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RICHMOND, Va. – Troy Doggett started on the pole and led all 50 laps to claim his first victory of the season in the 50-lap Top Dog feature for Arena Racing USA's Pro Series, the headlining event of Saturday evening's program at the Richmond Coliseum.
Doggett and Francis Jarrelle III occupied the front row for the start, while Tyler Hughes and Scott Prillaman launched from row two and Tommy Jackson Jr. and Dylan Loving made up row three.
On the first try at a start, Doggett rocketed ahead of Jarrelle. Officials weren't satisfied with the takeoff, though, and the first caution flag flew as the field slowed for a complete restart.
On the second attempt, Doggett and Jarrelle stayed door-to-door until they reached turn two. Heading onto the backstretch, Doggett surged ahead and brought Hughes and Jackson along with him. Prillaman slipped into the fourth spot in line as Jarrelle tumbled down the running order.
At lap five, Doggett and Hughes were nose-to-tail for the lead, separated from Jackson and Prillaman by three car-lengths. Loving was up to fifth, but a straightaway down to the top four.
The second caution flag appeared on lap eight when Tripp Thurston and Dystany Spurlock spun in turns three and four.
On the double-file restart, Doggett got the better of Hughes off turn two and left the door open for Jackson. Before that battle could take shape, however, the third yellow flag waved as Thurston plowed into the inside barricade near turn one.
Back under green, Doggett shot ahead of Hughes as the field rolled into turn one. Again, Jackson motored to the inside of Hughes. The two went door-to-door for nearly two laps with Hughes retaining the runner-up spot off turn four on lap 10. The tussle allowed Doggett to extend his advantage to four lengths.
On lap 19, Prillaman swiped the third spot from Jackson. He was able to make the move when Jackson got trapped behind a slower car on the top side of the track, leaving the inside lane wide open.
The last of the race's four yellow flags was displayed on lap 21 when Robbie Davis spun in turn four. After studying the replay, officials determined that Jackson was involved in the incident and he joined Davis at the back of the pack.
The green flag reappeared at the start of lap 30. As the race resumed, Doggett zoomed ahead of Hughes, who quickly had his hands full with Prillaman. Prillaman edged into the second spot on lap 32, but Hughes battled back on lap 34, regaining the spot for good.
While Hughes and Prillaman tussled, Doggett dashed away to a half-straightaway lead. Once Hughes and Prillaman calmed down and got into single-file formation, though, they began to close in on the leader.
Working around a slower machine, Doggett nearly the race slip through his fingers on lap 45 when he got crossed up off turn four. Hughes and Prillaman pounced on Doggett's miscue, narrowing the gap to just two car-lengths with a handful of circuits to go.
Doggett quickly regained his composure, though, and was in firm command over the closing laps to nail down the win. At the finish, he was 0.498-second ahead of runner-up Hughes. Prillaman was third, followed by Jackson and Davis. Spurlock was sixth to the line, while Pete Hunt, Jason Manes, John Alford and Loving rounded out the top 10. Cayton Hornberger, Jarrelle, Jason Styron and Thurston completed the rundown.
Scott Prillaman assumed the lead on lap 44 and sailed to the victory in the 50-lap Insurance Doctor A Main. The win was his fifth overall and fourth straight in A Main competition.
Robbie Davis drew the pole for the start of the event and paced the first 43 circuits with Prillaman and Tyler Hughes in tow. On lap 44, though, Tyler Daniels and Dylan Loving tangled in Turn 4, just ahead of the leaders. As the race's fourth caution flag waved, Davis and Prillaman came to a halt to avoid contact.
Reviewing the incident, officials determined that Davis didn't stop quite quickly enough to stay out of the melee and he was directed to the rear of the field, handing the top spot to Prillaman. Hughes lined up in second place, followed by Cody Carlton and Pete Hunt.
For the ensuing restart, Carlton opted to launch from the outside lane, alongside Prillaman. Back under green, Prillaman made short work of Carlton and left the inside lane open for Hughes. Exiting Turn 2, Hughes pinched Carlton into the outside wall, causing extensive suspension damage on Carlton's #94 machine. Carlton slowed to a crawl in Turns 3 and 4, prompting the last of the race's five yellow flags. Carlton was eliminated from the contest, while Hughes was relegated to the back of the pack.
On the final restart, Prillaman easily outdistanced Jason Styron and won by 1.108 seconds — better than half a straightaway. Styron was second to the line, followed by Davis, who rebounded from his earlier misfortune to take third. Pete Hunt and Troy Doggett rounded out the top five. Hughes, Loving and Cayton Hornberger were sixth, seventh and eighth, in that order, and joined the top five in advancing to the Top Dog finale. Daniels, Carlton and Lin O'Neill finished outside the front eight and missed Top Dog starting spots.


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Roast Stuffed Turkey With Cranberry Sauce
Turkey | 1 Small (Oven Ready Type) | |
Butter | 1 Ounce | |
Salt | To Taste | |
Freshly ground black pepper | 1 | |
For the apricot stuffing | ||
Dried apricots | 2 Ounce, soaked overnight | |
Fresh white breadcrumbs | 2 Ounce | |
Mixed spice | 1⁄4 Teaspoon (Allspice) | |
Freshly ground black pepper | To Taste | |
Lemon juice | 2 Teaspoon | |
Melted butter | 1 Tablespoon | |
Egg | 1 Small, beaten | |
For the chestnut stufiing | ||
Chestnuts | 1 1⁄2 Pound, skinned | |
Butter | 2 Tablespoon | |
For the cranberry sauce | ||
Cranberries | 8 Ounce | |
Water | 5 Fluid Ounce | |
Sugar | 8 Ounce (Or To Taste) | |
Dry sherry/Dry vermouth | 1 Teaspoon (Leveled) |
Drain any moisture from the bird and wipe dry, inside and out.
Make giblet stock for the gravy.
Note the oven ready weight of the bird.
Then prepare the apricot stuffing.
Drain the liquid from the apricots.
Chop the fruit and stir in the breadcrumbs, spice, salt, pepper, lemon juice and melted butter.
Bind with the beaten egg.
Free the skin from the turkey breast.
Gently push the apricot mixture under the loosened breast skin, pushing down and over the sides of the breast, so that it will keep the meat moist during cooking.
Neatly secure the neck skin with skewers.
Next, cook the prepared chestnuts in boiling stock, or salted water, for 20 minutes or until tender.
Drain them thoroughly and toss them with butter, salt and freshly ground black pepper.
Stuff the body cavity loosely with the chestnuts, and close the vent with a skewer.
Brush the bird with softened butter and season with salt and freshly ground black pepper.
Prick the breast skin all over—this prevents it bursting as the stuffing swells.
Then, either wrap the bird loosely in aluminium foil and place in a roasting tin breast down, or put the bird directly onto the rack in the roasting tin, (again breast down) and cover with foil, folding the edges over the lip of the tin.
Roast the bird for 2-2 1/2 hours, turning it halfway through the cooking time.
Test by piercing the thickest part of the leg with a skewer: if the juices run clear the bird is cooked.
Any pinkness means that additional cooking time is necessary.
While the turkey is cooking, prepare the cranberry sauce.
Stew the cranberries in the water until they 'pop', adding more water if necessary.
Rub the fruit through a nylon sieve.
Sweeten to taste and reheat, adding a little sherry or dry vermouth if you wish.


