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The results of our annual survey on corporate innovation shed light on a range of topics central to the pursuit of innovation in 2009, including the one foremost on people's minds: the current economic crisis. What impact will it have on companies' objectives, strategies, and tactics? What will it mean for innovation investment, a critical determinant of long-term competitiveness? How are leading companies counteracting and even taking advantage of the challenges they face?
This report discusses these and many other issues related to innovation. We also suggest actions companies can take to maximize their innovation ROI in this challenging environment. Among the report's findings:
Innovation remains a strategic priority for the majority of companies, but the number that consider it a top priority is falling. Sixty-four percent of survey respondents ranked it a top-three priority, down from 72 percent in 2006 and 66 percent in 2007 and 2008.
Most companies expect to raise innovation spending in 2009, but they are growing increasingly cautious. Fifty-eight percent of companies plan to raise spending in the year ahead, down from 63 percent in 2008. And significantly, 14 percent of companies expect to reduce innovation spending in 2009. North American companies are particularly bearish: fully 21 percent expect to lower their spending on innovation.
Reflecting a growing sensitivity to costs, companies are increasingly leveraging rapidly developing economies (RDEs). Forty-five percent of respondents said their company will increase its R&D investment in RDEs in 2009, up from 37 percent in 2008.
Simultaneously, companies are increasing their emphasis on innovation geared toward lowering production costs.
Companies consider a risk-averse corporate culture and lengthy development times to be the two biggest forces holding down their return on innovation spending.
Customer satisfaction and overall revenue growth are the two main gauges that companies use to determine the success of their innovation efforts.
C-level executives are more satisfied with the return on innovation spending than the rest of the company. Sixty-three percent of C-level respondents said they were satisfied, versus 50 percent of vice presidents and managers and 47 percent of other employees.
CEOs are the most visible champions of innovation at most companies, yet fewer than 30 percent of respondents identified them as such, reflecting a void in leadership and a real opportunity for many companies.
For the third straight year, respondents ranked the "evergreens"—Apple, Google, and Toyota—the most innovative companies, with Apple the hands-down winner once again.
While companies should certainly take a critical look at their innovation spending in the downturn, they should not make blanket reductions or adopt too defensive a stance. Indeed, the downturn offers an excellent opportunity to make bold strategic moves that can position a company for an economic rebound and fundamentally strengthen its long-term competitive position.


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HIPAA Implementation To Do List
Read the regulation
You can find the actual regulation at www.aspe.hhs.gov/admnsimp/pl104191.htm
The actual regulation is short. The majority of the document contains the
preamble, comments and responses, which are helpful to understand the actual
regulation. You may want to delegate this to members of your staff.
Re-read the regulation
Make notes regarding how the regulation will affect you, questions that
need clarification, etc. It might be helpful to have 2-3 individuals read and discuss the regulation together, to
get different opinions and perspectives on the regulation and how it will affect your current operations.
Identify other sources of information regarding the regulations. Some suggested web sites (not an all-inclusive list) are NESNIP.org, NAHHSnet.org
(HIPAA page), AHA.org (HIPAA page), WEDI.org , AHIMA.org, HCFA.gov. Visit these sites routinely to obtain
updated information.
Talk to your peers in other similarly sized facilities. What have they done; can you get together and discuss with them.
Participate with the Nebraska SNIP group or sign-up for one of the list serves.
Appoint someone to be responsible for managing HIPAA implementation within your facility. Depending on the size of your
organization, this may be a HIPAA Committee or an individual. Make sure your Board or Management is aware of HIPAA
and its impact on your facility.
Generate awareness in your organization. Provide an overview of
the privacy, security, and transaction & code sets regulations and implementation deadlines to share with your
staff. A good place to start is the HIPAA Background information. This
overview will probably generate additional questions where more study may be
needed as to how the regulation will affect you. You do not need to know the answers to the questions, just
identify the questions.
Evaluate your current practices with compliance requirements. What are your current privacy, security, and
transaction & code set practices and how do they comply (or not) with
HIPAA? For example, identify who shares protected health information in your organization and why it is shared. Can you accomplish
the same goal without sharing the individually identifiable protected health information? What kind of physical security do you have
now? Does it comply with HIPAA security regulations?
Identify existing policies and procedures. Are they current? Are staff following them? Compare your
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HIPAA regulations?
Prepare a time line for reaching HIPAA compliance. Assign a responsible person to be in charge
of a particular task(s). Meet on a routine, ongoing basis to discuss progress, problems encountered, resolution of
previously identified problems, development of policies and procedures, etc.,
as you move toward compliance with the HIPAA regulations.
If you are ready to dive in deeper:
For illustration purposes, the following is an example of some of the sections in the HIPAA Privacy Regulations. Section 164.530,
Administrative Requirements was then reviewed and a list of issues identified. You would then compare your practices to those required by
Section 164.530 of HIPAA. You would repeat this process for all sections of the HIPAA regulations.
Selected Sections of the HIPAA Privacy Regulations
164.501 - Definitions
164.502 - Uses & disclosures of protected health information; general rules
164.504 - Uses & disclosures: organizational requirements
164.506 - Consent for uses or disclosures to carry out treatment, payment, and health care
164.508 - Uses & disclosures for which an authorization is required
164.510 - Uses and disclosures requiring an opportunity for the individual to agree or to
164.512 - Uses & disclosures for which consent, an authorization or opportunity to agree,
or object, is not required
164.514 - Other requirements relating to uses and disclosures of protected health information
164.520 - Notice of privacy practices for protected health information
164.522 - Rights to request privacy protection for protected health information
164.524 - Access of individuals to protected health information
164.526 - Amendment of protected health information
164.528 - Accounting of disclosures of protected health information
164.530 - Administrative requirements
164.532 - Transition requirements
164.534 - Compliance dates for initial implementation of privacy standards
164.530 - Administrative requirements

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Anat Ebgi and Nina Arias are two young, independent Miami curators who have produced interesting shows in the last year. Most recently during Art Miami, Ebgi put on an all-female exhibit called "Manifest Destiny," and Arias curated "Drawing Conclusions," both in the Design District and both critically acclaimed. They have energy, organizational skills, and a real commitment to Miami. Their main concern is not a "finished product" per se, in the traditional way that a museum or gallery would put on an exhibit, but more for the sake of social experiment and possible aesthetic provocation. Anyhow, we'll let them explain.
New Times: What makes you want to curate in Miami?
Anat Ebgi: I am interested in the social aspect of curating ... the bringing together of artists who might never have met. I was introduced to amazing artists working in New York, who became my friends, and I wanted them to meet my friends and incredible artists in Miami. That is what inspired my previous show, "Native." The upshot of the show was that a new community of young artists was formed; most of the artists still keep in touch with one another. Now, I wanted to do the same again, but in addition I wanted to build a stronger link connecting the women of Miami's art community.
"Drawing Conclusions"
The Buena Vista Building, ste 218, 180 NE 39th St
Through February 28; 305-576-5166.
Nina Arias: Miami has been my home base for most of my life. This is where I work best. Having been organizing art events in South Florida for the last three years, I've seen Miami's art scene brewing with energy and promise. There is such an amazing creative vibe floating around this city lately, it's hard not to catch it. And I truly enjoy curating shows for Miami's vibrant art community. I love what I do, and the people I get to work with.
Nina, what prompted "Drawing Conclusions"?
