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private space travel is no longer a vision of the future, as practical items are conceived by postlerferguson in 'personal space'. previous to the sleek design proposed by creative agency, space objects have been more commonly associated with being clunky. to challenge this relation, elegant tools are developed to aid comfort in the great frontier. the 'personal space' collection consists of a heater, a light, an 'air enhancer'-that releases oxygen, and a smoker. these gadgets would be fitted into galactic pods to provide domestic amenities, that are rather lacking in current voyages. a better sensorial experience has been realized by martin postler, ian ferguson, and carson leong who have exhibited 'personal space' in september 2013 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
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The opening of Carroll County's swimming pool will be delayed by about a month as work gets underway to bring the facility in line with new federal safety guidelines.
At the May 12 Carroll County Fiscal Court meeting, judge executive Harold "Shorty" Tomlinson said the pool will be allowed to open for the summer season. Unlike previous years, the swimming pool at Robert Westrick Memorial Park will not open on Memorial Day weekend.
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Cibles du développement et coûts
[Development targets and costs]
This paper presents some analytical techniques to help policymakers gauge the technical and fiscal feasibility of development targets. While each of the techniques discussed below has deficiencies, taken together they have proven very useful in providing a sense of realism to target setting. The paper begins with a review of issues involved in target setting. It then presents three methods for assessing the technical viability of development targets, gradually moving from low data- and skill-intensive to more demanding tools. Next, the paper discusses two broad sets of techniques for estimating the cost and fiscal feasibility of reaching specific targets, as well as a number of issues to be considered when gauging a country's capacity to implement the related program. The paper ends with some concluding remarks. This unpublished version of the paper in French was translated from an English version published in the World Bank's Poverty Reduction Strategy Sourcebook.
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Dada Films and its sister company, Required Viewing, have acquired U.S. theatrical distribution rights to Sarah Megan Thomas' "Backwards." The film opens on September 21, 2012.
Thomas wrote, produced, and stars in the film, which also features Glenn Morshower ("24", "Transformers") and James Van Der Beek ("Dawson's Creek"). The film's subject matter is especially relevant with this year's Summer Olympics, telling the story of an Olympic hopeful, Abi (played by Thomas), who moves back home and becomes a coach after being named an alternate on the Olympic rowing team.
Thomas states that her motivation for writing "Backwards", "was to create an inspirational film that shows there are lots of ways to win, even if we don't always achieve our immediate goal." While never an Olympian, Thomas was a competitive rower and athlete in her teens and twenties.
MJ Peckos from Dada Films and Steven Raphael from Required Viewing announced, "We are excited to work with Sarah in helping bring her vision to as wide an audience as possible. The film is entertaining, inspiring and we chose to release the film in the fall to coincide with the recent Summer Olympic games."


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After just one point and no goals from two matches, they were given an easy ride at the Etihad Stadium on their way to opening up a cushion over their neighbours, who will try to reduce the gap again at Newcastle on Wednesday.
Despite their recent wobble Roberto Mancini's side are still a formidable force, especially at home, and they extended their 100% home league record this season to 10 matches and made it 55 points out of a possible 57 at the Etihad Stadium in the last year and three days.
It was only the second time this season Liverpool had conceded more than one in a league match – and their worst result since losing 4-0 at Tottenham in September – but it could easily have been more.
Sergio Aguero and Yaya Toure did the damage in the first half after benefiting from defensive lapses and even after Gareth Barry was sent off, City added a third with James Milner's penalty.
Mancini's side were fortunate to escape from Anfield with a 1-1 draw in November but this encounter was not even close as they recorded only their second win in 14 matches against the Merseysiders.
Prior to kick-off Liverpool confirmed they would not be appealing Luis Suarez's eight-match suspension for racially abusing Manchester United defender Patrice Evra.
If this is what life is like without the Uruguay international then the Reds could be in for a difficult six weeks, although the quality of opposition will rarely be matched.
In a battle between the league's top scorers and the meanest defence, something had to give but few would have predicted it would be the usually reliable Jose Reina.
Having already denied Edin Dzeko at the foot of his right-hand post, the Spain international made a complete hash of judging Aguero's 25-yard dipping shot and the ball flew underneath his body.
That was in sharp contrast to counterpart Joe Hart's reactions in denying Stewart Downing moments earlier when his England team-mate threatened to score having been played in by Jordan Henderson.
The goal had a more positive effect on Liverpool, who enjoyed their best spell of possession, than it did City but Reina was almost exposed again when Dzeko's shot deflected off Glen Johnson but crept just wide of the post with the goalkeeper completely wrong-footed.
While Liverpool were creating half-chances, with Hart pushing away Charlie Adam's low free-kick, City were more threatening thanks to the prompting of David Silva and Martin Skrtel was lucky to escape conceding a penalty when the ball bounced up on to his raised arm as Aguero tried to go past him.
Reina went some way to redeeming himself with a sharp save from Vincent Kompany's glancing header but was left helpless by Toure's powerful header off the underside of the crossbar from Silva's corner in the 34th minute.
Kompany showed his value at the other end of the pitch just before the interval by blocking Dirk Kuyt's close-range shot from Andy Carroll's knockdown.
In the technical area Reds boss Kenny Dalglish, hood up on his coat, gave the impression of a man trying to remain anonymous. Unfortunately for him most of his team had been equally nondescript in the first half.
Ten minutes into the second half Adam was replaced by Gerrard, who had been the catalyst for victory over Newcastle on Friday, and former City striker Craig Bellamy came on for Kuyt.
The substitutions produced the required lift but with City content to hold their lead and hit them on the break it remained a long way back for the Reds.
Liverpool appeared to have gained the momentum when Barry, having been booked late in the first half, was sent off for a second caution after blocking Daniel Agger.
But seconds later the result was wrapped up when they conceded possession inside City's half and Skrtel fouled Toure on the breakaway to allow Milner to make it 3-0 from the spot.
