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Published: Apr 5, 2001 4:32 p.m. ET

Traders looking ahead to Friday's key jobs report

NEW YORK (CBS.MW) - Treasurys moved modestly lower on Thursday, nudging yields higher, as bulls reigned in the stock market.

Equity strength both dulls the appeal of the short-dated Treasurys that provide investors cover from stock losses and argues against an early interest-rate cut from the Federal Reserve.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -0.22% rallied 400 points, or 4.2 percent, to 9,918 after Dell DELL said it would meet profit expectations for the quarter. The technology-concentrated Nasdaq Composite $COMPQ surged 146 points, or 8.9 percent, to 1,785. Read more in Market Snapshot.

The fixed-income market is looking for at least a 50-basis-point rate reduction from the central bank when its policy-setting arm next meets on May 15.

Prices and yield have drifted in recent sessions, however, as market participants assess the likelihood the Fed could move early or administer a more dramatic rate adjustment than the popular forecast for a half-point.

But traders also said that one day of stock market recovery didn't entirely make up for the impact that drained equity wealth was having on the economy. The broad Standard & Poor's 500 stock index skidded to its lowest close since October 1998 on Wednesday.

In recent trade, the 10-year Treasury note was off 15/32 at 100 7/32 to yield TNX, -0.29% 4.97 percent or a gain of 6 basis points, while the 30-year government bond shed 23/32 at 97 26/32 to yield TYX, -0.68% 5.52 percent or a gain of 5 basis points.

A 2-year note, which on Wednesday revisited 2-1/2 year lows, eased 4/32 at 100 6/32, lifting its yield 6 basis points to 4.15 percent. A 5-year note lost 8/32 at 104 29/32, to yield 4.56 percent or an increase of 5 basis points.

The market was gearing up for important news on the job market, due out from the Labor Department on Friday.

Labor reported on Thursday that weekly first-time jobless claims surged 18,000 to 383,000 in the latest reporting period, the highest level in more than two years.

The four-week moving average -- often considered a better read on the labor situation because it irons out weekly fluctuations -- rose to 377,750 in the week ended March 31 from 375,500 for the previous week.

In other news leading up to Friday's important number, Challenger, Gray and Christmas said Thursday U.S. firms announced 162,867 layoffs in March, a 60 percent increase from February and the highest monthly total in the survey's eight-year history. See the full story.

Economists say the economy probably added about 84,000 jobs in March, down from the 135,000 increase in February. They say the unemployment rate will probably tick up to 4.3 percent from 4.2 percent. That'd be the highest jobless rate in 20 months. View Economic Preview and economic calendar and forecasts.

In the currency arena, dollar/yen dropped 0.8 percent to 124.30 while euro/dollar edged up 0.1 percent to 0.9017. The Bank of England lowered short-term rates by 25 basis points Thursday morning to stave off the impact of slowing overseas economies. It's the BOE's second rate cut this year and a move that was widely expected by the market. See related story.

Mortgage market

Mortgage-backed securities fell in line with weakness in the Treasury sector, although greater stability in Treasury yields this week proved a supportive factor for the mortgage market, traders said.

Among 30-year 6 1/2 percent mortgage-backed securities, Ginnie Maes fell 5/32 to 100 to offer a bond equivalent yield of 6.538 percent. Freddie Mac MBS dropped 5/32 to 99 23/32 to offer a bond equivalent yield of 6.591 percent, and Fannie Mae MBS shed 1/8 to 99 21/16 to offer a bond equivalent yield of 6.569 percent.

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Bay Street rises on tech strength

Published: July 31, 2003 5:57 p.m. ET

NEW YORK (CBS.MW) -- Canadian stocks closed broadly higher Thursday as markets on both sides of the border reacted to three positive U.S. economic reports.

Yet while the major U.S. indexes closed well off their intraday highs, Canada's benchmark held on to most of its gains. The S&P/TSX Composite Index (SPTSX) ended the day up 52.93 points, or 0.7 percent, at 7,257.92. The S&P/TSX 60 Index of blue chips also climbed 0.7 percent, the S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index of small cap issues jumped 1.8 percent and the Nasdaq Canada Index of Canadian stocks trading in the U.S. popped 2 percent.

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Sparking the rally was news that second quarter gross domestic product at Canada's largest partner in trade jumped a much better than expected 2.4 percent; the Chicago Purchasing Managers index rose to 55.9 percent in July; and weekly initial jobless claims fell in the latest week, remaining below the key 400,000 level.

Technology issues got their own boost from a positive report on the chip sector at Merrill Lynch. Information technology was the best performing of the TSE's 10 sector gauges that closed in the plus column. Only telecommunications services finished lower, dipping 0.1 percent.

In the broader market, advancers outnumbered decliners 620 to 517 on the Toronto Stock Exchange with just under 207 million shares changing hands.

The day's earnings reports weren't very encouraging on Bay Street.

Royal Group Technologies (RYG) dropped 4 percent to C$10.37 after posting third-quarter earnings, excluding items, of 30 Canadian cents a share, 3 cents shy of the consensus forecast of analysts surveyed by Thomson First Call.

And Imax Corp. (IMX) said second-quarter net earnings from continuing operations came in at 2 cents a share compared with net earnings from operations of 9 cents a share in the year-ago period. Including a gain of 1 cent a share from discontinued operations, the entertainment company reported net earnings of 3 cents a share compared with net earnings of 9 cents a share a year ago. Thomson First Call had projected earnings of 3 cents a share.

Imax shares slumped 4.4 percent to C$11.95.

The news was better for Thomson Corp., however.

The company (TOC) reported second-quarter earnings of $111 million, or 17 cents per share, compared with $88 million, or 14 cents per share, in the year-ago period. Adjusted earnings were $106 million, or 16 cents per share, including 2 cents per share in increased stock appreciation rights costs due to a higher share price. Without the costs, earnings would have been 18 cents per share, in line with a forecast of analysts by Thomson First Call. The company also reiterated its profit forecast for the year.

Meanwhile, shares of Crystallex International (KRY) rose more than 41 percent to C$2.96 after the company said it would restate financial results for 2000, 2001 and 2002 when it completes a review of accounting for forwards and written call options. The Toronto-based gold exploration company restated results on Wednesday, in which a total of C$10.8 million of losses were added.

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Tech stocks move higher in afternoon; EA remains lower

Published: May 4, 2005 1:22 p.m. ET

LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) -- Technology stocks moved higher overall Wednesday afternoon, with the Nasdaq Composite Index $compq recently rising 0.8% to 1,949 -- nearly its best level for the session so far. Meanwhile, Electronic Arts Inc.'s stock erts remained under water on disappointment over its quarterly results and outlook. The stock was last down $4.38, or 8.3%, at $48.52. EA also dented sentiment towards several other stock in the sector, including Activision Inc. ATVI, +1.21% and THQ Inc. thqi Elsewhere, the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index SOX, +0.71% put on 1.4% to 390.

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Yahoo chief accounting officer leaving company

Published: Sept 2, 2009 6:24 p.m. ET

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Yahoo Inc. YHOO, -0.82% said Wednesday in a regulatory filing that Chief Accounting Officer Michael Murray is leaving the company later this month. Murray joined the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Internet company in 2004. Prior to joining Yahoo, Murray had worked at Sun Microsystems Inc. JAVA, +23.08% Reasons for his departure from Yahoo were not immediately clear. Yahoo named a new chief executive, Carol Bartz, in January. Bartz has implemented a management restructuring, as she seeks to sharpen the company's focus.

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TV Goods Chairman Appears on NBC's Today Show to Promote The Instant Zipper™

The Instant Zipper ™ Is Gaining Traction Due to High Level Publicity

CLEARWATER, FL--(Marketwire - Jun 16, 2011) - TV Goods, Inc., ("TV Goods") a direct response marketing company and wholly owned subsidiary of H & H Imports, Inc. (OTCBB: HNHI), recently had their product the Instant Zipper™ featured on NBC's Today Show. The product was on air as part of the "Today's Consumer" segment titled "Inside Scoop on New 'As Seen On TV' Products."

