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Winstone Aggregates is New Zealand's largest aggregates company with more than 300 people working across the country. We offer a challenging and rewarding environment and invest in the development of our employees through training programmes and resources that encourage progression.
There's no better way to find out what life is like at Winstone Aggregates than from our people themselves. Read about their career journeys, their roles and their challenges and find out what it is they like the most about working for us.
Andrew Petersen
Transport Supervisor
Transport Supervisor Andrew Petersen's day begins at 6am at Winstone's Awatoto Sand Plant on the coast in sunny Napier. Andrew is responsible for transport logistics for the whole of the Hawkes Bay. He ensures the smooth running of a fleet of 5 Winstone Aggregates and sister company Golden Bay Cement trucks, as well as managing an on-call supply of 15 owner drivers in the region.
Andrew began working with Winstone Aggregates in 2007 as a driver and his career progressed into a supervisory role last year. With a background in quarrying, transport logistics and driving, Andrew was well placed to take on a supervisory role, and is a highly respected member of the transport division. In 2013, Andrew's region won Most Improved Transport Site at the Winstone Aggregates' company awards.
"I've always had an interest in trucks, and Winstone has a great fleet as well as an excellent health and safety record. With 5 plus trucks on the road at any one time, and a huge variety of projects across the Hawkes Bay, this job certainly keeps me on my toes," he says.
Andrea Cave
Environment Manager
Andrea Cave is Winstone Aggregates' Environment Manager. She's responsible for the management of the organisation's environmental, including improved biodiversity, and sustainability functions. With a Master's degree in Geography (majoring in Resource Management), Andrea's background includes roles at various Auckland councils as well as international experience, in particular the United Kingdom where she held a number of environmental management positions.
At Winstone Aggregates, Andrea is responsible for ensuring compliance with conditions of consent, management plans and district plan rules. She develops and oversees many of the organisation's environmental management plans and administers Winstone Aggregates' Environmental Management System, an ISO 14001 framework used to manage the environmental effects of the business.
Following a review last year, Andrea rewrote the system to better ensure accountability for environmental performance with a structure that encourages openness and environmental improvement at all operational sites.
While the impact on the environment can be significant, it need not be negative, Andrea says. "Our strategy is to achieve net environmental benefit".
The costs involved with transporting aggregates mean that many quarries are located close to, or within urban areas. Managing the equilibrium between the economics of quarrying and its effects on the environment, and the local community, is challenging. "Often, people aren't aware of the important contribution that aggregates make to our everyday lives and so don't appreciate the need for our operations." Andrea works with local communities to establish a social licence to operate at each Winstone Aggregates site; her aim is to leave neighbours with a good impression of Winstone Aggregates. "There is always a high level of interest in our quarry operations so we hold regular open days so locals can see how Winstone Aggregates operates and the ways in which
manage our effects."
Winstone Aggregates also makes a significant investment in sponsorship. Andrea's objective is to change relationships from charitable recipients to alliances to that create diverse benefits for both partners and added value for communities. "Our sponsorship programme allows us to demonstrate our commitment to local communities, and the environment." Trees for Survival, a hands-on environmental education experience where children grow and plant native trees and shrubs, is one such case. Winstone Aggregates supports three schools financially, and with company time. During a school planting day at Cue Haven, a rehabilitation project north of Auckland, Andrea saw a further opportunity to contribute; Winstone Aggregates is now providing the project with aggregates to create new paths and tracks.
After working on both sides of the compliance fence, Andrea is proud to work for a company with a good reputation and an excellent compliance track record. She enjoys the diversity both inside and outside the quarry gate, the people, the environment… "Quarrying is an exciting and diverse industry" says Andrea. "Every day brings new challenges. It keeps you on your feet!"
Tim Hazell
Business Unit Manager
Originally a Venezuela-based oil exploration geologist, Tim has extensive international experience in aggregates, ready mix concrete and cement, having spent eight years with RMC (now CEMEX). While at RMC, he managed Taffs Well, a 60 hectare limestone quarry. High on his list of achievements at the site was the construction of a £4,000,000, two-lane tunnel to improve road access. At 200 metres in length the tunnel was also wide enough to accommodate two-way quarry traffic.
Prior to his role at Winstone Aggregates as Business Unit Manager, Tim managed Hunua Quarry. "Managing the organisation's largest site during a recession wasn't easy. Our first sub-million metre year since 2002 was difficult to manage: for quarry development, at Hunua there are some challenging pit areas with geotechnical face stability challenges." But at the same time, massive successes contrasted the difficulties. Employee engagement improved and in terms of health and safety, significant improvements were made to the site's safety statistics. "There is a strong team spirit at Hunua Quarry. The guys do genuinely look out for each other. It's a real credit to them — the site's over 2 years LTI free."
During his time at Hunua, the site also won multiple awards for environmental and community initiatives, undertook country's largest quarry blast and supplied cement treated basecourse (the most significant amount of its kind in New Zealand history) into the 20/1 project, as well as hundreds of thousands of metres of other products.
Tim's enjoyed tracking the benefits that efficiency projects have brought to the site. Already underway when he arrived at Hunua Quarry, the HP4 (tertiary cone crusher) installation brought improved throughput and better tailored product yield and three new CAT 775F dumpers improved production. "The guys love them. They're safe and efficient and use less fuel — they're definitely a huge improvement."
He's also enjoyed the strategic element. "I'm a strong believer that if you get it right at the quarrying excavation end, if you get the volume and the quality right at the start, everything else flows on from there. If the plant breaks down you can repair it; if its catastrophic you can get mobile equipment in. But, if the rock's not there, then nothing happens. I recommend a three or four month blast plan — when a quarry gets towards the end of its life you need to be pretty methodical, keeping a long term view in mind."


