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You just finished your post and made it back to your barracks room. Its another rainy night in Estasia. Three more weeks and you will have completed your basic training in the Deliberative Army. You have already received the first set of minor augmentations. You are faster, stronger, smarter, and healthier than you have ever been. Your eyesight is nearly perfect in the low light conditions. You reach your small rack and check your gear out of habit. Everything is in its place. The guards are changing shifts. Everyone near you is either sleeping or are quietly preparing themselves for sleep. You lay in your rack and drift off to sleep.
You aren't sure if its the flash of green light or the thunderous explosion that awakens you. Something is very wrong. The alarms scream to life and acknowledge your worst fears. The base is being attacked. Here. In the heart of the Deliberative. You are nearly finished strapping on your armor and checking your gear before you are fully conscious. Your weeks of Tiger Warrior Training seem to have paid off. Captain Talos would surely be pleased with your squad's performance. If only he were here. In the back of your mind you wonder if this could be a drill. A final test. You get your answer as you clear the door to your squad bay and see the bodies scattered around. Hundreds of them. Recruits and even Dragon Blooded officers lay in tatters. Your armor's visor heightens your senses but you still can't see what is causing the chaos.
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The College of Engineering and the National Academy of Engineering make for a powerful team in presenting a public symposium on manufacturing, next Tuesday, April 1.
The free symposium is being held in conjunction with a regional meeting of the academy — the first such meeting ever held at UC Davis. And why not? We have 14 members here!
The academy meeting, to be held in the morning, is private. The symposium will run from 1:45 to 6 p.m. in Ballrooms A and B at the Conference Center. Interested in attending? Please register here.
Academy members at UC Davis include Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi, a professor of electrical and computer engineering, and Dean Enrique Lavernia, a distinguished professor of chemical engineering and materials science.
Katehi and Lavernia will join the academy president, Dan Mote, Regents Professor, University of Maryland, College Park. in giving opening remarks at the symposium.
Two speakers will discuss Cepheid, a developer and manufacturer in the health care field of molecular diagnostic testing. Academy member M. Allen Northrup, a principal of the Northrup Consulting Group, will give a presentation titled, "Cepheid: An Example of Successful Technology Transfer"; while Cepheid's executive vice president and chief medical and technology officer, David Persing, will address "Cepheid, State-of-the-Art Diagnostic Systems, Their Roots and Their Horizons."
The program also includes two members of the UC Davis faculty:
- Kyriacos Athanasiou, distinguished professor and chair, Department of Biomedical Engineering — "Translating Engineering Advances to Medicine: A Conduit Toward Manufacturing in Biomedical Engineering."
- Cristina Davis, professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering — "Miniature Chemical Sensors and Smart Algorithms for Noninvasive Biological Monitoring."
Another speaker, Curtis R. Carlson, president and chief executive officer,, SRI International, will address "Creating Abundance Through Innovation Across Society."
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The album as a whole could be accused of sameyness, but on the pus side (not a typo! POETIC LICENSE, MOTHERFUCKER! YOU CAN'T TOUCH ME!), there are no duffers in sight. The standout might be "Hombre", with its soaring multitracked wordless vocal hook. Or it might be "Galang", with its soaring multitracked wordless vocal hook. It isn't "Ba-na-na Skit", though. Skits don't soar, they bore. I man, I should be a writer for anti-drug PSAs! I love tricking children!


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INDIANAPOLIS - The Butler women's tennis team moved to 5-1 in Horizon League play with a 7-0 win over Wright State. The Bulldogs won all three doubles matches handily and all six singles contests in straight sets.
"We looked a lot more comfortable playing outdoors today," head coach Jason Suscha said. "Our players have a lot of firepower and it's important that we show a little more patience outside. I think we did that today."
Freshmen Stephanie McLoughlin and Gabrielle Rubenstein won 8-6 at No. 1 doubles, winning together for the 18th time this year. McLoughlin also won at No. 3 singles and Rubenstein won at the fourth singles spot.
Sophomore Brittany Farmer and freshman Caroline Hedrick won 8-5 at No. 2 doubles and then each rolled in singles play. Farmer won 6-1, 6-2 at No. 5 singles and Hedrick won 6-2, 6-0 at No. 2. Hedrick is now 18-7 in singles play, with a 12-5 mark at No. 2.
Senior Natali Jaimes and freshman Angelina Qin (pronounced 'chin'), playing together for the first time, won 8-3 at No. 3 doubles. Jaimes also won 6-4, 6-4 at No. 1. Junior Cam Thompson won 6-3, 6-2 at No. 6 to round out the blowout win. Thompson is 11-4 in singles action this year.
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PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) -- Federal authorities have arrested a Florida Panhandle woman on producing child pornography charges.
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations said Friday that 25-year-old Corine Danielle Motley was apprehended following a nationwide public appeal for help.
ICE received an arrest warrant Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia for Motley. Officials say she's believed to have produced at least one video with her engaging in explicit sexual conduct with a 4 to 5-year-old victim.
The video was brought to authorities' attention by law enforcement in Denmark, who downloaded the video during a child pornography investigation in that country.
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children says the victim has not been identified.
Motley is being held in the Escambia County Jail without bond.
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Once - at a more idealistic age - I imagined spending the rest of my life fishing off a remote pacific atoll. After gathering anything and absorbing everything I could find about these strange-sounding locations - mere dots in a vast expanse of blue - the early explorers who embarked for the South Seas, and never returned home, became my heroes. Mutineers were then the freedom fighters I aspired to be, while the Gauguinesque rewards looked so sweet and delicious. Nothing else on earth could compare. My escape plan wouldn't involve a plane, but a pacific-bound yatch, on which I would serve as deckhand on the wild ocean in return for passage and board, and at the right island, I'd leave to start my life anew. Well, that was the plan anyway. Until reality so rudely intervened.
That's not the first fantasy I harbored, nor was it the last. Alas, childhood is full of amazing dreams, that are systematically culled in adulthood. (Okay, maybe that's not entirely true - I'd been living one of those dreams in my job... which later evolved into a M. Night Shyamalan movie, but that's another story, for another day). Anyway, coming back to the topic, my original plans may have been aborted, but the process did teach me a thing or two about vast Oceania sprinkled with thousands of islands that are far from homogeneous. To me, Polynesia was most exotic and what we best associate with the South Pacific - stretching from Hawaii down to Tahiti, and New Zealand at the western end. Melanesia was inherently mysterious for its inclusion of New Guinea. And Micronesia? Well, those are like pearls strewn across mid-pacific, and strung together by the world's most wonderful air route.
You know this book about the 1,000 places we must see and things we must do before we snuff it - well, an aviation nut edition, if it ever exists, must definitely include flying on Air Micronesia's pacific island-hopper among the top of the list. Not only is this the ultimate milk-run, the stops include the world's most remote atolls, with the size of some islands barely the width of a standard runway. Continuing almost uninterrupted since 1968, few regular scheduled flights today reward passengers with such a sense of adventure. The service provides a critical lifeline to these islands a few times a week, and gives us the unique opportunity to glimpse these pacific communities at a relatively reasonable cost. It's been on my "must-do" list forever - and it should be on yours too.
