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New Zealand shares fell, led by Cavalier, after the carpet maker said charges to restructure its carpets business may wipe out profits this year. SkyCity Entertainment Group gained as debate continues about its deal to build a conference centre in exchange for more slot machines.
The NZX 50 Index fell 8.95 points, or 0.3 per cent, to 3516.23. Within the index, 24 stocks fell, 20 rose and six were unchanged. Turnover was $65.5 million, making it one of the lightest trading days this month.
Cavalier fell 11 per cent to $1.89. The nation's only listed carpet maker said today it may post a full-year loss as it takes steps to restructure its broadloom carpet business, ruling out any dividend payment. The shares fell 11 per cent to a two-month low.
"For every seller there is a buyer so you may see some bargain hunting in the stock - but only for the more patient investor," John Elsom, investment advisor at Craigs Investment Partners.
SkyCity rose 2.1 per cent to $3.90. The casino and hotel company is hoping to close a deal to build a national convention centre in Auckland in exchange for a law change that would allow it to operate more slot machines.
"The stock has gotten a bit of negative publicity - people are thinking they have been getting battered more than expected," Elsom said.
Heartland New Zealand, the building society, fell 5 per cent to 57 cents.
Fletcher Building declined 2.2 per cent to $6.14. The government has wrested control of rebuilding Christchurch from the city council. Fletcher has the contract to oversee the work.
PGG Wrightson, the nation's biggest rural services company, rose 5.3 per cent to 40 cents. That was the biggest gainer on the index and came on the day that the government approved the sale of the Crafar farms to Shanghai Pengxin Group.
Pumpkin Patch climbed 4.8 per cent to $1.10 and Restaurant Brands, the fast-food operator, rose 3.6 per cent to $2.
Contact Energy fell 0.4 per cent to $4.89. Michael Hill International, the jewellery chain, fell 3.7 per cent to $1.05. Telecom slipped about 1 per cent to $2.505.
Infratil fell 0.5 per cent to $1.89 after subsidiary Snapper said Wellington's usage has hit 80 per cent penetration, and it's mulling parking payment options. Snapper cards on issue have climbed by 70,000 to 370,000 since August.
APN News & Media was unchanged at $1.05 on the NZX after the company said chairman Gavin O'Reilly has stepped down from the board as part of an exit from Irish parent Independent News & Media. The ASX-listed shares fell 1.2 per cent to 85 cents.


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If you'd like to buy 18+ rated games on the Wii U's European eShop, you'll have to do it after the sun goes down. When the kids are tucked into bed, and no one can see you sin.
The policy came to light after NeoGAFer Panajef2001a tried to access the Italian store during the day, only to get an error message. When he wrote in to ask, he got the following message back from Nintendo:
Dear customer, we would like to let you know that Nintendo has always aimed to offer gameplay experiences suited to all age groups, observing carefully all the relevant regulations regarding content access that are present in the various European countries.
We have thus decided to restrict the access to content which is unsuitable to minors (PEGI) to the 11 P.M. - 3 A.M. time window
We at Kotaku are all either stateside or across the Pacific, so we can't try this out for ourselves, but Eurogamer gave it a whirl and got a similar error message: "You cannot view this content. The times during which this content can be viewed have been restricted."
So, if you're in Europe, you can't buy mature-rated games (like the outstanding ZombiU) during the day. Even if you don't have kids and are a grown adult capable of making your own purchasing decisions. Very strange.
I've sent off a note to Nintendo asking for clarification on the policy, and will update if I hear back.
NOE (Italy): eShop age restrictions for the greater good [NeoGAF]
Nintendo blocking 18+ rated Wii U eShop content at certain times [Eurogamer]

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Epilogue: Although this larger than life character died 20 years before this writer was born, I have been immersed in his legend all my life as a resident of San Juan County.
I am sad to say, that I got only the Anglo version up until recently. My research indicates that much of it seems to be hearsay and exaggeration.
My view of Chief Posey is now of a man who loved his family, his nation and his birthright. His core values are not unlike those of many of my heros like Washington, Lincoln and Churchhill. He was willing to fight and die for what he believed in.
Where the actual truth lies is a matter of personal conjecture. However, I have come away from this project with a healthy respect for this Indian leader who gave his life that future generations would be able to retain their ancestral lands, maintain their rich culture and eventually assimilate into the larger society of the state of Utah.
The influence of the Ute Tribe has been great in this state which was named after them. Someday they will blend into the larger culture of United States of America, which has been and will be enriched by their history and culture for generations to come.


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technology at the level of atoms, molecules, and molecular fragments, including manipulating them and creating new structures.
nanotechnology(nă″nō-tĕk-nŏl′ŏ-jē) [L. nanus, dwarf, + Gr. technē, art, + logos, word, reason]
The scientific study and engineering of chemical or biological objects measuring between 1 and 1000 nanometers. Objects this small are about the size of atoms or small molecules. "Wet" nanotechnology is the manipulation of organic or biological compounds in solution. "Dry" nanotechnology is the engineering of objects on silicon or carbon surfaces, such as those used in computing.


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Counselor workshop offers talk by pioneer of reality therapy theory Robert Wubbolding
Janel Shoun-Smith |
Local counselors and counseling students are invited to Reality Therapy in Action, a workshop featuring Dr. Robert E. Wubbolding, a leading authority on reality therapy, on Tuesday, Sept. 10, in Lipscomb's Ezell Center.
The day-long workshop, beginning at 8:30 a.m., provides the local counseling community the chance to learn from a pioneer in one of the most frequently-used cognitive behavior theories: reality therapy, intended to help clients examine their harmful behaviors and make smarter choices.
Dr. Robert Wubbolding has over 30 years of experience and is a licensed psychologist and professional clinical counselor. He currently serves as director of the Center for Reality Therapy, professor emeritus at Xavier University in Cincinnati and senior faculty for The William Glasser Institute in Los Angeles.
"Every therapist struggles with how to deal with the resistant client, and this workshop provides some ideas and techniques on how to get clients moving forward," said Jake Morris, chair of Lipscomb's Department of Psychology and Counseling, which is coordinating the workshop. "Avoidance and resistance are very common obstacles in therapy. So the chance to personally hear Wubbolding talk about reality therapy, which he helped develop, is a wonderful opportunity in this career field."
Some of Wubbolding's major contributions to reality therapy are the Cycle of Psychotherapy and Counseling chart and an expansion of the WDEP (wants, doing, evaluation, plans) system's evaluation procedures, as well as published works that include more than 145 journal articles, essays, chapters in textbooks, 11 books, 12 DVDs and the comprehensive book "Reality Therapy for the 21st Century." Additionally, he wrote the American Psychological Association's "Theories of Psychotherapy Series: Reality Therapy (2011)," the first book on reality therapy published by American Psychological Association.
Wubbolding has taught choice theory and reality therapy in the United States, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. He is a member of the American Psychological Association, American Counseling Association and American Mental Health Counseling Association.
At the workshop, behavioral health professionals will learn skills that can be used as brief interventions, combining empathy with the belief that a better life is possible for clients. They will also lean tools for helping clients move from helplessness to more effective control of their lives by gaining a sense of hope and plans for self-improvement.
The information presented in this one-day course will include using multiple teaching and learning techniques such as role play demonstrations of specific cases, group activities and implementation plans.
This workshop is acceptable for six continuing education units in accordance to rules of the Tennessee Board for Licensed Professional Counselors, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists and Licensed Pastoral Therapists, Rule 0450-1-.12 Continuing Education, Section 2.
For more information or to register for the Reality Therapy Workshop, contact Kathi Johnson at email@example.com or 615.966.5237 or log on to www.lipscomb.edu/counseling/Reality-Therapy-Workshop.


