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7 reasons why The Walking Dead's Jon Berthal is the hottest actor on TV right now
In case you didn't already know, we absolutely love the new season of Marvel's Daredevil, which has just been added to Netflix. Along with its world class writing, direction, and choreography, one of… read more
7 reasons why The Walking Dead's Jon Berthal is the hottest actor on TV right now
In case you didn't already know, we absolutely love the new season of Marvel's Daredevil, which has just been added to Netflix. Along with its world class writing, direction, and choreography, one of the main reasons we love the new series so damn much is new cast member Jon Berthal.
Having already won our hearts as complex Shane Walsh in The Walking Dead, as well as in his film roles in The Wolf of Wall Street, Fury, and Sicario, the 39-year-old actor has now punched and growled his way into a game-changing portrayal of Frank Castle, A.K.A. The Punisher – perhaps the grittiest antihero of the Marvel Comics Universe.
We think he might just be our favourite actor on TV at the moment; and we watch a whole lot of TV. So in celebration of the beauty that is the Bernthal, here are 7 reasons why you should love him too.
1. He's the best Punisher we've seen so far
Casting directors are acutely aware that it's nigh on impossible to cast an actor in a comic book role without invoking the ire of internet fanboys and girls. But on June 9th of last year, an overwhelming consensus agreed that Bernthal and his perpetually broken nose would make the perfect Punisher.
"Growing up, I was attracted to danger and to trouble. This art, this craft, this work gave me direction. All of a sudden, that same wildness ended up being one of my greatest weapons", he revealed in a recent interview. And indeed, that raw energy is what makes him so suited to the rage-filled, vengeful Punisher.
He's also humble, though. When asked for his response to the hype surrounding his casting, this is what Bernthal said: "Part of me would rather everybody had said 'That's the worst, that guy sucks'! [It] did not embolden me, or let me hold my chin high. It just said, 'Time to go to work, motherf***er'". Just how Frank Castle would've wanted.
2. He's versatile
Far from a one-trick pony, Bernthal has proven he's capable of taking on a number of diverse roles. He was almost unrecognisable as fast talking Jewish lawyer Michael H. Sussman in one of our favourite shows of 2015, Show Me a Hero, and we were surprised to see him pop up as Greg's cool, tattooed History teacher in bittersweet teen comedy Me and Earl and the Dying Girl. He was also absolutely hilarious as Brad, the iron-pumping 'Quaalude King' in The Wolf of Wall Street. Is there anything this guy can't do? We can't wait to see what other characters he has lined up to join his repertoire.
3. He's supportive of young talent
Our hearts melted when we learned Jon Bernthal and youngster Tom Holland teamed up to film their Marvel audition tapes together. Having met on the set of Irish period drama Pilgrimage (yet another string to add to Bernthal's bow), the two became friends, and helped one another to audition for the roles of the Punisher and Spider-Man respectively. As we now know, their efforts were successful, as both were cast. Awww 🙂
The story's made even cuter by the relationship between the Punisher and Spider-Man in Marvel's Civil War comics, as Punisher is the one who rescues Spider-Man after he's almost beaten to death by the super villains Tony Stark unleashes to try and bring Peter Parker back to the pro-reg side of things. We seriously hope this comes into play in the upcoming Captain America: Civil War movie…
4. He's the sweetest family man
Jonny and his beautiful wife Erin Angle have three adorable kids, which is something the actor says helped him get into character for Frank Castle; a man hell-bent on avenging the murder of his wife, son and daughter.
"There's no way I could even begin to tackle this role if I wasn't a father and a husband in my mind", he said at the Daredevil premiere last week. "My family means everything to me", he continued. "You realise what it's like to love somebody more than yourself and be willing to give up your life for them in a heartbeat".
And, I mean, will you just look at this Tweet? Can't deal.
5. He takes his roles seriously
This is the man who, while shooting for David Ayer's Fury, didn't see his family until it wrapped – including his newborn baby. And as we know, family is huge for Bernthal. He also went all out to prepare for his role as the Punisher. "Here's a guy who's had the thing he cares about most in the world taken from him forever. It's important not to spend your nights with creature comforts of a hotel and going to restaurants and partying", he said in a recent interview.
"I go dark for a couple of months while I find the character", he told Empire of his process, which for Daredevil saw him strapping on a backpack filled with weights and walking the deserted streets of Brooklyn, trying to 'find Frank Castle'. "I'm giving it everything I have. This character and his philosophies and the ideas behind it are tremendously important to me", said Bernthal. And believe us, it really comes through in the show.
6. He's a great friend
In particular, he loves Norman Reedus.
"Look, outside of my family, there's nobody in this world I love like Norman Reedus. I love that dude with everything I got", Bernthal said about his Walking Dead co-star.
When they're not sharing the screen, the adorable duo go out for meals together, do impressions of one another, kiss and hug one another while wearing matching hats… Sigh. I believe this is what they mean by the term 'squad goals'.
7. He loves dogs
We were well and truly moved by Frank Castle's chemistry with the gorgeous Staffordshire Bull Terrier (played by Bernthal's own dog) in this season of Marvel's Daredevil. He takes the dog under his wing, and the love between the two is just so beautiful. When tortured himself, Castle gives up nothing to the enemy. But when the dog is threatened, he spills the beans to save its life.
Here's real life Bernthal with his beloved pooches Boss and Venice, who regularly appear alongside him in photoshoots, talking about responsible pit bull ownership for the Majority Project. What a man.
Catch Jon Bernthal as the Punisher/Frank Castle in season 2 of Marvel's Daredevil, streaming on Netflix now.


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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A Middlebury 12-year-old placed in the top 10 percent of a national cross country running race in Albuquerque, N.M., this past Saturday.
Willem Landis, a seventh-grader at Middlebury Union Middle School, placed 25th at the USA Track and Field Junior Olympic Cross Country Championship in the Midget division for 11- and 12-year-old boys. He covered the 3,000-meter course at Balloon Fiesta Park in 11:00.07.
There were 259 runners in the race who had to qualify at state or regional races earlier this fall. Landis was the only Vermonter to qualify from Region 1, which encompassed New England, Long Island and parts of upstate New York. That race was held on Long Island on Nov. 18.
Ivan Pineda-Dominguez of the Albuquerque Cougar Track Club won the race in 10:10.17, more than 13 seconds ahead of second place.
Landis' mother, Angela Cobrin Landis, said the 5,000-foot elevation in Albuquerque was a challenge for many of the runners. Nevertheless, Willem had been hoping for a top-50 finish, and he was happy with his finish.
By making it into the top 25, Landis earned the USATF's All-American status.

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Dierks Bentley, Darius Rucker + More to Perform at 2012 Pre-Super Bowl Shows
Te 2012 Super Bowl takes place on Feb. 5 in Indianapolis, and the city is taking the hosting of the NFL event seriously. The powers-that-be have invited some country stars to be a part of the festivities. The city's Pan Am Plaza is being turned into something called Super Bowl Village from Jan. 27 through Feb. 4, and country stars Dierks Bentley and Darius Rucker are on board to perform during those dates. Bentley and Rucker are essentially on the entertainment road leading up to the actual big game.