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By Cheyenne Hopkins
Bloomberg News
WASHINGTON – A bipartisan group of U.S. senators plans today to introduce a proposal to replace Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac with a new government reinsurer.
The bill, to be offered by Sens. Bob Corker, a Republican from Tennessee, and Mark Warner, a Democrat from Virginia, reflects a prevailing view among lawmakers that the two government-sponsored enterprises should cease to exist while some government role to back mortgage lending should remain. The senators scheduled a news conference for 2:15 p.m. today to introduce the legislation.
"There is a bipartisan effort here that's thoughtful and it is without question the most thorough Congressional effort to draft a GSE reform legislation to date," David Stevens, president of the Mortgage Bankers Association, said in an interview.
According to a draft copy of the revised 154-page bill, the senators have reduced the losses that lenders would take on bad mortgages during a financial crisis.
The legislation could restart a stalled debate over the future of the mortgage-finance system. Congress has yet to propose a measure to replace Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which were placed into conservatorship as they neared bankruptcy during the 2008 financial crisis. The Obama administration also has not provided a plan for revamping the government's role in housing finance.
"It's an uphill fight for this legislation but the window is more open now than it has been at any point since the crisis," said Jaret Seiberg, an analyst at Guggenheim Securities LLC's Washington Research Group. "There seems to be a growing desire on both sides of the Hill to do something."
Five years
According to the latest draft of the bill, Washington-based Fannie Mae and McLean, Virginia-based Freddie Mac would be liquidated within five years. The two companies package mortgages into securities on which they guarantee 100 percent payment of principal and interest on underlying mortgages.
The draft bill would require private financiers to take a loss of 10 percent of the principal underlying securities. Housing finance participants who have seen the draft have been critical of that "first-loss" provision, as it is referred to in the draft, saying it is too big a change from the current system.
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac would be replaced by a Federal Mortgage Insurance Corp. to continue existing efforts to build a common securitization platform able to help small lenders issue securities. It also would continue Fannie and Freddie's existing multifamily guarantees.
Crisis provision
The new corporation would be allowed to cover a greater share of the losses in an "unusual and exigent circumstance" that threatens the mortgage credit availability and the housing finance system, according to the draft. Such assistance would be limited to six months once every three years.
That provision "gives investors more comfort than under the prior version of the bill where they might have been more skittish," Clifford Rossi, a former risk manager and managing director at Citigroup Inc. who's now at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business.
The draft measure also would exempt the securities covered by the new entity from the so-called qualified residential mortgage rules, which six banking regulators including the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and the Federal Reserve are trying to complete this year.
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I had the chance to speak very briefly with Ana Ivanovic today via a conference call to promote next week's BNP Paribas Showdown for the Billie Jean King Cup. Ana, who played in the exhibition last year, is filling in this time for an injured Serena Williams. She called in from San Diego, where she's spending the next few weeks preparing for the upcoming Indian Wells tournament with her new coach Heinz Gunthardt.
I asked her about her new hire:
ANA IVANOVIC: "I was looking for a coach for a while already. I spoke to Heinz a few weeks ago and he could arrange his time and could manage to come with me here to San Diego and start practicing. I spoke to him before, and I've known him a long time. He's a great coach, very experienced. But obviously it's different once you step on the court. So I wanted to see how that works out.
"I'm really enjoying the time I'm spending with him on the court. He makes it very fun. We've already worked on a few things about my game and I feel a lot more confident about certain things and a lot more clear out there. I really hope it's going to work out in the long run."
Around the time of last year's BJK cup, Ana Ivanovic hired Craig Kardon, who was Martina Navratilova's old coach. She was asked about her relationship with Kardon at last year's French Open in May:
Q. How is it with Craig Kardon? You started, I think, in February. How has he changed your way of preparing the matches, the strategy? He was coaching Navratilova, who has a kind of different game for you.
ANA IVANOVIC: We've been working a lot on my game overall, and I think I improved a lot of areas of my game. I added some things, and I feel more comfortable coming forward, obviously. But, no, I think working with Craig is really good. I feel also since I start working with him I got my game back and committing more to my shots and moving forward. That's something that was lacking months before that.
Yeah, I'm still working really good. Also, every practice that we have, he always tries to make it fun and we always compete. He's very competitive, too, so we always have some games.
Ana and Kardon split a month later, and she returned to her on again/off again coach, Sven Groeneveld, of adidas's player development program. As Ana finished 2009 outside the top 20 for the first time in five years, it was hard not to wonder: Were these staffing changes more a sign of panic than positive change for the former No. 1 player?
Shahar Peer's coach, Pablo Giacopelli spoke with me on Tuesday and offered his general take on the frequent coaching changes on tour:
"A lot of players make the mistake of changing coaches instead of changing themselves. Often a tennis player can change things over and over and over but the results are the same. It's amazing to me that very few people ever sit the players down and say 'the person who needs to change here is you.'
"The whole environment (of the WTA tour) unfortunately at times makes the players feel like they're out of this world, like they're some kind of Hollywood superstars – which of course they are – but it can take them away from reality. The reality of who they are and what they are and what they're made of – it's always easier to blame the next person for your flaws and your shortcomings. It's a lot harder to take responsibility and say "I made the mistake, I made the wrong choice, I should have done this differently" and take a little more responsibility for what goes on in their careers and their lives."
Obviously this is a coach's perspective – job security is always nice – but it's true that Ana has been struggling to find a lasting solution to her flagging game and confidence for quite some time. (Though in my very limited experience with her, I can say that the humble Ana most definitely doesn't fall into the Hollywood-sized ego category!)
Let's hope for Ana's sake that this latest hiring decision sticks. Given Gunthardt's resume and expertise – he coached "Fraulein Forehand v. 1.0" Steffi Graf to 12 of her 22 major titles – it seems more like a match-made-in-heaven than a desperate move. Or we could split the difference and say that desperate times call for desperate measures – and there's nothing wrong with that!
Ivanovic said today that her March 1st exhibition match vs. Kim Clijsters at the Billie Jean King Cup will be a good way to "test" some of the new things she and Gunthardt have been working on in San Diego: "Even though it's an exhibition, it's still a competition and that's why we both felt that it's a great opportunity."
The Billie Jean King Cup will be broadcast live on MSG Plus (semifinals) and ESPN2 (final match) on March 1st. All matches will also be available on ESPN360.com. Click here for MSG ticket information.


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Dinner ready in 30 minutes! Enjoy this flavorful turkey and bacon sandwich.
Although margarine may seem easier to use than butter, as it's always soft, it won't have as nice a flavor or brown as well as real butter.
Look for a rustic loaf of whole-grain bread, packed with grains and nuts. It will lend a more interesting flavor and texture to the sandwich.


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If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, parents don't always want to be flattered.
At least not when it comes to financial decisions.
For proof, all we have to do is look to our own parents. Sure, it's true that in some cases Mom and Dad were beacons of fantastic financial wisdom, but other times, that just wasn't the case.
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What Your Personality Type Means for Your Money
As we work through how to teach our own kids about money—and how not to pass on our bad habits—it can be helpful to start at the source. Today, we bring you five real people who share how their parents' money habits shaped their financial outlooks later in life. What's more, we'll give you advice on how to learn from their experiences.
1. I Watched My Parents Juggle Debt … and Learned From It
Linda Atwell watched her parents struggle with debt all their lives and would have followed in their footsteps, but she married a man who couldn't stand the idea of debt. She compared the example set by his parents (who never owned a home but put five kids through college) to that of her own (who couldn't afford to take the family on vacations and limited the kids' school clothing budget to $25 per year).
