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Lovin' Deflation
Once again the spotlight is on the Yen. Please consider Japan Learned to Love Deflation in Wage Malaise Facing BOJ
A decade and a half after Japan slumped into deflation, the central bank is set to signal its strongest effort yet to reverse the trend. The biggest challenge may be that the nation has come to rely on falling prices.
More than 80 percent of respondents in a Bank of Japan survey released this month who noticed rising prices last year said it was bad. More than a third of those who said prices fell were happy about it. Even so, the BOJ next week will adopt the government's desired 2 percent inflation target, according to 21 of 23 economists surveyed by Bloomberg News.
Japan last had 2 percent annual inflation in 1997, when Toyota Motor Corp. unveiled the Prius hybrid and the yen sank as as low as 130 per dollar. Prices have fallen in 10 of 15 years since, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
While deflation helps savers, younger generations are hit by stagnant wages and diminished incentives for borrowing.
Increased Debt Not Solution to Global Problems
It's a world gone mad when central banks act as if increased debt is the answer to every problem. Japan has had increased national debt for over two decades and they certainly are not better off because of it.
80% in the survey are against higher prices. Who doesn't like a bargain?
The problem is not falling wage. The problem is falling wages when one is loaded up in debt. The 80% are correct, the bank of Japan and the Japanese government are wrong.
Longest Stretch of Weekly Losses Since 1989; Shorts Decrease Bets
Bloomberg reports Yen Slides to Lowest Since 2010 Amid Bets on BOJ; Euro Advances
The yen weakened beyond 90 to the dollar for the first time in 31 months amid speculation the currency will slide further as the Bank of Japan and the government work aggressively to spur economic growth.
The Japanese currency continued its longest stretch of weekly losses since 1989 amid bets the BOJ will decide to conduct open-ended asset buying to stoke inflation. The central bank meets Jan. 21-22.
"The open-ended thing is a little bit of a new twist to the policy easing we're expecting from Japan, and it's started to gain traction," Omer Esiner, chief market analyst in Washington at Commonwealth Foreign Exchange Inc., a currency brokerage, said in a telephone interview. "That's what I'm attributing the latest leg lower in the yen to. The market is starting to fine-tune its expectations as to what we'll see from policy makers over there."
Currency Bets
Futures traders trimmed for a fifth straight week their bets that the yen will decline against the U.S. dollar, figures from the Washington-based Commodity Futures Trading Commission show. The difference in the number of wagers by hedge funds and other large speculators on a decline in the yen compared with those on a gain — so-called net shorts — was 65,727 on Jan. 15, versus net shorts of 74,096 a week earlier.
Speculators reversed their euro bets for a third week, wagering the shared currency will rise against the U.S. dollar. Net longs totaled 7,315 on Jan. 15, versus net shorts of 8,035 a week earlier and net longs of 5,126 the week before that.
Complacency in Face of Falling Values
It is certainly interesting to note that shorts have decreased bets on the falling Yen for a fifth week.
Frequently (and wrongly) traders increase bets and leverage when trades are going their direction.
If anti-yen sentiment is unwinding in the face of this continued drop, that can easily be a sign the Yen is still not ready for a bounce.
Mike "Mish" Shedlock

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Greek radicals unveil economic planJune 1, 2012: 11:41 AM ET
The radical left-wing party in Greece, which is leading the charge against austerity, gave Greeks some insight Friday into how they'd run the country.
The first thing a Syriza-led government would do is annul the bailout agreement Greece struck with the European Union and International Monetary Fund, according to Greek media reports.
Alexis Tsipras, the party's firebrand leader, told reporters in Athens that the bailout would be replaced "with a national recovery plan for economic and social growth and productive reconstruction."
The program includes a number of steps that are sure to appeal to Greek voters. Syriza promised to raise the minimum wage, freeze wage and pension cuts, reduce taxes on food and increase unemployment benefits, the reports said.
Syriza came in second in last month's elections, and has taken the lead in polls just a few weeks before the next election is held.
According to Public Issue, Syriza would take 31.5% of the vote, followed by the establishment party New Democracy at 25.5%. The two parties have jockeyed for the lead several times over the last week.
Greece has been without an elected government since elections on May 6 failed to give any party a majority in Parliament. The election, in which voters punished the parties that supported the bailout, was widely seen as a rejection of government austerity measures.
In March, Greece agreed to a program of reforms to bring down public debt and boost economic growth in exchange for a second 130 billion euro bailout. While Greece needs the money to stay afloat, many economists say the requisite austerity measures will only deepen the nation's recession.


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FAYETTEVILLE — Nothing in Bret Bielema's 10 months at Arkansas has offered any glimpse of a first-year coach that will back down from a challenge.
FAYETTEVILLE — Nothing in Bret Bielema's 10 months at Arkansas has offered any glimpse of a first-year coach that will back down from a challenge.
He boldly proclaimed his goal of delivering a Southeastern Conference championship to Arkansas when he arrived. He went toe-to-toe with naysayers on social media over the long offseason. He hasn't been shy about voicing his opinion on hot topics, stirring debate between no-huddle teams and his traditional style.
So now that Arkansas has a five-game losing streak — which is the longest of Bielema's career — it should be no surprise the coach is following an important mantra to deflect any criticism that has come with mounting losses: Don't flinch.
"You've got a fog around Arkansas that has been around us for a little bit of time that I'm trying to fight off," Bielema said last Thursday, during an animated bye week press conference. "Those things can wear you down. But if you flinch or if you try to react in a way that you're not accustomed to doing, you're going to have failure."
Bielema and his staff have stood firm by the philosophy as they search for solutions through one of the worst stretches in the program's recent history. Sure, the Razorbacks have endured plenty of problems on both sides of the ball in lopsided losses, but they've refused to stray from their core values and beliefs this week.
So don't expect an Arkansas team that takes on a new identity from the hard-nosed, physical style Bielema has been determined to implement since arriving. The Razorbacks (3-5, 0-4 in SEC) insist they'll stay the course as they prepare for next Saturday's game against BCS No. 11 Auburn (7-1, 3-1 in SEC) in Razorback Stadium.
"I love it when I see coaches have failure and what are they going to do right away? They're going to change," Bielema said. "They're going to go from the Pro to the Spread. They're going to go from this to this. I'm made up of what I'm made up of. I know it'll win. I know it'll have success. If I flinch anywhere along the way, then my kids are going to be able to see it and they'll start doing it. We just can't have that."
The stance comes with a growing rumble from frustrated fans after 52-7 and 52-0 losses in consecutive games. There's good reason for the disappointment, too, because the 97-point margin was the largest in back-to-back games in school history. Arkansas's previous low point was consecutive losses by a combined 90 points against Missouri School of Mines (44-0) and Oklahoma A&M (46-0) in 1914.
But that's just the start of the historical woes Arkansas is achieving. The Razorbacks have surrendered 50 or more points in consecutive games for the first time in school history. Its 52-point loss to Alabama equaled the program's seventh-worst defeat. Arkansas' eight-game SEC losing streak – which coincidentally began with a 30-27 loss to Ole Miss on Oct. 27 last season – also is the program's longest.
A five-game losing streak is Arkansas' longest since 1997. Only seven other Arkansas teams have lost five or more games in a row, including the 1990 group that holds the school record with seven straight losses.
