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Left warns Democrats in tax reform fight
Liberal activists who hounded the GOP throughout its failed Obamacare repeal bid are gearing up to hit any Democrat who strays from the fold on tax cuts for the wealthy — including some of the party's most politically vulnerable incumbents. Democrats were spared the sight of their progressive base battling centrists on Obamacare, which proved a uniquely unifying issue for both wings of the party. But there's no guarantee that taxes will be another kumbaya moment for Democratic leaders, who have long struggled to contain tensions between red-state lawmakers facing tough reelections and a grass roots emboldened by resistance to President Donald Trump's agenda. Read more...
Trump dumps CEOs before more could abandon him
Some of America's top CEOs were preparing to issue a statement criticizing the president — so he effectively fired them from a White House council first. President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced he was ending two business advisory councils amid a stampede of defections and after one of the groups had decided to disband over the president's much-criticized response to the weekend's violence in Charlottesville, Va. A person close to Trump's Strategic and Policy Forum said the group had already told the White House it had resolved to disband and condemn the president's Tuesday claims that "both sides" were responsible for violence at a white supremacist and neo-Nazi gathering and that some "very fine people" were among the marchers defending a Confederate statue. Read more...
Investors cool on Canadian banks, turn to insurers, amid housing fears
Investors are losing enthusiasm for Canada's banking stocks as a slowdown in the country's housing market dents banks' growth prospects, and they see insurance companies as a better bet to benefit from higher interest rates. Home sales in Toronto, Canada's largest city, plummeted more than 40 per cent in July from a year earlier and prices were down nearly 19 per cent from April following the introduction of a range of measures designed to cool a housing market amid fears of a bubble, including a 15 per cent tax on foreign buyers. The slowdown in home sales has investors concerned about the impact on Canadian banks, which derive a big chunk of their earnings from residential mortgages. Read more...
Turkey Sees Foes at Work in Gold Mines, Cafes and 'Smurf Village'
LONDON — Akin Ipek, one of Turkey's richest men, was staying in the Park Tower Hotel in London when the police raided his television network in Istanbul. The raid was national news, so Mr. Ipek opened his laptop and watched an unnerving spectacle: an attack on his multibillion-dollar empire, in real time.
It was an oddly cinematic showdown. Through a combination of shouting and persuasion, the network's news editor convinced the officers that they should leave, then locked himself in the basement control room with a film crew. For the next seven and a half hours, until the police returned, the news editor spoke into a camera and took calls on his iPhone. One was from Mr. Ipek, who denounced the government's action as illegal.
"I was shocked and angry," Mr. Ipek said in a recent interview in London. "But I thought they would leave after a couple days. There was no reason to stay."
Actually, the government never left, and the events were the start of a personal cataclysm for Mr. Ipek. His station, Bugun TV, was taken off the air a few hours after that phone call, on Oct. 28, 2015. His entire conglomerate of 22 companies, Koza Ipek, is now owned and operated by the state.
'Canada is Hot Right Now': Port Cities Expect Spike in Cruise Visitors this SummerMONTREAL—Canadian port cities expect to get an economic boost this summer from an influx of cruise visitors attracted by a low loonie and the country's 150th birthday celebrations. Ports across Atlantic Canada, Quebec and British Columbia are anticipating a surge in cruise traffic. "Canada is hot right now," Pierre Bellerose of Montreal's tourism board said in an interview. With the opening in May of a $78-million refurbished passenger terminal, the Port of Montreal anticipates the number of cruise passengers and crew members will be up 28 per cent from last year to 110,000 as the city is celebrates its 375th birthday and Canada's sesquicentennial. "The Port of Montreal is at the heart of those celebrations," said port CEO Sylvie Vachon. "We know that maritime trade has played an important role in the development of the city and the entire country."The extra passengers are expected to generate an additional $5.5 million in local spending, raising the total this year to about $30 million, says Tourisme Montreal. Ports in Atlantic Canada are also anticipating double-digit increases in 2017 above the nearly 600,000 passengers that landed last year, said Brian Webb, executive director of Cruise Atlantic Canada. "It's looking great across the board, so every single port looks to be seeing increases," he said from Nova Scotia.Newfoundland and Labrador is expecting a record cruise season with an expected 99,266 passenger and crew visits, up from 50,448 passenger and crew visits in 2016. "We're definitely excited about the increases because it will mean increased economic activity," Webb added. While in Canadian ports, cruise ship passengers spent almost $262 million or nearly $150 per person in 2012, according to the latest study conducted by the industry. Average spending was highest in B.C. ports, which accounted for 54 per cent of the more than two million passenger visits and 77 per cent of spending. A new study is slated to be released this spring. Webb attributed most of the growth in visitors to the low value of the Canadian dollar which encouraged cruise lines a couple of years ago to add routes this summer. Canada's birthday celebrations, the Tall Ships gathering in Halifax from July 29 to Aug. 1 and increased tourism efforts across the region are also contributing factors, said Lane Farguson, spokesman for the Port of Halifax. The Port of Halifax, largest in Atlantic Canada, welcomed 238,000 cruise passengers in 2016, up seven per cent from the prior year. "And things are looking very, very strong for the year ahead," he said, noting that the favourable currency makes cruising in Canada a cost-effective option for America visitors. Although the number of vessels calling at Halifax decreased last year, the port is seeing larger ships, with the Royal Caribbean's 4,100-passenger Anthem-of-the-Seas setting a record for most passengers last fall. In Vancouver, Canada's largest port anticipates a strong cruise season after seeing volumes grow three per cent in 2016 to 830,000 passengers, mainly on Alaskan cruise itineraries. Prince Rupert, B.C., foresees a doubling of the smaller cruise ships that will come ashore at the port on the cruising route near the Alaskan border. "For Prince Rupert, a community of 14,000 people, it's a significant driver to the economy when a cruise ship sails into Prince Rupert it increases the population by about 13 per cent so it has a huge impact on the local economy," said port CEO Don Krusel.Read More..
Canadian Firms Upbeat About post-election U.S. Growth: SurveyAfter downgrading its forecast in October, the Bank of Canada offered a rosier outlook Monday for the Canadian economy in the wake of the election of Donald Trump, as businesses in this country anticipate gains from stronger growth stateside. In its winter 2016-17 business sentiment survey, Canada's central bank says the new U.S. administration is expected to underpin commodity price gains, although concerns over rising consumer costs and trade protectionism in the U.S. cloud the horizon. Companies are generally more optimistic about future sales than at this time last year, and plan to boost investment and hiring as domestic and U.S. demand picks up, the bank said. In its survey last January —when West Texas crude traded below $32 (U.S.) per barrel — the bank forecast a downturn in business spending along with sluggish GDP growth. The bank in its summer 2015 survey of business sentiment found low oil prices undermining confidence and presaged another rate cut that occurred later that year.Last October, the central bank held its benchmark interest rate at 0.5 per cent, but cut its economic forecasts through 2018, citing a rebound in the export sector that had not materialized as anticipated. But the bank in its business outlook released Monday said "forward-looking measures of business activity have improved as domestic sales growth gains momentum." The outlook is based on interviews conducted late last year with about 100 executives from representative firms across the economy. "The drag from the oil price shock and related spillovers is gradually dissipating, and demand growth remains steady in less-affected regions. Foreign demand continues to support export prospects."Overall, the survey said companies expected faster sales growth over the next 12 months, with support anticipated from services, housing and tourism. Exporters cited the weaker Canadian dollar and stronger U.S. demand as the most important supporting factors for improving sales expectations. The survey also found stronger investment intentions among firms for the coming year, especially in Central and Eastern Canada, as well as more-widespread hiring expectations in most sectors and regions. Some respondents to the bank's survey said suppliers are moving to stabilize or increase prices following cuts over the past two years, or to pass on anticipated increases in commodity costs. The bank said inflation expectations edged up in the survey period from a low level and remain concentrated in the lower half of the bank's inflation-control range of 1 to 3 per cent. Most respondents pointed to hiring plans over the next 12 months, although the bank said "material excess slack remains" in staffing at resource-related businesses. And the bank said some companies were optimistic about potential moves by the incoming Trump administration. "Firms' views . . . are divided: some are optimistic about the prospect of increased infrastructure and military spending as well as changes in energy policies, while others are more pessimistic, often because of the risk of increased protectionism," the central bank said.Read More..
