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Here's a look at the transactions this week that had the most significant fantasy impact.
Brandon McCarthy, RHP - placed on the 15-day DL
A.J. Griffin, RHP - contract purchased from Triple-A Sacramento
Impact: McCarthy's shoulder issues have landed him on the DL yet again. Oakland's Opening Day starter has missed significant time to injuries in recent years and has already missed a couple weeks this year with soreness in his right shoulder. He has apparently been pitching through the shoulder pain, though you would never know it looking at his numbers since his last DL stint. In those three starts, he has given up just three earned runs in 20 innings, for an ERA of 1.35. Rookie A.J. Griffin takes over McCarthy's spot in the rotation, though his inexperience makes him a risky fantasy option.
Blue Jays
Adam Lind, 1B - contract purchased from Triple-A Las Vegas
David Cooper, 1B - optioned to Triple-A Las Vegas
Impact: Lind got off to a slow start with Toronto this year, necessitating a demotion to the minors. In 35 games with the Blue Jays, he hit just .186 with three home runs and 11 RBI. He forced the Jays to add him to their roster once again, however, as he was absolutely crushing the ball at Triple-A. In 32 games for Las Vegas, he hit .392 with eight home runs and 29 RBI. While his offensive numbers have tailed off since his impressive 2009 campaign, a significant improvement over his early 2012 numbers should be expected. Cooper hit .292 with two home runs and six RBI in 24 games, but had to be sent down to make room for Lind.
Anthony Rizzo, 1B - recalled from Triple-A Iowa
Adrian Cardenas, IF - optioned to Triple-A Iowa
Impact: Rizzo was absolutely tearing it up at Triple-A, as he hit .342 with 23 home runs and 62 RBI in 70 games. Although he did not fare well in his first taste of the big leagues last season (.141, 1 HR, 9 RBI in 49 games with San Diego), he is one of the most highly-touted hitting prospects in baseball. He will bat third while serving as the Cubs' regular first baseman and should be worth owning in most fantasy leagues. His promotion creates a domino effect, as Bryan LaHair moves from first base to right field, and David DeJesus moves from right field to center. Reed Johnson, Joe Mather and Tony Campana would appear to be the most likely candidates to lose playing time as a result of this move. Cardenas hit .189 (7-for-37) in 25 games with the Cubs this year.
Joe Saunders, LHP - placed on the 15-day DL (left shoulder)
Jonathan Albaladejo, RHP - recalled from (and then optioned to) Triple-A Reno
Trevor Bauer, RHP - recalled from Triple-A Reno
Josh Bell, IF - optioned to Triple-A Reno
Impact: Saunders may be back as early as next week as he attempts to recover from a strained left shoulder. The veteran lefty is 4-5 with a 3.44 ERA in 13 starts. The injuries to Saunders and Daniel Hudson (who is expected to undergo Tommy John surgery and miss the rest of the year) allow the D-Backs to get a look at highly-touted prospect Trevor Bauer. Bauer is 11-1 between Double-A and Triple-A this year with an overall ERA of 2.23 and 116 strikeouts in 93 innings. He's definitely worth a look in most fantasy league formats. Josh Collmenter will move from the pen to the rotation to fill the remaining spot. He's 0-2 with a 4.80 ERA and 41 strikeouts in 45 innings, and could be of some value in deeper NL-only leagues. Albaladejo has appeared in two games with Arizona this season, giving up a couple of runs in two innings. Bell hit .173 with one home run and four RBI in 21 games with Arizona.
Frank Francisco, RHP - placed on the 15-day DL (left oblique)
Ramon Ramirez, RHP - activated from the 15-day DL
Impact: The Mets will look to Bobby Parnell to close games as Francisco will miss some time with a strained left oblique. Francisco has converted 18-of-21 save opportunities for the Mets, albeit with a lousy 4.97 ERA and a pedestrian 1.59 WHIP. Parnell has closer's stuff, averaging in the mid-90s with his fastball. However, he has shown a tendency to give up too many hits throughout his major league career, so fantasy owners should be realistic with expectations. Ramirez returns to his middle-relief role after missing a few weeks with a strained right hamstring, sporting a 4.78 ERA through 22 games.
Chase Utley, 2B - activated from the 15-day DL
Michael Martinez, IF - optioned to Triple-A Lehigh Valley
Impact: Utley's 2012 season is starting very late as a result of ongoing knee problems. While he still swings a decent stick when healthy (.259, 11 HR, 44 RBI in 103 games last year), he seems to have become a constant injury risk. The once-durable Utley appeared in at least 130 games every year from 2005 to 2009, but has missed 106 games the last two seasons. He's still worth owning in most leagues, but owners do need to keep an eye on his health. Martinez hit just .133 (6-for-45) in 16 games with the Phillies this year and had been serving as the team's regular second baseman after Freddy Galvis went down with a back injury earlier this month.
Colby Lewis, RHP - placed on the 15-day DL (right forearm)
Martin Perez, LHP - recalled from Triple-A Round Rock
Impact: Lewis will be shut down for a couple of weeks with tightness in his right forearm. The move comes after a disastrous start last Saturday against the Rockies when he gave up seven earned runs on 12 hits through just four innings. Scott Feldman will once again be asked to fill in for an injured starter, though his numbers this year have not been impressive. He is 1-6 with a 6.00 ERA through 13 games (eight starts). Fantasy owners in need of pitching help will want to look elsewhere. Perez should work out of the bullpen and isn't likely to be fantasy relevant for most leagues.
Matt Capps, RHP - placed on the 15-day DL (right shoulder)
Tyler Robertson, LHP - recalled from Triple-A Rochester
Impact: Capps will miss at least a couple weeks with inflammation in his right shoulder. The Twins closer has performed well this year, converting 14-of-15 save opportunities with a 3.42 ERA. Glen Perkins and Jared Burton should share the closing duties in Minnesota for the time being. Both pitchers have pitched well this year, so fantasy owners in need of some saves might want to give these guys a look. Robertson will work in relief and isn't a likely candidate for saves at this point.
