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A scientist died after becoming the first American researcher to contract the plague in 50 years, it has been revealed.
Malcolm Casadaban, 60, was working with a weakened form of the plague's bacteria thought to be harmless to humans when he died in September 2009, a report said.
The University of Chicago genetics and cell biology professor's work with the live bacteria was not even noted when he fell ill and he followed proper safety protocols.
Dr Casadaban was researching the chain of events that happens when a person is made sick by the bacteria Yersinia Pestis, which are behind the plague.
The bubonic plague, which killed at least a third of the population of medieval Europe in the 14th century, still infects more than 2,000 people annually worldwide today.
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Monday, December 12, 2011
Review: Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi
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great review but so sad you didnt like it as much as I XD I call this book a dystopian romance so I do understand the lack of secondary characters' growing that you mention though I do not agree with that XD but we all have different opinions.
★Dazzling Reads★This was an odd read for me because while I despised the writing style I wanted to know what happened so I stuck with it to the end. I will not be reading any sequels though. It just annoyed me to no end, and then I read a very well written dystopian book right afterward (Legend by Marie Lu) that reinforced how much I didn't like Shatter Me.
ReplyDeleteAww really? I really thought you would love this. Well can't love everything you read right? I'm glad to hear that you were able to connect with Juliette and Adam and like you I feel that we will get to learn more about the state the world is in and the other characters from the books that follow.

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Spotted a 3-0 lead prior to throwing his first pitch, Mendoza tossed seven strong innings in Game 1 of the Pacific Coast League playoffs Wednesday to lead Triple-A Omaha to a 4-0 victory over Round Rock.
"It's a tough team, it's a good offense," Mendoza said. "I just tried to make my pitches and not make too many mistakes."
The 27-year-old right-hander set the tone early, retiring seven of the first eight batters he faced. He worked around back-to-back one-out singles in the third and another pair of singles in the seventh. He did not allow multiple baserunners at the same time in any other inning.
"I think I mixed all my pitches -- curveball, fastball, change-up -- and worked both sides of the plate," Mendoza said. "I was just trying to get them off balance."
Mendoza credited his team's fast start for helping his performance. Lorenzo Cain legged out an RBI triple in the top of the first, while Clint Robinson -- the Royals' No. 8 prospect -- followed with a two-run homer.
"As a pitcher, the support of my team is huge," Mendoza said. "I pitched more comfortably on the mound and felt more confident."
Traded by Texas to Kansas City on April 2, 2010, Mendoza has enjoyed a strong year for Omaha, going 12-5 with a 2.18 ERA in 33 games, including 18 starts. He flirted with two no-hitters this season, taking one into the eighth July 9 and then completing one 10 days later -- only to have it taken away by the PCL when it declared a ninth-inning error to be a double two days after the game.
"I just try to be consistent, working on the stuff they tell me to," Mendoza said. "Every start, I try to do the same thing -- work on my pitches. I think that's the main thing."
Mendoza said starting the opening game of the playoffs was more nerve-racking than his no-hit bids.
"When you're trying to throw a no-hitter, you don't think about it," he said. "You just try to pitch and get outs. In the first game of the playoffs, there's more pressure. Everybody wants to win."
Looking toward the rest of the postseason, Mendoza said he and his teammates are confident in their abilities.
"My team feels good, we're excited about this and, hopefully, we make it into the finals," he said.
In other Pacific Coast League playoff action:
Aces 7, River Cats 4
Former American League Rookie of the Year Angel Berroa went 3-for-4 with two homers and four RBIs, while fellow Major League veteran Ryan Langerhans also went deep. Reno got to Sacramento starter Graham Godfrey for five runs on nine hits, chasing him after five innings. Aces starter Zach Kroenke yielded three runs -- two earned -- over 5 1/3 frames en route to the win. Gameday box score
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Interview with Sauber Petronas Team Principal Peter Sauber Q: With half of the season behind us, what is your assessment of 2004 so far? Peter Sauber: I think that, all things considered, we can be highly satisfied with the results of the...
Interview with Sauber Petronas Team Principal Peter Sauber
Q: With half of the season behind us, what is your assessment of 2004 so far?
Peter Sauber: I think that, all things considered, we can be highly satisfied with the results of the first nine races. We've scored 15 Championship points - clearly more than at the same time last year - and are now ranking sixth in the Constructors' Championship. We're only two points behind McLaren-Mercedes, but clearly ahead of Toyota, Jordan, Jaguar and Minardi.
Q: The beginning seemed a bit slow, the team didn't really pick up speed until Barcelona. What was the reason?
PS: The explanation is simple. We knew that the new wind tunnel would not be operational until March and set the goal of using new aerodynamic components at the San Marino Grand Prix in Imola at the end of April. We achieved this goal, and the effects were immediately visible and produced already successful results at Barcelona. Since then, we've been able to make continuous progress with the aerodynamic development of the C23, and this has clearly improved our performance.
Q: The visual appearance of the car, though, has not changed!
PS: That's exactly what's fascinating about aerodynamics, the fact that small changes can make such a big difference. We've put a lot of work into optimising the brake ducts, for example. This has not only improved braking performance but, above all, aerodynamics. Such changes are hardly discernable by the naked eye. Particularly this development, though, has shown how important the possibility of working with full-size cars in our wind tunnel is. It's impossible to perfectly simulate the air flow through the brake ducts, the uprights and the wheels with a 50- or 60-percent scale model.
Q: What are the next changes to be anticipated?
PS: As it looks right now, we'll be using a new front wing at Magny-Cours and, only a week later at Silverstone, a new engine cover.
Q: Would it be fair to say that the wind tunnel has been worth the investment made?
PS: Absolutely! Of course, for a team like Sauber Petronas, this has been an enormous investment, but one that will surely pay off in the long run. To keep up with the breathtaking pace of developments in today's Formula 1, having a state-of-the-art wind tunnel to work with is an absolute must. Although we're still at the beginning, in other words, a phase of familiarizing ourselves with the facility, we've been able to make progress. In retrospect, I'm very happy to have taken this decision.
Q: Yet, there is a possibility of future regulations restricting aerodynamics, which means that the wind tunnel investment might prove to have been a mistake!
PS: Today, aerodynamics account for roughly two thirds of the performance of a Formula 1 car. Even in the event of certain regulatory restrictions, aerodynamics will continue to have a major impact on lap times. There's no doubt in my mind that this investment will yield positive effects in future, too.
Q: You're using the same engine as Ferrari, the same gearbox, and the C23 resembles last year's Ferrari, yet a few observers seem to feel that the distance between yourselves and Ferrari is too large. How can you explain this?
PS: Let's face it, the car's performance is not primarily attributable to the engine and gearbox. The most critical factor is aerodynamics, and in this respect we're just at the beginning of our development. What's more, Ferrari have completely different resources at their disposal and, above all, they've got Michael Schumacher. Michael is a driver with exceptional skills, and this year, I think, he's even better than he's ever been. Perhaps, the question of why Ferrari are so far ahead of everyone else should be posed to those teams having entered this season with the goal of winning the World Championship.
Q: How satisfied are you with your two drivers?
