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Why Goodrich's can't stay
|By Andy Balaskovitz
Closing for six to eight months plus renovation costs was not an option for Goodrich's Shop-RiteGoodrich's Shop-Rite, the family owned business based in East Lansing's Trowbridge Plaza, is unable to close for six to eight months to renovate the 26,000-square-foot grocery store.
Such were the terms Goodrich's faced as local developer Kevin McGraw looks to put $24 million into upgrading the dated shopping center just west of Michigan State University's campus. Goodrich's co-owner Steve Scheffel is also unsure whether the store could afford a new lease that would have tripled its rent.
Therefore, Goodrich's — which has operated in the Lansing area for 76 years — is likely to abandon its Trowbridge home, even though the East Lansing City Council is yet to vote on McGraw's proposal.
"Chances are pretty good it is" going to close, Scheffel said Monday. "That's the best I can tell you. It still has to go before (City Council) before they put the tombstone on us."
"I can't close down the store for eight months," Scheffel said. "I don't have $1 million to $2 million (for renovations) in my bank account. That was why the one and only lease presented to us was simply undoable."
McGraw's plan calls for two new buildings for student housing, offices and retail and renovating the Goodrich's space. It was tabled at a city Planning Commission last week after dozens of residents reportedly showed up asking for the plan to be revisited. The commission will ultimately make a recommendation on the project to the City Council.
Yet media reports surfaced after that meeting that Goodrich's will have to close when its lease expires this summer. McGraw announced that he had already finalized a lease agreement with a new grocer to replace Goodrich's.
"I did not want to make this about Goodrich's, because it's not," MLive.com reported McGraw saying to the commission. "I've got to tell you: We tried.
There's not a … landlord in town that doesn't want to keep … people who are as good as Goodrich's."
McGraw could not be reached for comment.

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Mark Webber has launched into a blistering attack on Romain Grosjean, calling him a "first-lap nutscase" and saying that the Lotus driver's performance is "embarrassing at this level."
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Red Bull driver Mark Webber has pulled no punches in his criticism of Romain Grosjean, after the Lotus ruined his race by running into him through the first corner of the 2012 Grand Prix of Japan at Suzuka.
"I haven't seen what happened at the start but the guys confirmed it was the first-lap nutcase again - Grosjean," said Webber when interviewed after the race by Sky Sports F1's Natalie Pinkham.
Grosjean ran into the back of the Red Bull and tipped it into a half spin, as the field scattered to avoid running into the stricken Ferrari of Fernando Alonso who had spun off on the outside of the right hander. Although Webber was able to get back underway, it left him at the back of the field from where he could only manage to recover to ninth place by the chequered flag.
"The rest of us are trying to fight for some decent results each weekend but he's trying to get to the third corner as fast as he can at every race," Webber told Sky Sports F1. "It makes it frustrating because a few big guys obviously suffered from that today. Maybe he needs another holiday."
By holiday, Webber is suggesting that Grosjean needs another ban, to add to the one-race exclusion he received after causing a first-corner collision at Spa that took out several of the championship contenders.
But in response, Grosjean insisted that ever since the incident at Spa, he'd been driving a lot more carefully and rejected the criticism levelled at him.
"After the ban, I'm very careful at the start," he insisted. "I kept my line and was trying to avoid contact with Sergio Perez. I didn't see the delta speed with Mark. I was just trying to avoid any contact - it didn't work.
"It was a stupid clash," he added.
That did little to pacify Webber, however: "How many mistakes can you make, how many times can you make the same error with first lap incidents?" the Australian fumed. "He needs to have a look at himself, obviously ... It's quite embarrassing at this level for him."
Red Bull team boss Christian Horner backed up Webber's remarks, referring to Grosjean's "crazy move" through the first turn as just the latest of seven serious incidents from Grosjean in 14 race appearances in 2012.
"I think the most concerning thing is when it is repeat incidents. If you make mistakes that's fine but the most important thing is to learn from them, said Horner. "He's hosing away points for his team. They're fighting in the constructors' championship - I would be surprised if they were impressed by that."
Someone else unimpressed with Grosjean's driving was Sauber's Sergio Perez: "The race didn't start too well for me either when Romain Grosjean caused a mess and I lost positions," he said.
Mercedes' Nico Rosberg also lashed out Grosjean, although the immediate cause of his own retirement from the race was a hit from Bruno Senna in the aftermath of Alonso and Webber's incidents.
"I got a good start, but Grosjean took out a lot of us again today," he said. "He spun Mark Webber and caused a traffic jam. I had nowhere to go and the [Williams] behind me ruined my tyres. A penalty [for Grosjean] is right - but what sort of penalty is not for me to judge."
During the race, Grosjean was required to serve a ten second stop-go penalty in the pits for causing the collision, the most severe in-race sanction available to the officials to hand out.


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Erste – record loss expected in 2014.
Raiffeisen Bank International's business in Romania is holding up well, the Austrian lender said on Friday, a day after rival Erste Group said fresh hits from Hungary and Romania would push it to a record 2014 loss.
"In Romania we continue to see good performance of our local operations so this is not really a problem for us," a spokeswoman for emerging Europe's second-biggest lender said, reuters.com informs, quoted by Mediafax.
The Raiffeisen spokeswoman said: "We don't have a problem on that," adding that her bank needed a few more days to assess the impact of a new Hungarian law that will make banks absorb more costs for foreign-currency loans in Hungary that went sour when the forint exchange rate fell.
Erste Group Bank AG, the Austrian bank earning most of its income in Eastern Europe, plunged as a bad-debt clean-up forced by Romanian regulators and fee refunds in Hungary will cause a record loss this year, Bloomberg informs. Erste, which owns the second-largest Hungarian and the biggest Romanian bank, will post as much as a EUR 1.6 billion (USD 2.2 billion) loss this year as bad-loan provisions will rise 40 percent more than forecast earlier and trigger additional writedowns, it said in a statement yesterday. The shares fell 16 percent to EUR 19.52 in Vienna as of 3:37 p.m., the lowest level in almost a year. "This is a clearly bad surprise as it comes in addition to the already 'badly surprising' warning issued by the group at the beginning of this year," Natixis Securities SAS analyst Steven Gould said in a note to clients. "These announcements hurt the management's credibility going forward."
Erste, the third-biggest bank in Eastern Europe after UniCredit SpA (UCG) and Raiffeisen Bank International AG (RBI), invested in the former communist bloc in the past decade, seeking higher growth and profit than available in its domestic market. That bet turned sour in Hungary and Romania after 2009 when the economic downturn caused borrowers to miss repayments.
