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July will mark a year since Ring of Honor debuted on pay per view. Their sixth offering, Take No Prisoners features matches taped in Philadelphia on March 16th, as well as a tag title match taped in Orlando March 29th. As is typical with ROH shows, the action speaks for itself, and you get major bang for your buck.
Take No Prisoners features a bit of everything. One of the early highlights is a brutal anything goes tag match between The Briscoes and The Age of the Fall's Necro Butcher and former WWE star Joey Matthews. Mark Briscoe is busted open early on in the match with a shovel, leaving the viewer cringing many times at the blood pouring from the gash in his head. The match is a very old-school style, gritty brawl that culminates in Mark diving off of the entrance scaffolding onto Necro Butcher on a table. The Briscoes are one of the best tag teams in wrestling, because they can shift from two-out-of-three fall technical matches to hardcore brawls without missing a beat.
"American Dragon" Bryan Danielson and Austin Aries have wrestled over a dozen times in ROH in the last four years. It speaks to their skill level that they have created a different match each time, and for the first time together on pay per view, they likely had a lot of pressure to top previous matches. They succeed, as the match is everything I love about professional wrestling - creative counters, back and forth wrestling and a great story. If the result of watching this match is not that you have become a huge fan of both, you shouldn't be a wrestling fan.
There is frequently criticism of WWE and TNA on their inability to create new stars and make them feel important. That criticism can't be leveled at ROH, which due to the nature of the business has had a lot of talents come through the door, and thus have to make new stars. Such is the case of the main event, featuring Tyler Black, who in the opener won a four-way match to earn a title shot, against ROH champ Nigel McGuinness. Black, a member of the Age of the Fall, had largely been a mid-card tag team wrestler during his ROH run. Ring announcers Dave Prazak and Lenny Leonard do a fantastic job of commentary, putting over the 21-year-old as a Cinderella story. The match makes Black a star, as the crowd many times seems to think they are on the verge of a new champion. Black's refusal to go down and continuing to fight despite taking a pounding from McGuinness earned him respect in the eyes of the fans, and brought him to the champion's level. The match itself is great, and caps off the pay per view exceptionally well.
Ring of Honor continues to progress well with its pay per view events. There are still some minor technical issues - a spotlight on Prazak and Leonard at the opening of the show completely washed them out, for example; but from a wrestling standpoint, you aren't going to get this quality of a wrestling show anywhere else. Leonard and Prazak do a great job of filling in history that has happened between pay per view events, and there are video packages as well to keep the viewer up to date.
There has been an influx of pay per view events on the market in the last two months, so save some money and order this show instead. You won't regret it.
Match listing and ratings Take No Prisoners
Four Corner Survival Match - Tyler Black vs. Go Shiozaki, Delerious & Claudio Castagnoli. 6/10
Kevin Steen vs. Roderick Strong. 7/10
Briscoe Brothers vs. The Age of the Fall. 9/10
Erick Stevens vs. Brent Albright. 5/10
ROH Tag Team Championship - Davey Richards & Rocky Romero (c) vs. Ruckus & Jigsaw. 8/10.
Austin Aries vs. Bryan Danielson. 10/10.
ROH World Championship - Nigel McGuinness (C) vs. Tyler Black. 9/10.
Overall event rating - 9/10.
Jason Clevett is a freelance writer from Calgary, Alberta. He has been on the SLAM! Wrestling staff since 2003.


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The php|architect blog has posted a notice about the webcast for this past Friday (in their series of webcasts leading up to CodeWorks '09) - the recording for Sumit Chawla's look at PHP and Microsoft interoperability has been posted.
In last week's free webcast in our CodeWorks 09 Free Webcast Series, Microsoft's Sumit Chawla showed us the great progress that Microsoft has made in making sure that their technologies play nice with PHP [...] You can now download a free recording of the session directly from our Summer Webcast Series pages, where you can also sign up for the remaining free webcasts in the series!
While you're there, you can also get the recording for Matthew Turland's talk on the new features that PHP 5.3 has added to the Standard PHP Library. Other webcast topics include PHP 5.3 migration, the future of PDO, date/time in PHP and running PHP on Azure.

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"By the late 1940s Smithfield reported 350 residents and eight businesses. Nearby North Richland Hills annexed Smithfield in 1958. The Smithfield name survives in several local institutions, including a middle school, and on historical markers at the Smithfield cemetery, Masonic lodge, and two churches."
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A native of Missouri, Eli Smith moved to Texas in 1859 with his parents. They settled in this part of Tarrant County, and in 1868 Smith married Sarah J. Hightower. About 1876 Smith donated part of his farmland to the community, then known as Zion, for a Methodist Church and cemetery. Residents of the area honored Smith for his generosity and community service by renaming the settlement Smithfield. Smith remained an active Mason and a successful farmer until his sudden death shortly before his thirty-first birthday. He is buried at this site. (1984)
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Saturday, 25 May 2013
The Art of the Beautiful~Grotesque Posterous which fed this blog has now been deleted (along with all other Posterous blogs, Twitter directly to blame) but much of the content is still available to view as an archive on this blog.
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The Sepia Path ~ Symbolist, Visionary, mythic art & Illustration etc.
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Pop over to any of them any time ;)
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Friday, September 7, 2007
Windows Disaster Recovery with Bacula
I confirmed her diagnosis of a failing hard drive and shut the computer down. The following lunchtime I drove to the nearest PC World and bought a replacement hard drive. I normally buy mail-order, but we wanted the computer back up as soon as possible. That evening I removed the faulty drive and installed the new one, and I also stuck in some extra RAM while I had the case open. Then it was time to find out if my rather sketchy disaster recovery plan was going to work.
I run Fedora on my own box, and both computers are backed up using Bacula. This is designed for backing up lots of computers to tape drives, but it also supports backup to disk drives. I have two USB drives, keep one plugged in, and swap them every month or so. I use the default Bacula backup schedule of a weekly full dump on both machines and nightly incremental dumps. Most of the Bacula components only run on Unix, but there is also a Windows client installed on my wife's computer (which runs Windows XP SP2). Bacula configuration is rather hairy, but if you have more than one computer its well worth the effort.
The big headache for restoring Windows is the Registry. After previous bad experiences with this horrible blob of data I had made sure the registry was backed up by using regedit to dump the registry contents to a file before each Windows backup, so I hoped it would be OK. There are also problems with other files in C:\Windows that are constantly in use and therefore unwritable during system restore.