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Notes From All Over IIOctober 22, 2003
ALA 3.0, ReUSEIT! deadline, Garden thievery, iBook updates
The elves have been busy. A List Apart, after months of teasing, lives once more. A brand spankin' new design and backend publishing system drive the revised online mag, and three fresh articles kick off the rebirth.
Congratulations to Zeldman and everyone else who made this happen. It's not easy balancing a) making money, b) a successful, non-profit project, and c) being newly-wed. Zeldman is truly the Man Apart.
In this issue of ALA, Douglas Bowman contributes to the ongoing tab mania, with a beautiful example of thinking beyond the box. Dan Benjamin publishes the manual for his great PHP image rotator script, in convenient article format. Joe Clark tackles head-on the accessibility failure that is Fahrner Image Replacement.
Of course, having a vested interest in the topic of FIR, this is the sort of article I was dreading, but figured would happen sooner or later.
But this now-somewhat-outdated story (his own words) covers permutations involving
display: none and
visibility: hidden, which were popular at the time of writing; other methods have come to light since which would seem to solve some of the more dangerous problems. A forthcoming article is promised by the same, which I'll be eagerly awaiting. §
Slight navigation tweak around here. Things may look funny. In those immortal words, when in doubt — reload. §
Bob Sawyer writes to inform us that the deadline for the ReUSEIT! contest is rapidly approaching, and now is the time to finalize your entry. A set of great prizes awaits the winner, and your work gets passed by an impressive lineup of judges (which I somehow managed to become a part of). §
Right. This gets me going. In response to yet another ripped off Zen Garden design (just the CSS, which is normally fine, except no credit was given and the license was removed, which is definitely not) —
I had asked a web designer to come up with an unusual design for [organization]. This is the design he came up with! I sincerely apologise for any distress this may have caused you. We would like to retain the design and I am happy to follow your guideline as to placing your accreditation, for your design on the site. I have since spoken to the web designer about this matter, and given my disaproval for how the sites design came about.
- Note to You
- If you're re-using Zen Garden designs and trying to make money off of them, you will be found out, and probably in a highly embarrassing manner.
- Note to Me
- When there's reasonable doubt, give the benefit of it to the victim. They may indeed be an unwitting participant. §
Argh. At first I was put out that OS X 10.3 was announced but two weeks after buying my iBook. Now I'm even more so because they just upgraded the whole line to G4 processors. Moving targets are frustrating. §
Reader Comments
ALA is yet another example of form taking precendence over function from prominent "web" designers. The site works on every browser, fonts are scalable, cool. The site is fixed width, an obvious mark of someone who hasn't fully grasped accessibility (a group I didn't think Zeldman belonged to).
Maybe you can answer this Dave, why do people put all this effort into great designs that can withstand a huge font size change but don't account for the near infinite combinations of monitor/window/canvas sizes?
(sorry if its a little caustic, the site I've been working on for the past month launched today and it was fixed width against my constant recommendations)
In response to Eric's comment: I think variable width design is overrated. In the end, you can only stretch a line of text so much and keep it readable and pleasing to the eye. Having text flow from side to side of a 1280x1024 screen with browser maximized hurts legibility and makes the site ugly. If what you intend to stretch is only the design, keeping the text in a fixed width column, there's not much point to it then (although some designs do work well with this - not many).
Dave: Yeah, the stealing of CSS Zen Garden designs sucks. Any chance you may post links to the offending sites? It may be interesting to see what they are doing with them.
Sometimes the best solution is fixed width. And they just want more control. If things look exactly the same (the actual box holding the info), and you can read the text in the navigation and the articles – for usability's sake, that's what you came there for, right?
So what's the point in making the box wider, especially since it's more readable when paragraphs are shorter as opposed to wider (or fluid). If you're a usability expert all you care about is getting your information to you as easiest as possible with enough options to make text larger. Doesn't matter if the container is a little more skewed. At any rate, your window size dictates your site's "container" – with fixed width, designer dictates it.
It's not overrated when you are trying to read the site on a PDA or a phone and you have to constantly scroll two ways to read a paragraph. Designers should be concerned about the people with too little resolution rather than the people with too much. Hi-res users have the ability to shrink their windows, while low-res users don't have the ability to grow theirs. It's the same as scalable fonts, you don't test what happens when you make it so small you can't read it, you test what happens when you set it really high and things start wrapping and shifting.
There are obviously reasonable limits, you don't need to design for a 30px wide screen, but your site should at least be usable on a PocketPC (typically 240x320).
And before you dismiss mobile/PDA browsers as an insignificant share, remember that its about forward compatibility. PDAs today, your car or a monitor in the headrest of a jet tomorrow. The PC will always be better than a phone (until they develop virtual monitors or something), but if I'm reading something on my PDA and it links to a site that I can't read, do you think I'm going to bother to check it out next time I'm on a PC?
Lea, the designer doesn't _dictate_ anything, they suggest/recommend ideas on how to display the page, thats the beauty of CSS-driven sites. If I don't like your design, but I want the information (i.e. the reason I came to the page), I can get what I want without what I don't want.
The fixed width design does (or at least, should) make it easier to read. That's why newspapers are laid out in columns, for example. On the other hand, ALA could probably have handled the issue better - for example if the width was in ems then the column would become wider as the text size was increased, which might work a little better for people who need larger than default text. Then you'd have to set max-width to prevent horizontal scrolling in cases where the em width is wider than the window. In fact, this latter suggestion would be good even without the em width - if they set max-width to 90% on wrapper, then people with really narrow (i.e. less than 600px) browser windows won't have to resize.
Anyway, if it's a problem I suggest adding div#wrapper { width:100%;} to your user stylesheet. You could throw in some extra conditions to reduce the likelyhood that the rule would inadvertantly apply to a different site. You might need to tweak some of the other rules too - I haven't investigated thoroughly.
Indeed, it's terrible to read a site with unending lines of text (for instance, www.hutchnews.com full story pages). A fixed width is a good way to go, or a variable width with max-width indicated (doesn't work on IE, however).
Now, with large resolutions, the site is hard to read (fixed width or not) because the text consequentially appears smaller. One thing to do is specify width in em, that way the width itself increases when the user increases the font size to make it easier to read. There's obviously a connection between font size and width of a column of text, and that should relate the two pretty well.
Of course, as stated before, you can always just turn off the CSS if you don't like it. Or specify your own. Whatever floats your boat.
It is my experience that when Mr. Zeldman does something, he does it for a reason.
This falls under the, "I'm sure he could give a perfectly good explanation" argument.
ALA looks cool. More blog-y, though. And I like the colors better than the old one. But I'm not so sure about the grey text. ;-)
As for OSX10.3 and G4 processors… that's life in technology lane, my friend. I'm trying to convince the company to buy InDesign 3. It's not even out yet, so I hope by the time I get it, ID4 isn't out. :P
As for the zen garden stealing: ah, when will people learn not to steal from prominent web sites? This reminds me of when someone tried to pass off waferbaby.com's coding (the guy even left the "we eat bandwith for breakfast" comment tag in the HTML!) and got paid for it by some company. There was outrage and lots of complaints. The only bad thing is some people don't know how to complain civilly and thus don't get taken seriously.
Anyway, stay strong. Most people don't steal. :)
On the OSX 10.3 issue, you might want to try authorizing your iBook even though it's purchase didn't fall within the stated dates. I had the same issue with a new PowerBook (although mine was just a few days too early) and was able to order the upgrade CD for $20 anyway.
Go here:
and follow the appropriate link about halfway down the page and see if you qualify.
Thanks Mark, I'll give it a shot. I think I was about a week and a half before the cutoff date, maybe two. Can't hurt to try.
Whilst i like the new ala design, i do prefer the old design. The little images for the article headers were always interesting to look at. The colour scheme was different and retro and it just really worked for me. Maybe we could have a style switcher to have the old look again? Another issue is regarding the urls of articles. All the 'permanent links' i had in my favourites are now wrong. Maybe a little server side auto-redirection would be good.
On a more positive note, the organisation of the articles is much better now and it's really easy to find what you're looking for. I might add a site search facility to quickly find certain articles though.
It's easy to forget that the site isn't a commercially produced one and therefore the authors/designers can do what they like. We can't really complain about it. So I'll be greatful for what I get.
Dunno if it'll be of any help, but according to a post on Slashdot (http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=83145&cid=7280538) you may be able to claim some money back if you purchased your iBook (from an Apple store) less than 30 days before the new models were announced. Might ease the pain somewhat? Either that or, knowing your current luck with this, you'll have just missed that cutoff date too ;)
The article images were a nice touch, but I'm sure it put extra strain on getting new articles out.
The new design is clean, and I think it's more professional than the old. Both are good. A style switcher would work, but markup would probably need to be moved around quite a bit.
As far as it being non-commercial, I often find that commercial sites are chronically the most unattractive on the web. I usually find the most beautiful, usable designs are on personal or non-commercial sites. A List Apart is a great example.
Of course, there's a big difference between the two, but I still don't see why commercial sites tend to be so…undesigned. It has been getting better, and I've seen a fair share of nicely-done commercial designs. Lets hope it continues to improve.
>>All the �permanent links� i had in my favourites are now wrong. Maybe a little server side auto-redirection would be good.
just wanted to point out that all ALA permanent links do in fact work. there is in fact server-level redirection – always was. it didn�t work properly until the DNS rolled over, that�s all.