White Sox
Kevin Youkilis, 3B - acquired with cash from Boston for IF-OF Brent Lillibridge and RHP Zach Stewart
Impact: The White Sox significantly upgraded their offense at third base as they picked up the veteran Youkilis from the Red Sox. "Youk" was off to a slow start with Boston this year, as he hit just .233 with four home runs and 14 RBI in 42 games. His playing time was reduced in Boston as a result of the emergence of Will Middlebrooks, and his numbers should improve considerably in Chicago as he returns to a full-time role. The White Sox have primarily used Brent Morel and Orlando Hudson at third base this year, and the pair has combined for a .174 average (35-for-201) with just one home run and 16 RBI entering the week. Lillibridge can be used almost anywhere, but figures to see most of his playing time in the outfield as several of Boston's outfielders are on the DL. He hit .175 with no home runs and two RBI while with the White Sox. Stewart reports to Triple-A Pawtucket after going 1-2 with a 6.00 ERA in 18 appearances for Chicago.
CC Sabathia, LHP - placed on the 15-day DL (left groin)
Andy Pettitte, LHP - placed on the 60-day DL (left ankle)
Ryota Igarashi, RHP - recalled from Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre
Adam Warren, RHP - recalled from Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre
Impact: It was a rough day for the Yankees on Wednesday as they lost two starters to injury. Sabathia's injury isn't too serious, as he's expected to miss just two weeks with a strained left groin. However, Andy Pettitte was hit by a line drive and will be out for at least a couple of months with a fractured left ankle. The two vacant rotation spots will go to Freddy Garcia and Adam Warren, and whoever performs better will likely stick around once Sabathia returns. Garcia has made 14 appearances (four starts) through Wednesday and is sporting an ugly 6.39 ERA. Warren is 5-5 with a 3.86 ERA through 15 starts at Triple-A. He has given up 99 hits in just 86.1 innings, making him a risky fantasy option.


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Twin Cities office security guards threaten to strike, Minnesota schools could take a hit if federal budget cuts kick in this week, and we take a look at whether the Mayo Clinic can bring in enough cash to finance its planned $6 billion expansion.
SECURITY GUARD STRIKE: Nearly two months after their contract expired, 2,500 security guards in the Twin Cities metro area say they'll hold a one-day strike this week. The guards want more full-time jobs and affordable health care.
MAYO EXPANSION: Mayo Clinic wants to invest billions of dollars of its own money, and have taxpayers pitch in as well, on a project aimed at bolstering the medical center's position as a world destination for health care. But does it have the money needed to pull off its portion of the deal.
MAYO AND VIKINGS: The Mayo Clinic's request for taxpayer help to expand is drawing comparisons to the Vikings' bid for a new football stadium. In dollar terms, they're about in the same league. The Vikings are expected to get a $498 million boost from state and city taxpayers. The Mayo Clinic wants $500 million to bolster its $3.5 billion expansion in Rochester.
SEQUESTER HIT: The White House says Minnesota would lose about $7 million for primary and secondary education, putting about 100 teacher and aide jobs at risk, as part of the budget cuts that could take place if the so-called sequestration process comes to pass this week in Washington.
WHAT WOULD SEQUESTRATION MEAN? The politics of sequestration have been fierce, the finger-pointing incessant. And to no one's surprise, what was designed as a way out of one Washington standoff has produced another one -- and more. Bellowing and blame aside, what really would happen across the country if, as expected, President Barack Obama and congressional lawmakers allow the nation to blow past the deadline? Here's a set of possibilities.
PACKING CAPITOL HEAT: On Friday, gun rights activists again came out in force for the second day of the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing. Most of them didn't wear their guns openly. But others did. Between Jan. 18 and Feb. 22, 150 people notified the Minnesota Department of Public Safety of their intent to carry their weapons on the state Capitol complex. By contrast, only 56 such notifications were filed in all of 2012.
RED WING MAYOR STEPS DOWN: The mayor of Red Wing is stepping down after being criticized for taking a job with a lobbyist group for the frac sand industry. Mayor Dennis Egan had said his job as executive director of the Minnesota Industrial Sand Council was not a conflict of interest, but several members of the Red Wing City Council objected; Red Wing is one of a number of Minnesota communities where silica sand mining has become a contentious issue.
MINIMUM WAGE: Committees in the Minnesota House and Senate will hold hearings this week on raising the state's minimum wage. A bill in the Senate would raise the minimum wage for large employers from $6.15 an hour to $7.50 an hour. A House bill would increase the minimum wage for large employers to $8.35 an hour this year, $9.45 next year and $10.55 an hour in 2015.
SEX OFFENDERS: Civil liberties advocates and others have long criticized Minnesota for indefinitely holding in secure facilities sex offenders who have served their time in prison, but whom county prosecutors and judges think may commit crimes again. Last year state officials acknowledged the Minnesota Sex Offender Program needs to find a way to release offenders once they have been rehabilitated. They formed a task force that has held hearings to determine how to change the program. But a DHS report to the legislature shows that local officials continue to funnel sex offenders into the program.
HORSE MEAT: Swedish furniture giant Ikea, which operates a store near the Mall of America, was drawn into Europe's widening food labeling scandal Monday as authorities said they had detected horse meat in frozen meatballs labeled as beef and pork and sold in 13 countries across the continent.
CRIME LAB: A judge has granted a defense request to reopen the hearing that exposed shoddy work by the St. Paul police crime lab. The decision by Dakota County Judge Kathryn Messerich adds yet another layer of uncertainty to the pending review of thousands of past drug convictions based on evidence tested at the St. Paul lab.
