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Nate addressing everyone in LR!
Nate addressing everyone in LR!
Congrats houseguests. You have gone without 3 food groups. Regular food will arive today in time for dinner. Food comp will be on Thursday. It is a half and half not.. half on pb& j for following week. So they get good food until Thursday. Will have food comp on Thursday.
Meeting over. June asks about in time for dinner. Someone is ging to go check SR now. switching to quad...
F1 Je and Js sitting in the blue room they are asking bb to open SR. They go in and they thought their was gonna be food in there but it was just 2 suitcases. They got water. Feed switches to BY. M and N sitting on a towel. Al and Dn are both out there in the pool. R just walked out. Dn floating on a raft. Al joins her. BB: R please put on your mic. They are talking about having a feast with the food they will get from the challange. I'm switching to feed 2. Same scene. M is putting on suntan lotion. There is really no interesting conversation going on. BB: hg before you play basketball please put the protective window covers in place. I think it's Je playing. Everyone's just laying out. Perv camera guy is at it again.....close ups on Al and Dn from head to toe. F3-Jn in kitchen talking to E. Something about Js being suspicious. E is eating cereal or something. Looks like Jn is walking around in a bra. She's cooking something. E is wearing the usual......pink.
E: she just figured she had enough pressure on her
Jn: what if she gets pressure from the other side
E: why would she do that
Jn: after N and i spoke to her I spoke to her...she just needs to chill out and everything would be good.
BB:Am please go to the diary room
Jn is washing dishes.
E: they will be compleatly powerless once Js gone. They think we are divided right now. Works to our advantage.
Ja comes in. F4-same scene...switches to blue room. hear a bunch of shuffling around of something. I assume someone's changing. This is going on for awhile. switches to the doorway of the queen room and you can see in the reflection of the glass door that it is E changing. Lots more rustling going on. ok switch to dining area.....E walking through so it's not her in the queen room. Must be Jn.
F1-Dn and Al in pool E walking around talking to them about when they are gonna tye dye. They decide between 4 and 6. R is on a raft in the pool too. Dn is trying to get the underpart of her arms tan. Jn is walking around eating a sandwich or something. She goes in. Ja and Js join the pool crowd. They are talking about what they will get to eat. Someone says chicken breasts...salad. Js was playing with Dns feet lifting her up by them. He flipped her over into the water. She said that it felt good. It got water in her ears. Shes floating in the innertube thingy. They are talking about the mistic tan where you stand up and it sprays you up and down. Js is squirting Dn with the ducks. they are throwing ducks back and forth. F2-same scene. Al gets out of pool and Js takes her raft. E brought out the turtles. Js and Dn talking. Sound switches to E talking Ja about the turtles. They are worried about 1 of them because theres an area near his head that is whiter than usual. He tries to crawl towards the pool but E moves him back to the grass. She says shes going to go take a nap and can Ja watch them. He says yep. Sound back to pool.....talking about cuddling. boring. F3-Jn cooking in the kitchen. Takes a bite of whatever it is. She pours it all on plate and goes outside with pan in her hand to tell them all theres food. N comes in singing. Je comes over and grabs a plate. Al comes in and walks through. F4-same scene..Al making up a plate..Jn washing dishes. Al tells her to stop doing the dishes. Al says the pitcher is leaking. says BB can we have a new pitcher. Al points out how red her chest is. Dn is in there. Jn making herself a plate now. Now Dn. N going back for seconds. Je is done eating. Camera pans to table now. Dn trying to get water out of her ear at the table.
Al and N hanging in the LR on the couches. N talking about how he feels sick because of the lack of food. Hard to heard what they're saying. They are talking about Dn and how paranoid she is acting.
QF-Nate and Ali still talking about surgeries and stuff, Nate had wisdom teeth pulled and got dry socket, Ali had nose job!!
Js joins N & Ali in LR, he is sore from working out.
All 3 are talking about spending time with boyfriends and girlfriends. Js ex (not Ali) didn't want him spending any time with friends. Ali says no guy can keep her from going out on Thursdays with her friends.
Caught the tail end on the conversation..
N, Al, Js and M are on the couches talking about cheerleaders. N said he would beat his son if he said he wanted to cheer. Js called them f*gs
F1-M, Js, N and Al still in LR. M says shes not a psycho girlfriend..she would be nice she likes to go out with her girlfriends without the boys. N asks her how many bf's she's cheated on. She says Dv and her had some really rocky times. She says what Dv says...hes putting on a front for all the guys. She says she was a good girlfriend. Js says he never considered Al his girlfriend until they got in there(laughter). F2-same scene. M says she can get jeolous. She gets stalked.....she's surprised shes on the show because she doesnt answer the phone if its a # she doesnt know. she wrote her # on valet ticket for the valet. M says she met Dv at the beach. M met a guy from Tenn in Cancun and he flew down to Fl for a sorority formal for her. Al says its more fun to take guy friend instead of boyfriend to clubs and formals. N says she must be hiding something since she doesnt take her boyfriend. N says the viper room is nasty and belly is fun. F3-same scene still. Talking about ice skating. M says her 5th grade bday party was at an ice skating rink. Al says best ice rinks are in the middle of malls. Al has been ice skating for 17 years. She says its the most expensive sport there is. Going through how much everything costs. N says his daughter will be a cheerleader or maybe do soccer. M says cheerleading isnt that big where shes from. If N's son said he wanted to be a cheerleader he would beat his a$$. N's exgirlfriend was a cheerleader for OU. F4-same scene still.......just want to check all feeds. Al saying that N is a perfectionist. He says he's not a control freak. M says he's a perfectionist too. N unties M's bikini with his feet. had to answer the phone so i missed what happened after that.


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Playing in the street is dangerous, especially if it's Wall Street.
Warren Buffett is an investing wizard. But if you study his history, you'll see he's been the victim of some hit-and-runs on Wall Street. And if you've read "The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life," the 2008 book by Buffett's hand-picked biographer, former Morgan Stanley managing director Alice Schroeder, you know Buffett's "luck" is backed by intense research, giving the financial guru the guts to take calculated plunges.
If I tried to emulate the stock-picking success of the "Oracle of Omaha," I'd have about as much luck trying to pick fly droppings out of black pepper. The only thing I have in common with Berkshire Hathaway's chief is that when I buy stock, I'm like a South Georgia snapping turtle that doesn't turn loose until it thunders. I don't have the knack or nerves for day trading. My travels to Wall Street are inspired by what I like. I think with my heart, not my brain.
In 1982, I fell in love with a company. Its leaders became my friends. Our business, community and personal philosophies were in synch. I started investing. I was a blind hog that found an acorn. Dividends bought more stock. Shares split, creating a 25-year rocket ride. But before you think I was smart or smug, understand I was probably dumb for not paying attention to warning signs of "The Street."
My prized $30 stock plummeted to $1.50 per share. Now it's creeping out of the cellar. And that's what prompted an update for my family. Back in the heady days of watching this stock gallop up Wall Street, I announced, "I won't sell this stock until I am 70 years old. And then, we're going to celebrate."
The dream for my 70th birthday has been to take our clan, from the blue hairs to the babies, anywhere they want to go on the globe.
Because our ancestors wore kilts, maybe Scotland would be their choice.
Perhaps we'd arm ourselves with cameras and trek to Tanzania for an exotic animal safari.
Closer to home, clutching a rubber raft and roaring down the Colorado River rapids in the Grand Canyon might have more appeal.
My modest but steady investment was compounding in a way that seduces so many novices like me to play in "The Street." A little was becoming a lot, without much effort.
But before you pat me on my back, remember to do it for the right reason. I don't deserve a congratulatory pat. What I need is a therapeutic pat, because I'm choking. Some might even say I ought to get a pat on the noggin, asking, "What were you thinking?"
