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Tuesday, February 24, 2009
The Dubai bubble bursts....
When I asked them what they were doing back in Singapore, they told me some stories about Dubai. The economy grounded to a halt suddenly, expatriates simply left - without jobs some of them left without paying their rents, left their cars (with outstanding loans) at the airport and flew home. Dubai is now full of unoccupied condos, 3000 abandoned cars at the airport and an economy in crisis. Its richer neighbor Abu Dhabi had to bail it out by buying its bonds as the govt faced a liquidity crisis.
It was not too long ago when the images of lavish buildings in Dubai were flashed on the TV and this city state was the envy of the world. Its success was somewhat of an illusion built on credit.
Dubai's $10 billion bailout
United Arab Emirates steps in and buys half of the country's $20 billion long-term bond offering.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (CNN) --
The United Arab Emirates pledged $10 billion to prop up Dubai, one of its most ambitious members, Dubai's government said.
Dubai launched a $20 billion long-term bond program Sunday in an effort to cover loans that financed its aggressive development strategy.
The Central Bank of the UAE bought up the first tranche of the bond issue, $10 billion, Dubai said. The five-year bonds pay 4% per year.
"This is a clear step from the central government to back up Dubai," said Khald Masri, a partner in Rasmala Investment, a very active investment bank in the region. "The central government's step will help ease the tense situation in the local economy and markets."
Dubai admitted that it needed the Central Bank money to stay afloat as credit has dried up, though it couched the statement in financial jargon.
"This issuance will provide the Dubai Government with the necessary liquidity to substitute the liquidity that has dried up globally in the last 12 months and accordingly meet all upcoming financial obligations," it said. "This program will secure the necessary funding for Dubai to meet its financial obligations and continue its development program."
The bond is an unsecured fixed rate paper, Dubai said.
"The fixed rate at 4% per year is excellent," investment banker Masri said. "Dubai got the best deal in that, taking into account the conditions in the international markets."
But he warned there was "no way" Dubai could get as good a deal from international markets as it did from the UAE when it issues the second $10 billion in bonds.
The Dubai stock market rallied Monday, rising by 7.91%, with big bounces for stocks for semi-governmental companies, especially in the banking and real estate sectors.
Dubai, one of seven Gulf emirates that together make up the UAE, launched ambitious plans in the past decade to become a global hub for service industries such as information technology and finance as well as a tourist destination.
It lacks the oil reserves of other members such as Abu Dhabi, the capital of the UAE and its wealthiest member.
Dubai took out huge loans to finance its plans.
Moody's Investors Service warned in October that Dubai may need help from Abu Dhabi to pay for its debt. The emirate may have to refinance $15 billion this year in maturing loans and bonds, Moody's said.
Abu Dhabi, for its part, has invested around the world, buying a 75% stake in New York's iconic Chrysler Building last summer when oil prices were at their peak and helping to bail out the financial giant Citigroup with $7.5 billion at the end of 2007.
Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA) is the world's largest sovereign wealth fund, with an estimated $875 billion in assets, according to brokerage Morgan Stanley.
First Published: February 23, 2009: 12:47 PM ET
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Airport carpark attendents are marking crosses on the windscreens of cars.
Everyday, parked cars are marked with an additional cross.
Once a car collects 5 crosses, they tow it away.
So, its bad over there.
There goes the 4th engine for the global economy
- 24/2/09 18:09
Dubai has many expatriates, much more than the local population. If Singapore with majority local, become like Dubai, where can our locals go(or escape to)?
So even if Singapore is as bad as Dubai, there will still be cars on the roads and people in condos and flats. So outwardly you can't tell. Better still, if elections are held, PAP will win solid again. Hence outwardly again, everything is very fine.
- 24/2/09 18:46
The ex-NKF CEO, KK Durai, went to Dubai to take up a job when he was released from prison, I my memory serves me right. Wonder if Durai is now back to Singapore?
- 24/2/09 21:47
Those who work many years in Dubai can save a lot more compared to working in Singapore. So if they have to come back and jobless, still not so bad compared to folks here.
- 24/2/09 22:12
build on wrong foundation fall lor
hopefully, their copy cat model may serve as early warning to us
- 24/2/09 22:41
An old time circut riding preacher found himself in need of money and decided to sell his horse and buggy. As he completed te deal he remarked to the blacksmith,"This is not an ordinary horse". Since he has been owned and driven by a man of the cloth all his life he does not respond to the commands of whoa or giddy-up. When you want this horse to stop you must say AMEN. When you want him to go you must say PRAISE THE LORD! Later that day the Blacksmith decided to take the horse for a ride to see how good he was. While trotting down the road the horse was startled by a snake and bolted. Wildly they headed across a field full speed toward a cliff.In a panic the poor Blacksmith was shouting WHOA>>>STOP when he remembered the preachers instructions and let out a loud AMEN! The horse stopped just at the edge of a thousand foot cliff, stones tumbled out into space. Releaved the Blacksmith wiped his brow and exclaimed "PRAISE THE LORD"
- 24/2/09 22:44
Seriously why would anyone post religious jokes in Lucky Tan's blog for the past few weeks non stop?
I think we all know the agenda is to ban this blog using the Seditious Act.
Economist with a heart :)
- 24/2/09 22:58
Property Flipping is quite rampant there.
That's why Captital L sent TT Durex there using it's subsidiary compy to capitalized on that situation a few month back.
Dubai constructions prefer Indian , Nepalese, Pakistani and Bangladeshi Migrant workers but their Living conditions are horrendous with no regard for work safety and construction are often rushed to order because the buyer want to flip the properties ASAP.
What one must take note is the "FTs" there leave as soon as the economy gets really bad and jobs market dried up.(Dubai have no oil and feed on fellow UAE black gold money).
The same thing would happen here if the "FTs" can secure a better/equivalent job back home.
In fact,I knew a few IT specialists who left for home already.
I don't blame them though, our PR status and citizenship is dispensed like toilet PAPer.If they do not treasure it I'm not surprised.
Unlike in Dubai,You can only get PR status there after at least 6 year working there or buying landed properties ($$$million in US$$$) from the sheikhs there.
But it's not difficult to see what will happen(theoretically) when the jobs market dried up here.
- 24/2/09 23:43
they say, in every joke, there is a hidden message. if you dont get it, just laugh it off. most people do laugh it off in the real world but then, except for erm...."holy people" in very small and tight spaces or prisons
- 25/2/09 00:11
ever wonder how the marina skyline looks so similar to dubai's, except way tinier? talk about copycat hehehe
- 25/2/09 11:35
- tortilla chips said...
Why am I not surprised? I've never thought much of Dubai, even a few years ago when they announced they're going to "compete" with us for flight & shipping lanes. Dubai's economy base is simply unsustainable, it's propped up by petrocash and expatriates/foreign labour from all over the world. In short, its labour force is mercenary at best.
If you look at the local population, its HDI and education level cannot even begin to compare with Singapore (much less the leading economies of Western Europe or Japan + the other East Asian Tigers). It was a backwater only 10 years ago, economic development depended almost solely on building, building, and MORE building.
Evidently, Dubai is nothing but another farce. Moving on...
