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Slippery slope if you ask me
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Slippery slope if you ask me
Its just plain scary.
I think AIG giving them was bad, however, I do not like the goberment taking them away. What next?
Can't wait until the Feds get involved with health care!!
This won't hold up. It is smoke and mirrors.
Why would they draft and pass a bill out of anger?, just to make them not look bad?
I think this really makes them look bad IMO.. What ever you do dont piss those politicians off!!!!
It's obvious that making a tax law to take away the AIG bonuses after the fact is a smoke screen to divert attention away from the criminal negligence of the Robert Mugabe ooops I mean Obomo administration. You gotta love Obomo's "Aw shucks, I'll take the blame" teleprompter speech, you can bet his trifling azz wouldn't be taking the blame if he actually had anything to lose by saying that.
Disgusting wanna-be actor, that's what he is, prancing around thinking he can fix his falling approval ratings by getting hisself invited to the talk show circuit. Next thing you know he'll be back on Oprah pandering to the lowest common denominator that elected him. Maybe if he did a little less show boating and a little more study of the issues at hand, he wouldn't be such an epic failure.
We're being governed by tyrants. AIG's bonuses amount to nothing when compared to the billions upon billions these scoundrels waste every year and the bonuses were perfectly legal. What a diversion. And the Bill that was passed in the House today wasn't even close!
I can't believe the times we're living in. Chains we can believe in.
If there's anyone who doubts that we are teetering on the brink of a fascist economy...
And now thanks to the fed the government owns 80 percent of AIG
(here's a timeline: http://www.propublica.org/article/ar...rd-spiral-1114 )
and the media is (disingenuously, would be my guess) asking these same politicians things like, "So, since the American public owns AIG, are they not devaluing their own assets by being so enraged?" and getting the sobering but God's honest truth answer, "Why yes, they are" and they offer us the most meager of scapegoats because they "understand our rage" or some other crap.
Forget liberal, forget conservative, forget democrat, forget republican. They are flavors, not substance.
Forget socialist, communist, right-wing wacko, bleeding heart. They are smokescreens and distractions--and we're putting them up ourselves! What is wrong with us?
All of us spewing hate one way or the other better wise up--we're doing nothing but aiding the status quo and ensuring our enslavement.
I don't know what we can DO right now, but we can certainly keep our eyes and ears open for some truth and tone down all our mostly-self-generated hateful rhetoric (both sides) that will keep us from recognizing it if it makes an appearance.

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By Bobby Harrison/NEMS Daily Journal
JACKSON – In 1966 during a visit to the University of Mississippi, U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy said that then-Gov. Ross Barnett asked federal officials to point a gun at him during the integration of Ole Miss so that it would look at if he was doing everything possible to stop the event.
According to Kennedy's version of events – denied by Barnett – the Mississippi governor wanted his constituents to believe he was doing everything he could to prevent actions that in truth he knew were inevitable.
The issue today is no longer integration. Let's be clear that the issues today – no matter how important – pale in comparison to the issue of integration and civil rights. And nobody today is taking any action that should be construed as racist. Let me repeat that one more time – nobody is taking any action that should be construed as racist or in violation of a person's civil rights.
It also should be pointed out that unlike in the 1960s nobody is shooting at anybody else over public policy or political differences.
But efforts to resist federal authority against overwhelming odds continue to be the modus operandi for some politicians – especially Mississippi politicians.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Perhaps, Democratic President Barack Obama will have a change of heart, hold a prime-time network address to announce he is undertaking efforts to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. That would be just like him to do it on Super Bowl Sunday and interfere with the game.
Maybe, the Democratic majority in the Senate will join with House Republicans – and they would need some Democratic help in the House, too – to repeal the health care law so despised by so many Mississippi politicians.
Or perhaps Republicans could win in 2016 and repeal the law.
But safe money is that Obamacare – as it is known by many – is the law of the land from hence forth.
Part of that dreaded law establishes health insurance exchanges where people who do not have insurance or small businesses that want to offer insurance can theoretically shop around and get the best deal possible. The first person I heard advocate for health insurance exchanges was former Republican Gov. Haley Barbour.
The exchange should not have an impact on people who already have insurance.
The Affordable Care Act allows the states to run an exchange under specific federal guidelines. But if state officials opt not to run an exchange, then the federal government will do it for the state.
Mississippi Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney, a Republican, reasoned that if an exchange is going to be operated in Mississippi, then it should be done by state officials using federal dollars that are made available. Chaney, like most Mississippi politicians, has a distrust of the federal government. That is why he says he wants the state to operate the exchange.
Bryant is trying to block that effort. He contends that he does not want the state to in any way participate in Obamacare.
The only problem is that by the state not participating the people of Mississippi are not spared Obamacare, and they are not spared the opportunity to find the lowest price for health insurance. The exchange still is going to be operating in Mississippi – just by federal officials.
But at least the governor honestly can say to Mississippians that he did everything he could to save us from the evils of Obamacare and the opportunity to shop for the lowest insurance rates.
And who knows, maybe, the governor – just like a predecessor – thinks if all the Republican governors ban together and resist helping to develop the exchanges in their individual states then the federal government will be overwhelmed and the effort will be abandoned.
Again, Mississippi has traveled down this path before of massive resistance to federal authority. It should be pointed out it did not work too well then.
Maybe it will be different this time.
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April 5, 2010
Sidney M. Wolfe, M.D.Rebecca KahnKate Resnevic
Using an analysis of data just released by the Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB) on all disciplinary actions taken against doctors in 2009, we have calculated the rate of serious disciplinary actions (revocations, surrenders, suspensions and probation/restrictions) taken by state medical boards in 2009. This rate of serious actions per 1,000 physicians, although slightly higher than the rate in 2008, continues to be significantly lower than the peak for the past ten years (see Figure below). The rate in 2009 — 3.05 serious actions per 1000 physicians — is still 18% lower than the peak rate in 2004 of 3.72 serious actions per 1,000 physicians. If the national rate of doctor discipline had remained as high in 2009 as it was in 2004, there would have been 653 additional serious disciplinary actions per year in 2009 taken against U.S. physicians than there actually were.