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Kevin Harrington, Chairman of TV Goods, was interviewed at the Direct Response Expo in San Diego this year for this segment which aired on Tuesday, June 14, 2011.

The Instant Zipper™ is an "instant" solution to most any broken zipper. TV Goods acquired worldwide marketing and distribution rights to the product across all channels of distribution. The Instant Zipper™ is designed to repair practically any broken zipper. Simply remove the broken zipper, open the clasp on the Instant Zipper™, clip it on, and zip into place. The patented jaw design snaps open and snaps closed onto most any zipper. The Instant Zipper™ is patented in 160 countries.

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H & H Imports, Inc. is the parent company of TV Goods, Inc. TV Goods, Inc. is a direct response marketing company. We identify, develop and market consumer products for global distribution. TV Goods was established by Kevin Harrington, a pioneer of direct response television. For more information go to

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The Pox, Nov. 1999, Vol. 28 No. 11

John Smith, Kyrin

Greetings cousins,

Well as the time has past, and hopefully all of the F.O.P. (Feast of Plenty) leftovers have been scarfed down, one question I get is "How do you put on a feast like that and not go broke?"

Well truth is: first year I did go broke! But three years later my reputation seems to have solidified. Whereas my first F.O.P. had about 45 people, this years has 70 pre-registrations alone. While typing, the feast is 1 week away so I hope for 80 pre-reg! As for last year's count, in the end were 145, so hope for better this year (LOL)

Now the key to my success is my "PA-German" ancestry (IE: cheap bastard). So not only do I compare everything's prices I also have the ability to buy foods all year-round and store them in one of my parents many (6) freezers or refrigerators. I also attend commercial food shows and with forethought, order months in advance for the best prices. Also knowing every food-broker in Eastern PA helps too! Knowing how and where to search out a bargain is key. As an example: cabbage is now running 29-59 cents per pound. Figure a 5lb head at 30 cents and you get $1.50. No biggie. But multiply that by 20 heads, still not a lot, but enough. Now in Lancaster, I get a 5lb head of cabbage for just $1.00. That's a major difference now. So a little extra searching pays off. And remembering the who/what/where of these things as for future use helps the most! These may sound tedious but a table as I set at the F.O.P. really hits a spot watching everybody enjoy themselves! So until next time when I'll bring you a venison mincemeat recipe that creates a great plum pudding start... Got a question, comment, idea, drop me a line at kyrin@netcarrier.com

In Our Service... Kyrin


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Myra Helen Purvis Murrah

May 27, 2007

Myra Helen Purvis Murrah, 72, of Unionville, died Sunday, May 27, 2007, at University Medical Center in Lebanon.

Mrs. Murrah was the daughter of the late Ernest Grady and Martha Vernon Stem Purvis. She was a member of the Unionville United Methodist Church.

A daughter, Jeannie Marie Murrah, and a son, Daryl Lee Murrah, preceded her in death.

She is survived by her husband of 48 years, Jim C. Murrah of Unionville; a daughter, Melanie (Kevin) Phelps of Bell Buckle; a brother, Robert E. Purvis of Barnesville, Ga.; and a grandson, Evan Phelps of Bell Buckle.

There will be no visitation. Graveside services will be conducted at 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday, May 30, 2007 at Unionville Cemetery with Rev. Charles Melvin Collins officiating.

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Financial meltdown deepens

Financial markets in Wall Street, New York, the City of London and all over are in turmoil. In just 24 hours, two out of the four largest investment banks in the US have disappeared. All this confirms what Marxists have always maintained: capitalism does not operate in a smooth and steadily increasing way to progress. It operates violently, lopsidedly, in cycles of boom and slump. Now more banks are set to fail and there will be more misery in the financial markets. Working people are also set to suffer as massive job losses are announced.

As I write, financial markets in Wall Street, New York, the City of London and all over are in turmoil. In just 24 hours, two out of the four largest investment banks in the US have disappeared. Lehman Brothers, around for 158 years, has declared bankruptcy and 25,000 employees around the globe have lost their jobs.

Merrill Lynch, the world’s largest investment bank, has been taken over by the largest high street bank in America, the Bank of America. Bank America was virtually ordered by the US financial authorities to take over Merrill Lynch, paying $50bn. Otherwise, that bank too would have gone bust, putting thousands more out of work. Even worse for capitalism, it would have meant that both Lehman and Merrill Lynch would have defaulted on their contracts and obligations and thus brought down many other banks (15 were rumoured to be in trouble).

Along with Bear Stearns (wiped last March), three out of the top five investment banks in the US have vanished in a puff of financial smoke.

And finally, America’s largest insurance company, AIG, announced that it needed to raise $40bn within hours if it was not to default on its obligations and appealed to the Federal Reserve for a loan before it was too late!

All this took place only one week after the world’s largest semi-government mortgage lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac had to be nationalised to protect American homeowners and the mortgage industry from going bust. These two lenders had over 40% of all mortgages in the US and 85% of recent new mortgages. It would have meant the total collapse of the housing market if they could not do business. So the Bush administration was forced to nationalise them!

How did this terrible mess for capitalism come about?

The capitalist economists have no real idea. Some say it is the fault of greedy chief executives of the banks who gone into reckless investments and lent too much money to people who could not pay it back. Some say it is the fault of the Federal Reserve and other central banks for keeping interest rates too low and thus encouraging too many people to borrow too much or too many banks to lend too much. Others say it was the failure of the central banks to ‘regulate’ the banks and investment houses to make sure they had enough funds to do their business instead of borrowing to lend etc.

But perhaps the story of the British travel agent XL, which also collapsed this week, leaving hundreds without jobs and tens of thousands unable to get home from their holidays, has the most interesting clues to why this global financial tsunami is sweeping away so many big financial institutions.

XL chief executive explained tearfully to the press that his company had gone under without warning for two reasons: the sharp rise in the price of oil had dramatically increased the company’s costs for air fuel; but when he tried to raise more finance to cover this, he was unable to get any banks to provide funding at rates or terms that made it viable to continue. And there we have it. Such is the stranglehold and fear in the global credit crunch that banks are no longer willing to lend money at reasonable rates or on reasonable conditions to businesses. And those that are hard pressed are forced into bankruptcy – expect much more of this over the next year.

Why are the banks unable to lend? It’s because they have lost so much money on the writing down of the assets they have bought over the last five or six years. Now they must retrench and stop lending. Now they must find new capital and investors before they can start relending. In the meantime, they are too scared or unwilling to lend, even to other banks (that’s why Bear Stearns, Lehman, Northern Rock and others went bust – nobody would lend to them).

What are these assets that have lost so much value? In the main, they are called mortgage-backed securities. In the old days of the housing market, banks or building societies would attract cash deposits from savers like you and me (we should be so lucky!) and then use these deposits to lend to people who wanted to buy a home. From deposit to mortgage – simple.

However, some bankers started to be more ‘innovative’ in order to make more profits. They started to borrow funds from other banks and then lend that on mortgages. This ‘wholesale funding’ became particularly popular with US and UK banks, like Northern Rock, which had been a rather sleepy building society until the mid-1990s when it converted into a ‘bank’ with shareholders and an aggressive management out to make money for its investors (not savers).

But that was not the end of it. Many banks came up with another wheeze. They would take their mortgages and batch them up into a basket of different quality mortgages which they would sell off as a bond or security to other banks or financial investors. By creating these securities and selling them off, they ‘diversified’ their risk to others. Also they set up separate companies that took all these liabilities completely off their books. That meant they could go out and borrow more and do more mortgage business. Soon many banks that used to have enough cash and stocks to match at least 10% of the loans, now had reduced that to just 5%, or in the case of the big American banks and mortgage lenders to just 2%. Leverage was now 50 times, the money the banks actually had to meet any losses.