The UA - CO merger added a greater sense of urgency to my mission, and I knew this would be my last opportunity to catch the flight in its original-ish version. Having obviously missed the island hopper's early B727 period, I'm catching it just after the end of its Air Mike era: the FAA had only recently approved the merging of Continental's operations with that of Continental Micronesia, resulting in the end of the CS code, and demise of the "Micronesia" name on these flights. And on completion of the UA - CO merger, this will just be another regular United flight. Even if the multi-stop route stays intact, it'll somehow not quite be the same anymore I feel. For now though, suspend reality for a while. Fix yourself a large drink, sit back comfortably - for it's a long flight ahead - and join me as we cross the wide expanse of Air Mike's pacific on a lonely 737.
a sojourn through paradise
Between christmas 2010 and new year's day of 2011, I embarked on an 8-day round-the-world journey that started and ended in Kuala Lumpur. There's a largely forgotten trip report series - although I realize some of you do remember it - that last broke off at Waikiki beach. This is the much delayed continuation to that journey. (There's no need to read the earlier segments of the RTW but if you must, they can be found in the links at the end of this report).
Anyway, it's in Honolulu that we start this episode. I've had a nice but short break here - especially after a couple of particularly long flying days. I even manage a refreshing dip in the pacific. The President of the United States is apparently also in town, but we somehow missed each other on Waikiki. What are the odds of that? I may not be fully recharged, but it's already time to move on. I continue the tradition of picking another daytime onward flight - not that there's much of a choice with the island hopper - which means my morning call on departure day is insanely early, as usual. My 4.30 a.m. taxi, pre-ordered by the hotel, turns out to be an ostentatious chauffer-driven stretch limo that could have been booked by the president himself and that's rather disconcerting, especially when traveling alone - I'm glad the streets of Honolulu are deserted at this hour.
My limo drops me off at Lobby 7, the semi open-air check-in zone Continental shares with American at Honolulu International Airport. United is further along the same concourse. The CO desks are already busy processing their only early morning flight: CO 957 - and until recently also CS 957 - has been the flight number allocated to the westbound island hopper to Guam ever since I fantasized flying on it, many years ago. Sadly, this flight has since been renumbered as the integration process with UA reaches its tail end. (But the service continues to operate three times a week, leaving Honolulu on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. The return flight departs Guam on the same days, but bear in mind that the Wednesday flights in both directions have one less stop enroute.)
In the economy class line are about two dozen passengers - among them a fair number of Pacific islanders, carrying lots of baggage and large plastic storage trunks, are probably headed home. The Y line looks reasonably managable, but my TG card entitles me the use of the EliteAccess desk, where there's a queue of one. This queue-beating Star Alliance perk - a legacy of two particularly productive flying years - will be the one I'll miss most when I lose it at the end of this year.
My check-in agent at the premium desk is a mature gentleman of Japanese descent who, after swiping my passport, frowns at his computer terminal. He's deep in thought, as if trying to figure out the next move in an online chess game. Something must be amiss. I ask what. "It seems you need a transit visa for Majuro," he says distractedly; his eyes still fixed on the screen. I reply that I didn't think I needed one. (To be honest I hadn't even checked). "Neither do I, but on here, it says you do," he says and walks off to ask somebody. This is serious: based purely on this info, CO could deny my boarding this flight for not having a visa for the 51-minute stop at the Marshall Islands capital. And just like that, my dream of flying on the island hopper will come crashing down. This is definitely not good, and I have reason to worry.
I would have been a lot more worried had it not been for my check-in agent, whose demeanor and expression tell me he's not convinced by the info on the screen, and who seems intent on doing something about it. At this point, a less experienced agent could be insisting on enforcing the 'rules' - so boy, am I thankful that's what doesn't happen. I'm sure my agent's vast experience plays a big part in this, for it's not long before he comes back saying the problem is "fixed". I'm not quite sure how - but it apparently is. The only question he asks is a strange one: do I have an address in Guam he can input for the system? But I'm not stopping in Guam, I say. "I know, but you wouldn't happen to have an address there, would you?" How about the airport? I say. The man smiles, keys I've-no-idea-what into the computer, and out churn two boarding passes - one for the island hopper to Guam and another for the onward flight to Manila. What a relief!
My boarding pass is stamped "Gold Lane" - which I only much later learn entitles me to use an express line for TSA checks - but this early in the morning, the general queues for security aren't long anyway so getting airside doesn't take long. From the FIDS screens, it does look like CO 957 is the first departure of the day from the main terminal. Look at the sheer number of flights to Japan - I count 11 departures to Narita alone between 8.30 a.m. and 1 p.m. - it's quite amazing. And it makes me wish my own flight was leaving a couple of hours later - the spotting at HNL's great open-air terminal would have been awesome.
For the moment however, the airport tarmac is dark and largely empty, and so I turn indoors for entertainment. Another Star Alliance status perk is the use of a premium lounge - I am told at check-in it's still too early for CO's Presidents Club, but I may drop in on United's Red Carpet Club. At HNL, it's located above the usual UA gates at the Diamond Head Concourse, which look deserted at this time. The entrance to the lounge is interesting for its extra-prominent sign banning trolleys and outside food - must be a more serious problem than it appears.
I am welcomed into the lounge as its only customer, and asked if my flight had been delayed from yesterday. "I didn't realize the flights to Guam were so early," says one of the agents manning reception. My response that I'm taking the group's scheduled multi-stop service appears to be a revelation to the old United: "Ah-hah!" says the agent, sounding a little unconvinced that such a flight even exists. Once inside, I'm spoilt for choice on a place to settle down - the slightly faded, tropicalized decor looks almost identical to the hotel I just checked out from. I suspect this is very much the Honolulu look.
The facilities include a business center, a couple of conference rooms, a bar counter with booze for sale, and some basic offerings for breakfast. By the time I get my caffeine fix, the first UA passengers on the early morning California flights have already joined me in the lounge. The January 2011 copy of Hemispheres magazine - the last edition to feature the old United logo - is liberated, to be safely treasured. It's time to go.
Retracing my steps back almost to where I started from airside, I find the island hopper parked at gate 13 - seems to be its regular gate from the other trip reports I'd read - being readied for a long day ahead. Operating Continental flight 957 today is a B738 that's been rostered for Continental Micronesia's Guam-based network for a big part of its 11 years.
There's a short queue to enter holding gate 13 where a passport and boarding pass check is in progress. When it's my turn, the gate agent asks if I'm traveling to Manila, then turns to her colleague and says: "this is the same case as the other woman." I fear this is the start of something unpleasant, and think it's the Marshall islands transit visa issue rearing its ugly head again. I am asked to stand aside to let other passengers through while they "handle" my case, which is another bad sign. Another gate agent then utters those dreaded words: "if you can't process it, we'll have to put him on the direct." She's obviously refering to CO's nonstop flight to Guam later this afternoon - and I'm about to plead: No... please no! I really need to get on this flight!
