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Spurious Quotations
A collection of quotations commonly misattributed to Thomas Jefferson.
- All tyranny needs to gain a foothold...
- Bad government results from too much government
- The beauty of the Second Amendment... (Quotation)
- The Bible is the source of liberty (Quotation)
- The Christian god is a three headed monster
- Democracy is nothing more than mob rule...
- The democracy will cease to exist...(Quotation)
- Dissent is the highest form of patriotism
- Do you want to know who you are?
- An educated citizenry...
- Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty
- Every man has two countries - his own and France
- Few die, none resign
- Government big enough...
- If a law is unjust...
- If we are to guard against ignorance...
- I would rather be judged by 12 farmers than 12 scholars
- In matters of style, swim with the current...
- Information is the currency of democracy
- Jewel among the states
- Making this wine vine known to the public
- Museum of our soul
- The nation was clothed with ample powers...(Quotation)
- Near-perfect republic
- No duty the Executive had to perform...
- No nation has ever yet existed or been governed without religion...
- Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude...
- The office of citizen
- Private Banks
- Some of my finest hours have been spent on my back veranda, smoking hemp...
- Spell a word only one way
- Strongest reason for the people to...keep and bear arms...
- Superstition of Christianity
- That goverment is best which governs the least. (Quotation)
- The two enemies of the people...(Quotation)
- Those who hammer their guns into plows...(Quotation)
- Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government
- The web of mutual obligations between generations...(Quotation)
- When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on (Quotation)
- Without God, liberty will not last (Quotation)
This is actually a description of a selection of Jefferson quotes, written by Eyler Robert Coates, Sr. Coates did a compilation of quotes on "Jefferson on Politics & Government," arranging the quotes by category. On each category page he did a little summary at the top - these are often mistaken for Jefferson quotes themselves. "Jefferson on Politics & Government" used to be hosted on the UVA EText Jefferson pages, but it is now hosted here: http://www.famguardian.org/Subjects/Politics/ThomasJefferson/jeff0750.htm.
Is this quotation attributed to Thomas Jefferson accurate? "We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must (choose) between economy & liberty or profusion & servitude."
If accurate, it is ironic, given in how much debt Jefferson lived most of his life.
Hello Robert, yep this one's real, tho slightly different than the version you cite. In a letter to H. Tompkinson (pseudonym for Samuel Kercheval),12 July 1816, Jefferson wrote: "I am not among those who fear the people. they and not the rich, are our dependance for continued freedom. and, to preserve their independance, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. we must make our election between economy & liberty, or profusion and servitude." Other quotes from the same letter can be found here: http://retirementseries.dataformat.com/Document.aspx?doc=150954811, and the entire letter will be published in Volume 10 of the Retirement Series.
FOX News contributor Dr. Keith Ablow cites the following today - is it spurious?
As Thomas Jefferson wrote to his nephew Peter Carr in 1785, "A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives a moderate exercise to the Body, it gives boldness, enterprise, and independence to the mind . . . "
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/01/12/psychological-and-public-healt...
Carloz, see our article on firearms for the full citation for this quote. http://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/firearms
Hello Carloz, Jefferson did indeed write this in a letter to Peter Carr, 19 Aug. 1785. Jefferson was advocating walking as the best possible exercise and urging Carr to do so daily, gun in hand (presumably for hunting), for "There is no habit you will value so much as that of walking far without fatigue." Jefferson suggested this same exercise in 1815 as a restorative for his troubled grandson-in-law Charles Bankhead.


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Graphic Novel Book Club
Published on Tuesday, March 12, 2013 - 6:00pm
Join us on Thursday, April 4 at 7 p.m. for a discussion of the graphic novel adaptation of the Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini. Follow along as the novel details a childhood friendship during the final days of Taliban rule.
Several copies will be available at the book clubs display on the first floor of the Georgetown library.
As always, pizza and soda will be provided. See you there!


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In 2000 Cirque du Soleil set up a training program aimed at developing the teaching skills of social circus instructors and community workers. Since the program was set up, social circus training courses were given to more than 2,000 participants from over 25 countries throughout the world and have reached some hundred different organizations, including our Cirque du Monde partners. As an example, in 2011, 17 international trainings were held, in which 295 circus instructors and community workers from 106 organizations in 15 countries took part.
Faced with such widespread interest and in response to the many expressed needs of our collaborators and partners, it became necessary to provide trainers, community workers, circus instructors as well as organizations hosting social circus initiatives with suitable training material regardless of which social environment they work in. This is why we undertook the creation of a series of educational tools, which aim to support and promote the development of social circus, and to enable all organizations involved in social circus to benefit from the expertise developed by Cirque du Soleil and its many partners since 1995.
One of these educational tools, Basic Techniques in Circus Arts, is now available to the general public. Other educational tools have also been developed exclusively for social circus practitioners, namely the Community Worker's Guide, the Social Circus Trainer's Guide as well as a handbook for participants.


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Discontinued the Caudalie Serum. Trying to recover my skin from a nasty breakout. Still breaking out on my chin. I think I"m dehydrated and not drinking enough water. Broke out on a pimple on my right cheek which weird since I haven't broken out on my cheeks in awhile. The MAC blush I've been using have contributed to the nasty break out. I had two events this month outdoors + humidity + makeup = clogged pores. Purchased Wedderspoon Manunka Active 16+ honey from wholefoods and I slathered that on my breakouts. My skin has been dull and dry and yucky feeling. I need to do an intense facial this weekend.
Retin-A, Duac, Aczone, Clarisonic Skin Care Brush, Pretika Red Light
Posted 12 April 2013 - 12:50 AM
Posted 07 June 2013 - 02:05 AM
My skin is still suffering. I'm continually breaking out with big, red, painful, cystic zits on my chin. It's hormonal and I haven't been able to find a solution to it. My skin is really dry and dehydrated lately. Sun spots are appearing around my eyes. Still broken on my cheeks from the blush I used in April. Started applying the caudalie around the sunspots and the philosophy turbo vitamin c powder with my Cervae.
My current regimen
Oatmeal face scrub
Cover Girl tinted moisturizer
Caudalie vitaminee eye cream
Urban Decay 24/7 liquid eye liner
Urban Decay Primer Potion in Sin
Naked 1 Palette
Massage Jojoba oil onto eyes and face to remove make up
Cleanse with Cetaphil + Clarisonic
Tanda red light
Turmeric powder w/Yogurt
Caudalie Vinoperfect radiance serum
Philosophy turbo viitamin c booster powder w/Cervae PM
Edited by SpeciousHope, 07 June 2013 - 02:09 AM.
Posted 07 June 2013 - 12:35 PM
Going to start maintaining a log of my skin care routine. Woke up this morning ate some cherries, hard boiled egg, and green tea.
Cleansed face w/Oatmeal Scrub
Slapped on some Wedderspoon Manuka honey active 16+
Steamed face while making two hard boiled eggs
Apply Aztec Healing Clay with ACV
Apply Oikos Greek yogurt
Caudalie Vinoperfect Serum
Cervae PM moisturizer
Tanda Red light
Posted 19 June 2013 - 01:20 PM
Did a TCA 12.5% peel Saturday, June 15th. Also ordered a batch of peels from MUAC. Including 18% TCA, 21% TCA, Mandelic Acid 25%, Radiance Peel, Salicylic Acid 25%, Gly-luronic Acid Serum. MUAC recommends waiting 3 weeks between peels.
