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Editor Tom Pastorelle recently cut some videos for Symphony Guild Seattle Children's Hospital. The videos were directed by Brian Johnson, who is a frequent collaborator of Tom's.
Brian's friend Mateo Messina (Grammy Award winner for the Juno score) asked him to concept and shoot four videos. Mateo holds a benefit concert every year for this Hospital. One of the videos was a teaser for the benefit concert to air on local Seattle stations and the other three were to be shown during the event to familiarize the audience with the doctors and patients.
Brian and Tom spent a week cutting the videos and then sent them to Mateo to score. This was a pro bono effort from start to finish. Tom was happy to donate his time, saying, "The reward was getting to work on something for a good cause and laughing it up in the editing room with Brian. Good times."
Of the four videos, one featured Rishi, a patient born without working kidneys. We all found his story particularly inspirational. This year the theme for the benefit was "superheroes", so the kids each came up with a costume and a name. Rishi is the "Peaceful Warrior" and he uses music to scare off bad guys and comfort people.
The Today Show aired a segment today on this young "Peaceful Warrior"!!
If you'd like to find out more about this incredible organization, follow the link: http://www.thesymphonyguild.org


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Ever have a rough flight on an airliner?
It was probably nothing like this flight of a Russian plane, documented in YouTube videos shot on April 29..
According to the description, the Tu-154 was being flown at Chkalovsky Airport, a military airport 19 miles northeast of Moscow that serves the Russian space program. It was being returned to service after a 10-year break.
In the flight, the plane yaws and banks at very high angles; it appears that the crew is having a difficult time controlling the plane.
As pointed out by FlightStory.net, an aviation Web site:
Circumstances that have led to this video are unknown. Whether it was a controlled test flight to operate the plane beyond its technical limits, a crazy flight display or a technical failure.
Regardless of the reason for the unusual flight attitudes, they're enough to make even a seasoned flier a little queasy.

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A beloved local tradition around the holiday, New Orleans restaurants and their Reveillon dinners have been gearing up throughout the month of December in preparation of Christmas and New Year's. From the French word for "awakening," Reveillon dinners were historically held after Midnight Mass on Christmas Eve and again on New Year's Eve as families and friends gathered to celebrate the holidays. Due to the city's strong French heritage and love of tradition, New Orleanians continue to revel in the Reveillon dinners every holiday season.
In New Orleans, 47 restaurants across the city will continue this tradition by hosting their own unique Reveillon dinner throughout this month. Original Reveillon menus generally consisted of Creole delicacies, various egg dishes, and sweets, but these local restaurants have developed unique variations of the meal to reflect their house specialties and their take on the spirit of the season.
These meals tend to be luxurious and feature delectable meats and seafood such as oysters, foie gras, escargot, lump crabmeat, various fish straight from the Gulf, premium steaks, and sweetbreads. For example, the Reveillon menu at John Besh's Borgne in downtown New Orleans includes Gulf Oyster Pan Roast with Artichokes and Bacon, Creole Turtle Soup, and Roast Duckling with Parsnip Puree and Sour Cherry Gastrique. Arnaud's Restaurant in the French Quarter's menu includes Shrimp Ravigote, Creole Onion Soup, Bourbon Glazed Pork Tenderloin, Potato Crusted Trout, and Rock Cornish Hen.
The cost of Reveillon dinners at local restaurants ranges between $35 to $100 depending on your location and choice of meal. On the less expensive end, you can dine at Café Degas ($37), the Gumbo Shop ($38), Tujague's ($40), or Mat and Naddie's ($40). For a more expensive Reveillon meal, you can visit Harrah's Casinos's Besh Steak ($70), Hotel Monteleone's Criollo Restaurant & Lounge ($75), Commander's Palace ($85), John Besh's August ($95), or Restaurant R'evolution ($95). Check their websites for menus and holiday schedules, and call ahead to reserve a table, especially on the more popular nights.
So if you're visiting for the holidays, or are a local looking for a different experience for this year's holiday meal, there are plenty of Reveillon dinner options available to you. All of the participating restaurants and Reveillon menus are available at http://www.neworleansonline.com/holiday/.


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Were it not for a a single post at the Weekly Standard, Michelle Obama and John Kerry would have presented the International Women of Courage Award to Samira Ibrahim on Friday afternoon. This despite the fact that Ibrahim is a raging anti-Semite and celebrant of 9/11, including the Islamist observation of the anniversary at the American embassy in Cairo this past September.
In Washington for the ceremony, Ibrahim first pleaded that the offending statements in her Twitter account resulted from hacking. She may be a woman of courage, but she is both a hater and a liar.
When the State Department deferred the award to Ibrahim to look into the matter, Ibrahim took took to Twitter to demonstrate the brand of courage that we were about to award: "I refuse to apologize to the Zionist lobby in America regarding my previous anti-Zionist statements under pressure from American government therefore they withdrew the award."
Our friends at the Weekly Standard saved the Obama administration and the United States from the gross humiliation of having conferred honor upon Ibrahim. Even so, the flap will make her a star in the eyes of our enemies, but it could have been worse.
Has anyone in the Obama administration reached out to thank the Standard for the service it has performed? I asked Standard editor Bill Kristol. He writes in response to my inquiry: "Ha, thanks — awaiting their thank you call!"
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Lockheed Martin Ousts Incoming CEO
Lockheed Martin Corp. ousted its incoming chief executive, Christopher Kubasik, for having a "close personal relationship" with a subordinate at the defense contractor.
The company said Mr. Kubasik was asked to resign Friday after an investigation determined the "improper conduct" violated Lockheed Martin's code of ethics. He will receive a $3.5 million separation payment.


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Today's high school graduates exhibit gaps in communications skills, critical thinking, work ethic, and professionalism. College graduates fare better, but only one in four mid-market firms surveyed gives them "excellent" grades on "important" skills. Still, new workforce entrants are better prepared than their predecessors in technology and collaboration skills. Future graduates will need to show financial competence and be able to manage their health and careers. Case studies include reports on three company initiatives to improve workforce readiness and one computer-aided workplace simulation program.