Of course, as I'm not being addressed directly, I hold my composure for now. The agent is still checking up something on her screen - maybe only for a minute or two, but it feels like forever. Meanwhile, I hear an announcement asking all remaining passengers to board. Great - and I'm stuck here. I don't know if it's divine intervention (don't you need to believe in God for that?) but a supervisor - or maybe an angel - suddenly descends on the mess to ask what's happening. She takes a quick look at my Malaysian passport and asks if I have a valid U.S. visa - which I show her immediately - in that case, "it's okay," she tells my gate agent. I am given the green light to proceed. You can't imagine how quickly I rush down the jetway to board my flight, lest someone changes their mind. That was one hell of a scare.
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Ok, so it feels like a drum and acts like a drum, even sounds like a drum (dw I won't suggest getting a drum), but my main gripe is that I would want at least 5 of them!
I understand what you mean, and I may also have said the same at one point, but that feeling changes when you begin to play with one of these things. It isn't meant to be part of a drum kit. It's a bit hard to explain until you've played with one, but it isn't so much a 'drum' as an 'instrument'. You don't just hit this as one pad in a kit - you play it as you might a keyboard, or a guitar. You don't just hit it with a stick. You can hit or scrape the rim to set off a sitar drone, or use pressure to introduce filter sweeps to a synth note, or fire off bass notes with velocity…
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I get that it's great for percussion, but I would want to be able to use a KIT that reacts like this aswell. And I would want some form of midi control so I know I won't get bored of the sounds!
…and I'm sure that Korg, and probably other manufacturers too, are aware that this feeling exists. I'll happily put money on a bet that says something along the lines you suggest is being developed right now in a room away from prying eyes.
…it won't be a Wavedrum as we have it now. There would be little point in a device that reacts to pressure, for instance, in something like a traditional kit.
Think of the Wavedrum more like a Cajon – fine when you play it as a single instrument, but would you need five of them?
But I agree with you about the MIDI. No, you couldn't carry all the nuances of the WD over MIDI, but as a simple controller it would have made my life easier.
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Charles Ives is one of the most important and original—and perhaps most misunderstood—American composers. Though he studied composition formally and had a 14-year career as a professional organist, Ives was an insurance salesman by vocation and was thus incorrectly thought of by many as an amateur. His music interweaves American and European musical traditions with innovations in harmony (especially bitonality), rhythm, and structure. His music distinctly reflects his time, but was simultaneously far ahead of it. His seemingly chaotic scores were often thought to be disorganized and radical, resulting in few performances during his lifetime. There were several champions of Ives's music, however, such as composers Lou Harrison and Henry Cowell, and conductor Nicolas Slonimsky, who were crucial for bringing Ives's music to the fore. In 1947, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his Symphony No. 3, bringing with it international renown, new audiences, and new champions. By the time of his death, Ives had risen to eminence, and his works are now among the most revered in the American canon.
Three Places in New England was among the first of Ives's major works to appear in performance and publication. Like his other compositions of this time, it is highly complex, integrating many different musical styles, layering multiple melodies, and famously quoting previously written musical material. Designated by Ives as his "First Orchestral Set," the work was originally conceived for large orchestra. In order to arrange its first performance, Ives re-scored the piece for chamber orchestra.
One of Ives's most often performed works, Three Places in New England depicts American lifestyle and patriotism during the early 20th century. Each of its three movements is named for a place in New England, and their respective moods reflect Ives's own response to these sites. The movements are ordered slow-fast-slow, as Ives often preferred instead of the typical fast-slow-fast, and from longest to shortest.The first movement, "The 'St. Gaudens' in Boston Common" is a tribute to the Civil War monument honoring Colonel Robert Shaw and the Massachusetts 54th (the first regiment in the Union Army comprised of African-American soldiers). In this brooding movement, Ives paraphrases ragtime, slave plantation songs, and Civil War tunes, weaving snippets of melodies from "Old Black Joe," "Marching Through Georgia," "The Battle Cry of Freedom," and "Massa's in de Cold Ground" over the pulsing timpani. Ives wrote, "The movement ends as if it were a memory fading from consciousness.""Putnam's Camp, Redding, Connecticut" was inspired by a Revolutionary War memorial park named for General Israel Putnam. The movement is rollicking and upbeat, meant to recreate the experience of a young Ives at a Fourth of July celebration as he imagines the activities of the Revolutionary Army. The image of a marching band comes to mind, as the strains of "Yankee Doodle," "Bringing in the Sheaves," and "Semper fidelis" emerge through the texture."The Housatonic at Stockbridge" returns to the somberness of the opening. This haunting movement is evocative of a Sunday morning walk taken with the newlywed Mrs. Ives (as well as a poem of the same name by Robert Underwood Johnson), which Ives wrote was "something that one would always remember."Throughout the work, listeners can latch onto the recognizable melodies; amidst the tone clusters, avant-garde chromaticism, and masses of sound, they serve as accessible reference points from which to enter Ives's world.
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Shaker Loops had its start as a string quartet under the title Wavemaker. Its governing principle was the repetitive, oscillating patterns best known from the music of Steve Reich and Philip Glass. Following the work's premiere, which John Adams wrote, "crashed and burned," he decided to expand the orchestration to add more acoustical power and to impose a large-scale structure that would allow more variety and emotional range. The result was the four-movement, septet version of Shaker Loops. It is considered the composer's first masterpiece and a turning point in his output, representing a return to tonality and pure instrumental writing.
The work's title is evocative on several levels. Loops is taken from the era of taped music, where small bits of pre-recorded tape could be attached end-to-end in order to repeat melodic or rhythmic patterns over and over. The Shaker aspect has a double meaning. Musically, a "shake" suggests either a fast trill between two notes or a tremolo with the bow on a string instrument. Religiously, it references the Shaker sect, suggested by Adams's own childhood memories growing up close to a colony in New Hampshire.Adams explains, "Although, as has since been pointed out to me, the term Shaker itself is derogatory, it nevertheless summons up the vision of these otherwise pious and industrious souls caught up in the ecstatic frenzy of a dance that culminated in an epiphany of physical and spiritual transcendence. This dynamic, almost electrically charged element, so out of place in the orderly mechanistic universe of Minimalism, gave the music its raison d'être and ultimately led to the full realization of the piece."The piece is divided into four sections, and though they blend together, they are distinctly characterized by a different style of string playing. The first and last movements are focused on "shaking" (the fast tremelos on the strings), the second movement features slow glissandos amidst a barely moving pool of sound, and the third is devoted to lyrical melodies. All four sections are tightly governed by the length of the looping fragments, creating a constantly shifting ebb and flow among the ensemble.
A composer of mainly chamber and orchestral music, Andrew Norman has recently established himself as one of the most compelling voices of his generation. Born in the Midwest and raised in Central California, his musical studies began on the piano and viola before attending the University of Southern California and Yale School of Music. He has recently received commissions from the Los Angeles and Royal Liverpool philharmonics, Minnesota Orchestra, Aspen Music Festival and School, the foundation of the Berliner Philharmoniker, Calder Quartet, pianist Jeremy Denk, and Ensemble ACJW. He is currently composer-in-residence for the Boston Modern Orchestra Project and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, and he was recently named a finalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize in Music for his string trio The Companion Guide to Rome.As an architectural enthusiast, Norman often writes music that is inspired by forms and textures he encounters visually. His music uses eclectic combinations of instrumental sounds and a diverse set of notational practices. He currently lives in Brooklyn.
