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VICTORIA — The B.C. government announced Thursday it has suspended all drug-related research and fired four of its employees as part of an investigation into the alleged misuse of confidential medical information.
"I can't really overstate how deeply troubled I am by this," Health Minister Margaret MacDiarmid said Thursday.
"What we believe has happened is that individuals have gone outside of the rules around taking data and using data with respect to research in the area of drugs."
On Thursday, The Vancouver Sun reported that seven government employees had been suspended without pay, and that agreements with two contractors had been dropped.
MacDiarmid said four of those employees were fired Thursday, and that three others remain suspended.
She said her ministry has suspended $4 million in drug-related research contracts, including work being done at both the University of B.C. and the University of Victoria.
"This is research that we contract with certain research entities, and that has all been stopped for the moment until we're sure going forward that no health information is being shared inappropriately," she said.
The government announced it has also suspended all data sharing with drug and evidence development researchers.
Other measures include:
• approval by a deputy minister for all spending by the pharmaceutical services division (see sidebar);
• tightening of policies on the awarding of contracts to universities;
• hiring an independent consultant to review and enhance data security measures.
MacDiarmid took over as health minister in a cabinet shuffle Wednesday and said she was shocked to hear of the allegations.
"My reaction was disbelief," she said, adding the investigation was the first thing she was briefed on upon her arrival.
"I continue to be deeply troubled and disturbed by this."
MacDiarmid said it appears the misuse of data was limited to unauthorized research, but noted the investigation is still seeking to determine exactly what information was accessed.
"It is my understanding that it was personal data, that it is regarding medications, but that there is personal data included in that," she said.
"As far as we can understand it was used for research where it wasn't initially given for that purpose. We don't know if it was being used for anything beyond that," she added, saying the ministry has forwarded information to the Information and Privacy Commissioner.
MacDiarmid said the investigation is also looking into allegations of undeclared conflicts of interest.
"It would appear that some of the people that were involved had relationships with others that would put them into a conflict that wasn't declared," she said, adding a family relationship was among the issues.
MacDiarmid also said the motivations for the alleged misconduct remains unclear, noting that so far investigators have not uncovered evidence of any personal financial gain.
The revelations of potential misconduct come just over a year after a former high-ranking official in B.C.'s Ministry of Health, Ron Danderfer, was sentenced to two years' probation after pleading guilty to breach of trust. Danderfer said he committed a crime by accepting the use of a Kelowna condominium and a job for his wife from a contractor he was managing in his role with the government.
The ministry began its recent investigation in May after the auditor general's office relayed an anonymous complaint about contracting irregularities and inappropriate research practices in the ministry's pharmaceutical services division.
The ministry has since involved the RCMP, and last month provided the force with the preliminary results of its internal investigation.
MacDiarmid said the ministry hopes to pass more information to police later this month.
The RCMP would not provide any details Thursday. "Until we have reviewed the information we are not in a position to provide comment," said RCMP spokesman Sgt. Duncan Pound.
In a press release Thursday, government said its internal investigation "examined contracting and research grant practices between ministry employees and researchers at the University of British Columbia and the University of Victoria."
On Thursday, both schools said the Ministry of Health informed them on Wednesday afternoon of the allegations and the action being taken by government.
UBC spokeswoman Lucie McNeill said that because the university learned of the allegations so recently, it is too soon for authorities to determine whether any disciplinary action is necessary on the part of the university.
Representatives of both universities were unable to say how many researchers were involved or their area of health research. Both said they will cooperate fully with the ministry investigation.
New Democratic Party critic Doug Routley said the allegations raise serious questions, especially as so little is known about what took place.
"This is a fairly significant breach if it's already led to the firing of four employees [and] there's a potential RCMP investigation," he said, calling the lack of public information about the case "disconcerting."
"The information they've given so far seems to be a little bit disorganized in the sense they're releasing fairly specific details and at the same time being so vague about other aspects of what happened," he said. "Hopefully for the people involved it is an insignificant issue and that nothing serious has occurred that would damage people's interests."
University of Victoria Prof. Eike-Henner Kluge, an expert in medical ethics, said from what little is known about the case — the improper use of medical data and the cancellation of government contracts — it appears to be very unusual.
As for potential motivations, he speculated one possibility could be assisting a university professor connected to the research with publication and career advancement.
