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"Compare our product to the leading brand!" is a familiar refrain in the advertising world. Using a competitor's trademark in your company's advertising can be a highly effective positioning tool and may lead to significant economic gains. Under certain conditions, use of a competitor's trademark in your advertising is legal in the United States. This type of use can showcase specific strengths or features of your company's products or services, in direct relation to those of your competitor. When well-executed, such an advertising campaign may result in increased market share and revenue. However, because comparative advertising may cast your competitor's trademark and related products or services in a less favorable light or highlight qualities that your competitor does not want to emphasize, comparative advertisements are often closely scrutinized.
Under U.S. law, use of a competitor's trademark in accurate and non-deceptive comparative advertising is legal and does not constitute trademark infringement. In fact, truthful comparative advertisements – even those that display a competitor's trademark, are considered to be informational for consumers and beneficial to competition, provided that the competitor's mark is accurately depicted. Legally permissible comparative advertising must unequivocally convey that the competitor's products or services sold under its mark(s) are independent from yours, and your advertising reference to a competitor's trademark must neither imply an affiliation nor explicitly or implicitly endorse your products. When using your competitor's trademark in advertising, your company should consider the following:
On the other hand, what should you do if your company's trademark is unfavorably featured in a comparative ad? If your company believes that its trademark has been misused in connection with a competitor's ad, there are several venues in which it may seek relief, including: the Federal Trade Commission ("FTC"), the National Advertising Division of the Council of Better Business Bureaus ("NAD"), and the courts (under state or federal trademark and anti-dilution laws). Each of these bodies has different oversight authorities and offers different remedies.
As the federal agency with primary responsibility for regulating trade, the FTC encourages comparative advertising, including use of a competitor's mark and only restrains comparative advertising that constitutes "unlawful or deceptive acts or practices in or affecting commerce." Allegations that a company is engaging in unfair or deceptive advertising may come to the attention of the FTC from several sources, including complaints from competitors, consumers, other governmental agencies, or the FTC's own monitoring and investigative efforts. Regardless of the source of a comparative advertising claim, the FTC ultimately has the sole authority to determine whether to investigate or take any enforcement action.
In order for the FTC to bring an enforcement action for deception, it must determine that (1) a representation, omission or practice exists that is likely to mislead consumers; (2) the representation is misleading from the perspective of the consumer acting reasonably under the circumstances; and (3) the representation, omission or practice is "material", that is, likely to affect the consumer's conduct or purchasing decision with regard to a product or service. Once the FTC has determined that it has sufficient basis for proceeding with an enforcement action, it may act in one of two ways:
Apart from the FTC, other federal and state entities, including the federal Food and Drug Administration and state Attorneys General, have the power to regulate trade practices. As part of their investigative and enforcement authority, these entities may impose monetary fines and/or curtail objectionable trade practices through consent decrees. Given that the standards of unfair or deceptive trade practices impact the enforcement actions of all these entities, the FTC comparative advertising guidelines discussed above offer practical guidelines for generally avoiding an enforcement action.
In an effort to provide an alternative to government oversight of advertising and to maintain consumer trust in advertising, the National Advertising Division of the Better Business Bureau (the "NAD") was created as a self-regulating body. The NAD provides an opportunity for competitors and consumers to challenge the truthfulness or accuracy of an advertisement and to resolve issues efficiently (NAD challenges typically last 60 days). The NAD will only consider advertising that is national in scope and is not the subject of a pending litigation, court order or government agency consent decree. Anytime after a complainant has filed an NAD challenge, the respondent advertiser may withdraw the advertisement at issue. If the advertiser also confirms in writing at this time that it will not run similar ads, the NAD will not take further action. If, however, a challenge proceeds, the NAD will review materials submitted by both parties and will issue a decision. Although a decision by the NAD is not binding – it is considered a "recommendation" – the NAD works closely with the FTC and may refer the subject advertising if it believes its decision has not resolved the underlying issue(s).
It should be noted that some types of competitive advertising that reference a competitor's trademark will not require claim substantiation. Acommon example is known as "puffery," which is a general opinion statement that a consumer will not take literally. In one NAD challenge, Pepperidge Farm ran an advertising campaign challenging consumers to compare the ingredients in Pepperidge Farm and Heinz gravies, claiming that "Heinz would rather you didn't." Heinz brought a challenge before the NAD based in part on Pepperidge Farm's use of its name in the described manner. Pepperidge Farm claimed that this statement was classic salesmanship or puffery because no one would really believe that Pepperidge Farm would have actual knowledge of its competitor's mindset. The NAD agreed with Pepperidge Farm, and noted in its decision that the statement was puffery because it was just an "introduction" to the message being communicated in the commercials. See
Under federal law, false suggestions of endorsement or sponsorship or misuse of a trademark are actionable under the Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. §1125(a). The Lanham Act allows any person likely to be damaged by another's false or misleading representations of fact in commercial advertising or improper use of a trademark to sue in federal court, seeking injunctive relief, damages and, in exceptional cases, attorneys' fees. In order to obtain monetary damages, a plaintiff must show that consumers were actually deceived by the defendant's false advertising and that such advertising caused either actual economic loss to the plaintiff or a decrease in the value of plaintiff's trademark. As with cases brought before the NAD, statements that utilize a competitor's trademark but are otherwise of general opinion (including puffery) are not actionable under the Lanham Act. Additionally, there are other state trademark and federal and state anti-dilution laws under which a party may also seek relief from a competitor who inappropriately uses its trademark.
Courts consistently allow a competitor's trademark to be used in advertising where its use is accurate and not deceptive. For example, Nabisco planned to launch a new candy, LIFE SAVERS DELITES, that would compete with August Storck K.G.'s WERTHER'S ORIGINAL candies. The proposed LIFE SAVERS DELITES packaging was to bear the words "25 percent LOWER IN CALORIES THAN WERTHER'S ORIGINAL CANDY." Storck sued, claiming that Nabisco's planned use violated, among other things, the WERTHER'S ORIGINAL trademark. The court disagreed and allowed the LIFE SAVERS DELITES candy to proceed to market, holding that the proposed use would not cause a likelihood of confusion – namely, that consumers would understand that the WERTHER'S ORIGINAL trademark was on the LIFE SAVERS DELITES packaging merely to highlight the differences between the two candies. Thus, because the claim was accurate and informational regarding the distinctions between the products, the competitor's trademark was accurately reproduced, and no endorsement or sponsorship by the competitor was implied, the court allowed this competitive advertising use. , 59 F.3d 616 (7th Cir. 1995).
On the other hand, courts will regularly enjoin competitive advertising, even where the underlying claim or comparison was substantiated, if the competitor's trademark was altered and/or portrayed in a negative manner. For example Deere Company, a well-known agricultural equipment manufacturer, had used a deer silhouette logo for over one hundred years. MTD Products, the manufacturer of a competitor lawn tractor, produced a commercial utilizing an altered version of Deere's deer logo without Deere's permission. The federal court, applying New York state anti-dilution law, noted that although using Deere's exact deer logo to compare the competitor's product to MTD's product might have been lawful, the disparaging alterations – namely, changing the proportions of the logo and making the deer appear to run fearfully as it is pursued by the MTD tractor and a small barking dog – could "risk the possibility that consumers will come to attribute unfavorable characteristics to a mark and ultimately associate the mark with inferior goods and services." Since the trademark was altered by a competitor, and the alteration was seen as a negative portrayal of that trademark, the use of the altered logo in the comparative advertising was prohibited. ., 41 F.3d 39 (2nd Cir. 1994).
A basic understanding of the legal parameters surrounding the permissible use of a competitor's trademark in comparative advertising will assist those in your company charged with marketing responsibility to produce advertising that conveys the advantages of your company's products or services to the consumer, while minimizing the company's exposure to potential legal liability. Additionally, armed with information about the legal permissibility of comparative advertising, you can maintain vigilant watch over your company's trademarks to ensure they are not used by a competitor in a deceptive or misleading way, in order to obtain an unfair advantage in the marketplace.
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Our most destructive storm – the Hurricane of '38
It has been 75 years since the Hurricane of 1938 and we are still amazed by the unbridled power that Mother Nature unleashed on New England.
On Wednesday, Sept. 21, 1938, the day began like most fall days. Students went to school. People went to work. Little did they know that a hurricane was heading their way. That hurricane is now classified as the most destructive storm to hit Jamestown in recent memory. The loss of life and the destruction of property were unparalleled.
In this week's issue of the Press, islanders who lived through the hurricane recall the storm's power. They were youngsters at the time the hurricane hit Jamestown.
The hurricane arrived on the shores of our island in the days when weather forecasting was in its infancy. Today we know well in advance of any approaching tropical storms or hurricanes. There is plenty of time for people to secure their properties and prepare for evacuation, if needed.
In 1938, the hurricane was a complete surprise. The storm changed the nature of the island. The ferries were thrown ashore, leaving islanders cut off from the mainland. Buildings along the waterfront at East Ferry and West Ferry were demolished. Seven children were killed when they were swept away from the school bus at Mackerel Cove.
Shortly following the hurricane, islanders voted to build a bridge across West Passage. The days of the ferries were numbered.
