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Editorial: Eslinger is a treat to watch
Last update: December 09, 2005 – 4:50 PM
We watch a lot of college football, but never have we seen an offensive lineman as consistently impressive as Minnesota's Greg Eslinger, who last week won the Outland Trophy as the nation's best interior lineman.
Most of the glory goes to players who touch the ball, and the Heisman Trophy (this year's shoo-in winner is Southern California running back Reggie Bush) has become the glory award in the college game. But even Bush couldn't run far without blocks from the big guys. And blocking -- especially down field -- is where Eslinger is eye-popping.
Keep in mind, he's a center, perhaps the game's hardest position. You'll see him snap the ball. You'll see a fast Gophers running back -- say, Laurence Maroney -- racing 20 yards down the sideline. And suddenly -- boom! -- there's Eslinger delivering a block. How did a guy so big get down field so fast?
Speed is not the 285-pound Eslinger's only asset. He uses eye contact to deceive defenders who don't know quite when or where his block is coming.
Few colleges noticed Eslinger at Bismarck (N.D.) High School, but the senior now joins only two other Gophers ever to win the Outland award.
Fans have one last chance to see Eslinger play as a collegian: on December 30 in Nashville against Virginia. We recommend it.
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The honors keep coming for Eslinger and Gophers
Dennis Brackin, Star Tribune
Last update: December 13, 2005 – 9:50 PMIt might be time for the University of Minnesota to start a new building project: a Greg Eslinger wing on the school's football trophy case.
Eslinger on Tuesday earned first-team Associated Press All-America honors, adding to an offseason honor haul that includes the Outland Trophy (best interior lineman) and Rimington Award (best center) and a sweep of the major All-America teams (AP, Walter Camp and Football Writers Association of America).
"He's gotten every award an offensive center could get this year," Gophers coach Glen Mason said Tuesday. "The thing that makes it special for me is that he's truly an All-American. When I think of the term All-American, I'm thinking great, clean-cut kid, hard worker, tremendous teammate, never in trouble, community service, good student -- you name it. He's all of that. I've never heard anyone ever utter a negative thing about Greg Eslinger."

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Share cap < just the *cash* in the bank.
And someone hasn't started raising funds for a bit of asset stripping *already*?
How do you build a $226m company? Start with a $2bn one. This joke could apply to Imation, which could go the way of Kodak and turn shareholder value into dross, because its management, facing declining sales of old technology, is late to respond and now buying bum companies with crappy prospects. That's the view implied by …
.............they'll still get their golden goodbyes, there will be absolutely no question of sacking them without compensation (which is what would happen in equivalent circumstances to us mere mortals) and they will probably be employed by another company in the future. The "Managerati" look after their own - because they all know that it might/will be their turn at some time in the future.
A few things. Firstly wtf is this doing here? a long ramble about finances; this should be in some pink newspaper or something. This should be 1 page at most.
secondly, Imation is what is left of 3M selling some good money making business divisions. Now while 3M carried on with R&D, Imation just carried on selling, until the point that what they were selling was old. Their failure was to stop looking forward.
As for RDX, I'd love to use it, but it's a standard laptop drive in a silicon sleve selling for how much money? All the crap they say about the drives being rugged apply to normal laptop drives too; it's just a fancy case but priced far, far too high.
The starting price for a setup is much lower. one drive + "drive-box-on-a-usb-lead" is only a couple of hundred quid. Compare that to paying best part of a grand for a Tape drive a few years back. Then again it's more expensive to take a data copy out of rotation cycle and into archive - £100 drive against £20 tape.
And adding RDX didn't need a SCSI adaptor, though with the paucity of USB ports on HP's server offerings a USB hub was needed. (slight digression - what on earth is the point of 4 network ports on an entry level server? genuine question).
".....what on earth is the point of 4 network ports on an entry level server?....." If you mean the DL380 rack servers, I did ask hp the same question. Apparently, hp did some looking at what the average 2-socket server was used for and decided a lot of it needed more than two NICs, so they went for two dual-port NICs onboard. This was extra amusing as out VMware team actually asked the hp reps if there was any chance of an hp rack server with eight onboard NIC ports!
If the article is correct, then Imation is following the path of its products.
They were very useful and much sought after a few years ago and they served one's small storage needs well. Now the years-old CDs are not needed no more and it gets thrown in the bin or shredder.
I used to think that monopolies were really dangerous things because they allow the monopolist to fix the price for goods and services in their particular market. But even if someone does achieve a monopoly in a given market, competition still exists in the form of everything else that their potential customers could be doing instead of using the monopolists goods and services. And that is what has killed Imation. They had market dominance in one market but all their customers found solutions to their problems in another, better served one.
No chance. They needed to innovate 6 years ago and make something else. The Dogs in the street could see this coming.
The stupid Rebranding to Imation never did them a favour either.
The day a Mac with no floppy was shipped should have been last call.
When Netbooks started shipping with no optical drive at all, then they were doomed already.
It's just an animated corpse now. Trying to invent themselves as a "brand" to sell others products was stupid. Especially with daft rebranding to Imation.
Everyone I know always said it reminded them of Imitation.
EMC seem to like buying companies.
They even bought Iomega (wtf?).
I mention this in part because I've just been in the loft and found a Zip drive, 100MB, parallel only.
People are still trying to flog these things on A Well Known Auction site. Wtf (again)?
Somewhere along the line it seems that many US & UK managers forgot they are usually the companies highest paid *employees*. Putting Conrad Black in jail was a good start to reversing this view but I thing a few more could have done with checking into one of Uncle Sam hotels.
The *owners* are the people holding the stocks. However they seem to be mostly *corporate* investors, IE pension funds.
I can only presume that the stock pays out a good dividend, otherwise what excuse would they have for not trying to get the Board replaced?
The *only* part of the market which does seem to be working is *repeated* lousy results -> louse stock price, which suggest the market as a whole is not stupid enough to buy into this mess.
Shareholders have rights but it is up to them to *exercise* those rights.
"In 2006 Imation was riding high, selling millions of optical disks, floppy disks and tape cartridges that it made in its own factories. Now it is basically a brand operation shell"
Yeah, that was basically my impression of the company in recent years- its primary focus seemed to be acquiring famous "names" like Memorex and TDK (*) to use on discs that it probably didn't even make itself. (I suspect they just do what most "brand" discs do- i.e. get the same uber-bulk CMC mediocrities or whatever and rebrand them).
The Wikipedia article pretty much confirms this. "The company originally consisted of former 3M divisions involved in the design, manufacture and sales of data storage, medical imaging, printing, photographic film, optical and specialty paper products. Imation has since sold all but its core data storage media products business."
Sounds like a typical case of management hollowing out and selling off anything that made the company notable in the first place for short term gain, in favour of acquisition and brand-focused mediocrity that is now coming to (non-) fruition. Blah.
Anyway, in my experience, the market for optical discs has noticeably declined in the past few years. Recordable Blu-Ray hasn't taken over the mass market in the way that DVD+/-R did, and has probably missed the boat by now.
(*) TDK still exists, but Imation bought a long-term license on their name for consumer media products. (Even before this IIRC TDK's optical discs weren't made by them.) If you're the type that would buy TDK because of their association with quality in the cassette days, don't waste your time- Verbatim and Taiyo Yuden are about the only worthwhile or meaningful disc brands.