The hosts made their numerical disadvantage imperceptible and almost added a fourth when substitute Adam Johnson's shot beat Reina but rebounded off the post.
Gerrard responded with a long-range drive and substitute Maxi Rodriguez from much closer in but, like Liverpool's performance, they failed to hit the mark.
Even with the match won, City's concentration did not waver and Hart produced a point-blank block to deny Rodriguez.
The result highlighted the difference between title contenders and top-four hopefuls but worryingly for Liverpool they still have to face City twice more this month in the Carling Cup semi-final.
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In the world of value investing, there is little doubt that I was the equivalence of an infant just coming out of the uterus at the beginning of 2012 even though I was 26 years old already. Ignorant and curious, I embarked on the second year of my journey in value investing. I was ridiculously more confident in January 2012 than I am now at the end of 2012. Looking back, I was trying hard to learn how to sprint before I knew how to walk. As Charlie Munger put it, I was the "one-legged man in the ass-kicking competition."
Maybe I was lucky enough that there are quite a few one-legged folks in the ass-kicking competition or maybe I've had the beginner's luck all year. My portfolio somehow returned 31% during 2012, compared to S&P 500's 13.4% return, Dow's 7.3% return and Nasdaq's 15.9% return. As it was during 2011, there were plenty of mistakes and a great deal of lessons learned, thankfully. I had the fortune to learn from my own mistakes without suffering badly from them. I also had the privilege to learn from the best value investors, Warren Buffett, Charlie Munger, Arnold Van Den Berg and Michael Shearn. It is a year full of wonderful learning opportunities and I am very grateful for these great opportunities. There are some comfort to be gleaned from my successful investment such as Bank of America (NYSE:BAC), JP Morgan (NYSE:JPM) when it dropped to $31 when the trading loss was revealed, AAR Corp. (NYSE:AIR), General Motors (GM) and a homebuilder ETF. But in my opinion, learning from mistakes is a much better way to get better at investing. Below is a list of all the mistakes I've made this year:
1. Buying value traps. This is the mistake that I've suffered from considerably this year. I've bought almost all notorious value traps this year and 2011 including Research In Motion (RIMM), Nokia (NYSE:NOK), First Solar (NASDAQ:FSLR) and Radio Shack (RSH). Now that I think about the whole thing about buying value traps, it is like buying a ticket at a deeply discounted price to get on board of the already sinking Titanic. Not until a few months ago did I realize that a cheap price combined with the fear of missing out and the psychological bias of anchoring past high prices is one of the most powerful forces that can suck value investors into value traps. These value traps are often common stocks on troubled companies, some of which are considered legendary like Nokia and Radio Shack. A seemingly simple but sophisticated in actuality solution to avoid value traps is offered by Charlie Munger when he answered a shareholder's question on how to value a troubled business-it's not going to worth much. And Warren Buffett added that they've learned to stay away from troubled companies, the reason of which he had mentioned numerous times in his writings:
"When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact."
If a value investor ever decides to make cigar butts investment, he or she should read the following excellent articles published by Gurufocus.com:
[i][/i]A Simple Way to Spot Value Traps: Nokia, Radio Share and RIMM
Avoiding Value Traps: A Four Question Test
2. Following others' ideas without thorough research. I've learned this the hard way. Similar to a healthy person asking a money-driven quack for suggestions, except that I went above and beyond human stupidity and actually locked in a two year subscription fee for a "professional" investing services in 2011. The editors of this service call them value investors but are constantly making statements like "we are riding the momentum of this stock because the short term chart looks good" or "the volatility of this stock makes it not suitable for our value-oriented service." I was greedy and foolish enough to follow the stock recommendations of this service in a few instances during 2011 and early 2012. The result? I lost more than 30% on Greenbrier Companies (bought at the recommended price of $25 and sold at around $17), more than 20% on Verifone Company, to name a few. Luckily as I kept accumulating more knowledge and worldly wisdom, I realized that this service is anything but value investing related and stopped following it during the first few months of 2012. It makes me uneasy thinking about how many services like this (charging a subscription fee and not aligning their own financial interests with the subscriber's own financial interest. i.e, if the stocks they recommended lost money, the editors still got paid and they would find a way to make it not a big deal. It's like heads I lose, tails you win.
3. A corollary to the second lesson, which was shared by Mr. Michael Shearn, is never copying others' ideas without thorough research. A lot of part-time value investors simply do not have enough time to research every single idea so they go around and look for the filings of Guru investors and pick and choose from Gurus' investment ideas. This seemingly logical approach suffers from a major drawback in my opinion. Not all ideas, even from the best value investors, are exempt from mistakes. In fact, most Guru investors make big money on a few best ideas and they occasionally make very bad decisions. David Einhorn bought Best Buy (BBY) and Dell (DELL), Whitney Tilson covered his short on Netflix (NFLX) when Netflix was trading near its peak, and many other famous value investors bought Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HPQ), JC Penney (NYSE:JCP), Radio Shack, etc. Value traps are dangerous and sometimes even the best investors fall for them. Combined with the human nature of taking a cognitive shortcut (system 1) and the psychological bias of anchoring (especially the high price in the the past), it is not hard to foresee that many small investors blindly follow some famous value investors, only to regret it later. My mistake this year in this area was my purchase of Meade Instruments (MEAD). My only thesis in investing in this stock is that Paul Sonkin sits on the board of this company and he owned stocks of Meade Instruments. It was a micro cap company that is extremely illiquid and the company was facing some major issues in profit margin. Again, I was lucky enough to get out before things got out of control which resulted a more than 50% drop of the stock price. The reason I exited my position early in the game was because as I was reading Meade Instruments' most recent 10-K and 10-Q, I noticed that management had admitted that they had run into some serious problems and they could not see things get better any time soon. My logic told me to exit but there is a little man in my head screaming "don't quit on Meade, you've got Paul Sonkin on your back." To date, this mistake still reminds me of Warren Buffett's famous saying :"After ending our corporate marriage to Hochschild Kohn, I had memories like those of the husband in the country song, 'My Wife Ran Away with My Best Friend and I Still Miss Him a Lot.'"