What I am thinking now is that my family members need to readjust their thinking. Exploring New Zealand or skimming the rails on the Orient Express are fantasies, if not delusional thinking. So I'm suggesting we all ride by the Dairy Queen. They've got almost nine years to decide which menu item most excites them. Will it be a Blizzard or a banana split?
Hold on. My confidence in the company hasn't wavered. I've just checked the ticker tape. Wall Street reports the stock is sniffing on the other side of $3. With that encouraging news, I believe even Warren Buffet would buy into the Dairy Queen offer. And maybe, just maybe, we'll get to take that trip after all.
But it might be a trip for "cool treats and hot eats" 10 miles away in Watkinsville.
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As the time to the trade deadline drops from days to hours, the most interesting development involved a Padres affiliate.
As the Padres were losing to Colorado 3-2 Friday night at Petco Park — with the decisive run scoring on the first balk of Tim Stauffer's career — the Padres' Double-A affiliate at San Antonio was being no-hit by a 21-year-old prospect of the Texas Rangers.
Turns out that Joe Wieland might be one of the pitchers the Padres are interested in acquiring from the Rangers in a trade for closer Heath Bell.
Wieland, the Rangers' fourth-round pick in 2008, issued one walk while striking out seven Missions for Frisco. The only San Antonio player who reached base, Andy Parrino, was thrown out trying to steal second — meaning Wieland faced the minimum 27 hitters.
As of now, however, Bell, Aaron Harang, Mike Adams and Ryan Ludwick are still Padres as Sunday's 1 p.m. trading deadline draws nearer.
The hottest rumor still involves Bell and the Rangers, although negotiations seemed to have reached a stand off, according to reports from Texas.
Apparently, the Padres are holding out for at least two top prospects — the number equaling the first-round draft picks the Padres would get if Bell departs as a free agent at the end of the 2011 season.
The Padres' wish list apparently includes Texas League starting pitchers Wieland and Robbie Erlin (the Rangers' third-round pick of 2009). Meantime, the Rangers are balking and have told the Padres not to ask for shortstop Jurickson Profar.
Elsewhere, interest from the Angels and Phillies regarding Bell seems to have cooled while St. Louis doesn't seem to have a prospect match that interests Padres General Manager Jed Hoyer. The Cardinals are now considered a "fringe" bidder.
Elsewhere, sources said Atlanta's interest in Ludwick might be softening even though NL East rival Philadelphia acquired Hunter Pence from the Astros on Friday.
Cleveland and Cincinnati are still said to have interest in the left fielder, who is in a 2-for-17 slump and went 0-for-3 in his final at-bats Friday night to strand six runners.
As for Harang, he will be involved in an interesting match today at Petco Park. Both starters, Harang and Colorado's Ubaldo Jimenez, are subjects of trade rumors with at least two teams — Detroit and Cleveland — expressing interest in both.
As for Adams, sources say teams interested in the Padres setup man aren't willing to meet Hoyer's asking price.
Of course, the offers and asking price will likely be modified the closer it comes to the deadline.
As for Friday night's game, Colorado scored three runs off Stauffer in an unusual second inning and made them stand up for the win.
The Padres got two of the runs back in the bottom of the third on a double by Cameron Maybin, a run-scoring single and a steal by Orlando Hudson and an RBI single by Chase Headley.
But the Padres had only three hits over the final four innings and were hitless in their final six at-bats with runners in scoring position — including a Ludwick pop out with the bases loaded in the seventh.
Colorado bunched four of their eight hits in the second. But in the end, it was a double steal and the first balk of Stauffer's career that produced the winning run.
Back-to-back singles by Ian Stewart, who was hitting .137, and Chris Iannetta produced the first two runs. With pitcher Jason Hammel at the plate and two out, the pair negotiated a double steal.
Before Stauffer delivered his next pitch, he balked home Stewart with what proved to be the winning run.
"I kind of just flinched a little," Stauffer said of the balk.
Maybin had three hits, including two doubles. Hudson had two hits and reached base three times. And Headley reached base three times. But the last six spots in the Padres lineup went a combined 1-for-23.
"We couldn't break through in the seventh," said Padres manager Bud Black. "The guys at the top of the order were getting on."


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America – my home country…my passport, my culture. I've been gone from it for 15 months and am now re-entering it with a fresh pair of eyes. I have to first start out, I do love my country. It is my heritage. I love our freedom, I love our rights, I love having opportunities to seize as a female, and I love the general 'you can do anything if you put your mind to it' attitude that Americans have. Yet coming back here is like visiting an old boyfriend that got away – you are excited to see him and hear what he's been up to, but yet in the same way you are afraid that seeing him may set you back to that post break-up depression that it took you so long to get out of. Maybe that's why as I was high in the atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean I felt physically sick about coming back – a bit of excitement mixed with dread equals the vomit bag. There have been a number of things that have surprised me as I returned to the US. Most of them snuck up on me as if I just saw a mouse poking its head out making my heart race and body jump. Yet sometimes it was a simple feeling, a sinking feeling of knowing that something just didn't feel right, but my mind was not able to decipher it immediately.
The stunning realizations began on the flight back to the US. As I entered the Tokyo airport to board my United Airlines flight, it hit me. This was going to be the first time I flew an American airline since I left 15 months ago. My body immediately tensed up as I prepared ready to be poked, prodded, and questioned. I quickly rummaged through my handbag and carry-on trying to find all of the liquids I could as someone handed me a plastic bag. Besides a short trip through Greece, this was the first time I ever had to put my liquids into a bag. I know that may be hard to believe for some of you who are subjected to the baggie check all the time. However, the rest of the world doesn't always operate like the US and London….the rest of the world is more lax. I'm not saying that it is the better way – it's just an observation – every country still does their own thing based on their situation. In addition to the first time baggie usage, I was also asked to take off my shoes – another new request for me. I mustered up all of my new found vagabond patience and did everything they told me knowing that this strange new world I was entering, the world of my birth, was different to me now and this was only going to be the beginning.
On the flight I was confronted with more distant memories. When the flight attendant came by and asked what I wanted to drink, I asked for a Coke Light. She handed over the can and as I looked at it on my tray, it seemed different to me. The can was different – but I couldn't exactly put my finger on what was different. Then it hit me – the can said Diet Coke. In the last year, I had been living in the world of Coke Light, not Diet Coke! I wondered if it would take me as long to switch my brain to calling it Diet Coke as it did for me to switch to calling it Coke Light. The flight attendant next brought out the food…and the plastic silverware. That was a bit shocking to me again. I had forgotten about plastic silverware! I reminisced in my head about all of the crazy flights I had experienced over the last year. Fights where I sat in between the pilot and co-pilot, or the ones that were 45 minute flights in which the cabin crew would serve you a full meal and drink service at lightening speed. All of it with metal silverware which I had used without even thinking twice about it.
As they passed out immigration/customs forms on the plane, I started filling it out – I knew the routine by heart. When you are a professional traveler, you have all of your immigration/customs data memorized – as if I was back in college and had to recite my social security number to register for class. However I stopped and stared at the box that read:
List the countries visited on this trip…
Hmmm – this threw me a bit. Did they really want to know that I had been to 24 different countries on this trip? I used my judgment here and wrote down Singapore and Japan….I figured I could explain the rest of my passport stamps if necessary while getting strip searched.
One of the most disturbing realizations I made on my journey back to the US is that I am no longer a minority. No, I have not had a sex change, I'm talking about being an ethnic minority. When I stepped on that flight to San Francisco, it hit me – I was surrounded by Americans. People that looked like me, talked like me, ate similar food as me, and laughed at the same jokes as me. Yet as I sat there and took everyone in, listening to their loud boisterous laughs and complaints, I realized maybe they weren't like me – or is it that I was not like them any longer? Something to ponder for months no doubt.
