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Dive into the nightlife of Budapest in the classiest way possible, and board a spectacular river cruise at 10pm which takes you around the most memorable sights of the city! Let yourself be dazzled by the illuminated bridges, buildings and monuments on the Danube shore while sipping your favourite cocktails in the open deck of the boat!
The 90 minutes long program starts at 10pm and includes 2 large cocktails or wine tasting experinece, which you may choose from a diverse cocktail menu and the sample wine list. The boat starts from the middle of the city and it passes underneath all the 6 main bridges of Budapest, providing breath-taking views of the glistering city in the dark. You may enjoy the cruise from the heated or air conditioned interior of the boat, or have an unconcealed perspective from the open upper deck of the ship. Grab your favourite drink, and breathe in the distinct nightlife atmosphere of Budapest!
In the inner deck of the boat, you will be serenaded with live music from four members of the Rajko Folk Ensemble playing popular favourites and local classics for your amusement.
Warm ala carte meals are available on the program with very reasonable prices, if you feel hungry!
Cocktail list on board:
Cuba Libre
Old Fashioned
Pina Colada
Sex on the Beach
Tequilla Sunrise
Gin Fizz
Wine list to taste:
Tokaji Furmint Grand Selection
Hilltop Premium Merlot
Juhász Blue Frankish Rosé
Bodri Szekszárdi Civilis Cuvée
Bárdos Pincészet Pinot Grigio
Tokaji Szamorodni Sweet
Tokaji Aszu 3 Puttonyos
Duration: 1,5 hours
Includes: two cocktails or wine tasting, live music
Please make sure to do the following if you've ordered the pickup, drop off service, in case not please disregard the following points
• Be ready at the reception of your accommodation- 30-40 minutes prior to the start of your activity and please note that the exact time of your pick up is based on the traffic and the popularity of the service on the selected date
• In case you are staying in an accommodation without a reception desk, please wait outside of your accommodation for your chauffeur
• Provide the exact address and name of your accommodation within the city limits of Budapest
• Provide your phone number for the organising company. In case you have not done it during the booking process please send it to the following address: firstname.lastname@example.com
• Keep your phone charged and turned on, on the day of your activity. In case your phone does not have coverage in Hungary and roaming services are not enabled, please make sure to check your emails frequently for updates from the organiser.
• Answer your phone when our colleagues are calling you on the day of your activity or reply to the email sent in case you are not available via phone.
• In order you would not like to use the drop off service we are not able to provide a partial refund for the drop off part of the service.
• You are entitled to a refund in case your complaints reflect the errors of the organising company and in case you have made a phone call to one of the below mentioned phone numbers at the site and time of your issue.
• This service is NOT a private transfer, hence we are not able to guarantee exclusivity during your transfer. We are not able to take responsibility from any delays caused by other guests.
• Please note: Fulfilment of last minute pick-up, drop-off requests received on the day of the program are not guaranteed and based on the available drivers.
NOTE: In the case of you not showing up for the pick-up in time and missing the performance as a consequence, we will reschedule your event for a later time if are able to, but without the transfer service.
If this is not a possibility or you leave Budapest, the organizer will not be able to refund money to you for any of these services.
In case you have any queries regarding your pick up, drop off service please call the following phone number: +361 317 1377
In case of EMERGENCIES, call the following number: +3630 659 7007


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Torch with LED lamp for hazardous areas
Also in the oil & gas industry, the popularity of LED lights have not gone unnoticed. The new small explosion proof torch with LED lamps from STAHL is ideal for maintenance purposes in the hazardous area. It's not new that the LED energy efficient is, however that it is used in a torch, that IS new!
The torch is available in two types. A 3 Volts design for Zone 1 and 2, and a 6 Volts design for Zone 1, 2, 21 and 22. Both torches work with batteries.
Several accessories are available. However, the fibre-optic top piece is unique. Even the smallest and most inaccessible areas can be highlighted this way.
Type 6141/61-16
Zone 1 & 2
3 Volts
2x AAA batterij
Type 6141/62-26
Zone 1, 2, 21 & 22
6 Volts
4x AA battery
- ATEX en IECEx certified
- Available in 2 designs
- LED light source
- Waterproof IP68
Download information
- Website STAHL: 6141/6
- Datasheet
- Certificates

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I hate the maria narcisa. lol
It is the year 2003. In response to the growing use of sophisticated digital encryption to conceal potential threats to the national security of the United States, the NSA (National Security Agency) has ushered forth a new dawn of intelligence-gathering techniques. This top-secret initiative is dubbed Third Echelon. Denied to exist by the U.S. government, Third Echelon deploys elite intelligence-gathering units consisting of a lone field operative supported by a remote team. Like a sliver of glass, a Splinter Cell is small, sharp, and nearly invisible. March 10, 2004 The CIA contacted NSA officials regarding the loss of contact with Agent Alison Madison, a CIA operative monitoring widespread communication shortages plaguing the former Soviet Republic of Georgia. A second operative, Agent Blaustein, was inserted into the Georgian capital T'bilisi to locate Agent Madison, only to drop from contact seven days later. Fearing for the lives of American agents compromised at the hands of...
I hate the maria narcisa. lol
That face makes that man the incarnate of "******"
Lol that guy needs to visit a doc to check his teeths .
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The Cock And Swine Open Mic Night at The Cock And Swine, Swinton
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|Fortnightly Tuesdays
|The Cock And Swine Open Mic Night
|Music Open Mic
|The Cock And Swine, 207 worsley road, Swinton, M27 5SQ
|Swinton (Greater Manchester)
|Venue phone
|07989 813229
|Full PA with bass amp. Percussion and snare drums welcome.
|Welcomed mediums
|Acoustic/Electro-Acoustic Poetry Electronica/Synth Rock/Punk/Metal The Blues Folk Storytelling Reggae Jazz Funk & Soul World Music Musical
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Recipe Makeover: Vitamin-Rich, From-Scratch Oven Fries
Easy side dishes are a must at summer cookouts. But rather than buying store-bought, calorie-laden potato salad and coleslaw, take the time to make your own bites—it will be cheaper and healthier!
So to test my theory, I chose to put a healthy twist on these From-Scratch Oven Fries using fresh sweet potatoes. Good for you and delicious—this recipe basically cooks itself.
Just follow the few simple tweaks below and you'll be serving up vitamin-rich, flavor-packed finger food for yourself and your guests!
- 1 1/2 pounds medium-size baking potatoes, peeled and cut into 1/2-inch-thick strips (In place of the baking potatoes I used sweet potatoes which pack vitamin C, folate, fiber, potassium, and beta carotene)
- 1 tbsp. vegetable oil (I replaced the vegetable oil with 1 tbsp. of heart-healthy canola oil)
- 1/2 tsp. kosher or table salt (Here I used 1/2 tsp. of sea salt which tends to be less processed and a bit more flavorful than table salt)
Homemade french fries might seem like a big undertaking, but if you bake them instead of frying and swap regular potatoes with sweet, they can be a healthy and delicious addition to a meal that's loaded with vitamins. Crispy and light, these didn't weigh me down, and were simple to prepare and tasted great!


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Utah Jazz Gone Fishin' 2012 (and 2011)
TNT's "Gone Fishing" pics for the Jazz have gone completely downhill in the past few years. Last year's was a horrid sight (Deron pushing Jerry off the boat), but induces a horrified laugh. This year's was just plain uninspired and was probably Photoshopped by an intern during his five-minute lunch break:
So, here's mine (originally posted at SLC Dunk; click to enlarge):
And here's the one I did last year, since I don't have much else to post right now (click to enlarge):
SurlyMae permalinkMay 16, 2012 11:02 pm
Haha the "It is what it is" from last year's has taken on a whole new meaning for me.