Hey, lets not throw Russamano under the bus! TDK is a great brand name! As was Kodak! And RCA, come on, even Memorex has some equity at a point in time. All of you are missing the overall point-XtremeMac was a huge and viable opportunity, along the lines of flexible media, ie "stretched" media (and, no, I am not addressing floppy disks) and data cassettes. But I digress, comparing Remington and shavers is like comparing beta video to cassette tape-are you with me here? Because I have a point-USB an RDX are todays equivalent of round reel tape and disk packs. And if you don't know what I am speaking of here, well, I think you should be aware that, even to this day, the remnants of the great New England companies, Digital Equipment, Wang, and Data General, are still somewhat in the hunt, and they are still, god bless them, buying into round reel tape, single disk cartridges, and 4mm backup tape. What goes around comes around, so to speak, a nice metaphor for technology that many thought was dead.
Well, the more I think about things, the more I think Curt Koefod would not have put up with this bull shit! A man among boys! He would have kicked some serious ass and not allowed any competative brands, such as, my god, Memorex?......to enter the empire of what once was "Mother M". Anyone remember "stiction"? If you do, well you are a tape connissour (spelling?) but remember, not once was there an...................." incident of stiction with 3M tape, well Blackwatch anyway".....take that to your RDX ranch. In the meantime, may he rest in peace, a great man that gave me some opportunity with "The Mining" that has provided me with many fond memories, including Super Disk, I still cannot figure why that did not work, other than it may have been, say, 3 years late and no one wanted it; anyway, did you know that the 1960 census was recorded on 3M tape, which was "batch" tested? Well there you go, a little history lesson for all of you. And, for what its worth, we didn't need "ports" in those days-suck it up and lets move on from all the Russamano, etc stufff. Lets all retreat to Wonewok!!!!!!!!!! The Old Hand Lark
Comparing Remington and Shavers is like comparing Delrin and Polyvinylchloride.....but I digress. Innovation (laboratories and co-development work), the ability to create a great story (marketing) and tell it (sales) exited Imation with the "higher priced" 3M talent.
Leadership from the "front of the boat" left with Monahan. And the the brands that Imation took over............just goes to show that a brand is only as good as the people behind it.


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TPWD Proposing Seatrout Bag Limit Change, Gar Conservation Rules
AUSTIN — The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department is proposing fishing regulation changes that will affect both salt and freshwater anglers. Some of the most noteworthy include changes to harvest regulations for flounder and spotted seatrout, the rainbow trout fishery on the Guadalupe River below Canyon Lake dam, and additional restrictions on the harvest of alligator gar during critical periods of spawning.
TPWD staff presented proposed amendments to the 2014-15 Statewide Recreational and Commercial Fishing Proclamation to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission. The recommended changes include:
Salt Water
- Oyster harvest: Temporary 2-year closure of a 54-acre oyster restoration site on Half-Moon reef in Matagorda Bay, and a 2-year temporary closure of seven restoration sites located in East Galveston Bay.
- Flounder: Extension of the November 2-fish bag limit through the first 2 weeks of December, and during those two weeks harvest would be allowed by any legal means.
- Spotted Seatrout: Extension of the 5-fish bag and possession limit up the coast through East Matagorda Bay with a five-year sunset date.
Fresh Water
- Guadalupe River below Canyon Reservoir (Comal County): rainbow and brown trout regulations on a section of the river would be changed to a 12- to 18-inch slot length limit with a five-fish daily bag limit, harvest by artificial lures only, and only one trout over 18 inches could be retained. The new regulation zone would begin 800 yards downstream from the Canyon Dam release and extend downstream to the easternmost Highway 306 bridge crossing.
- Texas/Louisiana Border Waters (Toledo Bend Reservoir, Caddo Lake, and the Lower Sabine River in Newton and Orange Counties): regulations for blue and channel catfish would be changed to no minimum length limit and a 50-fish daily bag limit in any combination, of which no more than five blue or channel catfish 30 inches or longer could be retained.
- Tradinghouse Creek Reservoir (McLennan County): the special limits for freshwater lakes where red drum have been stocked would be removed and regulations would revert to statewide length limits (20-inch minimum length limit, 28-inch maximum length limit, and harvest of up to two red drum 28 inches or longer per year with trophy drum tag). Bag limit would remain at three.
- Lake Kyle (Hays County): regulations would be changed to catch and release (no harvest) of channel and blue catfish, largemouth bass, or any sunfish species.
- Canyon Lake Project #6 (Lubbock County): Changes implemented last year were not fully implemented. To correct this, the harvest regulation for channel and blue catfish would be changed to no minimum length limit and a five-fish daily bag and anglers would be restricted to only two poles.
- North Concho River from O. C. Fisher Dam to Bell Street Dam and the South Concho River from Lone Wolf Dam to Bell Street Dam (Tom Green County): anglers would be restricted to using two poles.
- Jug Line Floats: Recreational anglers who fish with jug lines will be allowed to use floats of any color except orange. Commercial anglers will continue to be restricted to using orange-colored floats.
In addition to the proposed changes noted above, the TPW Commission directed staff to include for public comment proposed changes to alligator gar harvest regulations. The changes would give the TPWD Executive Director the authority to temporarily prohibit taking or attempting to take alligator gar in any area where conditions such as water temperature and water levels would be conducive for spawning of alligator gar. Typically, alligator gar do not spawn every year. This change would add increased protection to spawning gar in certain areas when they are concentrated and most vulnerable to over-harvest. Closures would be invoked only during those limited times when and where the specified conditions are occurring, and the public would be notified as soon as the closure is invoked.
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We want to say thank you all of our supporters that participated in our first ever Strong Towns insider conference call last week. We gave the select group that has supported us financially a preview of what we're working on and got their thoughts and feedback. A very productive time. If you'd like to join us, support Strong Towns and take part in such events in the future, you can make a tax-deductible donation on our website. Strong Towns is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization.
There are two narratives the country is being given today to explain our current economic condition. Both narratives rest on the notion that what we are going through is simply one phase of an economic cycle. If you are either hyper-partisan or bristle at broad generalizations, go ahead and skip the next two paragraphs. We are neither here at Strong Towns, so I will proceed.
The first narrative rests on the idea that government is the problem. Period. Government taxes the productive parts of the economy and gives that wealth to the unproductive parts. There is excessive regulation. Government spending (except for military spending) distorts the natural order of things. We should be looking to grow our way out of the current downturn by reducing taxes, reducing government spending, cutting regulation and basically getting out of the way to let the free market work (except when it comes to pork spending in our own districts).
The second narrative rests on the idea that government is part of the solution. We have a lack of demand in the economy brought about by greedy Wall Street banks blowing up the housing sector. Stimulus spending saved us from going into the financial abyss. When there is a lack of demand in the economy, government needs to step in and do more. (And when times are good, government needs to step in and help those left behind). We should be growing our way out of this financial crisis by taxing those most well off and using that money to make up for the lack of demand.
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We're not in a cyclical recession or some type of downturn that will eventually fix itself. There are no set of policies that we can adopt that will put us back to "business as usual" in America. After decades of pursuing growth for the sake of growth (the common denominator of both current narratives), we've found that we've reached a point where our version of growth can no longer be sustained. Buoyed for two generations artificially by economic stimulants concocted by the left and the right, as well as a one-time fossil fuel panacea, the balloon we've floated as the "American Dream" is now coming back to earth. The only real question now is how we land.
Last week, the Department of Commerce revised downward a whole bunch of economic statistics, including GDP growth for the first quarter of this year, which is now believed to have grown at an annual rate of 0.4% instead of the less-depressing rate of 1.9%. Sound like a radical shift? If so, ponder this: Commerce also went all the way back to 2007 and revised that fourth quarter from -4.1% to -5.1%. Yes, you read that correctly. Three and a half years later and they still don't know exactly what happened.
