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Pentel Fabric Pastel Set of 15

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This Pentel Fabric Pastel Set contains 15 acid-free soft dye sticks in bright, brilliant colours that mean you can draw your own designs directly onto fabrics.

  • You simply apply the colours of your choice to absorbent fabrics such as cotton, wool or silk and seal with a hot iron.
  • If you make a mistake, you can simply wash out your design, but once set it is permanent and washfast.
  • Full instructions are included.

This Pentel Fabric Pastel Set contains: White, Yellow, Yellow Orange, Yellow Ochre, Orange, Red, Pink, Green, Yellow Green, Blue Green, Vandyke Brown, Cobalt Blue, Prussian Blue, Grey and Black.

Delivery & Returns

We dispatch orders every working day (ie Mon-Fri, not including Bank Holidays) for all delivery options.

UK Next Working Day Delivery - Free on orders over £75
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We'll then send you a free returns label or organise a collection, free of charge as long as it is in a resellable condition and within 14 days.

Once we've recieved your return we'll process tha package and the refund should be back in your account within 48 hours.

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What are the park hours and ride availability?

The park opens and closes at various times depending on day, week, month, holidays, special events and more. See the daily schedule at the park hours section above.

Are young children free or are discounts available?

Children 44 inches and under may golf for free with a paying adult. We also offer a great ride pass discount for children 44 inches and under. When accompanied by a paying adult, children 44 inches and under can purchase a bronze pass for only $13.99 each. See our rides and attractions page for ride height restrictions. Note: the child pass is not available for purchase online.

Do non-riders have to pay to enter the park?

There is no charge for non-riders to enter the park unless specifically noted on the calendar.

Do you have any restaurants onsite?

No, but we do have (3) three snack bars available. There is a small snack bar (Castles Cafe) inside the arcade, a larger snack bar (Kings REtreat) in the ride park, and a waffle shop (Waffles ~n~ Stuff) also in the ride park.

Do you offer group discounts?

We do offer group discounts with a minimum of 10 people; reservation required. See our parties page for more information.

How tall do you have to be to ride the rides?

See the ride height requirements. The ride height requirements are also listed on each of our attractions page.

Do you have gift certificates?

We offer “value pass” gift cards instead of gift certificates. You must purchase your gift cards in person at customer service. Gift cards may contain any desired amount.

What is a “value pass” and how do I get one?

We use a debit card system. The value pass card is used throughout our facility and new cards can be purchased onsite for $1.00. The new card includes $1.00 in “bonus” value which can be used for any game in our arcade. Once you have a “value pass” card, you can recharge your card online here.

What do the rides cost and do we need to purchase tickets in advance?

See the park pricing section on our buy tickets page. You are not required to purchase tickets in advance.

Do you offer season passes?

We do not offer season passes. Unlimited ride passes are good for the day of use only.

What rides are included with the unlimited ride passes?

When the ride park is open, all rides are available to those that purchase an unlimited ride pass. This includes the bumper boats, go karts, on the ropes, & sky wire. See our rides and attractions page for a list of what we have to offer.

Can I bring in outside food & drinks?

With the exception of school field trip bookings and exclusive park bookings, customers are not allowed to bring food into the park. A customer carrying an individual bottle of water containing no more than 20 oz. Is allowed, however coolers containing food or multiple bottles of water are not allowed.

What if it rains?

Please review our rain and power outage policy.

Are there any hotels nearby?

Yes. Please see accommodations above.

Do you offer discounts to military personnel?

Yes, we do offer a military discount of $5 off of any unlimited pass, with valid military issued id.

Are you hiring and what age do you have to be?

We accept job applications online only and you must be 16 years of age or older. You can apply here.

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IT Director - Ceredigion

IT Director Jobs

The implementation of a comprehensive IT system throughout a large company is a massive undertaking that requires a highly skilled and specialized team behind it. Programmers, developers, hardware technicians, project managers, help desk workers and the managers overseeing the individual elements of the project all add up to a significant portion of a company’s workforce, and they need to be led strategically by someone on the board whose responsibility is solely with them. That person is the IT director.

The IT director creates an IT strategy from the board’s overarching strategy and projections, and works closely with his or her immediate IT managers to ensure the project is delivered. As a board member, he or she may have some access to the company purse to ensure complex IT projects are adequately resourced, but keeping a lid on costs is always a key responsibility; IT budgets spiralling out of control is a common story in business and the public sector.

The skills required

At board level, an IT director could have little experience in dealing with information technology, but will build a team of managers to oversee the work. However, if you have experience of managing IT projects to a senior level, you could be the ideal candidate for many companies whose boards rely on the IT director’s expertise and counsel to inform them of the opportunities and limitations of the technology.

Primarily, your job as IT director is to oversee the delivery of either single IT projects or an ongoing series of projects as designated by the board, and your success will be judged on your performance in delivering projects on time and on budget. This can be a highly responsible job, often at the cutting edge of technology, and managing budgets can be difficult. However, with successful implementation, the rewards can be great.

Find IT Director Jobs with Cast UK

Cast UK only recruits at managerial and director level, and because we recruit only in a small range of sectors, we can offer a specialized service to clients looking for IT directors. The partnerships we have formed with some companies means they barely need in-house recruitment consultants, such is the trust they place in Cast UK to deliver.If you are an IT director looking for an excellent package, or

an IT manager with designs on taking your skills to the very top of a company, call us today on 0161 825 0825 because we might just know of a company looking for an IT director who fits your profile.

IT Director Jobs in Ceredigion

Ceredigion is a county on the west coast of Wales. Its concave, curving coastline forms the coast of Cardigan Bay, and its sandy beaches make it a popular holiday destination, with Aberystwyth and New Quay being best known. Ceredigion is searated from Gwynedd in the north by the River Dovey; its clockwise land neighbours are, from the north, Powys, Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire.

The administrative town of Ceredigion is Aberystwyth, with a population of around 16,000. The population of the entire county is about 75,000. Tourism, from the coast on the west and the Cambrian Mountains to the west, as well as a wealth of historical sites such as castles, is important to the county’s economy, and can be good news for those looking for IT Director jobs in the area.

Cast UK – helping you with your job search

If you’re looking for more information on the IT Director positions available in Ceredigion or anywhere else in the UK, please get in touch so we can talk about what’s on offer. At Cast UK, we never stop working with procurement, logistics and supply chain clients and applicants from across the country, and are dedicated to filling each position with the best talent possible.

Cast UK’s regional specialists can provide detailed information about the potential employers, the available job types and the average expected salary.

With a wealth of experience in the fields covered, our team of recruitment consultants understands what it takes to be a successful candidate for every vacancy.

To find out more about how Cast UK can help you find and recruit candidates within Ceredigion or source a new job in Ceredigion then contact one of our consultant team on 0161 825 0825.

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Easy Small Wood Projects

December 21, 2017

Whether you’re a hobbyist or trying to skill up, there are many starter wood projects to get you going.

To avoid frustration, it’s best to tackle doable weekend creations and then move on to greater things. You get the joy of crafting and having a finished piece in hand to point to and say proudly, “I made that.”

There are many packages available that give you video instructions, tool sets, and plans, and lists of materials to make these small tasks easy to complete. A great place to start is Woodworkers Guild of America. You can start simple and get more elaborate as your skills improve. These works are also great for teens who want to learn how.

Let’s run down the top ten.

10. Window box

Easy Small Wood Projects

You can build an attractive window box to hold plastic or terra cotta planters. It can be a basic rectangle, or an assembly of dowels or pickets. Stain or paint it to your liking and use flowers that are upright and tumbling over the sides.

