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THEY had gone into hospital expecting the best of care for their sick two-year-old son.
Parents John and Marie Giles were desperately worried for little Callum as his temperature rocketed and he was taken to hospital by ambulance.
But they weren't expecting to see their little boy, who was hooked up to a drip, forced to sleep across two plastic chairs at the side of a ward for six hours - because there were no beds free.
The furious couple say they are making a complaint, describing their son's treatment as "appalling".
It was his second trip to Southampton General Hospital in a matter of days last week – having initially been rushed to the emergency department amid fears he might have meningitis.
On that occasion, doctors carried out tests and ruled the deadly disease out, instead diagnosing him with a viral infection.
But Callum was readmitted last Friday night, his temperature having risen, and his parents say he was diagnosed with a blood infection.
He was admitted and taken to the paediatric ward where he was given a bed and spent an hour before doctors told the couple they were moving Callum to the G1 assessment ward.
But on arrival on the ward at 4.30pm, Marie said nurses told them there were no beds available.
Despite constant attempts to get her son a bed, mother Marie, 29, of Burghclere Road, ended up creating a makeshift one herself with two chairs.
She said Callum found it hard to sleep as the chairs were uncomfortable and sticking to him as he was so hot.
Marie claims that even a consultant who inspected him did not comment on the situation.
When they asked why he could not lie on a camp bed, normally used by parents, they were refused over fears he might roll off because they don't have sides like a hospital bed.
Callum was eventually given a bed at 10.30pm and was discharged the next afternoon. He has since been making a good recovery.
Security officer and father-of-seven John, 34, said: "It's absolutely appalling. It's not good enough, he's two years old.
"It shouldn't happen in 2014. He was very ill."
Marie added: "I think it's disgusting –it's very poor care. We want an apology but also a change in the way they treat people as it's just not good enough."
Last night a hospital spokesman told the Daily Echo that they were not aware of any complaint by Mr and Mrs Giles but were sorry to hear they were unhappy with the care their son received.
He added: "However, we would be happy to discuss any aspect of Callum's treatment with his parents directly and investigate any remaining concerns they have to ensure we offer them complete reassurance about our processes and procedures."

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150 years later, Navy buries USS Monitor sailors
The Monitor secured a place in naval history after clashing with the CSS Virginia, formerly the USS Merrimack, off Hampton Roads, Va., 151 years ago today and Saturday.
ARLINGTON, Va. — The Navy laid two of its own to rest at Arlington National Cemetery on Friday, 150 years after they died at sea in the sinking by storm of the USS Monitor, famed for battling a Confederate ironclad to a draw in 1862.
The sailors, whose remains were recovered a decade ago with excavation of the wreck, were commemorated with Abraham Lincoln's reference to honored dead giving "the last full measure of devotion."
"We are joined," Navy Secretary Ray Mabus told a packed chapel service before burial, "as Lincoln again reminded us, by 'the mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield, and every patriot grave, to every living heart and hearthstone.'"
The Monitor — with its distinctive, revolving, "cheesebox" turret — secured a place in naval history after clashing with the CSS Virginia, formerly the USS Merrimack, off Hampton Roads, Va., 151 years ago today and Saturday.
Despite exhaustive efforts by military forensic specialists, identities of the two recovered remains are not known. So the Navy located nearly two dozen descendants of some of the 16 sailors who drowned during that New Year's Eve storm off Cape Hatteras.
They were present at the chapel and graveside along with relatives of other crew, Navy and government dignitaries, historians and a phalanx of media.
Navy Chaplain Gary Clore said during the homily that honoring these two men so long after their deaths "gives new energy to the past and to the present."
After remarks by Mabus and historian James McPherson and a reading of all 16 names of those who died, two coffins were carried by horse-drawn caissons to the grave-site near the mast of the USS Maine.
Forensic analysis suggests the two sailors were among the nine white enlisted crew who died, most of them immigrants from Ireland, England, Scotland and Wales.
The Monitor was being towed around Cape Hatteras by the USS Rhode Island in December 1862 when the winds and waves became more fierce. As water began to flood in, boats from the Rhode Island were sent to rescue the Monitor crew. But a pitching deck and thunderous waves made negotiating the passage to the rescue craft treacherous, and some sailors were washed away.
In the end, a number of Monitor crew remained on the turret. Evidence shows two were inside. Those who survived to board the Rhode Island watched as the Monitor's red signal lantern extinguished when the ship went down on Dec. 31, 1862.
There were hundreds of people in attendance at the service and graveside ceremony. One was Carroll George, 93, of Falls Church, Va., a Coast Guard veteran who said he visited Confederate veterans at a soldier's home in Atlanta when he was a teenager.
"I have great respect for military people."
And there was John O'Neal, 71, of Westchester, Pa., who was dressed in the uniform of a Civil War soldier. A member of the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, he said he had 13 ancestors who served in the conflict. "It's amazing," O'Neal said of the funeral. "It's once in a lifetime. We had to come."
As the graveside ceremony concluded, William Finlayson, 58, of Long Island, N.Y.., began to leave. His fourth great-uncle, John Worden, was the captain of the Monitor at the time of the battle with the Virginia and his great-great-grandfather, Daniel Toffey, was Worden's aide.
"When they said they were finally going to bury these two heroes, I was going to be here. This is almost a spiritual thing for me."


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The news of 10 and 15 years ago is from the Jamestown Press. The news of 100 years ago came from the collection of the Newport Historical Society.
100 years ago
From the Newport Journal, July 18, 1913
The baseball teams from the Wyoming and the transports in the harbor are ashore daily for practice.
That Jamestown is having the largest season in its history as a summer resort was in evidence Tuesday evening when the fire alarm rang. In a few minutes the streets were filled with automobiles, carriages and people on foot.
(Advertisement) A delightful summer cottage at Jamestown, R.I., for balance of season, $275. Owing to a change in the family arrangement, I have for sub rental this very pretty cottage for balance of season, four family, two servants' bedrooms, etc.
75 years ago
From the Newport Daily News, July 19, 1938
The Town Council, at a special meeting, gave the contract for the work of tearing down buildings north of the old telegraph office to Nikolas Hrycoj of Fall River for $40. The firm given the contract is now tearing down the Hotel Thorndike.
50 years ago
From the Newport Daily News, July 17, 1963
Thirty-five young people attended coed night last night, sponsored by the Jamestown Boys' Club. A softball game preceded the marshmallow roast at the recreation field.
From the Newport Daily News, July 22, 1963
The new parish house of St. Matthew's Church in Jamestown was dedicated yesterday morning by the retired Rev. John Seville Higgins, bishop of Rhode Island. A reception followed by some 300 persons in the new building.
25 years ago
From the Newport Daily News, July 19, 1988
The town buildings committee will recommend that the recreation center be retained as town property even if a new police station is built elsewhere in town. During debate last winter about expanding the police station into the recreation center lobby, some opponents of the plan argued that the town should sell the valuable property overlooking Narragansett Bay.
15 years ago
From the Jamestown Press,
July 16, 1998
A ban on all outside residential municipal water uses went into effect Monday at midnight, and anyone who violates the prohibition on car and boat washing, lawn and garden watering, and pond filling, faces a $500 fine.
The town may establish a loading zone and an emergency vehicle access near the wooden pier at East Ferry, and it may also issue eighthour parking stickers to the commercial fishermen who use that dock.
10 years ago
From the Jamestown Press,
July 17, 2003
The Jamestown Fire Department responds to nearly 700 calls a year, many of them being on the water and many being a life or death situation in which every minute makes all the difference in the world to a distressed swimmer or boater. At Monday night's Town Council meeting, the council agreed to replace the 13-year-old fireboat, which recently sank, with a stateof the-art fast response boat called the Protector.
The Jamestown School Committee voted unanimously to accept the new high school tuition agreement with the North Kingstown school department. In all, some $1,000 per pupil will be saved by Jamestown as a result of the negotiation.
The town of Jamestown has established a tree trust fund that will allow island residents to purchase trees to be planted on public property throughout the town.


