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"This is war," declared Paulo Assunçao. Well, nearly. Saturday night, 10pm. Deportivo de La Coruña versus Valencia and Depor's new signing was pulling on his armour, ready to go into battle. "My team-mates have told me what the rivalry's all about and it's going to be nearly a war," he said. "These games are always hot," agreed the Depor striker Riki. Meanwhile, one headline warned: "The enemy at the gates." By road La Coruña and Valencia are 1,033km apart, 10 hours across the country, northwest corner to east coast, 350km south of the French border, but still: when they meet, it matters. Especially to the Galicians.
It all started in 1994, when Deportivo were competing for their first ever league title. Opponents Valencia had nothing to play for – except, it later emerged, a win bonus from Barcelona, 50 million pesetas to be collected at the road-side. Deportivo, the neutral's favourite and universally liked, got a last-minute penalty. Score and they would be champions; miss and … well, it did not bare thinking about. Bebeto did not want to take it; the pressure was huge. Miroslav Djukic did not really want to either but did. He looked absolutely terrified, which was probably because he was absolutely terrified. It was an abysmal penalty. Pathetic, weak. José Luis González Vázquez saved it easily.
There should have been something apologetic about it. Instead, the keeper leapt to his feet clenching his fists, a richer man but a poorer man too. At the other end stood Deportivo's goalkeeper Francisco Liaño: "Arrieros somos y en el camino nos encontraremos", he warned. We are muleteers and our paths will cross. They did. When they met in the league the following season, fake bank notes were thrown from the Riazor stands. And then Deportivo beat Valencia in the final of the Copa del Rey – famously played over two days after a hailstorm interrupted play. "That revenge was sweet," Liaño recalled.
Meanwhile, something else was starting to happen. Deportivo and Valencia were competing to become the league's other team, genuinely big clubs. Deportivo did win the league in 2000. The previous year, Valencia had won the Copa del Rey. In a six-year spell, between them they won three league titles, two Cups, three Spanish Super Cups and had two Pichichis, plus two runners-up places, two Champions League final appearances and a semi-final, and a Uefa Cup. Deportivo took the Cup off the galácticos on their 100th birthday and in their own stadium; Valencia took the league off them. Twice. Depor and Valencia were the alternative. Real contenders.
Were. The last time they met at Riazor, Valencia sent Deportivo down to the second division, two decades later. Another episode in the rivalry perhaps, even if this time there was something apologetic about Valencia's players as they embraced their tearful opponents on the final whistle, but more proof that the days of Super Depor were long gone. This weekend, with Depor having returned to the first division, the same fate hangs over them: Deportivo started the day bottom. Meanwhile, it is coming up to five years since Valencia won anything. Sure, they have been third three years in a row, but each time they were mathematically closer to relegation than the title.
In the last seven years, they have won only one trophy between them – and the year that Valencia won the Cup, they spent much of the season fighting the drop.
Worse, this weekend they came into their Riazor reencounter in financial trouble, with Deportivo's president in the eye of the storm and Valencia's president taking tranquillisers an hour before kick-off, as he now does every week. Now, that may not sound new. For some time now, Depor's president has talked about a "war economy" and everybody knows that Valencia have two stadiums: one that they cannot afford to finish building and one that they have not been able to sell. Valencia could not even give the stadium away: Bankia had agreed to wipe out the club's €200m debt with them in return for the land but the deal feel through when Bankia itself needed bailing out by the state. But this is new; this time it is worse.
Enemy at the gates? More like through the gates, down the hall, into the drawing room and leaning back on a leather arm chair by the fire, swirling a brandy in one hand and holding a huge cigar with the other, lit with a €500 bill, while the building crumbles around them.
Just hours before Deportivo and Valencia faced each other on Saturday night, the first conference of the FASFE, the Spanish fans' association linked to Supporters' Direct, closed in Madrid. A survey carried out by the group showed that 96% of Spanish football fans are unhappy with the way that football is run. Over 50% are unhappy at the way their own club is run.
Deportivo and Valencia are not alone but their situation has been brought into sharp focus. They have become rivals on the news pages, not just the sports ones. Over the last 10 days, Valencia have been taken over by the local government, who are now looking for a buyer – someone, anyone – and Deportivo have gone into voluntary administration. The same voluntary administration their president, Augusto César Lendoiro, described as a "disgrace" when others did it.
Valencia's debt stands at €387m and that is on its way down from the €550m racked up by previous president Juan Soler, football's very own Brian Potter. Deportivo's admitted debt, meanwhile, stands at €93m, their squad and now even their bench occupied by clients of Jorge Mendes.
Valencia have been taken over by the regional government – who, having ploughed in more than €110m, also own controlling stakes in Hércules and Elche and sponsored Villarreal via Castellón airport – an airport where no planes have ever taken off or landed – after they defaulted on an interest payment. Deportivo have filed for administration, which – and here's the trick – carries no sporting penalty, after they finally admitted that they could not satisfy their debts and found their income embargoed by the state. They owe money to more than 200 institutions, companies and people. Including €107,000 to a restaurant in La Coruña even though the club owns a restaurant that was granted a Michelin star.
Not one of Deportivo's players is up to date on pay and they still owe Albert Luque €2.1m. He left seven years ago. Over at Valencia, David Villa, Juan Mata and David Silva are long gone and continued sales are inevitable, even with a budget that makes the assumption that they will reach next season's Champions League. If they do not, and they currently have Málaga, Betis and Rayo ahead of them, the decomposition will continue at even greater pace. If Deportivo are relegated again, their capacity for generating money will be hit hard: typically a relegated team can expect the money they make from TV rights to drop from €15-20m down to €2m.
Amongst the few players for whom Valencia can expect to get good money is Roberto Soldado. But he was missing this weekend through injurey. And even the date and time is not what it was: Saturday night at 10pm used to mean the weekend's biggest game, free-to-air for everyone. No more. Some rivalry.
And yet … and yet, on Saturday night, it turned out rather well. To borrow Riki's word, it was "hot". And so was he: he scored twice, the second a beauty, cutting inside from the left. Bernat, coming on in the second half for Valencia, was even better. Or maybe Manuel Pablo was just what Manuel Pablo is: a 36-year-old full-back who can no longer run very fast. Riazor was packed and noisy. There were great saves and lovely touches – one gorgeous bit of ball control from Ever Banega sticks in the mind. There was a goal in the first minute, a goal in the last minute, and five over all. Valencia took the lead, Deportivo took it back, Valencia equalised. And then in the 92nd minute, Ricardo Costa scored the winner. 3-2 to Valencia. Depor slipped to four points from safety; four points from their original rivals, Celta de Vigo. "Valencia again," lamented one headline.
When the goal went in Deportivo's players crumpled to the floor; soon one of Valencia's did. By then, Depor were down to 10 men. From the kick-off, they were down to nine. It turns out that Assunçao was right; he took his team-mates' word for it. His first game, his first red card. "Almost a war." The game resolved, defeat confirmed, the ball in Deportivo's possession, he was sent off for clothes-lining Nelson Valdez. Just for old time's sake.
Talking points
• Oh, Leo, you sneaky little cheat. Another day, another phone call. "How many this week, Ron?" "Three?" "OK, then." And so it was that Cristiano Ronaldo scored a hat-trick for Real Madrid as they defeated Getafe 4-0 at the Bernabéu, before making way for a substitute, job done. And so it was that Leo Messi scored a hat-trick for Barcelona. Only he did not make way. Instead, the cheeky scamp stayed on the pitch … and scored a fourth. This week they meet again (yes, again). It's the Copa del Rey semi-final first leg at the Bernabéu. Barcelona meet Madrid for the fourth time this season with two more games guaranteed. And, Champions League permitting, maybe two more on top of that (By the way: the second leg, in another demonstration of organisational genius, is not for a month).
