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It's a lingering fear of deflation (the inability of businesses to raise prices) that prompts the U.S. Federal Reserve and its global central bank counterparts to keep interest rates pinned at historic lows, for an historic length of time. Eventually, policymakers will have to move from this stance.
For those at the economic controls and the investors trying to anticipate what's next, timing can be everything. Inflation can stymie a recovery and once it has crept in, it can be hard to squeeze out.
[See What Could Go Right (and Wrong) for the Economy in 2012.]
Buying a little inflation protection for individual portfolios may not be the cheapest insurance policy right now. Nonetheless, it's insurance some believe is crucial.
Portfolio managers Cohen & Steers launched a diversified real assets strategy earlier this year. They feel inflation is destined to move higher due to aggressive global monetary stimulus, growth in emerging markets, and barriers to production of key natural and agricultural resources. Yigal Jhirad, a senior portfolio manager at the firm, suggests a 10 percent to 20 percent portfolio slice be dedicated to inflation-fighting real assets, depending on an investor's risk profile, investment goals, and other factors.
Sure, folding in commodities and real estate exposure can insulate a portfolio against inflation, but proponents argue that there's an added benefit: Real assets have had a solid track record of historical returns and they provide diversification that's noncorrelated to stocks, which can potentially maximize overall performance. They can also fold in global economic exposure without the risk and cost of direct investment in overseas stocks.
Over the past few years, prices for commodities like gold, energy, and agricultural products have moved sharply higher. Some observers see this as a harbinger of greater inflation to come; others dismiss the rise as more transitory. They believe the spike simply drives prices out of reach.
Said Cohen & Steers in a recent investor publication: "This latter view is supported by an overhang of slowing economic growth, as developed markets work through a variety of debt and fiscal challenges. But it is not supported by the everyday experience of the American consumer, saddled with rising prices for food and energy."
[See 3 Investments to Fight Inflation.]
Investors are bombarded with a mixed message about economic risks, especially in the near- to medium-term.
Data from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, which regulates futures trading on commodities, showed that hedge funds and other large money managers scaled back bullish positioning in commodities in late March. The Standard & Poor's GSCI Spot Index of 24 raw materials fell more than 2 percent as March came to a close, trimming its advance so far this year to 6.8 percent. Goldman Sachs cut its three-month commodities recommendation in a note dated March 28, saying targets had been met and warning that the global economy will soften in the near term. Societe Generale and other investment banks have issued research notes warning about stalling Chinese corporate profits. European debt rescue efforts continue.
Goldman Sachs does maintain its call for higher gold and raw materials prices over time. While raw materials may drop or be little changed in the near term, they will probably gain 10 percent over the next 12 months, the analysts said in the research note. Goldman's target for crude oil is $123.50 a barrel, 20 percent higher than where it stood March 30. Gold may reach $1,940 an ounce, up 16 percent.
Then the Fed weighs in, again: "Inflation has been subdued in recent months although prices of crude oil and gasoline have increased lately," the Federal Open Market Committee said in a statement following a March 13 meeting. Oil will "push up inflation temporarily, but the committee anticipates that subsequently inflation will run at or below the rate that it judges most consistent with its dual mandate" of stable prices and maximum employment.
Investors must sift through the short-term noise and ask themselves some hard questions about inflation risk.
Five themes drive the Cohen & Steers investing position:
-- The consumer price index (CPI), the commonly used benchmark, misses some key portions of the overall economy. CPI rose 0.4 percent in February due to a jump in gasoline prices, a figure in line with estimates. The core rate (excluding food and energy) rose a less-than-expected 0.1 percent. Cohen & Steers says the true rate of inflation is likely better reflected by adding 400 basis points to the CPI.
-- Emerging market commodity consumption is not given enough weight in the global inflation picture. Emerging markets' share of the global economy is some 40 percent, up from 20 percent just 10 years ago
-- Changing macroeconomic conditions and pricing uncertainty in the current climate demand greater portfolio diversification
-- Tangible assets including commodities, natural resource equities, and real estate should form the core of a diversified real assets strategy. Treasury Inflation Protected Securities (TIPs), partly because of their CPI link, don't offer enough protection
-- Global interconnectedness will speed the transfer of inflation.
[See ETF Basics: How to Invest in Commodities.]
Get real with REITs. One way to add a "real" component to your portfolio is through land, a finite investment. Investors who don't want the responsibility of physical property ownership may opt to gain exposure through real estate investment trusts (REITs). Tax-law changes hit this sector a few years ago but their popularity, in large part because of their dividend attributes, is on the rise again. REITs are typically most effective in tax-advantaged accounts such as IRAs or 401(k)s where their nonqualified dividends are shielded from Uncle Sam.
Importantly, as the 2008 crash showed, correlation between REITs and stocks has narrowed. But they may still hold an important role in diversification (not to mention income generation), according to Morningstar's Adam Zoll.
The industry trade group National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts (NAREIT) claims that a hypothetical portfolio consisting of 50 percent core funds, 30 percent REITs, and 20 percent opportunity funds would have delivered 10 to 20 percent average annual returns in nearly 60 percent of rolling five-year holding periods over the past 22 years through last year. In the remaining 40 percent of rolling five-year holding periods, this portfolio would have produced single-digit annual returns.
Critics say there can be shorter-term negatives that can damage portfolios. For instance, REITs typically work as an inflation hedge only when property markets are in balance. Supply overhang of commercial properties can reduce the effectiveness of REITs as an inflation hedge. Large periods of capital market investment are often followed by excess supply and idle properties. Investors are wise to distinguish between their longer-term inflation hedging needs and their shorter-term needs.
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At their peak in the trompe l'oeil (fool the eye) still life period of the late 1800s and very early 1900s, the works of artists like Frederick Peto and William Harnett were immensely popular. During this, the Victorian era, there was something of a competitive quality that marked these still-life halcyon days. Artists played lively games with their viewers, trying to trick them into believing, for at least a moment, that their still-lifes were the "real thing" and trying to spark feelings of awe at their skill with the painted image. Today all this is barely moment remembered in art history. What has changed? The camera? The level of viewing sophistication of the public? The public attention span? Tastes? Material values? Is the still life so hopelessly old-fashioned that nothing can be done to revive its popularity? I wish I knew the answers.
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Investing in women farmers could reduce the number of hungry people in the world by 100 to 150 million people. That was one of many insights which emerged at the launch of a joint project to empower farmers in seven different countries on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York.
NEW YORK—Rural women farmers are the key to building a more food security world, underlined WFP Executive Director Ertharin Cousin at the New York launch of a joint project to empower women farmers around the world.
"What we are doing as the four agencies", explained Cousin, "is committing to cooperate for action and change on the ground. It's not about building new architecture, new structures, new global programs; it's about new and more action—and more outcomes—for the benefit of women on the ground".
WFP at the UN General Assembly: Highlights
WFP's Executive Director Ertharin Cousin is in New York this week, taking part in a range of hunger-related events in and around the UN General Assembly. Find out about the higlights.
The initiative brings together WFP, UN Women, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) to put women in the driver's seat of food security in their communities.
Accelerating progress
The project, called "Accelerating Progress Towards the Economic Empowerment of Rural Women", aims to improve food security and nutrition for women farmers while helping them boost their income through advanced farming techniques.
