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HOUSTON -- U.S. motorists paid record high prices for gasoline in 2012, as severe weather and political tensions drove up the cost of fuel.
The national average price of gasoline in 2012 was $3.60 a gallon, nine cents more than the previous annual record set last year, said Heathrow, Fla.-based AAA, the nation's largest motoring group.
Prices touched $3.94 a gallon on April 5 and 6 after crude oil rallied as the United States and European nations imposed an embargo on Iranian oil exports to pressure the Persian Gulf nation over its nuclear program. Prices sank as low as $3.22 a gallon on Dec. 20 amid lower demand and higher supply in winter, when motor fuel faces looser emissions regulations.
"Factors as volatile as major hurricanes, refinery outages and tension in the Middle East resulted in significant frustration for people filling up their cars," Avery Ash, a spokesman for AAA, said in an emailed statement.
Hawaii, Alaska and California were the three most expensive states, while South Carolina, Missouri and Mississippi were the cheapest.
Gasoline prices will probably drop next year than in 2012 because of increased domestic crude production and lower motor- fuel demand, Ash said.
The U.S. produced 6.98 million barrels of oil a day in the week ended Dec. 21, the most since March 1993, according to Energy Department data. Drillers in states like North Dakota and Texas have spurred the output growth with increased use of methods such as directional drilling and hydraulic fracturing.
The four-week average for gasoline demand the week ended Dec. 21 was 3.3 percent below a year earlier, MasterCard Inc. said last week. Year-to-date fuel consumption is 3.6 percent below the same period in 2011. The information is based on credit-card swipes and cash and check payments at about 140,000 U.S. gasoline stations.
If Congress fails to reach a budget deal, the economy could fall into a recession, further depressing price forecasts for next year, Ash said.


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Al-Jazeera to Buy Current TV
News network al-Jazeera agreed to purchase Current TV, the current affairs channel partly owned by Al Gore, seeking to boost its presence in American television.
Financial terms of the deal weren't disclosed, but a person familiar with the matter said al-Jazeera paid a few hundred million dollars for Current TV. The network, which was co-founded by Mr. Gore and entrepreneur Joel Hyatt in 2005, has recently been struggling with low ratings.
Al-Jazeera, which is owned by the government of Qatar, became famous in the U.S. about a decade ago when its Arabic-language outlet aired videos of Osama bin Laden in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks. Since then the English-language version of the channel, which is available online in the U.S. and on TV in a few cities, has gained plaudits for its international coverage.
The purchase of Current TV could give al-Jazeera national cable distribution in the U.S., something it has been seeking for years. But al-Jazeera doesn't plan to replace Current TV with its English-language channel. Instead it will create a new channel, al-Jazeera America, and will "invest significantly" in new programming, Mr. Hyatt wrote in a note to Current TV staff announcing the deal. The channel will be based in New York and expand al-Jazeera's U.S. staff to more than 300, the company said in an announcement.
Not all cable operators are on board with the change. Time Warner Cable Inc., the second-largest cable operator, said late Wednesday it was dropping Current TV. The network's owners acknowledged the deal was the reason.
"This is unfortunate, but I am confident that al-Jazeera America will earn significant additional carriage in the months and years ahead," Mr. Hyatt wrote.
The deal comes several months after Messrs. Gore and Hyatt, the two largest owners of Current TV, put the channel on the market.
Mr. Hyatt said they agreed to sell to al-Jazeera in part because "al-Jazeera was founded with the same goals we had for Current," including "to give voice to those whose voices are not typically heard" and "to speak truth to power." Other suitors who didn't share Current's ideology were rebuffed. Glenn Beck's The Blaze approached Current about buying the channel last year, but was told that "the legacy of who the network goes to is important to us and we are sensitive to networks not aligned with our point of view," according to a person familiar with the negotiations.
Launched in 2005, with a focus on user-generated content, Current has evolved in recent years into a left-leaning professionally produced outlet. But it has struggled to boost its ratings—parting ways with its most prominent host Keith Olbermann last March—and gain broad distribution. Current had 59 million subscribers in 2012, according to SNL Kagan, out of a total pay television universe of about 100 million households.
Only about 22,000 households on average tuned into Current TV between January and November. By comparison, since late September, Time Warner Inc.'s CNN has averaged about 700,000 households during primetime with about 1.9 million tuning into Fox News, according to Nielsen. Fox News is a unit of News Corp . , owner of The Wall Street Journal.
Current TV's poor ratings threatened its distribution. It has lately been operating under an unusual contract stipulation with Time Warner Cable: It had to meet certain minimum audience thresholds every quarter or risk being dropped.
Al-Jazeera believes a new channel has potential because it draws a large U.S. audience on its website. The reputation of al-Jazeera improved in the U.S. during the Arab Spring two years ago, when State Department officials began to praise its coverage and Americans tuned into its online channel. During the Arab Spring, 60% of al-Jazeera English's online viewership came from within the U.S.
News of the pending deal was first reported by the New York Times on its website.
—Shalini Ramachandran contributed to this article.
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Sleepwalking, formally known as somnambulism, is a behavior disorder that originates during deep sleep and results in walking or performing other complex behaviors while asleep. It is much more common in children than adults and is more likely to occur if a person is sleep deprived. Because a sleepwalker typically remains in deep sleep throughout the episode, he or she may be difficult to awaken and will probably not remember the sleepwalking incident.
Sleepwalking usually involves more than just walking during sleep; it is a series of complex behaviors that are carried out while sleeping, the most obvious of which is walking. Symptoms of sleepwalking disorder range from simply sitting up in bed and looking around, to walking around the room or house, to leaving the house and even driving long distances. It is a common misconception that a sleepwalker should not be awakened. In fact, it can be quite dangerous not to wake a sleepwalker.
The prevalence of sleepwalking in the general population is estimated to be between 1% and 15%. The onset or persistence of sleepwalking in adulthood is common, and is usually not associated with any significant underlying psychiatric or psychological problems. Common triggers for sleepwalking include sleep deprivation, sedative agents (including alcohol), febrile illnesses, and certain medications.
The prevalence of sleepwalking is much higher for children, especially those between the ages of three and seven, and occurs more often in children with sleep apnea. There is also a higher instance of sleepwalking among children who experience bedwetting. Sleep terrors are a related disorder and both tend to run in families.
Sleepwalking is most often initiated during deep sleep but may occur in the lighter sleep stages of NREM, usually within a few hours of falling asleep, and the sleepwalker may be partially aroused during the episode.
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DOSWELL, VA -- Once again throttling back on his most vociferous attacks on President Barack Obama, Mitt Romney continued his effort to paint the president as a partisan without a plan, and pledged to work across the aisle with Democrats if elected president in his second event of a three-stop Virginia campaign day.
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Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney greets supporters at a campaign stop at Meadow Event Park, in Richmond, Va., Thursday, Nov. 1, 2012.
"I'm going to meet regularly with Democrat leaders and Republican leaders. I won't do that once a year, when I say regularly I mean much more frequently than that, because we're going to have to work together," Romney pledged. "These are critical times. This is an election of consequence."
Democrats immediately seized on the irony of Romney delivering these remarks while standing next to House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., whom Democrats have long accused of using his power in the House to act as one of the "chief architects" of GOP obstruction to President Obama's agenda.
"For the sole purpose of political gain, congressman Cantor and Republicans in Congress, like Romney's running mate congressman Ryan, have blocked efforts to achieve a balanced deficit reduction deal and to pass legislation to create jobs now," read a statement from Obama campaign spokeswoman Lis Smith. "The American people need someone who will move us forward, not just serve as a rubber stamp for the right wing."
