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Massey: Try Try Again
Well Guys... We did it.
In my last blog, which was my first blog in 4 months, I discussed my failures during this Summer's World Series of Poker. I highlighted the aspect of having "emotional control" while dealing with downswings, and the resilience necessary to keep competing at the highest level. I discussed my perspective on the importance of learning through failure, identifying the value gained, and continuing the uphill battle as a more prepared, improved warrior.
Perhaps I was having a moment of clarity the day I wrote that blog, but I did make a lot of sense. I had noticed a huge progression in the way I was handling everything. I felt more like a "grizzled veteran" in the game. I could feel myself gaining that grasp on my emotions, which has been the biggest leak in my game for some time. I also knew that a had a lot of work to do to improve in this particular area, so I made it the focus of my thoughts. I was on my way to Biloxi to play the WSOPC series... and that is where we left off.
During the Biloxi series I played very well and, more or less, laughed off each of my bust outs. This was obviously a very good sign. Throughout the week I played a lot with John Dolan and hung out with him away from the table. I learned a lot about a lot, lets just say that. In the $1125 event I played great... near perfect. I steam rolled everyone the entire day and made the final table of 9 with 40% of the chips in play. We came back the next day and I did just the opposite. I made 2 marginal mistakes, both times doubling up the short stack. I had a slipped a little but didn't lose that many chips, and was still in 2nd place. The old man who had just busted a player doubled his stack and had me barely covered, although we were both head and shoulders above the other players remaining. 4 hands later I got it all in pre flop against this guy with KK to his AA and was busted in 6th place. I made like $5K, but 1st place was $30k. Bad luck right? No. My marginal mistakes cost me the ability to have him covered and as a result I had no chips to fight back with. The way I see it, I had cost myself $25k. I was upset with myself but was aware of the errors I had made and identified them.
Also, read Aaron's interview with Cardplayer magazine: http://ow.ly/dZMDx
Massey: Emotional Control 50 Dimes Down
What's up World,
I know I know… I haven't written a blog in like 4 months. In my defense, I don't have a laptop anymore because it fizzled out in Miami, and I have no need for a new one until I start playing online again. Also, I played a tournament almost every day this summer and had absolutely no desire to spend time writing after each long unrewarding day. Call it being lazy; I'll just call it being honest. Here's what I've been up to since my last blog.
I finished out the WSOP Circuit in St. Louis and New Orleans. With 6th place and 15th place finishes in tourneys (respectively), I earned enough points to qualify for the WSOP National Championship. I drove straight to Las Vegas with Jake Bazeley and Kurt Jewell in Baze's car. I slept the first 12 hrs of the drive because I was still up from the night before. If you were at Baze's house or have heard a story from a 3rd party then you know the reason(s) why I didn't go to bed that night. New Orleans was a really good time lol. We got to Vegas and Kurt got us a room at Cosmopolitan that first week before we started the long summer grind. Needless to say we partied pretty hard. It was then time to go to work; I had a full schedule of WSOP bracelet events and Venetian tourneys to play over the next 2 months. I was as prepared for poker as I have ever been. At the top of my game, excited, confident and ready to breakout, I was eagerly awaiting the reward for all the hard work I had been putting in these last few years. And so it came…
2 months. Zero cashes in bracelet events. One single cash in a Venetian (17th) for $2795. Zero cashes in Rio Deepstacks; and I didn't play a single hand of cash. What does this amount to? Yep, you guessed it… a $40,000 downswing. This was definitely not what I had in mind. Although my confidence never wavered, I was incredibly frustrated with what had transpired up to that point. I definitely hadn't played perfect. I can think of 4 huge mistakes that may have/did cost me my tournament life. I also know there were several minor mistakes along the way that may have contributed to the end results. However, all in all, I played good/great poker the entire summer. I would honestly give myself an A- overall, maaaaaybe a B+. Regardless, I definitely played well enough to produce a better result that I did. That's variance.
Massey: Updates from the Tournament Circuit
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I have been slacking on the blog I know. My POS computer died in Miami and I have been lazy I guess. Anyways, I'm sitting at the restaurant bar in the lobby of Harrah's St. Louis at the moment. I'm watching the Bulls vs Heat on 1 screen and Hawks vs Coyotes (Game 4) on the other. I came down to eat and write this blog. Theres 2 other chicago area poker players I know, Manny and Dylan, sitting at the bar watching the game too so I joined them. Its been quite a nice ride the last few months. After winning the PLO tourney in Chicago for over $40,000 and a seat to the Main Event, I played the Main there and busted on day 2. We went out for Lawton's birthday that night in Chicago but stayed home no longer, as i left for Atlantic City to pick up some WSOPC Points that I needed. I only played 3 tourneys there, and had no cashes. i did go out a lot however, partying with Kurt and Jacob Bazeley. We had a really good time away from the felt. After AC I flew down to Miami to play the tournament series at the Isle in Pompano Beach. I stayed with my good friend Steve Karp. He has a nice house on North Miami beach w a pool and an extra bedroom. He also had an extra car for me to use…. Thanks Steve.