"When women are empowered and can claim their rights and access to land, leadership, opportunities and choices, economies grow, food security is enhanced and prospects are improved for current and future generations", said Michelle Bachelet, Under Secretary General and UN Women Executive Director.
The initiative counts on the support of governments such as Brazil, Canada, Liberia and the Netherlands. Women in seven countries--Ethiopia, Guatemala, Kyrgyzstan, Liberia, Nepal, Niger and Rwanda--will be the first to benefit.
Increasing opportunities
Women are responsible for half of the world's food production. As a result of limited resources such as land, finance, credits and technology, however, women in rural communities often have markedly limited opportunities.
Increases in income, and overall improvements in women's lives have an immediate positive impact on the well-being of household and community members, and on the nutritional well-being of children.


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The devastating earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan on March 11 left hundreds of thousands of families homeless, and hundreds of children orphaned.
Following this disaster, ChildFund Japan, with the help of child sponsors and other ChildFund Alliance members – including ChildFund International, was able to quickly create an emergency and reconstruction plan to help the hard-hit community of Ofunato, located in the Iwate jurisdiction.
Response included the delivery of emergency goods, psychological care and grief workshops and other community development projects. ChildFund Japan soon became a lead agency supporting children with counselling services to address the psychological effects of the tsunami and the loss of family members.
Last summer, local government officials asked ChildFund Japan to help build a sense of community in the temporary housing units where many displaced families were living in Ofunato. The goal was to create a space where residents could gather, have tea and socialize, with the key message being: We are with you! You are not alone!
Volunteers from the local university joined carpenters and community members to build colorful benches and tables to serve as a meeting place for the residents. Shortly thereafter, preparations began for a summer festival. Five months after the tsunami, residents were able to find enjoyment in socializing with their new neighbors and reconnecting with community.
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STATESBORO, Ga. (AP) - J.R. Revere ran for 148 yards and two touchdowns and passed for another as Georgia Southern clinched its fourth consecutive Southern Conference crown with a 42-7 victory over East Tennessee State.
Revere scored on runs of 32 and 6 yards in the second quarter and connected with Chris Johnson on a 48-yard scoring pass in the third period.
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Oh Honey's 'Be Okay' is On Repeat for JJ Music Monday!
Oh Honey's catchy song "Be Okay" is this week's pick for the JustJared.com and KIIS-FM 102.7's JJ Music Monday.
The song was released late last year, but it is first making its way onto the radio scene and we expect it to be a hot summer song. We've had it on repeat all day!
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THE WHIRLWIND IN THE CHINA APPAREL MARKET: In the last decade, expanding in China was an easy ride with high sales growth driven by store expansion and same store sales increase ... but that is about to change.
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People like NerdJerk would fit in, though she is incredible on her own. Check out her Etsy shop. It makes me so happy.
Anywho, the last few weeks have been absolutely nutty for me. I'm not even sure where the time went. I'm pretty sure I went to sleep on January 10th and woke up this morning.
Went back to work at the Thrift Shop after a lovely three week holiday for Christmas/New Years. The place was packed, like, overflowing-got-in-trouble-with-the-fire-chief packed. And by "got in trouble" I mean we had a four page write up that could potentially shut us down. I don't think we will be, but it was still one of those "eeek!" moments.
Luckily my manager is really dedicated and spent a lot of time cleaning it all up. Potential melt down averted. I'll admit that I've been feeling a little distant from the store lately. It's like I'm just not as invested in it as I was when I first volunteered. Of course that was over a year ago and I honestly thought I would have a paying job by now, but I know the others depend on me.
So within the next two weeks of opening I had a slew of doctors appointments and writing critiques and a few other extras that I'll discuss shortly. The biggest issue was this stupid new medication that my doctor had me try out for a month. I started just before Christmas and went until about a week and a half ago before I was able to switch to something else. The stupid stuff caused insomnia, but not even the good kind where you get up and are productive in the odd hours of the night. I was still exhausted but I just couldn't sleep! It was infuriating. I wasn't a very happy person to be around for those few weeks. Now I'm on something else and this last week I took off from the Thrift Store and I've been sleeping... a lot...and it's fantastic.
As with everyone's life there are a multitude of other things going on. I've started running a couple times a week in the morning with a friend of mine. Then I joined her gym so we could go to fitness classes together earlier this week. Since Monday I've gone to ten hour long classes, go me!
The writing contest that I've been working towards opened late Sunday night. I sat in a quivering ball of anxiety while the minutes ticked down. I had my husband come and double check everything while I entered. He's surprisingly good at dealing with my eccentricities. Now my entry is in and I get to wait until Feb 23rd to find out if I passed the first round. I've never worked so hard on my writing as I have for this contest, so I hope I at LEAST pass the first round. Four out of five entries will be cut first thing, so keep your fingers crossed for me.
Alright, now that I've bored you with my life let's look at the one thing I've managed to crochet in the last three weeks.
My grandmother gave me a skein of pale yellow for Christmas...but I'm actually not too fond of pale colors so I made her a cowl with it.
I don't know why I've been on a cowl kick lately, but they're fun and require almost no thought.
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If you're a sweaty beast like Travis, you know how difficult it is keeping your hands dry when you're at the computer. Lucky enough for you, someone's come up with a way to make an aerated mousepad for only $35 and some material.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Former Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates has a title and release date for his memoir.
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Cup of Cheer: 10 Festive Punch Recipes
What is it about a holiday party that begs for a big, beautiful bowl of punch in the middle of the festivities? From sparkling blood orange punch to a Guinness-and-rum concoction inspired by warm gingerbread, these 10 punch recipes will keep you merry and bright throughout the holiday season.
• 1 Wassail Punch: A warm mug of spiced apple cider spiked with whiskey is just the thing for a chilly winter gathering.
• 2 Mardi Gras Milk Punch: A not-too-boozy, not-too-sweet bourbon punch perfect for a holiday brunch.
• 3 Easy Mulled Wine: An easy, flexible recipe for a wintertime crowd-pleaser.
• 4 Spiced Persimmon Punch at Gilt Taste: Persimmons, allspice and star anise steeped in brandy make the base for this unusual punch.
• 5 Blood-Orange Punch at Martha Stewart: Blood orange juice gives this rum punch a gorgeous crimson color.
• 6 The Long Hello at Bon Appetit: Apple brandy, St-Germaine, Champagne and bitters make a simple but luxurious punch.
• 7 Tenant's Harbor Punch at Fine Cooking: This intriguing punch combines off-dry white wine with caraway-flavored aquavit.
• 8 Mother's Ruin Punch at Food & Wine: A gin and grapefruit punch named after the old British slang for gin.
• 9 Fish House Punch at Gourmet: Party like a Founding Father! This potent punch is said to have been concocted in 1732 at a Philadelphia gentlemen's society called The Fish House.
• 10 Hot Gingerbread Punch at Bon Appetit: Guinness stout, dark rum, fresh ginger and lots of warm spices mimic the flavor of a favorite holiday treat.
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LOS ANGELES - The road has not been friendly to UC Santa Barbara this year and on Saturday night, the Gauchos' road struggles continued in a 77-60 loss at Loyola Marymount. The loss was UCSB's third in a row.
