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Here's another recipe for livening up winter vegetables. Cauliflowers, the new super-food, are prolific here and always dirt cheap so I've been looking for ways to release the cauli from cheese sauce bondage. IMHO (in my humble opinion) potatoes and cauli are two of the best veggies for a curry so I thought I'd make aloo gobi, a cheap favorite from my student days in London.
I added some curry powder to the spice mix, not very foodie but I just do what you can with what I've got available. Not all curry powders are created equal of course, some are pretty tasty. My mum always swore by Sharwoods but now Mr. Patak may have captured her heart. In this case I happened to have Holbrooks Extra Hot Curry powder; packaged in Australia, purchased in French Polynesia and consumed in British Columbia!
Aloo Gobi
- ½ medium onion chopped
- ½ tsp cumin powder
- ½ tsp coriander powder
- ¼ tsp turmeric
- ½ tsp chilli powder
- ½ tsp curry powder
- ½ tsp salt
- ½ tsp crushed garlic
- 1 American super-sized potato or 2 medium potatoes cubed
- Half a medium cauliflower cut into florets
- ½ cup chicken stock
- ¼ cup thick coconut milk or cream
- Mix together the spices and salt (but not the garlic) and set aside
- Heat a good slug of vegetable oil and sauté the onions until soft
- Add the spice mixture and stir for a minute then add the potatoes and fry for 5 mins
- Add the garlic and cook for a further minute then chuck in the cauliflower, stir and coat in the oil and spices.
- Add the chicken stock and simmer for about 10 minutes or until the vegetables are tender, stirring occasionally
- Add the coconut milk or cream, warm and serve.
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Caracas – President Hugo Chávez delegated to Vice President Nicolás Maduro increased administrative duties on a bunch of financial areas, further sparking rumors about the real health condition of the Venezuelan leader.
In a decree issued Wednesday from his hospital bed in Havana, Chávez granted Maduro the power to perform all government functions related to budget management, credit emissions and public appropriations.
The decree also empowers the vice president to appoint deputy ministers, presidents and board members of public entities, as well as to decree expropriations, liquidate agencies, grant pensions and approve tax exempt for some activities.
The announcement came just 48 hours after Maduro reported success in Chávez's recovery, saying that he was already walking and exercising.
Chávez had passed on the duties to Maduro on Dec. 8, three days before the socialist leader underwent cancer-related surgery in Cuba. He has been silent since the operation, raising doubts among Venezuelans regarding his health.
Vice President Maduro surprised Venezuelans with a Christmas Eve announcement that President Hugo Chávez is up and walking, but the news did little to ease uncertainty surrounding the leader's condition.
Sounding giddy, Maduro told state television Venezolana de Television that he had spoken by phone with Chávez for 20 minutes Monday night. It was the first time a top Venezuelan government official had confirmed talking personally with Chávez since the Dec. 11 operation, his fourth cancer surgery since 2011.
"He was in a good mood," Maduro said. "He was walking, he was exercising."
Chávez supporters reacted with relief, but the statement inspired more questions, given the sparse information the Venezuelan government has provided so far about the president's cancer. Chávez has kept secret various details about his illness, including the precise location of the tumors and the type of cancer. His long-term prognosis remains a mystery.
Dr. Michael Pishvaian, an oncologist at Georgetown University's Lombardi Cancer Center in Washington, said the long term outlook remained poor. "The overall prognosis is still pretty poor. He likely has a terminal diagnosis with his cancer that has come back," he said.
Pishvaian and other outside doctors have said that given the details Chávez has provided about his cancer, it is most likely a soft-tissue sarcoma.
Over the weekend, Chávez's ally, Bolivian President Evo Morales, made a lightning visit to Cuba that only added to the uncertainty.
Journalists had been summoned to cover his arrival and departure in Havana, but hours later that invitation was canceled. No explanation was given, though it could have been due to confusion over Morales' itinerary as he apparently arrived later than initially scheduled.
Cuban state media published photos of President Raul Castro receiving Morales at the airport and said he came "to express his support" for Chávez, his close ally, but did not give further details. He left Sunday without making any public comments.
For the second day in a row Tuesday, Morales made no mention of his trip to Cuba during public events in Bolivia.
Yet more questions surround Chávez's political future, with the surgery coming two months after he won re-election to a six-year term.
If he is unable to continue in office, the Venezuelan Constitution calls for new elections to be held. Chávez has asked his followers to back Maduro, his hand-picked successor, in that event.
Venezuelan officials have said Chávez might not return in time for his Jan. 10 inauguration.
Based on reporting by The Associated Press.
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Original Brick City author sues over copyright
November 1, 2010-16 — Newark, NJ
E. Adam Jackson, author of the book Brick City, has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against a powerful group. Jackson says that the award-winning Brick City series that appears on Sundance Channel is in part an unauthorized adaptation of the text he copyrighted in 1990 and published in book form in 1991.
The defendants are Newark Mayor Cory A. Booker, the star of the series; Forest Whitaker, executive producer; Marc Benjamin and Marc Levin, executive producers/directors; Lisa Durden, associate producer; and top executives from Sundance Channel, Rainbow Media, and Cablevision.
Jackson, who lives in Newark, owns the original copyright among all entities titled "Brick City." The website of the U.S. Copyright Office, located at www.copyright.gov, confirms that the registration held by Adam Jackson is the oldest of all Brick City works.
Jackson personally handed Cory Booker a book and a business card when he saw him walking near Newark Penn Station. When Jackson discovered that Lisa Durden had a television program on Cablevision called Brick City, he sent her media packages including his book and business plan in hopes of appearing on her show. Even without those contacts, if experienced professionals such as the defendants had conducted a proper search of the phrase Brick City, they would have seen that Adam Jackson held the original copyright. The fact that the Brick City book has been sold at the Source of Knowledge bookstore across Broad Street from Newark City Hall since 2003 also indicates that Jackson's work was accessible to the makers of the Sundance series.
Jackson believes the similarities between the book and the movie, along with the amounts of money pledged in the movie, the high quality of the advertisements on the show, and reported revenues of the corporations justify the $21,325,828 he demands.
He believes that specific portions of the movie compared with specific parts of the book are clear and convincing evidence that he will use in a jury trial, which he also demands.
E. Adam Jackson says he worked too hard to write, publish, and promote his book to allow the infringement to stand. He said, "If Brick City was good enough to steal, it should have been good enough to make a deal and make it real."
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Thor Raxlen Welcomes the Advertising Industry Into His LAIR; His New Live-Action, VFX and Post Finishing Studio(August 04, 2010)
Fifteen years ago, Thor Raxlen founded Chelsea Digital, Chelsea Pictures� in-house postproduction finishing boutique, with an eye to integrating editorial with visual effects, post finishing and design and 3D animation � to create a collaborative environment where boundaries did not matter and the focus was on creative and creative collaboration. Five years ago he partnered to launch Guerilla FX which successfully incorporated live-action production with post.
