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As China prepares to transition to new leadership, its government has begun advancing plans for economic growth based on consumer spending, instead of investment and exports. This can only bode well for the nation's auto market — already the world's largest — since the rebalancing aims to boost household income and encourage domestic purchases. As a result, the Chinese auto market's sizzling luxury segment could see even greater growth.
All of this should ultimately benefit American automakers, who are positioned well in the overall Chinese market, and are now laying plans to move up in its faster-growing and more profitable premium segment.
Luxury market hot and getting hotter
China's overall auto market has been bigger than the U.S. market since 2009. Last year, it surpassed all of Europe combined. Some observers feared luxury sales might dip as the government started putting anti-inflationary measures into place, but total demand kept rising throughout 2012.
More significantly, luxury sales continued outpacing overall car sales. The category racked up 36% average annual growth over the past decade, compared to 26% for China's total auto market. And several recent studies project that these sales will grow only stronger in the years ahead.
A recent report from McKinsey & Co., for example, estimated that China's luxury sales would grow from 1.25 million in 2012 to 3 million in 2020 — surpassing luxury sales in the U.S. and Western Europe along the way. The potential increase seems particularly viable when you know that more than 100 very large cities in the country still don't have a single dealership peddling these premium vehicles.
U.S., others challenge Germans for luxury customers
On the heels of another strong year in 2012, German automakers solidified their leadership of China's luxury sales; they now claim 80% of the segment. Volkswagen's Audi brand remained the luxury leader, followed by Bayerische Motoren Werke's BMW, and Daimler's Mercedes-Benz (the only one of the Big Three to see slowing growth). All have announced aggressive plans to try and cement their top positions.
But global competitors aren't giving anything up to the Germans.
Chief among them is General Motors (NYSE: GM). In 2012, it grabbed the overall sales lead in China among all foreign automakers for the eighth consecutive year, but it's battling a strong challenge by Volkswagen. Its hopes to remain on top rest with Bob Socia, installed in October as the new president of GM China. Socia will oversee development of several new plants that will increase the company's domestic production by 20%, as well as the addition of 400 new dealerships this year — following the opening of 700 in 2012.
Perhaps even more notably, Socia reportedly desires a stronger China presence for Cadillac, and he's revving up the brand to attract luxury customers. Until this year, the company sold only SRX and CTS models in China. But it added 90 new Cadillac outlets in 2012, and plans another 40 this year, primarily in the country's largest cities. In 2013, it's introducing the XTS model, which will be followed by an Escalade launch.
The other U.S. automaker at play in China is Ford (NYSE: F). It started slowly, but it's now growing very rapidly, on strong demand for its Focus model and the drawn-out boycott of Japanese automakers sparked by a territorial dispute between the two countries. Nissan Motor, Toyota (NYSE: TM), and Honda Motor (NYSE: HMC) have all ceded market share to Ford and other non-Japanese car companies over the past year because of this boycott. Their declines have narrowed significantly in recent months, however, suggesting sales patterns are gradually returning to normal.
Ford, though, hopes to continue capitalizing on the growing popularity that drove its sales up 43% year over year in December, and 98% year over year in January. While precise comparisons for the latter month are distorted by this year's timing of the China Lunar New Year, the increase is nonetheless quite impressive, and it demonstrates Ford's understanding of the country's auto buyers. Like GM, Ford will next try to replicate this success in the China luxury segment by introducing its Lincoln nameplate in 2014.
The bottom line
China's auto market has been a bright spot for automakers worldwide, and the country's newly announced economic direction should only boost sales. At the same time, the super-hot and extremely profitable luxury segment shows no sign of cooling. Analysts expect demand there to keep growing as higher incomes further boost demand.
There is room for a lot of winners, but the competition is also expanding. In addition to the premium options mentioned above, Jaguar Land Rover, Volvo and PSA Peugeot Citroen are among other global brands seeking a bigger piece of the luxury pie. GM and Ford have proven they can succeed in the overall market; now they have to show they can apply what they've learned to the luxury segment.
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The next big auto show will take place at the turn of the calendar, but as early as now, we're getting a good look at some of the concepts that are scheduled to be in attendance at the 2012 Detroit Auto Show in January.
German automaker, Smart , has never been shy when introducing zany concepts in the past and it's looking like they're going to unveil a new one in Detroit.
The car is called the "For-Us" Urban Pick-Up Concept that Smart is describing as a concept targeted to the "young and young-at-heart with active lives who attach importance to low emissions and taking up minimum road space."
The description is pretty much apt to all their previous concepts so there's nothing unique there. What's different, though, is that the For-Us Urban Pick-Up Concept comes with an electrically-powered tailboard that opens and retracts with a 900mm cargo area that's big enough to hold and serve as a charging port for as much as two Smart E-Bikes.
This review has been updated with official details and photos that you can find after the jump
The exterior of the For-Us Concept is a picture of sassiness mixed in with a futuristic style that is par for the course for Smart. The concept features convex and sensuously shaped body surfaces with the front end sporting a pronounced three-dimensional design that comes with underride guard and a large brand emblem that's displayed on the car's front grille.
Compared to the standard Smart vehicle, the For-Us' ride height is raised by 50 millimeters, making it ideally suited to be a car that hit a number of off-road surfaces. Even as a quirky pick-up, the For-Us is made as a versatile vehicle with plenty of potential.
Another unique feature of the For-Us are the rhombic head and tail lights that bears similarity to the ones designed on the For-Vision Concept, which we first saw at the Frankfurt Motor Show. The outer rings illuminate the indicators and daytime running lamps with a large number of rod-shaped LEDs. Ever the purveyor of some unique traits, the For Us' tail lights can also serve as stowage space for a number of items, particularly that of charging cables and the like.
The car also has a tailboard at the rear that can be remotely driven either through remote control or touching the integrated touchpad, which then retracts the cargo floor including tailboard by 280 mm with the tailgate then sliding down in a parallel position.
For all the freshness and exuberance on full display with the For-Us' exterior, the car's interior offers equal amounts of charming appeal, beginning with the sleek, taut surfaces in mother-of-pearl white combined with precisely designed technical functional elements in brushed aluminum.
The white metallised leather fitted into the For-US establishes a link to the instrument panel, which in turn is related to the body. Similarly, the headrests have been dressed with a metallic leather with matching yellow accents adding all up to a very delightful ambience.
Another unique feature of the For-Us' interior is its aerodynamic styling, which places certain parts on calculated locations to provide utmost interior ventilation. For example, the control and display elements are oriented to the driver while the cockpit module divides the instrument panel. Incidentally, the concept doesn't have a rearview mirror. Instead, it comes with an integrated video camera that allows the driver to see the rear end of the car.
The pair of seat shells are also a cool highlight go the interior with the seats covered with a soft fabric throw giving them a hammock-like seating feel. With the prevalent use of yellow throughout the car, the seat covers are no different. The yellow covers come with a deep embossed silver hexagon pattern indicating a progression and thus emphasising the vehicle's dynamism.
As far as powertrain goes, the For-Us Concept will be powered by a magneto-electric motor to go with a 17.6-kWh lithium-ion battery. Together, the hybrid motor produces an output of 75 horsepower and 96 lb/ft of torque. Seeing as this is a future peg for a city car, the For-Us Concept's top speed only hits 75 mph.
Will We See It In Production?
The Smart For Us Concept is an intriguing car, to say the least. But just like past Smart concepts, we don't expect the car to translate past this stage. Certain elements of it could end up in production as parts of a separate model, but as far as a production model based on the For Us Concept is concerned, we won't hold our breaths until we hear it straight from Smart.
