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Capital One profit drops 42%; shares fall
(4:54 PM ET) SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Capital One COF, -0.48% reported late Thursday a surprise 42% drop in fourth-quarter profit as expenses grew and the bank set aside more money for loan losses. Shares fell in late trades. Profit was $407 million, or 88 cents a share, down from $697 million, or $1.52 a share, in the same 2010 period. Revenue edged down 2.5% to $4.1 billion. Loans grew 7.9% to $136 billion driven by growth in domestic credit cards, commercial banking, and auto finance. Total deposits remained flat at $128.2 billion. Virginia-based Capital One expects to close its purchase of ING Direct in the first quarter. Its deal for HSBC's US card business will be finalized in the second quarter. Capital One said both deals will have a significant impact on the company's results. Shares fell 5% to $46.10 in after-hours trade.
American Express profit up as card spending rises
(4:33 PM ET) SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- American Express AXP, -0.64% said Thursday fourth-quarter profit rose 12% to $1.2 billion, or $1.01 a share, up from $1.1 billion, or 88 cents a share, in the year-ago period. Earnings topped the average analyst forecast for a profit of 97 cents a share, according to FactSet. Revenue was up 7% to $7.7 billion as card members spent a record amount on their American Express cards. Travel commissions and fees also grew. Revenue fell shy of analyst expectations. American Express said online spending was strong and credit quality "remained excellent, with past-due loans and write-offs at historically low levels." American Express shares fell $49.40 in late trades. Shares are up 12% over last year.
Intuitive Surgical posts 25% higher profit
(4:31 PM ET) SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Intuitive Surgical Inc. ISRG, -0.32% a robotic surgical systems manufacturer, reported late Thursday a 25% jump in fourth-quarter profit from a year ago, driven by higher da Vinci Surgical System sales. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company said net income for the quarter ended Dec. 31 rose to $151.2 million, or $3.75 a share, from $121.2 million, or $3.02 a share, a year ago. Fourth-quarter revenue rose 28% to $496.8 million from $389.3 million. Wall Street analysts polled by FactSet Research had expected earnings of $3.33 a share, on revenue of $482 million. Intuitive Surgical shares fell as much as 3.7% in after-hours trade to $457.02. The stock is up 60% over the past 12 months.
Microsoft's earnings dip as revenue edges up
(4:17 PM ET) SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Microsoft Corp. MSFT, -0.67% on Thursday reported a fiscal second-quarter profit of $6.62 billion, or 78 cents a share, on revenue of $20.89 billion. During the prior-year's quarter, Microsoft earned $6.63 billion, 77 cents a share, on $19.95 billion in sales. Analysts surveyed by FactSet Research had forecast the software giant to earn 76 cents a share on $20.9 billion in revenue.
NetScout Systems up 12.4% on earnings, forecast
(12:47 PM ET) CHICAGO (MarketWatch) -- Networking technology provider NetScout Systems Inc. NTCT, -2.08% saw its shares rise 12.4% after it reported better-than-expected third-quarter results. It also issued a fiscal 2012 earnings forecast that topped most estimates.
Johnson Controls shares drop 8% on outlook
(10:38 AM ET) SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Johnson Controls JCI, -0.59% shares led S&P 500 SPX, -0.04% decliners early Thursday, after the maker of air and heating systems and car components cut its outlook for its fiscal 2012 second-quarter and the full-year. Shares dropped 8% to $32.58 in recent trades. Milwaukee-based Johnson Controls cut its forecast due to the declining value of the euro against the U.S. dollar and lower automotive demand from the debt-challenged region. The company also cited softer demand for residential HVAC systems. "While there are some short-term changes to our original 2012 expectations, our primary growth and profitability story is intact," CEO Stephen Roell said in a statement. Shares are down 19% since a year ago, compared with the 2% gain for the S&P.
Rockwell Collins shares up 7% after earnings
(10:21 AM ET) SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Rockwell Collins COL, +0.00% shares rose 7% to $60.94 early Thursday, making the stock one of the top gainers on the S&P 500 SPX, -0.04% The maker of aerospace electronics equipment reported a fiscal first quarter profit of 86 cents a share, two cents ahead of what analysts polled by FactSet Research had forecast. Cedar Rapids, Iowa-based Rockwell Collins, which sells its gear to the U.S. government and businesses, maintained its full-year targets for earnings bteween $4.40 to $4.60 a share and sales in the range of $4.9 billion to $5 billion. Even with Thursday's gains, Rockwell Collins shares are still down 4% over the last 12 months, compared to the 2% gain for the S&P.
Bank of America gains lift financial stocks
(9:36 AM ET) NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Investors gobbled up shares of Dow component Bank of America Corp. BAC, -0.66% on Thursday morning after the firm swung to a profit and the move triggered gains in other big financial stocks as well. Bank of America shares rose as much as 7%, while the other Dow DJIA, -0.38% financials, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. JPM, -0.21% American Express Co. AXP, -0.64% Travelers Cos. Inc. TRV, +0.05% all rose. In the broader market, the Financial Select Sector SPDR ETF XLF, -0.67% which tracks financial stocks in the S&P 500 SPX, -0.04% added1.1%
PPG profit up 5%, sees moderate U.S. growth
(8:38 AM ET) NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- PPG Industries Inc. PPG, -1.02% said Thursday its fourth-quarter profit rose to $216 million, or $1.39 a share, from $205 million, or $1.24 a share, in the year-ago period. The Pittsburgh maker of coatings used for paint and other materials said its revenue moved up by 4% to $3.52 billion. Wall Street analysts expected PPG to earn $1.27 a share on revenue of $3.5 billion, according to a survey by FactSet Research. PPG said it's facing uncertain conditions, with the European market the most challenging. PPG expects moderate strengthening in its U.S. business. It'll benefit from lower costs of natural gas, and get a boost from high growth rates in emerging markets. However, emerging market growth will be more "moderate and erratic" than in the past.
Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold profit falls
(8:17 AM ET) NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. FCX, -2.72% said Thursday its fouth-quarter profit fell to $640 million, or 67 cents a share, from $1.5 billion, or $1.63 a share, in the year-ago period. Revenue at the Phoenix-based mining firm dropped to $4.16 billion, from $5.6 billion. Wall Street analysts expected the company to earn 61 cents a share on revenue of $3.85 billion, according to a survey by FactSet Research. Freeport-McMoRan said its results were impacted by a strike at its Grasberg mine in Indonesia, but that the dispute has now been resolved. "We are continuing to advance our growth projects which are expected to result in meaningful increases to copper...production in future periods," the company said. "Our exploration programs continue to identify opportunities to grow our reserve base. We ended the year with significantly more cash than debt and have a positive outlook for the future prospects of our business."
Fairchild Semi earnings hit target, revenue short
(7:52 AM ET) NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Fairchild Semiconductor FCS said Thursday its fourth-quarter profit fell to $21.3 million, or 17 cents a share, from $51 million, or 28 cents a share, in the year-ago period. The chip maker's revenue fell 15% to $339.4 million, from $397.7 million. Wall Street analysts expected earnings of 17 cents a share on revenue of $358.8 million, according to a survey by FactSet Research. Looking ahead, the chip maker expects first-quarter revenue of $340 million to $370 million, below the analyst estimate of $383.1 million.
Rockwell Collins net income dips, beats estimate
(7:38 AM ET) NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Rockwell Collins COL, +0.00% said Thursday its first-quarter net income fell to $130 million, or 86 cents a share, from $151 million, or 96 cents a share, in the year-ago period. Sales dipped 1% to $1.09 billion. Wall Street analysts expected the company to earn 84 cents a share on revenue of $1.09 billion, according to a survey by FactSet Research. Looking ahead, the company stuck to its 2012 profit estimate of $4.40 to $4.60 a share. Analysts are targeting 2012 earnings of $4.46 a share.
