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The resignation of Pimco\'s Mohamed A. El-Erian from the role of CEO comes after a year in which the asset manager\'s flagship fund endured $41.1 billion in outflows, losing its grip on a key title — world's biggest mutual fund.
The Pimco Total Return Fund suffered eight straight months of outflows through December, according to Morningstar.
Initial reports and company statements haven't spelled out a reason El-Erian is quitting the role of CEO and co-chief investment officer. A spokesperson for Pimco declined to comment. But some analysts made the connection between El-Erian\'s exit and the massive outflows.
\"Despite a stronger long-term record, when a high profile fund struggles, leadership changes can accompany them,\" said Todd Rosenbluth, director of ETF and mutual fund research at S&P Capital IQ, in emailed comments late Tuesday.
Pimco itself didn't mention the outflows in its statements late Tuesday.
"Mohamed has been a great leader, business builder and thought leader for PIMCO and our clients," said Pimco's Bill Gross. "Together we have guided the firm and served our clients during a period of significant change in the global economy and financial markets. We are pleased that he will remain a part of the Allianz Group."
El-Erian will continue to serve on certain committees for Allianz, Pimco\'s parent. While Gross is Pimco's best-known figure, El-Erian is also highly respected. Morningstar analyst Eric Jacobson praised both Gross and El-Erian in a recent note on PTTRX.
"PIMCO\'s staff has tremendous depth, boasting world-class practitioners and intellects across its investment committees and specialist desks, as well as a true global reach with strong integration across physical domiciles," Jacobson wrote. "There\'s reason to retain great confidence in the various teams here, as well as the process of critical analysis and debate that Gross and co-CIO Mohamed El-Erian attempt to foster."
PTTRX lost 1.92% in 2013. Before last year, the fund had only posted a negative annual return twice since its inception in 1987 — in 1994 and 1999, noted a MoneyBeat blog post on Tuesday.
The Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund overtook PTTRX to become the largest open-end mutual fund in October, providing one more example of the diverging nature of stock flows versus bond flows.
\"2013 was a tough year for PIMCO. As they are more exposed to fixed income assets than most large fund management firms, they were hurt by a shift in investor interest toward equities from fixed income,\" said S&P Capital IQ\'s Rosenbluth.
\"Pimco Total Return, their flagship mutual fund and ETF, was hurt by being on the wrong side of the interest rate move and was weak on both an absolute and relative basis. The fund had a high exposure to longer-term Treasuries in the first half of 2013.\"
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Wednesday, July 05, 2006
Good luck to them.
There are a couple of people selling signed copies of Taking Comfort on ebay now. One of them has even scanned in the title page with my scrawl on it; 'TO MUM, WITH LOVE...' Only joking. It actually just has my signature and the date 6/4/06. It'll knock you back 30 quid.
I know from that date that it must have been one of the books I signed for Goldsboro Books. You can buy an equivalent item, signed and dated with the same pre-publication date, direct from Goldsboro for £12.99. Hmm. £30 or £12.99? It's a tough call I know. But personally I'd go for Goldsboro Books as David and Dan are such great guys. Oh, and I won't get a penny out of the ebay resale.
Win a Twirl mug
I had a cup of coffee out of a Twirl mug at the weekend. It was a wonderful experience. Remember, you have the chance to win just such an item - or should I say icon - in my on-going quiz. See The other Bob's books for details.
14 comments:
- Debra said...
Well there's good news and bad news here.
The good news is that the ebay seller (a bookseller of some sort) has invested in a 1st edition signed copy, presumably because they think you are headed for the big league.
The bad news is that no one's actually made an offer yet.
- 3:51 pm
- roger said...
It's bad news for the ebay seller but it makes no odds to me. And actually why should anyone bid £30 and upwards for something they can get for £12.99 elsewhere? It's crazy. Mind you, once Goldsboro have sold out their initial stock, that ebay seller may have a more marketable commodity. But £30? Jeez.
Incidentally, there is a way to tell the difference between the genuine first editions and the reprints. Actually, there are two ways. I think I should offer a prize - perhaps a box of tetley teabags - for anyone who can tell me tone of them.
- 4:02 pm
- roger said...
That should have ended 'one of them'.
- 4:03 pm
- Fiction Bitch said...
Well, while one second-hand copy of one of my books is going for ten times the retail price on Amazon, other copies are going for a penny...
- 5:55 pm
- roger said...
Hello Fiction Bitch, if only we knew who you were and what your book is called we could go and see! Hey, that Robert McCrum's been writing articles again I see. You know, I don't think he's half as funny as he thinks he is, but that may just be me. I really ought to be careful. The last person I need to make an enemy of is Robert McCrum.
- 10:51 pm
- Fiction Bitch said...
Yeah, well, that's the beauty of anonymity...
- 11:48 pm
- disgruntled commuter said...
It's too late, you're already an enemy of Robert McCrum ... writing books without his permission, getting them published, daring to get people to read them without his personal imprimatur of quality on them ... what where you thinking?
- 9:07 pm
- roger said...
Ah, Disgruntled! Do you really think so? Then I may as well give up now... s Robert Mc
- 9:50 am
- disgruntled said...
Oh my God, I think Robert McCrum's got him ...
- 6:41 pm
- roger said...
That was weird. Maybe I was McCrummed. Maybe the man is more powerful than we think. I was going to type ssjaur Robert Mcnnnnvch but it came out as gibberish.
- 7:22 pm
- roger said...
