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I've never been a fan of the show, but it happened to be on while I was cooking dinner last night so I ended up interested when I heard it was the "dance night" dedicated to a year that meant a lot to the dancers. Yet again, I didn't care…until JR Martinez gave his backstory. I had no idea who he was or why he was on the show, but in my opinion, he's the closest thing to a star the show has! As a loyal supporter of the USO and obviously of those who serve our country, I was already intrigued to find out ABC brought on this Iraq War veteran. But to hear him talk about his wounds from the war and to dedicate his performance to those who don't make it home, I was in awe. To top it off…the boy can dance!!!!!!! Check out his performance and hopefully you'll understand why I was crying:


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- Tsendmaa Gan-Erdene
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How do you I get a fund to attend TED conference?
So I have received this complimentary pass to attend TEDWomen this December, yet I don't have any money to travel. How do I find travel grant or scholarship to attend the conference? Any advice?
PS: Some people might thing I have attended TED conference before, but the badge was given because I got complimentary pass for TEDWomen 2013 in December.
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Sep 12 2013: well, are you saying $1100 one-way, or $1100 round-trip? How important is this conference to you, Tsendmaa, why does it matter? If you decided you might not be able to make it, would you let TED know so they can give the seat to someone else?
I rarely travel. I think sometimes you can get cheaper rates if you depart from a major city, is Ulaanbaatar a major city, perhaps you could travel by car to a more major city airport if it will help you get cheaper rates. Is Mongolia part of China, perhaps a flight from Beijing to San Francisco would be cheaper than one that departed Ulaanbaatar? I would think maybe you can get cheaper rates if you book far in advance, if you booked now for instance you might get cheaper rates, maybe you can book without there being a penalty if you cancel later, in case you don't go, it seems to me you can ask.
My mom had mentioned asking Christian groups for the money, are christian groups allowed in Mongolia, she said they might give you the money because they're hoping to convert you to Christianity? Perhaps you could propose to give them a talk after you returned I mean if there are churches where you can give a talk, give them a talk about what happened at the conference, but are there churches in Mongolia?
Sep 13 2013: Mongolia is not part of China, so we have only one international airport, which is far away from Beijing. I have been trying to spread new ideas to the people around me for last 2 years, since I graduated from school. I organize 1-2 TEDx events every year. It is important to me to experience the global, so for my future events. Our team is actually live streaming TEDWomen here in Mongolia too, licensed name under TEDxUlaanbaatarWomen. I've heard we have churches in Mongolia, but I am Buddhist. Not sure about changing my religion for money.
Sep 14 2013: Thanks, Tsendmaa. Well, a librarian told me about an organization called International Women's Association of Mongolia, I believe they are in your city of Ulaanbaatar. Maybe they'd give you some money, perhaps you could agree to come afterward and give them a talk on what you learned at the conference. Also, there is something called the Global Fund for Women, located in San Francisco and New York city, perhaps they could help?
TED conversations wrote back and said you should talk to the department of TED that gave you a ticket, possibly they could help you. I'm still waiting for an answer from the more general part of TED, as I wrote to both firstname.lastname@example.com, and to email@example.com.
I do have one friend who travels a great deal internationally, a university professor in Idaho. I'll write and see if he has any ideas for you.
I'm curious, when you accepted the ticket, did you think know you might not have enough money to go? Or did you just go on fairth that you'd get the money? How do you have friends in California?
So Mongolia is a separate country?
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Bolcom's piece was performed twice, which is always nice in a premiere, but it was particularly nice this time, because Bill was the pianist in the first performance, and sat in the audience for the second (Ivan Seng, PCS's regular pianist, played beautifully in the encore). Four Piedmont Choruses uses wonderful texts by Kathryn Stripling Byer, who was also present. The music is classic Bolcom – craftsmanship, versatility, wit, beauty — all in fine proportion.
Stewart wrote most ofThe Desert as he was completing his Master's here a year ago, so it was nicely familiar to me – I felt like a long-lost uncle encountering his successful, grown-up nephew. James's music is courageous; he's not afraid of taking aesthetic risks, and he has the good taste to find elegant ways to present his most unusual ideas. The piece is very strong, but I couldn't help noting one small weak spot, sending him an email the next day with a gentle suggestion – which I know he is mature enough to accept or ignore.
I spent a lot of time with Bill Bolcom five years ago, when we commissioned his eleventh string quartet to commemorate the opening of our new chamber music hall. I'm still not sure if his social awkwardness is general, or if he is especially uncomfortable around other composers. I suspect it is a combination – he is always a little stiff with me, but comments he's made about unpleasant encounters with other composers back up the impression that he is on his guard, protecting himself from attack.
The program was all American works: Billings, Beach, Dello Joio, Chadwick, Hadley, Bolcom, Stewart and local composer William Stevens, whoseThree Not Very Old Ballads was very attractive. The mayor was on hand to issue a proclamation in honor of the PCS's 30th anniversary, and the chorus responded with well-wrought performances of challenging rep.


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Starting from a comment on an old statspack/AWR page, with a near-simultaneous thread appearing on OTN, (do read both) here's a quick summary of getting statspack onto 12c with containers. (For non-container databases it's a standard install).
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March 29, 2013
Missing SQL
From time to time I've looked at an AWR report and pointed out to the owner the difference in work load visible in the "SQL ordered by" sections of the report when they compare the summary figure with the sum of the work done by the individual statements. Often the summary will state that the captured SQL in the interval represents some percentage of the total workload in the high 80s to mid 90s – sometimes you might see a statement that the capture represents a really low percentage, perhaps in the 30s or 40s.
You have to be a little sensible about interpreting these figures, of course – at one extreme it's easy to double-count the cost of SQL inside PL/SQL, at the other you may notice that every single statement reported does about the same amount of work so you can't extrapolate from a pattern to decide how significant a low percentage might be. Nevertheless I have seen examples of AWR reports where I've felt justified in suggesting that at some point in the interval some SQL has appeared, worked very hard, and disappeared from the library cache before the AWR managed to capture it.
Now, from Nigel Noble, comes another explanation for why the AWR report might be hiding expensive SQL – a bug, which doesn't get fixed until 12.2 (although there are backports in hand).
February 18, 2013
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Here's a little follow-on from Friday's posting. I'll start it off as a quiz, and follow up tomorrow with an explanation of the results (though someone will probably have given the correct solution by then anyway).
I have a simple heap table t1(id number(6,0), n1 number, v1 varchar2(10), padding varchar2(100)). The primary key is the id column, and the table holds 3,000 rows where id takes the values from 1 to 3,000. There are no other indexes. (I'd show you the code, but I don't want to make it too easy to run the code, I want you to try to work it out in your heads).