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Madonna breakup with beau Jesus Luz, Now Seeking Jon
Madonna [51yrs old] has supposedly taken a shine to a new man, just days after splitting from 23 year-old squeeze Jesus Luz. She's apparently set to ask 24-year-old Spanish model Jon Kortajarena out on a date, after clapping eyes on him at a New York film premiere recently (Daily Star).
The Kabbalah Queen, Madonna [aka Esther / Madge] apparently met JON at the New York,NY film premiere of 'A Single Man'
A Single Man is a 2009 American drama film based on the novel of the same name by Christopher Isherwood. It was directed by fashion designer Tom Ford, who, as a first-time director, had to finance it himself. The film stars Colin Firth as the protagonist George Falconer, a British university professor living in Southern California in 1962. The film places emphasis on the clothes and architecture of the 1960s; the production design is by the same team that designed the TV series Mad Men, which is set in the same era.
The film premiered on September 11, 2009 at the 66th Venice International Film Festival and went on the film festival circuit. After it screened at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival, The Weinstein Company picked it up for distribution in the United States and Germany. An initial limited run in the U.S. was planned for December 2009 to qualify it for the 82nd Academy Awards with a wider release planned for early 2010
Meaning of the name Esther
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, French, Spanish, Dutch, Hebrew (Anglicized), Biblical, Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek
Other Scripts: אֶסְתֵר (Hebrew), Εσθηρ (Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: ES-tər (English, Dutch), es-TER (French)
Possibly means "star" in Persian. Alternatively it could be a derivative of the name of the Near Eastern goddess ISHTAR. The Book of Esther in the Old Testament tells the story of Queen Esther, the Jewish wife of the king of Persia who saved the Jews of the realm from extermination. Her original Hebrew name was Hadassah.
This name has been used in the English-speaking world since the Protestant Reformation. In America it received a boost in popularity after the birth of Esther Cleveland (1893-1980), the daughter of president Grover Cleveland.
Star in Persian, Jews in Persia...
Ancient Persia is modern Iran.
Madonna was born on August 16, 1958.
8.16 is also a date with very strong resonance from many of the syncs as of late.
An interesting semiotic note and Biblical coincidence is the appearance of JON 24...
From the King James Version of THE BIBLE, JOHN 2 : 1-4
"1 And the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee; and the mother of Jesus was there:
2 And both Jesus was called, and his disciples, to the marriage.
3 And when they wanted wine, the mother of Jesus saith unto him, They have no wine.
4 Jesus saith unto her, Woman, what have I to do with thee? mine hour is not yet come.
August 16 is the Feastday of St. Joachim
Saint Joachim ("he whom YHWH has set up", Hebrew: יְהוֹיָקִים Yəhôyāqîm, Greek Ἰωακείμ Iōākeím) was the husband of Saint Anne and the father of Mary, the mother of Jesus, and therefore is ascribed the title of "forebearer of God", in the Roman Catholic, Orthodox, and Anglican traditions. The story of SS. Joachim and Anne appears in the apocryphal Gospel of James.
The canonical Gospel accounts in the New Testament do not explicitly name either of Mary's parents, but some argue that the genealogy in Luke 3 is that of Mary rather than Joseph, thereby naming her father as Eli (Heli). Later traditions, however, specify that this Eli was a first cousin of Mary's father Joachim.
Madonna of the Rocks by LEOnardO da Vinci:
Here's a timely example for my "Intro to the World of Synch" article from this month.
Immediately after publishing the Madonna portion of this article above, I thought I'd check out the latest headlines over at Matt Drudge's Place - drudgereport.com
Sure enough I find this page and these top-level headlines there:
Aside from several others which I won't mention at this time, the main headline from Drudge Report about the Rio de Janeiro heatwave syncs to:
"Madonna met the model Jesus Luz on a photo shoot for 'W Magazine' in Rio de Janeiro"
Immediately after posting the above portion of this article .... I spotted the headline.
(Christopher Knowles pointed out on his blog (The Secret Sun) that in the world of synch, "Timing is Everything!")
Of all the sites on the Internet that I could possibly have visited immediately [first] after publishing the above article, I went to Drudge Report which had a headline related to the information I was just moments before dealing with... That is the perfect example of synchronicity.
Sure enough, also today Feb.11,2010, Drudge Report now features the announcement that Iran (Persia) is a Nuclear State (meaning has enough enriched fissile material for a nuclear weapon).
Those familiar with Mid-East geopolitics should know that such a scenario has been the fear of Israel for quite some time - Iran and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has threatened Israel with annihilation several times in recent years.
Here's the Drudge Report main page:
and Here's the page that the Drudge Report headline links to:
and who makes an appearance on that page (see the purple highlighted area on the right)... Yep! You guessed it... MADONNA (and Jesus Luz and RIO)
Nice GATE too!
- You might also notice our Hulu alien, 30 Rock man, Alec Baldwin [ABe] also pops into that page. (Alec appears with Steve Martian [sic] in my Olympics and Oscars article from earlier this month)
William Shakespeare - "As You Like It" - Act 2, scene 7
"All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages.".
Is it just me, or do these symbols bear some resemblance to one another???:
DC Comics Batman symbol:
Iran Coat of Arms:
(Update 2 @ 4:24 EST)
William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton
(born William Jefferson Blythe III on August 19, 1946)
42nd President of the USA from 1993 to 2001 was today [announced 2.11.2010 @ 4:24 EST] hospitalized at Columbia Presbyterian in New York, NY. (630 W 168th Street) with Chest pains.
Bill Clinton is also the UN Special Envoy to Haiti [Hades]
[Heart trouble for Valentine's Day in BC]
Apparently as a result of the heart trouble the Fmr. President has undergone a double stent insertion procedure to a coronary artery today.
WCBS Story on Bill Clinton's Hospitalization
WCBS story on Alec Baldwin's Hospitaliztion at Lenox Hill Hospital in NY today.
Regular Strange Eye readers will also recognize Lenox Hill Hospital from the Natasha Richardson / Mont Tremblant coverage.
(Update @ 11:42 PM)
Add to the list: designer Alexander McQueen.
Alexander McQueen has apparently hung himself today 2.11.2010.
Alexander McQueen has designed costumes and clothing for Lady Gaga, Rihanna, Madonna, Victoria Beckham, Sandra Bullock and many more.
He also designed a Skull and Maple Leaf scarf for Holt Renfrew's 2010 Olympic clothing line.
looking into an odd "Cocaine / BLOW / SNOW" meme stream that seems tied-in to Valentine's Day, The 2010 Olympics and was embedded in the following TV programs broadcast on 2.11.2010)
- Alec Baldwin's "Overdose" and reports
- Bill Clinton's "Heart Attack" and reports
- Alexander McQueen's "Suicide/Hanging" and reports
- The Mentalist (37/14 - air: 2.11.2010 - "Blood in, Blood Out")
- Supernatural (96/14 - air: 2.11.2010 - "My Bloody Valentine")
- Colbert Report (air: 2.12.2010)
- Bones (90/6 - air: 2.11.2010 *repeat* - "The Tough Man in the Tender Chicken")
- 30 Rock (71/13 - air: 2.11.2010 - "Anna Howard Shaw Day")
- TMZ (air: 2.11.2010)
- Every major Canadian newspaper reporting many recent cases of serious illness, heart attacks and death from use of cocaine tainted with the veterinary drug, Levamisole
- Every major USA Newspaper reporting on the Major USA SNOW Storm.
It's a VERY odd one indeed - and it's flowing in from all angles and angels.
BLOW = Inhale?
BLOW = BeLOW? (more Underworld?)
To illustrate, the following picture was published as it appears below by the Daily Mail (dailymail.co.uk) on 2.11.2010:
Above: Alexander McQueen and Isabella BLOW (2005)
Pic is from DailyMail.co.uk which states:
"Paramedics were called to his flat, in a six-storey redbrick building near Hyde Park, shortly after 10am but McQueen, whose full name was Lee Alexander McQueen, was pronounced dead at the scene.
No suicide note was found."
... read MUCH more about Lee Alexander McQueen's death at DailyMail.co.uk
Britney SPEARS, was photographed by TMZ paparazzi taking a test drive in a black Maserati.
Britney once kissed Madonna during an awards show.
Britney was/is also involvede in Kabbalah with Madonna.
Maserati uses the TRIDENT logo (in Blue and Red on Wikipedia)
The trident is also the WE3M / SHIN / PSI spinner character.
CNN Reports that Bill Clinton, UN Special Envoy to Haiti, wanted everyone to wear Red and Blue this Friday 2.12.2010 in honor of Haiti (HADES)
The following movie "Crane vs. TIGER" by Alexander McQueen (died 2.11.2010) and Nick Knight and PUMA.com is set to be released:
(Previewed at New York Fashion Week which just opened on 2.11.2010 )
C-R-ANE (See Our ANI/Annie?)
Alexander McQueen's Twitter page (from Dailymail.co.uk)
From dailymail.co.uk:
On February 3rd, he wrote: 'I'm letting my followers know my mother passed away yesterday if it she had not me nor would you RIP mumxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx...'
Moments later, he added: 'But life must go on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!'
Then on Sunday, he said: 'Sunday evening been a ****ing awful week but my friends have been great but now i have to some how pull myself together and finish with the HELLS ANGLES & PROLIFIC DEAMONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!'
He appeared to have recovered slightly by this week. His final message, posted on Tuesday, said: 'I'm here with my girl annie tinkerbell wishing kerry the **** happy birthday in NY, your 40 now girl time to slow it down we think.'
UPDATE @ 2.15.2010 - 21:11 pm
Lenox Hill (Lenton OX / Le Nox) Again...
Flier: I was water deboarded
By LEONARD GREENE
Posted: 4:12 AM, February 15, 2010
It wasn't what the doctor ordered.
A Manhattan surgeon said he was booted off a plane at La Guardia Airport yesterday after he asked for water for his pregnant wife when the cabin overheated.
Mitchell Roslin, of Lenox Hill Hospital, said he, his family and about 200 other passengers were stuck on the tarmac for more than two hours after the Spirit Airlines plane experienced engine trouble that made it difficult to ventilate the cabin.
Roslin -- who was traveling to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., with his two kids and seven-months-pregnant wife -- said passengers weren't allowed to leave the plane and were refused water.
It wasn't what the doctor ordered.
A Manhattan surgeon said he was booted off a plane at La Guardia Airport yesterday after he asked for water for his pregnant wife when the cabin overheated.
Mitchell Roslin, of Lenox Hill Hospital, said he, his family and about 200 other passengers were stuck on the tarmac for more than two hours after the Spirit Airlines plane experienced engine trouble that made it difficult to ventilate the cabin.
Roslin -- who was traveling to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., with his two kids and seven-months-pregnant wife -- said passengers weren't allowed to leave the plane and were refused water.
Flight attendants told him that it was "against corporate policy" to give out water before the plane took off and that they did not have "company approval," Roslin said.
When Roslin persisted, he was asked to leave the plane, he said. His wife, their son, 9, and daughter, 11, got off with him.
He blasted the discount airline, saying, "I guess you get what you pay for.
"I refuse to accept that people can't have a moral compass to give out water."
Spirit did not return a call for comment
(src: NY Post)


