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Despite these disclosures, Barafsky is far too easy on the criminals running the show in my opinion. Yes, what they did was blatantly illegal, the biggest heist in the history of mankind. No one is willing to call them out on it for fear of losing their Central Banker money lifelines…
Bailout cop: Treasury set 'unrealistic expectations'
Barofsky, reviewing the first big bailouts to 9 firms, concludes that the government was too rosy to the public about the banks' health.
By Jennifer Liberto, CNNMoney.com senior writer
WASHINGTON (CNNMoney.com) -- A government watchdog says federal officials weren't entirely honest with the public about the health of the first 9 financial firms that got federal bailouts, according to a report released Monday.
Bailout special inspector general Neil Barofsky says in an audit that Treasury Department officials painted an overly rosy picture, creating "unrealistic expectations," when they called the first bailout banks "healthy" institutions that would be able to lend more with government help.
"It is not our intent to suggest that government officials should make public their concerns over the financial health of individual institutions, but rather that government officials should be particularly careful, even in a time of crisis, of describing their actions (and the rationales for such actions) in an accurate manner," the report stated.
Treasury appeared to disagree with the assessment of the Special Inspector General of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (SigTARP), saying "people may differ" on the phrasing of the original bailout announcements.
"Any review of the announcements must be considered in light of the unprecedented circumstances in which they were made," wrote TARP chief Herb Allison in response to the SigTARP report.
Separately, the new audit looks into charges that federal officials strong-armed Bank of America (BAC, Fortune 500) into completing its planned purchase of Merrill Lynch, even as BofA worried about mounting losses at Merrill in late 2008. Further, the report looks into whether officials pressured BofA to conceal those losses from its shareholders.
Barofsky gives the major players the benefit of the doubt. He acknowledges that Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke and then-Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson wanted the deal to go through, fearing the potential failure of Merrill Lynch and the "collateral damage to the economy."
But Barofsky "found nothing to indicate Treasury and Federal Reserve officials instructed Bank of America executives to withhold the public disclosure of losses."
SigTARP is also involved in a separate criminal investigation, led by the New York Attorney General's Office, into the Bank of America-Merrill Lynch merger. The report doesn't mention that investigation.
Barofsky's office was created by the 2008 law that established the $700 billion federal bailout program. This audit is the fourth completed so far by SigTARP in recent months; the first looked at how banks said they used their bailout dollars.
SigTARP has opened 35 ongoing criminal and civil investigations looking for fraud, with a focus on banks that falsely applied for a bailout and those that used the TARP name in scams.
In the newest audit of the bailouts to the first 9 firms, SigTARP points out that the Federal Reserve had concerns about the financial health of several of these firms and that former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson was concerned that one would even "outright fail."
The report says that officials' portrayal of the bailout banks as healthy eventually contributed to a loss of credibility in TARP, when the firms did not lend more and when more bailouts were given to Citigroup (C, Fortune 500) and Bank of America.
"Ultimately, the lesson is straightforward: accuracy and transparency will enhance the credibility of Government programs like TARP and restore taxpayer confidence in the policy makers who manage them," the report said. "Inaccurate statements, on the other hand, could have unintended long-term consequences that could damage the trust that the American people have in their government."
Barafsky's position is one with no teeth and that's unfortunate but by design.
How 'bout we lock all the SOB's up, abolish the Fed and Treasury and just start over?

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CHICAGO, June 4, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- CME Group, the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, today announced it has expanded its agricultural options offering through the introduction of three new options on the recently-acquired KCBT hard red winter (HRW) Wheat futures contracts. KCBT Weekly Wheat Options, KCBT-CBOT Wheat Spread Options and MGEX-KCBT Wheat Spread Options will be available for trading on July 1, pending CFTC review.
"Since our acquisition of the KCBT late last year, we've taken a number of steps to grow the existing KCBT futures and options contracts," said Tim Andriesen, Managing Director, Agricultural Commodities & Alternative Investments, CME Group. "We also committed to develop new and innovative options on KCBT wheat futures to provide additional trading and spreading opportunities for our wheat customers. The introduction of these new products expands our options offering and will benefit customers of both varieties of wheat, while further solidifying our role as the leading marketplace for the trading of deep and liquid wheat benchmarks."
KCBT Weekly Wheat Options will provide HRW wheat customers with a cost-effective tool for managing event risk, such as weather and USDA reports. These options will be available for trading on the Chicago trading floor and CME Globex, and will be listed with and subject to the rules and regulations of KCBT. Weekly options on CBOT corn, wheat and soybean futures were previously introduced in June of 2011.
Additionally, KCBT-CBOT Wheat Spread Options and MGEX-KCBT Wheat Spread Options will be available for trading on the Chicago trading floor and CME Globex, and will be listed with and subject to the rules and regulations of CBOT and KCBT respectively. These two new inter-market spread options, and the existing MGEX-CBOT Wheat Spread Options, will enable agricultural participants to manage the risk associated with the price differentials inherent between the hard red spring (HRS), soft red winter (SRW) and HRW varieties of wheat.
KCBT Wheat futures and options will transition to the CME Group Chicago trading floor on July 1, when they will begin trading alongside CBOT soft red winter (SRW) wheat futures and options.
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These cookies are simple, chewy, and good! They are made without flour - the ground almonds give rich flavor and even add a little healthiness to these easy treats. I knew they were good when my family quickly devoured an entire batch and whined for more.
Even though we are in New Zealand where it is Spring time, as native Northern Hemisphere dwellers, we have the Winter holidays on our mind. The kids and I whipped up a batch of these cookies one day and dubbed them - "Snowy" in honor of the holiday season.
Maybe it's the holiday of year, maybe it's the preponderance of sweets temptimg me at every cafe in NZ, or maybe it's the adorable tiny cottage we are staying in with a white picket fence... all I know is I need to bake. For ages, I have been wanting to make my own macarons. I did some research into recipes and decided they would take way too much time, effort, and equipment for me in my temporary, basic kitchen. Plus I am way too impatient for intricate and complicated baking recipes - not my forte. So here I am making a faux-macaronish chewy almond cookie... and I am totally satisfied.
adapted from Jo Segar the Chelsea Cafe
- 2 cups ground almonds
- 3/4 cup sugar (fine/caster is preferable)
- grated zest of one orange
- 2 egg whites, room temperature
- 1 heaping tablespoon honey
- powdered sugar
Whisk room temperature egg whites until soft peaks form. (The air you whip into the egg whites will provide volume for the cookies.) Our rental's kitchen doesn't have a mixer so I found this trusty old-school-hand-mixer at the local vintage shop.
Fold sugar into egg whites. Then grate orange zest into the mix. Fold in ground almonds. Finally stir in honey. Stir to incorporate all ingredients until you have a thick sticky dough.
