time to start making those dreams of freshly harvested, sun-warmed tomatoes a reality. Tomato plants are easy to grow -- but challenging to grow well. They are susceptible to many diseases and...
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Trellising and Training Tomatoes In his article Trellising and Training Tomatoes , Shepherd Ogden begins by describing ten...
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Investigators are trying to determine how a handcuffed shoplifting suspect managed to get ahold of a gun and shoot two police officers during a struggle outside a Burbank Kmart store.
The officers were escorting a petty theft suspect out of the store shortly after noon Friday when there was a struggle and shots were fired, city spokesman Keith Sterling said.
One officer was shot three times in the chest, but was protected by his bulletproof vest, Sgt. Robert Quesada said. That same officer also was shot in the leg, Quesada said. He was treated and released at a hospital. The other officer was shot in the hand, authorities said.
The suspect was shocked by a stun gun and was taken to the hospital for observation, Sterling said. The man's name was not immediately released.
Witnesses reported hearing six or seven shots.
Joseph Hoage told KCAL-TV he was in the parking lot near a patrol car when shots rang out.
"As I started to walk, I heard 'He's got a gun, got a gun,'" Hoage said. "So I dove behind my car and heard several shots."
One officer was shot in the hand and the other officer "emptied out his stun gun," Hoage said.
"Evidently he got the officer's gun and unloaded on him," Hoage said.
Sterling said it was not immediately clear whether the attacker had a gun or took one from an officer.
The parking lot was closed while police interviewed shoppers. The city planned to bring in buses to take home people who were unable to get their cars, Sterling said.


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Cosplayer Luckygrim > Costume of Saber Alter (Fate/Hollow Ataraxia)
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- 03-13-2014
- Series
- Fate/Hollow Ataraxia
- Character
- Saber Alter
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- 2012
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- Normal
- Costume worn at:
- Anime Central 2012
- ColossalCon (Cleveland) 2012
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Everything is made with cotton satin and the black and blue layers are two separate dresses. I love the sword and I'll probably make more for a few friends who want them.
- Personal Thoughts:
- I'm still not super happy about the costume and there are still some things to be finished. First made and worn for Acen then Colossal Con but I didn't take the pictures till just this past week.
Wig Details
- Styling Notes
- The wig came pre-pony tailed with a clip in long pony tail. I turned the pre-ponied tail into the twisted bun then used pieces from the clip in pony tail to make the braid.
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Little Boy Reacts to Seeing Fireworks For the First Time [VIDEO]
I don't know about you, but for me it doesn't feel like summer until the sky lights up like the Fourth of July and there's no better place around to check out fireworks that after a Binghamton Mets game.
I always love the look of wonder of the faces of little kids who see fireworks for the first time, but this has to be the very best reaction I've ever seen. Watch as this two year old sees the WWE Smack Down opening fireworks for the first time:
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Amazon.com has given out another deal for Logitech device based on the rebate form in the previous deal. This time, you can save as much as $90 combined from the instant saving and rebate discount.
Logitech G19 Programmable gaming keyboard is an exciting keyboard with dedicated programmable buttons and LCD display. It's one of the high-end gaming keyboard that most expert gamers will choose to have.
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Cougar men fall short at Presentation
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In another close game, the University of Minnesota, Morris Cougars (6-5) fell 56-53 to Presentation on Tuesday, Jan. 7.
It was a tough shooting night for the Cougars, who finished just 3-14 from three. Their defense kept them in the game holding the Saints to just 17-56 shooting on the night.
Presentation took advantage from the foul line shooting 17-21 from the stripe compared to 10-17 for UMM.
It was a slow start for both teams; the score was tied at four after five minutes of play. It took over ten minutes for either team to score ten points, the Saints took a four point lead, 10-6 at the 9:29 mark of the first half. Morris tied the game at ten with a field goal from Reller with fewer than nine minutes to play in the half. Presentation never relinquished the lead for the rest of the half but Morris did end the half on a 5-0 run to cut the lead to 20-19 at the break.
The Saints held an 11-2 advantage in bench points in the first twenty minutes of play.
RJ Dean gave the Cougars the lead on their first possession of the second half. Brendon Foss followed up with a basket to put UMM up three, their largest lead of the game up to that point. Morris continued the run and held a 31-22 lead after Cody Emrick knocked down a shot with 14:24 left. Presentation quickly cut that lead to two but UMM kept a small edge through the opening 11 minutes of play in the second half. Presentation took their first lead of the second half after a 5-0 run by Damian Salais. The lead for the Saints would grow to six at 46-40 with 6:29 left. Morris cut the lead to one possession on multiple occasions but did not take a lead until Neil Helgeson hit a jumper with under a minute left giving UMM a 53-52 lead. With just over a half minute left the Saints hit a pair of free throws giving Presentation the lead back. Morris missed a shot on their next possession and after the Saints converted a pair of free throws a last second three pointer was off the mark and Saints held on for a 56-53 win.
