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Stellenbosch's Kayamandi (an informal settlement area) may not scream location- location- location for restaurant venue, but is home to AmaZink Eatery. The restaurant delivers a novel African eating experience that embraces and simultaneously invests in the local Stellenbosch community.
The African theme of the restaurant is seen through to every detail. The décor is bold and loud in colour and service is hearty and friendly. All the traditional fare is unpretentious and prepared on wood burning fires. Even the beer is home brewed. Expect local favourites like pap and wors, but perhaps not quite as rustic as authenticity demands. With Bertus Basson (celebrity chef and co-owner of Overture Restaurant) overseeing the menu, there is a definite contemporary take on the local delicacies.
The restaurant offers a wine list that supports farmers in the immediate vicinity.
With prominent businessmen investing, AmaZink Eatery forms part of the Ikhaya Trust Centre and is driven to make a contribution to the social uplifting of the area. Inline with the venture's policy, only locals to Kayamandi are employed at AmaZink.
This 100% black owned restaurant immerses the palate in custom cuisine and cultural diversity.
Offering African delicacies, this establishment shows an attractive exterior and interior dressed in artistic creations collaborated by local artists.
Located adjacent to Mbekweni shopping centre, Chippa's Restaurant is a welcoming break from everyday dining.
Listed as one of the Top 15 Fabulous Restaurants by Eat Out Magazine, makes Cognito restaurant in Stellenbosch a must try eating establishment. It is sophisticated and all things African with its menu and décor and offers visitors an eating experience that embodies local hospitality.
The East and South African inspired menu is as diverse as it is exciting. It is a contemporary interpretation of traditional dishes. From nibbles like curry dusted popcorn and starters to full main courses, the menu caters for all supermbly, including children. Patrons are encouraged to enquire as to the latest flavour combinations when it comes to steak and poultry choices as the mains are constantly being reinvented.
Wine enthusiasts will also not be disappointed with great regional selection of wines on offer and are encouraged to sign up for the restaurant's food and wine pairing evenings. The social evenings are geared at having the guests' imput on new wines and dishes to be included on the menu.
Foodies will also not be able to resist the popular Curry Mondays (when all the curries are riduculously discounted to one price).
Funiki is Kiyomasu Deon Sensei's quaint little Japanese eatery nestled in the breathtaking heart of L'Ermitage Chateau & Villas. Imagine a place in Franschhoek where you can still experience the culinary splendour of traditional dishes unmistakeably interlinked with the Samurai Way of Old Japan. At Funiki you can enjoy the pleasant and delightful sights and sounds in the expression of simplicity, sophistication, spontaneity, originality and ambience that is Funiki.
The lighthearted and intimate atmosphere makes an ideal setting for indulging in specialized Japanese and Thai cuisine.
Enjoy favourites such as delicious sushi platters, noodles or even something grilled.
Alongside sushi and grills, you can try Tempura, satay, Thai, stir-fry and Teppen Yaki.
Golden Wheat Japanese Restaurant is a warm and welcoming restaurant located in Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch.
Sushi D Okami is such a place. A place where people meet, eat and drink traditional Japanese hospitality and indulge in tantalising cuisine.
The concept here is based upon Wakon Yogai principals, blended with Western knowledge and global experience of Old Japan and modern society.
The menu is refreshing, tantalising and tasty and sure to transport the palate on a taste through Japan.
Experience the Japanese culture and tradition at Sushi D Okami in Main Road, Franschhoek.
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Apprentice Restaurant, formally known as L'Olive, situated on Stellenbosch's bustling Andringa Street, is a sought after dining establishment. Home to the Culinary Institute, this restaurant offers food that appeals to the senses.
The restaurant is training school for students who have chosen cooking as a career, but patrons would be far off the mark to expect anything less than being plated up food of exceptional quality.
Not only is breakfast, lunch and dinner served in style, the décor of the eatery is bright and inviting in a relaxed upmarket manner, however, the best seats remain out of house on the pavement, where guests can soak up the Stellenbosch vibe.
The dinner menu is offers a selection of meat dishes from Lamb Rump, Kudu Loin to Quail. Desserts are wickedly decadent with impossible to resist choices like Chocolate Marble Pavlova and Tiramisu with Rum and Espresso.
Since the restaurant is a learning arena, the menu also has a glossary of terms (in case the menu is all French to you).
The Vines is an Italian wine bar and eatery that combines a traditional Italian feel with modern, innovative food and decor. The food is typically Italian and reminds of home cooking every time. Try a gorgeous pasta with a sauce of your choice or a simple sarmie made with freshly baked foccaccia. Pair any dish on the menu with an authentic Italian or South African wine, or even a potent grappa. The popular Dalla Cia Grappa is served as a digestive, as a caffe' corretto, as ice cream, or even as a Grappa tasting dessert menu.
Café Dijon is a pocket of Paris in the heart of Stellenbosch. Ideally located at the centre of town, this quaint eatery is a gem for food lovers who enjoy true French cuisine. Its indoor café is perfectly Parisian in décor and ambience while being seated outside, under ancient oak trees and umbrellas, allows for a relaxed reflection of passers-by on the street in true European style.
Expect an impressive and authentic French menu. There are classic hors d' oeuvres and salads such as Pear, Parma ham and Gorgonzola that are designed to please the palate. The main course selection and restaurant specialties are extended to include regional French dishes to the likes of South West of France Cassoulet.
The multi-dimensional menu has an array of asides and desserts and caters well for those who like to round off their eating experience.
The combination of true French style and food makes this bistro style establishment a delight any time of day – breakfast, lunch or dinner.
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Cambodian women suffer more violence
|Radio Free Asia
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|26 November 2008
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|This is not a UNHCR publication. UNHCR is not responsible for, nor does it necessarily endorse, its content. Any views expressed are solely those of the author or publisher and do not necessarily reflect those of UNHCR, the United Nations or its Member States.
A brutal assault on two Cambodian women highlights what the government says is an escalating pattern of violence against women.
Cambodian girls smile in front of the Royal Palace in Phnom Penh, Aug. 14, 2007. AFP Photo
PHNOM PENH – A Khmer-American man has confessed to pouring gasoline on his fiancée and her sister and burning them at their home in Cambodia's northwestern Battambang province, authorities here say, amid what the government describes as a worsening pattern of violence against women.
Tan Nilong, 56, who lives in Auckland, California, admitted in Battambang Court on Nov. 25 that he attempted to burn 21-year-old Yan Kimhean to death because she had broken off their engagement.
Tan Sophal, chief of provincial military police, said that the evidence found at Yan's home in the Baek Chan village of Prek Preah Sdach commune was consistent with the admission.
"This is a case of jealousy ... evidence left at the scene of the crime consists of a bag, a slightly-burnt [five liter] jerry can, and a small knife," Tan said.
The victim's family has filed a complaint demanding U.S.$250,000 in compensation and medical treatment for both of the young women injured in the attack.
Khmer officials said the U.S. Embassy had agreed that Tan should be tried under Cambodian law because he hadn't yet completed the U.S. naturalization process.
'I saw the face clearly'
Tan Nilong was engaged to Yan Kimhean on June 29 but Yan broke off the engagement in November, saying she no longer trusted her fiancé, relatives said.
The victims' mother, Pin Sarath, said in an interview that her two daughters, Yan Kimhean and Yan Chanrith, 14, were washing dishes behind their home on the evening of Nov. 22 when Tan Nilong attacked them.
"They [the daughters] asked for the engagement [with Yan Kimhean] to be ended. He said all right and then he drove a motorcycle away," Pin said. "No one expected he would do such a thing. My daughters were washing the dishes at the back of the house. He poured gasoline on them and burnt them."
Yan Chanrith, whose arms and legs were burned in the incident, said she had no doubt that it was Tan who had attacked them.
"I was washing the dishes with my older sister when Ta [Grandfather] Long [Tan Nilong] walked toward us and started to douse us with gasoline. I stood up and saw his face clearly – it was that Long who poured the gasoline and burnt us," she said.
The victims were sent to Visal Sokh Hospital in Battambang and on the morning of Nov. 23 were transferred to Phnom Penh for further medical treatment. Yan Kimhean suffered serious burns over most of her body.