Ad industry veteran Thor Raxlen is firmly ensconced in his new LAIR (www.lair.tv), a live-action, visual effects, character animation, design and post finishing studio. Focused on integrated work and fueled by impeccable craftsmanship. LAIR is a creative collective of top talent offering a unique collaborative experience where work is generated from the combined brainpower of clients, agencies, production, and postproduction.
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text: The University of Memphis gets ready to delve deep into the Civil War, and the Constitutional Crisis is at the heart of that conflict. It's an eight part event taking place starting this week at the University. But perhaps most interesting are the parallels, History Professor Dr. Susan O'Donovan draws between then and now.


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So, I just recently bought Urgot and he left me wondering WHAT THE HECK IS HE??? I tried an AD build and an AP build and couldn't decide which was better. Both were pretty good during laning, but kept dying in team fights! The answer was simple: Tankgot. We start with some damage to keep the pressure on enemies during laning and quickly begin stacking tank items to survive those oh-so-dangerous Position Reversers.
Zaun-Touched Bolt Augmenter
Urgot's attacks reduce the damage that his target deals by 15% for 2.5 seconds.
It's a subtle passive, you won't actually see it working, other than the green bubbles on your target.
Acid Hunter
Urgot fires a missile towards the cursor that deals 30 / 60 / 90 / 120 / 150 (+1 per attack damage) physical damage. Missile-lock can be achieved by holding the cursor over a target afflicted by Noxian Corrosive Charge.
Main damage output. When used in concert with Noxian Corrosive Charge it has ridiculous range. We max this first.
Terror Capacitor
Urgot charges up his terror capacitor to gain a shield that absorbs 80 / 120 / 160 / 200 / 240 (+80% of ability power) damage for 7 seconds. While the shield is active, Urgot's attacks and missiles slow targets by 20 / 25 / 30 / 35 / 40%.
A cool ability overall. Damage shield to make you more tanky and a slow to top things off.
Noxian Corrosive Charge
Urgot launches a Corrosive Charge at a target location. Enemies afflicted by the charge have their armor reduced by 12/14/16/18/20% and take 75/130/185/240/295 (+) physical damage over 5/5/5/5/5 seconds.
Mostly used to missile-lock with Acid hunter, but makes a great harass for DoT.
Hyper-Kinetic Position Reverse
Hyper-Kinetic Position Reverser
Urgot charges up his Hyper-Kinetic Position Reverser, gaining 80 / 105 / 130 armor and magic resistance for 5 seconds. The target is stunned for 1 second before swapping positions with Urgot. After the swap, the target is slowed by 40% for 3 seconds.
Possibly the coolest ult EVER, this ability will make an over-extending chump regret it like nothing else. Watch as your team descends on them like a pack of hungry wolves! Target squishies and annoying ranged champs with this (most often one and the same). The only problem is, now you're closer to the enemy team than you'd like to be. The Armor and Magic Resist from the ability helps, but it's just not enough. This is why we tank!
I have been using a 0/9/21 build to help with early game mana issues. I'll probably try a 0/21/9 build soon, but this works great.
9x- Greater Mark of Desolation -ArP for your Acid Hunter.
9x- Greater Seal of Evasion -Dodge for... dodging.
9x- Greater Glyph of Scaling Cooldown Reduction -CDR to keep your abilities available: Urgot is heavily dependant on his skills
3x- Greater Quintessence of Health- For early game survivability.
These are just the Runes I currently own, so use whatever.
Core Items]
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More may be added later.
Starting Items:
Sword of the Occult is pretty cheap and will provide your main damage output. Once you get full stacks, you can swap Boots of Swiftness with Mercury's Treads if you like. The next items can be switched around, but this is the order I prefer. Frozen Mallet gives you a great boost to health and the slow makes chasing easier. The Brutalizer provides a much-needed boost to CDR as well as some damage and ArP. Upgrade to Youmuu's Ghostblade at any time or not at all. Banshee's Veil lets you move around even more, shrug off CC after you use your ult and is a pain for casters. Frozen Heart gives a mana boost and will cap off your CDR as well as the armor for DPSers. Guardian Angel can also be used if you are dying a lot. The Black Cleaver further increases you damage and ArP.
General Playstyle]
Early game]- Although mid is always an option, Urgot does pretty well when paired with a good tank. He's very squishy early on, so be careful. Stay back and harass with your Noxian Corrosive Charge/Acid Hunter combo. Use Terror Capacitor to block incoming harass as often as possible. Now say harass ten times in a row! Still sound like a word? Good.
Mid game]- Once you have SotO and Boots it's time to start ganking! Rack up kills and assists, get some stacks and pilfer the loot. Keep in mind that when you first start ganking, Urgot is still kinda squishy. Be careful. Dying is not an option����¯�¿�½������¢������¯������¿������½����¯�¿�½������¢.
Late Game]- You should be sufficiently tanky enough to be an asset in team fights. Use your ult to single out their carry or healer. Keep ganking and helping teammates as much as possible.
Well, I hope I've thoroughly enlightened you about Tankgot. He can be a pain to play against, and I hope you have fun being that pain! Rate, Comment, etc!


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When the Olympian and reality TV star formerly known as Bruce Jenner appeared on the cover of Vanity Fair in June under the new identity of Caitlyn, it may have seemed that the world was opening the door toward a greater public acceptance and understanding of what it means to be transgender. However, for many transgender people, particularly those in countries with conservative social cultures, the reality of their experiences is far from the glamour of an Annie Leibovitz photo shoot.
Los Angeles has the largest population of asylum seekers and refugees in the United States, including a large community of transgender individuals that have faced multiple layers of discrimination and human rights abuse before reaching California. PTV's transgender clients typically come from Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, and Mexico and have survived kidnappings, rapes, and illegal detainment, beatings, and death threats.
Here is just a small group:
Gabi was illegally detained by police 25 times in a single year in an effort to humiliate her.
Jazmin's father tried to kill her as a child because he was embarrassed when she tried to express her true gender identity through feminine actions like putting a ribbon in her hair.
Mia experienced the murder of several transgender friends before death threats started coming in on her work phone.
Sara was raped by a teacher and told that no one would believe a little fag if she told. She soon dropped out of school because of the humiliation and torment she experienced, including taunting and beating by her peers. She couldn't get a job in her hometown.
Maria was raped by gang members. She woke up the next day to find her name and address in the local newspaper under the headline "Gang Members Rape a Homosexual."
Manuela was routinely arrested by the police and was made to perform oral sex in order to be released.
As a result of stigma and violence that our transgender clients face, many suffer from PTSD and Major Depressive Disorder. In response to years of discrimination and abuse, they learn to isolate themselves from society, and often attempt suicide.
Family, community, and police have turned against them, leaving them with no choice but to leave their country to avoid further persecution. As refugees, many struggle to live above the poverty line, lacking basic needs like food and stable shelter. Some have to resort to the black market for hormone therapy and end up disfigured and sick as a result of unsafe treatments. They have the highest unemployment rate of any group, with estimates at 40% in the United States.