It was a long flight back to New York so when I stepped onto the Airtrain and left JFK airport heading into New York City towards my 'home' I couldn't quite figure out why the young woman talking on her cell phone was annoying me so much. Was I just tired? Was I upset about being home? I wasn't sure. However I was sure that if I had to hear one more moment of her conversation about her boyfriend and the personal details of her sex life that I was going to rip the phone out of her hands and step on it. Ok – maybe not that violent, but I wasn't happy about being subjected to her conversation. I was already losing my vagabonder patience that had taken months to aquire!
Later that week I stopped in at a Starbucks to waste some time before an appointment. Once again I sat there trying to work on some writing, yet I was feeling bombarded with the excessive noise around me. Once again I was preoccupied and annoyed with the cell phone noise and personal conversations around me. I thought about how loud Americans were. I thought about why this was so different than Asia. Everyone in Asia had a cell phone and friends there, so what is the big difference? Then as I sipped on my tea, I had my 'A-HA' moment – a light bulb went off. First, the Asians tend to text and play games on their cell phones in public places. I don't really remember them talking much – however the main reason why I didn't remember them talking was because they weren't speaking English. The reason why all of this cell phone and conversation noise was attacking me was because they were speaking English and I actually understood what they were saying! As I ride the subway, go to lunch, sit in a coffee shop I feel attacked by a barrage of English – hearing everyone's personal life, business deals, heartache, and sex life. That is America – everything laid out there for anyone to hear. Or at least anyone who understands English. I can't really say if it's that much different than the other countries I traveled in because I never understood the background noise there. There was a constant buzz, but it never phased me while traveling.
After being back in the US a month, I have had time to let things really sink in…sometimes in disgust. As Americans our national pastime is accumulation and consumption. I can't help but feeling that somewhere along the way, we went a bit overboard with 'stuff'. We accumulate stuff, we pine away for more stuff, we want other people's stuff, we have so much stuff that we have to take out a sub prime loan and buy a 3,000 square foot house to put our stuff in. As I re-entered the US, my home, one of my observations was that Americans consume – that's what we do best.
As I sat through endless college Econ courses, I don't think I ever fully understood the concept of consumer economy. How can you, until you actually step outside and look in as a 'foreigner'? Now I'm fascinated by it. My first stop at an American grocery store left me standing in the aisle looking around in amazement; jaw hanging open, eyes wide, as if I had just entered Santa's Workshop at the North Pole. The giant bottles of ketchup, the 20 different kinds of pickles, the 100 ft. aisle of cereal, just cereal; it was completely overwhelming. Sure, you could find anything you wanted, but at the same time I missed the local lady selling fresh tomatoes at a roadside stand, ones that weren't injected with red coloring, but ones that were actually in season. If they weren't in season, they didn't sell them – plain and simple.
As I exposed myself to American television again, I had to do so in small doses because watching the commercials would infuriate me. I found myself in shock about the amount and type of things that are produced for our consumption. Take one simple area – the amount of toys and electronics that American kids have. Does it make them any happier – or does it just give them shorter attention spans and reason to throw more tantrums? I saw many perfectly satisfied kids in the world without an x-box, Kids that ate what was put in front of them instead of ketchup colored green to entice them to eat it. Yet at the same time, I am impressed with the American creativeness and ability to persuade consumers that they need something that they've been living without their whole lives. As a country, it's our sweet spot – we know how to come up with ideas, how to market them, how to make people want them.
This 'homecoming' has left me rather confused. So much so that many days I feel like simply staying in my pajamas as if the old boyfriend has 'won'. While on the road, I had grown accustomed to living very simply, being different, standing out, and not understanding the noise/language around me. I realize that this isn't really what America, and especially New York City, is about. After a month of being in NYC, I felt like I am just one of the consumer masses again. However, after writing this post and going through it a number of times fixing mistakes, pulling it together, really listening to what I was saying, I realize that I am different, I do stand out. Not just because I have a passport full of stamps, but because I am now an international American – a bit of a foreigner in my own country.


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Richard Childress predicted at the start of the season one of his drivers would win NASCAR's championship.
So after falling short for a second consecutive season, Kevin Harvick will have a new crew in 2012.
Richard Childress Racing announced Wednesday that Shane Wilson will replace Gil Martin as crew chief of Harvick's No. 29 team. Martin, who had been Harvick's crew chief since May 2009, was moved to director of team operations.
"Kevin came to me after the Phoenix race a couple weeks ago and asked for a change in the leadership of his team for the 2012 season," Childress said in a statement. "The expectations at RCR are to win championships, so the decision was made to move Shane Wilson."
Wilson spent the last three seasons as crew chief for Clint Bowyer. That team is shutting down with Bowyer's move to Michael Waltrip Racing, although the No. 33 is expected to run select events with Truck Series champion Austin Dillon, Childress' grandson.
Wilson and Harvick worked together in the Nationwide Series in 2006, winning 10 races, scoring 24 top-five finishes and winning the title by a record 824 points.
"Shane is a good friend of mine and we had a lot of success together in the NASCAR Nationwide Series," said Harvick. "He has a lot of experience now in the Sprint Cup Series and I look forward to working with him again."
Harvick finished third to Jimmie Johnson and Denny Hamlin in last year's Chase for the Sprint Cup championship, and Childress was certain at least one of his drivers would make a run at the title this year and dethrone five-time champion Johnson.
Instead, only Harvick qualified for the Chase. Although he opened it tied with Kyle Busch for the top seed, he finished third again in the final standings.
This marks the third crew chief change since the season ended Sunday at Homestead. Steve Addington quit as Kurt Busch's crew chief this week, and Chip Ganassi Racing lured engineer Chris Heroy away from Hendrick Motorsports to crew chief Juan Pablo Montoya next season.
Also, three-time NASCAR champion Tony Stewart is in limbo: He told Darian Grubb he was being let go as crew chief before Grubb rallied Stewart to the title.


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COLUMBUS, Ohio, Nov. 14 (UPI) -- Most cases of sexual harassment of women at work occur when their work group has a similar proportion of males to females, U.S. researchers said.
Despite common assumptions, sexual harassment was not found in groups with a lone female in a predominately male environment.
Study co-author Randy Hodson of Ohio State University in Columbus looked at 110 work groups ranging from fewer than 50 employees to more than 5,000 employees from around the world, and found women who work in relatively equally matched gender groups were more likely to be harassed than women who worked in predominantly male or female groups. Women in such situations were more likely to experience taunting, patronizing and predatory behaviors.
Hodson said the logic behind the finding is simple: sexual harassment occurs where there is more opportunity.
"There is a lot more opportunity in these groups because you have a lot of men who have contact on a regular basis with a lot of women, and that's going to create more opportunities for sexual harassment," Hodson said in a statement. "When women are less represented or when they are mainly working with other women, there is simply not as much opportunity."
The study is published in the journal Work and Occupations.


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This may well be the ultimate dangerous toy for boys. It certainly had this lass worried.
Now, you may wonder why you've not come across an electric skateboard before. Well, we've got the answer. They're dangerous! (Especially when you try them out while dressed in a wraparound skirt, but that's another matter.)
Plonk yourself on the skateboard, firmly grasp the controller and make very, very sure that you press the button to propel you forwards VERY GENTLY. Heeding this advice, but perhaps not as well as we ought to have done, we took the grown-up version of the Electric Skateboard for a spin. At least, we would have done had we not whizzed off at an alarming heading rate directly for the nearest brick wall.
