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Religious gay couples wishing to wed in Taranaki will struggle to find a church aisle to walk down, even if the Marriage Amendment Bill becomes law.
Taranaki church leaders contacted by the Taranaki Daily News said their religious beliefs meant they would not marry gay couples, even if they had the option.
The Marriage (Definition of Marriage) Amendment Bill which would allow same-sex couples to marry is being considered by a select committee after passing by 80 votes to 40 in a Parliament conscience vote last month.
New Plymouth MP Jonathan Young, Whanganui MP Chester Borrows and Taranaki-King Country MP Shane Ardern all voted against gay marriage, while Te Tai Hauauru MP Tariana Turia voted for it.
Earlier this month 70 church leaders including the national heads of major church denominations made a joint statement in response to the bill.
"All human beings are equal in the sight of both God and society, but not all relationships are the same. Marriage has uniquely been about the union of male and female. The state should not presume to re-engineer a basic human institution," it said.
Kim Francis, senior minister at New Plymouth's St Andrew's Presbyterian church, put his name to the joint statement and said he was "totally against" gay marriage and would not marry same-sex couples.
Citywest senior pastor Steve Batten also said he won't be marrying gay couples.
"Marriage should be between a man and wife. That doesn't mean I would be saying to gay people: 'You can't come to the church'."
He said his views were in keeping with those of the larger Assembly of God group of churches that Citywest belongs to and their leader, Reverend Illiafi Esera, had also signed the collective statement.
Dean Jamie Allen, from St Mary's Taranaki Cathedral, and Archdeacon of Parininihi, Tricia Carter, reiterated the Anglican position, which is that the church is "looking into it."
"Our church has been considering this issue for several years and it is currently being looked at by a commission chaired by Sir Anand Satyanand. This commission is due to report in 2014," Mr Allen said.
New Plymouth Central Baptist Church pastor Martien Kelderman said that as the law stands at this point, he would not marry a gay couple of his faith. He highlighted the fear that the clergy's right to refuse to marry people will be taken away or they will be punished for refusing to marry gay couples.
Mr Kelderman said he was known for refusing to conduct a Christian marriage for his brother.
"I acted as a marriage celebrant for him, but couldn't give him a Christian marriage because he was not a Christian.
"What if a gay couple asks to be married but they aren't Christians? It would be seen as discrimination if I refused to marry them."
Family First gained a legal opinion which challenged a statement by the Human Rights Commission that asserted if the Bill becomes legal, no religious minister will be required to marry a same-sex couple, anywhere, including in a church.
Parliament faces a final vote on the bill within the next year.
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By grownandflown on September 13, 2012
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I remembered to have this conversation with my kids every time they told me of a cheating incident at their school and the phrase I used was, "Take the D." If it is a choice between cheating and getting a lower grade, take the D. I tried to convince them that they would rather face my short-lived disappointment with a poor grade than my devastation, humiliation and sadness at my failures in parenting and their faulty moral compass. I let them know that far from going to bat for them, if they were found to be cheating, I would let them burn in the fires of both their school's and our home's disciplinary hell.
Cheating is contagious. Not surprisingly, kids will more easily slide into such behaviors if their friends are engaging in academic dishonesty. While we cannot pick our children's friends and are unlikely to know what goes on inside the testing room, we can face the issue head on with explicit recognition that they will see such behavior and it is to be shunned. It is a chance to remind them of the coda of parenting: "I don't care what other kids do, I am only raising you and your siblings and these are the rules in our home."
Young kids may not always know cheating when they see it and it may help them to talk through scenarios they will encounter. There is a spectrum that runs from helping to plagiarizing and even very young children will need to determine with some precision where various activities lie in this very broad range. Parents can help them by expounding on different situations in which students might find themselves. A classmate may text you a question about a problem. If you give them some help and they are in study hall that is helping; if they are in the exam room, cheating.
This is an important, life changing conversation. Our children are living in a world where their sporting heroes are regularly felled by violations of well-known rules and they see adult behavior that would suggest that poor moral choices lead to desirable outcomes. This is a conversation that needs to begin early and happen often and it must be just that -- a conversation -- because situations and ethical dilemmas that we never faced will confront our kids every day. It will ultimately be one of the most important conversations we will have because it touches the heart of everything we hope to do as parents in raising good people and good citizens.
