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In response to the licensing of the new HPV vaccine and an article from The Washington Post, May 17, 2006
FDA: Cervical Cancer Vaccine Safe
Gardasil Prevents Four Types of HPV
BL Fisher Note:
Gardasil, the heavily promoted cervical cancer and genital wart vaccine
that Merck, the CDC and AAP want to mandate for all 11 and 12 year old
girls, will not only increase the risk of cervical cancer for some of
adolescent girls but can also make them susceptible to infection from the
multiple other strains of HPV. In addition, five women who got the vaccine
around time of conception gave birth to babies with birth defects.
With American babies now getting 48 doses of 14 vaccines by age six,
profit-hungry drug companies and power-hungry federal health officials are
targeting adolescents for new vaccine consumption. During a time when
adolescents are undergoing hormonal changes and accelerated growth, they are
being subjected to increased atypical manipulation of the immune system with
viral and bacterial vaccines including DTaP, meningococcal, flu, hepatitis B
and now a genital wart and cervical cancer vaccine.
In this national experiment on our teenagers, will anybody be studying
onset of chronic disease and disability in adolescents post vaccination? Or
will predictable increases in brain and immune system dysfunction such as
onset of new allergies, asthma, seizure disorders, multiple sclerosis,
rheumatoid arthritis, diabetes, irritable bowel syndrome, thyroid disease,
chronic fatigue, depression, and yes, cancer, be written off as unassociated
with vaccination?
Injecting adolescent girls with any vaccine that could increase their
chance of getting cancer without their voluntary, informed consent and the
consent of their parents is immoral. All attempts to mandate Gardasil for
school entry should be opposed as a violation of human rights, including the
right to life.
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Marketing…it's a word that brings a variety of thoughts and ideas to most people's minds, perhaps even some emotions as well. (Expensive, time-consuming, "I don't wanna do it!" all come to mind.) To some, marketing means spending lots of money to buy ads, business cards other promotional materials – and then crossing your fingers in the hopes that you make some of that investment back with the clients that hopefully decide to try you out.
Since that is the case for many people, I think it is important to share my definition of marketing before I share some of my truly affordable and effective marketing ideas. Simply put, I believe that marketing is everything that "touches" or makes an impression on a client or prospect and causes them to want to do business with you for the first time or the next time. I call this "every touch marketing" (also the brand name of my book, coaching program and other marketing tools and materials.) Of course in the case of negative touches and impressions, which I call anti-marketing, they may cause people to do business with you for the last time - or perhaps not at all!
By looking at marketing through this new lens and thinking of the way you impact people in all that you do, it should begin to be clear to you that you are immersed in marketing every single day regardless of whether it is "part of your job" or not In fact, marketing yourself starts from the moment you wake up and decide what kind of day you're going to have. It continues when you leave your house and speak to the cashier at Starbucks or the grocery store and continues with the way you answer your phone or respond to client messages throughout the day. Every smile, sentence and moment of interaction you have with others is and can be a marketing vehicle for your practice whether you like it or not. Today's successful practitioner and business person not only realizes this but takes every opportunity to send the right message and intention out into the world.
Now that we've settled that, you've probably gathered that I don't think it is necessary to drain your bank account to grow your business. And after all, just because something costs more does not mean it's better.
But in terms of free marketing, we have to ask the question "Is anything really free?" I've thought about this a lot and realized although there is an investment of some kind in most marketing, there are a few things we can do that absolutely free.
A few examples…
Other than the above most marketing tools and strategies aren't completely free. Even if they don't cost you any cash, they will cost you some of your other resources such as time or energy. Thus it's also important to become aware of, budget for and keep track of ALL the investments you are making in your business.
Start by giving some thought to how much time, money and energy you are willing to commit to growing your business each day, week and month. In general as you are growing a full-time practice, you may not have a large budget of cash and will instead spend more sweat equity to grow your business in the beginning. You may also have some small up-front monetary investments along the way to purchase business cards, visit networking groups or do mailings.
I suggest you use a typical work week schedule of 30 – 40 hours as a basis for the time you commit to marketing and business development. As you start to fill in a few hours here and there with clients, the amount of hours marketing will likely drop back a bit. However, if you treat the business development part of your business as seriously as you would a full schedule of appointments, you'll be well on your way to filling up those empty time slots in no time.
If you are already in practice and are primarily looking to maintain your existing clientele while continuing to bring in a regular stream of new clients, it will likely make more sense to plan a block or two of regular business development time each week. Here you may be spending more money than time via discounts or incentives given in referral programs, birthday offers or investments made in client communication tools. This also happens because your schedule is getting more full with clients and so the supply of "extra" money on hand may become greater than supply of "extra" time.
As far as simple yet inexpensive promotions, there are many different ideas I could share to get the ball rolling for you. However, I think the very first thing you should focus on is marketing yourself and your services to people you know (aka PYK). In fact, when you are trying to get more clients and dollars into your practice or business, one of the most valuable assets you can utilize is the pool of people you already know – and who already know you.
This group is made up your friends, family, social acquaintances, classmates, past work colleagues, people you regularly socialize with at school, church and other groups and the people you do business with. Since these people already know you, they will normally be more supportive of you and your business than total strangers will be.
Begin by sending an announcement or about what you offer along with an invitation to try your services out to everyone on your PYK list. You may want to offer special, limited time pricing or another incentive for them to try your services, especially for anyone who could be a good regular client or referral source for future business. I call this powerful yet easy combination…
Inform ~ Invite ~ Incent
It is important to let your PYKs know about your business and services while giving them a direct invitation (or several) and the incentive to try you out. Try it – it works!
Once you have compiled your database, formulate a plan for sharing your business details, services and offerings as well as special opportunities for discounts or new clients, referrals, and so on. Keep these folks in the loop as you add new staff, change locations, and host events. Of course, if you are staying in touch with them via email, always make it easy for them to opt out or to adjust what they receive notifications about from you.
You may also want to think about who in your PYKs could potentially introduce you to those who can benefit from your services or who have clients/customers who would also be interested in what you do.
For example, those who provide pain relief or wellness services may want to reach physicians and other medical providers. As the lines between beauty, wellness and health continue to merge, finding ways to connect and cross promote with these folks is vital to your business' well-being.
Other PYK Ideas
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Naturally, each prong works to different degrees in each company, but if you use all four of them, I can guarantee you will see amazing results. Here is the final key ingredient in my approach:
PRONG #4 – Eliminate costly employee turnover.
One of the largest unnecessary costs that an organization incurs is caused by employee turnover. To replace an employee position, the employer will incur hefty "hard" costs like recruiting fees, help wanted ads, drug testing, credit checks, etc. More importantly, there are huge "soft" costs that are involved. The
"learning curve" of a new employee is enormous. Not only does the new hire require training in the specific job tasks and the organization's automated systems (e.g. e-mail, ERP and human resource systems), but the person has to learn about the entity's culture and the various other departments with which the employee must work closely. Depending on the degree of responsibility involved, the employee can take at least a year to become fully efficient at his or her job.
I have a terrific history of creating an environment in the Finance Department to maximize employee productivity and eliminate (or dramatically minimize) employee turnover. I accomplish this by taking an active interest in the career development of every employee in the department as well as spending time to cross train and mentor such employees.
When I arrived at a publicly held manufacturer and distributor, the average tenure of the domestic Finance Department employees was a mere 1.5 years. During my two plus year tenure, one position was eliminated through increased automation and no other employee in the Finance Department left the Company. This representative record was accomplished at all my employers by:
a. Taking an active interest in each employee's career path.
