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Inside the federal courthouse in lower Manhattan on a recent Thursday, a jury began its deliberations with the general impression that Bruce Bent Sr. and his son, Bruce Bent II, had committed fraud.
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Washington insiders bemoaning political gridlock and powerful vested interests is not unusual, but it becomes surprising when the target of concern is China.
Ahead of the US election, Washington is worried about whether the politicians can reach a budget deal after November 6 to avoid the "fiscal cliff". But China watchers in the US fear Beijing is on the verge of a similar moment of truth as the Chinese Communist party prepares to unveil its new generation of leaders in two weeks.
The pending Chinese leadership change has crystallized a significant shift in US views of China, from the unstoppable steamroller that surged out of the 2008 financial crisis to a more familiar story of a government unable to make tough decisions in the face of powerful interest groups.
"Both China and the US are now at a critical turning point, where past approaches require a major change or they will face real economic dangers," says Ken Lieberthal, a former White House official now at the Brookings Institution. "In the US it is our fiscal situation, in China it is the need for major economic restructuring."
While China's economy has recorded near double-digit growth for the past decade – transforming large swaths of the country and improving the lives of hundreds of millions – the emerging US view of President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao is of leaders who have fumbled efforts to introduce economic and political reform.
(Read More: Corporate China Hit by Unpaid Bills)
Beijing has long talked about the need to shift China's economic model from investment and exports more towards consumption and services. Politicians including Mr. Wen have also talked about the need for a more open political system.
While there have always been some skeptics in the US about the Chinese leaders' ability to push through such changes, that kind of pessimism about the prospects for reform in China has become more widespread over the past year.
During previous transitions, observers paid much attention to the biographies and personalities of the new Chinese leaders. This time, however, there is much more focus on whether the Chinese political system has become too clogged by special interests to tackle difficult problems.
"The issue is not whether the new leaders introduce reforms, it is whether they can implement those reforms," says Stapleton Roy, a former ambassador to China.
Mr. Roy says the success of a number of state-owned companies over the past decade has created a "Frankenstein's monster" that the party cannot easily control.
"Their monopoly position has allowed them to acquire vast monetary assets that they can use to back their own agenda," adds Mr. Roy. "It sounds somewhat similar to our situation in the US."
David Shambaugh, a China specialist at George Washington University, who wrote a book on the adaptability of the Chinese Communist party, believes that over the past three years, there has been a "period of retrogression, where the system cannot seem to take the initiative".
(Read More: Chinese Left in Dark Over New Leaders)
He questions whether the next-generation leaders will be able to introduce substantial changes in the face of opposition from state-owned companies, the People's Liberation Army, local officials and the government bureaucracy.
"The system is becoming fragile, sclerotic, atrophying," he says. "It is showing some the classic signs of dynastic decline."
Jon Huntsman, US ambassador to China from 2009 to 2011, spent considerable time with some of the new generation of Chinese leaders. He describes Xi Jinping, the man expected to become president, as being "comfortable in his own skin", "confident" and "engaging". This strikes a contrast with Mr. Hu, with whom US officials have sometimes had a more distant, even frosty, relationship.
"He is a pragmatist who knows very well how to work the system, the PLA, the princelings and the party," says Mr. Huntsman.
But the Chinese-speaking former Republican presidential hopeful believes that within two to three years, Mr. Xi will face significant pressure from a fast-changing society to set out a political reform agenda. "If people do not see a game plan being laid out, then the temperature is really going to rise sharply," he says.
(Read More: China's Year of Political Surprises Not Over Yet)
After three years in which Chinese foreign policy has often been more assertive than in the past, observers are also looking for clues as to whether the new leadership will bring a different view of how China should deal with the rest of the world.
Christopher Johnson, a former CIA analyst now at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, says the "new generation of Chinese leaders are certainly more cosmopolitan, but they are also more confident". He cautions that they will face an early challenge if territorial disputes with Japanover the disputed Senkaku Islands or in the South China Sea continue to flare up, because they would need to show their domestic audience that they are not going to be easily pushed around.
"They will just be settling in when this might come back – they will be in a position where they have to demonstrate their credibility," he says.

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The Seattle University Youth Initiative (SUYI) unites the University and the wider Seattle community to develop successful youth, thriving communities and an engaged neighborhood. The Initiative strives to strengthen education and support systems for 1,000 neighborhood youth and their families while enhancing the University by providing service, learning and research experience to students, faculty, and staff.