The first tournament was the day after I flew in. the $570 $75k guarantee. The field was made up of 20% great players and 80% bad players, and this was a 1 day event. To make a long story very short I won the tournament in 14hrs for $22,000. This was the 2nd time in 2 weeks that I flew into a city and won the first tournament I played. With my newly found fortunes I felt it was ok to skip the rest of the small tournaments at the Isle and basically just play the Main Event. (another Chicago grinder, Zal, had showed up at the bar to watch the games and joins me on my right. I've always liked Zal) My brother and Kurt came down for 2 weeks and stayed with Steve as well. We went out and did a lot of stuff. We went down to South Beach and partied, went to Space one night until 6am, went to 2 Heat games and was court side, did the beach a bunch of times and some dining,and shopping, etc, etc.. (wow, Hawks just tied it up 2-2 w 2 goals in last few mins!!! 1:26 left in the 3rd) I played the $3500 Main Event and busted. I spent the next 2 weeks playing cash games. i decided to skip going to Council Bluffs for the circuit and just stay in Miami and grind.
Massey - Variance and Run Bad - 30 Days in the Hole
1st blog of the new year…. Unfortunately I have nothing good to report. I wrapped up 2011 with a blog that featured my highlights from the year and my passion for the game. I talked about the things I wanted to accomplish this year, listed specific goals, and even made promises to work hard and win. Fueled with optimism, I was eager to get back to the table and start the year right. I was ready to play a tourney everyday and crush it just like I did in 2011. I knew I was gonna get off to a fast start.
(Clears Throat)
Not so much. I went to LA and played the WSOPC at the Bike. I think I played 11 events; I came within 10 places of the money 6 of those times and did not cash once. I got 20th place in the $1080 event that paid 18, after losing AK to A8 on what was basically the stone bubble, and having the guy fist pump in my face after binking a lucky 8. I also bricked the Main Event twice. It was really hard to deal with bc I knew I was playing well and doing everything in my power (which isn't much in poker in the short term) to win. I put myself in a position to go deep several times but the deck never cooperated with me. It was arguably the worst I have ever run in a 2 week span. Me and my friend Eli rented a car (Mustang convertible- Omar if you are reading this…) and stayed at White Brian's condo in Venice Beach for a few days. Then we flew to Atlantic City for the Borgota Winter Open, so I could get back to winning. I knew my days of running bad were over.
Not so much. Another 11 tournaments, another 5 finishes within 10 places of the money, which included a stone bubble in the $1090 event (sound familiar?). I went out in 28th place when my KK lost to AA on the bubble while play was hand for hand, in a hand that took 7 minutes bc the third guy in the hand eventually folded QQ, with the entire tournament surrounding our table to see if they will make the money or not, add another 30-40 spectators and the fact we all had stacks, it equals one of the most tilting bustouts I have ever gone thru. I shook his hand and said good game then walked away to let the other 27 players enjoy their money in peace. The one positive thing was that none of the players celebrated when I busted and none of the spectators on the rail made any noise either, out of respect for me as a player. Usually all these mops cheer, hoot and holler when the money bubble bursts. Not this time though, so I appreciated that, but it still really stung. I kept fighting and playing well the subsequent days but was rudely met by a couple of 3 outers, a rivered straight, and half a dozen lost coin flips in a row. Oh wait, I did miss a nut flush draw in the 2k bounty tourney so that one is on me. I played day 1A of the Main Event today. A $3500 which is over 4x my average buyin, I really needed to do well…but, I got it in KK vs AA, 15 minutes into the tournament to bust. I have been beating myself up all day bc I know I should have folded. I am really hard on myself though, it is kings to aces after all so whatever. Still, it's just demoralizing.
Rising Star Shines Brightest at Home
Hello Everyone,
The last time you heard from me I was in the midst of the 2nd worst downswing of my career. I had just busted the Borgota $3500 Main Event Flight 1A and was contemplating whether or not to play flight 1B the next day. I was mentally and emotionally exhausted and I had to consider the bankroll management aspect of being in a single tourney for $7000. I changed my mind at the last minute and got out of bed 2 hrs late to play flight 1B. On my 3rd hand I got sucked out for 85% of my stack. This was demoralizing with all things considered but I didn't give up. I played perfect and almost made it to day 3 of the tournament. I didn't cash… BUT I DIDN'T QUIT. I fought so hard against the odds, did the best I could, and put myself in a position to go deep. I had lost a lot of money but I didn't care. I was so proud of the way I composed myself, acting and feeling like a true professional. I was down on my luck but still moving forward with a supreme confidence. I had tunnel vision and I was still so hungry for glory. So off to Tunica I went.
I met up w one of my best friends, the great Kurt Jewell, when I got down to Tunica. Kurt won the Hammond Main Event in 2010 for $242k (my home stage—foreshadowing), won another ring in St. Louis in an Omaha8 tourney, the first time he had ever played an Omaha8 tourney (foreshadowing again), then made the Main Event final table here in Tunica last year. He didn't win this one though, he held the chip lead w over half the chips in play 8 handed and got 8th. He blew a big opportunity here, but would soon get a shot at redemption.
I played very well this trip with 3 cashes; a 23rd place finish in the $355 where I overplayed AK and punted my stack off to some idiot late in the tourney, a 12th place finish in the $565, and an all important cash in the Main Event. In the Main Event I got off to a horrendous start. I got sucked out over and over again and was so miserable. I made my friend Cory Gunz rail me the whole first day so I didn't just give up and punt my stack away. He encouraged me and I hung in there. I showed a lot of heart and I put myself in a spot to go deep, but I fell just short after losing a big coin flip AK to QQ late to eliminate me. But it wasn't my tourney to win. Remember that Kurt Jewell guy I mentioned? The guy who gave away the Main Event in Tunica last year? Yeah that's him…. We stayed and rooted him on. To make a long story short, I spent the next 2 days watching Kurt play the most unbelievable game of poker he had ever put together on his way to winning his 2nd WSOPC Main Event Championship. What is even sicker is the REDEMPTION he achieved; a story that gives other poker players hope and inspiration. There are a lot of other reasons that made this achievement so outstanding but I will not get into them bc this is MY BLOG and should be about ME, not Kurt…
Just Kidding. Riding high from his victory he led us down to West Palm Beach for more WSOPC tourneys.
