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Medusa Juice E-Liquid Review
Price: £2.49 - £7.49Visit Website
Medusa Juice is a premium e-liquid company based in Norfolk, United Kingdom. Since they have over 70 different flavors to choose from, it was virtually impossible for me to review their whole line, as I usually do, so I decided on a handful of them, just to get an idea of the quality they offer.
Most Medusa Juice e-liquids are a 70/30 propylene glycol-vegetable glycerin blend, which makes them compatible with any kind of vaping setup, from basic clearomizers to tanks and rebuildable atomizers. The heavy PG mix also makes the flavor stand out more and ensures a strong throat hit even in low-nicotine juices. On the downside, the high amount of PG could cause some trouble for vapers allergic to it, but that's probably why Medusa juice also offers a small line of 95% VG flavors.
Customers have a choice between 10 ml plastic bottle and 30 ml bottles glass bottles. I received my samples in the plastic containers, but from what I can tell, the glass bottles are much more impressive. Not only do they have a more quality feel tot them, but they also come with a dropper cap that makes refilling a breeze, as well as a cool black vape band that you can use to accessorize your tank.
The plastic bottles are your plain, run-of-the-mill needle bottles. Like the larger glass bottles they feature the Medusa Juice logo and flavor name on the front, while on the back you have the typical nicotine and age restriction warnings, a list of ingredients, nicotine strength, batch number and expiration date. The main drawback of these plastic containers is that the needle is so thin that it actually requires quite a bit of strength to squeeze a few drops of juice through it. This only gets worse when there's only a bit of e-liquid left in the bottle. Hopefully, Medusa Juice will find a better option soon.
Now on to the flavors: Medusa Juice has no less than 11 tobacco juices available, and having been searching for the ultimate tobacco vape ever since I started using e-cigarettes, I couldn't help but try a few of them to see if they're any good.
Euthenya 555 Tobacco – This one really took me back to my early vaping days, when 555 and RY4 were some of the best tobacco flavors available. I remember the 555 from Bloog blew me away with its mild tobacco flavor strong nuttiness, but I hadn't vaped the once popular flavor in a while before this Medusa Juice version. It was just as I remembered. A smokey tobacco with a bold peanut aftertaste, and no artificial aftertaste whatsoever. With the gourmet tobacco juices and Naturally Extracted Tobacco e-liquids all the rage these days, 555 is not as popular as it one was, but for anyone looking for a nutty tobacco, it's still one of the best options.
Caerrus Butterscotch Tobacco – I've tried my share of unique flavor combinations since I started vaping, but Caerrus was my first butterscotch and tobacco blend. I'm a big fan of sweet tobaccos, but for some reason, Caerrus didn't really do it for me. It was just too sweet, so much so that the oungent tobacco was reduced to a barely-there undertone. It works great as a dessert flavor, if that's what you're looking for, but it's definitely not my kind of tobacco.
Hypnos Smooth Virginia – By far the most authentic tobacco flavor of all the Medusa Juice flavors I tried. No addedd sweetness or artificial taste, just the mild taste of gold Virginia tobacco. Don't get the wrong idea though, this won't taste like your favorite brand of tobacco cigarettes. There's no combustion in e-cigs, so the best you can hope for is an accurate taste of Virginia tobacco, cured, but not burned.
From the vast number of Medusa Juice dessert flavors, I opted for two of my favorite sweets – custard and cookie dough.
Achelous Original Custard – One of the sweetest dessert flavors I have ever tried, second only to the Liquideo Think Freud. I have a sweet tooth, though, so for me this was a true dessert vape. The smell alone made my mouth water, but the taste actually exceeded my expectations – Achelous actually tastes like creamy home-made vanilla custard (no pie, though). Its sweetness probably makes this juice a great alternative for actual desserts if you're watching your weight, but it also makes it a poor choice for an all-day vape.
Matton Cookie Dough – Another great dessert vape, one that actually feels "like you are licking the spoon from a freshly made batch" of chocolate chip cookie dough, just like the description on the Medusa Juice website mentions. And yes, you can actually taste the chocolate! I would go as far as to put Matton on par with gourmet cookie flavors, like Miss Samoa from Fa-Q Vapes, only this one's actually twice as cheap.
Finally, from the Medusa Juice drinks range, I went for the Absinthe, a spirit I have yet to try. So yeah, I was in for a surprise.
Dionysus Absinthe – The smell of this crazy concoction is so strong it could probably clear a stuffy nose. Anise is definitely the strongest note in this juice, but I also detected some herbs as well, although I couldn't tell you what they were. The Medusa Juice recipe for Dionysus Absinthe is apparently a secret, but they do list anise and wormwood as two of the ingredients, juts so you can get an idea of what it tastes like. It wasn't my cup of tea, to be honest, the anise was way too strong for my liking, but this is just a personal opinion. But if you like the drink, I suggest you give it a try.
I was pretty pleased with the Medusa Juice e-liquids I tried. Some were better than others, obviously, but ultimately that's a matter of taste. What is important is that overall, the juice was of good quality, especially for the relatively low price the company charges. You can get a 10 ml bottle for £2.49 ($3.77) and a 30 ml bottle for £7.49 ($11.33). That's a lot cheaper than most premium juice costs these days, so if you get the chance, be sure to give these guys a try.
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says:K roberts
Very good and very fast delivery will try some more soon thanks very much


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Bethesda's immensely popular Fallout 4 has its first major expansion, as Far Harbor is available today for PS4, Xbox One and PC. This expansion is the largest of the DLC packs to this point and is comparable in size to the Shivering Isles expansion for Oblivion.
A new case from Valentine's Detective Agency leads you on a search for a young woman and a secret colony of synths. Travel off the coast of Maine to the mysterious island of Far Harbor, where higher levels of radiation have created a more feral world. Navigate through the growing conflict between the synths, the Children of Atom, and the local townspeople. Will you work towards bringing peace to Far Harbor, and at what cost? Far Harbor features the largest landmass for an add-on that we've ever created, filled with new faction quests, settlements, lethal creatures and dungeons. Become more powerful with new, higher-level armor and weapons. The choices are all yours.
The only prerequisite for accessing this DLC is to complete the Quest Getting a Clue, You will accept a missing persons case from Ellie which will trigger Far From Home, the first of the Far Harbor Quests. You may consider bringing Nick Valentine along for the ride, as his unique connection to the case presents some interesting dialogue options.