This is the backdrop for the first of two points that need to be made about a potential downgrade of our credit rating, and it is really important to understand, especially in the context of the current debate over the debt ceiling. Regardless of whose numbers you use -- House, Senate, White House, Democrat, Republican, Tea Party, Wall Street, Commerce Department, etc... -- the projection for growth over the next ten years is an annual average of 4%. This seems reasonable when projecting from an excel spreadsheet of post WW II growth, which has been upward at more than 4% annualized, but if you don't subscribe to the two prevailing growth narratives, it seems wildly optimistic.
And if the difference between 4% and say....3% doesn't sound like much, consider this: the debt limit deal worked out yesterday after so much acrimony would cut spending by $2.2 trillion over the next ten years. The difference between a 4% and a 3% growth rate over the next ten years: $2 trillion in lost tax revenue. The difference between a 4% and a 1% growth rate is $5.6 trillion. And that is still with growth! What if Detroit, Vegas and Phoenix are not economic anomalies but canaries in the coal mine, just the weakest links in a system of growth that is inherently weak? What if we don't have growth but contraction?
The first thing to understand about this rating is that it has little to nothing to do with the debt crisis or our near-term financial position and, as such, is essentially bogus. Economists and statisticians can't accurately project the growth rate over the next three months, or even account for the growth rate from three and a half years ago, yet a difference of just one percent in our projection for the next decade will completely offset the most difficult cuts to our budget that we've made in recent times. And despite this volatility, we have a AAA rating, meaning there is the absence of all risk? Nonsense.
Put another way: there is nobody with serious money looking at the ratings agencies for advice on the credit worthiness of the United States government. The rating is an accounting check box. It does not reflect the actual riskiness of U.S. debt or our ability to repay, particularly if stressed.
That does not mean the rating doesn't matter. It matters a lot. Roughly 60% of the world's currency reserves are in U.S. dollars. Why? Because they are liquid -- there is always a market for them because the U.S. is the world's reserve currency -- and they are rated AAA, so they are accepted everywhere. For example, banks in Brazil are required to hold American dollars as part of their reserves. If we lose the AAA rating, these banks may have to dump their dollars and replace them with other forms of backing.
The AAA rating also creates demand for dollars from all kinds of securities and financial funds worldwide. Say you run a managed fund where the portfolio is required to maintain a AA rating. You may have a bunch of lower-rated, riskier and higher-yielding securities, but you then blend your holdings with AAA dollar-backed debt until your total holdings average out to AA. Drop the dollar rating just a notch, and you are forced to do a massive rebalancing that will include dumping dollars into the market.
So here's the second thing to know about the credit rating: Unlike Greece, Portugal, Ireland or any other country in the world, as the United States is minting the world's reserve currency, a downgrade of our debt could be devastating. If the U.S. dollar drops and people start to unload dollars -- even slightly as part of a rebalancing -- it could have dramatic impacts just because there are so many dollars out there. When dollar-backed debt is sold into the market, there needs to be a buyer. If there are not enough buyers, only one thing can happen: interest rates will go up. That is how you get people to buy your debt; you give them a higher interest rate.
Interest rates have been at historic lows, but what if they returned to just the average rate we've experienced over the past thirty years? As we pointed out last April, that would add $7 trillion in interest payments over the next decade. What if the dumping of dollars brought the interest rate up over the average to the high from the past three decades? Well, then you'd be talking $20 trillion in additional interest. It makes our hard-fought cut of $2.2 trillion over the next decade look silly by comparison.
Our credit rating should have been downgraded a long time ago. When you get beyond the economist's view of debt to GDP ratio and look at the sheer volume of debt, the short-term way the debt is financed, the additional promises we have made and the obligations we have, the impossibility of growing our way out of these problems, the lack of resiliency in our economy as a whole (we import more than we manufacture in total, for example), our extreme fossil fuel dependence, and the obvious fact that we really have no plan or even a remote intention of repaying our debt but project to forever borrow more and more, how can we possibly have a AAA rating?
To me, the debt ceiling debate is silly. The constraint we have is not whether or not we are willing to borrow more money. We've put ourselves in a position where we essentially have to, as nearly every politician has said. The constraint we have is how much longer the world will be willing to lend to us. They do so now because the balloon is still in the air, everything is essentially frozen, and there is no better place to go. But when the trickle starts -- as it could with a downgrade -- there are so many dollars out there that may come pouring back that the result is anything but predictable.
This is not the stuff of a resilient economy. And not the stuff of a AAA rating. The only thing that has kept a downgrade from happening thus far is the natural human instinct to not want to be the first to shout that the emperor has no clothes.
We need to start a conversation about contraction and how to transition to a living arrangement we can actually financially sustain. It is going to look much different than the way we currently live. And, unfortunately, we should have started the transition a long time ago.
Recommended Reading
- Bureau of Economic Analysis Press Release (July 29, 2011)
- Our unfaithful partner (April 11, 2011)
- The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Crisis Economics by Nouriel Roubini
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Former Fort Carson soldier Aaron Lucas was sentenced to 20 years to life in prison Friday for sex crimes in El Paso County involving girls between the ages of 4 and 10.
The charges against Lucas, 32, ranged from indecent exposure to kidnapping and rape spanning from 2009 to 2012.
Lucas, pleaded guilty Nov. 26 to nine cases of sexual assault on children.
DNA evidence tied him to the cases, prosecutors said.
Lucas initially intended to blame his twin brother, Brian Lucas, whose DNA is a near-identical match, but he later dropped the "evil twin" defense and admitted to the crimes.
However, his brother is now accused of committing his own list of sex crimes in Alabama.
Brian Lucas was arrested in Huntsville, Ala. in late January on suspicion of felony sodomy and sexual abuse - specifically, fondling a child, according to jail records. He is being held without bond in Alabama awaiting trial.
During Aaron Lucas' sentencing, parents of the victims asked the judge to give Lucas the maximum sentence, tearfully explaining how their children struggled to have a normal childhoods and continue to live in fear.
"I don't know what to do with her, seeing her and seeing the way she is," said the Spanish-speaking parent of one young victims, who spoke to the judge by phone. A translator interpreted her testimony, which was punctuated by sobs.
"We will never be alright again," she said.
Another mother of two daughters who is a retired Navy chief petty officer said that after her younger daughter was assaulted by Lucas, her older daughter, who was then 17 years old, ran away from home and dropped out of school During the attack on the younger sister, Lucas was wearing his Army uniform.
4th Judicial District court judge David Shakes said Lucas was in uniform when he sexually assaulted several other victims, as well, a factor he listed as an aggravation in the sentencing.
"Our daughter was taught to trust the uniform," The daughters' mother said. "She went to that uniform when he approached her."
She and her husband, a senior chief petty officer in the Navy Reserve who was serving as an El Paso County sheriff's deputy at the time, said they had to hide evidence of the military in their home to protect their daughter.
Lucas' parents also spoke, calling his crimes a sickness.
"I'm broken-hearted that he's been fighting this demon," said his mother, Marsha Lucas.
Aaron Lucas graduated in the top 10 percent in his high school class, went to college on a football scholarship and graduated with a business degree before joining the military, his parents told the judge.
"He could easily be considered a hero for his actions in Afghanistan," said his father Bruce Lucas, adding that the stress of combat prompted his actions. "His crimes are a result of an illness."
Lucas was a victim of sexual assault himself, said his father.
Lucas acknowledged his crimes before the court.
"I've been dealing with this for a very, very long time, since I was a child," Lucas told the judge after apologizing to victims and their families.
"There's always time to change. There's always time to get better. Please get me treatment as fast as you can, I've been trying for so long."
Prosecutors told the judge that treatment would not work for a man they said had repeatedly and deliberately made the decision to prey on children.
"It's very dangerous to say a man is a throwaway person never to be repaired," Lucas' defense attorney Ted McClintock countered, adding that he'd accepted responsibility for his evils.
