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Her pet macaw had escaped and she was worried, but her fervent prayer was heard.
- Posted on Jun 28, 2014
The couple passing me on the street did a double take. So did the lady sitting on her front porch. I gave her a smile and a wave. In the hazy summer sun, maybe they thought they were seeing things.
But then my traveling companion greeted them, her loud, singsongy voice cutting through the briny ocean air and echoing among the overhangs of the Queen Anne-style houses. "Hello, Macalaina, hiyyyyy. Twee-hoo!"
No doubt the green miniature Hahn's macaw perched on my shoulder was an odd sight in Ocean Grove, a quaint town about halfway down the Jersey Shore, not far from where I live.
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Founded by a Methodist minister in the nineteenth century, it's known for its Victorian beach houses and the colorful tents that surround the main church, called the Great Auditorium. The streets are lined with antique shops, art galleries, homey restaurants.
In the summer, Methodist worshippers from around the country come for the annual "camp meeting."
I'm Jewish, so no camp meeting for me, but I love taking the short drive to Ocean Grove to get an ice cream sundae at Nagle's, photograph the charming architecture (a hobby of mine) and enjoy the sea breezes. Ever since I adopted Macalaina, she's joined me.
I'd been surprised by Macalaina too, when I first saw her at the pet store. I lived alone and was looking for an affectionate friend to keep me company. I was a little unsure when the saleswoman suggested the hand-raised, three-month-old parrot.
Undeterred, she let Macalaina out of her cage. The bird stepped right onto my finger, walked up my arm, hopped onto my head and nuzzled my hair!
"These birds really bond with their owners," the saleswoman explained. "Once they get comfortable, they'll perch on you and won't leave your side, even outdoors." Unless, of course, she added, something spooked them.
I was sold. Macalaina became my best friend. For the last two months, we'd gone everywhere together. In crowds, she'd nest atop my head, reveling in her role as alpha bird. On long walks, I sang to her softly and reminded her that I'd keep her safe, no matter what.
Sometimes she got scared and took off, but she always circled back. I even took her to my tax preparer–"If I mess up your taxes," he told me, "it's because that bird on your head distracted me!"
Now I stopped to snap a photograph of a particularly stunning Victorian. Adjusting the camera's focus, I felt Macalaina's tiny talons grip my shoulder.
Honk, honk! A car horn blared. I almost jumped out of my sandals. Macalaina flew off...disappearing into the trees.
"Macalaina!" I called. "Macalaina!" No sign of her.
The woman I'd waved to left her porch. "Did you lose your bird?" No, no, I couldn't have...but I didn't see her anywhere. Not in the trees, not on a rooftop, not in the sky.
People came out to help look. Someone spotted her on the eave of a three-story house, near an attic window. I begged the owners to let me in. By the time I got to the attic, Macalaina had flitted to a tree. "Macalaina," I called, sweetly. "It's okay, Momma's here." I sang. I whistled. Nothing worked.
Finally I got my car and parked it beneath the tree, waiting for Macalaina to fly down. It started to get dark. I'm not leaving. I can't. I slept in my car that night.
At 5:00 a.m., I started the car and drove home. I filled Macalaina's food dish with sunflower seeds–her favorite–and rushed back, just in time to see a green flash emerge from the branches above. I parked and got out.
There she was, perched on a balcony railing. I shook the seeds. They made a sound like a maraca. She cried out, "Hello, Macalaina, hiyyyyy. Twee-hoo!" Still too scared to fly down, though.
The owners weren't home, so I called the police. "You've lost a what?" the dispatcher asked. "You want us to do what?" Eventually, two squad cars pulled up. But the cops could only offer their sympathies. Macalaina flew over the house and vanished.
"Maybe you should put up posters," one officer said halfheartedly while his radio squawked with a more urgent summons.
At a copy shop I made 100 posters, with my phone number and photos of Macalaina. "LOST PARROT. Miniature macaw; green, red under wings. Says, 'Hello, Macalaina.' Please call if you spot or capture her. Hungry and tired. Eats fruits and seeds. I love her. Thank you!"
Friends helped me tack them to every telephone pole in town. I was growing more frantic by the minute.
I got some calls, but by day's end, still no Macalaina. Dark clouds boiled up over the horizon. How would she survive a thunderstorm?
I looked up at the steeple of the Great Auditorium, silhouetted against the darkening sky. Maybe it was the hopelessness of that moment, but I felt stirred to offer a prayer. Please, God, if you can bring back Macalaina, I promise to take care of her the rest of her life.
The next morning I returned to Ocean Grove with my friend Lillian. We brought a long-handled fishing net and walked the wet streets. The day dragged, my heart breaking a little more with every passing hour. "Come on," Lillian said. "Let's grab dinner at Nagle's. We'll split a sundae for dessert."
I barely touched dinner. Or the sundae. "You know, Lillian, it's going to take a miracle to get Macalaina back," I said, fighting tears.
We were paying the bill when my cell phone chirped. I hit "answer."
"Is this the person who lost her bird?" a woman's voice said. "We've got Macalaina."
Got? Not spotted, or heard...but got? We ran to her cottage, a purple rental a block away. Perched on the shoulder of an older woman was my bedraggled Macalaina! I still had her dish. She hopped into my hand, pecking hungrily at the seeds.
"Thank you! Thank you!" It was all I could think to say. "How?" I finally asked.
"I live in California, and just arrived in town with my kids and my grandkids for the camp meeting," the woman said. "We had a barbeque in the yard, and this bird flew down and landed on a shrub. I wondered what a miniature Hahn's macaw was doing at the Jersey Shore."
That's when, the woman explained, her six-year-old granddaughter shouted, "That's the parrot from the poster!" She'd just learned to read, and was practicing earlier by reading the lost-bird posters I'd tacked up.
"I memorized the phone number," the girl said proudly. She'd recited it as her grandmother dialed.
I was so elated to be reunited with Macalaina, it took me a minute to realize the obvious. "Wait," I said. "How did you know exactly what kind of parrot she was?"
The woman smiled. "I'm a bird rescuer," she said. "That's what I do for a living."
The next day was Sunday. I attended services in the Great Auditorium, to thank the community that had helped me search for Macalaina. After all, we all pray to the same God. One that cares for even the tiniest of creatures, and who never takes his eyes off us.
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You have already noticed that the time 9:42 is apparently significant, at least, in the world of the Apple iPhone. The most observant of iPhone fanatics took notice recently that the iPhone, in each of Apple's iPhone commercials, displayed the time 9:42 – always 9:42.
The company has never explained, so surely it must be a riddle. And now the iPad shows 9:41? And now the truth is finally out — a software developer spotted a company VP at an Apple store and just asked — and it's really quite boring, reports NetworkWorld. It's a guess at what time the product will be officially rolled out.
"We design the (product launch) keynotes so that the big reveal of the product happens around 40 minutes into the presentation. When the big image of the product appears on screen, we want the time shown to be close to the actual time on the audience's watches. But we know we won't hit 40 minutes exactly," he said.
"So you add a couple of minutes? "Yeah! And for the iPhone, we made it 42 minutes. It turned out we were pretty accurate with that estimate, so for the iPad, we made it 41 minutes. And there you are – the secret of the magic time." [via NetworkWorld; image via iPhoneFaq]

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Intel: Meltdown and Spectre bugs also affect Ivy Bridge, Sandy Bridge, Skylake and Kaby Lake systems
In an update following the Meltdown and Spectre revelations, Intel has admitted that the problems also affect newer chips. The company had previously focused its attention -- and that of users -- on Broadwell and Haswell chips, but now company vice president Navin Shenoy has conceded that Ivy Bridge, Sandy Bridge, Skylake and Kaby Lake-based platforms are susceptible.