Trump Reverses: Transition is Going 'Very, Very Smoothly'
President-elect Donald Trump's transition into the White House is going "very, very smoothly," he said Wednesday afternoon, hours after complaining on Twitter that President Barack Obama's "roadblocks" had made for a rough changeover of power. When asked by pool reporters whether he thought the transition was going smoothly, Trump replied: "Oh, I think very, very smoothly. Very good. You don't think so?" The reversal apparently comes after Trump and Obama spoke privately. "He phoned me," Trump told reporters. "We had a very nice conversation." Trump, however, would not say whether he broached his roadblock allegations in his conversation with the president. "We had a very general conversation," he said. "Very, very nice. Appreciated that he called." Later, he told reporters outside his Mar-a-Lago residence that he and Obama "had a good talk about things. He was in Hawaii. It was a very nice call and I actually thought we covered a lot of territory. "Our staffs are getting along very well. And I'm getting along very well with him, other than a couple of statements that I responded to and we talked about it and smiled about it. And nobody is ever going to know because we're never going to be going against each other in that way. It was a great conversation." After weeks of warm words and promises of a smooth transition in the wake of perhaps the most contentious presidential election in modern history, Trump accused Obama in a Wednesday morning tweet of throwing up "roadblocks." "Doing my best to disregard the many inflammatory President O statements and roadblocks," he wrote, referring to the president by his initial. "Thought it was going to be a smooth transition - NOT!" The two men, who had little positive to say about each other on the campaign trail, seemingly buried the hatchet during an Oval Office meeting that took place just days after Trump's surprising victory in last month's election. Obama and Trump have spoken multiple times since then and both expressed interest in a seamless transition between administrations. Incoming White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Wednesday during the transition team's daily conference call for reporters that "as the inauguration gets closer, both the current president and his team have been very helpful and generous with their time as far as the actual transition, the mechanics of the transition have gone, and I expect them to continue to speak fairly regularly." But Spicer also refused to tone down his boss' Twitter rhetoric, telling reporters that the president-elect's social media posts "speak for themselves, I think very clearly." The budding relationship between the president and president-elect has frayed in recent weeks, first over the assessment of the FBI and CIA that the Russian government launched cyberattacks targeting the U.S. electoral process with the intention of aiding Trump's candidacy. Trump has been unwilling to concede the validity of that assessment, or even that Russia was behind the cyberattacks at all, a stance that prompted critical remarks from White House press secretary Josh Earnest. The president-elect also lashed out this week at the Obama administration over its unwillingness to defend Israel at the United Nations against a resolution condemning it for new settlement activity. He told reporters that Secretary of State John Kerry's speech Wednesday defending the U.S. abstention "really spoke for itself" and suggested the United Nations has failed to live up to its potential. "When do you see the United Nations solving problems? They don't," he said. "They cause problems. So if it lives up to the potential, it's a great thing. And if it doesn't, it's a waste of time and money." In an earlier tweet Wednesday, he said that "we cannot continue to let Israel be treated with such total disdain and disrespect" and urged Israel to "stay strong" because his inauguration on "January 20th is fast approaching!" Obama also has made veiled criticisms of Trump in various public remarks, indirectly attacking the president-elect multiple times during his end-of-year news conference and in his remarks Tuesday at Pearl Harbor, where he warned that "even when hatred burns hottest, even when the tug of tribalism is at its most primal, we must resist the urge to turn inward. We must resist the urge to demonize those who are different." And in an interview with CNN's David Axelrod, his former senior adviser, Obama said he was confident that he could have won a third term in a race against Trump running on his "hope and change" message. The president-elect disagreed. "President Obama said that he thinks he would have won against me," Trump wrote on Twitter Monday afternoon. "He should say that but I say NO WAY! - jobs leaving, ISIS, OCare, etc." Read More..
Economists Say Trump Delivered Hope
Economists say Donald Trump is right to credit himself for sending consumer confidence to a 15-year high this month as Americans reported a rosy outlook for job creation, business growth and the stock market. The news broke Tuesday, when the Conference Board said its Consumer Confidence Index soared to 113.7 in December, the highest level since 2001. The jump surprised economists, who say the economy has been slowing down. But it didn't surprise Trump. "Thanks Donald!" the president-elect said Wednesday morning on Twitter. Trump's election put the country in a good mood, economists say. "There's a lot of hope that things are going to change and get better," said Mark Vitner, a senior economist at Wells Fargo. "Let's see what happens." American's weren't particularly overjoyed about the economy. What made them cheerful was the hope for a new, better economy. The Conference Board's measure of expectations, a measure of how consumers feel about the future, leapt to a 13-year high as Trump's promise of more jobs, lower taxes and a better business climate made people upbeat. "Optimism did surge after the election. The question is can we maintain it," said Lynn Franco, the Conference Board's director of economic indicators. "That depends on what happens in terms of the economy and job growth." It's not unusual for consumers to feel better after an election, especially when a new party takes office. Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and even Barack Obama, who won his first presidential campaign in the midst of the Great Recession, enjoyed a boost in consumer optimism the month they were elected. By contrast, optimism sank as the nation waited on hanging chads and Bush v. Gore at the end of 2000. "Elections always give confidence a boost. There's a sense of relief that it's behind us," Vitner said. "There does seem to be something to the Trump bump." This election year, the economy has been on a long road to recovery since the Great Recession ended in 2009. Consumer confidence has been on the upswing all year. Still, confidence doesn't boost wages or create jobs, and nine of the past 10 recessions began under Republican presidents. "Trump will be breaking with tradition if we don't see a recession in the next four years," PIMCO's Joachim Fels wrote in a recent blog post. Read More..
What Effects Will Donald Trump Have on the Online Gaming Market
It is no longer news that Donald Trump is the latest United States' president. From the perspective of those in the igaming world, his existence in the Oval Office may actually be something worth celebrating. The common perception goes like this: Trump operates casinos with his name on them. He likes gambling and might attempt to legalise it nationwide. At least one poker pro considers this to be right and the emotion echoed through the poker world. However, the only thing we have from Donald Trump on the record is that about five years ago, he tacitly supported online betting. For anyone who is familiar with Donald Trump and his presidential campaign, his statement in the past at times has little bearing on what he says or believes now. The Adelson-Trump connection To put more limitation on the idea that a Trump-led administration would never legalise US online betting or poker, consider the following: Sheldon Adelson, the Chief Executive Officer of the Las Vegas Sands Corp funded the efforts to stop online betting at the federal level. He also donated a huge sum of money towards the Trump campaign. This is a relationship that for some time now has been percolating with the possibility of having an effect on online betting legalisation. Perhaps you think Sheldon Adelson will not have Trump's ear despite the money he donated, then you do not know much about politics. If Congress forwards a bill to Trump's desk prohibiting online betting, the possibility of him approving it is hard to guess given his relationship with Adelson. Being a billionaire himself, Trump is perhaps the least likely president to succumb to monetary bribes. Going on record saying how he won't accept a dollar during his presidency, it throws it up in the air whether Trump will help online casinos, such as royalvegas.com, or hinder them. RAWA efforts have failed to date In spite of having the majority in both chambers, the Republicans have failed to secure RAWA or any iteration of language criticising online betting, anywhere near passage. Hearings held by Chaffetz late last year were nothing but a disaster. However, that does not imply that the powers leading RAWA will surrender. They might be encouraged by the fact that Republicans have the majorities in the Senate and the House, plus having control of the presidency. Even with that, the Republicans have not been totally on board with RAWA and its implications. That is, it will reverse the online betting laws passed in Delaware, Nevada and New Jersey and would ignore legalisation efforts in states like New York and Pennsylvania. RAWA takes over the Tenth Amendment, several lawmakers concur, by taking the ability to manage a form of betting from states' hands. And that is not an awfully popular position to take for several Republicans. The impact of Trump presidency on online betting is definitely unknown, other than it is not expected to be a positive one. The most probable and most positive circumstances would be the status quo. That implies online betting can be legalised by the states as they wish, without any change at the federal level. But in the range of outcomes, is the not too unrealistic chance that online betting is banned in the US.