Lucas' brother will be faced with the same opportunity in the coming months. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for March 12 in Alabama to decide whether Brian Lucas' case should go before a grand jury.


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Muhlenberg College Announces Faculty PromotionsMuhlenberg College is pleased to announce the following faculty members have been granted tenure and promoted to the title of associate professor by the Board of Trustees.
Friday, February 15, 2013 09:58 AM
Dr. Byungchul Cha, mathematics and computer science, came to Muhlenberg in 2007. He earned a B.S. from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology and a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University, where he specialized in number theory. Specifically, he is interested in Euler systems of Heegner points of elliptic curves and their applications in Shafarevich-Tate groups, as well as the distribution of zeros of various L-functions in a function fields setting. More generally, he is interested in anything related to prime numbers.
Dr. Anne Esacove, sociology, joined the Muhlenberg community in 2006. She has her B.A. from California State University, Northridge, a Master of Public Health degree from the University of Washington and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. She worked for many years as a health educator and policy analyst between and while pursuing her degrees. Esacove's research and teaching interests are grounded in her professional experience and include sexuality, gender, health and qualitative and historical research methods.
Dr. Brian Mello, political science, has a B.A. from Fairfield University and a M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle. His areas of study include comparative politics, international relations, political theory and the politics of social movements. Dr. Mello's research focuses generally on politics in Europe and in the Middle East, and in particular on Turkish politics. His research examines such subjects as the impact of labor movement activism in Turkey, Great Britain, the United States and Japan; international norms of women's rights as human rights; the affect of civil-military relations on Islamic politics in Turkey; and the causes and consequences of the Arab Spring.
Dr. Stefanie Sinno, psychology, earned a B.S. from Ursinus College and a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland. She teaches courses in developmental psychology, primarily child and adolescent development, as well as a seminar course on the developmental understanding on inclusion and exclusion. Her research training and expertise is in the area of social and moral development, with a focus on children's and adolescents' social reasoning in everyday contexts. She joined the Muhlenberg community in 2007.


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Virtualization security has become important both in the data center and on the endpoint. The Advanced Threat Research (ATR) team has a variety of contributions, including technical descriptions of threats and mitigations as well as tools for assessing particular systems and further research.
Reaching the Far Corners of Matrix: Generic VMM Fingerprinting | 2015-10-15
Last year, there were not many studies on fingerprinting the virtualized environment. This talk fills the gap and provides a generalized approach for VMM fingerprinting and detection. The approach exploits ISA corner cases handling by VMMs. The presentation outlines the most popular modern VMMs and shows that all the popular modern VMMs can be reliably identified with several instructions from user mode.
Attacking Hypervisors via Firmware and Hardware | 2015-08-05
At Black Hat USA 2015, the ATR team presented multiple attacks against hypervisors by targeting vulnerabilities in firmware and hardware. This research builds on analysis of hypervisor implementations as well as vulnerabilities in system firmware. If the hypervisor does not fully isolate the system firmware from attacks within a guest VM, security issues in the underlying system may be exposed. This research presented multiple real-world bypasses of hypervisor security using already-known firmware vulnerabilities that happened to be exposed.
Demos from the presentation are available here:
- PoC UEFI firmware rootkit stealing sensitive data from VMs.
- PoC attack on Xen using a vulnerability in firmware S3 boot script.
- PoC attack on Microsoft Hyper-V through SMI handler firmware.


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It's windfall time for you! I've been told that some of my computer woes are probably a result of overloading my hard drives, soooo I've been going through and (wince) ... DELETING!!! In doing so, I've collected lots of my favorite designs that I haven't offered to you yet and I've gathered them up into a bunch of new kits just overflowing with a hodge podge of highly unusual and gorgeous goodies for your layouts! Here they are at teensey tiny prices so everyone can have them! Hint - the round elements make good frames or, my favorite, tuck them behind things!!! Here's the round holly and berry element as I used it in my Christmas book that I recently shared with you:
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(Phone conversation with Mr. López this morning)
Mr. López: I just want to say 'thank you' for being so supportive. What is that saying?… Um, 'Next to every great man is a great woman.'
Mrs. López: Actually, I believe it's, 'Behind every great man, is a great woman'.
Mr. López: I knew that. It's the same in Spanish. I didn't think you'd like it that way.
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KlearGear Sued For Destroying The Credit Of A Couple Who Wrote A Negative Review
from the disparage-that deptWe've written a couple times about the online retailer KlearGear and its stupendously ridiculous policy of inserting a "non-disparagement clause" in its terms of service, which claims that if you say something bad about the company online, it can fine you $3,500. This is exactly what KlearGeaer attempted to do to John and Jen Palmer. There were all sorts of problems (even beyond the obvious) with this, which we'll get to in a moment. A few weeks ago, we noted that Public Citizen, now representing the Palmers, had issued a demand letter to KlearGear, demanding that the company clear up the Palmers' credit, which the company had ruined, promise to stop using the non-disparagement clause, and to pay up for the serious difficulties created for the Palmers' by KlearGear's illegal stunt.
Kleargear's response was to ignore the letter.
That was probably a mistake. Public Citizen has now officially sued KlearGear in Utah, and you should read the full lawsuit to get a sense of just how terrible and obnoxious KlearGear has been throughout this process. Among the many, many problems with KlearGear's actions are the following:
- The non-disparagement clause didn't even exist when John Palmer placed his order. He ordered in 2008, and it did not appear in KlearGear's terms of service until 2012.
- KlearGear never actually delivered the product that Palmer ordered. The negative review on Ripoff Report appeared to be an accurate complaint about KlearGear's customer service.
- John Palmer, who made the order, was not the same person who wrote the review. That was Jen Palmer, his wife. Even if the clause had been in there and had been binding, it would only have been on John. While KlearGear claims that John telling Jen about the problems still made him liable, that's just crazy.
- Even if the clause had been in there, it's completely unenforceable. You can't bar someone from giving an honest review of your crappy service.
- Palmer explained to KlearGear that Ripoff Report does not allow the removal of reviews, so that demand was impossible.
- KlearGear not only demanded $3,500 and to have the negative review removed, it also told various credit bureaus that John Palmer owed them $3,500 that he wasn't paying, creating a serious credit problem for the Palmers.
- When the Palmers disputed the debt claim with the credit bureaus, KlearGear insisted that the debt was legitimate and added an additional $50, again pointing to their terms of service, which had a "chargeback/dispute policy." Yes, this is adding insult to injury. Not only do they tell credit bureaus of a bogus $3,500 claim based on a bogus unenforceable term in a contract that didn't exist at the time of the failed exchange, but they add to the debt when the Palmers contested it.
As the lawsuit details, the impact on the Palmers' life over a product John ordered which was never delivered, was fairly immense. The unpaid debt on their credit report harmed their credit, made it difficult for them to get a (pre-approved) car loan, likely increased the rate they eventually paid for the loan, meant that American Express refused to grant Palmer a card, and left the couple without heat for three cold weeks, because they were unable to buy a new furnace on credit, after their old one broke. Since then the Palmers have decided not to get a home equity loan to fix up their home, fearing the credit problem, and even though they want to sell their house, they're afraid to even try, given these bogus credit problems.
And KlearGear's response to all of this has basically been to stand by everything it did... and then to disappear when asked to fix it.
We'll see how that plays out in court.
Filed Under: credit, jen palmer, john palmer, non-disparagement
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Tuesday, 7:00pm. Join Ben Preston and others as we celebrate God's Word and encourage each other in our faith and fellowship. Hosted at the home of AC & Nancy Ceriotti, 4957 E. Lakes Drive, Pompano Beach, 33064. Call Nancy or AC at 954.570.7912 for more info.