The most recent three-year average state disciplinary rates (2007-2009) ranged from 1.07 serious actions per 1,000 physicians (Minnesota) to 7.89 actions per 1,000 physicians (Alaska), a 7.4-fold difference between the best and worst state doctor disciplinary boards (See Methods at the end of this report for the details of our calculations).
As can be seen in Table 1 [PDF], the bottom 10 states, those with the lowest serious disciplinary action rates for 2007-2009, were, starting with the lowest:
This list includes not only small states such as New Hampshire but large states such as Florida.
Table 2 [PDF] shows that four of these 10 states (Maryland, Minnesota, South Carolina and Wisconsin) have been consistently among the bottom 10 states for each of the last seven three-year periods. In addition, Mississippi has been among the bottom 10 states for each of the last six three-year cycles, Connecticut has been in the bottom 10 states for each of the last four three-year cycles. For the first time since we have been reporting on state boards, Massachusetts has fallen into the bottom ten boards for its rate of serious disciplinary actions.
This year we have done further analyses to determine which states have had the largest decreases or increases in their ranking compared to other states between the 2001-3 and 2007-9 periods. All of the states with the greatest decrease or increase in rankings (at least 20 places lower or higher) had considerable changes in the actual rates between 2001-3 and 2007-9.
As can be seen below, six states had decreases of at least 20 in their ranking of state disciplinary actions from the 2001-3 rate until the latest (2007-9 rate).
2001-3 Rank
2007-9 Rank
Decrease in Rank
Decrease in Rate/ 1,000 Docs
New Hampshire
As can be seen in the table above, Massachusetts fell 23 places in ranking from 2001-3 until now. If the rate of serious disciplinary actions in 2007-9 had been as high as in 2001-3 — 1.33 more serious actions per 1,000 doctors per year — there would have been 46 more serious disciplinary actions taken against Massachusetts physicians in 2007-9 than actually occurred.
The top 10 states for 2007-9 are (in order from the top down):
Table 2 [PDF] shows that six of these 10 states (Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Kentucky, Ohio and Oklahoma) have been in the top 10 for all seven of the three-year average periods in this report.
Increase in Rank
Increase in Rate/ 1,000 Docs
North Carolina
District of Columbia
For a state such as Illinois, with 42,765 physicians in 2008, the improvement in discipline between the rate in 2001-3 and the rate in 2007-9 means that a much larger number of serious disciplinary actions are now being taken against Illinois physicians. If the rate of serious discipline in 2007-9 had been as low as in 2001-3 — 1.37 fewer serious actions per 1,000 doctors per year — there would have been 59 fewer serious disciplinary actions taken against Illinois physicians per year in 2007-9 than actually occurred.
Similarly, in North Carolina, with 27,579 physicians in 2008, the improvement in the rate of serious disciplinary actions from 2001-3 to 2007-9 means that 1.77 more serious actions per 1000 physicians, or a total of 49 more physicians a year, are being seriously disciplined than in the earlier period.
These data demonstrate a remarkable variability in the rates of serious disciplinary actions taken by the state boards. Once again, only one of the nation's 15 most populous states, Ohio, is represented among those 10 states with the highest disciplinary rates. For the second year in a row, one of the largest states in the country, Florida, is among the 10 states with the lowest rates of serious disciplinary actions. Absent any evidence that the prevalence of physicians deserving of discipline varies substantially from state to state, this variability must be considered the result of the boards' practices. Indeed, the "ability" of certain states to rapidly increase or decrease their rankings (even when these are calculated on the basis of three-year averages) can only be due to changes in practices at the board level; the prevalence of physicians eligible for discipline cannot change so rapidly.
Moreover, there is considerable evidence that most boards are under-disciplining physicians. For example, in a report on doctors disciplined for criminal activity that we published in 2006, 67 percent of insurance fraud convictions and 36 percent of convictions related to controlled substances were associated with only non-severe discipline by the board.[1]
In this report, we have concentrated on the most serious disciplinary actions. Although the FSMB does report less severe actions such as fines and reprimands, it is not appropriate to provide such actions with the same weight as license revocations, for example. A state that embarks on a strategy of switching over time from revocations or probations to fines or reprimands for similar offenses should have a rate and a ranking that reflects this decision to discipline less severely.
A relatively recent trend has been for state boards to post the particulars of disciplinary actions they have taken on the Internet. In October 2006, Public Citizen's Health Research Group published a report that ranked the states according to the quality of those postings.[2] The report showed variability in the quality of those Web sites akin to that reported for disciplinary rates in this report. There was no correlation between state ranking in the Web site report and state ranking in that year's disciplinary rate report (Spearman's rho = 0.0855; p=0.55). A good Web site is no substitute for a poor disciplinary rate (or vice versa); states should both appropriately discipline their physicians and convey that information to the public. However, no state ranked in the top 10 in both reports.
This report ranks the performance of medical boards by their disciplinary rates; it does not purport to assess the overall quality of medical care in a state or to assess the function of the boards in other respects. It cannot determine whether a board with, for example, a low disciplinary rate has been starved for resources by the state or whether the board itself has a tendency to mete out lower (or no) forms of discipline. From the patient's perspective, of course, this distinction is irrelevant.
Boards are likely to be able to do a better job in disciplining physicians if the following conditions are met:
Most states are not living up to their obligations to protect patients from doctors who are practicing medicine in a substandard manner. Serious attention must be given to finding out which of the above bulleted variables are deficient in each state. Action must then be taken, legislatively and through pressure on the medical boards themselves, to increase the amount of discipline and, thus, the amount of patient protection. Without adequate legislative oversight, many medical boards will continue to perform poorly.
Public Citizen's Health Research Group has calculated the rate of serious disciplinary actions per 1,000 doctors in each state. Using state-by-state data just released by the Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB) on the number of disciplinary actions taken against doctors in 2009,[3] combined with data from earlier FSMB reports covering 2007 and 2008, we have compiled a national report ranking state boards by the rate of serious disciplinary actions per 1,000 doctors for the years 2007-9 (See Table 1, PDF) and for earlier three-year intervals (See Table 2, PDF).
