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Accordion Bursts
Bursts from ATP with alternating incremental and decremental scanning.
ACE Inhibitors
Most heart failure patients are on angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors. They can help control symptoms and may slow the advance of the disease. ACE inhibitors reduce the heart's workload by making the blood vessels expand, which lowers blood pressure. They also reduce the tendency to retain salt and fluid.
Adaptive Rate
The ability of a device to increase or decrease its pacing rate in response to bodily needs, activity, or exercise.
Decision rule (for detection in the case of the ICD). For example, rhythm onset and stability applied to the cycle length sequence.
A Class III agent with broad antiarrhythmic action and extremely long half life.
Angiotensin II Receptor Blockers
Similar to ACE inhibitors, these are used to keep blood pressure from rising. They lower blood pressure without lowering the heart rate.
Antiarrhythmic Drugs
Medications designed to prevent or treat cardiac arrhythmias.
Anti-Tachycardia Pacing (ATP)
Often the first type of therapy used by an implantable heart device to treat a fast heart rhythm by delivering short bursts of pacing pulses.
An irregular heartbeat. This could be a rhythm that's abnormally slow (bradycardia) or a rhythm that's too fast (tachycardia). Read more about bradycardia and tachycardia.
See Coronary Artery Disease.
Atrial Fibrillation
Extremely rapid, irregular atrial impulses. This rapid rate, ranging from 300–600 beats per minute, does not allow the atria to pump blood effectively into the ventricles. It can also cause irregular rapid ventricular beats.
Atrial Flutter
A cardiac arrhythmia in which the atrial contractions are rapid (230-380 per minute), but regular.
Atrioventricular Node (AV node or AV junction)
Conduction tissue situated at the junction between the atria and ventricles. In the absence of any disease or drug effects, transmits impulses in 1-to-1 fashion from atria to ventricles during sinus rhythm (albeit with some physiologic delay). However, may conduct only intermittently during pathologically rapid atrial rhythms (e.g., atrial fibrillation).
One of the two upper chambers of the heart. The left atrium fills with oxygenated blood from the lungs. The right atrium fills with deoxygenated blood returning from the body.
Automated External Defibrillator (AED)
Portable devices used to electrically stimulate a fibrillating heart. Using an external defibrillator, strong electric shocks are passed between paddles and electrodes placed on a person's chest.
Background Current
Also known as monitoring, sensing, overhead, or idle current. This is what the ICD circuitry consumes continuously in the absence of any therapy delivery.
These medications help control heart rate and reduce the heart's tendency to beat faster. They are used to help the heart maintain a slower rate and lower blood pressure and are often used in combination with diuretics, digoxin and ACE inhibitors.
Blood Thinners
Used to reduce the risk of blood clots in the legs, lungs and heart.
Beats per minute.
(See also bradycardia, below) These are slow heart rhythms, which may arise from disease in the heart's electrical conduction system. Examples include sinus node dysfunction and heart block.
A condition in which the heart beats at less than 60 beats per minute. This heart rate may be too slow or irregular to meet the body's demands. (This is different than a physically fit person who may have a heart rate below 60.) Read more.
Calcium Channel Blockers
Sometimes used to help lower blood pressure and improve blood circulation in the heart.
Unit which measures capacitor charge storage ability for a given voltage.
Cardiac Catheterization
A heart procedure used to diagnose heart disease. A catheter (inserted into an artery in your arm or leg) is guided to your heart, contrast dye is injected and X-rays of the coronary arteries, heart chambers and valves are taken.
Cardiac Perforation
Penetration of the lead tip through the myocardium, clinically suspected and confirmed by chest x-ray, fluoroscopy, echocardiogram, or visual observation, which results in clinical symptoms, typically degradation of pacing/ICD lead electrical performance (high thresholds), chest pain, and
Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy (CRT)
Implantable device therapy for people with moderate to severe heart failure who also have ventricular dysynchrony. Helps the lower chambers of the heart (left and right ventricles) beat together again.
Specializes in the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of diseases of the heart and blood vessels.
A degenerative disease of the heart's muscle tissue.
Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)
The mechanical pushing of the heart (hands pushing on rib cage) and breathing (through the mouth) done in a rhythmic pattern. These actions keep blood and oxygen circulating through the body. CPR is often used as a first emergency response until an external defibrillator can be applied to restart the heart.
Cardiovascular Nurse
A nurse who works in a hospital area where patients with arrhythmias and other heart problems are monitored.
Cardiovascular Technician
Assists doctors with cardiovascular procedures and surgeries.
Conversion of an abnormal cardiac rhythm (VT or atrial tachyarrhythmia) to a normal one either by the use of medication or by the application of electric shock, as with a defibrillator. Shock strength is typically lower than that for VF.
Catheter (cath lab/electrophysiology(EP)) Lab Nurse
Participates in electrophysiology studies and surgeries for pacemakers and implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs).
Cell (electrical)
A single chamber "battery;" a battery is technically only 2 or more cells.
Ceramic Capacitor
A capacitor using a solid ceramic material for the dielectric.
Charge Time
The time required to bring the energy storage capacitors in an ICD to a full charge in order to deliver a therapeutic shock; normally ranges from 5-18 seconds. Equals to: (desired stored energy + unformed capacitor losses) / (battery power * inverter efficiency %)
Charging Circuit
Circuitry which converts the 3-6 Volts typically available from the battery to the much higher voltage (usually up to 750 Volts) for a defibrillation shock.
Chemotherapy drugs
Certain drugs used in chemotherapy may weaken the heart muscle and result in a low ejection fraction and heart failure.
Cardiovascular implantable electronic device (CIED)
Cardiovascular implantable electronic devices include the pacemaker (PM), implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD), cardiac resynchronization device (CRT), implantable loop recorder (ILR) and implantable cardiovascular monitor (ICM). Pacemakers, ICD and CRT devices collectively have been termed cardiovascular implantable electronic devices (CIEDs).
Class IA agents
Sodium blocking anti-arrhythmic drugs which also slightly prolong cardiac action potential.
Class IB agents
Sodium blocking anti-arrhythmic drugs which also slightly shorten or do not affect cardiac action potential.
Class IC agents
Sodium blocking anti-arrhythmic drugs which primarily slow conduction without prolonging the cardiac action potential.
Class III agents
Potassium blocking anti-arrhythmic drugs which primarily prolong cardiac action potential.
Conduction Pathway
Pathways that conduct electrical impulses from the SA node through the atria, through the atrioventricular (AV) node and around the ventricles, thereby causing the heart to beat and pump blood throughout the body.
Conductor Fracture
A mechanical break within a lead conductor (includes connectors, coils, cables and/or electrodes) observed visually, electrically, or radiographically.
Congestive Heart Failure
A term often used to describe heart failure.
