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Operations support systems (also called operational support systems or OSS) are computer systems used by telecommunications service providers. The term OSS most frequently describes "network systems" dealing with the telecom network itself, supporting processes such as maintaining network inventory, provisioning services, configuring network components, and managing faults. The complementary term business support systems or BSS is a newer term and typically refers to "business systems" dealing with customers, supporting processes such as taking orders, processing bills, and collecting payments. The two systems together are often abbreviated OSS/BSS, BSS/OSS or simply B/OSS.
Different subdivisions of the BSS/OSS systems are made, depending on whether they follow the TM Forum's diagrams and terminology, industry research institutions or BSS/OSS vendors own view. Nevertheless in general, an OSS covers at least the application areas:
Before about 1970, many OSS activities were performed by manual administrative processes. However, it became obvious that much of this activity could be replaced by computers. In the next 5 years or so, the telephone companies created a number of computer systems (or software applications) which automated much of this activity. This was one of the driving factors for the development of the Unix operating system and the C programming language. The Bell System purchased their own product line of PDP 11 computers from Digital Equipment Corporation for a variety of OSS applications. OSS systems used in the Bell System include AMATPS, CSOBS, EADAS, RMAS, Switching Control Center System (SCCS), Service Evaluation System (SES), Trunks Integrated Record Keeping System (TIRKS), and many more. OSS systems from this era are described in the Bell System Technical Journal, Bell Labs Record, and Telcordia Technologies (formerly Bellcore) SR-2275.
Many OSS systems were initially not linked to each other and often required manual intervention. For example, consider the case where a customer wants to order a new telephone service. The ordering system would take the customer's details and details of their order, but would not be able to configure the telephone exchange directly — this would be done by a switch management system. Details of the new service would need to be transferred from the order handling system to the switch management system — and this would normally be done by a technician re-keying the details from one screen into another — a process often referred to as "swivel chair integration". This was clearly another source of inefficiency, so the focus for the next few years was on creating automated interfaces between the OSS applications — OSS integration. Cheap and simple OSS integration remains a major goal of most telecom companies.
A lot of the work on OSS has been centered on defining its architecture. Put simply, there are four key elements of OSS:
During the 1990s, new OSS architecture definitions were done by the ITU-T in its TMN model. This established a 4-layer model of TMN applicable within an OSS:
(Note: a fifth level is mentioned at times being the elements themselves, though the standards speak of only four levels) This was a basis for later work. Network management was further defined by the ISO using the FCAPS model - Fault, Configuration, Accounting, Performance and Security. This basis was adopted by the ITU-T TMN standards as the Functional model for the technology base of the TMN standards M.3000 - M.3599 series. Although the FCAPS model was originally conceived and is applicable for an IT enterprise network, it was adopted for use in the public networks run by telecommunication service providers adhering to ITU-T TMN standards.
A big issue of network and service management is the ability to manage and control the network elements of the access and core networks. Historically, many efforts have been spent in standardization fora (ITU-T, 3GPP) in order to define standard protocol for network management, but with no success and practical results. On the other hand IETF SNMP protocol (Simple Network Management Protocol) has become the de-facto standard for internet and telco management, at the EML-NML communication level.
From 2000 and beyond, with the growth of the new broadband and VoIP services, the management of home networks is also entering the scope of OSS and network management. DSL Forum TR-069 specification has defined the CPE WAN Management Protocol (CWMP), suitable for managing home networks devices and terminals at the EML-NML interface.
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TM Forum is an international membership organization of communications service providers and suppliers to the communications industry. While OSS is generally dominated by proprietary and custom technologies, TM Forum is regarded as the most authoritative source for standards and frameworks in OSS. TM Forum has been active in proving a framework and discussion forum for advancements in OSS and BSS.
By 2005, recent developments in OSS architecture were the results of the TM Forum's New Generation Operations Systems and Software (NGOSS) program, which was established in 2000. This established a set of principles that OSS integration should adopt, along with a set of models that provide standardized approaches.
The TM Forum describes NGOSS as an architecture that is:
The components interact through a common communications vehicle (using an information exchange infrastructure; e.g., EAI, Web Services, EJB).
The behavior can be controlled through the use of process management and/or policy management to orchestrate the functionality provided by the services offered by the components.
The early focus of the TM Forum's NGOSS work was on building reference models to support a business stakeholder view on process, information and application interaction. Running in parallel were activities that supported an implementation stakeholder view on interface specifications to provide access to OSS capability (primarily MTNM). The MTNM work evolved into a set of Web Services providing Multi-Technology Operations System Interfaces MTOSI. Most recently, the OSS through Java initiative (OSS/J) [1] joined the TMF to provide NGOSS-based BSS/OSS APIs.
Considerable work remains, primarily in building out the system stakeholder reference models, which are needed to support a business process driven and SOA styled approach to using model driven development for specifying the additional implementation stakeholder interface specs (for SOA Web Services, EJB and EAI). These are required to meet the demands of Service Providers operating using the IMS architectural framework and NGN communications networks.


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multicellularity and specialised lineage cells
So the question is even though we may have some fair idea how multicellularity came about. How would this lead onto specialized line-aged cells in a multicellular organism ? For example differentiating to blood cells or bone cells.
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Hey Thorium,
This is a good question and a very complex one. I don't think there is a for sure answer, but there is some good ideas. The first place to start I think, isn't with cells but rather with insects.
The question is then, why are there "specialized" bees in a bee hive that forgo their chance at reproduction?
The answer is in the genetics. It turns out, at least in social insects, that they get along so great and "accept their place" because they are so closely related together. Or as Haldane phrased it; "I would lay down my life for two brothers or eight cousins".
Meaning that, as far as evolution is "concerned" its okay for you to sacrifice yourself for an equal amount of hereditary material that can still be passed on. I suspect in early multicellular organisms it wasn't much different--Where it is okay for reproductive cells to specialize in just that while other cells provide support for those reproductive cells.
In a way, none of that has actually changed--The only thing that has, is the functions of the other cells, which have become more specialized through evolution to support those reproductive cells. In that way, at least a simplified way, you could really describe all the rest of our bodies as "support" cells for those reproductive cells.
I think to answer your exact question though, you'd have to be specific. Cell lineage specialization evolve to solve environmental problems. For instance, as multicellular colonies grew larger and larger diffusion would have been no long sufficient to supply cells with nutrients. A vascular system and corresponding cells would need to evolve to solve this problem.
Some specialized cell lineages we seem to know quite a bit about--Others not so much. Its something you'd have to look into and would require considerable reading. Some specific specializations are touched on in more advanced biology text books, Like The Cell, IIRC. Another good book to try might be Strickberger's evolution: the integration of genes, organisms and populations or other high level EvoDevo books.
Re: multicellularity and specialised lineage cells
I've always been intrigued with multicelluarity. One organism that might be interesting in this context is the slime mold:
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I've found this article in bookmarked some time ago in my browser.
It's about using yeast to investigate how multi-cellularity came about.