Because some small states do not have many physicians, an increase or decrease of one or two serious actions in a year can have a much greater effect on the rate of discipline in such states (and their ranks) than it would in larger states. To minimize such fluctuations, we therefore calculate the average rate of discipline over a three-year period: the year of interest and the preceding two years. Thus, the newest ranking is based on rates from 2007, 2008 and 2009, not the rate for 2009 alone.
Our calculation of rates of serious disciplinary actions per 1,000 doctors by state is created by taking the number of such actions for each state (revocations, surrenders, suspensions and probation/restrictions, the first two categories in the FSMB data) and dividing that by the American Medical Association (AMA) data on total M.D.s as of December 2008[4] in that state. We add to this denominator the number of osteopathic physicians[5] for the 37 boards that are combined medical/osteopathic boards. We then multiply the result by 1,000 to get board disciplinary rates per 1,000 physicians. This rate calculation is done for each year and the average rate for the last three years is used as the basis for this year's state board rankings (Table 1, PDF). We then repeated these calculations for each of the five previous three-year intervals (2001-3, 2002-4, 2003-5, 2004-6, 2005-7, 2006-8 and 2007-9; Table 2, PDF).
In previous years, we have used AMA data on non-federal M.D.s, but the AMA now only provides information on the total number of licensed physicians, without a breakdown by federal/non-federal status. We therefore amended our traditional protocol to use data on the total number of M.D.s in each state as the denominator in calculating the rates. To ensure that the ranks based on this new denominator are as comparable as possible to data from previous years, we entered the data for total physicians and re-calculated the rates of serious actions of every state for each year in the period from 2001-2006, as well as the related three-year rankings. All states' rates, as currently calculated, are therefore somewhat lower than rates in our previous reports because of the larger denominator. However, this had no effect on the rankings of most states because the larger denominators affect all states[6]: the ranks of 39 of the states for the 2002-2004 interval, for example, were identical to what they had been in our report for that interval issued in 2005,[7] in which we used only non-federal physicians. Of the 12 states with different ranks, the rank of six increased by only one place and the other six decreased by one place.
[1] Jung P, Lurie P, Wolfe SM. U.S. Physicians Disciplined For Criminal Activity. Health Matrix 2006;16:335-50.
[2] Larson, M, Marcus B, Lurie P, Wolfe SM. 2006 Report of Doctor Disciplinary Information on State Web Sites: A Survey and Ranking of State Medical and Osteopathic Board Web Sites, available at http://www.citizen.org/Page.aspx?pid=700.
[3] Federation of State Medical Boards. Summary of 2009 Board Actions, available at http://www.fsmb.org/pdf/2009-summary-board-actions.pdf.
[4] Physician Characteristics and Distribution in the U.S. American Medical Association, 2010 Edition.
[5] Fact Sheet: American Osteopathic Association. Statistics as of August, 2004, available at http://www.osteopathic.org/index.cfm?PageID=aoa_ompreport_us#50.
[6] This is not surprising as in the 2004 edition of the AMA publication, the last to include the federal/non-federal physician breakdown, only 2.46 percent of all physicians were federal employees. Moreover, these physicians were disproportionately represented in a small number of states (e.g., Alaska, District of Columbia, Maryland and Hawaii).
[7] Wolfe, SM, Lurie P. Ranking of the Rate of State Medical Boards' Serious Disciplinary Actions: 2002-2004, available at http://www.citizen.org/Page.aspx?pid=2381.
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The University will mark the beginning of the academic year with Opening Exercises at 3 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 7, in the University Chapel.
The annual interfaith service will include an address by President Shirley M. Tilghman and the recognition of academic achievements of undergraduate students.
For the first time this year, freshmen will process into the chapel by the residential college they have joined.
Following the ceremony, members of the class of 2012 will participate in a "pre-rade" from the chapel through FitzRandolph Gate, giving them the opportunity to officially enter the campus to start their undergraduate experience and to be greeted by fellow Princetonians.
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Ertz will be the better all around TE. Trade down and grab Lacy and Ertz.
Ertz will be the better all around TE. Trade down and grab Lacy and Ertz.
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2.62 OLB Jordan Willis 6'4" 255 Kansas State
3.94 CB Sidney Jones 6'0" 186 Washington
3.105c DE Tanoh Kpassagnon 6'7" 289 Villanova
4.135 CB Rasul Douglas 6'2" 209 West Virginia
5.173 RB James Conner 6'1" 233 Pittsburgh
6.213 SS Lorenzo Jerome 5'10" 204 St. Francis
7.248 TE Michael Roberts 6'4" 270 Toledo
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The names most frequentsly mentioned here like Jones, Vacarro, etc are not building-blocks. IMO Eifert is more of a building-block because he is likely a ten year starter at an increasingly important position.
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- Charles Harris-OLB, Missouri
- Rasul Douglas-CB, West Virginia
- Chris Godwin-WR, Penn State
- John Johnson-S, Boston College
- James Conner-RB, Pitt
- Nazair Jones-DT, North Carolina
- Garrett Sickels, DE/OLB, Penn State
I go back and forth on Vaccaro and Jones as players, but if Vaccaro is a top-flight safety with coverage ability, or if Jones is an elite pass rushing and playmaking OLB, those are certainly building block type players.
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1. Jordan Willis, OLB, Kansas St
2. Josh Jones, S, NC State
3a. Gerald Everett, TE, South Alabama
3b. Brad Kaaya, QB, Miami
17. Pittsburgh SteelersTE Tyler Eifert, Notre Dame
One of Kipers most curious picks comes at No. 17, where he has the Steelers taking the best TE on the boardNotre Dames Tyler Eifert.
Warranted because of the devastating injury to current TE and Ben Roethlisberger favorite Heath Miller (via Chris Adamski of CBS Sports), Eifert has the athletic ability and receiver skills to take over the position full-time in a few seasons.
However, the Steelers are getting extremely thin on defense after a flurry of offseason casualties, and adding a new pass-rusher to replace the production of James Harrison shouldnt be overlooked. While I understand Kipers decision to place Eifert as high as Ive seen him in any mock, there are other positions that need filling.