Launched in February 2011, the Youth Initiative has quickly become the largest community engagement project in the institution's history and a signature element of the University.
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Tibotec Pharmaceuticals announced on June 28 that it has entered into a license agreement with Gilead Sciences, Inc. for the development and commercialization of a new once-daily, single-tablet, fixed dose antiretroviral combination product containing Tibotec's protease inhibitor Prezista (darunavir) and Gilead's cobicistat, an investigational "boosting" agent. Prezista has, up until now, been boosted with Norvir (ritonavir).
In the U.S., once-daily dosing of Prezista is indicated for treatment-naïve adult patients and treatment-experienced adult patients with no darunavir resistance-associated substitutions.
"We are excited to be able to study and develop Prezista with an alternative boosting agent in a combination product which has the potential to reduce the number of tablets patients take. Tibotec is committed to developing new and innovative HIV treatment options, especially those which provide simplified treatment regimens that may help patients to better manage their HIV treatment. Prezista is one of the leading protease inhibitors and co-formulating it with cobicistat in a new combination product demonstrates our commitment to HIV and innovations that will provide new options for patients," said Johan Van Hoof, M.D., Global Therapeutic Area Head, Infectious Diseases and Vaccines, Janssen Pharmaceuticals.
Subject to regulatory approval, Tibotec will be responsible for the formulation, manufacturing, registration, distribution, and commercialization of the Prezista and cobicistat fixed dose combination worldwide. Gilead retains sole rights for the manufacture, development, and commercialization of cobicistat as a stand-alone product and for use in combination with other agents.
According to Tibotec's press release, the companies are also negotiating terms for the development and commercialization of a future single-tablet regimen (STR) combining Prezista with Gilead's Emtriva (emtricitabine), and its investigational agents GS 7340 and cobicistat. Gilead would be responsible for the development and commercialization of the new STR on a worldwide basis.
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Does anyone have any information on how to properly run a Sencha Architect MVC app in LifeRay?
Designing, and running an app using architect(in a simple local apache server for mock up purposes) seems to work perfectly. My problem is trying to convert this over to use our LifeRay portal(ver 6)
I have tried to use Senchas build tools to create a jsb and build all into one JS script, but that seems to be missing required classes, and it says it is missing files, "NetworkError: 404 Not Found - htp://localhost:8080/web/www/senchaTest/view/MainViewport.js?_dc=1350398599155".
I have been searching for good info on how to run a Sencha MVC app in LifeRay, with the proper setups, but have not found any information out there.
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Prepped for heart surgery, vet told VA won't payBy SHAWNE K. WICKHAM
New Hampshire Sunday News
June 14. 2014 8:29PM
Brian Cressy was minutes away from open-heart surgery at Catholic Medical Center last December, his chest shaved and painted orange with surgical disinfectant, when a social worker delivered the news.
Cressy, a 58-year-old Vietnam-era veteran from East Kingston, would have to be transferred to a Boston VA hospital for his surgery, she said. The Department of Veterans Affairs wouldn't pay for the operation to be done at CMC.
Cressy had just survived a serious heart attack and was afraid he was going to die.
"I don't want to die," he told the social worker. "I want to have this surgery done now."
He refused the transfer, and the cardiac surgeon went ahead with what turned out to be successful bypass surgery.
Now Cressy, who works as a licensed alcohol and drug abuse counselor, faces medical bills totalling tens of thousands of dollars after the VA declined to pay his claim. While the federal agency will pay for emergency care at a non-VA facility, its policy clearly states that if a patient can be safely transferred to a VA hospital once he's stabilized, he has to move.
"If you refuse to be transferred, VA will not pay for any further care," reads a "non-VA emergency care fact sheet," sent in response to a reporter's inquiry about the policy.
But under a bill that passed the Senate last week, veterans like Cressy wouldn't face such choices in the future, thanks to bipartisan advocacy on behalf of New Hampshire veterans by the state's two U.S. senators.
Democrat Jeanne Shaheen and Republican Kelly Ayotte worked together to insert into a VA reform bill a provision that would expand care options for veterans who live in states without a full-service VA hospital, such as New Hampshire.
The Senate voted, 93-2, on Wednesday to pass the bill, sponsored by Sens. Bernie Sanders, an independent from Vermont, and John McCain, R-Ariz., and it's likely to go to a conference committee, since the House has passed its own similar measure.
The Shaheen-Ayotte provision would allow veterans in states without full-service VA hospitals to seek care from private providers if they live more than 20 miles from the nearest VA.