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Holiday Cookie Decorating Contests at Prosecco Cafe and Saquella Cafe: Open to Kids of All Ages
Got a kid who's a total Picasso in the pantry? A real Kahlo in the kitchen? Or simply a child who has enough self control to resist chowing down on a cookie that's placed in front of them? This weekend, your budding pastry chef can show off their talents in a cookie decorating contest, complete with cash prizes.
Sister restaurants Saquella Cafe and Prosecco Cafe this weekend will host cookie decorating contests open to kids of all ages. The friendly battle is 3 to 5 p.m. today (Saturday) at Prosecco Cafe in Palm Beach Gardens and 3 to 5 p.m. Sunday at Saquella Cafe in Boca Raton.
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There's no cost to enter and the cafes will supply the cookies, as well as all of the icing, sprinkles, and other edible materials needed to create a masterpiece. There will be a variety of cookie shapes available, like Christmas trees, dreidels, gingerbread men, and other holiday designs.
Child contestants are asked to bring at least one new, unwrapped toy. These will benefit the Boys and Girls Club of Palm Beach County and the Palm Beach Children's Hospital at St. Mary's Medical Center. A panel of pre-selected judges will choose the winners, who are eligible for cash prizes of $75, $50, and $25 (not bad for something most kids love to do anyhow).
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- Dec 30, 2010Anchors have come up in a few threads, and came up again today. A year ago I did extensive research to determine the best anchor for ROGUE. I spent months researching the matter, and this was on top of research I had done ten or fifteen years earlier.
The best single thread on the subject is here:
I can summarize as follows: The newest generation of anchors are significantly better than previous anchors though they are not perfect. Carry more than one type of anchor. Rocna and Manson Supreme are the best all-around anchors. Next choice would be the steel Spade. Next are Delta, Genuine Bruce, and Manson Claw anchors of 35 lbs or more weight. No guarantees about other claw types. Luke (yachtsman) is good in rocks but otherwise useless. Good Danforth types (Danforth and Fortress) are excellent for landing craft and similar uses: sand or mud, lots of scope, and no change in direction.
I bought a 22 lb Rocna. I also have on board a 13lb standard Danforth, Fortress that is lighter but about the same size, another Fortress about the size of a 22 lb standard Danforth, and a 50 lb stainless steel plow mostly because I already own these anchors. I don't consider the plow much more than a kellet, but it stores readily available and down low, and a claw of sufficient weight is too difficult to store anywhere below and I don't want the weight on deck. I hope the plow will work better in rock and perhaps kelp than the Rocna. In a storm the plow will be on the secondary rode boat side of the Fortress to give the Fortress infinite scope. But I will be relying on the Rocna to keep me safe. It will be backed (outboard of the Rocna) by the Danforth for whatever help it will provide. My anchor rodes and cleats will take all the force the anchors can resist. The Rocna is my everyday anchor and lunch hook. If it is down I expect it will hold ROGUE no matter what unexpected blow happens.
Overkill? ROGUE is engineless, and may remain so. Anchors are critical when there is only sail and anchor to rely on. Oh, the plow will be good for drudging as well (Lowering the anchor to allow the boat to drag under control, and stop when wanted. It is even possible to steer the direction of drag.).


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Vaccines also got a vote of confidence from a recent Institute of Medicine (IOM) report that showed that children's vaccines are safe, with bad reactions occurring only rarely. The IOM committee stated no evidence supports a connection between certain vaccines and autism or type 1 diabetes in kids.
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Literature: Stuart Little
Stuart Little is a 1945 children's novel by Elwyn Brooks "E. B." White (1899-1985). It concerns the story of a mouse born to human parents in New York City. The early chapters concerns his everyday life in the City and encounter with a friend who saves his life, Margalo the bird.When Margalo flies away, Stuart leaves the city in a quest to find her. He acquires a gasoline-powered model car and travels the country. He finds employment as a substitute teacher from time to time. The most notable event includes finding a love interest in his own size, Harriet Ames. They go to a single date before he leaves to continue his quest. The novel has no resolution.Stuart Little was adapted to a namesake film in 1999, which combined live-action and computer animation. The voice for the main character was provided by Michael J. Fox. It was a box office hit, so naturally it received sequels: Stuart Little 2 (2002) and Stuart Little 3: Call of the Wild (2006). The second film was more of the same and did reasonably well at the box office. The third film was fully computer-animated, also directly released to video. An animated series was created in 2003 but only lasted a single season, 13 episodes.
