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Virgin Blue Offer Oversubscribed
The Virgin Blue initial public offering (IPO) has closed more than 10 times oversubscribed. The final price for the offering has been set at $2.25 per share, to be paid by all retail and institutional investors.
Demand from retail and institutional investors in Australia and internationally has been outstanding. The final market capitalisation of Virgin Blue, at the final price of $2.25 per share, is A$2.3 billion.
Brett Godfrey, Chief Executive Officer of Virgin Blue, said he was delighted with the success of the IPO, which left the Company well capitalised to fund its growth over the medium to long term.
"Virgin Blue has achieved outstanding growth since the commencement of operations back in August 2000 and we now have sufficient cash to not only meet our objectives going forward, but also to continue to lead the low cost, low fare airline industry in Australia," Mr Godfrey said.
Sir Richard Branson, President of Virgin Blue, who will continue the strategic mentoring, advisory and promotional role he has done for Virgin Blue to date, said the success of the IPO supported the view that Australian travellers demand a quality airline service at an affordable price.
"Although we have been told by our advisers that demand was over 10 times subscribed at the $2.25 price, we have decided not to price the offering any higher to hopefully allow for a decent aftermarket for the many staff and supporters of Virgin Blue," Sir Richard said.
"Ninety-four per cent of our staff, 250 institutions worldwide and many thousands of our customers have applied for shares."
"The level of retail investor support for Virgin Blue shows that Australians believe in our business model and want to be a part of this company's ongoing success," Sir Richard said.
"With three years of growth already behind us and about 30% of the Australian domestic airline market share, Virgin Blue is a great Australian success story from a global perspective, making it one of Australia's most successful floats of recent times," Sir Richard said.
Allocation Policy
The allocation policy will mean that there is an approximate split of two-third institutional to one-third retail investors.
Applicants under the Retail Offer can confirm their allocations by telephoning the Virgin Blue Share Offer Hotline on 1800 007 848 from 9.00am on Monday 8 December 2003.
The Joint Global Coordinators will advise successful Institutional Applicants of their allocations.
Virgin Blue shares are expected to commence trading on the ASX on Monday 8 December 2003 at 12noon (EST), on a conditional and deferred settlement basis, under the ASX code of 'VBA'.


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I love when a straight guy doesn't object to you sliding a finger in his ass while your sucking his cock.
I love when a straight guy doesn't object to you sliding a finger in his ass while your sucking his cock.
Holy Prostate Exam Batman! That was AMAZING!!
Holy Prostate Exam Batman! That was AMAZING!!
Holy Prostate Exam Batman! That was AMAZING!!
Holy Prostate Exam Batman! That was AMAZING!!
Holy Prostate Exam Batman! That was AMAZING!!
Holy Prostate Exam Batman! That was AMAZING!!
Holy Prostate Exam Batman! That was AMAZING!!
Does anyone else find these video links hot?
Holy Prostate Exam Batman! That was AMAZING!!
Holy Prostate Exam Batman! That was AMAZING!!
Holy Prostate Exam Batman! That was AMAZING!!
I've never seen anybody look so bored.....cheers!
Honey these men are NOT STRAIGHT.Please get rid of the notion that a gay man can seduce a straight man. I do not care how much pussy one man can get,but the moment he lets another man touch him in any sexual way he is no longer straight, but GAY. And no longer into women because women are not into him once he do the deed.They are GAY.
Dusa..use your gay imagination if you must
Holy Prostate Exam Batman! That was AMAZING!!
Holy Prostate Exam Batman! That was AMAZING!!
A lot of those guys in the vids are straight, or at least not open about being bi cur. They don't look at the guy blowing them, they're awkward, they're not talkative, most seem to be looking at what I'm assuming to be straight porn. One or two are clearly more comfortable with things. The guys in the pics, def not straight.
As far as my own experience with straight guys, there's a lot of them out there looking for cock, married ones in particular.
You seem to have an either/or mentality about sexuality. That may be your opinion, but it's only that: an opinion. There are many guys, who, now that the atmosphere - and acceptance - of men being with men is no longer cause for being burned at the stake, allow themselves to be curious about what it would be like.
In psychology, there's a saying: once, coincidence. Twice, maybe. Three times: a definite character trait.
I don't know what city you live in, but I'm from San Francisco. I've known "straight" guys who go into bathhouses to get sucked off by a guy, because, they say, "guys do it better." But that's all they do. COULD they be gay? Sure, they could be gay, but that's about as absolute as saying that a man who was unfaithful once in a marriage will absolutely be unfaithful again. Your argument allows no room for enlightenment or growth. And it does not indicate an open mind, either. Sexuality is not what it was in say, 1960 (when I was around and in my teens). I've seen the world change in ways I couldn't imagine back then (like having a Black president: never, EVER would have occurred to me that in my lifetime that would happen [I thought around 2040 or so, the US would change, mainly due to the minority population being greater in number than the White population]).
Men in the old days wouldn't even allow themselves to be curious about being with a guy. Now, with all the media stuff (John Trovolta's gay, Tom Cruise is gay, GOD is gay), some men just think, "Wow, if those dudes can be with other dudes and still hang with women , maybe I should give it a try. Hey, I only live once." (and I'm not commenting on whether or not anyone is gay or straight based on what the media says: I KNOW Hollywood, so I don't need the media to tell me what's going on.)
Passing off an opinion as an absolute is what creates stereotypes. As a Black man, I know better than most, esPECIALLY in the United States, what stereotypes lead to: ignorance and hatred. Try expanding your consciousness a bit here. Men are sexual, and many of their wives won't go down on them, and by now, nearly every man has heard, at one time or another, "guys give better head." That in itself is enough to make some of them want to know what it's like to have an orgasm that will blow their mind (no pun intended) and that is frequently enough to push them into trying it out. It's no different than trying out cocaine or smoking grass or drinking. Maybe it's just fun, but maybe it turns into an addiction.Or maybe it leads them to realize, "Fuck, I AM gay." (Which is a good thing, because to come out at 50 or 60 is really, really tough: you're no longer some hot young thing with a wide pool of men to choose from. And you no longer have the chance to sample guys like a smorgasbord. So, you get limited experience and limited insights because you came to the "game" in the bottom of the 9th inning. You missed your life and you're just finding it now.)
I don't see what you see. At All. I see curiosity, fear, interest, desire. That's not enough to make a man gay.
Well said Mc.
This is just a good vid.
Holy Prostate Exam Batman! That was AMAZING!!
And btw, If you know Hollywood like you say you do. What are all the good gossip floating around? Whose secretly gay, and whose not? Whose is really running Hollywood?Do most celebs practice satanism like some of the conspiracy theorist folks,say they do? Who is a secret racist? Is the media out to get black women? I have many more questions,but I think these few questions will do for now.
Medusa et al,
Why is it so important for the labels to read Straight...or Gay?
Have we all become so 'anal' that everything has to be just so
and no room for anything else?
Medusa, if I understand your point of view, you say sexuality
like religion, one is either a believer or an atheist. Agnostics
do not exist. Bi married says the glass is half full/ half empty
depending on the imbibers mood or thirst level at the time.
Mcb espouses an opinion that is closer to my experience and
thus my opinion. Right or wrong we're all entitled to our own
opinion and eligible to modify as experience dictates.
My preference in analogy is: Sexuality = Peppers
Both ends of the chart are total sexuality. Look at the variations.
One end total hetero, one end total homo. So many options here.
{For sake of simplicity, asexuality is not included in this analogy}
Life is a Cornucopia, indulge...share...enjoy
It's like the "one drop rule" when it comes to race, although both cannot compare, but the "one drop rule" is a good example.I hope that helps
But people can help who they fuck.
Here is the last sentence just in case you did not catch it
You're trying so hard.
From what you say:
A gay man can have sex with a woman but he's still gay no matter what.