It is unclear who the victims in this case are or how many there were, but Kluge said most data used for medical research does not have patients' names attached to it.
The seven employees belong to the B.C. Government and Service Employees' Union and have filed grievances, but the union will not discuss the case, citing the privacy of their members.
Asked about their members being suspended without pay, BCGEU spokeswoman Karen Tankard said that is "usual government practice."
However, in some other high-profile cases, government staffers have been suspended with pay during an investigation. That includes Bob Virk, a former transportation minister's assistant, embroiled in the infamous BC Rail case, and Danderfer.
At a media briefing in Victoria Thursday, reporters were told that suspensions without pay were not a common practice but that the government makes such decisions based on the information available.
According to B.C.'s Employment Standards Branch, the province can only terminate a worker — without giving notice or paying compensation — by proving there is just cause to do so, which includes finding evidence of fraud, breach of duty, conflict of interest, breaching the employer's rules, and other violations.
B.C. politics expert Norman Ruff, a University of Victoria professor emeritus, said there is a "graduated scale of punishment" for unionized government workers and there is typically "just cause" — sufficient evidence of misconduct — before someone is suspended or terminated.


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The relationship between Dwight Howard and Shaquille O'Neal has run hot-and-cold for years, but it seems like they have reached a deep freeze, at least from Howard's perspective.
Howard sounds ticked-off at O'Neal after O'Neal recently said on TNT, "The best big man in the game is Andrew Bynum."
Howard fired back at O'Neal on Friday, saying that O'Neal is just upset that Howard has his old nickname.
"He's mad about 'Superman,' " Howard told reporters about eight hours before his Orlando Magic faced the Los Angeles Lakers at Amway Center. "I didn't know he made it up. I didn't know Superman came from Shaquille O'Neal."
Later, Howard added: "I would suggest he'd just sit down and get on with his life. He don't play no more, so what's the point of talking trash? It's not like we're wrestlers and we get to battle it out. Who cares?"
No change
Smith reiterated what he's been saying for weeks now: that the team won't necessarily trade Howard before the March 15 trade deadline.
But he did not say the team definitely will keep Howard past March 15, either.
Asked if he thinks Howard will remain on the roster after March 15, Smith answered, "I don't know. I'll still explore, like I always have. So nothing really changes. I wouldn't be shocked. I wouldn't be shocked either way."
The Magic have some leverage. If Howard signs an unrestricted free-agent deal in July with another team or if he leaves the Magic via a sign-and-trade deal, he would be limited to a four-year contract with only 4.5 percent annual raises. The Magic are the only team that can give Howard a five-year contract with 7.5 percent annual raises.
Smith said if Howard leaves, it would be like taking a "$30 million haircut."
Looming deadline
Wednesday is a big deadline day for the Magic for two reasons.
That is the last day teams can sign members of the 2008 draft class — including Ryan Anderson — to extensions. If Jan. 25 elapses without an extension, Anderson eventually would receive a qualifying offer from the team, which would set him up to become a restricted free agent after the season. If Anderson becomes a restricted free agent, the Magic would have the right to match any offer Anderson receives.
General Manager Otis Smith said the team will "have conversations" in the coming days about how to approach the Anderson situation.
The Magic also have a decision to make about 2010 first-round pick Daniel Orton. Wednesday is the last day for the team to exercise its third-year rookie-scale option to retain Orton for 2012-13.
Smith said the team has not reached a decision yet about what it will do. Orton has yet to play in a game for Orlando.
• The Lakers-Magic game invited comparisons between Howard and the Lakers' starting center, Andrew Bynum. Perhaps the biggest difference of them all? Durability. After the 2006-07 season, injuries or illness have forced Bynum to miss 36.5 percent of the regular-season Lakers games for which he was not serving a suspension. After 2006-07, injuries or illness have forced Howard to miss only 1.5 percent of the regular-season Magic games for which he was eligible.
• Glen Davis attended his grandmother's funeral on Friday in Baton Rouge, La., but arrived at Amway Center around 7:10 p.m.
• Former Magic small forward Matt Barnes received as many boos as cheers when he was introduced before tipoff. That was a surprise because Barnes was a fan favorite in Orlando.
• The Lakers-Magic game brought out the celebrities. Magic officials said baseball stars Prince Fielder, David Price and Joey Votto all were expected to attend.