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I don't know about y'all, but I'm definitely the kind of girl that LOVES me some cake for breakfast. I remember growing up my mom would make us birthday cakes. My personal favorite was yellow cake with chocolate frosting. We'd always have a little leftover and I LOVED devouring it for breakfast the next morning. Sure, not the healthiest option, but ohmiword…definitely the tastiest! I'm still the same way. I'm pretty much all about the protein filled breakfasts these days, but whenever there's leftover cake, you can bet that's what I'm eating. This recipe is the kind of cake that's good for either breakfast or dessert. I'm sure by now you can gather that I ate it for both :) It's not too sweet, but it's OH so delicious. Every.little.morsel. I could've eaten this ENTIRE pan ALL by myself and I'm pretty sure Mr. Spouse was afraid I would.
For the cake batter:
3 cups of flour
1/4 tsp. salt
1 cup of sugar
4 tsp. baking powder
1 1/2 cup milk
2 eggs
2 tsp. vanilla
1/2 cup butter, melted
For the topping:
1 cup of butter, softened
1 cup of brown sugar
2 tbsp. flour
1 tbsp. cinnamon
For the glaze:
2 cups of powdered sugar
5 tbsp. milk
1 tsp. vanilla
I forgot to take a little pic of the ingredients, so go ahead and make yourself a mental image. Now, mix together the flour, salt, sugar, baking powder, milk, eggs, and vanilla in a medium sized mixing bowl. SLOWLY mix in the melted butter.
In a separate bowl, mix together the ingredients for the topping until well combined.
In a small bowl, mix together the ingredients for the glaze and set aside.
Grease up a 9x13 baking dish and pour the batter inside. Drop the topping mixture evenly over the batter and swirl with a knife to get an even spread.
Bake at 350 for about 28-32 minutes. Remove from oven and let cool for about 10-15 minutes.
Ummm…I put a couple of holes in it just to make sure it was done…and to taste it, of course!
Now drizzle the glaze over the top of the cake.
Y'all. This is NOT a joke. This is some GOOD stuff, right here! I KNOW it looks time intensive, but the thing that took the longest through this WHOLE process was rounding up all the ingredients. The rest was a quick breeze once I had all the ingredients in place.
Now don't get fooled into thinkin' this is going to taste just like Cinnabon because it's SO not. It's nowhere near as sweet…but I think that's what I love about it the most!!!!! It's just SO flippin' YUMMY!!! I ate it for breakfast. And dessert. And I even sampled several bites for snack :) I didn't want it to go to waste ;) I'm thinking about adding apple to it next time. Not that it wasn't amazing on it's own, but I'm pretty much *obsessed* with all things apple & cinnamon, so why not?!
Oh my. Just looking at this takes me back. Seriously people…try it SOON!!!!!! SO good!!


