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Moving into 2012 and all the lovely new books coming in daily that are now toppling my reading pile, it's always a good moment to look back and think about those books I read in 2011 that I remember most fondly.
Tricky (almost impossible) to pick one book above all others that I enjoyed last year, because you always enjoy books for different reasons and comparing them seems very unfair. But I have done a selection of those which have particularly appealed.
A Vision of Loveliness by Louise Levene (£7.99)
All right, I admit, this is a total guilty pleasure (up there with Kate Atkinson) as an utterly indulgent read, with lines so wonderful I can go to them again and again.
It's a dark comedy that will transport you to late 1950s London and a grim suburb where dinner was 'a tinned steak and kidney pie, soggy King Edwards, and Surprise dried peas – the surprise being that anyone bought them'.
If, like me, you adore a wallow in a bit of extremely fine observation, then you will also find plenty to love about this story of a young suburban shopgirl determined to claw her way to a more glamorous life, using men along the way, with little more than a Pan-stick, 21-inch waist and a pair of false eyelashes 'fluffy nylon fringes to create all those killer glances' – (by the end Jane's eyelashes almost have a life of their own).
Chance brings Jane into contact with Suzy – and Jane is certainly a girl who knows how to make the most of a chance. Soon she is in possession of a modelling assignment, a room in a shared Mayfair flat, a sapphire bracelet, a hermes alligator bag and a collection of dinner dates.
Clothes matter a lot to Jane (now Janey). 'Ballerina length might be all very well Down South but they wouldn't let you through the door without a long frock in Wilmslow, apparently'.
Through clothes she makes instant judgments about people. Clothes are detailed so much they are practically an additional character in the book 'It was a dogtooth check sort of a day.'
She also acquires a very desirable boyfriend and a worldly-wisdom 'Crepes suzette 'involved setting fire to pancakes on a trolley in rather a flashy way but they tasted quite nice'.
Enough to steer her through meeting his posh mother and a dinner party in Roehampton with his superior friends 'she was giving them 'her' coq au vin: 'hers' in the sense that nobody else's was made with half a bottle of sweet cider and burned to a crisp'. Janey successfully parries every attempted put down, while at the same time despising their lives (just keesh and Kingsley Amis from now on).
It's the sort of book that really gets other people annoyed when you are reading it as you can't help but keep sniggering.
In fact there is very little that is lovely about Janey's journey. Even she starts to notice her dead eyes and wonders if there is more to life. But the only serious alternative is marriage to 'wear a cheap black frock (home made even, People did), or attend poxy 'mmm-did-you-make-these-yourself?'n coffee mornings.. And Janey reflects that in her life men are expected to pick up the cheque, but at least she isn't expected to do much in return.
Her triumphant return to Norbury is one of Janey's high points. In a Bentley and with a mink hat, is pure joy as her friends try to keep discussions to candlewick bedspreads and brushed nylon sheets (they Saved Work). They had to keep talking about themselves in case one of the unasked questions slipped out – Did it hurt? Did they respect you afterwards? Did you have to keep the lights on? How did she stop the eyelashes falling off?
My book group queried the chick litty cover and a quote from Joan Collins. But overlook that and just enjoy what's between the covers.
It's a story of a journey that's pretty grubby underneath – tawdry finery and false hope, learning how to stetch a yawn into a smile. Enough to make you want to bring out the Liquid gumption. But definitely a step-up from Norbuy.
The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides (£20)
Pulitzer-prize winner, Eugenides, has written very few books, but his latest is a timely reflection on the lives of three college students in the1980s – a decade that gave birth to the very modern angst – the quest for meaning in lives where choice is seemingly limitless, and commitment need only be fleeting.
Three college students trying to find their futures in 1980s America. Madeleine with her unfashionable interest in English Victorian literature, when everyone around her is starting to worship Nietzche.
Mitchell, seeking spiritual enlightenment in India. And golden boy Leonard and the damaging secret of his brilliance and already sewing the seeds of his downfall. Eugenides makes us care for them all. But which will ultimately find the satisfaction they seek?
We meet them when they are all enjoying their last years of freedom, while considering their futures. With loving detail, Eugenides creates the period, the uncertainties. Madeleine is delighted when the brilliant Leonard chooses her. Leonard's ambition is to 'become an adjective' – (Faulknerian, Kafkaesque, Checkovian).
He is the one who looks like having a vocation and a scientific career – someone who will discover something and make something of himself. But when Leonard's secret unfolds and we get a vision of how precarious is his brilliance, his leadership qualities, Madeleine is left with complex decisions.
If this had been a Victorian novel, she would have had to make the best of it, take her damaged husband and try to repair the tatters and secure what future for themselves she can.
But this is the eighties, when you can be madly in love with someone one minute, and the next, see the chance of a rewarding career of your own and a better prospect. Do you still need a mate? And one who will only bring you down at that?
An absorbing tale of how slippery it can be to find a role in life when love, money, success are becoming such throwaway commodities.
Other People's Money by Justin Cartwright (£12.99)
A novel set in the world of ultra-rich bankers fighting to save their skins following the banking crisis sounds like the makings of a grim read peopled with unsympathetic characters.
But Justin Cartwright's 'Other People's Money' is a stunningly good read. A romp and a comedy, a thriller and a thoughtful piece for our times on the ramifications of the unseemly scrap for easy money.
In the balance are the future and fortunes of a long-standing family-run bank, creaking under the weight of its hedge fund losses. And, at the other end of the world (in Cornwall) are others seizing their last chances for glory.
