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Contest offers home energy upgrades
One local homeowner will win up to $10,000 in home energy upgrades to lower energy bills and increase comfort, through the Richmond Region Energy Alliance's Richmond Home Energy Makeover Contest, which opened today and will continue through Aug. 26.
Ten finalists will also win free home energy assessments valued at $300. Local nonprofits can also take part in the Contest's Nonprofit Challenge for a chance to win a $1,000 cash prize.
"This is an exciting opportunity for homeowners in Richmond to finally take control of their home energy bills," said Bill Greenleaf, executive director of the Richmond Region Energy Alliance. "With home energy improvements, one lucky homeowner will win once and save forever. We hear from homeowners all the time that they are paying too much on their energy bills while still suffocating in their homes during our hot and humid summers – and then shivering in frigid rooms in the winter. The Richmond Home Energy Makeover Contest is a free and easy way to enjoy your home again."
The contest is open to single family homeowners who reside in the counties of Henrico, Hanover, Chesterfield, Goochland, Powhatan, New Kent and Charles City, the City of Richmond and the Town of Ashland
To enter, visit http://www.rrea-va.org/contest .
Contest entry involves completion of a five-minute form that will create a personalized home energy report that identifies what your energy bills are paying for and outlines simple ways you can cut those costs.
The Richmond Region Energy Alliance is a community-based nonprofit that provides tips for homeowners to solve their high home energy bills and comfort issues through home energy improvements. The contest is sponsored by Carrier Corp and EarthCraft Virginia.
Home energy improvements for the grand prize winner will range from small to large solutions and often include air and duct sealing, HVAC upgrades, insulation, sealing and/or replacing windows and doors, lighting and appliance upgrades.
The winner will be selected at the end of September, and the improvement work will be scheduled in October in coordination with the homeowner.
Lions Club donates backpacks to elementary school
The Richmond West Breakfast Lions Club (based in western Henrico) recently donated 59 backpacks to the Westover Hills Elementary School on Jahnke Road.
Above, club members display some of the backpacks prior to their distribution. > Read more.
Glen Allen student to perform at Carnegie Hall
Thanks to a first-place win in The American Protege International Vocal Competition 2014, Glen Allen High School student Matija Tomas will travel to New York City to perform at Carnegie Hall in December.
At the first-place winners recital in Weill Hall, Matija will perform Giacomo Puccini's opera aria, "Chi il bel sogna di doretta." She will perform with other vocalists from around the world and have the opportunity to win other awards and scholarships.
Locally, Thomas has performed with Richmond's renowned Glorious Christmas Nights, Christian Youth Theatre, and WEAG's Urban Gospel Youth Choir. > Read more.
Gayton Baptist Church dedicates new outreach center
The John Rolfe YMCA and Gayton Baptist Church have partnered in an effort to bring greater health and wellness opportunities to the community.
Through this partnership, the John Rolfe Y will run Youth Winter Sports programs, including basketball and indoor soccer, in Gayton's newly renovated $5.5 million outreach center that features a new gymnasium, youth and teen space, social space with café, meeting space and full service commercial kitchen. > Read more.
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Film industry training program planned for this weekend
The Community College Workforce Alliance (CCWA), in partnership with the Virginia Film Office, will offer "Get Your Start in the Film Industry," a two-day seminar designed to prepare workers for film, television and commercial projects in Virginia. The course will be held Oct. 4-5 at the Workforce Development and Conference Center, 1651 Parham Road in Henrico, on the campus of J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College.
The training will be taught by Gary Romolo Fiorelli, an accomplished assistant director for film and television projects, which include the television series Sons of Anarchy and ABC's current drama Mistresses. > Read more.
The Boathouse to open at Short Pump Town Center
The Boathouse restaurant will open at Short Pump Town Center in the spring, its third location in the region.
"People have asked us to come to the West End for years," said owner Kevin Healy. "When the opportunity arose, we knew had to jump on it."
The new restaurant will be located in a 5,800-square-foot space under the Hyatt House Hotel at the town center and will include a large outdoor patio. > Read more.
Getting a 'mouf'-ful
Boka Kantina exceeds its strong food truck reputation
Already a fan of Boka fare from outdoor events with the Tako Truck, I was delighted to learn of the new restaurant, and eager to see if its reputation held up after putting down brick-and-mortar roots.
Would the food lose its zest if I wasn't enjoying it in the great outdoors? Would it seem pedestrian served from an ordinary kitchen instead of a truck?
Would the tacos be less satisfying as an antidote to normal lunch hunger – instead of being ingested to stave off desperate hunger after a long afternoon of crowds, sun, and tedious lines? > Read more.
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Young Player Of The Season & Shareholders' Young Player
Seamus Coleman's star continues to rise following the capture of two prestigious awards at Everton's 6th Annual End of Season Awards.
Such has been the precocious Irishman's impact upon the Blues' 2010/11 campaign, he was a clear favourite to sweep the prizes for emerging talent.
And so it proved as he scooped the Young Player of the Season and the Shareholders' Young Player of the Season awards at the SE Investments sponsored event.
Coleman's infectious attitude, rambunctious style and fearless approach have been a breath of fresh air this season, his zest for the game adding a new dimension to David Moyes' side.
His displays had already earned him a PFA Young Player of the Year nomination, and the 22-year-old from Donegal admitted it was a proud moment as he collected his trophies at the BT Convention Centre.
Coleman said: "I am shocked to be honest. Two years ago I didn't even think I would be at Everton let alone winning awards.
"Everyone has been so good to me since I came over, all of the first team squad, all of the coaching staff and, of course, the fans.
"There have been so many highlights, my debut against Fulham and my first goal against Blackpool stand out.
"So many good young players have won this award in the past and have gone on to do well so hopefully I can kick on and keep improving."
The awards put the seal on what has been an incredible 12 months for the humble youngster.
As well as earning an array of personal accolades, Coleman will also look back on 2010/11 as the campaign in which he earned his first full Republic of Ireland cap, the Blues man running out for the seniors for the first time in a win over Wales.
Rewind a year and he was on loan at Blackpool, playing in his accustomed right back role and helping the Seasiders to Championship play-off glory.
But within a month of the new season commencing he found himself in the starting line-up at Goodison - given an opportunity on the right of midfield - and he hasn't looked back.
Goals, assists and endless enterprise down the flank have kept fans on the edge of their seats and made him a real crowd favourite.
Now an established first-teamer, the bargain buy from Sligo Rovers has marked himself out as a genuine star of the future.
The Young Player of the Season Award was sponsored Whitestone Solicitors.
The Shareholders' Young Player of the Season Award was sponsored by Cayrus.
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1. Where is it legal to discharge my sump pump? Anywhere outside your home as long as the first place it hits the ground is at least 20 feet from the road to avoid icing in the winter. Underground connections into the County storm drain (below the curb) require a permit from the County.
2. Is the Township responsible for repairing water and sewer lines between the road and my house? No. Our responsibility does not extend past the utility easement onto private property but we will assist you in determining if you have a leak in your line.
3. Can I use plastic for my water service line? Township installs soft K-type copper lead from township water main to the water service shut-off valve located at the property line. Copper material is recommended to be installed on private property; however, an approved equal material may be installed as reviewed and approved by the township plumbing inspector or Water Department.
