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Steve recently replaced my brake pads, he done it really quick. I went there assuming i needed my discs changing aswell. Steve was completely honest and told me they are fine! he could of easily had just said yeh the need replacing. he also replaced my headlight that was out. will most definitely use this guy again! fab!
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Halliwell Jones Chester is a franchised BMW & Mini dealer based in the North West of England serving the Cheshire, Wirral & North Wales areas. We are passionate in our customer care and working as a team strive to achieve exceptional standards in this area, placing a strong emphasis on staff training, together with considerable facility development, which remains on going.
We are an established family local independent garage and are proud to be members of Autofirst Network – a nationwide network of independent garages operating to the Network's 6 core values of Capability, Consistency, Care, Clarity, Cost Effectiveness and Customer Focus. For your added peace of mind we are members of the Motor Ombudsman service which is approved by The Trading Standards Institute. We cover the Chester City postcode areas and offer courtesy cars as well as a free collection and delivery service
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The cost of servicing, MOT and repairs differ across the country. Labour rates will be higher or lower depending on where in the country you are. Take a look below at the average quote in Chester on WhoCanFixMyCar.com for some of our top service types.
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|Brake Pads and Discs
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|Clutch Repairs
|Mobile Mechanic
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Senior assistant captain Ryan Ruikka has acomplished a lot in his time at BU.
He was on the 2009 national championship team, and although he did not dress for any games that season, he has been named to the Hockey East All-Academic Team four times and he has even scored four goals.
But at 7 p.m. Friday, when the No. 9/11 Boston University men's hockey team (13–9–1, 10–6–1 Hockey East) drops the puck against the University of Massachusetts at the Mullins Center, Ruikka will do something he has never done as a Terrier — dress as a forward.
BU coach Jack Parker made the decision as a way to get both the fifth-year senior and junior defenseman Patrick MacGregor, a pair of players who have been battling for the last defensive spot, into the lineup.
"Ruikka is a real good offensive guy. He can skate, he moves the puck well," Parker said. "I was thinking of playing seven defensemen dressed and dress 11 forwards … then I realized I can do the best of both worlds. I can dress Ruikka as a right wing and play him in some spots as a right wing, but also play him on defense."
Indeed, the plan vs. the Minutemen (9–12–2, 6–9–1 Hockey East) will be to play the fourth line sporadically, with Ruikka getting time as a forward and a defenseman. Parker said having Ruikka available gives the former flexibility in the event a blueliner gets hurt or BU has two defensemen in the penalty box at the same time.
Parker also said getting both Ruikka and MacGregor in the lineup for Monday's Beanpot semifinal game against Northeastern was a factor.
Other than Ruikka's sudden position change, not much will change for BU. Sophomore forward Evan Rodrigues, who missed a game with an injured hand, and junior assistant captain Garrett Noonan, who was suspended for both games last weekend, will return to their usual spots.
In net, freshman Sean Maguire will get the start for the Terriers, with classmate Matt O'Connor slated to start Monday.
Far less obvious, though, is UMass's situation between the pipes. John Micheletto also has goaltending questions on his hands.
A pair of sophomores, Kevin Boyle and Steve Mastalerz, have gotten the bulk of the time in net. Boyle's 2.60 goals-against average and .900 save percentage would seem to give him the edge, but after an ugly 5–4 loss to Providence College Jan. 11, Micheletto gave Mastalerz a shot after he missed nearly two months due to a knee injury.
Mastalerz (3.42 GAA, .868 save percentage) has played the last four games, putting up a 2–2 record in the process. He lost to PC but helped UMass top Boston College before splitting two games at the University of Vermont.
No stranger to not having a clear No. 1 goalie, Parker said the unstable goalie situation can be tough on a team.
"It hurts any team if you don't have great goaltending," Parker said. "You need a goalie that's got a .930 save percentage and a 2.2 goals-against average … If you don't have that, you're not going to be successful."
On the other end the Minutemen have a few threats, most notably junior forwards Branden Gracel (11g, 11a) and Conor Sheary (5g, 12a). There is also always the threat of another junior forward, Mike Pereira, brother of former Terrier captain Joe Pereira.
Above all else, though, is UMass' speed, which Parker raves about each time his squad takes on the Minutemen.
"They are the fastest skating team in this league," Parker said before saying UMass is a potential top-four team in the conference. "It's a big pond up there, so they will take advantage of that. But they don't just cruise around and skate, they will work hard, they will bump you. It will be like playing a faster Providence team."
Friday's game will be a big one, and not just for the implications on the conference standings. It is BU's final tune-up before the all-important Beanpot, and another chance for the Terriers to continue to climb out of what Parker has termed their "grand funk" early second semester.
And it will be Ruikka's debut up front, of course.
"He looked great, especially [Thursday]. We finally got to do some stuff that included line rushes and things like that," said junior forward Sahir Gill. "He looked comfortable. He's a real smart player and he's skilled and he's capable. I don't think he looked out of place at all."
BU lines:
Wade Megan – Cason Hohmann – Sahir Gill
Matt Nieto – Danny O'Regan – Evan Rodrigues
Matt Lane – Ben Rosen – Sam Kurker
Mike Moran – Ryan Santana – Ryan Ruikka
Sean Escobedo – Alexx Privitera
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While engineers and designers feverishly worked overtime on the advancement of a four-passenger sports car they code-named the F-car, the Chevy public relations, marketing and advertising team prepared the world for the introduction of an automobile they called the Panther.
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Automotive legend has it that someone at Chevrolet lastly proposed the name Camaro and upper management quickly concurred. Although the name has no real significance, GM researchers reportedly discovered the word in a French dictionary as a slang term for "good friend" or "buddy." It's reported that Ford Motor Business scientists likewise found other meanings, including "a shrimp-like creature" and an arcane term for "loose bowels."
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Google is giving web users the ability to edit the locations of businesses that appear in its Street View service.
Street View, which was made available in the UK last year, is an add-on to Google Maps and Google Earth that allows users to see street-level photographs of a number of cities.
The images are captured by specially adapted Google Street View cars that travel the UK taking photographs.
"Sometimes you may find a place in Google Maps that isn't quite positioned where it should be," Google software engineer, Jie Shao, said in a blog.
"Let's say you know that your favourite pizzeria is near the corner but the marker for it appears further down the block. You want all hungry pizza-cravers to be able to find this great spot, so you want to make sure the marker leads them directly to the storefront."