February 15, 2013
It's very easy to get a lot of information from an AWR (or Statspack) report – provided you remember what all the numbers represent. From time to time I find that someone asks me a question about some statistic and my mind goes completely blank about the exact interpretation; but fortunately it's always possible to cross check because so many of the statistics are cross-linked. Here's an example of a brief mental block I ran into a few days ago – I thought I knew the answer, but realised that I wasn't 100% sure that my memory was correct:
January 7, 2013
Analysing Statspack 13
A recent (Jan 2013) post on the OTN database forum reported a performance problem on Oracle 188.8.131.52 (so no AWR), and posted a complete statspack report to one of the public file-sharing sites. It's been some time since I did a quick run through the highlights of trouble-shooting with statspack, so I've picked out a few points from this one to comment on.
As usual, although this specific report is Statspack, the same analysis would have gone into looking at a more modern AWR report, although I will make a couple of comments at the end about the extra material that would have been available by default with the AWR report that would have helped us help the OP.
November 13, 2011
Irrational Ratios
I've pointed out in the past how bad the Instance Efficiency ratios are in highlighting a performance problem. Here's a recent example from OTN repeating the point. The question, paraphrased, was:
After going through AWR reports (Instance Efficiency Percentages) I observed they have low Execute to Parse % but high Soft Parse %.
Please share if you had faced such issue and any suggestions to solve this
September 26, 2011
Upgrade Argh
Time for another of those little surprises that catch you out after the upgrade.
Take a look at this "Top N" from a standard AWR report, from an instance running 184.108.40.206
Top 5 Timed Foreground Events ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Avg wait % DB Event Waits Time(s) (ms) time Wait Class ------------------------------ ------------ ----------- ------ ------ ---------- direct path read 3,464,056 6,593 2 33.5 User I/O DB CPU 3,503 17.8 db flash cache single block ph 2,293,604 3,008 1 15.3 User I/O db file sequential read 200,779 2,294 11 11.6 User I/O enq: TC - contention 82 1,571 19158 8.0 Other
March 9, 2011
Statspack Reports
A couple of weeks ago I listed a number of scripts from 18.104.22.168 relating to AWR reports – it seems only sensible to publish a corresponding list for Statspack. In fact, there are two such lists – one for "traditional" Statspack, and one for "standby statspack" – a version of statspack you can pre-install so that you can run statspack reports against a standby database.
Statspack – the basic source of information is $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/admin/spdoc.txt
spreport.sql -> Generates a Statspack Instance report sprepins.sql -> Generates a Statspack Instance report for the database and instance specified sprepsql.sql -> Generates a Statspack SQL report for the SQL Hash Value specified sprsqins.sql -> Generates a Statspack SQL report for the SQL Hash Value specified, for the database and instance specified sppurge.sql -> Purges a limited range of Snapshot Id's for a given database instance sptrunc.sql -> Truncates all Performance data in Statspack tables spuexp.par -> An export parameter file supplied for exporting the whole PERFSTAT user
Standby Statspack – the basic source of information is $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/admin/sbdoc.txt
sbreport.sql - Create a report sbaddins.sql - Add a standby database instance to the configuration sblisins.sql - List instances in the standby configuration sbdelins.sql - Delete an instance from the standby configuration sbpurge.sql - Purge a set of snapshots
A warning note about standby statspack – there is a significant structural change from 126.96.36.199 to 18.104.22.168 allowing support of multiple standby databases. I haven't looked closely at it yet, but it did cross my mind that it might be possible to install the 18.104.22.168 version in an 220.127.116.11 database to avoid late upgrade issues – I may get around to testing the idea one day.
February 25, 2011
AWR Snapshots
A couple of days ago I mentioned as a passing comment that you could take AWR snapshots at the start and end of the overnight batch processing so that if you ever had to answer the question: "Why did last night's batch overrun by two hours?" you had the option of creating and comparing the AWR report from the latest batch run with the report from a previous batch run (perhaps the corresponding night the previous week) and check for any significant differences. Moreover, Oracle supplies you with the code to compare and report such differences from 10.2 (at least) using the script $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/admin/awrddrpt.sql
The thing I didn't mention at the time was how to take a snapshot on demand. It's very easy if you have the appropriate execute privilege on package dbms_workload_repository.
execute dbms_workload_repository.create_snapshot('TYPICAL');
The single input parameter can be 'TYPICAL' (the default) or 'ALL'.
I keep this one liner in a little script called awr_launch.sql – because I can never remember the exact name of the package without looking it up. (And sometimes I run it with sql_trace enabled so that I can see how much work goes into a snapshot as we change versions, features, configuration, workload and platforms.)
February 23, 2011
AWR Reports
A little thought for those who use OEM to generate AWR reports – if you generate the standard HTML form and then try posting it into (say) the OTN database forum when you want some help interpreting it, it won't look very readable (even if you do remember to put the right tags before and after to reproduce it in fixed font).
January 14, 2011
Statspack on RAC
Some time ago I was on a client site which was busy setting up a RAC cluster using Oracle 10g. Although I wasn't involved with that particular system there were a couple of coffee-breaks where I ended up chatting with the consultant that the client had hired to install the cluster. In one of our breaks he surprised me by making the casual comment: "Of course, you can't run Statspack on RAC because it locks up the system."
April 14, 2010
Analysing Statspack 12
[Further Reading on Statspack]
Part 12 is about a 2-node RAC system. Someone recently posted links to a matched pair of AWR reports in this thread on the OTN Database General forum and, after I had made a couple of quick comments on them, gave me permission to use them on my blog.
March 21, 2010
Nutshell – 2
There is a lot of confusion around about the significance of the statistic "parse calls". The important thing to remember is that it is simply counting a certain type of call from the OCI library – the amount of work done by a parse call may vary enormously depending upon circumstances, and sometimes the amount of work is so tiny that it's not worth worrying about.
A "parse call" may:
a) Have to optimise the statement because it failed to find it after searching the library cache
b) Find the statement after searching the library cache, and still have to optimise it for various reasons, e.g. the previous plan has been flushed from memory or the same text applies to different objects depending on who is executing it.
c) Find the statement after searching the library cache and not have to optimise it because the plan is still available and the user has the appropriate privileges.
d) Operate through the session cursor cache or pl/sql cursor cache allowing it to use a short cut to the statement's location in the library cache without having to search the cache.
When the Oracle increments the counter for "parse calls" you still have to work out whether that call turned into (a), (b), (c) or (d).
Just to confuse the issue, Oracle may also record a "parse count (hard)" without recording a "parse call".