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- Concept-like interior looks cool
- Technological features reminds us of a real-sized toy
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Honestly, with the latest Vampire Diaries-not so good twists-, I'm glad discovered Teen Wolf. I really love the directing, the characters (I didn't like Scott at start, same for Jackson, but now I love them with Derek, Stiles, Chris Argent, Kate Argent), the humor (to my mind, there is not enough humor in TVD) and most of all, the twists !
Even relationships are really well written : i.e. Jackson/Lydia.
Can you guys tell me what you think of these comments.
Scott scott scott I'm sorry man but you're the bella swan of teen wolf. And yes I'm sorry a twilight comparison but I feel its necassary here. Dude your significant other just went psycho to the point that SHE'S disgusted with herself. And you forgiving her for slice and dicing issac and and you almost had a arrow sized hole in the head man. We can't cut to a comercial break without you uttering name dramatically and its gotten to the point where we put up with you for the sake of stiles. God knows somebodys gotta give a fuck about the guy. stop being so obsessive and needy. I know your a ficticious character but stop being a bad one. you have your moments but dude there's a reason stiles and derek steal the show.
Scott`s ``righteous & heroic`` behavior always irritates me. I understand that he is the protaganist of Teen Wolf, but it always bugs me. Like, he was planning on ``saving`` Boyd from getting the bite. Well did he ever stop to think that maybe other people wouldn`t consider lycanthropy a curse? People need to mak their own decisions, not have Scott waltz in all ``Yo I`ve been a wrewolf for a few months and it`s ruined my life blah blah blah``. The only thing the Bite has ``ruined`` for him is his love life with Allison. if she had never shown up, he wouldn`t be complaining nearly as much, maybe not at all. But he thinks it gives him the right to try and ``talk others out of making the biggest mistake of their lives``. We get it, Scott. You want nothing to do with being a werewolf. Just stay out of it then.
Isaac wanted to be powerful and not feel weak, Erica wanted to not be the school pariah anymore and be rid of her seizures that made her life Hell and Boyd wanted kinship and friends.
Their lives were already bad, so they wanted the Bite to have better lives
Scott doesn't give a shit about anybody but himself and Allison. At the end of the day it all comes down to Allison and whether or not he can be with her. His brain and mind have been deluted and Allison filled. Every time she feels like she's been on the back end of a stick she tries to kill him or other innocent bystanders. She's tried to kill him countless times yet he keeps crawling back to her. -.- the hell with it!
I read everything in this thread and I agree with most of it. Glad to see people who enjoy the show in general and don't watch it just for the ships and the hot guys.
My thoughts on Teen Wolf:
My favorite character is Lydia. She's way smarter than people think she is and that's because she doesn't want them to know she's smart. The things that happened to her, none of it was her fault. She's strong. She's independent. I really like her and I can't wait to see what will happen with her in season 3.
Then Jackson. He's a douche and I love it. He's emotionally damaged. His parents are dead and his adoptive parents don't really seem to care about him. They just give him their money. I love his relationship with Lydia. And now he's finally a werewolf, so we'll see where that goes.
Then Allison. At first I didn't really like her because I thought she was the Elena Gilbert of Teen Wolf, but then she started using the bow and she chose to take her family's side and not Scott's. But she didn't do everything her family told her to do. She did what she wanted to do. And she actually fights and pretty much she's awesome.
Then Stiles. I know he hasn't done much and he makes bad decisions, but all the comedy in the show comes from him. I love his relationship with his dad and he really helped Scott or at least tried to help. He's very likable.
And then Scott. It's not that I don't like Scott. He's a very good character on the show, I just don't really care about him. I don't know. Maybe that will change in season 3.
Then Isaac and then everybody else.
On the shipping of it all, Sterek NO!!! Just no!!! And shipping Stiles/Lydia is also dumb imo. He's been obsessed with her for years and he didn't even know her. She's in love with Jackson, so no.
The only couples I enjoy are Jackson/Lydia and Scott/Allison but I don't really care if they're together or not.
Overall, I didn't expect to enjoy this show as much as I did because come on it's on MTV, but it's pretty good and I can't wait for season 3.
Another useless, asinine diatribe, focusing on why Scott is "supposedly" selfish. Unfortunately the argument is profoundly weak. It is a grammatical nightmare of epic proportion as well.
I stand by my previous post that they need to rewatch the show if they think Alison was his only priority.


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The president gave a speech today in Cleveland about his economic plans and policies. Here's one reaction (via The Hill):
"President Obama and others in Washington need to realize that we cannot spend our way to prosperity and that to in order to create jobs, we need to address unfair trade deals that ship jobs overseas and enact policies that allow us to take advantage of our vast natural resources such as coal and natural gas in a safe and responsible manner which will lower energy costs and create jobs. Approving the Keystone XL Pipeline would be a good first step."
And that's from a Democrat — Pennsylvania congressman Mark Critz.
When Obama said today he would "work with anyone of any party" to improve the economy, I guess he didn't mean Critz. Or the entire GOP caucus, which has been saying the same thing as Critz for a couple of years now.
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Second, if you have set up an escrow account to pay for property taxes or homeowner's insurance premiums, a monthly loan payment could go up because your property taxes or your homeowner's insurance premiums went up. Your monthly payment includes the amount you have to pay into your escrow account, so if your premiums go up then your payment goes up.
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Review of Injection Treatment for Trigger Finger
What is the best treatment for trigger finger? How well do injections of steroids work? Is it better to just have surgery? These are the questions researchers at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine sort out by reviewing the medical literature on the subject of treatment for trigger finger.
Trigger finger is a condition in which a tendon gets stuck and no longer glides smoothly through its tunnel. Usually it's caused by a thickening of the protective sheath or cover around the tendon. The finger gets locked in a position of flexion or extension. The person with trigger finger reports pain and swelling to go along with the locked position.
Only studies with the highest level of evidence were included in this review. Random controlled trials (RCTs) using steroid injections as the main treatment were included. Only adults were studied. Follow-up of treatment outcomes were required.
Analysis of the data collected showed that women between the ages of 52 and 62 are most likely to develop trigger finger. These results confirm the results of previous studies. Fingers are affected 77 per cent of the time. The thumb is involved in about one-fourth of all cases.
One cortisone injection relieved symptoms in 47 to 87 per cent of the patients. But in one-quarter of those patients, the symptoms came back within a year's time. The authors suggest that cortisone may be helpful in the short-term but doesn't provide any long-term benefits.
Similar studies report an 89 to 100 per cent success rate with surgery. It may be that cortisone injection shouldn't be considered the first step in treatment. Although injection is effective in slightly more than half the patients, surgery has a much better track record for long-term success.
On the other hand, a single steroid injection is inexpensive and gives relief to a large number of people, therefore avoiding surgery.
Sheryl B. Fleisch, BS, et al. Corticosteroid Injections in the Treatment of Trigger Finger: A Level I and II Systematic Review. In Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. March 2007. Vol. 15. No. 3. Pp. 166-171.