The Gauchos jumped-out to an 18-11 lead with 11 minutes remaining in the first half, but then they went ice cold. LMU outscored UCSB 27-6 the remainder of the half to take a commanding 38-24 halftime edge. The Gauchos made just 8-of-30 shots in the first 20 minutes, a miserable 26.7%. The Lions, who had shooting problems of their own in the early going, finished the half at 13-for-29, 44.8%.
UCSB jumped out of the blocks quickly in the second half as senior guard Josh Davis scored the first four points, two from the free throw line and two more on a lay-up after a nice feed by sophomore forward Chris Devine. But with the score 38-28, LMU went on another run, this one was 16-4, to claim an insurmountable 22-point lead, 54-32. The Gauchos never pulled closer than 17 the rest of the way.
Although UCSB finished the game at 37.5% from the floor, many of its successful shots came in the final minutes with the game long-since decided.
LMU was led by forward Matthew Knight who had 20 points and 12 rebounds. Guard Jon Ziri, who entered the game with just three three-point baskets on the season, scored 16 points and made 4-of-8 shots from three-point range. He made three of his three-point baskets in the decisive first half. Overall, the Lions made a season-high nine three-point shots.
The Gauchos were paced by Alex Harris who finished with 15 points and five rebounds. Devine and Davis each tallied 13 points and Cecil Brown had 10. Devine, Davis and Brown combined to make 14-of-20 shots, 70.0%, but he rest of the team made just 7-of-36, 19.0%. Devine added six rebounds to lead UCSB. Santa Barbara was also outrebounded on the night, 44-35, and it had just six assists to go with 17 turnovers.
The Gauchos will return to action on Wednesday, Dec. 7, when they host Pepperdine at 7:00 p.m. in the Thunderdome. UCSB is 2-0 in home games this season.


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Ovechkin powers Capitals past Panthersby Alain Poupart
SUNRISE, Fla. — Alex Ovechkin's scoring surge continued Saturday night, but the Washington Capitals almost let his work go to waste.
Ovechkin had three goals and an assist to help the Capitals build a 4-0 lead, then had to hold off a three-goal third period by the Florida Panthers to win 4-3 at BB&T Center.
Ovechkin's 12th career hat trick gave him 13 goals in 13 games, and after a slow start he is now tied for second in the NHL with 23 goals, only two behind Steven Stamkos of the Tampa Bay Lightning.
"He brings us energy," goaltender Braden Holtby said. "He's doing what we expect him to do. That's the player we expect out of him, and he's doing a great job of it.
"Maybe it's a confidence thing, who knows. But you can tell he's back to peak form. This is the way he played when he got himself his name. It's fun to watch."
The Panthers didn't enjoy any of it. In fact, they have to be glad that Ovechkin and the Capitals won't be division opponents after this season.
While helping Washington sweep the four-game series against Florida this season by a combined score of 22-8, Ovechkin had six goals and four assists. That gave him 61 points in 47 career games against Florida.
Mike Ribeiro added a goal and an assist and Nicklas Backstrom had three assists for the Capitals, who have beaten Florida seven consecutive times dating back to last season.
"They've had their struggles, too, but for some reason they play us really well or we don't play very well against them," Panthers defenseman Brian Campbell said. "You have to find a way against a team like that and pay more attention to detail.
"I don't know what our record is in their building the last couple of years or even in Panthers history, but I'm sure it's time for them to move on."
The victory kept Washington atop the Southeast Division standings. The Capitals and the Winnipeg Jets, 4-1 winners against the Philadelphia Flyers Saturday, both have 40 points but Washington has two games in hand.
Washington is 7-1-1 in its past nine games.
"We play our way," Ovechkin said. "When everybody gets into the play and everybody plays hard and plays simple, it's going to work, especially with the kind of opportunities we had on the power play."
Holtby made 25 saves but had to survive a third-period rally that saw the Panthers get within a goal with 32.7 seconds left.
The Panthers saw their longest winning streak of the season snapped at three games, but not without mounting a valiant comeback effort after trailing 4-0 heading into the third period.
"We played a good first 45 minutes, then we relaxed a little bit," Backstrom said. "Obviously you don't want to see that happen. You've got to learn how to play better than we did the last period. We're happy with two points tonight, but we're not happy the way we ended the game."
Tomas Kopecky scored his 14th and 15th goals of the season for Florida, as he passed Shawn Matthias for the team lead. Peter Mueller had the other Panthers goal.
Jacob Markstrom got the start in net for Florida for the sixth consecutive game, but he struggled again against Washington. Markstrom was pulled after Ovechkin's third goal made it 4-0 at 14:22 of the second period, although he was reinserted during a TV timeout 52 seconds later.
Markstrom ended with 27 saves.
In a March 7 game at Washington, Markstrom was pulled in a 7-1 loss after allowing two goals on the Capitals' first two shots.
Panthers coach Kevin Dineen criticized Markstrom's lack of preparation after that game in Washington. That wasn't the case Saturday.
"The game had nothing to do with the way Marky was playing," Dineen said. "You get down four goals, I feel we have some belief and I think he needed a little break from the net and we needed to take a breath. That was the extent of it."
Nick Bjugstad, one of Florida's three first-round picks in the 2010 draft, made his NHL debut three days after signing an entry-level contract. Bjugstad had a quiet night, although he did have a good scoring opportunity on a wraparound in the second period.
"I was both excited and nervous, but as the game went on I felt a little more comfortable," said Bjugstad, who had 13:04 of ice time and was credited with one shot. "It was good to get the first game under my belt and hopefully I can build off that."
The game was scoreless until late in the first period when Florida defenseman Erik Gudbranson was assessed a five-minute major and a game misconduct for boarding Martin Erat.
Erat, acquired by the Capitals from the Nashville Predators at the trade deadline on Wednesday, sustained a lower-body injury on the play and did not return. Capitals coach Adam Oates said after the game that Erat would be evaluated Sunday morning but added that the injury didn't look serious enough to force Erat to miss many games.
Washington, which came in with the best power play in the NHL, took advantage against the worst penalty-killing team in the League.
Ovechkin scored his first goal at 15:45 of the first off a tic-tac-toe passing play from Backstrom to Ribeiro at the side of the net and across the crease to Ovechkin for the one-timer.
It was the first of three power-play goals for the Capitals.
Dineen took the blame for the second, Ribeiro's goal 43 seconds into the second period.
After Gudbranson was ejected from the game for the hit on Erat, the Panthers neglected to put anyone in the penalty box to serve his major penalty. So when that penalty expired during play with 23 seconds left in the first period — after Florida had killed off the last 3:52 — the Panthers were not allowed to send a fifth skater onto the ice until a whistle. That whistle came when Quinton Howden was called for hooking at 19:55.
"I made a huge mistake," Dineen said. "It gets hung on me. Really, the game gets hung on me. I didn't put a guy in the penalty box, the penalty expires, we have nobody to come out of the box, so we're still short and we ended up taking another one, [and] they scored one at the beginning of the second. Bad coaching error by me."
Ovechkin's third goal also came on the power play and was identical to his first, except that it was Marcus Johansson who took the pass from Backstrom and fed Ovechkin.
Ovechkin's second goal, which made it 3-0 at 2:24 of the second period, was his most spectacular. After losing control of the puck to his right while attempting to deke defenseman Filip Kuba, Ovechkin lifted Kuba's stick from behind, grabbed the puck and fired a quick wrist over the left shoulder of Markstrom.
