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Can social media help politicians engage?
Politicians have an image problem. In the main they are seen as aloof, out of touch and not particularly interested in their constituents except around election time. This lack of connection goes a long way to explaining the appeal of non-traditional parties such as UKIP, the Greens and even the Scottish Nationalists at the last election. Voters are bored with hearing the same platitudes mouthed by interchangeable MPs who think less about the long term, and more about their career. Of course, there are plenty of honourable exceptions, and, even in the case of Lord Sewel those that try and liven up the image of politicians by snorting cocaine from the breasts of prostitutes.
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- Twitter isn't just for the young. The fastest growing group of users is those between 55 and 64. So, whatever your customer demographic you should investigate joining the network
- Use it to talk, not to broadcast. Twitter works best if you spend time listening and joining/starting conversations, rather than simply pumping out your point of view
- There is no such thing as 'in a personal capacity'. We've all seen the caveats that tweets are personal and don't show any endorsement or company backing. But in reality politicians will be judged by what is tweeted in their name, and if you provide your company name then it will be too. So if you want to be wild and outrageous (but legal), get yourself a second Twitter account (or save it for Facebook).
- Be human. This goes back to talking, not shouting. Use humour and vary what you say, but do remember that spoken irony doesn't necessarily translate on screen.
- The 60 second rule. If you just learn one thing from the guide it's this. If you think your tweet is potentially contentious wait a minute, go back to it and take another look before you press send. And don't tweet while drunk.
- Your account is never hacked. The standard political argument for when a dubious tweet appears is that someone has taken the time to break into your account and tweet in your name. No-one believes this anymore – so obey the 60 second rule and you shouldn't have a problem
- Use Twitter to find information – look for specific hashtags, follow relevant people and news sources and it will ensure you are better informed. You can also use it to build relationships with new business prospects, but do bear in mind there's a fine line between proactive sales outreach and stalking.
- For politicians and their wives, I'd add an eighth point – never conduct your marital break-up over social media, but I can't imagine many people think this is a good idea at the best of times….
So for anyone in business who isn't on Twitter, or even those that are, but aren't using it to its full potential take a look at the guide and see what you can apply to your own tweeting – it may not get you elected, but it will help you engage with the right audiences and build stronger relationships.
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Home › Forums › Miscellaneous › Stop Complaining About Your Local DMV! How Would You Improve It?
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November 22, 2010 at 2:33 am #115848
Earlier this year, Saturday Night Live ran a skit that lampooned DMV employees. The clip was shared on GovLoop by Steve Radick.
DMVs seem to be an easy target as most people have encountered long lines, excruciating waits and less-than-enthusiastic personnel at some point in their lives.
So we like to complain and cajole our DMV colleagues, but how often have you used that time in line to come up with an innovative idea for improving the process?
Or maybe you already live in a city, county or state that has innovated the process and created – yes, I'm going to say it – a pleasant experience.
Of course, if you feel the need to sound off on your latest license or tag renewal, I suppose this forum could offer some catharsis.
But I am most interested in hearing positive, innovative concepts…
November 22, 2010 at 4:25 am #115900
Innovative concepts
-Motor Vehicle Networks – in Florida, they have big screen TVs run by this network that provide lots of status information on DMV. But it also shows news. And a little advertising (so the DMV doesn't have to pay for it).
-Digital renewal – normally I get a piece of paper when it is time for me to renew. I'd love to get a series of digital reminders – add it to my calendar, a series of emails, text messages, etc
-Wait times online – I've been a few times to the DMV and the wait times seem to vary a lot. It would be great to check online what are the current wait times
November 22, 2010 at 4:40 am #115898
Brian GrythParticipant
All of your ideas are great. There is the one problem, at least in Colorado, the DMV's computer systems run on computers that are antiquated at best. DMVs need hardware updates if they are going to have a prayer of serving the public. They could also use more locations and staff. Cool apps and tools are non-starters in the infrastructure is not there.
Cheers, Brian
November 22, 2010 at 12:26 pm #115896
Bill BrantleyParticipant
A simple idea that can be quickly implemented: checklists for common DMV tasks.
In October I had to transfer my car registration from Kentucky to Maryland. And yes the information is on line but it is not that easy to navigate and find the right forms. When we showed up at the office we had to drive back and forth from our home to get the documents. From the conversations in our line, this is a common occurrence for many customers.
So, why not have the information organized into a checklist that you can print out and use to guide the process? Have the necessary forms keyed into the relevant steps. Or better yet, have an entire package that you can print out for common tasks such as licensing a new driver. The information is already there; it just needs better organization.
November 22, 2010 at 12:30 pm #115894
Peter SperryParticipant
Create more career opportunities for public facing DMV employees and clearly link upword mobility into those career paths to quality of customer service. Perhaps even establsih a program to assist truly outstanding customer service reps to move up and out of governemnt into higher paying jobs in the private sector, which would set an example for their fellow workers and open slots for new workers. One of governments major weaknesses is that entirely too many employees interacting with the public on a daily basis have next to no opportuinty for promotion and therefore no meaningful motivation to to provide quality service. If 2-3 years of outstanding performance ratings in customer service led to more substantial rewards than a 2% year end bonus and a picture with the district manager, I suspect we would see dramatic improvements in customer service at DMV, TSA, IRS etc.
November 22, 2010 at 1:59 pm #115892
Katherine Clarke Radican "Casey"Participant
I have to say when I lived in Georgia I had a great experience with the DMV. I had moved there and gotten married all at the same time, and had to go through the processes of changing all my IDs and so forth. Not to mention my tags as I was transfering to a GA resident. I must say, best experiences because the License and Tag offices were seperate….it made my life easier (even if I had to make two trips) because I wasn't waiting in long lines, it simplified the processes for most people and made it something that was doable in less than an hour! Loved the concept, am missing it now in VA.
November 22, 2010 at 2:27 pm #115890
Tricia AdkinsParticipant
I'm not sure about something innovative, but I never have understood why I need to physically go down there every 4 years for a new photograph. (And, I'm pretty sure some states have a longer waiting period for renewal). Our DMV is pretty quick when it comes to issuing license plates and things of that nature but the photo process and very long and annoying. It would be nice if we could come up with something else to replace the photo process. Maybe fingerprinting or something. I can't tell you the number of times that as a younger driver I would get questioned at bars about my identity because I was at the point in my life where I changed my hair style about every other week. And most just took a passing glance at my photo anyway. So, maybe someone could come up with a way to update that process.
