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Natural gas drilling activity in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico (GOM) generally increased over the past year, despite a drop in natural gas prices over much of the same period.
During September 2012, the average number of rigs actively drilling for natural gas in the GOM each week was more than double the average weekly count for September 2011, according to data provided by Baker Hughes Incorporated. Virtually all of these rigs were positioned in shallow water (water depth up to 500 feet).
The higher shallow water natural gas rig count reflects, in part, the resumption of well permitting by the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE). According to BSEE, 162 applications for new shallow water wells have been submitted since the June 8, 2010 implementation of new safety and environmental standards (in response to the Macondo well blowout in April 2010). Of these (and an additional 20 applications submitted prior to June 8, 2010), only 6 were pending approval as of October 3, 2012. A second factor likely helping to boost shallow water GOM drilling activity is the comparatively high prices producers fetch for natural gas liquids extracted from the natural gas production stream.
Natural gas prices rose across most spot market locations. Henry Hub rose from $2.92 per MMBtu last Wednesday to $3.21 yesterday, an increase of 29 cents per MMBtu, or 10 percent. Other trading points also generally increased, with most showing gains ranging from about 20 to 40 cents per MMBtu. Algonquin Citygate, which delivers natural gas to Boston, saw price gains at the higher end of the range, likely owing to cooling New England weather. It began the reporting week at $3.18 per MMBtu and ended at $3.59 per MMBtu, a gain of 41 cents per MMBtu, or 13 percent.
The NYMEX futures price increased week-on-week, persistently above most spot prices. The NYMEX price rose from $3.023 per MMBtu last Wednesday to $3.395 per MMBtu yesterday. On Thursday, the first day of the November near-month futures contract, the NYMEX closed at $3.297 per MMBtu, 29 cents per MMBtu higher than the Henry Hub spot price. The futures price continued to climb throughout the week, peaking at $3.531 per MMBtu on Tuesday, and before dropping back to $3.395 per MMBtu yesterday. The 12-Month Strip (average of November 2012 to October 2013 contracts) gained 19 cents per MMBtu, starting at $3.578 per MMBtu last Wednesday and landing at $3.771 per MMBtu yesterday.
Total demand for the report week showed an overall slight decrease. According to estimates from BENTEK Energy LLC (Bentek), overall natural gas consumption for the nation fell by 0.3 percent. Consumption in the industrial and residential/commercial sectors fell by 1.3 percent and 4.4 percent respectively, which was nearly offset by an increase in natural gas consumed for power generation, which increased by 2.7 percent. The Southeast, which is the region with the largest consumption of natural gas for power generation, burned 11.7 percent more gas this week than last week. Texas, the state with the largest consumption of natural gas for power, burned 12 percent less gas this week, although the net result was a week-on-week increase in total U.S. natural gas demand for power.
Total supply for the report week showed a slight overall increase. Bentek estimates that overall supply, which averaged about 70.2 Bcf per day across the report week, rose by 0.3 percent, driven by a 0.2 percent rise in production. Imports from Canada increased by 1.0 percent, having a slight positive effect on overall supply. This was driven by the West, where imports were up 8.2 percent over the previous reporting week and 23.8 percent above this week last year.
Working natural gas in storage increased to 3,653 Bcf as of Friday, September 28, according to EIA's WNGSR. This represents an implied net injection of 77 Bcf from the previous week. This week's injection was 1 Bcf below the 5-year (2007-2011) average injection of 78 Bcf, and 24 Bcf below last year's injection of 101 Bcf. Inventories are currently 272 Bcf (8.0 percent) greater than last year at this time and 281 Bcf (8.3 percent) greater than the 5-year average.
All three storage regions posted increases this week. Inventories in the East, West, and Producing regions increased by 42 Bcf (the 5-year average net injection is 47 Bcf), 8 Bcf (the 5-year average net injection is 9 Bcf), and 27 Bcf (the 5-year average net injection is 23 Bcf), respectively. In the Producing region, working natural gas inventories increased 13 Bcf (5.6 percent) in salt cavern facilities and increased 14 Bcf (1.5 percent) in nonsalt cavern facilities.
Temperatures during the storage report week were 0.4 degrees cooler than the 30-year normal temperature and 3.4 degrees cooler than the same period last year. Temperatures in the lower 48 States averaged 64.3 degrees, compared to 67.7 last year and the 30-year normal of 64.7 degrees. While overall temperatures were a little cooler than normal, temperatures varied somewhat across Census divisions. In the Midwest, temperatures in the East North Central and West North Central Census divisions were cool, averaging 5.1 and 4.1 degrees cooler, respectively, than the 30-year normal. In the West, the Mountain and Pacific Census divisions were particularly warm, averaging 4.6 and 4.0 degrees warmer, respectively, than the 30-year normal.


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It's not everyday that Australia gets a new free-to-air television station. It's even less common that the new channel is made by and for Indigenous Australians.
Yet today in the dusty red centre of Australia, and very close, appropriately, to the spectacular natural wonder that is Uluru, the switch was flicked on for Channel 34 – the National Indigenous Television network.
NITV, as it is branded, has previously only been a curio for Australian television watchers, located on Foxtel and drawing modest audience figures. Now, however, it is available to all Australians with access to free-to-air television as it joins the SBS suite of channels.
The move to SBS began last year. NITV had previously lacked stability and security in terms of funding and its ability to transmit. Knowing that the federal government was keen for it to move on to the free-to-air spectrum, SBS managing director Michael Ebeid began lobbying the government with a plan to bring it into the SBS family. SBS possesses a digital spectrum of four channels – only two of which are currently used.
"This in many ways completes SBS," Mr Ebeid says. "Our job is tell to the stories from cultures around the world and NITV talks to the first culture of the land."
Discussions began in earnest in August of last year and the project came to fruition when its funding – $60 million over four years – was included in the federal budget this year in May.
Mr Ebeid says the focus for the funding will purely be on programming and content as savings will be made in regards to human resources, back-end administration, finance, systems and IT as it will be able to utilise SBS's infrastructure in that regard.
"The idea is to try and put as much money as we can into content," he said. "That is one of the good reasons of bringing it into SBS."
The network began airing at 12pm eastern-time with a special From The Heart of Our Nation, a television event broadcast from here at Uluru hosted by veteran indigenous broadcasters Stan Grant and Rhonda Roberts. Federal ministers Jenny Macklin and Stephen Conroy were present along with channel manager Tanya Denning. There were a couple of minor technical issues, but it was for the most part an emotional, spirited presentation.
On Wednesday night, NITV will continue broadcasting from Uluru with a two-hour concert and celebrating indigenous culture and music featuring performers such as Dan Sultan, Casey Donovan, Christine Anu and Troy Casser-Daly.
After the launch's unique programming, there will be a broad focus on genres: drama, comedy, sports, music and documentary will all be part of its programming mix. News will also play a big part in the channel's culture with a nightly bulletin, NITV News, that will look at both indigenous news and wider global and national news stories through an indigenous perspective.
"We want to use and work with the indigenous independent producers who are tapped into local stories and have access to communities and the traditional owners who can capture and record those stories," Mr Ebeid said.
He added that although the channel is first and foremost for indigenous Australians – 80 per cent of its staff is indigenous – he believes it will play a further role for the wider Australian population.
"It gives us an opportunity to get a view of that and understand our first people more than we ever have before," he said. "We think that this will play an important part in the reconciliation of this country."