I realized very early in my CFO career that if you demonstrate true interest in the employee, he or she will perform better, care more about the company and even have a better attendance record. I begin taking this interest immediately upon being named a company's CFO. Within my first week, I distribute a questionnaire to each Financial Department employee (no matter the size of the Department) and require each person to complete and return the questionnaire to me within a relatively short period of time. The questions include probing as to his or her likes and dislikes about their current position and the Company in general; suggested responsibility and systems changes; but the most important question deals with the employee's career aspirations.
Within the next month or two, I spend time with each individual to discuss the responses. Besides obtaining excellent ideas as to potential system enhancements, I get a quick read on the general attitude of the staff with regard to their jobs and the organization. The majority of each meeting is spent on the employee's career aspirations.
Two perfect illustrations that demonstrate how this process adds to employee job satisfaction and ultimately, will dramatically reduce the employee turnover rate occurred while I was the CFO of a medical supplies and equipment distributor.
When I met with the Accounts Payable Manager, she explained that she really disliked her current position and was more interested in becoming a controller and possibly growing into a CFO role someday. I told her that we had many important accounts payable system enhancement projects to complete, but if she would be helpful in expediting these projects and training a senior accounts payable clerk to replace her as the department manager, I would try give her more and more controllership assignments. Within a short period of time she was promoted to assistant controller and ultimately became a controller.
During the meeting with the Credit and Collection Manager, she clearly showed her love for her job and wanted to become more of an expert in this area. I helped her gain accreditation in her field and spent time teaching her how to better read and analyze financial statements and the applicable footnotes. After our employer was acquired by a multi- billion distributor, she moved up very rapidly in the parent company's Credit and Collection Department.
b. Educating the Financial Department employees.
Upon entering a new organization, a new hire is trained in the specific required tasks and systems. Too many times, I have noticed that the person is not given enough information about the employer's operations, financial history or current and future company goals. The clerical employees rarely understand "how their piece of the pie fits the entire pie". Many times, this lack of understanding leads to frustration and eventually unnecessary employee turnover.
I combat this problem by conducting regularly scheduled Financial Department meetings (generally, on a monthly basis). Some of these meetings might be mostly informative (e.g. I arrange for a "guest speaker" like the Director of Marketing, the CIO, the VP of Sales or even the CEO to speak about his or her role in the Company's operations and to answer any questions from the "floor") while other meetings are more participatory (e.g. distributing the 10-K for study and then, having a "college bowl" contest with the winning team getting lunch on me). Additionally, I would have each small functional head give a synopsis of the advances on the various projects that were made during the previous month. At all my employers, these meetings quickly became a monthly highlight for most of the attending participants and added greatly to employee morale.
c. Cross training.
There are two huge benefits to cross training the Financial Department's clerical staff (e.g. having an accounts payable clerk become proficient in processing the payroll, teaching an employee who enters cash receipts to enter vendor invoices or cut disbursement checks). First, you create more depth and flexibility within your organization. Should a valued employee take an extended vacation, become ill or leave suddenly, you can easily substitute a cross trained employee into the missing spot on a temporary or permanent basis. Second, you have enhanced greatly the staff's marketability by adding to their resume of skills. Once again, I guarantee the appreciation for such cross training will show in their overall performance and attitude.
Not only has this methodology worked well in the Financial Department, but numerous other fellow senior managers in other departments have attempted to emulate it and have achieved equally successful results.
So now, I have shared my secret formula for maximizing my employers' profits and enterprise value. Remember, I truly believe you will look like a hero and show a major improvement in your company's profitability if you are passionate and utilize this four-pronged approach:
1. Understand fully an entity's operations and develop the key financial metric that truly makes it "tick".
2. Educate the management team about finances and have them "take ownership" of their operations.
3. Create scalability in the Financial Department through automation.
4. Eliminate costly employee turnover.


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Elyas Willum is the son of Lord Willum. He has one brother, Josua.[1]
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Elyas is part of Renly Baratheon's army encamped beneath the walls of Bitterbridge. During the feast he argues with his brother, Josua, over who will be the first to scale the walls of King's Landing.[1]
House Willum goes over to Stannis Baratheon after Renly's death. Lord Willum and both his sons are captured at the Battle of the Blackwater and later bent the knee to King Joffrey I Baratheon.[2]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 A Clash of Kings, Chapter 22, Catelyn II.
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Music, Physics and Engineering
Dover Publications, 1967 - Music - 460 pages
This extraordinarily comprehensive text, requiring no special background in physics, math or music, discusses the nature of sound waves, musical instruments, musical notation, acoustic materials, elements of sound reproduction systems — from the telephone to stereo sound systems — and electronic music. "Very thorough, and full of well-presented facts." — Musical Times. Includes 376 figures.
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Western Kentucky NFL Prospect Derrius Brooks Runs 4.29 at Pro Day
Derrius Brooks who has spent time in Cincinnati at Ignition training for his NFL Pro Day ran a verified 4.29 forty yard dash. His verified 4.29 40 yard dash would rank as the fastest player at the 2012 NFL Combine. Congrats to Derrius on his strong performance. Read the article from wkusports.com on Derrius's strong performance below.
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Durban is experiencing renewed demand for development
Durban is one of the fastest-growing urban areas in South Africa. Among a string of accolades, it has been voted as the best city to live in for three consecutive years in the International Mercer Quality of Living Survey, in addition to placing first in Africa in the 2016 Knight Frank International Residential City.
Index for Residential Investment Performance, and one of the top 50 cities globally. Over the last two decades, Durban has experienced unprecedented growth. The relocation of King Shaka International Airport and a series of property development initiatives north of the CBD have created a momentum that is driving the development of the North Coast, one of KwaZulu-Natal's primary growth corridors. The success of uMhlanga Ridge, which has attracted major local and international investment into the area, has acted as a pivotal catalyst. Michael Deighton, managing director of Tongaat Hulett Developments, attributes the demand for residential infill as one of the drivers that led to the development of the area, and in turn, contributed toward fuelling commercial development. He says that there is an urgent and growing trend for mixed-used, mixed-income precinct development, "and Umhlanga Ridge is an example of responding to the need for integrated urban transformation". In the 65km stretch between Umhlanga Rocks and the Thukela River, Tongaat Hulett are facilitating, on the back of existing provincial and municipal spatial plans and strategic initiatives, the transformation of urban spaces towards a new, integrated and community-centred urban footprint. Examples of such developments currently underway include Bridge City and Cornubia, both of which can be considered as catalytic in their own right. There, new benchmarks are being set for mixed-use, mixed-income hubs that take an inclusionary approach to commercial and residential development. This is due to the influx of people into urban nodes, according to Deighton, who says: "There is a rising demand for affordable housing, catering to people with a joint monthly household income of between R5 000 and R24 000. An expanding infrastructure is connecting people more efficiently and both Cornubia and Bridge City will offer affordable housing opportunities, creating sustainability among communities." Deighton's sentiment is positive. "Demand for development in the region is evident; in the 1 042 hectare Sibaya Coastal Precinct the market response has been exceptional. Primarily residential, the Precinct is creating an important link northwards between the city and the emerging aerotropolis region around Dube TradePort and King Shaka International Airport."
Demand for retirement solutions is also extremely high and the North Coast offers many opportunities for growth in this sector. As champions of Retire KZN, an online campaign, Tongaat Hulett is working to identify and activate opportunities to support retirement demands.
Attributing the desirability of the area to a number of reasons, not least of which is location, Deighton says: "Our close link to Johannesburg, extensive fibre-optic and telecommunications networks, vast rail and road infrastructure and the GO Durban! Integrated Rapid Public Transport Network being rolled out across the metropolis make Durban a Smart City. Economic growth and development is healthy and the unbeatable lifestyle on offer here makes Durban an attractive investment option."
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CUSTOMTOOLS 2017 SP1 is on his way and about to be released. If you are interested in learning more about the new features that were introduced in CUSTOMTOOLS 2017 then we would recommend you to watch the two webinars that we had Part 1 and Part 2.