As expected there is a bevy of new content to explore. There are more than 20 new Locations on The Island, including the featured town Far Harbor. People in search of new gear will not be disappointed as some special unique weapons have been added, such as the powerful Admiral's Friend, which is a unique version of the new Harpoon Gun and some new melee options such as The Fish Catcher, which should give gun nuts a reason to try something a little more up close and personal.
The compelling new story line brings a brand new atmosphere to the setting of Fallout 4 and should give fans of the franchise a reason to take to the high seas. Will you be playing it this weekend? Let us know your thoughts in the comments!
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Why You Need to Select the Perfect Theater to Enjoy the Bloody Mayhem of 'Cheap Thrills'
It's so much better than video on demand.
By Matt Patches
Because we live in the future where movies pre-empt their releases by popping up on Time Warner Cable or Comcast's "On Demand" platforms, I, like many others, was able to watch Cheap Thrills from the comfort of my own home. I regret the decision.
Cheap Thrills is the aggressive, provocative, and wickedly comic debut from E.L. Katz, a writer-producer who made a name for himself with genre-bending films like Autopsy, A Horrible Way to Die, and The Aggression Scale. The film spirals a simple idea into every imaginable direction: After reuniting by happenstance at a bar, strapped-for-cash family man Craig (Pat Healy) and townie burnout Vince (Ethan Embry) find themselves competing for cash in a series of ridiculous, violent stunts orchestrated by married couple Colin and Violet (David Koechner and Sara Paxton). It's Violet's birthday, and all she wants from Colin is to watch two grown men destroy themselves in a fit of greed. Colin's happy to oblige, starting small (whoever kicks back a shot of tequila first wins!) and escalating to horrific extremes (how much would it cost for you to cut off your pinky finger?).
And that's really it. Katz methodically plots each turn, slowly cranking up the dial to make each dare more and more excruciating and irresistible. The audience is part of the game. Would you do this? Would you do that?
There's a chance of checking out of Cheap Thrills. If one's tolerance for twisted torture is low, a scene where Craig takes a dump on Colin's neighbor's kitchen floor will be an early breaking point. If you're watching Katz's film at home, which expands from Cable VOD to iTunes, Amazon, YouTube and the like on March 21, someone with a distaste for the madness can easily walk away. Or worse, half-watch while futzing on a laptop, not considering the film until the screeching screams of the two lead characters demands attention. VOD allows us to enjoy movies without the risk of an awful theatrical experience. It also discourages what I think makes a movie like Cheap Thrills work: A rowdy, carefree, drunk-off-their-ass audience ready to gaze upon humanity's dark side.
A movie is shaped by its audience. If the first time you saw Eternal Sunshine was alone, weeks after a traumatic breakup, it's going to play a little differently than Thursday night after work with a crowd of 20 local cinephiles. I thank my lucky stars I saw The Sixth Sense opening weekend in a packed house — you weren't hearing gasps like that months later on home video, no matter who was watching it for the first time. Likewise, Cheap Thrills is a film that demands community.
I felt a void watching the movie at home with my girlfriend; the thriller/psychological horror/comedy/whatever-the-hell-this-beast-can-be-called blew the minds of audiences at the 2013 South by Southwest. Festivals nurture collective enthusiasm – it's easy to imagine Cheap Thrills' sick sense of humor shocking one audience member and the rest fell like dominoes. The fact that SXSW's theaters serve up beer with their premieres didn't hurt. Cheap Thrills played games with their expectations. "Maybe the stranger to my right would punch me in the nose for $100?" That's an exhilarating notion. Rave SXSW reviews emerged from folks with a whetted appetite for "anything goes" entertainment. A night in watching the latest VOD rental has a decidedly different atmosphere.
Consumers and culture critics alike have signaled the death knell of the theatrical experience. "Why go to the theater when there's VOD/Netflix/iTunes/bit torrent/bootleg copies you bought on the subway?" entertainment philosophers ponder. What's missing is a proactive consideration for the movie theaters in a given area. There are great ones in every town — even if that means an hour drive. Cheap Thrills is the movie you travel for. Independent theaters or chains that see movie-going as an experience (Landmark, Alamo Drafthouse) foster crowds ready to hand themselves over to the provocations of Katz's demented dare movie. If it's playing a midnight screenings, the percent chance of an enjoyably raucous crowd skyrocket. Hell, it's possible to pull-off at home: A horde of friends, a few six-packs, enough pillows — seriously, when was the last time you had movie night?
Cheap Thrills isn't high art, nor is it a movie everyone can stomach. But it's a ride worth taking, and one I'm looking forward to taking again with unsuspecting comrades.
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VOICES Ideas and Insight From Explorers
WHAT THE RIVER KNOWS: Chaobai River, 潮白河, Beijing, China
Thanks for assistance from Dr. Fei Xue, University of Technology, Beijing, China; and Dr. Changwoo Ahn, George Mason University, and Principal Investigator for the panel, "EcoScience+Art: Interdisciplinary Collaboration Between Ecosystem Science and Art to Enhance Ecological Communication and Resilience," at the International Association of Ecology, Beijing, China, 2017, funded by the National Science Foundation. Photos…
What the River Knows: Saskatchewan Delta at Cumberland House, Canada.
I am the Saskatchewan River, Kisiskâciwani-sîpiy (in the Swampy Cree dialect, traditionally an oral language), and I have created the largest inland freshwater alluvial delta in North America. It covers approximately 3,860 square miles (10,000 square kilometers), larger than the Everglades National Park in Florida, yet I receive little recognition for this treasure, and almost no protection from the human forces that negatively affect me.
WHAT THE RIVER KNOWS: Narmadā River, India
I was born from the sweat of the Hindu Lord Shiva while he was dancing. Or perhaps he was meditating so hard sweat flowed down his body to become my body. Or another legend says that I was formed from the tears of Lord Brahma. From whomever I was birthed, I am sacred, second in sanctity only to the River Ganges. I am like a mother, and am called Narmadā Mai.
WHAT THE RIVER KNOWS: French Broad River, Asheville, North Carolina
According to geologists, I am the third oldest river in the world, with the first and second places going to the River Nile and the New River (Virginia, West Virginia, and North Carolina). As an old-timer my gradient is low with slow erosion, whereas younger cousins flow more quickly, tumbling down to the sea carrying lots of sediment. My waters flow south to north for 218 miles (351 kilometers), and they helped to shape the Appalachian Mountains. I am the French Broad River, named by French settlers in the region centuries ago at a time when I was one of the two broad rivers in western North Carolina.