4. Who do I call if I have a blocked storm drain or need my road plowed in winter? Oakland County Citizen's Service Bureau for Roads and Drains, 248.858.4804.
5. What is the difference between a sanitary sewer and a storm drain? Sanitary sewers remove waste products from your home and send them underground to a treatment plant. Storm drains gather rain and storm runoff and direct them to wetlands and lakes. Ditches and curb line grates are storm drains. Sanitary manholes have solid round covers. The two systems are not connected.
The Township maintains the sanitary sewers and the County maintains the storm drains in the road right of ways. Storm drains located elsewhere are usually the responsibility of property owners.
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7. Why is my water brown or dirty looking? When we turn water off to make a water main repair it can stir up the mineral content that settled to the bottom of the main. You do not need to boil your water. Run the cold water only until it clears up. Using hot water before you have cleared the cold water will draw the dirty water into your hot water heater. We will announce via radio, television and newspaper in the unfortunate event that you ever need to boil your water.
8. Can I pay my water and sewer bill online, by credit card or automatic deduction? Yes. Payments can be made at: www.officialpayments.com. A processing fee of $5.95 will be assessed for each $500.00 or less transaction.
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Water and Sewer utility lines that run from private homes to the public sanitary sewer or water main are on private property and any repairs or replacement of failing lines are the responsibility of the homeowner. The Township of West Bloomfield does not endorse or represent any insurance company and encourages all homeowners to get the facts before deciding to purchase a policy. In most cases, water and sewer lines can last decades before they need to be replaced. Therefore, many factors should be considered before purchasing a policy including the age of the home, invasion from tree roots into the sewer line, and whether your current home insurance policy already covers repairs.
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Liabilities for sanitary sewer backups are regulated by the State of Michigan through Public Act 222. The act requires those seeking compensation for property damage must show: 1) that the Township's sewer system had a defect; 2) that the Township knew about the defect; 3) that the defect was not remedied by the Township in a reasonable amount of time; and, 4) that the damage resulted because of the defect. The Act requires the claimant report the damage to the Township Clerk's office within 45 days of the sewer backup. The sanitary sewer system consists of the Township mainline and not the sewer lead or internal plumbing components of the property.


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Powerful Typhoon Fitow is expected to hit Japan's southern island chain of Okinawa, with flights cancelled and power outages affecting some 200 households, officials say.
Japan, Taiwan and China were all bracing for the storm on Saturday, with Japan's meteorological agency warning of strong winds and heavy rain, as well as the risk of tornados, just two weeks after Typhoon Usagi wreaked havoc in the region.
At 1pm (1000 AEST), Fitow was about 200 kilometres south-southwest of Naha, the capital of Okinawa, and moving slowly northwest, the agency said.
Japan Airlines, All Nippon Airways and its low-cost carrier Peach Aviation said that their flights to and from Naha had been cancelled because the typhoon.
Hong Kong's Dragonair also said its Okinawa flights had been cancelled.
About 200 households lost electricity due to the storm, the Okinawa Electric Power Company said, adding that strong winds and heavy rain were hampering efforts to restore power.
The typhoon, named after a flower from Micronesia, was heading towards Taiwan, which said the storm would likely pass to the north of the island on Sunday.
The Central Weather Bureau in Taiwan said the typhoon had gathered momentum and was packing gusts of 137 km/h.
China has also issued a warning over the typhoon, which is set to hit the country's southeast coastline late on Sunday.
Typhoon Usagi left 25 dead last month when it crashed into southern China, throwing the region's transport systems into chaos and leaving tens of thousands of airline passengers stranded in Hong Kong.
In 2007, a strong typhoon also called Fitow slammed into the Tokyo region, bringing territorial downpours and violent winds that left one person dead, more than 40 injured and flooded hundreds of homes.


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Bruce Graham and Faz Khan were both with Skidmore, Owings and Merrill…a rather important fact left out of this infographic considering the other projects seem to be more correctly attributed. That noted, happy to see Fazlur Khan recognized for the genius he was!0
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A major new report, Professional Perspectives on Waste and Resource Management, prepared for the Chartered Institution of Wastes Management (CIWM) was launched by the 2012/13 CIWM President John Skidmore in front of 200 guests at the House of Commons last week.
Professional Perspectives on Waste and Resource Management provides a detailed picture of waste and resource management across the UK and Ireland and draws on the views of CIWM members and the Institution regarding future issues, challenges and opportunities.
The report provides an important insight into the current performance of this dynamic sector, and sets a marker against which changes and achievements can be measured.
The report was authored by Nia Owen, Brian Mayne and Andy Maunder. It can be downloaded for free from the CIWM website: http://www.ciwm.co.uk/web/FILES/Technical/CIWM_Report_2012.pdf
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Today is day three of The Aegon Championships at The Queens Club and we're pleased to share with you another exclusive glimpse behind the scenes at all the action!
Today, Di Dougherty catches up with the Eurosport crew, who broadcast daily throughout the tournament. Watch our exclusive behind the scenes chat with Media Director, David Law.
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Mississippi police have reported that a man is now deceased after a recent car accident in the southern part of the state. The accident occurred at approximately 4:40 a.m. in Jackson County. The deceased man was said to have been travelling west when he turned onto a highway and was struck by an on-coming pickup truck. A news report states that the deceased driver may have failed to stop at a traffic light prior to the collision, although the accident is still under investigation. The police have not determined fault or filed any charges in connection with the fatal accident.
Readers in Hinds County may know that initial reports of an accident of any kind do not always tell the full story. The surviving family of the victim in this case may seek to preserve other important evidence in conjunction with the formal investigation report. Once all of the available facts and circumstances are known, the family may wish to assess what, if any, legal rights they have to pursue a wrongful death claim against the other parties involved. If it is determined that another person's negligent or reckless actions caused the death of a loved one, the family may have grounds to pursue compensation for damages.
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Though we were disappointed that the announcement of "There Will Be Blood" as a Best Picture contender wasn't accompanied by the film's greatest sound bite – "I drink your milkshake, I DRINK IT UP!" – it was nonetheless comforting to see Paul Thomas Anderson & co. receive so much love. For more on the milkshakes, click here.
Frankly I'm too lazy to list all the nominees on this post, particularly when you can get the far prettier run-down on IMDB's Road to the Oscars page.


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When the dance began at 8 p.m., live DJs (all St. Olaf students) began blasting todays hottest R&B and rap hits. Music from Nelly and Outkast blared from the speakers and echoed throughout Buntrock late into the night, and many students managed to keep their groove on until nearly 1 a.m.
The dance was an informal affair, and most students arrived casually dressed in jeans and t-shirts. Many came with their friends, hung out and danced in big groups on the dance floor.
One of the highlights of the dance occurred early in the evening. During one of the dances particularly rousing hip-hop songs, a large circle of students formed, and some brave and talented break-dancers stole the spotlight by showing off their smooth and impressive moves.
DJs Herbie Washington 03, John Chapman 03 and Mohamed Mohamed 03 spun many modern hits, but were unafraid to bust out some classic songs from the 80s, like the Sir Mix-A-Lot favorite, Baby Got Back.