PS: I'm highly satisfied! Giancarlo has been picking up more and more speed. In the beginning, he was having a bit of difficulty, but the faster the C23 has become, the more he's been able to show his great skills. I've always considered Giancarlo one of the best Formula 1 drivers, and his performance has confirmed my opinion. Since his first year with us, Felipe has had a very positive development. He's always had a high basic speed, but his year as a test driver with Ferrari has taught him a lot about the technology, and now he's able to give valuable input to the engineers. Besides that, he's simply a little older, and thus more mature, now. I'm convinced that Felipe has great potential and will be able to further exploit it in future.
Q: Do you believe that Sauber Petronas will be able to compete at the current level in the second half of the season as well?
PS: Yes, I do. Though the enormous investments on the part of the works teams are a bit disconcerting, we do feel strong enough to accept this challenge. The disadvantages we're faced with in terms of budget and resources, we need to compensate for by being more efficient. We have a team that works together extremely well, both at the race track and back home at the Hinwil factory. And the wind tunnel has finally given us the right tool to perform pinpoint work on the car's performance.
Q: Does this mean that you keep eyeing fifth place in the Constructors' Championship?
PS: Owing to the fact that we were extremely unlucky at Indianapolis, McLaren-Mercedes managed to get ahead of us. Considering the technical and financial means of McLaren-Mercedes, the matter should really be quite clear, though. Of course, we won't simply admit defeat either. Yet, we continue to see Toyota, Jordan and Jaguar as our direct opponents. Of these three, Jordan is more predictable than Toyota and Jaguar, because they're using the same tyres.
Q: Speaking of tyres: how satisfied are you with Bridgestone?
PS: Bridgestone have made considerable strides since the beginning of the season, particularly in terms of consistency during the race. Still, when it comes to a fast lap, which determines grid positions, we continue to have clear disadvantages compared to our competitors. Generally speaking, the influence of tyres is much too high these days.


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Our Lady Peace album Spiritual Machines inspired by Kurzweil's vision of the future
January 14, 2011
Wikipedia | Spiritual Machines is the fourth studio album by Canadian alternative rock band Our Lady Peace, initially released by Columbia Records in December 2000. The album was a conceptual interpretation of Raymond Kurzweil's 1999 book The Age of Spiritual Machines and featured spoken dialog from Kurzweil himself.
Album history
While touring in mid-2000, Mike Turner came across the book The Age of Spiritual Machines by inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil. Becoming fascinated by the futuristic ideas in the book, he had the other members of the band read it. They came up with an idea to do a concept album and began writing songs complementing Kurzweil's theories. Turner contacted Ray Kurzweil via email to ask if they could use the title of his book for their next album. Kurzweil's excitement at the prospect prompted them to invite him into the studio to read excepts from his book for the album.
The band then contacted local artist Oli Goldsmith, who lived several blocks from the studio and who happened to be reading the same book, to create the artwork for the album. He also directed the video for "In Repair." A limited edition version of the CD was released as a completely black case in which the album art was not visible.
Toward the end of the album, there is a hidden track with Ray Kurzweil communicating with "Molly". Molly is a robot from 2099, who at the beginning of the book was a 23-year-old woman who knew nothing about what Kurzweil was trying to explain, and then started to evolve in the way Kurzweil predicted.
Critical reception
Although Spiritual Machines is Our Lady Peace's least commercially successful album to date, it was highly praised by critics as being one of Our Lady Peace's finest releases, and has also been suggested as being the height of their artistic creativity. The album's lack of commercial success has been attributed to the experimental use of spoken excerpts from Kurzweil's book being included on the album. A review from the Hamilton Spectator noted that the album's concluding tracks "If You Believe" and "The Wonderful Future" demonstrated a particular facility for mixing sonic textures.
Video for "In Repair," featuring Ray Kurzweil
Track listing
All lyrics written by Raine Maida, all music composed by Raine Maida, Mike Turner, Arnold Lanni.
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1. | "Ray Kurzweil Intro" | 0:06 |
2. | "Right Behind You (Mafia)" | 3:14 |
3. | "Ray Kurzweil 2029″ | 0:15 |
4. | "In Repair" | 3:58 |
5. | "Life" | 4:23 |
6. | "Middle of Yesterday" | 3:54 |
7. | "Are You Sad?" | 5:08 |
8. | "Ray Kurzweil 2029 (Part 2)" | 0:12 |
9. | "Made to Heal" | 3:47 |
10. | "Ray Kurzweil 1949–97″ | 0:44 |
11. | "Everyone's a Junkie" | 3:38 |
12. | "Ray Kurzweil on Death" | 0:39 |
13. | "All My Friends" | 3:37 |
14. | "If You Believe" | 3:35 |
15. | "The Wonderful Future" | 4:30 |
16. | "Ray Kurzweil and Molly" | (hidden) |
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The Latest Developments in Monitor Soft Proofing
Kodak Matchprint Virtual being used to edit and approve files in prepress.
ICS Remote Director being used press side at Worldcolor, Toronto.
Figure 2: With ICC profiles, color documents can be output on different devices, yet look the same. This is done in the RIP, which can use two or more profiles to create different workflow scenarios.
Figure 3: Green-red "traffic lights" are used in Remote Director to indicate who is viewing and collaborating on a soft proof and whether their monitor is calibrated.
Abhay Sharma is a professor in the School of Graphic Communications Management at Ryerson University in Toronto. This article is based on a presentation entitled "ROI of Soft Proofing," which he gave last month at Graphics of the Americas in Miami. Contact him at firstname.lastname@example.com
MONITOR SOFT proofing allows many benefits in terms of time and convenience. With the current economic challenges, all printers must look at ways to increase efficiencies. Soft proofing and online collaboration were obvious solutions even before the current financial meltdown, and now the case for soft proofing is even more compelling.
The aim in soft proofing is that the monitor provides an accurate prediction of the press output and different people can view the proof at different locations, yet see the same colors. Soft proofing can be for content and collaboration only, but most of the time we also want accurate color. A soft proofing "kit" consists of the following basic components:
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• A software solution such as ICS Remote Director or Kodak Matchprint Virtual
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The choice of monitor is important. All solutions today use only LCD flat panels, and most solutions are based on the Eizo Color–Edge (CG) series or Apple (HD or LED) displays. Other makes seen at recent trade shows, however, include NEC displays, the HP DreamColor and Quato monitors.
When choosing a display, uniformity from one side of the screen to the other is sometimes an issue, so a good software solution will take measurements from all over the screen before you start and then use that data to improve the display uniformity. The color gamut of the monitor needs to encompass most commonly used print gamuts. Images are displayed in a manner that simulates a press condition, thus the screen needs to accurately display all press colors. Usually, if you are buying a complete soft proofing solution, your monitor choice depends on the models supported by your chosen provider.
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There's a famous scene in Citizen Kane where Orson Welles chronicles the disintegration of a sixteen year marriage in two minutes of screen time through a montage of increasingly chilly breakfast confrontations.
It was only after he had created the sequence that Welles realised that the idea was "stolen from The Long Christmas Dinner by Thornton Wilder". The latter piece – in which four generations of the Bayard family take their turn at the festive board in a speeded-up succession that compresses ninety years into thirty minutes – is now presented with another early one-act Wilder play, also published 1931, The Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden, in this theatrically fascinating, if somewhat slight-seeming, double-bill directed by Tim Sullivan for Savio(u)r Company.
