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AFP: Manson murders back in spotlight after 40 years
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LOS ANGELES — They were the crimes that drew a blood-soaked line under the 1960s hippy era of peace and love, terrorized Hollywood and made headlines around the world.
Yet 40 years after the horrific killing spree by Charles Manson's "family" in Los Angeles on August 9-10 1969, the macabre fascination with the murders remains as intense as ever.
Several of the murderers have their own Internet pages, books on the killings are being reprinted and a Hollywood tour dedicated to the crimes is doing brisk business.
Scott Michaels, whose "Dearly Departed" sight-seeing tour bus company offers a "Helter Skelter" trip dealing solely with the Manson crimes, says the killings acquired an almost iconic status.
"It was a real-life horror story," Michaels told AFP. "It involved bright, young, glamorous people — it just had all the elements and was the first big criminal case that people became obsessed with.
"It scared the hell out of Los Angeles. The whole city was on edge and then they discovered that the people who did it were just kids. It just continued to shock right the way through the trial," he added.
The details of the killings have lost none of their shock capacity with the passage of time.
Manson, portrayed at his trial as a drug-crazed loner with mesmerizing powers of persuasion, ordered devotees to carry out random killings in wealthy white neighborhoods in an effort to trigger an apocalyptic race war.
Though the Manson family was responsible for at least nine murders, it is the seven lives claimed during the rampage in Los Angeles between August 9 and 10, 1969 with which the group is most closely associated.
Among the victims was the movie actress Sharon Tate, the 26-year-old wife of director Roman Polanski and eight-and-a-half months pregnant at the time, stabbed to death as she pleaded for the life of her unborn child.
Tate died along with four others at her home in the Hollywood Hills after four Manson disciples — henchman Charles "Tex" Watson and three women, Susan Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkel and Linda Kasabian, struck.
Using a towel dipped in Tate's blood, Atkins daubed the word "Pig" on the front door of the home. The next night, Manson and six others struck at the home of businessman Leno LaBianca, killing him and his wife Rosemary.
British journalist Ivor Davis, whose book "Five to Die" is being reissued to coincide with the anniversary, agrees with the suggestion that the Manson killings were "the day the Sixties died."
"It was the time of Haight-Ashbury, Woodstock, love and peace, hug your neighbor, go to bed with your neighbor, fornicate with your neighbor," Davis told AFP. "And then Manson came along and it was murder your neighbor.
"The terrible thing that happened at the Tate house not only killed all those people, it killed a generation really — a whole mood, an atmosphere," said Davis, who covered the murders and the subsequent trial.
Former Los Angeles District Attorney Vincent Bugliosi, who prosecuted the Manson family and co-authored "Helter Skelter," an exhaustive, best-selling account of the crimes, said the savagery of the murders fueled the panic.
"I've heard many people say that prior to these murders, there were areas of the city where folks literally did not lock their doors at night," Bugliosi told Newsweek magazine. "That ended with the Tate/LaBianca murders.
"The killings were so terribly brutal and savage: 169 stab wounds, seven gunshot wounds. They appeared to be random with no discernible conventional motive. That induced a lot of fear throughout the city," he added.
Although police initially failed to link the two sets of murders, Manson and four followers — Atkins, Watson, Krenwinkel and Leslie Van Houten — were eventually convicted of murder and sentenced to death. Kasabian, who had been at the Tate house, was the star witness and granted immunity.
The death sentences were commuted to life in prison after California briefly outlawed capital punishment.
Since then, Manson, 74, and his fellow convicts have repeatedly sought parole but have been rejected.
Atkins, 61, who has brain cancer, had a request for compassionate release denied in July last year and is due to make another bid at a hearing in Los Angeles on September 2.
The repeated parole hearings, a 2008 search for human remains at Manson's former Death Valley hideout and the power of the Internet have ensured longevity for the Manson murders.
"Every year or so, one of them comes up for parole and the whole story gets regurgitated," Davis said. "The Internet has been an incredible driving force. It's kept the Manson myth bubbling along."
According to Michaels, Manson's status as "America's boogeyman" makes it unlikely that any of those associated with the crimes will ever be released.
"They were sentenced to die in the gas chamber and they were lucky to have those sentences commuted," he said. "That was more mercy than they showed any of their victims. Maybe this is an occasion when life should mean life."
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Cristopher Nilstorp stopped 31 shots to notch his first NHL victory, as the Dallas Stars slipped past the San Jose Sharks, 3-1, on Saturday at American Airlines Center.
"Of course it's a great feeling to get your first win," Nilstorp said. "The guys did an amazing job in front me and helped me out today so I'm really thankful for that. It's a great feeling."
Jamie Benn and Jaromir Jagr each registered a goal and an assist, while Michael Ryder added a power-play tally to help the Stars snap a two-game skid.
Patrick Marleau scored the lone goal for San Jose, which has dropped two straight to wrap up a six-game road trip at 1-4-1.
"Pretty good effort, but you can't take consolation in that," San Jose coach Todd McLellan said. "You can't win games scoring one goal. We have to find ways to fix it."
Antti Niemi allowed all three goals on 28 shots.
After a scoreless first frame, Dallas broke through while on the power play late in the second when Loui Eriksson recovered a loose puck behind the net and fed Benn on the low right side. Benn then one-touched a pass toward the front of the net and Jagr was able to redirect the puck past Niemi for a 1-0 edge at the 19:02 mark.
San Jose defenseman Douglas Murray was whistled for unsportsmanlike conduct with 58 seconds left in the second and although the Sharks were able to escape the period down by just one, the penalty came back to haunt the visitors early in the third.
While on the man-advantage, Ryder found room in the middle of the offensive zone and skated into the slot before rifling a shot past Niemi to make it 2-0 just 30 seconds into the third.
San Jose cut the lead in half while on a 5-on-3 advantage just under two minutes later. Joe Thornton won a faceoff in the left circle and fed the disc directly to the right circle for Marleau, who ripped a one-timer past Nilstorp to make it 2-1 at the 2:19 mark.
The Sharks appeared to tie the game near the 11 minute mark when Logan Couture banged home a Thornton rebound, but Thornton was whistled for goaltender interference on the play to wipe away the equalizer.
"I thought it was a forward attacking the net," McLellan said of the interference call against Thornton. "I think that's a hockey play. He should have the right to make that play."
Benn added an insurance goal late in the contest when he fired a shot from the slot that Niemi never saw through a screen to make it 3-1 with 2:11 to play.
Game Notes
San Jose has lost nine of its last 10 overall after opening the season with seven straight wins ... The Sharks had won three straight and seven of the last eight overall in the series ... Dallas went 2-for-6 on the power play, while San Jose finished 1-for-7.

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Knicks' Week in Advance 11/24/2008
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Hello all. Thomas B. here with the second installment of Knicks' Week in Advance. This article appears exclusively on Knickerblogger.net (everyone else-including Stern Must Go-turned me down). I will compare the Knicks' Four Factors to those of their opponents this week. I'm glad the Knicks beat the Wizards Saturday. The win spared me from drafting an open that parodies those Time Life Books commercials from the 1980s: November 2008. The administrator of a popular blog contacts a man of limited basketball knowledge and invites him to join the staff. Shortly thereafter, the Knicks begin a losing streak that has yet …continue reading


