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SAMJ: South African Medical Journal
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SAMJ, S. Afr. med. j. vol.99 no.7 Cape Town jul. 2009
Testing for allergy
Guidelines or standards in medicine provide useful beacons to show practitioners the way through often complex clinical situations. For many of us the diagnosis of allergic diseases and what diagnostic tests to use is just such a maze. To have authority, guidelines must be developed by experts on the subject and be approved by an authoritative body. The guideline on 'Diagnostic testing in allergy' by Motala and Hawarden1 on behalf of the Allergy Society of South Africa provides a crisp set of definitions of atopy and of allergy and briefly outlines their diseases. The diagnostic approach is clearly outlined with the aid of algorithms.
Allergy diagnosis depends primarily on the clinical history; the history, aided by a physical examination, guides objective tests of IgE sensitivity. Either skin tests or allergen-specific serum IgE measurements (RAST) are used to focus on whether the patient is allergic, whether allergy contributes to the symptoms and what the relevant allergens are. A positive history and positive tests help in rationalising treatment, initiating specific allergen avoidance measures and selecting appropriate immunotherapy. Tests include skin-prick testing, blood tests, multi-allergen IgE antibody screening assays, mast cell tryptase and CAST testing.
Many of the allergy 'diagnostic' tests performed by ecologists and alternative practitioners are of unproven value, time consuming and expensive. These are not to be recommended. This list includes neutralisation provocation (Miller) tests, hair analysis, ALCAT and IgG measurements.
Deviance and medicines regulation
The widely publicised woes of the parastatals, Eskom, the SABC and South African Airways are mirrored in the health sector by poor delivery by the professional councils, the Medical Research Council and the Medicines Control Council (MCC). In his editorial Roy Jobson2 draws attention to the normalisation of deviance in medicines regulation in South Africa.
Normalisation of deviance describes situations where an error or an omission has become standard practice, usually through unchecked repetition. The uncontrolled deluge of complementary medicines available in South Africa can be traced back to 2002 when the Medicines Regulatory Affairs cluster of the Department of Health continued to accept documentation for complementary medicines well after their 'call-up' date had expired.
The technical deviation contributing to the normalisation of deviance in the regulation of complementary medicines in South Africa is that none of these medicines has had to provide independent evidence of their quality. This essentially means that none of the unregistered complementary medicines on the market have had any independent South African validation of their quality. The MCC is the statutory body mandated to ensure that the availability of any and all medicines and related substances is in the public interest and meets satisfactory criteria of quality, safety and efficacy.
Resources and infrastructure are urgently required to commence the gargantuan task of assessing all the unregistered medicines on the market.
Rubella and a Greek tragedy
Rubella in children and adults is almost always a mild disease, with serious or long-term sequelae very rare. The main concern is the risk of congenital rubella syndrome (CRS) in early pregnancy. The risk of CRS in the first 8 - 10 weeks is up to 90%, after which it drops and is virtually absent after 16 weeks other than rare mild systemic illnesses. The current rubella vaccine is safe and effective and can be given in combination with measles (MR) or measles and mumps (MMR). Since it has a high cost-benefit ratio there is a great impetus to introduce routine rubella immunisation. However, Schoub and colleagues3 warn of the possibility of a 'Greek tragedy' after an outbreak of CRS in Greece following the introduction of such a campaign.
To prevent an upward age shift of infection, and therefore an upsurge in rubella and possibly an outbreak of CRS, the authors urge that precautionary measures must first be met before commencing with an immunisation campaign. These are a robust programme for selective immunisation of pre-pubertal/adolescent girls and strengthening of routine measles immunisation.
Fluid creep in major burns
Rogers et al.4 warn that over-reliance on the Parkland formula in the resuscitation of patients with major burns may lead to over-hydration. If severe this may manifest as compartment syndromes in unburnt limbs and in the abdomen, with potentially lethal consequences. Over-resuscitation ('fluid creep') can result in pulmonary oedema, acute respiratory distress syndrome, pneumonia, multiple organ dysfunction, compartment syndromes and cerebral oedema.
The authors provide clear guidelines to optimise fluid resuscitation and prevent adverse complications. The first is that resuscitation should start immediately for all burns with body surface area involvement of >15%.
1. Motala C, Hawarden D, on behalf of the Allergy Society of South Africa. Diagnostic testing in allergy. S Afr Med J 2009; 99: 531-535. [ Links ]
2. Jobson R. Normalisation of deviance and medicines regulation. S Afr Med J 2009; 99: 510-511. [ Links ]
3. Schoub BD, Harris BN, McAnerney J, Blumberg l. Rubella in South Africa: An impending Greek tragedy? S Afr Med J 2009; 99: 515-519. [ Links ]
4. Rogers AD, Karpelowsky JS, Argent A, Millar AJW, Rode HS. Resuscitation in major burns: The problem of fluid creep. S Afr Med J 2009; 99: 512-513. [ Links ]


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Amiable and unassuming, Fred MacMurray went from small town boy to one of Hollywood's most enduring stars. MacMurray signed his first contract with Paramount Studios in 1934, and quickly rose to play romantic lead roles opposite such major stars as Claudette Colbert, Carole Lombard, Katharine Hepburn, Paulette Goddard and Marlene Dietrich. However, his true talents were revealed when he went against type and appeared as a murderer opposite Barbara Stanwyck in Billy Wilder's film-noir classic Double Indemnity (1944). Other roles, including the cowardly naval lieutenant in The Caine Mutiny (1954) and the cynical executive in The Apartment (1960), helped define MacMurray as a major acting talent. A series of Disney films in which he portrayed a good-natured father figure included The Shaggy Dog (1959), The Absent-Minded Professor (1961) and Son of Flubber (1963).
Renowned for his true-life stability and contented role as father to four adopted children, in his later years MacMurray's flagging career was revived when he became television's best-loved father in the long-running series, My Three Sons (1960-1971). The program includes clips from some of MacMurray's most notable films, such as The Gilded Lily, Double Indemnity, The Caine Mutiny, The Apartment, The Absent Minded Professor, Swing High, Swing Low and the TV series My Three Sons. The program also includes interviews with Fred MacMurray's wife, June Haver MacMurray, and daughters, Kate MacMurray and Laurie MacMurray, actors Nancy Olson, Beverly Garland and Jack Lemmon, and directors Billy Wilder and Edward Dmytryk.
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St. Louis Rams kicker Greg Zuerlein took advantage of the NFL's newly implemented regional scouting combine process a year ago to help gain notice out of Division II Missouri Western State University.
He made an impression as the Rams elected to pick Zuerlein in the sixth round of last year's NFL Draft.
This year, another kicker is hoping to use the regional scouting combine to boost their profile. Although this one shouldn't have any problem standing out from the crowd for a different reason.