The Bacula manual pointed me at Bart PE Builder, which generates a Live CD version of Windows XP. It suggested that you might be able to run Bacula in this environment to get around these problems. Bacula ran fine, but I couldn't get the drivers for the network card to install, so that wouldn't work.
Instead I re-installed Windows XP SP1 from the original CD and ran Bacula there. The restore duly dumped copies of C: and D: in C:/temp/restore/c and /d. (The computer has two partitions because it used to have two drives. My wife got used to having C: and D: drives and various programs had been configured to look for data on D:, so I kept the layout even when it went back to a single drive.). Then I booted under the Bart PE disk, deleted the existing contents of C: (except for /temp) and copied the restored contents into the root directories. Then for the big test: would it reboot?
Well, sort of. The login screen came up, but when I tried to log in the computer hung. I tried rebooting in safe mode, and then in "safe mode with console", which seemed to be the bare minimum. That at least got me a command line, so I ran regedit and imported the registry copy that had been created by the last backup. This warned me that some registry keys could not be modified and claimed that the changes had failed. I rebooted again, and this time found that I could log in, but pretty much all the settings had been forgotten. Office wanted to re-install itself, and every time I started Word it asked for my name and initials twice. This suggested that important parts of the registry were not only still not recovered, but also unwritable.
Windows also decided that it was running on new hardware, and badgered me to activate it. So I did. I then tried logging in as a different user and restoring the registry again in the hope that being a different user would lock different bits of registry. This merely overwrote the new activation data and Windows now point blank refused to let me log in at all until I activated it again. So I tried. This time it told me that I had exceeded my activation limit and would have to phone up for activation. So I did. Windows gave me a 36 digit number and a robot on the other end of the phone line told me to type in the number. Then a polite gentleman named "Fred" with an Indian accent asked me how many computers I had Windows installed on and why I needed to activate it. Then he gave me another 36 digit number to type into Windows to activate it. This worked. But when I logged in Windows wasn't behaving any better.
A bit of Googling reminded me of something I should have remembered much earlier: Windows occasionally checkpoints its critical state, including the Registry, and you can wind it back to a previous known good state using the System Restore function. So I located a checkpoint from before all the trouble started, restored Windows to that state and rebooted.
When I tried to log in I got immediate joy: the desktop background had been restored. This suggested that the registry was now intact. But this restore had also overwritten the registration data, and Windows once again demanded to be activated before I could log in. Back to the phone, this time to a polite woman named June with a much stronger Indian accent who asked me the same questions and gave me yet another 36 digit number to type in. This time everything worked. Disaster recovery was completed.
I'd like to thank the authors of Bacula for their excellent backup program. It saved both of us a lot of heartache. In the past I've found it too easy to neglect backups, and sometimes our computers have gone for months without being backed up. When I got it properly configured (not a trivial task) Bacula made backups automatically with minimal intervention by me (basically, swapping USB drives occasionally). That meant I had a good recent backup to work from.
I'd also like to thank Bart Lagerweij, author of Bart PE. I could probably have managed by booting Knoppix and using its NTFS driver capture facility, but having a native Windows environment made life much easier.
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Dumping the registry with regedit does not save everything! That will not help you to do a disaster recovery.
- September 8, 2007 at 9:34 AM
- Paul Johnson said...
Dumping the registry with regedit does not save everything!
So I have discovered. The Bacula manual suggests using the following command instead:
ntbackup backup systemstate /F c:\systemstate.bkf
Which only goes to show that I should RTFM *before* disaster strikes.
- September 8, 2007 at 12:20 PM
Yes, you should do a system state backup and then do a backup using Bacula. You should also enable VSS for the backup job. This allows Bacula to backup locked/open files. The combination of the system state backup and a VSS backup are all you'll need to do a full recovery.
To do the recovery I typically install Windows to the workstation, get the network card up and install the Bacula client. I then restore all files and before rebooting I use ntbackup to restore the system state. This restores the registry and also restores DLLs (which isn't possible w/ the Bacula restore due to system file protection).
- September 11, 2007 at 1:16 PM
For me work with this dirty mode
a)backup c with bacula,must return
0 error(use onefs=no)
b)restore from bacula server(bconsole,restore,etc,etc)
restore all in c:/tmp/bacula-*/C
c)reboot with linux live-cd,or slackware dvd with nice cli
d)mount c: partition with ntfs-3g
e)Delete all except tmp
f)Move tmp/bacula*/C/* in C:\
Umount and reboot.
On Windows7 works fine all
On Windows2003 ok.
- February 15, 2012 at 1:21 PM
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The Australian cricket team will play in Canberra for the first time next year after the nation's capital was unveiled as a host city for upcoming series against either Sri Lanka or the West Indies.
Cricket Australia announced Friday that Australia would play one of the two teams, who are both scheduled to tour in 2013, in a day-night game at Manuka Oval.
"This is an historic moment for cricket in the nation's capital and a great way to help celebrate the centenary of Canberra," CA chief executive James Sutherland said.
Just one game is scheduled for now, but Sutherland suggested Canberra could host more internationals in the future.
"At this stage it's a one-off," he told reporters.
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Remember last year when ESPN had the people sitting at home on their couches text in and vote on the Big Air winner? And Mikkel Bang got a mere 8 percent of the votes for doing a switch back 1260, while Travis Rice (even to his own surprise) received 92 percent for a double back rodeo? Well, that judging format got tossed out the window with the rest of the '00 decade. Phew. No offense to the audience at home, but let's leave the judging to the professionals, right?
With that said, here's the scenario: Transworld's 2010 Rookie of the Year Halldor Helgason handled business like true bad-ass tonight, receiving two perfect scores of 50 well before time was up and yet continuing to scamper back to the top of the kicker like some sort of banshee to jump again and jump again, just for the sheer joy of it. That's how you can tell he's 19 years old, I guess! He's just 100-percent amped and not yet thinking along the lines of what if I get hurt next jump I've already got this thing won maybe I should just chill …
Nope, Halldor did not chill tonight. He started off with a double-cork frontside 1080 (bingo, perfect score!), then a double-cork backside 1260 (yipes—another perfect score!), then a big ol' laid out backflip, and so on and so forth until the timer rang. Chasing his heels was Torstein Horgmo, who set down 1260s galore—both Cab and switch backside—along with a savage back 1080. However, it appeared that the judges were rewarding invert, and so Halldor's double cork kept him on top. Mikkel Bang kicked off his finals with a picture-perfect switch backside 1260, then a frontside 1080, then a lofty backside rodeo, but when he tried to up the ante to double back rodeo, he ran into trouble and sat in the landing. No worries, though, 'cause his best two jumps combined for a score of 83—good enough for a podium.