In the CT 2017 SP1 over 150 SPRs were fixed and also new features were introduced:
- Bend sheet: Creates an additional drawing sheet with a flatten view that contains bending dimensions and notes.
- Tasks: Run different tasks from the Print & Convert. The tasks can be used to run massive operations on your files. Currently there are three tasks that have been added:
- Rename STEP files with custom properties: Use custom properties value to rename the child component of an assembly during the conversion to STEP, allowing you to give more meaningful name to the child components.
- DXF Cleaning: Removes extra lines that are not needed when creating a DXF (e.g. countersink lines, chamfer,...). The cleaning works if you create DXF from the drawings or directly from the parts.
- Hide, Show, Promote in export: The CUSTOMTOOLS Export respects if some items have been hiden, showed or promoted in SOLIDWORKS.
- Import RAL: Imports the default RAL colors to a profile or import a set of RAL Color.


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Kempsey Mower Racing Club will be on show at this year's Billy Carts Classic. Giving a demo on the road for 'pre-race' entertainment, they will then head out to the back paddock for a 'race demo'.
These "Mowers" (with no cutting decks!) can have up to between 450cc – 700cc motors in them, reaching break-neck speeds. Talk about big boys and their toys!!
Apparently any back yard mower can join the club, simply by dropping the cutting deck and reducing the size of the belt…find out more on Race day at the Beechwood Billy Cart Classic on November 6th!


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Must have at least a minor in the Content Language. Applicants must pass required exams to upgrade to Full License.
As of 2016, No Basic Skills Exams Required
In most states, teachers are required to complete training in education methods through a teacher program.
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The city situated at the heart of the Adriatic is a promised land for people who want to enjoy the crystal clear sea and who prefer a dynamic and interesting vacation. For such guests, the citizens of Biograd have built a modern tennis centre, and enriched the city's offer by introducing a number of other sports and recreational activities - waterslides, water skiing, surfing, beach volleyball, rent a boat, diving, basketball, handball, bocce, mini golf, indoor football, etc. Swimming in pristine sea is possible only hundred metres from the city centre –you can find numerous sand and pebble beaches which offer a vast selection of outdoor activities in the shade of pine forests. On the other hand, those who do prefer solitude should pay a visit to arboretum islets in the Pašman Channel. Each visitor can find a beach that fits his preferences or age in Biograd.
Located on the coast half way between the northernmost and southernmost point of the Croatian Adriatic, the city of Biograd is the ideal starting point for further tourist expeditions of the
Sports and Recreation
Biograd has a large offer of sports and recreational activities. Just a 10 minutes' walk from downtown, you can find a tennis centre in the shade of a pine forests next to the nearby beaches
Located in the most indented part of the Adriatic Sea, and the area with the largest number of islands and several national and nature parks, Biograd is an ideal starting point for sailors. It has a
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Biograd has terrific public beaches just within reach, connected with the city centre by a promenade. Bošana Beach is located on the northern edge of the city, stretching right in front of
As many will agree, swimming in the sea and a walking along the seashore and through the pine forests is already a wellness treatment by itself. But, what if you want to reward yourself with a
The sea around Biograd is an ideal destination for diving experts, enthusiasts, and for those taking their first steps in the exploration of sea depths. When it comes to scuba diving, many
Lovers of sport and recreational fresh or saltwater fishing will find the perfect spots to practice their hobby in the city of Biograd. In the city's hinterland, just five kilometres from the
Biking enthusiasts have numerous opportunities to enjoy their sport in the nearest vicinity of the city of Biograd. Of course, those who are not as fit can take a ride to nearby villages such as
If key factors like beach vicinity, pine forest camping, clean and uncluttered environment, and good facilities determine your choice of a vacation campsite, then you will certainly find one that
The semi-submarine may look like a real submarine but it doesn't submerge. This "mascot of the Biograd archipelago" is an excellent choice for families with small children, although
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A Spotted Redshank in partial breeding plumage was in the RSPB Nature Conservation Area, Harbour Estate this morning (Chris Sturgeon)
An osprey spent an hour last Saturday afternoon fishing in Goblusk Bay, Lower Lough Erne (Dr. Hutchinson via Brad Robson).
This morning at Killard there were 3 pairs of Wheatear, 10+ Whimbrel and a White Wagtail (Norma Perceval-Price).
Adult Little Gull, Greenshank, Little Egret, 32 Common Tern, 144 Black-tailed Godwit and a White Wagtail at Collector's Bay, Quoile this afternoon (Chris Murphy).
A Common Sandpiper was at Murlough (Shelagh Henry).
The first 2 Swift of the year were at Roe Valley Hospital (David McCool)
The first 2 Swift of the year were at Roe Valley Hospital (David McCool)
14 Waxwing were at Wyncairn in Larne (Betty Foster).
136 Pale-bellied Brent were along the Outer Ards including 52 south of Ballyhalbert. 2 Whimbrel were south of Portavogie and 20 Sandwich Tern on Cockle Island (Margaret Adamson)
A Red Kite with a red wing-tag on the right wing was at Capanagh (Cameron Moore).
Yesterday, 3 Waxwing spent the day at New Mossley in Newtownabbey (Ken Moore) and 2 Gadwall and 10 Hooded Crow were at Portmore Lough, with 100 Pied Wagtail roosting in the reed bed to the right of the hide (Mark Smyth).
Lower lough Erne Islands RSPB reserve in land-locked Fermanagh this morning had 1 adult Pale- bellied Brent, 1 Turnstone, 1 Ringed Plover, 74 Black-tailed Godwit, 73 Whimbrel, 52 White Wagtail and 2 Sandwich Tern back at the breeding site (Brad Robson)
Five swift were flying around The Mall, Armagh (Alistair Prentice)
35-40 Brent, 8 Mallard, 4 Shelduck, 8 Oystercatcher, 2 Redshank, 10 Ringed Plover, 2 Eider and 25-30 Turnstone were at Carnlough (Mervyn Campbell).
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I'm not a morning person.
The alarm going off is like screw driver plunging into my ear.
It's like I'm a baby seal and the alarm is a hunter with a club.
The alarm going off some mornings frightens me. I slap at the clock while my heart beats with the rhythm of a Motorhead song. By the time I finally get the alarm off by dropping it into an industrial grinder, I'm halfway on the floor with my heart in my throat like an undigested piece of pork chop from supper the night before.
I am not a morning person.
When the sky is still dark then I should be staring at the inside of my eyelids, not at my bedroom ceiling wondering if that spot just moved.
I should not have to look at my clock until the first number is at least an 8. If I'm seeing a 6 or less my brain is still a soup of half-remembered dreams, lyrics from that song I heard at lunch time yesterday and the invention I came up with when I was 23 for a car whose glove box is refrigerated to hold a selection of cheeses and Italian luncheon meats.
Morning and I are not friends. I don't go to its birthday parties and it doesn't come to my poker night. When the clock strikes noon morning sneers one last look of contempt at me and I flip it the bird. We are in our neutral corners for the rest of the day.
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Wrong, wrong, wrong attitude. Most of us are such Marthas! As I picked up a couple of my kids at "Strings Camp" this afternoon (where they play the violin and cello), I found myself listening to the other moms: "It so nice to get the kids out of the house for a while." "When this camp is over this week, we are doing Art camp next week." "I feel like I am in the car all day driving to this practice or that friend's house or the pool, but it is sooooo good to keep the kids busy . . ." Hearing all their comments, I felt myself ready to chime in in agreement. After all, there I was with my children at camp, too. But something didn't feel right. Is it our job as mothers to just keep the kids busy?
Although keeping the kids busy is not so bad in itself, I believe that many of us moms fall into that parenting trap of thinking that keeping kids busy and out of trouble is equivalent to good parenting.