"The game went downhill in the second; that was our fault," Matthias said. "You can't blame the refs for that or anything. We didn't play well in the second and that's what cost us the game."


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Tight At The Top In Talamone
7 June 2014
Talamone, Italy - Expectations were high on the second day of racing in Talamone at the 2014 Melges 32 Audi-Tron Sailing Series. Despite the challenging sailing conditions (6-10 knots of breeze and flat water) the Race Committee rolled out three more races with Roberto Tomasini Grinover's Robertissima maintaining his overall lead from Day One, extending by four additional points.
As for the rest of the scoreboard, everything changed and in some cases quite drastically. For example, relatively new fleetcomer Arturo di Lorenzo aboard Malafemmena was fifth overall after the first day of racing. Now, with discards in play and a phenomenal performance on the water (4-2-3), di Lorenzo claims second place overall, a simple, anything-but-impossible six points behind Tomasini Grinover.
Keeping things super tight in points are Mauro Mocchegiani on Fratelli Giacomel Audi e-Tron and Alessandro Rombelli's Azimut by STIG in third and fourth overall respectively tied with twenty-three points each. In fifth, one point further back is another fleet newbie — Fritz Homann on Wilma.
Sunday, the final day of racing in Talamone is set to be nothing short of spectacular as the stakes are high and with the last two races scheduled — it is truly a final opportunity for teams to make their move in an effort to secure a podium position.
As with other Melges 32 events in Europe and around the world, racing updates will be posted online at the Official Audi Melges 32 Facebook Page. Tune in for the latest racing information, results, video interviews, and photos. Race reports, press releases and photos will be available online each day post racing at melges32.com.
TOP FIVE RESULTS (After Six Races, One Discard)
1.) Roberto Tomasini Grinover/Vasco Vascotto, Robertissima; 1-2-4-1-[8]-8 = 16
2.) Arturo Di Lorenzo/Matteo Ivaldi, Malafemmena; [10]-10-3- 4-2-3 = 22
3.) Mauro Mocchegiani/Branko Brcin, Fratelli Giacomel Audi e-Tron; 2-[14]-8-7-1-5 = 23
4.) Alessandro Rombelli/Freddy Loof, Azimut by STIG; 4-[11]-10-3-5-1 = 23
5.) Fritz Homann/Nicola Celon, Wilma; [15]-3-7-5-7-2 = 24
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This post is the 4th in a series.
The others are:
- Should Small Business being getting excited about QR Codes?
- Kate Plus 8
- AT&T get not talked about in Huffington Post blog that zzzzzzzzz
They are part of an SEO experiment. I love being in the lab, it's the best part of SEO I think, tinkering in the lab with stuff and discovering what happens if you put this and this together and give it a twist of this.
So, three posts, pulled from topical news from my feed reader. Written quickly and with a conversational style. Giving useful, actionable information and mostly focussed on SEO, social media or tech.
Pluck out a newsy topic, write some stuff quickly and then publish. It's actually a quite common technique which focusses on the power of the title tag and the authority of a website/blog. These terms are topical and so get searched for, although it's mostly used by sites who make money from displaying adverts but it can be useful for other business models.
The trick is, you have to write well and have an attractive style. You also have to know a little about what you're talking about. Not a lot, it doesn't have to have depth, but it needs to have a wide surface area and you need to know how to communicate that in a way that is pithy and makes sense.
Oh yeah, it also helps with your writing if you know a few uncommon words which you can include here and there, it makes people think you are more brainy than you actually are. I'm a lover of words and have a book shelf full of books on words, so it flows out when I need it.
How does this help you if you have an affiliate blog selling model trains online?
Best to outsource if this to your team members. What do you mean you don't have a team and you do everything on your own? Hmmm, that's for another post.
Hire poets to write your blog posts, they are the fastest and most exciting bloggers, if you can get them to stop smoking weed for a few mins. Don't hire copywriters, the art of the word is beaten out of these people from birth. You want to rise above the swamp, not add to its moist, fecund mass.
And there is another reason for this series, I love to write this kinda stuff.
And you really should do what you love.


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Where technology meets language teaching: asynchronous on-line Hawaiian language course offered
UH Hilo Home > News and Events > UH Hilo Press Releases
Date: Wednesday, August 21, 2002
Contact: Dr. Margaret Haig, (808) 974-7664
For Immediate Release
"I can't wait to begin learning the Hawaiian language," says a student from Virginia. "My family is from Kane`ohe but there are three generations of us living in metropolitan Washington, D.C.: my mother; me and my daughter. We all are taking classes in the fall. We can't live and work in Hawai`i but we are Hawaiian and proud of it".
The first Web-based Hawaiian language course is being offered in a pilot program this fall to students registering through the University of Hawai`i at Hilo's College of Continuing Education and Community Service. Dr. Kalena Silva, director of Ka Haka `Ula O Ke`elikolani College of Hawaiian Language, is teaching the first Hawaiian language instruction via the Internet, with the same curriculum as the UH Hilo campus, Hawaiian 10l, adapted for use in this new teaching medium. The lessons used in this first class are derived from the textbook, Na Kai `Ewalu, written by Dr. Pila Wilson and Kauanoe Kamana of Ka Haka `Ula O Ke`elikolani College of Hawaiian Language. The whole course, including vocabulary lists, explanatory text, exercises, and quizzes, are available on the Web, alleviating the need for a hardcopy textbook.
The eventual aim is to provide students around the world with access to the Hawaiian language through an academic institution or an individual instruction basis. Thus far, inquiries are flooding the campus from expatriate Hawaiians in many different parts of the mainland, including members of many hula schools, Hawaiian interest groups, and Kamehameha Schools alumni.
The project arose from a five-year federally-funded Title III grant and a collaboration with Ka Haka `Ula o Ke`elikolani College of Hawaiian Language. Plans are to offer Hawaiian 101, 102, 201 and 202 on-line in successive semesters and to expand offerings to individuals and students at other academic institutions, such as the University of Washington, which has expressed serious interest in receiving the course for students there.
The technology to make teaching the Hawaiian language on the Internet possible depended on interesting applications of computer programming. According to Title III Computer Specialist and Ke`elikolani College M.A.
student Keola Donaghy, "During the development of these classes we learned of an interactive Java technology which not only allows students to listen to prerecorded audio samples, but allows them to interact with the
instructor and classmates via an audio discussion board. There is also a pronunciation comparison applet which allows students to record their own pronunciation of words, phrases and complete sentences and compare them to a prerecorded example."
The three Java applets, which Donaghy adapted from this technology, are called Ho`olohe (listen), Ho`ohalikelike (compare), and Kukakuka (discuss). While the audio recording and feedback sessions are not real-time, they provide students with opportunities to increase their verbal skills in Hawaiian.
Revitalizing indigenous peoples' languages is an area of interest for UH Hilo outlined in the strategic plan and strategic initiatives.
Disclaimer: The University of Hawaii at Hilo is not responsible for the contents, links and/or materials presented in any web site listed above that are not of the "hilo.hawaii.edu" or ".uhh.hawaii.edu" domains. All comments, complaints and grievances should be filed with the author, host and/or owner of said site.