Anyhoo, other Big Air sickness included young Tyler Flanagan's Cab 1260s and Eero Ettala's double cork backside 1260. Pretty much you had to have a twelve to rub shoulders with the finalists, preferable a double cork or invert of some sort. After all, this is the X Games, and upside down is where it's at.
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Missouri consumers are being offered a temporary break on the state sales tax on energy-efficient appliances.
The Revenue Department says its fifth annual Show-Me Green Sales Tax Holiday runs through Thursday of this week. The event lifts the 4.2 percent state sales tax on dishwashers, furnaces, air conditioners and other appliances that carry the Energy Star label.
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Like a snowball rolling downhill, becoming bigger as it goes, cotton's problems over the past several years have grown larger — the cumulative result being a chronic absence of profitability, continued dependence on government financial assistance, and the closing of cotton-related businesses across all sectors of the industry.
"It has been difficult to find solutions that adequately address these problems," National Cotton Council Chairman James E. Echols says.
"This situation makes it more important than ever for our industry and those who serve it to rally 'round the common bond of technology," he said at the opening session of the annual Beltwide Cotton Conferences in Atlanta, Ga., attended by producers, agribusiness representatives, Extension/research leaders, merchants, shippers, and other industry sectors. The theme for the conferences is, "Technology — The Common Thread."
Echols, who is president and chief executive officer of Hohenberg Cotton Co., Memphis, Tenn., said it is "of critical importance that we combine technology transfer with our political efforts in Washington in our mission to restore economic viability to our industry."
Tops on the political agenda, he noted, will be completion of the new farm bill, which failed to gain Senate passage before adjournment in December. "When Congress returns this month, we will need your help to insure passage of workable farm policy.
"The broader our base of support, the better our chances of success."
Many of the National Cotton Council's key program priorities have a technology component, Echols said.
The Council's Quality Task Force continues to emphasize quality and yield improvement by reviewing public breeding programs to encourage more participation in localized breeding programs and to insure the maintenance of publicly-developed strains as public property. It has initiated research on fine leaf trash to determine its sources and will review results of an investigation into factors that contributed to a higher-than-expected percentage of the 2001 crop having short staple length and high micronaire.
The Bale Packaging Committee has updated educational programs on bale size requirements and has urged the industry to move, where practical, to recessed ties on all bales. Both initiatives are aimed at increasing efficiency of storage and handling.
The Electronic Documents Task Force is working to expedite the implementation schedule for the new U.S. Warehouse Act, which will govern electronic warehouse receipts and other electronic documents involved in commodity transactions, and is providing input on the USDA's efforts to develops a procedure for centralized electronic loan redemptions.
In the area of plant protection, the Council has worked closely with the Environmental Protection Agency and the Monsanto Company on refuge options for Bt cotton, and the EPA has announced an extended registration for Bollgard.
Bt technology continues to be widely embraced by U. S. producers, Echols noted, with transgenic varieties planted on 69 percent of the 11.2 million acres planted in 2001.
"We're making great strides toward eliminating one of cotton's most lethal pests, as 10.9 million acres in nine states come under the national Boll Weevil Eradication Program in 2002. Post-eradication areas already designated as weevil-free now cover about 4.5 million acres in 10 states."
Increased support is being sought for the USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service to begin sterile insect release in the pink bollworm eradication program now under way in the Trans Pecos/El Paso zone of Texas. Federal cost-share funding is being pursued to make sterile insects available no later than the 2003 season.
Echols said the Council continues to maintain a dialogue with the EPA on its program of reassessing risks for organophosphate pesticides under the Food Quality Protection Act and re-registration of other products under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act.
Efforts are continuing to develop more effective testing for flammability of cotton products and the Consumer Products Safety Commission has issued rulemaking to develop a flammability standard for mattresses and bedding; to obtain an exemption from ergonomic injury standards for agriculture in favor of a "voluntary best practices" approach, and to get less severe solvent extraction rules for vegetable oil production. As a result of Council efforts, Echols noted, "two standards instead of one were approved for two sizes of cotton oil extraction mills and a three-year compliance period was established."
The Council and other groups are working closely with the EPA as it completes its five-year review of national ambient air standards, due by July. "We want to insure that these standards use sound science and minimize the impact of any new standards that may result from the review."
He said the Council's legal challenge on the EPA's non-point pollution source regulations have resulted in the agency "reviewing its entire approach to regulating agriculture as a non-point water pollution source — an important first step in convincing the EPA to take a rational, reasonable approach on this."
The promise of precision agriculture "continues to generate a lot of discussion," Echols said, and to insure that the cotton industry can be an early beneficiary of new, space age technologies, the Council is working with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the USDA on Ag2020, a program aimed at developing practical applications of remote sensing technology for agriculture.
"In 2000, the Council, along with the soybean, corn, and wheat associations, entered into cooperative agreements with Ag2020 to begin field-testing certain applications for growers. For cotton, remote sensing, using satellite imagery for determining the location of certain insects, offers promise of selectively applying insecticides, rather than spraying an entire field. Similar concepts are proposed for use of plant growth regulators and for water management."
Last year, Echols said, the Council, working with members of its Precision Ag Task Force, helped to coordinate proposals for federal research funding. Louisiana State University was awarded a grant to conduct research on the farm of producer Jay Hardwick, and NASA and the USDA are conducting research projects in cooperation with Mississippi State University on producer Kenneth Hood's farm and with Cotton Incorporated and the University of California, Davis, on Ted Sheely's farm.
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Tuesday, November 30, 2010
These stools were made to resemble snow on forest stumps were harvested from a fallen maple tree on the forest floor. The upholstery is white leather and copper tacks over sustainably-harvested-latex foam.