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Colony of daughter cells is not the same as lineage cells, because it comes with a price they have to be continuously repaired and replaced.wheraes a daughter cell is got by simply dividing in the existing cells.
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For instance see here.
The evolution of sex then is important for the topic of the evolution of specialized lineages, in deed it wouldn't surprise me if this was one of the first or the first type of specialized lineage.
Right, but I think you might be thinking about it too fast. Its not like one day we had simple colonies of cells than, bam; complex multicellular organisms. I'm not sure how often cells need to be "replaced" in something like a volvox .
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As for meisosis, you might want to look at this
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The users of Standard and Professional accounts can download the history Backup for each device.
In the nearest future we are planning to update the Dashboard by introducing some productivity items and something else. Such innovations have become possible through updating the Mac and Android platform versions. The applications will contain the same features with the only thing added – now you'll have time parameters – time-estimating.
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Recording typed keystrokes log (SoftKeyboardPRO replacement) Nov 24, 2012
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Dear users, we are glad to publish new version of KidLogger 1.5/1.6 for Android phones and tablets that allows to record typed keystrokes without changing input method.
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"Screen Text Capturer" features:
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During the Q&A at the end of Vancouver Seen, a Tuesday evening panel of Vancouver writers Dennis E. Bolen, Kevin Chong, Zsuzsi Gartner, and Jen Sookfong Lee, an audience member reiterated a couple of the questions from the description of the event in the Festival program. "What kind of literary community exists in Vancouver? What is the nature of relationships between writers?" He was probably hoping for a more substantive answer than what had emerged to that point. I'm interested in Vancouver writing, but I'd also been attracted to the event, in part, by the series of questions in the program. They're interesting questions, not throwaways used to fill out a few lines of copy. Here are the questions, which I'll attempt to answer — or at least mull over — based on what the authors read from their work, and on the ensuing discussion, moderated by Vancouver Magazine executive editor John Burns.
What is it about Vancouver that holds the attention of writers who could travel in their fertile imaginations throughout the world to exotic settings for their fiction?
Vancouver is already an exotic setting. For two young sisters in 1946, living in rural poverty south of the Fraser River, Vancouver is a destination, an alluring place of bright lights and nightspots like the Palomar Supper Club, redolent of glamour and the financial possibilities of working as dancers on a vaudeville stage. Like these characters in Lee's novel The Better Mother, Lee herself conceives of Vancouver as something of a dreamscape that paradoxically can be all cities, and yet can only be Vancouver. For Bolen, Vancouver is more of an exotic nightmare, a place where failed boomers writhe in the Dantesque hell of car-wreck lives. Chong's Vancouver is the site of a unique cultural hybridity, a type of exoticism that we may take for granted here, but which can't be counted on elsewhere. Gartner initially hated Vancouver when she moved here to work as a journalist, and during the discussion said she hated the word "community," at least in some contexts, but for her, Vancouver is perhaps a weirdly comfortable 'un-community', a refuge for those who do not want to join things, a place where a quirky vision can hew out the cultural space to be quirky.
Although it has perhaps abated in recent years, a trend did exist among Canadian writers of traveling to foreign, 'exotic' countries, and then coming back to Canada to write about it — presumably for we poor provincials who would never make it out of Moose Pond, but would perhaps turn down the hockey game long enough to read a book. You might guess that I was somewhat hostile to what I considered, in some cases, disguised tourist writing. Anywhere is as 'exotic', or as mundane, as anywhere else. It's all in what you do with it.
Why do they write about here?
Because they are here. That's not meant as flippant. Lee tried to write a novel set in Brooklyn, and as she explained, "it sucked hard." Gartner stated emphatically that "somewhere else would be a different story." (I hope I haven't jumbled my notes and that the emphatic statement wasn't in fact made by one of the other writers.) Bolen "uses the city as a grid for characters to run through," while intentionally downplaying Vancouver's spectacular, internationally known setting. And yet, it is the grid. No grid, and you lose your structure, your bearings. Chong was born in Hong Kong, but grew up in Burnaby and Ladner. He said he can't stand the humidity in the city of his birth. Burns wrote a novel with no identifiable references to Vancouver or the west coast, beyond there being "water," and yet eastern publishers considered it "a west-coast novel." I sense that all five feel there is something alchemical about Place, and about this particular place, a seeping in to the genes of a temperate rainforest essence, the cool jungle of possibility, that permeates their books and who they are as people.
What kind of literary community exists in Vancouver?
A diverse one. White, Asian, male, female, younger, older, Vancouver-born, later arrival, joiner, loner. Fiction writer, non-fiction writer, young adult writer, aspiring poet, journalist, editor, anthologist, radio personality, teacher. And that's working just some changes on the four panelists. Apply to the Vancouver literary community as a whole and scale upward and outward accordingly. Which may turn the question back on itself. Is there a literary community in Vancouver, or rather, a number of writers who happen to live in Vancouver? That formulation is almost certainly too binary. The question may be more one of cohesiveness. Is the Vancouver literary community more or less cohesive than literary communities elsewhere?
What is the nature of relationships between writers?
It depends on the personalities of the individual writers. Bolen said, "I've never had a really good solid friendship with another fiction writer," while Gartner countered that "most of my best friends are fiction writers." At one point, Gartner was "the toughest editor" Bolen ever had (can editors and authors be friends?), something Bolen seemed to say with admiration. Chong has invited Bolen out for beer — once — but apparently not Gartner or Lee. Chong and Lee overlapped in the UBC Creative Writing program, and both credit the program with fostering ongoing relationships and friendships among local writers. In the case of Lee, meeting fellow Vancouver writers June Hutton and Mary Novik (both in attendance) in a writing workshop evolved into the SPiN writing group they've maintained and found mutually beneficial for almost a decade.
Is there an element of competition amongst the camaraderie?
Of course. But it's sort of a taboo subject, isn't it? At least to deal with hot and live — really deal with. And tellingly this particular question didn't get aired directly. And there were no on-stage fisticuffs. Bolen made an interesting distinction between poets and fiction writers. He feels the large, active, friendly, and cohesive local poetry scene is made possible by the complete absence of any money. With fiction, however, "there's a five-dollar bill on the table, and we're all fighting over it." Which may be why Bolen's next book is going to be poetry. Although he told me after the event it has more to do with who he feels he is as a writer. Not a crime writer but "a literary writer in a crime milieu," and one who is interested in language. Gartner didn't seem completely comfortable with Bolen's characterization of writers' mercenary motives, but then later gave me a sly jab for not buying her book — for which I apologize. And Chong asked me if I was going to the hospitality suite, which I interpreted as being half-invited for a beer. Alas, I had to work in the morning.
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Popular YouTube star Jason Chen will be holding his solo showcase in Singapore at Hard Rock Café Singapore as part of his 2013 Asia Tour on March 24.
For those of you who missed his performance at the YouTube Stars Concert last year, Jason will be hitting our shores again for a one-night only "Music Never Sleep" showcase.
Since his YouTube debut in 2008, Jason has garnered over 600000 subscribers and more than 145 million views on YouTube.