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LAS VEGAS, Feb. 23 (UPI) -- Ken Cherry, a 27-year-old rapper shot to death in Las Vegas, is being remembered by family and friends as a "nice, nice kid" and "good man."
The aspiring hip-hop artist known as Kenny Clutch died after his Maserati was fired upon by unknown assailants in a Range Rover early Thursday. His car sped into an intersection, slamming into a taxi, which exploded, killing the driver and a passenger.
No arrests had been made in the incident, the Los Angeles Times reported.
"Right now my heart is breaking," Pat Sims, Cherry's aunt, told the Oakland Tribune. "This has really been a tragedy. Kenny was just a delightful kid."
"I can tell you this ... the world has lost a good man," Sims said. "I'm not saying he didn't have his faults, but he was very kind, especially to older people. Whatever happened in Vegas, I don't know about, but he was a very kind soul."
His attorney, Vicki Greco, told the newspaper Cherry "was into gangsta rap, but that's not who he was."
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LONDON (MarketWatch) — European stocks climbed Wednesday on the prospect that Kiev and Moscow are moving toward a cease-fire deal for eastern Ukraine.
Russian President Vladimir Putin confirmed Wednesday that he and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko agreed to the outlines of a cease-fire plan between Kiev's forces and pro-Russian separatists fighting in eastern Ukraine, Russian news agencies reported. A final agreement on the plan could be reached during talks slated for Friday in Minsk.
Poroshenko's office during mid-morning trade had said Poroshenko and Putin struck an agreement for a permanent truce in the Donbas region, where the Russian separatist-held city of Donetsk is located. The statement was later modified as the Kremlin said it only discussed the peace process and not a cease-fire agreement as Russia isn't party to the fighting in Ukraine, RIA Novosti reported, citing a Kremlin official.
Market reaction: Benchmark stock indexes leapt to intraday highs on the initial Poroshenko statement, though they pared gains during the session. The Stoxx Europe 600 index SXXP, -0.49% finished up 0.7% at 344.97, and Germany's DAX DAX, -0.61% gained 1.3% to 9,626.49.
Russian blue-chips bounced up, pulling the MICEX index XX:MCX to a 3.5% gain at 1,449.29, and the RTS index RU:RTS rallied 5.2% to 1,239.23.
The ruble held to higher ground during Wednesday's session, with the dollar USDRUB, +0.2526% buying 36.8734, compared with 37.4426 on Tuesday. The euro EURUSD, -0.2851% had swung higher against the greenback but returned toward Tuesday's level at around $1.3132.
News of the cease-fire emerged just as data firm Markit said its final services-sector activity index for the euro zone was 53.1 in August, compared with expectations for a 53.5 reading.
In Paris, the CAC 40 index PX1, -0.68% rose 1% to 4,421.87, and in London, the FTSE 100 index UKX, -0.24% advanced 0.7% to 6,873.58.
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Q: What is the
difference between a psychiatrist, a psychologist, psychotherapist
and a community mental health team?
A psychiatrist is a
medically-qualified practitioner who will have spent 5-6 years
training as a doctor. He or she will then have worked as a doctor
in general medicine and surgery for at least a year. He or she will
then have had at least 6 years of further training in helping
people with psychological problems.
What are a psychiatrist's
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All psychiatrists will learn
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As well as these 'core'
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working with the particular problems that affect different groups
of people.
Psychologists have a degree
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medically-trained, but have undertaken a long and robust training
following their psychology degree. They are primarily concerned
with the study of how people think, act, react and interact. For
further information about psychology, visit the British Psychological Society
A psychotherapist may be a
psychiatrist, psychologist, or other mental health professional who
has had further specialist training in psychotherapy. As well as
listening and discussing important issues with you, the
psychotherapist can suggest strategies for resolving problems and,
if necessary, help you to change your attitudes and behaviour.
The Mental
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together to help people with a wide range of mental health
problems. The different professions all have different knowledge
and skills which can be used to tackle problems together.
Further information on
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and psychotherapy
Q. How can I
see a psychiatrist?
To see a psychiatrist, you
will usually need a referral from your general practitioner (GP),
in the same way you would with any other specialist. Within the
NHS, most referrals will go to the mental health team. Initially,
you may be seen by a team member who is not a psychiatrist. If the
team member feels that you ought to see a psychiatrist, they will
arrange an appointment for you.
Q. How can I
see a psychiatrist privately?
Most private psychiatrists
would still prefer a referral from your GP. Your GP may be able to
recommend psychiatrists who practise privately. Local private
hospitals may also be able to advise you about this. Some
psychiatrists may advertise in your local business directory. If
they have the title 'MRCPsych' (Member of the Royal College of
Psychiatrists) or 'FRCPsych' (Fellow of the Royal College of
Psychiatrists), this means that they are current members of the
Q. What kind of
psychiatrist can I be referred to?
You will most likely be
referred to a psychiatrist who specialises in an area of psychiatry
that relates to your problem. The areas include:
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College provide a list of psychiatrists?
The College is unable to
recommend or supply names of psychiatrists. In order to find a
psychiatrist, you should ask your GP or local hospital. You can
obtain lists of local GPs, from your pharmacist and/or hospitals by
contacting NHS Choices.
Q. Is the
psychiatrist a member of the College?
You can search the
Public Online Membership List to confirm whether or not the
psychiatrist is a member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
Please note, not all psychiatrists are members of the College.
Q. Can I
speak to a psychiatrist at the College?
The Royal College of
Psychiatrists is the professional body for psychiatrists in the UK,
but the College is unable to supply names of members, or to
recommend psychiatrists.
Q. How can I find out what speciality a
psychiatrist is trained in?
You can search for their
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visiting the General Medical Council
Q: Where
do psychiatrists
The majority of psychiatrists
work within (NHS) the National Health Service, although some work
privately. Psychiatrists also work as part of a
mental health team.
Q: What
qualification does a psychiatrist need?
A qualified psychiatrist will
have a medical degree. They will then have completed two
years of Foundation Training and a further six years of specialty
training within psychiatry.
To become a consultant
psychiatrist, they would also need to obtain a Certificate of
Completion of Training (CCT), be fully registered with the General
Medical Council (GMC) and listed on their Specialist
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find a psychiatrist in another country?
The Royal College of
Psychiatrists is the professional and educational body for
psychiatrists in the United Kingdom. It is not possible to include
information on issues outside of our geographical area as the
availability of mental health services, local legislation, and the
types of treatments available is different in each country.
We are only able to comment on psychiatric practice in the United
You will be able to find
which psychiatric organisation is relevant to your country by
looking at the World Psychiatric Association
website. The World Psychiatric Association is a group of
International Psychiatric Societies.
Q: What do I do if I am unhappy with my
Everyone is entitled to a
second opinion. You need to ask your GP, or your
psychiatrist, to refer you to another psychiatrist for a second
Q: How do I make a complaint about my care
and treatment or the care and treatment of another?
The Royal College of
Psychiatrists is not the disciplinary body for its members and, as
such, is not able to deal with complaints about psychiatrists. You
can write to, or speak with your psychiatrist to tell them how you
feel about your care and treatment. Your hospital will have a
complaints procedure. To make a complaint, contact either the
Complaints Officer or the relevant Hospital Manager, or ask
somebody to do this on your behalf.
If you have concerns about a
hospital, care home or health service, you should contact the body
which is responsible for the inspection, monitoring and regulation
of health and social care in your area
Q: How do I make
a complaint about the conduct of a psychiatrist?
You can complain directly to
your psychiatrist. If you are unhappy with their response, you
can complain to their employer, clinic or hospital. If
the complaint is to report serious misconduct, you can
complain to the General Medical
Council (Tel: 0161 923 6602). The last step for dealing
with unresolved complaints is to contact the Health Service Ombudsman (Tel:
0345 015 4033) who acts as a final arbitrator.
Q: What should I do if I wish to make a
complaint about a psychiatrist working in the private/independent
You can complain to the
clinic where the psychiatrist works. In cases of professional
misconduct, you can also contact the General Medical Council (Tel:
0161 923 6602).