Those in charge of music selection did a great job of catering to the tastes of the crowd. Whenever the first few notes of a popular hit came blasting over the speakers, students cheered and sang or rapped along to the best of their abilities.
The dance, which was one of several school-sponsored events that has been organized in commemoration of Black History Month, brought together members of the many different races represented at St. Olaf. Students of various ethnic backgrounds danced the night away together and had a great time.


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Throwing Out the Ten Commandments—the Ones That Once Sat Atop My Cake
I found a memento from my bar mitzvah in my parents' house. Was it finally time to let go of the past, or was it worth keeping?
I was cleaning out my parents' house for the last time: the two-story stucco structure my father built in Northern California in the early 1960s, where I'd grown up, where my mother had died four years ago, and where my father finally left 18 months later when he moved into a retirement community. Dad had taken some furniture, books, kitchenware, and framed photographs to Baywood Court—"retirement redefined," said the sign welcoming visitors to the semi-independent-living complex—but he'd left plenty behind: beds, carpets, desks, an out-of-tune upright piano. Now that we'd decided to sell the house, my father and my two younger brothers and I were going through what remained, deciding what was worth keeping, and what was junk.
But sometimes such a distinction isn't so clear.
In the otherwise empty refrigerator, I found an odd heirloom: the three-inch-by-four-inch confectionery replica of the Ten Commandments that adorned my bar mitzvah cake 48 years ago. My mother had hoarded it in the butter compartment, and even after her death, it lived on. My brother Howard stuck a Post-it note on the fridge door: "Len's bar mitzvah cake decoration in refrigerator (since 1965)! Do not disconnect without moving it to another refrigerator, please!"
On the last day in the house, as I stood alone looking into the fridge, I faced a dilemma. Those Ten Commandments had meant something to my mother, and I felt tugged to honor her; I could transfer them to my dad's new kitchen, or I could schlep them on the plane back to the East Coast and keep them in my own fridge. Or I could do what no one in my family ever considered: throw them out.
Cleaning out the house was like rewinding chapters in my family's history. I was the eldest of three sons. My father is a Holocaust survivor who fought with the partisans in Poland; my mother was a first-generation North American who grew up in an old Jewish neighborhood in Toronto. My brothers and I rummaged through all the possessions, but what touched us most was the family memorabilia, especially sepia photographs of ancestors from Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus. My mother threw out nothing, including cookie tins crammed with matchbooks from family vacation stops (OK, those were mine), letters, postcards, National Geographic magazines. And, of course, the sugary Ten Commandments from my bar mitzvah cake.
I also discovered a box of looseleaf papers with my mother's handwriting. It included her assigned-seating arrangements at my bar mitzvah luncheon held at Goodman's restaurant on Jack London Square in Oakland. My first-cousins and buddies sat at the head table. My parents, aunts, and uncles, nearly all of whom are now deceased, sat at "the parents' table." A luncheon invoice counts 97 people attending at $3 a piece. Twenty-four bottles of Chablis were ordered at $2.50 each; fruit punch for the kids. Guests started with a half-grapefruit, followed by baked fillet of chicken, mushroom sauce, rice pilaf, garden peas, luncheon rolls, and apple cobbler. A note to the restaurant staff warns: "no butter," a nod to our kosher-style level of observance. Total cost: $365.04.
As a 13-year-old, I knew none of those details. What I remembered was the Shabbat morning service, in which I chanted the Haftorah and delivered a speech our rabbi wrote. He wrote every kid's speech in those days—we just had to perfect the delivery.
It had been a busy week for my mom, the first major lifecycle event she had planned, not counting her wedding, held in her aunt's Vancouver livingroom, and three brises, none of which she was involved in orchestrating. She was so excited as the days approached. Her aunt and uncle and cousins from Toronto arrived. I remember the phone ringing from the rabbi's secretary with last-minute questions, probably about flowers or other details.
After the service, everyone drove from our Conservative temple in the suburban East Bay to Goodman's, a 20-minute ride on the Nimitz Freeway.
I jumped into Mom's blue '63 Plymouth Valiant, along with "Baba," my maternal grandmother; my cousin Dana; and my youngest brother, Jeff. A couple miles from our exit, the car slowed ominously. "Uh-oh," my mom said, realizing she had run out of gas. She had meant to fill up the tank that week, but with the hubbub, she never got to it. We sat in the far right lane, on a narrow freeway shoulder. I don't think our car had emergency lights either. If ever we needed to pray, it was now, perhaps more fervently than during that morning in the sanctuary.
Cars sped by. We waited and waited until I heard a screech, though I may have imagined that. What I remember for sure is that on my way to my bar mitzvah reception, another car crashed into our car, rear-ending us. No one was injured. Minutes later, the California Highway Patrol was on the scene, followed by a tow truck. At least an hour after all the guests had arrived, as they all stood wondering where the bar mitzvah boy and his entourage could be, we pulled up in tow. The luncheon continued, as if released from pause, but that day has gone down in family history as quintessentially my mother—in the way she could put things off and the consequences that might ensue.
Over the years—after going off to college, moving to the other side of the country, starting my own family—whenever I visited home and opened the fridge, there sat the Ten Commandments wrapped in cellophane. I never asked my mom why she kept it for so long. Looking at it, I felt proud and honored, but whenever I'd tell friends about it, they'd look at me incredulously, as if there was something odd about it.
I made one last trip from the East Coast for a final broom-clean last spring before our real-estate agent listed and showed the house. I hired a company to remove everything that was left. The day after the workers cleaned everything out, I walked from empty room to empty room, surprised that I felt neither sad nor nostalgic. It was as if its soul had long ago soared away. The refrigerator was still plugged in, and I laughed and shook my head when I noticed still snug in the butter compartment those Ten Commandments. But that light-as-a-feather fluff also felt like a heavy burden, like carrying around a weighty kettleball, as I thought about holding on to it.
Standing in front of the fridge, I felt tested. As precious as the memento was to my mom, I decided that it could go. Throwing it out felt like breaking a family pattern of holding on to stuff just because we could; I wondered if that practice had enslaved us in some way.
When It Comes to Becoming a Mother, Sometimes Less Really Is More
I tried to get pregnant for months. But when my fertility treatments worked too well, I faced an unexpected moral quandary.


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There are around 90,000 children in care at any one time in the UK (see statistics). The majority enter care because of abuse and neglect and 45% have a diagnosable mental health condition (Meltzer et al, 2003). For these children care is a vital part of our child protection and family support system.
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Generally children in care continue to have poorer outcomes than the wider population – particularly in relation to educational achievement, homelessness and mental health. It is difficult to determine the extent to which these outcomes were caused by the child's experiences prior to coming into care, rather than their experiences once in care. However we do know that further support is needed to help these children and young people overcome the effects of the abuse and neglect they have suffered.
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Children in care who call ChildLine tell us that they continue to feel vulnerable and isolated, leaving them at risk of harm. For some, care does too little to compensate for the harm they have already suffered and for others the care experience compounds that harm (see Looked after children talking to ChildLine, 2011).