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Even with the short-term fix of a 30-day natural gas supply, Agrium officials said the cutbacks to gas delivery from Unocal to the Nikiski plant could have a significant impact on Agrium's operation.
"The reality is that the inability to run the plant at capacity, combined with low product price in the market is going to cause us to re-evaluate our organization size in the coming months," said Mike Nugent, the Nikiski plant's general manager.
"We'll probably take a pretty close look at how many employees we have, what projects we undertake and what monies we spend in order to keep our costs as low as we can. We just don't know to what extent."
Nugent said employees at the plant are aware of the potential of short gas supplies.
"For several months we've talked about it here at the plant," he said.
The Agrium facility uses hydrogen from gas to produce urea and ammonia, which is sold for fertilizer and used in rocket fuels, glue and plastics. When Unocal scaled back its supply of natural gas to Agrium, the Calgary, Alberta-based chemical corporation began searching for alternate sources to maintain normal plant operations.
Agrium signed a 10-year contract with Unocal to deliver 155 million cubic feet per day of natural gas until 2009. As of Tuesday, Unocal was providing only 120 million cubic feet per day between November and April, according to Nugent. That is only enough for the plant to operate at about 70 percent of its capacity, said Agrium spokesperson Lisa Parker.
"There is ongoing litigation," she said. "We don't anticipate that's going to be resolved anytime soon."
Agrium announced last Thursday it had reached a 30-day agreement with a major Cook Inlet oil and gas producer, but didn't name the source at the gas company's request. Nugent said Agrium currently is exploring both long- and short-term solutions to its current gas shortfall.
"We actually have two efforts going," Nugent said, "one long-term, to establish as many Cook Inlet suppliers as it takes to be able to operate to capacity over the long term. This one is the first step in doing that."
He said the second step will be to continue to get more short-term relationships. Nugent said the price the company will pay for those short-term contracts "depends on the supplier, quantity, whether it's interruptible and what the supplier is able to do."
Bill Popp, the Kenai Peninsula Borough oil and gas liaison, said the price Agrium pays for short-term agreements is going to be key to what happens to the company in the coming months.
"Agrium has been forced into the spot market, which is a much higher gas market. Until they can find a longer solution, the price of gas will produce a longer impact," he said.
According to a study by Juneau-based economic consulting firm, the McDowell Group, Agrium injects a healthy supply of dollars into the peninsula's economy, driven primarily by a $25 million annual payroll. The study said the plant employs 292 people with an average salary of $84,000 a year. Including the multiplier effect of those employees, the study said the plant accounts for 9 percent of the peninsula's wages and salaries.
Popp said any negative impact to jobs and operations at the plant could reverberate through the borough.
"We recognize the importance of the Agrium facility to the economy with tax base to the borough, and the jobs that they provide," he said. "We would hope that they would not have to go through too many layoffs or that the layoffs would only be temporary."
Nugent said he is uncertain how long it will be before Agrium can begin operating at full capacity again.
"There are so many variables out there, that we hope that it is soon," he said. "But we realize that it might take quite a bit of time for these producers to get long-term gas into the system."
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Sacramento - Labor and Workforce Development Agency Secretary Victoria Bradshaw announced today that Cal/OSHA is actively investigating the third possible heat illness related fatality of 2006. Alfonso Guitierrez, a 67 year old employee of MJ's Pizza in Santa Rosa, died yesterday while delivering pizza. He was found parked in his car when a passerby called 911.
"It's unfortunate that we've just experienced another loss," said Secretary Victoria Bradshaw. "During this current extraordinary heat wave, we cannot operate as if it's business as usual. Both employers and employees need to take the necessary precautions when working in high temperatures. At the same time, we are fully committed to vigorously pursuing investigations of violations of the emergency heat illness prevention regulations throughout the state."
The regulations spell out that employers must provide ample drinking water and encourage workers to drink frequently, provide shade for breaks and watch closely for signs of heat stress including confusion, dizziness and headaches.
Employees need to remember that alcohol, drinks containing sugar, and medication (such as blood pressure medication) can put workers at risk. Health professionals advise outdoor workers to drink plenty of water, even if you are not thirsty. Seek shade and tell your employer if you are feeling ill. New employees need to allow their bodies time to adjust to the extreme temperatures.
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text: Summary: I've got a driver for my parallel-port Iomega ZIP drive mainly working. It probes & attaches, detects the drive, etc. fine, passing SCSI commands to and from the drive as it goes. However, when I attempt to mount a disk or attempt anything useful, it fails, because the pool_get() call appears to fail. I think it due to a problem with how I communicate with the scsibus layer... In detail: I've finally got around to porting FreeBSD's ppbus stuff. Most of it appears to work (I haven't rigorously tested the PLIP stuff). However, when it came to getting my ZIP drive to work, I first had to learn about the NetBSD scsi stuff. (Hence everything I know comes from reading comments in /sys/dev/scsipi/* and a couple of random drivers that I've looked at.) Unfortunately, because of the way the parallel port is shared within ppbus, all scsi commands must be polled, because control of the parallel port is relinquished after each command. (Therefore there is no way for an interrupt to be delivered when the command is complete.) So, the vpo_scsi_cmd() function, does the following: 1. call vpoio_do_scsi() /* executes the command on the ppbus */ 2. set xs->error based on return code 3. does sense if required 4. xs->flags |= ITSDONE; 5. scsipi_done(xs); 6. return COMPLETE; This appears to work fine until the first read command, (which incidentally is the first to be called NOSLEEP and not POLL). The above is based on what I think needs to be done...please shout if I've missed something or I'm not supposed to call scsipi_done(xs); here. Anyway, mount hangs on the first read command. dmesg says: vpoio_scsi_cmd 8 flags 811 sd0(:6:0): scsipi_done sd0(:6:0): command: 0x8,0x0,0x0,0x6,0x1,0x0-[512 bytes] ------------------------------ 000: 48 48 48 48 48 48 48 48 48 48 48 48 48 48 48 48 016: 48 48 48 48 48 48 48 48 48 48 48 48 48 48 48 48 032: 48 48 48 48 48 48 48 48 48 48 48 48 48 48 48 48 048: 48 48 48 48 48 48 48 48 48 48 48 48 48 48 48 48 ------------------------------ sd0(:6:0): sc_err1,err = 0x0 sd0(:6:0): scsipi_free_xs sd0(:6:0): calling private start() sd0(:6:0): sdstart sd0(:6:0): scsipi_free_xs sd0(:6:0): calling private start() sd0(:6:0): sdstart sd0(:6:0): sdstrategy sd0(:6:0): 512 bytes @ blk 0 sd0(:6:0): sdstart sd0(:6:0): scsipi_get_xs get_xs sc_link->openings 4 sd0(:6:0): calling pool_get sd0(:6:0): cannot allocate scsipi xs sd0(:6:0): returning sd0: not queued, error 12 The first thing that I notice here is that sc_link->openings was 3 before all previous commands and it's 4 here. (The informational is printed before anything is done in scsipi_get_xs().) error 12 is ENOMEM and results from pool_get() having returned NULL. Trouble is that I'm fairly sure this code works well, because I have heard of people using scsi disks with NetBSD ;-) Therefore, there must be something wrong with the way I'm talking to the scsibus/sd stuff. The only other things that I can think of that might be relevant is what happens in the attach routine: /* Let's do the NetBSD SCSI stuff...*/ vpo->adapter.scsipi_cmd = vpoio_scsi_cmd; vpo->adapter.scsipi_minphys = minphys; vpo->link.flags= (SDEV_REMOVABLE | SDEV_DBX); vpo->link.quirks = (SDEV_NOSYNC | SDEV_NOWIDE | SDEV_NOTAG | SDEV_NOSYNCCACHE ); vpo->link.scsipi_scsi.channel = SCSI_CHANNEL_ONLY_ONE; vpo->link.adapter_softc = vpo; /* Check this... */ vpo->link.scsipi_scsi.adapter_target = 7; /* Don't know...*/ vpo->link.adapter = &vpo->adapter; vpo->link.device = &vpo_dev; /* ????? */ vpo->link.openings = 3; /* or 1? */ vpo->link.scsipi_scsi.max_target = 7; vpo->link.scsipi_scsi.max_lun = 0; vpo->link.type = BUS_SCSI; /* Let's rock... */ config_found(self, &vpo->link, scsiprint); return; I think openings ought to be 1, but I set it higher when I had the allocation problem. Any SCSI gurus out there know what I'm doing wrong? Thanks, David. PS - For a moment I thought removing scsipi_done(xs) might work (given the fact that sc_link->openings had been incremented higher than it's initial value), but it doesn't. In fact, it doesn't get as far: vpoio_scsi_cmd 8 flags 811 sd0(:6:0): scsipi_free_xs sd0(:6:0): calling private start() sd0(:6:0): sdstart


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A sea challenge will take place at the annual Northern Area Sea Cadets regatta being held at Sulphur Point, Tauranga, this weekend.