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About yeknomgod.com
They're poisoning our children by putting homosexuality-causing chemicals in the water and they're either making us smoke cigarettes or quit smoking, I can't tell yet, but whichever one it is will cause birth defects in genetically homogeneous children, meaning only mixed-race babies will survive the coming Apocalypse!
What?... What's a 'terrorist'? I thought we were still fighting commies....
Yeah... those terrorists are... uh... aborting 9-month old babies and selling crack to 5 year olds! (Someone please get me evidence backing me up... or just fabricate it. Thanks!).


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VELUX GGL PK08 206630 White Painted Solar Integra Centre Pivot Window - 94 x 140cm
- White Painted Pine
- Solar operated
- Triple Glazed
- Free remote control
VELUX White Painted Pine windows are part of their core range and have a modern, bright, contemporary look. They are painted before assembly for a flawless finish and have outstanding durability. They are easy to clean and maintain whilst still offering fantastic value for money.
New generation features
More daylight : up to 18% larger window pane area.
Slim profile : slim profiles and larger pane means more glass and less frame.
Thermo technology : innovative use of high performance insulation.
Control bar : new design of the control bar means it now includes functionality icons.
Solar INTEGRA roof windows
- Built in rain sensor closes the window automatically if it rains
- No need to plug into a power supply which makes installation even quicker and easier
- PV solar cell on external window frame requires direct exposure to sunlight
- The remote control makes opening even hard-to-reach windows easy
- Fully programmable remote control pad can operate roof windows, blinds, awnings and roller shutters either individually or in groups
- Control pad can be used from anywhere in the building
- Easy to install, just plug into a standard socket
- Battery back-up avaliable
GGL - White painted, lacquered, natural pine
- Pine core painted white
- Great value for money and quick and easy to install
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- Protective triple coat clear lacquer and anti-fungal treatment helps to preserve timber
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- Rotates 180° for safe and easy cleaning from inside property
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Center on your customers with your experience system of record.
Your enterprise conversations need to revolve around audiences, campaigns, journeys, and lifetime value. Having a common vocabulary about experience is what breaks down silos and helps us put the consumer first. This is where the experience system of record comes in.
You need a data pipeline that centralizes all the data rushing toward you. A pipeline that creates a unified profile that balances knowing your customer and respecting their privacy. And with semantics and control, you get a common language across your systems so you can understand your customers better.
Unified Profile
It's easy to call a small data set a profile. But with the power of machine learning, you can enrich it, augment it, and use all the data to make it a true unified profile. This lets you start taking action on your data by pairing it with content and serving custom experiences to your ideal audiences.
Data is only half of the story. You need to capitalize on data with content. And with the right system, you can quickly and efficiently onboard content. An efficient content workflow helps accelerate the content pipeline. And machine learning plays a huge role in effective content workflows with auto-tagging, cropping, and image recognition.
Meet Adobe Experience Platform Auditor.
Auditor is the newest addition to the Adobe Experience Platform. It helps customers understand the health of their Adobe implementations and gives recommendations on how to improve them. That way, customers gain the most value from their Adobe investment.
Adobe Experience Platform Launch is now available to all customers.
Adobe Experience Platform Launch unifies the data and technology on your website. It simplifies tag management, drives automation with APIs, and lets partners build integrations for marketers to use and enjoy. And best of all, it's available to all Adobe customers.
Intelligence everywhere with Adobe Sensei.
Adobe Sensei is the AI and machine learning framework in Adobe Experience Platform. Adobe Sensei helps you handle time-consuming and repetitive tasks, identify what you need in seconds instead of hours, and deliver personalized experiences in real time.
With Adobe I/O, developers make work flow.
We've launched new enhancements to Adobe I/O, our cross-cloud developer portal.
Adobe I/O Events
Developers now have access to Adobe I/O Events and even more Experience Cloud APIs to integrate with, extend, and build custom applications with Adobe technology.
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With the beta release of Adobe I/O Runtime, developers can code in a serverless environment and tap into Adobe Sensei's AI and machine learning capabilities to create powerful automated workflows and experiences.
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With over 500 Adobe partners and applications, Adobe's technology and data partner ecosystem helps you innovate and get more value out of your Adobe investments. Extend Adobe Experience Cloud functionality with applications from our Exchange partners, including phone call attribution, commerce, 3rd-party data and modeling, and more.


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Persian & Himalayan Cat Rescue cannot guarantee the temperament, breeding, or availability of any cat posted to this page. If you inquire about a cat on this page and find it unavailable, please contact us.
IMPORTANT: We try hard to keep this current, but don't always know immediately when a shelter cat is no longer available. Save yourself some time by calling the number listed under the cat and make sure he or she is available before going to the shelter!! Also, if you adopt one of these cats, please contact us and tell us.
Thank you.
If you know of a Persian or Himalayan not listed on these pages that is at a shelter or rescue in Northern California, please contact us and we will add him or her to our list.


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"The signature pedagogy in social work is field education [which]…connects the theoretical and conceptual contribution of the classroom with the practical world of the practice setting…classroom and field …contribute to the development of the requisite competencies of professional practice."—Council on Social Work Education Educational Policy, Handbook of Accreditation Standards and Procedures
As Coordinator of Field Education, I am pleased to welcome you to the Social Work Department's Web site. This section provides an overview of the program's social work field education, as well as access to forms used by our faculty, students and field instructors in the learning process. We are excited about the learning opportunities and experiences that we arrange for our students. While in the field, students are encouraged to apply the knowledge, values and skills they have learned and developed in the classroom to their direct practice work with individuals, families, groups and organizations in the community.
Please take a few minutes to watch the video below in order to hear from our Spring 2019 Seniors about their experience in the field.
A trained instructor (B.S.W. or M.S.W.) supervises each student on-site. In some cases, an off-site instructor with social work training serves as the secondary instructor. Social Work faculty liaisons are assigned to individual students; these faculty members serve as an essential link between the B.S.W. program and the field agency. Faculty liaisons provide support to both the student and the field instructor.
Social work field education is an essential and rewarding component of the social work curriculum and program. We employ a highly personalized process of matching students and agencies in our program. I meet with each student to discuss our learning objectives, the student's interests and the options available for placement. Each student spends a minimum of 450 supervised hours in their placement during the spring semester of (typically) their senior year. Students complete their practicum experiences at schools, residential facilities, hospitals, youth agencies, protective service offices, domestic violence programs and other human service agencies in New Hampshire.
Please feel free to contact me for further information about the field education component of the program.
Frances Strayer, LICSW
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Prevention campaign: reducing evening burglaries
Les plus jeunes élèves des classes lausannoises défileront mercredi 25 juin l'après-midi entre l'esplanade de Montbenon et la place de Milan à l'occasion de la traditionnelle Fête des classes enfantines. Le cortège débutera à 13h30 et tous les élèves auront rejoint la place de fête vers 15h00. L'accès à la gare par les avenues Fraisse et Ruchonnet ne sera pas possible durant cette période La circulation sera perturbée dès midi le long des rues empruntées par le cortège.
Every year in autumn we see a rise in the number of break-ins as night falls. Dark arrives quickly and burglars take advantage of dusk to check out empty houses and enter them, under cover of the fading light. The season for evening home break-ins has this way in recent years. Police recorded some 70 such burglaries during September, with houses and apartments equally affected. Up to now, more than 100 burglaries have been recorded during October 2013. Those during the first week of October were mainly apartments in the city of Lausanne, but the following week more houses than apartments were broken into. The highest number of burglaries during the previous two years were in December 2011 with 350 and in November 2012 with 300. A rise in the number of break-ins during coming months is therefore expected.
