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Tape handed to another reporterDaniel Pearl�s executioners slit his throat, filmed their act and delivered the videotape. Nearly a month after the American journalist was kidnapped in Pakistan, it was confirmed early this morning that he was dead.
The video was handed over on Wednesday or Thursday to the Karachi-based Pakistani reporter of a New York newspaper who had to spend another 24 hours to convince US authorities that they should view it.
A Pakistan government official said Pearl�s neck and throat were slit. His last words uttered on camera were that he was a Jew and his father was a Jew.
Pakistani interior minister Moinuddin Haider said the tape was made available to the US consul-general in Karachi and to US and Pakistani investigators who viewed it, confirming at 2 am today that the person being killed on camera was Pearl.
A representative of The Wall Street Journal, for which Pearl was working out of Mumbai as the South Asian bureau chief, also saw the tape. Only when the editor confirmed that the figure on the tape was Pearl was news of his death released.
�We are in touch with the reporter in Karachi to find out who handed over this tape to him,� Haider said.
Pakistani police were searching for up to four more suspects. The Citizens-Police Liaison Committee, which probes kidnappings in Karachi, said the police had detained over half the group suspected to be involved in the crime.
General Pervez Musharraf denounced the murder as gruesome and ordered a nationwide hunt for suspects still at large.
President George W. Bush, speaking during a visit to China, called the killing a �criminal, barbaric� act. Pearl�s family said it was a �senseless murder� that had silenced �a gentle soul�.
Musharraf called Bush to express his condolences. �The two Presidents agreed that the perpetrators of this barbaric act can neither be friend of Islam nor of Pakistan,� Haider said.
The interior minister refused to disclose the identity of the reporter who was given the tape, which showed Pearl�s neck being cut by a sharp instrument. �He knows and he has given a description of three persons, their ages and their build and we are trying to establish that these are the very persons we are looking for,� Haider added.
Pearl�s body has not been found and it is unclear exactly when and where he was executed. The US consul-general in Karachi told Pearl�s wife the news in person and informed his family in the US. Mariane Pearl, who was in Karachi, is seven months pregnant with their first child, a son.
Riffat Hussein, a defence and strategic studies analyst at Islamabad�s Quaid-e-Azam University, said the sophistication of the kidnapping pointed to the possible involvement of Osama bin Laden�s al Qaida network.
�If you look at the character of this case � the methodology that was used, the use of e-mail, and videotape � it suggests it may have some very significant al Qaida links,� Hussein said.
�The scene that apparently confirmed the murder of Pearl was when one person�s hand cut the US reporter�s neck with a sharp tool,� a Pakistani source said, quoting someone who had seen the tape.
The Pakistani reporter, he said, tried to contact the US consulate in Karachi over phone and left a number of messages, which were answered only after crosschecks by consulate officials. This took 24 hours.
A Pakistani official, who has not seen the tape himself but has been briefed on its contents, said he had been told it contained �gruesome scenes�. �I have also been told that the last words uttered by Pearl were: �Yes, I am a Jew and my father is a Jew�.�
Pearl disappeared in Karachi on January 23 as he tried to contact Islamic radical groups and investigate possible links between alleged shoe bomber Richard Reid and the al Qaida network.
The group claiming to hold Pearl, calling itself The National Movement for the Restoration of Pakistani Sovereignty, accused him of being a spy � first for the CIA, then for Israeli intelligence. The outfit said it was protesting against US treatment of Taliban and al Qaida prisoners.
Police arrested British-born militant Omar Sheikh on February 12, who said in court two days later that Pearl was dead.
The Wall Street Journal publisher Peter Kann and managing editor Paul Steiger said: �We are heartbroken. His murder is an act of barbarism that makes a mockery of everything Danny�s kidnappers claimed to believe in.�
Bush said the murder would only hurt the cause of his captors. �Those who would threaten Americans, those who would engage in criminal, barbaric acts, need to know that these crimes only hurt their cause and only deepen the resolve of the United States of America to rid the world of these agents of terror.�
�From this professionally-executed act of terror, we can see that stronger action is required against these criminals and terrorists,� Haider said.
Pearl�s wife said the kidnappers may have taken his life but failed to take his spirit. �Danny is my life. They may have taken my life, but they did not take my spirit,� Mariane said in a statement.
For the record, praise is being heaped upon Musharraf for having done his best to trace and recover the The Wall Street Journal reporter.
�We will continue to work closely with Pakistani authorities, who had made every effort to locate and free Mr Pearl,� US state department spokesman Richard Boucher said in a statement.
The murder of Pearl will not alter Washington�s belief that Musharraf remains the bulwark against the Talibanisation of Pakistan.
The General lent fresh credence to that belief in the White House when he telephoned President George W. Bush in Beijing today to offer condolences.
But beneath such backslapping and attendant warmth, the Americans are coldly evaluating Musharraf�s ability to deliver a Pakistan transformed in Washington�s image.
Now that Pearl is dead, American officials are willing to privately discuss aspects of his kidnap probe, with which the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was closely involved.
The picture they paint of Pakistan is a mirror image of Lebanon in the 1980s, when everyone except the Lebanese state controlled large slices of the once beautiful Mediterranean Arab country.
Almost from the beginning of the kidnap probe, the Americans were alarmed � but held back judgment � that Karachi police had to be brought into Punjab at every step to make any progress in the investigations.
The most disturbing aspect of the kidnapping, sources here say, was that Punjab police were cooperating with the effort to crack the case only in name. Although Karachi police concluded soon after Pearl disappeared that Omar Sheikh would lead them to the journalist, Punjab police did nothing to trace him.
In one case, Punjab police even arrested wrong suspects: law enforcement authorities in Karachi believe this was deliberate on the part of their counterparts in Lahore, giving valuable time for some suspects to escape.
The search for Omar started in earnest in Lahore and its neighbourhood only after policemen from Karachi were flown into Punjab: the raids on Omar�s relatives were conducted exclusively by these men from Karachi.
At the height of the probe, especially as Musharraf was trying to live down the kidnapping during his visit to the White House, tension rose so high between Punjab and Karachi police that interior minister Moinuddin Haider and the army top brass in Rawalpindi had to intervene to defuse a crisis.
Those here who know Pakistan well are worried that if Musharraf is not in control of Punjab, he may not survive in Islamabad in the long run. Being a mohajir will not help Musharraf in his attempts to control Punjab either.
Sources here also say the Pearl case once again brought out the umbilical cord which continues to link Pakistan�s security establishment with jihadi outfits.
The decision rips the cocoon of job security workers enjoyed under the provisions of the Industrial Disputes Act 1947 by permitting companies to sack truculent and unproductive employees without government permission.
The amendment to the ID Act provides for retrenchment of workers in sick units employing up to 1,000 workers without permission of the government. The present legislation allows retrenchments by units employing up to 100 workers.
Some Cabinet members, including labour minister Sharad Yadav, opposed the amendment, suggesting a number between 100 and 1,000 and forcing at some point a rethink. But the opponents were won over with the argument that today�s decision was only in principle and details would be worked out only when the legislation is drafted.
According to some estimates, over 21.7 million employees (or 54.4 per cent of the workforce in registered units) would automatically stand to lose the security of job protection after today�s decision.