In rather more positive news, Shenoy also says that good progress has been made in identifying the root cause of the problem. Furthermore, beta microcode should be made available to vendors next week.
Tim Cook: iPhone users will soon be able opt out of performance reduction
Many iPhone owners were disappointed to learn that Apple had been purposefully slowing their handsets, with many people believing it confirmed rumors that Apple slowed older iPhones to encourage upgrades.
Facing a backlash, the company explained that the forced performance degradation was an attempt to maximize battery life, and it then announced a cheaper battery replacement program. Now Tim Cook has said that a future iOS update will make iPhone throttling optional.
Samsung begins GDDR6 mass production
Graphics cards are huge business nowadays, and not just for gaming. Actually, many consumers are buying these cards for the mining of cryptocurrency. Unfortunately, this is driving up the cost of GPUs, negatively impacting gamers that are shopping for a new card.
Right now, graphics cards largely utilize the super-fast GDDR5 for memory, but there is something better on the horizon -- GDDR6. Today, Samsung announces that it has begun mass producing the memory chips. If you are a gamer, you should be extremely excited about this!
Apple plans to invest $350 billion in the US economy in the next 5 years
Apple has announced plans to make further investment in the US economy, spending some $350 billion over the course of the next 5 years. This figure does not include Apple's ongoing tax payments, tax revenues generated from employees' wages, or the sale of Apple products.
The tech giant promises to add 20,000 more American jobs (Apple already employs 84,000 people across all 50 states), and create a new campus -- to house technical support for customers -- at an as-yet unannounced location.
YouTube updates its video review process yet again to avoid another problem like Logan Paul
YouTube is to subject large numbers of videos to manual review in an attempt to ensure that they are "ad-friendly." Google says that "stricter criteria for monetization" will be introduced as it tries to avoid further controversies such as Logan Paul's video that featured a dead body.
The changes are likely to mean that some YouTubers will lose money when they are introduced in February. Google is also making changes to the requirements that need to be met to join the YouTube Partner Program.
New SDK helps deliver best practice privileged account management
The idea of security by design is something we'll hear much more of as GDPR implementation looms. But many organizations still struggle when it comes to implementing a least privilege security model.
Access management specialist Thycotic is launching a new command line interface for its Secret Server privileged account management solution, enabling DevOps teams to bring best practice privileged account management to their code, build scripts, and configuration files.
Having Wi-Fi problems? Your Chromecast device could be to blame [Updated]
Google support forums are filling up with complaints from Google Home and Chromecast users that they are experiencing problems with their Wi-Fi connections. With such devices connected to a network, many people are having issues with stability, or finding that their network collapses entirely.
Both TP-Link and Linksys have issued patches for their routers, but the problem ultimately lies with the Cast feature of Google Home and Chromecast devices.
AI is moving into the enterprise mainstream
Artificial intelligence is often seen as being a technology of the future, but a new study from natural language processing company Narrative Science reveals that 61 percent of businesses are already using AI.
Interest and investment in the technology is increasing too, 71 percent of respondents say their company has an 'innovation strategy' to drive investments in new technologies like AI. A majority of companies say they have budget dedicated to enabling innovation (59 percent) and expect that outlay to increase in 2018 (62 percent).
Microsoft brings Surface Book 2 to more markets
Microsoft today announces that it is expanding the availability of the Surface Book 2 to include all the markets where it currently sells Surface devices.
The Surface Book 2 was launched in mid-October of last year, making the 13-inch version available in more markets than its 15-inch counterpart. This latest move will slowly change that.
Shutterstock unveils 2018 Creative Trends Report -- cryptocurrency, fantasy, and more
Shutterstock is an excellent website to obtain high-quality media -- images, music, and videos. Not only is it easy to use, but it has a large and diverse selection too. That is probably why so many companies use the service (including us). With so many people searching Shutterstock for media, the company has the opportunity to analyze that search data to predict trends. This is smart to do, as unused data is arguably worthless data.
Today, Shutterstock unveils its Creative Trends Report for 2018, and the data is quite interesting. If you aren't familiar, it is a report that highlights certain media trends based on search data. Even though it focuses on media, the subject matter can reveal larger overall worldwide trends too. As an example, one of the big media search trends is cryptocurrency -- this should come as no surprise, as Bitcoin and others have seen huge gains (and losses) lately. As you can see, people will search for media that represents things that are happening in the world.
Warning: A simple text message can crash iOS and macOS
Every few years or so, news breaks about a new bug that can cause iPhones and Macs to crash.
In 2013, it was discovered a string of Arabic characters could kill applications in OS X 10.8 and iOS 6, and then in 2015, the "Effective Power" bug allowed anyone to remotely reboot iPhones -- again by using a special sequence of characters.
Kaspersky reveals details of extraordinarily powerful Android trojan, Skygofree
Security firm Kaspersky Lab has revealed details of a highly-sophisticated Android trojan that takes advantage of multiple vulnerabilities to gain full control of a device. Skygofree has capabilities that have never been seen in the wild before.
In the malware's arsenal of weapons is the ability to track user location, record audio, connect to attacker-controlled networks, monitor messaging apps, intercept text messages, take photographs, and much more. Kaspersky says its capabilities are "reminiscent of Hollywood spy movies."
Microsoft releases confusing patches for AMD systems bricked by Meltdown and Spectre fixes
While the notorious Meltdown and Spectre chip bugs are still yet to pose a real threat in their own right, it's rather a different story when it comes to the patches designed to fix the problems. Microsoft had to pause the rollout of patches after reports that they were leaving some AMD systems unbootable.
Now the software giant has released two new updates -- one for Windows 7 (KB4073578) and one for Windows 8.1 (KB4073576) -- to fix the "Unbootable state for AMD devices" issue. But it's not all good news. These are updates that have to be manually downloaded and installed, and Microsoft has provided no instructions about how to use them.
ProtonVPN launches unlimited free VPN service for Android
ProtonVPN's free VPN service got off to a very rocky start when it launched 7 months ago. Demand was such that free users got put on to a waitlist, where they languished for months before even seeing an invite. The company did sort things eventually, and today it expands ProtonVPN further, by bringing the service to Android.
If you're concerned about using a free VPN, the company says you shouldn't be. The free service is funded by paid subscribers and subsidized by ProtonMail, meaning there are no ads and user data won't be sold to pay for it.
Firefox: Windows 7 way more popular than Windows 10
Depending on which analyst firm you believe, Windows 10 will either finally overtake Windows 7 this month, or it won't. Either way, the newest OS is narrowing the gap.
However, according to the Firefox Hardware Report, a public weekly survey of the hardware and software used by everyone running the release channel desktop build of Mozilla's web browser, Windows 10 still has a long way to go until it catches up to Windows 7.


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Download Emo Girls Find Differences apk 1.0.1 free for Android smartphone
Posted by Just Girl Games in Casual | July 16, 2013 | 42 Comments
Apk file size: 14.0 MB
Emo style has been really popular lately and these girls all find it very charming, therefore, they choose to dress up that way. Can you find all the differences in the limited time? Have fun!
Just Girl Games part of our Casual and have average installs from 10000 to 50000. Last Update July 16, 2013. Google play rating is 69.1803. Current verison is 1.0.1. Actual size 14.0 MB.
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42 Comments
Emma Thomson
Level 2 This game is really fun but U can't get the last thing on level 2 :(
Courtney Button
Its sooooooooooooooo its so sexy it makes me feel like a tranny and a hobo
Dj Girl_101
don't work!I'm emo but I get a temper when something ain't right. ...plz fix????