Morgan Stanley swings to a loss
(7:32 AM ET) NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Morgan Stanley MS, -0.90% said on Thursday that it lost $227 million, or 15 cents a share, in the fourth quarter, compared to a profit of $600 million, or 42 cents a share a year ago. Consolidated net revenues at the firm were $5.71 billion in the latest quarter, compared to $7.74 billion a year ago. Analysts polled by FactSet Research had expected the firm to lose 57 cents a share, on revenue of $5.99 billion.
Southwest Air 4th-period net up 16% revenue up 32%
(7:03 AM ET) NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Southwest Airlines Co., LUV, -0.67% the Dallas carrier, reported fourth-quarter net income rose 16% on 32% higher revenue. Earnings reached $152 million, or 20 cents a share, from $131 million, or 18 cents, in the year-earlier quarter. Shares outstanding rose 4.4% to 783 million. Adjusted earnings were 9 cents a share against 15 cents. Revenue rose to $4.11 billion from $3.11 billion. A survey of analysts by FactSet Research produced consensus estimates of 8 cents a share of profit on $4.12 billion of revenue. Record revenue per passenger and continued relatively full planes drove the revenue increases, Gary Kelly, chairman, president and chief executive, said in a Thursday statement. Fuel costs, up by more than a third from a year earlier, hurt profit, he said.
BB&T 4th-period net up 88%; provision lower
(6:36 AM ET) NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- BB&T Corp., BBT, -0.64% the Winston-Salem, N.C., banking firm with nearly $175 billion of assets, reported on Thursday that fourth-quarter earnings moved up 88% on accelerating growth in loans and an improved deposit mix. Net income reached $391 million, or 55 cents a share, from $208 million, or 30 cents, in the year-earlier quarter. Revenue rose 3.4% to $2.4 billion. A survey of analysts by FactSet Research produced a consensus estimate of 53 cents a share of profit on $2.18 billion of revenue. The net interest margin, the difference between what a bank pays out on deposits and takes in on loans, narrowed 0.02 percentage point to 4.02%. The provision for possible losses on bad loans fell 60%.
Sony Ericsson posts big pre-tax loss
(3:25 AM ET) LONDON (MarketWatch) - Mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson on Thursday said that it swung to a fourth-quarter pre-tax loss of 247 million euros ($317 million) against a profit of 35 million euros in the year-ago period. The quarterly earnings report was the last for the joint venture between Sweden's Ericsson ERIC, +0.43% and Japan's Sony Corp. SNE, +4.03% In October, Sony said it would acquire Ericsson's 50% share of Sony Ericsson, ending a tie-up that has lasted over a decade. Analysts polled by Reuters expected Sony Ericsson to make a pre-tax profit of 41.7 million euros in the fourth quarter. Poor economic conditions and flooding in Thailand were partly to blame for the disappointing results, Sony Ericsson said. Sony Ericsson is not listed, but Ericsson shares gained in early-morning trading in Stockholm. Sony's shares also advanced on Thursday in Tokyo.
Europe stocks inch up; Alstom up, Sainsbury off
(3:17 AM ET) MADRID (MarketWatch) -- European stock markets traded slightly higher on Thursday, with banks and energy companies leading the gains, and bond auctions from France and Spain in focus. The Stoxx Europe 600 index(XX:SXXP)rose 0.2% to 253.97, led by a 5.2% rise for Alstom SA(FR:ALO), which reported a third-quarter sales fall, but an upbeat outlook. Shares of J. Sainsbury PLC(UK:SBRY)fell 1% after a downgrade from Goldman Sachs. The FTSE 100 index(UK:UKX)was flat at 5,699.97 as mining stocks pulled back. The German DAX 30 index(DX:DAX)rose 0.2% to 6,365.60, while the French CAC 40 index(FR:PX1)rose 0.7% to 6,366.02, boosted by a nearly 4% rise for Societe Generale SA(FR:GLE).
UBS upgraded to overweight by Morgan Stanley
(3:00 AM ET) LONDON (MarketWatch) -- Morgan Stanley on Thursday upgraded shares of UBS AG UBS, -0.25% to overweight from equal weight, saying it expects to see a cleaner balance sheet from the bank in 2012. The broker said the European Central Bank's move to decrease systemic risk should help UBS sell its non-European legacy assets more effectively. UBS shares closed Wednesday trading in New York with a 5.3% jump to $12.61.
SABMiller lager volumes lifted by emerging markets
(2:22 AM ET) MADRID (MarketWatch) -- SABMiller PLC(UK:SAB)on Thursday reported lager volumes for the third quarter ended Dec. 31 rose 3% versus the prior year, with growth in all regions except Europe and North America. Soft drink volumes rose 6% with growth in all regions. Adjusted group sales rose 7% and group sales per hectoliter rose 3%, supported mainly by price benefits, with mix gains seen in all regions except Europe. Financial performance for the quarter was in line with expectations, SABMiller said. While lager volumes rose 8% in Latin America and an adjusted 7% in Asia Pacific, they fell 2% in Europe, with beer markets affected by "intense" competition and fragile economic conditions. Volumes in Poland and Romania fell 6% each on planned de-stocking and promotions, while volumes in Russia fell 6% in a "declining beer market." MillerCoors domestic sales to retailers fell 3.3% in the quarter on a trading-day adjusted basis, and premium light brand volumes fell by low single digits.
Carrefour sales fall 0.8% amid tougher environment
(2:02 AM ET) MADRID (MarketWatch) -- French retailer Carrefour SA(FR:CA)reported a 0.8% drop in fourth-quarter sales, excluding petrol and including value-added-tax, to 24.2 billion euros ($31.1 billion) as a "deteriorating environment" hit non-food trading. On a comparable basis excluding fuel, sales fell 1.9%. Full-year sales rose 0.5% and fell 0.6% on a comparable basis. Excluding France, fourth-quarter sales in Europe fell 4.3% as a turnaround in Belgium could not compensate for a non-food slowdown in Southern Europe. In France, sales fell 2.4%. Sales rose 6.8% in Latin America and 2.8% in Asia. Carrefour said its 2012 rollout of Carrefour Planet is being "pragmatically reviewed country by country" owing to macroeconomic conditions and capex allocation. Carrefour said it expects 2011 current operating income guidance to come in at the lower end of a negative 15% and negative 20% range, excluding Dia. "In the current challenging environment, Carrefour is focusing its efforts on executing its action plan in France and Southern Europe, aiming at consistent lower prices and more targeted promotions," said Lars Olofsson, chairman and chief executive officer of Carrefour.


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3 weeks on!
3 weeks on!
Dare we begin to give him a name?!?
So, this little guy is growing in strength all the time and has moved from the bottle to a bucket! And the milk is being 'guzzled'! His foal creep pellets have arrived and at 3 weeks he is starting to act more like a horse!
We are even managing to stretch his night feeds longer and sleep is something we are getting back!!
As we did not really know his fate, naming him seemed all to real, but I think it's time to think of a name! He can't be "Mr foalie" or "buddy" for much longer! "Buddy" came about because of the numnah he was wearing as a rug - a 'Buddies' one!! But with Spring eventually arriving and warmer air, the rug and the bubble wrap leg warmers have been ditched!
It of course, has to be an Icelandic name - and there are a few suggestions - but maybe he needs your help and we can do some online competition........
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Monday, 30 May 2011
LADY OF THE STARS, Regency time travel -2010 EPIC Contest Finalist
A legend spanning time and the man and woman caught in it.
Caroline knows something is wrong the instant she steps from her holiday cottage into that unusual gazebo with two doors. But when a man she knows she will never see again appears outside the gazebo, she flings caution aside and plunges through the back door, crashing into the man--and 1817.
A voyage through time? Impossible. Richard refuses to believe the strange woman's outlandish tale. Still, the lady is lost and alone, and he helps the stranded wayfarer.
But as attraction flares between these two lonely people, Richard's family legend grinds to its ultimate fulfillment--will it bring them together, or tear them apart forever?
Caroline followed him into the room she knew was the kitchen and he stepped up to the banked fire.
Fire? Where were the stove and refrigerator? And all the chrome and stainless steel of the ultramodern kitchen she had seen only this morning? This kitchen contained a scarred wood trestle table with several chairs pushed under it. Pots and pans hung on wall racks and reflected the dim firelight. A cupboard stood against the far wall, next to a sink with a pump. A pump?