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I am seriously floored! You sent the season off in the most perfect manner; you captured the essence of this season and each element of the team. Raja and CJ on the sinking ship, the kiddie pool and Gordons floaties… I love last years and laughed with joy and pain at this years picture. Thank you for blogging!
ps I still love AK's hair, especially in his MVP pics.
shandonfan permalinkMay 17, 2012 3:04 pm
BTS and Al in last year's … I still laugh every time I think about that. Pure brilliance.


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STRASBOURG, France/LONDON (Reuters) - Companies found guilty of rigging market benchmarks like Libor could be fined the equivalent of 15 percent of their turnover under a European Union law approved on Tuesday.
The EU law, approved by the European Parliament and due to come into force within two years, revises market abuse rules to make the rigging of benchmarks illegal.
The market abuse rules are also extended to cover electronic trading such as "high-frequency" trading, criticized by some lawmakers for creating volatility in markets.
Three banks - UBS, RBS and Barclays - have been fined for rigging the London Interbank Offered Rate or Libor, but only under existing conduct rules.
This prompted lawmakers to widen the scope of EU rules to benchmarks, as well as to commodity derivatives affecting food and energy prices, to underscore their determination to clamp down on malpractice.
Penalties have also been toughened up so that companies convicted of abuses could be fined up to 15 percent of their annual turnover or 15 million euros ($19.9 million), with individuals fined up to 5 million euros and banned from the industry.
"The Libor scandal was market manipulation of the worst kind. We are seeing more alleged and potential manipulation of benchmarks in energy markets such as oil and gas and foreign exchange markets," said Arlene McCarthy, the British center-left lawmaker who negotiated the rules with member states.
A second leg to the revision of the EU rules, which will introduce powers to jail market abusers, is expected to be also approved in coming weeks.
Separately on Tuesday, Martin Wheatley, chief executive of Britain's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) watchdog, confirmed for the first time he was studying ISDAfix, a benchmark widely used to anchor market rates.
He said he was in touch with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), a regulator, on the matter after it said in April it had subpoenaed the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) over ISDAfix.
ISDAfix is based on a survey of a panel of banks for the different currencies which are collected by brokerage ICAP and sent on to Thomson Reuters Corp, which calculates the fixing.
"We have asked for records, the CFTC have asked for records and I think one or two others have as well," Wheatley told the UK parliament's Treasury Select Committee. "We are talking millions of records. We are at an early stage."
It was too early to say if inquiries will lead to formal investigations or how big possible fines could be, he said.
Asked if he was aware of attempts to manipulate other benchmarks such as in oil and gas, Wheatley said: "Yes. In our enforcement process at any one time we have several hundred lines of inquiry. The answer is yes. We are very busy."
ICAP said in May it was co-operating with the CFTC in its inquiries about ISDAfix but its internal investigations had concluded its brokers had done nothing wrong in relation to the measure.
The revised EU law also bans company managers from selling their shares within a month of monthly, quarterly or annual statements, aiming to help crack down on insider trading. Executives must also report any share transactions with a value of more than 5,000 euros. ($1 = 0.7538 euros)
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Bluebonnets Liquid Calcium Magnesium Citrate Plus Vitamin D3 provides calcium in a chelate of calcium citrate (600 mg), as well as magnesium (300 mg) in a chelate of magnesium citrate and magnesium aspartate in a naturally delicious mixed berry flavor. Plus, this formula contains vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol) (400 IU) from natural lanolin. Available in an easy-to-swallow liquid form for maximum assimilation and absorption.
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Serving Size 1 Tablespoon (15 mL)
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400 IUVitamin D3 (cholecalciferol) 60
600 mgCalcium (citrate) 75
300 mgMagnesium (citrate, aspartate) Daily Value based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
Other Ingredients: Filtered water, fructose, citric acid, natural flavors, xanthan gum, sea vegetable extract.
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Building RKWard From Source
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* On Debian based systems (such as Ubuntu) the following will get all the dependencies installed (and hopefully the package names will be similar on other distributions):
* On Debian based systems (such as Ubuntu) the following will get all the dependencies installed (and hopefully the package names will be similar on other distributions):
$ apt-get install
$ apt-get install kdelibs5-dev libx11-dev r-base-core r-base-dev cmake
=== Compilation ===
=== Compilation ===
Revision as of 08:47, 19 April 2016
The purpose of this page is to give you step-by-step instructions to compile and install RKWard from sources.
Note: These are generic instructions, which should work on most systems. However, for many systems, more detailed instructions, or even ready-made binary packages are available. See Binaries_and_Build_Scripts.
Note: For instructions on compiling the KDE 3 versions of RKWard (before RKWard 0.5.0), please refer to an older version of this page.
Related pages
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Building RKWard
RKWard requires:
- KDE-libraries and headers (>= 4.0) (http://www.kde.org)
- The names of the required packages differ from distribution to distribution. Some are called "kdelibs4", some "libkde4", on Debian and Ubuntu the name is "kdelibs5". For the headers you will generally need packages called "kdelibs4-dev", "libkde4-devel" or similar.
- Qt-libraries and headers (>= 4.3) (http://www.trolltech.com)
- On most systems these should be installed automatically, when you install the KDE-libraries, above.
- X11-libraries and headers (http://www.x.org)
- On many systems these will be installed automatically, when you install the KDE-libaries. On other systems you may need to install libx11-dev/x11lib-dev, manually.
- R and headers (http://www.r-project.org)
- Common package names are "r", "r-base", etc. Note that some distributions package the HTML-documentation in a separate package, so look out for "r-base-html" or similar package names.
- If you compile R from source, make sure to use the "--enable-R-shlib" option to configure.
- CMake (http://cmake.org)
- Generally this package is called "cmake".
If you can't find the required packages for your distribution, take a look at Binaries_and_Build_Scripts for distribution specific information, or contact us for help.
Debian derivatives:
- On Debian based systems (such as Ubuntu) the following will get all the dependencies installed (and hopefully the package names will be similar on other distributions):
$ apt-get install kdelibs5-dev libx11-dev r-base-core r-base-dev cmake
IMPORTANT: You will need to have the R shared library installed. This is typically located in a place like /usr/lib/R/lib/libR.so. Unfortunately, some distributions do not yet ship their R binary with the shared library. In those (rare) cases, you'll have to compile and install R on your own with the option --enable-R-shlib.
Suppose the source is obtained as (here rkward-0.5.3.tar.gz is used as an example, change it accordingly):
$ tar xzf rkward-0.5.3.tar.gz # extracts to rkward-0.5.3 directory $ cd rkward-0.5.3
Then, the recommended way to build from source is:
$ mkdir build; cd build $ cmake .. [options] # see Path to sources and CMake options below $ make $ sudo make install
Path to sources
The cmake command needs to know the path to rkward sources. Typically this where the CMakeLists.txt file exists. Since, in the example above, the build directory was created inside the extracted source directory, CMakeLists.txt exists in the directory immediately above; hence '..' is the appropriate path.
CMake options (configuring)
The cmake command offers a number of parameters to control the build process. Some commonly needed are:
- set the installation base directory. Generally -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=`kde4-config --prefix` should be correct.
- When installing as a normal user (i.e., w/o root access), `kde4-config --localprefix` should work.