• ESPN analyst Jon Barry ranked his top five power forwards during his network's pregame show. Anderson was fifth on Barry's list.
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The new flagship — Redmi Pro
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Why can Redmi Pro smartphone become a favorite gadget for everyone? The answer is obvious. It is a completely new technological solution, complemented by a beautiful design. Try a new experience of life in the modern world of smart generation. New stylish flagship Redmi Pro with dual camera, a
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Would you like to always have all the necessary information at your fingertips? Do you want to keep each photo and video, in order to save the memories of the brightest moments? Then you're probably familiar with the problem of constant lack of free space. In the Redmi Pro smartphone, this problem is solved by two additional slots for SIM-cards that you can use to expand the memory up to 128GB in addition to the built-in ROM.
* The device is unlocked for worldwide use.
Please ensure that this model is compatible with the frequency of your local area network before purchasing.
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3G bands: HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1900 / 2100
CDMA2000 1xEV-DO
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Blues cruise to Pompey victory
Chelsea booked their place in the FA Cup fourth round with a comfortable 4-0 victory over 2010 final opponents Portsmouth at Stamford Bridge.
Andre Villas-Boas' side lacked a cutting edge in front of goal in the first half, and the two sides went in level at the interval, before Juan Mata broke the deadlock with a close-range strike just after the restart.
That score remained 1-0 until the 85th minute when two quickfire strikes from Ramires was topped off by a Frank Lampard goal in the third minute of stoppage time to give the Blues a scoreline that flattered the reality of their performance.
It's the first time that Chelsea have netted four goals in one game since their emphatic 5-0 UEFA Champions League victory over Genk back in October, and Villas-Boas will be hopeful that today's result is a sign of things to come.
Fernando Torres cut a frustrated figure as he led the forward line in the absence of African Cup of Nations-bound Didier Drogba, but the Spaniard was starved of service throughout the game.
Florent Malouda, making his first start for Chelsea since November, provided the cross to tee up Mata who opened the scoring with a powerful run down the left flank.
As the game wore on, Portsmouth had several chances to draw level, with Marko Futacs denied by Petr Cech after a goal-line scramble when David Luiz was intercepted.
Chelsea would probably have limped to victory, before Ramires' brace, the first a close-range stab, and the second an impressive counter-attack in which the Brazilian converted a Torres assist.
But it was Lampard who had the final say with a typically well-driven shot from the edge of the box, marking his 10th Chelsea goal of the season.News Now - Sport News


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Operation Healthy Streets will include a series of scrub downs in the one-square-mile Skid Row area. The effort will begin today along San Julian Street between Sixth and Seventh streets. The City Council recently approved $3.7 million in funds for the program and expanded it to an every-other-month schedule.
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Lacock is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 and Lacock Abbey was founded on the manorial lands by Ela, Countess of Salisbury in 1232.
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The IMF's Statistical Systems in Context of Revision of the United Nations' A System of National Accounts
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- 2 Treatment of International Organizations
- 3 Change of Ownership and Time of Recording in the National Accounts
- 4 Conversion of Balance of Payments Transactions as a Source of Valuation Changes: Problems, Principles, and Practical Solutions
- 5 Currency Conversion in a Multiple Exchange Rate System
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- 8 Proposed Treatment of Reinvested Earnings on Direct Investment
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- 10 Measurement of a Nation's Terms of Trade Effect and Real National Disposable Income Within a National Accounting Framework
- 11 Classification of Capital Account Transactions
- 12 Classification of Corporate Enterprises
- 13 New Financial Instruments and the Balance of Payments
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- 15 Some Issues in the Balance of Payments Presentation of Arrears and Debt Reorganization
- togglePart II PUBLIC SECTOR ACCOUNTS
- 16 A Discussion of Public Sector Accounts
- 17 An Example of Progress in Delineating Relationships Between Government Finance Statistics and National Accounts Concepts
- 18 Overall Relationships Between the IMF's Government Finance Statistics and A System of National Accounts
- 19 Derivation of System of National Accounts Value from Government Finance Statistics Data
- 20 Sectorization of Social Security Funds
- togglePart III FINANCIAL FLOWS AND BALANCES
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There are barn finds, and then there's this, which really did come out of a barn. The barn was hidden away in a real shot-and-a-beer town. And it went under the rafters really rocked, because in that town, people raced stock cars.