But no problem – the US housing market was racing upwards. So as fast as banks lent money, they made it back in the rising house prices. Home owners could afford to pay them back and take out even bigger loans. Banks could lend to people who hardly had any income because they could count on the value of the home rising to cover their loan.

But then it all went horribly wrong. From about 2006, house price rises began to slow and then began to fall. Once house prices headed downwards, so did the ability of mortgage borrowers to pay back their loans and their willingness to take out bigger and better mortgages. The mortgage market slumped. Soon the mortgage lenders were losing money and behind them, the owners of all these mortgage-backed securities found that their ‘assets’ were no worth what they paid for them. And just everybody and his dog in the financial world had these securities. The risk had been diversified so that everybody got hit when things went wrong.

Why did the housing market go down? Why did it not carry on in a straight line upwards and it had done for nearly 18 years? I venture an answer. First, there are cycles of motion that operate under modern capitalism. The most important law of motion under capitalism is profitability. As Marx showed, the rate of profit is key to investment and growth in a capitalist system: no profit, no investment and no income and jobs. But profitability moves in cycles: for a period, profitability will rise, but then it will start to fall. In previous articles, I have tried to explain how that pans out.

But the profit cycle is not the only cycle of motion under capitalism. There is also a cycle in real estate prices and construction. The real estate cycle seems to last about 18 years from trough to trough.

There appears to be a cycle of about 18 years based on the movement of real estate prices. The American economist Simon Kuznets discovered the existence of this cycle back in the 1930s. We can measure the cycle in the US by looking at house prices. The first peak after 1945 was in 1951. The prices fell back to a trough in 1958. Prices then rose to a new peak in 1969 before slumping back to another trough in 1971. The next peak was in 1979-80 and the next trough was in 1991. The spacing between peak to peak to trough to trough varies considerably. It can be as little as 11 years or as much as 26 years. But if you go far enough back (into the19th century), the average seems to be about 18 years.

The last peak in US real estate prices was in 1988. Assuming an average cycle of 18 years, then house prices should have peaked in 2006. The last trough was in 1991. Assuming an 18-year cycle, then the next trough in US house prices should be around 2009-10.

The real estate cycle does not operate not in line with the Marxist profit cycle. The latter is a product of the laws of motion of capitalist accumulation. It operates in the productive sector of the economy (and by that, I mean ‘productive’ in the Marxist sense, namely contributing to the production of value).

In contrast, the real estate cycle operates in the unproductive sector of the capitalist economy. New value created and surplus-value appropriated in the productive sectors of the capitalist economy are siphoned off by the unproductive sectors as the owners of capital spend their profits and workers spend their wages. Housing is a big user of consumer income. So the cycle in house prices reflects the spending behaviour of capitalists and workers, not the profitability of capital.

For these reasons, the real estate cycle has different timings in its turns than the profit cycle. As I have explained before, the profit cycle reached a trough in 1982 before rising for 15-16 years to peak in 1997. In contrast, the US real estate cycle troughed some nine years later in 1991 and only reached its peak in 2006-7. The next trough is due no earlier than 2009-10.

This huge rise in house prices, exhibited around many parts of the world as well as the US, represented a massive diversion of resources by capitalism into unproductive sectors that produced no new profit through investment in technology and productive labour. As a result, it actually reduced the ability of capitalism to invest in new technology to boost economic growth. It was entirely a process of creating fictitious capital. That is shown buy one stark fact. You can measure the movement of house prices from 1991 to 2006. In 1991, the US house price index stood at 100; by 2006, it had reached 200, a doubling in price. But the costs of building a house including land purchase had not risen at all. So house prices were way out of line with the real production value of a home. The housing market had become a huge financial speculation. When home prices got so far out of line with the incomes of those who were buying them, the market finally toppled over.

Capitalism does not operate in a smooth and steadily increasing way to progress. It operates violently, lopsidedly, in cycles of boom and slump. The path of chaos and anarchy applies to the cycle of profit and also to the cycle of housing construction.

So what now? Well, more banks are set to fail. There will be more misery in the financial markets. More to the point for working people not worried about whether rich investors lose money, jobs throughout the financial services industry are going to go. And we are not talking about the fat cats at the top who caused this mess – they will leave with the payoff and pensions intact. We are talking about the tens of thousands on moderate pay packets who put all their savings into the shares of the banks they worked in, and which are now worthless.

And more, the collapse of the financial sector will lead to a serious economic downturn. It is already underway with the US, the UK, Europe and Japan going into economic slump, where output will stop increasing, companies will fail and unemployment and inflation will rise sharply.

The politicians are lost in all this. Whether it is a right-wing Republican administration or New Labour, they know not what to do. Indeed, in many ways New Labour has been so tied to the model of American capitalism with its ‘free choice’ and ‘open deregulated markets’ that it is even more in denial than the Republicans. In America, they have nationalised the mortgage lenders. In Britain, they just look shocked and babble about the ‘worst crisis in 60 years’.

Eventually, capitalism will recover, unless governments come to power mandated to end the rule of capital. But it will recover only by restoring profitability. To do that, many jobs must go and many companies must be swallowed up by richer ones. That process has started in the financial sector. It will continue across the whole economy.

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Friday, September 23, 2016

Blue&White-Persian Delight

"Persian Delight" Acrylic 12x16 - Mary Maki Rae 2016(c)

What goes into a Painting and what inspires it-?
It can be many things - this time it was just this Blue & White Dish that I found in a in a Decor Shop along with a cloth napkin with a Persian-like Pattern - also in Blue & White -plus Aqua. When I got home I realized that I was attracted to that Dish because it reminded me of a small Hand-painted Blue & White Dish with it's pointy stripes - that Robert had bought for me - long ago when we would poke around in old Book Shops and Antique Shops - We had such Fun-!
So I guess it's true - that we do paint our Memories - almost uncousiously sometimes. . . .

The Palette - to begin with.

I Brought in some bright Oranges and a vibrant - deep violet Dianthus - just in bloom - really enjoyed the effect with the Blue & White

And the Palette really changed and came to life - with more different-colored Flowers and Leaves-!  If it was a larger painting - I would add even more details on the Table and on the left-hand side. But for now I really enjoy it as is-!

Sunday, September 11, 2016

Lilly Bouquet

"Lilly Bouquet" -12"x 16" Acrylic - Mary Maki Rae (c)2016
This Painting started out as a Summer Lilly Bouquet displayed in a richly textured clay pot. Then the first splendid Fall Maple Leaf appeared on the Deck.
It thereby influenced the color composition plan. So I see this painting now as a transitional one - of Summer slowing evolving into the Fall Season of the Year.

CloseUp of LillyBouquet- Mary Maki Rae -2016(c)

Sunday, September 4, 2016

"Summer Day Lilly"

"Summer Day Lilly" 17"x23"- Acrylic
By Mary Maki Rae (c) 2016
A Cottage Garden Perennial - The Day Lilly - still in bloom. . . . .
Almost finished with this painting - need to paint the background - I'm thinking of (Perhaps) the classic beach scene with tall dry grasses blowing to and fro in the Wind.


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The first step in the process to become licensed is to attend a Potential Provider Meeting at one of the EEC Regional Offices. Potential Provider Meetings give potential applicants an opportunity to meet with EEC Licensing staff and talk about the positives and challenges of being a Family Child Care Provider, as well as an overview of the licensing process itself. You'll receive an application at the meeting, and staff will be on hand to answer any questions you might have.

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Trying to Get Something From Nothing

By Keith Eric Grant, PhD, NCTMB

"Sometimes nothing can be a real cool hand" – Paul Newman in the movie, "Cool Hand Luke."

You are going to be hearing more and more about evidence-based massage therapy (EBMT). Partly, this reflects a current trend in health care to re-evaluate treatment and to determine what has a sound basis for use and what doesn't. One example of this is the Institute of Medicine report, "Evidence-Based Medicine and the Changing Nature of Healthcare."