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Increasing Access to Health Care for People Living With HIV: We Need Your Help
By Georgina Verdugo
March 23, 2010
This article was cross-posted from the AIDS.gov blog. Georgina Verdugo is Director of the Office for Civil Rights (OCR), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
Earlier this week, OCR entered into a settlement agreement with the Windsor Rosewood Care Center, LLC (WRCC), a Contra Costa County, California nursing home, which agreed to provide individuals living with HIV equal access to its facility, as required by Federal law. This settlement resulted from a discrimination complaint initiated by a case manager who reported that two months before her client died, he was denied admission to the Contra Costa nursing home because he had AIDS. (When we use the term "living with HIV," we mean both AIDS and HIV-positive status).
A few years ago, OCR entered into a similar settlement with the A.T. Associates nursing home chain in Alameda County, California. That settlement resulted from a discrimination complaint initiated by a hospital social worker who also reported that her client had been denied admission to a nursing home because he is HIV-positive.
In the 1980s, many of our families were touched by AIDS and we lost many young colleagues and friends. Today, we are grateful that as treatments improve, more individuals with HIV are leading long lives and becoming seniors. Some of these seniors, inevitably, will need nursing home care.
At OCR, we will not tolerate nursing homes which deny admission to individuals solely because they are HIV-positive. The Department of Health and Human Services is committed to ensuring access to health care for all Americans; and OCR will act diligently to eliminate unlawful discrimination in health care settings, including public and private nursing homes. But to do that, we need your help.
As the Windsor Rosewood and A.T. Associates nursing home cases illustrate, for us to do our work at OCR, we need to hear from people living with HIV and their advocates, including their attorneys, social workers, and case managers.
OCR is the sole HHS agency with the authority to enforce Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (Section 504), which prohibits disability discrimination in programs or activities receiving Federal financial assistance, including Medicaid and Medicare Part A reimbursements; and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (the ADA), which prohibits disability discrimination by state and local government agencies, such as state-operated nursing homes. Federal courts have long held that AIDS and HIV-positive status are disabilities for purposes of Section 504 and the ADA.
If you feel that a nursing home, hospital, doctor, or other health care provider receiving federal financial assistance from HHS, or a state or local government agency, has discriminated against you (or your client, relative or friend) on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, or disability (including AIDS and HIV-positive status), you may file a discrimination complaint with the HHS Office for Civil Rights on-line.
If you file a discrimination complaint with OCR, one of our ten Regional Offices will investigate your complaint. If OCR concludes that the health care provider or local agency has discriminated against you, then OCR will issue a Violation Letter of Finding. The provider or agency will be given an opportunity to resolve the Violation Letter of Finding through settlement. If the provider or agency is not willing to settle, OCR has the authority to initiate enforcement proceedings to suspend Federal financial assistance, including Medicaid and Medicare Part A reimbursements, to the provider or agency.
The bottom line is that OCR will diligently investigate discrimination complaints filed by individuals living with HIV. If you are an advocate, attorney, social worker, case manager or an individual living with HIV, we want to hear from you and we need your help to protect the civil rights of all Americans.
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ISLAND LAKE – Electoral uncertainty reigns in Island Lake as the political saga involving the race for village board president drags on, with weeks left before the April 9 election.
Earlier this week, a Lake County Circuit Court judge reversed a ruling from the Island Lake electoral board that knocked village president candidate Charles Amrich off the ballot.
Amrich served as village president from 1985 to 2005 and is seeking the office again in the upcoming election. In Tuesday's judicial review, Judge Christopher Starck declared Amrich eligible to run. Furthermore, the McHenry County and Lake County Clerk offices were ordered to allow his name on the ballot.
But an appeal to keep Amrich out of the race already is under way.
"We hope to get it filed by Friday, but certainly by Monday," said Anish Parikh, an attorney who represents Daniel Field and Louis Sharp, two residents who initiated the electoral board hearing process in January.
The legal feud began when Field and Sharp filed objections against Amrich's candidacy. In their filing, Field and Sharp said Amrich was ineligible to run for office because of an overdue $174 garbage bill. Amrich paid the bill after he signed his statement of candidacy form, but before he filed his nominating papers in December.
Amrich's attorney argued that as long as the bill was paid by the time nominating papers were filed, Amrich met the requirements to be qualified.
Electoral board Chairwoman Shannon Fox and board member Thea Morris voted to disqualify Amrich. Board member Laura Rabattini cast the lone vote in support of Amrich. All three board members also are village trustees.
Field and Sharp's appeal will seek an "expedited cycle," even though the timeframe technically allows 30 days, Parikh said.
"We want to act diligently and request the appellate court to enter an expedited briefing schedule," he said. "The purpose is to get a decision prior to the [April 9] election."
Island Lake, a town of 8,000 residents, straddles McHenry and Lake counties.
For now, both county clerk offices are expected to print Amrich's name on the ballots in accordance with Tuesday's circuit court order.
"Normally these things are all firmed up at this time," McHenry County Clerk Katherine Schultz said. "Plus we had just finished [wrapping up] the February election."
"My problem is solved at the moment," Lake County Clerk Willard Helander said.
Amrich leads the "For The People" slate, which includes clerk candidate Teresa Ponio and trustee candidates Mark Beeson, Anthoney Sciarrone and Keith Johns. The competing slate, "United for Progress," is led by incumbent Debbie Herrmann, who is seeking re-election as village president. Incumbent Connie Mascillino, who is seeking re-election as village clerk, and trustee candidates Josh Rohde, Ken Nitz and Ed McGinty round out the slate.


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On his blog today Fawad Hassan has the first part of a series where he's showing you how to create a CRUD interface by combining jQuery and the CodeIgniter framework.
In this tutorial you will learn: how to use jQuery with Codeigniter, how to send Ajax request to perform READ operation, how to use jQuery UI tabs widget and how to use Microsoft's jQuery templating plugin.
He provides a link to download the source to follow along with the tutorial as well as links to the other technologies involved. He starts from the very beginning - setting up and configuring CodeIgniter, setting up a user table to push and pull data from and making the jQuery call to pull the information from the table.


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November 30, 2012 08:00 ET
Appoints Robert Neill, FCA to Board
WELLAND, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Nov. 30, 2012) - CRS Electronics Inc. ("CRS" or the "Company"), (TSX VENTURE:LED), developer and manufacturer of LED lighting, today reported financial results for the three and nine month periods ended September 30, 2012.
For the three months ended September 30, 2012, the Company reported sales of $607,000 and a net loss of $1.2 million or $0.02 per share as compared to sales of $461,000 and a net loss of $158,000 or $0.00 per share in the same period one year ago. For the nine months ended September 30, 2012, the Company reported sales of $2.6 million and a net loss of $3.3 million or $0.06 per share. This compares to sales of $1.6 million and a net loss of $1.2 million or $0.03 per share for the same nine-month period last year.
Working capital at September 30, 2012 was $6.3 million, including $5.8 million in cash.
The Company is focused on increasing revenues by adding additional retail partners and achieving Energy Star certification to support commercialization efforts. With a major Canadian retailer agreement in place, CRS will focus on securing major US-based retailers. To best address the market for LED lights and increase unit sales, the Company will provide both premium and economy product lines. Efforts are underway to reduce product costs and the Company expects to outsource some manufacturing and development overseas to achieve this goal and maintain CRS's high quality standards.
CRS Electronics also announced the appointment of Mr. Robert Neill, FCA to the Board of Directors, effective immediately. Mr. Neill will also serve as Chair of the Audit Committee.
Mr. Neill became a Partner of Durward Jones Barkwell & Company LLP (DJB) in 1982, and was most recently the Firm Managing Partner and a member of the Firm Management Committee. DJB is one of the largest public accounting firms in the Niagara/Hamilton/Halton region. He has served as Vice Chair of Brock University, President of the Welland/Pelham Chamber of Commerce, Chair of Niagara's Bid for the Canada Games and is currently involved in numerous other community organizations. In 1999, Mr. Neill was elected to serve as a Member of Council for the Ontario Institute of Chartered Accountants and was the organization's Chair for 2002/2003. He served as a Board Member of the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants from 2004 to 2010. Mr. Neill qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1977, after graduating from Brock University with a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) degree in 1975. He had the honour of receiving his F.C.A. in 1991.
The Audit Committee now consists of Robert Neill (Chairman), Lian Wu, Scott Riesebosch, and Zheng-Hong Lu.
The unaudited interim financial statements and related MD&A can be found on SEDAR at www.sedar.com.
About CRS
CRS Electronics Inc., a Lighting Facts partner, is a leader in the emerging, rapidly-growing market of high efficiency light-emitting-diode ("LED"), or, solid state lighting ("SSL"). The principal activities of CRS include the development, manufacture and sale, primarily in North America, of indoor lighting such as LED replacement lamps, exterior LED warning lights on school buses, child safety systems for school buses and contract manufacturing of LED circuit boards. CRS plans to be a major supplier of LED lighting solutions for a variety of applications to be developed by CRS on its own and in conjunction with its partners and customers.
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Reprinted with kind permission from ME Research, Breakthrough Magazine, Autumn 2013
One of the key difficulties facing ME/CFS patients is standing, especially standing still, which can bring on symptoms such as dizziness, altered vision, nausea and fatigue. So it is certainly possible that some dysfunction of the autonomic nervous system is involved in the disease.
Since 2006, with the financial help of ME Research UK, Professor Julia Newton and her team at the School of Clinical Medical Sciences, University of Newcastle have been investigating autonomic nervous system function in ME/CFS. In fact, their scientific papers have reported autonomic dysfunction in three-quarters of ME/CFS patients, and that their blood pressure is lower and its regulation abnormal compared with healthy people.
A new scientific paper from Prof Newton's group (published this year in the Journal of Internal Medicine) describes postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS), an aspect of autonomic dysfunctionthat can produce substantial disability among otherwise healthy people. POTS is defined as symptoms of orthostatic intolerance (problems with standing), and it is easily diagnosed by observing the increase in heart rate on moving from lying to standing (a person with POTS has an abnormally large increase).
The team wanted to test a large group of ME/CFS patients for the presence of POTS, and to look for clinical differences between those with and without the disorder. If differences exist, it might be possible to treat and manage POTS patients as a distinct clinical subtype of ME/CFS, since we already know that this diagnosis includes a wide range of different kinds of patients.
In total, 179 consecutive patients from the Newcastle CFS Clinical Service were examined, and they underwent a series of demographic and symptom assessments, as well as autonomic function tests including heart rate variability (HRV) and left ventricular ejection time of the heart. The patients had been ill for just over 7 years on average and, overall, the prevalence of daytime sleepiness and orthostatic symptoms was high, as was physical and cognitive impairment.
In total, 24 patients (13%) had POTS, and they were younger (average age 29), less fatigued, less depressed, and reported less daytime sleepiness than the 155 (87%) without POTS. Crucially, they also had greater orthostatic symptoms and autonomic dysfunction. In fact, it was possible to predict which patients would be in the POTS group with 100% accuracy from a combination of high orthostatic intolerance and low daytime sleepiness. Of particular interest was the significantly lower HRV in the patients with POTS, indicating a greater level of autonomic nervous dysfunction in this subgroup.
These interesting results were the subject of an expert commentary in the same issue of the Journal of Internal Medicine by Prof. Jo Nijs and colleagues from Brussels. They point out that the investigation provides compelling data for a novel subgroup within the ME/CFS population, and that the results support the view of ME/CFS as a central nervous system disorder.
Clearly, it is important that POTS be recognised and managed, whether in ME/CFS or other groups of patients,since treatment can improve functional impairment and quality of life.
ME Research UK commissions and funds scientific (biomedical) investigation into the causes, consequences and treatment of ME/CFS, a debilitating illness which affects around 200,000 people in the UK and 1 million in the USA but is neither well understood nor, in many cases, properly recognised. To date, the charity has awarded more than £1 million to universities in the UK and overseas for 35 distinct scientific studies into ME/CFS, resulting in the publication of over 50 research papers.