WHAT THE RIVER KNOWS: Deckers Creek, West Virginia
Photos by Basia Irland unless otherwise noted. Source pond at spring Beginnings of the creek As a tributary of the Monongahela River, which runs through north-central West Virginia, I am only 24.6 miles (39.6 km) in length, with a watershed of 64-square miles. In my upper reaches I flow through some beautiful stretches of land, including…
WHAT THE RIVER KNOWS: Great Miami River, Five Rivers Fountain of Lights, Dayton Ohio
I am the Great Miami River (a tributary of the Ohio River) flowing 160 miles (260 km) through southwestern Ohio and Indiana. My Shawnee name is Msimiyamithiipi. In English I am named for the Miami, an Algonquian speaking tribe. I flow along quite contentedly until I reach the confluence with the Mad River in Dayton, Ohio, where all of a sudden I am drenched from above — moisture on moisture — not by rain, but from water falling from an enormous fountain! Pumped from the local aquifer, water is harnessed into five jets housed in concrete towers surrounding a center geyser.
WHAT THE RIVER KNOWS: Nisqually River, Washington State
Birthed in Mount Rainier National Park, Washington from glacier melt on the southern slope of Mount Rainier, I flow seventy-eight miles into the Billy Frank Jr. Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge and on into Puget Sound, a fast and galloping ride from 14,000 feet down to sea level. I leave the glacier as melt water, with a milky cloudiness made from small particles of rock, minerals, and organic matter picked up and carried in my swift current.
What the River Knows: Amstel River at Amsterdam, Netherlands
Photographs by Basia Irland My name, Amstel, is derived from the old Dutch, Aeme-stelle, which means "water area." In the 13th Century, a small fishing village, Amstelredam, was constructed near my mouth beside a dam. Today we know that town as Amsterdam. As early as the 11th Century, farmers began building dikes to try and…
What the River Knows: Nisqually River, Washington State
Photographs by Basia Irland Birthed in Mount Rainier National Park, Washington from glacier melt on the southern slope of Mount Rainier, I flow seventy-eight miles into the Billy Frank Jr. Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge and on into Puget Sound, a fast and galloping ride from 14,000 feet down to sea level. I leave the glacier…
What the River Knows: Portneuf River, Pocatello, Idaho
Photographs by Basia Irland (unless otherwise noted) I flood. That is what I — and all my cousins — do from time to time. It is part of our rhythm. In their hubris, humans build cities and towns right on our banks, then get upset with us when our waters rise and destroy some of…
What the River Knows: Bagmati River, Nepal
The Bagmati River at Pushupatinath Temple, Katmandu, Nepal
I am clogged with human ash and bits of bone. Garlands of marigolds float on my body as an old monkey watches. I have always borne the remains of the dead, who are taken to the Pashupatinath Temple on my banks near Kathmandu, Nepal, placed on pyres, ignited, and blessed in Hindu ceremonies. The cremated are swept into my murky waters to plod along toward the confluence with the great mother Ganga as I join other tributaries downstream.
What the River Knows: Virgin River, Utah
I flow out of a cave at 9,000 feet elevation near Navajo Lake at Cascade Falls, Utah, descend toward Lake Mead at 1,000 feet, and empty into the Colorado River. The length of the Virgin River is 180 miles, however I am only the 33-mile stretch of the North Fork.
What the River Knows: Yaqui River, Sonora, Mexico
My struggle as a river is interconnected with the struggle of my people, the Yaqui Indigenous Community of Mexico in the Sonoran desert, as I try to provide the ancestral source of water for drinking, everyday use, irrigation, and ceremonial purposes. Together we have had a long and complex history.
What the River Knows: Eagle River, Colorado
In this series, "What the River Knows," by Basia Irland, the artist and water activist writes from the perspective of each river, using the first person. Installments are published in Water Currents at regular intervals. The first post was about the Ping River in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Other posts include the Chao Phraya River, Bangkok; Kamo-gawa River, Kyoto;…
What the River Knows: Kamo River, Japan
In Japanese I am called Kamo-gawa, (kanji compound 鴨川).
Translated from the kanji my name means "wild duck," and "gawa" is river. Not only ducks, but also a large variety of birds wade in my shallow waters in search of their next meal. Herons and egrets wait patiently as they stalk their food.


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Meet the current Councillors, representing the Southland community.
Activities that might affect the environment could require a resource consent from us.
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Get the latest air quality information and monitoring results.
We monitor information about the environment to enable it to be managed for future generations.
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There are many opportunities for the community to participate in our decision-making processes.
The main health risk associated with bathing is posed by disease-causing
microorganisms such as viruses, bacteria and protozoa. Increases in these are
the result from human or animal faecal matter finding its way into water.
major sources are sewage, industrial discharges, and runoff from agricultural
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discharges from boats.
The main health risk associated with bathing is posed by disease-causing microorganisms such as viruses, bacteria and protozoa. Increases in these are the result from human or animal faecal matter finding its way into water. The major sources are sewage, industrial discharges, and runoff from agricultural land. In some areas water quality is also affected by septic tanks and discharges from boats.
During summer (December to March), Environment Southland regularly monitors 13 marine bathing and 7 freshwater bathing sites The bathing water quality is assessed according to concentrations of indicator bacteria which do not cause disease themselves, but signal the potential presence of disease-causing pathogens. A high concentration of the indicator bacteria means that it is more likely that disease-causing organisms are present, and therefore a potentially higher health risk. However, it does not mean that anyone swimming in the water at that time will actually be affected. Councils do not measure the pathogens directly because the technology to do this is cost-effectively or unreliable.
The indicator used depends if it is a freshwater or marine site. In freshwater we measure levels of bacteria known as Escherichia coli (E. coli), whereas we measure enterococci bacteria at marine sites.
Southland's recreational bathing water quality is assessed and reported according to national guidelines set by the Ministry for the Environment and Ministry of Health. Access these guidelines can be accessed on the Ministry for the Environment website.
Environment Southland prepares a monitoring plan for 'Recreational Bathing and Shellfish Gathering Waters in Southland', in collaboration with Public Health South, Southland District Council and Invercargill City Council. The monitoring results automatically go to the health authorities (Public Health South, and the territorial authorities) who are responsible for informing the public of health risks associated with contaminated bathing and shellfish growing waters.
The national guidelines for microbiological water quality categorise recreational bathing sites into a three different 'modes' (green, amber, red) according to the results of indicator bacteria counts. This 'traffic light' approach helps inform the public on whether the water quality of a site is suitable for swimming and other water-based recreational activity.
Check out the latest results from our weekly summer monitoring of Southland's bathing sites on our online maps.