November 22, 2010 at 2:58 pm #115888
I really like this suggestion, Peter. I wonder how it could be practically implemented…quick survey at a kiosk on the way out the door and a gift certificate as incentive – like a free car wash or coffee at Starbucks.
November 22, 2010 at 4:22 pm #115886
Obviously would have to think of fraud issue but would be cool if you could upload a new photo yourself or quickly update the photo.
November 22, 2010 at 4:23 pm #115884
This is a great suggestion.
Defining a career path and reward structure for amazing customer service.
November 22, 2010 at 5:04 pm #115882
Christina MorrisonParticipant
As a VA resident, I love that my interaction with the DMV is online. Pay my car tax, registration even my licence. CA DMV is a great example of using Social Media to communicate and provide great customer service. Great best practice example.
November 22, 2010 at 5:12 pm #115880
Adriel HamptonParticipant
When CA DMV moved to an appointment system, it was a huge improvement. Now, it is a little confusing when you get there and find that you still need to have your appointment slot called, so there could be a little improvement made on clarifying the process at the time you book your appointment (that may have been done; I haven't been in a while).
November 22, 2010 at 5:14 pm #115878
An answer from Twitter
@GovLoop To improve the DMV I'd set up online chat assistance like banks do, driving more people to use online services & reduce lines
November 22, 2010 at 5:31 pm #115876
Heather ColemanParticipant
I like this idea a lot. I've actually been pleasantly suprised with the online chat/support feature from Verizon, much more helpful than the regular phone support.
November 22, 2010 at 6:54 pm #115874
CA DMV worth highlighting as a Project of the Week, Christina?
November 22, 2010 at 9:14 pm #115872
Two from our GL Facebok page
Deborah Johnson I had occasion to call DOL (Wash. State's DMV) last week. I did have to wade through several layers of electronic selections & wait on hold for a while, but the system told me in advance how long I would have to wait & the man who eventually helped me was extremely pleasant & told me exactly what I needed to do in order to accomplish my request. I give it a thumbs-up.
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Mike Chelen It would be nice to get an email or flashing message when my number was called. Having been to the DC DMV recently, the ticket & waiting system was efficient but totally unavailable online. Oh plus they need free WiFi 🙂
November 23, 2010 at 2:22 pm #115870
Don WadewitzParticipant
The Wisconsin DMV just needs to catch up with the times. I don't believe any of our stations accept credit cards (just cash and checks) and I've forgotten this on more than one occasion, gotten to the DMV, grabbed a number (or checked in) and then noticed the sign after 10-15 minutes of waiting and had to leave, come back and start the entire process again. The Wisconsin DMV also charges you extra to do your renewal online.
It just seems like our DMV needs to be dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st century on some things that would make them much more consumer-friendly.
I do like (although I've never used the feature) that they contract out and you can renew your plates at some other places like car washes, auto dealers, etc.
November 23, 2010 at 2:35 pm #115868
Tamara Lamb-GheneeParticipant
Saw a couple of comments about extra charges for conducting transactions online. This makes no sense to me. Texas does the same thing. I know it's only $2 extra to renew your registration online, but you would think there would be a discount to give an incentive to not show up in person and require the attention of an employee. Why should it cost more to keep you out of the line?
November 23, 2010 at 2:40 pm #115866
Most people have varied experiences but most are not positive. I have seen other states do alot of online services so if you do not have to physically apply for the first time it will be a time saver if you complete your services on-line or by the mail. I know this one state (Georgia) that has their police with on board computers so they are able to check if you have current automobile insurance ( online service – don't need to have a insurance card ). Also, if you want to renew your license do it online before it expires and your renewed autombile license card will be mailed to your residence. Your yearly auto tags can be renewed on-line or by the mail. So if you really don't like the wait help yourself and the others that must be there by using on-line services as much as possible.
November 23, 2010 at 4:08 pm #115864
Dawn LautweinParticipant
The State of South Dakota has recently made improvements to the online vehicle licensing, but before that, an employee still had to do as much manual work for the online transactions as if you'd come in. They just got a computerized list of online transactions and processed them as they normally would and then had the added step of addressing an envelope plus the postage. They only charged .50 extra for stickers mailed out or $4.00 when there are new license plates, but maybe that's the reasoning elsewhere, too.
November 24, 2010 at 2:52 pm #115862
Caryn Wesner-EarlyParticipant
Our DMV in Arlington, VA is pretty efficient. When you go in, you go first to a central desk (right by the door), where they find out what you need and give you a checklist of required IDs, etc. (This is probably available online, but I haven't looked.) Then you take a number, deli-style, and wait for them to call you. When they do, a display above the desk you're being called to shows your number. This, combined with sufficient staffing, means that it rarely takes over 20-30 minutes (if that) to get anything done.
November 24, 2010 at 6:43 pm #115860
Pattie BuelParticipant
Maryland DMV has improved tremendously over past years. Most offices now have 2 lines – one for vehicle services and one for driver services where you get your deli style number consisting of letter and number. License renewal numbers always have biggest wait but you can renew by mail every other time (5 yr renewal) if you have eye doctor sign off on form for vision test. Lists of required documents and form are available online so you can come with all filled out – they do need to advertise this part better. Road test for new drivers by appointment only.
Now if they'd just stagger the employee lunch breaks a little better…..
November 26, 2010 at 3:22 pm #115858
Ari HerzogMember
I haven't visited a RMV (we call them Registries here in Massachusetts) in 10 years or more. I only conduct tasks on the website. I receive paper reminders, but the actions and forms and fill-ins and all are online. Not where you are?
December 1, 2010 at 11:31 pm #115856
Jaime VogtParticipant
Man, I just wish we had our DMV's back… I'd hug a DMV worker if they showed up. It seems like there are 3 DMVs in the entire state of Washington.
January 10, 2011 at 1:41 pm #115854
Timothy ThebergeParticipant
I would put the Massachusetts DMV up against them all. The completely revamped the system. It has been fantastic. They operate a triage system when you walk in. You tell them what you are there for and they print out a ticket for either license or tags. Either way, once you get there you can do both types of transactions without having to get back in line. You can also renew tags online.
January 10, 2011 at 1:46 pm #115852
I wonder if you have any contact information for someone at Mass DMV…perhaps we could conduct an interview with them to learn some lessons from their successful revampp.
January 10, 2011 at 2:11 pm #115850
Wendy CantuParticipant
It was simple (and in a DMV in a medium-size town) but just having one line that was only for license renewals. It didn't require taking a number, just getting in line. The line was long, but it went relatively fast. It seems so logical to do this, however, this might be implemented as most DMVs, just not the other ones around here.