We found it last weekend, being displayed for the first time in 40 years at the Motorsports 2011 expo in Oaks, Pennsylvania, presented by the staff of Area Auto Racing News. The 69 is a 1937 Chevrolet coupe, still riding on an original 1937 frame and fitted with a carbureted Chevy 283. Best as anyone can tell, it was built in the late 1950s and raced out of Julian's Auto Body in South Amboy, New Jersey, apparently by a guy named Charlie Lindmar.
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As a kid went to many Saturday night races in southern Maine and all the dirt tracks raced these late 30's and early 40's cars with a few mid 50's sprinkled in . . . . get memories.
dear jay cannon, read your comment about saturday night racing in southern maine and wondered if you know about Fantasy speedway ,unity plantaion maine …..its a dirt track running 30's 40's and 50's stock cars the way they did back then (not up to date chassis and motors with old bodies )these are what ran back in the early days of racing in maine ……they are planning a 7 race schedule for 2011 ,,,,,the group is trying to preserve old race cars and have even brought back to life an old exeter car , if you like the way it was then you might want to check out this group of deticated enthusist ,,,,,,,
I have been watching Dirt Track racing since the early 70's at Reading (PA). I ended up moving to southern Delaware in 1974 and within a year moved into a house 1/2 mile south of the Georgetown Speedway. Georgetown (also dirt) was built around 1950 by Melvin Joseph who built the NASCAR track in Dover DE. I attended my 1st NASCAR race @ Dover in 1974.
Fast forward to last year. During a 4th of July Celebration in Winslow Maine I saw a bunch of 30's bodied coupes congregating in a parking lot. I had heard about an old dirt track in the area but no one I spoke to could identify where it was. They should call the place the 'Lost Speedway".
I attended a few of the races at Fantasy. I really encourage anyone with an interest in racing to attend in 2011. It was like nostalgia on steroids. The people who run the track and all the drivers were very friendly and approachable.
Been to the Wiscasset (Maine) Speedway myself Jay.
As for this post's old veteran, it's a winner all over again, just for having beaten the odds and having survived.
I hope they are never dumb enough to paint this car. It'll last forever under a good roof.
Save it as it is…almost makes you forget it's 2011.
Actually remember going to a motorcycle race at Weissglass Stadium back in the 1970's.. was a VERY short track
This thing is perfect as is….I put more photos of it on the Flickr Hemmings Nation Pool.
WOW!!!! Brings back memories. As a Car-Crazy Kid from the Jersey Shore, we use to go to Wall Stadium every Sat night in the 60's for the "Races". My dad balanced some race engine pistons for a local car owner in his tool shop. Actual saw Wally Dallenbach driving one of these jalopies. Thank goodness Wall Stadium is still running Stockers.
A little south of the Maine tracks in New Hampshire these cars raced at Dover Speedway, Lee County Raceway and up north a bit, Arundle and a track in Biddeford Maine. My dad new the pit steward at Dover and I started going to the track when I was 8yrs old. I saw the first overhead valved motor hit the track at Dover. It was a real challenge for the flaty's to keep up. Those were the days!
My first introduction to stock cars came when I was five years old and rode around a dirt track with my father's cousin in a flathead powered '38 Ford coupe – sitting on an orange crate!
I spoke with Frank last summer at my mother's wake and he remembers that day as well as I do and he said yes, it was a '38 Ford coupe. That would have been in 1950.
I expect that is where I caught the disease! Still got it to!
[…] Hemmings Auto Blog came across this 1937 Chevy coupe short track racer in Oaks, Pennsylvania at the 2011 Motorsports Expo. Believe it or not, this little rod is a real survivor. […]
That looks awesome, I never realized people were so into the old short track racers. I found some last year at a Mopar guy's place.
This car is amazing. I just can't believe it survived. I agree with Joe, the thing is perfect as is.
There was a similar style Ford '38 opera coupe in our family in northeast PA about 1965, same color, flat head Ford, numbered "89"….anyone have a lead on where the Ford is now?