According to Gregg Rosenthal of NFL.com, Lauren Silberman will become the first female player to participate in a regional combine when she kicks on March 2-3 at the regional site in New Jersey. Silberman played club soccer at Wisconsin before entering the business world.
The New York City native will take part in one of 10 regional combines leading up to a super-regional combine to be held in Dallas in April.
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The felines at Alachua County Animal Services need the necessities: food, water, kitty litter. But they also need attention, and volunteers provide the cuddle time these homeless cats lack.
In a room filled with cats awaiting adoption or — in some cases — euthanization, a small core of volunteers assumes a responsibility usually relegated to owners: cuddling.
The felines at Alachua County Animal Services need the necessities: food, water, kitty litter. But they also need attention, and volunteers provide the cuddle time these homeless cats lack.
Sherry Rice, 43, has been volunteering at the shelter for about two years. She takes photos of the cats and posts them online in the hope someone will adopt them. Kittens tend to get adopted faster than older cats.
She and other volunteers spend time petting and playing with the cats. For kitties like blue-eyed, white-furred Deacon, that attention can help them warm up to humans.
When he first arrived, Deacon was withdrawn and shy. But he's getting more adventurous. Sniffing around the outside of his cage Wednesday, he lightly nuzzled the face of volunteer Dolores "Lolly" Hauscarriadue.
Hauscarriadue's favorite cat is Bella, a fluffy feline who has been at the shelter for months.
"So very, very sweet," she said of Bella. "She needs a home."
Rice's heart belongs to Katrina, a tabby cat who arrived at the shelter in September.
"I just think she's the cutest," Rice said as she rubbed the fur between Katrina's eyes while the cat lay in her cubby.
"A lot of people don't realize we're out here," she said.
Rice said she didn't know the shelter, located at 3400 NE 53rd Ave. in Gainesville, existed for the first year she lived here.
Shelter renovations improved the facility's ventilation system, which is especially important for the cats since they're always in one room, said Hilary Hynes, public education program coordinator for Alachua County Animal Services. The renovations to the cat room began in 2011 and were completed by mid-2012.
Nicer cages also have been installed for the cats, Rice said. Many of the cages now have multiple compartments for their temporary residents to wander through and lounge about.
Outside the kitty room, volunteers bring dogs out to play in a yard that's a slice of paradise for playful pups. It has brown ramps they can run over, an upright tire they can spring through and a kiddie pool they can splash around in on hot summer days.
Volunteer Amanda Patrick on Wednesday spent time in the yard with Bilbo, a coonhound mix. She scratched his belly as he lay on the grass, his tongue lolling out.
The larger dogs, like older cats, are harder to get adopted, Rice said.
Spending time with the cats isn't just about playing with them. It's about observing them for signs of trouble, too — such as if a cat hasn't eaten all day or seems depressed, she said. Volunteers also name some of the cats who come in without them. A few of the felines residing at the shelter sport names like Yoda, Moriarty, Amadeus and Aurora.
For Rice, the toughest part of volunteering at the shelter is facing the reality that some of the animals will be euthanized. There is limited space, and when things get too cramped, cats like Katrina and Bella who've been there a long time might be euthanized out of necessity, she said.
Although animals are euthanized at the shelter, Rice said many more animals are getting adopted or taken in by rescue organizations now than when she began volunteering there two years ago. When she first started, she sometimes arrived to find out one of her favorite cats had been euthanized that morning.
"I went home many afternoons crying," she said.
Rescue organizations such as Gainesville Pet Rescue have stepped up to save many of the shelter's animals from that fate, she said. Using Facebook also helps spread the word quickly about cats in need of a home.
People interested in adopting a pet are welcome to attend a Dec. 8 adoption event at the shelter that will run from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Those interested in volunteer opportunities can call Alachua County Animal Services at 264-6870 for more information. The department hosts an orientation program almost every month, Hynes said. Volunteers must be at least 18 years old, but children are able to volunteer if their parents accompany them.
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National Grid is proposing to repower the E.F. Barrett Power Station, a nearly 60-year-old facility on Barnum's Channel.
Although still in the early stages, the potential plan was outlined publicly by National Grid representatives at a meeting at Lincoln Orens Middle School on March 4. The plan calls for a limited opening of what would be called the Island Park Energy Center in 2017 and a full opening in 2019, followed shortly thereafter by the shuttering and removal of the Barrett Station. National Grid will submit the plan to the Long Island Power Authority this spring for approval, and anticipates a decision by the fall.
The new energy center, which would be located on the same property as the Barrett Station, would consist of combined cycle turbines producing between 560 and 650 megawatts, and — if included in the final plan — simple cycle turbines producing up to 330 megawatts. It would produce a maximum of approximately 940 MW, nearly 300 more than the Barrett Station can produce, and would use natural gas as its primary fuel, with low-sulfur diesel as backup. National Grid pledged that the new station would reduce emission rates while improving reliability.
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As part of the Glendale Public Library citywide reading program, One Book/One Glendale, a series of events sponsored by Glendale Community College are being held on campus throughout the month highlighted by a keynote address and book signing from author and Glendale resident Denise Hamilton on Oct. 27.
The book selected for One Book/One Glendale is "Los Angeles Noir," edited by Hamilton and published by Akashic Books in 2007. It features stories by Michael Connelly, Janet Fitch, Susan Straight, Hector Tobar, Patt Morrison, Robert Ferrigno, Gary Phillips, Christopher Rice, Naomi Hirahara, Jim Pascoe, Scott Phillips, Diana Wagman, Lienna Silver, Brian Ascalon Roley and Denise Hamilton.
Known for writing the Eve Diamond series, Hamilton's books have been shortlisted for the Edgar, Macavity, Anthony and Willa Cather awards. The Los Angeles Times named "Last Lullaby" a Best Book of 2004, and it was also a USA Today Summer Pick and a finalist for a Southern California Booksellers Assn.'s 2004 award. Her fourth Eve Diamond novel, "Savage Garden," is a Los Angeles Times bestseller and was shortlisted for the Southern California Booksellers Assn. award for Best Mystery of 2005.
Events at the college follow a noir theme with a screening of the 1950 Billy Wilder film "Sunset Blvd." at 6:50 p.m. on Oct. 12 in the Student Center. History instructors Elizabeth Kronbeck and Robyn Fishman will lead a discussion on Hollywood and noir following the screening.
"The Fantasy of the Femme Fatale" will be the topic of a faculty-led panel discussion at 6:50 p.m. on Oct. 18 in the Student Center.
Pulitzer Prize-winning L.A. Times journalist and contributing writer to "Los Angeles Noir" Hector Tobar will speak in Kreider Hall starting at 12:20 p.m. on Oct. 20.
Hamilton's keynote address will be at 12:20 p.m. Oct. 27 in the auditorium.
