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RotoWire's fantasy baseball rankings for the 2017 MLB season.
2017 Preseason Proj: 158 G 567 AB .307 AVG 34 HR 99 RBI 21 SB 115 R
It's possible we haven't seen Trout's best season yet. Granted, this can be said of all 25-year-old players but no others have been putting up MVP-caliber campaigns since they were 20, winning in 2014 and again in 2016. Most impressive is that Trout's strikeout and walk rates have improved each of the last two years, further cementing the league's best floor. The concern over dwindling steals was assuaged last season as Trout swiped 30 for the first time since 2013. His power dropped, but when 29 homers is a disappointment, the bar is set high. The outfielder is a lock for over 100 runs, averaging 116 the past five seasons while a threat to drive home 100 teammates. Others are legitimately in the conversation but pegging Trout with the first overall pick or spending top auction dollars is absolutely warranted. No one else has the combination of his super-high floor...with upside.
2017 Preseason Proj: 153 G 633 AB .311 AVG 25 HR 106 RBI 22 SB 112 R
The 24-year-old with the slight frame slashed .318/.363/.534/.897 last season -- all career highs -- and cleared the 30-homer mark for the first time in his career. He finished four steals shy of being a 30-30 player, a mark he's likely to threaten in 2017. Betts collected many accolades as a result -- second in the MVP voting, a first-time All-Star, a Gold Glove and a Silver Slugger. The forecasts for Betts had him hitting for power, but 31 homers was not in the tarot cards. Unlike his previous season, there were no down periods; Betts hit .266 in April and warmed up as the weather did, hitting .368 in July and .378 in August. It was during those warm-weather months that manager John Farrell dropped him from leadoff to third and fourth in the order, where his bat drove in 39 runs in 48 games. The Red Sox will miss David Ortiz, but Betts has emerged as an unlikely middle-of-the-order presence.
2017 Preseason Proj: 30 G 210 IP 19 W 0 SV 248 K 2.14 ERA 0.86 WHIP
Despite missing two months with a back injury -- specifically, a herniated disc -- Kershaw finished as the No. 6 pitcher last season in terms of earned 5x5 fantasy value. He was more dominant than ever when on the mound, posting an otherworldly 172:11 K:BB in 149 innings (65:2 K:BB in May). His 15.3 percent swinging-strike rate would have tied Max Scherzer as the best among qualifiers had he logged enough innings to qualify, and Kershaw's command and control reached unprecedented levels as he shaved his walk rate to just two percent. There were no noticeable lingering effects from the back injury upon his return in September (0.86 ERA) and he looked plenty strong into late October as he carried the Dodgers on said back to the NLCS. Entering his age-29 season, Kershaw still looks very much in his prime and remains worthy of a first-round pick, if not top-five overall.
2017 Preseason Proj: 158 G 610 AB .290 AVG 42 HR 117 RBI 1 SB 107 R
Arenado managed to one-up himself yet again and at just 25 years old, it seems like sky's the limit. The All-Star smashed a league-leading 41 home runs, drove in 133 runs and even reached the century mark in runs scored. He managed to cut down on his strikeouts and draw twice as many walks as he did the previous season. As one would imagine, the third baseman's numbers were better at Coors Field than away from it (1.030 OPS at home vs. .832 OPS on the road), but 16 home runs, 48 RBI and 48 runs scored away from Denver is certainly nothing to scoff at. The Gold Glover is a lock to be a first-round draft pick. Even if doesn't replicate his 2016 campaign to a tee, Arenado will be a highly valuable asset in 2017 and for years to come.
2017 Preseason Proj: 157 G 595 AB .291 AVG 37 HR 107 RBI 11 SB 114 R
If there were any doubts about Bryant's ability to ascend to MVP levels of production following an impressive debut in 2015, the uncertainty was erased by the performance in his sophomore campaign. Bryant trimmed the fat from his 30.6 percent strikeout rate as a rookie to 22.0 percent last season, pushing his batting average up 17 points by swinging-and-missing less often, and by making contact on pitches outside the strike zone at an increased rate. It's hard to believe, but Bryant's raw power could push his home-run total even higher, though the pitcher-friendly tendencies of Wrigley Field are on the short list of things working again him (22 of his 39 homers came on the road). In addition to his step forward at the plate, Bryant's defense at third base has improved to the point where he's become an asset with the glove, quelling concerns about a full-time move to another corner spot for the foreseeable future.
2017 Preseason Proj: 148 G 551 AB .296 AVG 17 HR 84 RBI 1 SB 73 R
Posey had an underwhelming season -- by his standards -- in 2016. While his production was still good enough to rank in the top five among all catchers, he produced below the standard he set from 2012 to 2015. His home runs, RBI and OPS all decreased from 2015, but he did hit more doubles (33) and stole a career-high six bases. The lack of RBI can be attributed to the Giants' struggles at the top of the order in the first half of the season. Missing Hunter Pence to injury for the majority of the season also removed the All-Star catcher's protection in the lineup. Posey's swing and contact rates were right in line with his career percentages, so there is no sign of a significant decline in his approach at the plate. His numbers only seem disappointing when considering his draft day price. On the bright side, his down year may result in a reduced cost heading into next year's drafts. Posey will likely see his numbers bounce this season to his previous elite levels.
2017 Preseason Proj: 124 G 480 AB .271 AVG 27 HR 80 RBI 1 SB 65 R
Well that's one way to make an entrance. Despite playing just one game in the majors before Aug. 3, Sanchez played his way into Rookie of the Year contention with one of the best 50-game stretches to begin a career of all time. The catcher hit 11 home runs in a 15-game span and ended with 20 homers and 42 RBI -- absurd numbers considering he played in just 53 contests. Though he seemed to run out of steam a bit at the end, hitting just .222 in September while striking out in more than one-third of his at-bats, the rookie still finished with a 1.032 OPS. It's highly unlikely his 60-homer pace will be sustainable over the course of a full season, but Sanchez will immediately jump toward the top of the list among the best -- if not the best -- offensive catchers next season, when he'll be just 24 years old.
2017 Preseason Proj: 143 G 509 AB .287 AVG 19 HR 72 RBI 3 SB 68 R
The Brewers sold Lucroy at the trade deadline, and he responded with a brilliant stint for the Rangers. He almost matched his homer total in 338 Milwaukee at-bats (13) during his 152 with Texas (11), and Lucroy quickly erased any doubts following his injury-marred 2015 campaign. The Rangers picked up his option basically hours after the 2016 World Series ended, which will keep him in one of the best run-producing spots of any catcher. The biggest fantasy question, though, is whether the 30-year-old will come close to repeating his career high in home runs. At Rangers Ballpark, he smacked six of them - one for every 12.5 at-bats there. Staying in Arlington bolsters his potential to do that again, to go along with his elite batting average profile (career .284 clip, 85.8 contact percentage). In most draft rooms, Gary Sanchez and Buster Posey will wind up as slightly more expensive options, but Lucroy could be acquired for less and easily outperform them, yielding the best profit of the trio.

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Battling vice sometimes requires more than just the enforcement of the law; the power of coordination can also be helpful, as businessman Chart Chindapol has learned. Mr Chart, a businessman and adviser to the government's trade representative, feels one does not always have to jump to the front of the stage to get things done.
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"I am aware that these problems cannot be solved overnight. But if nothing is done soon, Phuket will lose its status as a world-renowned tourist destination," he said.
He also plans to spend his own money on setting up a private-run complaints centre in Phuket and has vowed to press ahead with a campaign against the criminal underworld in the province.
Mr Chart is a cousin of Rewut Chindapol, the late Phuket MP who successfully led a protest in 1986 against a tantalum plant planned for Phuket.