Environment Southland uses two ways of assessing and advising the water quality risks to bathing. These are:
Under certain conditions there is a greater risk of getting sick in the course of recreational water-based activities.
Swimmers can reduce their risk to illness by:
There is potentially a greater risk to those with weakened immunity, such as the very young, and the elderly.
As well as measuring bacteria levels, we allocate a grade to beaches according to the suitability of the water for recreation (Suitability for Recreation Grade, SFRG). The grades are based on faecal contamination risk factors within the catchment (e.g. intensive agricultural use in immediate catchment), and levels of indicator bacteria, based on data that has been collected over time. This grade gives an overview on how safe it is to swim in a particular location. Beaches are graded as: Very Good, Good, Fair, Poor, Very Poor. The risk of becoming sick from swimming at a beach increases as the beach grading shifts from Very Good to Very Poor.
Recreational Waters of SouthlandThis report summarises the results of Environment Southland's 2012/13 microbial monitoring programme, which monitors the public health risk from contact recreation at 11 marine beaches, 13 rivers and lakes, and 8 shellfish gathering sites in the region.
Download the report Recreational Waters of Southland.
Recreational Bathing Survey 2015This report includes the findings from a survey conducted across Southland over the summer of 2015. The survey's aim was to find where people undertake recreational activities, what activities are being carried out, what kai is being collected, what problems are being experienced, and whether the recreational bathing programme is delivering to the public needs.
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Update: Read some of the comments from [self-claiming] parishioners of St. Joseph's and their perspective on this situation.
Did anyone catch this news yesterday? Clearly, not the best publicity for this small Catholic church in Bertha, Minnesota. Again, I want to give some level of benefit to the leadership of that church but something just doesn't seem right with this story.
The church leadership claimed that the autistic boy was extremely disruptive:
"Fr. Walz said Adam struck a child, bolts unexpectedly from church nearly knocking people down, including elderly people. He said Adam also spits and urinates during church."
QUESTION: So, if you were the priest, pastor, or amongst the leadership of that church, what would you have done if you genuinely felt like Adam's presence disrupted the spirit and celebration of worship and communion or posed some sort of harm to the other congregants? Note that this family has been attending this church since 1996.
The priest of the small-town parish fears injuries from the teen's behavior, but autism advocates are rallying behind his parents. The boy's mother says: "I can't discipline him out of his autism, and I think that's what our priest is expecting."
Standing more than six feet tall and weighing more than 225 pounds, 13-year-old Adam Race cuts an imposing figure for his age.
Adam is also severely autistic, and his meltdowns during mass at the Catholic church in Bertha, Minn., have prompted a public battle between the parish priest and Adam's parents.
The Rev. Daniel Walz, disturbed by what he said is Adam's dangerous behavior, filed court papers to bar him from the Church of St. Joseph with a temporary restraining order against his parents. The Races are ignoring the order, which they see as discriminatory, and getting support from advocates for the disabled.
The battle started last summer, according to Adam's mother, Carol Race, when Walz came to the family house along with a church trustee and "made kind of a federal case out of the situation with my son."
The church counters that it "explored and offered many options for accommodations that would assist the family while protecting the safety of parishioners. The family refused those offers of accommodation."
The Races and their five children typically sat in either the church's cry room or in the back pew to avoid disrupting other parishioners since they began attending in 1996, according to Carol Race.
No one had complained to them about Adam until the priest's visit last June, she said.
"He said that we did not discipline our son. He said that our son was physically out of control and a danger to everyone at church," she said. "I can't discipline him out of his autism, and I think that's what our priest is expecting."
The family continued attending mass, she said, trying to calm Adam and leaving during the closing hymn to avoid interacting with other parishioners on the way out.
Months later, after failed attempts to make peace with Walz, the family received a letter asking them to stop bringing Adam to church, Carol said.


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(LOS ANGELES, CA) -- Association of Sites Advocating Child Protection (ASACP) is honored to be included among the Participating Associations for the 7th Annual Digital Coast Holiday Reception; other associations include: Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences, Internet Society, Interactive Television Alliance, Larta Institute, National Association of Record Industry Professionals, the Software Council and Writers Guild of America.
The Digital Coast Roundtable (DCR) is an organization that focuses on the convergence of film, music, media and other industries and technology in the Digital Coast region (San Diego to Santa Barbara). In addition to senior executives, visionaries and leaders who come together to discuss opportunities and challenges and to share solutions, the DCR convenes organizations, associations and guilds to collaborate on events, initiatives and public policy (DigitalCoast.org).
"DCR events facilitate access to other associations, ideas, and the people who are responsible for how the adult industry is portrayed in movies and television. Because of the blurring lines in entertainment, it is important that mainstream companies are aware of how the industry uses technology to protect children and its Best Practices. I first attended DCR when I was the VP of Membership at an association of digital professionals. I found these events to be both educational, and a good way to meet and learn from a variety of people. We are all dealing with similar issues; One of ASACP's goal is to open the lines of communication." Joan Irvine, executive director, ASACP.
The ASACP mission is to help the adult entertainment industry in their ongoing efforts to battle CP on the Internet through its reporting hotline. In addition, ASACP provides a self-regulatory vehicle for its members through a Code of Ethics that promotes the protection of children through responsible, professional business practices (ASACP.org/bestpractices.html).
For further information, visit the ASACP site (ASACP.org) or contact Joan Irvine at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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By Rob Lindquist
PSDC Contributor
As a short-time resident of an Omaha suburb, to me, the dawn of the College World Series means a crowded Old Market and NoDo (local slang for the bar district and the stadium area in the North Downtown area). The streets are bustling, the beer-tents are packed and tourists from around the nation (mainly LSU and Texas fans) are still getting used to the openness of TD Ameritrade Park. Don't get me wrong, the new stadium is great, but something is missing. Something that Rosenblatt had. Nostalgia.
Nostalgia can't be forced, no matter how much ESPN tries. There were some great games played at the Blatt, like the recent Oregon State vs. North Carolina rivalry over two Series in 2006-2007, the LSU domination with five championships between 1991 and 2000 or the Southern Cal teams in the early '70s that I came to hear from the locals. I'm sure over time TD Ameritrade will get there on its own.
The greatest ballparks in the Majors are still the greatest because of their history. Wrigley Field in Chicago is turning 100 this year, and Fenway in Boston is 102. The players that set foot on those fields, no matter how insignificant it may seem, are a part of history, playing on the same field as some of the greatest of all time. The players did what players do now, play their hardest to get to a championship. So why not recognize those collegiate players in a nostalgic way? Collegiate baseball cards.
