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Dekker, Eternos Palace King Randor and Castle Grayskull Man are November's offerings...
Which one of the three (or maybe all!) are you looking forward to the most?
Eternos Palace King Randor
Castle Grayskull Man
All/None of the above
Dekker, Eternos Palace King Randor and Castle Grayskull Man are November's offerings...
Which one of the three (or maybe all!) are you looking forward to the most?
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*200X ~ WMD Roboto/Sorceress *Filmation ~ Teela' Na/Hawke *Play-Sets ~ Eternia/Crystal Castle *Vehicles ~ Land Shark/Roton *Beasts ~ Stridor/Dragoon
I want all, yes even Dekker, but I'm looking forward to Castle Grayskullman the most. He was the perfect idea and represented the 30th anniversary of He-Man better than anything else. Now he just need the castle to be housed in. Finger crossed.
All of them! CGM is just amazing, Randor long time coming, & Dekker gotta love the old tough mentor types.
The Space Mutants are missing something CRITAcal!
None of them really do it for me. Maybe they'll grow on me when I have them in hand...
He who dies with the most MOTUC wins!
Eh, November would be a boring month if not for the magnificence that is Castle Grayskullman. Dekker is cool, but I have a feeling he won't be able to strike too many poses with that skirt covering the top of his legs. And Randor...well he is what he is. Great for Filmation fans, boring for me. Still, I'll probably keep him for the comedic quality of the look.
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CG is just perfect. The 30th sub-line turned out to be great (with some exceptions).
I've wanted Dekker since the line began, so another big win.
Palace Randor....I wouldn't take him if he was free.
I only want Randor & GCm....I could care less about Dekker....no fan of 200X here.
Recent.... HATMOTU Beast Man & Evil Seed
Wanted.... Filmation Mer-Man, Teela & Sorceress
Needed.... MOTUC Lord Masque
Oh man, did I forget to use these [sarcasm][/sarcasm] again? Sorry....
Castle Grayskullman... YAY
I'm real excited about next year... Ram Man, Jitsu, FFM, Snake Face, Clamp Champ, Karatti, Netossa, NA He-Man, King He-Man!!!
Skeleton-Warriors, Ra-Jar, Spinwit, Rock Golem, General Tartaran, Hawke, Slob-Boar, King Agho, Hunga the Harpy, Sh'gora, Masks of Power Demons, Nocturna, Lizzor, Sagitar, Crimson Fury, Lodar, Vizar, Angast, Negator, King Miro, Melaktha, Crystal-Man, ABC Giants, Stridor, Road Ripper, Land Shark
it's funny, I have to say Castle Grayskullman. He is just pretty suprisingly awesome. Those swords! That Sheild!
Anyway, I already have a place for Eternos Randor, with Marlena, taking over Vintage Randor's spot, who will now go join the rest of the heroic warriors on that shelf.
Dekker...well, he'll be old and standing with the royal family (and 200x Duncan) but I think the young head will be on my Royal Guardsman who is piloting the windraider since I didnt want any non human Guard. I am already using the two human heads, with a third using the black guardsman I painted (hispanic) but now I have a new human head, though I'm considering using him on the variant shelf as just young Dekker, but for that I'd want him in MAn At Arms gear, even though they said not every man at arms wears that outfit.
Anyway, Dekker is cool. but also kinda meh, and randor has a place, but is basically an old figure (though brand new).
Grayskull man has got me with his totally new factor, just like Mattel & Scott had hoped I'd feel with new characters. Excited.
CG man all the way.... Dekker a close 2nd...
couldn't care less about the Randor variant... zzZZzzZZzz
Castle Grayskullman...I have no interest in Double Dekker or Lounging Randor.
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Dekker has my vote. He's the most interesting to me. I like that he has both heads and I'll also be giving him the Clawful accessories from the WP3.
MOTUC Most Wanted: Skeleteen, Prince Keldor, Captain Randor, The Great Black Wizard, Lady Slither, Spirit, Tuvar, Baddra, Cursed Marzo, Tug-O-War, Scrollos, Songster, Mini-Comics Spirit of Castle Grayskull, and for the love of the Sorceress and Julie Winston, ODIPHUS!!!
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All in for all three!
King Randor is the king I grew up watching and knowing as the big daddy and I can't wait to have the royal family be whole once more.
Dekker is a great 200x character and although he was not in my first 3 picks (Evil Seed, Dactys, Calix) I'm glad he's in Classics. The Great Unrest storyline is building, all we need up front is KING MIRO!
Castle Grayskull Man, he represents the best part of the 30th line, a great looking character.
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King Randor no doubt about...and...Castle Grayskullman...
I'm getting 1 Randor, 2 CGMs, and 3 Dekkers. I'm excited for all of them.
Castle Grayskull Man! Absolutely love that figure
Castle Grayskull Man is the only thing I'm looking forward to this month. I will chop up the other two for parts. Randor's goofy puffy sleeves and dumb elf loafers will be the biggest challenges to rework.
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I'm anticipatin Dekker most and can't wait for holding him in my hands!
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This page describes several types of groupware applications and their associated design options. Comparing those design options across applications yields interesting new perspectives on well-known applications. Also, in many cases, these systems can be used together, and in fact, are intended to be used in conjunction. For example, group calendars are used to schedule videoconferencing meetings, multi-player games use live video and chat to communicate, and newsgroup discussions spawn more highly-involved interactions in any of the other systems.
Consider how these systems can be integrated in other ways. We are still quite far from developing the grand groupware system that encompasses every type of communication, and we will probably never get there since the possibilities are constantly evolving with changes in both our patterns of social interaction and the technology we have available.
Asynchronous Groupware
is by far the most common groupware application (besides of course, the traditional telephone). While the basic technology is designed to pass simple messages between 2 people, even relatively basic email systems today typically include interesting features for forwarding messages, filing messages, creating mailing groups, and attaching files with a message. Other features that have been explored include: automatic sorting and processing of messages, automatic routing, and structured communication (messages requiring certain information).
Newsgroups and mailing lists
are similar in spirit to email systems except that they are intended for messages among large groups of people instead of 1-to-1 communication. In practice the main difference between newsgroups and mailing lists is that newsgroups only show messages to a user when they are explicitly requested (an "on-demand" service), while mailing lists deliver messages as they become available (an "interrupt-driven" interface).