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President Obama earned $789,674 in 2011, the White House announced on Friday. However, with this income, he does not even qualify for the so-called Buffett Rule that he has promoted relentlessly and the Senate will take up on Monday.
The Buffett Rule calls for those making over $1 million a year to pay a minimum tax rate, named after billionaire Warren Buffett. The president did earn over $1 million in previous years--$1.7 million in 2010 and $5.5 million in 2009.
The president paid $162,074 in taxes with an effective federal income tax rate of 20.5 percent, according to the returns.
The release, four days before Tuesday's tax deadline, capped a week in which the president repeatedly spoke about the obligation of the wealthy to pay their fair share of taxes. It also provided Obama's campaign the opportunity to once again jab Republican Mitt Romney for his refusal to release more information on his tax-paying history.
The Obamas adjusted gross income was their lowest income since 2004 when he wrote his best-selling memoir, "Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance." This was the first year since 2006 that the Obama family income dipped below $1 million. In 2010, his adjusted gross income was $1.7 million; in 2009, it was $5.5 million.
The White House also released the return filed by Vice President Joe Biden and his wife Jill. They reported adjusted gross income of $379,035, paying $87,900 in federal tax for the year in addition to state taxes in Delaware and Virginia totaling $17,457.
Not surprisingly in an election year, the White House release of documents was followed almost immediately by a blast from the Obama reelection campaign demanding Romney make public much more than the 2010 tax return released by the campaign earlier and the 2011 return expected.
"On the eve of April 17th, Governor Romney has yet to provide tax returns from the period in which he made hundreds of millions as a corporate buyout specialist, or as governor of Massachusetts, the experience he says qualifies him to be president," said campaign manager Jim Messina in a statement. He added, "Mitt Romney's defiance of decades of precedent set by presidential candidates on both sides of the aisle, including his own father, begs the question – what does he have to hide?"
Romney spokeswoman Andrea Saul dismissed the Obama campaign demand. "It's no surprise with the worst job creation record in modern history that President Obama would try to distract Americans from the real issues with a series of sideshows," she said. Saul noted that Romney has released his 2010 return and said he will put out his full 2011 return "when it is filed."
The Obama return showed that the president and his wife Michelle contributed $172,130 – about 22 percent of their income -- to 39 different charities. By far their biggest contribution -- $117,130 – went to the Fisher House Foundation, a Maryland-based foundation that provides free housing and help to wounded members of the military with at least one Fisher House at every major military medical center. The Obamas also reported $5,000 contributions to the Boys and Girls Club of Greater Washington, Habitat for Humanity and Sidwell Friends School.
As he has in previous years, Biden gave a much smaller percentage of his income to charity, reporting only $5,540 in contributions. The largest was $1,080 to the Northern Virginia Community College Alumni Scholarship Fund.


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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 19th Mar 2011 00:06 UTC
"A commercial ZFS solution is (still) coming to Mac OS X, thanks to former Apple filesystem and OS engineer Don Brady (who previously worked on the abandoned internal Apple project to port ZFS). Brady and his company, Ten's Complement, just launched a limited private beta in hopes to have the software polished and ready for a summer launch this year. Ars spoke with Brady, who has a long history engineering filesystems for Mac OS and Mac OS X, to find out a little about his previous work with ZFS at Apple, and what Mac users can expect to gain from Ten's Complement's port of ZFS."
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RE[4]: Will definitely buy...
by Bill Shooter of Bul on Sat 19th Mar 2011 21:02 UTC in reply to "RE[3]: Will definitely buy..."
Obviously not a good idea to have zfs on the ipad/iphone due to the overhead.
ZFS on OSX makes sense for time machine
. I would trust apple to integrate ZFS into OSX more than I would trust them to add equivalent features to HFS, or create their own. Not sure why they needed a license from Sun for ZFS
For this I'm mainly a interested bystander. I have a mac notebook, but do not plan on buying another Apple device due to their poor F/OSS support.