I applied my Gly-Luronic Acid Serum on my nose and cheeks yesterday and that caused some minimal peeling. I finally purchased a sunscreen hopefully it doesn't break me out.
Purchased a new sunscreen. I feel like it's been causing some congestion on my forehead where I've been testing it out. Despite the fact that I cleanse really well at night it still seems like the sunscreen is clogging my pores.
AM Routine
Cleanse face w/Oatmeal scrub
Caudalie Viatimine cream for eyes
Ceraeve PM moisturizer
Juice Beauty SPF 30 Sport Moisturizer (purchased from Ulta. Comes out in a nude color instead of white)
CoverGirl BB Cream/Tinted Moisturizer
Remove make up with Jojoba Oil
Massage face with Purity
Cleanse with Clarisonic (to make sure my sunscreen fully removed so it doesn't clog pores)
Murad Radiance Serum on forehead
Caudalie Vinoperfect Serum on sunspots around cheekbones
Murad Hydro-Dynamic™ Ultimate Moisture For Eyes
Ceraeve PM moisturizer
Posted 08 July 2013 - 12:36 AM
Applied MUAC's 18% TCA peel on last night. I did a very light layer. Maybe too light since my face didn't frost and has not peeled at all.
Posted 10 July 2013 - 09:28 PM
Applied MUAC's gly luronic serum last night and tonight to expedite the peeling process. I didn't apply enough TCA solution on Sunday since I only experienced minor tingling. Gly luronic se rum always makes me peel when the acids do not
Posted 17 July 2013 - 12:24 PM
Applied MUAC salicylic acid peel last night. There was bit stinging on my nose. Woke up this morning and my nose broke out in white heads. Guess skin is purging. Applied yogurt on face. Then applied yogurt with Turmeric on problem areas.
Posted 26 July 2013 - 08:27 PM
The Salicylic Acid caused me to break out in white heads like crazy all over my face especially the skin on my chin was all cracked, dry, red, and breaking out in whiteheads. The thing that helped the most was the manuka honey. I wore that for two days and I helped calm my face down. My chin recovered nicely.After 5 days I applied Retin-a micro and the next day I broke w/minor whiteheads. I'm going to discontinue with the retin-a. It never helps me always just dries my skin out and breaks me out.
Did MUAC Mandelic Acid 25% yesterday.
Posted 02 August 2013 - 04:00 PM
I went to the dermatologist today and I had an appointment with the PA. She kept pushing me on antibiotics, birth control, accutane, and spiro. Her words "accutane is the closest thing to cure acne." I'm against all of her suggestions.
I've been breaking out on my chin w/those horrible deep cystic pimples. I also have a pimple on my forehead which may be a result from my sunscreen that I've been wearing. The only reason I went to the derm was to get a prescription refilled and I could only do that if I went to the Derm. Sigh. Paying for a derm office visit is a waste of money. I would rather use that money on my prescriptions but I can't my prescriptions unless I go to the derm. I spent more time waiting in the sitting room then actually speaking with the PA. I had to a prescription for nicotinamide since my insurance doesn't cover nicomide or nicazel anymore which I repeated several times to her during the appointment. However when I went to go pay for the copay I noticed on the prescription said nicomide and I once again reminded her that my insurance doesn't cover it and she argued with me saying well it's I've been using for the past 6 months and I told her no I haven't because they were never filled. It was just back and forth. Sigh I've been going to the same derm for over 10 years. Its probably time for a new one seeing I never did get any results. Google educated me more than my dermatologist ever did and google is free.
Read this blog and it was very helpful. Wiser words than my derm. http://www.paleoforw...to-do-about-it/
"In all cases, I do not generally recommend that women get on BCP, as it can cause worse hormonal dysregulation in the long run (sort of like handicapping a delicate hormonal system), and does not solve the underlying problem."
Posted 20 August 2013 - 09:31 PM
I keep breaking out in hormonal cystic acne on my chin. This time three large painful pimples erupted on my chin. I don't know what to do. Doing organic diet is really difficult.
Posted 25 August 2013 - 11:32 PM
It's been a week and I've been aggressively treating the 3 cystic pimples on my chin. They've gone down tremendously. Combining red light with the natural masks I've been using helped a lot. Been using the manuka honey mask w/turmeric, green tea leaves, greek yogurt w/turmeric, aspirin mask, and aloe vera. Not all at once but one treatment each day.
Aczone helps the swelling to flatten the pimples as well. My diet has been pretty clean as well since I locked myself in not wanting to out with these monsters on my chin.
All I at today was
Turkey sandwich w/tomatoes
Ginseng Tea
Green smoothie = Organic spinach, chobani greek yogurt, blueberries, and local honey, almond milk plain
Chocolate dreams peanut butter spread on a sliced of wheat bread
Green tea
Grilled salmon
Greek yogurt, honey, blueberries, granola
I should cut out wheat, carbs, pasta, rice from my diet. But it's really difficult.
Posted 09 September 2013 - 10:17 PM
Did a mandelic acid peel on my cheeks Friday and applied MUAC salicylic acid on my tzone nose, forehead, and chin. Applied MUAC mandelic acid today all over face. My chin is still recovering from the horomonal breakouts. I've been taking B12 super complex every day and drinking green tea every night.
Saturday night- Manuka honey mask with Turmeric on spots and scarring.
Sunday night- Aztec healing clay mask with ACV followed with a greek yogurt mask
I just want the scarring on my cheeks to go away.
Posted 24 September 2013 - 10:19 PM
Broke out in a cystic pimple on my chin. It finally emerged Sunday. I did a Salicyclic peel yesterday. Still lots of pigmentation on my chin and cheeks and enlarged on my tzone pores and uneven texture on my forehead.
I've been drinking green tea every night. Tonight I did a Manuka honey mask with Turmeric
Types of mask I rotate -sometimes I just do a combo of the ingredients
Wedderspoon Premium Manuka Honey Active 16+ (Turmeric)
Asprin Mask (Manuka Honey)
Green Tea Leaves Mask
Plain Greek Yogurt Mask (Turmeric)
Oatmeal Mask
Aztec Healing Clay Mask with Apple Cider Vinegear or Green Tea for a gentler mask
My favorite moisturizing one is Turmeric with the Manuka Honey.
I do the green tea leaves to try out a pimple
Need to update my signature/regimen
Cetaphil Gentle Skin Cleanser
Aczone sometimes
Cervae Facial PM Moisturizer
Jojoba Oil Nicotnimaide Pill
Juice Organic Sport SPF 30
Make Up
L'oreal Lineur Intense Felt Tip Eyeliner, Carbon Black
Urband Decay Liquid Liner, Perversion
Cover Girl Aqua Smoothers SPF 15
Remove makeup with jojoba oil
Cetaphil Gentle Skin Cleanser or
Cleanse with Purity + Use Clarisonic if it was heavy makeup
Tanda Anti Aging Light Therapy (sometimes)
Alternate between Retin-a Micro, Acanya, Aczone ,
Cervae Facial PM Moisturizer (sometimes)
New Regimen Updated
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Edited by SpeciousHope, 24 September 2013 - 11:23 PM.