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Over the last 16 years, more than 6 million lives have been lost in Congo – and the major perpetrators of those atrocities have been U.S. allies Rwanda and Uganda. The majority of victims have been children under the age of 5. Subsequent U.S. administrations have provided aid to the Rwandan and Ugandan regimes. The U.S. remains one of the top two donors of aid to Rwanda today.


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Unlike many sci-fi or horror films that require huge leaps of faith or suspensions of disbelief, perhaps the only thing that "Red Lights," the new film from Rodrigo Cortes ("Buried"), asks of the audience is that they presuppose "The X-Files" never existed. Mulder and Scully famously made skepticism cool as they toured around the world investigating paranormal events.
Two difference between "Buried" and the new movie "Coffin". First, "Coffin" doesn't take place entirely in a box like "Buried". Second, and probably most importantly, only "Coffin" has Kevin "Mutha F'in Hercules" Sorbo. Get some! You can see Sorbo and all the not entirely shot in a box goodness in the new trailer that's recently hit the tubes.
If you read Eric's review of "Bonnie & Clyde vs. Dracula" on this very site almost 3 years ago and have been hoping and waiting for the movie to hit DVD than your long wait is finally over. Get pumped! What are you going to do with all your free time now that you're done waiting? Maybe learn sign language or something. Do something with your life!
Aaron Eckhart, Sean Bean and Anna Sophia Robb have all signed on to "Pan", a new dark take on the classic tale of "Peter Pan". For those of you hoping to see Eckhart's man bits stuffed inside some green tights I'm sorry to tell you he'll play Hook in the film, no word yet on who will play Pan. If you want though maybe try to contact Eckhart and see if he'll wear tights for you anyway. I don't know, he seems like a nice guy.
Ethan Hawke is the latest name to be attached to the "Total Recall" remake but don't get too excited because word around campus is he'll only be making a cameo in the film. What that means I have no idea because how do you make a cameo in a remake of a movie you weren't originally in? Am I missing something? Was he Quato? Is he going to be Quato? If not can I be Quato? Quato Quato!
I could have sworn this already happened but apparently "Screen Gems" has acquired the rights to the big screen adaptation to the much loved video game "Devil May Cry". For those of your not familiar with the games there's a guy named Dante, a giant sword and some demons. That about covers it I think. Wait, no! There's a gun too.
Chris Sparling wrote "Buried", the best Ryan Reynolds trapped in a box movie of 2010, and now he's stepping behind the camera with a little ditty titled "Falling Slow". The film will focus on a couple, played by Mandy Moore and Rodrigo Santoro, who move into a haunted apartment. If I was a betting man I'd say any movie with someone named Rodrigo in a starring roll is going to be 100% caliente.
Tobe Hooper, who I believe created a low budget rip off of that chainsaw flick that came out a few years back, has been confirmed to direct a new supernatural thriller titled "Djinn". Djinn is apparently some sort of Arabian demon and I guess in this movie that demon does some nasty crap to a couple's apartment after they return from their trip to the US. I'm not positive but it sounds like this movie might not be patriotic.
What's more prestigious than making a crappy Syfy flick? Making the 200th crappiest Syfy flick of all time! Well the new After Dark opus "Scream of the Banshee" will have the honor on March 26th. That's all really need to know but if you're looking for plot just think banshee scream, then you die. That about covers it.
It seems prudent to get this out of the way up front: no, the film's trailers and title are not misleading. The entire 90 minutes of Rodrigo Cortes's "Buried" does indeed take place in a coffin containing Ryan Reynolds, who plays an American contractor in Iraq. He has been kidnapped and buried alive for ransom.
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"Buried's" very essence is a gimmick, and there really isn't any reason to beat around the bush -- if the gimmick works for you, the film is going to be a win. If it doesn't, you're not likely to be won over.
Horror fans got a one week reprieve from shelling out dough at the box office this week. That is unless you live near one of the 11 theaters that screened the Ryan Reynolds Iraq War flick "Buried," which Lionsgate rolled out to a select number of theaters on Friday.
A new super hot super spooky poster for the upcoming Ryan Reynolds flick "Buried" has been released. Most of the quotes are cut off in the poster but I assume somewhere in there is "Please bring back Two guys, a girl and a Pizza Place"
The screenwriters behind "Ed Wood" have signed on to write the upcoming Tim Burton stop motion animated "The Adams Family" film. I was pretty excited about this and then I saw they also wrote "Problem Child 2" and "Agent Cody Banks". After that I got super excited!
"Hellraiser: Revelations" is confirmed to start filming next month and will in fact not be a remake of the original classic, which is apparently still on the table. This one will be a small budget continuation of the Hellraiser franchise and will most likely go direct to video. Small budget meaning they can only afford four nails for Pinhead's face. Hey, time are tough for everyone.
Emily Montague from "Melrose Place" has been added to the cast of the upcoming "Fright Night" remake. Don't get too excited though, she'll apparently play a victim of our head vamp so I'm guessing her screen time will total about 5 minutes. I have no idea why you would have been excited anyway... you watch "Melrose Place"?
Universal Pictures "The Thing" prequel has gained some muscle as Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje signs on to the cast. You may know Mr. Akinnuoye-Agbaje as Mr. Eko from ABC's "Lost" or as Simon Abedisi in HBO's "Oz".
"Buried" director Rodrigo Cortes is starting to turn Hollywood heads despite the fact that his first film hasn't even been released yet. Signing on for his next project, the director will be tackling "Red Lights", a paranormal thriller involving the human brain. He continues to draw the star power as well with Sigourney Weaver signed on to star.
Aaron Seltzer and Jason Friedberg, the film makers responsible for the likes of "Date Movie" and "Epic Movie" are aiming their sights on "Twilight" for their next sendup. Could this be the first of their movies that people actually flock to see?
In case you were one of the three people looking forward to CBS Film's "Beastly" this July, I have bad news for you; the darker rendition of "Beauty and the Beast" has been bumped from its July 30th release date.
After making some buzz at the recent Sundance Film Festival, the Ryan Reynolds claustrophobic thriller "Buried" was picked up by Lionsgate. In order to punch things up a bit, director Rodrigo Cortes has decided to shoot some additional footage to beef up the movie's external scenes before the planned limited theatrical release on September 4th.
If your non-horror interests include some good old fashioned sports drama like in the hit series "Friday Night Lights", your two worlds are about to collide in director Doug Sakmann's zombie fueled football feature "Play Dead". A football team resurrected to play one final game against their arch rivals who murdered them all? Sounds like a win!
Having been booted from the director's chair on the upcoming "Saw VII 3D", director David Hackyl wasn't sure what he was going to do next. That is, until he signed on for the big screen adaptation of Vince Churchill's "The Butcher Bride". Don't worry David, a Carrie-esque ghost story sounds more entertaining than "Saw VII 3D" any ways!


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The Brazilian world champions and a stiff Copacabana wind knocked the American men out of the Olympic beach volleyball quarterfinals on Monday. Alison and Bruno advanced to the semifinals, beating Cooper City's Nick Lucena and 2008 gold medalist Phil Dalhausser 21-14, 12-21, 15-9. Rebounding from...
Photos from the 2016 Rio Olympics.
It took a head-first dive by Shaunae Miller at the finish line to beat Allyson Felix, denying her a record fifth Olympic gold medal. Miller, the 22-year-old from the Bahamas, stayed even with Felix for 398 meters, then sprawled, dove and crashed across the line to edge Felix by 0.07 seconds. She'll...
Simone Biles' run at Olympic history hit a roadblock on Monday when a mistake onbalancebeamkept the American gymnastics star from a record-tying fourth gold in Rio. The 19-year-old was in the middle of her routine when she landed awkwardly while completing a front somersault. Her right foot...
For all the talk about the team's potent attack, the No. 1 priority for the U.S. women's water polo team is defense. For three quarters on Monday, the Americans were so good that Brazil struggled to find a shot. The fourth period was a different story as Brazil scored the last three goals of the...
Tyler Sander leapt high for timely blocks. He went low for a save at floor level to keep a winning point going. Then, he squatted way down to send another tough ball back over the net. At last, the U.S. men's volleyball team is to playing the very brand of volleyball the Americans knew they had...
In a win-win scenario for Team USA, Jack Sock and Bethanie Mattek-Sands edged fellow American duo Venus Williams and Rajeev Ram 6-7 (3), 6-1, 10-7 in the gold medal mixed doubles final Saturday afternoon at the Olympic Tennis Center in Rio de Janeiro. Sock, 23, who was eliminated in the first round...
Four U.S. swimmers, including Ryan Lochte, were robbed in Rio on Saturday night, the U.S. Olympic Committeesaid Sunday morning. "According to four members of the U.S. Olympic Swimming Team (Gunnar Bentz, Jack Conger, Jimmy Feigan and Ryan Lochte), they left France House early Sunday morning in...
Do you like your name and initials? Most people do and, as past research has shown, sometimes we like them enough to influence important behaviors. For example, Jack is more likely to move to Jacksonville and marry Jackie than is Philip, who is more likely to move to Philadelphia and marry Phyllis. Scientists call this phenomenon the "name-letter effect" and argue that it is influential enough to encourage the pursuit of name-resembling life outcomes and partners.