9. Wine rack

Wine rack

This one could not be easier, as you cut in notches along two rails, then construct sides strong enough to carry the weight of the bottles. The finished work can give use to a neglected corner.

8. Birdhouse

Attract songbirds to your yard with an attractive home. You can build single houses or multi-family condos. Make the look modern or rustic. Place your creation in a tree away from traffic, grab a pair of binoculars, and wait for the chicks’ first flight.

7. Building blocks

Building blocks

The classic toy holds up in the age of talking, blinking robot companions. Children can build castles and fortresses and let imagination and figures they have on hand fill in the story. Make them in a variety of shapes, finish them neatly, and use kid-safe paints and stains for color.

6. Knife block

Knife block

Everyone needs a safe place to stow sharp knives, why not make it interesting? This one couldn’t be easier. You just need to join two blocks with staggered cut-ins. You can repurpose odd pieces and dress the result up as you like.

5. Coat rack with shelf

Coat rack with shelf

Entryways and mud rooms call for organizers. You can make a coat rack with a shelf, then add baskets for mail or whatever you need to take along for the day. You can use metal hooks or go Shaker style with pegs.

4. Shapes and letters

Shapes and letters

You can cut out any shape you can draw. Trace hearts, deer, snowmen, whatever you like. You can cut out letters too. You can fix them to a board to display a sign, your child’s name, or a motivational saying.

3. Cutting board

Cutting board

Create this kitchen staple as a plain plank, or add a handle or channels for drainage. Plane it down and sand it finely for years of use. Make it attractive for serving bread and cheese to guests.

2. Mallet

Why not use tools to make other tools? As you progress you can create a mallet, a mortar and pestle set, forks, spoons, and many more.

1. Decorative boxes

Decorative boxes

Hinged or uncovered, carved, painted or cut with patterns, boxes make great decorative pieces. From simple crates to puzzle boxes, you can show off your woodworking craft. You can hang them and display family photos. Add drawers for jewelry. Paint them with designs you draw out in your plans. These also make welcome gifts. We all need more storage.

by Info Guru Roger DeGenerro

Essential Woodworking Hand Tools

June 22, 2017

There are certain essential woodworking hand tools that belong in any garage or shop.

This list contains my “must haves” of non-power tools. It’s in no particular order. To use any tool well, you need good instructions. The Woodworkers Guild of America offers excellent videos, projects and plans that will allow you to put any of these tools to good work.

10. Square

A square excels at one thing: it lets you mark a straight line on a piece of lumber. Slap the square on a 2X4 or 2X6 and you have the perfect edge to mark a line with your pencil. In the hands of a skilled carpenter, a square can do all sorts of complicated framing measurements. But for most of us, the square is simply indispensable for cutting in a straight line – and instructional woodworking DVDs and videos will help you perfect your hand tool skills.

9. Tape Measure

Tape Measure

Always necessary, most tape measures are inexpensive enough to get two or three. As one of the most practical tools invented, they get borrowed frequently, so be sure to have one in reserve. Fun fact: some tape measures are lefty friendly. Woodcraft sells a “Lefty/Righty 16’ tape measure that can be read from either side of the tape.

8. Level

A level is so basic to woodworking and carpentry that it hardly needs describing. There’s no quicker way to tell if your work is true than with a level. Treat your woodworking levels well and don’t drop them or otherwise do anything to knock them out of kilter. Lengths vary according to your job and they come in wood or aluminum.

7. Handsaw

Even with a roomful of power tools, every woodworker has at least one general purpose handsaw. Good handsaws are expensive but basic saws less so. Keep the blade lightly oiled to prevent rust. Make sure the mounting bolts securing the blade to the handle can be retightened as needed. Better blades can be replaced when necessary, however, sharpening them is a skill well worth learning and the mark of a good woodworker.

6. Miter box and saw

Miter box and saw

What the handsaw is to big cuts, the miter box and saw is to small cuts. These kits let you precisely cut small lumber and molding at a variety of angles. Although power miter saws are indeed wonderful, you’ll find yourself going back to a miter box and saw for many of your small woodworking projects.

5. Planes

A block plane is another indispensable hand tool. It takes off material from boards and lumber that don’t fit precisely. Aligning a door is a perfect example. You may have framed up your door opening as well as possible, but when you go to install the door you find it’s catching a little. Shaving down just a small amount of wood with a plane will let you precisely fit that door to its opening. Cabinet and window frame work invariably call for a plane. Good ones are heavy and worth the cost.

4. Clamps

“You can never have enough clamps.” That old adage can be ascribed to woodworkers everywhere. Besides holding your work, clamps are essential for gluing boards together. A simple box or a picture frame demands clamping. You can’t use nails and screws for everything, especially if you want to do fine work. Clamps come in a bewildering variety, from basic “C” clamps, to clamps that work with pipe to span long distances. Ask your woodworking supplier for their recommendations for your project.

3. Carpenter Pencil

Carpenter Pencil

A common Number 2 pencil is no good for woodworking. The point will break immediately on any kind of rough wood. A carpenter pencil is flat or mostly so, so that it doesn’t roll off a table. Sharpened with most any kind of pocket knife, the broad lead tip will give you a nice, easy to read line on your work. Buy several so you’ll always have one nearby.

2. Hammer

What would a shop be without a hammer? A framing hammer and a claw hammer are the most common. Framing hammers are heavier, often 20 oz., and are meant for rough work. Their face is often textured. You wouldn’t want to use a framing hammer on finish work because they may mar your project. Normal claw hammers are 16 oz. in weight and can be swung all day, although they don’t deal well with bigger nails and lumber. My suggestion? Get both!

1. A Vise

A Vise

While not necessarily a hand tool, a vise is indispensable for any shop. Kinds vary and you’ll need to do some research on what’s best for you. But an all-around, all-purpose vise will serve you well on your workbench until you decide later that you need something particular.

by Info Guru Thomas Farley

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Retiring from your 9 to 5 job creates an entirely free world to discover.

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Gospel commentary: The gift of the Holy Spirit on Pentecost

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Jn 14:15-21

It may not be possible to overemphasize the significance of the Holy Spirit in the life of the church and the individual Christian. As we approach the end of the Easter season, the church turns her attention to the Holy Spirit in preparation for Pentecost when the Holy Spirit was poured out upon the church and her members.

First of all, the Holy Spirit makes faith possible. The Holy Spirit is the mysterious but very real point of contact between the believer and God. We can’t comprehend who Jesus really is, nor believe in Him as Lord and Savior without the direct assistance of the third Person of the Holy Trinity: “No one can say, ‘Jesus is Lord’ except by the Holy Spirit” (1 Cor 12:3).

Secondly, the Holy Spirit is a gift from the Father and the Son that immensely enhances the intimacy of the believer with God. In today’s Gospel passage, Jesus promises to ask the Father to send the Holy Spirit, the Advocate, to be with us always. As a result, the Holy Spirit is one of the most significant ways that Jesus fulfills His promise to remain with us until the end of time. “I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you” (Jn 14: 18). The Holy Spirit is God’s love being poured into our hearts. This is an amazing reality: God chooses to dwell in us, making us temples of the Holy Spirit.

Third, the Advocate is also the Spirit of Truth. “And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate to be with you always, the Spirit of Truth, whom the world cannot accept, because it neither sees nor knows him.” The Holy Spirit enlightens the mind of the believer and helps him or her to accept and embrace the truths of our faith.