Teams from Hamilton, Auckland and Whangarei will compete with the local unit, the TS Chatham Sea Cadets.
"Our Northern area skills regatta will have over 80 participants in seven units," says Lieutenant Commander Sandra Berry.
"One from Tauranga, one from Hamilton, four from Auckland, and one from Whangarei.
"They compete with nine cadets and one officer in each team, so that's 70 people plus staff that help run the various skills stands, whether it be mast building, using mast equipment to make a flag pole, putting the mast up, sailing, rope work, and marching."
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Each corps is modelled on a corresponding branch of the New Zealand Defence Force – the Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF), the New Zealand Army and the Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN).
The support boat bringing the sailors ashore for lunch.
The Sea Cadet Corps is the smallest of the three branches and has 16 units across New Zealand.
Each area of the Sea Cadets (Southern, Central and Northern) holds an annual regatta, and the Northern area regatta, based at Sulphur Point, will operate from the TS Chatham's headquarters at the Tauranga Yacht Club.
The downstairs facilities house a kitchen, classroom, storage and hall where the cadets parade and do their drills. Usually they camp there during the regattas, sleeping on pads on the concrete floor.
During February, a practice weekend was held at Sulphur Point with the TS Achilles, TS Gambia and TS Bellona units invited from Auckland. Each of the Auckland units brought a Feva yacht, a Crown yacht, and a power boat. The Crowns are over 30 years old.
Amanda Ward, one of the parents was on staff helping with food preparation and support for the training weekend.
"The TS Chatham Crowns are called Mutley and The Don," says Amanda.
"The cadets restored the boats themselves under the guidance of Hutcheson Boat Builders over two winters. One of the project managers supervised the cadets through stripping back the boats. They take so much pride in those boats now."
Each of the crowns has a cadet on board who has passed the coxswain's course where they are qualified in boat handling, including capsizing and man overboard. The February weekend conditions made it ideal for practising the more complicated manoeuvres like gibing, putting up a spinnaker and practising capsizing.
"Cadets originated from a time of need," says Sandra, "to train young people who were 16 and 17 years old so when they turned 18 they could join the military properly to be trained to go to war and meet the need".
TS Chatham Sea Cadet headquarters at Sulphur Point.
Sailing, shooting, rowing, ropes, kayaks, camps and sea challenges are all part of normal life for 18-year-old Sea Cadet warrant officers Tayla Wong-Lithgow and Sophyia Hilario who took part in the practice weekend.
"I was looking for an extra-curricular activity to do," says Tayla, who got involved six years ago. "Sea cadets sounded really cool. There's heaps of activities and you get to meet lots of people. That really appealed to me."
"We do a coxswain course, which teaches cadets how to sail," says Sophyia, who entered sea cadets five years ago and has a father serving in the New Zealand Defence Force. "We assess them on their skills, which can be transferred into NCEA credits."
Youth can join sea cadets from age 13, usually staying on until age 19, when they choose to continue, join the forces, or leave, often for university.
"I'm planning on carrying on as an under officer," says Tayla, "and after that I can commission as an officer."
Sophyia has a few months left to decide about her future.
"I'm trying to balance cadets, student life and work," says Sophyia, "but cadets is so worth it."
They both enjoy sailing and making new friends.
Fundraising and looking for sponsors is a constant exercise, in order to replace essential equipment and maintain their corps. The cadets need 30-60 new Personal Flotation Devices. These retail at $100 each, or a total of $3000- $6000. They also fundraise to cover their operating costs of rent, photocopier servicing, insurance for the boats, RTs, life jackets, and other equipment.
In Term 2 and 3, the sea cadets go shooting at the Te Puke Range every Friday night. Over the summer their time is spent sailing, and weekends are for fundraising, parades and commemorations, such as Anzac Day.
New members can join from age 13, and meet at the TS Chatham Sea Cadet headquarters at Sulphur Point on Wednesday nights at 6.30pm.
The public is welcome to come watch the regatta over the weekend.
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The first title in the acclaimed and bestselling crime series featuring Jack Taylor, a disgraced former police detective from Galway. Mourning the death of his father, Jack is slowly drinking himself into oblivion when he is asked to investigate a teenage suicide. Plunged into a dangerous confrontation with a powerful businessman and with the Irish police — The Guards — who have an unhealthy interest in Jack's past, he finds that all is not as simple as it at first seemed and a dark conspiracy unfolds.


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The award recognizes a Juneau organization's efforts in promoting employee wellness within its worksites.
The Health Yourself Program is one of the state's oldest worksite health promotion programs and it has received a tremendous level of support over the last 18 years.
Natasha Petrofsky is the new coordinator of the Health Yourself Program, and for the past month or so she has focused much of her attention on clarifying the roles within the wellness team so it plays a more integral part in making decisions about the direction, activities and policies the program wants to achieve.
The wellness team represents 800 employees located in 23 separate buildings throughout Juneau.
A change like this can have a major impact on the benefits employees enjoy, and that's why Health Yourself was presented with January's Well Workplace Award.
"This program provides an excellent example of a successful, sustainable program," said Carol White, Program Manager for the state's Alaska Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention Program and one of the coordinators for the Juneau Employee Wellness Coalition.
