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Boston's great escape: Hitless early, Red Sox stun Tigers
BOSTON -- The Boston Red Sox, no-hit into the sixth inning of Sunday's Game 2 of the American League Championship Series, rallied from five runs down to stun the Detroit Tigers 6-5.
David Ortiz hit a tying grand slam in the eighth inning, and Jarrod Saltalamacchia drove in the winning run in the ninth, tying tie the best-of-seven series at a game apiece.
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The Red Sox are only down 1-0 in the series, but try to channel some comeback magic by having Dave Roberts, the man whose stolen base sparked Boston's 2004 comeback from a 3-0 ALCS deficit against the New York Yankees, throw out the ceremonial first pitch. Roberts is now a coach for the San Diego Padres, but he will always be associated with Boston, and probably never has to buy a meal here as long as he lives.
Clay Buchholz cruises through an easy top of the first inning, getting Austin Jackson to ground out, Torii Hunter to strike out, and Miguel Cabrera to fly to center. It's neat and tidy, and a nice way for Boston to settle in after watching Tom Brady's touchdown pass to lift the Patriots over the Saints, which was on all the television screens in the Fenway Park concourses.
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Max Scherzer's first inning is only slightly more taxing because after Jacoby Ellsbury grounds out, the Detroit righthander hits Shane Victorino in the arm with a pitch -- the postseason-record fifth time this year, in six games, that Victorino has been plunked. Scherzer, who struck out more batters this year than anyone in baseball other than Yu Darvish, simply goes into another gear to punch out Dustin Pedroia on a changeup and Ortiz on a fastball. That brings Boston's tally to 19 strikeouts in 10 innings against Detroit pitching.
After Buchholz evens the night's strikeout competition at two apiece by fannning Prince Fielder, the first hit of the night goes to Tigers designated hitter Victor Martinez, an opposite-field double off the Green Monster. Jhonny Peralta follows by ripping a single to left field, hit much too hard for Martinez to even think about scoring, even if he did not have to hold up to make sure the ball got through to the outfield. The hit brings Peralta to 9-for-17 in the playoffs.
Alex Avila is only 3-for-19 in the playoffs, but he gets the Tigers' third straight hit, another hard-hit ball that sails into center field. The single drives in Martinez with the game's first run, and the Tigers are threatening for more with runners on first and second. Omar Infante hits another ball hard from Buchholz, but fortunately for Boston, this is a ground ball right to Stephen Drew. It's hit so hard that Drew has to knock the ball down, but he has plenty of time to pick it up, throw to second, and start an inning-ending 6-4-3 double play.
Presented with the lead, Scherzer switches from striking out Red Sox swinging to striking out Red Sox looking, getting Mike Carp and Jonny Gomes. Saltalamacchia grounds out to second base to end the inning, one of those shutdown innings that get so much publicity this time of year. So far in this series, the Red Sox have been shut down in every inning, all 11 of them. They have one hit and 21 strikeouts.
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Buchholz gets defensive help in the third inning, as Drew makes an over-the-shoulder catch of a Don Kelly flare into short center field, and then Pedroia makes a headlong dive to snag a grounder from Jackson in short right field. Buchholz then strikes out Hunter for the second time to complete his second 1-2-3 inning of the evening.
Drew has words for home plate umpire Rob Drake after he is called out on strikes, but replay shows that the pitch from Scherzer came in at the knees, and Drake made a good call. Will Middlebrooks strikes out swinging, so there's no controversy there, and after Ellsbury walks, Victorino goes down swinging. That's 24 strikeotus in 12 innings, with one hit for the Red Sox in the series -- a third of the way through this game, the figures are seven and zero. Good pitching may beat good hitting, but so far, this is ridiculous.
The Tigers also are striking out at a pretty good clip. Cabrera and Fielder become the fourth and fifth K's for Buchholz, who then hits Martinez with a pitch -- actually, not Martinez so much as the sleeve on Martinez's jersey, but it's enough to get Martinez on first base with two outs. Peralta hits a routine grounder that Drew plays off his glove, but the Tigers cannot cash in on the two-out gift because Avila hits a lazy fly to center field.
Pedroia strikes out -- the eighth batter out of the last 10 to go down on strikes against Scherzer. The favorite for the American League Cy Young Award puts Ortiz on base with four straight out of the zone, but then gets out of the inning with a 4-6-3 double play from Carp, whose insertion into the lineup in favor of Mike Napoli is not exactly paying dividends to this point. The double play does snap Scherzer's streak of multiple-strikeout innings at three, but it still does not remove the zero from the scoreboard under "R" or "H" on the Red Sox line.
Buchholz has not allowed a hit since Avila's RBI single, and that continues through a 1-2-3 fifth inning as Infante grounds out to third, Kelly strikes out, and Jackson flies to center. Boston's starter has six strikeouts and has allowed one run on three hits through five frames, but just like Jon Lester in Game 1, it's paling in comparison to his opposite number. If this were the National League, maybe Buchholz could do something to help himself, but he can only watch from the dugout to see what his teammates will do.
What Buchholz gets to watch is Gomes striking out, the ninth whiff against Scherzer in the game. Saltalamacchia becomes the first Red Sox hitter to get a ball out of the infield, and he does so very loudly, but after taking a circuitous route to the high fly ball, Hunter makes the catch on the warning track in right field. Drew bounces out to first base, and for the third straight game, a Tigers starter has a no-hitter through five innings, with Scherzer following Anibal Sanchez in Game 1 and Justin Verlander in Game 5 of the division series in Oakland. The Red Sox are the first team in postseason history to go without a hit in the first five innings of back-to-back games.
The Tigers scored in the sixth inning of Game 1, and they score in the sixth inning of Game 2. In the opener, Cabrera went station-to-station to score, but this time around, he takes care of the trip home himself, belting a high fly over the Green Monster for a 2-0 Tigers lead with one out. That is followed by a double off the big wall by Fielder, and then Martinez's second double of the game makes it a 3-0 game. Peralta flies to center for the second out of the inning.
Avila, who hit 11 home runs during the regular season, launches his first of the playoffs over the Tigers' bullpen in right field, and it's a 5-0 game. Given that the Red Sox have one hit in 14 innings, and 12 outs to go against Scherzer and the Detroit bullpen, it's hard to see a way back for them in this game. Boston's bullpen is working, but not fast enough to be ready in time before Buchholz gives up one more hit, a single to center by Infante. Finally, Brandon Workman enters the game to face Kelly, and walks him, which every manager loves to see when a reliever comes into the game. Workman does get Jackson to ground out to third base to end the inning, which drops the Detroit leadoff man to 3-for-29 in teh playoffs, but he has not added to his total of 15 strikeouts tonight.
At 5-0, the question now is about Scherzer and the chase for history, which is suddenly a recurring theme in these playoffs for the can-you-top-this rotation of the Tigers. Scherzer starts the sixth inning by collecting his 10th strikeout -- the second time Middlebrooks has gone down swinging. Ellsbury then pops up into foul territory, and Cabrera makes the catch for the second out.
Victorino ends the latest bid for history with a clean single to left field, and then Pedroia gets the Red Sox on the board after 14.2 scoreless innings. The second baseman's blast to left field does not get over the Green Monster, but it does go off the wall for a double, and Victorino races around to score. Scherzer decides that's enough, and he gets Ortiz on a sharp-biting pitch in the dirt for strikeout No. 11.