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As the Crew returned to a typical training schedule this week at the Crew Training Center at Obetz, it has also learned that it will host a third-round Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup match on Tuesday, June 29, against the winner of a second-round match-up between the Rochester Rhinos of U.S. Soccer-Division 2 and the Pittsburgh Riverhounds of USL-2.
Tickets for the match, which is scheduled to kick off at 7:30 p.m., will mirror prices for regular season Crew matches. Information regarding the on-sale date for U.S. Open Cup tickets will be released in the very near future.
Should Rochester successfully advance past Pittsburgh (June 22 in Rochester), it would mark the second consecutive season that the Crew and Rhinos would meet in U.S. Open Cup competition. In 2009 U.S. Open Cup play, the Crew traveled to Marina Auto Stadium in Rochester on June 30 and fell to the Rhinos on penalty kicks 5-3, after regulation ended in a 1-1 draw. Ty Harden tallied for the Rhinos in regulation, while Duncan Oughton registered the Crew's lone strike.
The Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup, which is recognized as U.S. Soccer's National Championship, is an annual competition open to all amateur and professional soccer teams affiliated with U.S. Soccer. The tournament has crowned a champion for 95 consecutive years dating back to 1914. It is the oldest annual team tournament in U.S. sports history and among the oldest soccer tournaments of its type in the world. In 1999, the competition was renamed to honor long-time soccer pioneer Lamar Hunt.
The Crew enters the 2010 U.S. Open Cup looking for its second Open Cup title in club history. The first came in 2002 at Crew Stadium when Freddy Garcia provided the match's lone goal in the 30th minute to defeat the 2002 MLS Cup Champion L.A. Galaxy.
This year's tournament quarterfinals will be played July 6-7, the semifinals will be played Aug. 31-Sept. 1, and the final will be played Oct. 5.
The Columbus Crew will play an exhibition match against recently-founded Dayton Dutch Lions FC of the USL Premier Development League this Saturday, June 19, at 6:30 p.m. at Baujan Sports Field on the campus of the University of Dayton. Ticket information can be found at dutchlionsfc.com and a live audio webcast of the match is also scheduled to be available via the same site. The Dutch Lions, who are affiliated with reigning Dutch champion FC Twente, currently sit in second place in the Great Lakes Division of the PDL's Central Conference with a 3-0-3 record (12 pts.). The Lions recently bowed out of the 2010 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup with a 2-0 loss at the Rochester Rhinos on June 15.
World Cup Viewing Parties continue at Crew Stadium as the first week of group play draws to a close. Thousands of fans have already visited Cup Headquarters and games will continue to be shown in high definition on Panasonic HD televisions provided by Best Buy in the Stadium Club tent, located just west of the stadium. The U.S. takes on Slovenia Friday morning, June 18, at 10, then closes out group play vs. Algeria on July 23, also at 10 a.m. Parking and admission to Cup Headquarters is free, and complimentary snacks and Pepsi products are available to fans in attendance, as is a cash bar and $1 Sugardale hot dogs throughout the tournament. Wireless internet access is available in the Time Warner Cable Business Center for those who wish to bring their work to Crew Stadium while they watch the games, and elements of the Crew Soccer Tour will be set up just north of the Stadium Club tent. State Farm Insurance, Claddagh Irish Pub and Montgomery Inn are also supporting the events and will be on-site at each of the 64 games. Fans can also enter into daily drawings for the chance to win prizes from the Viewing Parties' various sponsors. By entering into the daily drawing, fans also enter themselves into a pair of Grand Prize drawings, to be held at halftime of the 2010 FIFA World Cup Final on July 11. The two Grand Prizes are for a 42-inch flat-screen HD television, courtesy of Best Buy, and one year of Bundled Home Services including digital cable, internet and home phone service, courtesy of Time Warner Cable.
CREW JUNIORS SUPER-20s TOP CINCINNATI UNITED PREMIER ON WEDNESDAY
The Crew Juniors Super-20s squad faced off against the Cincinnati United Premier Super-20s last night (June 16) at Ohio Dominican University and came away with a 4-0 victory behind goals from Brandon Silva, Eric Stevenson, Kofi Agyapong and Tanner Petrick. The CJ Super-20s are now undefeated on the season with a 4-0-0 record and currently sit atop the Midwest division. Coached by Crew technical director Brian Bliss, the CJ Super 20s are in their first season of competition in the USL Super-20 League, which features over 60 teams in nine divisions.
The Crew Soccer Academy (CSA) recently completed its 2009-10 schedule in the U.S. Soccer Development Academy regular season. The CSA 15/16 squad finished the regular season in second place in the Great Lakes Division with a 6-2-2 record (11-8-3 overall), securing an automatic berth in the Development Academy Playoffs, while the 17/18s finished just shy of an automatic playoff berth, finishing third in the Great Lakes with a 5-4-1 record (13-6-3 overall), but qualified for one of 12 wild card spots, thanks to having one of the best overall points per game averages across the full season. The 2009-10 Development Playoffs will feature 64 teams (32 each from the 15/16 and 17/18 divisions), playing in 96 games slated for the extended weekend of June 25-29 at in Greensboro, N.C. It will be the second consecutive year that the event will be held at Bryan Park, where Academy teams will play on eight of the facility's Bermuda grass fields. The 32 teams were placed into four pots for each age group, based on seeding, and were randomly drawn into eight groups of four. The top finisher in each group will move on to the third annual Development Academy Finals Week at The Home Depot Center from July 10-17.
Each of the remaining nine Crew home games being televised by ONN-TV this season will be available in high definition on Time Warner Cable in Columbus. Six of those games will air on HD channel 1310, with three moving to Ch. 1311, which is an add-in HD channel that is used as a sports alternate and only appears on game days as needed. It will become active on the days listed below and the on-screen guide should be updated with the game.
Saturday, June 26 vs. D.C. United, 7:30 p.m. (Ch. 1310)
Wednesday, July 14 vs. Kansas City, 7:30 p.m. (Ch. 1310)
Saturday, July 17 vs. New York, 7:30 p.m. (Ch. 1311)
Saturday, July 24 vs. Houston, 7:30 p.m. (Ch. 1310)
Saturday, Aug. 21 vs. Colorado, 7:30 p.m. (Ch. 1311)
Saturday, Aug. 28 vs. FC Dallas, 4 p.m. (Ch. 1310)
Saturday, Sept. 18 vs. Seattle, 7:30 p.m. (Ch. 1311)
Saturday, Oct. 2 vs. San Jose, 7:30 p.m. (Ch. 1310)
Sunday, Oct. 24 vs. Philadelphia, 4 p.m. (Ch. 1310)
Crew News & Notes
As the Crew returned to a typical training schedule this week at the Crew Training Center at Obetz, it has also learned that it will host a third-round Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup match on Tuesday, June 29, against the winner of a second-round match-up between the Rochester Rhinos of U.S. Soccer-Division 2 and the Pittsburgh Riverhounds of USL-2.


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Perennial to trees, from membranous bulb, fibrous corm, scaly rhizome, or erect caudex
Stem generally underground
Leaves generally basal, often withering early, alternate, generally ± linear
Inflorescence various, generally bracted
Flower generally bisexual, generally radial; perianth often showy, segments generally 6 in two petal-like whorls (outer sometimes sepal-like), free or fused at base; stamens 6 (or 3 + generally 3 ± petal-like staminodes), filaments sometimes attached to perianth or fused into a tube or crown; ovary superior or inferior, chambers 3, placentas generally axile, style generally 1, stigmas generally 3
Fruit: generally capsule, loculicidal or septicidal (berry or nut)
Genera in family: ± 300 genera, 4600 species: especially ± dry temp and subtropical; many cultivated for ornamental or food;
some TOXIC. Here includes genera sometimes treated in Agavaceae, Amaryllidaceae, and other families.
Bulb coat generally membranous
Leaves generally linear to lanceolate; basal leaf 1; cauline leaves 0several, smaller upwards
Inflorescence often ± umbel-like; flowers 2many
Flower spheric and closed to nearly rotate; sepals generally < petals, generally ± lanceolate (ovate), generally nearly glabrous; petals generally widely wedge-shaped, generally hairy inside, nectary near base; filaments ± flat, anthers generally attached at base; style 1, stigmas 3
Fruit: capsule, septicidal, generally ± oblong, generally 3-angled or -winged; chambers 3
Seeds many in 2 rows per chamber, generally flat, generally netted, generally ± yellow
Species in genus: ± 65 species: w North America, C.Am; many cultivated. Bulbs of some eaten by native Americans. Nectary shape and hairs important to identification
Etymology: (Greek: beautiful grass)
Reference: [Ness 1989 Syst Bot 14:495505]
Sect. Calochortus by Bryan Ness.
Bulb coat fibrous
Stem 3090 cm, slender, generally branched
Leaves: basal 2040 cm, withering; upper cauline inrolled
Inflorescence: flowers 26, erect
Flower: perianth widely bell-shaped; sepals 2030 mm; petals < or = sepals, ovate to wedge-shaped, cream to deep yellow, purplish, or red-brown, flecked and often margined red-brown, ± fringed, long-hairy, nectary round, slightly depressed, ± glabrous, ± hidden by dense, long, yellow bordering hairs
Fruit erect, 45 cm, linear, angled
Chromosomes: n=9
Ecology: Dry chaparral, often in heavy or rocky soil
Elevation: < 1900 m.
Bioregional distribution: Outer South Coast Ranges, South Coast, Western Transverse Ranges, Peninsular Ranges.
See the CNPS Inventory for information about endangerment and rarity.
Flower: petals squarish, pale cream, purplish, or red-brown, dark-hairy; anthers abruptly pointed
Chromosomes: n=9
Ecology: Dry, open coastal woodland, chaparral
Elevation: < 900 m.
Bioregional distribution: Outer South Coast Ranges, Western Transverse Ranges
Horticultural information: DRN, DRY, SUN: 7, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24; DFCLT.