The Juneau Employee Wellness Coalition is a community-wide organization promoting workplace wellness that was created as a follow-up to September's Well Workplace University.
The coalition is co-sponsored by the SouthEast Alaska Regional Health Consortium, State of Alaska Division of Public Health and the Steps to a Healthier SE Alaska program.
The coalition's next meeting is from 1:30-4 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 27, in Room 110 of the state's Department of Environmental Conservation Building.
The meetings are open to businesses and other organizations that want to get together to share their experiences, lessons learned and successes in implementing the Wellness Councils of America's Steps to Success. Steps to Success gives a "road map" to businesses that want to develop and implement effective worksite health promotion programs.
For more information on the Juneau Employee Wellness Coalition, contact Evelyn Williams of the SEARHC Steps to a Healthier SE Alaska program at 364-4454 or Carol White at the state's Alaska Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention Program at 465-8670.


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Levine on Wall Street: BofA Battleship
De-bank the banks
Ken Griffin, who runs Citadel, told the DealBook conference yesterday that "if I could wave a magic wand, I'd break up the banking system." Citadel is an interesting business in that it is part hedge fund and part occasional entrant into businesses -- market-making, securities underwriting -- that have traditionally been done by investment banks. And investment banks these days are mostly wrapped in the warm embrace of bank holding companies with Fed, FDIC and too-big-to-fail advantages not available to Citadel. So you could see why Griffin would think that's unfair. And, I mean, he's not wrong; there's no particular reason why market-making or securities underwriting need to be done by Fed-regulated-and-backstopped banks. For most of the last century they weren't, and the new regime comes with regulatory headaches as well as funding advantages. "I would, in a sense, de-bank Goldman Sachs or Morgan Stanley," Griffin said, and these days Goldman and Morgan Stanley might take that deal. Since they're banks, unlike Citadel, they don't get to run giant hedge funds any more.
Everyone else stayed in character too
Bank of America also had a financial conference yesterday and it was a good showcase for bank chief executive officers being themselves. Here you can read about Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan calling his bank an unwieldy battleship but promising to get it out of drydock any day now. (Here is the webcast.) And here you can read about Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein taking not-quite-subtle potshots at Morgan Stanley and patiently explaining that Goldman's strategy is to be so awesome that it never needs to change its strategy. (Here are his presentation text and slides). So that's pretty much BofA and Goldman for you.
De-government-sponsor the government sponsored entities
I don't know about you but I'm pretty excited for this brewing investor effort to buy back Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac from the U.S. government. They're not really for sale, but they're also not exactly a comfortable fit with the rest of the government's businesses, so you could see the strategic appeal in divesting them. The story is still a little vague but seems to involve raising up to around $25 billion in new private capital. A quick look at Fannie's and Freddie's balance sheets finds some $5.26 trillion in combined assets and $45 billion in combined equity, so this deal would raise Fannie and Freddie's total equity capital from around 0.9 percent to around 1.3 percent. Would that be sufficient to privatize the mortgage system and make everyone confident in Fannie and Freddie even without a government guarantee? Umm.
Never reason from a price-earnings ratio
Stephen Gandel at Fortune has a post about how Wal-Mart can give its workers a 50 percent wage increase without affecting its stock price. Now, maybe Wal-Mart can give its workers a 50 percent wage increase without affecting its stock price, because improved employee morale would lead to more sales (or because employees would have more money to spend at Wal-Mart and that would lead to more sales). But the argument is wrong, with a pristine Euclidean wrongness unusual in financial commentary. The method is:
- Take WMT's stock price.
- Do some manipulations -- ratios! dividend yields! -- to conclude that the stock price reflects a certain level of investor expectations about net income.
- Notice that Wal-Mart's actual net income is above that expected net income that you just calculated.
- Just give the extra money to employees.
But this cannot be right. There are simple models that will tell you what returns investors expect given a stock price, but they'll all tell you that they expect the returns they're expecting. Not lower returns. No matter how you manipulate it, you cannot use a stock price to prove that shareholders think that the world is different from what it is. The stock price exists in the world that exists. It reflects the present value of investors' expectations for the future cash flows to them. If you suddenly, exogenously change those cash flows, ceteris paribus, the stock price will change. Maybe ceteris aren't paribus and the stock price won't change. But you can't prove that from the stock price!
Banking MD wants his analysts to work harder
Here you can read the Epicurean Dealmaker criticizing Goldman Sachs's new effort to treat junior bankers more humanely, and praising the 24/7-misery model of investment banking as essential to good client service. You won't really find anyone else praising 24/7 misery so you might as well read this.
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"I'm very European today. I love the Germans!" said trainer Jamie Osborne after Alexander Piestch and Raising Sand gave him a win in the Dubai Duty Free Shergar Cup Mile.
Five-year-old Raising Sand, a 1o/1 chance, took the race by a comfortable two lengths under German jockey Alexander Piestch. Second was the Jim Goldie-trained Nicholas T.
Raising Sun and Piestch win the Mile, photo Liesl King
Osborne continued: "I knew nothing about the jockey before this week, but he's given him [Raising Sand] a really nice ride. Taking nothing away from him, the way the horse has won, it would have been hard to get him beat today.
"He threatened to be a really nice horse this time last year, and he's obviously had his issues. We fancied him for the Lincoln, but he pulled up in that and we never really, truly got to the bottom of what was causing the issues. We just gave him time and a break, and he came good.
"His first run back at Newmarket three weeks ago was solid, needing it a little bit, so we were hopeful today, but I didn't expect to see him win with that amount of ease.
"He's won two races here - I think there's something about this place that suits him. There's a very valuable handicap here on QIPCO Champions Day, which is only seven furlongs - that could be on his agenda. It depends on how much he goes up [in the handicap]. I think on soft ground he could handle a drop back to seven. It said in the paper this morning that he didn't want soft ground, but in my mind it is all he wants."
Pietsch and the 10/1 shot cruised into the lead to win by two lengths. The German jockey, who is making his Shergar Cup debut, now heads the points for the Alistair Haggis Silver Saddle individual title.
"My first winner at Ascot was an easy winner so thank you to my trainer and owner for letting me ride," said Pietsch, who was draped in the German flag on his return to the winner's enclosure. "The last furlong, my horse just up and went."
Raising Sand, photo Liesl King
2.50pm £45,000 Dubai Duty Free Shergar Cup Mile 1m (Round)
For 4yo+, rated 81-100 (also open to such horses rated 80 and below). Lowest weight 8st 9lb; highest weight 10st. Penalties, after August 5, 2017, for each race won 3lb.