Foss ended the game with a double-double on 15 points and 11 rebounds. Dean had 11 points and Tyler Pendleton added nine. Helgeson had seven points off the bench.
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Have you hugged your cloud or MSP lately?
Why give a cloud a hug and what does it have to do with loss of data access vs. loss of data?
First there is a difference between actually losing data and losing access to it.
Losing data means that you have no backup or copy of the information thus it is gone. This means there are no good valid backups, snapshots, copies or archives that can be used to restore or recover the information.
Losing access to data means that there is a copy of it somewhere however it will take time to make it usable (no data was actually lost). How long you have to wait until the data is restored or recovered will vary and during that time it may seem like data was lost.
Second, industry hype for and against clouds serves as a lighting rod for when things happen.
Lighting recently struck (or at least virtually) with some outages (see links below) including at Google Gmail.
Cloud crowd cheerleaders may need a hug to feel good while they or their technology get tossed about a bit. Google announced that they had a service disruption recently however that data was not lost, only loss of access for a period of time.
Lets take a step back before going forward.
With the Google Gmail disruption, following on previous incidents, true cynics and naysayers will probably jump on the anti cloud FUD feeding frenzy. The true cloud cynics will tell the skeptics all about cloud challenges perhaps never having had actually used any service or technology themselves.
Cloud crowd cheerleaders are generally a happy go lucky bunch with virtual beliefs and physical or real emotions. Cloud crowd cheerleaders have a strong passion for their technology or paradigm taking it various serious in some instances perceiving attacks or fud against cloud as an attack on them or their belief. Some cheerleaders will see this post as snarky or cynical (ok, get over it already).
Ongoing poll at StorageIOblog.com, click on the image to cast your vote.
Then there are the skeptics or interested audience who are not complete cynics or cheerleaders (those in the middle 80 percent of the above chart).
Generally speaking they want to learn more, understand issues to work around or take appropriate steps and institute best practices. They see a place for MSP or cloud services for some things to compliment what they are currently doing and tend to be the majority of audiences outside of special interest, vendor or industry trade groups.
Some additional thoughts, comments and perspectives:
Tiered data protection, RTO and RPOs, align technique and technology to SLO needs
RTO and RPOs
Here are some related blog posts:
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Closing thoughts and comments (for now) regarding clouds.
Its not if, rather when, where, why, how and with what will you leverage a cloud or MSP technologies, products, service, solution or architectures to compliment your environment.
How will cloud or MSP work for you vs. you working for it (unless you actually do work for one of them).
Dont be scared of clouds or virtualization, however look before you leap!
Nuff said for now
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1996 Dodge Ram Pickup 1500 - Consumer Review
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Vehicle1996 Dodge Ram Pickup 1500 Laramie SLT 2dr Extended Cab 4WD SB
ReviewThis truck has over 200,000 miles on it. Had to rebuild engine and transmission, but well worth it. We were forewarned about automatic dodge ram transmissions anyways, so that was expected. The only real problem has been the fuel pump. That's been replaced twice, but I think it's a quality issue. Be careful about the retailer and quality of your fuel pump. Great for going over curbs, rocks, etc. Fits in places you would NEVER expect! It can be challenging to get into 4WD. It's comfortable on long road trips. The rear seat folds up which gives you more space. It's quite roomy in the back for passengers considering it's a truck!
Best FeaturesVery comfortable seats. The feeling of safety. Being able to fit 6 people in it. There's plenty of room to work on the engine and not a bunch of jumbled computer stuff or sensors in the way.