Jeepers, it did it again. Whenever I try to type anything disparaging about the man it comes out as gibberish. He must have made some kind of pact with Bill Gates. Or the devil. Or someone. Well, that's the last time I try to badmouth Mr McYouknowwho
- 7:23 pm
Hey, your book looks really interesting. I think I might buy it. (From Amazon, not ebay.)
- 5:36 pm
- roger said...
Thanks Julia, that's brilliant. I hope you do (buy it) and hope you like it too! Thanks for looking in.
- 6:02 pm
- Julia said...
Thanks Roger - OK, I definitely will!
- 7:30 pm

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"Fest of the West" is the theme of this year's North Central-Flint Hills Area Agency on Aging Senior Fair from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sept. 18 at the Bicentennial Center in Salina.
Gilmer moved to the Marion County Lake area in 1980 with her husband, Howard, who said they needed to be active in their new community. They quickly got involved at Marion Senior Center, which was still in the process of construction, helping with fundraisers. Gilmer was a volunteer in the Friendship Meal Kitchen for many years, and she was a hostess for the 25th and 50th annual meetings of Senior Citizens of Marion County, Inc. She has also decorated the tables at the senior center for many years, although she no longer works in the kitchen.
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I started to make my own arrows just about the time I finished my first primitive bows. This may conjure up an image of a guy with a new bow, looking at it and scratching his head. That was about how that happened. I had the weapon, but I was missing the ammo! It probably happened just like that back in the Stone Age!
Anyway, I knew something about the way that modern arrows are fletched. A jig is used that holds the arrow shaft and the feather, and then with glue applied to both, the jig will hold them together at the right angle until the glue dries.
This system works great, but it has a few disadvantages. First off, I did not have the jig and I didn't want to buy one. My thought process did not get much further than that, but its worth noting that it is not a process that lends itself to fletching in the field, or under primitive conditions.
So I set out to figure out how to fletch arrows by hand.
There are a lot of traditional fletching styles that were done by hand. Some are clearly easier or harder to accomplish. One option for primitive hand fletching is to just do a really lousy job. That was in fact my first approach. My first primitive bow was light, in the 25 pound range, and the arrows were made out of Phragamite reed shafts, with wooden foreshafts sharpened to points. I used goose feathers left at full height, and wrapped three of them on with cotton thread soaked in glue. The first ones were anything but symmetrical, and the process always seemed like I had one hand too few. And some of those fletch jobs were way over on the ugly side of hideous, but they all more or less flew.
My bows went up in weight and quality, and my aspirations as a fletcher was towards more durable, more accurate arrows, and a way to make them that would let me gin up a mess of arrows within some reasonable amount of time. I tried a number of approaches and variations, but finally arrived at a method that worked. As it turns out, it is more or less the method described by John McPherson in his book, "Naked into the Wilderness".
Shafts: I started with straight shafting material. My shafts were 5/8" hardwood dowels from Home Depot. This is not exactly Abo, but it sure saves time working down shoots to homogenous gauge, and straightening them with fire. When you get lumberyard dowels to use as arrow shaft material, it pays to pick through the pile. First, pick shafts as straight as you can get them. One way to do this is to hold them up and sight down the length of the shaft and rotate it. You'll see how straight the shaft is. You will be cutting them shorter so its okay if the ends take some bend. In fact, you will almost never find perfectly straight shaft material. But some of it is really bendy, and you want to avoid that. If you do a good job getting pieces that are more or less straight, you can usually get away with not doing any subsequent straightening.
The other thing to look at is the grain. Ideally, the grain should run the length of the shaft. If the grain runs off at an sharp angle the arrow will often break at that point if it hits something hard.
To prepare the shafts, I cut them to the proper draw length. If in doubt make the arrows a few inches longer than you think you will need them, and then put one of the finished arrows on the bow and pull it. Have someone else mark the shaft with a pencil while you hold the bow at full draw. Once you know your draw length its easy to cut shafts to that length. Remember that if you are mounting broad heads you'll want the shafts a bit longer
I cut the nock (that's the slot in the back of the arrow that fits onto the bow string) using three (or four) hacksaw blades taped together so that the teeth of the blades face in opposite directions. It is a good idea to clamp the shaft into something while you cut the nock. A vice or some such arrangement is perfect. If you don't have a vice, you can improvise with a C-clamp and a post, or a railing. You can cut a V notch in a small piece of wood that the shaft will fit into, and sandwich the shaft between the block and post and tighten it up with the clamp. The primitive version is to wrap cord around this arrangement and then tighten it up by inserting a stick and twisting the whole thing tight. When you saw the nock, cut across the grain that you will see on the end of the shaft. This will keep your string from splitting the shaft. Go slowly and try to keep the cut as vertical as possible. The tendency is to creep left of right. Just be careful and go slowly. I cut the nocks as deep as the hacksaw blade is wide. This serves as a convenient guide.
Finally, I sand and seal the shafts. I use a home made varnish made of pine pitch dissolved in denatured alcohol. You can use this or commercial varnish, linseed oil, Tung Oil, or you can go totally Abo and just rub in fat and heat the shaft until it absorbs it. The sealing keeps the wood from absorbing moisture and warping.
At this point the shaft is ready for feathers.
Feathers: In the pictures shown, I used Wild Turkey feathers. I found these on the ground in woods near where my mother lives. Those woods are just full of Wild Turkeys and they drop feathers all over the place. If you are not so lucky, you can often find Canada Goose feathers down near parks that have ponds, or at lakes. These feathers are pretty ideal because they are large and fairly stiff and they are also legal to possess in the state I live in. You can also buy prepared fletches from archery suppliers. These are cut (as far as I know) from feathers from Domestic Geese or Turkeys. You can also order Goose and Turkey feathers from some suppliers. More about that later.