1) RAISING SAND 5-9-03 Jamie Osborne [12] Alexander Pietsch EUR 10/1 15 POINTS
2) NICHOLAS T 5-9-02 Jim Goldie [10] Kerrin McEvoy ROW 6/1 10 POINTS
3) LEADER WRITER (FR) 5-9-03 Henry Spiller [8] Neil Callan GBI 20/1 7 POINTS
4) BRIGLIADORO (IRE) 6-9-04 Philip McBride [4] Anthony Delpech ROW 9/2 Fav 5 POINTS
5) BREAKABLE 6-9-05 (3lb ex) Tim Easterby [1] Umberto Rispoli EUR 3 POINTS
6) EXAMINER (IRE) 6-9-06 Stuart Williams [5] Hayley Turner GIRLS
7) KNIGHT OWL 7-9-03 James Fanshawe [9] Fran Berry GBI
8) EARLY MORNING (IRE) 6-9-08 Harry Dunlop [11] Hollie Doyle (3) GIRLS
9) MEDBURN DREAM 4-9-02 Paul Henderson [6] Emma-Jayne Wilson GIRLS
10) BASIL BERRY 6-9-03 Chris Dwyer [7] Jamie Spencer GBI
10 ran
Non-Runner: Manson (Going) - replaced by first reserve Medburn Dream
Time: 1m 43.11s
Distances: 2, ½, nose, sh, 1½, 4½, 1¾, 9, 4
Breeder: Meon Valley Stud
Breeding: b g Oasis Dream - Balalaika (Sadler's Wells (USA))
Tote Win £10.10 Places: £3.10, £2.00, £5.30 Exacta: £67.10


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It is understandable that governmental agencies have a duty to prioritize their spending. However, it is important to remember that public safety should always be a top priority.
New York, NY (PRWEB) February 19, 2013
People residing near the intersection of Lamberts Lane and Seldin Avenue in Staten Island's Graniteville section say they hope more could be done to make the roadways in that area safer for motorists and pedestrians. According to a Feb. 3 news report in The Staten Island Advance, the intersection, which is located near two entrance ramps to the Staten Island Expressway, has been the site of numerous car accidents just in the last several months.
Residents who live in the neighborhood say vehicles traveling toward Richmond Avenue often miss the turn onto the expressway and then try turning into the following entrance ramp, which is designated for cars traveling in the opposite direction, according to the report. Also, signs alerting motorists to turn onto the expressway as well as a "no parking" sign at the location have been knocked over recently.
In addition, residents are concerned about speeding in the area and are asking the city to install speed bumps so that motorists will be forced to slow down, the article states. The location is the site of many nighttime accidents that proves to be particularly dangerous for pedestrians, because it is poorly lit. Department of Transportation authorities are studying the intersection to determine whether a signal or other intersection controls are appropriate at that location, the newspaper reports.
A poorly designed or inadequately lit intersection can pose a serious hazard to motorists, bicyclists, pedestrians and other commuters, said New York personal injury lawyer, Kenneth A. Wilhelm. "The city or agency that is responsible for maintaining the roadway or intersection should take every step to ensure the safety of commuters in the area. Intersection crashes have the potential to result in catastrophic injuries or even fatalities."
Wilhelm said in today's environment where local, state and federal agencies are tight-fisted, a number of street improvement projects go by the wayside. "It is understandable that governmental agencies have a duty to prioritize their spending. However, it is important to remember that public safety should always be a top priority."
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Exchange Rates and Stock Prices: Implications for European Convergence
Morley, B., 2002. Exchange Rates and Stock Prices: Implications for European Convergence. Journal of Policy Modeling, 24, 523--526.
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The aim of this paper is to investigate whether stock prices and exchange rates are related and whether there is evidence of convergence in the structure of this relationship across members of the European Union (EU). We then examine if this relationship differs, depending on whether the system of finance prevalent in a particular country is financial market based or dominated by the banking system. Given the differences between the financial systems in some European countries, the result is of importance to those countries that have joined the European Single Currency and those attempting to converge their economies in preparation for joining at a later date, such as the UK. Stock prices have been used extensively to explain and predict the exchange rate over recent years, as they reflect capital movements between stock markets. Equities have been incorporated into a number of empirical studies of the exchange rate and in general are shown to have a highly significant effect. The exchange rate model used in this study is a simple dynamic bivariate asset parity model, which can be derived from Roll's (1979) model. Following a discussion into the differing nature of the financial systems across the EU, the model and results from the empirical tests are discussed and finally there is a summary and a discussion on the policy implications.
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Jetstar is using an incident involving cockpit distraction on one of its flights as part of its regular training for pilots.
On 27 May 2010, JQ57 from Darwin to Singapore cancelled its initial approach into Changi Airport because pilots detected the aircraft was not fully configured for landing by the time it reached 500ft. The aircraft, an A321, landed safely and without incident shortly afterwards.
These cancelled landings – called 'go arounds' – are standard procedure for all airlines and happen every day at airports around the world.
A report released today by the ATSB into JQ57 showed that the pilots – both highly experienced and with a combined total of 17,000 flying hours – became distracted by a combination of factors. This distraction led to the pilots' deciding to perform a go-around.
The ATSB report made no findings against Jetstar, nor did it find any fault with Jetstar's policies or procedures. The safety of the aircraft was never compromised.
Jetstar's Chief Pilot, Captain Mark Rindfleish, said: "We take a very conservative approach to how far before touchdown an aircraft should be completely configured for landing. In the case of JQ57, pilot distraction meant all the landing checklist items weren't completed before the aircraft passed an altitude of 500ft, at which point a go-around was required under our operating procedures.
"Human factors, like distraction, are why airlines have so many procedural safeguards built into how they fly. The combination of factors on JQ57 has provided new learnings and the opportunity to add to these safeguards, which we take very seriously."
As well as making JQ57 a case study in its training on the potential for cockpit distraction, Jetstar has also:
The Jetstar Group is one of Asia Pacific's fastest growing airline brands with one of the most extensive ranges of destinations in the region. It is made up of Jetstar Airways (subsidiary of the Qantas Group) in Australia and New Zealand, Jetstar Asia in Singapore, Jetstar Pacific in Vietnam, and Jetstar Japan in Japan. Jetstar branded carriers operate up to 5,000 flights a week to more than 85 destinations. The Jetstar Group carried more than 37 million passengers in financial year 2017.


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PM assures response over NSA's comments
February 15, 2007 23:36 IST
"I do not want to add to the turbulence by saying something. So the question should be reserved for some other occasion," he told reporters who asked him about NSA M K Narayanan's statement in a security conference in Munich on the issue.
"All I can say is that we are taking all precautionary measures," he said.
Narayanan had said isolated incidents of terrorists manipulating stock markets to raise funds for their operations had been reported.


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8.1. Disk and Bulge Heavy Elements
The notion that most heavy elements scale with [Fe/H] in the disk has been known for some time (e.g. Wallerstein 1962, Helfer & Wallerstein 1968, Pagel 1968, Huggins & Williams 1974, Butcher 1975). The most accurate and largest samples of disk dwarf abundances are the studies of Edvardsson et al (1993), Woolf et al (1995); also McWilliam (1990) presented abundance results for a large number of disk giants.
The Edvardsson et al results demonstrate that the abundance of Y in the first s-process peak, and Ba and Nd in the second s-process peak, scale with metallicity down to [Fe/H] = -1. This observation is apparently at odds with the picture of primary and secondary elements: The s-process elements are made by the addition of neutrons to preexisting iron seed nuclei. Thus, the [s-process/Fe] abundance ratios are expected to behave like secondary elements, proportional to [Fe/H], rather than independent of the metallicity, as is observed. Clayton (1988) proposed that s-process abundances scale with metallicity if they were produced by the 13C(, n)16O neutron source in AGB stars; also, the increased neutron fluence in the model led to the prediction of increased [Ba/Y] ratios at low metallicity. This prediction was supported by the observed high [Ba/Y] abundance ratios found for CH stars (Vanture 1992, 1993) and Cen giants (e.g. Vanture et al 1994) and the abundance ratios in S and MS stars (see Busso et al 1995).