She realized that, though she loves her parents, she wanted to break with their legacy when it came to money. Because of that, she and her husband now use one credit card and pay it off every month. Plus, they bought a house and paid for it in less than 10 years.
RELATED: My Teenager Expects Me to Pay for Everything
If you're concerned about teaching your kids about debt, you should show your kids that keeping a handle on debt is important, and allow them to get a feel for what it means to have some debt. Hollis Page Harman, an Emmy Award-winning financial literacy expert and author of "Money Sense for Kids," says that the Atwells are doing a great job living below their means. "However, parents should allow their children to feel [what it's like to overspend] their allowance and do without until they can repay their purchase," she says. "That's a teaching moment kids can really learn from."
Real life example: If your kid comes into money, say, from an allowance or a birthday, and blows his cash immediately, let him flounder. Allow him to feel discomfort. Next time, that money won't disappear so quickly!
2. My Parents Sent Conflicting Money Messages
Colin Drake grew up in an affluent family with parents who had differing views on finances (Mom only bought sale items while Dad constantly splurged). That conflict made it harder for him to understand what was the best way for him to handle money in his own life; he and his siblings all have different money styles because there wasn't one consistent message taught at home.
He's taken that tension to task: As an adult, he is a financial advisor, and he incorporates the concept of money personalities—and how it's important for both parents to be on the same page—into his work.
If you and your partner are like his parents, you should try to send consistent messages about spending to your children. Because Drake's parents had two very different money attitudes, they had no common ground about money to imprint on their kids. "Instead, the children adopted one way or the other without any understanding of the pros and cons of each," said Harman. "As parents, it's important to agree on how to raise money-smart kids [and stick together on it]."
If you and your partner have different money styles, be extra communicative (you can find a guide to that conversation here): What do you want your kids to learn from you? Keep your agreed-upon lessons in mind as you navigate money in everyday life. When you feel that you or your partner is veering from the plan, pick up the conversation to get back on course.


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A compost bin is a great way to keep waste material out of landfills while at the same time creating wonderfully nutritious soil for your garden and houseplants. There are a wide variety of compost bins available for purchase, but they are not cheap, and most of them are made of plastic. They aren't terribly attractive, either. If you'd like to take recycling and Earth renewal one step further, you can build your own compost bin very inexpensively by repurposing shipping pallets. And with only a little bit of extra effort, you can make it serve as a planter as well, so it's not an eyesore in your yard.
A project like this requires a bit of dexterity, so it's important to have tools and hardware at the ready. That's why my Dickies carpenter pants have become my favorite "work out" gear; they keep hammer, screwdriver, scissors, and more within easy reach at all times. They're a much more comfortable and practical alternative to the traditional tool belt.
- Shipping pallets (4)
- Mild detergent, scrub brush, broom, and water
- L-brackets with screws (4-6)
- Metal hinges with screws (2-3)
- Screwdriver and screw gun
- Burlap or landscaping fabric
- Staple gun
- Outdoor stain and paintbrush
- Potting soil
- Plants (assorted vining/creeping perennials and annuals)
1. Prepare the Location
Find a suitable area on your property for your bin. You need an approximately 4′ x 4′ space for the bin as well as some clearance on one side so the door can swing open. Clear the area of all grass and plantings and make sure it's level. Ideally, a compost bin needs to have sun to warm it, and a water source close by. Pick your location with these requirements in mind.
2. Prepare the Pallets
Give your pallets a good scrub down with some mild soapy water and then rinse them. Examine them and make note of any loose, cracked, or broken boards. Decide accordingly which sides should face out, and in which direction. Dry fit them together to make sure you like the way they look.
3. Build the Box
Connect two pallets together from the inside with two to three L-brackets, forming a 90-degree angle. Connect a third pallet in the same way to form a three-sided box.
4. Attach the Door
Connect the fourth pallet to the front of that three-sided box with two to three hinges to create a door that swings open. This will allow you easier access to your compost to turn it and to remove it when it's ready for use in your garden. Depending on the construction of your pallets and the length of your screws, you may need to set the screws on the side of the hinges at a slight angle, so that they don't impede the opening of the door.
TIP: If you want to pretty it up, you can stain your bin and plant the top with a mixture of perennials and annuals.
5. Stain the Bin
Apply an outdoor stain in the color of your choice to only the exterior boards of your bin. Keep the interior of the bin free of stain, as you don't want any of the chemicals in the stain to be in contact with your compost.
6. Create the Planters
For each side of the bin you want to put plants on, cut a piece of burlap or landscaping fabric to the length of the pallet with approximately 1 foot of the cloth hanging over each side of the pallet wall. Cut a notch in the fabric at each brace point on the pallet. Slide the fabric down inside the wall of the pallet to create a pocket that will hold the soil and plants. Staple the burlap or fabric to the inside of the interior pallet wall and the inside top of the exterior pallet wall. Hammer in any staples that aren't flush to the wood, and trim the excess burlap or fabric with a pair of scissors.
7. Fill the Planters
Plant a variety of vining or creeping perennials alongside some pretty annuals. Fill in with extra potting soil as needed. Water thoroughly and continue to water well until your plants are established. You may opt to put some plantings around the exterior base of your bin as well. Something evergreen will give it attractive cover all year long.
Now you're ready to compost! Start to fill your bin with a mixture of compostable materials like sticks, grass, raked leaves, sawdust, and cuttings from the garden. Make sure to water it and keep it moist, and turn it at least once every week. In 6 to 12 months, you'll have "black gold" to feed your garden, landscaping, and houseplants. Happy composting, everyone!
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I found this mass of eggs(??) that resemble transparent tapioca - mid reef at a depth of 60ft/18m. Bequia, St Vincent and the Grenadines. Anyone know if they are eggs and whom they might belong too?
Texture of Tapioca - eggs??
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A leading UK site for parents and the Canadian tax authority have both announced they have had data stolen by hackers exploiting the Heartbleed bug.
Mumsnet, which says it has 1.5 million registered members, said that it believed that the cyber thieves may have obtained passwords and personal messages before it patched its site.
The Canada Revenue Agency said that 900 people's social insurance numbers had been stolen.
The BBC's Rory Cellan-Jones said the advice was to change passwords as soon as possible.


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Utility based pricing of contingent claims
In a discrete setting, we develop a model for pricing a contingent claim. Since the presence of hedging opportunities influences the price of a contingent claim, first we introduce the optimal hedging strategy assuming a contingent claim has been issued: a strategy implemented by investing the budget plus the selling price is optimal if it maximizes the expected utility of the agent's revenue, which is the difference between the outcome of the hedging portfolio and the payoff of the claim. Next, we introduce the `reservation price' as a subjective valuation of a contingent claim. This is defined as the minimum price to be added to the initial budget that makes the issue of the claim more preferable than optimally investing in the available securities. We define the reservation price both for a short position (reservation selling price) and for a long position (reservation buying price) in the contingent claim. When the contingent claim is redundant, both the selling and the buying price collapse in the usual Arrow-Debreu price. We develop a numerical procedure to evaluate the reservation price and two applications are provided. Different utility functions are used and some qualitative properties of the reservation price are shown.
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Date of revision: | 14 Oct 2002 |
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- Boyle, Phelim P., 1988. "A Lattice Framework for Option Pricing with Two State Variables," Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Cambridge University Press, vol. 23(01), pages 1-12, March.