This appears to be the last of a string of decisions the government has taken to fulfil promises finance minister Yashwant Sinha made in the last budget.
�This will harmonise Indian labour policy with other developed countries,� said Vikram Kapur, president of the All-India Organisation of Employers.
�The amendment will allow industry to come out of sickness. There are more than 3,00,000 industrial units that are sick and an estimated Rs 20,000 crore is locked up in such units,� said Ficci president R.S. Lodha.
Industry has been pressing for the scrapping of chapter V of the Industrial Disputes Act as it trammelled its right to close down and restructure businesses. It could not be ascertained whether today�s decision would apply to central public sector undertakings as well. However, the amendment to the Contract Labour Act has not yet been cleared and has been referred to a group of ministers.
The changes to the ID Act and other labour-related reforms are likely to be introduced in the budget session, a government spokesperson said.
The group of ministers, which has cleared amendments to the ID Act, has also approved changes to the Payment of Wages Act, raising the wage ceiling of workers who get protection from Rs 1,600 to Rs 6,500 per month.
While announcing the government�s intention to bring in the amendment in his budget speech, Sinha had said that along with increasing the number from 100 to 1,000, the separation compensation would be increased from 15 days to 45 days for every completed year of service.
Suitor Bengal is ready at last to roll up its sleeves and slug it out with other states to win the hearts of investors.
That means a raft of incentives, rebates, concessions �the whole works.
�Private investors will not set up their units in our state if there is no room for profit. Naturally, they will set up their units in those states where they will get maximum benefit,� said industry minister Nirupam Sen, acknowledging a fact that everyone knew but few in the CPM was bold enough to admit.
�We (the government) are just not in a position to stop globalisation from influencing (economic, political and societal) life in Bengal. Yes, we may try, but we must remember all the other Indian states are actively chasing private capital. If we do not compete with these states, we will have to suffer economically,� the minister told a seminar on the �impact of globalisation in Bengal�.
The seminar was organised as part of the CPM�s twentieth state conference.
If such plainspeak from a CPM ideologue was not enough to leave the hardliners red in the face, then more was to follow. The state, Sen said, would no longer be in the business of setting up new units because neither did it have the resources nor the desire to do so. Haldia Petrochemicals was its last venture � and the experience was not particularly encouraging. Nor, said Sen, would Bengal oppose the Centre�s move to close down sick public sector undertakings.
�Our powers are very limited. What can we do to prevent the Centre from closing down PSUs in our state? We can only request them not to shut down these units. Why, we don�t have that kind of money to support them. Look at Indian Iron and Steel Company�. We sacrificed, at the behest of the Centre, Rs 350 crore for the interests of thousands of workers in the factory.� We cannot take over sick PSUs, we are already in a severe debt trap.�
But to soften the blow and keep the red flag flying, Sen said the government accepted on principle the premise that privatisation has brought in its wake miseries for workers. But the ground realities precluded the state from opposing the closure of PSUs or taking over the same units at huge prices, he said.
Sen�s observations will be a blow to the lobbies that are trying to build up a movement, with support from the government, for the takeover of Jessop, the state-owned engineering firm to be sold to a private party soon.
�We did not come to power saying we would shun private capital and establish socialism in Kerala, Tripura and Bengal�. We clearly told the people that we have to run our governments within the existing capitalist system in the country,� Sen added. �But our aim will be to provide maximum opportunities to the working class within the existing set-up.�
�It�s terrible, absolutely terrible,� Business Week bureau chief Manjeet Kripalani, a fellow journalist, said.
Kripalani said the Pakistani President had not just misled the US, but the entire world by declaring during his visit to Washington that the journalist would be �freed within 24 hours�. Kripalani said the General clearly �traded� information on Pearl�s abduction for getting much of his country�s debt written off. �He used it to his advantage.�
What she found galling was that �the US chose to believe the Pakistani President� even after the arrested mastermind Ahmad Omar Saeed Sheikh told a karachi court that the journalist was dead.
Kripalani said Musharraf had a lot to answer for. �Why did Danny die? The President should tell the world. Pakistan�s government is answerable.�
In the fall of 2000, Peral arrived in Mumbai as South Asia correspondent for the Wall Street Journal. He walked the extra mile to project an India beyond its stereotypical image in the West, Kripalani said.
Khozem Merchant of the Financial Times agreed. �He was a first-rate reporter, who travelled a lot, refusing to take anything for granted.� He, too, was critical of Musharraf�s role in the episode. �When Pakistani President entered Washington, he had even gone to the extent of saying that Danny would be released in 24 hours.�
The journalist said though he had no doubts that Pearl had been kidnapped to embarrass Musharraf, the Pakistani President had kept the case close to his chest.
Pearl�s fellow-reporters had feared the worst. �When the lull happened, we knew something had gone terribly wrong. And after Omar Sheikh�s February 14 statement that Danny was dead, we did not have anything to pin our hopes on.�
Merchant said Pakistan�s government owed the world an explanation. �It is also time to find out how much Pakistani authorities knew and when. We still don�t know why Danny had to die.�
Bradshaw, whose ministerial responsibilities include South Asia, international security and counter terrorism, said there were some Catholic schools and a �lot of� Muslim schools in the UK. �We feel that that the religious schools should be within the state system so that there is total control over their curriculum,� he added.
Addressing a news conference here and later speaking to The Telegraph, Bradshaw said Pakistan needed to do more to tackle cross-border terrorism. �We expect Pakistan to stop it �. It can do more, it should do more. It is unacceptable that acts of terrorism are being tacitly supported and funded by a government or elements of the state.�
He said Pakistan should emerge as a healthy democratic country rather than poisoning the atmosphere with politics.
About the UK deporting a terrorist just as Dubai did in the case of Aftab Ansari, the foreign office minister said: �Any terrorist or a person having links with any terrorist outfit wanted in India can be deported if the courts deem it fit.�
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by Carmela Fonbuena, abs-cbnNEWS.com/Newsbreak | 06/02/2009 11:58 PM
I said this before in this blog. That -- even though reviled by the middle-class and those pretending to be middle-class in their blogs and private conversations -- the Padyak ad of Mar Roxas is effective among the 80 percent who comprise the masses, the bulk of the voting population. You need an image, a storyline, to endear yourself to the masses. Just try talking in English, or spewing statistics, or talking about your political dynasty, and it means the end of your political career.
And questions abound: why was my name not listed, again, in the latest SWS senatorial survey? Simple. I am not a subscriber to the survey, which in monetary terms means I did not pay P50,000 for my name to be listed there, as one of 65 people aspiring to be a senator of the land. Well, if in your heart of hearts you know you are a strong candidate, why waste $1,000 every quarter to see your name there?
Just a thought on this gray day.
Senator Manuel Roxas II's political ads and his televised wedding engagement to ABS-CBN broadcast journalist Korina Sanchez pulled him up in the latest Pulse Asia survey, three sources with access to key campaign data and information told abs-cbnNEWS.com/Newsbreak in separate interviews.
The sources, all credible media campaign analysts, asked not to be named because of the key positions they occupy in their organizations.
Roxas's five percent climb in the May 4-17 survey from his eight percent rating last February is seen as a major development since he was the only one who moved up more than the three percent margin of error.
But in the absence of correlation data, the sources said they cannot calculate how much of the increase can be attributed to the ads and to Sanchez.