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33 Jacksonville QB Matt Barkley USC
34 San Francisco (via KC) S Matt Elam Florida
35 Philadelphia OT Menelik Watson Florida State
36 Detroit DE Bjoern Werner Florida State
37 Cincinnati (via OAK) S Shamarko Thomas Syracuse
38 Arizona DE Datone Jones UCLA
39 New York Jets TE Zach Ertz Stanford
40 Tennessee WR Keenan Allen Cal-Berkeley
41 Buffalo QB Ryan Nassib Syracuse
42 Miami DE Tank Carradine Florida State
43 Tampa Bay CB Jamar Taylor Boise State
44 Carolina S D.J. Swearinger South Carolina
45 San Diego LB Arthur Brown Kansas State
46 St. Louis RB Montee Ball Wisconsin
47 Dallas OL Justin Pugh Syracuse
48 Pittsburgh OLB Cornelius Washington Georgia
49 New York Giants LB Sio Moore Connecticut
50 Chicago DT Jesse Williams Alabama
51 Washington CB Bildi Wreh-Wilson Connecticut
52 Minnesota DT Kawann Short Purdue
53 Cincinnati CB Johnthan Banks Mississippi State
54 Miami (from IND) CB Robert Alford S.E. Louisiana
55 Green Bay S J.J. Wilcox Georgia Southern
56 Seattle DT Johnathan Hankins Ohio State
57 Houston DT John Jenkins Georgia
58 Denver DE Damontre Moore Texas A&M
59 New England CB Tyrann Mathieu LSU
60 Atlanta LB Khaseem Greene Rutgers
61 San Francisco TE Gavin Escobar San Diego State
62 Baltimore OT Terron Armstead Arkansas-Pine Bluff
Note: Cleveland forfeits its second-round pick after selecting WR Josh Gordon in 2012 Supplemental draft (via NFL.com). New Orleans forfeits its second-round pick due to Bounty Gate scandal (via USA Today).
- Charles Harris-OLB, Missouri
- Rasul Douglas-CB, West Virginia
- Chris Godwin-WR, Penn State
- John Johnson-S, Boston College
- James Conner-RB, Pitt
- Nazair Jones-DT, North Carolina
- Garrett Sickels, DE/OLB, Penn State
I don't see Gronk when I see Eifert play.. not sure what the hell anyone has seen in Eifert that makes them an All Pro.


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I made an exciting discovery! Some of you will remember the screen printing project I did using Space Invaders as the motifs? Well as part of that assignment I found an artist who calls himself ''Invader''. Among other things, he goes around to cities in the world and sticks mosaics of space invaders in public places. Well I found one here!!!!! How cool is that! I spotted it while Daniel was driving us somewhere and had to go hunt for it again on foot
We have been learning and teaching a lot here, Pete at this moment is making coffee in an old Swedish way (boiled on the stove) which Pekka taught him and we are proud to announce that Jonas has become a frequent user of the phrase ''Up your Jumper''. Big breakthroughs in culture sharing!
On one of our walks this week we found another burnt down church inside the walls. This one was odd because it was two churches joined together (very unusual apparently) and it is surrounded by houses so it's like it's in their backyard! There were stones with engravings on them just propped up against the remaining walls - they could be pinched by anyone! It must have been really beautiful in it's day though, the tops of the pillars and the archways were pretty at least.
The highlight of the week has been visiting the museum today with Emelie. It was fantastic and Emelie was an excellent guide. The first room we went to was full of picture stones which dated back to pagan times and the later ones were merging with Christian imagery so there were some interesting pictures and symbols on them
We then saw some dug up skeletons with interesting stuff buried with them and cabinets full of jewellery and board games and beauty tools and all sorts of other things that were buried with various people. The weirdest things were little gadgets made from bone called ''ear scoops'' which I guess were the ancestors of Swisspers.
After that we were warned by Emelie to only proceed if we weren't too squeemish because around the corner was a cabinet of things dug up from mass graves outside of Visby. In the 1300's Denmark invaded and all sorts of people had to fight to protect the city. The graves were full of people too old, too young or too disabled to be fighting in the first place. Pretty sad. They had a selection of bones in the cabinet which were all from different people and were all deformed in some way from before the battle. Some had breaks which had been so badly set that the person would have been crippled and others had growths and diseased bits which would have been none too comfortable to live with. There were also skulls with severe injuries (one with the arrow heads stuck back in place) and their chain mail still on. There were also weapons and personal belongings found with the bodies like a ring with the person's name engraved on it, found still on the owner's finger. Creepy stuff.
The room about executions was particularly confronting. There is a place outside the city here which was used for public executions and was excavated in 2008. They found the hill littered with bones and only two bodies were still in tact, all the others had been dismembered as warnings to others
Sorry, that was a bit of a downer but the next bit will pick you up again!
The best room was the silver room. It was so exciting, they had piles and piles of Viking silver and gold and bronze which had been brought to Gotland from all over the world by Vikings and hidden in hoardes around the island. Two huge hoardes were found in a field in 1999!!!! When the area was looked at properly it was discovered that the hoards (which were in huge treasure chests with great big locks on them by the way!) had been buried under a house and I guess forgotten and when the house fell down another building was put there and then that fell down and now it's just a field with buried treasure!!!!!
Then finally there was the basement of the building (which is a seriously old building itself) which they have set up like it would have been once upon a time as a storeroom and basement thing. It was freezing down there and we had been at the museum for a couple of hours by then so we didn't stay long, but the highlight of that bit was the medieval toilet! It was just a hole in the wall that you sat in and you hung your bottom over a stream that was running past and washed all the whats nots away! Pretty cool huh? Only problem was it really was freezing and gloomy down there so I don't think I would have been game to go in the night if it were my house. Interesting never the less.
After that big exhausting trip we were well in need of a hot cuppa so we went to that cafe Pete played at the other week, Hedbergs, and sat listening to the live jazz for an hour or so. Very cosy and a great end to the day and week.


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Two words: lightsaber glove.