The metallicity dependence of the [Ba/Y] ratio produced in the s-process leads to a puzzle: If AGB stars are the source of the s-process elements in the disk, then why is the observed [Ba/Y] ratio approximately ~ 0.0 dex over the full metallicity range of disk stars?
Part of the answer must be due to the transition from halo-like composition ([Ba/Y] = +0.06) gas near [Fe/H] = -1 to solar composition at [Fe/H] = 0.0; both have similar [Ba/Y] values. Perhaps a more important factor is the presence of a large metallicity dispersion in the disk over most of Galactic history. In particular, the inhomogeneous chemical evolution models of White & Audouze (1983) showed that when there is a large dispersion in metallicity, the slopes for secondary elements can be erased; this is because at any given time the secondary elements were produced in sources with a large range of metallicity. Thus, the metallicity dispersion ensured that the [Ba/Y] ratio in the disk was always close to the average value.
Woolf et al (1995) measured [Eu/Fe] ratios in solar neighborhood F and G stars with -0.9 [Fe/H] +0.3. Their results showed increasing [Eu/Fe] ratios with decreasing [Fe/H]; this trend was also reported by McWilliam & Rich (1994), although there was some considerable scatter about the mean relation. The [Eu/Fe] ratios match the trend of increasing -element abundances with [Fe/H]; from the [Eu/Fe] trends in the disk and the halo, one would classify Eu as an element. Because Eu is a nearly pure r-process element, the observed trend with metallicity is consistent with the notion that the r-process and elements are made in SN II see Figure 8). For stars more metal-rich than the Sun, Woolf et al (1995) found subsolar [Eu/Fe] ratios, unlike the [ / Fe] ratios that remain at the solar value above solar metallicity. The idea proposed by Maeder (1991) to explain the trend of [O/Fe] with [Fe/H] as due to the onset of Wolf-Rayet stars would have to affect the [Eu/Fe] ratio in the same way as the [O/Fe] ratios. It is difficult to imagine how such a process might occur in current models of SN II, which holds that Eu is formed during the SN II event, deep inside the exploding star, whereas the ejected O is produced in higher regions of the star during the hydrostatic burning phase.
Figure 8. The run of the (almost) pure r-process element europium with metallicity for field stars; indicated by filled circles for the disk (Woolf et al 1995) and in the halo by crosses (Shetrone 1996a) and filled triangles (Gratton & Sneden 1994). The open stars indicate mean values for the globular clusters M71, M13, M5, and M92 from (Shetrone 1996a).
The Zr results from Edvardsson et al (1993) show a trend towards enhanced [Zr/Fe], reaching +0.2 dex in the lower metallicity disk stars; given the enhanced [Zr/Fe] ratios in the halo stars (Magain 1989, Gratton & Sneden 1994), this may suggest that SN II produce significant amounts of Zr.
Edvardsson et al (1993) showed that in the disk, [Ba/Fe] ratios increased with time and were very roughly independent of metallicity; from log age 0.9 to < 0.6 Gyr, the mean [Ba/Fe] ratio increased from -0.1 to +0.1 dex. The halo fits into this picture, with a mean [Ba/Fe] ratio of ~ -0.1 dex (Gratton & Sneden 1994). This trend in [Ba/Fe] suggests that there is a source that produced Ba on a time scale longer than the time scale for Fe production. This conclusion is consistent with the idea that s-process nucleosynthesis is dominated by AGB stars over the mass range 1-3 M (Meyer 1994) or 1-4 M (Busso et al 1995). The steady increase in the disk [Ba/Fe] ratio with Galactic time is probably due to the delay in Ba production from the lower mass stars in this range, say 1-2 M, with main-sequence lifetimes of several billion years.
The results of Edvardsson et al (1993) show a steeper slope for [Ba/H] with age than [Fe/H] with age; also, despite the larger measurement uncertainties for Ba, the age-[Ba/H] relation shows less dispersion than the age-[Fe/H] relation. The steep slope of [Ba/H] with age must be due in part to the gradual increase in [Ba/Fe] with time due to the long-lived sources. If the intrinsic dispersion in the age-[Ba/H] relation is actually significantly smaller than for the age-[Fe/H] relation, then this must be understood in the context of disk chemical evolution models that describe the dispersion in the age-metallicity relation (e.g. Pilyugin & Edmunds 1996b). A characteristic of the Pilyugin & Edmunds (1996b) model is that it predicts roughly equal dispersion for all elements.
The fact that the [Ba/Fe] ratio is sensitive to age might have applications for other locations, such as the Galactic bulge. For the bulge, McWilliam & Rich (1994) found the mean [s-process/iron] ratio of ~ 0.0 dex, from lines of Y, La, and Ba. In particular, a subsolar value of [s-process/Fe] near -0.1 dex, expected if the bulge formation time scale was rapid, is inconsistent with the data. Certainly more accurate and extensive measurements of s-process elements in the bulge are necessary to verify this point.


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WASHINGTON – President Bush acknowledged America's reliance on oil Tuesday night, but his proposals will do nothing to curb today's high energy costs and are likely to make only a modest dent on oil imports — even in the long run.
In his State of the Union address, Bush outlined plans to increase federal spending on research into alternative motor fuels and to set "a national goal" of replacing 75 percent of the oil now imported from the Middle East.
But the president's litany of initiatives is similar to what he has long touted and reflects many of the same alternative fuel proposals included in a broad energy bill he signed into law last summer.
As he often has in the past, Bush renewed his call to develop hydrogen-fueled vehicles, a technology most energy experts say will not be ready for two or three decades, if then.
Saying the country must go beyond a petroleum-based economy, Bush said he would provide in his fiscal 2007 budget next week more money for research into the production of ethanol from sources other than corn and for development of other bio-based fuel derived from agricultural wastes, wood chips, weeds and even cooking oil.
He said he wanted to expand research into better batteries for electric-gas hybrid cars, including those that could be plugged into home electric sources to be recharged.
The budget will include $150 million, a $59 million increase, to help develop such biofuels, according to the White House, where officials distributed a fact sheet saying "cellulosic" ethanol and other biofuels could account for nearly a third of the motor fuel used by 2012.
Bush "mapped out an expanded strategy in alternative energy," said Sen. Pete Domenici, R-N.M., chairman of the Senate Energy Committee, adding, "We aren't going to displace foreign oil next year, but the president is moving us the right direction and he's picked up the pace."
However, the energy legislation Congress passed last year already includes a requirement to sharply increase use of corn-based ethanol to 7.5 million gallons a year and authorizes a program to develop a market for cellulosic ethanol by 2015.
While alternative fuels could make a dent in the demand for oil, such programs by themselves are unlikely to have a dramatic impact on oil imports, energy experts say.