If you have natural feathers, the first thing you need to do is split them in half along the quill. The quill is the stiff bit up the middle of the feather. First cut off the thick bottom of the quill where it was stuck in the bird. I do this with scissors or a sharp kitchen knife on a cutting board. Then I use the knife and cutting board to split the quill in half lengthwise. The material inside the quill is a lot like Styrofoam. Once you have the feather split in half, you want to reduce the quill a bit. I trim it with scissors or a knife, and work the bottom down flat and smooth with course sandpaper, a file, or by rubbing it on something abrasive. Getting this very thin is not that important, except for the very front end. At this point you will cut fetches from the feather. I can usually get two fletches out of one large feather half, sometimes three. Make sure they are long enough and allow for the space front and back where they will be bound onto the shaft.
Note that flight feathers only have one half, and tail feathers have two. Each half feather has a natural cup to it that will impart spin to the arrow either clockwise or counter clockwise. Sort the fletches that you are making into sets of threes all with the same spin to them. Don't mix clockwise and counter clockwise feathers on the same arrow shaft.
Sinew: Is my first choice for binding on fletches. Sinew is the material that makes up the connective tissue -- the tendons -- of animals. Your tendons are made out of sinew too. One thing I like about sinew is that it is strong. Hey, its been holding your feet on all these years, right? The other two things I like about sinew are that it is more or less self adhering when its wet (add water, makes its own sauces!), and as it dries it shrinks. Both characteristics are great when you are tying on fletches and only have two hands. It is also really traditional, and you can feel like a real caveman (or cavewoman) using it.
You can get sinew, from large dead critters, at some Asian markets in the form of beef tendon (in which case you need to clean the fat and tissue off it and dry it), or you can order it dry from some businesses that actually specialize in selling dead animal parts (more about that later). Any sinew will do. When I lived in California, I used Emu leg sinew.
To prepare it for use, I pound it with a rock while its dry, and soak it in water over night and peel off the threads. You can use it right then or dry the threads and use it later. Dry, it'll last forever unless something eats it. Wet it attracts ants and dogs and will start to smell rank in a few days , at which point it will attract even more enthusiastic dogs.
If you can't stand the thought of sinew, you can use cotton thread and dip it in hide glue (or Knox Gelatin mixed about 4 times too thick) as you bind on the fletches.
Tying on fletches with sinew: I soak my sinew threads in water from anything from a few hours to a few days. This makes them soft and pliable. More than a few days and they start to smell. You can still use them. The bacteria making them stink might be a concern. This is animal parts, so take normal precautions and wash your hands after handling it.
Take a shaft, a fletch, and a sinew thread. Put the fletch against the shaft to see where it should be positioned. Remember to leave space for your fingers above the nock. Remember that you will be trimming all the fletches in the set of three to be the same length as the shortest fletch in the set. So its good to start with the shortest fletch. Use the fletch to figure out where the front end of the fletches will be, and at that point wrap the sinew once around the shaft. If you mash the end of the sinew thread a bit it will tend to stay on the shaft and make your life easier. If it does not want to stay put you may not have soaked it long enough, or have mashed the end enough.
Anyway, wrap the sinew around the shaft once. Then lay the front end of the first fletch so that it is 90 degrees to the nock, with its front end laying on the sinew on the bow shaft. Wrap the sinew once or twice over the front bit of the fletch and around the shaft. Add the next fletch at about a third of the way around the shaft and repeat. Then place the last fletch 120 degrees from the two fletches that are already tied on. Wrap the remainder of the sinew thread around the shaft totally covering the front edges of the fletching. You can wet your fingers and smooth it down, and it should all stick to itself. This will come out better if you have really thinned down and tapered this front end of the quill. Add another sinew if you have not covered the fronts of the quill completely. This covering will keep you from getting feather cuts along the top of your hand later on when shooting.
Look down the arrow from the butt end. You can make sure that the fletches are lined up at 120 degree intervals from each other and that the cock feather is 90 degrees to the nock. If they are not in the right position, with gentle pressure you can still move them. This is the beauty of doing it this way.
I will usually tie the fronts of a full set of arrows, let the sinew dry, and then go and tie the back ends. Again I will start with the shortest fletch. Some people trim the feathers at the back end to leave bare quill to wrap the sinew onto. I just fold the feather fuzz down and wrap it down under the sinew. Both methods were used by various Native Americans and probably elsewhere too. The process is more or less the same as at the front end of the fletch. You wrap the fletches down one at a time. Again you can adjust them for position and get them laid out right. I find that I have enough natural sense of proportion to get this done without resorting to any kind of measuring device and I think most people are just as capable, so my rule of thumb is to eyeball it until it looks right.
As the back ties dry, check them periodically and gently pull the tail ends of the fletches so that they lay as flat as possible against the shaft. When they dry, you can trim off the ends of the fletches that stick out from under the sinew in the back and you can wrap the shaft above the nocks with sinew to reinforce them.
The sinews dry hard. I seal them by painting my pine pitch and alcohol varnish mixture onto them. This makes them translucent and I think, pretty nice to look at. The traditional primitive sealer would be conifer pitch mixed with charcoal, moose dung, or some other combination of goodies. The basic idea is to keep the sinew from sucking up moisture and getting damp and coming undone.
Now if you want you can take them out, stick on the point of your choice, and shoot them.
Gluing down the fletches: If I was making arrows under primitive conditions for immediate use I might skip this step, but given my status as only part-time Neanderthal I usually do it, and so do most of the folks I have run into or corresponded with.
