JLL Secures 811 KSF Office Lease for ExxonMobil Subsidiary in ...

October 31, 2012

?By Gail Kalinoski, Contributing Editor

Imperial Oil, one of Calgary?s largest corporations and an ExxonMobil subsidiary, is moving its headquarters from downtown Calgary to a 20-acre site that will be developed in the Quarry Park submarket in the Canadian city?s southeast section.

Remington Development Corp., a privately-owned company in Alberta, will build the five-building campus for Imperial that will consist of 810,000 square feet of office space and support facilities.? The project will comply with LEED Gold building standards and will be developed in two phases beginning in 2014 and ending by 2016. The new space enables Imperial, a leader in Canada?s petroleum industry, to consolidate its operations at several downtown Calgary buildings.

?This move represents an opportunity for IOL to consolidate its offices in one location with additional space for expansion and create a great working environment for their people,? said Ronnie Deyo, executive vice president with Jones Lang LaSalle?s Office Tenant Representation Group from Houston, which secured the lease for the oil company.

Deyo headed the team, which also included Executive Vice President Garrold Parratt, Vice President Beau Bellow and Calgary-based Executive Vice President Andrew MacLachlan.

Paul Masschelin, senior vice president of finance and administration for Imperial, noted that the new space was important to the current and future needs of the firm which has ?embarked on a decade-long period of substantial growth and expansion.?

?Remington Development?s plans include five new built-to-spec, state-of-the-art office properties as well as a hotel, fitness center, restaurants and other amenities that will be very attractive to employees and offer an opportunity to live, work and play in one location,? Deyo added.

The oil company?s plans were big news in Calgary, where Colliers International cited it as one of the most notable commercial real estate events in the downtown core during the third quarter.

?This move is significant in that it represents the first instance of a major energy company relocating outside of the downtown core,? researchers for Colliers International wrote in a third quarter market report for the downtown Calgary area.

?The rationale for this move is based on a number of objectives, such as Imperial Oil?s desire to mirror their suburban campus-style operations in the U.S., consolidate their staff into one location, reduce overall premises costs and own their own real estate, as they will in Quarry Park, as opposed to their current lease commitments downtown,? the Colliers International report stated.

Colliers International said the oil company?s move out of the central business district is good news for tenants that will be looking for large blocks of space in the next few years. The CRE firm also predicts it could ?have a dampening effect on achievable rents? and may also spur other major energy companies to look outside the downtown core for some of their office needs.

Closer to home, the JLL Office Tenant Representation Group recently completed leases totaling more than 76,0000 square feet in Texas. JLL Managing Director Steve Thelen represented Pacific Union Financial, which leased 43,396 square feet of office space at 8900 Freeport in Irving, Texas. Hawkeye Communication renewed and expanded its lease at Quadrangle Office Tower at 2828 Routh St. in Dallas for a total of 33,000 square feet of space. Jones Lang LaSalle?s Executive VP Russell Cosby, Senior VP Brooke Armstrong and Associate Rachel Brown represented Hawkeye.

Source: http://www.cpexecutive.com/regions/international/jll-secures-811-ksf-office-lease-for-exxonmobil-subsidiary-in-calgary/

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Jeffrey Epstein: Science Philanthropy Is on the Rise

SOURCE: Jeffrey Epstein IV Foundation October 31, 2012

Jeffrey Epstein: Science Philanthropy Is on the Rise
There Is a Growing Trend of Philanthropic Giving in Support of Scientific Research -- a Trend That Has Won the Attention of Science Activist Jeffrey Epstein NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire - Oct 31, 2012) - As the holiday season approaches, many Americans are turning their attention to end-of-the-year giving and acts of charity. Though the opportunities for philanthropy are many, and range from artistic endowments to medical research, a recent article from The Economist highlights a less conventional way to make a difference -- through the financial support of scientific inquiry. The article notes that, recently, "crowdfunded" science has grown in prevalence, a trend that has won the attention -- and the praise -- of scientific philanthropist Jeffrey Epstein. The article from The Economist notes that more traditional avenues for scientific funding have begun to dry up, with grant money growing increasingly difficult to come by. As such, many scientists have turned to more creative methods for funding their work -- including enlisting the resources of philanthropists who care about science and discovery. One such philanthropist is Jeffrey Epstein, who has issued a new press statement, affirming the Economist article and offering his personal endorsement of scientific giving, even in small amounts. "Philanthropy in science is a great way to generate needed publicity for important research being done in laboratories around the world," Mr. Epstein says. He speaks from experience. In 2003, Mr. Epstein won recognition when his foundation, The Jeffrey Epstein VI Foundation, established The Program for Evolutionary Dynamics at Harvard University with a $30 million grant. The Program continues to do important work to this day.