Web users can adjust the location of nearby businesses such as shops or pubs by simply clicking the 'edit marker' option when in Street View. A marker appears, which can then be dragged to a new location.
"We encourage our users to put the marker at the entrance of the place. However, users sometimes put the marker in the centre of a street block, and we don't have an easy way of detecting this," said Shao.
"By introducing this feature, we know approximately where the facades are from Street View images. Based on the information, we can snap the dragged markers to the closest facades automatically by using street view information."
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There's no Question of the Week episode this week, but here's our roundup of the major news of the week. We kick things off with a discussion of Jawbone's reported liquidation and what it might mean for the broader wearables market. Secondly, we discuss preliminary disclosure of financial or operating results from Samsung, LG, and Xiaomi, which emerged this week. Third is a quick evaluation of a report from CIRP that Amazon now has 85 million Prime subscribers in the US, which Jan is skeptical of. And last is a discussion of the reports this week that Apple might ditch the Touch ID sensor in at least one of this fall's new iPhones.
As always, you'll find links to these stories and other things we discussed underneath the SoundCloud player embedded below.
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Critic Pauline Kael said of Martin Scorcese's Goodfellas that it was "about guys getting high on being a guy." That's also true of Scorcese's new film, The Departed , which moves from his films of Italian machismo to Irish, David Mamet-like, blunt and profane verbal collisions. If I were Irish, I don't know whether I'd be offended or proud. While The Departed doesn't quite match the energy of the earlier film – and what could? – it's laced with disarming humor, especially in the first act, before the stakes go up.
The film is about a cop, played by Leonardo DiCaprio, who is deep undercover in the Boston mob – so deep that only two controllers know who he is. He is paralleled with a mobster, played by Matt Damon, who is a mole in the State Police. One tries to take down, while the other tries to protect, a crime boss played by Jack Nicholson. This is the basic setup of the Hong Kong original, Infernal Affairs – a movie with the black-and-white sensibility of a graphic novel. Scorcese preserves many of the fiendishly complex double binds from the first film; but he adds the shades of gray, and roots his film in ethnicity and place.
William Moynahan's verbal script combines the cop and the mobster's girlfriends into a single woman – the only woman in the film – a police shrink who must now choose between the two men. This is preposterous, but why not? She says at one point, "Sigmund Freud wrote that the Irish are the only people in the world impervious to psychoanalysis." The poor girl can't see into either man, though they certainly have her number.
The chief joy of The Departed is its casting, which doesn't just load the marquee with big names, it matches actor to role like hand to glove. DiCaprio has replaced DeNiro as Scocese's lead of choice, and he has a method naturalism. Matt Damon, perfect for a liar, has John Cusak's gift for sounding like the smartest guy in the room. As in The Talented Mr. Ripley and the Bourne films, he's charming, but with something coiled and shifting behind the eyes. There are also four plum tough guy roles, filled by Ray Wintone, Maritn Sheen, Mark Wahlberg, and Alec Baldwin. Baldwin has been given the best lines – and he knows it – including a speech about marriage that will go down as a classic. He works harder now that he's pudgy and can't rely on looks alone.
While giving the characters room to breathe is highly pleasurable, this "B" material can't quite support an "A" treatment. But what marvelous moments it contains. As Woody Allen did earlier this year with Match Point , Scorcese proves he can do more than work in a young man's genre: he can do the kids one better.
The Departed is playing at Showplace West. Also of note: this Wednesday evening, The Game of Their Lives will be screened at Wittenberger Auditorium, followed by a Q&A with its writer/producer, Bloomington screenwriter Angelo Pizzo. Reviewing movies for WFIU, this is Peter Noble-Kuchera.


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So you probably remember a couple of weeks ago, that I was telling you about a nifty little tool that Sephora/Pantone had release, you can see that post here. While I was on holidays I decided to pop into a Sephora store to discover if this little device, that promised so much lived up my expectations.
I was promptly seated in a special station that was set up, just for the the Colour Matching Service. The Beauty Associate, showed me all the tools and promptly explained what everything did. I unfortunately don't have any pictures of the scanner, because we lost our camera, but luckily I had also taken a couple with my phone. There was this uber cool scanner and also this chart, which had all the various skin tones and shades listed on it. Just like we know, it ranges from Pink, Neutral to Yellow.
So she did three scans on my face. One on my forehead, one around the nose and then one on the jawline. The machine computes these three colours and then gives you one tone that will balance out the darker and lighter tones making you look even skinned and flawless! Well that is the hope.
After this they emailed me my matches, which you can see below:
After all that, I bought a foundation not on the list! I just like to be difficult 🙂 I went for a foundation that hasn't been listed with this tool yet, I will do a review on that later.
I think that it is a fantastic tool for the consumer to get a foundation that matches their skin tone. I for one have bought enough of the wrong shades throughout the years and I am a trained make-up artist! What about you?
What do you think of this tool, would you like to see it in Ireland? I have read online that Boots now has something similar, has anyone tried that? I am interested to learn more about it. As you can see from the extensive list above, the Sephora tool recommends lots of different brands, textures and forms of foundations. This makes it a far superior tool compared to the No.7 one. It would be great to see a department store like Brown Thomas or Debenhams developing a tool like this.
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The acceleration of this year that had seemed to have slowed down for the last month or so, has now revved back up, at least to me. Thanksgiving (Canadian) has come & gone. Christmas will be here before we know it.
I have a lot to check off of my list before the end of 2017. Luckily I'm not panicking or going crazy. Well, I'm trying not to.😉 My hours are longer, I'm working on Sundays a lot more than usual but it's a means to an end. More on all of those ventures when things are in proper motion.
In other words, life is good! Life is a blessing! It's not perfect but it could be a lot worse. I've also decided that from now on October 19th will be a day of good luck. Like Friday the 13th has always been for me. There is no need for sadness, although I'm sure those days will come whether I want them to or not.
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Patriot Push-Ups Challenge Round Up
January 2012 is now over, which means the Patriot Push-Ups Challenge is now over…sort of. Before we explain the "sort of," let's recap what the challenge is.