"The survey captured what they did. They launched 'Padyak' ads and the wedding engagement on a [high]-rating TV show," said one of the sources.
The wedding engagement was announced over ABS-CBN's top-rating noontime show Wowowee on April 25. This was less than two weeks before the Pulse Asia survey was conducted, which means the news was still fresh in the minds of respondents.
Roxas' "Padyak" ads were also aired during the survey period.
"It's a combination of the two," said another source. "She's showbiz." He said Roxas' relationship with Korina has endeared him to the masses, who comprise majority of the voters.
"It was his ad, and maybe the engagement. But a large factor is the ad, I think. It made people realize that he wants to run," said a third source.
Catching up
The May 2009 Pulse Asia survey showed Roxas, with 13 percent, had caught up with survey frontrunners Vice President Noli De Castro (18%), Senator Francis Escudero (17%), former President Joseph Estrada (15%), and Senator Manuel Villar (14%).
With a three percent plus/minus margin of error, all five are statistically tied at the top spot. De Castro's 18 percent could actually be 15 percent, while Roxas' 13 percent could be 16 percent.
Compared with the February 2009 Pulse Asia survey, De Castro, Estrada, and Villar slid down one percentage point each. Escudero remained at 17 percent.
The biggest loser in the May 2009 Pulse Asia survey was Senator Loren Legarda, who slipped from 12 percent to 7 percent. Senator Panfilo Lacson declined two percentage points from 6 to 4 percent.
One big difference between the February and May surveys of Pulse Asia is the names on the list presented to respondents. In the February survey, respondents chose from nine names. In the May survey, there were 16 names.
Padyak ads
In recent weeks, Roxas' camp has been promoting his "Padyak" ads.
In the TV ads, Roxas, who comes from the elite Araneta and Roxas clans, is shown driving a pedicab and telling poor children that he will take care of their future.
Among the five front runners, Roxas and Villar have had the most number of advertisements. All of them, however, have prominently been in the news.
However, the wedding engagement was hard to beat. It was shown on the top-rating show Wowowee, which cornered 21.8 percent of the nationwide audience during its timeslot on weekends, according to the April statistics of TNS Philippines, the local arm of the worldwide research firm TNS Global.
Wowowee was the most popular noontime show in April, according to the same survey.
The engagement was also widely covered by news and entertainment programs not only of ABS-CBN but also of other networks. The two were also interviewed separately about the engagement.
Repeating History?
Roxas' climb in the surveys is reminiscent of his performance in the 2004 elections, which he topped with almost 19 million votes.
His success in the 2004 polls was also attributed to his new relationship with Sanchez, plus his famous "Mr. Palengke" ads.
As early as 2003, rumors about their relationship were circulating. On Valentines Day in 2004, or three months before the elections, news reports showed them together in the concert of internationally renowned Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli.
Roxas' camp calculated then that Sanchez had a 40 percent conversion rate. It meant that without Roxas's camp doing anything, four out of ten votes would vote for Roxas because of Sanchez.
Roxas had ranked 22nd in a September 2003 senatorial preference survey. Eight months later, he topped the senatorial polls.
He did even better than TV-movie star Ramon Bong Revilla Jr., who placed second with about 16 million votes.
Roxas's "Mr. Palengke" brand also had a catchy jingle, "Mr. Suave," by Parokya ni Edgar band, which likewise helped in marketing the candidate.
Officially, Roxas spent P69.4 million for his ads in 2004.
'Padyak' ads, Korina factor pull up Mar's ratings
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Iraq: Declaring Imagination
A. Heather Coyne is the chief of party for the U.S. Institute of Peace. She works in Iraq. The views expressed are her own.
Civil society in Iraq is still weak and vulnerable, constrained by the violence and a lack of resources. But despite those challenges, the dominant features of Iraqi civil society are its energy and dynamism.
From my post in Iraq, I hear the country's future in the voices of its activists. Take these conversations, from a brief walk down a corridor at a recent conference.
A middle-aged man took my notebook to sketch a diagram of the relationship between economy, media, and military power, lecturing me that it was essential to separate control of each area in order to avoid dictatorship.
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A young woman stepped out of a conversation on women's rights to explain that the minimum age of 30 for election to the National Assembly would muffle the voice of a new generation of leaders representing the most dynamic constituency in the society.
A local official in a three piece suit told me he was worried his community would not have a say in writing the new constitution because of its low turnout in elections and wondered what other mechanisms could protect the rights of this minority.
While much of the world debates whether Iraq is on the verge of a civil war or a new dictatorship, many Iraqis are making plans for a democratic future. That they do this in a climate of fear, violence, and constant struggle to access basic public services is a testament not only to their belief in the value of that future, but to their confidence that they will ultimately reach it.
The excitement about the future is not limited to a small circle of elites and activists. The pride so many Iraqis took in the election — as well as the frustration expressed by those who were unable to vote — are expressions of the same national characteristic: a fierce determination never to be left out of their own government again.
Iraqis have launched an array of projects to achieve their goals — forming organizations ranging from human rights groups to teachers associations to anti-corruption watchdogs.
But so far, these organizations have had limited success, due to lack of resources and expertise on techniques for political advocacy. While a number of U.S. initiatives have made supporting these Iraqi efforts a priority, the demand for training, materials, and grants far outstrips what the international community has to offer.
In my work here with the US Institute of Peace, I interact daily with Iraqis who are in desperate search of tools needed to bring about change. Dozens of academics jumped at a chance to attend our conference on the role of the universities in supporting civil society development. One of them told me it was a chance to "declare our imaginations" on what universities could do to serve the people of Iraq.
The Institute finds the same response to all its Iraq initiatives: political party representatives are fascinated with comparisons of constitutional processes from around the world; local officials eagerly study conflict management techniques in order to conduct workshops in their own communities; and religious leaders are hungry for books and materials that help them to reduce ethnic and religious tensions among their followers.
These same new leaders and activists are the ones often targeted for violence.
In the coming months, the constitution-making process offers the Iraqis and the international community an irreplaceable opportunity to make inroads on challenges of democracy and ongoing violence. It can be used to address concerns about minority rights and about the allocation of resources and decision-making power that fuel much of the insurgency. All of this can help isolate the hard-core elements advocating violence.
At the same time, the constitution process creates a demand for new mechanisms for public education and consultation. Civil society organizations have plans for newspapers dedicated to the constitution process, for public conferences to debate issues like federalism and the relationship between religion and state, for advisory boards that will funnel information between citizens and the drafting body. These are precisely the tools for political advocacy that will allow Iraqis to hold the government accountable to the people in the future.
The international community is needed to provide the resources to support these activities. If they step up, the constitution making process can serve as the crucible for Iraqi civil society to be the guardian of democracy in Iraq.


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I will probably only get an answer or two at best. Most guys aren't gay and a lot of guys ignore or suppress even the slightest bisexual urge, so it has to be difficult. Where do you go? I've never been into clubs and bars myself. Are those the only places?
I've been watching a few documentaries lately and I would be a little scared hitting on someone outside of that.
I was just reading someone's comment to a girl that she should meet a guy at a library or something. That's partially what made me curious about this. Doesn't seem like it would be that easy outside of hetero dating.