In addition to the public events, students will be able to discuss the book at the GCC Faculty/Student Book Club meeting and can attend the weekly "Friday Flix" that will feature noir on Oct. 29 with the 1946 Howard Hawks film "The Big Sleep."
Admission to the events is free. The college is at 1500 N. Verdugo Road.
Late-start classes are set to begin
Second six- and eight-week credit classes begin the week of Oct. 25 at GCC. Many of the courses are offered in the Business Division.
CABOT 107 - Business Writer's Workshop meets Monday mornings and is an entry-level writing class for those needing assistance with grammar, punctuation, capitalization and other rules of business writing.
CABOT 156 - Voice Recognition (Dragon NS) teaches students to use voice recognition software and meets Saturday mornings.
Business Administration 178, Introduction to International Finance meets Monday and Wednesday evenings.
Business Administration 203, Customer Service and Relations, focuses on strategies for developing a first-class customer service environment in a culturally diverse, globally competitive, e-commerce business climate. The class is held Tuesday evenings.
For more information on classes in the Business Division, call (818) 240-1000, Ext. 5484. A complete list of classes can be found at http://www.glendale.edu/schedules/
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The GCC Theatre Arts Department production of "The Servant of Two Masters" by Carlo Goldoni opens Nov. 4 in the Auditorium Mainstage Theatre.
The play is a commedia dell' arte and it will be directed by Jeanette D. Farr. The farce involves mistaken identities, broken engagements and reunited lovers. Chronically hungry servant Truffaldino comes up with a scheme to double his wages and food intake by serving two masters at once.
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I'm planning to record some CD's. And with some I mean a couple of hundred, or possibly thousands if this goes well. This is for a free culture campaign here in Sweden with the aim to spread free culture and give music artists some recognition. We pay for all costs to spread your music, so there's nothing to worry about. The CD's will be free, so I'm sure lots of people would love to get a hand on them. It's great promotion for your part.
For the interested, here's a link with more detailed info: http://forums.audiostreet.net/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=7823
Hope to hear from you soon!
I hope it's alright to post this here, I need all the help I can get with this project!
Bang postponed. Not big enough. Reboot.
Sounds cool. I think most struggling musicians would be happy to give some songs away for free (so long as their name is on it) in order to get a fan base.
"The physicists defer only to mathematicians, and the mathematicians defer only to God ..." - Leon M. Lederman
Is this thing only going on in sweden. Sounds great, here in the uk ther isnt much like that, shame really, seeing as there are quite a few great unsigned bands in our area, cough myself included! cough.
The universe is infinte, everything has and will happen, will you be in the group of right choices or bad ones?
If this applies to the UK, I'd be interested.
I've got responses from bands all over the world, some really good ones too! And yes, it applies to UK as well Devanté
I'm a struggling electronica producer myself, so I know how much artists appreciate free promotion.
Send your songs over, it's still running you know ;] (though I can't upload them to the server yet where the rest of the songs are stored, my ISP is having some strange problems all over town, hope it gets fixed soon)
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Hmm, maybe you have a low quality mic? My friend records hundreds of songs and they all sound great, I can ask him what kind of mic he has. I guess I have another friend who records a lot and it sounds good... I can ask both of them.
As a matter of fact, I used to record myself too, I can look back to my old recordings and see if they're fuzzy sounding or anything. Of course this will require research on my part, as all my recordings are no longer in my possession.
Hey! I am also a very keen amateur musician. Is there a way of recording directly onto my hard drive? My computor has a "mic" socket. Do I need special software?
As long as you have a mic it should be possible. You probably have "Sound Recorder" (under Start->Programs->Accessories->Entertainment), and you can use that to do the most basic recordings. I wouldn't recommend it though, you will have a very hard time editing and cleaning up anything, and you'll want to be able to convert the .wav files Sound Recorder makes into .mp3's, since .wav's are pretty big. I use a program called Audacity, it's free, and it has plenty of features that will keep you happy. You can edit any part of a recording, have different tracks (for example, record yourself playing some chords and the you can use that as backing for a solo, I'm bad at explaining it...), and there are some effects you can use (I think I only ever used noise removal though). So if you're looking for some programming software, maybe Audacity would be a good thing to look into.
Wow, sounds good. I'll download that somewhere when I get the chance. I can't play as a band as I don't know anyone who can play guitar, apart from people who have just picked up the guitar and are just learning the basics. I've always wanted to play over myself - Maybe when I get Audacity I will be able to for once.
Maybe when I get Audacity I will be able to for once.
I used Audacity to mix some trance. It crashed often, so I had to remember to save often, but aside from that I was very happy with the free software.
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You can shear a sheep many times but skin him only once.
Yes, I remember Audacity's only problem being occasional crashes. They weren't bad enough to outshine the positive aspects of the software, however. Just save as often as you get something worth saving recorded and you'll be good.
Well I didn't even have time to install it fully before it crashed. I picked language and *poof* and my computer rebooted. Didn't get the chance to enjoy it's positive aspects one bit : )
I saw there was an add-on for VST's, that's neat because I use them a lot.
Bang postponed. Not big enough. Reboot.
is it available in new zealand (just wondering).
Theres no other place like home or is there..............
Probably. I see no reason why it shouldn't be.
And numen, I'm afraid I've had no luck with the recording.


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Tissue in the urethrovaginal space of the women who were no stranger to vaginal orgasms was, apparently, thicker than in that of the non-vaginal ones. This, says Janini, is evidence that women without any visible evidence of a G-spot cannot have a vaginal orgasm.
Beverly Whipple of Rutger's University School of Nursing in Newark, the team which coined the term G-Spot, is sceptical of Janini's findings. "It is an intriguing study, but it doesn't necessarily mean that women who don't experience orgasm don't have any tissue there." She reckons that the test would benefit from having women stimulate themselves first, and then repeating the ultrasound tests, as the area is believed to swell under physical pressure.
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Some of them go too far and others are just set in their ways. Here are 9 folks who were called controlling.
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On an episode of "Fix My Life" Iyanla called Sheree "controlling, brittle and spoiled on bad behavior."
Diddy was put on blast for acting controlling over Cameron Diaz at a Golden Globes party. Three party guests asked to take a picture with her and Diddy shut that down.
Ashanti said on the talk show "Bethenny" that having Nelly as a boyfriend was a distraction and he was controlling.
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Mariah's ex-husband finally apologized to her for his controlling ways after over a decade after their divorce.
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Yeezus recently replaced momager Kris Jenner to take control of Kimmy Cakes' career. It's Kanye's way or no way.
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Porsha has gone on record by saying Kordell wanted to own her and basically didn't let her have any friends or much of a social life.
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Beyonce banned all professional photographers in favor of her own for her Mrs. Carter World Tour and she admitted to being a control freak in "Dazed and Confused" magazine.