Had that been in place last fall, Cressy's care at CMC would have been covered.
Ayotte said in a written statement that Cressy's situation "highlights the real hardships New Hampshire veterans are facing when it comes to accessing care." And she said, "The provision that Senator Shaheen and I worked to include in the VA reform bill will give our state's veterans the choice to receive care from a private provider instead of waiting in line or driving hours for VA care."
Elizabeth Kenigsberg, press secretary for Shaheen, said what happened to Cressy is "just one painful case of the problems New Hampshire veterans face" and that the senators are trying to address.
Veterans here "have faced serious inequities within the VA system, such as enduring long drives to neighboring states for care," Kenigsberg said, and the proposed change would finally give them "the opportunity to seek care closer to home and get the timely and accessible care they deserve."
So how did Cressy end up in this predicament?
To start with, he doesn't have health insurance and usually gets his medical care through the VA. But after he suffered a heart attack on the day after Thanksgiving, he wound up in the emergency room at Exeter Hospital. Tests showed that four major blood vessels were 80 to 90 percent blocked, he said.
Exeter doctors told Cressy he had to have emergency open-heart surgery, and gave him a choice between CMC and Portsmouth Hospital. He chose CMC and was taken there by ambulance that Saturday. No one suggested the Boston VA, he said.
It was only on Monday morning, a half-hour before his scheduled surgery, that he was told the VA would not pay for his surgery there and he'd have to go to Boston, Cressy said.
It's not clear why he wasn't transferred to the Boston VA after he was stabilized at Exeter's emergency department that Friday night.
Because of patient confidentiality, representatives of the three hospitals involved - Exeter, CMC and the Manchester VA - said they can't talk about the specifics of the case.
Debra Krinsky, acting public affairs officer for Manchester VA, said she couldn't discuss Cressy's case, even if he gave permission, since he plans to appeal.
But she provided information about the appeal process, which gives veterans one year to file a Notice of Disagreement with their local VA office and the Board of Veterans' Appeals in Washington, D.C., and to request a hearing.
Mark Whitney, vice president of community relations at Exeter Hospital, also said he can't speak about Cressy's private medical records.
But in a typical emergency situation, he said, Exeter doctors would do interventional cardiac catheterization. And if surgery was required, it's typical to transfer patients either to CMC or Portsmouth, he said.
Whitney said his hospital coordinates with the VA on care for their patients, and under the VA's policy on emergency care, "We do under certain circumstances get reimbursed for certain patients."
He urged Cressy to contact Exeter Hospital with any questions about how his case was handled there.
Michelle Marshall, director of marketing at Catholic Medical Center, also said CMC "works collaboratively" with the VA in caring for veterans. "If we are aware that a patient is a veteran, we work with that veteran and the VA system to make sure they receive prompt and appropriate care," she said. "The VA is a source of medical support for otherwise uninsured veterans. This sometimes means transferring a veteran to a VA medical center for their acute medical care."
However, Marshall said the hospital would never turn away a patient because of a lack of insurance. "We have the highest percentage of charity care in the state," she said.
"If he was really in dire straits and he chose not to go to the Boston VA himself, we can't turn him away because we treat anyone who needs care regardless of their ability to pay."
Cressy said since his surgery, he has gotten good care at the Manchester VA Medical Center, where both his primary-care doctor and his cardiologist are. And the VA paid for his emergency care at Exeter Hospital and authorized 16 weeks of rehabilitation at Parkland Hospital in Derry.
He went back to work a month after surgery, and he's feeling much better, notwithstanding some good-natured grumbling about his new diet of "fins and feathers" (fish and chicken).
After the VA denied his claim, Cressy didn't file an appeal right away. "I thought I was fighting against a giant," he said.
But now he plans to do so. "I'm going to shake the dust off and get back on my horse, I guess, and do what I have to do."
And while it won't affect his own case, he welcomed the news that Congress may enact more options for New Hampshire veterans. "What I find is hope," he said.
There's no shortage of excellent hospitals right here in New Hampshire, Cressy said. "Boston is an octopus of medical care, but it's also big and confusing. We feel comfortable in our region," he said.
He was touched that New Hampshire's two senators worked together to get it done. It's something his late mother, former state Rep. Ellen Cressy, would have applauded, he said.
"She was the type that it didn't matter that you had a D or an R after your name," he said. "She didn't vote along party lines. She voted for the people."