Many truths that Jesus revealed about God and His plan for us are rather challenging to embrace. During Jesus’ public ministry, many of His followers found His teaching on the Eucharist to be hard to accept and “returned to their former way of life and no longer accompanied him” (Jn 6:65). Many people in the crowds that followed Jesus found it easy to follow Him while He was preaching against the hypocrisy of the Pharisees and multiplying the loaves and fishes; however, when Jesus quietly endured His false trial and humbly embraced the cross, they turned on Him or just disappeared. The Eucharist and the cross are truths of our faith that require the help of the Advocate to grasp and embrace.

Fourth, these beautiful and mysterious truths of our faith inform our way of life. We live differently because of our encounter with Christ and because of what we believe about Him. “Whoever has my commandments and observes them is the one who loves me.” Loving Jesus and believing in all that He revealed about God and man go hand in hand. Love and truth cannot be separated for the Christian. “Jesus said to his disciples: ‘If you love me, you will keep my commandments.’ ”

Finally, the Holy Spirit empowers us to bear witness to the Risen Jesus in our present day and to imitate Our Lord in His efforts to lead others to God. In our second reading for today, St. Philip demonstrates the power of the Holy Spirit working in the life of a believer: “Philip went down to the city of Samaria and proclaimed Christ to them.” By his example, his preaching and his remarkable deeds done in Jesus’ name, Philip converted many Samaritans to the Lord, and “there was great joy in that city.” This is the same city that was filled with those who believed very differently than the Jews and lived in constant tension with them because of historical, social and religious differences. In fact, Acts of the Apostles suggests that the whole city came to believe in Jesus: “Now when the apostles in Jerusalem heard that Samaria had accepted the word of God, they sent them Peter and John … ”  Philip’s success at converting the city of Samaria is a testimony to the efficacy of the Holy Spirit.

As we draw near to Pentecost, we pray for a greater awareness of the authority of the Holy Spirit, given to us through baptism and confirmation and renewed in so many ways, especially in  the sacraments of penance and Eucharist. We ask God to stir up in our hearts the fire of the Holy Spirit that our faith may grow strong, our intimacy with God be renewed, our embrace of Christian Truth be firm, our lives truly imitate Christ and our example lead our neighbor to Jesus.

Fr. Peterson is assistant chaplain at Marymount University in Arlington.

© Arlington Catholic Herald 2017


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Dec 4 - New Committee Chairs as Legislative Session Begins

The new legislative session began yesterday as 80 Assembly Members and 20 Senators were sworn into office. Of those sworn in, 34 members are new to the California State Legislature.

Speaker Fabian NÃºÃ±ez also announced the chairs for all the Assembly committees. One notable new chair is newly elected Asm. Jared Huffman, D-San Rafael, who will chair the Assembly Environmental Safety & Toxic Materials. Asm. Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, will be the new chair of the Appropriations Committee. Asm. Loni Hancock, D-Berkeley, will continue as the Natural Resources Committee chair.

You can check out information on all the new and returning 2007-08 state Assembly Members and Senators.


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Los Angeles County Poised to Phase-Out Polystyrene Packaging

Yesterday, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors adopted a motion to update and expand a 2011 study of the effects of single-use polystyrene plastic packaging. The motion was co-authored by Supervisors Sheila Kuehl and Janice Hahn.

Polystyrene packaging, often known by its trade name, ‘Styrofoam,’ is a ubiquitous source of ocean pollution. Even properly disposed of polystyrene breaks down into small pieces that coagulate in a toxic soup in our ocean or are mistaken for food by wildlife.

The 2011 study commissioned by the County noted that viable and affordable packaging alternatives exist, but the County postponed a polystyrene ban in favor of statewide action. However, the state bill in motion at the time failed to become law and the momentum for a Los Angeles County ban has been stalled ever since.

The State of California aimed to push forward a statewide ban again this year with Senator Allen’s SB 705, but the bill is currently stalled and cannot be reconsidered until 2018.

While the State continues to work towards a statewide ban, Los Angeles County has an opportunity to join more than 100 jurisdictions that have already banned polystyrene and demonstrate that Californians are committed to getting plastics out of our ocean.

The new study must be completed in the next 120 days, at which time Los Angeles County will be able to consider a permanent phase-out of this pervasive material.


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Anti-immigration group dwarfed by counter-demonstrators at beach

Anti-immigration protesters, right, are far outnumbered by counter-demonstrators on beach in Laguna Beach, California on August 20, 2017

CBS Los Angeles

LAGUNA BEACH, Calif. -- A small group of people demonstrating against illegal immigration in Laguna Beach were outnumbered on Sunday by hundreds of counter-protesters who gathered on the same stretch of sand to denounce racism in the coastal California city.

The group America First! said it wanted to focus attention on what it says are victims of DUI crashes and gang-related crimes committed by people living illegally in the U.S. Organizer Johnny Benitez said the group also wanted to protest "cheap labor" from those here illegally.

"I think immigration should happen when it's beneficial to the host country," Benitez said. "That's not happening in the U.S. right now."

They were dwarfed by a larger group of counterdemonstrators, some of whom shouted "Go away" and "No hate," and carried signs that said "Immigrants are welcome here."

Some 200 police officers, some on horseback, separated the groups as business carried on in the picturesque city of about 23,000 people, reports CBS Los Angeles.

A short distance away, beachgoers gathered for a drum circle and a plane flew overhead pulling a banner that said "Hate is beneath us."

Police said there were no significant incidents as officers continued to monitor the crowd Sunday evening.

One counter-protesters remarked to CBS Los Angeles, "We're telling them to go home. us uniting together  against them -- this is what makes amrica great. ... Every single one of us, from different ethnicities, different cultures, different religions, standing together really makes us the land of the free. Not them."

Anthony Bruneio, 37, said he came to engage with the America First! protesters and said he found common ground with Denise Ruiz, 39, who said she came to remember "those who are lost."

"Both sides agree that the extremists are defining the groups," Bruneio said.

"I think we all believe in a lot of the same things," Ruiz said. "Most of the media over-exaggerate."

The gathering came a day after a large crowd converged in Laguna Beach for what was called a peace and unity rally. Marchers held signs with slogans like "Unity over division, love over hate" and "Make America human again."

Organizers said Saturday's demonstration was a response to the planned America First! rally and to the deadly events at a white nationalist gathering last weekend in Charlottesville, Virginia.


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U.S. makes another move in diplomatic row with Russia

President Trump and Russia's President Vladimir Putin hold a meeting on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Hamburg, Germany, July 7, 2017.

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. will suspend non-immigrant visa operations in Russia from Wednesday, the State Department has confirmed. The move is in retaliation for Russia's demand that the U.S. slash its diplomatic personnel in Russia by 755 people, after the U.S. passed new sanctions against Moscow last month.

The halt in processing visas for Russians hoping to visit the U.S. will last eight days at consular offices in Moscow and for the foreseeable future at the other U.S. consulates in the country. Visa appointments scheduled during that time will be cancelled.

The U.S. Mission in Russia said it was taking the measure due to "departures and staff reductions" implemented to meet Russia's September 1 deadline for the contraction of American personnel in the country.

"We will operate at reduced capacity for as long as our staffing levels are reduced," a fact sheet posted only by the U.S. Embassy in Moscow states. "Russia's decision to reduce the United States' diplomatic presence here calls into question Russia's seriousness about pursuing better relations."

Exceptions will be made for diplomats and the official travel of Russian government officials. There will also be a block of visas made available for students in early September.

Earlier this month, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson met Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov in the Philippines and told him a U.S. decision on staffing would come by September 1.

While the two countries are trying to work together in some realms, Tillerson said he was trying to get Russia to understand "how seriously" the Russian hacking into the U.S. election "damaged" relations between Washington and Moscow. At that time he described the relationship as "pragmatic."