"With relatively small contributions, one can get scientific research into the headlines," he continues. "It also makes scientific research more accountable to the public." Jeffrey Epstein is also a former member of the NY Academy of Science, a former board member of Rockefeller University, and a current overseer of the Mind, Brain and Behavior Committee at Harvard University. The Economist notes that scientific philanthropy is nearly as old as science itself. As long as there have been inquisitive minds, those minds have sought the support of wealthy donors, using charitable contributions to purchase equipment or to fund expeditions to far-off places. In the age of the Internet, however, a new form of scientific philanthropy has emerged -- crowdfunding. The Internet makes it easy for scientists to set up donations pages and solicit contributions from the general public; even when donors pitch in small amounts, these funds add up quickly. The article notes that scientists from several leading universities have taken to crowdfunding their projects. Meanwhile, several online platforms have arisen to provide scientists with crowdfunding options. Jeffrey Epstein is a money manager whose passion for science has long motivated his philanthropy. His Jeffrey Epstein IV Foundation has provided resources to numerous scientific endeavors throughout the world. Additionally, Mr. Epstein has made donations to museums, youth-related charities, and more. ABOUT: Jeffrey Epstein is a money manager and philanthropist whose passion is for investing in scientific inquiry and education, throughout the world. Through the work of his Jeffrey Epstein IV Foundation, he has made significant contributions to hospitals, museums, laboratories, and numerous charitable organizations. Though formally trained in finance, Epstein is equally passionate about science and technology.

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Insurers prepare for impact of Hurricane Sandy

By Ben Berkowitz , Reuters

Tom Mihalek / Reuters

A crew works to board up a business Sunday in Ocean City, N.J., in preparation for Hurricane Sandy.

BOSTON ??Insurers say they are making the usual preparations for a hurricane ? activating claims teams, staging adjusters near the locations most likely to be affected and generally getting ready to pay for a potentially huge volume of losses.

"We plan for weather events such as this, so we feel well prepared with resources strategically positioned to quickly assist customers who may be impacted," Travelers spokesman Matthew Bordonaro said in an early Sunday e-mail.

Hurricane Sandy takes aim at Eastern Seaboard

Travelers is the third-largest insurer in New York for both personal home and auto and commercial lines of insurance, and the second-largest in Connecticut.

Bordonaro said the company had also activated continuity plans for its own employees, so it can sustain operations despite having staff clustered in New York and Hartford.

Had Sandy hit in 2011, it may have been more of a problem for the insurance industry, which dealt with record-breaking losses around the world last year, mostly from U.S. tornadoes and Asia-Pacific earthquakes.

But in 2012, most insurers' disaster losses are down substantially, leaving them with more capacity to absorb the billions of dollars in costs some expect from Hurricane Sandy.

"In terms of losses, I certainly don't think it's going to be the largest loss of the last 100 years," Tom Larsen, senior vice president of Eqecat, said in an interview late Friday. "It's not an end-of-days scenario."

Hurricane Tracker: Follow storm's location

Chubb Corp, another of the major insurers in the Northeast, said early Sunday that it has been working for days to move staff around so they are positioned to respond.

Weather is unlikely to interfere with claims processing, a spokesman said, even though the company is headquartered in New Jersey, Chubb has a major center in Arizona that can handle claims as needed.

State Farm, the country's largest home and auto insurer and the market leader in New York and New Jersey, said late Saturday it had agents and catastrophe teams on standby waiting for Sandy's arrival.

"We'll be ready to handle claims as soon as the storm hits," a spokeswoman said.

Allstate, which trails close behind State Farm in the home and auto market, said it was placing its catastrophe response teams in North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Virginia to be able to respond more quickly after the storm.

A spokeswoman said the company is also urging its insured customers to heed evacuation orders, having found in a study earlier this year that more than one in four would ignore those orders until the last possible moment.

For most private insurers, the biggest impact from Sandy is likely to be wind damage to roofs and cars, as well as business losses from prolonged power outages.

But the brunt of the storm's financial impact may end up falling on the National Flood Insurance Program, which is responsible for almost all flood coverage in the country.

A unit of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the NFIP paid out $1.28 billion in losses last year from Irene, making it the fourth-costliest flood event of the last generation.

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INCREASE ORGANIZATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS WITH CAUSE ...

Posted on October 26, 2012 by James V. D'Ambrosio

By James D?Ambrosio

Recently I received an e-mail from a?subscriber to this?blog who?shared an?article?I believe?would be useful?to?readers.?Ashley Halligan, an analyst at Software Advice, an Austin, Texas-based company? helping?organizations?select the best software for their business needs,?recently penned ?4 STEPS NONPROFITS CAN TAKE?TO ESTABLISH?A LASTING BUSINESS PARTNERSHIP,??providing a?blueprint?for?developing effective cause marketing relationships.?Complete with?insightful comments from?nonprofit and for-profit?professionals,?I?found it?instructive.

CAUSE MARKETING ??DEFINITION & BENEFITS

Broadly speaking,?cause marketing?is?a mutually beneficial relationship between?a?nonprofit?and a?for-profit business?designed to further both organization?s goals?beyond?what?otherwise might?have been achieved alone.?When?successful, it?s a win-win:?Nonprofits?realize an enhanced ability?to champion a cause through the greater financial resources of a business?and?reach more potential supporters?through?their?customer base.?Likewise, private business?realizes good?public relations?and?more marketing opportunities, leading to?increased business. Case in point: The article?cites a 2010 Cone Inc. study indicating that 80 percent of people in the?U.S. are likely to switch brands ??of equal quality and nature ? if?it supports a good cause.???????