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Energy Price Outlook
After a sobering week last week, oil prices are expected to be under pressure again in this week's trade and potentially fall toward $80/bbl in WTI over the next few weeks. The dominant factors should be increased prospects for slow growth in the U.S., uncertainty over the fiscal cliff, events in Europe including Sunday's vote in Greece, and OPEC's cut in demand estimates on Friday. The bull case rests on any breakthroughs in the above issues as well as some signs of improvement in Chinese economic data. We'd look for prices to drift lower in this week's trade.
A joke began circulating on Thursday after McDonald's reported same store sales that showed the first decline since 2003. The joke was that the economy is getting so bad that its 99 cent meal deals were no longer affordable. Friday's settlement in WTI was 98 cents higher and may not be much better. Brent finished $2.15/bbl higher on Friday. It was a sobering week overall, as expectations going into Tuesday's election appeared to favor Mitt Romney as the winner. With Mr. Obama in office for another term, prices fell $4.27/bbl on Wednesday on the prospect that the economic recovery continues at a trickling pace rather than anything resembling a gusher. A second issue was the fiscal cliff, which received mixed indications on Friday. Speaker Boehner said that raising tax rates would hurt the economy and job growth but that he's open to raising revenue through other means. President Obama spoke later and said that he's open to compromise but added that rates must be raised and that he wouldn't accept any proposal that wasn't balanced. The president's words were seen as less conciliatory and both energies and stocks weakened. That could be adverse for energies, unless it is just talk before a deal is made. It's believed that talks have already begun at the staff level, and there are some hints that the summer 2010 deal between Obama-Boehner could be resurrected. It's unclear though whether the "goalpost" will be moved again.
The upside will look to any progress on a deal or any change in the tone in Washington. The president may not want to budge, as Republicans face an election in two years whereas he does not. It's a tough call. The upside could also look to improvements in Chinese economic data reported on Friday. CPI fell to 1.7% from 1.9% and may provide room for stimulus. Industrial production was +9.6% vs. +9.2% previously. Chinese auto sales fell slightly to 1.30 mln units from 1.32 mln but came in marginally above the 1.28 mln expected. The chart below compares auto sales against Chinese oil demand and shows that while auto sales have been flat for two years, they're not sinking. It could be a marginal positive for Chinese oil demand.
Natural Gas
Gas prices fell 10.5 cents in Dec futures on Friday, with the front months underperforming the backs. The catalyst may have been forecasts for warm weather, which has been developing over the last few days. After the passage of the Nor'easter on Wed/Thu, temperatures in the Northeast are forecast to reach the 60's over the weekend followed by a drop to highs near 50 degrees in days 5-10. Chicago has highs in the mid-40s during that period, but is under the zone of above-normal temps in NOAA's 6-10 and 8-14 day forecasts. The outlook for warmer weather caused the market to trade lower during the session, with a burst of selling seen in the middle of the session when the 50-day MA was broken. The average offered support at $3.56, and may be a signal of more selling to come. Open interest has been steady-lower for the last two weeks now, so technical-based traders may be invigorated by the combined break of the 50-day and falling open interest.
The market's price structure weakened last week, as the Dec '12/Dec '13 spread fell to a 59.5 cent contango from 58.0 cents a week ago and 53.8 cents a month ago. Summer month contracts are now trading further above winter months, which suggests that the market doesn't anticipate a cold winter. On Thursday, NOAA lifted its El-Nino watch which would be bullish for gas, however, it's likely that the market is waiting instead for further signals from NOAA's long-range forecast in a week or two. That could keep the market under pressure this week, however, the next support is at $3.42, which is only 8 cents below Friday's close.
Global Economic & Dollar News
» Chinese CPI was +1.7% vs. +1.9% previously. Industrial production was +9.6% vs. +9.2% previously.
» Chinese Auto Sales were 1.30 mln units vs. 1.28 mln expected.
» European Industrial Production numbers were weak on Friday, with France reporting -2.7% vs. +1.9% and Italy -1.5% vs. +1.7%. Germany reported on Wednesday that production fell 1.8%.
» Basel III Regulations will not take effect in Jan '13 as planned, according to bank agencies.
» A Philadelphia Fed Survey of 39 economists showed expectations of a slow economy in Q4 that holds near current levels of growth. Forecasters also downgraded their 2013 GDP estimates to 2.0% from 2.1%. They estimate Q4 unemployment to be 7.9%, which is slightly below 8.1% previously forecast.
» University of Michigan Preliminary Sentiment was 84.9 vs. 82.9 expected and 82.6 previously.
» Speaker Boehner said that the fiscal cliff is an opportunity for Pres Obama to lead. He said that if he works out a deal, he would have no problem getting it passed in the House. Said raising tax rates would hurt the economy and job growth but he is open to raising revenue through other means.
» Pres Obama said that he's open to compromise on a solution to the fiscal cliff, but he refused to accept any proposal that wasn't balanced. He said that tax rates must be raised. Jay Carney later said that the president will veto any bill extending tax cuts for the wealthy.
Energy News
» OPEC's Monthly Report cut its demand view for its crude in 2013 by 20,000 b/d. It said it had economic concerns as well as concerns over rising output by rivals.
» Natural Gas Rig Counts fell 11 to 413 last week, according to Baker Hughes. Oil rigs increased 16 to 1,389 while horizontals fell 1 to 1,104.
» Diesel Exports to Europe may fall during the next two weeks because of a shortage of tankers caused by Hurricane Sandy. Shipbrokers report that 12 vessels will ship 456,000 metric tons of diesel and heating fuel in the two weeks ending Nov 22nd compared to 17 vessels shipping 646,000 tons through Oct 26th.
Upcoming Energy Events
Sat - Chinese Trade Data
Sun - Greece Parliament Vote on Austerity Budget
Mon - Eurozone Finance Ministers Meeting
Tue - IEA Monthly Report
Wed - API Inventories (4:30pm EST)
Thu - Natural Gas Inventories (10:30am EST)
Thu - EIA Weekly Oil Inventories (11:00am EST)
Nov 20th - Bernanke Speaks
Dec 12th - OPEC Meeting
EIA Inventory Preview
Crude oil stocks are anticipated to drop 0.5 MB this week compared to a 1.3 MB decline in the five-year average. The biggest factor in this week's numbers will be refinery utilization, in our view, as it was the most significant in last week's inventory increase. Seven refineries were shut or went to reduced rates in that week due to Hurricane Sandy and five returned to full processing rates last week. The return of refining should reduce inventories as more oil is processed. Imports were surprisingly higher last week and grew the most on the east coast despite the storm. It's difficult to assess the import situation this week when the closure of ports in NY led to increased imports while the reopening of the Keystone pipeline in the Midwest led to a decrease in PADD 2. Gasoline inventories benefited from Sandy in last week's report by gaining 2.9 MB. The east coast fell 1.2 MB while the Gulf Coast saw the largest increase of 4.6 MB, likely due to the shutdown of the Colonial pipeline. The restart of that pipeline along with the inability of refiners to deliver gasoline to end-users could lead to another build this week of 0.8 MB. Distillate inventories could grow as well and we're looking for a build of 0.5 MB.
*The API convergence figures are the amounts that EIA data need to change in order to match the previous day's API figures


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Butler invited to speak at church in Madison
MADISON - Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame player LeRoy Butler has been invited to speak at St. Dunstan's Episcopal Church in Madison next month.
Butler's scheduled address at another church was canceled when he went public with support for a gay player in the NBA, Jason Collins. St. Dunstan's officials say they want to let Butler know most churches join him in extending the message of love and acceptance.
St. Dunstan's is asking for sponsors to cover Butler's speaking fee of $8,500.


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ESPN just anounced that Peter Gammons will be back on the air tonight on the 6:00 Sportscenter, and on the Sox - Tigers game tonight.