I paint Weldwood contact cement onto the base of the fletch, and onto the shaft just under the fletch with a small paint brush (cleans up with mineral spirits). I do this for all the fletches on all the arrows. Then I go back and just press the fletch down against the shaft and I am done. The operation is more or less the same with hide glue just a lot slower and a lot less convenient. You can put the hide glue in, wait for it to get tacky and then tie the middle of the fletches down with a thread.
Trimming the fletches: I trim the fletches to uniform shape with a sharp pair of large scissors. These can also be burned to shape with a coal from a fire, a cigarette, or a wood burner. Scissors are fast and easy and again I measure by eyeball and it seems good enough.
Remember that like with all things cut or trimmed, its easier to shorten the feathers than to lengthen them again. Higher fletches impart greater stability. Shorter ones offer less air resistance and are faster. Since an arrow shot from a primitive bow has to bend around the bow itself to fly straight (the Archers Paradox), more stability is usually required than with modern center shot bows.
Spine and accuracy: Spine refers to the stiffness of the arrow shaft. In theory, this should be matched to the weight of the bow as it facilitates straight flight and accuracy. There are devices called spine testers. I don't have one. One way to test is to flex the arrow shafts by hand and make bundles of them that feel about the same as an arrow that you know to be accurate. I have happily forged along up until now ignoring spine. I try to make my arrows in bunches of ten and as close to each other as I can manage. What I notice is that most of my arrows are okay, and every once in awhile I have one or two that fishtail all over the place. I cull these from my first string arrows and set them aside for doing stupid things with.
Getting the stuff you need: Our ancestors just went out and took what they needed from Mother Nature or pulled it off a passing Mammoth. Gathering raw materials nowadays takes creativity as well. Here are some ideas to get you started.
Nature: Pine pitch from the knots of pine trees, hardwood suckers, reeds, or bamboo shafting material, sinew, charcoal, feathers.
Hardware Store: Dowels, bamboo garden stakes, Weldwood contact cement, denatured alcohol, mineral spirits, various wood oils, varnishes, hacksaw blades, C-clamps, files, sandpaper, hide glue.
Supermarket: Scissors, Knox Gelatin (instead of hide glue), Twinkies and Beer (to keep the fires burning)
Other places to order stuff that you need from nature, but can't gather (feathers, sinew, etc.):
Moscow Hide and Fur - www.hideandfur.com
Three Rivers Archery - www.3rivers.com
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This year the Wells Fargo Centre in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, will be playing host to the fourth annual Money in the Bank pay-per-view.
Over the last two days the participants for both matches have finally been announced.
Similar to the Royal Rumble - the Money in the Bank ladder matches are now a key match on the WWE calendar, the excitement and the unpredictability that comes with it is what we want as fans, not knowing which superstar could be climbing the ladder, unhooking the briefcase which could elevate their status from a mid-carder to a main even calibre superstar.
But before the pay-per-views began we did witness Money in the Bank ladder matches at WrestleMania, one big ladder match where the winner could cash-in for any championship of his choosing, now we are treated to two ladder matches, designated to the WWE and the World Heavyweight Championships.
Kane, The Miz, Alberto Del Rio, Daniel Bryan and Dolph Ziggler have all managed to cash in on the opportunity and became World Champions, whilst John Cena is the only man in history not to successfully cash it in, but fast forward a whole year; this time he is defending the WWE Championship and seven men will be climbing the ladder for a chance to face him or Mark Henry.
The participants were announced on Monday Night Raw and SmackDown:
WWE Championship:
This year's Money in the Bank match for the WWE Championship is shaping up to be decent, the only down side to this is that we already have an idea of who could be walking out as the victor. Nevertheless the match itself could be a great one with the superstars involved; we have Daniel Bryan who is set to receive a massive push so it will not be a surprise if he walks out with the briefcase and opts to cash it in for SummerSlam.
Stephanie McMahon also announced that Kane and Christian would be in the match however I don't really see either of them seriously challenging for the briefcase, they do deserve it as they are vastly underrated but at the moment in time the WWE won't think that giving either of them a briefcase is the best way to go about the WWE Championship picture.
Randy Orton and Sheamus are also in the frame and with Orton's recent battles with Daniel Bryan I expect Orton to be one of the three favourites to unhook the briefcase, with a heel turn rumoured it won't be the worst of times for Orton to pick up a victory, but can we really imagine Orton walking around with a briefcase week in- week out?
I really don't think he would go about a championship in that manner. Sheamus on the other hand may be able to, but he hasn't really done anything serious to contend for a World Title so I really don't expect Sheamus to win.
The final two completing the first line-up are CM Punk and Rob Van Dam; two Paul Heyman guys as CM Punk announced his intentions to win this match, cash it in for the WWE Championship then call out Brock Lesnar, saying that I don't think CM Punk is going to win it so soon after losing it, with a rumoured match between himself and Brock Lesnar set to take place at SummerSlam, throwing in a briefcase makes no sense; but in the ladder match I believe Bryan, Punk and Orton will be the three favourites. Rob Van Dam is returning to the WWE on the night and he is expected to have a massive reaction, sadly though I don't think it will be enough to hand him the briefcase and a shot at the WWE Championship so soon, plus with only a short-term deal planned it is difficult to say whether WWE officials would want him holding a briefcase, as he would have a year to cash it in.