Massey: 2011 - The Year of My Life
Wow…. What a wild ride that was.
I'm sitting here, looking back on the last 12 months and I've got to tell you, I've come a long way. This time last year I spent every single day sitting in my apartment, at my desk, with my computer and my 2 monitors, playing 10 tables at once for 12 hours a day. I would wake up around noon and go to the gym, get home at 2:30pm, order food for the entire day, and play online until like 3am. I was working my ass off when online was around and was 100% dedicated to learning, winning and working as hard as possible. I watched players who I knew were better than me and it motivated me to catch up to them. It was during this period that I took my game to the next level. I played so many hands and discussed poker relentlessly. I also had the privilege of having an unbelievable mentor.
During the period where I played online every day, I was able to watch, play and discuss poker with Kevin "Bel0wab0ve" Saul for hundreds of hours. He is among the greatest online poker players of all time and he took me under his wing. I have always been a live player, I've been playing in casinos since I was 19. I would drive to Indiana twice a day with Ralph's ID to go play. However, it was the online fundamentals that brought my game to where it is today. To be honest, I wish I had started playing online 5 years ago. If I had, who knows where I would be right now.
Anyways, something pretty crazy happened… Online poker in the US got all screwed up. And guess what? It was time to play live again. This ended up being great for me because it forced everyone to have to play me in my arena, where I thrive. Live poker is what I was meant to do; I honestly know and believe that it is my calling in life. It's kind of exhausting to explain but if you know me or have seen me play, then you know what I mean.
With live poker comes a lot of travel, and I have been to quite a few places this year. It started with Tunica, St. Louis, and New Orleans. I took a train cross country with my close friends to Vegas for the World Series. We stopped at a few places along the way including the Grand Canyon. We hiked all the way to the bottom of the Canyon, slept there overnight, and climbed out. When we got to Vegas we stayed at the Golden Nugget on Fremont Street in old Vegas for a week. Then I moved over and stayed at the Gold Coast, next to the Rio where the World Series is held. I lived there for over 6 weeks. During that summer a lot of crazy shit happened and I had a lot of experiences. I took part in some of the best partying I've ever been around in my life. Cabanas, clubs, bottles and bullshit... All of it. I never really spent money at any of them either.


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Mr. Riggs 2012 The Magnet Grenache a wonderful pairing with Gouda
Andrew Hanna (from John Hanna & Sons Ltd, Canada) has struck again with his captivating blog pieces. This time, he talks about wine and cheese pairing in his blog piece: 'Wine & Cheese Pairing: Perfect Wine Matches for 11 of the World's Greatest Cheeses'. Mr. Riggs 2012 The Magnet Grenache is spoken about as a great mid-weight red wine to go nicely with Gouda. See below.
Gouda can be produced in both semi-hard and hard styles, and is made in Holland from cow's milk. Gouda is a terrific example of a cheese whose profile, texture, flavour and value differs greatly based on how long it has been aged. With roots in Holland dating back almost 1,000 years, it should come as no surprise that the Dutch have had plenty of time to explore and learn about the optimal conditions and length of aging to produce amazing flavours. Even the most aged expressions of Gouda are not "over the top" with flavour, so we recommend mid-weight red wines (here's a perfect example!) with moderate silky tannins, as not to overpower the complex flavours that come with aged expression of this cheese.
Read the full article here.
Our Watervale Clare Valley Riesling gets a mention in '5 Killer White Wines With Amazing Aging Potential'
Coming in at number 4, the Mr. Riggs Clare Valley Riesling gets a mention in Andrew Hanna's (John Hanna & Sons Ltd, Canada) latest blog piece about white wines with amazing cellaring potential. Cheers Andrew!
So, when most of us start thinking of Aussie wines our minds immediately gravitate towards reds – particularly Shiraz. And if I were to ask you to think about Aussie whites, you'd probably come back with Chardonnay. With all that in mind, it might come as a surprise to many that Australia is home to one of the great Riesling terroirs you'll find anywhere in the world about 100km north of the City of Adelaide in a place called Clare Valley.
Due to its relatively high altitude, the Clare Valley offers up a cooler climate perfectly suited to the production of high quality age-worth Rieslings – and Riesling as a varietal offers some of the longest aging potential and amazing value of any white wines. Young Rieslings can be delicious and refreshing and clean – but if you have the patience to give it some time in the cellar, the rewards are worth the wait (and here's a fabulous producer to watch for!).
As Riesling ages, it tends to evolve texturally, developing added layers of richness and viscosity making it an even better partner alongside fine food. Rieslings that begin their life somewhat off-dry tend to become more dry as they age and their natural acidity also tends to trend downwards with time in the cellar. Aged Rieslings become a perfect partner next to Indian or Asian food; I absolutely adore wines like this served with dishes offering up a bit of heat and spice.
Now for the best news of all – you can get your hands on delicious expressions of Riesling that are well suited to a bit of aging for $20-$30 per bottle, many of which will evolve and improve gracefully for 10-20 years, sometimes longer. In terms of pennies per year of aging potential, you've got to love this wine math!
Read the full blog article here.
Third release of Mr. Riggs 'Scarce Earth' Shiraz - today!