"The last five weeks have been pretty rough," Arkansas fullback Kiero Small said.
Arkansas can thank some of the woes to obvious personnel issues at key positions like linebacker, defensive back and wide receiver.
The Arkansas staff acknowledged the talent and depth shortcomings at some of those positions. They plan to address it on the recruiting trail. But Bielema was adamant earlier this month he would never use it as an excuse for the struggles.
In fact, he's more disappointed by mistakes they view as careless and correctable.
For instance: Arkansas has committed nine turnovers in its past four games and the mistakes have been crippling for a group that has been shut out for seven straight quarters. One of the main problems has been with Arkansas' execution in the passing game. It has been nothing shot of a disaster with either quarterback Brandon Allen missing his target, receivers dropping passes and protection issues.
"Obviously not where we want to be," said Allen, who is completing just 44.9 percent of his passes this season. "Didn't expect it."
Offensive coordinator Jim Chaney said the breakdowns have been "a little bit everywhere" and added he has struggled to get in a rhythm as a play-caller. But Chaney said being more "detail-oriented" is the goal. Not mass changes.
"Throwing the baby out of the bath water is not the best way to go," Chaney said. "So we'll set there, we'll stay the course, we'll continue to try to improve things. We're smart enough to maybe manipulate some calls. Maybe I need to change some of the things that I'm doing a little bit more and that's easy enough to do. But I don't want to lose the foundation and what we're trying to get done here also."
The same can be said for a defensive unit that has been gashed repeatedly since Arkansas opened conference play on Sept. 28.
Tackling trouble, assignment errors and an inability to get off the field have been the biggest problems for the unit, which has watched South Carolina and Alabama combine to score on 16 of 20 possessions. The defensive woes have knocked Arkansas to 12th in the SEC and 90th in the NCAA in points allowed (30.6 a game).
"We knew this wasn't going to be an easy job," Ash said. "We understand where we're at. Nobody has to tell me that we're struggling. I know that. I see that. That's the first part of building a plan for success, realizing where you are at and being honest and realistic about it and start finding solutions and that's where we're at right now. Nobody said this was going to be easy. Nobody said this was going to be an overnight turnaround just because a new staff walked in the door."
Dari Nowkhah, who is a college football analyst for ESPNU, believes there was added difficulty because of who was previously in charge of the program.
He said former Arkansas coach Bobby Petrino brought a brilliant offensive mind to Fayetteville, but in many other ways has forced a "complete rebuild" since his firing.
"You have to change a culture," Nowkhah said after addressing the Northwest Arkansas Touchdown Club last week. "You have kids that, in many cases, are not taking care of responsibilities off the field. That was the case at Louisville, and I know that's been the case here. Some guys that a coach would have to chase off, some guys that just may not want to play in a more disciplined system.
"So now you're dealing with that from a personal standpoint. You're dealing with that from kind of a feel-good standpoint within a program. He leaves and he takes his offensive mind with him. And now you're left with, in many cases I think, and it's kind of been borne out, a mess of a roster."
An even bigger obstacle is the fact Arkansas is repairing itself in an unforgiving SEC West, which boasts traditional powers (Alabama and LSU) as well as teams on the rise (Texas A&M, Auburn and Ole Miss). Bielema and the Razorbacks are trying to rebuild the foundation of the program during one of the toughest schedules in school history, playing four straight games against ranked opponents.
Auburn will be Arkansas' fifth straight ranked opponent when it comes to Razorback Stadium on Saturday. It will be the first time Arkansas has played five consecutive ranked teams and all were No. 18 or higher when facing the Hogs.
But Bielema insisted he was ready for the daunting schedule.
"I didn't prepare for this in just seven years as a head coach," Bielema said of the task ahead of him. "I went through this as a 1-10 assistant at Iowa. I went through difficulty during times as an assistant during my career and as a coordinator. I know what the plan is. I know how to get there. It takes a little bit of time that anybody that has any type of impatience, which I'm the biggest violator of, it's never fun to get there in the process. But it's a hell of a lot of fun when you get there."
How and when a turnaround would begin is unknown, although CBS Sports College football analyst Bruce Feldman said Arkansas has a long climb ahead during his appearance at the Northwest Arkansas Touchdown Club two weeks ago.
"I mean, who's going to be bad in that division?" Feldman said about the SEC West, which features three programs (Alabama, Auburn, LSU) that have won five national championships in the past seven seasons. "Somebody's got to lose. …
"For the next probably year-and-a-half I think it's going to be Arkansas."
Bielema said it's critical that his fragile team, which has shown the effects of two long seasons since former coach Petrino's motorcycle accident in April 2012, doesn't agree and further slip into what he described as a "woe's me" attitude.
The 2013 season has been a sour one no doubt, but Bielema stressed bowl eligibility remains on the radar with four games left. He's even more confident in the big picture, refusing to "flinch" despite Arkansas' record-setting struggles this season.
"I wanted to come to an opportunity that never given this fan base what they want, which is an SEC championship," Bielema said. "That has been my driving force from day one, and that hasn't changed.
"It may be silly to talk about when you're an 0-4 SEC team and a 3-5 football team overall. … But I know where we're going to be. I know what's going to happen."


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#296 open enhancement
support seeking by decoding from the begin
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The file seeks correctly with WMP/MPC, maybe it's possible to fix seeking for this kind of file in FFmpeg.
(not a regression)
C:\>ffmpeg -i EVBPIC.AVI ffmpeg version git-N-30698-g39dbe9b, Copyright (c) 2000-2011 the FFmpeg develope rs built on Jun 10 2011 22:10:00 with gcc 4.5.3 configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-version3 --enable-memalign-hack --enable- runtime-cpudetect --enable-avisynth --enable-bzlib --enable-frei0r --enable-libo pencore-amrnb --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-libfreetype --enable-libgsm -- enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-librtmp --enable-libschroedinger --enable-libspeex --enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis --enable-libvpx --enabl e-libx264 --enable-libxavs --enable-libxvid --enable-zlib --disable-outdev=sdl - -pkg-config=pkg-config libavutil 51. 8. 0 / 51. 8. 0 libavcodec 53. 7. 0 / 53. 7. 0 libavformat 53. 3. 0 / 53. 3. 0 libavdevice 53. 1. 1 / 53. 1. 1 libavfilter 2. 15. 0 / 2. 15. 0 libswscale 0. 14. 1 / 0. 14. 1 libpostproc 51. 2. 0 / 51. 2. 0 [avi @ 01DCA600] max_analyze_duration 5000000 reached at 5000000 Input #0, avi, from 'EVBPIC.AVI': Duration: 00:03:17.00, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 266 kb/s Stream #0.0: Video: msvideo1, pal8, 640x480, 1 fps, 1 tbr, 1 tbn, 1 tbc Stream #0.1: Audio: pcm_u8, 22050 Hz, 1 channels, u8, 176 kb/s At least one output file must be specified
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comment:1 Changed 9 years ago by cehoyos
- Reproduced by developer set
- Status changed from new to open
- Version changed from unspecified to git-master
Isn't this more related to msvideo1 than avi?
comment:2 Changed 9 years ago by cehoyos
- Keywords msvideo1 seek added
comment:3 Changed 9 years ago by DonMoir
EVBPIC.AVI is a file that exact timestamp seeking fixes completely. There are many index_entries but only the first entry is marked as a keyframe. There are no issues with seeking on this file if exact timestamp seeking is used. That is, it's very quick.