If a straight man has one gay experience with another man, he is gay for the rest of his life and there is no changing that?
You sound so fucking stupid. Did a husband or boyfriend leave you for a man or something? I've noticed this trend with lots of your posts and it's very irritating.
Let's just say fuck it and change all the rules:
Everyone is either fat or skinny. No in between.
You are either black or white.
Short or tall.
Young or old.
Rich or poor.
You live in a very simple world.
Thank you for sharing your interesting point of view Miss or Mz Medusa.
We are expressly appreciative of your factual and unbiased information.
It is as complete and solid as your profile. You are an inspiration to so
many bi boys and girls that thanks to you can now be fully gay especially
since you simplified the 'facts' and now we know one homosexual
encounter confirms and seals a persons fate. Thank you.
By the way, does one drunken party make one an alcoholic for life.
What about stupid choices or moves? Make one and you are one?
Wow, so much to mull over...Thanks again from all of us.
With deep Affection I bid you adieu...
Sultan and Lefty....I applaud both of your replies! =D:
Duza.... What about the straight guy who might get raped in prison or anyplace and while being anally penetrated gets a hard cock because that can happen like it or not. He may even get a hard cock by forced oral against his will from a man. That guy may never have sex with a man again for the rest of his life. Does that make the guy gay? just saying.
Holy Prostate Exam Batman! That was AMAZING!!
Why do you want to know so damn bad? And I think I answer your question already. I did not bring in rape at all. I simply mention those who willing, let another man touch him.stop trying to live to society's standards, and just be gay.Label yourself GAY, so that way, women will know not to fool with you.

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Yvette Sargent
Yvette Sargent began dancing at the age of eight years; learning ballet with Biddy Pinchard, she continued her training at The Robinson School of Dancing in Streatham where she later joined the teaching staff. During the war she opened her own school in Chesham and subsequently branches in surrounding districts from which she retired in the 1980's.
Other teaching commitments included the College of the RAD where she was responsible for the ISTD National work. She is widely experienced as an adjudicator and served on the committees of the British Federation of Music Festivals and The All England Competitions.
She has been involved with the Joint Examining Board & Assessment panel of the Council for Dance Education & Training. Miss Sargent's interest in introducing the ISTD overseas has occupied much of her time since the early 1970's when tours were unofficial; she has travelled extensively throughout the world examining, teaching, lecturing and directing her energies to its growth and development.
Miss Sargent is a senior examiner of the Imperial Ballet, Modern Theatre and National Faculties. In addition she is a member of the Grand Council, Theatre Faculty, International Development Committee and Imperial Ballet Faculty. In 1991, she was the proud recipient of the Imperial Award.
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"Search Document Records - Lillian Harris Results "
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The Beale Street Sheiks (Stokes & Sane) 1927 -1929
Frank Stokes, vocal, guitar.
Dan Sane, vocal, guitar.
Genres: Memphis Blues, Country Blues, Country Blues Guitar.
Informative booklet notes by Chris Smith.
Includes detailed discography.
It was in 1927 that Frank Stokes and Dan Sane made their first recordings for Paramount, by which time they were one of the tightest guitar duos in blues, with Sanes flat-picked embellishments sliding through Stokes strong but nimble rhythms like fish through the sea.
Original 78 rpm records of the Beale Street Sheiks fall into the extremely rare category, suggesting that their records sold in low quantities, perhaps poorly. Perhaps the duos style sounded a little aged for the record buying public who also had the choice of the merriment and low down, dirty blues of the Memphis Jug Band or the slick slide guitar playing of the young Furry Lewis or the driving blues of the feisty Memphis Minnie. Yet the music of the Sheiks is regarded as a pure delight and a wonderful insight into blues carried forward by two older men who were there at the beginning. Continued...
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DOCD-5512 Female Blues Singers Vol 8 H1 1923 - 1928 Genres: Blues, Classic Blues, Female Blues, Jazz. Informative booklet notes by David Evans Detailed discography. Volume eight of this A to Z of female blues singers presents five singers from the vaudeville style of the Classic Blues era. It is possible that Sister Harris is none other than Estelle Harris, one of the stars of the Savoy Theatre in Memphis between 1910 and 1913 and one of the first black vaudeville singers to become known as a blues specialist. Clara Herring shows that she was a worthy competitor to Bessie Smith and Alma Hendersons strong vocals are inspired by the first class accompaniments provided by Lonnie Johnson on guitar and DeLoise Searcy on piano. Continued...
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RINS offers a unique opportunity for volunteers to become involved as "citizen scientists" in a long-term raptor nest monitoring project. The RINS organization collects and manages vital data regarding the nesting ecology of eagles, falcons, hawks, osprey and owls
Those interested in becoming volunteers do not need previous experience, or science credentials, according to the news release.
"The requirements are that you enjoy Utah's outdoors and a desire to help the magnificent birds of prey," BLM officials said. "It is recommended that you own a pair of binoculars, a GPS unit, and have an e-mail address."
Volunteers must be willing to commit to monitor an assigned area two field days per month from March through July.
For more information visit: www.rins.org or call, 801-554-0807.
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CHICAGO (MarketWatch) -- The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation on Monday said that the UPS Foundation - the charitable arm of the shipping company - has pulled its financial support from the Boys Scouts of America due to the organization's discriminatory policies. UPS told GLAAD that under its new giving guidelines, "organizations that are unable to attest to having a policy or practices that align with the Foundation's non-discrimination policy will no longer be considered eligible for funding." In 2010, UPS UPS, -0.26% gave almost $170,000 to various Boy Scout groups.
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WINNEBAGO COUNTY (WIFR) -- The Illinois State Senate will convene Monday for the final lame duck session before new legislators are sworn in.
One bill the Senate expects to debate would have a huge Stateline impact. The Reclaiming First bill failed earlier this year however, Senator Dave Syverson says he personally plans to spearhead an effort to get the measure passed. It would increase the tax on hotel stays in Winnebago County to 5%. All that money would be put towards the Reclaiming First initiative which includes renovating the Ingersoll building in downtown Rockford and expanding Sportscore One and Two. Those projects are expected to cost $41 million; this is all so Rockford can reclaim the designation as the number one sports destination in the Midwest.
"The people who are coming to Rockford are coming from Indiana, Iowa, Michigan,and Minnesota. These out-of-staters are spending their dollars here and that is a big difference then what people think as local tourism," says Syverson (R)-34th.
All three projects are expected to generate around $6 million in business for the Rockford region each year, pus create 250 full time jobs in the Stateline's tourism industry. Syverson says if this bill can make it through both houses by next Wednesday, and get the governor's approval, construction for the projects can get started as soon as this spring.


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Strawberry Popovers Recipe
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these tender popovers "pop up" nicely in the oven and hold a delicate cream filling dotted with fresh chopped strawberries. If you don't have a popover pan on hand, you might try muffin cups.
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- 1 cup heavy whipping cream
- 1/3 cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 cups chopped fresh strawberries
- 4-1/2 teaspoons shortening
- 4 eggs
- 2 cups 2% milk
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 1 teaspoon salt
- In a large bowl, beat cream until it begins to thicken. Gradually add sugar and vanilla; beat until stiff peaks form. Fold in strawberries. Cover and refrigerate until serving.
- Using 1/2 teaspoon shortening for each cup, grease the bottom and sides of nine popover cups. In a small bowl, beat eggs; beat in milk. Add the flour, sugar and salt; beat until smooth (do not overbeat). Fill prepared cups half full.
- Bake at 450° for 15 minutes. Reduce heat to 350°; bake 15 minutes longer or until very firm.
- Immediately cut a slit in the top of each popover to allow steam to escape. Spoon strawberry filling into popovers. Serve immediately. Yield: 9 servings.