- If you set the prefix to /usr/local (the default if you don't pass -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX), you will probably need to add this directory to the KDEDIRS environment variable: export KDEDIRS="/usr/local:$KDEDIRS" (you may want to add this line to your ~/.bashrc to avoid running it on every login)
- type of build. Useful settings include -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release and -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=debugfull
In some cases you may want to set the following options:
- path to the R executable. You may want to set this, if you have multiple versions of R installed, or R is not in your path. Example: -DR_EXECUTABLE=/usr/bin/R
- directory where R packages should be installed. This option is mainly of interest to packagers.
- When installing as a normal user (i.e., w/o root access), this needs to be explicitely specified. Generally this is the R_LIBS_USER variable from the Renviron file which can be identified from withing R using:
$ R --silent > Sys.getenv ("R_LIBS_USER"). R_LIBS_USER "~/R/i486-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.9"
- For example, on a i386 Debian with R 2.9, ~/R/i486-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.9 is the default. Create the directory manually, if it doesn't exist: mkdir -p ~/R/i486-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.9 . Then, using -DR_LIBDIR=$HOME/R/i486-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.9 should work.
- R home directory. Almost certainly this option is not needed.
- path to R include files. Almost certainly this option is not needed.
Further generic options are listed on http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_Useful_Variables .
As a last step, you _have to_ run 'make install'. Otherwise RKWard will be missing important menu-options, may behave strangely, or may not run at all. As root run:
$ make install
Make sure you have set the correct path in cmake (the -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX option).
For now it's recommended to run RKWard from the command-line for debug-output. For the few available command-line options see
$ rkward --help
The most common source of problems are
- Missing some of the build requirements
- Wrong / missing parameters to cmake
So please re-read the corresponding sections, first. If you're still in trouble, let us know, we'll be happy to help you.
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I have a question. If I had some ELITE ammo and decided to sell it. Would anyone be interested? What I have is 40 rounds of ProtecTOR. 50 rounds of fn blue tip 50 rounds of standard. Would anyone be interested and if so what is it worth now?
Will post in for sale if there is any interest.
Forum for discussing factory & reloading non-5.7x28mm ammunition.
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Can anyone explain why elite ammunition ProtecTOR IV can only be used in the pistol?
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weight of bullet and velocity. the PS90 isn't as favorable for the heavier loads
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Buffman wrote:weight of bullet and velocity. the PS90 isn't as favorable for the heavier loads
Yep and it's the ProII not the ProIV. If you SBR are your PS90 it will work fine in it.
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Does anyone have any EA ProtecTOR II or any of the VarminTOR rounds for sale or trade?
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By Sarah Banks, Audience Engagement Specialist
Welcome to Unearthed, the blog of the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History!
After two years of taking you behind-the-scenes, introducing your to fascinating species, and updating you on the latest happenings at the Museum, we're asking you to tell us what you want to see in the future.
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Learn the history of the building's name
Crispell Hall is a newly renovated residence hall within the Hasbrouck complex. Common area spaces include modern furnishings and decor that provide students with a comfortable space to study, or relax with friends.
The Hasbrouck complex is made up of suites, each having two to four student rooms, a common bath and a small lounge area. Students who live in the suites enjoy the privacy of their own "living room" and often personalize it (along with their individual rooms) with posters, plants, rugs and furniture. The residents are responsible for maintaining and cleaning their own bathroom.
In the basement of Crispell Hall are a laundry room with washers and dryers, a T.V. lounge, a bike storage room, a recycling room, a study lounge, computer lounge, and a kitchen equipped with an oven, stove top, and microwave. Located on the first floor are vending machines, student mailboxes, as well as public restrooms.
Crispell Hall is in close proximity to a campus computer lab, the Hasbrouck Dining Hall, and the Student Union Building. Crispell Hall seeks to provide its diverse students with academic, cultural, educational and social programs to enhance living and learning experiences outside of the classroom. As a 10-month hall, Crispell is open during all scheduled vacations (unless otherwise indicated by the Director of Residence Life) to permit those students needing housing an opportunity to remain on campus when other halls are closed. You must already live in 10-month housing to stay over breaks.
History: Crispell Hall is named after the Crispell Family, one of the original Huguenot families who settled in New Paltz. In 1660, Antoine Crispell, along with his wife Maria Blanchard and father-in-law, set sail on the Gilded Otter. They were Huguenots escaping religious persecution in France. The young couple had recently married in Mannheim, Germany, and left for America from there. Upon their arrival in what was then New Amsterdam, they headed up the Hudson River to the areas now known as Hurley and Kingston, New York. There they made their new home. Antoine and his family had been settled for nearly 16 years, with their now-teenaged daughter and four other children, when another group of Huguenots arrived from Europe and decided to locate in the rich farmland south of Hurley/Kingston. And so, a few years later, "the oldest street in America with its original stone houses" got its start in a place called New Paltz. Antoine and, later, his sons and daughters, did quite well-farming, milling and acquiring land. One property that Antoine bought, lived in, and later willed to daughter Jannetje, is now a charming restaurant and tavern in Kingston. The Hoffman House is so called because Jannetje married Nicholas Hoffman, where they raised nine children.
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Our area has a long history of supporting Lourdes' efforts to be our community's hospital. Our mission has been to provide the best care possible for those in need. Today, there are many ways that you can give to Lourdes.
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California is nearly as dry as it's ever been. High water marks rim half-full reservoirs. Cities are rationing water. Clerics are praying for rain. Ranchers are selling cattle, and farmers are fallowing fields.
Gov. Jerry Brown formally proclaimed a drought Friday, saying California is in the midst of perhaps its worst dry spell in a century. He made the announcement in San Francisco amid increasing pressure from lawmakers and as firefighters battled flare-ups in a Southern California wildfire that chased thousands of people from their homes.
Unless the state gets significant rainfall in the next two months, television sets glowing with wildfires could play like reruns throughout the year.
Reservoir levels in the north and central parts of the state were more depleted than in Southern California, but Brown still asked Los Angeles to do its part to conserve — and gave a nod to the politics of water in the vast state.
"The drought accentuates and further displays the conflicts between north and south and between urban and rural parts of the state," Brown said. "So, as governor, I'll be doing my part to bring people together and working through this."
In Southern California, environmental groups and suppliers agreed that more must be done to improve the state's water supply.
"Metropolitan fully supports the governor's declaration as an important first step in highlighting the potential severity of this drought on California," said Jeffrey Kightlinger, general manager of Metropolitan Water District of Southern California.
Many in the water community said they would use the governor's declaration to shine a light on the need for more water conservation.
"Lowering water demand in Southern California is a big reason why this region has sufficient supplies short term, but this drought is a wake-up call to re-examine all of our water uses and redouble the commitment to conserve every possible drop," Kightlinger added.
Heal The Bay, an environmental group focusing on reducing urban runoff and cleaning up Santa Monica Bay, said Angelenos look at water conservation as they do New Year's resolutions to shed pounds — they usually don't stick with it.
"Like a dieter who abandons short-term fad fixes, we now have to think about permanent and fundamental changes in our water behavior. As some of us step on the scale and realize the need for a drastic lifestyle change, so too must we design our water diet for the coming future," wrote Conner Everts, executive director of the Southern California Watershed Alliance, a partner with Heal The Bay.
Smaller water agencies, called mutuals, are concerned about buying more imported water from Metropolitan at higher prices.