Rewut attempted to persuade Mr Chart to enter the political arena and run for Phuket MP, but Mr Chart was not keen on politics and refused.
Mr Chart entered into a partnership in real estate in Phuket with Mr Rewat, the younger brother of Rewut.
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He was only six when his father died.
At 14, he finished Mathayom 2 (eighth grade) and left home to travel the world.
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He made his first millions while he was in the joint venture business with Mr Rewat during the Chatichai Choonhavan government when the country was at the peak of one of its property booms.
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To FB msge the girl bullying DD & tell her to stay the fuck away?(227 Posts)
I am not going to but it's do tempting.
Said girl encourages others to do unpleasant things to DD. In Sep one of her friends pulled DD to the ground and kicked her in the head repeatedly and yday she encouraged a boy to straddle DD and make disgusting sexual gestures to her, filming it and theatening to put it on FB.
Every day some kind of other low level incident.
School are great and deal with it but I am fed up of DD having to go through this.
Just looked on this girls FB and its wide open all comments from sycophantic friends telling her how amazing she is. I just want to write what a total birch she is who is making my DD's life hell
I won't as I am bigger than that and am using correct channels but this is horrid
SandraSue pretty much summed it up IMHO.
The OP came on to vent, clearly. that's entirely legitimate, loads of people do that on MN.
Hope the school are tackling it, Gossip. Must say i am shocked (but not surprised, iykwim?) that the teacher deleted the clip.
sandrasue I was thinking the exact same thing as you.
OP, you have repeatedly said you don't need advice....so what was the point of this thread? It seems to me you just want the attention because people are saying "I've been through this, you should do XYZ" and you're just getting angry at them for not agreeing with you
I just don't see the point if you don't want advice, it's not like you didn't know people would comment on the other things you're doing about it :s
This is all so very sad, I do hope you find a resolution.
Did you experience any bullying at school ?
Stuntgirl is right. The school are being really shit at dealing with this and now it's time for you to go nuclear.
However much your daughter wants to minimise this and try not to rock the boat too much, the fact is that crimes of sexual violence have been committed against her. You mustn't collude with her in trying to minimise this. She deserves to be taken seriously and be protected.
FWIW I think some people's anger on this thread is misplaced. And it's being directed at you OP when really it's the school who's massively failing your DD here.
The only thing you've done wrong us to put too much faith in their ability to deal with it. Time to bring out the big guns.
The school is not effectively dealing with this bullying and you are not effectively dealing with their negligence.
I know that sounds hard to hear because you probably feel overwhelmed with pain and sadness that your daughter is in so much emotional pain.
If you worried half as much about your daughter and her future as you are doing about these other kids and their futures this would have been stopped by now and your daughter would be safe.
Do you really need to spell this out to me?
I think you do need it spelling out. You are writing off 2 serious incidents. There is also low level bullying everyday! I feel for your daughter. I certainly would not have sent her back after her head was repeatedly kicked to be honest.
The school ARE NOT dealing with this. They are failing your daughter. First she gets her head kicked repeatedly & then a sexual assault takes place. This on top of constant bullying. None of this would be happening at all if the school were effective at dealing with bullying!
Gossip - good luck for tomorrow. I've just been though something similar though not as serious with my dd (14). I too was tempted to go on facebook and tell the perpetrators exactly what I thought if them and managed to resist and tbh if I had it would have made the situation much worse. Your dd obviously tells you what's going on and trusts you to deal with it. Is there a campus cop at school - ours dealt with situation really quickly & effectively.
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Well I do not think this is the best way to deal with things, but after all you are a mother so it would not be normal if you did not feel like doing this. If anyone hurts your child then the claws come out it's an animal instinct. God I hate bullies. What do they get out of it. Do they think it's impressive because as we all know it is not. I do not know much about the bullying policies but I do know they are not working infact it is not even illegal to bully ATM. Have you all signed Aydens law to make bullying a criminal offence. I can't imagine any parent not signing it. If I had my way I would name and shame bullies. Also just to let you know I am thinking about both you and your daughter. It's horrible to think of people hurting them isn't it. You don't want any nastiness on them at all . You just want to protect them don't you. I will say another thing as well that damn face book has a lot to answer for. xx
I really don't get this. Last time there was a nasty incident the police were involved, and although your dd found it hard the outcome, from what you have said, was good. Isn't it the outcome that really matters?
People are concerned because you appear to be taking a very passive approach, an email to the school and wait and see. I can see that an incident on a Friday afternoon is tricky to manage, but I'd at least be planning to go into the school on Monday and making sure that they are aware that this is a very big deal indeed. I know as a working parent that may not be easy, but the school have already fucked up once on this so I'd be worried they may go down a minimization route instead of throwing the book at the instigators.
Gossip It is wrong to not report a crime IMO.
If you get no satisfaction, you can then go to the police (and I would inform the school, the boy and his mum of this fact tomorrow).
- And yes I was also bullied at school.
OP, FWIW I think you are dealing with this appropriately ATM. Go to the school tomorrow and see what they, this boy and his mum have to say. Ask what they are going to do about the ringleader and make a huge fuss about it being recorded by her and deleted by the teacher.
If your DD doesn't want to change schools I don't think she should have to (and I have no doubt that the bully would move on to another victim at the same school). If I were you, I would be using the fact that it was recorded by the ringleader and deleted at the teacher's request as leverage to have something done about this girl.
Well that goes both ways crashdoll and there are lots of people on this thread applying their own experiences to what my DD is experiencing.
Individuals deal with things very differently and never assume your own experience is the same or felt the same as someone else's.
Not sure where I have assumed that I know what other people have gone through? .
If it is self pitying to admit that seeing my DD experience this is a horrible experience for me as a parent to go through and to make decisions about then so be it.
I have repeatedly said that we do not want to involve the police and I have clearly stated my reasons why. I don't really think any of us have the right to tell someone they are "wrong" because they are not dealing with a situation the way they would or would have liked to have had their own experience dealt with.
To suggest because I am not going to the police that my DD is more likely to become a victim of domestic abuse is quite frankly ridiculous.
I never asked for help. I feel I am doing the best I can I don't need to ring a helpline or get advice.
I am waiting to see what the school are going to do before I go rushing off to the LEA, my MP, the police, Social Care.
I think that's common sense.
Only came on to say OxfordBags posts are bang on, and very moving. Please, please listen to her.
You are acting in a very self-pitying manner. Believe it or not, people like me are actually trying to help you and your daughter. No, you didn't ask for advice but you posted that your 13 yr old was sexually assaulted, what did you expect people to do?! And please do not assume you know what people have or have not been through.
There are only really three possible outcomes to discussing this, OP.
1. You believe the way you are trying to help your DD is the best way. In that case, what are you hoping to gain by continuing this thread?
2. You believe the majority of people on this thread are right and you change what you are doing.
3. You believe neither yourself nor the people on this thread really know what is the best thing to do, and you phone a help line and get specialised advice and support for you and your DD.
X-post: just seen your latest post. Please stop being self-pitying. Your DD is not served best by a mother telling herself she is a victim too, when you're not here. No-one has aid you've brought it upon yourself. But whilst you're there telling yourself we have, it's jut a distraction to keep you from acting, yet again.
So many people on here, like myself, were the victims of bullying. We are telling you what the wrong approach is, and what we needed to happen. Many of us had parents who didn't want to push us to report or make a big fuss, and let us dictate the scale and pace of things, and we are telling you that it was the worst thing they did. We are telling you that this approach leaves children scarred for life. It's not your fault this happened,it is so unfair. But it is happening, and you're the adult, not the victim.
OP, I get what you are doing and it feels like you're doing your all and your best, but as a survivor - yes, it feels like that - of bullying including sexual bullying - let me tell you that you are getting it wrong.