Julian Trevelyan-Tubal is trying to cover up his bank's losses. He has to find several hundred million in a hurry. Julian may be aware that he is already morally bankrupt. That it is only by wrestling back the Matisse from a loyal employee, selling the yacht under the nose of his dying father, and using his clients' money in dubious ways one last time, he may just pull it off.
He is aware that he is becoming as single-minded and unlovable as his father.
And there are other good characters who stand to lose if everything fails. Artair MacCleod, playwright and actor-manager, now mounting productions of Thomas the Tank Engine 'for the little, obese, pig-faced kiddies of Cornwall', is the story's touchstone – the ancient playwright who has never lost sight of the beauty and relevance of art.
And the ancient editor of the Cornish Globe and Mail, his Fleet Street days long behind him, like an old retriever, he sniffs on the air one last chase, even if his facts are faulty and his motivations flawed.
It's a chase to the finish, will the lovable or the ludicrous get to the finish line first? And will anyone still have their morals intact?
Inheritance by Nicholas Shakespeare (£7.99)
Publishing pen-pusher, Andy Larkham is late for everything. In a life where nothing is going right he even embarrassingly stumbles even into the wrong funeral. But this leads to a reversal of fortune – and enormous and sudden wealth?
To unexpectedly come into another man's money, someone like Andy Larkham might be expected simply to go with the flow, spend it on a hideous nouveau riche flat, exotic holidays, showering his friends with gifts that only make them feel in adequate.
But the prospect of money (a vast fortune) undeserved sits uneasily with our hero. In particular he worries why his mysterious benefactor who should have had everything, died alone. He is motivated to explore - is the money is tainted? Instead, he discovers not a person who exploited others, but an injustice that Larkham feels compelled to try to put right and a truth and a personal history that couldn't be more different from what he expected.
A wise, funny and moving tale of an unexplained inheritance and its consequences.
A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness (£12.99)
One of my 'best reads' of the year, but not one I find myself recommending very often. Not because it isn't beautifully written. Not because it isn't a great story. Not because it doesn't have the makings of an absolute classic in your hands.
But because everyone I know who has read it has cried bucketloads.
It's a wonderfully touching story of love and dealing with loss. Conor's mother has been undergoing treatment for cancer, which has been going on so long 13-year-old Conor is used to putting himself to bed, making his own lunch, taking responsibility for getting all his homework done. But everyone at school knows he is the boy whose mother is going to die. And everyone treats him differently because of it.
Conor has another secret, but this time it's one that not everyone knows. He has a terrifying monster who visits him regularly. But as Conor tells the monster that a monster that looks like a tree is really the least of his problems.
As his situation becomes increasingly desperate it is to the terrifying monster he turns for answers.
The craftsmanship of the storytelling draws you right up to the edge with Conor, desperately wanting someone to come in and take away his pain. His loneliness. His terror.
Written for children, Patrick Ness completed the story from an original idea from the brilliant writer Siobhan Dowd, who died of breast cancer at the age of 47 before completing her fifth novel. It has deservedly been snowballing prizes and nominations for top children's book awards, including for the illustrations by Jim Kay – a children's illustrator and was previously Assistant Curator for the Illustrations Collection at the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew.
It's such a beautiful and powerful and poignant story and is really, really worth a read. Just have tissues handy. Have several. This one should come with an emotional health warning.
Small Change for Stuart by Lissa Evans (£10.99)
There is nothing like a really quirky mystery when you are looking for some fun bedtime reading with your children.
The opening of a mysterious money box and a cache of old threepenny bits is the start of a magical adventure for Stuart Horten (10, but looks younger).
Stuart has just moved to a new town with his crossword-puzzle-compiler father, and busy working mother and longs for his old friends. What he has is next door's nosy triplet girls (April, May and June – tall with glittery hairclips and a love of investigative journalism), who quiz him about everything and dog his every step.
What Stuart doesn't know is that he is on the brink of solving a mystery that has been covered up for years. He is soon on the trail of a mysterious ancestor and an even stranger mythical magic workshop and must work through a series of puzzles and clues – to find the truth, and of course, discover the workshop before the baddie gets there first.
Lovely illustrations – great cover. The compact gift format of this book is part of its delight. I could not have been more pleased when this was on the Costa shortlist of the children's book of the year as I thought something that such good clean, nostalgic fun would surely get overlooked for all the big prizes.
Old fashioned storytelling at its very best.


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Sultry brunette Sovereign Syre enjoys renting a room to the young Latin beauty Vicki Chase, but lately things have been a little strained. Vicki has been staying out late with her new boyfriend, which is a problem for Sovereign because her room is close to the front door. Every time Vicki comes home in the middle of the night, Sovereign's sleep is disturbed. What's more, Vicki's so wrapped up in her "new relationship" bliss that she's been forgetting to do her share of the chores. This is the situation they're in at the beginning of Lesbian Doms and Subs: the Disobedient Roommate.
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Sovereign wants Vicki to prove her gratitude for having a nice place to live, and not just by doing the dishes. She intimidates Vicki into lying on the bed. With her fantastic young ass aimed at the ceiling and barely covered in her micro-miniskirt, Vicki is tender prey for the mature, dominant siren.
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As we gathered from the title 'Yes/No,' last night's episode of 'Glee' was all about proposals — and it delved much deeper than just the expected engagements.
