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I wrote in 2009 that August is what separates the real gardeners from the wanna-be gardeners. It's hot and dry and who wants to be out there now?
In comparison to this year, August 2009 was actually quite pleasant but not as pleasant as August 2008 and August 2007. I hope we return to some Augusts like that next year becuase this August is not so nice.
This August the garden reminds me of the resilience of plants, how little help they actually need from us gardeners, how much they can endure and still bloom.
Above is that common as dirt daylily, 'Stella D'Oro'. One afternoon back in the spring, I grabbed a shovel and attempt to evict all of these "stellas" from my garden. Not so easy! A few roots remained, clung to the soil, pushed up shoots, and bloomed. And they bloomed all summer long.
Where lesser plants have withered in the heat, these keep going.
So I'm going to let them stay. But just a few of them!
Elsewhere in the garden, a clematis, variety unknown/forgotten, is blooming.
It's hard to see in this picture, but this clematis is sprawling across a long container holding some 4" pots of trial plants that I'm planning to plant this fall. What makes this clematis so remarkable, so resilient, so worthy of this much attention?
In late June when the crew came to install the new patio, they told me they didn't think they could dig this up where it was, so I told them to cut it back and shrugged it off as a loss for the greater gain of a newly designed garden. So they cut it back, and I thought no more about it until one day it was back, covering these other plants, and now it's blooming.
Out in the vegetable garden, the okra seems oblivious to the heat and can be counted on to have blooms each day.
What else is blooming in my garden? What else has the resilience to stand this heat and dryness?
Botanical Interests seeds. It's tall.
Knockout roses, 'Radsunny'.
Elsewere I am also enjoying, mostly from inside the house looking out into the garden, the usual marigolds, coneflowers, phlox, black-eyed susans, hostas, coreopsis, salvia, golden rod, yarrow, and hydrangeas.
They all have the resilience to bloom in hot, dry August in my garden.
What's blooming in your garden?
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San Francisco Playhouse is christening its brand new theater and celebrating its 10th anniversary with the outrageous musical "Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson."
Old Hickory is reinvented as a rock god in this Wild West musical with score by Michael Friedman and book by Alex Timbers. Ashkon Davaran stars as the wildly popular seventh president who here forges the nation with equal parts rock music, manifest destiny and savagery. Directed by the redoubtable Jon Tracy (remember the remarkable "Any Given Day" at the Magic?), it runs through Nov. 24 at the San Francisco Playhouse, 450 Post St., San Francisco.
Tickets are $30-$70. 415-677-9596, or www.sfplayhouse.org.


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July 23, 2012 | By Paul Kelly
Among the many attractions during the July 26-29 inaugural Kroger Super Weekend at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway will be a series of autograph sessions featuring NASCAR Sprint Cup Series and Nationwide Series drivers.
Four separate autograph sessions will take place between 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Friday, July 27 at Chalet No. 4 in the Pagoda Plaza during Chevy Day at the Brickyard, with Nationwide Series drivers taking part in an autograph session from 10:30-11:30 a.m. Saturday, July 28 in the East Chalet No. 2 in the Pagoda Plaza.
Among the drivers scheduled to participate include Jeff Gordon, Jimmie Johnson, Tony Stewart, Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Danica Patrick.
Ticket holders are eligible to participate in the autograph sessions by picking up wristbands, while supplies last, for the autograph session of their choice. Only one wristband will be distributed to each ticket holder, first come, first served.
Wristband distribution will begin at 8 a.m. 100 wristbands will be handed out for each autograph session. Friday and Saturday in the East Chalet adjacent to the Pagoda Plaza, with wristbands distributed only for that respective day's sessions. All adults and children must have wristbands to be admitted to one of the autograph sessions. Each driver will sign only 100 autographs. There is a limit of one autographed item from each driver per person. All autograph sessions on Friday, July 27 will take place in Chalet No. 4 on Pagoda Plaza.
The autograph session schedule:
FRIDAY, July 27 (Chalet No. 4, Pagoda Plaza)
Session 1 (11-11:55 a.m.): Jeff Burton, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Kevin Harvick, Kasey Kahne, Danica Patrick
Session 2 (12:50-1:45 p.m.): Austin Dillon, Paul Menard, Ryan Newman
Session 3 (1:10-2:10 p.m.): Jeff Gordon
Session 4 (3-4 p.m.): Jimmie Johnson, Tony Stewart
The driver lineup for the NASCAR Nationwide Series autograph session Saturday will be announced soon at www.indianapolismotorspeedway.com.
Fans also can hear from many of their favorite drivers during Q&A and interview sessions on the Chevy Stage during the Kroger Super Weekend located in the parking lot just east of the
Indianapolis Motor Speedway Hall of Fame Museum.
The Q&A/interview session schedule
FRIDAY, July 27 (Chevy Stage, near Hall of Fame Museum)
11:45-11:55 a.m.: Austin Dillon, Paul Menard, Ryan Newman
12:45-1 p.m.: Jeff Burton, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Jeff Gordon, Kevin Harvick, Kasey Kahne, Danica Patrick
4:05- 4:20 p.m.: Jimmie Johnson and Tony Stewart
SATURDAY, July 28 (Chevy Stage, near Hall of Fame Museum)
11:45 a.m.: Justin Allgaier
2:30 p.m.: James Buescher
SUNDAY, July 29 (Chevy Stage, near Hall of Fame Museum)
9:15 a.m. – Jamie McMurray
9:30 a.m. – Paul Menard, Regan Smith
9:45 a.m. – Jeff Burton, Juan Pablo Montoya
10 a.m. – Kevin Harvick
10:30 a.m. – Kasey Kahne, Jimmie Johnson


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METS: Top prospect Zach Wheeler to start in Triple-A
PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. >> The New York Mets don't often give rookies and non-roster invitees lockers adjacent to the stalls of established players. Zack Wheeler is an exception.