You're thinking about the here and now. What she wants now, what she feels up to now, what works for your lifestyle now, sorting out what's happening now. But the worse part of being bullied is actually not about what happens at the time it occurs, it is afterwards, it's about the adult life of the victim.
Of course your DD doesn't want to go to the police, to tell on her peers, to make a fuss, to change schools. So you, loving mother that you are, heed these wishes. But this is a scenario where you have to insist on 'Mother Knows Best' and do what's right, not what she wants, not what works in the short-term. By not making her talk to the police, to be more proactive, you are teaching her, as surely as anything she leants at school, that she must minimise abuse, that she just needs to accept, albeit with a bit of fuss, what happens to her. These are two major facets of the mindset of domestic abuse victims. It is more common for female victims of childhood and teen bullying to go on to abusive adult relationships than not, not just because of the damage that the bullying does, but perhaps even more importantly, because their parents don't handle things properly and give them unconscious messages that they somehow deserve it, or don't deserve protection, or should just not make a fuss.
The option you need to take is the hardest one. You need to push this much, much further than you have done. You have to be cruel to be kind. You are the parent here, and she is only a child. 13 is still very young. She doesn't get to have the final say on matters where she just cannot understand the bigger picture and long-term implications. And I say that as a right old hippy mother.
Stop getting angry with the wrong people.
You need to address the filming of the incident then, if she is happy to stay on at the school.
It needs to be taken further and you need to make a Stand about this. It would be taken seriously by the Police, but as you are determined not to go down that route then sod e mailing and get yourself into school tomorrow and ask for at the very least a suspension for the lad and the girl ,and for the teacher to be properly reprimanded and to apologise to you and your daughter for protecting the culprits.( Probably a friend of the lad's mum, who is also a teacher, eh?)
I would also be making it very clear to the headteacher that they in turn inform these kids that if there are any further incidents at all, the Police will be called and the lad may end up with something on file to do with inappropriate sexual behaviour/assault and Cyber Bullying for the girl. Put the fear of God into them. If you don't get anywhere tell the Head you are going to the Governors and Ofsted as the school is failing to protect your daughter. And if your daughter has a good group of friends around her it might be worth ringing up their parents and asking them to help her out at school more and report stuff they see.
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BOSTON ( TheStreet) -- For investors, it was the worst of times followed by the best of times. September's slide set the groundwork for October's stock-market rally, the biggest in almost four decades.October is bestowing a blessing on mutual fund managers, as battered and beleaguered a group as you will find in the investment industry. A sustainable rally could lure individual investors back to equity funds after they stampeded out of them, frustrated by outsized volatility and gloomy forecasts for global economies. The S&P 500 Index, the benchmark for U.S. stocks, is up 13.5% for the month through Thursday, its best performance since a 16.3% gain in October 1974. The rally has helped the benchmark index move into positive territory -- it was up 3.8% through Oct. 27 -- for the first time since Aug. 3. And that bellwether event may be the catalyst that will get investors back into the market and mutual funds. Much of the recent gains came last week after euro-zone leaders hammered out an agreement to avoid sovereign debt defaults, and that helped allay recession fears at home, this while U.S. companies continue to report solid third-quarter results. The 15,561 mutual funds tracked by Morningstar, including international and domestic stock, bond, balanced and alternative funds, returned an average of 6% in the 30 days through Oct. 27. Domestic equity funds rose an average of 10%. The big winners among domestic stock funds, with total returns in the teens to low 20s, in terms of percentage, were oil- and gas-sector funds and small-cap stock funds. The $14 million ProFunds Oil Equipment Services and Distribution Ultrasector Fund ( OEPIX) led the way with a 28.7% return, followed by a half-dozen highly leveraged funds, which similarly focus on daily returns and therefore are highly volatile. Actively managed buy-and-hold funds were further behind, but still recorded gains as high as 20%. One of the top performers is the Integrity Williston Basin/Mid-America Fund ( ICPAX). The $322 million mutual fund has a 30-day return of 20%, including a 10% gain in the past week, but it is up only 8% this year. The fund is a sniper shot on the booming oil-shale industry. It's benefitting from a rise in crude oil prices on prospects of an economic recovery. The top-performing holdings are all oil-field exploration and oil-field services companies, including: Brigham Exploration ( BEXP), up 35% this month; National Oil Well Varco ( NOV), up 31.6%; and Carbo Ceramics ( CRR), up 10.3%.
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By Dave Schwab Staff Writer
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The father of the most seriously injured of three teens struck by a vehicle in Bird Rock on Aug. 15 has raised issues stemming from the incident that he said he believes the community and authorities ought to address.
Alani Aguerre, 14, was still in intensive care on Wednesday but had been taken off the ventilator in her intensive-care room, her father Santiago Aguerre said Tuesday.
Aguerre said he believes "the system is more at fault" here then the alleged perpetrator.
He said he's been piecing together the story about the man driving the car that struck his daughter.
That man - Ronald Troyer, 66, a transient with a history of drunk driving convictions - is set for a preliminary hearing Oct. 13. Officials are still waiting for results of a blood test administered immediately after the crash.
Troyer has pleaded not guilty to one felony count of reckless driving causing injury and two allegations that he caused great bodily injury to two other people when his car hit three teens on a sidewalk and then crashed through the front of the Cass Street Cafe. No allegations regarding driving under the influence have been filed, pending results of the blood test.
Aguerre, who has been by his daughter's bedside since she was injured, said something needs to be done to prevent people with a history of drug- and alcohol traffic-related problems from purchasing vehicles.
"In California, you don't need a driver's license to register a car in your name," he said, noting Troyer was driving on a suspended license and had a history of DUIs.
"The law should be like with guns, if you apply to buy a car there should be a 24-hour waiting period if you do not present a valid drivers'license. In the hands of a guy like this, a car is a weapon."
If the community does not take action to curb vagrant drinking and prevent people with troubled drug and alcohol histories from obtaining cars, he said, "the next time it happens we will all be part of the murder weapon because we didn't do anything about it."
Aguerre contends there is "major drinking going on in these parking lots up and down from La Jolla Shores to Mission Beach. ... These guys have moved into these areas where nobody bothers them. The funny thing is no alcohol is allowed on beaches in parks or parking lots. No one is enforcing the law."
Aguerre added that some of the people frequenting beach parking lots and consuming alcohol there are then driving home intoxicated afterward.
When Troyer returns to court the hearing date could change during a readiness conference on Sept. 28 when "the parties get together with the judge to determine whether everyone's on track," said prosecutor David Uyar.
At the preliminary hearing, testimony will enable a judge to determine whether or not there is sufficient evidence for the case to go to trial, he added.


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2013 Audi A3 Hatchback Sheds a Few Pounds: 2012 Geneva Motor Show
Completely redesigned for the 2013 model year, the three-door Audi A3 has been revealed on the eve of the Geneva Motor Show. The A3 will be made available in the European market with engine choices of a 1.4L TFSI, 1.8L TFSI, and 2.0L TDI.
With the help of the new "Audi ultra" lightweight technology, the new A3 weighs in 176 lbs lighter than its outgoing predecessor. The 1.4L TFSI engine will have 122-hp, while the 1.8L TFSI will sport 180-hp. The turbodiesel powerplant will have 143-hp from its 2.0L offering. The German automaker also announced that the new powerplants average a 12-percent improvement in fuel efficiency.
Both the 1.4L TFSI and 2.0L TDI are mated to a six-speed manual transmission while the 1.8L features a seven-speed S tronic, twin-clutch transmission. Audi hopes to expand its engine lineup in the A3 with an efficient 1.6L TDI debuting later in 2012.