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Restore Our Future is going up with an ad featuring Olympic athletes touting how Mitt Romney turned around the 2002 Olympic games.
âMitt Romney brought a huge sense of hope,â says famed figure skater Kristi Yamaguchi in the ad. Yamaguchi won a gold medal in the 1992 and was an ambassador for the 2002 games. She also donated the maximum to Romney's 2008 and 2012 presidential campaigns.
âMitt gets things done,â says Jimmy Shea, who won the 2002 gold medal in Skeleton. âHe changed my life.â
âIt meant a lot to athletes like myself to be able to realize our dreams,â says speed-skating gold medalist Derek Parra.
The only other pro-Romney ad run this general election has also been by Restore Our Future. Americans continue to have a more negative than positive impression of the former Massachusetts governor, according to the NBC News-Wall Street Journal poll. Just 35 percent viewed him favorably in the latest poll out this month, while 40 percent viewed him negatively.
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Kristi Yamaguchi: As an athlete, you're training your whole life for that one moment at the Olympics.
Narrator: But America's Winter Olympics were mired in scandal and deficits. They turned to Mitt Romney.
Fraser Bullock: He faced a 400 million dollar budget deficit and turned that around to a hundred million dollar surplus.
Narrator: And after September 11th, Romney delivered the Olympics safe and secure.
Jimmy Shea: Mitt gets things done. He changed my life.
Kristi Yamaguchi: Mitt Romney brought a huge sense of hope.
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Acording to the latest CDC estimates, there have been just over 12,000 deaths from pandemic 2009 H1N1. This stands in contrast to the 36,000 deaths from a typical flu season, a number widely advertised by HHS. This, along with similar fatality rates were observed worldwide, has led some to describe the H1N1 pandemic as "moderate" or even "mild." But was that really the case ?
Mike Osterholm, of CIDRAP at the University of Minnesota, makes the point that such descriptions hinder us from remembering the true impacts from the pandemic and learning the right lessons.
Though H1N1 was of low pathogenicity overall, when it struck, it hit hard disproportionately against the young, who were immunologically naive, and against pregnant women, who have lower overall immunity. The average age of those who died was 34.7 years. Hence measures that factor in age, such as Years of Life Lost, show a much higher societal impact of H1N1.
Severe H1N1 cases involved deep lung infections and with tissue necrosis, soon followed by respiratory failure. This had of the effect of straining hospital intensive care units (ICU's) to their operational limits, across several countries. In Australia, ICU's were reportedly "at the point of collapse" in 2009. Hospitals in the U.S. adjusted visitation policies to limit the potential spread of infection.
Contrary to expectations, the second H1N1 wave reemerged in late summer continuing into the the school year, leading to record numbers of school closures, something that is not typical of normal flu epidemics. Though exactly hard to determine, school closures probably had some spillover effect on lost economic output, and productivity owing to worker absenteeism
In late October and mid November as the second H1N1 pandemic wave intensified, and as H1N1 deaths surged, there were insufficient vaccine supplies on hand to meet peak demand. A switch to cell-based methods of vaccine production, along with improved distribution methods, could have saved lives.
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Next, one can foresee the Tomahawk Public Works Department, over the next few years, completely eliminating part-time summer help, who, among other duties, look after city parks and keep grass cut on city property. Also in the not so far off future, the infrastructure of Tomahawk will begin showing signs of neglect due to the ongoing state mandated 2 percent levy cap. Capital projects will be further delayed, and road improvements will go by the wayside.
The state provided a 1.8 percent increase this past year over the cap it holds communities and counties to, but not itself. In Tomahawk, these additional funds were placed in a coffer that will cover the city's match portion of funds needed to pay for the reconstruction of North Fourth Street in 2011. Since Department of Transportation (DOT) approval two years ago, the city has set aside over $50,000 to cover its $140,000 to $300,000 match portion of funds to pay for the $700,000 to $1.5 million project, depending on a 10- or 40-year lifespan. Because of this upcoming project, none of the additional $18,000 in revenue generated by the one-time levy increase went to city departments.
Like the Tomahawk Police Department and every one of us, the city has had to pay for the rising costs of fuel and insurance. The city has had to deny or reduce funding for projects that would no doubt benefit the community well into the future; projects such as providing total requested funding for the Tomahawk Senior Community Center to expand its parking lot to accommodate a growing population and requested funding to protect Lake Mohawksin and the tourism revenue it creates. To meet its portion of match funding for the state Main Street Program, the city was forced to offer a loan, which would be paid back through the program if the city were accepted as a Main Street community. The state mandates a levy cap yet requires that the city offer funding to take part in the state-run economic revitalization program.
A 2007 University of Wisconsin study of 200 communities statewide found 49 percent of local governments consider their current revenue base as inadequate and more than 64 percent felt their fiscal condition in five years would be inadequate, meaning communities across the state will be forced to cut dispatch, cut road construction and not cut the grass.
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Alice has the power to see into the future. The premonitions she experienced as a human are intensified in her vampire life, and she uses them to her advantage in order to keep her family safe. It mainly works sejak her focusing on a certain object atau person and keeping track of its decisions. She can also focus on several objects at the same time, up to the her mind allows. Her power is also one of few not affected sejak Bella's shield. She makes extra money sejak using her power to predict windfall investments in the stock market. As a human, she only received visions at certain times...
Book One
Alice helps Bella get ready for her wedding sejak helping her with her dress and make up and giving her her garter. Bella is not yet informed about the honeymoon's destination so Alice packs her bags for her. When Bella first looks in her suitcase she is surprised to find that Alice packed a lot of lingerie. It is Alice's tampons which makes Bella realise that she has missed her period and is pregnant.
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What Alice does in Eclipse. Keeping up a common theme here...
Being liked sejak Charlie, she, unlike Edward, has unlimited visitation rights during Bella's punishment for leaving for Italy in New Moon. Alice has a vision of Victoria coming back. After Bella's successful attempt to sneak past Alice's vision to visit Jacob, Edward bribes Alice with a canary yellow Porsche 911 Turbo to kidnap Bella so she won't go to La Push to visit Jacob while he goes hunting for the weekend. Eventually Bella escapes with Jacob while they are at school, but Alice...
What Alice does in New Moon, really...
Alice arranges a party for Bella's 18th birthday. When the Cullens leave, Edward requests that Alice not say goodbye to Bella.
During her absence, Alice takes time to research her human family with what little clues she had from James and discovers that she had a sister named Cynthia and a niece. She also found her grave and discovered that the tarikh on her tombstone matched that of her admission to the asylum.
Ok, so just debriefing the character of Alice in the first book.
Alice makes her first appearance at Forks High School. When Edward first states his attraction towards Bella, Alice is interested since she had a vision about her and Bella becoming good Friends and knew that it could one hari happen. She is desperate to meet Bella but Edward forbids her from talking to her. Eventually, Alice takes up the courage to introduce herself to Bella.