New report
Tan Nilong's confession came as the Cambodian Ministry of Women's Affairs issued a new report Wednesday that says abuse against women and girls is escalating in Cambodia.
The Cambodian Gender Assessment Survey 2008 reported that nearly one-quarter of all females in Cambodia have suffered domestic violence, with young girls increasingly a target of sexual assault.
Increasing use of drugs and alcohol by men has increased attacks, including gang rape, against female Cambodians, the report said, calling on law enforcement agencies to redouble their efforts to combat them.
Still, Minister of Women's Affairs Ing Kantha Phavi cited some progress in combating violence against women.
The government "has taken significant steps to reduce violence against women," she said in a statement, alluding to laws against domestic abuse and official benchmarks on violence and human trafficking.
The government released its report on the United Nations' International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women.
Rape is a criminal offense and punishable by a prison sentence of between five and 10 years, according to the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC) law.
The nonprofit group ADHOC [the Cambodian Human Rights and Development Association] said that between January and October it received 1,017 complaints regarding violence against women and children.
These included 584 concerning domestic violence, 368 concerning rape, and 65 complaints related to human trafficking.
Lim Mony, head of the ADHOC working group, said that according to the reports and complaints she has received, violence against women in Cambodia is on the rise.
"We find the major problems to include a lack of proper law enforcement, a lack of awareness [of the laws] by the Khmer people, and poverty conditions," Lim Mony said.
Chhay Kimsor, of the Gender and Development for Cambodia project, said his group this week launched a campaign through Dec. 10 targeting four provinces – Banteay Meanchey, Pursat, Kompong Chhnang, and Prey Veng.
"We'll have roundtable discussions on TV, radio talk shows, public meetings, and marches to distribute ribbons, leaflets, stickers, posters, and banners," he said.
Original reporting by Sophal Mony, Ma Yarith, Um Sarin, and Keo Nimol for RFA's Khmer service. Khmer service director: Sos Kem. Written for the Web in English by Joshua Lipes. Edited by Sarah Jackson-Han.

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Just a few weeks after Amazon made eight pilots available for audiences to both watch and review (as well as 14 childrens pilots), the company is busy deciding which pilots to move forward to series and which wont make the cut. On Friday, Amazon announced Betas and Alpha House have earned pick ups, while the high profile project Zombieland and Browsers will not be moving forward.
Amazon could be changing the game in their efforts to present a selection of pilots so that the general public can weigh in before they make their final decision on which of them will go to series. Whether any of the networks or streaming video services decide to follow suit in the future remains to be seen, but it's certainly an interesting and interactive way to bring the viewers in earlier in the process of taking a pilot to series or inevitably scrapping it.
Amazon Studios has posted eight new comedy pilots at Amazon.com, which they are allowing viewers to watch and leave their feedback before the studio decides which of these projects will go to series. The greenlit projects will eventually go on to become part of Amazon Prime's original streaming content. We're taking a look at all of them and sharing our thoughts on each of them this weekend. Here are the final two reviews, Zombieland and Those Who Can't.
Amazon's doing things a little bit differently than network television. Rather than making their series orders before presenting the chosen shows to viewers, they're turning their site into one big focus group in giving the public a look at the goods before any decisions are made on which pilots will go to series. Today, Amazon made fourteen pilots available for viewing through Amazon Instant Video.
Following word that Amazon has given the official green light to the Zombieland pilot comes a trailer for the potential TV series, which would be available for Amazon Prime subscribers through the services streaming video feature, should it go to series. Like the film on which this TV project is based, this trailer sells zombies and humor, though I'm not sure it manages to match the tone of the film, but that may just be the trailer's miss and not a full reflection of the finished product. Or I'm just trying to be optimistic because I really want this comedy to work.
Zombieland may be a TV series soon enough! That in itself isn't really news. We've known that there's been a Zombieland pilot in development since January. But until today, Amazon hasn't gone on the record as being the studio behind the TV show follow-up to the popular zombie horror-comedy. film. Not only did Amazon announce that they've given the pilot the green light, which is in production, but they've also confirmed the cast for the project, which joins the other six comedy pilots and six children's pilots in the works at Amazon Studios.
As you may have heard, plans are in the works to turn Zombieland into a TV series - or back into a TV series, as that was intended plan for the original story before it went on to be a successful feature film in 2009. Recent updates on the potential zom-com TV series gave us some information on the characters and where they are in the post-movie story, as well as that Amazon might be the service to bring this project to us, as part of their planned line-up of original streaming programming.
Just last week, we shared some updated information on the potential Zombieland TV series. With news that the project was possibly in the casting project, we were left to wonder if we might be hearing further updates on the status, including where it might land. Today, just such an update has arrived and it looks like Amazon could be the
Back in 2011, there was talk of a possible Zombieland TV show in the works, but in case you hadn't noticed, it never came to fruition. There's an update on the potential project, as casting calls have reportedly gone out for the main characters, and there are a few interesting details about what Tallahassee, Columus, Whichita and Little Rock might be up to in this possible follow-up to the 2009 horror-comedy.
On Sunday night, a record number of cable television viewers tuned in to watch what can only be described as a valiant but ultimately flawed attempt to bring zombies to a weekly television audience. AMC's The Walking Dead, based on the popular graphic novel by Robert Kirkman, is killing it in the ratings but the show itself, well, it needs improvement. Good news, though, there may be another popular zombie series in the next few years with a potential adaptation of Zombieland hitting TV screens.
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An eclectic array of intimate indies and a raucous mainstream comedy hit theaters this weekend, from Spike Jonze's cri-de-coeur "Her" to Asghar Farhadi's can't-miss "The Past" and, yes, the "Anchorman" sequel. Trailers below.
From the mind, heart and soul of Spike Jonze comes "Her," the futuristic new romantic comedy about a lonely greeting card scribe (Joaquin Phoenix) who falls for his operating system Samantha (Scarlett Johansson). But trouble looms on the horizon for this seemingly uncomplicated romance when Samantha begins to acquire subjectivity. Phoenix and Johansson are a match made in heaven, and a frazzle-haired Amy Adams steals the show as his kooky gal pal. "Her" popped up on many of our TOH! top ten lists.
Iranian writer-director Asghar Farhadi has created one of the best screenplays of the year with "The Past," a measured domestic drama where every frame counts. It centers on an estranged couple, French Marie (Cannes winner Berenice Bejo) and Iranian Ahmad (Ali Mosaffa), who meet to formalize their divorce in Paris. Slowly pieces of information about her trickle in to devastating effect. Farhadi's formal rigor and organic, mathematically precise storytelling elevate the film from melodrama to the plane of Greek tragedy.
In a small-scale release at New York's Lincoln Center is writer/director Clio Barnard's brilliant new British verite drama "The Selfish Giant," adapted from the Oscar Wilde fable but rejiggered into a salt-of-the-earth working class tragedy about two scrappy young boys that take up work in a junkyard--leading to consequences that threaten to tear their whole world apart. The film features stunningly grown-up performances from its young amateur actors, who Barnard met on the set of her hybrid doc "The Arbor" (2011). "The Selfish Giant" was a hit at the British Independent Film Awards.
The weekend's big wide release is Adam McKay's "Anchorman" sequel in which "The Legend Continues." The raucous comedy reunites stars Will Ferrell, Steve Carell, Christina Applegate and Paul Rudd while throwing some unusual cameos into the mix including Lady Gaga and Kirsten Dunst. Apparently the filmmakers wanted President Obama to make an appearance. The PG-13-rated film is currently sitting with decent reviews.
"Her" Dir. Spike Jonze, USA | Warner Bros. | Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Scarlett Johansson, Amy Adams, Rooney Mara, Olivia Wilde | 91% Fresh | The New Yorker: "Sad, kooky, and daunting in equal measure, 'Her' is the right film at the right time." | Our review and TIFF coverage
"The Past" Dir. Asghar Farhadi, France/Iran | Sony Pictures Classics | Cast: Berenice Bejo, Tahar Rahim, Ali Mosaffa | 94% Fresh | Village Voice: "Bolstered by performances that convey profound grief and remorse without look-at-me histrionics, 'The Past' is steeped in the believable micro details of its scenario while also expanding to universals." | Our Cannes coverage and Q&A w/ Farhadi
"The Selfish Giant" Dir. Clio Barnard, UK | IFC Films | Cast: Conner Chapman, Shaun Thomas, Sean Gilder, Lorraine Ashbourne, Ian Burfield | 97% Fresh | The Dissolve: "'The Selfish Giant' is a harsh movie, but it isn't devoid of hope, because Barnard understands that everything has value—even if it can't be realized until after an object's been tossed out."
"Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues" Dir. Adam McKay, USA | Paramount | Cast: Will Ferrell, Steve Carell, Paul Rudd, Christina Applegate, James Marsden, Kristen Wiig | 75% Fresh | Salon: "This is the kind of movie where most people know what they want and are pretty sure what they will get, that being 'more of the same, please.'"


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Jenelle Evans's Ex Gary Head Feels "Destroyed Mentally"
You guys, we're so worried about Gary Head, aka the former fiancé of Teen Mom 2's Jenelle Evans. Ever since this dude was attacked at a local Walmart his life has been in shambles, and now he's taken it to Twitter to post melancholy musings the likes of which we've never seen.
"I have so much stress I don't even know how to deal with it all," Gary tweeted on October 12. "I am getting destroyed mentally & depression really isn't helping."
Yikes. No clue why Gary is being mentally eviscerated, but it sounds like his life has taken a sinister turn. Last time we checked, Gary was still dating a total bombshell, so we assume his problems are less to do with his relationship, and more to do with his own personal issues. You see, this isn't the first time Gary's chatted to the internet about his problems.
Back in May, this former military man announced that he had a "disorder," and that he was going on medication. Then in April, Gary worried that he would die because of his temper, tweeting "I fear my temper is going to get me in jail or worse dead. #IDontBackDownNorShutUp."
Who knows what's ailing Gary nowadays, but let's hope he starts feeling better soon! We hate the thought of this hunk being "destroyed mentally," whatever that means.


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Choosing to take a risk
Faith & Inspiration
At the end of my one-way street is an unenviable intersection that, because of the proximity of a traffic light and the lay of the road, sometimes produces a situation in which, if the lane of stopped cars nearest to me opens up to let me sneak through, I am forced into a blind spot with respect to the cars in the far lane coming from the other direction. When that happens, it is madness to proceed, notwithstanding the largesse of the driver granting me the opening.
But today the two men who were offering me passage signaled vigorously with their hands that the coast was clear. I was thus in the position of choosing—do I move or stay? Though I could see nothing of the lane on the opposing side, I had the men's assurance that no car was approaching. Should I trust them? Are they maniacal sadists luring me into a death trap? Or are they nice guys showing me a kindness? Almost in the manner of a kid holding his nose on the diving board before his first ever plunge into the deep, I pressed the accelerator and sliced through. All was well, and I waved.
In seventh grade we read a short story by Frank Stockton called The Lady, or the Tiger? There was a barbaric king who delighted in a capricious kind of justice that involved placing the accused in an arena before howling crowds, and making him choose between two identical doors in the wall of the arena. Behind one of them was an exquisite maiden, the prize of a lucky choice. (It little mattered to the king whether the man was already married.) Behind the other waited a hungry tiger.
It came to pass in the course of time that the daughter of the king fell madly in love with a young man possessed of that "fineness of blood and lowness of station common to the conventional heroes of romance who love royal maidens." When the king learned of the romance, he arrested the man and chose for the reward behind one arena door the most beautiful maiden in the kingdom. For the other door he sought out the most ravenous tiger.
The princess arranged a signal with her lover, who amidst the salivating onlookers had eyes only for her. She sat in the stands, knowing which of the doors hid the beast and which the lovely maiden (who happened to be a woman she hated). Finally, the princess lifted her right arm that lay on a cushioned parapet, and ever so slightly motioned toward the right-hand door. Her lover, trusting perfectly, turned and walked toward the indicated door … and there the story ends. (The seventh grade class of Mr. DeHertog erupted in protest.)
Relationship is a risk. We use our best discernment and we may discern wrongly, but we choose to make ourselves vulnerable to being crushed. This is the gift we give to one another. What is the alternative? It is the life of C.S. Lewis' dwarfs, who so wrap themselves in self-protection that they eventually lose the very ability to feel anything, either joy or pain.
Love "believes all things" (1 Corinthians 13).


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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A person familiar with the situation says the Philadelphia Phillies have traded two-time All-Star center fielder Shane Victorino to the Los Angeles Dodgers for two pitchers.
The person spoke on the condition of anonymity because the deal had not been announced Tuesday.
The Phillies get relief pitcher Josh Lindblom and minor league pitcher Ethan Martin for the 31-year-old Victorino, who is in the final year of a contract.
Victorino is batting .261 with nine homers, 40 RBIs and 24 steals. He helped the Phillies win five straight NL East titles and the 2008 World Series championship.
Lindblom is 2-2 with a 3.02 ERA in 48 relief appearances for Los Angeles.
Trading Victorino could be the first of several cost-cutting moves the last-place Phillies make before the 4 p.m. deadline for trades without waivers.


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The world's leading venture capitalist of today shared the career advice below almost a decade ago. While the advice is targeted at the young, I think the experienced ought to pay heed.
Avoid these missteps to be sure you are using your alumni network effectively in your job search.
Attention to detail and small tweaks can get you back on track.
Last week I told you about the importance of getting your resume professionally written. This week I want to talk to you about Job Search 102.
Adding structure to your job search can be a key component to helping you succeed.
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This week, I'd like to tell you what you can do about the things that are within your control on the job search — your resume, your interview and your process. And next week, I'll cover those that are out of your control and how to handle them.
Focusing on the whole package can help make you the perfect candidate.
Turning a second-tier contact into an opportunity in the job search.
Rather than allowing your holiday schedule to get in the way of your search, double down and make an extra effort to be proactive this December.
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Most of the biopharmaceuticals that have reached the market in the United States and the European Union are produced in just a few expression systems. A recent report in the September 2010 issue of Nature Biotechnology indicated that 32 of the 58 biopharmaceuticals approved between 2006–2010 were produced in mammalian expression systems (mostly Chinese hamster ovary [CHO] cells), and 17 were produced in Escherichia coli (E. coli). The remainder were produced in yeast (4 in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, 1 in Pichia pastoris), transgenic animals, insect cells, plants, or by direct synthesis (1).
Mammalian cells have become the system of choice for antibody production, which requires most of the posttranslational modifications that can't be achieved in E. coli. Mammalian cells—CHO cells being the most widely used— are best equipped to secrete glycosylated, multi-subunit proteins that will fold and assemble correctly. They are amenable to genetic manipulation, and lines exist that have been optimized for ease of transfection, increased protein expression, and high-density culture. The major drawback to mammalian cells is that compared with microorganisms, they are more difficult to culture, require expensive culture media and a low-shear environment, and they often produce lower yields. There are also biosafety concerns around the transmission of viruses that can be pathogenic in humans.Some more recent entrants on the market strive to address some of these drawbacks. Most notably, PerC.6, a transformed human cell line jointly developed by Crucell and DSM for use as a manufacturing-scale expression system, increased expression yields so dramatically, that it shifted manufacturers' concerns from producing adequate protein yields to having adequate capacity to efficiently purify the increased titers. PerC.6 can be grown in suspension cultures at relatively high densities in serum-free medium, and according to company literature, can achieve yields of up to 8 g/L in standard fed-batch cultures, and 20 g/L using DSM's proprietary culture system, which are levels comparable to those of microbial expression systems.


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1 Park near Flora, Mississippi
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Apr 2014 - $22.00
This was a small park with mostly permanent campers. The spot we had was very shady and hard to level. There were really only 3 sites for overnighters. Had anyone gotten the site next to us it would have been too close. The walk through the park was nice. There was little else to do, although the day use area had plenty of space for playing. We stayed two nights but one would be better. The only place to walk is on a county road which was not busy thankfully. It was very quiet and the tent sites were a good ways from the bathrooms. - winnie1
Jun 2008 - $15.00
This park is very quiet, we were the only ones there the two days we stayed here. The entire park is very shady which helps with the heat, but leaves, limbs and sticky tree droppings fell on our truck/rv. The park is situated on the side of a hill, so the sites were not level, and all dirt and gravel. We were in site 2 which seemed more level than the others, but there were a lot of roots to contend with. The pavilion/picnic area was large and well maintained, but the sites were in desperate need of attention. It was hard to even locate the sites. We had no problems with any of the hookups. All worked good. Their website says 20 amp, but they do have 30 amp. We would not recommend this park, especially if it is raining, has rained, or looks like rain. Keep driving. - robcarmcelwee
Mar 2008 - $15.00
This is a quiet, shaded campground associated with the attached Petrified Forest. Only one or two sites would accommodate our 40 foot 5th wheel, but they were nice. Very friendly and helpful staff. It was very peaceful here. It was good for an overnight or if you are visiting the Petrified Forest. There is lots of room for kids to run or ride bikes, but there are no activities or amenities for them. - grizzlybear


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Find Jean-Luc Colombo Wines at a Retailer Near You!