In reality, this is a Martha approach to taking care of our kids. I use the term "Martha" loosely here to refer to busyness–like the Martha in the Bible. I suspect most of us need to take a more Mary approach in our homes. What needs and priorities do our kids have? Are we taking time to meet these or are we just filling their time with activities to keep them out of our hair?
Of course this extends more importantly into our own personal lives. Do we find ourselves just busying our own lives, going from one task to the next? When our personal lives are more reflective and thoughtful and our priorities are in order, this can't help but spill over into the lives or our children.
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SPIEGEL Interview with George Soros 'The Economy Fell off the Cliff'
George Soros, 78, has made billions as a hedge-fund manager and investor. SPIEGEL spoke with him about the current financial crisis, how he expects President-elect Barack Obama to respond to the economic disaster and the responsibilities borne by speculators.
SPIEGEL: Mr. Soros, in spite of massive interventions by governments and federal banks the financial crisis is getting worse. The stock markets are in free fall, millions of people could lose their jobs. More and more companies are in trouble, from General Motors in Detroit to BASF in Ludwigshafen. Have you ever seen anything like it?
Soros: Never. I find the present situation dramatic and overwhelming. In my latest book The New Paradigm for Financial Markets: The Credit Crisis of 2008 I predicted the worst financial crisis since the 1930s. But to tell you the truth: I did not actually anticipate that it would get as bad as it did. It has gone beyond my wildest imagination.
George Soros has made a fortune with hedge funds. "I find the present situation dramatic and overwhelming."
Soros: I think that the dark comes before dawn. The financial markets are under great pressure because of the lack of leadership during the transition period. In the next two months, the markets will experience maximum pressure. Then we will see some initiatives from the Obama administration. How long the crisis lasts will depend on the success of these measures.
SPIEGEL: The markets don't seem to have much confidence in the new president -- in stark contrast to the enthusiasm in the population. Since Election Day on November 4, stocks have fallen by almost 20 percent.
Soros: I have great hopes for Barack Obama. But at the time of the election the financial community had not yet fully grasped the magnitude of the economic decline. They did not anticipate that the default of Lehman Brothers would cause cardiac arrest in the markets. The economy fell off the cliff, you begin to see mangled bodies lying at the bottom.
SPIEGEL: Was it a policy mistake to let Lehman Brothers go bankrupt?
SPIEGEL: Will there be more victims?
Soros: Possibly. CitiBank, one of the worlds largest banks, is currently at the center of attention (eds. note: The $300 billion US government plan to stabilize CitiBank had not been approved by the time of this interview). There are some other bodies lined up for potential trouble. The situation is very similar to the 1930s -- but it is going to unfold differently. We have learned not to allow the financial market to collapse. We will spend all the money in the world to prevent that from happening.
SPIEGEL: Obama is supposed to save the banks, bail out the auto industry and boost the economy in general. Can a single person ever live up to such high expectations?
Soros: Perhaps not, but the problems can be handled much better than they have been by the current administration.
SPIEGEL: Currently, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson is in charge of the bail-out. What are your misgivings about his performance?
Soros: He reacted to problems as they arose; he had no capacity to anticipate them. When he allowed Lehman Brothers to fail, the breakdown of the financial markets found him totally unprepared. He went to Congress not with a plan but with a plan to develop a plan. And the plan he had in mind -- to purchase toxic assets -- was ill-conceived. Injecting equity capital into the banking system made much more sense and he eventually came to see that, but again he went about it in the wrong way. Then he stopped doing anything, leaving a vacuum in leadership, and the markets collapsed.
SPIEGEL: What are your expectations for the next Secretary of the Treasury?
Soros: I think we need a large stimulus package which will provide funds for state and local government to maintain their budgets -- because they are not allowed by the constitution to run a deficit. For such a program to be successful, the federal government would need to provide hundreds of billions of dollars. In addition, another infrastructure program is necessary. In total, the cost would be in the 300 to 600 billion dollar range.
SPIEGEL: In addition to the $700 billion bailout for the financial industry?
Financial manager George Soros worries about a leadership vacuum during the transition from President George W. Bush to President-elect Barack Obama.
SPIEGEL: Your proposal would be dismissed on Wall Street as "big government." Republicans might call it European-style "socialism."
Soros: That is exactly what we need now. I am against market fundamentalism. I think this propaganda that government involvement is always bad has been very successful -- but also very harmful to our society.
SPIEGEL: Would you advise the new president to say that publicly?
Soros: He has already spoken about changing the political discourse. I think it is better to have a government that wants to provide good government than a government that doesn't believe in government.
SPIEGEL: However, even a strong government can't perform miracles. It needs money from the taxpayers. There is a lot of talk in the US about the new role of the state and the government -- but no one seems to be willing to pay for it. Obama has announced to cut taxes for 95 percent of working Americans. Isn't that a contradiction?
- Part 1: 'The Economy Fell off the Cliff'
- Part 2: "I Always Play by the Rules"


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Chris Pratt says movies help people to escape real-life worries
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American actor Chris Pratt has claimed that 'Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom' is the sort of "two-hour chunk" of entertainment that people need to escape their real-life concerns
Chris Pratt thinks 'Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom' is the sort of "two-hour chunk" of entertainment that people need to escape real-life worries.
The 38-year-old actor has reprised the role of Owen Grady for the new movie, and Chris has revealed why he thinks people ought to watch the JA Bayona-directed film.
Speaking to Channel 24, Chris explained: "Science and technology and profit ... it's a dangerous mix. And so if you put them all together, if you look at how it's relevant, you can point to a lot of areas in the world today where those three things are being mixed in a way that's potentially catastrophic.
"That's why we need amazing, two-hour chunks of entertainment at the movies. So come and enjoy our catastrophe so you can escape your own."
Meanwhile, Bayona recently hailed the influence of the franchise's creator Steven Spielberg, saying he has helped to hold the 'Jurassic World' series together.
Bayona, 43, believes Spielberg has helped to bring continuity to the film series, which has used a number of different directors over the years.
He explained: "I think in these movies you have a voice, which is Steven Spielberg.
"I think he created the franchise, he supervised all the movies and he is, all the time, supervising the biggest decisions, the most important decisions. We're always taking consideration of that.
"I think somehow he set up the tone and the mood, and for me that was the reference. Expanding the story that he did in the first movie. I was doing 'Jurassic World 2' but I was also doing 'Jurassic Park 5'."


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|Flowers are 100% a perk of hospital stays (From here)
Thank you all so much for being so caring and supportive over the last week. Your messages and little checks on me helped tons. My operation to help alleviate the symptoms of my DVT went well as far as we can tell for the moment so I'm doing my best to feel positive in this tricky period of recovery. I am now home but being in hospital was quite a humbling experience for me. It wasn't my first time but the characters I met during this stay were much more significant to me as they were going through similar versions of my condition. There was a bit of a community feeling going on in that respect. I noted down the following during my hospital stay last week about the little lessons I have learnt, some more meaningful than others...
- It is important to feel appreciative of the fact that wherever you are in your journey, there's always someone else who is only at the beginning of the turmoil. Feel lucky that you've come so far.
- The longer you're on a ward, the more vocal you feel entitled to be. The lady next to me has been here a couple of months and she's definitely self-elected leader of this bay's pack.
- You can pretty much never trust the custard served.
- Try not to underestimate the kindness of strangers. I had a difficult time a couple of nights. The first, a couple of family members of different patients came over to my bed, gave me a hug and some tissues, helped me out with my legs and chatted to me until I felt settled. The second time, it was 4am, the other patients could tell I was having a hard time when I called for help, and despite the fact that they were in ridiculous pain themselves and I'd probably woken them up, they mentored me through the next bit, telling me what medication to ask for, to breathe deeply to keep calm and counted with me to focus my mind elsewhere. It was comforting to be amongst people who cared that much, despite their own troubles.