The lineup for Super Bowl Village is eclectic, with pop, soul, R&B and rock acts filling out the bills. For a complete listing of the acts that will be performing at the Super Bowl Village, go here. Rucker is a noted sports fan who often calls into (and sends texts to) ESPN's national morning drive radio and TV show 'Mike and Mike' to talk about gridiron happenings, so performing at a Super Bowl-sanctioned event is certainly right up the singer's alley.
In other pre-Super Bowl XLVI events, singer Sara Evans will also be on hand for the Taste of NFL 21st Anniversary Party With a Purpose. That event takes place on Feb. 4 at Gleaner's Food Bank in Indianapolis. The event raises awareness of food and hunger issues. Go here for more information on that particular party.
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Kristin Vongvixay, of Chestnut Hill, was looking for a way to give back to her community when she decided to become a Meals on Wheels driver. Although her family does make occasional monetary donations to various charities, she said she wanted to do more.
"It was easy for us to give a little here and give a little there," Vongvixay said. "I wanted to dedicate some of my personal time to giving back to the community. My parents are not here, so I thought I would like to help take care of other parents."
Vongvixay, 39, the mother of an 11-year-old boy, has a hectic schedule. As owner of a graphic design business called M1NT and a part-time teacher at Temple University, she is constantly juggling her schedule, but every Wednesday morning Vongvixay carves out an hour to deliver freshly prepared nutritious meals to Chestnut Hill residents.
"I specifically requested the Chestnut Hill neighborhood because that's where I am from – and I am a terrible driver," Vongvixay said, laughing.
Vongvixay said she loved seeing the same people and enjoyed chatting with her neighbors.
"It's very nurturing for them," she said. "They ask how my son is. They love sharing their stories."
Vongvixay said her clients like it when someone younger visits. During spring break, Vongvixay's son Julien helped to deliver the homemade meals. She said he loves it, adding that even people who may be a bit reserved tend to open up when they meet a "young friend."
"It's all about being a friend," said Lynne Mason, volunteer coordinator for Meals on Wheels. "Sometimes, the volunteer may be the only person they see."
Chestnut Hill Meals on Wheels delivers freshly prepared meals Monday through Friday. Volunteers come to the Keystone House where they pick up meals that were specially prepared that day by their chef. The meals are delivered before noon and each contains a cold lunch and hot supper. Currently, the program serves 50 people throughout Chestnut Hill, Mt. Airy, Flourtown, Erdenheim, Wyndmoor, Oreland and a small portion of Glenside.
"The number of services varies day to day depending upon clients' personal schedules," Mason said.
On average, Chestnut Hill Meals on Wheels delivers 40 meals a day. The meals are tailored to meet the client's needs, but they tend to be "low sodium, low sugar or sugar free."
"We do an intake visit to access the dietary needs of the client and arrange delivery instructions," Mason said. "Besides being inexpensive and convenient, there is a social component."
Mason said many seniors may not eat because they feel tired from the medication they may be taking or feel depressed, but when someone comes to the door with a smile and the aroma of a homemade meal they may change their mind.
Mason added that if the weather or road conditions are dangerous, Meals on Wheels doesn't deliver. Instead, all clients receive emergency packages in advance that contain nonperishable items, such as macaroni and cheese, tuna fish, peanut butter, granola bars and cheese and crackers.
Mason, who started out as a volunteer, said she loves working at Chestnut Hill Meals on Wheels.
"I love what I do and occasionally, when a volunteer can't come in, I get to deliver," Mason said. "It's a nice way to be part of the community."


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Lightning Blamed for Blaze at Home of Local FirefighterA local firefighter's home was damaged Wednesday after being struck by lightning. Deputy Chief Chris Burnham said the firefighter and his wife were at home around 4:15 p.m. when a nearby tree was struck by a bolt of lightning. The electrical charge traveled underground and caused the basement of the home at 41 Brandyview Terrace to catch fire. The firefighter, whose ...Published almost 8 years ago |
VIDEO: Firefighters, Police Watch Man DrownSAN FRANCISCO - Fire crews and police could only watch after a man waded into San Francisco Bay, stood up to his neck and waited. They wanted to do something, but a policy strictly forbade them from trying to save the 50-year-old, officials said. A witness finally pulled the apparently suicidal man's lifeless body from the 54-degree water. Interim Alameda Fire ...Published almost 8 years ago |
VIDEO: Fireworks Blaze Prompts EvacuationsCARYVILLE -- Dozens of firefighters this morning were greeted with sparkling flames when a blaze erupted at a Campbell County fireworks business. Firefighters from six fire departments tackled the flames that erupted about 2:30 a.m. at Thunder Mountain Fireworks, 292 John McGhee Blvd., according to Caryville Fire Chief Eddie Hatmaker. "When we got there, flames were shooting through the roof," Hatmaker ...Published almost 8 years ago |
Off-Duty Pilot Stops to Save Man Engulfed in FlamesJohn Filipowicz caught a glimpse of fire as he drove through Portland shortly after 7 p.m. Sunday, only a moment before the worst thing imaginable dawned on him. He saw the flames move and drop to the ground. Someone was on fire. Filipowicz slammed on the brakes, jumped from his 1960 GMC pickup, bolted over a guardrail, down a steep embankment ...Published almost 8 years ago |
VIDEO: Factory Fire Ignites 130K Gallons of OilMELBOURNE, Australia--Firefighters have brought a massive fire at a Melbourne petrochemical factory under control after it ignited tens of thousands of gallons (liters) of mineral oil. The blaze started Thursday on the outskirts of the Australian city, setting off explosions and sending massive fire balls into the air. The Australian Broadcasting Corp. says it raced through 130,000 gallons (500,000 liters) of ...Published almost 8 years ago |
VIDEO: Crew Escapes as Tanker Jet CrashesVENTURA, Calif. -- Three crew members aboard a Boeing 707 tanker loaded with jet fuel escaped with only minor injuries when the aircraft skidded off the runway and exploded into flames at a Southern California Navy base, officials said. The plane crashed as it was taking off from Naval Base Ventura County Point Mugu at about 5:25 p.m. Wednesday. It slid ...Published almost 8 years ago |
Suit Filed Against City of Boston for '09 Truck CrashBOSTON - The City of Boston and six truck maintenance shops have been sued for their alleged roles in allowing a 49,000-pound firetruck to go out on the road with faulty brakes, leading it to plunge down a hilltop street two years ago, killing a firefighter and damaging a Mission Hill apartment complex. The lawsuit was filed by Federal Insurance Company, ...Published over 8 years ago |
Rescuer Falls Through Ice Trying to Reach DogORLAND, Ind. — Crews had to pull a firefighter to safety after he fell through the ice while trying to reach a dog from a northeastern Indiana lake. Orland firefighters were called Sunday by the owners of the dog after it walked onto the half-inch ice of Lake Pleasant and fell in. Firefighter Mike Garrison inched out while wearing full rescue ...Published over 8 years ago |
Firefighter Faces Dismissal Over Car Crash VideoATLANTA - An investigation of video taken of a Griffin woman just moments after she was killed in a car accident will continue in hopes of identifying the second voice captured during the recording, officials said Friday. Related A Spalding County firefighter was notified Thursday that he will be terminated for using his cell phone camera to record the image of ...Published over 8 years ago |