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Sept. 9, 2006
JAMAICA PLAIN, Mass. - Freshman Maria Monks took top honors in her first collegiate race, finishing first overall in the Engineer's Cup at famed Franklin Park. Monks' first-place effort paced the women's cross country team to its fifth straight victory at Tech's annual season-opener against NEWMAC rival WPI and RPI.
Monks trumped a great effort by RPI's second-place finisher Cathy Malloy, completing the tough 5K with a modest clip of 19:28 en route to the individual win. Fellow rookie Jacqui Wentz finished third for the Tech harriers in 19:49, while sophomore Jennifer Doyle also clipped the 20-minute barrier in a fourth-place effort.
RPI grabbed the fifth spot after which MIT finished sixth through ninth to seal the team victory. The Cardinal and Gray closed with 21 points to easily out distance RPI's total of 46 and WPI's final count of 72.


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Golden Chinese oil splurge to shoot up Gold price?
ArabianMoney is not convinced either that the Iranian oil embargo will go ahead or that spiking the gold price at this point is in China's best interests as the world's biggest holder of dollar reserves
Legendary gold trade Jim Sinclair is seriously suggesting that gold could spike to $3,000 in a short squeeze because of the Chinese decision to pay for oil in gold bullion. Basically there will be a sudden demand for physical gold that cannot be met and short sellers will be forced to cover and buy gold at higher prices.
He told King World News: 'You have seen in the last month, a phenomena. If you have eyes in your head, you have to know when the gold banks enter into the gold market, offering more for sale than would be mined in the next five years, they are not in there to sell anything. They are in there to manipulate the price.
Central banks buy gold
'Well, we've seen some V-bottoms during daily operations, where they (manipulators) have forced gold (down) and it just snapped right back. There is no question, it is a matter of record, that multiple central banks around the world have been large buyers of a significant amount of gold in the last two months.
'As the paper speculators attempt to manipulate the price lower, they have run into the physical buyer who won't let the physical market follow the paper market. Who is giving gold a chance here? Who's talking positively about gold, except a very few?'
Mr. Sinclair is of course among the very few who understand what is going on here and do give gold a chance. And even his words of wisdom can be somewhat opaque to those who do not follow the gold market on a regular basis.
Big 'if'
This latest pronouncement is still based on a big 'if'. For we cannot be sure that China will actually use bullion to buy oil from Iran. The EU may well not impose its oil buying embargo on Iran this summer if it gets material progress in talks on Iran's nuclear program, and that looked a bit more likely last week.
Then again a switch out of the dollar to buy oil and into a commodity that is a currency is a fairly natural step in the current environment of global money printing. Basically the holders of two commodities are organizing a barter trade to avoid currency risk.
This is already happening at the national level among the BRICS emerging economies who want to trade between themselves in their own currencies rather than the dollar whose current high is probably coming just before a major fall once the US presidential election is done. However, ArabianMoney is not convinced either that the Iranian oil embargo will go ahead or that spiking the gold price at this point is in China's best interests as the world's biggest holder of dollar reserves. Still logic does not always apply in such matters and Mr Sinclair has his hands on experience of the 1970s to call upon.
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text: On-Site, On Demand March 7, 2014 09:23 PM Tweet The Farm Journal Test Plots used a Great Plains Nutri-Pro toolbar to band nitrogen before planting. The design of the coulters places nitrogen 4" on both sides of the row. RTK was used for the nitrogen pass and planter pass for placement accuracy. © Margy Eckelkamp TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By Margy Eckelkamp Director of Content Development, Machinery Pete Email Nitrogen test plots confirm that timing matters Ahigh percentage of the Farm Journal Test Plots revolve around one key nutrient—nitrogen. "Time and time again, we see that nitrogen is king—it makes the biggest difference," explains Farm Journal Field Agronomist Ken Ferrie. "The nitrogen cycle is complex, but the first thing farmers must understand is that finding the right nitrogen timing, placement and rate requires more than using the simple equation of bushels per pound of nitrogen." To shape their nitrogen management program, Ferrie encourages farmers to consider product in addition to timing, placement and rate. Comparing programs that use different sources of nitrogen at different times is like comparing apples to peaches. The Farm Journal Test Plots have found no difference in yield when applying anhydrous ammonia or 28% when positioned the same way. (See "Bridge the Gap," Late Spring 2013.) Ferrie continues to learn more about how the variables in a nitrogen plan add up to yield success and how to fill in the weak spots of a nitrogen program. "The goal is to find out how farmers can make their nitrogen dollar go as far as possible," Ferrie says. "In 2013, we saw 20 bu. to 60 bu. yield hits because we didn't manage nitrogen effectively." The right placement. This past year, Ferrie and his crew conducted two test plots focusing on nitrogen placement. The first test plot, in its second year in 2013, is a season-long effort that compares four timings of nitrogen application: pre-emergence broadcast, preplant strip-till, nitrogen applied with the planter and sidedress nitrogen. The strip-till treatments were applied with a Great Plains Nutri-Pro toolbar with coulters 8" apart, placing the banded nitrogen 4" on both sides of each row and 3" from the surface. The nitrogen applied at planting included in-furrow starter fertilizer as well as 28% applied 2" to the side and 2" below the surface. The same total rate of nitrogen was applied overall but at different timing combinations. In each field, the application and planter passes were made with RTK accuracy to ensure exact placement of nitrogen and seed. The first year, 2012, included two corn-on-corn fields. "That was a tough year to start a plot because of the weather and environment, but we saw that the field was responding to the banded nitrogen. The more we banded, the stronger the response—with strip till, planter applied and sidedress banding being the strongest. On the flip side, the more we broadcasted, the more yield decreased," Ferrie explains. As suspected, it quickly became clear that the environment matters. From central Illinois and north, Ferrie advocates for farmers to broadcast some nitrogen in heavy residue conditions to help decompose residue faster. "In heavy residue fields, farmers must deal with the carbon penalty. Sometimes this can be done with broadcast, but when we combine broadcast with banded applications, we weatherproof a nitrogen program," Ferrie says. "Strip-till and nitrogen applied with the planter bypass the carbon penalty by keeping the plant happy while the microbes immobilize nitrogen to decompose the residue. Due to timing, those placements decompose less surface residue and are less susceptible to nutrient loss." To verify results, all Farm Journal Test Plots are harvested with calibrated yield monitors, and each load is weighed with grain carts with scales. Application timing depends on geography as well. Ferrie notes that Southern farmers who want to conserve residue should consider banded applications because they don't speed up decomposition of surface residue. When plants need it. After thinking about the planting environment, farmers should also consider the timing of their applications. "When I talk about timing of nitrogen applications, I don't necessarily mean when I apply but when does the plant need it," Ferrie says. "Farmers have to make sure the plant is happy from the beginning to the end and remember the environment sets the tone. For example, in corn on corn, front-end timing is key to manage the carbon penalty." If plants get behind because there is not enough nitrogen when needed, there's no way for them to catch up. A nitrogen program should supply