I predict that the upcoming Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi film will include the word "and." Multiple times.
I think it's a given that Mark Carrie and Harrison will return and possibly Billy Dee.
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Bad Robot just tweeted a photo of Abrams, Kennedy, and a few others standing with R2-D2 with the caption "Hi from the workshop! #StarWarsVII". I think it's fairly safe to say that R2-D2 will be back! I'm trying to keep an open mind and not have too many opinions on what HAS to happen in Episode VII, but R2's return is one of the things I personally feel is really important to the overall saga, so I'm very glad to see this.
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R2D2 and C-3PO will be in every film.
I'm interested (and hoping) they'll leave the EU intact and do the stories beyond the current timeline.
Harrison, Carrie, and Mark are age-appropriate for those roles.
The key indicator is Chewie being dead.
They can cast Chewie for a BETWEEN-MOVIE one shot film as they have a Han Solo one planned.
Then you'll see Han and Chewie.
Jacen Solo (and Anakin Solo) should be already dead.
Jaina will have no siblings in E7.
If Han and Leia have a grandchild, there should be one, Alanah Solo.
2 important clues:
a) the Legacy comics have gone on to Ania Solo who would have to be Alanah's great-grand-daughter!
If you look at the children's generational lineage from the Skywalkers:
Ben Skywalker (Luke's son)
x ? Skywalker
x ? Skywalker
Cole Skywalker (and Bantha?)
Cade Skywalker
Now does every Solo child from Jacen's line have children out of wedlock? Or could there be two Solo boys, Ania's father and grandfather? Her great-grandmother would have to be Alanah (Jacen's daughter) and Jacen is Ben Skywalker's first cousin.
b) Del Rey has commissioned a 3-book trilogy about Jaina Solo post-fall of Darth Caedus. She may now be referred to as Empress Jaina Fel, her married name and title, and Captain of the Imperial Knights.
If Abrams says he is NOT using anything from the books, and since they've been done, then Jacen should be dead before the roll-up of E7's title crawl or his death at his sisters hands should start the movie the same way Count Dooku's death started ROTS.
In the new Jaina Fel trilogy, her reasons for becoming the (good) Empress of the Imperial Remnant will probably hinge a lot on her having to kill her own twin brother and the fallout of her relationship with Han and Leia.
1) Han and Leia may not want anything more to do with Jaina.
2) They are trying to raise their granddaughter Alanah to be nothing like their daughter.
3) Luke will teach his son Ben that Jaina is NOT the example to follow.
Jaina is not and never will be the enemy or a Sith.
She will be the new "rogue" embodied by a Solo. All too fitting.
E7 may or may not focus on her now the more that I think about it. I think she could be a full Jedi trained ally for Ben Skywalker if she's not the lead in E7.
Or Ben will not be the lead until E8.
Jaina may have a love triangle with Jagged Fel (if they are not married when this film starts) and Zekk (Dark Jedi) who might become the enemy and could be the not-necessarily white cast member that's athletic that they're casting for.
If Tenel Ka (Jacen Solo's surviving wife and Alanah's mother) is in this film, I wonder if she will have a prosthetic arm? I thought it was bold of the character to refuse one in the books (Jacen cut her arm off but it was an accident and before they were involved romantically).
Tenel Ka was half-(good) Nightsister and half Hapan Empire royalty.
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I would hope they'd chuck the entire Legacy fustercluck out the window if they're going into that era. That's just one big ball of suck that justifies every complaint about the EU.
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Hey, as long as Jaxxon or Teek get a drum solo in the cantina, anything else they do is fine by me.
I predict that the upcoming Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi film will include the word "and." Multiple times.
I do not want them discounting Heir To The Empire (Thrawn series).
Jaina Solo was born during this (as well as better-leave-dead-Jacen Solo).
Chewie can return in the between movies - the young Han Solo one especially and does not need to be in 7,8, & 9.
That's really all that needs to be catered to and those of us invested in the EU, and those at Lucasfilm who can still profit from older book sales - can continue with our Expanded Universe indulgence.
However, I do want to see Force-wielding Imperial Knights led by their commander Empress Jaina Fel!
Royal Guards with lightsabers? A woman warrior leader for them? You guys have to admit that's cool!
Oh -and then the part where she strips off the red armor and appears in a bikin and there's fire and explosions and more lightsaber battles and ....
Oh yeah.
The Rise of the Empress Jaina Fel! Do it!
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The Thrawn Series is the only thing I hope they don't discount. After that, I'm okay with it all. Not that i hated the EU, quite the opposite, just it will be hard for them to tell any story at all if the story takes place in between what EU has been written and what Eu is too be written.
Nowhere in your incoherent ramblings did you come anywhere close to the answer. Thanks to you, everyone in this room is now stupider having heard you. I award you no points and may God have mercy on your soul. -Billy Madison-
Okay, as one who's read just about every EU story in book form, here are my two credits, but it's by no means a complete list... (LISTS... :drool: )
(* = roughly in the Episode VII era)
- Corran Horn *
- Mara Jade *
- Grand Admiral Thrawn *
- Gilad Pellaeon *
- Darth Bane
- Nomi Sunrider
- Exar Kun
- Kyp Durron *
- Jaina Solo *
- Tenel Ka *
- I-Five *
- Feris Olin
- Borsk Fey'lya *
- Cilghal *
- Jax Pavan
- Bria Tharen
- Nom Anor *
- Garm Bel-Iblis *
- Blue Max & Bollux
- Lumiya *
- Jacen Solo *
- Jagged Fel *
- Ben Skywalker *
- Jodo Kast *
- "Piggy" Voort saBinring *
- Anakin Solo *
- Prince Isolder *
- Lowbacca *
- Daala *
- Siri Tachi
- Kal Skirata
- Iella Wessiri-Antilles *
- Saba Sebatyne *
- Waru *
- any Ssi-Ruuk *
- Abeloth *
- most Yuuhzan Vong *
- Darth Cadeus *
- Thracken Sal-Solo *
- Jerec *
- Kueller *
- any Yevetha *
- Clone Emperor *
- Jorus C'baoth (with or without the extra 'U') *
- Brakiss *
- Callista *
- Warlord Zsinj *
- Starkiller
I predict that the upcoming Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi film will include the word "and." Multiple times.