So yes, nice if exact timestamp seeking was put into ffmpeg. The current alternative is do this from a higher level.
If exact timestamp seeking is put into ffmpeg, it will be necessary that the interrupt_callback (or similiar) is called so the app has a chance to abort or put it's seek thread to sleep briefly.
comment:4 Changed 9 years ago by reimar
Not sure what you exactly you mean to say and what you mean by "exact timestamp seeking".
There are many index_entries but only the first entry is marked as a keyframe.
that means that the file is either broken or really stupidly encoded.
Also I suspect that seeking works just fine with ffmpeg if you put the -ss after the -i instead of in front.
comment:5 follow-up: ↓ 6 Changed 9 years ago by DonMoir
By exact timestamp seeking I mean if you request an arbitrary time, it will make a best effort to get there and not stop just because the file may only have one first keyframe.
I don't create the files but many files exist that have this problem with ffmpeg. Mostly when you run into a case like this, it tends to be a simple file that can be easily seeked to at any position with a little extra work. This is the users expected behavior regardless of how it's been encoded. It's rare for a high res file to have this problem but if it does it can be dealt with appropriately.
You try ffplay or MPlayer and see how well they do. I already have it handled in my own app. I don't mind if it's a higher level step personally, but it could give ffmpeg a better and more expected behavior.
comment:6 in reply to: ↑ 5 Changed 9 years ago by cehoyos
Replying to DonMoir:
I don't create the files but many files exist that have this problem with ffmpeg.
We definitely need more failing samples, please provide some.
comment:7 Changed 9 years ago by DonMoir
These type of files fall into a category where the main background does not change often and it is appropriate for them to have one or just a few keyframes.
first_keyframe_only_confused.mov and first_keyframe_only_count.mkv are the same as evbpic.avi in the sense they all only have 1 first keyframe. They also can be seeked into easily and quickly if a little more work is performed when seeking.
no_keyframes_filecopy.avi has no keyframes and so the first frame must be artificially marked as a keyframe for it to work and then proceed with exact timestamp seeking on it.
The same problem is going to exist on files where the keyframes are sparse, but more than one, in that you will notice large jumps when trying to seek with ffmpeg.
comment:8 Changed 9 years ago by DonMoir
only_two_keyframes_flyby.avi is an example of sparse keyframes but more than one. This is also easy to deal with.
comment:9 Changed 8 years ago by michael
- Summary changed from avi file can't be seeked to support seeking by decoding from the begin
- Type changed from defect to enhancement
EVBPIC.AVI does contain only 1 keyframe, seeking thus requires decoding from teh begin
comment:10 Changed 8 years ago by richardpl
- Priority changed from normal to wish


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Martyrs Manuel and Theodosius
The Holy Martyrs Manuel and Theodosius suffered for their faith in Christ in 304 in Sirmium. Seeing how the pagans put Christians to death every day, they believed in Christ and resolved to suffer for their faith. They boldly confessed themselves as Christians before the governor. The governor and those around him marvelled at their bravery.
By order of the governor, Saints Manuel and Theodosius were thrown into prison, and a strict watch was set over them. After several days the governor gave orders to bring the saints from prison, and he urged them to renounce Christ and offer sacrifice to the idols. The holy martyrs, however, were steadfast in their confession.
Then the governor ordered Saints Manuel and Theodosius to be suspended from a tree, and scraped with sharp iron hooks. The martyrs were stabbed with a sharp trident, and then beheaded.


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HOUSTON (AP) — The Houston Astros have acquired catcher Matt Pagnozzi from the Atlanta Braves for cash considerations, a day after All-Star catcher Jason Castro sprained his right knee.
The Astros haven't said how long they expect Castro to be out. But his injury on Sunday left them with just one healthy catcher on the roster in Cody Clark.
Catchers Carlos Corporan and Max Stassi are both on the seven-day concussion disabled list.
Pagnozzi had played in 33 games in a career with stops in St. Louis, Colorado and Pittsburgh.
Houston transferred right-hander Edgar Gonzalez to the 60-day disabled list to make room for Pagnozzi on the roster.
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Spoonamore says electronic voting machines represent national security threat, Israel, China and Russia have capability to rig presidential outcome
Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Stephen Spoonamore warns in a new interview that electronic voting machines represent a national security threat and that hackers are already planning to steal the 2008 presidential election for John McCain.
Spoonamore is a GOP member and a lifelong Republican, having worked on election campaigns with Rudy Giuliani and Michael Bloomberg. He also has 20 years worth of experience in encrypted and networked communications systems for banks, TV, telecommunications, EMS, Military and other uses.
In an ten part You Tube interview, Spoonamore warns that hackers are planning to steal the election on behalf of the McCain camp and even predicts the margin of victory, that McCain will make a "shocking recovery" and win 51.2 percent of the vote with three electoral votes over Obama.
"This is a national security threat," said Spoonamore, "it is very possible for a foreign government to begin manipulating that transmission of code just as they attempt to do fairly often with our financial data….we deal with it every day on the commercial side," he added, noting that China, and not the American people, has a greater chance of choosing the next U.S. president.
Spoonamore also fingered Israel as another foreign government that was planning to attempt to hack the 2008 election.
"We don't know who's changing the vote now – these weird results are coming in all over," said Spoonamore, adding that the danger of the vote being hacked by Israel, China or Russia is an even greater threat than partisan vote fraud on behalf of the Democrats and Republicans.
"You've built a vulnerable system and many people would want to exploit that vulnerability and not all of them have the best interests of our nation at heart," he added.
In the interview, Spoonamore stresses how easy it is to hack an electronic voting machine and rig an election.
"If people think that a voting machine that calls in to a tabulator is any different than all those cash registers calling in to the central processor – it's the same thing," said Spoonamore. "If you put a man in the middle attack, a computer sitting in the middle that can change or capture or manipulate the information, it will do so," he added.
"It's valuable to be president….if you can steal it for a couple of million bucks why not," said Spoonamore, adding that the last two presidential elections were stolen.
Spoonamore said that he had personally witnessed people attempting to hack election systems and since going public with his testimony had received threats not to talk about vote fraud because it would undermine American's confidence in the voting process, to which Spoonamore responded that people should doubt their vote because "it's being stolen".
Spoonamore said that top Republican operatives had told him that election hacking was "just a different methodology" but they didn't grasp the fact that if you build a hackable system, "there's hundreds of sharks that want to hack it and you will not know who the final hacker was."
Spoonamore said that the only way to prevent elections being stolen is a complete return to paper ballots, a "move back to what worked so well for 190 years," and the elimination of electronic voting machines.
Watch a key clip below or watch the entire interview via this wmv link or via You Tube.
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I trust this letter finds you sustained by your Groom as you face bombings and threats on one side of the hemisphere, and attacks of a more offhand sort on the other. By now you have likely received word of a popular blogger confessing his boredom with your recent Protestant iterations, noting that he instead connects with God by building his company. At the least, I was heartened to see it spark a lively discussion about who you are and what exactly the Spirit had in mind when he showed up in Jerusalem 1,980 years ago to kick off this whole crazy thing. (I imagine those are sweet memories for you, seeing your people giving their things away with abandon, like it was the end of the world.) As you near your 2,000th birthday, we rugged individuals in the land of a thousand denominations are wise to get reacquainted with you.