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No. 23/24-ranked Harvard returns to Harvard Stadium Saturday afternoon for a highly-anticipated Ivy League tilt against Cornell and its high-powered offense led by reigning Offensive Player of the Year quarterback Jeff Mathews.
The Matchup
The game pits the Ivy League's top two offensive teams against one another as Harvard comes in averaging 486 yards per game with Cornell close behind at 454.
Harvard allows just 56 rushing yards per game and has a league-best 13 sacks through three games while Cornell leads the league with 376 passing yards per game.
- Download Complete Game Notes (PDF)
- Video: Harvard-Holy Cross Highlights (YouTube)
- Harvard's Tim Murphy at the Weekly New England Football Writers' Luncheon (YouTube)
The Balance
Harvard has been extremely balanced on offense this year averaging over 200 yards per game on the ground and 285 through the air. Cornell meanwhile is almost exclusively through the air with a league-worst 78 yards per game via the run.
Series History
Saturday's game will be the 77th meeting on the gridiron between Harvard and Cornell since 1890, and the Crimson holds a 42-32-2 series lead.
The Crimson owned the early series, capturing the first 10 games (1890-1913), while Cornell won 11 straight from 1986-1996.
Harvard has turned the tables in the series once again, having won 10 of the last 11 contests while averaging 34.3 points in those 10 wins compared to 16.6 for Cornell. Harvard has scored at least 31 points in five of the last six years against the Big Red with a 28-10 win in 2009 in Ithaca, N.Y. being the lone exception.
Last Year's Meeting
Colton Chapple threw for 414 yards and four touchdowns as the Crimson overpowered Cornell 41-31 in Ithaca, N.Y.
Following a Ryan Houska run that gave Cornell a lead 24-20 midway through the third quarter, Chapple connected with receiver Alex Sarkisian on a 42-yard strike to take a 27-24 lead. Chapple then led Harvard on two consecutive scoring drives, throwing touchdown passes of 27 and 26 yards to put the game out of reach, 41-24.
All three of those scoring passes came during a seven-minute stretch dominated by Chapple and Harvard's defense, which allowed just 20 yards on 21 Cornell plays covering five offensive series for the Big Red.
Chapple recorded Harvard's first 400-yard passing game since 2003 in throwing for the second-highest single-game mark in school history. Sarkisian reaped the rewards, grabbing seven catches for 112 yards while Chris Lorditch had four receptions for 103 yards.
The Cornell offense moved the ball well as Jeff Matthews threw for 322 yards but the Big Red struggled on third down, converting 1-of-10 attempts under relentless pressure from Harvard's front line, which got to Matthews for four sacks and numerous QB hurries.
Although it surrendered 31 points and 322 passing yards to Cornell, Harvard's defense dominated the game when it mattered. The Crimson allowed just 20 yards on 21 plays covering five offensive series in the second half as Harvard erased a 24-20 deficit to claim a 41-24 lead over a pivotal 10-minute stretch of the game.
Harvard's Last Time Out
Colton Chapple threw four touchdown passes in Harvard's 49-point first half and the Crimson routed Holy Cross 52-3 last Friday night.
Chapple was 13 of 18 for 260 yards for the Crimson while adding a rushing touchdown. He opened the scoring with a 10-yard pass to Ricky Zorn, and also threw a 35-yard touchdown pass to Cameron Brate in the first quarter. Harvard made it 21-3 late in the quarter on D.J. Moore's 23-yard return on a blocked punt.
In the second quarter, Chapple added a 14-yard scoring pass to Kyle Juszczyk and a 19-yarder to Brate, and Rich Zajeski made it 49-3 with a 4-yard run.
Zorn had six catches for 99 yards, and Brate added four receptions for 69 yards. Treavor Scales led Harvard in rushing with 82 yards on 15 carries.
Cornell's Last Time Out
Jeff Mathews threw for 278 yards and ran for a touchdown in Cornell's 15-10 win over Bucknell.
Trailing 7-0, Mathews, who became just the third player for Cornell to surpass 6,000 career passing yards in the win, scored from 1 yard out to put the Big Red on the board.
Cornell failed to convert the ensuing two-point conversion but Boomer Olsen's 28-yard field goal with 18 seconds left in the second quarter gave the Big Red a 9-7 halftime lead.
Mathews completed 27 of 46 attempts, with Kurt Ondash hauling in seven for 118 yards.
The Big Red stretched its lead to 15-7 behind Silas Nacita's 24-yard run, his lone attempt of the game, and held Bucknell (1-3) to just a field goal in the second half.
Current winning streaks in Division I football:
1. Harvard - 12
3. North Dakota State - 9
Alabama - 9
South Carolina - 9
6. Oregon - 8
West Virginia - 8
8. Florida State - 7
9. 3 tied with 6
Conference Call
Harvard's 10 game Ivy League winning streak is the second-longest such streak in the nation behind Lehigh's 15-game win streak in the Patriot League.
Harvard Coach Tim Murphy
In his 19th season as Harvard's all-time winningest head coach, Tim Murphy enters Saturday's game with a 123-59 record with the Crimson and a 155-104-1 overall head coaching record, which includes five years at Cincinnati and two years at Maine. Murphy is one of just five coaches to win 100 games since the formation of the Ivy League in 1954. Murphy has led Harvard to six Ivy League championships (1997, 2001, 2004, 2007, 2008, 2011). Murphy serves as president for the American Football Coaches Association this season. He is He is 12-6 all-time against Cornell.
Cornell Coach Kent Austin
Kent Austin, who spent five years in the Canadian Football League and two years as offensive coordinator at the University of Mississippi, was named Cornell's head coach on Jan. 27, 2010. Prior to his time in Oxford, Austin spent 15 seasons in the CFL as a player, assistant coach and head coach, winning Grey Cup titles at each step. In his only season as head coach, Austin directed the Saskatchewan Roughriders to a Grey Cup title in 2007 and earned CFL Coach of the Year honors. Austin was a four-year letter winner at Mississippi, graduating with a bachelor's degree in business administration in 1985. He is 0-2 against Harvard.
Harvard In The National Statistics
Category Rank Number
Rushing Offense 26 200.7
Passing Offense 12 285.3
Passing Efficiency 5 165.9
Total Offense 4 486.0
Scoring Offense 5 41.7
Rushing Defense 2 59.7
Pass Efficiency Defense 42 119.7
Total Defense 31 324.7
Scoring Defense 12 15.7
Net Punting 70 33.6
Kickoff Returns 86 18.4
Punt Returns 85 5.8
Turnover Margin 48 .33
Sacks 1 4.7
Tackles for a Loss 34 6.7
Sacks Allowed 47 1.7
Individuals In The National Statistics
Category Rank Name (stat)
Passes Defended 7 Norman Hayes (5)
Rushing 8 Treavor Scales (130.3)
Pass Efficiency 3 Colton Chapple (171.2)
Total Offense 9 Colton Chapple (298.3)
Punting 11 Jacob Dombrowski (43.4)
Scoring 2 Treavor Scales (12.0)
All-Purpose Yards 13 Treavor Scales (157.7)
Sacks 1 Zach Hodges (1.3)
5 John Lyon (1.0)
Tackles for a Loss 2 Zach Hodges (2.0)


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The DVD with LXF174 had a Linux Mint 15 Mega Mix compilation with three desktops and Unity. I installed it on a spare partition of my hard disk and have tried all desktops. I like KDE the best and have installed many extra KDE packages.
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Newsom And Randall Pace Monarchs At C-USA Championships
By ODU Athletics
April 22, 2013
TEXARKANA, Ark. - ODU's Ashton Newsom and Jamison Randall are tied for 27th after two rounds at the Conference USA Men's Golf Championships being held at the Texarkana Country Club.
As a team, the Monarchs are 12th with a 36 hole score of 599. Randall enjoyed ODU's best round with a 71 today, while Newsom fired 76 today.
Behind a stellar round of 65 from Houston sophomore Roman Robledo, the Cougars moved into a tie with first-round leader SMU at the 2013 C-USA Men's Golf Championship.
UCF fell to third place but remains even after two rounds with a 576. UAB was the only other team besides Houston to finish under par for the day and jumped to fourth place from eighth (296-286=582). Marshall took a stroke off its Sunday round and moved into fifth place with a 583.
Robledo's 65 was the lowest round carded (72-65=137) in the five seasons the conference championship has been held in Texarkana. He tallied seven birdies on the day, including the last two holes which he punctuated with a 40-foot put on 18. Robledo becomes only the 15th player in school history to score a 65 or better for the Cougars.
SMU freshman Bryson Dechambeau finished four-under for the second day in a row to take sole possession of the individual leaderboard with a 136. Juniors Curtis Reed of Houston and Grant Milner will enter the final 18 tied for third place with a four-under 140.
The first groups in Tuesday's championship round will tee off at 8 a.m. CDT. UAB, Marshall and sixth-place UTEP will start off of No. 1, and then followed by Houston, SMU and UCF at 8:50 a.m. East Carolina, Rice and affiliate member Old Dominion will start on No. 10 at 8 a.m., while Tulsa, Memphis and Southern Miss will tee off No. 10 beginning at 8:50 a.m. CDT.
The winner of the C-USA Championship receives an automatic berth to the NCAA Regionals.
CONFERENCE USA MEN'S GOLF CHAMPIONSHIPS par 72, 6,935-yard Texarkana Country Club. Team Standings (Day Two) 1t. Houston - 286-280=566 (-10) 1t. SMU - 278-288=566 (-10) 3. UCF - 285-291=576 (E) 4. UAB - 296-286=582 (+6) 5. Marshall - 292-291=583 (+7) 6. UTEP - 289-298=587 (+11) 7. Tulsa - 297-291=588 (+12) 8. Memphis - 291-303=594 (+18) 9t. Southern Miss - 294-302=596 (+20) 9t. East Carolina - 298-298=596 (+20) 11. Rice - 298-300=598 (+22) 12. Old Dominion - 299-300=599 (+23)
OLD DOMINION GOLFERS T27 Ashton Newsom (2) 72 76 148 T27 Jamison Randall (5) 77 71 148 T40 John Dawson (1) 74 76 150 T52 Garth McGee (3) 76 79 155 T57 Seth Sweet (4) 80 77 157