Coronary Artery Disease
Chronic condition in which a clogged artery prevents the heart from receiving sufficient blood.
Unit of charge equal to 6 x 10^18 electrons.
Crush Injury
Lead fractures caused by mechanical stresses in the region of the costoclavicular joint.
Pacing mode of dual chamber (atrial or ventricular) pacing and sensing, with inhibition of pacing in either chamber by a sensed rate above a programmed value.
An ICD therapy option used to treat ventricular fibrillation. Defibrillation consists of high-energy shock impulses.
Device interrogation
The use of telemetry to retrieve information from the ICD, its programmed parameters and data stored in its memory. These data may be retrieved and stored directly in an ICD's programmer, on a dedicated personal computer or retrieved and stored remotely on a server to be viewed on an Internet website.
Diagnostic Test
This is a test that is ordered by a physician to determine or rule out a condition. Read more.
Diuretics (water pills)
Medications prescribed for fluid retention and swelling of feet, legs and abdomen. Diuretics prompt the kidneys to filter more sodium and water from the blood. With less fluid in the body, the heart can pump and circulate blood with less effort. Additionally, diuretics can decrease fluid retention in the lungs, ankles, legs and other parts of the body.
A medication that increases the force of the heart's contractions to relieve heart failure symptoms. Slows certain types of arrhythmia.
Shortness of breath, one of the classic symptoms of heart failure.
A condition in which the two lower chambers of the heart are not beating together as they do normally. In a normal heart, both sides beat together and are effectively "synchronized."
Echocardiogram (or "echo")
A test that provides a measurement of how well your heart is pumping and is a key indicator of your heart's function.
A physician who performs cardiovascular examinations using echocardiograms to produce a picture of a heart and great vessels using high-frequency sound waves.
Abnormal accumulation of excess fluid in the intercellular tissue spaces. Read more.
Ejection Fraction (EF)
A measurement of how much blood (what fraction or percentage of blood) the pumping chambers of the heart (the left and right ventricles), are able to pump out or eject and supply to the organs (brain, kidneys, liver, etc.) and muscles of your body. An Ejection Fraction of 50% or above is often considered normal.
Electrocardiogram (ECG)
A test that records the electrical activity of the heart, revealing evidence of previous heart attack, enlargement of the heart and abnormal rhythms.
Electrogram (EGM)
Intracardiac electrical signals corresponding to cardiac activity. Internal equivalent to surface ECG.
Electrophysiologist (EP)
A cardiologist with specialized training in the diagnosis and treatment of heart rhythm problems.
Electrophysiology (EP) Study
A study used to evaluate the electrical system of the heart. Read more.
Also known as Electromagnetic Interference, it is any magnetic or electrical interference from machines or devices which can interrupt the normal operation of a pulse generator.
A rare but serious infection of the lining of the heart (endocardium) or heart valves, which can cause the heart to work less efficiently.
External Defibrillation
An electric shock given to the heart through paddles placed on the chest in order to restart the electrical system of the heart. External defibrillation may be done using a manual external defibrillator or an automated external defibrillator (AED).
External Defibrillator
A portable device used to electrically stimulate a fibrillating heart. Using an external defibrillator, strong electric shocks are passed between paddles and electrodes placed on a person's chest.
External Loop Recorder
A device that monitors heart rhythm and rate for up to one month. During this test, the patient wears a device on the wrist or around the waist. When symptoms are experienced, the patient presses a button on the device to make a recording of the heart activity that just occurred.
Failure to Capture
Intermittent or complete failure to achieve cardiac stimulation (atrial or ventricular) at programmed output delivered outside of the cardiac refractory period. A sudden and significant increase in the pacing threshold value (elevated thresholds compared to previous measured value) at which 2:1 safety margin can no longer be achieved.
Failure to Sense (undersensing)
Intermittent or complete loss of sensing or failure to detect intended intrinsic cardiac signals (atrial or ventricular) during non-refractory periods at programmed sensitivity settings.
Follow-Up Nurse
Works in clinics or hospitals and checks the implantable device (pacemaker or ICD).
Heart Attack or Myocardial Infarction
When the heart muscle is damaged because blood is blocked from reaching it, a heart attack occurs. A heart attack is also called a myocardial infarction (MI) because the middle layer of the heart muscle (myocardium) is damaged or is non-functional (infarct).
Read more.
Heart Failure
Heart failure occurs when your heart muscle doesn't pump as much blood as the body needs. "Failure" doesn't mean that the heart has stopped pumping, just that it is failing to pump as effectively as it should. Heart failure is most often caused by a problem with the left ventricle of the heart.
Heart Failure Specialist
A cardiologist who focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of heart failure.
Heart Rhythm Team
A team of doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals who provide care for your heart condition and other medical conditions. See the Doctors and the Heart Care Team page for more information.
Heart's Electrical System
The heart has its own electrical system. Special tissues conduct electrical signals that travel along pathways through the heart to stimulate the heart to beat, that is, the contractions of the heart's chambers pump the blood throughout the heart and into the body. See the How Does a Healthy Heart Work? page for more information.
Heart Valve
Valves within the human heart that open and close automatically to control the flow of blood into, through, and out of the heart. These valves open to ensure that blood flows into the heart chambers as needed, and they close to ensure that blood does not flow back into the heart after it has been pumped out to the lungs and body.
High Blood Pressure (Hypertension)
A condition where the heart is working harder than normal to force blood into the arteries and through the circulatory system. Over time, high blood pressure can cause damage to the heart and other organs.
Holter Monitor
A device that measures and records heart rhythm over 1-3 days. This test may be done when an ECG does not show the arrhythmia and it still is suspected to be the cause of symptoms. Patches with wires are placed on the chest. The wires are connected to a portable monitor that can be attached to a purse or belt.
Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD)
An ICD is a small device placed inside the body that treats abnormal heart rhythms. It can deliver several types of therapies, including cardioversion, defibrillation, and anti-tachycardia pacing. An ICD is usually implanted in the upper chest or in the abdominal area.
Implantable cardiovascular monitor (ICM)
ICMs are implantable electronic devices that store cardiovascular physiologic data such as intracardiac pressure waveforms and other data in the device memory, but instead of focusing only on heart rhythm, the hemodynamic and cardiovascular physiologic information stored in these devices is used as an aid in managing patients with chronic cardiac diseases such as heart failure.
Industry employed allied professional (IEAP)
The IEAP has expertise with CIED technology and is employed by the CIED manufacturer. Although the IEAP may have formal credentials of a CIED nurse or EP lab technician and may be certified by the International Board of Heart Rhythm Examiners as a certified cardiac device specialist, there are limits on the roles and activities that these people can engage. The details are listed in Section 4 and quoted from the 2001 NASPE guidelines for the "Industry Employed Allied Professional."4Go
Insertable Loop Recorder
A device that continuously monitors the heart rhythm for up to 14 months. This small device is placed under the skin during an approximate 20-minute procedure using a local anesthetic. When a symptom is experienced, the patient places a hand-held activator over the recorder to record the heart activity. Later, a physician analyzes the stored information.