Many clients coming from Latin America surrender themselves at the border, hoping to find help, but instead face many months in U.S. detention centers, which take in up to 75 transgender people each day. In these centers they may face transphobic physical and sexual abuse, as they are not housed in their identified gender's unit, only in Santa Ana CA, are transgender segregated. In addition, although transgender women make up only .2% of detained immigrants, they are the victim in 20% of confirmed cases of sexual abuse in immigration detention centers.
Last year, PTV assisted 13 transgender men and women- providing counseling, assistance with food and housing, life-coaching, and through our partnership with the St. Johns Transgender Health Program, access to quality health care, regardless of income.
Our transgender population is one of the most vulnerable of all our clients at PTV. We applaud Caitlyn Jenner and other high profile transgender spokespeople for bringing a media spotlight to the struggles, hardships and tragic human rights abuse that Trans people live with around the world. Persecution, like torture, is used to make people feel powerless, voiceless and broken. PTV works to give transgender survivors back their dignity, confidence, and courage to take pride in being a whole person.


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Pakistan army chief Gen. Qamar Javed BajwaQuetta: Pakistan's army chief on Thursday criticised madarsas that have mushroomed nationwide for mostly teaching only Islamic theology, saying the country needs to "revisit" the religious school concept. Modernising madarsa education is a thorny issue in Pakistan, where religious schools are often blamed for radicalisation of youngsters but are the only education available to millions of poor children. Gen. Qamar Javed Bajwa's remarks, apparently off-the-cuff during a prepared speech, were a rare example of an army chief criticising madarsas, which are often built adjacent to mosques and underpin Islamisation efforts by religious hardliners. Bajwa said a madarsa education in Pakistan was inadequate because it did not prepare students for the modern world. "I am not against madarsas, but we have lost the essence of madarsas," Bajwa said in Quetta.
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Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Susie's Sassy Guest DT Card
My card is also for these Challenges:
Flutter By Wednesday-Open...include a butterfly, angel or fairy
Fairy Fun Fridays-button and brads
Thank you for stopping by!
16 comments:
- Susie Sugar said...
Tammy this is a super card I love the vibirant shads and yoour colouring is perfection those cute little heart buttons are adorable
Thank you so much for being our Guest designer
Hugs Susie xx
- February 25, 2010
- gina g said...
Gorgeous card i love the image and the colours are fantastic. Thanks for joining the Sophisti-cats Challenge this week. luv gina xx
- February 25, 2010
- Cor* said...
So bright and beautiful! Prairie Fairy image for a Prairie Fairy sponsor spot and entering it in FFF.....way to go with utilizing this image girl!!
- February 25, 2010
- Good Kardma by Jules said...
What a lovely card! I love that color combo and you did a great job of coloring the image. Thanks for playing along on FFF!
- February 25, 2010
WOWZERS!! Tammy, your colors are just brilliant with this!! I love your image and your coloring is so amazing!! TFS! HUGS
- February 25, 2010
- Danni said...
What a sweet card! I really like the colors you used!! Thanks for playing along with my flutter by challenge!
- February 25, 2010
- Crafteezee said...
Love those stunning colours. Thanks for joining us at Sophisticats. Hugs Tracy x
- February 25, 2010
- Crystal said...
Tammi girl this is beautiful!!!! I LOVE this colors and this sweetest image!!!! ADORABLE!
- February 25, 2010
- coldwaters2 said...
Oh this is so beautiful those colours and image are wonderful thank you so much for joining us at Prairie Fairy
Lorraine x
- February 25, 2010
- Roberta Laliberte said...
Fabulous card cutie! So glad you joined in!
- February 25, 2010
- Davi said...
I do love those colors, textures and the wonderful image!! :)
- February 26, 2010
- Tasha said...
Lovely card Tammy, the colours are wonderful :-)
Thanks for joining us at Sophisti-cats this week, hope to see you next week
- February 27, 2010
- Avril Ann said...
Tammy this is utterly gorgeous, many thanks for joining us at Sophisticats this week. Hugs Avril xxx
- February 27, 2010
- Pretty-In-Ink said...
It's so pretty! your colouring is beautiful!
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- Moshie said...
Very pretty!!! Love the colors!!! Your image is very sweet too!!! Thanks for joining us at Sophisti-cat this week.
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- February 27, 2010
- Chris Olsen, Glowbug said...
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- February 28, 2010


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Actress Drew Barrymore is expanding her beauty empire by launching three new fragrances.
The Charlie's Angels star unveiled her beauty and make-up range Flower last year (13) and she is now expanding the line with three women's perfumes named Cherished, Radiant and Sultry.
She tells WWD.com she was never interested in "a singluar fragrance", stating, "There was never really a time or venue to do it..."
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A brewing controversy in Cleveland Metroparks:should an agency whose mission is to conserve natural resources allow mountain biking?
Is this outdoor recreational activity more destructive than paved trails, natural surfaced trails that are poorly placed, or equestrian trails? Cleveland Metroparks in this case is coming down against the idea of mountain biking. Meanwhile National Park rules may change to allow mountain biking.
Having been around parks for many years, and seeing many different types of trails and activities, my personal opinion is that if properly managed, this type of trail is just as compatible with natural resources conservation as a bridle trail, paved trail, or even hiking trails with natural surfaces.
Bicycles can undoubtedly cause erosion issues, but so can other unregulated uses. People need to be in contact with nature. If mountain biking excites them, they ought to be able to engage in their chosen outdoor recreation. Bike trails can be created in an environmentally sustainable manner. As long as it is done right, I am all for it.


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Unit Leaders, the Order of the Arrow is at your Service!
Order of the Arrow Unit Elections
Once each year (calendar year), a chartered Boy Scout Troop or Varsity Team may hold a unit election to elect youth members of their troop or team to become members of the Order of the Arrow. (Both youth and adult Scouts and Scouters can become members of the OA, but only youth members are elected. Assistant Scoutmasters under the age of 21 are considered youth members for OA purposes). New members are voted on by every youth member of the troop present at the election - not just the OA members (thereby insuring that Scouts are elected mostly by people who are not OA members). A unit election team, trained in the latest OA election policies, will visit a regular troop meeting at the Scoutmaster's invitation to conduct the election.
Click Here for a one-page flyer that briefly explains unit elections and provides contact information for requesting a unit election. This flyer will be distributed by mail to unit leaders and made available in the Program Center at the VSC.
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Members of the Air Cadet Organisation's volunteer staff braved the elements and took to the Western Highlands of Scotland to complete a five-day mountaineering and ice climbing expedition, part-funded by the RAF Charitable Trust.
The £667 grant for the adventure training exercise on February 26, undertaken by staff from the National Air Cadets Adventurous Training Centre, was approved by Trustees to help increase the quality of training delivered to cadets, while also providing opportunities for volunteer staff to improve upon their expertise.
The trip, supported by the Ulysses Trust, encompassed challenging winter mountain activities, including ice climbing, mountaineering, and hill walking to 11 staff members.
Andy Reeve, ACO Adventure Training Officer, said: "All members of the team have increased their understanding of the winter mountains and the decision making process required to remain safe in this type of environment.