What happens when you combine a creative, adventurous spirit with an unbridled passion for wines of quality and character? For lovers of fine wines from Frances Rhône Valley, the answer is simple: Jean-Luc Colombo.
A devotee of the Syrah grape, he was convinced that the northern Rhône appellation of Cornas offered enormous potential for producing stellar quality Syrah. Following his conviction, he opened his own wine laboratory in Cornas and developed a thriving reputation as a wine consultant, breathing new life into the then-obscure wines of Cornas.
Shortly after, Colombo began purchasing his own vineyards first in Cornas then throughout the Rhône Valley and Languedoc leading to the establishment in 1994 of Vins Jean-Luc Colombo. In 2003, Colombo enhanced his ventures by returning to his roots near Marseille and purchasing vineyards to produce the now highly-successful Cape Bleue Rosé.
In addition to running Vins Jean-Luc Colombo, Colombo continues his consulting practice, advising approximately 100 producers throughout the Rhône Valley, Switzerland and southern France. His wife, Anne, who is closely involved in the production of the Cornas wines, manages the consulting practice.
In 2010, Laure Colombo, Anne and Jean-Lucs daughter, joined the family business. An avid world traveler, Laure studied viticulture in Bordeaux and also holds a Masters degree in Oenology from Montpellier University. She now works alongside her parents and is already making a name for herself as one of the Rhônes rising stars.
Each Jean-Luc Colombo wine is highly personalized, sourced from Colombos own vineyards and from carefully selected domains under his direct consultation. A unique, water color painting graces each label and illustrates both the name and the story behind each wine. With wines as vibrant and memorable as the family who makes them, Vins Jean-Luc Colombo has made a major impact on the evolution of modern French winemaking.
Les Abeilles The Bees is named for these mysterious creatures that inhabit the vineyards where this Côtes du Rhône is produced. Jean-Luc Colombos appreciation for the natural environment of living creatures creates an atmosphere in which insects, animals and grape vines co-exist and flourish. This can only be accomplished with sustainable vineyard practices where no harsh pesticides are used.
Honeybees pollinate more than 90% of flowering crops including many of the fruit and food items we eat so they play a vital role in our food supply. In many places around the world, however, bee colonies are in severe jeopardy. Colony Collapse Disorder is a mysterious 5-year-old crisis and its worsening at an alarming rate! The cause is unknown, and it has currently spread to over half of the United States, with similar collapses reported in Brazil, Canada and parts of Europe.
To help fight this bee crisis, we have created the JLC Bee Helpful program, whereby a donation will be made to UC Davis Department of Entomology for Honey Bee Research. The UC Davis Department of Entomology is ranked No. 1 in the country by the Chronicle of Higher Education. They have several programs and studies dedicated to the bee crisis. For each consumer purchase of Les Abeilles, a percentage of the suggested retail price will go to research to save the bees with a pledged minimum donation of $10,000 per year.
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Before leaving for World War II, freshman Ed Flory was summoned by USC President Rufus Bernhard von KleinSmid. At a time when nearly all young male students went to war, the fifth president gave as many as he could a USC identification card with his best wishes.
Speckled with gold, the card became a talisman for Flory, who kept it with him during his service in the European theater. The card was tucked in his pocket when he fought with the Army's 4th Armored Division and during the historic Battle of the Bulge.
"That card was my connection to USC," Flory said. "While I was serving, I was never away from campus in a sense."
Returning to USC nearly four years later, Flory was not the same 18-year-old innocent kid eager to live elbow deep in the trenches. Now intensely interested in world politics, he switched from pre-med and graduated with a bachelor's in international relations from USC Dornsife in 1949. He started on his master's with hopes of working in the United States foreign services.
Chosen to take the entry test in Washington, D.C., he couldn't afford the trip. Moreover, the job wouldn't begin for three years.
"I had to survive so I was pointed in other directions," said Flory, who found work at the State Compensation Insurance Fund in Los Angeles. In 1961, he returned to his hometown, Porterville, Calif., where he worked for the Tulare County Public Works Department until he retired as right-of-way acquisitions manager in 1984.
In Porterville, a city of nearly 55,000 residents, 51 miles northeast of Bakersfield, Flory is a celebrity. He's been inducted into the Porterville High School Wall of Fame, is the Rockford School District trustees' president, and Porterville Memorial District's board chair overseeing the local Veteran's Day Parade, California's largest, for 34 years.
A third-generation Portervillian, Flory has been a Trojan football season ticket holder for decades and is a Half Century Trojan. Manning a booth at a homecoming event, Flory recalled someone asking his son if he was a Trojan.
"Yes I am," Joseph replied. "I didn't go to school here but I'm definitely a Trojan."
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Screening Program Receives Grant From Avon
The Avon Breast Health Outreach Program has awarded a $45,000 one year grant to Southeast Alabama Medical Center Foundation in support of the Southeast Regional Health Screening Program (SRHSP) to increase awareness of the life saving benefits of early detection of breast cancer. It is the fifth year that the program has received funding from the Avon Foundation for Women to support its work on this important health issue, and in recognition of the program's excellence.
Southeast Regional Health Screening Program at SAMC educates Wiregrass area women and refers them to low cost or free mammograms and clinical breast exams in their own communities through a state of the art 40 ft. mobile medical unit. The vital program will also provide nurse navigation service to women diagnosed with breast cancer through SRHSP.
Since September 2007, the SRHSP at SAMC has reached more than 5,000 women with information about the importance of early detection of breast cancer. In the past two years alone, the program has performed 2972 mammograms and clinical breast exams, 70 of which had abnormal results.
The Avon Breast Health Outreach Program awarded a $45,000 one year grant to the SAMC Foundation in support of the Southeast Regional Health Screening Program. The money will be used to increase awareness of the lifesaving benefits of early detection of breast cancer. Pictured left to right are: Scott Griffin, director of the Southeast Cancer Center; Jarrod B. Adkison, M.D., radiation oncologist at Southeast Cancer Center; Steven Stokes, M.D., radiation oncologist and medical director at Southeast Cancer Center; Debra Stringer, program coordinator, Southeast Regional Health Screening Program; and Valerie Barnes, executive director of the SAMC Foundation.
Breast cancer is the most common form of cancer in women in the United States, and the leading single cause of death overall in women between the ages of 40 and 55. According to the American Cancer Society, 288 new cases of breast cancer will be detected in Alabama this year and 54 lives will be lost. Nationwide, there is a new diagnosis every three minutes and a death from breast cancer every 14 minutes. While advances have been made in prevention, diagnosis, treatment and cure, early detection still affords the best opportunity for successful treatment. Programs such as the Southeast Regional Health Screening Program help ensure that all women have access to early detection information and options, even poor and medically underserved women.
"We are proud that the Avon Foundation for Women shares our mission and has chosen to support our program. With these funds we will continue to provide the highest quality of breast health education and screening throughout the Wiregrass," stated Dr. Steven H. Stokes, medical director for the SRHSP.
Since 1993, the Avon Foundation has awarded more than 1,550 grants to community based breast health programs across the United States, including the SRHSP at SAMC. These programs are dedicated to educating underserved women about breast cancer and linking them to early detection screening services.