Insulation Breach
A disruption or break in lead insulation observed visually, electrically, or radiographically. Examples include: 1) proximal abrasions associated with lead-on-lead or lead-on-PG contact in the pocket, 2) mid-lead insulation damage caused by clavicular crush or insulation wear in the region of vein insertion, and 3) distal region wear due to lead-on-lead (intracardiac), lead-on-heart valve or lead-on-other anatomy contact.
The energy of a pulse of one volt and one ampere lasting one second. It is also about 1/4 of a calorie.
A thin, insulated wire with electrodes (electrical contacts) located near the tip.
Lead Dislodgement
Radiographic, electrical or electrocardiographic evidence of electrode displacement from the original implant site or electrode displacement that adversely affects pacing and/or lead performance.
Monitor Technician
Observes heart rhythm monitors on the post-operative hospital floor. Other duties may include performing electrocardiograms (ECGs) and administering patient follow-up care.
MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) scan
A medical test used to produce images of the interior of the body. MRI uses strong magnetic fields and low-energy radio waves to create images. The strong magnets can interfere with the functioning of a pacemaker, ICD, or neurostimulator. If you have one of these devices, do not participate in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) tests without informing your physician about your implanted device.
Multiple Gated Acquisition Test (MUGA)
A small dose of radioactive material is injected intravenously into the bloodstream. A scanning device then reveals how much blood the heart is able to eject out of both the left and right ventricles.
Myocardial Infarction (MI)
See Heart Attack.
Infection of the heart's muscle tissue, which inflames the heart and makes it unable to pump as efficiently.
North American Society of Pacing and Electrophysiology (NASPE)
An organization of physicians, scientists, and nurses throughout the world dedicated to the study and management of cardiac arrhythmias.
Nuclear Scan-Cardiolite
For this test, a radioactive substance is injected during exercise. Then a special image is taken of the heart to see how well blood is flowing through the heart.
Nuclear Stress Test
Also known as an isotope, thallium, Cardiolite or Myoview stress test, depending upon the method used. For this test, a radioactive substance is injected during exercise. Then a special image is taken of the heart to see how well blood is flowing through the heart.
NYHA Class I, II, III, IV
A classification system developed by the New York Heart Association widely used to diagnose the functional class, or severity, of heart failure based on symptoms one experiences with exertion. NYHA Class I and II are considered mild, Class III is moderate to severe, and Class IV is considered severe heart failure.
Operating Room (OR) Nurse
Participates in surgeries for pacemakers and implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs).
Misinterpretation of cardiac or non-cardiac events as cardiac depolarization, e.g. T-waves, skeletal muscle potentials, and extra cardiac electromagnetic interference (EMI).
A pacemaker system is a two-part electrical system that includes a pulse generator (pacemaker) and one or two leads, or wires, which deliver impulses to the heart. The leads also carry signals back from the heart. By 'reading' these signals, the pulse generator is able to monitor the heart's activity and respond appropriately. A pacemaker helps to pace the heart when the natural rate is too slow (bradycardia) to pump enough blood to the body.
A mineral that helps control heart rhythm and is important to the nervous system and muscles. Diuretics remove potassium, so doctors may advise some patients to increase potassium intake.
Premature atrial contractions (PACs)
These are early extra beats that originate in the atria (upper chambers of the heart). They are harmless and do not require treatment.
Premature ventricular contractions (PVCs)
These are among the most common arrhythmias and occur in people with and without heart disease. This is the skipped heartbeat we all occasionally experience. In some people, it can be related to stress, too much caffeine or nicotine, or too much exercise. But sometimes, PVCs can be caused by heart disease or electrolyte imbalance. People who have a lot of PVCs, and/or symptoms associated with them, should be evaluated by a cardiologist. However, in most people, PVCs are usually harmless and rarely need treatment.
A device designed to receive telemetry from a family of CIEDs from a specific manufacturer, often used in the clinician's office. It will display and print the information to the operator and temporarily or permanently adjust (program) the behavior of the implanted device. Generally the programmer technology includes a specifically modified microcomputer and a programming wand or antenna to communicate with the CIED. The programmer magnet is often placed over the implanted device to collect information stored in it. It is usually fitted with a printer, storage devices such as hard drives and communication connections such as Ethernet, USB, WiFi, infrared and parallel and serial ports.
Pulmonary edema
Accumulation of fluid in the lungs usually due to heart failure.
Recommended Replacement Time.
ECG manifestation of ventricular depolarization. Also called QRS complex.
Radionuclide Angiogram (RNA) Test
See Multiple Gated Acquisition Test (MUGA).
Risk Assessment Quiz
A quiz designed to assess a person's risk for Sudden Cardiac Arrest.
Sinoatrial Node (SA node)
A group of cells located in the right atrium that sends out electrical signals which make the heart pump. The SA node is the heart's natural pacemaker. These signals travel from the SA node, through the atrioventricular (AV) node, and then to the rest of the heart. The SA node also responds to the need for a faster heart rate. If a person is exercising or excited, the body will require greater blood circulation. A healthy SA node responds to these changes in the body and increases the heart rate accordingly.
Sinus Node (SA node)
See Sinoatrial Node.
A narrowing of an artery.
Stress Test
Reveals how well the heart functions during exercise. See the Diagnostic Tests page for more information.
Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA)
Sudden cardiac arrest is when the heart's lower chambers (ventricles) suddenly develop a rapid, irregular rhythm (ventricular fibrillation) and the quivering ventricles cannot pump blood to the body.
Sudden Cardiac Death (SCD)
Natural death due to cardiac causes, noted by abrupt loss of consciousness and cardiac arrest within an hour of the onset of acute symptoms. Pre-existing heart disease may or may not have been known to be present.
Supraventricular Tachycardia (SVT)
A fast arrhythmia (over 100 beats per minute) that originates an electrical impulse in the atrium.
Superior vena cava, especially an electrode in this location.
Lithium silver vanadium oxide cell (used in most ICDs).
Supraventricular tachycardia.
A temporary loss of consciousness due to lack of blood to the main portion of the brain (the cerebrum), fainting.
Synchronized shock
Used for cardioversion and delivered to coincide with a sensed ventricular event (depolarization), thereby minimizing the likelihood of inadvertently inducing VF.
Portion of cardiac cycle during which the ventricles depolarize and contract.
Cardiac electric waveform corresponding to ventricular repolarization.
T-wave oversensing
Counting T-waves as ventricular depolarizations and hence deriving a falsely elevated heart rate. T-wave oversensing might result in inappropriate shocks.