- People who work in hospitals have such demanding jobs. I'm sure some of the doctors who treated me didn't leave the hospital at all the entire time I was there. Their families must get fed up but they must love their jobs.
- Being able to open your bowels normally is an utter luxury I tell you.
- Visiting hours are an uplifting time, with the breaking of routine and noise and colour from outside, except when you see the lonely people and feel sad that nobody is with them.
- Life is much better without a fuzzy head, especially when it means you can read. Books are marvellous transporters.
Have you realised anything new recently? How do you cope with being in hospital?


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I recently received an email update from Hubspot broadcasting a "[compilation of] 101 marketing charts and graphs based on original research and data…from our 2,500 business customers." Intrigued, I downloaded the slides and skimmed the data, collected from over 11 individual studies.
The presentation that snagged my interest was Real-Time Marketing and PR by David Meerman Scott. He contacted all Fortune 100 companies and measured their response time. Taking into account these companies' sizes and responsibilities, I was still shocked to discover that over half of the companies, 61%, did not respond. Of the 39% that did respond, the average time was one to three days.
Of the companies with the fastest response times, Hewlett-Packard, Publix Super Markets, and State-Farm Insurance all responded within 1-2 hours. The company that took the dubious honor of slowest response time [at least they returned the call!] was Kraft Foods, with a response time of two weeks.
What can we learn from these results? First, that our leading businesses are still in dire need of efficient customer service. Second, that standard models of business need to be redefined to take "real time engagement" into account.
As I've expressed in previous blogs, social media has presented customers with the opportunity to expect real time – immediate – responses. The old way of sending out press releases or company statements – where they would have to be proofread and approved by a legal department – is not viable. These companies understand the risks social media invites [loss of control over company image], but rather than embrace better customer service, they avoid these mediums.
Another option is capitalizing "silence" – such as waiting on hold or in a waiting room. Through video, audio greetings, or visual print, you can share information with your data-hungry customers. By allocating resources efficiently, businesses can use the power of voice and media to provide solutions for their customers.
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Thursday, June 06, 2013
Your taxes at work
Yet some of our poorest peoples' taxes go towards private schools. That is posh schools for rich people. But posh schools have turned into working class schools where people who 'work hard and both work two jobs to send my children to a good school' send their children. I shouldn't dis private schools as Sister is a teacher at a posh private school, and Little Jo's welfare depends on Sister's income, well Bone Doctor's too, her other mother. Little Jo may not get a sweet treat at the time of her choosing now, or that new toy, or a meal from the Scottish Restaurant but she will never really have to really worry about money. Lucky her. Most of my life, I have had to worry about money, the lack of it. While I have enough now, it is still a concern with R in semi retirement. Anyway, Sister took the first teaching job she could get and stuck at it. Normally quite vocal, she doesn't say much when I go on one of my funding by the public of private schools rants. Nor does the privately educated Bone Doctor.
I am not sure if I think it is wonderful to have enough money, or I want to go back to the French Revolution where they chopped their heads off the rich who would let them eat cake.
I am thinking of the parents dropping their kiddies off at Melbourne Grammar School. They cause terrible street congestion. They make illegal U turns. They park where they can find. They delay the tram along the street. I hate them. Yet when I see their angelic sons getting out of the cars, my heart melts, for a nano second. After their son has picks up his school bag and sports equipment from the back of his parent's SUV/4WD, with a tailgate that rises ever so gently, and then lowers by an electric motor, I wonder about the so called egalitarian Australia.
That some state government schools are so neglected and desperately need funds, yet the government ploughs money into already rich private schools and this is intolerable, in my view. You can see exactly where are governments are taking education. In time only the very poorest in society will go to state owned schools, the rest will be privately educated, mostly by religious institutions.
The above was written some time ago and I am sure you find me banging on about the massive subsidising of private schools by the lowest of taxpayers, quite tedious.
But how much money do private schools get? So much they feel obliged to give some back apparently, as Melbourne's Wesley College has done. Of course they can afford to be generous when their property speculation has so successful.
''Wesley paid about $400,000 for this piece of land back in the mid '90s when they acquired it from VicRoads - they are now seeking to develop it for upwards of $30 million,'' Cr Lake said. ''Here is a private school that has basically been given a gift by the Victorian taxpayer and they are now wanting to turn that gift into significant profit.''
Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/national/education/parents-neighbours-wage-war-against-wesley-20111206-1oh9n.html#ixzz2UlykDDQx
Unrelated, and to show my political bias is not as strong as you may think, tabloid tv this week tried to pillory ex premier Baillieu over him having a government supplied car and driver. The usual, snouts in the trough. I don't mind Teddy Baills being pilloried, but for the right reasons. He is entitled to the car and a driver, so attack the politicians who make the rules, not the person who takes advantage of them. It is Baillieu's right and he would be mad to not take advantage of it, no matter how personally rich he is.
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Don't get me started on private schools, I will never understand why they get any government funding at all, they charge the earth.ReplyDelete
All the people I know who went to private schools think their education was somehow better than anyone who went to a public school because their parents paid for it not because they worked hard and learnt stuff.
Although the idea of wealthy private schools seems ideologically unsound and financially ruinous to the community, they shouldn't be closed down. Since 25% of the school-aged population doesn't go to government schools, I would give those schools EXACTLY the same amount of money per child that the government gives to state schools per child.ReplyDelete
That would be financially equitable, plus it would allow parents to give their children the special religious background they choose.
What is totally immoral, in my opinion, is that private schools receive much MORE per child than do government schools. If the tax payers didn't have to fund posh private schools' swimming pools, fancy tennis courts and excursions to Paris, the parents at the private schools would have to pay themselves. Or not. It wouldn't be the tax payers' problem.Replies
Hels, won't that see more and more kids going to private schools?Delete
I am sure you know my views on religion, and if it must be taught out of a historical and cultural context, then I don't think it should be done by schools that are there to educate and I certainly don't think it should be subsidised by taxpayers.
Of course the lavishness of the few really top private schools and them receiving quite a bit of government money is what really gets up people's noses. Tax deductible building funds indeed.
let us say that it costs the government $1000 per child per year in a government school and $10,000 per child per year in a private school. If the government gave EVERY school in the state $1,500 per child per year, _regardless of which school they attend_, how could that possibly end up seeing more and more kids going to private schools? Au contraire, since the parents in private schools would have lost all that extra subsidy.
Hels, I don't believe that private school children are subsidised more than state schools. In fact I think I think the ratio might be more like state educated kids might cost $10,000 against private of $1000. I don't recall bad feeling towards Catholic schools when they began the ball rolling by being subsidised by the Whitlam government, I think. But when people seeing money going to Grammar, Scotch, Xavier, etc, that is when they get cross, or in my case, very cross. Lower fees can be asked from parents too, if they contribute to the school building fund, which is tax deductible for the parents. So, the government pays more subsidy and the parents lower fees while they contribute tax deductible donations to build the third swimming pool. I just seethe.Delete
Makes no sense to me at all Andrew. You choose to send your snotty kid to a private school, you pay the price, quite literally. Government should have no say or stake in them at all, even if they do relieve state schools on som level.ReplyDeleteReplies
Craig, in a previous rant about private schools, I mentioned 'snotty nosed school kids', and one from Melbourne Grammar jumped in in comments and had taken great offence, but he rather missed the point and took it as a criticism of his school. I replied, oh that all children could get the education and facilities you have and Australia would be a better place.Delete
Government's need to intervene to the point where they are sure that children are getting a good education in these private schools.
Now, I don't know about British private schools. Do the get subsided directly by taxpayers? I think not, or much less.