- Magill, Michael & Shafer, Wayne, 1991. "Incomplete markets," Handbook of Mathematical Economics, in: W. Hildenbrand & H. Sonnenschein (ed.), Handbook of Mathematical Economics, edition 1, volume 4, chapter 30, pages 1523-1614 Elsevier.
- Duffie, Darrell & Skiadas, Costis, 1994. "Continuous-time security pricing : A utility gradient approach," Journal of Mathematical Economics, Elsevier, vol. 23(2), pages 107-131, March.
- Bernard Bensaid & Jean-Philippe Lesne & Henri Pagès & José Scheinkman, 1992. "Derivative Asset Pricing With Transaction Costs," Mathematical Finance, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 2(2), pages 63-86.
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Robert O. Keohane is professor of international affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University. He is the author of After Hegemony: Cooperation and Discord in the World Economy (2005 [1984]) and Power and Governance in a Partially Globalized World (2002). He is the coauthor, with Joseph S. Nye Jr., of Power and Interdependence (third edition, 2001) and, with Gary King and Sidney Verba, Designing Social Inquiry (1994). He recently published Anti-Americanisms in World Politics (edited with Peter J. Katzenstein, 2007).
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Norfolk Southern Corp. (NYSE:NSC) delivered a profit and beat Wall Street's expectations, BUT came up short on beating the revenue expectation. The revenue miss is a negative sign to shareholders seeking high growth out of the company. Shares are up 0.21%.
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Revenue: Decreased 1.83% to $2.74 billion from the year-earlier quarter.
Actual vs. Wall St. Expectations: Norfolk Southern Corp. reported adjusted EPS income of $1.22 per share. By that measure, the company beat the mean analyst estimate of $1.17. It missed the average revenue estimate of $2.78 billion.
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Revenue: Fell 11.2% to $5.5 million from the year-earlier quarter.
Actual vs. Wall St. Expectations: InterMune, Inc. beat the mean analyst estimate of a loss of 18 cents per share. It fell short of the average revenue estimate of $36.4 million.
Quoting Management: Dan Welch, Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President of InterMune said, "We are very pleased to have negotiated with the German authorities a strong price for Esbriet, the first orphan drug that has undergone pricing and reimbursement review under Germany's new AMNOG law. The conclusion of this favorable pricing and reimbursement negotiation brings welcome clarity and confidence to German physicians regarding the reimbursement status of Esbriet."
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The company's profit in the latest quarter follows losses in the three previous quarters. The company reported a net loss of $46.6 million in the first quarter, a loss of $44.5 million in the fourth quarter of the last fiscal year and a loss of $38.2 million in the third of the last fiscal year.
The company topped expectations last quarter after falling short of forecasts in the first quarter with a loss of 74 cents versus a mean estimate of a loss of 71 cents per share.
Margins shrunk in the first quarter after expanding the quarter before. Gross margin slipped to 40%, a 6.2 percentage points decline from the year-earlier quarter. In the fourth quarter of the last fiscal year, the figure rose 3.7 percentage points from a year ago to 67.7%.
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In the distraction of the scandal-fever swirling through Washington and the news media, you might have missed the announcement the other day that one of the great puzzles of number theory had been solved.
What makes the news most fascinating is that the solver isn't on the faculty of a top university and wasn't known until this month to others who work in the field. He is a Chinese immigrant in his 50s named Yitang Zhang, a one-time accountant and part-time lecturer at the University of New Hampshire who used to make sandwiches in a Subway shop. Said one leading number theorist: "Basically, no one knows him."
Cue the agents and film producers.
Because the story gets better. Zhang's accomplishment tracks our romantic vision of the dedicated genius working alone in his garage. The truth is even more unlikely.
Zhang hit upon the crucial idea not in his garage but at a friend's house in Colorado, where he had gone to clear his head. He was sitting in the backyard, waiting to leave for a concert. (Imagine it cinematically: Zhang skips the concert, ignoring the entreaties of his sceptical hosts, and refuses to budge from the yard, where he sits all through the frigid Rocky Mountain night, feverishly scratching equations into tree bark.)
Faithful genius
The achievement that has inspired such awe among mathematicians is Zhang's proof of the "weak" form of the twin prime conjecture—a proof so strong that he was recently asked to present it to an audience at Harvard University. This isn't the place to explain what the twin prime conjecture is, or why it has a strong and weak form, or even why the solution has posed such a challenge. (Here's a good primer for the mathematically curious—https://plus.google.com/ 103404025783539237119/posts/T5vXKd1N819.)
The fascinating part is how Zhang succeeded where others had failed. There was no flash of genius, no invention of an entirely new methodology. He saw the promise in an approach that others had abandoned, and—mirabile dictu!—had enough faith in his idea to stick with it until everything clicked. (Note to producers: Be sure to write in mocking younger colleagues, who think the old guy is past it. See if Benedict whatshisname—the "Star Trek" guy—is available.)
The story's had a bit of coverage, but not nearly what it deserves. The media by and large aren't terribly excited about science these days. Technology, sure—albeit generally on the very personal level. An exciting new smartphone application will get commentators salivating, and smiling news anchors will report the results of the latest clinical study on the efficacy of a popular drug, whether or not they understand the data.
Pure science, however, discovery for discovery's sake—in short, using our brains because we have them—doesn't get a lot of airtime. (Except when thrillingly dangerous, like the rumors a few years back that the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva might create a black hole that would destroy the world. The world, having survived, immediately lost interest.)
I've noted before that we may be losing a generation of pure scientists. It has become a truism that many of the brightest science, technology, engineering and math majors are passing up graduate study for law or business school. I am old enough to remember when young people looked with admiration and even envy on their gifted peers who planned to be scientists. Nowadays, a facility with numbers is a highly valued skill, and the returns on careers in law and finance dwarf what they could earn in the academy or the research laboratory. Whenever I'm asked how the students have changed over my three decades of law teaching, I point to the growing disproportion of science majors.
Scientific romance
The problem isn't the public's lack of scientific literacy. Veteran science writer Daniel S. Greenberg, in his 2001 book Science, Money, and Politics, put the point this way: "Science, democracy, and prosperity are said to be at risk, though, mysteriously, all have spread robustly despite the dearth of public understanding." The problem is the lack of serious public interest.
We need to recover what the late Carl Sagan called "the romance of science". We can do this in part by coming to appreciate the human side. The media can do their part by paying more attention to stories like that of Yitang Zhang—"Tom" to his friends and students—because there is human interest everywhere, if we but choose to look. For example, everybody knows that nobody does important work in mathematics after 40, the age at which one becomes ineligible for the Fields Medal, often referred to as the Nobel Prize of the field. And Zhang is in his 50s, and used to work at Subway, and—as I said, the story writes itself.
Now, I know you have to get back to the scandals of the moment. Before you do, let's follow the romance of pure science one act further: Zhang says his great breakthrough during his sojourn in Colorado came on 3 July. Hmm. Memo to the producers: Can we push that back a day, and set fireworks behind his head, something like what Baz Luhrmann did for our first sight of Gatsby? Just a thought.
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Starting August 31st, 2011, DC Comics launched a historic renumbering of the entire DC Universe line of comic books with 52 #1 issues, which brings some changes to their iconic characters. DC Comics-The New 52 was launched with a Midnight event at Midtown Comics' Times Square store on August 31st, at which Geoff Johns and Jim Lee signed Justice League #1 and Flashpoint #5. See coverage of the event by Newsarama, CNN, and the Village Voice and Midtown Comics.