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[…] Hemmings Auto Blog came across this 1937 Chevy coupe short track racer in Oaks, Pennsylvania at the 2011 Motorsports Expo. Believe it or not, this little rod is a real survivor. […]
I believe this car should remain ,just the way it sits now, it tells a story by just looking at it, as does the hoop schaible #95 from upper black eddy pa. its ashame that most of these old stockers were cut up, and scraped after there dayat a track where they competed. I would love to own one,if anyone has one they would like to sell or get rid of please contact me.
In my opinion this car tells a story and apart of the old short track racing era that it competed in, to change this would be like erasing a part of history of short track racing. I wish more of those cars were still around ,like the #95 of hoop schaible from upper black eddy pa. If anyone has a car they would like to get rid of or has replica of a old race car they want to sell please contact me,
My dad grew up on Staten Island NY. He never owned his own car but used to drive dirt track midgets for someone. I'm trying to find out more about who he may have drove for and especially interested in finding one of the cars he may have driven. His name is Bob Rahn, and lived in Meyers corners and Midland Beach. He recently passed at the age of 86. not sure if he did his racing before or after WWII. If anyone from the Staten Island area may have known him or anything that might help learning more about the racing community back then , would love to hear from you. You can email me at firstname.lastname@example.com. Thanks!
I,m charlie lindmar.This was my racecar. Read the story about it on the LS RACERS website, articles section


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The Senate still needs to approve the measure, which may be caught up in Washington, D.C., city politics.
While the Liberty Memorial is the only national monument to World War I and the people who fought there, Washington has a small memorial to that city's veterans on the National Mall between the U.S. Capitol and the White House.
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He's leading an effort to have a World War I monument built on the National Mall near the memorials to World War II, the Korean War and Vietnam. DeJonge said he wants it built near the site where temporary World War I offices were located in 1917.
"It's critical it be there because that's where the other memorials are for the wars of the 20th Century," he said.
Frank Buckles, who was the last surviving World War I veteran until his death last year at 112, had visited the Liberty Memorial and said he was impressed by the collection. Still, two years before he died, he said the memorial should be built in Washington. A bill to build memorial there is called the Frank Buckles Act.
"Frank Buckles said, with all 110 years of his wisdom, that the National Mall should be the place for the monument to (his) generation," DeJonge said.
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You may be interested to know that a campaign has been launched to request a formal review of the inconsistency in the award of medals to those who were lost when the Royal Edward was sunk in August 1915.
An article will appear in the next edition of The Gallipolian and support is being sought for this campaign.
To add your support or request further information, please email David Crampin at: firstname.lastname@example.com
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A BATTLE royal has broken out to win recognition for hundreds of First World War soldiers almost a century after they died.
Next year marks the centenary of the sinking of a troop ship bound for the Great War battlefield Gallipoli, with the loss of 860 British lives. When the war ended, many of those who died were awarded three campaign medals – but hundreds more missed out.
Now, a group of amateur historians have begun a campaign to ensure that 99 years on from the sinking of His Majesty's Troopship Royal Edward, all the men who went down with her receive just recognition for their sacrifice.
David Crampin and his American friend Jack Carlson from Ohio have spent years researching the story of the Royal Edward which was torpedoed by a German U-Boat on its way to the battlefields of Gallipoli in modern-day Turkey.
The ship, a former ocean liner pressed into military service as a troop carrier, sank in minutes and while around 500 men survived the majority of those aboard were below decks at the time and drowned.
All those who went down with the ship were subsequently awarded the British War Medal, a campaign decoration which recognised overseas service in the 1914-18 conflict. A large number of others also received the 1914-15 Star and the Victory Medal, but for some inexplicable reason around 600 did not.
Mr Crampin, from Watford, sees this as a great injustice and believes the time has finally come for the authorities to set matters right: 'The rules at the time seemed to suggest that because these men were between theatres of war, travelling from the UK via Egypt on their way to Gallipoli they were excluded from receiving these medals. But if that was the case, why did a large number of other men get them? Surely they should all have been treated in the same way – they were on their way to war, keen to do their bit; why should some have missed out when others got the medals they all deserved?'
He explained how he became involved in the campaign to seek justice for the victims: 'A casualty of the Royal Edward, Private Samuel Martin was the grandfather of the late Mrs Marjorie Carlson. Her husband Jack, a retired US engineer, makes annual visits to the UK to research her family background. During one such trip he discovered Sam's lone British War Medal (BWM) and considered it unfair that he failed to get the 1914-15 Star and Victory Medal as well. Sam's brother was my wife's grandfather – and I got drawn in!'