With shaking hands, she set the lantern on the table and pulled out one of the chairs. She was in trouble, very deep trouble.
As she sank into the chair, she turned her stunned attention to her host.
Unaware of her gaze, he busied himself at the fireplace. His back to her, he placed the candelabrum on the mantle above the hearth, then drew the fire screen to the side of the grate. Dropping onto his haunches, he pulled several logs from the nearby basket, then arranged the wood in a neat pile on the smoldering embers. Almost at once, the flames blazed to full roaring life.
Silhouetted against the light, he straightened, replaced the screen, then removed his hat and tossed it on the table.
Her jaw dropped. Good heavens, the aggravating man was gorgeous. Tall and slim, his broad shoulders tapered to narrow hips and long legs. But where had he found that outlandish outfit? He wore a top hat, out here in the middle of nowhere. His shirt collar was turned up and he wore a huge white tie. And his waist-length, double-breasted jacket had tails, like the one an orchestra conductor wore. Muddy black boots with the tops turned down came up to his knees. Skintight trousers, or were those breeches--of all things?--emphasized every well-formed muscle.
Now if his face matched his form . . .
What was she thinking? She hadn't felt anything for any man in a long time. Not since . . .
He turned, and for the first time that night she fully took in his face. She gasped. Had she seen a ghost through the gazebo's back door? "Richard?"
Puzzlement spread over those chiseled features she now saw only in her memories. "How do you know my name?"
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Welcome to My World of Historical Hilarity!
I'm Linda Banche, and I write witty, sweet/sensual Regency romances with nary a rake or royal in sight. Most contain humor, some fantasy, and occasionally a little paranormal. But comedy is my love, and I've created my own wacky blend of humor and Regency with stories that can elicit reactions from a gentle smile to a belly laugh.
Like many other romance authors, I read romances for years before I wrote my own. Once I tried, I quickly discovered how difficult writing is. Did I stop? No, I'm persistent--that's French for "too stupid to quit".
I live in New England and like aerobics and ducks.
So, laugh along with me on a voyage back to the Regency era. Me and my ducks. Quack.
I have four Regency novellas, all from The Wild Rose Press. LADY OF THE STARS (time travel, finalist in Science Fiction Romance in the 2010 EPIC eBook Contest), PUMPKINNAPPER (finalist in the 2011 EPIC Contest in the Historical Romance category. I'm two for two now. I've entered the EPIC contest twice, and I've finaled twice.), MISTLETOE EVERYWHERE (Christmas), and my latest, GIFTS GONE ASTRAY (available June 29, 2011).
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Monday, 23 May 2011
Grace Elliot: Reasons to love the Regency - Stallions
Stallions are the embodiment of virility and power…and the regency was dripping with them. The Regency world ran on horse power, from high perch phaetons to farm wagons…and just like today's sports cars, the quality of your engine spoke volume about the person.
What tonnish miss's heart wouldn't be set a flutter to see a handsome rogue pull up outside her address in a crest-emblazoned barouche, with coachman and liveried footman. From matched bays to high stepping hackneys the expense of keeping such an equipage was stunning… a definite aphrodisiac. Such conspicuous wealth was not so much equivalent to a Porsche or Lamborghini but to owning a private helicopter with a personal pilot on constant standby. But then again, any self respecting heroine would see through such shallow materialistic values to the man beneath.
From hours in the stallion's saddle our hero would have finely toned thighs. Chances our she'd get a good appreciation of this and other assets within his skin tight 'inexpressibles', showing every contour and plane that left little to the imagination.
And if our heroine is strong minded enough to resist a splendid physique, perhaps the skill of controlling a powerful beast between seat and heel would give her pause for thought. The power of mind over body, of man over horseflesh, of the beast between his thighs might have made her stays feel uncomfortably tight… There's definitely something about men and horses…what do you find attractive in a man? Do please comment below.
'A Dead Man's Debt' by Grace Elliot.
Celeste Armitage has a plan…and that plan doesn't include marriage.
After deliberately humiliating a suitor, Celeste's despairing parents exile her to the country. But once there she discovers a sketch book of daring nude studies and is shaken to find the artist is her hostess's eldest son, Lord Ranulf Charing. This darkly cynical lord is exactly the sort of dissipated rogue she despises most…if only her blood didn't heat at the thought of him…
Nothing is as it seems. Lord Ranulf's life is a façade. Only he can save the Charing's from disgrace as a blackmailer seeks to ruin his late brother's reputation. But just as Ranulf dares to open his heart to Celeste, the fury of his nemesis is unleashed… facing him with the stark choice between true love and family duty. However when Celeste guesses the truth behind his rejection, Ranulf underestimates her resolve to clear his name and in so doing places the woman he loves in mortal danger….
Excerpt from 'A Dead Man's Debt'.
[Lord Ranulf Charing receives an urgent summons.]
…an Arab stallion danced in circles round the stable lad. Granite clouds towered in a brooding sky. A yard door slammed and the wild eyed stallion reared, dragging the lad off his feet. Then a down draught tugged the horse's flowing silver-white mane and tail, as with flared nostrils he backed across the yard, hooves like flints, striking sparks from the cobbles. The boy clung to the reins, more fearful of letting such a valuable horse bolt than of being trampled. The grey plunged heaven wards, a silvery ghost against a charcoal sky, then struck the ground, the massive muscles of his rump bunching to rear again just as a dark figure rounded the corner and entered the yard.
"Sir have a care, your horse…." The shouted warning was stolen by the wind.
Lord Ranulf Charing grunted, reaching out a hand to gentle the plunging beast. As if he'd cast a spell, the horse calmed and with a snicker rubbed his velveteen nose against his master's coat to exhibit an understanding between man and horse that eluded Ranulf amongst his own kind.
At the age of thirty, tall and of muscular build; Lord Ranulf Charing was a man not given to suffering fools; his expression a habitual frown, with wide unreadable lips and brown eyes so dark as to be almost black. The impression of the young Lord being part devil and part shadow was heightened by his dress which was entirely black; from neckcloth and lawn shirt, to riding breeches and kerysmere outer coat. In short, Lord Ranulf Charing was in mourning and it suited him.
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Monday, 16 May 2011
Celia Hayes: Western historical - 'Daughter of Texas'
From Chapter 15: A Muddy field near Harrisburg.
"Ma! Miz Vining!" Davy called. "It's the Army! They're coming, just along the road there. General Sam and all! The Army is coming!"
"Oh, my God – a prayer answered," Margaret breathed, but Maggie's expression remained bleak. Others of the families encamped in that muddy meadow began to gather as they heard the sounds of marching feet and men's voices raised in the notes of a ribald song, borne on the morning air.
There was a party of mounted men, first – with General Houston among them, on a brave white horse. His face was set with determination, and he looked neither right nor left. The men following were at first hidden by trees around the turn in the road, but the sound of their voices and brisk but uneven marching filled the morning. The song – which truly was rather rude – died abruptly away as the first marchers saw the women and children watching by the roadside. A slight rustle of consternation rippled through the ranks. Margaret searched for her husband among the horsemen, looked for the elegant black shape of Bucephalus, but did not see either of them.
"There are so many more!" Maggie exclaimed, standing beside her. Roused by the noise of the marching men, and by Davy's calls, other refugees were joining them at the side of the road, women looking frantically at each face among the marching ranks, searching for a dear face, familiar garments among the motley throng, or holding up their smaller children. There wasn't a uniform among them that Margaret could see, other than a small cluster of men in grey and others in blue coats – coats with darker patches upon them where shapes picked out in gold braid had been torn off. Most wore plain coats, or round jackets; the men whom she recognized mostly had fringed hunting coats. Every man bore a rifle or a musket, on a sling over their shoulders, though – and all at very nearly the same angle. The general's drillmasters must have been at it night and day, for weeks.