• Dear Atlético Madrid fans: sorry about that. They lost 3-0 at Athletic Bilbao. It was probably the best Athletic have played all season. Fast, open, direct. And capped off with a brilliant counter-attacking goal, sweeping from one penalty area to the other.
• Dear Betis fans: sorry about that. Gah. Betis have a brilliant season, play lovely football under a fascinating coach and climb into a Champions League place. Perfect. Only, it is not. Not quite. First, they stick them on a bloody Monday, too late. But not to worry because then they head to Madrid; the team with the best away record in the league after Barcelona. This column gets all excited and goes to watch them, to talk to them, and to write all about them and how bloody good they are. So what happens? They get hammered, of course. Mind you, Rayo were superb again: it finished 3-0 and Delibasic's goal might even be the best so far this season, played out only metres away. Betis had two memorable shots: one which cracked a team-mate in the head and one which sailed over the bar … and over the wall at the end of the ground. Yes, this wall.
• Mallorca used to attack a little and win a lot. This weekend they attacked a lot – 23 shots to Málaga's five – and lost. Joaquín Caparrós (Dear Mallorca fans, etc and so on) may not hold on to his job very much longer.
Results: Celta 1-1 Real Sociedad, Levante 2-1 Valladolid, Zaragoza 0-0 Espanyol, Deportivo 2-3 Valencia, Real Madrid 4-0 Getafe, Rayo 3-0 Betis, Barcelona 5-1 Osasuna, Athletic 3-0 Atlético, Mallorca 2-3 Málaga. Tonight's game: Sevilla-Granada.


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(CNN) - Fentanyl is the most commonly used drug involved in overdoses, beating out heroin as the deadliest drug in the United States.
The synthetic opioid fentanyl was linked to nearly 29 percent of all overdoses in 2016, according to a report released Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics.
That means in 2016, 18,000 people died due to fentanyl overdoses.
The report says the rate of drug overdoses involving the drug that killed Prince rose by more than 100% each year between 2013 and 2016.
"Fentanyl is so deadly, in the geographic regions where it's been flooding in, deaths soared like we've never seen before," said Dr. Andrew Kolodny, co-founder of Physicians for Responsible Opioid Prescribing.
Overdoses caused by heroin, also an opioid, increased significantly over the six years studied, tripling between 2011 and 2016.
It was the second deadliest drug in 2016, contributing to almost 16,000 deaths or 25 percent of all overdoses.
While the emphasis of the drug overdose crisis has been on opioids, the CDC study found that cocaine-and methamphetamine-related deaths also increased in the same time frame.
From 2011 to 2016, cocaine was consistently the second or third most commonly used drug, while the rate of deaths involving methamphetamines tripled.
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Doctors: Cold can worsen asthma, spread flu
That cold air sending a chill through your bones isn't going anywhere for the next several days. And doctors in the region said the frigid weather can have serious health consequences.
Temperatures in Stamford and the surrounding areas aren't expected to rise above the mid-20s until Sunday, when they are supposed to reach 30 degrees, according to the National Weather Service. On Thursday, the anticipated high is 20 degrees, but the wind chill will make it feel like minus-6 degrees.
There's also snow expected on Friday.
All those shivering temperatures could be hard on your health, according to some medical experts, as the cold could provide a hospitable environment for certain viruses -- including the flu.
"When the weather is cold like this, the air is very dry and viruses tend to survive better," said Louise Dembry, associate director of hospital epidemiology at Yale-New Haven Hospital.
That can include flu, which is having a boom season in Connecticut and nationwide. Last week, the state Health Department reported there were nearly 2,500 confirmed cases of the flu so far this season, more than double what the state saw in the entire season last year, when there were 1,083 confirmed cases.
Dembry and others said the recent run of brisk weather could speed the spread of flu -- because we tend to spend more time indoors.
When you're in an enclosed space with the heat on and in close contact with other people and their germs, "you're kind of creating a little microcosm for flu to perpetuate," said Frank Scifo, medical director of the St. Vincent's Medical Center multispecialty group.
To help keep flu, colds and other viruses from spreading, experts advise washing hands frequently, cover your mouth when coughing or sneezing and avoiding those with symptoms.
More InformationKeeping your cool Tips from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on staving off cold-weather health concerns: Eat well-balanced meals. Don't drink alcoholic beverages or those with caffeine, as they can cause the body to lose heat more rapidly. Instead, drink warm, sweet beverages or broth to help maintain body temperature. Dress warmly when outdoors. Wear a hat, scarf, sleeves that are snug at the wrist, mittens, a water-resistant coat and boots, and several layers of loose-fitting clothes. Cold weather puts strain on the heart. Those with heart disease or high blood pressure should consult a doctor about shoveling snow or performing other hard work in the cold. Dress warmly and work slowly while doing chores outside. Many cold-weather injuries result from falls on ice-covered sidewalks, steps, driveways and porches. Keep steps and walkways as free of ice as possible by using rock salt or other de-icers.
"The main thing, when it comes to any illness, is to limit your exposure," said Adam Pearl, chief of the ear, nose and throat department of Bridgeport Hospital.
Pearl said the key times for hand-washing are before eating, after using the bathroom and when coming in from outside. Scrubbing up then should help to limit the spread of disease, he said.
Bitter temperatures could also exacerbate chronic conditions, such as asthma or heart trouble.
"Certainly, inhaling cold, dry winter air can be a trigger for certain respiratory problems," Scifo said.
That includes asthma. This week, in reaction to the icy weather, the Naugatuck Valley Health District sent out a fact sheet warning residents of the link between cold weather and asthma. According to the district, cold weather, along with winter sports such as sledding, skiing and skating can trigger or worsen asthma symptoms.
The district recommends wearing a scarf over your mouth and nose to help warm the air you inhale.
The cold can also be tough on those with heart problems, Scifo said. Blood vessels can constrict when it's cold, causing blood pressure to go up and the heart to work harder. That's part of the reason why doctors always advise that you not overdo it when shoveling snow, particularly when your body isn't used to a lot of exertion.
Last but not least, frostbite is a major cold-related health concern, particularly among the elderly. Scifo said older people are more sensitive to the cold and need to be careful to bundle up before venturing out into winter weather.
"They may not even realize how cold it is and could expose themselves to conditions that could cause frostbite," Scifo said.
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Nobel literature prize winner Herta Mueller grew up in Romania. She spoke German at home, and Romanian at school. As a result her writing is infused with mixed metaphors. Not as in "he careened between lovers till his private life went completely off the rails." No, Mueller's metaphors are linguistically mixed. She connects Romanian images and metaphors with German ones. That's what she did with the title of one of her novels: Hertztier (which literally means "heart animal"). That's an invented German word with roots in a piece of Romanian wordplay. The Romanian for heart is inimă and for animal is animală — the words sound quite similar. In German, hertz and tier don't sound at all similar. That suggests that in every language, thoughts and ideas cluster uniquely and somewhat randomly. Yet if, like Mueller, you're bilingual, you're more likely to transpose word clusters, punning and otherwise, from one language to the next . Of course, by the time an expression like inimă-animală is translated into English (via German) it loses resonance and meaning. Which is why translator Michael Hoffman avoided it completely. He called the novel The Land of Green Plums.
Also, a conversation with Harry Campbell, the author of Whatever Happened to Tanganika? The Place Names that History Left Behind. This interview is long and full of infamous, and some less well-known, episodes from colonial history. Typically, colonists like to leave their mark in the form of a place or two, whether they were British imperial officers, unscrupulous Belgians or Soviet true believers. The names, of course, rarely stick. Local populations have a healthy disrespect for the monikers of their former masters. But this leaves some people nostalgic for the old names, and others wondering what those names, and their replacements, reveal. I'm struck by how important place names are to people, even in cases where people have never visited the name in question. Much of comes down to power and influence. And occasionally, money. A shorter version of the interview ran on The World's regular broadcast; it generated a ton of posts and comments. Post your own at this site or here.