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Director Fernando Meirelles made an international splash with the brilliantly gritty and stylish City of God, and he brings a surprising amount of the same vibrant energy and political consciousness to his English-language debut, The Constant Gardener. The film starts out comparatively sedate, with Justin (Ralph Fiennes) reacting with ineffectual calm to his wife's death, even consoling his friend Sandy (Danny Huston) when he gets distressed while identifying the body. Appropriately, the film comes alive in the flashbacks to Tessa's (Rachel Weisz) life, and as she traverses the teeming city of Nairobi, the screen pulsates with color and the energy of cinematographer César Charlone's (returning from City of God) street-level handheld camera work. Fiennes delivers a perfectly modulated performance. Justin is a passive, ineffectual minor diplomat who marries a beautiful younger woman he doesn't really know. "You could learn me," she tells him, and over the course of the film, it becomes clear that Justin is more concerned with understanding his murdered wife than with avenging her death. This may frustrate audiences accustomed to catharsis, but it's the only way to treat the material truthfully. The plot is similarly complex and mature, and requires concentration, but the tragic romance at the core of the film keeps viewers emotionally involved. Meirelles and screenwriter Jeffrey Caine, adapting John Le Carré's novel, approach it with searing honesty as Justin uncovers, right under his nose, a distressingly convincing corrupt world where everyone is guilty and no one is responsible. The Constant Gardener offers a superb, thoughtful, and finally heart-wrenching example of the conflation of the personal and the political.
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when i try to replace an existing image with an edited one, the files in the _resampled folder dont change... is there a way around this? like automatically delete all resampled images?
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Nope. SS doesn't work that way. It keeps all resampled images even after the file has been deleted.
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It would seem that we need a dev/refresh_resampled. There are lots of times that I would like to remove all the resampled images and let the system remake them. For example if you are using DOM for a gallery and you upload an image to replace one that is already there the image gets replaced the the thumbnails that are used by the system are not because it searches and finds that they are already in the _resampled folder and the system doesn't know that the image changed so it doesn't make new ones. This is ok for me since I can just go in with FTP and delete them but for a client who is trying to manage their own gallery content this is very frustrating.
I will probably write a custom controller using PHP's built in filesystem tools to do a search and destroy of those files. When I get it working I can post it here.
If someone already has written this or there is some undocumented functionality already built into SS please let us know.
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There's an /images/flush command. Look it up in the docs.
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Agency: Mather & Co
On this project we worked as part of the Mather & Co team who delivered the entire museum from design through to final build. We met with the museum curator when construction was just getting underway and worked with him to develop a series of films and interactive installations to bring the gallery to life.
|When visitors first enter the museum they can choose to watch a short, 5 minute film, giving an abbreviated history of the club in a small theatre area. Scheduling issues meant that we couldn't interview players, past or present, for the film, so we developed a voiceover script that would work in conjunction with motion graphics to make the most of Warwickshire's vast photographic archive.
|Other installations included an audio post with soundbites from famous Warwickshire players, an interactive timeline giving instant access to the club's various championship and cup wins, Howzat!, an interactive where visitors test their judgement against the umpires' and several film edits about key moments in history for both the club and Edgbaston itself.
|In a more hands-on area of the museum, we created a coaching interactive. We spent a session filming in the nets with the current first team coach, who, with the aid of some motion graphics, demonstrates the most fundamental batting and bowling techniques.


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This base camping trip is nestled between Maine and New Hampshire within the White Mountain National Forest. Day hikes along the the Baldface and Royce ranges consists of a string of peaks, all well under 4000 feet tall, but still provide spectacular views of Mt. Washington and moderate to difficult days of hiking. You will be sure to take a dip in Emerald Pool before stopping in North Conway, NH for ice cream!
*Evan's Notch I & II share the same itinerary, but run in opposite directions.
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A suspect has been charged in connection with an officer-involved shooting investigation. The incident occurred at approximately 3:15 p.m. Saturday in the 3200 block of 17th Avenue North. Birmingham Police say there was an altercation between 34 year old Larry McCoy and an officer. The suspect received a non-life threatening wound to the shoulder, and was transported to U.A.B Hospital for treatment. The officer was not injured.Officers says they also recovered the McCoy's handgun at the scene.
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There are a few key events that happen here in the cleasning that if didnt happen, would change the world entirely. What if he didnt "disband" the silver hand? What if Malganis corrupted the entire town? What if he kill Malganis right there, so he wouldnt have to go to Northrend? Granted a few things of great evil could be avoided. But in the end, would it really be so great?
But if you look at the events in wc3, without Arthas being corrupted, he wouldnt kill everyone. Because everyone isnt dead and Jaina doesnt have to take everyone across the sea, the alliance just keeps fight against themselves. Granted Arthas doesnt raid Dalaran to get the spell book to summon Archimonde, or even resurect Kel, But the burning legion already has demons on Azeroth and so they can take a different route to get the book.
The horde and and thier allies are uneffected until they come up to the point where Grom goes up and drinks Manorroths blood and becomes Fel. Without Jaina being there, there isnt a way for Thrall to bring Grom back to the good side. Without Grom being around, if Thrall tries to go and face Manorroth by himself, he will more than likely be killed, Horde has no real leader ship. And to top it off the legion has another top general at Mt Hiyjal
You finally come to the Night elves, who are all alone on kalimdor save for the tauren and random orcs/trolls that have no real goals. Without arthas being there to tell Illidan to consume the skull of Guldan, he wont even show up to kill Tircondias(sp?). Legion has yet another top ranking officer in the midist.
At mount Hiyjal, without the alliance or horde there to help them, the night elves get devistated. Archimonde Proceeds to get down and dirty with the world tree, becomes super uber, forces everyone to change QQ targets from MS warriors to said leader. Everyone in the world QQs without any blue response. World get killed.
I am of course going way out on a limb here, but even screwing with anything in history will mess everything up, most of the time for the worst. Using the example of the events of Black Morras, without the horde coming to Azeroth, Alliance never forms, and gets rick rolled by the scourge/legion cause everyone is either being lazy or fighting amongst themselves. Just an example of how a bad thing can be something that saves the world.


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Unfortunately, there is only one way to turn the buff off - completely. It'd be cool if you could reduce it by increments of 5% but it's either 30% or 0%, and look at how many guilds have cleared Heroic ICC with 0% buff.
Like Sidone, I honestly don't like the buff either. I think it makes kills unsatisfying, because rather than slowly working toward something, slowly adding all the right moves and pieces, one day you log in and the kill just happens even though you didn't really perfect the level of play you were bringing to the fight. It doesn't really encourage players to get better and push themselves, it encourages players to say "let's come back when we have the next buff." I'm the sort of person who want to do the best I can in the time I am given, but with the zone buffs I know that it's not me getting better, it's the game. That's just no fun.
I used to play in a very casual guild when I started raiding and we didn't down Naxxramas on 25 til the end of January (so 3 months after the content came out.) Malygos we got some weeks later. But we worked on those fights hard every week, getting a little further each time, and when we finally got the kill it felt so good. Now, you could be doing the exact same thing at 5% buff in ICC for a month, be so close and just need to fix a few more things, then one day you come in and it's 10% and you one shot the kill... That's not because everyone got their game together since the last time you played. It's because you had the extra 5%. It's hollow, and you can't even turn it down back to what you were working on it at. It's all or nothing.
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By Tony Jones
The Salt Lake TribuneFirst published Jul 29 2013 10:25AM
On one possession, Jake Lindsey could find himself playing power forward for Utah Pump N' Run and his coach Todd Phillips. That can be odd, considering that he's all of 6-foot-4 and best suited to be a point guard.
On another trip, Lindsey could run the offense. If you watch for a few more possessions, he'll be on the wing, catching and shooting. It all adds up to one versatile package.