Achieve Financial Success And A Fulfilling Life – Unlock Your Repressed Destiny
A desire to achieve financial success and a fulfilling life is a fairly ubiquitous goal that we share as humans, but achieving these two goals at the same time seems to elude most of us. Fortunately for us, Iain Balmain has found his calling in life as both an esoteric healer and career consultant who seeks to impart his spiritual insights about the human soul to unlock a life path that often eludes our conscious state of mind. He has been practicing as an intuitive consultant in Britain and now seeks to bring his energy, experience and wisdom to America, in an effort to help spread more happiness and fulfillment. In the U.S. in particular, our struggles to achieve financial success and fulfilling lives at the same time seem to be often rooted in the confusion we feel, when we are trying to figure out which degree to pursue, in our efforts to obtain a university or college education. If we do graduate, we often end up pursuing careers that seem to only existentially drag us down. This feeling often occurs regardless of how much we earn. In our experiences, which have been documented in countless case studies, the efforts to elevate oneself from economic insecurity up the employment ladder to greater levels of financial security, does not lead us to a greater sense of fulfillment. Research on this issue has been the source of many studies by organizational psychologists who have sought to help businesses yield a more productive workforce, for corporate shareholders. While corporations have sought to shape the minds of their workforce, individual workers and managers have been without a champion who could help them individually achieve the happy, fulfilling and "productive" lives they have always wanted but felt they could never attain. Indeed, we may finally access relatively high paying jobs and finally get to enjoy the material comforts of life that we always thought we had wanted, but still not feel fulfilled as human beings. We may have simply gone from stressful lives without economic security to the correspondingly negative stresses of higher paying jobs, that we dread going to everyday, in our surrender to the "matrix" of a global capitalist economy. In such a context, we may simply seek to pursue moments of "escapism" through vacations or, worse case scenarios, taking our frustrations out on others, in an effort to dump our negative energies, or through taking drugs and narcotics in an effort to "treat" and contain negative energy. However, we often get inspired when we do occasionally hear about some people, who left a job that they didn't care for, to find a career path in which they were able to feel both financially secure and fulfilled as human beings. Luckily, these people, men and women, were able to unlock their own hidden destiny and live their lives in ways that they were meant to live, by tapping into their souls mission. It is our soul as human beings –the essence of who we really are - that gets hidden from us in the confusion and chaos of modern life. In this confusion, it is often impossible for most of us to pursue the fulfilling lives that we desire to have while also seeking financial security in order to have that which is imposed upon us as part of living up to this competitive environment, which America stands for: the land of tremendous opportunities. In the new era of Donald Trump as President, whether we voted for him or not, we might feel a renewed need to "find ourselves" onto a path of security and fulfillment in these uncertain but exhilarating times. Thankfully, Iain Balmain is now seeking to further share his spiritual insights in helping America unlock much of its untapped potential, one human being at a time; Americans who have not been luckily enough to stumble across and embrace their soul's destiny. By connecting with a person's soul, through his professional consultations, Iain wishes to awaken and clarify who we really are, that "who" repressed by artificial personae molded by society's chaos, which so often stunts the fruition of our identities. These artificial personas are essentially counterfeit or "fakes" that, if adopted, often mislead us into directions that create frustrations and negative stresses, eventually resulting in unfulfilled lives, the cause of bad health and many other problems. If you're feeling frustrated, lost, confused or uncertain about your career path and also seek a more fulfilled life, you may very well owe it to yourself to find a consultant like Iain Balmain who will inspire your divine potential. A service like Iain's will save, not only precious time and money, but also promise to rejuvenate the course of personal health from the stresses that impact our daily lives. You contact Iain here - http://innerconsult.co.uk/
Samsung Electronics to invest more than $1 billion in US chip productionSamsung Electronics said on Tuesday it planned to invest more than $1 billion by the end of June 2017 to boost production of system chips at its Austin, Texas, facilities in the United States to meet growing demand. The South Korean firm, the world's second-largest chipmaker behind Intel, said in a statement its investment would boost output of chips for mobile and other electronics devices from its existing facilities in the city. The investment comes after Samsung said last week its capital expenditure for 2016 would rise to a record 27 trillion won ($24 billion), with 13.2 trillion won earmarked for its semiconductor business. While most of Samsung's semiconductor profits come from memory chip sales, it has been trying to boost earnings from other products including its own Exynos mobile processors and contract manufacturing deals with clients such as Qualcomm and Nvidia Samsung did not give further details for its investment plans in Austin, such as how much production capacity would be added.
GM sales drop 1.7 pct; U.S. auto sales seen off Despite DiscountsGeneral Motors' sales in October fell a less-than-forecast 1.7 percent as hefty gains for pickups and SUVs offset declines for its sedans but the industry was expected to report a larger drop.U.S. auto sales in October were seen declining between 6 percent and 8 percent, according to industry analysts, as higher consumer discounts failed to prevent a fall-off from last year's record high. GM said on Tuesday U.S. industry auto sales will be 17.4 million on a seasonally adjusted annualized rate, slightly weaker than most industry analysts expected. GM's two full-size pickup truck models, Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra, collectively fell 7.6 percent. GM's Chevrolet Tahoe, Chevrolet Suburban and GMC Yukon large SUVs collectively gained 69 percent versus a year ago. The vehicles are hugely profitable for GM. The rate of decline in October from a year ago will not be known until later this week because Ford is delaying its sales report due to a fire at its Dearborn, Michigan headquarters on Monday. Fiat Chrysler's sales slid 10 percent, hampered by outsized drop-offs of two sedans it will soon stop making, and a rare decrease of 7 percent for its Jeep SUV brand. Cherokee sales were down 23 percent. Ford, the second-biggest automaker in the U.S. market with a 15 percent share of sales through September, has not said when it will issue its sales report. Analysts expect Ford to show a decline of between 9 percent and 11 percent from a year ago, which some analysts said was due to better discipline on the use of discounts. Others pointed out that the company stemmed production at North American F-150 pickup truck plants and sedan plants to counteract weak demand. Comparisons to last October are pressured because of two fewer selling days. But even with that factored in, sales would likely have been weaker if not for the big consumer discounts, known as incentives, analysts said. TrueCar said October incentives industrywide rose nearly 16 percent from a year earlier, or about $3,600 per new vehicle sold. Nissan's sales fell 2.2 percent, though sales of its SUVs and pickup trucks rose 13 percent.
Asian shares lower; ASX, Nikkei, Kospi, HSI drop more than 1%Most Asian markets dropped more than 1 percent after Wall Street's "fear index" spiked on jitters over the U.S. presidential elections. "Markets have been rankled by some polls putting Trump ahead of Clinton for the first time, given Trump's controversial policy platform of re-looking at trade deals and clamping down on immigration," Chang Wei Liang, FX strategist at Mizuho Bank, said in a Wednesday note. Australia's ASX 200 closed down 1.16 percent, or 61.47 points, at 5,229 dragged by its energy subindex, which was down 1.81 percent, and its financials subindex, which fell 1.43 percent. Japan's Nikkei 225 ended down 1.76 percent, or 308.07 points, at 17,134.68, likely due to the stronger yen which is seen as a safe haven currency. The yen strengthened against the greenback, fetching 103.86 a dollar as of 1:57 pm HK/SIN, compared to 104 levels seen on Tuesday. In South Korea, the Kospi closed down 1.42 percent, or 28.45 points, at 1,978.94. Hong Kong's Hang Seng shed 1.44 percent as of 3:09 pm local time. Mainland China's Shanghai composite was down 0.62 percent, or 19.48 points, at 3,102.97, while the Shenzhen composite slipped 0.63 percent, or 13.06 points, at 2,060.05.The Dow Jones industrial average closed down 0.58 percent at 18,037.1, the S&P 500 ended 0.68 percent lower at 2,111.72, and the Nasdaq composite closed down 0.69 percent at 5,153.58, after a choppy day in which better-than-expected earnings failed to cancel out worries about the U.S. election. The CBOE Volatility Index (.VIX), called the "fear index" because it shows the market's expectations on volatility over a 30-day period, went above the key 20 point during U.S. trading, taking its rise to more than 40 percent over the past six days. It is the first time the VIX has risen for six straight days since the period just before the U.K.'s shock vote to leave the EU, and traders told CNBC the latest climb was due to the increased possibility of a Donald Trump presidency. The VIX last traded at 18.56 as of 4:14 am HK/SIN time.The Federal Reserve will finish its two-day meeting on Wednesday in the U.S. The central bank is considered very unlikely to hike at the meeting, according to the CNBC Fed Survey, which found that 100 percent of respondents did not expect a move, but 86 percent did forecast a quarter-point hike at the December 13-14 meeting. Meanwhile, it's been a bruising few days for Trump rival Hillary Clinton, after the FBI said it was investigating new emails related to her controversial use of a private server while she served as secretary of state. "Even if the Fed does signal an inclination to lift rates in December, markets will take the view that this is unlikely if a Trump victory leads to uncertainty and a surge in financial market volatility. This view was played out in markets last night with the U.S. dollar falling sharply and gold rallying," said Ric Spooner, chief market analyst at CMC Markets, in a Wednesday note. Spot gold traded at $1,293.02 per ounce, compared to last week's levels as low as $1,266. In currency markets, the dollar index, which tracks the greenback against a basket of currencies, stood at 97.696 as of 3:12 pm HK/SIN, down from 98 levels on Tuesday. The Mexican peso extended its fall against the dollar, fetching 19.308 per dollar as of 3:12 pm HK/SIN. The peso had sold off as much as 1.3 percent against the greenback to 19.1102 pesos on Tuesday. The Korean won weakened against the greenback to 1,148.45, a three-and-a-half month low. In October, the KRW/USD had depreciated as much as 3.5 percent. "The woes surrounding labor strikes in Hyundai and Samsung's battery flame-outs were part of the domestic reasons that led to the underperformance versus the USD. Arguably, these issues may be partially reflected in the price, but we think that the room for more KRW weakness ahead has increased meaningfully." analysts at National Australia Bank said in a Tuesday note. Singapore's major banks were mixed, OCBC stock was down 0.47 percent at S$8.46 per share, United Overseas Bank slipped 1.12percent to S$18.50, while DBS traded up 0.07 percent at S$15.00 A Moody's Investors Service report on Wednesday warned that the three banks could see their profitability come under further pressure, as seen in their latest financial results. The ratings agency assigned a negative outlook to the banks' ratings in March. "The Q3 results for DBS, OCBC and UOB show a further weakening in the banks' asset quality and profitability, because of the persistent challenges that they face in relation to their oil and gas exposures," said Eugene Tarzimanov, vice president and senior credit officer at Moody's Investor Service, in the note.Australia's CSR sees a lift in H1 profitsAustralia's CSR jumped 8.61 percent to A$3.89 after it reported half-year revenue was up 8 percent to A$1.24 billion, and half-year net profit after tax rose 12 percent to A$103.1 million. The building materials company has risen more than 31 percent year-to-date. Shares in Virgin Australia were down 4.17 percent at A$0.23per share, after the airline operator reported an underlying loss before tax of A$3.6 million. Hong Kong-listed Standard Chartered dipped 6.45 percent to HK$63.05 a share, after it reported a 6 percent decline in income from the previous year on Tuesday. The bank also warned that it might have compliance and regulatory struggles ahead, confirming that Hong Kong's financial regulator planned to take action against it because of its role as a joint sponsor in an initial public offering in 2009. Oil majors in the region were all lower, Australia's Santos was down 4.27 percent, Oil Search fell 1.35 percent and Woodside Petroleum dropped 1.07 percent, Japan's Inpex slipped 1.63 percent, while South Korea's S-Oil was up 1.23 percent, China's Shanghai Pechem was down 1.52 percent and Petrochina was down 0.82 percent. U.S. crude futures were down 0.77 percent, at $46.31 a barrel, after it had settled to $46.67 on Tuesday. Global benchmark Brent was down 0.60 percent at $47.85 after it settled at $48.14. The American Petroleum Institute (API) said crude inventory rose by 9.3 million barrels in the week to October 28. A Reuters poll had forecast stockpiles to rise by 1 million barrels. Traders will likely look to the Energy Information Administration's official inventory data, due for release later Wednesday, for further direction.