Romney, who has dialed down his criticisms of President Obama in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, and as the campaigns move into the closing argument phase, continued to ding the president for what he said was a lack of an agenda and a campaign based upon attacks alone.
GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney hits the campaign trail in Roanoke, Virginia criticizing President Obama's economic and energy policies.
"For a while there he was talking about saving characters on Sesame Street, and then it was word games with my name that he was playing, and then of course he got very anxious and went out there and just attacked me day in and day out," Romney said. "Attacking me does not create an agenda for him."
Romney makes one more appearance in Virginia today: a rally in Virginia Beach that was originally planned for Sunday night, but had to be rescheduled due to the approach of Hurricane Sandy.


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The timeless story of two good buddies learning the art of love comes to life in the Ball Theater this week with the Wabash Theater presentation of Two Gentlemen of Verona.
The play opens at 8 p.m. Wednesday night in the Ball Theater at the Fine Arts Building.
Click here to see photos from Monday's dress rehearsal.
"For me, Shakespeare's The Two Gentlemen of Verona is about the natures of the bonds of platonic friendship and romantic love," said Visiting Assistant Professor of Theater James Cherry. "It is a play about young men leaving the comforts of home to enter a wider, more complicated world. It is about the first steps toward upward mobility and moving outside of your class. And it is about the changes and dangers that are part and parcel with that journey.
"Even though it was first performed sometime in the 1590s, Two Gentlemen is a funny, thought-provoking play that still resonates today."
The play runs through Saturday. Cherry said the experience has been a very rewarding one.
"The students have rehearsed tirelessly over the past several weeks and it has been a blast working with and learning from them," Cherry said. "Collaborating with the design team has also been a stimulating and rewarding experience. I just hope everyone has enjoyed the process as much as I have."


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How Much of a Deduction Will Your Charitable Gift Generate? You Choose!Posted April 2017
One of the most attractive benefits derived from charitable planning is the charitable deduction, which reduces the out-of-pocket cost of your generosity. With some gifts you get a choice of the discount rate used for the deduction—and it can possibly make a difference of thousands of dollars in tax savings to you.
The choice in the discount rate is available with giving plans that have both charitable and noncharitable components. These are known as "split interest" gifts. For example, you could make a gift to us that creates a stream of income for you or other beneficiaries, with the remainder coming to us. Or you could make a gift in which the stream of income comes to us for a period of years and then the gift goes to whomever you choose.
There are special methods for calculating the deductible portion of split-interest gifts that use a factor based on certain prevailing interest rates. This IRS discount rate changes from month to month, which means that a gift of the same amount can generate a different deduction depending on which monthly rate is used in the calculation.
Even small changes in the discount rate can affect the amount of a charitable deduction—and fairly wide swings can have a substantial impact. For instance, the rate increased from 1.6% in November to 1.8% in December and then jumped all the way to 2.4% in January and 2.6% in February. The difference in the resulting charitable deduction could be significant, depending on such factors as the type of gift, the amount of the gift, and the age of the donor.
Let's say you made a gift to us in January. You were allowed to use the discount rate in effect for the month of the gift or either of the two months immediately preceding the gift to determine the value of the charitable deductible interest. The recent rise in the discount rate creates bigger deductions for life-income gifts but lower deductions for other gifts such as charitable lead trusts. When rates fall, the opposite is true. There actually can be instances when, depending on your personal circumstances and the kind of charitable gift you make, it can be advantageous to choose a rate that generates a lower deduction.
We are pleased to work with you and your tax professional to determine the best rate. Your tax professional will also advise you on the process for formally choosing a rate if you choose not to use the rate in effect for the month of your gift.
Remember, your ability to choose a discount rate only works retrospectively—looking back at the two previous months. If you are contemplating a substantial split-interest gift, you will want to keep an eye on where the discount rate is and where it is likely to go.
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A leading commodity trading house, with global operations has a new vacancy within it's trade floor advisory team inLondon. This firm is looking to employ a Compliance Adviser that can advise the Gas, Power and Emissions business areas on regulatory issues. This is an excellent role for a Compliance adviser with experience working in a Commodity trading environment.
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Brenda Talent
Brenda Talent is the Executive Director of the Show-Me-Institute, a research and educational institute. She was formerly with Bryan Cave LLP, as counsel. She was a partner at Bryan Cave until January 1994, when she decided to leave the legal practice to spend time with her children, manage her husband's Congressional campaigns and co-teach the State and Local Tax course in Washington University's graduate tax program. Professor Talent was awarded the Missouri Bar Foundation David J. Dixon Appellate Advocacy Award in 1990. She received her J.D. degree (1981) from the University of Chicago Law School and, while serving as a Captain in the Army JAG Corps, received her Masters of Law in Taxation (1985) from Georgetown University Law Center.
Laurel Tinsley
Laurel Tinsley is a Vice President of Finance, Director of New Markets at McCormack Baron Salazar where she focuses specifically on the firm's New Market and solar tax credit investments. She also works on projects involving a broad spectrum of other development incentives and tax credits. Mrs. Tinsley brings to this role a mixture of investment, strategic and legal experience. Before joining MBS, Mrs. Tinsley was a partner at law firm and has over ten years of legal experience handling complex real estate, tax credit and tax transactions. She received a JD and an LLM in Tax from Washington University.
Jennifer Tyus
Jennifer A. Tyus is an attorney for the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. She provides counsel in the areas of employment law, banking regulation and supervision and other general legal matters. Previously, Ms. Tyus practiced at a local law firm in the areas of civil litigation and family law in Missouri and Illinois. She has extensive experience with pre-trial discovery and drafting discovery motions, Motions for Summary Judgment and appellate briefs. In addition, Ms. Tyus has successfully briefed issues before the Court of Appeals for the Eastern District of Missouri. She was involved with a lawsuit representing Missouri hospitals in a claim against the tobacco industry. As a member of the trial team, she assisted lead trial counsel in preparing lay and expert witnesses, reviewing testimony, preparing exhibits and arguing the admission of exhibits. She earned her J.D. from Washington University School of Law in 2004.
Greg Upchurch
Greg Upchurch is founder and CEO of LegalMetric, a firm dedicated to analysis of federal litigation. Prior to founding this firm, he was of counsel at Husch & Eppenberger, LLC, in St. Louis, where his practice focused on federal commercial litigation, with an emphasis on intellectual property litigation. Mr. Upchurch is the author of a three-volume treatise on intellectual property litigation published by West Group. He is a graduate of Yale Law School and the University of Missouri-Rolla. He has been listed in the Best Lawyers in American since 1997, and is past chair of the Legal Education Committee and the Editorial Board of the Missouri Bar. He is a recipient of the Missouri Bar President's Award. Mr. Upchurch has taught intellectual property litigation and licensing courses at the School of Law.
Kenneth Vuylsteke
Kenneth Vuylsteke is a Senior Partner, Fox & Vuylsteke LLP Law Firm. A 1980 graduate of Washington University School of Law, Kenneth Vuylsteke is a trial lawyer representing plaintiffs in civil litigation in Missouri and Illinois. Vuylsteke centers his practice on individuals and families who have suffered personal injury or death due to medical malpractice, product defects, nursing home abuse, electrocution, defective medical devices, chemical exposure and serious vehicular accidents. In 1986, he was awarded the Lon O. Hocker Trial Lawyer Award by the Missouri Bar Foundation. In 2003, he received the President's Award from the Missouri Association of Trial Attorneys where he has served on the Board of Governors since 1988 and Executive Committee since 2005. Vuylsteke has been an Adjunct Professor of Law at St. Louis University Law School and Washington University School of Law. He has chaired both the Medical - Legal Committee for the Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis and the HMO Health Law Committee for the Missouri Association of Trial Attorneys since 1998. He is currently on the Board of Governors of the American Association for Justice. In 2003 and 2004, Vuylsteke served as Commissioner on the Missouri Commission on Patient Safety. His articles on Medical Ethics have been published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Missouri Medicine and St. Louis Metropolitan Medicine.