Tropes in the book include:
- Animal Athlete Loophole: Guess there Ain't No Rule that says a mouse can't sail in a model boat race.
- Cats Are Mean: Played straight with Snowbell and his lady friend.
- Invisibility Cloak: Stuart's car has an invisibility button.
- Lilliputians: Stuart's date Harriet Ames.
- Magic Realism
- No Ending: The book ends with zero resolution; Stuart simply affirms his determination to find his friend, roll proverbial credits. Apparently E.B. White was concerned about his health, and decided to end the book at the best place he could find rather than keep going with it and risk leaving it unfinished at an even less satisfying point. Odd thing is, he recovered and lived another 40 years, yet he never went back to finish the book.
Tropes in the films include:
- Adaptational Heroism: Snowbell. In the book, he is very nasty toward Stuart, without a hint of remorse. In the movies, while villainous at first, the cat eventually becomes one of Stuart's allies.
- Animal Athlete Loophole: In the first film, based on the corresponding scene from the book. Most of the boats in the race are being operated by remote control.
- Armor-Piercing Question: In Call of the Wild, when Reeko is trying to talk Stuart out of attempting to save Snowbell, we have this exchange.Reeko: The Beast, she's heartless. She doesn't care about anyone but herself.Stuart: You two must have a lot in common, huh?
- Avoid the Dreaded G Rating: The film got a PG rating by having the villains occasionally say "damn" or "hell."
- Big Bad: Smokey, the mob boss-like leader of a pack of cats, in the first film. The Falcon, a vicious tyrant who forces Margalo to do his bidding, is this in the second film. The Beast, a deadly Mountain Lion who forces Reeko to do his bidding, serves as the primary villain of the third film.
- Bond Villain Stupidity: When he actually has Stuart in his talons, instead of eating him, Falcon drops Stuart - who, fortunately, lands on a soft garbage bag.
- To be fair, this is how Monte described Falcon's feeding habits earlier in the film.
- Bring My Brown Pants: In Stuart Little 2, Stuart and Snowbell head out to a seedier part of town to find the whereabouts of the villainous Falcon, Stuart as intrepid as usual, and Snowbell in the need of a litter box. They meet up with Monte, who explains to the two how sinister the Falcon is. Snowbell is left terrified:Stuart: Snowbell, are you all right?Snowbell: Yeah. In fact, good news. I no longer need a litter box.Monte: Mop up on aisle three!
- Carnivore Confusion: Averted through the movies, particularly with Falcon in the second - he didn't eat Margalo because he needed an Artful Dodger, and repeatedly tells her that if HE gets his talons into Stuart, he'll eat him. Of course, when he finally does get Stuart in his talons, Bond Villain Stupidity takes over.
- Catch Phrase: Monty's "Pleeeeease."
- Cats Are Mean: Played with in the films. Snowbell starts out very antagonistic toward Stuart, even trying to eat him and kill him, but later is shown as a Jerk with a Heart of Gold and, when his street cat friends from the alley want him to eat Stuart to be In with the In Crowd, he ultimately sides with Stuart.
- Chained to a Railway: Stuart pretends this in the first film in front of George. However, it was a toy train and he used his tail.
- Damsel in Distress: Margalo feigns this to get Stuart to trust her. In the end, inverted: she saves Stuart from falling to his death after he Plane Fus Falcon.
- Deadpan Snarker: Though Snowbell is (as expected) the biggest culprit, (movie) Margalo lets a little of this sneak through from time to time, when her Ditz armor starts to crack around Stuart.
- Description Cut: In Stuart Little 2:Stuart: Don't worry about Snowbell, he wouldn't hurt a fly.Cut to Snowbell catching and eating a fly.Snowbell: (burp) Oh, those flies really repeat on ya.
- Disney Villain Death: Subverted, Smokey and Falcon both fall from a great height but both survive. However, Smokey is chased by dogs and never seen again. Falcon lands in a garbage can in front of Monte; though his fate isn't revealed, it looks like Monte's got quite a feast.
- Dissimile: In Stuart Little 2:Snowbell: (after Stuart's car overheats) I'm telling you, Stuart, it's a sign. This is just like the Burning Bush — except it's a carburetor, and... I'm not Moses.