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Jamaican actor wows Broadway - Wins solo festival award
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Sebastien Heins is a young Jamaican actor who got his first break several years ago as a child star playing 'Simba' in the Toronto production of the musical The Lion King, one of the most successful theatrical productions of all time.
Heins, now 23, is currently in New York City and, on Wednesday night, he wowed a large audience on Broadway with a sizzling one-man show called Brotherhood: The Hip Hopera, written and performed by him and directed by Adam Lazarus.
Heins' performance forms part of New York City's third annual United Solo Festival, a six-week multicultural theatrical event that presents one-person performances in the heart of the city's theatre district.
This festival describes itself as the largest of its kind in the world.
To top things off, Heins then went on to win an award for Best Emerging Artiste at the festival on Sunday night.
With non-stop, high-energy dancing, miming, rapping, and singing, Brotherhood: The Hip Hopera tells a compelling story in rhyme about the unlikely journey of two brothers who were deeply immersed in hip hop and R&B music, about how they were torn from each other and the circumstances that brought them back together again.
The entire show is written in rhyme with cleverly crafted lyrics utilising the genres of hip hop and R & B as well as elements of reggae and dancehall.
The one-hour production presents like a long music video spanning 60 years, taking the audience from the present to the 1970s, then fast forwarding 30 years into the future.
Heins, of course, plays several roles and is able to successfully pull this off by drawing on all the skills acquired at the National Theatre School of Canada in Montreal where he studied.
Immensely helpful, too, is his impeccable dexterity at changing voices.
Heins is the son of a Jamaican mother, Shella Roye Heins from Savanna-la-Mar, and a German father.
The play was inspired by Sebastien's two cousins in Jamaica and, as the saga unfolds, it feels very much like a love letter to his Jamaican roots. Brotherhood: The Hip Hopera is seasoned with many warm-hearted references to Jamaica. The production is an uncompromisingly bold and supremely entertaining excursion into the often perilous realm of one-man shows.
Among those attending were hot-shot Broadway producer Stephen Byrd, actors Charmaine Lord, Susan Brady, Colin Mercer, Noah Reid and Taylor Murphy. Also enjoying the performance were marketing executive Noel Mignott; his wife Ava Joy Gill, former Miss Jamaica and Miss World runner-up; travel specialist Sylvia Delvaille Jones, and Nancy Burke, visiting from Jamaica.
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Breaking: The CW back in business with 'Gilmore' girl Amy Sherman-Palladino
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It's not a Gilmore Girls movie but it's pretty much the next best thing: The CW has picked up an hour-long drama pilot from Gilmore creator Amy Sherman-Palladino and exec producer Dan Palladino. Dubbed the Untitled Wyoming Project, the potential fall '10 series is described as a family soap set on a horse farm in a small town in Midwest or Rockies. It's Gilmore Girls meets Little House on the Prairie! In other pilot pickup news, The CW has also ordered Nikita, a contemporary update of (duh) La Femme Nikita. The logline: Nikita has gone rogue, and a new Nikita is being trained to replace her.


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UPDATE: On Tuesday morning on "The View," Barbara Walters shared that it was actor Frank Langella who had shingles and gave her chicken pox. That doesn't stop your guesses and comments (over the past 15 hours, below) from being totally awesome!
The grand dame of television, Barbara Walters, returned to her throne on "The View" today for the first time since January.
And after her standing ovation -- even Regis Philbin and NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg stopped by with flowers to welcome her back on the air -- the 83-year-old proceeded to explain the timeline of what's kept her off the air for the last six weeks.
If you recall, Walters was hospitalized after she fell down at a party in Washington, D.C. over Inauguration weekend and hurt her head. A week or so later she announced she had contracted chicken pox.
Someone can contract chicken pox at her age? How, you ask?! By mingling with famous people, apparently.
The great one went on to explain that chicken pox can be contagious when transferred by someone who has shingles (which is caused by the same virus … who knew?!), and that she had shared a hug and a kiss from an unnamed "well-known actor" in Miami on New Year's Eve. She's certain that's how she contracted the disease, she said.
Now, of course, we're all dying to know which shingles-carrying celeb gave Babs chicken pox. There's literally a debate going on in our office as we speak. We're close to starting an office pool.
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GOP fave: Allen invokes Brown's Mountain to help Hurt
State Senator Robert Hurt has brought out the big gun in the 5th District congressional race to unseat Congressman Tom Perriello, and for Republicans, there really isn't more of a hometown favorite than former governor and senator George Allen.
It was from Earlysville that Allen first ran for the House of Delegates in 1979, and his deep roots in this community were apparent when he walked into Hurt headquarters at Albemarle Square Wednesday and greeted many of the 40-plus party faithful by name.
With little more than a month before Election Day, and even less time to fill campaign coffers for a final push, Allen and Hurt campaigned in Danville September 28, hitting the renowned Short Sugar's barbecue joint. The pair headed north September 29, stopping at Saunders Brothers Farm in Piney River and the King Family Vineyard in Crozet before ending at Hurt headquarters.
Since losing his Senate seat in 2006 to Jim Webb following the infamous "Macaca" incident, Allen has maintained a relatively low profile. But he was keynote speaker at this year's Shad Planking, and he's blocked off several days this week to campaign and raise money for Hurt.
"Those radio stations and TV stations don't run ads for free," he reminded Albemarle and Greene Republicans, adding, "They're a private business and we respect that."
Though he's been a U.S. Senator and Representative, Allen was addressed as "Governor," and he invoked local landmark Brown's Mountain (where he lived during law school and later proposed to wife Susan) as well as Michie Tavern's fried chicken and stewed tomatoes.
He also took up familiar Hurt themes, decrying federal spending and the "healthcare experiment." And he called the cap-and-trade bill "a direct assault" on the coal industry.
"We believe it's time for a comeback," roared Allen, to enthusiastic applause. He was talking about Republicans in Congress in 2010, of course, but it didn't seem far-fetched that this crowd's enthusiasm could extend to another Allen/Webb match up in 2012.
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I like Periello. I don't like anyone that would climb in bed with a racist like Allen. And it wasn't just that he was a racist, but that he then insulted our intelligence with his explanations for it. "Macaca" was a racist insult against blacks in Allen's mother's native tongue, which explains why he knew the term. But HE claimed he sad it because it sounded like "mohawk", referring to the kid's hair that he was calling "macaca". One big problem with that story was that the kid had a mullet, not a mohawk. Now also, given that the racist term came from his mother's language, further implies that SHE is the one that introduced Allen to the term, implying SHE is racist as well. Apples don't usually fall too far from the tree. I don't know what's worse, peeing in the face of racial equality, or telling us it was just rain. Keep stumping for Hurt, Governor! You can only "Hurt" his campaign!
How will Mr. Hurt reduce federal spending ? - please give some examples on how he plans to reduce the deficit, give that most of the budget involves non-discretionary spending. While we are getting this kind of straight shooting from the Republican candidate - how will he control health care costs, how will he improve our failing schools, how will he provide more jobs, how will (specifically) solve our nation's problems. Does he have any ideas ? I've been listening to the republicans/ tea party members since the President was elected and have heard nothing of any substance on solutions or problem solving. George Allen is a nice guy - a "good ole boy", but really didn't accomplish much during his tenure - why should we listen to him now.
I like Tom Perriello too. He is an honest hard worker and understands that our roads, and government programs like public schooling, fire departments, medicare and unemployment benefits don't come for free. I am glad he voted for the Health care bill and feel that although we've spent a lot already, you don't fix the economy overnight. The republican party has no new ideas. All they want to do is get the job but they are completely unprepared for actually doing the job. Hurt didn't go to meetings because he was too busy campaigning. I don't elect people that just spend their time campaigning and blocking needed legislation.
When it comes to the government, things take time. Nothing will happen if the Republicans take over.
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Health reform benefits kids, Danville church leaders say
(From: The Danville Register and Bee on September 23, 2010)
Local church leaders celebrated as health reform benefits for children and families went into effect Thursday.