Bad-debt charges to fall to 1.5 pc
Erste said it faced increased risk provisions in Romania to reflect the central bank's stepped-up efforts to speed reductions of non-performing loans in the banking system ahead of ECB-led health checks of big European banks' balance sheets. The provisions are caused by new rules due to be approved by Parliament in Hungary today, forcing banks to refund "unfair" loan fees, and by the Romanian central bank's push for faster bad-debt reduction amid the European Central Bank's bank health check, Vienna-based Erste said. Writedowns on goodwill and deferred tax assets, triggered by the loan-loss provisions, may reach as much as EUR 1 billion. The Romanian measures will cause bad-debt charges to fall to 1 percent to 1.5 percent of gross loans next year, from more than 4 percent in the first quarter. The stock of bad loans will decline by EUR 800 million, or 25 percent, this year. Treichl, the longest-serving CEO of a major European bank, told Austrian radio in an interview that he didn't rue having invested in Hungary and Romania and thought he was still the right head for the company.


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Idarubicin Based Combined Modality Therapy in Primary CNS Lymphoma
This study has been completed.
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Last updated: February 15, 2017
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Idarubicin combined with high dose methotrexate and moderate dose radiotherapy will achieve similar survival outcomes but with reduced neurotoxicity compared to regimens using methotrexate with high dose radiotherapy.
|Primary Central Nervous System Lymphoma
|Drug: Idarubicin, Methotrexate, Filgrastim, intrathecal Ara-C Radiation: Radiation Therapy
|Phase 2
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|A Phase 2 Study of Idarubicin Based Combined Modality Therapy in Primary Central Nervous System Lymphoma
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MedlinePlus related topics: Lymphoma
Drug Information available for: Idarubicin hydrochloride Idarubicin
Genetic and Rare Diseases Information Center resources: Lymphosarcoma Primary Central Nervous System LymphomaU.S. FDA Resources
Further study details as provided by Trans-Tasman Radiation Oncology Group (TROG):
Primary Outcome Measures:
- To estimate the median and 2 year overall survival. [ Time Frame: Estimate of survival at 2 years and at 5 years. ]
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- Assess acute toxicity. [ Time Frame: Interim actute toxicity analyses will be performed at accrual points: 5, 10, 15, 20 and 25 patients. ]
- Assess functional indices of living in patients with PCNSL. [ Time Frame: Analysis will be at 5 years. ]
- To estimate the risk of late neurotoxicity relative to results achieved in TROG 92.01. [ Time Frame: Analysis at 3 years. ]
|Study Start Date:
|July 2001
|Study Completion Date:
|August 2013
|Primary Completion Date:
|July 2008 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
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Drug: Idarubicin, Methotrexate, Filgrastim, intrathecal Ara-C
Idarubicin 15mg/m2 days 1, 22. Filgrastim 5mcg/kg until neutrophil recovery days 2, 23. Methotrexate 1g/m2 days 15, 36 and 50.Radiation: Radiation Therapy
Whole brain Irradiation, 30Gy in 20 fractions over 4 weeks
Other Name: Radiation, Radiotherapy
Detailed Description:
Combined modality therapy in PCNSL has improved survival outcomes but at the cost of unacceptable rates of neurotoxicity when high dose radiotherapy is used. Idarubicin has activity in systemic lymphomas and crosses the blood brain barrier and may add to the efficacy of methotrexate. By combining these 2 drugs with moderate dose radiotherapy survival outcomes should be optimal but with lower rates of neurotoxicity.
Comparison: TROG has previously performed a phase 2 study using methotrexate with high dose radiotherapy and this will allow comparison of survival and neurotoxicity rates.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 70 Years (Adult, Senior)
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|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Histologically proven primary CNS lymphoma.
- Absence of disease outside the CNS.
- ECOG performance status 0-3
- Negative HIV status.
- Peripheral blood counts with granulocytes >1.5 x 109L and platelets > 100 x 109L. Serum creatinine <150mmol/L. Serum bilirubin <1.5 times and AST <2 times upper limit of normal.
- Age >18 and <=70 years.
- Patients must give written informed consent.
- Corticosteroids prior to histological diagnosis are allowed.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Previous history of malignancy (other than non-melanomatous skin carcinoma, or carcinoma in situ of cervix completely excised).
- Patients who are pregnant or lactating.
- NYHA (New York State Heart Association classification) cardiac failure grade 3
- Macroscopic spinal thecal or spinal cord disease.
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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00193973
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00193973
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|The Canberra Hospital
|Garran, Australian Capital Territory, Australia, 2605
|Australia, New South Wales
|Calvary Mater Newcastle
|Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, 2298
|Prince of Wales Hospital
|Randwick, New South Wales, Australia, 2031
|Westmead Hospital
|Wentworthville, New South Wales, Australia, 2145
|Illawarra Cancer Care Centre
|Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia
|Australia, Queensland
|Royal Brisbane Hospital
|Herston, Queensland, Australia, 4029
|Mater QRI
|South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 4101
|Premion - Tugun
|Tugun, Queensland, Australia, 4224
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|Woolloongabba, Queensland, Australia, 4102
|Australia, South Australia
|Royal Adelaide Hospital
|Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, 5000
|Australia, Victoria
|Andrew Love Cancer Centre, Geelong Hospital
|Geelong, Victoria, Australia, 3220
|Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
|Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 8006
|Australia, Western Australia
|Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital
|Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia, 6009
|New Zealand
|Auckland Hospital
|Auckland, New Zealand, 1001
|Christchurch Hospital
|Christchurch, New Zealand, 4710
Sponsors and Collaborators
Trans-Tasman Radiation Oncology Group (TROG)
Australasian Leukaemia and Lymphoma Group
|Study Chair:
|Peter O'Brien, FRANZCR
|Newcastle Mater Misericordiae Hospital
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Additional Information:
Keywords provided by Trans-Tasman Radiation Oncology Group (TROG):
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on September 20, 2017
Additional Information:
|Responsible Party:
|Trans-Tasman Radiation Oncology Group (TROG)
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00193973 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
ALLG LY4 ( Other Identifier: ALLG )
|Study First Received:
|September 13, 2005
|Last Updated:
|February 15, 2017
Keywords provided by Trans-Tasman Radiation Oncology Group (TROG):
Primary CNS lymphoma
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Neoplasms by Histologic Type
Lymphoproliferative Disorders
Lymphatic Diseases
Immunoproliferative Disorders
Immune System Diseases
Abortifacient Agents, Nonsteroidal
Abortifacient Agents
Reproductive Control Agents
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Antimetabolites, Antineoplastic
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Antineoplastic Agents
Dermatologic Agents
Enzyme Inhibitors
Folic Acid Antagonists
Immunosuppressive Agents
Immunologic Factors
Antirheumatic Agents
Nucleic Acid Synthesis Inhibitors
Adjuvants, Immunologic
Antibiotics, Antineoplastic
Topoisomerase II Inhibitors
Topoisomerase Inhibitors
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So is it a movie, or ain't it? If the whole damn world can't decide, then how should you? Well, you could start by playing it. We wrote in our hands-on preview for Heavy Rain that "it's a game, not a film," but after playing the full version, it seems to have more in common with the silver screen than ever. Am I saying all the uncertainty and media criss-crossing is a bad thing? Hell no. It's only topical. And film or game or game of the film of the book of the Broadway musical - Heavy Rain is an amazing experience.