Raymond Wagner, Jr.
Ray Wagner is currently with Enterprise Rent-a-Car, Inc. Immediately prior, Ray served as the Director of the Illinois Department of Revenue and before that, Ray was the Director of the Missouri Department of Revenue and the General Counsel of the Missouri Department of Revenue.
Nancy Walsh
Nancy Walsh is a 1996 cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School where she was Assistant Editor to the International Law Review. After law school, she was a clerk to the Honorable Edward E. Cames on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit and then worked as a lawyer at two law firms in Atlanta. She later obtained a Master's Degree in City and Regional Planning from Georgia Institute of Technology. She was an adjunct professor at Emory School of Law and taught a seminar on Affordable Housing and Community Development.
Tammy Walsh
Tammy Walsh received her J.D. from Washing University after graduating from the University of Illinois. She was the law clerk for the Honorable Robert Kingsland, United States Magistrate for the Eastern District of Missouri for two years then was a Corporate Litigation Attorney for Ralston Purina Company before becoming an adjunct professor of law in 1996 teaching Pretrial Practice and Procedure.
Shen Wang
Shen Wang is associated with Brinks Gilson & Lione. Click here for his profile.
Douglas Warren
Douglas Warren is a solo practitioner in Chesterfield, Missouri. Prior to starting his own firm, he was an attorney at Polster Lieder Woodruff and Lucchesi, P.C. Prof. Warren was admitted to the Missouri Bar in 2000. He is also admitted to the bars of the United States District Court for the Eastern and Western Districts of Missouri, United States District Court for Eastern District of Wisconsin, Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, and Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. After graduating in 1992 from National Louis University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Management, Prof. Warren attended Washington University School of Law and received his Juris Doctoris degree in 1999. While at Washington University, he was a Staff Member and Managing Editor of the Washington University Intellectual Property Law newsletter and an active member in the school's Intellectual Property Law Society. He was also very active in a number of national moot court competitions, winning Best Oralist in the Giles Rich Patent Law Moot Court competition for the Midwest region. His other activities included a position as a law clerk for the Honorable Thomas A. Mummert, Federal Magistrate Judge in the Eastern District of Missouri during the summer of 1996. Prior to attending law school, Prof. Warren garnered extensive engineering and business experience in a variety of positions such as: President/CEO Laclede Engineering, Inc., 1985 - 1997; Project Manager, Emerson Electric, Government and Defense Group, 1981 - 1985; and Design Engineer, Southwest Mobile Systems, 1978 - 1981. Prof. Warren is currently a member of The Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis and the American Bar Association, Intellectual Property Law Section. He is currently involved in intellectual property law litigation at his firm.
Naomi Warren, MSW, JD
Naomi Warren is a teacher and a learner. Professionally, naomi works as a school social worker at Eureka High School in the Rockwood School District. She is serving as an adjunct professor this fall for the Introduction to U.S. Law and Methods course. naomi has been working in the field of social justice since graduating from Wellesley College in 2002. During her graduate program in social work and law at Washington University in St. Louis, she spent time in Ghana, South Africa, and Montgomery, Alabama as an intern with the Southern Poverty Law Center. After completing her graduate program, naomi spent over two years in Ann Arbor, Michigan facilitating a 20-week afterschool program at four high schools. The goal of the program was to increase students' critical consciousness and awareness to work for just social change. In 2011, naomi returned to St. Louis. After working as an immigration attorney for 2 years, naomi returned to the educational setting as a high school social worker – first for the Individualized Learning Center, Rockwood's alternative high school program, and currently at Eureka. She is working with the Eureka High School student equity team and is thrilled to be working with LLM students at Washington University this year.
Brian Weaver
Brian Weaver is partner at Stinson Leonard Street where he counsels investors, community development entities, nonprofit organizations, and developers in all aspects of financing tax credit transactions. He has substantial experience helping clients navigate transactions that generate state and federal historic rehabilitation tax credits, state and federal new markets tax credits, and state and federal renewable energy tax credits. Mr. Weaver is very active in supporting organizations serving St. Louis in areas such as immigrant resettlement and urban revitalization. He is a graduate of American University and the University of Missouri.
John W. Westmoreland
John W. Westmoreland is currently Associate General Counsel for Edward Jones where he assists the firm with federal tax matters. He graduated from the University of Missouri receiving a B.S. in Accountancy in 1994 and Masters in Accountancy and J.D. degrees in 1997. Following law school, he joined Ernst & Young as a tax consultant where he practiced in the area of state and local taxation and also assisted the firm with the development of tax consulting project and account management processes. In 1999, Mr. Westmoreland served as an attorney-advisor to Judge Carolyn Miller Parr of the U.S. Tax Court. In 2000, he joined the Washington, DC, offices of Latham & Watkins, where he provided federal, international and state and local tax transaction and controversy services to corporations and partnerships. In 2005, he served as the Chief Tax Counsel to the U.S. House of Representatives Small Business Committee as well as the Legislative Director for Congressman Donald Manzullo of the 16th Congressional District in Illinois. Mr. Westmoreland joined Husch Blackwell Sanders in St. Louis as a partner in 2007. At Husch Blackwell Sanders, he provided tax transactional and controversy services to a wide range of clients, focusing his practice on federal and state transactions involving new markets, historic, renewable and low-income tax credits. Mr. Westmoreland is licensed to practice law in Missouri and Illinois, as well as the District of Columbia. He also holds a CPA license in Missouri.
Andrew Weinhaus
Andrew Weinhaus is associated with the Law Office of Andrew Weinhaus, L.L.C.
Steven R. Wendling
Steve Wendling specializes in providing accounting and auditing services to publicly-held companies. Mr. Wendling has 20 years of experience including 9 years with a Big Four firm where he primarily served the financial services, manufacturing and mining industries. Mr. Wendling also spent 8 years in industry serving as a controller and chief financial officer in both the financial services and aviation services industries. Mr. Wendling, who is licensed as a Certified Public Accountant in Missouri, Illinois and Virginia, received a bachelor of science degree in Accounting from Purdue University. He is a managing director of UHY Advisors MO, Inc. and a partner with UHY LLP and serves as co-leader of the firm's St. Louis office SEC practice in addition to serving on the firm's public practice executive committee. Mr. Wendling is a Board Member and Treasurer of The First Tee of Greater St. Louis, serves as a Board Member and Vice President of Westborough C.C., and is a member of the American Institute of CPAs, Missouri Society of CPAs, and Financial Executives International.
Thomas Wheeland
Tom Wheeland is a Tax & Legal Services Director resident in the St. Louis office of PricewaterhouseCoopersLLP. Mr Wheeland specializes in tax consulting and compliance for property and casualty companies and is considered a thought leader in the area of deferred taxes for insurance companies. Tom served as the primary author of PwC's publication, Deferred Taxes for Insurance Companies - A Comparison of FAS 109 and SSAP 10, and continues to assist the firm in developing deferred tax guidance for the insurance industry. Tom has been a featured speaker at various insurance forums sponsored by PricewaterhouseCoopers, the Insurance Accounting and Systems Association, the Hartford Institute on Insurance Taxation, and the BlueCross/BlueShield Association. Mr. Wheeland received his undergraduate degree in business from the University of Notre Dame in 1984 and his law degree from St. Louis University in 1988. He is a member in good standing of the Missouri Bar and the Missouri Society of Certified Public Accountants.