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Pujols has a 500-homer lead on Kuiper
It was a week of opposites.
On Tuesday night in Washington, D.C., Albert Pujols of the Angels became the 26th player in Major League history to reach the 500-homer plateau. He connected off Nationals right-hander Taylor Jordan in the first inning for a three-run home run (No. 499) to give the Angels a 3-0 lead in what became a 7-2 victory, then went deep off Jordan in the fifth inning for No. 500.
It was a week of opposites.
On Tuesday night in Washington, D.C., Albert Pujols of the Angels became the 26th player in Major League history to reach the 500-homer plateau. He connected off Nationals right-hander Taylor Jordan in the first inning for a three-run home run (No. 499) to give the Angels a 3-0 lead in what became a 7-2 victory, then went deep off Jordan in the fifth inning for No. 500.
And on Friday night, when Pujols hit No. 501 at the new Yankee Stadium off Hiroki Kuroda, the Giants were staging Duane Kuiper Bobblehead Night in San Francisco, honoring the current Giants broadcaster who holds the Major League record for most plate appearances (3,754) with only one home run.
Kuiper's lone home run came on Aug. 29, 1977, at Cleveland Stadium off White Sox right-hander Steve Stone. Fittingly, the Giants' opponent on Friday night was Cleveland, the team that originally signed Kuiper and the team he was playing for when he connected off Stone, who gave up 184 career home runs to a total of 130 players.
While Pujols ranks 26th on the all-time homer list, and went into Saturday three home runs behind Hall of Famer Eddie Murray, Kuiper is one of 1,288 players tied for 6,031st on Major League Baseball's all-time home run list, according to Stats Inc.
Obviously not known for his power, Kuiper did spend parts of 12 years in the big leagues, hitting .271, and twice leading American League second basemen in fielding percentage.
His distinction, however, is that none of the other 1,288 who hit one big league home run had more opportunities to hit No. 2 than Kuiper. Emil Verban, who played from 1944-50, is second on the list with 3,109 plate appearances, followed by Johnny Bassler ('13-27) with 2,864, Floyd Baker ('43-55) with 2,692 plate appearances and Joe Gedeon ('13-20) with 2,446.
The all-time leader in plate appearances without a big league home run is Tom Oliver, who had 2,073 from 1930-33.
Ben Revere, however, is looming on the horizon. The Phillies center fielder Ben Revere entered play Saturday with 1,487 plate appearances without a home run.
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Pujols, 34, is the third-youngest player to reach 500 homers. Alex Rodriguez (the youngest) and Jimmie Foxx were both 32 when they hit No. 500. Ted Williams was the oldest hitter to join the club when he connected at the age of 41 years, 291 days on June 17, 1960.
Pujols is part of a recent trend of power hitters. Eleven of the 26 members of the 500 homer club have hit No. 500 in the past 15 years.
In addition to Pujols this year, Gary Sheffield hit No. 500 in 2009, Manny Ramirez in '08, Frank Thomas, Jim Thome and Rodriguez in '07, Ken Griffey Jr. in '04, Rafael Palmeiro and Sammy Sosa in '03, Barry Bonds in 2001 and Mark McGwire in 1999.
Pujols hit 445 of his home runs in his 11 seasons with the St. Louis Cardinals. He has hit 273 home runs on the road and 228 at home. He hit 204 at home with the Cardinals -- 94 at the previous Busch Stadium and 110 at the current Busch Stadium.
Pujols has hit 56 against the Chicago Cubs, and his most against any pitcher was Ryan Dempster, who gave up eight. He has hit two home runs in a game 43 times, and three homers in a game four times. His 12 grand slams have him tied with 13 other players for 27th on the all-time list, 12 behind all-time leader Rodriguez.
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• Connie Marrero died on Wednesday in Havana at 102 years and 363 days of age, leaving just 18 surviving ex-big leaguers who were born before 1920. Former catcher-infielder Mike Sandlock, who was born on Oct. 17, 1915, is now the oldest living former big leaguer.
• Giants third baseman Pablo Sandoval went into Saturday hitless in his previous 41 at-bats with two strikes. He was 0-for-11 on a 0-2 pitch, 0-for-13 at 1-2, 0-for-11 on 2-2, and 0-for-6 on 3-2. He is a career .218 hitter on two-strike pitches, and .191 when he has a three-ball count, according to baseball-reference.com.
• Ervin Santana allowed four earned runs in 6 2/3 innings of the Braves' 5-4 victory against Cincinnati on Friday, only the second time in 22 games this year a Braves starter allowed more than two runs in a game. The Braves' rotation, which lost Kris Medlen and Brandon Beachy for the season during Spring Training, has a 1.68 ERA that is tops in the Majors. Santana's ERA rose to 1.95 after Friday -- 10th best in the National League, but only fourth best on the Braves, behind NL leader Aaron Harang (0.85), Alex Wood (1.54) and Julian Teheran (1.80).
• Lefty Matt Harrison is scheduled to make his first start in one year and three weeks for the Rangers on Sunday against Seattle at Safeco Field. Harrison has undergone two back surgeries since his most recent start. He was a combined 32-20 with a 3.34 ERA for the Rangers in 2011-12.
• Rockies center fielder Charlie Blackmon went into Saturday leading the Majors with a .398 average. He's so hot that even a day off doesn't cool him down. Blackmon has been out of the starting lineup six times this year, and he has gone 16-for-28 in his return to the lineup the next game.
According to stat maven David Feldman, Major League Baseball went into Saturday with more 1-0 games (13) than Major League Soccer (10) this season.
Tracy Ringolsby is a columnist for MLB.com.


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We keep telling you that these Rockets are better than most think.
Did the wins at Chicago and at the Lakers open your eyes? I kept thinking the longer they stayed in the game the more likely they were to prove they are a clutch squad. Ans that's what they did.
Gotta love it that Andrew Bynum was ejected for the second consecutive time against Houston. Tell me the basketball gods aren't in the Rockets' corner. They even managed to hold off World Peace.
OK, let's not go overboard, but if you aren't watching these guys nightly, even late at night on the West Coast, you're missing a hard-playing team that can beat anybody at anytime.
I don't do the overachieving thing. I believe teams get what they are made of most of the time. So I won't say they are overachieving. They are simply surprising some of you by staying in the hunt. Especially with Kyle Lowry out for so long.
I like what Lowry brings to the table, but it is difficult to imagine that this team would have much a better record had he not gotten sick. It's one of those situation where a guy is very important, but the team managed to carry on without him. (See: Mario Williams. And, no, their maintaining does not mean they can afford to move Lowry before next season. That would be stupid.)
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it would be nice (in a way) if the Rockets were the worst team in the league and had the best shot at the No. 1 pick. But that's not happening.
And yeah, yeah, yeah, they will be first-round underdogs if they make it to the playoffs and face Oklahoma City, San Antonio or even the Grizzlies or Clippers. So. This should be a fun few weeks as they battle for the postseason.
These last two wins were huge.
Since midseason, the Rockets brass has figured 35 wins would earn a playoff spot. That means they will need five wins in their final 11 games.
They should at least split the back-to-backs left on this road trip (Sacramento on Sunday and Portland on Monday). Utah and Phoenix, teams that are in the playoff chase, come to Toyota Center next week.
Back-to-back against the Nuggets the following Sunday and Monday should be key, as will back-to-back road games at Dallas and New Orleans. The Rockets have two games against the woeful Hornets.
Were I a gambling man, I'd call my bookie right now for the last game of the season, a home contest off three days rest against New Orleans, which will be finishing up the season with a three-game trip with stops in Los Angeles and Oakland before wrapping up the season at Houston.
Any doubts there are five wins in there?


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Stalling tactics by a newcomer to Hokitika during a breath-testing procedure so infuriated one of the arresting constables that he stormed into the room and yelled, "Listen, just give the f****** blood," a court has been told.
Former Auckland man Michael Michael Peter Barukh, 54, managed to drag out the procedure for almost four hours, Greymouth District Court was told on Monday.
The court was told police followed his car on State Highway 6 4km before stopping it at 12.20am on March 25.
Barukh, who moved from Auckland only three months earlier, would not properly blow into the breathalyser.
Constable Bill Tailby said Barukh was taken back to Hokitika police station, where he eventually gave a breath-alcohol reading of 703mcg. The legal limit is 400mcg per litre of breath.
Barukh was then given the option of supplying a blood sample and spent more than three hours trying to contact a lawyer of his choice, ringing Auckland and Nelson lawyers and exhausting the list of West Coast duty solicitors.
Eventually, Barukh agreed to give a blood sample. Then, when the nurse arrived to take it, he demanded that she provide evidence of her status so she had to go home and obtain her practising certificate. When she returned he then demanded photo identity, which was provided when the nurse produced her driver's licence.
Barukh then refused to give the blood sample unless a lawyer was present, saying that he was Jewish and his faith did not like to give blood. He claimed that police had falsified evidence against him in the past.
"I have not refused, it's a Catch-22. You should let me go, I have got off before because of false evidence," he said.
Eventually the officers charged him with refusing to supply blood and took him home at 3.50am.
Under cross-examination by Barukh, Mr Tailby accepted that the other officer had yelled at him, but said he had not threatened him.
"He was short with you, so I asked him to leave the room."
Barukh argued in court that he had been entitled to have a lawyer present. As a plumber, he was always on call and lawyers should be the same. "The prices they charge they should be on call 24-7."
Judge Michael Behrens disagreed, convicting Barukh. He fined him $700 and disqualified him from driving for six months.