I am pleased to announce that we have released our 2013 'Scarce Earth' Shiraz today, it being the third subsequent release under this prestigious stamp. It is always an honour to stamp my own with with this badge, particularly because this drop was produced from hand-picked fruit derived from my very own Piebald Gully vineyard in Clarendon.
One of the criteria of the Scarce Earth initiative is that the wine be made from single plots of land with a unique flavour profile and personality. To find out more about the Scarce Earth initiative, click here.
This drop in particular is elegant and pretty - some would say a more feminine style of Shiraz compared to the blockbusters in the Mr. Riggs line up.
Mr. Riggs 2013 'Scarce Earth' Shiraz is only available at our cellar door or online. I tempt you to give it a try, you are almost certain to fall in love!
Mr. Riggs Wine Co. celebrates $100,000 donation milestone
Today I hosted an exclusive tasting with Flinders Medical Centre Foundation's leading researcher, Dr. Michael Michaels, and executive director, Debbie Palmer, where I presented them with a $5,000 cheque to contribute to the foundation's efforts in finding a cure for cancer. This marked our $100,000 donatio0n milestone. As you may recall, Mr. Riggs has an enduring relationship with the FMCF, as I have been contributing funds from sales of one of my most popular wines, The Gaffer Shiraz, for the past 10 years (and many many more to come). To mark this, The Gaffer Shiraz adorns its pink cap proudly.
King Fish Carpaccio with a Citrus & Caper Salsa
Nothing beats a beautiful piece of fish with some tangy homemade salsa for lunch with friends on a warm summer's afternoon. The beauty of this dish is that the accompaniment enhances the mild flavour of the fish without overpowering it.
Celebrating my Summer with Alternate Varieties
I plucked my motivation and inspiration for experimenting and use alternative varieties in my range from my travels and work across Europe. Particularly, Spain and Italy.
Let's start with Tempranillo. Whilst working in Bordeaux in the late 80's, which is a beautiful part of the world but a little restrained for a 20 something Aussie bloke, a friend suggested we head to San Sebastian for the weekend. Well restrained it isn't! The food, the friendly people, the girls, the free poured G&T's... oh dear, what a place. Anyway did I mention the wines? Well I had known about Rioja but that was my first immersion in all things Tempranillo. I'm not sure if it was just the wines or my fond memories of the above but that kick started a bit of a quest to play with Temp. One of my first jobs in my new consultancy business in 2002 was to do a report on Scott Hicks and Kerry Heysen-Hicks Yacca paddock vineyard, as the contracted winery was trying to lower the price for the fruit. My report was: I will buy it! The fruit looked amazing, and so, the 12 year odyssey began.
For 3 years I consulted to Wineries on the East coast of Italy, Marche, Abruzzo and Puglia where I fell in love with a few things: the amazing coastline, beautiful sleepy ancient towns, incredible food, and of course Montepulciano. Most of the vineyards I worked with had a mixture of Verdicchio, Sangiovese and Montepulciano as well as some Shiraz, Petite Verdot and Cabernet. But by far the standout variety was the Monte.
I was amazed with how resilient it was to disease, how versatile it was being grown with both modern viticulture trellis VSP etc and traditional Tandonne pergola trellis, how adaptable it was to being grown in the cooler northern parts of Marche along with the hot southern parts of Abruzzo as well as performing in rocky incredibly low vigour hillside vineyards, and also fertile high vigour river flats. In every case, I made better wine from Monte than any other variety made from the same vineyard.
Some speculate that Monte is actually the genetic parentage for Sangiovese as well as being related to Agioritiko (St George, Nemea) from Greece. But whatever you want to say about its parentage, Monte makes amazingingly structured, fleshy, exotic wines and I just had to make some in Australia. Enter Caj Amadio, who was born in Abruzzo and who keenly planted some for me on his Kersbrook Vineyard.
It was in Marche, also in Italy (see map below) that my inspiration for making a sticky Viognier heralded from. Here I was captivated by a similar style of sticky made by drying Verdicchio on racks in a shed, to then concentrate it, then crush, press and ferment in mostly new oak. The wine is delicious, and who would have thought! Verdicchio shares a couple of traits similar to Viognier: firstly it starts with V, and secondly, it is an aromatic variety which has a lot of tannin (almost as much as some red grapes). By drying the grapes you concentrate the sugar, acid and flavour, but unlike using botrytis to make a sticky, you get to keep the aromatics intact - making a crisp refreshing style of sticky.


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Vinnie Roberti, who was a political player in Bridgeport 30 years ago, has an octopus' touch when it comes to government, politics, business. He also has the survival skills of Frankenstein's monster. Interesting piece from www.registercitizen.com about papa's influence on his son's congressional race. The publication asks, Is Dan Roberti the Manchurian Candidate? Check it […]
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State Rep. Auden Grogins hosted a who's who of city political figures at her Black Rock home the other night on behalf of Connecticut Speaker of the House Chris Donovan, Democratic candidate in Connecticut's 5th Congressional District that takes in portions of Fairfield and Litchfield counties. One of Donovan's opponents Dan Roberti is the son of former Bridgeport […]
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If you're new to OIB, Vinnie Roberti is something of a legend in Bridgeport politics. There are survivors in politics and life. Then there's Vinnie's life, former state representative and mayoral candidate. When you're around Vinnie you want to take notes because the stories abound. That's another story, or stories! State representative, real estate tycoon, restaurateur, movie […]
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Moving House
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It's finally reached that time. Despite the furniture in the car and the eight boxes of books in the garage, not to mention the three bin liners full of stuff for charities or throwing away, my room's still so full I can't get to the bed. God knows how I'm going to fit all of this into the flat, anyway.