Alexis Snider
Ehhhwaaa! I'm emo~~ blah blah blah. Okay we get you're emo, great. Good for you, don't tell the world about it. This is a review for the game, not for you life. Anyway, great game to pass time.
Allison Lopez
WON'T WORK i try to play it but it says it stopped please fix *cries*
geanna perez
I'm so emo!!! Not,I agree with Alex if u say your emo and if u like emo then your not emo,being emo is nothing to brag about so shut up and say stuff about the game!!!
Lyah Leio
I am emo myself and i think that this is a good game it helps me escape this terrible feeling about my family criticizing me about the way i am
Jakiya Greene
Annoying ads They are in the way and I kept getting a negative score for no reason while clicking obvious differences
Gloria Branham
Emo rules I love being emo its a thing
Nafisah Dozier
Ilove I love this Emo is who i am
Felix Garcia
Hated it Each time i try to open it it says it crashed
Alexandra McBride
Excellent Its really Good
Anna BVBlover
Way to many adds!! >_<
Alice Wolf
It crashed
Heather Roberts
It won't open Idk what I'm doing wrong
sebastian girl
not so good everytime i open up the game it say it doesnt work and i just got a brand new tablet
Alexa Angel
Its good I like it but I saw light and misa
Haile Weaver
BTW I'm emo and idc wut u haters say No one asked u if u cared about emos or not all u can do in life is comment on how much u hate emo I for one am proud to be emo Alexis Snider
MacKenzie Pearson
Fun but It's a fun game, but there are too many ads.
Cash Babe
SUUUUUUUCKSS like the death note pic tho
Julie Nicasio
Uninstall Every time i tried to open it it wouldent work
L Liedtke
=-( Im emo but i hate that it wont woke for me
Chanté van Aswegen CvA
Wow My tipes
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Infinity&Beyond xX
It wont open. Everytime I try to open the app it says there is an error. Please fix this..
Genny Sawyer
Won't download to play, bummer!
Bridgette Ostrander
It won't let me get on I tried 2 times to get on and it still wouldn't work so I reported and deletid
AdjustedWolf 64
It won't stop crashing I haven't even gotten to see what the game is really every time I try to open it, it crashes.....please fix this so I can try it out and give it an actual rating
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Idk it's k....I guess
Mackenzie Polanco
Wouldnt even open up
anna blain
It won't open
Luna The Fox
Wouldn't let me in the app. It probably would've bee stupid anyways.
Brianna Leon
It did not work at all I hate it
Zabeth Reap
It wont even open It is stupid
Ashley Giles
Please fix this Every single time I get on, and I mean EVERY TIME I GET ON,it says unfortunately emo girls as stopped. I try to unstalling it but it kept in saying it over and over and over again. Please fix this.
Momina Siddiqui
Doesn't work on my phone After installing when I opened it, it said "unfortunately emo girls find differences has stopped"
Jailey Ramirez
Won't let me on Every time I try to go on it says the game has stopped working... Fix plz... ?
Jennifer Doyle
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Jailey Ramirez
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Kayla Wiley
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KTMP It does not work
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PLEASE FIX It wouldn't even let me open the app I didn't get to play the game PLEASE FIX!!!


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Appendix A was written by a group of people OUTSIDE the Shetland Islands in modern times. It promotes a type of sheep that is not historical. It does not match the desires of shepherds like me who want to genuinely preserve and protect the real Shetland sheep. Genuinely protecting the real Shetland sheep is why I joined our national organization. Genuine Shetland sheep are simply amazing. Their wool is outstanding and cannot be matched in any other breed. They are solid, hardy sheep who are sweet, friendly, active, bright, outstanding mothers, and a joy to own.
Appendix A created lots of tension in our national breed organization. A very small group of very nasty people put it in place, without the knowledge of most of the membership. When the membership found out, there was shock and anger. But there was so much more to the story!
But for now, it's time to CELEBRATE!
AND! It's time to celebrate the return of integrity to our national organization!!!
WOOHOO! It's a GREAT DAY!!!


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razisgosu wrote:Why do people seriously keep asking that? There was nothing in Demon Gaze worth censoring. Unless Demon Gaze 2 significantly lewds it up, it wouldn't be censored.I hear it has a mini game, that doesn't imply it will be censored.
The reason why I bring this up is because it's not lewd(from what I saw) but there were unnececary censoreship not so long ago and I don't want NISA to fall in to this category.


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The Berliner Singschule is the youngest child at the Cathedral of Berlin. Through intercommunication with the neighboring St. Peter - St. Mary parish and the Benevoli choirs of the Berlin Singakademie, a broad spectrum of childrens and youth choirs with various emphases and requirements is available to children five years and older.
Childrens Choir: Entry-level choir for children between approximately 5 and 7 years of age.
Conductor: Marie-Louise Schneider
Kurrende: Continuing choir for children between approximately 8 and 12 years of age.
Youth Choir: Project choir for youths, 13 years and older, weekend trips.
Conductor: Cathedral Cantor Tobias Brommann
Further offerings can be found at www.sing-akademie.de, key word: Benevoli.


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As polling day approaches, the No campaign have deployed their most devastating attack on AV yet.
Signed, sealed, delivered.
As polling day approaches, the No campaign have deployed their most devastating attack on AV yet.
Signed, sealed, delivered.
Maybe instead of arguing with Guido on Twitter, Will Straw should just step into the ring. Will always advocates more government taxing, borrowing and spending, Guido always advocates lower taxes, balanced budgets and an end to subsidies and bail-outs. Here is the rap version:
Tory MP Alok Sharma has been digging into the union officials that are paid full time by the state. Basically local government versions of Nurse Pilgrim, whom Guido exposed last week.
Sharma asked the number of council-paid employees working full-time on trade union business, as well as the aggregate bill and the estimated cost of any other resources used by these officials
319 of 429 councils responded to the FOI request. 132 had a paid full-time union official in at least one of the last 3 years, whilst 187 did not. As yesterday, 110 councils had not responded including the slashing Labour controlled Manchester City Council.
The total salary bill over the last three years for full-time union reps was £35 million. This does not include the cost of employing someone else to do the job vacated by the union reps. The unions should be paying for these staffers, not the taxpayer.
Meanwhile our favourite Nurse Pilgrim is causing trouble again. Outraged that the hospital she works at won't be shutting down for the Royal Wedding she is organisng an official complaint
From: Jane Pilgrim [mailto:Jane.Pilgrim@███████.nhs.uk]
Sent: 26 April 2011 16:48
To: ████████████████
Subject: RE: royal wedding
Sensitivity: Confidential
Dear All,
It seems that the Trust are putting up stiff resistance to our various letters,
It does now seem that a collective grievance would be appropriate. UNISON has agreed to this..
Please let me know if you wish to be part of a collective grievance by 11th May,
Many Thanks
Jane Pilgrim ( Staff Side Secretary)
Guido wouldn't have had this "peace and love" hippy squatter down as an arch-monarchist. Especially as she has now joined the Green Party who are abolitionist. Heaven forbid she might actually have to do a days work though. How exactly is Jane expecting lives to be saved if everyone at the hospital gets the day off?
The UK economy grew by 0.5% in the first three months of the year, reducing the risk of a double-dip recession. Reacting to the fact that his doomsday scenario hasn't quite come true, Ed Balls said Cameron was "patronising, sexist, insulting and un-prime ministerial and he certainly should apologise." Back to the drawing board for a Ballsian economic theory.