A second factor is the existence of the Massage Therapy Foundation (MTF), which has goals of making those in the profession aware of research, promoting research literacy and integrating research with practice. I would count the forthcoming book on such integration by Dryden and Moyer as among the efforts facilitated by the MTF.

A third factor is massage therapy now being regulated by the majority of states, combined with the legal presumption that such regulation is done for the protection of the public. If we consider that training is necessary for safe practice, the presumption of public protection can only be fulfilled when state-mandated training is based upon a solid foundation of objectively validated knowledge.

A final factor is the modern technology embodied in an interactive web. Communication without regard to physical proximity is facilitating extensive discussions among those both with a stake in massage therapy and with backgrounds in research and statistics. Alice Sanvito discusses evidence-based massage on her web site and provides a number of links there to additional resources. I like the definition she gives for EBMT.

Evidenced based massage therapy is massage therapy founded on ideas and principles supported by evidence. Many of the claims made and practices used by massage therapists are founded on tradition rather than evidence. Since there is not yet a large body of knowledge documenting the physiology of and effects of massage therapy, if we were only able to make statements strictly on the basis of scientific studies, we would be severely limited indeed. Some people prefer the term "evidence informed practice" as more accurate. An evidence informed practice takes into consideration scientific evidence, clinical experience and careful observation.

The concept of being evidence-based, however, necessitates having methods to collect such evidence. In this, we also need to be careful to distinguish between whether or not an intervention can be shown to work (beyond random chance) and the model that we believe is the mechanism underlying the intervention. It is fully possible, as with massage relieving muscle soreness and the lactic acid myth, for an intervention to be effective while the supposed mechanism is incorrect. The randomized controlled trial (RCT) is taken as the "gold standard" of clinical proof, but how does that work? We need three things: a study population, a methodology for the study and the ability to analyze the results for effectiveness.

For example, our study population might be those diagnosed with high blood pressure, over the age of 40, not having other medical complications and not knowing Morse code. The goal of our study might be to determine whether or not listening to relaxing messages keyed in Morse code by a live practitioner were effective in reducing blood pressure. A complicating factor for the study is that people respond to the presence of other people. As put by Ravensara Travillian recently, "As psychosocial beings, we respond psychologically and socially in ways that can be described as healing body and mind due to presence and caring attention from others." Thus, our study will need a means of differentiating the effects of the Morse code from those effects simply from the practitioner's presence and the setup of the trial itself.

After gaining a sufficient number of suitable participants, we would fulfill the "randomized" concept of the trial by randomly dividing them into three groups: control, sham Morse-code and Morse code. The intervention might be three-times per week for 12 weeks. Controls would come in, have their blood pressure (BP) measured, wait 30 minutes, and have their BP measured again. Those in the Morse-code group would, in the 30 minutes wait, listen to Morse-code keyed by one of several live practitioners. Those in the "sham-group" would listen to 30 minutes of keying, similar to Morse-code, but keyed by "practitioners" unfamiliar with Morse-code. With this protocol, we can look for short-term effects between sessions, beginning and session end, as well as for longer term effects over the length of the study. By taking follow-up measurements after the end of the 12 weeks, we can also look for persistence of any changes.

Now we get to the point of getting something from nothing. We assume the null hypothesis, that any differences between the groups is simply from random chance, and calculate the probability (p) that this assumption is true. We conclude that there is a statistically significant difference between groups only when the probability of our observations being due entirely to chance is less than 5% (p<0.05). We have three separate probabilities to check: whether the sham group is statistically different from the control group (psychosocial effect), whether the Morse code group is different from the control group (psychosocial plus Morse code), and whether the difference between the sham and code groups is significant (Morse code effect). In a recent paper, Bakker and Wicherts underscore the importance of doing the third test explicitly, even when the differences between the sham and control groups is not significant.

If there is no difference between the three groups, the study would conclude that, in the clinical trial as designed, neither psychosocial factors nor messages in Morse-code were effective. If the sham group differed statistically from the control, we would conclude that there was a psychosocial effect. Because the psychosocial effect would also be present in the code group, only if the code group was statistically different from the sham group could we conclude that there was an effect from Morse-code itself. Note that this code effect could be of either sign, adding to a psychosocial effect or negating it.

There you have the outline of a randomized control/clinical trial. Assuming initially that we get no difference, we end up with information. Sometimes "nothing can be a real cool hand."

  1. Bakker M and Wicherts JM. "The (mis)reporting of statistical results in psychology journals." Behav Res Meth, 2011;43( 3): 666-678,
  2. Dryden, Trish, and Christopher Moyer. "Massage Therapy – Integrating Research and Practice." Human Kinetics. Available May 2012. ISBN-13: 9780736085656,
  3. Institute of Medicine. "Evidence-Based Medicine and the Changing Nature of Healthcare." October 2008,
  4. Sanvito, Alice. "What Is Evidence Based Massage Therapy?" Accessed 15 January 2012,
  5. Travillian, Ravensara. "Let's read together: A Randomised Controlled Single-Blind Trial of the Efficacy of Reiki at Benefitting Mood and Well-Being—Introduction." Accessed 17 January 2012,

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James Young (whiplash, concussion-like symptoms) ruled out of 2014 summer league by Boston Celtics' Danny Ainge: 'We're just not messing with that'

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Boston Celtics 2014 NBA basketball draft picks Marcus Smart, center left, and James Young, center right, display jerseys as Celtics head coach Brad Stevens, left, and co-owner Stephen Pagliuca, right, look on during a news conference held to introduce the players, Monday, June 30, 2014, in Waltham, Mass. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

ORLANDO, Fla. – James Young will not play at all during the Orlando summer league, Boston Celtics president of basketball operations Danny Ainge said Monday.

The Celtics expect that Young, the 17th overall pick in June’s NBA Draft, will recover soon from a car accident that took place last month and believe there is no long-term concern.

“He just still has symptoms from the car accident,” Ainge said after the Celtics lost 96-77 to the Pacers on Monday afternoon. “He doesn’t have enough time to learn the stuff, get himself in shape. He hasn’t played for three-and-a-half or four weeks, so we’re just going to not rush it.”

Ainge added: ““He had a little whiplash, but with whiplash comes concussion-like symptoms. Dizziness here or there. So we’re just not messing with that stuff.”

Young has done some light conditioning work and shot around a little bit Monday (think: the type of shooting you do while wearing jeans at the park), but has missed every practice and game since the summer league Celtics convened in Waltham last week.

“He’ll be fine like in a couple of weeks, I think. Maybe a week,” Ainge said. “We were hoping that he would be able to play this week, but he’s just not ready and we’re not rushing him.

“It will just slowly get better, and we just don’t want to rush it.”

Obviously, the Celtics would have liked Young, 18, to play with the rest of the rookies and young players. But Ainge said he was not too worried about the lefty missing an early chance to start learning the NBA game.

“It’s always nice to get a chance to play so soon after they’re drafted, but really in the whole scheme of things it’s not critical,” Ainge said. “We’ll have all summer to teach him and spend time with him, and get him ready for training camp.”


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ST. LOUIS (AP) — Virginia Johnson, the Missouri farm girl who helped redefine the understanding of human sexuality as half of the husband-wife team whose taboo sex studies in the 1960s turned them into worldwide celebrities and best-selling authors, has died. She was 88.

The pioneering sex researcher died at an assisted living facility in St. Louis on Wednesday after suffering complications from various illnesses, her son Scott Johnson told The Associated Press on Thursday. He said the family was planning a private funeral.

Johnson was in her 30s, a twice-divorced mother of two children, when she went job-hunting at Washington University in St. Louis in the late 1950s, seeking work to support her young family while she pursued a college degree.

She was hired as a secretary at the university's medical school but soon became the assistant and lover of obstetrician-gynecologist William Masters, then co-collaborated on a large-scale human sexuality experiment — a subject all but taboo at the time.