Welcome back, Peter.
ESPN just anounced that Peter Gammons will be back on the air tonight on the 6:00 Sportscenter, and on the Sox - Tigers game tonight.
Welcome back, Peter.
Is it solipsistic in here, or is it just me?
Glad to hear he's back.
Talent is God Given: be humble.
Fame is man given: be thankful.
Conceit is self given: be careful.
John Wooden
Good to hear.
I hope he remembers NOT to hug anyone as they welcome him back! Right, Harold?
Small market fan... always hoping, but never expecting.
Nice piece by Gammons on ESPN.com. Interesting that he noted Kearns playing on the Nationals being the moment he "came back."
'One of the Luckiest People Alive'
The first clue that my cell towers were intact came right around the trading deadline, approximately a month after my aneurysm. By that time, I had been transferred from the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston to the Rehabilitation Hospital of the Cape and the Islands. I was perusing the morning box scores in the Cape Cod Times when I brusquely asked my nurse, "Linda, how did Austin Kearns get to the Nationals?"
Linda Stetharces-Caruso had no idea what I was talking about, but she knew me well enough to allow me to grab my BlackBerry and fire off that question, which two general managers answered within the hour. Some gaps have to be filled.
What I endured is trivial compared to 9/11 victims or the suffering of heroes like John McCain, but to get back to the point where Austin Kearns mattered was my return from what was a kind of life-and-death matter. Just to be able to type Kearns' name makes me one of the luckiest people on earth.
Honestly, I remember very little except that I got a splitting headache driving to the Gold's Gym in Mashpee, Mass. At 7 a.m. on June 27, I pulled into a parking lot to sleep. I remember very little about all the people who saved the life of someone whose sister, Anne Durant, died of the same type of aneurysm a decade earlier.
A wonderful person named Agnes Rockett-Bolduc watched me pull into a parking lot, tried to talk to me and immediately called 911. Within minutes, or, really, seconds, the guys at Mashpee Fire and Rescue had me in an ambulance screaming for the Falmouth Hospital, and Dr. John Mendleson, where they immediately diagnosed that I had suffered an aneurysm and needed to get to Boston. So Bill, Christopher and Tim were flying me in their helicopter toward Brigham and Women's Hospital in a matter of minutes.
And when I got to the hospital, I was in the hands of Dr. Arthur Day, who my medical friends insist is the best neurosurgeon in the country. Dr. Day was once a great friend to Ted Williams; the neurological ICU floor at Brigham and Women's is the 9th, for Ted. I had phone and e-mail messages from medical friends around the country that included the phrase "Boston hospitals," and Dr. Andy Whitemore has helped make Brigham and Women's a miracle building beyond comparison.
I will never know how the neuroscience nurses and staff took care of -- much less dealt with -- me, Dan Triggs, Pat Kelly, Kim Templeton, Mary, Richard, Adam -- with everything held together thanks to the strength of my wife, Gloria. She went through far more than me.
People offer me congratulations these days, but sitting here writing is not about congratulations; it is about thanks, care and incredible medical genius. Agnes Rockett-Bolduc, the guys from Mashpee Fire and Rescue, the Falmouth Hospital, the guys from Boston MedFlight and everyone at Brigham and Women's as well as the Rehabilitation Hospital of the Cape and Islands made it possible for me to be happier at the keyboard of my Sony Vaio than I've ever been before.
I was fortunate enough that I'd never spent much time in hospitals, so I never realized how much everyone in the medical world cares. The nurses and technicians at Brigham's were incredible. On the Cape, under the care of Dr. David Lowell, I had a speech therapist, Jeannine Annis-Young, who cut weeks off my recovery, as did my occupational therapist, Beth Kerr, and Kathleen Bobo, who got me back on the road to physical recovery. Understand, the more I came back, the more the trading deadline and pennant races drove me to distraction, which made life for nurses like Denise Meiners, Richard Erdman and Linda nearly impossible. Sorry, I have omitted dozens of names.
Still, all the support of ESPN and my friends of 30-something years in the media and baseball was enough to chill me for the rest of my life, beginning with those so close -- Jayson Stark, Tim Kurkjian, Bob Nightengale and the best boss I've ever known (from the Globe and ESPN), Vince Doria. Or my niece Debby, there at my side, every day. I don't remember much or all the good that was done, but I do remember waking up and seeing Rene Lachemann's face. I will never forget what Kim and Don Mattingly did, the daily call from Ozzie Guillen, Terry Francona never giving up trying to reach me, the reports from the Boston media and Mets officials at Pedro Martinez's grief, the signatures from Cooperstown -- sorry, I could go on forever and never get to Trot and Catherine Nixon and Darin Erstad. But I was reminded of what's real and what's political perception, and appreciate opening notes from George Bush and John Kerry in the same mail and believing, as I did before we became so fractionalized, in each man's goodness and dignity.
Thanks, to thousands more. To Fran at the North Falmouth Superette where I get my papers, water and vitamin water en route to Gold's; or Bob, who has worked the press room in Winter Haven for more than 30 years; or the best of friends like John Keenan -- who flew across the country -- or Eddie and all the guys in Pearl Jam, James Taylor, Paul Barrere and all of Little Feat -- to my co-workers, none more eloquent than Jon Miller.
No one who ever reads this is as fortunate as I, who knows that Gloria is the ballast of the family.
Welcome Back Petey!
If Pete doesn't remember Kearns going to the Nats, does that mean we can get a do-over?
Edit: And how could I forget, welcome back.
Welcome back, Peter. A fabulous baseball writer and a genuinely nice guy.
On a side note, I'm surprised Peter didn't have a heart attack immediately after hearing HOW Kearns got to the Nationals.
'When I'm not longer rapping, I want to open up an ice cream parlor and call myself Scoop Dogg.'
-Snoop on his retirement
Your Mom is happy.
Considering the guy almost died, his comeback this season is truly amazing.
If you think small, you'll go nowhere in life.
My father suffered a brain aneurysm (deemed "giant" by clinical definition) over eleven years ago. While the neurosurgeon was repairing the damage, he had to cutoff blood flow to that area of his brain for 12 minutes. The end result was that my father suffered a stroke and has been disabled ever since.
I can't tell you the amount of work my father had to endure in rehab just to get to the point where he can function at a "disabled level." To see Gammons back in the fold after such a brief rehab stint is nothing short of amazing.
"Booing on opening day is like telling grandma her house smells like old lady."--WOY
Welcome back Peter.
We had an engineer in our department that has had two aneurysms over the last couple of years. When the first one hit, they said he wasn't going to live. He was off work for many months. He came back, and then about 3 months later had another one.
He's been back for awhile now and seems to be doing OK. But you can see the physical effects that it has had on him. The symptoms are alot like that of a stroke. He does not have full control of the right side of his body (motor skills, etc).
"In my day you had musicians who experimented with drugs. Now it's druggies experimenting with music" - Alfred G Clark (circa 1972)
Welcome back, Peter. Good to see him following the game again - I absolutely love that guy.
I'm a big fan. Glad to seem back on his feet.
Get your nunchucks and the keys to your dad's car. I know where we can get a gun
Welcome back Peter Gammons.
It was great seeing his face and hearing his voice again last night.
Welcome back, Peter
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FOREIGN investors' hunger for Australian government debt appears to be waning, with overseas buying of bonds slowing to a four-year low.
Overseas investment managers added $1.3 billion of Australian bonds to their portfolios in the latest September quarter - the smallest increase since the early days of the global financial crisis in June 2008.