Workflow systems
allow documents to be routed through organizations through a relatively-fixed process. A simple example of a workflow application is an expense report in an organization: an employee enters an expense report and submits it, a copy is archived then routed to the employee's manager for approval, the manager receives the document, electronically approves it and sends it on and the expense is registered to the group's account and forwarded to the accounting department for payment. Workflow systems may provide features such as routing, development of forms, and support for differing roles and privileges.
is a system for linking text documents to each other, with the Web being an obvious example. Whenever multiple people author and link documents, the system becomes group work, constantly evolving and responding to others' work. Some hypertext systems include capabilities for seeing who else has visited a certain page or link, or at least seeing how often a link has been followed, thus giving users a basic awareness of what other people are doing in the system -- page counters on the Web are a crude approximation of this function. Another common multi-user feature in hypertext (that is not found on the Web) is allowing any user to create links from any page, so that others can be informed when there are relevant links that the original author was unaware of.
Group calendars
allow scheduling, project management, and coordination among many people, and may provide support for scheduling equipment as well. Typical features detect when schedules conflict or find meeting times that will work for everyone. Group calendars also help to locate people. Typical concerns are privacy (users may feel that certain activities are not public matters), completeness and accuracy (users may feel that the time it takes to enter schedule information is not justified by the benefits of the calendar).
Collaborative writing systems
may provide both realtime support and non-realtime support. Word processors may provide asynchronous support by showing authorship and by allowing users to track changes and make annotations to documents. Authors collaborating on a document may also be given tools to help plan and coordinate the authoring process, such as methods for locking parts of the document or linking separately-authored documents. Synchronous support allows authors to see each other's changes as they make them, and usually needs to provide an additional communication channel to the authors as they work (via videophones or chat).
Synchronous or Realtime Groupware
Shared whiteboards allow two or more people to view and draw on a shared drawing surface even from different locations. This can be used, for instance, during a phone call, where each person can jot down notes (e.g. a name, phone number, or map) or to work collaboratively on a visual problem. Most shared whiteboards are designed for informal conversation, but they may also serve structured communications or more sophisticated drawing tasks, such as collaborative graphic design, publishing, or engineering applications. Shared whiteboards can indicate where each person is drawing or pointing by showing telepointers, which are color-coded or labeled to identify each person.
Video communications systems
allow two-way or multi-way calling with live video, essentially a telephone system with an additional visual component. Cost and compatibility issues limited early use of video systems to scheduled videoconference meeting rooms. Video is advantageous when visual information is being discussed, but may not provide substantial benefit in most cases where conventional audio telephones are adequate. In addition to supporting conversations, video may also be used in less direct collaborative situations, such as by providing a view of activities at a remote location.
Chat systems
permit many people to write messages in realtime in a public space. As each person submits a message, it appears at the bottom of a scrolling screen. Chat groups are usually formed by having listing chat rooms by name, location, number of people, topic of discussion, etc.
Many systems allow for rooms with controlled access or with moderators to lead the discussions, but most of the topics of interest to researchers involve issues related to unmoderated realtime communication including: anonymity, following the stream of conversation, scalability with number of users, and abusive users.
While chat-like systems are possible using non-text media, the text version of chat has the rather interesting aspect of having a direct transcript of the conversation, which not only has long-term value, but allows for backward reference during conversation making it easier for people to drop into a conversation and still pick up on the ongoing discussion.
Decision support systems
are designed to facilitate groups in decision-making. They provide tools for brainstorming, critiquing ideas, putting weights and probabilities on events and alternatives, and voting. Such systems enable presumably more rational and even-handed decisions. Primarily designed to facilitate meetings, they encourage equal participation by, for instance, providing anonymity or enforcing turn-taking.
Multi-player games
have always been reasonably common in arcades, but are becoming quite common on the internet. Many of the earliest electronic arcade games were multi-user, for example, Pong, Space Wars, and car racing games. Games are the prototypical example of multi-user situations "non-cooperative", though even competitive games require players to cooperate in following the rules of the game. Games can be enhanced by other communication media, such as chat or video systems.
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Each kit includes the instructions and materials to complete easy and fun handicraft, art and nature study projects with a minimum of effort. (Please note that you will need to provide common art supplies such as paper, pastels, paint, glue, etc.)
- Felt ball bird sewing project (pre-cut felt, needle, thread and instructions)
- Color wheel/Color mixing painting project (notebooking page and instuctions)
- Complimentary colors notebooking page
- Complimentary colors PDF (5 page PDF which will be emailed to you)
- Gauguin art print- "Tahitian Landscape 2"
- Gauguin notebooking page
- Trees nature study observation pages (3 pages)
- Trees nature study laminated observation card
- Black paper and glue drawing project (black cardstock and instructions)
- Bagel (or pinecone) birdfeeder project (string, birdseed and instructions)
- Leaf press (cardboard, rubber bands and instructions)
These kits were gathered with children ages 6-12 in mind. Parents may need to help their students, especially younger children, with some aspects of this kit.
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After signing up for this course, you will receive a link to the streaming and collaboration session via email. Learn more about Webinar Certification here.
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Certified Wellness Program Coordinator (CWPC) is the foundation and most popular WellCert program. If wellness programming is only part of your job, Level 1 gives you what you need to maximize your impact. If you work on wellness/well-being full-time, Level 1 is a necessary foundation built on by Level 2 Certified Wellness Program Manager for the broader list of skills you need. Level 1 Certified Wellness Program Coordinator training is highly practical. Our two days of content, case studies, and materials prepare you to deliver results. Watch a video on WellCert and Level 1:
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Today: Facebook's mobile-advertising revenues help company beat Wall Street expectations, push stock up more than 20 percent. Also: Google (GOOG) introduces new television offering and Nexus tablet; tech stocks bolstered by post-earnings bounces by Apple (AAPL), Electronic Arts (ERTS) and VMware.
The Lead: Facebook's mobile growth, earnings demolish expectations, stock roars
Facebook's mobile revenues shot higher in the second quarter of 2013, helping the Menlo Park social network boost profits and revenues beyond analysts' expectations and spurring investors on an after-hours buying spree that pushed share prices to some of their highest levels since the company's initial public offering.
Facebook reported profits of 13 cents a share on revenues of $1.81 billion for the April-June period, easily defeating Wall Street expectations of 9 cents a share on revenues of $1.62 billion, according to Thomson Reuters research. In the same quarter a year ago, which included the company's IPO, Facebook lost 8 cents a share on revenues of $1.18 billion.
Mobile advertising received most of the credit, as Facebook reported that 41 percent of its advertising revenue came from mobile usage, a big jump from the first quarter, when the company reported that 30 percent of its revenue derived from mobile ads.
The need for such revenues was underlined by the company's data on mobile users — 469 million Facebook users accessed the platform daily on mobile devices and 819 million used the mobile platform monthly. Total active users by those standard was 699 million and 1.15 billion, as mobile usage continued to account for more than half of Facebook's total.
"The work we've done to make mobile the best Facebook experience is showing good results and provides us with a solid foundation for the future," co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in Wednesday's news release.
Facebook's stock exploded higher after the results were released. Facebook closed Wednesday's regular session with a 1.5 percent advance to $26.51, but shares sold for as much as $31.98 in the first hour and a half of late trading, an increase of more than 20 percent that came close to the 52-week high of $32.51.