Q: If I'm sectioned under the Mental Health Act,
how do I make a complaint?
If your complaint is about
the use of the Mental Health Act, you can contact the Care Quality Commission (Tel:
03000 616161). You can write or speak to the Complaints Officer at
the hospital, or ask somebody to do this on your behalf.
Q: What
should I do if I am worried about a relative or
You should encourage them to
go and see their GP. Further information about mental health
problems and their treatment are available on our website.
If you are worried about
someone who is very unwell and appear to be a risk to themselves or
others, you can call the police or NHS
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be very ill to a mental health professional for assessment and
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There are many organisations
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key helpline numbers and website addresses can be found on the
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The College publishes a
series of leaflets which give information about different mental
health problems and treatments. These are free to view and download
from our website.
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about the medication?
There are many different ways
to find out this information. You can ask your:
You could look up medications
in the British National Formulary
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alphabetically. There is an entry for every drug which gives
information on dosage and side-effects, etc…
Some drug companies run
helplines. Contact details are available on the drug
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The Electronic Medicines
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drug information leaflets.
The College has also
published information on some drugs
and therapies that are used to treat specific mental health
problems, such as Alzheimer's disease.
Q: How do I get hold of a psychiatrist
who will act as an 'expert witness'?
The College cannot to
recommend or supply names of psychiatrists.
Solicitors can search through
the lists of psychiatrists that are registered with any of the
following websites:
Q: What is the 1983 Mental Health
The Mental Health Act is an
Act of Parliament that allows for people who are mentally unwell to
be admitted to hospital for assessment and treatment against their
wishes. Many people will be admitted to hospital as informal
patients; this means that they have voluntarily agreed to
go. However, compulsory admission may sometimes be necessary
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The chairman of the City Council's Economic Development Committee is calling for public hearings in response to a casino company's plan to seek a state slot parlor license for Worcester.
Councilor-at-Large Frederick C. Rushton said tonight that public hearings would give city residents an opportunity to provide input on what they would like to see included in any host-community agreement negotiated with the city for the slots parlor, should it become reality.
The host-community agreement would include measures to mitigate any impacts there might be to the surrounding neighborhood where the slots parlor is built and in the city as a whole.
"We need to hear from the community about this first and foremost," Mr. Rushton said. "The bottom line is that any host-community agreement that might be negotiated without first talking to the community would be inherently flawed.
"It's not an overstatement to realize that all the progress we've engineered as a city can disappear if we allow Mass Gaming to do what it wants," he continued. "The crux of the matter is that gaming could be coming here and we need to be prepared."
Mr. Rushton filed an order today for next week's City Council meeting, asking his colleagues to have the Economic Development Committee hold public hearings concerning the potential host-community agreement for a slots parlor in the city being pursued by Mass Gaming and Entertainment LLC.
The order, which is co-sponsored by several other councilors, also asks City Manager Michael V. O'Brien to assist in the process by making available for the hearings appropriate departmental resources, such as legal, economic, law enforcement and public works.
It also encourages the city manager to invite to the hearings any other stakeholders he feels are appropriate.
Mr. Rushton said he does not have a set number of hearings he would like to see held. But he pointed out that the city could be facing a rather compressed timetable so he would like to see the hearings begin sooner rather than later.
"It's a pretty fluid process," he said. "If it takes one or 10 hearings, we are going to make sure we get community input on this."
Mr. O'Brien confirmed Wednesday that Mass Gaming and Entertainment, a subsidiary of Rush Gaming of Chicago, has notified his office and is notifying state licensing officials it will seek a slot license for a site in Worcester.
The manager said potential sites have been discussed but without specifics, and discussions among the parties have been open, honest and candid.
Mr. Rushton said the city manager will be a critical component to this process because he will be the one who negotiates a local mitigation package with the developer of the slot parlor.
The mitigation package could include things such as agreements on traffic improvements and traffic patterns and impacts on police and fire services.
"Mike O'Brien is battle-tested; he's a Grade A negotiator," Mr. Rushton said. "We don't have all the answers and that's why the public needs to be given an opportunity to offer its input on this early in the process."
State Gaming Commission Chairman Stephen Crosby has said the current schedule calls for the commission to award the sole slot parlor license by December, before it awards three casino licenses.
But Mr. Rushton said there is a possibility that the slots license could be awarded possibly as early as September and, as a result, feels the city needs to move as soon as possible on holding public hearings.
After a proposed host agreement is worked out, a local referendum to approve or reject the plan will be put before voters within 60 to 90 days.


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Acrobatics & Tumbling
Coach: Laura Chiriaco (Third year)
Athletes: 42
The Terps are one of six Division I programs in the nation to have an acrobatics and tumbling team, all of which are part of the National Collegiate Acrobatics and Tumbling Association. The sport was launched at Maryland in 2003 and has seen rising support since.
The team is coming off an undefeated season and has welcomed 13 new athletes this fall semester. But coach Jarnell Bonds, who led the Terps to three National Cheerleaders Association championships in 2007, 2008 and 2010, decided to step down in July.
The program decided to promote Chiriaco, who had been with the program for seven years, to the head coaching position. She was previously a volunteer assistant coach.
Men's Swimming and Diving
Coach: Sean Schimmel (Fourth year)
Athletes: 24
The Terps men's swimming and diving team picked up its first win of the season by defeating UMBC in College Park on Saturday. They started the season by falling in meets against North Carolina State, North Carolina and Duke.
Schimmel entered his fourth season with nearly half of his roster made up of newcomers. Senior Andrew Relihan leads the returners, owning or sharing five school records, including the 200 back, 200 IM and 400 IM.
The Terps haven't had a winning record in 10 years and have won just five times in the past two seasons. They are 1-25 in ACC matches since 2005.
Men's Tennis
Coach: Kyle Spencer (Third year)
Athletes: 10
Of the 10 athletes on the Terps men's tennis team, just three come from the United States. The team includes players from Slovakia, Finland, France, Romania, the Czech Republic and Switzerland. In his three years in College Park, Spencer has shown a knack for bringing in talent from across the globe.
Last year Spencer guided the Terps to the NCAA Tournament for the first time in school history and defeated Michigan in the opening round. They finished No. 39 in the national rankings. Before Spencer took over the program, the Terps routinely finished at the bottom of the ACC.
The Terps will play in seven tournaments this fall before playing in head-to-head matchups in the spring.
Men's Track and Field
Coach: Andrew Valmon (Ninth year)
Athletes: 30
Valmon, who won gold medals as a member of the U.S. 4x400 relay teams in the 1988 and 1992 Olympic Games, came to College Park in 2003 after spending eight years on Georgetown's staff. Valmon has also coached on the U.S. National Team, most recently during the 2010 World Indoor Championships in Doha, Qatar.
The Terps finished eighth in the ACC in indoor track this year and 10th in outdoor men's track in 2010. A bright spot for the Terps has been Dwight Barbiasz, who finished fifth in the men's high jump at the 2011 NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships.
Maryland's indoor season is scheduled to start Jan. 14 at the Penn State Invitational. Outdoor competition begins March 23 at the UCF Invitational in Orlando.
Women's Swimming and Diving
Coach: Sean Schimmel (Fourth year)
Athletes: 26
Unlike their male counterparts, the Terps women's swimming and diving team has found success in recent history. Just last week the Terps ranked No. 19 nationally in the College Swimming Coaches Association of America Top 25 poll. They sit at 3-1 this season after dismantling UMBC on Saturday.
This year's roster includes two two-time NCAA Championships qualifiers in Ginny Glover and Megan Lafferty. Lafferty set an ACC record in the 100 fly last season at the NCAA Championships.
Schimmel took over the program in 2007 and finished with a 3-5 record that year. The Terps have won at least nine meets in the past three seasons. Schimmel has a 33-12 record in his four seasons at the helm.
Water Polo
Coach: Carl Salyer (Eighth year)
Athletes: 21
The Terps water polo program is led by Salyer, a former water polo player at UCLA and assistant coach at Navy. He has gradually improved the Terps program since he took over.