Editor's Note: You may use greased muffin tins instead of popover pans. Fill every other cup two-thirds full with batter to avoid crowding the popovers; fill remaining cups with water. Bake at 450° for 15 minutes and 350° for 10 minutes. Yield: 13 popovers.
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See you next week in Berlin!
Peter Kriens
P.S. As an extra bonus we will host an SE Radio Interview! Shouldn't miss it if I were you!
hello sir i want to know about osgi and newton compliance
is it possible by using newton to have only one JVM at server and client can use it without having jvm on their own machines
Newton is a distributed osgi runtime which runs on top of a standard osgi container, as such it requires a java runtime for each server instance. Newton uses the SCA specification to publish service APIs using a pluggable architecture which would allow you to publish a non java api such as a web service for non java clients to connect to.
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Furcal triples in Garcia. Apparently Valdez fumbled the throw to the plate. 1-0 Cards
Furcal triples in Garcia. Apparently Valdez fumbled the throw to the plate. 1-0 Cards
Reds Fan Since 1971
Not really sure why we aren't guarding the lines more in that situation.
Jay homers. Here we ago again. 3-0 Cards.
Reds Fan Since 1971
stubbs just missed it, would have been a great play
Hugs, smiling, and interactive Twitter accounts, don't mean winning baseball. Until this community understands that we are cursed to relive the madness.
Not sure if we can even score 3 runs at this point.
Just an absolutely pathetic series for the Reds.
FO to LF to mercifully end the inning. 3-0 Cards in the 3rd.
Reds Fan Since 1971
If this continues through April, Dusty may be on his way out of town. Not that this is all his fault, just saying he might not last.
Cueto - the lousy bum! Trade him!
"I can still throw it in the 70s. And I can throw it in the 80s if I don't want to comb my hair for a week." - Bob Feller at age 66 when asked how hard he could throw.
Man, that just kept going. It looked like a pop up. Can't wait to play elsewhere, at least for our pitcher's sake.
"A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it."
Base hit by Stubbs. Here comes the big comeback.
Reds Fan Since 1971
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Refugees, Detention and the United Nations
21 November 2012
Professor Ben Saul outlines his involvement in the case of two refugees in detention that has attracted the attention of the United Nations Human Rights Committee.
According to a report in the Sydney Morning Herald, the United Nations has given Australia a month to show how it will ''ensure'' the mental and physical safety of two refugees, one of whom tried to commit suicide earlier this month.
The man, who tried to hang himself, has been in detention for three years and five months.
He had earlier told authorities he was concerned about the fate of his brother, who has been detained for almost four years, and who is reportedly suffering severe mental illness.
Both men have been given negative ASIO assessments and face being kept in detention indefinitely.
Professor Ben Saul took their case to the United Nations Human Rights Committee in August 2011, along with 36 others.
At the time, Professor Saul urged the UN committee to ask Australia to release the detainees immediately to avoid them suffering ''irreparable [psychological] damage''.
The committee declined.
Professor Saul wrote to the committee again last week in the wake of the man's attempted suicide.
''The [detainees] regret that the United Nations is unable to protect their rights at a time when the State Party [Australia] has proven itself systematically incapable of ensuring their safety,'' Professor Saul wrote.
He said Australia's ''unnecessary infliction of trauma'' upon the group in detention obliged Australia to provide ''effective remedies for such treatment, including appropriate compensation''.
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DAVIS: Cowboys, princesses and ballerinas
On Sunday, a little boy wearing a cowboy hat and boots moved into his dormitory room at college. Despite his young age, there was nothing that made this day more remarkable than any other.
His mother unpacked boxes and made up the twin bed in his room. She stored his clothing in the closet and underwear in the dresser drawers. She made sure the bathroom was safe, his toothbrush handy.
A quick trip to Walmart and the purchase of two lamps ensured her little boy would have a cozy and comfy room to sleep in each night.
She met the roommates and others down the hall. She felt comforted that her son was surrounded by Spiderman, firefighters and Pokemon characters.
The campus was busy with other students moving in. Cars and vans were emptied as princesses and ballerinas carried boxes to their new homes.
The day before moving in, the little boy was a small baby who fell asleep in his Johnny Jump Up while his mother played the piano. The day before that, he was drawing his first breath.
Before she knew it, the time had come to leave her little boy and head home. She told him to get plenty of sleep and eat his meals. He was instructed to call her if he needed anything.
Reluctantly, she hugged her little boy goodbye. Dad patted his son on the back and told him how proud he was of him.
The ride down the elevator was a quiet one, despite the chatter between Malibu Barbie and the Little Mermaid who were on their way to meet their friend, Hello Kitty.
But as she watched from the car while her husband drove away, she saw her little boy rapidly grow to a young man headed out into the world to make his way. She smiled as her baby boy waved goodbye.
She looked around the campus grounds.
She saw the princesses lose their crowns.
Firefighters dropped their helmets and put down their axes.
Ballerinas removed their tutus.
All was right with the world. Natural order had been restored.
But regardless of how old he gets, no matter where his life takes him and how far away he goes, he will always be her little boy wearing a cowboy hat and boots.
And whether he will admit it or not, Dad will miss the little cowboy, too.
In hindsight, this day was more remarkable than any other. It marked a new future for this pair of parents, and all the others on freshman move-in day.


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HEAVY machinery and earth moving equipment dig, lift and roll along the Western Highway, a clear sign of progress on the duplication works between Ballarat and Stawell.
The Ballarat to Burrumbeet section will be finished in a few weeks and VicRoads says the next section up to Beaufort should be complete by mid-2014.
But the works have not been all smooth sailing, with a 2.9km stretch of road east of Beaufort requiring rectification works after a temporary seal laid last June didn't hold.
Forty-seven property owners have also lost part of their land, including four who lost homes.
Director of the Western Highway Project Mick McCarthy said progress was "going very well", while acknowledging some hiccups.
He was particularly pleased with the start that construction company John Holland Group had made after Burrumbeet.
But the 2.9 kilometre section east from Beaufort will need to be resealed after a temporary seal – put on last June in hope of surviving the winter – created a series of small craters in the road's surface.
"That seal didn't hold as well as we would have liked, there were a lot of issues through winter," Mr McCarthy said.
"But since November rectification works have taken place on the Melbourne-bound carriage and next week we'll be doing rectification works on the Beaufort-bound lane."
Mr McCarthy said acquiring land and negotiating compensation for landowners was a challenging and ongoing process, especially for those who lost their homes.
The $505 million project, which is jointly funded by the federal and state governments, involves planning all the way to Stawell but funds have only been provided for construction as far as Buangor, between Beaufort and Ararat.
The funding does not include construction of a bypass around Beaufort or Ararat, or detailed planning to determine a future route.
Pyrenees Shire mayor Cr Michael O'Connor said this was a critical omission.
"What we do have a slight disappointment with is that it still comes through as a single lane leading in and out of Beaufort," he said. "We're working hard to get VicRoads to get a planning permit for a bypass around Beaufort, which would be beneficial long-term.
"If you stand in the main street of Beaufort it's fairly narrow and you've got a high volume of heavy transport going though."
Cr O'Connor said that until a final bypass route was determined it would restrict the council's ability to plan new suburbs and developments.
Western Highway Action Group chair Kevin Erwin said he was pleased with the progress but obtaining funding for the final part of the project was the goal now.
The project is 80 per cent funded by the federal government and 20 per cent by the state.


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nelz wrote:Why do people use car analogies when they just don't fit?
Because it's the only thing they can think of in which they have the same sort of emotional investment?
Personally, I have always been inclined to see a car as a convenient A to B machine, but I understand that most other drivers do not feel the same.


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|Traditional analysis tools - not fancy enough for patent folks?
Given that November in Karlsruhe is very much alike November in the rest of Europe, our readers might find it not very surprising that the Xth senate of the BGH was very much interested in cough syrup the last days.