The Avon Foundation for Women and Breast Cancer Crusade
The Avon Foundation for Women, an accredited 501(c)(3) public charity, was founded in 1955 to improve the lives of women and today is the world's largest corporate-affiliated philanthropy focused on issues that matter most to women. The Avon Breast Cancer Crusade, which observes its 20th anniversary in 2012, has placed Avon at the forefront of the fight against breast cancer; today, Avon is the leading corporate supporter of the cause globally. In the 20 years since the Crusade's launch, Avon breast cancer programs in 58 countries have donated more than $740 million for research and advancing access to care, regardless of a person's ability to pay. Avon raises funds for the Crusade through the sale of Avon "Pink Ribbon" products, and through events and walks, such as the U.S. Avon Walk for Breast Cancer series, which is the Foundation's largest fund-raising source.
The Avon Breast Health Outreach Program
The Avon Breast Health Outreach Program is administered by Cicatelli Associates Inc. to support community-based, non-profit breast health programs across the country. The Fund's National Advisory Board selected Southeast Regional Health Screening Program at Southeast Alabama Medical Center as one of 120 new grant recipients nationwide in the 2012 cycle of Avon Breast Health Outreach Program grants. These organizations were chosen based on their ability to effectively reach women, particularly minority, low-income, and older women, who are often medically underserved.
For more Information
For more information on the Southeast Regional Health Screening Program at SAMC, please call Debra Stringer at 334-793-8080. For more information about breast cancer, contact the American Cancer Society at 1-800-ACS-2345 or www.cancer.org, or the National Cancer Institute at 1-800-4-CANCER or www.cancer.gov.
To learn more about the Avon Foundation for Women, call 1-866-505-AVON or visit www.avonfoundation.org, where you can access free printable Breast Health Resource Guides in English and Spanish. For information or to register or support the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer events, visit www.avonwalk.org or call 1-888-540-WALK.


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Fordham Responds to the Common Core "Counter-Manifesto"
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The "counter-manifesto" released this week in opposition to national testing and a national curriculum is full of half-truths, mischaracterizations, and straw men. But it was signed by a lot of serious people and deserves a serious response.
First, let us dispatch some silliness. To the best of our knowledge, and based on all evidence that we're aware of, neither the signers of the Shanker Institute manifesto, nor leaders in the Obama/Duncan Education Department, advocate a "nationalized curriculum" that would "undermine control of public school curriculum and instruction at the local and state level" and "transfer control to an elephantine, inside-the-Beltway bureaucracy." Nor is anybody calling for "a one-size fits all, centrally controlled curriculum for every K-12 subject." We certainly wouldn't support such a policy—and can understand why the conservative luminaries who signed the counter-manifesto wouldn't want it, either. As parents, grandparents, charter-school authorizers, and champions of school choice in almost all its forms, we believe deeply in the importance of schools having the freedom to shape their own unique educational approaches.
So let us be clear: While the assessments linked to the Common Core State Standards will be mandatory (for schools and districts in states that choose to use them), the use of any common curricular materials will be purely voluntary. We don't see any evidence to indicate otherwise.
We also find curious the attack line, penned by Jay Greene, that "centralization of education is bad for everyone except the central planners." This faux-populist rhetoric is compelling until you consider that many of the counter-manifesto's signatories have been deeply involved in efforts to centralize education decision-making at the state level for years. Weren't Sandy Stotsky's (praiseworthy) struggles to ensure that all students in Massachusetts had exposure to scientifically-based reading instruction and high-quality literature exercises in central planning and top-down control of curriculum and pedagogy? What about Bill Evers's push in California to mandate rigorous math instruction—including Algebra in eighth grade? Some libertarian signers of the counter-manifesto may indeed believe that we should let schools, districts, and parents make every single educational decision no matter how irresponsible, hare-brained, or even harmful to kids. But the vast majority of reformers who support standards-based reform have already acknowledged that "local control" should have its limits—beginning with academic standards.
And that brings us to the substance of the attack on the Common Core project. Its opponents' most persuasive argument is the concern that the Common Core standards and assessments may wrap schools into a curricular straightjacket and diminish opportunities for educational innovation. They might be at least partly right to worry about this. The question is: Will it be worth it? Let's look at this from both sides.
Supporters of the Common Core, ourselves included, peer out across this vast nation and see a hodge-podge of standards, tests, textbooks, curricular guides, lesson plans—little of it of high quality or particularly "innovative" (with much of the "innovative" stuff being faddish and silly), and none of it aligned with much else in any meaningful sense. We look with some envy at other countries that can boast curricular "coherence"—a clear vision of what students should know and be able to do, a reasonable plan for getting teachers trained to impart it, and rich materials to help students and teachers reach the Promised Land. Attaining consensus on the standards and the assessments—the core part of Common Core's work—is a huge leap forward. But why not go the last mile? Why repeat the mistakes of the state standards movement, in which we demanded that teachers boost their pupils to higher levels of achievement but failed to provide helpful tools or guidance in getting them there? Why pretend that more than a handful of the nation's 14,000 school districts (and 5,000 charter schools) have the capacity to create the instructional materials that many teachers crave? And why leave it to hegemonic textbook companies—vendors, too often, of thoroughly mediocre stuff—to fill the gaps?
No, government must not mandate the particular curricular or instructional materials that schools and teachers use. But why not make lots of good stuff available for free? Why not work to make the "default" option in American public education far better than it is today, and aligned with the excellent Common Core standards? Schools (and teachers) can veer from that default, or build upon it, or excavate under it, if they have the interest, capacity, and drive to do so. But by offering tools, guides, and all the rest, maybe we can bring the floor up significantly for the vast majority of schools and classroom practitioners that lack those traits.
At the same time, we can understand the heartburn this whole endeavor gives to promoters of innovation and diversity in education. We agree with Rick Hess, for example, that "through-course assessments"—high-stakes tests to be taken a half dozen times a year—will pressure schools to follow a particular scope and sequence—and that this is a serious infringement on school-level autonomy. (That's going to be especially hard on charter schools.) It's one thing to ask schools to demonstrate solid performance on an exam once every spring. It's quite something else to expect them to prepare students for tests six to eight times during the year. We agree that this is a bridge too far.
So here's where we stand: First, states should be encouraged to stay the course with the Common Core standards and assessments, at least until we see what the tests look like. While the standards aren't perfect, they are vastly better than what they are replacing in most states. Second, à la the Shanker manifesto, efforts should be made to develop all manner of tools, materials, lesson plans, professional development, curriculum, and more that will help teachers implement the standards in their classrooms—and to help students master them. We have no particular concern with the federal government—or philanthropists and venture capitalists, big and small—helping to pay for those activities, as has been done so often in the past. But, third, it should be made crystal clear that the use of all such materials will be completely voluntary for states and, we would argue, for districts within states, schools within districts, and teachers within schools. And fourth, the two consortia now building new Common Core assessments should take pains not to cross the Rubicon into micromanaging schools' curricular and instructional decisions.
Now for some specific advice:
- Drafters of the counter-manifesto: Make sure your signers—including the famous ones—understand that nobody is calling for a single mandatory "national curriculum," and see how many folks you lose.
- Shanker Institute: Make clearer than your original document did that you are not proposing that there be only one "common" curriculum for all schools.
- Secretary Arne Duncan: Ask the two testing consortia to sign agreements swearing not to mandate—directly or indirectly—the use of curricular materials they develop.
- The PARCC consortium: Figure out a way for schools to opt out of the through-course assessments and take a single end-of-year test instead.
- Supporters of the Common Core: Encourage states to enact laws barring their education departments and state boards from mandating any particular curricular or instructional approaches—including those developed through the Common Core effort.
- And big funders and nonprofits that care about this stuff: Devise a really powerful version of "Consumer Reports" by which to vet curricular materials (commercial and "open-source" alike) that purport to be "aligned" with the Common Core so as to gauge their validity—and whether they're quality materials worthy of the attention of practicing educators.
These steps won't resolve all the tension between national standards and "local control." But they offer some reasonable safeguards and a clear path forward. Any takers?
– Mike Petrilli and Checker Finn
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Without getting into the centralization/decentralization debate, may I suggest rethinking suggestion # 4 re PARCC's proposed through-course assessments? The use of periodic assessment, rather than just one end-of-year test, is intended to improve validity by covering a wider range of skills and knowledge and permitting the use of multi-stage performance tasks. This approach is also intended to improve reliability by basing evaluations of student performance on multiple testing occasions and on a larger number of tasks than would be feasible in a single test.