Wilder was that comparatively rare bird – a man intent on deploying newfangled and subversive theatrical methods to communicate not an ideology of alienation but old-fashioned democratic sentiment and a fortifying resistance to despair. Part of the interest here lies in watching Wilder experiment with techniques he developed in the major works. The temporal foreshortening in The Long Christmas Dinner anticipates the dramatist's games with time in The Skin Of Our Teeth (1942), his comic-strip history of mankind. With its resident Stage Manager who orchestrates and participates in the proceedings, The Happy Journey looks forward to Our Town (1938).
Sullivan's characterful cast prove attractively equal to the challenges posed by plays that stipulate a bare stage and minimal props. Registering every lurch and jolt of the car trip from New Jersey in their body language, the actors portraying the archetypal Kirby family in Happy Journey beautifully convey the folksy charm, humour and sharp poignancy of a piece which celebrates how people survive grief and loss through force of habit and attending to life's practicalities.
Stephanie Beattie is deeply affecting as Ma, the gabby, moralising (and brave) incarnation of this spirit. The eloquently paced Long Christmas Dinner offers a time-lapse look at successive phases of the Bayard family from a period when the oldest member can recall Indians through the First World War and its casualties to an age of youthful rebellion. This endless Yuletide ritual has both elements of farce and an achingly bleak poetry of ironic repetition with refrains such as "only the passing of time can help in these things". You can see why the play moved Orson Welles to unconscious theft.
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The Old Testament Canon
Jesus is our Lord, so if we are to be faithful to Him, we do not want to have an Old Testament canon that is any different than the one He had. The Apocryphal books can be useful as historical ...Read More
The Clarity of Scripture
Many people treat the Bible like a puzzle or a secret code that is full of hidden meanings accessible only to a select few. Nothing could be further from the truth, however. Scripture can be understood by anyone who puts ...Read More
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We affirm the human origin of Scripture, for it was written by human beings and bears the marks of human authorship. However, we also affirm the divine origin of Scripture, that God superintended the authors of the biblical text in ...Read More
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Church tradition and the teaching we receive in our local churches are vital for helping us understand the Scriptures. However, those authorities, as well as all other authorities, are subject finally to the Word of God. No one may demand ...Read More
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We are tempted to look for God's will in places other than the one place He has revealed it—His Word. As we ponder the will of God for our lives, we must be careful to follow the guidance of Scripture. ...Read More
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The process of biblical inspiration is mysterious, for we do not know exactly how God moved the human authors of Scripture to give us His Word. Nevertheless, we know that Scripture is the Word of God, and so it can ...Read More
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Many people today claim to be Apostles. However, to be an Apostle, one must be an eyewitness of Jesus' resurrection or be confirmed as an Apostle by other resurrection eyewitnesses (Acts 1:12–26; Gal. 1:18–2:10). This is impossible in our era, ...Read More
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make with a clean (git) install doesn't work
Reported by: | AD7six | Owned by: | |
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Component: | unfiled | Version: | 1.3.2 |
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The following doesn't work out of the box: $ git clone git://github.com/jquery/jquery.git $ cd jquery && make
The result is:
andy@andy:~$ git clone git://github.com/jquery/jquery.git Initialized empty Git repository in /home/andy/jquery/.git/ remote: Counting objects: 10169, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (3145/3145), done. remote: Total 10169 (delta 6668), reused 9955 (delta 6526) Receiving objects: 100% (10169/10169), 4.91 MiB | 438 KiB/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (6668/6668), done. andy@andy:~$ cd jquery/ andy@andy:~/jquery$ make Grabbing external dependencies... Submodule 'src/sizzle' (git://github.com/jeresig/sizzle.git) registered for path 'src/sizzle' Initialized empty Git repository in /home/andy/jquery/src/sizzle/.git/ remote: Counting objects: 889, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (860/860), done. remote: Total 889 (delta 567), reused 57 (delta 10) Receiving objects: 100% (889/889), 443.19 KiB | 158 KiB/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (567/567), done. Submodule path 'src/sizzle': checked out '3e97c27d19e18c984a29bfea89fcccadf3544fb3' You asked me to pull without telling me which branch you want to merge with, and 'branch..merge' in your configuration file does not tell me either. Please name which branch you want to merge on the command line and try again (e.g. 'git pull <repository> <refspec>'). See git-pull(1) for details on the refspec. If you often merge with the same branch, you may want to configure the following variables in your configuration file: branch..remote = <nickname> branch..merge = <remote-ref> remote.<nickname>.url = <url> remote.<nickname>.fetch = <refspec> See git-config(1) for details. make: *** [init] Error 1 andy@andy:~/jquery$
There are 2 errors:
- the submodule cannot be pulled
- After fixing that there's a broken symlink for qunit
The following commit rectifies these issues: http://github.com/AD7six/jquery/commit/0322b6c2610b456e4a203c47e4f6b16564af3bab
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Leo DiCaprio was a passenger on the troubled Moscow-bound jetHe may have played a con man who pretended to be a pilot, but Leonardo DiCaprio had nothing but praise for the real one of Delta Flight 30. A spokesperson for the "Titanic" star confirmed to CNN that the actor was on a troubled flight to Moscow on Sunday when the plane was forced to return to John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City after it suffered engine trouble. "En route to attend the Tiger Summit in St. Petersburg, Leonardo DiCaprio was one of the passengers aboard Delta Flight 30," the actor's rep told CNN. "[DiCaprio] wishes to commend the actions of the pilot and flight crew in bringing the plane to a safe landing." The Moscow-bound Boeing 767 was carrying 193 passengers and 11 crew members when it was forced to turn back after its left engine automatically shut down, an FAA spokeswoman said. DiCaprio reportedly signed autographs for the passengers and crew after the plane arrived safely back at JFK. soundoff (58 Responses)
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Four down, one to go. Another Ashes Test, another thumping victory for Australia. The only difference now is that England sit on the verge of their first Ashes whitewash in 86 years. Did what happened in 2005 really take place? It is hard to believe Ricky Ponting's brilliant side will show an ounce of complacency or compassion towards a distraught and defeated England in the final Test of this one-sided series, which starts in Sydney in four days' time.
Australia have been on a mission to rectify the apparent wrong of 2005 ever since Michael Vaughan was presented with a replica Ashes urn at the Oval almost 16 months ago. And if humiliating England 5-0 was not enough to sate these bloodthirsty Australians, they now have the added motivation of ensuring that the Test careers of Shane Warne and Glenn McGrath reach a fitting climax.
Of the four defeats suffered by England on their ill-fated tour of Australia, this was the most disheartening. With the exception of two hours of cricket on the second morning, England offered very little and they deserved to be beaten by an innings and 99 runs. There were no exceptional performances, only muddled thinking and inadequacy. They lacked skill, thought and, most worrying of all, fight.
England looked and played like a beaten side from the moment Andrew Flintoff chose to bat on a morning tailor-made for seam bowling. Flintoff's decision did not settle the outcome of the Test, but being bowled out for 159 can have only increased the sense of doom within the side.