However, if you like your name too much, you might be in trouble. Leif Nelson, University of California, San Diego, and colleague Joseph Simmons, Yale University, found that liking your own name sabotages success for people whose initials match negative performance labels.
In their first study, Nelson and Simmons investigated the effect of name resemblance on batters' strikeouts. As any baseball fan knows, strikeouts are recorded on stat sheets using the letter "K." After analyzing Major League Baseball players' performance spanning 93 years, the researchers found that batters whose names began with "K" struck out at a higher rate than the remaining batters. "Even Karl 'Koley' Kolseth would find a strikeout aversive, but he might find it a little less aversive than players who do not share his initials, and therefore he might avoid striking out less enthusiastically," wrote the authors.
In a second study, the researchers investigated the phenomenon in academia. Nelson and Simmons reviewed 15 years of grade point averages (GPAs) for MBA students graduating from a large private American university. Students whose names began with "C" or "D" earned lower GPAs than students whose names began with "A" or "B." Students with the initial "C" or "D" were slightly less successful at achieving their conscious academic goals, presumably because of an unconscious fondness for these letters. Interestingly, students with the initial "A" or "B" did not perform better than students whose initials were grade irrelevant. Therefore, having initials that match hard-to-achieve positive outcomes, like acing a test, may not necessarily cause an increase in performance. However, after analyzing law schools, the researchers found that as the quality of schools declined, so did the proportion of lawyers with name initials "A" and "B."
The researchers confirmed these findings in the laboratory with an anagram test. The result of the test confirmed that when people's initials match negative performance outcomes, performance suffers. These results, appearing in the December issue of (Leif D. Nelson and Joseph P. Simmons. "Moniker Maladies When Names Sabotage Success"), provide striking evidence that unconscious wants can insidiously undermine conscious pursuits.
The Government is making it easier to start a business by streamlining business registration. Initiatives announced under the $5.5 billion package include:
The Australian Taxation Office (ATO), Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) and Department of Industry, Innovation and Science are developing the IT solutions for streamlining business registration. Targeted consultations have occurred throughout the development of the project.
Streamlining business registration will benefit:
The Business Registration Service accepts the following registrations:
The Business Registration Service for business and company registration connects the ATO and ASIC to allow businesses to register without having to contact the agencies separately. The Business Registration Service:
The APIs that allow business registrations to occur in each government agency allows third party providers and software developers to build new business registration services. Businesses will benefit from a wider choice of registration services.
The ATO and ASIC have released documentation for the APIs for the registrations listed above. The ATO APIs are available on the Standard Business Reporting website. The ASIC APIs are available from the ASIC website. The APIs have been developed using simple technical standards which will further reduce costs for third party providers and therefore costs for businesses.
The SBI measure was announced as part of the Growing Jobs and Small Business package to make business administration easier and less confusing. The single business identifier would have replaced the ACNs and BTFNs with the ABN.
The Minister for Revenue and Financial Services commissioned an implementation study to assess the economy-wide impacts of adopting a single business identifier. This study has shown that the SBI measure would have large transition costs to upgrade existing IT systems and processes that rely on the three generic business identifiers (the ABN, ACN and BTFN).
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Summer is – or at least appears to be – here, so venture into the great outdoors and cook meat in the same way our forefathers did: over a fire. We have a few gizmos that give us an advantage over the gastronomes of yore, mind you – read on for five of the finest.
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Turn your suburban garden into a little bit of Texas with this smoker, which can slow-cook meat for hours until it's beautifully tender and tasty. You just need to supply some wood chips. Yee-haw!
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Proper Care of Library Books
Shelving and Handling Books
- Do not leave books on shelves or carts with the foredge down. This damages the spine and joints.
- Leave books upright and firmly supported on shelf when shelving or retrieving. Use bookends. (Library staff: If there is not one there, get one.)
- Do not allow books to protrude over the edges of the shelves. They should be set back about 1." Stack oversize books neatly on bottom shelves. They should not be sticking out over the shelf.
- Never pull a book off the shelf by the headcap. Pull from the spine with your fingers on the boards. Push remaining books together so that they support each other.
- Before moving compact shelving ranges, check to make sure aisle is clear.
- Use red string to tie up books with the following types of damage: broken joints, loose boards, broken sewing, detached or partially detached spine.
- Do not remove shrink-wrap; bring it to Library reference and technical services staff, who have special knives to do this without damaging the wrapped material.
- Please handle library materials with clean hands.
Processing and Using Library Materials
- Do not crack open the spine of a tightly bound book. This kind of damage usually cannot be repaired without extensive intervention.
- Do not use books or journals as a support for writing; this leaves indentations.
- If you must place books in a pile, put the largest ones at the bottom; do not stack big books on top of small ones. Do not pile books more than 3 or 4 deep.
- Never stick post-it notes on library materials; they leave an adhesive residue. Use a plain piece of acid-free paper for notes and place markers instead.
- Do not attach notes or other items to library materials with paper clips or rubber bands. Paper clips cause dents and tears and become rusty; rubber bands turn sticky and then hard (they also contain sulfur, which can cause chemical damage).
- Do not attempt to "fix" library materials with tape or glue. Most tapes have adhesives which deteriorate with age and can cause damage. They also form a hard edge along which weak papers will break. Many office-type glues turn hard or brown with age, and are very difficult to remove.
- Do not use ink or ballpoint pen to mark a book, document, or photograph (exception: pens provided by the Library conservator for specific purposes). If an identifying mark must be made, use a No. 2 pencil and write lightly.
- Do not use self-adhesive labels on leather covers or on pre-1860 cloth or paper covers, or on highly decorated modern covers. Use an acid-free flag, or consult the conservator for an alternative.
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The threat of war emanating from the North Koreans is of grave concern to the public as well as the marketplace. Whether or not the young leader of the North means what he says remains to be seen. Often, war drives us out of economic downturns, but at what cost?War is not the answer if it can be avoided.
It would be a fatal mistake on the part of North Korea to attack U.S. interests in the area. I doubt very much, as with the Korean war, that China would be on the side of North Korea this time. However, any retaliation by the United States for an attack by North Korea would have to be tempered so as not to rile the Chinese and Russians. We will have to see what develops, but for now global markets are concerned, as exemplified by the flight to the relative safety of the U.S. equity markets.
Now for some actual information to help readers in developing trading strategies…
Interest Rates: June Treasury bonds closed at 144 13/32nds, down 5/32nds but up nearly 100 basis points from last weeks closing of 143 15/32nds. The move to treasuries is usually a precursor of anxiety prompted by either economic news or in this case geopolitical concerns. We continue to view treasuries as in a trading range between 140 and 152. However, should hostilities break out on the Korean peninsula we could see sporadic wide price changes in treasuries as well as equities. On Thursday first time unemployment came in at an increase of 16,000 to 357,000 for the week. The U.S. also released the final revision for fourth quarter economic growth at only 0.4% on an annualized basis, below the expected 0.5% forecast by economists. That could continue to provide the impetus for further treasury bond strength and lower yields.
Stock Indices: The Dow Jones industrials closed at 14,578.54, up 52.38 points and a new all time high exceeding that of five years ago. The S&P 500 closed at1,569.19, up 6.34 also establishing a new all time high. The tech heavy Nasdaq however remains 40% lower than it's all time high closing Friday at 3,267.52, up 11.00. Markets were closed for Good Friday and Thursdays action was a combination of shortcovering for those of us expecting a market correction and selloff, and position squaring for those concerned over any potential North Korean move over the three day holiday. We remain convinced that the U.S. equity market has gotten way ahead of itself and we are not alone in expecting a sharp correction. Given the magnitude of what could result from a North Korean attack on the South and/or U.S. bases, we prefer the conservative approach for now. The North Korean "kid" leader is boxing himself into a corner with his threats and may have to try to save face somehow regardless of the ramifications to his country and its people.
Currencies: The June U.S. dollar index closed at 83.13 on Friday, down 28.1 points on a pre-weekend position squaring profittaking after the sharp gains from the January lows around 79.80. The dollar was also helped to some extent by the increase in U.S. personal income and the better than expected rise in consumer confidence by the Reuters/Michigan consumer sentiment index. We have favored the dollar for some time and now with the possibility of war on the Korean peninsula, a flight to the safety of the U.S. dollar could continue to provide dollar strength. The currencies gaining on Friday were the euro closing at $1.2826, 44 points, the Swiss Franc $1.0542, 46 points, the japanes yen 0.10629, 27 points, the British Pound $1.5190, 68 points and the Canadian dollar 9826, up 5 ticks. The Aussie dollar lost 29 points to close at $1.0354. The Bank of Cyprus said that depositors with over 100,000 Euros could lose up to 60% and that did not bode well even as attempts to obtain a $12 billion dollar loan from the EU is conditional on sharp austerity proposals. We see additional problems developing in the EuroZone so stay with the dollar.
Energies: May crude oil closed at $97.12 per barrel, up 54c tied to the weak dollar but with better than expected U.S. economic data demand may improve. Declining inventories also suggest renewed demand and prompted short covering coming into the three day holiday weekend. We continue to prefer the short side of crude based on our ongoing expectation of a return to global recessionary trends.