"Like many of the fundamental challenges before us, there is no one solution. You need a portfolio of things" to wean the country away from oil, said Tim Profeta, director of the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions at Duke University.
To curb foreign oil use, Profeta said, requires development of alternative fuels as well as changes in how people travel, and improvements in automobiles' fuel efficiency.
The U.S. used 20.1 million barrels of oil a day in 2004, with 58.5 percent from imports, according to the Energy Department. About 19 percent comes from the Persian Gulf.
It was unclear how Bush would achieve his goal of cutting oil imports from the Middle East. While he bemoaned dependence on oil from politically volatile regions, his stated goal ignores U.S. reliance on imports from such countries as Venezuela and Nigeria where there also has been turmoil.
The Energy Information Administration recently estimated that even if there is a growth in the use of gas-electric hybrids and other conservation efforts, the U.S. in 2025 will still get 60 percent of its oil from imports, including oil from the Middle East.


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Courtesy Kyle Hughes of NYSNYS.com, here's video from Wednesday's press conference to highlight higher education lobby day. The speakers include Andy Pallotta, executive VP of New York State United Teachers, and Fred Kowal of United University Professions.
Topics under discussion include raising the maximum amount of student aid that an individual could draw — a number that hasn't come up in more than a decade — and Senate passage of the DREAM Act, which would allow the children of undocumented immigrant to avail themselves of public education aid.
During the Q&A, the advocates expressed a range of opinions on Gov. Andrew Cuomo's controversial proposal to expand college offerings for the incarcerated.


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Magazine article Journal of Property Management
Irem Adopts New Statements of Policy on the Employee Free Choice Act and Tenant Protection in Property Foreclosures
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IREM recently approved two new statements of policy in response to legislation currently being considered by Congress that would impact the commercial real estate industry: the Employee Free Choice Act and Multi-Family Housing Foreclosures.
Employee Free Choice Act
The Employee Free Choice Act, also known as "check card" legislation, would fundamentally change the process for union elections and the collective bargaining process, making it easier for labor unions to organize employees into unions. As proposed, the Employee Free Choice Act would require the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to certify union representation when a majority of employees sign a card favoring a union. The NLRB would not be required to conduct a private election. The bill also would impose a strict 90-day time limit for reaching an initial collective bargaining agreement. Additionally, if an agreement is not met during this time, either party can request mediation from the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS). Following mediation, the legislation permits the FMCS to impose a 2-year binding contract on employers and employees. Neither party may appeal.
IREM urges Congress to oppose the Employee Free Choice Act. IREM supports the right of employees to choose whether to be represented by a labor union through a federally supervised private election. A secret ballot election ensures that employees are protected from coercion and intimidation.
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The Glycemic Index, What You Should Know About It by Jim O'Neill
As of late, there has been much mention about the glycemic index. People everywhere talk about it and food advertisements use it liberally to promote certain products. But just what is this glycemic index and what does it mean for you? Why is it that people are resorting to it as a means of weight loss and overall healthy eating choices? What is the reason that the G.I. is becoming the staple food guide of the free world?
The glycemic index is a means of measuring the effects of different foods on your blood sugar levels, in other words, how rapidly carbohydrates (sugars) are absorbed. Foods with a high G.I. release quickly into your blood causing a rapid rise in your blood sugar levels. Foods with a low G.I. release slowly into your blood helping to keep your blood sugar levels more stable and steady.
When a high G.I. food is eaten and blood sugar levels rise rapidly, there is a high response of insulin (a hormone that regulates blood sugar levels). The insulin works quickly to deposit this excess blood sugar into muscle cells in the form of glycogen (stored energy), and when the glycogen stores are full, the rest is stored in the fat cells as, yes, you guessed it, fat! Because of the over-response of insulin caused by the over-response of blood sugar, the blood sugar is quickly depleted to lower than normal levels, causing that burst of energy you felt to crash quickly.
Low G.I. foods which release at a slower rate do not cause such an insulin response. This allows for a blood sugar level stabilization over a longer period of time because a slow release of blood sugar means a slow release of insulin meaning that it can regulate blood sugar levels more accurately. And as you may have guessed, there is much less of a deposit to the fat cells also! This is why when you eat a low G.I. food your energy levels stay up longer and you don't feel hungry too soon after eating like you do with high G.I. foods.
The glycemic index is measured by assessing how fast of a release of sugar different foods have into the blood verses the rate of pure glucose (blood sugar itself). A score of 100 has been assigned to the rate of release of glucose. If a food has a release or index of 70 or higher, that means it has a rapid release and is a high G.I. food and should be avoided. If a food has an index of 56 to 69 it has a somewhat rapid release but not an extreme one and is considered a medium G.I. food and should be limited. Any food with an index of 55 or less has a slow release and is considered a low G.I. food and is good to consume any time.
Now combining high G.I. foods with low ones in an overall meal will affect the G.I. of the whole meal. This is known as the glycemic value. If you had a potato with a G.I. of say 90 and a chicken breast with a G.I. of 0, the glycemic value of the meal would be 45, in the low G.I. range. So when you are trying to stay on the low side of the G.I. which you should be, you do not have to completely eliminate all high G.I. foods as long as you only consume them in combination with low ones to lower the glycemic load of the meal as a whole.
Examples of high G.I. foods are any white flour bread, cakes of muffins, white potatoes, ripe bananas and honey. Some medium G.I. foods are red potatoes, jellies and jams, bran muffin's, whole wheat bread and most tropical fruit's. Some low G.I. foods are most vegetables, most northern fruits, yams and sweet potatoes, grain cereals, any meats and dairy products, popcorn and most nuts.
Now keep in mind that calories still do count and that means that just because you are eating foods with a low G.I. doesn't mean that you can eat as much as you want. Staying with mostly low G.I. foods will help keep blood sugar levels stable and will help control your appetite but in the end you still need to watch your overall calorie count to lose or maintain weight and not gain weight.
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The Arabella Golf Course
Experience one of the Cape's top golf courses, ranked top 10 in South Africa. Surrounded by the magnificent Kogelberg mountain range, Bot River Lagoon and edged by wild fynbos, our picturesque Golf Course is the ideal place to pursue a passion for golf.
The fabled 18-hole, Par 72 Championship course has consistently been ranked in the top 10 courses in South Africa. The 8th hole has been described as one of the most beautiful par 5′s in South Africa and the 18th hole was rated one of the finest finishing holes in the country.
The course was designed and built by the highly acclaimed South African golf course architect Peter Matkovich in 1999. Since then, many professionals and celebrities have enjoyed the Arabella Golf experience, including Jack Nicklaus, Samuel L. Jackson, Ernie Els, Retief Goosen, Ronan Keating, Lee Westwood, Tim Clark and Gary Player
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General Hospital's recurring guest star, actor, James Franco received his much anticipated Best Actor Nomination in a Leading Role for his role in the feature film 127 Hours for the 83rd Annual Academy Awards this morning. Nominations were announced live on television across the world at 8:30AMEST/5:30AMPST.