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MIAMI SHORES, Fla. -- Barry University women's tennis team finished the season with a No. 3 national ranking in the final Intercollegiate Tennis Association poll.
The Buccaneers went 27-1, advancing to the NCAA Division II quarterfinals. They won their fourth straight Sunshine State Conference championship, and completed their second consecutive unbeaten regular season.
Freshmen Elisabeth Abanda and Emma Onila received doubles All-American honors. The Bucs duo went 21-5, including a 5-2 record against nationally-ranked opponents.
Abanda and Onila beat No. 1 Barbora Krtickova and Aleksandra Filipovski, 8-6, in Barry's 5-4 victory over then-No. 1 Armstrong Atlantic on March 22 in Miami Shores. The Buccaneers pair finished the season with a No. 7 national ranking.
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Nov 26 2014 -- oops renamed and started editing wrong thread. Closing this as it's low activity and has no recent posts. Will revive the CR 2014 thread as a general discussion for Drama on CR instead --lorreen.
Are you watching any of these? What do you think? Have fun facts to add? Say so here.
Winter 2013: None
Spring 2013: Random Hero
Summer 2013: Town Doctor Jumbo!!
Fall 2013: Hakuba no Ōjisama
I just finished Random Hero--had been watching it week by week. Based on the descriptioNn and the promo, and even the first episode, I thought I'd probably end up dropping this, because it just seemed like the stupidly wacky kind of thing I don't really like. But it didn't take long to grow on me. A little wacky action,definitely comedy, but also some real drama and emotion, and relationships and romance. Did not care for the end though.
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I'm not all that big on having to have happy romantic endings, but they spent the whole show building up the relationship between Kenta and Natsuki little by little, and then she just leaves town for a year and he's gonna be all alone? Why would they do that?
Today I watched the first episode of Town Doctor Jumbo. Characters a little one-dimensional right now, and Dr. Jumbo is a bit of a mystery, but I think I'll keep tuning in.
July 14 ETA: So, is nobody watching 2013 drama simulcasts on Crunchy? That's kind of too bad, but I just finished the second episode of Town Doctor Jumbo, and whiile it's watchable it really isn't grabbing my interest. I don't like any of the characters, and some of it is pretty simplistic, people behave woodenly and unrealistically, but not unrealistically dramatically enough for it to appeal in the way that many Asian dramas (in that trainwreck-can't-stop-watching guilty pleasure way) do. If you're watching this show, what do you think?
Oct 2 ETA: Hakuba no Ōjisama was just added for Fall and is starting on Friday. Will you be watching? If so, be sure to come back here and tell us what you think. I plan to give it a try, but I'm tired of talking to myself here!
I might watch it, but since it seems to be about infidelity and sexual stuff-- can't say I'm all that interested. I prefer comedy and cute romance like Atashinchi no Danshi
Just watched the first episode, and I'm not impressed. The acting seems really bad, and the story's not too good either. I don't know if I'll be watching this through. Probably not.
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About Hakuba no Ōjisama. I'd agree that the acting isn't that great, but toward the end of the first episode and continuing into the second, I've warmed up to it a bit. It's definitely not comedic or cute though.
For much of episode 1, I was annoyed. It seemed so focused on the trite hackneyed plight of despair over what I consider to be a still young-enough woman not finding love--or at least not "true" love/ marriage love. Seriously girl, there's more to life than that and such love is not all it's cracked up to be--it's got its own room for despair. I don't have much patience for that "must find true love to be happy" attitude in real life, and I sympathized not at all with the main character in the this position.
But, by the end of the first episode and continuing through the second, I was feeling the "truth" of this situation for that main character and it did start to feel like a real emotion for her and not just a pasted on hackneyed situation. Add in the complexity of how she is viewed favorably as a person by others, against how certain actions are viewed by those same others, and how those views have been formed by their own personal experiences...and it's starting to shape up into a sad little contemplative story that I'm interested in.
UPDATE: It's shaped up well. Yes, it's slow-paced, and contemplative, but those aren't flaws--it's how it's meant to be, and the tentative way relationships build feels quite real. If you would like to see a serious show that deals with romance in an unidealized (yet not truly cynical) way, I recommend this. (And if you do watch an episode or more, come back here and say what you think--whether or not you like it too.)
FINAL UPDATE: Finished Hakuba no Ōjisama today. Overall it was satisfying, though not really the ending I expected. I have to admit that personally I was pretty shocked at
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how easily those two took off without even calling to say they were okay and letting folks know they'd be back next day or in a couple days or whatever. Selfish is one thing (and I think it's okay sometimes), but that was just discourteous. Kaori, of course, was a bit wrong in her persistence too though (he had told her he couldn't make it, right?). But poor Egawa.
