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dream of (someone or something)
1. To fantasize about doing something as one's goal or ambition. I've dreamed of being an astronaut since I was eight years old.
2. To envision someone or something in one's sleep. While recovering from dental surgery, I actually dreamed of all the foods I couldn't eat. Waking up was quite a disappointment! What does it mean if you keep dreaming of the same thing every night?


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You're healthy, active and life is good. Then, you start having pain behind your eyes, frequent killer headaches and difficulty with your vision and balance. You shake it off as nothing, but you shouldn't. You may have a brain aneurysm.
A brain aneurysm occurs when a weakness in the wall of a blood vessel causes it to balloon. Left untreated, the ballooning blood vessel could burst and kill you.
Coil Embolization is a medical technique to treat brain aneurysms...
The coil embolism technique was pioneered in 1991 by Guido Guglielmi at UCLA. It's a technique that places a stent at the point of the aneurysm and inserts a coil into the bulging blood vessel. The coil forms a clot that treats the aneurysm.
...it could save your life...
Most brain aneurysms form at the base of the brain and can burst if they are big enough. It's a life threatening situation if blood from a ruptured aneurysm floods your brain. Coil embolization can treat this deadly medical condition relatively quickly and easily.
...does not require cranial surgery...
The surgery is performed through an incision in your leg. A catheter is inserted into your groin, pushed up through your aorta and into your brain where the aneurysm is located. Another older, but still popular technique requires a skull-cracking craniotomy in which the brain is exposed, the aneurysm located and surgically clipped away.
...has a high success rate...
A 2005 study by Stryker Neurovascular showed that 96% of patients with unruptured aneurysms and 90% with ruptured aneurysms were alive and kicking 15 months after coil embolization treatment.
...and cuts your recovery time to one month, not one year.
Patients who were treated via coil embolism recovered within a month, while those who underwent cranial-cracking brain surgery took up to one year to recover. [Shutterstock/Junial Enterprises]
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Starting with Beta version 0.0.16, Inter-Guild Link (AKA InterGuildLink AKA IGL) provides an API that enables other AddOn authors to receive allied guild events and messages as well as filter messages before being displayed to the user. This API can be used to extend other AddOns, enabling them to receive events and message from allied guilds and act on them as if the messages and events originated from within the local guild, while optionally displaying the original guilds name along with any relevant messages (pursuant to the users preference to do so, or not). The API can also be used by third-parties to simply bridge allied guild messages and events into other AddOns that have not yet interfaced with this API or who's authors wish to keep such an interface isolated into a separate bridging AddOn.
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Columbus Dispatch
Sunday, December 29, 2013
Jim McCormac
Edward Crump presided over Tennessee's political machine for much of the first half of the 20th century. The former Memphis mayor, in campaigning against political foe Estes Kefauver, portrayed the Democratic challenger for a U.S. Senate seat as being "raccoonlike" and a "communist puppet."
In response, Kefauver wore a raccoon-skin cap when on the stump and stated, "I may be a pet coon, but I'm not Boss Crump's pet coon."
Kefauver won the 1948 election handily.
Being compared to a raccoon isn't such a bad thing. It's more flattering than being compared to a skunk.
Raccoons are abundant and range throughout Ohio. Close relatives of bears, they are instantly identifiable by their black bandit mask and ringed tail. A big one can weigh 35 pounds. The wily mammals occur in all habitats and may thrive best in citified landscapes.
Raccoons are consummate omnivores, meaning that they'll eat almost anything. The meal plan includes our castoffs, as victims of plundered trash cans have learned.
The Algonquin Indian name for raccoon is aroughcoune, which means "He scratches with his hands." These masked bandits indeed have handlike paws, and their prints are easily recognized along muddy creek banks. Raccoons use their appendages with great dexterity, and they can open refrigerator doors, gates and other impediments that would thwart most beasts.
They are great climbers and often spotted high in trees. To facilitate headfirst descents, a raccoon can rotate its hind paws 180 degrees.
In northern climes, raccoons go on autumnal food binges, packing on massive quantities of fat. Up to a third of a successful glutton's body weight is blubber. So much fat is stored that a raccoon can ride out winter without eating, if need be. They don't truly hibernate but will remain holed up in a den for extended periods during cold snaps. Come spring, a raccoon might weigh half of what it did at winter's onset.
For such a seemingly bright animal, raccoons don't make their own dens. They use tree cavities, rocky crevices, hollow logs and sometimes storm sewers. Motorists are sometimes startled to see two eyes glowing from a sewer's grate, reflected by the car's headlights.
Raccoons mate in late winter or early spring, and the female gives birth to as many as eight coonlets in April or May. They grow rapidly, and before long will be sneaking through the night plundering crayfish from creeks and raiding unprotected trash cans. The mincing humpbacked gait of a coon is unmistakable.
In the 1950s, ABC aired a TV series featuring Fess Parker as the coonskin-capped Davy Crockett. Sales of the furry headgear skyrocketed to 5,000 a day. By the mid-1970s, the raccoon was the most economically important North American fur bearer.
By the early 1980s, a prime pelt could fetch $30 — now, about $72. Today, exterminators probably make more money from raccoons than trappers do.
Naturalist Jim McCormac writes a column for The Dispatch on the first and third Sundays of the month. He also writes about nature at www.jimmccormac.blogspot.com.


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Manti Te'o broke his silence on the Lennay Kekua hoax story Friday night in an off-camera interview with ESPN's Jeremy Schaap. The interview, over two hours long, still provoked many questions about the hoax and Te'o is no better off today in terms of clarifying his own story than he was before the interview.
Maybe Round 2 will work.
The New York Times reports that Te'o will sit down on camera with Katie Couric during her show "Katie" on Thursday to answer questions about the hoax. He'll be joined by his parents, Brian and Ottilia.
The Times adds that Oprah Winfrey, who recently interviewed Lance Armstrong, also requested to interview Te'o. If anyone's wondering why Couric was able to grab Te'o on camera, the fact both are represented by CAA might have something to do with it.


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While Palermo is often called the aristocratic city of Sicily, Catania has a more local, authentic feel. Here you experience the real Sicily – at the bustling colourful markets, among the baroque palaces and the Greek and Roman ruins. Catania has a tangible soul; this is the warmest city in Italy, not only literally but also figuratively.
Catania lies on Sicily's east coast. It is wedged between the intense blue waters of the Ionian Sea and Mount Etna, which towers 3,330 metres above the city. This panoramic setting lends Catania a unique charm, which is further enhanced by the city's wealth of cultural-historic treasures. A visit to every monument in this historic seaport would take much more than a weekend.