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12 Hot Historical TV Shows and Movies to Watch This Fall
History is hot right now—from The Crown to Battle of the Sexes, Hollywood looks to the past for some of its greatest hits today. Here are some of the best upcoming blasts from the past on the big and small screens this fall.
In Theaters
Battle of the Sexes
September 22
Emma Stone and Steve Carell star in this highly anticipated comedic biopic about the iconic, record-breaking 1973 tennis match between top-rated Billie Jean King and former champ Bobby Riggs, from the directors of the Oscar-winning Little Miss Sunshine.
American Made
September 29
In this action-drama from The Bourne Identity director Doug Liman, Tom Cruise plays Barry Seal, a real-life Trans World Airlines pilot who became a smuggler for the CIA and was recruited later by the DEA to become a spy.
Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House
September 29
Liam Neeson stars in this political thriller about Watergate, one of the greatest political scandals of all time. He plays "Deep Throat," the Washington whistleblower whose real identity wasn't revealed until nearly three decades later.
Goodbye Christopher Robin
October 13
Margot Robbie and Domhnall Gleeson star in this behind-the-scenes look at beloved children's author A.A. Milne, whose Winnie-the-Pooh and other stories brought hope and joy to the world following the horrors of World War I.
Related: Hollywood Looks to the Past for Its Greatest Hits
October 13
Chadwick Boseman—whose previous movie roles include Jackie Robinson and James Brown—portrays future Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall as he battles through one of his early career's first cases.
The Man Who Invented Christmas
November 3
Dan Stevens (the Beast in Beauty and the Beast) plays author Charles Dickens in this tale about the creation of his holiday classic A Christmas Carol. The film is based on a popular nonfiction book by Les Standiford.
Darkest Hour
November 22
Gary Oldman has already been getting Oscar buzz for his portrayal of Winston Churchill during his early days as Great Britain's prime minister at the dawn of World War II. The film is directed by Joe Wright (Atonement).
The Shape of Water
December 8
Octavia Spencer, Michael Shannon and Richard Jenkins anchor this otherworldly fairy tale from acclaimed director Guillermo del Toro (Pan's Labyrinth, Hellboy), set in Cold War–era America circa 1963 and revolving around a top-secret classified government experiment.
The Papers
December 22
Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep and Alison Brie star in this historical drama about one of the most famous political cover-ups in American history and the publication of the "Pentagon Papers." Steven Spielberg directs the all-star cast.
Related: 4 Can't-Miss Podcasts Based on the Past
The Crown
Season two is set to premiere this fall on Netflix
Season one of the drama about the reign of Queen Elizabeth II was met with great acclaim and awards last year. Matthew Goode and Michael C. Hall join the stellar cast for season two.
Season three premieres Sept. 10 on Starz
Based on the novels by Diana Gabaldon, about a WWII-era nurse who travels through time to 18th-century Scotland, the sumptuously realized romantic drama returns for 13 highly anticipated episodes.
Season two premieres in 2018 on NBC
A history professor (Abigail Spencer), scientist (Malcolm Barrett) and soldier (Matt Lanter) attempt to prevent a time-traveling villain (Goran Višnjić) from meddling in American history.


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Rapper TNO sides with Suffix on imitating Fredokiss
Christian rapper Suffix on Saturday, May 5 2018, had a free show at Bwandilo in Lilongwe, a place notoriously known for [binge] drinking and prostitution. Malawians on social networking sites questioned the overall thing that the place was not a good choice keeping in mind that it is rare to see a preacher spreading the gospel at a night club. People think that is wastage of the word of God. Suffix' fellow Christian rappers, however,…Read More


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Over 2,000 travel industry experts from around the world will attend the Phocuswright Conference 2018. The theme for this year is Power Paradox, that takes an uncompromising look at the tension between size and speed, between power and agility, between domination and innovation – and how, in an era of concentrated might, travel's overlords and upstarts seek to harness them to survive. To know more check here.
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Live from B.C. Legislature: Liberal MLA Steve Thomson named speaker, throne speech delivered
The B.C. Legislature returns today for its 41st Parliament and will be welcomed back with a throne speech by Premier Christy Clark.
Lt.-Gov. Judith Guichon opened the session in Victoria with the election of Liberal MLA Steve Thomson of Kelowna-Mission as Speaker.
Thomson has resigned from his post as Forests Minister and was the only person to put his name forward for consideration as Speaker.
The throne speech, according to Postmedia columnist Rob Shaw, "proved an almost total re-rewrite of the B.C. Liberal party election platform, with significant changes in education, social assistance, transit, environment and health care policy. It will be paid for by an 'unanticipated surplus' higher than what was budgeted for in February, said the speech."
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Top 10 Famous Racehorses
If you love horse racing, then you must be intrigued to find out what are the famous racehorses out there and what made them so attractive aside from winning a race. There are benefits of being familiar with this aside from gaining some knowledge, but knowing the secrets of their success might also help you in case you are someone who wants to own a winning racehorse. Throughout history, a lot of horses brings title because of their greatness, not just in the field of racing, but they too have become an inspiration to mankind because of the story behind their existence. Find out some of them and their contribution in this article today.
1. Man O' War- he is considered to be the greatest among thoroughbred of racehorses that ever lived on our planet. This horse has won about 21 races, which made him earn around $249,465. August Belmont Jr. is the owner of the horse. Born in Lexington, Kentucky on March 29, 1917, Man O' War died on November 1, 1947.
2. Seabiscuit- he was another thoroughbred racehorse champion known in America and born on May 23, 1933 and died on May 17, 1947. His career as a racehorse didn't take off until later. And he was considered as one of the underdogs that eventually became a symbol of hope to lots of people during that era when the Great Depression was taking place. There were films made, inspired by his story and a lot of books were published worldwide in honour of his success during the race who keeps a record in everyone's heart. He was owned by Charles Howard and he earned about $437,730 from all his races.
If you are looking for inspiration to be motivated, check out the other horses that once lived and made a difference through their achievements. Go to How Stuff Works's website below.
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The Future of Law Enforcement
These delightful practices, known by the vintage Blairspeak term "civil recovery", have come in for a bit of criticism from the woolly liberals at Citizens Advice. The chief executive claimed cynically that "It would appear that the principal beneficiaries, in cases of low-value alleged theft, are the agents. They collectively profit by millions of pounds but have no obvious interest in a reduction of retail crime".