Jim Byerrum, chairman of the California Association of Mutual Water Companies board, said: "This means either dry wells and local communities in distress, or rate shock as small, disadvantaged communities with high rates of unemployment and poverty turn to imported water."
Farmers and ranchers in the nation's No. 1 farm state already are making hard choices to conserve. Some cities are in danger of running out of water. And the first snow survey of the winter found more bare ground than fluffy white stuff — a key barometer of future supply.
"I am a fifth-generation cattle rancher, and it has never been this bad ever in my lifetime — and from my family's history, it's never been anywhere close to this bad ever," said Kevin Kester, 58. He said his family's records show the area's worst drought previously was in the 1890s.
Kester's Central California ranch normally gets 20 inches of rain between October and April. It's gotten about a half-inch of precipitation since late fall. His cattle usually graze on lush green hillsides in winter. Now, they're eating hay instead — a proposition that is too expensive to continue for long.
"I hope it's something we can tell our great-grandkids about, but right now we're just trying to figure out how we're going to survive," he said.
The drought doesn't bode well for California's notorious wildfire season, either.
Previous super-dry years led to catastrophic wildfire seasons in California in 2003 and 2007, said Tom Scott, a natural resources specialist with the University of California system. Fire crews beat back a wildfire northeast of Los Angeles earlier this week, but it was a stark reminder of the dry and dangerous conditions.
"People say that the fire season is starting early, but I guess you could say it never ended," Scott said. "If you live in the backcountry, come July you probably should be thinking about putting your valuables in storage."
Droughts also are persisting or intensifying elsewhere in the U.S.
On Wednesday, federal officials said they were designating portions of Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, Kansas, Texas, Utah, Arkansas, Hawaii, Idaho, Oklahoma and California as primary natural disaster areas, highlighting the financial strain facing farmers in those regions.
Even in the moist Pacific Northwest, things were a little bit drier. In Seattle, rainfall dropped by nearly 70 percent in December, with just 1.66 inches falling.
In California, the governor's drought declaration will help battle unemployment in the agriculture industry as fields are left fallow.
Nearly 10,000 people lost their jobs during the last drought in 2009, said Karen Ross, California's agriculture secretary. The drought also increases the burden on food banks in rural and agricultural communities.
The lack of rain also could have long-standing implications for the demand for crops that are almost entirely exclusive to California.
Eighty percent of the world's almonds, for example, are grown in California, and the Almond Board of California receives 3 cents for every pound sold to build future demand for the nut. With many almond growers having to irrigate their crops three months early, a smaller crop might put a dent in the board's ability to market almonds as broadly as it has been, said David Phippen, an almond grower who serves on the board.
"There's huge implications everywhere you look," he said. "What about five years down the road?"
Los Angeles News Group Staff Writer Steve Scauzillo contributed to this report.


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Legislation battery charging stations
The directive, NPR 3299, for battery charging stations has been renewed. Consideration should be given to the ATEX 137 directive, as of certain types of batteries may cause an explosive atmosphere when taking insufficient protective measures.
For example, the NPR gives an indication about when hydrogen is produced during the charging process of batteries. In combination with oxygen, hydrogen can produce an extremely sensitive explosive gas.
Therefore the concentration of hydrogen in the air may not exceed four percent by volume and the ignition energy should not exceed the 0,019 Joules. These conditions are required since this gas is easily inflamed. This gas is easily inflamed by welding sparks, electrical installations or hot surfaces.
The guideline recommends a gas detector to be included in the ventilation and in the security systems, so that, by an excessive concentration, a mechanical ventilation will be activated. Also, the charging equipment can be turned off. For the ventilation- and charging system, Electromach equipment can be used to meet the required safety levels.
For battery systems used in hazardous areas (ATEX environments), Electromach offers a complete range of ATEX certified battery containers.
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Tell Us Why in "Reznikov, N." Season 5 Episode 4
Pictured (L-R): Miguel Ferrer (NCIS Assistant Director Owen Granger), Linda Hunt (Henrietta "Hetty" Lange), LL COOL J (Special Agent Sam Hanna), Renée Felice Smith (Intelligence Analyst Nell Jones), Barrett Foa (Tech Operator Eric Beale), Eric Christian Olsen (LAPD Liaison Marty Deeks), and Chris O'Donnell (Special Agent G. Callen). The NCIS: LA team finds themselves in danger while investigating a kidnapping case of a man claiming to be Callen's father, on the 100th episode of NCIS: LOS ANGELES, Tuesday, Oct. 15 (9:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. Photo: Cliff Lipson/CBS ©2013 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved.


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The Einstein's Train and Tunnel model displays the standard special relativity experiment of a train in a tunnel seen from two different reference frames.
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A stunner from Daine Klate in the opened the scoring, while a 53rd-minute header by Happy Jele secured the three points.
After a slow start to the match, Pirates were handed a 25th-minute free-kick and it was Klate who took control of the set-piece and curled the balls past a stranded Pavels Steinbos.
Shortly afterwards Ritus Krjauklis did well to clear away a Sifiso Myeni ball in the box, before Senzo Meyiwa confirmed why he received a recent call-up to the Bafana Bafana squad; pulling off an impressive one-handed save off a dangerous cross into the box.
Dillon Sheppard replaced Luyolo Mapolisa at the start of the second period, but it was Pirates who got the next goals when Jele was left unmarked at the back=post to head home Klate's corner-kick.
Four minutes later in could have been 3-0 when Steinbos and Oupa Manyisa went one-on-one, but it was the shot-stopper who came out on top.
Meyiwa pulled off another great save to ensure Pirates collected all three points and finish the year just one point behind their arch-rivals.


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Jose Iglesias is Batting What?
Entering this season Jose Iglesias' status as the Red Sox shortstop of the future was is serious doubt, coming off of a 2012 that saw his batting average stand at .118, the second-worst in Red Sox club history for someone with as many as his 77 plate appearances (catcher Ed Connolly batted .075 in 1931). But things have certainly changed for the now-23 year-old from Cuba. The infielder has been a stand out offensively for John Farrell's crew, raising his average 331-points over last season to an astonishing .449 through his first 87 trips to the dish. Obviously we don't expect this to continue, but in the name of good fun, here are some tidbits about the incredible Iglesias.
- He currently has the American League's longest active hitting streak at 14 games which puts him one behind David Oritz for Boston's longest streak of the season (Ortiz's 27-game streak was spread over two seasons).
- Although he's batting .440 during the streak, his average has actually dropped from .464 at the start of it on May 27 to .449 where it currently stands.
- The last Sox rookie with a longer hitting streak was Jacoby Ellsbury who hit in 18 consecutive games in September, 2008.
- His .449 average is the highest in the major leagues among all players with at least 87 plate appearances.
- When we say the highest in the majors, we aren't only talking about this season. If he were to not step up to the dish another time in 2013 (which we know won't be the case) he would own the highest batting average of any player with at least 87 trips to the plate in modern baseball history (since 1901 when the American League came into existence).
- Currently holding that distinction is Hall of Fame 417-game winner Walter Johnson who went 42 of 97 at the plate in 1925 for a .433 average.
- Toss 19th Century players into the mix and Iglesias only drops to second, behind Levi Mayerle who batted a robust .492 for the National Association's Athletics in 1871 (he also led the circuit in home runs with four).
- Despite hitting just one home run and seven doubles, his .577 slugging percentage is .001 ahead of NL home run leader Domonic Brown, and also higher than Mike Trout (.550), Evan Longoria (.544), Robinson Cano (.521) and Jose Bautista (.520) among many others. Yet that places him third on the Red Sox behind David Ortiz (.613) and Mike Carp (.680)
- His 2013 batting average and slugging percentage at Triple A Pawtucket are .202 and .319 respectively.