I've enjoyed some of the J-drama on CR well-enough, but this is the best I've seen so far. Although I love the over-the-topness of K-drama, and would like to see more on CR, if CR can expand a bit on their J-drama and offer some variety (I know this kind of drama s not the sort of thing enjoyed by all) I'll be happy enough. Now it's just the wait to see what, if anything, they offer up for Winter 2014. I hope it's something that will get someone to join me in discussion in a new CR 2014 drama thread.


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Suspect in Windham kidnapping case seeks bail two months after judge stops trialJAMES A. KIMBLE
Union Leader Correspondent
July 11. 2013 4:04PM
BRENTWOOD - A kidnapping suspect whose trial was brought to a halt after a key witness refused to testify is now asserting his speedy trial rights and may soon get a chance to be freed pending trial.
Public defenders for Luis Carvalho, 33, of Taunton, Mass. will be allowed to argue on July 22 that their client should be freed on bail as he awaits a new trial date for allegedly kidnapping a 20-year-old Windham woman at her home.
Carvalho is accused of storming a Windham home last April 15 with an unidentified partner, and restraining 20-year-old Samantha Gervais on the ground while the property was searched for money, according to court records.
The hearing comes two months after a Judge Marguerite Wageling jailed a witness, Matthew Nugent, for refusing to testify under an immunity agreement with the state.
Nugent remains held at the county jail for contempt of court. He maintained during a court hearing in May that his testimony could expose him to criminal charges in Massachusetts.
Wageling disagreed and ordered him to testify as a state witness.
Prosecutors say guns registered to Nugent were used by Carvalho and the other attacker, who remains at large. Both men wore black ski masks and gloves at the time of the attack.
Court documents recently filed by the defense say that the Windham home targeted by the two men was owned by Michael Napier, who is now facing drug charges in U.S. District Court in Boston.
Napier was arrested as part of a federal and state police investigation that targeted a drug ring that allegedly moved hundreds of pounds of marijuana in the Boston area, according to federal court records.
The home invasion happened about a month and a half before Napier was arrested.
Carvalho, who has been held at the county jail since his arrest, faces charges of kidnapping, burglary, conspiracy to commit burglary, criminal threatening with a deadly weapon, criminal restraint and being a felon in possession of a weapon.
'It has now been close to 14 months since the state originally arrested Mr. Carvalho and two months since he was supposed to go on trial,' Public defender Devens Hamlen said in a court motion.
Hamlen acknowledged that his client waived his right to a speedy trial earlier, and asked for the trial to be continued twice.
He argued that one of those delays were caused because the state failed to turn over additional discovery materials, the other was caused by a state expert being unavailable to testify due to a medical issue, according to Hamlen.
'It is Mr. Carvalho's position that his two waivers of speedy trial should not be used against him as his requested continuances were not entirely of his own making,' Hamlen said in a court motion.
Prosecutors have yet to respond. Wageling has scheduled a bail hearing for July 22 in Rockingham County Superior Court.


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That was Day 3, with the Davos movers and shakers well into the swing of speaking, socializing and sharing their take on what's next for the global economy.
Bank of England Gov. Mark Carney's comments last night that there is "no immediate need to increase interest rates" raised questions about the worth of forward guidance, setting the scene for today's panel on the future of monetary policy with Larry Summers.
- Forward guidance: BOE's self-inflicted headache
- Who's behind GS elevator? Lloyd Blankfein would love to know
- Larry Summers's comments on the recovery
- Carney: Bank of England to revise guidance in Feb.
- Seconds out: Summers and U.K.'s Obsorne face off
- As Argentina flounders, Brazil's president talks tough
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Major central banks have been embarking on aggressive easing programs to rebuild broken economies. But what's up next as the global outlook improves?
"The Future of Monetary Policy" panel picks the brains of prominent players: Larry Summers, the former U.S. Treasury Secretary who was once a leading contender to become chairman of the Federal Reserve; Haruhiko Kuroda, Governor of the Bank of Japan; George Osborne, the British Chancellor of the Exchequer; Alexandre Tombini, covernor of the Central Bank of Brazil; and Thomas Jordan, chairman of the Governing Board at the Swiss National Bank.