Pastors representing about 20 churches in the Dan River Region met at Trinity United Methodist Church on Arnett Boulevard to sign a poster-sized letter in support of the legislation passed six months ago. Several of the provisions benefit children.
ââ?¬Å?There's nothing more wonderful for us to invest in than our children," said the Rev. Charles Wickham of Trinity United Methodist, looking at a group of 4 year olds from Trinity Childcare who came to witness the signing.
As a pastor Wickham works with families who have children with pre-existing conditions like cerebral palsy, Type 1 diabetes or a hole in the heart. Insurance companies had refused to cover them.
While some people may contend that parts of the health reform legislation are controversial, what isn't controversial is how it helps kids, he said.
The Rev. Derrick Mercer, pastor of Rhema Cultural Christian Center and president of the Danville Ministerial Alliance agreed.
Mercer and other pastors want to make sure the legislation is not repealed.
ââ?¬Å?It's very important that politicians understand we must not play with the lives of these children," Mercer said. ââ?¬Å?There's a real need to prepare the future."
The Rev. Thomas Brooks of Evangel Temple Church said the health reform will benefit the many families of church members who don't have health insurance and will help relieve members of the worries about the health of their youth.
ââ?¬Å?The health reform bill is a blessing and it's a blessing sent by God," Brooks said. ââ?¬Å?We don't want to see it repealed."
What health reform provisions, also known as the ââ?¬Å?Patient's Bill of Rights" went into effect?
• Youth can stay on their parents' health insurance plan until age 26
• Insurance companies can't deny coverage to children with pre-existing conditions
• Coverage can't cancelled if you become sick
• No lifetime limits on health coverage
• Insurers can't deny claims without a chance for appeal
• All new plans have additional protections: preventive services without deductible or co-payments, right to choose your own doctor, access to out-of-network emergency room care at in-network cost-sharing rates
These will take effect when consumers re-enroll or purchase a new policy.
The letter signed by the pastors begins:
ââ?¬Å?Children are a sacred gift from God. In the Gospel, Jesus rebukes his disciples who choose to keep children at a distance. In contrast, he urges, ââ?¬Ë?Let the children come to me, and do not prevent them; for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.'" (Matthew 19:14)
And when the GOP right wing ranters got their way, and deregulated power companies, people saw their monthly power bills jump by HUNDREDS of dollars. Just do some research on Easter St Louis, where folks saw monthly power bills in the 600 dollar range, up from about 160 a month before. These were blue collar folks, living in rental units with slum landlords that never did anything to make the home efficient, but you wouldn't care about that. They must have all just been loser cry babies who didn't uderstand the market, right?
So whose the corporate fed right wing shill source for your 100 dollar monthly bill? Did they tell you about why so many states went back to regulating, and Virginia even stepped back from de-regulation? Did they? Or were they silent on that? Did Faux News, and NRO, and Little Green Footballs mention any of that?
I don't care for the idea of governments needing to regulate things, but unfortunately, the non-competitive antics of big industry seems to invite it every time.
You know how I know the Health care policy isn't a bunch of socialism? The industry was happy with it, and the stocks didn't even twitch.
And the GOP's prescription? Do nothing and watch the second Great Depression unfold? No thanks!
I think Perriello is an honest, hard working politician, but I don't like the way he votes. I think that Hurt is too slick and without fundamental moorings. I mean, as a Republican, how could he vote for a tax increase? I don't trust Hurt at all because of that.
No choice in 5th. Bad is Hurt and awful is One term T....OTT as he is known professionally.
If I wanted Stretch Pelosi as my rep in congress, I'd move to SF.
Better start working on your resume Tommy Boy, you'll need one come January. This is the moral to the story when you vote against the wishes of the vast majority of your constituents. Republicans will have a lot of work to do in the coming years to reverse the damage done by the libtards.
If you look at the real numbers it is 15-20% now.Look at all of the people who can no longer draw a unemployment check that still don't have a job.If you remember the recovery act was going to keep unemployment from going over 8%.The Democratic party ain't getting people back to work and they are hurting.Please wake up people.
Mr. Reynolds, I'm afraid you are being duped by the right-wing pundits who had already long-ago duped other working people who the GOP and its funding corporations NEVER work for. This is a sad sinking when so many people are getting hoodwinked into the myth that the Dems, rather than the GOP, caused the current malaise. Sure the Dems haven't fully righted the ship -- it's not possible to do it that quickly unless they had spent a lot more in stimulus, according to economists -- but things are better than they would have beeen without the bailout etc. Why you assume cap and trade will raise bills I can't fathom -- there is no cap and trade program passed for CO2, which means that the power industry can still paass the external costs of pollution on to you and me in health impacts that your insurance company may or may not cover. For a lucky some of us, it doesn't really matter who is in power -- our jobs are safe and secure, we have good but expensive health care, we can afford to send our kids to college, and we can pay the premium for healthier food. But if you and your loved ones are really in at-risk jobs, the last guy you want to drive the tow-truck pulling your car out of the ditch is the drunk who ran you off the road in the first place. The GOP is not a bastion of "new" ideas -- even House Minority leader John Boehner, who is primed to become Speaker of the House if the GOP retakes control, has pledged that they will run thinhgs exactly the same way they always have, which is incompetently. Wake up, Mr. Reynolds -- you are the last person that the GOP cares about, other than to steal your vote (as they have shown they are so good at doing in Florida and Ohio -- whose staffers do you think those were down in Dade County shutting down the recount and making sure W "won" the presidency?).
I never watch Fox news, but in the past 18 months i have watched two of my sons and a daughter become unemployed.The Republican party is a long way from perfect but the Democratic party is far worse.Some of you that have jobs you can't lose might not understand this but i guess you can understand that unemployment in the African American community has went up alot since the Democratic party took control.My people can't stand anymore broken promises from the Democratic party.Do you people even realize people don't want handout they want a job they can retire from.When Bill Clinton signed NAFTA into law i knew it was a mistake that has sent one hell of alot of jobs over seas.So don't give me the Democratic party's pep talk about how much they are doing to help my people i want to see results not empty talk.
Te joke is that while one can be upset with Perriello, why anyone would expect the GOP to do better than it did running the bus into the ditch. Hurt is a joke.
Had Tom stood his ground and flamed out like Alane Grayson, he would be shoo in.
Is this Hurt's plan for the unemployed? To put ole George back to work? At least Allen was charismatic, well connected and wealthy. Next to him, Hurt looks like an empty suit. And his head-tilt thing (noticeable in some of his tv ads and the photo above) bothers me almost as much as Tim Kaine's rouge eyebrow did.
Mr. Reynolds,
Please reconsider your position. The republicans and the corporations they support have reduced this country to the sorry state we are in now. Can you imagine what things would be like had we not financed two needless wars, had we actually overseen corporations that were merging for the sake of greater profits at the expense of laying people off - corporations that shipped jobs overseas for the sake of profit. How would the deficit look if the wealthy and corporations paid their fair share? Can you name one thing that the Republicans have done for you, your family or any of your church members ? Tom Perriello is a good man, working for us - working for you.
I'd like to echo what Michael 2 said.
Dave T- No.Allen is not a nice guy. He's a very unpleasant guy. He's a 'good ol'boy' like Lem Snopes was a 'good ol'boy.' The macaca comment was a very good snapshot of who he really is. You should do a little research on him.
Sitting with his cowboy boots on his desk in Richmond and the Senate office doing nothing were about his best attributes.
Tom is a decent guy, and I know he's a freshman, but like Old Timer says, he really needed to get in there shooting. Real change meant not signing onto a health care package that is really corporate welfare. If you want to give the insurance company a captive audience, you have to fix their allowable profits. The fact that Alan Grayson and Ron Paul can find common ground an sponsor bills should tell you about what real common sense and toughness will get you.
Hurt of course, is pathetic.