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Friday's High School Girls Basketball Roundup
PANAMA — The Panama Lady Razorbacks avenged an earlier loss to the Bokoshe Lady Tigers on Friday night, but it didn't come easy. Thanks to a second-half spurt, the Lady 'Backs downed the Lady Tigers 46-38.Trailing 23-22 in the third quarter, the Lady Razorbacks ended the game with a 23-16 run to get the comeback victory.Howe 68, Wister 45: In Howe, the Lady Lions roared out to a 19-8 lead after a period to take control of the game.Talihina 46, Pocola 38: In Talihina, the Lady Golden Tigers jumped to a 21-6 lead after a period, thanks to a 9-for-14 shooting performance from the field.However, the Lady Indians would not go away, outscoring Talihina — which suffered through a 1-for-8 shooting performance in the second quarter — over the final three periods by a count of 32-25, but the first-quarter deficit was too much to overcome.Muldrow 41, Spiro 39: In Spiro, trailing 19-5 after a period, Muldrow outscored Spiro 20-9 to cut the deficit to 28-25 at halftime.In the second half of the battle of Lady Bulldogs, Muldrow outscored Spiro 16-11 to get the come-from-behind win.Keota 73, Arkoma 60: In Keota, the Lady Lions broke an 18-all tie at the end of the first quarter by outscoring the Lady Mustangs 17-7 in the second period to take a 35-25 halftime lead.Keota was the beneficiary of the foul calls as the Lady Mustangs had 27 fouls called on them as opposed to 15 on the Lady Lions — who scored 29 of their points from the free-throw line.McCurtain 37, Cameron 30: In McCurtain, the Lady Bulldogs, who trailed 12-9 after a period, outscored the Lady Yellowjackets 28-18 over the final three quarters to get the come-from-behind victory.Wilburton 44, Heavener 34: In Wilburton, the Lady Diggers led 11-4 after a period en route to a 23-12 halftime advantage.The Lady Wolves used a 14-10 third quarter to cut the deficit to 33-26 going into the final period, but Wilburton outscored them 11-8 in the last quarter.CorrectionIn Saturday's edition, it was incorrectly reported that two Whitesboro girls played their final home regular-season game in Thursday's Senior Night game win over Panola. The Lady Bulldogs have no senior players this season.The Poteau Daily News regrets the error.


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Monon Bell DVDs Are Hereby Jim Amidon • December 5, 2012 Share:
The commemorative DVD of the 119th Monon Bell Classic has arrived in the Wabash College Bookstore. Quantities are extremely limited, so plan to pick up your copy as soon as possible.
The DVD includes every play of Wabash's 23-0 win over DePauw — the fourth straight victory by the Little Giants over the Tigers. This is the AXS TV telecast featuring Kenny Rice on play-by-play, Paul Maguire on color, and former players Matt Hudson and Brad Wochomurka on the sidelines.
The DVD is filled two hours of additional content, too.
Also included on this limited edition DVD are photo galleries (2012 and historical), AXS TV's features on Weston Kitley, Jake Waterman, and the Arts at Wabash, and both schools' halftime commercials.
There are also season highlights for both teams, as well as pre-game media coverage. And, as always, there are Monon Memories plucked from the archives (1912, 1919, 1932, 1943, 1954, 1979, and 2011).
Copies of the DVD — as well as most of the DVDs made from the last dozen Monon Bell Games — are available in the Wabash Bookstore or can be ordered online.


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January 30, 2007
LOS ANGELES - UCLA Anderson School of Management moved up both nationally and internationally in the Financial Times' ninth annual survey of full-time MBA programs, published today. The survey ranks the top 100 domestic and international MBA programs.
UCLA Anderson ranked 10th in the United States, up three spots from last year, and up seven spots since 2005. The ranking positions UCLA Anderson top among public business schools in the U.S. Internationally, UCLA Anderson ranked 17th, up two spots from last year, and up nine places since 2005. Unlike U.S. News & World Report (10th) and BusinessWeek (12th), the Financial Times survey is primarily focused on alumni career progress three years post graduation and includes 40 international programs. The global FT ranking also placed UCLA Anderson 2nd in entrepreneurship; 5th in finance and banking salaries; 7th in North American salaries today; and 8th in top consulting salaries.
Each survey that ranks business schools measures different variables and uses different methodologies. The results of this survey, along with others conducted throughout the year, contribute to our understanding of several outcome measures related to our programs, and how our programs are perceived by students, alumni, recruiters and peers. It is important to stress that individual rankings should be interpreted as but one indicator, among many, of a program's quality and impact. More important is the generally upward trend across various rankings for UCLA Anderson.
More information about the Financial Times rankings is available at the following Web site: http://rankings.ft.com/rankings/mba/rankings.html.
About UCLA Anderson School of Management
UCLA Anderson School of Management, established in 1935, is regarded among the very best business schools in the world. UCLA Anderson faculty are ranked #1 in "intellectual capital" by BusinessWeek and are renowned for their teaching excellence and research in advancing management thinking. Each year, UCLA Anderson provides management education to more than 1,600 students enrolled in MBA, Executive MBA, Fully-Employed MBA and doctoral programs, and to more than 2,000 professional managers through executive education programs. Combining highly selective admissions, varied and innovative learning programs, and a world-wide network of 35,000 alumni, UCLA Anderson develops and prepares global leaders.


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All these ceramic photos and markers are from Baxter Springs Cemetery in Baxter Springs, KS.
1873 - 1929
Founder of the Apostolic Faith Movement
Note: His family, fearing that someone would damage his grave, buried him with a small stone marker that did not even include his name. Years later a memorial was put up by friends.
Sarah E. Parham
1877 - 1937
Co - Founder
Of the Apostolic Faith Movement
Lula A Parham
1898 - 1972
Claude W. Parham
1897 - 1941
Note: Claude is the son of Charles Fox Parham and Sarah E. (Thistlethwaite) Parham.
Rev. Lester Easley
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The Death Gate (1)
Your view is inside the rail entrance to Birkenau, known as the Death Gate. Scrolling this time to the left, you are confronted with the unloading ramp. Here trains from all over Nazi occupied Europe traveled with their human contents to be, in large part, murdered in the gas chambers of this, the biggest killing center in the Nazi system. Birkenau was known not only as a concentration and labor camp, but a death camp as well - "Vernichtungslager". It was opened some time in early 1942. The ramp was used to unload trains only after May 1944. May and June '44 were the largest production totals for this death factory, murdering approximately 10,000 people a day; mostly Jews from Hungary, mainly from the Budapest Ghetto. And on one day, a "record" 20,000 people were sent to the gas chambers.
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A mechanical concentration on the production of a climax, says a leading marriage expert, can destroy the beauty of marital love. By Eustace Chesser, M.D.
Dr. Chesser, a consulting psychologist, is one of England's leading sexologists and a founder of the Society for Sex Education and Guidance. He is the author of many books, among them "Woman and Love," "Love Without Fear," and "The Sexual, Marital and Family Relationships of the English Woman."
Why do I never experience orgasm?" an anxious wife asked after two years of marriage. That same question had been asked a hundred times over. Before attempting a reply another question should be put: "Do you enjoy intercourse?"
If the answer is "Yes" there is little need to pursue the matter further. To worry about orgasm is quite unnecessary. A technical term has somehow gained currency and many of those who use it do not know what it means.