Who knows, maybe we can force the issue. Kids can look at those cards and remember the time they traded away their Darwin Barney 2007 card for the Jackie Bradley, Jr. 2010 MVP. Growing up, the baseball cards from the 60s were rare to me. I didn't care who was on them, I just wanted them. The 80s and 90s Topps and Upper Deck cards had the most value. But that's because I had so many of them. As I think back, my most valuable cards were a Topps Stadium Club 1991 Nolan Ryan Tuxedo card, and a 1989 Fleer Ultra Gold Glove Ryne Sandberg card (I'm sure they're worth a total of a pack of gum now, but that's not the point). Who wouldn't want to open a pack of CWS cards up and find a Dave Winfield card from 1973 (I had to look that year up, but it'd still be great).
Maybe it's because I've just opened the door on my 30's, but baseball cards don't seem just as popular now. Because they're not digital, they aren't as fun. But, being able to hold onto a piece of 2×3 cardboard with your favorite player on it, just to stick it in the bike tires of a banana-seat two wheeler was an experience every child had to have in order to move to the next stage of their life. And, seriously, I had one of those bikes with Atari Space Invaders graphics. Have you seen The Goldbergs? That was pretty much my life growing up, but I was more awkward.
So the biggest problem: who gets the money for the card sales? With the NCAA whoring athletes abilities for their financial gain, the wrong move is to let them take the profit. There's no players union (yet) to distribute funds. Plus, in reality, the margin of making money on baseball cards is minimal because of popularity. Most people (outside of the Omaha audience) only pay attention during the CWS. So money made should be donated to organizations that promote youth baseball. While Little League was where I learned to love the game, I fear they are becoming too big for their britches. Smaller, rural teams could profit. Independent leagues and teams could use the funds to create better conditions. NCAA athletes could put a check on their resumes for charitable work by seeing these funds get put to use and promoting the game. Field of Dreams, people! Maybe Bad News Bears is more comparable (Walter Matthau), but you get it. You're nostalgic right now.
The NCAA College World Series needs baseball cards to bring some nostalgia back to the game. There is a history that Rosenblatt created, and until TD Ameritrade can create some memories worth remembering, there is a void. Plus, collegiate baseball cards seem more reasonable than the higher-ups moving the fences in to create more offense (I don't think changing the seams on the ball will be the answer either).
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The Church in India is mourning the loss of a Catholic priest and a volunteer that lived in the village of Chota Rampur, in the Diocese of Meerut in the state of Uttarakhand, northern India.
His name was Fr Samuel Francis, also known as "Swami Astheya," given the fact that he led the life of a hermit in an "ashram," or typical Hindu monastery, adapted to the Christian tradition. The priest, who was 60 years of age, was found dead on 22 September, along with a volunteer named Mercy, who was working in the area. According to inquiries, the homicide occurred two days beforehand.
As a statement from the Indian Bishops' Conference explains, the homicide does not seem to be part of an anti-Christian hate campaign launched by radical Hindu groups, but rather the result of a robbery attempt in the place where the priest was living, which has in fact been robbed.
The Christian ashram was a place where priests, religious, Church groups, and young people went for a day of retreat and meditation. It was a center of prayer and a place where the poor and needy could find comfort and assistance. It also became a reference point for the organization of encounters and interreligious events, especially between Christians and Hindus.
The local Church sources say that it was a special experience, especially in the midst of this time of violence being carried out by radical Hindu groups who have been contaminated by the discriminating ideology of "hindutva." The Catholic ashram and Fr. Samuel's work showed that dialogue and mutual respect are the basis for interreligious relations and this offered a model for all religious communities of how to build harmony and peace in the nation.
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Burnham, Forbes 1923–1985
Forbes Burnham 1923–1985
Prime minister, president, nationalist
As the leader of Guyana for two decades, Forbes Burnham shaped the political destiny of this modern Caribbean nation following its independence from Britain. Serving first as prime minister and then president, Burnham kept Guyana allied with Fidel Castro's Cuba and the Soviet Union, which made his country the only socialist nation besides Cuba in the Caribbean for many years. He died in office in 1985.
Burnham was born on February 20, 1923, in Kitty, a suburb of Georgetown, the capital city of what was then called British Guiana. Located on the northeastern coast of South America, Guyana was once the home of Arawak, Carib, and Warao Indians, whose numbers declined with the arrival of Dutch colonists and, later, British settlers. Slaves from Africa were brought in to serve as a labor force on sugar and cotton plantations, but organized rebellions plagued the colony. After British authorities outlawed slavery in 1834, many Afro-Guyanese fled inland, uninterested in working for the British. The labor shortage was solved by the importation of thousands of indentured laborers from India, a practice that continued until World War I, and these Indo-Guyanese would emerge later in the twentieth century as political rivals to Burnham and other Afro-Guyanese leaders.
Educated in London
Burnham excelled in school. After finishing at the elite all-male Queen's College High School, he won the 1942 Guiana Scholarship—awarded to the colony's top student—for study in England. He spent several years at the University of London and finished with a law degree in 1947. Returning to Guyana, he founded the People's Progressive Party (PPP) in 1950 with Cheddi Jagan, an Indo-Guyanese dentist who had also attended Queens College. Both had strong leftist leanings, and their party was affiliated with the British Guiana Labour Union. In 1953 British authorities finally allowed elections with universal suffrage in the colony, and Burnham and Jagan's PPP won eighteen of the twenty-four seats in the legislative assembly. Burnham became the minister of education and Jagan was selected to be the minister of agriculture, but the first Guyanese government lasted just four months. The British Crown's representative, the governor of Guyana, suspended the constitution when authorities became worried the government was leaning too far to the left.
In 1955 Burnham had a falling-out with Jagan, and when elections were held again in 1957, the splinter PPP group that Burnham had founded fared poorly; of all the candidates, he was the only one to keep his seat in the colonial legislative assembly. Jagan, meanwhile, became chief minister of British Guyana with the PPP victory in the 1957 election. In 1958 Burnham founded a new party, the People's National Congress (PNC), but it failed to achieve a majority in the 1961 legislative election. That same year, the British granted limited independence, but their economic interests in Guyana remained strong. Over the next few years covert actions were taken by both the British and U.S. intelligence services to eliminate the possibility that Jagan and the PPP would come to power when Guyana was fully independent and refashion the country into a strict Marxist state firmly within the Soviet sphere. Operatives also fomented discord between the Afro-Guyanese—who at the time were 220,000 in number, or about a third of the country's total population—and the Indo-Guyanese, estimated at slightly more than half the total, at 335,000.