Almost as dangerous as it looks: the infrared controller for the Electric Skateboard is incredibly sensitive - so you may shoot off into the distance without warning
Thankfully, not all versions of the EV Stores Electric Skateboard go quite as fast as the one we tried. While the 600W Advanced model does up to 25mph (gulp!), there's a version for junior that packs 150W and a less alarming 7mph. At this rate, propulsion is more relaxing and more fun. You can do up to 18 miles between charges, but you need to be semi-pro, apparently, if you're to take on more than the odd turn. Sounds like a challenge to us.


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I have one in decent, although not fantastic shape, that has been with me for years. I can find very little information on it and none for sale. If I were so inclined to part with it, anyone have any idea what price range I should be looking to sell it at?
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June 30, 2011 BY Jarrell H.
The upcoming Air Jordan XIV 'Light Graphite' isn't the first time that Jordan Brand has experimented with this color on this model. Back in 2005, the Air Jordan XIV Light Graphite/Chartreuse colorway used a similar color scheme and were an instant hit due to its refreshing take on an older model. Grey has proved to be a very popular color regardless of the shoe its used on and have experienced success across the board. Will this Air Jordan XIV share that success? We'll have to wait and see. If you can't wait until October, a few pairs of these are floating around online including this size 10 from lilshk54321 on eBay.
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Friday night saw two important economic releases surprise to the upside plus another Chinese surprise over the weekend. First, in Europe, the German CPI print for February ticked up which dragged the year-on-year up out of deflation at 0.1%, sending the DAX up nearly 0.9%:
Momentum is clearly accelerating here for the German market, but the technical pictures is different for the UK FTSE, which had a scratch day on Friday and is meeting resistance overhead on the dailies:
In the US, the 4Q GDP print came in at 2.2%, beating expectations of a 2% growth rate, although it was the downside in pending home sales and very hawkish talk by Fed Governor Fisher expecting rate hikes sooner rather than later that dragged the S&P500 down. The S&P500 remains on trend but is poised to breakdown here on lack of buying torque from the buy the dip crowd:
SPI futures are pointing to only a few extra points on the open this morning on the ASX200, which is trying its hardest to get through the 6000 point barrier (definitely not on fundamentals).
The oil complex keeps paying the bills for intra-session traders, as both markers rallied on sell-side talk that a price recovery is imminent. Brent was up 4% to just over $62 per barrel while WTI jumped just over 3% to just below $50USD per barrel:
It's still a range bound trapped market with short term opportunities and clear levels of support and resistance for traders to push it around for a bit longer, although its tending to the short side with no positive momentum prints.
Gold put on a few dollars up to $1213USD per ounce with the bullish falling wedge pattern firming but not yet confirmed with a proper breakout, but this looks interesting:
After the 1% breakout on Thursday, the US Dollar Index (DXY) was steady on Friday night with the falls in Euro offset by rises in USDJPY pair, while the Aussie and Cable tread ground.
Euro continues to weaken as expected, a weak rally throughout the Asian session slammed on the London open, taking the union currency back down below the 1.12 handle:
Cable (GBPUSD) shuffled around its point of control at 1.5340, which is where I'm looking for confirmation of a reversal below 1.5340 on the four hourly charts.
After that nice reversal on Thursday, we've seen some tentative resistance build at the 78.30 level for AUDUSD in the short term:
While a medium term bottom might be in at around the 78 cent level, there has been a distinct lack of buying torque and a tendency for Aussie to sell off at the slightest whiff of bad news, so to be long here on a longer timeframe is brave.
We start the data cycle this week with some mid tier releases in Australia, namely the manufacturing PMI and home sales prints, then its Eurozone CPI final print for February followed by the US personal income and closely watched ISM manufacturing index reports.


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MIAMI, FL (ATS Consultants) - The Nationals are fighting for their postseason lives but they're running out of time. They'll look to pick up a win today versus the Marlins in Miami at 1:10PM ET.
ODDS: According to oddsmakers from online sports book Bovada.lv, the Nationals are -173 money line favorites over the Marlins, who are +159 on the ML. With Stephen Strasburg set to face Jacob Turner in the pitching matchup, the over/under total is currently sitting at 7 runs.
LINE MOVEMENT: The Nationals are -173 money line favorites after opening as -170 money line favorites, while the Marlins are +159 after opening at +156. Washington is 72-69 overall and 32-38 on the road, while Miami is 53-87 overall and 30-40 at home.
PUBLIC BETTING: Of the current wagers placed on tonight's game, 72% of the betting public currently favors Washington. This information is subject to change, however, so make sure you click on the link provided for the most updated numbers.
MLB FREE PICK: Take the under. According to latest MLB trends, the under is 12-2-2 in Strasburg's last 16 starts when the opponent scores two runs or less in their previous game. The under is also 5-1-1 in his last seven starts as a favorite, 4-1-1 in his last six starts with five days of rest, and 4-1 in his last five starts during Game 3 of a series. The under is also 18-6-5 in the Marlins' last 29 games following a loss, 4-1-3 in their last eight games after scoring two runs or less their previous outing, and 3-1-1 in their last five home games with the total set between 7.0 and 8.5.
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Houston city officials said hiring a troubled division of the University of Texas Medical Branch to run the health service in the city's jails would be a smooth and efficient move (see "The Fix Is In," June 9). It didn't turn out that way.
City Council had the five-year, $11 million contract on its consent agenda -- meaning approval was expected without debate -- for the June 22 meeting. The item, however, got quietly pulled at the last minute.
Perhaps the first sign of trouble came two days earlier, when Elena Marks, Mayor Bill White's health adviser, didn't make a scheduled appearance to brief council on the deal. And then UTMB officials failed to show up for a planned "final tour" of the jail, among rumors that they were backing out of the agreement.
None of which came up at the council meeting.
White's spokesman, Frank Michel, had a surprisingly casual answer June 24 as to what happened to the all-but-approved deal. UTMB "called and left a message saying they had some reservations," he said.
Called and left a message? That sounds like you're dealing with a pickup basketball game, not a controversial and expensive new way of taking care of the 118,000 inmates cycling through Houston's jails each year.
Michel said the city was on the case. "I think we just want to hear what their concerns are," he said, but there hadn't been time so far during the budget season.
It turns out the rumors were true. UTMB backed out of the deal, spokesman Marsha Canright said a few hours after Michel spoke. The organization just renewed a contract with the state prison system, she said, and decided "TDCJ was enough for us. I think that's as big a piece as we can bite."
Darn. It seemed like the beginning of a beautiful relationship. But we're sure the city is thankful you at least left a message.
Taco, Taco Man
Want to know who to blame the next time your house floods? Forget about all those developers paving over empty grassland. Blame taco trucks instead.
At least that's the view of William Harper, vice president of the Plumbing, Air Conditioning and Mechanical Contractors Association. Taco trucks "are growing like rabbits" in Houston, he says, and many of them simply dump their leftover grease into the sewer system or drainage ditches.
Dried grease becomes as hard as concrete, he says, and plugs up the pipes that are supposed to help drain floodwaters away.
Harper is so fired up about the problem he called the corporate headquarters of Chevron to tell them they shouldn't let taco trucks onto their gas station properties. "They hung up on me," he says.
Jerry Farmer, president of PAMCA, agrees that illegal taco-truck dumping is a problem. The trucks are supposed to dump their grease (and get fresh water) at a municipal facility every 24 hours, but that costs money.
"If you don't have to pay a bunch of money to get rid of your waste, well, that's money in your pocket," he says. (He also points out that taco trucks aren't the only ones illegally dumping grease.)