Outside your walls, of course, you continue to be derided for all manner of intolerance, backwards thinking, and political apathy. But inside your walls, at least from my narrow vantage of Christendom, you are quite the hot ticket these days. A whole generation of evangelical Christians has grown impatient with inherited ways of gathering together.
From pastors like Eugene Peterson, we have learned to question modes of worship that mimic the mall and the stadium. From theologians like Robert Webber, we have discovered a much longer and richer history than our Sunday school teachers ever mentioned. We bandy about words like ecclesiology and sacramentality to demonstrate our new, sophisticated ways of thinking about you. Just this week, we wore our ashes proud. And when the popular blogger confessed to finding you a bit hard to get through, we were quite ready to pounce with charges ...1
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Ex-Mass. chemist in lab scandal back in court
Annie Dookhan indicted on 27 charges
A former Massachusetts chemist accused of faking test results at a state drug lab has pleaded not guilty to four counts of obstruction of justice in a scandal that could jeopardize thousands of drug convictions.
Annie Dookhan was indicted on a total of 27 charges accusing her of fabricating test results and tampering with drug evidence while testing substances in criminal cases.
The 35-year-old Dookhan was arraigned Wednesday on four obstruction counts in Brockton Superior Court. She pleaded not guilty and was allowed to go home on a GPS bracelet.
She also pleaded not guilty to one count of obstruction in Fall River Superior Court.
An estimated 200 convicted defendants have been released from jail and had their cases put on hold while their legal challenges are pending.
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Greenwich widow files malpractice suit against Tully Center
STAMFORD -- A Greenwich woman filed a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against the Tully Health Center and its emergency room medical contractor last week for failing to diagnose a fatal condition that killed her husband two years ago.
Susanne Wilke, whose husband, Frank Hermann, died Feb. 20, 2010, at age 46 from a pulmonary embolism, alleges that the Tully Center and the contractor that provides its emergency medical physicians were negligent in missing pulmonary embolisms in both of her husband's lungs that led to his death 10 days after seeking help at the immediate care center owned by Stamford Health System.
According to the medical malpractice lawsuit filed in state Superior Court in Stamford, Hermann went to the Tully Health Center on Strawberry Hill Court on Feb, 11, 2010, and complained about "flank pain." The Tully Health Center discharged Hermann the same morning after performing a CT scan on his abdomen without performing further testing, the lawsuit said.
Nine days later, Hermann was rushed by ambulance to Stamford Hospital in critical condition. A CT scan of his chest revealed a pulmonary embolism -- or a blockage of one or more arteries in one's lungs -- and Hermann died the next day while in intensive care.
An autopsy on Feb. 22 revealed Hermann died from weeks-old pulmonary embolisms in both lungs, according to the lawsuit.
Craig Yankwitt, a lawyer for Stamford litigation firm Silver Golub & Teitell, said the Tully Center staff should have caught the pulmonary embolisms by conducting the proper diagnostic tests before sending him home.
"They were simply not permitted to discharge without ruling out whether he was suffering from a life-threatening condition," Yankwitt said in an e-mail. "Had they performed the additional testing, Mr. Hermann would still be alive."
Wilke is seeking several million in damages in the lawsuit. The lost earnings from Hermann's untimely death at age 46 will be a large component of damages, Yankwitt said.
The lawsuit named Stamford Health System, the non-profit that owns Stamford Hospital and the Tully Center, and Emergency Medicine Physicians, an Ohio company that staffs Stamford Hospital and the Tully Center with emergency medicine physicians. Michelle Tomassi, a EMP physician who treated Hermann at the Tully Center, is also named as a defendant.
Stamford Health System spokesman Scott Orstad said he could not comment on pending litigation at this time. Frederick Trotta, a New Haven lawyer representing EMP and Tomassi, also declined to comment on the lawsuit.
At the time of his death, Hermann worked as director of project and portfolio analysis at Daiichi Sankyo, a Japanese pharmaceutical company whose U.S. operations are based in New Jersey, Yankwitt said.
Hermann, who had earned advanced degrees in chemistry and business administration, left behind a son who was 6-years-old at the time of Hermann's death, according to his obituary. Both Hermann and his wife, Wilke, had immigrated to the United States from Germany.
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Funeral services for Dale Anderson Floyd, age 78 of Emory, were at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, April 27, 2011 at Wilson-Orwosky Funeral Home Chapel. Burial was in the Pilgrim Rest Cemetery #1 with Pastor Jeff Thompson and Bro. Royce Campbell officiating.
Mr. Floyd was born on Jan. 28, 1933, in Brownfield, the son of Gary Stephen and Mary Edna Nowell Floyd. He attended Mount Vernon Schools. He and Juanita Carolyn Arnold were married in Dallas on June 26, 1954. He was a U. S. Marine, serving his country in Korea from 1951 until 1954. He was a commercial and residential construction contractor. He constructed many facilities and homes in Rains County, including the Point Shopping Center, First State Bank in Point, and the Point City Hall He also did restoration on the Rains County Court House. He attended Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church.
He died, April 23 at his residence. He was preceded in death by his parents and a sister, Thressa Floyd.
He is survived by his wife, Juanita Floyd of Emory; his sons and daughters-in-laws, Jon Carlo and Anna Floyd Leonard and Don Carlos and Mien Floyd of Garland; a daughter and son-in-law, Juanita Amelia "Suzy" and Ronnie Kile of Emory; his sisters and brothers-in-law, LeFreda and Richard Henry of Dallas, Glynna Gaylor of Westerville, Ohio, and Mary Thelda Hosenbeck of Albuquerque, N. Mex.; his brothers and sisters-in-law, Don and Joyce Floyd of Lake Havasu, Ariz., Lynn and Jackie Floyd of Dallas; 13 grandchildren, and nine great-grandchildren. He also has a family member, Warren Penn of Mount Vernon.
Pallbearers were Jon Anderson Floyd, Thomas Alan Floyd, Jim Edward Weddle, Jack Anderson Weddle, Eron Linn Cavazos and Jason Le. Honorary pallbearers were Dale Anderson Floyd, II, "Andy" and Robert Curtis Floyd.
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A matter of taste
Heather Corinna replies:Is there anything that can make me taste better down "there"? I know that pineapple is supposed to make it taste better but I'm allergic so thats not an option. My boyfriend doesn't complain or anything about the taste, and he will still go down on me but I want to make it as less gross for him as possible. Is there anything else I could start eating or taking that will make me taste better?
So long as you're in good general and sexual health, there's no reason your genitals WOULD taste bad. Too, giving you oral sex shouldn't be something you even need to worry about being gross for your boyfriend: if you're not pressuring him to do so, and he's willingly and with enjoyment engaging in oral sex with you, there's no reason to assume it's in any way gross.
Know, too, that as of now, absolutely none of the folk legends about eating this thing or that to change the taste of sexual fluids - especially vaginal fluids, which are rather different than sexual fluids from the penis -- have been proven as having any validity whatsoever. Rather than focusing on eating this wacky thing or that one, the better thing to do is to simply be sure that you're eating healthy foods and a balanced diet: that's even more important for your general health, which should take priority over fluid taste anyway.