Orgasm is the name given to the climax experienced during the sex act. Unlike the climax of a man, in the woman it takes a variety of different forms. There is no single type of orgasm common to all women.
Some, of course, feel more intense pleasure than others. They may be so carried away that the intensity of the pleasure is almost painful. There may be an aggressive reaction, which is almost unendurable and results in crying out, scratching or biting. Often there is an agonized expression on the face, which is just the very opposite of a woman who is in ecstasy.
The romantic novelists can be misleading. The wife who thinks she is flattering her husband by pretending a satisfaction she does not feel will betray herself unless she realizes how she should really react and look. Only a very unsophisticated partner would be deceived by her feigned transports of delight.
In one type of orgasm the walls of the vagina suddenly contract and grip the male organ so tightly that ejaculation ensues. Simultaneous climax is profoundly gratifying, and both can then relax together. When the male climax occurs prematurely the emotional build-up in the woman is halted. Many have the tantalizing and often maddening sensation of being deprived of the goal almost within reach. There is no release of tension. The woman feels cheated, depressed, her nerves on edge, and quite likely she does not know why.
But many women are so made that they do not respond with Such a violent upsurge of feeling. They do not, as has been said, "tear a passion to tatters." Instead of spending themselves in a brief frenzied outburst they are buoyed up by a feeling of tenderness which is diffused and main-tained. The vagina goes on contracting as gently as a sea anemone which opens softly in the moving tide.
The pleasure can be exquisitely prolonged by remaining in close union after the male climax has been reached. For her partner to withdraw abruptly means that for her the act is uncompleted. She is made to feel that her partner's only concern was with his own gratification. Her body has been used as a mere means to a selfish end, and, the objective gained, he is no longer interested.
Such an attitude at a time when she is hypersensitive can be deeply wounding. It relegates sex to its lowest terms as a sheer bodily mechanism. A wife feels that she is not regarded as a unique personality, the one woman in the world who matters, but as little more than a convenience. Intercourse on these terms is hardly different from prostitution, except that it is not paid for in cash.
In fairness to the average man it must be admitted that he is usually quite unaware of this feminine reaction, he imagines that his partner experiences the same feeling as himself. When he is satisfied he takes it for granted that she too is satisfied.
He turns over and goes to sleep in blissful ignorance that his wife lies beside him awake and in a turmoil of unfulfilled longing. The smallest sign of tenderness and gratitude would have made all the difference. She could forgive his lack of understanding—indeed, she could explain to him if he gave her an opportunity. But suddenly he seems shut away from her. He no longer wants to speak, still less to touch her, although a short while ago he was eager and almost imploring her love.
Hundreds of thousands of marriages begin to founder at this point for the lack of a simple word or gesture. Outwardly the marriage may remain intact and no one suspects that anything is wrong. The change is inward, a slow, deadly atrophy of the impulse which brought them together.
All the man may notice is that his wife is not particularly interested in sex. She complies as though it were an obligation, and they soon fall into a routine. They probably suppose that the same thing happens to most married people. They are not far wrong, yet it need not be so.
There was a moment when they could have entered a very different path. Unfortunately they took the wrong direction. If they begin to suspect that they have missed their way there is the obvious danger that they will wonder if they could do better with someone else.
In the Kinsey Report a very narrow definition of orgasm was given. This could create anxiety in the minds of many happily married people for they were made to feel they were missing something essential in their sex relations, since their own experience seemed to fall far short of what was described as orgasm.
I have often been questioned on this point. If a wife enjoys intercourse there is no real problem. It is often possible to increase the pleasure, but it is not possible to make the pleasure take precisely the same form for totally different individuals. For a woman there is no ideal standard of enjoyment to which she must conform or else admit defeat.
A little knowledge is dangerous. Instead of using and misusing a technical term like orgasm, it would be wiser to speak of sexual Satisfaction. We know that pleasure can vary in intensity. Some people go into transports of ecstasy over simple experiences that produce only mild enjoyment in others. We explain this by saying they are more emotional.
The degree of pleasure obtained in intercourse depends partly on temperament and partly on the strength of our sexual urge. To some extent we must accept our constitutional inheritance, but that is not to say we shouldn't attempt to make the most of ourselves.
A woman who is only moderately sexed is not prevented from enjoying sex; just so long as she enjoys what she has got, she will find that's enough. There is no need to fret because her type of pleasure is not identical with that of someone else.
It is not, for example, a question of doing some mechanical work the right or the wrong way. The kind of success that should be sought in sex is quite different, and that is why we can speak of the art of loving.
The artist, if he is worth anything, paints to please himself. He does not copy someone else. He knows there is not just one way of painting a picture, which is so right that all others are plainly wrong. The right way is that which gives him the maximum satisfaction.
So it is when we recognize that love is a form of art. one which enables us to express our personalities with greater freedom. There are no rules, no prohibitions. The test is solely the degree of mutual enjoyment.


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ON WALL STREET, THE SUMMERTIME BLUES have given way to the fall blahs. The housing market is crumbling, the credit market is stumbling, and stocks are tumbling from the highs they reached last month.
Given this worrisome backdrop, it's no surprise America's money managers remain cautious about the investment outlook for the months ahead. Just 47%, or fewer than half of the professional investors who responded to our latest Big Money poll, say they are bullish or very bullish about the prospects for stocks through the middle of 2008, a reading nearly identical to last spring's level of bullish sentiment, but well below the 64% of managers who were bullish a year ago. Indeed, 55% of our respondents think the market is fairly valued at current levels, while another 22% consider stocks overvalued.
Bullish investors, on average, expect the Dow Jones Industrial Average to end the year at 14,318, above its Oct. 9 peak of 14,164 and about 5% higher than today's 13,595. While their mean prediction for June '08 is Dow 14,993, some 40% of Big Money managers see the industrials topping 15,000 by the middle of next year, including 8% who predict a close of 16,000 or more. The bulls' mean forecasts are up almost 10% from last spring's Big Money poll.
"We feel stocks are the best value out there relative to fixed income and cash," says Art Nunes, a portfolio manager with Portland, Ore.-based IMS Capital Management, which manages $760 million. "The August setback was merely a correction in an overall bull market. The longer-term trend for stocks is up."
Nunes expects the Dow to breach 15,000 this year and gain another 10% in the first half of 2008. He thinks the Standard & Poor's 500, now 1509, could jump to 1670 by Dec. 31 and 1830 by June. More gains are also in store for the Nasdaq Composite, which has rallied 16.4% year to date amid renewed enthusiasm for technology shares. Nunes' mid-'08 Nasdaq target -- 3200 -- is significantly higher than the mean Nasdaq prediction of the Big Money bulls, 2986.
Horacio Valeiras, chief investment officer of San Diego-based Nicholas-Applegate Management, which manages $15 billion, is cautious about the remainder of this year, but similarly bullish about the first half of 2008. "After a period of negative economic news, the data has turned more mixed," he says. "The consumer seems to be holding up well, though housing and autos are negative. The mid-cycle slowdown of the past three years continues, with no recession in sight and core inflation controlled."
Valeiras expects the Dow to end the year at 14,300, and hit 15,000 next year. He looks for corporate earnings to rise 6% in 2008, with potentially twice as much earnings power coming from outside the U.S. One big concern, however, is that the market could start to sell off in anticipation of higher capital-gains and dividend taxes in 2009, when current tax breaks are set to expire. No matter which party controls the White House -- and, for the record, 61% of Big Money managers say it will be the Democrats, under Hillary Clinton -- there will be problems extending tax breaks favorable to investors, Valeiras says.