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Windscape Kite Festival 2011
The Windscape Kite Festival is held each year in Swift Current, Saskatchewan. These photographs were taken on the weekend of June 25 & 26, 2011. I was fortunate to be invited as a guest flyer to demonstrate kite aerial photography and to take aerial pictures for the event organizers to use in future. Please visit my KAP 2011-7 gallery for my aerial shots from the weekend and more details on the event. The strong winds that persisted for the entire weekend became so intense on day 2 that I was unable to KAP. So I switched to ground level photography and tried to get photographs of the people and the kites. This is a selection of the images I took.Read More


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National District of Character
In 2014, Character.org (formerly Character Education Partnership), a national advocate and leader for the character education movement, named the Mehlville School District as a National District of Character.
15 Mehlville School District schools are classified as State or National Schools of Character by Character.org. Each school is recognized for its commitment to character education and for fostering a positive environment for social and academic learning.


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Top Recipe 2005: Strawberry-Almond Shortcakes
A generous helping of ripe strawberries and a billowy cloud of softly whipped cream fill these homemade shortcakes, which are easily made in a food processor and have a drop-biscuit consistency. A crunchy textural contrast comes from toasted sliced almonds and sugar crystals that bake on top of the cakes. The shortcakes may be served at room temperature, but we liked the contrast of warm cakes and cold whipped cream. Also, warm cakes soak up more of the luscious strawberry juices. From Olivia Wu, who joined the Food staff in 2002.
The Shortcakes
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 cup cake flour
2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1 cup sliced blanched almonds
1/2 cup powdered sugar
1/2 cup + 2 tablespoons cold unsalted butter, diced
3/4 cup + 2 tablespoons half-and-half
Coarse sugar (or granulated sugar) for tops of cakes
The Strawberries
6 cups strawberries, hulled and quartered
3-4 tablespoons sugar, or to taste
4 tablespoons Torani strawberry or raspberry syrup
Grated zest of 1/2 Meyer lemon
The Cream
2 cups heavy whipping cream
3 tablespoons sugar
2 1/2 teaspoons pure vanilla
INSTRUCTIONS: To prepare the shortcakes: Line a baking sheet with parchment or a silicone mat; preheat the oven to 425°. Sift the flours and baking powder into a bowl.
Combine 3/4 cup of the almonds and the powdered sugar in a food processor and whir into a fine grind. Add the flour mixture to the almond/sugar mixture and whir to combine. Scatter the butter over the top and pulse it in until you have a cornmeal-like consistency. Add the half-and-half all at once and pulse until just combined. You should have a spoonable biscuit batter.
Drop 1/4-cup mounds onto the lined baking sheet to form 8 individual shortcakes. Sprinkle coarse sugar and the remaining 1/4 cup almonds over the cakes, gently pressing them into the dough. Place in the oven and bake for 14-18 minutes, or until the almonds are golden-brown and the cakes are done in the center. Remove to a rack. Although these are best freshly made and warm, they can be served at room temperature or you may wrap them in foil and refrigerate or freeze them for later.
To prepare the strawberries: Combine the strawberries, sugar, syrup and zest. Set aside to macerate for 1 hour.
To prepare the cream: Pour the cream into a cold mixing bowl and beat on medium-high speed. Gradually add the sugar and vanilla. Beat only until the cream begins to hold its shape. Do not take it to the stage where the whisks leave tracks. The cream should drape.
To serve: Split the shortcakes horizontally and place on serving plates. (If they have been frozen, warm them in the oven before using.) Spoon the prepared strawberries onto the bottom halves -- including plenty of juice -- pile on the cream and finish with the top halves of the shortcake (almonds on top). Drizzle some strawberry juices around the plate.
Serves 8
Per serving: 665 calories, 8 g protein, 57 g carbohydrate, 46 g fat (25 g saturated), 133 mg cholesterol, 194 mg sodium, 4 g fiber.


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Wednesday, 12 August 2009
Thomas Crown is a British Tailoring Affair
10 comments:
- Mouse said...
But I LOVE the Pierce Brosnan remake!
- 12 August 2009 at 20:34
- Style Salvage Steve said...
Mouse: But have you seen the Steve McQueen version? I concede that the remake out does the original in terms of story and hollywood style entertainment but not in terms of style. The original was ahead of its time in that sense...which for the purpose of the blog is all that really matters.
- 12 August 2009 at 21:37
The McQueen version is over the top. It's so avant-garde for its time.
And geeez... McQueen pulls the tailoring like no one else! :D
- 12 August 2009 at 22:59
- Michael said...
I have always thought McQueen looked much better and much more comfortable in casual wear.
- 13 August 2009 at 07:30
- Style Salvage Steve said...
bobblebee: It certainly is over the top. Quite an odd film to watch really when high on lemsip! Ha!
Michael: The clothes make the man here rather than the other way around but I think he looks pretty comfortable. McQueen was certainly at his most naturally stylish whilst wearing classic sportswear, Harringtons, shawl collared etc but in this film he really showed how great a tailored look could be with the jacket off.
- 13 August 2009 at 09:53
- Giancinephile said...
it could be likely for ME to consider it as an epoch of style in cinema... I have to see this one with McQueen as I've only seen the Brosnan remake which wasn't particularly much eye candy on my behalf...
- 14 August 2009 at 00:58
- Giancinephile said...
And I'd just like to add on the McQueen thing and the Ferraris: MAJOR eye candy. haha
I can't seem to get over this one particular image of McQueen and a Ferrari from the Sixties. It has been stuck on my head since last year...
- 14 August 2009 at 07:38
- SustantivoMasculino said...
~slick and tailored.. so clean on edges and makes a real gentleman.
- 14 August 2009 at 10:08
- Florent said...
I was not too fond of the Pierce Brosnan remake... at all.
But it is not the point : it indeed seems to be an exquisite to British classic tailorism. For I who seek such inspiration, it is a goldmine! I'll go and rent it right away! (or download it illegally).
Love it!
Florent - http://www.lhabitfaitledandy.com/
- 14 August 2009 at 16:26
- Paul Rayson said...
The director of the original beatifully described the film as a "love affair between two shits". I'll watch the sequel. I find Brosnan a bit cheesy, otherwise I'd have done it by now. I understand the post is well over a year old, by the way, but this is a fast response for me. Paul Rayson, Steve McQueen Style
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Collateral thinking – The impact of central clearing on insurers' assets
Sponsored roundtable: BNY Mellon
The Panel
BNY Mellon Global Collateral Services
Mark Higgins, managing director, EMEA business development
Swiss Re
Andra Page, senior risk manager
Friends Life
Jin-Wee Tan, head of investment projects
Legal & General
Frank Turley, group treasurer
How does your company currently use derivatives? To what extent do you use clearing at the moment?