The other thing to do is to just be sure to take good care of your sexual health and your genitals. Being sure to get those yearly gynecologist exams and STI screenings, which you need regdardless, can clue you in to if you're in sound sexual health or not. Often, when scent or taste is NOT right, it's because a person has an imbalance of infection, and often, when that's the case, you need treatment to safeguard your health, not just your taste or appearance. You can help prevent those infections by being sure to use gentle cleansers and only clean externally, avoid douching, wear undergarments made of natural fibers and you can also help out by ditching commercial tampons and switching to all cotton tampons, a menstrual cup or washable pads. And if you feel self-conscious before receptive oral sex, a shower or bath is also always an option.


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So Dean called me a few days ago and asked me how is awesome BBQ Sauce was selling and I told him that we needed to get the word out so I asked him for the Top % Unique uses of Dean's STS – Smokin' Texas Barbecue Sauce cooking sauce. Below is a collection of some of the comments he has gotten from his biggest fans on how they are spicing up their recipes.
Here are the Top 5 uses on some unique uses of Dean's STS – Smokin' Texas Barbecue Sauce as mentioned by current fans.
1. Vegetable Cooking Broth – Use 1 part sauce mixed with 1 part water and slowly simmer favorite vegetables as normal.
Compliments of V. Mills, resident of "Serenity"
2. Zesty Meatloaf – Substitute Dean's STS in place of the ketchup when called for in your favorite meatloaf recipe.
– Compliments of D. McCollough, Atlanta, GA
3. Tangier Homemade Pizza – Mix in "a good portion" of Dean's STS when creating the marinara sauce to be spread on pizza dough before baking.
– Compliments of G. Rygert, Marietta, GA
4. Ketchup Replacement – This stuff is the ultimate replacement for Ketchup, and is just awesome on burgers. Tangy flavor with just a kiss of heat.
5. Lechón baboy is just better – Dean's spouse hails from the island nation, Philippines. One of her homeland's treasured national foods is known at Lechón baboy, a spit-roasted whole hog, fired long and slow in a time honored tradition that results in supernaturally crisp teak-colored skin, yet fall-off-the-bone moist meat entrapped within the skin. We've had the local (there's only one here in the Atlanta area we know of) lechón maker add Dean's STS to the usual host of Asian spices that the hog is stuffed with before cooking, resulting in quite unique flavor combinations.
Dean's STS – Smokin' Texas Barbecue Sauce all natural is a deliberate antithesis of the stereotypical sweet-n-syrupy BBQ sauces found in the major retailers. Not a "boutique" sauce but we can tell you that Dean's Smokin' Texas BBQ Sauce is not the typical sauce found at your local grocer.


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Richard Karn: It's interesting that if you go back to the late 18th century, the dollar has been on the gold standard roughly the same amount of time it has been on the Federal Reserve System, which presents us with a wonderful opportunity to compare the dollar's purchasing power over time.
Throughout the 19th century with all of the booms and busts, the wars, and the incredible territorial and industrial expansions, the dollar maintained its purchasing power very well on the gold standard. Since 1914, when the U.S. went to the Federal Reserve System and especially since it has become a purely fiat currency system since closing the gold window in 1971, the dollar's purchasing power has collapsed. Under the Fed's administration, the dollar has lost well over 95% of its purchasing power.
We show this chart in our presentations, pointing out that the purchasing power of the dollar on the left scale is in log format while the GDP, M2/M3 and Public Debt figures are in linear format on the right scale. Our intention here is simply to highlight the explosion of nominal GDP, M2/M3 and Public Debt corresponds with the collapse of the real purchasing power of the dollar that attended the end of any pretense to adhering to a gold standard in 1971.
However, in order to dispel any accusations of bias, here is the same data in log format on both scales: the take-away is still that the explosion of nominal GDP, M2/M3 and Public Debt corresponds with the collapse of the real purchasing power of the dollar that attended the end of any pretense to adhering to a gold standard. If anything, to mathematicians the chart is even more damning.
While public awareness of this problem has grown steadily for 40 years, grassroots objection is just now reaching a critical mass, especially among the younger followers of presidential candidate Ron Paul. That is why Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, in reaching out to the next generation of leaders with his series of university lectures, is disingenuously making a point of damning the gold standard for its "volatility" while utterly dismissing the simple truth that at least on the gold standard the dollar retained its purchasing power over time, something the U.S. dollar under the Federal Reserve Bank's stewardship unequivocally has failed to do.
In 1914, the U.S. moved away from the gold standard and into a financial system based on debt and ever-increasing monetary inflation; the transition was completed in August 1971 when Nixon ended dollar convertibility into gold, and John Connelly famously told concerned European bankers, "it's our currency, but it's your problem."
What has emerged is a system under which people earn more nominal dollars of less real value, which disguises the loss of real purchasing power. For four decades, real wages have not kept up with the rate of inflation. Savings have been drawn down and the standard of living in the U.S. has declined. As a consequence, debt levels have soared.
The Fed is targeting inflation rates of 2% to 3% per year, which roughly equates to the inflation rate Americans experienced under the gold standard over the entirety of the ninteenth century. We have long suspected that this figure was chosen because the Fed believes that is the threshold people will tolerate being stolen from their paychecks without complaint. But 2% to 3% inflation compounded annually over the course of a 35- or 40-year working career amounts to a massive loss of purchasing power as well as fostering a false sense of security regarding one's financial situation.
This is a very sophisticated swindle, and all of the powers of government are being brought to bear in order to hide what they have done or to deflect blame, but they are increasingly being cornered by demographics. For most of their working careers, people are too busy earning a living and raising a family to take the time to monitor what monetary policy was doing to their life savings and the retirement they envisioned that they can no longer afford.
TGR: And now the largest wave of retirees in American history is about to have a nasty suprise?
RK: Exactly. Retiring Baby Boomers are discovering they have been duped and that their golden years have been confiscated by a government they believed was serving their interestsand this largest cohort of the population, as well as an increasing number of young people facing a very bleak future determined for them before they were born by deficit spending politicians and their social welfare programs that have simply run amokare saying "We're mad as hell, and we're not going to take it anymore."
I believe that when you see the radical left in America as manifested by the Occupy Wall Street movement marching right by the radical right in America as manifested by the Tea Party movement effectively mouthing the same slogans, and seeing their ranks swell with retiring Baby Boomers, change is at hand.
The United States has a history of reform, of "throwing the bums out," and we think it likely that time is at hand once again.
To be clear: we think this is a good thing, a cleansing thing, that will lead to better lives for the mass of Americans.
TGR: You dubbed the destructive course of fiat currencies and sovereign debt levels the "global pandemic of corruption" and suggested that if people want to grow wealth in a negative real-interest-rate environment they must speculate. But where?
RK: In a negative real-interest-rate environment, if you do nothing, you lose money because the purchasing power of your money is in perpetual decline. But where should you invest? At The Emerging Trends Report, we are students of history, and what is transpiring today is not newin fact, it has happened hundreds of times before, just not on a global scale. History tells us there has never been a successful fiat currencyevery single one has failed for exactly the reasons we are experiencing firsthand today. Over time, a fiat currency's purchasing power is utterly destroyed by politicians. So obviously, we like gold and silver, which we will come back to in a moment.
Under a fiat currency regime, the rubber always meets the road at real assets, particularly resources, which simply cannot be conjured with the stroke of a few computer keys.