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On Monday, security company Intego warned Mac users of a new Trojan horse that masquerades as a Flash Player installation package for OS X Lion.
Intego reported that the Flashback malware is available on some sites that offer a link or icon to install Flash Player. Lion users may be vulnerable to the scam because the operating system doesn't automatically include Flash. If users do click on the malicious link in Safari (launching the Mac OS X Installer), the software deactivates some security code, then deletes the original installation package. The malware then sends information about the infected Mac back to a remote server. Intego analysts are still investigating Flashback's purposes.
Protecting your Mac from this Flashback is relatively easy: Only download Flash from Adobe.com.
Monday's announcement is the second Trojan horse warning to Mac users in the last week. On Friday, security firm F-Secure warned against Trojan-Dropper:OSX/Revir.A, which appears as a Chinese-language PDF; open it up, and a backdoor connection to a remote server is made.
As Macworld's Serenity Caldwell noted after Friday's warning about the PDF malware, one way for Mac users--particularly those who use Safari--to avoid a problem with Trojan horse malware is to uncheck Safari's Open 'Safe' Files After Downloading option (Safari -> Preferences -> General); then, as long as you practice common sense computing, you should be safe from most malicious attacks. You should also be sure to keep your OS X malware definitions up to date.


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Water drips from a fire sprinkler system pipe that burst Friday at 2530 Abarr Dr. and flooded several businesses in the building.
Firefighters with the Loveland Fire and Rescue Dept. use brooms to remove water from the lobby of a building at 2530 Abarr Drive where a fire sprinkler system pipe burst and flooded the building.
An exercise ball is reflected in a puddle of water on the floor of a business in a building at 2530 Abarr Dr. that was flooded when a fire sprinkler system pipe burst.
Chuck Liss, left, and Jim Parilla speak with Prudential Real Estate of the Rockies Realtor Bob Ford in the kitchen of The Wayside Inn in Berthoud on Friday.
Fort Collins residents Terrie and Chuck Liss walk through the dining area at The Wayside Inn in Berthoud on Friday while examining the property that will be sold at auction on Monday.
Bob Ford, left, a Realtor with Prudential Real Estate of the Rockies, shows The Wayside Inn property to Jim Parilla and Chuck Liss on Friday in downtown Berthoud.
Colorado State University students Megan Vucasovich, second from left, and Michael Morrow run to the shore after plunging into Horsetooth Reservoir during the "Freezin' for a Reason" polar bear plunge on Thursday in Fort Collins. Larimer County Dive Rescue Team members Wes Grogan, left, and Dave Dennis wait in the background just in case. The plunge, hosted by the CSU Junior Greek Council, raised money for the Family Center/La Familia, a bilingual education center that helps at risk families.
United States Postal Service employee Joanne Rocheleau, right, helps Mike Pappas of Loveland ship seven boxes destined for a Colorado National Guard unit in Ramadi, Iraq where his son, Sgt. Neil Pappas, is serving his third tour. Mike Pappas, who works at Thompson Medical Group, started getting donations of snacks, soups homemade cookies and hygiene products from coworkers to ship after he mentioned he was sending a care package to his son. Pappas has already sent eight other boxes to the unit.
Larimer County Parks and Open Land Volunteer Carl Sorrentino, center, talks with Dave Metcalf, Olivia Hutton, Gary Warner, and Trish Warner during an eagle walk at Fossil Creek Open Space on Dec. 18.
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A bald eagle prepares to land near a dead goose Tuesday on the ice in the south end of Lake Loveland. At one point Monday morning there were four of the eagles feeding on the thin ice.
A horse seems to blend into a background of freshly fallen snow as it munches in a field along County Road 19E on Wednesday.
A silhouette cutout of a cowboy seems to be in the holiday spirit along County Road 13 just south of Loveland on Wednesday afternoon.
Corn stubble contrasts with freshly fallen snow in a field along County Road 13 just south of Loveland on Wednesday afternoon.
From right, Bianca Sandoval, 7, Venessa Bacon, 8, Brittany Ross, 9, and Tiger Lily Lopez, 8, try to get a better view of judging of the 4th annual Holiday Card Contest on Wednesday at the Boys and Girls Club in Loveland. The contest sponsored by McWhinney was open to all Larimer Boys and Girls members. McWhinney received a record 135 entries this year and donated $1,100 to the Larimer County Boys and Girls Club.
Mayor Cecil Gutierrez judges drawings on Wednesday at the Larimer County Boys and Girls Club in Loveland. Children from all of the Boys and Girls Clubs in Larimer County made drawings for the 4th annual Holiday Card Contest sponsored by McWhinney.
Double RR Bar and Grill owner Kyle Von Eiff, right, and bar manager Linda Harms decorate the front of the establishment on Tuesday in Downtown Loveland.
Holiday lights destined for recycling surround Clark Evans, manager or the Orchards Ace Hardware. The lights, donated by Lovelanders, are collected for recycling by Lights for Life, a company that turns over the proceeds to children with cancer.
Courtroom Clerk Kim Counts places a plaque for the judge she will work for, Judge Robert Rand, following a ceremony to swear him in on Monday at the Larimer County Justice Center in Fort Collins.
Judge Robert Rand talks with a crowd gathered for a ceremony to swear him in on Monday at the Larimer County Justice Center in Fort Collins.
Alexandra Rand buttons up her husband, Judge Robert Rand, following a ceremony to swear him in on Monday at the Larimer County Justice Center in Fort Collins. Judge Rand will fill the vacancy by Judge C. Edward Stirman and will work in Loveland for the next two years.
A construction zone flagger, who declined to give his name, controls traffic on Crossroads Boulevard at Interstate 25 on Monday. Construction continues at the interchange as the planning stage of construction gets underway at the interchange of Interstate 25 and US 34 just two miles south.


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How far would you go to find a missing child? And how much are you willing to believe - and trust - in the unknown in order to get there? A 7-year-old girl is kidnapped from her bedroom one wintry night in an Anchorage suburb. But when a close-to-retirement police detective obsessed with child abductions begins his investigation, he'll clash with a mysterious radio psychic who claims to have visions of the missing girl. Now the trail is getting cold. Time is running out. And in the most disturbing twists of all, the ultimate clues may be coming from a place outside the law and past human reason.