Cover a baking sheet with parchment paper. Sift powdered sugar over the parchment. Set aside.
Dust your work surface with sifted powdered sugar. Make small balls of dough. Roll them in the powdered sugar until well coated.
Place prepared cookies on lined and sugared cookie sheet. Make sure you leave at least 3/4 of an inch between cookies to allow for spreading during baking.
Bake for 15-18 minutes.
Let cool on a wire rack. (You can sift additional powdered sugar over the tops of the cookies if you wish.)
Makes 30 small cookies
It feels great to have a kitchen again and be able to share new recipes: I have been cooking like a fiend and there are many more recipes to come!


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Hi, Howdy... Hello!!
This week over at the Paper Cupcake's Challenge Blog; There's Magic In The Air; which you can find HERE. Gloria Westerman brings us our challenge in which she would like everyone so "Just Say Hello". So, another wards make a card/project to a new teacher, neighbor, friend...etc. anybody you want to just say hello to..... So that is exactly what I did using the freebie this week by Paper Cupcakes. The image is called "Greetings" and will only be available for free for 48 hours, so make sure you stop by and grab this cute image and play along with the challenge!
August 20, 2012
Magical Monday - "Just Say Hello"
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The availability of seminars, online courses, and other products of the AOPA Air Safety Institute will remain uninterrupted during the federal government shutdown that began Oct. 1, even if FAA safety programs must be postponed or canceled as a result of the shutdown.
The FAA Safety Team, addressing uncertainties related to the shutdown, notified pilots on Sept. 30 that some of its events, seminars, and services might be postponed or canceled. However, if an Air Safety Institute event is included in such a notification, it will run as scheduled, said Bruce Landsberg, president of the AOPA Foundation.
On Sept. 30 the FAA Safety Team posted this notice on its home page and emailed it to subscribers of its Safety Program Airmen Notification System (SPANS):
"We wish to bring to your attention that National events may have an impact on FAASTeam events, seminars and services. This may include postponement or cancelation of safety events/seminars in your area with little or no advance notice.
"For those of you who are FAASTeam Representatives, there may also be an impact on pending SPANS events, Notices, and FAASTeam Directory Applications. In the event of a government shutdown, there may be delayed response to requests that are submitted (or still pending) on or after October 1, 2013.
"We ask for your patience during this time. Thanks again for all you do to help reduce the aviation accident rate in the General Aviation community."
The federal government shutdown that began Oct. 1 will not disrupt air traffic control or cut into flight service or notam-distribution operations. But pilots could feel the bite of a prolonged shutdown in delayed medical certification, slower processing of pilot certificates, unrepaired navaids, and numerous other FAA functions as a result of staff furloughs.
Those effects of the partial government shutdown were identified in an analysis by AOPA's Government Affairs Department, which will keep AOPA members informed about the changing implications of the deadlock between the House and Senate over funding the federal government for fiscal 2014.
Financing an aircraft purchase could be slowed by lack of access to title searches, and the recording of other sales documents such as liens will be on hold. Delays in assigning N-numbers could affect new-aircraft deliveries, and requests for expedited handling may not be processed in cases where an aircraft must be permanently registered prior to an international flight.
Also, the two largest airmen knowledge testing centers issued a joint message warning of possible delays and scheduling complications if the shutdown is still in effect as of midnight Oct. 4.
Federal and contract control towers will not see service cutbacks or closures from the stalemate, unlike the circumstances that arose at the beginning of the federal budget sequester in spring 2013. Contract control towers faced a threat of widespread closings during that budget crisis until a last-ditch funding mechanism was devised.
Flight service and the distribution of notices to airmen should also proceed without interruption in the current shutdown—but other services remain vulnerable.
For example, no instrument procedures will be modified or developed during the government shutdown because of staff furloughs. Depending on the length of the shutdown, maintenance of infrastructure such as navaids could suffer, as facilities-inspection staff furloughs take their toll.
Also subject to furlough are aviation safety inspectors responsible for oversight, certification, and surveillance in areas including general aviation, commercial aviation, pilots, flight instructors, and repair stations.
Digital and printed aeronautical chart updates, downloads, and release dates could face delays, depending on how long the shutdown endures.
Little disruption of operations would affect the FAA's Research, Engineering and Development operations in fiscal 2014; its fiscal 2013 appropriation is effective for three years.
The FAA employees that administer Airport Improvement Program grants also are exempt from furlough because they are paid out of an account not affected by the budget impasse. However, accounting personnel who issue their paychecks face furloughs.
Another group of employees subject to furlough are the FAA staffers who work in rulemaking, train uncertified air traffic controllers, develop the Next Generation Air Traffic System, work in facilities and equipment capital planning, provide air traffic performance analysis, and perform legal and administrative activities.
According to the joint message posted on the websites of the knowledge-testing centers, all sites will be allowed to continue administering knowledge tests through midnight Oct. 4. Electronic results from recent examinations will not be available, and FAA support for test providers and applicants will be unavailable.
Airman applicants may still register for test appointments in hope that the shutdown will be discontinued, but scheduled tests during an extended shutdown would have to be rescheduled. Applicants should check frequently for updates.
AOPA will continue to assess the changing situation and report to members on the impact of congressional action on the budget.


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As comeback singles go, this is awesome x700!
DiS' favourite Scandi' dancefloor-warpers When Saints Go Machine are back with the first single from their forthcoming album Infinity Pool. The new record is out in May on K7!, and it follows their must-hear debut album Konkylie, which reached number six in Drowned in Sound's albums of the year back in 2011.
'Love and Respect' is the opening track from their new record and surprisingly it features Killer Mike. The band are big fans, and met Killer Mike (can we just call him Mike? It doesn't quite seem right...) at his show in Copenhagen. Towering front-man Nikolaj Manuel Vonsild explains:
"I guess people will be surprised there's a rapper on the album. We just did a song that we felt needed a rap verse. In order to keep making music we have to surprise ourselves. If we stop doing that we'll have to stop making music."
Anyway, you came here to watch the video, so here it is:
...And if you want some more, here's the band playing the DiS stage at The Great Escape last year, shot by our friends at Beatcast:


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It's been said, "There aren't words large enough to describe Jesus." Well, let's make that real estate as well.
While Jesus sits at the right hand of the Father, we have known our Savior also has a summer cottage in Rio de Janeiro. There he stands, high atop a mountain in a tropical climate becoming the centerpiece of postcards everywhere.
Now, with real estate prices tanking, the time is ripe for the Lord to secure a winter home as well. And he found some prime real estate according to this story in USA Today.