Kathy Barton of the city health department says there's "no way to really know" if taco trucks are complying with the law. "We have anecdotal evidence that suggests they are not and that there may be some creative writing in their logbooks, but we also have evidence that we have good companies," she says.
Both Barton and public works spokesman Wes Johnson say illegal dumpers should be punished, but not with the enthusiasm that indicates this is a high priority.
So if you see bits of tortillas floating around the street during the next tropical storm, you know who to blame.
For Better or Worse
It seemed like a great marriage: an aging church in a regentrifying area in need of members, and a hip young pastor with a crowd of followers in need of a church.
But the big experiment between West End Baptist and Ecclesia (see "Gen-X Gospel," December 11, 2003) is, alas, no more. The church has kicked out Chris Seay and his young flock, who are now meeting back at their small facility on Taft.
West End is that nice-looking church near the corner of Shepherd and Washington; it's now down to about 15 members, almost all of them past retirement age. They thought Seay might revitalize things, so they let him use the facility for evening services.
Soon there were dark grumblings that Seay was trying to force the oldsters out. And since the church owns a full block in that hot area of town -- worth $5 million, West End's longtime property committee chair says -- the stakes were high.
"We kicked his butt out," cackles that chairman, Henry Griffin, who often tangled with Seay and who, at 60, is one of West End's youngest members. "He's pissed, too."
Sounds churchy.
Listening to Griffin, it's difficult to see how things could have worked out. Seay writes books such as The Gospel According to Tony Soprano, and Griffin and the rest of West End aren't really digging the HBO and such-like modern things.
"He packed the place at night," Griffin says of Seay, "but he played music like you'd hear at a hippie bar, like in one of those old-time -- you know -- one of those "
An "old-time" thing used to attract young churchgoers? Maybe a "rave"?
"No, no," says Griffin. "Like one of those coffee-bar type of things."
Beatniks! Those guys probably didn't even vote for Ike!
Seay wouldn't answer calls, although the person answering the phone at Ecclesia confirmed the group no longer meets at West End Baptist.
If only Seay had used one of those newfangled barbershop quartets.
Opportunity Knocks
Energy giant BP America wants to build a $600 million terminal for liquefied natural gas on Pelican Island just off downtown Galveston. Seeing as how BP runs the Texas City refinery where 15 people were killed and 170 injured in an explosion this spring, some residents have questions.
LNG explosions can be particularly nasty -- think mile-wide fireballs -- so it doesn't seem odd that some people would be wary.
What got us, though, is Galveston's sudden boom in attracting incredibly dangerous stuff. The island recently became home to one of the nation's few level-four biohazard labs, where scientists fiddle around with things like anthrax, smallpox and the Ebola virus. The lab is not far from the proposed LNG terminal, which adds a certain frisson of danger to living on the island.
Hey, John Simsen of the Galveston County Office of Emergency Management, got enough on your plate these days?
"What the hell, we ought to close up shop and move to the mainland," he says.
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Simsen says the sudden influx, both real and proposed, of potential catastrophe-makers would have been more of a problem a few years ago. Since 9/11, he says, funding for disaster training has increased, and that training has included a much wider spectrum of drills than the usual hurricane-response scenarios.
"Had 9/11 not put some pressure on lawmakers and Congress to funnel money to localities, it might have been different," he says. "It's kind of all falling together now. Now when you do an exercise it could be for anything -- biohazard, the weather, a major plane crash, anything."
So rest easy, Galvestonians. You stand a fighting chance of survival -- unless, of course, you're killed in the first seconds of an LNG fireball or an Ebola outbreak.
Who said there's no longer any gambling in Galveston?


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Issues of concern to people who live in the west: property rights, water rights, endangered species, livestock grazing, energy production, wilderness and western agriculture. Plus a few items on western history, western literature and the sport of rodeo... Frank DuBois served as the NM Secretary of Agriculture from 1988 to 2003. DuBois is a former legislative assistant to a U.S. Senator, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior, and is the founder of the DuBois Rodeo Scholarship.
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Feds Approve Huge Wind Facility Near Lake Mead
Interior Secretary Sally Jewell has signed off on a wind power facility that would cover almost 60 square miles of public lands in Arizona near the Lake Mead National Recreation Area. The Mohave County Wind Farm, built by BP Wind Energy North America, would include up to 243 wind turbines with blades about 180 feet long. The project would occupy 35,329 acres of land under the Bureau of Land Management and 2,781 acres of Bureau of Reclamation land, and would butt up against Lake Mead NRA about 44 miles east of Las Vegas. Depending on the transmission connection eventually chosen, the project would max out at between 425 and 500 megawatts peak generating capacity. According to the Interior Department, the design of the Mohave County Wind Farm was altered significantly due to the presence of eagle nesting areas on nearby Squaw Peak, to the east of the main road leading to the popular Temple Bar Marina on Lake Mead. As a concession to the eagles the redrawn plan includes a nesting zone buffer area at least 1.2 miles wide, a distance it would take an adult eagle at least one minute and 48 seconds to traverse at a typical unhurried soaring speed of 30 miles per hour or so...more
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Gentoo News Items were created to provide a communication medium to push critical messages to users via the rsync tree. The original proposal for news items is outlined in GLEP 42: Critical News Reporting.
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Post Office Shuts Down Innovative Startup
May 7, 2014
The Post Office refused to work with an innovative startup that would digitize customers' mail, reports the Fiscal Times.
Evan Baehr and Will Davis, former Capitol Hill staffers and Harvard Business School graduates, wanted to create a private business that could tackle the problems plaguing the U.S. Post Office and make mail simpler and more convenient for customers.
With that in mind, Outbox -- a mail digitizing service -- was born. The two partners launched their new business in Austin, allowing customers -- for just $5 per month -- to have their snail mail redirected to Outbox, opened, scanned and made available online or on their smartphone. Customers who wanted a hard copy of a particular letter could have it delivered, and they could choose for certain letters not to be opened. Those signed up for the service were able to save a digital copy of their mail forever, just as email allows users to do, and they could access their mail from anywhere.
The business was a hit, and Baehr and Davis were able to expand from Austin to San Francisco, where the local post offices allowed residents to sign forwarding contracts to have their mail sent directly to Outbox.
Baehr and Davis saw enormous potential for cost savings were their model to continue to expand. It would allow the Post Office to ship letters directly to Outbox, saving the agency from having to ship mail across the country.
So when the Postmaster General requested a meeting with the two innovators, they were thrilled about the prospect of partnering with the Post Office to revolutionize modern day mail.
But according to Baehr and Davis, Post Office officials told them that their market model would never work, that digital was a fad, and that Outbox was disrupting their service. "We will never work with you," the Postmaster General reportedly said. Baehr and Davis were stunned when he went on to say that junk mailers, not the American public, were the Post Office's customers and that their service "hurts our ability to serve those customers."
Undeterred, the two entrepreneurs hired drivers to "undeliver" mail from their customers' mailboxes, continuing to expand their business.
- They helped customers unsubscribe from more than 1 million senders of mail, and they scanned more than 1.5 million pages and redelivered 250,000 mail packages.
- While their small team had only 2,000 customers in just two cities, they had a nationwide brand awareness of 10 percent.
- They were able to build new logistics software to run their operations, create industrial-grade scanning machines (at a whopping 80 percent cheaper than the market rate), and they developed new character recognition technology.
Unfortunately, they could not sustain the business, as it was too expensive to undeliver the mail. Unless the Post Office changed its mind, Outbox could not continue its services, and they announced that they were closing their doors in February 2014.
That same month, the Fiscal Times notes, the Post Office had a net loss of $354 million. In fiscal year 2013, it lost $5 billion.
Source: Derek Khanna, "How The U.S. Postal Service Crushed an Innovative Startup," Fiscal Times, April 29, 2014.