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The West Antarctic Ice Sheet is showing nearly twice as much warming as previously thought, according to a new study co-authored by a researcher at the National Center for Atmospheric Research.
The discovery, published Sunday in the journal Nature Geoscience, raises additional concerns about the degree to which Antarctica will contribute to sea level rise.
"If this melt continues, if the summer warming continues, we could begin to see increased runoff from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet later in the century that could enhance its ongoing contribution to sea level rise," said Andy Monaghan, the NCAR climatologist who co-authored the study.
The research, which builds upon Monaghan's doctoral work at Ohio State University in 2008, was also co-authored by his doctoral advisor, OSU professor of geography David Bromwich, who is also a senior research scientist at the Byrd Polar Research Center.
"Our record suggests that continued summer warming in West Antarctica could upset the surface mass balance of the ice sheet, so that the region could make an even bigger contribution to sea level rise than it already does," Bromwich said in a news release.
Now, Monaghan said, the West Antarctic Ice Sheet contributes about 0.2 millimeters per year to global sea level rise, or about one-fifteenth of the 3 millimeters that the sea level rises each year.
Rising sea levels are a central concern for those monitoring climate change, due to the number of highly populated areas that have grown up in coastal zones around the planet. The east and west coasts of the United States are "particularly vulnerable" to sea level rise, Monaghan said.
The study shows warming trends occurring during the summer months of the Southern Hemisphere, December through February.
The temperature record from Byrd Station, an outpost in the center of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, shows an increase of 4.3 degrees in average annual temperature from 1958. The rate of increase is three times faster than the average temperature increase around the planet for the same period of time.
"It's almost double what we previously thought, and it indicates the climate over West Antarctica has risen half a degree Celsius per decade" since 1958. "That's about 0.9 degrees Farenheit per decade."
Researchers have been unable in the past to make great use of readings from the Byrd Station, established in 1957, because of incomplete observations there, due to its not having been continuously inhabited.
A year-round automated station was put in place in 1980, but even that has been subject to frequent power outages, particularly during the extended polar night, when its solar panels are unable to recharge.
Monaghan and Bromwich previously reconstructed the Antarctic-wide temperature history over the last half-century using station records from around the continent, and published those results in 2008.
Now, the two researchers, working with partners at OSU and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, have completed the data gaps through use of a computer model of the atmosphere and a numerical analysis method.
"But even if you didn't in-fill it with the simulations, you still get these strong trends," Monaghan said. "It's really the observations telling us this. It's dangerous to overstate the simulated part of the record."
And, Bromwich said, "West Antarctica is one of the most rapidly changing regions on Earth, but it is also one of the least known. Our study underscores the need for a reliable network of meteorological observations throughout West Antarctica, so that we can know what is happening — and why — with more certainty."
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This post originally appeared at GlobalPost
Russian scientists preparing to explore the "most alien lake on Earth," Lake Vostok, have reportedly not been in touch with American colleagues in over five days.
Vostok, buried over two miles — or 13,000 feet — beneath the great Antarctic ice sheet, is one of the world's largest lakes. However, it hasn't been exposed to air in more than 20 million years, Fox News reported.
The team from Russia's Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AARI) have been drilling for weeks to reach the isolated, subglacial water, part of a network of more than 200 subglacial lakes in Antarctica, according to the Washington Post.
Some of the lakes existed in warmer times, when the continent was connected to Australia.
According to the website io9.com:
Vostok is thought to harbor conditions similar to those of Jupiter's moon Europa and Saturn's moon Enceladus, and the discovery of life in the lake's inky depths would significantly strengthen the prospect of discovering life on either of these icy bodies.
However, the lake is "characterized by extremes, as geothermal heat from the Earth's interior warms the lake's bottom keeping it in a liquid state.
Thousands of yards of crushing ice also insulate Vostok from the coldest surface temperatures on Earth, "while infusing it with oxygen at concentrations fifty times higher than is typical of freshwater lakes on the planet's surface," the website said.
However, because there is no light, any nutrients can only exist in small quantities.
Still, the scientists were "enormously excited about what life-forms might be found there," the Washington Post reported.
Their main concern was contaminating the lake with drilling fluids and bacteria, "and the potentially explosive 'de-gassing' of a body of water that has especially high concentrations of oxygen and nitrogen."
Meanwhile, Dr. John Priscu, professor of Ecology at Montana State University, told FoxNews.com via email that he had no way to contact the team and the already cold weather was set to plunge, as Antarctica's summer season was ending.
"Temps are dropping below [-40 degrees Fahrenheit] and they have only a week or so left before they have to winterize the station," he told Fox. "I can only imagine what things must be like at Vostok Station this week."