"Dragon's teeth," Margaret said, teased by a faint memory of a tale that Opa Heinrich had told her once, long ago. Maggie looked at her in surprise. "Dragon's teeth. When the dragon's teeth were sown, as we sow corn – the teeth become fully armed fighters, springing up from the furrows. Such were sown, all across our lands, and now here they are!"
The children were cheering, crying excitedly when they saw a familiar face, the face of brothers, uncles and fathers; Mrs. Burnett, with her gray hair straggling down her shoulders, came running from her wagon, hastily rolling it into a bun as she ran.
"William!" she called, "William Burnett – where are you!"
"I'm here, Liddy!" an older man called to her from middle of the ranks of marching men, men who were so much younger it wrung Margaret's heart. "Stay with the girls, Liddy!" Mrs. Barnett darted into the crush and threw her arms around him, snatching a kiss and a brief embrace, before his company marched on. Many faces were familiar to Margaret – neighbors and friends of her husbands', faces which she recognized from last fall when the militia volunteers had come to Gonzales in defense of their little cannon – men from Mina, from Bexar, from Beeson's Crossing, the two soldier-volunteers who had brought them meat and firewood on that first day of this long march east, the flaming red hair and pale freckled face of Harry Karnes, but they were a mere scattering among the larger number of strangers. One by one, with their limbers following, came the two cannon that Margaret had seen in the camp at Groce's Crossing, drawn each by several teams of horses straining at their harnesses to draw the heavy gun-carriages through the mud and ruts of the
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"Where have they all come from?" Pru marveled, holding up Sarah's baby, "Darlin' little girl, now you can say you saw the Army of Texas on the march!"
"Where are you going?" Margaret called to them, hardly expecting an answer, but several passing close by answered in chorus, amid jovial laughter.
"To fight Santy-Anna, ma-am! Word is that he has gone up the river looking for us!" "We ain't but a days march away from him, ma'am!" "Oh, but we aim to surprise him, for sure!" "Aim is right, ma'am, aim is right!"
Out of the corner of her eye she saw Davy Darst shrugging into his jacket, running at a purposeful jog, his musket and haversack and a rolled blanket slung over his shoulders.
Maggie saw him too, and cried, "David Darst – where do you think you're going?"
"With the Army, Ma!" he answered, hastily embracing her. "'Bye, Ma!"
"You come right back here, David Darst!" Maggie shouted after him, but he had already run into the mass of men and boys, falling into a place in the march. He waved at them once, cheerfully. Then he was gone, lost in the ranks and leaving Maggie distraught and furious, and Margaret feeling as if she had seen this many times and would see it again. "Come with me," Maggie commanded. "We must fetch him back, at once!"
"I think not," Margaret answered slowly. "I believe he will be in a better and safer place with his fellows than he will be with us. If the Mexican Army comes upon us, with our tents and wagons, and Mama and Sarah's babe – then all they will find will be women and little children. He is a boy of near to fighting age. With that musket – they will assuredly execute him as a rebel."
"But you heard what they said – they are going to turn and fight now!" Maggie was still distraught. Margaret looked after the last of the Army, a handful of horsemen ranging this way and that. None of them were Race, and she sighed a little in disappointment.
"So they are," she answered, with an assurance that she did not in truth feel. "But I have a better feeling in trusting General Houston with the lives of our own. He will not fail us, Maggie – or our men. I am confident of it."
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Monday, 9 May 2011
Amy Corwin: 'The Vital Principle' a Historical Mystery
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In 1815, Knighton Gaunt, an inquiry agent, is asked by Lord Crowley to attend a séance with the express purpose of revealing the spiritualist as a fraud. When the séance ends abruptly and Lord Crowley is found dead, Gaunt is left to investigate not only fraud, but murder. Suspicion turns first to the spiritualist, Miss Prudence Barnard, an outsider in the tightly-knit group of friends. As Gaunt digs deeper into the twisted history of the guests, he discovers layers of deadly secrets. Inevitably, long-time friends turn against one another as the tension mounts, and Gaunt is challenged to separate fact from fiction.
In this scene, inquiry agent Knight Gaunt is questioning Miss Prudence Barnard, a spiritualist he was hired to expose as a fraud. While he doesn't quite believe she murdered their host, he's not entirely sure she didn't, either, and she's not making it easy for him.
"May came from the right, however. Past the dowager and Lord Crowley."
"Question her, then."
"Rest assured, I will. And the others came around the table from that direction, as well." He glanced at her again, remembering the details. "You assisted the dowager, didn't you?"
"I don't remember precisely, but I supposed I might have."
"She was standing a yard or so away from the table. And you stood in front of her with your back to the table?"
Her expression tightened. "Then you do remember. Although I'm sure you believe I was close enough to Lord Crowley to pour a few drops of Prussic acid into his brandy. That is what you're insinuating, isn't it?"
While her accusation was true, he couldn't actually picture her doing that. He had closely observed her the previous evening, waiting for her to try some trick. If she had approached Crowley's snifter that closely, he ought to remember it.
"If you wish to admit—"
"I do not."
He nodded. It would have been extremely difficult for her to carry around a bottle of Prussic acid without either pockets or a reticule.
Of course, he intended to verify the lack of pockets or reticule with Miss Barnard's maid and the other lady guests. One of them may have noticed.
"If you'd just ask the dowager—" She stopped and then added hastily, "But don't bother her now. She's not well. It's been very difficult with first her husband dying and now her son…." She ended awkwardly and glanced away, turning to focus on the sewing basket and magazine. Then her gaze flashed to his. He could see a sudden memory leap into her mind as her expression changed.
"What is it?" he asked.
"I was wrong." Her dark brows scrunched briefly. "I—"
She shook her head.
"What did you remember? There's no point in holding back. Ultimately, I'll discover the truth."
This earned a small, tight smile. "You're frightfully conceited."
"Yes." A smile twisted his mouth. "Now what did you remember?"
"I—it's probably nothing."
"Will you stop equivocating? If it's something odd, I can assure you there were enough people in the room to help confirm it. There's no point in being coy."
"Is that what I'm being? Coy? How unusual." She certainly had a talent for sweetly stated sarcasm.
"I'll hold whatever you tell me in confidence. I'm reputed to be a reasonably fair man."
"As long as women aren't involved. And it conforms to your idea of the truth."
"Undoubtedly." He held her gaze.
She flushed and pushed at the magazine on the table with her fingertips. "I'm sorry. That was rude of me. You do rather have a reputation, however, for distrusting women. Although I'm sure you must have an excellent reason."
"I assure you, I don't dislike women."
"As long as they stay comfortably in their place? And aren't charlatans? We mustn't forget how important absolute honesty is."
"As long as you answer my questions truthfully, I'm completely impartial."
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Peter Alan Orchard: Historical mystery - 'A Pig in the Roses'
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Sosigenes' dead face stared up at them, its lines fixed in a grimace of pain and bewilderment. A fly landed unhindered on the old man's open left eye. Disconcerted, Diokles nudged the body with his foot and it rolled over.
'Oh!' Helike covered her mouth with her hand and backed away. Out of the farmer's neck, close to the base of the skull, a short length of metal stuck out. Diokles knelt, reached out his hand and drew the metal out slowly, a fine punch used by a sculptor or mason for delicate work. Its thin iron blade had been driven violently upwards, deep into Sosigenes' brain.
Diokles wiped the punch distractedly on a tuft of grass and weeds, but could think of nothing to do with it afterwards and Hipponikos took it gently from his fingers. The potter stuck it in his belt, shook his head and breathed deeply. 'May the Furies hunt the man who did this to the end of his days.'
'They will,' Helike said, grim-faced. 'Oh, they will!' Pulling distractedly at her copper hair, she turned away from the scene and strode for home.
They were alone now in the alley. Hipponikos bent his knees and peered down. On the old man's tongue lay an obol, the small coin traditionally placed there as payment for the spirit's boat journey over the River Styx.
'That,' said Diokles, 'was put there by whoever killed him, who certainly kept a cool head. If it had been Sosigenes' small change, it would have been safely under his tongue, not on top. You know how these country people are.' He looked up at Hipponikos. 'Whoever killed Sosigenes must have been cold to do such a thing and then wait afterwards to pay the ferryman.'