On Monday, Lavrov said the Russian government would "study" the decision made by the U.S. regarding visa processing, but added that Russia would not react in a way that would impact U.S. citizens.

President Trump mocked Russian President Vladimir Putin when Russia ordered the U.S. to cut its personnel level in the country, suggesting it would save the American government money.

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Harry Fuller spent decades in TV news in the San Francisco Bay Area, including stints as General Manager of KPIX-TV (CBS) and News Direcor at TechTV when it was founded in 1998. In 2001 he become Executive Producer for CNBC Europe. He later was the Executive Editor for CNET

I just saw a stage performance of "Cat On a Hot Tin Roof." The scene where Big Daddy smells out mendacity is rich with metaphor for this time in our America. Because, everywhere, it seems, there is the stench of mendacity. A back-of-the-envelope listing might include the likes of Enron, Iraq's WMD, Tiger Woods John Edwards, Hurricane Katrina, Bernie Madoff, Lehman Brothers' accounting methods, death panels, and, of course, pending Armageddon.

It's not that we present-day Americans are more dishonest or devious than other cultures or previous generations. Scandals, crooks, thievery, falsehood are part of the deal with humans. What makes our mendacity so smelly? There are lies that we Americans constantly tell ourselves and sadly believe. Worse still, we act on those lies as if they were truth.

Some of Our Lies

We're the Greatest Nation on Earth

Huh? By what measure? Longevity? Then we're 38th, behind two other American territories. Wealth? We're in hock, borrowing billions every month to keep our party going. Railroad infrastructure? This nation practically invented long-distance railroads but now has zero high-speed trains. Our cell phone system lags behind many nations. One area where we're doing splendidly is incarceration. We boast one-fourth of all the world's prisoners, despite comprising only 5% of the global population.

Our military can level any target. But our experience in Vietnam, Lebanon, Somalia, Iraq, Afghanistan has proved that military might doesn't necessarily insure a welcome reception from the local population. We can't even count on Israel, a close ally, doing what we want. Sure, we can kill anybody we choose (except Bin Laden), but we can't always make people behave as we wish. This leads to the second lie.

Everybody wants to be American, or destroy us

Here's the long-standing myth of American exceptionalism. We find ourselves too wonderful to behold. Some of us claim that we're God's chosen people. Let's wake up and take a clearer look.

Switzerland has an older democracy. Denmark's been a stable nation for a millennium while France has more vacation and offers its citizens better medical care. Most nations, even Russia, rank higher in living sustainably.

In many parts of the world the U.S. is totally irrelevant to hundreds of millions of people. They live without Wal-Mart or Starbucks. (And I'm sure they'd find another service if Google disappeared tomorrow.) Sure, some would like to see our military and borrowing power destroyed. But to most humans we're only a source of movies and other software.

We have the greatest system on earth

De-regulation of corporations is based on this lie. So is money-rich lobbying. No system is infallible.
"Greatest system" excuses government incompetence, political dishonesty, corporate mendacity and bonus-mongering. See what similar self-anointing has done to the Catholic Church? It's doing the same thing to American government, corporations, and our other institutions where self-preservation is paramount.

Some politicians claimed during the recent political battle that the U.S. has the world's best medical "system." There's no objective measurement supporting that. We pay more for less than any other post-industrial nation. 38th in longevity.

No group with great power or enormous wealth will always act in the interest of others, whether shareholders, voters or patients. Greed's real. It's pathological optimism to expect any system to naturally protect the many from the few at the top. Eternal vigilance, remember?

We Americans are God's chosen people

How many times in history has nation, king, empire, shaman, or tribe claimed to be at one with their chosen deity? And where did it get them? When some fellow human begins to describe God's will, beware. Sniff for mendacity.

Must we persist on a fallacious and foolhardy self-image based on the above and corollary lies? From the Iraq invasion to adjustable rate mortgages, we have repeatedly acted on our lies and self-delusion. Now there's much that needs doing. Right now we're getting a heavy dose of reality therapy here in America. What's unclear is how many of us will face reality rather than cling to these persistent, cosmetic pipedreams?

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For the fourth consecutive year, Colorado Christian University has been ranked in the top 2% of colleges nationwide. Ranked by the American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA), CCU is one of only 25 institutions in the nation to earn an A rating for its core education.

We're tremendously proud of this achievement, said Vice President of Academic Affairs Cherri Parks, Ph.D. We have taken the time to carefully review courses to ensure that each and every student receives a comprehensive education that will prepare him or her for both a successful career and a productive life as a citizen.

ACTA's What Will They Learn? study examined more than 1,100 institutions across the United States and rated them according to whether they offer a comprehensive, liberal arts education. To do so, institutions must require students to study composition, literature, foreign language, U.S. government or history, economics, and science. Any institution that requires at least six of the seven subjects receives an A grade.

Colorado Christian University meets ACTA's requirements, while also requiring students to have an understanding of Christian theology. One of the school's strategic objectives is to help students impact culture and to be active citizens in the process.

Fewer than half of Americans believe students are getting their money's worth from a college education whether public or private. And, over six in ten recent graduates believe college did only a fair or poor job of preparing them for their careers.

ACTA's What Will They Learn? study is a response to such trends.

From our core requirements to our innovative Employment Management System, Colorado Christian University is standing against these trends, noted Parks. We are resolute in our commitment to prepare students for life after college and ACTA's A grade is one measurement of how we're succeeding.

ACTA has called Colorado Christian University a hidden gem because we have the core requirements for an A but also other requirements that further distinguish us. We are committed to teaching students to become well-rounded, informed, and productive citizens who will change the world.

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Companhia de Electricidade de Macau - CEM, S.A. (CEM) has long dedicated to serving and caring for the communities by organizing various activities. With the Mid-Autumn Festival approaching, more than a dozen CEM Ambassadors organized a visit to the Macao Science Center and a tea gathering for over 30 members from the Macau Special Olympics (MSO) on 7 September, in a bid to send the warmest regards to the people with intellectual disabilities and soak up the festive atmosphere of the Mid-Autumn Festival.

MSO members, together with the CEM Ambassadors, arrived in the Macao Science Center at 3pm of the day with the visits to the exhibitions of the "Living Dinosaurs" and on various floors, followed by the science demonstration of the "Molecular Kitchen". While chef used various tools via physical or chemical reform to disintegrate completely the tastes, textures and shapes of the ingredients and to recompose them in a new dish, both CEM Ambassadors and MSO members were fascinated and actively raised a lot of questions to the docent. The atmosphere was further uplifted during the visit.

CEM then organized a tea gathering with games for both CEM Ambassadors and MSO members. The Ambassadors wrapped the day by giving festive gifts to the MSO members as a token of the warmest regards and blessing of the Mid-Autumn Festival. The activity was concluded in a warm and joyful atmosphere.

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Notwithstanding the undeniable success of telecoms liberalisation in terms of price reduction, new services and technologies as well as consumer satisfaction, EU telecoms policy is at least a half failure. This might seem hard to believe, but this Policy Brief shows that there is no such thing as an EU telecoms (or eComms) single market. We provide ample empirical economic and regulatory evidence of profound and lingering fragmentation as well as a brief assessment of the flaws of the third eComms package of 2009, now in force. Overcoming the fragmentation cannot but yield a considerable welfare improvement for the Union, which is exactly what a single market should be expected to deliver. Doing away with the flaws in the EU system requires a better institutional design. We wonder whether the regulatory (and competition policy) approach is really suitable for the Union and whether the fundamental conflict between the EU constitutional doctrine and the building of the single market (just as much a constitutional duty!) should not be resolved in novel ways.
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A small town which exists at San Hui Tsuen, is being deprived of a quick, efficient transportation as minibus. The dwellers of the area have to alight way back at Prime View Garden to reach their destination. What's wrong, if service is provided, minibus could earn much from the mass quantity of passengers from San Hui as a result.