After being wishy-washy for the last time, and then enlisting the help of the New Directions, Will Schuester finally popped the question to Emma. She said yes, and I know that right now you're thinking duh, of course she said yes, but c'mon, guys. This is exciting!
The other proposal in the episode was one we didn't see from a million miles away. Finn's proposal to Rachel, while somehow seeming inevitable, still threw us for a loop at the end of the episode. Total cliffhanger like woah!
We also got a little glimpse into more romance for Mercedes and Sam. Mercedes keeps insisting their thing was a fling, but he wants her back, and her feelings are getting too strong to ignore. We also saw a little bit of Britanna payoff, with Brittany and Santana holding hands while watching Rachel sing 'Without You.'
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HYANNIS, MA – Ted Kennedy was notably absent today as family and friends gathered to pay their last respects to Eunice Kennedy Shriver. Or was he?As funeral proceedings went forward, many in attendance noticed unexplainable changes in temperature and heard peculiar unidentifiable noises.
One attendee explains, "There were many times where I was sitting amongst everyone and suddenly we would all look around at the same time, as if we'd all heard the same noise."
Added another attendee, "It's August and we are all wearing sweaters…there are freezing gusts of wind and nobody knows why."
With Ted Kennedy absent from the day's funeral, it is speculated that he is at the brink of death and paranormal expert Paula Montgomery says she knows why:
"Ted Kennedy is in what we call 'Paranormal Transition'. As he moves closer to death, his spirit is transitioning into what we on Earth call 'ghosts'. The reason for the funeral disturbances are easy to explain. He obviously wants to be there, so he is…in the best way he can in his condition."
But why is Kennedy turning into a ghost? Montgomery explains, "When one dies they don't want to stay on Earth. They want to move on. However, many ghosts are bound to Earth as a result of a dispicable action they did while they were alive. It's sort of considered punishment."
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On 23 October, Apple announced the widely expected iPad mini. The company also surprised most by also introducing a faster "4th generation" iPad, swiftly replacing the one launched on 7 March this year, seven-and-a-half months ago.
That same day, Tim Cook proudly proclaimed a an iPad milestone: 100m shipped since its April 2010 debut. Impressive.
No less impressively, Wall Street analysts quickly did their subtractions and concluded Q4 iPad shipments – to be officially announced two days later – were going to miss expectations.
They were right.
Where seers expected somewhere between 15m and 16m iPads, the actual Q4 number was 14m. Using the Average Selling Price (ASP) we'll discuss in a moment, a "miss" of 2m units translates into more than $1bn (£622m) in missed revenue.
Compared to the 17m iPads shipped in Q3 (ending in June), Q4's 14m units look like a steep decline. This isn't in keeping with the fast growth the iPad had shown since its 2010 beginning. On a "Quarters After Launch" basis, the iPad used to grow faster than the iPhone. Now, we see a decline from the 15.4m units shipped in Q1 (ending December 2011), and only a modest 26% increase from last year's Q4. Where are the go-go days of 70% or even 100% year-to-year growth?
Two days later, at the 25 October Earnings Conference Call, Apple's CEO tried to put a better face on that strangely anemic 26% growth. As noted by Horace Dediu, Tim Cook pointed to a different number: sell-thru, units actually delivered to customers, grew by 44%. Not great, but not as tepid as 26%.
(See Philip Ellmer-Dewitt's detailed explanation here. In essence, when a product ships, it "changes hands": the channel partner "takes title", meaning it moves from Apple's books to the reseller's. For Apple, the items thus shipped count as revenue, even if they're not sold-thru – that is, sold to end customers. When the volume of products Apple ships to retailers is less than the volume sold-thru, channel inventories decline, more sales out than shipments in. This is how Apple sees revenue go up by 26% while sell-thru increases by 44%. A likely explanation for last quarter's depletion of channel inventory is making room for the two new iPad models.)
Resorting to sell-thru numbers as a way to put iPad numbers in a better light could be habit-forming; it could force Apple's management to provide more detailed inventory numbers more regularly.
On the end-customer demand side, Apple execs attributed the low Q4 iPad number to several months of intense and detailed rumors ahead of the iPad mini launch.
So, the iPad story could look this: last year, the yearly iPhone refresh moved from June to October; as a result, Q4 iPhone shipments disappointed; but fast growth resumed once the new model shipped; the pattern now applies to the iPad as well.
No, the iPhone and the iPad behave more differently than in the above scenario. I went back to SEC filings and extracted data for the following graph tracking iPhone and iPad ASP's for the past eight quarters:
The iPhone ASP is stable. Carriers keep indulging in (wooden) sabre-rattling, complaining about "excessive" iPhone subsidies. Here, subsidy means the difference between the price carriers pay for a handset and the typical end-user price: $199 for the phone with a two-year contract. In such a $199 arrangement, for the past five years, Apple has been able to extract more money from carriers than any of its competitors. Paraphrasing Horace Dediu, the explanation for such an enduring advantage is a simple one: for carriers, the iPhone is a better salesman, it generates more revenue, a higher ARPU (Average Revenue Per User). As a result, carriers pay the iPhone salesman a higher commission, meaning a higher handset price. (And they sound like the grouchy bosses who complain their star sales person makes too much money…)
For the iPad, there is no such arrangement, no two-year contract, no subsidy. For example, AT&T will sell an iPad with a no-commitment, month-to-month wireless data contract. Without a two-year commitment, carriers have no incentive to sell the iPad at a particularly attractive price, causing customers to face the price without a subsidy fig-leaf. (One might argue smartphone contracts lead customers to borrow money, the $400+ subsidy, at usurious rates, but such habits are hard to break. Rare is the carrier that will offer a cure, a lower monthly contract if you pay full price for the phone.)