Better support is needed to help these young people overcome the effects of the abuse and neglect they have suffered and to enable them to realise their potential. Care must provide effective therapeutic support for children and young people and protect them from current and future harm.
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Convincing People to use RDFa should be easy
RDFa is the Semantic Web Technology of the Future (not Microformats).
HTML will continue to dominate the market of web publishing. People will continue to publish information in HTML because it's the best markup language for displaying human-readable information in browsers. It's the lowest common denominator for cross-platform information display.
If HTML is here to stay, then from the Semantic Web development point of view, we must figure out how to publish semantic data along side with HTML. In general, there are two approaches: (1) publish the semantic data of each and every HTML pages in separate documents, (2) embed the semantic description in the same HTML pages with RDFa.
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In an early stage of the Semantic Web movement, some web developers may show signs of resistance to RDF document publishing. But, convincing them to use RDFa should be easy.


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Summary: Once An Eagle is the story of one special man, a soldier named Sam Damon, and his adversary over a lifetime, fellow officer Courtney Massengale. Damon is a professional who puts duty, honor, and the men he commands above self interest. Massengale, however, brilliantly advances by making the right connections behind the lines and in Washington's corridors of power. Beginning in the French countryside during the Great War, the conflict between these adversaries solidifies in the isolated garrison life marking peacetime, intensifies in the deadly Pacific jungles of World War 11, and reaches its treacherous conclusion in the last major battleground of the Cold War -- Vietnam. A study in character and values, courage, nobility, honesty, and selflessness, here is an unforgettable story about a man who embdies the best in our nation -- and in us all.
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"Sad" Sam Damon
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Lloyd Blankfein Knows He's Got a Bad Reputation
He's gonna stay on two more years to try to fix it.
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He's gonna stay on two more years to try to fix it.
The Fox News host has invited a Goldman Sachs flack to the White House Correspondents Dinner.
The author suggests his new book on Goldman Sachs might be better titled 'The Book of Revelations.'
How will Lloyd get out of this one?
A boutique bank called Raine.
We learned it from watching you, Raj!
Jesus is not happy that five executives paid themselves $69.5 million in a down year.
Lloyd had some stipulations, of course.
"He said it was bottleneck from the airport to the city center."
A tiki-torch tribute to the luminescent Goldman Sachs leader.
Not because he did anything wrong.
Yes, yes you do.
On the other hand, Gupta won't face a jury and is subject to smaller fines.
"We think the world is going in a poor direction."
"This marketplace is like the early days of the 'junk'-bond market."
$17.4 million reasons for him not to shut up.
Hey, if FarmVille can get you $7 billion, why not?
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IRAN'S threat to shut the Strait of Hormuz _ one-fifth of the world's oil trade passes through there _ if the United States and Europe press ahead with new sanctions is unacceptable. The Obama administration is right to signal, in deliberately moderated ways ...
THE Obama administration THE boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury." So declared John Maynard Keynes in 1937, even as FDR was about to prove him right by trying to balance the budget too soon...
A glorious year for Qatari economy
DOHA THE Year 2011 was a recordbreaking year for the Qatari economy, reaffirming Qatar''s position as one of the world''s fastest growing economy amid fears of the ongoing European sovereign debt crisis and the US budget deficit.
In 2010 Qatar achieved a 16 percent growth rate, and is projected to reach 20 percent growth in 2011driven by Qatar National Vision 2030'' (QNV 2030) aimed at cultivating a " knowledgebased economy." Qatar''s nominal gross domestic is expected to jump from 547 billion riyals ($150 billion) this year to QR 775 billion in 2016, according the statistics announced by the first National Development Strategy (NDS) 2011-2016 meant to translate the QNV 2030 into specific actions and targets.
The five year NDS predicts that the country''s gross domestic investment will reach QR820 billion.
With record growth rates, the Qatari economy has pursued a path of development. In fact, Qatar''s real GDP jumped by around 16.6 percent in 2010 while the GDP yearly growth reached 15.7 percent during 2006-2010. Qatar has developed a long-term programme of diversification into a more broadly based economy.
Established as a key innovator in the global LNG market after achieving 77 million tonnes per annum (Mta) of liquefied natural gas (LNG) production capacity, Qatar succeeded during this year to launch a number of projects that would enhance its place as a major player in LNG and (Gas To Liquified) GTL industries.
Launched in November, the $10.3 billion Barzan project, will able Qatar to produce 14 million tonnes of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) yearly, four million tonnes more than current production average of LPG.
The Barzan project will help meet growing domestic energy demand in the world''s top liquefied natural gas exporter. Besides 1.4 billion cubic feet a day of lean sales gas, which is mainly methane, Barzan's Ras Laffan facility will also produce about 29,000 barrels per day (bpd) of both field and plant condensates, 1,900 tonnes per day (tpd) of ethane, 860tpd of propane and 680tpd of butane,.
The first Barzan gas production line is expected to become operational in 2014 with the second in 2015, with an initial production of 700 million cubic feet a day.
Qatar has successfully managed national strategies and plans thanks to the continuous pursuit of partnerships that help transfer experiences through establishing giant projects locally and abroad to take advantage of Qatar''s richness in gas and oil and guarantee a diverse economy for future generations.
QP agreements with China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) and Royal Dutch Shell to build a refining and petrochemical complex in Taizhou, China stand out as a remarkable partnership.
Economic feasibility studies started for the agreement that was signed in October. QP negotiated oil and gas projects abroad such as engaging in talks to take a stake in the Arctic LNG project of Yamal developed by second biggest Russian gas producer Novatek.
Yamal project will develop the South Tambey field located in the Arctic area of Yamal peninsula.
Qatari expansion in LNG field continued in 2011 with Qatari firms RasGas and Qatargas signing longterm deals with North American countries to supply them with LNG.
Launching such a huge number of multi-billion dollar projects is done according to well-advised economic feasibility studies that go in line with budgets, and put the projects away from investment risks.
Qatar recorded its largest budget ever in 2011-2012 both quantitatively and qualitatively. On the quantitative side, Qatar''s total estimated revenue increased to QR162.474 billion, 27 percent more than previous fiscal year, while total estimated expenditure was QR139.93 billion, an increase of 19 per cent from figures of last fiscal year.
Rises in expenses and revenues meant Qatar managed a surplus of QR 22.5 billion as price of a barrel of oil is set at $55 while calculating budgets of the two fiscal years. On the qualitative side, Qatar continued its steady progress towards sustainable development according to its developmental policy seen in finalising LNG projects ahead of schedule to take the country''s production capacity to 77 million cubic metric tonnes per annum compared to a total production capacity of 30 million cubic metric tonnes in 2008.
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Firstly open up an image in Photoshop, any size you prefer.
Select the horizontal type tool (T) and write anything you'd like on the image.
After you've written what you'd like it to say, look over to the layers box to the right. Usually the background image will have a little lock on it
Double click it and a box will come up, click okay. Now the background image layer will be unlocked.