Homeowners Twice as House rich as Five Years AgoAmerica's housing market is heating up again, fortifying the finances of current homeowners and frustrating potential first-time buyers. After hitting bottom in 2012, home prices took off dramatically before leveling off a bit in mid-2014. In the last two months, though, they turned higher again. The amount of equity homeowners now have — the value outside their mortgage debt — has doubled in the last five years, according to CoreLogic. The latest read on September home prices showed a 6.3 percent annual gain, a touch bigger than August and a clear sign that prices are heating up again after cooling through much of spring and summer. "Home-equity wealth has doubled during the last five years to $13 trillion, largely because of the recovery in home prices," said Frank Nothaft, chief economist for CoreLogic. "Nationwide during the past year, the average gain in housing wealth was about $11,000 per homeowner, but with wide geographic variation."Housing by the numbersAll real estate is local, and while most states show gains in home values, the variance is wide. Connecticut and Alaska are the only states seeing annual price declines. For Connecticut, it is jobs plain and simple. The loss of major employers there, like General Electric's decision to move its headquarters to Boston, have hit the housing market hard. Other states, like Arkansas, New Jersey, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Wyoming, Maine and Maryland, are barely in the black. On the flip side, as tech companies flee California, nearby states like Washington and Oregon are seeing double-digit home price gains, with Colorado and Utah not far behind. Homeowners today show more wealth on paper, but they are not extracting it at nearly the rate they did during the last housing boom. Near-record-low mortgage rates have certainly prompted thousands of borrowers to refinance and lower their monthly payments, but a very small share have extracted cash in these refinances and home equity lines of credit (HELOC). "That weakness of active home equity withdrawal looks in large part to reflect tight credit conditions. Although lenders have reported loosening lending standards for HELOCs in each of the past 15 quarters, that easing has been modest compared to the conventional mortgage market," wrote Matthew Pointon, property economist with Capital Economics. "Indeed, median credit scores for new HELOC originations have not declined at all over the past couple of years, despite the serious delinquency rate on those loans dropping to its lowest since records began in 2008." So homeowners get richer, and those trying to become homeowners have to face not just higher prices, but a severe lack of homes for sale, especially at the entry level. There is clearly demand, just not enough supply. "After all, measures of home purchase sentiment are elevated, and there is evidence that first-time buyers are making a welcome return to the market," added Pointon. They are returning, but still not hitting their historically normal share of homebuyers. While the National Association of Realtors reported a jump in first-time buyers in September sales, other measures show they have been dropping pretty steadily from a high of 40 percent in May to 34.8 percent in September, according to Campbell/Inside Mortgage Finance. That was the lowest level recorded since April 2014.The slowdown in first-time buyers is likely due to higher home prices. First-time buyers are much more price-sensitive than the rest of the market, and they are also more limited in credit availability. Housing affordability is now below average in half of the nation's top 20 metropolitan markets, according to John Burns Real Estate Consulting. These include Denver, Houston, Austin, Texas, and Nashville, Tennessee. "This means that they are at high risk of a sharp price correction whenever the next recession hits," the Burns researchers said.
The Garbage Indicator: What trash is Telling us About the Economy Now
It is said that one man's trash is another man's treasure. It also happens that all of our trash could collectively make for a great economic indicator.In addition to other, more conventional indicators, Deutsche Bank's chief international economist, Torsten Slok, consults freight rail waste data put out by the Association of American Railroads for a check on how the economy is doing. Given the drop in oil prices and rise in the dollar, "a lot of economic statistics were distorted and you did see a slowdown in a lot of places. ... This indicator is an attempt to get a more pure view of where the business cycle is at the moment," Slok said Monday on CNBC's "Trading Nation." At this point, the garbage transport gauge "is indeed suggesting that the recovery continues, or that the economic expansion is moving forward from here." Slok isn't the first to notice the connection between waste carloads and the GDP growth. Michael McDonough, an economist at Bloomberg, has followed growth in the waste carloads indicator for years. Indeed, the data series has been shown to have a high correlation to changes in GDP. This makes some intuitive sense, given that consumption, construction and other such activities generally create waste. While peering deeply into trash may sound strange, "all joking aside, this is really an attempt to capture what is the economic activity when we measure it from a whole different angle than we normally do," Slok said. He added that it generally confirms what economic data have shown, but "if anything, this also points to that there are some upside risks to the outlook from where we are at the moment." In more conventional data, Tuesday's ISM reading showed that the manufacturing sector expanded in October. The October employment report is set to be released Friday. Read More..
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Igor Sokolov Promoted to Professor at Clarkson University
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Sokolov received his Ph.D. from the Soviet Bureau of Standards (Russian NIST), St. Petersburg, Russia, and completed his postdoctoral work at the University of Toronto. He has been a faculty member in the Department of Physics since 2000, has an appointment in the Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Science, is affiliated with Clarkson's Center for Advanced Material Processing (CAMP) and is director of the NanoBio Laboratory (NABLAB).
Sokolov's research interests include biological physics, soft matter, and nanostructured materials. The major focus areas of this research are on the mechanics of human cells, self-assembly of nanostructured functional colloids, nanophotonics, and self-healing materials.
Sokolov has received the Simon Greenberg Foundation Scholarship for human skin related studies, and he has had two presentations selected by the American Institute of Physics to be featured at the 2006 American Physics Society annual meeting.
During his career, Sokolov has been distinguished by the receipt of a number of other awards, including Clarkson's Graham Research Award, the E.L. Ginzton International Fellowship Award from Stanford University, two awards from the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture of the Japanese Government, Soros Research Awards, and three awards as the best young researcher of the year from the Soviet Bureau of Standards.
Since arriving at Clarkson, he has received 28 grants (principal investigator on 21, and a leading co-principal investigator on two) with total of $4.1 million in supported projects. Currently, Sokolov's research is supported by ARO, Ferro Inc., Purdue Pharma Inc., and NYSTAR. He is a leading co-PI on a $3 million grant from ARO, heading the group studying self-healing materials.
Sokolov has 95 refereed publications, which were cited more than 1,600 times. He has filed 15 patents, given 67 invited lectures and seminars, and participated in 64 conferences with contributed presentations. Since starting at Clarkson, Sokolov has taught 14 different undergraduate and graduate level courses, supervised 11 graduate students, and served as research mentor for eight undergraduate students.
An overview of Sokolov's research recently appeared in the New Scientist, and his research on human skin received special focus in Chemical and Engineering News. His synthesis of the brightest ever fluorescent particles was highlighted in several news media outlets, including MRS News, APSNews.Org, Science Daily, United Press International, while the image of the particles was selected as LiveScience's image of the day and was chosen as a cover finalist by Materials Today, a popular international materials journal.
His work on aging cells was highlighted on the cover of APS News magazine and has been featured in newspapers throughout the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, France, Germany, Brazil, India, Portugal, and South Africa, and in a variety of popular magazines like Skin & Aging, Advance News, BBC Health News, and others.

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Think stamps are only worth the paper they're printed on? Philatelists will tell you to think again. The tiny One-Cent Magenta stamp, now on display at the National Postal Museum, recently sold for $9.5 million.