- The Ditz: Margalo puts on an understated version of this, mostly to throw Stuart off the fact that she's an Artful Dodger.
- Do Not Taunt Cthulhu: Margalo apparently does this to Falcon after landing in Stuart's car. It's all fake, to ingratiate her to Stuart. Stuart lampshades it, though: "Do we really want to antagonize him?"
- Faux Affably Evil: Falcon talks casually, but when something gets in the way of his shinies, the talons immediately come out.
- Feathered Fiend: A rare "noble" example: the (Peregrine) Falcon of the second movie, who fancies himself a feathered Fagin to Margalo's Artful Dodger.Falcon: Don't make friends I can eat.
- Fluffy Dry Cat: Snowbell in the animated series.
- Furry Confusion: In the film, Stuart is an anthropomorphic mouse adopted as a son by humans; as a result he has a pet cat. Snowbell also speaks, however. It's implied that all cats and mice have intelligence in this world, but are generally treated as we treat animals anyway. Stuart being given "special treatment" creates a bit of a social scandal in both the human and animal worlds.
- Hannibal Lecture: Falcon explaining to Stuart that Margalo is simply an Artful Dodger, and her friendship was a lie to get the Littles' wedding ring. Stuart stops it by shooting an arrow at him, which simply pisses him off.
- Happily Adopted: Stuart. Somewhat averted in that there is initially a little sibling tension within his new family.
- Happily Married: The Little parents, to the point where they each finished the other's sentences. The moment they couldn't tell what the other was thinking led to slight panic, but all got resolved.
- Heroic BSOD: Stuart suffers one in the second movie after he ends up in a landfill. Then he finds the wreckage of his plane...
- In Name Only: The books were set in the late 1940s, Stuart was born from a human mother rather than adopted, and only the boat race in the first movie bears any resemblance to the events of the book. The films sequel follows the original novel more closely.
- Interspecies Adoption: As mentioned above, the book claims that Stuart was born from a human mother, but the movie explains this as the reason why Stuart has human parents to begin with.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Snowbell.
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- My God, What Have I Done?: Margalo says this almost word-for-word after Falcon apparently drops Stuart to his death.
- Names to Run Away From Really Fast: Falcon has quite the reputation, even among the street cats.
- Never Trust a Trailer: The first film is a criminal offender. Several commercials show Stuart flying a plane or fighting the cat and other cool things, but none of that happens in the film. But they do happen in the ending credits in a montage that depicts what happens after the story is over.
- No Sell: The second film has something sort of like this. After being told that Margalo isn't going anywhere, Stuart replies, "Yes she is!" and fires an arrow at Falcon - which simply bounces off his beak. He grabs Stuart in his talons and drops him off the building.Falcon: Is that your best shot? Now let me show you mine.
- Oblivious Guilt Slinging/Your Approval Fills Me with Shame: Margalo is assigned by the evil Falcon to steal household valuables from the Little family. However, Margalo can't seem to focus on her assignment as she starts to enjoy spending time with the family, and becoming smitten with Stuart. Finally losing his patience, Falcon threatens Margalo to steal Mrs. Little's ring or else he'll kill Stuart. Margalo steals Mrs. Little's wedding ring. When the Littles notice the ring missing, they think it's fallen down the drain and Stuart volunteers to go after it, but the string that's holding him breaks. Margalo saves him, but Stuart's gratitude towards her only makes her feel more guilty.Stuart: Margalo, You're the best friend I ever had.
(hugs Margalo, who sadly hangs her head in guilt)
Margalo (opens the window and looks back at the sleeping Stuart): I'm sorry, Stuart. (sadly flies out the window)
- Later that night, Margalo gives a sleeping Stuart her precious jeweled stick-pin, before leaving the house out of guilt and shame.
- Raised by Humans: Stuart in the films (as opposed to the books, where he's a mouse mysteriously born to human parents).
- Shout-Out: "You do too much, you're not Mighty Mouse you know?"
- Surprisingly Functional Toys: Stuart drives an off-the-shelf RC car around, as opposed to the book version, where it was custom made.
- Smelly Skunk: Reeko from the third film. Ultimately is used on the Beast in the end.
- Trailer Spoof: The trailer for Stuart Little 2 imitated moments from the first Spider-Man movie.
- Uncle Tomfoolery: In Stuart Little 3: Call of the Wild, the character of Reeko the skunk, voiced by Wayne Brady.