[Back to Nutshell -1 (Redo and Undo)]
Update Jan 2011
Randolf Geist has been looking at adaptive cursor sharing, and has noted that the parse call – including parse calls that go through the session cursor cache – seems to be the point in the code where adaptive cursor sharing can take place: in other words, it's not an event that gets triggered or flagged by executions.
September 10, 2009
Philosophy – 5
Trouble-shooting with Statspack / AWR:
Something has to be top of the "Top 5 Timed Waits" … even when there are no performance problems.
July 10, 2009
Statspack Skills
I had a great time a couple of weeks ago at the UKOUG meeting of the DBMS SIG (reported here by Coskan Gundogar). The range of presentations was good and I had a number of interesting conversations.
Of course, the exciting part for me was sitting down with a batch of Statspack and AWR reports that I had been supplied with in the previous couple of days and doing a "real-time" analysis of them.


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DOVER, Del. (AP) - A winter storm that pelted the Mid-Atlantic region with high winds and rain brought minor flooding to parts of Delaware, forcing several road closings.
Officials said State Route 1 north of the Indian River Inlet Bridge remained closed Thursday after waves breached the dune line and drove water and sand onto the road.
A primary access road through the Prime Hook wildlife refuge that serves about 200 year-round residents in an adjacent coastal community also was closed by flooding, a routine occurrence when storms hit.
Emergency management officials had urged residents of flood-prone coastal areas to relocate to safer areas inland Wednesday, but no evacuations were ordered.
The Indian River School District opened two hours late Thursday, but other school districts in Delaware were on normal schedules.
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- Born: 17/08/1982
- Birthplace: Sale, Manchester
- Nationality: English
- Apps/ Goals: 257 (18) / 9
- Debut: 2007 (v Tottenham Hotspur, White Hart Lane
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Phil Jagielka joined Everton in the summer of 2007 from Sheffield United.
He arrived on Merseyside in early July in a deal worth £4million.
Rumours of a switch to Goodison Park had rumbled on all summer, and when Sheffield United's relegation was confirmed (following their challenge of the Premier League's decision not to dock West Ham points) the Toffees quickly tied up the deal.
A versatile player, Phil can play in central defence, at full back and also in midfield.
He is also a capable goalkeeper and was called into action for Sheffield United on several occasions, most notably when he kept a clean sheet in the Blades' 1-0 home win over Arsenal in the 06/07 season.
Jagielka was at Everton's academy for a period in his teens before departing Merseyside and progressing through the ranks at the Yorkshire club.
In 2006, Phil won the award for the best player in the Championship, playing a central role in the Blades' promotion to the top flight under Neil Warnock. He joined Everton to fight for a number of positions but it was in central defence that he established himself in the side after a slow start to the campaign.
Jags made his Everton debut appearing as a substitute against Tottenham at White Hart Lane before making his full debut at Bolton.
Joseph Yobo's involvement in the African Cup of Nations in January 2008 provided an opportunity for Jagielka and he grasped it with both hands. He forged a strong partnership with Joleon Lescott and then Yobo when the Nigerian returned from international action as David Moyes' men marched to the semi-finals of the Carling Cup and progressed to the knockout stages of the Uefa Cup.
Jagielka's success meant he remained a fixture in the centre of defence, and such was the quality of his performances that he was called-up by England manager Fabio Capello for a couple of end-of-season friendlies.
He subsequently made his international debut as a second-half substitute in England's 3-0 win over Trinidad and Tobago.
After more excellent form in the 2008/09 season, he got a first start for the Three Lions against Spain in February 2009.
He then scored the winning penalty in Everton's spot-kick win over Man Utd in the FA Cup semi-final, exorcising the demons of the previous season's miss against Fiorentina.
But a serious knee ligament injury struck in April and he missed the FA Cup final and much of the 2009/10 season.
After ten months out, Jagielka returned to action on 25 February 2010 coming on as a substitute in the Europa League defeat to Sporting Lisbon in Portugal.
After featuring as a half-time substitute in the trip to Tottenham Hotspur, he started in every Everton first-team game until the end of the season.
In September 2010 Jagielka started a competitve game for England for the first time, partnering Michael Dawson in a 4-0 thrashing of Bulgaria in England's opening Euro 2012 qualifier at Wembley.
He remained a regular part of the Three Lions squad and by the end of the campaign was back to his very best for the Toffees.
Jagielka made 36 appearances and netted twice for the Blues across the 2011/12 season, with injury sidelining the centre-half for a two-month spell at the turn of the year.
Solid form following his March return earned the former Blade a seat on the plane as England headed to Euro 2012 - although he remained an unused substitute for all four games.
However, he was involved from the start in the next international friendly and scored his first goal for his country on Wednesday 15 August in the 2-1 win over Italy in Switzerland.
Competitive involvement followed in September, as Jagielka started the 1-1 World Cup qualifying draw with Ukraine at Wembley.
After a typically impressive first half of the 2012/13 season, Jagielka agreed a two-year contract extension in January 2013 which, if completed, would take him to 10 years service at Goodison Park.
Jagielka recovered from a nasty foot injury suffered against Reading to finish the season in impressive form and following Phil Neville's decision to leave he was confirmed by new manager Roberto Martinez as his captain for the 2013/14 season.
He continued to be a rock at the heart of Everton's defence alongside Sylvain Distin, but a hamstring problem sidelined him from February until May.
But a return to fitness at the end of the season was sufficient for Roy Hodgson to name Jagielka in his 30-man squad for the World Cup in Brazil.
Contracted until: June 2017.
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awww :) so caring for ur parents :) yea totally :) well this year is going by SUPER FAST so ee koni days kuda fast ga ayipothai le....and keep calling aunty and uncle :) that will keep them from missing both of you ! :)
yea since he is 2 years older he always gets away! and plus honestly it sounds like what ever he says is like more mature :( ughhh! oh well its fun :) But im so over protective of him i know it should be other way around but its not....i dont like him riding bicycles cuz i feel he mite try tricks and get hurt! and whenver we play cricket he takes it sooo seriously like one day he was one day the other team was so close to winning and my bor was fielding and he was looking at the ball and running after it and hit a pole! and then like on the top right side he like got cut so deep ...it was just terrible..! so now whenver we play and like he gets a small cut or sumthing i am the first one to make a great deal out of it! to me he is sooo special .. but i think its just that we moved so much my bro was my like the only frnd that was always there ofcourse i have other frnds but moving thoti he was the only stable one :) u knw wat i mean?