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text: HOUSTON, TX (WTAQ) - Former Packers Defensive Lineman Johnny Jolly was sentenced to six years in prison Thursday for violating terms of his probation on a 2008 drug charge. Jolly was stopped while driving in his hometown of Houston, TX on October 1st. Deputies found codeine, a controlled substance, in his truck. The 6-3, 325 pound lineman was on probation stemming from a 2008 charge of possessing codeine. Jolly missed the 2010 Championship Season after being indefinitely suspended by the NFL the year before. After getting credit for time served, Jolly could be eligible for parole in 14 months.


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The above are three photos of my mother back in her nursing days. She plays a huge part in my "Sideways" sequel "Vertical." The following article was written for a magazine, but it felt too personal to publish, so I turned down the offer. I decided to post it here for those who have read "Vertical." It might give you an unique insight into my creative process. For those who haven't read "Vertical," I think the story will resonate on another, just as powerfully, emotional level of verisimilitude.
When Alcohol Trumps Death
My mother was an alcoholic. Take my word for it. I personally don't like the term alcoholic. I find it judgmental and stigmatizing, but for want of a better term – heavy drinker? over-imbiber? – if the definition of an alcoholic is someone who can't stop after she starts, if, as the head of the NIDA Nora Volkow defines it, her dopamine inhibitors are blown to smithereens, then my mother fit the definition of an alcoholic.
My mother – and father – were 5:00 p.m. alcoholics. They rarely, if ever, drank before five o'clock, and they always had a glass of cheap wine in their hand by 5:01 p.m.; never, God forbid, as late as 5:05. Later in their life, when they had semi-retired to a seaside bluff condominium north of San Diego, they drank every night. (When I was younger I don't believe they did, but then there are things we don't realize when we're younger.) I was attending UCSD in La Jolla at the time. I lived in the neighboring hamlet of Del Mar, a mere two miles from my parents. Though I got along with them very well, I learned never to visit them before 5:00 p.m. Once I came over around lunch time because I was desperately in need of a loan to buy some books to feed my avaricious reading habit. My father, irascible – no doubt battling a crucifying hangover – practically bit my head off, shouting at me to go get a job. From that point on I always timed my visits for 5:15 p.m. By then it was guaranteed that they had just finished their first glass of wine, the dopamine surges had commenced, a warm, rosy glow had come over their faces, and they would loan me money with alacrity. I never stayed past 6:00 p.m. Never. By then they had started to grow slurry and maudlin, would start blubbering things that they could never utter when they were not drinking; e.g., we love you. It was particularly embarrassing to someone like me who is uncomfortable in the presence of blatant displays of sentimentality and filial affection.
In '88 my father went under the knife for a triple bypass. During the five-plus hour operation he, we learned later, suffered a massive stroke. He was wheeled out of the OR with a new, powerfully-beating, heart, but, in exchange, was left brain dead. The family was informed that he would never return to consciousness. After a few days, they ordered him on full life support and transferred him out of ICU into a "step-down" unit where he slowly wasted away on a ventilator. My aggrieved mother visited him every day, often twice a day. She spent a lot of time with the man she had been married to for forty years. She whispered to him, believing his spirit could hear her. She squeezed his hand and asked for a response, which she never got. She grew depressed. I had since relocated to L.A. and gotten into the film business and was in the throes of post-production on my second indie feature when this happened. I visited when I could.
After several months of my father being artificially kept alive, being turned over on a regular basis so he wouldn't become afflicted with bed sores, my mother and I finally broached the difficult subject of what our options were. The attending physician was the cardiologist who had performed the triple bypass. We met with him. I remember him telling us in no uncertain terms that he would not authorize a "pulling of the plug," as it were. We then demanded a meeting with the V.A. Hospital medical board, a three-person representative group consisting of a physician and two social workers. My younger brother was away in another country and my older brother did not attend. I delivered an impassioned speech on why my father should be allowed to die with dignity, that his wishes were clearly expressed in a living will, which I waved in their faces. Reluctantly, they supplanted the attending physician with someone who was more compassionate, and then, shortly thereafter, they granted our wish and pulled my father's feeding tube. It took another three weeks for him to die.
After my father's death, my mother fell into an even deeper depression. She told me that she missed having her five o'clock wine and "shooting the breeze" with my father. What she wouldn't admit was that she didn't like to drink alone. But she did, probably heavier. What I didn't realize then was that their drinking is probably what kept their relationship alive for 40 years, ensconcing them together in that warm cocoon that alcohol ephemerally provides. What I also didn't realize then, because I was so wrapped up in my career, was that they were a pair of five o'clock alcoholics, and that alcoholism ruled sentinel over their lives.
For example, when I met a beautiful woman – whom I would eventually marry – they were interested to meet her, but when my future wife made plans for all of us to go out to dinner they declined, giving some reason about not wanting to spend the money. When my future wife said she would pay for dinner they fabricated another laughable excuse. The bottom line is that they didn't want to wait until 7:00 p.m. to go out to dinner because they would have had to cold turkey that two hours. If they had started to drink at 5:00 p.m., knowing that they had dinner plans two hours later, they were now faced with the challenge of staying sober enough to get through dinner without embarrassing themselves. They were smart enough to realize that there was no way to pace themselves, and thus concocted what seemed to them a reasonable excuse. We never had that dinner. My future wife thought it was weird. At the time I never chalked it up to alcoholism. I just concluded that they were either socially awkward or didn't approve of my future wife.
My wedding was held in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and was a big deal because my fiancée's father was a prominent man in that small city. My parents declined to come. My father complained of angina. My mother was worried he wouldn't make the trip alive. The truth: there was no way they would have been able to structure their 5:00 p.m. drinking regimen – and, no doubt, their consequent sloppiness (which I never witnessed) – around a traditional wedding. How could they possibly make it through a rehearsal dinner that would begin at 7:30 p.m.? How in God's name – I'm imagining I'm them now – could they hold off on drinking and feeding those desperate cravings for dopamine through a reception that would begin at 8:00 p.m. and go until 11:00 p.m. with nearly 300 guests in attendance? Unimaginable. Thus, the fatalistic medical excuses.
As I said, after my father died, my mother fell into a bottomless depression. She spent a lot of time alone. A year and a half after my dad died my younger brother returned from overseas and moved into an apartment in Solana Beach to be close to her – for reasons, it turned out, that had more to do with money than altruism. I was in London, hired by 20th Century Fox as one of the last writers on Alien III, David Fincher's (The Social Network) first feature. My younger brother phoned me in London and said Mom wasn't doing very well. Her ankles were badly swollen. Five years earlier she had had swollen ankles, indicative of clots. One of those clots dislodged and traveled to one of her lungs and she suffered a pulmonary embolism. Fortunately, my father was with her when she collapsed unconscious. Paramedics were summoned and performed all-out heroic measures, resuscitated her and got her to the hospital in time to save her. Now, her ankles were badly distended again. I exhorted my brother to take her to the doctor. My pusillanimous brother said she didn't want to go. My mother, an RN by profession in her youth, never wanted to go to the doctor. She feared hospitalization. She hated hospitals. She always said to me: "That's where you go to die." I urged my brother to take her against her will if need be.