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Forbes Article on Bill Gates' Eugenics Goals
Forbes is either deceived by Bill Gates' true intentions regarding vaccines, or is complicit in his eugenics program.
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With Vaccines, Bill Gates Changes The World Again
The Republic of Chad, a landlocked desert dictatorship once described by FORBES as the planet's most corrupt, is a strange place to find Bill Gates. Yet there he was in September, beside Chad's Qaddafi-trained president, General Idriss Deby. "He and I walked around giving polio drops to a bunch of kids," recalls Gates. "I shared in confidence with him some views of how he might be even more effective in the way he manages his campaign."
Yes, a far cry from hunkering down with Paul Allen in an Albuquerque motel to reimagine how the world conveys information, or with Warren Buffett in Sun Valley to brainstorm the future of philanthropy. But to Gates diplomacy with thugs is now just as important, a dispassionate component of what he views as his final legacy. "The metric of success is lives saved, kids who aren't crippled," says Gates. "Which is slightly different than units sold, profits achieved. But it's all very measurable, and you can set ambitious goals and see how you do."
Notice the words: metric, measurable, goals. While Gates' vaccine-based giving—closing in on $6 billion to fight measles, hepatitis B, rotavirus and AIDS, among others—is part of the largest, most human-driven philanthropy in the history of mankind, what's missing in his language are the individual humans.
In many ways that's the point. Gates' clipped manner in discussing the children he and his wife met in India and Africa ("Melinda and I spend time with these kids, and we see that they're suffering; they're dying") disappears when the underlying numbers come up, his speech getting more rapid, his voice ever higher. "A 23-cent vaccine," he says, "and you'll never get measles," a disease that "at its peak was killing about a million and a half a year; it's down below 300,000." Gates rattles off milestones in the history of global health and the prices of vaccines down to the penny, but blanks on the name of one of his favorite vaccine heroes, John Enders, the late Nobel laureate, or Joe Cohen, a key inventor of the new malaria vaccine Gates helped bankroll.
It's heady, historic stuff: America's richest man—he'd be the world's richest had he not already given away so much money—still in his prime (he just turned 56), with the reputation, resources and determination to stamp out infectious disease. "I'd be deeply disappointed," says Gates, if in the next 25 years he can't lower the death toll by 80%. Otherwise, "we're just not doing our job very well."
Sitting with Gates, overlooking the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's gleaming new $500 million campus, full of glimmering reflecting pools and glass edifices, it's possible to see a future with exponentially less pain and suffering. It's also a remarkably incisive exercise in getting inside the brain of one of history's greatest business visionaries. By dissecting with him and his wife, Melinda, how he tackles this grand human problem, you can also learn intuitively how he built Microsoft. How a mechanical genius methodically tackles an abstract problem. And perhaps most of all, how power and capital—both literal and political—can be spent to maximize positive impact on the world.
Bill Gates' plan to eradicate disease stems from a bold concept: The demographic theories of Thomas Malthus, generally accepted for the past two centuries, are wrong. Specifically, that subsistence eventually translates into population growth, and population growth eventually translates into misery.
Bill and Melinda Gates grappled with this concept years before forming their foundation, and months before even getting married, on a prewedding 1993 African safari. Their vacation had been planned around watching predators and prey—Darwin in action. "You go to see the animals, and you go to see the savanna, and it's gorgeous," says Melinda. But they instead found themselves pondering that classic Malthusian riddle: "Why is that woman walking along the road with sticks on her head, a baby in the belly and a baby on the back?" Gates had no immediate reason to challenge 200 years of dogma: "We know how to get agricultural productivity up, but not that much," he says. "Jobs, unrest, education—a high population density makes solving all those problems harder."
So in 1997, when he and Melinda first ventured into public health—their eponymous foundation would come into being in two years—they focused on birth control, funding a Johns Hopkins effort to use computers to help women in the developing world learn about contraception. The logic was crisp and Bill Gates-friendly. Health = resources ÷ people. And since resources, as Gates noted, are relatively fixed, the answer lay in population control. Thus, vaccines made no sense to him: Why save kids only to consign them to life in overcrowded countries where they risked starving to death or being killed in civil war?
It wasn't dissimilar from the formula that he was developing behind a multibillion-dollar push into education reform. In that case, he based his giving on this formula: Success = teachers ÷ students. Smaller class sizes would result in more attention per student and smarter kids.
But much as Gates loves elegant solutions, his greatest achievements have resulted from perseverance and adaptability. It took three versions to get Windows right, and the Xbox originally lost billions. He's not afraid to challenge assumptions when they don't work. And in education he's had a clear reversal: Class size, it turns out, is not the best determinant of student outcome. Teacher quality is. So after spending a fortune, Gates shifted course.
That same epiphany for his public health philanthropy came even earlier. Bill's dad had set up a dinner at Seattle's posh Columbia Tower Club with the Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH). While the meeting started with birth control—among other efforts, PATH taught Chinese condom makers to test their products before shipping them—Gates began consuming data that startled him. In society after society, he saw, when the mortality rate falls—specifically, below 10 deaths per 1,000 people—the birth rate follows, and population growth stabilizes. "It goes against common sense," Gates says. Most parents don't choose to have eight children because they want to have big families, it turns out, but because they know many of their children will die.
"If a mother and father know their child is going to live to adulthood, they start to naturally reduce their population size," says Melinda.
In terms of giving, Gates did a 180-degree turn. Rather than prevent births, he would aim his billions at saving the kids already born. "We moved pretty heavily into vaccines once we understood that," says Gates.
He could have focused on clinics and doctors, but that doesn't scale. "The magic tool of health intervention is the vaccine, because they can be made very inexpensively," he says. "We had to choose what the most impactful thing to give would be—not just money, but our time, energy, voice." Melinda, his partner in all things philanthropic, echoes that thought: "Where's the place you can have the biggest impact with the money? Where can you save the very most lives with those resources?"
More heavily than anyone ever had—even John D. Rockefeller, whose Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research pushed many key discoveries in 20th-century virology—he changed the global dialogue when it came to vaccines, which a decade ago had become controversial because of now-disproved autism fears. The first Gates vaccine donation, $100 million, directed at the United Nations and administered by PATH, focused on getting existing vaccines to kids. To celebrate the gift, Bill and Melinda hosted a dinner for vaccine experts at their 66,000-square-foot home on Lake Washington. After Gates asked his guests, "What could you do if you had even more money?" the room exploded with new ideas. That's when he decided to blow up his original foundation and, in 1999, reconstitute it as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, endowed with $21 billion, instantly making it one of the largest charities in the world. The endowment is now $36 billion, with $25 billion given away.
But the vaccine epiphany just unlocked an entirely new set of problems. Yes, he could use his money to save lives through original research. Gates' munificence has resulted in vaccines for meningitis and malaria. And yes, he could keep increasing the efficacy of those vaccines by creating a so-called cold chain—a storage and distribution system within host countries. He's done that, too.
But again he ran into the scale problem, one inherently market-based. How do you encourage Merck, Pfizer, GlaxoSmithKline and other pharma giants to produce enough expensive vaccines for children who need them most but can afford them least? The answer, Gates increasingly believed, lay in making Adam Smith's invisible hand more visible, giving the newly formed market a benevolent shove in the direction of free enterprise.
Here's the truest definition of power: When you have the ability to not just solve a problem but also to create a sustainable market that addresses it. "There was nobody you could a write a check to," remembers Gates, who stood ready a decade ago to buy billions of vaccine doses. In the 1980s Unicef had tripled the percentage of children who got basic vaccines for polio, diphtheria, tetanus and other diseases by corralling public funds, negotiating on price with other aid agencies and deploying thousands of aid workers to deliver them. But those efforts still fell woefully short of the need, and new medicines hitting the U.S. market faced an intolerable 15-to-20-year lag before reaching the kids of Tanzania or Nicaragua. "The chance of death from those diseases is 50 times greater in poor kids than in rich kids!" says Gates, his voice rising.
The first critical step, he realized, was forging a lasting public-private partnership. The public half of that equation was solved quickly with his checkbook: Previous attempts had faltered due to lack of funds and infighting among aid organizations over scarce dollars. But the private component was trickier. Compared with manufacturing pills, making vaccines is difficult and expensive. Drug companies wanted to immunize kids in, say, Afghanistan, but couldn't count on demand that would be large and predictable enough to cover their costs. They faced the unappetizing choice of being humane or profitable.
So back in 1999 Gates traveled to Bellagio, Italy to hammer out a solution, along with Unicef, the World Bank, the UN, various pharmas and aid groups. The result was the Global Alliance for Vaccines & Immunisation, now called the GAVI Alliance, which Gates ultimately backed with a $2.5 billion pledge and personal will, exhibiting the tough-guy tactics, when necessary, that earned Microsoft the fear of its rivals and enmity of U.S. antitrust regulators. "Bill was a little like a poker player who put a lot of chips on the table and scared everyone else off," says Seth Berkley, who ran a Gates-funded AIDs vaccine effort and is now GAVI's chief executive.
GAVI set out to do things differently in two ways. First, buy-in: It forced developing countries to cofinance vaccination programs, even at the nominal amount of 20 cents a dose. And second, accountability: It required clear record-keeping to ensure the vaccines were getting to children and to establish a sustainable delivery system. This clarity—a well-financed effort with partners on the ground—created a lasting market for big pharma that wouldn't cost them their shirts. To further goose competition, increase supply and bring down prices, GAVI encouraged drugmakers from developing nations like China and India to bid on contracts.
The payback has been dramatic. Over the past seven years the price for the standard five-germ inoculation (including diphtheria, tetanus and whooping cough) has dropped 40%. The cost of a hepatitis B shot to prevent liver cancer has plunged 68% over a similar period, allowing millions of kids to be vaccinated. GlaxoSmithKline's Rotarix, to prevent rotavirus, a leading cause of diarrhea and death, has gone from $102 a dose to $2.50, and Indian upstarts like Bharat Biotech are bidding to drive that cost down to as low as $1.
With newer, more-expensive offerings, like Pfizer's Prevnar for pneumonia, the biggest-grossing vaccine in the world, GAVI has gone a step further. By promising to buy a certain number of doses, it guarantees the pharma company massively efficient volume. In exchange GAVI sets a ceiling for what it will pay long term—Prevnar, for example, goes for $114 in the U.S. but will cost no more than $3.50. Gates and his peers subsidize losses during the ramp-up. The math can be staggering: To deliver pneumococcal and rotavirus vaccines to 250 million children, GAVI raised more than $3 billion from various governments, including the U.K., Norway and the U.S., and Gates kicked in the final $1 billion to make it all work. The results have been equally massive: 3.4 million lives saved from hepatitis B, which causes liver cancer, 1.2 million lives from measles, 560,000 from the Hib bacteria, 474,000 from whooping cough, 140,000 from yellow fever and 30,000 from polio. In the past year the new initiatives have prevented another 8,000 deaths from pneumonia and 1,000 from diarrhea.
"I've met mothers who walked eight hours to get their child a vaccine and hoped that it's there on that day," Melinda says. On a trip in January to a rural clinic in Kenya she saw four children with pneumonia sharing a single oxygen tube. "They were just sucking breath," she recalls. But across the clinic the Gates Foundation work showcased a different future: Children lined up to get the new vaccine that would dramatically reduce the risk they would ever get pneumonia.
Gates currently has two of history's greatest scourges in his sights: malaria, the mosquito-borne disease that infects 250 million a year, killing 800,000 of them; and polio. For the former he spent $200 million to rescue a vaccine that was in development at Glaxo but had no chance of ever being profitable—a recent study indicated that it will cut the infection rate in half. He's dedicated to stamping out polio entirely, which would make it only the second disease ever to be extinguished from the face of the Earth, after smallpox.
Now that this model has been established, Gates' role has evolved. To make this system work, he needs to play global health care ambassador. Given his throw weight, heads of state have to take his call, as evidenced by his quick trip to Chad—a photo op vaccinating kids puts a leader on public notice and enforces some accountability for delivering medical care in the future. "I wouldn't say I'm convincing [them]—I'm reminding them," says Gates. He then imagines how the leaders are anticipating his visit, in what sounds like a parody of his own voice. "Aw, this guy, he's going to come talk about vaccination, vaccination, vaccination and how are you doing on polio. And, by the way, you're one of the few countries left that still has polio, and you've got low vaccination rates!"
The blogosphere still expels dark plumes of "I Hate Bill Gates" posts and websites, accusing him of bilking taxpayers because Seattle granted him free land to build the new campus or spreading autism through vaccines (now a widely discredited theory) or of playing God through his foundation. Some clinicians criticize him, wistfully, for fixating on vaccines to the exclusion of other medical causes. But for someone once pilloried as the Antichrist of technology, a brutal monopolist who strangled innovation, this generosity—less of the heart than the head—has made him a saint among those most familiar with his efforts. "A powerful voice to protect millions of children in developing countries from dying," says Andrin Oswald, head of vaccines at Novartis. Adds William Foege, a Gates ally best known for his role in eradicating smallpox: "What has happened in the last decade is something we could never have dreamed of. It will change forever what society looks like."
The billionaire, for his part, waves off most of the adulation. When I told Gates that Foege compared him to Maurice Hilleman, the researcher who developed vaccines for measles, mumps and a half-dozen other diseases, Gates faintly blushed. "He actually did it, though. I mean, his lab at Merck, they really did it."
But Gates did something, too. It had nothing to do with lab work, and everything to do with the problem-solving skills unique to someone who has created an entire industry.
When I asked Gates to grade himself on which of his accomplishments—computer software or inoculations— was more important, his calculating mind whirled straight into action. "I'd say, it's pretty hard to make that comparison," he says. "In terms of lives saved, vaccines would just totally win out." Then he ponders some more. Both vaccines and personal computers, he says, rank "right up there with the printing press and fire." On its face, an astoundingly hubristic statement. But Gates says it without even a hint of braggadocio. It's just cold, hard, reasoned fact.