Pricing of the new A3 Hatchback will start at around $30,150 (£19,000) with deliveries in Europe beginning in September.
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Moving on from tragedy was the theme Wednesday at the New Life Church memorial service for Stephanie and Rachel Works, killed by a gunman two years ago in the church's parking lot.
David and Marie Works and their two daughters, 18-year-old Laurie and 13-year-old Gracie, spoke to nearly 400 people gathered in the World Prayer Center about how they've come to terms with the shooting.
"Our dreams are coming back," David Works told the audience, his voice breaking. "We're letting God do it."
After quoting a Bible passage about finding happiness in Christ, Marie Works said, "We are coming to you glad. We are not sorrowful today." On Dec. 9, 2007, David, Marie and their four daughters were getting into their minivan in a New Life Church parking lot when gunman Matthew Murray began shooting. Murray killed Stephanie and Rachel and critically injured David, who was hospitalized for days.
Since the shooting, the Works family said they've received emotional healing through counsel from New Life senior pastor Brady Boyd, Christian psychologists, and participation in a trauma seminar at Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg, Va. David Works has also spoken at seminars about the power of forgiveness.
Gracie Works, who wore a ring of Rachel's at the service, told the audience she's thankful to her "grounded Christian friends" for helping her come to terms with the loss. Laurie Works, who got married Aug. 1, admitted she went through severe anger from August 2008 until March, before coming to grips with the tragedy.
The Workses credit their faith for helping them move forward in their lives. "God has done a really transformational thing this year," Marie Works said.
Following a short photo montage of Stephanie and Rachel Works, Boyd led the closing prayer as those gathered held lighted candles.
"Even in the valley of the shadow of death," Boyd said, "the light is always with us."
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Freezing Custards, Curds, Or Bavarian Creams
Baking By fl_cake_lover Updated 12 Oct 2012 , 4:11am by lilmissbakesalot
Sorry if this is in another thread, but I can't find it.
Have you frozen a banana or vanilla custard or other things like lemon curd or bavarian creams before?
It will break. Sorry!
You can freeze lemon curd. You might get a little separation if your recipe has cornstarch in it, but you can just stir it up and it's fine. I have done it before. Pastry cream too... you will get a little separation again depending on the starch you use, but it should be fine.
Bavarian cream and custard I wouldn't freeze though.


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Redknapp explains why Townsend has turned a corner at QPR
Harry Redknapp believes his decision to deploy Andros Townsend on the right wing has been the key to the youngster's impressive spell at QPR.
Townsend, on loan from Redknapp's former club Tottenham, arrived at Loftus Road in January having had disappointing stints on loan at a number of League clubs.
But the 21-year-old has been excellent for Rangers – and Redknapp says the change of position has helped.
"Whereas he played out on the left all the time, I've stuck him out on the right wing and I think it suits him," said the R's boss.
"He comes inside on his left foot, get shots in and I think it's a switch that suits him well."
Redknapp has expressed doubts that Townsend will establish himself in the Spurs first team next season but does feel the player has shown he belongs in the top flight.
"He's got his work cut out at Spurs, with Gareth Bale and Aaron Lennon there, but he'll be a good player for them to have next year," said Redknapp.
"I'm sure he'll go back there a better player than the one that came here. He's now proven to himself that he can play in the Premier League."
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We had earlier seen the Andhaka Legend in detail. Today, we are seeing another depiction of the same legend in one of the inner wall sculptures of Ellora.
Sadly the sculpture is much worn out and we cannot make much out of the facial features. Yet this seems to be a slightly more sedate depiction or maybe the last act of surrender of Andhaka - so brilliantly depicted by the sculpture, has calmed shiva's anger.
For even without the intricate facial expressions, there seem to be some gentleness in the way Shiva is holding up the speared Andhaka - almost in a tender manner. But the depiction of the speared Andhaka - is spectacular - the trident has passed clean through his torso and he is impaled on it - but you can see him raising his hands and submitting to the divine grace of shiva.
Down below, we see a visibly unmoved, rather firm posture of Parvathi - unfortunately very much damaged, we cant clearly see what is depicted - but you can vaguely make out the shape of a demon holding a club/mace in his hand ( under the left feet of shiva) - shiva seems to be stamping on him - maybe this is act 1 of the legend, with Andhaka trying to go for Parvathi!!!
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This is the fifth article of the series Blood for oil? Global capital, counter-insurgency and the dual logic of American energy security.
Whose blood for our oil?
In the last article of this series we saw that there is a very clear marriage between the promotion of capitalism in the global South, primarily through the entrenchment of market orientated reforms, and the stabilisation and insulation of transnationally orientated states through US military aid and training. The American state continues to act both for reasons of national and transnational interest with US intervention serving to 'plug' political economies into global capitalism as both productive and relatively stable circuits. Of course, the form of stability that this entails does not necessarily equate into a majoritarian stability, and similarly to the Cold War period, continues to have egregious effects upon human rights, state development and social justice.
Aside from the oil riches of the various states now in receipt of US military aid and training, another common factor is the fact that each recipient military is credibly charged with gross human rights violations with US military aid and training in counter-insurgency warfare intimately bound up with human rights abuses. For example, as we saw above the Colombian military is now in receipt of billions of dollars of US military aid. However, the Colombian military is closely aligned with paramilitary forces who continue to carry out a dirty war against Colombian civil society. For example, in 2000, over 8000 political assassinations were committed in Colombia, with 80 percent of these murders committed by paramilitary groups allied to the Colombian military.1 This trend shows no sign of abating and in one of the most extensive recent reports on human rights in Colombia the UN notes that its 'office …[has] continued to receive complaints about human rights violations implying the direct responsibility … of the security forces … Many of the violations, due to their serious, massive or systematic nature, constitute crimes against humanity and are susceptible to trial by the International Criminal Court'.2
The principal recipient region for the US's $98 million 'pipeline protection money' has been Arauca in north-eastern Colombia. According to Colombia's far-right President Alvaro Uribe, Arauca is a 'laboratory of war' and provides the security model envisaged for the rest of the nation. A 2004 UN High Commissioners report continued to document the high level collusion between the Colombian military and paramilitary forces,3 with many of the most serious violations in Arauca taking place within a few minutes walk from the bases where US military training is occurring. For example, in August 2004, Colombia's Attorney General's office noted that soldiers based outside the city of Saravena, Arauca, executed three union leaders whilst senior officials on the base are alleged to have participated in a cover-up. US Special Forces CI trainers are housed on the same base.4
According to the UN the latest tactic of the Colombian military involves dressing murdered civilians in guerrilla clothing so as to justify their deaths.5 Crucially however, paramilitarism has long formed an integral part of the overall US-backed CI strategy. Moreover, this reliance on paramilitary forces was not confined to the Cold War era. For example, in 1991 both the US Department of Defence and the CIA reorganized Colombian military intelligence networks which saw the further covert incorporation of paramilitary networks within the Colombian military itself. The secret reorganisation focussed solely on combating what was called "escalating terrorism by armed subversion" through the creation of what Human Rights Watch characterised as a 'secret network that relied on paramilitaries not only for intelligence, but to carry out murder'.6
Similar to the Colombian military, both Georgian and Uzbek security forces have horrendous human rights records. For example, Uzbek security forces regularly commit horrific human rights abuses with the US Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor concluding that throughout the period of US military assistance the Uzbek state's 'human rights record remained very poor, and it continued to commit numerous serious abuses. Torture is endemic, prison conditions are extremely harsh, and independent journalists, opposition politicians and human rights activists are subject to harassment'.7
Similarly, the US State Department in it's 2004 annual report on human rights in Nigeria argued that there were 'politically motivated killings by the Government or its agents' with 'police, army, and security forces committed extrajudicial killings' and using 'excessive force' to disperse protestors during the year' as well as using 'lethal force against suspected criminals and suspected vandals near oil pipelines in the Niger Delta Region'. In a worrying signal for even any semblance of accountability the report continues that '[m]ultinational oil companies and domestic oil producing companies often hired private security forces and subsidized living expenses for police and soldiers from area units assigned to protect oil facilities in the volatile Niger Delta region'.8 In sum, the new policy of diversification of oil and the stabilisation of political economies conducive for global capitalism carries high human costs, especially in those specific zones where oil extraction takes place. US sponsored CI warfare now forms the central strategic modality of US military engagement with the use of paramilitary forces and private military contractors developing as part of the prevailing strategic architecture under the so-called 'war on terror'.9
We see then that US planners are increasingly seeking to diversify energy supplies away from the Middle East to new oil rich regions located principally in South America, Central Asia and West Africa with US military power being used to underwrite forms of political and economic order conducive for global capitalism as a whole. Similar to the Cold War period, the American state seeks to make these regions safe for global capitalism through stabilising states with fragile social bases and containing (and rolling back) inimical social forces be they Islamist, nationalist, indigenous or explicitly anti-capitalist. So far, this form of intervention continues to be subject to the dual logic that I outlined earlier on in this paper in so far as US intervention both serves US national interests through underwriting US hegemony and securing crucial oil supplies and transnational interests in terms of underwriting an open international market within which all other core states can participate. For example, Colombia has received more US military aid than all of the other states examined in this paper combined and whilst the US is Colombia's largest trading partner, European investors are a close second: in 2004 Colombia conducted just over thirty six percent of its annual trade with the US and almost nineteen percent with the EU.