[…] curriculum debate (we don't take a side), at least one of Fordham's recommendations in their response to the Common Core "counter-manifesto" is a good […]
I think we've pretty much exhausted the debate, but here is my reply:
Here's one way to view the counter-manifesto: not an opposition to centralization, but to centralization that isn't mandating the "right" stuff (or I should probably say, the Right stuff).
A lot of the signatories are all for centralization they can control and determine. While I don't trust Fordham, Checker Finn, et al. any further than I trust the signatories, Hoover, and particularly those names recognizable for being on the wrong side of both the literacy and math wars, which is to say any further than I can throw a very large piano, I agree with the claim that some of these signatories are on record supporting centralized curricula they wrote or helped promote and entrench.
There is a second theory, one I give less credence to, but which can't be dismissed out of hand. And that's the one that says, "Conservatives can't abide anything that Obama says, wants, does." As Obama is on-board with the Common Core, there naturally will be some people who will oppose it automatically, even if they have previously supported similar or identical initiatives.
The bottom line is that track records and clearly-established political positions generally (though not always) tell the tale as to whether to trust the motives of one or more people suddenly taking a position that otherwise seems agreeable. I strongly oppose the Common Core Standards and any curricula or tests that come with them. But I won't sign anything with a right-wing rogues' gallery of signatures. Because even if they are on the surface saying things I mostly agree with, I have to assume until a lot more evidence proves me wrong, that their motives aren't anything like mine.
This is more sensible than we've heard from this source before, though it seems unnecessary to dismiss as "silliness" concerns about the many ways local school autonomy can be and indeed is undermined, including through nationally leveraged materials. The authors continue to underestimate teachers, were teachers supported differently with the resources devoted to these nationalizing efforts. The "through-course" testing matter is problematic in part because of its focus within courses on summative assessments rather than on wise teacher use of formative approaches designed to inform the instructional decisions on which learner-material interactions depend. Should be incumbent on those who want to know to make better use of information, including formative, already generated rather than imposing even more tests and controls on burdened teachers and schools.
The philosophy of the Perennialist cannot be supported in today's school curriculum with the children we have in front of us. We need a common focus, we must have a common core of beliefs (albeit "again").
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As US Investors Pulled Cash Out Of Stocks In December, Foreigners Purchased The Most US Equities Since July 2009
One of the more perplexing developments in the end of 2012, when as we pointed out previously US investors scrambled to deposit some $220 billion into the "safety" of savings accounts, resulting in major cash outflows out of US equities - cash which has since been returned, explaining the spike now declining, in equity reallocations back into stocks - ahead of the confusion over the Fiscal Cliff dividend and capital gains tax rates, was how US stocks did not tumble far more on this accelerated withdrawals out of equities. We now have the answer.
As the TIC data reported minutes ago, in addition to purchasing some $30 billion in Treasurys, and $18.1 billion in MBS, as well as $2.6 billion in corporate bonds, foreigners bought a whopping $25.9 billion in US stocks in December, just as US investors were withdrawing over tax-related fears. This followed another $21.5 billion inflow from foreigners in November, and was the highest equity inflow since the $30 billion allocated to US stocks in July 2009. This in turn brings the 6 month moving average to $14.2 billion, also the highest since the summer of 2009. Mystery solved who the banks have to thank for keeping the US stock market afloat in those days in mid to late December when the US equity investors was getting the hell out of dodge.
Total flows broken down by month and category:
And just foreign inflows into equities:
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Took the words right out of my...well, I suppose fingers, seeing as I was going to type them, not speak them.
Ditto. People forget that only 6 of 21 primary dealers are US based. The rest are foreign primary dealers.
So, still, a primary dealer or two will have to hold the bag
Folks this is not speculation.
The Fed is purchasing Eurozone Bonds to keep the country propped up for as long as possible.
In return, those foreign Eurozone banks are bidding the US Equity markets up. These eurobank's need the stock market to rally over 20 % to buy another 2 years of kicking the bankrupt eurozone can down the road.
It is the largest fraud on the American Public ever. No congressional approval. Nada.
The US taxpayer is bailing Europe out since Bernanke's so called MBS monthly purchase policy. What they didnt say was that these MBS didnt have to be domestic.
One loophole after another.
Most americans are going to look the other way however since they love to see their 401k at new highs finally.
This again not speculation, it si fact. you can see the line item on the weekly Fed Pomo activity reports.
Why not continue the Fraud on the little people. total joke. when this does break, and it will, it will be so ugly it may begin the next massive crash.
"Most americans are going to look the other way however..."
98% of Americans couldn't even describe what the Federal Reserve Bank (or banking system) is within even a remote degree of accuracy, let alone describe its reason for being (its stated and official reason for being; I'm not even speaking to its actual one).
You may have a point:
In "Boomerang," Michael Lewis's book about the European debt crisis, he writes that when Wall Street banks "sent their sales forces out to scour the world for some idiot" to invest in their securities, a "disproportionate number of those idiots were in Germany."
Yen carry traders.
im starting to think that perhaps the ones who are fighting the fed are the suckers....................
Until they're not.
It's not as if one has to fight the fed 24/7/365, either.
One is perfectly capable of picking as many or as few times and places for "fighting" as they wish. It's almost as if the Fed is highly vulnerable to assymetric warfare.
Just ask Michael Burry about that.
Maybe the GPIFs of the world? If I were a Japanese fund manager, given Yen devaluation, shouldn't I be buying non-Yen denominated assets with both hands?
Mr. Bag, meet Mr. Holder.
Foreigners seem to be buying everything here. If I didn't know better I would say we are at War.
I wonder if that conveyor belt of USD from the FED via QE going to foreign banks had anything to do with this?
Probably China! If I were them I wouldn't sit on that large pile of US fiat dollars! PMs and Physical assets!
it truly is an oligarchy family protecting its crown jewels; FED helps foreign banks which help support the WS asset base when it requires liquidity pumping when others are dumping.
All in a common cause. Now we know WHY the SQUID network is so VITAL to the workings of international finance...
They provide the grease for the ball bearings of international financial machinery, more, the vital grey matter to keep the spider's web from tearing asunder. All Oligarchs bow to the Squid!
Anyone who thinks the Central Banks of the World are not colluding in order to manage the commercial bank's de-leveraging is not paying attention. The Fed hands over billions in dollar swaps to foreign banks prior to an expected US equity sell-off at the end of the year. The newly enriched foreign banks then use their newly aquired 'wealth' to fill the gap left by the year-end US equity exodus.
Following the 2008 crisis, FASB mark-to-market rules are suspended and bank stress tests are conducted to create the illusion of healthy bank balance sheets (FASB still suspended!!). Backdoor bailouts to the big banks continue ad infinitum to fill the gaping holes in their real balance sheets while they continue to de-lever. Potential downside risks associated with mortgage fraud, LIBOR rigging, money laundering, etc. are dealt with during this de-leveraging cycle so the banks come out the other end squeaky clean and ready to repeat the process of fleecing the public all over again in the next century.
At this point, I think they are just hoping that they can keep the charade going without the populace waking up in the meantime. And if the populace does wake up and refuses to play along? Well, there are plenty of potential tinder boxes currently set up around the globe that could be lit if 'we the people' get too close to the truth....
The banks are about to receive EVEN MORE LUDICROUS leeway to mark their assets to unicornium-valuations:
Proposal Gives Banks More Freedom to Value Assets
- By FLOYD NORRIS
The board that sets American accounting rules moved on Wednesday to substantially reduce the use of market values in financial statements. The move, if adopted, would give banks more freedom to value financial assets as they deem appropriate.
Long live the Ponzi.
The recent Ron Paul interview by John Stossel is required viewing for ZHers. This was filmed after the SOTU by TOTUS.
Good interview.
There is no fixing it. Fraud is in the bankster DNA now. No prosecution for the crimes of the past. Move on to bigger and more massive schemes until there is a US currency crisis.
The Federal Reserve is running out of bubbles.
When the masses can no longer afford to eat is when the change occurs.
The interview with Ron Paul was quite good. I realize this ZH thread is about another topic, but this seemed as good a place as any to post the link to the interview.
BTW, there was a Q&A session with Stossel's audience at the end of that interview that wasn't included in the video I referenced. Perhaps there is another video out there that includes the Q&A session with the audience. There were some good questions and answers.
People forget that only 6 of 21 primary dealers are US based. The rest are foreign primary dealers.