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Any increase in stress, anxiety and the exacerbation they feel about not being able to cope with lack of sleep will typically lead to more sleepless nights, and the vicious cycle continues.  For some, its onset may simply be triggered by having something on their mind. For example, worrying about an exam or presentation that’s coming up, or not managing to get over something that has already happened.

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Cape Town - The third season of M-Net’s The Voice South Africa will be hosted  by Anele Mdoda, who replaces Lungile Radu.

She will take on this coveted role when the show’s Blind Auditions kick off later this month.

“Sho, I still can’t believe I’m going to be the host of such a massive M-Net production,” Anele beams. “Since 1992, when my parents bought our first decoder, I’ve been dreaming of seeing myself on my favourite television channel. Best of all, talent shows, especially those that give South Africans a time to shine, are my thing!

"I love, love, love The Voice. There is a very special camaraderie among the coaches, host and talent. Everyone does their best to make everyone else look and feel good. It’s friendly, it’s warm, it’s me! I am truly blessed that M-Net is giving me this opportunity and am excited to be there when red chairs turn to change people’s lives.”

During the Blind Auditions Anele will be in the wings to experience the talent's big moment with their friends and family.

“Anele has an extraordinary gift to make anyone feel at ease. We’re honoured to be working with her on The Voice South Africa.  She can chat up a storm, she’s a good listener and she makes people laugh – and shed a tear – without even trying.  And she's spunky and fun.  She does it one way, and that's the Anele Mdoda way," says M-Net's Head of Publicity, Lani Lombard.

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After Elise Testone finished singing Queen's "I Want it All" on last Wednesday's episode of American Idol, she told Ryan Seacrest that she wanted to just be herself and really own her songs that week. When the City Paper spoke on the phone with Testone in Hollywood last week the day before the performance, the soul singer expressed the same sentiment. "The songs I'm singing tomorrow, I'm owning those songs," Testone said. "And I think that's very important to own what you're singing, because people can tell, and even if they can't point to a specific thing, anytime they've given me negative feedback, I haven't owned it as much."

While the judges unanimously loved her performance of the Queen anthem, they were split when it came to Testone's second song, the Jimi Hendrix classic "Bold As Love." But for anyone familiar with the Charleston music scene, the performance was perhaps the coolest moment of the show since she was joined by Wallace Mullinax, her bandmate in the Freeloaders.

Last year, Elise Testone and the Freeloaders received the City Paper Music Award for Funk/Soul/R&B Band of the Year, thanks in part to Testone's vocals and Mullinax's ax skills. He's clearly one of the best guitarists in town, and onstage last week in Hollywood, he effortlessly channeled Hendrix on a red Fender.

When we spoke to Testone before the show, she let it slip that she would be having a guest musician from Charleston playing with her. After saying this, Testone quickly stopped herself, asking the Idol publicist who remained on the line with us for the entire 10-minute interview, "Was I allowed to say that?" The publicist, who took her babysitting duties very seriously, explained firmly, "Yes, but that's all we're going to say."

After Testone screamed and cooed her way through "Bold As Love," Seacrest pulled Mullinax over, saying, "I met Wallace over here. [Testone] called to ask him, 'What key do we usually sing that in?' and he said, how about I come out there and do it with you." A beaming Mullinax replied with his refreshingly laid back, extremely-not-L.A. drawl, "How y'all doin, great to see y'all." As fans of real working musicians and down-to-earth people — who in this case happen to be incredibly talented — it was great to see the controlled sterility of the show momentarily broken with a real smile.

The judges were divided. Jennifer Lopez loved the song, Steven Tyler had mixed emotions, and Randy Jackson, well, displayed the narrow-minded thinking that guides the show. "I love the Janis Joplin about you and I always have, and I love the Jimi because I'm a child of the '70s," Tyler said. "But you've got to do songs that people know. You can't pick the cherries with your back to the tree, you've got to sing a familiar song," to which a somewhat hurt-looking but always plucky Testone responded, "I thought everyone knew that song!"

However, when the next performer, Dave Matthews wannabe Phillip Phillips, sang the truly obscure "The Stone" from Matthews' 1998 album Before These Crowded Streets, Jackson praised him for being "Phillip Phillips," which apparently means channeling another, far more talented performer. Jackson's hypocrisy was enough to make us wonder if he even listens to the songs or if he's too focused on breaking the record for the number of times one can say "dude" in a two-hour period.

As you all know, Jackson's opinion is irrelevant. He doesn't ultimately decide if a contestant goes home. That charge is in the text-happy hands of the 12-year-old girls of America, who haven't heard the song "Bold As Love" before and probably have no idea who Jimi Hendrix is. To make matters worse, those voters have never really taken a shine to Testone, who, at 28, is seven years older than the next oldest contestant left in the competition.

Before Tuesday's performance, Testone was upbeat. "No matter what happens," she told me, "I'm always gonna be myself and I'm going to use what I've gained, the stature I've gained, for good. There are so many things I want to do. I want to make an album, a great album with musicians who've inspired me. And I really want to play some festivals and maybe at one point organize a festival in Charleston with people who are so amazing to play with."

Those plans will have to wait, because for the next half-year, Testone will be tied up with the Idol tour, which will hit the North Charleston Coliseum on Aug. 6. (Tickets go on sale May 11 at 10 a.m.) But while her name is everywhere now — Entertainment Weekly, Rolling Stone — Hollywood has not changed the Holy City singer's caring demeanor. In the real world, she's not only a seasoned performer, she teaches singing lessons at Mt. Pleasant's Music Unlimited. "I just want to bring a positive influence to the world through my music," Testone says. "When I was teaching, I started to feel this responsibility to help steer the youth or something, to be a role model for them, the younger generation, and what they're going through. And maybe I could be that person that they can look to for guidance or to make them feel better. But I also connect so well with the older crowd that I just feel this responsibility to get myself out there."

When it comes to all of her American Idol highlights — making the Top 24 and then the Top 12, busting out a truly rocking rendition of the Led Zeppelin classic "Whole Lotta Love" — one moment in particular stands out: meeting Stevie Nicks. "I definitely felt like she and I were old friends and clicked right away," Testone said. During their meeting, the two singers joined together for an impromptu duet, after which Nicks said, "If I needed a singer, I'd hire her in an instant."

Testone was taken aback. "She was so passionate and sincere with her advice when she spoke to me," she said. "That was the most incredible mentor for me we've had so far. And I hope she calls me to be her backup singer."

A backup singer? Testone is destined for more than that.

On Thursday night, we learned the results. Testone was going home. It was not a shock. Week after week, American Idol voters had placed the Charleston singer in the bottom three. Each time she had managed to escape. This time she didn't. And, without a truly seasoned adult performer, the competition is now worse off after Testone's ouster.

We know Testone would have liked to win, but the truth is we all knew from the get-go that she was better than this show. We all knew the tweener text-a-thon wasn't her game. Her goal, which she has repeated several times, was to get herself out there to as big an audience as possible and have a positive influence on people's lives. She's done that. And she will do much more of it.

Elise Testone will be able to use Idol as a stepping stone into the music biz, a foot in the door to the palace of her future. And anyone who knows her knows she doesn't mess around. Once in, that foot ain't going anywhere.