Frank Turley, Legal & General: We are a fairly extensive user of derivatives: both at group level, in terms of derivative overlays for risk management purposes; and within individual funds, which we've delegated to Legal & General Investment Management (LGIM), our fund manager. In terms of Legal & General (L&G) Group companies, we are not yet clearing centrally, albeit LGIM are clearing for some of their segregated clients and most of their pooled funds within liability-driven investments.
Andra Page, Swiss Re: We are a medium-to-low derivative user. We primarily use derivatives for hedging or asset and liability management and, occasionally, as overlay in cases where derivatives can provide opportunities to enhance returns. We have some insurance-related derivatives, some of which can be relatively complex because of the combination, or hybrid, between financial risk and insurance risk.
Are you clearing any of them at the moment?
Andra Page: For US entities, similar to other market participants, we are obliged to clear all interest rate swaps and credit default swap indexes traded after June 2013. For trades existing before June 2013, we have the option – but not the obligation – to clear at this stage. We have done some analysis around existing trade packages that could be cleared in a cost-efficient way.
Jin-Wee Tan, Friends Life: We use derivatives in a number of different ways but mostly for long-term hedging. Some asset managers can trade derivatives on a discretionary basis, but the bulk of our positions are originated by the life company to be executed by the asset managers of the investment portfolios. At the moment we are not clearing over-the-counter derivatives though we will. We will probably delegate that responsibility to our asset managers.
Mark Higgins, BNY Mellon: I think the question is more interesting when you ask are you ready, or have you been ready for the last two years, to go into a cleared environment? Like so many on the buy side, broadly speaking, there was a period of head-in-the-sand reluctance to prepare, which changed around 2012. It accelerated, with people getting ready for it in 2013, and then there was a delay. So people are using derivatives to varying degrees and they've accepted that they have to move into a cleared environment. Then they will look for the best opportunities when that new world comes through.
Jin-Wee, how far has Friends Life progressed in analysing the impact of the central clearing regime?
Jin-Wee Tan: I tend to think in terms of the operational impacts so, for me, it's really around bringing together the various strands of our derivatives operating processes and standardising them, making sure that when we move into central clearing we only manage a limited number of central clearing processes, one or two clearing brokers, and they clear with one or two clearing counterparties.
There is a potential impact on the investment strategy because you are not generally allowed to use corporate bonds as eligible margin. You have to use high-quality government bonds and cash. That has an impact on the returns you get in the portfolios. A lot of work is being done at the moment around assessing what that potential impact may be.
Andra Page: We have chosen two financial clearing houses based on our analysis of their initial margin calculation techniques. We have carried out assessments to see which one is most beneficial from a cost and operational perspective.
One important aspect before starting clearing was valuation – ensuring consistency between internal valuations for clearable trades and those used by clearing houses. The market standard is for the clearing house to use local currency overnight indexed swap (OIS) discounting, based on posting variation margin in the currency of the trade. Thus, we ensured bilateral trades eligible for clearing, but with non-local currency credit support annex agreements in place, can be switched to local currency OIS, if cleared.
You say you've picked two clearing houses. On what basis did you choose those?
Andra Page: On consideration of cost, transparency and operational efficiency. For instance, the degree of transparency provided with respect to the clearing house's initial margin calculation techniques and collateral accepted. Or transparency of the exchange-traded derivatives that various clearing houses allow to be cross-margined, with clearable derivatives.
Jin-Wee Tan: How much analysis have you done on the pass-through of the margin call from the clearing counterparty via clearing broker to yourself? One thing I found interesting was that, when your clearing counterparty sends a margin call to your clearing broker, your clearing broker then passes that on with a mark-up and that mark-up can be quite substantial – multiples of the actual margin call from the clearing counterparty. So one of the things I'm trying to do is optimise that as much as possible, because it's going to have far greater impact than the variation margin calls coming from the clearing counterparty. So, actually, a clearing broker is probably as important.
Mark Higgins: Are you saying that your concern is the add-on – how much you're being charged as the add-on by the clearing broker?
Jin-Wee Tan: Correct. And there must be scope to optimise that, given the level of competition.
Mark Higgins: In terms of getting it down as low as you can between the brokers?
Jin-Wee Tan: Ideally, there would be a transparent pass-through from a clearing counterparty in terms of variation margin calls. The worst I've seen is up to three times the variation margin call. So, if the variation margin call is 10 million, the clearing broker could then debit my margin account by 30 million. The day-to-day impact is clearly on variation margin because it just means that you have to sweat your repurchase agreements (repo) desk very hard to raise the requisite cash. One of the things I have to do before clearing comes into force is to ensure that I get the variation margin call as low as possible when it hits my margin account.
Mark Higgins: And in the right currency, because you're potentially going to have multiple currency calls.
Jin-Wee Tan: We don't tend to have a great deal of non-sterling derivatives, so there's less of an issue there.
Mark Higgins: You said you've got to get your repo desk working really hard, but how do you get a repo desk that works so hard that it has virtually instantaneous cash in an account? It still has to have time to strike a trade, time to book it, time to make things move around.
Jin-Wee Tan: It's a challenge. The easy solution would be to hold more cash.That has an impact on investment strategy and available liquidity.
Mark Higgins: It is really interesting what you said about getting your repo desk to work, but a lot of businesses like yours don't have a repo desk and some of the investment managers don't have a repo desk, per se.
Jin-Wee Tan: There are a number of insurance businesses that are hiring repo traders to do precisely this – meet cash requirements for central clearing.
Frank Turley: In the same way that banks over the last 10–15 years have developed very sophisticated collateral management/repo management desks, the insurance industry will be doing exactly the same thing. The whole idea 10 years ago, where you actually posted whatever was convenient collateral, has gone. So it'll be about actually making sure you understand what collateral is the cheapest to deliver based on the collateral terms, delivering that and keeping good collateral back and optimising that process.
Taking a high-level view, central clearing is reducing counterparty exposure but is resulting in an increase in liquidity risk.
In our analysis, we project forward five and 10 years to work out what we think the landscape will look like. I think this is quite important because it's very easy to focus on the new trades that will be cleared centrally, but we and other insurance companies have got quite large back books of existing derivatives.