Unmanned Fire Engine Rolls Into HomeSPOKANE, Wash. (AP) - A parked Spokane Fire Department engine with nobody at the wheel rolled into a home where firefighters were making an aid call. Fire Chief Bobby Williams says the truck had been parked about 100 yards from the home Wednesday night. Shortly after medics walked inside, they heard the crash. KXLY-TV reports the engine knocked down porch supports ...Published over 8 years ago |
Dumped Gas Tank Explodes, Rockets Into MA HomeBRIDGEWATER, Mass. (AP) - A 50-pound gas tank dumped in a Massachusetts salvage yard has exploded and rocketed into the air before crashing through solar panels and the roof of a nearby home and landing in a bedroom. Fire department Deputy Chief Thomas Levy says two people were at the home in Bridgewater, a town of about 25,000 residents just south ...Published over 8 years ago |
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Firefighter Dad Helps Rescue Own Son After CrashMANATEE, FL — It was a firefighter's worst nightmare. The critically injured teenager that Arthur Kersey helped remove Sept. 1 from the mangled wreckage of a head-on collision was his own son, Dylan. But in the predawn darkness of the 5:42 a.m. crash, Kersey didn't recognize the wreckage of the heavily damaged 1996 Chevrolet or the bloody victim he helped extricate. ...Published over 8 years ago |
OSHA: 45-Minute Lag in Warning of Ala Ammonia LeakTHEODORE, Ala. — Federal regulators say they're investigating a lag of about 45 minutes between an ammonia leak at a refrigeration plant and the first siren blasting an offical warning to area residents. Millard Refrigerated Services, based in Omaha, Neb., says it detected the leak at its Theodore plant that freezes chickens at 9:05 a.m. Monday and alerted authorities within 20 ...Published over 8 years ago |
Fairfax Teen Dies in Electrical AccidentFAIRFAX, Va. - A Fairfax teenager died in an electrical accident Tuesday night. Officials and neighbors say the 17-year-old boy had been using a power saw to trim trees in the 4200 block of Berritt Street in Fairfax City when the accident occurred about 6:15 p.m. Tuesday. The teenager, a student at Fairfax High School, was working about 10 feet from ...Published over 8 years ago |
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Six Firefighters Injured In Truck RolloverFARMINGTON, MO — Six volunteer firefighters survived a rollover accident in the Farmington Fire Department's pumper tanker truck, one that the Missouri State Highway Patrol says was caused by another motorist. Investigators say the driver of the tanker were trying to avoid a motorist during a routine fire call. The Farmington volunteer crew had their lights and sirens blaring heading down ...Published almost 9 years ago |
Motorcyclist Killed After Colliding with AmbulanceJACKSON TOWNSHIP — A Jackson Township motorcyclist was killed when he collided with an ambulance taking an elderly woman to the hospital late last night, authorities said. Charles Childs, 27, was riding his Harley Davidson motorcycle on North Hope Chapel Road shortly before midnight when he crossed the center line and hit the southbound ambulance, police said. The crew from the ...Published almost 9 years ago |
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Here are the 10 best new films coming to BT TV this September
The kids may be heading back to school, but that doesn't mean the adults can't continue to enjoy themselves with some quality new films courtesy of BT TV! This month… read more
Here are the 10 best new films coming to BT TV this September
The kids may be heading back to school, but that doesn't mean the adults can't continue to enjoy themselves with some quality new films courtesy of BT TV! This month we're treated to a Mad Hatter, an awful singer, an unforgettable romance, hordes of Orcs, one heck of a superhero showdown, and much much more to keep you entertained. So what are you waiting for? Put these in your viewing calendars!
Captain America: Civil War
The Avengers are back, but not assembled, as Captain America and Iron Man's disagreement over potential government superintendence of their activities sets them into two opposing factions. Obviously, almost every MCU player comes onto the scene to weigh in on the feud, making this one serious superhero spectacle. Starring Chris Evans, Robert Downey Jr., Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Paul Rudd, and Martin Freeman.
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Alice Through the Looking Glass
Alice slips through a magical looking glass that finds her back in Underland with the White Queen, the Cheshire Cat, the White Rabbit, Tweedledee and Tweedledum. Discovering the Mad Hatter to be acting madder than usual over the loss of his family, Alice must travel back in time and embark on a race to save the Hatter and his loved ones before time runs out.
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Me Before You
Game of Thrones star Emilia Clarke plays the ever-optimistic caregiver of a wealthy young banker left paralysed from an accident two years earlier (Sam Clafin), and the two find their lives and hearts changed by one another forever in this romantic weepy adaptation of Jojo Moyes's novel of the same name.
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Bad Neighbours 2: Sorority Rising
In this riotous follow-up to 2014's Bad Neighbours, young parents Mac and Kelly must now team up with their former fraternity nemeses Teddy and Pete, in order to battle the raucous sorority sisters who've moved in next door. Why don't these guys just move house, already? With Seth Rogen, Zac Efron, Dave Franco, Chloë Grace Moretz, Selena Gomez and Rose Byrne.
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From Duncan Jones, the director behind Moon and Source Code, comes this big screen reimagining of the World of Warcraft video game franchise. The peaceful realm of Azeroth stands on the brink of war as its civilisation faces a fearsome race of invaders: Orc warriors fleeing their dying home to colonise another. As a portal opens to connect the two worlds, one army faces destruction and the other faces extinction. From opposing sides, two heroes are set on a collision course that will decide the fate of their family, their people and their home.
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The Nice Guys
The unlikely pairing of Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe team up in this comedy caper from the director of Iron Man 3. Set in 1977 Los Angeles, two private eyes investigate the disappearance of a girl and the death of a porn star, both of which they soon find out are somehow entangled with the mob. Think Inherent Vice meets Crazy, Stupid, Love.
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Florence Foster Jenkins
Meryl Streep plays the titular Jenkins, a New York socialite in the 1940s, who dreams of becoming a great opera singer; despite not being able to sing. At all. Meanwhile her husband St. Clair (Hugh Grant) goes to extreme lengths to make sure his wife never finds out how awful she truly is, which proves quite the challenge when she announces her plans for a concert at Carnegie Hall.
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Money Monster
Jodie Foster directs another movie about why everyone hates Wall Street, in which George Clooney plays the host of a television show, Money Monster, who picks hot stocks. When a disgruntled investor (Jack O'Connell) claiming to have lost everything on one of the show's tips interrupts a live broadcast, Clooney's character is taken hostage and, with the help of his producer (Julia Roberts), must try to defuse the heated situation.
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Friend Request
After a college student 'unfriends' a girl online, she has to battle a demonic presence that wants to make her lonely by killing her best friends in this well-received horror from German director Simon Verhoeven. Starring Alycia Debnam-Carey (The 100, Fear the Walking Dead), William Moseley, Connor Paolo, Brit Morgan, Brooke Markham, Sean Marquette, and Liesl Ahlers.