But that's what I will be doing, a mere 12 hours from now. The contract signed, the first month's rent paid… The flat is ours. Tomorrow, we move in.
I'm not sure how I feel about it. Excited, maybe. Nervous, certainly. Stressed, maybe a bit. I'll be glad once this is all sorted out, and we have a home to ourselves.


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In any serious personal injury case in Maryland, you need an expert to testify. Are there some cases where the injury is so obvious that a medical expert is not required? There may be. But anyone willing to take that chance should not be trying tort cases in Maryland.
Why Do We Need an Expert?
An expert has a number of purposes. First, with a few exceptions, you want to ask the jury to compensate you for the medical bills that you have incurred, even if they have been paid by medical insurance (because the jury is not told that insurance paid for the medical bills). Accordingly, you need a medical doctor with experience treating that particular injury to testify that the medical treatment that the plaintiff received was fair, reasonable, and medically necessary.


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Whidbey Island is a gardener's delight and so is gardening guru Ciscoe Morris.
The television and radio personality will bring his boundless enthusiasm for all things green to Bayview Farm and Garden on Saturday, June 30, when he will do his weekly radio show "Gardening with Ciscoe" live from Whidbey Island.
"This is the fourth time he's been here, but the first time he's done his radio show here," said Maureen Murphy, owner of Bayview Farm and Garden. "He'll be here from 10 a.m. to noon, so if people want to come out and watch the show and ask questions, they can join in with that."
Murphy, who has known Morris for years, will join him for part of the program. She said he is a genuinely nice, fun guy, which is good for the gardening industry.
"He's great for our industry," she said. "It definitely draws people in, which is good for business and good for his radio show to be out among real gardeners and people who are enthusiastic about it.
"We have a lot of enthusiastic gardeners on Whidbey," Murphy continued. "We're kind of ground zero."
Because the weekly farmers market will be going on at the same time as the live radio broadcast, Murphy said parking could be tricky. She said they have permission to use the Whidbey Telecom parking lot for overflow and there is parking at Bayview School.
Morris is known for his gardening segments with Meeghan Black on KING-5 television and his Friday night question and answer show "Gardening with Ciscoe Live" on Northwest Cable News. His weekly radio show airs on News Talk 97.3, KIRO-FM. His book, "Ask Ciscoe," was among the top selling garden books nationwide.
Combine his appeal with a popular Whidbey Island activity and anything could happen.
"I'm not sure exactly what will happen because there will be a certain level of pandemonium out there," Murphy said. "But it will be fun and casual. The point is to have a lot of fun."


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Davie Yards records Q1 loss
Lèvis, Quebec, based Davie Yards Inc. (TSX: DAV) yesterday released its financial and operating results for the three month period ended March 31, 2008.
Revenue for the three months ended March 31, 2008 was US$10.15 million. EBITDA for the first quarter was negative US$8.7 million, and the company recorded a net loss of US$8.7 million. Due to the loss provision taken by the company in Q4 2007, Davie did not record a gross profit during Q1 2008. The loss of US$8.7 million in Q1 consisted of general overhead expenses and value adjustments in relation to currency options.
Davie has an order backlog of US$581 million as of end of March 2008, consisting of three Offshore Construction Vessels and two Multipurpose Accommodation Vessels.
The Company continued the ramp-up of the yard during the first quarter of 2008. As of May 12, Davie had 895 employees at the yard, up from 503 employees at year end 2007.
The number of employees is expected to increase further during the coming months as work continues on the completion of vessels already under construction and construction begins on other vessels in the order book.
In February, Davie completed an initial public offering of CDN$47.3 million, strengthening the Company's financial position.
Davie has appointed Mr. Steinar Kulen as the new CEO, he joined the company March 1st 2008, bringing significant shipbuilding/maritime experience to the company.
"Since I joined the Company, I have undertaken a thorough analysis of the processes and the projects at Davie. These efforts, coupled with a strategic business analysis, will enable us to finalize an updated version of the company's business plan this summer. I am pleased with what I have learned so far," Mr. Kulen said.
Despite reports that current challenging conditions in the credit markets are having an effect on the order book of shipyards, the market for large complex offshore vessels is strong, and Davie anticipates additional construction contracts in fiscal 2008.


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KBM Group Closely Conforms to New Definition of CEA Model Along With Parent Company Wunderman
KBM Group Closely Conforms to New Definition of CEA Model Along With Parent Company Wunderman
RICHARDSON, TX--(Marketwire - Feb 14, 2012) - KBM Group, the global leader in knowledge-based marketing solutions, has been recognized in Forrester Research, Inc.'s February 13, 2012 report, The Evolution of The Customer Engagement Agency.
According to the report, the demand is growing for customer intelligence to support next-generation marketing, which is focused on appealing to customers through relevancy rather than campaign selling and on continuous customer engagement and dialog. The report explores how the shifting marketing environment has impacted organizational needs for different kinds of services from their marketing partners, specifically from marketing service providers, direct agencies and digital agencies. The shift is from a narrow focus on data and managing data to a more strategic, analytically driven focus on understanding customers and insightful customer intelligence.
Within Forrester's definition of customer engagement agency, KBM Group -- in concert with its parent company, Wunderman -- is positioned as conforming closely to the study's model of customer engagement agency in the digital space.