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Yo! Calling all privileged white dudes who get professionally angry from podiums in radio, television and newspapers! You know who you are. You love liberty as much as you hate wind farms. You despise the curtailment of our common law rights. Indeed, you will shout loud and long from your bully pulpits when these freedoms are threatened. You believe these freedoms to be noble, the very foundation of our liberal democracy! After all, they have been passed straight from the hand of John Stuart Mill to the anger-pinched lips with which you defend the rights of guys like you to be bigots.
To be fair, you freedom crusaders have got a lot on your plates right now. There are so many things to denounce. The aforementioned wind farms, the carbon tax (at least for another few weeks), and the terrors of particular religions. But in all your excitement over the caliphate and your self-congratulation at having invented a new rude name to call female newspaper columnists, you seem to have neglected what looks to be one of the most egregious attacks on fundamental liberties in recent times – the likely junking of the new NSW Bail Act.
The NSW government has announced a ''review'' of the new bail laws, barely a month after their commencement. The new laws replaced the presumption against bail for serious offences, such as murder, with a broad test of whether the accused poses an ''unacceptable risk'' of re-offending.
In assessing that risk, the judge or magistrate has to consider four factors: whether the accused might not turn up at court, whether s/he might commit an offence while on bail, whether s/he might be a danger to their alleged victim or to the community, and whether s/he might interfere with evidence or witnesses while at liberty.
The new Bail Act, which came into effect on May 20, was the result of a huge, comprehensive review into the old Bail Act of 1978. The old Act had become a Frankenstein's monster – amended 85 times, so tortured by procedural restrictions and contradictory criteria that magistrates and judges struggled to apply it. The NSW Law Reform Commission called it ''unintelligible''.
In 2011 then premier Barry O'Farrell's government asked the commission to review it. The commission spent nearly a year doing so and delivered recommendations to the government in 2012. They were largely adopted and the new Bail Act was legislated last year and came into operation on May 20 this year, with a plan to review the legislation in three years. A better and more orderly public policy process you would struggle to find.
That's when the liberty lovers hit. One shock jock pronounced the laws ''buggered'' and ''broken'' after sensationalised tabloid coverage of two cases of accused men who were released on bail under them. A little over a month after they came into effect, Premier Mike Baird announced a review of the laws.
The first case was Mahmoud Hawi, a 34-year-old former Comanchero boss who was convicted of murdering a Hell's Angel bikie by bashing him with a bollard at a Sydney airport brawl in 2009. The conviction was later quashed and while Hawi awaits his retrial, he has been released under the new bail laws. The second case was Steven Fesus, a 47-year-old accused of murdering his young wife in 1997. He was released pending his trial.
Both of these men, unsavoury though their alleged crimes may be, are, in the eyes of the law, innocent as you or me before conviction. As such, society takes very seriously any deprivation of their right to liberty. This right, to move freely, to come and go as one chooses, is not one you often hear being defended by the freedom-fighters of the libertarian right, despite it being most ancient and fundamental.
''It is in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, it is in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. It is enshrined in civil and case law in Australia,'' former NSW Director of Public Prosecutions Nicholas Cowdery says.
This liberty sits alongside another ancient and fundamental common law right, that is, the right to habeas corpus, or a fair hearing. As Cowdery says: ''A presumption of innocence has to be more than a collection of words.'' Habeas corpus is the only thing that sits between individual freedom and the arbitrary action of the state, so it is rather important when it comes to the healthy functioning of liberal society.
Sadly, it is not a right Andrew Bolt et al often raise their considerable voices to defend. While Senator George Brandis gave a speech when in opposition on his plans to redirect the human rights debate towards traditional common law rights and freedoms, this doesn't yet seem to be one of them. As far as I'm aware Freedom Commissioner Tim Wilson has not spoken out about the Bail Act either, and how important it is to get the legal formula right if you are going to take away an individual's right to personal liberty.
Even if we cast aside fancy debates about enlightenment philosophy, there are good social and economic reasons to keep people out of jail where appropriate. The state's prison population is at a record high of 11,000. This is despite the fact that crime rates have fallen across all categories over the past decade. It costs $100,000 a year to keep a person in jail, so that is an annual taxpayer bill of roughly $1.1 billion. Jailing more people does not push crime rates down. In fact, many argue it has the opposite effect.
In any case, as Cowdery and other experts point out, it is impossible to review the efficacy of laws that have been in place a month. The data doesn't exist yet.
But it is possible, and oh-so-easy, to make a precipitous, knee-jerk response to the confected outrage of a few people with loud voices – voices which seem to holler, rather self-interestedly, that while all freedoms are equal, some are more equal than others.


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- Premier League
Man Utd chief: Expect £40m summer spend
Manchester United expect to spend £40 million in the summer transfer window, according to the club's chief operating officer, Michael Bolingbroke.
Sir Alex Ferguson has already brought in Japanese midfielder Shinji Kagawa for £17 million from Borussia Dortmund and Crewe teenager Nick Powell for £4 million.
United have also bid for Sao Paulo and Brazil youngster Lucas Moura - and Bolingbroke said more money has been put aside to strengthen the squad, suggesting Ferguson has at least £20 million more at his disposal.
They have a projected net spend of £40 million, and money has already been raised by selling Ji-sung Park to QPR and letting Ritchie de Laet and Matty James go to Leicester. Ferguson's transfer budget could be increased further if Dimitar Berbatov leaves the club.
Speaking at an investor roadshow ahead of the club's IPO, Bolingbroke said that United's net spend over the last 10-15 years had averaged out at between £20-25 million but added: "We are giving guidance at the moment that the current transfer period could result in net expenditure nearer £40 million."


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Customs rang yesterday morning, which was very nice of them. They'd spoken to Kris the night before. He's 450 miles from Darwin, sort of backtracking because the poor winds sent him down on level with the Kimberleys. I'm hoping it'll take him between 5 and 7 days to get here, as the monsoon trough still hasn't established itself properly. The Customs officer said, "He said to tell you he's happy." Not safe. Not well. Happy. I had to chuckle at the message Kris sent through him.
A small painting came after that phone call. What can I say? That I am more affected by my emotions than I would like to admit? "Love is the wisdom of the fool, and the folly of the wise." (Samuel Johnson)


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Syracuse Police Chief Frank Fowler says his department's latest effort against gang gun violence is already showing results.
It's the Truce Program. Syracuse is one of nine cities in the country using the threat-and-help approach. The city has gotten a $300-thousand dollar federal grant for the program.
Fowler says that not only gangs, but 'crews' and other associations of groups with 'violent histories or tendencies' have been pinpointed, and brought in for talks with a judge, law enforcers and the mother of a violent crime victim. They're told they can 'get out' of the lifestyle, and are offered help from area social and support agencies. But they're also told that if gun-related, violent crime is connected to them, not only the individual, but everyone associated with the group will be brought in, and charged with everything from the incident, to minor violations like vehicle and traffic infractions.
Chief Fowler says that after the shooting death of 20 year old Darrell Mobley on Syracuse's east side in March, investigators connected the shooting to a dispute over 'gang' territory, and they arrested 32 year old Martin Griswold, who was on parole after giving a gun to a murder suspect. Fowler says that besides the murder charge, they've made 20 other arrests coming out of the incident.
The Chief also says that neighborhood groups are the 'eyes and ears' of the police department, and that if more people call in when they see something suspicious, including the illegal use of handguns, the word will get out that lawbreakers will be made to feel uncomfortable.
Fowler was interviewed on our 'CNY in Focus' segment, on Sunday morning's Weekend Today in CNY, as 'gun violence awareness month' wraps up.
To get in touch with area neighborhood watches:
In Syracuse, www.syracuseneighborhoodwatch.org or 448-8762
New York Gang Investigators Association 2019 NYGIA, P.O. Box 794, Yonkers, NY 10703