the corn with what it needs up-front to keep the plant from slowing down in the early growth stages. For example, all up-front broadcasted nitrogen might look good in the beginning, but it doesn't have the staying power as the same amount banded. In addition, the risk of loss is higher when nitrogen is applied too far in advance of the growing crop. In 2013, two fields were part of the nitrogen placement plot—one corn on corn and the other corn after soybeans. Including two crop rotations allowed Ferrie to evaluate the different nitrogen demands as well as seedbed preparation when running a Nutri-Pro toolbar. "The question becomes that if there are advantages to banding nitrogen with the strip-till toolbar, could it also eliminate the spring pass of a vertical tillage harrow in preparing the final seedbed," he says. "So there's a dual benefit to that pass over the field." In the corn-after-soybeans field, 220 lb. of nitrogen was applied broadcast, strip-till, at planting and sidedress. Some treatments were increased to 280 lb. to ensure that nitrogen wasn't the limiting factor. "In a heavy soil type where we side- dressed the full 220 lb. compared to shifting 30 lb. to the planter and sidedressing the remainder, we gained more than 30 bu.," Ferrie says. "There was a big payoff to supply the corn plant with nitrogen banded at planting. "We were also able to pay the carbon penalty from the soybean residue," Ferrie adds. On an entire field average, the preplant treatments with some of the nitrogen allotment banded with the strip-till toolbar were the highest yielding in the plot. The next four highest-yielding treatments included some of the nitrogen allotment being applied with the planter. At the second location, the corn-on-corn field was divided into two zones—one with a high pH and one with a normal pH. As a base nitrogen application in March, 100 lb. of nitrogen as AMS was applied to the normal pH zone. In the higher pH zone, the rate was increased to 160 lb. of nitrogen as AMS. Then 90 lb. of nitrogen was divided into treatments, including strip-till, pre-emergence broadcast (with UAN) and sidedress. "In the high pH zone, we increased yields 38 bu. when 90 lb. of nitrogen was applied with the strip-till toolbar compared with surface broadcasting the total nitrogen allotment," Ferrie says. Due to the wet spring, he believes that broadcasting the nitrogen led to it being moved further down in the soil profile and out of the reach of the small corn plant when it was caught in the carbon penalty. Banding the nitrogen kept the nutrient within reach. The pre-emergence, broadcast UAN application was not incorporated or applied with an inhibitor, so in the high pH zone with a higher water-holding capacity, that might have led to volatilization. "That's another example of how environment impacts the effectiveness in timing nitrogen applications," Ferrie says. In addition, he believes that the nitrogen rates in the normal pH zone might have not been high enough because that area of the field repeatedly outyields the high pH area. The observations from the 2013 banded nitrogen applications echo the lessons learned from the starter fertilizer—inches do matter. The greatest yield success comes from keeping the corn plant happy by banding fertilizer so it's available as the roots grow. Sidedress options. The second nitrogen placement plot in 2013 focused on testing a new fertilizer attachment. The Y-Drop applies nitrogen on a self-propelled sprayer. "This concept puts nitrogen in what I call the stem water zone," Ferrie says. "The corn plant is set up to self-irrigate by keeping the soil moist around the base of the plant and the crown roots alive. If you go out after a heavy dew, you'll see the wet rings around the base of the plant." Ferrie says that by putting nitrogen in the stem water zone, there's a greater chance that moisture will move the nitrogen into the plant. In two locations, the crew used three treatments at V6. The same rate was applied at the same timing, so the crew was able to evaluate the placement aspect of sidedressing. The treatments included the Y-Drop attachment, a traditional drop nozzle design using VeriFlow nozzles, and a standard sidedress toolbar with knives. The crew completed the sprayer passes and then returned one day later to sidedress the remaining treatments in the field. "This was first-year data," says Brad Beutke, who ran the applicators and works in the Farm Journal Test Plots. "But it was encouraging in that the Y-Drop performed with the same yield response or slightly above the traditional sidedress." With a self-propelled sprayer, the Y-Drop applies nitrogen like a sidedress program. Beutke explains that using a high-clearance sprayer could provide farmers with an additional 10 days in their working window. The Test Plot crew intends to continue studying machines to sidedress corn. Weather factor. Anytime a nutrient is banded and positioned for timely uptake, efficiencies will be gained. "But seasonal weather impacts your nitrogen program," Ferrie says. "This past year, broadcast applications struggled due to the wet spring that pushed planting into May. That had an adverse affect on soil surface nitrates." Typically the nitrate levels in the second foot of soil are one-half or one-third of the top foot, he explains. But in 2013, due to spring rains, the soil nitrate level in the second foot was almost higher than in the first foot. "This indicated the nitrates moved down in the soil profile. While not lost, they were too far away to help with early season growth," Ferrie says. While it's critical to plan out a nitrogen program, it's equally key to be flexible enough to adjust when the weather throws a curve ball. This could mean adding nitrogen to the planter or following up with extra sidedress applications. "Remember, when we add banded nitrogen to the planter, we weatherproof a program," Ferrie says. Thank You to Our Test Plot Partners Each Farm Journal Test Plot is a cooperative effort. Thanks go to: Yetter Corporation and Scott Cale; Great Plains Manufac-turing, Tom Evans and Doug Jennings; Case IH, Dan Klein, Kyle Russell and Ryan Schaefer; Central Illinois Ag and Kip Hoke; Kinze Manufacturing, Suzanne Veatch and Luc Van Herle; Unverferth Manufacturing and Jerry Ecklund; LeRoy Fertilizer and Bob Spratt; Y-Drop and Dan Muff; ACRE and Brian Sutton; McLaughlin-Dooley Farms; Al Reeser; Rod Wilson; Crop-Tech Consulting, Isaac Ferrie and Brad Beutke. You can email Margy Eckelkamp at firstname.lastname@example.com. Back to news


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My perspective on my writing career received some reframing this year. All the changes in the industry made me pause and mull a number of things over. Meeting Lindsay Buroker was another shove in reframing my ideas about becoming a published author: I could do what I love and what I wanted to do. I could do it now. Thank you, Lindsay. If I can follow in her footsteps of success, I'd be thrilled. In one year she's sold over 10,000 ebooks. Woot, Lindsay!
The growth of the ebook industry, some positive rejection I'd been receiving from some of the big science fiction rags [SFWA worthy], and the uncertainty of the traditional publishing model led me toward taking my career into my own hands.
It began with releasing Plantgirl, Small Graces and Translations in late June. Free reads I initially released on Smashwords. They're now also up on Scribd and Feedbook. The point of releasing free reads is to get the work into as many hands as possible. I recently discovered reads can be uploaded to Goodreads, too. So, I'll get that together in the next couple weeks and get them there, too.
Putting out the Free Reads was a very positive and rewarding experience. I received a lot of feedback, and after adding the newsletter signup to the end of my stories, I've gotten people I don't know who want to be kept in the loop as to my future releases.
Downloads stagnated for a bit. I had never really liked the cover for Translations, but it was the best I could do at the time. I kept playing around with Paint.net though and began formulating a better idea. Then I stumbled across the perfect piece of art for it and it all came together beautifully. Everything else got repackaged after that so they didn't look like cheap cousins beside Translations.
I liked the original Semper cover a lot, but in thumbnail [which is what most people see] it just looked like a brown square. My skills at Paint.net were improving, so I tried something new. It turned out beautifully. Yea.
