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Rhonda J. Hughes, the Helen Herrmann Professor of Mathematics at Bryn Mawr College, was named by AAAS, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, to receive the prestigious 2004 AAAS Lifetime Mentor Award. Hughes has helped 57 women and minority students earn graduate degrees in mathematics, including 17 at the doctoral level.
Jagannathan Sankar, Professor of Mechanical and Chemical Engineering and the Director of the Center for Advanced Materials and Smart Structures (CAMSS) and the Center for Nanoscience and Nanomaterials at North Carolina A&T State University, received the 2004 AAAS Mentor Award. Sankar, who earned his Ph.D. in Materials Engineering from Lehigh University in Pennsylvania, was recognized for facilitating or mentoring 46 Ph.D. students, including 22 underrepresented minorities.
Hughes, winner of the 2004 Lifetime Mentor Award, "is a model teacher, scholar, and mentor who is selfless in her dedication to improving the advancement of young women in mathematics and science," explained Yolanda S. George, deputy director of Education & Human Resources at AAAS. "She works very closely with her students and has been successful in obtaining many grants that were used to promote student research and professional opportunities in mathematics. This has helped students to participate in national meetings, and to present posters and papers."
With her colleague, Sylvia Bozeman of Spelman College, Hughes developed two successful national programs -- the Spelman-Bryn Mawr Summer Mathematics Program and EDGE (Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education: A Transition Program for Women in the Mathematical Sciences) -- to help young women transition from undergraduate, through graduate programs in mathematics. To date, more than 100 young women have been served by the joint Bryn Mawr / Spelman programs, George reported.
The former President of the Association for Women in Mathematics, Hughes maintains an active research program and "has been unrelenting in her efforts on behalf of women, particularly minority women," said Bryn Mawr Provost Ralph Kuncl.
Hughes remains "a passionate advocate for women in mathematics," said Mary Patterson McPherson, Vice President of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and President Emeritus of Bryn Mawr College. "She has not only inspired many young women with the courage to take up mathematics seriously, but she has followed closely the fortune of every one of her students through their graduate programs and on into their professional careers." Former student Laura Novak, Ph.D., added that Hughes "is acutely sensitive to the difficulties of graduate school in the mathematical sciences, particularly those encountered by women with liberal arts backgrounds."
Hughes earned her Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Illinois at Chicago.
The AAAS Mentor Award for Lifetime Achievement honors members of the Association who have mentored and guided significant numbers of underrepresented students towards a Ph.D. in the sciences, as well as scholarship, activism, and community-building on behalf of underrepresented groups, including: women of all racial or ethnic groups; African American, Native American, and Hispanic men; and people with disabilities. This award often recognizes individuals with 25 or more years of success in mentoring students. The recipient receives $5,000 and a commemorative plaque.
Jagannathan Sankar, winner of the 2004 AAAS Mentor Award, "has applied his unbridled enthusiasm, sacrifice and unbounded energy over the past 21 years in developing a high-profile advanced materials research and education program at North Carolina A&T State University," Yolanda S. George of AAAS reported. "This was an uphill task, given that he had to start from an almost non-existent materials research infrastructure."
After establishing the National Science Foundation-funded, multi-million dollar Center for Advanced Materials and Smart Structures (CAMSS), with a sub-center at North Carolina State University in 1997, Sankar then established the Army Center for Nanoscience and Nanomaterials in 2003. A year later, he set up the Center for Multifunctional Materials for Homeland Security for the Navy.
At the same time, George said, "His programs have become a home in the truest sense for the nurturing of high-potential African-American and other underrepresented minority doctoral students." James C. Renick, Chancellor of North Carolina A&T State, said that Sankar "has a phenomenal record of assisting his students in their efforts to present and publish their work."
Sankar's current and former students, like Cynthia Waters, Ph.D., describe him as "a highly energetic person" who inspires everyone around him. William Nelson Martin Jr., Ph.D., said that Sankar helps students imagine a better future. "At my previous school, I was always reminded that I was an African-American from the inner city," Martin said. "Dr. Sankar did not make me feel uncomfortable ... He just made sure that I knew what I had to do."
The AAAS Mentor Award honors members of the Association who have mentored and guided significant numbers of underrepresented students to earn a Ph.D. in the sciences, as well as scholarship, activism, and community-building on behalf of underrepresented groups, including women of all racial or ethnic groups; African American, Native American, and Hispanic men; and people with disabilities. This award is directed towards individuals in the early or mid-career stage who have mentored students for less than 25 years. The recipient receives $5,000 and a commemorative plaque.
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is the world's largest general scientific society, and publisher of the journal, Science (www.sciencemag.org). AAAS was founded in 1848, and serves some 262 affiliated societies and academies of science, including 10 million individuals. Science has the largest paid circulation of any peer-reviewed general science journal in the world, with an estimated total readership of one million. The non-profit AAAS (www.aaas.org) is open to all and fulfills its mission to "advance science and serve society" through initiatives in science policy; international programs; science education; and more. For the latest research news, log onto EurekAlert!, www.eurekalert.org, the premier science-news Web site, a service of AAAS.
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DETROIT, April 7 (UPI) -- Republican officials in Michigan are optimistic the GOP will carry the union bastion in the upcoming presidential election.
Party officials told the Detroit News the ongoing battle between Hillary Clinton and Barrack Obama could prompt a sizable chunk of voters toward their candidate, John McCain.
Recent polls indicate that Michigan could indeed be in play as McCain keeps pace with the two Democratic hopefuls who are being forced to contest the late primary states rather than shoring up their base in Michigan.
"If the Democrats continue to ignore Michigan I think it's a disaster
for Democrats," state Republican chairman Saul Anuzis said. "They're
making a tactical error, and I think the voters will be upset."