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Heartbeat envisions peace through song
Israeli-Palesetinian youth ensemble to perform in Levin Ballroom Feb. 26
The path to a better future in the Middle East is paved with song.
That's what the members of Heartbeat might tell you. An ensemble of young Israeli and Palestinian musicians based in Jerusalem, Heartbeat is a youth-led movement created to combat the fear and violence in the region with voices of cooperation and peace.
"Heartbeat artists are a living reality of people working together to build relationships through a musical dialogue," says Avi Salloway, Heartbeat's global ambassador and tour producer. "Our mission is to share the message and positive energy in America and grow our movement internationally."
Heartbeat launches its debut U.S. tour this week, and will make a stop at Levin Ballroom on Feb. 26 from 7 to 9 p.m. The event, which is sponsored by Hillel at Brandeis, is free. There will be a meet and greet over falafel and hummus following the performance.
"Heartbeat is a place of sanity in a place that is missing a lot of sanity," says Guy Gefen, 21, who is a member of the ensemble. "With music, it's so much easier to understand the person who is in front of you and see that you are very much alike."
The member musicians are between 17 and 21, who together compose new music across a wide variety of genres including rock, blues, hip-hop, reggae, traditional Middle Eastern and both Eastern and Western pop music.
"The goal is to empower the young artists we work with to understand the power of their own voice and creativity to connect their communities, and to help them grow into their voice," Salloway says.
Back home in Jerusalem, the artists participate in jam sessions, writing retreats and recording projects. The ensemble has performed for thousands.
Seventeen-year-old Moody Kablawi says Heartbeat proves music is a mutual language between people of different cultures.
"It helps me share my opinion in a peaceful way," Kablawi says, "and I'm learning to amplify my voice."
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Has anyone seen this or others like it from Sony BMG yet?
1. Joshua
2. Coat Of Many Colors
3. Touch Your Woman
4. Mission Chapel Memories
5. In The Good Old Days (When Times Were Bad)
6. My Tennessee Mountain Home
7. Jolene
8. I Will Always Love You
9. Lonely Comin' Down
10. Love Is Like A Butterfly
11. The Bargain Store
12. Here You Come Again
13. 9 To 5
14. Islands In The Stream [With Kenny Rogers]
Sound quality is excellent, as is the song selection. The Amazon price of $12.99 is a little steep considering that I got it at Wal Mart (or as I affectionately call it, Wal Fart ) for $6.88. They're packaged in eco-friendly cardboard and paperboard packaging and have no physical liner notes, and the case is SUPER thin. Even thinner than Backwoods Barbie cause there's no plastic tray for the CD to sit in - it just sits in this kinda pocket. (Not the kind of pocket some CDs like Celine, Mariah, Colbie Callait, or Sheryl Crow have been coming in - this one's a little easier to remove the CD from and put the CD back in.) The liner notes are digital and can be accessed by putting the CD in your CD drive, but you must have the latest version of Adobe Reader to access them. But it's got photos, wallpapers, song credits, etc. Since I don't have a lot of actual Dolly CDs, it was actually a very good purchase for me. Great quality versions of some great Dolly hits and some hard-to-find tracks too. And at $7, the price was nice too.


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Student Privacy
It is the policy of the Pastoral Services department to maintain students' educational records in such a way as to protect the student's right to privacy. To ensure appropriate respect of privacy with regards to students' records, this CPE Center adheres to the 2010 Standards of the Association for Clinical Pastoral Education (ACPE, Inc.) and the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA).
Student Records
Educational records are defined by FERPA as: "Records that directly relate to a student and that are maintained by an educational agency or institution or by a party acting for the agency or institution."
These records are of two types: Directory information (name, date of birth, address, email address, telephone numbers, ethnicity, gender, denomination, education and photograph), and Non-directory information (application material, written reports and essays, evaluations, transcripts, and any other paper, electronic, video, audio, biometric records, which are directly related to the student and from which the student's identity and history can be recognized). FERPA gives students the following rights regarding educational records:
- The right to access, inspect and review educational records within 45 days of the time the request is received.
- The right to request an amendment of the student's educational records that the student believes are inaccurate, misleading or otherwise in violation of the student's privacy rights under FERPA. If mutual agreement about amendment cannot be negotiated, a student may provide a written objection which is to be kept with and released with the record.
- The right to provide written consent before the program discloses personally identifiable information (non-directory information) from the student's educational records.
- The right to restrict release of directory information.
- The right to file complaints against the program for disclosing educational records in violation of FERPA.
The Baptist Hospital Clinical Pastoral Education Program will not release non-directory information to anyone without the prior written consent of the student. This center will not release CPE evaluations to anyone other than the student and those whom the student authorizes by a signed release. A student's evaluation is destroyed after 10 years of the end of the student's CPE program.
The Baptist Hospital Clinical Pastoral Education Program reserves the right to disclose directory information to a third party without the written consent of the student unless the student exercises the option to restrict the release of directory information by submitting a formal written request to limit disclosure. This can be done either prior to entering the program or at any time while participating in the program.
This ACPE CPE center/program guarantees to its students the rights to inspect and review education records, to seek to amend them, to retain specified control over release of record information and to file a complaint with the U.S. Department of Education for alleged violations of the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) rights. Students can request access to their records by written communication to the Director of Clinical Pastoral Education.
Applicants for admission to CPE programs: Student records will include the complete application material, face-sheet/application form, autobiographical essays, helping incident or verbatim, impressions of CPE, assessment interview report.
Students admitted and matriculated in current CPE programs: Students records will include application materials, signed agreement for training, signed acknowledgement of policies, signed position description, certificates of specific trainings, references, verbatims/clinical records, copies of chart notes, mid unit assessments, past CPE evaluations.
Former CPE Students (from 10 years ago to current):
Student records include: the face sheet/application form, the supervisor's evaluations, and the student's self-evaluation. A student has the right to object to record content and/or to respond in writing to the supervisor's evaluation. The supervisor can also choose to respond to the student's response. If not negotiable, the written responses will be kept with, and released with the evaluation record. Grades are exempted from this right.
Former CPE Student (older than ten years ago): Student records include the face sheet. *This center disposes of all confidential material by shredding provided by a commercial records and information management company.
Exceptions: The law provides for certain exceptions concerning the release of information to protect the health and safety of the student and for the purpose of accreditation review or a complaint or appeal involving that student or as otherwise permitted and required for legal processes. The ACPE executive director and the general counsel of Baptist Hospital shall be consulted before releasing material in a legal process.