Bryan Wheelock
Bryan K. Wheelock has a practice that includes preparation and prosecution of patent and trademark applications and drafting of intellectual property agreements, including non-compete agreements. He has brought and defended lawsuits in federal and state courts relating to intellectual property and he has participated in seizures of counterfeit and infringing goods. Mr. Wheelock also does a substantial amount of patentability searching, trademark availability searching and patent and trademark infringement studies. Mr. Wheelock prepares and prosecutes U.S. and foreign patent applications on mechanical and electromechanical devices, manufacturing machinery, processes and materials.
Mr. Wheelock has a B.S.E. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Duke University and a J.D. degree from Washington University School of Law. He is a member of the Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis, the American Bar Association, the American Intellectual Property Association and the Licensing Executives Society. Click Here for Profile
Kathleen Whitby
Kate Whitby is an of counsel attorney in the St. Louis office of Spencer Fane Britt & Browne, LLP, where she concentrates her practice in environmental law, dispute resolution and complex litigation. She has sixteen years of practice experience focused primarily on problem-solving for environmental contamination and cleanup projects, and has worked as a third-party neutral as well as an attorney in private practice. For example, she is the former Director of Settlement Services for Clean Sites, Inc., a national non-profit organization dedicated to improved environmental cleanup, communication and stewardship, where she served as a mediator, facilitator, arbitrator and trainer. Prof. Whitby was approved as a neutral for the first National Roster of Environmental Dispute Resolution and Consensus Building Professionals, prepared by the U.S. Institute of Environmental Conflict Resolution in Tucson, Arizona. She also recently was invited to join the CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution's Panels of Distinguished Neutrals as an environmental member. Prof. Whitby serves as the Chair of the American Bar Association's Section of Environment, Energy and Resources (SEER) ADR Committee. She is admitted to practice in Missouri and Illinois.
Daniel C. White
Daniel White is a partner in the Tax Advice group of Bryan Cave LLP. Mr. White's practice focuses primarily on corporate and partnership tax planning, including acquisitions, mergers, reorganizations, and spin-offs. He regularly represents public and private operating companies as well as venture capital and private equity funds. Mr. White is an adjunct professor at the Washington University School of Law in the Master's of Taxation Program and has been a frequent lecturer on tax aspects of domestic and international mergers, acquisitions, and restructuring. Mr. White received his A.B. from Duke University and his J.D. from Georgetown University. Mr. White is a member of the American Bar Association Tax Section and the Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis.
Honorable Ronnie White
Judge White is associated with Holloran, White & Schwartz. Click Here for Profile
The Honorable Donald G. Wilkerson
Judge Wilkerson is the U.S. Magistrate Judge in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois.
Brian Wolfe
Brian Wolfe is a corporate partner in the Chicago office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP, where his practice focuses on complex private equity and public company business transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, capital markets transactions and corporate governance counseling. Outside of the law firm, Brian serves as a member of the board of directors of the Chicago Legal Clinic. Brian previously served as Deputy Superintendent and Chief Operating Officer of the St. Louis Public Schools.
Richard Woolf
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I hear often that when something new appears that "competition is good". The primary reasons competition is seen as good, are: it drives down prices; it gives consumers more choice; it pushes technology forward, quicker. Competition is not good because: competition is why consumers have to choose between HD-DVD and BluRay; competition is why DRM exists; and more. In this article, each of the supposed benefits of competition will be looked at in more detail.
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but in general there is always a net positive - even if it is not the result that was originally envisioned. Self organizing systems have a funny way of doing that.
I don't know if the author of this rant is just impatient or a student of Marx, but this is probably the most ridiculous article I have ever read here.


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HandyNotes_CityGuide is small companion addon to HandyNotes_Vendors, HandyNotes_Trainers, HandyNotes_Mailboxes and HandyNotes_FlightMasters adding map notes for rest of the points of interrest in Cities, Towns and all of Azeroth. HandyNotes_CityGuide requires HandyNotes to run.
HandyNotes is base addon allowing other addons add icons to your worldmap. HandyNotes_CityGuide is addon adding one icon for each Banker, Auctioneer, Stable Master, and Battle Master you visit. Each of them has different icon so you can easily find out where is standing the one you are looking for.
HandyNotes_CityGuide helps you track:
- Bankers
Guild Banks(disabled)
- Auction Houses
- Stables
- Battle Masters
Spirit Healers(moved to HandyNotes_Charon)
HandyNotes_Trainers helps you track:
- Class Trainers even with Portal and Pet Trainers
- Profession Trainers (Mining, Tailoring, ....)
- Secondary Profession Trainers (Cooking, Fishing, and First Aid Trainers)
- Skill Trainers (Weapon Masters, Riding, and Cold Weather Flying Trainers)
HandyNotes_Vendors helps you track:
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- Innkeepers
HandyNotes_Mailboxes from kagaro helps you track:
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HandyNotes_FlightMasters from Xinhuan helps you with:
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HandyNotes_Charon (BETA) helps you track your deaths:
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Baden of WGB writes: "If nothing else Trion Worlds deserve kudos for attempting something very different, a blending of videogame and TV show to try and create one world wherein the events of either medium can affect the other. The result of this mad experiment was Defiance, a third-person shooter in MMO guise.
But I'm worried that Defiance is hurting Defiance."
On a slightly off-topic note I've still not yet managed to hunt down a legendary weapon, though I may not be a high enough EGO rating to find any, I suppose.
Mind you, I've heard people who do have them say they're not worth the time it took to get hold of them. Can anyone on here offer up an opinion?
Back on topic a little, I do like this weeks episode tie-in. it feels like the first proper crossover we've had, even if the mission itself is still dull.
I don't agree totally with the author, but even he admits to being too harsh.The game takes a lot of resources including time to make changes. This is not like a show where you just change a script mid scene. I think the game will get better because Trion is behind it. This is one MMO where I am not yawning 10 minutes after starting because it can be HARD. If they would only make the death penalty harsher, I would be happier! But I like the game and show!
It was a pretty massive endeavor, and isn't great. Show uses a ton of resources and, unfortunately, is just kind of mediocre. I have the feeling that if the show was a web series instead of a cable broadcast, it would probably do a lot better and be more easily forgiven for not being amazing. Defiance has so many amazing shows to compete with right now, someone coming from watching GoT would be super disappointed (even though GoT is a high standard).
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The only reason I watch the Defiance tv show is because I play the game. Normally, I don't watch tv at all and I watch full episodes of the show on syfy web site.


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Condo association wins $8 million lawsuit
The Central Park Townhomes Condominium Association won an $8 million judgment Tuesday in a construction defect lawsuit.
The case, brought against developer Central Park Townhomes LLC and general contractor Fairfield Construction Co., was tried before an Arapahoe County District Court jury for two weeks. Attorney Chris Rhody of McKenzie Rhody & Hearn LLC represented the association.
Defects in the 74-unit property in Aurora included improper drainage, improper installatoin of windows and doors, failure to apply building paper and settling decks and porches.