Yea looking forward to transformets tooo (sorry the comment are out of order! i just realized while typing cuz i read everything and then wrote so all the comments are all over the place :( )
there are some good movies coming out :)
awww so harrry potter review nenu motham neku cheppestha anumata since ill see it b4 u will:) hahaha :)
thanks :) and yea take care and email soon :)
hmmm ye sunjects lo ni fail aithe kaledhu so thats good...chala baga vachai ante math lo 100 ki 100 vachai...i got the top score :) spanish lo one of the top score vachai, history lo 98 out of 100 vochindhi ... very close for 100/100 and english and biology lo got one of the top scores kani felt i could have done better kani na thoti problem TIME :( I take so much time on tricky questions sumtimes so i think that takes away a lot :( but overall pass ayanu! abba asalu tension motham poyindhi!
yesterday (saturday) we went to Hershey Park, in Pennsilvania.... there are roller coasters, and water roller coasters and stuff .... we went with 3 other families ... and i walked so much... my legs are dead! I was the only girl :( but still i went with my brother and all the other boys were my brothers frnds so we got along...hahahaha :) we woke up at 5:30 to leave and dad decided to carry all the kids and our mom and we came home at 1 am! and he drove back 3 hrs home while everyone was sleeping! :( papam nana he loves to sleep and he surrendered it...today he will be getting some rest alright!
Yea....im pretty sure ill be able to email u :) nooo its vacation but my cousin is like a 24/7 facebookk adict! one of the resasons y i didnt want a facebook! :) so yea TRUST ME ill have time :)
well whenever you do DONT FORGET to come HERE! :)
sangeetham hmm learned for 5-6yrs :( thsi would be like the 7th. yea totally right sport thoti manchi diversion :)
upload chesaka email la pampistha :) Nuvvu kuda time dhorkinapudu pics upload cheyi and send :)
WOW! hahaha so i guess overall everyone is hoappiii no? brother completede ur dreams and i bet your happy for that and parents must be happy too ! :) So basically everyone in your family from this genereation will keep a legend of going to IIT? huh? :)
like if one day he is watching a cricket match seriously i go up to him...sit there try to watch wat he has been watching for the past 6hrs ... and ill ask him ":why do you like cricket so much!?" and he will be so annoyed! its fun tho and i STRONGLY feel as a younger sister that's my job! dont u think so? i think when we were younger we fought physically more lolz...but now that we are somewhat older we just yell at each other with words! and my mom instead of trying to break up the fight she goes into like an emotioinal mood and goes "i remember when me and my brothers/sisters did that!" hahaha :) i luv my mom :) and my dad he rarley gets mad...like even when he gets mad its FAKE! like u can tell! but when he is watching news (telugu news ) he will be like go fight in teh other room! or stop fighting! but yea we dont fight as much tho :(
7 days trip and yea its famous an miami is there :) but my cousins live in Tampa, but they have a very famous beach next to them but i dont know the name so we may go there idk......we went to Orlando last time to see Disney WOrld ! AMAZING! if ur gonna come to America and you luv roller coasters and stuff go there AND also come to our house! :)
yea thats the plan :) but now im not sure :( but sure when i go to india deffinatley ill meet u :) and oye, when you come to AMERICA plesaseeeeee come to New Jersey! you have to meet us ! kk?
im not too happy i stopped classes either but i had too :( mom doesnt worky she is a house wife, which i think is the toughest job, so thanu driving nerchkoledhu, i mean she was learning at once, but got scared! lol...so yea and Dad is the only one that drives and in OCTOBER my brother will too! and i used ride my bicycle there to her house cuase its like 5 min away but i had tennis and it just got complicated :(
yea yea :) i know ill deffinatley find time to record atleast ONE SONG for you:) & im still sorry didnt to respond so late!
Guess who's back!? Meee ! 1st day after exams are over! feels great! And i got the results tooo! :) I passed with some of the top scores so iim happy im dun! Sadly from today on i dont have to wake up at 6am to get ready for skl :( It doesnt even feel like its summer holdiays for us .... :) strange ..and i OWE YOU A HUGE APOLOGY for not leaving a comment earlier! :( im really sorry!
I chose spanish and so did my brother .... wow ur not the only indian who wants to take french! Most indians take FRENCH here :) hahaha :) im one of the only rare people that take spanish!
yea i get it....umm yea i think thats bout it .... but here this kind of schooling is common...., but its scary thinking that since im gonna go to 10th grade, and if for some reason i had to go to India i would be doing inter 1st year! lolz :) scary feeling!
wow you read 7 pgs more than me! i stopped on the thrid page! *smiles* oh my god the ticckets here for Harry Potter premiere show in Imax 3-d RAN OUT! but the good thing is .. our neighbor (another telugu person) ordered six tickets for my bro and his frnds....and me to go :) i always tag along with my brother...its a great advantage! lolz :) jk but yea i do ....no joke :)
no probs but the problem is i took the pics on my phone :( and i dont know how to upload them ....my dad does but we have so many pics on our computers that if you put like 100 more its not even letting yoU! :( I LUV taking pictures! like i will have a camera in the house somehwere vacant so if i ever see something cute like my mom and dad laughing ill go take a camera and snap pictures :) hahaha :)
I dont think a day can go by without me and my bro fighting! even if we are having fun somebody has to start a fight to end the day! lol.....okay im not going to lie....my brother always wins, but only cuz he is 2 yrs older than me! but they are stupid arguments :)
haha.....yea, wud hv got one!...bad luck..
.....hw is ur work going on, anyway?
Hey, yeah, its been too long!
I'm good, am at home right now, for the summer. The heat is terrible. D:
How are you?
papam u have work and i get summer holidays! :) hahahha just kidding :) hmm ye summer lo memu florida ki velthunamu! 2nd time but this time to stay and chill at our cousins house! You wont beleive this or actually u may...but they are the only MAIN family members that live in America! Everyone else in India! :( There are distant relatives but they dont count! We r planning on to go to India next year ...finally! hahahahaha :) but hopefully this time its not just visiting eveyr single one of our relatives because once u start they never end! u knw wat i mean?! hahahaha! i luv my family memember but it can get a little hectic because we only go there for like 2-3 weeksish and in that time we spend time going to each of their houses! I htink this time it will be visiting the main family members like 1st cousins and may b dads school and college frnds that live in india and going to temples and seeing the Taj Mahal...last time i saw the Taj Mahal was hmmm a VERY long time ago...wen i lived in india i saw it! and that was wen i was in durring or before 1st grade/class!
yup i luv da flashbak character tooo! yea u knw how on telugu channels they repeat the same songs and trailers...well wen ever nenu naa rakshasi songs come on me and my mom start stinging right away! hahahaha
ill try! kani nenu antha great singer ni yem kadhu! :( i try my level best ! recent ga sangeetham classes apanu :( school thoti and tennis thoti madhyala vundhi kastam! i feel really bad yendhukante learning sangeetham was really special and nenu dhani appasanu! :( kani eveyrday i try to listen to devotional songs and am trying to learn my self without teacher so it doesnt waste money or anythign :)
oh yea happy belated wishes to u tooo madhu! ur right better late the never!
dont worry im ENJOYING the sweatiness alright! hahahaha :)
reply soon and take care :) exams are starting jun 13th -17th!