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You can tell by the careful spelling, grammatical and capitalization "errors". I'd be insulted if I was in his "church".
Albert, the problem is, no one believes you were ever a lifelong Democrat. Lifelong Democrats don't bail on the party because of things like 'cap and trade', simply because they usually believe that a little more money for a much higher quality of air is the better allocation of assets.
Democrats, instead, will be angry with the Democratic Party and Perriello for throwing away thigns like the Public Option, which would have provided competition for the Corporations in the market, instead of marginally regulated monopoly. They will be angry over Obama deciding to increase off shore drilling befopre ever getting to the negotiating table.
No Democrat will suddenly turn Republcian and vote for Hurt based on those reasons.
What the Democrats have done, is successfully face down CHina over their dumping, and pressure them to start floating their currency, so that they have to compete on a more real basis in trade. Seeing as that is orthodox economics, it is hardly a reason to run and vote Republicans, who were absolutely spineless boobs in that area.
Why where Republicans spineless? Well, you see, if they can let the trade gap exist, they can suck profits for themselves off of the unemploying of millions of Americans, and pay you a lot less, and profit there as well.
Cville Eye is correct though, because in their desperate attempt to placate the right, they have ended up in doing with the Republicans did, and given billions to billionaires.
Why don't you fess up now Albert, and admit that you really are a Republican from the get go.
I am a African American man that for the first time in my life will vote for a Republican Robert Hurt.Obama and Perriello have spent money like it was free for a so called stimulus plan while unemployment has went up.Perriello has voted to raise the debt limits like we didn't already owe enough.This has to stop we are in a hole and we have to quit digging.Robert Hurt has my vote along with the votes of my church members.
If Allen supports him, I oppose him.
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Old Timer you are very misled. I voted against George Bush twice he was evil.So i ask you how has Obama and Perriello made anything better ? Have you seen how much the unemployment rate has went up in the African American community ? Man wake up im 66 years old and i have never seen our country in such a shape.My Church members are tired of voting for Democrats that make promises and blame someone else when they fail.I have voted for the Democratic party my whole life but not this time.
@Albert Reynolds: "Call me what you want but you know im telling the truth."
Methinks "Albert Reynolds" is something other than what he purports to be... in which case he has not told the truth here YET.
Here's the truth. Republicans have given billionaires billions. Democrats have given billionaires billions. Americans are getting poorer and poorer (when you are in debt you're poor - you have no money even if you have credit).
@Jesus H. Christ on a Popsickle Stick!, I hope your ministers know they are going to have to work full time raising the money to help these people you descrie raise the money for their insurance premium, or has God ordained that the government take other people's money to carry out the will of God? Or is this just a rationale to put more Americans on welfare, to become so dependent upon the government that they exist only to supply their master (government)with the wherewithal to give even more billionaires money?
I'd rather vote for a bag of weed than these two clowns.
George Allen is a "big gun"? Really? For what, shooting someone else's foot besides his own?
"If you look at the real numbers it is 15-20% now."
And if you had looked at those same 'real numbers' under President Bush, you would find that chornic unemployment/undermeployment was at least equal to Europe. There was no 5% unemployment, it was more like 10%.
By the way, Bill Clinton, a Democrat, led th largest long term growth this nation has ever seen, in spite of a tax increase, and cut the deficit by 16%. When he left office, this county was in the black.
What did the Republcians do? Hmmm? What did they do? What did you buddy conservative Bush do? Reversed course. He exploded the deficit. He tried to hide his war spending. And then instead of paying the bill, told super wealthy traders that they need only pay 15% on income while the rest of us are supposed to pay 28%+. The result was an even bigger deficit. Then he went to our COmmie pinko enemies and borrowed money from them.
Why in Gods name you think that Hurt or any other Republican will do any different is beyond me.
Not too fast with OTT as Periello is now known with the lobbying crowd. He got in bed with the crowd that paid off the commercial banks, unions, trial lawyers, La Raza, defense contractors. Nother words he was paid to play and he did his job. Podesta got him in the game and now he is being written off by the same crowd of dregs that set him up with funny money from all over back in 08.. Small town kid that tried the big time and got tossed by his mentors.
To say that Perriello has soluntions is to say that Hope and Change is taking place rather than same old.
Member that the only way to get the rich to pay taxes in on consumption, sales taxes at national level as all other tax laws they circumvent through loopholes and or hide the ball. Had any Democrats done anything to change the game they would be taken seriously but instead they just rolled over and sold the govnmint to the corporations just like always. Ms Pelosi and her cider house rules!
Careful brian, the black helicopters are circling your house. Better put your tinfoil cap back on.
It is going to be tough to vote in Nov. I think that Perriello is a nice young man, but he is misguided and will vote the party line no matter what he has said in the past or will continue to say. He doesn't have the b__s to vote his gut. Hurt reminds me of a city slicker selling used cars, I can't say that I trust him as far as I could throw him. But since I must pick between the two, I will go with Hurt. The never ending spending and debt has to be stopped somehow. I want to be able to leave an America behind for my, as of yet unborn, grandchildren. At the rate things are going today, there will not be one for them to enjoy. So I will vote for a change. One that I can live with for the next few years and pray that a better choice makes itself known next year.
Perriello is toast. Unless he has a plan for winning with 43-45% of the vote. And that assumes a strong turnout in Charlottesville-Albemarle.
The more intriguing question is rasied concerning Allen's run in 2012. What will the political landscape look like 2 years from today?
This November has already been cast.
I immediately thought of good ole boy George when I read this article. http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/09/23/poland.jewish/index.html
Probably won't make it through the censorbot if I say certain words explaining what it's about; but in brief, a couple of Europeans who were active members of a group who really didn't like people of certain ethnicities found they were actually descended from some of those people and went full on conversion.
A WaPo article from August 21, 2010 called "George Allen looks to his roots while planting campaign seeds" is worth looking up in that regard. Part of the "I'm really a tolerant guy" make-over campaign. The one url limit means I can't just link to i.
Money talks and BS walks..........
Dave T you must think about this.What has Perriello done for the 5th district ? He voted for cap and trade that will cause our light bills to go up on average 1oo dollars a month i don't know about you but most of the people i know are having a hard time paying the light bill now.Since the Democrats took control unemployment has went threw the roof.George Bush was a nightmare but he did raise the minimum wage.Im sick and tired of trying to defend the Democrats that i have voted for.My people are hurting and the Democrats that promised big changes are not helping them.I now have the first Republican sign ever in my yard.Please dont try to lecture me on what good things the Democrats are doing cause until i see some change im voting for Republicans.For years Democratic candidates have told me how they were for the black man and for years they have kept us down so we will keep voting for them.Not anymore.I was so proud when we elected the first black president but what has he done to help his people ?
@Albert Reynolds: Are you kidding? If it were not for Democratic leadership during this stretch, a recession WOULD HAVE turned into a depression. Make no mistake about it. Instead of 9-10% unemployment, we would easily be looking at 15-20% unemployment.
That's not sexy, but it's a heckuva lot more than the GOP would've accomplished!
• Youth can stay on their parents' health insurance plan until age 26"
If by age 26 you are not supporting yourself (not speaking of disabled) and/or going to college you are one lazy SOB. Why not make it 70 so their lazy butts can go straight to Medicare?
I believe you Albert. Some of the libs find it hard to believe anyone who is not white can actually think for themselves. We know who is the real party of racial division.
As a non-white person, I think I do quite well thinking for myself. Most of my friends are similarly capable and they come in all shades.
Mr. Reynolds silly idea that members of an African American church congregation would all think and vote the same way however speaks volumes about what HE thinks about the ability of African Americans to think for themselves.