Analysts seemed as excited as investors, with Bloomberg Industries analyst Paul Sweeney dubbing it "the blowout quarter that Facebook bulls have been waiting for." Sterne Agee analyst Arvind Bhatia pointed out the rise in mobile advertising did not seem to dissuade users from accessing the service.
"The company is successfully making the transition to mobile and new ad formats are working really well. Facebook's ad exchange works really well. Engagement is fairly strong still, so it doesn't sound like anyone is really being turned off by these extra ads," Bhatia told Reuters.
In other Silicon Valley earnings reports, Palo Alto's Varian Medical Systems boosted profits and revenues, earning $1.03 a share on revenues of $726 million; San Jose's LSI reported profits of 4 cents a share on revenues of $590 million while initiating its first cash dividend; San Jose chip-equipment company Cadence earned 3 cents a share on revenues of $362 million, with profits falling but revenues rising; Sunnyvale's Infinera continued a pattern of growing revenues and slimming losses, posting a loss of 9 cents a share on revenues of $138.4 million; Sunnyvale chip firm AppliedMicro made a huge swing to profits on one-time revenues from selling part of the business, giving it profits of 15 cents a share on revenues of $54.1 million; and Fremont's Exar earned 2 cents a share on revenues of $32.6 million.
Google shows off Chromecast TV offering and refreshed Nexus 7 tablet lineup
Google gave tech observers what they expected in its event Wednesday, introducing a refreshed lineup of Nexus 7 tablets with incremental improvements in features such as screen resolution and graphics capability. However, the Mountain View search giant threw in an unexpected bonus, introducing Chromecast, a small dongle that uses Chrome browser technology to broadcast streaming Internet video to a user's television set.
The Chromecast connects to a home wireless network and can be controlled with a tablet, smartphone or personal computer; the device can then be commanded to stream information from the Web, such as from YouTube or Netflix (NFLX), and can then take over while allowing the device to function separately. In the end, the device performs a similar function to other dongles and offerings, such as a Roku player or Apple TV, but at a lower cost: Google is selling the Chromecast, which doesn't require further subscription fees, for $35, and including three months of free Netflix service.
The aim of the Chromecast is similar to the Nexus Q, which Google announced a year ago but never released, and follows the Google TV service it bundled with certain television sets. Forrester analyst Sarah Rotman Epps called the Chromecast a "smaller, more elegant approach" than Google's previous efforts, and the device is already on sale in the Google Play store and will soon be offered by Amazon and Best Buy, avoiding the Nexus Q's fate.
The new Nexus 7 line of tablets from Google were said to have the highest-resolution screens available for 7-inch tablets, and will ship with the newest version of Android Jelly Bean. The popular devices will start at $229, $100 lower than the iPad Mini, but still more expensive than Amazon's Kindle line of tablets.
Google stock fell 0.1 percent to $902.90 Wednesday.
SV150 market report: Apple, EA and VMware shoot higher after earnings reports
While major stock indexes struggled Wednesday, Silicon Valley stocks received a huge boost from Apple and other tech companies that released earnings Tuesday afternoon, sending the SV150 index up 1.4 percent.
Apple gained 5.1 percent to $440.51 after beating Wall Street's expectations for iPhone sales, though concerns about the Cupertino company's ability to grow in the Chinese market held may have it back from more gains. VMware and Electronic Arts performed even better than Apple on a percentage basis Wednesday, with the Palo Alto software company experiencing the biggest leap. After reporting strong gains in profits and revenues, VMware had its best day on Wall Street in more than four years, gaining 16.7 percent to $83.20. Redwood City video game developer EA almost eclipsed its highest price in the past five years after its earnings report, gaining 6.7 percent to $25.51. San Jose web video company Harmonic joined the party, establishing a new 52-week high and closing with a 10.6 percent gain at $7.70 after its earnings report.
On the negative side Wednesday was Polycom, the San Jose videoconferencing company that forced out its CEO after discovering irregularities in his expenses; shares declined 15.1 percent to $9.49. Juniper Networks, which also announced its CEO's departure Wednesday, gained 1.5 percent to $21.66, as the departure was balanced by a strong earnings report.
Up: VMware, EA, Apple, Workday, Yahoo (YHOO), LinkedIn, Juniper, Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), Facebook, Gilead, Oracle (ORCL), eBay (EBAY), NetApp, Symantec, Intel (INTC), Zynga, Cisco
Down: Netflix, SunPower (SPWRA), SolarCity, Salesforce, Intuit (INTU), Applied Materials, Tesla, AMD, Adobe
The SV150 index of Silicon Valley's largest tech companies: Up 17.04, or 1.36 percent, to 1,267.71
The tech-heavy Nasdaq composite index: Up 0.33, or 0.01 percent, to 3,579.6
The blue chip Dow Jones industrial average: Down 25.5, or 0.16 percent, to 15,542.24
And the widely watched Standard & Poor's 500 index: Down 6.45, or 0.38 percent, to 1,685.94
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Kayleen needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 54 designs submitted by 11 freelance designers.
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This is a new recruitment company starting up, so I would like it to be a really professional, modern and attractive site that both clients and candidates would visit. It will be informative in regards to services offered to both clients and candidates.
Two audiences really, 1 being clients or employers seeking staff and 2 being people seeking jobs. I am looking to attract professional candidates and all levels of employers.
Please provide a designed main page and content page, finished photoshop files with the layers are to be provided for artwork and graphics. Links to LinkedIn, SEEK.com, Facebook and Twitter would be great. somewhere that employers can submit a brief and jobseekers can submit a resume that will be emailed would also be useful.
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Sexy New Brak Show GoSexy New Brak Show Go (2003) Season 3 Episode 2306- The Brak Show Cartoon Episode Guide by Dave Koch
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- The Brak Show Cartoon Episode GuideEpisode GuideTelevisionSeriesCartoon
- 2D CG Animation
- Williams Street
- Cartoon Characters: Voldemar H. "Brak" Guerta, Zorak, Brak's Mom, Brak's Dad, Thundercleese, Clarence, Marlon.
- Voice Actors: Andy Merrill, C. Martin Croker, Joanna Daniel.
- Directed By Jim Fortier, Pete Smith.
- Produced By Jim Fortier, Keith Crofford, Michael Lazzo.
- Written By Jim Fortier, Andy Merrill, Pete Smith.
- First Aired on November 09, 2003.
- Originally Aired on Cartoon Network (USA).
- Running Time: 11 minutes.
- Episode Number: 2306
- Season: 3
- Color
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A self-serving television producer gives Brak and family their own TV show.