My younger brother finally managed to convince my mother to see her physician. Her blood pressure was an eye-popping 240/140 (if I recall). The swollen ankles and the past history of clotting, not to mention the pulmonary embolism that nearly killed her, were of intense concern to the doctor. She spent an hour and a half in his examining room. Her physician feared the imminency of a stroke. But my mother was adamant about not wanting to be hospitalized. The doctor apparently explained to her that a simple procedure would be performed whereby a small strainer would be surgically implanted into each of her two femoral arteries near the crotch area in an effort to block the clots if they were to become dislodged. They would put her on an IV of Heparin – a powerful blood-thinning medication – until they could dissolve the dangerous clots. Without hospitalization he was powerless to help her. All he could do was prescribe an oral blood thinner (Coumadin), but that would take much longer to dissolve the clots, and by then …
Armed with a raft of prescriptions and a nitroglycerin patch affixed over her rapidly-palpitating heart, the doctor reluctantly let my hospital-phobic mother return home. Thirty-six hours later I got a call in London on a cold gray December day from my younger brother. In a voiced hobbled by emotion, he said bluntly: "Mom's had a stroke. She's in ICU. We don't know if she's going to make it."
Three months and a massive heart attack later she was released from the hospital with full left-side paralysis, a half-necrotic brain, and the mind of a child. Wheelchair-dependent now, she was moved back into her seaside condo. As soon as my mother returned home and was introduced to a new routine, complete with nurses and difficult transfers for toileting and all the rest that involves caring for a stroke victim, she demanded her wine. When I took over her care after two years, one of the first things I noticed was how difficult it was to turn her down after her agreed-upon two glasses of treacly Chardonnay that she was daily vouchsafed at exactly … 5:00 p.m. She always requested that she be wheeled out onto the patio where she and my father started their drinking and "shooting the breeze," while overlooking the swimming pool and tennis courts. It was just like the old days, except I had assumed the place of my father and my mother was in a wheelchair, lost in an intracranial theater of memories and easily provoked emotions that often reduced her to uncontrolled blubbering. There was also one other difference: when it came to her wine, she now had to stop every night after her two allotted glasses. The wine was in the control of whomever was taking care of her. Several times, after much wheedling from her – a stroke victim now, she had no conscience about embarrassing herself in her quest for a third glass – I would grudgingly allow her a half glass more. Once, I gave her an entire third glass and was berated the following day by the night person who had struggled to put her to bed.
Over time I have come to realize that my mother's debilitating stroke, the ten horrible years that she survived afterward, the divisiveness that it caused in my family, was possibly all a result of her refusing to be hospitalized. A few years ago it dawned on me as I was going through my own struggles with drinking that the reason she didn't want to be hospitalized is because she would have had to detox, something she wasn't psychologically, or physiologically, prepared to do. Forget the fact that had she allowed her physician to hospitalize her and she had been honest with the hospital doctors and told them she was an alcoholic – a word my mother never ever used, and never thought she was because, well, she didn't drink until 5:00 p.m. – they would have not only implanted the strainers in her arteries to halt the clot that eventually rocketed near-fatalistically to her brain, resulting in total cellular necrosis of the left hemisphere, they would have also put her on medication – probably Librium back then – to help her detox. As it turned out she had to detox anyway, and no doubt the morphine she was given in ICU was her substitute dopamine disinhibitor.
In the decade that has passed since her glacially slow, horrible death in a nursing home, I have come to the ineluctable conclusion that my mother's inability to admit that she was an alcoholic – whether she did anything about it or not – was the chief reason for her devastating stroke. When alcohol rules our lives, when the fear of that sense of dysphoria if we have to stop is so omnipresent, we will even go so far will, even on the precipice of medical calamity, and demand that we not be hospitalized for dangerous clots that could result in a pulmonary embolism, heart attack, or stroke, so that we can go home and, in my mother's case, pour a glass of wine at 5:00 p.m. and feed the cravings that now have colonized our beings and turned us into a slave of the alcoholic's regimen, no matter how high the eventual, consequential cost.
My mother might have had a stroke anyway if she had been able to be an abstemious drinker, but there is no question in my mind that her addiction to alcohol was the principle cause in her later life infirmity. I learned a lot from it at the time. I learned about a brother who exploited her condition to his advantage and, more or less, absconded with all of her savings and, with it, my modest trust fund. When I wrested control of her care from my larcenous brother, I learned about humility. I wrote a script about it titled The Road Back. It was optioned for 5 years, but never made. Then, when Sideways became a movie and I was Hollywood's and the publishing industry's flavor of the month (year?), I decided to novelize The Road Back. As with the script, once again, I found myself facing all those questions about my mother again. When The Road Back novel ultimately morphed into the Sideways sequel Vertical, and my mother became, once again, a real flesh-and-blood character, I had to face my relationship with her all over again.
In the end I found peace with my mother in the writing, albeit fictionalized, of her story. I'm sad to report that my mother never found peace until her death. Her inability to realize that drinking was destroying her, was the main cause of her depression – euphoria/dysphoria, euphoria/dysphoria, the alcoholic's endless cycle. Had she quit she would have had to look herself in the mirror and face herself as who she was. She elected not to do that. Had she, a woman who swam and played tennis and didn't smoke, might have lived well past the age of 69 when she had her massive stroke. Sure, she lived another 10 years after it, but the damage it caused to everyone around her was not a legacy I'm sure she would have wanted.
For nearly 8 years I cared, on and off, for a parent whose alcoholism made the second half of her life a living hell. Ten years after her crippling, devastating stroke, I held her hand near death and gave the doctor permission to end her life with a morphine drip. In the end, it's sad for me to think that she found happiness, but I take comfort in the fact that, because of her suffering, I discovered selflessness.
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Thin Indian Pancakes
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Amount per serving
- Calories: 178
- Calories from fat: 5.1%
- Protein: 6g
- Fat: 1g
- Saturated fat: 0.0g
- Carbohydrate: 37g
- Fiber: 6g
- Sodium: 645mg
- Cholesterol: 0.0mg
- 1 package of mix (about 7 ounces)
- Dosas (or dosais) are India's flavorful version of crêpes made with lentil flour and cooked on a grill called a tava. To discover these thin pancakes, try a mix. Indian grocery stores carry several brands. Most packages weigh 7 ounces and make four 8- or 9-inch-wide pancakes. You can dilute the batter with extra water to make thinner dosas. They are browned on one side only, then typically wraped around a curry mixture. They can also be folded over salad or curried scrambled eggs.
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Tesco brings mobile shopping into the mainstream
Tesco, the UK's largest retailer, is aiming to take the nascent mobile commerce sector into the mainstream by launching its first transactional mobile app.
It is scheduled to launch the app on Nokia's Ovi Store next week. It lets Tesco.com members browse a full store and update their shopping lists.
The retailer, which generated £136m in profit from online sales last year, is looking to lead the fledgling mobile commerce sector, which is seeing investment from rivals Asda, Ocado and Waitrose, while Amazon has also launched an online grocery service.
Tesco is targeting a mainstream audience, mothers especially, by initially bypassing the Apple App Store and focusing on more common handsets.
Nick Lansley, Tesco.com's head of R&D, said it will look to roll out the transactional features to other products, such as its iPhone app and mobile site. "But our core customers are busy mums who don't have iPhones and we want to focus on them first," he added.