Tachyarrhythmias are a fast or irregular heart rhythm, usually more than 100 beats per minute and as many as 400 beats per minute. Read more.
Telemetry is the wireless transmission and reception of data to and from the ICD. The word is derived from the Greek roots tele (meaning remote), and metron (meaning measure).
Tilt Table Test
This procedure attempts to simulate conditions that may cause arrhythmia. It enables a physician to understand how blood pressure, heart rate and rhythm respond to a change in position from lying down to standing. The patient is positioned on a table, given medication, and the table is tilted by varying degrees. The test typically lasts for a couple of hours.
Twiddler's Syndrome
First described in 1968, twiddler's syndrome refers to permanent malfunction of a pacemaker (or ICD) due to the patient's deliberate or subconscious spinning of the pulse generator in a capacious pocket. Not to be confused with Twitter Syndrome.
Valvular Heart Disease
One of the heart's four valves may be narrowing (stenosis) or leaking, restricting blood flow through the heart. In certain cases, valvular endocarditis (infection of the heart valves) may cause damage to the valves, impairing blood flow.
Medications that cause the blood vessels to widen or relax so blood can flow more easily. ACE inhibitors are one type of vasodilator.
One of the two lower chambers of the heart that are responsible for pumping blood throughout the body. The right ventricle pumps blood depleted of oxygen back to the lungs where carbon dioxide is exchanged for oxygen. The left ventricle pumps oxygen-rich blood to the entire body.
Ventricular dysynchrony
A condition where the lower chambers of the heart do not beat at the same time due to a delay in the electrical conduction system.
Ventricular Fibrillation (VF)
A heart rhythm disorder that originates in the ventricles. It is characterized by an abnormally rapid heart rhythm that is also highly unstable and irregular. During VF, electrical signals are moving chaotically through the heart, preventing it from beating properly. This often results in fainting. If left untreated, it may result in sudden cardiac arrest.
Ventricular Tachycardia (VT)
A heart rhythm disorder originating in the ventricles. Rapid contractions prevent the heart from filling adequately with blood between beats. Patients may feel faint, become dizzy or collapse. It can be life-threatening if not treated.
Pacing mode of continuous ventricular pacing.
Unit of voltage which is electrical pressure analog and represents the force driving the current through its path.
Pacing mode of ventricular sensing and ventricular pacing with inhibition of pacing by sensed rate above a programmed value.


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Caution returned to Wall Street Monday as investors gave back some gains from last week's rally even as they found some encouragement from a report that construction spending fell less than forecast. They were also upbeat about President-elect Barack Obama's calls for an economic stimulus package that could include tax cuts.
Stock indexes pared early losses of more than 1 percent to fluctuate in a narrow range. Some retreat was to be expected after investors sent the Dow Jones industrial average soaring to a two-month high on Friday; investors are wary about pouring more money into the battered market with economic data still generally weak.
The Dow Jones industrials have closed down 81, or 0.91 percent, at 8,952. Broader indexes ended with more modest declines.
Investors, however, were relieved Monday after the Commerce Department said construction spending dropped by 0.6 percent in November, half the 1.3 percent decline Wall Street expected.
The market also looked to Washington for direction on the economy. Obama urged congressional leaders on Saturday to work quickly on economic measures that aides say could cost as much as $775 billion, including a reported $300 billion in possible tax cuts.
"There is some optimism out there that there is going to be a massive stimulus package by Obama that is going to get passed and that will help the economy," said Greg Church, chief investment officer of Church Capital Management in Yardley, Pa.
Church warned, however, that a recovery will be difficult.
"The economy is still very weak. Unemployment is still high and is likely to get worse," he said. "This first six months is going to be a roller coaster. I just think we're in a little bit of a positive mode here."
Advancing issues outnumbered decliners by about 2 to 1 on the New York Stock Exchange, where volume came to 655.7 million shares.
On Friday, the Dow shot up more than 250 points to its first close above 9,000 in two months. Last week, all the major indexes gained more than 6 percent, furthering a rally off multiyear lows that began Nov. 20.
Bond prices pulled back Monday. The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note, which moves opposite its price, rose to 2.50 percent from 2.39 percent late Friday. The yield on the three-month T-bill, considered one of the safest investments, rose to 0.08 percent from 0.07 percent.
The dollar mixed against other major currencies, while gold prices fell.
Crude oil prices rose 36 cents to $46.70 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
Despite Monday's early selling, investors are hopeful that the market's strength over the past several sessions can continue. Last week's advance came as many traders were on vacation, making trading volume light and some of the market's moves less convincing.
"We had a good tone coming out of the year," said Richard E. Cripps, chief market strategist for Stifel Nicolaus, but "not all participants were involved. What we're looking to see is how much of those gains we give back."
Analysts expect Wall Street will remain jittery in the coming months as companies release their quarterly results and, more important, their forecasts for the year. Analysts are expecting terrible profit reports and cautious forecasts but anything worse than expected could rock the market.
Kim Caughey, equity research analyst at Fort Pitt Capital Group, said investors are already bracing for lackluster corporate results, a stance that could cap Wall Street's disappointment.
"I think it may put a limit on the downside because we're already expecting things to be terrible. It's not going to take a whole lot to meet or exceed terrible," she said.
Caughey warned, however, that modest expectations likely won't be enough to take the market higher.
"It's just going to limp along," she said of the economy.
Some stocks and sectors saw selling Monday as analysts issued downbeat forecasts. JPMorgan Chase & Co., which last year scooped up operations from ailing banks Washington Mutual and Bear Stearns, fell after a Deutsche Bank analyst late Sunday reduced his 2009 profit forecast. He predicts the company will see increases in soured loans.
In other news, Apple Inc. eased some investors' worries about the health of Chief Executive Steve Jobs. Wall Street closely associates his vision with the company's success. In a letter released Monday, Jobs acknowledged his recent weight loss, and said his doctors believe he has a hormone imbalance. Jobs, a survivor of pancreatic cancer, will continue as CEO during his recovery. Apple rose $4.61, or 5.1 percent, to $95.36.


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I just saw a cool open source product to freshen up an old mp3 player from Rockbox. It is a firmware product to improve the user experience if your outdated player needs a kick and it is free of course. It supports a lot of Apple's players obviously but also does not leave out the less popular players which is a huge positive for me. I have a Creative Zen which is not on the list yet but my daughter has a Sansa which is possible to upgrade. My experience has been that the player may die before I get tired of the firmware but I am very rough on my players. To be honest though, I have never even thought about the possibility of changing the firmware on a player. Good thing this internet thingy is still around for ideas to flow every which way. There may even be a different firmware that is available for my Zen so I will have to start a search. I am pretty happy with what I have but there is no harm in window shopping.