Workman continues in the seventh inning, and gets Hunter to bounce out to first base before Cabrera pulverizes a pitch to dead center field. Only because the ball is hit to dead center field, and because Ellsbury has good range, does Cabrera not add to his slugging percentage. It's Ellsbury's sixth putout of the game, and the last pitch Workman will throw. Lefthander Felix Doubront comes in to face Fielder, and does his job successfully, getting a groundout to end the inning.
Scherzer, clearly still angry about being the first Tigers pitcher in the series to allow a run, matches Sanchez's strikeout total from Game 1 when he fans Carp, then passes Sanchez with punchout No. 13, Gomes' third of the night. A simple groundout by Saltalamacchia ends the seventh, and judging from the hugs he receives in the Detroit dugout, Scherzer's night.
Tigers starters have allowed two hits in 13 innings through the first two games of the ALCS, while striking out 25 Red Sox batters. Verlander pitches in Game 3, and he's coming off eight innings of shutout ball in his last start. That means that Doug Fister is basically Ringo Starr, and Rick Porcello is Pete Best. Maybe that's a harsh analogy, but Porcello probably doesn't care, given that he's six outs away from being six wins away from a World Series ring. Doubront speeds things along by working around a two-out walk to Avila in a scoreless frame.
Hugs tell the story, and Scherzer's night is indeed over, as Jose Veras enters for the bottom of the eighth. Peralta also gets some time to relax and enjoy the spoils of likely victory, with Jose Iglesias coming in to play shortstop against his former club. Iglesias is immediately tested on a grounder from Drew, which he turns into the first out, and then Middlebrooks creates a stir with a double down the left field line. Looking further ahead, Pedroia could have a chance to be the tying run if everyone gets on base, and Leyland also is looking further ahead -- he calls to the bullpen for Drew Smyly to face Ellsbury. Smyly walks Ellsbury, so Leyland calls to the bullpen again for Al Alburquerque to face Victorino. That confrontation results in a strikeout, but then Pedroia singles to right field, loading the bases as Middlebrooks holds up at third base with Hunter charging in to field the ball in right field. It's a decision that ensures Ortiz comes up as the tying run.
Joaquin Benoit comes in to try for a four-out save, and that attempt lasts all of one pitch. Ortiz sends a screaming line drive just over Hunter's outstretched glove, and into the outstretched glove of Boston's bullpen catcher. Hunter tumbles over the wall as Ortiz rounds the bases with a game-tying grand slam, but he emerges OK -- there is no injury added to the insult of the game suddenly being 5-5.
Benoit recovers to strike out Napoli, pinch-hitting for Carp. It's the 15th strikeout of a Boston batter on the night. That count suddenly does not matter so much.
Napoli stays in at first base, and Koji Uehara heads to the mound for the ninth inning for the Red Sox. He does what he usually does, pitching a 1-2-3 inning that includes a strikeout of Jackson.
Porcello, bumped from the Detroit rotation for the playoffs, comes in for what Leyland hopes will be at least a two-inning appearance, because if it's anything less, the Tigers will have suffered a rather soul-crushing loss.
Gomes leads off the bottom of the ninth with an infield single, and Iglesias makes things worse by throwing the ball into the camera well behind first base, which allows Gomes to go to second base. Saltalamacchia pops up in foul territory, and Fielder has a play on the ball, but it bounces off his glove and into the stands -- his pleas for a fan interference call are for naught, as even though the fans are around him, they do not actually interfere, and Fielder is leaning into the stands anyway.
Porcello then throws a wild pitch, moving the winning run to third base with nobody out. The infield and the outfield come in, and it's a 3-1 count to Saltalamacchia. He rips a single past Iglesias, Gomes trots home, and the Red Sox tie the series.


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Review: Will 'Pikmin 3' save the Wii U?
Despite solid launch titles, the Wii U has stumbled out of the gate, failing to match the first-year success of its predecessor. With Nintendo needing a hit, Shigeru Miyamoto and company reached deep into its roster of franchises and pulled out an odd choice for a savior.
The next major first-party title isn't a new "Zelda" or another "Mario Galaxy." It's "Pikmin 3," a sequel to one of the more underrated projects in Miyamoto's portfolio. The series is like a unicorn in the industry -- it's a real-time strategy game that actually works on the console. And on the Wii U that reputation continues to hold as long as players use the right control scheme.
To play "Pikmin 3" and to get the most out of it, players must use a combination of the Wii remote, nunchuk and Wii U Gamepad. It's a complicated setup, but when combined together, it's a near-perfect translation of the PC genre to the living room.
In the campaign, players will be controlling three Koppai explorers -- Alph, Brittany and Charlie. The trio crash landed on an Earthlike planet, and they discover that they can use antlike creatures called Pikmin to survive. Each critter has a special trait: Some Pikmin are resistant to fire, while others can fly.
In the five enormous stages, players have to use Pikmin to fend off predators and gather fruit, which the Koppai travelers need to stay alive. Without food, the team can't keep searching for the cosmic key drive they need to return home.
The major improvement in "Pikmin 3" is the ability to control each of the three explorers. It adds more depth to the strategy as players learn to delegate different Pikmin to the explorers. In conjunction with the Wii U Gamepad, it allows players to easily do two things at once. They can send Alph to gather new critters at the base, while Brittany and Charlie grab low-hanging fruit. Before leaving a level, the gamepad's touch-screen map is invaluable in finding Pikmin stragglers.
Meanwhile, the Wii remote and nunchuk work elegantly. Directing Pikmin is as easy as pointing at the screen and hitting a button, while the nunchuk lets the trio outmaneuver bosses or navigate narrow trails. The setup is almost like a deconstructed RTS game.
Although the controls work well, "Pikmin 3" still suffers from the same problems as its predecessors. Sometimes Pikmin don't go where players want, or they get stuck on corners. Also, choosing the right Pikmin for the job by cycling through choices with one button is cumbersome.
Players will run into these hiccups, but the level design is enthralling and the controls so smartly integrated that these issues can be overlooked. "Pikmin 3" isn't perfect, but it's cause enough for core gamers to fire up their Wii U again or give the console a second look. It's a game that couldn't work on any other system.
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Investors continued to punish Monster Beverage on Tuesday, following reports of the company's energy drink being cited in five deaths.
Shares of Monster Beverage (MNST) fell nearly 12% Tuesday, after closing down 14% in the prior day's session.
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SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — For those working to cross off items on holiday shopping lists, many Bay Area stores are participating in Small Business Saturday to encourage consumers to support local businesses.
Former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown was scheduled to kick off the local business event by shopping at Book Passage at the Ferry Building around 10 a.m.
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Of all the devices and gizmos I own I think the Kindle and the digital camera are among the two most sublime creations every developed.
The Kindle, capable of holding hundreds of books and a charge for weeks instead of days. Print as large or small as you need. Reading with the barest tap of a finger to change pages.
And the digital camera… how can I express how digital photography frees the photographer? No buying or loading film after only a few shots. No paying or waiting for developing.
I went out yesterday morning before the dawn. I stopped by my favorite beach, Pelican Beach Park in Melbourne put the camera on its tripod kicked back and watched the sunrise. I left there and stopped by the Grissom Wetlands, another favorite spot. Leaving the Wetlands I chanced upon a road I'd never taken but had read about online. A nearly four mile dirt road out to a wilderness conservation area in the middle of nowhere but only miles from a bustling city. From there I cruised by Wickham Park, found a shady spot under a tree and read a book on my Kindle for a couple hours.