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Our Kind of Traitor
Based on the best selling novel by master of espionage-based intrigue John le Carré, this tense new British spy thriller stars Ewan McGregor and Naomie Harris as a British couple vacationing in Marrakech, Morocco, who find themselves caught up in a plot to launder millions of Russian mafia money.
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By Steve Slater
LONDON, March 16 (Reuters) - Once modest of pay and profile, risk experts are being reborn as rock stars of the banking world - their status and salaries soaring as regulators force financial institutions to clean up.
Industry-wide investigations into alleged exchange rate manipulation, trading scandals at UBS, Societe Generale and JPMorgan and HSBC's $1.9 billion fine for lax money-laundering rules have upped the ante for banks already under pressure to curb reckless behaviour that led to the financial crisis.
Now watchdogs and central banks want to see a clear line of responsibility for the avoidance of such fiascos in the future, and as a result, the position of chief risk officer (CRO) has jumped up the ranks. Many CROs now sit alongside the finance director as second in importance behind the chief executive.
"The role of the CRO has become broader, higher profile and more influential," said Anne Murphy, head of UK financial services for executive recruitment firm Odgers Berndtson.
In turn, salaries have soared. Pay in risk-related jobs rose 6 percent in 2013 and rocketed 19 percent for those who moved firms, according to a report by recruitment firm Barclay Simpson.
HSBC chief risk officer Marc Moses joined the bank's board at the start of 2014, alongside the chairman, chief executive and finance director, and could be paid 6 million pounds ($10 million) this year. Chief Executive Stuart Gulliver, who could be paid 11.4 million this year, says pre-crisis, the bank's CRO would not have made it into the top 50 earners.
At Spain's Santander the top risk executive Matias Rodriguez Inciarte was its second-highest paid director last year, getting 4.7 million euros.
Those numbers, says Murphy, are "recognition that it's a big job. There aren't many people who have the skills and abilities to do it well, combined with the increase in seniority and responsibility."
Chief risk officers ensure that where potential dangers exist, they are monitored and kept in check. That can range from measuring how likely loans are to be paid back, how risky banks' positions in financial markets might be, and what potential losses may be incurred from fraudulent activities.
However after the financial crisis of 2007-2008 this already wide remit has become larger still, and its parameters more clearly policed.
CROs must ensure banks abide by tougher regulations around the world, hammered out by governments that had to use public funds to keep many of them from sinking under the burden of bad loans resulting from excessive borrowing, risky investments and a lack of transparency.
The new rules demand that banks take fewer risks, assess loans more closely and hold more accessible capital as a buffer against bad bets.
Many CROs are now also responsible for ensuring cyber security and spotting terror financing and money laundering - so-called compliance functions that previously often fell under the remit of a bank's legal division.
The scale of the new CRO job is reflected in the amount of time such concerns occupy at board level. Santander said its board spent 30 percent of its time last year on risk management, and Barclays' board has spent 35-40 percent of its time on governance and risk issues in the last two years.
As a result some CROs are being invited to join the board, another notch for their status and pay packets.
Juan Colombas, chief risk officer at Lloyds Banking Group since the start of 2011, joined its board in November 2013 and is one of only three executive directors. He could earn 4.4 million pounds this year.
The job of CRO comes with its own risk/reward equation: its new elevated status also brings far more accountability.
Following the introduction of new post-crisis legislation in Britain, for example, these bankers can now be sent to prison if found guilty of the new charge of reckless misconduct leading to bank failure.
"Whereas before it was a slightly techy and bookish type of job, now risk is incredibly diverse and carries a huge amount more responsibility if you are running the department, and the repercussions for the chief risk officer are profound," said Mark Garnier, a British lawmaker who was part of a panel that last year proposed changes to make individuals at banks more accountable.
However the jump in pay and profile means that the job is nonetheless likely to tempt more candidates to fill what is currently a small pool of specialists.
Headhunters say the rising status of top risk managers could see it become a popular path for ambitious executives who now see it as a route to the CEO's chair.


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Global stock markets weakened on Friday and both the euro and gold slipped, as a new setback in talks to avert a U.S. fiscal crisis and evidence of Europe's ongoing economic difficulties stoked investor nerves.
A proposal from Republican leader John Boehner to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff failed to get support from his party on Thursday, casting fresh uncertainty over talks to avoid across-the-board tax hikes and spending cuts that could push the U.S. economy into recession in 2013.
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Anxiety was exacerbated by weaker-than-expected data from key corners of Europe, as German consumer morale dropped to its lowest level in more than a year, Britain revised down growth figures and Sweden slashed its economic forecasts.
The worries prompted widespread selling in most major stock markets and saw investors head for traditional safe-haven assets.
The dollar and yen and U.S. and German Government bonds all rose as falls in London , Paris and Frankfurt pushed the FTSEurofirst 300 <.FTEU3> index of top European stocks and MSCI's global index <.MIWD00000PUS> down 0.6 and 0.4 percent respectively.
"Risk assets look vulnerable over the holiday trading period. The recent performance of key benchmarks has priced in a satisfactory outcome to the U.S. fiscal discussions, which is far from a done deal," said Peel Hunt strategist Ian Williams.
Futures prices also pointed to sharp falls when trading resumes on Wall Street later. Oil and gold too were caught up in the U.S. disappointment.
Brent crude oil fell more than $1 per barrel towards $109 and bullion slipped $1.38 an ounce to a near four-month low and on track for its steepest weekly drop since June.
"The market volume is thin amidst all these uncertainties, and the year is coming to an end. Many of the investors prefer to take profits and just leave the market," said Brian Lan, managing director of GoldSilver Central Pte Ltd in Singapore.
In currency markets, the yen firmed and the highly liquid U.S. dollar rose 0.2 percent against a basket of key currencies.
At the same time, concerns over the U.S. impasse dented demand for so-called high-beta currencies that tend to rise or fall with the global growth outlook, such as the Australian dollar and euro.
The weaker German data, which saw consumer confidence unexpectedly drop for a fourth month running, kept downward pressure on the euro which retreated further from a 8-1/2 month high hit earlier in the week, to stand at $1.3214.
"This is a classic risk-off trading environment where the yen did best, followed by the dollar, and higher-beta currencies underperformed," said Audrey Childe-Freeman, head of FX strategy at BMO Capital Markets.
"We have had a very good run in the euro and what we are seeing at the moment is a little bit of profit-taking triggered by disappointment in the fiscal cliff discussions."
Caution also prevailed in Europe's bond markets, where German government bonds climbed at the expense of recently resurgent euro zone periphery debt.
Other safe-haven bonds followed the trend, with U.S. 10-year Treasury yields dipping from an 8-week high hit this week to 1.74 percent and 10-year Japanese yields inching down 0.765 percent.
Jim Barnes, senior fixed income manager at National Penn Investors Trust Co. in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania, saw Treasuries continuing to gain once U.S. markets open later, but expected a correction by the end of the day.
"Treasury yields will likely fall Friday morning and will begin to reverse course in the afternoon as investors become more optimistic a deal will be reached," Barnes said.