Rev. Sylwester Zawadzki, the 78-year-old priest who created the statue said it rises 108 feet, or 33 meters — one meter for every year that Jesus lived. Other members of the construction team, however, gave differing figures. One said it rises 167 feet if you include a mound it sits on and the crown on the head. By comparison, the statue in Brazil's Rio is 125 feet tall.
There's some creative license, which is nice. Chiefly, Giant Jesus has a gold King's crown fitting for a risen Savior versus the Crown of Thorns noted in every Catholic church across… well, Poland.
Apparently, the locals think Jesus making a home will be good for the local economy too:
They believe it will put their town of 22,000 on the map for tourists and Roman Catholic pilgrims and bring in needed money to renovate the historic buildings in the tiny town center.
"I am extremely proud," said Danuta Gordzelewska, a 60-year-old who watched as the statue's head was lowered into place.
Gordzelewska has donated money to the statue, which was funded by contributions from as far away as Canada. "It's special to watch something being built that later generations will have."
Yeah! Stimulate that, Congress. What! (Not a direct quote from the statue. Just sayin'.)
So, there he is.
In the humble Polish town of Swiebodzin stands the only begotten Son of God with arms open wide and becoming the bane of existence for all planes as the Lord refuses to leave the flight path for anyone.
Yes, Ghost Rider, the pattern is so righteous and full.


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Back when I was a rookie reporter at the Detroit Free Press nearly 30 years ago, the big debate the staff had over lunches was which would go bankrupt first: the big automakers or the city. And which experience would be worse.
You could make arguments for each possibility, but most of the staffers thought there was no way either event would ever actually happen. They insisted that the early signs of trouble were an anomaly or something that could be reversed before it became a calamity.
Having just earned my degree in economics, I thought back then that both were possible — many years in the future — and that bankruptcies for the Big Three would be bad for the city, but that a bankruptcy for the city would be bad for the entire country.
Sadly, what was once little more than a theory is now a reality, but what's worse is that so many people — like my old colleagues — don't recognize what the city's financial woes mean on a national level.
Detroit owes roughly $20 billion to over 100,000 creditors, but the big creditors people will be watching are the city's public-sector labor unions, which fear that a bankruptcy judge might let the city reduce or cancel pensions and retiree health benefits.
Sure, the unions have the law on their side — Michigan's state constitution protects workers' pensions from being reduced — but they still have reason to be worried. After all, Michigan law also requires public pensions to be fully funded every year, and yet Detroit apparently only managed that using accounting tricks that, by some estimates, have left the city as much as $3.5 billion off the mark.
That's why the Detroit bankruptcy filing serves as a warning beacon for everyone expecting a pension and other benefits when they retire, a signal that it's dangerous to entrust your financial future to others, assuming they are going to keep their promises.
How much precedent Detroit will set for other communities remains to be seen, but clearly everyone is watching to see what'll be allowed. Other communities on the brink will see how the Motor City comes through the experience financially and decide if they want to mark a similar course on the map, even if it is as a last resort.
There is plenty of precedent for corporations using bankruptcy to cut or eliminate pension obligations — Delta Airlines
The Pew Center for the States estimates that public pension plans nationwide were underfunded by $1.4 trillion in 2010. While the stock market has reached record highs — narrowing the gap somewhat — since then, the undeniable problem is that most state and local government pension funds don't have enough money to live up to the promises they have made.
If employers can't live up to their obligations, you can bet that the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. — the nation's pension backstop — will follow suit and run out of money too.
Even if the Detroit situation is resolved without setting some benchmark for other troubled municipalities to use and follow, the nation's pension shortfalls aren't going away; this story is going to play out again and again, and while it will be corporations, cities and towns in the headlines, it will be the nameless, faceless individuals who are the real story.
That's not a story anyone wants playing out in their own home.
Now, back to the bankruptcy filings of the big automakers for a moment. They were big stories for Detroit, but they actually showed the underlying values of the businesses; allowed a break and a chance to restructure, they were able to improve their fortunes and move forward. Talk to auto-industry analysts and some of them are more bullish on the prospects of the domestic manufacturers than they have been in decades.
The problem for the city of Detroit, by comparison, is that there is no reason to believe it comes through a bankruptcy with greatly improved prospects. The court process will be more a respite than a solution; the city will still have the same high unemployment, dwindling work force and Rust Belt economics, with the same delinquent tax revenue collections and other conditions that make it hard to see any ability to improve the long-term numbers without reducing pensions or eliminating benefits.
Even during those conversations at the Free Press in the 1980s, colleagues who had seen the city and the automakers take care of generations of workers wondered if my worries about future bankruptcy meant that workers should not trust their pensions.
"Oh, they will get pension payments," I said, "but maybe not of the size they expect, so the more they save now — rather than living as if they're set and taken care of because that's what the company or union says — the more secure they will be."
That advice holds for anyone with a pension today: Take full responsibility for your future savings, or supplement the benefits you are earning now, just in case.
Anything less than that, and you have underfunded your future.
Companies and communities can get away with underfunding their futures, to some extent. Accounting rules, revenue projections and, well, bankruptcy courts have allowed it to this point, even as the numbers have become increasingly scary.
Individuals don't have the same luxury.
If you don't save enough — and if your pension benefits are cut because of the recklessness of your past employers — no one is going to bail you out. That's what investors need to think about every time they hear about how Detroit's bankruptcy is proceeding; trouble is going to show up, even if it takes a few decades to hit your home. Instead of crossing your fingers and hoping that you won't be effected, make a plan.


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Like other years, we take some time to review the year that has passed so quickly.
2017 has been another successful year for us in Europe and Asia, but also for our clients using RSTime.
Together with Time Service Asia we have done more events than the previous years.
Two big series were of course the 24 hours series by Creventic and the Asian Le Mans series by the ACO.
But many international events were timed by our partners and our teams. A short list looks like this:
TCR International at Oschersleben, the Nurbrugring Classics, the Bikers Classics at Spa,
The FRD LMP3 races in Asia, the Classic Bikes at Luxemburg, two TCR Benelux races,
the Historic GP at Zandvoort, the 24 hours of Zolder, the American Festival at Zolder, etc.
And we had a lot of local series and events..... too much for a full list.
In total we did over 130 events in 2017, so yes, we had a busy year....
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Well, I blew through another girl?
At the meetings, she arrived 8 months ago! Now she's gone!
She is now in the hands of someone else! Hurray!
So here I am back to square one!
The dissociative disorder does not let it up!
Im getting help from people in general recovery! They do not understand dissociative disorder and I have tell them; doesn't do any good!
keep going! Don't give up!
I feel like Im getting experience!
I always hate having to go back to meetings!
I did prey about this girl!
I prey for her and hope she has everything I could ever want in my life.