"The group was split into three teams, who each took on one of the activities. Ensuring they were appropriately equipped, they studied weather forecasts and avalanche warnings to decide upon the safest routes. It was important that they planned carefully to give themselves the flexibility to alter plans according to the conditions, whilst also practising some essential safety skills as part of their journey.
"This exercise was both a great opportunity for cadets and staff as several of the participants are now in a position to undertake the Winter Mountain Leader training course, with one member of the team moving forward and registering for the International Mountain Leader Scheme. Two staff volunteers also undertook a Joint Services' Winter Climbing Foundation Course during the expedition.
"We're really grateful to the Trust for its support, making a valuable contribution towards the funding of this exercise and providing our young cadets and staff with a highly unique and beneficial opportunity."
Take a look at the walking group's experience HERE.
The Trust has supported a variety of adventurous expeditions and activities in association with the Ulysses Trust since the start of 2017. The following Cadet Forces from across the country have received help towards ambitious training projects:
- Eleven HQ Air Cadets will participate in yacht sailing off the shores of West Coast Scotland in August. The week-long voyage will provide the opportunity for senior Air Cadets (18 years and above) to take part in a challenging and demanding off-shore sail-training exercise, expected to cover 250 nautical miles.
- Cadets and instructors from Middlesex Wing ATC will spend five days on a canoe expedition to the Morova River in Serbia. Their journey will take them through unfamiliar, remote environments and includes visits to a number of WW2 sites.
- Earlier this year, Calday Grange Grammar School CCF visited Norway to undertake ski touring and related winter training.
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So I have recently started playing the Chronicles of Riddick on the Xbox 360 – I know, how current am I? – and it had me thinking about difficulty levels in console games and how they might translate to traditional table top RPGs. Basically because it's a bloody hard game, and I'm not that great at first person shooters anyway. I have in fact come upon an impasse fairly early on in the game, and before I continue I'm going to have to lower the difficulty. To sum up, I am trying to break out of a prison, but there are guards and turret guns, and I'm at a point where I'm struggling to find cover while being shot at from three directions, by two turrets and one guard. I can take out one enemy, but then die before I can make it to cover.
This is not a complaint about the game, which I think is actually pretty damned good, in fact the way the level has been designed reminds me a lot of the way that a Games Master would approach a problem. What both the GM and the Games Designer (GD) want is to make the level feel as realistic and challenging to the player/s as possible. If it was me designing the level, I would almost certainly have done the same thing. The guards seem to have some kind of radio transmitter that means the turret guns don't target them, but prisoners are fair game. They have also covered all corridors with fields of fire, and then had guards around too, just to make sure. What I wouldn't do was drop a few convenient chest high walls into the place to offer some cover. I'm sorry to all level designers out there, but it doesn't matter if they're collapsed bits of rubble, fallen trees or the corpses of my enemies, they all look out of place and just serve to warn you that a gun fight is about to break out. So thank you to whoever rocked this level design for not making lazy choices and keeping the game challenging.
What the GD didn't do though was give the player/s a chance to come up with different ways to approach the problem. I know that by now a lot of readers will be thinking that this is just another part of the continuing story of why table top RPGs will also be better than computer games. Although this is certainly true, I think it's worth saying again, and looking at what we can learn from computer games about things that we shouldn't do as GMs. The biggest of these is limiting the choices of your players.
If I was a player for instance, I would be doing my damnedest to drag a dead guard into cover somewhere to see if I could figure out why they weren't getting peppered with holes from the sentry guns. There may very well be a reason why I couldn't just rip it off the corpse and make myself a tiny bit less killable, but I would like to know that and have a chance to examine things and find a way round that wasn't just about shooty death and his less popular cousin stabby death.
This to me is why no table top RPG ever needs a difficulty level. No matter how dangerous you make a scene or encounter, the players will have near limitless options in how they approach and deal with any problems you put in front of them. Quite often they will work ways round your little obstacles that you would never have thought of, and the game is richer for it. They also – in almost every game – have real reasons to fear death for more than the slight inconvenience of having to replay a few minutes of a level to get to the point that they perished. Dying in an RPG should mean something more than a slight pain in the rear, and that means players have even more reason to think about different ways to solve a problem other than the all guns blazing approach.
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I build him this way on 3v3, but I think on 5v5 this shouldn't be bad too.
The first thing you should get after your boots is Youmuss, which is some kind of made for Garen. Then I usually get Guardian Angel for more Durability. Normally the game is over now but if not i buy Infinity Edge, Last Whisper or Phantom Dancer which are all great items for Garen.
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by Maureen Robinson
This lovely autumn walk could be described as a bit of an adventure! Thanks to our pal Martin, new paths were revealed to include Littlebeck Wood Nature Reserve –a little gem!
Access to the start is by taking the A171 Scarborough to Whitby road past the Flask Inn as far as Sneaton Corner, where you turn off along the B1416 as signed to Ruswarp. About 1.5 miles ahead is Redgate. Check the signs and head to Falling Foss, not to May Beck or Littlebeck. Almost a mile ahead is a car park from where this walk begins.
Start. Leaving the car park pass the notice regarding 'No public vehicle access', and go between walling to descend steps into Great Wood. Meet a sign and turn left along a footpath high above the valley on your right. Very shortly you hear rushing water, and reach a fenced viewing platform from where one can stand in awe of the wondrous waterfall at Falling Foss. As it tumbles into the pool admire the golds, bronze and yellows of autumn leaves floating on the surface.
Follow fencing to a tea garden at Midge Hall. Although drinks and cakes were served when we visited on September 27, I regret to say that it is now closed for the winter. We must call next year when it re-opens in April. The house you see was originally built as a game-keeper's cottage in 1790. An information board gives details of its history, when open.
Leaving by the gate, cross the wooden footbridge over the beck and ascend the track straight ahead. Turn right at the top, with the road bridge behind you.
Reaching a metal gate, you've arrived at Foss Farm, but only barns remain to your right. It was once a hostelry on the old limer's road from Lockton quarries to farms near Whitby.
About 60m beyond the barns, pass through a gate, and then some 300m ahead you'll observe a three-fingered post. Here, turn right along the blue-arrowed bridleway. The grassy path passes between hedging, with a muddy area to the right.
Walk up the field with hedging to the left and an electricity post to the right. Gorse bushes feature near the top.
Descend to the foot of the field and walk beneath oak trees to enter a gate with a sign Leashead. Cross the bridge over the beck near a small waterfall. Turn left up stone steps as indicated on a board by walling, 'To Intake Farm and Littlebeck'. Cross a stile into a field, and farm buildings are to your left.
Follow a stony farm track cutting across the field to meet a metal field gate, and a four-finger post. Here turn right on a muddy bridleway along the edge of a field hedged to the right. Follow this and a farm track through a blue-arrowed gate with the field boundary to the left. Blackberries in season!
Go through an open gateway and the track peters out as you approach a farm gate.