Depending on the timing of regulation, the back book may, at some stage, be caught by central clearing. So we need to make sure, not only, that we are comfortable in terms of the new trades going forward, but also the management of the back book as well.
Mark Higgins: So would you back-load them or would you just let them mature as they are?
Frank Turley: Our view is that we will leave the back book alone. There is little advantage to us in having these trades cleared immediately; however, as and when they need to be re-couponed or if we need to do some form of trade consolidation, then these trades may need to be centrally cleared.
Central clearing is here to stay and, as we look forward five and 10 years, we believe there will be an increase in the range of trades that will be eligible for central clearing.
Mark Higgins: If it can be cleared it will be cleared. I think the stock lending world will see it, I think the repo world is heading towards it and I think, once this regulatory sea change is proven to work, then that's what has to happen. In 2015, probably halfway through, the regulators will say: 'I told you it was going to work. What's next?' I think that's where it carries on.
Frank, has L&G selected a clearing house?
Frank Turley: Yes, currently LCH, but we will be looking to add additional clearing houses later this year. We have a market-leading investment manager as part of the group and they drove the process in terms of selecting the direct clearing members and the central clearing counterparty; we reviewed and adopted LGIM's recommendation. There is a lot of analytics going on behind the scenes, but there's also an awful lot of work going on to ensure that we are compliant with trade reporting, risk mitigation obligations for uncleared trades and European Market Infrastructure Regulation (Emir) counterparty classification. We have many legal entities within the L&G Group, and some are classified under Emir as financial counterparties and others are classified as non-financial counterparties.
Have you reached the point where you have started to assess how the clearing regime is going to affect your choice of derivatives and the risk management strategies you might employ?
Frank Turley: Yes. First and foremost our focus is on the strategic asset allocation. Then, for regulatory reasons we have various constraints. Central clearing superimposes another boundary, or constraint, to our strategic asset allocation.As opposed to looking at this from a central clearing perspective, we're actually looking at it from a top-down perspective.
Will you, for instance, reduce the number of interest rate swaps you use?
Frank Turley: When we bring on new business, we're acutely aware that our asset allocation will then drive the use of derivatives, so we're making sure that the implications are priced in. This forms part of our pricing optimisation process.
Andra, to what extent have you started to analyse those consequences?
Andra Page: We do not expect central clearing to have a significant impact on our derivative use. Aside from the costs associated with initial margin, one of the problems the market is facing is that not all the products have been cleared at the same time. For instance, in the case of existing vanilla swaps hedging exposures from derivatives not yet clearable – such as cross-currency, interest rate volatility products – it is more cumbersome to manage risks, especially when the collateral agreement in relation to the bilateral non-cleared derivative is somehow different to the collateral agreement for the cleared trades. This can impact the way derivatives will be used going forward but, most likely, institutions will not stop using derivatives solely because of clearing requirements.
Jin-Wee Tan: I think, at the margins, it could change the way we use derivatives. One example I can think of is where the initial margin cost is higher for a longer-term swap, relative to shorter-term swaps. At the margin, that might change our decision to use a long-term swap and try and find a cash asset to match that particular liability exposure. We will not stop trading derivatives just because of central clearing, I don't see that happening. We may reduce our use of derivatives a little, but there are so many variables that go into that calculation that it is impossible to tell.
To what extent are you analysing how your pool of potential collateral will have to change?
Jin-Wee Tan: I think the first step is probably to analyse what Andra described, which is to look at the clearing counterparty's model of how it calculates margin requirements. That has to be a constraint on our asset allocation. The variable mentioned about the pass-through charge from a clearing broker is important as well. So, if you boil it all down, we may find that we have a large additional gilts and cash requirement, and then we need to figure out how to do that.
Do you think you will need to increase your allocation of cash and gilts?
Jin-Wee Tan: I couldn't say for certain but my planning has been on the basis that we will have to and it's, really, a worst-case scenario.
Frank, are you likely to have to increase cash and gilts?
Frank Turley: That's a very difficult question to answer as it is a multi-dimensional problem. First of all, the quantum of gilts an insurance company will hold is not only dictated by central clearing – there are other criteria as well. Solvency II will have an impact on that. L&G has committed to investing in long-dated UK infrastructure. So, naturally, as that forms more and more of our asset allocation then our derivative requirement for some of our overseas hedging reduces.
The other point is that, as an insurance company, we need to be mindful that our regulators ask us to consider the impact that various stresses may have on our business. A lot of the intellect goes into making sure that under these stressed scenarios we actually have enough collateral. I'm comfortable that we will have sufficient collateral.
Within large insurance companies there may well be many different entities. Some are financial counterparties, some are not. You have to take a step back and ask whether you have, as a group, sufficient eligible collateral. It may be the case that the eligible collateral is in one pot, but not in the other. Effective management of liquidity and collateral within insurance companies will become far more important.
Jin-Wee Tan: If you had your annuity business in a separate entity, you then have a collateral requirement related to the long-dated swaps held by that entity, which is possibly not funded by gilts. The gilts to fund your collateral may be elsewhere within the group. It's a good idea to ensure that the gilts are actually fungible between entities, and that's a major challenge.
Would you want to centralise derivatives purchasing from one central desk and manage everything through that, rather than buying derivatives through individual entities?
Jin-Wee Tan: It's hard to do that because you don't necessarily get the capital relief that you would have if you did the hedging in the funds. But I can foresee a world where collateral management is run through one entity for all the other entities within the organisation.
Frank Turley: I think it goes back to this parallel I drew earlier, in that banks have become very astute as to how they run their collateral management, repo management and funding operations. They typically have one funding desk for the whole organisation, irrespective of the different books or which country the different books are in. That's where I think other financial institutions will get to over a period of time.
Have you reached the point where you have an idea of what structure is going to be optimal?
Frank Turley: Yes, I think we have it very well thought-out at a strategic level. Derivatives have to sit within the legal entity that they are required for, however, making sure there is fungibility of liquidity and collateral at a group level becomes very important, in order that we can get the right collateral to the right place at the right time.
Andra Page: We have a central function managing collateral. It is not my responsibility in the firm, but I believe it is a challenging task due to varying regulatory requirements in different jurisdictions. Do we have a problem with the collateral? Not that I am aware of. To my knowledge, we are comfortable with our levels of high-rated securities and we are exploring opportunities to generate return from collateral management.