Catania is blessed with a large number of churches (more than 90), and most were built after the disastrous year of 1693 when the city was rocked by a devastating earthquake. The almost 2,000-year-old city centre was rebuilt, piece by piece. That is why many palaces, theatres and avenues date back to the 17th and 18th century. Among the monumental baroque architecture we still find some Greek-Roman ruins that attest to Catania's long history. Remnants of Byzantine, Arab and Norman architecture reveal that Sicily has always been an important crossroads for seagoing civilizations.
The Piazza del Duomo is the vibrant heart of the city. In the centre of this lively square stands a fountain with a small black elephant. Legend says it was petrified by the lava stream from Mount Etna. The square is also known for Catania's most famous monument: the cathedral, or Duomo di Sant'Agata. An elegant 18th-century cathedral, the façade is built in white and grey stone, an elegant contrast against the blue Sicilian sky. The cathedral was built in memory of St. Agatha, a well-known catholic martyr who was born in Catania.
The heart of this seaside town beats in the magnificent 'A Piscaria, the popular fish market near the Piazza del Duomo. The many stalls are packed with glistening sardines, swordfish and shellfish, including scampi and vongole (clams), which can be found in many of the delicious local pasta dishes. Kilo prices are loudly announced in Catania's characteristic sing-song accent; this is the place where market visitors can get a fantastic look into the local routine. Around the fish market you will also find stalls displaying other goodies, such as olives, cheese, fruit and vegetables.
The long Via Etnea stretches from the Piazza del Duomo to the foot of Mount Etna. Framed by 18th-century mansions, this is the city's best known avenue. It's not only the biggest shopping street in Catania, lined with many famous Italian fashion brands, it's one of the best spots to enjoy a spectacular view of the volcano. No matter where you are, the impressive silhouette always looms in the distance. A leisurely stroll along the Via Etnea leads to some lovely city parks, such as the Giardino Bellini, and monumental squares where you can pause over an espresso.


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Madeleine Albright: "Fascism: A Warning" | Talks at Google
In Fascism: A Warning, former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright draws on her experiences as a child in war-torn Europe and her distinguished career as a diplomat to provide a personal and urgent examination of Fascism in the twentieth century and how its legacy shapes today's world. A Fascist, observes Madeleine Albright, "is someone who claims to speak for a whole nation or group, is utterly unconcerned with the rights of others, and is willing to use violence and whatever other means are necessary to achieve the goals he or she might have."
Fascism, as she shows, not only endured through the twentieth century but now presents a more virulent threat to peace and justice than at any time since the end of World War II. The momentum toward democracy that swept the world when the Berlin Wall fell has gone into reverse. In many countries, economic, technological, and cultural factors are weakening the political center and empowering the extremes of right and left. Contemporary leaders such as Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un are employing many of the tactics used by Fascists in the 1920s and 30s.
Fascism: A Warning is a book for our times that is relevant to all times. Written by someone who has not only studied history but helped to shape it, this call to arms teaches us the lessons we must understand and the questions we must answer if we are to save ourselves from repeating the tragic errors of the past.
Meg Wolitzer | Appel Salon
"...the world will whittle your daughter down, but a mother never should, and my mother never did. And I find that is feminism in action."—Meg Wolitzer
Meg Wolitzer in conversation with Nathalie Atkinson at the Toronto Reference Library.
Amber Tamblyn's "Any Man" Book Release and Conversation with Jodi Kantor
An empowering and inspiring conversation with two trailblazing voices of the #MeToo movement.
Amber Tamblyn, the Emmy- and Golden Globe-nominated actor, director and founding member of Time's Up, joins us for the launch of her debut novel, Any Man. Her book sheds crucial light on rape culture, the experience of trauma and the uplifting of victims and their stories. She talks with New York Times investigative reporter Jodi Kantor, who, with Megan Twohey, broke the Harvey Weinstein story. The event includes a galvanizing reading from Tamblyn's novel and dialogue on this watershed moment of reckoning in our society and around the world.
Appel Salon | Alan Hollinghurst
"London seemed almost physically to represent new possibilities...I had a very excited and strong sense that I was going to be a Londoner. And I think it quite quickly suggested itself as a subject to me."—Alan Hollinghurst
The Man Booker Prize-winner, Alan Hollinghurst, discusses his latest novel, The Sparsholt Affair with Dimitri Nasrallah.
Peter Carey | Appel Salon | March 5, 2018
"The book really began when I thought about the redex trial and I looked at the old newsreel footage and it's extraordinary. The whole country is mad about a car race."—Peter Carey
Winner of the Booker Prize and Commonwealth Writers' Prize among others, Peter Care discusses his novel, A Long Way From Home.
Valeria Luiselli: Interpreters can help children from getting deported
Valeria Luiselli reads from her new book Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions, about her experience interpreter in a federal immigration court in New York City.
Reading Without Walls: Ilyasah Shabazz + Mahogany L. Browne
Writer and activist Ilyasah Shabazz, author of "Betty Before X," and poet Mahogany L. Browne, author of "Black Girl Magic," discuss their work with Princess Weekes of The Mary Sue. This conversation is presented in partnership with the Macmillan Children's Publishing Group and the Reading Without Walls Challenge.
About Reading Without Walls: Former National Ambassador for Young People's Literature Gene Luen Yang calls us all to READ WITHOUT WALLS, exploring books about characters who look or live differently than you, topics you haven't discovered, or formats that you haven't tried. READING WITHOUT WALLS promotes diversity and opens readers' eyes to new ideas and experiences. In this divided time in our nation's history, READING WITHOUT WALLS is an inclusive way to spread appreciation and understanding for others — and to learn new and exciting things.
Reading Without Walls is happening now, and anyone can participate — teachers, librarians, book-sellers, and readers. Just find something new and different to read — and let books open up the world around you.
Join us as these writers share their work and discuss the importance of reading a diverse selection of stories.
Ken Bensinger, "Red Card"
Ken Bensinger, an investigative reporter for BuzzFeed News, talks about the U.S. government's case against FIFA and some of the organization's most powerful leaders.
Yascha Mounk: "The People vs. Democracy" | Talks at Google
Yascha Mounk is a writer, academic and public speaker known for his work on the rise of populism and the crisis of liberal democracy. He is a Lecturer on Government at Harvard University, a Senior Fellow at New America, a columnist at Slate, and the host of "The Good Fight" podcast.
Using his own original research and on-the-ground reporting from countries around the world, Mounk discusses the themes and highlights from his latest book, "The People vs. Democracy." He explains what is at risk if the current trends in America and Western Europe continue. For those unwilling to give up on either individual rights or the popular will, Mounk explains, there is little time to waste: this may be our last chance to save democracy.