Poor Patrick Wintour, just a couple of weeks ago he has was gleefully preaching the merits of the AV system to the Guardian choir, yet today he has almost begun naming the names of who is to blame for Yes running such an antiquated campaign.
Bad news for Huhne. His less than subtle leadership politicking has has gone down badly with the Yes team saying it "went on too long for self-serving purposes". The campaign had until then had taken the decision not to rebut all the accusations put to them by No, but this may prove to have been their fatal mistake. But all is not lost, they do have one big trick up their sleeves: "The yes team are even scanning the 10-day weather forecast in the hope that God will prove to be a late convert" Desperate times…


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In the past few days, Google is showing signs that Project Fi is real. The tools to help get the best results from it are starting to see the light of day. The first such tool is in the Google Play store and is found by searching for Project Fi.
Going by the screen shots included with the product, there will be a good bit of data available when the service launches. For example, you can see current usage and past month usage data to mention just some of what is coming. Only if you have a Nexus 6 will you be able to download the app. If, like me, you have anything but that, you will only see a button that says incompatible with your device.
If you do have a Nexus 6, you are a little closer but will still not have any joy. Reports are surfacing that you can download the app but it either crashes or wont run. In the few reports where it was able to run, you are prompted for a username and password for Project FI that you dont have right now.
In any event, there is still something you can do to be further down the path to be ready for Google/Project Fi when it does become available. You can start the process by going to https://www.google.com/wallet/. If you only have an IOS device, you can still download Google Wallet. The significance of Google Wallet is that it will be how payments are processed for Project Fi. This will be one less thing that you have to do once you get the invite for Project Fi. The first time you enter Google Wallet on your Android/IOS device, you will be prompted for a PIN. Record this pin in your password manager or whatever method you use to keep track of such information.
You can manage your Google Wallet by going to https://wallet.google.com. You can view the transactions and payments for this account. This is where you can also add extra sources of payment to be used by Google Wallet.
With what little is publicly available on Project Fi, I already seen one benefit for this phone/service. In the event of an emergency, it is possible that at least one cell phone provider may have service related issues. That could cause problems if you are using a phone that only understands about one provider. With Project Fi using two different cell providers, the potential for problems is lower. I will post again once I either have my Project Fi invite or have been able to find more information that is interest.
To see more of my posts about Google Fi, please go to http://www.ronnutter.com/category/Google/


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by Monette, Paul & Steve Nahmias
n.p.: Self-published by the author, 1978. Single 5.5x8.25 inch sheet, the excised half-title page from the hardcover edition of "Taking of Mrs. Carroll" with an eight-line handwritten inscription in ink signed by Monette as Paul, dated 6/78. Nahmias' name is to be found on the Quilt; evidently a close friend from "back in the past" who was off to Africa in 1978. This leaf excised from the book at some point. (Inventory #: 204325)


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BNY Mellon Dodges Calif. FCA Claims In Forex Pricing Suit
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Discovery Park team serving up winning dishes for Euro 2016
Posted on 07/06/16
Discovery Park is looking forward to a bumper summer of sporting events starting with this month's UEFA Euro 2016 in France.
The site's events and conferencing team have put their heads together for a winning combination of dishes served up throughout the tournament, linked to the teams taking part.
From Spanish paella to Turkish baklava; leek, potato & Guinness soup to Croatian sea bass, a winning combination of flavours is promised for food – and football – fans. We can recommend the Swedish meatballs served with cheesy mash.
On Thursday, June 16, the big crunch match of Group B, between England and Wales, takes place with tenants able to enjoy the game in The Playroom, the site's informal networking space transformed, for 90 minutes at least, into a virtual stadium.
The site's Java outlets will also be putting on dishes for each side too; with a traditional roast beef and Yorkshire puddings or Welsh rarebit with roasted veg.
Sophie Mannering, Catering Manager for Parkserve at Discovery Park, said: "We love a theme at Discovery Park and our award winning catering team have come up with some delicious culinary dishes to mark the Euros.
"These tournaments are difficult to call, but we will be cheering on England (and a few will be rooting for Wales) as we will serve up some delicious winning dishes of our own for businesses to enjoy."


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Purpose of the Guideline
The purpose of this travel policy is to provide general guidelines for MICA employees - as well as visitors traveling to MICA for business or educational purposes - in the performance of required travel activities on the college's behalf. These guidelines have also been prepared to be informational, with links to useful websites and preferred providers, as well as instructions for emergencies while on the road. They will facilitate travel related bookings by offering standardized practices and policies that will best utilize campus-wide resources.
The following guidelines outline general types of expenses, assistance in determining "necessary and reasonable" expenses, and details on reimbursement policies. MICA acknowledges that individual needs may require expenditures and amounts that do not always fall within the guidelines stated in this policy. If such expenditures are anticipated in advance, employees must do their best to make sure their supervisor is aware of these expenses and have them approved. If unanticipated expenses are necessitated in the course of a trip, "best judgment" is expected by the college, and employees must bring these expenses to their supervisor's or sponsor's attention upon completion of the assigned project.
Air Travel
- It is MICA policy that airfare should be the most economical coach fare available at the time of booking.
In order to maximize savings for the college, employees are asked to:
- Make every reasonable effort to book air travel arrangements as far in advance as possible
- Use airline websites for discount airlines (like Southwest, Airtran, etc), and other direct to airline sites. Travel websites (like Travelocity and Orbitz) are valuable for obtaining information for planning and price comparisons, but often charge fees for changes and cancellations. We recommend not booking airline travel through these sites.
- Use restricted, non-refundable fares, when cost effective
- Consider alternate flight times and alternate airports or means of transportation when significant cost savings are apparent.
- Establish frequent flyer numbers with all airline carriers. Frequent flyer points will be retained by the flyer, not the college
Rail Travel
- When booking Amtrak tickets, use MICA's Amtrak Guest Rewards for Business program. Begin by enrolling in the program. To join visit, www.amtrak.com , click on "Earn Rewards," then "join Amtrak Guest Rewards." After you enroll, email Betty Enselein at email@example.com with your member number and email address. This allows both you and MICA to receive points for free travel in the future.
- MICA's accumulated business travel points will be redeemed on a first come, first serve basis for free travel associated with the business of the college. Travel points can be used for guest lecturers visiting MICA, special alumni events, conferences attended by train travel, etc. If you have any questions, please contact Betty Enselein or Hilde Li at 410-225-2363
- Employees should book only coach class tickets for rail travel. Acela rail tickets are not reimbursable unless there are special circumstances and a supervisor is notified, and gives approval, in advance of the trip
- As your schedule permits, check departure times for discounts. Often, trains leaving an hour or two later can be significantly cheaper than "rush hour" departures.
Personal Car
- An employee's personal car may be used for business travel when the cost for the reimbursement is less than the cost of the lowest available round-trip airfare or rail fare. Discuss details with your supervisor about using your own car before planning your trip.
- Mileage reimbursement rates are posted on the MICA portal under the "Administrative Forms" section; look for the "Mileage Rates" link for rates. Mileage rates are updated on this page regularly, and reflect IRS standards for reimbursement.
- Only actual mileage may be claimed on the reimbursement form. Travelers using their personal car are responsible for:
- All costs associated with the vehicle operation, maintenance repair or depreciation
- Insurance to meet state-required minimums for public liability and property damage
- Insurance deductible, in case of an accident
- Accidents involving personal cars driven on MICA business must be reported to the driver's insurance company as soon as possible. Insurance claims are to be handled by the individual, and are not covered by the college.