Well we get to choose whether we want to take spanish, french, italian, or german...i took spanish becasue most of the words they use...most... are similar to english and once u learn it its easy...im not fluent in it but im okay....i can write it and like make sentences and speak a bit but not tooo much
math kana bio ki scared ga vunnanu! i heard its easy kani still bayapadthunanu!!! but ur right math mana indians ki chala simple! hahahaha :)
okay nee kosam nenu extra hard ga chaduvthunanu!
see its differnt here india lo 11th and 12th grade count as college (inter 1st year and 2nd year) but here 11th and 12th are still regular school. for example my bro is in 11th grade here (and should be in 12th grade or inter 2nd year if he was in india) but here 11th and 12th is like 9th and 10th...reg. school .... so no college for me untill after i graduate 12th grade :( do u get it? i mean koncham confusing ga vuntundhi but thats what it is here .. :)
same im the movies fan not much of the harry potter reader fan :( i never got past the first book and that to the 3rd page!!!!!!
hahaha so nuvvu nathoti emailing cheyadam thoti time pass chestunaru anumatta! hahahaha
wow naa colose freind birhtday 26th of february.....and inka evvaro birthday kuda 27th of february...hmmm peru gurthosthaledhu :(
nenu pictures naa phone thoti thiskunanu so wen i finda a way to upload them on the internet i will DEFFINTLEY post them!
hmmm i luv them bothh dearly! kaniii yea i have to say dad.... we have a lot of stuff in common like being a fan of PRINCE MAHESH! hahahahaha :) bro is more of amma kuchi! hahaha :) u r probably mom right? btw how did u guess i was close to my dad?
acutally i just came back from playing tennis! oka 5 minutes cour lo unnanu and omg nenu yentha sweat chesssanu ante! ughhh i hate the weather!
Ran out of charaacters here too!
SO YEA i dont have a prob because i cannot stay away form my family one sec! im really attatched to them too :( idk how i will surrvive int eh future but for now im not going to worry bout that :) going to think positive :)
ikada yentha humid go vundhi ante! unpredictable! asalu too hot to play outside too!
i mean i was not expecting that kind of acting from him...and the flashback character was my favorite! trivikram and prvan kalyan goo dmatch! :)
yea mr.percect was a nice movie :) and hahahaa thats funny because the lyrics are quite odd but oh well song is catchy! my mom felt the same but now i got her addicted to the song tooo :P
its actually my fault for not saying :( its march 12th :) when is urs? im so sorry i never told u! :(
take care and email soon!!!!! :) enjoy the heat but i guess i dont have to telll u that hahahaha! :)
every subject maku exams vunnai! so english, bio, math, history, art ( i knw its rediculous but easy!), spanish (urghh!) and thats bout it ... i think :(
welll in AMERICA i finsihed 9th grade so goign to 10 th grade when school starts again in september...but in INDIA i would have finshed 10th grade/class right now and be going into 11th or inter 1st year .. :)
well both mom and dad come from Warangal :) sad news is i dont see my grandparents....dad's mom and dad passed away and the mom's dad passed away when she was really young...and the only person alive is my mom's mom :( ... and i dont even see her :( she has health problems but currently she is living with my moms brothers or my mamma's i should say :)
btw penelope cruz is really pretty...:) so nice taste :) yea guess ill just wait and see! btw u a harrypotter fan!? i dont read the books but i watched the moives..just curious :)
omg up to 1am! namalenu! ante chala busy ga vunnavu! mannn yela manage chestunavvu witha ll this work and yet be with your frnds and comment back to my SUPER long messages! Hatts off! :)
we disected a PIG today!!! omg it was amazing! will try to post pics of the dead thing if i can! :( it was sad tho they werent even bron they were aborted :( but ont he bright side we got the brain out and liver, intestines, heart, kidneys and etc....at frist i was scared to touch it because i thought it would wake up all of a sudden i know im stupid for thinking that but it was fun! my lab group was 3 of my close frnds and me....so wen my close frnd was cutting around the abdamonal chord and the front to open and see wats inside i got a little braver...and i cut around the head part to get brain out! it was amazing! hahahhaha :)
same with my parents they r really attatched to me and bro so they keep telling us no matter where we go for college that they will move with us! hahahah :)
not relatives yaar...u c, i'm frm Kolkata, so we hv our house there..
.......yup!......my grade point is 9.6!!
okay ran out of characters here tooo! i think we write tooo much! hahahaha :)
my dad has been telling me teenmaar is a flop in india!? my dad really liked the movie and our family did cuz of the flash back character contrasted to the present world....my dad loved that concept:)
yea i heard 100% love is running in good success there...havent seen it....the newest movie i saw was prbly Mr. Perfect.....nenu naa rakshasi we heard was a flop so didnt even bother! ... yea mr.perfect was our last film its good :) i liked it :) yessssss i luv that song otoo from nenu naa raskahsi :) its good and its a differnet style of a song for telugu cinema :)
hahhaha dont worry ill study extra hard just for u ! hahahaha :) thanks :)
no problem nenu neku sorry cheppali yendhukante i replied VERY LATE kabati :(
exams will start Jun 13th - Jun17th ... last week of school will have exams :( wat a great way to end right?
deffinatley ill do better on these because i have mroe time to study too :) but the good thing is thee main subjects i have to study for is bio and english and the rest is not tooo much to worry abotu :) so i can take it slow a little bit :)
Wow must have been really nice to see your grandparents :) i mean they must have been happier! but hahhaaha i think thats like wat grandparents love to say "chala peddavalu aipoyaru veelu" its like their fav. dialogue :) yea i heard of Guntur i dont knwo if i have ever been there...probably not...but yea i have heard of it :) thats ncie they are quite close by :)
well its good that you have friends near you tho so u wont get bored of being there alone! hahaha :)
Woww havnt gotten a chance to see the movie yet! so eagerly waiting! how is it? better than the others? or okay compared to the others ... and hey what can we say about johnny depp.... he is just plain old johnny depp.... who doesnt love his acting?