Analytics-Driven Customer Intelligence
KBM Group's expertise in data- and analytics-driven customer intelligence has enabled the company to play a key role in designing and deploying customer engagement strategies for its clients and their various agency partners as well as for Wunderman. In addition, KBM Group is the architect of an integrated, flexible customer engagement "engine" -- a delivery platform as a service -- that processes data to deliver real-time insights to marketers as they engage with their customers.
Gary S. Laben, CEO of KBM Group, says, "Today's dynamic consumer environment is driven by mobile, social and personal technologies. This puts our clients' customers, whether B2C, B2B or B2B2C, at the center -- and often at the beginning -- of the marketing dialog. Customer knowledge is key to successful customer engagements, whether in acquiring customers or continuing the marketing dialog with them to earn their loyalty and advocacy. Data and analytics, as well as an integrated view of the customer, are at the heart of all successful customer engagements."
KBM Group has been ranked a leader in The Forrester Wave™: U.S. Database Marketing Service Providers, Q1 2011, (January 2011), with the highest rankings in strategy and global strategy. According to the report, KBM Group consistently delivers strong service and gets positive feedback from its clients. The company delivers "strong capabilities across the array of database, analytics, data, strategy and operations."
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Raymond James named a new vice president to head new financial advisor training and development for its private client group education and practice management team.
Matt Ransom will start in the new job on August 1, according to a statement announcing the promotion. In his new role, he will be responsible for overseeing Raymond James' Advisor Mastery training program and its training team.
The Advisor Mastery Program includes "technical advisor and sales skills," according to the program's web page. Participants are prepared and tested for the CFP certification, as well as life and health insurance licenses and FINRA series 7 and 66 licenses.
Ransom, a 10-year veteran at Raymond James, boasts eight years of experience as a financial advisor. Early in his tenure at the regional broker-dealer, Ransom contributed to Practice Intelligence, Raymond James' comprehensive practice management training program.
Previously, Ransom was assistant regional director for the Midwest region, where he was part of a team responsible for supervising more than 300 advisors with over $28 billion in assets under administration.
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Each department in this organization contributes measurably to the overall quality of our products. It is the responsibility of all department managers to ensure that all phases of the system are operating efficiently and effectively. This will be accomplished through our Non-conformance Reporting (NCR) System, the Corrective and Preventive Action Reporting (CPAR) System, Internal Quality Audits and Management Review. It is the responsibility of Top Management to ensure the continued suitability, adequacy and effectiveness of the QMS through the Management Review process.
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London: Left red-faced by the spot-fixing scandal that led to jail terms for its three top players, the Pakistan Cricket Board has decided to set up a vigilance division to "keep a very strict eye" on corruption.
The division is being established by new PCB chief Zaka Ashraf.
"We are going to keep a very strict eye and bring in very strict discipline so that my players, wherever they are, don`t get in touch with people who try to drag them into such negative business," Ashraf was quoted as saying by The Daily Telegraph.
"We want to discourage that, we want to eliminate that. We have to be a respectable board, we have to work with the English Cricket Board, with the rest of the world and we have to move forward," he said.
The move comes after former captain Salman Butt and pacers Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir were jailed for fixing parts of a Test match against England last year after taking money from a bookmaker Mazhar Majeed.
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For more than 100 years, Temple Emanu-El has been providing Jewish families in our community with a place to gather, worship, celebrate, and assure that the things we hold to be holy will continue beyond our years. In order to ensure that our wonderful tradition continues, in 1979 a permanent Endowment Fund with a separate Board of Directors was created to provide us with the necessary financial means.
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Gail Bayer
Charlie Collat, Jr.
Lee Conn
Ginger Held
Heather Lebensburger Kerry McInerney
Josh Mandell
Gerson May
Joel Piassick
Karen Piassick
David Reese
Andy Rotenstreich
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Robert Berman
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The Rabbi Grafman Endowment Fund offers numerous gift opportunities — both large and small — for individuals and families to make gifts over and above their dues. For all gifts, the principal amount remains in reserve and is wisely invested and managed so that the Fund will grow, thereby providing that future generations are able to enjoy the same benefits that we have had during our lifetime.
In recent years, our Endowment Fund has grown so successfully that a portion of the investment income is now used to provide special Temple programs we otherwise might not be able to afford.
There are many options – both large and small – available to contribute through the Endowment Fund. These include gifts of cash, real estate or other property, or naming Temple Emanu-El as a beneficiary of your estate, life insurance policy or retirement plan. Many of these options can result in significant estate and/or income tax benefits. Our Annual Endowment Gift Program (with recognition opportunities for gifts beginning at $100 per year) enables congregants of all economic means to participate in building a fund for our Temple's future. With all these ways to participate, Temple members receive a deep satisfaction from helping to preserve our Jewish heritage.
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Hepatitis is the inflammation of the liver, or more specifically, inflammation of the liver cells. Now there are different types of hepatitis, which may occur due to multiple reasons, ranging from consumption of contaminated food to certain sexual practices to alcohol overdose. Here, however, we will study a particular form of hepatitis in depth, known as alcoholic hepatitis.
Alcoholic hepatitis is the inflammation of the liver cells due to excess alcohol consumption over an extended period of time. Though this disease is still curable if detected in the early stages, however, if alcohol consumption is not tapered off and the disease is not treated properly, it may worsen. Alcoholic hepatitis left untreated can even lead to additional health issues such as cirrhosis or complete liver failure. Alcoholic hepatitis is usually accompanied by fatty liver disease, which is another disease which may be caused by excess intake of alcohol.
The fatty liver disease occurs when there is an abnormal accumulation of fat in the liver cells. Though it is often studied in relation to alcohol consumption, it actually occurs in two forms: alcoholic fatty liver disease and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD or NASH).