Mr. Reynolds do you honestly think the Democrats could undo 8 years of George Bush (not to mention Ronald Reagan and his LIE of trickle down economics) in 18 months? Especially with all the Republican obstructionism since President Obama began his presidency? Do you really think Republicans are going to do anything to improve the lot of the middle and lower classes? They are not! They prey on people's fears, whether they are terrorism, illegal immigration or the economy. The efforts of the Democrats haven't gone far enough in terms of stimulus money. If they hadn't done what they have managed to do, ''Good Lord'' is correct; it wouldn't have been a recession it would've been a depresssion. Every recession that we have been in since the Great Depression has taken longer and longer to recover from.
Before you vote be sure you are getting your information from all types of sources. Fox News is an entertainment network, not a news network.
Buddy, unemployment has gone up all over the place over the past few years (not just in the African American community). But as has been pointed out to you numerous times here, it would've been far worse with Republicans in charge.
I'm curious, "Mr. Reynolds." You say you want to see "results." What kind of results have the GOP shown you over all these years that makes you think they give a rat's ass about your people.
No you please tell me what results the Democratic party have shown anyone lately.
I smell a campaign worker. It's the sweet smell of astroturf.
Call me what you want but you know im telling the truth.
Let's write that in...........
PSYCH! I'm just messing with you people. My name is not really "Albert Reynolds." I'm actually an overweight, pimply-faced GOP campaign worker who likes to sit in a dark room all day trolling internet news blogs, pretending to be someone else. I believe that honesty is irrelevant when it comes to political campaigns, and this lifestyle keeps me from having to talk to girls.
fWhere in the Constitution does it say it is the government's responsibility to create jobs? The only jobs I've seen the government create are government jobs. If your children can't find jobs where they are living, maybe it's time for them to move and get new opportunities.
No im saying the Democratic party hasn't done what they promised.
"People if you think this election is about the Democratic or Republican party's you are wrong" Uhmmm, "Albert" don't you even read your own writing?
Albert Reynolds October 1st, 2010 | 10:21 am:
"until i see some change im voting for Republicans.For years Democratic candidates have told me how they were for the black man and for years they have kept us down"
Are you saying you were wrong in that case in thinking that it was about parties?
The more you deviate from your script, the more you trip yourself up. What church is that that you go to by the way? I've been wondering. If you are telling the truth, then you should be happy to tell. I'm sure some reporters would love to interview some other members and hear why they have decided along with you to vote Republican all of a sudden.
Well you people must be in a position where you don't have to worry about money.My kids do not want to be on unemployment they want to be working.I voted for Bill Clinton twice but he passed nafta that sent alot of jobs out of the country.As far as voting Libertarian i ask you this have they ever won a race ? What have Libertarians ever done to help anybody ? People if you think this election is about the Democratic or Republican party's you are wrong this election is about fixing the job situation by creating jobs.You ask me what have the Republicans done for anyone well let me say this all of my kids were working up until the Democratic party took control.So call me a liar if you want but these are all facts.
Caesonia, I worked for the railroad 34 years and earned a living with very hard worked i never once asked for a hand out.My kids have tried to do the same but 3 of them have been laid off and are forced to draw unemployment.You say i need to fess up and admit i was a Republican right from the get go thats funny i have spent years voting for who ever i was told was working for my people and i ask you what has it gotten me ? Im not hiding behind some fake name like some of you that are giving me a hard time are.Do you people even realize what a hard time the African American community is having now ? Do you even realize 3 of my kids are unemployment right now ? What are they going to do when the benefits run out ? Call me what you want but if it hits home to you then you might take a closer look yourself at what the Democratic party it getting done for the African American people.My family doesn't want a hand out they want a job.
Jesus H. Christ on a Popsickle Stick = Fake name
Albert Reynolds = Fake name
Albert Reynolds,
I think you just got called big time. Cap and Trade is a right wing focus for ranting.
"My kids have tried to do the same but 3 of them have been laid off and are forced to draw unemployment."
Uhuh. And who laid them off? The Democrats? The Democrats should get blamed for being spineless, but they are hardly responsible for the giant economic downturn you have faced. Your kids are unemployed due to the non-competitive massive corporate welfare and union hating attitude of the GOP. I say that as a Libertarian.
Your kids have unemployment to draw on because of the Democrats, not the Republicans.
If you don;t want to vote Democrat, vote Libertarian, but if there is ONE group responsible for your suffering in its desire to make us a feudal state, its the GOP, which is not run by true conservativs.
Bush ad the GOP gave your kid's money to the banks and Wall Street and contractors for the DOD. That's why your kids are unemployed.
"Do you people even realize what a hard time the African American community is having now ?"
They and a lot of other folks. And, do you know, a lot of them lost work thanks to the GOP. Look at the trades that are filled with illegal resident aliens. Trades that paid good money. Guess who let them in? Not the Democrats. The GOP.
But that's all based on anyone thinking you being honest about your background.
I have been mocked on here even called a liar but in just a week from today we will all see who the fool really is.After the election check out the percentage of the African American vote.Then see if you can call me a liar then.


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SHANGHAI, Feb. 28, 2013 /CNW/ - Now in its 4th year, the Asian Marine & Boating Awards has established itself in it short history as a set of awards worth winning.
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For the first 3 editions the voting panel has primarily been comprised of professionals from the maritime media across Asia. This has successfully avoided any bias towards the advertisers with any particular publication or other media.
There have been suggestions that the nomination and voting process be spread to a wider audience, even to the extent of public nominations. While taking feedback, judges from preceding years already received lobbying phone calls and emails for this product or that company to be a nominee. They've even received requests so direct as, "How can we win an award?"
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It is felt that the increasing of judge numbers and specialties will also widen the focus of the awards.
The Asian Marine & Boating Awards are aimed at recognizing those category winners who, in the opinion of the judges, have reached the top in their particular category- though it should be remembered that people see different reasons for one thing being better than another. The increasing of the number of judges naturally introduces a further "smoothing" of any possible winners being anything other than, by consensus, the best in their category.
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- Best Motor Yacht -40'
- Best Motor Yacht 40'-75'
- Best Motor Yacht +75'
- Best Brand Penetration
- Best Yacht Designer
- Asian Regatta of the Year
- Asian Boating Capital of the Year
- Personality of the Year
- Yacht Club of the Year
- Most Eco-friendly Marine Business
- Best Sports Boat
- Best Sports Fishing Boat
- Most Innovative Company
- China's Leading Lights - Special Media Awards
The Asian Marine & Boating Awards are run in conjunction with the China (Shanghai) International Boat Show, which itself in its 18th year. The awards are traditionally presented on the Thursday evening of the show, which this year runs from 11th to 14th April 2013.
To pre-register for CIBS2013, please go to www.boatshowchina.com.
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Dazed speak to Paul Helbers and Pharrell Williams about the LV return to the scene with khaki staples...
Paul Helbers returned to the scene on Thursday to show his new SS' 11 collection. But it wasn't the scene of a crime since Louis Vuitton isn't very likely to be arrested by the fashion police for any sort of sartorial mistake. Neither was it a hipster or trend scene; Louis Vuitton doesn't do those either. A few brands are lucky to be good and big enough to stand above the 'colour of the season' debate, and Louis Vuitton is one of them. No, if there was a 'scene' to return to, it was the Rue Curial venue that has become a bit of a favourite Paris spot for Marc Jacobs and Paul Helbers.
The collection touched on several themes; worldwide influences that brought out a diverse collection in terms of colours. White, beige, grey and khaki were staple shades, giving room to mustard yellow and a strong green tone to shine. Helbers went for layering and we often we several pieces underneath an intricately crafted tailored jacket. Sleeves were rolled up, which – in combination with stone washed jeans and white leather jackets – perhaps was a nod towards the 1980s? But if we're doing the decade thing, the grey cargo pants was surely a sign of the 1990s? Again, with Louis Vuitton, such matters seem trivial. Focus instead on the plethora of scarfs that was almost worn as garments, and enjoy the LV scene.
Dazed Digital: What was your main inspiration?
Paul Helbers: The idea was a digital bohemian, someone who travels in his mind and takes free imaginary trips when he wishes.