- What Measure Is a Non-Cute?: In the second film, Stuart befriends Margalo, a little bird who is menaced by a peregrine falcon. This would just be another case of Carnivores Are Mean, but note that Margalo is an Artful Dodger disguised as an adorable female canary and the falcon is depicted as a vicious, mad-eyed, scheming Fagin Expy voiced by James Woods.
- Who's on First?: In Stuart Little 2, when the falcon has trapped Margalo under a can:Margalo: Snowbell? Is that you? Is that really you?Snowbell: Margalo? Where are you?Margalo: In the can.Snowbell: Oh, okay. I'll wait.Margalo: No! In the paint can!
- You Got Spunk: In Stuart Little 2:Snowbell: [to Stuart] You've got guts, kid! Guts, and... and spunk! Not to mention moxie! You got guts, spunk and moxie!


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***About the First Star Art artists:*** *jammer* and *jrr* are located in Elgin Illinois- �Chicagoland�- and have lived and worked in USA, Canada, Zaire, England, Mexico, Germany, Bahrain, Afghanistan: and have travelled to the United Arab Emirates UAE, Australia, Ireland, the Netherlands, the Bahamas, Guatemala, Nepal, China, and Tibet. Travel Wish list: Iceland, Scotland, Italy, ETC......
The company name First Star Art� is inspired by an unplanned painting depicting the first star at dusk, �Star light, star bright, the first star I see tonight; I wish I may, I wish I might, have the wish I wish tonight.�
�Our wish is to immerse ourselves in art, to share some beauty, to inspire and be inspired. Our wish is coming true. Our fine art has become an expression of our extraordinary adventures in the world, and of those to come- first in our dreams, then hopefully into reality.�
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***Jrr curates and administrates several international artist groups online with Fine Art America, including: Digital Touch, Total Abstract Photography, Loving the Color Blue, For Children, Pastel Passion, Gothic Romance, and more. Please visit our website ( jr-r.artwebsites.com ) for a portal to the groups.***
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Star light, Star bright, the First Star I see tonight, I wish I may, I wish I might, Have the wish I wish tonight.
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The BOE's Role in the Long U.K. Slowdown
George Osborne must be asking himself how it all went so wrong.
The U.K. chancellor of the exchequer was last week forced to acknowledge his economic and political strategy has been comprehensively blown off course. Forget pre-election giveaways in 2014, the economy has performed so far below his expectations that the U.K. can expect no respite from austerity until at least 2016.
Some say Mr. Osborne has only himself to blame for having tightened the fiscal screws too fast; others blame the Bank of England for ignoring the impact of high inflation on consumer spending. In response, he and the Bank of England have been only too happy to point the finger across the English Channel, blaming the U.K.'s misfortunes on collateral damage from the euro crisis.
None of these explanations bears scrutiny.
The U.K. downturn started in the fourth quarter of 2010, long before Mr. Osborne's austerity program started to bite and long before the euro crisis entered its critical phase over the summer. Indeed, the U.K. economy has underperformed much of the euro zone for the past five quarters. And while high inflation is undoubtedly painful for many families, there is no obvious reason why its impact should be more acute now than it was during the last episode of 5%-plus inflation in 2007/08 when consumer spending proved far more resilient.
A better explanation for Mr. Osborne's predicament lies in the assault on the U.K. banking system waged over the past three years by the BOE, with his support.
There is a balance to be struck between strengthening the banking system and ensuring the supply of credit to the economy— and the U.K. has arguably fallen the wrong side of it. In an economy recovering from a debt crisis, the goal of policy must be to control the pace of delevaraging to avoid a vicious spiral whereby the economy sinks faster than the debts can be repaid. The most important thing policy makers can do is keep borrowing costs low, which means governments need to get their own debts under control. But that, in turn, also means policy makers need to prevent the private sector deleveraging too quickly.
Yet Britain has adopted the opposite approach. Despite the U.K. having one of the most leveraged economies in the world, British officials pushed for the toughest possible new global regulatory rules and then demanded those rules were gold-plated for domestic banks—much to the incredulity of regulators in other countries. Having largely ignored the financial-stability aspect of the Bank of England's mandate during the boom years, BOE Governor Mervyn King has since approached banking reform with the zeal of the convert.