Elise Testone's Top Five Moments on American Idol

1. "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around" duet with Phillip Phillips

This performance was a hit with the Idol judges and the public, but while Elise Testone commanded the stage, her partner, Dave Matthews-clone Phillip Phillips, did not. When Stevie Nicks and Tom Petty sang this classic rock standard on camera or on stage, they looked at each other, acting out the emotions of the song. Throughout the performance, Testone attempted to engage Phillips in the cat-and-mouse, look-me-in-the-eye-goddammit style the song requires, but the former pawn shop worker Phillips didn't even seem to understand the meaning of the words. With the exception of Idol's Skylar Laine and Jessica Sanchez, no other contestant has been able to take a single performance and turn it into art. But that's something that Testone did with not only with this song, but nearly all of the others.

2. "Let's Get It On"

We honestly don't understand why the judges criticized Testone for her performance of this Marvin Gaye classic. It was sultry and funky, and during it, the Holy City resident proved she had personality to spare. And it didn't hurt that she sang it really well — something she did on every song she sang except for her nearly disastrous cover of Foreigner's "I Want to Know What Love Is." During "Let's Get It On," Testone growled at all the right times, but she showed restraint on the stage, something that had been difficult for the singer to do on her Idol journey. The song had the right combination of sass and maturity.

3. "Vienna"

On this deep cut from Billy Joel's 1977 album The Stranger, Testone once again showed restraint. "Vienna" is a challenging song, and the result was really pretty, but not in Testone's usual belt-it-out fashion. It was soft and delicate, but it was still Testone. So when the time came for the singer to inevitably erupt, she once again showed the great level of control she has over her voice. Idol does its best to take that control away from the artist, which just makes us excited to see what a shackle-free Elise Testone can pull off.

4. "It's a Man's Man's Man's World"

On the 49-second clip of the performance that got her into the Top 24, James Brown's "It's a Man's Man's Man's World," Testone's singing is off the charts. It's not even fair. Later in the show, the judges pushed Testone's rocker side while ultimately rejecting her Hendrix interpretation. But as everyone in Charleston knows, Testone is best when she's belting out funk and soul.

5. "Whole Lotta Love"

Like there was ever any question. There were a few moments during the competition where the sheer power of Testone's voice and personality fully came through on television like it does onstage at the Pour House. Her cover of the Led Zeppelin classic did that. The force of her stage presence and the shivery concoctions of her voice were unrivalled by the other contestants. Not only was this her best Idol moment, it was the only performance from any contestant where we actually forgot we were watching American Idol and stood up and stomped our feet.

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Weekend Box Office: 4 Films With Something for Everyone

This weekend, movie theaters around the country will play host to four very different films: one is a gory thriller, the fifth in its franchise; the second is a wholesome heart-wrenching adaptation of a best-selling book; the third is an R-rated action comedy; and the fourth is a 3D concert musical.

Warner Brothers’ (NYSE:TWX) Final Destination 5, this weekend’s gory thriller, probably has the best shot at being number one, unless it’s ousted by holdover Rise of the Planet of the Apes, which raked in $54.8 million when it opened last weekend, and added nearly $20 million more to that figure as of Wednesday. The last Final Destination film, released in 2009, grossed $27.4 million in the U.S. its opening weekend. Apes is expected to bring in $26 million to $28 million in its second weekend. The plot of each Final Destination film is essentially the same, and relies on audiences looking for a thrill — that, and crazy new ways for the franchise’s new cast of characters to die.

DreamWorks and Participant Media’s The Help might also have a chance to push Final Destination down a peg, though the film opened a couple days ahead of the weekend, which could hurt true weekend sales. Disney (NYSE:DIS), the film’s distributor, is projecting roughly $20 million in ticket sales this weekend, but that estimate could be a bit conservative considering the film’s many positive reviews from both critics and moviegoers alike. The Help grossed $5.5 million when it opened Wednesday, and added another $4.3 million on Thursday.

The Help is based on the 2009 novel of the same name written by Kathryn Stockett, which has sold over 5 million copies and spent over 100 weeks on the New York Times Best Seller list. The story takes place in 1960s-era Jackson, Mississippi, and demonstrates the plight of black domestic workers employed by white households. The film’s cast includes Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Bryce Dallas Howard, Octavia Spencer, and Jessica Chastain.

This weekend’s third nationwide release is Ruben Fleisher’s R-rated action comedy 30 Minutes or Less, starring The Social Network’s Jesse Eisenberg. Sony (NYSE:SNE) is predicting a modest opening bow of $15 million to $17 million, hoping that positive word of mouth will give the film legs to carry it into future weekends. The film is likely to compete with Final Destination 5 for audiences, expected to be relatively young and largely male, while The Help stands alone in its appeal to older audiences, with its female-led cast tracking particularly well among women.

This weekend’s final national release is Glee: The 3D Concert Movie, released by Fox’s (NASDAQ:NWSA) film and television studios. The film will follow the cast of the Fox Network’s hit TV show “Glee” as they tour the country, performing sold-out concerts. While Fox is predicting the film will bring in high single-digit sales this weekend, it’s been hard to estimate how well the film will do. Its audience will be almost solely comprised of viewers of the weekly television show, whose fans call themselves “Gleeks” and can be quite enthusiastic in expressing their fervor for the show and its cast. The film will only be in theaters for two weeks, which could draw in more viewers its opening weekend, but is only opening in 2,040 locations.

While all of the aforementioned films are very different in terms of content, they all have one major thing in common — they were all cheap to make. While a significant number of films released in July had budgets in excess $100 million, all of this weekend’s films cost less than $50 million to make. For The Help, that means its 5-day extended opening could reimburse the studio its $25 million production budget, and then some. The same could be the case for Glee 3D, which cost $9 million to make.


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Dabur India Ltd. Earnings Call Nuggets: Modern Trade and Volume Growth

Dabur India Ltd. (DABUR.NS) recently reported its third quarter earnings and discussed the following topics in its earnings conference call.

Modern Trade

Abneesh Roy – Edelweiss: Sir, congrats on the volume growth and margin expansion. My first question is on the modern trade, if you see some of the FMCG companies and retail companies, which have reported numbers, they are bonding towards a sharp slowdown in the same-store growth and store closures on a net level. So how much is modern trade contributing on an overall basis for the domestic business and which are the categories in which modern trade is more relevant, because if I see your Real Juice, we see a 29% YoY growth. So what’s the trend reversing in modern trade?

Sunil Duggal – CEO: For us modern trade actually did extremely good performance in this quarter. The revenue growth was close to 30%, again largely volume. So we don’t see any compression in terms of demand for modern trade. I don’t have numbers in terms of sales, pro-sale et cetera, but overall aggregate modern trade growth was more than twice that of the total domestic growth. So in our case, the two drivers of growth had been rural, which has grown close to 20% and modern trade, like I said, which is around 30% and the biggest drag really has been canteen stores department, which continued its decline. Urban markets have grown at a (date pace) double digits, but not as fast as the other two.

Abneesh Roy – Edelweiss: Regarding rural, are you seeing the trend reversal in any points, because it’s still 20% growth and how much of this growth is coming from your rural distribution initiative? On the market, overall, how will you see the rural market if you take off the distribution expansion?

Sunil Duggal – CEO: I have to say how much is due to the distribution expansion, but it’s significantly factored that part in because the rural expansion has been instrumental in driving rural growth. We certainly would have got 20% growth had we not done the changes, which we did a year ago and definitely it’s played it part.

Abneesh Roy – Edelweiss: But my next question is on the Oral Care, Premium Oral Care has done very well. If you could point from where we have taken market share especially if you see sensitive we have already strong players. So what’s the thoughts process Dabur has on the sensitive and the premium end of that end? Secondly, toothpowder 14% growth after many quarters, is it largely base effect?