Entering the gate, bear right from this blue-arrowed gate and a grassy footpath leads alongside deciduous woodland to your left. Next, a fieldgate opens into a wood and Yorkshire Wildlife Trust welcomes you to Little Beck Wood Nature Reserve.
Keep to the narrow, fern-fringed path and it soon descends woodland on a well-used narrow path.
Leave the woodland by a handgate, and cross a stream to find a convenient roadside seat in Littlebeck village. The Methodist Chapel (1890) is to your left, and an interesting information board close by will answer all your questions!
We enjoyed a flask of coffee here, and observed a heron in flight.
Refreshment over, and your return route lies beyond the information board, to ascend the hill and negotiate the bend to a fine house and garage to the left. Opposite the garage is a seat and a nearby sign indicating the route to Falling Foss.
Entering Littlebeck Wood, a good path leads high above the beck. Do pause to read the attractive information board regarding the local wildlife. Wooden foot-bridge and duck-boarding span the wettest areas of the route.
Over a wooden footbridge crossing a stream you discover an overgrown spoil heap of shale from former alum quarries.
Climb the steps to the right, and skirt the spoil heap to descend steps and proceed through the wood.
Eventually, the path rises steeply to The Hermitage, seen on your left. This curiosity provides an admirable shelter from inclement weather. It has been hewn out of a solid boulder. There is seating inside for several people, and children love it.
Distant horizons can be admired from the viewing platform before leaving The Hermitage by the upper path.
You'll observe Newton House on the left, which was built as an 18th century shooting lodge. Later, it became an outdoor centre.
Go straight on along broad path and bear right as waymarked by a yellow arrow. Keep to the obvious route, and a three-fingered post directs you straight on, uphill to the car park. Leave between walling and bear right to your starting point.
Distance: Almost 4 miles.
Refreshment: None until April when Midge Hall re-opens. Take a picnic.
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The Elegiac Addict: History, Chronicity, and the Melancholic Subject
In biomedical and public health discourses, "chronicity" has emerged as the prevailing model to understanding drug addiction and addictive experience. This approach is predicated on constructing and responding to addictive experience in ways that underscore its presumed lifelong nature. In this essay, I examine the phenomenon of heroin addiction and heroin overdose in northern New Mexico's Española Valley, which suffers the highest rate of heroin-induced death in the United States, and explore how the logic of chronicity is dangerously reworked through the Hispano ethos of endless suffering. Focusing on the narrative of Alma, a Hispana heroin addict who died of an overdose after many previous overdoses, I evoke a sense of the physical, historical, and institutional refrains in which she felt herself caught. By tracing Alma's death back to these refrains, I describe the complex of entanglements in which her addiction took form and show how the discourse of chronicity provided a structure for her suffering and, ultimately, her death.
Editorial Footnotes
Cultural Anthropology has published many essays on public health and biomedicine. See, for example, Deepa Reddy's "Good Gifts for the Common Good: Blood and Bioethics in the Market of Genetic Research" (2007); Stacy Leigh Pigg's "Languages of Sex and AIDS in Nepal: Notes on the Social Production of Commensurability" (2001); and Mei Zhan's "Does it Take a Miracle? Negotiating Knowledges, Identities and Communities of Traditional Chinese Medicine" (2001).
Cultural Anthropology has also published a number of essays that critically analyze uneven distributions of risk and privilege in the United States. See, for example, George Lipsitz's "Learning from New Orleans: The Social Warrant of Hostile Privatism and Competitive Consumer Citizenship" (2006); Henry Jenkins's "'People from that Part of the World': The Politics of Dislocation" (2006); and Joseph Masco's "Mutant Ecologies: Radioactive Life in Post–Cold War New Mexico" (2004).
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Angela Garcia is Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Stanford University. Professor Garcia's work engages historical and institutional processes through which violence and suffering is produced and lived. A central theme is the disproportionate burden of addiction, depression and incarceration among poor families and communities. Her research is oriented toward understanding how attachments, affect, and practices of intimacy are important registers of politics and economy. She is also interested in the literary integrity of anthropological writing.
Garcia's book, The Pastoral Clinic: Addiction and Dispossession Along The Rio Grande (University of California Press, 2010) explores the relationship between intergenerational heroin use, poverty and colonial history in northern New Mexico. It argues that heroin addiction among Hispanos is a contemporary expression of an enduring history of dispossession, social and intimate fragmentation, and the existential desire for a release from these. Ongoing work in the U.S. explores processes of legal "re-entry" and intimate repair that incarcerated and paroled drug users undertake, particularly within kin networks. She is currently engaged in research in Mexico City that examines emerging scientific and juridical discourses related to narcotics addiction. This work focuses on the implications of these discourses to support Mexico's governance strategies and their consequences for families and communities addicted to narcotics in the setting of urban poverty. (Source: http://www.stanford.edu/dept/anthropology/cgi-bin/web/?q=node/939)
"The Elegiac Addict: History, Chronicity, and the Melancholic Subject" was awarded the 2009 Stirling Prize for Best Published Work in Psychological Anthropology by the AAA's Society for Psychological Anthropology.
Public Radio program "State of the Re:Union" provides in-depth radio reporting on the Española Valley, in an episode entitled "Española – The Land Remembers":
"Settled by Spanish conquistadors in 1598, the area's rich cultural past is still evident today in its music, art, and way of life. But changing demographics, along with a shift in the local economy has left many residents without land, water, and a sense of identity. State of the Re:Union travels to the Española Valley of Northern New Mexico to explore the area's history of dispossession, and to discover what the rest of the country can learn from this still vital region of the American Southwest. From ancient water distribution methods to low riders, SOTRU goes to find out."
The program focuses specifically on the prevalence of heroin use in the Española region from minutes 17:00 to 23:00 (full episode here: http://stateofthereunion.com/home/season-2/espanola-nm). This segment of the show features a 27-year old recovering heroin addict, a Lieutenant with the Española Police Department, and Angela Garcia's commentary on the history of dispossession of land and language in the region, and how she began to do research in the area.
A local Independent newspaper, High Country News, covers issues and stories that define the American West. Angela Garcia has written two articles for the paper:
"Land of Disenchantment." High Country News, April 3, 2006.
"Digging deep: Addicts get back to the land in northern New Mexico." High Country News, December 8, 2008.
Angela Garcia has also published op-ed pieces about heroin use and treatment in New Mexico in mainstream newspapers:
"How Dion Died." Los Angeles Times, July 17, 2010.
"Heroin Vaccine Won't 'Cure' What Ails Addicts." April 2012, Los Angeles Times, April 15, 2012.
Questions for Classroom Discussion
1. Garcia describes multiple dimensions of chronicity that converge in the Española Valley. What are the different discourses that structure time in the context of heroin use in New Mexico, and how do they come to be expressed through the lives of individuals like Alma?
2. Consider the genre of the single-person ethnography: what do you find most valuable or most surprising about the way this article recounts the life story of a single person? What does Garcia's article allow us to see that a more typical ethnographic account might not, and what might be obscured through her focus on Alma as a central figure?