You can avoid being an unhappy victim of these crimes by taking a few precautions. Make your presence known by turning on different lights using timers that are set to come on as evening falls, until your return. Use energy-saving lamps that don't heat up and consume little energy – LED lights, for example. Another strategy is to install low-consumption lights that come on when
movement is detected outside your home.
Police from the communes and Vaud's gendarmes are waging a joint campaign to make the population more aware of the problem and to introduce people to preventive measures they can take against evening burglaries. The campaign kicks off 26 October through the press and social media. Flyers will be handed out to the population and posters put up in residential areas.
Given the large number of English speakers in Vaud and in the greater region of French-speaking
Switzerland, Vaud Police are working with the English-language web site GenevaLunch.com to
offer the campaign in English.
Renseignements complémentaires
- Jean-Philippe Pittet, responsable communication et prévention, tél.021 315 33 66
Corps de police
Rue St-Martin
1002 Lausanne
Locate on map
Contact us by e-mail
Phone +41 21 315 15 15
Fax +41 21 315 35 55
Pour les sollicitations urgentes:
ouvert tous les jours, 24h/24h
Pour les enregistrements de plainte, les constats et les demandes non urgentes:
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So if a law was made to require allowing competing stores on any device, this nonsense will end.-rxantos (September 29, 2010, 12:02 PM)
A simple solution for boredom.Find something to do that does not involve computers, television or any other way of electronic entertainment. That way you will not get bored.-rxantos (September 29, 2010, 12:02 PM)
As of instant communications:1. We are fomenting a culture of instant gratification. Which is never good.2. We do feel we have time to think things over before sending a response. Thereof responses tend to be emotional instead of rational.-rxantos (September 29, 2010, 12:02 PM)
I think that what Zaine is complaining about is really part of the bigger issue of the internet becoming more standardized and controlled and its evolution resulting from the appearance of truly handheld internet enabled devices - smartphones, iPod Touches, tablets, etc-Darwin (September 29, 2010, 08:47 AM)
There are many types of computer user, but there are two key ones for this issue; the content producer and the content consumer. The producers will always need a laptop or desktop, you really can't even write blog posts properly on an iPad, never mind a smart phone. Consumers only need internet and a touchscreen. The new 'app' revolution is aimed at the consumers, and that makes perfect sense, the vast vast vast majority of people are consumers only. -Eóin (September 29, 2010, 03:46 PM)
I want knowledge, I want intellectual liberty,I want no restrictions on my curiosities,I want creativity, not [endless] legal controls,I want productivity, not merely connectivity.
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It's been a great few years working on the project and while I haven't been involved directly with the Space segment,
I have taken great pleasure in designing and developing the Data Warehouse part of the Ground Segment.
It's been refreshing to work on something that is a real-time distributed system with lots of data providers and
subscribers. I've learned a lot about system performance and resilience!
Thanks to the rest of the team for the ideas, encouragement and of course finding 're-coding opportunities' :-)
I should also like to thank my employers Black Pepper Software for their contribution of software during the prototyping
stages of the Data Warehouse. To that end, I've written a short blog about our baby's first year:
http://www.blackpepper.co.uk/funcube-1- ... thank-you/
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I am the grandson of Martha Ruth Jarrells and Seldon Taulbee their daughter my mother was born June May Taulbee she the got married to my father Victor E Osborne. I do know that my grandmother died Aug 14,1976 and my grand father died in or around 1957. If you have any information please contact me
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text: Sinus Bradycardia Sinus bradycardia is the term for a heart rate of less than 60 beats/min and may be seen in the normal adult population. Sinus bradycardia during exercise, fever or congestive heart failure is abnormal. Persistent rates of less than 45 beats/min are also considered abnormal, and in the absence of drugs such as digitalis, beta-blockers and calcium channel blockers, reflect abnormality in the sinus node. Sinus bradycardia can be present in otherwise normal individuals and is common in well-trained athletes and in most people during deep sleep. It is part of the normal reaction to vagal stimulation. Sinus bradycardia may also be related to metabolic abnormalities, including hypothermia and myxedema. Nonvagally mediated sinus bradycardia also may occur as a manifestation of organic heart disease, including ischemic heart disease, particularly when the SA node is damaged, as with certain types of acute MI and in association with severe chest pain of acute MI. Sinus bradycardia may also be a complication of myocardial disease in which the SA node is damaged by scarring or infiltrative processes associated with aging as part of a degenerative conduction system process. Asymptomatic sinus bradycardia requires no treatment. If sinus bradycardia is so extreme, however, that symptoms result, including syncope, congestive heart failure (CHF), angina pectoris and hypertension, and/or if it leads to the development of ventricular ectopic beats (slow sinus rates predispose to re-entry mechanisms), then it should be treated, and in some instances temporary and sometimes permanent ventricular pacing is necessary.


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I was never a prolific member...
And who can forget semi-morse code man (i.e. "..........")
i'd def like to know his thoughts on watchmen.
He's alive...I've tried to get him to show his face here.I know that he didn't hate the Leonard Cohen song, but I don't know the specifics.
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NEW YORK — Outside a dressing room one recent afternoon in the Walter Kerr Theatre, a line of people waited to roll up their sleeves.
Inside was a man with latex gloves, a big smile and a needle filled with this year's flu vaccine.
"Hi, come on in," says Dr. Barry A. Kohn, a familiar and beloved figure in the theater community. His unofficial nickname: "The best jab on Broadway."
For the past 16 years, Kohn has been lugging around a duffel bag of syringes and administering free flu shots to actors and crew members at Broadway theaters, off-Broadway houses and theater offices. This year, he estimates he'll give 5,000 shots.
"Just relax," he says to one squeamish customer. "You're doing great." To another, he gently says, "Don't pay any attention to me." The jab in the upper arm is swift and painless. "Thanks for all you do, Barry," says one sound designer on his way out.
Kohn's annual visits are a key reason Broadway gets through the sneezy New York winters with its moving pieces still standing. The flu bug loves cramped quarters, high stress and backstage contact.
"Although the family doctor no longer makes a house call, Dr. Barry makes a stage-door call," says producer Thomas Schumacher, president of Disney Theatrical Productions and a fan of the physician. "I can call him and say, 'My leading lady has the sniffles,' 'My leading man has this' or 'I have an ensemble member with that,' and he'll turn up at the theater."
Health officials recommend a yearly flu vaccine for nearly everyone, starting at 6 months, and flu deaths can range from as few as 3,000 a year to 49,000 a year. While older people, young children and people with certain health conditions are at highest risk, theater producers can lose plenty at the box office if key people are ill. Generally at least 75 percent of actors at any given show elect to take Kohn's shot.
"The pressure to be healthy is so strong and Barry adds another layer to get it right," Schumacher says. "From my side of it, keeping people healthy, keeping them comfortable and knowing you're looking out for them is so important."
On this day, Kohn, 66, has already visited the Belasco Theatre to give shots to the casts of "Richard III" and "Twelfth Night" and then to the off-Broadway Playwrights Horizon complex. Later, he'll see the play "Bronx Bombers" at Primary Stages and administers shots to the cast after the show.
He's known for his wit, theater memory and a swift, painless vaccination, something that Rachel Zack, the assistant stage manager at "A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder," was counting on at the Walter Kerr Theatre.
"I usually bleed," she tells him, rolling up a sleeve. "You're better than my regular doctor. That's why I usually have you do it. It hurts less."
"That's because I'm really good at this," Kohn replies.
The free shots are sponsored by the union Actors' Equity and funded by Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, which gives Kohn an annual grant to pay for the vaccine. This year's grant was $55,000. He gets paid nothing.
He's jabbed everyone from Elton John to new Tony Award-winner Billy Porter from "Kinky Boots." Kohn was walking out of a restaurant a few years ago when he ran into the actor, who lamented how he'd missed his annual flu shot.