The 22-year-old right-hander's locker is between those of two-time Cy Young Award winner Johan Santana and Matt Harvey, who made a sparking big league debut last summer.
"We've talked a little bit here and there," Wheeler said. "Nothing serious, just some chit chat."
Barring an injury to one of the Mets projected starting pitchers, Wheeler likely will start the season at Triple-A Las Vegas. Mets manager Terry Collins said Wheeler needs more time at the highest minor league level, where he made six starts last season.
"He needs to go to Triple-A and pitch," Collins said. "He wants to be on the staff? Go be the best pitcher in Triple-A. Force us to call him up."
Wheeler went a combined 12-8 with a 3.26 ERA and 148 strikeouts in 149 innings last year at Double-A Binghamton and Triple-A Buffalo. He was selected to play in his second All-Star Futures Game last July, joining Los Angeles Angels center fielder Mike Trout and New York Yankees second baseman Robinson Cano in the group that has appeared in that event multiple times.
"They've said they want me to start the season in Triple-A, but I'm going to make the decision hard on them," Wheeler said. "I'm going to go out there, compete and try my hardest. My whole offseason has been getting ready for this point, spring training. I'm coming in and competing for a job at this point. In my mind, I think you've got to come in thinking like that. I'm coming in competition for a job. Terry said he's going to give me the ball and let me pitch, so we'll see what happens."
The locker placement was intentional. Collins wants Wheeler to learn from Harvey, who had a strong spring training last year, then was sent to the minors until late July.
"It's tough, but you can't really think about it," Harvey said. "It's out of your control. It's out of any decision you have or any decision you can make. The only thing you can do is keep your head down and keep going, and that's what I've told Zack.
"You can go out there and completely dominate and get sent down to Triple-A. Or you can go out there, pitch mediocre, and you never know, you could make the team. Anything can happen. But they have a plan and they have the final say. The only thing you can control is what you can control."
Notes: INF Jordany Valdespin arrived in camp, leaving INF Wilfredo Tovar and RHP Jenrry Mejia are the lone players not in camp. Mejia has had visa issues in the Dominican Republic, which Collins hopes will be settled in the next week or so. Valdespin can play both second base and outfield, but Collins said the plan is to work his an infielder right now. ... With temperatures expected to be in the low 40's Sunday morning, the Mets pitchers will work out at noon instead of 9 a.m. Position players have Sunday off. The first full-squad workout is set for Monday.


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Welcome all,
I'm pleased to begin this week's post with the announcement that the Archdiocese of Boston is making available 3,000 tickets to the papal Mass in New York on April 20.
Although we would have loved to have Pope Benedict XVI come to Boston, we realize he was not able to visit every city. Still, we are excited about his visit to the United States, and the New York Mass marks the bicentenary of Boston, Louisville, New York and Philadelphia. We are urging the people of Boston to go to New York — which is the nearest point of his visit — to greet the Holy Father.
Although it is clear that not everyone will be able to attend, we are encouraging everyone to consider the possibility of accompanying the Holy Father to the Mass at Yankee Stadium. For more information about entering the ticket lottery, visit the bicentennial celebration's Web site at www.Boston200.org.
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This week it was quite a shock for all of us that a young priest ordained last May, Father Daniel Kennedy, died suddenly of a heart attack in his brother's home.
Father Dan
I had seen Father Dan recently, and I asked him, "How are things going?" He replied, "Cardinal, it's wonderful to be a priest." I could see how enthusiastic he was. He had been working in the chaplaincy program with the Navy, and he was very engaged with his parish ministry. He also wrote on this blog last summer of his experience as he was just begining his ministry.
Father Dan greeting parishioners at
St. John the Evangelist Parish in Winthrop
Because he was a young man who was apparently so healthy and who had participated many times in the Boston Marathon, of course there was no warning of his imminent death. As a result, the surprise and grief at his passing was very, very great.
Our sympathy goes out to his parents and family. Dan was very close to his family — a beautiful family.
As today was his funeral Mass, we ask people to pray for him and pray for his family. We also pray that other young men will be inspired by his generosity and enthusiasm for the priesthood. Although his ministry here was short, we know that he is a priest forever.
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This year the Missionary Society of St. James the Apostle is celebrating the 50th anniversary of is foundation. Last week, I traveled to Peru to be a part of some of the celebrations and special events that are taking place there.
I stayed at their center house in Barranco, a section of Lima. Not only were the men currently serving with the society present, also many of the former members of the St. James Society as well including Father Jim Ronan and Bishop Robert Hennessey.
A group photo with all the priests members of the Society
These are the new priests who joined the Society in 2007, posing with the society's director, Msgr. Finbarr O'Leary, and me: Father Derek Leonard, Msgr. Finbarr, Father Colm Hogan, Father Thomas Bierney, Father Jonathan Hart and Father John Keane
I gave a keynote address on evangelization, and there were a number of other talks.
Priests spoke about the situation of the Church, the history of the society and projections for the future. Father Patrick Byrne, SVD, the secretary of the Holy Childhood Association, gave a very interesting talk about his international organization, founded in 1843 and dedicated to fostering awareness of the missionary nature of the Church among children. There was also an address by the retired Bishop of Sicuani, Msgr. Albano Quinn, about the repercussions of the influx of foreign missionaries in the local communities.
Archbishop Antonio Arregui Yarza, the Archbishop of Guayaquil, Ecuador was also there at the center house with us, and celebrated one of the Masses.
Archbishop Arregui Yarza of Guayaquil
presiding at Mass
On Sunday, the Apostolic Nuncio to Peru presided over a Mass in the neighborhood of El Salvador, one of the pueblos jovenes. Bishop Hennessey delivered the homily at the Mass.