He's one of the more outwardly competitive players in Utah's high school hoops scene. He's got the attention of Utah, Utah State and Weber State, and has done it one year after transferring from the San Antonio area.
Jake Lindsey is also the son of Utah Jazz General Manager Dennis Lindsey, the man who changed the face of the franchise in a summer of swift action.
"It's not bad," Jake said of being a younger Lindsey. "It definitely has its advantages. There's a little pressure, but honestly I put a lot of pressure on myself."
If he didn't have a famous father in what is a tight-knit basketball community, Jake Lindsey still would be turning heads. His talent is easy to spot; it's the reason he stood out in his sophomore year at Olympus High School in Holladay.
He's capable of playing any of the three perimeter positions. He's tough and skilled off the dribble and able to penetrate the lane. Lindsey makes life difficult on his opponents defensively with his long arms and anticipation. He's an effective passer and a smart player, with or without the ball.
Most importantly, his teams always seem to win.
Utah Pump N' Run's 17-and-under red team won the Gold Bracket of the Adidas Super 64 this past weekend in Las Vegas. Lindsey was a starter for Phillips, as well as the only rising junior on the team. But that's Lindsey's value as a player. He's been able to integrate himself into a number of different situations and be successful over the past few years.
"He's becoming a really good player," Dennis Lindsey said. "He's realizing how much talent he has. He's always worked hard at becoming a better player. It's hard sometimes to be a father and watch him. Sometimes, I've been too overbearing and we've clashed. I realized that I had to step back and let him grow."
Jake credits his father for a competitive fire that stands out in his game and demeanor. The two are close. On draft night in June, when the Jazz acquired Trey Burke in a surprising trade, Jake sat quietly in the media room and watched his father work.
This past week, Dennis spent his time rotating between the USA minicamp where two members of the Jazz — Gordon Hayward and Derrick Favors — were playing, and Jake's AAU games.
Together, the two have made quite the splash in their respective fields. Dennis imposed his imprint on the organization this summer, while Jake will enter his junior season as a talented guard with great potential.
"Jake's really smart and he's very talented," Phillips said. "He's one of those guys who can help you in a number of ways. He's played really well this summer, considering that he played on the older team. He should've been on our 16-and-under team. He's got a lot of potential."
With interest from the local schools, Lindsey hopes to turn them into concrete offers. He knows his jump shot needs to improve; it stands right now as the weakest part of his game. As is, his potential is intriguing. He started his freshman season in high school as a 5-10 point guard. He's now 6 inches taller. He may have another growth spurt in him before he reaches college.
"When I moved here, I was a little nervous," Lindsey said. "But everyone has done a really good job in making me feel comfortable. I think everyone finds their level. It depends on how much work you put into it."
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In 1958 after the O-Pee-Chee Company entered into a marketing agreement with the Topps Company of USA, O-Pee-Chee promoted annual trading card sets in Canada. Popular with kids, the standard packs included a stick of bubble gum with a stack of picture cards. In that first year, O-Pee-Chee helped produce hockey (1957-58 National Hockey League) and football (1958 Canadian Football League) cards.
In the 1960s, O-Pee-Chee and Topps worked closely together to produce sports and entertainment sets. The three sports promoted by O-Pee-Chee were baseball, football and hockey. Starting in 1961, the printing and production for these cards was moved to the O-Pee-Chee headquarters in London, Ontario, Canada. Those first Canadian sets were the 1961 CFL and 1961-62 NHL sets. While those two sets were unique to the Canadian marketplace, the hockey series did compete against a Parkies hockey series up until 1963-64. Starting in 1965, parts (or sometimes all) of the Topps baseball (Major League Baseball) series was produced as an O-Pee-Chee series in Canada.
In 1964, O-Pee-Chee produced four very popular entertainment card series featuring The Beatles.
Up until 1967, the annual O-Pee-Chee (also known as Topps) hockey series was produced in Canada. After an American Topps "test" series was produced in the summer of 1967 (it looked just like the regular Canadian 1966-67 hockey series), O-Pee-Chee and Topps produced two annual hockey sets from 1968-69 onwards. The hockey double (an O-Pee-Chee set in Canada and a Topps set in the United States) coincided with the NHL's 1967 expansion from six to 12 teams. So while the 1967-68 series highlighted a six-team NHL, the two 1968-69 series highlighted a 12-team NHL. Of note, the Topps set would often hit the marketplace first, but would include fewer cards than the O-Pee-Chee series. Also of interest, the card backs were primarily written by Topps, but the O-Pee-Chee card backs added a French translation.
In the 1970s, O-Pee-Chee's last CFL set was produced in 1972. After World Hockey Association cards were first featured in the 1972-73 hockey series, an annual WHA series was produced from 1974-75 to 1977-78.
In the 1980s, O-Pee-Chee (and Topps) produced annual album and sticker series for hockey and baseball (with the stickers produced by Panini). The stickers were so popular that Topps neglected to produce a hockey card series in either 1982-83 or 1983-84. (In fact, the stickers were so popular that by 1987-88 Panini had obtained its own license to produce NHL stickers in Canada).
In 1990-91, O-Pee-Chee and Topps were joined in the NHL card market by Pro Set, Score and Upper Deck. That year, O-Pee-Chee produced a unique O-Pee-Chee Premier hockey series that was wildly popular with card collectors. Both an O-Pee-Chee and O-Pee-Chee Premier hockey series was produced in each of three successive seasons, but then in 1993-94 and 1994-95 only a Premier series was produced. As for baseball, the O-Pee-Chee Premier MLB series was produced from 1991 to 1993 while the last O-Pee-Chee MLB series was produced in 1994.
Vintage O-Pee-Chee cards are much sought-after today for their market value, and cards for popular players command high prices.
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In 1970, due to Canadian federal legislation, O-Pee-Chee was compelled to add French language text to the backs of its baseball cards. It also happened to be the year after the Montreal Expos began play in the province of Quebec. The practice of making bilingual cards had already been established for hockey. While O-Pee-Chee baseball sets were typically smaller than their Topps counterparts, its hockey sets for the Canadian market were larger. O-Pee-Chee also occasionally produced independent card sets of particular interest to Canadian collectors, such as one for the 1973 centennial of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.


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YOU WOULD think they were talking about a defaced historical landmark, the way the gossip was going: "The place used to be so serene, I didn't even mind that it took three hours to get my hair done," said one highlighted regular of the John Frieda Salon on Melrose Place. "I loved it before they redid it. Now it looks like a coke den," chirped another.
Change is hard -- especially for those who shell out $600 for the ne plus ultra of SoCal blond highlights. And, for a certain social set in L.A., the John Frieda Salon has been an oasis since it opened eight years ago, a steadfast spot where chitchat flies and stylists are intimate with every cowlick, split end and gray strand on the heads of their clients, including Hollywood royalty Jennifer Nicholson, Hollywood wife Shawn Southwick (the sixth Mrs. Larry King) and Hollywood actresses Jane Fonda, Katie Holmes and Kate Hudson.
The salon's white minimalist interior, centered around a light-infused courtyard with a crystalline pool brimming with floating flowers, was part of the pampering experience. So was its California-born coif star Sally Hershberger, famous for creating Meg Ryan's shag -- charging $800 for that signature cut -- and rumored to be the inspiration for the character Shane on "The L Word," the Showtime series about chic lesbians living in Los Angeles. She built and managed the salon, then called the Sally Hershberger at John Frieda Salon, and cultivated the considerable talent there, including queen colorist Negin Zand.