well u seem to like Kolkata but are u getting any time to like go see around the place or are those office people holding u back!?
awwww mann mom must have loved the feeling wen the phone rings and its ur voice :) thats nice ...and 4x a day! thats great :) no one can feel home sick after that :)
well congratulate him for me! is that the toughest part choosing college and stuff? cuz it seems complicated becasue thats where u will be for the next few years right? well atleast he has you...u have been through all of this already so u can help him out and stuff :)
recently the waeather has been so unbearably HOT! abba asalu u cant even step out anuko!
if u coem outside and step for one second...u can probably sweat a whole bucket full in that second! u cant even play with frnds!
yea i came downstairs today and my parents were watching some telugu news...tv9, tv5, or something like that...and u knw how they have those commercials and adds and metnions like the top scorers and stuff?? well yea that was going on and the first thing that poppped in my midn was u telling me ur brother is taking the test. ... i bet he did great! ... :) did u find out hte ranks and stuff? i bet he is really tensed and all :( but those are really good marks...and yea totally get why you wouldnt tell him .... hahaha :)
after a long time no words... it feels really good to chat again! Ikkada weather kuda every day hotter avthundhi! Its good but one day it rains and the other day it is supper hot!.... chala irritating ga vundhi.... nenu naa frnds koni plans veskunamu ... you know...play tennis today...and tomorrow but one day it rains and plans get canceled and the next day the courts are still wet but its supper hot! :(
the weather is bothering me but today it is beautiful tho .... :)
so take care and email soon :) and i hope your shirid darshan went well :D
no im sorry.... well biology and math exams are over! just have final exams in JUNE and then im DONE! i get a long summer break :)
i love shiridi just beautiful there....its like when ever you go for darshan there i can almost like feel baba's vibrations :) For me its a very spiritual place and i bet it is for millions and millions of people that go there to visit! But man it must have been crowded there.... i mean holidays are starting there right? so it must have been packed!
Awwww.... thats nice...they must have been so happy to see you :) Do your grandparents live far away form home town? But either way it must have been really nice to see them :)
Wow so first things first... how is KOLKOTA!? i mean differnet evnviorment...different people...and mainly different language! ... i mean your probably can follow along ot what they say but stil.... :) so how is there internship and everythign going? u settled in there ocmpletley or do you still miss home :( ??
yea well basic exams kani important ones so for now they r over have final exams to looks forward to tho.... kani thanks :) i think i did pretty good but i wont promise you anythnign about the results ... we will just havae to wait and seee :)
awwww yea i missed talking to you too.... feels good to be back on reg. schedule and not have to spend over 6hrs like studying for biology or math! feels like a lot of weight has been lifted off my shoulders! .... :)
awww ur home sick :( its okay... i mean think postive how many people actually get to go to another enviroment...i mean this will be a really good expereince for u... so just think positive! :D and also keep calling home..... If i ever stay over a frnds house or soemthing and i feel homesick i call my mom... i like hearing her words it feels good :) amma matalu kada! so keep callign ur mom.... it might make u feel better :)
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MIAMI, FL - The Rutgers men's and women's track and field team finished the Hurricane Invitational in Miami, FL with strong individual finishes to open their outdoor seasons.
Jen Austin (Garfield, NJ) led the women's team, winning the javelin throw with a mark of 47.71 meters and Melinda Foster (Barnegat, NJ) placed second in the same event with a throw of 38.05. Sarah Cullen (Red Bank, NJ) finished the shot put competition in third (14.04), Kiara Adams (Westminster, MD) took fourth (13.34), Sophia Anderson (Brooklyn, NY) captured fifth (13.19) and Reva McEachern (Pennsauken, NJ) placed ninth (12.04).
Danielle Hobson (West Orange, NJ) finished in second place in the 400 meter hurdles with a time of 1:00.16. Kerry Ann Mitchell (East Orange, NJ) took second in the women's high jump with a mark of 1.70m. Rutgers finished third in the 4x400 meter relay with a time of 3:46.86.
Marsha Day (Leonardtown, MD) finished the pole vault competition in sixth place with a mark of 3.21m. Day also had a mark of 4.66 meters to finish the long jump in 18th place.
Jacqueline Todd (Willingboro, NJ) placed 13th in the women's 100 meter dash with a time of 12.44 and placed 17th in the 200 meter dash with a time of 25.19. Irene Clybourn (Hammonton, NJ) placed 20th in the 100 meter dash (12.91) and 27th in the 200 (26.40). Angela Messerschmidt (Berwick, PA) placed 34th in the 200 meter dash (27.52) and 19th in the long jump (4.64 meters). Reva McEachern (Pennsauken, NJ) finished at 35th with a time of 28.05. Sherry White (Orange, NJ) placed 19th in the 400-meter dash with a time of 1:00.09.
Shameka Marshall (Mizpah, NJ) finished the 100-meter hurdles in 14.43, finishing in 11th place. Marshall also placed seventh in the long jump competition with a mark of 5.61 meters.
Desiree Battle (Syracuse, NY) finished seventh in the triple jump with a mark of 11.14 and Mitchell finished eighth in the same event (10.95). Candice Schultz (Beachwood, NJ) finished the hammer throw in seventh place with a throw of 38.14.
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That's the word being used to describe Jimmy Fallon's "Tonight Show" debut. I didn't see it live but I've watched a number of segments online. I loved it. I haven't watched late night television on anything that even resembles a regular basis since Johnny Carson retired more than two decades ago.
I've heard several reviewers describe Fallon as the most Carsonesque presence behind the mic. From what I saw, I agree. Carson laid back, aw shucks style is often considered to be out of vogue; that a late night show today needs more "pop."
Oh yes, there were moments of "pop" last night, but from what I'm being told and from what I saw, Fallon's style will be unique in the late night universe. Time will tell if Fallon maintains after a strong debut. I'm going to regularly check in at 10:30 central for the first time


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This thesis directs attention towards the nature of intra-urban trip-making and shows that existing representations fail to encompass an important aspect of interaction, namely, multistop multipurpose trips. The results of an extensive travel diary survey from Hamilton are reported and they show that trip-making involves multistop multipurpose activity in at least 60% of the cases examined. The only travel type for which the simple single-stop single-purpose trip assumption is a reasonable approximation is for work trips. Shopping trips, in this study, and in previously reported studies involve multiple stops and purposes in as many as 74% of the cases. Important spatial and functional linkages are implied by this type of behaviour.
A method of representing travel diary information on complex trip-making is devised, and this method is used to generalize existing models of spatial interaction. The properties of the generalized model are compared to those of existing models, and in particular the interdependence implied by the introduction of complex interaction is stressed. The results of incorporating interdepence are examined analytically and numerically, and it is shown that the new model provides a more realistic representation of interaction.