A spokesbeing for Tesco's responded robustly that "The only people that lose out are the people who have stolen; if people don't steal they won't have a problem". The director of business and regulation at the British Retail Consortium claimed that "Retail crime costs £1.1bn a year", or just under a third of the profits made by Tesco's alone in twelve months, and that "ultimately much of that is reflected in shop prices". Therefore, the reasoning goes, hired vigilantes are a vital protection for innocent consumers at a time when the police are so under-manned that they can't even protect two of Daveybloke's elderly relatives from nearly being lynched by student sans-culottes.
Assuming for charity's sake that those with nothing to hide have nothing to fear from the likes of RLP, the question is still open whether it is legal for a high street shop to demand, without the intervention of a court, three-figure fines for items which in most cases were worth less than £20 and which in four-fifths of the cases were recovered and put back on sale. Even granting the currently fashionable assumption that offenders have, or ought to have, no legal rights at all, in these straitened times such practices may tend to leave a certain vague but lingering impression of bad public relations.


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A vasectomy is a form of male sterilization. It is not used as commonly as a female sterilization process, but it nonetheless safe and effective. Plus it costs less to perform a vasectomy than many other procedures. However, many misconceptions about the vasectomy exist and we're here to break some of the myths. The truth can set you free, especially if you are considering a vasectomy coral springs.
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It is without doubt that you have concerns about the vasectomy, most notably whether it will hurt. The fact that a myth that it is painful is out there doesn't make it any easier. But, the truth is, a vasectomy is a quick, pain-free procedure that thousands of me use every single year. Leave your worries of pain at the door.
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Congratulations sahja medal finalists!
It was a great weekend of showing at the SAHJA Medal Finals! Here are your champions and the top 10. Congratulations to all the riders
2018-19 SAHJA Pony Medal
2018-2019 Pony Medal Champion Laryn Bennett
with Trainer Adrienne Grasso
2018-19 Mini Medal
2018-2019 Mini Medal Champion Piper Janus
with Trainer Nikki Christison
2018-19 Child Adult Medal
2018-2019 Child Adult Medal Champion Lauren Lafferty
with Trainer Andrea Barbee
Photo Credit: Sandra Boos Photography
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The goddess Britannia has been dead for the better part of a decade by the time we glimpse her reanimated corpse in Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie's cult-classic comic book Phonogram: Rue Britannia. The embodiment of '90s Britpop, this deceased deity in a Union Jack baby tee has become the fixation of a cadre of "Retromancers"—fans plotting to recapture their lost youth by bringing her back. If they succeed, Britannia will wander the earth zombie-like, distorting cultural memories of Britpop and poisoning younger generations with nostalgia.
Now a decade since Rue Britannia's 2006 debut, it seems impossible that Britpop nostalgia could have been prevalent and destructive enough by that time to demand such an elegant critique. It really was, though. By the early aughts, the movement had been reduced to a few bands making the worst albums of their careers and a smattering of "Britpop dance nights" where American twenty-somethings could ritually cosplay an era they missed by half a decade and a few thousand miles. In retrospect, that period looks more like a Britpop hangover than a Britpop revival—but in 2016, Britannia's moment in the 20-year nostalgia cycle truly has arrived.
Sure enough, the past year has brought new albums from two bands whose reunions once seemed impossible: Blur and Suede. In the last month alone, America has seen a new Britpop Invasion across various forms of media: Lush put out their first new music since 1996 in the midst of a North American tour, last year's Cool Britannia-era British music-biz thriller Kill Your Friends got a low-key stateside release, and the '90s-set Channel 4 teen drama "My Mad Fat Diary" finally appeared on Hulu. What's surprising about these works, though, is how many of them have managed to escape from nostalgia. For The Magic Whip, Blur departed England for a neon-lit Hong Kong travelogue. Having already made one respectable reunion album, on January's Night Thoughts and its companion film, Brett Anderson applied Suede's gutter-romantic lens to real adult life and particularly fatherhood, to exquisitely devastating effect. Lush's dream-pop EP Blind Spot is a lovely, if tentative, first step back into the spotlight from a band that was too often underestimated in its tragically abbreviated first life.
"My Mad Fat Diary*"* performs an entirely different kind of magic. Originally aired between 2013 and 2015 on UK television, the series opens in 1996 and is steeped in cultural touchstones of teenage life during the Britpop years: the songs, the Gallagher-brothers haircuts, the "grunge is dead" t-shirts, the cars full of kids driving around trying to find the rave and then coming down from their first ecstasy pills on the trampled grass outside it the next morning. A show this tied to an era could err towards either bloodless historical reenactment or wanton nostalgia trip, and either approach would put distance between the viewer and the story. But "My Mad Fat Diary" has an emotional immediacy that's rare for a TV series set in any period, and it comes from the specificity of the story it's telling.
Based on author Rae Earl's 2007 book My Fat, Mad Teenage Diary, an edited collection of real diary entries from the author's youth that was published for the first time in America last month, the show follows a character of the same name. When we meet Rae (Sharon Rooney), she has just been released from the psychiatric hospital where she's spent months recovering from a suicide attempt. "I'm 16, I weigh 16 and a half stone [231 pounds], and I live in Lincolnshire," she writes in a diary whose entries double as the show's narration. Rae also volunteers the information that she is "horny," and loves music and food. In many senses, she's a regular, working-class high schooler in a small town; it's her weight and her mental illness that make her both an outcast at school and a type of character too rarely depicted on TV.
Though the real Rae dissected the Smiths and Madonna in the diary she wrote in the late '80s, the fictional Rae's story takes on a special resonance when relocated to 1996, by which point Britpop would have become a fixture of provincial teenage life. The movement's meaning changed over time; what began as an arch 1993 Select Magazine manifesto denouncing American grunge in favor of the "crimplene, glamour, wit and irony" of Suede, Pulp, Saint Etienne, Denim, and the Auteurs either evolved or devolved (depending on who you ask) into the macho spectacle of Oasis and Blur recreating the Beatles vs. Stones chart battles of the '60s. The constant was the idea that these bands were the guitar-wielding voices of young Britain. But as specific as albums like Pulp's Different Class were to a generation that couldn't remember life before Thatcherism, most of the songs put a working-class British filter on the more universal emotions of youth: loneliness, alienation, longing.
"My Mad Fat Diary's" Rae, in her council-house bedroom with its walls covered in band posters, is the personification of these feelings. The classic sexually frustrated teenager in coming-of-age stories is an everyboy on a quest to get laid in a world where girls exist solely to deny sex or be coerced into it. Rae isn't a female version of that character; she's the character who almost always gets pushed to the margins of the story, the funny friend or the fat-girl punchline. It's not just that obstacles stand in the way of satisfying her desires; it's that she's not supposed to have desires in the first place. And Rae knows this. Even within the co-ed clique her beautiful friend Chloe (Jodie Comer) introduces her to, she has to keep secrets about why she disappeared for months and which boys she thinks are "fit."