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JSL: Joint Time Synchronization and Localization Design With Stratification Compensation in Mobile Underwater Sensor Networks
Time synchronization and localization are basic services in a sensor network system. Although they often depend on each other, they are usually tackled independently. In this paper, the authors investigate time synchronization and localization problems in underwater sensor networks. They propose a joint solution for localization and time synchronization, in which the stratification effect of underwater medium is considered, so that the bias in the range estimates caused by assuming sound waves travel in straight lines in water environments is compensated. By combining time synchronization and localization, the accuracy of both are improved jointly.
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The book is always better than the movie, as they say. Taking a novel, an essay, or a historical record and translating it to a dramatic form requires harsh cutting and can alter the essence of the piece. How do you decide which scenes to include? How do you turn prose into dialogue? How do you honor the source material while still creating something new?
These are questions that writers have been dealing with for ages, but theater makers are reinventing the process of taking text to stage.
"It would be easy to call what we do adaptation, but it's something different," says Jennifer Schlueter, the co–artistic director of the For/Word Company. The troupe re-imagines historical documents for theater; her translation of Anne Morrow Lindbergh's writings, "North," plays Off-Broadway through Oct. 28. "It's something more like reanimating and rediscovering these works," she adds. "We're interested in getting beautiful words and the people who wrote them onstage in these vibrant ways."
Schlueter compares her work to Anne Bogart's and Charles Mee's "scavenger" mentality of taking excerpts and selections of literature and found texts and curating them for the stage. "The story in lots of ways is my story the way I understand Anne [Morrow Lindbergh] herself," she says, as the play is a fictional retelling of Lindbergh's life using text from her diaries and novels.
Another approach is to take one work and perform it straight through. That's what the Elevator Repair Service did with "Gatz," a six-hour-long theatrical event in which F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" is read from start to finish.
The Brooklyn-based theater company premiered the show at the Public Theatre in 2010 to great acclaim, and it has since played across the country and around the world. The show will make its Los Angeles debut at REDCAT on Nov. 29. "It was exciting to us not trying to make the book into a play but to actually somehow bring the experience of the book in as pure a form as we could to a live-theater experience," actor Scott Shepherd says.
However, the show isn't set in the roaring '20s like the novel. Instead, Shepherd and his director, John Collins, developed the concept of setting it in an office—after using an office space as a rehearsal room—and this approach adds a new lens to a familiar tale. "This mismatch is the thing that can really keep your imagination awake," he says. "There's always a gap between what you're seeing and what's being described."
Director Daniel Fish also wants to keep his actors' and audience's minds engaged with his staging of Jonathan Franzen's essay "House for Sale," which opens Off-Broadway on Oct. 24. Fish required his cast of five to memorize the entire essay, and he conducts the actors like an orchestra. He has assigned each performer a colored light, and when that light illuminates it's his or her time to speak.
"The concentration is what's most exhausting," says actor Michael Rudko. "Every second there's a possibility that you may have to jump in and play, so your body's always in that, your mind's always engaged."
Franzen's prose presents another challenge for the actors, as the writing style differs greatly from dialogue or monologues. Schlueter found the same problem when working with Lindbergh's text.
"It can be really dense, and we are just constantly on our guard against allowing things to settle like that," she says, adding that many revisions were made in the rehearsal room. "These are people who wrote beautiful sentences that they never intended to have people say out loud. But of course there's something awesome about getting to hear gorgeous language out loud."
Shepherd agrees. "It became clear very quickly that the power of that book is in the writing so completely that as soon as you start altering the way things are said or how much is said, it starts to fall apart a little bit," he says.
However, Schlueter advises actors not to pay so much attention to the language when they are working on scenes. "They have to be always thinking about what's happening right now on the stage," she says.
In the case of "House for Sale," the actors must focus on the language, as it "is the character," says actor Christina Rouner. The autobiographical essay follows Franzen as he returns to his hometown in Missouri to sell his childhood house after his mother passes away and, in turn, revisits memories.
"I think about it as if we're all doing a one-person show but we're doing it together," Lisa Joyce says. "There's one character, and we kind of embody different parts of it at different times."
"It sort of guarantees at every moment a constant sharing of the consciousness," Rob Campbell says.
While the five actors in "House for Sale" have one "character" to play, Shepherd straddles the line of two characters in "Gatz." On the one hand, he plays a man bored at work who is fascinated with "The Great Gatsby," but his character also morphs into the book's narrator, Nick Carraway, as the rest of the cast evolves into the other characters, creating a synergy among the reader's, the actor's, and the viewer's experience of the work.
"I'm always looking for a way to make less of it pretend," says Shepherd, who doesn't like to prepare for the show beforehand. (It also probably helps that he has all 49,000 words of the novel memorized, which he calls a "freak accident.") "For me it was like an ideal situation where I didn't have to pretend to be Nick Carraway. That sort of ends up happening, not because I'm trying to portray a character but because I'm committed to an idea that is roughly what is really happening, which is just to be interested in the book for six hours…. Instead of showing the audience a character, I'm sort of escorting them through a piece of literature.… It dovetails the pleasures of live performance with the pleasures of reading."


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Scheveningen, seaside resort and fishing port, Zuid-Holland provincie, western Netherlands, on the North Sea. Fishing has been an occupation there since the 14th century. Charles II embarked from Scheveningen to return to England at the Restoration (1660), and King William I landed nearby in 1813. Scheveningen's wide sandy beaches have made it the most popular of the Dutch coastal resorts since the first bathing establishment opened there in 1818. Its harbours, recently enlarged with the addition of a freight and container terminal, shelter much of the Dutch herring fleet, and its industries include fish-freezing plants and canneries. Notable landmarks are the domed Kurhaus, or Casino (1887), and the Fish Auction Hall, the leading one in Europe. Scheveningen is administratively a part of The Hague.
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These Red or Dead boots from Schuh! I have been obsessively looking at them for weeks.
The are like cowboy ankle boots with a glam rock twist, they make me taller and the have a star on, what could be better than that? I have done the only sensible thing and bought them.
To my absolute delight they arrived in a box decorated to look like a Victorian London town house.
With a little Eco-friendly message inside reminding me that I have to keep the cute box as well as the super cute box. The boyfriend despairs but I couldn't be happier.


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- B.S. University of New Brunswick, Fredericton New Brunswick Canada (1997)
Forests and forest products have always been a part of my life. As a young boy I have great memories roaming the mill yard at my grandfather's sawmill in Nova Scotia and of helping my father cut firewood from our woodlot. I am proud to say that I am a forest engineer and I am fortunate to be part of a diverse team of researchers, instructors, and staff at the University of Maine. Before switching to academia, I spent 5 years in British Columbia as a forest engineering consultant designing forest transportation systems for industry and government clients. Outside of academic pursuits, I enjoy spending time with my wife and children, serving in a variety of capacities at our church, and getting much needed exercise by running and hiking.


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The Tanzania Breast Cancer Foundation is a non - governmental, non-profit organization set up by a group of determined women with breast cancer. These women recognized the importance of creating an active and efficient support system for breast cancer patients which lacked in our country.
Our aim is to address the limitations in care & support services available for breast cancer patients in Tanzania . Our philosophy is grounded on love and compassion, and our simple goal is to create a future where no-one in Tanzania has to deal with this frightening disease alone.
Our main mission is to enhance the quality of life of women living with breast cancer and their families through provision of counseling, education, financial assistance, advocacy and advisory service. Tanzania Breast Cancer Foundation is first and only of its kind in the country and receives an overwhelming amount of patients.
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There's something about lockers front and rear that gets me every time. The trailer was tempting but I'm partial to axle swaps.
Nice group all around though. I would be proud to own (not just wheel) any jeep here!
Give yourselves a hand! Then come vote for some more square headlights.
Great looking Xjs :D
Show some support to the weird round headlights :laugh:
Some nice XJ's in the contest
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voted! Good looking wagons!!
Oh man, don't know who to vote for, nice rigs!
Hard choice, but I voted!
Voted and crawled. Time to go check out these other Jeeps of the month. Good luck all!
Lots of nice rigs in this months poll. I'm partial to Red so VegasGT got my vote. Being all locked up I suspect his XJ gets around pretty good. Good luck to all.
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Senate Passes Massage Therapist Continuing Education Bill
The State Senate today gave final legislative passage to legislation (S6712A), sponsored by Senator Betty Little (R-C-I, Queensbury), to permit licensed massage therapists from other states and countries to provide hands-on clinical instruction at continuing education programs in New York.
Hands-on instruction is most effective for continuing education. However, under current law, a massage therapist must be licensed in New York State to "touch" another person. According to the American Massage Therapy Association, many of the nation's most renowned instructors are reluctant to teach in New York due to the inability to physically demonstrate hands-on techniques.
"This change in law would broaden the field of instructors, benefiting licensed therapists participating in the continuing education program and their clients," said Senator Betty Little. "Many people enjoy and benefit from massage therapy. Limiting who can provide instruction only serves to limit the level of knowledge that licensed therapists may gain."
Mandatory continuing education for licensed massage therapists became effective in 2012. There are presently more than 17,000 state licensed therapists who are required to complete 36 hours of continuing education every three years.
Senator Little said that a similar change in law has been made for physical therapists and occupational therapists.
The legislation passed the Assembly on June 2, where it is sponsored by Assemblywoman Donna Lupardo of Binghamton. It will now go to the Governor for his consideration.