Joe Evans, Matthew Poster and Alexandra started talking on Twitter about honoring our U.S. servicemen and women who were killed in action in Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom. We decided to do a Patriot Push-Ups Challenge. That meant 6,347 push-ups in the 31 days of January. We'll do the math for you – it's essentially 212 per day.
Halfway through the Patriot Push-Ups, we highlighted some of the participants. Now we shall show you some video of a few of our very dedicated participants. You'll want to read all the way through![youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoWVuDpVkR4[/youtube]
This is Joe Evans. We think he did all of them on his toes. At something like 4 in the morning. He is a military man. He is very disciplined. Chat with him on Twitter.[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c04nHXwXQJU&feature=youtu.be[/youtube]
This is Matthew Poster. He has been encouraging families to get active for a long time. Chat with him on Twitter about his GetFitSu workout cards.[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIjEeJcye0s[/youtube]
And this is Chuck Runyon. He owns Anytime Fitness. They donated a one-year membership to one of our challengers. When Chuck isn't doing push-ups, he's touring the country, talking about his book Working Out Sucks. But you know, it's all relative. We think the 6,347 men and women who died on our behalf would much rather work out and be alive. They were killed in action. Honor them – don't kill yourself from inaction!
Now we'll explain what the "sort of " alluded to at the start means: Although we're done with the January push-ups, we are going to switch over to #PatriotAbs for February. Since it has only 29 days in the month, that means 219 per day. Please join us by commenting below. If you're on Twitter, use the Patriot Abs hashtag listed here.
And finally…please help us congratulate Angela (@KidsHusbandandI). She is the winner of the one-year Anytime Fitness membership. She did her push-ups very diligently as she was quite motivated (even with a bad shoulder). As she said, "My motivation for doing the push-ups is to show my appreciation for the US Troops that gave the ultimate sacrifice. My father is a Vietnam Veteran and I will always hold a special place in my heart for our soldiers. As soon as I read the push-ups idea, I knew it was something I would do."
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I have come to realize that we "the church" on a whole do not know who we really are, we do not understand completely the authority that we walk under. And I believe this is why we "the church" appear so ineffective today. This is why we do not see the miracles that other countries see, or that the apostles experienced.
It was about twelve years ago the first time I ever went through deliverance. I don't remember much about it because I literally passed out. I remember how I felt afterwards. It was like someone had lifted the weight of the world off my shoulders. I think I cried, sang, and praised the whole three hour drive home. Honestly though, I didn't know a thing about maintaining deliverance. I didn't know what sanctification meant. Was I delivered over night of temptation? No. I still had the same desires and temptations. I kept running across this verse about work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. I didn't understand it.
This last year when I hit my rock bottom. I cried out like never before. Lord I can't take anymore. I am tired of trying to do this all my way and getting no where. I can't take the pain anymore. And you know the first thing that popped into my mind... Frank Sinatra's Song "I did it my way". Gosh I hope he didn't. Have you ever thought about why you want control of your life so bad? Why you are so determined to say, "I did it my way". It's fear. That is the whole thing.. right in a nutshell. Fear. Fear of surrendering ourselves to others and where that might lead us. Fear of being hurt, rejected or abandoned. Fear. When that revelation hit me I really began searching.
During my search I ran across something that said, "Don't believe you're just an old forgiven sinner just because some pastor tells you so. Look these things up in the Word of God for yourself and know the truth. For Jesus said clearly that if we continue in His Word, we will know the truth and the truth will set us free!"
John 8:32, "And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free."
And here is the real kicker. My Grandma told me that same thing ALL my life. She would say to me that the bible was my plumb line. That everything I needed to stay balanced and on the straight and narrow is in there. Search for it. Pray for the Lord to show you, because the Word would never steer me wrong.
So let's get real here. The opposite of the truth is deception. And what is deception? In this case it is false beliefs. And what do false beliefs do? They cause you to live in bondage. Let me give you an example. If you think you are a failure, do you really think you will be able to walk in the authority that Christ has given us? If you still feel unworthy (after all that Jesus has done for you on the cross) are you walking in the authority? I realized I was spitting in my Lord and Saviors face every time I thought of myself in those negative ways. I was saying that His blood, His sacrifice was not enough to put my feet on that firm foundation. That it was not enough to boldly approach the throne of God. I was deceived.
Listen closely to what I say here. We were made worthy by the Blood of the Lamb. There is nothing on this earth we can do to be worthy except to be washed and cleansed in the Blood of the Lamb. Our worth comes from Him.
Romans 5:8, "But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us."
God loves us. It is an everlasting love. A FOREVER love. An unconditional love. It is the same love that He has for His only begotten son.
John 17:23, "I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me."
Jesus said that the greatest love is when you lay down your life for another. It's time we realize that was a great love that carried him through all those beatings. A great love that carried that cross up a hill. A great love that held him to that cross. And we better not disparage that anymore. This is not about self worth. It's not about your past, or where you came from. God wiped that all out on the cross. Don't you dare disparage that. That is true love.
John 15:13, "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends."
You might wonder why I am stressing this point so much. It is because of this.... how can you be filled with the fullness of God if you don't understand the love of God? See.. this is what He showed me.
Ephesians 3:17-19, "That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fullness of God."
This is the whole key... Christ has to dwell in your heart by faith. I like the word believe. You have to believe Jesus was, is, and is to come. That the very spirit that resided in Him, resides in you. Check out the next part. Grounded in Love. You have to know.. it has to be deep inside you. You have to understand that He paid a STEEP price for you. That the wages of sin are death and Jesus paid that price for you.
1 Corinthians 6:20, "For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's."
I could go on and on here. But that should say it all. For those of you who were raised in the "Fire and Brimstone" background. Of a vengeful God. A God who loves to punish. And you have been beating yourselves up for years and trying to be perfect. STOP. Yes at times God has been a "Man of War". Yes at times nations have sinned and their have been consequences. Yes this list could go on and on. But God's true nature is LOVE. That not any should perish. He allows us to make choices. He doesn't force. He loves and waits patiently for us to turn to him. I want to close today with a few verses that the Lord put on my heart while I was dealing with all of this.
Romans 5:8, "But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us."
Galatians 2:16, "Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified."
Hebrews 9:14, "How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?"
Hebrews 10:17, "And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more."
Romans 5:17, "For if by one man's offense death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ."
2 Corinthians 5:17, "Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new."
You have to know who you are in Christ. To know that He loves you. That you are His. That He would have died for just you. Meditate on this. Talk to Him about this. Ask Him to show you the truth in these words.