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President and CEO of TIAA-CREF to Deliver Durland Lecture on October 17
The 26th Durland Lecture—Johnson's most prestigious speaking engagement—will be delivered on Thursday, October 17, 2013, by Roger W. Ferguson, Jr., president and CEO of TIAA-CREF
October 15, 2013
The 26th Durland Lecture—Johnson's most prestigious speaking engagement—will be delivered on Thursday, October 17, 2013 by, Roger W. Ferguson, Jr., president and CEO of TIAA-CREF. The lecture takes place in Ives Hall on the Cornell University campus, and is free and open to the public.
TIAA-CREF is a financial services company focusing on addressing the needs of nonprofit employees, delivering personalized financial advice, and managing investment assets. In a talk titled "Rebuilding Trust in the Financial Services Industry: The Way Forward," Ferguson will offer Johnson a unique perspective on the role of financial services today.
Beyond his position at TIAA-CREF, Roger Ferguson is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and a member of the academy's Commission on the Humanities and Social Sciences. He has served on the Board of Directors of International Flavors & Fragrances, Inc., since 2010, has been a member of President Obama's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness since 2011, and also serves on the boards of several nonprofit organizations. Ferguson holds a B.A., an M.A. and a Ph.D. in Economics, and a J.D., all from Harvard University.
The Durland Lecture series was initiated in 1983 by Roy H. Park – late chairman of Park Communications – and a group of donors. Durland series lecturers have included Thomas W. Jones, co-chairman and CEO of Citigroup's SSB Citi Asset Management Group, Abby Joseph Cohen, managing director of Goldman, Sachs & Company, Mark Bertolini, CEO of Aetna, and Lucio A. Noto, chairman and CEO of Mobil Corporation.
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Banana-Chocolate Breakfast Drink Mix Recipe
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- 5 cups nonfat dry milk powder
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- 1/3 cup baking cocoa
- 1/4 cup confectioners' sugar
- 1/4 cup ground flaxseed
- ADDITIONAL INGREDIENT (for each serving):
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- In a large bowl, combine the first six ingredients. Store in an airtight container in a cool, dry place for up to 3 months. Yield: 10 servings (5 cups mix).
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Pac-Man As Pot Head 58
1up.com has a look at the history of drugs in games, from the pellet-popping days of Pac-Man to the industrious sales efforts of the GTA games. From the article: "As games drew a wider audience, not to mention a wider variety of creative talents (some pretty weird stuff reportedly went on at the Atari offices in an evening), they necessarily drew on a wider spectrum of influences and inspirations...some of them chemical in nature. There have been games that were probably made on drugs -- Rez springs to mind, or the Virtual Light Machine -- and even reviewed on drugs, when A.C. Styles dosed the office coffee pot at Die Hard Game Fan."


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Selectmen approved new town policy regarding holiday displays, ensuring baby Jesus a spot in Walpole�s manger in the years to come.
After a resident filed a complaint with the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF), an organization that promotes secularism, the town was notified of a possible violation of separation of church and state. In response, the town drafted policy to legally protect the town, which still allowing holiday displays on town land.
The complaint stemmed from the annual Nativity display on the town common, put on by the Walpole Chamber of Commerce. The unnamed resident alleged the town�s Christian icons were a muddling of church and state.
After investigation by town counsel, Boynton said Supreme Court precedent allows holiday displays of any type as long as the municipality has a policy in place to regulate the religious or non-religious displays.
The new Walpole policy states: "The Walpole Board of Selectmen recognizes and celebrates the diversity of the individuals of the community that Board has been elected to serve. Traditionally, the town has decorated and will continue to decorate the interior and exterior of the town�s buildings and the town�s display areas with symbols that reflect the various seasonal and holiday celebrations of the community."
The policy notes the town will not decorate in a way that advances or inhibits any particular religion, culture or ethnicity.
"I think it would be great to have multiple holiday displays on the common," Selectman chairman Mark Gallivan said.
Going forward, an application and permitting process are required to place any holiday decorations on town property. The application will be considered by Selectmen at a public meeting. The new policy will be in the town�s online policy handbook for residents.
The board approved the new document unanimously.
Selectmen reorganized the board on Monday after town elections last weekend, reappointing Mark Gallivan as the chairman. Nancy Mackenzie kept her clerk spot, and Chris Timson was elected the vice chairman. The board accepted new selectman James Stanton�s resignation from the Zoning Board of Appeals, elevating associate member Mary Jane Coffey to a full ZBA member to take his place.
In other business, the board approved reserve fund transfers for both the police and fire departments, as well as for town legal fees, after unforeseen expenses occurred, officials said.
After stresses in the overtime budget, Police Chief Richard Stillman requested and received $12,000 from the reserve fund, a number that may overshoot his actual needs. The need came after officers were on leave for various periods of time, he said.
Any funds not used will be transferred back to the town as free cash. Selectwoman Nancy Mackenzie abstained from the vote.
The fire department was granted $39,800 to repair a military tank truck and $4,500 for unforeseen vehicle expenses. The tank truck�s engine failed on Memorial Day, leaving the town�s go-to truck for brush and forest fires out of commission. It is the only vehicle that has the water capacity and terrain capability necessary to traverse Walpole�s forest land, Bailey said. A new truck would cost in the hundreds of thousands, he said.
After unexpected truck maintenance, Bailey said the department�s repair fund is running low. Though he does not expect to use the $4,500, he said it is a buffer incase something goes wrong.
Through negotiations to take the Superfund land on South Street into town ownership and court cases over the Moosehill Road 40B, Boynton said the town has incurred $37,000 in unexpected legal fees. He included the holiday display legal costs in the unexpected items. Selectmen transferred $17,500 to cover the unbudgeted fees, the rest of which Boynton said will be paid for using efficiencies in other areas of the budget.
Boynton said there is more than $140,000 left in the town�s reserve fund.
Selectmen approved Cook and Company to perform a review of the town�s health insurance at a cost of $9,800. The money will come from the town�s insurance budget.
Policy set to allow continued holiday decorations in Walpole
Selectmen approved new town policy regarding holiday displays, ensuring baby Jesus a spot in Walpole�s manger in the years to come.


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At last, open office 1.9.104 can open Access MDBs, at least the Win version does.
Has anyone also managed to do this in the Linux version?
The two versions appear to be different in this respect.
I spent a whole day trawling through openoffice.org looking for a reference to this.