Finally, at a 1963 constitutional conference in London, proportional representation voting was forced on the Guyanese in the belief that it would aid the more moderate Burnham and his PNC in beating Jagan and the PPP in future elections. The constitution also allowed Guyanese living overseas to cast votes, which also benefited the PNC. In the balloting of December of 1964, Jagan's party received 45 percent of the vote and Burnham's PNC received just 40 percent, but the new constitution required a 50 percent majority of votes for a party to be allowed to form a government. Moving quickly, Burnham and the PNC allied with a small conservative party called the United Force that had received 12 percent of the vote and formed a coalition government.
Suppressed Political Dissent
Burnham was sworn in as premier of British Guyana on December 14, 1964, and as prime minister on May 26, 1966, when independence from Britain was finally achieved and the nation of 660,000 became the twenty-fifth sovereign state in the Western Hemisphere. In November Burnham pushed through a new set of national security laws, called the Preventive Detention Act. "To insure that Guyana has a peaceful time in which to sort out our plans for development, we must put our enemies on notice that subversion and terrorism will not be tolerated for a moment," a New York Times report quoted him as saying in defense of the act, which permitted near unlimited search-and-seizure powers and detention without trial for up to ninety days.
Fraud was suspected in Guyana's 1968 election, with the overseas ballots the primary source of concern. After courting U.S. aid and diplomatic ties for several years, Burnham surprised many when in February of 1970 he announced a new alliance with Communist Cuba. From this point onward, Guyana was known as the Co-operative Republic of Guyana. He also decreed a doctrine of self-reliance and drastically reduced imports, including many food staples. Foreign-controlled industries, such as Guyana's rich bauxite mines, which were owned by the Canadian aluminum firm Alcan and its U.S.-based counterpart Alcoa, were forced to accept deals that gave the Guyanese government a 51 percent share in the mines.
Burnham's policies were designed to help Guyana, but instead his authoritarian rule spurred a wave of emigration, especially after his 1974 decree that essentially established one-party rule in the country. In seeking further sources of much-needed revenue, Burnham struck unusual deals, such as one with a controversial religious leader in San Francisco named Jim Jones, who had a large African-American following. In 1974 Jones paid Burnham's government $2 million to lease four thousand acres near Port Kaituma, where, four years later, the mass suicides of the Peoples Temple occurred after a U.S. congressional delegation arrived to investigate human-rights abuses and Leo Ryan, a California congressman, was gunned down.
In June of 1980 Walter Rodney, a Marxist historian and one of the most vociferous opponents to Burnham's authoritarian rule, was killed in a mysterious explosion. Rodney, who headed the Working People's Alliance, died after a bomb went off in his car near Georgetown's main jail. He was apparently carrying a parcel given to him by a soldier, who told him it was a walkie-talkie. "We had nothing to do with Rodney's death," Burnham asserted in an interview with New York Times journalist Richard J. Meislin two years later. "Rodney … was up to mischief—to blow up the jail. He picked the wrong frequency for the device and blew himself up."
At a Glance …
Born Linden Forbes Sampson Burnham on February 20, 1923, in Kitty, British Guiana (now Guyana); died of heart failure on August 6, 1985, in Georgetown, Guyana; son of James Ethelbert and Rachel Abigail (Sampson) Burnham; married Sheila Bernice Lataste, 1951 (divorced, 1966); married Viola Victorine Harper, 1967; children: (with Lataste) Roxane, Annabelle, and Francesca; (with Harper) daughters Melanie Abiola and Ulele Imoinda, son Kamana. Education: University of London, BA, 1944, LLB., 1947.
Career: Cofounder of the People's Progressive Party, 1950; British Guiana Labour Union, president, 1952; named minister of education, 1953; People's National Congress, founder, 1958; became premier of British Guiana, 1964, prime minister in 1966, and president in 1980.
Awards: Decorated Order of Excellence (Guyana); Order of the National Flag First Class (Democratic People's Republic of Korea).
Became President
In 1980 a new constitutional amendment that made the country a semipresidential democratic republic allowed Burnham to assume some of the pomp and trappings of the office. Again, allegations surfaced of widespread vote fraud in that year's election following a report by a team of international observers. Official results gave Burnham 76 percent of the vote, with longtime nemesis Jagan receiving just 20 percent. Election observers contended that Indo-Guyanese voters were prevented from voting at polling stations in several places.
In October of 1983 U.S. military forces invaded the Caribbean island nation of Grenada to oust Marxist dictator Maurice Bishop, who had been in power since 1979 and had strengthened Grenada's relations with Cuba and the Soviet Union. Guyana also had close ties to Bishop's regime and denounced the maneuver. In another interview with the New York Times, Burnham scoffed at the stated justification for the invasion—that Grenada's ties to Cuba, and through it the Soviet Union, posed a threat to democracy in the Caribbean. "The threat," Burnham told Meislin, "was that if the Grenadians succeeded in transforming their economy, other countries in that position might say that this ideology or that economic tactic on the part of Grenada must be good. There's nothing in international law that says that's a good reason for invading."
Few visitors to Guyana would have believed that Burnham's own prescription for economic success was working. Emigration continued to increase, with the remaining Indo-Guyanese overseeing a pitifully diminished private sector. In its state-controlled economy the government was the country's largest employer, and Afro-Guyanese held the majority of jobs. The media was also controlled by the government, and television broadcasting still had not come to the nation by 1983 except in the form of unreliable pirate stations. Political dissent was nonexistent when the government controlled all media, and it was further suppressed by economic means, Jagan and other foes of Burnham claimed, because most employed Guyanese remained politically inactive for fear of losing their jobs. Again, Burnham stated that he ruled legitimately, with the support of the majority. "An oppressive Government cannot last this long," he declared to New York Times's Meislin. "We don't have the financial accouterments for a police state."
Fears of Cultlike Group
Guyana actually had little financial wherewithal at all after the costs of maintaining the army and other instruments of control were funded. The country was saddled with a massive foreign debt, and the continuing import restrictions made some types of items, such as toilet paper, extremely hard to obtain. Furthermore, Burnham's odd alliances with fringe groups had not abated after the Jonestown disaster. "On the streets, people speak fearfully of the House of Israel," wrote Meislin, who described the group as "a religious sect of several thousand Guyanese headed by a man who calls himself Rabbi Washington but is really a fugitive from the United States named David Hill." The New York Times report continued, "There is a widespread belief among Guyanese that the group operates as a paramilitary squad for the Government." Hill was wanted on corporate fraud charges and had gained some eight thousand Afro-Guyanese followers with a doctrine asserting that blacks were the original tribes of Israel and that Christianity was a tool of oppression.