Pueblos jovenes are shanty towns inhabited by squatters who have come down from the mountains and the rural areas. In fact, millions of them have simply set up shacks on the sand dunes. Because of the Humboldt Current, the cold ocean current that extends along the West Coast of South America, it does not rain along the coast.
Bishop Hennessey
One evening, I was able to arrange to take the Boston priests out for dinner in Miraflores, a suburb of Lima that is right on the water. I was very surprised to see how modern the shopping center in which the restaurant was located was. The situation in Peru is slightly calmer now than it has been historically, and there have been some positive developments in the economy. Unfortunately, the country still has some of the poorest areas in the hemisphere, and, as I understand it, also one of the largest rates of illiteracy among its population.
Over the last 50 years, the society has typically assisted rural and very poor urban parishes. After bringing them up to a certain level, the society then turns them over to the local dioceses and moves on to other challenging areas.
Over the course of its history, about 300 priests have participated in the work of the St. James Society. Originally, Cardinal Cushing sent down a large group to begin the work. Early on, the practice was that a priest would serve a certain number of years, let's say five, and then return to his diocese. This was a great blessing for us because many of the men who worked in the St. James Society returned to Boston and then became involved in Hispanic ministry here at a time when more and more Spanish-speaking people were coming from Puerto Rico and the Caribbean.
In more recent years, the tendency has been for fewer men to go but to stay for longer periods of time. Cardinal Cushing saw this as a society that was open to inviting all diocesan priests to be a part of it. Although Boston is always the largest participant, there has been a history of priests coming from Ireland, England and Scotland. At the present time, there are many priests serving in the St. James Society from Ireland. There is also an Australian priest and one from New Zealand and the most recent additions have been two priests from the Philippines.
Msgr. Finbarr O'Leary, director of the society, recently reorganized the board of directors, and there is great hope for the future. We are always inviting priests in Boston and other diocesan priests from different places in the United States to consider being a part of this very valuable missionary experience.
The society has given the Catholics of Boston a great sense of the Church's missionary nature because each summer the priests from St. James come back and preach in many of our parishes. This is not only a way of collecting money for the apostolate and the works of mercy that the St. James Society sponsors in Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia, but it also exposes the Catholics of the archdiocese to the larger Church and to the needs of the Church, the Mission ad Gentes.
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On Thursday I met with Sister Olga, a hermit who is originally from Iraq and who is working here in the diocese at the Newman Center at Boston University.
Sister Olga has recently returned from a trip to Iraq. She presented me with a statue of Our Lady of Fatima that she had carried during her trip, for the intention of peace in Iraq. If you are a regular visitor here, you may recall that I wrote a little bit about her trip and shared some of her pictures with you earlier this month.
When sister arrived at my offices the statue was still wrapped in the original
paper an string from Fatima
I asked her to write about her trip so I could share the powerful experience of her trip with all of you. Here are her reflections:
From Dec. 16, 2007 to Jan. 9, 2008, I took a service trip to Iraq inspired by the teaching of Pope John Paul II on the importance of bringing peace, "War is a defeat for humanity," "Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of man" and "Peace is the road to follow to construct a more just and united society." I felt God calling me to make this journey to Iraq, especially during the Christmas Season when we celebrate the arrival of His peace to this world. I have been blessed to know many people over the various periods of my life — Iraqis, Americans, civilians and soldiers. I felt God driving me forward to share some of His light with them, particularly in the midst of this difficult time, and to help bring some of His peace to them.
There is a line which I took from Pope Benedict's reflection on the Magnificat, "I alone am not myself, but only in and with you am I myself. To be truly a human being means to be related in love, to be of and for." It is from this point that I began my prayer and discernment of this trip.
What truly draws me is this feeling that, while I am Iraqi by birth, I am American by adoption, and thus find myself in a gulf between two nations — my heart torn for both and seeking peace for both in the midst of the harsh reality of war. I have encountered being between two worlds, of belonging to two families which are at odds to each other.
The image that called to me in prayer during my preparation for my trip was the image of the wedding at Cana. As I contemplate my people in Iraq, it is easy to see the suffering and poverty caused by war and embargo. As I look at my people in America, I see also the suffering caused by the experiences of 9/11, by the war in Afghanistan, by the fear of terrorism, by the war in Iraq. I see my people as having run out of the "wine" of Christ's love, and I hear the voice of Mother Mary calling to her Son, interceding for her children that have run out of this wine of peace and of joy. As a response, I hear the voice of the Lord as He turns to me and invites me to be the one to help Him plant the seeds of the grapevines which will bring this wine to His people.
The Blessed Mother has always been present in every step of my life. She also became a big part of my journey to Iraq. The year of 2007 was the 90th anniversary of the apparition of Our Lady in Fatima, where she encouraged all people to pray the rosary for the purpose of peace. Conscious of this and seeking Our Lady's intercession, I planned to stop in Fatima on my way to Iraq to spend two days in prayer and seek the guidance of Our Blessed Mother before continuing this journey. I wanted to go there in remembrance of her message in 1917 when she appeared during the 1st World War, "Say the Rosary every day to obtain peace for the world and the end of the war…. If they do what I tell you, many souls will be saved, and there will be peace. The war is going to end." It was to Our Lady under her title of Our Lady of the Visitation, Queen of Peace that I consecrated my trip.
To stay united with my American "family" during my trip, I offered to the Boston University Catholic Center Chapel a chalice and paten as a sign of hope for peace between our nations. I had the chalice engraved on the bottom with my sincere desire for this peace, "USA — Peace — Iraq — 2007".
When I stepped on the ground at the airport of Sulumaneia in the north of Iraq, I knelt and kissed the ground with many tears, holding in my heart all the Iraqis and Americans who have shed their blood on this soil as well as all the Iraqis who had to flee and leave their beloved country. I felt as if I wanted to hug the whole country on behalf of every Iraqi refugee who has missed their homeland. I stood there a long time, and I was the last person to get to the line for customs.