Now at meetings, I sit in the back again and stare at the walls.
The real hope is to wake up and see people for who they are.
As for the girl;
She doesn't see me! I believe she needs! and wants to feed! I want to believe that she sees me! I find out the hard way, she does not! ITs very sad! She might be attracted to me! but she is attracted to a millions guys! a satanist is just as easy as a priest! She does not care if she goes out with someone of little conscious! it means nothing to her! and it doesn't matter if she goes out with someone of depth! She doesn't care either way! That just ain't my cup a tea!
Im not going out with someone that abuses their kids because they have a nice @ss! Or someone with no spirituality who thinks they are the creators of the universe. Its not for me!
I truly believe God is giving me experiences to sharpen me! When Im me again, I will venture outward to a place or places to find the people that are " my people"! and this is an important concept. The lesson Im learning; I have to let go of the wrong people; stop making them out to be the the right people out of desperation. This is hurting me to call right wrong and wrong right! Im going to the wrong people for love and have a blind spot when viewing them! later, I get slapped in the face because of my folly! and its getting old to keep attempting to be right with anger, in the face of truth! The truth is a brutal thing!
Im gaining great experiences from the 12 rooms. But the people are like vampires. They are way over my head in cruelty and deceptive arrogance.
Ive preyed about this girl! God tells me to let her go, She might be more in line with him then me, and Im not the one ready! Who knows! I am inline with God! Im trying! she might be to mature! who knows! I don't know! and it does not matter, I was cut throated out of the deal. Nothing new, Im used to it!
Possible Im at these places to learn and not get involved; it seems that is what always happens. In the end Im not seen by anyone; valued!
Why can't these people ask decent questions to find out the truth! Possibly, they don't care and continue to live their lives.
Honestly, I think these people are Godless! I think they are doing the best they can! We are of different wave lengths! They do not have the depth of conscious to understand the basic levels of trust or principles to be human! They are faulty in this area! Possibly, better for one to marry the other of the same clan shallowness!
Im faulty! not exactly inline as they are with the same specific growth needs. Who knows!
I was not appreciated! so, I was dropped of! Possibly in the future I will find people that don't " drop other people of"!
I have no importance in their lives; meaning this girls life! and the varied others like her! It has been shown in the real world to be true! Im of no value to many; they do not have the depth!


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Holiday Greetings from the Ed Sullivan Show was a Christmas special that aired on CBS on December 20, 1992, hosted by comedian Bob Newhart and featuring vintage material from The Ed Sullivan Show along with new Christmas performances. Jim Henson's Muppets were featured guests, primarily Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy. The pair appear in the opening teaser discussing the show and its big stars. Though some may be bigger than Miss Piggy, Kermit claims none are as wide, earning himself a karate chop.
Later in the show, Bob Newhart narrates a brief series of clips and stills showing Jim Henson's work on The Ed Sullivan Show, segueing into the return of Kermit and Miss Piggy, in full Dickensian garb to promote The Muppet Christmas Carol. The frog and the pig squabble again and Newhart tries to promote peace by asking Miss Piggy about her karate chops. She provides a visual demonstration of several different styles, but on the last swing, Kermit ducks to the floor and Piggy inadvertently pummels Newhart instead.
A still breathless Newhart announces "that legendary author, Charles Dickens" (Gonzo) to set the scene. Gonzo and Rizzo introduce the Cratchit home, where Bob Cratchit (Kermit), Emily Cratchit (Piggy) and Tiny Tim Cratchit (Robin) sing "It Feels Like Christmas." They are joined by Fozziwig (Fozzie Bear), Bunsen and Beaker, Gonzo and Rizzo, penguins, Mudwell the Mudbunny, and Murray, all in costume.
The next segment features clips of other puppets who appeared on the Sullivan show, including Bil Baird's marionettes, Shari Lewis with Lamb Chop and Charlie Horse, and Topo Gigio.
Other guests on the special included Johnny Mathis, Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, among others.
The special was originally released on VHS in 1994, distributed by Walt Disney Home Video, and was later released on VHS and DVD by SOFA Entertainment in 2003.
- Written by: Peter Elbling, Andrew Solt
- Special Muppet Material Written by: Jim Lewis
- Directed by: Jeff Marglois, Andrew Solt
- Muppet Performers: Dave Goelz, Jerry Nelson, Steve Whitmire, and Frank Oz
- Special Thanks to: Martin Baker, Brian Henson
- Muppets set designed by: Val Strazovec


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Newswise — Men infected with human papillomavirus (HPV) are at greater risk of becoming infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) than men who are not HPV positive, according to researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Preventing HPV infection could be a way to slow the HIV epidemic, the researchers said in a study published online recently in the Journal of Infectious Diseases.
"Finding a vaccine to prevent HIV is the greatest hope for curbing the world's AIDS pandemic, but so far there is no such vaccine," said Jennifer S. Smith, Ph.D., research associate professor of epidemiology in the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health and lead author of the study. "However, there is a vaccine to prevent specific types of HPV infection, and vaccinating young men before they become sexually active could potentially help prevent the spread of HIV."
The study was conducted between 2002 and 2006 in men aged 18 to 24 in Kisumu, a city in western Kenya. The main trial, conducted by University of Illinois at Chicago researcher Robert Bailey, Ph.D., and colleagues, aimed to determine the effectiveness of male circumcision in reducing the incidence of HIV infection. The 2,168 men who participated in the HPV part of the trial were – at the time of their first study visit – uncircumcised, did not have HIV and were sexually active. The men were tested for HPV infections at the start of the trial and over 24 months; most were followed for 42 months.
At the outset, researchers found that half of the men (1,089 out of 2,168) were infected with HPV on the skin of their penis. They speculated that since HPV can cause penile lesions and affect immune responses, it may enhance susceptibility to HIV infection. After 42 months, 5.8 percent of the men who were HPV positive at the beginning of the trial were HIV positive, compared to 3.7 percent of the men who did not have HPV.
"Even when we controlled for circumcision status, herpes and other sexual and sociodemographic risk factors, men infected with HPV at the first study visit were at greater risk for HIV infection than men without HPV," Smith said. "If our findings are confirmed in other studies, then HPV prevention could become an effective tool for HIV prevention."
Carcinogenic types of HPV are the leading cause of cervical cancer, both globally and in the United States. HPV vaccination is routinely recommended for females aged 11 to 12, by agencies including the U.S. Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, the Centers for Disease Control, and Prevention and the National Cancer Institute. Cervical cancer screening is still necessary for women following vaccination.
HPV infects both young females and males. The quadrivalent HPV vaccine is also approved in the U.S. for young men. HPV can cause other diseases, including genital warts and other cancers.