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A mad, wonderful adventure
In her first book, Parched, Heather King documents twenty years of worshipping alcohol to the point, as she says, she was "willing to sacrifice everything: career, family, money, health, reputation, my life, and what is far worse than any of those, my soul, for alcohol." Her second book Redeemed – A Spiritual Misfit Stumbles toward God,… READ MORE >
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Burgeoning Beats
A legendary manuscript co-written by Beat Masters, Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs, has finally come to light as And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks. Written when both were unknown and unpublished, leading hardscrabble lives in wartime New York, the real-life story centers on the doomed relationship between Lucien Carr and… READ MORE >
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A Hipster's Homily
Chuck Klosterman acquits himself well with his first novel, Downtown Owl. He's better known as a wiseass essayist on movies, video games, heavy-metal music and pop culture miscellany for publications like Esquire, Spin, and The Guardian. An ominous news clipping prefaces Downtown Owl, reporting on a vicious blizzard that claimed the… READ MORE >
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Rushdie, The Enchanter
In 1988, Sir Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses earned the Indian-British author a rare honor: a fatwa calling for Rushdie's assassination, issued by a faction of Muslim extremists. The fatwa granted Rushdie the social distinction of martyrdom without its one significant disadvantage, as the author continued to collect awards and… READ MORE >
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Disasters of War
So here we are, facing a global economic collapse and an election where both candidates represent the lesser of another evil. It's time to turn to Kurt Vonnegut, whose unique blend of bleak humor, genuine outrage, and dark surreality seems more relevant than ever, and more cogent than a cadre of political and economic analysts. Armageddon… READ MORE >
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The Archbishop of Canterbury Reads Dostoevsky
Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, has recently written a book about Fyodor Dostoevsky, author of Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov. The book—Dostoevsky: Language, Faith, and Fiction—has drawn some controversy, not so much for its content, but for the question of whether it should have been written in the first place.… READ MORE >
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The Same Man?
I suspect that the title of this little dual biography was intended to produce in the potential reader (i.e., anyone even a little familiar with Waugh and Orwell) precisely the reaction it produced in me upon hearing it: I exclaimed something to the effect of, "Say what?" and promptly plunked down twenty-six bucks (minus my local indie… READ MORE >
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It's not quite a twist on the level of The Sixth Sense (I read dead people?), but you may raise an eyebrow fifty-or-so pages into Indignation: our narrator is not only unreliable, he may not be corporeal. Philip Roth's idea of the Afterlife is apparently similar to his idea of Old Age: mourn lost youth, nurse grudges, and rage… READ MORE >
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Twice-told Tales
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"'The more he gave himself to the world,' Iyer writes, the more Tibetans have come to feel 'like natural children bewildered by the fact that their father has adopted three others.' …Avidly embracing the liberating ideas of the secular metropolis, the Dalai Lama resembles the two emblematic types who have shaped the modern age, for better and for worse—the provincial fleeing ossified custom and the refugee fleeing totalitarianism. Even so, his critics may have a point: the Dalai Lama's citizenship in the global cosmopolis seems to come at a cost to his dispossessed people… It is hard to see the Dalai Lama bringing about mutual understanding in the world at large when he has failed to bring it about between China and Tibet." READ MORE >


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A "giant curtain" gently pulled aside is how Danish wunderkind Bjarke Ingels describes his inspirational design for Vancouver House. Transforming the Canadian city's skyline, the uniquely twisted, top-heavy residential building will expand 500 feet into the sky, defying gravity and redefining possibility.
Since its inception in 2005, the Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) has accumulated dozens of international awards for its projects, including the Two World Trade Center, the Danish Maritime Museum, and the VIA 57 West and VM Houses apartment complexes. Vancouver House, named Future Project of the Year 2015 by the World Architecture Festival, is now part of this illustrious list.
Ingels viewed the unpromising site, entangled in heavy traffic and dominated by a large access bridge, and saw only opportunity. This is typical of his philosophy: navigating a third route between building predictable box apartments and engineering unrealistic architectural extremes.
His motto "Yes is More" – celebrated in his graphic novel of the same name – embraces a radical manifesto exploring this middle ground between the predictable and the impractical. Vancouver, as a result, will gain a super-prime piece of real estate, cementing its global rank as one of the world's top cities for purchasing property.
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Among BIG's extraordinary contemporary masterpieces is the headquarters of Swiss watchmakers Audemars Piguet, La Maison des Fondateurs, which resembles a coiled spring. Equally ground-breaking is Manhattan's Hud-The Dryline, an ingenious coastal defence designed to withstand another Hurricane Sandy. Leisure activities will extend along the ten miles of this impressive flood barrier once it's installed.
Adapt and survive
The evolution of Vancouver House is not dissimilar, says Ingels, to that of the famed Flatiron in New York, a triangular skyscraper that had to adapt to the awkward space available in the city. The Canadian structure's height is in harmony with its mountainous backdrop and its "toes" dig in under the Granville Bridge, where a new urban village will enliven the area. Darwin's "adapt and survive" mantra is a key influence on the young architect whose ultimate ambition is to "make a world we want to live in".
Meaning "entirety in a work of art", Ingels embodies this German term with his multiple award-winning designs. As the concept also refers to the maintenance of a sense of community alongside the creation of beautiful living spaces, Vancouver House's inhabitants can expect to cultivate an elegant lifestyle through convenient access to green spaces and a vibrant selection of cafes, galleries and shops.
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Internally, attention to detail is scrupulous at BIG – even the smallest fixture is subject to approval, such as a bespoke chandelier at Vancouver House's lobby which will spin up and down throughout the day. "Alchemy" is the word used by BIG's architects to describe their fastidious focus on formulating a luxurious urban lifestyle. With a five-star concierge service and generous outdoor balconies featuring individual hot tubs and saunas in each suite, it's not surprising that the units are already selling fast.
Vancouver House is a work in progress, with completion slated for 2018. Engel & Völkers is offering apartments in this iconic building – a superb opportunity to invest in architectural history. The company's extensive array of luxury homes covers four continents, with skilled professional expertise on hand in 36 countries.


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Yes, and it looked okay.plebayo wrote:Have they x-rayed his throat?
I think he mentioned "giving barium" to calm his stomach as sort of a medicine?plebayo wrote: If they didn't do barium already that may be another option just to have them do a barium series and watch how the barium passes - it might give a clue as to why he's barfing.
call2arms wrote:Sucralfate is also good for stomach issues.....
Are you giving several small meals a day, as opposed to 2 larger meals? It's easier to digest small portions.
Is he puking undigested food, or bile/foam? Is it close to every meal, or random troughout the day?
Vet mentioned Sucralfate but for years Reglan worked so he was going to stick with what worked until it doesn't.
I usually feed 3/4 meals a day. He is getting 8 small meals of about 1/8th a can.
It depends when he pukes as to what comes up. If it's 3 hours later, it is brownish, stinks like acid stuff and digested.
Blood tests came back normal so Vet wants to keep Reglan and Pepcid and I/D food going.
Thank you, so do I. He still enjoys eating and licks the bowl with 2 tbs of food clean.Ino wrote: Hope they figure out Harley's problem soon!
Mallika- He did get Reglan and Pepcid intravenously and Thursday night he kept the little bit of food he was allowed down.
Thank you everyone for your input. This weekend has got to get better for him.


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Colombia will mark two soccer milestones this week.
One is happy, the other tragic. One inspires pride, the other sorrow.
And chances are one doesn't happen without the other.
On Friday, Colombia plays in a World Cup quarterfinal for the first time — against host country Brazil. Colombia, with four wins in as many tries in this World Cup, has won more Cup games in 12 days than it had in its previous four tournament appearances combined.