DD: Where's he going?
Paul Helbers: A Shanghai casino, which is represented by the Chinese silk; skydiving in the Amazons, shown by the military, jungle and rainforest patterns, strong colours and parachute details. Lastly there's the Scandinavian midsummer night, experienced from a helicopter. It represents a more clean and pure approach. I wanted these three aesthetics to clash…
DD: I like the big chunky scarfs, they're like garments in themselves…
Paul Helbers: Yes, it's a tattoo print, an old shadow puppet and star signs that Scott Campbell transferred it in to two prints for us.
DD: What will you pick out for yourself?
Paul Helbers: Just the simple linen jacket that I'm wearing now
DD: What did you think of the show?
Pharrell Williams: Can I be honest with you? I go to a lot of shows but I never like the whole collection – but in this one, I loved everything!
DD: Like what?
Pharrell Williams: There was a green look that was incredible; the sequined shoes were incredible, the bags with the embroidered dragons on the side were great…


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Banks around the world are losing revenue by missing opportunities to deepen their existing customer relationships, and are ceding new product sales to competitors, according to Bain & Co.
In its fourth annual report on banking customers' loyalty, Bain's surveyed more than 190,000 customers in 27 countries, and found the following:
- Less than 1% of respondents in the developed world were new to banking (2.7% in the developing world), with another 2.5% switching from their primary bank (3.2% in the developing world)
- About half of banking customers in developed countries and 84% in the developing world bought a new bank product over the past year
- Customers bought one-third of those products, on average, from a bank other than their primary bank.
Bain said that although many factors influenced the new product purchase decision, such as level of competition in a local market, two factors stood out in swaying customers to buy: customers' loyalty to their primary bank and the bank's ability to actively sell to its customers.
The report found that a bank's relative customer loyalty measure explained roughly half of the variation in its relative win rate, and that approximately a third of banking products in the U.S. were sold, not bought. Customers did not plan to buy a particular product, but received an offer and then decided to purchase it.
"The 'easy growth' is over for banks, as increased competition worldwide is forcing banks to fight over too few new customers," Gerard du Toit, a partner in Bain's global financial services practice and lead author of the report, said in a statement.
"But there is a surprisingly large upside with existing customers to increase win rates on new product sales."
According to the report, the unbundling of financial products has spread through some countries faster than others. In Hong Kong's highly competitive market, three-quarters of bank customers bought a new product over the past year, though only slightly more than half did so through their primary bank.
In contrast, 38% of customers in Denmark bought a new bank product, with 81% staying with their primary bank.
The report recommended a model of "loyalty plus five capabilities" to spur existing customers to buy more from their existing bank, attract new customers and reduce costs without damaging customer relationships. The five key capabilities:
- Decide where you have to win and where you're willing to lose
- Design products that "pop" in order to keep pace with the latest benefits customers value
- Accelerate the digital transformation — the report found frequent mobile banking users in all 27 countries were much more loyal that non-users
- Loyalty gives you the right to win more business, but you do have to ask for the sale
- Build branding that delivers more trust and less buzz — telling what a bank has to offer, not what it aspires to be.
The report showed that few large incumbent banks had made meaningful progress on more than one of the five elements. JPMorgan Chase in the U.S. was an exception, Bain found.
Chase posted the biggest loyalty gains in 2013 among the national banks, as measured by Bain, moving from the third quartile to the second quartile and opening a lead over other national banks.
Bain attributed Chase's progress to such factors as select investments in mobile technology, a concerted effort to improve the customer experience and effective marketing to tell people how the bank could simplify their financial lives. Those factors combined to help Chase perform well above average in winning new relationships and cross-selling to existing customers, Bain said.
"The banking math is simple," du Toit said. "Loyal banking customers own more products, and buy more products — but that doesn't mean they're going to make your sales for you."
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North Carolina Deer Held Illegally in Burke County Moved to Nature and Science Facility
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The N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission today confiscated a white-tailed deer being held illegally at the home of a Burke County resident. Wildlife enforcement officers issued a citation to the person holding the deer.
Because of specific circumstances surrounding this case, the deer was anesthetized and transferred to an educational facility licensed to hold and care for deer in captivity. Those circumstances include verifiable knowledge of the origin of the deer locally within Burke County and no opportunity for the deer to have been in contact with wild deer during its life in captivity. The deer has been held in an approximately 10-foot by 12-foot chain-link pen since it was removed from its natural habitat as a fawn.
Despite well-meaning intentions of the Burke County resident, North Carolina law does not allow the holding of wildlife by individuals without proper training and licenses, and then only under strict rules to safeguard the health and safety of wildlife resources, livestock and people. Further, current state regulations prohibit issuance of new licenses for holding deer in captivity.
"Typically, taking an animal from the wild ultimately leads to an unfortunate end for the animal because of potential impacts resulting from human habituation and spread of disease," said Dr. David Cobb, chief of the Division of Wildlife Management for the Commission. "Illegally held captive deer often must be euthanized in order to protect free-ranging animals from disease and to reduce the threat of serious injury to the public from human-habituated deer. However, due to the special circumstances in this case, this deer was taken to a licensed facility where it may be allowed to remain."
The Wildlife Commission urges people to obey the law and not interfere with young wildlife. Though fawns may look abandoned and alone, most often they are just waiting for the doe to return from foraging for food. An otherwise well-intentioned person may never see the doe and think a lone fawn needs help or food. Taking wildlife into captivity may be a natural reaction, but staying away is the best option. For those rare instances in which a fawn is actually abandoned, licensed fawn rehabilitators across the state are listed at www.ncwildlife.org.


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Security vendor Sourcefire Inc. on Monday will announce a new security appliance that company executives say will make intrusion detection systems more efficient and valuable in enterprise networks. The Real-Time Network Awareness appliance combines vulnerability assessment and correlation with change management in an effort to reduce or even eliminate the false positives and negatives that plague IDS systems.
The RNA box is meant to work in conjunction with Sourcefire's Intrusion Management System, which is based on the open-source Snort IDS. The appliance starts by identifying all of the assets on a network and assessing their current state. Then, it performs continuous monitoring of the network and alerts the administrator to any changes, such as new devices coming online or unusual services being used on a server.
Saturday, May 31, 2003
Sourcefire Introduces Appliance
Friday, May 30, 2003
Cisco Router Evidence Extraction Disk
Patching in the Air Force
Air Force Service Evaluates Patches (19 May 2003)
The Air Force has established the Enterprise Network Operations Support Cell (ENOSC), a software patch service. Patches are tested by the Air Force Computer Emergency Response Team which assesses its effectiveness and assigns it a number indicating its likelihood of interfering with other software. The patch along with that information is placed on the site and administrators can decide if it's an appropriate patch for their systems. ENOSC supports Windows 9x, NT 4.0, 2000 and XP, as well as Exchange Server and Internet Explorer. It also supports Sun Solaris and plans to add Linux and HP-UX.
This sounded suspicious to me, as the original article says:
"When a patch comes out for those OSes or applications, the Air Force Computer Emergency Response Team judges its effectiveness—that is, does it in fact fix the problem? A nine-member ENOSC team evaluates the patch's impact on the OS and on the applications likely to be running under it."
One of my friends at the AFCERT confirmed that the AFCERT is NOT testing patches. The ENOSC performs the testing, while the AFCERT issues compliance orders. The AFCERT is not equipped to test patches, and that is not its primary mission anyway.
Thursday, May 29, 2003
Reducing IDS Alerts
Gunter Ollmann Doesn't Like Hacking Exposed
I call such prospective clients HE-men (after the Hacking Exposed line of books). They are proof that a little knowledge in the wrong hands really can do a lot of damage...a 'blind' penetration test will take considerably longer to discover the same number of security flaws. When conducting a full-knowledge (i.e. 'crystal-box') penetration test, it is a simple process to indicate within a report what information was necessary to make the security findings and what level of skill or knowledge an attacker would need to exploit any vulnerabilities. Thus, a full-knowledge penetration test provides the same, or greater, level of security information for less time and cost. I would question anyone trying to sell a 'blind' penetration test for less than the cost of a full-knowledge penetration test.