The next largest trading partner was Venezuela with just over five percent.10 China is today one of the largest investors in Latin America with the majority of that investment in natural resource extraction, including oil. Roger F. Noriega, Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs argued that whilst Chinese investment in Latin America 'includes a political dimension' it's 'growing presence in the region reflects its growing engagement throughout the world' which 'does not necessarily constitute a threat to U.S. interests'.11 This point is underscored when we consider the fact that although the US enjoys strategic primacy within the global oil regime, the majority ends up in the Asia Pacific region (including China and Japan) which consumes 23,446,000 barrels a day whilst the US consumes 20,517,000.12
Will this current benign global oil regime continue or will the US use this strategic primacy to act in a more protectionist way so as to safeguard US oil interests through, for example, seeking to close markets off to other core states? This is of course the six million dollar question and there are definite tensions within the current oil regime such as the fact that oil is a non-fungible resource with all of the advanced industrialised economies becoming more reliant on oil coupled with the chronic instability in oil-rich regions and the ever diminishing supplies. On the flip-side the EU, Japan (and increasingly China) could seek to lessen their reliance on US power and develop their own bilateral or multilateral trade relationships outside of US control (for example, an increased lean towards Russian oil and gas by EU powers).13
The scramble for energy by China could also have an impact upon the current global oil regime, especially if the Chinese seek to parlay their bilateral arrangements with oil-rich states into forms of political influence that US planners consider to be inimical to US interests. What can be said for certainty is that at the present moment any move towards a more protectionist regime is unlikely given that the fact that in many ways the US is in a bind. Should it revert to resource protectionism there is a very strong likelihood that other core powers will seek to balance against US power which would in turn impact upon US strategic, political and economic interests in profound ways and would undoubtedly hasten the struggle for energy autonomy.
Moreover, in so doing the US would fracture the liberal international order from which the US derives enormous benefits.14 Of course, this does not discount the very real potential for ideology to 'overdetermine' US policy, and there are a number of debates, arguments and disagreements amongst US foreign policy planners as to the precise strategies that the American state should pursue to maintain US hegemony as we move into the 21st Century. We should not also discount the often chaotic nature of social, political and economic processes and the ways in which various policies can often have contradictory and highly contingent effects. All we can say in relation to these very contemporary developments is 'watch this space' and it is still too early to see whether the dual logics will continue to compliment each other as a key plank of US primacy or whether an increased US unilateralism will translate into an increased push for autonomy in relation to energy security by other core powers.15 What can we conclude from this account?
This paper has argued that the overly instrumentalist accounts of US intervention in oil rich regions fail to fully capture either the political logic of American statecraft and more importantly the structural role that the American state has played in the making of global capitalism in the post-War period. US intervention in oil rich regions seeks first and foremost to produce and stabilise transnationally responsive political economies with US strategic intervention seeking to insulate local states and ruling classes conducive for this transnationalisation process. In the post-Cold War era and especially after 9/11, the US has been pursuing an increasingly aggressive policy of energy diversification so as to ensure some degree of energy security for the global economy should the Middle East become even more insecure. The regions subject to these new interventions are South America, West Africa and Central Asia, and given the on-going failure of the US project in Iraq it is logical to conclude that these regions will become more important to US energy security so as to give global energy supplies some 'elbow room'. I have argued that this new strategy is having a profound impact in terms of consolidating often highly authoritarian regimes which in turn has an impact upon human rights, social justice and state development.16
Of course, many of these regimes now in receipt of US military assistance were highly abusive prior to the onset of US aid, and US planners could simply state 'we have to work with what is there!'. This is of course correct and it is important that analysts of US intervention must always bear in mind the ways in which US policy must interact and work with local states which in themselves have their own histories, interests and agendas. However, the central question is whether US security assistance leads to less human rights abuses, greater accountability and the strengthening of genuine democracy or whether US military aid serves to consolidate authoritarian regimes. That is, there is a very clear line between working with what you find and seeking to move towards ending human rights abuses and consolidating what you find so as to guarantee concrete economic and political interests. Sadly, as I have shown above, the US continues to put its economic and political interests above that of human rights and the development of genuinely democratic governments as part of its ongoing 'war on terror'. This is all being done within the logic whereby the ends justify the means. In the words of US Vice President Richard Cheney, the US is increasingly working on the 'dark side' whereby the US needs to 'have on the payroll some very unsavoury characters' so as to win the 'war on terrorism'.17
On a broader note, a question which emerges from this series of article, and it is one that it is simply too early to answer just yet, is whether US intervention will continue to be subject to the dual logics that I have outlined in this paper. The US state enjoys a degree of relative autonomy both because it must structurally ensure the necessary conditions for the long term functioning of global capitalism and because of its primacy within the world system. To date, US planners seem to be acutely conscious of the dual role that US intervention is playing. As we move further into the 21st Century, it remains to be seen whether this will continue in the face of increased resource competition for energy sources amongst industrialized economies.18
1 Human Rights Watch, Colombia, undated http://www.hrw.org/americas/colombia.php.
2 United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, The Human Rights Situation in Colombia, 17th February, 2004. p. 21.
3 United Nations, Informe del Alto Comisionado de las Naciones Unidas para los Derechos Humanos sobre la situación de los derechos humanos en Colombia, E/CN.4/2004/13, 17 de febrero de 2004, Anexo II, paragraphs 2 and 3. Accessed at Center for International Policy, Blueprint for a New Colombia Policy, March, 2005. http://www.ciponline.org/colombia/0503blueprint.pdf
4 Center for International Policy, Blueprint for a New Colombia Policy, March, 2005. http://www.ciponline.org/colombia/0503blueprint.pdf
5 Maria Cristina Caballero, 'In Colombia: Military Crimes Point To A Growing Problem', The Providence Journal, June 25, 2006.
6 Human Rights Watch / Americas Human Rights Watch Arms Project, Colombia's Killer Networks: the Military-Paramilitary Partnership and the United States (London: Human Rights Watch, 1996), p.28-29. In the same report Human Rights Watch have provided the original documents of the order in both Spanish and English. See pages 105-150.