How do iPad customers react to the cold price truth? All we know is the ASP has been falling for five quarters. And we can also surmise price figures more actively in competitive situations than it does with smartphones. Or, for that matter, with notebooks and desktop computers: ASP for Macs is stable or growing a little, from $1,282 last year to $1,344 last quarter. These prices don't prevent Apple from being number one on desktops and notebooks in the US – as Tim Cook reminded everyone on 23 October.
The surprise iPad refresh can be seen as a reaction to competitive pressures, existing or upcoming ones. And, for the iPad mini, we have an interesting combination: premium price and an avowed lower gross margin, "significantly below our cooperate average" says Apple's CFO during the 25 October Earnings Conference Call.
The iPad definitely behaves differently – neither a bigger smartphone, nor a smaller PC, thus confirming it belongs to a new category whose rules are still being established. The next few quarters will be even more interesting than recent ones: Google, Amazon and Microsoft have new products worth watching, they all intend to fight for a dominant role in the new space.


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2 comments:
- Anne said...
The sheer volume of motor traffic in all your London cycling shots reminds me of what a huge, bustling city London is. I admire anyone who's able to cycle in the great cities of the world.
And yeah, the guy in the Docs is wonderful.
Oh, and if there's one thing that seems counterintuitive, it's smoking on a bike.
- 8 February 2010 at 20:04
- Mark said...
The traffic isn't really so bad. I mean, it IS bad but I think tends to look worse in these pictures because they were taken at a junction and so the traffic tends to bunch up here. But yeah, it's certainly bad enough to merit having segregated cycle lanes, for sure.
In a funny way I like to see people smoking on a bike, not because smoking is a good thing - which of course it's not - but because it is something that normal people do and so helps to take cycling down off that 'reserved for sportspeople' pedestal.
- 8 February 2010 at 21:46


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Networking outside your department
By Colleen Sabatino, The Intern Coach
When is networking outside your department appropriate? The short answer is when your intern supervisor or department head says so. The long answer gives you more leeway to build your network on your own timetable and in your own style. Here are some points to ponder:
- After your first week has successfully passed, ask your intern supervisor about the best way to meet people in other departments. Explain that you'd like to have a better understanding of how the business works as a whole. In response the intern supervisor may escort you around to the other departments, introducing you to various members, who might offer to discuss their work with you.
- When you're sure that your department head likes your work, follow up by asking him/her if it's permissible to visit other departments to learn what they do, especially departments that interface with yours. Then, the department head may take you to other departments and ask them to spend some time with you, so you can learn more about the operation.
- If your department holds daily or weekly meetings, ask if you can attend. Or if your department head and intern supervisor belong to professional meetings that welcome students, ask if you can go to a meeting with them. Be prepared to pay for lunch though most department heads or intern supervisors will pick up the tab. Professional meetings are great places to network for future internships.
- Another way to stimulate networking outside of your department is to develop a school assignment that requires you to interview employees in different departments. If you're earning academic credit, you may indeed have to produce a paper researching some aspect of the company. If you're not getting credit, you may still have an upcoming course that would benefit from a report based on the company. Professionals are usually glad to help students because they remember their own student days and class assignments.
- Other places to network informally outside of your department are at coffee breaks, in the cafeteria or fitness center, and at social events. Thanks to most companies issuing ID badges with employee names and departments, you can quickly scan ID badges and learn enough to start up a conversation. Some interns make it a practice to sit at different lunch tables every day in order to meet more co-workers. Be sure to attend any social events at your internship, getting to know as many people as possible. And, you can also volunteer for one of the non-profit causes sponsored by your company. You may find yourself dishing out food in a soup kitchen beside the company president. Now that's networking!


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BICC is situated in the self-contained resort area of Nusa Dua, which is just 10 kilometres from the Ngurah Rai International Airport in Denpasar. It is also connected through an air-conditioned shopping arcade with The Westin Resort, the official 9th ICAAP hotel and surrounded by some of Bali's finest five-star hotels and resorts. Also within walking distance are fantastic shopping areas, restaurants, a championship golf course and other recreational facilities.
The BICC features a main hall which seats 2,500 and an auditorium which seats 506 people. Additional function rooms provide meeting space of totally 3,490 square metres. Some of the BICC outstanding capabilities include a fully integrated satellite, telecommunications and media systems, professional in-house staging, simultaneous multi-language translation and state-of-the art audio visual and presentation facilities.
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I just bought the game and to be honest I'm a little disappointed with the browser version of DD.
The unity player crashes/doesn't load when I want to play it fullscreen. The only way to play it is to re-adjust the window it seems.
Another thing is that the graphics seem to be a little off. Sometimes the whole screen goes black except a few buttons (text only) and the only way to solve it is to change profiles and load again.
Thirdly, the window with monster information seems bugged (though not 100% sure if it's simply not finished yet). It's mostly black and I can only see some numbers but not the amount of damage I'll do with one hit for example. That's kind of an important part of the game..
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The drawings selected are "Timeless", "Adam II" and Aisha II".
The exhibition starts January 18th - 25th. The Private View is on
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Yes, I do care about Stockton and yes, I do want to see it climb out of the debt hole.