Some of the intentions of my service trip to Iraq were:
1. To take two statues of Our Lady of Fatima (from Fatima) one to Iraq and another one to America for the intention of peace between our nations. I brought the first one to the Apostolic Nunciature in Iraq on Dec. 29, 2007. The second one was presented to Cardinal Seán O'Malley in Boston on Jan. 31, 2008.
Presenting the fist statue at the nunciature
2. To arrive to the Middle East during the Islamic feast of Al-Adha, celebrated before our Christmas. I wanted to offer the gift of presence and solidarity to the innocent Muslim people of my country who have been suffering because of what some of the insurgents have done in the name of their beliefs. I visited some Muslim neighborhoods.
3. To be present to the Christian community during the Christmas season. Thanks be to God, the Lord granted me that desire. I was in my hometown for Christmas Day. To express my solidarity with the Christians of Iraq during the Christmas Season, I visited: the Apostolic Nunciature in Iraq, the Chaldean cardinal, the bishop of the Syrian Catholics, the bishop of the Old Assyrian Church, the Coptic Church (which celebrates Christmas on Jan. 7) and an old Protestant Church that, before the war, was the only one in Iraq. It was difficult for me to hear all the sad and painful stories from the Iraqis. They talked about the loss of their loved ones and other things that they have experienced during and after this war.
4. To visit the American troops. The day of my visit was the Sunday of the Feast of the Holy Family. I met with the Catholic Chaplain of the Air Force in the American base, Father Kerry Abbott, OFM Conv. He helped me to spend some time with some of the soldiers. I was very happy to find out that three of them were from Massachusetts, from the Archdiocese of Boston — John P. Quinn, Steven J. Buccheri and David Hrubes. John and Steven are married; each with two kids and David is engaged. During my lunchtime with them, they started sharing their stories about their families and how much they miss being home. One of them told me, with tears in his eyes, when I gave him a hug, "Sister, this is the closest I've been to home since I came to Iraq. By seeing you, I feel I went home."
Today, as I look back on my journey and reflect on my present time here in America, I believe even more that I am called to continue the journey of my hope for peace. The challenges, the darkness, the pain of war and violence that I experienced in Iraq could not diminish the light of hope that I have and the power of love. Yes, I feel that hatred and animosity are like cancer that spreads and kills, but the power of love is stronger to bring healing and reconciliation. Because of the love of Christ — the love that has the power to forgive and to heal — my human heart was able to feel the pain of both the Iraqis and Americans who might look at each other as enemies. It is true what Pope John Paul II said, "There is no peace without justice, and no justice without forgiveness." This trip gave me a stronger conviction for the need to pray for conversion of hearts. May the hearts of the Iraqis and the Americans be open for the love that can heal and reconcile. Love is the road to lead to forgiveness, and forgiveness is the key that opens the door of peace. I close my reflection on this trip with the words of Martin Luther King, "Love is the ultimate force that makes for the saving choice of life and good against the damning choice of death and evil. Therefore the first hope in our inventory must be the hope that love is going to have the last word."
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I ask you to join Sister Olga and I in prayers for peace in Iraq and elsewhere in the world by praying the Rosary, as Our Lady asked the shepherd children in Fatima.
Until next week.
In Christ,
Cardinal Seán


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Keep Pounding Day: Greenville
Team president Tom Glick leads contingent to Greenville, S.C., for a reading event with second graders - a part of the Panthers' presence in 25 cities.
PHOTOS: Academy Sports + Outdoors partners with Panthers for holiday pep rally at Levine Children's Hospital
Take a look at photos from when Academy Sports + Outdoors collaborated with the Panthers for a holiday pep rally at Levine Children's Hospital, donating an assortment of gifts for children that were distributed by Panthers players, Sir Purr and the TopCats cheerleaders.
Panthers host Joy to the Carolinas for local families
The Panthers partnered with Coca-Cola Consolidated and Convoy of Hope for "Joy to the Carolinas," a special holiday experience for deserving children and their families at Bank of America Stadium. The program provided toys, new shoes, haircuts, health services, food and more. Atrium Health, Harris Teeter, Second Harvest Food Bank and US Foods each assisted in the community effort.
Panthers pack book bags for children in holiday season
Panthers legends Steve Smith Sr. and Mike Rucker along with Sir Purr and volunteers from American Airlines packed book bags for children at Charlotte-Douglas International Airport on Tuesday as part of the American Airlines Snowball Express. Partnering with the USO of North Carolina, the bags will go to children of fallen military members.
Harris Teeter Reedy Creek Book Fair
The Carolina Panthers 3rd & Goal literacy program and Harris Teeter's Together in Education initiative teamed up recently to provide a scholastic book fair for students at Reedy Creek Elementary School. Students received vouchers courtesy of Harris Teeter that allowed them to select new books for their take-home libraries.


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Party Girl Diet's 9 PRICELESS Key to Good Living™ Session Topic at Hawaii's 2011 Statewide Homeless Awareness Conference
11/16/2011 Waikiki, Honolulu, HI – INSIDE LOOK TV LLC/ Author Aprilanne Hurley Shares Her Secrets to Healthy Living With Members of Partners in Care Hawaii During Their 2011 Statewide Homeless Awareness Conference.
What does homelessness, hunger issues, and a fun diet book like the Party Girl Diet have in common? "Everything," offers author Aprilanne Hurley who entertained an audience of over 250 people in Waikiki, HI with her lecture series:
"Looking Out for Number 1 – A Survival Guide For People Who Put the Needs of Others Before Their Own."
"The people attending this Homeless Awareness Conference are the people working on the front line of the hunger and homelessness issues, and are the people caring for and serving the needs of Hawaii's homeless population," Hurley adds.
"The type of person who dedicates their career time and efforts to help others in this un-selfish way are the type to overlook their own needs in order to help others less fortunate in all aspects of their lives."