What she's really thinking about when she's not good-naturedly pretending to be "one of the lads" or fighting with her single mom comes out in the journal entries and sessions with her therapist Kester (Ian Hart). But the most poetic representations of Rae's emotional state are set to music. (It's worth noting that the episodes on Hulu feature fewer songs than the British version, for licensing reasons. The American edit feels less saturated with music, but the tracks it retains preserve the show's general atmosphere.) In the pilot, she spends an incandescent night with Chloe's group, and their food fight in a chip shop is set to Suede's "Beautiful Ones," a song that mythologizes and undermines its gorgeous, fucked-up subjects in the same breath. Early in the next episode, Rae daydreams about unzipping her big body, stepping out of it as a sexy thin woman in lingerie, and then setting the head-to-toe fat suit on fire. It's an arresting moment, but Radiohead's "Fake Plastic Trees" makes it something more than that: a universal representation of the unbearable distance between any fantasy and its corresponding reality.
Music is what unites Rae with her new friends and love interests, too. They scrutinize each other's jukebox selections at the pub and take road-trips to see Oasis (in matching Oasis T-shirts) and make lewd comments about Jarvis Cocker. When they sing the Verve's "Lucky Man," everyone knows the words.
Over three short seasons, "My Mad Fat Diary" begins to feel like a mixtape come to life, all those adolescent urges and frustrations and firsts—yes, in this story Rae gets her share—coalescing into a story whose mood can swing from ecstatic to despondent to panicked and back in the time it takes for one track to segue into the next. The show may well have older viewers recalling the first time they heard Manic Street Preachers' "A Design for Life" or Björk's "It's Oh So Quiet," but its emotional urgency demands that both the story and the songs are also experienced in the present tense.
"But it wasn't like that," says Rue Britannia's hero, David Kohl, at one point in the comic, lamenting how the Retromancers have distorted the history of Britpop. "Oasis versus Blur and nowt all else. No miserablist shit like The Bends. No Prodigy crossing over. No proto-big-beat. No jungle. Even Pulp were barely there." As the bands of that era reunite to make music that resists reliving the past, "My Mad Fat Diary" and its soundtrack restore all of the above nuance to the historical record. Blasting out of Rae Earl's headphones, Britpop isn't the retro music of the '90s—it's the timeless music of adolescence.


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The America's WETLAND Foundation is teaming up with eRotary Coastal and calling for volunteers to help plant marsh grass this Saturday – May 19, 2018.
Saturday – May 19, 2018
Meet the Group at Intracoastal City Public Boat Launch
25191 La Hwy 333, Abbeville, LA 70510
The America's WETLAND Foundation is teaming up with eRotary Coastal and calling for volunteers to help plant marsh grass this Saturday – May 19, 2018.
On average, we lose a football field of marsh every hour! Volunteers will make a difference by planting marsh grass to create about 6 acres or 4.5 football fields of vegetated marsh.
Plant 20,000 plugs of Smooth Cordgrass which will grow to create approximately 6 acres of vegetated wetland in the shape of a wheel.
Location and Lunch:
Crews will muster at the Intracoastal City Public Boat Launch (25191 La Hwy 333, Abbeville, LA 70510) See map below. (Lat. 29*47'7.63″N Long. -92*9'13.51″W) on Saturday morning at 8:30 AM. You will check-in at the boat ramp and be givein directions and instructions. The planting site is 2.3 miles from the boat ramp. Lunch will be provided after the planting is completed.
Volunteers will gather clumps of smooth cordgrass from a nursery area located about one mile away. The clumps will be separated into plugs with 3 to 4 stems per plug. At the planting site, the plugs will be pushed into the mud to anchor them firmly in place.
Need 20 shallow water boat crews with 3 or 4 people per crew. (16-18 foot flats with outboard or surface drive motors are preferred). Volunteers will have to crawl in the water/mud to harvest and plant grass.
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Product Insights Analyst
The role: Product Insights Analyst
We are looking for a Product Insights Analyst to join our busy and dynamic Business Intelligence team in our Isle of Man office.
Why we need you:-
Do you really need to understand why? Why do things work the way they do? Why don't we try something different? Why some people play Game A in preference to Game B? Why do some people react more positively to promotions than others?
We're looking for someone who needs to know the answers to join our growing team of Business Intelligence experts. We are passionate, like-minded individuals pooling together their expertise to provide cutting edge insights that drive the development of our world-leading Poker Room, Casino and Sportsbook.
You, as a Product Insight Analyst, will be a key contributor in the on-going development of our products and offerings. You'll work closely with Poker stakeholders, not only providing timely insights when requested, but also spending time focusing on your own ideas of how we can improve customer experience within our Poker product. Your analysis and your insights, along with expertise and support of your Poker product stakeholders, will make substantive changes to business servicing more than 100 million registered players.
Who are we looking for:-
You will have knowledge in online poker and relevant experience in a similar analytical role. You'll have a degree (or equivalent) in one of the quantitative areas, such as Statistics, Maths or Economics. You will have a familiarity with PokerStars website and software and experience as a Poker player, online or offline.
You will have experience with SQL, Python, R, KNIME or similar and an analytical mind that can pull insights and solutions from data. As you will be communicating with various areas and senior management, often relaying insights to non-technical members of the business, a great command of English is fundamental. The nature of our industry requires individuals to be able to work well in a fast-paced environment.
You will have the ability to see the bigger picture. The insights you provide will have an impact on the poker product area, so it is important for you to evaluate these and prioritise the value adding tasks.
As the ideal candidate, you will have:-
Experience in the online gaming industry and practical experience working with large datasets. Previous experience using Google Analytics, advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office packages and an understanding of product tracking requirements is desirable.
Experience in data mining, advanced analytics (clustering, regression, predictive models or similar). As well as practical experience building dashboards and visualisations using software like Tableau, Shiny, Data Studio or similar.
What's in it for you?
The salary for this job is based on experience so whilst we are not able to provide such details at this stage, we can confirm that we offer an excellent salary and benefits package.
Our benefits include a discretionary annual performance bonus, premium health and dental insurance for you, your partner and your children (providing you all live at the same address).
As an advocate of work/life balance, we offer an annual personal interest allowance where we encourage personal learning outside of working hours; e.g. driving lessons, cookery classes and circus training (to name a few that our people have used this towards). To support you in developing your skills and career, we will provide ongoing training. We offer many more great perks such as an annual travel loan, subsidised massage sessions, free drinks, snacks, hot beverages and fresh fruit every day.