Father Ethan Mars, PI Scott Shelby, journo Madison Paige and FBI agent Norman Jayden are all on the path of the Origami Killer. He kills young boys, always in the autumn and they all reappear, after a five or six day absence, drowned in rainwater. Each boy also has an origami figure in their hand, and an orchid on their chest - the killer's signature. It's no secret that Heavy Rain's theme is "How far would you go to save someone you love?" - so that's probably why the game starts with doting father, Ethan, at 11:22am on a Saturday.
This was the third time I had played through the game's prologue. I have to say, once you're used to the controls (and, yes, the game does give you an effective tutorial and constant directive icons) getting around the environment becomes quite intuitive. But "intuition" is the reason that there are some minor frustrations with simple things like walking and turning (we covered this in the preview and, sadly, things haven't gotten a lot better). I'm setting this upfront early, because I think it's only a problem that will get new gamers down. I suppose the point is: persevere. To briefly recap on bygone articles, L2 gets you walking, with direction controlled by the left stick. Right stick, or button combinations - whether you're holding, hitting once or tapping - perform most of your actions. These could be as simple as standing upright or opening a door. If you want to shake up a carton of orange juice, well, shake it. You'll get plenty of clues.
The gameplay itself is mostly quick time events, or arbitrary actions (pick up piece of paper by pulling down on the right stick, and watch passively as the next part of the story unfolds). What's interesting about this is it doesn't take long to see the entire control mechanic as being about as purposeful as turning pages in a book: you only do it to reveal the next part of the story. Sure, there are brief snatches of go-go-go, like wrestling with a robber, or controlling Ethan's car as he blasts the wrong way up a busy road, but they're few and far between. This isn't such a bad thing, but it does separate Heavy Rain from the action pack. All those kiddies with the attention spans of gnats out there will be bored with this game in about three seconds flat, so it's just as well it's aimed squarely at the older set.
How did I go most of my gaming life coming across live-action breasts only once or twice, then suddenly get them in back to back reviews? Madison Paige's pair were made very public in a video released to get gamers sweating some time ago, showing her performing a striptease. Well, suffice to say, that's not where they stop. I mention this only as another example of how this game has been made with maturity in mind. There's nothing highly pornographic or sexual about showering (titillating, maybe) but as it's a necessary part of life, and as this game holds up a mirror and sends back a starkly rendered reflection, all ablutions have been included in Heavy Rain. Not only has the nudity been handled quite tastefully, it only goes to highlight the intense graphical realism inherent in every leaf, shirt pocket or mote of dust.
It's only because of the effort that has been put into making Heavy Rain visually spectacular that a few very minor blemishes make themselves known (you could say that the walking/turning issue mentioned above is for the same reason). I'm talking teeny-tiny details here: a car driving through a puddle without making a splash, characters gliding out of the way if they're standing in an NPC's path during an animation, a heavily pixelated shadow. These work for and against the game. If you can be so picky about such things, then Heavy Rain is obviously extremely impressive. Yes? Yes, it is. This will be something gamers will take great pleasure in discovering for themselves, but let me be clear this game came very (very) close to a 10/10 for graphics.
The filmic quality of Heavy Rain would fail drastically if the story wasn't any good, but it's better than good: it hums. Supported by believable characters and that incredible setting, the narrative is absolutely gripping. After only a few hours of play, I felt like I was lightyears away from that sunny bedroom where Ethan had awoken. I found myself weaved into the lives of four very different people. Those movies where the credits roll and you feel like you have to detach yourself from the land of make believe are always the best ones. There is some of that very magic in Heavy Rain.
There are no blank spots among the characters, either. I must admit I liked watching Shelby's arc the best - you can always count on a PI to walk a rather more zig-zagged line to a killer than someone like Jayden, which makes for a more interesting ride. That said, Paige and Mars's stories are just as intense, and when things all start to wind together you ought to find yourself - ick, I have to do it - on the edge of your seat.
Some of the reactions this game provoked surprised me. After playing the preview, I didn't expect to be so affected, but - yes, just like a good movie - it was too easy to slip right in amongst all the world's troubles. Ethan's life, you can't help but feel, is getting away from him: one son is dead by the end of the prologue, and the other is [SPOILER ALERT] snatched by the Origami Killer. On the back of the box you could easily read, "Ethan Mars's life is spinning out of control!" but that's not really true. It feels more like a slow, gut-wrenching twist, and you're there to share it with him.
Heavy Rain also manages to apply a certain delicious pressure. While I was a bit negative about the controls above, they are instrumental in making choices, and that's not always as easy as it sounds. Holding L2 at any time will bring up a circling set of thoughts banging around in the character's head. You can choose to listen to any one of them. A similar thing happens when the character needs to make a decision - depending on the character's stress level, the options may shake or spin at speed. This makes it more difficult to see, read and decide quickly - simply put, it simulates the brain's difficulty in ordering thoughts and taking action under pressure. Also simply put - it's bloody brilliant.
Assessing Jayden's reaction to seeing a weapon pulled on a colleague whom he doesn't much like was one such highlight. Jayden's off-sider has been all up in the grill of a mentally disturbed man, who finally snaps and takes aim. Jayden pulls his weapon too, giving the player three options to attempt a peaceful resolution, and one at something more definite. I had been taking Jayden along the diplomatic road too much at that point, so decided to pull the trigger. [SPOILER ALERT] Perhaps the "Blunder" trophy I was awarded is telling me something...
Show me another game where you can change a baby's nappy, throw a boomerang, play with a remote control car, search a murder scene, shower, stop a suicide, and maybe catch a killer. I bet you can't do it. With an impressive number of chapters and a host of ways to play through each, you'll probably squeeze a few extra hours out of Heavy Rain even after your first play through.