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Reflecting the belief that the afterlife mirrors the earthly realm, in many animist cultures slaves were sacrificed to continue serving their deceased owners. During the secondary funerals of the Ngaju people of Borneo, for instance, slaves were tied to distinctive pole sculptures before being ritually killed. This sacrifice pole shows a feline clinging to the head of a hampatong, both with fangs aggressively bared. Slave sacrifice was thought to benefit the community, appeasing the soul of the dead noble and eradicating disease.


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Tonight, we'll have live coverage of a teenager from Scarborough who's sprouted a pimple that looks like Ed Muskie. And just before a big date, too. Also, we'll show you part seven of our investigative report on sleazy practices in the futures market for garden gnomes. And there'll be the usual video of blood-splattered crime scenes, auto accidents, and teary survivors of tragedies.
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But before that, we've got to get the actual news out of the way. So, we're going to political reporter Beau Tocksin, who's covering something boring like the Maine Democratic Party's state convention. Beau, take it away.
Thanks, Kootie. Maine Democrats will be gathering together in early June for no apparent reason. It could be one of those instinctive things, like lemmings leaping off cliffs or people attending hockey games. Whatever causes it, we're reporting on it now, because next month our entire staff will be busy chasing down rumors that Snooki Polizzi plans to have her baby on a beach in Maine.
Even though the delegates haven't arrived yet, there's certainly no lack of enthusiasm among the party's faithful, who've can already be heard in the streets chanting the Democrats' new slogan. That's right, they're saying, "We're not Paul LePage! We're not Paul LePage!"
I asked party big shot Bondercult Gremmish if that phrase constitutes the Democrats' entire platform for 2012. Here's what he told me:
"Well, Beau, since nobody ever reads platforms except Tea Party Republicans, it doesn't much matter what's in there. This year, most of the pages are blank, because voters are only interested in one thing, and that's Governor LePage's ill-considered outbursts. By promising that we're not him, we're finally offering Mainers a pledge we can keep."
But, Bond, don't voters want to know the Democrats' positions on jobs, taxes, and the budget?
"Don't be silly, Beau. LePage took stands on that stuff, and where did it get him? In trouble, that's where. Why would we want to make the same mistake?"
Bond, let me ask you why Democrats in the Maine Senate earlier this year tried to block the supplemental budget for the Department of Health and Human Services because they claimed the cuts hurt too many people. After delaying passage for a couple of days, the Dems abruptly agreed to pass the bill in return for vague promises. Then, Republicans made the cuts anyway. Why didn't your party hold out for real concessions?
"Come on, Beau, if we'd called for tax increases to pay for bigger welfare payments, the GOP would've used that to murder us at the polls in November. By not making any actual demands, we don't have to defend ourselves from claims we're trying to tax and spend."
Does that mean Democrats no longer stand for anything?
"Of course not, Beau. We stand for not being Paul LePage."
Come on, Bond, aren't you avoiding the likelihood that if the Democrats win the next election, they'll go back to raising taxes and increasing spending?
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I tried hornwort from the lfs a couple times, never could keep it alive. Some years ago I received a shipment of dwarf crayfish bagged with some small bits of hornwort to cling to in transit. The crayfish died off w/out successfully breeding, but the hornwort is still growing like a weed. It very solidly fills the upper half of my 33 long, and has been grown under a regular FL shop light with 1 6700k and 1 10,000k bulb the whole time.
I also have Najas indica in several tanks. It actually grows faster though not as thick/dense as the hornwort.
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I have had success with Rotala Indinca with this lamp as well as amazon swords. I do want to get a 6500k bulb but for now it is doing fine29g fresh planted community 1 Thick Lipped Sunset Gourami, 5 pristella x-ray tetras, 6 neon tetras and 3 platies with amazon sword and rotala indinca
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10 Gallon QT tank 3 MM Platy
I have the lights of both my tanks on timers, now. Prior to daylight saving time, both lights came on at 7:55 A.M and went off at 6:50 P.M. Since we had to set our clocks an hour ahead on March 11, the on and off is 8:55 A.M. and 7:50 P.M. The timer doesn't know the difference, only the clocks read differently.
I use all-purpose Flourish in my tanks, and I only put it in after water changes.
My hornwort has grown extensively in the 65, and somewhat in the 20. I suspect it's getting eaten in the smaller tank.
In my 20, my java moss has gone to town, bigtime. The small clump I started with is four times its original size and a deep dark green.
I would suggest you leave your light on much, much longer than four hours. Try 12 to 14 hours. See if that makes a difference. I'll bet it does...
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- At the Sign of the Lyre (1885).
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Reflecting on this past semester, I have concluded that I am very critical of myself.
I hold myself and my students to a high standard.
Although this might be frustrating at times, at the end of the day, critiquing myself is what has allowed me to make progress. Having others critique me is also helpful.
This year I am apart of a Teaching and Learning group. Part of this process is getting other faculty to observe a class, and then talk about areas of improvement.
So far in this process, I have gained confidence in my teaching methods. I have learned what other people do in their class, and I have had the opportunity to ask the "tough" questions. My peer group is comprised of three co-workers that I admire for one reason or another. They all have different teaching styles, they all have different strengths and weaknesses, and they all have different on-going issues.
This process has been a lifesaver as a newer faculty. It has allowed me to conceptualize my experience in a different way. Drawing from all the experiences of my teaching and learning group, I have been able to learn and grow from getting to know them.
I plan to continue to critique and improve myself as a professor: to learn from others who have more experience or different experiences than myself; to be secure enough in my teaching to not be wavered by one experience, but sensitive enough to know when to change; to be kind to myself throughout the process; and to be reflective enough to enjoy the journey.
I am thankful God has lead me to this profession. I will do my due diligence to be a good steward of the resources and responsibility that has been given to me.


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Former Mississippi State defensive tackle Josh Boyd was selected by Green Bay late in the fifth round of the NFL Draft this afternoon. He was the 34th player taken in that round, 167th overall.