"Barry said, 'Roll your sleeve up' and he gave Billy Porter a flu shot on 46th Street," says Schumacher, who was there. "I've literally never heard him say 'no.'" This year, Porter eagerly got his shot when the company did.
Over the years, Kohn has jabbed people in other odd locations, from the lobby of the Neil Simon Theatre to the bathroom of the restaurant Sardi's. He's also there to give B-12 shots, prescribe Tamiflu if the flu vaccines don't work or help theater folks with allergies. He connects folks to specialists and holds monthly open houses at Equity headquarters in Los Angeles and New York where he'll vaccinate hundreds a day.
"He's the real deal," Schumacher says.
This is a labor of love for Kohn, who grew up in New Jersey and recalls taking the bus to see shows in Times Square. (At one point, he flirted with becoming an actor, "but I think everybody did at some point," he says, laughing.) He attended medical school at the University of Pennsylvania and was in private practice in Sacramento, Calif.
He made a comfortable life for himself but grew tired of battling health insurance companies. He quit 18 years ago and he and his wife, who had carefully avoided a lavish lifestyle, started a new life in New York and Hollywood, Calif., living off their investments
"I wanted a way to give back. I made enough money being a doctor for dollars and just decided there were more important things than walking into the next room and billing for more dollars," he says.
"If I'd stayed in private practice in Sacramento, I'd have a lot more money today than I have. But I wouldn't have met all of these folks and I wouldn't have had this second life adventure."
Those adventures include watching "The Producers" one night from the sound booth and glitzy opening night parties where he's a favored guest to Schumacher's annual Christmas party, where — as you might guess — Kohn "runs a little clinic upstairs. Everyone gets a flu shot."
Asked why he didn't want to spend his retirement golfing instead of rushing from theater to theater, Kohn smiles: "I never understood why it was important for the ball to go in the hole," he says.
Doctor makes stage-door visits on Broadway
NEW YORK — Outside a dressing room one recent afternoon in the Walter Kerr Theatre, a line of people waited to roll up their sleeves.


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Thursday, August 14, 2008
Eating Raul
Seems like everyone wants to cut themselves off a nice tasty slice of Raul. Twins fans want them some Raul. So do the Massholes.
MLB Trade Rumors notes that of the "contending" teams, the Jays would get their crack at Ibanez before either of those teams. And it wouldn't make a lick of sense for them to go back to that empty well again, but screw it, man...We want Raul!
We don't even care if it's a dumb move.
Updatey stuff: Sportsnet says the Jays have run Wells and Johnny Mac through waivers. The Minny Star-Tribune says the Twins didn't claim Ibanez. Geoff Baker mentions that the White Jays might have claimed him to get the draft picks. Ibanez doesn't think that anyone's gonna get him.
Our take: If the Jays acquire Raul Ibanez (which they won't), he would assume the mantle of the Greatest Blue Jay of All Time from the injured Scott Rolen. We're crossing our fingers.
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- The Ack said...
whoa....Rosenthal says the Jays have asked for waivers on J-Mac....and Vernon Wells?
J-Mac I could see getting moved, but Wells? Straight interest gauger by JP? Either way, what i nthe fuck?
- August 14, 2008 at 2:40 PM
- Alex said...
every team drops every player on waivers this time of year, two reasons, one to conceal which ones they really want to get rid of, two, to gauge interest in possible trades.
- August 14, 2008 at 2:50 PM
- The Ack said...
gee whiz, erroneous verbage aside, thanks for the tip alex.
- August 14, 2008 at 2:53 PM
- The Ack said...
sarcasm aside....I'm just saying, if it's likely Wells would clear, perhaps JP was/is exploring something here with Wells, which would be, you know, newsworthy.
- August 14, 2008 at 2:54 PM
- Alex said...
hey sorry man most people don't know shit about waivers and if they do they assume it's like the nhl (I think?) where you don't get a chance to pull them back if someone claims.
At any rate, for wells to be moved I think the jays would have to eat a lot of salary
- August 14, 2008 at 2:58 PM
- The Ack said...
sorry dude.
yeah, interesting development, nonetheless. Has to piss of a player who doesn't see it coming, though.
- August 14, 2008 at 3:02 PM
- Lloyd the Barber said...
Sniff, you shouldn't say that about Scott Rolen. His still the greatest in my heart.
- August 14, 2008 at 4:53 PM
Some American Heyman guy is reporting that no deals are getting done for either Washburn or Ibanez.
At least the Jays won't accidentally end up with Washburn now.
- August 14, 2008 at 6:14 PM
- The Southpaw said...
I respectfully differ. there was no downside to claiming Ibanez and more than one way it is good for us. I will not bore you with the details but I posted them on our blog.
- August 14, 2008 at 6:27 PM
Rolen is not the greatest Jay, halladay is! And Raul.....Seattle wants some league ready talent in lieu of draft picks for Raul so the Jays are out of that mix.
BTW that American, Heyman, knows what he's talking about. at least more than JP or Adams!
- August 14, 2008 at 6:54 PM
- Tao of Stieb said...
There's no downside to claiming Ibanez, agreed.
There is a downside to trading for him. Which we'd have to do to get him.
BTW...we're totally plastered. We're literally a drunk Jays fan right now.
- August 14, 2008 at 9:26 PM


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Big Sister
This is a picture of my big sister, taken some 65 or so years ago. Back then I thought her sole existence was to be my protector.
I like this photo of her because it seems to show her positivism. It also shows that she was hyper. Now, she is not that hyper, in fact, she is kind of relaxed and laid back - but she is still very positive.
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N.Y. Worker Who Donated Kidney Tells Boss, 'I Want It Back'
Here's the thing about donating a human organ: There's no return policy.
But that's exactly what scorned kidney donor Debbie Stevens (pictured at left) is demanding, after the Long Island mother was fired from her job shortly after donating the organ to help save her boss's life.
The onetime secretary has filed a discrimination complaint with New York state officials against her former boss, Jackie Brucia, at Atlantic Automotive Group, alleging that she was duped into donating the kidney. Stevens is also weighing legal action, and has become vocal in the press, alleging that Brucia took advantage of her giving nature.
"You hate me so much, and I'm so despicable -- give me my kidney back!" the New York Post quotes Stevens as saying.
While not commenting directly on her case, Harvey Mysel, founder of the Living Kidney Donors Network, says that, before donating, Stevens may have benefited from receiving additional counseling about her reasons for wanting to contribute her organ.
Mysel tells AOL Jobs that transplant hospitals have the responsibility to take care of recipients and donors and "need to vet donors to make sure they are donating for the right reason," rather than, say, to get attention or out of a sense of obligation.
Stevens, 47, says that she was tricked into giving the kidney by Brucia, a controller at the car dealership. Brucia rehired Stevens in 2010, the former secretary alleges, only to ensure that she would have another donor lined up in case a likely suitable donor fell through.
For her part, Brucia, 61, says that she was grateful for Stevens' donation, telling New York radio station WINS-AM: "I have nothing bad to say about her. I will always be grateful to her -- she did a wonderful thing for me."
Stevens had pledged to donate a kidney to Brucia during a 2009 conversation that the women had about Brucia's health problems. Within a few months of returning to Brucia's employ, Stevens says that she was called into her boss's office and asked if she was sincere about her offer, as Brucia's planned donor wasn't a good match. Stevens said that she was and proceeded with the operation.
Because Stevens and Brucia weren't a perfect match, Stevens' kidney went into a national pool, eventually going to a recipient in St. Louis. In still donating her kidney, however, Stevens gave Brucia a better shot at getting the speedy transplant she received.