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About Bali
Many names have been given to Bali: Island of Paradise, Island of the Gods, Island of a Thousand Temples, Last Paradise, but Pandit Jawarharlal Nehru's poetic words, the Morning of the World, used to describe Bali during his visit in the 1950's, may perhaps provide more spirit and optimism for each of us as we greet each morning and face the future during the 9th ICAAP.
Geographically, Bali lies between the islands of Java and Lombok. Stretching approximately 140 km from east to west and 80 km from north to south, It is small enough to be driven around in a day. Bali is one of the 33 provinces of Indonesia, lying 8° south of the equator, with a tropical climate that gives an average annual temperature of 28° C. The rich volcanic soil and healthy monsoon season make this island extremely fertile with a range of crops grown here. Bali is famous for its terraced rice fields, among the most spectacular in the world, and produces coffee, copra, spices, vegetables, and cattle.
The majority of Balinese are Hindus, although cultural influences make them different from the Hindus in India. Religious life in Bali is almost inseparable from cultural life: temples can be found everywhere with ceremonies literally happening every day. One of the daily rituals is presenting offerings, which play a significant role in Balinese daily life, as they appease the spirits and thus bring prosperity and good health to the family.
Although Bali has been a favoured holiday resort since the 1930s, it is still the traditional culture what sets Bali apart form other sun-and-surf holiday destinations. Most of the tourists attractions are concentrated in the fertile plains, lush volcanic foothills and beaches in the southern part of the island. Travelers will be mesmerised by the rich cultural tradition of music and dance, arts and crafts, colorful ceremonies and spectacular panorama that every inch of Bali will offer you a fresh and unforgetable memory. There will be no shortage of options for you to enjoy this enchanting island.
Developed as a luxury resort complex in the southern-most tip of Bali, Nusa Dua is home to the island's most luxurious hotel and resort accommodation and conference facilities, gracefully integrating the beauty of the white beaches and clear water into the landscape of the hotels. The beaches of Nusa Dua allow you to gently surf along the northern side of the peninsula. If you care for bigger waves, the southern part of the peninsula can give you a challenge.
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- Goodbye Bali, hello Busan!
- Plenary rejects double standards
- Universal Access still tough challenge
- Indonesia sees progress: President
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Lindsay Heller is punching her way around a boxing ring in a small gym in Hollywood. The 36-year-old mother of two is in the middle of a lesson; Juan Manuel Jiminez, a veteran trainer who goes by the nickname Superman, is coaching her.
"Look at my chest," he says, as Heller bounces lightly on her feet. "Never lose sight of your opponent."
Heller has been taking classes at Wild Card Boxing Club for five months. Turned on to the idea by a friend, she was looking for a workout that would exhaust her.
"I'm very active," she says, "and I was looking for something that would just waste me. I can exercise a lot and not get tired, but boxing does it."
Among a growing number of people who are taking up boxing not to get in the ring and fight but to improve their cardiovascular health, Heller is looking to tone her muscles with a workout that's challenging, constantly changing and requires the use of the mind in addition to the body.
"I love it," she says. "It's my favorite part of the week."
Changing it up
Boxing, says U.S. Olympic boxing bronze medalist
"Boxing is completely different than any other sport," she says. "It's always something new — you can never be perfect at it, you can never adjust completely and you can never get tired of it."
Alexander Brenes, the owner of City of Angels Boxing in Los Angeles, adds that, unlike repetitive cardiovascular workouts, in boxing, students are training like professionals. "I train everybody as a fighter. It doesn't matter what you want to get out of it. The best results come when I have day-to-day people looking like real boxers."
Esparza, who recently released a set of boxing workouts on DVD, adds that the mental component of learning new moves — and learning them properly — keeps students on their toes and engaged. "It keeps you stimulated, and that draws in the physical part. If you don't put your heart into your workout, you're not going to get any results."
A strong body
Of course, it's not just the mental aspect of boxing that entices newcomers. Many have seen the six-pack abs and the toned legs and arms of the pros, and want to get that body for themselves.
"It tones your entire body," Esparza says. "People think it's just upper body, that it will make your upper body really big, but if you do it the right way, you are using your entire body the whole time."
In fact, she adds, the part of the body that works most is not the upper body at all. "The most important part of your body that you use when boxing is your core. If you don't have a strong core, you can't do anything."
Releasing aggression
For men and women, the notion of feeling powerful by learning how to fight is a big draw of sports like boxing, New York-based sports psychologist Richard Lustberg says.
For women, he says, there's often a component of being able to take care of themselves. For men, the motivation may be more ego-driven: Having spent their lives being confronted with images of macho men who can handle themselves in a fight, there may be an element of fantasy at play. "There's perhaps an idealized version of what it might be to be in the ring," Lustberg says.
Either way, Brenes says, the urge to throw punches is one that tends to come naturally.
"Fighting, like dancing and listening to music, is one of the primal instincts that humans have," he says. "Anybody has a little bit of a fighter inside them. When they come to the gym and start seeing results and see that they can hit the bag hard and nobody's judging them, they let all that out."
To that end, for everyone who straps on a pair of gloves, boxing provides a safe environment to take out the stresses and slights of everyday living.
For people with high-stress jobs, Brenes adds, releasing the tension of a long workday can calm the mind and the body, and positively affect other parts of their lives. "It helps them to relax. You go home and go to sleep with no problem."
Getting in the ring
While plenty of students come to boxing just to get in shape, Freddie Roach, the owner of Wild Card Boxing Club, notes that over time many find themselves wanting to get in the ring. Students are often paired up with a more experienced fighter for their first few rounds, he says, in order to ensure their safety.
But getting bit by the fighting bug, Brenes says, is part of the way boxing is taught.
"It's the natural progression of the way we train," he says. "We train people as real fighters, so after they have gone through the basic form and punches, conditioning, strength and speed, then they go, 'What's next?'"
Hit these spots for boxing lessons
Feel like punching something? Here are a few places to try boxing.
Wild Card Boxing Club
1123 Vine St., No. 14, Los Angeles
(323) 461-4170
City of Angels Boxing
1726 N. Spring St., Los Angeles
(323) 630-1974
Tiger Boxing Gym
708 N. Gardner St., Los Angeles
(323) 951-9679
KTown Boxing Club
242 S. Western Ave., Los Angeles
(213) 536-4328
Box N' Burn Boxing Gym
1654 Lincoln Blvd., Santa Monica
(310) 392-2651


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PORTLAND, Ore. — ESCO Corporation, a leading global provider of wear parts and attachments for the mining and construction industries, has restructured its corporate organization into three divisions to better reflect the end markets it now serves: Mining, Construction & Industrial, and Oil & Gas. Jeff Kershaw and Tim Myers have been promoted to lead two of the three divisions.
The reorganization, which took place earlier this month, better aligns ESCO with its customers and more fully addresses their needs.
"This new divisional structure allows us to focus leadership, strategies and resources to accelerate our own growth while better satisfying our customers," said Jon Owens, ESCO Senior Vice President and the person to whom Kershaw and Myers will continue to report.
Jeff Kershaw is now President, Mining Division. Kershaw has been with ESCO for 25 years and was most recently Vice President for ESCO's European and Asia-Pacific regions. A Portland native, Kershaw holds a mechanical engineering degree from the University of Portland and an MBA from Portland State University. He started with ESCO as an engineer and has held numerous senior leadership positions.
Tim Myers has been named President, Construction & Industrial Division. Myers joined ESCO 27 years ago. The Hillsboro native received his BA in Economics from Claremont McKenna College (CA) and an MBA from St. Mary's College in Moraga, CA. Tim was most recently Vice President, The Americas where he oversaw sales, marketing and manufacturing in North and South America. He has held numerous leadership roles including overseeing operations in Latin America.
Johnny Everett, current president of ESCO-owned Ulterra Drilling Technologies, was named President of ESCO's Oil & Gas Division.
About ESCO Corporation
Headquartered in Portland, Oregon, ESCO Corporation is a leading independent designer, manufacturer and provider of highly engineered wear parts and replacement products used in mining, construction & industrial, and oil & gas applications. The company operates in 28 countries on six continents, including an expansive network of 27 manufacturing facilities and more than 50 sales and distribution offices.


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If you're a fan of great video game music, you're probably familiar with Video Games Live, which produces orchestral arrangements of songs from your favorite games. Last year, frontman Tommy Tallarico took to Kickstarter to fund VGL's third album, Level 3, and the finished product is now available on iTunes and cdbaby. (Kickstarter backers, don't fret -- digital downloads and physical rewards will be headed your way soon.)
On the Warcraft front, the album features VGL's take on Invincible from Wrath of the Lich King (zoom the video above to 4:25 for a preview). If you're interested in picking up your own copy you can get Invincible for $1 or the entire album for $10 -- and if you enjoy Level 3, you should definitely check out VGL's back catalog which features more music from World of Warcraft and plenty of other games.