Study co-authors include Stephen Moses M.D., and Ian Maclean, Ph.D., University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada; Michael Hudgens, Ph.D., research associate professor of biostatistics, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health; Corette B. Parker, Dr.P.H., senior biostatistician, Research Triangle Institute; Kawango Agot, Ph.D., UNIM Project, Kisumu; Jeckoniah O. Ndinya-Achola, University of Nairobi; Peter J. F. Snijders and Chris J.L.M. Meijer, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam; and Robert C. Bailey, Ph.D., professor of epidemiology, University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health.
The research was supported by the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research Investigator Award.
The study is titled "Increased Risk of HIV Acquisition among Kenyan Men with Human Papillomavirus Infection." For more information, visit http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/jid/current


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OAKLAND -- Tanner Scheppers earned his third win of the season on Tuesday night by pitching two scoreless innings in the Rangers 6-5 victory over the Athletics. Manager Ron Washington said on Wednesday he still wants to stay away from using Scheppers more than one inning at a time.
"We certainly needed two innings out of him last night," Washington said. "Thank God it was a cool night so he was able to stay strong and go back out there. But we don't like using him in multiple innings."
Scheppers has appeared in 17 games for the Rangers, and he has pitched more than one inning in just five of those appearances. Only three times has he pitched two complete innings.
"We'd like to use him just one inning so we have him the next day," Washington said. "Sometimes you have to push the envelope, and last night was one of those nights. Our intention is to use him for just one inning. We haven't discussed plans for constantly pitching him in multiple innings."
Scheppers has emerged as the Rangers No. 1 right-handed setup reliever. He entered Wednesday's game with a 0.45 ERA, having allowed just one run in 20 innings. He is also one of three American League relievers with three wins.


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Jeff Ciachurski, CEO of Western Wind Energy, responds to Tom Konrad's letter
18 Feb, 2013, 01:25 GMT
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, February 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --
- TSX.V Symbol: "WND"
- OTCQX Symbol: "WNDEF"
- Issued and Outstanding: 70,656,722
Jeff Ciachurski wishes to personally respond to Tom Konrad's promotional news article dated February 13, 2013.
There was a series of phone calls between Jeff Ciachurski, CEO of Western Wind Energy and Tom Konrad, a contributing writer to Forbes. After this discussion, Mr. Konrad produced an article titled "Why I'm Accepting Brookfield Offer for $2.60 per Share for Western Wind." In this Article, Mr. Konrad makes a series of naked assertions. To set the record straight, Mr. Ciachurski is responding to each of Mr. Konrad's subject paragraphs. We are hopeful that Mr. Konrad will reproduce, verbatim, this rebuttal from Jeff Ciachurski.
Mr. Konrad's first paragraph is entitled "What Changed My Mind" and in this paragraph Mr. Konrad talks about speaking to fund managers and Brookfield's head of media relations.
Jeff Ciachurski responds by saying that Brookfield's Head of Media Relations can only disclose the party line of Brookfield. Brookfield's CEO or CFO had refused to speak with Tom Konrad. Regarding the hedge fund managers who spoke with Tom Konrad, most are "event driven" fund managers who solely purchased stock when the Company was put up for sale or when they were aware that a sales process was imminent. Together, these event driven funds constitute approximately 13 million shares or the vast majority of the parties who have tendered. In fact, it was these funds that contacted Brookfield and agreed to tender if the bid was raised to $2.60. These funds became so over-weighted with our stock in a situation where they had a limited timeline, that there was no other alternative but to tender.
Mr. Konrad's second paragraph is entitled "The Situation As I Now See It." In this paragraph, Mr. Konrad gives an opinion as to what buyers will pay; states our lack of intention to sell; declares no value to Yabucoa; states Western Wind's share price will decline significantly if the bid expires; states allegations of alienating possible buyers; and Mr. Konrad's view that he can sway the public to whether or not Brookfield wins the vote.
"What Buyers Will Pay - Why Not More Than $3"
Mr. Ciachurski replies that Mr. Konrad is unaware that hostile bids for independent power producers are virtually non-existent. The best-suited and most efficient purchasers for Western Wind are US regulated utilities and their non-regulated subsidiaries. Mr. Konrad fails to understand that executive committees within these utilities will not bid on a company, simply for a break-up fee and incur the public disdain within their regulated jurisdiction, of getting into a hostile bidding war against an insider such as Brookfield, who holds a below market price share position. Brookfield knows this and the only hope of Western Wind shareholders getting a better price is by Brookfield not obtaining the minimum tender and publicly saying it is walking away. As Mr. Ciachurski has stated to Mr. Konrad several times, this is a battle between Brookfield and the Western Wind shareholders and not between Brookfield and Jeff Ciachurski. Mr. Ciachurski's job is to give guidance and if Mr. Konrad feels that his investment advice has overreaching logic and conclusions, this is another feather in the cap for Brookfield.
"Lack of Intention to Sell - Ciachurski's Compensation"
In this paragraph, Mr. Konrad wrongly states that there will be two change of control payments. There is only one and that was paid just before the Company's AGM as a precaution that either Savitr or Brookfield, if successful, in either the proxy battle or subsequent hostile bid, would not honor any of the employees' pre-established change of control payments. It is standard in a hostile environment, whether by proxy battle or hostile bid, that the non-incumbent winning party, not honor any employment agreement. This leads to years of litigation and in the case of the proxy battle, would have led to a diminished sales price. Mr. Konrad further fails to state that Jeff Ciachurski is one of the largest shareholders and stands to benefit the greatest from any increase in value.
"Declares No Value to Yabucoa - Financing Yabucoa"
Jeff says Mr. Konrad turns on its head, the entire basic principles of project finance. The most efficient cost of capital is bank debt. Currently, project financed debt is available at LIBOR +2.75 therefore, the more bank debt on any project, the more superior returns to the project sponsor. The more equity in a project, the lower the rate of return. Equity rates of return are much higher than bank debt therefore, companies that have to sell copious amounts of corporate equity to meet a project equity requirement, are lowering the project's total yield. No bank with an "A" rating or better, can simply increase the interest rate to meet a perceived serious risk of default.
Similar to Windstar and Kingman, the rates we received, were the lowest rates available, at that particular time, to any party. In the case of Windstar, where we had an institutional lending group (life insurance companies), rather than banks, the interest rate is higher because it is fixed for 21 years and does not have any interest rate hedging costs, which, at the end of the day, becomes a more stable and predictable expense, yet at a total costs similar to the bank debt with swaps. In fact our audited financial statements show we have raised only $70 Million in total corporate book equity since incorporation. However we control $430 Million in assets and have a hostile bidder valuing that total corporate equity at $190 Million. This is a superior conclusion unmatched by the Yieldco's quoted by Mr. Konrad who do not trade more than their book share equity value.