Posted 03 October 2013 - 10:58 AM
Went out of town last weekend so my regimen was slacking. I went to the beach last Saturday and used my the Juicy Organics Sport sunscreen. The sunscreen is pretty thick in texture actually. Between the sweat, sunscreen, and three hour drive from the beach without washing my face led to clogged pores on my cheeks. I'm expecting a crazy breakout emerging. Arrived home Saturday night, showered, and immediately slathered on some Manuka honey with turmeric onto my face to prevent any breakouts.
Sunday: Tanda red light therapy
Monday: Manuka Honey Mask w/turmeric
Tuesday: Aztech healing clay w/ACV, followed with Manuka honey mask w/turmeric
Wednesday: Greek yogurt mask w/Turmeric. Exuviance Triple Collagen Serum
Thursday: Manuka Honey Mask w/aspirin
Edited by SpeciousHope, 03 October 2013 - 10:59 AM.
Posted 12 October 2013 - 09:01 PM
I had a temporary reprieve from breaking out on my chin when I was on my period last week. Guess my horomones calmed down? My period is over and I broke out in three massive cystic pimples on my chin. My skin okay right now except for the continuous break outs on my chin. Applied aspirin mask on the spots now.
Posted 08 November 2013 - 04:51 PM
TCA 18% on forehead. MUAC Salicylic acd on Nose and and cheeks. Yesterday.
Posted 20 November 2013 - 12:23 AM
Just finished my period and I'm breaking out on my chin all over again. Whenever I get my period I stop breaking out on my chin but once it's over my chin erupts. Breakouts on my left and right cheek are recovering.
Posted 09 January 2014 - 12:31 AM
Applied MUAC mandelic acid serum 25% today. Breaking out on chin as usual. My cheeks have hyperpigmentation from the blushes I've used that broke me out.
Posted 14 January 2014 - 03:35 PM
Did another round of MUAC 25% mandelic acid peel last nite.
Posted 16 September 2014 - 11:29 PM
Hi SpeciousHope,
It's interesting to read that you have a fibroadenoma and have continuous cystic chin acne. I also have many in my one breast and persistent chin acne that is on the nodulocystic side. I'm not sure if that's the right term, but it is the painful, deep ones that eventually form pus. Like you, it tends to clear up on my period, then flares up the rest of the time (yay for acne beard...). I'm interested in knowing if you have ever gotten bloodwork done for your hormones (sorry if you've mentioned this somewhere already).
I'll be turning 22 this year; I hoped my hormones would've straightened out by now!
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LA Dodgers guide to personal finance
Perhaps regular folks can learn some lessons on what not to do with money as the McCourt financial drama plays out.
This post comes from Jack Hough at partner site SmartMoney.
In a dramatic twist befitting a baseball team that plays five miles from Hollywood, the Los Angeles Dodgers filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Monday. Bankruptcy is usually associated with near-worthless companies, but the estimated value of the Dodgers ranges from $800 million to more than $1 billion, and the team owes more than $700 million in debt and pending financing.
Lawyers for team owner Frank McCourt have said that the filing is needed because of a short-term cash crunch; the Dodgers are unable to pay team salaries and money owed to a subsidiary. Many suspect another motive: to regain control of the team.
In the bizarre world of baseball management, the league commissioner can trump owner decisions. Last week Commissioner Bud Selig did just that, blocking a 17-year, $2.7 billion media deal between the Dodgers and Fox Sports, claiming McCourt was making a hasty deal in order to use part of the cash for personal reasons. McCourt and his wife have in the past spent lavishly using loans against the Dodgers. In bankruptcy, McCourt is hoping a judge will restore his ability to make deals to raise cash.
Frank McCourt isn't poor. "He's someone who has gone from being extremely wealthy to moderately wealthy," says Josh Fisher, creator of DodgerDivorce.com, a blog that focuses on the breakup of the McCourts' marriage and other team intrigue.
If there are lessons ordinary savers and investors can gain from the rise of the rich, there are lessons in the stumbles, too. To that end, here's an L.A. Dodgers guide to personal finance:
1. Don't trade productive assets for idle or costly ones. In the 1970s, McCourt bought 24 acres in Boston from a bankrupt railroad and turned it into a parking lot so lucrative that he was known locally as "parking lot king." After a failed attempt to buy the Boston Red Sox, he bought the Dodgers in 2004 from News Corp. (News Corp. owns SmartMoney.) The deal was financed with debt with the parking lot as collateral. Later, McCourt forfeited the parking lot in exchange for debt forgiveness.
Baseball teams aren't necessarily bad investments, says J.C. Bradbury, author of "The Baseball Economist" and "Hot Stove Economics" (the latter referring to off-season deals made for players). They tend to do well when the economy is growing. But McCourt spent hundreds of millions of dollars on player salaries and stadium improvements, while pulling vast sums out of the company to buy residential real estate for personal use, including neighboring properties in both Holmby Hills and Malibu and standalone properties in Vail and Cabo.
In other words, McCourt used the Dodgers as a middleman to trade his parking lots for posh homes. (McCourt did not respond to SmartMoney's requests for comment.) On the spectrum of investments that throw off income, lavish single-family homes are the opposite of parking lots. Post continues after video.
2. Try to keep work and personal life separate. "They put no walls between the business and their family life," says Fisher. "There was virtually uninterrupted commingling of Dodgers money and personal money." The McCourts reportedly drew more than $100 million from the Dodgers for personal expenses. The business also took its toll on the relationship, according to Fisher.
"She always wanted to own a baseball team, and she ended up very involved in running it," he says. "Buying the houses was also her idea. She viewed them as a hedge against the risk of owning the Dodgers."
The McCourts, who met as college freshmen at Georgetown University and have been married for more than 30 years, are now locked in a vitriolic divorce. Jamie McCourt, a former family lawyer, has said half the team is rightfully hers, even though Frank McCourt is listed as the owner. California is a community property state and so tends toward splitting marital property equally. (Jamie McCourt did not respond to SmartMoney's requests for comment.)
3. Don't let a divorce go to court. Divorces tend to destroy wealth, but ones that go to court can do so on a massive scale. "The reality is, if they had settled this thing when they realized they were going to get divorced, they wouldn't have bled cash paying lawyers and everything else for two years," says Fisher.
They would have also kept private details private. For example, there's the fact that the couple hasn't paid federal or state income taxes since 2004 because they structured their payments from the Dodgers as loans. Or that the Dodgers paid two McCourt sons salaries totaling $600,000 a year, even though one had a full-time job elsewhere and the other was in graduate school.
Those details don't help when the Los Angeles Times is already reporting that a team charity paid one-quarter of its yearly operating budget to a Dodgers senior executive. (The Dodgers did not respond to SmartMoney's requests for comment.) Or that the McCourts allegedly paid a 71-year-old Russian healer more than $100,000 to send positive energy to their Boston home.
4. Don't pay healers, Russian or otherwise, more than $100,000 for positive energy.
5. Go easy on debt. Debt has made plenty of real-estate developers rich, but it provides little room for flexibility when the economy tanks. True, finance nerds will argue that debt makes mathematical sense when used strategically, but it also has a way of tempting buyers to overpay. (Do you have too much debt? Use MSN Money's calculator.)