All this being said, be careful & if you don't know what you are doing you should leave well enough alone. It can void your warranty but chances are that it is out of date anyway if you need new firmware. True geeks won't have much fear though. Some of the screenshots I saw over at Lifehacker were very nice. So give this software a try on that old ipod that is collecting dust in your drawer. I think I will experiment on my wife's Nano today since it is jacked up anyway and will not turn off.


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E.U. asks Tehran to compromise on nukes
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ALMATY, Kazakhstan (AP) — Talks seeking to find common ground between Iran and a group of six nations over concerns that Tehran might misuse its nuclear program to make weapons appeared to run into trouble shortly after they began Friday.
A Western diplomat said Iran had failed to deliver "a clear and concrete response" to the offer on the table from the group and instead offered a "reworking" of proposals it made last year at talks that broke up in disagreement.
The diplomat said the move was puzzling for the six nations. He demanded anonymity in exchange for discussing the confidential talks taking place Friday and Saturday in the Kazakh commercial capital, Almaty.
Iran is demanding international recognition of its right to advanced nuclear technology, but other countries are concerned that the Islamic Republic wants to misuse that expertise to make atomic arms.
Comments by representatives of the sides laid out starkly different visions of what each sought from the other.
The six insist Iran cut back on its highest grade uranium enrichment production and stockpile, fearing Tehran will divert it from making nuclear fuel to form the material used in the core of nuclear warhead. They say Iran must make that move — and make it first — to build confidence that its nuclear program is peaceful.
Iranian negotiator Ali Bagheri challenged the six countries on that point, telling reporters "what is being referred to as confidence-building measures are actions that both sides ... need to take" simultaneously.
He gave no specifics, but the comment could be an allusion to Iranian demands of sweeping sanctions relief instead of the offer from the six offering only a limited lifting of sanctions.
It also wants any nuclear concessions it makes to have specific limits instead of leading to others. Alluding to that demand, Bagheri said his country wanted to nail down "the start of the process, the dimensions of the process and the final outcome of the process."
And he described any would-be nuclear deal as only "part of a comprehensive process," suggesting Iran was still holding to its earlier demands of a broader deal also addressing security issues.
Such views were unlikely to sit well with the six — the United States, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany.
At the talks in the Kazakh city of Almaty they are asking Tehran only to greatly limit its production and stockpiling of uranium enriched to 20 percent, which is just a technical step away from weapons-grade uranium. That would keep Iran's supply below the amount needed for further processing into a weapon.
But they view that only as a first step toward the process. Iran is operating more than 10,000 centrifuges. While most are enriching below 20 percent, this material, too could be turned into weapons-grade uranium, although with greater effort than is the case for the 20-percent stockpile.
Tehran also is only a few years away from completing a reactor that will produce plutonium, another pathway to nuclear arms.
The U.N. Security Council has demanded a stop to both that effort and all enrichment in a series of resolutions since 2006. Iran denies any interest in atomic arms, insists its enrichment program serves only peaceful needs, says it has a right to enrich under the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and describes U.N. Security Council demands as illegal.,
Ahead of the meeting an EU official speaking for the six world powers said Friday the onus was on Iran to engage on the six-nation offer, which foresees a lifting of sanctions on Iran's gold and petrochemical trade but keeps penalties crippling Iran's oil sales and economy in place.
"The core issue here is the international community concern of the very strong indications that Iran is developing technology that could be used for military purposes," said Michael Mann, spokesman for EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, the formal convener of the talks.
"There are suspicions of an enrichment program that could have military uses," he said. "The confidence building has to come from Iran because it is Iran that is developing its nuclear program."
The meetings Friday and Saturday are at best expected to achieve enough progress for agreement to hold another round of talks. But after 10 years of inconclusive negotiations, even an agreement to keep talking would give both sides short-term gains.
It would leave the international community with some breathing space in its efforts to stem Iran's nuclear advance. For Tehran, continued negotiations are insurance that neither Israel nor the United States will feel the need to act on threats to move from diplomacy to other means to deal with Iran.
Israel says Iran is only a few months away from the threshold of having material to turn into a bomb and has vowed to use all means to prevent it from reaching that point. The United States has not said what its "red line" is, but has said it will not tolerate an Iran armed with nuclear weapons.
Any strike on Iran could provoke fierce retaliation directly from Iran and through its Middle East proxies in Syria, Lebanon and Palestine, raising the specter of a larger Middle East conflict.
Copyright 2013 The Associated Press.


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SURFING is a stereotype, you are are stereotype, and if you oggle girls bikinis or boys in budgie smugglers online you perpetuate said stereotypes. Call someone gay for pulling-back on a wave and you are perpetuating homophobia through the medium of humour.
This a personal bug-bear, whiter than white do-goody types lecturing us mortals on our moral waverings. Shouldn't we be past all this in 2013? Black white, gay, straight, tall, short, ginger, who gives a flying fleck? But ultimately it all depends if you believe in equality, and you probably should, because there's no moral argument for not doing so. Extend the argument and a world removed from these personal moral and ethical restraints, now commonly codified into law, will eat you up like a gnat standing toe-to-toe with a steamroller.
But sadly our sport of kings is riddled with inequality and prejudice, from girls being paid a fraction of the boys whilst feeling they have to expose every inch of flesh to the almost total absence of homosexuals in our wave-riding culture. Dismounting the moral high horse, it seems unbelievable in this day-and-age that this door still needs to be busted down, that these superficial artifices shielding a long departed audience haven't disolved into irrelevancy. But there they are, still standing, and OUT in the line-up is zeroing in on the "no gays in the surfing village" myth like a heat seeking missile.
My personal prediction is that this particular door doesn't need much to be kicked down, as much as ridiculed, the water is about to rip the hinges out and when it does surfing shouldn't take long to catch up with mainstream cultural opinion. Who knows, perhaps surfing can then act as a beacon for other sports like professional football, cricket, rugby where this outdated taboo seems to still hold fast.
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Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Maybe we should care more about the sanctity of the game, and fair play, and the inviolability of the game's milestones and records. But at this point, we just don't give a shit.
If there is anything good that has come out of this week's events, it may be that A-Rod provides an exclamation mark onto the end of this era. Maybe now, we can just accept that it is impossible to look at the last 15 years of baseball and pluck out the inconvenient and unpalatable numbers of a few bad eggs, and just accept the fact that everybody was probably doing something.
People have been trying to separate the black-hatted bad guys from the noble and righteous good guys in all of this mess so that they can align themselves with the pure essence of the game. Our souls were all going to be cleansed in seven or eight years' time when Rodriguez (the personally flawed but professionally impeccable slugger) claimed the home run record from the dastardly Barry Bonds. What a relief that would have been.
Except that it was all a load of hooey anyways, and people need to just get over themselves.