"The Stock Will Fall"
Jeff says the statement by Mr. Konrad that the stock price will fall is contrary to his earlier paragraph where he states that the Company is worth more than $2.60 per share. However, Mr. Konrad does not clarify whether he is a "value investor" or a "stock trader." He is certainly not a pure clean energy investor. This is verified within Mr. Konrad's February 13th article where he states "Brookfield and Algonquin are the largest pure play renewable companies in North America." Mr. Konrad claims to own shares of both. According to Algonquin's financial statements and website, Algonquin is a significant fossil fuel generator and utility distributor of fossil fuels. This makes Mr. Konrad not a "pure" clean energy investor therefore; his recommendation of the stock dropping can only be that of a view from a short-term stock trader. We cannot predict what the price of Western Wind will do in the short term but we do know that Mr. Konrad believes the shares are worth more than $2.60.
"Alienating Buyers"
Jeff says Western Wind has been public since December 23, 1999 and until July 30th, 2012, has never agreed to put itself up for sale. There is simply no history or record of alienating buyers. Algonquin issued a hostile "bear hug letter" in October of 2011 and Savitr launched a proxy battle on July 31st, 2012. On November 23, 2012, Brookfield stated its intentions of launching a hostile bid. For the past 16 months, Western Wind has been under hostile attempt from two parties, with the Brookfield hostile bid being proxy war 2.0. We would like to invite Mr. Konrad to offer the public his version of "How Not to Alienate Hostile Bidders."
"Our Decision Makes a Difference"
Jeff says Mr. Konrad takes pride in the fact that his newsletter may be able to sway shareholders to tender to the Brookfield bid. He does that by saying he would rather take $2.60 now than waiting 3-4 months for an extra 5% - 8%. None of these arguments are supported by fact, simply Mr. Konrad's desire to cash-out on a share position unknown to the public. The public is also unaware as to when Mr. Konrad buys or sells shares, in relationship to his "Buy and Sell" opinion letters. Such is the field in the unregulated game of newsletter writers.
At the end Mr. Konrad fails to state that under Jeff Ciachurski's leadership, Western Wind helped create hundreds of high paying true green energy jobs. Western Wind paid tens of millions in sales taxes, millions in taxes to the Countries in which it does business and millions per year in additional land taxes for its assets. Western Wind was a 35-cent IPO in December 1999 and even at only $2.60, is the green energy market leader with a Combined Annual Growth Rate on share value of 20% per year, each and every year since 2000. Asset growth is a staggering 60% annually since 2000. Virtually every other green energy company has failed to meet these exceptional targets or simply failed completely.
Shareholder of Western Wind Energy Corp.
Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
Certain statements contained in this news release may constitute forward-looking information under applicable Canadian securities legislation. These statements relate to future events and are prospective in nature. All statements other than statements of historical fact may constitute forward-looking statements or contain forward-looking information. Forward-looking statements are often, but not always, identified by the use of words such as "may", "will", "project", "predict", "potential", "plan", "continue", "estimate", "expect", "targeting", "intend", "could", "might", "seek", "anticipate", "should", "believe" or variations thereof. Forward-looking information may relate to management's future outlook and anticipated events or results and may include statements or information regarding the future plans or prospects of the Company.
Forward-looking information is based on certain factors and assumptions regarding, among other things, the outcome of a hearing before the OSC, if such hearing occurs, the results of a valuation, if obtained by Brookfield , and the availability of a financially superior offer,. Several factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed in the forward-looking statements, including, but not limited to: the outcome of a hearing before the OSC, if such hearing occurs, the results of a valuation, if obtained by Brookfield, may not be as anticipated by the Company, actions taken by Brookfield, actions taken by the Western Wind Shareholders in relation to the Offer, the possible effect of the Offer on the Company's business, the outcome of the Company's previously-announced sale process, and the availability of value-maximizing alternatives relative to the Offer. Additional risks and uncertainties can be found in the Company's MD&A for the year ended December 31, 2011 and the Company's other continuous disclosure filings which are available at http://www.sedar.com.
Forward-looking statements and forward-looking information involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results or events to differ materially from those anticipated. Forward-looking information is subject to a variety of known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual events or results to differ from those reflected in the forward-looking statements including, without limitation: the risk that the outcome of a hearing before the OSC will not be in the Company's favor, the results of the valuation, if obtained by Brookfield, will not be as anticipated by the Company, the progress of Western Wind's sales process, and, assuming the Company receives an expression of interest from a prospective purchaser, whether a financially superior offer for Western Wind emerges, whether the Company is able to successfully negotiate a prospective sales transaction and whether the conditions of any proposed transaction, including receipt by the Company of all necessary approvals, are met.
The Company believes that the expectations reflected in the forward-looking statements contained in this news release are reasonable, but no assurance can be given that they will prove to be correct. Actual results and future events may differ materially from those anticipated and accordingly forward-looking statements should not be unduly relied upon. Forward-looking statements contained in this document speak only as of the date of this news release. Except as required by applicable law, Western Wind disclaims any obligation to update any forward-looking information.
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He's got a huge blade and a strong will and mind.
He's my favorite in the game and he's pretty well-balanced making him a great character to play as.
So, what do you think of him?
He's got a huge blade and a strong will and mind.
He's my favorite in the game and he's pretty well-balanced making him a great character to play as.
So, what do you think of him?
His personality is rather humorous with many funny quotes, with somewhat of a serious side (I think). Not my favorite but pretty close.
Moveset seems to be based on crowd clearing while his musou deals with officers. Its works well but I do tend to be knocked out of moves rather easily. I admit, in this case I am not sure whether I overestimated him or he has weak defense.
Ahhhh Sakon there's nothing about him that I don't like.
His move set is pretty decent though I don't use any of his special attacks as I don't find them to useful but his normal, charge and musou attacks more then make up for it.
His attitude is very good as well as while he's usually relaxed he's still taking the battles seriously knowing the weaknesses of the army and what needs to be done to achieve victory. Voice actors really suit this attitude as well.
"There are 10 types of people in the world... those who understand binary and those who don't."
Sakon is most likely my 2nd favourite, right behind Mitsunari. Mainly because his design and personality are just awsome, and his moveset is just brillient for a crowd clearer like myself
There isnt really much that I dont like about him
I'm sure it's obvious he is my favourite with my signature and avatar. ^^
I just like everything about him, his personality is both strong and humorous, his sword offers him great range and I love the movesets that come attached with them – offering quality clearing and officer beating ability. His cover fire ability in SW2 is one of the best in the game as well; I love to pull that out when the going gets tough.