7US Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, Supporting Human Rights and Democracy: The U.S. Record 2003-2004, 2004. http://www.usembassy.uz/home/index.aspx?&=&mid=387&lid=1 ; The US has been asked to leave the Karshi-Khanabad airfield in Uzbekistan by the regime of President Islam Karimov. The US criticised him after world media attention was focussed on Karimov following the shooting of hundreds of civilians during an anti-government demonstration. See http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/07/31/news/uzbek.php for more on this. For more on Georgia see http://hrw.org/english/docs/2004/02/24/georgi7650.htm#P58_5798
8US Department of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Nigeria 2004, February 28, 2004. http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2004/41620.htm
9 For more on private military contractors see Peter Singer, Corporate Warriors: The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2003).
10 European Commission, EU-Colombia trade. Undated.
11 Roger F. Noriega, Statement Before the House Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, Washington, DC. April 6, 2005. http://www.state.gov/p/wha/rls/rm/2005/q2/44375.htm
12 British Petroleum, British Petroleum Statistical Review of World Energy, June 2006. http://www.bp.com/liveassets/bp_internet/globalbp/globalbp_uk_english/publications/energy_reviews_2005/STAGING/local_assets/downloads/pdf/statistical_review_of_world_energy_full_report_2005.pdf p. 12.
13 European Commission, EU/Russia Energy Partnership, October 30, 2000. http://europa.eu.int/scadplus/leg/en/lvb/l27055.htm; see also Peter Gowan, U.S. Hegemony Today, 2003, Monthly Review, 55:3, July/August 2003, pp.30-50.
14 For a liberal critique of the Bush Administration see G. John Ikenberry, 'America's Imperial Ambition', Foreign Affairs, September – October, 2002. http://sobek.colorado.edu/~brahm/courses/PSCI2223Fall2002/ImperialAmbition.pdf
15 This paper is based on preliminary research for my new book Transnational Conflict and US Primacy (Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 2009)
16 For more on Iraq, the role of counter-insurgency and state formation see Eric Herring and Glen Rangwala, Iraq In Fragments: The Occupation and its Legacy (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2006).
17 Richard Cheney, The Vice President appears on Meet the Press with Tim Russert, September 16, 2001. http://www.whitehouse.gov/vicepresident/news-speeches/speeches/vp20010916.html
18 There are ongoing debates as to whether the US economy is in decline in relation to other core powers. For a selection see Giovanni Arrighi, The Long Twentieth Century. Money, Power, and the Origins of Our Times (London: Verso, 1994); David Harvey, The New Imperialism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003); Peter Gowan, 'Peter Gowan and the Capitalist World Empire', Journal of World-Systems Research, 10:2, 2004, pp.471-539; Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin, Global Capitalism and American Empire (London: Merlin Press, 2003); Giovanni Arrighi, 'Hegemony Unravelling', New Left Review, 32, March/April, 2005. http://www.newleftreview.net/Issue32.asp?Article=02


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Ingenuity will only get your so far without common sense. William Daniel Lloyd was hungry for something a little different than what was in the pantry. He got a craving for one of the squirrels in his backyard in Gainesville, Florida.
The problem is that Lloyd didn't have a traditional gun. He had a bullet, but the gun in his possession wasn't made for bullets. It was, however, made for BBs. According to MSN Now, Lloyd taped a .40-caliber bullet to the end of the BB gun and set off after a squirrel.
Everything backfired when he pulled the trigger, literally. A BB hit the bullet's primer and made it explode, sending shrapnel flying into his arms and legs. He was sent to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
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There was a time, in the NBA's post-Michael Jordan era, when Allen Iverson was considered to be "The Answer" and he was paid accordingly. Iverson pulled in $154 million just on Philadelphia 76ers paychecks; outside deals sent that figure even higher.
Now, though, Iverson may well be broke.
On Monday, a Georgia judge ordered Iverson to pay a jeweler about $860,000 and, because Iverson apparently could not do so, the court is going after his bank account and garnishing his earnings. This is only the latest development in what has apparently been Iverson's increasing insolvency over roughly the last two years.
Financial problems reportedly lay at the heart of his decision to sign a two-year, $4-million deal to play in Turkey in 2010 and reportedly are behind rumors that he'll play abroad again, possibly in Puerto Rico. The Los Angeles Lakers reportedly showed some interest in signing Iverson, but wanted him to play in the NBA Developmental League first.
Bill Lyon, former Philadelphia Inquirer columnist, watched the Iverson years unfold in Philadelphia and wrote about Iverson's days of excess that included enormous entourages. "Their numbers varied day to day, week to week, most of them from the old neighborhood in Virginia," Lyon wrote. "There might be as many as 50 for tickets to a home game. There was a hair stylist who traveled, did his corn rows two to three times a week."
Iverson had his reasons for remaining loyal to the crowd, telling Lyon "they made me."
He meant they had protected him from all of the casual violence, especially in the early days, allowing him to get where he was. Literally, they kept him alive.
And he owed them.
One night, during the playoffs, in a hotel suite darker than a coal mine at midnight, you saw the depth of his debt: There were bodies everywhere in that suite, all the furniture occupied, the floor, too, the snoring rivaling a 747 takeoff. It was the Posse and assorted hangers-on and remoras and this thought struck you:
It may take a village to raise a child, but in A.I.'s case it has been the other way around.


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Having grown up in a town famous for its commitment to conservative fundamentalism, Rachel Held Evans nearly loses her faith when rehearsed answers to tough questions aren't enough to satisfy her growing doubts about Christianity. Evolving in Monkey Town is a story of spiritual survival that challenges listeners to reassess their approach to Christianity in the context of a postmodern environment, where knowing all the answers isn't as important as truly asking the questions.
©2010 Rachel Held Evans (P)2010 Zondervan
"Moments of personal understanding"
The author's voice is very easy to listen to and I felt like I was in a room with a friend. I found this book to have many 'aha' moments. I love it so much I got listed to her blog. I can't believe you would regret getting this book. I am planning on buying it for some of my friends so we can discuss it together.
"Simply amazing. A must."
The content - she faces most relevant and toughest questions head on and with no fear
Just about every book by Frank Schaeffer, "Love Wins" by Rob Bell, and generally to Don Miller.
Very well-read
Metamorphosis of faith worth witnessing
Just get it - its eye-opening and liberating
"Thinly veiled proselytizing."
Didn't care for it. She asks the questions and then circles back to her faith without drawing a logical conclusion.
I particularly liked this part: "I'm an evolutionist because I believe that the best way to reclaim the gospel in times of change is not to cling more tightly to our convictions but to hold them with an open hand. I'm an evolutionist because I believe that sometimes God uses changes in the environment to pry idols from our grip and teach us something new. But most of all, I'm an evolutionist because my own story is one of unlikely survival – If it hadn't been for evolution, I must have lost my faith,". Ummm....I don't think you know what evolution is then.
She speaks my language, and she tells my story. before I knew it was my story. because when you're ashamed to ask questions, your brain and your spirit work together to keep you silent. thank you, thank you, thank you!
"A story of truth seeking"
I listened to this book in two days. I am in a very similar place to where Rachel is in this audiobook. I too have grown up in an evangelical Christian environment and was almost obnoxiously certain and almost smug about my certainty. I was willing to accept everything that was told to me without asking questions. Then I got older. I started having more experiences and meeting different people. I really started to read the bible and have some major disagreements with some of my fellow Christians. The bible says seek and you will find and draw near to God an He will draw near to you. I think that's what Rachel is doing in this book. Asking the hard questions and searching for the truth about God, and not being afraid if the conclusions of her seeking are different traditional evangelical views.