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Periodic Table of Professional Cycling
Cosmo Catalano has created the Periodic Table of Professional Cycling for his cycling website, Cyclocosm.com.
The data lends itself surprisingly well to the periodic table format. Horizontal periods correspond closely to the prestige of each event, while vertical series indicate geographic location. Multi-day races are on the left hand side of the chart, one-day events on the right.
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Perhaps buoyed up by the success of Manchester Passion (broadcast live on Good Friday 2006) and this Christmas' Liverpool Nativity, the BBC are once again embracing programming with a religious theme this Easter. This time, it's not just an hour-long passion play, but a dramatic retelling of the longer Easter story and Jesus final days.
The Passion is the theological term used for the suffering – physical, spiritual, and mental – of Jesus in the hours prior to and including his trial and execution by crucifixion.
You'll be able to catch The Passion nightly on BBC One, starting on Palm Sunday (16 March) and finishing on Easter Sunday (23 March).
Having finished the adaptation of Bleak House, and wanting another strong story to tell, producer Nigel Stafford-Clark had already been looking at previous passion productions and considering how to make a new one. Hearing that the BBC were planning an Easter production based around Jesus, he successfully pitched to make a show that would reflect the motivations of all the central characters and not just Jesus.
The cast includes Jesus (played by Joseph Mawle); disciples Matthew (Daniel Evans), Peter (Darren Morfitt) and Judas (Paul Nicholls); Pontius Pilate (Jimmy Nesbitt), his wife Claudia (Esther Hall); Barabbas (Stephen Graham), Joseph of Arimathea (David Oyelowo), Jesus' mother Mary (Penelope Wilton), Mary Magdalene (Paloma Baeza); as well as High Priests and temple guards.
Filmed in Morocco, the drama will start with Jesus' entrance through Jerusalem's East Gate on a donkey, and follow him through the week to his crucifixion and resurrection (or "its startling aftermath" as one press pack put it).
While it'll no doubt be dramatic and set through the eyes of those who wrote (Frank Deasy) and directed it (Michael Offer), The Passion does present a number of opportunities.
At a personal level, it's a chance to take a fresh and different look at the Easter story. To be educated about the complexities of the political and religious maelstrom of Jerusalem in 33AD, and to better understand the power plays and tensions that were in action that week. Like eight sermons in one!
Whether or not everything on screen is perfectly accurate doesn't really matter. Whoever retold a Bible story to a child and got it word (and meaning) perfect? The insight and challenge should come by looking at the story through the eyes of the Romans, the religious authorities as well as Jesus and his followers.
As a teenager, I recall a set of daily readings (might even still be downstairs in the new bookcases) that looked each day at different people Jesus met in the run up to Easter. It was refreshing way to re-view the story, not following the strict storyline or one particular gospel, but weaving a path through the different accounts.
Director Michael Offer commented:
"You can choose to watch it the way you want. If you have a religious sensibility you can view it that way, or you can view it simply as a piece of drama. As for the Resurrection, you can see it as a psychological manifestation of grief or you can see it as real and that he did come back."
At a community level, I think it'll be good to bring the origins of the Easter holiday to the fore. Giving an opportunity for Christians to talk about their faith, to comment on the
soap opera story that unfolds throughout the week.
Some churches and organisations are going to great lengths to promote and use the series as a backdrop for their congregational activities. But even the very presence of The Passion in the media and on the box should stir up an awareness of God's message of good news this Easter.
The accompanying bbc.co.uk/thepassion website will go live on Thursday (28th) as the "multiplatform companion to the drama". (
Until then, the URL is in a holding pattern, redirecting to existing content within the BBC's Religion & Ethics webpages.)
Update - Thur 28 Feb - The series' consultant Mark Goodacre (Associate Professor of New Testament in the Religion Department at Duke University) is over in the UK for the series premiere and launch in London's West End tonight. He's blogging about his experience ... via Ramblings from Red Rose.
Update - Sun 2 Mar - reactions from the preview screening are appearing in the press along with background pieces: Guardian (twice), Times.


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From USA Today bestselling author Jillian Dodd comes the first two books in the addictive Keatyn Chronicles series. Discover a breathless fairy-tale romance with swoon-worthy characters, suspense, and a glittering celebrity world. Fans of Gossip Girl, Pretty Little Liars, and reality TV will devour this pulse-pounding, sexy teen drama set against the backdrop of Hollywood and an East Coast boarding school.
Book One: Keatyn's life is following the script she wrote for the perfect high school experience. She's popular, goes to the best parties, dates the hottest guy, and sits at the most-coveted lunch table. But she's thinking about giving it all up to date an adorable surfer. So she writes a new script. One where all the pieces of her life come together in perfect harmony. But little does she know, there's someone who will do anything to make sure that doesn't happen.
Book Two: Keatyn's always written scripts for her perfect life. But she never would have scripted this. She's now at a boarding school, where she has new challenges to face. Like tutoring a hottie god who tortures her with his smile. And having the most popular girl hate her because of a guy. So she's decided to stop trying to script her life and just live it. Because who knows how long she has left.


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Father struggles after brutal murder of New Hampshire college student
Bob Marriott sets up scholarship in Lizzi Marriott's name
For Bob Marriott, everyday has been a struggle trying to cope with the brutal murder of his 19-year-old daughter, Lizzi, last October.
It's a crime that has broken the heart of the Marriott family.
Marriott told NewsCenter 5's Kathy Curran, "The loss of a family member is horrible, for me the worst is the potential she had. Finding out she was killed was just crushing."
Marriott will never forget his daughter's bright smile and he'll always cherish her desire to make the world a better place.
As he looked through a few pictures of Lizzi his eyes welled with tears, "I just miss her."
Lizzi Marriott was a Westborough High graduate studying at the University of New Hampshire to be a marine biologist. Her love of the ocean began as a child and blossomed as a young adult.
It's in that spirit that her family established the Lizzi Marriott Intrepid Explorer Fund to help students carry out her dream. That brings some comfort to her dad.
"We help enable a stream of young people that can go off and carry on her dream of supporting the oceans, protecting the ocean and educating everyone in the world about the oceans," Marriott said.
His favorite memory of his daughter was from about four years ago during a family vacation on Cape Cod.
He said Lizzi was giving some family and friends a tour of the ocean. He smiled and quoted his daughter, "Oh look, that's a horseshoe crab down there, look there's a moon snail and look see that round thing on the ground? That's the nest for the moon snail."
Setting up the scholarship and working to get funding has become a form of therapy for Marriott while the criminal case against his daughter's alleged killer, Seth Mazzaglia, continues.
Mazzaglia is charged with second-degree murder, his girlfriend Kat McDonough is accused of helping to cover up the crime.
Lizzi Marriott's body has never been found.
"I'd like to consider myself a good Christian person, but I don't have forgiveness in my heart yet. Anger, frustration, absolutely," said Marriott. "Not having a body is difficult. I think that is something certainly that helps get to closure. I don't think it's anything that happens in an instant, I think it's a long process to go through and we're just at the beginning of that right now."
Right now, the Marriotts are trying to do something positive in the wake of this horrific tragedy.
Their focus is on the scholarship fund in Lizzi's memory and a fundraiser at the Indian Meadows Country Club in Westborough this weekend. For more information about the Lizzi Marriott Intrepid Explorer Fund go to www.rememberlizzi.org


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I am using a Logitech DFP wheel, which has worked perfectly with this game before. Now when I try to set it up as controller, I can get steering, throttle and brake, but can NOT find how to set up the gearchange. I can get on to a track in first gear - but no further.
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Russ Winton: Wine List
Russ Winton: Don't box yourself in
Boxed wines sales are up. Just visit the wine wall in your local supermarket and count the number of boxed wine brands available. The reason is simple. Wine drinkers have discovered the wine in the box today is not at all like the sweet-blush-swill they drank in the 1980s. Over the past five years, the quality of the wine put into boxes has increased dramatically.
The wine box was an Australian invention, patented in 1965 by winemaker Tom Angove of Angove's Winery. The bag-in-the-box idea spread to South Africa and Europe, where it was readily accepted – but in the United States, not so much. The stigma of the sweet '80s plonk contributed to the idea that all wines in boxes were cheap and if you did buy it, you were looking for quantity rather than quality. That has all changed.
Wine boxes have several advantages over glass bottles. There is no need for a corkscrew and therefore no possibility of cork taint. Wine boxes are shatter-proof, portable, convenient (it fits neatly in the refrigerator), environmentally friendly (recyclable packaging and lower carbon footprint) and, best of all, the wine stays fresh for up to six weeks. Your leftover wine is safe from oxidation. A 3-liter wine box is equal to four bottles of wine, which will give you 20 five-ounce glasses of wine, perfect for large Super Bowl-like parties, picnics or camping trips.
In our house we have boxed wines available for that cup called for in a recipe or to solve the most common problem in our house, not quite coming out even with dinner and needing just one more glass. We also keep it chilled for drop-in guests who always expect a glass or two.
We serve it in a chilled carafe, which looks a heck of a lot better than a cardboard box sitting on the coffee table. We pour good daily wine, not Friday or Sunday wine. The wine is not so serious that it requires deep thinking, or head nodding, or concentrated introspection. It's good daily wine, period. I suggest you refrigerate both white and red and decant them so they can breathe for 20 minutes or more. The SRP for a 3-liter wine box is around $20 but usually sale priced for $18 or less, which figures out to less than $5 a bottle.
What's in our carafe
The Bota Box brand always has been a favorite of mine. Its pinot grigio, shiraz and old vine zinfandel are excellent. The Black Box Chilean sauvignon blanc, the Argentinian malbec and the California merlot are definitely worth tracking down. The Wine Cube, sold only at Target, produces an excellent pinot grigio, Riesling and pinot noir.
Good luck wine box hunting and remember: It's time to think what's inside the box.