Then I really dig his appearance as well, the long sideburns are just full of win.
Sakon Shima is cool guy, and probably the only one who dared to call Mitsunari as a jerk xD Sometimes it's true that Mitsunari didn't deserve him as his retainer (historically). He has a nice moveset and quite wide range. His special is useful after i get used to using him. And in my opinion, his 3th and 4th weapon design is just awesome
Btw I've just known that Sakon is made based on Elvis Presley ;-;
I pray for the day I can play WO2 and SW3 in PC version...!!
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I love Sakon Shima. He kinda reminded me of Xiahou Dun when I first used him. I love his musou and moveset since it's easy to juggle around. One thing though, I don't care for him impersonating Elvis. I find it to be quite cheesy. >.<
i think Sakon Shima is cool-looking and seems like a cool guy in general. But, i hate his moveset. It's slow and not fun to play at all. I hope its better in SW3.
I'll admit that Sakon left me with a WTF look on my face when I first saw him.
I played Onimusha: Dawn of Dreams before SW2, and in that game Sakon is a hulking warrior with the brain of a slime.
I played SW2, and Sakon was an ingenuous tactician with kind of a laid-back personality...you can all guess my face at that point.
Anyway, I like the guy in WO. L+R1 makes him cast Force Lightning for free
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I love sakon, he's smooth, good samurai and clever
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The woes of the world
appear insignificant.
Just for this moment!
Zunday Zen … Just this Moment!
The woes of the world
The woes of the world
appear insignificant.
Just for this moment!
The Art of Photography
Less is not enough.
Exploring my world with pictures and words.
To See a World in a Grain of Sand...
My Journey Towards Retirement by the Sea
And then I stop and sit and eat.
Professional Wildlife, Landscape and Seascape Photography
Following the Path to the Past
Strolling around SE Michigan & sending joy in the journey.
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Still learning after all these years.....
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It is Friday, and that means that it is Show Us Where You Live over at Kelly's Korner!!! Today is all about bedrooms, so without further ado, let's get started!!!
Our home has 4 bedrooms, but one is being used currently as a therapy/play room for Ava. So here are the other three! I know that the kid's rooms are a different day, but I thought I would go ahead and share what Ava's room looked like after we moved in, and when the time comes for kids bedrooms I will share what it looks like now!
First up, our Master Bedroom!
|Excuse the messy bed making. It was done in a hurry!
|I was a sweet wife and let Cole hang the TV instead of the mirror above our dresser in this house. It really made the most sense!
|You can't tell in these pictures, but this room has 18 foot ceilings! It is a large room anyway (but the smallest of our bedrooms), but the tall ceilings make it feel so big and bright! I love it!
|I know have sheers hanging on the windows. The bed has been in our family for generations. It is an antique iron bed that weighs about 100 lbs!
|This is how Ava's room looked when we first moved in. I haven't painted her room yet because I knew we would be repainting for her big girl room redo, which is coming up in the near future!
|Her changing area. Those were her curtains in our old house. We took them with us (don't worry, it was in the contract!) and I decided to reuse them like this!
|Her reading nook that has now been changed up with a beanbag chair from PBK. And my sweet little naked girl down there! ;)


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Funky Junk (DEFINED): rusty hinges, old license plates, her get down, dusty, dirty, get it done spirit,
junky fabulishousness (ya like that new word?)
Some examples:
Miss Mustard (DEFINED): refined, elegant, composed, classic bella casa – gorgeous. She works HARD to make it look this effortless!
see the differences?
but then do you also see the similarities?
Both are lovely, unique, inspired, awesome!
thank you funky junk donna and miss mustard seed for following your own paths!
Your images are all diverse and yet gorgeous in their own right…
so here's my version of their styles:
I have bits and pieces from around our cottage that fit the bill for both of these styles….
so I guess …..this {northern cottage} is a ….. little bit country and a little bit rock and roll
a little bit classic and a little bit junky
a little bit serene and a little bit hyped up
Here are some snippets that I feel have been inspired (rather than straight out copying) by these two:
funky junk remote storage
some other shots from around this cottage that remind me of the mixture of funky junk and mustard styles:
a glass vessel full of antique doorknobs
not sure – junky and/or refined?
I just like it
more combos of junky and refined:
ok so you can see from those shots above that I lean a little more toward junk.
Just sayin.
So I really tried to study Miss Mustard a bit more and
s .t. r. e. t. c. h…. myself.
Here's some that are pure Miss Mustard Seed inspired and little less junkified:
Here was my inspiration
ahhhh lovely and serene image above, right?
and here is my version:
I have a newfound love for drawing nests now.
I didn't know that I could!!
this copy challenge inspired me to do something different and I love that I did!
I have other paint projects on my list that I am totally inspired to complete but it is WAY TOO COLD HERE to paint out in the garage yet….spring oh spring where are you?
so you'll see those someday soon (I hope!)


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In a sort of conflation of reality television concepts, last night's episode of Intervention may have provided a peek into what the future could hold for some of those career kiddie pageant contestants we see on Toddlers & Tiaras. Tiffany began competing in pageants when she was 9 months old, and continued to do so regularly throughout her childhood winning over 300 trophies and crowns. She admits being addicted to that "top-of-the-world" feeling she received when she won a pageant, and the memory of it makes her feel even worse now that she's on "the bottom" as a drug addict. She quit pageants and high school when she was 16 and immediately began using meth, GHB, and Xanax, to which she's been addicted for 8 years.
Obviously, being a former child pageant contestant isn't solely responsible for her current state. Tiffany's had a rough background, with an abusive father and a permissive mother. Additionally, she's caught up in something of a Winter's Bone lifestyle, in which she and several members of her extended family cook crystal meth. She uses a rented storage locker—where she keeps her trophies and crowns from her pageant days—to use drugs. In the end, she agreed to go to treatment, but left early and returned to using.


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ABC Daytime is joining ABC and Disney in their efforts to support and promote the upcoming movie musical "NINE". Throughout the month of December, All My Children, One Life To Live and General Hospital will incorporate "NINE" into their show's story lines. To kick off the celebration, the shows have begun counting down the Top NINE moments of 2009 for every soap. Check out part 1 of the Top NINE One Life To Live Moments of 2009 below. "NINE" stars Daniel-Day Lewis, Kate Hudson, Penelope Cruz, Judi Dench, Marion Cotillard and Nicole Kidman and is directed by Rob Marshall. The film will be released on Christmas Day.
Top NINE One Life To Live Moments of 2009 Part 1:
To find out more, visit: One Life To Live
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Unsolved mystery: $132 deposit for a land line?
The letter from Sprint arrived in Francesca Fornari's life when her stress was already sky-high. She'd just moved to Charlottesville, was about to start law school, and suddenly had the feeling that getting phone service would make the other annoyances look like a nap in a hammock.