For deeply indebted consumers, the terms can worsen at just the wrong time. Before you know it, you're looking at Chase MasterCard advance offers with 4% service fees. Or in McCourt's case, you're having your lawyers ask a bankruptcy judge to approve $150 million in financing from a JPMorgan Chase hedge fund at 10% interest plus a $4.5 million fee.
6. Shop for quality, not image. It's not for nothing that the Dodgers' top creditors are players, including big hitter Manny Ramirez, now retired, who is owed $21 million. The Dodgers focused far more on luring high-price stars than nurturing young talent.
"They went out and signed a slugger who's old and kind of a flake -- and I'm a fan of his," says Bradbury, who ranks the Dodgers near the bottom of baseball teams in terms of how wisely they spend money on players.
7. Look for opportunity in adversity. It's too early to say whether the McCourts will make the best of a bad turn. In the meanwhile, fans have ordered customized Dodgers jerseys with the name "Chapter" across the shoulders and the number 11 on the back. MLB.com, which sells the jerseys, has since blocked the ability to do so, but those enterprising fans had the right idea. Here's hoping they make a killing on eBay.
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looking out the front door
The brumas was starting to lift, the begining of another beautiful day in the valley. Every once in awhile I just smile and remember this isn't a vacation....
I live here :)
Easy to forget
Much of the content of this site is about "problems". That is, dealing with workers, finding things, getting residency, how to get from point A to point B, ... Well, that's why the site is here—to help people figure out how to get things done.
The other side of the coin is just how amazing it is living here. I was recently PMing with Che about this. He likes pines and so do I. I used to live in Washington state. Lots of pines but snow, gray skies over half the time, heating bills, crowds, ...
It is so easy to forget those things. I now live where it is somewhere between t-shirt and flannel shirt weather, day or night, year-round, most days there is sun for a large part of the day, food "just grows" year round, I have no utility bills, my closest neighbor is over 300 meters away and I still have pines in my yard.


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Questcor Pharmaceuticals to Present at the 2013 Credit Suisse Annual Healthcare Conference
ANAHEIM, Calif., Nov. 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Questcor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: QCOR) announced today that executive management will present at the 2013 Credit Suisse Annual Healthcare Conference in Scottsdale, AZ on November 14, 2013 at 8:00 AM PT/11:00 AM ET.
A live webcast and subsequent archived replay of the presentation will be accessible at http://ir.questcor.com/events.cfm. The replay will be available for approximately 90 days after the event.
About Questcor
Questcor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the treatment of patients with serious, difficult-to-treat autoimmune and inflammatory disorders. Questcor also provides specialty contract manufacturing services to the global pharmaceutical industry through its wholly-owned subsidiary BioVectra Inc. Questcor's primary product is H.P. Acthar® Gel (repository corticotropin injection), an injectable drug that is approved by the FDA for the treatment of 19 indications. Of these 19 indications, Questcor currently generates substantially all of its net sales from the following approved indications: the treatment of proteinuria in the nephrotic syndrome (NS) of the idiopathic type, the treatment of acute exacerbations of multiple sclerosis (MS) in adults, the treatment of certain rheumatology related conditions, and the treatment of infantile spasms (IS) in infants and children under two years of age. With respect to NS, the FDA has approved Acthar to "induce a diuresis or a remission of proteinuria in the nephrotic syndrome without uremia of the idiopathic type or that due to lupus erythematosus." Questcor has announced its intent to initiate a pilot commercialization effort for Acthar for the treatment of respiratory manifestations of symptomatic sarcoidosis. The FDA approved package insert for Acthar includes "symptomatic sarcoidosis" under the heading "Respiratory Diseases." Questcor is also exploring the possibility of developing markets for other on-label indications and the possibility of pursuing FDA approval of additional indications not currently on the Acthar label where there is high unmet medical need. Questcor also has agreed to acquire certain international rights for Synacthen® (tetracosactide) and Synacthen Depot®, and has licensed the right to develop and seek FDA approval for these products in the United States. For more information about Questcor, please visit www.questcor.com.
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Ben Hill County-- If Santa Claus and his buddies wanted to step away from the holiday stress, they would probably go to Sue Posey's home to see all her decorations.
"I've decorated every room in this house for 18 years," says Sue with a smile. A life-size, dancing Santa Claus greets visitors, as they walk by a dining table set with holiday china and chair-back covers with faces of Santa and Frosty the Snowman.
Another table looks like a Santa Claus convention "There are about 60 on this table, and I don't have two that are alike," says Sue, standing by a table where smaller Santa Clauses sit.
Her favorite one is Santa waving from his sleigh as the reindeer leap skyward, probably returning to the North Pole. She prefers decorations that make noise, especially Santas dancing, singing or playing. One of her's sways back and forth. Another plays a saxophone. "The animated ones bring the Christmas spirit to life," says Sue.
Sometimes, all the toys make music at the same time and the Christmas clock chimes in, too, a holiday jam session of sorts. "It drives my husband crazy and my family crazy," says Sue. "It doesn't bother me."
She uses every nook and cranny for some type of Christmas decoration. The only place she has left to decorate is the ceiling and she's thinking about that.
Every room is loaded with Christmas decorations. She has four trees, three in bedrooms and one in the main living area, none decorated alike. Her collection of eight nutcrackers stand on her stairs. A Santa Claus figurine sits high in the corner of one room holding an American flag. Another one over her sofa made from a mop.
Not just one, but several Santa Clauses are watching you, even in her laundry room. "I decorate it so I can enjoy being in the utility room," says Sue. An old washboard holds several magnetic ones. Her kitchen looks as if it has a snowstorm in progress. Huge snowflakes hang from knobs on kitchen cabinets. A Frosty the Snowman kettle sits on the stove ready to heat water, with a season's greetings decoration sitting over the controls.
Another decoration reminds her of how many days before Christmas. Every room in her 1,600 square foot home, include each bathroom, gets decorated. Angles, red candles and a nativity scene sit in the downstairs, master bathroom. The master bedroom has its own-lighted tree, a Christmas village sits next to the bed, Santa Clauses stand on top of furniture, with holiday pillows on the bed. A nativity scene sits on a shelf above the headboard just below a big mirror.
She starts decorating November 1, spending several 12-hour days putting every decoration in the right place. "If I do this much work, I want to enjoy it at least six or seven weeks," says Sue, and it's easy to see why.
Occasionally she has second thoughts about decorating so much. "I get the spirit and start pulling it all out," says Sue. She doesn't know the value of all her Christmas decorations since many were gifts, and some things in life that don't need adding up any way, if you enjoy them as much as Sue does her Christmas decorations.
Of literally hundreds of Christmas decorations inside her home, she has two surprising favorites. "My tree and the Santa rug," says Sue. " When I walk into this house the first thing I do is plug in the tree." That tree has numerous decorations, mostly small ones, with white lights. "I just have an inner peace when I look at it," says Sue sitting on her sofa looking at the tree in the corner.
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A source close to Jamie Hahn's family told WNCN that Jonathan Broyhill claimed he had pancreatic cancer, when in fact he did not.
The Hahns had planned to take Broyhill to see a doctor about the condition. But instead, Broyhill is accused of stabling and killing Jamie Hahn Monday at her North Raleigh home.
Broyhill remained at WakeMed in good condition Thursday afternoon.
The News and Observer reported Thursday that members of the Pullen Memorial Baptist Church had been asked to pray for Broyhill because of his claim to have cancer. The Rev. Nancy Petty could not be reached for comment immediately.