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With three L.A. sports teams in the playoffs this season, the Staples Center has been a hub of activity these past weeks hosting game after game at the arena.
The Lakers, Clippers and Kings all have home games this coming weekend, which means backed up traffic heading into downtown L.A. In order to avoid the impending 'Sportsageddon' traffic this weekend, check out the game schedules at the Staples Center.
Starting today through Sunday, the Staples Center will host a total of six playoff games in just four days — that means a lot of floor changes. CBS Sports blogger, Brian Stubits, writes that the floor changeover from hockey to basketball can be done in around 2 1/2 hours, which means they'll be cutting it pretty close on Sunday.
Saturday, May 19:
- 12:30 PM — Spurs vs. Clippers, Game 4, Staples Center
- 7:10 PM — Cardinals vs. Dodgers, Dodger Stadium
- 7:30 PM — Thunder vs. Lakers, game 4, Staples Center
Sunday, May 20:
- Noon — Coyotes vs. Kings, game 4, Staples Ceneter
- 5 PM — Cardinals vs. Dodgers, Dodger Stadium
- 7:30 PM — Spurs vs. Clippers, Game 4, Staples Center
In addition to all the playoff games, a major bicycle race is running from Beverly Hills to the finish point at Staples Center Sunday morning.


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Terrorism on American Soil
by Walter Brasch During this past week a three-year-old boy in Rock Hill, S.C., killed himself when he was playing with a loaded gun in his house. He wasn't the only one in Rock Hill to die from a gunshot. In July, a man killed himself after shooting his … Continue reading


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AG halts senior dating scam in Southeast Texas
Published 8:22 am, Friday, July 12, 2013
Southeast Texans looking for love found heartache instead when they became entangled with a dating service that wasn't what it claimed to be, according to a petition filed by the Texas Attorney General.
Attorney General Greg Abbot on Wednesday obtained a temporary restraining order and asset freeze against the dating service, which goes by the name Matchmaker Matchmaker in Beaumont. The service, run by Javiar Luna, AKA Harvey Luna, targeted the elderly, disabled and veterans, according to a petition.
Several affidavits attached to the AG's petition alleged Luna and his associates used strong-arm tactics to coerce them into signing up for the service, which then did not measure up to the sales pitch. The services offered were costly, often ranging from $3,000 to $10,000.
The Better Business Bureau of Southeast Texas received numerous complaints about the service, one from a Beaumont woman.
Sharon Hubbard said she was engaged in her fourth bout with breast cancer earlier this year and wasn't even looking to date when she was contacted by someone from the service, who said they got her name from a dating website where she'd once partially filled out a profile.
She told the woman she wasn't interested and that she planned to move away from Texas anyway.
But it didn't end there. Luna followed up a few weeks later, on a Saturday night.
"He was very derogatory I didn't have a date on Saturday night, very derogatory that I didn't have a date on Valentine's Day," Hubbard said, adding that she told Luna she'd just had surgery and wasn't interested in dating at the moment, but he wasn't dissuaded.
"He just kept on and on, very high pressure," she said.
He finally coaxed her to come to the Beaumont office, just to "see what we're about."
A female sales associate, who kept her there talking for hours, quoted a price of $9,000 for their services.
When Hubbard said she didn't have that kind of money, the associate scaled down the package.
Eventually, Hubbard agreed to pay $100 then and $300 later for the service.
"I'd been there for hours and I was very tired - I'd just had surgery and was on Vicodin," she said.
She signed a contract, but when she got home, she thought better of it and called her bank to stop the future $300 credit card payment. But since she'd signed the contract, the bank had to honor the payment.


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Espresso-Flavored Sugar Cubes
Easy to make, great to give as gifts, and fun to use, these caffeine-spiked sugar cubes do it all. They make fun stocking stuffing for adults and are perfect to put in your coffee Christmas morning or in place of plain sugar in a rich mug of cocoa.
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Level: Moderate
Yield: 1 gift of 180 sugar cubes
- 1 tbsp. espresso powder
- 1½ tsp. meringue powder
- 1½ tsp. hot water
- 1½ c. sugar
- Preheat oven to 250 degrees F. Meanwhile, in a large bowl, combine espresso powder, meringue powder, and hot water. Whisk until no lumps remain; let cool.
- Add sugar and whisk until the mixture resembles damp sand. Spoon half of the sugar mixture into a 90-compartment silicone mini-ice-cube tray (Casabella, $12 for set of two; amazon.com).
- Using a rubber spatula, spread the mixture, pressing it tightly into the tray's compartments. Scrape away any excess sugar mixture and return to bowl. Repeat with remaining sugar mixture and a second tray. Place trays on a baking sheet and bake for 40 minutes. Allow cubes to rest until hardened, about 8 hours, before carefully releasing from trays.
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Garrison Transmog Sets
Warlords of Draenor features many new transmog outfits available from your Garrison. Here's a quick run-down of the sets and how to get them.
Shadowmoon Regalia - Cloth
Thunderlord Garb - Leather
Warsong Armor - Mail
Blackrock Plate
This collection of outfits are obtained from a Dwarven Bunker (War Mill for Horde). They only require a level 2 building, but take a bit of farming to be able to purchase them. The chest, gloves and boots are purchased with Iron Horde Scraps, which drop from any Iron Horde mob on Draenor. The helm, shoulders, and belt require a Battered Iron Horde Helmet, Crusted Iron Horde Pauldrons, or a Ravaged Iron Horde Belt in addition to the scraps. These three items drop from dungeon bosses on either Normal or Heroic. The set pieces are Bind to Account and are restricted by armor class.
These two sets are also purchased with the Iron Horde Scraps and the three required pieces for helm, shoulders and belt. These sets have no armor restrictions and are Bind to Account.
These sets can be obtained from Salvage crates from completing missions with a level 3 Salvage Yard. These sets also come equipped on level 90 "Boosted" characters. These sets are bound to your character, and class specific, meaning as a priest, you will only get the priest pieces from your salvage crates. While the items that come on a boosted character are ilevel 483 greens, the salvage yard pieces are ilevel 610 blues.
The shoulders that come with the hunter and monk sets (gloves for monks too) are "invisible", however they cannot be used for transmog purposes.