Yes, I do care about Stockton and yes, I do want to see it climb out of the debt hole.
The main question is do we trust City Hall? Past practice tells us no.
For years, I have attempted to convince city leaders that programs aren't the first answer. If and when they get the money, investment is crucial for success.
A tax increase seems to be a common knee-jerk response to financial woes. When politicians spend all the money, they don't reduce spending, they demand more from us.
In our situation, we probably have to increase tax, but there also needs to be a solid revenue base. That base is business and industry.
When Stockton's coffers were full and leaders were spending money hand over fist, one has to ask where that money came from. Simply put, that revenue came from business, which has taken flight, leaving us with empty properties.
One council member told me that business won't come here because of our school system. I have a hard time accepting that belief.
The trust concept goes back to the leaders who spent the money and went down the unaccountable road. (Former Mayor) Gary Podesto makes a good case in point and (former Mayor) Ann Johnston was part of it. Enough said on that.
In my opinion, the one and only aspect that will kill the tax increase measure is the current mayor, Anthony Silva. His continual involvement in controversial matters keeps City Hall on front page news. Simply put, he is violating public trust. In-house fighting is not an incentive for public support. He needs to be sat down and sternly advised to knock it off.
City leaders also need to understand that many citizens are intelligent and could offer helpful suggestions. City Hall is notorious for shunning the people. That needs to change. If they request our support, they first need to accept us.
Glen Pitts
The City Council and city manager who gave us our bankruptcy now want to increase our sales tax to the highest the law will allow.
What has changed in City Hall that would make anyone comfortable with voting for this? According to the report released on Aug. 5, 2013, from the State Auditor's Office, of the 79 general accounting controls reviewed, 60.8 percent were found inadequate.
We have lost $8.6 million in state and federal grants due to poor management. We owe the state $1,361,531 in redevelopment assets, which the city is unlawfully holding, an action for which the state is presently threatening to withhold all funds from the city of Santa Ana and may well do with Stockton.
Many of the financial reports requested or required were not produced, while one was 19 months late and of those produced, "many included several discrepancies that raise questions regarding their reliability. Without good accounting and reporting standards in place, the lack of transparency invites fraud, waste and ill-informed spending decisions."
Nothing seems to have changed in the way the city does business, so why would we trust them with more money?
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice and shame on me. No to Measure A until we see clearly what has changed from an independent source.
Karen Griggs
In regard to (Record Editor) Mike Klocke's column of Sept. 15, instead of just blaming the unions, maybe you should watch the CNN report on Stockton's bankruptcy.
The city offered many of those benefits, in lieu of pay raises and, for nine years, CALPers did not require the city to pay one cent into the system, asking the city to bank the money for the future.
Instead, they built an arena with a bad management contract; built a marina without fuel/disposal facilities; bought a bank building for a new city hall, outfitted it with state-of-the-art computer facilities - never used; built two new parking buildings, which they lost; built a new ballpark; and sold the property adjacent to The Record for $1.
If you'd like to see an example of what could have happened if the "ghosts" had funded those benefits and saved the money as advised, just look at Manteca. They funded and saved the money and now they are not having financial difficulties.
Regarding the proposed tax, the city already has one tax measure for 1/4 cent called Measure W, passed in 2007.
The city is required to have an oversight committee to monitor the spending.
I have been on that committee for 11/2 years and we have only met once, even though I have called City Hall repeatedly to ask for audit reports and meetings.
When we did meet last June, it was to approve spending that had already occurred without our knowledge.
How can we trust the city?
John Sola Sr.


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It seems that Nvidia has decided to finally update the notebook drivers to the latest version 197.16 to have the latest features and performance improvements and to bring official support for the GeForce 300M series GPUs that are starting to appear. Also the mobile drivers now seem to be called Nvidia Verde Notebook Drivers, probably to have something to differentiate them from the desktop drivers. Along with that Nvidia has released an updated driver CD version 1.24 that includes the latest GPU driver version 197.16 along with the 3D Vision Driver version 197.16. What is interesting in this driver is the first to officially support 3D Vision usage on a laptop (other than the 3D-ready Asus G51J 3D) with the help of an external display. This driver also supports the Asus G51J 3D laptop that has a built-in 120Hz LCD panel, so you should update if you already have one of these laptops as the latest driver CD for it was 1.17 which is already quite old.
Now what came as a bit of disappointment is the fact that the new Nvidia Verde Notebook 3D Vision Driver CD v1.24 is intended for supporting only notebooks using the latest GeForce 200M and 300M series GPUs (but that is according to Nvidia). Another interesting bit of information on the support page for the new driver CD suggests that the Blu-ray 3D playback (3rd party software required) is going to work only on the mobile 300M series of GPUs. I've tried to install the new driver on my Dell XPS M1730 laptop with dual 9800M GT in SLI and I everything installed smoothly and worked like a charm. The GPU driver recognized the video cards and installed without problem, then the 3D Vision driver complained (before connecting the external 120Hz display) of not finding a compatible panel. The interesting thing is that after that there was no Stereoscopic 3D panel present in the NVIDIA Control panel, but after connecting an external 120Hz LCD monitor the Stereoscopic 3D control panel appeared and the stereo 3D mode was working just fine.