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Microsoft's SkyDrive is a very powerful storage solution in the cloud to which everybody has access with a Windows Live ID. It comes with 25 Gig of storage. You can add different private settings to the folders, share them among your friends and have a live picture viewer etc. But for me the killer-argument for SkyDrive is that it's 100% in the cloud and let your files edit online via the Microsoft Office Online Tools. You don't need to make a local copy of the documents like in other popular file storage services. Especially for students it's a very powerful solution to manage your student works. I always had a copy of my master thesis online and whenever I wanted to work on it I logged into SkyDrive from wherever I want to – also from my WindowsPhone – and edit the document live! Word, Excel and Note Files are editable via the Office-Tools that are already installed on your phone. So the SkyDrive app is a very powerful adoption of the functionality that's provided by the Microsoft Online Service in your browser.
I see SkyDrive as a 2nd hard drive in the web. You can sync pictures that you with your Windows Phone directly to SkyDrive and view it then with your browser showing it to your friends in a big screen. SkyDrive is not a fancy tool – it's a productivity tool that enhances your workflow tremendously.
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The much-anticipated battle between reigning NCS champs turned out to be a dud as Cardinal Newman dominated Concord with ease, 35-6, at Lloyd Field Friday night.
About the only thing that wasn't clear-cut about the season was whether Newman played well or not.
Cardinal coach Paul Cronin and quarterback Matt Sullivan thought it wasn't a good effort. Concord coach Brian Hamilton, on the other hand, called Newman a great team.
It was easy to see why Hamilton was impressed. Newman scored 35 straight points before Concord got on the board with 1:27 to go.
Concord captured the NCS Division II title last year, defeating Rancho Cotate, 40-37, in the finals. Three players from that team were rewarded with college scholarships, so it's not surprising that the Minutemen would be in rebuilding mode this season.
Newman lost several players from its Division III title team, but the current squad is not rebuilding mode. With modest improvement, the Cardinals will be a force in the NCS Tournament.
Mike Tomasin scored four touchdown and zig-zagged for 132 yards. The 5-foot-8 running back had Concord coach Hamilton searching for superlatives.
The best word he come up with was "phenomenal."
Tomasin set the tone when he scampered 24 yards for a touchdown on the Cardinals first possession. The Minutemen gave Newman a short field with an unsuccessful gamble on a run on fourth and two from their own 32.
Tomasin was also huge on defense. His jarring tackle on Olito Thompson 4:00 before halftime caused a fumble as Concord was marching toward a tying touchdown. Seven players later, seconds before halftime, Tomasin bulled his way into the end zone from the two.
Tomasin and Co. continued their onslaught until Cronin took out his starters in the fourth quarter.
Sullivan, though he wasn't pleased with his performance, put up good numbers. The senior completed 14 of 21 passes for 264 and one 85-yard touchdown toss to Jacob Webb. He also gained a lot of yardage on quarterback draws. Before taking a seat he gained 108 yards on the ground.
"We weren't mentally focused," Sullivan said. "We made a lot of mental errors that could've killed us. We had a chance to put them away in the first half, but we missed a couple of easy interceptions and I didn't make the smartest decisions.
Steven (Tomasin) is a super runner. We ran the play well, but have to cut down on penalties and mental errors."
Newman coach Cronin was on the same page as Sullivan.
"I'm thrilled with the win, but I don't think we played particularly well," he said. "Too many mistakes."
Like everyone else, Cronin was expecting a close game.
"I'm surprised at the final score. However, their quarterback (Jacob Daynes) hurt his hand in the second quarter and he tried to tough it out, but we could see it was hurting him.
"They're a well-coached team and will have a good season."
Newman hosts Alhambra next Friday.


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Executive summary
When Canadian visionary Marshall McLuhan coined the phrase, "The medium is the message," in the 1960s, he didn't know about Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) technology–at least as it is understood today. He didn't have to. Rather, he understood that a medium itself can have a transformative effect on 'human association and action.' The light bulb, for example, transformed human activity because it no longer restricted activity to daylight hours. The automobile spawned suburbia, highways and the extension of time and space between work and home life. In the world of treasury and risk management, SaaS is a medium that has the transformative power to break down barriers and change the way groups across and beyond the enterprise share information and create intelligence. Taking a closer look at medium, we can explore how the shared nature of SaaS technology, while not new, is enabling an evolution that will take the management of treasury in directions not yet thought of.
From Shared Data to Shared Services
The conventional view of SaaS as a convenience is well understood, as it is in the example of online banking. It is even appreciated for its enablement of sharing public data for the benefit of all users, as with online newspapers. What is less understood, however, is where SaaS is headed, and what is driving the direction of change.
The SaaS world is hosted. Partially shared, partially private and fully secure. Decentralized and subscribed to - no longer is it necessary to buy servers, make backups, check security, and endure painful roll outs and upgrade cycles. Your access is anywhere, anytime on a single version, which is regularly upgraded and in compliance with the latest regulatory changes. Your treasury organization is no longer bound to IT strictures, other than a tick in a RFP box, leaving you free to fully exploit the opportunities inherent in the SaaS medium.
Consider, then, how the consumption of information by users across the treasury spectrum – from positioning cash, processing payments, monitoring credit lines and making inter-company loans to generating valuations, performing advanced risk management and posting accounting entries – is driving an evolution from shared data to shared services. This evolution toward shared services means more work is automated and provided by your SaaS partner, saving you time and money.
Shared Treasury Data
Over the past decade, SaaS technology made it easy for a provider to leverage common, public data, for the benefit of all users. In the treasury world, some of this data includes:
- Market Data – You need market data, though it may vary from your neighbor. SaaS providers sourcing and publishing your market data enable independence (a plus with auditors), wide coverage and validation of data accuracy. FX and interest rates are used throughout treasury, from translating cash amounts to functional currency, valuing FX transactions, creating journal entries, and performing stress tests. The 30 minutes you spend per day sourcing, checking and publishing market data could result in three weeks' annual savings and a lot fewer headaches with this centralized task.
- Market Conventions - You all need to define and maintain everyday data, such as currencies, holiday calendars, day count conventions, country codes, bank statement formats, and payment message formats. While this task is the same for everyone, it takes time and effort to install and keep up with market standards. The recent Royal Wedding holiday is an example. Vendors supplying this data will have reduced your effort and guaranteed that market standards would be followed. With thousands of eyes on this data daily, you would rest assured that a vendor of a true, multi-tenant SaaS would know of mistakes or errors very quickly.
As SaaS platforms continue to add more functionality, the leveraged value of centrally provided market data increases.
Shared Treasury Services
Providers are increasingly aggregating data on your behalf, adding value to it and offering it as a service. As the car created the need for a highway, the highway gave rise to the rest stop and gas station. New mediums create new opportunities. Therefore, a progressive SaaS vendor will ask "Why stop at providing common data?"
As your treasury team works through its day, each member performs a variety of activities that could be provided as services, further exploiting the SaaS medium and making life easier. For example:
- Bank Statements – Early in the morning your cash management team needs to connect to banks to get statements in a timely manner. Your neighbors do too. SaaS now enables this service via the provider itself or via a service bureau.
- Correlations and Volatilities - Further processing public market data can add value by calculating correlations between asset classes and curves, historical volatilities and using this data as inputs into advanced risk management tools like Cash Flow-at-Risk, Earnings-at-Risk or Value-at-Risk measures.
- Payments – By mid-morning, and in the afternoon, your payments team needs to make (treasury and/or AP/AR) payments from your treasury and risk management solution to one or many banks. Each bank may use a different payment format, e.g. MT 101, EDIFACT, ISO20022 or some custom format. Let the SaaS vendor provide these formats out of the box to you and then be responsible for maintaining and adding to them. Also let the host provide connection to a common service bureau or bank connection to send payment messages, track confirmations and acknowledgements.