What happens next?
We will aim to get back to you as soon as possible. If you meet the criteria, then we'll invite you to a phone interview and if that goes well we'll meet you for a face-to-face interview
The Company
The Stars Group is the ultimate owner of industry leading gaming brands such as PokerStars, PokerStars Casino, BetStars, Full Tilt, and the PokerStars Live brands, and through its ownership of Sky Betting & Gaming, a mobile-led leading online gaming operator, licenses the Sky Bet, Sky Vegas, Sky Casino, Sky Bingo and Sky Poker online gaming brands. Collectively, these and other brands of The Stars Group have millions of registered customers globally, forming one of the world's largest publicly listed online gaming companies. This role is in the Group's Isle of Man office in the Business Intelligence department.


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Post Date: October 31, 2017
Reena Atuma
The budget cycle for FY 2018/2019 kicked off at the end of August beginning of September as envisioned in the Public Finance Management Act, 2012. Ideally, this would mean that counties have began the process of planning for the FY 2018/2019 as we also implement the budget for FY 2017/2018 being in its second quarter of implementation.
- Are counties open enough to engage the public in the process?
- If so, have we (the public) received the anticipated budget documents as expected so that we can engage?
- Are counties getting more open by publishing these budget documents online?
- How many ADPs 2018/2019 and CIDPs 2018-2022 are available to the public online?
Read more from our October 2017 Budget brief " Are counties really planning for the FY 2018/2019? " from the link
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There's been a lot of news lately about the federal government's change to the Canada Summer Jobs Grant program. The biggest issue is the new addition of a mandatory attestation that states that:
"Both the job and my organization's core mandate respect the individual human rights in Canada, including the values underlying the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms as well as other rights. These include reproductive rights and the right to be free from discrimination on the basis of sex, religion, race, national or ethnic origin, colour, mental or physical disability or sexual orientation, or gender identity or expression;"
As our mission statement says, Birch Bay Ranch exists to provide a natural and nurturing environment in which people encounter God and experience positive life change. It is our mandate to introduce kids and adults to Christ while offering life changing experiences and opportunities for adventure. We follow Biblical teachings in all that we do, and therefore feel that we can't sign the attestation in good conscience. As a result, we were denied the Canada Summer Jobs funding this year. Not receiving this money will adversely affect our staff (the majority of which are students) and may affect our programming.
To further explain, here is an informative article
by the Canadian Council of Christian Charities.
The Canada Summer Jobs Grant is still being discussed at the House of Commons. With all the opposition to the requirement to sign the attestation, a vote has been called asking the government to reverse the attestation policy.
1. Contact your MP and ask them to vote "In favour of the motion to reverse the attestation policy". (Not sure who your MP is? Find your MP) This does not need to be lengthy or detailed.
Mr/Mrs/Miss/Ms FirstName, Lastname, MP, House of Commons
Dear Mr. Lastname:
I am writing in regards to the Canada Summer Jobs Grant. I understand that there is a motion on the floor to reverse the attestation policy. On March 19, 2018, I am asking you to vote in favour of the motion to reverse the attestation policy.
Your Name
Email address
2. Encourage your staff, volunteers, alumni, board, campers parents, etc to contact their MPs and ask them to vote "in favour of the motion to reverse the attestation policy".
Please help us spread the word about this vote - it's important for Birch Bay Ranch and for Christian camps across the country to receive this funding! If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us.


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The Reasons Unprotected Sex With A H.I.V/A.I.D.S Carrier May Not Cause Infection With The Virus
|Why H.I.V/A.I.D.S is not highly contagious
To me, I see that the misleading information on the way the virus spreads has really contributed to its spread in Nigeria. For example, a young man was scared to death about his status. In an attempt to help him on why he thinks so, he narrated how he had unprotected sex with a female prostitute once. He is the notion that all prostitute are HIV positive hence the fear. This resulted in him living a promiscuous lifestyle because he thinks he is infected. The fear of getting the test is another.
Most persons know the mode of infection. It involves the introduction of the fluid of an infected person into the blood stream of a negative individual. The major means of infection is through unprotected sex acts. These can be between opposite or same gender.
However, I have come to realize that most people in Nigeria do not understand much on the risk of infection. HIV/AIDS is not a very effective or strong disease compared to other viruses like the flu that can be transmitted with just a sneeze. It requires much more than that. To understand it better, let us start from the beginning.
The Cycle Of HIV/AIDS Infection
A person can be infected after the introduction of the virus about four days earlier. The infection normally takes about 2 weeks to 3 months for the virus to be detected. The virus multiplies fast during this period. After this short phase, the virus is in every fluid in the body. The last phase is when it has developed into a full-blown AIDS. At this stage, the viral load is very much.
When Infection Of HIV/AIDS Begins
To be able to infect another negative person, the virus must be in the fluid of the carrier. This is not possible in the first 2-3 days of getting infected, as the virus has not had the time to move to the various parts of the body. After this time, the virus multiplies as fast as possible. After the initial 2-3 days, it moves to most organs and tissues in the body.
The virus is present in every fluid in the body. However, there is some fluid where the virus is not much concentrated in like saliva and tears. The little amount of virus in this fluid made them almost impossible to transmit the virus. That means that a very minute amount of the virus does not cause an infection to a negative person. I will explain this later.
For fluids that contain a good amount of the virus-like semen and vaginal fluid, they have the high risk of causing infection to a negative partner if it finds its way into the body. This also depends on several factors. I will concentrate more on transmission during unprotected sex acts.
The skin of humans is dry and well protected from germs and bacteria. The only way the virus can find its way into the body through the skin is when the person has a cut or sore. Even if it happens, an infection may not take place. This is because for infection to take place, the viral load must be more than the ability of the immune cells at that spot to fight back. That is the rate of multiplication of the virus must exceed the rate of killing them by the immune system.
On the other hand, other parts that are highly vulnerable to the virus are the wet skin such as the vagina, cervix, foreskin, urethra, anus, rectum, mouth, nose, and the penis. However, they are not completely left out without some form of protection though different. The soft skins are covered with mucous membrane. The mucous membrane is made up of epithelial cells. These cells are tightly joined to each other. Some are made of more than one layers giving an extra protection against diseases. However, the better part of it all is that it contains some chemicals and antibodies that can kill germs.