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Tonsil Stones (Tonsilloliths)
Posted: May 8, 2009
Tonsil stones, also known as tonsilloliths, are caused by an accumulation of sulfur-producing bacteria and debris that become lodged in the tonsils. The debris, which can include mucous from post nasal drip, putrefies in the back of your throat and collects in the tonsil crypts (small pockets which appear on the surface of the tonsils).
Along with tonsil stones, when the debris combine with the volatile sulfur compounds produced by the anaerobic bacteria beneath the surface of your tongue, it can also create chronic Halitosis (and other bad breath and taste disorders). Important: If you do not have your tonsils then you will not under most circumstances experience tonsil stones. However, this does not mean that you should run out and get your tonsils removed. As we get older, tonsillectomies become increasingly dangerous; however, even if you have your tonsils removed, you will most likely still have bad breath! Why? The sulfur-producing bacteria breeding beneath the surface of your tongue, which are integral to the creation of those tonsil stones, are the most likely candidates to cause bad breath! So, even if you have your tonsils removed, unless you remove or hinder these anaerobic bacteria, you may still scare away people with your bad breath! And, since you can't have your tongue removed (at least not in the U.S.), there is a better idea. Fortunately, getting rid of tonsil stones is not that difficult...
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A simple combination of oxygenating solution and nasal sinus drops will effectively dissolve tonsil stones without unnecessary tonsil surgery. Also, the occasional use of an oxygenating spray will help to immediately neutralize the anaerobic sulfur-producing bacteria on contact. The Bad Breath Bible states that if you truly want to prevent bad breath then you must use oxygenating toothpastes and mouthwashes, and ideally a tongue scraper to effectively neutralize the anaerobic bacteria from the very back of the tongue. When you use such an oxygenating toothpaste and mouthwash, you will experience a residual effect from the oxygenating tablets and nasal sinus drops solution, and it will stop the tonsil stones from ever forming again.


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I spent the better part of Monday in my yard, mowing the lawn. I came in around 2 p.m. and caught the end of the Red Sox's Patriots Day game with Tampa Bay.
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It doesn't take Bill Mies long to roll out his best-case scenario for the next 18 months. That's because the beef management consultant, and former feedyard manager and Texas A&M University academic, has always been a realist – and the reality is that change is in the offing.
"I think the best-case scenario is we have a significant strengthening of the dollar against world currencies so that grain exports are slowed," he says. Looking at it from a feedyard manager's perspective, he says that may put a little stability under the grain market, which would infuse a little stability in the cattle market.
A little. "When you're a margin operator, as feedyards are, you need to be able to predict your margin when you take risk. We can't do that today because we have no idea what the risk will be by the time we get a set of cattle finished, given the rapid way that energy and grain prices are changing our input costs."
A strengthening dollar would also help domestic beef demand, he says, though he thinks demand in the next 18 months will have more to do with the price of pork and chicken than beef.
"I think we've reached spreads between pork, poultry and beef in retail and food service that will probably impede us from adding a lot more to the value of beef until the price of pork and chicken comes up to follow it. The differences are starting to get a bit high, and when consumers have fewer dollars to spend, they tend to make the choice of the lower-cost product," he says.
So in a best-case outlook, Mies says, "we'll quit hurting so bad. It doesn't mean we're going to quit hurting at all; we're just going to quit hurting so bad and we'll inject a little more stability into our business."
Reality check. A more realistic assessment of the next 18 months is more sobering. The feeder-cattle market has been whipping and spurring its way to an unprecedented run of profitability for cow-calf producers. However, the bronc has begun to buck and it may be time to grab the saddle horn and ride it out.
Although a number of factors come into play, Mies thinks the most important is the need for the packing and feeding industry to adjust its size to supply realities.
"Emporia (KS) was the first plant closed. I don't think it will be the last," he says. "I think the packing industry will adjust itself, not absolutely to the supply of cattle, but closer to the supply of cattle than what they are today."
Feedyards also likely will adjust, something that sector has never done before. We've let pens go empty, Mies says, but in almost every previous case when a feedyard went broke, rather than locking the gates for good, it was resold, refurbished, refilled with cattle and cranked up again.
"And about five years ago, they started pouring more bunk space, and we're dramatically overbuilt for the supply of cattle in this country in the feedyard sector." That's been good for the cow-calf producer, Mies says, with feedyards bidding up the price of feeder cattle to fill pens.
"But it's kept margins low to nonexistent in the feeding area. And the feeding area simply can't bear much longer the financial beating it's been taking on the last several turns of cattle," he says.
So, for the first time to any significant degree, some feedyards may close for good. Others will refocus and become backgrounding facilities, providing feeder cattle to larger finishing yards, or replacement heifers to nearby dairies. And some will be sold, probably for cents on the dollar. "One way or another, we're going to reorder bunk space for finishing cattle to adjust it down closer to the realities of a 97-million-head cattle business in this country," he says.
Input costs. As cattle feeders adjust to a volatile grain economy, and feedyards and packing plants go through a shakeout in capacity, Mies says the guy who's going to pay for ethanol is the cow-calf producer. "The price of his product will get adjusted down to the realities of the cost of feed and the cost of beef going out the back door of the packing house."
However, he doesn't think that will decrease the size of the cowherd or cause ranches to go out of business. "We've seen cow-calf guys go through bad times before and they're tough. They stick in there and they ride it out and the calves keep coming."
Exports and demand. Beef demand, both in export markets and domestically, will continue to rise slowly, but Mies thinks there's misplaced optimism in terms of the increase in demand that exports will afford.
With the recent Korean beef agreement, our export future does have some shine to it. But it's not a done deal yet, dependent on if the U.S. upholds its end of the bargain and Congress passes the Korea-U.S. free-trade agreement (FTA).
Some senators, he says, are beginning to make noise about auto-industry issues. "But if we don't pass the FTA, our ability to put meat over there, regardless of what agreement we have, is going to be very difficult," Mies says. "I think there are a whole lot of phytosanitary standards that have never been employed that could be brought to bear to keep meat out of that country if they really want to bad enough. If we don't do an FTA, they may want to bad enough."
And it's not a lock that Japan will follow Korea's lead. More mistakes in shipping illegal product and that market may remain largely closed.
"I think exports are going to go up, but not as much as most folks predict," Mies says. "Exports will be a nice backstop in our market, but won't be the market leader in terms of runaway pricing."
Regulatory, political arena. After a long and contentious fight, the House and Senate passed a 13th hour farm bill last month containing language to make country-of-origin labeling (COOL) a little more palatable for cattlemen. But only a little.
"COOL will happen this year, but we're not even close to ready," he says. If USDA writes regulations that allow COOL to be implemented gradually and gives cattlemen time to get up and running, Mies says maybe the industry can work its way through it.
"But we won't do it without cost, and we won't do it without pain. Stack that pain on top of a time when the profit is falling out from under you, and it's going to make it that much worse."
Watering the corners. When you irrigate a square field with a circular center-pivot sprinkler, the four corners go unattended. When times are tough in the grain business, farmers water the corners to get all the production they can.
"That's where we are in the cattle industry right now. We've got to water the corners. We've got to use every last ounce of resources we can dream or scare up to cheapen this thing down as much as we can."
The next 18 months won't be dull, he says. "You'll want to stay tuned because it's going to move fast and furious. You're going to have to be tough to make it through the next 18 months – tough, smart and quick."
The next five years. High and volatile input costs – ethanol-driven grain and demand-driven fuel – may well force fundamental structural changes in the beef industry that will last for years to come, says industry consultant Bill Mies.
Take fuel, for instance. "Always before, if there was green grass somewhere, we could get cattle to harvest it. That may not be the case in the future with energy costs as high as they are. Our ability to go to grass will be affected by energy and transportation costs in ways we've never seen before."
Then there are grain costs. "One of the things this ethanol ramp-up has taught us is the importance of being able to use as many cheap byproducts in the (feedyard) ration as we possibly can," he says. That's counter to the mindset of the past 35-40 years, where feedyards tried to produce a ration as energy-dense as possible.
But ethanol-driven feed costs will force a major change in how cattle are fed. "We'll have to look at every byproduct possible," and not just grain byproducts, he says. Food processing byproducts, like reject candy, broken cookies, snack chip waste, bakery byproducts – anything that has a usable calorie in it – is on the table. "We're going to have to figure out ways to handle them in the feedmills, and in our feeding practices, in order to cheapen rations down over the long haul."