UNCLE SAM MAY WANT LADIES, TOO: Tennnnnn-hut, ladies! The next time Uncle Sam comes calling, he's probably going to want you, too. The Obama administration's recent decision to lift the ban on women in combat has opened the door for a change in the law that currently compels only men between age 18 and 25 to register for a military draft, according to legal experts and military historians.
HEART HEALTH: Pour on the olive oil, preferably over fish and vegetables: One of the longest and most scientific tests of a Mediterranean diet suggests this style of eating can cut the chance of suffering heart-related problems, especially strokes, in older people at high risk of them.The study lasted five years and involved about 7,500 people in Spain.
BEST BUY: Time is running out for Best Buy founder Richard Schulze to make a bid this month for the struggling retailer. He's been trying for months to line up investors and lenders to help him buy the company and take it private.
ICE INSTRUMENTS: Ice drums. Ice horns. An iceophone. These are just some of the instruments Norwegian musician Terje Isungset will bring to the Cedar Cultural Center stage in Minneapolis, Minn., on February 25, 2103. We have a photo gallery of the ice carver and his assistants preparing for the show.

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QPR boss Harry Redknapp favourite to succeed Big Sam at West Ham [Star & Express]
Sam Allardyce is under ever-increasing pressure at West Ham following their embarrassing 5-0 FA Cup defeat at the hands of Champions side Nottingham Forest.
The poor display echoed their form in the Premier League, with the East London club currently sitting 19th.
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Stimulus status check
"I get a fair amount of calls from people asking, 'How can I get some of that stimulus money?'" said Executive Director of the Pierce County Economic Development Corporation Bill Warner.
It seems the buzz word of the year so far is "stimulus." It's actually the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act that President Obama signed into action Feb. 17.
Individuals, businesses, government entities, and private, public and non-profit institutions all seem to be scrambling to figure out where they fit into the stimulus package puzzle.
Answers don't come easily to the question of where, to whom and how funds will be distributed. Warner attended a meeting held in Pierce County two weeks ago Monday and was called by County Board Chairman Paul Barkla.
Warner's working to digest and categorize the information he's gathered about the stimulus package. He has a list of different programs that runs 70 pages and a 16-page matrix that summarizes the 70-page document.
Warner organized the information by program user and money source as well as what form it would take -- grant, loan, deduction or otherwise. His goal is to reference key words, like weatherization for example, when people call asking about recovery dollars. That way, he can quickly access information about, for example, a tax credit for homeowners and landlords of low-to-moderately priced housing who improve energy efficiency.
"There's a whole list of programs in the stimulus package," Warner said. "They're increasing the pool of eligible individuals."
In his observations, it seems most programs aren't new. Many stimulus dollars go toward enhancement of existing services using existing personnel. For example, the Community Development Block Grant program has been around a while and will get stimulus dollars.
CDBG funds programs like affordable housing, anti-poverty programs and infrastructure development. Unlike many federal grants, state or local government administers them.
He said entities at both the state and federal level will disburse funds and it pays to know which one will administer the program. He advises not just being ready to demonstrate a need for the money but specifically what it will be used to do.
"Everything at this point is rather speculative," said Warner.
He said the dollars could apply to business, technical colleges, energy conservation, individuals, many different forms of government, non-profit entities and the list goes on.
Warner's been using the state's website for his primary source of information. He's asked the 30+ federal agencies involved to add him to their mailing lists.
Warner said one online source leads to another and, "You can literally end up with dozens of helpful websites."
For businesses interested in stimulus dollars, the feds advise getting a Data Universal Numbering System (DUNS) number, then registering in the federal government's registry.
Warner's early research revealed that Pierce County gets counted out of some programs because it doesn't meet some programs' density requirements and because some money goes only to distressed counties.
He thinks most of the individual benefits coming from the stimulus will happen automatically through the IRS and suggests: "The bottom line on all of these is talk to your tax advisor."
The director said applicants should also consider the documentation and requirements attached to stimulus funding, including but not limited to conducting audits, documenting contractor opportunity, detailing the project, etc. The information also gets posted to the recovery website.
"If you get a project funded through the recovery act, you will have to provide and document all kinds of information," said Warner. "You're going to have to put everything out for everyone else to see."
He said some people may decide the money isn't worth meeting the many requirements.
Warner acknowledges people's healthy skepticism that, "...there won't be a lot out there for us," but he still encourages people to pursue any stimulus funding they think they can get.
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Executive Director of the St. Croix EDC, Bill Rubin, said he hasn't had a ton of calls, adding, "Nobody should be alarmed that no (local) projects got on the list...This was fundamentally the first wave of projects, with more to come."
Rubin said the big, multi-million-dollar projects seem to be getting the first wave of funds. He read in a Wisconsin newspaper that the highway from Milwaukee to the Illinois border would see "a lot of money" but said a couple of Hwy. 64 projects near New Richmond also have a chance.
He said the West Central Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission asked in fall 2008 for cities, towns and villages to submit their project ideas. As discussed in a recent City Council meeting, the projects submitted had to have the potential of being "shovel ready" by July 1.
Rubin said he's been talking often with Jerry Chasteen, a WCWRPC director for a seven-county service area. He said Chasteen is well aligned with the feds through the Economic Development Administration. His advice to people like Rubin: "Cast your nets widely."
Rubin said projects getting the money usually have a clear history and can proceed easily. He also refers to the state's website as well as the governor's and that of many agencies'.
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Rubin usually attends the River Falls EDC meetings as a guest and said that group reviewed River Falls' list before it was submitted to the WCWRCP.
As reported in last week's Journal, River Falls submitted the idea of water/sewer/roadway in the upper portion of Whitetail Ridge Corporate Park. The council delayed the decision of whether to proceed with preliminary engineering of that site, partially because it learned that River Falls should not count on stimulus dollars (for the project).
According to River Falls Municipal Utilities General Manager Carl Gaulke, the list also included another well and booster pump station the city needs.