I'm pretty sure our private schools (known as public schools just to confuse the issue) do not receive funds. There is a new type of school here called free schools which can be set up in competition to a poorly performing state schools and they can receive local government funds if the authority sees fit.Delete
Craig, I heard something about them on the radio the other day. I wasn't paying full attention but I did not like the sound of them.Delete
"...it is wonderful to have enough money..."ReplyDelete
I agree, but we'd probably disagree on how much is enough.
I care nothing for ex-politicians and their rights. A gubmint car and driver? Pfft! Those rules are silly, it's a huge waste of money in my opinion.Replies
Easy definition River, as much money as you are used to living on. Our incomes have always been modest and we have worked hard for what we have, which is not a great deal and we certainly don't live the high life, no matter how well I paint it.Delete
Gubmint, haha. I was feeling blue, but you made me smile.
That's exactly like in Belgium ! (if that can comfort you) and we are amongst the first 3 countries in tax paying ! On top is Sweden. Your gross salary is shortened by 40 to 50 % of your income ! That's enormous !ReplyDelete
Interesting debate Andrew..when P was working full time (now semi retired) he was paying 45% of his earnings to tax, not an incentive in my opinion to work hard :) My two went to a public primary school and a private (not an exorbitantly expensive and just down the road from us private school!) high school. I can't say for sure if they received any better an education than they would have in a public high school, but at the time I felt it was worth tightening the belt (horror stories from the local public high school)for peace of mind. They've both gone on to get good jobs which they probably would have where ever they went..oh, and my opinion of SUV/4WD's is way more vocal than yours, especially since one of the ba.....s! put a dent in my wee Ford Astra at the shops the other day and didn't even leave a note, seriously who needs a car like that in the city..pillocks :)ReplyDeleteReplies
Grace, 45% is too high. It is the richer people who have the means and accountants to minimise their incomes, some even having money offshore, that need to pay so those of us who have no opportunity to reduce our income on paper and have to pay our tax as we go, could pay less.Delete
It seems to depend very much on the school as to how good the education is. We have some secondary government schools here which people move to their catchment area so that their kids can go to the local school.
I used to get stuck into people who drive SUV/4WDs, but too many, including some of my blog readers have them, so I have toned it down now. Sorry about your car.
If education funding actually went into education and not into vote-buying schemes to give individuals the money instead of the schools we wouldn't be having this conversation!ReplyDelete


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The President Steam engine and its lattice beam
In my threads of history talk on the William West, 'The Last Great Cornish Engineer' I gave a passing mention to an example of a lattice work beam in the USA. Now that the preparation for that talk is over, I have the chance to follow that thread of history, a thread that leads to events many miles away across the Atlantic.
The open lattice work beam was a design used on by William West on all his most important engines, but it was a design rarely copied by other engineers. The only two non William West lattice beams I know of is the massive Cruquius engine in the Netherlands the 'President' engine at Pennsylvania. Both engines are examples of the massive size that the Cornish Engine principle reached towards the end of its development, and both engine have indirect links with William West.
The Cruquius was the largest steam engine in the world, and the President was the largest beam engine in the USA. The latter engine had family connections with William West, so it is the history of that engine that I hope to explore in a bit more depth in this blog.
I will dig into two rich sources of material as I explore; the research of Damian Nance, and Mark Connar. I am not yet sure where this wander across the Atlantic will take this blog, but I am sure there will be some fascinating stories to uncover. So feel free to follow this blog, and enjoy the journey


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Wednesday, October 12, 2011
And now a word about romance novels
For some reason, ever since we lost power for six days, thanks to Hurricane Irene, I have been craving romance novels, specifically historical romance novels -- the kind set in Regency England. And, I am only somewhat embarrassed to say, I have now read around a half dozen such novels, by several authors (though not the two books whose covers I have featured here).
Now I know one shouldn't take these things (i.e., romance novels) too seriously, but I was shocked -- shocked, I say! -- to discover how incredibly fantastic (as in remote from reality -- though of extraordinary size would also be an accurate description, at least of some things, ahem) some of these tales were.
Herewith my shocking findings about historical romance novels (and, no doubt, more contemporary ones, too).
Fact 1: There are no flat-chested or plain-looking heroines (i.e., people like me getting swept off their feet) in most historical romance novels. While I may have thick, wavy hair the color of chestnuts and lovely green eyes fringed with dark lashes, my otherwise average countenance, diminutive breasts (which I have yet to hear described as "full, round, and luscious, ready to spill out of her gown") and sagging derriere, or buttocks (which likewise has yet to be described as "enticingly plump yet firm," at least anywhere I've heard about), I fear, pretty much disqualify me from being the heroine of, object of affection in, or cover model for any romance novel. (I am now throwing myself onto my settee, heaving tears of regret and longing.)
Fact 2: Apparently aristocrats had personal trainers back in the day and those dungeons were in actuality fully-equipped workout gyms. For how else could you possibly explain all the male heroes in these novels -- dukes, earls, and lords, almost all of whom are in their late 30s or early 40s -- having such hard, taut chests and fine muscular arms whose solid thighs (and, uh, other things) nicely filled out their breeches? (Unless they were gay. Which, come to think of it....)
Fact 3: There is no such thing as male pattern baldness in historical romance. (See "Women with small breasts and plain faces.") Not only have these forty-something pillars of masculinity been working out with Jack LaLanne, they are all clearly members of the Hair Club for Men, for how else can you explain the head of thick, luxurious hair which complements their chiseled jaws, green eyes the color of a storm-tossed sea, and six-pack abs?
Fact 4: To properly seduce a man, you must be a lady in public and a whore in the boudoir. (Actually, that one rings true, at least today.)
Fact 5: I am pretty sure snuff was the early 19th century term for Cialis or Viagra (at least in romance novels). For how else can you explain the ability of a forty- (or fifty-) something gentleman (who, more often than not, is no gentleman) to pleasure his lady, repeatedly, all night? Also, I find it amusing that in all of these novels, the "hero" knows exactly how to pleasure his lady, so that she is sighing with delight at the mere touch of his strong, knowing fingers. And, of course, he only takes his pleasure after she has taken hers. Uh huh. (On the plus side, I much prefer the term manhood to penis.)
So, what do you think, people, time for me to pen my first romance novel?
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I just finished a book that I thought was more Historical than Romance that I got at the last book swap. PORN!!!! It was PORN!!!
- October 12, 2011 at 9:35 AM
- Dave S. said...
I have no comment except to suggest an amending of one tag to "book nookie."
- October 12, 2011 at 11:22 AM
- jjv said...
My sister is a model. About a dozen years ago I was in a supermarket and saw her on a romance novel cover being lifted on to a horse by a chiseled aristocrat. I called her up and said "wow, you sure were more endowed in the 16th century." So even the models are artistically enhanced!
- October 19, 2011 at 7:55 PM
I will freely admit to still loving romance novels though I don't read them as much as I used to. Authors like Mary Jo Putney, Jo Beverley, Mary Balogh and Lisa Kleypas usually manage to play with the conventions without getting too silly.
Though you may be interested to know that there's a little something to the "heaving bosoms" idea:
I can't find the reference online, but apparently it was not uncommon for less-endowed ladies to use a little padding in their stays to improve on what nature gave them.
- Mnemosyne
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No question of withdrawing BSF camps from Malkangiri: DGP
Koraput: Odisha Police on Monday rejected the Maoists demand of withdrawing BSF camps from Chitrakonda area, the Naxal hot-bed of Malkangiri district, while the state government stressed on the augmentation of developmental activities in the Southern districts.
Director General of Police (DGP) Prakash Mishra said the Maoists blasted a landmine killing four BSF jawans out of frustration as the government did not withdrew the para- military force as per their demand. The maoists hand are tied due to presence of BSF jawans in the area, the DGP claimed.