(Additional reporting by Emelia Sithole-Matarise, David Brett; editing by Philippa Fletcher)


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There was a special buzz amid the eighth annual Mesa Verde Classic Monday at Mesa Verde Country Club.
Realtor Valerie Torelli mixed tasty drinks at a martini bar at the 17th tee, while plenty of drinks were available at other holes, but that's not the type of buzz I'm talking about.
A party atmosphere took over at the golf course, but there was also a sense of community, positivity and hope for the future.
City leaders and business people put down their guards for one day to have some golf fun in the sun. They did it all in the name of charity, raising money for Costa Mesa United.
Mesa United, with its focus on youth sports programs, was the primary force in producing projects like Jim Scott Stadium at Estancia High School and the Costa Mesa Aquatics Center at Costa Mesa High School.
The organization wants to help with more facilities and improvements. And fundraisers like the Mesa Verde Classic are needed. The golf event has raised about $1 million throughout its history.
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Gordon Bowley, who chaired the fundraiser with Mayor Pro Tem Steve Mensinger, wanted to make sure every hole was an event with a Hawaiian/South Pacific theme.
Torelli's specialty drink was a mango martini, but that wasn't the only reason for the delay at the 17th tee. An In-N-Out truck parked nearby.
"Of course it's about raising money for Costa Mesa United, but more than that, it's a way for the right-wing and left-wing people of Costa Mesa to come together," Torelli said. "It's unifying and a cleansing of the soul. You have that camaraderie.
"You go to an In-N-Out truck and to a martini bar. You can have a python around your neck or go to [someone in a gorilla suit] scaring you. There are parrots. You can have someone roll you a cigar … It's a fun day. For one day, everybody lets everything down."
Torelli helped with creating the style for each hole. Bowley smiled at the thought of each one. He was also at the 17th tee when I drove by with my helpful escorts, former Daily Pilot Publisher Tom Johnson and former Pilot editor and current city spokesman Bill Lobdell.
Bowley thanked the community for such great support. He said the tournament alone could bring in about $80,000, with more coming from other events tied to the golf tournament.
Bowley introduced me to David Schweitzer, a donor who was honored with other special people at the closing dinner.
Bowley, Schweitzer, Ryan Knapp and Erich Melvedt won the tournament (129).
Schweitzer, without solicitation, donated $125,000 to Costa Mesa United. He also transferred profitable stocks to help the program.
Recently he bought a new van for about $35,000 for the Estancia golf teams.
"We lived here for almost 50 years," said Schweitzer, who had three children grow up in Costa Mesa. "It's a good place to give back … This is the for the community. It makes Costa Mesa better."
Schweitzer ate a burger and a had a drink at the 17th tee.
In the distance a man banged gently on a metal drum to create calypso tunes. On another side of the course, the band Loose Change delivered cover songs ranging from Rick James to Led Zeppelin. There was also a mechanical surfing machine.
At one hole, I saw Councilman Gary Monahan serving drinks. At the tee for hole No. 2, representatives from Greenleaf Gourmet Chopshop served sangria. Two gentlemen from a cigar shop, Mursuli, offered to roll a cigar.
Ben Veling, 19, may have put on his gorilla suit to scare people, but I heard he also was flirting with some hula girls and sometimes dancing.
Restaurants offered plenty of food and drinks.
"This is the 6,000-calorie round of golf," Mayor Jim Righeimer said.
He said he had a great time, but it didn't look like he played.
"I like the fact that the whole community gets together; everyone is working for one cause," he said. "They are raising money for the youth."
Righeimer said new facilities at Costa Mesa schools help the community grow and can build strength in the athletic programs.
City CEO Tom Hatch concurred. His daughter, Courtney, attends Mesa, where she is a cheerleader and is involved with the drama program and Associated Student Body.
"I'm a big Costa Mesa High School guy," Hatch said. "My heart and soul is at Costa Mesa High School. But the collaboration with Estancia is good, competitive fun. Working together, we're uplifting those schools. There's a good buzz and a good feeling of accomplishment. We can point to all the good things that are happening in those schools and you can credit programs like Costa Mesa United."
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When a user visits your webpage, the browser tries to fetch an icon from the HTML. The icon may show up in many places, including the browser tab, recent app switch, the new (or recently visited) tab page, and more.
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While Apple's documentation is sparse on this topic, the developer community has figured out a way to target all devices by using advanced media queries to select the appropriate device and then specify the correct image. Here's a working solution, courtesy of tfausak's gist
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black or
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On a recent steamy Saturday evening, 11 members of Deborah Rae Wright's book club — black, white, Indian and Jewish women — gathered in her meticulously restored Craftsman home on the rundown west side of the Mississippi capital. The topic was 1960s-era Jackson and "The Help," the hit movie set here.
As cicadas chirped and wine flowed, sensitive personal stories of the segregationist era and more recent racial affronts poured forth, and anger and frustration bubbled up.
Lee Harper, a 51-year-old African American restaurant owner, recalled how her mother worked as a maid for white employers from sunup to sundown, six days a week, and hated every minute of it. "I cried a lot in the movie, mostly because I thought of her," said Harper. "I remember wishing she could do something else."
Kitty Cook-Ramsey, 45 and white, and Bria Griffith, 32 and black, recalled being warned by their elementary school teachers and their parents not to play with children of the other race. And Cook-Ramsey, whose family offered assistance to black witnesses of a racially motivated murder in the 1950s, said whites were often "frozen out economically" if they went against the status quo.
Dana Larkin, 56, who is white, recalled that when she decided to send her two daughters to Jackson's predominantly black public schools, other parents accused her of "sacrificing her children in the name of her cause."
Here in Jackson, and elsewhere in the country, the movie has prompted viewers to contemplate this Southern town's place in the civil rights struggle and consider how relations between the races have progressed in the last 50 years.
Wright's multi-racial book club is evidence of how far Jackson has come. And there are other obvious signs of change: The mayor is African American, as is the district attorney; the city, the majority of whose residents were white at the time in which "The Help" is set, is now mostly black. But the June killing of a 49-year-old African American by white teenagers in what authorities say was a racially motivated attack, was an ugly reminder that, even half a century after the fictional events of "The Help," Jackson still has deep scars.
"Mississippi has not changed that much," said book club member Dierdre Payne, 62, a retired Exxon employee who is black.
"People dress better. They drive more European cars and there are more black people living on streets that don't have ditches. [But] do not think that Mississippi is just like everywhere else. We incubate racism here. We are still sitting shiva for Jefferson Davis to come back."
"The Help," the nation's No. 1 film at the box office last weekend, is based on the bestselling novel by Kathryn Stockett, who grew up in Jackson. It tells the story of a young, white college graduate, portrayed by Emma Stone, who gains the confidence of several black maids and persuades them to let her write a book about their true feelings toward the women who employ them.
Despite mostly favorable reviews, the film has been criticized for putting a white heroine at the center of a story of black oppression. Some of that has been blunted by early praise for the work of Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer, who play two of the maids in the movie.