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It sounds like Gunter doesn't understand the difference between a vulnerability assessment and a penetration test. He uses the latter term but describes the former. A vulnerability assessment involves discovering and documenting vulnerabilities, whether with "blind" or "crystal box" knowledge of the target. A penetration test moves beyond discovery to actual compromise, where the analyst exploits targets to gain greater access to the victim network and implement a real-world intrusion scenario. This usually tests the client's response and remediation processes. This opinion isn't just mine -- Google produced this Red Hat Security Guide and I read a recent Rik Farrow article as well.
Monday, May 26, 2003
CAIDA Tool Taxonomy
Prevention Always Fails
"Gartner sees IPS as the next generation of IDS, when they're likely the next generation of firewall," says Marty Roesch, founder of Sourcefire, an IDS vendor. Roesch is also the creator of Snort, an open-source, rules-based language for writing detection signatures.
Roesch insists that IDSs and IPSs are separate technologies with mutually exclusive functions. "IPS is access control, and IDS is network monitoring. IPS is policy enforcement, and IDS is audit. It's not the IDS's job to secure your network. Its job is to tell you how insecure it is."
But Roesch's distinction may not resonate in the wider security market. "Joe Average doesn't want to monitor traffic and comb through data and make changes in rules and policies based on detected attacks," says Jeff Wilson, executive director of Infonetics Research (www.infonetics.com). "They want to stop attacks."
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Fine -- prevention is always preferable to detection. But prevention always fails, at some point. How do you determine the scope of a compromise when your IPS fails to detect and prevent an attack? You better be able to fail back on your audit capabilities, which log what they see and make no value judgements.
Thursday, May 22, 2003
Sguil 0.2 Released
Sguil (pronounced "sgweel") is a graphical interface to snort. The actual interface and GUI server are written in tcl/tk. Sguil uses other open source software like barnyard and mysql for accessing data. The client interface provides 'hooks' to analyst tools like ethereal, tcpflow, and p0f. Sguil makes it easy for multiple analyst to work together in monitoring multiple sensors. Currently, sguil only provides an analyst interface. Sensor and rule management is forthcoming.
Sguil-0.2 includes numerous changes and bugfixes. Notable additions inlude event history, event comments, access to session data (stream4 keepstats), abuse email templates, and user accountability. See http://sguil.sourceforge.net for downloads, updated screenshots, and more info.
Review of Art of the Steal Posted
I typically read and review books on digital security. I bought "The Art of the Steal" (TAOTS) after being captivated by "Catch Me If You Can." TAOTS is an incredible book, but not because it is a masterpiece of English literature. Rather, TAOTS is an amazing and personalized tour of a seedy underworld where ingenuity serves evil purposes. In
Amazon.com also posted my four star review of Stealing the Network. From the review:
"Stealing the Network" (STN) is an entertaining and informative look at the weapons and tactics employed by those who attack and defend digital systems. STN is similar to the "Hacker's Challenge" books published by Osborne, although the stories are not separated into evidence and resolution sections. Rather, a collection of authors use mildly fictional tales to introduce readers to tactics and techniques used by black and white hat hackers.
Sunday, May 18, 2003
Vasiliy Gorshkov and Alexey Ivanov
Vasiliy Gorshkov did not set out to be a thief. Relatives and friends say he had wanted to build a dot-com . . . Gorshkov, then 24, didn't have the cash. Business associates recalled that he didn't even have enough money to keep paying his four programmers. But one of those programmers, 19-year-old Alexey Ivanov, said he knew how to raise the protection money, according to lawyers familiar with the conversation. Goshkov could offer a protection service of his own. To online businesses. Six thousand miles away in the United States.
Saturday, May 17, 2003
Loopback for Forensics on Linux and FreeBSD
Nmap in The Matrix Reloaded
Thursday, May 15, 2003
TaoSecurity Blog Added to Security Blog List
Wednesday, May 14, 2003
More on Fluffi Bunni Arrest
Senior detectives at Scotland Yard's Computer Crime Unit spotted 27-year-old Lynn Htun, believed to be the brains behind the infamous Fluffi Bunni hacking group, on the stand run by Insight Consulting and its business partner Siemens at the Infosecurity Europe 2003 show at Olympia, London.
Tuesday, May 13, 2003
New $20 Bill Arriving
Monday, May 12, 2003
Sp_Perl for Snort
Friday, May 09, 2003
Sourcefire Seminar
Sunday, May 04, 2003
ILOVEYOU Virus Three Years Old Today
Fyodor, author of nmap, released the latest version of his security tool survey. This "who's who" of security tools is a good place to start to learn which tools to try.


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Recycled product pricing pretty much held its own over the last year. Despite some new laws and some surprise market delays, recyclers still felt optimistic going into this year.
Perhaps the biggest story in 2013 was The Green Fence. That is the Chinese policy that went into effect in February, strictly enforcing regulations on importing dirty scrap materials—from the U.S. and elsewhere. It led to a significant drop in imports of plastic waste and even put some U.S. recyclers out of business, at least temporarily. Recent crackdowns have required Chinese companies to import only those recycled materials that have gone through some kind of processing. It's no longer enough for waste just to be clean and sorted, industry sources say. They report that some municipal recycling facilities (MRFs) are responding to the Green Fence by trying to clean up waste with limited technical capabilities. Since the waste quality is still inferior, the MRFs are getting a lower domestic price for their waste. Industry sources say some lower-quality clear RPET flake has been offered for as little as 53¢/lb, below the more typical price range of 55-56¢/lb (see table below).
While the Asian market was soft in last quarter, PET flake prices have been pretty stable over the course of 2013. Today, Chinese are still buying but the market is mostly domestic, one recycler said. The U.S. domestic price is a couple of cents higher than the Chinese price (they used to match). Also, Mexico is dumping a lot of washed flake in California, one source said.
While January is usually a slow month, recyclers expect RPET prices to rise over the year, at least on the West Coast, with the return of California state incentive programs to use recycle. "People will be fighting over the bales," one West Coast source predicted.
Recycled HDPE experienced an unpredictable year, with a strong first quarter, and two dead quarters after that. However, since July, momentum has been building. HDPE pipe has been driving the market, though seasonal construction demand picked up about three months later than recyclers had expected.
According to one recycler, "The mixed-color market had softened quite a bit over the summer with the pipe industry not being able to lay pipe because of all the rain. Now the pipe market picked up again and there is a little more supply."
The mixed color market HDPE is still a bit soft. Major pipe maker ADS now has two recycling plants of its own and has switched from buying pellets to buying bales. One recycler reports that colored and natural bale pricing grew very close in the spring. "Then it got to be the widest delta—22¢/lb—we've ever seen. Part of that was excess supply ADS was not taking and that wasn't going to China either.
"We expected things to fall off by December, but a week and a half before Christmas, demand still looked strong. Material now is hard to come buy. However, we are now facing cold weather, snow and ice, so we will see what happens. Virgin prices seem to be holding and that affects recycle prices."
Overall, recyclers predict that 2014 will be a stronger year for HDPE than 2013.
PBT and PET Polyester: The Difference Crystallinity Makes
To properly understand the differences in performance between PET and PBT we need to compare apples to apples—the semi-crystalline forms of each polymer.
The New Look in Plastic -- It's Paper!
Synthetic paper based on filled polyethylene or polypropylene film has been around for decades without causing much excitement--until recently.
Melt Flow Rate Testing–Part 1
Though often criticized, MFR is a very good gauge of the relative average molecular weight of the polymer. Since molecular weight (MW) is the driving force behind performance in polymers, it turns out to be a very useful number.


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