Heavy Rain acts like a film in almost every way. That ability to change the character's course of direction slightly is the only - albeit quite big - difference. Watching a robbery go down with detached movie-convention-predictability and suddenly realising you have to intervene can freeze you up like Paul Henry spotting a mustache on a lady. It adds the third dimension that makes this game a game. In any case, it's an entertaining variation on screaming, "Don't go in there!" at a flickering screen in the dark. Supported by a flawless soundtrack, knowing on some level that you'll get to the end if only by accident, and that you'll enjoy the ride regardless, Heavy Rain can hardly disappoint.
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Justin Bieber Releases New Album Cover Photo, Did He Copy Adam Lambert?
I can hear the screams already from around the world. Girls in full freak out mode waiting for Justin's latest C.D. due out June 19th.
It seems that the Bieber Fever train continues on in full speed mode. With his new, more mature sound he has said that he is going for an older demographic of listener. He is a whopping 18 years old after all.


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By RYAN NAKASHIMALOS ANGELES (AP) â¿¿ The New York Times is getting into the business of selling bite-sized digital books based on its reporters' work, giving it entree into a growing market for inexpensive "e-singles" that can be read in a couple of hours. The Times' first mini book will go on sale Monday. It's an 18,000-word piece about skiers caught in an avalanche by Times reporter John Branch. The story, called "Snow Fall," expands on an upcoming piece in Monday's newspaper. It will sell for $2.99 in Amazon.com's Kindle store, Apple's iBooks, and on Barnes & Noble's Nook. E-singles fall somewhere between magazine pieces, which can top out at around 10,000 words, and full-length books, which can run around 100,000 words. The product meets the rising demand for content as people buy tablet computers like the iPad and Kindle Fire in increasing numbers. IHS expects global shipments of tablets to hit 120 million this year, just two short years after the iPad jumpstarted the category in April 2010. Tablet shipments are expected to hit 340 million in 2016. And people aren't just watching movies and surfing the Web on their mobile devices. The Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism said in October that half of U.S. adults own a tablet or smartphone, and two thirds of them get news on their device. The quick turnaround of digital publishing means non-fiction work remains timely. Gerald Marzorati, the Times' editor for editorial development, said the company is betting the new format will make long-form journalism easy to read and reach people who don't visit the Times' website or read the newspaper. "We're going to really experiment in the first year with different sorts of forms â¿¿ long essays, long narratives," he said. "We may even try collections. We're just sort of experimenting with this form and we'll see if getting something at a very reasonable price in book form is something that appeals to people."
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I've said it before and I'll say it again: "[Rec]" co-director Jaume Balaguero is one of the most criminally underrated filmmakers currently working within the horror genre. I've enjoyed each and every one of his endeavors, particularly the much-maligned 2002 haunted house flick "Darkness", a film that everyone and their opinionated grandmother seems to hate. But, I digress. Before delving into the prequel to the "[Rec]" series, Balaguero plans to unleash the atmospheric chiller "Sleep Tight" upon the masses. The trailer doesn't give away much — the lack of English subtitles probably doesn't help anything — but it's definitely eerie enough to ensnare my cinematic interest.
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Cesar works as a doorman in a Barcelona apartment building. Happiness eludes him and he feels the need to reaffirm his reasons for living on a daily basis. He goes about his day to day work mainly unnoticed by the residents of the building, but he pays close attention to them. He knows all the intimate details of their lives, everything about them, especially one of them. Clara is a happy-go-lucky young woman, who always looks on the positive side of things. Her cheery attitude to life makes Cesar' skin crawl. He won't be happy until he has wiped that smile of her face once and for all, because Cesar feeds off other people's pain. He delights in the unhappiness and anguish of others and he loves nothing more than to plant the seed of misery and watch it grow. In Clara he has found the perfect target, and he will go to extreme lengths to make her life miserable. But Cesar is starting to get a bit too cocky, and soon his carefully thought out plans will start to unravel… Luckily for him, he has one last ace up his sleeve.
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I've noted before that during the average week I will get somewhere between 10 and 40 books sent to me, which is a figure some people have treated with either amazement or skepticism. So to illustrate the point, here's a week worth of printed matter, sent to me by various publishers between last Tuesday (when I left home) and today (when I got back). It's 33 books. And it doesn't count the three books I actually bought this last week (Mark Helprin's In Sunlight and in Shadow, the new Jacqueline Carey (for Krissy, who is a fan) and Bud Sparhawk's Vixen), and the four I was given as gifts at Capclave.
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"Ambitious" is reviewer's shorthand for laudable efforts that fall just short of their creators' high-minded intentions.
There's no more apt description for Wendy Wasserstein's "Old Money," Ross Valley Players' final production for the current season. Under the intelligent direction of Kim Bromley — and on a gorgeous set designed and built by Michael Walraven and showcasing a Gary Marsh sculpture — the company's cast of five veterans and three relative newcomers breathes as much life as possible into Wasserstein's muddled script, in which past, present, future — and substance and superficiality — collide in a Gilded Age mansion in New York's Upper East Side.
The setting is the last intact building designed by legendary architect Schuyler Lynch; the setup, an early-August party hosted by Jeffrey Bernstein (Geoffrey Colton), a charming master of arbitrage who brags of making fortunes for his clients in a millisecond. He's engaged the services of a high-performance publicist named Flinty McGee (Karen Leland), whose task has been made all the more difficult by the fact that in August, New York's heat and humidity make it resemble a tropical capital and anyone who can afford to do so vacates the city for the countryside or the beach.
Flinty's status rises considerably when she lands film director Sid Nercessian (Johnny DeBernard), whose personal assertiveness precludes the slightest hint of social grace. His tendency to steamroll anyone in his presence is exacerbated by animalistic eating and drinking habits and liberal droppings of f-bombs. His lingerie-designer wife, Penny (Trungta Kositchaimongkol), is his equal in assertiveness and lack of sensitivity, dismissing the recently restored mansion with a wave of her hand and insisting that she'd strip it "leaving only the bones."
Other guests include Nercessian's uninhibited but self-destructive daughter Caroline (Gillian Eichenberger); the dour, deadpan sculptor Saulina Webb (Robyn Wiley), who turns out to be the sister of Jeffrey's departed wife; and the academic Tobias Vivian Pfeiffer III (Wood Lockhart), who's taught the history of New York City for 50 years. Observing the whole affair, and commenting to the audience, is Jeffrey's college-age son Ovid Walpole Bernstein (Jesse Lumb, in a relaxed and confident RVP debut).
The present-day party soon yields to another one 100 years earlier, hosted by the home's original owner, the outspoken robber baron Tobias Pfeiffer (DeBernard). As it proceeds we meet several characters who more-or-less parallel those at the Bernstein gathering — socialites Florence DeRoot (Leland), Sally Webster (Wiley), Betina Brevoort (Kositchaimongal), architect Schuyler Lynch (Lockhart), financier Arnold Strauss (Colton) and Tobias Pfeiffer Jr. (Lumb), whose interest in the performing arts alienates his business-minded father.