Try is inspired by Norman's quest for perfection. As a trial-and-error composer, he calls himself an "incurable reviser." When his creativity stopped in its tracks from the desire to write a perfect piece for his Los Angeles Philharmonic commission, Norman finally set his sights on honoring the adventurous spirit of the orchestra and embracing the risks and rewards implicit in the piece's title.He writes about Try:The piece I ended up writing is a lot like me. It's messy, and fragmented, and it certainly doesn't get things right on the first try. It does things over and over, trying them out in as many different ways as it can. It circles back on itself again and again in search of any idea that will stick, that will lead it forward to something new. And, at long last, after 10 minutes of increasingly frantic trying, it finds one small, unlikely bit of musical material it likes enough to repeat and polish and hone until it finally (fingers crossed) gets it right.Beginning on a soft C-sharp in the piano, Try is presented in a series of musical blocks, each repeating in slightly different rhythms or orchestrations, eventually breaking down, restructuring, and repeating until the next fragment. The insistent nature of the piece, combined with its daring extended techniques for the instrumentalists, brings about a dizzying array of sonorities and feverish energy. After many ensemble attempts, the piano finally finds the "right notes," and the piece ends as it began, on a quiet C-sharp.
American composer and keyboardist Michael Gordon was raised in Nicaragua until returning to Miami Beach at age eight. An alumus of New York University and Yale University, his teachers have included Edward Troupin and Martin Bresnick. With fellow composers David Lang and Julia Wolfe (who is also his wife), Gordon co-founded New York's Bang on a Can Festival in 1987, which has since become an important showcase for post-minimalist music. He has been at the center of the New York-based movement known as "Totalism," an all-encompassing compositional style sometimes referred to as "post-classical music," defined by popular influences, post-minimalist harmonies, and complex rhythmic structures; it has mass appeal on a visceral level, but is sophisticated in a way that also attracts the serious listener.An outgrowth of his experience with rock bands in New York City, Gordon's bold style has roots in minimalist principles, while embracing dissonance, intricate rhythmic relationships, and modality. His music often includes fast changes in tempo and the use of acoustic instruments to create rock-inspired pulsing energy.
Considered by Gordon to be his breakthrough work because of its rhythmic ingenuity (specifically, the development of the split triplet), Yo Shakespeare is the layering of three dance rhythms occurring simultaneously—as if, the composer explains, there are "three salsa bands playing simultaneously, at different but related speeds."The 13 musicians are divided into three groups, each with its own unique meter and rhythmic profile. The result is a dense contrapuntal cloud, constantly confusing the "real" pulse. These intricately constructed polyrhythms create an exuberant and driving effect that makes you want to move.Gordon explains the derivation of the work's title:I have a friend from high school who can't really get into my sort of music. When he calls me he greets me on the phone with, 'Yo Shakespeare.' I think he tags on the Shakespeare reference because Shakespeare is simply the only cultural figure that he is aware of at all. I think this maybe says something about American culture in general.


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The White House announced this week that the US will halt the transfer of Guantanamo Bay detainees to Yemen for the time being. The White House's decision comes on the heals of the attempted Christmas Day attack, which originated in Yemen, and sparked concerns that the country is becoming the next hot-bed of terrorism.
The new policy is long overdue. At least one dozen released inmates have rejoined al-Qaeda to fight in Yemen, The Times (UK) reports. Moreover, according to the latest US government statistics, one in five former Gitmo detainees are suspected of or are confirmed to have returned to terrorist activity - a 6 percent increase since the last report in April 2009.
According to US counterterrorism officials, several of Yemen's top al-Qaeda operatives are former Guantanamo Bay detainees, some of whom were released into Saudi Arabia's government-run rehabilitation program. As Jeff Sessions, the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, notes, the US must also halt sending detainees to Saudi Arabia for 'rehabilitation.' As he concludes, "The list of failed participants in the Saudi program reads like a 'who's who' of Al Qaeda terrorists on the Arabian peninsula."
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Frazier's upbringing in Braddock, Pennsylvania, was imprinted by the drastic downsizing of the Pittsburgh-area town's Edgar Thomson Steel Works in the early 80s that prompted many residents to flee. Homes and businesses were abandoned, infrastructure and amenities crumbled, the national crack epidemic took hold, and urban families found themselves subject to widespread vilification. "Every stereotype you can think of is what I grew up seeing in the media," Frazier says. "We were demonized as bad, poor, black drug addicts."
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This is the first part of a two part guest article by my friend and peer, Michael Givens. Michael is also a third year student of Classical Chinese Medicine at the National College of Natural Medicine in Portland, OR. He shares my fervor for the medicine and has been an inspiration to me as I seek to plumb the depths of this profession we have both chosen. I hope you will enjoy what he has to say. Please do leave your thoughts in the comments – he is a regular reader of the blog.
When I first started to study Chinese medicine (long before I became a student at NCNM), I fell instantly in love with it because it made so much sense to me. When I read the Huangdi Neijing Suwen for the first time, it was as if all the questions I had about life, my place in relation to nature and the stars, the interplay between light and shade, warmth and cold, and how life seems to exist somewhere between them all were illuminated by Huangdi, Qibo and the other sages. The cycle of the five dynamic movements in nature and how they manifest inside and out of all things, defined for me what I felt was already true; I had found a detailed system that defined the wholeness I had been searching to understand.
As I pursued my studies as a Chinese medicine student, I began to see how my initial understanding was limited and superficial, and soon, rather than being the clearest and most elegant text I had ever read, the Neijing became the most complicated. I found myself spending hour upon hour trying to draw out the inter-lapping cycles of the six confirmations, influencing each other on the right and the left through time, in the heavens and on earth, connecting to the heavenly stems and earthly branches and the five movements…I quickly became lost in the details of such an amazingly intricate systematic understanding of the nature and movement of Qi.
When I first learned about the five organs and their relations to the five "elements", it seemed so clear; yet, as I deepened my understanding of physiology (Chinese physiology that is), simple concepts like "Fire generates Earth, Earth generates Metal, Metal generates Water" became extremely complicated. How is it, after all, that Fire descends through the malleability of Metal, physiologically, or that Metal really descends only when Fire descends? What does it mean that Water, while it resonates with the flavor of Salty, is actually reduced by Salty and strengthened by Bitter? What is at the heart of the difference between the six atmospheric conditions and the five dynamic processes and how do they interact physiologically? Questions such as these began to plague me.
Of course, this is what happens as one deepens his or her understanding of something; and, as one narrows his or her focus from the "big picture" to the minutia, the complexities of the universe become overwhelming. Yet, the beauty of Chinese medicine lies in the central view that the Chinese sages held. Rather than lose themselves in the grand picture, focusing only on the Dao or on the stars alone, and rather than (as Western science has done) lose themselves in the smaller and smaller details of the parts, the sages of Chinese medicine maintained an open view of both through using the language of symbolism and correspondences and remaining focused on processes and dynamics, functions and movements. So, though I was swimming out in the ocean of stars, and at the same time swirling amidst the tiny fragments of manifestation, by taking on this central position of the Chinese, I found a way to begin to have clarity and understanding and to flow with the movement of nature.