Nomi Prins: Collusion
Author and journalist Nomi Prins shines a light on the dark conspiracies and unsavory connections within the halls of power along with journalist Rich Benjamin.
The 2008 financial crisis started a chain reaction that boosted the influence of central bankers and caused a massive shift in the world order. Central banks and institutions are overstepping the boundaries of their mandates and directing the flow of money without any restrictions. Meanwhile, the cozy relationship between private and central banking ensures boundless manipulation with government support.
Nomi Prins is a journalist, speaker, respected TV and radio commentator, and former Wall Street executive. The author of six books, including All the Presidents' Bankers, Other People's Money, and It Takes a Pillage, her writing has been featured in the New York Times, Fortune, Mother Jones, Guardian, and Nation, among others. She was a member of Senator Bernie Sanders (D-VT) Federal Reserve Reform Advisory Council, and is on the advisory board of the whistle-blowing organization ExposeFacts.
Rich Benjamin is an American cultural critic, anthropologist, and author, best known for the non-fiction book Searching for Whitopia: An Improbable Journey to the Heart of White America.
Roxane Gay introduces Not That Bad
Cultural critic and New York Times best-selling author of Bad Feminist and Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body, Roxane Gay, shares a new anthology.
Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture collects original and previously published essays from established and up-and-coming writers, performers (including actors Ally Sheedy and Gabrielle Union), and critics that address what it means to live in a world where women have to measure the harassment, violence, and aggression they face, and where they are routinely second-guessed, blown off, discredited, gaslit, insulted, and bullied for speaking out. Searing and heartbreakingly candid, this provocative collection both reflects the world we live in and offers a call to arms insisting that not that bad must no longer be good enough.
On the Future Prospects for Humanity, by Martin Rees
Humanity has reached a critical moment. Our world is unsettled and rapidly changing, and we face existential risks over the next century. Various prospects for the future—good and bad—are possible. Yet our approach to the future is characterized by short-term thinking, polarizing debates, alarmist rhetoric, and pessimism. In this short, exhilarating book, renowned scientist and bestselling author Martin Rees argues that humanity's future depends on our taking a very different approach to thinking about and planning for tomorrow.
Terrance Hayes + Mary Karr | American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
Poets Terrance Hayes and Mary Karr celebrate the launch of Terrance Hayes' newest collection, "American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin."
Terrance Hayes is the author of Lighthead, winner of the 2010 National Book Award and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His other books are "Wind In a Box," "Hip Logic," and "Muscular Music." His honors include a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a 2014 MacArthur Fellowship. "How To Be Drawn," his most recent collection of poems, was a finalist for the 2015 National Book Award and received the 2016 NAACP Image Award for Poetry.
Mary Karr is a poet, essayist and memoirist. She rose to fame with the publication of her bestselling memoir "The Liars' Club." She is the Jesse Truesdell Peck Professor of English Literature at Syracuse University. Her latest book is "Tropic of Squalor: Poems," out in May from Harper.
Rachel Kushner | Appel Salon
"I think it's not good art to just sort of shove misery in people's faces."—Rachel Kushner
Rachel Kushner appeared at the Toronto Reference Library to discuss her book The Mars Room with Jessica Allen.
Weike Wang | Chemistry
Author Weike Wang introduces her new novel "Chemistry" in conversation with writer and critic Maris Kreizman.
Facing a demanding academic curriculum, overbearing parental expectations, and a marriage proposal from her devoted partner, the unnamed narrator of "Chemistry" is facing pressure and scrutiny from all sides. But this overwhelming amount of pressure will launch our flawed and insightful chemist heroine into a path of self discovery and realization. Leaving the familiar plan for the future behind, she tries to find the balance of self sacrifice, true desire, and love in a two year journey that is sure to captivate modern readers.
Weike Wang is a graduate of Harvard University, where she earned her undergraduate degree in chemistry and her doctorate in public health. She received her MFA from Boston University. Her fiction has been published in or is forthcoming from Alaska Quarterly Review, Glimmer Train, The Journal, Ploughshares, Redivider, and SmokeLong Quarterly. She is a 2017 "5 Under 35" honoree of the National Book Foundation.
Maris Kreizman is the creator of Slaughterhouse 90210, a blog and book (Flatiron Books, 2015) that celebrates the intersection of literature and pop culture. She's a writer and critic, as well as a former book editor and, most recently, she was the editorial director of Book of the Month.
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Stop loss levels are essential when you trade with leverage. Nonetheless, most traders put far more time into forecasting where prices will go and what type and size of position to take than determining stop levels. In fact, stop determination often is the last thing done prior to making a trade. This is a common mistake, and one that traders need to correct for long-term success.
There are a number of ways to set stops. Popular stop techniques include:
- A pure money management approach. The trader determines what he or she is willing to lose and the position size. The stop level comes out of the math.
- Using technical/chart points. A typical argument would be: "If it violates the recent breakout, the uptrend is negated, and I'm out." This often is hard to reconcile with a fundamental approach where the upside becomes more attractive as the price goes down.
Here, we will describe a mathematical approach to setting stops, using the techniques of Bayesian statistics, a field of statistics that focuses on data distributions and probabilities. A Bayesian approach is useful in many trading decisions because:
It lets you combine your intuitive judgments with objective market data.
It provides a mathematically optimal way of changing your judgments as new market data comes in. This will allow us to move a trailing stop.
We'll begin with the basic concepts of Bayesian statistics and then explain how it can be used to set stops. We also will show how to use an online tool to experiment with this technique further on your own.


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Justin Timberlake rolls through Los Angeles in his new video for "Suit & Tie," the first single off of his forthcoming studio album. It's been a while since Timberlake, who earlier this month released the track as his first new solo material since 2006, made a video, and much has changed in the interim. Budgets have been slashed and camera technology has transformed the intimacy of shoots.
Perhaps most interesting, the new trend of so-called "lyric videos" -- simple clips that scroll through a song's lyrics as the music plays -- has transformed the business. For "Suit & Tie," Timberlake marries a lyric clip with the more standard music video format.
The result: Sing along as super-slick J.T. cruises through the hills and boulevards of L.A. in a vintage convertible GTO, running down Mulholland and Sunset and landing in some fancy hidden locale, where he parks. Watch as he carefully, in exquisite slow motion, dolls himself up in a dressing room, putting on smart, well-tailored duds, name-checking Tom Ford and doing his best J.T. poses like he's in the middle of a GQ photo shoot.
Timberlake ends up at a piano, where a lighted cigarette awaits him. Yes, Mr. Timberlake is smoking a cigarette. (A Newport, one hopes.) Later he grabs another, which his wife/enabler Jessica Biel lights for him. He swaps the cigarette for a cigar, drinks what we assume is an expensive single-malt Scotch, and animated fireworks explode, no doubt due to the booze and tobacco dancing in his head.