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Sesame Crusted Walu
Source: Recipe from Chef Glenn Wielo
Black and white sesame seeds make a lovely crust for walu filets. The filets are artfully arranged with rice and Chinese long beans and served with a spicy curry sauce.
1 1⁄2 cups canola oil
12 6-oz. walu filets
2 1⁄4 cups black and white sesame seeds
7 1⁄2 cups jasmine rice, cooked
1 1⁄2 lb. Chinese long beans
3 cups basic red curry
12 edible orchid flowers
Black and white sesame seeds, for garnish
1. Lightly oil and season walu. Roll walu in sesame seeds, covering well.
2. On a hot, oiled sizzle plate, cook walu in a 400° F. oven approx. 15 min., flipping once.
3. Mound rice in the center of a serving plate. Wrap beans around rice and ladle curry around rice. Place walu on rice and garnish with sesame seeds and an orchid.


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A popular television series that just ended is the show "Glee." Each season had popular characters who had to learn to work together to create a good musical production. Various characters underwent a change, making them a dynamic character, such as Noah Puckerman. He appears to carry out the stereotype of a jock (strong but not so smart), but his character changes as it's revealed that he can be hard working and intelligent.
A movie that features one character throughout most of it is "Castaway" with Tom Hanks. His character is on board a shipping plane when it crashes. He's the only survivor, trapped on an island for four years. This movie focuses on his psychological (mental) and physical condition as he slowly adapts to a life of isolation, living alone on an island that is off all regular sea and airplane routes. It's a great example of how a story can work with only one character, although many minor characters appear in the beginning and end.
These are the most important characters in the story. There are two types, of which there may be a couple for each.Protagonist Antagonist
These are the other characters in a story. They are not as important as the major characters, but still play a large part in the story. Their actions help drive the story forward. They may impact the decisions the protagonist or antagonist make, either helping or interfering with the conflict.
Characters can have different traits. Major characters will usually be more dynamic, changing and growing through the story while minor characters may be more static.Static Dynamic
Characters are what make stories. Without a character, there is no story to tell, only a lot of scenery. Many characters in literature, television series, and movies have a huge impact on people. Some people like to live their lives through these characters, who appear to have more exciting lives. Also, these characters may seem so real and inspirational, that people forget they are fictional.
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Conjunctions: What is a Conjunction? Conjunction Meaning, Conjunction Examples, Conjunction Exercises with List of words.
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1. Joins together sentences, and sometimes words.
2. Makes sentences more compact. 'Sudhir is a good bowler and Sanjay is a good bowler'. Using conjunction we can say in short 'Sudhir and Sanjay are good bowlers '.
1. used in pairs to join phrases or words that carry equal importance within a sentence ( Either take it or leave it .
2. formed when compound expressions are used as conjunctions ( Such an act would not be kind even if it were just.
3. coordinates or joins two or more sentences, main clauses, words or other parts of speech which are ofequal importance or rank (.Birds fly and fish swim.
4. joins a clause to another one on which it depends for its full meaning or joins dependent clauses to independent clauses (). He ran away because he was afraid .
When Conjunctions are used as Correlatives, each of the correlated words should be placed immediately before the words to be connected.
a)He visited not only Mumbai, but also Pune.
b)He not only visited Mumbai , but also Pune .
Any of the Coordinating Conjunctions, with the exception of ' or, nor,' may be omitted and its place taken by a comma, semicolon, or colon.
a)Rama went out to play but Hari stayed in to work.
b)Rama went out to play ; Hari stayed in to work.
It should be followed by a noun or noun equivalent which acts as its object.
a)Stay till Sunday.
b)We shall stay here till you return.
c)The dog ran after the cat.
d)We came after they had left. ('after' is a subordinating conjunction here)
is an adverb which introduces a relative clause. The relative adverbs are: where, when, whenever and wherever.
a)I will never forget the day when I met Jane.
b) When the doorbell rang, my dog Rusty barked loudly.
is a pronoun which introduces a relative clause. The relative pronouns are: who, whom, which and whose.
a)The boy whose sister works with me is a good designer.
b)I hired Satish, whose interior design work is top-notch.
it should be preceded by a verb in the present perfect tense, and followed by a verb in the simple past tense.
usedwhen we want to emphasize that contrast to achieve a stronger effect.
is used to talk about something over a period of time, up till now, sometimes with negative meanings and in questions.
a)Isn't the dinner ready yet ?
b)Don't eat the mangoes. They're not ripe yet .
: as a Conjunction, follows adjectives and adverbs in the comparative degree.
as a Subordinating Conjunction to express fear or apprehension.
usedforintroducingthe onlyperson, thing, orfactthat is notincluded.
a)I'd invite Paresh myself, except I don't know where he lives.
b)I haven't invited anyone except Paresh.
is used to mean 'during the same time as':
a) While he was sleeping, a thief entered the house.
b)The girls studied while the boys played.
to mean 'whereas'
as a Conjunction, means 'except that' or 'but'.
a)She sings well, only that she forgets the lyrics in the middle.
b)I would go with you, only I can't take leave from office.
Either I'm feeling happy or sad, I try to keep a positive attitude. (Incorrect)
Whether I'm feeling happy or sad, I try to keep a positive attitude. (Correct)
Meera went to the marketandMeera bought oranges. (Incorrect)
Meera went to the market and bought oranges. (Correct)
Will you please wait here as soon as I come back? (Incorrect)
Will you please wait here until I come back? (Correct)
I have spoken to Ritesh,and confirmed the time of meeting. (Incorrect)
I have spoken to Ritesh and confirmed the time of meeting. (Correct)
He not only called Amit, but Rita also. (Incorrect)
He called not only Amit, but also Rita. (Correct)
You won't pass the test if you study. (Incorrect)
You won't pass the test unless you study. (Correct)
I am living in Shillong since I left school in 2012. (Incorrect)
I have been living in Shillong since I left school in 2012. (Correct)
I will not go unless you also. (Incorrect)
I will not go unless you also do . (Correct)
I like coffeeyetmy wife prefers tea. (Incorrect)
I like coffee but my wife prefers tea. (Correct)
I am late because of the traffic was terrible. (Incorrect)
I am late because of the traffic. / I am late because the traffic was terrible. (Correct)
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Get info about College of Staten Island police officer jobs, and registering for discussion sections and department seminars. Which college degrees give you the best chances of finding employment after graduation? Given experience in law enforcement, or paralegal certification, you may find your niche working in legal services. Most police officers and detectives must graduate from their agency's training academy, before going on to completing intensive on-the-job training as a rookie. Police academy candidates must be US citizens, at least 21 years old, and able to meet rigorous physical and personal qualifications, as well as a thorough background check. The median national salary for police officers is $62,000. Further, the Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that there were approximately 120,000 detectives and criminal investigators employed in the USA.
Police officers protect lives and property. Detectives and criminal investigators, who are sometimes called special agents, gather facts and collect evidence of possible crimes. Police and detective work can be physically demanding, stressful, and dangerous. In fact, police officers have one of the highest rates of injuries and illnesses of all occupations, and working around the clock in shifts is commonplace.
Private detectives and investigators (PI) search for hidden information about legal, financial, and personal matters. They perform many duties, such as verifying backgrounds and legal statements, finding missing persons, and investigating crimes. The minimum education required is a high school diploma, and nearly 1 in 4 private investigators were self-employed in 2017. Private detectives typically have several years of work experience in either law enforcement or the military, and most states require private investigators to be licensed. Median salary in 2017 was roughly $53,610. Please use the form above to request admissions info for College of Staten Island.
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Jeter to only play exhibition games in minors
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — New York Yankees general manager Brian Cashman says shortstop Derek Jeter will play only in minor league spring training games for the rest of spring training.
The move could cut short how much time Jeter would miss if he starts the season on the 15-day disabled list. By not playing in major league exhibitions, the Yankees want to be able to adjust Jeter's start time on the DL if that's necessary.
"I think we need the ability to preserve to back date him in the event that's he not going make it," Cashman said.
Jeter missed his third straight exhibition game Thursday because of inflammation in his surgically repaired left ankle. He expects to resume baseball activities on Friday.
"I wouldn't call it a setback," Jeter said. "We're not talking about my ankle right now. We're talking about normal soreness that comes after you have surgery. So, I'm not concerned at all about my ankle."
Jeter said he hasn't talked with Cashman yet about switching to minor league games as spring training winds down.
The 38-year-old captain received an anti-inflammatory injection on Wednesday.
"The soreness is better," Jeter said. "It's been there, all around the place. The soreness moves around. So that's nothing new. I couldn't play on it two days ago. It was worse."
Cashman hasn't ruled out Jeter missing the Yankees' regular season opener April 1 at home against Boston. New York manager Joe Girardi feels it's too early to know what Jeter's status for the opener will be.
"I don't know how he's going to respond to the medicine he just took, and how that ankle is going to feel," Girardi said. "I think what he's going through is normal, normal soreness. Stuff that you go through when you comeback from something like this. Eventually it turns the corner, but I can't tell you exactly when that will be."