Changing times
In predominantly black West Jackson, dilapidated homes with peeling paint and overgrown grass line Robinson Road. Around the corner from a dollar store and an auto wholesaler stands a modest brick building that houses WMPR, a community radio station that broadcasts music, news and talk shows to its predominantly black audience.
Inside, station manager Charles Evers, 88, steers the ship from a massive leather recliner. Evers ran the National Assn. for the Advancement of Colored People in Jackson with his brother, Medgar, who was assassinated in 1963 and whose death is a reference point in "The Help."
The wood-paneled walls of his office are crammed with photographs — personal ones of Medgar, Charles Evers with Robert Kennedy, and posed photos with both President Bushes. Evers is a Republican who voted for President Obama, and he has much to say on how far Jackson has come.
"Things are 100% better," Evers said. "Forty years ago we couldn't drink out of a white water fountain. We couldn't vote. We couldn't stay in a hotel. One of the things my brother was killed for was trying to integrate Ole Miss, and now I have two granddaughters that graduated from the law school. It's 100% changed but it's not enough. We've got to go farther."
Evers says he has no interest in seeing "The Help," though. He simply doesn't want to delve into the past. It's the same reasoning that's keeping him away from the unveiling of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington this weekend.
"I don't want to look back," he said. "I get angry. And I don't want to get angry. That's when you lose control."
The villain of "The Help" is the president of the Jackson Junior League, a housewife (played by Bryce Dallas Howard) who spearheads a drive for white families to install separate toilets for their black servants to "contain the spread of disease."
On a recent Friday night, Fran Weeks, current president of the Junior League of Jackson, and Jennifer Wellhausen, the group's vice president of communication, were dining at Walker's, an upscale eatery in the racially mixed neighborhood of Fondren.
The women say today's League is a very different group than it was in the 1960s. The organization, which has 900 active members, is no longer a group of stay-at-home mothers who hold luncheons with Jell-O salad and organize bridge tournaments; more than 70% are women with careers. Less than 10% of the membership, they say, is black.
As one of the biggest fundraisers of any Junior League in the country, the Jackson chapter has raised millions of dollars for youth-related causes in the city.
Despite the League's unfavorable depiction in the film, Weeks and Wellhausen — both white — liked the movie. "I found it to be a really compelling story," Weeks said. "I think people here look at the film as a positive thing. It's a reminder of how far we've come."
Both Junior League leaders believe the depiction of the white women's relationships with their maids was not representative of the times. "In the movie, the women were very harsh to the help, and I don't believe that's how it was," said Weeks, who lives outside Jackson, in the predominantly white suburb of Madison.
But Wellhausen said she didn't think the League's reputation will suffer from the film.
"We're going to use it for the positive," she said. "As good Southern women, you are not supposed to brag about what you do, but we have been coming up with ways to share more."
'Come together'
In the early 1960s, Jackson's King Edward Hotel was a home away from home for state legislators — white assemblymen who fancied its hidden speakeasy and luxurious accommodations. But when the first African American guest checked in, in 1966, the government officials moved out the next day in protest over the hotel's compliance with the integration laws.
By 1967, the King Edward had shut its doors. It soon became a hovel for the homeless and a symbol of downtown Jackson's decay.
Today, the hotel has been restored to its former glory, thanks to the efforts of a white attorney embarking on a second career as a real estate developer with a conscience. David Watkins Sr., 62, his son, David Jr., 41 — and their company's African American vice president, Jason Goree, 33 — opened the doors to the historic hotel and residency in December 2009 and are committed to rehabilitating adjacent properties to further revitalize downtown.
"People had written off Jackson: Don't throw your money at it, go to the suburbs. Jackson is dead," the elder Watkins said. "But that was the Mississippi of the past. I'm interested in the Mississippi of the future."
The recent killing of James C. Anderson, the 49-year-old African American who was beaten and run over with a truck, prompted yet another discussion about race relations in their hometown. But even though authorities labeled it a racial hate crime and charged two white 18-year-olds, David Watkins Jr. and Goree both see a difference between now and Mississippi of the 1960s.
"I hear this story in the news about this guy who comes in from Rankin County and beats and runs over this man here, and my reaction is I want to find the group that did this and fight," Watkins Jr. said. "But there isn't the group to go and fight. That's the difference between then and now. Then there was an oppressive society, now there is not. It's an individual acting out."
Goree agreed: "When I heard about the hate crime, the first thing I said was, 'Oh, no.' I know the rest of the world does not know Mississippi, and this would just feed into the negative perception that goes along with our state," he said. "I hope we can come together as a community to rally behind this to say that's not who we are. It's not Mississippi. It's one guy."
More than 500 people, white as well as black, gathered for a vigil for Anderson at Jackson's New Horizon Church in mid-August. Pastors from Brandon, Miss., where the two alleged assailants lived, came to condemn the attack. They were joined by representatives of Jackson's black churches and congregants and the rabbi from the city's Beth Israel temple. Marchers lighted candles and sang "We Shall Overcome."
Hours before the vigil, C.J. Rhodes, 29, the new preacher at Mount Helm Baptist Church, Jackson's oldest black congregation, was having supper after services at the Fairview Inn, which was once the home of the head of the segregationist White Citizens' Council — a group formed in 1954 as a response to the Supreme Court's Brown vs. Board of Education decision desegregating public schools.
Today, the Fairview, which hosted the cast and crew of "The Help" during filming, has a clientele that includes blacks and whites, often dining together. Rhodes and his girlfriend were eating with Jackson Free Press Editor Donna Ladd, who is white.
Piano music played. Elderly white women outfitted in pearls and suits dined with their families. At the table next to Ladd and Rhodes, a black couple ate lunch with a white one. Yet Rhodes was visibly uncomfortable.
Reflecting on the juxtaposition of recent events, he noted that while "we are much more cordial inter-racially now," the politesse "blinds us to the deeper levels of racial tension."
"The fact [is] that we are sitting in here together, in the place that was owned by Bill Simmons," the White Citizens' Council leader, he said. "That wouldn't have happened in the '60s. Or it could have happened, but the outcome would be different. We wouldn't be sitting here eating. We would be dragged out, beaten."
As for the killing of Anderson, he's particularly frustrated that local media paid little attention to the case until CNN focused on it more than a month later. "What makes it infuriating, beyond the death of a man, which is sad and terrible, is that we still live in a culture where it's kinda OK to kill a black folk."
Rhodes saw "The Help" with his girlfriend at a local theater, and although they found it moving, he worries that such feel-good films tend to make people think society has already reached true racial reconciliation.
"The possible danger of 'The Help' or 'The Blind Side' is that it sanitizes the racial stuff," he said. "It was a great movie; we wept together. The End."
On a recent steamy Saturday evening, 11 members of Deborah Rae Wright's book club — black, white, Indian and Jewish women — gathered in her meticulously restored Craftsman home on the rundown west side of the Mississippi capital. The topic was 1960s-era Jackson and "The Help," the hit movie set here.


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When the Orange County Women's Chorus commissioned Kirke Mechem to compose a piece to celebrate their 15th anniversary, he gave them "We Can Sing That" — a song about how the choir can perform any kind of music effortlessly.