Best known for his covers, the talented American-born-Taiwanese's hit songs include "Just a Dream" by Nelly (7.7 million views), "Tong Hua" by Guang Liang (4.2 million views), "Grenade" by Bruno Mars (4.6 million views) and "Payphone" by Maroon 5 (3.2 million views).
Besides his renditions of pop favourites, Jason composes his own songs as well. His original compositions 'Best Friend' received 7 million views and 'Just for a Moment' at 6 million views and counting. Following the great online success, Jason released his solo album Gravity which features all of his original songs.
Fans can also look forward to his upcoming sophomore album this February.
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Peter Cooke accused Gov. Gary Herbert of selling Utahns a rosy picture of the state's economy, which he said is struggling and needs real leadership to get back on track in the first debate between the two gubernatorial candidates Friday.
Herbert vigorously defended his record, saying that the state was battered by the recession but is now recovering faster than the others in the nation.
"Leadership is about results, and I have a proven track record of success," Herbert said during the debate, hosted by the Utah League of Cities and Towns.
Cooke said that the state has lost tens of thousands of jobs and 5.7 percent of the Utah workforce has quit looking for work. Job growth in the state has slipped from second best in the nation to 10th, and the long-term prospects are hampered by Utah's last-in-the-nation education funding.
"I think it's horrible for you to sit here [and claim] that we're on the way to economic recovery," Cooke said. "You're selling our state [so companies] can have cheap labor. We have no education to back our state up."
And, Cooke, a retired two-star general with the Army Reserve, said the governor was "asleep" when action should have been taken to shore up Hill Air Force Base to survive future base closures and instead the base lost jobs and responsibilities to a base in Oklahoma.
Herbert said Utah is adding jobs at twice the national average and companies want to move to Utah. "We've put ourselves on the road to prosperity. We've got a ways to go, but we're on the right road," he said. "We are the brightest star on the flag."
Technically, both candidates are correct on Utah's jobs situation.
From the state's peak employment in February 2008 to the July figures — the most recent available — the state lost nearly 70,000 jobs, and Utah's average wages have fallen by 2.4 percent.
Since Herbert took office in August 2009, there has been a net increase of about 3,100 jobs, and wages have increased by 4.7 percent. Over the past year the state added about 25,000 jobs.
After the debate, Herbert took a shot at Cooke's gloomy outlook.
"I'm a strong advocate for Utah," he said. "If you don't believe in the state, you ought not run for governor."
But Cooke said Utahns need to hear the truth about the state of the economy and a governor who will level with them.
"The only win would be for the people of the state of Utah to recognize we need leadership to take us through" the economic doldrums, he said. When candidates say everything is fine, Cooke said, "you're just trying to win elections."
Herbert defended his record on education, saying that his administration has invested $200 million in schools. But Cooke said more needs to be done to strengthen Utah schools.
"You've had a long time to solve the problem of education. It's time for somebody to take over and run it right and make it happen," he said.
Cooke said the state needs to be firm in opposing the Snake Valley pipeline, a plan to pipe water from the Utah-Nevada border to Las Vegas. Herbert said he has "drawn a line in the sand that says we will protect every molecule" of water, and he blamed Nevada Sen. Harry Reid for the water grab.
Herbert twice drew applause from the crowd, largely made up of elected mayors and city council members, for strong statements on local government control, once criticizing the federal government for not doing a better job managing forests.
"We can do a better job of it. You can do a better job of it. You know your backyards better than anyone in Washington, D.C.," Herbert said.
Cooke said he supports the idea of Utah receiving federal land and adding to the state's tax base but criticized the governor for supporting legislation demanding Congress relinquish 30 million acres of federal land in Utah, saying it would result in a doomed court fight and there is no plan to manage the land when the state struggles to maintain its state parks.
Herbert said there is no intention to file a "willy-nilly lawsuit," and the bill is designed to press the federal government into discussions.
At the end of the debate, Cooke raised his voice and jabbed at the podium, rejecting Herbert's suggestion that Cooke would grow the size of government.
"I'm a small businessperson. I've fought for this country," Cooke insisted. "I'm not in any way trying to bring more government in. Please don't use the same labels and try to split [people]."
Moroni Mayor Todd Pay said the land management issue is important to his community, which saw fires in the nearby La Sal Mountains this summer and still has stands of dead trees, killed by bark beetles.
"The one area that is critical is our lands and the federal government, and needing to gain control of that for our state," said Pay. He is supporting Herbert but felt like both candidates understand the need for more local control.
Joe Johnson, the mayor of Bountiful, said he thought both candidates did a good job, but "I think the governor was a little bit more in tune with what the issues were with the cities."
The two candidates will meet for two more debates before the November election. Their next debate will be Oct. 4 at the Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce.


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Consumer Reports has asked me to eliminate the content of my summaries and any other references to the content of Consumer Reports. I have complied.
Consumer Reports – June 2007
Erin says:
Just wanted to point that although Volumetrics is listed as the #1 diet, the article also mentions that #1 diet for the long term is Weight Watchers. The key to any successful diet is keeping the weight off. That is the WW plan's strong point. It is a plan that a person can follow to STAY at a healthy weight.
(I have been at my goal weight for 1 1/2 years using Weight Watchers program.)
Gal Josefsberg says:
Should always have a healthy breakfast. If you don't, your metabolism is running low all morning, up to lunch at which point you're starved so you over eat. It's a mistake most Americans make, they take in their calories during one or two big meals. It's far healthier to eat 5 or 6 smaller meals evenly spaced out with the last one occurring at least two to three hours before bed time.
If that's impossible, then try the four meal plan. A small breakfast with about 1/6 of your calories. A good lunch with about 1/3 of your calories. A nice afternoon snack at about 4pm with another 1/6 of your calories, and a good dinner at around 7 or 8pm with the final 1/3 of your calories. It's easy to follow and very healthy.
If you want more breakfast ideas, I have a few over at my blog.
Oh, and go MacBooks! (1 year now of switching to a Mac from a PC and I am 100% satisfied. You get what you pay for and in the case of Apple you're paying for a superb laptop with a great UI and incredible customer service.
J.D. @ Get Rich Slowly says:
I told Kris, "Wow. This issue is the perfect J.D. issue." She knew what I meant. Many issues of CR are boring for me because they're covering things I don't care about. ("Which is the best peanut butter?" "Our top-rated catheters!") But this one was filled with good stuff. So much good stuff that I'm going to post a summary, too, seeing as you haven't encountered any legal issues so far.
Anna says:
Consumer Reports also noted that none of these plans has ever been subjected to a large clinical trial. What that means is that the studies that "prove" these plans work are not up to the rigorous scientific standards to which we subject other medical or scientific treatments.
Also, "success" as defined by CR in this case means that at least 25 percent of participants lost at least 10 percent of their bodyweight. That means that 75 percent of people could get no results whatsoever on a given diet, and CR would consider that a success. Indeed, the Federal Trade Commission recently found that no weight loss method has been proven effective in the long term and that within five years, more than 95 percent of people who lose weight will regain all of the weight they've lost, and most will end up at a higher bodyweight than they began at. The CR study doesn't show this because it's less than 5 years long.