Sam, who celebrated his 57th birthday on the voyage to Turkey, joined up with five other Cornishmen a month earlier. All were keen to do their bit. All but one of them died when the Royal Edward went down. They had been in the army just 38 days.
Now Mr Crampin and Mr Carlson have found support for their campaign from the Gallipoli Association, a charity dedicated to understanding the conflict and remembering those who took part. Membership Trustee Keith Edmonds from Cambridgeshire said: 'There is a really compelling case for this whole issue to be reviewed and for these men to receive the recognition that has been denied them for so long. The Association is supporting David and Jack and we hope that by the time the 100th anniversary of these mens' deaths comes around justice will have been done.'
After the war Winston Churchill, one of the architects of the Dardanelles Campaign, called for all men who had died in transports between theatres of war to receive all three medals. The powers-that-be at the time rejected the idea, but regardless of this ruling, some of the Royal Edward victims did in fact get them all. For example, around 200 men of the Royal Army Medical Corps and the King's Own Scottish Borderers Regiment got all three medals, but the majority of soldiers from the Essex Regiment (almost all of whom were attached from the Norfolk Regiment), the Hampshire Regiment, the Army Service Corps and other units did not.
Mr Crampin sees hope in a recent interim report by the government's Military Medals Review body: 'It accepted that there should be greater readiness to review previous decisions if there were 'exceptional circumstances' and spelt them out. It recognised that the degree of public, press and political support should be taken into account as this suggests there is a prima facie case for another look. It stated that "at a minimum there should be evidence of a significant injustice or inconsistency affecting a substantial group of individuals." We can certainly do that.'
The next step is for Mr Crampin to write to every MP in Norfolk, Essex, Hampshire, Cornwall and the Borders Country to ask for their support in pressing the case for a rethink.
'I just won't rest until this matter is resolved. It can't be right that these men who made the ultimate sacrifice didn't get the same medals as their mates. They've waited long enough.'
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On Wednesday 17 October 2012, booking for Winter Season productions at the Royal Opera House opens for the general public. Booking for Winter Advanced Packages, which includes a Winter Family Package, has been open since 10 October.
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The Royal Opera opens the Winter Season with Kasper Holten's directorial debut Eugene Onegin. A production described by Kasper as a fresh reading of a classic opera, the titular role will be sung by Simon Keenlyside, who played the role of Macbeth in Covent Garden to critical acclaim in 2011. The season also features the hotly anticipated UK premiere of George Benjamin's Written on Skin, for which director Katie Mitchell makes her Royal Opera main stage debut; Jonathan Kent's much-loved production of the classic Tosca; and Daniele Abbado's new production of Nabucco, which will feature Plácido Domingo in the title role.
Royal Ballet productions for the Winter Season include three mixed bills, ranging from a Russian-flavoured evening of The Firebird, In the Night and Raymonda Act III, to a classic all-Ashton programme that includes the passionate Marguerite and Armand. New work comes from both Alexei Ratmansky, artist-in-residence at the American Ballet Theatre, and Christopher Wheeldon. These two works will be performed in a triple bill with George Balanchine's Apollo. The season also includes John Cranko's masterful Onegin, Arthur Pita's dance-theatre adaptation of Kafka's novella The Metamorphosis, and performances from Cassa Pancho's Ballet Black in the Linbury Studio Theatre.
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Carey Van Driest
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As soon as Arkansas' Colton Miles-Nash dove through the Ohio State line to block a punt with just over a minute remaining in the Sugar Bowl, Buckeye fans everywhere probably had one thought on their collective minds: "Not again."
Facing off against teams from the Southeastern Conference in the post season has been something of quixotic endeavor for Ohio State. The storied Big Ten program had lost nine consecutive bowl games to the SEC, stretching all the way back to a 1978 Sugar Bowl loss to Alabama, before the start of tonight's contest.
But just like winning streaks, losing streaks are made to come to an end and an interception by OSU's Solomon Thomas of a Ryan Mallett pass with 58 seconds left in the game slammed the door on a furious rally by the Razorbacks and delivered a 31-26 victory to the Buckeyes.