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Ideally, all businesses should be without blame. The idea of juggling things around rather than being straightforward is like taking pride in getting into a theater without paying. You avoid the ticket taker by using the back door. That might be profitable for a few weeks, but as time goes on, you find that you have problems. Honesty is the best wealth.
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text: Why Are These Pokemon Words Offensive?Brian Ashcraft10/19/10 4:00amFiled to: PokemonPokemon black and whiteNintendoGame FreakDSINewsOriginalOnly in Japan325EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalink Yesterday, a list of naughty words that can be entered in Pokemon: Black and White surfaced. Some of the words might be easy for Westerners to understand why they are considered offensive. Other words, less so. Like with most languages, Japanese has an array of colorful terms for bodily functions and genitalia. That doesn't mean that these words are necessarily profane, but off-color. Take the word "kuso" ("shit" or "crap"). It can be said on Japanese television bleep-free. "Oppai" (boobs) is also fairly harmless. Obviously, there are exceptions: The words for female private parts, however, are more likely to raise eyebrows than words for the male anatomy. Advertisement Advertisement The words in Japanese that many find incredibly objectionable are derogatory terms for handicapped people. While Japan is often criticized by other countries for women's rights or xenophobia, the country is ahead in many regards to how it treats handicapped individuals. The sidewalks have grooved bumps for blind people and crosswalks emit noises when it is safe to cross. Local civic centers give classes so that people can better understand what the handicapped go through on a daily basis.Granted, nothing is perfect, and there is still a long ways to go. But for a long time, Japanese society shunned the handicapped — some even refused to be seen with handicapped family members. The country has become more sensitive to derogatory terms regarding handicapped people. This seems to be why slurs directed at handicapped individuals are apparently blocked in Pokemon: Black and White.Some of the words that make many Japanese most uncomfortable were included in the Black and White list. Those words are related to the Japanese feudal caste system. There is a preconceived notion — especially outside Japan — that all Japanese people are a homogeneous group, that everyone in the country is middle class, that everyone is created equal. There is a Japanese monolith. Sponsored That is just not true. There are minority groups, like Chinese-Japanese and Korean-Japanese. In the past, those with Chinese or Korean ancestry have taken Japanese surnames in order to assimilate. It's said that the Japanese kanji for gold (金, or "kin") is often used by Korean-Japanese with the last name "Kim". This is not true of everyone, however. A Korean-Japanese friend of mine was born in Japan, does not speak Korean, does not have 金 in his last name, has never visited Korea, but is considered "Korean" under Japanese law. Like me, he carries around a foreigner identification card, but unlike me, he has spent his entire life here. He wants to naturalize, but is having difficulties.One of the country's minority groups, the burakumin ("hamlet people"), is connected with Japan's now abolished caste system. The burakumin were the bottom of the totem pole during the Edo Era. Burakumin worked as tanners, butchers, grave-diggers and executioners and thus, were viewed as dirty. Burakumin were thought to be hereditary and "not human". (A friend from Osaka University, who wrote a dissertation on this, once told me that today many burakumin now work in landscaping. There is a stereotype that they are in organized crime.) Advertisement There are apparently over 1 million burakumin in Japan, the Japan Times reports. Some estimates put the number at 3 million. The topic of burakumin does not appear much in the Japanese media and generally makes folks here highly uncomfortable.In the past, some Japanese companies have even had maps that note where burakumin live and refused to hire applicants from the area. The country's family registry system makes it easy to track one's hometown. Marriages were even canceled if either the bride or groom was found to be burakumin.Things have apparently improved with burakumin marrying non-burakumin and encountering less discrimination than in the past. Large companies apparently no longer track things like this during the hiring process, and more burakumin are marrying non-burakumin. Advertisement Yet, "Buraku" (部落, the area where burakumin traditionally lived) is apparently blocked by Pokemon: Black and White, but "burakumin" is supposedly not. Neither is "eta" — another slur for them — and a word that is fading from common usage. Both of those words carry more baggage than many of the other words the game blocks.In Japanese, Pokemon: Black and White is written as ポケットモンスターブラック・ホワイト (Poketto Monsutaa: Burakku Howaito). "Burakku" might be a color, but "buraku" much more.[Pic]Reply325 repliesLeave a reply


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Humans are the only species on the planet who actually go out of their way to feed their children crap. All other animals instinctly seek out the best nutrition they can find. Birds find grubs, worms and insects to feed their young, honeybees painstakingly collect pollen and create a nutrient-rich superfood that gives rise to a living queen bee, and even dogs, cats and cows try to find the most nutrient-rich foods to offer their offspring.
But humans? Most of them "reward" their children with junk food, sugary sodas, candy laced with petrochemical coloring additives and refined sugars that promote obesity and diabetes. Most parents don't even make any real effort to follow nutritional discipline at home -- they simply buy whatever their children saw advertised on television, caving in to the all-powerful "nag factor" that junk food companies fully exploit when marketing to children.
As a result, human children are the least healthy youngsters of any species on the planet. Baby dolphins are healthier than baby humans, for example, and they are born with healthier nervous systems, fewer toxins and a lot more common sense.
Hey, let's go suck on a cow
Speaking of common sense, nearly all mammals have the common sense to feed their children their own mother's milk. A kitten, for example, will drink cat's milk from its mother. A puppy will drink dog's milk from its mother. A baby horse will drink horse's milk from its mother. But humans? We're sorta stupid. We mostly drink cow's milk. (And the dairy industry insisted for decades it was better for infants than human milk!)
Of all the mammals on planet Earth, only humans are dumb enough to seek out the mammary gland juice of another species while shunning the breast milk of their own species. And did we choose the milk of a species SMARTER than us that might have more brain-boosting nutrients? Nope. We get our milk from a low-IQ species well suited to pulling a plow. Cow's milk ain't exactly brain nutrition, folks. Some people have a hard time understanding that because they've been drinking too much of the stuff and those mushy neurons crammed into their thick skulls are firing a bit on the slow side. (A lack of DHA does wonders for boosting stupidity scores.)
Links between diet and health should be obvious
Humans, by the way, are not only so collectively short-sighted that they feed their children crap foods and beverages, they actually still haven't figured out why so many of their children are obese and diabetic! It's like beating yourself on the hand with a hammer and wondering why your fingers hurt. Gee, the evidence isn't that difficult to figure out, folks. If you feed your kids sugar, white flour, toxic chemical additives, mind-altering pharmaceuticals and toxic shampoos, lotions and toothpaste, you're gonna end up with mutant children who aren't exactly Nobel Prize material.
This isn't rocket science. The real mystery is how the food companies keep getting away with all the denial of the evidence linking processed foods and beverages to childrens' health problems. I guess it helps that they influence the government regulators and practically own the mainstream media. They also buy all the prime shelf space at grocery stores, sponsor the big sporting events, and have successfully infiltrated schools and hospitals with junk food restaurants and vending machines. Heck, there's still a McDonald's restaurant in the Cleveland Clinic where they perform heart surgery!
If the birds and the bees have figured out how to raise healthy offspring, you'd think that humans might have the brain power to raise their own healthy children, too. And some parents are. There are lots of great parents out there raising kids on a macrobiotic diet, a vegetarian diet or a zero-processed-foods diet. Many of those parents are home schoolers, by the way. Good job to all the parents who actually teach their children healthful eating habits! Keep up the goog work!