But when Hershberger split with Frieda in 2006 to focus on other projects, including two Manhattan salons, her namesake hair-care line and a gig on Bravo TV's hair-styling competition, "Shear Genius," the salon's luster began to fade like 8-week-old highlights. Now the tension between old and new is reshaping the loyalties of the stylists' oh-so-pampered clientele.
For those who think this is much ado about nothing, remember that in Hollywood, hair can be a shortcut to fame and fortune. Jose Eber made his name with his winged style for Farrah Fawcett, and Chris McMillan's "Rachel" cut for Jennifer Aniston spawned a million look-alikes. Before Jon Peters was a producer and studio chief, he was clipping the head of Barbra Streisand. And Warren Beatty got a career boost playing a sexy Beverly Hills stylist in the 1975 film "Shampoo." His character was based on Jay Sebring, the consummate ladies' man (who was killed, along with Sharon Tate and others, in the brutal Manson murders).
In this latest hair-raising tale, after Hershberger left, Frieda (the venerable British hairdresser who built an empire on the drugstore product Frizz-Ease) brought in a new celebrity hairdresser, Serge Normant, from New York. Normant's credentials were impressive -- he tends to the tresses of Julia Roberts and Sarah Jessica Parker -- but his outlook was decidedly, well, East Coast. He'd been at the helm of Frieda's Manhattan salons since 2004.
Eager to put his stamp on the beauty spot, Normant gave the salon "a face-lift," adding stainless steel and chrome to the tranquil, sun-dappled space. Where Hershberger was naturalistic, Normant was industrial. Suddenly, wall-mounted lockers were a design element, and the hidden cash desk, which almost made you forget you were spending $1,000 on your hair, was transformed into a cash station with exposed bolts and a metal cash register.
It didn't take long for chatter around the shampoo stations to go from the wonders of "The Secret" and the latest Balenciaga bag to the decline of the upscale hair haven, which had paved the way for the tony fashion boutiques that now line Melrose Place.
Then last month, before L.A. newcomer Normant had settled in long enough to tell a Pinkberry from a Pink's hot dog, Hershberger was back, opening her own salon barely a scissors toss away on La Cienega Boulevard.
Half of Normant's staff gave notice.
The exodus
HIGH-PROFILE colorist Zand, who counts Cate Blanchett and Scarlett Johansson as regular clients, worked at the Frieda salon for 8 1/2 years before moving to Hershberger's salon. She left out of loyalty to Hershberger but also because of the cosmetic changes. "I feel like John wasn't around, and he let other people do their thing without watching over it," she said.
Karine Joret, president and partner in the public relations firm HL Group in L.A., used the word "unfortunate" to describe the nips and tucks. A longtime client of the Frieda salon, before following her stylists to Hershberger's, she added, "The original space was really serene and soft and tranquil, and some of the new pieces felt harsh and not consistent with the original salon."
Normant, who, by all accounts, is an amiable and talented guy, said he wanted to bring a little New York into the salon. "I introduced a lot of stainless steel and raw materials mixed with modern art and lots of great colors," he said. "It's not like we destroyed the place."
Frieda, who lives in London, said he was in on all the decision-making. "And at the end of the day, clients aren't coming in for the décor. They're there for the services.
"I think sometimes when people have worked in a place a long time and they're suddenly confronted with a decision -- shall I go to Sally's or whatever -- they want to justify that decision. I felt that there were a lot of people looking to find fault."
It does seem like a tempest in a teapot. And who cares what a salon looks like if you leave feeling foxy? Sure, the bulky additions are somewhat out of sync with such a quintessentially California space. But a less-than-flawless redesign doesn't explain the mass exodus of talent -- 10 hairdressers (four colorists and six cutters), a manager and a receptionist.
The loss forced the salon to put assistant hairdressers on the floor (at least temporarily) and has some wondering what the next chapter holds for Frieda and Normant.
When a mentor leaves a salon, it's common for a few stylists to trail after, but a wipeout of this size is rare. When Neil Weisberg left Chris McMillan for Art Mix to co-launch the Neil George salon in Beverly Hills, for example, he made a point of not taking anyone with him.
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"If you don't have the time to raid, by circumstance or choice, do you think you should have access to the best gear out there? 232 gear allows for entry into all but the highest level raid content."
It's not "fun enough" (to me) to spend hours grinding through raids at a marginal chance to upgrade gear.
The game needs a random raid finder like the random dungeon finder. The existing raid browser sucks. The game desperately needs a way for random groups of players to form, get in the raid and start - I despise getting to a 9:00pm scheduled raid only to wait an hour for the group to form.
There are guilds comprised of players who enforce a regimented and disciplined style of play but that's not realistic for the majority of players.
"If the difference between 232 and 245 caused you to quit you're playing for the wrong reasons."
It's not just that... I guess it's that i'm not willing to waste so much time to do raiding as it requires. On a Friday night I can queue for a random dungeon and be in combat within 5 minutes after logging on. That's impossible for any raid. With 14 million subscribers I have to wonder why a random raid finder couldn't do the same.
Look how many people afk or just leave in LFD. Then you have to replace one person.
In a raid that you are locked to for the week how would you feel if you kill marrogar in your random raid finder and then the MT and OT on a different server say kai by guise.
You are locked for a week and have no opportunity to come back in later. People will roll on every piece of gear they can roll on. They will be rude, ignorant, etc. All the problems of the LFD system but multiplied by 4. Also how do you make sure that you have the proper amount of casters/melee. You need 5 heals on some fights, 4 on others 6 on others.
It would be a nightmare.
Ever do a 25 man PUG? I raid lead one, once. Never again. The amount of bitching, griefing, coordinating, is just huge. I want this, i want that. Invite so and so. If this person comes I'm leaving. Didn' t you see that guys gear, you noob? I'm leaving. If the raid isn't geared enough, I'm leaving. If.... blah blah blah. Gives me a headache. This is why very few PUG 25s actually occur, they need to be strict, well coordinated, etc, to weed out the many jerks who infest trade and love to ruin others fun.
Anyway, imagine this but amplified 10 fold. There is no way the random raid finder could work, unless severe modifications occurred; such as no lockout (which is a horrible idea), server only (so you can ban all the idiots), some way for the RL to measure worth (GS, etc). I just don't see a feabile/fun way to do it.


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In the future, this film will serve as a textbook example of a star vehicle. Its leading lady is strong but weak, tough but vulnerable, worldly and beautiful but when no-one is looking, she's quite gauche and, shhhh, ooh, look, just a little imperfect. She's noble, humble, eloquent and now and then just, like, you know, tongue-tied, like we all get - and we can all relate to that, like, y'know, can't we?
This is the sort of film Madonna would have once been offered - the missing link between Body Of Evidence and The Next Best Thing - and its resolute badness proves one important point: to emerge from this mawkish mess seeming merely mediocre, Jennifer Lopez must be quite a good actress after all.
Strangely, it starts as a thriller, building a promising, Unbreakable-style tension. But as the twitchy, stand-offish Catch, Jim Caviezel is simply unbearable, a maudlin Dudley Do-Right who shuffles around with a heavy-lidded, beatific gormlessness that brings to mind Robin Williams on heavy sedatives. And once the brittle Sharon (Lopez) is hooked by his elusive and frankly creepy charm, the film reveals itself as a manipulative, shallow tearjerker in which everything you fear will happen does happen.