Arias: "Drawing Conclusions" was conceived months before "Going Out on a Limb" [a truly original show during Art Basel by the trio FeCuOp, which featured legs dangling from a ceiling]. What inspired me to curate a drawing exhibition was the fact that I had been collecting more drawings. I started collecting local art a couple of years ago, and when you are just starting out and don't have a big budget for art, you start by collecting small drawings of artists you like, because you can't afford their paintings yet. I [wanted] to curate a cutting-edge drawing exhibition to show how the medium has evolved, and how it is relevant to contemporary art.
What about your previous show, "Going Out on a Limb"?
Arias: It came out of working with my close friends from FeCuOp [Jason Ferguson, Christian Curiel, and Brandon Opalka]. I already had the Dacra space [from Craig Robins's development company for the drawing show in January], but still wanted to do another kind of project for Art Basel. A large installation -- and I only wanted to work with a few artists. So it was only natural that I offered the boys the space, and the opportunity to work with me and during Art Basel.
How did you both manage to get the space?
Ebgi: I envisioned "Manifest Destiny" to be in a space that had no past connotations or previous exhibitions to compare it to. I wanted a "virginal" space. Ironically Dacra donated the Madonna building for this exhibition, which was a perfect space for this show.
Arias: Last May I began inquiring about the procedures regarding getting Dacra to donate a space for these two exhibitions that I had in mind. I spoke with Tiffany Chestler, who is the exhibitions curator for Dacra and also handles Craig Robins Collection. She was very helpful to me in attaining the space. Through press releases, proposals, statements, and meetings, I was granted my request for free exhibition space and received keys to suite number 218 in the Buena Vista Building in early October.
Was there a particular criteria for the artists you selected?
Arias: Yes, there was. I wanted the drawing exhibition to consist of a diversity of contemporary artists: emerging, mid-career, established, local, national, and international artists, and who all work their drawings in nontraditional ways.
Ebgi: There were no particular criteria when selecting the artists other than I chose the artists whose work I respect -- even if I had never met them personally. I wanted a spectrum of women: some of them established professionals, while others still freshmen in college. I also wanted a spectrum of work: performance, photography, video, sculpture, et cetera. In other words a diverse range that represents the diversity of women.
Is there a theme to your shows?
Ebgi: If by theme you mean a preconceived idea, there was no theme to the show, which was the point. I wanted the women and the work just to come together in their own particular way, sort of an experiment, with no limitations or restrictions.
Arias: "Drawing Conclusions" extends the definition of drawing beyond pencil and ink on a sketchpad. Crossing the line, and over the edge these artists use different techniques and materials in order to create a conceptual frame for their investigation of the medium. The boundaries of their traditional definitions are bursting, and the result is a variety of possibilities, proposals in the space, and a mix of mediums, which opens a new field for drawings.
Ebgi: When I was sending out invitations for "Manifest Destiny," some people, especially men, were curious as to why I was curating a show based on gender. My response was: Why not? There was never a feminist movement in Miami like there was in New York or California -- and I don't particularly care if there is one or not. What bothered me when I lived in Miami and went to group shows -- where perhaps one or two of the artists were women -- was that no one else seemed to be bothered by this. I just thought that maybe there weren't as many women producing art, or if they were, they probably sucked. Of course when I began organizing "Manifest Destiny" and searched for women, I realized that there were so many more women with talent than I would have ever imagined.
How do you see your exhibit in the context of Art Miami?
Arias: I loved having the opening reception in conjunction to Art Miami's Design District party. Miami had a month to recover from all of the amazing Art Basel festivities, and Art Miami came soon after with a much broader market for Latin American art and its collectors. The attendance of visitors to the fair brought a new collector base to Miami and the Design District.
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Ebgi: Honestly, I do not see "Manifest Destiny" in the context of Art Miami. Rather, I see the exhibition in the social context of Miami art.
Some have pointed out that "Manifest Destiny" is a xenophobic label. Why did you use it?
Ebgi: I know that historically Manifest Destiny has negative connotations, but I am utilizing the term in its most essential and idealistic definition: the inevitability of expansion. The female art community in Miami expanding and manifesting its destination within the context of the greater art community.


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I think one long list is better than dividing it up by treatment, but maybe you can include a brief description of where we are in our journey by our name, like I did above.
kristenoak: what's non-traditional PCOS? I have PCOS and don't appear to have the same metabolic issues that so many people have (I don't seem to be sensitive to sugar, based on several months of experimentation with my diet; no weird weight issues; etc.) but I do have a lot of other classic symptoms - irregular ovulation, facial hair, acne.
mom to 2 pooches, one wild and awesome little boy who joined our family through the miracle of adoption, and expecting 2 miracle babies in spring 2013 after 7 years of ttc!
I would love to join. Thanks M! Lately the reg old TTC boards have me feeling a little left out and well, my reg. life too. Since we've been trying I have had 18 friends get preg. accidentally or v. early tries. There are no more social circles I can go to w/out 1 or more preg. friends who have been less sensitive than I would have thought. As a result I feel a lot of distance between myself and many of the other women in my life. It's such a strange feeling. This cohesive support will be very welcome!
our daughter died, fullterm unexplained stillbirth, early 2005
one 12wk miscarriage early 2006
i think a support thread is a great idea, although the daily in's and out's of a 'one thread' are too much for me, time wise and emotionally! but i'll read along! offer any info if i have it...
thanks for starting the thread, mischievium
Today is cd 4 and I started my shots last night. So I am trying to be very diet conscious. So if you have some favorite foods to eat I'd love to hear about them.
Outing myself...
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Male factor (CBAVD) diagnosed in 2002.
IVF/ICSI#1 October 2004 - successful - DD born July 2005.
IVF/ICSI#2 Dec/Jan 2008 (still nursing) - unsuccessful - all 7 embryos did not survive to transfer
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Can I join?
I have (well, had now I guess) pcos. We conceived our son after 4 years of trying and one miscarriage. We used clomid with a trigger shot to have him. Now we are TTC #2 with soy, 80 mg. My cycles are normal (every 35-40 days) but we have been trying for the past 15 months or so. In june if this does not work (please please let it work) I will go back to a re. I so dont want that again. I dont have a chart yet, will sign up for one tomorrow.
Thanks M, yeah seriously 18, not even counting some of them...it's sort of astounding really, and great for them, just really strikingly emphasizes our struggles and isolates. We have been to so many showers and newborn visits. I love Samovar! and would love to have a tea w/ you there! Good idea! (esp. before we both leave SF, right?)
I was thinking, since CBAVD is rare, maybe I would make that word in your synopsis on the first post a link to a site that explains what it is? Do you know of a good website?
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Orioles executive vice president Dan Duquette sounds as if he does not expect to commit a large sum to a free agent pitcher, according to a report from Roch Kubatko of MASNsports.com. Though the club has tried to lure several free agent starters with offers, Kubatko says that rumors of significant interest in top options like Ubaldo Jimenez appear unrealistic.
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Terry Kindlon, criminal defense attorney and former U.S. Marine Sergeant who fought in Vietnam, responds to one of Talkleft's conservative commenters:
Whenever I read one of your comments in support of "the war" I truly wonder what planet you're living on. As a former Marine Sergeant who was seriously wounded during the Tet Offensive in Vietnam, and as the father of one son who's an active duty Marine Captain, and another son who's worked for the UN in both Iraq and Afghanistan over the past two years, it is my opinion that you don't have the slightest idea of what you're saying. If you had ever seen the smashed body of a decapitated little civilian girl, or carried the still warm dead body of an 18 year old Marine in your arms, as have I, you would know better than to stand on the sidelines yakking about statistics and cheering while my Marine Corps, the best military force this country has ever assembled, is consistently misused by a delusional civilian administration for highly questionable purposes of very questionable morality.