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Although The Brak Show takes place somewhere in outer space, its setting looks an awful lot like any American suburb circa 1965. While attending Learnmore High School, Brak and his best pal Zorak get into all sorts of trouble, like stealing the mascot... (more)
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I was minding my business, writing darkly tinted BDSm stories and suddenly I have people talking to me. Next thing I know I have friends.
Let's see, I have one or two friends in the real world and I have about 16 here. At least, according to this site.
I am not very nice, nor am I sociable. I'm not overly sensitive and I'm not very tactful. So why do people keep wanting to be my friend?
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and pressed a button on the desk. Almost immediately a door opened to
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Not even the events of the afternoon had prepared Kris for what she
found upon entering the dining room. The large hall was ablaze with light
from the crystal candelabra, reflecting from the china and silver on the
table. Rising from his place at the head of the table, the Marquis took
her hand and led her to the seat at his right, gently lifted the chair
into place and assumed his seat. With a slight motion of his hand, the
Marquis signalled the waiter
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Yet for every traveler drawn to the big city, there are others who embrace the great outdoors. With its accessibility and size, Great Smoky Mountains National Park is a natural choice for millions—more than 9 million to be precise, making it the No. 16 most-visited attraction in the nation.
Like it or not, the white-tailed deer, black bears, and brilliant foliage of the Great Smokies can't quite compete with the popularity of Disney among Americans and international visitors; five theme parks made it into the top 20. To determine these rankings, we gathered the most recent data supplied by the attractions themselves or from government agencies, industry reports, and reputable media outlets.
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Read on to find out which tourist attraction claimed the No. 1 spot with more than 41.9 million visitors in 2011. Were you one of them?
The Methodology: Our definition of tourist attractions included natural, cultural, and historic sites as well as recognized areas of limited geographic scope like the Las Vegas Strip. (We eliminated national parkways as they spread over extensive distances). Accurate numbers weren't available for some popular attractions such as Waikiki Beach in Honolulu and the Atlantic City Boardwalk in New Jersey. In the case of transportation hubs like Grand Central Terminal or San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge that bring in both travelers and locals, we focused as much as possible on visitor data that excluded the strictly commuting set.


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WASHINGTON — Allowing that "our journey is not complete," President Obama offered a robust liberal vision of America in his second inaugural address, embracing gay rights, action on climate change and a substantial role for government even as he acknowledged the challenges of a bitterly divided nation.
An ocean of American flags waved under overcast skies and hundreds of thousands of faces tilted up just before noon Monday as Obama stood on the Capitol's West Front and repeated the oath of office in America's 57th presidential inauguration.
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Financial Stability Through Properly Aligned Incentives; Thomas M. Hoenig, Director, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Delivered to the Exchequer Club, Washington, D.C.
September 19, 2012
In 2011, with significant input from others at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, I proposed that the U.S. financial system be restructured by business lines with accompanying money market reforms. Since then, I often have been asked why I think there is any stomach for a modern version of Glass-Steagall or any other major financial reform when Dodd-Frank has not yet been fully implemented.
I recognize that enactment of such a proposal1 is no simple task, but doing so will reduce the subsidy for too-big-to-fail firms and better align their economic incentives and rewards. Importantly, a return to a more accountable financial system is an essential step if we expect to rebuild public trust in our financial institutions and in the government that regulates them. That trust can be reestablished and accountability can be put back into the system so that the banking industry can win without the rest of us losing.
It is well understood that our country faces many challenges that are beyond the financial system. Post financial crisis, the United States faces an expanding fiscal challenge that will affect future discussions on tax structure and spending priorities. We cannot hope to find meaningful solutions or common ground to work from regarding these challenges if the public fails to trust its financial and governmental institutions. Who will agree to make sacrifices for the good of the country if they judge that reforms will be poorly or unfairly applied? How can we possibly convince Americans that the fiscal steps will be equitable when we bailed out the largest banks and yet they remain -- larger, more powerful, and insulated from the market's discipline?
The Proposal
The proposal I have submitted would return the public safety-net -- deposit insurance and the discount window -- to the purpose for which it was intended: protecting from systemic disruptions the payments system and the intermediation of funds from depositor to borrower that is commercial banking. For this protection, commercial banks would again be restricted from engaging in higher risk/return activities such as trading, creating derivatives, or other broker dealer activities. However, they would continue to do trust and wealth management, and underwrite new issues of stocks and bonds, as those activities bring new capital to commercial firms.
The proposal also would rein-in the shadow banking system by requiring that money funds represent themselves for what they are: uninsured investments, the value of which changes daily. It would discipline the repo market by subjecting repo lenders that accept mortgage-related collateral to the same bankruptcy laws as other secured creditors.
The Wrong Incentives
This division of activities fundamentally describes the structure of the financial system between the great depression and 1999 -- a period of relative stability for the country's financial markets and strong growth of the economy. In 1999, however, the law changed to allow the melding of commercial banking, investment banking, and broker-dealer activities. With this change, the safety-net was expanded to cover higher-risk activities, which enabled them to be funded at lower costs and with more debt because of the government's guarantee.
This greatly changed the incentive structure in banking and finance, encouraging greater risk taking and ever-more leverage within the system. Firms expanded their business lines to ever-more esoteric activities. The largest firms saw their tangible capital to assets decline to less than 3 percent. Stated plainly, every dollar of assets in the largest firms was supported by less than 3 cents of capital.
Furthermore, cost advantages related to the safety-net encouraged and facilitated consolidation among market players resulting in the 10 largest financial firms increasing their control of industry assets from 31 percent to 68 percent. We acknowledged all too late that the failure of any one of these firms would have a severe systemic impact on the broader economy.
The changing structure also fundamentally changed the nature of some banks' business model. In commercial banking the model is set around win-win, where the success of the borrower means success to the lender in the repayment and growth of the credit relationship. In broker-dealer and trading activities, the incentives are centered around win-lose in which the parties are placing bets on asset price movements or directional changes in activity. Having this activity within the safety-net changes the risk/return trade-off, changes behavior, and adds significant new risks to commercial banking and vulnerability to the safety-net. What social purpose is served by subsidizing these activities with the safety-net? While such activities are essential to the market's function, they belong outside the safety-net where they can compete using private, uninsured funds.
Incentives and Crisis
A decade of expanding financial subsidies and misaligned incentives gave us an economy ripe for crisis, which erupted full bore in the fall of 2008. Its negative effects extended well beyond the firms that precipitated the crisis and onto the public that was its victim. Early effects were channeled through the economy into significant declines in asset values, lost wealth, and lost jobs.
Containing the crisis required enormous amounts of FDIC and taxpayer support. The taxpayer-funded bailouts of the very firms that precipitated the crisis too often benefited creditors and shareholders when other less-generous solutions could have been implemented if a simpler, more manageable financial structure had been in place.