The Trading Post offers one transmog set for Alliance Only. This set requires a level 2 building and revered standing with the Sha'tari Defense. Rep for this faction is only available with the Trading Post, and gained from killing mobs in Shattrath city. This set is plate and is Bind on Pickup.
Horde Trading Posts open up the Laughing Skull Orcs faction, who have 3 Laughing Skull Cosmetic Helms for purchase at revered.


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With corn futures prices recently surging to set new all-time highs, breaking through the ceiling established during the U.S. and world food price crisis of 2007-08, the debate over the nation's ethanol policy came to the fore once again during two recent congressional hearings.
Scott Faber, vice-president of federal affairs for the Grocery Manufacturers Association, on April 13 told members of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works that federal support to the corn ethanol industry had the effect of raising the cost of producing food with the higher costs passed on, even if reluctantly, to the consumer. Mr. Faber's view contrasted with the perspective of Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, who testified before the committee that several factors were propelling food prices higher in the United States and especially overseas and that U.S. renewable fuels policy played only a minor role.
On the same date, on the other side of the Capitol, poultry industry executives urged members of the House Agriculture Committee's Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy and Poultry to rein in subsidies to the ethanol industry and reduce the Renewable Fuels Standard (R.F.S.) in the event of a shortfall in corn production to ensure a "level playing field" for poultry producers to compete with the ethanol industry for limited corn supplies.
Mr. Faber told the Senate committee U.S. food-at-home prices were forecast to advance 3.5% to 4.5% in 2011 with even higher price gains expected for basic food staples like milk, meat and eggs. Mr. Faber said the same factors that caused "a perfect storm" in 2008 food markets were again contributing to rising food and food ingredient prices, including strong global demand, poor weather, rising energy costs, commodity speculation and trade restrictions. But he referenced a significant difference between trends in 2011 compared with 2008 was "even more of our food and feed is being diverted to produce fuel."
One-quarter of the 2008 corn crop was diverted from food and feed use to fuel manufacturing, Mr. Faber said, whereas in the current year nearly 40% of the corn crop was forecast to be used in manufacturing more than 13 billion gallons of corn ethanol.
"As a result, corn stocks are at or near record lows, contributing to high prices and extreme volatility," he said.
Feed accounts for 70% of the cost of producing meat and poultry, and higher corn and meat prices also raise the costs of manufacturing processed foods, Mr. Faber said.
He referred to the recent decisions of the Environmental Protection Agency that allow fuel and fuel additive manufacturers to introduce into commerce gasoline containing up to 15% ethanol by volume for use in light-duty motor vehicles manufactured in 2001 and afterward. Mr. Faber said Congress should instead freeze the amount of corn ethanol blended into gasoline to provide advanced (non-corn-based) biofuels more time to reach commercial scale, to permit changes to engines unable to safely operate with higher ethanol blends, to complete assessments of the impacts of higher blends on engines and the environment, and to allow corn yields to catch up with demand created by the R.F.S.
Mr. Faber called for reforming the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 to require linking the corn ethanol production mandate under the R.F.S. with corn availability, i.e., if corn supplies are tight, the mandate should be reduced.
He also called for ending of the Volumetric Ethanol Excise Tax Credit (VEETC) and using the savings estimated at nearly $5 billion a year to invest in developing advanced biofuels. The VEETC provides fuel blenders a credit of 45c a gallon for manufacturing gasoline containing corn ethanol.
The notion the nation had to choose between food and fuel was challenged by Mr. Vilsack.
"Some have suggested that not enough food, feed and fuel can be grown to meet our needs," he said. "However, we have seen that time and again, our nation's farmers and ranchers have risen to that challenge. Growing energy crops is another challenge for this country and the globe, and we are confident that we can meet food, feed and fuel needs while maintaining and expanding our conservation ethic and creating jobs and economic growth in rural economy."
Mr. Vilsack said the farm value of crops account for only about 16c of the retail food dollar.
"In addition, while corn prices have increased substantially over the past nine months, previous work suggests that the effects on retail food prices are likely small," he said. At the same time, he acknowledged "higher corn prices do play a role in projected meat price inflation with beef prices currently forecast to increase 4.5% to 5.5% and pork prices forecast to increase 6% to 7% in 2011."
Paul Hill, chairman, West Liberty Foods, West Liberty, Iowa, speaking on behalf of the National Turkey Federation, told the House panel the biggest reason the poultry industry was not more optimistic was surging feed costs.
"As both a turkey producer and a corn farmer, I will tell you there is one reason for those costs increases — the federal ethanol policy," Mr. Hill said.
He continued, "We must quit pretending that ethanol hasn't had an impact on livestock and poultry farmers as well as end consumers. It has and it will continue to have one as long as our current policies are in place."
Michael Welch, president and chief executive officer, Harrison Poultry, Bethlehem, Ga., speaking on behalf of the National Chicken Council, said, "The rules of the game must be balanced and the playing field should be leveled to permit chicken producers and other animal agriculture producers to more fairly compete for the limited supplies of corn in the next few years. Included in this effort must be a safety valve to adjust the R.F.S. when there is a shortfall in corn supplies."
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A former Oxford student courted controversy last week after calling to "abolish Oxbridge" in an article for "powerful" Labour-supporting blogging network labourlist.org.
Owen Jones, who graduated from University College in 2005, branded the University a "training ground for the next generation of the Establishment" that "reeks of a public school ethos."
He wrote: "The idea of having two reigning monarchs of the university system, whose students are automatically regarded as being of a better quality than anywhere else, is completely anachronistic and has to go. Despite repeated – and noble – attempts, both universities remain the preserve of the wealthy and the privileged…what we could call the 'Oxbridge system' has to go."
Jones's article promptly became an internet sensation and triggered a largely negative response from Oxford students, who flocked to the website to express their disdain.
One 1st year English student said: "Gloriously unthought [sic] out in every respect! Obviously the gowns and suchlike [are] clearly absurd, but what the author is essentially doing is plucking off leaves without noticing the tree trunk. Although his heart might well be in the right place, I have every concern that his brain may not be so fortunate."
A handful of readers dismissed the author as an "imbecile" and an "unmitigated prat," though others rushed to Jones's defence, with a one commenting: "It's true. Why should so much of the power and the wealth and the best tutors and facilities be located in two places where the rich and powerful have a disproportionate access to them? Although the article goes a little far and doesn't provide a clear answer, it is a problem that should be addressed."