Where England go from here is hard to fathom. Flintoff, the captain, spoke about regrouping, pride and character, but the damage inflicted in the past five weeks has left scars that will take months rather than hours to heal.
How can England's bowlers suddenly start believing that they can bowl Australia out cheaply when they have failed to do so in six of their seven attempts? And as for the batsmen coming to terms with the genius of Warne and the persistence of McGrath and Stuart Clark - forget it. The only positive for the thousands of travelling England fans is that a repeat of this match would give them two extra days enjoying the sights, sounds and sun of Bondi Beach.
No matter the result in Sydney, there will be recriminations at the conclusion of the most expensive tour England have ever undertaken. Millions of pounds have been spent defending the Ashes yet the selection of the squad was whimsical and their preparations have been haphazard.
When a team are being mauled as England are, it is inevitable that divisions occur within the squad. The team's plight is always somebody else's fault and cliques quickly begin to form. What is disturbing is an apparent lack of togetherness. The presence of wives and girlfriends from the second week of the tour will not have helped the team unite, and it was wrong for the England and Wales Cricket Board to allow several of the players to dine elsewhere on Christmas Day. Surely a closely knit team that enjoys each other's company would want to spend an occasion like that together.
The only surprise about the events of yesterday was that Warne did not take the final wicket. Brett Lee, who bowled Matthew Hoggard with a superb yorker, grasped that honour.
Australia's bowling was once again magnificent. After adding 47 runs to their overnight score and taking a first-innings lead of 260, Lee, McGrath and Clark went after England's batsmen as though the series was still alive. McGrath bowled with discipline and venom. Warne had upstaged him in the first innings and it was now his turn to shine.
But it was Clark who made the initial breakthrough when he shaped a full ball through Alastair Cook's ambitious drive and knocked back his off-stump. Prior to his departure, Cook reached a quite significant personal landmark. When the 22-year-old pushed Lee through the offside before lunch, he became the second player to pass 1,000 runs in his first year of Test cricket. Mark Taylor is the only other batsman to have achieved the feat, when he scored 1,219 runs for Australia in 1989. In a bleak winter, Cook's promise is one of the few pleasant issues to report.
Ian Bell briefly satisfied McGrath's lust for wickets when the umpire Rudi Koertzen adjudged him leg before. It was probably the correct decision but Koertzen had a poor game, with England suffering most from his reluctance to give lbws.
Kevin Pietersen's position in the batting order has caused much debate and his move up to four suggested that England had bowed to public pressure. The decision to move Pietersen down to five at the start of the tour was based on the ideal that he would be protected from the new ball. It surprised many, as another example of England taking a defensive option.
According to England's former captain Nasser Hussain, who still has the ear of the coach, Duncan Fletcher, Pietersen asked to bat at five at the start of the tour. His wish was granted. Yet, mysteriously, Pietersen asked to move up to four the day after Hussain made this public and criticised the tactic because it had left England's best player batting with the tail on too many occasions. Could it be that Pietersen asked to move to four for image as well as team reasons? Whatever the motives, they failed to inspire England's dominant player. Pietersen's attitude looked far from ideal in this Test and his brief innings yesterday did little to end speculation that he is feeling sorry for himself. The loose, airy-fairy drive at Clark left a gap between bat and pad and he was bowled.
Clark has been outstanding in the series and he goes into the final Test as Australia's top wicket-taker with 21 victims. His whippy action lets him get alarming bounce and the relentless line he bowls is McGrath like. It would be stretching it to say he is the difference between the Australia of now and that of 2005 but he has made a huge difference to their attack.
Andrew Strauss and Paul Collingwood attempted to delay the inevitable and Ponting was eventually forced to turn to Warne, much to the pleasure of an 80,000 crowd. Yet it was a fired-up Lee who removed England's most stubborn batsmen. Collingwood drove to short extra cover and Strauss flirted once too often outside off-stump and was caught behind.
Flintoff was outwitted by Clark, as were Sajid Mahmood and Stephen Harmison by Warne. Chris Read fought like a man whose Test future is on the line and Lee's hostility proved too much for Monty Panesar and Hoggard.
These are not pleasant times for English cricket but no rash decisions should be made. It took them five years to develop into a good side and it should take more than five weeks of adversity against a great team before they are written off.
Historic humblings: England's worst Ashes defeats
Lost 5-0 (away) 1920-21
Lost 4-0 (home) 1948
Lost 4-0 (a) 1958-59
Lost 4-0 (h) 1989 (six-Test series)
Lost 3-0 (a) 1979-80
Lost 4-1 (a) 1897-98
Lost 4-1 (a) 1901-02
Lost 4-1 (a) 1907-08
Lost 4-1 (a) 1924-25
Lost 4-1 (a) 1950-51
Lost 4-1 (a) 1974 (six Tests)
Lost 4-1 (h) 1993 (six Tests)
LOST 4-1 (h) 2001
Lost 4-1 (a) 2002-03.
How they rated on third day of fourth Test
Andrew Strauss 4
Tried hard but failed again.
Alastair Cook 2
Huge promise but needs to sort out footwork.
Ian Bell 1
Has to become more consistent.
Kevin Pietersen 1
Body language needs to improve. It is not all about him.
Paul Collingwood 2
Never looked capable of saving the game.
Andrew Flintoff 3
It's all getting too much.
Chris Read 5
Took six catches, but is his batting good enough?
Sajid Mahmood 5
Bagged a pair but took four wickets.
Glenn McGrath 6
Upstaged by the other bowlers. But Sydney could provide fitting finale.
Brett Lee 8
Best display of the series.
Shane Warne 7
Not quite the perfect script - but still pretty good.
Stuart Clark 8
His bowling in the series continues to be unerring.
Ricky Ponting 9
Another excellent match for the often maligned captain.
It has to go to Warne. The flipper that trapped Sajid Mahmood leg before was brilliantly thought out and executed.
Andrew Flintoff's slog/sweep at Shane Warne that flew to the deep square-leg boundary for four.
Watching Warne leave the MCG for the final time was an unforgettable and emotional moment. Cricket lovers should enjoy him in Sydney.
England's shortcomings are being exposed by an outstanding Australian team who have made them suffer self-doubt and a feeling of inevitability.
Scoreboard from Melbourne
England won toss, Third day
England - First Innings 159 (A J Strauss 50; S K Warne 5 -39)
Australia - First Innings (Overnight: 372 for 7)
A Symonds c Read b Harmison 156
330 mins, 220 balls, 15 fours, 1 six
+A C Gilchrist c Collingwood b Mahmood 1
10 mins, 8 balls
S K Warne not out 40
75 mins, 54 balls, 6 fours
S R Clark c Read b Mahmood 8
35 mins, 24 balls
G D McGrath c Bell b Mahmood 0
9 mins, 6 balls
Extras (b 0, lb 6, w 1, nb 9, pens 0) 16
Total (508 mins, 108.3 overs) 419
Fall: 1-44 (Langer), 2-44 (Lee), 3-62 (Ponting), 4-79 (Hussey), 5-84 (Clarke), 6-363 (Hayden), 7-365 (Gilchrist), 8-383 (Symonds), 9-417 (Clark), 10-419 (McGrath).