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One of my really close guy friends is gay, and he mostly meets guys on Grindr and other dating apps. He's been to this one gay bar in our college town a few times, but it's kind of a trashy place and not really his scene.
It's also very possible to meet other gay guys through mutual friends. So I think the more people you know and become friendly with, the more likely it is for you to meet someone through one or a few of them. People love setting their single friends up on dates if they can sense a match, haha.00|00|0
Thought Grindr and similar places are full of bots. Better than nothing, I guess.
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TWMX: Do you shift with your heel?
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TWMX: How much time did you take off after the Supercross season before you started training again.
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TWMX: What did you do to train?
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TWMX: Did you film most of it in Australia?
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TWMX: When January rolls around, do you think you'll be a killing machine.
Jeremy: I sure do.
TWMX: What about Carmichael and the Honda?
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(From the University of Rochester Medical Center.)
Neurologists around the nation are working together in a nationwide study focusing on Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, a painful nerve condition that affects more than 100,000 Americans. The team and its Inherited Neuropathies Consortium is supported with $6.25 million through the National Institutes of Health Rare Diseases Clinical Research Network for the next five years.
CMT is one of the most common genetic nerve disorders and is the most common inherited form of neuropathy, but there is no effective treatment.
"This disease can really have a severe impact on a person's health, yet there just isn't as much awareness about it as there is for some other conditions," said neurologist David Herrmann, MBBCh, associate professor in the Department of Neurology at the University of Rochester Medical Center and the lead investigator for the CMT Research Network in Rochester. "Nevertheless, Charcot-Marie-Tooth can be devastating for patients."
The project, which is based at Wayne State University, brings together experts who are learning more about the disease and searching for new treatments. Herrmann and colleagues are part of a group compiling a database of people in North America who have CMT and who have volunteered to make their information available to researchers. The team is also working to pinpoint more precisely the different genes at work in the disease and how each affects the health of patients; scientists are aware of more than three dozen gene mutations that can cause CMT.
Currently Herrmann and colleagues from Wayne State University and Johns Hopkins are conducting a study in 110 people measuring the effectiveness of high doses of Vitamin C for treating CMT. With the new funding, the expanded team plans to conduct a new study aimed at testing a potential treatment.
In late 2008 neurologists created the first diagnostic guidelines for neuropathy. Herrmann himself is also an expert in the use of skin biopsy to identify sensory neuropathies like CMT and track their progression. He is currently developing a new non-invasive technique that uses a specialized microscope to look beneath the skin to gauge the condition of a person's nerves in the fingers, as a way to possibly eliminate the need for a biopsy in some patients.


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We've all been told repeatedly that stress is bad for us. Deadly in some cases.
But Health Psychologist Kelly McGonigal presents fascinating new scientific evidence that challenges this idea that stress is the big bad ogre. Studies now indicate that it's not actually stress that is likely to kill you, but rather it's the BELIEF that stress is harmful that is the real problem. Seriously!
Not only that, but she goes on to explain how when you experience stress, your pituitary gland releases the hormone oxytocin, which acts as your body's way of "nudging you" to reach out for supportive relationships with others. Just one of the positive results of stress.
McGonigal made her presentation as a talk at TED Global 2013, which you can scroll down and watch below. (Go on — it runs less than 15 minutes and will probably lower your stress level, maybe even save your life.)
As I watched the video I was struck by the fact that it confirms several things that the Bible has been teaching for thousands of years:
- Stressing your mind and body with challenging work is good for you. In fact it's a blessing. (Genesis 2:15; Exodus 23:12; Proverbs 10:4; 2 Thessalonians 3:10)
- Your thoughts are very powerful, either for good or evil. Fear and worry over situations are far worse problems than the situations themselves. (Job 3:25; Matthew 6:25-34; Philippians 4:6)
- God made us for relationships, and He wired us to reach out for community with one another. (Genesis 2:18; Ecclesiastes 4:9-12; John 13:34; 1 Thessalonians 5:14)
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The most interesting moments in the history of scientific and mathematical pursuit have chiefly concerned what we call "priority disputes." These are trials of who created or thought which innovation first. Famous examples range from the discipline of calculus (Newton vs.Gottfried Leibniz), to the conception of evolutionary principles (Charles Darwin vs. Alfred Wallace).
Today, research practitioners are expected to apply constant, minute attention to their work in order to secure credit for a potential timely discovery. Day in and day out, the scientific process is a focused and introverted pursuit, requiring of its devotees long hours spent in dim-lit rooms. While it is gratifying to execute a successful scientific experiment and collect meaningful data to share with my colleagues, I sometimes find myself in a state of cognitive dissonance. While it can be argued that some abstract thought goes into experimental design, there is ultimately no room for self-expression in laboratory research.
Unlike with art, the key to good science is using and maintaining monotonous conditions. Experimental results must be documented clearly so that they may be replicated step-by-step by anyone testing the same hypothesis. The experiments that I perfect and publish should be repeatable by scientists across the globe, as
long as they use the same reagents and conditions I have detailed. So it should come as no surprise that I have come to find that the pursuit of science creatively stunting.
I've only recently begun to break through this limitation by learning and performing music. Specifically, I sing.
I opted for beginning chorus with the rest of the geeks.My creative endeavor was never intentional. When I attended public middle school in gulf-coastal Florida, the curriculum required I select of one of three elective courses: gym, band, or chorus. This period of my life I now refer to as "the braces years."
The orthodontia my twin sister and I acquired, and bore nobly throughout these years, was socially limiting. This awkwardness, compounded when changing clothes for gym in the humid Florida heat (it did not help my twin sister and I were outfitted and groomed the same until the sixth grade; doubly-dorky), meant I could really only choose enrollment in band or chorus. With no instrumental prowess, I opted for beginning chorus with the rest of the geeks.
A peppy, tyrannical and middle-aged woman, Mrs. Z, led the class. We learned watered-downsegments of the popular songs of yesteryear strung together, sung in four-part harmonies and accompanied by light choreography. Choral showcases would be performed at afterschool functions for parents and family, and, during school hours, at places like retirement homes. Upon arrival to the class, all students had to take their shoes off for the choreography lessons of the day, making the room smell of feet and the strange odor of developing adolescent bodies.
This was where my talent was realized.
I was placed in the alto section, and soon found out that I could in fact carry a tune. My second year of middle school, I progressed to the advanced level class, bypassing the intermediate group. Of course, the advanced class had many privileges that the lower classes did not. For instance, the costume worn by members for scheduled performances consisted of a white, starched, pleated dress shirt, tucked into black dress trousers, complete with a black vest with silver inlay over the shirt, and a cummerbund (penguin/cocktail waiter look); far more fancy than the maroon or white polo shirt and dark trousers worn by lower classes.
Perhaps the highest privilege was that the
advanced group took a field trip to perform at Disney World at the end of the school year. Somewhere in existence, there are tapes recorded by a chaperoning parent of these performances with me in them for the two years I participated. Somewhere.
Though originally only the lesser of three evils, over time I actually started to enjoy chorus class. I could have cared less about the choreography. The vocal lessons were what really interested me. I particularly like reading music, and focusing on pitch and harmony. I always auditioned for solo vocal segments in each showcase, but never was chosen. I actually was usually given speaking parts that introduced a section of songs. Usually, the more attractive girls won the singing solos.