3. What does Garcia mean by "ideological frameworks for drug use"? What examples does she give of how those ideological frameworks become instituted in practice?
4. Several institutions appear in Garcia's piece – hospitals, drug courts, the treatment facility Hoy Recovery, an evangelical church, and even Los Alamos National Laboratories. What role do institutions play in shaping the circumstances of Alma's life?
5. What is psychological anthropology? In what ways do you think such an approach shapes Garcia's analysis?
Editorial Overview
In the November, 2008 issue of Cultural Anthropology, Angela Garcia examines heroin addiction and overdose in northern New Mexico's Española Valley, currently home to the highest rate of heroin-induced death in the U.S. Garcia explores how a Hispano ethos of endless suffering dangerously reworks logic of "chronicity" – the prevailing model of drug addiction and addictive experience. Through the narrative of Alma, a Hispana heroin addict who died following repeated overdoses, Garcia describes the structuration of Alma's suffering and death within the discourse of chronicity.
Garcia closely followed Alma for two years as she moved within and between the clinic, drug courts, "picaderos" [shooting galleries], home and church, attempting to reconcile the inherent contradictions of heroin addiction. Through this work, Garcia demonstrates how the interplay of local and biomedical discourses compelled the "endlessness" Alma felt herself prisoner of, caught between the recurring pains of Hispano life in Española Valley and the preparation for "recovery" from a condition defined by the chronicity model as unending. Of primary concern for Garcia is the "experiences of loss and memories of it, how intersecting forms of history come to bear on the present, and how heroin use-and overdose in particular-exposes the painful recognition that the future has been swallowed up by the past."
Drawing upon past anthropological literature on the effect of medical and technical forms of knowledge on subjectivity, Garcia develops a critical phenomenology of heroin addiction, evoking what she terms the "elegiac" nature of heroin addiction in the Hispano millieu.
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A good friend of mine posted a Facebook status recently, grappling with the idea of trying to adopt or construct a cultural identity that is free from the stench of colonialism, consumerism, and appropriation. This topic has been on my radar a lot lately, partially driven by Moshe Kasher's appearances on The Joe Rogan Experience and Tangentially Speaking podcasts. (They're both excellent conversations. Highly recommended listening, in my book.)
*deep breath*
Decolonization. It's a tough nut to crack. Sure, there's a kernel of genuine substance in there somewhere, but there's also a lot of fluffy, pointless shit that seems to serve mostly as a distraction from the actual important discussion we could be having. Because ultimately, very few people want to ask themselves the questions my friend is asking, and even fewer want to live with the actual implications of following them to their logical conclusions.
I spent quite a bit of time in college studying anthropology. I never finished a degree, but the experience was profoundly formative for me. I learned about ethnocentrism and cultural relativism. I learned to view my own culture through the dispassionate lens of science, and to view other cultures through that same lens, with curiosity overtaking any sense of disgust or disapproval based on my own inherent biases. Of course, no one can do this perfectly. But it's an undeniably powerful tool in the anthropologist's (or more generally, the freethinker's) kit.
Learning these things produced real fallout in my life. I left behind the conservative Catholicism of my family, which I had, at one time, taken very seriously. Over the course of my twenties, I moved through liberal Christianity, Neo-Paganism, and Agnosticism to activistic Atheism. I've mellowed a bit in my thirties, becoming more accepting of the human psyche's penchant for metaphor, despite maintaining mostly secular and atheistic views. I eventually got far enough away from Catholicism to look back at it and see it for what it is, in all its horror and beauty.
A big problem I see with a lot of current Progressive thought, especially frameworks of privilege and anti-colonialism, is that they never get to the point where they can get far enough outside of Western culture to look back at it fairly. It is only allowed to be discussed as The Big Bad. And I get why that is, for sure. For a lot of people in marginalized groups, they still feel that boot on their neck, and I don't blame them for reacting with anger. But that's not the whole picture, and in order to understand how Western culture functions, for good and ill, we have to be able to pull out to the level of civilization as a whole, and the universalities of human nature. We have to be able to look beyond the various axes of identity-based oppression to the arc of our journey as a species.
I am not proposing that these ideas exist as a mutually exclusive dichotomy. Quite to the contrary. We need to learn to hold both ideas in tension in our minds if we are to begin to walk a path to something better. I'm not exactly hopeful, but this is the culture war I'm engaged in.
Another problem with these frameworks is that they tend to utterly ignore certain class categories that might cut across others. I'm a white, working class person. Neither of my parents went to college. I spent a lot of time trying to make my way in the academic and intellectual class, even while making my living as a construction worker. (What can I say? I've always gotten off on defying expectations.) I could sort of "pass" at first, but it eventually became clear to me that my unpolished bearing and insistence on bringing my working class experience to bear in my writings and discussions among these circles seemed to sow discomfort and awkwardness. One guy, a friend whom I knew well, continually and willfully referred to me as a nuclear engineer in group discussions, despite my repeated corrections that, no, I was in fact a construction worker often employed in nuclear power plants. I suspect he thought he was doing me a favor by "upgrading" my social status, but I found it deeply insulting. It was a willful erasure of a very important part of my identity.
I've come to view identity as something you earn, rather than something you adopt or construct. Sure, you can say whatever you want about who you think you are, but that tells me a lot less about you than observing how you actually live your life. (Apparently admitting to such a thing is now seen as gauche. Yes, I judge you based on your behaviors. I'm human. You do it, too. You just call it something different.) Earlier this year, I had a run-in with an ostensible friend, who was incensed at my continued insistence that there might be deeper things at the bottom of our current national crisis than a massive resurgence of cartoonish white supremacy and widespread ignorance. Part of this disagreement had to do with the idea of working class people opposing environmental regulations in order to maintain traditional job prospects. But for all their progressive identity labels, this former friend still lives a consumerist lifestyle and generates mountains of trash. They buy plastic crap and sweat-shop running clothes from Target. They pile up a wake of carbon emissions in their two-car commuting, jet-setting, breeder lifestyle. But they voted for Hillary, so I guess they're good.
I thought I left behind the magical thinking guilt cult when I left the Catholic church. I honestly see very little difference between this condescending, holier-than thou, guilt-tripping ideology and the dogma of my youth. Privilege guilt is the new original sin. But just as we can acknowledge that humans are born with inherent flaws that come from the messy process that created us without deeming ourselves beyond hope and pleading for miraculous salvation from sky daddy, we should be able to view the messy evolution of culture without writing off the one that happened to come out on top as inherently devilish.
In fact, to say that one culture "came out on top" is a gross misapprehension of how it actually happened. Human progress is a force that acts on a macro- level. We seem, as a species cursed with intelligence and curiosity, doomed to never be satisfied with what we have. Well, more accurately, people who have these traits and cultures that foster them will naturally out-compete those that don't. To listen to folks like Dr. Christopher Ryan, this isn't necessarily a good thing. (I tend to agree, but I'm not sure what we can do to stop it, other than try to inculcate values into our culture that try to counterbalance the ugly externalities that come with a worship of innovation and progress.) The individuals carrying it out act on their own behalf based on the biases of their times. It is impossible for us to imagine what, say, Christopher Columbus thought he was doing. I can say for certain that he didn't view himself as the monster we see in hindsight.