Burnham's twenty-one-year rule ended on August 6, 1985, when he died of heart failure during throat surgery. The operation, which was conducted by Cuban doctors, took place at a hospital in Georgetown. Burnham's survivors were three daughters from his 1951 marriage to Sheila Bernice Lataste and another two daughters and a son from his 1967 union with Viola Victorine Harper, who served as his vice president. His replication of certain Soviet-style customs continued even after his death, when according to his instructions he was enclosed in a tomb made of purple glass—his favorite color—modeled after the one in Moscow that had held Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin since his 1924 death. A glass coffin installed in a botanical garden exposed to the strength of the sun in near-equatorial Guyana quickly proved to be an unwise idea: Even though a refrigeration unit was used, Guyana's electrical capacity was so spotty that the cooling unit often shut down. A mausoleum at the site was later constructed, after Burnham's body was sent to Moscow for re-embalming.
Burnham was succeeded by Prime Minister Hugh Desmond Hoyte, and the impoverished nation—which had the lowest standard of living in the Caribbean and a per-capita income less than that of Haiti—moved toward genuine democracy. Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter headed a team of international observers that supervised the 1992 election, the first election that was deemed fair and free since the British colonial era, and Jagan was elected president.
Selected writings
A Destiny to Mould: Selected Speeches by the Prime Minister of Guyana, Africana Publishing Corporation, 1970.
National Review, March 28, 1986, p. 46.
New York Times, November 28, 1966, p. 18; December 1, 1970, p. 14; October 21, 1979, p. 7; July 14, 1980, p. A8; December 18, 1980, p. A17; October 12, 1982; November 13, 1983.
Times (London, England), May 26, 1966; August 8, 1985; August 9, 1985; October 30, 1985.
—Carol Brennan
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Forbes Burnham
Forbes Burnham (1923-1985) led the coalition government which won independence for British Guiana in 1966 and was Guyana's first prime minister. He established himself as president of Guyana in 1970.
Linden Forbes Sampson Burnham was born at Kitty in then British Guiana on February 20, 1923. His father, James Ethelbert Burnham, was the local elementary school headmaster. His mother was Rachel Abigail (Sampson) Burnham. Burnham attended the local elementary school in Kitty, then went on to Queen's College in Georgetown where he excelled both academically and in debating. He won a British Guiana scholarship which permitted him to attend the University of London in 1942. Awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1944, Burnham proceeded to study law, completing all the requirements brilliantly. He was called to the bar in 1948. Always a politically active student, Burnham served as president of the West Indian Students Union of London University for the academic year, 1947-1948. He was a delegate to the meeting of the International Union of Students in Paris in 1947 and in Prague in 1948.
Burnham returned to his native land in 1949 with a reputation as a gifted speaker with a passion for politics and as a moderate socialist. He immediately became active in local politics and remained until his death Guyana's most active and influential politician. He was co-founder, along with Cheddi Jagan, Jainarine Singh, J. B. Latchmansingh, Martin Carter, and Sydney King (later Eusi Kwayana), of the People's Progressive Party, which won a resounding victory in the first elections held in Guiana under universal adult suffrage in 1953. By then Burnham was chairman of the party, an elected member of the Georgetown city council, and the unofficial leader of the urban section of the party.
In a country where the racial divisions between Guyanese of African and East Indian descent tended to coincide with the geographical divisions of urban-coastal (Georgetown) and rural-interior, respectively, Burnham's political base gave him great strength within the party. Indeed this emerged early when, at the age of 30, he challenged Jagan for the position of leader of the House of Representatives. Burnham eventually accepted the position of minister of education, but after only a few months the British government suspended the constitution and imposed an interim government until 1957.
In 1955 Burnham and others defected from the People's Progressive Party, but their wing, though strong, lost to the Jagan faction in the new elections of 1957. That year Burnham, a sitting member of Parliament, founded the People's National Congress, designed to be a multi-racial moderately socialist party to the right of Cheddi Jagan. Meanwhile, Burnham's political star began to rise. He was elected mayor of Georgetown in 1959 and again in 1964 and served as president of the Guyana Bar Association in 1959. Moreover, he was the leader of the opposition from 1957 to 1964 and president of the Guyana Labor Union.
Burnham's party won the general elections of 1964 on a modified system of proportional representation. Instead of the usual winner-take-all of the conventional "Westminster Model" election, each party was given a number of seats in Parliament in direct relationship to their proportion of the popular vote. With the 12 percent won by the United Party, Burnham was able to form a coalition government. This government led Guyana into independence in 1966, and Forbes Burnham became the first prime minister.
The coalition did not last long, and after 1967 Burnham manipulated the electoral system to maintain his party in power. The main instrument was an overseas voting system based on registration lists of nationals. In the 1968 elections the People's National Congress gained 93.7 percent of the total of 36,745 foreign votes, allowing it to claim an absolute majority of 55.8 percent of the ballots and to dispense with the coalition. However, research done by the reliable Opinion Research Center of London could verify only 15 percent of the entries on the overseas registration lists.
Buoyed by the result of the 1968 general elections, Burnham established the Co-Operative Republic of Guyana in 1970 with himself as president. He still maintained his Commonwealth contacts, but Guyanese politics in the 1970s and early 1980s was the will of a singular individual. Indeed, in 1973 Burnham announced that his party had won two-thirds of the votes in the general election and with its corresponding proportion of the unicameral legislature had the requisite legal means to alter the constitution. To further reinforce his position, Burnham engineered a referendum in 1978 which made referenda unnecessary to amend the constitution once the proposed amendment got a two-third vote in the National Assembly. A new constitution made Burnham executive president with a wide range of powers to dissolve Parliament, to veto legislation, and to appoint or dismiss the prime minister, any minister of the cabinet, the vice-president, the leader of the opposition, and/or any member of the bureaucracy.
As Burnham consolidated his political power and created a new variant of ethnic politics in Guyana, the national economy went from bad to worse. Although Guyana is potentially rich, possessing extensive fertile coastal lands and a vast interior with deposits of gold, emeralds, bauxite, lumber, and other natural resources, the country had been bankrupt for nearly a decade. The massive schemes of nationalization of industry in the 1970s increased neither employment nor production nor income for the state. Opponents of the government—which by 1980 had virtually become synonymous with Burnham—were crudely beaten by thugs, hounded out of the country, or, as in the case of Walter Rodney, the leader of the Working People's Alliance, boldly assassinated.