Last season the Terps finished 19-14, including a 4-0 regular-season mark in the Collegiate Water Polo Association Southern Division. They finished third in the CWPA Eastern Championship, the best showing in school history. Their postseason play earned them a No. 17 ranking in the final national poll, another best for the program.
The Terps are in the midst of their offseason workouts in preparation for the spring season.
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Lempuyang Temple + The Pura Ulu Danau Temple
Trek for several hours up Mount Lempuyang to be rewarded with one of the oldest pre-Hindu temples in Bali. Lempuyang Temple – the island's third-largest and of great importance in Balinese culture – offers a spectacular view of Bali's eastern tip, although beware of the ferocious macaque monkeys towards the top of the trail. The 17th-century Pura Ulu Danau Temple is a spectacular water temple situated on the edge of Lake Beratan. Giving the impression that it floats on water, this iconic wonder of Bali – so famous that it graces a local banknote – demands to be included on any itinerary.


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Patrol Division Captain
Captain Tom Brookhouser joined the Lancaster County Sheriff's Office in March of 1990. He graduated from Lincoln High School in 1983 and from the University of Nebraska with a bachelor's degree in Criminal Justice in 1992. He was promoted to the rank of Sergeant in August of 1997 and to the rank of Captain in June of 2013.
Prior to his promotion, Captain Brookhouser worked in numerous positions over the course of his career including patrol deputy, narcotics investigator, criminal investigator, courts sergeant, patrol sergeant, and as team leader for the Metro Fugitive Task Force.
Captain Brookhouser has also been part of many specialized assignments over the years including Defensive Tactics Instructor, Bike Patrol Unit Coordinator, Honor Guard Coordinator, and various positions with the Fraternal Order of Police, Lodge #29. He spent over twenty years on the Sheriff's Office Tactical Response Unit including duties as Team Leader and Team Coordinator.
In addition to his law enforcement career, Captain Brookhouser spent over twenty years as a member of the Nebraska Air National Guard in the 155th Security Forces Squadron. He attained the rank of Master Sergeant and served as the Squadron's Flight Sergeant prior to retiring in 2004. His service included a year and a half on active duty, including a tour overseas, following the tragic events on 9/11.
Tom, and his wife Tammy, are the proud parents of three adult children.


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Tuesday, 31 August 2010 09:00 PM
Despite President Barack Obama's declaration Tuesday of an end to the combat mission in Iraq, combat almost certainly lies ahead.
And in asserting the U.S. has met its responsibilities in Iraq, the president opened the door wide to a debate about the meaning of success in the muddle that most — but not all — American troops are leaving behind.
A look at some of the statements Obama made in his Oval Office speech and how they compare with the facts:
OBAMA: "Tonight, I am announcing that the American combat mission in Iraq has ended."
THE FACTS: Peril remains for the tens of thousands of U.S. troops still in Iraq, who are likely if not certain to engage violent foes. Counterterrorism is chief among their continuing missions, pitting them against a lethal enemy. Several thousand special operations forces, including Army Green Berets and Navy SEALs, will continue to hunt and attempt to kill al-Qaida and other terrorist fighters — working closely with Iraqi forces. Obama said, "Of course, violence will not end with our combat mission," while stopping short of a full accounting of the hazards ahead for U.S. troops.
OBAMA: "We have met our responsibility."
THE FACTS: That depends entirely on how the U.S. responsibility is defined.
Sectarian division — the danger that Obama said as a presidential candidate had to be addressed before Iraq could succeed — continues to deprive the country of a fully functioning government. U.S. goals for reconstruction are unmet. And although the U.S. says Iraqi forces can handle the insurgency largely on their own, Iraq is expected to need U.S. air power and other military support for years to control its own air space and to deter a possible attack by a neighboring state.
It was the U.S. that invaded Iraq, overthrew its government, disbanded its security forces and failed in the early phases of the conflict to understand the depth of Iraq's sectarian and ethnic divisions and its political paralysis. The U.S. in some minds is responsible for putting Iraq back together again, yet today Iraq has no permanent government and its security forces arguably are not fully prepared to defend the country's skies and borders.
In inheriting a war he opposed from the start, Obama did not accept U.S. responsibilities so broadly.
It will take time to see if his more limited view of success bears out. In May, he said: "This is what success looks like: an Iraq that provides no haven to terrorists; a democratic Iraq that is sovereign and stable and self-reliant."
Al-Qaida terrorists are "not gone" from Iraq, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Tuesday. But he hailed "an important victory against transnational terror" because "al-Qaida in Iraq has been largely cut from its masters abroad."
OBAMA: "Unfortunately, over the last decade, we have not done what is necessary to shore up the foundation of our own prosperity. We have spent over a trillion dollars at war, often financed by borrowing from overseas. This, in turn, has shortchanged investments in our own people, and contributed to record deficits."
THE FACTS: This is partly true. For sure, the costly Iraq and Afghanistan wars have contributed to the nation's budget deficit — but not by as much as Obama suggests. The current annual deficit is now an estimated $1.5 trillion. But as recently as 2007, the budget deficit was just $161.5 billion. And that was years after war expenses were in place for both the Afghanistan and Iraq conflicts.
Most of the current deficit is due to the longest recession since the 1930s. It has seriously depressed tax revenues while increasing costs to the government — including social safety-net programs such as unemployment insurance and spending by both the outgoing Bush and incoming Obama administrations on stimulus programs and on bailouts of banks and automakers.
OBAMA: "This was my pledge to the American people as a candidate for this office."
THE FACTS: At one stage of the presidential campaign, Obama spoke of an earlier departure of troops than he ultimately achieved. "I have put forward a plan that will get our troops out by the end of 2009," he said in a January 2008 Democratic candidates debate. But his pledge for most of the campaign was to withdraw combat troops within 16 months, a promise kept.
Associated Press writer Tom Raum contributed to this report.
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Newspaper article describing visit by consultant to asses Toledo as medical school site.
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A bridge worker from Rolla who was involved in a boating accident Wednesday on the Missouri River has died from injuries he suffered in the incident.
A bridge worker from Rolla who was involved in a boating accident Wednesday on the Missouri River has died from injuries he suffered in the incident.
Rodney Allen "Rocky" Stumo, 51, passed away Thursday at a St. Louis area hospital a day after he was rescued from a johnboat that capsized after being struck by a barge near Florissant.
A visitation for Stumo's family and friends will be held from 2-4 p.m. this Saturday, Oct. 26, at Null and Son Funeral Home in Rolla.
The accident was reported around 9:30 a.m. near a train trestle that crosses the river next to the Lewis Bridge, which carries U.S. Highway 67.
According to the St. Charles County Sheriff's Department, Stumo, who was working for St. Louis Bridge Construction Co. on a trestle pier, was crossing the river on a johnboat but apparently did not hear or see an approaching towboat carrying barges despite the towboat operator sounding its horn.
After the collision, the johnboat capsized and went under the barge with Stumo inside an enclosed area.
Rescue workers in a boat were able to retrieve him and bring him to shore to begin CPR until EMS personnel arrived. The sheriff's department reported that Stumo had a slight pulse before being transported to a hospital. He was wearing a life jacket, according to the sheriff's department,
The U.S. Coast Guard is investigating the crash. A spokesperson for the Coast Guard's St. Louis office could not be reached by press time.
An obituary, which is available HERE stated that Stumo was employed by Local 513 Engineering Union for the past 25 years. He is survived by a wife, Shirley Kirscher; his parents, Nelson and ElNora Stumo, of Goodell, Iowa; and other relatives and many friends.


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2013-07-11 / Letters to the Editor
Thanks to police, emergency techs
I am 68 years old and was having dinner with friends in Jamestown. Unfortunately, I swallowed a piece of meat at dinner and it stuck just below my air passage. After trying to dislodge it several times, we decided to call 911. The police and EMTs arrived a short time later and were very professional and caring for my situation. I was quickly transported to the hospital and was taken care of. I really appreciate the quick response and help from the EMT group in Jamestown.
Jim Thompson
San Diego, Calif.