Unfortunately, those parents are rare. Most parents just buy whatever crap is being peddled on TV these days. And they feed their kids cancer-causing processed meats, hyperactivity-causing food additives and obesity-promoting refined sugars. They load 'em up on high-fructose corn syrup and then wonder why little Johnny weighs 150 pounds. (Must be the genes, they think. Cause daddy's overweight, too.)
Poor health is an enormous burden for society
Even though some individuals and corporations may get financially rich by selling this junk to families, the bottom line is that we're all worse off when we raise unhealthy children in society. Why? Because the future cost of treating disease -- not to mention the loss of lifetime productivity -- is jaw-droppingly HUGE. It's enough to bankrupt our nation, which is, coincidentally, what seems likely to happen in due course. No democracy has ever survived its citizens losing their health.
We could learn a lot by listening to nature on the subject of nutrition. Most animals eat a raw foods, vegetarian diet. Even the birds and the bees have something important to teach us about nutrition: feed your children right, and your species will survive and thrive. But feed your children crap and your family tree becomes a dead stump in the dirt.
If you're a parent, I urge you to make an effort to introduce your children to a diet of unprocessed, natural foods. If they've been on a sugared-up diet of processed foods so far, they will of course whine about it. But your job as the parent is to give your children what's best for their health, not what they really really want because their taste buds tell them so.
Always breastfeed newborns and don't believe the B.S. about infant formula being just as good as mother's milk (nothing's as good for infants as the real thing). Don't bring sugar and soda into your house, and don't reward kids with junk food. That only trains them to associate pleasure with unhealthful foods, and that's a curse that could haunt them for the rest of their adult life.
Feed them right and you'll give them the best gift any parent could hope to offer: a healthful, self-aware future, free from chemicals and disease.
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Archive/File: imt/tgmwc/tgmwc-01/tgmwc-01-06.04 Last-Modified: 1999/09/04 [Page 181] If the Tribunal please, at this moment I have a new problem about proof which I believe we have not discussed. I have in my hand an English transcription of an interrogation of the defendant Erich Raeder. Of course, he knows he was interrogated; he knows what be said. I do not believe we have furnished copies of this interrogation to defendant's counsel. I don't know whether under the circumstances I am at liberty to read from it or not. If I do read from it I suggest that the defendant's counsel will all get the complete text of it - I mean of what I read in the transcript. THE PRESIDENT: Has the counsel for the defendant Raeder any objection to this interrogation being read? DOCTOR SIEMERS (Counsel for defendant Raeder): As far as I have understood the proceedings to date, I believe that it is a question of procedure in which either proof by way of documents or proof by way of witnesses will be furnished. I am surprised that the prosecution wishes to furnish proof by way of records of interrogations taken at a time when the defence was not present. I should be obliged to the Court if I were told whether, in principle, I, as a defence counsel, may resort to producing evidence in this form, i.e., present documents of the interrogation of witnesses, that is to say, documents in which I myself interrogated witnesses, in the same way as the prosecution has done, without putting witnesses on the stand. THE PRESIDENT: In future the Tribunal thinks that if interrogations of defendants are to be used, copies of such interrogations should be furnished to defendant's counsel beforehand. The question which the Tribunal wished to ask you was whether on this occasion you objected to this interrogation being used without such a copy having been furnished to you. With regard to your observation as to your own rights with reference to interrogating your defendant, the Tribunal considers that you must call them as witnesses upon the witness stand, and cannot interrogate them and put in the interrogations. The question for you now is whether you object to this interrogation being laid before the Tribunal at this stage. DR. SIFMERS: I should like first of all to have an opportunity to see this document. Only then shall I be able to decide whether interrogations can be read, the contents of which I as a defence counsellor am not familiar with. THE PRESIDENT: The Tribunal will adjourn now and it anticipates that the interrogation can be handed to you during the adjournment and then can be used afterwards. (A recess was taken until 1400 hours.) MR. JACKSON: May it please the Tribunal. I should like to ask the Tribunal to note the presence and appearance on behalf of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics of Mr. A. I. Vijshinsky of the Foreign Office, and Mr. K. P. Gorshenin, Chief Prosecutor of the Soviet Republic, who has been able to join us in the prosecution only now. THE PRESIDENT: The Tribunal notes what Mr. Justice Jackson has said, and observes that Mr. Vijshinsky has taken his seat with the Soviet Delegation of Chief Prosecutors. DR. SIEMERS: In the meanwhile during the lunch hour I have seen the minutes. I should like to observe that I don't think it is very agreeable that the prosecution should stick to their point that the defence should not see the documents until late during the proceedings, or just before the proceedings, or at times even after the proceedings. I should be most grateful to tire prosecution if it should be made possible in the future to let us be informed in good time. Yesterday a list of the documents which were to be presented to-day was put up in room, No. 54. I find that the documents presented to-day are not [Page 195] included in yesterday's list. You will understand that the task of the defence is thereby rendered comparatively difficult. On principle I cannot, in my statement of to-day, give my agreement to the reading of minutes of interrogations. In order to facilitate matters, I should like to follow the Court's suggestion, and declare my agreement that the minutes presented here should be read. I request, however - and I believe I have already been assured by the prosecution, to that effect - that only that part be read which refers to document C-156, as I had no time to discuss the remaining points with the defendant. As to the remaining points, five other documents are cited. Moreover, I request that the part which refers to the book by Kapitan zur See Schuessler, should be read in full, and I believe that the prosecutor agrees with this. THE PRESIDENT: I understood from the counsel for Raeder that you were substantially in agreement as to what parts of this interrogation you should read. Is that right, Mr. Alderman? MR. ALDERMAN: If I understand the counsel correctly, he asked that I read the entire part of the interrogation which applies to the document C-156, but I understood that he did not agree to my reading other parts that referred to other documents. I handed counsel the original of my copy of the interrogation before the lunch hour, and when he returned it after the lunch hour, I handed him the carbon copy. I do not quite understand his statement about a document being introduced which hadn't been furnished to the defendant. We did file the document book. THE PRESIDENT Is this document in the document book? MR. ALDERMAN My understandings that the document book contained all of the document which is stated in this interrogation. It didn't contain the interrogation. THE PRESIDENT Then he is right to say that. MR. ALDERMAN He is right in saying that about this interrogation, yes. THE PRESIDENT You are in agreement with him then. You can read what you want to read now, and it is not necessary for you to read that part to which he objects. MR. ALDERMAN: I think I understand his objection to my reading anything other than the part concerned with C-156, but I anticipate that be may be willing for me to read the other parts tomorrow. This deals with the book which I offered in evidence this morning, document C-156, exhibit USA 41. The defendant Raeder identified that book, and explained that the Navy had to fulfil the letter of the Versailles Treaty, and at the same time make progress in Naval development. I refer to the interrogation of the defendant Raeder at the part we had under discussion:- Q. I have here a document, C-156, which is a photostatic copy of a work prepared by the High Command of the Navy, and covers the struggle of the Navy against the Versailles Treaty from 1919 to 1935-. I ask you initially whether you are familiar with the work? A. I know this book. I read it once when it was published. Q. Was that an official publication of the German Navy? A. This Captain Schuessler (indicating the author) was a Commander in the Admiralty. Published by the O.K.M., this book represented an idea of this officer to co- ordinate all those matters. Q. Do you recall the circumstances under which the authorisation to prepare such a work was given to him? A. I think he told me that he would write such a book as he says here in the foreword. Q. And in the preparation of this work he had access to the official Navy files and based his work on the items contained therein? A. Yes, I think so. He would have