To convey her message – Hurley used an analogy that "just like the safety videos on the plane recommend – you should have your own air-mask in place before you try to help others." "The Party Girl Diet's 9 PRICELESS Keys to Good Living™ are your air-mask, offering easy and completely FREE ways you can live a healthier, happy , and longer life."
"I really would like to thank the Conference Director and Director of Weinberg Village Waimanalo – Holly Hollowach, who orchestrated an amazing and motivational day of guest speakers – including Hawaii's Governor Neil Abercrombie - who spoke during the luncheon. "Hawaii is very fortunate to have such a compassionate, distinguished, and entertaining man at the helm," Hurley notes.
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Five years of consistent growth and steady recovery in the U.S. is supplying buyers with the confidence to seek out acquisitions as they face sluggish organic revenue growth and limited operating margin improvements. Furthermore, in the fourth quarter of 2015, businesses were sitting on more than $6 trillion in accumulated cash reserves globally.[1] Healthcare and Telecommunications, Media & Technology (TMT) may again be the leading sectors for transactions, partially benefiting from a "domino effect" where corporates that were inactive in 2015 seek to replicate peer deal success and related advantages. Amongst less active industries, commodity-related sectors affected by overcapacity—such as Oil & Gas and Mining—could benefit from consolidation, although activity is likely to be dependent on whether a clearer, more sustainable consensus emerges on commodity prices.
Source: J.P. Morgan, Dealogic as of January 8, 2016; M&A as a % of GDP is rounded to the nearest whole number
Where 2015 was marked by many mega-sized transactions that led to a record year, 2016 may see a rise in volumes supported by a greater number of deals. With the possibility of renewed and diversified activity from private equity players, and new regions facing agitation from activist investors, 2016 may prove to be another exciting year in M&A.
A greater number of deals and new sectors may underpin increased M&A activity in 2016. Dealmakers will benefit from supportive factors that helped drive 2015 M&A to its highest levels, though more numerous and smaller transactions and new sectors may see the biggest uptick in 2016.
The need to support slowly recovering earnings, match peers that have already benefited from transaction activity, deploy significant cash reserves and overall boardroom confidence will help drive acquisitions. Deals will also be driven by defensive combinations as corporate leaders seek opportunities to bolster their growth profile and/or enhance expansion. Five years of stable growth has proven to chief executives that the post-recession recovery isn't fleeting, and armed with a massive cash reserve, corporate leaders have the means and confidence to pursue acquisitions or to optimize their portfolio through corporate clarity actions.
As corporations seek external growth in the global economy, businesses are increasingly turning to cross-border transactions as an avenue for value creation.
Source: J.P. Morgan, Dealogic as of January 21, 2016; Deals greater than $10mm taken into consideration
Activism will continue to have a significant impact during 2016. With confidence built on U.S. successes, activists may begin initiating campaigns in new geographies, notably EMEA and gradually Japan.
In addition to activist funds, traditional institutional investors are now engaging more forcefully with the senior management and boards of the companies in which they invest and are contributing to the same activism effect. With the U.S. and Canadian markets already quite active, many funds are turning to new regions for fresh investment opportunities, particularly EMEA and steadily Japan. While activism may be slower to gain a foothold in Western Europe, activist investors will continue to seek opportunities for geographic expansion as the region becomes more stable and predictable following several years of uncertainty. Activists are also beginning to make headlines across Asia with campaigns directed at companies controlled by family offices and corporate monoliths, after critically seeing a string of activity in Japan in recent years.
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November 15-20, 2012: If I were to characterize in a general and respectable fashion the good people of the state of Texas, I might call them rowdy white-trash meets dude'ed-up faux-sophistication with some of the liveliest regional music this side of the universe. And here, gringos are made welcome [see my previous post A gringo like me].
I was schooled in Texas many years ago, as far north as counties go, in what is called The Panhandle. I lived there for seventeen years. My parents, paternal grandparents and great-grandparents are buried just tens of miles north of the Battle of Adobe Walls. Now, on this 2640-mile roundtrip roadtrip from Colorado, just shy of driving the entire north-to-south spread of the state from Dallam County to Corpus Christi in Nueces County, I didn't wear my Texas-stitched boots, not even once. I had them with me though. It somehow didn't feel right to put them on this time. Too many inner changes in recent years, I guess. Not so sure anymore where I am or where I'm from.
Arriving at the edge of the Gulf, not too far from the border of the currently drug lord-ruled Mexico that snakes along the Rio Grande river, and after seeing along the way some of the many yard signs declaring, "SECEDE!" in lieu of the recent U.S. presidential election, I took pictures of funny-looking coastal creatures, like pelicans hanging around small, docked fishing boats and fighting for scraps from the fishermen aboard,
tall herons standing stoically on rocks out a ways in the water thinking seriously about whatever herons think about
and fragile, though designed to run fast, sandpipers that sprinted along the shoreline, occasionally creeping into the wet sand to dig for who knows what, then racing back before the next wave came in.
There were also the Hitchcockian swarms of gulls. For those who never viewed Hitchcock's "The Birds," nature, in the form of coastal birds, suddenly and seemingly without reason turned against man, woman and child in a most vicious manner.
I bathed my tired feet in the cool Gulf water. My brain welcomed the plentiful and rich oxygen at sea level, a sweet and spellbinding breeze surrounding me.
I was as low as one could go in elevation without sinking underwater, yet so light, serene. Back on the wet shore, I pressed my bare feet hard down into the sand, leaving footprints, as if to declare, "I was here, damn it!" Too soon, the waves erased them both away like some invisible teacher after a chalkboard lecture, reminding thoughtful students: "maybe for a while, but not for long."