World Heavyweight Championship:
For years the WWE Championship has almost been favourable to me a lot more, but this year my attention has diverted to the World Heavyweight Championship Money in the Bank ladder match. This match is designed for the 'up and comers' as Teddy Long said on SmackDown and includes Dean Ambrose of The SHIELD. A very talented superstar and before joining the WWE he has been known to be very good in matches such as these; big things are expected of him in the match, but he will not capture the briefcase. Cody Rhodes is also involved and is one of the many youngsters who is touted as being as the future of the WWE, and it could begin as early as July if he is to capture the briefcase and that will definitely not be a bad move.
Jack Swagger has been thrown in there, after his DUI arrest and is now on probation, I don't think the WWE will be rewarding him with a victory, so there is no chance they will hand him a victory. Fandango is taking part in the match, which will see him return; possibly as a face, after his concussion and I will not be surprised if he wins, even if he doesn't inside the match itself he is always expected to perform well, expect no less. Wade Barrett is my pick, he has dropped the Intercontinental Championship to Curtis Axel so it would make sense to finally give him his due and take him to that next level, he is capable of being a World Champion if he can draw a lot more heat, I have no qualms about him and I believe he can walk out as the victor. Antonio Cesaro is also capable of doing it, but can he is the big question. He is always incredible in the ring and this will be a great test for him to show why he deserves it, down the line he will become a World Champion, but I don't think it will happen so soon.
Finally, the man who I hope wins but probably won't, Damien Sandow. The man is great inside the ring, so charismatic and can draw a lot of heat and is finally stepping up a level after his rivalry with Sheamus which is still continuing. He isn't expected to walk out as the winner but I genuinely hope he gives us fans something to speak of in this match.
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text: I am in the process of installing SGE on a Scyld beowulf cluster. As most people are aware, the Scyld cluster runs a complete OS (linux) only on the master node and the compute nodes are simply for executing. During the SGE install, it requires adding the compute nodes as execute hosts. I do not understand how to do this given the current setup of a scyld cluster since you can't "login" to the nodes to execute the install script. The script does exist on an NFS shared directory (clusater wide). Has anybody else ran into this problem? Regards, Bill -- Bill Knebel, PharmD, Ph.D. Principal Scientist Metrum Research Group 15 Ensign Drive Avon, CT 06001 email: billk at metrumrg.com


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On October 3, 2003, the Securities and Exchange Commission filed an amended complaint in the civil fraud injunctive action pending in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York against KPMG LLP and four KPMG partners to include charges of fraud against an additional KPMG partner, Thomas J. Yoho, in connection with KPMG's audits of Xerox Corporation from 1997 through 2000. The SEC seeks injunctions, disgorgement of all fees and civil money penalties against KPMG and the five KPMG partners named as defendants.
The action was originally filed against KPMG and four of its partners on January 29, 2003. As in the original complaint, the amended complaint alleges that KPMG and its partners permitted Xerox to manipulate its accounting practices to close a $3 billion "gap" between actual operating results and results reported to the investing public. Year after year, the KPMG partners falsely represented to the public that their audits were conducted in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards (GAAS) and that Xerox's financial reports fairly represented the company's financial condition and were prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP).
The Commission's amended complaint also repeats allegations that beginning at least as early as 1997, Xerox initiated or increased reliance on various accounting devices to manipulate its equipment revenues and earnings. Most of these "topside accounting devices" violated GAAP and most improperly increased the amount of equipment revenue from leased office equipment products which Xerox recognized in its quarterly and annual financial statements filed with the Commission and distributed to investors and the public. This improper revenue recognition had the effect of inflating equipment revenues and earnings beyond what actual operating results warranted. In addition, the amended complaint alleges that the defendant KPMG partners fraudulently permitted Xerox to manipulate reserves to boost the company's earnings.
Thomas J. Yoho, a resident of Greenwich, Connecticut and a certified public accountant, was the Concurring Review partner for KPMG on the Xerox audit from 1994 until after the 2000 audit was completed and KPMG was replaced as Xerox's outside audit firm. Among the responsibilities of the Concurring Review partner are to review key audit workpapers and audit reports and confer with the rest of the engagement team as necessary to give additional assurance that financial statements conform to accounting, reporting and regulatory requirements. The amended complaint alleges that Yoho reviewed and evaluated the work of the KPMG audit team, and in that capacity, Yoho signed off on the Xerox audit team's audit despite his knowledge of Xerox's fraudulent accounting practices. Yoho signed audit workpapers year after year attesting that no matters had come to his attention that caused him to believe that the financial statements covered by the firm's audit reports were not in conformity with GAAP. He further attested that KPMG's audits of Xerox were performed in accordance with GAAS.
However, the amended complaint alleges that from 1997 to 2001, Yoho learned that Xerox used a series of non-GAAP accounting practices and regularly made significant top-side accounting adjustments in order to compensate for poor operational performance.
After this fraudulent conduct was investigated and exposed, Xerox, employing a new auditor, issued a $6.1 billion restatement of its equipment revenues and a $1.9 billion restatement of its pre-tax earnings for the years 1997 through 2000. The Commission's amended complaint alleges that the KPMG partner's fraudulent conduct allowed Xerox to inflate equipment revenues by approximately $3 billion and inflate pre-tax earnings by approximately $1.2 billion in the company's 1997 through 2000 financial results.
The amended complaint alleges that Yoho violated Section 17(a) of the Securities Act of 1933 and Sections 10(b) and 10A of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (Exchange Act) and Exchange Act Rule 10b-5, and aided and abetted violations of Sections 10(b), 13(a), 13(b)(2)(A) and 13(b)(2)(B) of the Exchange Act, and Exchange Act Rules 10b-5, 13a-1, 13a-13, 12b-20 and 13b2-1.