I'm normally a big fan of CR, but their study of weight loss plans was poorly formulated and their results are spurious at best.
MvsMedstudent says:
I have a typical, maybe 10 year old top loader washer. I tried the efficient stuff and it simply did not make it to all of my clothes. I won't get into how I know, but lets just say I know the difference between clean & dirty underwear! So maybe I need a frontloader before the stuff'll be useful to me.
Eric says:
MacBook Pro user and I love it. I recently had a problem with the display, brought it right in to the Apple store and they said, yep, new display. 50 hours later it's back in my hands after a round trip half way across the country.
I've used Linux and Windows desktop and I really don't know why I put up with them so long.
Rob says:
As much as I'm writing this on an XP machine… the next system I buy for myself will be running leopard. And probably be a MBP.
On the diet note – you might be interested in this critique of the CR diet review: http://www.malepatternfitness.com/story/2007/5/3/191553/1478
lorax says:
Provocative? In what sense?
Apples – I've experienced Dell and Apple hardware. I didn't want to, but I have to admit that the Apple hardware is much better. I've had to replace many parts on my Dell notebook, but the Apple keeps humming along. (Just my data point.)
Eric says:
We use Dell and Apple at work and I think overall Apple's have a small edge ( the most recent hardware has been plagued with little issues ). I just find the Apple support system much easier to deal with.
To some extent it's because the of the growing pains associated with the new Intel hardware and I expect those issues to subside over time to their old levels.


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Dr. Milton L. Owens
Bariatric Surgeon
San Pedro Area
Dr. Milton L. Owens is a bariatric surgeon based in San Pedro, California. An extremely experienced surgeon, he has performed over 8,000 weight loss surgeries and was the first surgeon in Southern California to perform sleeve gastrectomy.
Dr. Owens attended Stanford University for undergraduate college, and then earned a M.D.C.M. degree from McGill University School of Medicine in Canada, (the 'C.M.' denotes specialization in surgery). He completed his internship and residency at the University of Utah, and followed by a Nephrology Kidney Transplant Fellowship.
Following his fellowships, Dr. Owens began working under leaders in the field of bariatric surgeon; including Dr. Edward E. Mason, founder of the American Society for Bariatric Surgery, and Dr. David Miller, who was influential in perfecting the technique of gastric bypass. He then went into private practice with Dr. Carl Hill, a bariatric surgeon who pioneered new procedures. After witnessing the life-changing effects of gastric surgery, Dr. Owens decided to dedicate himself to the field. When Dr. Hill retired, Dr. Owens took over the practice.
Dr. Owens has taught at UCLA and served as Chief Kidney Transplant Surgeon at Los Angeles' VA Wadsworth Hospital.
He developed the Inverted Corner Gastric Sleeve technique to limit leaks and reduce heartburn; the procedure is also safer than previous methods of gastric surgery.
Dr. Owens is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, and a member of various other research and professional institutions, including the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS), for which he served as Chairman of the Public Education Committee from 1999-2001. He is also a member of the Surgical Association for Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgery and The Western Surgical Association.
Selected Works
"Inverted corner" for sleeve gastrectomy. Surg Obes Relat Dis. 2012 May-Jun;8(3):364-5.
A simpler method for predicting weight loss in the first year after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass. J Obes. 2012;2012:195251. Epub 2012 Jan 19.
Size really does matter-role of gastrojejunostomy in postoperative weight loss. Surg Obes Relat Dis. 2009 May-Jun;5(3):357-61. Epub 2008 Sep 4.
The information for this profile came from the following sources:
"Dr. Milton Owens, Well Known Bariatric Surgeon, Introduces Innovative 'Inverted Corner Gastric Sleeve Technique.'"


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Looks like a simple cookie exchange recipe, mine are being rolled with crushed peppermint sticks instead of the hazelnuts. Sounds good..Huh?
Chocolate-Dipped Hazelnut Shortbread Hearts
deebi547580 Posted: 11/21/08
nolegatormom Posted: 06/24/09
I made these for Valentine's Day, substituting almonds for the hazlenuts, as that is what I had. They were divine. I made extra dough which I rolled into a 2
shelbycrawford Posted: 04/15/10
These were great. I followed the recipe exactly and they came out perfect. Be gentle when dipping them in chocolate as they break fairly easily. I gave these to co-workers at christmas and everyone loved them. One of my favorite new cookie recipes! Thanks!
JadeNature Posted: 12/27/09
These were pretty easy and looked impressive. They were good, though the chocolate stayed pretty sticky.
Loves2rock23 Posted: 02/14/10
I made these for my boyfriend and me (V Day Yay!!) The dough was difficult at the start but I added about a tea spoon of water and it came out perfect. Also I used Walnuts instead of hazelnuts because I like hazelnuts.
BarbaraJean0719 Posted: 02/21/12
Made these for Valentines day and they turned out beautiful. Made a test cookie to determine the thickness when cutting out and opted for a slightly thicker cookie to keep from breaking when applying chocolate. I spread the chocolate over the half cookie so I didn't overload with chocolate on the underside. Substituted pecans in the recipe and sprinkling on top. Do not over bake. Crisp cookie but perfect center if not over baked. I use a "pecan sandy" type cookie as a pie crust crumbled and I think I could use this recipe instead of purchasing the store bought cookies. Just bake in the pie shell and fill with pie of your choice.


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Following are seller, buyer, property description and price of property. Note: price is an estimate based on revenue stamps that are bought from the county.
Rock Island County warranty deeds
Gross, Roger D., estate, Silvis, to Westhoff, Gregory and Megan, Alpha; 919 12th St., Silvis; $80,000.
DeSchepper, Marlene J., Rock Island, to Jacks, Danny A., Rock Island; 1429 47th Ave., Rock Island; $127,000.
Trask, James and Linda, Eldridge, to Jobe, Paul and Susan, Rock Island; 2157 14th St., Rock Island; $69,000.
Faust, William C., Moline, to Secor, Patrick M. and Kristine, Port Byron; 608-610 26th St., Rock Island, apartment building, four units; $85,000.
MWABank of Rock Island, Rock Island, to RY Washington, Iowa City; 911 3rd Ave., Silvis; $49,900.
Mareks, John E. and Cathleen A., Rake Wales, Fla., to Thornton, Judy, Hampton; 1007 7th St., Hampton; $137,000.
Mucha, Thomas and Xenya A., Moline, to Ver Heecke, Devin and Kimberly, Moline; 1801 37th St. Court, Moline; $146,000.
DeLille, Thomas H. Jr., Rock Island, to Lamar, Ronald E., Moline; 1802 53rd St., Unit 2, Moline; $43,500.
Smith, Julia L., Carbon Cliff, to Septer, Ryan W., Carbon Cliff; 208 Sinclaire Blvd., Carbon Cliff; $78,000.