The cancer claims come after news that Broyhill may have mishandled political funds. On Wednesday, former Democratic Congressman Brad Miller said that Jamie Hahn planned to look into how Broyhill handled funds from his recent political campaign.
The Hahns and Broyhill were closely connected to the Democratic Party, and Miller had hired Jamie Hahn's firm, Blue Sky Strategies, to help his campaign. Broyhill, who grew up in Lenoir with Nation Hahn, worked for Blue Sky.
"There is reason to think he did use campaign money improperly," Miller said in a telephone interview. "Jamie Hahn was going to get all the campaign records from him and look at them herself."
Miller said "What Jon told us did not match up with other information."
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WNCN uncovered FEC records that appear to show a small handful of Miller's donors got refunds in excess of what they donated.
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Miller had represented parts of central North Carolina in Congress before deciding not to run in 2012.
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NBC's The New Normal is a delightful show about a not very ordinary gay couple trying to have a surrogate daughter with a strange woman who has an oddball child and an unbelievably bigoted (and funny) grandmother. NeNe Leakes is also somehow involved. As much as it would like us to believe that this is the way the world works today, like most Ryan Murphy shows it is a celebration of the oddities within all of us. Therefore this weekly feature is both a celebration (and indictment) of all the abnormality contained within it.
Normal: Having a cashmere sweater.
Abnormal: Twelve-ply cashmere sweaters do not exist.
Normal: A 4-year-old liking chocolate milk.
Abnormal: A 4-year old wanting to put chocolate syrup on his mother's boobs to make chocolate milk.
Normal: Not wanting to watch Glee.
Abnormal: Having to lie about it to the creator.
Normal: Getting an angry, bitter, down-on-his luck bum to paint your house.
Abnormal: Scott Baio is that angry, bitter, down-on-his luck bum painting your house.
Normal: Wanting to sleep with John Stamos who, like a fine wine, a great pair of jeans, or Sinead O'Connor's first album, only gets better with age.
Abnormal: John Stamos actually going out on a date with you.
Normal: Getting a new haircut.
Abnormal: Whatever this crime is that Ellen Barkin is perpetrating on her head.
Normal: Kids caring about crazy things that don't matter.
Abnormal: Kids caring about whether or not they were breast fed.
Normal: Having a cool name for your store.
Abnormal: Getting Kathy Griffin to license the use of her phrase ""Suck It™"" to use for your breast milk store.
Super Abnormal: Having an entire store devoted to nursing!
Normal: Throwing something (say, a doll) across a room for a person to catch it.
Abnormal: Throwing anything across a room and expecting a gay person to catch it. But, then again, if it was a doll, he'd probably be more likely to catch it, so maybe this isn't so abnormal after all.
Abnormal: Buying breast milk over the internet. Sorry, there is no ""normal"" equivalent to this.
Normal: A dramatic collar.
Abnormal: The weird, shiny, leather detached collar that Ellen Barkin was wearing last night.
Normal: Liking flash mobs.
Abnormal: Actually organizing one in real life outside of being on a Ryan Murphy show. (What is his obsession with flash mobs?)
Normal: Not caring about whether or not you were breast fed.
Abnormal: Caring about whether or not you were breast fed. Who cares? Why are all these people going on and on about this? This is not an issue people have. This is just craziness!
Normal: John Stamos having children.
Abnormal: There is no way John Stamos has a daughter that old. That's nuts.
Normal: Having John Stamos guest star on your show.
Abnormal: Having John Stamos guest star on your show and not making him take his shirt off. Let's get to it, people.
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Brown, Faircloth Join PhytoGen Team
Dow AgroSciences is pleased to announce that prominent university researchers Steve Brown and Joel Faircloth have joined PhytoGen as cotton development specialists.
They will lead sales and marketing efforts for PhytoGen cottonseed and WideStrike Insect Protection in the lower Southeast and upper Mid-South regions, respectively. Brown and Faircloth are the latest additions to a group of cotton experts at PhytoGen who specialize in cotton production and pest management.
Brown joins the PhytoGen team after working as a professor for the Crop and Soil Sciences department at the University of Georgia for the past 21 years. His past responsibilities have included providing leadership for the University of Georgia cotton team as well as serving as a liaison to outside groups on cotton issues.
Over the years, Brown has authored or contributed to more than 900 articles. At last count he has conducted more than 900 county producer meetings and nearly 250 statewide and industry technical meetings.
Faircloth joins the PhytoGen team after serving as the cotton specialist and assistant professor with weed science and agronomy responsibilities at Virginia Tech for the past four years.
Noted as a top researcher, Faircloth has given presentations at numerous field days and conferences and has authored many newsletter and journal articles. He previously has worked as an assistant professor in the agronomy department at Louisiana State University.
For producers who want it all – productivity, versatility, performance and power – Case IH is extending its Puma line of tractors with four new models.
"These new models are built on a shorter wheelbase, making them the perfect multi-purpose workhorse," says Ron Morishita, Case IH marketing manager for Puma tractors. "From handling livestock and hay chores to fieldwork and spraying for row crops, this machine offers all-around utility. It's like having a new, hard working hired man that can do most any job – and do it quickly – while saving you money."
Four new, short wheelbase models will join the current Puma lineup:
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All models come equipped with a proven Case IH 6.75L (411 cu. in.) Tier 3-compliant engine that offers plenty of power, growing 30 or more horsepower for tough pulling applications.
An optional 19x6 EconoGear Full PowerShift transmission with creeper gears will save fuel when transporting long distances, running at a lower engine rpm at the same top speed of 25 mph. The 19x6 Full PowerShift transmission provides a 19th High-Speed Gear option, allowing the operator to run up to 31 mph, saving time when transporting long distances.
For more information, visit the company Web site at: www.caseih.com.
Monsanto has announced that it is working with glufosinate-tolerant traits in its cotton technology programs. The company's work with glufosinate-tolerant traits paves the way for the development of the industry's first three-way stack of herbicide-tolerant technologies across its cotton business, including Roundup Ready Flex, dicamba-tolerance and glufosinate tolerance.
The glufosinate trait is under license from Bayer CropScience and reflects the company's multi-partner stacking strategy.
Cotton producers have found herbicide-tolerant varieties work well on their farms. In fact, USDA estimates that more than 80 percent of the cotton acres planted in 2007 included the Roundup Ready or Roundup Ready Flex traits. A limited number of glufosinate-tolerant varieties are marketed under the LibertyLink trade name.
Kevin Eblen, Delta and Pine Land business lead, says the combination of D&PL's elite genetics with the traits offers cotton producers even greater benefits.
"The Deltapine legacy has been built on market leading genetics and service," Eblen says. "And our technology and breeding programs have proven records."
For more information, go to www.monsanto.com.
The National Cotton Council will conduct its annual meeting and related events on Feb. 7-11 at the Peabody Hotel in Memphis, Tenn.
NCC Chairman John Pucheu will give a report at the Feb. 11 general session. That session also will feature Gloria Borger, senior political analyst for CNN and a political columnist for U.S. News and World Report. Among other important convention sessions will be the Feb. 8 American Cotton Producers meeting where the NCC's planting intentions ('08) survey results will be announced.