Copper: May copper closed at $3.4040 per pound, down 3.95con weaker demand from the worlds largest consumer of copper, China. Concern over the ongoing Euro zone debt crisis also a factor in the recent weakness for copper. For the month copper prices declined 4.3% and for the quarter has lost 4.9%. Global copper inventories are at a nine year high as expectation for stronger economic growth prompted inventory buildups. We have been bearish for copper and no reason to change for now.
Precious Metals: June gold closed at $1,596.80 per ounce, down $10.40 and lost almost 5% for the first quarter. A rally in U.S. equities prompted the shift from the "safe haven" precious metals but our expectation for a "bubble" in equities could prompt shortcovering and renewed interest in the "safe haven" commodities such as precious metals. We prefer the sidelines but for those that must have a precious metal, try silver, which over the years has outperformed gold on a percentage basis. May silver closed at $28.315 per ounce, down 29.7c. July platinum closed at $1,575.70 per ounce, down $7.80 or 0.5% while June palladium lost $3.85 per ounce, or 0.5% closing at $772.15. Stay with the long palladium, short platinum spread.
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August 10, 1922 - January 28, 2013
Newburgh, NY
Maureen S. Jayawardena, of Newburgh, NY called to eternal rest on Monday, January 28, 2013 in St. Luke's Hospital, Newburgh. She was 90.
Daughter of the late Dr. Merle and Pearl (Guneratne) Perera, she was born August 10, 1922 in Sri Lanka. She was married to the late Dr. Tibi Jayawardena.
Maureen was the first Montessori teacher in Sri Lanka and was tutored by Dr. Maria Montessori.
She was a loving mother to her children, Irene Ratnayake and her husband, Everard of Edina, MN, Dr. Joseph Jayawardena and his wife, Meilin of Newburgh, NY and Gihan Jayawardena and his wife, Annika of Stockholm, Sweden; loving grandmother to Varinie Nixon and her husband, Blake, Adrian Ratnayake and his wife, Michelle, Alresch Jayawardena, Amintha Ratnayake and Melik Jayawardena; loving great-grandmother to Elizabeth Nixon, Blake Nixon Jr. and William Nixon; and loving aunt to several nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by her husband, Tibi, her son, Prasad, and her sister, Celine Fernando.
Mom, we are proud you meant so much to so many.
Funeral services will be private and held at the convenience of the family. A memorial service will be held at a future date to be announced.
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The grey variant of the Lumia 920 Windows Phone has been spotted on the Nokia Hong Kong Facebook account. Yes, it actually exists. The device has been expected to arrive in multiple markets since the Lumia 920 was announced last year, but we're yet to see the colour made available in numbers for consumers to get their paws on. Not only has it been published on Facebook, but to lower the mood even further, it's on sale in Hong Kong.
Should you reside in the country, you'll be able to pick the matte grey Windows Phone up for 5,598 HKD (approx. $720). The Lumia 920 is available in glossy and matte versions, with white, black and red proving to be fairly popular thus far - though this could well be down to limited availability. If you're into individuality and personalisation of gadgets, this will be the choice for you.
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The Canadian dollar rose for a fifth day against its U.S. counterpart as oil, the country's largest export, touched its highest point in a month, prompting investors to reverse near-record bets the currency will fall.
Canada's dollar rose against the majority of its 16 most- traded peers as the discount Canadian oil producers face to the U.S. benchmark narrowed to the least in almost five months. The currency has gained since a report showed last week that bets by futures traders that the Canadian currency would fall versus the U.S. dollar outnumbered bets it would rise by the most in seven years. Inflation increased in February to 0.7% from 0.1 the prior month, according to a Bloomberg survey before tommorow's report.
"It's short covering, Canadian dollar short covering," Greg Anderson, head of Group of 10 currency strategy at Citigroup Inc., said by phone from New York. "Everybody who's short the Canadian dollar knows that everybody else is short the Canadian dollar, and it's an uncomfortable spot to be in. So they try to slip out the back door, and I think that's part of what's behind Canadian dollar strength today." A short position is a bet an asset will decline in value.
The loonie, as the Canadian dollar is known for the image of aquatic bird on the C$1 coin, rose 0.4% to C$1.0175 per U.S. dollar at 3:31 p.m. in Toronto. One Canadian dollar buys 98.28 U.S. cents. The loonie rose seven straight days in the period ending Dec. 12.
Bonds, Oil
Canada's benchmark 10-year government bonds were little changed with yields at 1.82%. The 2.75% security maturing in June 2022 cost C$107.88. The Bank of Canada will auction 10-year notes tomorrow.
Futures of crude oil rose 0.9% to $95.66 per barrel in New York after reaching $95.88, the highest point since Feb. 20. The discount between the Canadian and American benchmark crude oil blends touched C$16.25 for a second day, the narrowest since Oct. 17, after reaching a record of C$42.50 on Dec. 14.
The Standard & Poor's GSCI Index of 24 commodity prices gained 0.3% and the S&P 500 Index of U.S. stocks climbed 0.5%.
A Citigroup model that combines equity and commodity prices with interest-rate differentials to model the loonie versus the U.S. dollar shows the Canadian currency is 2% undervalued and should rise toward parity, according to a research note released today.
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Greetings from Kitchener, Ontario
Hi There,
I've been getting blog updates from here for quite some time but haven't posted anything myself. I'm obsessed with all things cooking and as such, need to learn to make excellent bread from scratch!
I just ordered a sourdough starter on Ebay and have started my own starter from organic rye flour last night. I can't wait to check them out!
If you are interested I have a food blog as well - let me know and I'll send the url. I don't want to guerilla advertise after all... ;).


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New university trying novel approach
Start-up college hopes to offer Ivy League-quality education at half the price.
Wanted: a few good college-bound students willing to take a gamble on a new university. Anyone looking for a typical undergraduate experience need not apply.
Also, must have passport. While classes will be conducted online, students will travel the globe, immersing themselves in local culture in major cities such as Mumbai, Hong Kong and Capetown. All at what founders say is a cut-rate cost.
The Minerva Schools at KGI is one of several recent entrepreneurial initiatives aimed at shaking up traditional higher education. Massive open online courses, which are free and have attracted hundreds of thousands of learners but offer no degree, already have forced traditional higher education to re-examine how to reach more students at lower cost. Other online ventures include the San Francisco-based New Charter University, which offers business degrees and is designed for working adults, and the non-profit University of the People, which charges no tuition.
The Minerva Schools at KGI (Keck Graduate Institute), which aspires to provide an Ivy League education without incurring expenses for manicured lawns and football stadiums, is scheduled to open its virtual doors in fall 2015. Tuition will be $10,000; total costs, not including airfare for overseas flights, will run about $28,850 a year — roughly half of what many highly selective U.S. private institutions charge.
First, though, it wants to enroll a founding class, an "exclusive group" of 15 to 19 students to help test drive the curriculum beginning next fall. Founding class members, who will pay no tuition over four years, must have a pioneering spirit.
"There's a big difference between living in the hills of New Hampshire and living in seven world capitals over four years," says Ben Nelson, founder of the Minerva Project, a San Francisco-based startup that is launching the university. "It really requires a level of maturity, determination and an ability to self-direct, which may not be as critical (for students) in a traditional university."
First-year students will focus not on subject areas such as philosophy or economics but on "cornerstone" skills such as theoretical analysis, data analysis and communications. The online format will enable instructors — Nelson anticipates hiring recent Ph.D recipients and retired or nearly retired faculty — to track how individual students are progressing and make adjustments as necessary.
The project, being financed with $25 million in venture capital, has been stirring a buzz in higher-education circles. High-profile supporters include Lawrence Summers, the former Treasury secretary and Harvard president who recently dropped his name from consideration for Federal Reserve chairman, and Roger Kornberg, a Nobel Prize-winning chemist. Former Nebraska senator and governor Bob Kerrey, president of the New School in New York City from 2001 to 2010, is heading a non-profit arm of the Minerva Project that will administer scholarships and student loans.
The initiative also has its share of skeptics. Pomona College President David Oxtoby told the Chronicle of Higher Education that Pomona had declined an opportunity to partner with Minerva, primarily because of concerns raised by faculty.
Jeff Selingo, author of College (Un)Bound: The Future of Higher Education and What it Means for Students, praises Minerva University's innovative approach but questions whether families will bite, even if tuition is lower. "It's very hard to become an exclusive brand name overnight," he says.
Still interested? Applications are available at minerva.kgi.edu/apply/start.


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One of the oldest hospitals in Germany improves system performance and reduces data center footprint by deploying Fusion ioMemory PCIe solutions.
The Challenge
The University Hospital of Würzburg is one of the oldest hospitals in Germany and has been operating for over 400 years. A public company since 2006, the hospital is a research and academic center for the faculty of medicine. It also provides comprehensive medical care for a region of 1.5 million people. The hospital consists of 19 clinics with policlinics and three autonomous policlinics, four clinical institutes, and six vocational schools. In 2010 it serviced over 250,000 patients.
The hospital business runs on an SAP-based ERP Medical Information System. Klaus Stärk, Head of IT Systems of UKW, explained the importance of this system to the hospital: "This system is the heart of the hospital IT. Thousands of MDs, nurses, scientists, and administrators work on it 24/7/365."