The couple became known for a revolutionary sexual therapy that brought couples from across the country with sexual dysfunction, including celebrities, to St. Louis for their two-week program.

Masters had impeccable academic and research credentials in infertility and hormone replacement therapy — but some described him as aloof and austere, often difficult to approach. That's where Johnson came in.

Johnson had a way of putting people at ease, so much so that with "evangelical-like zeal" she figured out how to get volunteers "to drop their pants in the name of science," said author Thomas Maier, who wrote a 2009 book about the couple.

Johnson recruited graduate students, nurses, faculty wives and other participants for what Maier described as the "biggest sex experiment in U.S. history."

The late-hours research, first on the medical school campus and later at a nearby building, shattered basic precepts about female sexuality, including Freud's concept that vaginal — rather than clitoral — orgasm was the more mature sexual response for women.

Johnson took the case studies and asked the uncomfortable questions. Hundreds of couples, not all of them married, would participate in the observed research.

"Here's a woman without a college degree who helped to revolutionize medicine's understanding of human sexuality, whose therapies are taught in medical schools in the U.S. and around the world," Maier said in a 2010 interview with The Associated Press.

That research was later discussed in their 1966 book, "Human Sexual Response." And their 1970 book, "Human Sexual Inadequacy," explored a therapy they'd developed for men and women with sexual problems.

Both books were best-sellers translated into dozens of languages.

At the height of their careers, Masters and Johnson were huge celebrities, the topic of late-night talk show hosts and on the cover of news magazines.

They married in 1971 and divorced 20 years later, when Masters left her to pursue a sweetheart from his youth. Johnson never remarried.

Their work had its critics, and it was often frowned upon in some circles in an era when sex was seldom discussed publicly.

"There was a lot of grief," her son said Thursday. "There were threats, things of that kind. She was a very strong woman."

Her attorney, Dave Harlan of St. Louis, echoed those sentiments by describing Johnson as "strong willed, extremely intelligent, extremely independent."

As Masters' health was in decline in the 1990s, and Johnson was caring for him, he announced he was divorcing her. Their facility, the Masters and Johnson Institute in St. Louis, closed in 1994 after Masters retired. He died in 2001.

Scott Johnson said his mother also retired in the early 1990s.

Along with her son, Johnson is survived by her daughter, Lisa Young, and two grandchildren.


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on December 11, 2008 at 3:08 PM, updated December 11, 2008 at 3:12 PM

SPRINGFIELD - The City Council has revoked 16 licenses that had been granted for the storage of petroleum either in parked vehicles on a property or in underground tanks.

The revocations happened because licensees failed to respond to the annual round of notices to renew, said officials this week.

The council revocation vote was unanimous on Monday at City Hall.

The hundreds of others who have such licenses either renewed on their own or responded to notices to do so, said City Clerk Wayman Lee.

The license-holders may still may be able to get licenses for 2009, but failing to renew and getting revoked means they have made it tougher - and more expensive - on themselves.

If they were only renewing a license, the annual cost is a fee based on an escalating scale depending on the number of gallons of petroleum or number of vehicles on site, said Springfield Fire Marshal John F. Cossaboom and Lee.

But those seeking a license after revocation must pay the per-gallon or per-vehicle fees, in addition to a $250 application fee and a $60 legal notice advertising fee. They also must gain approval from the Fire, Building Code Enforcement, and Public Works Departments and the City Council, said officials.,

Examples of such fees are $16.50 for 1 to 1,000 gallons, $27.50 for 1,001 to 5,000, $88 for 30,001 to 50,000 gallons, $165 for 200,001 to 500,000 or $550 for more than 1 million gallons.

In cases of parking lots or garages, the ordinance specifies a fee based on number of vehicles, such as $5 for one to four vehicles, $22 for 11 to 50 vehicles, $66 for 101 to 500 vehicles, and $220 for more than 1,000 vehicles.

Licenses were revoked for the following businesses:

Admiral Building Products, 79 & 85 Page Blvd.,

CB Richard Ellis, 1500 Main St.,

Marc Lamoureux, 705 Liberty St.,

Pep Boys, 1177 Boston Road,

Pioneer Valley Transit Authority, 2840 Main St.,

Jose Quintailla, 10 Sorrento St.,

Sav-Mor, 351 East Columbus Ave.,

Sears Roebuck Co., 1525 Boston Road,

South Campus Group, 140 High St.,

Springfield College, 332 Alden St.,

Springfield Masonic Temple, 339 State St.,

Sunoco Food Mart, 253 Pasco Road,

James Tranghese, 56 Main St.,

Wilbraham Trucking Co., 345 Rocus St.

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MONSON — There were stilt walkers, floats and plenty of fire engines at Monson's 34th annual Summerfest parade on Thursday.

There even was a family dressed in a "Wizard of Oz" theme for the bicycle and doll carriage parade, fitting as the town was hit by a tornado two years ago that canceled the trademark celebration that year.

Despite the scorching heat, Main Street was filled with revelers for the July 4 parade.

"I think it was another success," Summerfest Chairman Stephen P. Slozak said. "And we're going to build on that for next year. We're already planning everything for next year."

Selectmen Richard M. Smith and Edward S. Harrison marched, as did state Sen. Stephen M. Brewer, D-Barre.

The Police Department, Fire Department and Monson Bellmen were represented, as well as fire departments from Hampden, Agawam, Brimfield, Palmer and Bondsville, and West Stafford and Stafford, Conn. The Quaboag Highlanders marched, and there were Monson cheerleaders, the Dolphins swim team and Monson Lacrosse, just to name a few.

Nancy L. Netherwood, of Hampden, was on the sidelines to see her son, Andrew Netherwood, a volunteer firefighter with the Hampden Fire Department, in the parade.

Plus, she said, she wanted to show support for a neighboring community. Netherwood said she was impressed by the volunteerism and camaraderie shown after the tornado blew through town on June 1, 2011. She volunteered at the shelter at the school.

EmmaLadd Shepherd said she wouldn't miss Summerfest, and she never has, since its inception in 1979.

"I've been to every one," Shepherd said.

Crystal M. Rondeau, of Monson, watched her daughters Sophie, 9, and Cassie, 4, in the bicycle and doll carriage parade, which is part of the regular parade and sponsored by the Quaboag Riders. Sophie was dressed as a jellyfish and Cassie was a mermaid.

"This is a nice, small-town tradition," Rondeau said.

Dressed in the "Wizard of Oz" theme for the bicycle and doll carriage parade were the Corbett and Mason families.

They are all cousins, and their mothers, sisters Angela Mason and Melissa Corbett, used to march in the parade when they were little. The family came up with the theme together.

Amelia Corbett, 1, was the good witch; her brother Ian Corbett, 8, was the scarecrow; brother Isaac Corbett, 9, was the tin man; and sister Isabella Corbett, 12, was Dorothy. Madilynn Mason, 6, was the cowardly lion and her sister Annika Mason, 3, was the wicked witch.

As it will be Isabella's last year marching in the parade, they said they wanted to do something special. They said age 12 is the cut off. She carried a sign saying, "There's no place like home."

Numerous awards were given: the Monson Cheerleaders won the Richard D. Noble award as the judge's favorite. The essay winner was high school student Nicholas Kratovil and Ket-Tree Farms was recognized as business of the year. Citizen of the Year Virginia Midyette was escorted in the parade by Jeff Lord, in his red 1967 Cadillac Deville convertible.

Summerfest continues until 6 p.m. There is music at Dave Grieve Park, and vendors are lined up on Main Street.


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A winter storm will impact the region pre-dawn Wednesday through the evening commute. Precipitation will fall as mostly heavy wet snow. Expect moderate to heavy snowfall accumulations near 7 inches in Springfield with some mixing with sleet possible for a time. More will fall in the northern hill towns through Wednesday afternoon. Plan your travel accordingly as this will affect both commutes.