Cough syrup smells like eucalyptus and citrus fruits ever since this blogger can remember. It is therefore more surprising by far that the EPO has granted a patent in 2004 with a claim 1 reading: "A pharmaceutical composition for administration in the form of hard or soft gelatine capsule comprising eucalyptus oil and orange oil."
Gelomyrtol, a product that smells like eucalyptus and orange oil, was available in the form of capsules long before the filing date of the application. Was its composition available to the public?
Well, a simple-minded ordinary man would say if it smells like eucalyptus and orange oil then it contains eucalyptus oil and orange oil. What else?
The official pharmaceutical description ("Rote Liste") mentions that Gelomyrtol is a plant extract containing inter alia substances called d-Limonen (which makes up 90% of orange oil), a-Pinen and 1,8-Cineol (the main ingredients of eucalyptus oil).
In the nullity proceedings, the patentee argued that despite of the suspicious scent and the revealing chemically pure ingredients, the mix of essential oils could have been synthesized otherwise than by mixing eucalyptus oil and orange oil such that the composition was not directly and unambiguously derivable for the skilled person (in particular by a skilled person with a stuffy nose, I would like to add).
The senate did not follow this argument – but did not rely on their noses either. Actually the judges did not even mention the fragrance but found that the indications in the pharmaceutical description were sufficient for the skilled person to establish a manageable number of hypotheses on the potential composition, one of which could then be confirmed with the available analysis tools. These tools, again, did not include the nose but rather gas chromatography and mass spectroscopy.
The full decision (XZR 120/11 of October 23, 2012 "Gelomyrtol") in German language can be accessed here.


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Robert James Lindsay
Robert James "Bob" Lindsay, 72, of Port Charlotte, Fla., died Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2013, following a long illness.
He was born in Perth Amboy, N.J., and became the son of James and Katherine Lindsay.
Bob married Catherine Weaver on July 5, 1985, in Succasunna, N.J., and relocated to Port Charlotte in 1998 from Powder Springs, Ga. He graduated from the South Plainfield school system in South Plainfield, N.J. He also served in the U.S. Army from 1963 to 1965. Bob worked at First Financial Employee Services in Charlotte County, Fla., and Micropol as Chief Draftsman in Summit, N.J., for over 20 years.
He is survived by his wife, Catherine; two stepdaughters, Cheryl (Robert) Re and Christine Teichert; sister, Linda Redfield; brothers, Peter Lindsay and Jack Kwitowski; and nieces and nephew; and was "PopPop" to Trevor, Kevin, Samantha and Shawn. Bob was preceded in death by his parents; sister, Catherine O'Hara; and stepdaughter, Susan Weaver.
A Celebration of Life Service was held at 11 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 26, 2013, at Davis Hepplewhite Funeral Home in Succasunna. Interment was at Locust Hill Cemetery in Dover, N.J. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made in Bob's name to Tidewell Hospice, 1144 Veronica St., Port Charlotte, FL 33952. Please visit the online tribute for Robert James Lindsay to offer condolences and sign the guest book at www.kays-ponger.com.
Arrangements were by Kays-Ponger & Uselton Funeral Home and Cremation Services Port Charlotte Chapel.
Also a special thanks to Dr. Rodriguez-Martin, Dr. Kaveh and Dr. Ivor Percent of Florida Cancer Center for their special care.


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ROYAL OAK (WWJ) – Do you find yourself a little irritated this week? It's probably the heat.
Beaumont Hospital psychiatrist Dr. William Miles says there's a lot data showing that the heat makes us angry and irritated, crime and suicides go up, but no one really understands why.
"You know, this is not unique to humans. I have dogs and … when my dogs are hot, they wanna be left alone," said Miles, in an interview with WWJ's Sandra McNeil.
"I think one of the reasons that we get more irritable when it gets hot is that we're just not sleeping as well. I know that's certainly true for me, personally. I don't sleep well when it's hot, even with the air conditioner on," he said.
Miles said another theory is that heat stimulates a part of the brain called the hypothalamus, tricking the body.
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excel sorting
This may or may not be included as programing, I found here support to others. So i post it here...
My question...just Excel sorting..
I got a field with numbers...(1 to 10000)
I like to extract numbers ending with 22,35,49,51,67
so how to do it..
My try..
Data>auto sorting> condition..select ending with 22 or ending with 35.( only two rows to selec I try it first)
reslt no matching..
grateful for any help and this is the work of my office...
if it post in a wrong place..sorry..
Jan 13, 2002, 03:16 #2
Do you have to use Excel? If you have access to Perl, PHP, or something like MySQL, you can extract your numbers with a regular expression: just look for a match on (22|35|49|51|67)$
It would probably be easiest with MySQL. You can do it with a single query:
select numberfield from yourtable where numberfield rlike "(22|35|49|51|67)$";


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Ask people's opinions about which artist they like and why. If you see a tattoo you like on someone, don't be afraid to ask where they had it done. Most people will happily share about their ink, and they want more business for their favorite artist!Drink lots of water before. At least that helped for me. No alcohol. Be sure that you have comfortable clothes to wear for about 7-10 days afterward. When I got my first tattoo across my hip, I had to buy some lower than usual jeans so it didn't rub too much. Bring a friend or your SO with you. When the artist lays the design on your skin, make sure that it looks good to both of you, especially if you can't see the design easily.
I made an appointment to get my tattoo on April 3. Excited, but my husband is not all that happy about it, which gives me pause. Hoping he will get used to the idea. I have three weeks to change my mind.Would you still go through with it if your husband was not happy with it? He is not dead set against it, but by no means happy about it.
I may go against the crowd on your last question, but here it is: my ink is for me. I would never let another person's opinion, not even The Hawk's (long term boyfriend) determine whether I was getting a certain tattoo. It is MY body, and I get to decide what goes on it. I realize how this sounds, but each piece that I have on me, I have had planned for years and each has deep meaning for me. If someone else doesn't like it, that is their issue, not mine.
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- Grover Norquist argues that President Obama will change the topic at Tuesday's State of the Union address
- Norquist: Obama will likely talk about his new favorite topic of income inequality
- Norquist: Obama does not want to talk about his record job creation
When President Barack Obama stands in front of Congress Tuesday for the State of the Union Address, he will likely talk about his new focus: "income inequality."
But why, five years into the Obama administration, does the President and his political advisers want to change the topic and focus on this new theme?
Well, probably because Obama does not want to talk about job creation.
In 2009 the President promised that if the American people took on another $800 billion in higher debt and spent that $800 billion through the government, it would "create or save" 3.5 million jobs over the next two years and unemployment -- then 7.3% -- would not go higher than 8% (it ended up peaking at 10%).
After all that spending, the United States had the weakest recovery since World War II. The percentage of Americans of working age who are actually working was 66% when the recession began, stood at 65.8% when Obama was inaugurated and actually fell to 62.8% today. The only reason the unemployment number has appeared to fall from 7.3% since Obama took office to 6.7% now is that 10 million Americans of working age have left the workforce out of frustration at not finding work.
So creating jobs would be a rather unpleasant topic for the President.
And America has just marked the 50-year milestone in the "War on Poverty," announced by President Johnson in 1964. After $15 trillion in government spending, poverty remains as high as when the war was declared. The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have been shorter and less expensive in dollars.
So "income inequality" is a much less unpleasant topic than "why government spending did not create permanent jobs" or "why massive welfare spending didn't fix poverty."
Before Obama promised we could keep our doctors and health care if we wanted -- which he now admits was a fib -- the Democrats promised that government spending would create real jobs and welfare would end poverty. One might have noticed Detroit as a storm petrel or dead canary in the coal mine.
But rather than learn from 50 years and five years of failure, President Obama wants to change the subject.
Governments can reduce income inequality. You simply weaken the middle class and tax or regulate or inflate away the earnings of the highest-paid Americans and, without making any single person or family or community better off, you have reduced income inequality.