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Plumas Bancorp (NASDAQ:PLBC) filed Quarterly Report for the period ended 2010-03-31.
Plumas Bancorp has a market cap of $13.9 million; its shares were traded at around $2.9 with and P/S ratio of 0.5.
Highlight of Business Operations:Earnings for the first quarter of 2010 were $134 thousand compared to a net loss of $1.28 million for the quarter ended March 31, 2009. This $1.4 million increase in earnings includes a $1.4 million decrease in the provision for loan losses, a $557 thousand increase in non-interest income, and a $595 thousand decline in non-interest expense, partially offset by a decline of $205 thousand in net interest income and a $936 thousand decrease in the benefit for income taxes.
During 2009 we recorded a loan loss provision of $14.5 million including $2.9 million during the first quarter of 2009. Most of the 2009 provision for loan losses can be attributed to declines in collateral value and increases in net charges-offs related to our real estate construction and land development loan portfolio. During 2009 we significantly reduced our exposure to these loans as demonstrated by a decline in loan balances in this portfolio of $35.7 million from $73.8 million at December 31, 2008 to $38.1 million at December 31, 2009. We further reduced these balances to $37.1 million at March 31, 2010. While the first quarter loan loss is much higher than we would have liked, we are pleased with the progress made in reducing our construction and land development portfolio. See Provision for Loan Losses and Analysis of Allowance for Loan losses for a further discussion of our loan loss provision.
Total assets at March 31, 2010 were $510 million, a decrease of $18 million from the $528 million at December 31, 2009. Cash and due from banks increased by $9.4 million from $59.5 million at December 31, 2009 to $68.9 million at March 31, 2010. Funding was provided by a $22.4 million decline in investment securities from $87.9 million at December 31, 2009 to $65.5 million at March 31, 2010. Included in the decline in investment securities were sales totaling $14 million with a gain on sale of $570 thousand. Net loans decreased by $5 million which included net charge-offs of $2.8 million during the three months ended March 31, 2010. Short-term borrowings, which totaled $20 million at December 31, 2009, matured in January of 2010 resulting in an $18 million decline in total liabilities. Deposits decreased slightly from $433 million at December 31, 2009 to $432 million at March 31, 2010. The decline in borrowings and deposits was slightly offset by a $3.1 million increase in other liabilities. Included in other liabilities is a $3.4 million secured borrowing which represents SBA loans sold but subject to a 90 day premium recourse provision. Under ASC Topic 860, Accounting for Transfers of Financial Assets, we are required to maintain this liability and the related loans on balance sheet until the premium recourse period has passed. Once the 90 days has passed and no premium recourse remains we will remove the sold loans from assets, derecognize the secured borrowing and record the gain on sale.
Interest income decreased $167 thousand or 3%, to $5.4 million for the three months ended March 31, 2010 primarily as a result of a reduction in loan balances. Interest and fees on loans decreased $333 thousand to $4.8 million for the three months ended March 31, 2010 as compared to $5.1 million during the first quarter of 2009. The Companys average loan balances were $328 million for the three months ended March 31, 2010, down $34.6 million, or 10%, from $362 million for the same period in 2009. The average rate earned on the Companys loan balances increased 19 basis points to 5.90% during the first three months of 2010 compared to 5.71% during the first three months of 2009. The increase in loan yield reflects a decline in nonperforming loan balances. Nonperforming loans totaled $18.2 million at March 31, 2010 down from $30.9 million at March 31, 2009. Interest income on investment securities increased by $161 thousand as an increase in average balances of $38.2 million, from $45.9 million for the quarter ended March 31, 2009 to $84.1 million during the current quarter, was partially offset by a decline in yield of 105 basis points. Much of the decline in yield is related to the increase in investment balance as additions to the investment portfolio had a lower yield than investments purchased prior to March 31, 2009.
Interest expense on long-term borrowings, which at March 31, 2010 consisted of two $10 million FHLB advances, totaled $64 thousand. The first advance matures on November 23, 2011 and bears interest at 1.00%. The second advance matures on November 23, 2012 and bears interest at 1.60%. Interest rates on both advances are fixed until maturity. There were no long-term borrowings outstanding during the first quarter of 2009. Interest on short-term borrowings decreased by $12 thousand to $5 thousand related to a decline in average balance of $22.5 million from $26.5 million during the 2009 quarter to $4 million during the current quarter. Interest expense paid on junior subordinated debentures, which fluctuates with changes in the 3-month London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) rate, decreased by $36 thousand as a result of a decrease in the LIBOR rate.
Net charge-offs as an annualized percentage of average loans increased from 0.53% during the quarter ended March 31, 2009 to 3.47% during the current quarter; however, we experienced a significant decline in nonperforming loans from $30.9 million at March 31, 2009 to $18.2 million at March 31, 2010. While we incurred a significant increase in net charge-offs most of the amounts charged off had been incorporated in the allowance for loan losses at December 31, 2009 as specific reserves on impaired loans. The allowance for loan losses totaled $8.3 million at March 31, 2010 and $9.6 million at March 31, 2009. The decrease in the allowance for loan losses from March 31, 2009 is attributable to a $1.9 million decrease in specific reserves related to impaired loans from $4.9 million at March 31, 2009 to $3.0 million at March 31, 2010. General reserves increased by $553 thousand to $5.3 million at March 31, 2010. The allowance for loan losses as a percentage of total loans decreased slightly from 2.67% at March 31, 2009 to 2.53% at March 31, 2010.
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BIRMINGHAM, Alabama -- Occupy Birmingham is organizing a group to protest the detention of undocumented immigrants being detained at Etowah County Detention Center in Gadsden.
The event begins at noon in the parking lot of the Gadsden Department of Human Resources, where they'll have speeches and an informational session about the immigration law before the march begins at 1:45 p.m., said Occupy Birmingham organizer Allyn Hudson. Then they will march and picket outside the detention center until 3 p.m. They'll also write Christmas and other holiday cards to the immigration detainees, Hudson said. Occupy Birmingham will have two carpools from the Birmingham area to Gadsden before the protest. The first will be from Birmingham, the second from Homewood.
"In addition Alabama's state law, H.B.56, encourages racial profiling, restricts employment, use of public utilities, and puts unnecessary strain on law enforcement resources," according to Occupy Birmingham's announcement of the event on its website.
"The economic cost to Alabama is only beginning to be estimated; in taxes alone undocumented immigrants bring the state 130 million dollars a year. Even more important is the effect on our communities of the underlying divisive and nativist rhetoric of HB56 and ICE."
The Etowah County Commission approved on Nov. 1 for the U.S. Department of Immigration and Customs Enforcement to lease the third floor of the Etowah County Courthouse, an addition to the space it already leases from the county in the detention center, according to The Gadsden Times. The newspaper reported ICE will pay about $111,000 a year to lease the jail and courthouse space.


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How and when did you find out about Eddie Kessler's storyline?
All I remember was that it was a Wednesday at 11:36. I said to Terry [Winter, show creator] when he called, "Well it's 11:36, this call. We'll say the time of death is 11:36." That's the hardest thing for the producer, to call and say your part's being written off. I don't envy it. We sign a contract knowing full well when the writers feel they need to do something to keep the series fresh, you saying auf Wiedersehen may be the thing that keeps it fresh. When you start questioning the "why," that's a big mistake.
Early on the season, Eddie is testy at breakfast. Is he surprised when Nucky asks for his opinion at the construction site?