The architect of our misery here is director Luis Mandoki, the man who seriously posited a no-warts-and-all Meg Ryan as a career alcoholic in When A Man Loves A Woman. Angel Eyes is riddled with the same pomp and idiocy, encompassing spousal abuse and careless driving and reaching hysterical heights when Caviezel and Lopez lay their respective ghosts to rest with horrendous, po-faced gravitas.
Curiously, Lopez walks away from the wreckage intact, and her apparent inability to see that this is A DREADFUL FILM is even quite endearing. But really this is Freud via Friends, a loathsome piece of love-your-inner-child slop that trivialises everything it touches.
Trite, lazily written and acted with embarrassing self-indulgence by two actors who can do better and really ought to know better. This is nothing but emotional self-help porn, clearly aimed at people who enjoy daytime chat shows more than movies.


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What I got from that was basically: if you have some solid object (i.e. not a point) could you make the distance between its surface andYou can maintain a constant distance between the surface of your solid and any other object (or one object in each direction that you expand the surface towards), but just not all objects in that direction.
any objectall objects in the universe remain constant as the universe expands, by expanding the object?
The answer, I think, is 'no.'


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For the crews that clear your streets, this has not been as easy winter.
"Quite a few little snow falls," said Brian Sullivan, Waverly Public Services Superintendent. "You know each one that happens, you have to go out and take care of it ... We'd rather have it all at once, and get it done, but Mother Nature doesn't cooperate that way."
In Waverly, they're a bit ahead of their snow removal budget, like a lot of Iowa cities.
The smaller, frequent snowfalls are part of the problem.
"You have to get them taken care of otherwise they'll build up and cause problems," Sullivan said. "After each 1-2 inch snowfall, you have to go out and treat. Whereas if you got it all at once, you just go out there, plow it, get it off and treat it."
It doesn't matter if it's 2 inches or 10, it still costs money to run the plows. So in Waverly, they try to save money by staying ahead of the snow, and clearing it before it gets packed down. They also hit the worst spots first -- snow routes, stop signs, severe hills and curves.
Because despite the costs, Sullivan said the snow has got to go.
"Generally, what we try to do is make it safe for the public, the traveling public out there," Sullivan said. "So I look at that before I look at the money end."


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The Ralph Lauren Digital Guru Toasts a Decade of Online Innovation and an e-commerce Launch
Dashing fashion scion David Lauren, son of Ralph Lauren, is the Senior Vice President of Advertising, Marketing and Corporate Communications for the family brand and the driving force behind the company's formidable online prowess. Often seen accompanying his equally glamorous girlfriend, designer and model Lauren Bush, around New York's social scene, Lauren has developed pioneering initiatives such as the RL Children's Virtual Storybook and "Make Your Own Rugby" iPhone application, not to mention a series of online fashion shows and a rich variety of editorial content on ralphlauren.com. Ever since the site was set up ten years ago, Lauren (a former editor of Swing, which he founded while still at Duke University) has been fascinated by what he calls "Merchantainment"—that is, the seamless integration of engaging content and merchandising online. So on the current Ralph Lauren website you can not only shop, but also read features about hotels in Shanghai, semi-precious stones in the American Southwest, and how to create a layered look for winter. Yesterday, to celebrate the 10th anniversary of ralphlauren.com, and the launch of RL e-commerce in the UK, extravagant "4D" video projections—of galloping polo players and four storey-tall models—covered the façades of the RL flagships on Madison Avenue, New York, and Bond Street, London. To mark the occasion, NOWNESS asked David Lauren to look back through the RL archives and pick some favorite images. Check out his curated selection—from Ralph himself in Stetson and stirrups to a safari adventure with model Coltilde Holby in Africa—here.


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All You APRIL 2012
1. Preheat oven to 350ºF. Spread walnut pieces on a rimmed baking sheet. Bake walnuts for 5 to 8 minutes, stirring every 2 minutes, until just toasted. Pour into a bowl to cool.
2. Place apples in a bowl and toss with 1 Tbsp. vinegar. In a small bowl, whisk together remaining vinegar, mustard, shallot and sugar; season with salt and pepper. Whisking constantly, drizzle in olive oil and continue to whisk until smoothly blended.
3. Place salad greens, apples and walnuts in a large bowl. Toss with dressing just before serving.
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Brian: *gives Andy question sheet*
Andy: *starts eating question sheet*
Brian: *looks over at Andy*
Brian: *laughs* "Are you a goat?"
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Via: THQ | News Archive | Tags: Video Games, games, Bankruptcy, thq, NASDAQ: THQI
Saw this earlier. It's really heartbreaking. I hope they survive this as they've published some of my favorite games. I'm really curious about whatever's going on financially in the background. They've released so many games that I thought were relatively successful, like the Saints Row series, Metro 2033, etc. Why are they doing so bad as a company?
Seriously... how bad were their finances?!?! They raised $5M just A WEEK OR SO BACK, from the Humble THQ Bundle.
I know, right. I got the bundle myself.
@Sackyhack : I just don't think THQ is unique enough. Saints Row, Metro, and Company of Heroes has kind of all already been done before. Sure they added their own unique spin to most of them, and while they were quality games, they just didn't catch on as much as some of the others.
Homefront on the other hand was...okay. The graphics were gritty, and the mechanics were a little awkward. It just didn't feel smooth.
Although I do find it off that a company that released some solid titles, though not the most popular, is facing financial issues. Sounds to me like someone was throwing too much money away.
I think that this isn't just something that can be looked at from a "positive spin" but it is a positive thing its self.
The fact that they filed bankruptcy isn't good but since they'll be transitioning between the way their finances are managed and it won't impact consumers or their current releases and things will continue to go as planned it really just sounds like a way for them to keep doing what their doing but tweak it to be more financially succesful.
Metro: Last Light and South Park: Stick of Truth both look like they have the potential to be blockbuster titles when they come out
I really enjoy playing Company of Heroes...I sure hope COH 2 stays through development.
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CORRECTIONVILLE, Iowa (AP) -- Authorities say a 45-year-old northwest Iowa man who was trying to shoot a caged raccoon accidentally shot himself.
The Sioux City Journal reports (http://bit.ly/10fw7ga ) the accident occurred a little before 10 a.m. Sunday at Copeland Park in Correctionville.
Woodbury County Sheriff's Maj. Greg Stallman says Tim McCormick had set out traps at his home in Correctionville and caught a raccoon. Stallman says McCormick took the caged raccoon to the park to shoot it, but instead accidentally fired his .38 caliber revolver into his left leg.
He was taken to Mercy Medical Center in Sioux City. The uninjured raccoon was released back into the woods.
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text: Not too much info is known about this PMP/DMB, but apparently GenerationMP3 got an exclusive on the Samsung device. As you can see it has a rather large sized screen proportionally speaking, and an external antenna for receiving DMB broadcasts. The device was apparently fully functional with menus for video, audio, and TV. It also sports a USB 2.0 port and an A/V out. Not repeating the same mistake as Apple, Samsung opted for a removable battery and if memory expansion is required, (assuming it has any – unknown as of now) there is an SD card slot present. Sounds like it's currently available in Asia, and being tested for European release in the next year or so.


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Cinema of the World
As head of the FBI for nearly 50 years, J. Edgar Hoover (Leonardo DiCaprio) rose to be the most powerful man in America. Outlasting eight presidents and three wars, he stopped at nothing to protect his country. Fiercely guarded in his private life, he allowed only a small inner circle into his confidence - Clyde Tolson (Armie Hammer), his constant companion; secretary, Helen Gandy (Naomi Watts), perhaps the most privy to Hoover's designs, and his mother Annie (Judi Dench). Seen through the eyes of Hoover himself, "J. Edgar" explores the personal and public life of a man who could distort the truth as easily as he upheld it during a career devoted to his own idea of justice.