We need to stop relying on multiple anonymous sources and ill-gotten grand jury testimony to root out the cheaters, because it will only prove to be an endless and futile proposition to try to separate the good guys from the bad.
(Wasn't there a time when four anonymous sources wasn't enough to forge ahead on a story? If you want to write a piece about how players took the easy way out and circumvented the virtuous path, wouldn't it be best if you yourself didn't circumvent the more difficult path of getting an on-the-record source?)
We need to stop discounting the achievements of hitters from this era, like Rafael Palmeiro, Sammy Sosa, and Mark McGwire, because there's really no way of distinguishing their achievements from those who got caught. It's become a fool's errand.
Knowing what we now know, is there anyone who feels as though they could take the information gleaned this week and make the claim that Carlos Delgado rightfully deserves the 2003 AL MVP award since we know that A-Rod took performance enhancers?
Not to imply anything...but we're not about to stake out that supposed moral high ground for ourselves.
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well put Tao.
- February 10, 2009 at 11:56 AM
I believe that Thomas never used steroids.
That guy is a class act
- February 10, 2009 at 12:17 PM
- Tao of Stieb said...
Henry Thomas? From E.T.?
- February 10, 2009 at 12:25 PM
you're being weird
- February 10, 2009 at 12:26 PM
- Tao of Stieb said...
YOU'RE being weird.
- February 10, 2009 at 12:32 PM
- Lloyd the Barber said...
The only thing worse than the steroid witch hunt is the sanctimonious Canadian horseshit about no positive NHL tests.
They're just good ol'boys, working hard at the sod farm.
Never mind that hockey players have the MOST to gain from using PED, not to mention the sudden increase of athletes playing into their 40's in a high contact sport. BASEBALL IS FOR CHEATERS
- February 10, 2009 at 12:39 PM
Aroid is not alone, how 'bout Frank Thomas and Co. Maybe Vernon should take HGH! Or even his lazy friend, Rios. It's funny how Aroid came out and lied 'bout Selena Roberts..........
Bruno Von Rottweiller
- February 10, 2009 at 12:47 PM
Fuck it the majortiy was probably on something, who cares! They were all playing by the 'rules' that Bud had at the time. A-Rod, Bonds, McGwire, Clemens you always hear about but what about all the others who did it but didn't set any records or had a hard time staying in the bigs - Howie Clark, Gregg Zaun, Nook Logan, Bobby Estalella, Ozzie Canseco, Sergio Mitre.
You still need to hit the ball, catch the ball, throw strikes.
Bonds, McGwire, et al., all deserve to be in the Hall of Fame - they still took illegal substances and that should be handled by the law but the person baseball should go after is BUD SELIG - this happened under his watch and he refused to do anything about it!
- February 10, 2009 at 12:48 PM
Tao is WEIRD !
- February 10, 2009 at 12:53 PM
- dave said...
I kind of get why people get upset. Baseball more then any other sport uses stats as a way to compare a player from one era to another. Players who used performance enhancing drugs fucked that comparison right up.
That being said, I'm with you Tao. I'm tired of the witch hunts, I'm tired of all the self-righteous bullshit spewing from reporters. Lets move on. Or if we can't move on at least lets lay the blame on all involved. Out of Left Field made a great point about how the enablers of all this (agents and owners) are getting off completely free while individual players are being hammered.
Furthermore, and lastly, I cannot believe that Rodriquez' name was the only one released in this anonymous test. I dislike the man just as much as anyone but that is some serious bullshit right there.
- February 10, 2009 at 1:21 PM
- the expos said...
Frank Thomas? Classy?
- February 10, 2009 at 2:45 PM
Yeah, but .... NOT Greg Maddux, right?
- February 10, 2009 at 3:17 PM
How is Thomas not classy ?
The guy has always carried himself the right way
He didn't leave here on great terms, but what do you expect. He hits 26 homeruns, and the next year gets stiffed by Rogers for his at-bat bonus.
He was the only one who actively spoke against steroids. That takes integrity
- February 10, 2009 at 3:50 PM
Root them all out and embarass them in front of the world...yes, I am jealous of their women and money.
- February 10, 2009 at 4:08 PM
- eyebleaf said...
Wait a second. So, was Carlos on the juice or not?
- February 10, 2009 at 4:08 PM
I say yes, so long as we add Mike Mussina to the list too. It's only fair, and we need to put any HoF talk about him to rest too.
- February 10, 2009 at 5:28 PM
- the expos said...
He may have been against steroids but its pretty public knowledge the guy was a dick and a royal clubhouse pain in the ass at times.
- February 11, 2009 at 3:12 PM
Because he has standards
- February 11, 2009 at 3:33 PM


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- Last updated: 2013-03-23
- Percentage of completion: 95%
2013-02-21 beta1 released, upstream feature freeze. 2013-02-22 Rebuild done in rawhide 2013-02-23 Rebuild done in Fedora 19
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Umpqua Bank aims to be part of S.F. community
Umpqua Bank's slick new flagship branch in San Francisco's Financial District looks like a cross between an Apple Store, a Starbucks and a W Hotel lobby.
Upon entering the branch, which opened Monday at 450 Sansome St., visitors are offered free samples from San Francisco's Tcho chocolates, free coffee (a house blend) and free use of the branch's computers and iPads. There is a Muni schedule out front and bike racks inside. If you need to run an errand, you can borrow a bike provided by San Francisco's Public Bikes.
The bank offers free meeting space for small businesses, nonprofits and community groups, complete with coffee mugs, wineglasses and a big screen for Skyping out-of-towners.
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There is an interactive touch-screen wall that features a rotating lineup of local businesses and personalities and bank products. There is also a retro-style silver phone. Dial 8, and you will be connected directly to Ray Davis, Umpqua's president and chief executive.
Customers who actually need a banker can use what Umpqua calls its mobile concierge center in the front or its banking bar (which looks more like a hotel reception desk) in the back.
The idea is to lure people into the branch with the hope that some will become customers, Davis said when he visited last week.
Davis views himself "not as a banker but as a retailer," says banking analyst Brett Rabatin of Sterne Agee. "He does a lot of things differently. He wants his employees to treat people really well."
The staff at Umpqua was trained by Ritz-Carlton.
Converting branches
Umpqua of Portland, Ore., is the largest bank headquartered in that state and has eight smaller Bay Area branches that it acquired when it bought Novato's Circle Bank for $25 million in November. "We are just starting to Umpquatize them," says bank spokeswoman Eve Callahan.
The flagship branch, designed by McCall Design Group in San Francisco and Huen of Portland, is the first Bay Area location it built from scratch.
The only bank in the Bay Area that remotely resembles Umpqua's new flagship is Capital One 360 on Post Street, which opened in late 2011 as a branch of ING Direct (which was later acquired by Capital One). It combines a bank with a cafe and also offers community meeting spaces.