While I was out I shot just short of three hundred pictures. Out of those I've kept thirty-six. A single roll of film's worth. From those I will pick maybe a dozen that I'll share with friends and on Facebook and from there I'll put just three or four on my Flickr account.
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Had I been shooting 35mm color film (add lots for true B&W processing plus days of delay) yesterday's trip would have cost me easily $80… to keep $10 worth of pictures and I try to get out and wander about with my camera at least a couple times a month.
Instead I popped the $14 memory card out of my camera, put it into the card-reader built into my PC and moved all the images to the computer in about a minute and a half leaving the memory card empty and ready for another day's photography.
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Origen of Alexandria was a Christian of the early third century who was the first Christian theologian to formulate a systematic system of Christian theological thinking. He lived in a turbulent period for the Christian Church, a period of Roman persecutions and loose doctrinal consensus. He was a priest, ordained under controversial conditions. His writings were extensive, much of which is not extant. In later centuries some extreme views by followers were attributed to him and his name was brought under suspicion. He was anathematized by the Second Council of Constantinople in 553 and declared an heretic.
Origen's full name was Origenes Adamantius. His dates of birth and death are not known exactly. He was born about 185, most probably in Alexandria. He was born into a Christian family. He is believed to have been educated by his father, Leonides. He used this education to revive and teach, as didaskalos, at the ''catechetical school in Alexandria'' in 203, under the jurisdiction of Demetrius, the bishop of Alexandria. This was after his father died a martyr in 202 in the persecutions under Septimius Severus. Origen was then seventeen and apparently succeeded Clement of Alexandria who had been driven out of Alexandria by the persecutions.
In 230, he was ordained a priest in Palestine without the authority of Demetrius who subsequently expelled him from Alexandria.
He died a martyr's death in the persecutions of 250, probably in 254, and most probably in Caesarea.
Origen wrote extensively. According to Epiphanius he produces some 6,000 works. In addition to some spurious efforts, his writings can be divided into four classes: text criticism; exegesis; systematic, practical, and apologetic theology; and letters. Of all these works his most important writing was the ''Hexapla'', a textual criticism that compared various translations of the Old Testament. However, only some portions of this work have come down to us. The full text is no longer extant.
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Federal Appeals Court Removes Judge From Bulger Trial
The judge who was set to preside over the trial of reputed gangster James "Whitey" Bulger was removed from the case Thursday by a federal appeals court that found his background as a former federal prosecutor could create the appearance of bias.
In a significant victory for the defense, the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled (PDF) that U.S. District Judge Richard Stearns must step down from the case.
Bulger's lawyers argued that Stearns should be removed because he was a federal prosecutor in Boston in the 1980s. At the time, Bulger was working as an FBI informant while allegedly committing crimes, including murder.
Bulger claims he received immunity for his crimes from Jeremiah O'Sullivan, another federal prosecutor who worked in the same office as Stearns. During testimony before Congress in 2002, O'Sullivan denied protecting Bulger from prosecution for violent crimes. He died in 2009.
In its ruling (PDF), the court said it believes that Stearns — who twice rejected the defense request to step down — is sincere in his belief that he could be impartial at Bulger's trial.
But, the court wrote, "it is clear that a reasonable person might question the judge's ability to preserve impartiality through the course of this prosecution and the likely rulings made necessary by the immunity claim."
The decision was written by retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Souter, who sits on the federal appeals court in Boston for three months each year.
Bulger, the 83-year-old former leader of the Winter Hill Gang, is awaiting trial on charges of playing a role in 19 murders. His trial was scheduled to begin June 6, but it was not immediately clear if the trial will be postponed after it is assigned to a new judge.
Bulger's trial was scheduled to begin June 6, and it's not clear if the trial will be postponed after it is assigned to a new judge.
In written rulings denying Bulger's motions to step down from the case, Stearns said there is no connection between his former position as chief of the criminal division of the U.S. attorney's office and the O'Sullivan-led Organized Crime Strike Force that worked on the Bulger investigation. Stearns also said he had no personal knowledge of the details of the strike force's investigation of Bulger.
Although the strike force operated separately from the U.S. attorney's office, O'Sullivan was an assistant U.S. attorney and acting U.S. attorney during the time when Bulger claims he gave him immunity. Stearns held a variety of supervisory positions in the office.
"Given the institutional ties described here, the reasonable person might well question whether a judge who bore supervisory responsibility for prosecutorial activities during some of the time at issue could suppress his inevitable feelings and remain impartial," the court wrote in its ruling.
Bulger's attorneys, J.W. Carney Jr. and Hank Brennan, had no immediate comment.
In a statement, U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz said prosecutors will continue to prep for trial.
"We are hopeful that this opinion will not cause a delay, as it has always been our goal to try this case as soon as possible. The victims' families have waited long enough," Ortiz said.
Bulger's role as a government informant became an embarrassment for the FBI when former agent John Connolly was convicted of tipping Bulger off that he was about to be indicted on racketeering charges. Bulger fled Boston after the tipoff in late 1994 and remained a fugitive for 16 years until he was captured in Santa Monica, Calif., in 2011.
Bulger's lawyers recently denied that Bulger was ever an FBI informant, but prosecutors say there are more than 700 pages of informant reports on Bulger in the FBI's files.
Earlier this month, Stearns denied Bulger's request to present evidence to the jury of his claim that O'Sullivan gave him immunity for crimes he committed in the future, including murder. Stearns called Bulger's contention that he had a license to kill "beyond the pale."
Related Links:
- Expert: New Judge Will Have To Reconsider Bulger Immunity Claims
- PDF: Appeals Court Decision To Remove Stearns
- January 2013: Bulger's Lawyers Ask Appeals Court To Remove Judge
- August 2012: Should Bulger Trial Judge Recuse Himself?
- Federal Judicial Disqualification Statute
- July 2012: Judge Refuses To Recuse Himself From Bulger Trial
- PDF: Stearns 2012 Decision On Bulger Recusal
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Grant S. Fuhr (born September 28, 1962) is a Canadian former ice hockey goaltender in the National Hockey League and currently the goaltending coach for the Phoenix Coyotes. In 2003, he was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame. Fuhr was born to one black parent and one white parent but was adopted as a baby by a white family and raised in Spruce Grove, Alberta.
In 1979, at the age of seventeen, Fuhr joined the Victoria Cougars of the WHL. After two stellar seasons in Victoria, which included the league championship and a trip to the Memorial Cup in 1981, Fuhr was drafted 8th overall by the Edmonton Oilers in the 1981 NHL Entry Draft. He played for the Oilers for 10 seasons, where he teamed up first with Andy Moog then Bill Ranford to form one of the most formidable goaltending tandems in history, winning the Stanley Cup four times in five seasons (1983-84 through '87-88). He was the team's starting goaltender on the first four teams, but was injured and did not play in the 1990 playoffs, when the Oilers won for the fifth time. Fuhr played in the National Hockey League All-Star Game in 1984, 1985, 1986, 1988, and 1989. In 1987, he played in goal for the NHL All-Stars in both games of the Rendez-Vous '87 series against the Soviet National Team. In 1987-88, Fuhr backstopped Canada to a victory at the Canada Cup, playing in all nine games, then played in 75 regular season and 19 playoff games. He won his only Vezina Trophy as the NHL's top goaltender that year and finished second in voting for the Hart Memorial Trophy as league MVP, behind Mario Lemieux and ahead of teammate Wayne Gretzky. He battled shoulder injuries and substance abuse problems at the tail end of his career with Edmonton, and was suspended by the NHL for 59 games of the 1990–91 season.