spoken with other persons, and he would have had the files which were necessary. [Page 196] Q. Do you know whether before the work was published, a draft of it was circulated among the officers in the Admiralty for comment? A. No, I don't think so. Not before it was published. I saw it only when it was published. Q. Was it circulated freely after its publication? A. It was a secret subject, I think all Higher Commands in the Navy had knowledge of it. Q. It was not circulated outside of Navy circles? A. No. Q. What then is your opinion concerning the comments contained in the work regarding the circumventing of the provisions of Versailles? A. I don't remember very exactly what is in here. I can only remember that the Navy had always the object to fulfil the word of the Versailles Treaty, but, in order to obtain some advantages, the flying men were trained one year before they went into the Navy. Quite young men. So that the word of the Treaty of Versailles was fulfilled. They did not belong to the Navy, as long as they were trained in flying, and the submarines were developed, not in Germany, and not in the Navy, but in Holland. There was a Civil Bureau, and in Spain there was an Industrial Bureau; in Finland, too, and they were built only much later, when we began to act with the English Government about the Treaty of thirty-five to one hundred, because we could see that then the Treaty of Versailles would be destroyed by such a Treaty with England, and so in order to keep the word of Versailles, we tried to fulfil the word of Versailles, but we tried to gain advantages. Q. Would a fair statement be that the Navy High Command was interested in avoiding the limiting provisions of the Treaty of Versailles regarding personnel and the limitation of armaments, but would it attempt to fulfil the letter of the Treaty, although actually avoiding it? A. That was their endeavour. MR. ALDERMAN: Now the rest of this is the portion that the counsel for the defendant asked me to read. Q. Why was such a policy adopted? A. After the first war we were sorely menaced by the danger that the Poles might attack East Prussia, and we therefore tried to strengthen a little our very, very weak combat forces in this way; consequently all our efforts were directed to the aim of having a little more strength against the Poles should they attack us. It is nonsense to think we could have attacked Poland at this stage-and with the Navy. A second aim was to achieve a certain degree of defence against the possible entry of French forces into the Ostsee (East Sea), since we knew that the French intended coming to the aid of the Poles. Their ships entered the Ostsee and the Navy was therefore a defence against a Polish attack and against a French invasion via the Ostsee. Purely defensive aims. Q. When did this fear of an attack by Poland arise in Germany's official circles? A. In the very first years, when Vilna was taken. We felt, at the same time, that they could come to East Prussia. I am not certain about the exact year, since those opinions arose in the German Ministries and were held by the Ministers of the Army and Navy - Groner and Nocke. Q. And this view, in your opinion, was generally held perhaps as far back as 1919/1920, after the end of the first World War? A. The whole situation was most uncertain and confirmed and I cannot give you a very precise picture about the beginning of those years, since I was then working for two years in the Navy Archives, writing a book on the War and on how the Cruisers fought in the First World War. So that for two years I was not occupied with such matters." Likewise the same kind of planning and purposes are reflected in the table of contents of a history of the German Navy, 1919 to 1939, found in captured official files of the German Navy. Although a copy of the book has not been found [Page 197] by us, the project was written by Colonel Scherff, Hitler's special military historian. We have found the table of contents: it refers by numbers to groups of documents and notes on the documents, which evidently were intended as working materials for the basis of chapters to be written in accordance with the table of contents. The titles in this table of contents fairly establish the Navy planning and preparations to get the Versailles Treaty out of the way and to rebuild the Navy strength necessary for aggressive war. We have here the original captured document which is, as I say, the German typewritten table of contents of this projected work, with a German cover, typewritten, entitled "Geschichte der Deutschen Marine, 1919-1939 (History of the German Navy, 1919-1939)" We identify that as our series C-17 and I offer it in evidence as exhibit USA 42. This table of contents includes such general headings - but perhaps I had better read some of the actual headings: Part A (1919 - The Year of Transition). Chapter VII. First efforts to circumvent the Versailles Treaty and to limit its effects. (a) Demilitarisation of the Administration, incorporation of Naval Offices in Civil Ministries, etc. for example: incorporation of greater sections of the German maritime observation station and sea-mark system in Heligoland and Kiel, of the Ems-Jade Canal, etc. into the Reich Transport Ministry up to 1934; (b) The saving from destruction of coastal fortifications and guns. 1. North Sea (strengthening of fortifications with new batteries and modern guns between the signing and the taking effect of the Versailles Treaty); dealings with the Control Commission - information, drawings, visits of inspection, result of efforts." Referring to the group of documents numbered 85: "2. Baltic. Taking over by the Navy of fortresses Pillau and Swinemunde; salvage for the Army of one-hundred and eighty-five movable guns and mortars there. 3. The beginnings of coastal defence. Part B. (1920-1924. - The Organisational New Order) Chapter V. The Navy. Fulfilment and avoidance of the Versailles Treaty. Foreign countries. (a) The inter-allied Control Commissions. (b) Defence measures against the fulfilment of the Versailles Treaty and independent arming behind the back of the Reich Government and the legislative bodies. 1. Dispersal of artillery gear and munitions, of hand and automatic weapons. 2. Limitation of demolition work in Heligoland. 3. Attempt to strengthen personnel of the Navy, from 1923 4. The activities of Captain Lohmann (founding of numerous associations at home and abroad, participations, formation of 'sports' unions and clubs, interesting the film industry in naval recruitment) 5. Reparation for re-establishing the German U-boat arm since 1920. (Projects and deliveries for Japan, Holland, Turkey, Argentine and Finland. Torpedo testing.) 6. Participation in the preparation for building of the Luftwaffe (preservation of aerodromes, aircraft construction, teaching of courses, instruction of midshipmen in anti-air raid defence, training of pilots). 7. Attempts to strengthen the mining branch. Part C- (1925-1932. Replacement of Tonnage). Chapter IV. The Navy, the Versailles Treaty. Foreign countries. (a) The activities of the Inter-allied Control Commission (up to 31.1-27; discontinuance of the activity of the Naval Peace Commission). Independent armament measures behind the back of the Reich Government and legislative bodies up to the Lohmann case. [Page 198] 1. The activities of Captain Lohmann (continuation) their significance as a foundation for the rapid reconstruction work from 1935. 2. Preparation for the re-strengthening of the German U- boat arm from 1925 (continuation), the merit of Lohmann in connection with the preparation for rapid construction in 1925, relationship to Spain, Argentine, Turkey: the first post-war U-boat construction of the German Navy in Spain since 1927; 250 ton specimen in Finland, preparation for rapid assembly; electric torpedo; training of U-boat personnel abroad in Spain and Finland. Formation of U-boat school in 1932 disguised as an anti-U-boat school. 3. Participation in the preparation for the reconstruction of the Luftwaffe (continuation). Preparation for a Naval Air Arm, Finance Aircraft Company Sevra, later Luftdienst CMRH; Naval Flying School Warnemende; Air Station List, training of sea cadet candidates, Military tactical questions 'Air Defence Journeys,' technical development, experimental station planning, trials, flying boat development DOX etc., catapult aircraft, arming, engines, ground organisation, aircraft torpedoes, the Deutschland Flight, 1925 and the Seaplane Race, 1926. 4. Economic re-armament ("The Tebeg' -Technical Advice and Supply Company as a disguised Naval Office abroad for investigating the position of raw materials for industrial capacity and other War economic questions). 5. Various measures. (The NV Aerogeodetic Company - secret investigations.) (c) Planned Armament Work with the tacit approval of the Reich Government, but behind the backs of the legislative bodies (1928 to the taking over of power). 1. The effect of the Lohmann case on the secret preparations ; winding up of works which could not be advocated; resumption and carrying on of other work. 2. Finance question. ('Black Funds' and the Special Budget.) 3. The Labour Committee and its objectives. (d) The question of Marine Attaches. (The continuation under disguise; open reappointment 1932-1933.) (e) The question of Disarmament of the Fleet abroad and in Germany. (The Geneva Disarmament Conference 1927; the London Naval Treaty of 1930; the Anglo-French-Italian Agreement 1931. The League of Nations Disarmament Conference 1932.)