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I have a 14 week old boy and have been experiencing pain since the beginning. It started with cracking and bleeding until he was about 14 days old. Since then, we have been treated multiple times for thrush. This past round, I took 14 days of diflucan, we both used gentian violet; I am taking probiotics, gse tablets, Candex. I used a vinegar rinse on my nipples, gse liquid, and APNO. Nothing seems to have helped.
My pain is more to the right breast. My nipples are both sore while nursing. At times it feels like a squeezing-type pain to my nipple. There is no deep breast pain during nursing. However, afterwards, I feel throbbing pains to my breasts. This pain is not excruciating, but it is noticeable and not pleasant. Sometimes this pain begins shortly after I am done nursing, sometimes it takes 30 minutes to half an hour. Both of my nipples/areolas are reddened and have been throughout treatment. I have some tingling to my upper back. My breasts are sore when I touch them (the breast tissue) and at times the pain goes to the base of the breast.
I suppose I am hoping that someone out there has had a similar experience with difficult diagnoses and treatment. I have seen multiple lc's. I have been told before that I have signs of raynaud's phenomenon, but as the pain after nursing is very tolerable, I do not feel it is necessary to take nifedipine. It is more the nipple pain while I am nursing I am concerned about. Does anyone have experience with raynaud's and pain while nursing? The pain begins with latch on and soreness continues throughout. Thanks!


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Buzz on the Street: The Fiscal Cliffhanger Puts a Stranglehold on Stocks
A look back at the happenings on Wall Street this week, as seen by Minyanville's Buzz & Banter.
All day and every day, some of the stock market's best and brightest traders and money managers share their ideas, insights, and analysis in real-time on Minyanville's Buzz & Banter. Below are some excerpts from this week's Buzz. Click here for a 14 day free trial.
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Monday, November 26, 2012
Bank Index Hanging Out Under Resistance Band
Andrew Nyquist
The Bank Index (INDEXDJX:BKX) is closing in on an important confluence of resistance: 1) Trend break 2) 50% fib retrace 3) 50 day moving average
Keep an eye on the action should price hop into this resistance band -- the action should be telling.
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Taking Some Profits on Facebook
Peter Prudden
When Minyanville Professors put forth their updated thoughts on Facebook (Nasdaq:FB) near $19, I said the company had several issues to address, but that sentiment around the stock was absolute dreadful and I suggested being long vs. the recent lows.
This move isn't a surprise. Advertising accounted for 85% of Facebook's total 2011 revenue. During the 3rd quarter Facebook said 14% of ad revenue was from mobile. Mobile users grew 67 percent to 543 million.
On the earnings call, Zuckerberg said that users accessing Facebook on mobile device have a 70% likelihood of visiting daily, compared with 40% via desktop. The large issue with the company is that the site wasn't built with mobile in mind. Zuckerberg's solution was to become the largest mobile ad platform in less than 8 months after launching its first mobile ad. I took 1/3 of my position off today into $26. There is a gap fill near $26.75, but I want to reduce risk as it has had a nice run as of late. This is a core position and not a trader.
Clockwork Crimson?
Todd Harrison
NYSE internals are 2:1 negative and the financials are under-performing (^BKX -1%). It's all relative (above BKX 47) but it's worth a mention nonetheless. I would also call your attention to Barclays (NYSE:BCS), which is getting whacked to the tune of 5%.
In terms of the "lower highs," check the chart below, which is providing an enticing defined risk set-up for the bears. I may dip a toe, so you know, with a stop on the other side of that line as we can do anything as long as we're disciplined.
As always, I hope this finds you well.
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Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Bond Bid Concerns
Michael Gayed
I have been turning more bullish in my writings as of Monday last week before the jump in stocks, and our ATAC models used for managing our mutual fund and separate accounts are indeed close to a full move back into equities with enough confirmation.
In my latest Lead-Lag Report I put together for Minyanville, I highlighted the breakdown in the bear trade and strength in international stocks which is bullish. However, as I noted on CNBC last night, what bothers me is the behavior of the bond market. Yields are stubborn, even though one would think there should be some selling off of safety particularly now given the deal reached over Greece. The move may very well be delayed, but the longer it takes for yields to rise, the more suspect the stock rally last week becomes.
It is hard to get overly bearish regardless given the Bear Paradox and favorable seasonality. Behaviorally, if we are in a true "buy the dip" environment, equities should intraday see pulses of upwards moves on every intraday decline. This happened yesterday, but keep watching this week to see if that becomes a pattern rather than a one-off event.
Black Friday -- Some Interesting Mobile Data
Michael Comeau
IBM released its full Digital Analytics Benchmark Report for Black Friday and there's some interesting stuff going on.
In the interest of giving credit where credit is due, Asymco seems to be the first out highlighting a big issue -- weak engagement among Google (Nasdaq:GOOG) Android users relative to Apple (Nasdaq:AAPL) iOS users.
To make a long story short, essentially, Google Android engagement is much weaker than market share numbers would logically imply.
For example, according to Gartner, Android held 72% global market share in Q3. That's different than installed base (from which you would measure engagement), but still, it's hard to reconcile that number with the fact that the iPhone generated significantly more shopping traffic.
The iPhone was responsible 8.7% of traffic vs. 5.5% for Android -- that's a 160% difference in favor of Apple.
Within the tablet category, Apple's iPad generated 88% of traffic, though that shouldn't be a surprise given the fact that it skews towards higher-income consumers.
But why is there such a big disparity in smartphones? Why is Android doing so much weaker there even though it is clobbering Apple in terms of sales volumes?
The likely explanation is Android's sheer diversity of models.
While high-priced products like the Samsung Galaxy S3 and HTC One X are regularly in the news, there are also an awful lot of free or nearly-free Android phones on the market that appeal to lower-income consumers that are 1) probably less likely to shop online and/or 2) have less money to spend.
Now going forward, what this means is that developers will continue to favor the iPhone and iPad when it comes to developing apps. It's already well documented that Apple users spend more money on apps and content. And now that Android's been on the market for a while, there's enough data to determine that Android users also spend less money on general merchandise online.
Looking further, I wonder what this may mean for development of apps for say, Microsoft (Nasdaq:MSFT) Windows Phone.
If the payoff on an Android app is so-so even with huge market share, what can possibly made on smaller platforms like Windows?
And of course, that turns into a chicken and egg problem.
Apps are required to build market share, but who wants to build apps for platforms without market share?
More Upside, or a Peak, for the S&P?
Michael Paulenoff
At mid-session, let's examine the pattern that is unfolding, as we notice that the e-SPZ (e-mini S&P 500) could have broken down earlier this morning but managed to hold key support right at 1398, from where it has pivoted to the upside into positive territory.
The fact that the index held 1398 might be a clue that it isn't be ready to break down just yet. All of the action since last Friday's high could be taking the form of a high-level coil or consolidation pattern.
The vast majority of the time, a consolidation at the high side of a developed trend represents a continuation pattern that breaks out to the upside into marginal new high territory to complete the entire advance. If that is the case here, then the e-SPZ will thrust to an optimal target zone of 1411/15 prior to reversing hard to the downside.
Otherwise, failure to hurdle 1407.50/75 followed by a break of 1397.75 will confirm the post Nov 16 upleg is over, and that a correction already is in progress.
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Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Afternoon T: Up, Down, and All Around
Peter Tchir
I can't believe it's only Wednesday. It has been a whirlwind week, in fact a whirlwind two weeks.
With all that is going on, I figured I should clarify where I stand, as it's been hectic. This note is more fun to write because I managed to do the opposite of getting whipsawed - I don't know if there is a word for that since it happens pretty infrequently.
I had got bullish last week and progressively more bullish.
Then the Greek "deal" came out Monday. I didn't like it. I recommended getting out of risk overnight.
Then in the better lucky than smart category I mentioned the possibility of some negative posturing for the fiscal cliff.
In the end, the markets sold off because of the cliff comments from Reid and the other guy.
Then Europe continued the weakness and some more people spotted the problems with the Greek deal.
I remained less positive and was waiting for 1,390 to consider adding.