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Total Miles: 33
Number of Workouts: 4
Stretching: 2
Yoga: 1
Notes: Ready to start training but holding back.
Issues to Note:
1. None. This is awesome compared to my post ROC.
Next Week Goal:
Up the mileage to 36 per Pfitz, This I feel is too low. If the pace is in check and all is a go I am looking for 40-50.
I skipped my opportunity to three-peat today on the local 5K to be on the conservative side. I need to spend some time planning for the five-miler on Thanksgiving.


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In Obama's Words
Review President Barack Obama's past televised prime-time addresses to the nation.
Duration: 27 minutes
Content: Speech sought to reassure war-weary Americans that the action in Libya was succeeding and, 10 days after the first strikes, U.S. involvement already was ratcheting down.
Reactions: Some Republicans said Mr. Obama still had not laid out a clear benchmark for success in Libya, and that he was wrong to exclude regime change from the military mission.
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Amateur Weatherman Frankie MacDonald Warns Illinois and Missouri of Approaching Storm [Video]
Let's be honest. The news of yet another winter storm is depressing. If you're like me, at this point you're getting desperate to find some way to stay cheerful. Amateur weatherman Frankie MacDonald just might be able to brighten your day.
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Until today, I had never heard of Frankie MacDonald. Then I saw one of his YouTube videos posted to Facebook. I'll be honest, I was laughing all the way through it. I especially loved the warning to make sure and "order your pizzas and order your Chinese food!"
At first I thought it was just some goofy video, but while I was watching it I started to wonder if maybe the guy wasn't acting, and maybe I really shouldn't be laughing at him. After checking out a few more of his videos, I decided to Google Frankie MacDonald. What I found was a much more interesting story than a goofy video could ever be.
Frankie is a 28-year-old autistic man from Nova Scotia. According to CBC News, Frankie loves weather, so he started recording his own weather reports ("My Own TV Station Live in Sydney, Nova Scotia!") which he uploads to YouTube. He's become a bit of an internet sensation. There are over 400 videos on his YouTube channel, over 8,500 people follow him on Twitter and he has nearly as many Facebook friends.
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Thousands of people have viewed his weather reports. Several have commented on them… and the comments have not always been kind.
"Some of the people make fun of me on the Internet and it is not a nice thing to do. I have a good heart," he told the Canadian newspaper The Star.
After looking over some of the comments on his videos, I was happy to see that the majority of them are encouraging. Many viewers thank Frankie for his reports; others let him know they appreciate the job he does. It's even better to see that Frankie keeps making videos, and that he doesn't get discouraged by hurtful comments of a few internet jerks. We could probably all learn a lot from Frankie.
Frankie MacDonald obviously enjoys making the reports, he's not hurting anybody, and it looks like most of his viewers find a certain amount of charm in his videos. I hope he keeps making them.


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Pujols, Ankiel sit out Game 1 vs. Nats
Pujols, Ankiel sit out Game 1 vs. Nats
Ankiel, still dealing with an infection in his right knee, stayed back at the team hotel rather than coming to Nationals Park for the St. Louis-Washington doubleheader. He will accompany the Cardinals on their trip to Houston following Thursday's games, and the club still hopes he will play sooner than later.
"He's flying with us tonight," said manager Tony La Russa. "If he needs the weekend [off], he gets the weekend."
Pujols, meanwhile, was trying to lobby to get a start on Thursday afternoon, but the Cardinals exercised caution with their franchise player. Pujols sustained a left calf strain on Tuesday night. La Russa said Pujols could pinch-hit if needed.
"He's politicking to get in [the lineup]," La Russa quipped.
Matthew Leach is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Officials of the Miss California USA pageant have strongly criticized some of the actions of title-holder Carrie Prejean but say it's not their decision whether she should be stripped of her crown.
Co-executive directors Keith Lewis and Shanna Moakler said at a Beverly Hills news conference yesterday that only Miss USA pageant owner Donald Trump can make that decision.
The 21-year-old San Diego native created controversy during the Miss USA pageant when she said she believes marriage should only be between a man and a woman.
The state pageant has been investigating whether she violated her contract by making public appearances with groups opposed to same-sex marriage. Prejean also failed to reveal that she posed in her underwear as a teenager.
Moakler says Prejean's failure to reveal that to organizers shows she entered the pageant under false pretenses.
"Titanic" stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet have pledged to help the last survivor of the sinking of the ocean liner.
The stars say they have thrown their support behind a fund that would subsidize Millvina Dean's nursing home fees.
Dean was 2 months old when the Titanic sank in the North Atlantic on the night of April 14, 1912. She has been living at a nursing home in the English city of Southampton since she broke her hip about three years ago but has struggled to pay the fees.
DiCaprio and Winslet said in a statement that they hoped Dean could rest easier knowing that her future was secure. The Millvina Fund was launched yesterday in Belfast, Northern Ireland.


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2 ounces white cranberry juice
1-1/2 ounces spiced rum
1/2 ounce lime juice
Fresh cranberries and mint (for garnish)
Steep 2 bags of mint tea in 1 cup of boiling water and cover. After steeping for 2 to 3 minutes, remove the tea bags and add 1 cup of white sugar and 1 teaspoon of salt. Lightly agitate the jar to help dissolve the sugar. Then uncover to allow the syrup to cool.
Fill a martini glass with ice and allow the glass to chill as the cocktail is prepared.
To make the cocktail, measure and add to a cocktail shaker: 1 ½ ounces spiced rum, 1 ounce of the prepared mint syrup, 2 ounces of white cranberry juice and the fresh squeezed juice of half a lime (about ½ ounce).
Fill the rest of the cocktail shaker with ice, close the shaker and hold firmly at both ends. Shaking hard and vigorously will not only chill the cocktail, but also aerate the liquid, giving it a light and effervescent texture. Discard the ice chilling the martini glass, and strain the fresh-shaken cocktail.
Garnish with speared fresh mint leaves and cranberries for a festive flair.