Odisha's home secretary V K Saxena and DGP Mishra today reviewed the ongoing anti-Maoist operations in Southern districts of Koraput, Malkangiri, Nabarangpur and Rayagada here six days after the killing of BSF jawans.
Focusing on the cut-off area of Malkangiri district where launch service was stalled from August 21 to 30 to the 151 villages in and around Balimela reservoir reportedly for Maoist threat, the DGP said, As three new BSF camps were established in the Chitrakonda area, the Maoists out of frustration halted the launch service expecting that by this we will withdraw forces. However, question of withdrawing forces from Chitrakonda doesnt arise.
Describing the Maoist offensive of August 27 as unfortunate, the DGP rejected alleged lapses in intelligence failure and said steps will be taken to ensure such incidents doesn't occur.
According to the DGP as the Maoist activities has been contained to a good extent in Narayanpatna and Bandhugaon blocks of Koraput district, the Naxals were in search of an oppourtinty to hit back and they succeeded in attacking the BSF convoy.
The home secretary said development and security goes hand in hand in the Maoist-hit districts and more emphasis is given to rural connectivity and electrification of villages.
Earlier on the day, the DGP held meeting with the SPs, collectors of the four districts and top BSF officials regarding Maosit activites in the area.


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AceShowbiz - %cTommy Lee% is acting gentle by issuing public apology for the weekend MTV VMAs brawl.
While people are still questioning on what made them involved in the fight, Lee insisted it all started because %cKid Rock% was jealous of his relationship with their ex-wife %cPamela Anderson%.
In a message posted on his official Website, the %cMotley Crue% drummer tried to explain on what was really going on during the awards event, writing "Pamela comes and sits on my lap who I love and adore ..... so I get a tap on the shoulder from Kid Pebble...i stand up and embrace him with a semi hug and say "Hey dude...What up"?? He punches me in the face."
Lee, moreover, also apologized to singer %cAlicia Keys% who was performing on stage when the unfortunate suddenly took place, saying "i apologize sweetie.....i had nothing to do with the timing and disrespect, ......back to the stupid-ness!!"
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The Radical Pragmatist Looks at Healthcare, Especially Insurance
Posted by By Andrew Stein at 20 September, at 22 : 17 PM Print
OK, you caught me stalling. Healthcare is incredibly controversial and massively important. I have identified some issues which the Radical Pragmatist can help address the healthcare debacle in the U.S. In this column I will give you my argument and the macro issues; in my next one I will tackle some details related to lowering the costs.
Economists define insurance as a form of risk management used to hedge against the risk of a contingent loss. Another way of viewing insurance is as the equitable transfer of the risk of a loss, from one entity to another, in exchange for a premium, and can be thought of as a guaranteed and known small loss to prevent a large, possibly devastating loss.
Healthcare has come a long way from leaches and purges. Until the twentieth century healthcare did not do a whole lot for us. It was easy to pass the costs off to the individual or, more likely, the family. For the most part people got sick, you performed palliative care, they died, and you went on. The real loss was the departed's earning power. Now healthcare can do lots to heal but the cost of it exceeds most people's earning power.
My argument is against the insurance model in the first place. Unlike fire insurance, not all houses will burn down, but all people will die and most will do so after a lifetime of treated ailments to some degree or other. Insurance is not an effective model because all policy holders will use it and the costs associated with using it are likely to be higher than a lifetime of paid premiums. Hence both the cost of healthcare and insurance has outpaced inflation for the last ten years.
Since we all get sick and will die – and all of us in America need as many healthy, living people working to make our economy function and grow – I argue that healthcare is a social cost sort of like bridges. Now those of you on the right stay with me, despite the fact I used that nasty social word. The more efficient the bridge system, the better it facilitates for goods and services; this improves our quality of life. There is no getting around the fact that bridges wear out and needs to be repaired from time to time and eventually replaced. Sounds familiar doesn't it?
I say instead of treating healthcare like a juggling act robbing Peter to pay Paul, as the insurance model does, let's look at healthcare as a systems cost not unlike transportation. While no one can predict what any individual's lifetime healthcare needs will be, we can fairly well forecast a population's lifetime healthcare needs. There will be so many traumatic accidents, cancers, heart attacks, all predictably distributed along the demographics of the U.S. population.
The job of government should be to create a system that recognizes this and focuses on cost containment, efficient healthcare delivery and, the big one in my book, the bulk purchase of healthcare goods and services to gain economies of scale and ultimately the best price.
We can achieve these goals through efficiency of processes, competitive bidding, tax incentives and I know what will really make some of you cringe a public option. The key word here is option. If you believe in the free market then creating a public option to increase competition should not bother you at all. Unless of course you own stock in a large health insurer or are an executive of one. Those profits and salaries have been pretty healthy lately.
For a public option to be successful we need to set some ground rules. First, fair competion. That means no breaks for the public insurer that others don't get, except the low cost of capital the government can access. Second, eliminate pre-existing conditions as an excuse not to insure. All insurance companies must offer coverage without regard to pre-existing conditions or else we will have shifted all the risk from the private sector to the American taxpayer. This is about creating competition to lower the total U.S. healthcare costs, not a corporate welfare project. Third, all residents of the United States must carry health insurance. There can be special programs for the poor the same way we have programs to make sure people can keep the electricity on in the winter. Failure to have health insurance and the premium comes out of your salary or assets like a tax lien. We all benefit from lower healthcare costs if all are covered and we all suffer for everyone who is not. By the way, if everyone had health coverage, the wait in emergency rooms will get a lot shorter.
I want to stress that nothing I have written here is particularly new or original. All I have done is taken what is out there on the World Wide Web hopefully, stripped the propaganda away and added a little common sense. I know you all will be waiting with baited breath for my next installment where I hit some details. Until then, question everything and try to be pragmatic.
Andrew Stein has worked in commercial real estate and banking since 1986. He currently consults to private companies and municipalities on real estate, finance, government, political and energy issues. Mr. Stein is Board Chairman of the $22 million Sustainable Energy Fund. He is a graduate of the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.


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There are several mid-range hotels in downtown Jacksonville located within walking distance of Hemming Plaza. One of the closest hotels to the park is Omni Jacksonville Hotel. This modern and elegantly furnished hotel provides stunning views of the St. Johns River and the city skyline. If you're not completely impressed with the view from your room, take in the panoramic views at the rooftop heated pool and sun deck. This full-service hotel also offers on-site dining, meeting space, and a 24-hour fitness center.
Hotels within walking distance of Hemming Plaza also offer convenient access to Jacksonville Landing, a large riverfront shopping, dining, nightlife, and performing arts venue. Additionally, travelers can hop aboard a water taxi at Jacksonville Landing to reach other areas of the city across the St. Johns River.
Downtown hotels are generally competitively priced throughout the year. However, the NFL's Jacksonville Jaguars stadium, EverBank Field, is also in the downtown area and room rates spike considerably when home games are happening. The stadium is only a five-minute drive or taxi ride from most downtown hotels.
A greater choice of hotels, including budget-friendly chains, is found south of the river along I-95. Like their downtown competitors, some of these hotels offer views of the river and easy access to water-taxi sites. For waterfront luxury at the best price, the Wyndham Jacksonville Riverwalk hotel often offers a 40 percent discount on last-minute bookings.
A year-round farmers' market happens at Hemming Plaza every Friday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Vendors sell fresh fruit and vegetables, flowers, jewelry, and crafts. Additionally, the park hosts an art market the first Wednesday of each month. Known as the Art Walk, this ongoing event features art vendors and live entertainment.
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The Basics
Game 1 Score: ORU 6 - SIUE 2; Game 2 Score: ORU 12 - SIUE 7
Records: ORU (4-1), SIUE (0-5)
Location: J.L. Johnson Stadium - Tulsa, Okla.