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Those new direction finders (GPS) are marvelous inventions — type in your destination and a voice tells you when to turn right or left. I first tried using one in a rental car in Texas and you can guess what happened watching Dallas-Fort Worth traffic and trying to follow instructions.
About two dozen times I missed the turn and a voice came on saying "recalculating!" I was glad some mysterious source of knowledge would get me back on track.
We all need to "recalculate" Christmas. As children, the lights and music and toys fascinate us. Then we recalculate to discover Christmas goes deeper than a brief season of festivity. We have to learn a new vocabulary, "Advent…Nativity…Incarnation…Yule…Magi… Emmanuel, etc."
Then we learn it is not just a time to exchange gifts, but to recognize the greatest GIFT God could give to earth, His presence and power in the form of a little baby. "Jesus" takes on a special meaning beyond being a great teacher, healer and helper for a few years. Recalculate to realize through the Holy Spirit He is alive and active forever.
Then we recalculate to realize Christ-mass is not just to pay homage to and service to Christ while in the flesh for 33½ years, but to "incarnate" in ourselves His mission forever.
Here it is useful to revisit the story of the wise men and especially Van Dyke's later story of "The Other Wise Man." What mysterious power "recalculated" their path to the Christ child? Caspar, Melchior and Balthazar (by added tradition) are the names of those wise men who brought gold and frankincense and myrrh while Jesus was a babe in a manger. The Bible never says there were just three wise men but mentions the three gifts, which we "calculate" to mean three wise men. Gold stood for royalty and a kingdom that would last forever. Frankincense was put on the altar with the gifts and sacrifices to God and the smoke rising symbolized that God was accepting their prayers and offering. Myrrh was for embalming, pointing to the physical death Christ would suffer to atone for our sins fulfilling "without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sin."
Then Van Dyke in his story of "The Other Wiseman" tells of a fourth who had planned to rendezvous with the others but was first delayed stopping to help a dying man. Then he was delayed again paying a ransom to free a boy Herod had ordered to be killed. And last he was delayed giving time and more of his treasure intended for Christ by saving a girl from being sold into slavery. The fourth wise man, Artaban, arrives too late. Jesus is no longer in a manger. But Arteban's message is no less a part of Christmas: helping the hurt and hungry and helpless. Artaban would experience at the end of his pilgrimage the voice of Jesus saying "As you have done it unto the least of these, you have done it unto me!"
You think Christmas is over after Dec. 25 or Jan, 6th? Recalculate! It will never be over. The Artabans best honor the spirit of Christmas as living witnesses to the Person of Christ. Their results seems slow to us, but recalculate. Jesus shall reign! (That's the theme of the Book of Revelation). Recalculate how many ways Christmas will grow and touch and transform. A blessed Christmas and New Year to you!


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With zinc sources drying up and demand forecast to surge, resource-hungry China is looking to Canada to approve two giant mines and close the gap — but environmentalists and roving caribou stand in the way.
There are rich deposits to be had at the Izok and High lakes in Nunavut, in Canada's Arctic territory, with companies anxious to build the transport links and infrastructure needed to extract the bluish-gray element and move it out.
An Australian subsidiary of Chinese state-owned Minmetals Resources has proposed that two multibillion-dollar mines be built and the Canadian government is considering granting regulatory approval for the project.
The plan would involve the partial draining of several lakes to access vast zinc deposits, building dams to divert water, as well as the construction of an airstrip and a port at Grays Bay on the central Arctic coast.
Hundreds of kilometers of roads and more than 60 bridges would complete the project. Ships would access the port through the Northwest Passage.
However, at the center of the proposal are calving grounds for the roving Bathurst caribou herd, a population that has fallen tenfold in recent decades to about 30,000 animals at the last count in 2009.
The animals begin their annual migration south after calving, but return and tend to use the same areas year after year, but a mine would present them with a different challenge altogether.
Izok Lake would have five separate underground and open-pit operations producing zinc, lead and copper. High Lake, 300km to the northeast, would have another three.
The scale of the mines have attracted concern from environmental groups — MMG, Minmentals' subsidiary, also wants to build a processing plant on-site to handle 6,000 tonnes of ore a day, a tank farm to hold 35 million liters of diesel for the operation and residential camps for hundreds of workers.
At stake are the deposits, given that the outlook for zinc presents a rich commercial opportunity.
The market for the metal is currently down with inventories at an all-time high.
However, with several large sites — including MMG's Century Mine in Queensland, Australia, and Xstrata's Brunswick Mine in easternmost Canada — scheduled to close soon and no new deposits discovered, prices are expected to rise.
Zinc is used to galvanize steel — protecting it from corrosion — as well as in the die-casting industry, and to produce brass and bronze.
Leading economies around the world and Chinese infrastructure expansion, chiefly in railways and buildings, demand zinc, as does China's developing auto sector.
The Izok Corridor deposits were acquired by Minmetals in 2009, after changing hands several times over past decades.
Stefan Ioannou, an analyst at Haywood Securities, said new sources of the metal, and the lack of obvious supply lines, was becoming increasingly stark.
Ten percent of global supply will be lost and "there's nothing to replace it," he said. "2013 will be a transitional year for zinc."
The decision on the Nunavut mines is currently with four federal ministers — for northern development, transport, natural resources and fisheries.
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When two members of the Foundation for Educational Excellence walked into her classroom, Hazel Bostick started screaming with excitement.
Bostick, a second grade teacher at Pritchardville Elementary School, was one of two teachers at the school to receive grant money from the foundation on Wednesday.
A total of 14 teachers from schools in the Beaufort County School District received a total of $5,000 for projects that will encourage educational initiatives the teachers created. Teachers proposed specific classroom learning projects that come with price tags that school budgets can't meet, so the foundation steps in, according to a release from Jim Foster, director of school and community services for the Beaufort County School District.
The foundation announces winners of the grants twice a year. Chairwoman Jan Davis-Vater and Vice Chairwoman Peggy May went classroom to classroom Wednesday to announce the grants to the winning teachers.
Bostick's proposal was to purchase more books for her classroom. Students will use the books in "literature circles," in which the students will read and discuss books together, supporting independent reading and cooperative learning. Bostick received $465.24 for her project.
"I am so excited," Bostick said after she and her class calmed from surprise. "I've been out of school for two weeks with pneumonia, so this is just a great thing to happen. I have 10 kids reading above grade level, and I've been trying to find more difficult books for them."
Carolyn Montgomery, behavior intervention specialist at Pritchardville, also was awarded a grant for $340.83 for a gardening project she proposed. Montgomery said her students will tend to an outdoor garden, where they will have the chance to learn the science and math associated with gardening.
"I'm excited, elated, overjoyed," she said. "I love to garden, and I think it's important kids are able to use their hands. What inspires me is you can plant a seed, watch the plant grow and eat the fruit from it."
Montgomery started at Pritchardville in November.
Mary Beth Roulston, vice principal at Pritchardville Elementary, said the grants will help the students.
"We could definitely use the money," she said. "The teachers are so excited. They really love what they do."
Pritchardville Elementary School was the only school to have two teachers receive grants on Wednesday.
The Foundation for Educational Excellence is hosting its spring fundraising event on March 2 from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Country Club of Hilton Head. The "Jewels and Jeans" gala will feature food, cooking demonstrations by Food Network Celebrity Chef Orchid Paulmeier and an auction. Proceeds from the event go to grants like the ones announced on Wednesday.
The first Foundation for Educational Excellence grants were given to 12 teachers in December 2009. Since then, four rounds of grants have given 50 teachers funds for projects that affected thousands of students.