An application of the model to some alternative development plans for the Hamilton area is made. In this application the model is used to determine the sizes of retail facilities in the city based on planned residential and employment distribution.
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On the Translator's Subjectivity -- From the Perspective of Gadamer's Philosophical Hermeneutics
For a long period in history, translation approach is prescriptive and source-text oriented. Much of the emphasis is put on the nature, criteria and techniques of translation, highlighting the decisive status of the source text and putting the translator in a neglected position. With the uprising of the descriptive translation approach accompanying the "Cultural Turn" in translation studies in the west after the 1970s, the complex role that the translator plays in the whole process of translation has gained increasing attention among translation theorists. The subjectivity of the translator, one branch of the study on the translator, has become a necessary and important research subject. This paper applies the basic notions of Hans-Georg Gadamer's philosophical hermeneutics-historical interpretation, prejudice and fusion of horizons-to justify the translator's subjective creativity in the act of translation. It probes into the connotation of the translator's subjectivity, its manifestations and restrictions.
Key words: Translator's subjectivity; Philosophical hermeneutics; Interpretation; Fusion of horizons
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Bassnett, S., & Lefevere, A. (1990). Translation, History and Culture. London and New York: Routledge.
Berman, A. (1995). Pour Une Critique Des Traductions. Paris: Gallimard.
Eagleton, T. (1986). Western Literary Theory in the Twentieth Century. Xi'an: Shanxi Normal University Press.
Gadamer, Hans-Georg. (1960). Truth and Method (2nd ed.). London: Sheed & Ward Limited.
Jauss, & Horab (1987). Reception Aesthetics and Reception Theory. (Zhou, N., & Jin, Y.P. Trans.). Shenyang: Liaoning People's Press.
LI, N.M. (2004). On Value Subjectivity: A New Sphere in the Study of Subjectivity. Beijing: Beijing Science and Technology Literature Press.
Munday, Jeremy (2001). Introducing Translation Studies: Theories and Applications. London and New York: Routledge.
Venuti, Lawrence (2004). The Translator's Invisibility: A History of Translation. Shanghai: Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press.
Xu, J. (Ed.). (2003). Translation Study Toward 21st Century. Beijing: The Commercial Press.
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Banana pudding is a simple Southern classic that has evolved into an all-American favorite. This recipe lightens up the traditional pudding by using low-fat milk, fat-free sweetened condensed milk and reduced-fat cookies.
Yield: 10 servings (serving size: 3/4 cup)
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- Calories: 255
- Calories from fat: 10%
- Fat: 2.9g
- Saturated fat: 1g
- Monounsaturated fat: 0.9g
- Polyunsaturated fat: 0.2g
- Protein: 7.9g
- Carbohydrate: 49.5g
- Fiber: 0.1g
- Cholesterol: 51mg
- Iron: 0.4mg
- Sodium: 155mg
- Calcium: 161mg
- 1/3 cup all-purpose flour
- Dash of salt
- 2 1/2 cups 1% low-fat milk
- 1 (14-ounce) can fat-free sweetened condensed milk
- 2 large egg yolks
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 3 cups sliced ripe banana, divided
- 45 reduced-fat vanilla wafers, divided
- 4 large egg whites (at room temperature)
- 1/4 cup sugar
- Preheat oven to 325°.
- Combine flour and salt in a medium saucepan. Gradually add milks and yolks; stir well. Cook over medium heat 8 minutes or until thick, stirring constantly. Remove from heat; stir in vanilla.
- Arrange 1 cup banana slices in bottom of a 2-quart baking dish. Spoon one-third of pudding mixture over banana. Arrange 15 wafers on top of pudding. Repeat layers twice, arranging the last 15 wafers around edge of dish. Push cookies into pudding.
- Beat egg whites at high speed of a mixer until foamy. Gradually add sugar, 1 tablespoon at a time, beating until stiff peaks form. Spread meringue evenly over pudding, sealing to edge of dish. Bake at 325° for 25 minutes or until golden.
- Note: Banana Pudding may be a bit soupy when you first remove it from the oven. Let cool at least 30 minutes before serving.
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The public is invited to two sessions:
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"We feel this is an important step to ensure that the library continues to meet the needs of the community," said Schurdevin. "This process will help us plan for change and growth so we are able to continue to provide essential resources for Las Cruces residents."
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The Alliance Theatre has announced that "30 Rock" star Jane Krakowski will be the entertainer for its annual "A Tony Evening" gala on May 18. The fifth annual event, benefiting Alliance educational program for youth and families, will honor Georgia Power president and CEO Paul Bowers and Sesame Workshop, the non-profit behind "Sesame Street," for their support of arts in early childhood education. Stephanie Blank is serving as event chairwoman. Tickets: $300, $500 couple. 404-733-4612, www.alliancetheatre.org/atonyevening. HOWARD POUSNER
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Adjective describing guys who use shady and sometimes creepy techniques to pick-up girls at bars. For example, inviting one girl to a giant "afterparty" at the guy's apartment upon the bar's closure, but not telling anyone else. Or stealing the girl's keys so she has to stop by the apartment to pick them up.
He invited me to an afterparty at his place, but then there was no one there but me and him. That's so lobo.
автор: Lobo24 21 октября 2009
Laughing On a Box Outside.
Text to random homeless person: "hey gabbi, why did the chicken cross the road?"
Gabbi: "why"
Random person: "because it had AIDS"
Gabbi: "LOBO!"
Gabbi: "why"
Random person: "because it had AIDS"
Gabbi: "LOBO!"
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Laughing our boners off
Guy 1: We can watch "The Middle Men" first and then we can lobo to "The Other Guys"
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An investigation into a child pornography image that's gone viral is spanning across nearly five states, according to the Memphis Police Department.
"The image has kind of gone across the country and there's other jurisdictions working on it as well, so we're working with those other ICAC units from these other jurisdictions to try to pin down where the victim actually is," says Lt. Wilton Cleveland with the MPD Internet Crimes Against Children unit.
Police arrested Internet radio host and blogger Thaddeus Matthews, 55, on Wednesday for posting child porn image on his Facebook page.
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"There was a child I felt was in danger. I went after the perpetrator of the child," says Matthews, "The concern should be that if there is a child that is being sexually abused in this community then it ain't about Thaddeus. ... I think it reeks of politics."
Matthew is now charged with Sexual Exploitation of a Minor, Aggravated Sexual Exploitation of a Minor and Especially Aggravated Sexual Exploitation of a Minor. MPD says the last charge holds a minimum state sentence of eight years in jail.