First, we like oil and gas. If there are two aspects of the U.S. economy that still represent American innovation and entrepreneurial spirit, it is technology and the oil and gas industry, the latter of which is frequently overlooked as a technology play. America does oil and gas better than anybody else. Having natural gas at $2.50 per million BTUs may be the most important competitive advantage America has been legitimately afforded since World War II. It would be foolish not to take advantage of it, and we think the market will overcome the array of bureaucracies aligned against it.
Second, we like large, job-generating, economy-enhancing infrastructure projects, in particular oil and gas pipelines, the rebuilding of the North American electrical grid, and water and wastewater treatment plantsas well as the engineering and construction firms that will make it happen.
American politicians of all political stripes have neglected the maintenance, replacement and expansion of U.S. infrastructure for the better part of 30 years, preferring to kick the infrastructure can down the road while promoting pet vote-buying projects, but we have reached a point where that is no longer possiblewe've run out of road. We have gas lines exploding, massive sink holes or subsidence from water main leakage, and a rapidly increasing incidence of brown- and black-outs.
This infrastructure program will drive the third and most speculative theme: specialty metals, all of which are leveraged either to technological advance, or the base metals upon which a domestic infrastructure rebuild program will rely.
When the U.S. goes into the market for the materials to undertake this rebuild cycle, prices will take off because there is far less of these specialty metals available today than people realize, and they are harder and more expensive to extract, process and bring to market. The upside on these metals is truly stunning.
And of course, we like gold and silverthe ultimate anti-fiat currency.
TGR: You've spent a lot of time in Australia looking at precious and specialty metal projects. Tell us: the success of the Australian mining industry has helped raise the Australian dollar against the U.S. dollar. What effect is that having on the mining sector?
RK: First and foremost, it is undercutting the mining industry's profitability. Because gold and silver are priced in U.S. dollars, the Australian dollar, in which they incur operating expenses, is going up against the U.S. dollar, despite various
hedging strategies, profitability has not matched the increase in the price of gold or silver.
People in North America do not realize how difficult it is for small Australian companies to get financing. As a result, companies fund themselves by issuing shares. North American investors see an Australian company with half a billion shares out there, selling at $0.09, and they assume this is bad management, when in reality equity dilution is often a matter of not having another course available to them.
In response to the prolonged dearth of financing, which actually predates the global financial crisis, we are starting to see more medium and large companies buying smaller companies with good deposits with equity, or company scripthe corporate equivalent of fiat currency. I believe we will see an acceleration in this trend over the next 18 months with premiums ranging from 30% to 70%.
The problem for the acquiring medium and large companies will be how much equity dilution their shareholders will tolerate before there is a backlash.
TGR: Do you particularly like gold companies in this regard?
RK: Absolutely. This trend is especially prevalent in the Australian gold sector.
TGR: Have there been any recent discoveries in Australia that have investors and the mining sector excited?
RK: I'd say over the course of the last year Northern Star Resources Ltd. (NST:AUX) and Gold Road Resources Ltd. (GOR:ASX) have probably caused the most excitement. We plan to visit both soon. Gold Road has what may prove to be a whole new gold region called the Yamarna Belt, north of the Tropicana project in Western Australia. We also want to take a look at Silver Lake Resources Ltd. (SLR:TSX), Ramelius Resources Ltd. (RMS:ASX), which is the highest grade gold mine in Australia, Alacer Gold Corp. (ASR:TSX), and dozens of others.
In fact, we'll be spending the majority of the next 18 months in Western Australia to do exactly that.
TGR: Your newsletter has a bias for historic gold producers. Can you give us some names?
RK: I'll give you two with interesting stories. The first is Morning Star Gold NL (MCO:ASX), a narrow vein gold mine at Woods Point in Victoria. Western Mining ran it for 25 years, and took out 25,000 to 28,000 tons of ore each year, grading 27 grams of gold per ton (g/t). Then it stopped production, not because the grade was declining or they were running out of ore but because the fixed price of gold was undermining profitability, and management decided to go chase nickel during the Poseidon Boom in the 1960sthey simply closed all six of their eastern gold mines.
After overcoming a host of obstacles, management has been very good at communicating with shareholders on its website. Morning Star has finally concluded the majority of its capital spend and has brought the mine back into productionalbeit more slowly than anticipated. It has a 900,000-ounce (oz) resource with considerable exploration upside.
It's been a "hard slog" for the Morningstar crew, but things are finally coming together. It is building toward production on multiple fronts and drilling on a couple of new reefs. One interesting anomaly Morningstar is experiencing as it resumes production is that it is finding that the final ore grade reconciliations differ from the on-site estimations, often coming in 24 times higher, which is consistent with historic production and should be reassuring for shareholders.
While the Morning Star mine itself will be profitable, I think the upside for shareholders will be found in the myriad historic sites spread over its 200 square kilometers of tenements in the Woods Points region. Historically, mining operations throughout the Jamieson-Walhalla Synclinorium lacked the capital to operate below the weathered zone of the countless dykes in the region. Of the hundreds of mines that were sunk in the region, only three raised sufficient capital to go below the water table with mechanization. So Morningstar has all of these targets where gold was found and extracted, but only very superficially, which we think presents a remarkable opportunity.
TGR: What are the cash cost projections?
RK: I think the company is using $750/oz all-in cash costs.
TGR: Do you think that is on the high side?
RK: No. There is a lot of fancy footwork being employed in annual reports in the gold sector. When I say all-in costs, I mean everything, including administration and exploration. I wouldn't be surprised if the all-in cost of gold production industry-wide right now is really in the vicinity of $1,000/oz.
TGR: And the second name?
RK: Cortona Resources Ltd. (CRC:ASX), which is developing Dargues Reef, located about 60 kilometers (km) east of Canberra, the Australian capital. The large tenement package Cortona controls encompasses the majority of the sites of the biggest gold rush in New South Wales history, during which miners recovered 1.2 million ounces (Moz) of alluvial gold.
Dargues Reef may be the source, or one of the sources, of all that alluvial gold, the literal motherlode, but because of the remoteness at the time and the processing technology of the day, old-timers were unable to mine Dargues Reef economically.
Cortona has come up with a very good, and very unusual resource, in that it has an unusual uniformity grade of 7.4 g/t. To date, Cortona has also found two other geological formations exactly like Dargues Reef, which may create tremendous upside.
This is the first new gold mine to be permited in New South Wales in more than seven years and represents no mean feat. Cortona's management has been actively engaged with the community and environmental groups for a number of years, and I think they really should be applauded for their efforts. If Cortona finds the source of that 1.2 Moz of alluvial gold, it will be opening up a new gold field in New South Wales of all places, one of the more populated areas in Australia.
TGR: Do you expect issues with permitting a bigger operation?
RK: One of the "nice" things, from an environmental point of view, about an underground narrow vein operation is that it has a very small environmental footprint. In the case of Dargues Reef, about half of the gold will be recovered by simple, unthreatening gravity separation, and the remaining concentrate will be trucked to a carbon in leach (CIL) plant 400km away.
TGR: Do you have any parting thoughts on precious metals in Australia?
RK: Australia is a safe country. It has very good miners and very good geology. We see an absolute wall of money headed Australia's way at some point because the worse the sovereign debt and sovereign risk issues get, the more people will pay a premium for safe countries in which to operate. That pretty much sums it up.