When Bella comes to visit the Cullens' house, Alice is polite and friendly, Berlakon as if Bella...
Ok, so, just an informative piece. How Alice grew up, became a vampire, etc...
Alice was born into a middle-class utama in Biloxi, Mississippi, in 1901. Her father was a jeweler and a pearl trader. Alice's mother tended to their utama because her father traveled. Alice often had visions of the future since she was a child, though they weren't always accurate. Though she rarely spoke of her power, people in town talked a lot during her younger years. On two occasions she tried to warn a friend and a cousin with her unfortunate predictions, but they refused...
to be honest, I don`t understand why everyone thinks ashley is the perfect alice. yes ashley is very beautiful and she is amazing but she doesn`t look like alice.
1. alice is very short, ashley is normal height (I don`t want a actress who is just 4`10, but I want a short actress)
2. alice is thin in the extreme, yes ashley is slender and has a dreambody but she isn`t thin in the extreme (Rosalie is the one with the totally dreambody)
3. ashley as alice has brown hair, in the buku is alice hair deep black
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in the mental asylum my head was shaved during a typhoid outbreak. i also endured electroshock therapy. this caused me to lose my memory but it also allowed me to be naturally cheerfula nd humorous disposition to return. i no longer remembered the sadness and horror of my baru-baru ini life. unknown to me a vampire was working as a grounds keeper at the aslyum where she was incarcerated. this vampire, who was taking adavantage of this pool of humans who could die without much notice being taken, formed an attachment to me. he kept me from yhe shock treatments and other horrors when he could. he...
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Not a Wikipedia site! Wikia, enjoy :P.
Alice touches that head [Volturi] guy…when she touches the [Volturi] guy he "sees" what will happen if he continues his course…OK so the first person whose head comes off is Carlisle. In the vision.
A bunch of Alice t-shirts, bags, clocks, mugs...so much stuff!
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Stopping the clock of ETS and aviation emissions following last week's International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) Council
EU Commissioner for Climate Action Connie Hedegaard said:
"The EU has always been very clear: nobody wants an international framework tackling CO2-emissions from aviation more than we do. Our EU legislation is not standing in the way of this. On the contrary, our regulatory scheme was adopted after having waited many years for ICAO to progress. Now it seems that because of some countries' dislike of our scheme many countries are prepared to move in ICAO, and even to move towards a Market Based Mechanism (MBM) at global level.
Very good news came from the ICAO Council last Friday. Among other things, it was agreed that:
In short, finally we have a chance to get an international regulation on emissions from aviation. This is a long sought for opportunity that we must use. This is progress! But actually to get there, a lot of tough negotiations lie ahead of us.
In order create a positive atmosphere around these negotiations, I've just recommended in a telephone conference with the 27 Member States that the EU "stops the clock" when it comes to enforcement of the inclusion of aviation in the EU ETS to and from non-European countries until after the ICAO General Assembly next autumn.
But let me be very clear: if this exercise does not deliver – and I hope it does, then needless to say we are back to where we are today with the EU ETS. Automatically.
So we are creating this window of opportunity, this great chance. I can only recommend to all Parties to engage urgently in taking this issue forward. Now it is the time for paving the way for strong decisions to be taken by the next ICAO General Assembly. The European Union will engage fully and will work closely with the ICAO leadership. We are convinced others will do as well."
Stopping the clock for one year
Based on the encouraging results of the ICAO Council meeting 9 November – and the constructive engagement of our international partners in the relevant discussions – the EU is convinced that a global solution for addressing the fast growing aviation emissions from international aviation is within reach at the upcoming ICAO Assembly in 2013. As a gesture of good faith the EU will "stop the clock" on the implementation of the international aspects of its ETS aviation by deferring the obligation to surrender emissions allowances from air traffic to and from the EU by one year. This means that the EU would not require allowances to be surrendered in April 2013 for emissions from such flights during the whole of 2012. The monitoring and reporting obligations will also be deferred for such flights. The obligations relating to all operators' activities within EU will remain intact and compliance with the EU law will be enforced in this respect.
"Stopping the clock" creates space for the political negotiations and demonstrates confidence on the side of the EU that together with international partners we will succeed in ICAO to agree on meaningful international action. This means the ICAO process is allowed time until the 2013 Assembly in September/October next year and that no compliance will be expected as regards air traffic outside the EU in the interim.
It goes without saying that in the unlikely event of the ICAO Assembly failing to move forward the EU ETS legislation would be applied in full again from 2013 onwards.
The EU's Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) was established in 2003 by Directive 2003/87/EC and started operation on 1 January 2005. Initially the EU ETS included only land based industrial installations. From 1 January 2012 aviation activities of aircraft operators that operate flights arriving at and departing from Community aerodromes will also be included in the scheme for greenhouse gas emission allowance trading within the Community. The legislation covers 30 States including the 27 EU Member States and Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein.
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I found these documents on microfilm that I had ordered at my nearby Family History Center. I made photo-copies from the micro-film of the records that pertained to names that looked like my family names and I sent them to Carsten. It is very hard to find someone who can read the Old Style Fraktur writing and print. It was indeed a blessing when Carsten was able to be familiar with the Fraktur and translated for me from the German to English.
He has provided copies of the documents that I sent to him. Since they were so large he needed to show them in sections. But, on this webpage that he made for me, one can navigate around the site.
There is a wealth of genealogy information in these church documents. I will share more about them in another post.
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"She's destined to be a champion — that's her destiny."
— Darin Harvey on Ronda Rousey, who he manages.
A whirlwind of judo throws, gruesome grappling and cringe-inducing arm bars, Ronda Rousey has done in mere seconds of violent brilliance what others have gone an entire career without accomplishing.
An Olympic Bronze-medaled beauty, she offers up a total package brimming over with physical skills, intangibles and a sharp tongue rivaled only by her skillset.
It will be 24 days shy of a year — to be exact — for Rousey as a professional mixed-martial-arts fighter when she squares off with Miesha "Takedown" Tate on March 3 in Columbus, Ohio at Strikeforce: Tate vs. Rousey for the promotion's women's bantamweight title. And it will be, arguably, the second biggest women's fight on North American soil in the history of MMA.
And, for the 24-year-old former two-time Olympian, everything's seemingly going exactly as planned, as she's been bestowed exactly what's she's wanted. A lightning rod for controversy, fan appeal and always-entertaining quotes, Rousey has used her aforementioned total package — her quick wit, good looks, charming smile and, of course, dominance in the cage — to seize a title shot when there are many — in particular, Tate — who don't believe she deserves one.
None of that's right, though. Rousey's earned a championship bout that she deserves, because she earned it the old-fashioned way — she took it.