It is at times like these that I want to say to guys like you that if you love the small of napalm in the morning (you wouldn't, incidentally, because it stinks) and if you think this war is such a great idea, why don't you go fight in it! If you're too old, or too scared, send your son. They have lots of openings, and I'll be happy to cook you up a nice, warm cassarole. Semper fi, pal...Terry Kindlon
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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Monday insisted that coordination with Turkey was the key to relaunch peace talks with Israel, the official SANA news agency reported. Assad made the remark during his meeting with French presidential envoy Jean-Claude Cousseran, who conveyed a message from President Nicolas Sarkozy to the Syrian leader, the agency said.
Assad stressed "the importance of coordination with Turkey to build up on what has been achieved in (previous rounds of) indirect negotiations" between Syria and Israel that were brokered by Ankara, it quoted him as saying.
"Syria is permanently striving for a just and comprehensive peace" based on U.N. resolutions, al-Assad told Cousseran.
The Syria leader also voiced the "hope of seeing real progress in the peace process, even if Israel's policies do not inspire that," SANA said.
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[2] http://www.albawaba.com
[3] http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/04/14/the_dumbest_country_in_the_middle_east
[4] http://www.haaretz.com/news/israeli-syrian-representatives-reach-secret-understandings-1.210158
[5] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10345446
[6] http://www.cfr.org/publication/21608/obama_talks_syria_mocks.html


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Tyson drugs demand
The British Boxing Board of Control is demanding details of medication being taken by Mike Tyson before allowing his fight in Glasgow to go ahead.
Tyson's co-trainer, Jay Bright, has confirmed the boxer has been prescribed drugs to balance chemicals in his brain.
Bright said Tyson, who is scheduled to fight Lou Savarese at Hampden on 24 June, began taking the medication on advice of doctors linked to the Nevada State Athletic Commission.
"The doctors in Nevada felt it might help," Bright is quoted as saying.
"It was a doctor who suggested it - and it's funny that people over there say they don't want him to take it.
"What happens is the medication balances the chemicals
out, and when something happens, he reacts properly and
doesn't lose his temper."
The British board's chief medical officer, Adrian Whiteson, wants information about the drug but insists it must come from doctors, not Tyson's managers, trainers or promoters.
The BBC's boxing correspondent, John Rawling, said the board was likely to demand that the drug was ceased before the bout.
Tyson, who has been training in Phoenix, flies to London on Wednesday before heading to Glasgow a few days before the fight. All 60,000 tickets are expected to be sold.
It will be Tyson's second fight in Britain in five months. He knocked out Julius Francis in the second round in January in Manchester, England.
Meanwhile, the main undercard fight on the night of Tyson's bout at Hampden is off.
Jason Rowlands has had to pull out of his fight with American Zad Judah because of an injured knee.
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Nicki Minaj hit American Idol's Season 12 auditions in New York City in head-to-toe Fendi.
Her lace-up colorblock booties feature calf hair, spazzolato Italian leather cap toes, chevron-stretch gore sides and 5″ heels. Nicki's colorway isn't available, but the red/olive/black/purple versions are up for grabs.
Check out Nicki's look on the runway, though of course she had to show off her legs in leather shorts that weren't a part of the brand's collection.
I enjoyed the eccentricity and luxury of Fendi's Fall 2012 collection and I like that Nicki opted for a high-fashion look. I'm on the fence here: the ensemble is quirky which is Nicki's signature, but her hair and the shorts just take it to a strange place.
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Gifts For the Geek has reached Day 4!
I am an avid Pixar fan. The movie studio can't create a bad movie. Imagine my delight when Brave was announced a few years ago. When the movie was released in theaters, I took an 8 year old and a 5 year old to see it. We had a great time and they loved every second of it—well, the 5 year old was a bit scared of feral momma bear!
What I love about Pixar is their ability to invoke the wondrous. They've done it time and time again. From Toy Story to Wall-E to Up, they consistently invoke that child-like side of me that refuses to grow up. It's because of Pixar that I can't see my shadow; it's because of Pixar that I still love animated features.
With Brave, Pixar tackles the ever-evolving fairy tale!
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Set in the rugged and mysterious Highlands of Scotland, Disney Pixar's Brave follows the heroic journey of Merida (voice of Kelly Macdonald), a skilled archer and headstrong daughter of King Fergus (voice of Billy Connolly) and Queen Elinor (voice of Emma Thompson).
Determined to change her fate, Merida defies an age-old custom sacred to the unruly and uproarious lords of the land: massive Lord MacGuffin (voice of Kevin McKidd), surly Lord Macintosh (voice of Craig Ferguson) and cantankerous Lord Dingwall (voice of Robbie Coltrane), unleashing chaos in the kingdom.
When she turns to an eccentric Witch (voice of Julie Walters), she is granted an ill-fated wish and the ensuing peril forces Merida to harness all of her resources including her mischievous triplet brothers to undo a beastly curse and discover the meaning of true bravery.
Brave is a beautiful story, about a young girl who must learn temperance and a mother who must let that young girl make her own choices. The action is riveting, the story is dark at times with the proper amount of comedy included, but overall the story delivers a wonderful tale that left me a bit teary-eyed at the end.
As most Pixar movies do.
Last week, Brave released on Blu-ray! It is a perfect gift for the geek—no matter the age or gender!
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Yokiro was the most successful Geisha house in Western Japan during the first half of the 20th century and remains open to this day. At its peak, it was home to over 200 geisha, however behind the fabulous facade, there were many battles - between family members, men and women, and with the Yakuza. Momokawa was sold to Yokiro at age 12, and despite being the top geisha, her many complicated relationships provide unending challenges throughout her glamorous but turbulent life.Overview from themoviedb.org
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"American Idol's" season premiere was down nearly 5 million viewers from last year's, the biggest season-to-season drop in franchise history. But the program did continue to dominate it's time slot.
Idol averaged 21.6 million, per estimates, and scoring a still-huge, if diminished, 7.4 rating among 18-to-49-year-olds.
Personally, I think the performance shows are now diluting each others audiences. You have American Idol, X-Factor- The Voice and America's Got Talent.