ARTICLE?HIGHLIGHTS?

Published earlier this month and referenced by The New York Times, the article guides the reader through four?steps to establishing lasting cause marketing relationships:?1)?Assess your goals?|?2) Develop a short list of potential business partners |?3) Start some conversations?| and 4)?Initiate and nurture the relationship.

It?s?noted that building these relationships takes time.?Bruce Burtch, author of ?Glowing Your Business,? is quoted as saying: ?The most successful cross-sector partnerships and cause marketing campaigns do not hit their stride until the second or third year.???

CLICK HERE TO?READ?THE FULL ARTICLE?

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Man United midfielder Kagawa to miss 3-4 weeks

Associated Press Sports

updated 10:26 a.m. ET Oct. 26, 2012

MANCHESTER, England (AP) -Manchester United midfielder Shinji Kagawa will miss three or four weeks with a left knee injury, ruling him out of Premier League matches against Chelsea and Arsenal.

The Japan international, who was the Bundesliga player of the year last season at Borussia Dortmund, picked up the injury on Tuesday in United's Champions League win over Braga.

United manager Alex Ferguson says "I think playing on with the injury did not help the situation for him, even though he did well to play on with it. It's disappointing for him."

Manchester United has four tough games in 10 days. They play at Chelsea twice, including a League Cup match, and then host Arsenal before travelling to Portugal to play Braga.

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Can Red Bulls take advantage?

The New York Red Bulls have much to gain or lose for the playoffs when they take on Philadelphia Union (1:30 p.m. ET Saturday, NBC). Philly's young talent will be playing for the future ? and there's enough talent there for New York to be at risk.

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Cosmic Citizens

More interesting than the weather (Credit: Steve Jurveston)

Our remarkable species has existed in its present form for about 100,000 years. That?s about 0.0025% of the total time that we think life has existed on this planet. We, and the vast network of life around us, occupy barely a couple of percent of the volume of this world ? its surface, a few kilometers into its subsurface, and some way up into its tenuous atmosphere. The Earth is an end product of the agglomeration of the equivalent of about a trillion kilometer-sized planetesimals that themselves coalesced from the sticky microscopic dust of a proto-planetary disk some 4.5 billion years ago. Altogether that represents about 0.003% of the total mass of that original smear of dust and gas that stretched from a youthful Sun to far, far beyond the orbit of Pluto. Today the Earth occupies about 0.0000000000000003% of the volume of space encompassed by a sphere just large enough to contain the orbit of Neptune. And it would take more than 4,400 of those spheres lined up edge-to-edge to reach the nearest star system and the nearest known exoplanet of Alpha Centauri B.

Our Galaxy, the Milky Way, contains at least 200 billion stars. Seventy-five percent of these stars are not individually visible to the naked human eye, they are too small and faint ? smaller and fainter than the Sun. The nearest large galaxy to us, Andromeda, is about 2,700,000,000 times the diameter of Neptune?s orbit in distance, and is moving more or less directly towards us at nearly 70 miles a second. It contains about a trillion stars and will come lumbering into the Milky Way in about 4 billion years time.

Beyond this small cosmic patch lies a 13.7 billion year old universe containing as many as 400 billion galaxies and more than 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars and perhaps at least as many planets. In a few hundred billion years the accelerating expansion of space will isolate all these galaxies, stretching the light passing between them to such an extent that no observer in any one galaxy will be able to see the others.

And that, dear reader, is pretty much that.

We are, I?m afraid, an unfathomably microscopic presence amid all of this. But this is our lot, our serving of existence. We can ignore it, we can rail against the injustice of it, and we can invent reasons to disbelieve it. Or we can embrace this vast cosmic wellspring for what it is, our home.

About a week ago I participated in the BBC World Service?s radio show The Forum, talking about black holes, galaxies, and some of the fascinating peculiarities of this universe. I was also asked to come up with a ?60-second idea to change the world?. Imagine, said the producers, that you?re president of the planet and that you can address something that bothers you or that you think would make the world a better place ? radical or controversial, or just plain unexpected.

Eventually, after much pacing and gnashing of teeth I came up with this (download here)

The essence of the ?big? idea is actually pretty simple (and more serious than it might appear). Let?s treat our cosmic environment with the same level of seriousness as we treat all the ordinary stuff right under our noses. And let?s incorporate it into the fabric of our children?s education and our own lives. At school we?re taught grammar by learning about trees, cats, dogs, clouds, cars, and bicycles. We learn algebra with dull exercises about buying candy or sharing apples. Why don?t we do all of this with reference to asteroids, comets, planets, moons, stars, interstellar space, and galaxies? We can also count the moons of Jupiter, the craters of Mercury, the rings of Saturn and the number of stars in the sky. In doing so we?d instill a basic knowledge of our cosmic environment, bringing it to earth, into view. Adults could do the same. Stop making small talk about sports events and discuss something really big and important; supernova, life on other worlds, the fate of the universe. Don?t be bashful.