Rental Cars
- All drivers of rental cars must have a valid driver's license, and prior approval from MICA to drive a vehicle on the college's behalf.
- Employees are asked to select a compact or subcompact car when in need of a rental car. However, the following guidelines are available when traveling with large packages or more than one person:
- Any occasion when traveling alone - Compact Car
- Carrying packages or traveling with two people - Compact or Mid-Size
- Carrying packages or traveling with more than two people - Mid-size or Full-Size
- When renting a car, employees must inspect the car for existing damage, and report said damage, before leaving the rental location.
- Employees must make every attempt to refuel a rental car before returning it in order to avoid a fueling surcharge. Fueling surcharges will not be reimbursed, except with proper justification.
- When renting a car in the USA, do not accept the rental company's insurance, as rentals are covered by MICA insurance. All vehicles rented for business use must be in the name of Maryland Institute College of Art. MICA's deductible for any rental vehicle is $1,000 for comprehensive and $1,000 for collision. You may obtain a copy of MICA's insurance policy card from the Operations Department, or on the webpage with these guidelines.
- Policies do not cover rental cars outside of the USA, since different insurance regulations apply. When using rental cars outside of the USA, always accept the rental car insurance.
When an accident occurs, regardless of driver fault:
- Report the accident promptly to the police and obtain a report of the accident
- Do not admit negligence or liability, do not attempt settlement, regardless of how minor
- Obtain names, address and telephone numbers as well as vehicle identification and insurance information with all others involved.
- Report any accident as soon as possible to your supervisor, and to "Willis Claims Department, attn: Denise DeShong" at 1-800-937-5657.
Student Educational-related Travel
- Liability insurance for property damage caused by students during off-campus commitments is covered for officially sanctioned MICA educational programs only. Certificates of Insurance for these commitments may be obtained from the Campus Services Office and require at least ten business days notice. These instances will be determined on a case-by-case basis. All other coverage, including bodily injury, property damage and vehicle damage, both to student's cars, rental cars and third party property, reverts to the student's insurance.
- Student employees are not allowed to drive for business purposes of the college. Driving should never be a part of any student job description.
- Students may use their personal vehicles or rental cars voluntarily for educational-related travel at their own risk. Students are responsible for their own expenses, including insurance, gas and any other expense related to travel.
- Student's personal insurance will cover all costs related to any accident incurred while traveling. This includes out-of-pocket deductibles and premium increases as a result of an accident. MICA insurance will not cover any aspect of repair to a vehicle from an accident
- Students must sign a waiver releasing MICA of liability prior to using their vehicle for any educational- related activity. The Student Driving Waiver can be found here: http://www.mica.edu/???
- For more information relating to student educational-related travel, please see information located here: http://www.mica.edu/???
- Search for hotels that are appropriate to the level of business activity you are performing on a trip. In most cases, employees should search for mid-priced business travel hotels when booking a room (Hampton Inn, Courtyard by Marriot, Holiday Inn, etc). In most areas of the country, the average hotel costs should not exceed $100 per night.
- If you are performing business for MICA at a hotel, or attending a conference located in a hotel, discuss upgrade options for meeting space and accommodations with your supervisor before booking your room(s).
- In major cities, where hotel prices are more expensive, use best judgment in finding economical rates for your stay. Discuss with your supervisor what your options are before you book your trip. Review government standards for costs at the link located at the end of this policy.
- MICA recommends looking for hotels just outside a city center (they are usually less expensive and do not charge for parking) when the cost savings (including transportation back into a city center) are significant.
- Request business traveler discounts when booking your room(s).
- Request AAA discount
- Use government website (listed below in "Valuable Information" section) for help with pricing across the country.
The cost for meals and other incidental expenses will vary widely depending on the area of the country being visited, and the actual business being conducted, so per diems are subject to the approval of your supervisor. Employees should be prudent and use good business judgment when incurring meal costs. MICA requires that each employee settle on a per diem with their supervisor before their trip.
Generally, MICA policy sets per diems in the range of $40 - $50 for most daily meal and incidental expenses. Information on regional per diems can be found at the government website links at the end of this policy.
Gratuities are considered reasonable business expenses and are reimbursable. Reasonable gratuities are 15%-20% for meals, $1 per bag for luggage assistance and 10%-15% for taxi rides.
Non-Reimbursable Expenses
- Charges for in-flight or hotel room movies
- Expenses incurred by accompanying family members
- Travel insurance
- Airline club memberships
Traveling to MICA
When sponsoring a visitor to MICA - whether for business purposes (interviews, consultations, etc) or for educational purposes (lectures, speakers, visiting critics, etc) - MICA expects the same guidelines to be used as for those traveling on business away from the college. MICA has several preferred hotel accounts: information on these accommodations is listed in the "Valuable Information" section at the end of this guideline.
Meal and entertainment expenses are to be set by the sponsor of the visit, in conjunction with their supervisors, as far in advance of the visit as possible. All pertinent expense reporting and rules listed in this policy are to be followed for these trips as well.
Expense Report
All MICA employees are required to fully track expenses (including American Express and cash expenses) for each business trip using the MICA Expense Report Form (see attached form). All expenses must be reported to your supervisor within two weeks upon returning from your trip.
Original receipts are required for the following expenses:
- Air Travel
- Lodging
- Meals
- Car Rental
- Rail Tickets
- Fuel
- Public Transportation
- Tolls
- Parking
Valuable Information
Because travel expenses can vary greatly from region to region, the following government website can help establish reasonable costs for travel, hotels and per diem rates for almost all areas of the country
Recommended Hotel Websites
(information to come)
Recommended Local Hotels for Travel to MICA
Information and booking pages for approved MICA hotels can be found at:
Recommended Rental Car Websites
(information to come)
Recommended Airline Websites
(information to come)
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CONWAY, Ark. - The home-field advantage remained true to form Saturday with Central Arkansas taking a 21-18 victory over McNeese State in a Southland Conference football game.
It was the second straight win for the Bears over the Cowboys and the third in as many games in Conway. McNeese has won all three the two teams have played in Lake Charles.
The loss was the first in league play for the Cowboys (3-3, 2-1 SLC).
The Cowboys held the edge over the Bears (4-3, 3-1) in just about every statistical category, outgaining them 422 total yards to 256. But turnovers killed the Cowboys' chances and gave the Bears 14 points.
McNeese fumbled the ball seven times and lost three, and the Cowboys had two passes intercepted.
Two of the Bears' three TDs came after McNeese turnovers.
Cowboys coach Matt Viator said his team just couldn't get it done.
"It's the second straight week that we haven't been able to put them away," he said. "We played hard. Now, we have to go back and work harder."
McNeese opened Saturday's scoring with a touchdown on its first possession. After the Cowboys took over on their own 45, Darius Carey ran for 36 yards before Javaris Murray ran for 8 yards and then scored on a 13-yard run.
Central Arkansas came back on an 81-yard pass from Nathan Dick to Dominique Croom to tie the score.
After recovering a Cowboys fumble, UCA took the lead for good on another TD pass by Dick, this one to Brett Soft for 25 yards.
The Bears got another touchdown in the third period when Frank Newsome picked up a Marcus Wiltz fumble and ran 98 yards for a score.
McNeese got the final two scores in the game, a 27-yard field goal by Josh Lewis and a 4-yard TD pass from Stroud to DeVionte' Edmonson.
Following the Stroud-Edmonson TD, Andre Anderson ran for the two point conversion.
The Cowboys got the football back for one last time, taking over on their 26 with 29 seconds left in the game.
A completion from Stroud to Murray moved the ball to the 39, but Jestin Love intercepted the next pass and the Bears ran out the clock.