Consequently, it is critical that Mr. Stärk's IT team ensures this system is as innovative and powerful as the rest of the research institution. The hospital needed a system to meet these requirements:
The Solution
After careful research, Mr. Stärk's team decided to move its ERP system off a physical SAN and onto a SanDisk® powered virtualized storage system.
Upgrade in a Flash
Mr. Stärk's team migrated the entire SAP Oracle database, including the temporary tables, from its Fibre Channel SAN onto mirrored Fusion ioMemoryTM ioDrive® cards totalling 1.2TB in capacity, residing in redundant, virtualized DataCore SANsymphony-V servers. They also moved the SAP dictionary to mirrored ioDrive Duo cards, totalling 2.5TB in capacity. In the process, they upgraded SAP from EHP4 to EHP5 and the Oracle database from 10G to 11G.
Even during the migration, Mr. Stärk's team experienced the benefits of the Fusion ioMemory solution. "The ioDrive cards were very easy to install. I did it quickly myself. We estimated the entire SAP upgrade, which included a hardware upgrade, would take 38 hours. The ioDrive cards reduced data migration time so much that the upgrade took just eight hours," Mr. Stärk said. "We expected a system downtime of five hours. But the performance of the ioDrive cards shortened our downtime to just an hour and 45 minutes."
Peak Performance for the "Heart of Hospital IT"
The rapid migration made life a lot easier for Mr. Stärk and his team, but the end goal was to improve the SAP database and ERP system performance so the hospital could utilize new SAP and Oracle features, as well as support a growing user base.
Mr. Stärk said, "We deployed the ioDrive2 cards in a virtualized DataCore SANsymphony-V server. This made everything two to five times faster on average. A dialog response that took 320 milliseconds on the physical SAN took just 70ms on the new system; an update that took 50ms on the physical SAN took just 6ms; and a background process that took 1.2 seconds took just 210 milliseconds."
Mr. Stärk explained the benefits of this performance on the ERP system's end users, "All interaction with the system is now faster, whether users are retrieving patient data, screens are being rendered, or statistics are being calculated. The improvement is noticeable to the naked eye. The end result is many more satisfied customers."
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Head of IT Systems, UKW
A Cost-Effective Enterprise Solution
While Mr. Stärk's team needed to deliver best-in-class performance, they also had to do so on a limited budget. Fusion ioMemory solutions enabled both.
"The Fusion ioMemory solution with DataCore SANsymphony-V virtualization software reduced hardware and capital expenses of our existing system by 3X, while increasing performance by a factor of 2-5X," Mr. Stärk said. "We were able to use commodity servers with the ioDrive cards for a much more cost-effective system than enterprise storage, with at least the same level of performance. At the same time, the ioDrive cards work seamlessly with the SANsymphony-V software to provide all the storage functionality we need."
Proven and Fully-Supported Enterprise Technology
Mr. Stärk also noted the importance of choosing technology from an industry leader like SanDisk.
"SanDisk is clearly the market leader in the flash space, which gave us confidence in its quality. The ioDrive2 cards are supported and qualified by our preferred OEM, so we know we will have a fully supported system."
Storage (84U total)
SAP Database Servers (84U total)
SAP Application Servers (20U total)
Virtualized Storage (16U total)
SAP Database Servers (4U total)
SAP Application Servers (12U total)
Implementing the Fusion ioMemory solution gave University Hospital of Würzburg the following benefits:
Mr. Stärk is thrilled with the benefits the Fusion ioMemory solution has given the hospital's SAP-based ERP system and has deployed Fusion ioMemory products in many other systems, including an SAP Business Intelligence system, a picture archive for mobile clients, a virtual desktop infrastructure system, and a Microsoft SQL Server cluster.
About The University Hospital of Würzburg
The University Hospital of Würzburg consists of 19 clinics with polyclinics, three autonomous polyclinic, and four clinical institutes and incorporates six vocational schools. In 2010 it provides service to over 250,000 patients. It also partners for interdisciplinary care with institutions including Comprehensive Cancer Center Mainfranken, the Interdisciplinary Center for Palliative Medicine and the Comprehensive Heart Failure Center.
Its clinics provide services for a wide range of medical disciplines including head (ear, nose throat, and neurology), psychiatry, dentistry, obstetrics and gynecology, and pediatrics.
سواءً كنت ضمن أكبر 500 شركة عالميًا أو كنت شركة ناشئة من خمسة أفراد، فإن SanDisk لديها الحلول التي ستساعدك للحصول على أقصى أداء من بنيتك الأساسية.
سواءً كنت ترغب في طرح بعض الأسئلة الأولية أو كنت مستعدًا لمناقشة أحد حلول SanDisk المخصصة بحسب احتياجات مؤسستك، فإن فريق مبيعات SanDisk على أهبة الاستعداد لمساعدتك.
سنسعد بالرد على أسئلتك، لهذا يرجى ملء النموذج أدناه بحيث يمكننا البدء.
شكرًا لك. لقد تلقينا طلبك.


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I've been sick, so I apologize for not getting the post up on Wednesday. It seems that my immune system isn't up to par. This week I decluttered 52 items, which brings my total up to 68 items! I think it's going to be a little more challenging than I thought to get rid of 365 items this year. I'm really going to have to go through things and figure out what really is worth keeping and what's not. It does feel good to get rid of things, and I think when I have a big pile of stuff to donate that it feels more impressive than if I have more of the smaller items. I don't have pictures this week because I can't find my digital camera (I didn't get rid of it- at least I hope not!). I'll be sure to have some up next week.
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Lately I took advantage of the deals at our local photography store. You order one set (regardless of numbers) and you get the second set FREE! So my son David went through the latest photos and chose the ones that we like to have double prints. Whether to send them out to friends or relatives or just for my scrap-booking purpose, it is PERFECT!
So here is one of the prints we ordered. I decided to make a layout with it. Since I still have lots to learn about scrapbooking, so bear with me!!
I made a layout for Hero Arts challenge. It's for/about kids. First I embossed the ice cream image ( from Life of the Party Birthday) in bright orange and mint green. Then I distressed them with TH inks (Sugar Spun, Worn lipstick, Tea Dye and Vintage Photo). The sentiment is from SRM Sticker. Pattern paper is from Cosmo Cricket.
I am counting down the days to my daughter's safe return from China (due to be home on early Friday). Stephanie wrote me a couple of quick e-mails and told us how she was doing. Apparently she was having lots of fun, but she also came down with a cold. I think she is now ready to come home! I can't wait to hear her travel stories and see her amazing photos!
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The User experience has dramatically improved over the past few years, resulting in rich and responsive user interface. AJAX, javascript and CSS are widely used to offer users the dynamic interaction that they have come to expect from advanced, sophisticated, professional solutions.
There's a lot of powerful interactivity you can bring to your site to spice up just about any web page using one of the most powerful and modular javascript libraries—MooTools! It's important to note that small and useful features can cleverly deal with hiding and showing important information in non-traditional ways.
Today, we will have a look at 20 creative techniques using MooTools javascript framework for rich UI in modern day websites.
1. Show/hide a nice Login Panel using Mootools 1.2
In this tutorial, we will see how to create a show/hide login panel on top of your page using Mootools 1.2.
2. MooGenda
MooGenda is a javascript calendar based on MooTools, that reads events from JSON requests. MooGenda supports double click on event to see the deafult event view, drag and drop event in month view, every change send a request to back end, to store when and what changed in the event.
3. Morph Effect on mouseenter/mouseleave with Mootools 1.2
In this tutorial, we will see how to add some amazing effects to an unordered list on mouseover with the Element Method: morph and to make the whole list item region clickable with Mootools 1.2. The goal is to take a boring unordered list and to turn it into something fun to click.
4. Create a Simple, Powerful Product Highlighter with MooTools
Create a flexible tool for highlighting your sites products or services using the MooTools javascript framework. Also, learn some of the many reasons why MooTools just might be the right javascript library for all of your future projects!
5. Jazz Up Your Forms With MooTools Pt. 1
A MooTools and contact forms with animated field highlighting, displaying/hiding instructions for each input field, live comment previewing and auto-resizing of both the comment preview and it's corresponding textarea input.
6. Mootools CSS Styled Scrollbar
A small piece of javascript that creates a css styled scrollbar from the Mootools (version 1.2b2) Slider class. The example page shows three div elements with a styled horizontal and/or vertical scrollbars.
7. Delayed Image Preloading Using Mootools
There are possible scenarios that need image preloading. Most browsers only allow two concurrent requests at the same time to the same domain. When we do the image preloading on domready, it might hold up other resources that need to be loaded. Because we preload images that are not shown when the page loads, we can delay the preloading.
Array.each.delay(3000,this,[ ['foo.gif', 'bar.png','moo.png','tools.png', 'mootools.png'], function(src){var img = new Image();img.src = src;} ]);
8. Facebook-Style Modal Box Using MooTools
David Walsh took facebook's imagery and CSS and combined it with MooTools' awesome functionality to duplicate the effect of Facebook's Modal box.
9. OmniGrid
The OmniGrid component is inspired by two similar components: FlexGrid jQuery and phatfusion:sortableTable and partly uses their source code.