This is not to say that I would advocate ignoring the details and taking for granted the whole, not at all in fact; as I said earlier, the Neijing incorporates extremely detailed understandings of the very large and the very small, though there is a much stronger emphasis on the very large. What I have found is that one's lens is what matters, regardless of what one is looking at. The lens of the Chinese medical sages allowed them to see dynamic processes and functional qualities rather than matter or manifestation. Though much of what a Chinese doctor does is to examine the symptoms and manifestations (especially in that the pulse is so very important), the treatment comes about through understanding function and movement, quality and time.
But, this is where a new confusion arises and is really what I meant by the title of this article. Chinese medicine is complicated just because it's complicated, to be sure. But, how we are learning about Chinese medicine is also complicated. At times we are looking from a point of view of function, and at times we are looking from a point of view of materials. At times we learn of formulas and treatments that are based on an understanding of processes, and at times we learn formulas and treatments that are based on a desire to supplement matter.
How is a student of this medicine to behave? How are we to wade through this sea of complexity that so many years of history have created for us? That will be the topic of the second part of Michael's article – to be released soon. Thanks for reading.
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Here's Why Ocean County Verizon Customers are Silenced Today
If you're a Verizon customer in Ocean County right now, chances are that your cell phone is just a glorified door stop at the moment.
If you're a Verizon customer in Ocean County right now, chances are that your cell phone is just a glorified door stop at the moment.
Tuesday, October 29th at 6 p.m.
Quaker Steak and Lube in Brick is celebrating National Chicken Wing Day by collecting for local food banks.
Townsquare Media is putting on the biggest live auction New Jersey has ever seen. We're talking about more than 35 items up for grabs, all with starting bids at 60% off their retail value.
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Over the weekend Marianne from Bob and Marianne in the Morning along with Lou & Liz from 94.3 The Point from our sister station attended the Monmouth Country SPCA Fur Ball at IPlay America in Freehold on Saturday.
There's been a lot of media coverage about Revel and their upcoming pre-packaged Chapter 11 Bankruptcy filing. Most of the coverage has been hyper negative.
It seems like just yesterday. The devastation of the place we love and the place we call home. Those first pictures that made us all feel like it would never be the same. And while it won't ever be the same, signs of progress make us feel better, and maybe even good. The opening of Jenkinson's, just days away, makes me feel good.
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Tamales In Time For Christmas
Tamales, love to eat them, pain in the arse to make them.
My favorite place in town to get a tamale remains the unlikely little Sutter Cafe (330 Sutter St.) in the Sutter Stockton garage across from the elevators. Nice and small, stuffed with chicken, green olives and chilies, they're made there by a Chinese woman who lived in Mexico.
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San Francisco has a Christmas tradition that you may not know about, but if you love The Golden Girls, drag shows, or both, you've been missing out. What apparently started as a parlor performance has earned itself a legitimate performance space at the Mission's CounterPULSE. Of note, the lovely Pollo del Mar fills Betty White's shoes as Rose Nylund, as the 4-person drag queen cast takes on two Christmas episodes of the 80s sitcom—dare I call it a cult classic—at each performance: "Twas The Nightmare Before Christmas" and "Long Day's Journey Into Marinara." The show runs Thursday through Saturday, tomorrow through December 23rd. Tickets are $25 a piece, available through Ticketfly.
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WallinFarm 840 Ferguson Road, Sebastopol, (707) 823-6973
Opening on Black Friday, avoid the city chaos and head to this cozy, 6-acre mom-and-pop farm in rural Sebastopol. It's a peaceful setting, perfect for spotting a picturesque Douglas fir for your living room. And you won't have to sacrifice a few Christmas presents to be able to afford one of their trees. For a tree about 9 feet tall, you won't have to pay more than $70. Their last day of chopping is on the 22nd of December.
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If anyone has the inside sccop when it comes to the Ferry Plaza Farmers market it's Lulu Meyer, associate director of market operations at CUESA. You'll see her at the market, rain or shine. Every week, she'll be giving us her short list for the market—just in time for Saturday shopping. Go to cuesa.org for more information about farmers, what's in season and market goings-on.
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Bestow random acts of kindness, and you may be rewarded in unexpected ways. No, we're not recalling a message from our last fortune cookie, but the latest holiday promotion from Macy's.
On Friday, Dec. 11, two street teams (dubbed the Macy's Believe Newsboys) will be roving through downtown San Francisco looking for people doing good acts in their daily lives. When they spot a deserving individual, street teams will reward them for their positive deeds and acts of kindness with $25 Macy's Believe Bonus cards, good toward future purchases at the department store.
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If you're not from California, chances are you're one of the projected 8.1 million travelers who will be heading home by plane this holiday season. Which means--sorry to break it to you--you'll likely be spending more time than necessary sitting in the airport or on the tarmac, dealing with weather delays, air traffic, mechanical issues or overbookings. But your experience doesn't have to be miserable. Here are a few tips that will hopefully make your holiday travel a little less painful.
Not in the Holiday Spirit Yet? Chanticleer Can Help.
At 8 p.m. last Saturday, in a pitch-black St. Ignatius Church, an audience of some 1,300 people sat motionless in the dark. What kept us that way was was 12 male voices, unaccompanied by anything but candlelight and including one astonishing soprano, singing 15th-century plainsong. I couldn't get a photo, of course, so the above shot (of Chanticleer rehearsing before the show) will have to do. There's something about this music that made me think, Why bother with anything else that's been composed in the last, oh, six hundred years?
What's a Jew to Do? A Schtick and a Nosh, (hold the MSG and the Baby Jesus)
A very merry Upper West Side Jewish Christmas usually meant dinner at the Hunan Balcony and a not too long line at the new Woody Allen movie.
Here in San Francisco, the city pretty near closes down on December 25 as families cocoon around a dead tree and the Jews often find themselves left out in the cold.
For those who eschew all things Christmas in favor of Hebrew delights such as egg rolls and wanton soup, "An Evening of Kung Pao Kosher Comedy'' answers the age-old question: "What are Jews supposed to do on Christmas?" Jewish Comedy on Christmas in a Chinese Restaurant is a swell solution.
Have Yourself A Downbeat Alt. Rock Christmas?
"It can't be all cheer and happiness, there has to be some suicidal depression and family hatred and alcoholism," Aimee Mann told the crowd at Bimbo's Sunday night at the scene of her Third Annual Christmas show. She then launched into her "hit" of sullen melancholy, "Save Me."
Depression, alcoholism and hatred are what you might expect from Aimee Mann, holiday cheer and jovial whimsy, not so much. But apparently she's been doing these Christmastime variety shows all over the place and it's a charming way to espy another side of the subdued singer songwriter.
All Aboard!