4. The mistake of omission. It is one thing to hear Warren Buffett talk about his mistakes of sucking on one's thumbs when one knew enough to act but for one reason or another did not react, it is another thing to actually suck on one's thumbs and simultaneously shut down system 2 so that you don't have to react. The reason for this frequent mistake by value investors, in my opinion, is a combination of the sloth and weak will power. For instance, back in March Youku (YOKU) and Tudou (TUDO) announced a merger which would give Youku 71% control of the newly formed entity. The deal is for $ 1 billion (announced). Tudou was trading in a range between $38 and $42.85 after open, with outstanding shares of 28.35 million, market cap of $1.19 billion at $42 and $1.08 billion at $38, both exceeding the announced amount. The fair value of Tudou's ADR is $35.27 ($1 billion divided by 28.35 millon shares outstanding). I saw an almost guaranteed return of approximately $4 per share if I shorted TUDO at $39 per share. I did not act on this because I was too lazy to call my broker. Another costly example was when New Oriental Education & Technology Group (NYSE:EDU), a leading Chinese educational institution, was falling 34% based on a rumor that the SEC was planning to investigate its accounting for VIE. I should have bought in heavily because I knew it was a good company with super management, their accounting for VIE is not a problem and that the market overreacted so much that the price dropped more than 50% within two days. I did not act because I did not realize that opportunities like this are rare and the opportunity cost for not acting promptly is very high. To combat the psychologically wired tendency of sloth, a value investor needs to evoke the most powerful force from his subconscious mind and focus on the opportunity. Compound the opportunity cost for 50 years, write it out and think about how much you can do with the money you could've made if you reacted promptly and decisively. If you do this, no matter how tired you are, you will be more likely to act.
5. Use of leverage: I was way too confident about my ability to predict the market and about my ability to discover multi-baggers. Not only did I borrow money, but I also entered into triple short positions against the Russel Small Cap index. The recommendation of buying the triple short ETF was given by the value investing service I mentioned in mistake no. 2, which never admitted it was the service owner's mistake that all his subscribers lost money. He made some right calls during the volatile times during 2011 and I naively thought he had the crystal ball. Well, it looks like in the end, he was no more than a lucky coin flipper that survived after 30 days of the coin flipping competition described in Warren Buffett's 1984 article. Too bad I found out about this more than a year later.
6. Making bad decisions under the influence of euphoria. This is a mistake I made in late 2011 and early 2012. Even though it was a short sale, it could easily be a long position as well. I wish I heard Warren Buffett earlier on shorting. If an overvalued stock is selling at X multiples, how do you know it wouldn't sell at 2X multiples? I shorted Priceline (PCLN) when it was selling at $480 and my only reason was that I thought it could go down to $300. I didn't even look at the trailing EPS and forward EPS, in fact, I didn't even do any other research on Priceline because I thought how could a share of an online travel agency be more expensive than a share of Apple? Another psychological factor that had an impact on me was that my portfolio was doing very well mostly due to extremely good luck. I got carried away and entered into the short position without any thorough analysis even though Priceline was merely selling at about 16x 2012 earnings as a fabulous growth stock.
I know I'll make more mistakes and I welcome them along the way. I also know I'll probably make the same mistakes because some of them are just due to human nature. I am Chinese and my ancestors taught us invaluable lessons on how to deal with mistakes. I'd like to share with fellow value investors my favorite ones:
He who covers up his mistakes intends to make some more.
Success in the end erases all the mistakes along the way.
Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.
Happy Investing.


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05-05-2009, 10:52 PMDoes anyone remember the Widow's Mite?
The poor widow gave out of her poverty, i.e., when it hurt..... while the wealthy pharisee gave much more in its raw amount but it was out of his wealth and ease.
And it was the Widow who actually gave more.
If the highest 'producers' cease to value the contribution of those of lesser stature, then at some point, those 'mites' may cease to be given.
Somehow I think that this would make a difference, even to the wealthy and powerful.Hey careful man! There's a beverage here!
This is not constitutional but I have often thought that if you are not paying any income tax, you should not be able to vote on issues or for people that will raise the taxes of other people. There HAS to be a way of preventing people with nothing to lose and everything to gain from saddling those with little to gain and everything to lose with higher taxes.
As to your earlier point, as long as you are working and supporting yourself, you are not mooching.I long for the days when our President actually liked our country.
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05-05-2009, 11:02 PMPerhaps, but if you (generic) pay $5k in federal taxes and some proportional amount in sales tax, while I (generic) pay $80k in federal taxes and some proporational amount in sales taxes, don't I have just as much right to regard you (generic) as a moocher as you (generic) regard that person that pays nothing in federal taxes as a moocher?
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Thanks, that is a perfect point! The posts he is referring to I mentioned the tipping point, a very real thing.
There has to be a better way of keeping the "moochers" from taking from the working class.
Working class, not the elite, WCCW!
As an aside, if you can't spell your name and need an acorn to do it for you, your vote shouldn't count.
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Aug 15, 2012 Christiana Molina
Meet the Beauty Squad: Brit Morin
In our next in-depth chat with our new Beauty Squad, we more formally introduce you to Brit Morin of Brit + Co. Brit worked in technology at Google for four years before starting her own website, which is most popular for its DIY-meets-tech tricks and tips. Here she tells us all about her secret girl-crush, the one beauty technique this creative junkie still can't quite master and how beauty for her is all about highlighting your best features.
How has Brit + Co. evolved since you started it in late 2011?