Derby, Marcia, Milan, to Stradt, Robert, Milan; 11111 22nd St., Milan; $75,000.
Lister, Dorothy, East Moline, to Dale, Jeff and Laura, East Moline; 1358 18th Ave., East Moline; $21,000.
Houser, Nona S., Erie, to Duncan, Carla S., East Moline; 2941 4th St. A, East Moline; $18,500.
Martens, Michael T. and Julie A., Rock Island, to Tribble, Mindy K., Milan; 9035 13th St. W., Rock Island; $189,900.
Lowery, Teri, Wynne, Ariz., to Gedye, Kessille, Moline; 2644 44th St. Court, Moline; $142,000.
Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, Carrollton, Texas, to Dahal, Susmita, Moline; 3623 34th St., Unit 3, Moline; $76,500.
Showers, Kenneth R. and Linda K., to Kump Investments, Davenport; 425 W. 4th St., Milan, commercial building; $83,700.
Federal National Mortgage Association, Dallas, Texas, to Harvey, Eddie Lee and Nan Tsain, Rock Island; 1526 6th St., Rock Island; $27,500.
Casillas, Rodney, Moline, to Howard, Dale and Marie, Rock Island; 680 7th St. Court, Moline; $279,900.
Crupi, Paul E., Henderson, Nev., to Vanbat, Port Byron; 6 acres farmland, Port Byron, Port Byron Township; $70,000.
McGrath, John W., East Moline, to Top Level Investments, Moline; 1211 48th Ave., Unit 36, East Moline; $50,000.
American Bank and Trust, Rock Island, to Fryermuth, Tyson and Angela, Illinois City; Drury 121, Rock Island, Drury Township, land/lot only, 79.5 acres; $469,050.
Lundie, Stephanie Anne, estate, Moline, to Brixey, Chris Ann, Moline; 1311 9th St., Apartment C, Moline; $49,900.
Foley, Beverly, trustee, Orion, to Helderman, Carolyn J., Moline; 1110 2nd St., Moline; $135,000.
Lane, Corman Craig, estate, Rock Island, to JBB Enterprises, Phoenix, Ariz.; 2734 7th Ave., Rock Island; $38,000.
Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, Carrollton, Texas, to Olmstead, Elizabeth, Moline; 225 40th St., Moline; $29,000.
Kirschbaum, Kimberly A., trustee, Fredricks, Jon M., trust, Davenport, to Quick, Benjamin, East Moline; 459 31st Ave., East Moline; $79,900.
Clearvue Opportunity IX, Newport Beach, Calif., to Marcinko, Christine P., San Jacinto, Calif.; 443 40th St., East Moline; $15,500.
Beneficial Financial I, Brandon, Fla., to Midwest Living, Bettendorf; 204 48th St., Moline; $14,500.
Samalon, Stella, estate, Samalon, James Stephan, independent executor, LeClaire, to Reagin, Kristen M., Hampton; 1215 8th St. Court, Hampton; $88,000.
Veto, Patricia M., Moline, to Pilichowski, Wendy J., Moline; 729 24th Ave. Court, Moline; $155,500.
Stotts, James R., Bettendorf, to Griffiths, Christina, Rock Island; 1419 31st St., Rock Island; $55,000.
CR Capital Group, Elmsford, N.Y., to PMA Properties, Milan; 1002 20th Ave., Rock Island; $9,000.
Hibbs, Thomas J. and Dorothy E., trust, by Park, Stephanie A., trustee, DeKalb, Ill., to Parker, Darrel F. and Eleanor J., Geneseo; 2607 1st St. Court, Moline; $160,000.
Tribble, Mindy K., Milan, to Radosevich, Derek J. and Megan S., Milan; 513 Bruce Ave., Milan; $160,000.
White, Ann L., Las Vegas, N.M., to Sprouse, Lee J., Silvis; 822 7th Ave., Silvis; $80,000.
Willett, Larry J., estate, East Moline, to JBB Enterprises, Phoenix, Ariz.; 1224 2nd Ave., Silvis; $45,000.
Gutting, Linda M., by Ulner, Jacqueline, Colona, to Woller, Fred, Rock Island; 2002 37th St., Rock Island; $46,500.
Floyd, William C. and Maria S., East Moline, to Perkins, Clara Ann, East Moline; 468 44th Ave. Court, East Moline; $162,900.
Zepeda, Elias M., estate, Marshall, Sandra A., independent executor, Silvis, to B&N, Rock Island; 3123 7th Ave., Rock Island; $54,500.
Oakcliff, St. Louis, Mo., to Steel Warehouse Quad Cities, South Bend, Ind.; 7919 W. 42nd St., Rock Island, commercial building; $1,650,000.
DHCU Community Credit Union, Moline, to Hansen, Luke R. and Ashley E., Moline; 415 Barber Creek Road, Port Byron; $215,000.
Dusenberry, DeWayne, Illinois City, Coffey, Steven, Illinois City; 11928 238th St. W., Illinois City; $119,000.
Hoffman, Nicholas J., Port Byron, to Enloe, Ben J., Port Byron; 24123 71st Ave. N., Port Byron; $117,000.
Morrow, Melvin R. and Marilyn Y., Woodland Park, Colo., to Hoffman, Nicholas J. and Einsweiler-Hoffman, Erica, Port Byron; 1610 Parkway Drive, Port Byron; $229,000.
Verbeckmoes, Scott K. and Iona M., Port Byron, to Verbeckmoes, Todd, East Moline; 2800 46th Ave., Moline, commercial building; $225,000.
Prescott, Michelle Ann, Moline, to Dismer, Jeffrey S. and Martha M., Moline; 3417 South Shore Drive, Moline, vacant land/lot; $11,000.
Henry County Warranty Deeds
Giorno, Joseph J., estate to Zang Properties; 424 E. South St., Kewanee; $31,500.
Giorno, Joseph J., estate to Zang, Andrew J.; 421 Green St., Kewanee; $33,500.
Hanford, Charles C. Jr. to Ries, James A .and Martha A.; 316 W. Pearl St., Geneseo; $125,000.
Robinson, Clinton W., estate to Brockman, James J. and Parsons, Bonny R.; Section 33, Township 18N, Range 2E; $164,000.
Pobanz, Marvin C. and Gretchen E., trust to Pobanz, Kathryn E. and Roger P.; 716 Meadowlawn Drive, Geneseo; $145,000.
Pinks, Joyce L., trust to Tord, Charles C.; Humphrey & Turners, 2nd Add., ml/blk 9, Geneseo; $99,000.
Shannon, Dennis R. and Sue A. to Hughes, Jonathan R.; 208 East A St., Alpha; $55,00.
Sherbeyn, Marie H. to Mikenas, Marie Elizabeth; N1/2 lot 4, Bennison and Quinn's Subdivision, Lot 47 and 48 in Howe, Preston and Co., Kewanee; $85,000.
Butcher, Lisa D. and Robert L. to Kutsunis, George W.; Section 15, Township 17N, Range3E, Country Manor lot 213, Geneseo; $288,000.