Currently the 3D Vision driver for notebooks supports the usage of external 3D projector, 3D-ready DLP HDTVs or 120Hz LCD, but with the upcoming availability of the NVIDIA 3DTV Play software we are probably going to get support for also using our notebooks as a source for 3D content after connecting them through HDMI to the TV set (no need to have HDMI 1.4 on the laptop, only on the TV). This will however probably require you to purchase the 3DTV Play software, although this is still not very clear as Nvidia has promised to provide the software for free to current 3D Vision owners.
And the stupid thing of actually not being able to enable the free 3D Vision Discover mode on your laptop is still present as you get the quite well known error message that your laptop LCD panel is not qualified for 3D Vision as it is not 120Hz. But then again for anaglyph mode you don't need a special panel, so forget about trying out the "free" anaglyph mode with the 3D Vision on your laptop once again (or go for an older 3D Vision drivers and modify them to work on your laptop)… but then again it is easier to go for other alternatives also offering free anaglyph mode that actually does work!
– To download the latest Nvidia Verde Notebook 3D Vision Driver CD v1.24…


text: Higher energy prices hit growers in the variable cost line on their financial statements. Variable costs are expected to be 33% higher in 2006 than 2002, according to a study by Gary Schnitkey and Dale Lattz, University of Illinois economists. The variable costs of corn production are projected to be $55/acre higher next year than in 2002. About half of the increase is due to fertilizer costs, projected to be $28 higher next year than in 2002. Pesticides and seeds are $17 higher and machinery-related items like fuel are $7/acre higher. Variable costs for soybean production are projected to be up $20/acre in 2006 compared to 2002.


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Sweeney publishes articles in history journals
PLAINVIEW – Dr. Kevin Sweeney, assistant professor of geography and history at Wayland Baptist University, recently published articles in two scholarly journals.
"Nights of the Full Moon and Cloudless Days: Drought and the Northwest Texas Frontier" will be published in the October 2005 edition of the West Texas Historical Association Yearbook.
"Wither the Fruited Plain: Factors Influencing the Long Expedition's Appraisal of the 'Great American Desert'" was published in the Spring 2005 edition of the Great Plains Quarterly.
"Nights of the Full Moon and Cloudless Days" deals with the recession of the Texas frontier during the mid 1850s to 1860s, blamed by many historians on increased Indian raids. In his article, Sweeney proposes that environmental factors might have played a large role, since Indian raids had been going on for decades already. Sweeney's article lays blame for the outmigration of pioneers on the drought of 1854-65, which was more severe than the 1930s Dust Bowl and made farming nearly impossible; the withdrawal of Civil War troops that took away markets for frontier farmers; and the famine accompanying the great drought.
"Wither the Fruited Plain" discusses the 1820 expedition of Stephen Long across the central Plains into the Rocky Mountains in search of the Red River. Sweeney said the Long party traveled through the plains during the hot, dry summer months and found little game to live off since the prolonged drought has sent most away in search of water. Their experience, coupled with a mistaken following of the Canadian River rather than the Red, led Long to declare the plains a vast wasteland, calling it the "Great American Desert" on their official map.
"The Long Expedition's report was influential in retarding the settlement of the plains for years as their map was included in most geography texts of the 1820s-1860s," Sweeney said. "Those of us residing on the southern plains today can chuckle at Long's mistake, but it would take a massive railroad advertisement campaign aimed at selling company land to convince settlers to purchase land or homestead on the high plains."


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Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. The world is your canvas and the ground itself is your paint. Grab your tools and go! You can do many things in Terraria: make weapons and fight off a variety of enemies in numerous biomes, dig deep underground to find accessories, money, and other useful things, gather wood, stone, ores, and other resources to create everything you need to make the world your own and defend it. Build a house, a fort, even a castle, and people will move in to live there and perhaps even sell you different wares to assist you on your journey. But beware, there are even more challenges awaiting you... Are you up to the task?
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Yesterday evening, Huawei presented an arsenal of Android products to attending journalists and bloggers at an event in Rome, Italy. Windows Phone Italy decided to investigate further and revealed the Huawei Ascend W1, which is set to be heading to Asia after it's officially announced at CES 2013 next year, will be also released in Italy.
Should sources familiar with company plans be accurate, by March 2013 Italian consumers will also have the opportunity to purchase a Huawei Windows Phone. It makes sense for the manufacturer to target more than one market, especially with the competitiveness that's present in the Android ecosystem.
No word on pricing or availability with carriers, but we expect more details to surface after the handset has been presented at CES. Be sure to check out more images of the Ascend W1.
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U.S. Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission
The use of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) techniques by federal agencies has increased dramatically in the equal employment opportunity (EEO) process. In 1998, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's ADR Study of Federal Sector EEO ADR Programs reported that more than half of the federal agencies surveyed had active ADR programs. As of January 1, 2000, all federal agencies were required to establish or make available an ADR program during the pre-complaint and formal complaint stages of the EEO process. See 29 C.F.R. 1614.102(b)(2). In order to build on the success of ADR programs in the federal sector, it is vital for complainants and management officials to understand and participate in the ADR process.
ADR generally refers to a continuum of processes and approaches that are designed to resolve disputes in a manner which avoids the cost, delay, and unpredictability of more traditional adversarial and adjudicatory processes, such as, litigation, hearings, and appeals. Numerous types of ADR techniques exist, including mediation, facilitation, fact finding, early neutral evaluation, the use of an Ombudsman, settlement conferences, and peer review. Chapter 3 of the EEO Management Directive (MD)-110 provides a detailed description of each of these techniques.