WHAT COULD IGNITE A STOCK rally in coming months? More than 40% of our respondents say better-than-expected earnings would be the single most likely spark. Certainly, Corporate America's results would have to be better than the Big Money managers' own tepid forecasts for S&P 500 profit growth: 5.2% gains this year, falling to 4.6% in 2008.
Almost 40% of managers finger easier monetary policy as the biggest potential propellant to stocks. It did the trick nicely Wednesday, when the Dow industrials rallied 1%, the S&P 1.2% and the Nasdaq 1.5% after the Federal Reserve cut the federal-funds rate by a quarter of a percentage point to 4.50% -- its second reduction in six weeks. Yet concerns about credit conditions, consumer spending and bank balance sheets undid those gains and more on Thursday, and the Dow ended the week down 1.5%.
Some 13% of poll participants think evidence of a stronger economy would push the bull to new highs in the next 12 months. Again, the news obliged Wednesday, with the government reporting that third-quarter economic output, or gross domestic product, expanded at an annualized 3.9% rate, the fastest pace in one-and-a-half years. But the good news, as noted, was old news the following morning.
The financial markets were jolted in August when credit derivatives tied to subprime mortgages plunged in value as borrowers defaulted, paralyzing the credit market and setting the stage for huge write-downs by some of the nation's -- and world's -- largest banks. Notwithstanding the continuing fallout, 71% of our respondents don't expect the U.S. economy to enter a recession in the next year, and they see even less likelihood of a global slowdown. But their economic forecasts are restrained, calling for growth in gross domestic product of 2.16% this year and 2.11% in 2008.
Since the summer people have talked of two economies and two markets. While Wall Street struggles with layoffs and losses, its cross-coastal counterpart, Silicon Valley, is celebrating the next technology boom. The Big Money managers know a winner when they see it: An overwhelming majority expect tech stocks to lead the market in the next six-to-12 months, with energy stocks a distant second. As for the least-promising sectors, consumer cyclicals and financials -- no surprise there -- got their vote.
"Technology has been out of favor for years and now it's starting to come back," says Robert Turner, chairman of Turner Investment Partners in Berwyn, Pa. "Things tend to move in seven-year cycles. We estimate that spending [on technology] will rise 10% this year. Short of a global recession, [tech] stocks are golden."
The market agrees: The Nasdaq 100, a proxy for big-capitalization technology shares, is up 26% this year, eclipsing all other equity indexes by a dramatic margin.
The Big Money managers' favorite stocks are a Who's Who of the QQQQ -- trade lingo for the Nasdaq 100 (and ticker of the PowerShares QQQ Trust, an exchange-traded fund that tracks the Nasdaq 100). Cisco Systems (CSCO) and Microsoft (MSFT) top their list, with Apple (AAPL), Google (GOOG) and Intel (INTC) close behind.
Computer-networking specialist Cisco now trades for 32.70, about 21 times analysts' earnings estimates of $1.57 a share for the fiscal year ending July 2008. The stock, which topped 80 in March 2000, has rallied this year on a pick-up in information-technology spending and the strength of its new networking products. Thursday the San Jose, Calif.-based company announced a $16 billion expansion in China, which will include doubling its manufacturing there in the next three to five years.
"Cisco is positioned to grow faster than the domestic economy, thanks to growth in emerging markets and renewed demand for its products," says Brian Kute, head of research at Cincinnati-based Johnson Investment Counsel, which manages about $4 billion.
MICROSOFT, WHICH TIED WITH CISCO as our respondents' favorite stock, has done even more to regain its darling status. Its shares have risen 15%, to about 37, since Oct. 25, when the company announced fiscal first-quarter earnings that trounced Wall Street's expectations. Microsoft also is investing $240 million in the popular social-networking site Facebook, having beaten rival Google to the door. Even at current levels, shares of the Redmond, Wash.-based software giant don't look expensive; they trade for less than 21 times expected earnings of about $1.80 a share for the fiscal year ending next June.
The Big Money managers' enthusiasm for technology stocks appears even more fervent in 2007 than it did in the thick of the dot-com bubble in 1999, perhaps because many tech shares have just started to climb out of their rut. In our latest survey, tech bulls cast 11 votes in favor of the sector's market leadership to every one that pegged tech a laggard in coming months. In '99, the ratio of bulls to bears was roughly 2 to 1.
To be fair, many managers also consider certain highflying tech stocks, including Google, Apple, Amazon.com (AMZN) and Chinese search-engine operator Baidu.com (BIDU), among the market's most overvalued issues. "Sooner or later, there will be nobody left to buy these shares," one money manager warns.
Yet Google has had no shortage of takers in the past month, even as its stock has jumped more than 100 points, to a new high of 711. The Mountain View, Calif.-based search-engine leader now fetches 35 times next year's consensus earnings estimate of $20.52 a share.
Apple, which sells for 187, or roughly 30 times '08 estimates of $6.08 a share, also could be ripe for a pullback, some poll participants say. "There's a lot of good news and future growth reflected in Apple's valuation," says Keith Wirtz, chief investment officer of Fifth Third Asset Management, which manages $23 billion. "Any whiff of disappointment could cause a fall."
Consistent with this year's rebound in tech has been a resurgence in growth stocks and big-cap issues. "We've seen a major shift out of value and into growth, and away from small-cap and into large-cap," says Nunes of IMS. "Small-cap stocks, which have outperformed for seven years, are now having trouble," he says.
Turner notes large-cap growth, as measured by the Russell 1000 growth index, is up 17% for the year. Large-cap value, on the other hand, is ahead just 5%. The Big Money managers' preferred equity allocations neatly mirror these trends. Half our respondents say large-cap growth is their favorite equity class for the next six to 12 months, while just 16% favor large-cap value.
Lower energy prices almost surely would widen the gap between growth and value stocks, Turner says, as financials, materials and energy shares account for almost 40% of the Russell 1000 value index. Turner expects a drop in oil prices to spur the Dow to 14,425 by year end and 15,150 by mid-2008. He hopes to capitalize on the bull's extended run in a big way; in September, Turner Investment Partners filed to sell stock to the public via an initial public offering.
One stock that could benefit from the shift to big-cap growth is General Electric (GE), also among the managers' favorites. Its shares have risen modestly this year, to around 40.50, but remain well below their 2000 high of 60. Yet GE's earnings have grown steadily. A depressed dollar and strong markets in Asia and Europe are likely to keep boosting its profits, along with those of other U.S.-based multinational concerns.
The Big Money poll, a survey of professional investors, is conducted twice yearly by Barron's, in the spring and fall, with the help of Beta Research in Syosset, N.Y. Our latest survey drew responses from 112 managers across the U.S., representing a range of investment styles. Many run their own firms, while others manage billions of dollars for mutual-fund complexes, hedge funds, state pension funds and wealthy individuals. The poll was e-mailed to managers in late September, when the Dow was around 13,740, the S&P 500 was trading at 1520 and the Nasdaq Composite was at 2652.
WHILE THE BULLS' RANKS ARE JUST about unchanged since the spring, not so the bears'. Today 20%, or a fifth of poll respondents, say they are bearish or very bearish about the market's prospects, versus 17% who were pessimistic last spring. New recruits to the bears' lair appear to have come from the folks on the fence, as 33% of managers now call themselves Neutral on stocks, compared with 37% six months ago.