And yes, horrific atrocities were committed along the road that got us here. And they shouldn't be forgotten or minimized. But too much time and energy is being spent agonizing about the bloody footsteps behind us, and who among us alive today holds how much of the blame, than on what we can do to effect real systemic change that accounts for human nature and the mechanisms of cultural evolution. It's true that the culture that dominates a large swath of this planet continues to damage people and our prospects for continued survival. But it's also true that this culture has created an undeniably unprecedented rise in overall human prosperity and well-being. The problem we face at this juncture is how to even out the distribution of that prosperity and counter the huge environmental externalities we've created getting here. It may be a problem beyond our ability to overcome. But I honestly don't think we could have done it any other way, because we are what we are, for better or worse. The only way to move beyond that is to accept it. And no, that's not exoneration. It's just the facts. All we can do now is try to learn from our mistakes going forward. Because we will keep going forward. It's all we know how to do.
So, back to the idea of Decolonization. Can we deconstruct our inherited culture to the point where we can void it of any and all evidence of the traumas piled up along the road so far? Is that what this is really about? Removing the reminders to assuage the guilt? Again, that sure sounds a lot like the way my Catholic mother thinks about abortion: if it's illegal, it can still happen but she won't have to think she has anything to do with it.
Mind you, none of this is to say I don't think cultural appropriation is a real thing that can be a valid topic of discussion. Just this week I became irate when I saw a particularly egregious example of elite adoption of working class "authenticity" – pre-dirtied blue jeans. For $400. The rants I wrote in my head, I'm telling you…
So yeah, I have a tiny inkling of how a more marginalized person than me must feel when they see some clueless white asshole sporting a garment that carries with it a cultural attachment to their particular struggle. I'm not saying we shouldn't talk about these things. But I think there's a difference between calling for sensitivity or pointing out how maybe you should know what you're doing as a white person from the suburbs when you put on a Native American headdress at a festival, and trying to remove appropriated garments or practices that have essentially become part of American culture at large. We'd be left with basically nothing.
Because white identity itself is constructed from all the different cultures that have become part of it, through peaceful and violent means, going back millennia. This is why white supremacy is so ridiculous. My ancestors were German and Polish. When they came to this country, in the late 1800s, they weren't considered Americans. They didn't speak English, they kept to their own groups, and they maintained their own cultural traditions. Five generations in, by then fully American, I still grew up making German pretzels, eating homemade sauerkraut, and waking up on St. Nicholas Day to find candy in my shoes. Were there major instances of oppression of German-Americans along the road to assimilation? Well, nothing like genocide or slavery, but thousands were rounded up and put in camps during the world wars. So should people with no German ancestry stop eating pretzels and kraut? I think we'd all agree that's ridiculous.
To me, the legitimate discussion to be had here is over cultural items that are in the process of being appropriated into basic American culture without the peoples they come from being welcomed along with them. (Of course, this is by no means clearly delineated – cultural groups are not monoliths.) But the end game of the more radical decolonization endeavor would seem to me to lead to segregation. Is this what we really want? Ultimately, we'd only perpetuate the same kinds of oppression, but with kinder labels. Fetishization is not respect, and placing other people's cultures on pedestals to try and keep them out of reach of the corrupting grasp of the Western monster is just a different kind of racism. It's a Noble Savage ideology. It's the worst kind of exoticism. It denies non-white people the basic commonalities of the human experience.
And no, I'm not suggesting we adopt a White Savior ideology, either. But there is a middle path to be found that allows people to assimilate themselves and their practices into American culture on their own terms. There's a gravitational interaction that happens – both bodies pull each other toward something a little less white and a little more brown as they merge. I'd argue that a large number of Latin American people in this country are currently engaged in just such a process. And no, it's not a universally smooth or poetic path, and we've definitely got some baggage to work out, but it's happening, and in my experience anyway, many people from those groups view it as a positive development.
So, having delved into all that, what does it mean to be a white person in the United States in 2017? From what can one build a culture when one's own has been voided of substance, both by consumerist capitalism and by postmodern deconstruction? When we turn to the obscurities of our own ancestries, white people run the risk of being accused of some brand of identitarian heresy. So you can't be ethnically white, except in a generic, empty, American, football, apple pie, and Walmart way, and you also can't pick and choose things that work for you from other cultures, lest you risk trodding on someone's feelings with your massive privilege boots.
Which brings me to the crux of this whole thing: the fact that my friend is even spending their time and energy on this question points to the cruelty of the particular dogma much of the social group they find themselves a part of. This person, who struggles with a chronic illness and the lack of income that so often comes with such a condition, is using up spoons trying to suss out who they are allowed to be, culturally, as a white person in America today. Because no matter what other intersecting categories of oppression affect this person's day to day reality, their whiteness makes them ultimately culpable, and nothing they will ever suffer will relieve them of that guilt.
To my friend: The fact that you are thinking about this points to the fact that you are an amazing and compassionate person, and it's one of the reasons I think so highly of you. But you know what? You don't need absolution. You need to know that you're enough. You don't need to put on a hair shirt. Just keep being the thoughtful and considerate person you are to the actual humans in your life. Sure, keep asking questions about current attempts at appropriation as they crop up. But you don't have to flog yourself over whether or not a particular item you keep in your cultural knapsack came to you honestly. Research these things, if you like; learn their history (I assume you already do this, being you). Find out the story of how these items came to be yours. Honor the people they came from by telling those stories to others. Use the wisdom of cultures that don't put all their eggs in the innovation and progress baskets as you try to build a sustainable lifestyle for yourself. Name them in your outreach efforts. Don't take them for granted.
Of course, you're not the kind of person who takes much for granted. And that's why I like you. If that's not enough for these holier-than-thou hypocrites, then they can fuck right the fuck off.
That goes for the rest of you, too.


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Market and Economy News Update
U.S. markets end higher: U.S. markets rallied to three month highs on Friday after a report showed non-farm payrolls climbed more than forecast in July. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (INDEXDJX:.DJI) jumped 217.29 points, or 1.69 percent, to close at 13096.17. The S&P 500 (INDEXSP:.INX) surged 25.99 points, or 1.90 percent, to end at 1390.99, while the NASDAQ Composite (INDEXNASDAQ:.IXIC) gained 58.13 points, or 2 percent, to finish the week at 2967.90. The Dow added 0.17 percent for the week, S&P gained 0.36 percent and NASDAQ edged up 0.33 percent during the week.
Oil prices rally: Oil prices rose the most in a month after U.S. non-farm payrolls increased more than estimated and the Tropical Storm Ernesto, entered the Caribbean on Friday, and is headed towards the Gulf of Mexico. Crude oil for September delivery surged 4.9 percent, to settle at $91.40 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Brent oil for September settlement jumped 2.9 percent to $108.94 a barrel on the London-based ICE Futures Europe exchange.