The grinding poverty of the Middle Ages had great income equality. Even the kings didn't have indoor plumbing or electricity. No one had life extending health care. Mao's China gave us another prolonged period of great income equality. The frenetic first days of the French Revolution reduced income inequality by lopping off the heads of the aristocracy -- the political bosses of the day.
The minimum wage is a perfect tool for denying the youngest workers and those with limited skills trying to enter the workforce from getting that first job. By killing jobs at the first rungs of the economic ladder, existing businesses cannot grow as rapidly, new workers do not get training and experience to move ahead. So everyone gets hurt and we are more equal in our reduced standard of living. Lose, lose.
Republicans have already countered by insisting that the President cannot hide the failure of Obamacare with distracting speeches.
Some might point out that Envy is one of the deadly sins, not a political program worthy of the American people.
But most importantly the Jack Kemp wing of the modern Republican party has found new leaders in Congressman Paul Ryan and Sens. Rand Paul and Marco Rubio. They have presented programs for getting government out of the way of job creation, upward mobility and general prosperity.
Americans should not let Obama change the topic. He can't distract us from why his party's promises that government spending would create jobs and that welfare would create hard-working, successful Americans and that Obamacare would allow every American to keep the health care he or she once had. Those failures must be discussed, however painful to the politicians who made those failed promises, so that we learn from failure and move to the opposite.
It is past time to make a U-turn on the present path where we have long ago passed the road sign that blared "warning, this way leads to Detroit." We must stop barreling along towards greater disappointments.
The President should not change the topic, he should change direction.


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Shares of chip equipment vendor Lam Research (LRCX) are down 24 cents, or half a percent, at $41.80 in late trading after the company this afternoon reported fiscal Q3 revenue and earnings per share that topped analysts' estimates, but forecast this quarter's results below consensus.
Revenue in the three months ended in March fell almost 19%, year over year, to $658.96 million, yielding EPS of 50 cents, excluding some costs, topping the consensus $643.1 million and 45 cents. Revenue was 13% higher than Q4′s level.
Shipments in Q3 rose 27% from Q4′s 563 million to total $713 million.
Gross margin as a percentage of revenue rose slightly, quarter over quarter, to 40.5% from 40.2%, but was down from the year-earlier 46.2%, the company said, while operating profit margin was also up slightly, at 8.8% versus 8.1% in December, and down from 24% a year earlier.
On a non-GAAP basis, operating margin of 11.% improved from 9.2% in December.
For the current quarter, the company sees revenue in a range of $690 million to $730 million, which, at the midpoint of $710 million, is slightly below the average estimate of $713.6 million. EPS is seen in a range of 62 to 72 cents a share, below the average 70 cents a share. Shipments are expected to be $700 million to $750 million, the company said.
Gross margin is expected to tick up, to 40.5% to 42.5%, the company said, while operating margin will rise to a range of 12.5% to 14.5%.
Lam's CEO Martin Anstice said the company had begun 2012 "on a strong note," and that the company was "moving steadily toward the expected completion of our acquisition of Novellus Systems (NVLS)." The company expects to present its outlook for the combined company when it next reports, in July.
During a conference call with analysts following the results, Anstice said said the company's outlook on fab spending had not changed significantly, remarking, "We still expect spending within a range of $30 to $32 billion in 2012, and based on the plans our customers are communicating to us today, we would look for spending to be relatively balanced between the first and second half of the calendar year with less customer concentration beyond the June quarter."
Anstice added that "demand for leading edge logic capacity continues to strengthen" and companies this year will be adding "between 85,000 and 90,000 new wafer starts per month" of 32- through 28-nanometer capacity," which should produce capacity at the end of the year of 220,00 to 240,000 wafer starts per month, he said.
DRAM bit growth is now cooling off, he said. "Wafer fab equipment [for DRAM] spending will be comprised almost entirely from capacity conversions in 2012," said Anstice.
"Considering this we would expect that bit growth for 2012 is in the lower 30% range versus our prior view of the mid to upper 30% range."
NANDflash memory chip bit growth, on the other hand, is expected to be around 65% this year, he said, though more of that will be capacity conversions than new capacity.
All in all, he said, it adds up to "a relatively stable total wafer fab equipment spending outlook."
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COLUMBIA CITY — The Indiana High School Athletic Association held its girls basketball sectional draw Sunday night. Sectionals will be held Feb. 4-9.Columbia City drew Carroll in the opening round of the Class 4A sectional. The Lady Eagles are currently 7-14, and Carroll has a 9-10 record.In their regular season match up, the Lady Chargers topped Columbia City in a close 59-52 Northeast Hoosier Conference game.The sectional will be held at Snider High School. North Side is the lone team in the bracket that drew the bye, and will play the winner of Northrop and DeKalb. East Noble and Snider will also face off in the first round.Whitko will play at Mississinewa in the Class 3A sectional. The Lady Wildcats drew a bye and will play the winner of Bellmont and Heritage. Eastbrook also got a bye and will play the winner of Mississinewa and Norwell.Bluffton plays host for Churubusco's Class 2A sectional. The Lady Eagles got a free pass in the first round, and will play the winner of Bluffton and South Adams. Eastside also got a bye and will play the winner of Adams Central and Bishop Luers.For a more in-depth look at this story, see the Jan. 28 issue of The Post and Mail. Don't have a subscription? Call (260) 244-5153 or subscribe to our e-edition. For breaking news, sports updates and additional coverage, bookmark the homepage and find us on facebook.


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If these wobbly economic times are scaring you from embarking on a fullblown renovation, hardware could always come to your furniture's rescue. Think of it as the home-décor's equivalent of the fashion world's accessorizing flair: The must-have necklace, scarf or earrings.
"Just changing the hardware alone can be a key part of revitalizing a kitchen, for example," says Wally Wilson of the Lee Valley chain of tool stores. "It simply has a huge impact for minimal cost."
While the pulls or knobs bringing about that impact may not necessarily be as brightly hued as the 1980s-and '90s-style pops of colour on the fashion runways, trending hardware has some creative re-imaginings.
For Bradford Decorative Hardware's Wes Zeller, chrome is being dressed up to strong effect.
"It's great with crystals, for example, and especially in bathrooms - although not so much in kitchens, where you are more likely to have dirty hands," explains the principal of the store that's in its third year in Vancouver's design-centric Armoury District.
"We're a city keen on using different materials here - we're more experimental," notes Zeller, adding that stone and leather are other upcoming trends.
Companies are indeed reviving this long tradition of saddlery for the modern age. Don't think it's resigned to the sitting room or bedroom, either. Manufacturers have started to protect the leather to prevent moisture damage, says Michael Bull, president of Cantu Bathrooms in Vancouver: "When people decided they want to use them in the kitchen, they adapted them to provide solutions," says the 25-year veteran of the industry. "I don't think I ever expected to see leather handles in kitchens, but with technology, much more is possible."
Another customer-driven change involves the stitchery on the leather pulls: "When they first came out, they were hiding the stitchery," Bull adds. "But now it's very much part of the design because it's so clever and modern."
It's all part of a strong European influence (companies such as Italy's Valli & Valli and the U.K.'s Turnstyle Designs), as well as the U.S. lines Hamilton Sinkler (New York) and Schaub (Michigan) and Brazil's Metalsinos.
While there are arts and crafts-style designs, today's hardware is, overall, much less ornate than in the past. "Filigree or over-the-top designs still exist in pulls and handles, but they are not so popular nowadays," says Bull. "Generally, we are a modern city for design and style now, whereas you find more of those ornate designs in America, which is a lot more traditional apart from a few pockets."
Or, as Wilson, the Ontario-based marketing coordinator, suggests, it's part of people's desire "to push the envelope in modern design today, whereas they wouldn't have in years gone by."