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Life happens. Adversity happens. Things happen whether wanted or not, whether good or bad. Imagine having the season of a lifetime and inching closer to achieving a lifelong dream of playing college basketball.
"I was pretty successful," said Lebreana Clay-Baker, a forward on the Lady Wildcat Varsity Squad at Guyer High School. "It was the best I have ever done and I was the second top scorer on a really good 5A team. I felt like I was a realistic part of a team and had a big role. I just thought that was the best I had ever played."
Seemingly everything was going right for Clay-Baker until catastrophe struck in January 2012. During a game on a seemingly routine drive to the basket, everything changed.
"I came down wrong and felt a pain in my knee," Clay-Baker said. "All I could do was just lie there on the ground. I was scared out of my mind."
Clay-Baker first received a positive report from her doctor and thought everything would be all fine, but she later received bad news.
"When I had my MRI [magnetic resonance imaging], I heard all of the negative news," she said. "The doctor called my dad and told him that I had a torn ACL [anterior cruciate ligament], sprained MCL [medial collateral ligament], and torn meniscus. He said it would probably take eight to 12 months to rehab fully, six if I was lucky. I literally cried on the spot. It felt like my entire world was coming to an end."
She said she had played basketball since she was 6 years old.
"My dad wanted me to get involved with sports, so I tried basketball. Basketball stuck, and it kind of filled a hole in my heart," she said. "So when I couldn't play basketball, it definitely took a toll on me."
Clay-Baker's passion for basketball was also evident to her best friends.
"Basketball means the world to her," said senior teammate Katy Davis. "She was very emotional at first."
Clay-Baker's best friend Bekah Clinton, whom she calls her "sister," could also see the frustration in Clay-Baker because basketball is such a big part of her life.
"She was really upset at first," Clinton said. "I was mad for her. She is a really good player, and both she and I were upset that she couldn't play. I get excited and love to watch her play."
Clay-Baker admitted how much not being able to play basketball affected her off the court.
"It definitely took a toll on me because I know that nothing can be taken for granted," she said. "At first I was heartbroken, but in order to come back as soon as I did, you have to have a strong mind and a strong focus."
Clinton could see boredom in her best friend.
"She couldn't play basketball and she couldn't work out," Clinton said. "She didn't know what to do. She was bored a lot though. She would stay and watch the team practice and help out to try to pass time. But the hard thing for her was trying to find ways to pass time."
Clay-Baker had to put the past behind her and focus her attention on getting healthy and coming back for her senior season.
"It was hard. I couldn't be in the games," Clay-Baker said. "I couldn't play and help them out like I wanted to. It was hard watching my team play … especially when we went to the playoffs. All I could do is sit on the bench and cheer. But I had to refocus. I knew that I could come back senior year and try to be better than what I was the previous year. I wanted to end my high school career with a knockout kind of thing."
Clay-Baker worked hard at rehabilitation, and the results were stunning to all of the therapists and doctors who worked with her.
"Therapy was easy for me," she said. "It was so routine. We did the same things over and over again. I felt like I wasn't getting strong enough quick enough. So I worked out outside of therapy with my dad strengthening my knee. The best part was defying all odds and coming back at six months when the doctors told me that was probably not going to happen."
She returned to play basketball in August.
"She has definitely progressed," Davis said. "She has jumped back in quick. It's good to see her back on the court. We are there for each other. On the court it feels like Lebron and D-Wade. We compete hard in practice. It's hard to complement each other in practice because we are always trying to beat each other."
Even though she has overcome much adversity, Clay-Baker and her teammates admit she still has some other mountains to climb.
"Mentally and as a person, I definitely think it made her stronger," Clinton said. "I mean, none of us of course thought this would happen. It shows all of us that we can't take anything for granted and we need to work hard every day. As a player, she is definitely not where she was before, but she can get there if she keeps working hard."
Even as she bounces back from the injury, Clay-Baker's goals haven't lowered at all.
"We should definitely have a deep playoff run," she said. "We want to be district champs. We want to go out with a bang. This is my last go around. I love my team and this is our last go, so the time should be now."
Clay-Baker says that she has learned so many life lessons out of her injury.
"It made me better because I know if there is anything I want, I can have that mentality to go out and get it," Clay-Baker said.
"ACL injuries take six to 12 months, and I came back right at six months. I have never tried for anything so hard so it definitely made me better as a person."
JOSHUA JORDAN is a junior at Guyer High School and a participant in the Denton Record-Chronicle's "Speak Out Loud" writing program for student journalists.


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Cemetery Memorial Service
The annual Campground Cementery Memorial Service will be Sunday, April 29 at the Armstrong Memorial CME Church in Jasper. The service will begin at 2:30 p.m. Pastor Gary Chalk of Moore Chapel and Armstrong CME Church will be the guest speaker. Dinner and fellowship will follow after the service.Try Jesus Outreach
Try Jesus Outreach is reaching out to individuals, families and communities who are suffering, bound and feel they have no hope or purpose. The group meets every other Saturday at 4 p.m. at 315 East Childers. Food plates will be available at no cost and no offering is required. For more information, contact Jennifer Lincoln and family at 489-2512 or 409-224-6557.
Come worship
The Lakeside Christian Fellowship invites you to come worship with them at Hwy. 96, 8 miles north of Jasper. 3/10 mile north of 255 intersection. Service times are Sunday, 10:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. and Wednesday at 7 p.m. For more information call 409-651-4110.
Food drive
Region 5 ESC Adult Education English as a Second Language and Civics Education classes are conducting a food drive for the Jasper Share food pantry. Bring a canned food item to donate to the food pantry and drop it off at the Region 5 Adult Education Center, 302 S. Wheeler in Jasper.
Bon Wier Mobile Food Share Program
The Mobile Food Share distribution truck will be at the Three Flags Restaurant in Bon Wier on the third Thursday of each month. Distribution will be from 4:30 to 6 p.m. Registration for this low-income program is simple but is required. This may be done in advance or at the time of service. Since the pre-packaged food will be ordered based on number of families being served, prior registration is suggested to insure that all families can be served. For more information contact Three Flags management 409-397-4874.
Spanish ministry
Tanglewood Baptist Church sponsors a Hispanic Mission, Mission Bautista Calvario, at 9:45 a.m. Sunday and Bible study and prayer services Wednesday at 6:30 p.m.; 384-4727.
Men's breakfast
First United Methodist Church hosts a men's breakfast every Wednesday at 7 a.m. in the Frank Ealand Hall; 384-5735.