BOE chief Mark Carney's comments last night at Davos have put forward guidance, and how useful it is to set benchmarks, in the spotlight, so we'll be watching for any response to this.
But more broadly, around the world, central banks have taken different approaches to monetary policy, and there may be hints as to whether they'll stay on their respective courses.
The biggest central banks are on a range of tacks: The U.S. has kick-started its much anticipated tapering process, while the euro zone has committed to accommodative measures for "an extended period" of time, and Japan is sticking to ultraloose policy. Meanwhile, the U.K. is trying to steer the markets through forward guidance, which critics say is not working as intended.
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A few tweets from "The Future of Monetary Policy" session this morning. George Osborne, Chancellor of the Exchequer in the U.K., is up first and talks about the country's recovery.
#Davos2014 Osborne: a big challenge for policy makers in the UK is to achieve handover to investment and exports in our growth story
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U.K.'s Osborne: There's still a huge amount to be done to recover from the great recession. #finance #Davos2014
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#wef #finance Osborne wheels out the '7pc is not a trigger it's a threshold' lexicon to back Carney's comments on Newsnight y'day
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Larry Summers comments on the recession and recovery:
"The recovery has certainly not been everything most of us had hoped it would be."
"U.S. growth has only been sufficient to keep up with population growth and productivity."
"We will not see the kind of debt brinkmanship we've seen in the past."
"We're spending 25% less on life sciences than 5 years ago. That's a deficit too."
"I have a concern about our ability to have sound, financially sustainable growth"
"I have concerns about the long-term recovery: Less capital investment; and people who have been out of work for two years have a hard time coming back to work."
- 3:24 am
- Live stream of monetary policy session
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The panel session on the future of monetary policy is being streamed live from Davos, here:
- 3:42 am
- Kuroda on exiting QE
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Governor of the Bank of Japan Haruhiko Kuroda discusses consequences of exiting QE:
" For Japan, it's premature to discuss in concrete terms an exit from QE."
"When we exit our QE programme in Japan, we will do it without dirsupting the market, similarly to the Fed tapering" Kuroda #WEF14 #Finance
— Owo Na Ego (@OwoNaEgo) January 24, 2014
Fed's tapering decision well-managed, has not disrupted market at all – Bank of Japan's Kuroda #finance http://t.co/ZkFAYhhNxz #wef14
— Megha Ashok Gawde (@gawdemegha) January 24, 2014
- 4:03 am
- Summers on this year for global economies
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Summers on threats for 2014:
"Europe and China certainly face a full set of challenges"
- 7:00 am
- Cameron: Fracking can propel U.K. to be a 'Re-Shore Nation'
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Time to catch up on this morning's WEF action in Davos. British Prime Minister David Cameron laid out the U.K's economic program and set out his stall on Europe.
In particular, he made a pitch for the U.K. to become a "Re-Shore Nation", with a commitment to increased shale fracking a driver of bringing business activity back home.
"There is no doubt that when it comes to re-shoring in the U.S., one of the most important factors has been the development of shale gas, which is flooring U.S. energy prices with billions of dollars of energy cost savings predicted over the next decade," Cameron said.
Well articulated growth platform with a focus on shale and reshore. http://t.co/bIoFdqOy8N UK PM is an amazing orator.
— Marc Benioff (@Benioff) January 24, 2014
- 7:27 am
- Seconds out: Summers and U.K.'s Obsorne face off
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Cameron's speech came after his finance minister, Chancellor George Osborne, had to fight his corner in a policy ding-dong with Larry Summers. In an unusually tough panel on the future of monetary policy, the former Treasury Secretary said Osborne had dropped the ball on stimulus in the U.K. Even though the U.K. economy is on the upturn now, it would have been better to take the same approach as the U.S., Summers insisted.
Osborne's response? He pointed out Summers had blooped when he said the U.K.'s austerity measures wouldn't work.
"Fair comment," Summers said, according to CNBC.
The British minister went on to point out that Britain's government had to dig out of a deeper recession than in the U.S., too. "The impact of the crisis was even harder because our banking sector was a larger share of the economy than in America," Osborne noted, according to The Guardian.
Still, all ended well, with Summers stressing the two agreed on many points. With the bell rung on the round, Osborne was free to move onto defending the Bank of England's policy of forward guidance, called into question after Gov. Mark Carney last night said hitting an unemployment threshold didn't automatically mean an adjustment to interest rates.