If Mechem had titled the song "I Can Write That," it might have hinted at the composition's true achievement.
The choral composer, who recently turned 87, has relied almost entirely on others' texts over the years to provide lyrics to his tunes. Among the wordsmiths he's used are his own father, the poet Kirke F. Mechem, and even Apollo 9 astronaut Russell Schweickart, whose remarks about the moon landing formed the base of Mechem's "Island in Space."
When he sought the proper text for his Women's Chorus anniversary piece, though, Mechem couldn't find one that fit the occasion. So he turned to his rarest of all lyrical collaborators: himself.
"They wanted something to celebrate their achievement of 15 years and of the growth that they have come about during that time, a celebration that they're really a top group now," Mechem said Monday by phone from his San Francisco home. "And so I sent several poems that I thought might work and, no, they didn't work. And we talked about it, and I just woke up one morning and thought, 'Hey, why not just write a piece that's out and out saying that we can sing that, that we can do anything?'"
The four-minute piece that Mechem turned in begins with a short fanfare, then has the chorus running through one style after another — joyful, sorrowful, melody, harmony — with the words "We can sing that" as punctuation. Mechem wrote the song's latter half as a mission statement of sorts for the group, with lyrics declaring, "For harmony is the soul of the universe / and the heart of humanity / Though we can sing such harmony / from our hearts / we hope that all humanity will sing it, too."
The chorus will premiere Mechem's work as part of "The Singing Place," a show also featuring works by Joan Szymko, Louise Talma and others, Saturday at Newport Harbor Lutheran Church and Sunday at St. Wilfrid of York Episcopal Church in Huntington Beach.
Artistic Director Eliza Rubenstein met Mechem a decade ago when her group performed a program of his music. Over the years, they became close over email, bonding over their love of music and also baseball and Mongolian barbecue.
Having Mechem craft a song specifically for the group was a longtime dream, Rubenstein said.
"I had hoped throughout the years that he might be someday enticed to write a piece for us, but he's an incredibly busy composer," she wrote in an email. "Happily, timing and circumstances converged this year to make a commission possible."
It's hardly the first time Mechem has been in demand the last couple of years. The Kansas native, whom the music publishing company G. Schirmer Inc. refers to on its website as the "dean of American choral composers," premiered the comic opera "The Rivals" last year at the Skylight Opera Theatre in Milwaukee, and he recently finished writing an opera version of Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice."
Having heard the Women's Chorus before made it easier for Mechem to tailor a piece to their style, which he considers advanced.
"I have over-reached myself early in my career," Mechem said. "Sometimes I would think I was writing for a terrific group, and I would find out it was a really basic group. But I don't think I've insulted anybody by writing an easier piece than they wanted."
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I couldnt make the admitted day, so I just did the tour and sat in a class and based on what you commented here, I missed a lot. Did they mention about when you can do clinics? Did they mention anything about how they grade in the course; meaning is there only one exam or other papers or anything that is considered for a grade? I am having a hard time deciding on St louis and a school in Boston...and I have one week left to decide. So anything you can share from your admitted day would be great. Also, anybody from St.Louis seeing this ...can I live in St. Louis without a car? Thanks
IMO, 34k for this school is too much. I would have attended had I received a scholarship.That being said, St Louis (love it to death) is very clique-ish. When I got on at a bank, the first interview question they asked is 'Where did you go to highschool?' People from STL stay in STL and things that may seem stupid like where you went to school, family name, etc. can matter in some circles. This is the reason that SLU places so well in the area. It has the reputation locally based on word of mouth and contacts and is familiar. However, I worry to an extent how many of these SLU grads are getting awesome jobs in STL because of their family connections and not education or work done by career services.Another word of advice, lawyers have told me that if you are out of state and attend SLU you are looked upon less favorably than STL natives who attend SLU. Its the mindset of 'us vs. them' and employers worry less about you jetting off to another part of the country anytime. Again, people from STL stay in STL.In conclusion, go to SLU if you can afford it and want to stay in STL. If you have any doubt about the cost or staying in the region, walk away. Admitted Students weekend said that they place a lot of grads in WashDC and Chicago -- that is misleading, as most of the grads placed there are in Health Law. If you aren't health law, good luck getting in there!
Hey all, I'm happy to see this thread...I live in St. Louis currently and am weighing my options in joining the class of '12 at SLU. The St Louis area has it's pro's and cons: it has to be the biggest small town you have ever been to. Most of the people here are from here, grew up here, and have the same friends they did in the 5th grade...that being said, it i a relaxed place and the people are generally nice.I attended the AS Weekend and thought it was great. The faculty seemed extremely accessible and despite the less than stellar facilities I got a very positive vibe. The Health Law program has a national reputation and could be a good ticket to DC if that is what you are interested in. I have heard good things about the International/Comparative Law Certificate as well. Overall, I am excite about SLU, but I don't have to foot the entire $34k...so that helps. If you want to know more about STL or where to live, don't hesitate to holla at me!
My cousin is a 3L at SLU, and he said he's terrified about finding a job. Take this with a grain of salt, however, as my aunt seems to think he's barely scraping by.
Quote from: Mulliganstew on April 06, 2009, 06:16:08 PMMy cousin is a 3L at SLU, and he said he's terrified about finding a job. Take this with a grain of salt, however, as my aunt seems to think he's barely scraping by. This is the credited response. Your cousin is not alone. Many, if not most, of his classmates are in the same boat.


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Back in December 2011, a US RQ-170 Sentinel drone was either brought down or crash landed smack in the middle of Iran, allowing the local military and scientists to reverse engineer it furthering their own understanding of possible countermeasures, as well as selling the underlying technology to China and other countries eager to peek inside America's remote-controlled "oppression liberators." All this happened because someone during the drone design phase forgot to add a self-destruct option. Now, over a year later, we will see if someone finally thought of adding this simple feature following news that Iran has just brought down another (just modestly antagonizing) foreign spy drone over its territory.
From Reuters:
Iran's Revolutionary Guards have brought down a foreign surveillance drone during a military exercise, the official Islamic Republic News Agency said on Saturday.
"We have managed to bring down a drone of the enemy. This has happened before in our country," the agency quoted war games spokesman General Hamid Sarkheli as saying in Kerman, southeast Iran, where the military exercise is taking place.
The agency gave no details on who the drone belonged to.
In Washington, a Pentagon spokesman said he had seen the reports. He noted that the Iranians did not specifically claim that the drone was American.
In the past, there have been incidents of Iran claiming to have seized U.S. drones.
In early January Iranian media said Iran had captured two miniature U.S.-made surveillance drones over the past 17 months.
Several drone incidents over the past year or so have highlighted tension in the Gulf as Iran and the United States flex their military capabilities in a standoff over Iran's disputed nuclear program.
In other disturbing drone-related news, Michael Krieger reports that when it comes to targeted killings...
It's OK if Obama does it"
In a YouGov poll of 1,000 voters last August, Tesler found significantly more support for targeted killing of suspected terrorists among white "racial liberals" (i.e., those liberal on issues of race) and African-Americans when they were told that Obama supported such a policy than when they were not told it was the president's policy. Only 27 percent of white racial liberals in a control group supported the targeted killing policy, but that jumped to 48 percent among such voters who were told Obama had conducted such targeted killings.