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For 12 years, Nicole Juday and her family lived across the street from a derelict 19th-century house that was the despair of the neighborhood.
It wasn't abandoned, but it may as well have been. A fire had destroyed much of the second floor, and raccoons were living in the attic. In the backyard was the marshy remains of what had once been a swimming pool, a cesspool that parents worried their children might fall into.
As for Ms. Juday, she thought that the house would be turned into a residential mental health center, like so many of the other large homes in the Germantown neighborhood here, or that a developer would buy it and raze it, putting up a concrete-block apartment tower.
"More than wanting to save the house," she said, "I wanted to save the neighborhood."
So in 2010, she and her husband bought the seven-bedroom house and all of its contents from the elderly owner for $125,000.
Even at that price, it was no bargain. "I think the house was possibly condemnable," said Ms. Juday, 43.
It took another $400,000 and thousands of hours of labor to make it habitable. That included rebuilding it from the studs out, with new wiring, plumbing, roofing and plaster, and installing historically accurate windows and millwork. Beams were added to shore up the structure, and the brick exterior was repointed. The swimming pool was filled in, and an old caved-in Chevy was hauled out of the side yard.
Then, a year ago, about halfway through the renovation, Ms. Juday's husband moved out. She has since finished the renovation on her own and started a new job running the horticultural education program for the Barnes Foundation art collection.
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Ms. Juday's mother, Lisa Montserat, now occupies a suite on the second floor, and Ms. Juday's daughter, Rive, 17, and son, Asa, 14, have their own rooms, which they decorated themselves.
Throughout the rest of the house, though, Ms. Juday's eclectic taste is on display. In general, she said, she prefers modern design, but she doesn't like ultramodern style in an older home. "If something doesn't have patina and you're putting it into a place that has a lot of patina," she said, "it can look too anachronistic."
On the other hand, she said, "We're not trying to reinterpret some kind of golden age of anything here."
She tried to salvage what she could. The round table that sits in the entry hall she found broken in the house, but a local furniture maker refurbished it and covered the top with sheets of zinc punctuated by rivets.
The 19th-century dining chairs also came with the house, although one had been thrown out a window and was in pieces on the ground. Ms. Juday had the chairs restored and reupholstered in vintage Scalamandré fabric.
The wall dividing the kitchen and the old butler's pantry was removed to create a larger space. New appliances were installed, the original cupboards were restored and rearranged, and the original brick chimney was exposed, creating a textured backdrop for the butcher-block island and a rack of hanging pots.
What has such an extensive renovation and the accompanying upheaval taught her?
Most of all, Ms. Juday said, she has learned to trust herself.
These days, "I don't overthink things," she said. "Usually I go with my first instinct."


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2K Sports, the sports publishing label of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTWO), announced today that the highly anticipated title, Major League Baseball 2K8, is now available on retail store shelves nationwide. As the most fun and exciting baseball experience on the market, Major League Baseball 2K8 revolutionizes player control in the latest installment of the popular franchise with brand-new pitching, fielding and baserunning, as well as a completely overhauled batting interface.
To bring fans closer to the action than ever before, Major League Baseball 2K8 will also feature authentic Major League and Minor League stadiums that have been redesigned for accuracy, complete with the details and specific architecture of each ballpark and city. Other in-game features include a wholly unique trading card system to reward special achievements, robust Minor League system including 90 playable teams, all-new Signature Style animations complete with home run celebrations and unique player walk-ups, and much more.
"We're excited to offer our dedicated fans an incredibly fun and enriching baseball experience with Major League Baseball 2K8," said Christoph Hartmann, president of 2K. "With the added level of depth and realism this year, including the new intuitive player controls, online trading card system and fully playable minor league teams, Major League Baseball 2K8 provides fans the opportunity to enjoy playing baseball like never before."
Some of the exciting new features** and added content in Major League Baseball 2K8 include:
Total Pitch Control -- A new, innovative pitching interface allows players to emulate the realistic motion of pitching a baseball. Speed and accuracy are achieved by matching specific gestures and release with the right analog stick, simulating the arm and wrist action involved in throwing that particular type of pitch.
Swing Stick 2.0 -- Improved batting controls offer players unparalleled ball-to-bat contact that is determined by timing, direction and pitch location for a greater variety of realistic hits, including grounders, blooper singles, dribblers, gappers, and long home runs using the right analog stick.
All-New Baserunning -- Simplified controls allow fans to easily select players with the left analog stick and guide them toward specified bases with ease.
Precision Throw Control -- Provides unprecedented control over throw accuracy using the right analog stick, bringing a new level of realism to playing defense.
Full Minor Leagues -- Fans will be treated to 90 playable authentic Minor League teams, along with 18 Minor League stadiums in franchise and exhibition modes.
Two of the Best Commentators in the Business -- 2K Sports proudly brings back to the broadcast booth the popular duo of Jon Miller and Hall of Famer Joe Morgan, delivering the most entertaining and deepest commentary available in any baseball franchise.
2K Trading Cards -- Earn them, share them, collect them, trade them, and then take a card-based team online to compete. Unlock and open trading card packs for the most in-depth card trading system ever, taking the Major League Baseball 2K community to a new level.
Online Additions -- Experience all-new multi-player offerings, including new online lobbies to help users match up with others who want to play with a similar style, including a "Strikes Only" lobby, where pitchers can only throw in the strike zone, and lobbies where players use the advanced analog stick controls or the controls from previous iterations of the Major League Baseball 2K series. With more than one million dedicated gamers in the 2K community, it's always game time.
A Smashing Soundtrack -- 2K Sports has partnered with Pitchfork Media to construct an epic and cutting edge in-game soundtrack for the diverse tastes of today's gamers. Some of the featured artists include Modest Mouse, Peter Bjorn & John, the Cure, the Strokes, LCD Soundsystem, The Cool Kids, and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club.
**Certain features will vary between platforms.
Major League Baseball 2K8, rated E for Everyone by the ESRB, is now available for Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 2 computer entertainment systems, PSP (PlayStation Portable) system, and Wii home video game system.
For more information, log onto http://www.2ksports.com.
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Headquartered in New York City, Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc., is a global developer, marketer, distributor and publisher of interactive entertainment software games for the PC, PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 2 computer entertainment systems, PSP (PlayStation Portable) system, Xbox 360 and Xbox video game and entertainment systems from Microsoft, Wii, Nintendo GameCube, Nintendo DS and Game Boy Advance. The Company publishes and develops products through its wholly owned labels Rockstar Games, 2K Games, 2K Sports and 2K Play, and distributes software, hardware and accessories in North America through its Jack of All Games subsidiary. Take-Two's common stock is publicly traded on NASDAQ under the symbol TTWO. For more corporate and product information please visit our website at www.take2games.com.
This press release contains forward-looking statements made in reliance upon the safe harbor provisions of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. The statements contained herein which are not historical facts are considered forward-looking statements under federal securities laws. Such forward-looking statements are based on the beliefs of our management as well as assumptions made by and information currently available to them. The Company has no obligation to update such forward-looking statements. Actual results may vary significantly from these forward-looking statements based on a variety of factors. These risks and uncertainties include the matters relating to the Special Committee's investigation of the Company's stock option grants and the restatement of our consolidated financial statements. The investigation and conclusions of the Special Committee may result in claims and proceedings relating to such matters, including previously disclosed shareholder and derivative litigation and actions by the Securities and Exchange Commission and/or other governmental agencies and negative tax or other implications for the Company resulting from any accounting adjustments or other factors. Other important factors are described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended October 31, 2007, in the section entitled "Risk Factors." Further risks and uncertainties associated with Electronic Arts' unsolicited proposal to acquire the Company include: the risk that key employees may pursue other employment opportunities due to concerns as to their employment security with the Company; the risk that the acquisition proposal will make it more difficult for the Company to execute its strategic plan and pursue other strategic opportunities; and the risk that stockholder litigation in connection with Electronic Arts' unsolicited proposal may result in significant costs of defense, indemnification and liability. All forward-looking statements are qualified by these cautionary statements and are made only as of the date they are made.