On April 11, 2002, the Commission brought an injunctive action against Xerox based on the same allegations of accounting fraud as are alleged against the KPMG defendants, as well as other allegations. Without admitting or denying the allegations of the complaint, Xerox consented to the entry of a Final Judgment that permanently enjoined the company from violating the antifraud, reporting and record keeping provisions of the federal securities laws. Xerox also paid a $10 million civil penalty, agreed to restate its financial statements and agreed to hire a consultant to review the company's internal accounting controls and policies. Securities and Exchange Commission v. Xerox Corporation, Civil Action No. 02-CV-2780 (DLC) (S.D.N.Y.) (April 11, 2002). See Litigation Release No. 17465 / April 11, 2002 / Accounting and Auditing Enforcement Release No. 1542 / April 11, 2002.
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I did something I'd never thought of doing the other day.
I started a library.
Last summer, I contacted the local public library system here, and asked them if they'd be interested in setting up a branch in our village school. The mobile library is wildly popular around here, and pairing the books with a permanent home in our town's most easily recognizable and central building seemed perfect.
After many meetings and the forming of a committee and emails and some bated breath and waiting (not so good at waiting) our little Outreach Branch opened last night.We'll be housing the collection in our school library, in its own section, and it will be open to the public for a few hours each Wednesday night and Saturday morning. I applied for and received my own Village Library card last night - I'm thrilled and excited and have a feeling of this just being right.
I am so amazed and grateful to be part of the area I live in. And excited. Our school principal was enthusiastic about the idea from the beginning. We've had volunteers step forward to run it already. I am so lucky to be around people that work for positive change.
And literacy? Rocks.
Thursday, 17 November 2011
literacy rocks
6 comments:
- Jen on the Edge said...
This is all kinds of awesome. Great work on the literacy front!
- Fri Nov 18, 12:08:00 am GMT-4
- Ricki said...
I'm proud of you!
- Fri Nov 18, 02:00:00 am GMT-4
- Lynda said...
That's fantastic. I wish we still had the kind of communities around here which could get together and do this sort of thing.
- Fri Nov 18, 09:52:00 am GMT-4
- Mary G said...
Well done! There was a tiny local library in the village where I lived some of my childhood. I loved it with a passion.
You rock.
- Fri Nov 18, 11:03:00 am GMT-4
- charmedone17 said...
Wow that's amazing! Such a good thing to read today. Books do rock!
- Fri Nov 18, 11:25:00 am GMT-4
- Magpie said...
way cool.
- Mon Nov 21, 02:32:00 pm GMT-4
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March 19, 2014 11:00 ET
Abandoned at home elderly have borne brunt of cuts to hospitals
CORNWALL, ONTARIO--(Marketwired - March 19, 2014) - The province's near 20-year fixation with cuts to Ontario hospitals including the closure of 19,000 beds and decreased access to in hospital restorative convalescent care, is resulting in human tragedies on a grand scale, with many patients, foremost the elderly pushed out hospitals while acutely ill with little access to care at home, a report released today in Cornwall has found.
The report, Pushed Out of Hospital, Abandoned at Home: After Twenty Years of Budget Cuts, Ontario's Health System is Failing Patients found it is the elderly and those in smaller communities who are being hurt most by hospital downsizing. Making the situation worse is the under-resourcing of care at home under an "outpatient" community care model that the report shows, is failing miserably.
Pushed Out of Hospital, Abandoned at Home chronicles the personal stories of hundreds of patients on 1-800 patient hotline set up for over a year by the Ontario Association of Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists (OSLA) and the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions (OCHU) the hospital division of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE).
"Many of the patient experiences are heart-breaking," says OCHU president Michael Hurley. "It is the frail, ill, mostly elderly patients who have borne the brunt of the cuts to the hospital system. They have been pushed out of hospital while acutely ill and have been abandoned at home. Some have died as a result. Elderly spouses and adult children have exhausted themselves trying to provide basic care. This report exposes the discrimination against the elderly in Ontario's health care system."
The majority of hotline calls came from Ontarians whose loved ones were prematurely discharged from hospital including a mother desperate for care at her local hospital for her extremely ill son diagnosed with lymphoma and a family coping with the aftermath of their grandmother's deteriorating health following her repeatedly being discharged from hospital while acutely ill.
These personal stories are validated by the health ministry's own data showing that 1 in 6 Ontario patients are readmitted to hospital within 30 days of being discharged. There are over 10,000 and 35,000, mostly frail and elderly people, on wait-lists for home care and a bed in a nursing home, respectively. National data shows that Ontario patients receive 6.1 hours less nursing care than patients in other provinces.
"With the fewest hospital beds to population of any province, Ontario cannot continue to cut beds. These cuts restrict access and the rationing that follows impacts the elderly foremost," says Hurley.
A key finding of the report is that since moving to this outpatient community care model, most therapy services, including speech language pathology services, have seen decreases in referral rates through Ontario's Community Care Access Centres (CCACs), which leads to individuals not receiving the timely care they need. In 2012-2013 speech language pathology services amounted to just .7 per cent of all home care visits through CCACs. Due to hospital funding cuts, waiting periods to access some, in-hospital services, range from two to ten months.
"What we heard is this: If you have dementia; if you've suffered a severe stroke; if you have Parkinson's disease; or if you have any kind of swallowing issue, chances are good that you are not going to get the appropriate care in a timely fashion," says OSLA's Mary Cook.