The voice of fellow pop royalty Jay-Z sneaks into the track for a cameo, though not physically. The king of Brooklyn doesn't have time in his schedule to show up for a lyric video (be real), so he offers his similarly sophisticated vocal run from whichever castle he's holed-up in.
Timberlake sits down for a quick rest, then decides to go gambling -- alone. (He is, it should be noted, wearing his wedding band.) Now drinking a martini, Timberlake seems to pile chips high at the roulette table -- of course -- before deciding to retire for the night.
Heading toward his car, Timberlake does a little step-dance before getting in. What a nice night. Our hero then heads back into the L.A. darkness. Alone and driving, but none the worse for wear.
The last shots are of Timberlake in a tuxedo in front of a plate of glass. On it is written, "The 20/20 Experience coming soon," referencing the name of his forthcoming album. No release date has been set, but rest assured when the news arrives it will be suavely delivered.
Because the song contains scattered cuss words, we can't embed the clip. But you can watch it here.
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About Dabo
Desktop applications. That's what Dabo does. It's not YAWF (yet another web framework). There are plenty of excellent web frameworks out there, so if that's what you are looking for, Dabo isn't for you. But there are almost no desktop application frameworks out there, and if you want to create applications that run on Windows, OS X or Linux, Dabo is for you!
Dabo is a 3-tier, cross-platform application development framework, written in Python atop the wxPython GUI toolkit. And while Dabo is designed to create database-centric apps, that is not a requirement. Lots of people are using Dabo for the GUI tools to create apps that have no need to connect to a database at all.
Dabo's authors, Ed Leafe and Paul McNett, have strong backgrounds in database application development using the awesome and underrated Microsoft Visual FoxPro development environment.
While Visual FoxPro shines at developing data-centric applications, it has one limitation that cannot be ignored: it only runs on Microsoft Windows, and Ed and Paul both have clients that want their applications to run on Linux and Macintosh. We are sure we are not alone in this regard: it is a multi-platform world with more diverse needs than one vendor can fulfill.
Ed and Paul got to talking one day: Paul had been researching various multiplatform GUI toolkits for about 18 months, and Ed has lots of experience developing the Visual FoxPro Codebook framework. We decided to work together to make a framework for developing robust data-centric applications for multi-platform deployment. We've come up with a design that is simple, flexible, and robust, and we've begun developing our own client applications using the Dabo framework.
We have taken what we've learned from 25 combined years of FoxPro database application development, and built an easy-to-use runtime framework that runs on all three major platforms. Dabo consists of 3 logical tiers plus an umbrella application object. The three tiers are:
Currently, Dabo supports MySQL, PostgreSQL, Firebird, Microsoft SQL Server and SQLite backends, but in the near future it will support all databases that have drivers that conform to the Python dbapi. These databases include:
This tier is where all the business logic resides. You simply subclass dBizobj, set a few properties, and override a few methods. The dBizobj communicates with the database tier and the user interface tier, and enforces your business rules to your specifications.
You create your forms by laying out various controls or widgets, and setting properties to tell Dabo what bizobj and what field in the dataset the control represents. There is no business logic at this level, and only minimal code will be entered here: it is mostly laying out your UI design and setting properties to tell Dabo how to connect to the business rules.
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Dabo applications are known to run on all flavors of Windows, all recent flavors of Linux, and Macintosh OS X 10.2 or higher. Because Dabo is currently built on top of wxPython, which is built on top of wxWidgets, it probably runs elsewhere, too. It also suffers from the same display limitations on some platforms (most notably OS X), but these should improve as the underlying toolkits improve.
You can develop Dabo applications on all three supported platforms, and you can run your Dabo applications on all three supported platforms. Flexibility is a really good thing.
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Ofqual has the power to direct grade boundary changes and would have done so if Edexcel had not revised them, boss Glenys Stacey suggested.
The disclosure came as new figures showed that at least 143 secondary schools are set to fall below the Government's floor target for pupils achieving at least five Cs including English and maths as a result of the GCSE English fiasco - putting them at risk of being considered failing.
Leaked letters published today showed that Ofqual pressurised Edexcel to alter its GCSE English grade boundaries just two weeks before results were published last month.
Appearing before the Commons education select committee today, Ms Stacey was asked what Ofqual would have done if Edexcel had stuck to its first response to the regulator, and insisted that its proposed grade boundaries were fair.
''If they had done so, then the legislation provides that the regulator can direct grade boundary changes,'' Ms Stacey said.
Pushed on whether Ofqual would have done this, she added: ''I think we would have done, yes.''
The leaked correspondence, seen by the Times Educational Supplement (TES) show that Ofqual wrote to Edexcel on August 7 amid concerns that there would be a rise in C grades, calling on them to act quickly to produce results that were closer to predictions for the subject.
The board responded a day later, saying it believed its proposed grade awards were ''fair'' and there was no justification for further changes.
It added that Ofqual still wanted an alteration, that the board could move the minimum requirement for a C grade for one of the English units up to 65 marks out of 96 - 10 marks higher than in January when it stood at 55.
Ofqual replied on August 9, with a letter from Mr Opposs that stated Edexcel is obliged to ensure its results are consistent with other awarding bodies, whose results were close enough to predictions.
Alex Cunningham, Labour MP for Stockton North, asked Ms Stacey why Edexcel had changed its mind, saying ''was it the fact that you adopted a strong-arm tactic to tell them 'you must ensure that these grades are downgraded'?''
Ms Stacey replied: ''What changed was, that we knew, looking at that, that there would be a six or seven per cent increase, grade inflation, that we did not think to be right or justifiable.
''We therefore wrote to Edexcel pointing out that they needed to bring the qualification in appropriately. They reflected on that and it's quite right and proper that they should have done.
''The way the system is set up, in the legislation that we all operate to, requires us to put that challenge back to them. It then requires them to look at whether they can justify their outcomes and that's what they did.''


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Small-cap stocks were getting hit again intraday Tuesday, with the iShares Russell 2000 ETF down 1.4%.
That comes after the ETF slumped 1.72% on Monday for its biggest percentage drop since April 25.