Corpus Christi translates to "Body of Christ." It's located below the stellar Texas constellation of San Antonio, Austin, Dallas and Houston. If you could see far enough out into the eastern horizon, over the cool Gulf water that kisses faithfully this shoreline, you would see hundreds, maybe thousands, of offshore oil rigs that pin-prick the surface of the deep water, a mile deep in some spots.
Sacramental, in a sense, this region's water, oil and "blood"-like energy from the penetrating rigs, yet not all that different from most other places, or times.
The USS Lexington is permanently docked here, a reminder of a time long past and, I believe sadly, nothing more than an antiquity to many of our youth today whose sense of history spans from the newest iPhone back to its previous version, although the ship personnel now offer, sensibly, a very cool science "campout" aboard the ship to detail experientially its historical and technological significance [see: http://usslexington.com/ ].
The ship was built in 1942 and decommissioned in 1991, having been hit twice in WWII, nicknamed "The Blue Ghost" by the infamous Japanese radio propagandist, Tokyo Rose, and serving in every major naval battle from Tarawa to Tokyo. The "Lady Lex" was both "the first US Navy ship to embark female crewmembers" and pure sophisitication of technology for its time [see: http://www.hnsa.org/ships/lexington.htm].
At night, there's almost a carnival atmosphere to the city with a bridge that spans the Corpus Christi Bay. Columns of LED lights change colors as drivers pass under, sort of like walkers along Fremont Street in the ever-changing Las Vegas, Nevada, with its famous, state-of-the-art overhead light show.
Numerous oil refineries, at night, tower up into the sky like odd-shaped Christmas trees or high rises, covered top-to-bottom with bright glowing white bulbs. Tens, maybe hundreds, of modern windmills, propellered generators, the huge, all-white ones you now see rising up throughout the windy states, spin like steel and colorless pinwheels off in the northwest.
It's still Texas, but with Hindu motel owners, Mexican waiters, Asian tourists, college students from two nearby universities, homeless in rumpled clothing who sleep either at the Metro Ministries/Rustic House, the Good Samaritan Shelter that includes meals or wherever they can find a relatively warm and hidden spot. Meals are also available at a local food bank, not to be confused with any of the high-rise banks. Reminds me of what the late comedian George Carlin is credited with saying, comicly and profoundly: the way the world works is that there's a club at the top–and you're not in it. I say, If it ain't the truth, it sure feels like it.
There is a rundown, seemingly forgotten section of town populated largely with minorities wandering the streets and avenues, like the black man who approached me very slowly and awkwardly one morning while I was about to drive away from my cheap motel, then asked me for money. Mental counseling is available at a local clinic, and of course, there is the Salvation Army.
There are many examples of graffiti art with not-so-easy-to-understand intent.
People of all races and creeds fished for meals along the sandy but often rocky, sometimes low-walled, shoreline. A Mexican lady joyously showed me a flying fish she had caught while I was walking by. They are typically thrown back and not eaten. So strange! Fishes that can just soar right up and out of their given environments, so briefly and majestically, and then fall right back in. It had a crown of barbs that were poisonous if touched, and of course two wings. I took a photo, and then the woman threw it back to the water, where it lived.
I guess they're fish that are just curious about the other side of the surface, and are designed for a revolving door out and then back in again. I don't know. It's too hard to be at ease with the "peace that passeth all understanding." I do know that.
There are tall high-rise bank buildings, in fact, I think all of the highest-rises are named for banks, along with an "Ocean Drive" lined with mansions near ritzy beachfront hotels. There are many tall, though not as tall as the banks, old stone churches of many faiths. Of course, there are the plentiful dance halls and saloons, sometimes called "drinkeries" here.
Corpus Christi. The Body of Christ. Texas. I'm thankful this season of Thanksgiving, to be here so briefly, just passing through for a few days, breathing wholly and deeply the sea air, mindful of the sights, sounds, smells, tastes and feelings that my fellow travelers experience within each moment that we share.
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Shareology used to spend a tad more time on the West Bank of Minneapolis than she does now; thus the Metro IBA meeting at Midwest Mountaineering was a great chance to visit this outdoor retailer that won 2010 Retailer of the Year presented by Backpacker Magazine:
Hard to believe this local retailer in Minneapolis St. Paul has been exploring customer satisfaction for 40 years!! Shareology especially loved how easy parking is…
It's easy — Park in the surface level parking lot (not the ramp) right behind our store! Our friendly employees will validate your ticket (weekdays before 6pm 2 hours max., weekdays after 6pm and weekends 4 hours max.) — No purchase required!
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Well, I guess being around home in Melbourne has given me a bit more time to hang out with friends and family, and one thing that has definitely been happening to a lot of my friends is… babies. Just at that age I guess. So I've spent a bit more time taking shots of them.
As those who've followed my blog and photos over the years know, portraiture is a newer venture of mine- probably something I've only really started to branch into over the last few years. Baby portraiture, even more recently.
Babies are an interesting thing, photographically speaking. On the one hand, they don't move too fast, so it's fairly easy to frame them up. On the other, it can be hard getting them to look at the camera- and even harder to get them to smile when they do. I haven't mastered that technique yet, that's for sure. Patience when taking photos of babies is a must.
As always with portraits, the number one thing, above all else, is to get the eyes right. You want them to be clear, sharp, open and expressive. They also need to be lit properly. I always prefer natural light over flash photography, and candid portraiture over posed. But the best thing about photographing babies is, in my opinion, that they don't have any of the reserves or veils that people get when you take a photo. Their eyes express pure emotion. That emotion may simply be 'what the heck is this thing being stuck in my face?', but it's honest nonetheless- there's none of the facade that big people tend to put in front of their faces.
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Did Alexey Pajitnov invent a pharmatronic?
Ten years ago, a gleam lit Alexey Pajitnov's eyes. As an AI man in Moscow, Pajitnov had designed games for fun until an ancient Roman puzzle, Pentamino, made him blink. He tweaked its simple geometric formations into real time. And thus, with brackets delineating blocks, Tetris was born.
