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LEFORT Multi Product 800 Shredder.
Come Join LEFORT America At Southeast Chapter ISRI 2016 Fall Convention
LEFORT is expanding its range of machines and announcing the manufacture of its new versatile SHREDDERS, designed to shred multiple materials.
Gosselies, Belgium, 28 September 2016.
Following the unveiling of its first self-propelling crawler shear/baler (Trax® & Crawler for the USA) as a world premiere in Las Vegas last April, LEFORT is proud to offer a preview of the latest addition to its product family: a horizontal Multi Product 800 shredder.
The shredder is a machine designed to mill scrap metal before sorting and recycling. This type of machine has become an indispensable tool in the scrap metal recycling chain.
Since 1947, LEFORT has been building its machines in various plants in Belgium, driven by a passion passed down from generation to generation and exploiting the most efficient technologies and the know-how acquired throughout its history.
With a firm foothold in the scrap metal recycling industry for decades, LEFORT is today recognised worldwide as a benchmark for the quality of its manufacturing and exclusive design.
2017 will be a very important year for the company because LEFORT will be celebrating the 70th anniversary of the first machine! With extensive experience in the design of shredders, while applying the same philosophy as for the shears & balers that have earned it an international reputation, this new product will allow LEFORT to become a valued player on this market.
The LEFORT shredders come with a rotor equipped with hammers for crushing various products. The extensively tested configuration of the motor, directly connected to the rotor shaft via a hydraulic coupler, and the interchangeable hammer system in high-strength steel ensure exceptional output capacity standards and vastly reduced maintenance time.
The low motor rotation speed ensures high torque to handle the toughest materials. The dust extraction units, vibrating tables and the waste sorting selection system are also tailored to customer needs.
As for shears & balers, the LEFORT shredders are available in different versions and power units in line with the necessary production capacity, and can be equipped with an electric or thermal motor.
All these machines respect the safety standards in force and carry the "CE" label for the European market and the "UL" label for the US market.
LEFORT offers its customers a complete package: delivery, installation of the equipment and accessories, as well as commissioning and operator training, to keep down the costs for customers incurred by the involvement of different suppliers.
Thanks to a worldwide dealership network, customers can rely on a tried and tested functional structure and a stock of available spare parts to ensure timely technical support of premium quality.
With this new generation of machines, LEFORT is further broadening its range of specialities and pursuing its strategy of developing and tapping into new markets.
Press contact: Guillaume Blake
Phone: + 32 71 35 16 09
www.lefort.com
The New Shredder LEFORT MTP 800 – Official Launch Video !


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Sportspersons stand out from the field in academics too
Amit Sampat | TNN | Updated: May 31, 2017, 14:20 IST
NAGPUR: Defying the notion that sports and education cannot go hand in hand, many city sportspersons have cleared the HSC examination with flying colours. Be it chess, gymnastics or tennis, budding city players have left their mark outside the playground too.
This year, however, girls prevailed over boys as top achievers among those with sporting talents. While chess master and national gold medallist Aditi Patel emerged as the top scorer with 90.92 per cent, gymnast Aditi Deo brought home the yellow metal in the state competition and also in the commerce stream, and Sneha Ranade continued her consistent efforts on the tennis court before securing 90.9%. All the three commerce students duly followed their passion before clearing their examination with distinction.
Ambedkar College student and a master of the 64 squares, Aditi Patel was the only city player in the Maharashtra U-19 team that won a gold medal at Hyderabad. After winning the national gold at the SGFI-organized event, Aditi kept away from competitive chess since October and started preparing for her examination. She used to study 8-10 hours daily and played chess with younger brother Devang to refresh herself.
"I started playing chess after Standard VIII, and rankly, I was able to get more marks in my academics after that. Playing chess daily for 4-5 hours helped me concentrate more and gave me the confidence to write my examinations perfectly. Since my target was achieved, I am delighted about my academic performance. I aim to become a CA and at also wish to play in international chess championships," Aditi, daughter of Ramji and Kumudini Patel, told TOI.
For Aditi Deo of MKH Sancheti Jr College, family support played a key role in balancing gymnastics and studies to achieve what she desired. Daughter of Sachin and Arti Deo, Aditi scored a whopping 99 marks in book-keeping and accountancy to emerge as the school topper in accounts. "I got more marks than expected, and am feeling on top of the world. While practicing my focus was fully on gymnastics and my morning hours were dedicated on studies. With the help of my coaches and my family members I was able to balance both. I wish to make my career in gymnastics and aim to become a CA too."
Budding tennis player Sneha, daughter of Dhananjay and Vaidehi Ranade, added, "I consider myself very fortunate that my parents left it to me on how to go about studies. There was absolutely no pressure about the score. In fact, my dad used to insist that I play tennis regularly and work out since it would help me remain fit and focus on studies. I continued playing tennis till January-end, and used to work out in the gym in the evening. Sports, no doubt, has helped me enhance my concentration and keep my mind clutter-free."