Jeter continues to target April 1 as his goal.
"Nothing has changed from my point of view," Jeter said.
Cashman said that third baseman Alex Rodriguez, recovering from hip surgery and is expected to be sidelined until at least the All-Star break, is getting physical therapy in New York.
Girardi exchanges text messages weekly with A-Rod, who is doing exercises in a pool.
"He's good," Girardi said. "He's doing more and more every week."
Girardi hopes to see Rodriguez at Yankee Stadium when the team returns to New York.
Cashman said there is no date yet for when Rodriguez will report to the Yankees' complex in Florida to start on-field drills.
Right-hander Phil Hughes, diagnosed with a bulging disk in his upper back early in spring training, is scheduled to pitch for the first time Friday in a minor league game.
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Sm. 3028 gives us a discussion of hyperation. I don't really understand the spirit of it because I thought Greek word order was pretty wide open. If anybody has any useful general thoughts, I'd love to hear them. More specifically, I don't understand the first example at 3028d.
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Where is the nominative? I must be blind.
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Farmers across San Joaquin County must pay double this year to join a coalition and comply with stricter state water quality regulations.
Farmers across San Joaquin County must pay double this year to join a coalition and comply with stricter state water quality regulations.
Bills were to be sent Monday, officials said. Annual dues will rise from $2.75 per acre to $5.50 per acre, which amounts to an increase of almost $1,400 per year for a typical 500-acre family farm.
Collectively, farmers across the county will pay about $1.6 million more than they have in the past. That's a sliver of the county's nearly $3 billion agricultural industry, but coalition organizers fear the increased costs may deter farmers from joining the coalition - a decision that could cost them far more in the end.
"There's a huge concern about that," said Mike Wackman, a spokesman for the San Joaquin County and Delta Water Quality Coalition. "We're concerned they'll get the higher bill and say, 'You know what? I'm not going to do this anymore.'
"They'll roll the dice," Wackman said. "But I wouldn't recommend growers to do that."
After all, if they don't join the coalition, farmers may find themselves regulated individually by the Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board. And that could cost some growers tens of thousands of dollars per year, Wackman said.
Farmers have never been held fully accountable for the pollution that drains off their lands into rivers and streams. Agriculture was exempted from the 1972 Clean Water Act.
But state law passed in 1999 compelled the board to take action. Instead of regulating farmers individually, like other businesses, the board allowed farmers to join growers' coalitions that monitor water quality and work with growers to address problems.
Now the board is going one step further, extending the rule to groundwater and adding new reporting requirements.
Farmers protested the changes. And for some, the $5.50-per-acre charge may be just the beginning, Wackman said.
That charge, he said, represents only the cost of the coalition's administering of the program, including reports, paperwork and monitoring.
Growers who use lots of fertilizer and allow lots of runoff may eventually face significantly higher costs - for example, if they have to install a drip irrigation system or build ponds to capture runoff.
Indeed, the water board has estimated the real cost of the rule in San Joaquin County could be about $72 million per year.
Leaders in the agricultural community are preparing to respond to the many questions and concerns they're likely to hear when the bills arrive, said Jack Hamm, president of the San Joaquin Farm Bureau Federation. Those who belong to the existing coalition must sign up by June 14; those who were not regulated before but are subject to the stricter rules have until Oct. 24.
"This is nothing that anybody wants to hear, but it's the new cost of doing business in San Joaquin County and throughout the Central Valley," Hamm said.
The higher costs will cut into profits, he added, though the impact will vary depending on a farmer's location and whether that farmer is growing higher- or lower-value crops.
Hamm attempted to put a bright spin on the increased cost, saying the data that are made available as a result of the more aggressive reporting will show growers are "already doing the right thing" when it comes to controlling pollution.
"I think this is going to allow San Joaquin County agriculture to go out and prove our story," Hamm said.
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Dick Evey (EE'-vee), a tackle who played most of his eight seasons in the NFL with the Chicago Bears, has died at age 72.
Smith Funeral & Cremation Service in Maryville, Tenn., says he died Thursday at the Ben Atchley State Veterans Home in Knoxville after a long illness.
Evey played from 1964-69 with the Bears, who selected him out of Tennessee in the first round of the 1964 draft. Evey played with the Los Angeles Rams in 1970 and the Detroit Lions in 1971.


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Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Daring Cooks! Vietnamese Pho
Oops! Better late than never. This month we made pho, which I love. Pho is a Vietnamese dish of broth with rice noodles and meat, and you get to customize it to your taste. Served alongside is usually a plate of sprouts, lime, chilis, basil, and maybe a few other things. I added scallions, cilantro, and onion as well.
The October 2009 Daring Cooks' challenge was brought to us by Jaden of the blog Steamy Kitchen. The recipes are from her new cookbook, The Steamy Kitchen Cookbook.
Vietnamese Pho
Green means my addition
For the broth:
2 T whole coriander
4 whole cloves
2 whole star anise
2 cardamom pods
1 T fennel seeds
8 c chicken broth
1/2 onion
1 3-inch hunk of ginger, peeled and chopped
1-2 T sugar
1-2 T fish sauce
Heat a pan over high heat. Add the spices and toast, shaking the pan so the spices don't burn. When you can start to smell them, they're done. Remove them from the pan, then combine all the ingredients (including the spices) in a pot and cook for 20-30 minutes. Strain the broth, then keep it on a low simmer while you get everything else ready.For the soup/assembly:
1 lb rice stick noodles
1/2 lb thinly sliced beef
2 c bean sprouts
a handful fresh cilantro
a handful Thai basil
1/2 shaved red onion
1/2 lime, cut into wedges
sliced fresh chilis
3 sliced scallions
Cook the noodles according to your package directions.
Arrange the bean sprouts, cilantro, basil, onion, lime, chilis and scallions on a plate. Divide the noodles between bowls, top with sliced meat, then pour the hot broth over. The broth will help cook the beef. Add whatever additions you'd like, and enjoy!
We were supposed to make a dessert wonton, but I didn't have time and also, us gluten-free people can't use wonton wrappers. I wasn't up to that challenge today.
16 comments:
Wow, beautiful pictures and enticing pho!ReplyDelete
Looks yummy. I love pho. It's like my favorite food group. :)ReplyDelete
Gorgeous Beef Pho and stunning photos! I made the chicken, but seeing yours enhances my desire to tackle the beef. It looks so tender and rare..so much so, that I'm salivating. Well done!!ReplyDelete
Mmhammh!! yami. When I was little, my mom used to make this dish using leftover plain pasta. She added a lot of garlic, then the noodles, a little bit of soy sauce, and some oyster sauce. I loved it!ReplyDelete
i love pho! and love the picture of the star anise :)ReplyDelete
Gorgeous pictures!!ReplyDelete
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In his return to practice last Saturday after missing about a week with a foot injury, Ravens defensive tackle Timmy Jernigan slammed the blocking dummies with such force that his teammates hollered their approval.
It wasn't his intention, but Jernigan made a clear statement that he's healthy and ready to resume preparation for the 2015 season.
"That's just the way I play," he said. "Any time I'm on the field, I try to go one speed. It's either you're going full speed or you're not doing [anything] at all."
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My family recently just 'officially' announced that we're in the process of adopting a child from South Africa. As a family we're quite excited.
There is, of course, a ton of paperwork to do—along with the need for gobs of signatures.
Which got me thinking about my (particularly nerdy) signature—or, more specifically, about how I format dates whenever they're required with my signature. Because, since about 2003 (I think) I've been formatting dates accompanying my signature in ISO-8601 format (i.e., YYYY-MM-DD).
Granted, that's pretty nerdy. But I did it for two primary reasons. First, having lived in Europe for a while, I found that I much preferred their dd/mm/yyyy formatting of dates—compared to the 'lame' way that we format dates in the United States (mm/dd/yyyy).
(To me it makes much more logical sense to either start with the largest unit (year) and work to months then days (the smallest unit), or work from the smallest unit (days) on through months and then into years – as Europeans do it. But, in the US, we 'jump around' by starting 'in the middle' with months, jumping to days, and then back up to years.)
So, in this regard, having lived in Europe for a while always caused me confusion after I'd been back in the States for a while and had to write out a date—as I could never remember which format to use (especially since I was always tempted to assume that the most 'logical' format would make the most sense). As such, one big reason I started using ISO formatted dates was to make things easier on myself.
The other reason I started using ISO formatted dates was because of my love and passion for SQL Server—and because ISO Formatted Dates are the correct way to format dates within SQL Server.
Is there Such a Thing as a Correct Date Format?
In many environments, 'correct' is a loaded term that ends up being subject to context and perspective. In other situations, 'correct' ends up being an immutable fact.
Date formatting in SQL Server falls somewhere between those two ends of the spectrum. And, in many ways, I suppose it's a bit like the notion of 'correct' within language—or speech. Because, along those lines, I always get cranky when people try to assert that there's a 'correct' way to speak. There isn't. Instead, anything you can do to get your point across is considered viable. And I ain't going to argue that point. There is, however, also the fact that you ARE judged on how you speak—meaning people will make assumptions about your intelligence based upon how you speak and communicate. It's also worth pointing out that that there are more efficient ways of communicating than others.