The bears, on average, think the Dow will drop to 13,409 by year end, while the S&P slides to 1486 and the Nasdaq to 2616. They see additional losses in the major indexes, albeit of less than 5%, through the middle of '08.
One of the most bearish forecasts this fall belongs to Tom Claugus, president of GMT Capital, an Atlanta-based hedge fund with $3.2 billion in assets. He thinks the Dow will end the year around 12,000, which suggests a drop of about 12% from current levels. "We're in a recession now," says Claugus. "Look at the guts of the economy. Freight traffic, both road and rail, is down. It looks pretty ugly."
Securitization of mortgages, he adds, has allowed banks and borrowers to override the housing market's boom and bust cycles. "It has led to a 16-year boom that has resulted in overbuilding, overspeculation and overfinancing," he says, while "the constant infusions of liquidity make it hard to judge the real value of the market."
Collectively the managers say disappointing earnings would be most likely to bring the bull to its knees, though higher interest rates and tighter credit markets would do the job, too. "We're having a repeat of the credit crisis we had in early 1990 through 1992 -- a recession that wasn't defined as such until years later," says H. Edward Shill, chief investment officer of Pittsford, N.Y.-based QCI Asset Management, which manages $340 million. Shill, our biggest bear this fall, sees the Dow sliding to 11,600 by Dec. 31, and to 10,000 by June. "We overshot easy credit for an extended period of time, and my guess is we'll be living with somewhat tighter credit for a lengthy period of time," he says. "We're just starting to see the consequences."
Still, some stocks will weather the storm better than others. Shill is particularly fond of motorcycle maker Harley-Davidson (HOG), perhaps because he visits clients astride his own low-riding Harley Fat Boy. Oh, yes, the stock, at 50, is also "a classic value play."'


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Kobe1468 said:
I'm very glad so many of the dogs were rescued. Great effort indeed!
I cringed when the Amish were brought up. Maybe the worst of the worst. There was a recent bust of a Amish mill just north of where I live. The Township did just about everything they could to shut them down...yet allowed the relatives of the family(who were shut down) to buy the dogs!!! So from one hell to another...and most likely, to a certain extent, back into the hands of the original offenders. Insane!!!
I've been trying to understand the laws in these parts, and why the OSPCA(Ontario, Canada) wasn't allowed to seize the dogs. It's beyond me.
Just glad there was a platform for these Shibas/Akitas to be rescued, no matter how morbid dog auctions actually are!!
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Yep, that's what I heard, except the last count I saw said there were only 42 Shiba available, so rescue got all but 7. So sorry for those 7, but it's a huge deal that rescue was able to save so many!
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I love Paladins! They give you great buffs, they can heal you when needed, they fight, they threaten, they tank, they're all that and then some.
Paladin Protection tanks are considered the most effective and most sought after (well in my server at least) tanks in the game to date. With their variety of skills that increases damage and threat generation towards mobs, several of the most needed buffs in any group or raid, plus some 'break-glass in case of emergency' healings when things go out of hand. Paladins are the most revered damage takers, especially in Wrath of the Lich King (okay I may have oversold it just a little, but there is a reason why Paladins take up a chunk of a server's population).
However, this game won't revolve around WotLK much any longer. In World of Warcraft: Cataclysm, new skills have been introduced, stats have been changed, and we'll be seeing a little less of our friendly neighborhood undead in Northrend. The question is, will the Paladin tanks still claim the top spot when the expansion has arrived? Will our Light wielders cling on the glory of the tanks? Well let's take a look at what's coming, shall we?
New Abilities – Naturally, just like the rest of the class, we'll be seeing new abilities to play with come Cata era. The 3 new abilities are primarily for crowd control, mass healing, and top-notch defense.
Blinding Shield (level 81)- Causes damage and blinds all nearby targets. This effect might end up only damaging those facing the paladin's shield, in a manner similar to Eadric the Pure's ability Radiance in Trial of the Champion. The Holy tree will have a talent to increase the damage and critical strike chance, while the Protection tree will have a talent to make this spell instant cast. 2-second base cast time. Requires a shield.
This is pretty much for crowd control. In instances where you accidentally pulled a different mob, Blinding Light can keep those baddies stunned long enough for the DPS to down your current mob.
Healing Hands (level 83) – Healing Hands is a new healing spell. The paladin radiates heals from him or herself, almost like a Healing Stream Totem. It has a short range, but a long enough duration that the paladin can cast other heals while Healing Hands remains active. 15-second cooldown. 6-second duration.
Paladin players' prayers have been answered for a mass heal. But Protection Paladins have little to no use of this. They're a bit too busy keeping the boss' attention.
Guardian of Ancient Kings (level 85) – Summons a temporary guardian that looks like a winged creature of light armed with a sword. The visual is similar to that of the Resurrection spell used by the paladin in Warcraft III. The guardian has a different effect depending on the talent spec of the paladin. For Holy paladins, the guardian heals the most wounded ally in the area. For Protection paladins, the guardian absorbs some incoming damage. For Retribution paladins, it damages an enemy, similar to the death knight Gargoyle or the Nibelung staff. 3-minute cooldown. 30-second duration (this might vary depending on which guardian appears).
The cream of the crop. Its effects are almost as epic as its name. Sort of similar to a priest's valkyrie companion, the guardian can be very useful to mitigate damage during an encounter. The 3 minute cooldown makes it an interesting addition to the rotation of a Pally tank when facing long fights. We just hope this won't be affected by 'Forbearance', where other shielding abilities are disabled for a period of time when a shielding ability is enabled.
Several changes have been made in the Paladin's abilities. Our main concerns here are Crusader Strike and Holy Shock becoming baseline abilities. These 2 can change the traditional '96969' rotation which makes the Protection Paladins almost a whole new class/talent spec to play with.
Protection Paladins will also be treated with some Mastery bonuses for their tanking needs:
Damage Reduction – self-explanatory but not further details have been released.
Vengeance – A mastery bonus shared by all other tank classes. Damages received by the tank converts to attack power, making the tank have high amounts of DPS (and threat) so that they won't have to worry much about high DPSers getting aggro.
Block Amount – Similar to the Warrior's mastery bonus. The difference though is that the Paladin's block consistent, and sometimes greater, normal damage unlike a Warrior who can get critical blocks.
Overall, comparing our Paladin tanks to other tank classes, Protection Pallys have enough tools to keep them among the top tankers in the game. This is despite the role is being jeopardized by the new stat system. But with proper training, rotation, and gear, Pally tanks can still be the most sought after, but not mandatory, addition to any raid or dungeon in the expansion.
The game has been tweaked by Blizzard, now it's the tankers turn to use those tweaks to their own advantage. Paladins FTW! Woot!


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Arsenal have reportedly failed in an attempt to bring FC Koln striker Lukas Podolski to the Emirates Stadium during the January transfer window.
The German star has been in potent form in front of goal this season, and has found the net 15 times in 19 appearances for club and country.
Arsenal have been frequently linked with a move for Podolski's signature and, it is claimed, Arsene Wenger has made a formal approach for the 26-year-old.
However, according to The People, the Gunners boss made a bid of £8 million for Podolski, but was told by Koln that he would not be leaving the club during this transfer window.
The acquisition of goalscoring reinforcements appeared to be a January priority for Arsenal, with both Marouane Chamakh and Gervinho flying off to the Africa Cup of Nations.
The loss of the forward pair prompted Wenger to bring Thierry Henry back to the club in the short-term and, it is reported, has also been keen to add Podolski to his ranks.