Sunny and seasonal weather will finish the second-half of the workweek, but another substantial winter storm may threaten as we begin next week. That would make 3 storms in 7 days.

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Sunny start, cloudy finish. Winter storm approaching, high 32.

Heavy snow, especially in the morning. Some mix with sleet south of the Mass Pike. 6-8 inches likely. High 35.

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The Echo Nest is adding lyrics data and concert/tour information to its music intelligence platform, courtesy of new partnerships announced today with lyric-deciphering community SongMeanings and concert schedule aggregation site JamBase.

What does that actually mean for listeners? Essentially, it’ll enhance the user experience for a ton of music applications, which will now have access to new information about songs and artists.

The Echo Nest’s music intelligence platform is responsible for powering over 250 music applications, including Spotify radio and many of Spotify’s third-party apps.The platform provides specific data points related to music — such as listener behavior, song reviews, a song’s beats, similar songs, listener demographics, and more –  that can be used by developers to optimize a person’s listening experience. The company said it has a total of more than 5 billion data points on over 30 million songs.

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Founded in 2005, the Somerville, Mass.-based startup has raised a total of $8.3 million in funding from Matrix Partners and Commonwealth Capital Ventures, Argos Management and three co-founders of MIT Media Lab.

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I've been vocal about Manny and catchweights...if both fighters agree to a set weight then that is fine, but Manny has a habit of insisting guys come down to meet him and he rarely catches flack for it. If it's just another fight, then whatever, it is what it is, but when there is a title on the line it's ridiculous that the commissions will bend the rules simply to collect their sanctioning fee. That's why I loved it when Floyd waived the option to fight for the title against Mosley. At this point, who cares about titles? Guys like Manny and Floyd are way past the point of being just "champions".

I hope Manny makes quick work of Tony, but I think it's gonna be a tough fight. I would hate to see Manny lose right now because I still think that the potential for the Mayweather fight next Spring is very high. Supposedly Floyd has a fight in the works too, but as usual things have been pretty tight lipped around camp Mayweather recently.
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WAILUKU – A man whose crimes were attributed to his drug addiction is to be released from jail after about four months on Thursday to enter a residential drug treatment program.

Travis Carvalho, 28, of Wailuku also was placed on five years’ probation as part of his sentence Wednesday.

He was sentenced as a first-time drug-related property offender in connection with the theft of a pickup truck and burglary of a Kahakuloa house May 8.

“You have everybody in your corner,” 2nd Circuit Judge Rhonda Loo told Carvalho, whose mother and aunt were in the courtroom gallery. “You just got to buckle down, listen to your family, listen to your attorney, listen to your probation officer.”

Carvalho had pleaded no contest to unauthorized control of a propelled vehicle, two reduced counts of second-degree burglary, second-degree theft and resisting an order to stop a motor vehicle.

He was arrested after police identified him as the driver of a stolen Toyota pickup truck that had been reported to be staking out houses in the Cliffs of Kahakuloa neighborhood. When officers went to investigate the report, they saw the truck in Waihee and the driver tried to evade officers by going into old macadamia nut fields, police said. When the truck was found, its bed contained property stolen from a Kahakuloa home.

Carvalho was arrested along with another man who had been a passenger in the truck, police said.

In court Wednesday, defense attorney Evans Smith said that Carvalho needed money for drugs as his drug use increased while he was “self-medicating to cope with his problems.”

“It was part of an unproductive lifestyle,” Smith said.

Carvalho is now motivated to get treatment, he said.

Carvalho was ordered to perform 100 hours of community service.


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Taking CAT 2012? Know the pattern in detail & start planning your preparation

This article of MBAUniverse.com will share with you the basics of the exam pattern and the preparation strategy you must follow in order to crack the CAT 2012.

CAT 2012, the most awaited MBA entrance exam of the year is looking for the announcement of the exam by next month. If you are planning to pursue your MBA in 2013, then going for CAT 2012 is the most convenient way you can follow. If you are seriously planning to take CAT 2012, then you must have started your CAT preparation by now. If not, then no need to fret, as this is the right time to start CAT 2012 preparation.

Experts say you need six months to prepare properly for CAT. Considering the fact that CAT is held in October to November each year, you should not delay your preparation any further. CAT 2011 was held in a 20 day window between Saturday, October 22 and Friday, November 18, 2012. CAT 2012 is expected to follow the similar timeline.

This article of MBAUniverse.com will share with you the basics of the CAT 2012 pattern and the preparation strategy you must follow in order to crack CAT 2012.

CAT 2012 Pattern

This article of MBAUniverse.com will share with you the basics of the CAT 2012 pattern and the preparation strategy you must follow in order to crack CAT 2012.

The duration of the exam will be 140 minutes. Instead of having three sections, the number of sections was reduced from three to two. However, the areas of testing remained the same. Instead of three sections of Quantitative Ability, Verbal Ability and Data Interpretation & Logical Reasoning, CAT 2011 ushered the change in pattern with two sections, Quantitative Ability & Data Interpretation and Verbal Ability & Logical Reasoning.

The difficulty level of the exam is generally on the higher side. Throwing surprises is the common trend of CAT.

Components of the sections

Basically CAT tests your conceptual understanding. If you are pro at the basic concepts of the Class X level, and know the correct methods and strategies to solve the questions, then you can easily crack the exam. Let us have a look at the components of each of the areas of the exam.

Quantitative Ability: This part basically tests your numerical ability and mathematical skills. The section covers Arithmetic, Algebra, Geometry, Trigonometry, Mensuration and questions predominantly belong to what is taught to students up to the tenth standard.

Verbal Ability: This area tests your knowledge in English. The questions in this section are from the areas of Reading Comprehension and English Usage. While Reading Comprehension is self explanatory, English Usage includes questions on grammar, vocabulary, Verbal Reasoning, para jumbles, fill in the blanks etc.

Data Interpretation: Data Interpretation asks you to study and interpret the data given in the form of graphs, charts and figures.

Logical Reasoning: Logical Reasoning tests your ability to think in a rational and logical manner. The questions will be in the form of cases and you will be given several questions on the basis of these cases. The questions of the Logical Reasoning are similar to puzzles.

Preparing for CAT 2012 ( CAT Preparation)

The best way to start CAT 2012 preparation is by taking a diagnostic test. This will help you decide about your strengths and weaknesses. After that, you should chalk out a study plan on the basis of that. For example, if your weakest area is Quantitative Ability, then you should allocate more hours for it than the areas of your strength.

To start with, study for two to three hours every day. “The keyword here is ‘regular’ and discipline and concentration are a must. In the initial stages, the student should concentrate on the weak areas rather than strong areas,” says Vinayak Kudva, Product Head, IMS Learning.

To direct your preparation in the right way, it is best to join an MBA coaching institute. The noted ones are T.I.M.E., IMS Learning, Career Launcher, Bulls Eye etc. The coaching institutes will guide you in the right way to crack CAT 2012 by providing you the right study material, preparation strategy and mock tests.

Prepare with MBAUniverse.com

MBAUniverse.com has launched a special initiative on offering you online classes for CAT 2012 preparation where you can avail video classes, e-books by CAT gurus. For more information, click on the following link:

Self study can be a way too

It is not an obligation to join MBA coaching institute as many students who prepare by themselves also succeed in the CAT race. But it demands much more dedication and systematic approach at your end. If you want to opt for the self study method for CAT 2012 preparation, make sure that you approach in the right order. You should have the right books and study materials to start with. It is also very important that you get all your doubts clarified which you are facing during the course of your preparation. You must ensure that you take regular mock tests and get them analyzed. Even if you are not enrolled in a coaching institute for your CAT 2012 preparation, you should enroll for the mock test series offered by them.

If you are opting for self study, then you can also form a study group which may consist of the fellow CAT 2012 aspirants. The group members can share the techniques, strategies and anything new which you come across which will smoothen your chance of clearing the exam.