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NEW YORK, March 18 (JTA) — Pnina Peli is worried about her granddaughter. Margalit Har-Shefi, a friend of Yigal Amir's from their time together as students at Bar-Ilan University Law School, is slated to stand trial in connection with the November 1995 murder of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Her granddaughter was friendly with Amir, who was convicted of the assassination, only because they jointly coordinated student Shabbat trips to Israeli settlements in areas threatened by the peace process, including the West Bank and Golan Heights, Peli said in an interview during a recent visit to New York. And even though Amir — who is now serving a life sentence in prison — had romantic hopes about his relationship with Har-Shefi, her granddaughter was never interested in him that way, Peli said. "She had no reason to not be friendly with him. He was a nice intelligent boy, until he became a murderer," she said. Har-Shefi is from a prominent Israeli family. Peli, her maternal grandmother, is one of the founding mothers of Orthodox feminism. In 1986, in Jerusalem, she organized an international conference to examine the role of women in Jewish law. Her grandfather, Pinchas Peli, who died in 1989, was a professor of Jewish thought at Ben-Gurion University, a popular commentator on the Torah and a lecturer around the world. Har-Shefi's mother, Bitkha, is one of the Pelis' daughters. She teaches Talmud at the Reform rabbinical seminary's Jerusalem campus and her father, Dov, runs a packaging plant in their West Bank settlement town of Beit El. Another of the Pelis' daughters is Emunah Elon, who serves as the adviser to the prime minister on the status of women. Elon is married to Benny Elon, a son of former Israeli Supreme Court Justice Menachem Elon. Benny Elon, an outspoken member of the Knesset, represents the right-wing Moledet Party. It took prosecutors more than a year to decide whether to file charges against Har-Shefi. Har-Shefi was arrested immediately after the assassination, and questioned for close to 20 days about suspicions that she was part of a plot to assassinate the prime minister and carry out terrorist attacks against Arabs. However, she was subsequently released with no charges being filed. Since that period, no new evidence has come to light. Har-Shefi's former attorney said he was totally surprised by the recent decision to press charges against his client. The prosecution explained the move, saying that it first wanted to await results of the investigation of five other suspects in connection with the assassination. It also said it was waiting for the rulings in the conspiracy trials of Yigal and his brother Hagai Amir, and their friend, Dror Adani, in which Har-Shefi was a defense witness. In October 1996, they were all found guilty. Har-Shefi, 21, has been charged with knowing of Yigal Amir's plans to assassinate Rabin and failing to notify authorities. She has also been charged with providing Amir with information to commit criminal acts. According to the charge sheet and excerpts from police questioning of Har-Shefi that have been published, the two first met on campus, within the framework of activities against the Labor government's policies. The prosecution has said that on more than one occasion, Amir told Har-Shefi that he believed that a religious edict that justifies killing to save Jewish lives applied to Rabin, and that he believed that Rabin should be killed. The prosecution also said Amir confided in Har-Shefi a number of times about specific plans to kill Rabin, but circumstances prevented it. One of those instances was Jan. 22, 1995, when the two attended a demonstration in Jerusalem at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial, where Rabin was due to take part in a ceremony. Because of a suicide bombing the same day in another part of the country, Rabin did not attend the ceremony. On the way back from the demonstration, according to the charge sheet, Amir told Har-Shefi that he had brought his pistol with him and had planned to shoot Rabin. Har-Shefi has said that in her circles, many people were deeply disturbed by the political process and the idea of killing Rabin had been expressed, with a certain amount of cynicism. "It's possible that I have said I would be happy if Rabin would die," Har Shefi was quoted telling police. "We know that there are lots of people who speak like this, but I never thought it would actually happen. Thousands of people heard him speak like this. Who thought he would go and do it? "It's fate's joke that I should be sitting here, because I always told him not to do it." The charge sheet also states that Amir told Har-Shefi of plans to form an underground that would protect Jewish settlements after Israeli redeployments in the West Bank and would carry out attacks on Arabs. The prosecution said Amir asked Har-Shefi for help in setting this up. According to the prosecution, Har-Shefi told Amir the location of the storehouse for weapons in Beit El, the Jewish settlement where she lives. The charge sheet also states that she gave Amir the name of a Beit El resident who could provide him with information to build explosives. According to her grandmother, however, Har-Shefi refused Amir's request to put him in touch with someone who could obtain explosives. "She told him she thought he was crazy and said she'd call the police if she thought he was serious," Peli said. An hour or two after Rabin was murdered, Har-Shefi remembered what Amir had said and called his family's house to see whether he was there. When Amir's brother told her that he was not, "she lay down on her bed shaking," said Peli, who called the Har-Shefi home soon after that. It is on the basis of that phone call to the Amir home and on Amir's request for help getting explosives that the government's indictment of Har-Shefi is based, said Peli. If Har-Shefi is as innocent of involvement as her grandmother thinks she is, then why is she going on trial? "Because the left is trying to harass the right all the time," Peli said. Those on the political left "want to get back into the government and would sacrifice a 21-year-old girl to do it, sure," Peli said. According to Barukh Binah, minister counselor for public affairs at the Israeli Embassy in Washington, "Everything in the judicial system in Israel is done according to law." Peli said Har-Shefi's indictment has shocked the family and all who know them. "We can't even contemplate her being imprisoned." Her daughter and son-in-law estimate that their legal bills will total at least $100,000 by the time Har-Shefi's trial ends. "I feel angry about it. I'm concerned, certainly, about Margalit, that she should be put on trial and about the financial side of it, which may leave the family bankrupt." (JTA correspondent Naomi Segal in Jerusalem contributed to this report.)
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UNITED NATIONS - President Obama declared Wednesday that there could be no short cut to peace between Israel and the Palestinians, as he sought to head off a looming diplomatic crisis for the Middle East and U.S. policy there.
"Peace will not come through statements and resolutions at the U.N. if it were that easy, it would have been accomplished by now," the president said. "Ultimately, it is Israelis and Palestinians who must live side by side. Ultimately, it is Israelis and Palestinians not us who must reach agreement on the issues that divide them."
But in the speech before the U.N. General Assembly, Mr. Obama stopped short of directly calling on the Palestinians to drop their plan to seek statehood recognition from the U.N. Security Council. U.S. officials were working furiously behind the scenes to persuade the Palestinians. With the limits of U.S. influence on the moribund peace process never more clear, Mr. Obama had no new demands for the Israelis, either, beyond saying that both sides deserved their own state and security.
"Peace depends upon compromise among peoples who must live together long after our speeches are over, and our votes have been counted," Mr. Obama said.
"That is the path to a Palestinian state."
Perry pledges support for Israel if he wins WH
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Palestinian statehood vote at U.N.: Full steam ahead
The White House's inability to dissuade the Palestinians from their bid for statehood is doubly embarrassing for the president because of the vision that he laid out at the United Nations last year, CBS News correspondent Bill Plante reports.
"When we gather back here next year, we can have an agreement that will lead to a new member of the United Nations, an independent, sovereign state of Palestine living in peace with Israel," Mr. Obama told the world body in 2010.
But a year later, the president's vision of Israel and Palestine, living side-by-side in peace, is still just a dream, and the administration says that's not his fault, Plante reports.
"The point that the president will make is at the end of the day, peace is going to have to be made between the parties, that it can't be imposed from the outside, that it can't be accomplished through actions at the United Nations," White House deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes said.
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"The reality is there's no short cut to statehood," Rice told "Early Show" co-anchor Erica Hill. "It's not going to happen at the United Nations unless and until there's a negotiated settlement between the two parties so that the borders are sorted out, security is sorted out, the capital is sorted out, refugees are sorted out, water issues, all these critical things.
"So, our view is not that the Palestinians shouldn't have a state; indeed, they should, living side-by-side in peace and security with the Jewish state of Israel," Rice told Hill, "but that can only happen through negotiations."
U.S. officials conceded they cannot stop Abbas from officially launching his case for the Security Council's approval of the statehood effort, but also make the case for the Palestinian leader to essentially drop the move for statehood recognition after delivering his letter of intent to the U.N.
Abbas was expected to deliver a formal request for statehood recognition on Friday when he speaks to the General Assembly. But it could take weeks or months for the U.N. to act on the Palestinians' request.