Foreign capital in search of a haven flooded into Australian government bonds earlier this year, and the trend has been blamed for keeping the dollar high despite weaker export prices. But an analysis by JPMorgan's interest rate strategist, Sally Auld, has found foreign demand for the assets is easing.
In the three months to September, foreign buyers snapped up 9 per cent of new bonds issued by the government - a far cry from the 88 per cent of issuance bought by foreign investors in 2010-11. Although the trend is in its early days, she said lower interest from overseas suggested the sharp lift in buying by foreign funds was probably complete.
''We would argue that this dynamic is broadly consistent with the idea that much of the new reserve allocation by offshore central banks and sovereign wealth funds into $A fixed income is now in the past,'' she said.
The figures also showed that the share of the $254 billion Commonwealth bond market owned by foreigners had slipped to 74.4 per cent, down from a record high of 79 per cent in the March quarter.
With many economists sceptical about the government's pledge to deliver a budget surplus this financial year, Ms Auld raised the prospect of weak overseas demand at a time when the government may need to continue borrowing.
But she said foreign interest in Australian assets was unlikely to decline sharply, due to Australia's economic strength and the relatively high returns offered to investors. Commonwealth government bonds have offered investors a yield up to 167 basis points higher than other AAA-rated countries - and tough new capital rules for banks are expected to further stoke demand for government paper.
TD Securities' head of Asia-Pacific research Annette Beacher said the bonds would continue to attract strong investor interest even if the Reserve Bank cut the cash rate further next year.


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I'm running somewhere tomorrow. It's going to be beautiful. I can't wait.
Poor baby
After posting my last reply, I clicked on one of my courses and up it popped. So, we're back in business. Thanks Eric!!!
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Speech therapy
I am looking at how speech therapy would work with a selective mute child. Do you have any information that would help me with my research?
For a good overview of selective mutism see:
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American Speech-Language-Hearing Association - Selective Mutism
I hope that will provide a good start for your research.
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STRETCH 'party' limousines could be licensed and checked as taxis under a new shake-up of cab regulations in Blackburn with Darwen.
Councillors are looking at bringing 'novelty vehicles' into the system after agreeing a compromise on new bodywork checks with the drivers.
The borough's licensing committee discussed proposed new maintenance rules for hackney carriages in Blackburn with Darwen.
They are based on the current London scheme and proposals being considered by the government to introduce national standards.
Local drivers feared the new bodywork regulations would be stricter than the current ones, requiring very small dents and scratches to be repaired, often leading to whole new panels.
The committee decided to introduce a six-month trial for the new scheme and allow more flexibility on the issue of minor bodywork damage.
They plan to have a comprehensive scheme, possibly including novelty vehicles and 'stretch-limo' regulations, which is currently a grey area nationally, in place before any government moves.
Licensing committee chairman John Wright said: "Everybody is unhappy at the current bodywork regulations which are difficult to administer.
"We had a look at the London scheme and the representations from the trade and came up with a more flexible one.
"We have come to a common sense compromise.
"We are also looking in the longer term to regulate limousines and other novelty vehicles in the light of government proposals.
"We want to be ahead of the game when any national system is introduced."
Neil Turner of Blackburn's Coach House Limousines said he was happy to see more regulation of his and other 'novelty' vehicles.
Holder of a full taxi licence with relevant checks, he said: "There are people out there that use these novelty vehicles that should be licensed but aren't."
Blackburn Taxi Association vice-chairman Mohammed Mangera said: "We are happy with what was agreed with the committee.It is a more flexible system."


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Before we get to the question in the title, quickly on David Wright and his interview with Adam Rubin: Wright spoke some truths that have been obvious for some time. It was still interesting to hear the biggest star on the Mets acknowledge them, when the Mets, by and large, haven't.
Ultimately, whether Wright stays or goes requires two things:
1. The Mets to come up with the roughly eight-year, $160 million offer necessary to retain a player just turning 30, playing a premium defensive position well, and having arguably the finest season in the National League.
2. David Wright needs to believe that the Mets are close enough to contention to make it worthwhile to stick around, and that the Mets can pay him near market value while also affording a winning team around him.
The first one is in real doubt. What Rubin's interview told us is that in Wright's mind, the second part is in doubt, too, at least for now.
But who cares about the retention of the defining Mets player of this generation? You want to know who the center fielder will be in 2013. And I'm beginning to think it might be Scott Hairston.
Consider that Hairston, who started in center again on Sunday, has done so four times in the past ten games. He's done so 11 times all season, so this is a significant bump in center field time for him. The Mets gave him eight starts in center field in all of 2011.
But here's the thing: the Mets need someone to play center field in 2013. It is not a reasonable alternative to leave that lineup spot blank, no matter what the cost savings in doing so.
Here's the list of players who manned center field for the Mets in 2012: Hairston, Andres Torres, Jordany Valdespin, Kirk Nieuwenhuis.
Torres made $2.7 million in 2012, put up an OPS+ of 81, will be 35 years old, and is likely to get a bit of a boost in salary through the magic of the arbitration process, should the Mets keep him around. Whether he'll be worth it depends entirely on how likely he is to field well, and whether his meager production still trumps the team's alternatives.
Jordany Valdespin is not a center fielder. He's just not. Do the Mets think he can go to winter ball, learn the position next spring, and become one? He'd be cheap, at least, but that feels like a reach, even before taking into account that his plate discipline makes it extremely unlikely that his bat would justify a subpar glove in a key defensive position.
Kirk Nieuwenhuis has a couple of problems. He's had season-ending injuries two years in a row. And his massive tailspin after a wonderful start is entirely in line with his difficulties at the minor league level making contact. There's a good chance slumping Nieuwenhuis is just real Nieuwenhuis, more or less.
And if not these internal options, is there anyone on the free agent market who plays center field, will command less than the roughly two years, $4 million it will probably take to retain Hairston, and can be considered an upgrade? It's not clear that anyone on that list of center fielders, with the exception of Alfredo Amazaga, will make less than Hairston in 2013.
What's interesting about Hairston and the Mets is that for most other teams, there are better options than playing Scott Hairston in center field regularly, hoping that his ability to hit righties, which he's done as a Met but nowhere before that, is permanent, and living with below average defense in center field. But with the Mets? Not really a better option. And for Hairston, this probably represents the best option to play every day.
I'm not saying this is going to happen. But it makes a lot of sense on both sides. And the Mets probably know this, too, which is why they are playing him in center so much lately.


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After taking it for about a week I started having blood clots as my stool. It lasted about 12 hours. It was very scary. I had no idea why it started and began looking at side effects for the different drugs the doctor prescribed for me. This was the only one that said bloody stools was a possibility. I stopped taking it immediately and will contact the doctor tomorrow for advice.
I was taking 40mg once a day. I had an ache in my chest, my throats felt swollen which felt like it was difficult to breathe. I stop the meds immediately after an ER visit.
I was put on Doxycycline while experiencing acute Lyme Disease symptoms. It helped right away. I had a 14 day regime, and after 2-3 days all my symptoms had gone away. I did have some mild nausea, and there are some guidelines you have to follow, but it did the job and my prognosis is that I should not have further issues with Lyme at all. (They did catch it pretty early).
OMG never have I had a bad reaction to a medication before. Thankfully, I came to the conclusion that I was experiencing a side affect of this medication before any permanent damage. My doctor prescribed me this medication due to an STD and shortly after, I experienced skin rashes and red/discolored marks on my body. Now I am an avid body builder so body image is important to me. As you can imagine, when I began experiencing a skin rash (small gooselike bumps) all over my arms and underarms I was afraid. At first I didn't know what was going on. It took me awhile to determine that this was due to the medication! Other side affects included, extreme light sensitivity to sunlight. I wasn't even in direct sunlight and experienced a "sunburn" type feeling taking a recent road trip where the windows were not tinted. It's been over a week since I took the last pill and still having symptoms. Doctor has been informed and it will take a couple weeks (really up to your body)for the medication to be completely out of your system. I don't recommend due to the side affects, however, it did clear up the situation in my penis.