In 1991, Fuhr was traded to the Toronto Maple Leafs in a seven-player deal. After a season and a half in Toronto, he was again traded, this time to the Buffalo Sabres, during the 1992-93 season. In Buffalo, he played a role in the Sabres' dramatic first-round playoff victory over the Boston Bruins, helped instill a winning attitude in the organization, and mentored the young Dominik Hasek. Fuhr then had a successful 1993–94 season with the Sabres, sharing time in goal with Hasek and winning the William M. Jennings Trophy for the fewest goals scored against in the league with him. However, when Fuhr went down with multiple injuries, Hasek stepped into the starting role, and played well enough to hold onto the job.


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Novo Nordisk must finish a cardiovascular outcomes trial and correct deficiencies at its principal manufacturing plant before the FDA will approve its long-acting insulin degludec drugs, the company said.
The FDA sent the company a "complete response letter" indicating that it was not ready to approve insulin degludec (Tresiba) or a combination product with insulin degludec and insulin aspart (Ryzodeg) for diabetic patients requiring insulin. They are intended for once-daily, anytime dosing, which is not possible with existing insulin drugs.
An FDA advisory committee voted 8-4 last November to recommend approval, but panel members had expressed concern about a possible increase in cardiovascular events with insulin degludec. Pooled data from 16 trials with the agent identified a 10% higher rate of serious events in patients receiving it versus other insulin forms.
Panel members were unanimous in recommending that FDA order a special cardiovascular outcomes study, but most indicated that it could be conducted after approval.
The complete response letter also indicated that Novo would have to resolve violations cited in a Dec. 12, 2012, warning letter about problems at the company's production facility in Bagsvaerd, Denmark.
FDA inspectors cited multiple deficiencies in quality control testing, and also noted that workers in the plant's "aseptic core" were wearing unsterilized goggles.
In its announcement Sunday of the complete response letter, Novo said it was "surprised and disappointed" by the rejection, but said it would work with the FDA "to determine the best path forward to completing the review."
Final approval will likely be delayed at least until 2014. Novo said it would be unable to submit the required cardiovascular outcomes data this year.


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Florida FWC Recognizes Okeechobee Man as Hunter Safety Instructor of the Year
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) on Wednesday named Donald Sellers of Okeechobee its 2011 "Volunteer Hunter Safety Instructor of the Year" at its June meeting in Palm Beach Gardens. Each year, the FWC gives this award to the volunteer who significantly advances the cause of safe hunting through extraordinary service in training and education.
Sellers has been helping with hunter safety courses since 2001. In 2011, Sellers was the chief instructor for 23 courses in Okeechobee, Glades and Hendry counties. He also assisted with additional courses in Martin, St. Lucie and Hendry counties. Last year he certified nearly 600 students, and during the past two years he recruited 13 new instructors.
"Don is extremely enthusiastic and knowledgeable about hunting and hunter safety, and he enjoys sharing this knowledge with others," said Diane Eggeman, director of the FWC's Division of Hunting and Game Management. "He is one of the strongest advocates you could have for passing along the hunting tradition to the next generation."
Throughout his life, Sellers has been recognized by a variety of organizations. Some of his awards include the Lifetime Service to Agriculture Award from Okeechobee County Farm/City Committee, the Palm Beach County Cooperative Extension Service Award for years of support to the Extension Program and an award from the Florida Lettuce Mosaic Committee for his outstanding leadership. He also served as chairman of the Lettuce Advisory Committee for 22 years.
Anyone interested in learning how to become a volunteer hunter safety instructor can go to MyFWC.com/HunterSafety. A link to a statewide schedule of hunter safety classes is also available on there.
The state's hunter safety course is required of anyone born after May 31, 1975, who wishes to obtain a Florida hunting license.


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In the fall of 1834, Thomas McKay, a veteran leader of the annual Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) Snake Country brigades, built Fort Boise, selecting the same location as Reid and Mackenzie. Although McKay had retired in 1833, the HBC Chief Factor John McLoughlin sent him to establish Fort Boise in 1834 to challenge the newly built American Fort Hall further east on the Snake River.
Derbent is the southernmost city in Russia, occupying the narrow gateway between the Caspian Sea and the Caucasus Mountains connecting the Eurasian steppes to the north and the Iranian Plateau to the south. Derbent claims to be the oldest city in Russia with historical documentation dating to the 8th century BCE. Due to its strategic location, over the course of history, the city changed ownership many times, particularly among the Persian, Arab, Mongol, Timurid, Shirvan and Iranian kingdoms.
Derbent has archaeological structures over 5,000 years old. As a result of this geographic peculiarity, the city developed between two walls, stretching from the mountains to the sea. These fortifications were continuously employed for a millennium and a half, longer than any other extant fortress in the world.
A traditionally and historically Iranian city, the first intensive settlement in the Derbent area dates from the 8th century BC. The site was intermittently controlled by the Persian monarchs, starting from the 6th century BC. Until the 4th century AD, it was part of Caucasian Albania which was a satrap of the Achaemenid Persian Empire. In the 5th century Derbent functioned as a border fortress and the seat of Sassanid Persians. Because of its strategic position on the northern branch of the Silk Route, the fortress was contested by the Khazars in the course of the Khazar-Arab Wars. In 654, Derbent was captured by the Arabs.
The Sassanid fortress does not exist any more, as the famous Derbent fortress as it stands today was built from the 12th century onward. Derbent became a strong military outpost and harbour of the Sassanid empire. During the 5th and 6th centuries, Derbent also became an important center for spreading the Christian faith in the Caucasus.
The site continued to be of great strategic importance until the 19th century. Today the fortifications consist of two parallel defence walls and Naryn-Kala Citadel. The walls are 3.6km long, stretching from the sea up to the mountains. They were built from stone and had 73 defence towers. 9 out of the 14 original gates remain.
In Naryn-Kala Citadel most of the old buildings, including a palace and a church, are now in ruins. It also holds baths and one of the oldest mosques in the former USSR.
In 2003, UNESCO included the old part of Derbent with traditional buildings in the World Heritage List.


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I like Archarcharch (based on that stretch-running 98 Beyer fig in the Arkansas Derby) and Mucho Macho Man (who finished third in the Louisiana Derby despite leaving his shoe at the gate), and I'll box them in the exacta with Shackleford (who ran a smart second in the Florida Derby).
Elsewhere, I like Bourbon With Ice, and I'll put it in a superfecta with Bourbon And Soda, Bourbon Neat, and Shot Of Bourbon I'll Come To Regret. If I'm feeling frisky, I might try a Pick Six with Several Beers and My Girlfriend's Half-Finished Solo Cup Of Wine. Of course, don't count out Foolish Comment, Public Recrimination, and Loud Argument In The Bergen Street Subway Station. Foolish Comment has a great pedigree for this distance. He is by That One Thing I Said On New Year's out of Jesus Christ, How Was I Supposed To Know His Mom Had Leukemia.
As for bet-againsts: Stay away from Mint Julep In A Glass With The Rough Dimensions Of Man O' War. Stay far away. I really don't like your odds there. And Dialed In, the morning-line favorite, has yet to show he can rally at a mile and a quarter.