Crabtree, Curtis L. and Kay O. to Fitzgerrel, Jeanette and Paul; 202 Dwight St., Kewanee; $16,000.
Crabtree, Curtis L. and Kay O. to Fitzgerrel, Jeanette and Paul; 336 S. Cottage St., Kewanee; $17,500.
Fry, Raymond E. to Cerda, Isaac; 603 2nd Ave., Colona; $43,900.
Brown, Carlie M. and Justin R. to Sandberg, Mallisa A. and Nathan L.; 222 S. Ridge St., Cambridge; $108,500.
Harper, Edmond J. and Lori Ann to Stott, Tiffany N.; 502 3rd St., Colona; $50,000.
Berg, Marlene E. to Glisan, Derrick; 520 N.E. 3rd St., Galva; $130,000.
Vaughn, Mildred to Woods, Julie; 548 Greenway Ave., Colona; $118,000.
Chandler, Carol S. and Michael D. to Johnson, Shane M.; 284 Brairgate Drive, Colona; $130,000.
Peterson, Justin C. and Kristine L. to DeClercq, Megan E.; 214 S. Cottage St., Kewanee; $49,000.
Altona, Shannon M. and Baker, Ryan to Spaniel, Amber; 507 Rockwell St., Kewanee; $33,000.
Dunne, Robert Michael to Allen, Brian and Hepner, Sarah and Thompson, Michelle; 807 12th Ave., Orion; $94,000.
Thompson, Marilyn J. to Williams, Burl and Leota; 236 S. Chestnut St. Kewanee; $70,000.
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11/23/2013 ROH TV Report
The show starts with highlights of last week's Champions vs All-Stars elimination match, specifically the final segment with Michael Elgin defeating ROH Champion Adam Cole. Jay Briscoe is shown attacking Elgin and Cole after the match.
Kevin Kelly and Steve Corino introduce the show from Dearborn, Michigan and preview tonight's main event of Jay Lethal vs Eddie Edwards as well as ROH TV Champion vs Zach Gowen
[ROH TV Title Match: Champion Matt Taven with Truth Martini and Scarlett Bordeaux vs Zach Gowen: We are shown footage from Cincinnati of Tomasso Ciampa winning a TV title shot at Final Battle in New York City. Martini takes the microphone and refers to Gowen as the world's only one-legged wrestler and says even a blind man can see Gowen is handicapped. He says that Gowen thinks he has a shot at becoming TV Champion and from the reception he can tell the people believe in him but if this is true they are even more stupid than Gowen. Martini says the only think Gowen has better than Taven is a parking spot. Gowen and Taven shake hands and then tie up with Taven throwing Gowen to the mat and making fun of him by hopping on one leg. They tie up again and Taven sweeps Gowen's leg. Gowen chases Taven out of the ring and the show goes to commercials. On return, Taven misses an elbow-drop and Gowen hits two dropkicks. Taven pushes the referee into Gowen and then attacks Gowen from behind. Taven drops an elbow on Gowen's leg. Taven charges Gowen in the corner but Gowen hits him with an elbow. Gowen goes to the apron and avoids interference from Martini but Taven hits him with an enzuiguri from the second rope. Taven does an elbow-smash to Gowen's head from the apron to the floor. They return to the ring and Taven gets a two-count. Taven hits a delayed vertical suplex followed by a hard clothesline. Gowen gets up and Taven charges him with a clothesline but Gowen rolls him up for a two-count. Taven hits a dropkick and then goes to the second rope and jumps at Gowen but Gowen gets a boot up into Taven's face. Gowen avoids a charge in the corner and then pulls down the top rope causing Taven to spill to the floor. Gowen then does a springboard into a rolling senton similar to a tope con giro. Gowen rolls Taven inside and goes to the top rope but Taven cuts him off. Gowen kicks Taven down and goes for a moonsault but Martini knocks him down while Scarlett distracts the referee. Taven goes for the Climax but Gowen rolls him up. Gowen rolls him up again and then hits a flatliner. Gowen applies a one-legged Koji Clutch but Taven gets the ropes to break the hold. Taven gives Gowen a drop toehold into the ropes. Taven charges him but Gowen gets out of the way and Taven crotches himself on the ropes. Gowen hits a moonsault on Taven but the referee is distracted by Martini. Gowen dropkicks Martini off of the apron but then gets distracted by Scarlett. Taven attacks Gowen and hits him with the Climax forward DDT to pin him and win the match. Marini and Taven go to attack Gowen with a crutch after the match but Tomasso Ciampa runs them off.
Footage is shown of Elgin defeating Cole in the Champions vs All-Stars match last week with Jay Briscoe attacking both after the match and unveiling his personalized World Title belt. Kevin Kelly reports that Adam Cole was not medically cleared to defend his title at the Golden Dream show in Cincinnati and that a match was made between Kevin Steen and Jay Briscoe. ROH Matchmaker is shown announcing that Adam Cole will defend the ROH World Title at Final Battle against Michael Elgin and the winner of the Steen vs Briscoe match. The match is won by Briscoe so there will be a three-way Cole vs Elgin vs Briscoe matches and we see interviews from all three talking about the match.
Michael Bennett is interviewed regarding his stretcher match against Steen at Final Battle. He says it will be final because the winner can no longer use the piledriver and that it may be Steen's final match. He says it is fitting that there is a stretcher because that is what Steen will need to get out of New York City.
After a commercial break Jay Briscoe comes to the ring with his Briscoe-themed world title belt. Briscoe grabs the microphone and says it is an honor and privilege to stand before the fans tonight as the reigning and defending ROH World Champion. He says the main event at Final Battle has been changed to a three-way with Briscoe putting the title on the line against Cole and Elgin. Briscoe says he wants a world title match for the fans in Dearborn, Michigan and lays out an open challenge. Silas Young comes to the ring and says he is the only man in the back. Young asks what kind of man comes out with his own title belt and claims to be the champion. Young says he will be taking the belt home with him tonight.
Jay Briscoe vs Silas Young: Briscoe kicks Young in the gut to start and hits him with a back elbow. Briscoe lays into Young with kicks in the corner and then punches away at him. Young whips Briscoe into the corner but Briscoe hits him with another back elbow and then a spinning punch. Young goes outside and Briscoe chases him but Young beats him down when they enter the ring. Briscoe fights back with headbutts and then a reverse neckbreaker. Briscoe goes for a Jay Driller but Young gets out and goes for a Death Valley Driver which Briscoe escapes. Briscoe hits a running boot to the face. Young goes outside and throws a chair in the ring. While the referee is trying to get it out of the ring Young grabs the hammer from ringside. As he attempts to bring it into the ring, Mark Briscoe runs to ringside and grabs it from him. Jay kicks the ropes into Young and then hits a Jay Driller to pin Young and win the match.