At first it made me vomit every morning, I thought I was pregnant! I take 100mg twice daily. You must take on a full stomach and I don't recommend taking as soon as you wake up. As long as I pay attention to my eating throughout the day I have no side effects. Acne had cleared up immesensly in the first week. Can't wait to have beautiful skin!
I was prescribed 100mg twice a day for 30 days for acne breakouts. However, my insurance only covered 1 tablet a day, so my doctor adjusted the prescription to 100mg once a day. With my experience, I can't even imagine what it would been like if I had actually taken the dosage twice a day. I've never had any issues with acne except for the occasional zit when I didn't clean my face thoroughly or shower enough (I was an athlete growing up until college). I started getting severe cystic acne breakouts that seemed like it was out of the blue. At first I tried anything and everything I could purchase at CVS or concoct with DIY ingredients, but nothing worked. I finally got an appointment at the dermatologist after about 2.5 months with battling with constant, painful cystic acne breakouts on my chin, forehead, and cheeks. The doctor warned me of possible diarrhea, vomiting, nausea, etc. The first morning after taking my first dosage I had to take a sick day from work. The side effects hit me instantly. I just felt "off", exhausted, and nauseous. And it all went downhill from there. I ended up taking the medication longer than I should have - about 20 days. During
I have been taking doxycycline for vertigo 2 days now and have had a weird being in the back of my throat like a slight numbness!
I have been taking this drug for 2 going on 3 months now. At first I experienced no side effects. But as time has progressed, I have been experiencing side effects. Constant upper and mid abdominal pain, cramping, diarrhea, general sick feeling. I am going to talk to my doc about discontinuing. Along with a drug called Spirolonactone, my acne has cleared. Thankful for that. I just hope my acne doesn't return.
i believe this drug works .. but since ive been taking it it has made me super sick! nauseous .. loss of appetite .. headaches .. you name it! every person's body is different though because my mum is also taking it but experiences no side effects .. i barely drank alot of water with it and i usually ate ittle.. bad mistake !
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A coma appears to be a deep sleep but is actually a state in which the brain canét communicate with the body. The brain itself is asleep and canét wake up. The extent of a coma depends on what caused the brain injury. A coma is considered a life-threatening emergency, and you should seek immediate medical treatment to prevent death.
Comas can be caused by any internal or external event that cause damage to certain areas of the brain, including tumors, brain injury, stroke, brain swelling, alcohol poisoning, drug overdose, infection, high blood sugar, poisoning, heart attack, organ failure, hypothermia and some mental disorders.
A coma is considered a life-threatening emergency and requires immediate medical treatment. Doctors may need to perform procedures to protect the brain from further injury. Machines may be necessary to help your childés body function while he is in the coma. Recovery from a coma depends on what has caused it.
You can prevent comas by avoiding what causes them.
A coma should not be confused with fainting. Fainting is a temporary loss of consciousness due to a sudden drop of blood pressure that lasts only a few seconds. Someone who is in a coma appears to be in a very deep sleep. But unlike someone who is sleeping, a person in a coma doesnét wake up. Other symptoms include:
Comas must be treated by medical professionals. Treatment may include surgery to relieve pressure on the brain, resolution of illness, infection, or organ failure; and maintenance therapies to help the person maintain body functions during the coma. People in a sustained coma may need treatment for bed sores. Recovery from a coma depends on what caused it and how severe the coma. Some people recover completely, others may wake but have sustained brain damage. Sometimes the brain damage is so severe, the individual never recovers.
Brain injuries are potentially life threatening. Whenever you suspect that your child has sustained a brain injury or if you believe that your child is in a coma, seek medical attention immediately. Successful recovery is often dependent on quick medical care.
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At 0700 AEST on Friday, the local currency was trading at 92.72 US cents, down from 92.95 cents on Thursday.
The Australian dollar has been under pressure amid news reports that the federal government's upcoming budget could feature tax hikes and spending cuts, Westpac senior market strategist Imre Speizer said.
"The market is looking at the Australian budget which may impose taxes and other burdens on consumers and cause additional slowing down in the Australian economy," Mr Speizer said.
"That, in turn, would cause the Reserve Bank of Australia to remain on hold for even longer.
"If consumers get hit with these taxes, they're going to spend less and the RBA will be less likely to hike rates."
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name : T50 Sukhoi PAK FA Mixed Packet Injector.
description :The Sukhoi PAK FA T50 Mixed Packet Injector is a packet injection (packet injection) free, created by Brazilian Nelson Brito, capable of DoS and DDoS attacks using the concept of stress testing. With it you can send a very high number of requests for packets, such that the target will not be able to meet all requests or answer them slowly, so the target may fall or slow down.
Currently, the T50 is able to issue the following requests:
More than one million (1,000,000) packets per second of SYN Flood (+50% of the network uplink) on a network 1000BASE-T (Gigabit Ethernet).
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The T50 can also send requests for packets of the protocols ICMP, IGMP, UDP and TCP sequence with difference of microseconds.
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tnx mate!!!! great!!!
Have anybody already compile it successfully ? Unfortunately during compilation I have some errors, and I don't know where is the reason for them. Maybe someone can explain step by step how to correctly compile this tool ?
i think it is a little bit dodgy that they link to a site like 4shared in order to download the tool.
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Regarding to my previous post I paste error text below. Any suggestions for correct compilation ?
Code:/usr/bin/gcc -xc -Wall -Wextra -Werror -Wformat -Wformat-nonliteral -Wformat-security -Wformat-y2k -Wimplicit -Winline -Waddress -Warray-bounds -O3 -fstrict-aliasing -ftoplevel-reorder -funroll-loops -funroll-all-loops -fomit-frame-pointer -fkeep-inline-functions -ftree-loop-optimize -fbranch-target-load-optimize -foptimize-register-move -lmpi -m32 -mpc32 -msahf -march=native -mtune=native -c config.c -D__HAVE_USAGE__ -D__HAVE_T50__ -D__HAVE_TURBO__ -D__HAVE_CIDR__ -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 -D_GNU_SOURCE -D__HAVE_LIMITATION__ -DMAJOR_VERSION=\"5\" -DMINOR_VERSION=\"3\" -DT50_REVISION=\"16\" -DBUILD_VERSION=\"110511\" -DBUILD_PLATFORM=\"32-bit\" -Iinclude -I/usr/include -o objects/config.o cc1: warnings being treated as errors config.c: In function config: config.c:861: error: signed and unsigned type in conditional expression config.c:865: error: signed and unsigned type in conditional expression config.c:888: error: signed and unsigned type in conditional expression config.c:892: error: signed and unsigned type in conditional expression make: *** [objects/config.o] Error 1
Closed. Nothing to see here, move along.
EDIT: Since I did not make it to obvious above, this tool has been added to the repos for quite a while.
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It's been a week since the end of the World Economic Forum in Davos. For NFTE it's an opportunity to spread our message of entrepreneurship for all youth to new global stakeholders. However, we also have the wonderful opportunity to spend time with key partners, including MasterCard Worldwide, Ernst & Young, and Microsoft.