Stroud completed 24 of 38 passes for 312 yards and a touchdown.
Former Central High School standout Wes Briscoe had 90 yards on three receptions and Murray caught four passes for 49 yards.
Carey led the team in rushing with 47 yards while Anderson had 35 and Murray 24.
Defensively, Darrell Jenkins led the team with six tackles and one for a loss while Joe Narcisse, Ford Smesny, Seth Thomas, Deonte Thompson and Desmund Lighten had five tackles each.


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So my school is pretty far away from where I live so I use my motorcycle to get there. The thing is I don't want to risk myself on getting injuries for the reason that I want to be "stylish". I wear a black leather jacket, black motorcycling gloves, black leather pants, black racing boots and a black full cover helmet.
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I don't think it would be stupid at all. You're putting your safety first and I don't see why anyone would think that was stupid. I used to wear my horseback riding clothes to school if I had a riding lesson to be at right afterwards, and nobody ever said anything to me about it.00|00|0
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Here in Australia, if you have been spending any non-trivial time on the Web, you have probably come across the debate around the Government's proposed mandatory ISP-level filter of all web traffic, based on a centrally-administered blacklist. I don't have the space (or inclination!) to list everything said on the topic (search on "nocleanfeed" and you'll probably find most of it anyway), but if you want a flavour of the debate you could do worse than check Senator Kate Lundy's posts on the subject, and to get a feel for the opposition to the policy read ALL the comments on those posts.
Some of the language used has at times been intemperate, which is unfortunate but generally indicates the level of feeling on the subject. As well, there are so many problems with the policy as advertised that it is difficult to believe that any sensible politician would have proposed it, and it is being opposed on the basis of every flaw.
My position? I have no interest whatsoever in the proposal's technical feasibility (although it would appear to be useless in any practical sense) or lack thereof. In fact the MORE likely it is to work, the greater my opposition.
My problems boil down to this:
- It is an unacceptable extension of censorship and a reduction of our freedoms of speech and assembly (I know these freedoms are not codified in our constitution or law, but they are implied, and we have agreed to them globally via UN charter; and yes, I DO consider the internet a place of assembly)
- It is a cynical and undemocratic political exercise of repaying election preferencing favours to narrow sectional interests that are not representative of our society generally
- As protection for our children, it is ineffective at best, counter-productive at worst
Note – these are personal opinions … you are welcome to disagree with them, and we may (at another time and place) have some invigorating conversations around them. And they are not accompanied by any lengthy argument – you'll find plenty of support for the positions above around the Internet, and said much better and more eloquently than I can.
These things are one of the reasons people in other parts of the world see Australia as an attractive destination. People elsewhere die trying to achieve the freedoms we are about to piss up against the wall. If we don't value what we have, we will lose it, and I say "not on my watch".
A note to close: props to Kate Lundy for remaining part of the conversation, but my message to her is: this is a "line-in-the-sand" issue, and (I should point out that I am very familiar with your commitments to the Labor Party as a condition of your candidacy) you need to decide whether you side with a policy that is clearly not supported by the electorate (those pesky people who voted for you!) and is a denial of democratic freedoms, or oppose it and your party. Ultimately, this may mean not just crossing the floor in a Senate vote, but your resignation (or expulsion) from the Labor Party. It's that important …


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Guido Guardigli has over 25 years of experience as a cellarmaster in Central Italy - primarily at such established and highly respected estates as Fattoria del Cerro, La Poderina, and in Montefalco, Scacciadiavoli and Colpetrone. At a time in his life when he could have comfortably retired, Guido instead chose to follow his life's calling, investing in 15 Hectares of prime vineyard land in Montefalco (Casale), and earning for himself a Tre Bicchieri for his 2004 Sagrantino di Montefalco just 3 years after his first vintage on his own estate.
All the fruit is harvested by hand and all wine flows only by gravity in his winery. The name "Perticaia" is Umbrian dialect for "plow", a terrific symbol for this joyful man who has worked hard with the land.
Winery: Perticaia
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The Xenosaga series has brought us hours of spectacle and adventure. Now, it draws to a close. The final installment, Xenosaga Episode III: Also Sprach Zarathustra, promises to be the most dramatic yet - if this new trailer is anything to judge by.
Whether you want to know about the battle between sexy battle android KOS-MOS and her new, deadlier rival T-elos, or MOMO and Jr.'s latest escapades, this trailer will leave you with more questions than answers. But it's still well worth watching. Just hit that movies tab up above and you'll be escorted to the space-faring future world Xenosaga Episode III.
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Every kind of cat litter promises odour control and still they smell as soon as your cat uses it. I generally prefer natural based products so they biodegrade. I had been using a wheat one but I got fed up with the barn smell and went to the pet store to get help. The guy recommended this new one and was adamant you never smell anything even in small quarters. The price was really good so I gave it a shot. Almost a week in and omg! You can't smell ANYTHING!! So happy I got this :) My cat was hesitant to jump in because it looks really dark brown like soil. But two minutes later she was over it and using it. The only thing is that it's walnut based so I wouldn't use it if you're nut allergic. Otherwise it's pretty much the holy grail of stinky cat litter ;)
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Heroes and Villains
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This weekend, Pope Benedict XVI (we call him "the one-six" around the office) visited a church in Yorkville, the neighborhood in Manhattan where I live. It was a great day for Yorkville. There was a crapload of firepower in the neighborhood, and a few of the Irish bars were packed with patrons honoring his Holiness' visit by getting even more shit-faced than usual.
Yorkville is an old German neighborhood, so it's fitting that Benedict would stop by. In the early 1900's, the bulk of Manhattan's German population moved from the Lower East Side to Yorkville. Today it's been diluted by some Irish and a fair amount of white Anglo's like me, but there's an old German church on my block and a genuine beer hall around the corner.
For the Pope's visit, we decided to do a little reading at the office and discovered that in the '30s, the neighborhood was filled with people who thought Hitler would really make a wonderful party guest. We also learned that by traveling down 87th St. yesterday (the wrong way, I might add), his Holiness passed within two blocks of 178 E 85th St., which during the 1930's served as the national headquarters of Fritz Kuhn's German American Bund, also known as the fun-loving American Nazi Party. So you could say it was almost like a homecoming for his Holiness.
The Contrarian staff on the scene:
Nice work, Mr. Caldwell. Glad to see you were able to get excused from jury duty for this important visit.
Also, nice to see Fred Phelps and crew make the trip from Topeka, KS to the big apple. These are the people with the "god hates fags" signs. They like to protest military funerals of fallen soldiers because the US "promotes homosexuality." My wife went to school with these kooks and even had a Phelps as her AAU basketball coach – no shit!


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بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. Preparation and Properties of Buffers. UMM AL-QURQ UNIVERSITY Faculty of Medicine Dep. Of BIOCHEMISTRY. Objectives:. To prepare Buffer solutions. To show that the pH of buffer changes on dilution. To show that the buffer capacity varies with ionic strength.
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Preparation and Properties of Buffers
Faculty of Medicine
Dep. Of BIOCHEMISTRY
Buffer solution is a solution of conjugate acid/base pair that resists changes in pH as a result of dilution or the addition of small amount of strong acid or base.
It can be prepared either by mixing weak acid with its conjugate base (salt), or by adding small amount of strong base to weak acid or by adding small amount of strong acid to weak base.
Buffers are used in experiments or applications whenever the pH of a solution is needed to be maintained constant or at a predetermined level.