What is particularly troubling to many is that activities leading to the crisis continue today -- and continue to be subsidized -- well after the lessons should have been learned. Home mortgage loans that had been extended using irresponsible underwriting were foreclosed on without due process. Some of our largest financial institutions misled the markets regarding interest rates and profited by it. These rates still affect borrowers today. Firms using FDIC-insured funds continue to make directional bets on asset values and global events, made even more objectionable by ineffective risk management practices.
Given this record, it is alarming that CEOs of some financial firms fail to grasp why they are trusted so little nor appreciate the reputational damage they caused their industry. They acknowledge very little offense in taking a public subsidy and squandering it in a series of actions that place billions of taxpayer dollars at risk. They fail to appreciate how in so many ways it seems that the game is fixed in favor of a privileged few. The public is aware that there seems to be no accounting for the enormous damage inflicted on our economy. It is difficult to understand how this could have happened in a country like the United States, or how it is possible that a satisfactory solution has not been fully implemented.
More Regulation Is Not the Solution
In reaction to these events, new laws were passed and new regulations were written. The regulations are extensive, and the regulatory burden is significant. The result is thousands of pages of instructions meant to control nearly every aspect of a bank's operations with the expectation that future crises will be far less disruptive or costly.
I suggest that despite hundreds of added regulations, the incentives facilitating the excesses leading to the crisis remain largely unchanged. The reason is that the fundamental cause of the problem has not been fixed. The government safety-net has actually expanded to more firms. It protects firms engaged in the payments system, intermediation process, asset management, and broker-dealer activities. In addition and despite the Volcker rule, the safety-net will continue to cover most elements of derivatives trading and market-making activities, much of which could become veiled prop-trading.
The safety-net subsidy alters incentives, and incentives drive behavior. The behavior and practices leading to this crisis will soon reemerge and these highly complex, more vulnerable firms will have an even more devastating effect on the economy.
The public understands that accountability remains theory, not practice. While many cannot always define the problem in detail or articulate the technical jargon, they correctly sense that something is out of balance.
Failure to Act
Failure to act suggests that we are resigned to more of the same and that public guarantees -- both explicit and implicit -- will continue to subsidize an ever wider array of financial activities that should be subject to the forces of the market. Failure to act suggests that we accept the view that it is beyond our control and that the genie is out of the bottle.
This must not be the case. If it is, then capitalism is at risk and the government not the market will pick winners and losers. If it is, the most influential will win. Worse yet, only the least powerful will be held accountable for their actions.
We deserve better institutions and better outcomes. U.S. financial firms should not expect to remain the strongest banking and capital markets because investors grade on the curve and the rest of the world is in turmoil. We can do better. The large economy that gets the financial structure right first will be the most competitive and successful in this century. It should be the United States. We do have a choice. I understand the financial system, and it is not too late for meaningful restructuring. I'm not saying it's an easy choice, but it will bring greater financial stability and long-term economic benefit.
Simplifying the structure and realigning the industry's incentives are necessary steps toward this goal. Banks that operate within a fair, competitive, and accountable structure is capitalism as intended, not crony capitalism by default. In such a structure incentives are better aligned and success is determined by performance.
In my experience, the majority of CEOs of large or small banks act with integrity in carrying out the duties of their profession. They work to see that their communities and borrowers are well served. I am confident that U.S. bankers can be part of the solution in a global financial system that seeks to find its moorings.
However, bankers, like all of us, react to incentives that are placed before them. A banking structure carrying subsidies that skew incentives and misalign risk and returns must be limited in its scope of activities.
The Role of Financial Supervision
Finally, to those who say that the supervisory authorities failed in their role to oversee the financial markets. I agree. As deregulation accelerated through the decade of the '90s, supervisors too often ignored the effect of incentives and accepted the notion that bigger institutions were better, safer, and more competitive. The supervisors' emphasis changed from examining these firms to modeling them. They accepted the notion that despite rising leverage and risks, the market would self regulate and their models would keep them informed. They bought the notion that the consumer would be best served under such a framework. In their enthusiasm for sophisticated oversight, the regulators lost sight of their job and mission, which was to examine banks for safety and soundness, to assure compliance with established rules, and to do so in a fair and impartial way.
With the proposed restructuring of the industry, there will be a clearer line of sight for carrying out our supervisory responsibilities. The role of supervisors is to ask tough questions, examine the books, be professional skeptics, and enforce rules on the books. We must not look the other way as financial firms gamble with insured deposits. We must more firmly apply anti-trust and financial standards for mega-mergers that create a more concentrated system with a weaker capital structure.
I do not expect institutions with a vested interest in the status quo to come along willingly, but they must be brought along. That's where integrity, fairness, and resolve from the regulators becomes the critical link to success. We are the referees, and like the best referees we must know the rules expertly and enforce them impartially. The market works best when the rule of law carries the day.
In television commercials, one large bank is advertising its celebration of 200 years in business. It is well documented that this bank has received U.S. government support four times in the last 100 years. What does that say to the small business struggling to succeed or wanting to expand?
We have slowly, perhaps unintentionally, expanded the safety-net and its subsidy beyond what is justified to serve the long-run interests of the economy. What started as a means to providing stability to the payments system and intermediation process -- both vital to our economy -- has become a tool for leverage and a subsidized expansion into activities that has led to greater instability.
The proposal I have put forward serves to reduce what is protected by the safety-net and realigns incentives so that the market has a much greater impact on the outcomes. Confining the safety-net to what it was intended to protect by separating banking from broker-dealing will not eliminate crises, but it will contain them and in the end allow for a stronger, more accountable system.
Can this be done? The actions of two presidents stand out as our country faces an issue of this nature. President Teddy Roosevelt, the trust buster, changed the competitive landscape of America for the good. President Franklin Roosevelt enacted the Glass-Steagall Act, from which decades of relative financial stability followed.
Americans are not easily fooled. Rather than ever more complicated and redundant regulation, it's time for meaningful reform in the U.S. financial system to lay a foundation for a stronger U.S. economy.
1My proposal to limit financial activities supported by the public safety-net can be found at http://www.fdic.gov/about/learn/board/Restructuring-the-Banking-System-05-24-11.pdf.
The views expressed are those of the author and not necessarily those of the FDIC.
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I believe the folder you are referring to is the Canadian version Quality Car Care booklet. In the back cover is a pocket to hold the warranty card. The card can be slid up to read the ID plate without removing the warranty card from the booklet. In my opinion this is a very neat booklet to have in your owner's manual packet. I have provided a couple of photos. I do not believe there is a reproduction of this booklet.
Blue Or Bare?Bob, I recently had my Boss 351 carburetor restored. I need a carb ID tag to finish off the restoration of it. I understand the Boss 351 had a blue colored ID tag affixed to the carburetor rather than the usual bare aluminum? Is this fact or fallacy? I can get an aluminum tag reproduced, but not sure what the blue tag is all about.