The subtle resentment I felt was perhaps one of the reasons I did not continue taking chorus when I began high school.It's not that I totally abandoned singing, but it became dormant within me. My junior year of college, I met a young man named Milan McAlevey. Ten years prior to our introduction, Milan had dropped out from my alma mater during his first semester of his senior year to pursue the path of professional singer-songwriter.He showed me his dorm room record record collection: Brazilian tropocalia compilations, New Order, the Ethiopians…. I was smitten. That night he asked me if I would like
to sing in a band he was forming; I said yes. Two years later, I live in Maine with Milan and work at Jackson Laboratory.
Our sound is evocative of 1960s drug rock - somewhat akin to the Velvet Underground.Milan and I began recording demo tracks on a TASCAM analog 4-track tape recorder in our living room. At first, I only had backing vocals to Milan's lead vocals and guitar playing. Over time, this collaboration grew into an actual project and I was incorporated as lead vocalist in some songs. It was at this point that we started playing gigs in Maine and New Hampshire. The chemistry and sound of our fledgling band was not complete until three additional musicians joined: Caleb Davis on second guitar, Carl Davis on bass, and Pete Cuffari on drums. The band is called Coke Weed, and our sound is evocative of 1960s drug rock—somewhat akin to the Velvet Underground.
My personal influences for my vocal style are Rita Lee, Grace Slick, and Françoise Hardy. A major component of performance art of any kind is projecting a persona. Over time, I have overcome, and worked on developing an onstage persona. This was initially hard for me, because I am normally very reserved; however, it has become something that I really value. My job is so selfless
at times that having the sharp contrast when performing really equalizes me. It is as if there are two versions of me: studious, quiet, empiric scientist Nina, and loud, psychedelic lead-singer Nina.
At the lab recently, I was conversing with an older colleague on my involvement in Fortnight and the cross-generational concept behind Fortnight. One of his remarks really resounded with me. He commented how for my generation, unlike his, it is more possible and readily acceptable to have multiple professions—or, in his words, "wear multiple hats." His millennial son, for instance, was in the sixth year of his graduate thesis, but in his spare time completed an unrelated novel about basketball. In my case, I straddle two worlds. During the week I wear my scientist hat, but in my spare time transition into a musician or singer hat. At this point in my life, I value and enjoy my scientific career. But, for reasons previously explained, it doesn't completely satisfy all of my faculties. Producing and performing completes the rift I feel while I wait to feel ready to commit to the next step of furthering my traditional career.I'm still discovering what it is that I want to accomplish and achieve in my life, including how to prioritize my skills development. In the meantime, I'm going to take life as it comes, and enjoy finding riffs as much as I enjoy using reagents.
|Nina lives and works in Bangor, Maine. She is a research scientist at Jackson Laboratories, a genetics lab. Fortnight was the first journal to publish her essays on immunology and breeding mice to identify cancerous defects. Nina continues to work at Jackson Laboratories, and has now co-authored papers published in top science journals, such as Nature Immunology. She splits her personality between science and music, as described in her work on Fortnight. Her band, Coke Weed, recently recorded and released their second album and will be opening on tour with The Walkmen. She says of her time with the journal, "I stand for everything the Fortnight mission embodies; I believe that our 'millennial' generation has all the tools to profoundly change our world as we know it. I feel honored to be among the ranks of my fellow fortnight contributors, and hope that my essays will inspire others as they find their own path in this dynamic world."


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One morning, I intentionally mounted the GoPro on my helmet, facing backwards. As I traversed the RR tracks in, it snapped this image, which I thought turned out to be pretty cool.
gonna try again.
very cool criss-crossing lines going every which way!
what a great idea filming what was behind you… this definitely turned out nicely.
i couldn't wait to tell you… i now have me a gopro hero 3+ silver edition camera too. still haven't gone out with it though. had to set it up and get accessories. today i hope to go outside and film underwater a bit. we'll see~
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Warriors' Stephen Curry involved in skirmish with Thunder
From left, Oklahoma City Thunder guard Russell Westbrook and guard Semaj Christon (6), Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green, Thunder forward Taj Gibson, and Warriors guards Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson get into a tussle during the second quarter of an NBA basketball game in Oklahoma City. At right are Warriors center Zaza Pachulia and Thunder guard Victor Oladipo. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)
By Cliff Brunt, Associated Press
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Stephen Curry exchanged shoves with Oklahoma City's Semaj Christon just before halftime of a game Monday night (Tuesday, PHL time), and both were issued technical fouls.
"That right there is a tone-setter." - @ripcityhamilton— Players Only on TNT (@NBAonTNT) March 21, 2017
Things are heating up in OKC 👀 #PlayersOnly pic.twitter.com/hHqYoTHG3N
The Golden State star tangled with Christon as the pair vied for position around a jump ball with 5.3 seconds left. Players from both teams converged around them, and there was pushing on both sides. Oklahoma City's Russell Westbrook and Golden State's Draymond Green also got technicals after getting caught in the middle. It was Westbrook's 15th technical of the season.
That's one way to head into halftime... #PlayersOnly pic.twitter.com/rnuCBlzMLi— Players Only on TNT (@NBAonTNT) March 21, 2017
Curry hit a three-pointer at the end of the half and ran down the tunnel to the locker room. The Warriors led 59-39 at the break.
This is Golden State's second visit to Oklahoma City since former Thunder star Kevin Durant signed a free agent contract with the Warriors last summer, and the first one was a heated contest. Durant has been out since February with a left knee injury and is not playing in this one.


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Conscious IV Sedation
Anxiety, fear, and apprehension associated with dental treatment keep more people from receiving proper dental care than probably any other factor.
A relatively new procedure called "conscious IV sedation" has benefited many patients who are otherwise reluctant to seek dentistry. Through the use of IV medication, the patient can safely be made relaxed, comfortable, and anxiety-free (and amnesiac or memory-free for part or all of the appointment).
Although the patient does remain conscious at all times, the depth of sedation is such as to overcome feelings of fear and anxiety, and yet avoid the dangers of a general anesthetic.
Each patient is carefully administered only the amount of medication needed to individually achieve appropriate levels of sedation and is monitored throughout the appointment.
- Patient may eat a light meal.
- Patient must be accompanied by a responsible adult
- No driving or activity requiring mental alertness for 24 hours


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I have shared a recipe for chili before, but it was more Chili Mac than Chili Soup. This recipe is more of a soup. It's the way I like chili best. It's my mom's recipe. You know how moms and grandmas often don't have recipes? Like they just know them by heart and throw things in without measuring and it turns out great every time? That's how my mom makes her delicious chili. So it took me several trial runs before I got this recipe right.
Here's what you'll need:
- Tomato juice
- Diced tomatoes (chili ready with onions)
- Tomato paste
- Black beans
- Kidney beans
- Chili seasoning mix
- Garlic powder
- Onion powder
- Spaghetti
- Ground beef
Start by browning your hamburger. Drain any grease out of it.
Then, it's really simple — put all your ingredients into one pot. Everything except the spaghetti. Turn it on low-medium heat. Let it simmer uncovered for 20 minutes, stirring occasionally.
Add in a hand-full of spaghetti, breaking it into smaller pieces. I break the spaghetti into thirds. Add that in and let it continue to cook on medium until the noodles are soft.