HA + H2O H3O+ + A- Ka=[H3O+][A-]/[HA]
A- + H2O OH- + HA Kb= [OH-][HA]/[A-]
[H3O+] = Ka. [HA]/[A-]
pH = pKa + log ([A-]/[HA])
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Welcome to Land and Water. This newsletter is designed to provide information to land managers and farmers who have an interest in, or who are seeking to learn more about sustainable production and land management. From erosion control to working groups, you'll find all the information you need! You can view past editions below. For more information, please contact Reef Catchments.
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Hamster has a new project up over at his Hamsterworks site, and he's got code running both for the Papilio/ Logic Start combination, and for the Arduino. In this project, he has created a filter that can filter out commonly encountered "mains hum" frequencies up to the Nyquist limit of half the sample rate for the frequency in question. Hamster's example is of using a low-pass moving average DSP filter to remove 50Hz hum from a signal.
To implement a moving average filter on an FPGA is dead simple, and performance is outstanding – you can process one sample each clock tick. This example is for on the Papilio One and the LogicStart MegaWing. It uses 0.5% of a Spartan 3E-250, which is quite a tiny FPGA.
Check out the video above, and don't forget to get the code for yourself over at the Hamsterworks project page.
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The European asset backed commercial paper sector has scarcely scraped through the past two years.
Like a miners canary, months before most other markets experienced a crisis, and before Lehman Brothers became a household name for all the wrong reasons, a liquidity crisis hit the sector as structured investment vehicles went into meltdown and investors shunned any product with the words "asset backed" in its description.
European ABCP outstandings fell from a peak of $285bn equivalent at the end of July 2007 to $47.4bn at the end of November 2009, according to Dealogic data, with the share of total ECP outstanding falling from 35.2% to 7.4%.
But after falling consistently through the second half of 2007 and the whole of 2008, the sectors outstanding paper remained quite constant throughout 2009.
"The ABCP market has had a period of stability," says Peter Eisenhardt, chairman of the International Capital Market Associations European commercial paper sub-committee. "It has hit its low."
The decline has been, at least partially, due to the recession.
"The core level of issuance is still declining but this is mainly linked to the state of the economy and the fact that there is less use by the underlying corporates of financing through CP," says Sophie Berthelon, senior vice president of the structured finance group at Moodys in Paris.
Though some conduits have disappeared from the market, the situation is not entirely bleak.
"There have been a couple of programme terminations, where sponsors have thought it no longer worthwhile maintaining their programmes," says Emma-Jane Fulcher, head of ABCP for EMEA at Fitch in London. "But they have been few and far between. There will likely be more but it hasnt been as bad as it could have been."
There are those who believe that the market has improved recently.
"From a European perspective, investors have returned to buying and durations have increased from overnight through to one month or three months," says David Wright, head of European conduit origination at Royal Bank of Scotland. "High quality ABCP conduits have gone back to pre-credit crunch levels of execution off the back of strong demand."
Gail Le Coz, chief executive of the Institutional Money Market Funds Association, which represents around Eu430bn of assets in triple-A rated money market funds, agrees that maturities are lengthening.
"Some investors are now purchasing high quality ABCP," she says. "And durations are starting to lengthen, following the constriction towards the really short end during the crisis."
ABCP conduits have also experienced improved spreads.
"In terms of pricing the market has eased," says Marc Nocart, co-global head of securitisation at Société Générale. "The best issuers are more or less at pre-crisis levels."
Many fund managers maintain that they would look at the product, but are still subject to the whims of their end investors. "Asset managers are now fine with ABCP, at least for multi-seller conduits," says Nocart. "But the end users still need to be convinced that these are safe instruments."
The only likely way around this is through improved investor education, as well as a decline in bad headlines and stigma, and there are positive signs in this direction."
"Weve got research requests from some investors, and this shows they are trying to do their homework again," says Berthelon. "And we have been told that issuers are starting to market their programmes again and have refined their strategy."
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The US market offers a brighter picture than its European counterpart.
Although its ABCP outstanding, having fallen from a high of $1.17tr at the end of June 2007, continued dropping throughout last year from $704bn at the end of 2008 to $500bn at the end of September 2009, according to Morgan Stanley, it continues to make up a large proportion of overall USCP outstanding roughly 43%.
In addition, the sectors rate of decrease has recently slowed.
Some believe the markets better performance is due to greater sophistication.
"If you look at Europe and the US, both markets have suffered a lot in terms of outstandings," says Reiner Ulrich, head of ABCP conduit management at UniCredit Markets & Investment Banking in Munich. "But the higher drain is definitely in Europe. It seems that the market has never been as developed and educated as the US."
The more positive tone in the US has enabled some European conduits to return to issuance.
"One reason for the small size of the ECP market is that all the sponsors are issuing in the US market whether they are located in Europe or not," says Berthelon. "Around 70% of CP issued by European conduits rated by Moodys is issued in the USCP market."
Issuers have benefited from ever-tighter spreads in the US.
"Spreads in the USCP market for particular programmes have come right down, which has helped issuance there," says Fulcher. "Some programmes are getting sub-Libor again. With the swap rate as well, its cost-effective to continue maintaining these programmes."
SocGen has pursued this path. "Our conduits are mainly issuing in the US now, even the European ones," says Nocart. "European assets offer diversification for asset managers."
The US markets swifter recovery has been helped by state support. Wright believes that the Federal Reserve deserves praise for the programmes it implemented in 2008 the Commercial Paper Funding Facility (CPFF) and the Asset Backed Commercial Paper Money Market Fund Liquidity Facility (AMLF).
"The Federal Reserve understood the scale of the situation," he says. "It grasped it quickly and put in place a very effective programme to restore confidence in the market."
Ulrich agrees. "The CPFF for issuers and AMLF for investors were major contributors to the markets survival," he says. "There was a lot of restructuring and some conduits exited, but many were able to go ahead and keep funding. We did not have much support in Europe, as the regulators seemed to have some difficulties coming up with a common approach."
One initiative that has been introduced in Europe has been the Bank of Englands secured commercial paper facility.
At the end of July, the Bank revealed details of its scheme to support the sterling asset backed commercial paper market, but it was greeted with a collective shrug of the shoulders from unimpressed structurers and dealers who gave the programme little hope of success because of its stringent criteria.
To date, no conduits have taken advantage of the scheme.
"Knowing its there is helpful," says Eisenhardt. "But limiting the conduits to UK-relevant client assets was difficult because thats really not how conduits operate. And for some it would have taken the building of a brand new conduit to make it work, and that takes time."
The facility may yet be used in 2010.
"There hasnt been any usage under the Bank of England facility, but there may be some programmes set up to access that facility in the beginning of 2010," says Fulcher.
Biggest threat
The greatest threat to ABCPs prospective recovery comes from impending and potential regulatory changes, such as the proposed rules published in July by the Basle Committee on Banking Supervision and the European Commission, which modified proposals originally put forward last January.
"Unfortunately I think its a big threat and a big unknown, because there are many parts still under discussion," says Berthelon. "Some banks appear to be clearly committed to keeping their ABCP conduit, but might want to change to full support if it is deemed better for capital treatment. Others may decide its not worth it, depending on the size of the conduits and their business model. Thats something that might reduce the market size further."
The new guidelines largely eliminate the regulatory capital advantages of setting up a conduit. Both multi-seller and securities-arbitrage conduit sponsors will likely face higher capital charges, particularly for providing programme-wide credit enhancement (PWCE).
The proposals will probably have a much bigger effect on securities arbitrage conduits because of the greater likelihood that both the liquidity and PWCE facilities are considered resecuritisation exposures, which face higher capital charges than normal securitisation exposures.