So, still, a primary dealer or two will have to hold the bag
Bank of Nova Scotia, New York Agency
BMO Capital Markets Corp.
BNP Paribas Securities Corp.
Barclays Capital Inc.
Cantor Fitzgerald & Co.
Citigroup Global Markets Inc.
Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC
Daiwa Capital Markets America Inc.
Deutsche Bank Securities Inc.
Goldman, Sachs & Co.
HSBC Securities (USA) Inc.
Jefferies & Company, Inc.
J.P. Morgan Securities LLC
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated
Mizuho Securities USA Inc.
Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC
Nomura Securities International, Inc.
RBC Capital Markets, LLC
RBS Securities Inc.
SG Americas Securities, LLC
UBS Securities LLC.
EKM your seth klarman dude is buying AIG. Any thoughts?
Hey, We'll fukk the willing no matter where they live. As if holding their nose and buying our debt at negative real interest weren't enough, wait 'till the equity crash and watch the currency/trade/hot wars heat up.
This is the scary thing, once US investors start poring money into the market, we could see a massive push up in stocks.... The rotation out of bonds is real and could last years...
Your thesis doesn't compute.
Any "great rotation out of bonds" and into equities, whether by current fixed-income large AUM institutions, or by whatever is left of "retail equity traders" (which would only signal the beginning of equity market cratering) joining an equity beta chasing exercise definitively spells the end game for POMO operations and any further ability of the Fed to size their flow of funds in any proportion that would do anything other than cause interest rates (and yields on sovereign debt) to skyrocket.
Bernanke has thus far only been able to thread the needle he has by inducing a massive bubble in equity AND bond markets, SIMULTANEOUSLY. Any "great rotation" that's been mentioned upsets the Fed's apple cart and literally immediately sours the Fed's balance sheet in a way that does real and extensive damage that's transparent in a way that it massively impairs their operations and further ability to size flow.
At what level of price impairment to the Fed's current holdings will it be constrained from further "sterile" POMO funding?
It wouldn't take much at the historically low yields, and even relatively and historically mild increases in interest rates would do tremendous damage given that "sterile" funding equals roughly 50% of all POMO operations/production of flow.
Just trying to get clarification on the second graph; is that US equities only, or all equities including international?


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Notable books
Notable Books | Four Christian novels reviewed by Susan Olasky
While We're Far Apart
Austin's World War II-era novel features two Brooklyn families, both struggling with grief and bitterness, trying to figure out God's ways. Building owner Jacob Mendel's only son has moved to Hungary, where he married and had a baby. Jacob watches Hitler's advance and fears for his son's safety. His tenant, the widower Eddie Shaffer, decides to enlist in the army, leaving behind his two children in the care of a friend, Penny. As the story develops, the walls of suspicion and hostility between the two families begin to break down. Austin's novel has lots of period detail and explores well how suffering affects faith and how God works in even difficult situations.
The Miracle of Mercy Land
It's the late 1930s and Mercy Land has been the assistant to newspaper publisher Doc Philips for the past seven years. She's come a long way from the baby born on the banks of Bittersweet Creek. A mysterious book comes into Doc's hand. It seems to know everything about people in Bay City, Ala., all the choices they've made, and all the roads they've not taken. When Doc calls a stranger to town, everyone thinks he's going to take over the newspaper. Only Doc and Mercy know he has a mysterious connection to the town. Is he still the boy they knew and loved, or has his dark side taken over? Jordan's novel drips Southern and period charm.
Hatteras Girl
Alice Wisler's modern romance takes place on the Outer Banks of North Carolina where Jackie Donovan, 29, writes for a local magazine and dreams about owning a particular house with childhood memories. She wants to turn it into a bed-and-breakfast if she ever gets the money. Her parents are eager to see her married, so she suffers a constant series of bad blind dates arranged by them. Then she meets Mr. Right-or is he? Can Alice see beyond surface charm to find what is really valuable? Wisler's characters have an aimless, vaguely Christian point of view, not that different from the characters in some independent movies-except more wholesome.
Amy Inspired
Thirty-year-old Amy teaches college writing and tries to get published. As she waits for inspiration to strike, making checklists rather than gritting out pages, she begins to doubt whether she'll ever succeed. Amy has slightly bohemian friends who engage in slightly edgy behavior. Eventually true love wins out. In short, Pierce has crafted an engaging story out of modern chick-lit fundamentals-trouble at work, trouble with guys, and a certain lostness. There's also a less developed faith story as Amy realizes from a pastor's sermon that her desire to be known or achieve fame could be God-given, but we are meant to "find recognition in Him."
"I only know one man who might be able to tell me where I come from, and that man is a liar and a fraud," says the boy Grady at the beginning of Jonathan Rogers' The Charlatan's Boy (Waterbrook, 2010). The fraud is "Perfessor" Floyd, a traveling showman whose greatest claim to fame was his famous "Feechie" show featuring Grady as "the Wildman of the Feechiefen Swamp." But when Feechie shows go out of fashion, the entrepreneurial perfessor rolls out other shows, including "the ugliest boy in the world," again starring Grady. This young-adult tale is funny and poignant as it follows Grady and Floyd on their travels around the island of Corenwald, where Floyd tries to separate villagers from their money and Grady tries to figure out answers to some big questions: where he came from, where he belongs, and whether he'll ever have anyone but Floyd to love.


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Match 1: WPRFC U9's "Blues" 3-2 Congleton "Blacks"
WPRFC: Alastair, Archie, Callum, Aidan, Jamie, Alex, Ben, Cameron, Dan, James
WP lose possession allowing Congleton to score from a scrum after missed tackles. A good run from Alastair slices through the home defence and a good off-load to Callum allows him to score in the corner after good hands. Possession changes hands with neither team able to dominate as solid defence from both sides snuffs out chances. Dan is forced into touch on another of his trademark surges while James nails his man and Alex and Dan both make try-saving tackles to deny Congleton twice. The home team spread the ball out wide where cover is thin to score after sucking in the visitors. Alex replies after a good driving run from Cameron. Alastair is penalised after retaliating to a high tackle. Both teams continue to defend resolutely and at half-time it's 2-2. The second half starts in a positive fashion. A great run from James is supplemented by excellent recycling and great scrum half play from Aidan who is able to keep his backs supplied but to no avail. Congleton then come back but are frustrated by some hard tackling from all in blue shirts which allow the loose ball to be picked up, rucked, recycled and finally Alastait crosses the line for a fantastic try that all should take credit for. More solid tackles force the ball free for Alex to burst through but he is forced into touch. James is tackling like a demon to thwart the home team. WP are harshly penalised for a hands-free hand-off. A final excellent move at the death is held up but WP run out as well-deserved winners.
Match 2: WPRFC U9's "Whites" – Congleton "Reds"
WPRFC: Elliot, Louis, Scott, Joe, John, Lewis G, Owain, Ollie, Lewis M
Congleton commence the game with a straight forward pass to the nearest man on the left who takes the ball well and immediately runs forward through a sleeping Winnington line to score a very easy try in the 1st few seconds of the game - 1-0 to Congleton. On the restart, Winnington attempt to do the same but are stopped just short of the Congleton line. Good play by Park follows with several recycles taking the game to Congleton in a more forceful manor. Keeping the ball moving, Winnington finally break down Congleton and gain a try Louis Kent makes it 1 -1. Congleton take the restart and attempt to reproduce their earlier starting and push directly for the try line. However this time our lads are awake and defuse the situation by forcing the home team into touch. Taking the line-out Winnington immediately see the gap and Louis Kent immediately strives to place the ball down for his second try. 2-1 Winnington. Congleton take the re-start and again push directly for the try, Winnington hold out for a good period but Congleton have some really good play and force Winnington back and back until finally breaking down the Park to make it 2-2. This time it is Winnington who start with a push through the centre. Ollie Lockwood has the ball and bulldozes his way to the line to score a great single effort – 3-2 to the Park. The restart by Congleton is demanding both teams to work hard on a very muddy pitch. Pushing forward, Congleton lose the ball and give Winnington a scrum. From this Joe Baker fields the ball to Lewis Gibson who runs from his own 22 yd line to score – 4-2 WP. Another re-start by the home team leads to another simple try for them as the half time whistle blows – Congleton 3 – 4 WPRFC. The second half starts with Winnington who undertake lots of passing in the centre of the pitch until they give the ball away with a Knock-on. However, not to be pushed into mistakes in the 1st half, Winnington keep the pressure on the home team until they finally make an error and Winnington have the scrum. Joe Baker is seen to nod to Lewis Murray who nods back, the ball comes into play and a switch pass from the scrum half sees the ball to Lewis Murray who runs a good half of the pitch to put the ball down by the corner flag 5 – 3 to Winnington.