Stocks in Focus
- Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE:BRK.A) (BRK.A) reported second quarter earnings excluding items of $2,252 a share, beating the average analysts' estimate of $1,777 a share. Article to follow shortly, check here for the latest.
- Videogame maker Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ:EA) filed a lawsuit against Zynga Inc (NASDAQ:ZNGA), accusing the rival gaming company of copying and misappropriating key elements of the popular "The Sims" game
- Knight Capital Group Inc. (NYSE:KCG) ended 57 percent higher after The Wall Street Journal reported the battered trading firm has obtained a credit line from an unnamed party that will allow it to continue operations.
- Interpublic Group of Companies, Inc. (NYSE:IPG) soared 13 percent amid market speculation that France's Publicis Groupe SA (EPA:PUB) may be considering a $6 billion bid for the advertising giant.
- Health insurer WellCare Health Plans, Inc. (NYSE:WCG) reported a better-than-expected second quarter profit due to higher premium revenue, but said medical expenses increased to 86 percent of revenue, against 81 percent last year. Wellcare also raised its full-year earnings forecast.
- Regional grocery distributor and retailer Spartan Stores, Inc. (NASDAQ:SPTN) ended 5.1 percent lower after reporting weak first-quarter results, and warning of lower same-store sales in the second quarter.
- Health Net, Inc. (NYSE:HNT) reported second quarter adjusted earnings were 6 cents a share that was far lower than the average analysts' estimate of 66 cents a share. Revenue for the quarter increased 7 percent to $2.84 billion, slightly better than estimates of $2.8 billion. The health insurer also slashed its full-year earnings outlook by more than half.
- Industrial parts supplier ITT Corporation (NYSE:ITT) reported second quarter earnings excluding items of 50 cents per share that easily beat estimates of 37 cents per share. Revenue increased 3 percent to $567.5 million, but missed market expectations of $570 million.
- Touch-screen technology company Synaptics, Incorporated (NASDAQ:SYNA) posted fourth-quarter earnings excluding items of 54 cents per share, on revenue of $137.6 million. Analysts were expecting earnings excluding items of 51 cents per share on $136.2 million in revenue. The company, however, projected first-quarter revenue below analysts' estimates.
- Zipcar Inc (NASDAQ:ZIP) said second-quarter loss narrowed, but revenue trailed estimates, as the car-sharing network provided a disappointing outlook for the third quarter and cut its forecast for sales this year.
- Rare-earth mineral producer Molycorp, Inc. (NYSE:MCP) ended 29 percent lower after it swung to a steep second-quarter loss and said it may reduce capital expenditures and secure additional financing.
- Blyth, Inc. (NYSE:BTH) surged 10 percent after reporting strong second-quarter sales amid better than expected performance at its ViSalus weight-loss and nutritional supplement business, and raising its full-year earnings forecast.
- Market-research firm ComScore, Inc. (NASDAQ:SCOR) plunged 21 percent after the company swung to a second quarter loss and cut its full-year revenue forecast amid greater anticipated foreign exchange impacts and weakness in its TV copy testing business.
Hedge Fund News Update
- Stephen Jen, one of the world's best-known currency strategists, has welcomed Mario Draghi's new revival plan for the euro zone's debt crisis. The managing partner at London-based hedge fund SLJ Macro Partners said the ECB's new set of guidelines that puts pressure on euro-zone governments should help protects the institutional integrity and the credibility of the central bank.
- Dan Loeb's Third Point LLC, has acquired a major position in Kraft Foods Inc (NASDAQ:KFT). It was however unclear whether it is a net long position or a short position.
- New York-based hedge fund, Mason Capital Management LLC, the largest shareholder of the Vancouver-based Telus Corporation (NYSE:TU) (TSE:T), has called for a meeting of shareholders to counter a potential move by the wireless carrier to consolidate its two classes of stock on a one-for-one basis.
- Chris Boas, the former global head of credit at Chicago-based hedge fund, Citadel LLC's securities unit, is planning to start a hedge fund, Longwood Credit Partners LLP.
- Bill Ackman's Pershing Square Capital Management managed to record gains of 1.5 percent in July for each of its two main funds, topping S&P 500 (INDEXSP:.INX)'s 1.26 percent rise during the same period. The fund is up 3.3% for the year.
- Astenbeck Capital Management, the $4.7 billion commodity fund gained 4 percent in July, its first positive month since February, according to a Reuters report.
Brokerage Upgrades and Downgrades on Friday, August 03, 2012
- CIGNA Corporation (NYSE:CI) was raised to "outperform" from "market perform" by analysts at BMO Capital Markets.
- Demandware Inc (NYSE:DWRE) was lifted to "buy" from "neutral" by analysts at Goldman Sachs.
- Hologic, Inc. (NASDAQ:HOLX) was raised to "strong buy" from "outperform" by analysts at Raymond James.
- Lakeland Bancorp, Inc. (NASDAQ:LBAI) was upgraded to "buy" from "hold" by analysts at Stifel Nicolaus with a target price of $10.50.
- Mercadolibre Inc (NASDAQ:MELI) was lifted to "overweight" from "neutral" by analysts at JPMorgan Chase.
- Mistras Group, Inc. (NYSE:MG) was raised to "outperform" from "neutral" by analysts at Robert W. Baird with a target price of $26.
- Ralcorp Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:RAH) was lifted to "buy" from "neutral" by analysts at UBS AG.
- SM Energy Co. (NYSE:SM) was raised to "buy" from "hold" by analysts at Societe Generale.
- Sunoco Logistics Partners L.P. (NYSE:SXL) was upgraded to "buy" from "neutral" by analysts at Bank of America.
- AtriCure Inc. (NASDAQ:ATRC) was downgraded to "neutral" from "overweight" by analysts at Piper Jaffray.
- Air Transport Services Group Inc. (NASDAQ:ATSG) was cut to "hold" from "buy" by analysts at Dahlman Rose.
- Ariba, Inc. (NASDAQ:ARBA) was downgraded to "equal weight" from "overweight" at Barclays Capital.
- Becton, Dickinson and Co. (NYSE:BDX) was lowered to "underperform" from "outperform" by analysts at Credit Agricole.
- Concur Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:CNQR) was cut to "sell" from "neutral" by analysts at Goldman Sachs.
- Nordstrom, Inc. (NYSE:JWN) was downgraded to "neutral" from "outperform" by analysts at Robert W. Baird with a target price of $59.
- Molycorp, Inc. (NYSE:MCP) was downgraded by analysts at JPMorgan Chase from "neutral" to "underweight."
- RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd. (NYSE:RNR) was cut by analysts at Citigroup from "buy" to "neutral."
- Spectra Energy Corp. (NYSE:SE) was lowered to "hold" from "buy" by analysts at Deutsche Bank.
- The Fresh Market Inc (NASDAQ:TFM) was downgraded by analysts at JPMorgan Chase from "overweight" to "neutral."
- World Fuel Services Corporation (NYSE:INT) was cut by analysts at Bank of America from "buy" to "underperform."