Rousey, who trains under Edmond Tarverdyan at the Glendale Fighting Club along with other Southern California locales, has ripped through four professional opponents — and three more on the amateur circuit — at a pace so torrid and impressive that she's forced promoters, fans and pundits to take notice.
In four pro fights, she's taken just 138 seconds to arm bar four opponents into submission and grab enough attention to garner a title shot.
Of course, the title shot hasn't come without controversy and likely hasn't come strictly on the merits of the path of destruction she's laid forth in the cage.
Tate has been quite vocal in her disagreement with Rousey getting a title shot.
A favorite with male MMA fans for aesthetic reasons as much as her athletic endeavors much like Rousey, Tate has objected to Rousey having "earned" a title shot, citing the latter's gift of gab and promotion of beauty and brawn over brawn and only brawn as crucial factors in her getting her golden opportunity. Then there's the fact that Rousey is actually dropping down to the 135-pound bantamweight class after fighting solely as a featherweight at 145. There's been others, of course, who have objected to Rousey's contendership — notably Sarah Kaufman, who is the former bantamweight champion and happens to hold a victory over Tate.
The arguments against Rousey are that she shouldn't simply get to the head of the line because she's got a big name, big hype, a pretty smile and some clever retorts. They're right. But that's not the entirety of the situation. Rousey has and is all of those things, but she's been about as dominating and impressive in her meteoric professional career as humanly possible.
Fact of the matter is, it's not a scenario novel to MMA. The original "Next Big Thing," Brock Lesnar, owned a 1-1 mark in the Ultimate Fighting Championship and a 2-1 overall MMA record when he fought for the UFC heavyweight crown against Randy Couture — who was defending a championship he won after he was bestowed a title bout after a near year-long retirement that followed a knockout loss in the light-heavyweight division to then-champion Chuck Liddell.
Most recently, Strikeforce middleweight champion Luke Rockhold defended his title with a successful throttling of Keith Jardine, who was not only fighting at middleweight for the first time, but he was coming off a draw against Gegard Mousasi — a bout Jardine lost had it not been for a controversial point deduction.
This scenario is nothing new, but Rousey is.
As much as anything else, Rousey possesses that "it factor" that is near-impossible to describe in words and has become borderline cliche in using and very much over used in describing the ascent of many. Not for her, though. Detractors will question her striking game, though she's never had to use it all that much and Tarverdyan is quick to tell you it is growing leaps and bounds. Others question the amount of time she's actually fought in the cage — you know, because destroying your competition is a bad thing.
Sure, Rousey is pomp and circumstance, but she's also plenty of substance. And when you can fight the fight, that's one thing. But when you're drawing attention because you're not afraid to say what's on your mind and you're sounding and looking good when you say it, well, that's gonna put butts in the seats and eyes on the screen. Plain and simple.
And right now, that's what women's MMA needs. And that's what Strikeforce needs. With much of its top-ranked talent — albeit there's notable exceptions like lightweight Gilbert Melendez and Mousasi — having gone to the UFC, its sibling company, before resigning with Showtime and vowing to keep the promotion going as a top-tier company, Strikeforce needs to build superstars. And with the sports of women's MMA's two brightest stars — Gina Carano (filming movies and uncertain if she'll fight again) and Cris Cyborg (suspended for a year due to performance-enhancing drugs) — not fighting any time soon, there is even more reason as to why Rousey needed her shot.
She has infused life, created hype and started a buzz. Whether Tate or Kaufman, or the latter's March 3 opponent Alexis Davis, like it, people are talking about them and listening to them because Rousey has made noise.
It's hard not to like Tate. She's a hard-working, good-looking, relatively soft-spoken 25-year-old who has built a 12-2 record and won a championship.
But it's impossible not to watch Rousey — whether it's in the cage applying a savage arm bar that you just can't look away from or outside of the cage flashing a winning a smile you just can't keep your eyes off.
There is something admirable about someone who bides their time, works hard and lets their work, and only their body of work, do their talking. But there is something so very commendable about those special few who go out and seize their chances, who take their time to shine.
"Rowdy" Ronda, the "Arm Collector," has been captivating and controversial, devastating and debonair, crass and clever, honest and unbeatable. Only thing she really isn't yet, is a champion. And that will change on March 3.
Not long before her Strikeforce debut in August of 2011 in an interview with the News-Press, Rousey recalled a prediction her late father made.
"He's the one that told me I'd win a gold medal and be the best in the world someday," she said. "And when you're 8 years old, your dad's right about everything."
So far, Ronda's been right about every move she's made in MMA. And Strikeforce made the right move in allowing her to take her shot.
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- 3 tablespoons Meyer lemon olive oil
- 2 tablespoons freshly squeezed Meyer lemon or regular lemon juice
- Freshly ground black pepper
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- Teen's defense cites 'involuntary intoxication' in stabbing death of Longmont woman
- Aidan von Grabow to stand trial as adult in Longmont stabbing case
- Defense for teen charged with Longmont murder may point finger at acne medication
- Community remembers Longmont stabbing victim Makayla Grote at vigil; 'She had something special'
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- Woman fatally stabbed in Longmont; 15-year-old faces murder charge
Editor's note: An earlier version of this story misspelled Aidan von Grabow's first name. The story has been corrected.
Mental health professionals testified Thursday that 15-year-old murder suspect Aidan von Grabow claimed he planned to kill kids who bullied him on Facebook in the weeks before the stabbing death of Longmont resident Makayla Grote.
The teen's nine-day stay in a Highlands Ranch psychiatric hospital beginning Oct. 16 — a little more than a month before Grote, 20, was killed at her Longmont apartment on Nov. 18 — is one focus of a weeklong hearing in Boulder that will determine whether he will face first-degree murder and 10 other charges in a juvenile or adult court.
A prior arrest of von Grabow for sending Grote's younger sister Snapchat messages threatening other Green Mountain High School students led to his admission to Highlands Behavioral Health last fall.
In those messages, he asked the girl to do him a favor so a friend of hers would stay off his "death list," and also made statements such as, "Have I told you I take meds that numb my entire body so I can't feel anything?" and, "I don't get how you think one officer can stop me when I've literally stabbed myself before," Lakewood police Officer Brandon Saunders testified earlier this week.
Once in the mental health hospital, von Grabow told clinicians he planned to "kill certain kids who were tormenting him on Facebook," Thomas Vertrees, a Highlands Behavioral Health psychiatrist, said from the stand.
"They say my girlfriend and I are having sex and it's not true," von Grabow told clinicians, according to Vertrees.
The teen reportedly had a relationship with a girl in the Colorado Springs area.
Over the course of his time at Highlands, von Grabow discussed a desire to remove himself from social media, and also retreated from suicidal and homicidal ideations while staying guarded about disclosing his feelings to clinicians, Vertrees testified.