Even spanking new, Tetris was so addictive that Pajitnov himself was instantly hooked. He laughs, "You can't imagine. I couldn't finish the prototype! I started to play and never had time to finish the code. People kept playing, playing, playing. My best friend said, 'I can't live with your Tetris anymore.'"
That friend, former clinical psychologist Vladimir Pokhilko, recalls, "When I met Alexey, I had heard about Tetris. He gave it to me and I took it to my lab at the Moscow Medical Institute. Everybody stopped working. So I deleted it from every computer." Everyone went back to work, until a new version appeared in the lab.
Tetris changed Pokhilko's life. Having used games for psychology tests, he "realized games could be interesting by themselves." Now he is a partner with Pajitnov. Based near San Francisco and in Moscow, their company, AnimaTek, is producing software such as El-Fish (see Wired 1.2), El-Dino (due for Christmas '94), and Arena ('95). In designing these "interactive, mental worlds with rules," they heed the lessons of Tetris. Pokhilko and Pajitnov believe it was Tetris's "emotional dynamics" that led to its astounding success.
No home was sweet without a Gameboy in 1990. That year, I stayed "for a week" with a friend in Tokyo, and Tetris enslaved my brain. At night, geometric shapes fell in the darkness as I lay on loaned tatami floor space. Days, I sat on a lavender suede sofa and played Tetris furiously. During rare jaunts from the house, I visually fit cars and trees and people together. Dubiously hunting a job and a house, I was still there two months later, still jobless, still playing.
My friend, an economist, threatened a battery deprivation, but he knew my habit ran deep, knew that I could always tilt, blinded by sunlight, to a convenience store. To save face, I would buy a box of tiny chocolate-filled bears, as if AA power cells were an afterthought, not the meaning of my wretched life.
We should all learn from the "emotional dynamics" of Tetris, no? Surely, my experience, albeit radical, was not too atypical. At the time, eyes everywhere were glued to those little green-gray screens. So far, Nintendo alone has sold 35 million Tetris cartridges for Gameboys, and countless copies of Tetris software exist worldwide. I wondered if Tetris wasn't really some sort of electronic drug - a pharmatronic.
At the idea of a pharmatronic, Pajitnov laughs. "Many people say that, but my feeling is it's more like music. Playing games is a very specific rhythmic and visual pleasure. For me, Tetris is some song which you sing and sing inside yourself and can't stop."
This is true - I couldn't stop - but I was still mystified as to how Tetris slyly manages to interface with the neural net in the human skull. At the University of California at Irvine's Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Richard Haier did the demystifying. In 1991, Haier scanned the brains of Tetris players.
In Tetris, Haier sees "a tremendous learning curve. The question became: When the stimuli are faster and the decision making is harder, does the brain require more energy?" Haier found, as he suspected, that the brain requires less energy to play higher levels of Tetris. This is "counterintuitive," he says, "but consistent with a brain efficiency idea."
In first-time users, Tetris significantly raises cerebral glucose metabolic rates (GMRs), meaning brain energy consumption soars. Yet, after four to eight weeks of daily doses, GMRs sink to normal, while performance increases seven-fold, on average. Tetris trains your brain to stop using inefficient gray matter, perhaps a key cognitive strategy for learning. In fact, the lowest final GMRs are found in the best players' brains, the ones most efficient at dealing with Tetris's Daedalian geometry.
The elevated GMR "high" is why you get wired after hours of play. Your old dog of a brain learns the Tetris trick by munching cerebral glucose. Neural hoop-jumping seems to be streamlined until performance peaks, and then your old dog stops craving Milkbones.
The Tetris effect is a biochemical, reductionistic metaphor, if you will, for curiosity, invention, the creative urge. To fit shapes together is to organize, to build, to make deals, to fix, to understand, to fold sheets. All of our mental activities are analogous, each as potentially addictive as the next.
How a poet's mind struggles to compose a phrase is equivalent to a how an engineer frets - we hope - over a new concept in bridge suspension, or how a neat freak invents infinite corners to dust, or how anyone gazes into perpetual motions in liquid crystal.
To solidify these images of cerebral addiction, we need the purely psychological hook of Pokhilko: "The main part is visual insight. You make your visual decision and it happens almost immediately. Insight means emotion: small, but many of them, every two, three seconds. The second mechanism is unfinished action. Tetris has many unfinished actions (that) force you to continue and make it very addictive. The third is automatization: In a couple of hours, the activity becomes automatic, a habit, a motivation to repeat."
Repeat I did in 1990. I repeated until I consistently won rocket blastoff imagery, the prize for the highest score and the end of the game on a Gameboy. When the GMR high wore off, my old dog of a brain went on to learn new tricks.
And so did Alexey Pajitnov's. Pajitnov is hardly on automatic, repeating himself endlessly by producing puzzles. He, too, needed to fit shapes together in new ways. AnimaTek is now building the foundation for virtual worlds, aspects of which will appear over the next few years.
Vaguely nervous about the whole idea, I ask Pajitnov why he is sure people will make the trip. "They will have no choice. That's how progress works. Everybody is trying to switch from 2-D to 3-D," he says.
Worried that a 3-D pharmatronic is just over the rainbow, I very casually gasp, "You mean soon we'll have to go to your world?"
"Oh, no. I am much more modest," Pajitnov says. "For the first years we'll concentrate on tools, knowledge, algorithms, and technology."
I was relieved, but I had to ask, "And then?"
"And then, yeah, sure," he laughs, benevolently hoping we'll be hooked. "But not only to my world. There will be some new genius, new talent. It will be a new cultural phenomenon."
That's the last thing I need.
How about you? Will I see you in the virtual world? Will we interface each other as we lounge on lavender suede sofas and sleep on tatami floors? Will we munch those tiny chocolate-filled bears to satisfy our pharmatronically induced cravings for cerebral glucose? Will we leap over electric rainbows and into wonderland? I hope, with all of my life, we will.