Bowling: Hoggard 21-6-82-1 (nb1) (15-6-47-1 4-0-25-0 2-0-10-0); Flintoff 22-1-77-3 (nb8) (12-1-44-3 5-0-16-0 5-0-17-0); Harmison 28-6-69-2 (10-3-26-1 6-1-17-0 2-0-7-0 10-2-19-1); Mahmood 21.3-1-100-4 (3-1-8-0 2-0-11-0 2-0-10-0 4-0-27-0 10.3-0-44-4); Panesar 12-1-52-0 (3-0-13-0 4-0-23-0 5-1-16-0); Collingwood 3-0-20-0; Pietersen 1-0-13-0 (one spell each).
Progress: Third day: 400: 483 mins, 103.2 overs. Innings closed: 11.30am
Hayden's 50: 173 mins, 101 balls, 6 fours. 100: 276 mins, 170 balls, 11 fours, 1 six. 150: 388 mins, 251 balls, 13 fours, 2 sixes. Symonds 50: 127 mins, 79 balls, 6 fours. 100: 220 mins, 151 balls, 9 fours, 1 six. 150: 287 mins, 205 balls, 15 fours, 1 six.
England - Second Innings
A J Strauss c Gilchrist b Lee 31
173 mins, 107 balls, 2 fours
A N Cook b Clark 20
64 mins, 46 balls, 1 four
I R Bell lbw b McGrath 2
20 mins, 11 balls
K P Pietersen b Clark 1
8 mins, 8 balls
P D Collingwood c Langer b Lee 16
52 mins, 38 balls
*A Flintoff lbw b Clark 25
60 mins, 45 balls, 2 fours
+C M W Read not out 26
127 mins, 77 balls, 1 four
S I Mahmood lbw b Warne 0
4 mins, 2 balls
S J Harmison lbw b Warne 4
44 mins, 26 balls
M S Panesar c Clarke b Lee 14
20 mins, 19 balls, 2 fours
M J Hoggard b Lee 5
21 mins, 20 balls
Extras (b 0, lb 12, w 1, nb 4, pens 0) 17
Total (301 mins, 65.5 overs) 161
Fall: 1-41 (Cook), 2-48 (Bell), 3-49 (Pietersen), 4-75 (Collingwood), 5-90 (Strauss), 6-108 (Flintoff), 7-109 (Mahmood), 8-127 (Harmison), 9-146 (Panesar), 10-161 (Hoggard).
Bowling: Lee 18.5-6-47-4 (nb3) (4-2-10-0 9-2-25-2 5.5-2-12-2); McGrath 12-2-26-1 (w1) (one spell); Clark 16-6-30-3 (nb1) (10-3-19-2 6-3-11-1); Warne 19-3-46-2 (one spell).
Progress: Lunch 28-0 (Strauss 12, Cook 15) 12 overs. 50: 98 mins, 21.2 overs. Tea: 90-4 (Strauss 31, Flintoff 11) 37 overs. 100: 190 mins, 41.1 overs. 150: 288 mins, 62.5 overs. Innings closed 5.44pm.
Australia won by an innings and 99 runs and lead five-match series 4-0.
Umpires: Aleem Dar (Pak) and R E Koertzen (SA).
TV replay umpire: R L Parry
Match referee: R S Madugalle
Man of the match: S K Warne.


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16 thoughts on "Obesity Epidemic Over!"
If Sandy's right (and I know she's read this more carefully than me, since I'm SUPPOSED to be working. On DEADLINE), the headline could even be "Obesity Epidemic Never Really Started!"
Good point, FJ.
I love the part where they say that before 1980 people with a BMI over 40 were non-existent, and now it's "several percent."
Now I never ran around asking people there BMI when I was a child, but I could swear there were very fat people back then who actually existed in the world. Maybe back the it was "few percent" instead of "several percent" like now!
Or maybe "a couple percent."
Or maybe "a couple percent."
Yeah, since I believe "several percent" actually means about 3 percent, in this case, it couldn't have been more than that.
Well, heck, we need to have a party! Can someone bring some of those baby-flavored donuts to the party?
Can someone bring some of those baby-flavored donuts to the party?
I'm on it.
Rose beat me to it. That statement is utter rubbish.
Is this researcher on crack? Hasn't she ever heard of the fat lady at the circus? (I'm not advocating the freakification of the margins, just acknowledging that it exists.) Hasn't she ever seen any movies filmed before 1960? The leads may not have been over 40BMI, but you can't make me believe that Orson Welles, or Alfred Hitchcock, Mae West, W.C. Fields, or Hattie McDaniels (or a whole host of others) weren't. Hasn't she ever looked at historical portraits? Henry Tudor, Queen Victoria, Teddy Roosevelt, Grover Cleveland, most of the early 20th century robber barons, (and a whole host of others) definitely had BMIs of over 40.
It took me maybe 30 seconds to compile that list. Surely if she bothered to actually use her head for something other than a hat rack, she could see how ludicrous that statement is.
Don't forget Cass Elliot and Lowell George!
Did they USE the BMI meme before 1980? If not, that might explain why no one had a BMI of 40. If you don't use that measurement, than people with that measurement don't exist.
I'm at a professional conference (I work in health care) and I decided to attend a session titled (wait for it…) The Obesity Epidemic! OMG – really?
So in the midst of all the blathering about everything you already know and have smacked down (and I'm just sitting there stewing, because I can hear Kate on my shoulder the whole session – a session that would have had me feeling as guilty a sin just a few months ago) the doc admits that the best longitudnal study out there about weight loss shows that only 10% of folks who have lost a significant amount of weight have kept it off for any significant amount of time.
At this point, I perk up and say, "Soooo… if we're in an "epidemic", as you call it, but there's no long term cure for the majority of those affected and everyone involved is losing money and time and self-esteem, have researchers thought that there might be anything else at work here?"
*Chirp chirp chirp*
More blathering about how people who exercise have the best results (duh, exercise is good for everyone) and then quick change the subject. Ahem.
Bogus. As least the doc had the good grace to admit that a 1,000-1,200 calorie diet (what was recommended for weight loss for women) would make anyone batshit insane and calorie counting was counter productive.
Le sigh.
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I can hear Kate on my shoulder the whole session
Javamama, that totally cracked me up. And yay for you speaking up!
Javamama, rooooool. I mean, yeah, the whole thing is beyond silly. So let me see if I grok. "Obesity" is a "disease" that is not communicable in any scientific sense of the word — i.e. you can be in the same room as, talk to, kiss, fuck, blow, breathe the same air as a fat person and not "catch" it — right? We've established the fact that millions of thin people have, er, interacted with us repeatedly for decades on end and not "caught" it — right? And there's also no such thing as building up immunity by "catching" it and then getting over it like the chicken pox, right? Therefore, isolation protocols for "containing" the "disease" will not work.