Hipponikos ran a massive hand across his forehead, then wiped the sweat from it onto a tunic red with clay-dust. 'Helike, where was Sosigenes staying?'
'With his wife's daughter, Myrrhine. Married to Simon the baker.' Helike suddenly clapped a hand over her mouth, her eyes wide. 'His wife - what am I thinking of? Someone must tell Themisto!'
Hipponikos started back to the shop. 'You guard the body, Diokles. I'll send Skylax. Taking a message is one of the things he's good at.'
Diokles picked Sosigenes' cap out of a corner and laid it over the old man's empty, staring eyes.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 14 - How big is the World Wide Web? Many Internet engineers consider that query one of those imponderable philosophical questions, like how many angels can dance on the head of a pin.
But the question about the size of the Web came under intense debate last week after Yahoo announced at an Internet search engine conference in Santa Clara, Calif., that its search engine index -- an accounting of the number of documents that can be located from its databases -- had reached 19.2 billion.
Because the number was more than twice as large as the number of documents (8.1 billion) currently reported by Google, Yahoo's fierce competitor and Silicon Valley neighbor, the announcement -- actually a brief mention in a Yahoo company Web log -- set off a spat. Google questioned the way its rival was counting its numbers.
Sergey Brin, Google's co-founder, suggested that the Yahoo index was inflated with duplicate entries in such a way as to cut its effectiveness despite its large size.
"The comprehensiveness of any search engine should be measured by real Web pages that can be returned in response to real search queries and verified to be unique," he said on Friday. "We report the total index size of Google based on this approach."Continue reading the main story
But Yahoo executives stood by their earlier statement. "The number of documents in our index is accurate," Jeff Weiner, senior vice president of Yahoo's search and marketplace group, said on Saturday. "We're proud of the accomplishments of our search engineers and scientists and look forward to continuing to satisfy our users by delivering the world's highest-quality search experience."
The scope of Internet search engines, and thus indirectly the size of the Internet, has long been a lively area of computer science research and debate.
Moreover, all camps in the discussion are quick to note that index size is only loosely -- and possibly even somewhat inversely -- related to the quality of results returned.
The major commercial search engines use software programs known as Web crawlers to scour the Internet systematically for documents and index them.
The indexes themselves are maintained as arcane structures of computer data that permit the search engines to return lists of hundreds of answers in fractions of a second when Web users enter terms like "Britney Spears" or "Iraq and weapons of mass destruction."
On Sunday, researchers at the National Center for Supercomputer Applications attempted to shed light on the debate by performing a large number of random searches on both indices. They ran a random sample of 10,012 queries and concluded that Google, on average, returned 166.9 percent more results than Yahoo. In only three percent of the cases did the Yahoo searches return more queries than Google. The group said the Yahoo index claim was suspicious.
Neither Yahoo nor Google makes public the software algorithms that underlie their collection methods. In fact, those details are closely guarded secrets, which lie near the heart of heated competition now going on between Google, Yahoo and Microsoft over who can provide the most relevant answers to a user's query.
"It's a little bit silly," said Christopher Manning, a Stanford University professor who teaches a course on information retrieval. "It's difficult, and the whole question of how big indexes are has clearly become extremely political and commercial."
Even if the methodology is unclear, there is no shortage of outside speculation about what the different numbers mean, if anything.
Jean Veronis, a linguist in France and director of the Centre Informatique pour les Lettres et Sciences Humaines, posted a discussion on a blog noting that the increase in Yahoo references in French appeared consistent with the larger overall number that Yahoo was now reporting.
He added a caveat, however. "All of this should of course be taken with a large pinch of salt," he wrote. "So far, I haven't quite caught Yahoo red-handed when it comes to fiddling the books, but this could simply be because they are smarter with their figures than their competitors ;-)"
In contrast, a fellow blogger, Akash Jain, did his own random query test and wrote that it appeared that Google's index remained about 50 percent larger.
Other search engine specialists remained skeptical about the ability to estimate Web or index size as long as the search engines were being secretive about their methods. "I don't have any good way of checking," said Raul Valdes-Perez, a computer scientist who is chief executive of Vivisimo, which operates the Clusty search engine. "It feels a little like Harvard and Yale decided to argue over who has the most books in their respective libraries."Continue reading the main story


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Brussels, 18 April 2008
Amendment of the Framework Decision on combating terrorism
Today the Council reached a common approach on the amendment of the Framework Decision on combating terrorism proposed by the Commission on 6 November 2008. The amendment up-dates the Framework Decision making public provocation to commit a terrorist offence, recruitment and training for terrorism punishable behaviour, also when committed through the Internet. The amendment is well-balanced in terms of its effects on freedom of speech and general respect for human rights.
The Council Framework Decision of 13 June 2002 on combating terrorism constitutes a key tool in the fight against terrorism. It harmonises the definition of terrorist offences in all Member States and ensures that they establish for natural and legal persons having committed or being liable for such offences penalties and sanctions, which reflect the seriousness of such offences. It sets out jurisdictional rules to guarantee that terrorist offences may be effectively prosecuted and adopts specific measures with regard to victims of terrorist offences because of their vulnerability.
The proposal intends to up-date the Framework Decision by introducing three new offences: public provocation to commit a terrorist offence, recruitment and training for terrorism. It aims to equip our legal systems across the EU with the adequate tools to bring to justice the criminals who spread violent propaganda providing terrorism tactics and instructions on how to manufacture and use bombs or explosives to provoke others to commit terrorist acts. The new legislation will make it easier for law enforcement authorities to get cooperation from internet service providers, to prevent crimes and identify criminals while, at the same time, ensuring that fundamental rights remain well protected.
The amendment of the Council Framework Decision of 13 June 2002 on combating terrorism is intended to harmonise national provisions on public provocation to commit a terrorist offence, recruitment for terrorism and training for terrorism, so that these forms of behaviour are punishable, also when committed through the Internet, throughout the EU, and ensure that existing provisions on penalties, liability of legal persons, jurisdiction and prosecution applicable to terrorist offences, apply also to such forms of behaviour.
Individuals disseminating terrorist propaganda and bomb-making expertise through the Internet- can therefore be prosecuted and sentenced to prison insofar as such dissemination amounts to public provocation to commit terrorist offences, recruiting for terrorism or training for terrorism and is committed intentionally.
In these cases, courts or administrative authorities will be able to request internet service providers to remove this information according to national rules implementing the Directive on electronic commerce.
The wording which is proposed is as close as possible to the wording of the Council of Europe Convention on the Prevention of terrorism which provides for an excellent example of how the use of the Internet for terrorist purposes can be dealt with in a way which respects the freedom of speech.
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House ethics panel in turmoil as top lawyer resigns
Thursday, December 16, 2010
The top lawyer on the House ethics committee has resigned, deepening the turmoil surrounding the panel and creating new uncertainty about its pending case against Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.).
The Waters case - she is accused of inappropriately helping a financially troubled bank in which her husband was an investor - was delayed last month as two other committee attorneys assigned to the matter were suspended.
The resignation this week of the panel's top attorney, R. Blake Chisam, could further limit its ability to move the case forward, as Waters has demanded.
Chisam's resignation comes amid revelations that Rep. Jo Bonner (Ala.), the panel's top Republican member, last month ordered Capitol Police to block the doors of the committee offices for a week. Bonner instructed that staff members be barred from entering the office during a partisan dispute involving the Waters case, according to sources familiar with the incident.
The tumult also appears to have added to the uncertainty about the future composition of the panel, formally known as the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct.
Rep. G.K. Butterfield (D-N.C.), a member of the committee, said the Waters case should not be considered by the current committee. "It would be healthy to have a panel that could take a fresh look at the case," he said Wednesday.
"It may be desirable for leadership to consider appointing all new members to the committee," he said.
House Minority Leader John A. Boehner (R-Ohio), who as incoming speaker will select all Republicans on the committee when the GOP takes the majority in January, has not told Bonner whether he will be chairman.