Despite a confused rhetoric suggesting Marxist orientation and amicable relationships with the Soviet Union, China, Cuba, and the government of Maurice Bishop in Grenada, Burnham succeeded in retaining open, if exasperating, relations with the United States, the British Commonwealth, and the Caribbean community. Foreign support of the Burnham regime merely facilitated the consolidation of power by the People's National Congress and further demoralized the opposition.
President Burnham succumbed to heart failure while undergoing a throat operation on August 6, 1985. His successor was Prime Minister Ptolemy Reid.
Further Reading
Burnham is listed in the International Who's Who and Personalities Caribbean, 1982-1983. His political opinion-cum-auto-biography is A Destiny to Mould (1970). Critical accounts of his policies and his government may be found in Clive Thomas, Plantations, peasants, and state: a study of the mode of sugar production in Guyana (1984); and J. E. Greene, Race vs. Politics in Guyana—Racial Cleavages and Political Mobilization in the 1968 General Election (1974). □
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Forbes Burnham, 1923–85, prime minister (1964–80) and president (1980–85) of Guyana, formerly British Guiana. His full name was Linden Forbes Sampson Burnham. Of African descent, he received a law degree (1947) from the Univ. of London. Returning home, he founded (1950), with Cheddi Jagan, a political party devoted to gaining independence from Great Britain. He broke with Jagan in 1955 to form a more moderate party. In the 1964 elections his party trailed Jagan's, but Burnham, overcoming Jagan's plurality by uniting with a small third party, was named prime minister. He led his country to independence (1966), and, despite vigorous opposition from Jagan, was reaffirmed as prime minister in elections in 1968 and 1973. With enormous aid from the United States, which had worked secretly to destabilize the Jagan government, he furthered public works and decreased the country's high unemployment rate. He promoted the nationalization of natural resources and attempted to ease racial tensions between blacks and majority Asian Indians by opening government positions to the Indians.
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Wesemann International GmbH & Co. is a household name for high-class and innovative laboratory furniture in Germany. The launch of the DELTA 30 laboratory furniture system resulted in a tremendous acceptance in Germany but also in an undreamt-of demand from abroad. To come up to this demand in a professional way Wesemann International GmbH was founded to distribute the ...
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KHH has diversified its business into laboratory development projects which include laboratory furniture, laboratory fume cupboard and safety equipment.
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Köttermann is an international group, which sells its furniture solutions all around the globe with great success. Hazardous substance cabinets. Laboratory furniture. Fume cupboards.
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Wisconsin Oven Corporation designs and builds thermal incinerators for oxidizing the fumes from the exhaust streams of ovens. Most often, the contaminants are smoke, paint fumes, or solvents. We manufacture fume incinerators, but we do not manufacture incinerators for processing solid waste.
based in East Troy, WISCONSIN (USA).
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Hi guys,
I would like to run a shell script.I want to assign a values from a mysql query within a shell script.As
t = ./mysql -D database -e "select count(*) from tablename;"
so t can contain the number of records in the table and I can run futher in a loop.
The part where I get stuck is when I run the script it says
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Please help me on this.Is there any other way I can do this.
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Use backquotes for the command to be executed as mentioned below
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Thomas Marsico has made General Electric and FedEx two of the Marsico Growth Fund's 10 largest holdings because he said the U.S. companies stand to gain...
Thomas Marsico has made General Electric and FedEx two of the Marsico Growth Fund's 10 largest holdings because he said the U.S. companies stand to gain from the world's fastest-growing economies, led by China.
"We want to be exposed to companies that benefit from growth in the developing markets," Marsico said from his office in Denver. He said he's entering these markets by buying shares of U.S.-based companies because of stricter accounting and governance standards.
The $1.6 billion Marsico fund, which had investments in 53 companies at the end of November, rose at an annual rate of 7.1 percent during the past three years, ranking eighth of 184 large-company growth mutual funds tracked by Bloomberg. The fund climbed 14.38 percent last year, outpacing the 10.88 percent total return of the Standard & Poor's 500 index.
GE, based in Fairfield, Conn., expects $5 billion of sales from China this year. FedEx plans to increase the number of Chinese cities that it covers by 50 percent to 300 this year. The Chinese economy grew 9 percent last year, more than double that of the U.S., according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). China is expected to expand 7.5 percent this year.
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GE, the world's largest company by stock-market value, has forecast that sales in China will increase 42 percent from last year's $3.5 billion and account for about 3 percent of total revenue. Overall sales will rise 10 percent from about $150 billion in 2004, GE predicts.
"They have size, scale, market share, pricing flexibility and financial strength," Marsico said of General Electric.
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FedEx, the second-largest U.S. package-delivery company, registered a 12 percent increase in shipments from outside the U.S. in the three months through November, driven by gains in Asia as manufacturers shipped more goods.
The Memphis, Tenn., company has aggressively developed its FedEx Ground unit, he said. Revenue at FedEx Ground rose 20 percent to $1.17 billion in its most recent quarter. Shares of FedEx gained 46 percent last year, their best return since 1998.
Marsico, who holds a master's degree from the University of Denver, founded Marsico Capital Management in 1997 after leaving Janus Capital Group. He managed two of Janus' most popular funds, Janus Twenty and Janus Growth & Income, in an 11-year career, winning Morningstar's award for top fund manager in 1989.
He sold a 50 percent stake of his firm to Bank of America, based in Charlotte, N.C., for $150 million in 1999. The bank bought the rest of Marsico's firm a year later for $950 million. Today, Marsico oversees a total of $44 billion. He doesn't use computer software or Wall Street analysis to select stocks, although he consults outside research.
Marsico and a team of 19 investment professionals "jawbone thoughts and theories" when picking stocks. He favors companies whose businesses are difficult to duplicate and have overcome big barriers to entry. That gives them strong market positions and the ability to increase prices and profits, he said.
Focusing on top holdings
His fund is known for putting large amounts of money into its top holdings such as UnitedHealth Group and Genentech, said Bridget Hughes, an analyst at fund-industry-research firm Morningstar in Chicago. He takes an aggressive approach and "doesn't feel like he needs to be pigeonholed" as a large-cap growth manager, she said.
One-quarter of the Growth fund's assets are invested in five companies, with UnitedHealth, the biggest holding, accounting for 7.8 percent at the end of November.
While the strategy has led to superior performance in the past two years, the fund tends to suffer in less favorable times, Hughes said.
In the bear market from 2000 to 2002, the Marsico Growth Fund tumbled at an annual rate of 17.7 percent.


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