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By Isaac Butler
So asks Philadelphia theatre critic David Fox. He even goes so far to consult Miss Manners (who, shockingly, says it's okay). While he probably wouldn't personally boo, he could understand ways that it could be acceptable:
If I were going to boo now, I'd establish clear ethical guidelines, including separating mere incompetence (which is just sad, and doesn't deserve further censure), from egregious sins like grandstanding, upstaging and generally pandering. And I would maintain that booing during a performance is playing dirty – it dampens everything that follows. Instead, wait for the curtain call, which after all is by definition a forum for audience expression. Make sure booing implicates only its specific target. Performers often bow in groups, and there's already too much collateral damage in the world.
Finally, I'd consider alternative punishment. Not clapping at all is similarly disapproving, and it's more elegant. And there's always the option of leaving early, which is showy and has the additional advantage of sparing an unhappy audience member further misery. A wise friend who is also a frequent early-exiter calls this his "life is too short" rule.
I've never booed at the theatre, nor do I really think it's acceptable, even if you're a pulitzer prize winning playwright and you don't like the critically acclaimed show you've just seen. And I've only ever left one show at intermission, and that was because I was bored and it was the last night in New York for the friend I was seeing the play with and we decided getting a drink and talking was more important for our friendship than being bored by a blindingly obvious French anti-war play in translation. I almost never stand, regardless of what the audience around me is doing, as that should be a reward for something truly spectacular.
That being said... I have noticed something happening recently that's very odd, and kind of off-putting. I find myself doing this weird half-scoff-half-laugh at the theatre when the show is trying too hard (and failing) to emotionally manipulate me. I don't mean to do it. I'm not performing. It's an earnest response to what's going on on stage--a response of genuine contempt and anger--and I don't even know I'm doing it until it is done. Much as one does not self-consciously decide to laugh at a good joke, I don't self-consciously decide to scoff at hackneyed manipulation.
I understand that on one level this is bad behavior, because it distracts other people and could potentially break the spell for them and that's really the last thing I want to do. At the same time, we're supposed to be okay with authentic audience response, positive or negative.
Have you ever booed? or walked out? Do you ever scoff?


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Bob Diamond, the former boss of Barclays PLC, has given up bonuses worth up to £20 million ($31-million U.S.) following his dramatic resignation over an interest rate-fixing scandal, the bank's chairman said in parliamentary testimony on Tuesday.
Marcus Agius, the man at the top of Barclays when its traders manipulated a benchmark interest rate, appeared before a hostile panel of lawmakers as part of its investigation into a row that has caused widespread public anger in Britain.
In 2-1/2 hours of gripping testimony, Mr. Agius acknowledged the central bank governor had played a pivotal role in pushing Mr. Diamond out of his job, and described the personal drama behind the scandal which erupted last week and culminated in Mr. Diamond's resignation.
"I'm not happy to be where I am, as you can imagine," Mr. Agius told the panel in a quiet, clipped voice. "It's very difficult as you go back to say what you would have done differently."
Barclays has been fined more than $450-million for its part in manipulating the London Interbank Offered Rate, or Libor, the interest rate that underpins transactions worth hundreds of trillions of dollars worldwide. More than a dozen other banks are expected to be drawn into the scandal.
Mr. Agius was the first Barclays executive to quit when the scandal erupted but that was not enough to protect Mr. Diamond, the hard-charging American who was forced out a day later. Mr. Agius has agreed to stay on as executive chairman to find a successor to Mr. Diamond.
"Bob Diamond has voluntarily decided to forgo any deferred consideration and deferred bonuses to which he otherwise would have been entitled to," Mr. Agius, 65, told the panel. "The maximum amount would be £20-million."
Mr. Diamond, 60, would still receive a year's pay and a cash payment instead of a pension, together worth £2-million, he said.
Just before Mr. Agius appeared before the panel, Britain's financial watchdog published a scathing letter saying Barclays had frequently pushed the boundaries of regulation with an "aggressive" business approach.
When asked about the letter, Mr. Agius said: "I don't regard this as damning. I regard this as a firm letter from our regulator."
He added however he had never received a letter that harsh from a regulator and described his relationship with the Financial Services Authority as "strained".
As lawmakers piled criticism on him, Agius looked tense at times, blowing out his cheeks and shaking his head in disbelief. Mr. Agius interrupted one committee member sharply at one point to correct the pronunciation of his surname.
But some MPs appeared less hostile, thanking him for being so forthcoming.
Shedding light on what went on behind the scenes as the row escalated, Mr. Agius said Mr. Diamond resigned after the central bank governor summoned Barclays executives and made it clear that their colleague had to go.
"We explained what had happened ... he was utterly depressed as you can imagine. The conversation was not long," Mr. Agius said, who visited Mr. Diamond at his house in London.
"He asked for time to talk to his family, and we left confident that if he hadn't already made the decision, that he would make the right decision."
Mervyn King, the Bank of England governor, has declined to comment on his involvement in Mr. Diamond's resignation but he told the BBC in an interview recorded before the testimony that it was time to change the way Britain's banking system worked.
"We don't have enough banks, and those banks that we have, have become too big and they dominate the sector in a way that's rather undesirable," he said.
Mr. Diamond's potential pay-off has been the subject of much speculation in a country where anger with the culture of bankers strikes a popular chord. One of the world's richest bankers, Mr. Diamond took home £17-million last year alone.
Barclays confirmed Mr. Diamond's payoff arrangement in a statement which quoted him as saying he hoped his decision would help the bank move on.
"The wrongful actions of a relative few should not detract from the outstanding work that Barclays employees carry out each day on behalf of clients and customers around the world," he said.
"It is my hope that my decision to step down and today's agreement on my remuneration will help close this chapter and allow Barclays to move forward and prosper."
Barclays is among more than a dozen global banks under investigation by authorities in North America, Europe and Japan and the only one so far to admit wrongdoing.
Suggestions that senior officials may have known about the 2008 manipulation have turned the case into a political storm, with Prime Minister David Cameron ordering the parliamentary inquiry to quell public outrage.
Mr. Cameron welcomed Mr. Diamond's decision to forgo his bonus. The European Union says it will propose new rules to criminalize the manipulation of indices such as Libor.
Barclays says a group of traders tried to manipulate Libor for profit as far back as 2005, and says it wrongly lowered estimates of the interest it paid other banks at the height of the crisis in 2008 to make its financial position appear better.
Neither Mr. Diamond nor Mr. Agius stand accused of individual wrongdoing in the rate-rigging scandal.
Libor, or the London interbank offered rate, is compiled from estimates by large international banks of how much they believe they have to pay to borrow from each other. It is used for $550-trillion (U.S.) of interest rate derivatives contracts and influences rates on mortgages, student loans and credit cards.
The rates submitted by banks are compiled by Thomson Reuters, parent company of Reuters, on behalf of the British Bankers' Association.