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When the two drugstore pregnancy tests came back positive, I took a picture with my phone, emailed my husband, then had a mild panic attack. My first daughter was now one and a half, and my body finally belonged to me. I was exercising regularly, eating well, beginning to sleep consistently, starting a new writing project, and feeling like I could have it all. I was in love with the little family I had created and had a great set of supportive friends. Did I really want to go through it all again?
It wasn't just the dread of night feedings, colicky babies, and sore nipples that made me nervous. I worried that my firstborn had taken all of me. My first was a demanding baby, who turned into a demanding toddler. But I cherished the little screamer with every muscle in my body. What little she left of me I gave to my husband. There was no more to spare.
But perhaps all these fears were just my hormones acting up. When my first trimester ills finally improved, I thought that my attitude would as well. Unfortunately, without morning sickness to blame, it became obvious that I was coping with more than the average pregnant mama; I was slipping back into a cycle of depression that I'd dealt with for the past 18 years. This time it was not only affecting me, but my husband, my daughter, and my unborn babe.
Depression is horrible, but suffering from depression while pregnant is absolutely brutal. According to the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, somewhere between 14 – 23 percent of women wrestle with antepartum depression. In some ways, this depression can be more difficult to manage than postpartum depression, as many OB/GYNs are uncomfortable with pregnant women taking antidepressants.
In general, SSRIs (Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors/antidepressants) are considered relatively safe – but not optimal – during pregnancy, a time in which all medication taken crosses the placenta and reaches the baby. Since most antidepressants are new to the market, little research has been conducted to examine the effects on a developing fetus. However, some of these medications have been linked to fetal heart problems, low birth weight, and colic. These were my reasons for discontinuing Prozac the day I discovered that I was pregnant with my second child.
Over the next few months, I fell deeper into my depression, barely being able to care for my toddler, let alone myself and the baby inside of me. Days would pass where I forgot to eat a proper meal, and nights would pass without more than three hours of sleep. I felt as though my mind and body were betraying me.
Each morning I would drag my sorry self out of bed, dreading the tasks that lay before me. Although I still felt great affection and love for my daughter, I was losing this love for myself. Unlike my first pregnancy, I couldn't bond with the fetus. It felt less like a baby than a parasite sucking the life and joy from my body. I did my best to hide these emotions from friends and family. Instead of admitting the depression, I blamed the insomnia and joked to friends about swollen ankles and the inability to sleep on my back.
And then the day came when I couldn't function any longer. After months of insomnia, I mentally collapsed. As I was driving my toddler to her gymnastics class, I began to cry, and I couldn't stop. Instead of turning right at the stoplight, I veered left and drove my car to a friend's house. There, I spent the morning sobbing on her couch as our children watched Dora and ate Cheddar Bunnies. That afternoon, my mom came for the long weekend, and I continued my breakdown.
With the support of my doctors and my family, I checked myself into the hospital for observation. While I wasn't necessarily suicidal, my will to live was diminishing quickly. All doctors were in agreement that what was best for me and the baby was to go back on my medication (Prozac for depression and Ativan for anxiety and as a sleep aide). It appeared that the intense hormones that accompany pregnancy, along with my decision to suddenly stop my Prozac, and the demands of mothering a toddler, created a perfect storm for my depression to escalate. While I was trying to blame the insomnia for driving me nutty, the depression was actually causing the sleepless nights.
Once the medication began working and my sleep returned to a semi-normal state, my general mood greatly improved. Soon after came the day where I was actually excited to wake-up and be with my family and friends. I began to love my life again and found that I had plenty of love to give to the new baby. When my second daughter was born, my anxiety disappeared and my heart swelled with each of her gas-induced smiles.
However, life back on the medication came with some new anxieties. Was it right of me to put my own needs before that of the baby's? Was I selfish for wanting to bear children at all? Would my girls receive my anxious and depressed genes? But these new worries in my head were not nearly as loud as the old ones – that I didn't have the ability to love and care for my family, that I wasn't capable of being their mother. As the weeks passed, it became clear to me that I had the ability to be a wonderful mother. Taking medication, in fact, was the opposite of bad parenting.
Today, I am still faithfully taking my Prozac each morning. I now know that I will never again take myself off my medication. In my twenties, I felt shame and remorse that I needed a little happy pill each morning to stay balanced. Now, I have new reasons that remind me to swallow that capsule; I take my medication for my family, so that I can be present, positive, and able to be the best parent I can. Taking antidepressants is not my choice, it is my responsibility.
In the end, it is difficult to say that the medication adversely affected my daughters. While they are both headstrong drama queens, they are also inquisitive, empathetic, and intelligent. Who knows, maybe they would have been neurosurgeons had I not taken my little green pills each morning. In any case, I am fine with raising general practitioners. My children are being raised by a happy and healthy mom who they know loves them unconditionally, and to me, that is more important than any adverse side effects to Prozac.