So having a security financing desk that is lending collateral.
Andra Page: The firm has a securities lending business that swaps different qualities of collateral for return-generation purposes, subject to risk management limits. It is not my responsibility in the firm but there are potential opportunities to do more in this space, given the regulatory clearing requirements.
Mark Higgins: It's interesting to hear you say you're doing that. I think there is going to be demand in the market, probably in about two years' time when we really see what the volumes are going to be. But it sounds like you have the risk appetite to take that and you have the correct assets that the rest of the market wants.
I am often asked if there is enough collateral in the world to meet the future needs. There is enough collateral, but it's all locked up in the grand scheme of things. So we have to try and unlock it and get it into the right hands, at the right places and at the right time, otherwise we will face problems.
Frank Turley: I think, with banks' balance sheets shrinking, the ability of banks to continue to be large players in repo markets is going to be key.
Jin-Wee Tan: It's not the end of the world if you don't have enough collateral. It's about finding smart ways to improve the quality of that collateral and to ensure that you have a strategy in place to post collateral when it is needed. It's not insurmountable. Insurance companies need to recognise the fact they need to start playing in this space. It's not enough to just up their levels of gilts and cash if required.
So, for instance, developing a repo capability.
Jin-Wee Tan: Yes, to get the repos or to do collateral transformation or liquidity management strategies – generally, to become more sophisticated.
Do you think there is going to be an opportunity for Friends Life to make money out of this?
Jin-Wee Tan: My personal view is there may be an opportunity to make money and many businesses start this way in asset management. You start with a desk that services the needs of the life company. That desk creates products that are good enough to market to clients while the whole business grows.
Frank Turley: We all know why central clearing was introduced. It's going to cost money initially, but it's going to force the insurance industry to become much more focused on the liquidity and collateral requirements of the balance sheet in the long term.
Mark, do you think that is a view shared by many in the insurance industry, that there is going to be an opportunity to generate revenue? Or do you think most companies are still thinking about how they are going to get hold of collateral?
Mark Higgins: I have been touring Europe for the last three years talking about this stuff and I think this is the first time I've actually heard three people agree that there is potential opportunity. Once it starts, then you'll know whether you've got the excess and whether you can enter into the fray. I wouldn't expect anybody to go out there before the door into clearing is open, because you just don't know what you're going to get on day one and you have to look after yourself first. So I think it will be an interesting play in 2015 – maybe in the second half – once we see what the world is going to look like for insurers.
Andra Page: There is an impact from regulations, particularly when assets held to match liabilities on a statutory basis are required to be unencumbered, so cannot be posted as collateral. Regulatory clearing will certainly impact securities lending due to increased demand for higher-rated securities.
What are the key issues to focus on this year with regard to the preparations? What are the major challenges?
Frank Turley: Clarity on the regulations.
Mark Higgins: Flexibility is one of the most important things we've learnt I think, as an industry, over the last three years. The deadlines look pretty set in stone but, again, they could probably move.
Jin-Wee Tan: I think this is one of the odd instances where there is actually value in being a second mover. The first mover incurs a lot of costs and sets the path for everyone and makes the mistakes that everyone else can learn from. So one can learn a lot from sitting back in one sense.
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- Other causes of symptoms, such as tuberculosis or other lung diseases, must be ruled out.
People with chronic bronchitis have chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). This is a large group of lung diseases that includes chronic bronchitis. These diseases can block air flow in the lungs and cause breathing problems. The two most common conditions of COPD are chronic bronchitis and emphysema.
Chronic bronchitis is not caused by a virus or bacteria. Most experts agree that the main cause of chronic bronchitis is cigarette smoking. Air pollution and your work environment may also play a role, especially when combined with cigarette smoking.
Chronic bronchitis often happens with other lung diseases, such as:
- Asthma
- Pulmonary emphysema
- Scarring of the lungs (pulmonary fibrosis)
- Sinusitis
- Tuberculosis
- Upper respiratory infections
Below are the most common symptoms of chronic bronchitis. But each person may have slightly different symptoms.
Symptoms may include:
- Cough, often called smoker's cough
- Coughing up mucus (expectoration)
- Wheezing
- Chest discomfort
People with chronic bronchitis usually have a cough and make mucus for many years before they have shortness of breath.
Chronic bronchitis may cause:
- Disability
- Frequent and severe infections that affect your airways
- Narrowing and plugging of your breathing tubes (bronchi)
- Trouble breathing
Other symptoms may include:
- Bluish fingernails, lips, and skin because of lower oxygen levels
- Wheezing and crackling sounds with breathing
- Swelling of the feet
- Heart failure
The symptoms of chronic bronchitis may look like other lung conditions or medical problems. See your healthcare provider for a diagnosis.
Your healthcare provider will take a complete medical history and do a physical exam. He or she may order the following tests:
Pulmonary function tests
These tests help to measure the lungs' ability to move air in and out of your lungs. The tests are usually done with special machines that you breathe into. They may include the following:
Spirometry. A spirometer is a device used to see how well your lungs are working. Spirometry is using the spirometer to look at your lung function. It is one of the simplest, most common pulmonary function test. It may be used for any or all of these reasons:
- To find out how well your lungs take in, hold, and move air
- To keep watch on a lung disease
- To see how well treatment is working
- To find out how serious your lung disease is
- To find out whether your lung disease is restrictive or obstructive. Restrictive means less air will get into your lungs. Obstructive means less air will get out of your lungs.
Peak flow monitor. This test measures the fastest speed you can blow air out of your lungs. Inflammation and mucus in the large airways in the lungs narrows the airways. This slows the speed of air leaving the lungs and can be measured with a peak flow monitor. This measurement is very important in telling how well your disease is being controlled.
Arterial blood gas
This blood test is used to check the amount of oxygen and carbon dioxide in your blood. It also measures the acidity of your blood.
Pulse oximetry
An oximeter is a small machine that measures the amount of oxygen in your blood. To get this measurement, a small sensor is taped or clipped onto a finger or toe. When the machine is on, a small red light can be seen in the sensor. The sensor is painless, and the red light does not get hot.
Chest X-rays
This test makes pictures of your internal tissues, bones, and organs, including the lungs.