And there is no known cure that works, either — that is, gets the disease into permanent remission or even any kind of meaningful temporary remission (temporary remission = you don't even have to fucking think about your "disease" for at least a couple of years) — for the vast majority of people who have it. We've established that, too, have we not, once we've ruled out the idea that Don't Eat At All Ever Again Except For A Few Twigs is only a cure in the same sense that getting yourself sawed in half by a buzzsaw is a "cure" for chronic pancreatitis? And that those few who do manage to "cure" their "obesity" permanently don't need a whole cadre of Scientific Types to make it happen, because those chosen few are not programmed to permanently store that much fat and thus can make it all go away with relatively minimal effort? We know all this, don't we?
So what's this silly-ass seminar for again, now?
I was surprised that this was on the front page of today's paper – with the headline above the fold, no less. I guess I've been reading here so long that I forgot that this would be big news to most people who have been bombarded with the "Americans are all becoming obese and gonna die" message. The overall message that I got was that we have little understanding of why some people become obese, and the significance of the demographic data is completely unclear.
I'm relieved to hear that the epidemic is over. I feel thinner already.
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Our September 12 cover story, "The Cruelest Cut," examined the growing controversy over a pet surgery that's common in the U.S. but banned in many other countries -- the declawing of cats. Some veterinarians and anti-cruelty activists would like to see the procedure, which involves removing a section of toe bone as well as the nail, outlawed in Colorado, too. Their campaign gets underway in earnest on September 25, with a special screening of the documentary The Paw Project at the Denver Film Society's Sie FilmCenter.
A decade in the making, The Paw Project focuses on the journey of Jennifer Conrad, an exotic animal vet who started repairing the paws of badly crippled former circus lions and tigers that had been declawed to make them easier to handle, then came to question why American pet owners do the same thing to millions of house cats. Veterinarians often justify the surgery by saying they're saving a cat that would otherwise be abandoned or euthanized because it's scratching the furniture. Conrad and many of the declawing opponents featured in her film contend that declawing is not only a painful and unnecessary surgery but can lead to worse behavior problems, such as biting and refusing to use a litter box, that result in cats being given up anyway.
Vets don't always disclose that the "simple" procedure they're performing on your kitty involves a ten-toe amputation, and Conrad encountered stiff opposition from the state veterinary association when she tried to get declawing banned in several California cities. Her emotional and disturbing film raises questions well beyond the immediate issue. We alter our domesticated beasts in all sorts of ways in the name of convenience, from spaying and neutering to docking tails and breeding designer dogs -- but at what point does a cat stop being a cat? And what is (or should be) the veterinary establishment's role in all this?
The Paw Project screens at the Sie FilmCenter, 2510 East Colfax, at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, September 25, two days before its New York premiere and national release. Conrad, the director and star, will be on hand for a discussion of declawing after the screening, along with local veterinarians Aubrey Lavizzo and Jean Hofve, who also appear in the film and are leading the local campaign to ban the practice. For more information about the screening and to buy tickets, call 720-381-0813. For more information about the Paw Project and its mission, check out its website and the film trailer below.
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Having been deeply impressed recently by the first of Sony's new Bravia LCD range, the KDL-32S2010, we're seriously excited by the arrival of the 40in KDL-40V2000. After all, it's both bigger and even more feature-packed than its already illustrious sibling. So surely it can't possibly go wrong, can it?
It's certainly not been anywhere near the ugly stick, that's for sure. We've seen more overtly glamorous TVs, but there's something impressively serious looking about the Sony's matt black fascia and tough, uncompromising build quality that makes the glamour pusses look rather shallow in comparison.
Since Sony's 'V' models are a step up from the entry-level 'S' model we looked at before, we'd hoped Sony might have upped the 40V2000's HDMI count. But sadly there's still only one. Darn. Just as well some sort of compensation can be found in the presence (among other things) of component video ports, a D-Sub PC input and a CAM slot for adding subscription digital terrestrial services to your channel collection.
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Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was an American writer of novels and short stories, whose works are evocative of the Jazz Age, a term he coined himself. He is widely regarded as one of the twentieth century's great writers. Fitzgerald is considered a member of the "Lost Generation", Americans born in the 1890s who came of age during World War I. He finished four novels, left a fifth unfinished, and wrote dozens of short stories that treat themes of youth and promise , and despair and age .
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"Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
"There are no second acts in American lives."
"Young people do not perceive at once that the giver of wounds is the enemy and the quoted tattle merely the arrow."
"A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big."
"I'll tell you God's truth — Gatsby"
"What realism! Knew when to stop, too — didn't cut the pages. But what do you want? What do you expect?"
"After Gatsby's death the East was haunted for me like that, distorted beyond my eye's power of correction."
"If all your clothes are worn to the same state, it means you go out too much."
"Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement -- discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint."
"To the wingless a more interesting phenomenon is their (W/E Egg) dissimilarity in every particular except shape and size."


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Bristol County Savings Bank, through its charitable foundation, awarded grants totaling $80,000 to 12 Pawtucket-area nonprofit organizations last week during a ceremony at the Pawtucket Country Club on March 30.
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Bank of America Corp. posted a first-quarter profit that missed analysts' estimates as trading and underwriting revenue dropped and energy loans soured.
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U.S. regulators have asked their internal watchdogs to examine how assessments of banks' plans for winding down during a potential bankruptcy ended up in a news article.
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The Washington Trust Co. recently provided $3.1 million to a multitenant-industrial portfolio here, the company announced.
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Bank Rhode Island recently closed an $11.1 million financing deal with Claremont Living LLC to acquire a 90-unit apartment building in Abington, Mass.
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Joseph M. Baptista is the president of Anchor Financial Mortgage Inc. in Pawtucket. The mortgage firm recently partnered with R.I. Housing and its new program, the Ocean State Grad Grant, which is designed to help new graduates purchase homes. He talks with Providence Business News about his firm, the program and the benefits to buying versus renting.
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Monday, November 01, 2010
November already?!
Can't quite get my head around the fact that it's November already... I feel like I am starting to say this every year, but seriously- where has this year gone!! I can't believe the months have flown by so quickly.
But November is quite an exciting month for me.. next weekend I'm off on holiday to Wellington with the husband and friends and then in a few weeks its my second wedding anniversary (speaking of time flying by!) Not to mention an awesome competition I have coming up and soon I will also be able to reveal why I was in Sydney last month.
On another note, is it too soon to start writing my Christmas wishlist?
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Oh I know this month and this year have gone so fast! As you get older the years just go faster (mum always said this but I never believed her haha).
Yes I love the wire but have been a bit out of touch, I think I have watched up to season 3 - the only bad thing about it is the episodes are so long, if we watch one (or two) on a weeknight it causes serious sleep deprivation!
I know, hardly anyone has heard of it! I think we looked for it when obama said it was his favourite show haha. Pretty sure I saw it is screened on SBS here. Weird hey, they have shows that you totally wouldn't expect.
Another really good show that we were hooked on is Breaking Bad, kinda crazy but so good!I couldn't agree more with your year-end sentiments. It seems like with every passing year, I find myself commenting more and more on how fast time goes. I think November is an especially dramatic month because it moves us from mid-year feelings to the end of the year. It's almost December for crying out loud!! Do you think it's strange, too, that it's been a decade since Y2K? We're moving into our second decade of the 21st century!!