On July 30 she'd applied online for new service. A couple of days later, after receiving no emailed confirmation, she called the website's 800 number and learned that until she paid a deposit of $132, her application was "on hold."
She thought the amount seemed steep, but when the representative told her this was the normal amount, she paid it and signed up for local service, which would cost her $24 a month. That included no special features, and, because she plans to use her cell phone for all long-distance, she didn't designate a long-distance carrier.
Three weeks later, she received a form letter from Sprint stating that the decision to require a deposit stemmed from her credit report. She was concerned that the report might contain wrong information, since, as far as she knew, her credit history was good.
"If you would like a statement of specific reasons why your application [to get service without a deposit] was declined," read the letter, "please contact us at 1-877-386-0217."
So she called the number. The description that follows comes from a letter she wrote Sprint on August 25.
"I am not going to recount," she began, "the many conversations I had with the multiple departments I was transferred to in the several hours I spent trying to simply request what was offered in the letter... I was treated rudely, repeatedly told in so many words that what I was saying did not make sense... and that Sprint has 'no knowledge' of why my application was denied. In addition, I was told that the [phone] number listed in the letter was incorrect."
She went on to request the statement of reasons she'd been unable to order by phone, and ended by stating that she has filed a complaint with the State Corporation Commission. She also contacted me.
I began by calling the number in the form letter and asking if I was in the right place to get a statement of reasons that would explain why Sprint was requiring a deposit for new service. The person on the other end was mystified by this request and transferred me to customer service– where an equally mystified employee said customer service has nothing to do with determining deposits or explaining the reasons behind them.
I gave up on that and attempted to check with Jim Harlow, Sprint public relations manager, and Kim Burton, who manages Charlottesville's call center (where requests for new service are processed). I expected to hear back from one of them the next day, but instead got a call from Tom Matthews, a Sprint spokesman in Wake Forest, North Carolina.
The conversation was frustrating. Matthews began by explaining how Sprint computes deposits when, based on a number of factors, they're required at all. That was fine– except that his example included an estimated $50 per month in long distance, and nothing I said could convince him that this didn't apply in Fornari's case. I finally gave up, and we moved on to the form letter with the seemingly incorrect number.
That's when things got really strange. Matthews' focus was on finding reasons why such a large deposit made perfect sense, when neither Fornari nor I had been able to find anyone at that number who knew what a "statement of reasons" is. I finally gave up on that point as well.
What concerns me most is that he expressed no concern whatsoever about Fornari's treatment when she was simply following Sprint's instructions for obtaining a promised document. Only when I (again) read him the details of Fornari's experience did he admit that no, that wasn't how a customer should be treated.
Even more curious, he assumed that whatever I wrote would be unfair. "I used to do your job," he said.
After that I tried to get his boss's phone number, but he adamantly refused to cough it up. After more prodding, he finally gave it to me, but by then I was too weary to call; I'd had enough of Sprint for one day– enough, in fact, for a whole passel of days.
Do you have a consumer problem or question? Email the Fearless Consumer, write her at 100 Second Street NW, 22902, or call 295-8700, ext. 406.


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It was written by Edi Weitz and can be found at http://weitz.de/html-template/.
Jörg Höhle also liked the idea of a clear and complete separation between HTML (written by designers) and code. He came up with a variant of Edi's approach to HTML template. It uses Edi's parsing code (thanks!), no more, but the programmer view on it feels very different.
Consider Edi's 7x7 chess board example on his documentation page and how my code would look like:
(setq my-template ;; load and check against specification (tmpl-load "file.html" '((LOOP rows (LOOP cols colorful-style content))))) (let ((counter 0)) (tmpl-print my-template (lambda (rowprinter) (loop repeat 7 do (funcall rowprinter (lambda (cellprinter) (loop repeat 7 do (funcall cellprinter (oddp counter) (format nil "~R" counter)) (incf counter))))))))
Jörg Höhle's design goals:
- Separate HTML design from code as much as possible, the key
idea in the template approach.
- Verifiable specification of the interface between
both, never see "$foo" in a user's browser as an indication that
some variable was not substituted.
- Designer and programmer work concurrently early
on. The programmer may use a default template automatically derived
from the specification, the web-designer a random-content template
delivering web-server based on this specification.
- Efficiently deliver data, which should be no
slower than frameworks based on direct embedding of code in HTML or
vice-versa. That's why I rejected intermediate structures (Edi's template
structure) and produce compilable code. A parsed template
becomes Lisp code, which can be either compiled and loaded as such
from the file system, or compiled on the fly at load-time.
- Incrementally deliver results as produced (useful
for huge data or HTTP 1.1 chunked encoding) which is incompatible
with non-lazy intermediate structures.
- Provide for lexical scoping in templates,
unlike Perl's HTML::Template. That is, a TMPL_VAR occuring
inside TMPL_LOOP may refererence variables defined in an
outer (e.g. global) level. There's no need to repeat definitions at
inner levels.
- Deliver data in pieces as large as posible: i.e. no individual
calls to PRINC or FORMAT for each HTML tag, coalesce these
- Early HTML validation of the templates
- some more I forgot...
[This next section confuses me a bit. I think a list entry refers to Edi's version, but I can't really tell.[ Some differences between Edi and Jörg's work include:
- No
TMPL_INCLUDE and is left to the application.
TMPL_VAR may have content, which is valuable for
the web designer's GUI: s/he sees this content up to a closing
My experience:
- The above specification is not all about the interface between programmer and designer. URL structure, form names etc. need also be agreed upon.
- The template approach is very useable for applications with small or medium demand for variable appearance. Or you'd need too many templates.
- I generated pages using templates featuring highly dynamic content (e.g. variable numbers of both rows and colums of a table, selectable and variable order) which some people initially thought not usable with a strict templates approach. It was, in fact, clean and easy.
- TMPL_LOOP and TMPL_VAR are really general and could even emulate TMPL_IF.
- I generated my templates from Lisp code via SXML, instead of having a designer. This aids consistency among templates. For a all-by-one-person job, the separation is clear overhead, even if there's potential for code reuse. You'd probably prefer a HTML-from-sexpr approach in such a case and bypass templates.
- HTML validation of the templates is hindered by
TMPL_IF with an ELSE part, substitutions
inside attributes and obviously only possible when the
substitutions done by TMPL_VAR affect the HTML
structure. The most dynamic template is TMPL_VAR
- As an enhancement, there could be a mechanism for global substitutions which would remain outside of the specification. E.g. some pages like to display calendars, the current date or use a mapping from month names to numbers etc. Such substitutions could always be present, across all pages of the application.