I started it as a way to get back into what I always loved to do, which is making stuff, creating new things and coming up with new ideas, whether that be online or offline. It's been really remarkable how it's changed. We're not only doing content and media, which we upload on our site every day, but we're also building apps. The whole premise is creative solutions for your online or offline life and that covers a number of categories from style, home, food, tech and so forth. The traffic has been amazing. We now have over 2 million followers over all of our social networks. I've been on the Today show. I'm also going back in a couple weeks. I'm starting to work with another daytime talk show as a regular correspondent starting this fall. So things are starting to branch out in different types of media.
Your first app was a wedding app, right?
Yes, it's called Weduary. The wedding app idea dawned on me when I was planning for my own wedding. It's a way for you to not only easily build a wedding website that's beautiful, but to connect all of your guests who are coming to the wedding ahead of the event.
How do DIY and tech merge exactly?
Because of my background and expertise in technology, women are able to relate to me and trust me when it comes to which new apps they should be downloading that can save them time and help them shop easier, and which beauty gadgets they should be using and why.
What is your stranded-on-a-deserted-island beauty product?
I would have to say cleansing cloths. If I'm on a deserted island, I'm probably sweaty and I don't want to clog my pores or have a dirty face. Neutrogena Pink Grapefruit Oil-Free Cleansing Wipes are good.
What's the best beauty advice you've ever been given?
Less is more. I think that's the classic beauty advice that your mom gives you when you're learning to put on makeup, but it's honestly my favorite advice because I truly believe that women are beautiful as they are. You don't need to cover up who you are as a person and what your natural beauty is. I think makeup enhances and highlights your best features. I put a lot of makeup on my eyes because I have pretty big eyes and long eyelashes, and I feel like that's one of my best features on my face.
When did you know you were going to be a beauty addict?
My mom subscribed me to YM magazine when I was like eight years old. I think it was her way of having the maturation talk with me without actually having that talk because there were sex articles in it. But then I also started reading about how to put on makeup, what the Beautyblender sponge is and so forth. I think I became addicted then.
What was the first-ever beauty product you used?
My mom wouldn't let me wear that many beauty products to start with, so I think mascara was the only beauty product I could use. It was Maybelline Great Lash, which I still think is one of the best mascaras out there. I think I was 10 when I started wearing it.
Is there one beauty technique that you still can't quite master, but you wish you could?
I would love to be better at painting my nails, especially because nails are so in right now. I'll use an eye shadow sponge applicator or nail stickers for nail art. You can't really go wrong there, but I'm really bad at actually applying polish.
If you could maintain only one beauty feature for the rest of your life, what would you choose?
I'd focus on skin care. A woman's face is the most beautiful part of her body and it's the way she most directly communicates herself. I just got my first chemical peel and a Clarisonic brush. It's amazing. It's like a super-exfoliator.
Who do you think is the most beautiful person alive today?
I have a girl-crush on Halle Berry. She seems comfortable and confident in herself and she's aging beautifully. She's 46 and she looks like she's 20.
What character trait do you think is the most important for inner beauty?
I think confidence is most important. If you are confident in your natural features, I think that really comes across to other people as being beautiful.
Photo: Courtesy of Brit Morin
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Perch derbies, mall rats and bat attacks
Brian Golden
Well, it looks like colder temperatures will allow for the annual Chenango Lake Perch Derby to at last take place on Saturday, although I'm certainly not going to step foot on the ice (sorry, too cold for me). And I have to laugh at the people (including you, Frank) who seem to think the event would still go on if there was any doubt as to the safety of said ice's thickness.
Then again, I seem to remember a story about a truck several years ago …
As for me, I have an even more dangerous undertaking in mind for the weekend, also known as a trip to the mall. Yes, the family and I have planned a Johnson City excursion for Saturday, one I'm sure will lead to chaos, unpredictable and childish behavior (not necessarily initiated by the children) and a spree of spending glee. Which is fine, really, because my trips to the mall are fairly rare. And considering there's a Guitar Center just a hop, skip and/or jump away … well … I suppose I'll be OK.
And now, my Weird and Wacky Occurrence of the Week …
Time: Approximately 6:45 a.m. Date: February 14, 2012. Place: Nearing the Price Chopper intersection located on State Highway 12, south of the city. Weird and Wacky Occurrence of the Week: An obviously disoriented bat making a dive at my driver's side window (luckily for me it was rolled up) before pulling up short and swooping away.
Talk about creepy. Even worse was the fact that I couldn't seem to dismiss an image of what could've occurred if the little bugger had actually made it into the car, a thought that gave me the creepy crawlies all the way to the State Police barracks.
Two days later and it's still giving me the creeps.


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The BBC announced last week that Lip Service—its L Word knockoff drama about the lives and loves of a group of lesbians in Glasgow—would not be returning for a third season. The cancellation was almost certainly due to Lip Service's flagging ratings—its audience declined by half from the first season to its second—which makes sense from a business' perspective. The show was on, and people didn't watch it, so now the show is off. TV 101 right?
Well… maybe. Or perhaps it wasn't that people weren't watching the show. Maybe it was just that straight people weren't watching it.
This hypothesis is, I admit, held together by a mix of anecdotal evidence and educated guesswork (the blogosphere's superglue!). But allow me to explain:
I watched Lip Service. I watched Lip Service despite the fact that it was—let's face it—a terrible show. I watched Lip Service despite the winding, tangential storylines, and the often bizarre, uncomfortable sex scenes. I watched Lip Service, and my girlfriends all watched Lip Service, and my best (gay) friends watched Lip Service, and my favorite (gay) cousin watched Lip Service. We all watched Lip Service because, simply, it was about gay people, and we're gay people. Frankly, we're usually so starved for representations of queer women that that's enough. (Remember Tila Tequila? We watched that. South of Nowhere? Classic. The Real L Word? Every week.) As a group, we lesbians already have desperately low standards for viewership—despite our complaints about the way we're represented, in the end, we're beggars, not choosers. But when it came to Lip Service, neither our desperation nor our begging could keep it around. We may wonder why this strategy doesn't work on our favorite TV shows any more than it does on our dates (zing!), but it seems that in this day and age, gay shows just can't survive without straight audiences.