Indeed, the start of the U.K downturn can be dated almost precisely to Mr. King's public demand in the middle of August 2010 that banks start repaying the BOE and treasury's emergency funding facilities early. That forced banks to raise expensive debt, slashing margins, while restricting the availability and raise the price of new lending. The U.K. banking sector was dealt a further blow in April when the Independent Banking Commission, set up partly in response to Mr. King's apparent support for breaking up banks, recommended domestic retail banking businesses be ring-fenced—a decision that has left U.K. banks among the worst performers and lowest valued in Europe. Even though the ICB watered down its final recommendations, few would now dispute the ring-fence proposal is at best a costly irrelevance, at worst a grotesque act of self-harm.
U.K. policy makers miscalculated. Academic theory convinced them that if they told banks to raise capital and liquidity ratios, banks would go out and issue new shares and bonds; and they believed investors would be happy to provide the capital even if the bank earned a lower return on equity since the bank would be safer. In the event, investors saw things differently: They didn't see why highly leveraged banks should earn a lower rate of return than the wider market. And they pressured banks to shrink their balance sheets to meet both new regulatory-capital and liquidity targets and the market's return-on-equity targets and they pressured them to do it immediately, ignoring the lengthy Basel timetable. This dynamic that has led to a mortgage famine and a credit crunch for small and medium-sized enterprises; credit supply is shrinking and money supply growth has been virtually stagnant.
The BOE insists recent events in the euro zone have vindicated its approach, since U.K. banks would now be better able to withstand the collapse of the single currency. But that is to apply a convenient retrospective gloss to a regulatory onslaught whose deflationary consequences policy makers signally failed to anticipate. The BOE was taken by surprise by the downturn while the collapse of the euro was not on its radar screen as a serious contingency until very recently.
Similarly, the BOE's demand last week that banks continue to build capital and liquidity buffers by restricting bonuses and dividends looks like a diversionary tactic designed to conceal how much policy makers are divided over how to respond to the downturn. After all, of the major U.K. banks, only HSBC pays a significant dividend, and at least 70% of all bonuses are paid in shares and therefore don't hurt capital. The real debate is between those U.K. regulators who believe the threat to the economy is now so grave that banks should be encouraged to run down their capital and liquidity buffers and those who argue that any easing of regulatory pressure would damage market confidence and be ultimately self-defeating.
The truth is that those who argue for sticking to the rules are probably right. The U.K. banking system is now a prisoner of the Basel III doom machine and there is no obvious way to switch it off. The perverse consequences of this situation are now becoming apparent. The BOE has been forced to buy up 18% of the gilts market in a desperate attempt to pump money into an economy it has helped starve of credit. And Mr. Osborne has been forced to offer the banks two explicit funding guarantees in a week—to subsidize mortgages and to underwrite funding for small and medium-sized enterprises—making a mockery of claims U.K. bank reforms would eliminate implicit taxpayer subsidies.
Mr. Osborne should steel himself for more politically unpalatable interventions to support the banking system. Regardless of what happens in the euro zone, the worst may be yet to come.
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She joined the University of Richmond School of Law faculty in 2002, and she teaches in the areas of corporate law, corporate governance, securities regulation, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate finance. This fall, she will be visiting at Cornell Law School.
Some of Elizabeth's publications include: A Response to Professor John Coffee: Analyst Liability Under Section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, 72 U. Cin. L. Rev. 1305 (2004); 10(b) or Not 10(b)? Yanking the Security Blanket for Attorneys in Securities Litigation, 2004 Columbia Business L. Rev. 637 (2004); Denial of Regulatory Assistance in Stranded Cost Recovery in a Deregulated Electricity Industry, 32 Loyola Los Angeles L. Rev. 431 (1999); and Competition in the Local Telecommunications Market: Legislate or Litigate?, 1996 Harv. J. L. & Tech. 353. Works in progress include Revisiting Director Liability: The Unimportance of Being Earnest and The Meaning of a Director's Obligation to Act in Good Faith.


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Type "utahfutures.org" into your browser and you will connect to the new site. Take a minute, create an account and you can start saving your career assessments and your occupation and school searches, and start building your own timeline of important steps in planning for your future. The new Student Profile page is organized into three areas for developing effective Plans for College and Career Readiness.
- Exploration – The three stages of Exploration focus on grades 7 and 8, grades 9 and 10, and grades 11 and 12. Here students participate in assessments, activities, and research to help them expand their list of possibilities and make connections to real world work experience.