City Planner and Forester Tony Steiner said he applied this month for a $155,000 grant that would pay for replacement trees, an intern and all the city's "hazard and maintenance pruning" work.
He said River Falls' forestry budget only includes enough to remove dead trees. The stimulus money would go a long way in caring for the city's 5,000+ trees. Steiner had to act fast after requests for applications came through the DNR from the U.S. Forest Service.
"Normally you have several months to put your grant proposal together," he said.
In this case, he prepared it in less than a day. He heard that USFS received 94 requests for forestry dollars from Wisconsin's section of the United States.
Steiner says if River Falls happens to get the money, it will be the biggest and quickest grant process he's ever handled.
"I haven't heard back on anything," he said.


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Mario, with his brother, as the series name suggests, is the star of the series. When there is trouble, Mario attempts to solve the problem as quickly as he can, dragging Luigi alongside him. In this series, Mario is a very famous and popular hero, being well-known in various lands. As in most Mario games, Mario is a silent protagonist, but he communicates by body movements and speaking in Italian-sounding gibberish.
Luigi is Mario's younger, lesser-known brother. He often gets dragged into adventures beyond his will. Luigi is more cowardly and more hesitant than Mario, but he is willing to help solve any trouble that has arisen. Luigi's clumsy antics are usually comic relief, but it can be sometimes dangerous, including when he left Baby Luigi alone to Petey Piranha in Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time. Luigi does not speak either in this game, communicating similarly to Mario; only in Dream Team do Luigi's thoughts take the form of words, and this happens only in Dream's Deep and whenever he becomes a giant. - mariowiki


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The Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University and the Prado Museum in Spain have signed a three-year partnership to include loans of major paintings and scholar exchanges.
The Meadows, one of the largest and most comprehensive collections of Spanish art outside the Prado, will display the first high-profile loan from the Spanish museum starting in September: El Greco's monumental Pentecost. Two exhibitions will be mounted along with it: one a sampling of contemporary work responding to iconic Spanish art, the other an exploration of religious influences on El Greco's style and subject matter.
Next year, the Prado, located in Madrid, will lend Jusepe de Ribera's Mary Magdalene, followed in 2012 by Diego Velázquez' full-length portrait of Philip IV.
In connection with each loan, the Meadows Museum will produce a bilingual publication presenting multidisciplinary research, and it will organize symposiums and educational programs with national and international scholars.
The partnership will also provide an annual postgraduate fellowship for an American scholar to spend 10 months working at the Meadows and two months at the Prado. The Prado annually will select a European scholar to spend two weeks at the Meadows. This will be the Prado's first internship arrangement with a foreign institution.
Discussions on a partnership began two years ago, according to Meadows Museum director Mark Roglán.
"First we talked about an 'ambassador loan,' " Roglán said, "a masterwork from the Prado, to come to Dallas. Since we share missions in many different ways, the project grew to include a bilingual publication, an interdisciplinary study of these master paintings from the Prado collection.
"The Prado has incredible scholars in art history and art conservation. At SMU we have so much richness across campus, from theology to literature to engineering. This was a way to tap into the minds and other thinkers outside the art-history world. We'll see that in the publication. The icing on the cake is the fellowships."
Established with Spanish art collected by Dallas oilman and philanthropist Algur H. Meadows, the Meadows Museum opened to the public in 1965 in SMU's new Owen Fine Arts Center. When Meadows learned that much of the collection had been falsely attributed, he gave the museum $1 million to replace the questionable works, and the Meadows Foundation has continued to fund new acquisitions. The museum moved to its own building on the south end of the university campus in 2001.
The Prado, one of Spain's premier art museums, was founded by King Ferdinand VII in 1819. In 2007 it opened a major new addition designed by Spanish architect Rafael Moneo.


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By JOHN F. BURNS, Special to The New York Times
Published: February 11, 1990
CAPE TOWN, Feb. 10— President F. W. de Klerk announced today that Nelson Mandela would be released from a prison outside Cape Town on Sunday afternoon, ending 27 and a half years of imprisonment for South Africa's most celebrated black leader.
Saying the release ''will bring us to the end of a long chapter,'' Mr. de Klerk coupled his announcement with an appeal to the 71-year-old black leader to help steer the country toward a negotiated political settlement between whites and blacks.
His plea underscored the extraordinary influence that Mr. Mandela has exerted while serving a life sentence for conspiracy to overthrow the Government and sabotage. Although he has spent more than half his adult life in jail, Mr. Mandela will emerge in a position that many South Africans have equated with that of Mr. de Klerk, the country's head of state.
Uncontested Leader of Majority
When he walks out of prison, as he has evidently insisted on doing in rejecting more elaborate Government proposals for the release, Mr. Mandela will do so as the virtually uncontested leader of millions of South African blacks.
This position, owed partly to his resolute refusal to compromise with the Government during his imprisonment and partly to a powerful personality that even Government leaders have acknowledged, was achieved even though ordinary South Africans have not heard his voice in a generation. Until tonight, when the Government released a photograph of him meeting on Friday with Mr. de Klerk, they had not even seen what Mr. Mandela looked like since the last published photograph was taken in a prison garden in 1968.
Mr. de Klerk smiled frequently as he made the announcement, showing no effects from the angry attacks leveled by white conservatives since he told Parliament eight days ago that the Government would release Mr. Mandela and lift its ban on the African National Congress. [A transcript of Mr. de Klerk's news conference appears on page 16.] Urges a 'Dignified' Release He began by reading a brief statement outlining the Government's decision to end the life term imposed on Mr. Mandela in the so-called Rivonia Trial. The sentence was handed down when the black leader was already serving a five-year term for a previous conviction.
''I am now in a position to announce that Mr. Nelson Mandela will be released at the Victor Verster Prison on Sunday, Feb. 11, 1990, at about 3 o' clock,'' President de Klerk said. He added, ''We would all like Mr. Mandela's release to take place in a dignified and orderly manner.''