While the cause of the alcoholic fatty liver disease is clear, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease occurs due to many reasons other than alcohol consumption. These reasons include problems such as diabetes, high blood pressure and a high level of blood fats, i.e. obesity. This type of fatty liver disease also eventually results in cirrhosis if not treated properly.
Cirrhosis, which is the end result of both alcoholic hepatitis and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, is a condition where the liver fails to function properly due to long-term damage. This damage is usually in the form of either alcohol or the causes of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. This condition can even further lead to many complications and even graver diseases such as liver cancer.
Risk Factors
Alcohol: The major and most obvious risk factor for alcoholic hepatitis is the level of alcohol one consumes. Though the exact amount which puts someone at risk is not known, it is vaguely calculated to be around seven glasses of alcohol every single day for a period of at least 20 years.
Gender: Apart from alcohol consumption, gender is also a risk factor, because the way alcohol is processed inside the body also plays an important role. This is why women tend to be at a greater risk of developing alcoholic hepatitis.
Obesity: High levels of alcohol, accompanied with overweight's, make someone more vulnerable to not only alcoholic hepatitis but also to fatty liver disease, which may progress to cirrhosis in the long run. High cholesterol levels also put patients at greater risk of developing a non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.
Genetic factor: Many studies deduce that there is a link between the genetic component and alcohol-induced liver diseases.
Environmental factors: Although it is hard to separate the genetic factors from the environmental ones, it is seen that factors such as race and ethnicity happen to play a part too. For example, African-Americans and Hispanics seem to be at greater risk of alcoholic hepatitis.
Existing diseases: In the case of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, prior existing diseases, such as type-2 diabetes, hypothyroidism or underactive pituitary gland, can increase the risk of developing NAFLD.
Alcoholic hepatitis
The alcohol damages and destroys the liver cells, called hepatocytes. The damaged hepatocytes become swollen and degenerate or contain fibrillar proteins. Since the major function of the liver is detoxification of waste products, when the cells are destroyed or damaged, these waste products are accumulated in the blood, leading to malfunction of the liver. The hepatic venules also become narrowed and restricted. Alcoholic consumption also leads to a deficiency of antioxidants, like vitamin E. This results in both forms of cell death, necrosis, and apoptosis.
Alcoholic cirrhosis
The damaged hepatocytes undergo abnormal repair, which leads to fibrosis, which is the scarring and hardening of the liver and its cells. Extensive fibrosis disrupts the structure of the liver, causing the liver to shrink.
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
This disease results in increased delivery of fatty acids to the liver, causing it to swell up and malfunction. Insulin resistance is created, which leads to alcoholic hepatitis. NAFLD is also said to be the leading cause of cryptogenic cirrhosis, with varying degrees of fibrosis.
Alcoholic Hepatitis
- Lack of appetite
- Weight loss, also as a result of a change in appetite
- Yellow color in skin and eyes, jaundice oricterus
- Fever
- Fatigue or a general sense of weakness and lack of energy
- Nausea and vomiting
- Pain in the abdomen, accompanied by tenderness. Especially pain specifically in the upper right abdomen
- Swollen abdomen due to excess fluid accumulated there
- Mental confusion or problem in thinking straight.
Alcoholic Cirrhosis
In addition to the above features, some additional ones include:
- Edema, i.e. building up of fluid in the legs, thus swelling them
- Redness in palms
- Easy bruising, abnormal bleeding at even the slightest of cuts
- In men, smaller testicles.
Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
In addition to all of the symptoms of alcoholic hepatitis, a few other features are unique to NAFLD:
- Itching
- Red spider-like blood vessels throughout the skin
- Swelling of legs.
Clinical manifestations and laboratory features are enough to identify alcoholic hepatitis in a patient with a long-term heavy alcohol drinking. Heavy alcohol use is defined as drinking more than 100 g of alcohol per day for more than 20 years, providing the absence of other common causes of acute hepatitis.
A thorough research needs to be done to understand the patient's drinking habits – how often the patient drinks and whether they can function without it and other such questions to gauge the body's dependency on alcohol.
Patient with alcoholic hepatitis is typically 40 to 50 years old of age, with a history of a daily heavy alcohol drinking "more than 100 g per day", for more than 20 years, which might occur in response to stressful situations in patient's life.
Physical examination
This will help in bringing about symptoms such as tender hepatomegaly, jaundice, and fever. In patients with advanced diseases, a physical examination can also bring about signs of portal hypertension, ascites, and a bruit might be heard over the liver.
Ascites may occur due to either portal hypertension, or obstruction of portal venous flow as a result of hepatic cells swelling.
The presence of stigmata of chronic liver disease, such as ascites, palmar erythema, spider angiomata, gynecomastia and others, suggest underlying liver cirrhosis.
Blood tests
1. Liver tests abnormalities:
- Gamma-glutamyl transaminase (GGT):
- Lone elevation (with/without alanine transaminase [ALT] and aspartate aminotransferase [AST]) is a possible sign of occult alcohol abuse.
- AST: ALT ratio (liver transaminase):
- ALT is more specific for the liver than the AST because AST is also found in the liver, cardiac and skeletal muscle, kidneys, and lungs.
- Both AST and ALT are usually moderately elevated (< 500 int.unit/mL), with or without elevated GGT in alcoholism.
- AST: ALT ratio ≥ 2 is associated with alcohol abuse (alcoholic hepatitis).