Serve with Tabasco sauce, shredded cheddar cheese, crackers, chopped green onions, and sour cream — whatever your family likes.
- 1 large can tomato juice (46 oz)
- 1 lb ground beef
- 1 can (chili ready with onions) diced tomatoes (14.5 oz)
- 1 can tomato paste (6 oz)
- 1 can kidney beans (15 oz)
- 1 can black beans (15 oz)
- 1 McCormick chili seasoning mix
- 2 tsp garlic powder
- 2 tsp onion powder
- 1 hand full spaghetti
- Brown ground beef
- Drain beef
- Combine tomato juice, tomatoes, paste, beef, beans, and seasonings into one pot
- Cook on low for 20 min
- Break spaghetti into thirds and add in pot
- Cook for another 10-20 min on medium
- Serve with crackers, cheese, or other toppings
If you are looking for Chili Mac, check this post out. Or maybe you'd rather have White Chicken Chili — then click here!
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Ha. So looks like ABSPB might have to be a bi-weekly thing seeing that I still haven't finished any one of the 3 books I first showcased. Looks like I'm not as quick a reader as I thought I was! Heh Heh! Looks like I'm not as smart either! Looks like I bit off more than I can chew! Ha Ha! Looks like I'm a complete failure at everything I do and I fail to finish the things that I start! HA HA HA! Haha, hah, whoo (whiping tear from eye), heh heh, ha… (sigh).
Anyway here's the cover for Mark Twain's "Who is Mark Twain?" A collection of unpublished journals, letters and lectures. A beautiful and playful little cover. Though I'm not sure what all that top hat business is about. I don't remember him being known for that. A head of billowy white hair maybe, but top hat? Maybe Harper Collins saw how much Slash's memoir was selling so they threw Samual Clemmins on the top hat bandwagon. Or maybe the answer to the titular question is right here.


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whats the origin of this last name Le Roy? the person with this last name is American.
Have an opinion?
It has origins dating back to ancient internet archives but if you can manage to find a google url I think they'll help you look it up media.giphy.com/media/B3ETOq2MtxqOQ/giphy.gif
It's common in Brittany (France).
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- 65 years old
- Date of birth: Jun 18, 1943
- Place of birth:
Ihiala, Anambra, Nigeria
- Date of passing: Nov 26, 2008
|Let the memory of ESTHER UDU-NGOZI be with us forever
"Mummy,May your loving and Caring Soul,Continue to Rest in de Lord! "Nne i di nma nwa onye ozo n'echu ura" Gaa ije gi nke Oma!"
"Continue resting in GOD'S blossom dear mother."
"Continue resting in GOD'S blossom dear mother."
"Mama,its exactly 4years that u left without saying goodbye but it seems like hours ago My Sweetest Bamenda.Words cant express d hurt we, ur family feels in our heart.Can we ever stop crying for ur death my best friend.We love&miss u till infinity Mama.Rest In Perfect Peace our Angel."
"It would have been your birthday Mum but the cold hands of death have taken u away.Rest in perfect peace Mum.We love endlessly"
"M"-Million things she gave me
"O"-Only dat she's growing old
"T"-Tears she shed 2save me
"H"-Heart of gold
"E"-Eyes wth love-light shining in them
"R"-Right she'll always be, All spells "MOTHER" a word dat means d world 2me.
Those of u lucky 2be still blessed wth ur Mom's presence on Earth,this story is beautiful.
Those who aren't so blessed,this is even more beautiful."
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rik_GT replied to rik_GT's topic in General and Gameplay ProgrammingThanks for pointing out the fiber API ;) Will have a look. Thanks
Cooperative Multitasking system
rik_GT posted a topic in General and Gameplay ProgrammingHi there I'm trying to get around the concept of cooperative multitasking system and exactly how it works in a single threaded application. My understanding is that this is a "form of multitasking in which multiple tasks execute by voluntarily ceding control to other tasks at programmer-defined points within each task." So if you have a list of tasks and one task is executing, how do you determine to pass execution to another task? And when you give execution back to a previous task, how do resume from where you were previously? I find this a bit confusing because I don't understand how this can be achieve without a multithreaded application. Any advice would be very helpeful :) Thanks
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rik_GT posted a topic in General and Gameplay ProgrammingHi all I have an issue with my application. I'm trying to disable Haptic feedback. On the manifest file i have the permision android.permission.WRITE_SETTINGS And on my activity on the onCreate() i have the following: Settings.System.putInt(getContentResolver(), Settings.System.HAPTIC_FEEDBACK_ENABLED, 0); But everytime I satrt the game, the vibration is always activated. Any help would be grateful.
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rik_GT posted a topic in Math and Physics[color=#323D4F]Hi all[/color] [color=#323D4F]In games Like FIFA or Pro Evo Soccer when the ball is in the air after being kicked, a small cross appears on the pitch marking the position where the ball will fall... How can you find out the position where the ball will fall ahead of time?[/color] [color=#323D4F]Any idea or explanation on how this could be done is very much appreciated [/color][img]http://bulletphysics.org/Bullet/phpBB3/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif[/img] [color=#323D4F]thanks[/color]
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rik_GT replied to rik_GT's topic in General and Gameplay ProgrammingQuote:Original post by Endar Quote:Original post by rik_GT Hi there I would like to get started in tools development, the problem is I have no idea where to start. I looked at this book called Game Engine Toolset Development but I'm not sure if it is the best place to help you build a tool from scratch. Any other suggestions? My goal would be to build a tool where you could visualize different water simulations with different LODs, etc. Thanks :) That's not really a tool, that's more like a simulation. What you need to do, is find a job/task that needs to be done. A tool is a program that will help you do it quicker. Just say you have a small game and it reads small scripts that describe different events. A good tool to have would be one which allows you to write these scripts (most likely in a format easier than the actual script syntax) and then save them in a format so they can be read by the game. So to create a tool, you need to have a job that needs to be done better than it currently is. I see. Thanks :) But do you know any sources where I can read more about this subject, apart from the book mentioned above? Tools development seems to be one of the least explored areas in game dev literature.
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rik_GT posted a topic in General and Gameplay ProgrammingHy guys What type of camera is used in the New Super Mario Bros for the DS? Is it orthogonal? I would like to have similar cam in my game :)
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Quote:Original post by chillypacman You're not colliding meshes in ode, you're colliding invisible bodies that you can bind to meshes. Umm, yeah you can test what you're doing, but what do you mean exactly by test? Hey The kind of tests i'll make will be when a laser collides with a ship or when a ship collides with another ship. I just wasn't sure if you could bind a volume, say a box, to a mesh loaded by DX.
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Great choice - I love the silver!
me with the silver jumbo!
And for size reference with the jumbo, I am 4 11" and a little over 100 pounds
Very nice choice. Classic.
Congrats!!! You made the right choice for your first Chanel!!
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Love the silver Jumbo! Good choice Congrats
Fabulous choice!!!
it looks gorgeous on you ! did you tie the chains inside im 5'1 and i tie the chains inside w/a ribbon to make it shorter
Thanks! Yup, I tied the chains with a black hair elastic and then knotted the rest into a gorgeous silver ball! I have to make it quite a bit shorter! with the elastic I can easily adjust the lengh by sliding it up or down and the rest of the chain doesnt hang down in the bag! I love the chanin pretty short and right under my arm or on the crease of my arm, it looks so chic with the shortened strap on petite girls!