Not just banking
Davis says Umpqua invented the concept of bank-as-community-hub 19 years ago. All of Umpqua's 200-plus branches in Washington, Oregon and California have some features found in the San Francisco location and have hosted events such as yoga classes, Christmas-package decorating and homeowner association meetings. At one, a photographer took "dog glamour shots," Davis says. "There was a line out the door for that."
At a time when more people are banking online or via mobile device, it is odd to see a bank investing so much in its branches. "What (Davis) is doing is in sharp contrast to what most people would say you should do: focus on efficiency. You don't need a ton of bank branches to be effective," Rabatin says.
But Davis says, "Banking is still a relationship business." Customers "want personal contact, not every day, but when they want it."
He says the challenge for banks is "sustaining the relevancy" of a branch. "Some want to be in here for an hour. Some want out in three seconds. We have to meet both needs."
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Umpqua mainly serves consumers and small businesses. It inherited a portfolio of loans made on homes owned as tenants in common from Circle, but does not plan on making new TIC loans except in rare situations. It will offer jumbo mortgages, but would prefer them to be part of a larger banking relationship, Davis said.
The San Francisco flagship employs 40 people on two floors - six in the ground-floor branch and the rest on the 13th floor working in international banking, wealth management, home lending and private banking.
Davis estimates it will take 15 to 18 months for the flagship to break even, compared with six or seven months for a neighborhood branch. He would like to open more branches "where people live, work or walk," but is somewhat dismayed by the lengthy approval process in many San Francisco neighborhoods.
Standing out
Umpqua Bank has $12 billion in assets and $9.5 billion in deposits and ranks among the largest 60 banks nationwide. The parent company, Umpqua Holdings, is publicly traded.
"Relative to the industry as a whole (all publicly traded banks), Umpqua has delivered above-average returns and loan growth in recent periods," says Joe Morford, an analyst with RBC Capital Markets.
In the second quarter, it generated a 0.92 percent return on assets. The median for all banks was 0.85 percent. Its loan growth in the second quarter was 7.2 percent on an annualized pace versus a 5.7 percent median for all banks.
Morford says everything about Umpqua, including its name, from the Oregon river valley where it originated, "helps them stand out from the pack. They always seem to be pushing the envelope."
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Canadian mobile operator Rogers has announced on its official blog plans to bring in more Lumia 920 stock, with a stronger selection of colours for consumers. Taking feedback into account, the team reports that the network will offer the Windows Phone in red, white and yellow. As well as this, there's also a small contest where you could win one of the new Lumia 920s.
Rogers argues it was the first network to launch a Windows Phone 8 smartphone. That may be the case, but we've certainly no forgotten just how difficult it was to physically locate one for purchase. The Mobile Nations team raided a number of stores across the country, until eventually we managed to snatch one.
The new Lumia 920s will be available at Rogers stores and online in the next handful of weeks, which paints the picture that Nokia is going full steam ahead on production. The Windows Phone must also be doing quite well for the mobile operator to consider taking on not only more units, but more versions of the same smartphone.
We mentioned a small contest, didn't we? Rogers is giving away one of the new Windows Phones it'll be receiving in the next few weeks as a little token of appreciation for the patience of customers over the last few months. So how does one enter to be in with a chance? Simple, all that's required is to comment on the article detailing the new Lumia 920s (not this one, but the on the Rogers blog).
Before January 31st, those who comment on the blog post detailing which colour he (or she) is most exited about and what they're looking forward to doing most on the new Lumia 920, will be considered for the prize. Three winners will be selected - one for each colour. Terms and conditions are present, and note that entries must be 150 words or less.
It's reported on the blog post that the new coloured variants of the Nokia Windows Phone are already available on Rogers Reservation System for existing customers to reserve. Good to see more support from Canadian networks.
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Texans search for respect begins with the unthinkable
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Barring Jerry Jones going completely bonkers in his search for more "Gloryhole" and moving the Cowboys to Arkansas, the Dallas Cowboys will always be the No. 1 team in Texas in the eyes of most who live here.
Sorry, Texans fans. I know it hurts, given your team name and all. And for Oilers fans that are still clinging to the Luv Ya Blue days and harboring resentment over the Run N' Shoot collapses in 1992 and 1993 … well, at least the Astrodome is still standing – except now it's rats running the field rather than Earl Campbell and Warren Moon.
But Texans fans have something major at stake this weekend when their team heads back to New England to face the Patriots in a game that no one outside of Reliant Stadium and a few diehard fans thinks the Texans can actually win. Considering the 42-14 shellacking in week 14 and the subsequent swoon to end the season, why should anyone expect any different?
And while there's something to be said about state legitimacy and fighting the "little brother" status that the Texans undoubtedly deal with living in the shadow of the Cowboys – right or wrong – there's something else the Texans can earn with a W in New England – respect.
For the better part of the season, many Texans fans clamored for that ellusive R-word, suggesting that the national media and even some of us in the local Houston media who were not from the area were not giving the team its proper respect when it, along with a recent playoff pretender the Atlanta Falcons, boasted one of the best records in the NFL this season.
A 42-24 beatdown on national TV at the hands of the 2010 Super Bowl champion Green Bay Packers – at home – elicited a few whispers that maybe the Texans weren't as good as folks thought. Nonsense, cried most, and a 43-13 whipping of the Baltimore Ravens the subsequent week silenced many.
Yet here we are, the Texans winners of two of their last five, and heading back to New England where this late season swoon began. The letterman jackets, the early 21-0 deficit —all of this taking place on national television in prime time.
The Texans return trip prompted The Boston Globe's Dan Shaughnessey to pen a column in which he called the Texans "frauds," the "worst 11-1 team in NFL history" and suggested the team "wet itself" and was "scared" the last time it came to New England.
Even the Patriots' color commentator on the team's radio broadcast, Scott Zolak, a former backup quarterback on the team, tweeted out after the Texans win over the Bengals, "Bring these frauds on."
I asked several Texan players in the locker room following the game for their thoughts on being called frauds.
"He called us what?" asked outside linebacker Brooks Reed. "We'll see; we just have to have a great week of preparation. That's what we had this week."
Connor Barwin, who has played nearly every snap for the Texans defense this year, seemed annoyed by the insult. "Well, everybody had us losing this week too, but we won," he said
"Everybody's going to talk, so it's up to us to go up there and show 'em what we're about. I'm not too worried about what (Zolak) has to say," said special teams standout Brian Braman.
Tight End Owen Daniels, who had struggled since the bye week, came alive in the Cincinnati Bengals' win with 9 catches for 91 yards. He's not worried about the return trip to New England or the name-calling.
"We'll see how that turns out," said Daniels with a wry smile on his face. "We're excited about going back up there. That's all I'll say."