"We are making history," said Colombia's playmaker James (pronounced HA-mez) Rodriguez, the best player on the best team in this World Cup.
Andres Escobar is also part of Colombian soccer history. July 2 marked the 20th anniversary of the murder of Escobar, a Colombia defender, in the parking lot of a bar in Medellin, punishment for the own goal against the United States that knocked Colombia out of the 1994 World Cup in the first round.
Escobar was taunted by three men, two of whom took out guns. He was shot six times, with one of the gunmen shouting "Gooool" as Escobar writhed on the pavement.
The killer couldn't have known it then, but that moment was a turning point in Colombia, where soccer hasn't been looked at the same way since.
More than 120,000 mourners attended Escobar's funeral. A statue was dedicated to him in his hometown of Medellin and his family honored him by founding a soccer program for disadvantaged youth.
And here's where the two events — with the joy and the tragedy, the pride and the sorrow —- intersect.
Escobar's death was pinned on the leaders of a drug cartel who had bet heavily on Colombia and lost. Colombia's rapid rise in world soccer in the 1980s and '90s was funded largely by the cartels, which expected to profit from their largesse. So Escobar and his teammates were playing in the U.S. that summer under almost unbearable pressure — not to mention threats and intimidation, which eventually led to murder.
The country and its fans learned the obvious lesson. So while this year's team, the first from Colombia to make the World Cup in 16 years, has captured the country's imagination, fans there have greeted the success more with enthusiasm than expectation. With plaudits, not pressure.
The team has responded in kind, playing with more joy and passion than any other in the tournament in victories over Greece, Ivory Coast, Japan and Uruguay. Colombia, in fact, is playing the kind of attractive, free-flowing soccer normally associated with Brazil, its quarterfinal opponent.
And it's the tragedy that fuels the joy.
"Go Colombia. Win in honor of Andres Escobar" one fan wrote on Twitter, using the hashtag #AndresEscobar. Others, continuing a tradition that began 20 years ago, have toted oversized pictures of Escobar — his face forever frozen in a wry grin, one eyebrow arched — to the games or public viewing parties.
"We will never stop thinking about him or feeling that he is one of our own," former Colombia defender Jorge Bermudez told a news agency this week. "Every Colombia triumph will also be, in some way, his."
And so the Colombian team will take the field Friday not weighed down by history but inspired by it. Contrast that with its opponent, Brazil, which is facing enormous pressure to win and justify the $11.5 billion the country has spent to stage the monthlong World Cup.
If one word could sum up the mood around the Colombian players it would be dream. And their Argentine-born coach Jose Pekerman has done a masterful job managing that mood, keeping his team focused on one game at a time.
"When you have a dream and you really pursue it and picture things like this happening, then it can become a reality," said Rodriguez, who is having a superb World Cup with a tournament-high five goals. "If you want something and you work hard for it, then it can happen."
Which isn't to say Colombia hasn't faced adversities of its own. It has.
Radamel Falcao, the team's unquestioned leader and star striker, was left off the World Cup team because of a knee injury. That was expected to cripple Colombia, which came into the tournament a 33-1 longshot to win. But Rodriguez, a 22-year-old midfielder, has stepped up to fill that void, scoring in each of Colombia's four wins. And now the dream team is two wins away from the final.
"For me, special talents are those who do things that are completely out of the ordinary," Uruguay Coach Oscar Tabarez said after Rodriguez scored both goals in Colombia's 2-0 round-of-16 win over its South American neighbor. "Diego Maradona, Lionel Messi, Luis Suarez, James Rodriguez — they do things because they have certain gifts that make them special.
"I believe he's the best player at the World Cup. I don't think I'm exaggerating."


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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Shakira is a mama.
A spokeswoman for the 35-year-old Colombian singer says Shakira Mebarak and 25-year-old soccer star Gerard Pique of FC Barcelona welcomed son Milan Pique Mebarak on Tuesday at 9:36 p.m. in Barcelona, Spain.
A statement posted on the pop star's site in English, Spanish and Catalan says that "just like his father, baby Milan became a member of FC Barcelona at birth." The statement also says Milan weighed approximately 6 pounds, 6 ounces, and that "both mother and child are in excellent health."
Shakira asked fans earlier Tuesday on Twitter "to accompany me in your prayers on this very important day of my life."
Milan is the couple's first child.


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I'm Barry, and I am an artist, a student, a son, a friend, a neighbor, I also happen to be deaf and have four fingers on each hand. I was born with Nagers Syndrome, an extremely rare syndrome that affects me with various cranial facial issues. Due to the syndrome I have had over 23 surgeries in my 20 – year life thus far, and yet I'm still on this earth. I came from a small town in North Carolina where strangers would treat me as if I were "different" or "incapable," and yet at home my parents didn't cut me any slack of what I could or couldn't do. Just because I had a "disability" didn't mean I was "disable" to live a life full of enrichment and going after a dream.
Throughout my childhood I was teased for the way I looked, my only survival was my art, in which I fell in love with art at the age of three years old. It came to a point though where I eventually ignored the inconsiderate and out-right rudeness of people's stares or giggles at my face. As soon as I chose not to focus on the negative, positive things have come my way. Now I am a student living my dream of having art in my everyday life, and hopefully will end up becoming a successful illustrator/fine artist down the line.
I needed to give you a background of what I was about before I discuss what I am writing about, I am talking about the word "can't." That word is like all of Carlin's "Seven Words You Can't Say On Television" rolled up into one for me. Anytime anybody says that word, I just cringe inside. Obstacles are a part of life, whether it's through health, relationships or jobs. Saying that you "can't" during an obstacle doesn't challenge you or make you grow. The great thing about humanity is that we have the constant ability to grow and flourish as well as nurture ourselves through learning.
Here are three things to do when you want to say you "can't" do something.
- Find an Alternative – My parents wouldn't cut me slack to save a life when I was a kid. With that upbringing both my Mom and Dad strived to show me that there are options in this world to complete something. If you can't complete a task, find a new way to complete it, whether it's through attitude or just by asking others on what they do to complete the task. One of the most beautiful and awesome things about this world is to have options.
- Learn – This kind of ties in with "find an alternative," instead of giving up on something, why don't you learn to fulfill the task in hand? When learning you broaden your span of thinking and your ability to help others.
- Just Change The 'Tude Dude – I think this is the most important rule out of the three, change your attitude if you keep making excuses. Ask yourself, "Why can't you do this?" If the answer is just something as, "I don't know" then re-evaluate the situation and use the empowerment of your mind to push forward. Attitude is everything, if you wake up with a sloppy groggy mind; I firmly believe you in return will be sloppy and groggy throughout the rest of that day. If the situation however is more complex, write about ways you can do whatever you want to do, talk about this with the people you love, or even go and make art about your fears of why you "can't."
I just feel we all have the power to do anything we want to do, if we ignore our faults and learn to just push through we can achieve so much. Whether you are deaf, blind, have no arms, or you have all your arms there are really no excuses to achieving anything we want to achieve. Also next time you see somebody who may be different from you, don't assume they "can't" and treat them as incapable, as humans we are all capable no matter what the circumstance.
Barry Lee is currently an illustration student in the city of Atlanta, Georgia. You can check out his work at barrydraws.com
Image credit: 'Self Portrait circa 2008' by Barry Lee
How to Get Sh*t Done will teach you how to zero in on the three areas of your life where you want to excel, and then it will show you how to off-load, outsource, or just stop giving a damn about the rest.