Take the example of Lip Service's American predecessor, The L Word. Formally, thematically, The L Word and Lip Service were pretty darn similar. Urban, middle-class, traditionally attractive, mostly white lesbians with glamorous jobs in media and the arts kiss, fight, fall in love, and occasionally engage with LGBT politics. However, The L Word slyly and deliberately marketed itself to straight audiences—while Lip Service relied on its lesbian characters and themes alone to draw a crowd. Think of The L Word's first promotional tagline: "Same Sex, Different City," which was clearly designed to capitalize on HBO's hit-with-the-straight-ladies, Sex and the City, by positioning itself on its expansive, probably Dior coattails.
On the ickier side, in a pre-premiere review of The L Word, New York Blade writer Winnie McCroy reported that Showtime's Executive Vice President of Original Programming, Gary Levine, said of the show, "Lesbian sex, girl-on-girl, is a whole cottage industry for heterosexual men," and reportedly referenced the Howard Stern show as evidence. Sidelining the infuriating and downright offensive implications of that statement, it's clear that The L Word actively pursued a straight audience. In the end, the show itself managed to balance the demands of its lesbian and straight viewers for a six-season run, possibly due to its target demographics' collective love of racy lesbian sex scenes. (If you want to know why Lip Service didn't survive, just compare its standard, fully clothed DVD box to The L Word's.)
While The L Word certainly answered a call for representation that lesbians had been making for years, the fact remains that its success depended in large part on its straight audience, and their needs and desires dictated the show's form and content at least as much as did the lesbian audience it was purportedly created for.
Complicating the matter, Lip Service's cancellation comes mere months after the BBC released a report evaluating its representation of LGB people on television (transgender people were conspicuously, disappointingly excluded). Among other things, the report noted that lesbians and bisexuals were particularly underrepresented, a conclusion that GLAAD also came to in its most recent "Where We Are On TV" report, and the BBC version called for "more creative" and "bolder" representations of LGB people. The report also specifically called for more "incidental" portrayals of LGB people, leading me to worry that these "creative" and "bold" representations—however progressive they may be—may only serve to deemphasize the gayness of gay characters, and integrate them into an already overwhelmingly straight televisual world. While "incidentally" gay characters may certainly have value, without a world of diverse and varied LGBT characters to support them, "incidental" risks erasure. While the report outlines a variety of loftier goals—including more diverse portrayals of LGB people across lines of race, class, and ability, Lip Service's failure points out that successfully enacting such changes may be easier said than done.
While stations like the BBC are beginning to invest in such depictions, their investment means little without equivalent audience interest. We all have to invest in complex, diverse representations of LGBT people on TV. And when they appear, I hope we'll all be watching.


text: Famed stop-motion animator Ray Harryhausen concocts a collection of fantastic creatures -- including a saber-tooth tiger, a chess-playing baboon, a giant walrus and three banshees -- for this follow-up to Ray Harryhausen. Patrick Wayne stars as Sinbad, who seeks the hand of Princess Farah (Jane Seymour) in marriage but cannot get her brother, Prince Kassim (Damian Thomas), to agree to the match because he has been turned into a baboon by his evil stepmother. In order to receive the blessing of Farah's brother, Sinbad must travel to a far away realm and find a wizard named Melanthius (Patrick Troughton), the only one who can break the evil spell placed upon Kassim. ~ Paul Brenner, Rovi


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Education and Inspections Bill — Acceptance of school rules a condition of admission — rejected — 23 May 2006 at 21:45
Alan Johnson MP, Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle voted with the majority (No).
The majority No voters rejected a new clause[1] for the Education and Inspections Bill. The new clause would have required parents of pupils to accept any rules laid down by the headteacher of a school. However, the amendment was defeated.
The main aims of the Education and Inspections Bill were to[2]:
- Allow schools to achieve 'foundation' or 'trust' status - this gives governing bodies greater freedom to manage the school.
- Reaffirm the existing ban on selection by ability and proposes a ban on interviewing.
- Give local authorities greater scope to intervene more quickly in failing schools.
- Ensure local authorities provide free school transport for the poorest families.
- Enable nutritional standards to be applied to all food and drink on school premises.
- Allow staff to discipline children for bad behaviour even outside of school.
- Ensure parents are held responsible for excluded pupils.
- [1] John Hayes MP, House of Commons, 23 May 2006
- [2] BBC Summary of the Education and Inspections Bill, 8 March 2006
Party Summary
Votes by party, red entries are votes against the majority for that party.
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What is Turnout? This is measured against the total membership of the party at the time of the vote.
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Con | 0 | 158 (+2 tell) | 0 | 82.1% |
Lab | 319 (+2 tell) | 0 | 0 | 90.9% |
LDem | 53 | 0 | 0 | 84.1% |
Total: | 372 | 166 | 0 | 87.4% |
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text: It's the new year and many people see it as a clean slate; a chance to rid themselves of bad habits and replace them with good habits. Well, we at Twist are all for that. Our resolution? Knit things we love. What could be easier or more fun than that? If you have a similar resolution, another look in the Winter edition might be just the motivation you need. Here are a few that we've been thinking about lately, but be sure to flip through the whole edition to see many more.


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Golf notebook: Langer commits to AT&T Championship
Updated 10:04 pm, Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Bernhard Langer, currently ranked No. 2 in the Charles Schwab Cup standings on the Champions Tour, has committed to return to next month's AT&T Championship at TPC San Antonio.
Langer, who won the 3M Championship in August, joins Nick Price and Mark O'Meara in announcing plans to play in the event Oct. 26-28 at AT&T Canyons Course.
Defending title-holder Fred Couples, who is serving as a Ryder Cup assistant, has indicated he will play, though he has not officially given notice.