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WASHINGTON (AP) - A foreign government told the FBI in early 2011 about information that Tamerlan Tsarnaev, one of the brothers suspected in the Boston Marathon bombings, was a follower of radical Islam.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev died in a shootout, and his wounded younger brother was captured alive. They were identified by authorities and relatives as ethnic Chechens from southern Russia who had been in the U.S. for about a decade.
According to the FBI, the foreign government said that based on its information, Tamerlan Tsarnaev was a strong believer and that he had changed drastically since 2010 as he prepared to leave the U.S. for travel to a region in the country to join unspecified underground groups.
The FBI says it interviewed Tsarnaev and relatives, and did not find any domestic or foreign terrorism activity.


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We've been through some hot and humid weather in the last couple of weeks, and the mild, breezy weather we're having now is sure a relief! It appears, from the photo below, that we are not the only ones affected by hot weather.
Tom Parker, of Cedar Springs, sent us this photo taken last Saturday, of one of his backyard friends taking a break from the summer heat after a meal of corn and sunflower seeds. Ah, the lazy days of summer!


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Do you want to know your Bible well? The Bible is the only book that is considered holy by Christians. It comes to us directly from God. We can rely on the Bible to show us what the Lord thinks about everything that is important in our lives. It is the final word.
If you want to be strong in the Faith, it is important to know the Scriptures well. The better we know the Bible, the better we can know God. In fact, we don't just learn about Him with the Scriptures; spending time with the Bible makes it more likely that we will become intimately acquainted with Him. He has promised that if we draw close to Him, He will draw close to us (James 4:8). One of the best ways to draw close to Him is to read and study His Word.
So, where should one start? We would suggest the following steps for personal time:
- Ask God to guide you in this new experience.
- Establish a certain time each day for the Bible and prayer. Start with 15 minutes.
- Get a Bible. If you don't own one, we would suggest the New King James Version (NKJV).
- Use a plan for personal reading. There are many plans available on-line, with a variety of approaches. Keep it simple. We like the "5x5x5 Plan" from NavPress, but certainly there are many excellent choices.
- Expect to put some effort into making your reading time happen. New habits take time to form. Consider doing this with another person; it's great to have a partner.
Group Study
Group studies can also be a great experience. Ask around to find a good one. Many group Bible Studies examine topics in the Bible. We offer a number of high quality studies that can be used for groups or just individually.
Individual Study
Individual study of Scripture allows you to dig deep into God's Word. The rewards are huge! To get started, you might consider seeing Chuck Missler's DVD, "How to Study the Bible" where he answers many questions about translations, commentaries and how to resolve difficult passages.
Chuck has also done two other works about Bible study. The first is an audio,"A Walk Thru the Bible" and the other, "Learn the Bible in 24 Hours", is in a variety of formats.
To begin building your own resource library, we recommend that you consider two electronic sources. The first is on-line only, called "The Blue Letter Bible". This service provides a number of different translations, Greek and Hebrew resources, Commentaries, and a search capability. It lets you move from knowing nothing at all to using scholarly tools that help clarify the Biblical text.
The other resource is "e-Sword". This is a program that you can download at no cost. It has several versions of the Bible, commentaries, scholar's tools, and a search program, all at no cost/donation. If you like working on a computer, this may become your favorite Bible for individual study.
The most important thing is to get started. Click HERE for information and links to these resources so you can begin your new habits right away!
Sound Method
Those are some tools, but what about a method? It is important to handle the Scripture accurately and avoid twisting it to fit our own notions. That is a common danger that we all need to avoid. The most widely accepted method is called the Inductive Method.
This method begins with three major parts: observation, interpretation, and application.
Observation is the step when you make sure you know what the words mean, what the verses are describing, and how this fits in the flow of thought. You want to be clear about Who, What, When, Where, Why and How. To do Observation, ask yourself, "What does it say?"
Interpretation is when you make sense out of what is written. Ask yourself, "What does it mean?" Writing out a paraphrase of a verse or paragraph would help you decide on the meaning, or interpretation.
Finally, application is when we make it personal. It's good to do this with prayer. Ask, "How does this apply to me?" Don't leave it there, though. Jesus said in Matthew 7:26
"But everyone who hears these sayings of Mine, and does not do them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand…" and it eventually fell flat.
It is imperative we build our houses on the rock by doing what we read in God's Word.
That's a quick look at getting started with the Bible. Don't do this in isolation. Talk to other believers about what you are doing and you'll find some great conversations can develop. If you can't find someone locally, contact us at email@example.com.


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What the Happiest and Most Successful Women Do Differently
This article – actually, this series of articles – at the Huffington Post – has drawn some predictable criticism from some the commenters. And why?
Because the author, a man who writes books about women and does scientific research on happiness, reports in "The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness" that there are some things that women can do to improve their lives.
Marcus Buckingham, from all accounts, has just compiled a bunch of data from women and is reporting objectively on what he's discovered. He doesn't have an agenda, apart from making women aware of some of the unfortunate consequences of certain lifestyle choices – like being negative and not accepting the world as it is.
Hmm…sounds familiar.
Yet commenters on HuffPo question him as if he's some tool of the establishment, sent to oppress women:
Dear Mr. Marcus Buckingham,
What authority and expertise do you posses in womens' issues? Further, what is your degree in? Where is the research referenced in your blog? Is it peer reviewed? It seems to me you want to write an "inspirational" self help book for women (from a white male perspective), and they will probably buy it. The beauty of blogging is access to information and opinion that popular media falls short in delivering, but I also find it troublesome that some people use blogs to promote themselves and their "brand" which is not dissimilar to the corporate concept that has served to oppress pretty much the majority of this country's population, minus 1% on the top.
So, I would like to know your education and credentials and I would appreciate references to the studies you cite. That would be honest blogging and reporting!
Best regards,
Adelina's skepticism is based not on Mr. Buckingham himself – after all, she has no idea who he is. Instead, her anger is based on the fact that he told her something she didn't want to hear. And when people tell us things we don't want to hear, we tend to attack them – instead of considering the message itself – and how it might be valid to a broad swath of others.
If Mr. Buckingham reports that women are less happy than before, and a reader herself is PERFECTLY happy and can't possibly understand where this study is coming from…it still doesn't negate the veracity of the study.
Once again, the messenger is getting shot. But it's not HIS message.
It's an objective one.


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Skip to 0 minutes and 14 seconds It's a great pleasure to introduce you to my colleague and good friend, John Bishop. John, you're a philosopher of religion. Can you tell us what philosophy of religion is about? Well, one thing philosophers of religion are very interested in is whether it's justifiable for people to commit themselves to the truth of their religious beliefs. And many philosophers would say that that's only justifiable if they've got good reasons for them. And in order to have good reasons, they should have arguments which show that their religious beliefs are true. And of course, when we apply this to the religions that are founded on belief in God, it's all about arguments for and against God's existence.
Skip to 0 minutes and 57 seconds OK, so then how does the distinction between deductive and non-deductive arguments play out in this kind of context? Well, we find arguments of both types. Perhaps I can illustrate that, first of all by thinking about arguments for God's existence. Now, one argument is called the cosmological argument. And there's a version of it that's recently been revived from mediaeval Islamic theology by the American philosopher, William Lane Craig. It's called the Kalam cosmological argument. And it's possible to state it very easily in standard form. It goes like this– everything that begins to exist has a cause of its existence. The universe began to exist. Therefore, the universe has a cause of its existence.