Terrelle Pryor threw two touchdown passes, helping Ohio State build a big first half lead, but Arkansas (10-3), led by probable NFL first-round selection Mallett and an aggressive defense, almost clawed their way back from a 28-10 halftime deficit.
The Buckeyes' Pryor and Thomas were among five Ohio State players found to have violated NCAA rules by selling memorabilia and getting discounted tattoos just before the Buckeyes (12-1) headed for the Big Easy.
That group - which will be forced to sit out the first five games of the 2011 season - also included running back Dan Herron and wide receiver DeVier Posey, who each scored a touchdown. But Thomas, the only backup among them, made the biggest play of all.
Pryor has vowed to return for his senior season, even though he won't be able to play until next October. He left the Ohio State faithful with a good memory, completing 14 of 25 passes, including a 15-yard TD to Dane Sanzenbacher and a 43-yarder to Posey.
Pryor also ran for a team-leading 115 yards.
Mallett was 24 of 47 for 277 yards, including a pair of touchdowns. But he'd sure like to have that last pass back.
Ohio State raced to a 28-7 lead in the first half. Sanzenbacher scored the first of his two TDs by recovering a fumble by Pryor at the end of a 34-yard run. Two Arkansas players knocked each other off the loose ball, and the Ohio State senior fell on it.
Herron scored on a 9-yard run, then Pryor hooked up with Sanzenbacher and Posey on touchdown throws that had it looking like a Buckeyes rout. Arkansas stopped the onslaught, but Ohio State was still comfortably ahead, 31-13 with just over 4 minutes left in the third quarter, after Devin Barclay booted a 46-yard field goal.
From there, it was all Arkansas -- until the final minute.
In the last minute of the third, Mallett laid out a pass with perfect touch in the corner of the end zone. Jarius Wright ran under it and got a foot down for a 22-yard touchdown.
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Then, after backing up Ohio State at its own 4 with a punt, Arkansas benefited from a highly questionable call by the officials to pick up two more points.
Herron was stacked up at around the 2 by Anthony Leon, who shoved the running back into the end zone. But the officials didn't immediately blow the whistle, Herron broke away briefly and then was swarmed over by Jake Bequette and Rudell Crim.
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Pryor kneeled down twice, and Ohio State finally had that first bowl win over the SEC.


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Submitted by Charles Hugh Smith from Of Two Minds
A Common-Sense View of the Stock Market
Common sense leads us to the "obvious" conclusion that the U.S. stock market is a rigged skimming operation that is essentially a form of legalized, officially sanctioned fraud.
Active traders and professional money managers already know how the U.S. stock market actually works, but Joe and Jane Citizen, whose pensions generally depend on the market in some way, typically do not. This entry is for them. Today's financial markets are endlessly complex, and this complexity implicitly serves to mask the true nature of market operations.
Most of this complexity can be boiled away with zero loss of understanding. Indeed, manipulating this complexity is what earns the big bucks on Wall Street, while boiling it away earns the big bucks for commentators and analysts. Thus complexity serves the financial industry extremely well.
The first and most important thing to understand about the U.S. stock market is how few humans are actually involved in the decision to buy or sell large blocks of shares. Machines do most of the trading. High-frequency trading (HFT) computers buy and sell millions of shares in milliseconds: Zero Hedge: From Chicago To New York And Back In 8.5 Milliseconds:
The reason why little if anything can and will be done to fix the persistent threat to capital markets that is HFT is two fold: i) none of the current regulators understand anything about modern market topology, and ii) HFT is so embedded in markets that unrooting it would result in a complete reboot of "fair" stock valuation.
That said it is always amusing to observe as more and more people get in on the scam that is the "equity market", now completely dominated by robots which do nothing but accelerate and perpetuate momentum moves - after all it is all they can do in lieu of being able to read financials, or anticipate events. Remember: it is always the market that makes the news, never the other way around.
In essence, HFT is a gigantic skimming operation that exploits tiny differences in the bid/ask prices of stocks to buy and sell millions of shares for slivers of profit that are multiplied by millions of shares traded in seconds. Raging Bulls: How Wall Street Got Addicted to Light-Speed Trading (Wired Magazine, via Zero Hedge).
Other computers are programmed by math-wizard "quants" to trade momentum and technical signals. Since everyone in today's markets has access to the same technical triggers and data, computers are programmed to respond to these signals.