ReplyDeleteMaybe I'll bump into you, Wellington's my home town. Hope you have a lovely time.
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Also, I was wondering whether you do any private consulting? I'd be interested in hiring someone like yourself.
I'm not a robot. I'm fully aware of my existence and I have no doubts about reality - it does not exist.
There was a story about this in our newspaper. People come to steal other people's content from blogs and then publish on their own sites.
I'm a little bit eccentric, and sometimes my comments get removed. I just want to add some spark.
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Sears Holding Back Sears Holdings
September 12, 2005
,Hoffman Estates, Ill. — Hobbled by continued poor performance at its recently acquired Sears business, Sears Holdings Inc., parent of the newly combined Kmart and Sears, reported that second quarter profits edged ahead by 4.5 percent, to $161 million from $154 million last year.
But segment sales for each retailer told another story. Sales at the persistently troubled Sears operation declined 3 percent, while same-store sales there tumbled even further, dropping 7.4 percent. Sears U.S. same-store sales were hurt, the company said, by a drive "to improve gross margin by reducing reliance on certain promotional events and reducing inventory levels to lower merchandise holding costs."
Kmart comps, on the other hand, appear to be stabilizing somewhat after a long period of double-digit declines, and a turn-around appeared to be gaining traction in its once-flailing women's apparel business. Kmart said its same-store sales slipped 3.2 percent, a big improvement over drops as steep as 13 percent a year ago. Overall Kmart sales held steady, off 0.3 percent compared with the prior-year quarter. The retailer said Kmart's overall sales were hurt by a lower number of stores. The retailer said, "While Kmart's same-store sales declined as a result of lower transaction volumes, several businesses, including apparel, had positive same-store sales during the period."
Looking at the quarterly results, a heads-on year-over-year comparison is confusing, if not misleading, since this year's numbers measure a newly combined Kmart and Sears against a stand-alone Kmart during 2004. Evening out the playing field, and measuring results on a pro forma basis, as if the companies had been wedded together in both 2004 and 2005, earnings jumped 46.4 percent, to $161 million from $110 million last year, with the Sears operation acting as a drag on a substantially improved and profitable Kmart.
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Qtr. 7/30 (x000) | 2005 | 2004 | % change |
a. First quarter results include sales of the former Sears, Roebuck, acquired on March 25. b. Net income includes: a $4 million gain on the sales of assets, compared with a $72 million year-before gain; a $16 million provision for uncollectible accounts; $42 million in restructuring charges; a $15 million gain stemming from bankruptcy-related recoveries, compared with $5 million a year ago; $2 million in miscellaneous income; and $4 million from the company's minority share in a business venture. c. The decline in per-share earnings reflects a greater number of shares outstanding, 165.1 million, up 62.7 percent from 101.5 million last year. d. Six-month results include sales of the former Sears, Roebuck, acquired on March 25. e. Net income for the first half includes: a $10 million gain on the sale of assets, compared with a $104 million gain during the same period last year; a $17 million provision for uncollectible accounts; a $45 million restructuring charge; a $32 million gain from bankruptcy-related recoveries, compared with $12 million during the prior-year period; $11 million in miscellaneous income, compared with $3 million last year; $7 million from the company's minority share in a business venture; and a $90 million one-time, non-cash charge stemming from a change in accounting. f. The decline in per-share profit reflects a greater number of shares outstanding, 145.4 million, up 43.8 percent from 101.1 million last year. |
Sales | $13,192,000a | $4,797,000 | 175.0 |
Oper. income (EBIT) | 378,000 | 203,00 | 86.2 |
Net income | 161,000b | 154,000b | 4.5 |
Per share (diluted) | 0.98c | 1.54c | –36.4 |
Average gross margin | 27.6% | 24.8% | – |
SG&A expenses | 22.6% | 20.5% | – |
Six months | |||
Sales | 20,818,000d | 9,424,000 | 120.9 |
Oper. income (EBIT) | 527,000 | 336,000 | 56.8 |
Net income | 152,000e | 245,000e | –38.0 |
Per share (diluted) | 1.05f | 2.47f | –57.5 |
Average gross margin | 27.0% | 24.1% | – |
SG&A expenses | 22.6% | 20.5% | – |
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Jewish World Review Sept. 17, 2009 / 28 Elul 5769 Job-Killing Policies Could Doom Democrat Hopes By Michael Barone
http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | "The level of unemployment is unacceptably high. And will, by all forecasts, remain unacceptably high for a number of years." Who do you suppose said that? A Republican political operative? A Fox News political analyst? One of those several hundred thousand Tea Partiers who assembled in Washington on Sept. 12? No, it was Lawrence Summers, the director of Barack Obama's National Economic Council and, by common consent, one of the world's leading economists. Summers made this gloomy forecast in the course of arguing that our economy is headed to "sustained recovery." And while it sounds like self-protective political rhetoric, it is also in line with the thinking of Democratic economists who bemoaned a "jobless recovery" during the first Bush term. They argued then that a variety of factors — big increases in the incomes of high earners, the crowding-out of wage increases by the fast-rising costs of health insurance — prevented the rapid job growth that followed previous recessions. There was something to these arguments. But it's also true that job creation accelerated in 2004 and kept going for another three years. Perhaps, although Democrats would not like to admit it, the Bush economic policies had something to do with that. And perhaps the rather different policies of the Obama administration and the Democratic Congress may help Summers' gloomy predictions come true. Tax policy is one example. The Bush tax cuts are scheduled to expire next year, and the Democratic Congress will surely allow income tax rates on high earners to go up to 39.6 percent again, or even more if it enacts the administration's proposed policy of limiting high earners' charitable deductions. These increases will produce revenue that the government needs to reduce the enormous budget deficit, though surely not as much revenue as static economic models indicate. But they will also depress economic growth to some non-trivial extent, and thereby depress job creation. Then there's trade protectionism. A week ago Friday, late at night, the Obama administration slapped import tariffs on Chinese tires. The Chinese retaliated by imposing tariffs on auto parts and chickens — take that, United Auto Workers and Tyson Foods! Upshot: American consumers will pay more for tires, and auto-parts and chicken-processing jobs will be at risk. And more of that may be in store. "The smell of trade war is suddenly in the air," writes The Wall Street Journal, and Global Trade Alert reports that 130 protectionist measures are ready to be implemented by countries around the world. Are we seeing a repeat of the job-destroying protectionism that followed the Smoot-Hawley tariff of 1930? It's starting to look like it. Then there are the additional burdens on the private-sector economy that would be piled on by the congressional Democrats' health care bills and the cap-and-trade legislation passed by the House in June. In the job boom of the middle years of this decade, these policies looked like something we might be able to afford. They look less like that now. Meanwhile, it's plain that consumers are not going to spend money anytime soon at the rates they did when their house prices were bubbling up and that the $787 billion stimulus package passed last February was not — how to put this? — optimally designed for job creation. The Obama administration, along with the Federal Reserve, deserves credit for stabilizing financial markets. But administration policies have put us on the path to increasing the national debt from 40 percent to about 80 percent of gross domestic product — a level we haven't seen since the years just after World War II. Interest rates are low now, but when they rise it's going to take an uncomfortably large chunk of federal revenues just to service this debt. "After the health care debate ends, and whatever its outcome may be," writes William Galston, deputy domestic adviser in the Clinton White House, "the administration and congressional Democrats would be well advised to turn their attention back to the economy and ask themselves whether there is anything more to be done to jumpstart job creation." Good advice, but why wait? The Office of Management and Budget now projects unemployment at 9.7 percent, the same as last month, in the fourth quarter of 2010, when the off-year elections take place. Maybe the administration and congressional Democrats should consider job-creating rather than job-destroying policies right now. Every weekday JewishWorldReview.com publishes what many in the media and Washington consider "must-reading". Sign up for the daily JWR update. It's free. Just click here. Comment by clicking here.