"I haven't talked to the leader in several days. I will support whatever he decides," Bonner said in an interview Wednesday.
From conversations with leadership aides, some ethics committee staff members were left with the impression that Bonner will be replaced, according to sources who requested anonymity to discuss internal deliberations of a committee that operates under strict secrecy rules.
Other sources indicated that no final decision has been made.
Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), the current chairman, has declined to address questions from reporters on whether she would return to the panel as the ranking Democrat next year. Chisam has been a top Lofgren staffer for several years.


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The end-user segments of the dairy herd management market included in this report are dairy farms and other end users. The dairy farms segment is further sub-segmented into small-scale, large-scale, and cooperative dairy farms. The dairy farms end-user segment commanded the largest share of the global dairy herd management market in 2013. This end-user segment is poised to grow at the highest CAGR between 2013 and 2018. Increasing adoption of dairy herd management products by dairy farms will drive the growth of this market.
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The product segments of the dairy herd management market included in this report are hardware and systems and standalone software. The hardware and systems segment is further sub-segmented into accessories, cattle management systems, feeding management systems, and milk management systems. The standalone software segment is further sub-segmented into on-premise software and web-based/cloud-based software. The hardware and systems product segment commanded the largest share of the global dairy herd management market in 2013. On the other hand, the standalone software product segment is poised to grow at the healthy CAGR between 2013 and 2018. Technological advancements like automated milking and feeding machines associated with milking software accounted for the high growth rate of the standalone software product segment in the global dairy herd management market. The increasing demand for milk management systems will drive the growth of the hardware and systems product segment, while the increasing demand for on-premise software products will drive the growth of the standalone software product segment.
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For Rabbi Moshe Meiselman, rosh yeshivah of Yeshivas Toras Moshe, it's nothing but emes. He introduces himself as "an American boy who grew up in Europe," a man who understands the American mind even as the spirit of Brisk hovers in his yeshivah. Now he's spreading the message of unadorned truth that has become his imprint, and implanting a new generation of students with the sense that Torah learning must play a constant role in their lives.
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This week marks three years since Rabbi Gavriel and Rivka Holtzberg Hy"d were brutally murdered by Pakistani terrorists in their Chabad House in Mumbai, and while the entire world was horrified by the loss, Yair Daniel Lavon's very future seemed dependent on Gavriel Holtzberg's kindness. Dani, serving a ten-year sentence in a Goa prison for what he says is a framed drug rap, saw his life crumble with the Holtzbergs' murder — until Rabbi Nachman Holtzberg stepped in to continue his son's mission.
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Mon May 14 01:46:46 2012, in response to Re: A Historical Hudson Line Question, posted by Jackson Park B Train on Mon May 14 01:32:17 2012.Ah yes! Let's add stray voltage. And trolley poles (back on topic!) to the mix. Now we have electrolysis turning various metals into diodes in the path. Huzzah! :)
A couple of years after I gave up on the idiots I had to serve in Gubbamint (Paturkey, D'Amato) and decided to start a software company where I actually had RESULTS at the end of the day instead of smelling like sausage, I was down in White Plains visiting in-laws during a lightning storm down there. We were well lubricated when the storm hit the neighborhood.
Living upstate, close by lightning sounds JUST like a gun shot. Heard same, went "whew! That was close." About 30 seconds later, smelled *SMOKE* ... *SAW* smoke coming up from the basement. Oh shit! :(
Called the fire department and got everybody out. No flames. Whew!
FD arrived, heavy smoke in the basement. No flames. Turns out that lightning hit the weatherhead. Power was out of course, cabinet was OK. Turns out that the water meter ate it along with what looked like some melted TV antenna twinlead that was wrapped around the water meter.
I went APESHIT and bitched out the cable company to the PSC over it.
They still didn't amend the rules until a year or three later when all over downstate, Verizon was hooking up FiOS ... a *LOT* of buildings burned when FiOS went in and PSC finally fined them over it. They chose the GAS meter to wrap their wire around, not even BOTHERING to ground their boxes.
Yep ... ordinary 28 gauge twisted pair D station wire to the freaking PLASTIC GAS meter. That's what burned down all those houses. :(


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Exciting new research at Moorfields Eye Hospital
Professor Robin Ali is leading a research group including Professor James Bainbridge, Professor Michel Michaelides and Dr Rachael Pearson to develop strategies to improve the function of the light-sensitive cells and prevent their death using gene therapy – the introduction of a normal copy of the gene into the retina to replace the faulty gene. This new human gene is inserted into a harmless virus, which then transports the gene into the retinal cells, where the gene is able to function normally.
For more details about this research are available here. [https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioo/genetics/gene-and-cell-therapy]
Another fundamental aspect of research led by the combined expertise of Professors Alison Hardcastle, Michel Michaelides, and Andrew Webster at Moorfields Eye Hospital and UCL Institute of Ophthalmology is to identify the specific genetic changes causing retinal disease within families. Then to carry out a detailed investigation of the retinal function using electrophysiology and psychophysics and to correlate this with the structure of the retina.
Professor Michel Michaelides from the research team said:
"We have access to state-of-the-art imaging including adaptive optics imaging which allows unrivalled visualisation of retinal cells in the living eye - so it is now possible to image the different layers of the retina and even the light-sensitive cells themselves.
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Our mission at Lahey Hospital & Medical Center, a teaching hospital of Tufts University, is to provide superior health care leading to the best possible outcome for every patient. We also reach beyond our own doors through our Community Benefits Initiative, which is committed to improving the health and quality of life of community residents by supporting local organizations aligned with this mission. Through this initiative, we are able to provide funding and support to community-based programs that better the lives of our neighbors. In recent years, we have focused on the needs of senior citizens, children and victims of domestic violence.
Lahey Hospital & Medical Center affirms its commitment to identifying and serving the health and wellness needs of its community through our Community Benefits Program.
The foundation of this program is based upon a collaborative initiative between Lahey Hospital & Medical Center employees, community leaders, representatives of community agencies, and community residents. Through collaborative planning, coalition building and financial support, Lahey's Community Benefits Initiative strives to serve as a leader and a catalyst for positive change within the community. Services to improve the health status of community members will be implemented in conjunction with community providers.
Through its ongoing Community Benefits Initiative, Lahey Hospital & Medical Center will maintain strong community ties by working toward promoting the health and wellness of the community members we serve. This commitment of offering community benefits services will be in alignment with Lahey Hospital & Medical Center's mission of providing care of the highest quality.
Based on Lahey's community needs assessment completed in 2010, Lahey Hospital & Medical Center's 2010 community benefits plan focuses on the following areas:
- Elder health issues
- Chronic disease management
- Community health improvement and education programs directed toward adult, elder and under-served populations at risk
Lahey Hospital & Medical Center is a member of Community Health Area Network 15 (CHNA 15), which offers grants to communities in support of health initiatives. CHNA 15 follows a healthy communities approach, wherein "health is not merely access to health care and the absence of disease, but strengthening positive social, mental, physical, economic and environmental conditions conducive to health and well-being."
In 2010, Lahey contributed more than $400,000 to support a wide variety of efforts by CHNA 15 members, as well as other Massachusetts agencies as a result of our Determination of Needs commitments. In addition, Lahey funded another $144,000 through our own programs and the mini-grants that we funded separately from CHNA.
The following are just a few examples of other programs benefiting the community that Lahey Hospital & Medical Center has sponsored or supported.
To learn more about how Lahey is serving the community, contact Michelle Snyder, Community Relations Regional Manager at [email protected] or 781-744-7907.
You probably wouldn't believe that a little dancing could change someone's life—unless you met Marie, Joanne, Pat and some of the other people who attend weekly line dancing sessions at the Wilmington, Mass., Senior Center.
Terri Marciello, Wilmington's director of elder services, used funds donated by Lahey Hospital & Medical Center's Community Benefit Program to bring yoga, athletic training and line dancing to the seniors in her town. The seniors love it for the socializing and friendships they have formed. Marciello values it for the health benefits that go along with exercise.