Sunil Duggal – CEO: Well, we don’t have any sensitive toothpaste offering. We have two premium variance both are herbal in nature, Red Toothpaste and Meswak, and they are not as premium as the sensitive toothpaste, which are at the much higher price point. So they are more at the upper end of the popular segment rather than at the premium end. But these are high margin offerings and this is where we put our money behind and where we want to see growth. The third is economy variant, which obviously has much lower margins and that has been really not being pushed as aggressively as these ones, because we want to regain better margin profile for the economy offering.

Abneesh Roy – Edelweiss: So the toothpowder?

Sunil Duggal – CEO: Toothpowder has been actually this quarter was fairly positive around close to 15% growth, but largely price driven, the volume growths are not happening to that extent, which is only to be expected. So in a category, which is going and certainly is on a category in which we are investing behind.

Abneesh Roy – Edelweiss: Sir, on the sensitive would you say that its s relatively small market and already three, four players are there? Would you say like that, or is it a category in which over the longer-term even Dabur would like to have a presence?

Sunil Duggal – CEO: I think we would like to have a presence, and we would like to have a sharply differentiated presence as compared to the mainstream players, because there is a lot of noise and activity in this area. So we’ll have to be little careful about which direction we choose, but we do see Sensitive as being a very big category in the future. If one were to follow global trends, (where) sensitive is very significant in terms of the overall composition of the toothpaste franchise. So we are exploring the possibilities in this space.

Abneesh Roy – Edelweiss: Sir, my last question is on the Home Care and the Real business, both have grown almost 29%, 30%. So how sustainable is it, especially Real, I understand slight benefit will be also because of the full impact of festive season? In Home Care, how sustainable is this 30% growth?

Sunil Duggal – CEO: Well, I don’t think 30% growth is ever sustainable. So I do expect at a point in time growth to start leveling off. I think the first signs of some moderation in growth for the food franchise is visible. Our growth in the third quarter was lower than the first two. (That’s only to) be expected as the base becomes very big. The Home Care is showing a lot of resilience. This year the growth was driven by Odomos; traditionally it is driven by Odonil. So obviously the mosquito season was in favor of driving brand growth and may or may not happen next year. But overall we are positioned very strongly in both the segments. So I think we should be able to drive growth perhaps ahead of the rest of the portfolio but maybe not at for 2, 2.5x which we’re doing so far.

Abneesh Roy – Edelweiss: Any plans to make on the presence in (indiscernible) mosquito category more – in terms of more product presence?

Sunil Duggal – CEO: I think we will continue to be in the applicator space. So we will focus on outdoor usage rather than indoor usage. That is the space which has already been taken up. Also applicator brand should normally be differentiated from an insecticide brand because two have very different connotations in terms of usage and safety. So Odomos will remain applicator for outdoor usage and we believe there is a huge market potential waiting this year.

Volume Growth

Percy Panthaki – India Infoline: First question is on the volume growth, I know that you have given a range of about 8% to 12%, but would you be able to sort of give any views I do not interested quarter-to-quarter, but let’s say on a four to five year basis, what is the amount of CAGR volume growth that you can do in the domestic business and if you could narrow the range a little bit?

Sunil Duggal – CEO: Well, it’s hard to narrow the range to anything sharper than 8% to 12% and the reason for that is that inflation is unknown factor, so we’ll be operating other things being the same at the lower end of this band in periods of medium to high inflation and hopefully at the upper end of this band, when inflation is more benign. So I think that’s the way it normally plays out, of course there are numerous other considerations which one can predict. But I would still confine myself with the 8% to 12% band.

Percy Panthaki – India Infoline: Just wanted to know your views on any further acquisition, how do you see that over the next two to three period, two to three year period, would you say that the possibility of further acquisition is very low or do you think it’s possible?

Sunil Duggal – CEO: Well, it’s possible, but low, I won’t say very low, but I don’t think there is anything which is immediate or very compelling, but you never know this things happen unexpectedly we still would look out for an acquisition particularly in the domestic – for the domestic business we haven’t done anything for the last four or five years. So the business is quite prime to take on any acquisition and drive it forward, but early days and we still are really prospecting but nothing is coming up.

Percy Panthaki – India Infoline: So in that case, supposing if there is no further acquisition, do you see your dividend payout ratios going up in the future?

Sunil Duggal – CEO: Not immediately, I think for the next, I would say, two years, I don’t see any – any announcement in the payout ratio. After that we’ll have to kind of do a range at fees, and what the cash accumulations are, and if they are exceedingly large, I think there would be a need to pay it out. But certainly in next fiscal, I don’t see that happening. I can’t predict beyond that.

Percy Panthaki – India Infoline: So in the next fiscal, would you therefore use your surplus cash to repay the debt on the books or will it remain as cash?

Sunil Duggal – CEO: No, it would remain as cash because a lot of the cash will be raised in India, the overseas cash will be used to pay the debt which is all overseas. In India we have no debt worth to name. So India cash will remain in India to build (indiscernible) and the meanwhile there is a good amount of treasury income to be earned. But ultimately we’ll have to see how to deal with it.

Percy Panthaki – India Infoline: Just couple of housekeeping questions, what are the tax rates that we should take FY ’13, ’14 and ’15, that is one?

Sunil Duggal – CEO: Last year tax rate was a little depressed on account of that write-off which we did of the H&B business. So what you see now is the true MAT rate and that should continue and if there is something which is introduced finance year in terms of raising the level of MAT, that is not to be predicted, but otherwise we’ll continue at MAT for the four or five years at least.

Percy Panthaki – India Infoline: So safely we can say that your tax rates should not be more than 20% unless there is any (indiscernible).

Sunil Duggal – CEO: The 21% as we speak, actually it is little bit lower. 20.9% exit rate. So we’re around that much – it depends also upon how much profit we capture overseas, because overseas, particularly the Middle Eastern markets, the tax rate is lower. Yes, around 20% is what you should look at.

Percy Panthaki – India Infoline: Can you also throw some light on why the interest cost has dropped so much in this quarter, YoY and QoQ?

Unidentified Company Speaker: Yeah, I think it is primarily because in the previous year same quarter there was higher exchange rate impact, which if you compare it now with the current quarter, it is showing comparatively lower finance cost.

Sunil Duggal – CEO: Level of losses have come down.

Percy Panthaki – India Infoline: Even QoQ, it is down.

Sunil Duggal – CEO: Yes. But level of losses have come down. The losses are still there but the level of losses have come down both year-on-year as well as Q-on-Q.

Unidentified Company Speaker: There more of a convergence in the exchange rate than it was in the first two quarters.

Percy Panthaki – India Infoline: Sir, in QoQ basis, I don’t think the exchange rate would have significantly shifted, right?

Gagan Ahluwalia – Additional GM, Corporate Affairs: On a Y-on-Y basis there is more…

Sunil Duggal – CEO: Sequentially…

Gagan Ahluwalia – Additional GM, Corporate Affairs: Greater than the – yes.

Percy Panthaki – India Infoline: Yeah sequentially Q3 versus Q3.

Gagan Ahluwalia – Additional GM, Corporate Affairs: Yes, you are still looking at interest cost y-on-y.

Percy Panthaki – India Infoline: No, quarter three of this year versus quarter two of this year, so even that it has almost come down by half, so I think between these two quarters, the interest rate has not significantly moved?

Sunil Duggal – CEO: On an average, no, but in terms of the blend of the mix which has happened in-between the quarter has have undergone some change and that has resulted to the drop in the absolute loss.