Biography, Drama
Cast & Credits
- Director: Clint Eastwood
- Producer: Brian Grazer, Robert Lorenz
- Scriptwriter: Dustin Lance Black
- Cinematographer: Tom Stern
- Editor: Gary D. Roach, Joel Cox
- Cast (in alphabetical order): Armie Hammer, Judi Dench, Leonardo DiCaprio, Naomi Watts


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Europe faces an interesting set of immigration challenges and opportunities: Demographic pressures as many European societies age, a lively and at times tense policy and political debate over questions of identity and immigrant integration, and a unique policy environment that has knit 28 European countries together with regards to the management of outer borders, asylum, and other immigration-related topics. MPI has long conducted research and analysis of European policy on topics ranging from labor mobility and border security to immigrant integration, citizenship, and foreign qualifications recognition, which can be found below.
For years, Germany has been concerned about losing its top minds to the United States. While highly skilled individuals are leaving for the U.S., most of the increase is accounted for by temporary migrants, as Claudia Diehl of the German Federal Institute for Population Research and MPI's David Dixon reveal.
After its independence in 1993, the Czech Republic became home to tens of thousands of economic migrants. But as Dušan Drbohlav of Charles University reports, tighter restrictions and new laws in accordance with EU standards have not resolved the problems of illegal and transit migration.
In search of a better life, thousands of Nigerian women have signed emigration "pacts" with smugglers before going to Europe, where they are coerced into prostitution. Jørgen Carling of the International Peace Research Institute in Oslo explains.
Over one million Roma, Europe's largest ethnic minority, became EU citizens in May 2004 when eight former communist states joined the EU. But their second-class status persists, as Arno Tanner of the Finnish Directorate of Immigration explains.
Since the 1970s, Norway has become home to thousands of non-European immigrants and refugees. MPI's Betsy Cooper takes a detailed look at how the country seeks to control migration while keeping the door open to labor from an expanding Europe.
This report explores the need for nations to adjust their thinking and policy toward attracting the coveted elite class of highly skilled global talent as emerging and middle-income countries increasingly attempt to woo back their nationals and engage their diaspora to help move their economy forward.
This report traces the evolution of the link between international study and skilled migration, outlines policy methods that OECD countries are using to recruit and retain international students, identifies policy challenges through a close examination of existing policies and trends, and predicts how the economic recession will affect future international student flows.
The Middle East and Northern Africa (MENA) and Europe appear to be an ideal demographic match: the former has a large supply of young, active workers, and the latter has a shortage of the youthful, skilled or unskilled labor it needs to sustain its economic competitiveness. MENA is the source of 20 million first-generation migrants, half of them now living in another MENA country and most of the rest in Europe. The region also hosts around the same number within its borders. In addition, the size of MENA's working-age population will continue to rise sharply in the next two decades while the corresponding segment of the population in Europe will soon start to decline.
In the next two decades, the world will face two major — and opposing — demographic challenges: rapid population growth and rapid population aging. In an increasingly economically interdependent world, policymakers will simultaneously face a strain on resources caused by population growth and a shortage of labor spurred by the graying of the population.
This report examines the advantages and disadvantages of two fundamentally different approaches to economic migrant selection—demand driven and employer led systems and human-capital-accumulation focused and government led systems, best illustrated by "points systems," which apportion numerical values to desirable human-capital characteristics.
This pocket guide compiles some of the most credible, accessible, and user-friendly government and non-governmental data sources pertaining to U.S. and international migration. The guide also includes additional links to relevant organizations, programs, research, and deliverables, along with a glossary of frequently used immigration terms.
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This brief takes a look at hometown associations (HTAs)—immigrant organizations based on a common hometown—and their often overlooked function as integration intermediaries in their country of destination.


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Roger McNamee, Elevation Partners co-founder, says what really matters over time is what Apple has done with its operating system. And CNBC's Jon Fortt, provides insight.
All the macro trends are in our favor, says Paul Davis, Popchips CEO, discussing the company's new ad campaign.
CNBC and Burson-Marsteller partnered together with research firm Penn Schoen Berland to survey more than 25,000 people around the world on the role of corporations.
Former Bank of Canada Governor David Dodge and CNBC's Rick Santelli, discuss housing finance systems in Canada and the U.S.
Now that iPhones are bigger, consumers are going to need bigger pockets to hold those new smartphones, reports CNBC's Jane Wells.
Rob Cihra, Evercore tech hardware analyst, takes a look behind Apple's record iPhone 6 sales.
Mark Hantho, Deutsche Bank, discusses the experience with Alibaba's IPO process. Deutsche Bank was among the main Alibaba underwriters.
CNBC's Becky Quick provides insight to a survey by CNBC and Burson-Marsteller which shows how people around the world perceive business.
European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, outlines the resilience of the European Union.
As growth worries return to Europe, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, discusses ECB policies, and risks to Europe's economy.
CNBC's Steve Liesman reports Philadelphia Federal Reserve President Charles Plosser will retire in March.
Discussing how to trade Alibaba right now, and the outlook for China's economy, with David Katz, Matrix Asset Advisors, and David Seaburg, Cowen & Co.
Sales of Apple's iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus exceeded expectations. David Katz, Matrix Asset Advisors, explains why his company will not put new money in Apple shares; and David Seaburg, Cowen & Co., weighs in on the outlook for mobile payments.
In today's The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, new iPhone sales smash records; a new poll gives insight into how the world views companies; and a German firm buys American.
Former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega is suing Activision for using his likeness in "Call of Duty: Black Ops II," reports CNBC's Julia Boorstin. Activision has hired Rudy Giuliani to serve as co-council on the defense.
CNBC's Josh Lipton reports Apple CEO Tim Cook says iPhone 6 sales exceeded the company's expectations.
CNBC's Jim Cramer explains why he is watching housing stocks.
CNBC's Diana Olick reports on disappointing existing home sales.
CNBC's Rick Santelli discusses the latest action in the bond market, and the U.S. dollar.
CNBC's David Faber reports three of the four largest German acquisitions in the U.S. have occurred this year. Faber provides insight to Germany's Merck buying Sigma-Aldrich.
The "Squawk on the Street" crew shares their thoughts on what investors should be watching throughout the trading day.
CNBC's Bob Pisani looks at concerns over weakness in China's economy, and the huge week for IPOs ahead.
After choosing between the iPhone 6 and the 6 Plus, a bigger decision is which carrier to choose. The Tech Bet breaks it down.
Jim Cramer explains what to watch ahead of the open, including growth challenges at Clorox and takeover talk rumors there, as well as shares of Monster Beverage.
CNBC's David Faber provides insight to reports saying EMC held merger conversations with Hewlett-Packard. Faber says HP wanted a market deal, and EMC wanted a large premium.
Alibaba is officially known as the largest IPO on record, surpassing $25 billion, with the "Squawk on the Street" crew.
Sales of Apple's iPhone 6 set a record in its first weekend. The "Squawk on the Street" crew discuss the huge demand for the phones, saying we haven't even heard numbers from the carriers yet.
CNBC's Jim Cramer shares his thoughts on tax inversion.
CNBC's Jon Fortt and Gene Munster, Piper Jaffray senior analyst, share their take on Apple's future.