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Friday, May 11, 2012
DETERMINED TO SUCCEED: From left, Merdones speaks at Boston City Hall while Massachusetts Secretary of Education Paul Reville, Slavin and Johnson look on. Photo courtesy of Lightchaser Photography.
When Zazil Merdones of West Roxbury heads to Fitchburg State University to study nursing this fall, she will have a $5,000 annual scholarship from the MGH and a college coach to help her succeed academically and graduate. Merdones is an MGH Bicentennial Scholar, one of 26 students in the graduating class of 2012 from Boston, Chelsea and Revere who are receiving mentorship and academic and financial support from the MGH as they pursue their college dreams. With a new $10 million gift from Partners HealthCare and its founding hospitals, the MGH and BWH, hundreds of additional students involved in both institutions' youth achievement programs will benefit in the years ahead.
The gift was announced May 3 at Boston City Hall by Gary L. Gottlieb, MD, MBA, president and CEO of Partners HealthCare, and is in part inspired by the MGH Bicentennial Scholars program, which was created by the MGH in 2011 as a gift to the community in honor of its bicentennial. Merdones and MGH President Peter L. Slavin, MD, were among those who addressed guests gathered for the May 3 announcement, including Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino and Boston Public Schools Superintendent Carol Johnson, PhD.
"Since we created this program, we have been asking ourselves how we could offer it to additional classes of students," said Slavin. "I am so pleased to say today that the funds from the Partners scholarship program will allow us to establish additional cohorts totaling 145 students, who, like Zazil, will receive this support, extending our program over the next 10 years. We are extremely grateful for this opportunity."
Merdones spoke about her journey from being an indifferent middle school student to a motivated high school senior determined to attend college. As MGH Bicentennial Scholars, Merdones and the other students have received comprehensive support for the past two years including SAT prep, college tours, mentoring, financial aid counseling and employment opportunities. All 26 Bicentennial Scholars were accepted to college. Read more articles from the 5/11/12 Hotline issue.
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José Manuel Durão Barroso
President of the European Commission
Speech by President Barroso to the EP Conference of Presidents on the outcome of the European Council meeting of 13-14 December 2012
European Parliament Open Conference of Presidents/Brussels
17 December 2012
President of the European Parliament,
President of the European Council,
Honourable members,
When I addressed you last week in Strasbourg I said that this is no time for complacency and this European Council was the occasion to take the decisions needed on the path towards a deep economic and monetary union, and to set out the actions that will need to be progressively delivered in the weeks, months and years to come.
Measured against these objectives, last week saw progress.
The breakthrough on the single supervisory mechanism for banks set the right note for the European Council meeting discussions on banking union.
The proposals on the Single Supervisory mechanism adopted by the Commission on 12th September made it possible for the unanimous position by the Council on 12th December, only three months later. The Parliament with its two rapporteurs Mrs Thyssen and Mr Giegold has worked just as quickly, which means that the trilogue discussions towards final adoption can begin this week.
This shows that in full respect for our unique institutional structure, the Union can move forward on the right policy at the right time, if there is political will.
The single supervisory mechanism is an indispensable foundation stone of the banking union. It is the necessary complement to the single currency, but is being delivered in a way which is open to all and is agreed by the 27 Member States within the Treaty framework. It shows that there is no necessary contradiction between deepening the EMU while maintaining the integrity of the single market and the European Union as a whole.
It also brings closer the possibility of direct recapitalisation of banks by the ESM. The European Council reaffirmed that it is imperative to break the vicious circle between banks and sovereigns. It agreed that further to the June 2012 euro area Summit statement and the October 2012 European Council conclusions, an operational framework should be agreed as soon as possible in the first semester of 2013, so that when an effective single supervisory mechanism is established, the European Stability Mechanism will, following a regular decision, have the possibility to recapitalise banks directly.
It is now important to secure the rapid conclusion of negotiations on the bank capital rules and the harmonisation of national bank resolution and deposit guarantee schemes. These proposals are at the core of the single rule book for banking – the common substantive rules that the single supervisory mechanism as well as national supervisors will apply.
I urge all actors to work for agreement on these proposals as soon as possible.
I have announced to the European Council that the Commission will then come forward with a proposal for a single resolution mechanism for banks. The Heads of State and Government agreed that this proposal "would be to be examined by the co-legislators as a matter of priority with the intention of adopting it during the current parliamentary cycle".
This is the logical next step – and it is a particularly important step on the road to creating a more sustainable and fairer banking system: a single resolution mechanism will make the banking system more resilient and at the same time protect taxpayers better from the consequences of banks in difficulty.
Banking union is very important as one building block of a stronger and deeper EMU. The European Council held a very open discussion on the overall future of the EMU, based on two contributions: the report of the President of the European Council in collaboration with the Presidents of the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the Eurogroup; and the Commission's Blueprint, which set out a vision for the medium and long term to put in place all the instruments and structures needed to ensure EMU is fit for the challenges to come. The two documents are complementary and set a rich agenda with a high level of ambition.
The issues at stake in the fields of fiscal union, of economic policy coordination and of commensurate political union are fundamental. They touch the heart of national policies and politics, indeed the heart of national sovereignty. That is why, as I said to this house last week, I did not expect any immediate decisions on the long term vision. The discussions at the European Council revealed the complexity of the issues at stake. The sense of urgency is not the same in all capitals and more work is needed to create a consensus and a way forward.
This being said, the European Council identified the adoption of the "two pack" as the immediate priority and noted the Commission's intention to come up with a proposal for the ex-ante coordination of major economic reforms in the context of the European Semester.
The Commission's suggestion of a Convergence and Competitiveness Instrument was the subject of much interest, questions and lively discussion among leaders, just as it was in the last week's plenary debate in the European Parliament. President Van Rompuy and I were asked to present possible measures and a time-bound roadmap to the June European Council on the feasibility and modalities of these contracts and a solidarity mechanism to support them.
As I said last week, at the core of the design of our idea is the principle that discipline must be coupled with solidarity. And that new instruments like such an instrument must fit within the EU treaty and institutional architecture and the EU budgetary architecture.
Our approach is for an improvement of the existing procedures rather than for another layer of economic governance: namely, specific support to specific challenges identified within these procedures. One could call it a "stress mitigator" that should help Member States to tackle particularly demanding reforms or adjusting imbalances. This instrument can be a crucial tool in dealing with the fundamental issue of competitiveness and can be seen as a further contribution to our agenda for growth. They are instruments for competitiveness and growth.
The Commission will be working for solutions which are inclusive, firmly within the Community method and hence subject to the scrutiny of the Parliament. It is our intention to present further ideas after the decision on the next MFF as the basis for an in depth debate and discussion, including with this House.
Overall last Thursday's debate on the EMU was a valuable opportunity to set out a broad common political vision, one which includes many of the elements and sequencing of the Commission's Blueprint and which does not close down any possible avenues for the future. Between the Commission and the European Parliament, I believe we could easily agree on a more ambitious pace. But we should also recognise that momentous developments as proposed in our blueprint will require deeper democratic discussion in our Member States.
I would also like to highlight the fact that the European Council acknowledged the importance of the social dimension of EMU including social dialogue. As you know the European Commission, while focussing the blueprint on the institutional architecture of EMU, has always insisted on the importance of using all elements of EU policies to complement actions at the national level to address fundamental issues of equity and social cohesion in the Union.
The need to ensure democratic legitimacy and accountability while making progress on EMU was acknowledged in the 4 Presidents' report and the blueprint. I am happy that the European Council has clearly stated that "Further integration of policy making and greater pooling of competences must be accompanied by a commensurate involvement of the European Parliament."
Honourable members,
I underlined last week the priority which the Commission is giving to measures to combat the growing social crisis in Europe. The European Council addressed these important issues in the context of the Annual Growth Survey. The European Council agreed with the five priorities presented by the Commission and will further examine the AGS package leading up to the spring European Council in March. The conclusions call on the Council to address the proposals of the Youth Employment Package without delay, in particular with a view to adopting the Commission's proposal for a recommendation on a Youth Guarantee at an early date in 2013. This is very welcome. If we are to deliver a job-rich recovery and if we really what to combat social exclusion, we have to start by ensuring that no young person is out of education, training, apprenticeships or better still, work, for more than four months.
A job-rich recovery also requires us to make the best of all our assets, and the first of those is the Single Market. The co-legislators now need to conclude the remaining SMA I files as a matter of urgency. The Commission has urged this for some time and I would like to ask this House to do all it can to ensure that the remaining seven priority measures are adopted and can be implemented as soon as possible.
Concerning the SMA II, all legislative proposals will be presented by the Commission by March 2013 with a view to their adoption during the current parliamentary cycle. We will set the bar high, and will be ready to make the case for change even in sensitive areas such as the opening of network industries.
But I am encouraged that there was, at Heads of State or Government level, a real commitment to deepen the Single Market and to extending smart regulation. Now we need to turn this political will into concrete progress. I am glad to say that based on Commission proposals we have finally an agreement on the Single European Patent. After 30 years it was time to have this adopted.
Honourable Members,
There was also in the European Council an important discussion on foreign policy and defence matters. I will not repeat what the President of the European Council said, but let me just conclude by saying that I believe this summit was one of work and application rather than headlines and arguments. The intensive discussion on future of the EMU should help foster national ownership. This is critically important. All options remain open on the path towards deeper EMU and the Commission will keep driving the process with a sense of ambition. This ambition coupled with the decisions taken on the next tangible steps forward, and some of these decisions were taken, namely the important decision of the SSM, and also the agreement on the next disbursement to Greece, show that we are tackling the crisis, here and now, and we also have a long term vision.
I am confident that with the necessary hard work and sense of urgency Europe can overcome its current difficulties. The Commission stands ready to deliver the proposals we have announced and we are prepared to hit the ground running in 2013. Clearly the first priority will be to reach agreement as quickly as possible on a MFF, because we should not forget that our budget is a budget for growth and investment, on an MFF that really delivers, a European budget that is compatible with our agenda for growth.
That is why I would like to conclude by wishing this house a very peaceful, restful and happy Christmas - and a very busy New Year!
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George Osborne has been dealt an embarrassing blow as the Institute for Fiscal Studies predicted that he will be forced to borrow more this year than last - only months after the Chancellor insisted he would not.
In its Green Budget, a deep assessment of the public finances, the IFS predicted that there was a "greater than 50:50 chance that borrowing will be higher this year in cash terms than last year".
At the Autumn Statement last year, the Office for Budget Responsibility predicted that the deficit this year would drop from £121.4bn to £120.3bn - something which was seen as a major political coup for the Chancellor over Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls.
In a further sign of the scale of austerity baked into Mr Osborne's plans, the IFS also said that under his current spending scheme, "unprotected" Whitehall departments - namely all but the NHS, schools and International aid - would have their budgets cut by a third between 2010/11 and 2017/18.
It also predicted that some 1.2 million public sector jobs would be cut - 300,000 more than the official OBR forecast.
It said that departments were tending to cut staff rather than wages, which helps explain the disparity. It said that cutting pay growth per head from 3% to 2% would save 140,000 general government jobs between now and 2018.
However, the IFS said that, contrary to some reports, Mr Osborne had actually increased borrowing and hence imposed less of an overall squeeze than he had originally planned for in 2010.
It said that by the end of this Parliament in 2014/15 the Chancellor will have borrowed £64bn more than he had planned only two years ago.
Instead, the majority of the spending cuts will be imposed in future years, without being offset by more borrowing.
IFS director Paul Johnson said: "As economic performance and forecasts have worsened the Chancellor has followed a dual strategy. He is allowing borrowing to increase substantially in this parliament - allowing the automatic stabilisers to work - whilst promising another dramatic dose of public spending cuts in the next parliament."
"The effects of concentrating all those cuts on currently unprotected areas of public service spending look hard to contemplate.
"A more likely scenario perhaps is that other choices will be made after the next election.
"Taxes could rise, hitherto protected elements of public spending, like the NHS and pensions, could be hit, or the date at which we reach fiscal balance will be pushed further out.
"If taxes are to rise, or social security spending is to be cut, then a much clearer strategy should be set out. There are important ways in which the tax system could be made more efficient and be reformed to bear more heavily on "the rich", but there are also damaging options. And we do need to recognise that we are already very dependent on a small group for a lot of tax revenue.
"There are legitimate concerns about corporate tax avoidance. But over long periods revenues have held up well, and within the current structure defining and tackling avoidance effectively is difficult."
A Treasury spokesman said: "As the Institute for Fiscal Studies shows, the Government continues to tackle the deficit in a way that ensures those with the broadest shoulders bear the heaviest burden.
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British journalist Jon Ronson immersed himself in the world of mental health diagnosis and criminal profiling to understand what makes some people psychopaths -- dangerous predators who lack the behavioral controls and tender feelings the rest of us take for granted. Among the things he learned while researching his new book, "The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry": the incidence of psychopathy among CEOs is about 4 percent, four times what it is in the population at large. I spoke with him recently about what that means and its implications for the business world and wider society.
Are we really to understand that there's some connection between what makes people psychopaths and what makes them CEO material?
At first I was really skeptical because it seemed like an easy thing to say, almost like a conspiracy theorist's type of thing to say. I remember years and years ago a conspiracy theorist telling me the world was ruled by blood-drinking, baby-sacrificing lizards. These psychologists were essentially saying the same thing. Basically, when you get them talking, these people [ie. psychopaths] are different than human beings. They lack the things that make you human: empathy, remorse, loving kindness.
So at first I thought this might just be psychologists feeling full of themselves with their big ideological notions. But then I met Al Dunlap. [That would be "Chainsaw" Al Dunlap, former CEO of Sunbeam and notorious downsizer.] He effortlessly turns the psychopath checklist into "Who Moved My Cheese?" Many items on the checklist he redefines into a manual of how to do well in capitalism.
There was his reputation that he was a man who seemed to enjoy firing people, not to mention the stories from his first marriage -- telling his first wife he wanted to know what human flesh tastes like, not going to his parents' funerals. Then you realize that because of this dysfunctional capitalistic society we live in those things were positives. He was hailed and given high-powered jobs, and the more ruthlessly his administration behaved, the more his share price shot up.
So you can just go down the list of Fortune 500 CEOs and say, "psychopath, psychopath, psychopath..."
Well, no. Dunlap was an exceptional figure, wasn't he? An extreme figure.
I think my book offers really good evidence that the way that capitalism is structured really is a physical manifestation of the brain anomaly known as psychopathy. However, I woudn't say every Fortune 500 chief is a psychopath. That would turn me into an ideologue and I abhor ideologues.
Is it an either/or thing? It seems to me, thinking about it, that a lot of the traits on the checklist would be be useful in a corporate ladder-climbing situation. So maybe there are a lot of CEOs who simply have some psychopathic tendencies.
It is a spectrum, but there's a cutoff point. If you're going by the Hare checklist [the standard inventory used in law enforcement, devised by leading researcher Robert Hare], where the top score is 40, the average anxiety-ridden business failure like me -- although the fact that my book just made the Times best sellers list makes it difficult to call myself that -- would score a 4 or 5. Somebody you have to be wary of would be in early 20s and a really hard core damaged person, a really dangerous psychopath, would score around a 30. In law the cutoff is 29.
There are absolutes in psychopathy and the main absolute is a literal absence of empathy. It's just not there. In higher-scoring psychopaths, what grows in the vacant field where that empathy should be is a joy in manipulating people, a lack of remorse, a lack of guilt. If you've got a little bit of empathy, you're kind of not a psychopath.