Some market watchers on Twitter have emphasized that the Russell 2000 and its ETF so far haven\'t been able to hold above their March peaks:
But others have poked fun at the bears, pointing out that small caps have been rallying nicely since finding a bottom in mid-May:
Even before Monday\'s slide, Andrew Nyquist at SeeItMarket.com and Todd Salamone at Schaeffer\'s Investment Research said traders will pay particular attention this week to small caps, which are known for being more economically sensitive. Nyquist wrote:
\"The small caps have always been a great indicator of investor risk tolerance in the markets. And although the RUT experienced a big sell off earlier this year, it has been battling back and may be on the verge of a breakout. BUT, as many technical investors understand, the first retest of prior highs often finds resistance. And this could slow equities down for a few days.\"
Meanwhile, Salamone said the Russell 2000 \"will attempt to take out its March peak, although bears are hoping for a failure to do so, putting a bearish \'double top\' formation in play.\"
Back in May, many market experts were freaking out about small caps flirting with correction territory, while others noted the small fry usually suffer intrayear drops of 10% or more.
[ Editor\'s note: This post was updated Tuesday after first getting published late Monday. ]
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Why are there Pigs seemingly everywhere in town and at the Bacon Mansion?
This is a questions I get asked often at the breakfast table. My first answer is often answered by one of the other guests at the table with regards to the pigs at the Bacon Mansion with a simple one word. "Bacon" and they get it.
On a side, we do not serve bacon at the Bacon Mansion and I have taken some raps for it in some of my reviews. When we started in 1993 we felt that we should serve a all you can eat heart healthy breakfast and bacon is not on that menu. I do occasionally have a BLT, so it is not that I don't really like bacon, I actually really like and the last thing I need is a plate of left over bacon every morning.
Also the Mansion is named after Cecil Henry Bacon whom had the home built in 1909. It is only right to honor the person who built the house and use his name and besides "bacon" is great alphabetically as it even comes before "bed".
Anyhow, in 1993 some neighbor friends of us gave a concrete pig that is at the front door to great you upon arrival. This unfortunately is the second generation as the first one grew legs and walked away. The current model is a bit heavier, so less likely to do the same. Anyhow, over the years a few other people have sent some and more importantly when I have traveled, it has been one of the things that I have kept my eye out for as a souvenir. Pigs as art (not piggy banks) are actually quite rare when compared to some other animals. The prior owner collected elephants and had them all over the place. He left two that are the pedestals for the glass top living room coffee table. Have tried to pick one up on many of the trips I have been fortunate enough to take. The little children or grandchildren of guests often get a kick out of them. I even have a couple outside on the the back patio to keep watch over things. I don't really need many more, but if I see one that is of particular interest, I will pick it up. None of them are really very valuable, but do have a sentimental value to me for where I acquired them. Unfortunately, the tiny art glass one from Moreno/Venice Italy and hand painted wood one from Guadalajara decided they would look better in someone else's house and were forced into adoption without my knowledge. Definitely a very rare occurrence over the 16 plus years.
As for all the pigs around town, that is a different story. Seattle in the late 1990's decided to do what many other cities around the world have done and have an art project called "???-on-Parade. We chose a pig because of the big bronze piggy bank at the entrance of Pike Place Market. The Pigs-on-Parade at the end of the exhibit all over town were auctioned off in support of the Pike Place Market Foundation. This foundation not only supports the upkeep of the Market but also has some senior housing and low income and homeless services. Different individuals and businesses bid on them and placed them on a permanent basis in their yards or sidewalks. There is no pork industry in Washington. You would think that next time it would be a "Dungeoness Crab" ,"Puget Sound Octopus", "Steel head Salmon" or maybe "Orcas on Parade" but they actually did "Pigs on Parade" again a year or two ago so now there are even more of them around town. I guess pigs are easier than my other suggestions.
So that's the story of the pigs at the Bacon Mansion and all over town.
On a "Bacon" side note:
There is apparently a company in Seattle that makes all sorts of bacon food products including something called "Baconnaise". They received some recent national press. It is not us. I have had a couple of calls asking us if it is us. When you google "Bacon Seattle" we are going to come up.(I should hope as I have worked hard to insure it) I suggested to one gentleman to google "Baconnaise Seattle" and maybe that would give him his answer and he nearly yelled at be saying that if he didn't know the name of the company how is that going to get him there. Google???
Hope you found this a least a little interesting.
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Pigs at the Bacon Mansion
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- Acorn Internet Services, Inc said...
Daryl, Love the pig stories- I am something of a pig aficionado myself. Baconnaise sounds pretty...interesting.
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Many wondered what Milan were getting out of the deal when they handed Antonio Cassano plus €7.5m cash to Inter in exchange for Giampaolo Pazzini. He had scored only five times throughout all of last season, beaten only by Diego Forlan in the number of open goals missed, and only ever really shone at Sampdoria. The 3-1 win at Bologna showed precisely what the Rossoneri were getting – a Pippo Inzaghi style poacher.
SuperPippo was beloved by Milan fans and mocked by everyone else for his lack of technique, style, ability to stay on his feet, grace or understanding of the offside trap. The reason the supporters adored him was that if they needed a scrappy goal to turn the tide of a difficult game, then he was your man.
Pazzini's hat-trick at the Dall'Ara was pure Inzaghi from start to finish. He earned and converted a ludicrous penalty in which he was clearly the one pulling Niccolò Cherubin's jersey, falling only when he let go. Pazzo was then at the right place at the right time, firing in when goalkeeper Federico Agliardi fumbled a simple cross. Finally, he did the classic Pippo trick of turning someone else's shot into his moment of glory, redirecting Antonio Nocerino's effort with his heel. It wasn't pretty, but my word it was effective.
Perhaps this is what Milan needed after a year of Zlatan Ibrahimovic attempting to score from every inconceivable angle and Robinho running into some sort of anti-goal forcefield in the six-yard box. Like Inzaghi, Pazzini will at times be frustrating and even annoying, but if he can stay in love with the goal, then it'll pay off. Nigel De Jong also reinforces the midfield, but let us not get ahead of ourselves and think this team is worthy of a Scudetto challenge. The weaknesses in defence remain and by the looks of it the injury crisis has not been solved either. I agree with Massimiliano Allegri that the best he can do with the side at his disposal is aim for the top three in Serie A and progress to the Champions League knockouts.
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Greenland (Greenlandic: Kalaallit Nunaat; Danish: Grønland) is the world's largest non-continental island, in the far northeast of North America, largely within the Arctic Circle. Although it is still part of the Kingdom of Denmark, it was granted self-government effective in 1979, more recently it voted for more autonomy, in effect making it a separate country with formal ties to Denmark. Some inhabitants are now projecting the eventual road to independence. Copenhagen remains responsible for its foreign affairs, and of course is a source of investment. The closest neighbouring countries are Iceland to the South-East, Canada to the West and Svalbard in Norway to the North-East.
The Greenland Tourism and Business council's official website provides a wealth of information for the would-be visitor.
Although some maps with flat projections of the globe tend to make Greenland look the size of Africa, it is actually "only" about the size of Mexico. Greenland has the world's lowest population density.