The move is a vindication of the m-commerce sector. The number of people worldwide using their mobile phones to purchase goods is set to hit 108.6m this year, according to research firm Gartner.
new media age also understands that rival supermarket retailer Asda, which currently has no mobile services, plans to increase its mobile activity, including launching an iPhone app, later this year.
An Asda spokeswoman confirmed the retailer was interested in developing its mobile strategy.
"We're always looking at ways to enhance communication channels with our customers, including the use of mobile websites and how we can best serve our customers through m-commerce," she said.
The moves will bring both Tesco and Asda alongside less mainstream retailers that have already launched transactional mobile services.
High street retailer Marks & Spencer and online grocer Ocado launched a mobile site and Android app respectively earlier in the year.
Ocado additionally reported that its iPhone app has generated 4.4% of all orders since it launched in July last year (nma.co.uk 20 April 2010).
Waitrose also recently launched its first iPhone app and an optimised mobile site last week, which are aimed at directing users to its outlets.
The competition in the mobile commerce sector is set to increase with Amazon's beta-launch of a grocery delivery service and its forecast of $1.5bn (£940m) in mobile transactions this year.
Tesco.com has also formed a development team to bolster its mobile services and extend its strategy beyond the smartphone market before the end of the year.
Angela Maurer, head of web and mobile development at Tesco.com, said, "We're launching our first transactional mobile app on the Nokia Ovi Store. We cross-referenced our research with Nokia's and found a lot of crossover between its core customers and ours."
In contrast, Ocado opted to launch its transactional app on the Apple App Store and subsequently on Google's Android Market, while M&S refused to concentrate its mobile strategy within any one app store by launching a transactional mobile website (nma 13 May 2010).
Sienne Veit, M&S social and mobile development manager, said, "We wanted the mobile web to be the foundation our m-commerce strategy. We believe that by not restricting our services to one platform we have broadened our appeal.
"After launching in May we've had 1.2m unique visitors to the site, 300,000 who purchased goods there, and even someone who bought a sofa for £3,000."
Sainsbury's, which currently has no apps nor a mobile-optimised site, declined to comment on its mobile strategy.
Paolo Pescatore, director of apps and services at research firm CCS Insight, said, "Mobile will be a big battleground for supermarkets when it comes to loyalty."
This story first appeared on newmediaage.co.uk
YouGov Insight:
· 17% of main shoppers use Sainsbury's for the bulk of their shopping
· The most popular reason given for shopping at Sainsbury's is that 'the availability of food is always good'
· 38% of Tesco shoppers use Sainsbury's for their secondary shopping
· Sainsbury's highest regional consumer penetration is in London (25%) and the lowest is in Scotland (9%)
· 17% of main shoppers use ASDA for the bulk of their shopping
· The most popular reason given by consumers for shopping at ASDA is that they have 'plenty of special offers'
· ASDA is the least vulnerable to consumers switching from them and currently benefits from consumers being disloyal to other stores
· ASDA's highest regional consumer penetration is in Scotland (20%) and the lowest is in the East (10%)
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Well done to Tesco, Asda, Ocado, Waitrose, Amazon and M&S for listening to your customers, and finally launching mobile grocery offerings. Sainsbury, you have some catching up to do!
Tesco, your thinking is spot-on. You recognise that sexy smartphone developments are a great brand exercise, but not necessarily where your customers are. The vast majority of grocery shoppers are on basic feature phones – Nokia, Sony Ericsson and Samsung.
Marks & Spencer, your 'mobile internet only' strategy is the clear winner here. You understand that a simple mobile internet site sidesteps the need to pick the winner in a platform war. There's no need to get caught up in the complexity, time and expense of mobile app development.
No retailer needs to pick between Android, Apple and Nokia. Just target them all, and go to market sooner, by launching a browser-based mobile internet store. Spend the money you save to promote your mobile offering and improve your site's usability. You get more customers. Your customers get a better experience. Everybody wins.
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My First TimeI was 9 1/2 & had been allowed 2 go into town on my own.
I had been around the shops & spent all but my bus fare & was walking back to the bus stop when, it sounds corny but it happened, the elastic went in my old knickers!
I tried 2 pull them up , but another few steps & they started slipping down again. I went into a department store & used the ladies - I realised I couldn't fasten tehm up, so only thing to do was to take them off!
I walked out of the loos feeling very strange, like everyone knew & was looking, then I got outside & a puff of breeze blew up my skirt, over my newly bared parts - it just felt so fantaaastic!!!
By the time I got home I was hooked!
Tried it again the next day & more & more after that!
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Nice story. A very innocent start to freedom !
nice no undies can feel very good and a nice warm breez is the best
Nice story.
Funny how a chance event came have such a lasting effect on the rest of your life...
I often wonder what inspires people to give up on underwear, or even clothes in general.
A wonderful accident for you and you adventurous enough to enjoy it! Good for you and especially at such a young age.


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Comparing high-flying Xero and Diligent
LATEST: Read Rod Drury's response here.
Xero's August dip seems to have brought a tinge of reality to broker tone about the market darling.
NBR ONLINE has been asking for months whether Rod Drury's NZX-50 online accounting firm is worth half a billion dollars.
Yet the market continues to believe that is the case.
Its share price (NZX: XRO) hovers just below $5, for a market cap of almost $530 million, despite August's ructions – with two share sale blunders and a "please explain" from NZX Markets Supervision.
Forsyth Barr analyst Andrew Harvey-Green said this week it was surprised the share price was so high in the first place.
Hamilton Hindin Greene director Grant Williamson had this reality check for investors: "We need to bear in mind the market has valued this company at such high multiples that the company is going to have to start to increase revenues and profitability in a pretty serious manner to warrant the share price remaining around the $5 mark."
It is worth comparing Xero to another of the year's top performers, Diligent Board Member Services (NZX: DIL), another software as a service company which has seen its star rise in tandem with the proliferation of tablets around the board table.
This former market dog – which was worth only small change a few years ago – has now broken into the NZX-50 and has a market cap of more than $300 million.
Neither company is talking about dividends yet, but a quick comparison of their financials, and their initial expectations, is an interesting exercise.
Growth still the aim
NBR columnist Shoeshine compared these stocks in January 2010.
It noted both stocks were listed in 2007 in well-hyped initial public offers priced at $1 a share.
Xero initially said its break-even point would come at between 15,000 and 30,000 customers.
At the 2009 annual meeting, chairman Phil Norman preferred the target of "around" 30,000.
Xero's full-year result to March 31, 2012, released in May, had a net loss of $7.9 million (+5%), on revenue of $19.4 million (+104%) and customers of 78,000 (+116%).
Xero announced in July it has 100,000 paying customers, with the second 50,000 achieved in 10 months, and annualised committed monthly revenue has leapt to $34.5 million from $25.5 million at March 31.
It wants a million-plus customers and is considering dual listing on the ASX.
Growth is obviously still its goal in the competitive online accounting market.
Five successive quarters of profit
Turning to Diligent, Shoeshine noted its prospectus projected revenue of $US7.6 million in 2008, rising to approximately $US30 million in 2009.
It hasn't quite hit those targets but has made an operating profit in five successive quarters and market watchers believe it is close to announcing a dividend.