Repackaging can work to improve downloads and sales. Although, I'm no bestseller yet, I've made inroads into a start. I think sometimes my problem is I'm not as confident after a release as I need to be, and probably should be. I think, 'Oh, it's just a short story.' If I short change it, well, I have to quit doing that. I love Semper Audacia. It's a good story. It deserves a better attitude from me than it's gotten. I'll do better. Perhaps a topic I'll address in more depth for IWSG in January.
I'm not stopping. The polished draft for Stopover at the Backworlds' Edge should be done by the end of the year. Then it goes through a second coat of polish. Refining, adding some new detail, and making a few changes per my local crit group. I redid its cover, too. Mostly because I noticed video gal and I had a typo in the title -- which I didn't notice for several months. The apostrophe goes after the s in Backworlds, not before. But now I think I might release Stopover in paperback, too, which means redoing the cover again. That's OK. I'll manage.
The Backworlds is a prequel, which I intend to release before Stopover as another Free Read. It will come in somewhere between 20-30,000 words. Thanks to my crit partners Misha Gericke and Tony Benson here in bloggyland for their feedback.
The Backworlds Series will be a space opera series set on planets in our galaxy. My premise is that humans on Earth 'improved' ourselves to be able to live on a variety of worlds. Then humans decided they didn't like what they had created and try to take it back. This resulted in a war. The series begins during a truce between the Foreworlds and the Backworlds. Thank you to the Husband Unit for the last bits of inspiration both of these stories needed.
Also coming in 2012: The Augmentation of Hetty Locklear. Redid her cover, too. She's still in 1st draft stage. This will also be a series. A mix of contemporary sci-fi and urban fantasy. It will eventually morph into sci-fi. Right now it's envisioned as a trilogy. Folks' love for Plantgirl was its inspiration.
Wandering Weeds Anthology should be coming out this year, too, in which is my novelette, The Tumbas. I wrote it so long ago now, I'm not sure what I think about that.
Anyway, all of you are the ribbons on my year. Thank you for the inspiration, the support, the encouragement, the new directions and the success I've found. It's not measured in dollar signs at this point, but in winning over some grains of sand to my beach. Thank you for joining me on this adventure. I can't wait to see what 2012 brings for all of you. There's an amazing amount of talent out there and I'm fortunate to rub elbows with a lot of that great talent.
Happy Holidays and a Joyous 2012. You're all my stars. [This is my last post for the year -- there will be a holiday themed post going up on Thursday -- regular posting will resume January 2 -- Will be talking about Super 8 on the website tomorrow, then it goes on hiatus until January, too].


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Alternate Names
Joint replacement surgery - using your shoulder; Shoulder replacement surgery - after
What to Expect at Home
You have had shoulder replacement surgery to replace the bones of your shoulder joint with artificial parts. The parts include a stem made of metal and a metal ball that fits on the top of the stem. A plastic piece is used as the new surface of the shoulder blade.
Now that you are home you will need to know how to protect your shoulder as it heals.
You willneed to weara sling for the first 6 weeks after surgery. You maywant to wear the sling for extra support or protection after that. Some people also wear a shoulder immobilizer to keep the joint in place.
Rest your shoulder ona rolled up towel or small pillow when lying down. This helps prevent damage to your shoulder from the stretching of the muscles or tendons. You will need to keep doing this for 6-8 weeks after your surgery, even when wearing a sling.
Your doctor or physical therapist may teach you pendulum exercises to do at home for 4-6 weeks. To do these exercises:
- Lean over and support your weight with your good arm on a counter or table.
- Hang your arm that had surgery down.
- Very carefully and slowly swing your loose arm around in circles.
Your doctor or physical therapist will also teach you safe ways to move your arm and shoulder.
- Do not try to lift or move your shoulder without supporting it with your good arm or having someone else support it. Your doctor or therapist will tell you when it is okay to lift or move your shoulder without this support.
- Use your other (good) arm to move the arm that had surgery. Move it only as far as your doctor or physical therapist tells you is okay.
These exercises and movements may hard but they will get easier over time. It is very important to do these as your doctor or therapist showed you. Doing these exercises will help your shoulder get better faster. They will help you be more actives after you recover.
Activities and movements you should try to avoid are:
- Reaching or using your shoulder a lot
- Liftingobjects heavier than a cup of coffee
- Supporting your body weight with your hand on the side you had surgery
- Making sudden jerking movements
Wear the sling all the time unless your doctor says you do not have to.
After 4-6 weeks, your doctor or physical therapist will show you other exercises to stretch your shoulder and gain more movement in your joint.
Returning to sports and other activities
Ask your doctor which sports and other activities are okay for you after you recover.
Always think about how to safely use your shoulder before you move or start an activity. To protect your new shoulder:
- Avoid activities that require doing the same movement over and over again with your shoulder, such as weight lifting.
- Avoid "jamming" activities, such as hammering.
- Avoid "impact-loading" sports, such as boxing.
- Avoid any physical activities that need quick stop-start motions or twisting.
- Do not push heavy objects.
You will probably not be able to drive for at least4-6 weeks after surgery. You should not drive when you are taking narcotics. Your doctor or physical therapist will tell you when driving is okay.
When to Call the Doctor
Call your doctor or nurse if you have:
- Bleeding that soaks through your dressing and does not stop when you place pressure over the area
- Pain that does not go away when you take your pain medicine
- Swelling in your arm
- Redness, pain, swelling, or a yellowish discharge from the wound
- Fever higher than 101 F
Also call the doctor if:
- Your hand or fingers are darker in color or feel cool to the touch.
- Your new shoulder joint does not feel secure. It feels like it is moving around.
ReferencesThrockmorton TW. Shoulder and elbow arthroplasty. In: Canale ST, Beatty JH, eds. Campbells Operative Orthopaedics. 12thth ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Mosby Elsevier; 2012:chap 12.
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C. Benjamin Ma, MD, Assistant Professor, Chief, Sports Medicine and Shoulder Service, UCSF Department of Orthopaedic Surgery. Also reviewed by A.D.A.M. Health Solutions, Ebix, Inc., Editorial Team: David Zieve, MD, MHA, David R. Eltz, Stephanie Slon, and Nissi Wang.


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Rupee, stocks point to economy in crisis, FM blames 2008 splurging
It was a terrible Tuesday for the Indian markets. Stock prices tumbled as a rattled rupee, hit by fiscal fears tied to the passage of the food security bill, plunged in its biggest fall in 18 years to a new life-time low. HT reports. Terrible Tuesday | POLL: Will the passage of food bill put more pressure on rupee?business Updated: Aug 28, 2013 09:03 IST
Carnage tightened its grip on Indian markets on Tuesday, with the rupee hitting a new nadir of 66.30 to a dollar and the Sensex tanking by 590 points to its lowest point this year.
The reasons this time: Fears that the food security bill would worsen a ballooning fiscal deficit, and that war would break out in the oil-rich Middle East.
While the rupee and the stock market were puncturing the prospects of Indian importers and investors, the price of gold soared to an all-time high of Rs. 32,585 per 10 grams, up Rs. 820, putting the common man's traditional store of wealth further out of reach. Silver rose for the third day running, gaining Rs. 800 to Rs. 54,800 per kg.
The man tasked with steering the Indian economy through its latest crisis, finance minister P Chidambaram, told Parliament that more reforms were the answer. He listed out ten steps including promoting of manufacturing sector and exports to boost faltering growth, which needs to be raised to its potential rate of 8%. And he hinted at the possibility of a sovereign bond to bring in more dollars.