Juxtaposing two eras in the same home lets Wasserstein compare values and styles and gives the audience insight into how much and how little has changed over the years — a gambit used by other playwrights, such as A.R. Gurney with "The Dining Room" and more recently, Bruce Norris with "Clybourne Park." Wasserstein's effort is entertaining and in places hilarious, but after intermission the storyline becomes impenetrably murky — the two parties merge, with characters from different eras commenting knowingly and sometimes sarcastically on each other. Robber baron Pfeiffer, for example, dismisses the instant wealth of the early 21st century by noting that he and his colleagues made their fortunes with "coal and steel, bridges and railways," but that Bernstein and his ilk do it "by manipulating numbers."
Individual performances are all dynamic — DeBernard and Leland especially so — and dialog varies from organically conversational to stilted to stentorian. Occasionally six or more characters recite their lines facing the audience directly, almost like a chorus. Separating the characters — 16 total — can be confusing despite their vastly different personalities and appearances (except for Lockhart, who wears the same seersucker suit as both Pfeiffer III and Lynch).
Director Bromley admitted that after three readings of the play, and innumerable rehearsals, she's still baffled about what it really means. The second act seems in serious need of a rewrite, an impossibility given Wasserstein's 2006 demise. Like most of her work, it's very New York-centric — "a love letter to New York," as Leland described it post-performance. RVP makes a great and mostly successful effort at getting a handle on problematic material.
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Student scores on state Criterion-Referenced Competency Tests, or CRCTs, edged up in Clarke County and most of the state, say local and state school officials.
The Georgia Department of Education released state and county scores on the tests, which are meant to measure public school students' mastery of subject areas such as reading, math and science.
The tests are administered to students in grades three through eight.
Clarke County students posted higher scores than last year in reading, math, science and social studies in the critical fifth grade year.
Just 9 percent of Clarke fifth-graders did not meet or exceed the state standard for reading, for example, and just 10 percent did not meet or exceed the math standard.
Statewide, 7.1 percent of fifth-graders did not meet the reading standard, and 10.5 percent fell short of the math standard. The final numbers will be higher; retest results are not included in the data released Tuesday.
"I am pleased with the gains made in several areas, and we remain committed to improvement, especially in the areas of science and social studies," said Clarke County Superintendent Philip Lanoue. "I want to thank teachers for their belief in all students to achieve at high levels."
Clarke's scores for third-graders improved in reading, science and social studies, but not math.
About 11 percent of Clarke third-graders did not meet standards, and 26 percent did not meet the math standard. Statewide, 7.9 percent of third-graders did not meet the reading standard, and 21.5 percent fell short in math.
Only 5.7 percent of Clarke eighth-graders fell short in reading, and about 25 percent in math. Statewide, 3.2 percent of eighth-graders did not meet the reading goal and about 17 percent in math.
Some area school districts posted near-perfect scores in some categories. Only about 1 percent of third-graders in the Commerce, Oconee and Jefferson school systems did not meet or exceed the state reading standard.
About 1 percent of Jefferson fifth-graders fell short in reading, and just 1.4 percent in Oconee County.
Zero percent of Commerce's eighth-graders did not meet the reading standard, and just 1 percent in Jackson County and 1.3 percent in Oconee County.
Statewide and in area school districts, more students fell short in science and math.
Across Georgia, about 20 percent of fifth-graders didn't meet the bar in science and in social science. About 26 percent fell short in eighth-grade science, and about 22 percent in social studies.
Statewide, students showed an improvement on 18 of 30 content area tests, were the same on seven and declined in five, state officials said.
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I have wanted breast implants for many years but did not have the guts to do it. I went to a consultation about a year ago close to my house in Puyallup, Washington, but did not feel completely comfortable going through with the surgery. The main issue with my breasts is that they are not symmetrical, and one is larger than the other. Also, one of my nipples hangs to the side a bit so that was something that I have always been self conscious about.
The doctor by my house said that there was really no way to fix this. Only after I spoke with Dr. Salama did I realize that there was hope.
I heard about the doctor from a friend of mine in Florida that has had a BBL done by him. I thought it would be fun to check out the Miami area, the costs were lower in Seattle, and have a nice relaxing vacation away from the family- but also come back with my new breasts!
What I did was find the Crown Plaza which is a 4 star hotel right by the doctor's office, my friend came and checked on me while I was recovering (although I was fine!) and there is a driver named Larry set up that took me wherever I needed to go.
Costs with my new breasts + travel expenses (about 650.00) ended up being cheaper than what I would have paid in Washington- plus I got to see Miami!! ... even though it was mainly from the hotel room.
I paid 3500.00 for my saline implants which to me was an unbelievable price for a great doctor. The process worked where I sent the office a picture of my breasts and then scheduled a phone consultation with Dr. Salama. Next, all my lab work was ordered and I went and had that done. I took time off work and headed down to Florida! When I arrived in the morning, Dr. Salama's driver Larry picked me up (he is a hoot) and took me to the office for an in-person consultation. The office staff are all really awesome and I felt extremely welcome. Dr Salama is extremely personable and went over with me exactly how he would fix my breasts. We chose an implant size of between 450-500cc's and he would make sure they were even in surgery.
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My friend and I hung out, watched movies, and the last day in town I went shopping at Sawgrass Mall with her. lol I couldn't resist... shopping in my city isn't the best.
I did go for a follow up before I left and all looked good to go.
The plane home was a little rough but definitely tolerable and I just recently went back to work. I have to tell you, the chest stares are a new thing for me and I definitely don't mind it. :)
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I have wanted breast implants for many years but did not have the guts to do it. I went to a consultation about a year ago close to my house in Puyallup, Washington, but did not feel completely comfortable going through with the surgery. The main issue with my breasts is that they are not symmetrical, and one is larger than the other. Also, one of my nipples hangs to the side a bit so that was something that I have always been self conscious about.
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Ok... So I'm 3 weeks out now about. Here is an updated picture that you can check out. They look a little uneven because of how I was holding the camera to shoot but they are completely symmetrical... which is shocking to me since I was so uneven. Also, take a look at the incision around the entire nipple in one boob and the other one only half the nipple. It's like a full moon versus a half moon. lol
The reason Dr. Salama did that was because I needed a lift in one to even out my nipples. They are nice and even now which is a huge relief. When I went to a consult back home the doctor told me there was no way to even them out, so it was really awesome that it was in fact possible.
The boob where he lifted my nipple is still pretty sore because I rubbed it too much with my shirt and it made the incision sensitive. I'm still taking a pain killer here and there where I need to when it really starts bothering me, usually at night.