After a commercial break footage is shown of BJ Whitmer announcing his retirement and asking Nigel McGuinness to give Jimmy Jacobs a chance, saying that he has more heart than anyone he has ever met in the business. Comments are provided from Jacobs say that anyone who doesn't feel accepted by the people around him understands how much a comment like that means. McGuinness discusses that he gave Jacobs five matches and if he wins three of the five matches he will be instated and receive a shot at the ROH World Title. Jacobs says he wants nothing more than for the people who don't believe in him, to give them no choice but to believe in him. Jacobs is shown losing to Michael Bennett and Kevin Steen but also defeating Adam Page, Roderick Strong and Silas Young. Adam Cole is shown saying that this is a dream come true for Jacobs to get a world title shot in his hometown. Jacobs says last time they were in Dearborn, he almost defeated Cole. Jacobs says the ROH World Title has evaded him his whole career. Cole says the title belt is going nowhere. Jacobs says that Dearborn is twenty minutes from where he lives. Cole says he doesn't care if it is Jacobs' hometown or his chance at redemption. Cole says he is champion and the belt will be his forever. Jacobs says "You'll have my back, right?" and Whitmer saying he will and that he'll be there. Cole will defend the ROH World Title next week on ROH TV from Dearborn, Michigan.
Eddie Edwards vs Jay Lethal: They tie up and Edwards hits a shoulder-block. They criss-cross and Lethal attempts a quebrada but lands on his feet when Edwards moves. Edwards attempts his Achilles lock but Lethal rolls him up. Lethal gets headlock takeovers and they get to their feet and have a staredown. They tie up in an extended test of strength with Lethal taking Edwards down into a bridging position. Lethal attempts a number face. Lethal pins but Edwards gets out with a monkeyflip. Lethal hiptosses Edwards and then cartwheels into a seated dropkick. Lethal gives Edwards a drop toehold into the ropes and then slides to the floor and dropkicks Edwards in the face. Lethal applies a headlock as Davey Richards is shown at ringside. Lethal hits Edwards with chops and then hits a leg lariat off the second rope. Lethal applies a headlock on the mat. Edwards tries to fight out with elbows but Lethal hits him with a forearm. Edwards gets whipped into the corner but he gets a boot into Lethal's face. Edwards ties up Lethal in the tree of woe and hits a dropkick to his face. Edwards goes to the floor and does another running dropkick to the face. Edwards returns to the ring and goes for a pin attempt as the show goes to commercials. Upon return, Edwards runs Lethal's head into the turnbuckle and then chops him. Edwards headbutts Lethal and then goes for a back suplex but Lethal lands on his feet. Edwards charges Lethal but spills to the floor when Lethal pulls down the rope. Lethal then gives Edwards with a tope suicida followed by a second one. He goes for a third but Edwards cuts him off in the ring with a hurracanrana with Lethal with Lethal going to the floor. Edwards then hits two consecutive tope suicida's. He goes for a third but Lethal gets into the ring and hits him with a hard superkick. Lethal jumps to the second rope and dropkicks Edwards out of the ring. Lethal then hits another tope suicida. Both men are on the floor and just beat the referee's twenty-count to get back inside. They square off and trade forearms, punches and chops. Lethal hits a back-kick and Edwards hits him with an elbow. Lethal hits his Lethal Combination and then goes to the top rope and hits his "Hail To The King" elbow-drop. Lethal goes for his Lethal Injection with a handspring but Edwards catches him with a back suplex in which he fully rotates him over into a front slam. Edwards goes to the top rope but Lethal stops him and attempts a superplex. Edwards knocks Lethal off and attempts a double stomp but Lethal gets out of the way. Lethal goes to the top rope again but Edwards grabs him and hits a backpack chinbreaker. Edwards gets a two-count and transitions into an Achilles Lock. Lethal gets an inside cradle and they trade several roll-ups. Lethal gives Edwards a running slap in the corner followed by an elbow by Edwards in the corner. Edwards gives Lethal an O'Connor Roll but Lethal gets out and then does a backflip into his Lethal Injection (ace crusher) finisher. Lethal pins Edwards and wins the match.
The show was good but not great this week, but still worth watching. Zach Gowen was a lot of fun to watch and probably the best I have seen him in a long time. Briscoe vs Young was quick and intense and although I would usually like to see Young get more of a match Briscoe did need to be put over building to the Final Battle title shot. There was a lot of action in the Lethal vs Edwards main event but I felt they kept it tight and short enough that it felt like a good match. The Cole vs Jacobs match next week seems like one to look forward to watching.
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Facebook unveils Skype video chat
CEO Mark Zuckerberg talks up the power of his social network's infrastructure, but can the deal fend off a hot new video feature from Google? With video analysis.
By Jeff Reeves, editor of InvestorPlace.com
Facebook made a splash Wednesday with a major upgrade to its ubiquitous social-media platform: a video chat feature via a partnership with Skype.
The move comes along with upgrades to groups, chatting and buddy lists, adding an extra layer of interactivity to Facebook. That's saying something, considering the site already boasts 500 million active users who spend more than 700 billion minutes per month on its site.
So what is the motivation for the upgrade to chatting and Facebook-Skype synergy? To keep people connected, sure, and CEO Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged in his press conference Wednesday that Facebook chat was a bit clunky and needed some improvement. But more importantly, to keep users loyally plugged in as competitors look to get a slice of Facebook's massive social-media pie.
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The idea of a Skype partnership adds one-on-one video calling to allow friends to talk to each other. There is a simple two-click way to get the chat up and running, even for the first time, using Facebook's existing infrastructure to make video calling possible with an immediate Skype download in less than 30 seconds on a broadband connection.
Great news, right? Sure. Only last week, Google (GOOG) launched its Google+ social-networking platform with some video chops of its own, including group video chatting, something Facebook appears not to have a handle on just yet.
Google Hangout is a prominent feature of Google+ and has been heating up the Internet with reports of how addictive it is and easy to use for folks already logged in to Gmail. A great New York Times tech blog post hints that Hangout could be the company's "killer app."
Facebook clearly doesn't want to be left behind. Hence a hasty Skype announcement this morning on video calling, even if it's only for one-on-one chats.
Of course, let's not be fooled into thinking that the Skype thing was just thrown together on the fly. Back in May, Microsoft (MSFT) dialed in a $8.5 billion deal to buy Skype, in part because of rumors that both Google and Facebook were considering a buyout of the videoconferencing king themselves. Microsoft has its own plans for Skype, to be sure, but clearly knew that Skype was in demand in Silicon Valley. (Microsoft owns and publishes MSN Money.)
But the bottom line is that Google beat Facebook to the punch on video chat. And as boy wonder Zuckerberg races his company toward the inevitable initial public offering of Facebook stock in the next several months, that's not ideal. It's more important than ever to assure Wall Street that the Facebook IPO hype over the past year or so has been well warranted.
- Related Article: 4 biggest threats to Facebook IPO
Even more troublesome for Facebook is that the IPO market appears not to be as remarkable as it seemed a few months ago, even for social-media companies. LinkedIn (LNKD) opened about 80% above its offer price on the first day of trading but has slid into the red since its initial stock offering May 20. And Renren (RENN), the so-called Facebook of China, is off about 40% since its May 5 IPO.