You can also seek advice from our counselors by posing your query at MBAUniverse.com:

Or you can also write to us with your query at editor@mbauniverse.com.

For advanced aspirants

If you have already been preparing for CAT 2012 then you have some advantage at your end as you are familiar to the CAT syllabus and strategies. You just need to brush up the basic knowledge that you have acquired while preparing for CAT 2011 and take regular mock tests to check your current situation and gauge your next steps.

With your preparation for the sections of Quantitative Ability & Data Interpretation and Verbal Ability & Logical Reasoning, you must also be aware of the world outside. Keep yourself aware by regular reading of newspapers and various forms of media as this will not only help improve your outlook towards the world, but also eventually help you perform better in CAT 2012.

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Muslim praise for Obama dries up a year after Cairo speech

A year ago Friday, President Barack Obama stood in Cairo and vowed "a new beginning" in a speech about how he'd change U.S. relations with the Muslim world. Egyptian vendors sold T-shirts portraying Obama in King Tut regalia, and Muslims throughout the region thrilled at his middle name: Hussein.

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Rose and Doyle Hawks, also a fellow kid from “Arkyville,” as the camp was called locally, were featured last weekend at the McKenzie Memories presentation in Eugene. Hawks shared some of the history about how the settlement came to be - tracing founder “Whit” Rosborough’s migration from the pine woods of Arkansas and the contingent of workers who followed him when he reestablished his mills in Oregon.
“I grew up with a fishing rod in one hand and a rifle in the other,” Hawks recalled. But he and other boys in the neighborhood had their hands on some tools. Most started working in the woods when they were in the 9th grade, and kept at it until they graduated - planting trees for Rosboro for a dollar an hour.

Goose ProjectA document outlining plans for the Goose Project has been released by the Willamette National Forest. The draft record of decision and final environmental impact statement affects 17,932 acres along Highways 126 and 242, near the community of McKenzie Bridge.
District Ranger Terry Baker noted the Goose project was designed to provide a sustainable supply of timber products, reduce hazardous fuels, and “Actively manage stands to improve stand conditions, diversity, density, and structure.”

Tillamook BurnBy Finn J.D. John
The morning of August 14, 1933, was a morning to break a gyppo logger’s heart.

Loading logsIn 2013, Oregon’s timber harvest rose to 4.2 billion board feet, marking four consecutive years of increase from the recession low of 2.72 billion board feet in 2009.

Process turns cellulose into energy storage devices

Tree harvest

BLM meetingLEABURG: Area residents had a chance to hear about the Bureau of Land Management’s plans for logging near Vida at a public meeting last Thursday. Agency staffers with backgrounds ranging from fish biologists to silviculurists explained some of the reasoning for tree removal on up to 2,000 acres on both sides of the McKenzie River.
How that might impact the local community was a concern for many of the people in the room.

Vida logging mapLEABURG: The Bureau of Land Management will host a meeting on Thursday to review possible logging near Vida. Up for discussion will be up to 2,060 acres in the McKenzie Landscape Project area.
According to BLM staffers, in 1994 the Northwest Forest Plan established adaptive management areas (AMAs) to test new methods of achieving resource and conservation goals.

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The tail of C. diff: Dog can detect illness with accuracy, researchers say

Finally, some good news about a Cliff.

After two months of training, a two-year-old beagle named Cliff demonstrated success at being able to detect C. diff in stool samples in a lab environment, researchers in Netherlands have discovered. The dog was tested on 100 C. diff positive and negative stool samples, and it identified all the positive samples and 47 out of 50 negative samples. He was then taken to two hospital wards in the Netherland, where he identified 25 out of 30 cases and 265 out of 270 negative controls.

In addition to his accuracy rate, Cliff was able to screen a hospital ward for C. diff in under 10 minutes, the researchers note, making it a quicker possible option when facilities are trying to screen patients or residents.

"This could have great potential for C. difficile infection screening in healthcare facilities and thus contribute to C. difficile infection outbreak control and prevention," the researchers said.

Results were published in the BMJ- British Medical Journal on Dec. 13. Click play above to see a video of Cliff working.


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McPherson Cellars

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The McPherson family has been a part of Texas viticulture and winemaking for over 40 years. McPherson Cellars was created to honor Winemaker Kim McPherson’s father, Dr. Clinton “Doc” McPherson, a founder and pioneer of the modern Texas wine industry. Doc was one of the state's prime grape growers and was the first in Texas to plant Sangiovese in his Sagmor Vineyard. We converted Lubbock’s historic 1930s era Coca Cola bottling plant in downtown Lubbock into a winery and our winery opened in the fall of 2008. Read more…

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Wine in Texas, huh? You read that right. And we’re just getting started. For years we have practiced “planting to the land” and concentrated on growing grapes best suited for the warm Texas High Plains climate. Though Texas viticulture and winemaking are still very young and adolescent compared to the West Coast, we aim to develop and improve the face of quality Texas wine. With grapes that suit our climate and soils, improved farming methods, and an appreciation for the land, we believe the next decade has much in store for Texas. It’s our mission to grow and make wines with a real sense of place. Welcome to the Texas High Plains.

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Come on out! We invite you to visit to taste our current vintage wines in our tasting room, conveniently located in Lubbock’s historic Depot District. Tastings and tours available between 11am and 7pm Monday-Saturday. In order to accommodate all guests, we require reservations for groups of seven (7) or more—please complete the form to the right or call the winery, 806-687-9463.

Join us for Happy Hour Monday-Friday 3-5pm, glasses of wine beginning at $5.

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Our beautiful facility is located downtown in the old Coca-Cola bottling plant in Lubbock's historic Depot District. Our unique space is a popular setting for Lubbock weddings and rehearsal dinners, and we can also host corporate or private parties, luncheons, small conferences, and meetings. Between our tasting room, event center, private tasting room, and courtyard, we most certainly have the right space to accommodate your event. Read more…

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Argonne National Laboratory

Todd Munson

Computational Scientist

Todd Munson is working on utilizing constrained nonlinear optimization techniques to compute mountain passes, critical points where the Hessian has exactly one negative eigenvalue. Mountain passes are of interest, for example, in computational chemistry where they correspond to transition states for chemical reactions. He has also been working with on an application of optimization to the r-refinement problem, a large nonlinear, nonconvex optimization problem that can cause grief for many general-purpose methods.

Munson's past work includes several generalized Newton methods for solving complementarity problems. PATH is based on the normal map formulation of complementarity problems. At each iteration, a linear complementarity problem is solved to calculate a direction. The code is globalized by using the Fischer-Burmeister merit function. The method is enhanced with preprocessing techniques that remove variables and constraints from the given problem, and uncover polyhedral variational inequality structure; nonmontone search criteria; and crashing methods to identify good active sets. Parallel versions of the semismooth methods that he wrote are available in TAO, the Toolkit for Advanced Optimization.

Finally, he has worked on special-purpose algorithms for solving support vector machine and mesh shape-quality optimization problems. The structure of the linear support vector machine problem enabled MCS staff to write tailored linear algebra in interior-point and semismooth algorithms so that they can solve extremely large instances (on the order of 60-100 million degrees of freedom).

Munson received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2000. He is a Senior Fellow in the Computation Institute and a past Givens Research Associate. He holds memberships in the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, the Mathematical Programming Society and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.

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UK High Street definitely 'off the plan' for GameStop

Michael French
UK High Street definitely 'off the plan' for GameStop

GameStop has told MCV that DOES have designs on a big slice of the UK games market.

But the retailer says it will get it through its new UK website NOT a bricks and mortar assault.

As we reported last week, the chain has put paid to years of speculation that it will move in on the High Street by closing what it describes as two “random” Birmingham and Stockport stores, and focusing on a purely online business.

“From a bricks and mortar perspective the UK is saturated more than any other market we have done business in. We can offer a lot more value through our ecommerce and digital offering,” GameStop’s International EVP Mike Mauler told MCV as a new e-store launched, adding that any designs to enter the physical retail space are “off the plan”.