Each person and organization takes away something different from the intense days of networking, dialogue, and learning. Yet, the work is far from done. Here at the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship we must bring entrepreneurship education to all youth, and that will take enormous coordination among a variety of stakeholders. It can help solve the crisis of global youth unemployment and be a critical part of creating long-term economic stability.
Our friends at MasterCard are amazing supporters of NFTE. During the WEF we had the opportunity to spend time with Vice Chair Walt Macnee who, as a former educator, has many thoughtful perspectives and ideas about how the business and NGO communities can work together to improve the world. Here's a link to some of his Davos blogs – worth reading!


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This article was published 10/5/2013 (1563 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
"However long we live, we never forget the time when we were young." -- Pel©
Young people experience the world in a manner unique to them.
They are passionate about things; they put themselves out there; they are insecure; they often feign confidence to hide the tremors of self-doubt. They seek safety in family and anything and anyone they can count on.
To them the world is limitless and exciting, but there are times when it is also scary and disappointing. And they recoil to those dependable things that provide reassurance.
This is why young people obsess about things like music, film and sport. They can come home from a bad day at school and play an encouraging song; they can escape the doldrums of their teenage boredom by watching a movie. They can satisfy their craving for inclusion by supporting a soccer team.
While the world is new and their way in it unsure, these things are part of their formative experience. And for many young people, Sir Alex Ferguson's Manchester United exit will prove exactly that.
United, which earlier this spring won a record 20th English title, claims to have nearly 660 million fans around the world. No doubt a good number of them weren't even born when Ferguson was appointed at Old Trafford in 1986, and starting next Sunday when the 71-year-old manages his 1,500th and final match for the Red Devils they'll be faced with a new reality they always knew was coming but will nevertheless struggle to get used to: life without Fergie.
And he was very much "Fergie."
From the weekly press conferences in which he called out rivals and dropped side-splitting one-liners to his ever-present figure in the dugout or on the touchline, chomping on his gum and checking his watch, Ferguson took on an almost grandfather-like persona at Old Trafford -- a sort of patriarch whose very existence served as both an anchor to the past and guarantor of survival.
With his retirement, United goes into uncharted territory, as do many of the club's supporters.
David Moyes -- the 50-year-old Everton boss picked to succeed Ferguson -- possesses many of the same attributes his fellow Scot took south from Aberdeen more than 26 years ago.
He, like Ferguson, hails from a hardscrabble neighbourhood of Glasgow and transferred the family work ethic to club management in his mid-30s. Like his predecessor he is a no-nonsense disciplinarian and has a good eye for talent. He is also a staunch Labour man.
United is confident Moyes cannot only pick up where Ferguson is leaving off, but also usher in a new era of longevity and success.
The club's fans, however, will be wanting a bit more than that.
Especially the younger ones.
They'll expect a figure of confidence on matchdays, a familiar face in the paper the next morning, a heartening voice coming out of the television set and filling the living room with the kind of dependability and reassurance they don't yet trust the world to offer.
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-- Paul Scholes is expected to announce his retirement ahead of Sunday's match against Swansea at Old Trafford. The Manchester United midfielder, 38, initially hung up his boots following the 2010-11 season but returned in January 2012 and has appeared in 40 matches for the Red Devils since.
-- Ferguson's retirement announcement kicked off another round of speculation regarding the future of Wayne Rooney, who had a falling out with Moyes after the publication of his 2007 autobiography. And while the two have since buried the hatchet various reports have the 27-year-old attacker heading to either Chelsea or PSG in the coming months.
-- Real Madrid manager Jose Mourinho revealed his sadness at Ferguson's retirement in a Friday interview with Sky Sports, saying, "It will be difficult for me, and I think all managers, to go to Old Trafford and play against Manchester United without this mythical figure waiting for us."
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>Suggestions and Feature Requests>+1 Eric/admin/king/god
There are many forum features available in the Interwebby Universe, but I want to publicly thank the powers that be (Eric) for one that seems unique to this forum. Most forums give you a choice of either sorting threads by oldest thread or most recent thread (RWOL just added this in their recent sideways-grade). This forum is awesome in that when you click on a thread, you are placed in the position of your last visit.
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According to a paper published in the journal "Experimental Biology," scientists have uncovered the mechanism behind the threatening hood that the cobra uses as a defensive display.
Kenneth Kardong, a professor of zoology at Washington State University, described their examination of the cobra hood to BBC News in these words:
"In the cobra, both the [rib bones] and the muscles that work them are deployed to erect this visual display. We wanted to examine the way in which the ribs were 'freed up' to rotate into this presentation position, and to understand how the muscles were able to accomplish that and return them to a relaxed position."
In order to be able to perform that examination, scientists anesthetized the cobra and installed mini-electrodes in its neck. Once the electrodes were in place the researchers first waited for the snake to regain consciousness before recording muscle activity as it expanded its hood. They encountered something remarkable and quite surprising in their measurements of electrical activity in the muscles once the snake had recovered consciousness: a flawless muscle group. Cobras use this muscle group in order to open their hoods for defensive purposes when threatened. Kenneth Kardong investigated the mechanism between the cobra's ribs and the hood and said, in stark contrast to all those scientists who try to account for the immaculate features of living things in terms of evolution, that the cobra's hood was "an intriguing problem in evolutionary biology."
As we have seen, this feature of the cobra, the ribs that make that feature possible, and the perfect harmony between its nervous and muscular systems exhibit the infinite knowledge and sublime creation of Almighty Allah. Our Lord has created all the systems in every living thing within a specific arrangement, and He created all of this out of nothing. Our Lord's creative knowledge is revealed as follows in one verse:
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Five young men and women who embody the spirit of enterprise, the ideas and will to make the world a better place, were named today the 2012 Young Laureates of the Rolex Awards for Enterprise. The awards carry more than a check for 50,000 Swiss francs (U.S.$54,000) and a Rolex chronometer; A jury of distinguished scientists, explorers, conservationists, doctors, educators and entrepreneurs from around the world recognized them as young people who exemplify hope for the future of humanity.
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That last face should be used more often .
I can't remember, is Hagrid a wizard at all?
No point mentioning these bats, I thought. The poor bastard will see them soon enough.
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As a nice guy. It seems it doesn't matter how hard I try to be nice or go out of my way to please a girl, they always end up with the guy with the biggest ego. I was waiting in line to get milk today at campus, because there was a water main break, and this big dude just cuts me and goes in front of me, and walks off with what seemed to be a really nice, good looking girl. FML
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You were not being nice. You were being scared. You seek for beauty and a nice smile in a woman, woman seek for dominance, confidence and leadership in a man. She is not going to chose the guy that is being pushed around just as much as you are not going to pick the ugly girl. You still can be nice and confident and leading, but it's way easier to just be a dick and have these attributes.
You don't even have to fight him. Just make him feel like a smaller man.
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A BOURNE End-based software company has been named in the top 250 companies in the Thames Valley region.
Causeway, an international company who provide software for 'the built environment', were names in the Thames Valley 250, recently.
The Thames Valley 250 is a listing of unquoted companies, ranked by turnover based on the last published accounts. To be included, companies must be UK-owned and have a trading office in the Thames Valley.
CEO Phil Brown commented: "Despite the recent tough economic conditions 2013 was our best year, with a 14% increase in revenues.
"This was the result of several key initiatives that included the introduction of Agile working, significant investment in R&D and new product launches.
"More important than these, though, is our commitment to get closer to customers, understand their needs and add value to their businesses.
"We want our customers to be energised by their contact with Causeway and that's what we are now achieving."