- Sanction List and Payment Validation - It is a requirement to verify that payees are not on sanction lists, and it is also useful to check SWIFT BIC's, Fedwire/ABA codes prior to making payments. This data is available via public databases, but providing this data centrally and checking against it benefits all users. This value-added service will save time and also strengthen SOX controls.
- Trading – Throughout the day your front office may use one of the many FX or money market online trading platforms to trade. You also need the trade data in your treasury system. You can now exploit the interconnected, shared aspect of the SaaS medium to trade directly from within your treasury and risk management solution and automatically book your trades, saving you from double keying data.
- Hedge Accounting - When designating hedges and at each month end, your accounting team needs to run regression of index values or derivative fair values and calculate statistical measures. A SaaS provider may leverage published market data to this, further adding value.
While the SaaS treasury and risk management world is clearly evolving from shared data toward shared services, there are also other developments taking place.
The Future Enabled
The most subtle impacts of any new medium are the results of how users consume it. When television overtook radio, the eye became as important as the ear. Now the internet is engaging users in a variety of levels, and in a variety of ways – we now 'read' newspapers by reading text, watching embedded video, linking to related stories and clicking through galleries of still photos. Similarly, how might the SaaS medium be exploited to further engage treasury groups to share information and create intelligence? Perhaps they can access how-to videos within help functions and video chat with customer support desks or use mobile smart tools (tablets and smart phones) to perform specific treasury tasks remotely.
While the future sometimes appears to have arrived, new and more unimagined innovations are always on the horizon. Treasury and risk management users and providers alike will continue to find new ways to exploit SaaS to make work smarter and easier. As McLuhan would surely agree, the SaaS medium really is the message.
About the author
Peter Seward is responsible for the strategic direction of the Reval ® SaaS/Web-based platform and Reval Center™ valuation and hedge accounting service. He has also written the Reval modules for IAS 39, IFRS 7 and FAS 161. In addition, Mr. Seward leads Reval's Risk Management Taskforce, advising internally and externally on critical risk management issues. His 15 years of experience in financial services software spans Asia Pacific, Europe and North America. Prior to Reval, he was a sales engineer at Principia Partners, an implementation consultant and custom development project manager for Integrity Treasury Systems in both Sydney and Chicago, and a manager of treasury systems at Rabobank Australia in Sydney. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Economics from the University of Western Australia.
The author can be reached at: email@example.com
About Reval
Reval is a global provider of an all-in-one Software-as-a-Service solution for enterprise treasury and risk management. Its award-winning SaaS platform delivers deep and broad visibility into cash, liquidity and risk for finance, treasury and accounting groups, worldwide. With Reval's integrated, straight-through processing workflow of front-to-back office functions, companies can optimize operational efficiency, security, control and compliance across the enterprise.
Reval's unique combination of deep domain expertise and comprehensive functionality provides companies with the means to compete confidently in a complex and dynamic market environment. Founded in 1999, Reval is headquartered in New York with regional centers across North America, EMEA and Asia Pacific.
For more information, visit www.reval.com or email email@example.com.


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Decision makers
- Chuck Burger
This petition is supported by Ward 6 residents, community and business leaders who strongly oppose redistricting efforts to relocate and divide our neighborhoods to another Ward. This would include a "taking" of a major Ward 6 middle school Eliot-Hine and our only high school Eastern High. The taking of the schools into another Ward is deemed an arbitrary recommendation by the DC Council's Subcommittee on Redistricting.as this action is not required to meet redistricting requirements.
Additionally , we support the D.C. Code which states redistircting should be a tool to build and strengthen "neighborhood cohesiveness" and in this light respect the "natural geography" of the area. In this regard we feel any "taking" of census tracts south of C street NE and east of 17th Street NE & SE in Ward 6 does nor respect the intent of the D.C. Code and is to the detriment of our neighborhoods and its residents.
- Chuck Burger
PETITION to the
Opposition to Redistricting and Taking of Tracts South of C Street NE and East of 17th Street
We the undersigned stand in strong opposition to the redistricting or taking of census tracts south of C Street NE and east of 17th Street NE & SE. from Ward 6.
We call upon the DC Council to fully support our community by adhering to the language contained in the DC Code encouraging respect for our neighborhoods by creating minimal disruption and recognizing "neighborhood cohesiveness" and the "natural geography of the District". We believe allowing this taking from the Ward ignores these principles.
We state that a cohesive Capitol Hill Community has been built over decades of community work through our neighborhoods, community organizations, civic associations and schools. Our community is a product of the development and growth of geographically contiguous neighborhoods. These abutting neighborhoods work together politically and organizationally nurturing our Capitol Hill community. A taking of this magnitude harms the residents of these tracts by ripping them out of their community and isolating them politically within their new Ward as a geographic remnant.
We know the Council, is aware that community building is based on citizens ability to organize geographically and politically in working on common goals. This is most effectively done by working with neighborhoods compelled to work together by natural boundaries such as rivers and major roadways. It is also done by the community voting to elect its Council and ANC representatives to protect its interests. We build consensus by working and voting on issues together. Taking of these tracts only harms neighbors Placing these tracts in another Ward locally disenfranchises many from their neighbors and diminishese the power of their vote in their own community.
We believe this is especially critical in educating our neighborhood children. This is evident as elected officials work closely with their constituents to develop consensus educational strategies for our community. This relationship is aptly represented by the many Ward 6 school initiatives and the Ward 6 Middle School Initiative. It is evident by the dynamic increase of thousands of new students that are entering Ward Six schools. In light of this it is suggested that the most critical elements of this strategy Eliot Hine Middle School and Eastern High School would be lost to this taking. This not only disenfranchises local parents weakening their elected representation, but also is a disservice to Ward 6 children who will attend Eastern. This taking of the schools properties is arbitrary and does not represent any element or requirement of redistricting. It should be left in the Ward it has served
We also believes this negatively impacts and harms the Ward-wide work of community, political and civic organizations such as CHAMPS, CHRS and the ANC 6a & 6B as these boundaries have been in place for over 30 years and have helped define the work of these organizations. An organization's activism in the same community with different Ward Councilmembers and other elected officials competing for resources benefits no one.
In summary we ask the Subcommittee and the Committee of the Whole to:
• Ensure Eastern High School and Elliott-Hine Middle School remain in Ward 6 to support local initiatives and parents
•Support Capitol Hill community by respecting its natural geographic boundaries intact which have helped build our neighborhoods
•Take an intelligent minimalist approach to meet requirements of redistricting to cause least harm rather than abandon over 30 years of success
We ask that you consider our petition and keep our historic and growing community intact by not redistricting and tracts south of C Street NE and east of 17th NE & SE.
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A steep increase in the child obesity rate have become a topic of major concern through out the world. The surveys conducted in the previous year has concluded that nearly 20% of the school going children are the victims of child obesity and are more likely to suffer from several health problems due to this child obesity in the near future. Pickwickian syndrome, Sleep apnea, Osteoarthritis, Gout and gouty arthritis, Gallstones, Cancer, Congestive heart failure, Heart attack, Stroke (cerebrovascular accident or CVA), High cholesterol (hypercholesterolemia), High blood pressure (hypertension), Type II (adult-onset diabetes), Insulin Resistance, etc. are some of the health problems caused by child obesity. And also obese kids are more likely to turn out into obese adults.
The unhealthy food habits and less physical activities are the major culprits behind this steep rise in the child obesity rates. Heredity is also responsible in some cases.