The new guidelines will likely result in some conduits winding down, while others may be less affected or may restructure to survive.
The Basle II rules also expand on the original proposal regarding "self-guarantee" exposures. A bank would not be able to recognise a rating on an exposure where the rating is largely dependent on a guarantee it provides.
This is supposed to prevent capital arbitrage on back-door liquidity support, where a bank buys ABCP from a conduit it sponsors rather than drawing down on the liquidity facility it provides.
As the paper is rated, the bank had been able to enjoy a lower capital charge than if the conduit had drawn down on the liquidity facility. This arbitrage will be eliminated under the proposals.
Nevertheless, some banks may continue buying ABCP issued by conduits they sponsor to enter into repurchase agreements with central banks.
Although the changes will probably mean the end for some conduits, market participants expect traditional multi-sellers to remain a viable source of funding.
"It could be the end of the security-backed programmes," says Fulcher. "However, there arent many securities programmes left anyway, so its unlikely to have a massive impact on ABCP. There is going to be an impact on multi-sellers, and some sponsors are going to reanalyse whether its cost-effective to maintain these programmes. But the majority say they will, because it provides diversification of funding. Most of the cost associated with multi seller-conduits is passed on to the underlying borrower, so whether banks will also put their capital charge into that and pass that on is yet to be seen."
Many believe that regulators are going too far and acting reflexively.
"The major problem over the last two years was that everything labelled asset backed was perceived as toxic," says Ulrich. "Many market participants seem to be trying to overcompensate for the past and do not differentiate anymore."
But it is not only banks that face fresh regulation. Investors could also be impeded from buying ABCP if certain proposed regulations are introduced.
The Committee of European Securities Regulators (CESR) had a consultation open until the end of 2009 asking market participants what constitutes a money market fund, to establish pan-European standards. Among the concerns is whether a money fund should invest in ABCP.
"In Europe there could be a big impact from the proposals regarding money funds," says Fulcher. "If they go through and restrict money market funds from buying ABCP, it will damage the recovery of the European ABCP market, because the main investors into the sector have been the big money market funds."
Investors are unlikely to support an outright ban on ABCP. "We dont know where CESR is going to end up on this question," says Le Coz. "However, to the extent that our managers are still investing in ABCP, as long as the paper meets the other guidelines that CESR is requesting to limit the interest rate risk, to limit the credit risk, etc we feel that the managers should be allowed to continue purchasing high quality ABCP."
Comeback on hold
With all the challenges the sector has faced and has yet to face, is there hope for a real resurgence? The decline in conduits is unlikely to be reversed soon.
"It costs money to start conduits and to run them, and sharp changes in strategy probably dont make sense," says Eisenhardt. "A number of conduits have disappeared, but maybe they were the wrong type of structure. Some banks will consolidate their conduits if theyve been through a merger; its a fair assumption that banks that have merged may not be looking to have too many conduits and will consolidate them."
It is clear that some conduits have no hope for the future. "SIVs are gone forever, and security arbitrage conduits are not in favour for now," says Eisenhardt.
But multi-seller conduits should at least continue to exist. "It is likely that multi-seller conduits are here to stay," says Berthelon. "Its just a matter of banks offering disintermediated financing to their clients."
Ulrich agrees that a back-to-basics movement is underway. "The entire business started off with trade receivables, and this is obviously the product of the future multi-seller structures with trade receivables," he says. "Many of the products that emerged during the last couple of years seem not to have a future, at least not in the near term. Investors want to see a transparent approach with easy structures and classic assets they can understand easily."
Wright believes that investors will persist with similar demand to now.
"There is a strong and healthy future for the multi-seller conduits sponsored by high quality banks with diverse asset pools and good quality reporting," he says. "Theres strong demand at the moment, and we certainly think that there will be strong demand for that going forwards. Investors may discriminate against some of the conduits that perhaps dont tick all of those boxes."
In addition, those conduits that do persevere may see an increase in activity as economic recovery spreads.
"Arbitrage conduits are not encouraged by regulators," says Nocart. "But the remaining multi-sellers are fully legitimate and fund the real economy, so activity will be correlated to real economic activity. So our view is that it will start to increase, but at the pace of the global economy."
Wright also believes that an economic recovery could lead to an ABCP recovery, though it may not be imminent.
"Outstandings may continue to drop slightly while the effects of the recession continue to work their way through the system, but on the flip side, as the economy recovers, more activity means more receivables to be securitised and that will help offset some of those negative factors," he says. "So its going to be a slow process, but I expect stabilisation in the near to medium term."
But some doubt whether any increase in European activity can be expected.
"Theres clearly a huge demand in the US versus supply that can be provided by the conduits," says Stéphane Hubert, director, conduit and risk management at Société Générale. "Given the feeling of better reliability in the US versus Europe, Im sure that an increase in volume will not go to the ECP market. In fact, I think it will continue to shrink."
Fulcher draws a parallel to another market, reasoning that there may yet be some improvement in Europe.
"In the South African ABCP market, the buyers that remained reduced the size of their investments," she says. "But theres more enquiry coming back, and investors are beginning to look at ABCP as a product again. Its only a matter of time before that happens in Europe, but investors have to get their senior management and end investors to understand ABCP."
She emphasises that, if there is to be any resurgence, investor education is the key."Of the programmes that we rate in Europe, there havent been any losses to investors; so its just trying to get that message across. Once that finally sinks in and they finally see how these programmes work, they will begin to come back." o


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Sustainable Tourism and the emergence of new Environmental Norms
Since 1990s environmental protection and awareness became major issues. Consumers are more and more aware of environmental issues and conscious of existing pollution caused by mass tourism. Consequently a new segment of demand desiring sustainable tourism products have appeared, enhancing service providers to offer this type of products. This paper analyzes the evolution of service provider's offer adapting to demand preferences modification. Using a theoretical framework, it explains how environmental quality standards can become general norms in tourism industry. By analyzing a case of monopoly and duopoly, it considers different possible frameworks and strategic choices that may be implemented by the incumbent. Though, it explains the role of industry in the emergence of the new environmental norms.
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Title: Starters (Starters, #1)
Author: Lissa Price
Pages: 336, Paperback
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You can't get them out of your head.
Callie lost her parents when the Spore Wars wiped out everyone between the ages of twenty and sixty. She and her little brother, Tyler, go on the run, living as squatters with their friend Michael and fighting off renegades who would kill them for a cookie.
Callie's only hope is Prime Destinations, a disturbing place in Beverly Hills run by a mysterious figure known as the Old Man. He hires teens to rent their bodies to Enders—seniors who want to be young again. Callie, desperate for the money that will keep her, Tyler, and Michael alive, agrees to be a donor. But the neurochip they place in Callie's head malfunctions and she wakes up in the life of her renter.
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Overall, the book was really enjoyable and thrilling. It's full of action and a bit of a romance which balances out the "dark" side of the book.
I'm so excited to buy and read the second one! I'm also thinking about attending Lissa's book signing, together with Jennifer E. Smith, next month.
Lissa Price's debut novel STARTERS is an award-winning, international bestseller published in over thirty countries. Dean Koontz called this YA futuristic thriller "a smart, swift, inventive, altogether gripping story." The LA Times said it is "Dystopian science-fiction at its best," and "Readers who have been waiting for a worthy successor to 'The Hunger Games' will find it here."
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This week's photo is one that I took while we were in Acuatico early this year for our 1st year anniversary. We were waiting for our dinner to be served and I happened to see a couple of ants just busily walking around near me, minding their own business. I didn't want to massacre them since they weren't doing anything bad to me, so I took a picture of one of the busy ants instead. :p
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