"Maybe it could've been handled a little bit differently," Matthews said. "I go back to my primary concern was nothing malicious, nothing that was criminally intended. I got the information and it's been sent everywhere. It was viral before I got it."
Police say they are now also pursuing others who posted the picture on their Facebook pages or e-mailed the image out. According to the law, they too could face charges similar to Matthews.
It's a crime to post any pornographic images of children on the Internet no matter what the reason.
"If they decide to repost this image then they're actually manipulating the image which means they're taking possession of it, which is inappropriate," says Cleveland.
Police say if you want to help them find the one responsible for this child pornography, call MPD immediately. If you receive a pornographic picture involving a child on your email or see it on Facebook, leave the computer as is and contact police. MPD says they will come to you and take action finding the source from there.
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In an unabashed — and likely successful — bid for attention, singer Miley Cyrus smoked a joint on stage and twerked with a dwarf during the MTV Europe Music Awards.
The 20-year old singer won the Best Video award for her hit song Wrecking Ball.
Sunday's strong lineup of performers also included Eminem and Katy Perry.
Cyrus opened the show singing We Can't Stop, while wearing a silver spandex suit and twerking. Marijuana is not legal in the Netherlands, but smokers can't be prosecuted for possession of small amounts and it is sold openly in cafes.
Robert Redford was honored by Utah's governor for his on- and off-camera contributions to the state.
Gov. Gary Herbert expressed gratitude to the 77-year-old Redford at a Saturday night gala in Salt Lake City that was attended by some 500 people, including U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch and Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker.
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A pipeline to profits
The largest publicly traded US operator earns S&P's highest 5-star buy rating.
With a market cap of $34.9 billion, Enterprise Products Partners (EPD) is the largest publicly traded pipeline limited partnership in the U.S.
We view EPD as a core master limited partnership holding, given its integrated assets that connect energy supply sources to end markets, its large geographic footprint and what we consider the sustainability of its cash distributions.
We see EPD benefiting from a strong presence in current and emerging shale plays, a favorable environment for natural gas liquids, and its $6 billion worth of major growth projects in development.
As a master limited partnership, EPD distributes much of its cash flow to its unit holders. From 2006 to 2010, cash distributions rose at a compound annual growth rate of 15.2%.
We estimate that EPD will increase its cash distributions by 4.6%, to $2.42 per unit in 2011, and by 4.9%, to $2.54 per unit, in 2012. We believe increases in distributions are sustainable, given contributions from the new projects coming into service.
The partnership's assets include 50,200 miles of onshore and off-shore pipelines; 192 million barrels of storage capacity for NGLs, refined products and crude oil; and 27 billion cubic feet of natural gas storage capacity.
EPD also provides crude oil and refined products storage and transportation, offshore production platform services, and petrochemical transportation and storage.
EPD has a strong presence in shale plays such as the Haynesville, Eagle Ford and Permian Basin, which we believe gives it a competitive advantage versus its peers in meeting the demand for infrastructure build-out.
The partnership has also recently established a new fundamentals group to identify potential opportunities at shale plays such as the Niobrara and San Juan Basin that are near existing EPD assets.
We also believe that EPD is poised to benefit from the favorable NGL environment that is being driven by increased demand from the petrochemical industry.
The high oil/gas price ratio is also prompting exploration and production companies to increase natural gas liquids drilling.
We think that EPD will benefit from increased drilling activity through its current NGL pipelines and processing centers and its future investments in this area.
We expect rising pipeline volumes to boost earnings and cash flow over the next several years, as EPD has a large portfolio of projects that we believe offer potentially high returns at relatively low risk.
In 2011, we expect operating income to experience double-digit growth and exceed $2.6 billion, aided by growth at its onshore crude oil pipelines and services segment, and its NGL pipeline and services segment.
In our view, the expected increase in demand for natural gas liquids will improve EPD's NGL transportation and fee-based gas processing volumes. We see a single-digit increase in EPD's average NGL transportation volumes to 2.43 million barrels per day in 2011.
Approximately 70% of its businesses are fee-based, which we view positively as it reduces EPD's vulnerability to commodity price volatility.
Our 12-month target price of $51 is based on a blend of our P/E and enterprise value/EBITDA analysis, using multiples higher than the five-year historical average.
We believe that EPD warrants a premium valuation given its growth prospects, strategically located assets, and sustainable distribution.
The primary risk we see to our recommendation and target price is a decline in economic activity. Meanwhile, the stock carries S&P Capital IQ's highest investment recommendation of 5-STARS, or Strong Buy.
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THE Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs wish to confirm that Jacob Loko has joined the Club.
Reynolds to seek downgrade at judiciary
CANTERBURY-BANKSTOWN Bulldogs and NSW five-eighth Josh Reynolds will head to the NRL judiciary this evening, seeking a downgrade on a dangerous throw charge he received last night in Game 1 of the State of Origin series.
Bulldogs confirm Pritchard injury
THE Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs wish to confirm that Frank Pritchard will miss 3-4 months of football after scans today confirmed the Co-Captain had torn his pectoral during the 21-20 victory over the Warriors yesterday in Auckland.
Bulldogs statement regarding Fifita
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It looks like the Edmonton Oilers are using the same template that won the Justin Schultz sweepstakes to win the day in the Dan DeKeyser lottery. According to various reports this afternoon, the club is one of five NHL teams in the final running for the highly touted college free agent.
Interesting either way, and having Ralph Krueger as coach can only help. The Oilers can offer the max salary, an instant roster spot and an opportunity to move up the LH depth chart by midnight the day of his signing.
Corey Pronman is always helpful at these moments, his college profiles here include an item on this fellow.
- Pronman: Some may wonder when you look at his numbers — 49 points in 118 NCAA games, 15 points in 35 games this season — and ask what all the hype is about; and it is because he has such great defensive value. DeKeyser has high-end hockey sense, good if not great mobility and a big frame that he's not afraid to use. Given how well he processes the game, how many defensive stops he makes, the low amount of errors he commits, and where he is in his physical development, it is conceivable the 23 year old DeKeyser could step into the NHL right away upon being signed.
I don't think we should go crazy lighting candles or anything, and it's a ridiculous reflection of the team that a roster spot doesn't need to be guaranteed, but adding DeKeyser can only be a positive considering there are no assets heading out of town.
Two final things:
- This may help explain the Smid turtle-speed negotiations.
- This would certainly explain the open spot on the 50-man roster list.
At the very least, it gives us something to talk about on a day when things were very low. Getting this guy AND signing Smid gives the club some very interesting options in 2013-14.