On Feb. 9, the delegates will hear the NCC's Economic Outlook and a report from Cotton Incorporated's J. Berrye Worsham prior to the NCC's six program committees convening.
For more information, visit the NCC Web site at www.cotton.org.
Acting Agriculture Secretary Chuck Conner has announced the appointment of 17 members and 17 alternate members to the Cotton Board. In 2008, the Cotton Board will consist of 37 representatives of cotton producers and importers, their alternates and one consumer advisor.
Those members and alternates named to a full term will serve a three-year term, ending Dec. 31, 2010.
The re-appointed members are: Larkin Martin, Courtland, Ala.; Van Murphy, Quitman, Ga.; Jimmie G. Johnson, Vanduser, Mo.; Robert D. Robbins, Altus, Okla.; Arthur W. "Whit" James Jr., Sumter, S.C.; Willie German, Somerville, Tenn.; Craig Shook, Corpus Christi, Texas; Kenneth W. Dierschke, San Angelo, Texas; A. Mark Neuman, Champaign, Ill.; Peter McGrath, Plano, Texas; Werner Bieri, Maysville, Ga.; John Clark, Los Angeles, Calif.; Nancy A. Marino, Upper Brookville, N.Y.
The re-appointed alternate members are: Watler Corcoran Jr., Eufaula, Ala.; Richard Moss, Doerun, Ga.; Edward E. Dement, Sikeston, Mo.; Robert H. Miller, Wellington, Kan.; Dale W. Player, Bishopville, S.C.; Larry Rice, Covington, Tenn.; Debra R. Barrett, Edroy, Texas; Jeffery Posey, Roby, Texas; Linda Tipton, Bella Vista, Ark. and Arlene Eastwood, N.J.
The newly appointed board members are: Dwight Menefee, Lake Arthur, N.M.; and Gary Eugene Ross, Yardley, Pa.; Jackie Burris, Wellman, Texas; and Yvonne Anderson, Minneapolis, Minn.
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Snow White & the Huntsman is a well-written, fast-paced read. It's the retelling of Snow White and an excellent young adult book. Snow White has been imprisoned in her castle since Ravenna killed her father on their wedding night. Snow White has no idea that Ravenna is draining young beautiful girls of their life to remain young.
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Every year, from January 1st through March 1st, Mid-Continent Public Library holds a reading challenge for all staff members. The goal is to read as many young adult and juvenile books as you can, but participation is totally voluntary. All that is required is to keep a written list of titles read and the number of pages in each book.
I loved watching martial arts movies as kid growing up, which is probably one reason why I have read several YA books based in Japan with a martial arts theme. This story is about an American teen as an exchange student to Japan, who is having a hard time fitting in because of the language barrier and cultural differences. He's just an exchange student going to school in a different country; he doesn't set out to learn martial arts or to be a samurai. He is accidentally killed trying to protect someone during a ritual and then brought back to life/possesse
In a recent discovery while trolling the Internet, I came across a great blog run by a group of avid teen readers. A couple of the young adults started craving for books after first reading Twilight, which as most people know is filled with vampires, werewolves, and a forbidden love story. They have compiled a nice list of book reviews that you can check out here.
I admit it. I read Twilight…and…I liked it. Whew! Glad I got that off my chest!
For all you concerned parents or other Twilight critics, please allow me to tell you about my experience with the books.
Hey, all you moms and dads out there! Are you tired of all the edgy young adult fiction? Try leaving vampires, zombies, and the apocalypse behind, and check out these realistic reads for young adults -- just in time to get your teen geared up for Summer Reading Program!
Do you find yourself roaming the aisles of the Young Adult section? Have you been on hold for books like Divergent and City of Bones? Did read the Hunger Games series?
One of the coolest things about being a YA lit fanatic is how amazingly easy it is to communicate with and see all your favorite authors. I mean, really, how many adult authors would respond personally to your comment on their blog, friend you on Facebook after you posted about their book, mention your name in a video on their YouTube channel, and tell embarrassing stories about their own teen years while you are standing right next to them? Not many, that's for sure. But YA authors love being connected to their readers as much as possible.
The 2013 Summer Reading Program has come to an end, and it has been a great success. This year, just like every year, I have had numerous parents come up and ask me for suggestions for a good book for their son. Finding a book for a boy can be difficult because there is a stereotype being passed around that boys don't like to read. As a result of this false generalization, books in the Juvenile and Young Adult sections seem to be geared increasingly towards girls.
I'm quickly becoming a big fan of young adult author John Green.
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NEW ORLEANS (WDRB) -- On a whiteboard in the University of Louisville women's basketball locker room after Sunday's 64-57 victory over California sent the Cardinals into the NCAA championship game, the word "Patience" was printed in an upper corner, smudged with fingerprints from coach Jeff Walz's halftime punctuations.
After victories this big, you want to look around, to preserve the scene. And this was big. U of L has sent both its men's and women's teams into this week's NCAA title games. The U of L women will face Connecticut for the championship Tuesday night. Stunning? Surreal? Pick your adjective. The word on the board, though, was "patience." It was a strange word for such heady times.
But if defense wins championships, it was patience that took the Louisville women to the championship game.
Through early expectations. Through losing three key players to injury. Through trial and error. Through lack of depth and abundance of adversity. And on Sunday, through a 10-point deficit and their worst half of the NCAA Tournament, Walz kept telling his players to be patient, to listen, to persevere.
Nobody persevered more than Monique Reid. In front of a locker, she sat with a large bag of ice wrapped around her knee. She has had microfracture surgery. She rarely practices. During the game against California, she hyperextended the knee and limped off.
It took about 60 seconds for the tears to come when asked what this program and playing in a second national championship game means to her.
"I'm pushing," she said. "I'm hurting every day. But I'm pushing through. I have so much love for this program."
Reid probably understands the meaning of getting into a national title game better than any other player in the locker room. She was a ball girl for the Cardinals long before they were among the national attendance leaders. She grew up wanting to do this, working for it at Fern Creek High, but never dreaming two title games could be a part of it. She was a freshman when the Cards did it in 2009. But this is different. In '09, the Cards had the overall No. 1 WNBA Draft pick, plus another pro in Candyce Bingham. That team lost to only one opponent all season -- Connecticut.
This team? Well, it required some patience. It had ups and downs. It had to figure things out. Walz said when the Cards lost a double-digit lead and fell to Kentucky, people were howling.
"The biggest problem in college athletics in my opinion is everybody lives in the moment. I mean, we lose to UK in December, you think the world's going to come to an end. It's just awful," Walz said. "And I'm like, hey, it's one game. That's the way I approach them all: It's one game. Now, once you get in the NCAA tournament, it's not one game because when you lose you're done. But back in December, it is what it is. They had an unbelievable year, UK did. I think they would be willing to say, hey, we'll trade. You can win that game and we'll come here and play for a national championship on Tuesday."
The team has, in the tournament, caught fire. Walz lit the match, somehow instilling a confidence in his players so strong that they pulled off perhaps the biggest tournament upset in women's basketball history, knocking off defending champion Baylor and Brittney Griner. They they chopped down perennial power Tennessee.
But that was supposed to have been enough. No team seeded No. 5 or worse has advanced to the women's basketball championship game. California was long and athletic, and imposed its will on U of L early in the game. It pummeled the Cardinals on the boards, 23-11. It dominated the paint, 24-10. At halftime, Cal led by 10, and the Cardinals filed into their locker room for what looked very much like their last halftime talk of the season.