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Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMechanobiology and Heat Transfer at Healing Bone-Implant Interfaces
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Current Research and Scholarly InterestsAs an Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon, my clinical practice focused on the treatment of facial skeletal diseases and subsequent bone reconstruction, orthognathic surgery, facial trauma and dental implantology. As a scientist, my research focuses on the translational aspects of the interactions between bone cells with the immune and vascular components. During my Ph.D. (under Prof. Dominique Heymann, France) I started working with animal models of bone diseases, developing an innovative siRNA-based therapy for the treatment of bone loss associated with orthopaedic implants failure. Also, I developed a surgical mouse model of osteonecrosis of the jaw associated with anti-resorptive drugs (Bisphosphonates). Consecutively, in my postdoctoral stage at Stanford University (with Prof. Stuart Goodman), I have strongly increased my experience in the field of bone-biomaterial interactions focusing on the translational aspects of the improvement of bone-healing impairment in aging. For this aim, my research focus in to determine growth factors involved in the interaction between bone and immune cells and to move this knowledge to clinical uses. Moreover, I developed intellectual skills to identify relevant needs for clinical practice, propose an experimental design to solve them by using the lab resources, core facilities and collaboration with others research groups at Stanford University. At Stanford University, I discovered opportunities to move my research to the real products or services for healthcare. For this aim, I am a component of the Stanford Venture Studio community, receiving feedback from my ideas, personalized advising and connecting with peers.
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Aug. 28, 2012ST. JOSEPH, MO | By: Thomack
The Missouri Department of Transportation along with Herzog Contracting Corporation is currently resurfacing part of Interstate 29.
Spokesperson for the St. Joseph Troop H Headquarters Sergeant Sheldon Lyon says the construction is between mile marker 40 and mile marker 30 in Buchanan County.


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River Falls guarantees Baseball Council loan
The City Council announced at the end of its Feb. 26 meeting and the closed session that followed: River Falls will agree to guarantee a bank loan not to exceed $300,000 for the River Falls Baseball Council.
A group of baseball players, coaches and fans began more than two years ago to rally support for building a baseball field. It partnered with the city to lease land in the eastern portion of Hoffman Park and since then has raised money to build the park. RFBC President Josh Eidem said late last week the city loan represents a "big boost" to the plans, but the group still needs to raise $150,000 to meet the goal amount of $800,000 to begin construction.
"The City Council sees the value of this ballpark as an addition to our community," he said. "We are pleased to have a partner who shares our vision of community togetherness and affordable family entertainment to help us get this project to completion." Eidem says the loan support raises the cash available for construction to nearly $650,000. The RFBC has received nearly $500,000 in total donations for the ballpark, but some of the money is designated to support operations over time.
"Therefore," he said, "the RFBC still must raise another $150,000 in cash over the next year to complete the nearly $800,000 construction plan."
He calls the loan a "great milestone" but emphasizes there is still a lot of work to do to make sure everything is ready for the field's projected June 2014 opening date.
With surveying work complete, Eidem said the goal is for crews to begin grading and earthwork May 1 this year.
Including the value of the raw land at $350,000 and construction costs puts the total budget at $1.15 million, less than the $1.6 million a feasibility study projected it would cost.
Eidem agrees the price tag sounds big but says RFBC has sought every possible opportunity to save money and keep costs reasonable while not sacrificing quality and sustainability.
He said, "We're not building the Taj Mahal by any means, but we're building what's right for River Falls."
The RFBC president says the group will pay off the $300,000 loan through concession-sales proceeds and outfield-fence advertising signs that measure 12 feet by eight feet and cost $500 per year.
So far, the baseball council has sold 41 of the 60 outfield signs that ask for a three-year commitment.
Eidem said there are still plenty of opportunities to support the ball field, including several kinds of sponsorships: Four light poles, home and visitors' dugout, the press box, the donor's plaza and two picnic sections on the upper-level grandstand.
People can also buy four-inch by eight-inch paver bricks or a seat nameplate for $200 each, or one of each for a combo price of $300.
Eidem adds that the group will also be organizing work days for which they'll need skilled volunteer labor -- another effort that should save money and maintain progress. People can sign up for notification e-mails at the RFBC's website.
Also listed there are more than 40 local businesses that have joined the support effort. Interested advertisers and donors are encouraged to contact Eidem at 651-335-0030 or firstname.lastname@example.com; to stop by First National Bank; or to visit the RFBC at its website: www.riverfallsbaseball.org.
Said Eidem: "With more happening with the project every day, and especially with such a major funding piece secured, we should have more progress updates to come this spring."


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In December 1965 Peter Weiss's Marat/Sade (1964), in a presentation by Britain's Royal Shakespeare Company, stormed the Broadway stage, captivating audience and critic alike. The assumption that the play about the murder of Marat by Charlotte Corday might have been one of the many dramatic pieces written by Sade---and enacted by his fellow inmates for "therapeutic" reasons during the Marquis's confinement at Charenton---provided Weiss (who maintained that "every word I put down is political") with his framework for the "confrontation of the revolutionary Marat as the apostle of social improvement and the cynical individualist, the Marquis de Sade" (N.Y. Times). The Investigation (1965), which Weiss considered his best play, was first presented in 20 theaters in East and West Germany; Ingmar Bergman (see Vol. 3) was its Swedish director. It was staged in New York in 1966. Taken almost entirely from the actual proceedings of the 1965 Frankfurt War Crimes Tribunal on Auschwitz, The Investigation is a "harrowing but insistently commanding experience" (Walter Kerr, N.Y. Times). The audience, in effect, reenacts the role of the original courtroom spectators in this shattering, true account of man's depravity. Weiss received the Buchner Prize in 1982.