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Accelerating the development of the "smart grid" will have dramatic positive implications for energy usage, efficiency and costs. One of the many benefits that the smart grid offers utilities is the ability to communicate with homes and commercial buildings in order to manage the balance between electricity generation and load during peak usage times. For homeowners, the smart grid will provide personalized usage and pricing information as well as energy management tools, which they can use to more efficiently manage their energy needs and reduce costs. In a typical smart grid deployment, the utility installs and manages a proprietary home network and a smart meter, which serves as the gateway that connects the home or commercial building to the grid. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, 20.3 million smart meters were in operation nationwide in 2010 – 18.4 million were residential customers and the other 1.9 million were commercial and light industrial installations. Despite some early success with smart grid deployment, it still faces significant barriers, including the costs of the smart meters, which are owned by utilities and are a pass-through cost to customers. The proprietary nature of the various utilities' home networking systems and smart meters adds complexity and additional cost that further erode the value proposition. As a result, the search for innovative new ways to connect energy users to the smart grid is ongoing, and one of the most promising solutions has a base right here in Northeast Ohio. Intwine Energy, a private company founded in 2010 and based in Chagrin Falls, has developed a system that can use in-home broadband wireless networks and the internet to facilitate smart, two-way communications with the grid. The Intwine system, has three main elements: • Web-connected "smart energy" devices, including a whole-house power monitor, internet-connected thermostat and smart plugs • Cloud computing-based analytics • Integrated local and remote user interfaces, which include a Web portal, smart phone apps and in-home display The Intwine approach leverages existing broadband and internet infrastructure to enable homeowners to monitor and adjust their energy usage in real time, which has significant energy efficiency and cost benefits. Intwine's technology is highly adaptable – its broadband network-based system can interface with a smart meter or the internet to connect to the utility grid. Intwine's most significant installation to date involves approximately 500 homes in Oklahoma in spring 2012. "We believe being able to tap into the existing internet connectivity in broadband-equipped homes and use the World Wide Web, rather than having to rely so much on proprietary, 'closed' systems, offers significant benefits to homeowners and utilities," said Dave Martin, president and founder of Intwine Energy. "Our systems enhance collaboration between the homeowner and the utility. As a result, energy users can customize their energy management practices based on their lifestyle, and energy producers can meet their demand management commitments without having to engineer and deploy their own proprietary systems." The drive for internet -based grid communications seems to be accelerating, led by the development of open source network standards, known as OpenADR (automated demand response), which are nearing completion. OpenADR will provide an open and standardized way for electricity providers and system operators to communicate with each other and with their customers using a common language over the internet. The smart grid will get smarter and become more ubiquitous – increasingly relying on internet -based systems that provide a customized, highly scalable gateway to the power grid.
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Morning Five: 08.05.13 EditionPosted by nvr1983 on August 5th, 2013
- One of the more secretive parts of college athletics (and there are many such areas) is how schools go about looking for coaches and administrators. In the past they were largely just given through what can best be described as an old boys network. Today, these decisions are largely made through executive search agencies. Dana O'Neil was able to go inside Parker Executive Search, the most well-known firm, to see what exactly it is that they do. According to Parker, they simply collect data and help arrange for meetings despite all of the rumors that they essentially pick out who should be the choice. While this is all nice in theory it should be obvious to everybody that they can only search so deeply and occasionally miss things that others might consider fairly obvious like the accusations against new Rutgers AD Julie Hermann.
- It will not be "The Decision II" in terms of being a media spectacle, but when Jahil Okafor and Tyus Jones announce where they are committing you can be sure it will be a big day at least in the college basketball world. Okafor, the #1 recruit in the country, and Jones, a top-5 player, are reportedly a package deal and according to Mike Irvin, Okafor's AAU coach, Duke appears to be the leader for the pair. This is backed up by sources close to Jones saying Duke is the leader for him too. Of course, Okafor's father denies that anybody is in the lead, but we doubt that he would come out and say that with so many schools in pursuit. The fact that Duke could land such a significant pair of recruits is not really shocking, but it has been a while since Duke landed two such highly regarded players in the same class.
- Jeff Goodman may have left CBS for ESPN, but apparently CBS got to keep his transfer list. Although he does not include every single transfer out there Jeff Borzello put together a summary of the biggest transfers separating them into those that can play immediately, those that will have to sit out a year, and those that are in limbo as well as those that just needed a change in scenery. With all the attention paid to the top high school recruits coming in a lot of people gloss over some pretty high-impact transfers and Borzello's list does a great job at reminding you of the most important transfers so if you are unclear on where everybody transferred (and it is almost impossible to keep track of everybody) this is a great place to start.
- He may have not been a successful head coach (honestly, we had almost forgotten he was a college coach) so we cannot say that we are shocked that Corliss Williamson has left Central Arkansas to become an assistant coach with the Sacramento Kings. Williamson is best known as the star of the Arkansas teams that made back-to-back national championship games winning the title in 1994, but he also went on to have a successful NBA career winning NBA Sixth Man of the Year in 2002. Unfortunately Williamson's college coaching career was not as successful as he went 26-62 in 3 seasons. Still he will have his name to fall back on if and when he decides to move on from his new job in Sacramento.
- Normally this space is reserved for fairly light material, but when a former Division I assistant coach is labeled as "Islamic jihadist" it catches our eye. Such is the case of former Northern Colorado assistant Christopher Craig who has reportedly threatened Catholics and Mormons in both Arizona and Colorado. As a result authorities in Colorado are warning churches in the state to be on the lookout for Craig. Now we do not want to get into geopolitical/social issues and a loaded term like "Islamic jihadist" will certainly make this story become a bigger point of discussion than if they had chosen any other religion. Based on the reports it appears that Craig's threats were limited to primarily verbal, which certainly does not excuse them, but hopefully someone reaches Craig before he goes beyond a point that he cannot come back from.