He is. He's thinking, "You are asking for my opinion? All right, I'll tell you." I thought of it as an explanation to the mayor. To say, "Mr. Thompson is in the sky and sea. He is the dreams of children," is to mean, "You exist because he exists." What was cut out of that is after Bader gets out of the car, Nucky looks at Eddie and says, "In the dreams of children?"
What's going through Eddie's mind when he hands in his resignation?
After 11 years, it took a lot of chutzpah for Eddie to go there and say, "I'm fed up. Yes, you took care of me, and made sure I didn't die, but you left anyway." During this period, one could say Eddie had a lot of time to think about what happened, and he realizes he would like respect. Notice, Eddie handed Nucky back the money he offered, and he says, "That's beneath you." Money had nothing to do with it.
So Eddie is promoted and he spends the evening with Ralph Capone. It's rare that we see Eddie letting loose. What's behind it?
This is Eddie's first real encounter with a gangster—he's not serving him tea or booze. He's a little uncomfortable about the drop off and the whole business of the flower on the jacket, but he wants to make a good show. And Ralph wants to get something to eat, so the polite thing is make sure he gets something to eat. At dinner, he discovers there's a parallel in what they do: They're both serving bosses, but for Ralph, his happens to be a blood relative. And remember what we saw in 311 with the recitation of "If," the Rudyard Kipling, "You'll be a man my son." Is Nucky thinking about him as a father figure - and is he looking at Nucky as a son? It sure looked that way.
His night out with Ralph is a fun sequence.
What I liked is that it showed everybody Eddie does have some kind of life outside of Nucky. He goes to a German bar room with his friends, and they tease him, "Mr. You So Special Now." And we all sing. It's a drinking song, about how nice it is to be in Germany, how the Rhine is so beautiful. We're singing and drinking, and everything is beautiful.
And then he falls into Knox's clutches. Is it news of his family that breaks Eddie's spirit?
This fling he had with the person at the department store was looked upon by the morals of the day as a terrible thing. But it had to be something deeper that really upsets him, and that's that his sons think less of him. That was bad enough, but the worst was when he had to say that it was Nucky who told him what to do. That's the moment when he realized, I let my family down and the man who picked me up and gave me a life in America. When I did interviews early on, I would belabor the loyalty Eddie has for Nucky. You don't see it today. He had disillusioned his own blood, and now, the American son that he has taken care of and taken a bullet for.


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This is a simple dish that is so yummy! We eat it quite often on our 'meat free' night.
- Yield
- 4 Servings
- 1 pound fresh asparagus, trimmed and cut into 1/2 inch pieces
- 1 (8 ounce) package sugar snap peas, trimmed
- 1 (8 ounce) package dry penne pasta
- 3 tablespoons olive oil
- 1/2 cup grated Parmesan cheese
- salt and pepper to taste
- Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil. Add asparagus, and cook for 2 minutes. Add peas, and cook for 2 more minutes. Transfer to a large bowl; set aside. Add pasta to boiling water, and cook for 8 to 10 minutes or until al dente; drain. Place pasta in the bowl with asparagus and peas. Toss with olive oil, Parmesan, salt and pepper.
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Nutritional Info
- Calories376
- Carbohydrates45 g(15%)
- Fat15 g(23%)
- Protein16 g(33%)
- Saturated Fat4 g(19%)
- Sodium586 mg(24%)
- Polyunsaturated Fat1 g
- Fiber10 g(40%)
- Monounsaturated Fat8 g
- Cholesterol10 mg(3%)


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Who's That Guy In The Cowboy Hat Singing Country Classics With Loretta And Tom T.?
You can walk up and down through the hall's of the Country Music Hall of Fame and you won't find the name of Dean Martin.
Nope. Dean Martin was a star, but not a Country Music star.
But you know what? With that beautiful voice of his, he probably could have been! He sang some country tunes throughout his legendary entertainment career…and he sang them well.
In this rare video clip, Dean teams up with Country legend's Loretta Lynn and Tom T. Hall. While Tom T. sings his classic 'Ravishing Ruby' and Loretta favors us with her classic 'One's On The Way', Dean does a great job on the Don Gibson classic 'Blue, Blue Day'.


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These are the special edition Starry River of the Sky Pocket Pacys that will given as prizes for tomorrow's online booklaunch!!! So excited! come back here tomorrow to see how you can win one!!
In the meantime, I'm going on a blog tour! The kick off is today at Bookie Woogie, the incredibly talented family that made the awesome Where the Mountain Meets the Moon video review.
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The original Hall of Fame is in the Bronx.
The Hall of Fame for Great Americans at Bronx Community College, the original "Hall of Fame" in this country, was designed as part of the construction of an undergraduate college of that university.
Built in a "sweeping semicircular Neo-Classical arc with wings at either end, it provides a panorama across the Harlem River to the Cloisters in Fort Tryon Park and beyond to the Palisades. It is a unique and patriotic reminder that this country's phenomenal growth has been due to the vitality, ingenuity, and intellect of these individuals."
A shelter for the wealthy, a mansion for artists.
The Andrew Freedman Mansion, a wonderful building in the Bronx, was designed specifically as a retirement home for wealthy people who had lost their fortunes. "For many years this landmark has existed in a kind of open-but-closed limbo. Its ground floor is almost always full of children, in day care and in a Head Start program. Two elegant ballrooms and a book-filled library above have been maintained for weddings and other events, and for several years the Bronx Museum of the Arts, has offered outdoor film screenings and other cultural programs."
The clip above is part of a series of 1-minute video vignettes we shot in the Bronx sponsored by a grant from the New York City Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment (MOME) and produced by students and faculty at Lehman College.
The unknown, yet famous, City Island.
Numerous films, television shows, and commercials have been filmed on City Island. Films include Butterfield 8 starring Elizabeth Taylor; Long Day's Journey (more…)
Best of the Bronx.
"Best of the Bronx" is a series of 1-minute video vignettes to help promote New York City's northernmost borough. The Bronx is well known for landmarks like the Yankee Stadium, the New York Botanical Garden or the Zoo, but the project's goal was to highlight lesser-known gems.
The first video on the series profiled City Island, a place known for its rich maritime history, museums, and seafood restaurants. The remainder of the series includes the Andrew Friedman House, Bronx Community College's Hall of Fame, Wave Hill, Little Italy (video below), and the Grand Concourse, among other exciting locations. (more…)


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Dutch thug JORAN VAN DER SLOOT throws "human rights" monkey wrench into the slow turning wheels of justice.
Van der Sloot filed a lawsuit against government of Chile, charging his "human rights" were violated when he was extradited from Chile to Peru after an Interpol manhunt .
Joran, 24, is seeking $10 million in damages.
His lawsuit claims "pressure from the then-President of the Republic Alan Garcia Perez" was exerted to extradite him in the murder case of Stephany Flores.
The lawsuit argues Chilean police denied van der Sloot access to a telephone or computer so he could communicate with his family, alleging he was "deprived of his right to counsel."
Van der sloot's bombshell lawsuit implicates former Peruvian Minister of Interior Octavio Salazar, former police generals Miguel Hidalgo and Cesar Guardia, and Ricardo Flores, the father of murder victim Stephany Flores, as co-conspirators.
Van der Sloot, a long-time suspect in the disappearance of an American teen in Aruba, stands accused of the murder of Flores, 21, a Peruvian business student, found dead in his hotel room in Lima on June 2, 2010.
Van der Sloot has been charged with first-degree murder and robbery in that case.
Joran who has a history of confessing and then recanting denied confessing to the Flpores murder, saying it was done under "duress".
Peruvian television program "El Dominical" reported van der Sloot's newest criminal complaint is currently under review by the Inter- American Commission on Human Rights.
Van der Sloot's attempt to slog the judicial system comes just days after a January 6 ntrial date was announced in the Flores murder case.