CT scan
This imaging test uses a combination of X-rays and computer technology to make horizontal, or axial, images or slices of the body. A CT scan shows detailed images of any part of the body, including the bones, muscles, fat, and organs. CT scans are more detailed than general X-rays.
Treatment for chronic bronchitis is aimed at treating the symptoms. It may include:
- Quitting smoking
- Avoiding secondhand smoke and other lung irritants
- Taking oral medicines to open airways and help clear away mucus
- Taking inhaled medicines, such as bronchodilators and steroids
- Getting oxygen from portable containers
- Having lung reduction surgery to take out damaged areas of the lung
- Getting a lung transplant, in rare cases
- Humidifying the air
- Pulmonary rehab to help you learn how to live with your breathing problems and stay active
- Bronchitis is inflammation of the breathing tubes (bronchi). There are several types of bronchitis, but the most common are acute and chronic.
- Chronic bronchitis is often part of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). This is a group of lung diseases that cause airflow blockage and breathing problems.
- The most important cause of chronic bronchitis is cigarette smoking. Air pollution and your work environment may also play a role.
- Chronic bronchitis causes a cough that's often called smoker's cough. It also causes you to cough up mucus, wheeze, and have chest discomfort. These may get worse over time and lead to severe breathing problems.
- Tests that help measure how well your lungs are working are used to diagnose chronic bronchitis. Blood, breathing, and imaging tests may also be used to see how severe the problem is and watch it over time.
- The goal of treatment for people with chronic bronchitis is to live more comfortably by controlling symptoms. A key part of treatment is to quit smoking.
Tips to help you get the most from a visit to your healthcare provider:
- Know the reason for your visit and what you want to happen.
- Before your visit, write down questions you want answered.
- Bring someone with you to help you ask questions and remember what your healthcare provider tells you.
- At the visit, write down the name of a new diagnosis, and any new medicines, treatments, or tests. Also write down any new instructions your healthcare provider gives you.
- Know why a new medicine or treatment is prescribed, and how it will help you. Also know what the side effects are.
- Ask if your condition can be treated in other ways.
- Know why a test or procedure is recommended and what the results could mean.
- Know what to expect if you do not take the medicine or have the test or procedure.
- If you have a follow-up appointment, write down the date, time, and purpose for that visit.
- Know how you can contact your healthcare provider if you have questions.
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The Lee County Sheriff's Office Economic Crimes Unit and the Fort Myers Police Department have arrested 30 people in a check cashing scam.
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Beth Minardi took the stage on Monday January 28, to introduce her new Beth Minardi Signature Hair Color to Chicago area colorists at the Rivers Casino in Des Plaines, Illinois.
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Elk County Commissioners on Tuesday approved changes to Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) documentation during a board meeting.The changes are from contracts dating back to fiscal year 2009."For those funding years, we had approved a project for the Johnsonburg Community Center to install flooring for the building," said Tracy D. Gerber, CDBG coordinator for Elk County's planning department, as she referenced fiscal years 2009 and 2010. "We're modifying that application to use the funding to purchase and install a new ventilation system and a new ADA-compliant chair lift for the swimming pool area. "It does require modifications for the state [officials] and there was a public hearing [Tuesday morning] at 9:30 a.m. and no public comments were received."Officials also addressed issues with a contract from fiscal year 2012."This application is due to the state by April 27 and the dollar amount is $212,568 to fund a project in Wilcox," Gerber said. "This is a storm water project that will alleviate flooding in a section of town for $180,683. The remainder of that funding will be for administration of that program-- $31,885."In other news, the commissioners voted to:*approve the use of the Elk County Courthouse steps and area in front of the courthouse for a youth event sponsored by The River Outreach on Friday, May 4, 2012 from 5-11:30 p.m.*approve the use of the courthouse lawn on Saturday, May 19, 2012 from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. for the Ridgway Community Yard Sale.*appoint Lisa Marchiori to complete the term of Gwen Auman on the Elk County Redevelopment Authority. Her term will end Dec. 31, 2014.


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Virginia V. Fry, 93, of Wapakoneta, died at 10:15 p.m. Friday, June 1, 2012, at the Wapakoneta Manor.
She was born on Dec. 3, 1918, in Logan Township, Auglaize County, the daughter of William and Blanche (McCord) Cook, and they preceded her in death.
On June 20, 1940, she married Robert E. Fry, and he preceded her in death on Sept. 25, 2008.
She is survived by three sons, Robert E. (Carla) Fry Jr. of Columbus, David W. (Donna) Fry of Ypsilanti, Mich., and Mark D. Fry of Wapakoneta; six grandchildren, Bryan (fiancee Amanda Jacobs) Fry of Columbus, Bradley (Janine) Fry of Essen, Germany, Alyssa Fry of Columbus, Jennifer Fry of Scottsdale, Ariz., Lori Fry of San Diego, Calif., and Justin Fry of Wapakoneta; two great-grandchildren, Lukas Fry and Austin Fry of Essen, Germany; a brother, Kenneth Cook of Lima.
She was preceded in death by four sisters, Doris Brookhart, Norma Doering, Donna Place and Mary Helen Cook.
A homemaker, Virginia was a member of the Buckland United Church of Christ, where she enjoyed participating in the CCC Sunday school class and serving as the Sunday school pianist. She was a 1936 graduate of Buckland High School and enjoyed doing hand work, traveling and being with her family.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Bayliff & Eley Funeral Home, Ohio 501, Wapakoneta, with the Rev. Adrian Sunday officiating. Burial will follow in the Buckland Cemetery. The family will receive friends from noon to 2 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home.
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Real World Power
The SI-2125 delivers 125 watts per channel at 8 Ohms, 200 watts per channel at
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After taking a podium in last year's Suzuka 8-Hour with Team Kagayama, Kevin Schwantz has signaled his intention to race again at the iconic endurance race. Riding for the Yoshimura Legends team, Schwantz will be reunited with his teammate from the 1986 Suzuka 8-Hour race, Satoshi Tsujimoto.
The reunion of the former teammates will help Yoshimura celebrate its 60th anniversary; and since Schwantz & Tsujimoto finished third in 1986, they will be looking again to bring results for Yoshimura Suzuki.
In addition to the "Legends" squad, Yoshimura will also field the two-man Yoshimura Shell Advance Suzuki team, which will be comprised of BSB rider Josh Waters and All Japan Superbike Takuya Tsuda.