The arrogance! Summers to Osborne via @jacobwe: you blew it on stimulating UK. Don't embarrass yourself by arguing ..http://t.co/tILNojvbjS
— Gideon Rachman (@gideonrachman) January 24, 2014
- 7:52 am
- Carney: Bank of England to revise guidance in February
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A threshold is "not a trigger," Bank of England Gov. Mark Carney told a gathering of British business leaders over lunch on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum annual meeting Friday, underlining that the central bank won't be in a rush to hike interest rates even as the U.K. unemployment rate looks set to fall below 7% much earlier than expected.
In implementing explicit forward guidance last August, the bank had said rates wouldn't rise until unemployment fell below 7%, which they expected to happen in 2016. Since then, the rate has dropped sharply, coming in at 7.1% in the three months to November. Carney, however, emphasized that inflation remains in check and that there are still signs of considerable slack in the labor market.
Carney said the bank's Monetary Policy Committee will consider a "range of options to update our guidance" as they prepare their February Inflation Report.
- 8:29 am
- Live stream: Brazil's president, Dilma Rousseff
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Given the worries about Latin America blowing through U.S. stock futures today, and the major hit emerging-markets stocks took on Thursday, it could be worth listening out for Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff's take on the economy. Here's the live stream from the WEF in Davos:
- 8:29 am
- Goldman's Blankfein on emerging markets
- by William Watts
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The current selloff in emerging markets reflects their dual nature, Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein told CNBC Friday in an interview from Davos.
In good times, it's more of a credit business, with investors looking at each country on an individual basis. When things turn bad, that differentiation is gone, he said. Then, "it's a macro market, emerging markets."
- 9:22 am
- As Argentina flounders, Brazil's president talks tough
- by Barbara Kollmeyer
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Davos attendees probably gave Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff extra attention on Friday as her country is sitting in the backyard of what some fear could be a tipping point for another global crisis — Argentina. That country eased U.S. dollar restrictions after a surprise devaluation of the peso earlier in the week.
In a bit of a rallying cry to emerging markets, she said emerging economies perform a strategic role and will be dynamic markets with billions of consumers, so "don't be hasty" about us, she said. "We will be more dynamic because that's where the huge opportunities lie."
And once the bigger economies come out of the crisis, they will create a more favorable environment for everyone," says Rousseff. Balanced government accounts are needed for stability and economic expansion. In Brazil inflation is under control, federal accounts are under control and it's committed to currency stability.
- 10:29 am
- Rogoff: Governments should mitigate inequality, not exacerbate it
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There's little doubt that globalization and technological innovation are the driving forces behind rising inequality, says Harvard economics professor Kenneth Rogoff. So for the stability of the system, "government policy should mitigate the effects of this big change that technology and globalization is achieving and not exacerbate them."
Rogoff, speaking in a panel discussion on income inequality — a hot topic for the Davos elite — said his focus isn't on the top 1%, but on the top 0.1% "where huge pools of wealth are passed across generations with basically no taxation."
- 10:32 am
- Summers: Now is the time to start spending
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Beating on the public-spending drum again, Larry Summers is pushing for the U.S. government to put money into making up for deferred maintenance on infrastructure.
"The moment when we can borrow money for 30 years in the 3% range (in a currency we print ourselves) and the construction unemployment rate is in double digits — if that is not the moment to fix Kennedy Airport, when will that moment ever come?" Summers said in a monetary policy panel.
Read more on what the ex-Treasury Secretary had to say in Summers: Start spending on infrastructure, already
- 11:13 am
- Branson: Bitcoin will take on Jamie Dimon's bank
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Jamie Dimon may want to shun bitcoin and all who sail along with it — but Sir Richard Branson thinks the crypto-currency's creators are onto something.
"Having a global currency and you don't have to spend all the money changing your currencies is admirable," the Virgin Group founder told CNBC in an interview on the sidelines at Davos. "Whoever is behind bitcoin was brilliant."
The British entrepreneur makes it clear he sees bitcoin as a poke in the eye for bankers like Dimon. The J.P. Morgan Chase chief said yesterday at WEF 2014 that the question isn't whether the bank accepts bitcoin, but whether it even participates with people who facilitate bitcoin. (See: Jamie Dimon says bitcoin is a 'terrible store of value').
"Whether bitcoin's the one, I think there will be a global currency that will take on Jamie Dimon and the other banks," Branson said.
- 12:16 pm
- ECB's Draghi: Recovery taking hold, but still fragile and uneven
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European Central Bank President Mario Draghi just concluded his appearance at Davos.