A response also uploaded to Labourlist following the furore by Alex Canfor-Dumas and Josh Glancy who, although in agreement with Jones's broader ideology, condemned his argument as "almost entirely wrong."
Daniel Knowles, also an Oxford graduate, responded to Jones' article in a blog for Telegraph.co.uk. He said: "Abolish Oxbridge? You stupid boy, within a few years, the country would be perilously short of well-educated graduates, the economy would be even more bust, and anyone with any money would be studying at Harvard."
However, in response to the criticism, Jones defended his claims. Talking to this newspaper, he said: "I entirely stick to the argument. The response that has most baffled me was that I was 'kicking the ladder from beneath me'. At the centre of my argument was that Oxbridge was only in part educational elite: on the whole, its students represent the brightest of fairly narrow social elite. That's why I've argued for the automatic enrolment of bright working-class kids – many of whom do not apply, despite the best efforts of the admissions departments, because of the socially exclusive image Oxford has in many communities. I've also argued we need broader educational elite made up of a number of top universities, rather than seeing Oxbridge as the be all and end all."
"God knows who Daniel Knowles was arguing against. My argument was that our educational elite should be broader and more socially representative. He didn't even bother engaging with that."
Labourlist.org was launched in 2009 as an independent website supporting the Labour Party. Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls has said the site is "really really good" that is "flourishing and agenda-setting" and "very powerful."
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I went to Univ! Where did Pembroke come from?!
Former Pembroke student takes the piss out of the former Oxford student who calls for Oxbridge to be abolished…
As a student at a middle-ranking university in the UK, I have discussed standards of teaching in some detail with one of my tutors. He attended Cambridge for a BA and MA, (PhD at my university), and has said that he teaches his part of the course in exactly the same way he was taught it, and that he marks to the same standard. Mostly students get 3rds and 2.2s and one or two scrape a 2.1, and exceptionally a 1st is awarded. Having attended lectures at Cambridge on an aspect of the course I was to study elsewhere, (it is near my hometown), I can say that the standard was no different. I get as many and as thorough notes during lectures of the same duration. He added that although this standard of work was applied to him in the early 1990s, Cambridge itself was in some ways lowering the standards it demanded, and its quality of teaching in some respects. Also, it is expected that the brighter and self-motivated students will organise tutorials with their tutors on a regular basis. This is not empirically meaningful information, but it is reassurance that committed intellectuals are disseminating their wisedom at institutions outside Cambridge (and Oxford?). Ergo, the only thing that needs to change is not the existence of Oxbridge, just a perception that they are the UKs only worthwhile institutions. The sad fact is that there aren't many geniuses, and there never were; history is just good at compiling them neatly into small spaces (i.e. books). I have known of one, possibly a second person to go to Oxbridge who I would suspect will do something moderately brilliant for the world, in science and mathematics, respectively. I have known many more attend oxbridge who have turned out to be really not all that special in any shape or form. There should also be a distinction drawn between excellent educating and excellent researching, which are unique human activities: in my opinion converging the two completely is wrongheaded, and rarely leads to excellent research and excellent teaching: invariably one activity takes a back seat. Wise up people!
how delightful, having grown up in foreign lands i reckon this discussion misses the point entirely. there is an underlying elitist non think culture in this country that very much focuses on "my group" rather than "the other" and as Maggie said "there is no such thing as society". compare that to the thinking of someone very priviledged: "don't ask what your country can do for you…."
maybe the Elites do require different training and upbringing. Less sense of entitlement would be a good start.


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Do you work in audio in TV or radio or interested in pursuing that line of work in the media? Then you may be interested in the work of Sound Women, a network of over 900 inspirational women working in audio. If you're male stay tuned – there are useful tips for you too!
Ann Charles a sound engineer kindly agreed to write about Sound Women for us and also offers a couple of tips for those thinking of entering the profession:
Sound Women – the coolest support organisation for women in radio
"Sound Women? They're a bunch of militant feminists who whinge that there aren't enough women on the radio!" said a (male) colleague of mine in the pub one night.
Brilliant! We've made it as an organisation! We've even inspired a spoof Twitter account – @soundblokes. We must be making an impact.
On a serious note, no we're not a bunch of militant feminists who whinge about the lack of women in high-profile positions in radio and audio. What we are is a group of people (men are welcome) who want to support women working in the radio and audio industries.
We've commissioned research which found out that many women leave the industry at around the age of 35. We'd like to change that, so we organise mentoring schemes to help you reach the next stage of your career.
There are social events and talks and workshops happening under the Sound Women umbrella all over the country. We're lucky to have high-profile broadcasters from across the industry volunteering on the committee.
Sound Women has only just reached its first birthday. It was set up after Maria Williams, a radio Executive Producer, got so fed up by the lack of women winning Sony Radio Academy awards (the most prestigious awards in UK radio) that she wanted to do something about it. She gathered together a collective of like-minded women and Sound Women was born.
We don't just concentrate on production and presentation skills. Some of our members are of a more technical persuasion and we've had Sound Women volunteers organising engineering conferences and promoting technical skills to young people. There are some great opportunities available if you want to get involved.
On a personal note, if you are interested in media, then radio is a great industry to join. If you already work in tv, you will have many transferable skills – and vice-versa! For example, I have done sound for tv as a direct result of my experience of being able to mix radio programmes. Interviewing people and making contacts are requirements in both industries. And although the debate rages about the value of the visualisation of radio, it's certainly the case that video skills are becoming essential in the world of audio.
Most of us who work in the world of radio/audio are really passionate about it. It's a very creative medium and although there's a lot of teamwork involved, it's much easier for one person to have an idea, do all the necessary recording, edit it and play the item out themselves. There's more room for an individual's own creative vision and control. And if you want to 'send someone into space' for a drama, doing it on the radio is way cheaper…
So if you want to meet some amazing people, get all fired up about your media career and have some skills you'd like to pass on (don't be shy – I know you'll have a skill or talent to share that the rest of us aren't so good at), please pop over to the Sound Women website and join us. It's a fiver a month.
Thank you, Ann, now onto practical matters – do you need any particular qualifications to start a career in audio for radio or TV?