Why? Well, right now we are dusty little hominids in an unspeakably tiny bit of the universe, and unless we get a proper perspective this may be how we remain. A ready vision of our cosmic existence would help. It might make it just a little easier to be better behaved with each other, be more conscious of our species? needs and the multitude of natural dangers facing us across not just years but millenia and eons. Maybe, just maybe, we?d think a little bigger and find some ways to extend humanity?s use-by-date by stepping out into the void.

In other words, by doing nothing more than applying our remarkable brains to learning a few more facts about the universe around us we might inch a little way closer to true cosmic citizenship. A simple act that could carry us to eternity as well as make our present lives so much better.

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Current Home Care Options You Might Want To Consider ...

Home health care can be incredibly expensive depending on the level of care required. Some home care professionals charge upwards of $28 an hour and health care costs are set to rise as time goes by. This is still the preferred option for many people as it allows for much greater independence than other care options. If this is the choice for you follow these tips to help you pay for the home care.

The first thing to do is talk to a medical professional about the details involved in home care. A medical practitioner has extensive experience with patient care and can give you an idea about what type of home care services you will need. A retirement planning specialist should also be able to lay out areas in which you can save money on health care. They?ll also have the most up to date information about government plans to help people pay for home care. Some retirement planning specialists may charge a professional fee for the consultation but considering the huge savings you will get when you make sensible decisions, it will be money spent wisely.

You can also check into the details of your health insurance cover before choosing home care services. It might contain provisions for part payment of home care costs or allow you to upgrade to a policy which covers the cost for you. Check it out with your insurance agent to see if the have health care policies that could cover for the cost of home care. If you don?t find much success with your current insurance provider, think of getting a new policy with another health care insurance company. This will cost quite a lot but it means you?ll be sure to get good home care coverage.

Those in poor financial situations just might be good candidates for Medicare support which can help pay the cost of home care services. The criteria for this is that the patients must be unable to leave their home without severe discomfort. A physician must also verify that home medical care is needed by the patient in subject. You can consider this option if you meet the criteria for this type of assistance.

Home care types

There is a huge range of home health care options to suit almost every health issue. Knowing the variety out there can be really helpful in knowing whether home health care is right for you. One of the most common and advanced home health care options is skilled nursing care. This consists of a licensed nurse providing care for more advanced conditions. Examples of these procedures are catheter bag or intravenous medication management. Particularly when medications have to be taken on a strict schedule, skilled nursing care is vital. A skilled nurse will also be able to help sterilise and bandage a wound as well as provide first aid.

Another quite common home care service available these days is physical therapy. Licensed physical therapists visit a patient?s home to carry out procedures that will help one regain muscle strength and mobility. For instance, a patient suffers from a broken hip and will need assistance and therapy to get back on his feet again. Physical therapy is vital to help an individual gain back his mobility and independence following some sort of injury or serious medical condition.

Following physical therapy, occupation therapy procedures might also need to be carried out to help patients who have regained their strength learn new skills that they might require. An occupational therapist will also visit the home to ensure that the patient will be able to live there comfortably. The kitchen might be fitted with equipment to make meal preparation easier; likewise, some modifications might be carried out in a bathroom so personal hygiene could be easier for the patient. To improve the quality of life for the patient, therapists may recommend the use of a walker or the building of ramps and installation of handle bars for easier mobility.

Speech therapy is also among the many home care services available these days. A speech therapist will work closely with each patient to help them regain language and communication skills. A patient?s speech could be affected by a stroke or some other brain-related condition. Speech therapists can often design a rehabilitation plan to help a patient recover.

You can choose among different home care options if you?re looking to care for a loved one at home. From ccrc communities to nursing homes, you?ll find that visiting both types will have good and bad things about them. life care communities St. George Village hopes you were able to get essential information on home care with this article.

Source: http://www.healthuse.com/current-home-care-options-you-might-want-to-consider-2.html

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Will Windows 8 crack the surface?

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Bill Rigby

Firm sales numbers for Microsoft's Windows 8 and its new Surface tablet will not be available for three months, but it may be clear long before then if it has a hit on its hands.

"We can definitely gauge it by chatter," said Emily Chan, an analyst at Bernstein Research. "There is a slight learning curve, so I don't think we will see that big pop that iPad saw."

Microsoft is desperate for the new-look, touch-friendly Windows 8 to grip customers' imaginations, as it looks to regain ground lost to Apple and Google in mobile computing and shake up the moribund PC market.

Perhaps more important is its new own-brand tablet called the Surface, available only through its own stores and website, which will challenge Apple's iPad head on.

"I'd want to know the sales???and return rate???of the Surface," said Sarah Rotman Epps at tech research firm Forrester. "But those numbers will be hard to get since Microsoft is the only retailer."

Early reviews of the Surface have been mixed, generally praising the slick hardware, but faulting battery life and the limited software and applications available.

Some worry that the first Surface model, which runs on a stripped-down version of Windows 8 called RT that is not compatible with old Windows programs, will cause some confusion and dissatisfaction among customers.