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Chef plans to open Bavette, a butcher shop, cafe and market in the Third Ward
A Milwaukee chef will open a butcher shop emphasizing locally and sustainably produced meats: Karen Bell, formerly of Cafe at the Plaza, plans to open Bavette Butcher Shop in the Historic Third Ward.
Bell recently signed a lease for 330 E. Menomonee St., the storefront previously occupied by the wine bar Kafevino. Bavette is projected to open in March.
Bell, who previously worked in Chicago and operated her own restaurant in Madrid, said she would sell meat from small, local farms with a focus on animals raised on pastures and without hormones and antibiotics, and that have been processed at small slaughterhouses. She plans to obtain whole animals to reduce waste, using bones for stocks, fat for lard and various cuts and odd bits for sausages, for example.
Besides having a meat counter, Bavette will also be part market and cafe. The menu would be limited to sandwiches, soups and salads, Bell said, and likely would have coffee and pastries in the mornings. Customers could take the items to go or have a seat at a table or the bar.
The shop will sell locally made jams, state cheeses and other foodstuffs, including ingredients needed for a complete dinner.
Bell will seek a liquor license and would stock wine that customers could drink at the shop or to take home. She said her sister -- Jessica Bell, founder of My Wine School in Milwaukee -- would help her select eclectic wines.
Butchering classes and demonstrations also are planned.
A new wave of butcher shops has opened around the country in recent years, but it remains a male-dominated field.
Among the chef-owned butcher shops in that wave are Donald Link's Cochon Butcher in New Orleans and Paul Kahan's Publican Quality Meats in Chicago.
Bell said she visited Publican Quality Meats when it first opened about a year ago, while she was hoping to open her own restaurant or at least looking for the next step in her career. "I remember thinking, 'Oh, my God, I would love to do something like this."
She wants Bavette to offer cuts of meat at all price points in the hopes that sustainably raised meats would be "accessible to whoever is interested in eating that way."
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When Donatella Versace invites you to a party, you don't say no — and you definitely say yes to borrowing one of her house's super-sexy gowns. At the Rodeo Drive Walk of Style Award honoring Donatella and her late brother Gianni Versace, A-listers turned out looking so good, that we can't help but wonder if it's even possible to look bad in Versace? (Oscar nominees and presenters, take note!) Drew Barrymore left her hippie vibe at home for sleek, straight hair and a stone-encrusted gown, while the better-than-ever Jennifer Lopez played the part of the smoldering siren to a hilt — even Sharon Stone, who has made more than one questionable fashion choice recently, looked flawless. Other attendees looking jaw-droppingly beautiful included Eva Longoria in ice-blue, Mischa Barton in a daring hemline, Jada Pinkett Smith and Demi Moore in second-skin black satin, and so many more in a truly star-studded evening. As they say, only in Hollywood. . .
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Bank Pledges New Spending to Help Countries Achieve MDGs
According to Unfinished Business: Mobilizing New Efforts to Achieve the 2015 Millennium Development Goals?a new Bank report prepared for the MDGs review summit?developing countries were making significant progress in overcoming poverty until the recent food, fuel, and financial crises. In 1981, 52 percent of people in developing countries lived in extreme poverty; by 2005, that share had fallen to 25 percent, with poverty falling sharply in East Asia, Latin America, and Eastern and Central Europe. But this progress has not been shared by all. Sub-Saharan Africa continues to lag in overcoming poverty. Hunger and malnutrition rates have been falling, but progress on meeting the MDG of halving the proportion of people who suffer from hunger was almost completely reversed in 2008 with the spike in food prices.
The World Bank now estimates that as a result of the food, fuel and financial crises, 64 million more people are living in extreme poverty in 2010, and some 40 million more people went hungry last year. By 2015, 1.2 million more children under five may die, and about 100 million more people may remain without access to safe water.
As we take stock of the MDGs so far, we see the crises only made things worse, with too many of the worlds people hungry, poor, or vulnerable to poverty, with too few jobs and too little access to services and economic opportunity, said World Bank Group President, Robert B. Zoellick.We must therefore redouble efforts to target support to the poor and vulnerable. We need to invest in what works and fix what doesnt. And as we do, we always need to keep in mind that this work is ultimately about empowering people. The human spirit can accomplish amazing things. We need to give everyone that opportunity.
Getting back on track with more growth and jobs
In a rapidly evolving world economy, Zoellick said that developing country growth is not only fundamental to overcoming poverty and hunger, and achieving the rest of the MDGs, but it also now an engine of global growth. This potential is not limited to only a few emerging markets.
The Bank Groups President added that better policies have improved growth performance and opportunities in many low-income countries, including in Sub-Saharan Africa, which recorded annual growth of six percent in the five years preceding the crisis.
These countries offer attractive investment opportunities, not just destinations for aid. Their growth can contribute to overcoming poverty and hunger by creating a virtuous circle of increasing opportunity, jobs, incomes, skill development and then greater growth. In creating opportunities for growth, we need policies that support investment where it matters most: in people, Zoellick said.
New Bank MDGs financing for 2015 countdown? to help countries achieve their MDGs by 2015, the World Bank Group commits to new financing in:
Agriculture?Given rising food prices and the possible return of the food crisis, the World Bank Group will boost support to agriculture to some $8.3 billion a year, up from $4.1 billion annually before 2008, under its Agriculture Action Plan.
Education?to help countries achieve the education MDGs, the World Bank will increase its zero-interest and grant investment in basic education by an additional $750 million, with a focus on the countries that are not on track to reach the education MDGs by 2015, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Health?the Bank will focus on 35 countries, particularly in East Asia, South Asia, and Sub-Saharan Africa, which face challenges in achieving their MDGs because of high fertility and poor child and maternal nutrition and disease. This will expand the reach of the Banks results-based programs by more than $600 million to scale up essential health and nutrition services and strengthen the underlying health systems which are essential to sustain better health results over the years.
MDGs regional progress uneven
Before the crisis, the Banks new MDGs report says that good progress was being made in a number of regions, especially Sub-Saharan Africa, with less poverty, more gender parity in primary and secondary education, and more reliable access to safe water. Progress was less encouraging on other targets for the empowerment of women. Of greatest concern were the MDGs on human development especially child and maternal mortality, primary school completion, hunger, and sanitation.
Of the 84 developing countries with available data, 45 have already achieved or are on schedule to meet the poverty reduction target; compounded by the impact of recent crises, the rest are off-track. Sub-Saharan African countries continue to lag the farthest behind on the poverty reduction MDG, despite very rapid growth and impressive reductions in poverty in a number of countries since the mid-1990s.
South Asia, which is on track to achieve the MDGs on poverty, universal primary education and eliminating gender disparity in primary and secondary education, is off track on most other MDGs. Reflecting the predominance of middle-income countries, East Asia, Europe and Central Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the Middle East and North Africa, as a group, are on track to achieve the target for poverty reduction. But despite this progress, there are still concentrations of poverty in some countries and MICs remain home to a majority of the worlds poor people. Many middle income countries continue to face major challenges in achieving the other human development goals, such as those related to health and education.
World Bank MDG Results since 2000
The World Bank Group is fully committed to assisting countries to meet and reach the MDGs, including through a more than doubling of International Bank of Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) and International Development Association (IDA) zero-interest lending, from $50 billion in FY07-08 to $106 billion in FY09-10.
IDA, the World Bank's Fund for the Poorest, has helped make significant progress on ensuring access to essential needs:
Education more than 3 million teachers recruited and/or trained; more than 2 million classrooms built or rehabilitated, benefitting more than 105 million children per year; and about 300 million textbooks purchased and/or distributed.