10. MooTools Flashlight Effect
A nice neat effect inspired by the jQuery version found here.
11. FormCheck
FormCheck is a class that allows you to perform different tests on form to validate them before submission. FormCheck is lightweight, shiny and fast, supports skins (using CSS), 10 different languages, and shows errors as tips. It support basic validation (required, alpha, digit, alpanu, lenght, confirm…), regex validation (phone, email, url) and a lot of options that allow you to customize this class to fit exactly as you want.
12. Fancy Upload
FancyUpload is a file-input replacement which features an unobtrusive, multiple-file selection menu and queued upload with an animated progress bar. It is easy to setup, is server independent, completely styleable via CSS and XHTML and uses MooTools to work in all modern browsers.
13. AutoCompleter
This AutoCompleter script for MooTools provides the functionality for text suggestion and completion. It features different data-sources (local, JSON or XML), a variety of user interactions, custom formatting, multiple selection, animations and much more.
14. Fantastic News Ticker Newsvine-like using Mootools
This tutorial explains how to implement a Newsvine News Ticker, with news vertical scrolling, using mootools. It's very simple and quick to implement in your web projects.
15. mParallax
mParallax is a MooTools implementation of the popular jQuery plugin: jParallax. "jParallax turns a selected element into a 'window', or viewport, and all its children into absolutely positioned layers that can be seen through the viewport. These layers move in response to the mouse, and, depending on their dimensions (and options for layer initialisation), they move by different amounts, in a parallaxy kind of way". You can create parallax effects while having the option to customize various settings.
16. BySlideMenu
BySlideMenu is a plugin for Mootools which allow you to easily create a beautiful accordion menu (sliding menu) on any element you want (ul/li, div, p …) using images and/or text. You have the option to create it vertically or horizontally, the container width/height can be adjusted automatically, Menu can be pinned or not, by mouseover or click and with Overflow support.
17. mooCSSChart
Create animated Bar Charts using the MooTools.
18. MavSelectBox
MavSelectBox is a simple-to-use form select replacement that allows for better customization. MavSelectBox mimics the GUI interactions of a normal select element as much as possible. Up and down arrows move the selection, tabbing to it and hitting alt+down shows the menu, tabbing to it and simply hitting up or down selects the next available option in that direction, focusing then start typing and the option that matches what you are typing is selected, enter selects, esc closes, and so on.
19. A Better Pagination
It is only a little script that can turn your ugly looking numbers into a nice looking Slider using MooTools. The script only contains a little fix for the Slider in mootools-more so the "knob" doesn't jump around when clicking it and is also packed up a little example in PHP to see how you can integrate this script in your blog easily.
20. SlideItMoo
Must Read Mootools Tutorials
- 30 Days of MooTools Tutorials


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Saturday, August 12, 2017
Alzheimer's Disease
What is the Best Way to Discontinue Aricept?
Could discontinuing Aricept suddenly result in a marked decrease of functioning (increased confusion, hallucinations, loss of ability to carry on a conversation due to decreased awareness of place and time)?
Discontinuing Aricept usually causes a decrease in cognition and function, unless the patient is at the very end stage, since the medication is no longer in the system to help. Sometimes Aricept can also be seen to help with behaviors like hallucinations which could become worse upon removal.
Douglas W Scharre, MD
Clinical Associate Professor of Neurology
Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry
College of Medicine
The Ohio State University


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The interest rate on a home loan is more likely to pull in customers than the brand of the lender, particularly among young home buyers, a new survey has found.
The online poll by mortgage provider Loan Market found 59 per cent of all respondents, and 65 per cent of those classed as Generation Y, said the interest rate was the major factor when choosing a lender.
Just eight per cent of the 643 respondents polled, and a mere five per cent of Gen-Yers, said the lender's brand was key in their loan decision.
"These survey results are quite surprising, given that the big four banks continue to dominate new home loan lending," Loan Market corporate spokesman Paul Smith said releasing the results on Monday.
However, he said some smaller lenders that offered niche products designed to help certain groups, such as the self-employed and property investors, could be gaining more customer support.
"The laws making it easier for people to switch lenders may have also had an impact on customer loyalty," he said.
The gradual fall in interest rates during 2012 had opened up healthy competition between lenders with significant differences in some variable and fixed-rate products on offer, he said.
Loan features such as redraw facilities were rated highly in the survey, favoured by 20 per cent of all respondents when deciding on a lender and 24 per cent of Gen-Yers.
Lender service was a low priority, however, and was sought by only 13 per cent of respondents and just six per cent of Gen-Yers.


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Books Slideshow: Must-Read Fall Books for IT Execs
By Brian P. Watson | Posted 09-23-2009
Must-Read Fall Books for IT Execs
Enterprise 2.0: New Collaborative Tools for Your Organization's Toughest Challenges
By Andrew McAfee
The Harvard professor, who first coined the phrase "Enterprise 2.0" in 2006, follows with his manifesto for C-level executives on which collaborative technologies can push their business forward
This season's new books include a few potential "instant classics" on IT leadership, strategy and innovation. (Note: All publication dates are subject to change.)
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Epistola de Tolerantia ad clarissimum virum T. A. R. P. T. O. L. A. [i.e., theologiae apud Remonstrantes professorem, tyrannidis osorem, Limburgium Amstelodamensem] scripta a P. A. P. O. J. L. A. [i.e., pacis amico, persecutionis osore, Joanne Lockio Anglo]. Tergou, 1689. Translated into English by Popple, William, 1689.
Two Treatises of Government. In the former, the false Principles and Foundation of Sir Robert Filmer and his Followers are Detected and Overthrown. The Latter is an Essay concerning the True Original, Extent, and End of Civil Government. 1690. French trans. 1795; German trans. 1718; Italian trans. 1778.
An Essay concerning Humane Understanding. 1690. French trans. 1700; Latin trans. 1701; Dutch trans. 1736; German trans. 1757.
A second Letter concerning Toleration. 1690.
Some Considerations of The Consequences of the Lowering of Interest, and Raising the Value of Money. 1691.
A Third Letter for Toleration. 1692.
Some Thoughts concerning Education. 1693. French trans. 1695; German trans. 1729; Italian trans. 1782.
Further Considerations concerning Raising the Value of Money. 1695.
The Reasonableness of Christianity as delivered in the Scriptures. 1695. French trans. 1740; Dutch trans. 1729; German trans. 1733.
A Vindication of The Reasonableness of Christianity,
from Mr. Edwardss Reflections. 1695.
A Second Vindication of the Reasonableness of Christianity. 1697.
A Letter to the Right Reverend Edward Ld. Bishop of Worcester, concerning Some Passages relating to Mr. Lockes Essay of Humane Understanding: in a late Discourse of his Lordships in Vindication of the Trinity. 1697.
Mr. Lockes Reply to the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Worcesters Answer to his Letter. 1697.
Mr. Lockes Reply to the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Worcesters Answer to his Second Letter. 1699.
A Paraphrase and Notes on the Epistle of St. Paul to the Galatians, etc. 1705.
Posthumous Works. 1706.
Some Familiar Letters between Mr. Locke and several of his friends. 1708.
A Collection of Several Pieces of Mr. John Locke, published by M. Des Maizeaux under the direction of Mr. Anthony Collins. 1720.
Original Letters of Locke, Algernon Sidney, and Lord Shaftesbury. By Forster, T. 1830, 1847.
Collected Editions of Lockes Works
In three vols. folio, 1714 etc.; in four vols. quarto, 1768 etc.; in nine vols. octavo, 1791; in ten vols. 1801, 1812, 1823.
The Philosophical Works. Ed. St. John, J. A. 1843, 1854.
Editions of separate Works
Essay concerning Human Understanding. By Fraser, A. C. Oxford, 1894.
Of the Conduct of the Understanding. By Fowler, T. Oxford, 1881.
Some Thoughts concerning Education. By Quick, R. H. Cambridge, 1880.
Selected Works on Lockes Life and Philosophy
Alexander, S. Locke. (Philosophies Ancient and Modern.) 1908.
Baumann, J. J. Lehren von Raum, Zeit und Mathematik, vol. 1, pp. 357472. Berlin, 1868.
Bourne, H. R. Fox. Life of John Locke. 1876.
Brown, John. Locke and Sydenham. Horae Subsecivae. 1858.
Coste, Pierre. Éloge de M. Locke, Nouvelles de la République des Lettres, February, 1705.
Ferrari, M. Locke e il sensismo francese. Milan, 1900.
Fischer, P. Die Religionsphilosophie des John Locke. Erlangen, 1893.
Fowler, T. Locke. (English Men of Letters.) 1880.
Fraser, A. C. Locke. (Blackwoods Philosophical Classics.) 1890.
Prolegomena to his edition of Lockes Essay. Oxford, 1894.
Green, T. H. Introduction to Humes Treatise, 1874, &sec;&sec; 1154. Works, vol. 1. 1885.
Principles of Political Obligation, &sec;&sec; 5163. Works, vol. II. 1886.
Hertling, Freiherr G. von. Locke und die Schule von Cambridge. Freiburg i/B., 1892.
King, Lord. Life and Letters of John Locke. 1829.