Jeffrey Dettmering
Houston, TX
The Boss 351 car tag is blue anodized aluminum. I have enclosed a picture for reference. You may have to get the tag anodized on your own after you get it reproduced. The picture should give you all the information you need.
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XMas and baby both quickly approaching. New version of GNUe Forms should be ready to go sometime before XMas. Finishing up project here at work, hopefully before baby comes. GNU Enterprise is growing quite nicely both in code and participation.
Now have people from verizon, motorola and ibm to name a few contributing. I got clearance to go to New York as paid time off to speak at LinuxWorld. Yeah. :)


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President David P. Angel
David P. Angel was named the president of Clark University in 2010, only the ninth person to hold the position in the University's 127-year history.
President Angel's tenure began at Clark in 1987, when he joined the faculty as a geography professor, later serving as dean of graduate studies and then as provost. His commitment to ensuring that Clark is a force for transformative education in the 21st century is informed by his training as a researcher and scholar.
Embodying Clark's motto — "Challenge Convention. Change Our World." — President Angel is spearheading initiatives to advance liberal education, promote cutting-edge research and expand community partnerships.
Clark has boldly rethought its undergraduate curriculum, introducing LEEP (Liberal Education and Effective Practice), a distinctive education model that provides students with the intellectual foundation and practical experiences needed to address complex challenges in a rapidly changing world.
Under President Angel's leadership, Clark's faculty and students work across boundaries to develop solutions to complex challenges in the sciences, psychology, geography, management, urban education, Holocaust and genocide studies, environmental studies, and international development.
Clark University continues to produce students who thrive in meaningful careers, embark on post-graduate studies across the globe, and shape lives of consequence.
During President Angel's time as president, Clark has enhanced its standing as a preeminent institution of higher learning. Clark has climbed in the national rankings of top colleges and universities, and applications have soared. And national media frequently seek out Clark faculty members for their expertise on subjects ranging from threats posed by climate change to the challenges facing millennials.
Clark University stands at the forefront of where learning meets research, inquiry sparks action, and where the status quo is never enough — all qualities embodied in our ninth president.


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Great job, +1 rep from me. Someone on the forums was looking for something like this just the other day. Way to go on meeting a need that's out there.
+1. Fantastic tool, great job, very useful.
Entered my newly bought ASP's spec (no hardpoints, I1/D5/D5/B5/D4/D4/D5/-) and the mass came out spot on (480t, plus 32t fuel, 0t cargo).
As I'm currently mostly interested in jump range (efficient rares trading) I went on to cross-check that. And here there seems to be a slight difference (or alternatively some ignorance on my part):
* 26.83ly Current Jump Range on the outfitting screen (screenshot below)
* 29.704ly Jump Range in the tool (unladen, full fuel)
Hope this helps - either improving the tool or my knowledge of how this stuff works.
EDIT: I suspect the 3B FSD has the same mistake, but I can't confirm because the station I'm in at the moment doesn't carry a 3B drive. Hopefully somebody else can check that out and report back.
Thank you very much for doing this. I hope you continue to update it as more data comes in, particularly the power use of internal equipment
Nice one, sooo useful. More rep on it's way.
I discovered something new as a result of a reddit comment about the power usage tallies: every ship hull has an idle, baseline power draw which isn't listed on its in-game stats screen nor, as far as I can tell, on any of the wikis. For example the Sidewinder has an idle 0.92MW power drain before any other modules.
I've filled in the values for the ships I have handy, but if anyone owns a Cobra, Type 6 or Type 7, could you plug in your current loadout and compare the power draw numbers to what you see in-game? Both the deployed and retracted figures should be off by the same amount, which is the missing baseline power draw from those hulls.


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The IndyBar Professionalism Committee has named Chief Justice Brent Dickson of the Indiana Supreme Court the 2014 recipient of the Silver Gavel Award, while Philip "Skip" Kappes of Lewis & Kappes has been awarded the bar's Professionalism Award.
Both will be honored at the upcoming IndyBar Professionalism Luncheon to be held Tuesday, Sept. 30 from noon to 1 p.m. at the Hyatt Indianapolis. The luncheon will also feature special guest speaker Hon. John D. Tinder of the United States Court of Appeals, 7th Circuit. Registration for the luncheon can be found at indybar.org/events.
Chief Justice Brent Dickson was appointed to the Indiana Supreme Court in 1986 after 17 years as a general practice lawyer in Lafayette, Indiana. He has served as Chief Justice of Indiana since May 15, 2012. He will step down as Chief Justice on September 1 and will continue his role on the court as an associate justice. His nomination notes, "As Chief Justice, Justice Dickson has made a commitment to fostering civility in the profession. He leads by example as he always treats other – judges, lawyers and litigants – with respect and dignity. He embodies old-fashioned, but never outdated, gentility."
Chief Justice Dickson has been a member of the IndyBar since 1968. In addition to his service to IndyBar, he has been appointed as a member of the Judicial Conference of the United States Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure and serves on the Board of Directors of the Conference of Chief Justices. Chief Justice Dickson is the founder of the Judicial Family Institute and co-founder of the Sagamore Chapter of the American Inns of Court in Indianapolis. He has served as an adjunct professor at Indiana University Maurer School of law and Robert H. McKinney School of Law. Chief Justice Dickson and his wife, Jan Aikman Dickson, have three adult sons and nine grandchildren.
Philip "Skip" Kappes was selected to receive the 2014 Professionalism Award. Kappes has been practicing law for 62 years and is a founding director of Lewis & Kappes. He has the second-longest active law license in the state. His nomination notes, "He is, at his core, a genuine and caring person. He has taken that personality and made his mark on this community and the legal profession. There is no one better suited to exemplify that you can reach the heights of your profession and keep respect for your fellow man intact."
Kappes is a past president of the Indianapolis Bar Association, having served in 1970. In addition to his service to the legal community, Kappes has served as a past president of both the Children's Museum Board of Trustees and the Crossroad Council Boy Scouts of America. He is currently the chairman of the Scottish Rite Foundation of Indianapolis. Kappes is a Trust Fund Trustee of Crossroad Council Boy Scouts of America and past trustee of Butler University. He is also a past chairman of the board of Fairbanks Hospital.