The three models for sale on Microsoft's U.S. website are already on back order, suggesting strong demand, but it is not known how many Surfaces Microsoft has manufactured.

"The fact it's back ordered is indicative that there's consumer interest," said Michael Gartenberg, an analyst at tech research firm Gartner. "How Microsoft introduces it, evangelizes it and explains it will determine long term success."

Microsoft has not said if it will reveal sales figures for Windows 8 or of the Surface before its next scheduled earnings on Jan.?24. The company tends to trumpet good news and stay silent otherwise.

After the launch of Windows 7 three years ago, CEO Steve Ballmer waited only a month to announce strong sales. A year later, he waited only 10 days to report record-breaking sales of the Kinect, the motion-sensing add-on for the Xbox. But Microsoft has never shared the sales of Windows-powered phones, which have a lowly 3 percent of the market.

If Ballmer stays silent about Windows 8 sales, it might indicate a less than stellar performance.

"I would definitely take it a sign that it's not super, super strong, but I won't take it as something negative," said Chan at Bernstein, who is expecting 8.3 million Surface sales by the middle of next year.

That averages out at about 1 million a month, a third the rate of the iPad, which notched up its first million sales in 28 days and has now sold more than 100 million units, averaging about 3.2 million a month.

Gartner forecasts that Surface and other tablets running Windows RT will sell about 2.3 million units this year and 9.3 million next year, grabbing about 2 percent and 5 percent of the worldwide tablet market, respectively.

Door-busters

Retail activity will be closely watched. Microsoft will have more than 60 brick and mortar stores open for the release of Windows 8 on Friday, half of them 'pop-up' stores that will stay open for the holiday shopping season.

Third-party retailers are cautiously optimistic.

"We have seen pretty good response to our pre-orders for Windows 8," said Best Buy spokesman Jeff Haydock. "Quite honestly, I don't know what to expect from Friday. I don't know if there will be lines or not. My sense is it will take some time for people to kind of come into the stores and check it out."

Best Buy may give some color on how PC sales are going when it reports earnings on Nov. 20.

Wal-Mart Stores Inc, the No. 1 U.S. retailer, said U.S. pre-orders for Windows 8 PCs "have been better than expected."

Online retailers Amazon.com Inc, Newegg and TigerDirect have been silent on Windows 8 pre-orders.

The full impact of PC sales on retailers will not be evident until chains report same-store sales for November.

Quick reaction

One early indicator of Windows 8's success will be the contents of the online Windows Store. Microsoft has had a harder time drumming up interest among developers for Windows 8, given the risk that there will be fewer users than competing platforms.

Microsoft will not disclose numbers, but there are expected to be 5,000 or so third-party apps available to U.S. users, in comparison with the iPad's 275,000. Some big names such as Facebook will be missing.

In social media, the tenor of comments on the Twitter hashtags #Windows8 and #Surface will give an indication of their reception after Ballmer unveils them both on Thursday.

Many users likely will be shocked by the new design, which dispenses with the Start button and features square tiles for apps.

"Public reaction to the new UI will depend how well Microsoft explains why 'different' is better and teaches how the new experience works," said Gartenberg. "That all starts on Thursday."

By the numbers

The ultimate test for Windows 8 will be PC sales.

Industry trackers are expecting a bump for PC sales in the last two months of the year, but not enough to rescue the whole year, which is forecast to dip for the first time since 2001.

Some analysts had expected an uptick in production of laptops ahead of the Windows 8 launch, but PC makers facing an uncertain global economy have been wary about committing.

Chip maker Intel, which is a good gauge of future PC demand due to its position early in the production process, expects the PC business to grow at only half the normal seasonal rate in the fourth quarter.

Chief Executive Paul Otellini recently told analysts he expects to have a better understanding of the success of Windows 8 in 90 days.

Stephen Baker, an analyst at retail research firm NPD Group, is expecting a 10 percent jump in PC sales for November and December over last year, but said comparisons will be difficult given a profusion of new devices and the volatility of year-ago data.

Fourth-quarter PC shipment numbers from research firms Gartner and IDC will not be published until early January, although analysts say PC makers might start to drop hints about demand before then.

"There will likely be many milestones, but very few will ultimately be decisive. The key point is will PC sales continue to shrink or will they experience a boost," said Al Hilwa at research firm IDC. "We can probably begin to properly judge that with some ambiguity in January."

(Additional reporting By Dhanya Skariachan in New York, Jessica Wohl in Chicago and Noel Randewich in San Francisco. Editing by Andre Grenon)?

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Gilbert Curiosities: Yu-Gi-What?

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Okay, so last Friday was my daughter and son-in-law?s wedding anniversary and I stayed with the boys while the parents went out to celebrate.

The youngest of the three, Nathan, the ?boy wonder? who now sports a cast asked me to play a card game with him. ?Sure, want to play poker?? I ask.