Food marketing plays a major role in inculcating unhealthy food habits in the children. Therefore food marketing is considered as one of the factors that are responsible for child obesity. The following points explain very clearly how food marketing is responsible for children.
One of the best tactics in the field of food marketing is promoting advertisements. These ads mainly target children who cannot judge the right and wrongs. Children insist their parents to get them products that are endorsed by their favorite actors and actresses. Hence these ads have got the capacity to manipulate the food choices of the kids.
These ads also rope in the famous actors and actresses to endorse their products.
A survey has sown that most of the food companies spend a huge amount of money only on advertisements is the best way of marketing foods.
And also these ads are shown repetitively during the children's watching hours. The food ads like candies constitute 32% of the ads that are meant to target the kids. Where as cereals constitute up to 31%.
Nearly $3billions are spent every year only on ads by the fast food centers. These ads also mostly target children. These fast food outlets lure the kids by promising them to gift them with toys every time they buy some thing. One such famous example is Mc Donald's. All these foods that are promoted through the ads are high in fat, sugar, salt and calories which can easily make a child obese.
Some outlets have gone ahead and are allowing children to play games freely on their web sires. One such example is candystand.
Another tactic of food marketing is selling the food items in the premises of the school or in the nearby canteens. Nearly 94% of the schools, 84% of the middle schools and 58% of the primary schools allow the sales of these food items. Few of the food products that are sold this way are the candies, chips, toffees, soda and other aerated drinks, etc. Children binge on these food during the free hours and lunch breaks. Having an aerated drink and a packet of chips every day is enough to make a kid obese in no time.
The following measures should be taken in order to stop obesity from affecting the kids.
Promotion of the ads of the unhealthy foods should be strictly banned. Kids will have less exposure to these unhealthy foods this way. Even if they are allowed these ads should not be shown continuously.
Schools must not allow the sales of the unhealthy food to prevent their kids from getting obese.
Special classes should be conducted to teach these kids about the ill effects of the unhealthy foods and obesity. The value of the nutrition present in the organic foods must also be taught.
Number of the fast food outlets should be reduced in the nation. These places should be regularly checked for the quality of the food they are providing. Outlets providing food which is rich in calories and sugar should be banned immediately.
Action must be taken against the outlets that are luring the kids with toys and other attractants. Marketing food to children leads to obesity.
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We're now past the halfway point of October and last summer's 2011 Whitecaps FC women's players return for another segment of Women's Weekly after a busy week of university sport, international duty and Girls Elite action. With the CIS Canada West playoffs only two weeks away, NCAA conference play heating up, and the 2011 Pan American Games opening, the 'Caps women battled in some tough matches last week.
But first, we lead things off with some big news! It seems former 'Caps striker Sydney Leroux has decided to switch to another type of football. Check out the video below to see what she's made of. (UCLA Athletics)
The Canadian women's national soccer team opened their Preliminary Round of Group A action with a 3-1 victory over Costa Rica on Tuesday. Former Whitecaps FC player and Red and White captain Christine Sinclair scored her team's second goal off an assist from another former 'Caps player, Kaylyn Kyle. Former 'Caps players Shannon Woeller, Candace Chapman, and Sophie Schmidt all played a strong 90 minutes while Robyn Gale replaced Desiree Scott in the 74th minute. Canada's next match takes place against Argentina on October 20. (whitecapsfc.com)
University of Victoria forward Jaclyn Sawicki helped keep her squad's playoff aspirations alive this past weekend as the Vikes earned a 2-2 draw against Manitoba on Saturday before earning a 1-0 victory over Regina in Vancouver Island. With the result, Victoria improves to (5W-4L-3D) and currently owns the fourth and final playoff spot in CIS Canada West conference. (Victoria Vikes)
Trinity Western University goalkeeper Kristen Funk earned a 1-1 result for the Spartans against UBC Thunderbirds on Saturday night. The draw keeps first place Trinity Western two points ahead of third place British Columbia and extends the 8W-1L-1D Spartans unbeaten streak to nine matches. (TWU Athletics)
Leroux should probably stick to soccer, and this past weekend she faced former 'Caps teammate Nicole Setterlund, who helped her Washington State Cougars play a fantastic match on Saturday against Leroux and her UCLA Bruins in a 0-0 draw. Leroux, however, nearly clinched the match for the Bruins in overtime with a shot that struck the Cougar's crossbar. (WSU Cougars + UCLA Bruins)
UNC Tar Heels also played to a scoreless draw against Wake Forest last weekend with midfielder Amber Brooks nearly scoring the match winning goal in the 98th minute. "Carolina had the best chance to score as Amber Brooks tough angle shot from the left side of the box was knocked down by Bledsoe and sent over the goal line for a corner kick". (Tar Heel Blue)
While Rutgers Scarlet Knights were busy in action last weekend, starting centre back Shannon Woeller was absent as she participates in the XVI Pan Am Games for Canada. "The RU captain – who has four caps on the international stage – will miss the final three games of the Scarlet Knights season after seeing 90 plus minutes in 14 of 15 matches this season". (Rutgers University)
Penn State Nittany Lions defender Lexi Marton helped goalkeeper Erin McNulty earn a combined clean sheet last weekend in a 4-0 victory over Iowa. Splitting duties with teammate Krissy Tribbert, the duo combined for PSU's seventh shutout of the season against a team PSU hasn't conceded a goal against since Nov 6, 2008. (GoPSUsports.com)
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Last Thursday evening, the Whitecaps FC U-18 Girls Elite team faced the Columbus Clan women's premier team of Vancouver' Metro Women's Soccer League (MWSL). The 'Caps girls were victorious, beating the Clan 2-0 and extending their shutout streak to three consecutive matches.
The game was controlled from the beginning by the Whitecaps, as they had many dangerous runs into the final third that fell short. That was until 13 minutes into the match, when Elise Wyatt intercepted a pass, beat her defender and then found Navneet Samra with a diagonal pass. Samra took a touch and then hit a great left-footed shot to the upper corner of the goal for the opening score. The team possessed the ball comfortably and did a nice job of utilizing the defenders to switch the point of attack.
In the second half, the Clan looked to compress the field and played a very high defensive line. The 'Caps were able to get in on the right flank and had a few solid opportunities with the Columbus goalkeeper making three solid saves.
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The 7th International Conference 'Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing' is the latest RANLP conference. It continues the tradition of many successful summer schools and international conferences. RANLP events have always been a meeting place for researchers from all parts of the world, facilitating contact between computational linguists from Central and Eastern Europe and their colleagues from Western Europe and America.
RANLP-2009 will be held in conjunction with tutorials and international workshops as follows:
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International Conference RANLP-09: September 14-16, 2009 (Monday-Wednesday)
Post-conference Workshops: September 17-18, 2009 (Thursday-Friday)
RANLP (Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing) is one of the best-established and competitive European NLP conferences. It is held biennially in Bulgaria and grew out from the international summer schools ''Contemporary topics in Computational Linguistics'' organised for many years in Bulgaria as international training events. The RANLP conferences in 1995, 1997, 2001, 2003, 2005 and 2007 had invited talks by leading names in NLP and accepted papers of high quality, rigorously reviewed by an international Programme Committee of well-known experts. Most of the RANLP conferences published a volume with Selected papers in the John Benjamins series ''Current trends of linguistic research''. The conferences also featured tutorials on hot NLP topics
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The Team Behind Ranlp-09:
Galia Angelova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria (Chair of the Org. committee)
Kalina Bontcheva, University of Sheffield, UK
Ruslan Mitkov, University of Wolverhampton, UK (Chair of the Programme committee)
Nicolas Nicolov, Umbria Inc, USA (Editor of volume with selected papers)
Nikolai Nikolov, INCOMA Ltd., Shoumen, Bulgaria
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