The white leader said he had informed Mr. Mandela of his impending release at a meeting on Friday evening in Cape Town. Mr. de Klerk gave no indication of Mr. Mandela's reaction. Asked about the black leader's plans after leaving prison, he said he preferred not ''to speak on behalf of Mr. Mandela,'' and that Mr. Mandela could make his own statement on Sunday.
Mr. de Klerk also said that the national state of emergency declared in July 1986 could be lifted soon if there was no upsurge of unrest. He voiced a willingness to negotiate the possible release of remaining political prisoners.
In recent talks with the Government, Mr. Mandela has demanded freedom for all political prisoners and an end to the state of emergency.
Rejoicing in Black Areas
The announcement of the release set off immediate rejoicing in black areas around the country. In Soweto, a black satellite city outside Johannesburg, Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu, southern Africa's Anglican primate and a Nobel Peace Prize winner, emerged from a meeting with Mr. Mandela's wife, Winnie, jumped in the air and shouted ''Hoorah!'' Speaking later in Johannesburg, Archbishop Tutu said Mr. de Klerk's decision was ''mind boggling'' and added: ''F. W., you have done well. We want to congratulate you for the things you have done and the things you are going to do.''
White conservatives reacted with dismay. Jakobus van der Merwe, the parliamentary spokesman for the opposition Conservative Party, which has challenged Mr. de Klerk to hold a white referendum on his reform program, said: ''It's a joke. Mandela wins by a knockout. De Klerk is being carried away on a stretcher.''
In Pretoria, members of a white neo-Nazi group, the Afrikaner Resistance Movement, chanted ''Hang Mandela!'' as they marched in protest to the Union Buildings, the Government's administrative headquarters.
A personal respect for Mr. Mandela and a hope that he will prove a catalyst in bringing black leaders to the negotiating table was evident throughout Mr. de Klerk's 30-minute news conference at a Government auditorium here. The news conference was broadcast live in many other countries, including the United States, but was recorded and aired only in excerpts later on South Africa's state-owned television..
De Klerk Compliments Mandela
Mr. de Klerk, who was an unknown attorney in a provincial town when Mr. Mandela was sentenced to life in the Rivonia Trial on June 12, 1964, described the black leader as ''friendly,'' ''dignified'' and ''interesting'', terms that would surely have shocked an earlier generation of white leaders who routinely referred to Mr. Mandela as a ''communist'' and a ''terrorist.''


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London - European shares and US debt yields slipped while the euro hovered near one-month highs against the dollar on Friday before non-farm payrolls data that could stoke concerns about a slowdown in the US economy.
Oil prices also edged lower as a protracted slowdown in the the second-biggest energy consumer after China could hit consumer spending, leading to lower fuel use. Brent crude futures fell $1 to $114.52 a barrel. A raft of grim US data this week has already made investors wary about the near-term economic outlook and pushed benchmark 10-year Treasury yields below 3% for the first time since December.
Even as investors weigh whether this signals a soft patch or a prolonged slowdown, markets have begun to come around to the view that government bonds should benefit in the near term as inflationary expectations will be contained.
Brushing aside Thursday's warning from ratings agency Moody's that the risk of a US debt default was small but rising, 10-year Treasury debt prices rose, with yields about two basis points down at 3.013% from late US trade on Thursday.
"We've seen some fairly poor economic data recently and this is why we have these lower rates at the moment. Markets are bracing for the worst," said Rabobank strategist Philip Marey.
"If there's an upward surprise (from payrolls) it could have a strong upward impact on yields ...
"But I wonder how much lower they can go if it's a downward surprise, because markets are positioned for lower figures (than consensus). They could maybe reach 2.95% if there's another disappointment in the data."
German government bonds diverged from Treasuries, with the 10-year Bund yield up 3.5 bps at 3.019% as euro zone officials appeared close to agreeing a second bailout for debt-laden Greece, though losses could be capped by the US jobs report.
Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou and the chair of euro zone finance ministers, Jean-Claude Juncker, are expected to meet mid-afternoon to discuss fresh austerity measures. Markets are also awaiting the conclusions of an EU, IMF and ECB mission assessing whether the country has met fiscal targets.
Anticipating a US weak jobs reading at 1230 GMT, analysts have cut their forecasts on non-farm payrolls growth to 150 000 from 180 000, according to a Reuters poll.
A weak number may weigh further on the dollar but traders said the euro could struggle to make gains much beyond its earlier one-month high of $1.4518, citing offers around that high and more ahead of an options barrier at $1.4550.
The euro was steady on the day at $1.4490.
Against a basket of currencies, the dollar held steady at 74.33, having hit a one-month low of 74.209 earlier on Friday with market players increasingly wary of a pullback.
"The data is likely to continue to point at a soft patch in the US economy and could lead to a risk-off scenario that would imply dollar weakness against the Swiss franc and yen and strengthening against the Aussie, Canadian dollar and sterling," said Jeremy Stretch, currency analyst at CIBC.
"The reality is that the market is expecting jobs growth of around 100-120 000 and a reading of 150 000 could see some temporary easing of the depression surrounding the recovery scenario".
A weak reading on payrolls could further dent demand for risky assets as the Federal Reserve prepares to wind up its $600bn bond purchase programme this month and US policymakers appear reluctant to offer more support to the ailing economy.
US stock futures point to a lower open on Wall Street, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average , Standard & Poor's 500 and Nasdaq composite seen down around 0.3%.
The pan-European FTSEurofirst 300 index fell 0.4%, after shedding 1.3% in the previous session to its lowest close in six weeks, as the US economic recovery looked shakier. World stocks as measured by MSCI were 0.1% lower.
Credit Suisse strategists say the end of the asset-buying programme could be "a tactical headwind for trades that have benefited from extremely low real rates and now have expensive valuation".
Those trades are high leverage stocks, high dividend yield stocks, US equities, gold and short U.S. dollar, they say in a note.