"The country line dancing is good because it gets them breathing," says Marciello. "There is so much movement, they don't realize they are doing exercise. They are not only moving their legs and arms, they are working their lungs."
That's important help to seniors who may be dealing with a chronic condition, such as congestive heart failure or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. For healthy seniors, like Pat Cagnina, the camaraderie itself is a tonic.
"I'm a widow," she says. "My husband and I danced all of our lives. We did ballroom dancing, so this is different. I never dreamed I'd like it as well as I have. I love it."
Cagnina credits the instructor, Sam O'Claire, with taking the time to coach newcomers, ensuring they come back for more. Wednesday is now her favorite day of the week.
"It's therapeutic. Coming here makes you forget the troubles you have. I've met so many friends. I hope to do this as long as my legs can move."
Marciello points out that, with cities and towns struggling financially, supporting a program like hers would be difficult without Lahey's Community Benefit Program.
"It's because of Lahey Hospital & Medical Center that we're able to offer this complete wellness program," she says.
The health needs of area youth have been a focus of Lahey Hospital & Medical Center's Community Benefits program since its inception in 1995. As programs addressing the needs of children evolved over the years, Lahey Hospital & Medical Center recognized the unique role school nurses play. While often focusing on preventive medicine, school nurses also spend time educating parents and children about illness and helping families cope with health related problems. This could mean anything from assessing the common cold to finding resources for students dealing with allergies or autism, and helping manage those conditions in the school setting.
Lahey contributed $60,979 over the past few years for the planning, development and presentation of continuing education programs and other resources for school nurses. The twice-yearly sessions are designed to help school nurses tackle some of their most challenging situations, with topics chosen from recommendations made by the nurses themselves. In fiscal year 2008, the topic was diabetes.
Type 1 diabetes is most commonly diagnosed in childhood. Recently, Type 2 diabetes is also increasing among children. According the Kathy Hassey, BA, RN, MSN, MEd, president of MSNO, children newly diagnosed with diabetes used to spend up to two weeks in the hospital. Today, they are back in school within 48 to 72 hours of diagnosis. A lot of diabetes education they and their families require happens in the schools.
At the Mary Rowlandson Elementary School in Lancaster, Mass., Rita Ingrisano, RN, oversees the health program for 500 students. Soon after attending the diabetes program, she was called upon to use the knowledge she had acquired.
"I was able to share the information with the family of a newly diagnosed student and help devise a care plan for the teacher," she said. "It was a wealth of knowledge and good resources."
According to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, the number of deaths attributed to domestic violence increased threefold between 2005 and 2007. Statistics like these underline the importance of a health care facility's responsibility to its community in working to prevent, screen for and address violence.
Lahey Hospital & Medical Center has a long history of working in partnership with local police and community organizations to provide crisis intervention and links to services for victims of domestic violence. Lahey and these partners are committed to alleviating the public health and social problems associated with relationship violence in all forms, including spousal violence and elder abuse.
Lahey's Domestic Violence Initiative (DVI) includes physician and nonclinical staff from departments such as Gynecology, General Internal Medicine, Social Work and the Emergency Room. Community members include law enforcement representatives and local emergency resource groups.
Lahey contributed more than $35,000 to our partners in the Domestic Violence Initiative in 2009.These funds supported emergency shelter provided by REACH, educational programs for youth, and the Domestic ViolenceServices of Middlesex County.
Lahey Hospital & Medical Center's Community Benefits program determined early on that our area's geriatric population had a need for community-based services. For years, Lahey has offered or supported a variety of programs for neighborhood senior citizens, from weekly discounted meals to free insurance counseling.
In fiscal year 2009, Lahey committed $70,000 to bring health related educational programs to senior citizens in Burlington, Woburn, Billerica, Lexington and Wilmington, Mass. The programs address nutrition, chronic disease self-management and exercise. Data collected at these workshops show self-reported lifestyle improvements and many participants attend sessions multiple times.


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"The greatest shortcoming of our human race is our inability to understand the exponential function"
It can be applied to economic growth, population, profits and whatever you like.
The professor has also said :
"'Smart growth' destroys the environment. 'Dumb growth' destroys the environment. The only difference is that 'smart growth' does it with good taste. It's like booking passage on the Titanic. Whether you go first-class or steerage, the result is the same."


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"When we launched 'Always Being Made New,' the campaign for the ELCA, we envisioned all of us, every synod, congregation and member coming together to achieve things we never thought possible."
The ELCA's Oregon Synod promotes the People's Climate March in Portland. (read here)
Guess what Lutheran Denomination is NOT served by Lutherans For Life? (find out here)
Showing their satanic inspired stupidity the World Council of Churches, of which the ELCA is a member, Demands Israel Release Terrorists. The article states "The World Council of Churches (WCC) is holding its annual 'World Week for Peace in Palestine Israel' (WWPPI) this week, calling on Israel to release jailed terrorists - despite the severity of their crimes and the abundance of terrorists immediately returning to terror." (read here)


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text: Cameron, C.E. 2005 Latitudes and longitudes of volcanoes in Alaska vector digital data Raw Data File RDF 2005-3 Fairbanks, AK State of Alaska, Department of Natural Resources, Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys http://dx.doi.org/10.14509/7103 This publication provides digital point data for the locations of 127 volcanic centers in Alaska younger than 2 million years. Information about whether a volcano has been historically active is also provided. Detailed information about each center can be found on the Alaska Volcano Observatory website at http://www.avo.alaska.edu To provide an authoritative file of volcano locations The volcano locations in this file were compiled from existing publications whenever possible, and from USGS topographic maps when published locations could not be found. In the case of more than one published location for a volcano, additional maps of the volcano, as well as people who have expert knowledge of the volcano, were consulted. The layers listed below are present as ArcGIS shape files. Attribute information for the following layers (entities) is included in this metadata file under the "Entity_and_Attribute_Information" section. Each layer is listed and described in detail under its own heading starting "Entity_Type_Label." Layers include: >AKvolclatlong latitudes and longitudes of volcanoes 200502 publication date Complete Irregular -178.793900 179.831680 67.300000 51.790300 ISO 19115 Topic Category geoscientificInformation none Active Volcanoes Volcanoes none Akutan Amchixtam Chaxsxii Atka Basalt of Gertrude Creek Black Peak Buzzard Creek Cone 3110 Cone 3601 Devils Desk Double Glacier Douglas Duncan Canal Dutton Emmons Lake Espenberg Folsoms Bluff Gordon Iliamna Imuruk Lake Ingakslugwat Hills Iron Trig Cone Kaguyak Knob 1000 Kochilagok Hill Kookooligit Mountains Kukak Kupreanof Makushin Martin Nelson Island Novarupta Nunivak Island Pavlof Pavlof Sister Porcupine Prindle Volcano Rainbow River Cone Skookum Creek Tanada Peak Teller Basalt Field Togiak Volcanics Unnamed 1 (near Kupreanof) Unnamed 2 (near Ukinrek Maars) Volcano 1 near Kupreanof Volcano 2 near Kupreanof Volcano 4 near Kupreanof Wrangell none Quaternary This data set is available directly from the State of Alaska, Department of Natural Resources, Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys (see contact information below). Any hardcopies or published datasets utilizing these datasets must clearly indicate their source. If the user has modified the data in any way, the user is obligated to describe the types of modifications the user has made. User specifically agrees not to misrepresent these datasets, nor to imply that changes made by the user were approved by the State of Alaska, Department of Natural Resources, Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys. State of Alaska, Department of Natural Resources, Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys Engineering Geologist III mailing and physical address 3354 College Road Fairbanks AK 99709-3707 USA (907) 451-5010 Not Available (907) 451-5050 firstname.lastname@example.com 8 am to 4:30 pm Monday through Friday, except State holidays Please address all comments or questions to the e-mail address above whenever possible. This dataset was created as part of the Alaska Volcano Observatory's Geological Database of Information on Volcanoes in Alaska (GeoDIVA) project. Microsoft Windows XP SP2, ArcGIS 9.