Via a more aggressive mail order and eventually digital model – from the Dublin officer of GameStop UK & Ireland, headed by commercial director Mick Finacune – the firm plans to give the likes of Amazon and GAME a run for their money.

Explained Mauler: “While the e-commerce market in the UK has scores of competitors from GAME and Amazon to Play, we bring some unique value to existing ranges, exclusive products, and introduce value that isn’t there.

He added: “We have invested a lot in making this happen and that shows publishers we are serious about this market.” has been live for two weeks, but it already boasts the UK exclusive on Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed Animus special edition. Mauler said “GameStop will have plenty more of those exclusives”, piling pressure on GAME, which often boasts key exclusives to attract customers.

GameStop is also being aggressive on price too – 3DS is £154, for instance.

Commercial director Mick Finucane said: “Special offers on price are indicative of the market and our activity to compete, but they are just part and parcel of our strategy. Core to our strategy is to offer gamers exclusive games and exclusive products that they just can’t find anywhere else.”

In time will also offer PC downloads, a service recently added to its .com big brother. The site currently sells pre-owned games and will likely add a mechanism to let users trade-in via post – although Mauler and Finucane would not confirm or deny that yet.

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MyBrute press release

Paris– June 2009 - Bulkypix and Motion Twin announce the release of MyBrute on iPhone and iPod Touch.

Available now at the Appstore for 3.99€ or 4.99$ at this address:

MyBrute iPhone and iPod Touch is based on what has now become a cult online game: (

MyBrute is a raging community and viral phenomenon, with over 1.7 million visits per day throughout the world and over 70 million Brutes created.

My Brute is a crazy, off-the-wall game of combat that gives you the chance to challenge fighters from all over the world.

You simply take on a series of challenges, gain experience, unlock new skills and crush your enemies with ever-greater speed.

My Brute is easy to access and allows you to:

- Create and personalise up to 8 brutes.

- Invite other players to become your pupils.

- Open your own dojo and find yourself a master worthy of this title.

- Fight up to 5 opponents a day.

- Discover and master more than 70 skills and weapons.

- Unlock up to 8 battle arenas

- Have discussions with other players from around the world via Open Feint

- Challenge your friends on Facebook Connect

The Bulkypix and Motion Twin team has been working for several months to adapt MyBrute to the iPhone and iPod Touch, to create a new competition and offer regular and exclusive content for this version.

Players start from scratch (the game is not connected to the online version) and try to become the strongest Brute in the world.

MyBrute offers discussion forums included in the game to exchange ideas and challenge other players, and also so that the community can suggest improvements to the game (service provided by OpenFeint 2.0).

Players can also share their feats and challenge friends on Facebook. (Facebook Connect)

Bulkypix will listen to players' suggestions and regularly provide new content and game modes, to continually renew the game experience.

MyBrute is a community game with long-term appeal. Future buyers will not be disappointed!

Keep visiting the MyBrute websites: , ,, and the Bulkypix website where further details will be released very soon.

About Bulkypix:

Founded in 2008 by former employees of Vivendi Games Mobile, Bulkypix is a team of 10 experienced developers who have created more than 70 games for a range of platforms.

Hysteria Project, which has been available from Appstore since April 2009, is the first example of the innovative games created by Bulkypix.

Bulkypix also develops and publishes cultural, professional and advertising applications.

Please contact us to discuss your projects.

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Motion Twin is an independent company which creates web games. Creator of the well-known game, Motion Twin won the best flash game awards in the Web Flash Festivals held in Paris with in2006 and in 2007.

With more than 10 million registered players and more than 15 web games, Motion Twin is a cooperative company created in 2001 which currently has 11 associates. Each of its associates has the same status and has the same voting rights, regardless of their seniority or professional qualifications. Motion Twin has, above all, an alternative concept of the world of business and employment.

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GTA V PC pre-orders could start Friday

Greg Lockley
GTA V PC pre-orders could start Friday

It would appear the biggest game of 2013 is finally landing on PC.

Gamereactor Sweden reports Nordic retailer Elgiganten, which is owned by UK electronics giant Dixons Retail, is expected to begin accepting Grand Theft Auto V PC pre-orders from Friday, January 21st.

The claim was made by an anonymous manager of an Elgiganten store.

Rockstar is still yet to confirm GTA V's inevitable PC release, but reports of the title's existence have continued to surface following countless retail listings and in-game scripts hinting a PC port.

Grand Theft Auto V launched in September last year and sold over 2.25m units in just its debut week in the UK. It has already become the fourth best-selling game in UK history after just 18 weeks on sale.

MCV has reached out to Rockstar for confirmation and will update accordingly.

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XFire Forms Strategic Partnership With eSportsTV

NEW YORK, NY - September 21st, 2007 - Committed to excellence, XFire (a Viacom company) has formed a strategic partnership with Game Broadcasting Live's eSportsTV to deliver and produce live coverage of XFire’s online events.

Beginning September 21st, 2007 eSportsTV will provide live streaming video and sports-casting coverage of XFire’s online gaming events. In addition to the live streaming broadcasts, eSportsTV will release special video on demand content exclusively available to the XFire community. The newly formed partnership developed by , EVP of Strategic Alliances for eSportsTV, will kickoff with the Siege of September gaming tournament starting today and continue with the championship match on September 28th. The tournament will also feature the demo of the highly anticipated Enemy Territory: Quake Wars.

“We are very excited and proud to partner with XFire.” said Jordan Edelson, President eSportsTV.“This is a great opportunity for us to deliver high quality video game broadcasts to a large captivated audience.”

XFire and eSportsTV will embrace their dedication to excellence and professionalism to deliver the most exciting action packed matches to the millions of daily XFire users around the world.

Be sure to visit www.eSportsTV.com and www.xfire.com for more information.

ABOUT eSports TV

eSportsTV, a subsidiary of Game Broadcasting Live LLC, is a multi-platform portal which delivers streaming and on-demand videogame content to viewers on the Internet. By harnessing revolutionary video streaming technology, eSportsTV is able to provide live video coverage of today’s most popular eSports matches to a worldwide audience. In addition, eSportsTV produces televised shows and programming across several television networks worldwide as well as serving as a news outlet for the latest developments in the exciting and fast-growing world of eSports. With an audience stretching globally, eSportsTV is recognized as a premier source for eSports coverage. For more information, visit www.esportstv.com.

John Kopp

Sandbox Strategies

Games PressGames Press is the leading online resource for games journalists. Used daily by magazines, newspapers, TV, radio, online media and retailers worldwide, it offers a vast, constantly updated archive of press releases and assets, and is the simplest and most cost-effective way for PR professionals to reach the widest possible audience. Registration for the site and the Games Press email digest is available, to the trade only, at www.gamespress.com.


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Every IT professional wants to know that they’re paid a fair market value for their particular skill sets and experience. Annual salary surveys quickly attract the attention of weary, over-worked staff and satisfied technologist alike. However, average pay rates don’t offer a perspective on other important quality-of-life factors for local areas, like the price of housing or the number of available jobs.

Now, research provided by CIO ranks the “Top 10 Cities for Technology Careers” by combining three critical factors – average IT salaries, available tech jobs and the cost of living index – to offer an informative ranking of the best places for IT professionals work and live.

MDI Group has local offices in 5 of the top 10 (and 3 of the top 5) best places to work in technology. So if you’re considering a change of scenery – either a different town or just a new local challenge – MDI Group can help you find what’s next for your career.

10 Best Places to Work in Technology

  1. Austin, TX
  2. Houston, TX
  3. Atlanta, GA
  4. Phoenix, AZ
  5. Denver, CO
  6. Dallas, TX
  7. Charlotte, NC
  8. Raleigh, NC
  9. Chicago, IL
  10. Portland, OR

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William Edward Schreiber MD

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