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These are his largest new buys in the second quarter: CIGNA Corp. (NYSE:CI), Coventry Health Care (CVH), UnitedHealth Group (NYSE:UNH), Humana (NYSE:HUM) and WellPoint (WLP).
Einhorn bought 6,435,000 shares of CIGNA (CN) in the second quarter of 2012 at an average price of $46. Cigna's stock has declined almost 8% over the last five years.
CIGNA Corporation is an investor-owned global health services benefits organizations in the U.S. CIGNA a Corporation has a market cap of $12.63 billion; its shares were traded at around $43.6 with a P/E ratio of 8.7 and P/S ratio of 0.6. The dividend yield of CIGNA Corporation stocks is 0.1%. CIGNA a Corporation had an annual average earnings growth of 9.2% over the past five years.
Einhorn wrote in his second quarter letter: "CI is a managed care company with three primary divisions: Cigna HealthCare, Cigna Group Disability and Life, and Cigna International. Cigna HealthCare, which comprises about 70% of CI's profits, offers medium and large companies traditional risk-based insurance, in addition to administering plans for those that prefer to self-insure. Cigna HealthCare recently bought HealthSpring to enter the fast-growing Medicare Advantage market. Cigna Group Disability and Life is a low-growth, stable business. Cigna International, which provides insurance policies for individuals, as well as insurance and administrative services for multinational companies and governments, is growing at more than 20% per year. We believe that CI deserves a higher multiple because the plan administration business is a service business that doesn't take risk, and the other divisions do not warrant discounted values. Our purchase price of $45.42 per share valued CI at less than 8x estimated 2012 EPS and approximately 6x our forecast of post Obamacare 2014 EPS. CI shares closed the quarter at $44.00 each."
Einhorn bought 6,660,000 shares of Coventry Health Care (CVH) at an average price of $32 in the second quarter of 2012.
Coventry Health Care Inc. is a managed health care company operating health plans under the names Coventry Health Care, Coventry Health and Life, HealthAmerica, HealthAssurance, HealthCare USA, Group Health Plan, SouthCare, Southern Health, Carelink Health Plans and WellPath. Coventry Health Care, Inc. has a market cap of $4.64 billion; its shares were traded at around $32.29 with a P/E ratio of 11.9 and P/S ratio of 0.4. The dividend yield of Coventry Health Care Inc. stocks is 1.5%. Coventry Health Care Inc. had an annual average earnings growth of 17.8% over the past 10 years.
Einhorn mentioned Coventry Health Care and Cigna in his second-quarter letter: "The Partnerships established several substantial new positions in the managed care sector, including Cigna (CI) and Coventry Health Care (CVH). The entire sector had been battered in anticipation of Obamacare. For the most part, these companies have unlevered balance sheets and trade at single-digit P/E multiples on earnings that should continue to grow. They have no exposure to the European currency crisis, a possible Chinese slowdown or other cyclical headwinds. While the stocks are already cheap, there is the additional unpriced upside in the possibility that the election changes the political landscape, resulting in a possible modification or repeal of Obamacare."
He continued about CVH: "CVH is a regional managed care company with operations in the mid-Atlantic, Midwest and parts of the South. The company offers commercial risk-based insurance and has an expanding business in the government-sponsored Medicaid and Medicare programs. Problems with a recently-acquired three-year contract to provide managed care services to the Medicaid population in Kentucky caused the company to significantly reduce earnings guidance for 2012. This led to a large drop in the stock price. We believe the issues related to the Kentucky contract are manageable and finite, and CVH will return to breakeven or a profit on this contract in 2013 from a loss this year. Our average purchase price of $31.22 represents 8x our forecast for 2014 earnings net of $6 per share of cash and reflects our estimate of the negative impact of Obamacare. CVH closed the quarter at $31.79 per share."
Einhorn bought 2,285,000 shares of UnitedHealth Group (NYSE:UNH) at an average price of $57 in the second quarter.