- Elevated serum bilirubin (> 5 mg/dL)
- Mean corpuscular volume (MVC):
- A larger size of red blood cells (due to nutritional deficiencies) that resembles macrocytic anemia (MCV > 100 fl)
Laboratory investigations to rule out other causes of acute hepatitis should be done, such as:
- Anti-hepatitis A IgM
- Hepatitis B surface antigen, anti-hepatitis B core IgM
- Anti-hepatitis C virus (HCV) antibodies, hepatitis C RNA.
Imaging tests
Tests such as Trans-abdominal U/S, MRI, and CT scans are carried out to get visuals of the liver which provide valuable input in understanding the state of liver functioning.
The imaging tests may reveal parallel tubular structures in the liver.
Liver biopsy
Liver biopsies are not necessary and depend on the severity of the disease. A biopsy of the liver is useful in diagnosing the full extent of the liver damage which helps in understanding the severity of both the fibrosis and the level of inflammation.
Furthermore, it helps in evaluating other possible liver diseases such as the fatty liver disease which may accompany alcoholic hepatitis. Liver biopsies are vital not only for alcoholic hepatitis but also for non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, to confirm the accumulation of fat in the liver.
Differential Diagnosis of Alcoholic Hepatitis
Alcoholic hepatitis should be differentiated from other causes of acute hepatitis, in which the striking features to identify alcoholic hepatitis are:
- Heavy alcohol drinking
- AST: ALT ratio of ≥2, which is rarely noticed in other causes of acute liver disease.
Acute hepatitis
The differential diagnosis of acute hepatitis is wide and includes the following:
- Acetaminophen toxicity
- Drug-induced liver injury/idiosyncratic drug reactions (including herbal supplements and illicit drugs)
- Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis
- Acute viral hepatitis (hepatitis A, hepatitis B, hepatitis C, hepatitis D, hepatitis E, herpes simplex virus, Ebstein-Barr virus, cytomegalovirus)
- Ischemic hepatitis
- Budd-Chiari syndrome
- HELLP (hemolysis, elevated liver enzymes, low platelets) syndrome
- Acute fatty liver of pregnancy
- Wilson´s disease
- Autoimmune hepatitis
- Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency
- Toxin-induced hepatitis (e.g., mushroom poisoning, carbon tetrachloride).
High aminotransferases can also be noticed other diseases such as:
- Muscle diseases
- Thyroid disease
- Celiac disease
- Adrenal insufficiency
- Anorexia nervosa.
Treatment of Alcoholic Hepatitis
The management of alcoholic hepatitis includes several measures:
- Abstinence from alcohol
- Treatment of alcoholic withdrawal
- Hemodynamic and nutritional support
- Medical treatment
Patients at only the initial stages of liver diseases can still control further deterioration by abstaining from the cause of all the damage. This means abstinence from alcohol in the case of alcoholic hepatitis, and abstinence from obesity causing products in the case of NAFLD. Abstinence will also result in prevention from cirrhosis, in both the cases.
Excessive alcohol drinking for a long time makes the patient at risk of withdrawal symptoms which also should be treated promptly.
Hemodynamic and nutritional support
Patients with alcoholic hepatitis should be hydrated because poor oral intake associated with the presentation may result in dehydration.
Overhydration should be avoided in patients with a chronic liver disease with signs of cirrhosis because this may increase the size of the ascites, increase the risk of hyponatremia and predispose to variceal hemorrhage.
Nutritional support with adequate calories, proteins, vitamins, and minerals is important to improve liver function.
Medical treatment
Alcohol abstinence and the general supportive measures are adequate in the treatment of mild to moderate alcoholic hepatitis. Medical treatment with glucocorticoids is not beneficial in the treatment of mild or moderate alcoholic hepatitis.
Medical treatment with glucocorticoids (prednisolone 40 mg/day for 28 days, followed by gradual tapering of the dose over 2 to 4 weeks) is indicated in patients with severe alcoholic hepatitis in addition to the general supportive measures.
For non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, there is no set approved medicines but the anti-inflammatory medicines like Aspirin, Ibuprofen, Naproxen Sodium, Celecoxib etc. are often prescribed.
Surgical considerations
When the disease becomes acute, there is a greater risk of complete liver failure. In such cases, the only treatment offered is a liver transplant. However, surgery too, is complicated, as the mortality rate in alcoholic patients is high. Nevertheless, surgery is the last resort for acute stage disease despite prevailing complications.
Counseling and therapy
Therapy helps many patients break the habit of drinking or help them fight obesity. Counseling helps patients fight the disease before it gets any worse and also helps keep the patients and their symptoms under observation. There are also many support groups, the most famous being Alcoholics Anonymous, which help patients abstain from alcohol.
In order to deal with NAFLD, there are not many counseling methods which have progressed. The newest emergence is the anti-fibrotic therapy to help patients suffering from non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, but it too is still in its initial stages.
Review Questions
The correct answers can be found below the references.
1. What is the characteristic liver enzymes pattern in alcoholic hepatitis?
- AST: ALT ratio ≥ 2
- AST: ALT ratio = 2
- ALT: AST ratio ≥ 2
- ALT: AST ratio = 2
2. What is the definition of heavy alcohol drinking?
- More than 100 g per day, for more than 20 years
- More than 20 g per day, for more than 30 years
- More than 100 g per day, for more than 10 years
- More than 200 g per day, for more than 20 years
3. Medical treatment with glucocorticoids is indicated in addition to the general supportive measure in the treatment of what?
- Mild alcoholic hepatitis
- Moderate alcoholic hepatitis
- Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
- Severe alcoholic hepatitis


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