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The subject of intentional breeding or meat rabbits is prohibited. The answers provided on this board are for general guideline purposes only. The information is not intended to diagnose or treat your pet. It is your responsibility to assess the information being given and seek professional advice/second opinion from your veterinarian and/or qualified behaviorist.
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Soooo I found that shirt at walmart. hehe it was too cute to resist! =P I decided to make it into a purse! =D It's so cute. I don't know how well it will work because I have never done this before but hopefully it holds up!
Hey Everyone and Happy September!!!
I feel like I haven't been on here in ages! And really its only been a week or two. hehe I missed bunny chatting with everyone sooo much!!! I've been in a major depression and kinda checked out from everything. Except my buns of course! hehe I"m trying to pick myself back up though. *sigh*
LongHairedMike-OMG OMG OMG!! !I ADORE that commercial! How did you FIND that? I don't remember it at all but its sooo cute!!! I want a whole MOVIE like that! haha My mom works at a library and she found a bunny movie so she brought it home to surprise me., I think Toby and I are gonna cuddle up with it tonight and give Lie To Me a break! hehe
Michelle- hahaha Your comment cracked me up! I often block out my age too! Last time I was at the doctors he asked me how old I was and I said 22, no wait 24 oh wait, no 26! He was like, are you SURE? I had to count bahaha He probably thought I was a total idiot! I prefer to stay at "22" haha My Beatrix died almost 2 months ago. It's STILL super hard. I cried like a baby at 2 this morning because I missed her so much.l I'm glad to know i'm not the only one who does it still
Bumble Fly-hmmm TOTALLY gonna have to check out Disapproving Rabbits! I could use a good daily dose of it to perk me up! hehe
LittlePuffyTail= GREAT picture!!! hehe I haven't seen the Bunny Olympics. Are the photos here on Binky Bunny? That's hillarious! I'd love to see what people submitted!
Skipper'sMama- I LOVE the BBC Sherlock! It's the BEST in my opinion and I've seen every show and movie! I was a fan of Season 1 when it came out and was nervous that Season 2 woiuldn't live up to it, but it surpassed it by far! It gets better and better every time!
Mimzy- I adore that shirt!!! I haven't seen it at any of the Wal-Mart's around here. BOO!!! I'll have to see if maybe they have it online. It is way too cute!!
PeppyPoo-AHH!!! That is sooo priceless! And TOTALLY what a bunny would fill his basket with at the grocery store. hehe
I'm so glad I got on here tonight. It really cheered me up a lot and i missed everyone! Today Toby was cuddling on the couch with me and left me a present. And when I went to pick it up there were worms all over it. AHH!!! I totally freaked! I called the vet after hours and he is going in for his first appointment tomorrow. *sigh* I hope all goes well!
I think all the excitment and worrying wore me out! haha I am totally exhausted and am going to bed at 9:30 like the old lady that I am! haha Good night all and I hope everyone has a fantastic weekend!
That's too bad about your AC, Cristina! I feel for you, two years ago ours broke during the summer (we live in the south!) and because of a million hoops we had to jump through with our home warranty it took about 6 weeks before it was fixed. We ended up buying a small portable AC/Heating unit at Home Depot. It was only strong enough to cool our bedroom though, so we had to basically live in there the entire time, with all our pets... It was pretty miserable.
I hope Toby gets better soon!
< For my lop lover friends!
Speaking of rabbit addiction, I had to create a new board dedicated to Bunnies on my pinterest. I feel like I'm going to end up being one of those crazy cat ladies except with bunnies.
I've been thinking about deleting my account and creating one with a new name, has that been done around here before?
Also, who else finds it amusing that it's the year of the Rabbit?!
Ollie has a new addiction of trying to drink my green tea.. Funny bunny. I have his neuter operation scheduled for the 17th of this month... Kinda anxious. I know I've only had him for a little over 3 months but I'm going to be so devastated if anything happens to him. Trying to stay positive. One thing that I hate about depression is I can never be happy in the now, it's like I'm always waiting for the other shoe to drop.
On a more positive note, I'm totally buying this ring :


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My Nonprofit Reviews
Review for Kids Wish Network, Inc., Holiday, FL, USA
The Kids Wish Network's Hero of the Month program has been a tremendous success at our facility. We are a not-for-profit pediatric outpatient rehabilitation facility that serves children of all ages with special needs. However, most of the children we serve are not eligible for large "wishes" granted for children with life-threatening diagnoses. The Kids Wish Hero of the Month allows us to formally recognize and honor the children who work hard each and every day, striving to overcome non-life-threatening disabilities. This program has been a trememdous benefit to our clinic and the patients we have been lucky enough to be able to recognize as our heroes.
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...watching the faces of the children that have been recognized as Heroes of the Month. Many children with non-life-threatening disabilities work hard each and every day, striving to overcome nearly impossible odds in their everyday lives. It is wonderful to be able to reward their hard work!. The awards include a gift card for the child, a gold medal (REAL metal, NOT plastic!), a colorful certificate and a cool t-shirt. Parents and children have all been extremely appreciative of the recognition.
If I had to make changes to this organization, I would...
I can't think of a thing that I would change.
How does this organization compare with others in the same sector?
Very Well
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Their recognition that not all children with special needs have a life-threatening diagnosis. However, they all work hard to overcome sometimes spectacular odds working against their success and achievements in life. Kids Wish Network has established a program to recognize and honor these children, even though they would not be eligible for a large wish.
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hah, found this in my drafts and only posting it now but still mentally processing that I am not in LA anymore is heartbreaking.
Missing the weather and the palm trees already while I'm typing this in my room. These 10 photos basically concludes the entire trip with calming and picturesque sunsets giving a hue of orange on the highway back to the hotel, to the prominent urban lights and levitating mass at LACMA. Transition to the first pic literally absorbing the whole court side experience with clippers watching the game with you and each adrenaline rush surging through you as the crowd jeer and stamp their feet just to distract the opponents still very vivid in my head right now.
Hope everyone has a good year ahead of them, J
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Advancing diversity at UNI
The University of Northern Iowa hosted the annual Diversity Town Hall on Wednesday, Jan. 22. This event gave students, faculty and staff the opportunity to learn about UNI's advances in diversity and take part in strategies to continue to grow a rich, educationally diverse campus.
Diversity Matters award recipients. Back row from left to right: President Ruud, Gloria J. Gibson, Kathy Green, Bryant B. Dowd, Alicia Jessip, Regina Dixon-Reeves and Terry Hogan. Front row from left to right: Paul Sapp, Samantha Swanson, Nick Sullivan and Victoria DeFrancisco.
Keynote speaker Regina Dixon-Reeves, a specialist in faculty diversity development at the University of Chicago, led the UNI community in a conversation about the pillars of increased retention of diverse students, faculty and staff.
Diversity Matters Awards were presented during the conclusion of the Town Hall event. The 2014 Diversity Matters award recipients are:
• Nick Sullivan, director of Student Support Services
• Kathy Green, director of University Health Services
• Samantha Swanson, UNI sophomore majoring in elementary education
• Bryant B. Dowd, record analyst in the Office of Admissions
• Paul Sapp, admissions transfer coordinator in the Office of Admissions
• Gloria J. Gibson, executive vice president and provost
• Alicia Jessip, UNI senior majoring in communication and Spanish
• Victoria DeFrancisco, professor of communication studies
For more information about the Diversity Town Hall or the Diversity Matters Awards, visit uni.edu/diversity.