It's been one strange year for the travel industry. First, gas prices rose to an all-time high, topping out above $5 a gallon here in California. Then, they were the lowest they have been in years, but thanks in part to a recession (and perhaps a heightened awareness of the environment), people have been driving less, thus keeping the supply-and-demand factor in favor of the consumer. Air travel became increasingly more difficult, what with the ridiculous addition of fees--baggage fees, paying-for-exit-row-seat fees, purchasing-tickets-via-phone fees, sky-high fuel surcharge fees, anything the airlines could come up with really. And long-distance buses...well, who takes those anyhow? They're crowded, slow and unreliable.


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—The outcome of patients with mild cognitive impairment is not known, yet these patients present a difficult dilemma for the clinician. This study was designed to characterize the outcome of a group of patients with mild cognitive impairment and to determine whether the presence of the ε4 allele on the apolipoprotein E gene (APOE) is a predictor of that outcome.
—A prospective, longitudinal inception cohort.
—General community clinic.
—A consecutive sample of 66 patients who met criteria for a diagnosis of a mild cognitive impairment and who had at least one clinical reevaluation was identified from the Mayo Clinic Alzheimer's Disease Center/Alzheimer's Disease Patient Registry.
—We evaluated patients initially and at 12- to 18-month intervals up to 54 months using standard neurological and neuropsychological measures such as the Mini-Mental State Examination, the Dementia Rating Scale, the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale—Revised, the Wechsler Memory Scale—Revised, and the Free and Cued Selective Reminding Test. The APOE status of study patients was determined.
Main Outcome Measure.
—The development of dementia as determined by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Revised Third Edition and the National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke/ Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders Association criteria.
—Sixty-six individuals had been reevaluated once (mean of 18 months), 36 individuals twice (mean of 36 months), and 22 individuals on three occasions (mean of 54 months), with conversion rates to dementia at these intervals of 24%, 44%, and 55%, respectively. A multivariate Cox regression model demonstrated that possession of an APOE ε4 allele was the strongest predictor of clinical outcome.
—These data suggest the following: (1) patients with mild cognitive impairment can be clinically defined, (2) many members of this group progress to Alzheimer's disease, and (3) APOE ε4 allele status appears to be a strong predictor of clinical progression.(JAMA. 1995;273:1274-1278)
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On Thursday 25th April at St. Saviour's and St. Olave's School in Elephant & Castle, the typical school day was shaken up. The Little Miss Geek Wearable Tech event supported by Dell & Microsoft, in celebration of International Girls in ICT Day, took a group of girls ready for just another day of lessons and led them on a figurative journey out of the classroom and onto the catwalk. But not just any old catwalk, this was a boundary-breaking-catwalk; where "Fashion & Tech" squeezed into the same breath felt as reassuringly natural as combining the words "Dolce" & "Gabbana".
We wanted to shatter the myths that technology is a boring 'boys' club'. Girls see fashion as a creative fun industry. Conversely, they see the tech industry as a dull place to work for 'pizza guzzling nerds'. By fusing fashion with technology we were out to demonstrate just how creative technology can be and empower the girls to believe in the endless possibilities of working in tech.
Why should we care whether the remaining barriers facing women are dismantled and the fun-house mirrors junked? Never mind that I believe the ethical case in itself is compelling. Let's look instead to your self-interest. Fellow males, get onboard. The closer that America comes to fully employing the talents of all its citizens, the greater its output of goods and services will be. We've seen what can be accomplished when we use 50 percent of our human capacity. If you visualize what 100 percent can do, you'll join me as an unbridled optimist about America's future.
"Because I get mistaken for the receptionist or day-hire marketing at trade shows" and "The worst sexism is the "harmless" assumptions. I'm sick of being told art is the only appropriate career for a woman in games."It made for depressing, if important reading. Then another hashtag appeared - #1reasontobe. Started by Rhianna, it was about celebrating the good things about the business. What was her thinking?
Social awareness and charitable causes register highly on many women's list of priorities. Research has shown that 58% of women give to charity in a typical month compared to 52% of men. When researching my recent book, Little Miss Geek, I attempted to get to the bottom of why young women don't want to work in the technology sector. I found that one of the most common reasons was that girls didn't believe that tech could offer them the chance to help people.


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The only format that small, closely-knit together groups shine is tPvP.
And i don't really see it as a bad thing. Even if you have 6 friends who enjoy playing together, there's nothing wrong in joining something bigger and established with all those 6 people. Not like the leader/officers can force you to group up with other guildies if you prefer to stick to your 'original' group. Then again, even in a big guild with 50+ active (and representing) people, sooner or later you will find several more or less like-minded players with whom you'll enjoy grouping the most, and will tend to group with them. It does lead to fracturing a bit, but it's within the human social nature, and there's nothing wrong about it, really, as long as you're open to play with other guildies as well.
Now about w3... random zergs are usually bad and easy to beat down with smaller yet organised force. 30 random, upscaled people will die to even a bit coordinated group of 15. But now imagine a more or less coordinated guild group of 30...
The real question is - how many buffs do you maintain 24/7? Do you run +karma, +xp, +magic find and +gathering all the time? We do, as a bigger and more active guild, with still 30k surplus influence and rising, but i remember times when i had to juggle the 'current upgrades' not to end up with 3k influence.
Yep, karma, magic find and gathering boosts are active all the time, and we restock/use banners on a daily basis.


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"I know that the two products look similar in design and feel, and the optimal design might have been held by one or the other, or both. I use optimal in the sense that the single button design is huge for the fans. Now there is actually a number, 1.05 billion Dollars in damages has been awarded to Apple by a US court, which has led the Samsung board to hold an emergency meeting overnight."
Jozi, Jozi 26o 12' 16" S, 28o 2' 44" E. Friday. I was away, watching the mountains, looking for my new spot when the Drakensberg becomes the highest spot on the planet after the events of the 2012 movie come true. The mountains never move, the news flows slowly like a spring stream and the people seem rested. At least from the point of view of the outsiders, like myself. Friday the markets locally closed slightly lower, down 0.14 percent from their all time highs on the close Thursday. Today we have started better and back at all time highs. Tell me when we are at 36 thousand points. I have a small gripe. There are people that think that the levels of the ALSI 40 matters, and there are those who follow the levels religiously. Talking about support at that level or this, breaking this and that, that is not for me. If the US markets drive global markets, then surely you should be following technical levels there, and the best chartists on that side of the world? Or have I got it wrong? I am not too sure.
Bidvest have released results for the full year to end June this morning. They look decent enough in this "challenging" environment. The results were pretty much telegraphed in the trading statement, which we wrote up over ten days ago: Bidvest trading update. Here are the numbers that you need to know. Revenue increased 12.7 percent to 133.5 billion Rands, the companies trading profits increased to 7 billion Rands, normalised HEPS clocked 1352.3 ZA cents per share. Perhaps the biggest surprise to the upside is a 29.6 percent increase in the dividend to 622 cents per share. Perhaps this is just to take into consideration the change in dividend taxation. You, the shareholder will get 290.7 cents per share for the second half of the year, 255 cents was paid for the final dividend last year.
To get a real understanding of the business you need to understand all the profitability of the various segments. As we often reflect on, revenue counts for naught if you can't be profitable. So, in trying to determine which are the best businesses that Bidvest owns, there is no better place to look than the segmental analysis. And this you can get for yourself from the The Bidvest Group Limited Audited results for the year ended June 30 2012.