Kappes graduated from Butler University in 1945 and received his J.D. from University of Michigan in 1948. He has been a member of the IndyBar since 1948.•


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Most of the Updates are great, especially the Insight Info, I have already altered some tags to get more hits. I would like to see more info on video ratings for each of my video's though, like average/top rating.ReplyDelete
YouTube do nothing to stop rapists posting material which shows women being raped and beaten...the flagging feature DOES NOT workReplyDelete
Nice films you wankers
be nice to get some coverage for people doing tech shows in the uk like i do at therealgravity. i've been doing it with no budget for months - more viewers would be awesome. :)ReplyDelete
In terms of concerns over videos, Mr W, I would like to direct you to the Policy and Copyright Guidelines section of our Help Centre: http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/topic.py?topic=10550 There you will find all of our policies, protocols and information on exactly how to go about reporting any type of content or behavior on the site, which you suspect may be in violation of our Community Guidelines: http://www.youtube.com/t/community_guidelines or our Terms of Use: http://www.youtube.com/t/terms.ReplyDelete
In this particular case, I should also point out that the footage you refer to has been shown in cinemas up and down the country, and so passed by the BBFC.
My main dislikes with youtube at the moment are:ReplyDelete
- Badly chosen featured videos
- Cannot revert to classic view on homepage
- Fullscreen now opens a new window, don't like it.
- Videos with most views should go on homepage due to people tagging crap videos with sex for the hell of it.
So yeah, overall it was much better 2/3 months ago, updates suck.
No, no, NO! Bad YouTube!ReplyDelete
When I clicked most viewed I wanted to see the most viewed videos MADE in the UK, I don't care what people in the UK like watching. The most watched list is now just got loads of things from the global most watched vids, and most of that is misleading rubbish like women showing off cleavageto get views.
The UK page has lost it's individuality. I just hope this comment makes some difference.
What's happened to the standard quality?ReplyDelete
Those of us who have uploaded larger files
for the 'High Quality' choice find that the
'Standard Quality' (which embedded players have to use, no quality button available)is no where near as good as when we had to keep it under 100mb
I thought that this was a great idea as it allows users with fewer subscribers to make it on the subscribed all time list which makes it easier for users to get noticed.ReplyDelete
Just leave it alone - every time I go to Youtube UK it seems some geek has made another unneccesary twitch to the system. Enough already, getting fed up with trying to navigate. If I start looking for something that begins with S - I do not want to be offered 'sexy or 'soulja boy' Duh!!! If ain't broke don't fix it.ReplyDelete
Frankly, you guys have made too many changes, it was fine only a few months ago, and now you've made so many changes that frankly, no-one really wants. I don't know why you changed the video screen, it was fine as it was. And now look at the homepage, its disgusting, i have no idea where i'm going anymore.ReplyDelete
Definitely a step in the right direction as I think we need more categories and ways of finding new videos. As someone else said, I'd like to see videos made in the UK as well as watched.ReplyDelete
How about a featured around the world category, so we can see what other countries have featured.
Also, as the site becomes more saturated with videos, how about breaking the categories down further by county/state?
shirla26 and Nintendolad have said everything I want to.ReplyDelete
I'm having serious problems deleting old messages now. Whether i just delete each individual message or tag the whole lot and delete that way, there is something wrong. If i hit refresh on the browser or not they are listing.. 3 pages of messages and no way to get rid of them. Come on youtube, its messed up :/ It's telling me i have new messages, i click the link but none are shown, just the old ones. If i try to click the message after deleting it, it says its not there but they are all listed on the page anyway.ReplyDelete
I just wish any of the videos I watch actually worked. 80% won't even start. I'm a computer buffoon, but most clips I watch go like this. 2 seconds, freeze, few more seconds, freeze, restart, freeze. I get there eventually, but very irritating. Take care, Nick.
It sucks!ReplyDelete
Why does it suck? Because the Video Game section isn't still in the Category section!
The more you guys keep changing the site's design, the more it gets ruined!
Also, I must have emptied my cache & cookies. So I lost the new design:/ I mean, my inbox design looked like the orgininal. Also..I don't like the new inbox design, where were all the sections merged????
I am happy with the original design.
have now given up on you tube,cannot get consistant streaming.too frustrating to watch!ReplyDelete
What is this nonsensical change to reading comments about? It sucks big time. Another reason to start looking for somewhere else to play I think - not that losing the odd contributer bothers YTReplyDelete
I am not at all happy about the new Contacts General Messages area.. It was just right up til last week and easier to read . There is no way to know if Friends have read letters and You have altered most of the Channel Format that worked well .You should have left it as it was .up until April of this Year...ReplyDelete
just a quicky, the new "beta" everytime u click on another vid volume goes back to full and its annoyingReplyDelete
Since High quality has been available I cannot play in standard quality and Beta says "sorry this video is no longer available". Can you help? I have been contacted after posting in YouTube blog by others with same problem. kennygee07ReplyDelete
what did you do to the way videos and comments are shown? i cant stand it. CHANGE IT BACK!ReplyDelete
what did you do to the way videos and comments are shown? i cant stand it. CHANGE IT BACK!ReplyDelete
please help us have unlimited commentsReplyDelete
have now given up on you tube,cannot get consistant streaming.too frustrating to watch!ReplyDelete
have now given up on you tube,cannot get consistant streaming.too frustrating to watch!ReplyDelete
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Tuesday, September 17, 2013
Gambling with Genealogy Purchases
I finally utilized the genealogy services of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services website.
My great-great grandfather, Emile Bourgaux (1866-1948) and my great-great-great grandfather Michel Bourgaux (1840-?) were both naturalized citizens after immigrating from Belgium. Both went through the process in the 1890s.
I have index card records that say they were naturalized. I have birth dates. I have dates of naturalization. Those are important. What I don't have are file numbers.
Before I can request a file from this site, I have to request an index search to see if they're in the database and if they have file numbers. Those are $20 a pop, and there is no guarantee they'll find anything. That's where the genealogical gambling comes in.
I ordered an index search for both ancestors. I got an online warning for my third-great grandfather that it is very unusual for USCIS to find records for people born as far back as 1840. I soldiered on because I have a naturalization date for him and it falls within the website's parameters.
So now I'm out 40 bucks and in a holding pattern. If they find the naturalization file numbers--and that's a big IF--then they should deliver those to me via email. Only then can I shell out more dough and request their naturalization files.
I really help this goes through. I really want to know more about Michel Bourgaux.
Sometimes ordering genealogy records feels like throwing a bunch of money down a dark wishing well and hoping for the best. This is one of those times...
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Good luck! I understand how you feel. Been there done that with some newspaper articles a couple of years ago.ReplyDelete
My great-grandparents naturalized in the 1940s. I was able to get their naturalization records from their county of residence. Would a file from USCIS be any different than what is available at the county level? Now I'm really curious to know what could be in the files from the Feds vs. the county courthouse... Good luck!ReplyDeleteReplies
Leah, my guess is that they are the same files, but it is clearly a guess. I'll let you know when/if I get the files. Right now I'm just trying to get the numbers so I can ask for the files.Delete
I tried to do this at the county level. They told me to go to the state level. That wasn't successful based on the non-reply the librarian gave me. I shelved this search for a couple years until I just decided to try at the federal level. Seriously, these records have to be somewhere!