It represents some 97% of the area of the Kingdom of Denmark. The Danish territorial claim is rooted in the 10th-century explorations of the Vikings, though administrative power has changed hands several times over the centuries due to developments in Europe. The native Greenlanders, or Kalaallit, are Inuit descendants of nomads from northern Canada. ("Eskimo" is offensive in some parts of the Arctic.)
According to the Icelandic Sagas, Erik the Red chose the name "Greenland" to entice settlers from Iceland. In fact, Greenland has far more ice cover (about 84% of its immense surface area) than Iceland does. This may only be legend: the southern coasts the Vikings settled are green in summer, and were likely more so during the Medieval Warm Period.
Be careful with maps of Greenland, as many Greenlandic names simply reference a particular geographical feature. For example, "Kangerlussuaq" means "Big Fjord" and so is not only the Greenlandic name for Søndre Strømfjord.
When visiting a city or village don't be afraid to ask for directions of shops, places to eat or somewhere to sleep, even if you think there might not be any. Most places (even Nuuk) are small enough for everyone to know where everything is, and therefore no one bothered to put up a sign. Don't be surprised to find a fully equipped supermarket inside a grey factory-like building in the middle of nowhere.
Greenlandic places generally have two names: the (traditional and now official) Greenlandic, or Kalaallisut, and the (once but no longer official) Danish. Greenlandic is abbreviated 'kl;' Danish is 'da.'
Danish and other Scandinavian citizens do not need a visa for Greenland, but your passport needs to be valid for at least three months after your visit.
Generally, if you need a visa for entering Denmark, you also need to apply for a special visa for entering Greenland. Visas for entering the Schengen-area (including Denmark) do not automatically apply for Greenland; visas are available from the Danish embassy or where you usually would apply for a Danish visa so make sure that you mention that you are going to Greenland. If you stay for more than three months, you need to apply for a residence permit at the police station.
If you stay on the typical tourist paths you do not need any permissions, but any expeditions (including any trips to the national park, which by definition are expeditions) need a special permit from the Danish polar center. If travelling with an agency they will usually take care of the paperwork for you. If you are entering or travelling through Thule Air Base, you also need a permission from the Danish department of foreign affairs, since it is a US military area (doesn't apply for children u. 15, Danish police and military, US military or US diplomats). See Qaanaaq for details.
Flights to Greenland will almost always go to one of two airports: Kangerlussuaq (Danish: Søndre Strømfjord, English: Sondrestrom) or Narsarsuaq. From there local flights or boats will take you to your final destination, Scientific and technical personnel travelling from North America for research purposes typically fly into Kangerlussuaq aboard New York Air National Guard C-130s. If you are looking for the airport, the name of Greenland's airport service is Mittarfeqarfiit. Note that SAS ceased its operations to Greenland in 2009.
Realistically, there is no ferry service from Europe or North America.
There are cruise ships from both continents that visit Greenland.
There is no road or rail system. The easiest way to get around Greenland is by plane, particularly Air Greenland. In the summer, Arctic Umiaq Line passenger ships provide service to destinations between Narsarsuaq and Uummannaq along the west coast.
The official language - Greenlandic (Kalaallisut) - is actually that of the more populated western coast. The eastern dialect is slightly different. Both are highly challenging languages to learn, as words are very long and often feature "swallowed" consonants. Try uteqqipugut or Ittoqqortoormiit on for size.
The good news is that almost all Greenlanders are bilingual Danish speakers, and many will even have a functional command of English. Greenlandic words may come in handy for travellers wanting to experience the "real Greenland", though.
Greenlandic is different enough from Inuktitut, the language of the Canadian Inuit who share similar historical roots to the Greenlanders, that the two peoples have difficulty understanding each other. However, attempts are being made to unify the Inuit language, and Greenlandic - with its existing libraries of translated Shakespeare and Pushkin - seems like the most natural option.
These are the names to look for, if you need to buy groceries:
Food in Greenland is generally not that different from American or continental European tastes. Restaurants carry typical European fare. Local food can be purchased at local markets in each town. Many Greenlandic restaurants combine traditional foods (locally-caught fish, shrimp and whales; also muskox and reindeer) with more familiar dishes. Expect to find whale meat at a Thai restaurant and caribou in a Chinese joint. Nuuk also has several burger joints and a couple of very high-end restaurants, most notably Nipisa, which specializes in (very expensive) local delicacies. Prices are high everywhere, but servings are generally large, especially with fries.
A local specialty is Greenlandic coffee. Its creation in some places is pure performance and it hits hard: its coffee laced with liberal amounts of kahlua, whisky and Grand Marnier. One of the best places to buy is at the Sukhumvit Thai Restaurant, for about $22CAD.
Greenland is expensive. Nice hotels exist in all of the more visited areas (Hotel Hans Egede in Nuuk, Hotel Arctic - with its igloo rooms - and Hotel Hvide Falke in Ilulissat), but cheaper options exist. Try for the Seaman's Home hotel in Maniitsoq, Nuuk, Qaqortoq, Sisimiut and Aasiaat. Also check with the Nuuk Tourism office for its hostel program, where locals have rooms they will rent out for a third the price of the town's hotels. They usually speak Danish and Greenlandic, along with very rudimentary English.
Crime, and ill-will toward foreigners in general, is virtually unknown in Greenland. Even in the towns, there are no "rough areas." So long as the visitor uses basic common sense and etiquette, he or she should be fine.
During the northern summer, the days in Greenland are very long. Always make sure that you get as much sleep as you're used to, as sleep deprivation can lead to all manner of health problems.
During the summer, also watch out for the Nordic mosquitoes(Although they are not dangerous, they don't transmit any diseases, they can be irritating .
As mentioned above, the word "Eskimo" is considered pejorative by many Arctic peoples, especially in Canada. While you may hear the word used by Greenlandic Natives, its use should be avoided by foreigners. The group of "Eskimos" are used to call themselves Inuit and for the ones in Greenland Kalaallisut, a Greenlander.


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Luol Deng's future with the Chicago Bulls took an uncertain twist on Thursday evening, after Tony Snell was selected in the NBA Draft to play for the Eastern Conference franchise.
The 28-year-old small forward is understood to have held discussions over a new contract with the Bulls, but as talks continue to stall, speculation is mounting that Deng could be on his way out.
With just one year remaining on his $14.3million deal with Chicago, time could be up for the two-time All-Star, who was the Bulls' first-round draft pick in 2004, on his way to competing for the franchise in nine consecutive seasons since.
Deng has been the most reliable player over the past three seasons, with coach Tom Thibodeau calling upon the 6ft 9in star more than any other member of his roster.