Spot gold was last bid at $1 525.44 a troy ounce from $1 532.55 late on Thursday in New York, with traders saying a poor jobs figure could see it pushing back towards the record high of $1 575.79 it hit on May 2.


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Equilibrium in a Dynamic Limit Order Market
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- Author(s): RONALD L. GOETTLER, CHRISTINE A. PARLOUR, UDAY RAJAN
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We model a dynamic limit order market as a stochastic sequential game with rational traders. Since the model is analytically intractable, we provide an algorithm based on Pakes and McGuire (2001) to find a stationary Markov‐perfect equilibrium. We then generate artificial time series and perform comparative dynamics. Conditional on a transaction, the midpoint of the quoted prices is not a good proxy for the true value. Further, transaction costs paid by market order submitters are negative on average, and negatively correlated with the effective spread. Reducing the tick size is not Pareto improving but increases total investor surplus.


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In the past decade, home buyers have paid the government £32bn in stamp duty, with the annual amount rising dramatically as the housing market soared and increasing numbers of properties were caught by the tax.
According to the Halifax, just over a quarter of the privately-owned homes in the UK, more than 5.5m, were valued above £250,000 at the end of last year, the threshold at which stamp duty is levied at 3% of the property's value. In 2002, there were just 1.8m properties valued above £250,000.
A family buying the average-priced home in Greater London, currently £291,500, would pay the Treasury £8,745 in tax.
The government has enjoyed a large increase in revenue from stamp duty since Labour came to power in 1997. That year, the yield from residential properties was just £675m. Increases in the rate of tax combined with the impact of rising house prices meant the Treasury collected £6.4bn from stamp duty on homes last year. However, that figure will fall dramatically this year as the housing market has hit a wall and the number of transactions has plummeted to record lows.
Under the current regime, there are four stamp duty bands. Buyers of homes worth less than £125,000 pay nothing. Between £125,000 and £250,000, buyers pay 1% on the price of the home; between £250,000 and £500,000, buyers pay 3% of the price; and above £500,000, they pay 4%. There were 1m properties in the UK valued at more than £500,000 at the end of last year, a threefold increase in the past five years, according to the Halifax.
Consumer groups, mortgage lenders and house builders have lobbied for the lifting of the current thresholds to keep them in line with rising house prices, and those calls have become louder as the housing market has been paralysed by the credit crunch. First-time buyers are under particular pressure as the banks' lending criteria have become tougher and they are being forced to find much larger deposits.
If the higher stamp duty thresholds of £250,000 and £500,000 had increased in line with house price inflation since July 1997 when they were introduced, they would now stand at £720,000 and £1.44m, the Halifax said.
If the chancellor goes ahead with either a deferment or tax holiday, it would not be the first time that stamp duty has been temporarily suspended to get the housing market moving again and, opponents might suggest, to score political points during desperate times. Stamp duty on properties under £250,000 was suspended temporarily for nine months in 1991-92 by the Conservative chancellor Norman Lamont in an attempt to thaw out the housing market ahead of the general election.
Under the Conservatives, there was a flat rate of 1% in stamp duty, payable on properties valued at more than £60,000.
Economists and industry bodies suggested that a stamp duty holiday would help the housing market but stressed that additional measures were still needed. Howard Archer, an economist at Global Insight, said any temporary scrapping or deferment of the tax would have only a "limited" impact on the housing market. "The problems relating to affordability and tight lending conditions run pretty deep," he said. "Probably the main help it would provide is in helping first-time buyers coming up with the deposit they need to buy a house."
He also questioned the impact on government finances. "They are in such a mess at the moment, you wonder if they can afford it," he said.
A spokesman for the Council of Mortgage Lenders welcomed a possible reform of the tax. "In a weakening housing market, stamp duty acts as a material disincentive to moving and reforms would help first-time buyers and the wider housing market." But he said the move failed to address the lack of mortgage financing available. "Removing stamp duty only addresses buyer confidence, not the wider problems in the financial markets."
A recent analysis by the Halifax illustrates the increasing burden of stamp duty on home buyers. Across the UK, home buyers last year paid average stamp duty of £1,971, representing 7% of average full time earnings. In 2002, the average stamp duty bill was £1,211, the equivalent of 5% of earnings in that year.
In 2000, the government raised the rate of tax for the £250,000-plus band from 1.5% to the current 3%, while for the £500,000-plus threshold, the levy was doubled from 2% to 4%. The Treasury has moved to ease the burden on lower-income families, raising the lowest level of stamp duty from £60,000 to £120,000 in the 2005 budget. The threshold was raised again to £125,000 a year later.


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Turkish Delight recipe?
Can someone point me in the right direction for a turkish delight recipe please? I've used the search thingy and it came up with a couple of threads that mention turkish delight, and what looks like a link under the actual words, but the link seems dead
Or it could be I'm a bit thick.
I noticed that there are two recipes in the recipe database, any use?
not that I've ever tried to make it, as I can't stand the stuff
Try Googling with "Lokum" and "recipe". That brings up loads - some with gelatine and some without. I've never made it, so I can't recommend a particular recipe.
Let us know how you get on, though. I love Turkish Delight!
I've made it twice following Hughs recipe from the RC Family Cookbook and it tastes really nice but when I coat it in icing sugar it soaks it all up and goes into a stick wet mess
I would post the recipe buit it would take me hours with my typing skills...........
This was the recipe previously posted...
Great - thanks so much for that folks.
I'll give it a go this weekend and let you know how it goes.
Do beware though, Gareth once made Turkish delight for a banquet we were doing, and left the tray cooling on a very fractionally unevan surface- the stuff 'crept' out of the tray during the course of the night (like a slimy pink slinky) and welded itself to the carpet, we still have a sticky patch a year later
Moral of the story, cool it somewhere very, very flat!
I think it works better if you dust it with cornflour not icing sugar.