Congleton restart the game and they are not going to let each other down and immediately challenge to Winnington defence until they finally break down and allow the home team to grab a score back. 5-4 to Winnington. Winnington restart but poor handling gives the ball to Congleton who punish the visitors with a quick try – 5-5. It is all square as Winnington take the restart, some hard rugby takes place in the centre of the pitch with both sides fighting for the win Scott Watson and Ollie Lockwood work hard to stop any mauls breaking through. Each team pushes hard and then makes handling errors. This is repeated several times over until Lewis Gibson makes another dash for the line – 5-5 to the Park.Congleton are not to be deterred, they push hard working together well as they try to capture another try and balance the score. The control of the ball is swapped from each team until Winnington are given the scrum. Joe Baker again nods to Lewis Murray as he puts his gum shield in position. The ball comes out of the scrum for Joe to deliver a pass to Lewis M by the touch line and he wastes no time to reach full speed and place the ball down to make it 7-5 to Winnington and the game ends Congleton 5 – 7 WPRFC.
Match 3: WPRFC U9's "Blues" 4-7 Congleton "Reds"
WPRFC: Alastair, Archie, Callum, Aidan, Jamie, Alex, Ben, Cameron, Dan, James
Weather conditions deteriorating as the rain gathers momentum. The home team start but lapses of concentration and missed tackles allow Congleton to steam through the middle to score. Alex breaks out and passes to Ben who is forced into touch. A series of good tackles force the ball loose which Alastair picks up and after some good recycling allows James through to even the score. Solid defence holds Congleton at bay until a missed tackle allows Congleton to score. On the restart the ball is given to Alastair who charges straight through the home defence to score, celebrating in Chris Ashton style with a flying leap under the imaginary posts which earns him a stern talking-to from the referee. WP really giving their all but a missed tackle allows Congleton through to score their third. Archie, on a great run straight from the line-out, off-loads to Cameron in support who is forced into touch just short of the line. 3-2 at half time. A thumping tackle from Alastair forces turnover from which a solid scrum gives Aiden, having an excellent game at scrum half, the chance to feed Alex who bursts through to score. Good tackling forces another turnover from which Dan goes on a seering run down the line but is forced into touch. Despite solid tackling Congleton are able to ship the ball out wide where the cover is thin and they score. Alastair is again penalised by the ref with another dubious decision which allows Congleton to run through to score again. Dan rips the ball clear and goes on another run down the line but is clattered into touch once again. More excellent tackling forces the ball loose which Alastair picks up and off-loads to Alex to score. Good hands create room for Congleton to score in the corner. New boy Jamie passes like an old pro to Callum who tears off down the line, only to be forced into touch just short. Alex scores again to narrow the gap after more hard tackles from the excellent James knocks the ball loose. A poor line-out creates loose ball for Congleton which they exploit to the full to increase their lead at the final whistle. Some excellent rugby from WP deserved better than a 3–try loss.
Match 4: WPRFC U9's "Whites" – Congleton "Blacks"
WPRFC: Elliot, Louis, Scott, Joe, John, Lewis G, Owain, Ollie, Lewis M
The Whites are not so White now as they start their next game more of a "Brown" colour. The colour change brought by the pitch seems to have a damaging affect to their concentration as the immediately play a knock-on and give the impetus to Congleton who go route 1 to score and start the game in magnificent fashion for them and their supporters 1 – 0 to Congleton.The immediate re-start sees Elliot Simcock take the ball to Congleton in the centre of the pitch. Crowded now by players from both sides Elliot struggling to make headway, but then is team mates all push together and keep him moving towards the try line. Congleton defend their line well until they finally lose the battle and Winnington score 1-1. After that tremendous effort to pull the match back to a level score, the Park lads are put under similar pressure with a similar play from the home team. The momentum goes against the Park and Congleton take the lead once more 2-1 Congleton. Not to be deterred Park re-start the game and the centre of the pitch is occupied for a long time with both teams trying to gain ground, making errors and then defending just as hard as the attacked. Lewis Murray takes a hard tackle and comes off the worst for his efforts. However, he is only down for a minute when he gets to his feet and gives another momentous tackle – no fear shown again and again as the Home team keep coming at the visitors. Unfortunately for Park, Congleton finally get to the score line - 2-1 Congleton.Winnington take the re-start and sadly give the ball away too easily and allow Congleton to score another try after a dash down the line – 3-1 Congleton. Park heads drop as Congleton punish the visitors for another handling error and this ends the half Congleton 4 WP 1. After a team talk at half time, Winnington Park realise they have a lot of work to do to capture the game. Congleton take the re-start and take the game to their opposition. The visiting team are working hard as Ollie Lockwood will not let the home team push through the centre and forcing the play to the wings. It is these wings that are now protected by Owain Carlick and John Young respectfully. As the ball spills to John, he makes a curving run to the opposite wing but as he tries to make forward he hits the home defence. Congleton grab the ball and take full advantage they now lead 5-1 Congleton. Winnington drag themselves back to the re-start with their heads commencing to drop. The centre of the pitch is full of tiring heroes who sense that the game may be beyond them. However, playing the ball to the wings it finally finds Louis Kent who runs for route 1 to score Winnington's second of the match 5-2 Congleton. Again the re-start sees heavy work in the centre of the pitch. Scott Watson using all his might is not going to let the home side through as he pushes the opposition back, despite the inevitable loss he is magnificent in his defiance of the offensive coming his way.With Owain and John, covering the wings they too fight hard until the inevitable happens after sustained attack Congleton score to lead 6-2 Congleton. Our lads pick themselves up for another re-start. The ball is flashed down the line until it reaches Lewis Gibson – his speed catches the home side out and he safely places down the ball for a commiseration try. 6-3 Congleton. Despite the attempts by the coach Winnington heads drop and this allows Congleton to get 2 more tries ending the game Congleton 8 WPRFC 3.
With enormous thanks to Carl Baker, Joe's dad and my fellow "Stato", for writing the reports on the two "Whites" games.


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Scranton mayor-elect rounds out Cabinet, plans inaugural
Scranton Mayor-elect Bill Courtright has rounded out his cabinet of city department heads and announced the agenda for his inauguration on Monday.
Mr. Courtright, who won election in November, will be sworn in to office Monday at noon at City Hall by U.S. District Court Judge Richard Conaboy.
Oaths of office will be administered to Mr. Courtright's department heads, who will include the following:
n City solicitor: Jason Shrive
n Police chief: Carl Graziano
n Acting Fire chief: Patrick DeSarno
n Business administrator: David Bulzoni
n Treasurer: Wayne Beck
n Office of Economic and Community Development director: Linda Aebli
n Human Resources director: Rebecca McMullen
n Department of Public Works director: Dennis Gallagher
n Licensing, Inspections and Permits director: Patrick Hinton
Lackawanna County President Judge Thomas Munley will speak and Mr. Courtright will deliver his inaugural address.
Attorney Ned Abrahamsen, who is co-chair of Mr. Courtright's transition team, will serve as master of ceremonies, and Rabbi Moshe Saks of Temple Israel will deliver the Invocation.
U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Matthew Butler will lead the Pledge of Allegiance and Scranton High School junior Megan Kolata will sing "The National Anthem" and "God Bless America."
The event also will include recognition of former mayors, an honor guard by the city's police and fire departments, and a poetry reading by Mr. Courtright's daughter, Lindsey Courtright, and Annette Paultis, chair of the city's Committee for Arts and Culture.
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So 26 of the members are agreeing to the Sarkozy package and just the Brits had to be let go.
Such is the power of attraction that the Brit slot has already been filled. Croatia leapt to come aboard as they saw the vacancy and signed on this morning.
An original part of the Greek civilisation, key part of the Roman Empire as well as the great Habsburg regime, Croatia is a far more worthy candidate.
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