Le Clerc, J. Bibliothèque Choisie. 1716.
Leibniz, G. W. von. Nouveaux Essais sur lentendement humain. First published in uvres Philosophiques, publiées par Raspe, R. E. 1765.
Pollock, Sir F. Lockes Theory of the State. Proc. of the British Academy, 1904.
Sommer, R. Lockes Verhältniss zu Descartes. 1887.
Stephen, Sir James Fitzjames. Horae Sabbaticae. 2nd ser. 1892. [Essays 710 on Locke.]
Webb, T. E. The Intellectualism of Locke. 1858.
Samuel Bold
Discourse on the True Knowledge of Jesus Christ. 1697.
Consideration of the Objections to the Essay on the Human Understanding. 1699.
A Collection of Tracts publishd in vindication of Mr. Lockes Reasonableness of Christianity. 1706.
John Broughton
Psychologia; or an account of the nature of the rational soul. 1703.
Thomas Burnet
Telluris theoria sacra. 16819.
Remarks upon an Essay concerning Humane Understanding. 1697.
Second Remarks upon an Essay, etc. 1697.
Third Remarks upon an Essay, etc. 1699.
Richard Burthogge
Taγaθo[char], or Divine Goodness explicated and vindicated. 1672.
Causa Dei; or, an Apology for God. 1675.
Organum vetus et novum; or, a Discourse of Reason, and Truth. 1678.
An Essay upon Reason, and the Nature of Spirits. 1694.
Of the Soul of the World, and of Particular Souls. 1699.
Cf. Lyon, G., LIdéalisme en Angleterre au XVIIIe siècle, 1888, pp. 7296; Cassirer, E., Das Erkenntnisproblem, 1906, vol. 1, pp. 464473.
William Carroll
A Dissertation upon the tenth chapter of the Fourth Book of Mr. Lockes Essay concerning Humane Understanding; wherein that authors endeavours to establish Spinozas atheistical hypothesis
are discoverd and confuted. 1706.
Sir Josiah Child
A New Discourse of Trade. 1665, 1668, 1670, 1690, 1693.
Catherine Cockburn (née Trotter)
A Defence of the Essay of Human Understanding. 1702. [In answer to Burnet.]
Remarks upon some writers in the controversy concerning the foundations of moral duty. 1743.
Remarks upon the Principles of Dr. Rutherfords essay
in vindication of the contrary principles
of the late Dr. Samuel Clarke. 1747.
A Vindication of Mr. Lockes Christian Principles from the Injurious Imputations of Dr. Holdsworth. 1751. [In posthumous Works.]
Charles Davenant
An Essay upon Ways and Means of Supplying the War. 1695.
An Essay on the East India Trade. 1697.
Discourses on the Public Revenues and of the Trade of England. 1698.
An Essay upon the Probable Methods of Making the People Gainers in the Balance of Trade. 1699.
A Discourse upon Grants and Resumptions. 1700.
Essays upon the Ballance of Power. 1701.
The True Picture of a Modern Whig. 17012.
John Edwards
A Demonstration of the Existence and Providence of God. 1690.
Some Thoughts concerning the several Causes and Occasions of Atheism,
with some brief Reflections on Socinianism and on a late Book entituled the Reasonableness of Christianity. 1695.
The Socinian Creed. 1697.
A Brief Vindication of the Fundamental Articles of The Christian Faith
from Mr. Locks Reflections. 1697.
Francis Glisson
Tractatus de Natura Substantiae energetica, seu de vita naturae ejusque tribus primis facultatibus. 1672.
John Graunt
Natural and Political Observations Mentioned in a following Index, and made upon the Bills of Mortality. 1662. 5th ed. 1676. [Sometimes ascribed to Petty; cp. Halls Economic Writings of Sir W. Petty, 1889, vol. II.]
Benjamin Hampton
The Existence of Human Soul after Death proved
Wherein Mr. Lockes notion that understanding may be given to matter,
and all other such
opinions, are
confuted. 1711.
John Keill
Examination of Dr. Burnets Theory of the Earth. 1695.
Introductio ad veram physicam. 1701.
William King
De Origine Mali. Dublin and London, 1702. Eng. trans. by Law, Edmund. 1729.
A Key to Divinity, or a Philosophical Essay on Free Will. 1715.
Henry Lee
Anti-scepticism; or, notes upon each chapter of Locks Essay. 1702.
James Lowde
A Discourse concerning the Nature of Man. 1694.
Moral Essays wherein some of Mr. Locks and Monsir Malbranchs opinions are briefly examind. 1699.
William Lowndes
A Report containing an Essay for the amendment of the Silver Coins. 1695.
A further Essay for the amendment of the Gold and Silver Coins. 1695.
John Milner
An account of Mr. Locks religion, out of his own writings, and in his own words. 1700.
William Molyneux
Dioptrica Nova. 1692.
A memorial of the life of W. Molyneux; an autobiography. [Published in An account of the family, etc., by Molyneux, Sir Capel, Evesham, 1820.]
John Norris
A Collection of Miscellanies. 1687.
The Theory and Regulation of Love, a Moral Essay, to which are added Letters Philosophical and Moral between the Author and Dr. Henry More. 1688.
Christian Blessedness
to which is added Reflections upon a late Essay concerning the Human Understanding. 1690.
Letters concerning the Love of God. 1695.
An Account of Reason and Faith in relation to the Mysteries of Christianity. 1697.
An Essay towards the Theory of the Ideal or Intelligible World, designd for two parts. 17014.
A Philosophical Discourse concerning the Natural Immortality of the Soul. 1708.
Cf. Lyon, G., LIdéalisme en Angleterre, Paris, 1888; Mackinnon, F. I., The Philosophy of John Norris of Bemerton, Baltimore, 1910.
Sir Dudley North
Discourses upon Trade. 1691.
Considerations upon the East India Trade. 1701.
Samuel Parker
A Discourse of Ecclesiastical Politie, wherein the authority of the Civil Magistrate over the Consciences of Subjects in matters of external religion, is asserted; the mischiefs and inconveniences of Toleration are reprobated, and all pretences pleaded on behalf of Liberty of Conscience are fully answered. 1670.
Owen, John. Truth and Innocence Vindicated. 1670. [A reply to the above.]
Vincent Perronet
A Vindication of Mr. Locke. 1736.
A Second Vindication of Mr. Locke. 1738.
Some Enquiries chiefly relating to Spiritual Beings, in which the opinions of Mr. Hobbes
are taken notice of. 1740.
Sir William Petty
Reflections upon some Persons and Things in Ireland. 1660.
A treatise of Taxes and Contributions. 1662, 1667, 1679, 1685.
Sir William Pettys Quantulumcunque concerning Money. 1682, 1695.
An Essay Concerning the Multiplication of Mankind; Together with another Essay in Political Arithmetick, Concerning the Growth of the City of London. 1682.
The fourth part of the Present State of England. 1683.
Observations upon the Dublin Bills of mortality. 1683.
Five Essays in Political Arithmetick [in French and English]. 1687. German trans. of the first, second, fourth and fifth essays, entitled Handgreiffliche Demonstration, etc., Dantzig, 1693, 1724.
Political Arithmetick. 1690. [Written 167176(?).]
The Political Anatomy of Ireland. 1691.
The Economic Writings of Sir William Petty. Ed. Hall, C. H. 2 vols. Cambridge, 1899.
Fitzmaurice, Lord, Life of Sir W. Petty, 1895.
Jonas Proast
The Argument of the Letter concerning Toleration considerd and answerd. 1690.
A Third Letter concerning Toleration. 1691.
John Sergeant
The Method to Science. 1696.
Solid Philosophy asserted, against the fancies of the Ideists, with Reflexions on Mr. Lockes Essay concerning Human Understanding. 1697.
Transnatural Philosophy, or Metaphysicks. 1700.
William Sherlock
Discourse of the Immortality of the Soul. 1705.
Edward Stillingfleet
Discourse in Vindication of the Doctrine of the Trinity. 1696.
The Bishop of Worcesters Answer to Mr. Lockes Letter. 1697.
The Bishop of Worcesters Answer to Mr. Lockes Second Letter. 1698.
Thomas Taylor
The Two Covenants of God with mankind, or the Divine Justice and Mercy explained and vindicated in an Essay designed to show the use and advantages of some of Mr. Malebranchs Principles, in the theories of Providence and grace, which for want of them have been too commonly misinterpreted and ill understood. 1704.
Sir Richard Temple
An Essay upon Taxes, calculated for the present juncture of affairs in England. 1693.
Some Short Remarks upon Mr. Locks book, in answer to Mr. Lounds. 1696.
John Wilkins
An Essay towards a real Character and a Philosophical Language. 1668.
On the Principles and Duties of Natural Religion. 1678.
John Wynne
An Abridgement of Lockes Essay concerning Humane Understanding. 1696.


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Otometrics has added the ICS Chartr EP 200 system to its line of balance and hearing assessment products. The compact system has laptop capability and features remote control and an impedance display on the preamplifier, allowing the tester to move away from the computer and be in close contact with the patient.