These pure, smoother lines "are more reflective of our West Coast lifestyle," Bull continues. In his opinion, the No. 1 choice is still metal (brass, stainless steel and bronze) and in finishes such as chrome, brushed nickel or brushed stainless steel.
There's a strong return to the bronze age, but with modern twists. "Bronze has traditionally been quite rustic and was always solid, which is very heavy," says Zeller, who goes to trade shows such as the Kitchen + Bath Industry Show in the U.S., and others in Germany. "Now it's being used in modern, straight lines and it will be on top of zinc or brass, which helps to lower the cost."
Technology has caught up in other parts of the hardware department. Bronze today has a finished coating, which is designed not to tarnish, Bull explains.
"It will outlive the people living in the house, basically. While it is a more classical-looking style and evocative of an older time, they are still clean and simple designs." (Looking into the future, he adds that prototyping is enabling people to even custom-make their own designs, and he envisages a time when our front doors will be electronically controlled, reducing the need for handles altogether.)
He is also seeing many of the sharper edges on hardware pieces easing off. "It's developing very organically, evolving from square shapes, but with rounded corners rather than square edges," comments the owner of Cantu, which started in 1978 and recently moved to larger premises on Ontario Street from its longtime base on Kingsway.
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CHICAGO – The Women's Bar Association of Illinois will host its 99th annual Judicial Reception from 5 to 7 p.m. March 6 at Hotel Allegro, Chicago.
The WBAI will present the WBAI's Mary Heftel Hooton Award to Judge Susan E. Cox of the U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois, and Justice Jesse Reyes of the Illinois Appellate Court, First District.
Each year, the WBAI recognizes a select number of distinguished jurists who share in the WBAI's commitment to promoting the success of women attorneys and advocacy for women's interests.
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Manchester United transfer target Robert Lewandowski says he will decide on his future at the end of the season.
The Borussia Dortmund forward has also been linked with a move to Bayern Munich.
Staying with summer transfer news, Chelsea target Paulinho will also be on the move at the end of the season according to his agent.
The Brazilian had offers from England, Spain and Italy in January, but opted to stay with Corinthians.
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What they paid for Ellerbe and Wheeler was a joke, throw in Wallace's attitude and the one year rentals and the wheels could easily come off just like it did with the "dream team" Eagles.
Your right pats probably stay put. As for the Bills if your prepared to roll with Kevin Kolb as your starter your leaving yourself open to fail, not a starter in this league in my opinion.
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2011 Call for Ratemaking Papers - Proposals due Friday June 26
06/25/2009 —
The Casualty Actuarial Society is again pleased to extend a call for papers on ratemaking topics. This call is under our new two-year cycle and demonstrates our efforts to improve the process for submitting and reviewing papers, giving authors sufficient time to explore topics, and submit high-quality research.
Ratemaking is a major area of expertise for casualty actuaries; it is important that we foster and publish timely, relevant, and high-quality research. The Ratemaking Call Paper Program is offered to further these goals and to provide additional material for basic and continuing education purposes. Papers will be reviewed for acceptance based on:
- Originality of ideas
- Understandability of concepts
- Contribution to the ratemaking literature
- Thoroughness of ideas expressed
- Timeliness and relevance of research
Both CAS members and non-members are invited to submit proposals for papers. The CAS Committee on Ratemaking will determine which papers are published in the CAS Forum. The Committee reserves the right to not publish a submission. Authors of some of the published papers may be asked to present at the 2011 CAS Ratemaking and Product Management Seminar. The Committee may also consider awarding a prize if one or more of the papers are considered by the Committee to be outstanding. A prize fund of $2,500 is available for those papers nominated by the Committee.
All papers on ratemaking topics are welcome and authors are asked to look to the considerations listed in the CAS Statement of Principles Regarding Property and Casualty Ratemaking. Suggested topics based on current events and topics that deserve new or continued research are listed below.
- Price Optimization:
- Going beyond loss costs
- Lifetime value of the customer
- Customer elasticity modeling
- Regulatory considerations
- Catastrophe Ratemaking
- Evaluating Catastrophe models and their output
- Profit Margins in Catastrophe Ratemaking
- Catastrophe Loadings by Class/Territory
- Predictive Modeling
- GLMs and other distribution-based methods
- Non-distribution-based structured methods (quantile regression and general iteration models)
- Dealing with Credibility concerns
- Non-structured methods (neural networks, trees, machine learning)
- Handling high dimensional variables
- General Ratemaking Topics
- Usage-based rating theory for Auto Insurance
- Competitive analysis / rate monitoring
- Fitting distributions
- Using data mining and modeling methods for loss trends
- Revisiting exposure bases for Med Mal Insurance
- External data sources
- Estimating Trend
- Enterprise Risk Management
- How much is a rating worth?
- Impacts on Ratemaking due to capital impairment
- Using economic capital models to derive profit targets and investment yields
- Concentration issues
- Specialty Products
- Federal and State Insurance Programs – FDIC, Flood, Earthquake
- Impact of coverage changes on pricing
- Director's & Officer's, Fiduciary Liability, Errors and Omissions
- Reinsurance Pricing
- Impact of Change in International Accounting Standards on Ratemaking
Call Paper Timetable
Timely submission of the discussion papers is critical. The procedures and timetable enumerated below apply.
- Deadline for Proposals
By June 26, 2009, authors must submit proposals for their papers including the suggested title, a short description of the topic(s) to be addressed, the approach that will be taken, and a survey of existing actuarial literature on the subject (title and abstract of a maximum of the five most relevant papers). Authors should review the criteria for acceptance shown above, and the format of papers shown below. Proposals should be submitted electronically, including contact information, via e-mail to Casualty Actuarial Society at firstname.lastname@example.com. Please put "2011 Ratemaking Call Paper Proposal" in the subject line of the e-mail message
- Acceptance of Proposals
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When among friends, you're far more likely to air your dirty secrets.
A corporate conference held in Houston, Texas, on October 31 to November 1, 2011, titled "Giving Communications Professionals At Unconventional Oil & Gas Companies The Tools To Design A Comprehensive Media & Stakeholder Relations Strategy For Engaging The Public On A Positive Image For The Industry" provides perfect evidence of this.
The goal at the conference was a simple one: communications professionals in the natural gas industry sharing with one another the optimal communications strategies and tools to fight back against media and community opposition to what is inherently a toxic product, natural gas.
Natural gas, obtained through the hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking" process, was brought into the limelight by the Academy Award-nominated documentary film "Gasland," directed by Josh Fox.
On November 8, 2011, thanks to a smoking gun tip from Sharon Wilson, renowned anti-fracking activist and author of TexasSharon.com, CNBC investigative journalist Eamon Javers broke a story with huge implications. Wilson paid to attend the conference and recorded all sessions on an audio recorder and then handed them off to Javers, who broke the story live on national cable television.
Javers revealed that Matt Pitzarella, head of the public relations team at the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based natural gas corporation, Range Resources, openly admitted that his corporation utilizes psychological warfare (psyops) military veterans as community relations professionals, hired to apply the skills gained on the periphery for work to be done here at home.
"We have several former PSYOPs folks that work for us at Range because they're very comfortable dealing with localized issues and local governments," said Pitzarella at the conference.
He continued, "Really all they do is spend most of their time helping folks develop local ordinances and things like that. But very much having that understanding of PSYOPs in the Army and in the Middle East has applied very helpfully here for us in Pennsylvania."
Expanding on the comments made by Pitzarella, DeSmogBlog Executive Director Brendan DeMelle explained further, "Range Resources' Local Government Relations Manager in Pennsylvania is James Cannon, a former Marine and Army Reservist whose unit conducted PSYOPs during Operation Iraqi Freedom ... Range has sent threatening letters to residents of Mount Pleasant, PA, where citizens were concerned about the impacts of natural gas drilling on their community."