Pueblo psychiatrist John Hardy — based on interviews with the defendant, his parents and records from his stay at Highlands — testified as an expert for the defense that the care provided to the teen at the facility was inadequate due to prescriptions he was given and his limited time with doctors there.
"Aiden was in a psychiatric hospital, committed there, which is usually not the happiest of circumstances for a 15-year-old to find himself in. I would say he was minimizing those symptoms to be released from those confines," Hardy said. "The records were difficult to follow for me in terms of who was giving Aiden care. ... It was very hard to determine their veracity. I found them very lacking."
Highlands doctors approved von Grabow to continue taking the acne medication Accutane — a drug his defense attorneys have hinted may have had side effects that prompted a personality change.
"What he said on the Snapchat was true. His medicines were messing with his mind," Hardy testified.
Highlands staff also prescribed von Grabow the same anti-depressant taken by his father, who suffered bouts of depression, heavy alcohol consumption and physically attacked the defendant in their Lakewood home, according to testimony from Veronica von Grabow, the boy's mother.
The teen's father, Jamie von Grabow, told clinicians he was unaware of any issues with his son being bullied. He has not attended any of this week's hearing.
Hardy suggested that side effects of the acne medication — in combination with the antidepressant Wellbutrin — expedited the teen's transition from calm and quiet to aggressive and violent. Aiden von Grabow began taking a generic brand of Accutane on Oct. 12, three days before he sent the threatening Snapchat messages to Grote's sister.
"I think both (drugs) were very important (to) the incredible anger and surge of omnipotence, that he initially experienced within two days of taking the (acne medication) by itself," Hardy said.
In a Highlands patient survey, Aiden von Grabow indicated he had never been the victim of emotional, physical or sexual abuse or domestic violence, and also said he had been cutting himself for three months, according to testimony.
Prosecutor Adrian Van Nice noted Aiden von Grabow displayed what Highlands staff said could have been symptoms of major depression months and even a year prior to taking the medications.
The teen's parents and police first learned he had cut himself when he revealed bandages on his arms during the Oct. 16 investigation of the Snapchat messages.
Previous testimony indicated that since being in custody at a juvenile detention facility, Aiden von Grabow reportedly told another person being held there he "stabbed this girl a bunch of times" and it was "overkill," but did not regret committing the attack, stating "I would do it again," according to Longmont police Detective Steve Desmond's own conversations with that juvenile.
"Aiden told (the juvenile) he was on medication that was making him insane and made him kill this girl, and despite making him insane, he liked taking this medicine," Desmond said.
Before he was admitted to the Highlands Ranch hospital, Aiden von Grabow's grades in two classes slipped to failing marks, making him ineligible to run on the Green Mountain High cross country team.
Following his academic struggles, he took backpacking gear and his father's car without permission twice in one week in late September, skipping school to hike up Loveland Pass, from where he was retrieved by Summit County sheriff's deputies the first time and returned home on his own after camping on the second occasion.
After telling his parents he wanted to be home-schooled, the teen withdrew from Green Mountain and enrolled in an alternative school. He was suspended after his October arrest.
When his mother flew to Dallas on a business trip in mid-November, Aiden von Grabow used his father's and grandfather's Amazon.com accounts to order a helmet, all-black tactical gloves, boots and clothing, throwing knives, two "Rambo" knives and handcuffs, according to testimony.
On Nov. 17, his mother discovered Molotov cocktails, a machete, throwing knives and other blades in his bedroom, and alerted Lakewood police.
Aiden von Grabow reacted violently by charging his mother with a hunting knife, shoving his 85-year-old grandfather into a wall and stealing his mother's SUV.
He was arrested hours after Grote's death the next day outside a Lakewood home that was later learned to be the residence of a teen whose name appeared on a note titled "death list" found in his notebook that had Grote's younger sister's name at the top.
Prosecutors with the Boulder County District Attorney's Office have pointed to notes allegedly written by Aiden von Grabow that suggest he wanted to retaliate against Grote's sister for alerting police to his threatening Snapchat messages.
District Judge Andrew Macdonald will decide the setting of von Grabow's criminal case at the hearing's conclusion, scheduled for Friday.
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- 6:45 pm
- Land of the rising growth rate?
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Here it comes, Japan's October-December GDP numbers, and most economists are expecting a rebound.
A Reuters survey of 26 economists puts growth at 0.7% during the three months, picking up from a 0.3% gain in June-September.
Seeing as the dollar spent most of the three months above the 100-yen level (presumably helping exports), and with consumers believed to be upping their spending ahead of the national-sales-tax hike due in April, some sort of improvement seems likely.
But because of that same sales-tax hike, the upcoming April-June period— also the first quarter in Japan's fiscal year — could be the real test of where the world's No. 3 economy is headed this year.
The GDP data are due out at 8:50 a.m. Tokyo time, or 6:50 p.m. U.S. Eastern time.
- 7:44 pm
- Australia up, Japan down
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In Asia stock-market action Monday, the early openers diverged, with Japan's Nikkei Average down 0.5%, while Australia's S&P/ASX 200 added 0.2%, and South Korea's Kospi made a 0.6% advance.
Tokyo had been set to open higher, with futures showing a 0.8% gain … that is until fourth-quarter GDP came in at 0.3%, unchanged from the previous three months and less than half of the 0.7% quarter-on-quarter gain economists had expected.
Among the factors weighing on the data result was a mere 0.4% seasonally adjusted rise for exports — better than the 0.7% drop in June-September but below the 4.2% and 2.9% increases in the first two quarters of the year, respectively.
Among the top decliners, Rakuten was 9.2% lower after sitting ask-only in the early minutes. The loss came after the online retailer posted below-consensus full-year earnings and said it would buy Internet messaging and telecom firm Viber Media for $900 million.
Australia, however, got a bump from improvement in the major mining names, with gold extractors scoring another day of strong gains on a rise in gold futures. Among them, Kingsgate Consolidated rallied 5.8%, and Evolution Mining traded 6.9% higher. The two largest miners, BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto, climbed 0.3% and 1.5%, respectively.
Read more on early Japanese trade here and Australia's open here.
- 8:24 pm
- China banks: All's well that lends well
- by Mike Kitchen
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Never one to take the weekend off, the People's Bank of China (PBOC) issued its January bank-lending data on Saturday, and the results showed more credit growth than economists had imagined.
Specifically, Chinese lenders extended 1.32 trillion yuan ($218 billion) worth of new loans last month, besting an estimated 1.1 billion yuan in loans tipped in a Wall Street Journal survey.
However, Barclays said the gain may not be what it seems. "The rebound reflected the usual increase in the loan quota at the beginning of the year. We believe it doesn't necessarily imply a sharp pickup in credit demand," Barclays economists wrote.
They said strong mid- to long-term corporate loans appeared to lead the growth, marking a "shift back to bank loan financing from bond issuance as the corporate bond yield rose and credit spread widened."