Both points duly noted.
Sarah D
The secret is to coat it in a mixture of cornflour and icing sugar - not just one or the other.
I've used this recipe for years with success:
1 lb sugar
1/4 pint water
1 - 2 o powdered gelatine
flavouring - rose water, lemon juice, etc
2 oz icing sugar
1 o cornflour
Put sugar and water in a pan over a gentle heat, stir until dissolved, then boil to a temp of 240F. Dissolve the gelatine in a little water and bring it to the boil, then add it to the syrup, together with the flavouring. Pour into a 6" square tin and leave to set.
Dip tin into hot water and turn out on to paper spread thickly with icing sugar/cornflour. Coat well, then cut into squares with a knife dipped into hot water. Roll each square until completely coated. Pack in greasproof paper in a tin.
I'll try that next time, Or I might just dip the squares in melted chocolate and leave to set
Well, I had a go at making it over the weekend and it worked *is smug* It was a bit softer than I'd expected though and I think I'd use a bit more flavouring than the recipe suggested next time, but apart from that it was fine.
I used the cornflour and icing sugar mix as recommended to coat it in and I had no problems.
It's all very slittery though innit? Not something I'd make often, but it's nice to know I can.
Trying to cut the stuff up though, is like trying to knit fog!
Any pics? I bet quince flavoured TD would be good.
Well done Suz
, I don't think I'll bother with it again, Only made it as the girlfriend kept going on about it and now she want's to make marshmallows!!!!!!
Nope, no pics I'm afraid. I'm getting a digital camera for me 40th birthday at the end of this month though, so next time I make some, I'll take piccys.
I've been trawling the net out of curiosity looking at other recipies, cos I still think the stuff I made was a bit soft. A few recipies seem to advise using cornflour in the actuall mix instead of just for coating, so I might give that a try just to see how it turns out.
I was also wondering if I could use my own rosewater. I make some every year from our climbing rose, the petals are a deep red colour, so the rosewater comes out the same lovely colour, so I was wondering if I could use that as both a flavouring and a colouring. Anyone have any thoughts?
And good luck with the marshmallows Stewy, if you ever do get round to making them, you'll have to share the experience.
The recipe I used uses cornflour and not gelatine and it was still quite soft, It's from HWF River Cottage Family cookbook
Suz wrote:
I was also wondering if I could use my own rosewater. I make some every year from our climbing rose, the petals are a deep red colour, so the rosewater comes out the same lovely colour, so I was wondering if I could use that as both a flavouring and a colouring. Anyone have any thoughts?
I have never made rosewater - how do you go about it, and does it keep til the next year? I assume the flavour is better than commercial stuff too?
Re colouring, what about a couple of/few drops of beetroot juice? It's widely used as a colouring anyway, and I have seen it in a recipe for lip gloss - you'd only need a couple of drops to get the colour, it wouldn't be enough to change the flavour I think.
to make rose water you get loads of roses and distil the essence over.
you need a small still to do it - or you can cobble something together to do it
There are some recipes for rosewater on the internet which recommend puting roses in boiling water and straining off - but these are for cosmetic rosewater -and the result won't keep long and is unsuitable to be used in food or drink.
Well I aint got a still (I wish
) so I just use the boiling and draining method. You're right though, it doesn't keep well, a week at the most in the fridge, which is why I was wondering about using it in TD, to get more use out of it.
At the moment I use it cosmeticly as just plain rosewater, or use it to fill the iron when I'm ironing. I don't use the deep red stuff for that obviously, I use the stuff made from our white roses.
As for not using it for food though, I've been adding it to drinks for ages and never suffered any ill effects.
OK - how to do it without a still.....
put a heatprood bowl in the the middle of a pressure cooker or the big pan - put another smaller bowl or oven proof dish in the middle of that one
you can put both on the trivet in the pan to save them from direct heat
put the roses in the large pan or pressure cooker roudn the edge of the empty bowls in the middle
just cover roses with water
put a wok - or other upside down pan lid over the top of the pan and fill wok with icy cold water
heat pan - and the essences will boil off -condense on base of wok and drip back into small bowl (the double bowl arrangement stops it evapourating off again.
this is in fact functioning as a mini still
it is done about 1/4 or 1/3 of your orignal water has ended up in the small bowl and it smells strongly of roses
after practise you wil know time for set up - but at first you might tned to turn heat off and have a peek every 10 mins to see how it is going !
Try not to let it evapourate off when you got lid open so be quick !! - and get the whole thing snug fitting so you don't loose to much round the edge
oh and don't let it run too long or you will dilute the rose essence which comes off early with too much distilled water
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London Wasps 10-43 Bath, Aviva Premiership, April 23
Biggs bags three as Bath thrash Wasps
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Tom Biggs scored a terrific hat-trick as Bath beat Wasps 43-10 at Twickenham on St George's Day to sustain their slender hopes of breaking into the Premiership play-offs.
The Bath winger showed great finishing flair as well as being the beneficiary of some ruthless attacking rugby from Bath, often prompted by the quick-witted Michael Claassens. The Bath scrum-half set up two of Biggs' tries and created one for Matt Banahan as Bath raced into a 29-3 half-time lead.
The England back, starting his first game at inside centre in the absence of the injured Shontayne Hape, claimed his second try after the break following great play by Sam Vesty, who also contributed 13 points with the boot.
Wasps grabbed a try through scrum-half Joe Simpson but were inferior throughout and it was a harsh lesson on the Twickenham stage for some of their youngsters, who gained such acclaim a week earlier against Leeds.
Fittingly the final word went to Bath with Matt Carraro racing away to score and send their fans back to Bath still dreaming of a play-off place.
With a play-off berth disappearing into the distance after Northampton's victory over London Irish, Bath went chasing the bonus-point victory at full pace. And they got the ideal start with a try after three minutes.