Along those lines, while it's possible for users to format their dates in SQL Server pretty much however they'd like, I'd argue that the most efficient way to do so is via ISO-8601 format. Or, as xkcd points out, the purpose of ISO 8601 was to define a globally-accepted standard to describing dates (and other details) in a non-confusing manner.
Consequently, while SQL Server does provide the SET DATEFORMAT setting (which I've never, actually, ever seen used in ANY production code – anywhere), Books Online makes it clear that the default format for dates uses an ISO 8601 format in the form of YYYY-MM-DD (and the remarks also clearly call out ANSI and ISO 8601 compliance).
Moreover, getting in the habit of expressing all of your dates in ISO format within SQL Server will pay off great dividends, as certain aspects of SQL Server just 'expect' that you'll use ISO formatted dates under certain scenarios—like Partitioning (where the boundary_value calls out that date boundaries should be declared using ISO formatted dates to ensure that they're valid in all environments).
So, in other words, feel free to keep formatting dates in output or reports as best suits your users' needs (I'm not arguing that you should get in the habit of trying to force nerdy ISO compliance upon your end-users). But, if you want to do things the 'right way' when communicating with SQL Server in your own code and when doing your own modifications, then ISO 8601 is the right way. (And whether or not you want to be a nerd like me and ISO format dates outside of SQL Server is entirely up to you.)


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Lady Gaga Breaks Down in Tears During Philippines Show
Lady Gaga is an emotional mother monster. While she had remained mostly mum during the drama in which Islamic and Christian hardliners protested her gigs -- she broke her silence via Twitter earlier today -- she came a bit undone onstage, letting her emotions out. It was sweet, tender, touching and 100 percent heartfelt moment. We wanted to run on stage and engulf her in a huge hug.
First, she told her little monsters that she hoped that "good people are with you tonight that make you happy." She thanked them for buying tickets to see her show. She then took her place at her motorcycle keyboard to play the opening strains of 'Hair.'
She then said, "People think I stand for like, really inappropriate things. The truth is want the f---ing best for you, for every one of you. I love you with my heart and soul," she said through tears and a choked up voice. She joked that she was jet lagged, and hence, emotional.
The Mother Monster then declared, "This is not about my clothes or having hit records … people in the world need to be who they are and be proud."
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The buccaneer genre was a Hollywood castaway before Johnny Depp, Gore Verbinski and Jerry Bruckheimer proved the skeptics wrong with their "Pirates of the Caribbean" mega-success — now the same trio and rising star Armie Hammer want to disprove the conventional view that Westerns are snakebit when it comes to attracting young moviegoers.
Producer Bruckheimer used Twitter on Thursday morning to give the world the first look at director Verbinski's "The Lone Ranger," the Disney film that overcame some oddly public budget shoot-outs and will ride against the industry assumption that the Hollywood Western long ago rode off into the sunset as a viable popcorn prospect with young audiences. Jon Favreau's "Cowboys & Aliens" experiment didn't do anything to change that view, although Verbinski's "Rango" put up an animated argument against the perception.
The photo shows Depp as Tonto — described by Disney as "a spirit warrior on a personal quest" — and Hammer as the masked man who became a pop-culture sensation with radio and television audiences of past generations. Verbinski (now a newly minted Oscar winner) told Hero Complex in early 2011 that he would be taking the mythology in a very different direction and that this version of Tonto (just like Jack Sparrow in "Pirates") would use Depp's nimble charisma to add a touch of the absurd to the straight-faced screen traditions.
"The only version of 'The Lone Ranger' I'm interested in doing is 'Don Quixote' told from Sancho Panza's point of view," Verbinski said. "And hence I was honest early on with Johnny that Tonto is the part. We're not going to do it [straight]. Everyone knows that story. I don't want to tell that story."
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COMMERCE CITY, Colo. (Sunday, September 15, 2013) – The FC Dallas Reserves earned a 3-1 victory over the Rapids Reserves on a rainy Sunday morning in Colorado, with three goals scored in the final 10 minutes of action. After a scoreless first half, Dallas took a 2-0 lead before the Rapids got back into the match, but the visitors were able to get a late goal to seal the result. The Dallas Reserves improve to 3-6-1 (W-L-T) on the season, while the Rapids Reserves fall to 4-7-2.
Dallas opened the match strongly, getting a chance just four minutes in, when Danny Garcia found a shot from 20 yards, but his chip went over the bar. Colorado goalkeeper Matt Pickens had to be sharp in the 22nd minute, saving a low shot from Kenny Cooper, and again in the 25th when he charged out to stop an open player on the back post. The Rapids had a few first half chances at the other end, with Tony Cascio and Anthony Wallace combining to create several looks at goal.
The visitors broke through early in the second half when a corner kick from Michel was driven into the six yard box, where it bounced to Cooper, who knocked it in for a 1-0 lead. The Rapids put pressure on Dallas to find the tying goal, with the best chance coming off the head of Germán Mera from a Wallace corner kick in minute 70, but it went just wide. A counterattack then gave Dallas a 2-0 lead in the 83rd minute, when Garcia pushed the ball into the Colorado box, where the ball deflected to the feet of Ramón Nuñez, who placed his shot into the side netting.
The Rapids pulled within one goal with little time remaining, when Nick LaBrocca played a long ball behind the defense to Martín Rivero, who chipped a shot over Chris Seitz. As Colorado pushed to get an equalizer, Dallas struck again on the counter, with Eric Hassli playing a low ball to Victor Ulloa just before the final whistle to make the final 3-1.
FC Dallas Reserves will host Toronto FC in their next match on September 25, while the Rapids Reserves will close their season this Saturday in Portland at 7 p.m. MT.
September 15, 2013 – Field 20, Dick's Sporting Goods Park, Commerce City, Colo.
Scoring Summary:
DAL – Kenny Cooper (Michel) 52'
DAL – Ramón Nuñez (unassisted) 83'
COL – Martín Rivero (Nick LaBrocca) 92'
DAL – Victor Ulloa (Eric Hassli) 94'
Colorado Rapids Reserves lineup: Matt Pickens, Brian Mullan, Diego Calderón, Germán Mera (Brenton Griffiths 82'), Dillon Serna, Nick LaBrocca, Anthony Wallace, Jaime Castrillón, Martín Rivero, Tony Cascio (Deshorn Brown 57'), Danny Mwanga
Substitutes not used: Steward Ceus, Luke Vercollone**, Isaac Martinez*, Enda O'Neill*
FC Dallas Reserves lineup: Dallas Reserves: Chris Seitz, Zach Loyd, Steven Keel, Michel, Walker Zimmerman, Victor Ulloa, Peter Luccin (London Woodberry 28'), Ramón Nunez, Danny Garcia, Jonathan Top, Kenny Cooper (Eric Hassli 68')
Substitutes not used: Kyle Zobeck, Diego De La Tejera*
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Disciplinary Summary:
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One of the greatest graphic artists of all time, Kollwitz, the granddaughter of a radical preacher and the daughter of a union organizer, a pacifist, and a socialist, spent her life in an autocratic state which, whether rulerd by the Kaiser or the Nazis, hated everything for which she stood.Kathe Kollwitz is regarded as one of the most important German artists of the twentieth century, and as a remarkable woman who created timeless art works against the backdrop of a life of great sorrow, hardship and heartache.
Kathe was born in 1867 in Konigsberg, East Prussia (now Kalingrad in Russia). She studied art in Berlin and began producing etchings in 1980 In 1981 she married Dr Karl Kollwitz and they settled in a working class area of north Berlin. In 1896 her second son, Peter, was born.
From 1998 to to 1903 Kathe taught at the Berlin School of Women Artists, and in 1910 began to create sculpture.
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To determine the ZIKV viral load, we used the previously described primers known as ZIKV 1086 (5ʹ CCGCTGCCCAACACAAG 3ʹ) and ZIKV 1162c (5ʹ CCACTAACGTTCTTTTGCAGACAT 3ʹ) [ 12 ]. A 1-step reaction was performed using the SuperScript III Platinum SYBR Green One-Step quantitative reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction kit (Life Technologies). For each sample, reactions were prepared with a final volume of 15 μL containing 10 μL 2X SYBR Green Reaction Mix, 0.4 μL SuperScript III RT/Platinum Taq Mix, 0.3 μL of each primer at 10 µM, ROX Dye to a final concentration of 50 nM, 5 µL of RNA, and water to complete the volume. Thermal cycling consisted of an initial step of 42°C for 3 minutes and 95°C for 5 minutes, followed by 40 cycles of 95°C for 15 seconds, 60°C for 1 minute, and a final step of 40°C for 1 minute. Finally, a melting curve was applied to the amplicons. The standard curve was performed using ZIKV containing 10 9 –10 5 plaque-forming units (PFU)/mL.