At the same conference, Anadarko Petroleum Corporation's Public Relations Chief Matthew Carmichael, a military veteran himself, recommended that all natural gas industry PR professionals read the "Counterinsurgency Field Manual," formerly the official doctrine of the US military.
"Download the US Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Manual because we are dealing with an insurgency. There's a lot of good lessons in there and coming from a military background, I found the insight in that extremely remarkable," remarked Carmichael.
Another presenter at the Houston conference was Aaron Goldwater, CEO of Jurat Software, which describes itself as a company that "ensures effective stakeholder engagement through a comprehensive single source and intuitive software solution. More than just managing data, Jurat facilitates strong relationship building with internal and external stakeholders that results in achieving business objectives."
Goldwater spoke of the importance of data mining and intelligence collection on natural gas company stakeholders, or on those citizens living in communities in which resource extraction will take place.
Goldwater said, "A number of people today have, in my words, have talked about having a battle with stakeholders, a bit of a war with stakeholders. So, if you look at the people who are experts at it, which is the military, the one thing they do is gather intelligence ... The important thing is to get high-quality data because data rules. The military doesn't spend billions of dollars on data-mining for the fun of it. They want to know who knows who."
In many ways, Jurat's corporate model resembles that of the Human Terrain System (HTS) developed by the US Army's Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC). HTS consists of highly trained Human Terrain Teams (HTTs), five-person units that enter communities in Iraq and Afghanistan and collect massive amounts of data that they hand to the CIA with the goal of "mapping the human terrain." HTTs utilize the skills of anthropologists, accompanied by four armed agents while they collect data in the field, data that will eventually be used to pacify, or kill dissidents and "insurgents."
Jacob Kipp, historian at the US Army's Foreign Military Studies Office at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, described HTS, according to anthropologist Roberto Gonzalez, as "'A CORDS for the 21st Century'" - a reference to Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development Support, a Vietnam War-era counterguerrilla initiative. CORDS gave birth to the infamous Phoenix Program, in which South Vietnamese and US agents used intelligence data to help target some 26,000 suspected communists for assassination, including many civilians."
Data collection to equip well-connected corporations in their "war with stakeholders" is without a doubt troubling, but history demonstrates it is rather unsurprising.
The militarization of public and community relations efforts by the natural gas industry can be seen quite clearly through these alarming excerpts from these three presentations. The reason for militarization is quite clear, though uncomfortable to confront.
By its very nature, the gas industry is in the midst of what can most accurately be described as systematic and well-planned "resource colonialism," invading communities and extracting their resources, often even displacing citizens from their homes and taking over their property. Militarization is but a logical progression in a scheme of this sort.
The common denominator are the tools of "empire coming home," and the true nature of both imperial counterinsurgency warfare and the dark underbelly of the history and original purpose of the public relations industry finally coming to light, thanks to these frank comments thought to have been made solely among friends in Houston.
The origins of the proliferation of the public relations industry and mass propaganda is deeply interconnected with the development of psyops tactics. In fact, in many ways, the two are one in the same.
A brief history lesson is in order to put this all into proper and sobering context.
PR, Propaganda and Psyops in the US: A Dark and Intertwined History
The public relations industry has always existed as a means of coercion and, to use the words of scholar Noam Chomsky, to "manufacture consent." Furthermore, the development public relations tactics and psyops tactics share the same origin - World War I.
As the father of modern public relations industry, Edward Bernays, wrote in his seminal book "Propaganda," "The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country ... It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind, who harness old social forces and contrive new ways to bind and guide the world."
Bernays, the nephew of psychologist Sigmund Freud, is perhaps most famous for his public relations work surrounding selling lethal cigarettes to women as "freedom torches" during the era of the flappers, during the "Roaring Twenties."
Among other things, Bernays also served as a major influence on Walter Lippman, author of the 1922 book "Public Opinion" and member of the infamous Committee on Public Information, or Creel Commission, created as a message-force-multiplier to sell American entrance into World War I to the masses, many of whom were not originally sympathetic to the cause.
The Creel Commission is also the progenitor to the modern use of psyops tactics on a mass scale, both at home and abroad.
Writing on the Creel Commission in his book "Science of Coercion: Communication Research and Psychological Warfare 1945-1960," historian Christopher Simpson, explained, "Psychological warfare is not new, of course ... But it was not until World War I that the US government institutionalized and employed psychological warfare in the modern sense ... Persuasive communication ... became central to Lippman's strategy for domestic government and international relations. He saw mass communication ... as a necessary instrument for any managing elite."
Disturbingly, the term "psychological warfare" was first utilized by the Nazis during World War II, wrote Simpson in "Science of Coercion." "The phrase 'psychological warfare' is reported to have first entered English in 1941 as a translated mutation of the Nazi term Weltanschauungskrieg, (literally, worldview warfare), meaning the purportedly scientific application of propaganda, terror and state pressure as a means of securing an ideological victory over one's enemies ... Use of the term quickly became widespread throughout the US intelligence community."
Most importantly, Simpson explained that psyops and by extension, public relations and propaganda campaigns, have always existed on a continuum, with the use of violence always on the table. He wrote that strategic planners saw "[P]eaceful engineering of consent for US aims as desirable when it worked, but the option of using violence to achieve national goals remained essential."
Put another way, psychological warfare campaigns have, since their inception, utilized communication as a form of domination, hence titling his book the "Science of Coercion." When one does not acquiesce to this covert coercion, overt violence is always on the table.
Blowback: Psyops and the Tools of Empire Come Home
Recent examples abound of the tools utilized on the periphery of the American Empire eventually making their way home to its core, above and beyond the gas industry's use of psyops tactics on US citizens.
Historian Alfred McCoy of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, for example, has devoted two entire books to the topic. In his book titled "Policing America's Empire: The United States, the Philippines and the Rise of the Surveillance State," he writes about how the counterinsurgency surveillance techniques developed during the occupation of the Philippines from 1898 to 1913 eventually came home during World War I, including things like the mass collection of biometric data, a program recently expanded by the FBI.
Other recent examples of the tools of surveillance and coercion coming home include the following:
- The expansion of the use of unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, known as robotic killing machines in places such as Afghanistan, Pakistan and Yemen, right here on the home front on the US-Mexico border, in the state of New York and in North Dakota.
- Scholars at the Naval Postgraduate School have been training the Salinas, California, police force in use of counterinsurgency tactics to halt gang violence in the area.
- Rolling Stone investigative journalist Michael Hastings' revelation that the US military employed psyops tactics to convince a group of senators to provide more troops and war funding.
- The 2010 scandal that took place in Pennsylvania, in which its state-level Department of Homeland Security was caught placing anti-fracking activists on terrorist watch lists and outsourcing the spying efforts to an Israel-based private security firm.
The tools of the HTS have also found their way home, as well. Given that the term "human terrain" was first utilized in a report by the House Un-American Activities Committee to explain the "grave threat" the Black Panthers provided for domestic stability, it is not surprising that the HTT has also made its way back home to the core of empire.
In his book "American Counterinsurgency: Human Science and the Human Terrain," which analyzes the HTS, Gonzalez writes, "Imagine a computer program that tells its users which neighborhoods in a distant city - Baghdad, Kabul, or Islamabad - are dangerous ... the program also identifies the names of people who are likely participants in the violence, as well as their addresses, fingerprints, ID photos, relatives, friends and associates. Such a program might appear beyond the realm of possibility, but the Pentagon is spending tens of millions of dollars in [this] quest."
HTS teams collect data on the "human terrain" of the environments in which they are working and feed them to computer databases that can be accessed by all the bureaucracies of the national security state, including the CIA.
The gas industry is also building up similar databases, as has been seen through the Pennsylvania terrorist watch list incident and as was revealed at the conference in Houston by Jurat's Aaron Goldwater. It was Goldwater, after all, who made the case at the conference that the gas industry should emulate the information gather processes of intelligence agencies and the Pentagon.