And second-year pro Derek Newton, who missed the first New England game with a knee injury but is back to 100 percent now, is jazzed about getting to face the Patriots and had arguably the best response to Zolak's criticism: "All I'll say about that is we're back. This isn't the same team from a month ago. We're back."
So the table has been set, the shots have been fired, and now the Texans are walking into Gillette Stadium, the house that Tom Brady built, for a shot at NFL legitimacy that comes when you beat the best.
The Texans are one of the NFL's better teams. Make no mistake about it. And even if the Texans can go into New England on Sunday and do the unthinkable, the Texans won't establish themselves as Texas' team, but it would go a long way toward putting Houston among the NFL elite, a place fans in these parts have been waiting almost 20 years to get to.
Fred Davis is a former staff writer and current contributor to The Examiner. He is also co-host for the Houston Sportsradio 610 show The Odd Couple with Barry Warner and Fred Davis.


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Galefury wrote:In that case it might actually be a good idea to set a (of course realistic) release date if you can. It's news to report, and news means publicity, and publicity hopefully means preorders. There used to be a bit of hype around DD early in the beta development, but it's all gone now because there simply was nothing to report. It's time to get people excited about DD again!
Hype building is going to be starting again in a month or so - have to figure out how we're going to do a DD trailer, etc.
Perhaps it would be interesting to ask what you forumites, probably the most clued-up in terms of DD development, think we're actively working on right now? That would help us figure out how much communication is actually getting out there - between what we tweet, what we say in email, what happens between us in meetings and how we're - y'know - actively talking about this all day every day here that's not online at all, it's really hard to remember what's been 'announced' and what hasn't.


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An Aiken man has been booked into the Aiken County detention center in relation to a shooting incident that occurred Saturday night, according to the Sheriff's Office.
Capt. Eric Abdullah reports Demetris Williams, 27, is expected to be charged with attempted murder and possession of a weapon during the commission of a violent crime.
The Sheriff's Office received a 911 call at approximately 11:34 p.m. from a witness that there was someone lying in the street near 3001 Vaucluse Road. Responding deputies located the victim who appeared to have suffered multiple gunshot wounds.
With the assistance of witnesses, deputies identified and located Williams at his residence on Eutaw Street, according to Abdullah.
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MANILA, PHILIPPINES - While developing Asia must build a firewall against possible escalation of the global financial crisis, it must not veer from long-term structural reforms already underway to further its economic transformation, delegates at the Governors' Seminar at the 45th Annual Meeting of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) heard today.
"While authorities continue to strengthen macroeconomic resilience to shocks, we also need to reinvigorate focus on the region's long-term development goals," ADB President Haruhiko Kuroda said. "The ultimate challenge is to continue transforming economies in a way that promotes peoples' welfare and reduces poverty."
The region must update its growth model to accommodate a "new normal" - prolonged restructuring in advanced economies - and surmount obstacles to sustained and equitable growth in developing Asia, according to the How Can Asia Respond to Global Economic Crisis and Transformation report presented at the seminar.
Asia can weather a renewed financial crisis and weakened export demand from developed markets, but long-term prosperity hinges on relying more on domestic and regional markets as well as expanding ties with Latin America and Africa, the report says.
Currently, the national focus is on containing crisis risks from potential financial contagion and weaker trade. Regionally, there is need for a strong, effective and adequately resourced financial safety net to complement national and global financial arrangements, the report said.
This year could prove crucial. Financial tensions in Europe could escalate further. And there remains concern over the fledgling economic recovery in the United States.
The report urges policymakers to keep monetary policy flexible to respond to extreme exchange rate volatility and use fiscal stimulus to support domestic demand if needed.
The greatest challenge for policymakers is to manage these near-term issues while maintaining Asia's successful, ongoing economic transformation as a global growth engine. Specifically, growing inequality between rich and poor will eventually threaten the region's growth and stability, the report warns. To counter this, Asia must invest more in human development and social services to better equip its people to benefit from the opportunities of rapid growth. Key medium to long term measures to support this transformation include:
- Rebalancing growth toward domestic sources- consumption and investment;
- Strengthening finance, deepening markets, and fostering financial inclusion;
- Improving the business and investment climate;
- Preparing people for future jobs, upgrading industry, and environmentally sound urban planning;
- Boosting intra-regional trade and expanding "South-South" links;
- Deepening regional cooperation and integration.
The global crisis is a wake-up call for Asia. The region's policymakers not only have to boost Asia's resilience to external shocks in the near-term but also tackle the risks posed by ongoing global rebalancing and overall structural transformation. The report notes that although authorities in the region have begun addressing a number of these challenges, there is no room for complacency and more needs to be done.


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LAS VEGAS -- Police in Las Vegas have cleared former baseball slugger Jose Canseco after an investigation of a woman's rape claim.
Officer Jose Hernandez said Friday that detectives closed the sexual assault case with a decision not to seek criminal charges.
The 48-year-old Canseco was never arrested in the case.
He went public about the investigation May 22 with postings on the social media network Twitter.
He tells The Associated Press that he took two polygraph tests to prove he was telling the truth.
Canseco says he was falsely accused and is considering filing a civil lawsuit seeking damages against his accuser.
The former Oakland Athletics star hit 462 career home runs during a career that included stints with seven major league teams from 1985 to 2001.
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crammed on the shelves, piled on the table, clutched in little hands, tucked under pillows and covering our laps... books are everywhere in our little place; freshly read, forgotten about and waiting, or being scoured for inspiration. eve studies the animal books and grabs her pens, ruth finds the illustrations of her favorite dresses then runs to the closet, charlie listens to the clack of the wooden book's turning pages and dances. the picture book inspiration is not for the kids only; occasionally there is a book that i cannot stop looking at, cannot stop reading and cannot stop thinking about.
caps for sale is such a book. each time i pull it out - and i pull it out a lot - i am struck. not by the simple story or the giggles the peddler and naughty monkeys elicit from the girls (although these are constant and wonderful), but i am struck by the handful of bold, lovely colors chosen to tell the story. i often feel this way about books from the 40s, but this book is an exception even among its fine peers. a perfect and simple combination of bright colors, with plenty of white thrown in the mix.
after years of staring and admiring i decided to make a quilt based solely on the palette of this fun book. the perfect solids were found, but after several months the quilt has yet to form- in my head or otherwise. in its place plans for little, simple, clothes highlighting this palette gestated and are being brought into the world just in time for the warmth that has finally arrived.
round one: dresses for the girls.
if we can tolerate not taking in every second of the spring glory going on outside, these dresses will soon be joined by play clothes in ms. slobodkina's inspiring palette. but, as ruthie says, "we have some business too. like the monkeys. but that business is outside. ya, playground business."


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