It is now a common knowledge that a lot of people who had unprotected sex with HIV-positive people are still negative after some years. A lot of them had unprotected intercourse with HIV-positive individuals more than once and yet came out clean. This shows one thing; not every sexual activity during unprotected acts with a carrier leads to infection just the way popular jingles make all of us feel. Do you know why?
How Women May Get Infection
The vagina of a woman if protected with the mucous membrane. The epithelial cells prevent the virus in the semen from crossing the membrane into the blood stream after sex. However, the possibility of crossing it is high. This is because the semen containing the virus will reside in there for up to 4 days giving them time to work their way through. In addition, the living condition there is somewhat favorable since it is moist. What if they do go through? Not to worry, there is still hope.
The inside of the mucous membrane contains many immune cells. They are capable of killing germs that manage to find their way through. Unfortunately, the Langerhans cell that is supposed to bring these viruses to the immune cells to kill are now the carriers in the body. This is because the Langerhans cells are easily bound to the virus. However, in most situations, the immune cells are capable of destroying the virus before they multiply. The rate of multiplication must not exceed the rate of killing.
This battle lasts for about three days. If the body lost the battle, the person gets infected and cannot be reversed. However, for rape patients whom an HIV-positive person may rape or one who mistakenly shared a sharp object with a carrier, it is advisable to visit a hospital for the prescription of a suitable antiretroviral. This is because the drugs will boost the immune system to fight the virus in the first 2-3 days.
How Men May Get Infection
There are two ways men can contract HIV/AIDS during unprotected sex. It is through either the penile skin or the lining of the urethra. However, the urethra also has protection just like the vagina of a woman and have an added advantage that the vagina fluid does not go in that much and majority of the few that gets in get kick off after male urination. As for the skin, consider the following
Circumcised And Uncircumcised Men
Removal of the foreskin in the form of circumcision decreases the risk of HIV during unprotected intercourse. A scientist has postulated a couple of reasons for this. They are:
- Removal or the foreskin reduces the Langerhans cell, the cells the virus normally first attaches itself to before infecting the CD4 cells
- It reduces the surface area of the penis exposed to the fluid containing the virus
- The skin covering the head of the penis becomes tougher than normal which further prevents against micro tear
- The mucosa lining of the foreskin is soft and tender allowing germs penetrate to underlying skin, which is prevented in circumcised male
- Small pore holes in the foreskin creates an enabling environment for the virus to harbor prolonging the time it stays in it
- Lastly, it is believed that the penis of uncircumcised men is larger. This size factor is attributed to increased risk of transmission of the virus to sex partners. For the explanation, it is believed that the size causes tear during sex which technically increases the chances of infection for both partners
Further research showed that a greater percentage of HIV-positive people who had normal vaginal sex with negative persons for a long time without protection did not transmit the disease. This is probably because the protection offered by the body did a lot of good work. However, some factors increased the risk of contracting HIV positive through unprotected sex.
Increased Risk
Damage To The Cell Layer: The membrane layer is intact. However, rigorous sex activities such as dry sex, rough sex etc.exposes the sex organs to tear. This tear can be an entry point for the virus. A small tear is more than enough entry point for a lot of virus. The more the virus that gets to the other layer, the higher the risk of infection. This is the major way HIV is transmitted.
Disease: Some disease especially Sexually Transmitted Infections (S.T.I) can or even cause both the weakening of the immune system and inflammation of the sex organs. This increases the likelihood of infection.
Other Are
Surface Area: The larger the area that is exposed to the virus, the greater the possibility of infection. That is the vagina is larger than the penis.
Viral Load: The semen contains much more virus that vagina fluid.
Duration Of Exposure: The vagina fluid containing the virus does not survive a long time in the penis. Which may be for days.
Stage Of Infection: Also, the stage the carrier is matters a lot. The first 3 days are usually safe for a carrier. However, from the 4th day, the virus starts to multiply rapidly to other parts of the body. At this stage, the virus load is much. It continues and slows down after a while. The last phase is when it is full blown aids which contains much of the virus too. However, there have been success stories of carriers who are taking their medications and have an undetectable viral load not infecting their partners after numerous encounters.
Time Of Sex: This is for the women. It is believed that unprotected sex before, during or after menstruation is a risk.
Younger women, women that are in stages of giving birth and the old are more prone
Factors That Reduce The Risk
Inflammation: Inflammation of the mucous membrane increase the population of immune cells to the area. This reduces the time travel of the immune cells during HIV infection.
Antiretroviral: A person on antiviral drugs will have an improved immune system that will boost the fight against the virus when it comes into the body.
Vaccines: Since some disease increase, the risk of HIV infection, vaccination against such disease can greatly reduce the risk of infection.
Rate Of Infection
It has been shown that the rate of infecting others reduces with antiretroviral therapy. However, for carriers who are not into drugs, the rate of transmission is shown in the table below
Out of 10000 exposure to the infection without protection
Sexual- Receptive anal intercourse 138
Sexual- Receptive vaginal intercourse 8
Sexual- Insertive anal intercourse 11
Sexual- Insertive vaginal intercourse 4
Transmission from male to female is high = 0.08 %
Transmission from female to male is low = 0.04 %
Resistance To HIV
A small proportion of humans has been discovered to show partial or complete resistance to HIV infection. the population that has resistance to it is believed to be around under 1 % of the world population. however, the physical attributes of those people are not different from those without immunity to it hence difficult to differentiate those people.
in 1994, Stephen Chron was the first to be discovered to have resistance to the virus. it happens that the gene that the virus attaches itself to on the White Blood Cell (W.B.C), C-C Chemokine Receptor Type 5 also known as CD 195 protein is mutant. The mutation is coded Delta 32
In Summary
- Unprotected sex with an HIV-positive person does not necessarily lead to infection with the virus
- The more the number of sex acts with the carrier, the higher the risk
- Females are at a higher risk of infection than men
- Risk reduce for men and women when the man is circumcised when any gender is the carrier
- Virus can be eliminated within the first 3 days of introduction to the body with the right drugs
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Thank you to everyone who joined us for the Station 3.0 Anniversary & Launch Party! If you were one of our 600+ (!!!) friends who experienced 3.0 first-hand, you know that Station Houston is fertile ground for startups to launch and grow.
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"To say that Station has been influential in our development would be an understatement. We had our first investor tap us on our shoulder at a Station event and she opened our round 2 weeks later." - Amanda Ducach-Sharma, CEO of SocialMama
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|Mayor Turner give Houston its newest nickname #SiliconBayou - What we're building here is uniquely Houston, call us Silicon Bayou. During opening remarks, Mayor Turner set the stage for Houston's future competing with cities across the world. In a way that is "uniquely Houston", he cited the diversity of people, thought and industry as our biggest competitive advantage.