Franco will face-off with current odds-on favorite, Colin Firth for The King's Speech, last year's Best Actor Oscar winner, Jeff Bridges for True Grit, Jesse Eisenberg of The Social Network and surprise nominee, Javier Bardem for the Foreign Language film, Biutifil. The actor reacted to his nomination according to the L.A. times Envelope.com this morning as he was about to walk into class stating: "I'm standing on the corner in New Haven, about to go into a class on the poets Byron, Keats and Shelley."
The Oscars will be handed out on February 27thon ABC with now nominee Franco, as previously announced also co-hosting Hollywood's biggest night with actress, Anne Hathaway. And for soap fans, don't forget, James will return as psycho/baddie "Franco" for two new episodes of General Hospital the day before and after this year's Oscar Telecast.
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Proposals to establish an online commerce scheme for Forfar have taken a step forward due to sponsorship from an unnamed benefactor.
A meeting will be held in the Chapelbank Hotel tomorrow (Thursday) to discuss how the My High Street scheme can be progressed.
It is being championed by the Earl of Strathmore, owner of David Irons & Sons hardware store on Castle Street, who called a preliminary meeting last month to gauge initial interest.
My High Street brings together independent traders to promote their businesses and communities under its Target 200 initiative, run in conjunction with the British Independent Retailers Association (BIRA). This aims to take 200 High Streets across the UK and their thousands of retailers on to the internet to boost online business and customer footfall.
The site works by retailers opening their own e-commerce stores and, as more join, they are grouped together by town until the community is profiled by goods and services and forms its own 'brand'.
In a letter to retailers Lord Strathmore said the meeting, which starts at 2.30 p.m., will allow the scheme to be taken forward.
He said: "My wife and I are very happy to announce that a private individual has come forward to very generously sponsor the scheme with a view to keeping the ball rolling.
"The purpose of the meeting is to gather all associated parties who are interested in coming in on the scheme, for example, Forfar Business Initiative, the community council and the council itself. Independent retailers who wish to advertise or sell online should attend."


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Spiritualist, Practice what you Preach
It's a small world, they say and when you're a spiritualist, you tend to migrate toward other spiritualists. That has been the case for me over the past 30 years as I have rubbed elbows with many now well-known spiritual beings before anyone knew who they were.
Just so you know, no one is born a spiritualist, but in my opinion becomes one by learning spiritual practices, experiencing years of less than pleasant situations and eliminating fear-based emotions. It's this trifecta that helps us gain wisdom and insight as we ascend and move forward.
I shook my head from left to right when I was coming up in the ranks to see people preaching this and that, but in the own personal life they weren't following their own advice. Now, of course I have only compassion when I see others seeking truth ironing out the wrinkles in their spiritual robes.
I am a total believer of walking the walk as an example, no matter what brand of elixir is toughest for you to swallow. One of my hardest things is having to deal with people when I want to move away from an unpleasant situation. People who know me may laugh spouting, LeeZa, is this the same women who made decisions for multi-million dollar technology projects? Yes that's me. But when it comes to possibly being less than compassionate when speaking to people, I can at times win the prize, my strong nature blunt and not the least bit sugary. I know that when I speak to people I can have an extremely positive effect and well, it gives me a pit in my stomach when I have to say no or something that is less than ecstatic to someone. Words have extreme power and I don't want to let any of mine hurt another being, if I can help it.
Funny, but in Abadiania, when you ask the entities to learn discernment you certainly get to utilize the skill set of saying no or enough, more often than you can shake that stick or bounce that ball. This is something that I'm faced with today, having to tell a beautiful being that it is time I move on in such a way that does not crush them or stunt their spiritual growth while at the same time not let myself be taken advantage of. Good practice for me, the love bug. I'm sure that when it's complete I will gain new insight and wisdom that will help me move forward with a new tool in my tool chest.
Wishing you a day filled with happiness from your eat pray love girl,
LeeZa Donatella
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Does not accelerate properly and has issues shifting. Transmission is auto with slapshift option. Recently in approx. 20 mph accident. Damage to front bumper, hood, headlight and grille. A/c pump is busted. Radiator is fine. Car does NOT overheat or stall. No leaking fluids that I know of. Drove fine for first 5 or 6 days after accident. Now experiencing problems with acceleration and shifting. Just curious what this is cause by. I imagine that it would be from a snag in my fuel pump or something along those lines.
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See that fat little box sitting in the corner, the size of a Dan Brown novel? That could be your lifesaver. Of course you know that backup is essential, that using cloud backup systems is good because it guards against disasters such as fire, theft, hard drive failure and so on. Unless the disaster happens where the cloud computer company's servers are.
The Mini is a small server and hard drive which uses backup software to save stuff you tell it to from lots of computers. So far, so ordinary. But the cunning thing about IDSbox is you twin it with another machine which is stored in a distant location. This copies what the home unit does so that you've got off-site storage covered, too. And because you're in charge of the box you can minutely control what the two boxes do, home and away.
Once you've formatted the local disk you set it up with up to four different backup profiles, each with its own backup schedules and specifications for what to copy. Then you back this up on the second box locally, before it's sent to whatever the remote location is that you choose.
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The truth of our Christmas season is that we have let it become more about the "kings" of this world than about the coming of Christ the King.
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Women's Triathlon Approved by NCAA as Division I Emerging Sport
Women's triathlon was approved as an emerging sport by the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division I Legislative Committee, a step toward the sport achieving full varsity status.
Triathlon, a combined swimming, cycling and running race, will be a fall season sport beginning in August 2014, according to USA Triathlon, the sport's governing body in the U.S. The NCAA's Division II and III committees will also vote on the proposal during this week's NCAA Convention in San Diego.
Rob Urbach, chief executive officer of USA Triathlon, said the vote was a "watershed moment" for the sport, with 95 percent in favor of adding women's triathlon, he said.
"After four years of hard work behind the scenes, this announcement represents a huge victory for current and future student-athletes, for the NCAA member institutions that will operate varsity triathlon programs, and for USA Triathlon's future Olympic success," Urbach said in a statement on his organization's website.
An emerging sport, a designation only given to women's athletic programs, gains full varsity status if 40 schools add it within 10 years. Other current women's sports that have followed that route to varsity status include ice hockey, water polo and rowing.
Adding women's triathlon would create as many as 10 spots for female athletes at each college that fields a team. The addition would help schools meet Title IX standards requiring women to be offered the same opportunities as men. It also could have a far-reaching effect on the sport in the U.S., college coaches, USA Triathlon officials and triathletes have said.
Participating Schools
Stanford University, along with Arizona, the U.S. Air Force Academy, Denver, Drake, Monmouth, North Carolina-Asheville and Northern Iowa were among the schools seeking to add Division I women's triathlon teams. Adams State and Colorado at Colorado Springs are seeking Division II teams, while Maine-Farmington has joined Marymount with support for a Division III team.
Men's triathlon isn't part of the proposal. If the sport is added for women, men's programs will probably follow, USA Triathlon officials said.
About 150 schools have club programs in triathlon and about 400 women competed in the 2013 collegiate national championship in Tempe, Arizona. The event, staged by USA Triathlon, wasn't an official NCAA championship.
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