Langer has won three PGA Tour and 15 Champions Tour events. Price, the 2011 Toshiba Classic winner, was a two-time PGA Tour Player of the Year.
O'Meara owns 34 professional victories and two major championship trophies.
Senior moments: Boerne's Jarratt Jones shot 1-over 73 last week, good enough to earn a spot in the U.S. Senior Amateur Championship.
Jones, playing at a qualifier at Riverbend Country Club in Sugar Land, was one of four to advance to the headline event Sept. 29-Oct. 4 at Mountain Ridge Country Club in New Jersey.
Calendar days: An 18-hole pre-qualifying event for the AT&T Championship is set for Oct. 18 at Brackenridge Golf Course.
A maximum of five players will advance into an event qualifier Oct. 22, also at Brackenridge.
The pre-qualifier, to be overseen by the Southern Texas PGA, is open to all male amateurs and pros ages 50 and above as of Oct. 24.
For information, go to stpga.com.
Filling Cup: With the win at last weekend's Greater San Antonio Four-Ball Championship, Zan Terry and Gordy McKeown have earned spots on the San Antonio squad for the Rudy's I-35 Cup competition.
Captain Pat McMahan announced Tuesday that John Perez, who has two top-five finishes in GSA events this season, also has earned enough points to make the squad.
The Cup, which pits top amateurs from San Antonio and Austin against each other, takes place Nov. 3-4 at Georgetown.
The San Antonio squad will be filled out after the GSA Senior Championship later this month.
It's a date: The deadline to enter the Greater San Antonio Senior Men's Championship, set for Sept. 28-30 at Brackenridge, is Sept. 21.
For information on the tournament, which also includes a Super Senior division for players 65 and older, go to golfsanantonio.org or call 210-345-5786.
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TCR becomes Coe distributor
TCR Inc., Wisconsin Rapids, Wis., has become a distributor for Coe Press Equipment Corp., Sterling Heights, Mich. Coe provides a broad coil processing line and manufactures one of the heaviest and widest coil feeding systems available today for the metal forming industry.
TCR is a provider of flexible, fully integrated stamping equipment. The company's technicians install and integrate equipment, conduct on-site training in operation and safety procedures, and provide support after installation.
TCR's lines include mechanical and hydraulic presses, press controls, guarding, die protection and tonnage monitoring, feed line equipment, and die components.


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Mirtazapine for Sleep Disorders in Alzheimer's Disease
Recruitment status was: Recruiting
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Condition | Intervention | Phase |
Alzheimer's Disease Sleep Disorders |
Drug: Mirtazapine |
Phase 3 |
Study Type: | Interventional |
Study Design: | Allocation: Randomized Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment Masking: Double Blind (Subject, Caregiver, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor) Primary Purpose: Treatment |
Official Title: | Mirtazapine for the Treatment of Sleep Disorders in Alzheimer's Disease: a Randomized, Double-blind, Placebo-controlled Study |
- Change From Baseline in Nighttime Total Sleep Time [ Time Frame: Baseline, 14 days follow-up ]Mean of Nighttime Total Sleep Time (in minutes) during the 12-h nocturnal epoch 8:00 PM - 08:00 AM after 2 weeks under treatment
- Change From Baseline in Nighttime Number Of Awakenings [ Time Frame: Baseline, 14 days follow-up ]Change in scores from baseline to intervention week was analyzed using an analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) with the change score as the dependent variable and the treatment condition and baseline score as independent variables.
- Change From Baseline in Nighttime Wake After Sleep Onset [ Time Frame: Baseline, 14 days follow-up ]Nighttime Wake After Sleep Onset (in minutes) after sleep onset until the final awakening during the 12-h nocturnal epoch 8:00 PM - 08:00 AM. After 2 weeks under treatment.
- Change From Baseline in in Daytime Total Sleep Time [ Time Frame: Baseline, 14 days follow-up ]
- Change From Baseline in Number of Daytime Naps [ Time Frame: Baseline, 14 days follow-up] ]
- Change in Cognitive Function (as Measured by the Mini-Mental State Examination) [ Time Frame: Baseline, 14 days follow-up] ]
- Change in Activities of Daily Living (The Index of ADL - Katz) [ Time Frame: Baseline, 14 days follow-up] ]
- Change of Baseline in Behavioral Variables (BAHAVE-AD Scale) [ Time Frame: Baseline, 14 days follow-up] ]
- Change From Baseline in Cognitive Function (Digit Symbol Substitution Test) [ Time Frame: Baseline, 14 days follow-up] ]
Estimated Enrollment: | 30 |
Study Start Date: | May 2012 |
Estimated Study Completion Date: | May 2014 |
Estimated Primary Completion Date: | December 2013 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure) |
Arms | Assigned Interventions |
Active Comparator: Mirtazapine
Mirtazapine, 15 mg once a day, at night for 14 days
Drug: Mirtazapine
Mirtazapine 15 mg, at night, once a day for 14 days
Other Name: Remeron
Placebo Comparator: Placebo
Placebo 15 mg, once a day at night for 14 days
Detailed Description:
Mirtazapine has been used for depressed elderly with sleep disorders with good tolerability and efficacy. The study hypothesis is that mirtazapine could also be used in demented with sleep disorders.
Sleep disorders (SD) affects 35 to 50 percent of patients with Alzheimer Disease (AD). These disorders often make caring for patients at home very difficult and It's also associated with higher risk of institutionalization and increases health care costs. Treatment of SD in people with dementia may benefit both patients and their caregivers. However, little is known about the efficacy of pharmacological treatments for treating sleep disturbances in AD.