Skip to 1 minute and 52 seconds So what kind of challenge might one propose against this argument? Well, given that it's a deductive argument, one might question whether it really is the case that everything– literally everything that begins to exist has a cause of its existence. Possibly that applies only to things within the universe and not to the universe itself. So that's one possible challenge. Another possible challenge might be to say, well, yes, I think the argument does succeed. But does it really establish the existence of God? The cause of the universe is something tremendous, but it does it have to be God? And actually, that gives me an opportunity to bring in a non-deductive argument, which is known as the fine-tuning argument.
Skip to 2 minutes and 39 seconds The fundamental physical constants of the universe are within a very narrow range that is required if the universe is going to be capable of supporting life. The best explanation for this phenomenon is that those values were set by an intelligence who was acting for a purpose that required the existence of life. And therefore, given that that is the best explanation, it is probably true that the universe has an intelligent designer. OK, and because it's a non-deductive argument, it leaves out the possibility that God may not exist, I suppose. Because it's a non-deductive argument, it doesn't guarantee that God exists, because it allows us to say that it might, perhaps, be an amazing coincidence– a matter of chance.
Skip to 3 minutes and 44 seconds And that is not ruled out by the argument. So that raises the question, are there are arguments against the existence of God? Yes, there certainly are. And we can find examples amongst those kinds of arguments as the difference between deductive and non-deductive arguments. Now, one very common argument against the existence of God is the argument from evil. And it goes like this– if God exists, God is both all powerful and perfectly good. If God is all powerful, God is able to prevent any evil he wishes to prevent. If God is perfectly good, God wishes to prevent any evil he can prevent. Therefore, if God has both those properties, there is no evil. But we know from experience that evil exists.
Skip to 4 minutes and 44 seconds Hence, it follows that God does not exist. Theists, of course, theist philosophers have objected to this argument by saying it doesn't succeed, because it leaves out the possibility that God may be prepared to cause or permit some forms of evil in order to achieve really important goods that would not be achievable otherwise. But that puts into doubt the deductive version for the argument from evil. That's right. So the atheist philosophers, however, responded by saying, If an all-powerful and perfectly good God exists, there are no pointless evils. Probably, there are pointless evils. Therefore, probably there is no all-powerful and perfectly good God. We can find plenty of instances of evil which seem to be pointless. Like what?
Skip to 5 minutes and 49 seconds An example comes from an article by William Rowe that has been much discussed, is of a fawn who's caught in a forest fire and is badly burned, but takes a long time to die in agony over several days from these burns. And certainly, when we consider an evil like that, it seems inconceivable to us that it could have any purpose or point that might justify it. Now, of course, we can't absolutely rule out the possibility that it has some completely unknown purpose to us. It's just on the basis of what we know, it's very probable that it doesn't.
Skip to 6 minutes and 29 seconds And that, then, gives us reason for saying that very probably, there are pointless evils, and therefore, very probably, a God who, if he existed would prevent pointless evils, doesn't exist. OK, so you've given us examples in the philosophy of religion for arguments both for the existence of God and against the existence of God. And for each kind of arguments, we had deductive and non-deductive arguments. But I suppose it's not only for deep questions like the existence of God that the distinction is important. Is that right? I think that is right.
Skip to 7 minutes and 8 seconds I mean, what we've seen in philosophy of religion is that it's important for people to think carefully about what they're trying to achieve with their arguments, whether they're attempting to provide an argument strong enough to guarantee the conclusion, or whether what they're trying to do is provide premises that will make it cogent to think that the conclusion is probably, or highly probably, true. And I agree with you. I think that's something that people ought to consider in many different contexts, not just in philosophy of religion.
Arguments for and against the existence of God
In this video, John Bishop and Patrick discuss various arguments for and against the existence of God, with an emphasis on the distinction between deductive and non-deductive arguments.
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Nancy Kline on Stories: Hurry Up and Tell Them
For the past seven years, Nancy Kline has been leading P&W–supported senior writing workshops at Queens Community House in New York City. Her short stories, essays, literary criticism, and translations have appeared widely. She is the author of the novel, The Faithful, and edited and contributed to the essay collection How Writers Teach Writing. She also reviews regularly for the New York Times Sunday Book Review. Kline generously shared with us reflections on her writing workshops with seniors.
What makes your workshops unique?
It's the students who make my workshops unique—their jokes, epiphanies, reticencies, and idiosyncrasies; their chemistry with each other, with me, and with words.
Could you share a few examples of stories written in your workshop recently?
In one workshop, we used pieces from Flash Fiction Forward as springboards into workshop participants' own work.
Rick Moody's "Drawer" inspired a hilarious description of the anarchic contents of one writer's drawer and her increasing hysteria as she searched through it for some coveted item.
In response to the prompt "just like her mother," suggested by Pamela Painter's "Toasters," one workshop participant wrote about how, as a small child, she accompanied her mother to forage secretly for an apronful of grain with which to feed her starving family in decimated, post-World War II Germany.
Rob Carney's "Traveling Alone" inspired one eighty-six-year-old student's biblical monologue. When asked what she planned to write about next, having just done God, she replied: "Sex." And so she did.
What techniques do you employ to help shy writers open up?
In my experience, all writers are shy, at least on some level. We are naked in the page. For this reason, I try to establish a respectful, attentive environment in my writing workshops. Laughter helps.
I try to teach students to listen to their readers' comments, without defensiveness or undue docility, and to comment on other people's work with rigor and charity; to write any written comments in pencil, rather than pen; and to try to phrase their comments as questions, rather than statements.
There's a difference between asking a writer "Could you clarify this?" and stamping a text "Unclear." The former recognizes that the writer is in charge of her own words and has the power to change them. The latter suggests, to my ear, that the reader is in charge and the writer has failed.
What has been your most rewarding experience as a teacher?
It is always that moment when a student gets it, whatever it happens to be. Sometimes a writer who has been struggling with constricted prose suddenly writes in a text so lush and genuine that the workshop falls silent in admiration. Smaller epiphanies occur: During a recent session on comma use, one of the seniors exclaimed, "Commas actually communicate information! I never knew that!" This was thrilling.
What affect has this work had on you?
It is deeply moving to be in the presence of the accumulated wisdom, imagination, and courage of the women and men with whom I'm working. Four of my students have died since I began to offer these workshops. Their deaths have marked me and their colleagues, and have underlined the collective sense that each of us has many stories to tell, and that we had better hurry up and tell them.
Photo: Nancy Kline. Credit: Adam Piore.
Support for Readings/Workshops in New York City is provided, in part, by public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, and the Department of Cultural Affairs, with additional support from the Louis & Anne Abrons Foundation, the Axe-Houghton Foundation, the A.K. Starr Charitable Trust, and Friends of Poets & Writers.


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Regional Development & Innovation Fund (RDIF)
The Regional Development and Innovation Fund is an initiative under the $265 million South Australian River Murray Sustainability (SARMS) Program. The SARMS program encompasses the $240 million Irrigation Industry Improvement Program (3IP) and the $25 million Regional Economic Development program.
The now closed $12.5 million RDIF program is part of the powerful suite of Regional Economic Development programs which include the:
- $5 million Industry-led Research Sub-Program (IRSP)
- $7.5 million Loxton Research Centre Redevelopment project.
The RDIF provided funding to non-irrigators within the South Australian River Murray region through a competitive grant application process. Its chief objective is to support long-term sustainable and strategic contributions to the River Murray region's economic development.
RDIF Outcomes
The RDIF is delivering employment opportunities and economic diversification in the River Murray region through the funding of projects such as infrastructure works, new and expanded regional services, educational programs and training and research opportunities.