TGR: Richard, thank you for your time.
RK: It's been a pleasure.
Richard Karn, managing editor of The Emerging Trends Report, has a broad, multi-disciplinary background, industry contacts, and a working knowledge of these metals as well as considerable research, analytical and writing experience pertaining to them. His firm has published nine Emerging Trends Reports, which were updated in the aftermath of the global financial crisis and published in the form of an eBook, Credit & Credibility. For more than two years The Emerging Trends Report has been conducting a boots-on-the-ground survey of Australian precious and specialty metal projects. If you would be interested in participating in the exciting venture, please contact Karn at [email protected].
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1) Brian Sylvester of The Gold Report conducted this interview. He personally and/or his family own shares of the following companies mentioned in this interview: None.
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3) Richard Karn: I personally and/or my family own shares of the following companies mentioned in this interview: Morning Star Gold NL, Cortona Resources Ltd. I personally and/or my family am paid by the following companies mentioned in this interview: None. I was not paid by Streetwise Reports for participating in this story.


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With the breaking story that Pope Benedict would be reinstating excommunicated Bishop Richard Williamson, an avowed holocaust denier, Jewlarious's crack investigative team (four men in chicken suits driving around in a 1961Chevelle) flew to the Vatican to dig deeper. Shortly after their arrival, Pope Benedict decreed that in order to rejoin the church, Bishop Williamson would need to publicly disavow statements including those he made last month to a Swedish newspaper: "There was not one Jew killed by the gas chambers." Jewlarious' investigative team has been patiently waiting for his apology and was fortunate to receive an advance copy of it, should he ever choose to read it:
"Dear Jews: I want to make it clear that I had always been planning to make this statement on this day and that it is completely coincidental that I am making it now that I am being reinstated as a Bishop, after a forty year exile. I have now reconsidered (note to self: hold up the rabbit ears when I say 'reconsidered') my views and I must say that if the Bishop job is still open, I am really sorry and was completely wrong, but if it was filled, then I still believe that Jews have been fabricating all aspects of the holocaust.
If the Bishop job is still open, I'm really sorry, but if it was filled, I still believe the Jews have fabricated the holocaust.
Furthermore, I categorically deny any accusations that I have tinkered with my Facebook page as a public relations ploy. My Facebook status has always been, "Shalom means hello, goodbye AND peace? How cool is that?!" and I frequently rotate my profile picture between a hilarious picture of Mel Gibson on the set of the "Passion" and one of my favorite Jewesses, that delightful Deborah Messing. (May want to emphatically add: 'You should have seen Messing in "the Wedding Date"! Her parents have so much naches!'). I have been chatting with my good friend, convicted holocaust denier Ernst Zundel, and he and I both wonder if Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is behind these allegations. (See how the crowd is reacting, may want to offer a compliment: 'By the way, congrats on Zuckerberg – way to consolidate your control of the media, Jews!')
I have started my research into the issues and I must admit that I initially found myself confused as to how the same people who are powerful enough to control the world's banks suffered such a great tragedy. Now, I realize the cabal of Jewish bankers that lives underground and controls the global money are simply too busy manipulating stock markets and creating recessions for sport. Also, as part of my research, I recently decided to speak with Pope Benedict, who shared a few stories with me about his time in the Hitler Youth. If the Pope himself was a member of Hitler Youth, who am I to deny the holocaust? (For emphasis add the following line and maybe do your Seinfeld impersonation: "I mean, he's the pope! The pope!") Finally, I must admit that I am recanting to appease the Jews who are still – and I want to emphasize that I know it is not all of you so that no one accuses me of being anti-Semitic--- drinking Christian blood on Passover. Sorry, I have a nephew to worry about.
If the Pope himself was a member of Hitler Youth, who am I to deny the holocaust?
Anyway, I want to apologize to all of those that I have hurt, especially the many excommunicated Bishops out there, who will now be under closer scrutiny. To all of my fans, who stuck through me during the last forty years, I want to say, I am deeply sorry for my old views that the holocaust was a hoax or my new views that it is not a hoax, depending on what is pragmatic for me at this time or how you feel at this time."


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I have a horizontal drain pipe running from my kitchen/laundry area, which I had been unclogging with a metal coat hanger.
The end was screw fittings I could remove myself, but the part that the hanger is stuck in seems to be cemented together.
I can pull it out so far, but the hook I fashioned on the end seems to be sticking on one of the joins.
Any suggestions on how I could remove it without taking the pipe off or calling a plumber?


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There was this one lady that bought a jar of pickles every week .So she puts the pickle in the hole on her floor and starts humping it then the mailman rings the doorbell and she gets up, kicks the pickle and gets the mail. The next day she does the same thing and screws the pickle. The mailman waits everyday, so he looks in the window and sees her screwing the pickle then he rings the doorbell.
The next day he gets a substitute to do his routes. So he goes in the lady's basement and paints his dick green. When she put the pickle in he takes it out and sticks his dick in and the lady doesn`t know it`s not the pickle so she just screws it. Later on the substitute mailman rings the doorbell and then the lady kicks the pickle and gets the mail.


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April 2004 Meeting Minutes
From the President
The IYHA 2003 – 2004 season has come to a close. I hope everyone had an enjoyable season. Take some time off, enjoy your family, and have fun doing "warm weather" sports—water skiing, golf, baseball, softball, soccer, etc. Do a little bit of training during the summer to prepare for the Fall – dryland, skating, conditioning, etc.
Remember to do the survey. If you have not received one, contact your team manager.
Thanks for a great season!
Brad DeKanick, President
From the Vice President:
Volunteers are so important and we need to thank those who worked at the D2 regional tournament on March 1, 4 & 5: Mike Nundahl, Steve Kracht, Mike Zosel, Jeff Kueng, John Eide, Becky Ewing, Jeanne Falconer, Pat O'Connor, Mark Mohar, Randy Bortot, Antony Petkov, Kathy Peterson, Mike Rundle, Dan Beeson, Jon Morgan, Bev Roback, Niki Gjere, Rob Kolstad and Brad DeKanick.
By completely filling our assigned volunteer slots and by showing up on time, IYHA continues to have a positive reputation with D2. And in the case of the D2 tournament, we did not get fined.
Thank you again for your volunteer hours!
Jeanne Falconer, Vice President
Happenings of IYHA:
Mite 2 Team:
The Mite 2 team got to meet Marc Chouinard # 32 and sign autographs, talk, and skate at the EXCEL Center! Thanks to the hard work of Kyle Mason and Family. Kyle was one of two children to win "Play with the Wild" sponsored by Fox Sports. Thanks again to the Mason family they convinced the Wild to allow all 32 Mite 2 children to attend this session at Excel Energy Center on 2/24/04.
Bantam A Team:
The players were the "stand ins" for the All Stars! They skated through the practice for the introductions at the Excel Center bright and early! Congratulations for being chosen to do this!
Irondale Squirt A takes 2nd place in the Twin City Festival
The Irondale Squirt A team played hard for 6 straight nights in the Twin City Festival which was held at Edison Arena. On February 27, Friday the boys started out with Como and won 4-3; Saturday they lost to Johnson 3-1; Sunday they won Southwest 2-1; Monday they won Richfield, which ended in a shoot out, 4-3; on Tuesday they won Highland 2-1; and finally on Wednesday they lost to Johnson 4-2. They took second place for the Twin City Festival. These boys played with their hearts, their love of the game and never gave up. Congratulations to the SQUIRT A team.