Unidentified Company Speaker: Yeah, the ForEx losses in Q3 have been significantly lower than the previous two quarters and that is captured under this account head.

Percy Panthaki – India Infoline: So going forward what kind of interest cost should we take on a quarterly basis assuming that interest rates are – ForEx rates are constant?

Sunil Duggal – CEO: So if the exchange rate remains constant that we could take it at the similar level, but it will all depend upon how the exchange rate will pan out in the future.

Percy Panthaki – India Infoline: Similar to Q3 you mean?

Sunil Duggal – CEO: Yes. It should be lower, isn’t it? Now there is an increasing convergence in the exchange rate on a YoY basis. So YoY, they should be now even less than (rest) captured.

Unidentified Company Speaker: Yes. On a YoY basis, yes.

Sunil Duggal – CEO: Then it’ll kind of moderate itself by the first quarter. So fourth quarter should be a little bit lower…

Unidentified Company Speaker: On YoY.

Sunil Duggal – CEO: On a YoY basis and then sequentially.

Percy Panthaki – India Infoline: Sir, just talking about the absolute rupees million in (indiscernible) cost on a quarterly basis, would it be similar to what we had in this quarter?

Unidentified Company Speaker: It will be more or less similar.

Sunil Duggal – CEO: It will be similar.


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Humana (NYSE:HUM) recently reported its fourth quarter earnings and discussed the following topics in its earnings conference call.

Transitioning to HMO Products

Matthew Borsch – Goldman Sachs: Could you just talk in a little more granularity about the transition process to HMO products and what have you set quantitative goals that you can share there and maybe just tell us how that’s going with some market examples?

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James E. Murray – EVP and COO: Well, this is Jim Murray. Yes, we’ve set targets. I think that the targets that we had shared with a lot of you in the November Investor Day here in Humana detailed a lot of those, I don’t know have those in front of me, but if you reference those materials you can see those. Philosophically what we’re attempting to try to do on a market-by-market basis have a conversation with our members about the additional benefits and lower premiums that they can enjoy with the HMO products. As you know, the HMO products are more like the integrated care delivery model that Bruce detailed in his remarks and that’s where we can create a lot of economic benefits for the members that we serve and also the satisfaction measures and experience for the members is enhanced with that model. The conversations at our market point selling representatives have with the individual members goes through a lot of that discussion with them.

James H. Bloem – SVP, CFO and Treasurer: Matt, I’d like to add to that. I think you know we are (indiscernible) that process was building capacity and building the capacity is around bringing the providers to the risk-based contracting as we’ve talked about we’ve had great progress in that. Then the second aspect is I was alluding to we are also focusing in certain markets I think when everyone was here in November we talked about five markets maybe increasing that to seven markets, but our intention to be very, very strong in those five to seven market and the ability to build the integrated deliveries.

Matthew Borsch – Goldman Sachs: Just one last question here is as you now realize it’s early but as you look ahead to 2014 do you know is it your judgment at this point that you would make member benefit reduction commensurate with the amount of the industry fee that’s being introduced if it is introduced as scheduled for next year?

James H. Bloem – SVP, CFO and Treasurer: This is Jim again. Obviously, there is a lot of things that have to go into the pot to try to figure all that out. It is our intention to recover the industry fee and either lower benefits or higher premiums. But as you know what has to happen with the funding with the government is something we will learn in the next couple of weeks where our competition is, what we are able to do with the 15% solution that you are all familiar with, secular trends, risk revenue and some of the good work we are doing around the in-home assessments and you know the whole integrated care delivery model progression that we are detailing here. So, there is a lot of things that we study market-by-market, but it is our intent to recover that fee both on a pre-tax and in those cases where we can on an after-tax basis.

Base Rate Update for 2014

Christopher Rigg – Susquehanna: I guess, just a follow-up on that last thought there. When we get the 45-day notice in a couple weeks what are you guys anticipating in that in terms of sort of a base rate update for 2014?

Bruce D. Broussard – President: There is a lot of things that we read about many of you have different opinions about what ultimately will happen. We have our own ideas about some of the variables that go into that funding rate that we look for. When we step back we look at it – we’re sensing something that is flattish to slightly down and that’s an environment that we’ve demonstrated in the past that we can live with. But again that’s a lot of studying and a lot of by-market evaluations on all of the things that I just talked through here a moment ago and a lots of work to do in and around the February through April timeframes. But again based upon what we’re sensing, we feel comfortable that we’ll be able to come out with a set of products, benefits and premiums that will be very attractive to the members that we serve.

Christopher Rigg – Susquehanna: Then on the Retail segment, medical loss ratio guidance, it’s up 50 basis points. When I look at the impact of the flu, I guess what’s driving that increase? Does that anything to do with the recent acquisitions or is it all just on the cost trend side?

Bruce D. Broussard – President: It’s all the cost trend side. It’s basically the worst flu season we’ve had in more and at least the decade and it’s as we showed it’s in the fourth quarter for about $25 million and it’s carried over peaking in mid-January in 2013.

James H. Bloem – SVP, CFO and Treasurer: Yeah, relative to our prior guidance, it’s the flu. There is also some additional quality measures, we’re doing around our drug programs that we’ve identified some additional costs related to that and also these in-home assessments and them included in that benefit ratio calculation are very – are part of that increase.

Christopher Rigg – Susquehanna: So, when I look at on Slide 12 and the $45 million benefit from operations that you’re projecting is that, I guess I’m just trying to figure out the math here because it looks like the $45 million would be less than 50 basis points and is the $45 million of benefit not in the cost side or how should we think about the net impact here?

Steven E. McCulley – VP, Controller and Principal Accounting Officer: This is Steve. The operating cost is down versus the last projection as well. So, the increase in benefit ratio is offset by a lowering of the operating cost ratio, the admin cost ratio.


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Wall Street Watch: Home Depot Earnings, Facebook’s Amended Filing

Facebook (FB) filed an amended SEC S-1 document today prior to its IPO. Highlights included a price range increase to $34-38 per share. This places its market cap at $81.25. The company is now poised to raise approximately $12.82 billion from the IPO. Facebook also said it expected its Instagram purchase to now close sometime during the year instead of the second quarter.

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Home Depot Inc.’s (NYSE:HD) fiscal first-quarter earnings jumped 27 percent in part to a debt-extinguishment gain while U.S. stores sales rose and margins improved. The company increased its earnings outlook for the year to $2.90 per share from a 4.6 percent sales increase. This came in higher than February’s $2.72 per share estimate on a four percent sales growth. Shares are off three percent in pre-market trading.

Coty withdrew its $10.7 billion takeover bid for Avon (NYSE:AVP) on Monday evening. The company said in letter to Avon via a press release that the it missed its deadline to begin talks. Coty Chairman Bart Brecht said, “I find it remarkable that since we made our revised proposal … no one from Avon’s Board or management has been willing to speak with us.”

JPMorgan (NYSE:JPM) may take back bonuses after its $2.3 billion trading loss, according to Bloomberg, thanks to news that former CIO Ina Drew could take $14.65 million in accelerated equity awards. The bank is scheduled to have its annual meeting on Tuesday, where it will discuss proposals to change its risk committee and to take away Jamie Dimon’s chairmanship and replace him with an independent.

New Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) Chairman Fred Amoroso would like to see interim CEO Ross Levinsohn permanently get the job, according to The Wall Street Journal. Levinsohn has said it’s too early to discuss strategy but major changes aren’t expected after former CEO Scott Thompson’s reorganization. The company has decided he will keep his $6.5 million bonus money and equity but he won’t get any severance.

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