Other features include a complete test battery, flexible display options, waveform analysis, and comprehensive reporting and data sharing. The manufacturer offers a shared database for this new system and for its ICS Chartr 200 VNG/ENG system, allowing users to save patient information and easily access patient records.


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Functional AdaptationsRead full entry
Functional adaptationRadiating shape makes for efficient transport: sea urchin
Sea urchins minimize the distance materials must be transported from a central point due to their radiating shape.
"If you let a drop of ink fall on a piece of paper, the splash pattern that results looks rather like a sea urchin. If you drop water into a bowl of liquid and photograph the moment of impact with high-speed equipment, the coronet shape formed at the surface resembles a sea anemone. Yet another of the basic shapes of life - the explosion, or radiating shape - repeats the forms taken by falling drops of water. Radiating shapes occur wherever numerous lines fan outwards from a single central point - whether in a flat plane, as with a starfish, or in three dimensions, as with a sea urchin. The plant kingdom is full of radiating shapes: the majority of flowers have this form, and many plants grow leaves that radiate directly from a stem base; but there are many examples in the animal kingdom as well. Radiating lines, as a construction design, have two useful attributes: they minimize the distance between the centre and the outlying points, and they provide great scope for increasing the surface area of an organism…The first of these qualities is most convenient in cases where materials must be transported rapidly from the centre to outer points or vice versa. There is a disadvantage, however. If there are a lot of outlying points, the lines tend to become overcrowded around the centre (diagram a). One way to overcome this problem is to develop branching patterns, to reduce the total length of travel and the congestion of lines at the centre (diagram b). If each artery and vein in the body led directly to the heart, for example, the heart would be swamped in a vast tangle of blood vessels. Instead, a few large central vessels divide and redivide into smaller branches. Physically, the resistance to flow or skeletal strength are reduced when the vessels coalesce or the skeletal rays are fused. Biologically, the smaller branching vessels help animals survive damage and aid their development and growth." (Foy and Oxford Scientific Films 1982:24)
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Demi Moore, Ashton Kutcher finalize divorce
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher are officially divorced.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Scott Gordon finalized the couple's split on Tuesday, roughly a year after Kutcher sought to end the couple's marriage.
Moore and Kutcher were married in September 2005 and the actress announced they had separated in November 2011.
The former couple has no children together. During their marriage, they started a foundation to combat sexual exploitation of girls around the globe.
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Jonathan Rochkind made some thoughtfully peevish comments on my previous post on RDA and the Futures report which drove me (perish the thought) back to the document itself.
...I'm confused by your apparent sympathy with the Working Group
recommendations to suspend RDA work...
...That recommendation seems to instead be based on the fantasy that we need to spend lots of time 'testing' FRBR, at the end maybe deciding that FRBR is no good at all
I don't see this in the recommendations at all. What i read (in recommendation 4.2.1, p 29) is a clear mandate to resolve the existing ambiguities in the FRBR model in order to:
provide a more robust framework for the creation of the resource description and access rules that will be used in the future to support a broad range of searching options (also on page 29).
This is essential, and should be undertaken in the light of functional pragmatism, not ideology. And certainly I agree with Jonathan that there is little time to waste. The Futures report does not impugn the value of FRBR, but simply recognizes that we as a community do not agree about the importance of Expressions. If it is critical in other ways, I missed it.
There is much stronger concern expressed in the report about the uncertainties of RDA, having to do with unsubstantiated benefits, alignment with existing standards, and the business case for it (see the bottom of page 24).
The subsequent recommendation (on the next page: 3.2.1) is stated more strongly than I might have chosen. But the heading (Suspend Work on RDA) is elaborated with untils, and makes clear that useful work has been initiated with JSC and DCMI, and should continue.
But any assertion that debates going on on the RDA list represent progress towards these goals is, in my view, whistling past the graveyard.
And as for Jonathan's generous remark:
In fact, I feel like you've expressed well the argument that I'd want
to submit as comments to the Working Group
I know that at least one of them reads my blog ;-)
yes... THAT George Boole... taken in Cork, at the end of the DCC meeting on persistent identifiers in 2004
In fact, specifically, THIS George Boole: http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n83-144364 (thanks, Thom)


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Hello All,
I am new to bentoing & my exposure to Japanese culture has been limited. So as I read many of your posts I am left scratching my head thinking What the heck is that?
I am picking things up slowly Like:
Furikakie is a seaweed & sesame seed based seasoning for on rice
Nori is Seaweed dried into thin sheets used for decoration and wrapping sushi
Gyoza are steamed dumplings
is there a book with stuff like this explained or a section here on the forum already & I missed it? Or do I just need to pipe up more often?
New Bento Enthusiast
I don't know if there is any dictionary... but I'm sure no one here would mind explaining what you need to know so feel free to ask! :)
My bento blog: http://justbento.com/blog/1305
My art blog: http://jizaacaso.deviantart.com
And Google is very helpful. If you type into a search "define:" without the quotes, then the word you are puzzled about, you should be depuzzled fairly shortly. So if you are puzzled about furikake you would type:
define: furikake
into the Google search.
And Google returns:
Definitions of furikake on the Web:
* Furikake (振り掛け or ふりかけ) is any dry Japanese condiment meant to be sprinkled on top of rice. ...
* Japanese flavoring agent of roasted seaweed, salt, sesame seeds and other ingredients, often sprinkled atop rice
Find definitions of furikake in: English French German Spanish all languages
My blog is Food and Shoes
Never hesitate to ask if you are puzzled about some term! :) Also, there's more than 5 years worth of information on both justbento.com and justhungry.com, so use the Search box in the top right of the page. Chances are your answers are already here, if it's about Japanese food terminology.
The Big Onigiri.
- Wherever you go, there you are. -
Wikipedia has helped me out a lot with stuff like that! Mostly because they have pictures too
Yea something like a BENTO DICTIONARY might be a great help indeed!
Nice post TiaLD77...
Salad Ingredients: http://www.salad-recipe.net
Recipes for India: http://www.numkitchen.com
lol, I know what you mean.
I swear I'm introduced to a new food every time I go on here lol.
So, Google is now my best friend :D
I just Google it, and find out what it is.
I also like looking it up on YouTube. I find it's much more easy if I see it in front of me, being prepared and all.
Hope this helps
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Music Department offers choir and piano concerts
Release Date: October 18, 2007
PLAINVIEW – Wayland Baptist University's Department of Music has a busy schedule planned next week. First Piano Artist in Residence Mark Pair will perform his 41st recital on the Wayland stage on Tuesday, Oct. 23, at 7:30 p.m. On Thursday, Oct. 25, the International Choir and Wayland Singers will take the stage for their fall concert, beginning at 7:30 p.m.
Pair, who retired from Wayland in 2002 after 36 years of teaching music, will focus on composer Franz Liszt whose transcriptions were written to enhance other composers' works as elaborate piano compositions. Pair has selected 10 of Liszt's transcriptions for his concert, including the "Bridal Chorus," "Wedding March" and Verdi's "Rigoletto." The 10 transcriptions will include the works of Chopin, Schubert, Mendelssohn and Schumann as well.
Thursday's choir concert will present a variety of music representing literature from all style periods and genres such as motets, spirituals, church anthems or oratorio pieces. Not only will the choirs perform separately, but they will join together to present selections fro Felix Mendelssohn's oratorio "Elijah." This portion of the program will feature Wayland vocal faculty members Kimberly Brown, soprano, and Jeff Kensmoe, bass-baritone. Brown will perform the aria "Hear ye, Isreal!" Kensmoe will perform "Is Not His Word Like a Fire?"
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Antonio Conte has claimed that Juventus must treat their next 13 Serie A matches like World Cup finals if they are to retain their Scudetto crown.
Last weekend's 1-0 defeat to Roma saw the Old Lady's lead at the top of Serie A cut to four points, and their coach has called on the supporters to act as the 12th man in the title run-in.
"We need to play 13 World Cup finals and dropping points could prove costly. We'll face a very difficult fixture tomorrow and I hope the fans take note and raise the volume at the stadium," he was quoted as saying on the club's official website.
"Now is the time to urge the team on in the way they did last year and have done on certain occasions this season."
Juventus' next clash is against Conte's former side, Siena, and the 43-year-old warned his tropps not to underestimate the in-form Tuscans, despite their lowly standing in the table.
"Siena will put us under pressure. They're in excellent form and have conceded just three goals in their last five games," he continued.
"They produced comprehensive wins over Inter and Lazio and were only beaten in Udine by a goal on the counter.
"They've got a good mentality, strong work ethic and an excellent coach in [Giuseppe] Iachini. People might say it looks straightforward on paper, but that certainly won't be the case."
Conte also took the time to congratulate AC Milan and Lazio for their midweek European triumphs and felt the masses are beginning to take note of teams on the peninsula once more.
"In Italy we're tackling the economic crisis through ideas, work, culture and focusing on developing youngsters.
"We've lost many great players, but this has brought the opportunity for coaches to bridge the gap with work and organisation. The Italian league is very competitive and we've displayed that in Europe.
"I'd like to congratulate Milan and Allegri on their magnificent achievement in midweek. Inter and Lazio also did extremely well. Italian teams are very well organised.
"If a foreign side lined up against Siena tomorrow, they would come up against the same difficulties that we'll face."


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