The RDIF will deliver long-term benefit to river communities within the South Australian River Murray corridor, which includes the regional local government areas of:
- Renmark Paringa
- Berri Barmera
- Loxton Waikerie
- Mid Murray
- Karoonda East Murray
- Murray Bridge
- Alexandrina
- Coorong and Districts
- Gerard Community Councils.
Watch this video to see some of the successful RDIF grant projects:
RDIF timeline
- Round 1: open from 27 June 2014 to 19 September 2014.
- Round 2: open from 7 April 2015 to 18 May 2015.
- Round 3: open from 13 April 2015 to 25 May 2015.


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READ about Piers Morgan's long career in journalism here.
With the film based upon his life having already grossed more than 91 million dollars, Jordan Belfort has been able to begin taking small steps towards making retributions to the countless investors he swindled.
The inspiration for "Wolf of Wall Street," Belfort joined Piers Morgan exclusively on Monday evening for a live, hour long interview, during which the host listed some of the people impacted by the behavior that landed Belfort in prison for nearly two years:
"Peter Springfield: an architect in Mystic, Connecticut, he lost half of his life savings. Dr. Alfred Vitt, a retired dentist, who lost $250 thousand dollars. One victim, called Bob Shearin, reportedly lost $130 thousand dollars, he told The Telegraph Newspaper this," detailed Morgan, before quoting from the article:
"His depiction in this movie is annoying and disturbing, because it makes him more into a mythical figure and skips the reality of what he was about. And what he was about was harming people financially."
Having written his autobiography five years ago, as what he describes as a "cathartic" experience, Belfort admitted that the early nineties offered a glimpse of him at his worst:
"You picked probably the highlight of what I considered myself to be the most depraved year of my life," he revealed.
Though he's traveling America sharing his cautionary tale, and using income earned from motivational speaking engagements to help repay his victims, Belfort noted that he's yet to meet any of those that he personally impacted:
"I have not ... no one has sought me out," he said.
Morgan, though, pressed forward, suggesting that such a meeting ought be part of his penance:
"Why haven't you sought them out," he asked. "Wouldn't it be part of your self-redemption, to actually track some of these people down, we know some of their names, know what they're saying about you, if you actually called them up and just said, 'I actually would like to talk to you, I would like to apologize to you personally for what happened?'"
Insisting that his "action speaks louder than words," Belfort maintained that financial retribution is the single most-valuable form of repayment he can offer:
"What I'm doing here, by turning over 100 percent of the profits, is probably the most genuine thing I can do," he said. "Honestly I feel terrible about what happened. You asked if I had shame: back then, yes. Now, no. I'm not going to live my life in shame. I think that's a toxic emotion. I live with remorse, and that means I go out and do things actively to make up for the wrongs that I committed in the past."
Despite such a position, Belfort isn't closed to the option of a face to face encounter with someone he swindled:
"If I found a few of your victims, would you come and see them," asked Morgan.
Monday's guest replied in the affirmative:
"Yeah. Sure I would."
Watch the clip for more of Morgan's interview with Belfort, and for the next edition of "Piers Morgan Live," watch CNN every night at 9.
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Enjoyed your interview tonight but felt that your final comment was so rude. After 40+ minutes of talking with him and ALL you learned was about selling a pen? I realize it was a joke but I thought it was a little offensive. I thought I saw a hurt/shocked look on his face. Otherwise, I'm very happy that you're on the air and watch you frequently.
Seeing Belfort attempting to manipulate and "sell" his version of history, obligations, and even to a degree, his convenient sense of redemption, brings to mind a great quote from another film, "Magnolia" — "You may be through with the past, but the past ain't through with you".
Jordan shouldn't continue punishing himself. It has been 17 years. I like what he says about not living in shame but live with remorse instead. At some point we have to forgive ourselves for the mistakes we make. Yes, some mistakes are larger in scale than others but ultimately shame is shame. Reach out to victims? Decision should be initiated by Jordan.
Good job Piers Morgan! I'm actually almost done reading the 1st book; i don't see any sensitivity in this man, rather an urgency to get his point across. Bringing his victims to light put a real spin on this larger than life tale of excess. It was obvious, Mr Belfort has no real interest in his victims; in fact, if he possessed shame, he never would have sold his story.
Jordon's version of "sell this pen was rather lame." He might have done better if he had taken the pen and said: Now that I have the pen in my possession, it's mine. How much is it worth to you to buy it?" I did this once with an expensive pen and the "customer" actually bought it back for $8.00. His little trick backfired on him.
Political correctness. That is all.
You got conned . . . just like Jordon Belforts victims! You let him off much too easy! Jordon Belfort has spent his life cheating people and responding to objections and criticisms. He is a master at rationalizing and deflecting anything negative or critical. His answers reflect a lot of "coaching" by lawyers, crisis management professionals, public relations specialists and therapists. His victims will see through his façade. No wonder he has never met any of them!
" 100% of the profits"
Define PROFIT.
the travel voucher exceeds the original take!
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As he celebrates his fifth anniversary of going independent, advisor Mike Patton is writing a series of blogs on what he considers the key points of success when starting and building an independent advisory practice. In the first blog in the series, he provided an overview of the three systems—similar to a circulatory system in the human body, of an advisor's business. In this, the second blog, he focuses on the role of the advisor's marketing system.-Ed.
There may be more articles, books and blogs written on the subject of marketing than on any other single topic. Moreover, it is probably one of the most important topics to the financial advisor. In marketing, there are a variety of approaches. For example, there is "active" or direct marketing. Then you have what I would call indirect marketing. In this post, we'll discuss marketing as the first of the three systems, similar to a body's circulatory system, of a healthy financial advisory business.
The function of marketing is to bring in new clients. I would also call it the "front door" of the business. To begin, I'd like to start from the client's point of view. Let's say you are a wealthy individual looking for someone you can trust, who is competent, who will put your interests ahead of their own, who is accessible and who will not try to "sell" you product. How would you know if you actually found this person?
The short answer is you wouldn't. Clients must possess just enough trust to hire you. Then, over time, you can develop the rest of the list by proving yourself to them.
There is a lot of clutter out there in "Ad Land." Advertisers will try anything to get your attention. In what could have been a Yogi Berra muse, "You must get their attention before they will listen." Bigger, faster, smarter, better—you pick the adjective, but let's just say that the adjectives common to financial advisory firms are about as worn out as a fifth generation hand-me-down from the local discount store. In other words, everything looks the same to the consumer. So how do you cut through the noise? By doing something different from the norm, that's how. Here's a good place to start.
Marketing Step One
What do clients dislike the most about financial advisors? Think about the clients you have gained from other advisors. Why did they leave their former advisor? Were they unresponsive or didn't seem to listen? Maybe the client felt like their account was being managed in a fashion that didn't reflect their desires. Perhaps the overconfidence bias of the advisor was a little over-the-top? When you have answered these questions, you are ready to move on.
Marketing Step Two
If you have lost any clients in the past few years, determine why they left. Answer only if you are sure about the reason. Did the reason match any answers from Step One?
Notice I didn't talk about direct mail, referrals, radio ads and so on: we'll get into that next week in Marketing Part Deux. For now, I would suggest you look inward and reflect on why you got into this business.
If it is to help as many people as possible gain an edge on their finances, then great. You are on the right track. If it was only to make a lot of money, then I would suggest your derailment lies somewhere ahead. Although there is a strong culture of sales in our business, the focus should be on providing quality advice, not on sales. When you get that, you are truly thinking like a client.