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A Colorado woman is suing Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains and one of its doctors for an abortion nightmare that included an emergency room visit for high-risk surgery because the abortionist left part of the dead baby inside.
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"It is considered 'abandonment' of your patient. It is not acceptable to refer your patients to the Emergency Department and assume the on-call doctor will take care of any complications and assume all the risk…" wrote Dr. Steven A. Foley of the situation.
He responded to the ER at Penrose Hospital in Colorado Springs when the woman, Ayanna Byer, 40, arrived in distress.
According to a report from the Alliance Defending Freedom, a Planned Parenthood abortionist first forced her to have the abortion without anesthesia and then left behind parts of the baby's body.
According to the lawsuit, the abortionist proceeded even after Byer decided not to go through with procedure.
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The suit says Planned Parenthood workers discovered her pregnancy was further along than they realized, so an abortion pill was no longer an option. The suit says the defendants pressured her to make an immediate decision on whether to proceed with a surgical abortion. Byer agreed if she could have anesthesia. But a clinic worker could not find a vein to insert an I.V.
The legal action claims Byer immediately told the doctor to stop and that she did not want to have the abortion without anesthesia. She also told doctors she believed that was a sign that she should not go through with the abortion, the complaint explains.
But the suit says the doctor did not stop, instead assuring her the I.V. would be administered and the procedure would take only a few minutes.
According to the complaint, the Planned Parenthood doctor then "proceeded to use the vacuum machines while plaintiff was fully awake and had not received any anesthetic despite their agreement. Plaintiff was forced to feel the full pain of the procedure against her will."
After the abortion, Byer experienced increasing pain, bleeding and hot and cold flashes, the complaint filed in El Paso County District Court says.
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After two days she barely had enough strength to make it to an emergency room in Colorado Springs. The staff there, according to the suit, said she needed emergency surgery because "the Planned Parenthood doctor failed to finish the abortion procedure and had left particles of the fetus inside plaintiff's body that had caused an infection."
Byer had to wait four hours in pain before a gynecologist could be found to perform the surgery, the lawsuit explains.
The emergency room doctor who assisted Byer filed a statement saying she "was septic with a high fever and elevated white count. She required an immediate high-risk surgery to remove the remaining tissue that had been left during the previous procedure done at Planned Parenthood. Because of the continued pain and heavy bleeding, I was concerned that the patient might have had an ectopic pregnancy. I called Planned Parenthood the following day to inquire about pathology results to only learn that no pathology is done on abortion patients. The doctor performing the abortion 'looks' at the tissue and makes a diagnosis."
The doctor's statement continued, "It is medically inappropriate for a physician to remove products of conception and not confirm the diagnosis with pathology. I know of no physician or hospital that would allow the removal of a specimen of this nature and assume what the diagnosis was by just 'looking' at it."
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Attorney Doug Romero said, "What Planned Parenthood did to Ayanna is beyond the pale. They clearly put her through extraordinary cruelty and jeopardized her life. Their actions were intolerable."
The action against Planned Parenthood and a "John Doe" physician employed there seeks a judgment "in the amount which will fully compensate plaintiff for her injuries and damages in the past, present and future including for … medical expenses, for past, present and future pain and suffering, for personal injuries, for emotional distress, for loss of the ability to enjoy life as she did before the event, for permanent physical injuries and for other non-economic damages…"
The complaint cites the abortion industry giant's breach of fiduciary duty, breach of contract, the extreme and outrageous conduct, false imprisonment, uninformed consent, negligence and battery.
"Is this the type of organization American taxpayers should be funding to the tune of $540 million per year?" said Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Michael J. Norton, a former U.S. attorney for the district of Colorado who helped author an Alliance Defending Freedom report to the U.S. House of Representatives on the fraudulent use of public funding by Planned Parenthood affiliates. "American tax dollars should be used responsibly and for the common good. Planned Parenthood is irresponsible and only promotes its own self-interest. That was clearly seen most vividly in what they did to Ayanna."