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"I don't know anyone who could get through the day without two or three juicy rationalizations. They're more important than sex." -- Jeff Goldblum in "The Big Chill."
So it appears Apple Inc. of Cupertino, Calif., is really about to break with tradition and acquire Beats Electronics and Beats Music for $3.2 billion. The news caused such a tizzy in Silicon Valley and the entertainment worlds, in part, because there seemed no obvious explanation for the deal.
Of course, Beats and Apple weren't talking. And in fact, Apple is so secretive, that if the deal does close Monday, who knows if the company will even acknowledge it, let alone explain it? Apple's acquisitions are usually so small, the company typically doesn't issue press releases or note them in their public securities filings.
Will we see a press conference with Beats co-founders Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre shaking hands with Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook? Maybe, but don't necessarily hold your breath.
Absent parties from the two companies talking, plenty of other observers, analysts and thumb suckers stepped into the void to speculate. Here, then, are 10 rationalizations we've heard for the deal (offered in no particular order of sense or wisdom):
1. Apple gets Jimmy Iovine. Supposedly, music mogul Iovine is going to join in a creative advisory role. Getting the creative team of Iovine and Dr. Dre could give Apple some expanded credibility with artists and labels.
"That's a pretty darn good team," said David Bakula, senior vice president of client development and industry insights for Nielsen Entertainment.
2. Beats' brand. Apparently, some folks think that Apple is getting a bit stodgy, and dull. For folks who buy that (not saying we do!), then the Beats brand brings some cred with the millennials, aka, those who might not necessarily want to be associated with the company that makes dear old dad's iPhone.
"You've got two incredibly well-branded companies getting together here and that's a very good combination," Bakula said. "You've got a tremendously valuable brand in Apple and a tremendously valuable brand in Beats. When you think of high-end headphones, Beats is the standard."
3. Beats Music. This is the most obvious explanation, though not everyone buys it. The argument in favor: Beats interface is slick; Apple needs to get into streaming music in a bigger way; and Beats is on Android, the world's largest mobile operating system, while iTunes is not. The case against: Apple can do all of this itself; Beats Music is off to a slow start, and iTunes already has 800 million users and their credit card information.
4. Wearables. In a world where everyone is talking about the emerging field of wearable computers, Apple could use Beats' headphone business as away to better understand consumers' habits and desires. And possibly, Apple could start to sneak in some other nifty doodads into those headphones. Biosensors? Cameras? Maybe a voice control? Let your imagination run wild!
At the very least, Beats has mastered the art of getting consumers to put big, noticeable gadgets on their heads and actually make it seem cool.
"This is a fantastic fashion technology brand that has fundamentally transformed its category, and it's the category leader," said Larry Miller, professor of music business at New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. "There was a time when you wouldn't be seen outside wearing over-the-ear headphones on the street, but now it is a utilitarian fashion statement available at every price point and every color."
5. Connected home. Everyone is thinking about how to get more gadgets into every room of the house. What better way to leverage that ecosystem of Apple products than with some fabulous Bluetooth speakers that look great and can blow your windows out? But wait: What if there was a way to purchase and download content through these speakers by adding, say, a screen?
"Apple is looking at audio as a place where they can further elevate their ecosystem," said Ben Arnold, an analyst at NPD.
6. New iPhone brand. Here's a mindblower: What if Apple split its iPhones business into two lines? New iPhone remains the premium. And the mid-tier phones (like the iPhone 5c) becomes ... Beats phones. This seemed to be the notion floated by Benedict Evans, a venture partner at Andreessen Horowitz in a tweet:
7. Android. Back in ancient times, when iTunes first launched, it was a curiosity until Apple decided to make it available for Windows machines. Flash forward, and Apple still hasn't made iTunes available for Android, the world's largest mobile operating system. However, Beats is on Android. So, getting Beats gets Apple on Android without getting iTunes on Android. Get it?
8. Strong hardware business. This comes from those who say, hey, don't over-think this thing. Beats makes great headhones and speakers that it sells at a modest premium. Apple is going to get a business that is growing nicely, and will add incrementally to its revenue. And at $3.2 billion, it's a decent but not obscene premium for a company that reportedly had revenue of more than $1 billion last year. What's so bad about that?
"Apple's doing something that's pretty practical," said Brian White, an analyst at Cantor Fitzgerald. "I know a lot of people are scratching their heads around this. But it's not like this deal is way out there."
9. Algorithms. Under the hood of Beats Music is a nifty bit of technology that can start to learn about you, and your moods, and recommend music and playlists to suit your needs. Why not bake that into iTunes and other Apple products to help you connect and buy lots of different kinds of content?


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A Reuters report recently reported that nearly 21 million Americans are diabetics, mostly of the type II DM variety. This led me to think and ask how many Filipinos are diabetics. I researched about this, and most of the materials I found discussed the prevalence of diabetes in Filipino immigrants in the US.
An August 1996 article from the Annals of Internal Medicine done by Dr J Carter and colleagues reviewed the prevalence of Type II diabetes among minorities in the US. The figure below shows that Filipino minorities have a 10 percent prevalence rate of type II DM, ranking third behind the Koreans and the Mexicans.
A 2001 report by Cuasay and colleagues published in Diabetes Care showed a 16.1 percent prevalence rate of type II DM among Filipino-Americans in the Houston, Texas metropolitan statistical area. The authors reported that the reported rate is higher than the 1998 US prevalence rate of 6.5 percent.
I tried to research on any statistics done locally and all I can come up was this excerpt from this 2003 column of Dr Philip Chua which says there were more than 300,000 Filipinos suffering from Diabetes, with a local incidence rate of 3.4 percent. The same article said that the mostly affected age bracket belonged to the 40-59 age range. I think these figures are too low and does not reflect the real picture.
I came across a Filipino online magazine which quoted more recent figures. According to this website, based on the 2004 US Census Bureau International Database, there are 1,807,270 afflicted with diabetes in the Philippines, from a total population of 86,241,697.
Using a little math, and assuming those figures are correct, diabetes has about a 2.09 percent prevalence rate as of last year. The same website mentions that if the trends do not change, the diabetic population in the Philippines will balloon to 15 million by 2010.
27 October 2005
How Many Filipinos are Diabetics?
Written by Dr. Emer at 6:36 AM
3 reactions:
- jdavies said...
since this is percentage-based, look at Koreans and CHinese figures. Big big big. For pinoys, perhaps someone should start a cooking show on TV that teaches how to cook pinoy food with less carbo and less sugar. (how will you do that?) problema na nila un!
- Dr E said...
A cooking show for diabetics? That's a great idea, JDavies...especially now that the holidays are coming.
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The Dog Days are defined as the period of summer that goes from about July 3 to August 11. During this time the brightest star in the nighttime sky, Sirius, is rising in conjunction with the sun. It was once thought that the combination of the rising sun and Sirius created the most extreme heat of summer. Sirius is called the Dog Star (it resides in the constellation Canis Major, the Greater Dog). So for this reason these hot, hazy, lazy days were called the Dog Days of Summer. Our ancestors linked the Dog Star to more than just severe summer heat. They also thought the early morning appearance of Sirius could set off droughts, plagues, even madness.


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