No. Experience is good. Some people choose to do MAs in Journalism if that's their thing. Broadcast engineers may or may not have done an engineering or electronic degree (I was at an event for broadcast engineers yesterday and I think it was a 50/50 split between those who'd got a degree and those who'd learned by experience). I turned down university and did three years working at my local station instead – not an uncommon route.
What is the most common entry-level position for a career in audio?
It depends on where you work but the most common entry-level position – after work experience – is often called a 'Broadcast Assistant' or a 'Production Assistant'. Broadcast Assistant can be a misleading term, however – some BAs have got 20+ years in the industry! A BA is usually a multi-skilled role that might cover everything from programme admin and research to co presenting, answering and producing phone calls, making packages and operating sound desks. On the broadcast engineering side you might find people doing roles such as technical assistant or being a trainee on a graduate programme as a first paid job. But most people will have some unpaid experience in local/community/student/hospital radio first.
And finally, what is the difference between a sound engineer and a broadcast engineer?
I've worked in production (as a radio/online producer/reporter), sound engineering and broadcast engineering. They have lots of overlaps but aren't all the same thing! Lots of people get 'sound engineer' and 'broadcast engineer' confused – one is a person who is an expert in creating and mixing sound, and the other is the person who knows how to get and keep your station on air and all the equipment working correctly.
Ann Charles is a radio and online producer who went a bit feral and ended up as a project-managing engineer. She's passionate about all things radio and audio, and especially loves helping producers get the best use of technology. She likes chocolate and singing songs about socks in Bulgarian.
For more information about Sound Women check out their website: http://www.soundwomen.co.uk and you can find them on Twitter @soundwomen
Hi, I'm an almost 21 year old male, don't have any media experience, but I subscribe to the SYWTWIT newsletters because I've been asked numerous times "If money and resources were no option, what would you be doing?", I always say I'd love to get into radio.
How do I begin?, what are the practical steps I'd need to take?, workshops?, courses? (I live in Liverpool, England)
Any and all help is much appreciated, thank you.
Hi Khyle,
Great to hear you love radio – welcome to the club 🙂
A good way to start out is to make your own podcast. Get friends to subscribe and see if you can get people who don't know you to start following your feed as well. You'll get a feel for whether you actually like making audio, which is good to know before you go any further with trying to get work in radio.
Make a deadline and standard duration (e.g. every Wednesday at 7pm and it will be exactly 5'00" +- 3″ and stick to it. Radio is about hitting deadlines.
Volunteering is another great way to get experience. Look around – are there any local charities that could do with audio? Hospital radio is the obvious choice but look wider and get creative.
There are also industry associations such as the Radio Academy which are worth looking up.
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While India is a trip that is 18 hours away by plane for some, the Gerrard India Bazaar is a mere ten minute walk from our house. If I'm craving kalamari the way they made it on Naxos, Greektown is just three subway stops away. The ability to enjoy what the world has to offer from our doorstep has made us want to travel more, not less.
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Ben Vest takes first in Central Oregon
Ben Vest, 17, took the first place trophy on Sept. 21 at the Central Oregon Off-Road Race Park (COORP).
Vest ran the course with his dads (Troy Vest, of Vest Racing) protruck.
It was a close call between him and the second-place driver, Ben said. The COORP season started in April. Ben raced in all three races leading up to the championship, and he was the points leader going into the final, having taken first in all but one of the races all season.
Ben wants to follow in his dads footsteps as a driver. It takes a lot of work and a lot of support, he said, thanking his parents and Vest Racing fans for their support.
Ben is on his second year of driving. His first time in the seat was last year, in Parker, Ariz., where the Vest Racing team returned to last weekend for the 2013 Bluewater Desert Challenge.
Being a good driver takes a lot of practice and time. You can study the course months before and discuss strategy, Ben said, but a lot of it is seat time.
Some races, like the Best in the Desert Vegas to Reno race, which Vest Racing ran in August, are hundreds of miles long. Drivers and copilots lose pounds of water weight in races like these, and the dust sometimes gets thick enough they can't see more than a couple feet in front of them. Short-course races are less intense, but it still takes a lot of focus and there is always the potential for a wreck.
When its time to put your helmet on and go to work, you just get into the zone, Ben said. Youve worked hard and you want it to pay off.
Though hes keeping a plan B up his sleeveto attend welding school in Wyoming and go on to help build race carsBen wants to first take a shot at making a living driving. Theres a lot of opportunity, he said. Id love to get into short-course racing and do this the rest of my life. Im going to try.


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By Craig Hatkoff and Rabbi Irwin Kula
Can the upsurge in and nature of the media coverage regarding Jamie Dimon's throat cancer provide a lens into the economic, political, social and cultural zeitgeist? The market cap of the company did drop 1%, (roughly $2 billion) before slightly bouncing back the day after the announcement of the JP Morgan CEO's illness suggesting the stock price impact of his health prospects were not trivial. But at a time when Dimon and his family are entitled to privacy there is a fascinating set of issues that invite dissection, analysis and unfortunately speculation about his illness and its implications for the company. A clearly sensitive topic that should be handled delicately, there seems to be undue attention and a near obsession with Dimon's illness if evidenced only by Matt Herper's piece on Forbes.com with 1.3 million views as of this writing. Then there are the disingenuous suggestions on Gawker.com as to Dimon's possible successor — Elizabeth Warren anyone?
To help understand what is underlying this unusual amount of attention, perhaps we can turn to the wisdom of twelfth century Jewish rabbi-philosopher-scholar. Maimonides, the unparalleled codifier of Jewish law, wrote the mishnah torah that made the voluminous complex of Jewish laws simpler and more accessible to those without stratospheric IQs. Maimonides, one of the great disruptive innovators in history, was master of multi-level meaning making, interpretations and partial truths for the enlightened scholar but simultaneously offered simple, metaphorical explanations for the common man who had neither the time, interest nor faculty for thinking too much. The KISS theorem all the way. Maimonides was also particularly influential on writings theologian Thomas Aquinas. His reach was vast.