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Original URL: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/03/18/avgc_too_expensive_accc_slip/
Has the ACCC tripped up in its ADSL declaration?
Virtual circuits for ADSL are way too expensive: The Register tallies up the numbers
Posted in Policy, 18th March 2013 21:48 GMT
Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) declarations are always news, and with good reason: The ACCC's regulated prices set the floor underneath a host of retail services – mobile, broadband, telephony, business data and so on.
New declarations are always accompanied by lobbying, both in media outlets and in the more formal channels of submissions to ACCC inquiries. Access seekers have an eye to their balance sheets, the ACCC has an eye to avoiding the extraction of monopoly rents, and Telstra wants to protect its margins.
So it was no surprise that when the ACCC announced its new ADSL regulated prices – covering ports and backhaul, with different rates for metro and regional areas – it was no surprise that there was plenty of comment, much of it from access seekers disappointed that the prices were so high.
The short of the pricing announcement is that ADSL ports will cost $AU24.56 in metropolitan areas and $AU29.81 in regional areas, while the circuits that ship data from a retailer's DSLAM back to capital cities (AGVCs – aggregating virtual circuits) cost $AU36.08 per megabit per second, per month.
That second charge, the AGVC, inspired a tipster to suggest an analytical exercise to Vulture South, and the results are … surprising.
You see, AGVCs aren't the only regulated wholesale data service the ACCC has set a price for. There's also a lesser-known service, the Domestic Transmission Capacity Service or DTCS. It's much more flexible than the wholesale AGVC, since it's distance-based, but the ACCC helpfully publishes a price calculator here.
The quick result is easy to state: it's cheaper for access seekers to skip the AVGC service and buy DTCS at its regulated prices as a substitute. But this needs a little more justification.
It's a fairly complex service, involving tail prices at each end of a link, along with transmission prices between the tails, and all based on distance. However, in comparing the AVGC to the DTCS, there's no need for tails, since the service starts and ends in a Telstra exchange. So the only difficult question is that of distance.
For a first pass, The Register assumed the following spread of connections:
- Metro exchanges average 5 Km from the capital – 10 percent of customers
- Metro exchanges average 21 Km from the capital – 50 percent of customers
- Metro exchanges average 30 Km from the capital – 20 percent of customers
- Regional exchanges average 75 Km from the capital – 15 percent of customers
- Regional exchanges average 150 Km from the capital – 5 percent of customers
The outcome of this exercise is that DTCS would be cheaper than the AVGC – quite a lot cheaper, at an average $AU27 per customer.
Hang on, that can't be right can it?
It certainly can. Since there's mapping software handy – Grass-GIS, the powerhouse of open source geographical analysis – since the ADSL-enabled exchange list is published by Telstra, and since exchange locations can be discovered and mapped, the refinement wasn't too difficult.
So, state-by-state, The Register then calculated the distances from ADSL-enabled exchanges to their relevant capital cities, set an arbitrary 30 Km boundary between metro and regional locations, and worked out the average DTCS prices for metro and regional exchanges.
From here, there was only one blind assumption made, that the metro-regional subscriber split is 80:20 – 80 percent in cities, 20 percent in regional areas.
The average DTCS price an access-seeker would pay is well below the ACCC's $36.08 for wholesale ADSL AGVCs: $AU28.87. Even if you take an extreme – and wrong – case that the metro-regional split is 50:50, the DTCS is still the cheaper option at $AU35.50 per megabit per second, per month.
Which suggests that there's been a slip somewhere: either because the ACCC's Chinese walls were too effective, or because someone simply worked in a bit of a bubble and didn't check the AGVC price against existing prices.
Now, the usual question: did The Register ask the ACCC about this? Not yet, because we'll almost certainly get a boilerplate response. Let's see how they respond! ®


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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Technology stocks dropped Thursday, adding to the previous day's losses, as large-cap players such as Facebook Inc., Oracle Corp. and Intel Corp. came under pressure.
Apple Inc. AAPL, +0.23% shares dropped $2.79 to close at $446.06 as hedge-fund giant David Einhorn held a conference call to discuss the company. Einhorn is waging a campaign to press the company to consider issuing special preferred stock. See: Live blog of Einhorn Apple call.
In an interview with AllThingsD, Einhorn said his proposal offers a "win-win" for both Apple and its shareholders. "We have a solution that allows shareholders to see that value and Apple to keep that cash," he added. See: Einhorn on 'win-win' proposal to Apple
Apple's retreat set the tone for a downbeat trading session, which saw the Nasdaq Composite Index COMP, +0.13% drop almost 33 points, or 1%, to close at 3,131.49.
The Morgan Stanley High-Tech Index US:MSH gave up 1.2%, while the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index SOX, +0.88% fell 1.8%.
The tech sector retreat followed Wednesday's broader market selloff sparked by investor concern over the Federal Open Market Committee's January meeting minutes that revealed differences over monetary policy. See: Market Snapshot.
Among large-cap tech names, Oracle ORCL, +1.16% SAP AG SAP, +0.00% Intel INTC, +1.26% Cisco Systems Inc. CSCO, -0.71% and Microsoft Corp. MSFT, +0.05% all closed in the red.
Facebook FB, -0.54% fell more than 4% to end the day at $27.28.
However, Hewlett-Packard HPQ, -0.05% shares rose 2.4% to close at $17.10 ahead of the Palo Alto, Calif.-based company's fiscal first-quarter report. See: H-P seen posting earnings drop.
But shares of VeriFone Systems Inc. PAY, -0.39% were slammed, plummeting almost 43% to close at $18.24 after the company drastically cut its estimates for its fiscal first quarter. Read more about what was driving down VeriFone's shares.
On the upside, Google Inc. GOOG, -0.33% shares rose $3.07 to close at $795.53 The Internet powerhouse's stock hit an all-time high recently, rising above $800 for the first time in its history.
And the stock will probably go higher, Bernstein Research analyst Carlos Kirjner argued in a note, raising the price target to $1,000. "We believe mass adoption of smartphones, tablets and the mobile Web is a large value-creation opportunity for Google," Kirjner wrote.
Groupon Inc. GRPN, -0.64% rose almost 4% on a Piper Jaffray upgrade.
Shares of Home Away Inc. US:AWAY rallied more than 13% after the company posted upbeat results.


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