Boyd started three games his freshman year at MSU and became a full-time starter the next season. He played in 51 career games with 41 starts, recording 125 tackles, 18 tackles-for-loss and 9.5 sacks. Boyd struggled a bit this past year after losing his fellow tackle, Fletcher Cox, making 33 tackles, 2.5 TFLs and 1.5 sacks. Boyd's best season was in 2011, when he had career highs in tackles (51), TFLs (8.0) and sacks (5.5).
Boyd is the third Bulldog to be drafted this week, with cornerbacks Darius Slay (Detroit) and Johnthan Banks (Tampa Bay) going in the second round on Friday. Boyd will rejoin former teammate Derek Sherrod in Green Bay; Sherrod was a first-round pick by the Packers in 2011.


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I love Wilson's release though. Ball comes out at the same height as every other tall QB.
I love Wilson's release though. Ball comes out at the same height as every other tall QB.
Without the physical tools it is hard to stay in this league. Flutie is a name that comes to mind. Wilson did look great last year. I will wait to pass judgement on him until after the next couple of years. Only because of his size. He has amazin talent no question.
Russell Wilson to my eyes was clearly the best rookie quarterback in 2012. It's all about how you finish. He finished. Luck and Griffin couldn't.
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For much of last year I would have agreed. But the way Russell Wilson finished the regular season and the playoffs told me this player isn't just some flash in the pan. He's going to end up one of the league's elite passers.
He already was. That's what is so stupefying. In the playoffs this year, there was virtually no difference between facing Russell Wilson and facing one of those elite guys. If you're a defense, the way Russell Wilson comes on you like a freight train once he gets in rhythm, was just as scary as facing one of those guys.
The test to REALLY be an elite guy is not to just flash for a few games though. Or not even a whole season. It's to keep that up over time. But from what I already knew about him coming out, and from what I've seen of him so far, he's shown me what I need to see in order to think...he will.
Luck played out his damn mind against us, he was spectacular. But he also struggled in a few other games. Griffin played great in an offense perfectly designed to help him succeed... short term. I have a hard time being objective because I can't separate the brilliance of it from the utter stupidity of it.
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What, me worry?
Wilson played outstanding as a rookie, but the reality is that he was asked to do the least with the most around him in relation to the rest of the rookie QB class. He only attempted 393 passes, which tied Robert Griffin for the least passing attempts among the rookie class of QB's. Seattle ran the football 55% of the time which led the league. This is just a really good football team, and Wilson was a great fit.
If you look at a guy like Weeden for example, who was playing on a terrible Cleveland team, he was literally asked to carry that poor team from day 1. He attempted 35 passes in week 1.... 37 in week 2.... 43 in week 3.... 52 in week 4.... 35 in week 5.... etc. Not to mention, his receivers were terrible. Particularly Greg Little, who's drop percentage was tops in the league. Exactly half his schedule was against playoff teams, including the Super Bowl champion Ravens twice (Ravens twice, Bengals twice, Colts, Broncos, Redskins, and Packers). Weeden's 517 attempts were 2nd only to Andrew Luck in the rookie class.
Speaking of Andrew Luck, he was undoubtably the best rookie quarterback in my opinion. I don't know if any quarterback carried their team more than Luck did.... and that includes Peyton Manning. He attempted 627 passes while throwing to two rookie TE's and two rookie receivers, and led a team to the playoffs that was bad enough to pick him with the #1 overall pick less than a year prior.
Tannehill and Weeden were about the same during their rookie seasons.


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Chocolate City Washington D.C. recently moved to recognize same-sex unions and marriages from any American state. "Heather has two mommies," sounds ridiculous when chided from a Black Christian fundamentalist's mouth. All the Black Heathers any of us know have two, maybe three mommies and several surrogate daddies. Collectivism is our way of life, distinct from clanism in Asian joint families, or even the guilds throughout Europe. Each culture is distinct and with unique merits. So, where have African-American Christians gone wrong? Why is it that Blacks have so often been co-opted into serving as the mouthpiece on the 'rong side of modern day civil liberties and human rights?
"To be sanctified by a clergy person," probes Dr. Dyson (who doubles as a clergyman), is the central issue around all civil unions. Moreover, no relationship can sustain itself by itself. Rather, relationships are sustained by concerted efforts; those that are communal are stronger.
Same-same but different, scream the proponents regarding the justice of legal and socio-religious consecration of same-gender unions. And evoking the extremities as Americans always do, we might ask, what of bestiality, pedophilia and polygamy? Or, why even collapse these few and add stigma?


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yea i guess he cant hit every store
have you been seeing any transformers deluxe figs there lately? if so which stores?
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Louis Gauffier's Vallombrosa and the Arno Valley Seen from the Paradisino is a landscape that brings together a series of often competing influences and sources: close attention to the details of nature; Neo-classicism's mathematical description of space; 'nature' as it was described at the time by the poet and philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau; and, in turn, the Romantic ideal of man and nature in harmony.
By bringing these disparate sources together, Gauffier produces a theatricalised landscape. The terrace in the foreground acts as a stage, beyond which the landscape is both warm and awesome, a place to wander and find one's self, as the monk on our left indicates. The landscape unfolds in a series of layers, where men might come to recognise their democratic sensibility and their individualism.


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General manager Ruben Amaro Jr. spoke for a half hour Monday at Citizens Bank Park to issue his state of the team address as the Phillies head into the off-season without a pennant for the first time in three years.
He had plenty of interesting things to say.
"I think there are three elements we have to be ready to handle this off-season. One is our six free agents," Amaro said. "We have to deal with those. I think we have to deal with our age because we're starting to move past and into the prime ages of production. And I think we have to address the bullpen because that's something that could have been an Achilles' heel. They ended up performing very well because our starters went deep into games."
The age comments were intriguing because, really, it hasn't been discussed much publicly by the front office.
"Do I think about the age? I do," Amaro said. "Do we have to start thinking about filtering some youth into our club? Yes, I believe that too. But at the same time, we want to be a contender again. So we have to balance those two things."