It was after the operations took place that Stevens contends things got nasty, leading to the complaint that she filed with authorities. Organ transplant surgery requires extensive recovery time, but Stevens alleges that she felt pressured to return to work last September -- less than a month after the surgery -- even as Brucia was still recuperating at home.
According to the Post, Stevens went home sick three days after returning to work. That purportedly didn't sit well with Brucia who, while still convalescing at home, allegedly called Stevens to berate her.
Eventually, Stevens charges, she was demoted and fired.
As Reuters notes, it isn't illegal for a boss to pressure an employee into donating an organ, but it is illegal to pressure workers to return to work while they are ill or recuperating. Stevens was entitled to time off under the Family and Medical Leave Act.
She was also eligible for reasonable accommodation to her work schedule, since the operation temporarily disabled her.
Stevens' complaint appears to be driven in part by her need for health insurance. Her current coverage will soon run out, she told the Post, leaving her unable to pay future medical and psychiatric bills related to the transplant.
"I don't know what I'm going to do," she said.
Atlantic Automotive Group has called Stevens' assertions groundless, telling the Post through its attorney that the company acted "honorably and fairly at every turn."
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Second U.S. MERS case discovered in Florida, airline passengers notified
A health care worker from Saudi Arabia is hospitalized in Orlando, Fla., with America's second confirmed case of the deadly Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, or MERS, government officials reported Monday.
Health officials from 20 states are notifying more than 500 U.S. passengers who were on May 1 flights with the infected patient that they might have been exposed to the disease.
The travelers are being told that if they develop cold-like symptoms they should contact health care providers, get tested for possible exposure to the disease and take precautions to limit their contact with others.
"For the traveling public, I'd like to reassure them that it is likely that if you haven't already developed symptoms, you're probably not going to," said Dr. Anne Schuchat, director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Since the incubation period for MERS is about five to 14 days, "We are getting toward the end of the period where we think it would be biologically possible for them to acquire infection," Schuchat said in a call with reporters.
More than 150 passengers already have been found to have no trace of the virus, officials said Monday.
A viral respiratory illness, MERS was first discovered in Saudi Arabia in 2012. Since then, 538 people have contracted the disease and 145 have died. Saudi Arabia's 450 confirmed cases and 118 MERS deaths lead the world.
Officials maintain the health risk to the greater U.S. public remains "very low," since spread of the virus requires close contact with an infected person.
"This virus has not shown the ability to spread easily from person to person in community settings," Schuchat said. "Clusters of human-to-human spread have been seen most frequently in health care workers who have been caring for MERS patients."
In fact, health care workers make up about 20 percent of all confirmed MERS cases, Schuchat said.
The unnamed Florida patient, who also worked at a Saudi facility that treats MERS patients, became ill during a May 1 flight from the Middle East to London and on subsequent connecting flights that same day through Boston, Atlanta and Orlando.
While visiting relatives in Orlando, the patient developed a fever, chills and a slight cough before being hospitalized on May 8 at Dr. P. Phillips Hospital. Hospital staff isolated the patient and forwarded diagnostic tests to state officials and the CDC in Atlanta. The CDC confirmed the MERS virus on Sunday night, director Tom Frieden said.
"The patient is in good condition and is improving," said Dr. Antonio Crespo, an infectious disease specialist at Dr. P. Phillips Hospital. "We are taking every precaution but believe the risk of transmission from this patient is very low, since his symptoms were mild and he was not coughing when he arrived at the hospital."
The new MERS case is not linked to the first U.S. case, which was confirmed last week in Indiana.
Since March, the number of MERS cases worldwide has increased sharply for unknown reasons, Schuchat said. Since there's no vaccine or specific antiviral treatment for MERS, the CDC advises the public to protect against respiratory infections by washing hands often and avoiding close contact with sick people.
The public also should disinfect frequently touched surfaces and avoid touching their eyes, nose and mouth with unwashed hands.
"We don't know yet how this MERS virus spreads, but we encourage people to take these commonsense steps," Schuchat added.


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Definitely have been feeling like my old self of late. Every so often in this business you go through stretches where the feel for the market temporary vanishes.
During those weeks where my appearance commitments are clustered together, the ability to watch the tape in a lunatic fashion falls by the wayside. After a mixed start to February call-wise, I think that feel resurfaced in the second week of the month. As you recall, that was what I coined "stall week" for the markets. Last week was "sidewalk crack expansion" week, a little more volatility and a little more concern on the stamina of the rally. This week the market should be approached with the type of caution that brings hesitance on buying around even your most trusted go-to names.
A couple reasons I presented to the investing gods on Sunday night:
- In a week supposedly representing a profound/epic buying opportunity (not my words, just an interpretation), the lagging nature of the transports, small-caps, Russell, and relative outperformance of the utilities was largely ignored. It shouldn't have been ignored as we are witnessing a valid stronger tone of caution on the first quarter from retailers. Where there is ignorance, there is future surprise-factor risk.
- Trailing PE ratios on the major averages are higher year over year, which would be OK if the macro and micro supported it convincingly. But during an adjustment mode, the market will squeeze some of the premium out of owning stocks due to the future being more in line to downgraded, sell-side profit estimates.
- There is an avalanche of U.S. macro data set for release that follows strong rebounds in January (Dallas Fed, durable goods, personal income and Michigan Sentiment). This cycle of data must hint at acceleration in March in order to support the P/E expansion in the market and mark it up incrementally. I am having a mental roadblock on that happening, given what I am learning from companies.
Wildcard: Bernanke Comments
Uncle Ben is likely to reaffirm the Fed's undying, not-so-secret commitment to boost the stock market, which would be bullish. On the other hand, this bearded fella could sound less dovish than the market priced in on Friday, confirming the negative reaction to the Fed minutes. Tough to handicap event, hence wildcard status.
What You Need to Know: Coach
Coach (COH) was mentioned favorably in Barron's this past weekend. Two very important oversights included:
- No mention of business risk from a significant transformation in strategy to a lifestyle brand.
- No mention in operating strategy risk as the long-time CEO steps aside.
If so inclined to delve into the world of women's accessories, wait until the Michael Kors (KORS) secondary supply reaches the market. Watch the market's response, then send me an e-mail for further color (firstname.lastname@example.com).
Have Fun with the Depressing Sequester
The sequester is a giant catch-all word for a range of economic outcome badness. Detailed below is a guide for thinking through this government imposed absurdity. There will be added names on Tuesday.
Transportation Security Administration
The Concern Equation
Seven-day furlough for screeners + 10% of FAA on furlough = passenger wait times increase
The Trade (long)
Trapped in an airport and upset about the longer wait time? Your heightened emotional state may cause a trip to the food courts. PepsiCo (PEP) products (which include junk foods) in many instances are the exclusive vendor for airports. Note that this is a perception trade, whereby the actual bump in sales would likely be minimal at best.
I know you are thinking ticket prices up, airlines benefit, stocks higher. But jet fuel prices have increased roughly 6.8% in the past six months (spike more recent) and EU macro data has come in soft, so I would approach the airline industry with caution.
Social Security
The Concern Equation
Delays in the mailing of Social Security checks = seniors forced to delay their grocery shopping/dip into savings to make essential purchases
The Trades
Cott (COT) - Long
If a senior is forced to dip into his or her savings to eat, best believe they are going to favor private label goods purchases from Wal-Mart (WMT) grocery stores. Cott is the main private labels goods producer in the store.
Kroger (KR) - Short
Supermarkets strike me as losers from the perspective of consumer delays in buying of merchandise, a trade down to dollar stores/Wal-Mart during this period of uncertainty and possible snags in the supply chain due to food inspection workers being furloughed. Kroger's stock is acting worse than Safeway (SWY).