And while Mr. Obama will formally ask Abbas not to pursue the statehood bid, the mission is actually directed at containing the fallout by urging the Palestinian leader not to push for an actual vote in the Council, where the U.S. has promised a veto. A delay would give international peacemakers time to produce a statement that would be the basis for resumed Israeli-Palestinian negotiations.
Mr. Obama will also meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who arrived in New York early on Wednesday.
Nicolas Sarkozy, the French leader, met with Abbas on Tuesday, and diplomats close to the talks said Sarkozy told the Palestinian leader that he would outline a proposal for the Palestinians to seek upgraded status with the General Assembly, where no member holds a veto. The resolution would be designed to make Palestine a nonmember observer state, raising its status from that of permanent observer. The diplomats spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss private talks.
In carefully orchestrated demonstrations, thousands of flag-waving Palestinians rallied Wednesday in towns across the West Bank to show support for their president's bid for U.N. recognition.
Civil servants and schoolchildren were given time off to participate. Despite the largely low-key mood, a new poll indicated an overwhelming majority supports Abbas' quest for U.N. recognition of a state in the West Bank, Gaza and east Jerusalem, the areas Israel captured in the 1967 Mideast War.
A British minister insisted Tuesday that U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron, Foreign Secretary William Hague and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg would make a final decision on how to respond to the Palestinian's demands.
"You don't show your hand at the beginning of the negotiations when you may wish to keep your hand back for later in the negotiations," junior Foreign Office minister Jeremy Browne said.
"I think we should have some confidence that the British government is taking a studied and considered approach," Browne told a rally of his Liberal Democrat party in Birmingham, central England.
With Abbas determined to seek membership rather than upgraded status, the Palestinian delegation relentlessly knocked on diplomatic doors at the U.N. trying to sell their case for international recognition.
Netanyahu issued dire warnings against hasty action as he boarded his jet for New York. Mr. Obama plans to meet with Netanyahu as well as Abbas.
The issue of the unilateral Palestinian declaration of statehood, born of decades of frustration and failed negotiations with Israel, has consumed diplomats who are gathering for Wednesday's opening of the annual U.N. General Assembly ministerial meeting.
Abbas has rejected all attempts to steer him away from formally submitting an application for full U.N. membership.
For his part, Netanyahu, in a meeting with members of his hardline Likud Party before leaving Jerusalem late Tuesday, vowed to speak "the truth" in New York "the truth of a people that wants peace, a nation that was attacked time after time and that is being attacked time after time by those that don't oppose our policies but rather our very existence."


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Local binary patterns for 1-D signal processing
Chatlani, N. and Soraghan, J.J. (2010) Local binary patterns for 1-D signal processing. In: 18th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO-2010), 2010-08-23 - 2010-08-27.Full text not available in this repository. Request a copy from the Strathclyde author
Local Binary Patterns (LBP) have been used in 2-D image processing for applications such as texture segmentation and feature detection. In this paper a new 1-dimensional local binary pattern (LBP) signal processing method is presented. Speech systems such as hearing aids require fast and computationally inexpensive signal processing. The practical use of LBP based speech processing is demonstrated on two signal processing problems: - (i) signal segmentation and (ii) voice activity detection (VAD). Both applications use the underlying features extracted from the 1-D LBP. The proposed VAD algorithm demonstrates the simplicity of 1-D LBP processing with low computational complexity. It is also shown that distinct LBP features are obtained to identify the voiced and the unvoiced components of speech signals
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ICANN Update
As mentioned in previous issues of IPJ, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) began operation in early November 1998. Recently, ICANN announced that five companies have been selected to participate in the initial testbed phase of the new competitive Shared Registry System. These five participants will be the first to implement the new system for competition in the market for .com, .net, and .org domain name registration services. Currently, registration services for these domains are provided by Network Solutions, Inc. (NSI), which has enjoyed an exclusive right to handle registrations under a 1993 Cooperative Agreement with the U.S. Government. The five registrars participating in the testbed are, in alphabetical order: America Online, CORE (Internet Council of Registrars), France Telecom/Oleane, Melbourne IT, and register.com.
Under the Cooperative Agreement between NSI and the U.S. Government, the competitive registrar testbed program began on April 26 and will last until June 24, 1999 (Phase I). Following the conclusion of Phase I, the Shared Registry System for the .com, .net, and .org domains will be opened on equal terms to all accredited registrars, meaning that any company that meets ICANN's standards for accreditation will be able to enter the market as a registrar and offer customers competitive domain name registration services in these domains.
Meanwhile, ICANN continues to work on the formation of several supporting organizations, namely the Domain Name Supporting Organization (DNSO), the Address Supporting Organization (ASO), and the Protocol Supporting Organization (PSO). More information is available at: www.icann.org
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Driving Through the Data Fog
Economic data are by nature imprecise, but a confluence of factors early this year is making it particularly difficult to gauge the state of Asia's economies. One key question is whether or not the region is seeing a long-promised export bounce from the recovery in developed economies.
The problem is that data this time of year are distorted by the Lunar New Year holiday observed in China and much of Asia, which can close factories for up to two weeks.
On top of that, a particularly harsh winter in the United States has added a fresh layer of confusion.
If exports to the U.S. are slower than normal, does it reflect an underlying shift in the patterns of trade, with consequences for Asian policy? Or are shipments merely delayed because of blizzards?
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Six months ago we reported that medicare was in critical condition, and we promised to provide a prescription for nursing it back to health. On Friday, our committee's final report concluded that Canadians need to contribute an additional $5-billion a year if the publicly funded system is going to survive.
The new money itself will not resuscitate medicare. It must be used to buy the changes that will.
To raise this revenue, we prescribe a National Health Care Insurance Premium, the amount of such a premium to be determined by an individual's taxable income bracket. For lower-income Canadians, the premium would be 50 cents a day -- half the price of a lottery ticket. For those with more than $103,000 in taxable income, the premium would be $4.00 a day.
These new revenues would be spent on the health care of Canadians and health care only. Under our proposal, the Auditor-General would report annually to Canadians on how their health-care dollars are being spent, making the process transparent and accountable.
What can Canadians expect from it? Health-care security and peace of mind. This is what Canadians told us that they want most -- the knowledge that the health-care system will be there when they need it. That means no more interminable waits. Canadians would receive an iron-clad assurance that after a clearly specified, clinically determined waiting time, they will get the treatment they need -- in another province or another country if necessary.
Our current hospital-and-doctor safety net has large holes in it; too many Canadians are falling through. Roughly 600,000 people in this country have no protection against "catastrophic" prescription drug expenses, when an individual's prescription drug costs exceed $5,000 per year. In many cases, drug costs far exceed that amount with the result that families are being made financially destitute.
This is wrong. Our report recommends that the public health-care insurance be expanded to cover the catastrophic cost of prescription medicine and that the federal government pick up 90 per cent of these expenses.
Much more must be done for people requiring home care after surgery or help in caring for a dying relative. Ottawa and the provinces should share the cost equally of expanded coverage for acute home care and palliative care in the home. These programs are more responsive to patients and cost less than hospital care.
An important point: Any new money given to the provinces and territories for health care must buy change; it must not be used to support the publicly funded health-care system in its present form. And if the reforms are to have a chance, everyone in the health-care community -- hospital administrators, health-care providers, governments and, yes, patients -- will need to modify their behaviour and attitudes. Incentives need to be introduced to change behaviour.