The CIA, an intricate part of the functionality of HTS, was revealed in August 2011 to be "mapping the human terrain" of New York City, according to The Associated Press (AP):
"The department has dispatched undercover officers, known as 'rakers,' into minority neighborhoods as part of a human mapping program, according to officials directly involved in the program. They've monitored daily life in bookstores, bars, cafes and nightclubs ... The program was modeled in part on how Israeli authorities operate in the West Bank, a former police official said."
The Israeli program the AP is referring to is the Basel Program, which, in a nutshell, serves as a tool of colonization for Israel in the West Bank and Gaza, ruled over by Israel through a massive system of checkpoints, separation walls and roadblocks and, specific to Gaza, a military blockade by land, air and sea.
The program calls for "facial dimensions and hand geometry. Palestinians who are permitted to enter Israel are enrolled into the system and issued a magnetic biometric card. The card holds elaborate information including biometric templates and personal and security data," according to a recent report written by the Coalition of Women for Peace, a leading Israeli feminist peace organization, dedicated to ending the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, Gaza and the Golan Heights, and reaching a just peace in Israel/ Palestine.
It is no exaggeration to say that the tools of empire have made their way back home. To argue otherwise is a delusion.
Implications for the Future
It takes only a bit of imagination to connect the dots among all of these developments and the frightening threat they have on an ever-disappearing American democracy. This is particularly relevant given the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) of 2012, signed by President Barack Obama on New Year's Eve 2011, while the majority of US citizens were out partying.
The American Civil Liberties Union said of the NDAA, "The statute is particularly dangerous because it has no temporal or geographic limitations and can be used by this and future presidents to militarily detain people captured far from any battlefield."
That bill allows the president to use the military on the domestic front to detain any person "who was part of or substantially supported al-Qaeda, the Taliban, or associated forces that are engaged in hostilities against the United States or its coalition partners," explained former CIA analyst turned antiwar activist Ray McGovern.
Who gets to determine "substantial support", who are the "associated forces" and what exactly is "engaging in hostilities"? George Washington University Professor of Law, Jonathan Turley, was right when he called the bill "authoritarian," as President Obama and future presidents, under the NDAA, now have sole authority to determine the answers to these questions.
Say goodbye to democracy in the United States?
Time will tell, but one thing is for certain: it is exceedingly important to put the dirty secret thought only to be shared among friends into this broader, sober context.
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DENVER — Jorge De La Rosa pitched six scoreless innings in a steady rain and Carlos Gonzales hit his seventh homer in the Colorado Rockies' 2-0 win over the Yankees on Tuesday night.
DENVER — Jorge De La Rosa pitched six scoreless innings in a steady rain and Carlos Gonzales hit his seventh homer in the Colorado Rockies' 2-0 win over the Yankees on Tuesday night.
Despite a stellar start from Hiroki Kuroda, the Yankees lost their fifth straight game at Coors Field, dating to an interleague series in 2002. They were swept in a three-game set in 2007 in their last trip to Denver's downtown ballpark.
Gonzalez broke a scoreless tie with two outs in the sixth when he sent a 3-2 pitch from Kuroda into the right field bullpen with a runner on to give Colorado a 2-0 lead. His homer followed a two-out single by Josh Rutledge.
Michael Cuddyer and Todd Helton followed with hard singles to put runners at the corners for rookie Nolan Arenado. Kuroda's wild pitch sent Helton to second but Cuddyer had to hold up when the ball caromed off the backstop and back to catcher Chris Stewart.
Kuroda (4-2) got Arenado to line out to right to end the inning.
In his first loss since April 3 against Boston, Kuroda allowed just two earned runs on seven hits over seven innings. He fell to 1-6 against Colorado in 11 career starts.
De La Rosa (3-3) allowed three hits, walked one and struck out a pair in improving to 3-0 with a 0.98 ERA lifetime against the Yankees.
Beginning a stretch in which they'll play 26 of 40 games on the road, the Yankees didn't bring a lot of pop to the plate. They managed just three singles off De La Rosa. Matt Belisle didn't allow a hit in the seventh, Rex Brothers pitched a 1-2-3 eighth and closer Rafael Betancourt gave up a leadoff infield single to Jayson Nix in the ninth before getting the next three batters — two of them on strikeouts — for his ninth save in as many tries.
The Yankees stranded three runners at third base. Both teams left a runner there in the third inning. Ichiro Suzuki singled and stole two bases but Nix was caught looking at strike three. Jonathan Herrera, starting in place of Troy Tulowitzki (leg), doubled in the bottom half and advanced on a groundout before Rutledge — who singled in his other three at-bats — grounded out to short.
In the fifth, Stewart reached third, but he, too, was stranded, when first baseman Todd Helton scooped the throw from third baseman Arenado to nab Suzuki for the third out.
Rain began falling in the fourth inning and a message on the scoreboard warned "All fans in the upper deck, please leave the seating area, move under cover due to lightning in the area." But the game went on.


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User-generated content (UGC) has changed the face of the entertainment world forever. Nearly every form of media has enjoyed a "break-out" moment when consumer content began to present a serious alternative to professionally-developed content for market and mind share. Break-through companies like Flickr, CD Baby, YouTube and Zynga have led the charge for every form of media entertainment from photos to video to music to video games... all except books.
The explosive growth of e-readers and e-books is a strong endorsement of consumer demand to both publish and consume written work. Historically, writing and publishing a complete book has been a daunting proposition for the average consumer - but today non-professional enthusiasts have the opportunity to participate with others in the creation of new types of stories that build on the contributions and inspiration of many... stories that develop and unfold before their eyes, where they are both creator and consumer at once.
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Psychologist Jennifer Tackett's research honored with an early career award
Dr. Jennifer Tackett's research on self-dysregulation in children has earned her national recognition among her professional peers. She was recently named as the recipient of the 2013 Samuel J. and Anne G. Beck Award from the Society for Personality Assessment. The award is presented annually to recognize outstanding early career research in the field of personality assessment.
"The Society for Personality Assessment is a unique organization, filled with many psychologists who share my two primary backgrounds (identifying as both clinical and personality psychologists)," said Dr. Tackett. "In addition, their focus on assessment and measurement is in line with my own areas of clinical interest and expertise. It is an enormous honor to be recognized by the leading researchers integrating the disciplines of personality and clinical psychology and I look forward to close ties with the organization in the years to come."
The award will be presented to Dr. Tackett during the SPA's annual meeting in San Diego, CA in March 2013.
Dr. Tackett's research examines how a subject's personality can affect the development of psychopathology, as well as the clinical effectiveness of factoring personality into assessments and interventions in applied settings.
"For example, if you are developing a treatment plan for a child with inattention problems, your recommendations for an extremely shy, inattentive child might be different than your recommendations for an incredibly outgoing, inattentive child," said Dr. Tackett. "In this way, attending to the child's personality may result in more effective targeted approaches in our clinical work. Many clinicians probably already incorporate information about personality implicitly, but my work supports the integration of explicit personality assessment and systematic integration into clinical assessment and treatment, even in work with younger populations."
Dr. Tackett is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences. She earned her Ph.D. in Clinical Science and Psychopathology Research at the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities. Prior to coming to UH, she completed her clinical internship at the Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Medical Center and was a tenured member of the faculty at the University of Toronto.
"The Department of Psychology is extremely excited to have added Jennifer Tackett to the faculty this past year," said Dr. David Francis, UH Psychology Department Chairman and Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished Professor. "Jennifer is a rising star in developmental psychopathology, and this award simply underscores what her colleagues in psychology already knew. This award from the Society for Personality Assessment signals that Jennifer is a first-rate scholar with significant international impact that will continue to grow. We could not be more excited to have her among the faculty in the Department of Psychology."
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