Diligent's 2011 annual report, released in March, showed new sales of $US15.9 million (+430%) and revenue of $US18 million (+217%), with 570 new client agreements signed (+331%).
In the six months to June 30, revenue leaped 176% from the previous period to $US18.3 million, and profit from ordinary activities after income tax was up 308% to $3.36 million. Its cumulative client agreements (not a distinct six-monthly figure) was 1447, an improvement from 653 agreements a year earlier.
By the end of the period it had $17.2 million cash in the bank.
Diligent investor Aaron Bhatnagar, a former Auckland city councillor, says he was attracted to the stock because he used to lug around large council agenda papers and can see the software's use beyond the boardroom.
He bought his shares about a year ago. Xero was also on his radar but he didn't want to invest in two New Zealand-based software-as-a-service growth stocks.
"Xero was growing market share in a very competitive space, whereas Diligent was growing market share and earnings in a niche market that they were doing extraordinarily well in."
Xero and Diligent represent a good return from an initial $1 outlay – and even more for those who picked up Diligent shares at rock-bottom prices of about 20 cents.
In the last year, Xero has risen 85%, while Diligent has almost quadrupled.
Given Mr Williamson's warning this week, one wonders when Mr Drury will take his foot off the growth pedal and start increasing revenue and profitability – and catching up to Diligent, a stock worth considerably less.
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You have to admire XRO
Not many companies have a vision of not making a profit
If they didn't capitalize R and D their lossess would be even greater
There is no comparison between these two companies
Diligent is performing and Xero is not
Whats wrong with David Williams [NBR] and the Doctor - Diligent and Xero are both proving you can build successful, high growth companies from NZ. Both companies are achieving their investment goal of providing healthy returns for their shareholders.
In Xero's case they are providing employment to over 250 people, mostly NZer's and genuinely improving the business information for small businesses in NZ and around the world.
Based on Mr Williams and the Doctor's assessment of Xero, Peter Theil - founder of Paypal and first external investor in Facebook; Craig Winkler - founder of MYOB, Sam Morgan, Sam Knowles and several large US investment companies know nothing about the strategy of builidng a global high growth SaaS business - it would be great to know their credentials relative to this group.
So congrats to Diligent and Xero. Hopefully the NBR could invest in some journalism horsepower to encourage more Drury types, rather than continually taking the easy street of "knocking"
The degree of scaleability is what gives Xero more blue sky potential than Diligent. Investors likely see this rather than focusing on the current year or even the next years profitability and they will probably keep rating the stock as long as the growth in customer numbers keep rolling in. Xero has a good chance of nailing their future by doing everything now to gain market share while the option is still there. I think they should be commended for their couragious and visionary stance. Xero has a war chest of cash to see this strategy through and with some patience investors could be suitably rewarded once the company reaches maturity.
Question - where were the New Zealander investors in Diligent when it was struggling because of the bad publicity attached to David Henry? Took the Americans to see the potential and make Diligent what it is today.
Shame on you, New Zealanders, for your short-sightedness and lack of objectivity about a product and service potential.


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MANKATO, Minn. -- Tarvaris Jackson is practicing again with the Minnesota Vikings.
The quarterback said after Wednesday morning's workout that his sprained left knee felt fine and he experienced no problems moving around during drills. He participated in most of the activities, except for a full-team, two-minute game simulation at the end.
"This is what I was pushing for," Jackson said. "They never gave me a date (to return). I wanted to get out here as soon as possible."
Jackson was hurt Saturday, essentially putting him behind Sage Rosenfels in the competition for the starting quarterback job, which was left wide open when Brett Favre decided to remain retired.
Jackson missed time last August because of a knee injury, but he said it's not as serious this time. He expressed confidence that he'll play in the first exhibition game Aug. 14 at Indianapolis.
"I felt good," Jackson said. "Just trying to get back in the groove of it. I'm just doing what I'm told and not trying to rush it too fast."
Jackson primarily worked with the second team Wednesday as he was eased back into action.
"I'm sure we'll continue to get back into the swing of things," Vikings coach Brad Childress said.
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Friday, January 21, 2011
A little black and white
10 comments:
- Анна said...
combination of white and black is always beautiful! coffee table charming!)))
- January 21, 2011 at 5:39 AM
- eclecticrevisited said...
love black and white, but I especially love the wool pillows on the sofa..
have a great weekend,
- January 21, 2011 at 5:55 AM
- Designwali said...
I know you already know this but your blog is fabulous.
- January 21, 2011 at 6:03 AM
- Chic Coles said...
How funny are those scissors.have a nice weekend.
- January 21, 2011 at 6:22 AM
- I Dream Of said...
Love a little black and white, and agree that we all need a little funkyness in our lives sometimes!
Have a fabulous weekend.
- January 21, 2011 at 7:13 AM
- red ticking said...
i have a purchased a 6 foot louis phiilip mirror painted jet black... high gloss... i want to keep it so badly... i dont have any other black in my home... so i think i am feeling what your feeling!
have a great weekend... xx
- January 21, 2011 at 8:44 AM
- MeLi said...
So lovely!, fab pics that fire up the imagination!...I so want to do some graphic design on my new home's walls now ^_^
- January 21, 2011 at 3:15 PM
- Samantha Schroeder said...
I have always been so attracted to black and white together! I especially love back and white checkered floors in a kitchen! xo Samantha
- January 21, 2011 at 5:15 PM
- harem6 said...
Love that room! We've always been attracted to black and white altogether! Especially lines and forms...
- January 22, 2011 at 3:01 AM
- annie said...
Love that black and white table...sort of makes me think of giant legos...Love the juxtaposition of the building next door...the view out the windows.
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Dreaming of a tsunami means that there are destructive forces developing around you that will eventually leave you devastated. You may be aware of the incidents or events leading up to the build up of the tsunami waves that will lead you to being displaced from careers, relationships, and business ventures regardless of how strong your foundations may have been.
The only solution is the lead nature take its course. Try your best to avoid being the center of attention, or else the tsunami can have a direct impact in your waking hours.Guide and Resources on Tsunami in Dreams
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This morning I dreamt of a tsunami. Leading up to the tsunami (in sleep state), my sister and I were at this house, not familiar to me. We were or she was getting ready to go away to a festival (in reality and also in dream). I recognise most of the people in my sleep also. I looked out the window and could see huge waves forming just between 2 huge hills – the water wasn't murky, it was dark blue and clear. I called out to my sister to shut all the windows and doors. I felt scared but not overly scared as I knew that there would be nothing I could do. So, we closed the windows, blocked off some holes, hoping that the mad rush of the water wouldn't fill the house too much. the first wave hit and then an even bigger one formed.
We ended up surviving the tsunami with not much damage made to the house we were in. People were going around checking to see if anyone around was ok.
The dream seemed weird but very realistic.
I'm recently dreaming about tsunami's quite often. In my dream I do however survive. Sometimes I do save someone that is with me in the tsunami. I am however separated, which will lead to a divorce(9yrs) married though. My dreams wake me up frequently during the night, as I force myself to wake up. I hope these dreams will stop. Not sure what I should do.
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