The last time Walz was in this situation, he took the paint off of the walls. He told Angel McCoughtry and Co. that the only positive in the whole first half was that they'd played so badly that surely Oklahoma, which held a double-digit lead, had to believe there was no way it could lose.
In this locker room, however, Walz didn't explode, he explained. He told his team it needed to do a few things differently on defense. He told the players that they needed to be more patient on offense.
"That game plan?" he said. "It might be a good thing to use.""We really didn't try and change a whole bunch," Walz said. "We did come out and play some man. But what happened was we finally started to get a little more patient at the offensive end. We came out, we executed our first play perfect. Shoni gets a three. We come down the floor, we run our second set, the second play. Bria Smith hits a jump shot. We really -- it was probably one of the poorest defensive efforts we've had in terms of following the scout and being mentally prepared. When we came out in the second half we were in man and I wanted to do a double on ball screen, and we never doubled in our ball screen one time the entire night. And that's the part that I kept telling them, you know, give me a chance to coach. Double the ball screen so I can at least see what's going to happen and then we can make an adjustment."
Offensively, Walz wanted movement, and not just from players. He wanted the ball in motion.
"What I told them was we've got to stop dribbling the ball," Walz said. "I mean, that's all we did was dribble dribble, dribble. I thought they were all trying to check the air. I'm like, guys, the officials did that before the game. You're okay."
At no point did Walz act in any way other than that he believed his team should be winning the game. In the second half, the Cardinals played like they were supposed to win it.
Certainly Antonita Slaughter played that way. Let's just say it's been a good couple of days for three-point shooters from Christian Academy in Louisville. A day after Tim Henderson's two big threes sparked the men's team to the national title game, Slaughter buried six of them -- for all of her team-high 18 points.
Behind Slaughter, the Cards chipped away at the lead. Sara Hammond, who had been saddled with foul trouble the entire game, drove for a layup and was fouled with 3:40 left. When she made the free throw, U of L, improbably, had a 53-52 lead. And it was California's turn to feel the pressure.
Cal's Layshia Clarendon hit a three with 1:57 left to tie the score at 57. But her team would not score again. Once it got the lead, "We felt like we had them," Slaughter said.
They aren't supposed to be doing this. Women's basketball has been no place for Cinderellas.
"It was so fast," Shoni Schimmel said. "We take the lead late and then it's over, and we're in the national championship game."
Schimmel had the electrifying play of the Final Four, a no-look behind-the-back pass to her sister, Jude, on a first-half fast-break. But she has been doing both the spectacular and the necessary in this tournament, sparking the Cardinals while also facilitating.
The Schimmels have had a remarkable run. When they upset Baylor, their parents got married to celebrate. It's going to be tough to figure out a way to celebrate if their daughters can manage one more win.
"I don't know," Shoni said. "Thing going around is tattoos."
The other thing going around? Confidence. "The way we see it," Jude Schimmel said, "if we beat Baylor, what can't we do?"
"Our philosophy right now is, 'Why not?'" Walz said. "We're going to have one more practice, then throw the ball up, and why not?"
For two weeks, I've had the same column ready to go on this team.
Its premise is simple: What a tough loss in (insert NCAA Tournament round here), but what a great game, what great effort and tenacity. The team won't be defined by (insert loss here), but by all it accomplished despite major injuries and adversity every step of the way.
It's a great column. I may not ever get to write it. The Cardinals keep winning.
They're in the NCAA championship game. Somehow. A team with no depth and little size.
When Connecticut coach Geno Auriemma passed Walz in the hallway on the way to his team's game against Notre Dame, he stopped, made a little bow and pretended to kiss Walz's hand.
"People talk about me," Auriemma said. "He's the cockiest guy I know."
Maybe he has a reason. Jude Schimmel, who scored nine points, was the only U of L player to score off the bench. Bria Smith had 17, Shoni Schimmel had 10. And somehow, they found a way to keep winning.
And U of L has not one, but two teams playing for NCAA championships this week. The commute continues. U of L athletic director Tom Jurich, before heading out of the arena and back to Atlanta, said, "It's a very, very special weekend, to say the least. I'm so proud of both our coaches and their players. It means so much to the university and to the community. I don't know what to say. I really don't. I'm speechless."
Smith said the women would watch the men's title game, that they've drawn inspiration from the story of injured player Kevin Ware. Hammond said that they're aware they're part of a bigger overall story. Sitting with some fans back in the team hotel after the game, Walz watched highlights from the win on ESPN, the sound on the television muted, and just smiled and shook his head.
"Everybody expected our men to do this," he said. "I don't think anyone expected we'd be here too."
U of L fans, its band, and school officials commuted to New Orleans from Atlanta for Sunday's game. Now, the commute continues.
"This is just amazing to be a part of," Hammond said. "This is history for us. This is a program-changer. Coach always says, we're not a team, we're a program. For our city, for our university, I'm proud to be a part of this, and to be a Kentucky girl, to keep it in state. . . . We've had so much adversity, it's made us tougher. We're party crashers, and we love it."
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In the recent Forbes list of America's 100 Best Small Companies, there is one apparel retailer that has experienced good revenue growth and consistent return on equity. It's True Religion Apparel (NASDAQ: TRLG).
In the past twelve months, the company's share price has decreased more than 1.3% to only $26 per share. Is True Religion Apparel a good business to invest in at its current trading price? Let's find out.
Business snapshot
True Religion Apparel is the designer, marketer and distributor of premium fashion apparel under the brand "True Religion Brand Jeans" to consumers globally. It operates under four main business segments: U.S. consumer direct, U.S. wholesale, international and core services.
While the company has 86 full-price retail stores and 36 outlet stores in its U.S. consumer direct segment, the international segment includes 20 full-price retail stores and 10 outlet stores.
More than 60% of total 2012 revenue, or $281.6 million, was generated from the U.S. consumer direct segment. The U.S. wholesale ranked second, with $99.2 million, while the international and core services segment generated $83.8 million and $2.7 million, respectively.
In terms of operating income, while the U.S. consumer direct and the U.S. wholesale segments contributed $93.7 million and $44.3 million, respectively, core services produced a loss of more than $67.8 million.
Good return on equity on a debt-free balance sheet
In recent years, True Religion Apparel has experienced rapid growth in its top-line performance but small increases in its bottom-line results.
For instance, between 2008 and 2012, revenue increased from $270 million to $467 million, while net income rose from $44 million to only $46 million. In 2012, the company generated $64 million in operating cash flow and $42 million in free cash flow.
In the five-year period through 2012, the company maintained double-digit return on equity, fluctuating in the range of 14.6% to 37.4%. What interests me is the company's conservative capital structure with no debt.
As of December 2012, it had $333 million in total stockholders' equity, $186 million in cash and short-term investments and no debt. The total liabilities stayed at only $73 million.
The cheapest apparel company
At $26 per share, True Religion Apparel is worth around $658 million in market capitalization. The market values the company at only 5.1 times EV/EBITDA.
Compared to its much bigger peers, including VF Corp (NYSE: VFC) and Gap (NYSE: GPS), True Religion Apparel has the cheapest valuation. Gap, at around $35 per share, has a total market cap of $16.5 billion. It has a bit more expensive valuation at approximately 6.8 times EV/EBITDA.