Just after the housing data I sent a note to sell IG19 at 104.5. That was my first add to risk. Then I came away thinking Obama was very positive (or less obnoxious than before) and got fully back into risk mode. I still think Greece deal is weak, but we can motor through to 1,430 (the overnight election highs) on fiscal cliff, QE, seasonality, and the "chase for yield".
I had really thought the politicians would leave us dangling for a few more days, but as soon as I heard Obama, I shifted back to full risk on as it was a changer.
Maybe it's bad to change views so quickly, but I think these are big issues, particularly fiscal cliff and it's just as bad not to adapt to new information.
On another note, I want to trademark 6.5 beer. The beer will be 6.5% alcohol, will be marketed to the American Pie, and will be the brew of choice that lament what the Fed is doing to the country by continuing to ease and grow the balance sheet until we hit 6.5% unemployment. Deep down I think the only way we get to that level is is by redefining employment.
I think credit is going to do well. Stocks too. The one big doubt I have domestically is that Apple (Nasdaq:AAPL) seems up against resistance here and it is hard for the market to go up much without it - which is why I like S&P (^GSPC) more than Nasdaq (^IXIC). With the weak Greek deal it is hard to like Spain or Italy, which leaves me with China.
Come on and dry your Chevy, the levy is dry and raise a bottle of 6.5.
Dark Side of the Month?
Jeffrey Cooper
A 10 minute S&P (INDEXSP:.INX) from Tuesday shows a first-hour high and test failure on a Pinocchio of the opening high.
Tuesday's last-hour knife down may have been a sign of a spike in volatility that could accompany today's lunar eclipse which coincides with the open.
While the rebound off the recent lows was impressive, sharp rallies are often the hallmark of bear phases.
The bulls are hoping that the rebound off the mid-November low will mirror the momentum off the June low and that a pullback off the 50% retrace of the entire decline will be the normal pause that refreshes.
The T-Rex in the ointment is that the current pattern is still analogous to the crash pattern from 1987 when a rebound following an initial sell-off was defined by an eclipse and the vast majority on the Street at that time bought into the idea that the market had carved out another pullback like that year's May low.
See the 10 minute S&P chart from this morning's Daily Morning Report below.
A stab below 1384 and the 200dma could set up pressure into month end on Friday.
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Answers I Really Wanna Know
Todd Harrison
If I wasn't in a presentation until 11AM, would I have covered any of my short exposure when the S&P (INDEXSP:.INX) retested the 200-day at 1384 and the BKX (^BKX) probed 47 and change? (yep)
Why don't all iPhone chargers work on iPads? Is this some sort of elaborate scheme dreamed up by Apple (Nasdaq:AAPL) to make customers buy additional supplies?
If the market trades lower in the coming days, will we look back at gold with a knowing nod?
Are too many people watching the Three Peaks and a Domed House pattern (which would 'work' to S&P 1150)?
Given I'll be on a plane this evening--and out of pocket tomorrow and Friday--would it be irresponsible to leave my (smallish and right-sized) S&P February out-of-the-money puts on my sheets?
Only if it's profitable?
Thursday, November 29, 2012
Fiscal Cliff Wrangling
Michael Comeau
We're getting some mixed messages on the Fiscal Cliff today, courtesy of our friends in Washington.
House Speaker Boehner said that President Obama must 'get serious' about spending cuts in order for a deal to be worked out.
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell insists that tax rates must stay where they are.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said that he's been waiting for a serious proposal from the GOP.
I suspect there's some pro-wrestling style posturing here, where politicians either want to go down as martyrs fighting for their respective positions, but I suspect that before year-end, we'll see all these politicians promoting themselves as having courage to reach across the aisle to make a compromise.
Politicians have taken a beating in recent years in terms of public perception (though when did people really love them?), and I doubt the current cast of characters is going to let the ship go down out of pride. That would create a lot of disillusionment among the public that they can't afford right now.
I even think a failure on the fiscal cliff could catalyze a movement for a real third party, which would be disastrous for the establishment.
Skyworks: Finally Breaking the $22 Resistance
Sean Udall
Well Mr. Market is reacting pretty well from the fiscal cliff ugliness and Skyworks (Nasdaq:SWKS) is picking today of all days to break through the $22 area. I still view this as key level and after this there is another pretty stout resistance area in the low $24's. Time will tell, but the fact that SWKS is acting well with notable outperformance of the SOX is encouraging as this turn has seemingly been like watching paint dry.
So my next target in the interim is the low $24's, especially if we close in the mid $22's today. I may be a buyer here on the close, or into any market fades in the coming days.
Also, just as a quick note -- I am starting to look for some names to trim a bit. But I will be focusing on names that I don't think have been unjustly lagging. Names like SWKS, Intel (Nasdaq:INTC), Microsoft (Nasdaq:MSFT), Google (Nasdaq:GOOG) and Broadcom (Nasdaq:BRCM) could easily keep rising (or bounce off lows) even if the market experiences a bout or two of selling. Plus, raising cash is always better into 5-7% market lifts than drops of that magnitude. That said, I won't be selling material amounts until we get closer to SPX 1475-1500.
More Confirmation
Michael Gayed
Markets continue to act as if we are in a V-like formation independent of continued Fiscal Cliff bickering, and confirmation appears to be gradually creeping in within the bond market which I have noted all week is key.
Our ATAC models used for managing our mutual fund and separate accounts are on edge for a potential full allocation back into stocks, as the reflationary behavior of risk assets returns. The mini-correction seems to be over, and we may be set up for another June melt-up like move given the similarity of the last two months to the April/May mini-correction as I stated in an interview earlier today.
This looks more and more real - continued market healing and intermarket trends suggest the Fall Catalyst of new all-time highs is back in the spotlight for end of year. Near-term resolution in the Middle East and Europe leaves only the U.S. left on the macro headwinds front. Given the countdown clocks on the Fiscal Cliff, its time to start thinking bullishly about the fear that exists, and prepare for a better environment for risk assets to come.
Friday, November 30, 2012
Jeff Saut
It's only 32 days to "the cliff" and gridlock still reigns inside the D.C. Beltway. Even the Fed is becoming worried, punctuated by Dallas Fed Head Richard Fisher's comments this week. To wit: "The Fed has done all it can in terms of liquidity after carrying the load in absence of fiscal action by the government, which is a dangerous predicament." He also opined that "[We have] refueled the gas tank with liquidity, but it will sit on the sidelines unless people are given incentives to use it. A fiscal fix is required and the regulatory set-up needs to be rebooted." As readers of these missives should know, I think "the cliff" will be avoided, or at least partially avoided with a staged-in solution. For example, the Bush tax cuts foot to $265 billion with $55 billion of those cuts going to the wealthy and $210 billion going to the middle class. It is conceivable that the "wealthy cuts" go away, but the middle class cuts remain. Additionally, the payroll tax comes back and the mandated spending cuts get postponed. And, that seemed to be the view the stock market anticipated yesterday despite negative comments from a number of our elected leaders.
Indeed, yesterday's market action extended the upside breakouts above the downtrend lines in both the NASDAQ 100 (INDEXNASDAQ:NDX) (2680.03) and the Russell 2000 (INDEXRUSSELL:RUT) (823.20), which is the kind of leadership you want to see (tech and beta), because it is the leadership of a "bull move" (see chart). Now the question becomes, "What is going to happen around the energy level of our 'old friend' in the 1420 - 1422 level often referenced in these comments?" When we were approaching it on the downside, recall how many times that level was "key;" now it becomes a "key" level on the upside. Nevertheless, over the past 27 years, the first week of December has been a downer only 5 times, so stay optimistic.
Bluto's Bluff
Jeffrey Cooper
A synonym for the word 'cliff' is bluff. I can't help but wonder if the current political gamesmanship/bluffing capturing current sentiment won't somehow prove amorphous like the hype over Y2K that captured market participants imaginations in late 1999.
I'm not saying that the Cliff isn't a real concern. What I'm saying is that like Greece and Europe, when it comes to making bets on the market, it's all a matter of timing and it could be a matter of pay me now or pay me later based on how long Wile E. Capitalism can dance naked over the Financial Gulch.