Obviously, most of the talking points began and ended with Jayson Werth, who is a free agent.
"I haven't had any discussions with Scott [Boras] yet," Amaro said. "I obviously will over the next 48 hours, we will make contact. I guess the following question is, do we have enough money to do it? And would we like to bring him back? I think the answer to both questions is yes. However, that will all kind of depend on what the ask is and ultimately how that will affect us with other possible moves to do it."
Boras said during the season Werth was having a "franchise-type season." Amaro didn't necessarily agree.
"Jayson had a good year," he said. "It wasn't an extraordinary year. He had a tough time with men on in scoring position. It wasn't as productive a year as he's had in the past. But I think if he's not with us, there are players we can either acquire or are in our own organization that can help us."
If the Phillies try to sign Werth, how difficult is it to do other things?
"Well, it becomes difficult if you don't move other pieces. ... We might have to make other adjustments."
That's the only way you could re-sign Werth?
"Not necessarily."
If Werth leaves, Amaro said the job would not be handed to rookie Domonic Brown.
"We have not given the job to Domonic Brown," he said. "He's been told that, flat out. He's going to have to earn a spot on our club next year. He's going to winter ball. A lot of it will depend on what the status is with Jayson."
Other things to note...
-- Amaro said the team will likely not negotiate with Jimmy Rollins this off-season. Rollins is entering the final season of his contract.
"I think we'll probably let things, at this time, play out," Amaro said.
-- Charlie Manuel is also going into a contract year and the GM said that will be taken care of at some time this off-season.
"At some point, we will probably address it with Charlie," Amaro said. "We have not. I've asked all the coaches back."
-- Assistant general manager Chuck LaMar said first base prospect Jonathan Singleton's experiment in the outfield during Fall Instructional League went so well that he will begin next season as the left fielder at single-A Clearwater.
-- And as for the mood around the club, Amaro had this to say:
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Blue-chip tech companies notched the biggest gains in the Dow industrials, but Apple weighed on other indexes.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average advanced 18.89 points, or 0.1%, to 13507.32. The Standard & Poor's 500-stock index lost 1.37 points, or 0.1%, to 1470.68, and the tech-oriented Nasdaq Composite Index gave up 8.13 points, or 0.3%, to 3117.50. Apple's shares make up 10% of the Nasdaq Composite.
Technology shares in the S&P 500, which also includes Apple, lagged behind, declining 1.1%. But blue-chip tech stocks led the Dow industrials, as Hewlett-Packard gained 79 cents, or 4.9%, to $16.95, and Cisco Systems tacked on 49 cents, or 2.4%, to 20.97. Dell, also listed in the S&P 500, saw its shares jump 1.41, or 13%, to 12.29, following a report that the PC company is in talks with at least two private-equity firms for a possible buyout.
Apple's decline of 18.55, or 3.6%, left it at 501.75, on news the company cut its component orders for the iPhone 5 due to weaker-than-expected demand. Wall Street analysts defended the stock, however, and UBS said it expects "strong" earnings from the company when it reports the latest quarter's results on Jan. 23.
Investors expect the next big driver of stocks to be corporate-earnings reports for the fourth quarter of 2012, with a number of notable companies reporting this week.
Companies in the S&P 500 are expected to post 1.9% higher earnings per share than they did in the previous year's final quarter, according to Thomson Reuters. Analysts have cut their outlook since the first day of the year, when they projected 2.9% of earnings growth.
"The thing I'll be looking for is how earnings numbers come in against lowered expectations," said Mike Shea, managing partner with Direct Access Partners.
Little U.S. economic data was released Monday, so investors instead looked to remarks from a trio of U.S. central bankers.
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke spoke at the University of Michigan after the close of trading Monday. He said it was important that Congress raise the debt ceiling as the U.S. economic recovery is still relatively fragile.
Earlier Monday, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco President John Williams said he expects the Fed to continue purchasing mortgage-backed securities and Treasury bonds "well into the second half of 2013." Atlanta Fed President Dennis Lockhart said he was concerned that continued bond buying could "complicate" any future Fed efforts to cut back on economic stimulus.
European stocks mostly declined, with the Stoxx Europe 600 down 0.4%, after industrial-production data in the euro zone showed output fell in November from the previous year. Italy's FTSE MIB index declined 0.6% after its November industrial output fell more than expected. Germany's DAX index rose 0.2%.
Asian stocks were mostly higher, with China's Shanghai Composite surging 3.1% to a seven-month high after a regulator said the country will grant foreigners greater access to its stock markets. Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index and India's Sensex index both hit 52-week highs, climbing 0.6% and 1.2%, respectively. Japanese markets were closed for a holiday.
Crude oil rose 0.6%, to settle at $94.14 a barrel, while gold added 0.5%, to settle at $1,668.90 a troy ounce. The dollar fell against the euro and rose against the yen. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note fell to 1.857% as prices rose.
In other corporate news, jeweler Harry Winston Diamond climbed 62 cents, or 4.3%, to 15.08, after Swatch Group agreed to buy the company's luxury-brand diamond jewelry and timepiece division.
United Parcel Service rose 1.32, or 1.7%, to 79.24, after it said it has abandoned its bid to take over Dutch parcel-delivery company TNT Express.
PPG Industries edged down 1.07, or 0.7%, to 141.03. The paint and chemicals supplier reported fourth-quarter revenue that beat Wall Street estimates, but its earnings fell short of expectations.
Facebook declined 77 cents, or 2.4%, to 30.95, breaking its recent rally despite another vote of confidence from Wall Street. Deutsche Bank upgraded the stock to "buy" and said it expects the social network's revenue to rev up.
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Been very lazy to catch up here :/ Well, we are going in for another release...will it ever stop ? I have no clue ;-). The whole team was out last week to a resort and it was good fun. Guess everyone needed that break FWIW. Feeling happy about fixing couple of nice bugs this week in libwnck.
Just wonder all the batting powers of the Indian team was finished for the one-dayers :/ The bowling is giving away in the tests I guess. And all the controversies with the ad agreements between the players and the sponsers, well God save them :/