+, and any text editor. The attributes of this geospatial dataset consist of text identifiers and numeric codes that indicate the name, latitude, and longitude of Alaska volcanoes younger than 2 million years. Volcanoes that have been active during historic time (as described in Miller and others, 1998, Catalog of Historically Active Volcanoes) are attributed with a "1" in the "Historical" column. To check attribute accuracy, plots of volcano names and locations were visually compared with other Alaska maps and volcano listings. This dataset consists only point data and does not require topology. This dataset includes volcano names of volcanoes in Alaska younger than 2 million years, as compiled in Miller and others (1998), Simkin and Siebert (1994), and Wood and Kienle (1990), as well as additional features located by Alaska Volcano Observatory geologists. In instances where the same feature is known by different names, this dataset attempts to use the most common name. In instances where a volcanic feature contains many smaller volcanic vents (for instance, Pyre Peak is a smaller vent at Seguam volcano), this dataset names only the larger feature. Points were located by compiling previously published data, or in the case of no previously published location, heads-up screen digitization of mapped data using raster images of topographic base maps to an estimated horizontal accuracy of about 1,000 m. Miller, T.P. McGimsey, R.G. Richter, D.H. Riehle, J.R. Nye, C.J. Yount, M.E. Dumoulin, J.A. 1998 Catalog of the historically active volcanoes of Alaska atlas, document Open-File Report OF 98-582 Anchorage, AK U.S. Geological Survey 104 p. http://www.dggs.alaska.gov/pubs/id/11984 paper, online 1998 publication date Miller and others (1998) Names and locations of historically active volcanoes in Alaska Schaefer, Janet Nye, C.J. 2002 Historically active volcanoes of the Aleutian Arc atlas, document, map Miscellaneous Publication MP 123 Fairbanks, AK Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys 1 sheet, scale 1:3,000,000 http://dx.doi.org/10.14509/2773 3000000 paper 2002 publication date Schaefer and Nye (2002) Names and locations of historically active volcanoes in the Aleutians Wood, C.A. (ed.) Kienle, Juergen (ed.) 1990 Volcanoes of North America: United States and Canada document New York, NY Cambridge University Press 345 p. NONE paper 1990 publication date Wood and Kienle (1990) Names and locations of volcanoes younger than 5 million years Simkin, Tom Siebert, Lee 1994 Volcanoes of the world 2 atlas, document Tuscon, AZ Geoscience Press 349 p. NONE paper 1994 publication date Simkin and Siebert (1994) Names and locations of Holocene volcanoes in Alaska Motyka, R.J. Liss, S.A. Nye, C.J. Moorman, M.A. 1993 Geothermal resources of the Aleutian Arc atlas, document, map Professional Report PR 114 Fairbanks, AK Alaska Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys 17 p., 4 sheets, scale 1:1,000,000 http://www.dggs.alaska.gov./pubs/id/2314 1000000 paper, online 1993 publication date Motyka and others (1993) Names and locations of active volcanoes in Alaska Reed, B.L. Lanphere, M.A. Miller, T.P. 1992 Double Glacier Volcano, a "new" Quaternary volcano in the eastern Aleutian volcanic arc document Bulletin of Volcanology v. 54, n. 8 p. 631-637 NONE paper 1992 publication date Reed and others (1992) Name and location of Double Glacier volcano Hildreth, W. Fierstein, J. Lanphere, M.A. Siems, D.F. 1999 Alagogshak volcano: a Pleistocene adesite-dacite stratovolcano in Katmai National Park document Professional Paper PP 1614 Reston, VA U.S. Geological Survey p. 105-113 NONE paper 1999 publication date Hildreth and others (1999) Name and location of Alagogshak volcano Hildreth, Wes Fierstein, Judy Siems, D.F. Budahn, J.R. Ruiz, Joaquin 2004 Rear-arc vs. arc-front volcanoes in the Katmai reach of the Alaska Peninsula: a critical appraisial of across-arc compositional variation document Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology v. 147, n. 3 p. 243-275 NONE paper 2004 publication date Hildreth and others (2004) Names and locations of recently located volcanoes on the Alaska Peninsula Latitudes and longitudes of Alaskan volcanoes younger than 2 million years were compiled from existing published and unpublished datasets. In instances where no data was available for a volcano location, the latitude and longitude of a volcanic vent was derived using heads-up digitizing from on-screen topographic maps. This dataset represents the "best" locations for each volcano. Published sources were: Hildreth and others (2004); Hildreth and others (1999); Reed and others (1992); Moytka and others (1993); Simkin and Siebert (1994); Wood and Kienle (1990); Schaefer and Nye (2002); and Miller and others (1998). 2005 0.000001 degree 0.000001 degree Decimal degrees North American Datum of 1927 Clarke 1866 6378206.400000 294.978698 AKvolclatlong.shp Point shapefile containing latitudes and longitudes of volcanoes younger than 2 million years in Alaska See sources listed in Process_Step AKvolclatlong VolcNameID Unique ID of a volcano, assigned by GeoDIVA Geologic Database of Information on Volcanoes in Alaska (GeoDIVA) Any integer, assigned randomly by database Volcano Name of a volcano Geologic Database of Information on Volcanoes in Alaska (GeoDIVA) Volcano names: short, most commonly used name of a volcanic center Historical Whether or not a specific volcano has been active in historical time, as defined by Miller and others (1998) Miller and others (1998) A "1" in this field indicates the volcano has been historically active. All other values indicate no confirmed historical activity. Latitude Latitude of a volcano Geologic Database of Information on Volcanoes in Alaska (GeoDIVA) 51.7903 67.3 Decimal degrees 0.0001 degrees Longitude Longitude of a volcano Geologic Database of Information on Volcanoes in Alaska (GeoDIVA) -178.7939 179.82972 Decimal degrees 0.0001 degrees State of Alaska, Department of Natural Resources, Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys Natural Resource Technician mailing and physical 3354 College Road Fairbanks AK 99709-3707 USA 907-451-5020 None available. 907-451-5050 firstname.lastname@example.com 8 am to 4:30 pm, Monday through Friday, except State holidays Please view our web site (http://www.dggs.alaska.gov) for the latest information on available data. Please contact us using the e-mail address provided above when possible. 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text: The Goods and Services Tax is beneficial to Kerala and though revenues in the new tax regime are expected to go up in the next six months, there is still a need to rationalise expenditure, economist Gita Gopinath said today. "The expectation is revenues from GST will go up after six months. There is a considered expectation that when GST becomes normalised, the state will get more revenue," said Gopinath, the Harvard Professor and Financial Adviser to Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan. Since Kerala is a consumption-driven economy, GST is particularly beneficial for the state, Gopinath told reporters on the sidelines of the 'Loka Kerala Sabha' here. So more revenues should be got, she said. "But on the other hand, we will also have to make sure that expenses are kept in check. This is not just about getting more revenue, but you have to be careful about how expenditure is growing." The expectation is over a year or two this deficit will come down, she said. "After six months, our expectation is revenue from GST will go up. But, still there will be need to rationalise expenditure," Gopinath said and added that will have to be the plan for the coming years. Loka Kerala Sabha is a new concept of the state government envisaging cooperation toward the state's progress. The sabha will have 351 members including MLAs and MPs representing the state with 178 nominated members representing Kerala expatriates.


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What name could possibly be better for an all-woman Americana quartet than this one?
Foxes in the Henhouse.
Can't top that.
The group will appear in the next "Sonoma Songbirds Concert," starring recently transplanted Seattle singer and songwriter Jill Cohn, at 6 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 27, at Aubergine, 755 Petaluma Ave., Sebastopol.
Foxes in Henhouse features Pamela Joyce, Dorian Bartley, Kathy Mezger and Linda Sullivan.
The show also will include the Sonoma County duo Beautiful Weirdos, featuring Alan Watt and Susan Miller.
Cohn also headlined "Sonoma Songbirds" shows, designed to showcase women musicians, last September and December at the Last Day Saloon in Santa Rosa.
Admission: $10.
Information: 827-3460, auberginebarandcafe.com.


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