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Due to Shivratri, the week ended early for the market on Thursday where Nifty touched its 52 week high and closed at 8939. After revisiting 29000 levels, BSE Sensex dipped a bit and ended the week at 28892.
– After ambling around for almost a decade, Reliance Industries led the market rally. The stock gained 10 percent this week after chairman Mukesh Ambani announced the monetisation of Reliance Jio's services from April 1, 2017. The stock hit a eight year high this week.
-The week brought cheer for the long struggling telecom sector as BSE Telecom Index went up nearly 19 percent this week. Driven by news of its merger with Vodafone, Idea Cellular gained 13 percent this week. Since the start of the year the stock has rallied 61 percent.
Yesterday, after CNBC-TV18's exclusive newsbreak that the merged entity between Idea and Vodafone might sell around 20 percent stake to private equity investors, Idea's stock went up around 5 percent on Wednesday.
-Struggling for a few quarters and burdened by huge NPAs, Axis Bank stock rallied 7 percent this week after news broke suggesting that Kotak Bank has informally approached the government seeking a merger with Axis.
Outlook ahead
Dissecting the week's rally and what can be expected going ahead, Navin Agarwal, MD at Motilal Oswal Financial Services said that the hope of a 20 percent growth is keeping the market buoyant and strong domestic flows will continue to hold it.
"Risk reward from near-term perspective not as attractive as before," he said.
In the same interview, Rajat Rajgarhia, MD and CEO of Motilal Oswal Institutional Equities, said that market now has more legs to break this range on the upside. This breakout should take market higher from current levels, he said.
On the telecom space, Rajgarhia said that the last decade was one of 'lost profitability' for telecom companies. "There were earlier 9 telecom companies now it is down to 3," he said.
He said that the pain is over for telcos and the industry might see its 'mojo' return, while earnings might take some time to recover.
Telecom is attractive for those looking for alpha in 2017, he added.
Below is the transcript of Navin Agarwal, Rajat Rajgarhia and Ashwani Gujral's interview to CNBC-TV18's Sonia Shenoy and Latha Venkatesh.
Latha: First up, this bull rally appears to have come out of nowhere. We are at 52-week highs, almost at all-time highs. Are you getting a sense now that the market is risky to buy, that the risk reward is not in the favour of buying?
Agarwal: The answer to that question is yes or no depending on your time horizon. If you look at the near-term, we have just seen a 12 percent cut in our earnings estimate between September, pre-demonetisation and now. On the other hand, we had the RBI credit policy which has changed its stance from accommodative to neutral and the debate has shifted from how much cut to whether the next move will be a cut or a raise. And on the third side, emerging markets continue to be out of favour, global protection continues to be a discourse and a rhetoric at least for now.
So, if you put all of these three things in conjunction with the move in the market from 8,000 Nifty to 9,000 Nifty and back to old highs, then clearly the risk reward from the near-term perspective is not looking that favourable. The number of stocks that you can find which are buys are not that many right now. The upside that you see in the stocks that you like is not very meaningful right now.
Sonia: What would your view be on how to approach the markets now because we are getting leadership from various quarters. First it was banks, then it was IT and now Reliance has started to participate as well. Do you see the market moving higher because so many legs are there to support it?
Rajgarhia: If you look at the markerts, even at 8,900 Nifty while it may have rallied from the lows of sub-8,000, over a two-year period in March, 2015 also we touched 9,100. So, during this period, the markets have just traded within a range of 1,000 and 1,500 Nifty points. This market is definitely getting more legs to break this range finally because somewhere the character of the last few days is quite positive. You have one Nifty stock almost everyday which is becoming a leader for the rally, whether one day you had HDFC Bank, then another day you had Reliance, third day you can have some other bank, then Tata Consultancy Services (TCS).
The markets are making serious attempt to break out of this range that it has held over the last two years and this break out should take markets higher from here.
Latha: Would you say at least the downside is protected?
Agarwal: As I was telling you, the answer could be yes and no, depending on the time horizon. If you look at some of the other factors which may have a more important bearing in your long-term thinking process, bear in mind that between FY08 and FY17 which is nine long years, we have had a nominal gross domestic product (GDP) growth of double digit and Indian corporate earnings have grown at 5 percent per annum. And in the process the corporate profit to GDP which used to be 7.8 percent in FY08 is down to 2.9 percent now. If our corporate earnings were to grow at 20 percent for the next three years, we would still be at sub-4 percent corporate profit to GDP versus our 10-year average of 5.2 percent. So, that is one thing that you should keep in mind.
The second is that you are seeing rising financial savings and falling physical savings within the household savings pool. And within the financial savings, you are seeing rising proportion of financial savings been directed to equities. In fact, FY17 will be the third consecutive year when domestic investors invest nearly 10 billion dollars.
Also bear in mind that the January Systematic Investment Plan (SIP) number of domestic flows into mutual funds is Rs 4,100 crore of SIP flows alone. If you were to just extrapolate this number. This number usually goes up gradually. If you were to extrapolate this trend, that alone works out to a Rs 50,000 crore SIP flow which is like a 401k like flow, more predictable, more sustainable and grows itself from that base year after year.
So, once upon a time, you had a USD 10-15 billion foreign institutional investor (FII) investment being considered as a big deal for the Indian markets and now, you are setting yourself of potential SIP flows of USD 7-8 billion and potential domestic flows of USD 10-12 billion and rising from there over the coming years. So, you are at the bottom corporate profitability and a hope of a 20 percent profit remains and the markets could deliver at least that much return. Strong domestic flows continue to be holding the market.
So, clearly the downside will be protected from expectations that margins will revert back to averages that domestic flows will continue to be robust and that changes the viewpoint if you look at the next 2-3 years\' timeframe.
Sonia: Let us discuss some sectors because this week you had so many sectors that participated. The space to be in this week undoubtedly was telecom and it is interesting because last year, all of last year, metals rallied and almost nobody caught that rally. And this time telecom stocks are already up 30-50 percent this year and almost nobody caught that either. At Motilal Oswal, how have you guys reacted to the competition from Reliance Jio, the movement on Reliance and the merger and acquisition (M&A) activity, the consolidation that is happening with the other players?
Rajgarhia: Just a couple of months back we had released a very detailed report on telecom sector where our analyst had articulated very well that how the drivers for the sector are now changing towards pro-growth. I just want to highlight three points here. First, the last 10 years has been just a decade of lost profitability for the entire sector. Second, this industry had 7-9 players which is now getting limited to just serious three players in the making. And third, the capital expenditure (Capex) intensity is now behind.
Yesterday, when the markets got excited about Reliance and the stock was up by almost 10-11 percent, it just did not make a one-year high, it made a 10-year high. This 10 year period of flat Reliance stock price finally saw a breakout. Telecom as a sector is seeing that phenomena returning back. How long earnings will take, we will have to wait for a couple of more quarters before the pricing starts normalising for companies to earn decent profits. But markets are not going to wait for that.
One company consolidating, another following up, the third one leading to a pricing strategy, all in all, this is an under allocated space for investors and people are looking for alpha. So this can well be a sector to create alpha in 2017. While the sector has done well over the last one month or so, when you look over a 10-year period, this is a sector which has actually not created any value. This can be the beginning of the value creation in telecom.