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A year ago, I spent a week with the IBM PC 5150 to undergo a similar challenge. Unlike the IBM PC, however, the Commodore 64 was not designed as a high-end business machine, making productivity tasks a little harder to pull off.
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text: Classes on ChateauBRAIN GYM -Enrichment exercises to stimulate the brain and muscles, through movement and music.ROUND ROBIN -Your child's entire class switches rooms with another classroom for a 30 minute time period, until all the classrooms are visited. We do this to explore new toys and an new learning environment. (1 x week) BALL CLASS -While seated on large exercise balls, children participate in a group gross motor activity. MAT MAN -Working with wooden lines an curves, children build a "man" to promote body awareness, eye-hand coordination and turn taking. MUSIC -Provided in our classrooms by Christine Brown from Community Music School (1 x week) LIBRARY -We walk to the Snyder Branch Public Library to join in story time. (1 x week) Classroom Songs and ChantsDO YOU KNOW WHAT TIME IT IS?(Sung to tune of Muffin Man) Do you know what time it is? What time it is? What time it is? Do you know what time it is? It is time... (put away the toys) (come to the door) (put on our coats) (go for a walk) TRANSITION SONG (Sung to Farmer in the Dell)We're walking to our room We're walking to our room Hi-Ho the Dairy-oh We're walking to our room HAND WASHING SONG (Sung to Here we go 'round the Mulberry Bush)This is the way we wash our hands Wash our hands, Wash our hands This is the way we wash our hands Before we eat our snack/lunch HELLO SONG (Sung to Twinkle Twinkle Little Star)___(Child's Name)__ came to school today, We're so glad let's shout HURRAY!!! GOODBYE SONG (Sung to Good Night Ladies)Goodbye friends, Goodbye friends, Goodbye friends We'll see you again tomorrow! ALL THE LITTLE FISHIES All the little fishies are swimming in the water,Swimming in the water, Swimming in the water, All the little fishies are swimming in the water, Bubble, Bubble, Bubble, Bubble POP!!!! TWO LITTLE APPLES (Spoken as a chant)Way up high in an apple tree Two little apples smiled at me I shook that tree as hard as I could Down came the apples, MMMMMMMMM, they were good! LEAVES (Sung to London Bridge)All the leaves are falling down, Falling Down, Falling Down, All the leaves are falling down, Red, yellow, orange and brown! FIVE LITTLE PUMPKINS! (Spoken as a chant)Five little pumpkins sitting on a gate, The 1st one said "Oh My, it's getting late!" The 2nd one said "There's dark clouds in the air." The 3rd one said "We don't care!" The 4th one said "Let's run, run, run!" The 5th one said "It's Halloween fun!" Then WHOOOOO went the wind, and Out went the lights, and Five little pumpkins rolled out of sight! GRIZZLY BEAR (Spoken as a chant, and acted out by children)Grizzly bear, oh grizzly bear, is sleeping in his cave Please be very quiet, very, very quiet If you shake him, if you wake him He'll get very mad!!! Actions: Children act as if they are sleeping on the floor Someone disturbs the sleeping bears by tapping their backs "Bears" wake up and growl fiercely and loudly...very fun! |


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Kingdom | Phylum | Class | Order | Family |
Animalia | Chordata | Mammalia | Rodentia | Spalacidae |
Scientific Name: | Rhizomys sinensis | |||
Species Authority: | Gray, 1831 | |||
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Taxonomic Notes: | This is generally considered to be a species complex, which possibly contains a number of restricted range species (K. Aplin, D. Lunde and G. Musser pers. comm.). |
Red List Category & Criteria: | Least Concern ver 3.1 |
Year Published: | 2016 |
Date Assessed: | 2016-08-27 |
Assessor(s): | Lunde, D., Aplin, K. & Musser, G. |
Reviewer(s): | Amori, G. |
Justification: Listed as Least Concern because it is very widespread, has a presumed large population, and its populations are not declining fast enough to qualify for listing in a more threatened category. This is a species complex that will need to be reevaluated for conservation status once resolved. |
Previously published Red List assessments: |
Range Description: | This species is found in southern China, northern Myanmar, and northern Viet Nam (Thorington and Hoffmann 2005). It may be present in Lao PDR, however, the range in this country needs to be confirmed. Allen (1938) gave the elevational range of this species as 1,219-3,962 m asl. | ||||
Countries occurrence: | Native: China (Anhui, Fujian, Gansu, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan, Zhejiang); Myanmar; Viet Nam | ||||
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Range Map: | Click here to open the map viewer and explore range. |
Population: | It is common in some parts of its range, for instance it is considered to be a plantation crop pest species in China (Ken Aplin pers. comm.). | ||
Current Population Trend: | Unknown | ||
Additional data: |
Habitat and Ecology: | This species may be largely confined to the bamboo belt of montane forest (Lunde et al. 2006). It has been recorded from plantations in some parts of its range. It is a burrow-dwelling species (Smith and Xie 2008). Predators include the red panda (MacClintock 1988) and the snow leopard (Johnson et al. 1993). It has moderate tolerance to human disturbance (Lunde et al. 2006). |
Systems: | Terrestrial |
Generation Length (years): | 2 |
Use and Trade: | Hunted for food. |
Major Threat(s): | The species is heavily harvested for food in some parts of its range. |
Conservation Actions: | This species occurs in Niumulin, Wuyishan, Nanling, Heishidingkuoyelin, Dayaoshanshuiyuanlin (Guangxi), Daozhendashahe, Xishuizhongyaredaisenlin, Fanjingshan (Guizhou), Maolan, Shennongjia, Houhe, Taoyuandong, Dongdongtinghu (Hunan), Mangshan, Poyanghuhouniao, Yanquan, Taohongling, Jinggangshan, Taibaishan, Foping, Wanglang, Wolong, Jinfoshan, Ailaoshan, Changshanerhai, Tongbiguan, Wawushan, Nandongtihu Shidi and Shuiqin, Xiaoxi, Meihualutiebu, Nanjingnanyaredaiyulin (CSIS 2008), and Jiuzhaigou National Nature Reserves (Liu et al. 2005) and may be present in additional protected areas. Further studies are needed into the distribution, taxonomy, and impacts of exploitation on the population. In China, this species has been regionally Red Listed as Least Concern (Wang and Xie 2004). |
Citation: | Lunde, D., Aplin, K. & Musser, G. 2016. Rhizomys sinensis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T19646A22275131. . Downloaded on 30 March 2017. |
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