TULSA, Okla. - Despite the cold weather, the Oral Roberts University bats were hot Friday as the Golden Eagles rattled off 24 hits and two homes run in a doubleheader sweep over SIU Edwardsville at J.L. Johnson Stadium.
ORU clinched its second series of the season as the Golden Eagles improved to 4-1, while the SIUE remains winless, dropping to 0-5.
After a Matt Brandy solo home run in the bottom of the first in game one, the Golden Eagles never looked back, defeating the Cougars 6-2. In the second game, Anthony Sequeira went 4-4 with a home run, a double, five RBI and two runs scored in a 12-7 ORU victory.
Turning Point
Following two quick outs in the first game of the afternoon, Matt Brandy lifted off for his first home run of the season to put the Golden Eagles up 1-0.
Inside the Box Score
- Anthony Sequeira improved his early season average to .647 with a 1.059 slugging percentage after recording five hits in the two games. The senior also drove in five runs in game two and crossed the plate three times in the doubleheader.
- After a home run in game one, Matt Brandy added three hits in the nightcap. He scored four times and had four RBI in the two games.
- Dean Wilson recorded a hit in game one and reached safely twice in the second game.
- One of two of Rolando Martinez's hits in first game was a double, and Derrian James had a single in the contest.
- Guillermo Trujillo (1-0) had another good outing for the Golden Eagles, going six innings with four strikeouts in the game one start.
- Nathan Garza entered game one in the seventh inning and earned a three-inning save as he struck out three batters.
- Kurt Giller (2-0) allowed just one hit and struck out five in the start in game two, earning his second win of the season.
- Parker Guinn had four hits and three RBI to lead SIUE at the plate.
- Ryan Daniels and Jarrett Bednar took the losses for the Cougars in games one and two, respectively.
Scoring Summary
- Matt Brandy put the Golden Eagles on the board first in the bottom of the first with a solo home run over the left field wall.
- In the fifth, Logan Domenico extended the ORU lead to 3-0 with a two-run double down the right field line.
- Parker Guinn singled to left field to plate Denton Reed, cutting the Golden Eagle lead to 3-1 in the top of the sixth.
- A Cougar miscue in the bottom of the sixth made it a 4-1 game when Anthony Sequeira scored on an error by the shortstop.
- ORU added another run in the home half of the sixth as Rolando Martinez scored on a groundout.
- Dean Wilson made it 6-1 in the bottom of the eighth with a single to left that scored Martinez.
- An ORU error in the top of the ninth allowed the Cougars to make it a 6-2 game as Collin Book crossed the plate.
- For the third time in five games, ORU jumped out to a lead after the first inning as Brandy drove in Domenico with a single and Sequeira plated Brandy on a double to go up 2-0.
- The Golden Eagles added to their lead in the fourth as Chase Stafford reached on an error and scored on a Brandy single to make it 3-0.
- Sequeira followed Brandy with an RBI single to extend the lead to 4-0.
- Three batters later, Audie Afenir singled in Sequeira, and Noah Cummings scored on a double play to give ORU a 6-0 lead after three innings.
- In the bottom of the fourth, Sequeira launched his first home run as a Golden Eagle past the right field wall to plate Brandy and Stafford to move the lead to 9-0.
- Domenico added to the Golden Eagle lead in the bottom of the fifth with a sacrifice fly to deep center to extend the lead to 10-0.
- Mason Mantle added two more runs to bring the score to 12-0 in the bottom of the seventh with a two-run pinch hit double in his first ORU at bat.
- SIUE cut the ORU lead in half in the top of the eighth, starting with Dustin Woodcock crossing the plate following Golden Eagle error.
- Austin Verschoore followed and singled in Mario Tursi to make it 12-2.
- Parker Quinn stepped in a pulled a two-run double down the left field line, driving in Verschoore and Alec Saikal, cutting the lead to 12-4.
- Guinn scored as Jacob Stewart added another double, and Stewart came around an scored a few batters later on a wild pitch to move the score to 12-6 ORU.
- The Cougars added their final run of the game in the top of the ninth as Woodcock crossed the plate on a single to left off the bat of Collin Book.
Up Next
ORU goes for the series sweep Saturday afternoon as the Golden Eagles face the Cougars in the series finale at 2 p.m. at J.L. Johnson Stadium.
For more information and updates on ORU baseball, following @ORUBaseball on Twitter or go to ORUAthletics.com.
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I was setting in my office this morning looking at all the things that I needed to accomplish, I was so overwhelmed that I decided to pick up my guitar and spend some time worshipping the Lord. Yes, all the other tuff is still there to do, but I was lifted from the drudgery of task obligations to simply resting in His divine presence for a while. I have come to understand that worship has never really been about music or even musicianship, but rather it's about relationship. The very nature of the word worship is to engage with the Lord in a time of love and affection for who He is and what He has done in our lives. I may not be a great guitar player (and I am not, just the basics) or even a great vocalist. But what I am is a child of the living God who can come to Him with praise and thanksgiving on my lips, with hands raised in adoration of all that He has done for me. So this Sunday as you set in church and the worship team begins to sing and play, worship! I mean really worship Christ for who HE IS THE SON OF THE LIVING GOD, SAVIOR OF THE WORLD, AND GIVER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. (Read John 4:1-26)
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If you're vested in a retirement plan and still working, you may be working for less than you think, and starting another career may be the right move for you.
Montgomery is home to a number of federal and state workers who vest in retirement relatively early. If you're in your 50s or even your 40s and have reached a stage where you'd receive about the same in payments whether you kept working more years or not, effectively you're working for your paycheck MINUS that amount you'd get if retired.
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MozillaLabs has announced the release of Jetpack 0.6 earlier today through its official blog.
Jetpack is a Mozilla Labs project which makes it possible for anyone who knows standard web skills (HTML, Javascript, CSS) to make Firefox add-ons.
Jetpack 0.6 has added two major APIs to its base.They are :
- Ability to add to and edit existing menus, which includes both system-specific menus and the right-click context menu on individual objects.
- A secure preferences system, which lets you select what secure fields you need to display in your UI, like user-name, password and alike.
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Hold [Ctrl] and type Gabbi at the tactics screen during game play to enable cheat mode. The message "Cheat mode level 2 active" will appear to confirm correct code entry. Then, press one of the following codes at the indicated screen to activate the corresponding cheat function.
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All units and items visible Tactics [Alt] + E
Teleport selected merc to pointer Tactics [Alt] + T
Kill all enemies, except tanks Tactics [Alt] + O
Full action points Tactics [Alt] + D
Full ammo for selected merc Tactics [Alt] + R
Item scrolling Tactics [Alt] + W
Spawn hostile merc at pointer Tactics [Alt] + B
Spawn civillian at pointer Tactics [Alt] + C
Spawn new merc at pointerr Tactics [Alt] + G
Spawn a robot at pointer Tactics [Alt] + Y
Transform merc to bug Tactics [Alt] + 2
Transform merc to person in wheelchair Tactics [Alt] + 4
Transforms merc to a big bug Tactics [Alt] + 5
Spawn random weapon at pointer Tactics [Alt] + I
Lethal gas at pointer Tactics [Alt] + K
Show inside of buildings Tactics [Alt] + Q
Transform merc to tank Tactics [Alt] + 1
3 mercs teleport into queen's prison Tactics [Ctrl] + T
Damages -20 on under cursor placed mercs Tactics [Ctrl] + H
Heals gives full energy to mercs Tactics [Ctrl] + U
Spawn hostile bug Tactics [Ctrl] + O
Explosion at cursor Tactics [Ctrl] + K
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Subtract $10,000 Laptop [Minus]
Teleport selected mercs to any selected sector in route plan mode Map Ctrl + T
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