Facebook is clearly more dominant and is a much sexier company than either LinkedIn or Renren. But it's important to note that investors have become more skeptical lately. Facebook is going to have to prove itself with this Skype partnership if it wants to assure Wall Street that Google+ doesn't pose a threat.
Jeff Reevesis the editor of InvestorPlace.com. As of this writing, he did not own a position in any of the stocks named here. Follow him on Twitter via @JeffReevesIP and become a fan of InvestorPlace on Facebook.
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This is not believed to be good news for those in the racing industry who want to see expanded gaming at racetracks–something Williams has been blocking for years in his role as Senate president and de facto Republican Party boss. While Williams, from a small district in southern Kentucky, is not seen by some as a strong statewide candidate, Farmer was an extremely popular player in the basketball-starved state, first as "Mr. Basketball" while in high school and later as a member of the The Unforgettables, an overachieving team that lifted the University of Kentucky program after it was on NCAA probation. Farmer has ridden this glory to two terms as Commissioner of Agriculture where he won by landslides.


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Gov. Jerry Brown is doing his job with barely half the personal office staff of his predecessor.
Arnold Schwarzenegger paid the 230 employees on his personal staff roughly $14.5 million during his last year as governor, including 42 workers earning six figures, state data show.
Last year, Gov. Jerry Brown paid the 120 employees on his personal staff roughly $8.2 million, according to a Bee review of new figures from the state controller's office.
Personal staff includes assistants, advisers, secretaries, communications staff, interns and others who work with the governor on a day-to-day basis.
The contrast doesn't end with personal staff. Schwarzenegger, during his last year in office, took more than twice as many personal gifts as Brown took last year. Gifts to Schwarzenegger included thousands of dollars worth of wine, cigars, champagne and liquor.
Through a nonprofit set up to cover travel costs, Schwarzenegger took close to $100,000 worth of trips during his final year in office, traveling to Asia, Russia and England. A similar organization spent $3,600 for Brown to go to Los Angeles and D.C last year, according to financial disclosure reports.
Schwarzenegger did cut personal payroll over the course of his term and, through furloughs, slashed hundreds of millions from the total state payroll. Brown held the total state payroll steady last year after a significant rise the previous year due to the end of furloughs.
This chart shows the Governor's Office payroll over the last five years. Jerry Brown assumed office in January 2011.
Source: State Controller's Office.
Note: This comparison covers employees the state payroll lists as working for the Governor's Office. Governors have historically sprinkled some close advisers in other agencies and departments throughout the executive branch.
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This was a very quick and easy soup to make and was full of delicious curry flavor. I used leftover turkey from Christmas, but will make it again using chicken so I can have it throughout the year.
Curried Turkey Soup
This simple yet elegant dish is great for family meals and entertaining. The soup improves with age, so make it ahead and reheat before serving. For a creamier soup, puree with a handheld immersion blender, then add turkey and cream. For a lighter version, substitute half-and-half or milk for cream. Prep: 10 minutes; Cook: 20 minutes.
Yield: Makes 4 servings
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- 3 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 1 cup minced onion
- 1 celery rib, thinly sliced
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 2 teaspoons curry powder*
- 1/4 teaspoon turmeric
- 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 3 cups low-sodium chicken broth
- Salt, to taste
- Ground red pepper, to taste
- 1 1/2 cups diced cooked turkey
- 1/2 cup whipping cream
- 1 1/2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice
- Garnishes: Mango chutney, raisins, or diced dried fruit and toasted sliced almonds
- Melt butter in a large saucepan over medium heat. Add onion, celery, and garlic, and cook 3 minutes or until tender. Add curry powder and turmeric, and cook 1 minute. Add flour, and cook 2 minutes. Add broth, salt, and pepper, and simmer 10 minutes or until mixture begins to thicken. Add turkey and cream, and simmer 3 minutes or until heated through. Stir in lemon juice. Garnish, if desired.
- *Be sure to look for curry powder that's imported or labeled "premium" for the best blend of spices.
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UPDATE: Air New Zealand is protected from recent problems with Boeing's new Dreamliner plane, an aviation analyst says.
The airline's 787 fleet has been grounded in the US while the planes are checked for problems.
Forsyth Barr analyst Rob Mercer says Air New Zealand – which is scheduled to receive its first Dreamliner aircraft next year – should not be affected.
The airline had deliberately chosen to delay receipt of its first 787 Dreamliner in order to take Series 9 planes, whereas the grounded aircraft are Series 8 and problems would be ironed out before the Series 9 was released.
"That was the choice they made," he says. "These things are good headlines at the moment, but they're not a reason for someone to be nervous about Air New Zealand."
In other developments, Qatar Airways said it was grounding its five 787s until further notice following instructions by both the US Federal Aviation Administration and Qatar's Civil Aviation Authority.
"Qatar Airways will resume 787 operations when we are clear that the aircraft meets the full requirements of the Airworthiness Directive and our standards which assure the safety of our passengers and crew at all times. So we are not flying the aircraft until and only such a time this is achieved," chief executive Akbar Al Baker said.
EARLIER: Troubles are mounting for Boeing's new generation 787 Dreamliner aircraft with US aviation regulators ordering the immediate temporary halt of all flights.
This follows yesterday's grounding by Japan's two main airlines, which operate half of the 50 Dreamliners in service around the world.
The Federal Aviation Administration says it requires a "corrective action plan" before flights can resume – and hasn't released a timetable for when that might happen.
The agency says it work with Boeing and airlines to develop a plan to resume operations as quickly and safely as possible. In the US, it has meant the suspension of United's six 787s. Other US airlines have not received any Dreamliners.
The Japanese grounding by ANA and Japan Airlines was prompted an emergency landing at Takamatsu, in southern Japan, after pilots reacted to alarms indicating smoke coming from the main battery that power's the aircraft's electronics.
The follows other problems also related to the batteries and electrical troubles, as well as cracked windows and faulty brakes.
US air-safety regulators launched a comprehensive review of the 787 programme last week and said they were also dispatching an investigator to Japan.
Jim McNerney, the Boeing chairman, president and CEO, says: "Boeing is committed to supporting the FAA and finding answers as quickly as possible.
"The company is working around the clock with its customers and the various regulatory and investigative authorities. We will make available the entire resources of The Boeing Company to assist.
"We are confident the 787 is safe and we stand behind its overall integrity. We will be taking every necessary step in the coming days to assure our customers and the traveling public of the 787s safety and to return the airplanes to service.
"Boeing deeply regrets the impact that recent events have had on the operating schedules of our customers and the inconvenience to them and their passengers."
Other airlines are continuing to operate their 787s. LOT Polish Airlines said its inaugural 787 flight from Warsaw to Chicago took off as planned. It has two 787s. State-run Air India said its six Dreamliners were operating normally.
Qatar Airways has five on services from Doha to airports in Europe and, from next month, Perth. Other airlines with 787s are Ethiopian Airlines (4) and LAN Chile (3).