Also, some of my friends I spoke with told me they were surprised I was still in pain. A few of my other friends told me they were sore for about 6 weeks until they felt 100% and not bothered at all so I'm not worrying. Because I went so big on the first time and I had the extra work done I think my recovery is taking a little bit longer. Also, the doc mentioned that I had really think chest muscles and I think it was a little bit of a shock to my body to go 500cc's. I'm REALLY glad I did though because the size really fits my body type.
Several of my friends went smaller than I did because they said their doctors were worried that the implants would be too big for their body or their chest diameter. Dr. S didn't see a problem with the size I wanted and they ended up looking more natural believe it or not. My advice to you is go with the larger size so you don't have to get a revision. ;) I'm really happy with my decision... my man is getting really tired of hearing about my boobs though. lol
I chose Dr. Salama because I felt comfortable with him from his reviews and my friend's experience with him. His office staff is unbelievable and made me feel so warm and welcome there. All in all, I felt extremely safe and in very good hands. Dr. Salama definitely knows what a good set of breasts are supposed to look like. :) I feel like it was so worth it to travel and he has high credentials for board certifications.


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On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 11:59:22AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > I wrote: > > You could certainly argue the classification either way, but I > > think that we should make a hard decision now: either window > > functions are treated as a distinct object type (implying their > > own set of command names and nuisance errors if you use the wrong > > one), or they are not a distinct object type (implying that WINDOW > > is an attribute for CREATE FUNCTION and not part of the command > > name). If we are wishy-washy about it and treat WINDOW as just a > > noise word in some contexts then we will have user confusion. The > > precedent that is bothering me here is all the user confusion that > > has ensued over whether you can use ALTER TABLE to operate on > > sequences and views. > > Apparently that analogy didn't impress anyone but me. AFAICT the > majority opinion is that we should use the syntax > > create [or replace] [window] function ... > > but just ignore the distinction between regular functions and window > functions for all other function-related SQL commands. Barring further > discussion, I'll make that happen in the next day or two. Presumably psql should know about this change. Should \df now include windowing functions along with a boolean column that indicates whether a function is a windowing function? Should there be \dw[+] instead? In either case, should the S option indicating "include system functions only when S is present" (e.g. \dwS) apply? I'm thinking yes on that last one. Cheers, David. -- David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> http://fetter.org/ Phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter Skype: davidfetter XMPP: david(dot)fetter(at)gmail(dot)com Remember to vote! Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate
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Surgical Breast Resection With or Without Axillary Lymph Node Excision in Treating Women With Breast Cancer (AXIL95)
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Avril A, Le Bouëdec G, Lorimier G, Classe JM, Tunon-de-Lara C, Giard S, MacGrogan G, Debled M, Mathoulin-Pélissier S, Mauriac L; AXIL95 Group. Phase III randomized equivalence trial of early breast cancer treatments with or without axillary clearance in post-menopausal patients results after 5 years of follow-up. Eur J Surg Oncol. 2011 Jul;37(7):563-70. doi: 10.1016/j.ejso.2011.04.008. Epub 2011 Jun 12.


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'Networked Learning' at the Management Center Innsbruck, Austria
Learning is commonly defined as a process combining cognitive, emotional, and environmental influences and experiences for acquiring or enhancing changes in one's knowledge, skills, values, and world views. It comprises the way in which information is absorbed, processed, and retained. This process should be enforced through integrated Networked Learning. By this we refer to a process of developing, maintaining and integrating knowledge acquired in different lectures and the communication of this knowledge to the students. At the Management Center Innsbruck, Austria, this concept has successfully been implemented at the Bachelor program of Nonprofit, Social and Health Care Management three years ago by connecting three lectures and the respective lecturers in the field of "Scientific Work", "Project Management" and "Statistics". In line with the customary procedure as adopted in scientific tasks and research, the students have to elaborate a problem definition and a specific research question. An external partner from an organization or company is responsible for defining the specific practical problem to be solved. The didactical principles comprise different levels and forms of cooperation: between the lecturers, within the project team, among the project groups and lecturers, between the project groups and the external (practice-oriented) partner, between the lecturers and the external (practice-oriented) partner. The key method consists of learning in networks in combination with Experiential Learning, both in relation to others and to learning resources and has to be seen as an innovative approach of sustainable learning.
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Plentiful holiday plants available for gifts, enjoyment
Winter is the time when we need color most and perhaps that is why red and green decorations are so prevalent during the Christmas season. Fortunately there are many colorful plants available for gifts or our own enjoyment.
The brilliant Poinsettia is synonymous with Christmas. When you purchase one, have the salesperson wrap it in plastic and paper. Put it in a warm car and go right home, as just a breath of cold air will damage the plant.
Select a plant with dark green foliage and completely colored bracts (the colored leaves). Look for one that is full and balanced with no drooping or yellow leaves. The true flowers in the centers of the bracts should be unopened with little yellow pollen showing for a long lasting plant.
Place the poinsettia in a bright area free from hot or cold drafts. The temperature should be 65 to 75 degrees. Punch holes in the decorative wrapper to allow good drainage or remove it entirely and put the plant in pretty container. Overly cool temperatures or over watering will cause root rot. The easiest way to keep it correctly hydrated is to give it ½ cup of lukewarm water every day and discard any drainage water.
Christmas cacti bloom in response to short days and cool nights so if you left yours outside until the temperatures were in the 30's it will have already set buds. This is a tropical not desert cacti and should not be allowed to dry out when they are in bud or bloom. Keep Christmas cacti in a bright spot out of the direct sun. They are epiphytic plants that grow naturally in rain-forest trees. Once buds appear, fertilize every seven to ten days until the flowering ends. When roots fill the pot it needs repotting so rough up the roots and put it in a container two to three inches larger. Place it outside in a sheltered spot once the weather warms up in spring. Some plants live for 25 years if they are treated right.
Amaryllis is readily available both in bloom and as a bulb. Bulbs need to be potted up in October in order to bloom by Christmas as they take eight to twelve weeks to force. Plant one or more now for a colorful treat in mid winter. Soak the roots for about an hour before potting in a container that is two inches wider than the bulb. Tamp in a base of nutritious potting soil and place the bulb in the center of the pot. It should sit high enough that 1/3 to ½ of the bulb is above the soil. Firm the soil around the bulb with your finger and water well. The bulb may rot with too much moisture so water only when the soil is dry to the touch. Once the bud or foliage appears, rotate the pot daily to keep the stem growing straight. Since the bulbs are pricey (the larger the bulb the more costly) you may wish to save it and attempt to get it to re-bloom next year. Cut down the foliage as it yellows and put the pot outside next spring. In fall cut off all the foliage, stop watering and place it in a cool dark place for six weeks. Then repeat the process above.