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Revised guidance on HIV treatment and care published
WHO/Europe has revised two clinical protocols on the treatment of and care for people living with HIV, providing recommendations on patient evaluation and evidence-informed antiretroviral treatment for adults and adolescents, and the management of hepatitis B and HIV coinfection.
Following new and important evidence on approaches to treatment and care of HIV infection, in 2010 WHO issued new global recommendations on:
- antiretroviral therapy for adults and adolescents, and for infants and children; and
- the use of antiretrovirals to treat HIV-infected pregnant women and their babies.
In the WHO European Region, countries in eastern Europe and central Asia have similar trends in and prevalence of HIV in different key populations that are at higher risk of HIV exposure and transmission. Although these countries often have limited resources to respond, their health-care systems and resources are better organized and equipped than those in many other such countries outside the European Region.
While global WHO recommendations cover key global issues, they often need adaption for the regional and country level, to reflect regional context, existing infrastructure and health-care systems' capacities. WHO/Europe is therefore revising its clinical protocols on HIV/AIDS treatment and care, first issued in 2007.
Patient evaluation and antiretroviral treatment
Providing antiretroviral treatment (ART) is the core component of treatment and care of people living with HIV. Considering the varying capacity of the countries in the Region to provide ART, the first clinical protocol, "Patient evaluation and antiretroviral treatment for adults and adolescents", provides evidence-informed recommendations suggesting preferable, alternative and acceptable options for ART regimens for adolescents and adults. This approach allows countries to choose recommendations appropriate to the available resources.
Management of hepatitis B and HIV coinfection
The hepatitis B virus (HBV) and HIV have common routes of transmission, but HBV is about 100 times more infectious. People coinfected with HIV and HBV are at increased risk of liver-related mortality. A few antiretroviral drugs are effective in treating both problems. The seventh protocol, "Management of hepatitis B and HIV coinfection", provides algorithms of diagnosis and evidence-informed treatment options that consider countries' diverse resources and capacities.
Three other regional protocols are being revised for release in 2012:
- Protocol 4. Management of tuberculosis and HIV coinfection;
- Protocol 10. Prevention of HIV transmission from HIV-infected mothers to their infants; and
- Protocol 11. Paediatric HIV and AIDS treatment and care.


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LONDON (MarketWatch) -- U.S. stock futures flattened out Monday, but with a slightly downward bias, as investors questioned whether two mega merger deals in Europe and the continuation of the first-quarter earnings season to keep the market's three week rally alive.
S&P 500 futures slipped 1.20 points to 1,491.90 and Nasdaq 100 futures eased 0.75 of a point to 1,861.75. Dow industrial futures inched 1 point lower to 13,018.
The Dow industrials closed at all-time closing high on Friday and rose 2.8% for the week, and have gained 4.9% amid a three-week winning streak. The Nasdaq Composite rose 1.4% last week and the S&P 500 rose 2.2% to close at its highest level since September 2000. See Market Snapshot.
Banc of America Sec. raised its 12-month price target for the S&P 500 Index to 1,550 from 1,465, as overall earnings for the group have benefited from higher commodity prices and a falling U.S. dollar.
The U.S. dollar was up slightly against its major rivals, rising 0.2% vs. the euro to $1.3556 and adding 0.1% against the Japanese yen to 118.72.
June-dated crude-oil futures rose 32 cents to $64.43 a barrel, while gold futures gave up 30 cents to $695.50 an ounce.
ABN Amro ABN, +0.00% on Monday backed an offer from Barclays BCS, +7.27% which values it at $90 billion, and agreed to sell its Chicago-based operations, LaSalle, to Bank of America BAC, -0.69% for $21 billion. But ABN also is holding talks with a consortium of the Royal Bank of Scotland, Banco Santander Central Hispano STD, +2.73% and Fortis over a possible counter-bid. Read more about ABN buyout, and BofA's purchase of LaSalle.
Barclays shares shed 1.1% to $59.33 in pre-open trading, while ABN Amro shares tacked on 1% to $49.80. BofA shares ticked up 0.3% to $51.19.
After a series of product pipeline setbacks, pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca AZN, +0.92% on Monday agreed to pay $15.6 billion, or $58 a share, in cash to buy U.S. biotech MedImmune MEDI, -0.13%. MedImmune, a Gaithersburg, Md.-based company that put itself on the block two weeks ago, closed Friday at $48.01 a share. See full story.
MedImmune shares shot up 18% to $56.48 ahead of the open, while AstraZeneca fell 3.5% to $57.
AstraZeneca, as well as European peer Novartis NVS, -0.08%, also reported profit growth in the first quarter. Read more.
Novartis shares edged up 0.3% to $58 in the pre-open.
Also in the drug patch, Pfizer PFE, -0.54% was downgraded to neutral weight from overweight by Prudential Equity Group, as the broker said it's unclear what drives the stock from here.
Shares of the Dow component slipped 1.5% to $26.58 ahead of the open.
Among other Dow components, Exxon Mobil shares XOM, -1.58% eased 0.2% to $79.57 after Deutsche Bank downgraded the oil company to hold from buy, citing valuation. Caterpillar CAT, -0.85% was upgraded to equal weight from underweight at Morgan Stanley on the company's "solid" first-quarter results. The stock stepped up 0.3% to $72 in the pre-open.
In other broker news, Juniper Networks JNPR, -0.90% was upgraded to buy from neutral at UBS. Juniper is slated to reveal quarterly results after the closing bell. The stock rose 2.9% to $21.10 ahead of the open.
Hasbro HAS, +1.13% ran up 9.2% to $33 in the pre-open after the toy maker said it swung to a profit of $32.9 million, or 19 cents a share, in the first quarter, vs. a loss of $4.9 million, or 3 cents a share, a year earlier. Analysts surveyed by Thomson Financial had been expecting a breakeven quarter.
CNH Global CNH, +1.02% hiked up 5.7% to $42.56 in the pre-open after the agricultural and construction equipment company reported first-quarter earnings that more than doubled over year-ago results, and topped expectations.
Kimberly-Clark KMB, +0.01% reported first-quarter earnings that rose above year-earlier levels, and topped Wall Street forecasts. Read more.
Of the 26% of S&P 500 companies that have already reported, 65% of them have beat their forecasts, 17% have met analysts' estimates while 18% have missed according to Thomson Financial.
The Nikkei 225 closed Monday's session with a fractional percentage rise. The FTSE 100 eased 0.1% in London.