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major macro economic indicators
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|Inflation (yearly average, %)
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- Diverse natural resources (agriculture, energy, mining)
- Highly competitive thanks to low labour costs
- Growing tourism industry (5.8% of GDP)
- Huge internal market
- Strong banking sector
- Sovereign bonds rated "Investment Grade" by the three main rating agencies
- Large infrastructure investment gap
- Exports of commodities dependent on Chinese demand
- Market fragmentation: extensive archipelago with numerous islands and diverse ethnic groups
- High unemployment and poverty rates sharpening inter-ethnic tensions
- Persistent corruption and lack of transparency
Risk assessment
Growth buoyed by internal demand
Growth will remain strong in 2019, driven mostly by private consumption (56% of GDP). Consumption is fostered by population growth, ever growing urbanisation, and a rise in per capita GDP, enabling the emergence of a middle class. In 2019, the adverse effects of high inflation on consumption should be mitigated by measures to keep food and energy prices in check, and public spending associated with the election campaigns. Inflation growth stems from higher oil prices, a weaker rupiah, and impacts from natural disasters. It is nonetheless expected to remain within Bank Indonesia (BI)'s target range (4±1%). Private investment will be deterred by rising interest rates combined with worsening investor sentiment, stemming from global protectionism and slower demand from China. Investment growth (32% of GDP) shall nonetheless hold steady thanks to government support for infrastructure projects. Through the infrastructure development program launched by President Joko Widowo's government in 2016 (225 priority infrastructure projects), projects are financed both publically and via PPP, attracting foreign investors. Moreover, the President's reform agenda successfully improved the still poor business climate, with Indonesia jumping 33 places in the Doing Business Index since 2016 to reach the 73rd rank in 2019. However, reforms are not complete and some projects have struggled to secure financing (only 26 of 225 were completed as of March 2018 and half of the required USD 327 billion had been collected). The mining sector will contribute positively to growth thanks to the pick-up in crude oil prices after several years of stalling performance. Manufacturing will continue to grow steadily, albeit less vigorously due to dimmer Chinese and global demand. Moreover, exports (23.4% of GDP) of manufactured goods and commodities (oil and gas, palm oil, copra, lignite, and copper) are dynamic, but they are offset by a faster increase in imports. The tourism sector will continue to underperform due to the lack of infrastructure in most regions of thecountry.
Budget balance under control, moderate pressure on current account, and capital outflow risk
The budget deficit is constrained by a constitutional limit of 3%. The government has embarked on reforms meant to increase tax collection, repatriate capital kept in foreign accounts (including tax havens), and control expenditure. These will compensate the increase in spending associated with the coming elections, with the control of fuel prices, and with reconstruction efforts in the aftermath of the 2018 tsunami – although spending cuts could be announced after the elections in April 2019. Curtailing of the deficit will maintain public debt at low levels. Nevertheless, the government may encounter financing challenges in a context of global monetary policy normalisation associated with higher interest rates and lower liquidity.
The current account deficit will remain high. The higher oil bill will not be compensated by the increased price of exported crude oil and gas. In addition, capital goods import growth, linked to the government's investment program, will be not compensated by the steady growth of merchandise exports. To mitigate the trade deficit, the government will continue to curb import growth via import permits or import centralisation. All in all, the main cause of the current account deficit will continue to lie in the income account because of debt interest payments and the repatriation of dividends. In addition, the context of global monetary tightening induces risk of outflows, as, over the past few years, the current account deficit was financed by FDI inflows and portfolio investments, and public debt was largely funded by international investors. Moreover, the deterioration of the external position further strengthens depreciation pressures on the rupiah. In this context, and although inflation is contained, BI will continue to hike interest rates in 2019 to defend the currency and limit outflows. Although foreign reserves remain at an adequate level, they will be reduced by BI intervention on forex markets.
Popular Joko Widowo on track to secure the presidential election
In power since 2014, Joko "Jokowi" Widowo enjoys great popularity thanks to the economic progress achieved, his extensive infrastructure program, and his reform agenda. Polls present him as frontrunner for the April 2019presidential elections. For the first time, these elections are concurrent with those of Parliament, which should ensure more collaboration in reforms for the next mandate. All the same, Mr Jokowi will have to contend with a growingly polarised electorate. A climate of civil insecurity, following several suicide bomb attacks in 2018, is certainly not helping. Meanwhile, measures to keep food prices in check are not resonating well with the rural population, many of which are dependent on revenues from the sale of agricultural crops. This part of the electorate is in fact already tilting towards the opposition candidate, Prabowo Subianto (Gerindra Party), a businessman and former commander of Indonesia Special Forces. Previously a contender in 2014, he is supported by ultra-conservative Muslims.
Last update : February 2019
Cash, cheques, and bank transfers are each popular means of payment in Indonesia. SWIFT bank transfers are becoming more popular as an instrument of payment for both international and domestic transactions due to the well-developed banking network in Indonesia.
Standby Letters of Credit constitute a reliable means of payment because a bank guarantees the debtor's quality and repayment abilities. Furthermore, the Confirmed Documentary Letters of Credit are also considered reliable, as a certain amount of money is made available to a beneficiary through a bank.
Debt collection
Amicable phase
The first step to recovering a debt is to negotiate the issue with the debtor to attempt to resolve the issue amicably. There is an inherent Indonesian culture and ideology (Pancasila) where amicable settlement is encouraged. Creditors usually issue a summon/warning letter to the debtor, which outlines a statement concerning the debtor's breach of commitment. The letter also calls for a discussion to determine whether the dispute should be settled through the court system. If the amicable phrase does not result in a settlement, the parties may trigger legal action.
Legal proceedings
The Indonesian judicial system comprises several types of courts under the oversight of the Supreme Court. Most disputes appear before the courts of general jurisdiction, with the Court of First Instance being the State Court. Appeals from these courts are heard before the High Court (a district court of appeal). Appeal from the High Court, and in some instances from the State Court, may be made to the Supreme Court.
Ordinary proceedings
Ordinary legal action may commence when the parties have been unable to reach a compromise during the amicable phase. The creditor may file a claim with the District Court, who is subsequently responsible for serving the debtor with a Writ of Summons. If the debtor fails to appear at the hearing to lodge a statement of defence, the court has discretion to organize a second hearing or to release a default judgment (Verstekvonnis).
Prior to considering the debtor's defence, as previously mentioned, the court must first verify whether the parties have tried to reach an agreement or amicable settlement through mediation). If the parties have undergone the mediation process, the panel of judges will continue the hearings and the parties' evidence will be examined. The judge will render a decision and may award remedies in the form of compensatory or punitive damages.
District Court will usually take from six months to a year before rendering a decision in the first instance. The proceedings may take longer when a case involves a foreign party.
Enforcement of a legal decision
When all appeal venues have been exhausted, a domestic judgment becomes final and enforceable. If the debtor does not comply with the judge decision, the creditor may request the District Court to commend execution by way of attachment and sale of the debtor's assets through public action.
Indonesia is not part to any treaty concerning reciprocal enforcement of judgments, making it highly difficult to enforce foreign judgments in Indonesia, or to enforce Indonesian court decisions abroad. Because foreign judgements cannot be enforced by Indonesian courts within the territory of Indonesia, foreign cases must therefore be re-litigated in the competent Indonesian courts. In such a case, the foreign court judgment may serve as evidence, but this is subject to certain exceptions as regulated by other Indonesian regulations.
Insolvency proceedings
There are two main procedures for companies who are experiencing financial difficulties:
Suspension of payments proceedings
This procedure is aimed at companies that are facing temporary liquidity problems and are unable to pay their debts, but may be able to do so at some point in the future. It provides debtors with the temporary relief to reorganize and continue their business, and to ultimately satisfy their creditors' claims. The company continues its business activities under the management of its directors, accompanied by a court-appointed administrator under the supervision of a judge. The company must submit a composition plan for the creditors' approval and for ratification by the court. The rejection of the plan by the creditors or the court will result in the debtor's liquidation.
The objective of liquidation is to impose a general attachment over the assets of bankrupt debtors for the purpose of satisfying the claims of their creditors. It can be initiated by either the debtor or its creditors before the Commercial Court. Following the submission of the petition, the court will summon the debtor and its creditors to attend a court hearing. Once bankruptcy has been declared, the directors of the debtor company lose the power to manage the company, which is transferred to the court-appointed receiver who then manage the bankruptcy estate and the settlement of the debts. The debtor's assets will be sold by way of public auction by the appointed receiver.


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Gaston County commissioners could vote to merge their two largest departments in two weeks, potentially giving them more direct oversight on spending and other key decisions.
Gaston County commissioners could vote to merge their two largest departments in two weeks, potentially giving them more direct oversight on spending and other key decisions.
A vote will likely be taken Feb. 28 on whether to consolidate the Health Department and Department of Social Services. Before that, a public hearing will be held, allowing employees and concerned residents a chance to weigh in.
At least one Gaston leader said Thursday he�d rather proceed cautiously than jumping into the pool with a slew of other counties that are merging the two agencies.
�I�d like to sit back and learn from others� mistakes, and the good things they do, rather than rushing into it,� said Commissioner Tom Keigher.
Others, including Commissioners Tracy Philbeck and Jason Williams, see this as an opportunity to lead the pack. Yet they also feel much consideration has already gone into the decision.
�This is something that�s been looked at since far before I was on the board,� said Williams, who took office last month. �This isn�t something where three to four weeks ago we suddenly said, �Hey, this is a good idea, let�s move forward with it.��
Proponents of a merger believe it would lead to cost savings. It could also improve services and convenience, they argue, because the majority of people who use the Health Department�s services are also DSS clients.
The county�s social services and health departments employ 375 and 205 workers, respectively. Both have multi-million-dollar budgets that depend largely on federal funds.
DSS serves more than 40,000 people through Medicaid, and more than 40,000 in food nutrition services, though some of those are duplicate clients.
The Health Department had more than 18,000 visits from unduplicated patients in 2012.
Both departments now have their own boards of directors, which are appointed by the commissioners. A merger would likely lead to layers being eliminated, such as through one consolidated health and human services board.
A team of county staff members recently visited Asheville to talk to Buncombe County officials about how a department merger has affected them since 2005.
Gaston County Assistant Manager Phil Ponder said Buncombe has estimated seeing $10 million in cost savings and cost avoidance in the last seven years.
Keigher said he�s not opposed to consolidating anything if it�s going to improve service and reduce cost. But he questioned those perceived cost savings.
�I think it�s somewhat of a shell game, if you think we�re going to see those kinds of savings,� he said. �We�ve got two departments that are working very well, and from where I�m standing, they�re doing it with budgets that are underfunded.�
Williams emphasized that money isn�t the only thing guiding the board�s decision.
�I think we need to consider that it�s more than just cost savings,� he said. �It�s also about providing better services to people in the county.�
You can reach Michael Barrett at 704-869-1826 or twitter.com/GazetteMike.
Want to go? The Gaston County Board of Commissioners will hold a public hearing Feb. 28 to discuss the consolidation of its Department of Social Services and Health Department, after which the commission is expected to vote on the matter. The meeting will be held at 6 p.m. at the Gaston County Courthouse, 325 N. Marietta St., Gastonia.