"All options are on the table. No option is ruled out. Which option we should exercise is a matter of judgement," he said.
"When I took over on August 1 (2012), I knew that I was returning to a very difficult pitch," Finance Minister P Chidambaram said on Tuesday braving the opposition attack over the bad state of economy reflected by declining value of rupee and rising food prices.
During a debate on the economic situation in the Lok Sabha, he attributed much of the current economic woes to the stimulus provided to help the industry to tide over the problems emanating from the global financial meltdown of 2008.
POLL: Will the passage of food bill put more pressure on rupee?
President Pranab Mukherjee was the Finance Minister when the stimulus was provided to the industry. Chidambaram succeeded him as Finance Minister in August 2012.
Recalling his return, Chidambaram said, "Fiscal deficit limits had been breached. The CAD had swelled. These were the two main challenges, apart from the number of other challenges that we had to face." After that he claimed that situation had improved till the unexpected development on May 22, 2013, when the US Federal Reserve announced tapering of bond purchases which sent the emerging markets in a tizzy.
"In the last 12 months there have been days when I have been more upbeat; days when I been more downcast. But the fact is some stability did return to the economy until a completely unexpectedly unexpected event took place on May 22, 2013", he said.
He attributed tumbling of rupee to that announcement of Federal Reserve.
India's economy grew by 5% in 2012-13, the worst in a decade. The prospect of a credit rating downgrade to "junk" casts a very long shadow over the market.
News that investments worth more than Rs 1.83 lakh crore had been approved did nothing to boost sentiment. Before Chidambaram spoke in the House, the 30-share Sensex had ended deep in the red, down 3.2% or 590 points at 17,968, while the broader Nifty benchmark fell 3.45% to 5,287, a bloodbath in which bank shares were among worst hit. Investors lost around Rs. 1.69 lakh crore.
The rupee fell by 194 paise or 2.9% to 66.30, before recovering slightly to close at 66.25, compared to Monday's close of 64.30. It has fallen by 17% in 2013 so far. The benchmark 10-year government bond -- an indicator of interest rates – spiked 0.44 percentage points to 8.78%.
Analysts warned that crude oil prices might shoot up in wake of tensions in surrounding Syria. Terrible Tuesday
"We believe, crude oil has emerged as a key risk in the near-term, which is not a good sign for the rupee," says Sanjeev Zarbade, vice-president, research, at Kotak Securities. The lifeblood of Indian industry is diesel, which will need heavier subsidies if crude prices rise.
The imminent scale-back of an easy loan policy in the United States is the biggest factor hurting emerging market currencies. But Indian investors suffered another blow: The government, already burdened by fuel subsidies, is readying itself to take on an annual Rs 1,30,000-crore hit on account of guaranteeing cheap foodgrains to the poor. This is on top of a widening of the current account deficit (CAD) in foreign exchange transactions.
Other measures among the 10 outlined by Chidambaram included reviving investments, containing fiscal and current account deficits, raising capital expenditure of state-owned firms and recapitalising government banks.
"If we are patient, firm and clear headed and once we take these steps, the economy will begin to turn and we will be able to build a strong economy," he said.
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As rupee continues to sink, RBI says more steps will be taken if needed
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The Patent Procurement Law Clinic at Wayne State University Law School gives students interested in patent law a major advantage, according to local attorneys practicing in the intellectual property field.
"Wayne Law has the only patent procurement clinic in Michigan, so if you want to be a patent attorney, you have to look at Wayne Law first," said patent attorney Christopher Darrow, who earned his law degree at Wayne Law in 2000 and his master of laws in intellectual property law at George Washington University in 2004.
He's a shareholder with Young Basile Hanlon & MacFarlane PC, a firm that specializes in intellectual property law, and a special master and technical advisor to federal judges on patent cases. He also was instrumental in developing the patent clinic last year at Wayne Law, which is the only school in Michigan — and among only 25 law schools nationwide — chosen by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office as a participating patent clinic certified for the office's pilot program. Selected schools were praised for their intellectual property curriculum, their outreach to the community and their comprehensive client services.


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|Pink Cat Ddung by Design Seol
Her name is Mochi. She was a gift from my lovie earlier this year. Other than the fact that I absolutely adore Ddung dolls' super cute faces, I just love Mochi's bluish green hair. It seems she's fallen in love with a Christmas gingerbread cookie!
Thank you Sarah for designing a very colorful (and normal) gingerbread man! The others were just not made for doll pictures! Hahaha!
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NEWARK, NJ - Sorry New York Yankees and Mets fans. A Newark math professor predicts your teams won't make the post season.
New Jersey Institute of Technology math professor Bruce Bukiet predicts the Boston Red Sox will top the American League East and the Washington Nationals will take the National League East.
Bukiet, who is also an associate dean at the Newark college and a Mets fan, has just published his model's projections of how the standings should look at the end of Major League Baseball's regular season in 2017.
It's the 20th year that Bukiet has applied mathematical analysis to compute the number of regular season games each Major League Baseball team should win. Last year, he correctly predicted 8 of the 10 MLB post-season teams in 2016 and that the St. Louis Cardinals would just miss making the playoffs.
Though his expertise is in mathematical modeling (rather than baseball), his projections have consistently compared well with those of so-called experts.
Bukiet predicts his the Mets should make the playoffs, the but that the Washington Nationals, with 97 wins, should repeat as winners of the National League East.
The World Champion Chicago Cubs and Los Angeles Dodgers should repeat as winner of the National League Central and West Divisions with 104 wins each to lead the Major Leagues.
The San Francisco Giants with 95 wins should be the fifth National League post-season team.
The same five teams, which were correctly called by Bukiet, made the post-season in 2016 and once again the St. Louis Cardinals with 88 wins should be the best team that doesn't make the post-season – though it shouldn't be so close this time.
In the American League, Bukiet's model has the Boston Red Sox winning 91 games to clinch the American League East and the Cleveland Indians winning 99 games and repeating as division winners in the American League Central.
Bukiet predicts the Houston Astros to win 94 games and the American League West. Last year, Bukiet also predicted the Astros would win, which did not pan out. The Texas Rangers won that division.
The model calls for the Toronto Blue Jays to win 90 games and the Detroit Tigers with 86 wins to be the American League Wild Card teams. The Texas Rangers, Seattle Mariners and New York Yankees should all be 6 games behind the Tigers and this not make the post-season.
At the other end of the spectrum, the San Diego Padres with 53 wins should replace the Minnesota Twins as the team with the worst record in baseball. The Padres should win just over half as many games as the division winning Dodgers, ending up 51 games out of first place. The White Sox with 64 wins should win the least games in the American League.
Bukiet makes these projections to demonstrate and promote the power of math. He wants to show young people that math can be fun, that it can be applied to improve one's understanding of many aspects of life and that if you love mathematics, it can be a great college major and lead to a satisfying career.
Bukiet bases his projections on a mathematical model he started developing in the late 1980s. He has made various revisions over the years. His results have been noted in many publications and he has been predictions champ at baseballphd.net several times. See more results for his baseball modeling, including the projected wins for each of the 30 Major League Baseball teams, at http://web.njit.edu/~bukiet/baseball/baseball.html and at www.egrandslam.com.


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