Paperwhites are bulbs that are very easy to force and take only about four weeks to bloom. Arrange the bulbs close together on top of a layer of pebbles. Add more pebbles leaving the top 2/3 of the bulbs uncovered. Add water just until it shows among the top stones. Store the container in a cool dark place until the roots form. When the growing tips are about three inches long bring the pot into strong light, but continue the cool temperature.
Orchids are a lovely plant to brighten your décor. The moth orchid (Phalaenopsis) is easy enough for most and grows well in our indoor conditions. The white, pink or other colored blooms last for weeks. Last spring I purchased a variety that requires three ice cubes each week. It is rewarding me by blooming again just in time for Christmas. If you cut the stem back to the first node below the lowest faded bloom, that stem will produce another round of blooms. No fertilizer is required until the second year and repotting is only necessary when the bark chips have decayed.
Several other colorful plants can add to your Christmas or winter enjoyment. Ornamental pepper plants are covered with bright red, yellow or orange fruits. The seeds can be saved to plant in spring pots. Bromeliads have bright red or orange bracts arising from a green rosette of leaves. These last a very long time with little care. Both Cyclamen and Kalanchoes make great table decorations.
Even if you do not wish the trouble of saving these winter ornamentals they last much longer than cut flowers at about the same price. So, go ahead and add some color to your winter environment.
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George. It looks like the Depner is an entire clock/power supply which must be applied externally. I wonder how much additional phase noise will be caused by having to distribute the clock signal?
Nice thing about the Crystek CCHD-957/950 is that they can be placed directly adjacent to the DAC, and with good board layout, should not degrade much.
These (CCHD Series) clocks are still looking pretty good to me from a practical standpoint, consider the ability to implement them in existing products/boards in mostly non-compromising ways. In direct comparision to the Depner, the phase noise is pretty close, and considering the degradation which may be caused by distribution, in practice, the Crystek may perform equally as well.
Of course, we muct consider the power supply as well...
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uses this oscillator. This is not OCXO. However, its technology is of OCXO and manufactured by NDK. (TAD people thought the need of "warm-up" in OCXO does not satisfy a requirement in a consumer product.)
Phase noise plot of the oscillator;
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Cool. That looks pretty good. Out of curiosity, do you know what the blue reference is for comparison?
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OK guys. I see that it started up a little discussion here about OCXO. I feel the need to come with some clarifications about my previous post on the same theme.
First I have to repeat that the producer names of those OXCO I used in that post was quite by chance. Just those names came in my mind at that moment... I will not say that one is better than another. It may be, it may be not... I did not made a close research about yet.... Else both companies produce very good and very expensive oscillators, as very standard ones...
When I think at an OCXO I have in mind an 100Mhz oscillator. As I know, is very hard to find an OCXO usable directly in audio. I mean about the standard clock audio frequencies. As I know, and got some informations about, those OCXO are made mainly for radio range control frequencies. That because the most known and sold OCXO frequencies have quite strange range for audio domain. Is quite by chance that an 100Mhz OCXO can meet today the audio field by clocking this ES9018. So, the phase noise is to talk about at this frequency. This I meant and had in my mind when I`ve posted may previous post. A phase noise level at this frequency is quite good, and have to be very good at an 100Mhz OCXO.
Maybe I`m wrong, but I have this logic in this case: a jitter/phase noise is directly connected to the frequency stability of that clock. An standard oscillator (for say 100Mhz) with a 100ppm stability, have to have quite big phase noise level. Another one with an 1ppm have to have a better phase noise/jitter. An 100Mhz OCXO clock with 50ppb (f. ex.) have to have a much lower phase noise. I actually think that is an very close correlation in between this two parameters of an oscillator: stability and phase noise/jitter. I in fact just noticed in few cases that one face a much lower jitter when is about less ppm, or in ppb range.
If I`m wrong, please correct me...
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being expensive is meaningless, it can be very good for its intended purpose, but if that purpose is not audio it could very well be less ideal than a 10 dollar clock specified for audio
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The model is 9325D(Fixed Communication)/Oven-Controlled Crystal Oscillator (OCXO)/NDK
Its list price is approximately 1,000 Euro. Phase noise measurement chart for the individual device is available.
As the output is sine wave of +-0.9 V(1.8 V p-p) amplitude, I applied an adjustable DC bias using batteries and fed the biased sine output directly to XI pin of ES9018. The idea of the direct input was given by Dustin.
You need +12V power for the device.
I felt the sonic result of this OCXO was definitely better than the standard Crystek oscillator used on Buffalo II. However, the cost performance was not so high enough. After I once knew the superior performance of synchronous master clocking scheme, I decommissioned it.
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I am more interested in synchronous clocking of the ESS 9018, hence my desire for more standard (audio) clock frequencies.
Bunpei: it is nice to hear that you find synchronous clocking to produce better sound than using the ASRC/DPLL-I assume this is as long as the master clock/bit clock provided are very low jitter. I am looking forward to trying synchronous clocking when I get my hands on the CCHD-957 oscillators.
The NDK which TAD is using-do you know if that is a custom part, or is there a series available from them with that level of performance, and if so, can they be purchased in single unit quantities somewhere?
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We've been ragging a lot on Adam Sandler lately here at CraveOnline. We wondered out loud if his films were the work of the devil, we called Jack and Jill the worst film of the year, and believe it or not, we'd really like to stop. But now he's just been announced as the star of Candy Land, so apparently we'll be at this for a while.
Deadline announced that Sandler will headline the Hasbro board game adaptation, which has apparently undergone a complete transformation since last year, when Kung Fu Panda 2 writers Jon Aibel and Glenn Berger were brought on board to turn the film into, as they put it, "Lord of The Rings, but set in a world of candy." Apparently somebody realized that the film was called Candy Land, because they're out of the picture, replaced by new screenwriters Robert Smigel and, obviously, Adam Sandler, who co-wrote the script for You Don't Mess with the Zohan together. The film will be directed by Kevin Lima, whose last film, 2007's Enchanted, was actually pretty great.
Yeah, we don't know how this was ever going to turn into The Lord of the Rings either. Apparently now we'll never know, because… fart jokes ahoy!
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"The gains from economic growth in 2011 were quite unevenly shared as household income fell in the middle and rose at the top," Robert Greenstein, president of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities in Washington, told Bloomberg.
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And thus we have The Beer Diaries…
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I did not ask for super light loads as I read somewhere that this model needs some punch to cycle properly, but if I've been sold some ridiculous over-kill nuclear magnum loads, tell me now, as I don't want to reduce my Grandad's gun to pieces!!!