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NA-EM5 Housing for Olympus OM-D E-M5 Camera
. As the dominant force in mirrorless interchangeable lens camera housings, Nauticam continues to bring professional quality engineering to this rapidly expanding segment of the photographic community. The NA-EM5 should prove to be one of the most potent underwater imaging tools ever developed for this segment, proving once again that great things can come in small packages.
With the OM-D E-M5, Olympus has clearly taken the m4/3 format to another level with performance solidly in DSLR territory. Everything about the camera body exudes quality from its solid magnesium construction and extensive weather sealing to its classy retro styling. The new 16 MP MOS Four Thirds format sensor provides excellent image quality with the Truepic V-1 processor and surprisingly good high ISO performance up to a maximum of 25,600. Excellent dynamic range, improved color accuracy and a significant jump in resolution are just some of what can be expected from the E-M5. The new 3 In. OLED touch sensitive display provides brilliant viewing, while the 1.44M dot electronic viewfinder brings a welcome alternative for image composing.
Shutter lag is nonexistent and 9 FPS can be achieved while manually focusing, 4.2 FPS while utilizing the improved continuous AF. Lots of new features like a quick zoom focus check (up to 5X magnification) on the display make fine tuning focus much easier. The Shadow&Highlight screen setting acts as a "false color" mode to help with exposure by painting clipped highlights red and underexposed shadows blue. This method can dramatically increase the ease of exposure adjustments in difficult circumstances.
Olympus is targeting a more advanced shooter with the E-M5 and the controls on the camera reflect that. Most useful are the Main and Sub dials that allow instant aperture and shutter speed adjustment as well as other menu selected adjustments. Like most controls on the camera, these dials can be programmed independently for each mode setting on the camera. Two programmable function buttons and an additional programmable video record button allow extensive customization for each photographer's particular needs. Dedicated navigation buttons default to controlling focus point selection over a broad section of the lens coverage. Another feature unique to this Olympus is built-in 5 Axis Image Stabilization that works in concert with any m4/3 lens. This sophisticated system offers distinct potential benefits in ambient light underwater photography or any time a slower shutter speed is deemed desirable.
One of the hallmarks of the m4/3 format is an extensive selection of quality lenses - many well suited for use in an underwater housing. A new series of moisture shielded Olympus lenses are debuting including the nicely finished 12mm-50mm power zoom kit lens. This is an attractive option for underwater use covering a useful range for fish portraiture and 1:2 macro with the barrel activated macro switch engaged. Serious macro shooters will also appreciate the soon-to-be released 60mm macro lens joining the current highly regarded Panasonic Lumix 45mm macro lens.
Topside, the E-M5 provides the option of a vertical grip and battery pack HLD-6 that, when installed, makes this Olympus the best handling (and arguably best looking) mirror-less camera from any manufacturer. In recognition of these advancements, Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com) recently honored the OM-D E-M5 with its Gold Award. All in all, Olympus shooters have a lot to celebrate.
Nauticam has more experience creating underwater housings for compact mirrorless cameras than any other manufacturer in the world. As the Olympus OM-D E-M5 represents a new standard of performance in the popular m4/3 format, Nauticam sought to create a housing that would exploit this new level of capability to the fullest. Designed by underwater photographers to maximize the essential features most important in these specialized circumstances, the new NA-EM5 meets and exceeds expectations in virtually every regard.
All Nauticam housings are designed for ease of use and maintenance and the NA-EM5 builds on this solid foundation. The groundbreaking features of previous housings are present such as the effortless (but secure) single rotating housing latch, rugged machined aluminum case, 100 meter depth rating and the patented port latching system. A new rear mounted housing o-ring makes maintenance easier than ever, while a threaded bulkhead port allows for an HDMI or electrical strobe synch bulkhead installation – advanced features often omitted by mirrorless housing manufacturers. Of course dual fiber optic synch ports are standard and take advantage of the supplied Olympus accessory flash. To make the most of the E-M5's excellent EVF, Nauticam has crafted an optional rear acrylic display window that encompasses a mount for installation of Nauticam's acclaimed 45 degree and 180 degree magnified view finders for the ultimate in composition and focus ability.
All controls on the NA-EM5 are engineered for optimal ergonomics. The Olympus Main and Sub dials are easily reached by thumb or forefinger with no need to release grip on the housing while adjusting aperture and shutter speed. The important Fn1 and Fn2 buttons are just as easy to reach and can be programmed for a multitude of functions. A few of the useful settings are AF Lock, One-touch White Balance, Manual Focus, ISO and Exposure Compensation. Switching between LV and the EVF is a snap and a quick press of the Info button can show or hide Olympus' new LV super control panel on the OLED screen for quick access to many critical settings. The mode dial can easily be turned through the typical P, A, S, M, Movie mode and some "easy shooting modes". Controls need to offer a proper "feel" and Nauticam's patented two-stage lever shutter release allows for natural, precise focus and shutter release activation. Every one of the features on the new NA-EM5 is engineered to the same exacting tolerances of Nauticam's now famous line of DSLR housings. That quality will surely be reflected in every picture taken with this remarkably powerful imaging system.
Ports for every Need
A big part of the Micro Four Thirds format's popularity is a great lens selection for both topside and underwater. Nauticam manufactures an extensive line of compact ports to accommodate many of the best lenses for m4/3. Lenses that are particularly well suited for underwater use include the Panasonic 8mm fisheye, Panasonic 7-14mm, Olympus 9-18mm, Panasonic 14mm, Olympus 14-42, Panasonic 14-42mm, Panasonic 45mm macro, 60mm macro (upcoming), new Olympus 12-50 w/ macro (Supported by a special new Nauticam port for power zoom and macro switch).
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- Only the finest materials and cutting edge manufacturing processes are used to make Nauticam housings. The housing body is machined from solid aircraft grade aluminum, then hard anodized making it impervious to salt water and providing an impressive 100 meter depth rating. The large acrylic LCD window is treated with an anti-reflective, scratch resistant coating.
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- The optional Nauticam Flexitray provides a lightweight, compact mounting solution for strobe arms and the NA-EM5 housing. Nauticam uses a sophisticated over-mold process to produce extremely comfortable rubberized ergonomic handgrips. The soft feel and ergonomic design make the housing easy to grip and minimize hand fatigue on long dives. Both single and double handle configurations are available for complete customization, and each handle can be adjusted laterally allowing the user to dial in perfect fit. A hand strap is also available for those wishing an even smaller profile.
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That same SASS page you referred to also had a link for the SASS RULE BOOK on the main page. Cowboys are very understanding and most of us have faced the shock of having to develop a cowboy battery. The first year, three of us shared one shotgun. And I used borrowed gun leather. When we got to matches we would let the sign in staff know up front we were short a shotgun. We would ask to shoot together so we could borrow the shotgun. No problems. At our matches, we simply ask that new folks tell us what they are short (gunwise) so we can get them into a group that they can borrow a gun or two. Calibers allowed in Main match are 32 caliber and above. Most common is 45 long colt, followed by 38 special, 44 mag, sp, etc. Usually most cowboys try to get lever action rifle and revolvers in same caliber. But you don't have to. It is just easier that way.
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Chamber names Kelly Monkman its 'Citizen of the Year'
Kelly Monkman feels that, after 18 years as a Woodbury resident, he's made the full transition into being a Minnesotan. All except for one thing: He still has trouble hitting the brakes when ice skating with his daughters.
"If there isn't a wall to stop me, I'm like a fish out of water," the Bloomington, Ill. native said candidly, summing up his skating skills. "That whole hockey thing, I think it's tough to understand unless you grew up with it."
Save for that "hockey thing," Monkman has done pretty well during his stead in Woodbury. The insurance salesman and independent business owner (he owns and operates Monkman and Associates and the Woodbury Directory) moved to town in 1989 and met his future wife Beth, who grew up in Woodbury. The couple is in the midst of raising daughters who are now in elementary school and junior high.
If a guy from Illinois can get that far in Minnesota, he deserves an award. But Monkman has not limited himself to his family and career. He's also been heavily involved in the community since he moved to Woodbury. For his many years of volunteer work with several local organizations, Monkman was awarded recently by the Woodbury Chamber of Commerce as its Citizen of the Year.
Whether it's his involvement with the well-established Woodbury Lions Club or the recently established Woodbury Community Foundation, his peers say Monkman has been there to lend a hand.
Monkman has held several key positions in organizations like the Southeast Area YMCA and the Woodbury Chamber of Commerce.
For two years, he served as chamber president, which Monkman called time well spent, but also a "baptism by fire."
"I was the second vice chair and the chair and first vice chair both had other duties they had to fulfill, so I was the next one in line," he said.
This year Monkman will take over as the board chair for the YMCA, which is an organization he said he's enjoyed making time for.
"I like what they do," Monkman said "A big chunk of their money goes towards giving back to the community and that's kind of what its all about."
Monkman said the local "Y" has been a great source for providing scholarships for families in need.
"We have a good focus on raising money for families who wouldn't otherwise be able to afford a membership or children who wouldn't otherwise be able to go to camp," he said.
Monkman said his family has a YMCA membership, but admits to spending a lot of time at another gym (Lifetime) for pickup basketball games.
"There's a group of guys who have been playing basketball there for 10 years, so that's where you can find me," he said.
Monkman said he's appreciative of the honor he's received from the Woodbury Chamber of Commerce, but added that he feels like he's received much more from the community than he has invested in it.
"I remember when I first opened my business (a former colleague said) I should join the chamber, but he also said, 'You're not going to get a lot of business out of it, but you'll be able to help make Woodbury a better place to live.'"
But over time, Monkman has been able to see his business prosper along with the community.
"It's been exciting, and it really makes you feel like this really is the best place to live in the whole world," he said.