Bulls general manager Gar Forman reiterated Deng's importance to the franchise on Thursday evening, saying: "We value Luol as you all know. Luol's a big piece of what we're doing.
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- War of 1812 Claim of Widow for Service Pension document. This document is the initial paperwork that Mary Reed filled out to claim her widow's pension. It includes a wealth of genealogical information to include David Reed's unit, where he enlisted, a physical description of David, where they had lived since his discharge from the military, their marriage date and Mary's maiden name.
- Several memorandums to establish that Mary was indeed legally married to David Reed. In the case of the Reeds, they were married in Montgomery County, Missouri in 1820. Unfortunately, the courthouse and all records were lost in a fire in 1864. To establish their marriage the examiner referenced their earlier bounty land warrant application.
- Sworn affidavits from Mary and other witnesses proving her marriage and David Reed's death. The affidavit describing David's death is a sworn statement by Elijah Happy, Mary's son-in-law. It states that he was present at the death of David Reed and that David died of pneumonia.
- The Service Pension, War of 1812 Widow's Brief. This document is a summary of the pension eligibility investigation and is also a wealth of genealogical information. It provides the details of the investigation to include evidence of the Soldier's service, length of service and proof of identity. The Summary of Proof portion of the document includes marriage information and specifics about the death of the Soldier. It is also the official proof that Mary was eligible and awarded the Widow's Pension.
- A memo stating that Mary Reed was dropped from the pension rolls due to her death. It does not actually give the death date, but states the last day she received her pension payment.
Mary was paid $8 a month until her death some time after May 1882. I would describe information from this particular pension file as quality rather than quantity. The important thing is that I now have proof of several facts on this line that I did not previously have. I know very little about David Reed and Mary Bryan Reed other than what I now have from the pension file. I have found some research that indicates Mary was related to the Bryan family that pioneered Kentucky and were intermarried with the Boone family, of Daniel Boone fame. While I have no proof of Mary's connection with this family, I did learn from the pension file that she was from Clark County, Kentucky. Another line of research to follow.
As mentioned above, the marriage between Mary and David could not be proved by marriage certificate as the record was lost in a courthouse fire. The examiner of Mary's pension file instead referenced the widow's bounty land warrant received in the 1850s. It states that her mother and sister provided testimony proving Mary's marriage. If this is so, the bounty land warrant application could prove Mary's parentage and provide further information for me to research. The file also states that David Reed himself applied for and received 40 acres of land from a Bounty Land Warrant on May 10, 1851. The settlement number was provided for both land warrants so ordering copies from the National Archives is easy, using their eServices ordering service and NATF Form 85, Military Pension/Bounty Land Warrant Applications.
For more information on genealogical records of the War of 1812, check out:
Genealogical Records of the War of 1812, by Stuart L. Butler. Prologue, Winter 1991, Vol. 23, No. 4.
National Archives Military Resources for the War of 1812, a list of some helpful War of 1812 resources by the National Archives.


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A study released Friday by the Pew Research Center's Internet and American Life Project finds that when it comes to social networks, women tend to be a lot less friendly than men.
Overall, "de-friending" people on sites like Facebook is up 56 percent from just two years ago — and women are doing most of it. "Some 67 percent of women who maintain a profile say they have deleted people from their network, compared with 58 percent of men," the report states.
In addition, the fairer sex is more secretive, with 67 percent of them saying they'd set their profiles to "private," something less than half of men have done.
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- Men are nearly twice as likely as women to have posted content online that they later regret
- People with the highest levels of education reported having the most difficulty figuring out their privacy settings
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Okay.........based on the other thread regarding Wiener Sniffing and Personal Exams, I would like step-by-step instruction on how to 'cease and desist'.
Dar Loves All the Friends of the Kids that Come to the house.......he is playful and doesn't do too much 'jumping up' anymore, but he DOES LOVE Boy-Bits!!!!
While folks are standing around, maneuvering through the house, Dar INSISTS on going up to the boys (young men) and ...........ahem."nuzzling-to-the-point-of-almost-taking-a-Bite of their ........parts.
It's a running joke, and any young man that's here very often knows to 'turn to the side' or ....."cup" before letting Dar come up to them.
And..............well,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,(deep breath) those atheltic shorts they tend to wear just makes it all that much more 'attractive' to Dar.
Besides not ever letting him around ANY of the guys (girls too, but not as bad), how do I teach ""STOP BEING RUDE'


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A couple of weeks ago, In Touch reported that in an interview, Nadya "Octomom" Suleman said that she hated babies. When Suleman visited the Today show on July 8, she claimed that In Touch's story was libelous slander and that she was considering legal action. Today, however, an audio file of the interview has been posted online, and you can hear Suleman say, quite clearly, "I hate babies."
To be fair, while listening to an mp3 of the interview, it's obvious that she does not hate her children. The reporter asks, "If you had the ability and the money to have more children, would you?" Suleman responds: "No. I cringe, and I'm not kidding, when I hear a baby cry and I'm outside."
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I do not like babies. I do not. It's also very hard for me to bond. I bond with my six — the first six I had... But I'n starting to have my own little hypotheses that when a woman has a tremendous amount — a big litter — I think I think something happens in the brain which prevents them from being able to bond.
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But when asked, "What about your own?" she says no, meaning she is not disgusted by her children.
These are my children. I am actually becoming – because the nannies are gone. ... I am forcing myself to do absolutely everything, with that said, I am bonding with them, so that is occurring naturally.
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Good morning.
It's a Fed day, and that has come to mean the potential for some solid gains. For those investors groping for evidence to support another move higher for stocks, take note.
An incredible 30% of the total stock-market advance dating all the way back to December 2008 — when the Federal Reserve's zero-interest-rate policy was first implemented — came on Fed days, according to this data from Bespoke Investment Group.
By the numbers, the S&P 500 has rallied 73.6% since then. Taking only the Fed days into account, the index is up 23.7%. In other words, it might be worth backing up the truck when Ben Bernanke and his crew get together to talk shop, like today.
Amazon is doing its part to bolster those stats, with its stock pacing premarket gains in the tech sector even as consumer sentiment tells a different story (more on that below). We'll see if Facebook can keep buyers interested later today.
Key market gauges: A Sumo-sized rally lifted the Nikkei /quotes/zigman/5986735 JP:100000018 to its highest point in almost three years, with earnings optimism providing a nice tailwind. The rest of Asia moved higher, as well. Futures on the S&P /quotes/zigman/8751039 ESH3 and the Dow /quotes/zigman/9049316 YMH3 are also showing some signs of life as there just doesn't seem to be much conviction from the bear camp. Read Indications.
Also, keep an eye on the plucky euro /quotes/zigman/4867933/sampled EURUSD , which just reclaimed the $1.35 level for the first time in 13 months. Read why one analyst says it "seems unstoppable right now" in the MarketWatch currencies report.