Health more than 47 million people provided with access to basic health, nutrition, or population services; 2.5 million pregnant women given antenatal care during health provider visits; 310 million children immunized; 98 million children with improved nutrition; about 2 million adults and children with HIV received antiretroviral therapies; 813 million condoms purchased and/or distributed; 23,000 health facilities constructed, renovated, and/or equipped, and 1.8 million health personnel trained to improve health services quality; and about 33 million mosquito nets purchased and/or distributed to prevent malaria.
Water supply and sanitation more than 113 million people given access to an improved water source; almost 500,000 improved community water points constructed or rehabilitated; 5.8 million people provided with access to almost 600,000 improved sanitation facilities; and support of 164 water utilities.
To read the new World Banks new MDGs report?Unfinished Business: Mobilizing New Efforts to Achieve the 2015 Millennium Development Goals, click here: http://www.worldbank.org/mdgs/


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Grand Theft Auto IV Walkthrough
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Head over to Playbox X's place at the north end of Algonquin. When you arrive at his apartment, you'll find him hanging out with some ladies (who don't seem especially fond of him). However, he excuses himself and brings Niko out to the balcony so they can talk. This is a lengthy cutscene, by the way, so sit tight and take it all in. Eventually, Dwayne Forge will show up at Playbox X's pad. This is the guy Playboy X mentioned earlier for a brief time, as the guy who is in prison but taught you everything he knows. The two don't necessarily seem thrilled to have to work with each other again, but we'll deal with that storyline arc later.
When you regain control, Playboy X will let you know of a car parked at the south end of the borough that's chock full of weapons we'll need to complete the mission at hand. Because Playboy X lives so far away, however, this is going to be a pretty epic drive southward through Algonquin. The good news is that you probably haven't gotten a chance to explore this borough in its entirety as of yet, and this is a good chance to do just that. Algonquin is impressive! Regardless, when you reach your destination off of the South Parkway, you'll find the car Playboy X was talking about. Bail out of your car and get into that one to retrieve said weapons.
You're now equipped with a heavy machinegun, some grenades, and most importantly, a sniper rifle (though you may have retained a sniper rifle from a previous mission). The first step of this mission is to use that sniper rifle on the roof of the tall building next to you. Follow Playboy X's lead and head to the roof via the makeshift elevator on the side of the building. Ride it all the way to the roof (it's a ways up, to be sure) and get ready to wield that sniper rifle with precision.
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Many Twitter users received emails Thursday from the social media company saying that their password had been reset because their account may have been hacked.
But now Twitter wants users to know that their account may not have been hacked after all, and that the company just made a mistake and reset too many passwords.
"In this case, we unintentionally reset passwords of a larger number of accounts, beyond those that we believed to have been compromised. We apologize for any inconvenience or confusion this may have caused," the company said in a statement on its blog.


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Dry season malaria risk prediction in holoendemic area: the potential of small scale mathematical modeling
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|September 8, 2005
Introduction and objectives
About 3000 children die every day in Africa from malaria [Ref. 1]. The mortality is largely limited to children under the age of five [Ref. 2]. Malaria transmission has a strong seasonal pattern driven by weather conditions, which influence the mosquito vector population dynamics [Ref. 3]. Further understanding of the transmission dynamics of malaria and weighing of potential interventions can facilitate the decision making process for malaria control. A key tool for this understanding is the use of models. The objective of this study is to enhance our understanding of the transmission dynamics of malaria in the dry season in a holoendemic region, Nouna district, Burkina Faso in West Africa using process-based modeling.
Material and methods
The study took place in four different sites in Nouna health district, located in the dry savannah area of Northwest Burkina Faso. The four sites, distanced 19-44 km from each other, were chosen to represent different ecological and human settings.
A cohort of 867 children, aged 6 to 60 months was followed up from December 2003 to May 2004. Participants were visited every week in their households. Axillary temperature was measured and blood sample taken for febrile (>=37.5°C) children for Plasmodium falciparum (Pf) detection. A child with any Pf detected was classified as infected.
In addition, in each sites in four different houses randomly selected, mosquito population abundance was monitored monthly by standard CDC Light Trap (LT) [Ref. 4] and Human Landing Trap (HLT) [Ref. 5]. HLT was performed every two months for calibration and evaluation of the LTC.
A mathematical model was developed on the basis that mosquitoes are transmitting the parasite from an infectious human to a susceptible human (S). The human infection (I) takes v days to develop gametocytes and hence become infectious (G). A proportion of all infectious human, q clear the infection every day. Each mosquito bites b humans a day without preference. After biting an infectious human, a fraction γ of mosquitoes will become infected within c days for the rest of their lifespan. A fraction m of all mosquitoes die each day. This model was used to predict monthly incidence case of Pf infection and compare to the observed. The goodness of fit statistic is the sum of the monthly square difference between observed and model incidence . The best fit of the model parameters was achieved by determining successively the best value for each parameter.
Pf Infection patterns: The overall incidence was 313 cases among 867 participants during a six-month period involving 255 participants. The incidence of Pf infection consistently decreased from December to January in all sites followed by a second peak ending with a decrease towards the end of the dry season.
Entomological patterns: In all the four sites Culex is the most prominent genus throughout the observation period. In total, the Anopheles-Culex ratio is 1/6. The semi-urban site has the most number of Culex compared to the rural sites all together (622 vs 174). Gambiae was the most prominent among the Anopheles species (65%), funestus (33.3%) and nili (1.6%). The number of mosquitoes drops from December to January and rises again in February.
Mathematical modeling: The best fit of the model to the clinical data is shown in figure 1 [Fig. 1] where monthly prediction of cases is plotted (curve) with the observed (black square). There is a close match between the model prediction and observed cases for all months except March and May. The variance between the observed and the predicted monthly incidence was 835.
Anopheles is more frequent in the rural sites while Culex is more frequent in the urban site. The site with the highest prevalence of Anopheles spp. may be explained by the proximity of a perennial river. The drop in numbers observed in January is probably a result of the cool dry weather. The minimum temperature in December and January, was below 16°C, which is the threshold for An. gambiae s.l. larval development [Ref. 6]. The extremely hot temperatures from March onwards seem to have reduced the viability of the mosquito [Ref. 7].
Infection patterns: While there was strong variation in the vector prevalence between sites, there was no significant difference between Pf incidence in the four sites. This could be a result of better protection by the inhabitants of mosquito prevalent sites from nuisance bites. The incidence in all sites dropped significantly but did not clear before the onset of the rainy season in July.
Mathematical modeling: The good fit of the mathematical model output to the observed P. falciparum infection incidence suggests that the model is indeed a good representation of the transmission dynamics. The discrepancies in May and March may be random variation due to the small number of cases. For both months, though the observed case counts are not significantly different from the previous month (Chi test; p= 0.09 and p=0.12 respectively). The model in this case is driven not by weather conditions but by actual observed vector prevalence. As a result, it can follow malaria incidence even in a dry season. To allow this model to be used as a predictive tool, the vector population itself must be simulated. The model is not very sensitive to the length of the sporogonic cycle. Similarly, time from human infection to gametocyte development is not a key element in determining the incidence level. The incidence of malaria is highly dependent on two key parameters, which are the daily mortality rate of the vector and the parasite clearance rate in human which can both be influenced by public health interventions.
Thank you to the Nouna Health Research Team and to the families of the participants. This project was funded by DFG and UBS Optimus Foundation.
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