VF is the largest company among the three, with around $18.5 billion in total market cap. At around $168 per share, the market values VF the most expensive at 11.3 times EV/EBITDA.
In terms of profitability, True Religion Apparel delivered the highest operating margin at nearly 17%. VF ranked second with 13.75% in operating margin while Gap's operating margin is the lowest at 12.4%.
However, Gap generated the highest return on invested capital at 22.8%, whereas the ROIC of VF and Gap were 14.9% and 14.5%, respectively.
Income investors might love True Religion Apparel the most with its juicy dividend at 3.1%. Both VF and Gap pay dividends with lower yields at 2.1% and 1.7%, respectively.
My Foolish take
With the highest dividend yield, strong balance sheet, highest operating margin and lowest valuation, True Religion Apparel could be worth more in the near future. Shareholders of the company might realize gains sooner as the company is exploring to sell itself. In a buyout, the company might fetch a valuation of at least eight times EV/EBITDA, or $40 per share, more than a 50% premium to its current stock price.
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1) 7148 miles = 11503.6 km on 1 gallon
2) 1 gallon = 3780 ml
3) 1 teaspoon = 5 ml, so 5/3780 x 11503 = 15.216 km per 5 ml
4) Calorific density of http://webstuff.nl/viagra-india gas = 43.5 MJ/kg
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8) 1 Joule = energy to move 1 kg by 1 m, with an applied force of 1 Newton
8) So, if the car weighs 1 kg, then to move 15.216 km using only 160 kJ, the applied force will be 0.01052 N
This is a vanishingly small amount of force, and assumes no friction. If the car has a more realistic weight of 100 kg including driver, then that's a force of 0.000105N which is nothing!
Either they were downhill with the wind behind them all the way, or there's something hooky in the math, or they're using some special mix of mega high octane super racing gas (or a combination of the above)
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To Virgil:
You physics apply to vertical move and not horizontal. Back to school.
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I'd be interested in seeing that race too. And another race... the same thing but with three kids in the back and http://www.diabetes.org.br/levitra-brand a bunch of sporting equipment and having to bring the car to a complete stop every mile while still maintaining a 35Mph average.
@ everyone else
Even though this car is still using gas, the rest of the technology used to push its mileage up is going to be useful for transport powered by non-fossil-fuel energy sources as well. 7000MPG is still very impressive.
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1 joule is 1 newton applied over 1 meter.
So for 15000 meters and 160000J, the average force on the best choice buy real cialis the car is about 10 or 11 newtons multiplied by the efficiency of the car from the gas tank to the road which is at best probably 25%. So the actual force on the car is probably closer to 2-3 newtons.
I was the project manager for one of these cars, believe me, they can do it.
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Check out the VW TDI. I would regularly get 40mpg in Las Vegas traffic. On the freeway driving 70+mph I would get 45mpg. My best was 50mpg driving across country. I think my average speed was 70mph. I know all this because I was supper anal and actual kept excel spreadsheets on all my mileage. After one year I had an average fuel economy of 42mpg. This was a 2006 Jetta TDI. The 2003 Jetta Wagon TDI got better fuel economy.
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On Thursday, New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo filed a criminal complaint against Raymond Harding, former chair of New York's Liberal Party, for scheming with the already-indicted David Loglisci and Hank Morris. Cuomo also coaxed a guilty plea and financial remuneration out of Barrett Wissman, a crooked former hedge fund manager.
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Early last month, my then-12-year-old daughter, Nina, had her nerves frayed by three magnitude 4.5 earthquakes that struck Southern California over a two-day period.
Although the three temblors were extremely modest by Southern California standards, the epicenters were roughly five miles from our home -- which meant we were among those who experienced the brunt of the shaking. One of the shakers, which happened shortly after I had turned in for the evening, was so sharp that, for a brief moment, I thought it was going to toss me off the bed.
Thankfully, the quakes left no damage to our two-story home. Nevertheless, Nina was constantly on edge, afraid that it couldn't withstand the shaking. As such, I tried my best to assure her that, unlike brick buildings, wood-frame homes like ours, which make up the vast majority of residences in Southern California, are extremely flexible and therefore able to withstand most earthquakes with relatively little damage.
That's not to say that during a major temblor lots of pictures can't fall off the walls, cupboards won't be emptied of their contents and windows won't crack or break. But the odds of our wood-frame house being turned into a heap of splintered lumber and shattered glass are long.
Earthquakes can happen almost anywhere
Of course, earthquakes in America aren't limited to the western U.S. There have been some significant temblors east of the Rockies, too.
Last year, a magnitude 5.6 earthquake hit central Oklahoma. More notably, in 1811 and 1812, four major earthquakes of magnitude 7.0 or greater struck the region surrounding New Madrid, Mo. The shocks were so powerful they were felt as far away as Ohio and Virginia.
The East Coast isn't immune from the occasional seismic shrug either.
In 1886, a magnitude 7.3 quake struck Charleston, S.C., and Cape Ann, Mass., experienced a strong temblor measuring 6.0 in 1755. More recently, a magnitude 5.8 shaker struck Mineral, Va., in 2011. Other significant modern-day earthquakes in the eastern U.S. measuring over 5.0 struck Plattsburgh, N.Y., in 2002 and northwestern Pennsylvania in 1998.
In fact, according to the U.S. Geological Survey, 23 states had at least one earthquake in 2011 big enough to be felt.
The pros and cons
The reason I bring this up is because my homeowners insurance policy needs to be renewed this month. The basic premium is slightly more than $600. As part of the process, the insurance company is also offering me the opportunity to buy earthquake insurance for an additional premium of $526.
So, is earthquake insurance worth it? That's hard to say, because there are so many variables to consider, and earthquake insurance policies and rules vary on a state-by-state basis.
In my case, the earthquake insurance policy being offered by the California Earthquake Authority would cover $304,638 to rebuild my home. Unfortunately, there is a 15% deductible on the structure's replacement cost, which means $45,695 in damages would come out of my pocket before I saw a penny from the insurance company.
Here's the rub: Short of my home being completely destroyed, it's fairly unlikely I'd encounter damages far more than the policy's large deductible. That hunch is backed up in a CBS MoneyWatch article by Kathy Kristof, who wrote:
Total loss claims from fires are common, but they're rare with earthquakes. California's two biggest quakes -- the 1989 Loma Prieta quake and the 1994 Northridge quake -- give some clues. Roughly 45,000 claims were submitted after the Loma Pieta quake, and the average value (not adjusted for inflation) was between $9,000 and $18,000. (If you figure a 3% inflation rate, the $18,000 claim would be worth just over $36,000 today.) The Northridge quake generated 195,000 claims with an average value of $35,000 -- about $60,500 in inflation-adjusted dollars, assuming a 3% average inflation rate.
It also doesn't help that the earthquake insurance would cover only $5,000 worth of damage to the contents of my home. That's almost ludicrous.
If my home were older, or built of brick or masonry construction, I would probably buy the coverage, but it's not. I have a relatively new wood-frame home -- built just 15 years ago -- that is bolted to the foundation and constructed to the latest earthquake-resistant standards.
That's why, after carefully weighing all the risks, I've decided to take my chances and decline the earthquake insurance. For me, the potential benefits simply don't justify the cost of the coverage.
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