That said, we've seen this cartoon before. Perhaps Mr. Market and market participants have become anesthetized to it and complacency is ruling the roost.
I can't help but think that with there being substantial talk amongst many market watchers that the Cliff will be avoided, that it is a dangerous game to overestimate politicians.
Someone said the road to perdition is paved with good intentions.
After all, policy makers have had a 1 ½ years to address the issue and took a 3 month vacation to campaign and have brought us to the brink. Again.
What is this? Cramming for finals with Bluto and the Budgeteers?
The emperors have no togas...
The Presidential Cycle
Michael Sedacca
We've talked about the Presidential cycle before, and with the cycle about to turn highly negative, it is worth going back to. My dad was a big believer in this cycle, so much of what I've learned about it came from him. The basic gist of the cycle, developed by Pepperdine, is that when a President reaches the end of his term there is special government spending done to boos growth because:
A) What every first-term President wants is a second term.
B) What every second-term President wants is his party to be re-elected, or go out with a great legacy.
So the abnormal boost in government spending yesterday for 3rd quarter GDP completely embraces this concept. In the prior 5 quarters, government spending had declined on quarterly basis, but this time it magically turned! The average decline for the prior 5 quarters was 1.9%, but this quarter it increased to 3.5%-3.7%. Coincidence? I think not.
The overall principle behind the cycle is that, as these stimulus measures begin to wear off, the market begins to fall as growth declines. This cycle was thrown out of whack with Obama's term, because he was elected at a market bottom, but one can make the case that the market troughed in late 2010 (during the second year).
Just some food for thought.
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This story appears in the February 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine.
I am hunting otters with Charlie, the two of us in wet suits, our bodies submerged, level with the sea. The tankers are sliding in toward the piers and gas flares of the oil terminal at Sullom Voe. This is Shetland, at the far northern tip of the British Isles. Helicopters from the North Sea rigs clatter into the airport behind us, but they seem a world away.
Charlie Hamilton James has been photographing British otters ever since he fell in love with them during their decline some decades ago, and has followed them obsessively as they have made their way back to health. He knows how to stalk an otter and has told me the technique: Your face as low in the water as it can go, neoprene helmet well down, and quiet—no whispering (gestures better), your breath quiet, your fins quiet, and if you're lucky, you might get near one.
Tiny flatfish move away from our feet in the shallows. Two seals come to inspect us, goggle-eyes, fat submarine bodies. But the otter we thought was here, which an hour ago was a distant three-part silhouette in the binoculars, a disc of a head, the arched back, a long strong tail, or as it is beautifully called, the rudder, is nowhere to be seen. Male otters display like this, with the rudder prominent, in a kind of swaggering signal to other otters that this is their territory. We look and wait while the cold seeps into the bones.
Then Charlie taps me and points at some weedy rocks just inshore. A mass of damp bladder wrack and serrated wrack, a tangle of ochre and khaki. An anonymous coastline. Nothing there. Then I see him. A mound of soft flesh just above the tide. The drying chocolate-colored pelt, which for so many centuries was hunted for its warmth and thickness, has been combed into peaks by the otter's own movement through the water. He is asleep, more than a yard long, perhaps 15 or 20 pounds in weight, the luscious and glossily furred animal lying back in his nook away from the wind. His belly and pale chin are upward, his rucked pelt thick up around him in folds, the toes of his front paws open, the webs visible between them, his four legs in the air. Is he snoring? I can't quite tell. His long whiskers, which are there to detect movement in the water, pressure sensors responding to the pulse from a quivering fish tail ahead, extend out from his muzzle, as wide on each side as the width of his head. His head is an antennae cluster, his whole body a seek-search-and-destroy organism. Not now though. Here is a sultan on his divan. The laid-back body oozes dominance, the perfect at-homeness of a top predator, the rollover luxuriance of animal ease.
There is only one species of otter in the British Isles, Lutra lutra, the Eurasian otter, which is just as much at home in the sea as in fresh water. The only difference is that sea-living otters must wash in freshwater pools frequently to keep their coats free of salt and insulatingly warm. It is a creature that has been familiar to human beings for many millennia. It was probably one of the most widespread mammals in the Old World. The word "otter" was part of the language spoken by early Europeans thousands of years ago. Otters were a constant presence in the river valleys where people settled, and were often trapped, pursued by hounds, and disliked by fishermen. The otter's face, or "mask," was favored for the most elegant of sporrans, those furry purses kilted Scotsmen like to wear around their waists. "All men that keep Otter dogs ought to have a Pension from the Commonwealth," the great Izaak Walton wrote in The Compleat Angler in 1653. But the otter hunters never destroyed the otters, and the otters did not eat all the fish. A form of man-otter-fish balance persisted through the centuries.
Estimates of historical numbers are difficult if not impossible. The otters' ability to disappear, to melt into the water, to slip into the background as if they had never been there meant that they became the all-present but hidden secret of the landscape. Elusiveness was their calling card.
The first signs of disaster, in the 1950s, were scarcely understood for what they were. At the same moment, the peregrine falcons began a precipitous decline. Problems developed in the 1940s with use of insecticides, fungicides, organochlorides, and the all-purpose wildlife killer DDT. These chemicals were used in industry to treat wool and cloth, get rid of insects and fungi, preserve seeds, and to dip scabby sheep. From the 1950s to 1970s organochlorines and PCBs, used as coolants in electrical transformers and stabilizers in paint and many other products, led to widespread pollution of waterways. Such persistent substances do not break down and disappear when they are out in the environment. They accumulate as they move up the food chain: a tiny amount absorbed by a microbe, more by a microscopic shrimp, still more in a small fish or eel, yet more in the grand predatory fish, and most of all in the top-predator body of the otter. What should have been a system for delivering goodness had turned into an escalator for poison.
More than a decade of ignorance and inaction went by. Only in the mid-1960s were organochlorides banned in England as a sheep dip, largely because they had been identified as the reason that the populations of peregrine falcons and many other birds and mammals were declining. They remained legal as a seed dressing until 1975 (and for some specialist uses until 1992). And even when banned, they were replaced by organophosphates and synthetic pyrethroids that were also highly damaging to ecosystems. Only in 2006 was a final ban placed on the substances, which had been diminishing the life of English rivers for more than half a century.
The otter population collapsed, perhaps through lack of fish, perhaps through individual otters being poisoned. A national survey in the late 1970s found that only 6 percent of 2,940 English riverside sites had any evidence of them. Across large swaths of England, there were no otters at all. The rivers had died, and the otters had died with them. Only in the far west and on the Welsh borders had the animals survived. Otters went extinct in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg. Most of France, Germany, and Italy were otterless. They were rare in the bulk of Norway and Sweden. Numbers stayed high in Scotland and eastern Europe, but elsewhere it seemed possible that the otter would disappear entirely.
Agonizingly slowly, as the chemical bans took effect, the population started to climb back toward health. By 1984-86, the proportion of English riverbanks occupied by otters had risen to 10 percent, and to 59 percent by 2009-10. Gradually otters pushed back eastward across the country, so that now only the London area and some northern industrial cities remain otter-free.
But the revival remains fragile. A small population in Kent has disappeared, perhaps because of road traffic killings. Deaths from cars are thought in some counties to be keeping pace with annual cub production. Low-level diffuse pollution characterizes nearly every stream, and far too much water is extracted for them to be in good shape. The pelts of otters killed by cars have been found to contain traces of the anti-inflammatories ibuprofen and diclofenac. In some areas where otters have returned in numbers, there is a steep increase in the wounds inflicted otter on otter, probably as a result of competition for territory.
Fragile, but not all bleak. Charlie and I went to a river in Dorset in the south of England. In the middle of a small market town, in the middle of the day, with the people crossing the footbridges over the river between the supermarket and the town park, taking their dogs for a walk or the children for a romp, we watched for four hours a family of otters, a mother and two nearly full-grown cubs, fishing and playing on the river. People stopped and chatted about "their" otters, amazed that we were amazed to see them there. They have been a regular sight in the town for the past couple of years.