Matt Carraro, playing at No.13, broke through midfield and when the ball was recycled Nick Abendanon exploited space down the blindside and offloaded to Biggs who cut in off his wing and raced under the posts. In the absence of Butch James, who was suffering from a knee injury, Vesty converted. Bath almost had a second try minutes later but some terrific defence from Joe Simpson held the ball up over the line and Claassens also fumbled another chance a metre out following a storming run from Banahan.
Wasps' two schoolboy starters at Twickenham were enjoying and enduring contrasting fortunes with No.8 Billy Vunipola making light of the absence of the suspended Andy Powell, while Elliot Daly spilled a few passes that cost Wasps good possession.
Bath extended their lead in the 23rd minute with a penalty from Vesty after further spritely running from Abendanon and Claassens had put Bath in a great position. Moments later Bath grabbed their second try. Riki Flutey's offload went to ground and Claassens launched the counter attack from his own 22 by releasing Banahan with a long pass wide, and the Bath centre cantered forward before unleashing Biggs on the outside. Vesty converted following Biggs' dot down.
Tom Biggs scored three tries for Wasps © Getty Images
Dave Walder, in his penultimate game for Wasps before his move to Japan, gave Wasps their first points with a penalty after a strong run from hooker Tom Lindsay forced Bath into conceding in front of their posts.
Bath, though, were by far the more threatening side with ball in hand and five minutes before half-time Claassens created a try for Banahan as pierced through a gap off the back of the lineout and released the big centre who cruised over.
Seconds later Bath had their bonus-point try. Once again Claassens spotted the opportunity following a Wasps turnover and the ball went wide to Biggs who showed remarkable quick feet and upper body strength to fend off Richard Haughton race away from the cover to score. Wasps began the second period positively and almost grabbed their first try as Vunipola used his ample frame to barge over the line but the replays revealed that he dropped the ball.
It was a far closer call moments later when the video referee agonised over whether Banahan had spilled the ball as he slid over the line following an audacious break from Vesty. Banahan was awarded his second try, though, and Vesty converted the try that he'd created.
Josh Lewsey came on as a second-half replacement for Wasps and, on his return to the Twickenham turf, showed the kind of power play that made him England regular to create an opening for Daly, but the young fullback kicked the ball too far ahead of him.
But Wasps did cross the line for a try when Simon Shaw charged the ball down and Joe Simpson raced clear to touch down as the game became increasingly frenetic.
Wasps pushed hard to reduce the deficit and the humiliation. But again it was Bath with the superior finishing power and Biggs with the star turn. With five minutes remaining the Bath left wing tip-toed down the flank on half way before somehow chipping ahead for Carraro to collect and accelerate away to score.
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House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) last year launched a committee initiative to update the Communications Act and bring it into the digital age. At a seminar hosted by the Free State Foundation this morning, Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee Ranking Member John Thune (R-SD) and Federal Communications Commission Commissioner Ajit Pai discussed the outdated nature of our current communications laws and expressed support for committee's work toward a #CommActUpdate.
"The original Communications Act was designed for an era of actual communications monopolies; the Telecom Act was designed for the transitional era that took us from monopoly to competition; and now, we need a new policy framework for today's converged, competitive, and Internet-powered world," said Thune. "Modernizing the laws governing the communications and technology sectors is no small task, which is why I am glad my colleagues in the House of Representatives have already begun examining the regulation of the communications industry,"
During the seminar entitled Reforming Communications Policy in the Digital Age: The Path Forward, Thune continued, "There has long been bipartisan consensus that our communications laws are outdated. According to my former colleague Sen. John Kerry, the Telecom Act was 'obsolete' within six months of enactment because it didn't take the Internet into account. It would be a dereliction of duty if Congress did not at least explore whether and how our communications regulations can be modernized."
"The U.S. House of Representatives' Energy and Commerce Committee has launched a multi-year effort to update the Communications Act," added Pai."I applaud this effort, and I hope that it will remove regulatory barriers to infrastructure investment and broadband deployment rather than increasing government regulation of the Internet."
For more on the committee's work toward a #CommActUpdate, click here.


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When an employee approaches you about a religious need that requires accommodation, make sure you consider all the details. Don't rely on a standard response.
Do think of creative ways that will allow the employee to exercise his religion but that won't unduly burden either your operations or other employees.
There are often several ways to accommodate religious needs and practices. When the big question is accommodating a day off every week to observe the Sabbath, be sure to consider several options before rejecting the request. Don't rely on just one possible accommodation. Offer choices when possible.
Recent case: Over several decades, Molbert rose through the ranks at Scotland Manufacturing, eventually becoming one of two specialty workers, one of whom was always required to be on hand.
When business boomed, the steel maker went from running a single shift per day to a 24-hour operation. In Molbert's department, employees had to work one of two weekly schedules: either 10 hours per day Monday through Thursday, or 12 hours per day Friday through Sunday.
Molbert had never worked on Sundays; he told his supervisors that his religion forbade it. When the new shift schedule was implemented, he was on the Monday-through-Thursday shift. After three months, however, the company decided to rotate the shifts so employees worked the 10-hour schedule one week and the 12-hour schedule the next. That meant Molbert was scheduled to work every other Sunday.
He complained, again explaining his religious accommodation needs. Scotland Manufacturing said he could use vacation days to take scheduled Sundays off, but insisted no other accommodation was feasible. Molbert was fired for refusing to work Sundays.
He sued, alleging failure to accommodate his religious beliefs. The company countered that it had already offered a reasonable accommodation—using vacation time.
The court said the company had to do better. It couldn't merely offer vacation time as the only option, but should have considered other accommodations like voluntary shift changes, using additional time off (such as personal days) and seeing whether it was at all feasible for Molbert to work only the weekday shift. For example, the court said the company could have asked the other employee if he minded permanently working the Sunday shifts. The case will go to trial. (Jacobs v. Scotland Manufacturing, No. 1:10-CV-814, MD NC, 2012)


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