UnitedHealth Group Inc. offers health care coverage and related services to help people achieve improved health and well-being through all stages of life. UnitedHealth Group Inc. has a market cap of $53.85 billion; its shares were traded at around $51.91 with a P/E ratio of 10.6 and P/S ratio of 0.5. The dividend yield of UnitedHealth Group Inc. stocks is 1.6%. UnitedHealth Group Inc. had an annual average earnings growth of 18.2% over the past 10 years. GuruFocus rated UnitedHealth Group Inc. the business predictability rank of 3.5-star.
Einhorn bought 1,645,000 shares of Humana (NYSE:HUM) at an average price of $82. The stock has dropped 19% since.
Humana Inc. is a health services company that facilitates the delivery of health care services through networks of providers to its medical members. Humana Inc. has a market cap of $11.03 billion; its shares were traded at around $66.59 with a P/E ratio of 9.1 and P/S ratio of 0.3. The dividend yield of Humana Inc. stocks is 1.5%. Humana Inc. had an annual average earnings growth of 23.5% over the past 10 years. GuruFocus rated Humana Inc. the business predictability rank of 5-star.
Einhorn bought 1,930,689 shares of WellPoint (WLP) at an average price of $67 in the second quarter.
WellPoint Inc. is the largest publicly traded commercial health benefits company in terms of membership in the United States. WellPoint Inc. has a market cap of $19.16 billion; its shares were traded at around $56.89 with a P/E ratio of 8.1 and P/S ratio of 0.3. The dividend yield of WellPoint Inc. stocks is 2%. WellPoint Inc. had an annual average earnings growth of 17.2% over the past 10 years. GuruFocus rated WellPoint Inc. the business predictability rank of 4-star.
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2009 Bodegas Alejandro Fernández Ribera del Duero Tinto Pesquera Reserva
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June 20, 2014 - Double decanted about 3 hours before serving. Dense, dark purple color, surprisingly nice nose for such a young wine, intense initial flavors of blackberries, plums, and spices with nice mid-range and finish. Moderate tannins buried under the lovely fruit. This wine will be even better in a year or two, but still a lovely wine and close to the WA evaluation of 93 or the Tanzer evaluation of 92(+). Look forward to drinking this wine over the next 10-15 years.2,403 views


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Here they are just into the oven
and just out - they look pretty much the same!
Orion checking out the batter.
Mint Meringues
4 dozen2 egg whites
1/4 teaspoon cream of tartar
1/8 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup sugar (I used xylitol)
1/4 teaspoon mint extract (I used almond)
3-6 drops green food coloring (Orion chose yellow)
green colored sprinkles (optional)
- Heat oven to 200 degrees.
- Grease 2 large cookie sheets, set aside.
- Combine egg whites, cream of tarter, and salt in medium bowl.
- Beat until foamy.
- Add sugar 1 tbls at a time, beating until egg whites are very stiff and glossy and sugar is disolved.
- beat in mint extract and food color.
- Fit a decorater bag with a large star tip.
- spoon meringue into bag.
- Pipe meringue in 1 inch puffs on prepared cookie sheets. (I just plopped them on with a spoon)
- Sprinkle with colored sugar if desired.
- Place cookie sheets on center rack of preheated oven.
- Bake for 2 hours.
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Identifying and reducing the white space in processes.
I'm not at the Gartner BPM show this time around — too much repetition in the material from the fall show, and I don't really like Vegas — but James Tayler is live-blogging the sessions. Also follow the action on Twitter using the hashtag #gartnerbpm.
Do people get BPM and Case Management? For some, Case Management is critical… « Andrew One Degree's BlogHow to talk about the benefits of case management to a business manager. Hint: it's not about being "lean", it's about relevant demonstrations, proving the ability to integrate, and showing real-world benefits. Check the comments at the end for an interesting follow-on discussion.
Although the details are a bit vague, this post warns that allowing a user to define their own dynamic process at any point in a structured process could be a danger. Keith Swenson pipes in with a comment suggesting that if the users wanted to change the process that much, then maybe it was broken in the first place.
Four basic patterns for centers of excellence : competency and resource management, solutions center model, factory model, and business process centric model. What each of these are, and which works best in which situation. Often, it's a combination of 2 or 3.
New book: Modern Business Process Automation: YAWL and its Support Environment. Contributors from several universities created this as an aid to teaching the ever-increasing number of university-level BPM courses.
Improving It: My process is not Mickey Mouse, but it doesn't need IT – Solving business, social and economic complex problems with technologyPhil Ayres on BPM processes that don't require coding, and the suggestion that most phase 1 processes should be like this until the business figures out the value of BPM.