As in the past, he described a euro-zone recovery that's slowly taking hold but remains fragile, weak and uneven. In an interview conducted by former Swiss National Bank chief Phillipp Hildebrand, Draghi also reiterated that he doesn't see a deflation threat in the region. Even though inflation is running well below the ECB's target of near but just below 2%, inflation expectations remain anchored near that level.
Draghi said there's the risk that an extended period of low inflation, which is what the ECB expects, could start to erode inflation expectations, but that's why the central bank has pledged to keep rates low for an extended period.
He also sounded upbeat on the banking sector, noting that financing conditions have improved significantly. Preparations for the upcoming asset-quality review have helped feed the process as national regulators forced banks to identify non-performing loans and take provisions or shed them.
And banks that can't pass the asset review and stress tests should be wound down, he said.
"Shedding light on bank balance sheets should help them raise capital … and, of course, banks that should go, should go," he said.
- 3:24 pm
- Goldman's Cohn: 'We've seen movements like this before'
- by William Watts
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Argentina's devaluation and the resulting turmoil in emerging markets is causing another day of pain for U.S. stock markets, but the folks in Davos either aren't sweating it or are putting on a brave face.
Goldman Sachs President Gary Cohn told Bloomberg TV that the recent weakness wasn't much to get excited about.
"We've seen movements like this before," he said. This marks the "normal reaction to things that go on in growth markets. These are growth markets, these are not developed markets."
In an interview with The Wall Street Journal in Davos, Andre Esteves, chairman of Brazilian bank Grupo BTG Pactual, said Argentina's devaluation was a step in the right direction, but acknowledged that it came in a "moment of weakness."
But he doubted it would create lasting volatility or offer much contagion danger for neighboring Brazil.
"I think … Argentina has been isolated from the international financial community," he said.


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Let's play some tennis. I'm 26, somewhere between a 3.5 and a 4.0. My schedule is flexible and I can drive anywhere, but I tend to favor the MIT courts.
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I'm 28 and around a 3.5-4.0, played in high school and some since. I live on the Somerville/Cambridge border near Porter Square. Would you be interested in hitting sometime? I bike around, so I'm pretty flexible as to location as long as it's somewhere on this side of the river.
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There are few industries as exciting or fast-paced as modern real estate. The 21st century real estate agent scouts clients, buyers, and properties, all the while liaising with lawyers, town planners, and bankers. To do this effectively, the modern real estate agent needs the perfect set of tools to keep them ahead of the competition.
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A real estate agent meets an enormous amount of people. Some properties can attract hundreds of prospective buyers and an added bonus of viewings is that the people looking round the house are probably looking to sell their homes too. To take advantage of this, agents should always be prepared with a stack of business cards – this way potential clients can easily get in contact when the time comes to sell.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Education Secretary Arne Duncan says he's increasingly worried that deep spending cuts will take effect on March 1, hurting the nation's students and teachers.
Duncan told reporters Thursday, quote, "no one in their right mind would say this is good for kids or good for the country."
He says no one would have designed the automatic budget cuts, known as sequester, on purpose. Duncan says those automatic cuts were designed to be so unpleasant that lawmakers would reach a compromise to dodge them.
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If you have a colicky baby, chances are your child's incessant crying has caused you a headache or two. But who could have guessed it might have started the other way around? A new study suggests that there is a connection between mothers with migraines and colic in infancy, reports HealthDay.
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The study showed that mothers with a history of migraines were over two-and-a-half times more likely to have a baby with colic—a condition marked by excessive crying in an otherwise healthy child—than mothers who did not. The researchers developed a questionnaire (administered at the two-month pediatric check-up) to help pinpoint whether a baby had colic and to identify mothers who had been diagnosed with a migraine. The data revealed a surprising trend: of the 154 mothers and babies surveyed, 29 percent of colicky children had mothers with a history of migraine headaches, versus 11 percent of babies whose mothers were migraine-free. The correlation included fathers, too. Twenty-two percent of babies with colic had a father who suffered migraines, versus 10 percent of babies whose fathers did not.
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Pediatric neurologist and author of the study, Dr. Amy Gelfand has advised that parents try non-medication strategies that help some adult migraine sufferers as a way to treat colic, as colic might be an early manifestation of migraines. "Turning down loud music, going to a quiet room and decreasing stimulation might help," Dr. Gelfand said. She also suggested that moms and dads keep a "crying diary" to track when colic flare-ups tend to occur and anything that seems to calm the baby.
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