What is immediately visible is that Bidvest Foodservice, the European division is nearly 30 percent of total revenue, but is only actually 13 percent of trading profits. Asia Pacific on the other hand, is just over 17.5 percent of total revenue, but at 14.25 percent of the total trading profits, is the most important profit contributor overall. And of course has the superior margins. My point I guess is simple, if there is a bounce back in the coming year(s) in Europe, then I would presume that is a positive for Bidvest. What always amazes me though is the Bidvest Namibia division. A mere 2.2 percent of total revenues (with an increase of nearly 40 percent) translates to 9 percent of total profits. This is huge and indicates that the margins in the country just to the North West of here are nothing short of spectacular.
What is the attraction of owning this company? It is a valid question of course. Are you owning the genius of Brian Joffe, the current CEO and his deal making expertise? Because over the years he has put together this business, he has been called the Warren Buffett of South Africa. But, unlike Warren Buffett, Joffe does not own the same percentage stake in this business (Bidvest) as Buffett holds in Berkshire Hathaway. He used to own around 23.3 percent economic value in the company, but I think that was before he gave away a whole whack to the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation. And I guess if you want to be nit picking, then you could say that Brian Joffe is a whole lot better paid than Warren Buffett. This company is a steady performer, well diversified and pretty defensive. We continue to accumulate the stock at current levels.
This has been confusing me for a long time, the ongoing patent disputes between Samsung and Apple. I know that the two products look similar in design and feel, and the optimal design might have been held by one or the other, or both. I use optimal in the sense that the single button design is huge for the fans. Now there is actually a number, 1.05 billion Dollars in damages has been awarded to Apple by a US court, which has led the Samsung board to hold an emergency meeting overnight. A Korean court called it a tie on Friday, at least that is what a Marketwatch article says: Apple, Samsung tie in Korea verdict. The upshot of it all is that Samsung devices might be banned from selling their blockbuster products in the US. For the time being. Which is of course is not good for the company, the share price in Korea ended the day down 7.61 percent. Down 97 thousand Won on the session to close at 1,178,000 Won. More confusing is dealing with the large outlandish numbers.
A good friend of mine asked me once (several times) whether or not he could buy the Samsung devices stock separately, and I said no. Not easily anyhow. First things first, the stock is only available to investors in Seoul and through a GDR program in London, check out their Samsung investor relations page. But more importantly I told my good mate Bruce, you can't own the juicy parts, the phone and the tablets. You have to own all the other products when you buy Samsung Electronics. And that includes fridges, washing machines, air conditioners, TVs, laptops, copiers, cameras, networking devices and chips. Check out the Samsung 2011 Annual Report.
And inside of the handset sales, you want to only be with the high margin smartphones right? Well, as per that annual report: "Worldwide demand for mobile phones was a staggering 1.5 billion units in 2011. Samsung Electronics accounted for 330 million of those units, far exceeding our target. We realized impressive growth in smartphone sales as well. The bestselling GALAXY S II sold more than 20 million units since its launch in April 2011." So it is always going to be tough to own the company on these sort of numbers. Even if the sub segment is the most profitable, unlike Apple you get exposure to all the other products. I am left with the same conclusion as I had initially with my chat with Bruce. You can't really get exposure to what you want to. My advice to him is the same as before. If you want to not be owning Apple shares, and are looking for the competitor, then perhaps the place to be looking is Google. And not Samsung. The matter is not over. Samsung are appealing the ruling. So this is by no means finished. And in the short term, the real winner is seen as Nokia/Microsoft. See Nokia to Microsoft Seen Benefiting From Possible Samsung Ban.
Byron's beats has a look at something that was complicated. But not complicated as in a soapie, much more complicated than you would think, financial engineering at perhaps its finest.
I'm not going to explain how this was all done because that is a whole new story all together, Sasha did a good job, in January this year in an article titled: Steinhoff looking to take control of JD Group. So let's look at the structure of the business as we see it today. Steinhoff Europe constitutes that Conforama business which is the second biggest furniture retailer on the continent. They also do manufacturing, sourcing and logistics all over Europe.
Locally they own 62% of KAP which is a R7bn listed company and has a whole host of brands in Timber, Logistics and industrial. This is from the ShareData description. "KAP International Holdings Ltd is an investment company with a portfolio of diverse manufacturing businesses. These include canned and value-added meals, maize milling, leather products, footwear, bottle resin, automotive products and towelling products."
They also own 50% plus one share of JD group who have brands such as Joshua Doore, Russels, Unitrans, SteinBuild and Incredible Connection. Many of these brands have been integrated from Steinhoff as an exchange for equity in JD group. Lastly they own 20% of PSG following a deal between Marcus Jooste and Christo Wiese whereby they swapped Steinhoff shares for PSG. As you can see it is all very complicated with a separate listing of the European business on the cards. In interviews with Marcus Jooste he says they are looking to be an investing holding company mainly in furniture retail, transport and you manufacture. There are lots of potential synergies there.
Ok here's the trading update, which looked good:
"Accordingly, shareholders are advised that both the earnings per share ("EPS") from continuing operations and headline earnings per share ("HEPS") from continuing operations of Steinhoff, for the year ended 30 June 2012, will be between 30% and 35% higher than the EPS and HEPS from continuing operations, as reported for the comparable period ended 30 June 2011."
These results include the first full year of Conforama results as well as the consolidation of JD group and KAP. Last year the company made 258.9c so we should be expecting around 345c. For a company trading at R25.80 they look very cheap. I guess there are a few concerns. Europe is of course facing a long term recession or stagnant growth at the least. That European business is 65% of revenues. There is also the complexity of it all. It's difficult to understand the business as well as what Marcus Jooste will be up to next. We continue to like it as a contrarian view on Europe but only for the hardy investor with a high pain threshold.
Currencies and commodities corner. Dr. Copper is higher at 346 US cents per pound, the gold price is steady at 1670 Dollars per fine ounce, the platinum price is also steady at 1540 Dollars per fine ounce. The oil price is higher at 97.04 Dollars per barrel, this is as a tropical storm heads across the gulf. The Rand is weaker, at 8.40 to the US Dollar. UK markets are closed today. Bank holiday. I thought bankers got paid too much in the UK, why do they deserve bank holidays too? Kidding! A public holiday with no particular attachment to an event or a person, that sounds about right to me!
Parting shot. My absolute favourite Johnny Cash song is actually a duet performed with June Carter. Although I read that Jackson (song) was a cover by the two, which changes my view on the song no way at all. At least the rendition. But why do I bring this up? In perhaps the most anticipated event of the week, once again the annual Jackson Hole pow-wow hosted by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City becomes the most watched place. Why? Because Ben Bernanke, the Fed chairman, will give a speech Friday at 10am E.D.T. So what, the Fed chair gives speeches all the time? Well, the short termers mark this speech as a possible clue to further monetary easing. Do I care? Not really, but obviously this event will have a marked impact on short term price movements, one way or another. The rumour mills are suggesting that the short termers are going to be bitterly disappointed with further QE not coming. But that would mean that the medium term outlook for equities is better, not so?