Ages Eligible for Study: | 55 Years and older (Adult, Senior) |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | All |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Inclusion Criteria:
Fifty-five years of age or older; Diagnosis of probable Alzheimer's disease by National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke/the Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders Association criteria; Hachinski Ischemia Scale score less than 5 Mini-Mental State Examination score of O to 26 Actigraph evidence of a mean time immobile of less than 7 hours per night based on at least 7 nights of complete actigraph data collected over a single week; For-week history of sleep disorder behaviors, occurring at least once weekly, as reported by the caregiver using the Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI) Nighttime Behavior scale; Sleep disturbance observed was not present before the diagnosis of AD; Other co-morbidities, especially delirium, depression, chronic pain and medication use may be present, but do not cooperate in the primary symptoms; Computed tomography or magnetic resonance imaging since the onset of memory problems showing no more than 1 lacunar infarct in a nonstrategic area and no clinical events suggestive of stroke or other intracranial disease or normal; Stable medications for 4 weeks prior to the screening visit; Having a mobile upper extremity to which to attach an actigraph; Residing with a responsible spouse, family member, or professional caregiver who is present during the night and would agree to assume the role of the principal caregiver for the 3-week protocol; Ability to ingest oral medication and participate in all scheduled evaluations
Exclusion Criteria:
Sleep disturbance associated with an acute illness, delirium or psychiatric disease; Clinically significant movement disorder, such as akinesia, that would affect actigraphic differentiation of sleep and wakefulness Severe agitation; Unstable medical condition; Discontinuation of psychotropic or sleep medications within 2 weeks of the screening visit; Patient unwilling to maintain caffeine abstinence after 2:00 PM for the duration of the protocol; Patient unwilling to comply with the maximum limit of 2 alcoholic drinks per day, and only 1 alcoholic drink after 6:00 PM for the duration of the protocol; Prior use of mirtazapine for the treatment of sleep disturbances; Caregiver deemed too unreliable to supervise the wearing of the actigraph, to administer trazodone the proper time, to maintain tbe sleep diary, or to bring the patient to the scheduled visits;
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01867775
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Brasilia University | Recruiting |
Brasilia, Distrito Federal, Brazil, 70840 | |
Contact: Francisca M Scoralick email@example.com | |
Sub-Investigator: Francisca M Scoralick |
Principal Investigator: | Francisca M Scoralick, MD | University of Brasilia |
Responsible Party: | Einstein Francisco de Camargos, Medical Doctor, Brasilia University Hospital |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT01867775 History of Changes |
Other Study ID Numbers: |
052/2012 |
Study First Received: | May 30, 2013 |
Last Updated: | June 3, 2013 |
Keywords provided by Brasilia University Hospital:
Alzheimer's disease Sleep disorders Mirtazapine |
Treatment Intervention insomnia |
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Sleep Wake Disorders Parasomnias Disease Alzheimer Disease Pathologic Processes Dementia Brain Diseases Central Nervous System Diseases Nervous System Diseases Tauopathies Neurodegenerative Diseases Neurocognitive Disorders Mental Disorders Neurologic Manifestations Signs and Symptoms |
Mirtazapine Mianserin Adrenergic alpha-Antagonists Adrenergic Antagonists Adrenergic Agents Neurotransmitter Agents Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action Physiological Effects of Drugs Antidepressive Agents, Tricyclic Antidepressive Agents Psychotropic Drugs Histamine H1 Antagonists Histamine Antagonists Histamine Agents Serotonin Antagonists |
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The subatomic realm has a reputation for weirdness, spawning any number of profound misunderstandings, journeys into Eastern mysticism, and woolly pronouncements on the interconnectedness of all things. Cox and Forshaw's contention? There is no need for quantum mechanics to be viewed this way. There is a lot of mileage in the weirdness" of the quantum world, and it often leads to confusion and, frankly, bad science. The Quantum Universe cuts through the Wu Li and asks what observations of the natural world made it necessary, how it was constructed, and why we are confident that, for all its apparent strangeness, it is a good theory.
The quantum mechanics of The Quantum Universe provide a concrete model of nature that is comparable in its essence to Newton's laws of motion, Maxwell's theory of electricity and magnetism, and Einstein's theory of relativity.


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The winning score came fo the Irish deep in injury time with extra time beckoning.
Ireland had seen their 19-7 lead steadily eroded and the sides were tied 19-19 as the play entered the seventh minute of injury time. Ireland then won a linrout to start a phase of play that saw backs and forwards handle before Lane took the ball on the right wing, survived a strong tackle to score the winning try.
The game was played in stifling heat and the sides were level at the break, seven points apiece, Ireland's try coming from Glen Telford in the 33rd minute with the conversion by out-half Michael Rainey.
The Italians levelled on the stroke of half-time but Ireland raced into a commanding lead with tries from Ciaran Potts and Conor O'Loughlin in the 45th and 53rd minutes respectively.
Italian full-back Mirco Bergamasco began the fight-back when he barged his way over for a try in the 57th minute and number 8 Sergio Parisse scored his side's third try when he got over with the help of his pack with four minutes of normal time remaining.
Andreo Brancoli levelled with a fine conversion from wide out but the Irish refused to be denied and showed remarkable determination to claim a victory that earned them ninth place at the conclusion of the competition.
IRELAND. T Bowe; K Matthews, B Murphy, G Telford, J Hearty (R Lane half-time); M Rainey capt, C McLoughlin (D Geraghty 75 min); J Moran, R Best (K Corrigan 13-19 min blood), D Fitzpatrick (E McGovern half-time); D Gannon, N McComb; J Muldoon (M McCornish 69 min), N Ronan; C Potts.


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Anthro Northwest
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Anthro Northwest is an "Anthromorphic Art Convention"[1] to be held in "Seattle, November 9-12 in 2017" at the Renaissance Hotel.[2]
In a Meetup.com event page for "Anthro Northwest Convention - Forming the Vision",
Anthro Northwest strives to be an art centered, community focused, all ages convention formed to promote, develop and support the best attributes and talents found in the anthropomorphic community. The convention strives to compliment and exist in harmony with other anthropomorphic organizations and events.[3] |
A video "The Dream of Anthro Northwest" was posted on YouTube on August 14, 2016 stating that: The dream of Anthro Northwest is built up on the best attributes of the anthropomorphic arts community. Currently we have defined those to be: creativity, charity, beauty and hospitality." [4]
In the Antro Northwest Code of Conduct webpage it states "All convention areas are considered to be "PG" at all times. Some exceptional artwork may have a higher rating subject to the discretion of the art coordinator."[5]
- ↑ https://twitter.com/anthronw/ Retrieved August 6, 2016.