- Joan Walsh's recent article at Salon: Targeted killings: OK if Obama does it?
Think about how troubling the above passage is. Basically, a reasonably large percentage of the population of America will simply allow Barrack Obama to do whatever he wants because he is black and a member of their "Democrat" football team. The irony is incredible, but believe me this fact is not lost upon the elites that want to perpetuate the warfare state indefinitely. They fully understand that Obama essentially neutralizes a large part of the "liberal" resistance simply because he is black and ostensibly "liberal."
I came across the above information while reading Glenn Greenwald's article about how MSNBC has finally make the total transformation into official government propaganda arm by hiring Robert Gibbs and David Axelrod. His article is a scathing must-read. Here are my favorite excerpts:
Last month, MSNBC's Al Sharpton conducted a spirited debate about whether Obama belongs on Mount Rushmore or instead deserves a separate monument to his greatness (just weeks before replacing frequent Obama critic Cenk Uygur as MSNBC host, Sharpton publicly vowed never to criticize Barack Obama under any circumstances: a vow he has faithfully maintained).
A Pew poll found that in the week leading up to the 2012 election, MSNBC did not air a single story critical of the President or a single positive story about Romney – not a single one – even as Fox aired a few negative ones about Romney and a few positive ones about Obama.
"Former White House press secretary Robert Gibbs has become a contributor for MSNBC. Rachel Maddow introduced Gibbs as a new member of her network's stable in the final minutes before President Obama's State of the Union address on Tuesday night. . . . Gibbs was White House press secretary from 2009 to early 2011, when he left to become a senior campaign adviser for Obama's re-election.""David Axelrod, the former White House senior advisor and senior strategist for President Obama's 2008 and 2012 campaigns, has joined NBC News and MSNBC as a senior political analyst, the networks announced today. . . . Like Gibbs, Axelrod will appear across the networks' programming."Finally, American citizens will now be able to hear what journalism has for too long so vindictively denied them: a vibrant debate between Gibbs and Axelrod on how great Obama really is.
That you can cover what political officials do more effectively when you act adversarially and without their "cooperation" doesn't seem to occur to them. Moreover, getting to sit for personal interviews with the president usually produces anything but adversarial questioning. As even Politico admits: "some reporters inevitably worry access or the chance of a presidential interview will decrease if they get in the face of this White House."
Well looking at the bright side, the more the mainstream media continues to screw up, the greater the opportunity they are creating for people like me.
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SOURCE: Southeastern Medical Device Association
February 20, 2013 11:33 ET
ATLANTA, GA--(Marketwire - Feb 20, 2013) - Cynthia L. Clark, President of ibiliti, and EndoChoice Inc. have received the 2013 SEMDA SpotLight Awards. Clark and Mark Gilreath, Founder and President of EndoChoice, accepted the awards. The awards were presented during the Gala Dinner at the highly successful 7th annual conference of the Southeastern Medical Device Association (SEMDA).
SpotLight Awards recognize outstanding achievement in fostering the growth of the medical device community in the Southeast, and are presented to one individual and one organization each year during SEMDA's annual conference, Factors considered during the final selection include extraordinary growth and hiring trend; establishment of new divisions or facilities; support of SEMDA and other device-focused organizations through sponsorship, membership or volunteer work, and being recognized as a thought leader, innovator or mentor in the device industry.
Clark received the Individual SpotLight Award for her work supporting the medical device industry as president of ibiliti. Exclusively focused on North Carolina's medical technology industry, ibiliti is a non-profit organization committed to assisting novel medical ideas reach patients at optimal speed and minimal cost. Clark has been the President of ibiliti since its inception in 2009. She is a serial entrepreneur with over 23 years of experience in the life science and information technology industries.
EndoChoice received the Organization SpotLight Award. EndoChoice is a platform-technology company that provides devices, diagnostics, infection control and imaging for specialists treating a wide range of gastrointestinal diseases. In early 2013, following a $43 million fund-raising round led by Sequoia Capital and existing investors, EndoChoice merged with Israeli company Peer Medical Ltd., creators of the innovative Full Spectrum Endoscopy™ system, and purchased German endoscope manufacturer RMS Endoskopie-Technik. EndoChoice is one of the world's fastest growing medtech companies and has been recognized for three consecutive years by Inc. Magazine.
Mitchell Kopelman, partner-in-charge of HA&W's technology & life sciences group said: "The Southeast clearly is emerging as the 'Silicon Valley' of the Life Sciences industry, and that's good news for the medical device sector. This hub of activity is attracting more investment capital to the area, highly skilled talent is being trained and employed here, and more medical device companies are starting up, moving or relocating manufacturing from overseas here. SEMDA's SpotLight Awards are important recognition of the advancement of the industry overall, and companies specifically, in the Southeast."
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Walgreen (NYSE:WAG) said Tuesday its third-quarter earnings rose 15.7% amid stronger sales of prescription drugs.
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But the nation's largest drugstore chain missed Wall Street expectations and scrapped its targets for fiscal 2016, citing questions surrounding Walgreen's partnership with Alliance Boots.
For the period ended May 31, Walgreen reported a profit of $722 million, or 75 cents a share, compared to $624 million, or 65 cents a share, in the year-ago quarter. Excluding one-time items, adjusted per-share earnings climbed to 91 cents from 85 cents.
Revenue grew 5.9% to $19.4 billion. Analysts forecasted adjusted earnings of 94 cents a share and revenue of $19.48 billion.
Drug retailers like Walgreen have faced the prospect of lower drug sales due to an increase in generic drugs hitting the market. Generic drugs are cheaper than brand-name products, although they also bring higher margins.
In the latest quarter, Walgreen's gross margin fell to 28% from 28.5% on fewer brand-to-generic drug conversions. Walgreen chief executive Greg Wasson said the company maintained solid expense control during the period to offset some of the pressure on pharmacy gross margins.
Same-store sales improved 4.8%. The pharmacy section was up 6.3%, while the front of the store saw a 2.2% increase in comparable sales. Customer traffic declined 0.7%, while basket size rose 2.9%.
Walgreen plans to finalize key decisions regarding Alliance Boots, which operates Europe's largest pharmacy chain, and hold a conference call with investors by late July or early August to provide a new set of 2016 goals.
Walgreen did boost its short-term outlook for the partnership, saying the second year should generate $400 million to $450 million in cost savings. It previously expected savings of $375 million to $425 million.
The Deerfield, Ill.-based company acquired 45% of the Alliance Boots in 2012 and has an option to buy the remaining stake in 2015. Walgreen said its board is currently moving toward consideration of the second step in the transaction, including timing and structure, combined management teams and cost reduction measures.
"We are working through complex issues in planning for step two, and we are taking the appropriate time to come to the right resolution for the combined enterprise," Wasson said in a statement.
Shares dropped 1.1% to $72.90 in pre-market trading. Through Monday's close, Walgreen was up 28.4% on the year.


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