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"It was a bad hair day," quipped native pollinator specialist Robbin Thorp, emeritus professor of entomology at the University of California, Davis.
Yes, it was.
A very bad hair day.
Thorp was looking at several photos I took April 14 of a yellow-faced bumble bee, Bombus vosnesenskii Radoszkowski, 1862, foraging on rock rose (Cistaceae) at the Petaluma marina. With winds gusting at 18 miles per hour, the lone bumble bee struggled to right itself as the "Flight of the Bumble Bee" turned into "Crash Landings of the Bumble Bee."
This bee, also known as the Vosnesenskii Bumble Bee, was named by Polish entomologist Oktawiusz Wincenty Bourmeister-Radoszkowski (1820-1895) who worked in the Russian empire. It is one of the most common species near the West Coast, write Thorp, Leif Richardson, Sheila Colla and lead author Paul Williams in their newly published book, Bumble Bees of North America: An Identification Guide" (Princeton University Press).
Its habitat: open grassy areas, urban parks and gardens, chaparral and shrub areas, and mountain meadows. Indeed, the shrubby area around the Petaluma marina is perfect for bumble-bee habitat.
The authors report that the yellow-faced bumble bee likes a number of plants, including manzanitas (Arctostaphylos), ceanothus (Ceanothus), rabbitbush (Chrysothamnus), thistle (Cirsium), wild buckwheat (Eriogonum), California poppy (Eschscholzia), lupines (Lupinus), phacelia (Phacelia), rhododendrum (Rhododendrum), currants (Ribes), vetch (Vicia), goldenbush (Ericameria), godetia (Clarkia), and gumweed (Grindelia).
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Exactly what's so funny about being a heartbeat away from the presidency that Julia Louis-Dreyfus would want to star in a sitcom about it?
"It is a very powerful position, and yet at the same time, I don't think there's a politician out there that you would say that they aspire to be Vice President," says Louis-Dreyfus, whose new series "Veep" debuts April 22 on HBO. "It's a paradox in that sense."
"Veep" takes a fly-on-the-wall look at the little absurdities and indignities that are routinely heaped on the Vice President of the United States, a political role that, as the actress suggests, is somehow simultaneously essential and superfluous. The mockumentary-style sitcom was created by Scottish satirist Armando Iannucci – best known for his admired BBC comedy "The Thick of It," which peered into the British government from a similarly off-kilter perspective – and stars Louis-Drefus as accomplished former senator Selina Meyer, a woman who gets a the rude awakening when she takes on the number two political position in America.
"For me, there was something in that role of Vice President that had comic potential and not the comedy that you would initially think about," explains Iannucci. "I know that the Vice President's role is often seen as like a standing joke. People attach figures like Dan Quayle to it, but actually, that role has changed radically. I mean, Dick Cheney was a very powerful politician as Vice President. Al Gore had a whole set of agreements with Bill Clinton prior to becoming Vice President.
"What makes it, for me, so potentially funny is you're so near and yet so far," Iannucci says. "You're so close to power, and yet you're removed from it. And your identity is entirely at the whim of the President. If the President likes you, he'll give you power. If he doesn't like you, he'll take it away from you. So there's that: the fact that you're not in control of your own destiny."
Louis-Dreyfus says she was drawn in by the fact that Selina didn't begin her public service as an ineffective politician, but now suffers from the nebulous policy-making status of the V.P.
"She was a senator from Maryland, and she ran in her party's race in the primary for the Presidential nomination, and she came in third, so she's a political challenger and aspirer in a big way," says the actress. "She's somebody to contend with, and she was somewhat powerful in the Senate and had been a congresswoman prior to that."
Still, she gets caught up in the pageantry and role-playing inherent to the V.P. position, which often undermines any real agenda for change. "I remember Armando said that in Washington there are so many good people doing the wrong things for the right reasons and the right things for the wrong reasons. And this sort of speaks to that middle area."
While Selina does have genuine issues she wants to tackle, says Louis-Dreyfus, "she has to make some compromises to get that on board and stumbles along the way. She doesn't have a phony set of ideals, but she wants to stay alive as a political animal."
Iannucci says "Veep"'s political world is one that hasn't really been explored on film and in television before. "I always felt that there are two types of ways in which Washington has been portrayed before, which is the very noble – everyone is very good at their job, and it's for the highest ends – or else it's a very cynical, corrupt, rather sinister world," he says. "I actually believe the truth is somewhere in between. It's fundamentally a lot of people trying to get on with a job. Some of them are good at it, and some of them are bad at it, some of them are very ambitious, and the worst ones are the ones who are bad at it but who think they're good at it – they're the most dangerous ones."
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"Now, having said that, being a woman in politics is very different," Iannucci adds. "The press constantly speculates on what you're wearing, how much your hair and makeup costs, and all that, which I think female politicians find irksome. So there is that. But fundamentally, no, it wasn't a female take on politics, really. And also I just love working with comedy actresses. I just find it's a different sort of comedy. It's a comedy I enjoy, and I just felt like it was the right way to go."
Louis-Dreyfus says her curiosity was piqued by the fact that the Vice President is also a mother. "That I was very interested to hear," she says. "What is that like raising children under those circumstances, and the kind of privacy and the moments you might have with your child or children in which other people people are privy to it. All of a sudden very private moments are kind of public with chiefs of staff and Secret Service, and yet one must have those private moments anyway. So how does that work? And that was particularly interesting to me since we're playing Selina as a mom."
Even though the scenarios are played for laughs, research turned out to be as essential for "Veep" as it was for more serious minded shows like "The West Wing," and Louis-Dreyfus' status as a bona fide Hollywood star, thanks to her long-running stints on the legendary "Seinfeld" and her subsequent sitcom "The New Adventures of Old Christine," gained her access to the corridors of power.
"I was fortunate enough to meet with a couple Vice Presidents, so it was pretty nifty." she reveals. "Not only was it interesting to hear what they had to say, but, of course, how they said it and also what they didn't say…The thing that I was most interested to hear about was what did it feel like to live at the Vice Presidential residence? What was the reality of that? Because it's not like living at the White House. It's a smaller building – it's surprisingly small – and what happens if you have to get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of the night? Where do the Secret Service go? And what was the most sort of, I don't know, humiliating thing you were ever asked to do or – things like that. I was not interested in the grandeur of it, because you can kind of figure out what that is. I was interested in the real nitty‑gritty of that. And also what was not said. Certain questions were not answered very directly."
That said, the show's intended to provided easy entry for viewers unstudied in the ins and outs of Washington, D.C. "You don't need to have a degree in political science to watch the show," Iannucci promises. "We very much wanted to make something that appealed to the general viewer, which is why we don't really know which party Selina is in. We never mention the party…We're not a documentary. We're not out to expose a great scandal. I just want it to be right, and I want it to be accurate. So I want to know the dull stuff: What time do people get into the office in the morning? What time do they go home?"
Louis-Dreyfus says that to date, her own involvement in politics has been limited, but somewhat active. "I mean, I've never run for office or anything like that," she chuckles. "I spend some of my celebrity capital to bring attention to issues that are important to me, and then hopefully the spotlight goes to the issue, and not to me. For me, it would be environmental issues, specifically."
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"I guess I'm a little bit cynical, but I choose to be more hopeful than cynical because otherwise I'd collapse into a crying heap," she explains. "So I would like to be hopeful. But it's tough out there right now."


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