Sonia: I wanted your thoughts on what is happening with the banks because Axis Bank was the big talking point all of last week with number of suitors increasing for Axis apparently. How would you deal with all this impending consolidation and what seems to be the potential opportunity here?
Agarwal: As far as Axis merger with any other bank is concerned, it is right now definitely very speculative with nobody really claiming anything, whether it is suitor or the target. So, this is something that is not very clear.
Having said that the big picture in the financial sector is pretty much the same that has played out over the last few years. We have had corporate lenders which are struggling with asset quality issues.
We still don't have any credible plan to deal with the asset quality issues either from the government or from the banks themselves and in the process you have the private sector lenders, the private sector banks continuing to take market share year after year within the overall banking pie and they are very well capitalised, they have better managements in place and they have lesser legacy issues of asset quality problems.
I think all of this definitely continues into the future as well in our view. You have already seen the amount of allocation that the Budget has for PSU banks capitalisation and it is not very meaningful for these banks to be able to sustain growth rates even as much as the economic growth rates. In the mean time you have private sector banks which are sitting on very strong capitalisation, which have great management teams, which are looking at organic growth in a strong way.
Apart from evaluating inorganic opportunities as well, today you have the government holding a double digit stake through SUUTI in Axis Bank, you have LIC holding a double digit stake in Axis Bank as well.
I think that brings about an interest from nearly every other private sector bank because nearly half of their book is retail loans. As far as the legacy corporate loan book is concerned because of the asset quality review, because of the watch list, a lot of the recognition of the problem is already on the table, the elephant is on the table as far as lot of the asset quality issues are concerned.
I think that probably gives confidence to a potential suitor to bid for an asset like this which is currently valued cheaply because of the elevated credit costs and the depressed return ratios for the banks. Whether this is mere speculation and nothing will unfold or whether something will unfold in due course of time is a million dollar question.
Latha: When you sit at 52-week highs, what a retail investor will be wondering is, should I put in incremental money? So, from retail investor's point of view the question is, where will the meltdown be less? Where is the retail investor less likely to lose and where are incremental gains most likely?
Rajgarhia: Retail investor has been putting money almost every month through SIP for the last two years. The bedrock of this bull rally in India over the last couple of years has been the domestic flows. I think that flow should continue irrespective of the rally that we have seen from here.
From specific sectors point of view, you have to still marry growth right now, wherever you see growth and wherever you see sustaining that growth rate, those stocks and sectors will continue to outperform from here.
Few things that we like a lot in particular, if you look at the whole housing finance space, it is almost like for the last 10-12 quarters, every quarter we keep seeing some positive catalyst coming in form of changed norms from either the government or the Reserve Bank of India, which keeps on making the business attractive from an HFC point of view.
There are enough number of players to play that. Second if you look at the private sector banks, people who are not in the top 3 from market share but the ones who are now budding to gain market share from the rest of the pack, there are enough of such names again. They will keep growing at 25-30 percent for the next 3-5 years. The stock returns will at least track that.
We also think that some of the domestic spaces whether be it cement or autos, pockets of opportunities exists in all of them. Then some of the laggards of last many years like telecom which have just started to start seeing some delivery can be another pad that investors can focus upon.
So, all in all while the overall markets may move in sync with the aggregate earnings growth, there are enough sectors and stocks where the earnings growth acceleration will be more than the market. That is the space that retail investors should be betting upon.
Latha: Sitting at 52 week highs, what would the Nifty trade be for next week and any stocks you would watch?
Gujral: Nifty closed at the highest levels of all time both on the daily and weekly basis. Now post some consolidation I believe in March we should move higher because at 8950-8960 the pressure of selling does not seem to be very high. So, with a stop say around 8800-8850, I think the Nifty should be able to get to finally 9150 – 9200 which was the previous high and then even move beyond that.
In terms of calls for next week, UPL seems to have broken out, so out there we can look for a target of about Rs 820.
Century Textiles has bottomed out, so that could move higher and that could have a target of about Rs 1020.
Kotak Mahindra Bank seems to be the strongest private sector bank and we should look for targets of about Rs 900 out there.
Disclosure: Reliance Industries, which owns Reliance Jio, also owns Network18, which publishes Chillicious.com.


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This is a guest post from my wife Meagan, I hope to have her start contributing articles from time to time on some of the awesome meals we make and also on some of the projects she works on. Enjoy!
I am a member of the Harry Potter Knitting/Crocheting House Cup (HPKCHC) group on Ravelry, an online knitting and crocheting community. As part of HPKCHC, you are Sorted into a House (I'm in Gryffindor) where you are challenged to complete various class assignments to gain points for your House. Classes might include Herbology, Charms, Flying, Arithmancy, Potions, Care of Magical Creatures, etc.
One of the most fun parts of this group is that it really challenges to push yourself and your knitting abilities, and also that you can fit nearly any project into any class with a little creativity and of course, a hefty amount of BS. 😉
One class this month was Defense Against the Dark Arts, or DADA. The assignment for that class was "Craft an object that somehow wards off a haunting by the undead." Of all the many undead candidates, I choose the most obvious threat to everyday life: Zombies.
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In preparation for the Zombie Apocalypse, I decided to make use of a little-known fact about Zombies: spirals confuse them and make them dizzy! Therefore I decided to make this scarf since its spiraling ringlets are both zombie-repelling and fashionable:
Here is a picture showing me brandishing my scarf at zombies, which will make them very dizzy and confuse them long enough for me to make a hasty escape.
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Union reaction: Government 'picked pockets' of poor
UNIONS accused the Government of "picking the pockets" of people who could not fight back by slashing the minimum wage and social welfare.
The Irish Congress of Trade Unions general secretary David Begg described the Budget as "utterly lacking in any sense of the common good".
"These cuts will push us deeper into recession," he said.
"And to what end, for what purpose? To bail out a busted banking system."
He said the plan to take €40 a week from those on the minimum wage was nothing less than "picking the pockets of the working poor".
IMPACT general secretary Shay Cody said the "predictable" Budget would impoverish tens of thousands of people and vowed to resist cuts in the minimum wage and social welfare.
SIPTU general president Jack O'Connor said the rich had been "insulated" again as there was no provision for a tax on wealth, including "trophy" houses.
General secretary of the Civil, Public and Services Union Blair Horan said the Budget failed the test of fairness because it impacted disproportionately on the lower paid and those dependant on state transfers.
"The minister has clearly made this choice by opting for a new universal social charge and reductions in tax credits rather than increasing tax rates or introducing a new rate for higher earners," he said.
Unite condemned the Budget as a "savage attack on those who they think will not fight back" and "as undemocratic a piece of legislation has had been brought forward in the history of the State".
"We have been told for two years, over four budgets, that cutting back would save us," Unite Irish regional secretary Jimmy Kelly said.
"€14bn later and we are staring down the barrel of a decade of desolation."
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Karen's School of Dance announces Free Class Fridays at the dance studio located at 90 Park St.
Children can experience a dance class for free on the following dates: Intro to Ballet from 6 to 6:30 p.m. and Intro to Tap from 6:30 to 7 p.m. on June 27; and Intro to Jazz from 6 to 6:30 p.m. July 18.
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