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By JAMES BURNETT
Language experts say that most children build the foundation for their vocabularies between birth and age 3, as a result of parents talking to and with them.
So the advice, talk to your kids, should be a given. And some parents -- like one mom with two young children I encountered on the Metrorail train earlier this week -- get it.
The kids, obviously headed to school, carried backpacks. Mom carried a weary look.
But for 12 consecutive minutes after they boarded the train that trio had a conversation -- about school, about toys, about how the train works, about nothing at all.
Usually, I love hearing kids and parents chat. It makes sense of the boatload of money Art Linkletter and Bill Cosby made back in the day hosting Kids Say the Darndest Things.
But some parents -- like the other mom who boarded with her two kids at the very next station stop -- don't get it, and demonstrate their lack of understanding words by behaving as though any old talk will do......
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Panel: Corps Not To Blame For Missouri River Flood
Some Changes Recommended
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers did what it could with the record flooding on the Missouri River this year although proposed changes could help avoid a disastrous repeat, especially since such floods could become more frequent, an expert panel said in a report released Tuesday.
The 99-page analysis said "climatic extremes" appear to be getting "bigger and more frequent," with the experts calling for updated flood probability models and procedures. It did not cite climate change as a factor, saying the issue was "beyond the scope of this report."
The corps has said that the floods caused $630 million in damage to the levees, dams and channels built to control the river. The corps manages the 2,341-mile-long river, which flows from Montana through North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa and Missouri.
The report said the 2011 flood was the "the largest of the period of record in terms of runoff volume, and it stressed the mainstream reservoir system and its operators as never before. Many people were dismayed that such a damaging event could occur, in spite of the flood control reservoir system."
An expert from the panel said May rainfall in Montana exceeded 300 percent of normal, surprising everyone and causing the biggest problems. But he said such unusual weather may be a more common part of the weather cycle, no matter the cause.
"Back when they designed this master manual, it was a weather event that they probably just didn't think was possible," said Bill Lawrence, a hydrologist with the National Weather Service in Tulsa, Okla. "I think whether or not you believe in climate change is beside the point."
The experts waded cautiously into the debate over whether the corps should release more water from upstream reservoirs in order to leave more room for floodwater storage. This past season, the corps was forced to release water from the full reservoirs knowing it would cause downstream flooding.
"The unprecedented inflow volume tested the reservoir system more than ever before," the report said. "The panel recommends a review of the system storage allocations, to include the flood-control storage needed for floods like 2011 or larger."
The corps is required to keep water in the upstream reservoirs as it manages the river for eight competing uses: flood control, irrigation, navigation, hydroelectric power generation, water supply, water quality, recreation, and fish and wildlife enhancement.
Flood control requires leaving reservoirs as empty as possible, while the other uses require that water be kept in the reservoirs, corps Brig. Gen. John McMahon said Tuesday. He promised a "flexible approach" as the corps considers reducing reservoir levels - knowing it will harm the other uses.
Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer has sparred with downstream governors, who want reservoir levels in his state reduced in order to provide more room for floodwater. Schweitzer has said such a policy would hurt Montana recreation and agriculture in dry years.
The experts said their first recommendation would be to ensure more federal money is available to properly repair and maintain the current system of spillways, tunnels and other infrastructure.
Other recommendations included improved monitoring of pending snowmelt in plains states, such as is done in the northern Rocky Mountain that feed the river.
They also suggested better collaboration with weather forecasting and water monitoring agencies, improved monitoring systems for tributaries, and an update of the master manual that guides management for all authorized uses on the river.
"The panel found that the decisions of the corps were appropriate and in line with the appropriate manuals, but both the manuals and the decision-making process can be improved," the experts said. "During extreme flood events, such as in 2011, the master manual does not provide a workable formula for operational decisions and during extraordinary flooding experience-based judgment along with repetitive quantitative analysis must be used."


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Restricting the liberty of persons who can be held morally and legally responsible for their conduct on the ground that they might abuse that liberty and commit criminal acts is both suspect and ubiquitous. Laws that restrict the ownership of guns, explosives, and other materials out of fear that those materials will be put to illegal uses are examples of such restrictions. So, too, are restraining orders, no contact orders, and the like. Laws restricting the residency of sex offenders are another example, as are laws permitting increased incarceration on the basis of predictions of dangerousness.
Detention of suspected terrorists falls into this category, of course. So, too, do the doctrines of self-defense and defense of others, which are always preemptive of a feared future attack, as is a defensive preemptive military strike. And it may be the case that various inchoate crimes, such as conspiracy, are less examples of culpable acts than examples of acts that bespeak future danger, so that their "punishment" is really preventive rather than retributive.
Finally, if any of these preemptive restrictions are in principle justifiable, what probabilities must be assigned to the feared conduct, and if that conduct occurs, to the feared harm, to justify the preemptive restrictions? This is an undertheorized and largely unaddressed issue in the extant literature.
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Hero Jr. continues to combine the tradition of Midwestern hard hitting rock music with a twist of 70s British sound, and have been described as comfortably familiar yet completely unique. Hero Jr. is in it for the long haul. "...we all know that a rock band that doesn't have a good 3-5 years of dues paying doesn't have much chance of being around for a while. It's all about the music and that speaks entirely for itself."
A good chunk of Hero Jr.'s hours in the tour van are spent listening to comedy and podcasts. Bill Burr, Marc Maron, Louis CK, Jim Florentine, Joey Coco Diaz, Joe Rogan, and George Carlin are a few favorites. The band members are fascinated and inspired by the similarities between comedy and rock music. The comics' stories of hardcore rejection, growing 'thick skin', and sticking to and fighting for their beliefs while moving up the food chain resonate deeply within the band.