We recommend a new funding mechanism for hospitals, based on service and performance outcomes. Such funding will spur competition between institutions to provide the best services. It will also encourage the establishment of centres of excellence, and it will make the insurer (government) neutral with respect to the ownership structure of a health-care institution.
The committee proposes the creation of primary-care health teams, multi-disciplinary in scope and operating 24/7. We recommend that primary-care physicians be paid primarily on a capitation basis (a fixed annual amount for looking after a patient) rather than by the current fee-for-service arrangement. Primary care reform will mean "one-stop" shopping for patients and continuity of service across the full range of a patient's health-care needs.
How will Canadians know if the system is more efficient? We recommend the creation of a Health Care Commissioner. With complete independence from all governments, and a national mandate, the commissioner would audit the progress of health-care reform and report annually to Canadians through Parliament, on the use of their health-care dollars and the results these dollars are producing.
There is a real chance to reinvigorate medicare in this country. Are Canadians prepared to pay for it?
If not, it is likely that the courts will be asked to move in. For if governments cannot ensure that patients get timely access to medically necessary health care, then Canadians cannot be denied the right to buy private health-care insurance.
In the face of such a court decision, it won't be long before a parallel private health-care system emerges. Canadians have told us they don't want this. But it's the inevitable consequence of failing to reform the system now. Senator Michael Kirby is chair of the Senate standing committee on social affairs, science and technology. Senator Marjory LeBreton is deputy chair.


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Wellington Park Hotel is situated in the very heart of the beautiful Victorian city of Belfast, in historic Queen's quarter, with the Botanic Gardens, Ulster Museum and Lyric Theatre at its doorstep. This quality city centre hotel features comfortable bedrooms, fine dining and ample meeting space. The prestigious Queen's University, with its magnificent architecture, is just a few minutes' walk from the hotel. Dublin – UNESCO City of Literature – is less than two hours away by car.
Relax in your stylish superior room, with free Wi-Fi and satellite TV, a work station and seating area, and bathrobes and complimentary mineral water. Dine in the Wellie Bar & Grill, adorned with the work of local artist Raymond Piper. Come evening the restaurant offers a more intimate atmosphere in which to enjoy traditional Northern Irish cuisine, with fish and beef specialities.
A city reborn, Belfast sparkles with warmth and energy – a fascinating tapestry of stories and quarters, the oldest of which is centred around Saint Anne's Cathedral. Discover the birthplace of the RMS Titanic on a Titanic Walking Tour or Titanic Boat Tour, where the cranes of Harland and Wolff shipyard still dominate the skyline like warrior giants. Wander the cobbled streets and stop for a pint of Guinness or a legendary "Belfast Bap" at any number of historic pubs and informal cafes.
Why We Love This Hotel
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J-J 6 years ago
some of us have noticed discrepancies in how the draft orders are set this year. they're not accurate & don't reflect the previous year's standings.
for instance, in one league, last year's champ is set to pick 6th. they should have last pick.
is there some bug with the draft order?
DJ_Rain 6 years ago
Yes, there seems to be. I manually reset my league's draft orders and anyone who had multiple picks in a round (due to trades) automaticaly fixed itself in line with the first round.
Good luck!
deen 6 years ago
Yeah, looks like we'll have to do it manually..I asked them 3 days ago and they said they were aware of it but they still havent fixed it..
Like DJ said I hope it doesnt screw up the draft pick trades when I do it manually..I'll give flea today to fix it, if they dont then I gotta do it.


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Most Truthful and Patriotic Layton, UTMarch 2, 2012 4:07 p.m.
So this means that the Layton Christian Academy is no longer a valid nonprofit institution, exempt from taxation?
I think I'll check with the IRS, for this mix of politics and religion. After all, the Constitution IS hanging by a thread.
David King Layton, UTMarch 2, 2012 12:14 p.m.
I feel no personal animosity towards Glenn Beck, but much of what he espouses is not "freedom". I used to listen to his program pretty consistently during an hour commute, so this is not coming from someone who is not familiar with his program or his viewpoints. Mr. Beck is an ardent supporter of the "war on terror" and has labeled Ron Paul a "kook" for questioning the wisdom of war with Iran. Mr. Beck needs to realize that continual warfare and interventionist policies are incompatible with freedom in the long run. The Civil War saw Lincoln suspending habeas corpus and enacting martial law. World War II gave us the forced relocation of Japanese-Americans. Vietnam had the draft, which disproportionately affected the poor and minorities. The so-called "war on terror" has presented us with the Patriot Act, the NDAA, and the TSA ran amuck. If Glenn Beck is serious about freedom, he will realize the threat to liberty that is a foreign policy of intervention, pre-emption, and nation building. Liberty cannot be sustained, in perpetuity, under war time conditions.


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The impacts of education spending and finance reform on manufacturing property shadow values: a cost function approach
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TEL AVIV (Apr. 17)
Israel's Jewish population, put at 4 million, or 86 percent of the country's total populace, has been given a healthy boost by the influx of some 220,000 immigrants in the last year, most of them from the Soviet Union.
The latest population figures were released by the Central Bureau of Statistics on Wednesday, the eve of Israel Independence Day, marking the 43rd year of statehood.
Buoyed by the Soviet Jewish arrivals, the Jewish population grew faster than the overall population. Jewish population growth was 6.4 percent, compared with 5.9 percent for the population as a whole.
The demographics in Galilee, Israel's northern region, heralded the most dramatic change.
The Interior Ministry disclosed that 806,000 Jews now live there. While the Arab population is still larger in Galilee, its majority has been reduced to 51 percent of the total, down from 52 percent a year ago.
Interior Ministry sources said the continued immigration trend should result in parity between Jews and Arabs in Galilee within a year.
In fact, immigrant absorption was the theme of this year's Independence Day celebrations. In Jerusalem on Wednesday evening, a spectacular fireworks display marked the abrupt transition from the sober aspect of Yom Hazikaron, the Memorial Day for Israel's war dead, to the carnival atmosphere of Yom Ha'atzmaut.
The theme of immigrant absorption was stressed by President Chaim Herzog and Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, who spoke at the official opening ceremonies on Mount Herzl.
Veteran citizens and newcomers alike were selected to kindle each of the 12 Mount Herzl beacons, which symbolize the 12 tribes of Israel and the ingathering of the exiles.
Unlike as in earlier years, Israel no longer feels it necessary to parade its military might on Independence Day.
It is a festive occasion in which thousands of families take off for the beaches and parks, partaking in picnics and fun. There is, however, no relaxation of guard for the hundreds of soldiers and police assigned extra duty to protect the holiday-makers.


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The second extra budget for fiscal 2009 will probably be bigger than the initially planned ¥2.7 trillion to help cushion the impact of the rising yen and falling stock prices on the flagging economy, Deputy Prime Minister Naoto Kan said Monday.
Amid Japan's deteriorating fiscal position, Kan had repeatedly said the additional stimulus package for the year through March 31 would be worth ¥2.7 trillion.
But Kan, also state minister for national strategy, said Monday key Cabinet members have agreed that if necessary, the size of the extra budget should exceed the amount the Democratic Party of Japan-led government has scraped together from the first extra budget.
Separately on Monday, industry minister Masayuki Naoshima said the government will try to secure ¥1 trillion in actual spending for a government loan guarantee program worth ¥10 trillion for struggling small businesses.