Dimon's media coverage does raise some tricky questions the most delicate of which is what kind of throat cancer Dimon has contracted. Is it a legitimate question? Perhaps. The health of larger-than-life CEOs can have a material impact on stock price and future performance. Just ask Apple's Board of Directors and its shareholders. But exactly how relevant is the nature of Dimon's cancer—whether it was caused by smoking and drinking or the potentially more embarrassing and stigmatizing type resulting from the sexually-transmitted HPV virus. Or neither? Just bad luck of the draw from the gene pool? There are some tricky disclosure issues--what needs to be said, what should and what shouldn't be said. From a financial point of view there is arguably a higher expected return to shareholders if the cause of Dimon's cancer were known to be HPV-related as it comes with significantly higher survival rates. JP Morgan has admitted that Dimon was a smoker until the 1980s but has not stated that smoking and drinking was the suspected culprit. Oncologists do suggest that such an extended period of cessation makes smoking a less likely culprit. More uncertain are the likely outcomes from genetics-related throat cancer should smoking and the HPV virus were to be ruled out.
We can leave it to the market and the arbs to run the math, but without too much of a stretch you could make the case that just one piece of information might impact the price of the stock. From an image standpoint the good old fashion, smoking-related cancer would perversely simplify the corporate communications task at least in one respect: avoiding an awkward narrative relating to the HPV factor. But regardless of the cause, doesn't every level-headed person just want Mr. Dimon to get better as soon as possible? Therein lies the rub.
The sad reality is that the world is not filled just with level-headed people and there is still much anger pointed toward banks, bankers and, yes, even Mr. Dimon in the aftermath of the financial crisis. The several hundred comments for Herper's entry range from outright distaste that he even wrote the article to a kind of gallows humor to an outright populist anger: that this was Dimon's comeuppance, a you-get-what-you-deserve, divine retribution. It's easy to dismiss these latter kinds of comments as coming from "crazies" or cold-hearted people with no sense of compassion. But when sentiments such as these remain repressed they can cause more harm than good. Unmediated collective repression, history tells us, in the long run usually doesn't end well. Just ask Marie Antoinette.
Maimonides? Jamie Dimon? Are you serious? Yes, quite serious. First of all, the Dimon situation is well…complicated. Maimonides did "complicated" better than anyone. In the case at hand there are multi-level layers upon layers of possible meanings—all sorts of questions arise ranging from succession planning at JP Morgan to separation of the Chairman/CEO roles to the Too Big to Fail Doctrine for the world's largest financial institution to the ethics of voluntary versus required disclosures about a CEO's health ("so what kind of throat cancer does Dimon actually have?").
Michael Douglas has suffered from HPV-related oral/throat cancer. Douglas bravely went public commenting that his cancer was the result of sexual activity, specifically cunnilingus. (He later admitted that he had tongue cancer). Yet the statistics on HPV-related tongue or throat cancer are no joking matter and are fast becoming a serious public health issue. It's one thing for a macho silver screen type to engage in the presumed activities but it doesn't exactly fit the image a banking stalwart.
But should we or do really we care? Apparently so. Is it just plain newsworthy? Were it to turn out that Dimon has the less deadly type of HPV-related would it actually be public service to disclose this? That public figures tend to raise awareness of any situation involving public health-related issues, however embarrassing, is hard to condemn and often warrants praise; from Rock Hudson's HIV admission to Katie Couric's televised colonoscopy. JP Morgan has not commented on which type of throat cancer Dimon has but has acknowledged that he stopped smoking in the 1980s.
The analyst and arbs can easily project the expected values based on the two different causes and the probabilities for five year survival; the differential could be meaningful. So this level of heightened interest makes economic sense. But there seems to be more. A lot more. According to Maimonides there are two types of meaning—deep meaning for the intellectually enlightened and surface meaning for the more pedestrian types. When a situation that conveys both types of meaning simultaneously it becomes a powerful trope and provides vivid parables pertaining to the external world—the welfare of our body politic. These reach our internal world as well–the "eternal truths" about life.
Does interest in Dimon reflect a simultaneous correspondence of both the economic-financial meaning and the existential meaning of Dimon's affliction? Or could this "illness" provide a series of metaphors, simple and not so simple, that are a barometer of the state of the world? Some people's intense focus on Dimon reflects a human yearning for a just world—an eye-for-an-eye mentality in which there is reward and punishment. Under this less enlightened view: "Dimon got what he deserved;" he brought the world to the edge of the abyss (whether personally or as a projection) while keeping his job and thriving—along with his other fellow financial heads of state who should have lost their jobs along with those on Main Street. In a just world these men and women would not be rewarded for reckless behavior and greed. Of course this reflects the darker side of human nature—a schadenfraude reaction—but certainly not the kind of justice we would want to encounter for our own actions. For other people, Jamie Dimon's cancer may well become a metaphor for the all the "illnesses" inherent in our financial system. Cancer represents uncontrolled growth in non-productive banking activities driven by power, greed and avarice.
Even harsher, scarier reactions are portrayed in Nick Hanauer's recent piece in Politico where he talks about the pitchforks, literally, coming out for the zillionaires of which he is one. By his own admission he was just lucky—he knew Jeff Bezos and was the first outside investor in Amazon. Class warfare he tells is bad, very bad, for business and potential deadly for the the 1% let alone the .01% such as himself. One can expect many unpleasant populist narratives to emerge in response to Dimon's recovery: he survived because he could afford the best healthcare money can buy; the greedy and power never get their just desserts; and, even absent any justification whatsoever, there will inevitably be unseemly whispers and innuendo about his sexual predilections and deviancy simply because of the HPV factor. In none of these narratives does Jamie win the day. The truly unfortunate part is that such populist anger prevents the kind of human progress and enlightenment Maimonides sees as the true purpose of religion; none of these angry narratives will help any of us.
Jamie Dimon's legacy in banking circles has already been cast in stone. He has been and will remain a star among stars. But on Main Street the narrative is much murkier and much harder for Jamie Dimon to win. Yet no man ever facing his mortality that survives remains unmoved. In getting a second chance, an enlightened narrative emerges when Dimon looks deep inside and through this process of introspection he does what Maimonides and every wisdom tradition teaches. He seriously asks himself about his own legacy from a position of vulnerability rather than invincibility. There he will find his own truth.
Jamie Dimon is a good man and a perhaps our greatest banker—albeit in a system that might simply be collapsing under its own weight. But Maimonides teaches that the only narratives that truly matter are the ones that help us find better versions of ourselves and of the world. Good luck Jamie. We hope you will be with us for a long time—as would Maimonides.
Craig Hatkoff and Rabbi Irwin Kula are co-founders at the Disruptor Foundation