Over at Bank of America-Merrill Lynch, the mood appeared to be one of relief that the central bank wasn't tightening.
"Markets have been quite concerned about the PBOC's monetary/credit tightening and investors' withdrawal of money from trust products, but the January money/credit data, plus the PBOC's proactive open market operations, can tell us that the PBOC's policy stance remains neutral," the bank's Ting Lu and Xiaojia Zhi wrote.
- 8:25 pm
- Markets check -- 10:25 a.m. in Tokyo
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Japan (Nikkei Average) flat
Sydney (S&P/ASX 200) up 0.5%
Seoul (Kospi) up 0.4%
- 9:31 pm
- Hong Kong banking the gains
- by Laura He and Mike Kitchen
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Hong Kong is leading the region higher this morning, with the Hang Seng Index up 1.1% and the H-shares ahead by 1.8%.
Part of this is about the banks, with the big mainland lenders cruising uphill after surprisingly strong credit data (for whatever that's worth … see earlier post.)
Elsewhere in the sector, China Citic Bank is up 1.7%, even as it tried to walk back news reports that the chairman had told fellow execs the lender would post a record-high 2013 profit. No, really, those numbers were just a "crude approximation," China Citic said.
- 9:33 pm
- Markets check -- 10:33 a.m. in Hong Kong
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Japan (Nikkei Average) up 0.4% (at break)
Hong Kong (Hang Seng Index) up 1.1%
Shanghai (Shanghai Composite Index) up 0.2%
Sydney (S&P/ASX 200) up 0.4%
Seoul (Kospi) up 0.3%
Taipei (Taiex) up 0.1%
- 10:13 pm
- Stephen: Stop the lending madness already
- by Mike Kitchen
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Chinese bank stocks are trading broadly higher, thanks in large part to strong loan-growth data out over the weekend (see earlier post).
But Craig Stephen is worried, suggesting the government should channel the energy expended on its recent prostitution crackdown and use it to roll back high levels of credit growth.
Read Craig's commentary here. And meanwhile, know that the Hang Seng Index is up 0.8%, while the Shanghai Composite is ahead by 0.4%.
- 10:45 pm
- Hong Kong embraces sunny start to finance sector's earnings season
- by Laura He
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A promising beginning for financials' earnings season has brought cheer to Hong Kong markets, at least for today, with the benchmark Hang Seng Index up 1%.
At this point, the most attractive stocks seem to be the Chinese insurers, which managed to turn some surprisingly strong revenues for last month.
Shares in the nation's largest life insurer — China Life Insurance Co. — rose as high as 23.5 yuan, a gain of 8.8%, after the company reported a 73% jump in insurance premiums for January compared to a year ago.
Its smaller rival China Taiping Insurance advanced 4.5%, as its insurance premiums surged more than double year-on-year for last month. Likewise, Ping An Insurance gained 3.4% on a 41% increase on its January premiums, and PICC Property & Casualty Co. rose 2%.
Banking shares also shone amid earnings, even as some figures were based on leaked information.
China Merchants Bank's profit growth of 14.4% in 2013 beat market estimates, pushing its stock price up by 1.8% in Hong Kong trading.
Meanwhile, China Citic Bank popped up 1.7% on reported record-high profit of 39 billion yuan ($6.4 billion), although the bank stepped back and said the leaked earnings were based on "inco
mplet e" data for internal use and "can not be used as reference guide for investors." (See earlier post.)
- 11:07 pm
- Markets check -- 1:07 p.m. in Tokyo
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Japan (Nikkei Average) up 0.6%
Hong Kong (Hang Seng Index) up 0.9% (at break)
Shanghai (Shanghai Composite Index) up 0.5% (at break)
Sydney (S&P/ASX 200) up 0.4%
Seoul (Kospi) up 0.3%
Mumbai (Sensex) up 0.5%
Taipei (Taiex) up 0.2%
- 11:38 pm
- South Korea to hacked firms: No soup for you!
- by Mike Kitchen
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In the U.S. and many other developed economies, the hacking of customer information isn't all that uncommon. And (in the popular imagination, at least) the companies from which the data are stolen often seem to react to such thefts with little more than a sigh and a shrug.
Ah, but in South Korea, they don't mess around.
Korea's financial-services regulator announced Sunday that three firms which admitted last month to suffering data theft would be barred from issuing any new credit cards or extending any loans until mid-May.
And it didn't stop there — read more about what the regulators and companies in question did in this MarketWatch First Take.
- 12:17 am
- Markets check -- 1:17 p.m. in Hong Kong
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Japan (Nikkei Average) up 0.5%
Hong Kong (Hang Seng Index) up 0.9%
Shanghai (Shanghai Composite Index) up 0.7%
Sydney (S&P/ASX 200) up 0.5%
Seoul (Kospi) up 0.2%
Mumbai (Sensex) up 0.3%
Taipei (Taiex) flat
- 1:31 am
- Tokyo stocks: Not so bad after all
- by Mike Kitchen
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Although Japanese stocks traded lower in the morning as investors reacted to the weaker-than-expected GDP print, by the time the dust settled, the Nikkei Average stood with a gain of 0.6% for the day.
Among some of the notable movers, Hitachi closed 1.4% higher as the Nikkei Asian Review reported the conglomerate will relist some 70% of its Hitachi Maxell business as early as next month.
Suntory Beverage & Food ended with a 2.7% gain after posting a 33% increase in annual profit, even as its outlook trailed forecasts, according to Bloomberg.
And Rakuten remained weak all session, finally closing with a 9.5% loss following its disappointing earnings and plan to buy Internet messaging firm Viber Media (see earlier post on this blog).
- 2:02 am
- Markets check -- 3:02 p.m. in Hong Kong
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Japan (Nikkei Average) up 0.6% (closed)
Hong Kong (Hang Seng Index) up 1.1% (closed)
Shanghai (Shanghai Composite Index) up 0.9% (closed)
Sydney (S&P/ASX 200) up 0.5% (closed)
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_________________________________________________________- In the space colony of New Wales, the pirate attacks are both relentless and merciless Having lost both his parents, Jabin has been adopted by his austere and spiteful uncle and aunt who live in the space colony of New Wales which is riven with religious and political rivalry, and prey to the vicious maraudings of pirates whose cruelty and greed are beyond all imagination. When Jabin volunteers to surrender himself to a pirate raiding party to save a friend, he does so believing that nothing can be worse than his current suffering. However, he is soon to discover that things can always get worse when the stakes are high, the rewards are vast and slave labour is there for the taking. When the King of New Wales is assassinated, the colony threatens to collapse into total anarchy, leaving the pirates free reign to mutilate, kill and profit as they will, but the forces of law and order sent out from Earth are getting ready to fight back, and Jabin could have a vital part to play in the ensuing war if he can only stay alive.
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