Loan guarantees are often employed in an economic package to increase its size on a project basis, although actual spending by the government won't be that much unless most borrowers go bust.
"We will carefully watch to what extent the situation in Dubai will affect other parts of the world," Kan said, referring to the financial instability triggered by fears of debt default in the emirate that last week contributed to the yen's sharp gains versus the dollar and the euro.
Kan suggested that the government will work closely with the Bank of Japan, saying, "We will coordinate views with relevant institutions."
Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama is scheduled to hold talks with BOJ Gov. Masaaki Shirakawa this week.
When the Cabinet laid out basic guidelines for the second extra budget in mid-November, it said there will be upcoming additional measures to focus on employment, incentives for purchases of environmentally friendly products and financing for small and medium-size firms.
The government is trying to put together a new stimulus package this week to finalize a draft of the supplementary budget by the end of the month.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirofumi Hirano said Hatoyama and Shirakawa will discuss various topics, including whether the central bank sees the need for further quantitative easing.


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Steel pipe and tubing maker Lakeside Steel Inc. says it has received a $77.5-million takeover bid from an unnamed buyer, more than four times its market price before the offer was made.
The Welland, Ont.-based company said Tuesday it has a non-binding letter of intent from the prospective buyer, but the deal won't be finalized until the unnamed company finishes its due diligence on Lakeside, which has to be completed by Jan. 9.
Trading in Lakeside shares had been halted for several days and on resumption they rocketed up more than 300 per cent, gaining 23 cents to 30 cents on the TSX Venture Exchange — though remaining well below the price of the 40 cent per share offer.
Lakeside makes steel pipes and tubing used in the oil and gas industry. It has factories in Welland, Texas and Alabama.
If the prospective purchaser is not Canadian, and the deal goes through, it will continue a years-long trend that has seen virtually all major Canadian steel companies swept up by foreign firms: Hamilton-based Stelco Inc. was bought by U.S. Steel in 2007, Dofasco was purchased by ArcelorMittal in 2006, Algoma Steel Inc. was purchased by India's Essar Group in 2007 and SSAB Swedish Steel AB bought Ipsco in 2008.
Due to the emergence of the bid, Lakeside says it will cancel both a loan and an associated private placement of its stock announced last month.
Lakeside has struggled in recent months, in November posting a $7.6-million second-quarter loss – reversing a $1.2-million profit in the year-earlier period – as it suffered from low margins due to numerous factors, including foreign imports and higher costs. Revenue was down 28.1 per cent to $47.8-million.
The company, which counts the U.S. oil and gas industry as a major customer, has been expanding in the southern United States to bring down its costs and deal with the impact of volatility in the value of the two countries' dollars.
Lakeside had also previously expressed some interest in buying some of U.S. Steel's former Stelco assets in Hamilton, if the U.S. firm had been forced to sell them by a lawsuit launched by the federal government.
Ottawa alleged that U.S. Steel broke promises it made to keep jobs and maintain production levels when it bought Stelco in 2007.
The two sides settled the matter earlier this month, with U.S. Steel Corp. promising to keep making steel in Canada for at least another four years and to make major capital investments at its Canadian mills.


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"Fox News Sunday" is heading to Louisville, Ky. Jack Conway, Kentucky's attorney general and the Democratic candidate for Senate , and Rand Paul, the Republican nominee and son of Representative Ron Paul, Republican of Texas, have agreed to a live debate on "Fox News Sunday" on Oct.3 at 9 a.m. (Eastern time).
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#79936 Feb 10, 2013
What constitutional experts say about high crimes, misdemeanors
Its not a question yet being asked or debated in the Big Media. But it is a question being addressed by some members of Congress, by an increasing number of pundits by activists on the left and the right and for more than one or two alleged constitutional offenses.
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2013/02/you-asked-for-it-o...
Something to DREAM about ... ;0)
Night ...
#79937 Feb 10, 2013
----Progressive-----TOUGH----- -Liberal---------
Hedges v. Obama: Did the Bill of Rights die today?
By Jill (Julia) Dalton
#79940 Feb 10, 2013
Exclusive: Joseph Farah urges Americans to awaken from their slumber
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2013/02/another-theory-abo...
nite ...
#79941 Feb 10, 2013
Just one more ... ;0)
Mr. Brennan did convert to Islam when he served in an official capacity on the behalf of the United States in Saudi Arabia, Guandolo told interviewer and radio host Tom Trento.
That fact alone is not what is most disturbing, Guandolo continued.His conversion to Islam was the culmination of a counterintelligence operation against him to recruit him. The fact that foreign intelligence service operatives recruited Mr. Brennan when he was in a very sensitive and senior U.S. government position in a foreign country means that he either a traitor [or] he has the inability to discern and understand how to walk in those kinds of environments, which makes him completely unfit to the be the director of Central Intelligence.
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2013/02/shock-claim-obama-...
#79943 Feb 11, 2013
#79946 Feb 11, 2013
Read My Lips Reality:
Obama should be impeached BECAUSE his administration is continuing over 90% of all Bush/Cheney FAILED Policies.......
P.S. Obama had the chance to help 99% of all Americans and he instead only helped the 1% of the wealthy few.
Bailing out Wall Street and Obamacare is proof beyond all doubt.
Twenty-five people at the heart of the meltdown
26 January 2009 / http://tinyurl.com/bwrl8l
The worst economic turmoil since the Great Depression is not a natural phenomenon but a man-made disaster in which we all played a part. In the second part of a week-long series looking behind the slump, Guardian City editor Julia Finch picks out the individuals who have led us into the current crisis
1. Alan Greenspan, chairman of US Federal Reserve 1987- 2006 2. Mervyn King, governor of the Bank of England 3. Bill Clinton, former US president 4. Gordon Brown, prime minister 5. George W Bush, former US president 6. Senator Phil Gramm 7. Abby Cohen, Goldman Sachs chief US strategist 8. Kathleen Corbet, former CEO, Standard & Poor's 9. Hank" Greenberg, AIG insurance group 10. Andy Hornby, former HBOS boss
11. Sir Fred Goodwin, former RBS boss 12. Steve Crawshaw, former B&B boss
13. Adam Applegarth, former Northern Rock boss 14. Dick Fuld, Lehman Brothers chief executive 15. Ralph Cioffi and Matthew Tannin 16. Lewis Ranieri 17. Joseph Cassano, AIG Financial Products 18. Chuck Prince, former Citi boss 19. Angelo Mozilo, Countrywide Financial 20. Stan O'Neal, former boss of Merrill Lynch
21. Jimmy Cayne, former Bear Stearns boss 22. Christopher Dodd, chairman, Senate banking committee 23. Geir Haarde, Icelandic prime minister 24. The American public
25. John Tiner, FSA chief executive, 2003-07 26. Andrew Lahde 27. John Paulson, hedge fund boss 28. Professor Nouriel Roubini 29. Warren Buffett, billionaire investor 30. George Soros, speculator 31. Stephen Eismann, hedge fund manager 32. Meredith Whitney, Oppenheimer Securities
The bankruptcy barons
27 January 2009 / http://tinyurl.com/bb9fax
The Dirty Dozen
Meet the bankers and brokers responsible for the financial crisis - and the officials who let them get away with it / Mar 25, 2009 /
The Enabler ALAN GREENSPAN / The Pioneer SANDY WEILL
The Ideologue PHIL GRAMM / The Arsonist JOE CASSANO
The Bagman ROBERT RUBIN / The Card Shark JIMMY CAYNE / Mr. Buck Passer CHRISTOPHER COX / The Predator ANGELO MOZILO / The Decorator JOHN THAIN / The Maestro HENRY PAULSON / The Big Loser DICK FULD / Mr. Too Big KEN LEWIS /
#79947 Feb 11, 2013
Excellent American Lady.