The economy: The ADP private-sector payroll data report for January hit at 8:15 a.m. Eastern and was expected to show a very slight slowdown in job growth in January. Private sector jobs were expected to grow by 173,000 down from 215,000 in December. Shortly thereafter, the Commerce Department released its estimate for gross domestic product in the fourth quarter, with the U.S. seen showing growth of around 1% in the final three months of 2012.
Update: The U.S. economy added 192,000 jobs in January while U.S. growth surprisingly turned negative in the fourth quarter.
Those numbers serve as a prelude to the Federal Reserve's announcement at 2:15 p.m. The Fed is expected to remain on the offense and to keep buying bonds at a rate of some $85 billion a month. Read: What to watch on U.S. economy.
FOMC DAY: Bernanke widely expected to point to Hamptons real estate surge as evidence of QE4's efficacy…
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Earnings: Facebook /quotes/zigman/9962609 /quotes/nls/fb FB leads the way as we enter the home stretch this earnings season, with Boeing /quotes/zigman/220026 /quotes/nls/ba BA , Qualcomm /quotes/zigman/77257 /quotes/nls/qcom QCOM , Northrup Grumman /quotes/zigman/236055 /quotes/nls/noc NOC and ConocoPhillips /quotes/zigman/294662 /quotes/nls/cop COP also posting their quarterly results. Read: Big earnings on Wednesday.
Boeing shares are up more than 1% premarket after the company handed in a profit decline that wasn't as bad as Wall Street had expected and said its outlook assumes "no significant financial impact" from the Dreamliner probe.
As for Facebook, action in the option pits is leaning toward a positive outcome after the bell, with one derivatives strategist saying that there isn't much speculation that the social network will miss earnings targets.
The buzz: Amazon /quotes/zigman/63011 /quotes/nls/amzn AMZN shares are poised for a double-digit pop when trading gets underway after the online retailer lured in buyers with its strong operating income numbers. Enjoy it while you can because this euphoria might not last all that long, considering Amazon's razor-thin margins.
Research In Motion /quotes/zigman/18534 /quotes/nls/rimm RIMM will remain in the spotlight throughout the day, as the handheld device maker touts the release of its critical BlackBerry 10. Doors open at 9 a.m. Eastern and the show starts an hour later. It's a safe bet the stock will be in play when the bell rings. In the premarket, shares are up about 1%. Check out how the company is shunning the Apple approach with an international roadshow.
Other top-trending tickers include BlackRock /quotes/zigman/249424 /quotes/nls/blk BLK , Qualcomm, MasterCard /quotes/zigman/390906 /quotes/nls/ma MA , and, yes, Facebook. Read: Facebook expected to show mobile growth.
The chart of the day: Consumer confidence dropped this month to its lowest level in more than a year. Clearly, Americans are feeling less than cheerful about the prospects for the economy. Yet the stock market doesn't seem to care. It will though, according to the Sober Look blog's Walter Kurtz. "The divergence between consumer sentiment and the stock market has become quite pronounced and is unlikely to be sustainable over the longer term," he writes. "Ultimately, weak sentiment will result in lower sales." Here's a chart showing how the two have diverged so far this year.
The call of the day: Amazon longs have reason to celebrate today, but Derek Blain on Seeking Alpha says they're about to get smacked sideways with a dose of reality. His price target: $175 a share. Here's why there's trouble ahead for the "crummy business wrapped tightly around an excellent business."
Random reads: Here's a bullish take on the future for 3-D printers. And another one from MarketWatch last week. Some pretty cool stuff, no doubt. Lots of potential. Then again, the eventuality of printing guns might be an issue.
For those of you who live in a cave, or, even worse, don't have Internet access, here's the latest on that ridiculous wave Garrett McNamara surfed in Portugal. A week earlier, another big wave legend broke his neck at my home break.
As the media buildup around the Super Bowl continues to grow, the requisite chatter about head injuries and the future of the league has also begun to rear up. Read about how one Baltimore Raven says the NFL won't exist in 30 years. Also, check out this slideshow on racy, funny and memorable Super Bowl ads.
Sorry fellas, Jim Nabors, the spry octogenarian best known for his role as Gomer Pyle, is off the market. He just got hitched to his partner of 38 years. They did it in Seattle, where gay marriage became legal last month.
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The European Union does not want to use negotiations with the United States on a free trade agreement to weaken recent U.S. financial regulatory reforms, an EU official said on Thursday, responding to concerns raised by U.S. politicians.
But the EU is interested in exploring how financial regulations across the Atlantic can be made more compatible to allow new business opportunities, Peter Kerstens, a counselor at the European Commission's office in Washington, said at a discussion on the proposed U.S.-EU trade pact.
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"We do not want to include financial market regulations to liberalize or to deregulate the sector. We actually want to improve financial market regulation," Kerstens said.
President Barack Obama and his EU counterparts are expected at the G8 summit next week in Northern Ireland to announce the July date and location for the first round of negotiations on the proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Agreement.
Since tariffs on both sides of the Atlantic are relatively low, the main focus of the negotiations will be to reduce regulatory barriers to trade. The talks are expected to take at least one to two years.
Senator Sherrod Brown, an Ohio Democrat, last week said he was concerned that both "Wall Street and industry-friendly European regulators" hoped to use the U.S.-EU negotiations to roll back reforms made by Congress in the 2010 Dodd-Frank bill.
U.S. officials, sensitive to those concerns, say they want to discuss financial regulations in "parallel" talks outside the U.S.-EU pact and note there are several international forums where further reforms are already being discussed.
Kerstens said the EU has also tightened up its own financial regulation in the wake of the 2008-09 crisis.
"Any assertions that ... the European Union wants to deconstruct Dodd-Frank, or wants to assist the industry in deconstructing Dodd-Frank, I think is just illusionary. We did not spend more than five years of hard labor reforming the European financial sector to do away will all these reforms in a trade negotiations," Kerstens said.
At the same time, limiting U.S.-EU talks on financial services to market access issues would be of limited value since U.S. and EU financial services firms already enjoy good access to each other's market, Kerstens said.
Faryar Shirzad, a former White House official who works for the global investment company Goldman Sachs , agreed U.S.-EU financial services talks should deal with regulatory concerns as well as market access issues.
"It's not an issue of impeding or undermining the strength of the regulations, as much as thinking more strategically about how to make the systems more compatible," Shirzad said.
Also, drawing a distinction in the negotiations between regulatory issues and market access issues is not easy since differences in regulations can affect the ability of financial services firms to operate in foreign markets, he said.
(Reporting by Doug Palmer)