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Are you the type to hit the horoscope section of the magazine before you read anything else? Then you'll love our roundup of zodiac-inspired beauty recommendations. There are certain colors and scents that every sign gravitates toward. Excitement-loving Leos go for fiery orange tones, for instance, but Capricorns prefer earthy notes from woodland environments. Even though the zodiac year starts in March with Aries, let's think in terms of the Gregorian calendar, beginning with Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). Find which beauty products complement your nature, along with the like-minded celebrities who fall into the same sign as you.
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Custom Muppet at FAO Schwarz
Make your own Muppet. This is not an imitation or some partial facsimile. If you grew up loving Muppets this is awesome. Heck even if you don't buy one it is really fun to see what you can create. I got one for Christmas and I can't wait to share it with my Son who, thanks to Elmo, is incredibly into Muppets already.


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Temperature distribution within a cable's cross-section
I want to simulate the temperature distribution within a cable's cross-section.
Three phase currents with 120 phase shift are applied to this cable.
The physics i use is heat transfer in solid, I add heat source to each phase of the conductor like:
Because of the resistivity of the copper conductor is temperature dependent.
Based the experiment, the cable conductor temperature may reach 65 degree C after 17000s,but the simulation result shows not.
Really wander why it is not right,thanks!!!
I attach my model below
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What is your favorite thing to eat?
When someone asks me that question, I immediately think of lobster. However, when given the choice, I don't always order the lobster. After all, I love to try new things. It also makes sense to consider the cost, as well as what the chef is recommending.
When someone inquires about my choice of phone, I explain that I love my Droid X and will use it until it breaks or something I believe is better comes along.
When someone asks me about tablets, that's a different story. What appears to be the "lobster of tablets" sometimes turns out to be the "imitation krab", so I am not as quick to spend my hard earned cash. I want to make sure it satisfies both my technological and my personal appetite. Seems like I'm not the only one waiting for the chef's recommendation.
When I asked the higher-ups at Adobe in November, "What would you like to see us do with community?" it inevitably became a conversation about devices. I heard about the Droid 2s and the Google TVs, and I couldn't believe the love we were getting from our partners. Then… I was told that RIM was going to sponsor Adobe MAX and that my team should make sure the community knew what wonderful opportunities lay ahead.
It was like Surf 'n Turf was on the menu! My thoughts were… Oh boy, here we go! The community is going to love this! … And, by the way, who is RIM? Oh… Blackberry… COOL! A tablet called the Playbook? You mean like in football?… Can I get one? … No? Not yet? Ok, I can be patient. My mind was racing. I knew the community would once again prove worthy of this opportunity, and I couldn't wait to give it to them. Flash has been given a bad rap in the public eye this year, but not anymore! Motorola was the first to embrace Flash, now RIM, a major device corporation, is banking on our Adobe Community. That's major news. Yippy… so what happens next?
The RIM team made a special effort to attend the Adobe MAX Community Summit to talk about the Blackberry Playbook and start forming relationships with our community leaders.
They even threw a party that went beyond anything I had imagined in the weeks prior.
This got me thinking that developers were hungry! Developers are hungry! They don't just want to try the lobster. They want to get a taste of the lobster, the Filet Mignon, and the Crème Brule.
RIM then collaborated with Adobe to organize a post-Thanksgiving tour of the major cities, the purpose of which was to inform our developers and business partners about what to expect in the Playbook. I was asked to join the "Meet the Playbook" tour, and I appreciated the opportunity. I wanted to see if developers were really going to commit themselves to creating applications for the App World. I knew the answer from day one of the event in NYC. Attendees didn't just want information; they wanted to get started – now!! Here was RIM showing them the possibilities, and I just felt an overwhelming sense of pride as I watched the developers in action.
Things are happening so fast. Smartphones, Tablets, TV boxes, etc. Adobe is working hard to keep up with demands, and developers are searching hard for resources and guidance. This is a huge effort from everyone to make this happen.
The challenge? Getting through the holidays. This is going to be the time to reflect on 2010 and find inspiration in 2011. Network beyond conferences and your social media friends. Find opportunities with creatives and entrepreneurs. Developers have the skills, the tools, and the resources to be successful in 2011. It isn't just RIM and Motorola having confidence in our community. There is so much more to come, and we all need to be ready. Get those apps ready, because dinner is about to be served!
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Lot of pashnit pics, (4 Pages of them!!) so sit back, and enjoy the ride.... Couple shots from Larry & Billie too thrown in here.
Lot of pashnit pics, (4 Pages of them!!) so sit back, and enjoy the ride.... Couple shots from Larry & Billie too thrown in here.
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But first... photography of boats.
and more boats
The harbor in Sausalito, our meeting place.
San Francisco is just across the bay.
or just masts
Now that we got that out of the way, let's walk over 20 feet and meet our tour participants
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Larry on the Vulcan 1500. Larry is a Vietnam Vet who flew helicopters in the war, and is still flying helicopters today.
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Tom on the FJR. Tom & Larry both work for PG&E. Their wives signed them up for this tour.
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May have seen this face before Billie
And the GS with the PIAA's, 11 gallon tank and 17 inch wheels.
Billie is a season pass holder with Pashnit Tours and can go on as many tours as he'd like.
He typically calls me monday and says, got room?
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Another familiar face, pleasure to have Ayumi along
On her GSXR1000, the ultimate sport-touring machine.
Ayumi was joined by her husband... Kevin.
Our Pashnit Newlyweds, who've only been married something like 6 months and met via the Pashnit Tours.
The BMW K1200S that Kevin had bought as a basket case, and fixed up to pristine like new condition!
Kevin & Ayumi
Ayumi has been caught on film a couple times on Pashnit Tours. One of my favorite shots of her on the Central Cal Pashnit Tour back in 2005.
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And lastly that mysterious pashnit guy who rarely is ever captured on film.
Can typically be found staring into the screen on his camera.
A bite to eat, a meet & greet, a safety brief
Larry, Kevin & Ayumi
Reviewing the Pashnit Safety Brief before the ride
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You can describe what it's like to ride through coastal fog on a bike, but hard to really capture it.
What you can't see in this pic, is to the left, it's straight down about a 1000 feet.
Fortunately, with coastal fog, at least you can ride above it.
At right beneath that fog is the Pacific Ocean.
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Ayumi atop Bolinas Ridge.
One of my all time favorite spots in the Bay Area.
The soul of Pashnit.
Repli-racer, Big cruiser & Adventure bike... all on the same ride together.
The requisite Pashnit flower shot. Rule is you've got to shoot some pics of flowers, and of your food.
Although no idea how that got started.
See the bug?
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ATLANTA — When Mike Budenholzer and the Atlanta Hawks try to defend their home court for the first time this season on Friday night against the Raptors, the first-year head coach will have a simple wish list for players: Get back on defense and pick up the open man.
Offense wasn't an issue in Wednesday's season-opening 118-109 loss in Dallas.
Defense, that was another story.
The Hawks too often left Dallas shooters unguarded in transition and the Mavericks made them pay, hitting 44 of 77 shots (57.1 percent), including 11 of 24 3-pointers.
Atlanta's transition defense was terrible, largely because the Hawks spent too much time concerning themselves with sticking to the opponent they were assigned to defend.
Budenholzer's first coaching adjustment is simple:
"If you sprint back, you've got to take care of the basket first, and then the ball and then the most dangerous (potential shooter) — in that order," Budenholzer said. "A lot of times if it truly is transition, you don't end up with your own man."
Still, there were bright spots in Dallas.
Point guard Jeff Teague had 24 points, nine assists and four steals while doing a nice job triggering Budenholzer's new offense. Newcomer Paul Millsap scored 20 points from the power forward spot previously manned by Josh Smith, and another newcomer, Cartier Martin, added 17 points off the bench.