To determine the DENV 2 viral load, a SYBR Green 2-step protocol was applied as previously described [ 14 ] and using Den F (5ʹ-TTAGAGGAGACCCCTCCC-3ʹ) and Den R2 (5ʹ-GAGACAGCAGGATCTCTGG-3ʹ). The standard curve was performed with DENV 2 PE 3808 containing 10 6 –10 1 PFU/mL.
All of the reactions were performed in the QuantStudio 3 Real-Time PCR System using a MicroAmp Fast Optical 96-well reaction plate (Applied Biosystems). The runs were analyzed in the QuantStudio Design and Analysis Software, version 1.4. The viral loads are presented as genomic equivalent per milliliter.
The patients' sera were tested for the presence of DENV immunoglobulin G (IgG) using the human anti–DENV IgG enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) kit (Abcam, Cambridge, United Kingdom) according to the manufacturer's instructions. The assay did not discriminate between the DENV serotypes. The plate was read at 450 nm using a Spectramax Plus ELISA reader (Molecular Devices).
Serum cytokine levels were determined through the use of a multiplex bead analysis in a Human Cytokine/Chemokine Magnetic Bead Panel (Millipore, Watford, United Kingdom). Levels of the following 10 molecules were measured according to the manufacturer's instructions: interferon gamma (IFN-γ), interleukin (IL) 1β, IL-2, IL-4, IL-6, IL-8, IL-9, IL-10, IL-13, and IL-17. Finally, the beads were washed and analyzed in a Luminex IS-100 system (Luminex Corp, Texas). Standard curves of known concentrations of recombinant human cytokines were used to convert fluorescence units into cytokine concentration units (pg/mL). The data were stored and analyzed using GraphPad Prism software version 5.0.
All statistical analyses were carried out using JMP software version 10. Age was normally distributed and analyzed using parametric statistics, whereas number of days between symptoms and medical assessment, cytokine level, and viral load data were not normal and no transformation attempted rendered them normal, so these data were analyzed using nonparametric statistics.
B. Anti-Bb immunostaining.
I. Culture fluid – University of New Haven
Genital culture fluid from Patient 1 was fixed on a SuperFrost™ Plus microscope slide and was stained with FITC-labelled polyclonal anti-Bb antibody. Staining was strongly positive, revealing well-defined spirochetes morphologically consistent with Bb (
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). Immunostaining revealed both spiral and globular Bb forms ( Figure 2B ). Since control genital cultures had no visible spirochetes, the control samples were sent directly for PCR testing and were not subjected to immunostaining. See Dataset , data file 3.
See Dataset , data files 3 and 4. ND, not done.
*Positive Bb immunostaining of genital culture fluid. See Results section.
A : B. burgdorferi immunostaining of vaginal culture from Patient 1. Note intensely staining spiral and round forms in culture. 400× magnification. B : B. burgdorferi immunostaining of seminal culture from Patient 6. Note intensely staining spiral and round forms in culture. 400× magnification. See Dataset , data file 3.
Hybridization with the Fla B probe was positive for genital culture pellets from Patients 2–9 ( Table 4 ). The culture pellet from Patient 1 was lost during processing. The molecular probe showed intense staining in vaginal secretions and less intense staining in semen samples ( Figure 3A and 3B ). See Dataset , data file 4.
A : Molecular hybridization of B. burgdorferi -specific FlaB probe with seminal culture from Patient 6. Note intensely staining spiral and round forms in culture. 400× magnification. B : Molecular hybridization of B. burgdorferi -specific FlaB probe with vaginal culture from Patient 7. Note intensely staining spiral and round forms in culture. 400× magnification. See Dataset , data file 4.
A. Australian Biologics. Borrelia 16S rRNA sequence was not detected by real-time PCR in any of the control genital culture pellets. In contrast, Borrelia 16S rRNA sequence was detected in genital culture pellets from 11 of 13 patients ( Table 5A ). Patient 2 had equivocal test results and Patient 3 had negative test results in seminal cultures. See Dataset , data file 5. Real-time PCR failed to detect treponemal gene sequences in any of the control or patient genital culture pellets. See Dataset , data file 5a. The 16S rRNA isolates from six patients were sequenced and subjected to BLAST analysis (see below).


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Of course you know of the Mary Poppins from the P.L. Travers book series.
And who hasn't seen Julie Andrews' 1964 cinematic take on the magical nanny?
But now comes the stage musical version, a global hit that has carefully calculated changes — drawing from both the books and the movie — to give audiences a new slant on an old story.
The show - which is playing at Kravis Center in West Palm Beach through Feb. 3 - is a co-production of powerhouse Disney and the "West End Wizard" Cameron Mackintosh, a creative team with enough pedigree to bring in Academy Award-winning screenwriter Julian Fellowes - the creator of "Downton Abbey" - to write the book for the stage musical.
Fellowes was the go-to guy because of his previous successes writing about the British class system in movies such as "The Young Victoria," "Vanity Fair" and "Gosford Park (for which he won his Oscar).
His novels include upper-class skewering "Snobs" in 2004 and the debutante examination "Past Imperfect" in 2009. He's also acted in James Bond's "Tomorrow Never Dies" and television's "Monarch of the Glen." Fellowes made his film directorial debut with "Separate Lies" in 2005, which he once described as "a French film in English, about middle-class people being unhappily married."
So writing the book for "Mary Poppins" — which debuted in London in 2004 and hit Broadway in 2006 — and its veddy-propah-old-boy social stratification in Edwardian England was a natural for Fellowes.
"I loved the film," Fellowes said from his home Stafford House in Dorchester. "I think it is a lovely movie. Of course, in the movie Mary Poppins solves the problems of a family that didn't have any."
Fellowes gave Mary Poppins a problem … or two.
"People talk as if there are three classes when in fact there are 133," Fellowes said. "And everything we do is to nudge ourselves up and we worry if we've slipped downward a few levels."
That is the problem Fellowes gave George Banks, the stuffy father in the story. For the uninitiated, "Mary Poppins" was a series of novels by Australia-born author Pamela Lyndon Travers first published in 1934. The eight-book story centered on a mysterious nanny blown by the East wind to the Banks household at Number Seventeen Cherry Tree Lane in La Belle Epoque London to take care of the two unruly children, Jane and Michael (in the books there are five children by the end of the series).
In the books the father was mostly an absentee father. In the movie he was a rigid and unhappy man who grows emotionally. In the stage version Fellowes is given a cruel nanny back story.
"George is propped up by his insecurities," Fellowes added. "She [his wife Winifred Banks] knows it is a worthless situation. She knows his values are false.
It is very rare that we change the way people see us," Fellowes continued. "We are told that if we have this car or wear these clothes or live on that street we will be seen a certain way. People have always done it and people do it today. And then we transfer that anxiety onto others. That's what George does. He transfers his anxieties on to his wife and his children."
It is with the character of the wife Winifred Banks that Fellowes made his most dramatic changes.
"Of course P.L. Travers was obsessed with her father," Fellowes said. "If only he hadn't died and so on. So there is a sort of redemption of George Banks. But her relationship with her mother was different. So I think that there is a gap with Mrs. Banks. So we've had to re-invent Mrs. Banks. And we couldn't go with the suffragette [persona from the film version]; that doesn't chime with the zeitgeist today.
We needed an adult situation in the show. And that was that she used to be interesting. She was an actress. Now her husband and even her children are critical of her. I knew every woman in the audience would have some sort of connection to that. And not to sound too cliche, but that's what grounds the show and gives it a heart. And I think we also thought of an aunt of Richard Eyre [the director] who was an actress."
Another change from the silver screen version: "Mary Poppins" the stage musical has a villain.
"Ah yes, Miss Andrew," Fellowes said. "We needed a villain. Cameron Mackintosh insisted on it. What we really needed was the polar opposite of Mary Poppins. There's no villain in the movie. You need jeopardy."
And then, reflecting on the balancing act the musical's book has, he added: "A musical has to have something for every age. A musical is very expensive. It's a big investment. One needs to serve an adult audience as much as anyone else."
It seems to be working. Even though the show will close on Broadway this March after seven years, there have also been productions in the U.K., Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Hungary, Czech Republic, Estonia and Mexico. There are plans to take the show to France, China, Japan and Iceland.
On the need for nannies today, Fellowes offered: "I think we've reached a crisis of being too involved in their lives. We don't give our children enough space to grow up. Back then the nursery was a kind of kingdom for the children. They had a separate life from what went on downstairs. I think children rather liked it. But now one is a bad parent if you are not involved in every aspect of your child growing up. Of course nowadays you can't open the door and say, 'Go play.' That doesn't happen to any kid anymore. The streets just aren't safe."
"Mary Poppins"
When: 8 p.m. tonight through Saturday; 2 p.m. matinee Saturday and Sunday
Where: Kravis Center, 701 Okeechobee Blvd., in West Palm Beach
Cost: $35 to $92
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