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?No, granny, let?s play Yu-Gi-Oh.? ????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ????????????????????????????
?I never heard of it. What is it?? I ask, but I do remember buying him cards for Christmas last year. ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ?????????????????????????????????
?I?ll show you,? he replies and then plops a tin can on the table.
Joshua who happened to walk into the kitchen for a snack begins to laugh. ?Nathan, granny is not going to understand how to play this in one night. Pick another game.?
But Nathan?s poor puppy dog expression touches this grandmother?s heart strings and I reply, ?I?m okay, Josh. How hard can this game be?? Ha!
Now I need to give you a little history of the game before I go any further with the story.
Yu-Gi-Oh is a Japanese collectible card game developed and published by Konami. The game is based on the fictional game of Duel Monsters created by manga artist, Kazuki Takahashi.
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?Two players duel each other using different cards representing Monsters, Spells, and Traps. The object is to win life points. Sound easy? Not really as you?ll soon see?
Nathan puts down four cards, 3 are face down and one card, face up. ?Gran, you do the same with yours and read the bottom of the card. It tells you the level rank and point system.?
?I can?t read this writing. It?s too small,? I reply.
Nathan runs to the kitchen cabinet and pulls out a magnifying glass for me to use, but it takes me awhile to make out the writing. ?Gran, you have to put your card down on either an attack position or a defense position,? Nathan urges me. ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
?Can?t we play poker? It?s hard to read these cards,? I counter.
?Please,? he begs. I do what any loving granny does and I try to play.
?I win,? I shout out after placing a dragon card on attack position against his monster. ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
?No, you didn?t,? he counters. ?Read the card.?
?But I have a dragon,? I reply. At this point, Nathan calls for help.
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Hopkins ?bitterly disappointed? after CL T20 exit ? Cricket News Update

Auckland Aces? skipper, Gareth Hopkins, has conceded that the team is bitterly disappointed at not making the semi-stage of the Champions League T20 following their failures against Perth Scorchers last night. ?

The skipper nonetheless, praised the efforts of his team after making the tournament proper for the first time following an unlucky run last season where a defeat against Kolkata Knight Riders cut short their progression to the main draw. "If we look back in a few years we'd probably say that making the main draw was good," Hopkins said. "But given our position and the belief in the team at the moment, we believed we could make the semis and then the final. We're bitterly disappointed."

The Aces entered the event fully prepared to make most of their outings after lifting the New Zealand T20 championship back home. They breezed past the three-team qualifying group, where strong contributions from the likes of Kyle Mills, Martin Guptill and Azhar Mahmood ensured that they defeated Pakistan and England T20 holders, Sialkot Stallions and Hampshire respectively, to book their place in Group A.

After starting in fine fashion, where they beat old-nemesis KKR in the opening game, they struggled to make an impact in their remaining matches. They were defeated by Titans by a handsome margin of 59, before a washed out game meant that they needed a win in their last outing against the Scorchers, who had not won a single game so far.

However, their hopes of qualifying to the semi-final stage were dashed after they fell 16 runs short of the 141-run target. Despite being disappointed, Hopkins was keen to talk about the positives the team will take back home, and praised the performances of their overseas player Mahmood, who remained the side?s leading run-getter and wicket-taker. ?

?"Winning was definitely a highlight," he said. "I enjoyed seeing my mates' successes on the park - things like Azhar Mahmood's innings against Hampshire and the team performance against Kolkata. That was one particularly sweet because they beat us off the last ball in the qualifiers last year so we got our own back this time. We were really happy with that."

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Ortustech builds the world's smallest 4K display at 9.6 inches: your tablet has nothing on this

Think that iPad's Retina display is sharp? Ortustech would argue that it's old hat. The company's new LCD occupies a similar dimension at 9.6 inches, but it also carries an extremely dense 3,840 x 2,160 resolution -- making it the world's smallest 4K display at a time when most everyone else is struggling to produce the giant variety. Like with the Japanese firm's earlier 4.8-inch record-setter, the trick rests in a Hyper Amorphous Silicon TFT (HAST) that lets in more light per pixel and prevents that virtually seamless 458PPI image from becoming unusably dim. Test samples are rolling off the factory lines in November, although we're not expecting to see Ortustech displays in our tablets anytime soon: sheer performance demands aside, the narrower 160-degree viewing angles and lower 72 percent color gamut better suit the 4K screen to pro video cameras and medical monitors that thrive on sharpness over anything else.

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Officially, it's illegal for employers to discriminate against pregnant workers, but in practice, pregnancy discrimination is common, according to the Employment Opportunity Commission statistics. Brandi Cochran, a model on "The Price Is Right" game show from 2002 to 2008, claims that she is part of this trend, saying that she was illegally fired and subjected to insults after she became pregnant.

One incident that Cochran (pictured above) recalled was when she walked past a "Price Is Right" producer, who proceeded to remark, "wide load coming through." The model's civil lawsuit finally went to trial in Los Angeles Superior Court on Tuesday. (The complaint does not specify the amount of damages Cochran is seeking.)

According to Cochran, her employer showed hostility to her pregnancy when she had an earlier pregnancy, from which she miscarried in 2007. A "Price Is Right "producer told her "it's nature's way of getting rid of a bad baby," according to TMZ.

When she got pregnant the following year, and miscarried, she went on disability leave for post-partum depression. After producers began dropping off in requesting appearances from her, they eventually told her she was being terminated, according to the Law360 website, which reports on business law.