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Lypsinka, the iconic drag creation of performer John Epperson, will return this fall to the New York stage for the first time in nine years.
Celebrating three decades of Epperson's lip-synching alter ego, Lypsinka! The Trilogy will include three shows running in repertory: revivals of Lypsinka! The Boxed Set and The Passion of the Crawford, as well as the New York premiere of John Epperson: Show Trash.
Lypsinka! The Trilogy will begin performances November 5 and officially open November 13 at off-Broadway's Connelly Theater, where it is scheduled to run through January 3.
Directed by Kevin Malony, Lypsinka! The Boxed Set, last staged in New York in 2001, is "the award-winning revue of Lyp's greatest bits that has toured the world, flabbergasting audiences from Los Angeles to Sydney to Glasgow," according to press notes. "Using a soundtrack created from films, musicals, and concert recordings, the supreme archivist of irony showcases the modern woman's challenge of being over-blessed with femininity and celebrity."
The Passion of the Crawford, Lypsinka's "tour de force embodiment of towering screen queen Joan Crawford — featuring a re-enactment of Crawford's onstage interview from 1973 — is a fantasia of fame and insecurity, grandness and identity." Also directed by Malony, this "tribute to Hollywood and ego crisis" was last presented in New York in 2005.
Directed by Barry Kleinbort, the anecdotal John Epperson: Show Trash is an "autobiographical multi-media pastiche, starring Epperson — unmasked and in street clothes — tinkling the ivories and spinning yarns of Mississippi, Manhattan, and Hollywood."
For tickets, which go on sale September 19, visit TweedTheater.org.


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A state-by-state look at the median income over the past decade is a decidedly humbling exercise.
Thirty five states have seen a statistically significant decline in their median household income between 2000 and 2012, according to figures released this week by the Census Bureau.
A handful of states find themselves on the other side of the ledger -- with increased median incomes over the past decade. But no state comes close to touching North Dakota, which saw a 17 percent jump in income during that period.
How and why? GovBeat's Reid Wilson and Fix Original Recipe broke it down on "In Play".


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Owens Corning (NYSE:OC[3]) — This industrial firm staged an important technical breakout in early December that ultimately led to a 25% rally over the course of two months. Not coincidentally, the industrial sector of the S&P 500 also broke out of an important area around the same time in December, which is important from a correlation perspective.
Earlier this month, the Industrial SPDR (NYSE:XLI[4]) broke below its uptrend dating back to August. Owens Corning did the same, but then reversed back above the trendline for a handful of daily closes. However, with Monday's broad market weakness, the stock sliced back below the key uptrend once again, this time likely with more conviction.
Closer up on the daily chart, note that the stock has been developing a series of lower highs and lower lows since its early February top. As the stock rebounded last week, it found resistance right at its 50-day simple moving average, where it left a bearish shooting star, which was then followed by confirmation selling on Monday.
The stock looks ready to continue lower, and the 200-day moving average, currently near the $35 mark, seems to be a good next target. Keep in mind that the company is scheduled to report earnings on April 24.
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The clear-cut pitfall in playing Regan and Goneril, the most vicious of vicious daughters in dramatic literature, is turning them into caricatures. And it wouldn't be difficult. So assert Lucy Peacock and Domini Blythe, who inhabit the two hateful ladies in the production of "King Lear" that bowed at Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont Theater on March 4. This "King Lear," starring Christopher Plummer in the title role, is an import from the Stratford Festival of Canada.
"Our job is to humanize the two women," notes Peacock (Regan). "They have to be seen as part of a whole world."
Explains Blythe (Goneril): "They are the children of their father, an outrageous man who has produced three daughters, all of whom have a streak of stubbornness and willfulness that mirror their father's. These are the daughters of this man."
The soft-spoken and affable Blythe and Peacock, who couldn't be more removed from their onstage alter egos, meet with me in their dressing room before a performance. A lighthearted camaraderie is evident between the two actresses, who have worked together at the Stratford Festival for years. Blythe has been a member of the company for 12 seasons over a 25-year period, Peacock for the last 17 years.
As they tell it, King Lear and his daughters have to be viewed as the classic dysfunctional family (some might say archetypal). Indeed, under the direction of Jonathan Miller, the actors have been encouraged to interpret Lear's family dynamics through a contemporary lens.
"Jonathan talked about the accumulation of moments in family life that create the layers," says Peacock. "So it's not a beat-by-beat performance. Instead, every moment [between the daughters and their father] reflects an accumulated response over a lifetime."
"When Lear asks us to tell him how much we love him, he's throwing us a curve ball," Blythe suggests. "But at the same time, we recognize it as one of his games that he has been playing with us forever. And we have to figure out what it is he's looking for and how we're going to play it. We're constantly second-guessing and manipulating each other."
Throughout the performance, there's a sense of gamesmanship, not simply between the women and their father, but also between the sisters. They are, however, united by their compulsive need for self-preservation. Still, there are qualities that distinguish them.
"I'm the fierce one," observes Blythe. "Goneril has got the makings of a leader. I can see her dressed up and leading a charge. She's a dominatrix."
Peacock agrees, remarking, "Regan is not as bright as Goneril. Her strong point, she believes, is her sexuality—and she uses it."
In this production, the two sisters are made up and costumed almost to evoke grotesques, sporting decidedly unflattering wigs and rigid costumes that render the women stiff and unnatural in their movements.
"I don't remember feeling this tired before," says Domini. "We're breathing against a corset and are terribly restrained by those giant collars. It's very hard to lean back. The costumes are beautiful, but exhausting."
Peacock adds, "Performing in the Vivian Beaumont also requires a vocal adjustment. It's not just the new space, although that's certainly part of the problem. But the Stratford seems to be more acoustically available."
Theatre in Their Blood
Peacock and Blythe are Shakespearean veterans. Peacock has spent her entire career with the Stratford Festival, playing such roles as Portia ("The Merchant of Venice"), Kate ("The Taming of the Shrew"), Desdemona ("Othello"), and Titania ("A Midsummer Night's Dream"), among many others. Blythe has performed the classics on both sides of the Atlantic. In addition to her work with the Stratford Festival, she has appeared at the St. Lawrence Center in Canada and with Britain's Royal Shakespeare Company, acting in such productions as "Richard II," "Richard III," and "The Maid's Tragedy." She also boasts film and television credits on her resume, including a two-year stint on the New York-based soap "Search for Tomorrow."
Both actresses are British born, although only Blythe speaks with a British accent. Peacock's family immigrated to Canada when she was a small child. Blythe and Peacock are both descended from theatre families. Blythe's parents were actors Richard Blythe and Maureen Murphy. Peacock is the great niece of Dame Sybil Thorndike and points out that she is a fourth-generation actor.
Their resumes and theatre lineages notwithstanding, Blythe and Peacock concede that the challenges in playing Goneril and Regan are unique on many fronts, not least the fact that these are truly despicable characters whose actions have to be justified by the actresses playing them. That doesn't mean they have to like them, but they do have to understand them. Equally important, the performers cannot tip their hand too early. Variety and, especially, momentum are the keynotes.
Says Blythe: "As the play continues, you see Goneril's increasing irritation turn to fury and finally sheer hatred towards her father, which is unleashed when he curses her. At that point—but it can't be before that—it's no holds barred. Jonathan [Miller] said there's a point at which the two women are tobogganing down the slippery slope of annihilation, embodying everything that is hateful."
Peacock remarks that the most difficult thing for her to put a handle on is "Regan's willingness to blind a man [Gloucester] and then be sexually aroused by it. I believe she is. But, however monstrous, the action is not outside the play's social-moral context. The man is a traitor and she feels no remorse."
Blythe adds with a chortle: "When we take our curtain calls, some audiences boo us."
So what about their attraction to the evil bastard Edmund? Are they truly turned on or simply competing with each other? Blythe and Peacock insist that they may be vying for the same man, and to that extent, it's another game to be won, but each is genuinely "in lust" with him. Neither loves him nor anyone else.
"Regan sees Edmund as fresh meat," says Peacock. "She wants him, she'll go for him, and then she'll move on."
Comments Blythe: "Goneril recognizes qualities in Edmund that she sees in herself. They are ambitious, ruthless, and power-hungry. And that's the turn-on."
Asked who these stunningly modern women would be if they were in fact modern women, Blythe and Peacock don't miss a beat.
"Regan would have done something dreadful and be heading for a maximum-security prison," says Peacock with a sneaky smile. "And once she's there, she'd take up hairdressing or dog grooming."
Blythe sees Goneril's contemporary incarnation in even slyer terms. "She'd be in jail for fraud and taking a course in investment management. She'd certainly be writing letters to the CEO at Enron."
For career guidance, one assumes.
"Regan is not as bright as Goneril. Her strong point, she believes, is her sexuality—and she uses it."—Lucy Peacock
"Goneril has got the makings of a leader. I can see her dressed up and leading a charge. She's a dominatrix."—Domini Blythe