For example, days with large pre-market buying of S&P 500 (SPX) futures contracts tend to open up, so trading robots will buy at the open and ride the momentum up. If the market rallies by 3 p.m., the odds of it closing higher are very high. This is how keying on momentum yields low-risk profits if the trading involves millions of shares that are held for microseconds, seconds, or minutes.
Here's another example: if technical analysis (TA) has identified SPX 1,366 as a key level, then once the market surges above 1,366, the trading robots will buy into the move.
The second important thing to know about the stock market is that central banks and governments intervene as buyers to trigger rallies and put floors under declines. As noted above, huge buying of futures triggers opening rallies. It is a poorly kept secret that central banks or officially sanctioned but cloaked "plunge protection teams" are doing the buying.
Once again it is relatively easy to steer the market because humans and computers alike are keyed on certain well-known technical signals. For example, if the 200-day moving average of the SPX is 1,300, and the index dips down to that level, computers are programmed to sell if it breaks below that support level or buy if it spikes above it.
Authorities need only issue massive buy orders at these critical levels to "stick-save" markets from declines.
As regular folks continue to pull their money out of the market, either tiring of losses and volatility or recognizing it is rigged to their disadvantage, trading volumes have declined, making official but "secret" intervention both cheaper and easier.
Just as the U.S. stock market now depends on high-frequency trading, it also depends on official intervention to stop any decline.
How is it legal for HFT computers to skim profits that are unavailable to human traders? Clearly, this is legalized fraud, or if you prefer, embezzlement.
The third thing to know about U.S. stock market is that their operations are opaque, invisible, and hidden from the citizenry and non-Elite human traders. How much of the market volume is computers skimming via HFT can only be estimated. Official buying to spark rallies or stop declines dead in their tracks is also hidden from the citizenry.
Huge volumes of shares are traded off the public exchanges in so-called "dark pools" that are also hidden from the citizenry and non-Elite human traders.
How "fair and open" can an exchange be when its critical operations are hidden from public view? Answer: it cannot be fair and open. It is rigged to favor Elite players, who are allowed to legally skim billions of dollars in profits by means which are unavailable to non-Elites investors.
This vast skimming operation is enabled, enforced and supported by the Central State and the (privately owned and operated) Central Bank of the U.S., the Federal Reserve.
The Pareto distribution can help us understand how the market really works. Though it may well be that a mere 10% of stock market volume is human-traded shares, let's assume the 80/20 rule applies and 80% of the shares are being traded by 20% of the traders, most of whom are machines.
Taking the distribution one step further, we can estimate that 64% of the volume is executed by a mere 4% of the players.
The fourth and last thing to know about U.S. stock markets is that this skimming and intervention have left the markets extremely vulnerable to collapse. Official but secret intervention is called the "Bernanke put," meaning that the Fed will intervene to keep the market aloft, regardless of what is happening in the real world of the global economy.
This faith in central-planning manipulation of the market has encouraged an extremely high level of complacency in traders; they confidently trade the market higher, knowing that the Fed will never let it fall.
But this leaves the market exquisitely vulnerable to high-volume selloffs that roll right over the Fed's rather modest buying power.
Since HFT and quant trading robots are programmed to buy and sell at commonly-known technical signals, if certain levels are broken to the downside, the selling will quickly avalanche as trading machines issue sells.
Leaving 80% of the volume to programmed computers leaves the markets extremely vulnerable to cascading momentum selling. If you live by momentum trading, you also die by momentum trading.
If you wanted to design a system that was eventually guaranteed to crash, then you'd design a system that is dependent on opaque official intervention and HFT/quant computer trading for 80% of its volume. That's the system the Central State, the Fed and the financial Elites are supporting and enforcing because it's an enormously profitable skimming operation that is also a supremely useful tool for managing perceptions: if the market trend is always rising, then the economy must be improving.
This is of course a false correlation: the market is hitting highs while the global economy is unraveling.
Beneath the surface stability, the Fed, the State and the financial Elites have constructed a terribly unstable system for skimming unearned wealth and propping up a propaganda facade of economic "improvement."
If watching a tiny Elite skim billions of dollars from the real economy with the aid of the Fed is your idea of "improvement," then by all means, buy the rally. Just be ready to sell in 10 milliseconds.