But Atlanta's defense was dreadful.
Teague believes the chief correction figures to be elementary before DeMar DeRozan, Rudy Gan and the rest of the Raptors arrive.
"We were running back to our own man; that's stuff you learn in second grade," Teague said. "They were getting easy baskets. We've got to get back in transition and matchup. It doesn't matter who you guard.
"We made mistakes. We're learning. We're a new team. We'll get better."
Budenholzer suggested a few days ago that the Hawks were further ahead in learning his new defensive systems than the offense. It sure didn't look that way against the Mavs.
"For any team to be good, it starts with transition defense. We'll build from there. That's our priority looking at the film," he said. "It's new habits for some people so we're going to keep pounding on that."
"I think everybody is looking forward to playing at home in front of our fans, and getting after it and competing again and feeling the energy in the building."
The Hawks are going to want to be better on the boards, too. They were outrebounded 42-33 by the Mavs as the two players most likely to lead them in rebounds, Millsap and center Al Horford, were limited to five each.
Horford, who had 11 points, five steals and four blocked shots against Dallas, expects Atlanta to play better. He averaged nearly 24 points and 11 rebounds against Toronto last season.
"It's always exciting to play at home in front of our fans, and get things on the right track," Horford said. "After looking at film, transition defense hurt us a lot. We saw our mistakes, and the things that we need to make adjustments on."


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Sprint losses widen, net adds slump in Q3
Sprint's turnaround effort stumbled during the third quarter on ballooning losses and a net loss of customers stemming from the shutdown of its Nextel platform.
"Sprint's third-quarter results illustrate just how difficult it is to grow in a market that really isn't growing anymore," Bernstein Research analyst Craig Moffett said in a research note. "As with AT&T yesterday, Sprint's subscriber results missed badly."
Though Sprint managed to grow its postpaid base with the net addition of 410,000 customers, ongoing declines in its Nextel business threw its subscriber numbers into the red, resulting in an overall net loss of 423,000 customers.
The customer numbers were a reversal of Sprint's gains during the same period last year, when it added 1.27 million net new customers.
Sprint said it managed to recapture nearly 60 percent of its outgoing Nextel postpaid customers. Even so, it lost 1.3 million Nextel subscribers.
The iPhone had a marginal effect on the customer numbers. Sprint sold 1.5 million iPhones last quarter, with new customers accounting for 40 percent of those sales. It also reported sales of 1 million LTE smartphones before the iPhone 5 launched shortly before the end of the quarter.
Sprint's iPhone sales were far fewer than competitors AT&T and Verizon Wireless. AT&T activated 4.7 million iPhones, and Verizon sold 3.1 million iPhones during the same period, more than double the number sold by Sprint.
The operator's losses more than doubled to $767 million from a loss of $301 million last year, with higher smartphone subsidy costs and a $397 million charge on the declining value of its Nextel assets contributing to the loss. Sales inched up 5 percent to $8.76 billion.
However, the losses were less than some analysts had expected.
Churn and ARPU were bright spots in Sprint's mixed financial results. Both postpaid and prepaid churn on the Sprint platform declined, coming in at 1.88 percent and 2.93 percent, respectively. A marked increase in churn on the Nextel platform offset the improvements, resulting in an increase in total postpaid churn to 2.09 percent.
Postpaid ARPU on the Sprint platform rose $3 to $63.21, with prepaid ARPU inching up to $26.19. Nextel ARPU fell for both prepaid and postpaid customers.
During its earnings call, Sprint CEO Dan Hesse declined to go into specifics of how the company's pending buyout by Softbank would affect its strategy.
Moffett predicts that Sprint's strategy "will almost certainly change once Softbank takes control. Softbank has promised a better network and has hinted at lower prices."
The Japanese operator is paying $20.1 billion for a 70 percent stake in Sprint and has already poured $3.1 billion into the company in the form of convertible bonds.


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Bob Woodward, on the future of news
Bob Woodward was in Philadelphia the other night, for an event at the Free Library, where he and I engaged in an on-stage conversation. The best stuff, albeit the most depressing stuff, was about the future of investigative journalism.
At one point, I asked him whether the Watergate scandal would have been more speedily exposed in today's 24/7 digital world - as opposed to the news cycle circa 1972, when he and Carl Bernstein spent long months knocking on doors and sifting documents. In his response (which I recorded and transcribed), Woodward veered in an unexpected direction:
"There's a man named Steve Brill...who teaches journalism classes at Yale. And he called me up two years ago and said, 'I'm asking the students to write a one-page paper on how Watergate would be covered in the digital age. And I'll send them to you if you'd talk to the class afterward on speakerphone.'
"So he sent me all their papers, and I looked at them on a Sunday evening, and I almost got an aneurysm. They said things like, well, Watergate would be so easy to cover in the digital age - you just Google 'Nixon's secret fund.'"
The audience exploded in laughter, with just the right tone of rueful disgust.
Woodward continued: "But not just one student said that. This was the general conviction - and these were supposedly smart students. I worried that it was an April Fool's joke, but it wasn't. They think the Internet is a magic lantern, and you kind of rub it, and out comes the truth. Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google, says that the only problem with the Internet is that it's 'a sewer.' And there's a lot of sewage in there....
"You know, (breaking a scandal story) still comes down to good information, and where do you get good information? Not necessarily on the Internet. It's really about having good human sources, and they trust you and you trust them. And you've established a relationship. That's how you get inside data. But (the students) did not see it as a human interaction problem. They saw it as, 'just get on your computer.' I have a 16-year-old daughter, and sometimes I want to smash all the devices because they have taken such a role in her life, and I keep trying to tell her that life is more than just Facebook and the Internet."
In other words, today's young journalists can't expose a latter-day Watergate ("a decent attainable version of the truth") by simply tickling the keyboard; now, as back in the 1970s antiquity, it happens only via the slow and patient cultivation of sources - the "human interaction," as he called it. Assuming, of course, that the journalists have the requisite financial resources and institutional support to keep doing the work.
The problem is, that's an increasingly shaky assumption - as Woodward well knows. The Washington Post continues to be rocked by buyouts and layoffs; in terms of personnel, the fabled newsroom is now 40 percent smaller than it was at its peak. The parent company's newspaper division (which includes some community newspapers) lost roughly $26 million during the first three quarters of 2011. And online news outlets have yet to create sustainable business models that would finance and support the kind of investigative reporting that enables the Fourth Estate to (in Woodward's words) "tell people the truth about power."
In the absence of a healthy 21st-century press, he said, "we would have the government's version of the truth, or the corporation's version – and believe me, those versions are woefully inadquate. The problem is that, right now, with the cutbacks at The Philadelphia Inquirer, with the cutbacks at The Washington Post - we're going through convulsions - where do we land? I'll tell you my assessment: We're going to miss the big story....
"And then the people who have the money - Apple, Google, Facebook - are going to realize they're going to have to get into the news content business. That they just can't snatch all the advertising money (away from print), which is what they've done. They have to take on the risk of publishing (original) content," by emulating Katherine Graham, the late Washington Post publisher who insisted that reporters use all possible resources to unearth the truth. "You can't function as a reporter unless you have that kind of support at the top."
But Woodward warned that unless 21st-century information moguls provide that kind of support, secrecy will cripple democracy. "And then people are going to say, 'Where were the journalists?'"
Yeah. What he said.
Speaking of secrecy, when will most Americans - especially liberals - start asking questions about President Obama's secret drone program? (I broached the issue at length on this blog, on Oct. 3, 2011). My Friday newspaper column.
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