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Friedrich Carl Nicolaus Prinz von Preußen K.H.
(20.03.1828 - 15.06.1885)
place of birth: Berlin - Schloß Klein
Königreich Preußen:
Prinz, OBH, Generalfeldmarschall
Prussian imperial field marshal who was a field army
commander during the Franco-Prussian War
1870-71. Friedrich Karl was born to Prince Karl von Preussen
and Princess Marie of Saxe-Weimar, also the grandson of Friedrich
Wilhelm III. The prince had four daughters and one son with his wife
Princess Maria Anna von Anhalt. Friedrich Karl began his military
training as a teenager under the watchful eye of Major Albrecht von
Roon. Later, with the rank of major in the cavalry, Friedrich Karl
served as a staff officer for General von Wrangel during the German-Danish
War in 1848, getting wounded at at Baden. He also took part
inthe Second War of Schleswig against Denmark in
During the Austro-Prussian War 1866, General
der Kavallerie Friedrich headed up the First Army and successfully
battled the Austrian contingent at Königgrätz alongside his first cousin Crown
Prince Friedrich Wilhelm. With the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian
War in 1870, the Prince was in command of the Second Army,
leading them into battle at Spicheren, Mars
le Tour, and Gravelotte-St Privat. His
troops also won engagements at Orleans and Le
Mans. For his leadership, he was promoted to the
rank of Generalfeldmarschall, becoming the Inspector-General of the
Prussian Army following the war. In 1860, the Prince published the work
Eine militärische Denkschrift von P. F. K. The
prince died in October 1870 at Klein Glienicke near Potsdam.


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This fold-down attic ladder is going nowhere except into a pretty important support column. If this column is damaged, the house' could start start folding down!
You know the old adage, "Measure twice, cut once"? Well, let's add "Think first" to that saying! Obviously, if you're going to install a ladder leading to the attic, you need to allow enough room for it to unfold properly. That basic care wasn't taken here.
If you're planning attic access, consider the stairway options that best suit the upstairs and downstairs space you have. In the scenario here, a telescoping attic ladder (pictured below left) — as well as relocation of the access opening — would've been much better and much safer for both the homeowner and the structural integrity of the house. Other options: a one-piece, slide-down staircase in which the whole ladder disappears into the attic when the hatch is closed, or a fold-down model.
Consider the location of your attic stairway as well. For instance, if you're accessing your attic from the garage, the stairway you install must meet strict fireproofing requirements. The garage is separated from the rest of your home by fire-resistant walls and ceilings, right down to the drywall used. As a result, the bottom of the attic staircase also has to be fire resistant, usually accomplished with sheet metal coverage on the bottom.
Werner Telescoping Access Ladder. Photo: The Home Depot
The other critical element to attic stair installation? Reframing. Installation of an attic hatch requires that you cut away ceiling joists, and you must compensate for any joist removal by doubling up the framing on either side of the new opening. Otherwise, you'll create a big structural problem rather than a safe attic access solution.
Finally, install an attic floor to make sure you're on solid footing once you arrive in the attic. Traditional plywood sheeting and high-tech tile options like Attic Dek work really well, and allow for critical insulation and strategic placement. Just keep structure in mind when you make this attic improvement, because attics are actually meant to help hold your home together rather than act as additional storage space.
In fact, some attics are just not meant to be used for storage, including those framed with pre-fabricated trusses. If you try to cut those to make room for a stair or flooring, you might end up taking a quick trip downstairs. A really quick trip — right through the ceiling! The rest of your house could potentially come tumbling down as well.
Skill Level
DIY Ph.D. You should have experience with reframing.
Tom Kraeutler delivers home improvement tips and ideas each week as host of The Money Pit Home Improvement Show, a nationally syndicated radio program. He is also author of My Home, My Money Pit: Your Guide to Every Home Improvement Adventure. You can also subscribe to Tom's latest home improvement podcast or free home improvement newsletter.
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I bought the bags as extra support for tongue-heavy toy hauler with weight distribution hitch. They work very well with only 10 pounds of air pressure to level the vehicle out and they provide a more comfortable ride over bumps. I had these installed by mechanic shop, it took them 2.5 hours to complete. I am very satisfied with the ride and control.