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QuoNova's is developing and commercializing its proprietary Quorum Sensing Blocker ("QSB") platform as part of a strategy to introduce a disruptive paradigm of "smart microbial control". QuoNova, which is 88.7% owned by XL TechGroup, Inc. (AIM: XLT), is targeting multiple multi-billion dollar markets including therapeutics, medical devices, consumer care, agriculture and several industrial applications.
Michael Rochelle has joined QuoNova as VP Strategic Marketing & Business Development. He has over 20 years of commercial experience in biopharmaceuticals, clinical laboratory and consulting. Most recently, Michael was Vice President at Nabi Pharmaceuticals, serving in a variety of roles including strategic planning and business development. He led the acquisition at Nabi of the product PhosLo(R) from Braintree Laboratories, a $100 million deal. Michael's background includes business development roles with International Clinical Laboratories, SmithKline Beecham Laboratories and Integrated Genetics/Genzyme Corporation. He has a BA in Chemistry from Assumption College in Worcester, Massachusetts and an MBA from Bryant University, in Smithfield, Rhode Island.
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The only way to guarantee that your damaged car is repaired or replaced is to buy collision and comprehensive insurance.
These types of insurance are known as physical damages coverages. They address two different types of accidents. You usually cannot buy collision coverage without also buying comprehensive. You may be able to buy comprehensive coverage by itself, depending on the insurance company.
Unlike liability insurance, no state requires that you buy collision or comprehensive coverage.
If you have a loan or lease on your vehicle, your lender typically will require that you purchase these coverages to protect the lender's interests.
The cost of collision and comprehensive coverage is determined by the value of the car, your own driving record, the deductible you choose and how difficult the vehicle is to repair.
Comp and collision ensure that you will be able to repair or replace your car for damage that would otherwise be unaffordable.
Collision coverage pays to repair or replace your car:
Collision coverage also allows you to get your insurance company involved on your behalf even when you are not at fault. If you file a claim for damage and pay your deductible, the insurance company will seek restitution from the at-fault party, including your deductible.
Comprehensive coverage pays to repair or replace your car:
These coverages typically extend to vehicles that you rent, too.
In every case, you will owe a deductible that must be paid before insurance coverage kicks in.
You cannot choose how much comprehensive and collision coverage to buy; the most your insurance will pay out is the car's actual cash value – what the car was worth on the open market just before the damage occurred – minus your chosen deductible amount.
You can negotiate the actual cash value of your car in the event of a total loss by providing different examples of similar cars.
Settlements should include taxes and fees you paid at purchase.
A higher deductible will mean lower premiums. (See "How much can I save by raising my deductibles?")
Your deductible should be an amount you can easily pay. Most drivers choose $500. If you cannot pay your deductible, the repair shop can file a mechanic's lien to keep your car until you can find the money.
If you lease your car, your lender may require that you keep your deductible below a certain amount.
In general, comprehensive claims will not raise your rates unless you file multiple claims in a short period.
A single collision claim may or may not raise your rates, depending on the company. On average, data Insurance.com commissioned from Quadrant Information Services showed an average increase from a single claim under $1,000 of about 18 percent.
Two collision claims will almost certainly increase your rates. The average increase for a driver with two at-fault property damage claims of $1,000 or more was 99 percent, based on the sample driver used by Quadrant.
We recommend you save your insurance for big claims. (See "The fender-bender: To claim or not to claim?")
More than 90 percent of owners buy comprehensive and collision on cars less than eight years old; by the time cars are 12 years old, that percentage drops to about half.
Much will depend on where you live and your driving record. If you live in a high-cost state or have several claims driving up your rates, dropping collision and comprehensive might make more sense than it would if you were paying less.
Some experts suggest dropping these coverages when their annual cost exceeds 10 percent of the potential payout amount. Others give a flat floor, such as when the car is worth less than $2,000. (See "When should I drop collision coverage?")
We recommend you drop comp and collision when you would no longer make a major mechanical repair such as a new engine or transmission.


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"Ladies and gentlemen, it pains me to announce that due to inflation and the raise in the cost of living, I shall henceforth be known as Fifty-Seven and One-Half Cent."
"Uh… ja… ich bin Fünfzig Pfennig…"
Interesting that his photo is right next to Michelle Trachtenberg, of whom he supposedly banged. Fun times; fun times!!!!
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