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Break out those No. 52 jerseys, Baltimore Ravens fans, because Sunday probably will be the last time you see Ray Lewis patrolling the field at M&T Bank Stadium.
The longtime face of the franchise announced Wednesday that he will retire after the playoffs following 17 mostly sterling seasons, telling his teammates that "this will be my last ride."
"I talked to my team today, and I talked to them about life in general," Lewis told news reporters at the Ravens' Owings Mills, Md., headquarters. "Everything that starts has to end.
"I just felt so much peace in my decision because of everything I've done in this league.
"I've only played the game to make my team be a better team. And now God is calling in so many other areas of life. And my children have made the ultimate sacrifice for their father. ... I've done what I've wanted to do in this business.
"I'll make this last run with my team, and I'll give (the Ravens) everything I've got."
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Lewis, who has missed 10 games since tearing his right triceps Oct. 15, called this a bittersweet time. Though he has missed being in the Ravens locker room full time in recent weeks, he has relished the opportunity to watch his sons play high school football. His oldest son, Ray Lewis III, will enroll at the University of Miami (Fla.) in the fall.
"I can't miss that," said Ray Lewis, who promised he wouldn't miss watching his son's games at his alma mater.
Lewis' final NFL season won't go down as one of his most memorable. He has been feverishly rehabbing his injury, which is a season ender for most NFL players, for the past three months. But he couldn't forgo an opportunity to make one more run at a Lombardi Trophy.
"I'm not going out like this," Lewis said he told Baltimore general manager Ozzie Newsome after he was initially hurt. "Pain was the last thing on my mind."
He was activated from the club's short-term injured reserve list Dec. 26 but didn't suit up in the regular-season finale against the Cincinnati Bengals.
He plans to be in uniform Sunday against the Indianapolis Colts in the wild-card round and says his arm is 100% healed.
"I was challenged to be that leader from afar," Lewis said. "It's always good to be back in the saddle.
"I've probably been through just the craziest 12 weeks of training (to get back)."
Colts coach Chuck Pagano became a big Lewis fan while serving as the Ravens defensive coordinator.
"Nobody studied the game and prepared as well as Ray, and he taught so many how to do that," Pagano said in a conference call Wednesday. "He is such a great mentor, such a great leader in that respect. He always had great insight and great perspective, not only going into a game but for what was transpiring on that football field, and he communicated that not only to myself but to many coordinators before me. He was awesome."
The only scenario that would allow for another Ravens home game this season would require them to host the Bengals in the AFC Championship Game.
"It's amazing, and it's sad all at the same time," Baltimore outside linebacker Terrell Suggs said of his longtime teammate's choice to hang up the pads.
Suggs added: "If this is going to be our last ride, we need to make it one to remember."
Lewis said, "It's time for me to create a new legacy."
Few NFL legacies are more impressive.
Lewis has been a member of the Ravens since the team came into existence in the 1996 season as the rechristened and relocated Cleveland Browns.
He was a first-round pick (along with Jonathan Ogden) in the franchise's first Baltimore draft and went on to become a 13-time Pro Bowler, seven-time first-team all-pro and two-time NFL defensive player of the year. His work habits in the weight room, film room and practice field are the stuff of legend.
If he's not the greatest middle linebacker in league history he's on a very short list.
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"When you talk about great defensive players, Ray ranks favorably with the (Lawrence Taylors), the Reggie Whites, the Dick Butkuses, whoever you want to put up there. I don't think you can go very far without talking about Ray Lewis and his accomplishments," said Hall of Fame tight end Shannon Sharpe, who played with Lewis and is a CBS analyst.
"Seventy-five to 80% of people will say Ray was the greatest middle linebacker whoever lived. Some will say Dick Butkus. Some will say this one or Mike Singletary. That's always subject to debate."
Lewis is the lone remaining player from the Ravens' 2000 title team, whose calling card was the Lewis-led defense that is among the best of all time. He was the MVP of Baltimore's 34-7 win vs. the New York Giants in Super Bowl XXXV.
"I can't picture Baltimore without him," Ravens running back Ray Rice said.
"Baltimore is Ray Lewis."
There's little doubt Lewis will join his boss, Newsome, in the Hall of Fame as soon as he's eligible.
"Ray Lewis will not only be remembered as one of the greatest to play his position, he will also be thought of as one of the greatest players in NFL history. And he is one of the greatest without a doubt," Newsome, who was enshrined for his work as a Browns tight end, said in a statement.
"He had the one quality all of the best have: He made all the players, coaches and people around him better. It has been a privilege and a joy to be with him throughout his career. We in the Ravens have been very fortunate to be around this great man and player."
And Lewis certainly will be defined by far more than his bonecrushing hits and sideline-to-sideline play.
He long has provided the emotional fuel for the Ravens, and his stadium-amping pregame dance became a calling card.
Perhaps more importantly, Lewis became a mentor and father figure to teammates and numerous players around the league as his career progressed. He often refers to his deep Christian faith and has been enlisted as a motivational speaker at various venues, including Harvard's business school.
Lewis' coach with the 2000 Ravens, Brian Billick, still marvels at the field general who helped him get a ring.
"When you as a coach stand in front of your 53 quasi-millionaires and there's Ray Lewis — front and center, book open, eyes at the ready — and you've got some rookie or second-year player slouched down in the back, book's not open because he doesn't know what it's like to be a professional ... what a great opportunity I had as a coach and anybody who's coached Ray to say, 'Are you kidding me?' " recalls Billick, who said veterans were perfectly happy to let Lewis lead even when he'd only been a pro for four years.
"If he saw someone who was not being a professional, you knew at some point he was going to cozy up to him and throw his arm around him. And not be the kind to embarrass him or call him out but pull him aside and say, 'Hey, let's go look at some film. Let me show you where you ought to be looking. Let's get another set of reps in the weight room. Let's stay after practice and go over a couple of things with you.' He did that all the time."
It's all quite a contrast to those long-ago images of him in an orange jumpsuit in Georgia before he agreed to a guilty plea to a misdemeanor charge of obstruction of justice after being initially indicted on murder and aggravated assault charges stemming from an Atlanta homicide in January 2000.
However, it didn't take long for Lewis to rebrand his image, and the Atlanta incident (all those charged were acquitted, and no one was ever convicted of the crime) seemed to quickly recede.
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"In recent history, I can't really think of a player who has been as valuable to a team as Ray has been," former teammate Jamal Lewis said. "He's a different player, as far as his physicality, his passion off the field, his work ethic, and at the same time he can lead vocally. You don't have all of that in one player, and I think that's what makes him a Hall of Famer and probably the best linebacker to ever play the game."
Jamal Lewis added: "I think when you have a guy like him who is on a pedestal, when you have someone like that who is removed from the situation, somebody else will rise to the occasion. Those young players came in there following Ray Lewis, learning from Ray Lewis, being around Ray Lewis in the locker room every day. He instilled a lot in a lot of players. Somebody else will rise to the occasion. He was the standard of what the Baltimore Ravens attitude is all about."
Billick has one memory from the 2000 team he feels accurately sums up No. 52.
"We were playing Cleveland and we had a record number of shutouts going. That was important to that team. They wanted to get shutouts," Billick recalled.
"Well we open up the game and (the Browns) proceed to go 86 yards on the opening drive to score. So the shutout is gone. Well, as the defense is coming off the field, I'm walking down the sideline getting ready to do my head-coaching thing, and Ray is the first one off. And he just says, 'Don't say a thing. I've got it.' So I make a hard left turn to the Gatorade, going, 'OK.' And they had (112) yards total for the day.
"So I think the message Ray laid out for them was pretty clear."
Contributing: USA TODAY Sports' Jim Corbett, Mike Garafolo and Robert Klemko