Pushed Out of Hospital, Abandoned at Home posits solutions that encourage the provincial government to make alternative policy choices. These include the following:
To download a PDF copy of Pushed Out of Hospital, Abandoned at Home please visit: http://ochu.on.ca/events.html.
Ontario Council of Hospital UnionsMichael HurleyPresident416-884-0770CUPE CommunicationsStella Yeadon416-559-9300
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text: DuMi Shapewear is all about having your cake, eating your cake and still fitting into your skinny jeans. Impossible? No way, says creator Amber Taylor. Taylor began the shapewear collection as a way to prove women can wear both beautiful shapewear and beautiful garments on top of that shapewear. DuMi shapewear is all about matching your inner and outer garments with elegance. DuMi products are made with lightweight silky fabric made from Lycra and polyamide to conserve the environment. This not only helps to "go green," but also allows the fabric to feel soft on the skin. Producing much more than the boring black spandex of yesterday's shapewear, DuMi concentrates on making their shapewear stand out and be different. Each piece is crafted on paper as if it is an outer garment to be worn on the town then constructed and put on shelves as shapewear. Each piece promises to be sexy, sculpting and lifting. Unlike other body sculpting attire, DuMi contours to the body not allowing it to be seen through clothing. It can then transform from shapewear to a piece of sexy lingerie at night. Having your cake and eating it, too, can be done when wearing DuMi shapewear.


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The Opposite of Human Enhancement: Nanotechnology and the Blind Chicken Problem
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Paul B. Thompson, Ph.D. is W.K. Kellogg Chair in Agricultural, Food and Community Ethics, Department of Philosophy, Michigan State University. Paul is the author of The Spirit of the Soil: Agriculture and Environmental Ethics, The Ethics of Aid and Trade, Food Biotechnology in Ethical Perspective, and co-editor of The Agrarian Roots of Pragmatism. He has served on many national and international committees on agricultural biotechnology and contributed to the National Research Council report The Environmental Effects of Transgenic Plants. He is Past President of the Agriculture, Food and Human Values Society and the Society for Philosophy and Technology, and is Secretary of the International Society for Environmental Ethics. He has continuing interests in environmental and agricultural ethics. Paul's professional interests include:
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One of the cameras we now use is the Canon EOS Mark III. This camera offers increased speed and power as well as ISO sensitivity and brand new noise reduction options made possible by the DIGIC5+ Image Processor. This sensitivity makes for higher quality recording in low-light situations.
Higher speed of the DIGIC5+ brings it from 3.9 to 6.0 frames per second. The processor's 14-bit depth makes possible excellent, smooth tonal gradations and high overall image quality.
The camera's CMOS sensor has been reformatted which enhances the superb image-capturing traits of the previous model.
Audio improvements are significant. It also features HDMI broadcast audio out.
It now supports continuous recording times up to 29 minutes, 59 seconds with time code and the following formats:
1920 x 1080 – 30 fps (25 fps if set to PAL)
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Headphone socket on a DSLR:
The new headphone socket for monitoring audio (a single-pin, stereo connector) makes audio recording easier. You can also view audio levels on the LCD during recording.
The EOS 5D Mark III also features a clean uncompressed (8 bit) 4:2:2 HDMI output. This recent upgrade is extremely important for us for recording edit ready ProRes422 .MOV files on an outboard recorder like the AJA Ki-Pro.
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text: Angel di Maria of Argentina soccer player and play for Real Madrid was also having a tattoo on the body which lies in the hands. Angel tattoo on her just to have a tattoo on the arm of course, is the style of football players are always decorated with a tattoo on his body, almost all of his football players there is always a tattoo. Not longer deny tattoo soccer players it's a lifestyle. It's wonderful if the top players in football always garnished tattoo. Angel di Maria is no exception. Angel Fabian in Maraa born on February 14, 1988 in Rosario, Argentina, he was Argentine footballer who plays in the Spanish league La Liga with Real Madrid, but it's one of the Argentina national team players. Her Christian name El Angelito, Di Magia, El Flaco, El Pibito and Fideo.


text: On Tue, 18 Jan 2005, Jim Lux wrote: > If the temperature goes up, maybe you can slow down the computations > (reducing the heat load per processor) or just turn off some > processors (reducing the total heat load of the cluster). I've had the second part (turning off nodes) working about 4 years ago... Back when APM was a reliable way of turning off the power and ACPI was not yet supported in the kernel. At that time also the network drivers were not poluted with hooks for power management, so using ether-wake was also easy to set up (of course, if the BIOS was any good, but then I used to pick the mainboard carefully). The reason for turning off the nodes was also overheating of the computer room. While with those nodes we did not have so many problems as with the dual-Athlons that followed shortly afterwards, I acted on the same principle that was mentioned in this thread: it's better to have things running at 5 degrees (Celsius) lower. At that time we did not have any scheduling system, so the "power management" could not be done very tightly. I have set up the nodes to shut down after 24 hours of being idle; I did not want to have too many down/up cycles as these are just as (or maybe ever more) disturbing to some components. Something obvious, but maybe worth mentioning: the nodes would log somewhere that they shutdown themselves for being idle for too long; I wanted to know when that happened and, even more, to be able to make a difference between nodes that simply crashed/were unplugged/etc. and those that did a graceful shutdown and should be able to wake up in good shape. I did not have the chance to use this too much as we had a sudden increase in computational requirements that lasted several months, then the dual-Athlons came without APM and I wasn't able to reliably control the shutdown and so the whole setup became useless... Things are in better shape today, as IPMI has become more widespread and it can reliably take care of both the shutdown and the wake-up. Too bad that it is still present only on $erver-grade mainboards and even then is most often only an option. You might have noticed that the original message said "just turn off some processors" while I started with "turning off nodes". I would indeed like to be able to shutdown individual CPUs from a SMP node, but this was impossible several years ago; I don't know what the status of hotswap CPU support in the kernel is now. <dream on> I only hope that the hardware manufacturers will allow future multi-core CPUs to have some cores in standby/low power modes and be able to wake up without disturbing the running cores; and all these with a nice control interface - doing it "automatically" by the CPU depending on load is not so useful IMHO. </dream on> -- Bogdan Costescu IWR - Interdisziplinaeres Zentrum fuer Wissenschaftliches Rechnen Universitaet Heidelberg, INF 368, D-69120 Heidelberg, GERMANY Telephone: +49 6221 54 8869, Telefax: +49 6221 54 8868 E-mail: Bogdan.Costescu at IWR.Uni-Heidelberg.De


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31243, Hymns, Come, All Whose Souls Are Lighted, no. 268
1. Come, all whose souls are lighted
With wisdom from on high.