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We wore new costumes. We perform at fairs, festivals and special events. It's great exercise and fun.
Our group flucuates between 10 to 5 members. We performed Mr. Pinstripe Suit, along with Rum N Coco Cola, Cocoa Jamboo and Except on Monday.
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Oh, I'd love to see y'all perform. You are truly so beautiful!
Be a sweetie,
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Your group has shrunk but you're still having fun and looking good!
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Wonderful Linda! You ladies look FAB :) and although I've never done this.. I've heard it's a wonderful form of (difficult!) exercise. Good for you for doing this.
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You gals look great.
Wish I could dance, but "I just ain't got no rhythm".
Looks like so much fun! I love to dance. When are you going to put Gangnam Style in your repertoire ? ;^)ReplyDelete
Aren't you girls the cutest??!! Whata fun way to exercise and make others happy at the same time.ReplyDelete
I started breathing hard just thinking of clogging! Great way to keep in shape and have shapely legs too!!! Love your costumes. How fun.ReplyDelete
Hi Linda, Love the Thanksgiving header. And cute photo-you look so pretty! GinaReplyDelete
You all look wonderful! I learned to tap dance as a kid...loved it. But why is it called 'clogging' in the US? It's not like the shoes you're wearing are actual clogs.ReplyDelete


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Sunday, April 11, 2010
Big Banks Move to Mask Risk Levels
"Major banks have masked their risk levels in the past five quarters by temporarily lowering their debt just before reporting it to the public, according to data from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. A group of 18 banks—which includes Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., Bank of America Corp. and Citigroup Inc.—understated the debt levels used to fund securities trades by lowering them an average of 42% at the end of each of the past five quarterly periods, the data show. The banks, which publicly release debt data each quarter, then boosted the debt levels in the middle of successive quarters."
After the news of Lehman's Repo 105 shenanigans this is pretty outrageous. "The SEC now is seeking detailed information from nearly two dozen large financial firms about repos, signaling that the agency is looking for accounting techniques that could hide a firm's risk-taking. The SEC's inquiry follows recent disclosures that Lehman used repos to mask some $50 billion in debt before it collapsed in 2008."
The whole article is short and worth reading. I'm curious how this was found out and what i means for regulation. This is apparently legal though misleading. This was in a New York Fed report because they monitor banks constantly but the regulation (and I guess investigation) of this apparently falls under the SEC. So does the SEC monitor the numbers continuously or just based on quarterly reports? Part of the problem is that the Fed monitors banks and this is a brokerage issue which falls under the SEC. Under Glass-Seagul these were different entities, now, post Lehman, these are merged even-more-mega-firms. This is why I think financial reform should have one regulator that covers everything (and all parts of current and future shadow banking) so that firms can't shop around for the most ineffective regulator of choice.
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How is the practice of "masking" risk not fraud?
Masking = Deception = Fraud
Here's one of the parts of Securities Law which speaks to such actions. Why are these obviously deceptive practices not prosecuted.
Rule 10b-5: Employment of Manipulative and Deceptive Practices":
It shall be unlawful for any person, directly or indirectly, by the use of any means or instrumentality of interstate commerce, or of the mails or of any facility of any national securities exchange,
(a) To employ any device, scheme, or artifice to defraud,
(b) To make any untrue statement of a material fact or to omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements made, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, or
(c) To engage in any act, practice, or course of business which operates or would operate as a fraud or deceit upon any person,
in connection with the purchase or sale of any security."
If the laws are not upheld they are meaningless and then we no longer are a nation based on the rule of law.
Regulation means nothing without enforcement. For regulation to have teeth, there must be severe consequences for non-compliance, So far, the Banksters have gotten trillions of dollars in low-interest loans from the federal gov't of the US, and had most, if not all of their bad debt (trillions) bought by the federal reserve.
Last year (2009) the banksters with walked away with some of their biggest bonuses ever thanks to the largesse of the US taxpayer and willful blindness of the congress and president of the United States.
Some punishment.
I for one do not like being played for a sucker.
These cases must be brought before juries immediately!
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I'm not a securities lawyer and don't think you are either. I agree it's troubling and am glad the SEC is looking into it. Perhaps it is illegal. I could see that since the trade were real, the reports were truthful. At the end of the month, those were the numbers, they just weren't the numbers in the middle of the month. It does seem clear that if it was illegal, it should be prosecuted, and if it wasn't, the reporting laws need to be changed.
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You are correct, I am not a securities lawyer, but many who are have been calling for prosecutions on such matters to no avail.
Yes, the trades actually occured. That is not at issue. This would not be a Bernie Madoff type fraud, where trades did not occur.
The question that must be asked is "why did the trades occur?". If the answer turns out to be to hide the real value of toxic assets then that is deceptive. All you need to do is look at the selling and buying patterns.
Using legal tools for the purpose of masking is a deceptive practice and needs to be prosecuted. These laws were written broadly with the foresight to understand that people who intend to defraud do not make their schemes obvious and that the perpetrators would actively look for ways to skirt the law.
This is not mere "window dressing" to use a street term. It is willful and deceptive use of a "legal" tool to hide the actual financial stability of an organization.
I say let's put in in front of a jury and see if reasonable citizens think it was deceptive, or not.
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SHERIDAN — While the Troopers have been up and down through the young 2013 season, one thing has been consistent.
Drew Adriaens' pitching.
The on-loan MSU-B pitcher has helped the Troop to a 2-0 conference mark after a 5-3 win in Gillette Tuesday night over their fellow League AA opponent, the Roughriders.
Trailing 3-0 entering the ninth inning, the Troopers plated five runs to get the win They lost two Sunday in Wheatland.
Tuesday, Adriaens fanned 15, one-upping his earlier League AA win over Cheyenne Post 6 in May when he waved 11 batters.
Surprisingly, Gillette pitcher Wyatt Eastabrook outdid that feat on the mound as he dominated the Troopers line-up, going 8 and 2/3 innings and striking out 21 batters.
But, in the ninth, the Troop overpowered reliever Ian Durgin with three RBIs from Kaul Eisele and two more from Skyler Holwell, finally putting bats on the ball to break their scoreless game.
With one out, Kevin Bakkehaug and Tony Mort each reached on errors, Connor McCafferty singled and Skyler Holwell doubled to right to plate two. Eisele sent another double to right, clearing the bases. Though they struck out 22 times, Sheridan (2-0, 8-5) managed four hits, holding Gillette (0-1, 15-16) to one.
Adriaens allowed the on hit in his seven stellar innings of work, walking only two. Holwell came on in relief to secure the final six outs, not allowing a hit and striking out two.
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