- ↑ August 6, 2016 post by anthronw on Twitter.com. Retrieved August 6, 2016.
- ↑ http://www.meetup.com/furlife/events/231287659/ Page for July 10, 2016 event on Meetup.com. Retrieved August 7, 2016.
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RBS Sees 'Substantial' Full-Year Loss, Creates Bad Bank
Gavin Finch and Svenja O'DonnellRoyal Bank of Scotland Group Plc expects to post a "substantial" full-year loss after transferring 38.3 billion pounds ($61 billion) of its worst loans to an internal bad bank under government pressure.
Britain's biggest publicly owned lender expects to log as much as 4.5 billion pounds of writedowns in the fourth quarter as it starts to sell the loans, Edinburgh-based RBS said in a statement today. It will also speed up plans to sell its Citizens Financial Group Inc. unit to bolster capital.
Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne is trying to recoup some of the cost of RBS's 45.5 billion-pound bailout, the biggest bank rescue in the world. He started a review in June to consider whether the bank should be broken up. While the government has been able to start reducing its stake in Lloyds Banking Group Plc, RBS has been hobbled by souring loans and past regulatory mis-steps, making a sale before an election due in 18 months "unlikely," according to Osborne.
"We may have avoided the worst excesses of a full blown good bank/bad bank split, but you are getting a lot of the medicine in the form of accelerated loss recognition as assets are manged for speed and not value," said Ian Gordon, an analyst at Investec Ltd. in London, who rates the bank a sell. "A lot of shareholder value is being destroyed."
The stock closed at 340 pence in London, down 7.5 percent. That's below the 407-pence price at which the government would break even on its 81 percent stake. By contrast, Lloyds, which received a 20 billion-pound rescue during the crisis, has increased 62 percent this year, allowing the government to sell a 3.2 billion-pound stake in September. Osborne told BBC Radio today he hopes to sell more Lloyds shares in 2014.
'British Taxpayer'
"RBS will deal decisively with the problems of the past by separating out the good from the bad," Osborne said in a statement. "It means less exposure for the British taxpayer."
RBS will sell or run down 55 percent to 70 percent of the bad bank's assets in the next two years and the rest within three. That timetable "must be aggressive for RBS to put its troubles behind it," Sajid Javid, financial secretary to the Treasury, said in an interview with Bloomberg Television's Francine Lacqua and Manus Cranny today.
The bad bank, which will have its own managers, is similar to that set up by Citigroup Inc. The New York-based lender set up Citi Holdings in April 2009 to sell $573 billion of its most distressed and unwanted assets. That pool has now been reduced to about $122 billion.
No Comparison?
"If you look at what other big banks have done that had similar problems, and Citi is one of the best examples, they had a very similar timeframe and its helped that bank recover," Javid said. Still, it's "unlikely" the government will start cutting its stake before the election, he said.
RBS's bad bank will include 14.8 billion pounds of assets from its core unit and 23.5 billion pounds from RBS' existing non-core operation. Ireland will account for about 9 billion pounds and U.K. commercial real estate almost 2 billion pounds. At 38.3 billion pounds, the unit is smaller than the 100 billion pounds analysts had initially estimated, according to London-based Shore Capital Group Ltd.
RBS said "no direct comparison" can be made between the bad bank and the non-core division it set up in 2009 because it will house its most toxic and volatile assets, rather than those it deemed didn't fit with its strategy.
"In light of the new strategy to deal with our high risk assets we expect a significant increase in impairments in the fourth quarter," Chief Executive Officer Ross McEwan, 56, said.
Citizens Sale
RBS's net loss narrowed in the third quarter to 828 million pounds from 1.4 billion pounds in the year-earlier period. The lender set aside an additional 250 million pounds to compensate clients wrongly sold payment-protection insurance, taking its total provision to more than 2.7 billion pounds.
McEwan took over as CEO from Stephen Hester on Oct. 1. Hester, 52, a former investment banker who joined RBS after its rescue, announced his departure in June after the Treasury pushed RBS to sell Citizens, the U.S. consumer and commercial lender it acquired in 1988, and shrink the securities unit.
McEwan will now speed up plans to sell RBS's stake in Citizens. The lender will sell an initial stake in the second half of 2014 and sell the rest by the end of 2016. The original plan, outlined in February, had been to start an initial public offering in two years.
Dividend Talks
The measures will allow RBS to reduce risk-weighted assets by 35 billion pounds by the end of 2016 and bolster its capital ratios. RBS said today it will seek to have a core Tier 1 capital ratio of at least 12 percent under the latest round of Basel rules by the end of 2016. Today, the measures stands at 9.1 percent.
McEwan will also seek to reduce costs as he tries to return the bank to profitability. He plans to reduce the firm's costs as a percentage of revenue to the "mid 50s" from a current ratio of 65 percent. Cost fell 8 percent from the year-earlier in the third quarter, but were still "unsustainably high," McEwan said.
He is also working at removing the biggest hurdle to the bank resuming dividend payments to its shareholders. RBS said it was in "advanced discussions" with the Treasury about removing the dividend access share, which was created in 2009 and gives the taxpayer priority over ordinary shareholders.
The lender also said it's cooperating with regulators investigating the possible manipulation of foreign-exchange markets. The bank has suspended two traders as part of the probe, said a person familiar with the decision who asked not to be identified because the move hasn't been made public.
"We will come down very severely on anyone who we discover is breaking the rules," McEwan told reporters on a conference call today. He declined to comment on the suspended traders.