But look closely and you can't help but be amazed at the high-performance intensity of those sleek liquid bodies nuzzling and shoving at the bankside vegetation and coming up spattered with the green speckles of duckweed, all three members of the family often sliding close up against each other, intensely sociable, fishing and hunting in the riverbed for bullheads and even minnows. It is a fierce and busy, high-turnover life: The repeated dive down often coming up with prey in their teeth, and then tossing it to the molars at the back, when one after another the otters chomp away with the upturned head and delighted air of a man in a restaurant who has just won the lottery and is now chewing in triumph on the juiciest of steaks.


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Trimble's Ruggedized Juno Takes GIS on a Field Trip29 Feb, 2012 By: Cyrena Respini-Irwin
The third-generation handheld device combines positioning, imaging, and communications tools in one pocket-sized package for asset management and data collection.
Positioning solutions provider Trimble introduced a new series of lightweight, handheld devices for GIS field applications this month: the Trimble Juno 3B and 3D. The new series is designed for field workers from organizations such as public utilities and municipalities who perform asset management, data collection, inspections, and related tasks.
According to Chris Stern, director of business development for Trimble Utilities business, the company used to focus primarily on high-accuracy data collection. Now, however, it seeks to accommodate the daily workflow of utility, municipal, and other field workers as well. The primary need for these users is not extremely high accuracy, Stern explained; instead, they require a simple, rugged solution that provides streamlined workflows through a combination of hardware and software.
"The third generation of [the Juno] product line ... is designed to expand the use of mobile technology outside of core users, to those who aren't as familiar with the concepts of GIS and GPS," Stern said. Those "core users" are engineers, who make up only a small percentage of the utility employees who need to access data in the field. The majority are engaged in operations and maintenance, or customer service. "It gives the utility worker a device they can use every day," said Stern, as they inspect and repair fixed assets or install smart meters.
Adapted to the Environment
Today, said Stern, the majority of utility workers are equipped with a cell phone, laptop, or radio, or some combination thereof. The Juno combines navigation, data capture, computing, and communication capabilities in one device, which features a screen designed for clear viewing in direct sunlight. The Juno 3B features a high-sensitivity GPS receiver, a 5-megapixel autofocus camera with geotagging capabilities, and Windows Mobile software. The Juno 3D includes those features plus 3G wireless technology.
The Juno units are dust-, water-, and shock-resistant. Their IP54-level ruggedization makes them better adapted to field work than cell phones or PDAs are, Stern said. "The cell phone is not designed to withstand the harsh environments that [field personnel] work in. ... [Exposure to weather and temperature extremes] prohibit the cell phone from being a primary computing device in the field ... and the accuracy is not that good." In addition, the Juno's compact size and light weight give it a portability advantage over laptops, which may work well in vehicles but are difficult to carry in the field, Stern noted.
The positional accuracy of the Juno — 2 to 5 meters in real time, or 1 to 3 meters after postprocessing — does not reach that of Trimble's GeoExplorer line of handhelds, and it isn't meant to, Stern said; each device serves its own purpose. He believes that utilities are best served by equipping the majority of their field workers with the Juno (either on its own or in combination with a vehicle-mounted device), and a smaller number with the company's Yuma tablet (which can be vehicle-mounted), Nomad handheld computer (which is more ruggedized than the Juno), or GeoExplorer (which is intended for high-accuracy mapping).
Beyond Hardware
The Juno series devices support industry-specific software applications including Trimble Field Inspector, which is used in gas, electric, and water utilities, and Trimble Municipal Reporter, which is used for incident reporting in government agencies. Stern cited a study by the American Management Association that found that a significant portion of a mobile worker's day — up to two-thirds, in some cases — is spent on activities other than direct, productive work: getting job instructions, finding asset locations, updating maps, completing paperwork, and the like. Field Inspector reduces that "non–wrench-on-bolt time," Stern said.
For GIS mapping and data collection workflows, users can run Trimble TerraSync software on the Juno. "It's [a combination] for a utility worker looking primarily at mapping in the field," said Stern. (TerraSync's office counterpart is Trimble GPS Pathfinder Office.)
Mapping solutions made available with this hardware release also include Trimble Positions, a developer toolkit for customers who want to build on Esri ArcGIS Mobile, and the GPScorrect extension, which runs on top of Esri ArcPad (its office counterpart is the GPS Analyst extension, which runs on Esri ArcGIS Desktop).
All the Trimble software will read and write into most common spatial data formats, Stern said, supporting whatever mapping workflows the customer is already using.
Monitoring a Moving Target
Equipping field workers with GIS data-collection devices doesn't just help them get their jobs done; it also helps GIS managers keep their data accurate and up-to-date. "Mapping is sometimes not a one-project activity," said Stern. "The reality is that ... assets are changing on a daily basis." Stern explained that even seemingly fixed assets undergo status changes constantly, as valves are opened and switches are flipped.
Stern also noted the regulatory compliance benefits of GIS data. "GPS is not just used to bring back a point," he explained. "The GPS is a time, date, and location stamp. ... It captures an accurate record that can hold up from a regulatory standpoint." Stern pointed to a recent gas pipeline explosion in California as a case study in the value of accurate GIS and field maintenance record-keeping. "[The post-incident investigation] found that the utility did not have accurate maps and maintenance records — no proof that they knew the exact location and condition of assets or were doing adequate maintenance."
Going Mobile and Global
Stern observed that the Juno is finding applications in developing regions around the world. "It provides an entry point ... a way for price-sensitive markets and customers with large field workforces to begin using mobile technology with a single solution."
Demand for mobile technology is great in some emerging economies, as utilities and governments seek to manage large-scale infrastructure deployments. In India, Stern said, the government has backed a large investment in smart-grid technology. Trimble is also looking at similar projects in China, said Stern, as well as Brazil and various parts of Africa. "The U.S. and Western Europe may be ahead of other [regions] in smart grid, but the first phase in all of those investments is deploying smart meters," he observed. Depending on the size of the utility, that can involve millions of meters — which may translate into a lot of Junos.
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NORTH HUNTINGDON, Pa., June 18, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The ExOne Company (Nasdaq:XONE), a global provider of three-dimensional ("3D") printing machines and printed products to industrial customers, has teamed with Ipsen, a designer and manufacturer of industrial vacuum furnaces, to provide customers with a complete 3D printing package. ExOne expects its collaboration with Ipsen to strengthen the level of support offered to customers throughout the entire development and production process. Providing a packaged turn-key solution to our customers enables them to materialize new concepts, designs, prototypes and production parts with virtually unlimited design complexity.
David J. Burns, ExOne's President and COO, noted, "As our pipeline of opportunities is building we have simplified the purchasing process for 3D printers by offering a complete printer-furnace package. Ipsen is ideal for us to collaborate with given their industrial focus and global presence."
"As technical experts dedicated to lean manufacturing, Ipsen was chosen due to our industry-wide reputation for custom innovations and forward-thinking research and development focus," explained Mark Heninger, Ipsen's Vacuum Product Manager. "We are excited about this collaboration, and the opportunity to pool our knowledge with ExOne to provide a reliable solution for customers."
About Ipsen
Ipsen designs and manufactures industrial vacuum furnaces, atmosphere furnaces and supervisory control systems for a wide variety of thermal processing markets including: Aerospace, Commercial Heat Treating, Medical, Energy and Automotive. With production locations in Europe, America and Asia, along with representation in 34 countries, choosing Ipsen means choosing a partner in success. For more information, visit www.IpsenUSA.com.
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ExOne is a global provider of 3D printing machines and printed products to industrial customers. ExOne's business primarily consists of manufacturing and selling 3D printing machines and printing products to specification for its customers using its in‐house 3D printing machines. ExOne offers pre‐production collaboration and prints products through Production Service Centers, which are located in the United States, Germany and Japan. ExOne builds 3D printing machines at its facilities in the United States and Germany. ExOne also supplies the associated products, including consumables and replacement parts, and services, including training and technical support, necessary for purchasers of its machines to print products. For more information, visit www.exone.com.
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