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On behalf of the Calendar Committee, Chair Ted Odell (professor, mathematics) has presented the following report for discussion by the Faculty Council at its meeting on February 16, 2004.
Sue Alexander Greninger, Secretary
The Faculty Council
Posted on the Faculty Council Web site on February 12, 2004. Paper copies are available on request from the Office of the General Faculty, FAC 22, F9500.
Calendar changes in Texas high schools have made it impossible for some freshmen to start at UT Austin when our summer session begins. However, some freshmen are required to enter the University in the summer. In addition, they must take part in orientation and testing the week prior to the beginning of classes. These freshmen who are required to enter in the summer are called the Summer Freshman Class.
The Colleges of Liberal Arts and Natural Sciences and the registrar's office have used ad hoc measures to accommodate these students. Special sections have been created that follow a calendar different from the options in UT's official calendar. The current official options are designated f (first summer term), s (second summer term), w (whole summer session), and n (nine-week classes, beginning the same day as f/w classes). The ad hoc Summer Freshman Class (SFC) sections have used the w designation but have not followed the official w calendar.
The summer session typically begins midweek. Students taking Summer Freshman Classes this summer will have orientation the following week, with classes beginning on the second Monday of the f/w terms.
The Calendar Committee would like to formally acknowledge these classes and have them listed in the official University calendar. Dates for registration, orientation, first and last class days, and final exams for these classes would be included. Here are some possible options. We seek feedback to help us decide which option is best.
1) Add the SFC schedule to the published calendar and continue to designate SFC classes with w. Registration in SFC sections would be controlled by departments as it is now. Registration would typically be closed by the department during April (but might not be if the department allows continuing students to take the class as well). The Course Schedule could include wording to the effect that this course is restricted to incoming freshmen if that is the case. The changes would be minimal under this approach. We would just be seeking approval of what is now being done.
2) Create a separate designation for SFC classes, such as "t" for "ten-week classes." Then it would be easier to control registration in SFC classes, since they would be separated from the usual w classes; this might also be easier to manage. Classes that serve continuing students as well would still have to have their registration managed in some way. (It has been suggested that creation of a new designation would introduce an extra cost, for new programming. If there is support for this option, more research will be done.)
3) In addition to either 1 or 2, change the beginning date for n classes to correspond to the beginning date for SFC classes. The n classes would meet as they do now except they would start later and their finals would be a week and a half later than they are now, which is one week before s/w/SFC finals. Finals for SFC classes would continue to be at the same time as those for s and w classes.
(We are not sure if this would create problems for some departments and colleges. One reason for the change is that it would make SFC and n classes easier to staff. Also, it could save money for some departments by reducing the total number of sections they would have to offer.)
4) A fourth option would be to change the starting date of the n classes to the second Monday of the f/w term and have them end with the s/w classes. The n designation would then be used by both the SFC classes and by current n classes. One advantage is that no difficulties would ensue as they now do in scheduling final exams for n classes. Conflicts that now exist for students in, say, both n and s/w classes, are handled as instructors see fit. In addition, this proposal would not require the creation of a new designation.
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WWTC hosts College Transfer Day event
Published on Friday, January 07, 2005
LA CROSSE, Wis. - Western Wisconsin Technical College (WWTC) will host College Transfer Day on Tuesday, Feb. 15 from 11:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. in the Kumm Center Cafeteria on the La Crosse campus. This event is free to attend and open to the general public.
College Transfer Day provides graduates, students, parents, and future WWTC students the opportunity to speak with four-year colleges to learn about existing transfer options. Representatives will be available to discuss 2+2 agreements, allowing two-year college associate degree graduates to transfer to four-year colleges and universities with junior-year status. Representatives will also talk about program transfer options, which allow students and graduates to transfer some or all of their college credits from WWTC programs.
Colleges represented at the event will include: Capella University, Cardinal Stritch University, Franklin University, Marquette University, Milwaukee School of Engineering, St. Mary's University, Silver Lake College, Upper Iowa University-Prairie Center, UW-Eau Claire, UW-La Crosse, UW-Platteville, UW-Stout, Viterbo University, and Winona State University.
To find out about the 2+2 program or to learn more about College Transfer Day, please contact Brenda Scheurer at 608.785.9588 or email@example.com.
For information on additional WWTC programs and services, please call 608.785.9200 or visit the WWTC Web site at wwtc.edu


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GAstric Bypass to Treat obEse Patients With steAdy hYpertension (GATEWAY)
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Schiavon CA, Ikeoka DT, de Sousa MG, Silva CR, Bersch-Ferreira AC, de Oliveira JD, Noujaim PM, Cohen RV, Amodeo C, Berwanger O; GATEWAY (GAstric bypass surgery to TrEat patients With steAdy hYpertension) Investigators. Effects of gastric bypass surgery in patients with hypertension: rationale and design for a randomised controlled trial (GATEWAY study). BMJ Open. 2014 Sep 8;4(9):e005702. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2014-005702.


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Makes you just want to smack the punk that does that kind of crap.
32 years later and I am still riding on the back.
I don't sweat the petty things,... I pet the sweaty things
The scarey thing about this crap is that in the past you would just laugh it off and say some kind of idiot is getting this jollies by calling in threats. Now, you actually believe this stuff could be real.
A bomb threat preceded the VT incident...
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A bomb threat preceded the VT incident...
Wow, that sent a shiver up my spine...
Sorry...it wasn't meant as a premonition or anything.
Just piggy-backing off of what someone else said...these things will be taken a lot more serious now following what happened just 8 days ago.
What would drive someone to do something like that. Were they late for class or something??? Man I would be worried to get cought.
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Winnie the Pooh (2011)
Winnie the Pooh SynopsisWalt Disney Animation Studios returns to the Hundred Acre Wood with Winnie the Pooh, the first big-screen Pooh adventure from Disney animation in more than 35 years. With the charm, wit and whimsy of the original featurettes, this all-new movie reunites audiences with the philosophical bear of very little brain and friends Tigger, Rabbit, Piglet, Kanga, Rooand last, but certainly not least, Eeyore, who has lost his tail. Well a tail is either there or it isnt there, said Pooh. And yours isnt there. Owl sends the whole gang on a wild quest to save Christopher Robin from an imaginary culprit. It turns out to be a very busy day for a bear who simply set out to find some hunny. Inspired by five stories from A.A. Milnes books in Disneys classic, hand-drawn art style, Winnie the Pooh hits theaters July 15, 2011.
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2006 NCES Academic Libraries survey: CUL's response
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Cornell University Library
Federally mandated, NCES collects data from degree-granting postsecondary institutions (~3,700) on a biennial basis. Data is collected on collections, services, expenditures, staffing and facilities. This PDF includes CUL's responses and the NCES instructions.
Date Issued2008-02-28
fiscal year statistics; academic libraries; services; staffing; facilities; expenditures; collections; National Center for Education Statistics (NCES); Cornell University Library (CUL)
Suggested CitationCornell University Library. (2008). 2006 NCES Academic Libraries survey: CUL's response (Dataset) eCommons Digital Repository at Cornell University. Retrieved from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/10121