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SLavr replied on Permalink
Out of date
While this is a nice exercise in principle there is no example of the geordie accent and is very out of date now. The Tuxedo Royal has been gone for over a decade.
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Reading can sometimes be a very solitary experience and many teachers prefer to get students to do it at home, but with the right kind of text and the right tasks, reading can be turned into a fun, collaborative and communicative experience.
This lesson exploits an authentic text taken from a British Council 'UKinfocus' website and has a range of quite simple tasks that students work through in groups. There are also a range of suggestions for follow up tasks.
Note this is an old plan, so the webpage it links to is no longer available. You can print out the texts from the lesson plan below though.
Things to do in a city at night
Intermediate and above
60-90 mins
Lesson Plan: guide for teacher on procedure including answers to tasks.
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Worksheets: exercises which can be printed out for use in class. The worksheet contains:
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SLavr replied on Permalink
While this is a nice exercise in principle there is no example of the geordie accent and is very out of date now. The Tuxedo Royal has been gone for over a decade.
wescombeco replied on Permalink
Totally agree with SLavr.
I used to use this exercise and I've looked it up. It's dated 2003 - 12 years old. The activities are still valid, but I feel it's important to up date materials where possible and here it's certainly possible!
Derek Spafford replied on Permalink
Many thanks for the feedback. I'll pass this on to the team for discussion.
ASSEM HUSSAIN replied on Permalink
Nice exercise. I enjoyed it a lot.
DISNEY ARAUJO AIRES replied on Permalink
I totally agree with Mr. Hussain. But maybe a text transcription could give a hand to the class. They loved it!
akbarali replied on Permalink
After following British Council for almost 6 years, I have found that this is the best place to learn, share, interact, and teach. The authentic material they use is amazing and matchless. Having been inspired by the teachers working for the British Council, I did TKT in 2012. I have been using latest teaching techniques and strategies in my class for a long time. Thanks a lot for the support you provide in a different and more interesting way.
Jason M. C. Han replied on Permalink
This lesson plan awoke me so many beautiful memories about the night life in Newcastle, though it was really out of time. I think: joining some participant-observations, experiences, photography from teachers' real life there would make the lesson much vivid and touched. Merely, about the policeman's part, I can't really agree more. They are somehow doing too many extra and over-controlled matters; might-be, their hearts are good, but who really did know? More helps and smiles are usefully for dealing with problems, in my opinion.
In conclusion, a very good course plan directly abstracted from true life-style in Newcastle, itself. Integrating it with students' life experiences, teachers would make more innovations in teaching
ဘိဒ္ replied on Permalink
Though the paragraph seems to be out of date, it still remains a useful material for reading in pronunciation and analysing grammar.
Thanks for posting.
Still useful!
gogoing35 replied on Permalink
I can't see the text, I can only see the downloadable lesson plan and the worksheets..
Please help me find the text
Derek Spafford replied on Permalink
Hi there
You can find the text in the worksheet
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20th June 2012, 01:04 AM
Charlie is a 2 year old male and has been a special addition to the family (me thinks; wife doesn't) but he exhibits this strange shaking behavior. Whenever he gets up from lying, he shakes as if he is been soaking in a pool. Kind of like a Retriever exiting a lake or pond. With all of his metal tags on his collar, it can be quite noisy.
Is this normal or just a harmless quirk?
Is this normal or just a harmless quirk?