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"The producers couldn't sell her pregnancy, they couldn't sell her disability, and she couldn't be exploited, so they fired her," her attorney James Urbanic said during opening arguments.

Cochran's suit was filed back in 2010 against CBS Corp., FremantleMedia Ltd., and The Price is Right Productions Inc. Superior Court Judge Kevin Brazile dropped CBS from the suit back in September, citing the television network's lack of involvement in staffing decisions for the show.

In presenting his client's case, Urbanic said that after Cochran announced her first pregnancy, the producers drastically reduced the model's appearances on "The Price Is Right."

FremantleMedia attorney Kate Gold, said Cochran's firing had nothing to do with her pregnancy. Gold said that when Bob Barker left as the game show's host in 2007, and Drew Carey became the new host, it began using fewer models and chose models that could adapt to Carey's "improvisational style."

Moreover, Gold said the show's producers didn't even know about Cochran's depression, and even if they had, the producers would not consider it a problem. After all, the show's new host had a widely cited public record of talking about his own depression and history of suicide attempts.

The suit, which is expected to wrap up in three or four weeks, is the latest in a line of lawsuits involving "The Price is Right" and its models. According to a report by Time magazine, the lawsuits that have gone for decades depict "an institutionalized attitude that allowed executives to treat models on the show (and female staffers) as second-class citizens."

Perhaps the most famous suit came from show model Dian Parkinson, who sued the "The Price Is Right" back in 1994 for $8 million, claiming that she had been forced to have sex with Barker to keep her job. Barker denied that, but he did eventually say that he and Parkinson had a consensual relationship. While the judge dismissed the wrongful termination part of the suit, it was Parkinson who decided not to pursue the sexual harassment charge, citing insufficient funds.

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One former model who had better luck was Holly Hallstrom, who was let go from "The Price Is Right" in 1995. Her termination led to a series of lawsuits and countersuits, in which she claimed she was dismissed for both gaining 14 pounds and not helping Barker to fight back against the charges being made by Parkinson. The parties eventually settled out of court, with Hallstrom walking away with a multimillion dollar award.

While Carey has not yet been ensnared in any of the suits, the string of litigation has continued into his reign as host. Just last year, former show model Lanisha Cole filed a lawsuit citing wrongful termination against "The Price Is Right." Cole says her treatment on the show changed dramatically in 2009 when one of the producers began to skip over her in favor of another model with whom he was having a relationship. The producer, named Adam Sandler (no relation to the comedian), also allegedly would burst into Cole's dressing room without knocking, castigating her for not wearing her microphone on set.

Cole's case, like Cochran's, is still in the courts.

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EL PASO, Texas (AP) ? U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement will return to the Mexican government more than 4,000 archaeological pieces seized at several locations across the United States by customs agents and investigators.

ICE spokeswoman Leticia Zamarripa says the cache of items mostly date from before the landings of European explorers on the North American continent. The lot includes pre-Columbian stones used to grind corn and other grains, statues, figurines, copper hatchets and other artifacts. They were seized in El Paso, Phoenix, Chicago, Denver, San Diego and San Antonio.

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Life on Food: Slow Cooker Baked Apples

I have been giving way too much attention to pumpkin this fall.? I think for every one apple recipe posted there have been at least three pumpkin.? My apologies.? I actually love apples but eat them just plain.? Raw.? Delicious.

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• 1/4 cup brown sugar
• 1/4 cup walnuts, chopped
• 2 tablespoons butter
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 6 Gala or Macintosh apples, cored
• 1/2 cup apple juice or apple cider
• 2 tablespoons orange liquor (optional)

Preheat a large crock-pot on high heat and preset it for 3 hours. In a large bowl, mix brown sugar, walnuts, butter, and cinnamon. Fill the apples with the filling and place them in the crock-pot. Pour in the apple juice or cider and the liquor, if using.

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Uniforms For Martial Arts

Martial arts are the different fighting systems that include individual physical combat techniques as well as developmental techniques meant for the growth of the person's spirit. This has both the physical training and the spiritual development that is typified in all martial art systems.

Standard games these days must follow regulations with regards to different martial arts and sports uniforms, including: Karate Uniform - Also known as a gi, this is is the standard uniform for Karate-do.

The Karate uniform is lighter with a looser fit. There are three cuts of karate uniforms: Kata, European and Japanese. Each one can not weigh more than 16 ounces. The Japanese style favors longer cuts for the sleeves and trouser cuffs in contrast to the European style of shorter cuts and cuffs. The Karate gi comes in various styles and color such as black, red, blue, and white.

Taekwondo Uniform - Known as Dobok in South Korea, this is the uniform used for the country's national sport. White is the most accepted color uniform, with the standard colored belt tied around the torso. There are three different jacket styles to choose from for the Taekwondo uniform.

Judo Uniform - The Judogi is made from traditional fibers and is similar to the Karate uniform. The uniforms are traditionally blue or white for Judo competitions, and a participant will be disqualified for wearing a non-standard uniform.