That is the real truth against Obama. He continued Bush/Cheney.
I thought Obama Zombies was on to that too, but unfortunately he went back to the nonsense about communism,socialism,Muslim, Obama.
Sad, But True!
Good Job AL.
#79948 Feb 11, 2013
What I meant to say was I saw you post there recently. How did you like the Topix conversations there. It can be a little more "Abrasive" there. I hope it wasn't to much for you. Also if you liked it then please come and post more, besides we need more like you there :)
Since: Jul 12
#79951 Feb 11, 2013
****O.K., folks, Big Stevie finally found a good one, so enjoy!!!****
An old couple had just settled down in bed for a good night's sleep, when the old man lets go a formidable fart.
His wife rolls over, and says, "What in the hell was that?!"
The old man said, "It's fart football, and I'm ahead 7-0!"
A few minutes later, the wife rips one off, and says, "Touchdown! Tie score!"
A couple of minutes later, the old man once again tears one. "Ah-ha! 14-7!"
Not to be outdone, the wife blasts another, and says, "Touchdown! Tie score!"
Seconds go by, and the wife squeaks out another little one. "Field goal! 17-14!"
Now, the pressure is on the old man. He refuses to be beaten by a lowly woman and, since defeat is not an option, he strains and gives it all he has got and, unfortunately, shits all over the bed.
The wife said, "What it the hell was that?"
The old man replied, "HALF TIME!!! SWITCH SIDES!!"
#79952 Feb 11, 2013
Burger King beef is distributed by Tyson Food and the beef comes from up North, here in the usa.
#79955 Feb 11, 2013
Pope Resigns, oblamer claims its Bushs fault,
#79956 Feb 11, 2013
The President killed bin Laden, Bush whined like a baby.
#79957 Feb 11, 2013
Two items on the news:
The Pope will resign at the end of the month.First one to resign in 600 years.Thought it was a lifetime job,but so glad he will be able to enjoy retirement.
The Obama appointment to run the CIA converted to the Islam Religion years ago.Bummer to have one questionable and one confirmed in leadership roles here.Our homeland security may take a dip.
United States
#79960 Feb 11, 2013
Thank you A/L for all this information ...
It is very sad when you look up in the sky and see spraying going all day long. Only stop when it's raining, than again...after heavy spraying you don't see clouds at all, entire sky IS GRAY...
Since: Nov 12
#79962 Feb 11, 2013
Since: Oct 11
#79964 Feb 11, 2013
Chemtrails, contrails, and pigtails...If ya'll were right about 1 of the 97 conspiracies you rant about, believe it or not I be happy, just knowing at least you got one thing correct!
United States
#79965 Feb 11, 2013
So, now you know, I'm one with pigtail!
Since: Feb 13
Location hidden
#79966 Feb 11, 2013
Is this for real Whitehair? Where did you here that? How scary>
#79967 Feb 11, 2013
Hey "you" ..
You need to OPEN thine EYES!
LOTS of things(most ALL) WE speak of, ARE "correct" ...
You are just TOO damn BLIND to SEE it!
And "arrogant" about IT to.
When WE speak TRUTH, we are allowed the BRAGGING RIGHTS ...
That's NOT arrogance ...!!!
#79968 Feb 11, 2013
Hey Big Stevie ... ;0)
How are ya ???
Great ... lQQks like!:)
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Financially, we generated rebased revenue and OCF growth at around 5% for the full year. And we achieved or exceeded all of our public guidance targets as Bernie will outline for you later. Strategically as you know, we're focused on rebalancing our business into Europe. And we made good progress in that goal in 2011 with the addition of KBW in Germany, and Aster in Poland. We also expect to complete the sale of our Australian business in the second quarter, and over the last seven years we've completed well over $20 billion in M&A transactions and accretive to our growth opportunity. Well priced and more recently geared towards building scale in Europe. And then lastly we're committed to delivering levered equity returns to shareholders, which starts with a balance sheet.We ended 2011 with $3.5 billion of total liquidity, including $1.7 billion of consolidated cash of course those figures do not include the $1 billion of proceeds that we expect to receive from the Austar sale, which would bring total liquidity to over $4.5 billion. Our access to capital markets remains very strong with over $15 billion in financings completed in the last two years, most of which in lengthening the average duration of our debt structure, which now sits at seven years and minimizing debt repayments in the medium term. As long with our strong big numbers around here is another one with the equity we've repurchased in 2011 we've now bought back over 275 million shares representing in the aggregate over $8 billion since 2005 and we just announced our target of another $1 billion in 2012. On slide five, we added a simplified map of our current footprint. Since we haven't shown you one of these in quite a while and as you can see today over 90% of 33 million RGUs and 20 million customers reside in 10 contiguous European markets plus Ireland. And as you might expect we're already seeing the benefits of this concentration and consolidation. Of course operationally in our cash flow margins, procurement savings, talent management, content relationships and network efficiencies, and more strategically in our influence with regulators, negotiating leverage of programmers and free to air broadcasters, ability to source and close acquisitions and of course our access to capital. Now I might just pause to put our size into perspective for a minute. In a last five years or so, we've grown to be the second largest cable operator in the world in terms of subscribers, you heard to say that many times. Read the rest of this transcript for free on seekingalpha.com
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Kickstart Your Weekend: 'Pact'
The perfect new short for when you want to get away forever
By Richard Whittaker,
1:52PM, Fri. Jul. 4, 2014
In the wake of True Detective, philosophical nihilism has never been more in the public eye. Now Austin-filmed short "Pact" is pondering the uselessness of existence. Perfect for being stuck with all your distant relatives this long, long weekend.
"Pact" is a not-so-far-future science fiction short, where human overpopulation has gone beyond crisis levels. A group called the Pact has started recruiting people to committ suicide, to take a little of the pressure off the environment. In writer/director Zach Endres's story, a door-to-door Pact canvasser (UT alum David Lee Hess) spends his day facing constant rejection. That's when he meets Audrey (Rebecca Karpovsky, star and co-writer of the upcoming queer drama What Doesn't Kill You.) Unlike everybody else, she actually seems interested in his proposal. But can two people, bound together by an overwhelming sense of alienation, stay alienated for long? Endres explained, "To be lonely when there are so many people in the world is a maddening experience, and I wanted to delve into why this happens, as well as dig into the negative effects of allowing this existence to perpetuate.
Endres has had previous crowdfunding successes, raising $2,608 on Kickstarter for his 2013 short "Shark", and $985 for his Austin Film Festival 2012 student shorts competition audience award winner "The Teleported Man" via Indiegogo (see AFF 2012 Audience Awards Announced, Oct. 30, 2010.)
With 14 days left, this project is just under a third of the way to his biggest goal to date - a still very manageable sum of $5,000. Plus, as a big bonus for donors to either of his last projects, he will automatically upgrade their donation to the next perk level.
You can donate to "The Pact" via their Kickstarter page, like their Facebook page at www.facebook.com/pactshortfilm and find out more about Endres' early work at www.zachendres.com.
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