Former U.S. Congressman Barney Frank, and Douglas Holtz-Eakin, American Action Forum president, discuss the challenges facing corporate America.
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CNBC's Phil LeBeau; Sir Richard Branson, Virgin Group founder, and Mark Roeth, Carbon War Room, discuss a new initiative to make the trucking industry far more efficient.
CNBC's Jon Fortt and Gene Munster, Piper Jaffray senior analyst, share their take on Apple's future.
Louis Navellier, Navellier & Associates, shares his top stock picks.
Roger McNamee, Elevation Partners co-founder, says what really matters over time is what Apple has done with its operating system. And CNBC's Jon Fortt, provides insight.
All the macro trends are in our favor, says Paul Davis, Popchips CEO, discussing the company's new ad campaign.
CNBC and Burson-Marsteller partnered together with research firm Penn Schoen Berland to survey more than 25,000 people around the world on the role of corporations.
Bart De Smet, CEO of Ageas, expects further developments in GDP per capita and market penetration to fuel growth in Asia's insurance market.
Dariusz Kowalczyk, Senior Economist & Strategist at Credit Agricole, expects the euro to gravitate towards 1.20 against the greenback by end-2015. He also explains his bearish bet on the Indonesian rupiah.
Tim Condon, Head of Research, Asia at ING Financial Markets, explains why he expects Tuesday's HSBC flash PMI for August to come in above market expectations.
Michael Fries, CEO of Liberty Global, says he is "not interested" in being acquired by Vodafone after reports the telecoms giant's CEO Vittorio Colao expressed interest in the company.
CNBC follows Elie Saab, founder and chairman of the fashion label that carries his name, to his Paris studios to take a closer look at the preparation for his catwalk show.
With hours to go before the collection debuts, CNBC goes backstage to talk to models and staff about Elie Saab's look and vision.


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Dave Brew
Gender: Male
City: Liverpool
Stand: Main Stand
Country: United Kingdom
First Game
EFC V Derby County we lost 3-2 (Bally was playing)
Favourite Everton Moment
Super Danny Goslings goal against the s**te in the FA Cup
Favourite All Time Player
Steve Watson. Coz I met him once
Favourite Current Player
Tim Cahill. Coz he has the passion for the club
Favourite Manager
David Moyes. I met him once also, a very very very nice man
Favourite Game
The above
Favourite Goal
The above
Favourite Kit
Away kit last season
Favourite Chant
Hang them all one by one on the banks of the royal blue mersey


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"What is she doing there?" James asked.
" I don't know, probably the same thing we're doing." Dylan replied, though he did not seem confident. They elected to hold their position, safely secluded in the thick underbrush, and observe the woman awhile before moving on to the beach. After all, this was a relatively unknown and much less traveled portion of the cliffs, and if this woman were some sort of baroness or the like that owned her piece of a private beach, the two did not want to alert her to their presence, and thus be barred from further exploration. They sat awhile, squatting on the elevated shoulder of the dirt path in the forest, two misplaced gargoyles, perching and looking out onto the beach and beyond into the ocean, cyan and light gray, like slate, or blue eyes remembering something.
They tucked into their rations - cashews, raisins, water. They watched her a while longer, sitting on the beach, autumn hair behind her, something in her hands, or maybe just sitting in the sand in front of her. She seemed to be thinking something over. She seemed like she had been there forever. Then, without fanfare, her family came into view from the south, and passed across the boys' field of vision.
They greeted the woman, and she welcomed them, and tossed whatever it was that she was holding into the sea, and they never would know what it was, whether it mattered or not. She tossed it casually, so whatever it was, was either unimportant, or she had already resigned herself to be rid of it. Now that she was no longer alone, appearing to be just the mother of a family that had found the private portion of beach just as they had, and the boys were satisfied that they would not be setting upon the lady Calvert herself that would forever banish them from the cliffs, they decided to descend from their cover and take the beach, and begin their search in earnest for the beast's teeth.
Is this it? No. I think this is it. Let me check the map. In front is physically a bright rectangle and empirically the sound of moving water. To the right is a bona fide peat swamp harboring sauropods from the 1940s between its shattered timbers. To the left is lizard laden deciduousness on an upward bank. Between front and left is a leafy service road and the topic of discussion. After deliberation both ways are looked (in that slyly guilty way) and then there is affirmative movement. It is new movement in which normality has been replaced by uncertain gall.
This can't be right. It's right. Check the map again. Negotiation of many a wooden obstacle on the first hill. The floor is an exact likeness of the northern copperhead and a red-eared slider is nearly trampled in haste. Twig and thorn absorb and release kinetic energy much against their will. Mud, bugs, and bamboo reach critical levels. The same evolutionary forces that prompted the situation begin to unravel it. It is only a naive and distinctly human ordering that elevates prehistoric lamniformes above the currently offending flora and fauna.
What do we do now? What google says. Okay. Several minutes are lost for all time, save for a single hope. The next thing you know there is deliverance in the form of arcing ridge-line trail, offering raised embankment to right and foliated view of a reedy micro delta to left. In front is a smaller but more profound than ever bright light rectangle. Smooth sand and turgid sea pixellate (or pointillate) between leaves at a particularly fine overlook. The elation of arrival is suddenly confounded by the first discovery. Meters in front and below, a woman lies prostrate to the surf, an unknown object (clearly an offering to Poseidon) before her.
"The massive cliffs from which Calvert Cliffs SP was named dominates the shoreline of the Chesapeake Bay for thirty miles in Calvert County and were formed over 15 million years ago when all of Southern Maryland was covered by a warm, shallow sea. When the sea receded 20-25 million years ago, marking the end of the Miocene period, cliffs were exposed and began eroding. Today these cliffs reveal the remains of prehistoric species Including sharks, whales, rays, and seabirds that were the size of small airplanes." - http://www.dnr.state.md.us/publiclands/southern/calvertcliffs.asp
We arrived at the dental depository known as Calvert Cliffs at mid day. There are several entrances to the beach, carpeted beneath the ancient, doomed cliffs, craggy and sloping, crumbling and disappearing a little more each day. Among those entrances, there are some that are more 'sanctioned' than others. And as any toddler with a bucket and a plastic shovel has access to the sanctioned entrances, we had our eyes on the somewhat more…clandestine points of entry.
We exchanged pleasantries with the ranger at the gateway to the parking lot, and paid our entry fee.
"Hey, Schlitz, it's been awhile since I've seen one of those." The ranger said, remarking upon James' souvenir glass, roguishly tossing off sunbeams in the back seat of his car.
"Yeah, I should probably take it out." Jim said. We had no time for small talk. We parked the car, and stepped out into the open air, and put on our packs. All of the feasibly accessible routs to the beach begin at a single trail head, just past a bridge built over a sluggish pond. We entered through the trail head, and began walking, making our way through the forest that lead to the beach, waiting for our moment to break off from the trail, and find our own private piece of the cliff.
"I'm talkin' about workin' for a livin'. I'm talkin' about sharkin'."
- Quint
It's mid-morning and warm. It's clear and there's some wind. The conditions are favorable, and it's a good day to do what we woke up to do. My partner James knocks on the door and I greet him. We head downstairs quickly, as we have miles yet to go before we even begin. We step outside and the quick heat on the skin only confirms the kind of day we already hoped it would be. In his back seat I see a samurai sword, a hockey stick, and a Schlitz beer glass. He's a man prepared for anything. We take our seats and he pulls out of the parking lot and we start on our way, going east. We're heading towards salt water. We're heading towards shark teeth.