BJJ Gi - Jiu Jitsu is a Brazilian martial art that takes its basic forms from Japanese combat sports. A uniform consisting of a heavy cotton jacket, pants and a belt to close the jacket is what is worn for this sport. White, black, and blue are the only colors allowed to be worn by participants during the competitions.

Martial art weapons - These weapons look like traditional martial arts weapons, but they are made from safer materials such as wood, rubber, or foam.

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The first in her family to go to college, Alicia Aiello wanted more than anything to study at Syracuse University. But tuition at the private university was expensive, her parents couldn't help much, and she didn't get enough financial aid to bridge the gap.

So within her first semester, Aiello found herself taking out an $18,000 bank loan she couldn't afford, with terms she didn't entirely understand, on which she'd owe $6,000 worth of interest before she paid back even a penny of it.

"I was really confused, and when I found out someone would give me $18,000 without a co-signer, I was really excited--until later down the line, when I found out how much I was going to owe," Aiello says. "That was probably the biggest mistake I ever made."

Many students are making mistakes like this, revealing the little-reported reality that America's student-debt crisis is being fueled in large part by borrowers' ignorance about financial matters in a system that makes getting a loan so easy, many don't have a clue what obligations they've assumed.

"A lot of us don't have parents who went to college or who understand anything about this process," Aiello says. "I have a lot of friends who just signed those loans without any idea what was going on. There are a lot of oblivious students."

Students appear to know so little about the repercussions of the loans they take out, in fact, that some universities are starting to require them to undergo financial-literacy training. The first statewide plan to curb student-loan defaults, announced with great fanfare by the State University of New York system, consists not of making more direct grants available or providing tuition discounts, but almost entirely of helping students better understand the debt they're getting into.

It's not altogether altruistic. Universities and colleges are being judged on their average loan debt and default rates, and stress about finances can derail students and cause them to drop out at a time when funding of public higher education is increasingly tied to its success at producing graduates.

American university and college students graduated with an average of $26,600 of debt last year, according to new figures from the Project on Student Debt. More than nine percent default within two years, and 13.4 percent within three, the U.S. Department of Education reported last month.

Principal among the missteps feeding this rising sea of red ink is students' decisions to borrow from banks and other private sources, which typically charge more than federally guaranteed loans administered by institutional financial-aid offices.

Federal loans have fixed interest rates and flexible repayment terms. Private student loans have variable interest that is usually higher, and often require parents or others to co-sign and become responsible if the loan is not repaid.

"You're really at the mercy of your lender if you hit hard times," says Lauren Asher, president of The Institute for College Access & Success. "And lately we've had some bad times."

More than one dollar in five of student loans comes from these private sources. But at least half of undergraduates who take out private loans are eligible for cheaper federal loans, the institute reports.

Financial-aid officers say the best deterrent to debt is information. And student borrowers appear to be getting very, very little of that.

"A lot of my roommates and friends have no idea about how much debt they're in," says James Beck, a senior engineering major at Syracuse.

A study by the Project on Student Debt found that some college and university financial-aid departments don't publicize their office hours or contact information, use technical language students don't understand, provide materials only in English while serving more and amore non-native-English speakers, are open only during the days when increasing numbers of students are taking night classes, and put their least experienced employees on the front lines to try to answer student questions.

"You hear people talking about this issue, but what are they doing about it? How are we educating our students to know how to borrow smart, and doing what we can to reduce the loan debt?" asks Jason Deitz, assistant director of student financial planning at Alvernia University in Reading, Pa.

Meanwhile, budget cuts are thinning the ranks of already overworked financial-aid employees. Deitz's office, for example, has five people serving nearly 4,000 students.

"There are many financial-aid officers who agree that there should be one-on-one counseling to explain to students how much they'll owe, but most of them simply don't have the staffs to do that," says Thomas Brock, director of postsecondary education at MDRC, a nonprofit research center created by the Ford Foundation and originally called the Minority Data Resource Center, which is studying these efforts.

Technology and federal regulations seem to be doing more harm than good. Students apply for loans on the same form they apply for grants, which can downplay the high stakes of borrowing. There are also only minimal federal requirements that students receive in-person financial counseling. They can simply read the terms of the loan online, which is where they also sign the master promissory note.

The process takes about 20 minutes, says Cynthia Grunden, associate vice chancellor of student financial services at City Colleges of Chicago. "They're going to take out that loan without thoroughly understanding that decision," Grunden says.

Compare that to the endless, complex process of taking out a mortgage.

"Students will go through the [online] entrance counseling and they'll fly through it and try to get it done as quickly as possible," says Deitz. "They're not reading the fine print. And then they'll end up saying, 'I owe what? I have to pay how much?' "

Aiello learned the answer to that question the hard way. She has graduated now, and is working as an assistant video editor at a marketing company in Philadelphia. Good thing, too--her college loan repayments come to more than $400 a month, including $195 for just that one private loan she took out as a freshman.

"I really want to get started hacking away at that," she says. "It's riding on my back."

A version of this story appeared on CNN Money on October 22, 2012.

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Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/22/student-loan-debt-and-fin_n_2001104.html

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