Shall we, to men benighted,
The lamp of life deny?
Salvation! Oh, salvation!
The joyful sound proclaim,
Till earth's remotest nation
Has learned Messiah's name.
2. From Greenland's icy mountains,
From India's coral strand,
Where Afric's sunny fountains
Roll down their golden sand,
From many an ancient river,
From many a palmy plain,
They call us to deliver
Their land from error's chain.
3. Go tell, ye winds, his story,
And mighty waters, roll,
Till, like a sea of glory,
It spreads from pole to pole;
Till o'er our ransomed nature
The Lamb, for sinners slain,
Redeemer, King, Creator
In bliss returns to reign.
Text: Reginald Heber, 1783-1826. Included in the first LDS hymnbook, 1835.
Music: Lowell Mason, 1792-1872


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- Lee Haskins v Stephane Jamoye
Brave Haskins surrenders European belt
Lee Haskins failed to defend his European Boxing Union bantamweight title after he suffered a breathless eighth-round defeat to Stephane Jamoye in Belgium.
In a thrilling encounter in which both fighters went for broke, Haskins sent his opponent crashing to the canvas early on, but appeared to tire as he was eventually stopped by a brutal body shot.
Haskins, who claimed the vacant EBU title with victory over Stuart Hall in July, made the brighter start in Liege as he floored his opponent with a straight left before continuing to shower shots on the Belgian to comfortably win the second round.
However, Jamoye, who is unbeaten in his home town, responded in the third, and spurred on by the crowd, opened up a cut above Haskins' right eye, and had the Brit pinned up against the ropes to get himself firmly back in the contest.
Haskins received a stern warning from the referee for holding, and despite throwing a number of stiff uppercuts, was left on his knees after a flurry from Jamoye's gloves.
In a brutal battle, both fighters tired quickly, but Haskins appeared the more weary and looked to be well beaten as Jamoye boxed him into a corner, but he bravely kept swinging to recover as the pair staggered around the ring.
With Haskins visibly fatigued, Jamoye took advantage, and a body shot floored the Bristolian for a second time early in the eighth round. Although Haskins was quickly back on his feet, it merely delayed the inevitable as he was dropped once again only to be sunk by another powerful shot to his torso.


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Councilman's Daughter: 'I'll Have You Fired'BALTIMORE, Md. — After days of public displays of profanity and abuse – in Congress, at the U.S. Open tennis championships, during the MTV Video Music Awards – news came Wednesday of another such incident closer to home. Baltimore County police released details of the arrests of two women accused of dispensing an obscenity-laden tirade against a police officer who pulled ...Published over 9 years ago |
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HHS Sec. Sebelius: Swine Flu Shots May Start Early Oct.WASHINGTON (AP) - The nation's first round of swine flu shots could begin sooner than expected, with some vaccine available as early as the first week of October, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said Sunday. Sebelius said she is confident the vaccine will be available early enough to beat the peak of the expected flu season this fall and ...Published over 9 years ago |
Census Bureau Cuts Ties with ACORN in 2010 CountWASHINGTON (AP) - The Census Bureau on Friday severed its ties with ACORN, a community organization that has been hit with Republican accusations of voter-registration fraud. "We do not come to this decision lightly," Census director Robert Groves wrote in a letter to ACORN, which was obtained by The Associated Press. In splitting with ACORN, Groves sought to tamp down GOP ...Published over 9 years ago |
Lag in Filling Senior Policy Jobs at Treasury, HHSWASHINGTON — The White House has filled important policy jobs at the two departments essential to President Barack Obama's domestic priorities at a much slower rate than elsewhere in his administration after eight months in charge of the government. At the Treasury Department, which is overseeing one of the largest financial rescue plans in history, just 12 of the 33 high-level ...Published over 9 years ago |
U.S. Ag Dept Debuts New Online Learning PlatformA leading government online learning program that serves as a model for job training programs in China soon will allow federal employees to use more social media tools for training. The Agriculture Department's program, AgLearn, is scheduled for an upgrade to a new version of its supporting software, allowing it to provide its employees with blogs and wikis related to their ...Published over 9 years ago |
Manufacturers Ask for Feds to Help Re-tool FactoriesA group of manufacturing industry representatives--including the National Association of Manufacturers, American National Electrical Manufacturers Association, the Manufacturers Alliance, and Rockwell Automation--has gone on record noting that a federal strategy and support is critical if American manufacturers are to thrive in the post-recession global economy. This transformation to smarter, safer, and more sustainable manufacturing provides an opportunity for the federal government ...Published over 9 years ago |