I second Leah's question. And I hope you find a wealth of treasure at the bottom of that well!!ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks! My guess is that these are the same as the county files, but I don't know. I'll keep you posted, but who knows how long this process will take. I'm still waiting for index results, then I have to hurry up and wait again for files.Delete


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A TEENAGE woman was sexually assaulted in Worcester in the early hours of this morning.
The victim left the Velvet Lounge Nightclub in Angel Place just before 1.55am and walked home via The Butts, Farrier Street and Cherry Tree Walk. She became aware a man was following her and as she approached the railway arches at the junction with Infirmary Walk, the man has approached her and grabbed her by the hand.
He put his arms around her and lifted her off her feet, which caused her to fall backwards and onto the ground. He climbed on top of her, sexually assaulted her and attempted to kiss her, but because she was struggling and shouting at him, he shortly gave up and ran off towards Farrier Street.
The man is described as having a dark complexion - possibly of Asian or Mediterranean background - about 18-20 years old, short at around 5ft 5ins tall, of medium build, and had shaved black hair. He was wearing a dark blue or purple t-shirt with a collar and dark trousers.
Detective Sergeant David Hall of Worcester CID said: "Such stranger attacks are rare but obviously extremely worrying and we have a team of detectives working on the investigation. Additional uniformed patrols will be in the area for the coming days to reassure local residents.
"Thankfully, the young woman's actions seem to have deterred the man, but she has been left very distressed and we are concerned about how much worse this assault could have been.
"I would like to appeal to anyone who was in the area between 1.45am and 2.15am and saw anyone acting suspiciously in the area around Infirmary Walk, Farrier Street, The Butts and Angel Place.
"If anyone recognises the description of the attacker, please contact West Mercia Police immediately."
DS Hall can be contacted via the non-emergency police number 101 or information can be passed on anonymously through the independent charity Crimestoppers (0800 555 111 or via their website : www.crimestoppers-uk.org). Quote the reference number 49s 11/04/14.


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The Ocean Conveyor
Today's climate system is influenced by the ocean's conveyor-like global circulation. Cold, salty waters sink to drive the conveyor, and warm surface currents complete the loop. (Illustration by Jayne Doucette, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
What is the Ocean Conveyor?
A fundamental element of today's climate system is a conveyor-like ocean circulation pattern that distributes vast quantities of heat and moisture around our planet. This global circulation is propelled by the sinking of cold, salty—and therefore dense—ocean waters.
In today's ocean, warm, salty surface water from the Caribbean, the Gulf of Mexico, and the equatorial Atlantic flows northward in the Gulf Stream. As the warm water reaches high North Atlantic latitudes, it gives up heat and moisture to the atmosphere, leaving cold, salty, dense water that sinks to the ocean floor. This water flows at depths, southward and beneath the Gulf Stream, to the Southern Ocean, then through the Indian and Pacific Oceans. Eventually, the water mixes with warmer water and returns to the Atlantic to complete the circulation.
The principal engine of this global circulation, often called the Ocean Conveyor, is the difference in salt content between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Before the Isthmus of Panama existed, Pacific surface waters flowed into the Atlantic. Their waters mixed, roughly balancing the two oceans' salinity.[ MORE ]
About 5 million years ago, the North American, South American, and Caribbean Plates began to converge. The gradual shoaling of the Central American Seaway began to restrict the exchange of water between the Pacific and Atlantic, and their salinities diverged.
Evaporation in the tropical Atlantic and Caribbean left ocean waters there saltier and put fresh water vapor into the atmosphere. The Trade Winds carried the water vapor from east to west across the low-lying Isthmus of Panama and deposited fresh water in the Pacific through rainfall. As a result, the Pacific became relatively fresher, while salinity slowly and steadily increased in the Atlantic.
As a result of the Seaway closure, the Gulf Stream intensified. It transported more warm, salty water masses to high northern latitudes, where Arctic winds cooled them until they became dense enough to sink to the ocean floor. The Ocean Conveyor was rolling, drawing even more Gulf Stream waters northward.[ LESS ]


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Come on, already!So, the thing that everybody said would happen is happening right now. My due date is pretty much here, I still have no baby, and I'm getting impatient. (Really impatient.) I envisioned she'd be here already. I've made all the proper preparations. Her room is ready, the cosleeper is set up, the bottles are sterilized (as well as the apartment), and my bags are packed. I even bought a lovely bouquet of flowers last week in anticipation of her arrival. Alas, no child. Where are you, baby?! Aren't you ready to meet?
So, in the spirit of keeping things au naturel, I've started pulling out the stops. The kooky, crazy, could-totally-be-a-load-of-crap stops that supposedly induce labor sans any drugs. Hey, I'll try anything at this point.
Here are 6 ways that (supposedly) naturally induce labor.
Walking. The classic, right? So many women I know have told me tales of how the day/night they went into labor was after a gigantic hike or walk. Not me. I must have walked 500 miles this weekend, and still, no babe. The concept makes sense, though, as walking apparently helps draw the baby down into your pelvis, and the pressure of the baby on your pelvis may then prime your cervix for labor -- or may help labor progress if you've already felt some contractions.
Spicy foods. Some people believe that eating spicy foods will irritate your intestines and that can cause your uterus to contract. I, on the other hand, am a skeptic as I ate a crapload of ultra-spicy salsa this weekend, and still, no baby.
Pineapples. Like the spicy foods thing, it's also believed that pineapples can help kickstart labor. Pineapples contain an enzyme called bromelain, which some say help soften the cervix. Pineapples are also used as a digestive aid, which could stimulate the bowels to move, which could stimulate contractions.
Sex. May not be the highest thing on your priority list right now, as you're huge and uncomfortable, but sperm contains hormones that can help thin and dilate the cervix, ripening it for delivery. Also, orgasms release the hormone oxytocin, which can trigger contractions. So, if you're down, get yours, girl.
Acupuncture. Other parts of the world have been using acupuncture and acupressure since forever to bring on labor naturally -- certain points can supposedly stimulate uterine activity. If you're going to go this route, though, it's probably best to consult your doctor first, and make sure you go to someone who's certified in this type of acupuncture.
Teas. Always consult your doctor, midwife, doula, aunts, uncles, etc. before getting herbal, but supposedly teas containing black and blue cohosh, raspberry leaf, cumin, or evening primrose oil help bring on labor.
Visualization. People swear by it in all aspects of their lives, why not with labor? I've read that envisioning your cervix opening (whatever that looks like) is a good way to get things going, as well as -- now this is weird -- opening up all of your kitchen cabinets to signify "opening." I'm yet to try the kitchen cabinet thing, but come talk to me in a couple days.
Did you do anything to naturally induce labor?
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