From the Girls Coordinator, Chris Tahti.
Another season has passed us by and both coaches and parents are providing glowing reports regarding the progress of our programs. The U12's spent much of the season in the state rankings, something we have not seen around here in a while. The U10's, for the first time ever, fielded two teams. Both teams made great strides and ended the season on an upbeat note. Steve has a handful of girls ready to move into the ranks next year so development is occurring within the program as well.
Along those lines, the Girls program celebrated the season's end together on March 7th at Ridder arena. A concerted effort will be made to inform the athletes of all the opportunities for the summer to further develop their skills. We are planning two sessions of Try Girls Hockey; one in late March and one around the start of the school year. Everyone from IYHA is encouraged to spread the word about the Girls Program and help the program grow in numbers so we can continue to provide a quality experience for the athletes. Have your athletes show up to these sessions with a friend. Come as parents to spread the word to others about how hockey has impacted your daughter's life.
The Girls coaches have met for an initial planning meeting regarding next season. We developed a common understanding about how to approach the season and the future of our programs. A couple of items to share at this point: first, all coaches will fill out an evaluation of each of their athletes. This will give the athlete an understanding of where they are in relation to their peers, what their strengths are and what they need to give further attention to this off season. It will also provide next year's coaches with a head start in understanding the needs of their teams, both as individual athletes and as a team unit. Second, we are intent on fielding a U14 team under the Irondale banner next season. The foundation of a team is there, through recruiting and finding players to waiver in, we should be in good shape. Third, we are committed to developing our teams to be as competitive as possible. When we have athletes who "play up", this can dilute both teams affected. Therefore, "playing up" will be handled on a case by case basis with the consensus of all coaches involved, the ACE coordinator, and the Girls Program Coordinator. In short, "playing up" to fill team slots is not good for either team involved.
Congratulations to our athletes on a great year, your hard work was quite evident on the ice. To our coaches, thank you for your dedication to the athletes. I have witnessed your energy, your work ethic and the amount of time you spend on our children. You are truly the best in the business. And finally, to Sally Sawyer, you have built a solid foundation here. Thank you for all the time and effort you gave to IYHA, we are all better off because of your effort!
We are going to have a Try Girls Hockey session at the Super Rink on March 31. Please spread the word to all teams that this is one of two sessions we will have in order to recruit players into our program. Each girl is asked to bring at least one friend to the rink and spend some time skating with them, as well as going through some formal drills and activities organized by the coaches. The second session will happen around the start of the school year. Parents are also invited to help spread the good word in the stands. They are asked to make themselves available to answer questions to the "new" parents in the stands as this is usually the best recruitment tool in our toolbox.
Details: March 31, Super Rink (Coon Rapids rink) 7-8pm. Details are getting to the local papers, cable TV shows and bulletin boards and a flier is being developed for the elementary schools in the area. This is for all levels of the organization as it is never too late to start hockey!
Often we have questions asking about what kinds of camps are available during the summer. We have Association members that run camps during the summer. They are listed here in alphabetical order:
John Donovan:
Tadd Tuomie: www.superrink.org
There have been several teams that have sponsors for their teams. These are listed below.
This part of the newsletter will continue throughout the rest of the IYHA season. Please notify Niki Gjere of any additions or corrections. (Please forward information about websites and addresses, etc.)
Many thanks to our sponsors!
Pee Wee B Team:
**John Bailey—our goalie Beau's Dad**
**Victor Kretsch, Quality Post Service (Zach Ewing's Grandpa)**
**Mike Bridgeman**
Girls 10U Maroon Team:
**Champp's New Brighton**
**Real Estate Appraisers (the Slipka's)**
**Fuji-Ya Restaurant (the Hanson's**)
Girls 10U Gold Team:
**Razor's Edge, New Brighton**
**New Brighton Sportsmen's Club**
Once again, many, many thanks to our sponsors!
Please support them! When you see them, please tell them you are from Irondale Youth Hockey!
The Board of the Lake Region Hockey Association meets on the third Tuesday of every month at various locations. If you are interested in attending the next meeting, please call Gayle Goben at 651-638-9756.
All IYHA Board Meetings are open meetings.
Please feel free to come to the meetings, which are held at the Mounds View City Hall in Conference Room C. Also, if you wish to have a copy of any information which is distributed at the meeting, please email or call Niki and it will be mailed to you. Upcoming dates for Board meetings:
Wednesday, April 21, 2004 (Annual Meeting)
Wednesday, May 19, 2004
Wednesday, June 23, 2004
Wednesday, July 21, 2004
Wednesday, August 18, 2004
Wednesday, September 22, 2004
Wednesday, October 20, 2004
Wednesday, November 17, 2004
Wednesday, December 15, 2004
NOTE: If you wish to be on the agenda for the meeting, please contact Brad DeKanick.
We have several Board of Directors positions that are due for election this year. The elections are held in April 2004 at our Annual Election meeting. Listed below are the positions that are due for election and a description for that position. If you are interested, you must contact one of the members of the Nominating Committee (Brad DeKanick, Pat O'Connor, or Niki Gjere.) All candidates for positions must submit a brief statement of interest for the newsletter which will be printed in April.
Thank you!
Positions due for election this year:
Vice President (2 year term, even years)
1. In the absence of the President, assume presidential duties as outlined above.
2. Secure IYHA sponsors as necessary.
3. Direct and / or delegate powers for fund raising efforts.
4. Direct and / or delegate powers for liaison activities between the IYHA and external businesses (i.e. team photographs, marketing companies, companies making donations, etc.)
5. Primary conduit for communication between the IYHA and teams via team managers.
Treasurer (2 year term, even years)
1. Collect and maintain all data on expenses and income for the Association. This will be used for budgeting and planning.
2. Report in writing, on a monthly basis, to the Board of Directors, the financial position of the organization.
3. Have custody of all funds of the Association and keep accurate records of receipts and expenditures.
4. Issues checks on IYHA accounts as directed by the Board.
5. Prepare and distribute monthly bills to all teams (via team treasurers).
6. Be primary conduit to team treasures on all billing / expense matters.
7. Provide information to auditor for annual report.
8. Provide all information to the auditor for tax preparation.
Board Positions:
Minnesota Hockey District Representative (3 year term; 2004, 2007, 2010, 2013)
1. Represent the IYHA and its interests at all District meetings.
2. Be primary conduit to the Association from District. Insure all District rules / regulations have been communicated and are being met by the Association.
Ice Commissioner (3 year term; 2004, 2007, 2010, 2013)
1. Acquire the ice team for all teams within the Association.
2. Facilitate with the Program Coordinators the equitable assignment of all ice teams across all teams and levels of the Association.
3. Schedule warm-up and try-out ice.
4. Will provide a master ice schedule to the Treasurer in a timely manner to facilitate team billing.
Equipment Manager (3 year term; 2004, 2007, 1010, 2013)
1. Maintain appropriate numbers of equipment / jerseys for the entire Association (including goalie equipment) as directed by the Board.
2. Repair or replace unusable equipment as directed by the Board.
3. Insure equipment meets the safety needs / standards set by the District and the Association.
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