Every agency has the discretion to create its own unique ADR program that is best suited for their particular office environment. Mediation has been the most popular form of ADR offered by federal agencies in the EEO process. Over 87 percent of the agencies who responded to EEOC's 1998 ADR survey stated that mediation is their primary ADR technique. The EEOC has encouraged federal agencies to experiment with other forms of ADR, including a combination of ADR techniques. Many agencies have established pilot programs to decrease the processing time of EEO complaints and improve the overall satisfaction of the participants.
Agencies and complainants have realized that utilizing ADR during the EEO process has many advantages. ADR offers the parties the opportunity for an early, informal resolution of disputes in a mutually-satisfactory fashion. Rather than receiving a decision from an unknown third party, such as an administrative judge, the parties have the opportunity to write their own agreement in a manner which satisfies both of their needs. Not only does ADR provide a Win-Win resolution for the parties, but it also usually costs less and uses fewer resources than traditional administrative or adjudicative processes. For example, complainants could avoid costly attorney's fees and the agency could minimize the use of investigators, legal staff, official time, and court reporter fees. Moreover, since the parties are using ADR during the earliest stages of the EEO process, a resolution will avoid numerous years of litigation in administrative and court proceedings. As a result, the complainant's working relationship can improve rather than deteriorate due to ongoing legal battles, and the overall employee morale can be enhanced when the agency is viewed as open-minded and cooperative in seeking to resolve EEO disputes.
The revised regulations do not require federal agencies to conduct ADR in every EEO case; rather, agencies have the discretion as to which EEO cases are offered ADR. Complainants may not file a new complaint based on the agency's refusal to offer ADR in their particular case.
If the agency offers ADR during the pre-complaint, or the informal, stage of the EEO process, the complainant may choose between participating in the ADR program or the traditional EEO counseling activities. Once the complainant elects to participate in the ADR program, all EEO counseling activities will end. It is also important to note that electing ADR increases the EEO pre-complaint processing period from 30 to 90 days. In the event that the matter concludes without resolution after 90 days, the agency will conduct a final interview, and issue a notice of right to file a formal complaint to the complainant.
If the complainant files a complaint, the agency may also choose to offer ADR during the formal complaint stage. The 180-day processing period for the formal complaint stage may be increased by an additional 90 days in order to conduct ADR, if the parties agree to do so in writing.
The revised regulations have established certain core principles which must be incorporated into every federal sector ADR program. The overriding requirement is that the ADR program is fair. Fairness requires voluntariness, neutrality, confidentiality, and enforceability.
Nothing said or done during attempts to resolve the matter through ADR proceedings may be made the subject of an EEO complaint. All concerns with the operation of the agency's ADR program should be resolved by contacting the administrator of the ADR program. If the agency's ADR program appears to conflict with the EEOC's complaint processing regulations and the MD-110, individuals may email email@example.com or write to:
Assistant Director, Special Operations Division, Federal Sector Programs
U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Office of Federal Operations
P.O. Box 77960
Washington, DC 20013


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Combination of Gemcitabine and Carboplatin in Metastatic or Recurrent Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00697905
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : June 16, 2008
Last Update Posted : November 21, 2014
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The aim of the study is to assess if gemcitabine in combination with carboplatin as 1st line chemotherapy in patients with metastatic or recurrent nasopharyngeal carcinoma has reasonable efficacy and a favourable toxicity profile that warrants further comparative study. A parallel group of randomly selected patients of equal number to the carboplatin and gemcitabine combination arm will be treated with the cisplatin and 5-FU combination chemotherapy (active control arm).
The hypothesis is that this combination of chemotherapy is at least as active and less toxic than the reference regimen of cisplatin in combination with 5-fluorouracil (5-FU).
|Condition or disease
|Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma
|Drug: Gemcitabine Drug: Carboplatin Drug: Cisplatin Drug: 5-fluorouracil (5-FU)
|Phase 2
52 patients with metastatic or recurrent nasopharyngeal carcinoma who meet inclusion/exclusion criteria will be enrolled into the trial. After initial screening, patients will attend clinic for baseline examination. Subjects will then be randomly allocated to carboplatin and gemcitabine or cisplatin and 5-FU combinations in a ratio of 1:1. Study visits will occur depending on which arm the patient is on.
An economic evaluation of the costs and benefits of gemcitabine-carboplatin will be implemented within this protocol.
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|18 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Parallel Assignment
|None (Open Label)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|An Open Labeled, Multicentre, Randomized Phase II Trial of Combination Gemcitabine and Carboplatin Chemotherapy in Patients With Metastatic or Recurrent Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma
|Study Start Date :
|January 2008
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|May 2011
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|May 2011
|Experimental: A
Drug: Gemcitabine
Intravenous administration on days 1, 8 of a 21-day cycle
Drug: Carboplatin
Intravenous following Gemcitabine infusion on day 1
|Active Comparator: B
Drug: Cisplatin
Intravenous on day 1 prior to 5-FU infusion on days 2 to 5 of a 28-day cycle
Drug: 5-fluorouracil (5-FU)
Intravenous infusion on day 2 to day 5
- The primary efficacy variable is response to therapy. Response will be evaluated using the new international criteria proposed by the Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST) Committee. [ Time Frame: 12 months ]
- Progression free survival defined as the duration of time from start of treatment to time of disease progression or death, whichever occurs first. [ Time Frame: 12 months ]
- Duration of response defined as the interval between the first documented response (CR or PR) and the first documented sign of disease progression or death, whichever occurs first. [ Time Frame: 12 months ]
- Safety and tolerability assessments will consist of 1.Monitoring and recording all AE and SAE, 2.Regular monitoring of hematology, blood chemistry and urinary laboratory parameters, 3.Regular performance of physical examinations, including vital signs [ Time Frame: 12 months ]
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|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Written informed consent obtained from patient or parents/guardian.
- Subject age greater than or equal to 18 years
- Histologically proven recurrent or metastatic undifferentiated or squamous nasopharyngeal carcinoma, not amenable to local therapy.
- Measurable disease in distant sites and/or loco-regional sites defined as at least one lesion that can be accurately measured in at least one dimension (longest diameter to be recorded as >=10mm with CT scan or MRI. Tumour lesions that are situated in a previously irradiated field are measurable only if the tissue planes are preserved on CT or MRI).
- Prior concurrent chemotherapy and radiation therapy is permitted.
- Primary chemo-radiotherapy must be completed at least 6 months prior to study entry.
- Life expectancy over 3 months.
- ECOG performance status less than or equal to 2.
Patients must have normal organ and marrow function as follows:
- White blood cell count : >= 3.0 x 10^9/L
- Absolute neutrophil count : >= 1.5 x 10^9/L
- Platelets : >= 100 x 10^9/L
- Total bilirubin : within normal limits
- AST/ALT/ALP : <= 2.5 x upper limit of normal
- Creatinine clearance or estimated GFR : >=50 mls/min.
Exclusion Criteria:
Patients with any of the following are not eligible for enrollment into the study:
- Pregnant women are excluded from this study because gemcitabine has potential for teratogenic or abortifacient effects. Because there is an unknown but potential risk for adverse events in nursing infants secondary to treatment of the mother with gemcitabine, breastfeeding should be discontinued if the mother is treated with gemcitabine. These potential risks may also apply to other agents used in this study.
- Women of child-bearing potential and men without an adequate contraception prior to study entry and for the duration of study participation. Should a woman become pregnant or suspect she is pregnant while participating in this study, she should inform her treating physician immediately.
- Prior use of gemcitabine
- History of allergic reactions attributed to compounds of similar chemical or biologic composition to gemcitabine or carboplatin.
- Prior lines of chemotherapy for metastatic NPC
- Prior radiotherapy to the indicator lesion(s) to be measured in the study.
- Patients receiving any other investigational agents
- Patients with known brain metastases should be excluded from this clinical trial because of their poor prognosis and because they often develop progressive neurologic dysfunction that would confound the evaluation of neurologic and other adverse events.
- Patients with bone-only metastases.
- Clinically significant cardiac disease (e.g. congestive cardiac failure, symptomatic coronary artery disease and cardiac arrhythmias not well controlled with medication) or myocardial infarction within the last 12 months.
- Severe sensorineural hearing loss affecting normal daily activities or requiring the use of hearing aids.
- Uncontrolled intercurrent illness including, but not limited to, ongoing or active infection or psychiatric illness/social situations that would limit compliance with study requirements.
- Patients with immune deficiency. They are at increased risk of lethal infections when treated with marrow-suppressive therapy.
- HIV-positive patients receiving combination antiretroviral therapy. There is a possible pharmacokinetic interaction between antiretroviral and gemcitabine or other agents administered during the study. Appropriate studies will be undertaken in patients receiving combination antiretroviral therapy when indicated.
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00697905
|Ipoh Specialist Centre
|Ipoh, Malaysia
|Johor Specialist Centre
|Johor Bahru, Malaysia
|Sabah Medical Centre
|Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia
|Tung Shin Hospital
|Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
|University Malaya Medical Centre
|Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
|Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia
|Kubang Kerian, Malaysia
|Normah Medical Specialist Centre
|Kuching, Malaysia
|Likas Hospital
|Likas, Malaysia
|NCI Cancer Hospital
|Nilai, Malaysia
|Loh Guan Lye Specialist Centre
|Penang, Malaysia
|Penang General Hospital
|Penang, Malaysia
|Principal Investigator:
|Christina Ng
|University of Malaya
Additional Information:
|Responsible Party:
|Dr. Christina Ng Van Tze, University of Malaya Medical Centre
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00697905 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|First Posted:
|June 16, 2008 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|November 21, 2014
|Last Verified:
|April 2010
Keywords provided by Ministry of Health, Malaysia:
nasopharyngeal carcinoma
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma
Neoplasms, Glandular and Epithelial
Neoplasms by Histologic Type
Nasopharyngeal Neoplasms
Pharyngeal Neoplasms
Otorhinolaryngologic Neoplasms
Head and Neck Neoplasms
Neoplasms by Site
Nasopharyngeal Diseases
Pharyngeal Diseases
Stomatognathic Diseases
Otorhinolaryngologic Diseases
Antimetabolites, Antineoplastic
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Antineoplastic Agents
Antiviral Agents
Anti-Infective Agents
Enzyme Inhibitors
Immunosuppressive Agents
Immunologic Factors
Physiological Effects of Drugs


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Living With The Forest
While we were waiting for the bus in downtown Belém, Paulo Barreto smiled.
"Now we are going back in time, a hundred years," he said, and laughed, a high, nervous laugh. We were headed south to Paragominas, a logging center in the heart of the eastern Amazon. Barreto, a young, bespectacled Brazilian forester who splits his time between studying for his Ph.D. at Yale and working at IMAZON, a small environmental research center headquartered near Belém, was taking me to visit a pilot project.