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Michael Gbinije had a team-high 20 points and scored the go-ahead basket for Syracuse against Gonzaga in a 63-60 win.

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In a back-and-forth game between two evenly matched teams, the Orange outlasted No. 11 Gonzaga, 63-60, in the NCAA Midwest Regional round of 16 Friday night at the United Center in Chicago. Syracuse managed the clock well and won thanks to a 9-3 run in the final three minutes of the game. Graduate guard Michael Gbinije [14] scored the basket which put Syracuse up for good; a layup after his own offensive-rebound to make the score 61-60 with 22 seconds to play. On the ensuing play, Gonzaga (28-8) inbounded and took the ball to their offensive side for a final attempt at the lead, but point guard Josh Perkins' shot got blocked by Orange freshman Tyler Lydon [15], who got fouled right after. Lydon went to the free throw line and hit both shots, leaving Gonzaga only a few seconds to launch a hail mary through the hoop in hopes of a game-tying buzzer-beater, but it was off mark.
The Orange (21-14) overcame an 11-point first half deficit, and went into half time only down one, 29-28. They came out hot in the second half and Tyler Lydon's layup just 17 seconds in put them ahead. That basket spurred another four points, capping an Orange 11-0 run at 34-28 which started in the first half.
With 15:30 to play, Gonzaga would tie the game at 34 off a three-pointer, and another by senior forward Kyle Wiltjer would give the Bulldogs the lead 39-36.
Up to the 7:48 mark, the Bulldogs would continue adding to their lead with a 10-2 run, ending at 53-46. Trevor Cooney [16] brought the lead down to six with a three-pointer and 6:18 to play, and Malachi Richardson [17] scored from long range too to make it a three-point game with 3:25 to play, 75-54.
Gonzaga's star player, sophomore forward Domantas Sabonis, would put the Bulldog's back on top by five with two good free throws, making the score 59-54. The Orange would again cut the lead to one before Sabonis hit one more from the charity stripe, putting the score at 60-58 Gonzaga. A wild possession with four offensive rebounds concluded with Tyler Roberson going to the line and going 1-2, which would set up the final minute of the game.
Gbinije would lead the team with 20 points, while Cooney added 15 and Richardson had 10. Lydon blocked the Bulldogs six times. Syracuse shot 36 percent from the floor and 33 percent from beyond the arc.
Sabonis and Wiltjer were the big dogs for Gonzaga, as they scored 19 and 23, respectively.
The Orange will play the No. 1 ranked Virginia Cavaliers Sunday at 6:09 p.m. in the Elite Eight.
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I wrote this article for our neighborhood magazine, but I learned so much writing it, I had to share! This is written for the Charleston, SC area, but most of the information can be useful across the United States.
The last day of school is May 27, 2016. This can be a blessing and a curse at the same time. Ya! No more homework, projects, conferences, etc. It's also the time where your kids can get bored and drive you nuts (or vice versa depending on the perspective). This article is meant to give you some ideas on how you can use technology to keep you kids actively learning this summer as well as having fun. I know you don't want your kids staring at a screen all summer long, so I've included educational & fun activities that don't involve a digital device.


Southeastern Warehousemen & Movers' Assoc./American Warehousemen's Association, front line supervision workshop, April 21-23. Airport Marriott, Atlanta. Contact: John Doggett, director of education, AWA. (312) 787-3377.
Air Courier Conference, 13th annual conference, April 24-26. The Pointe at Squaw Peak, Phoenix, Ariz. Contact: Larry Burtchaell, ACC's executive director. (703) 391-0303.Transportation Futures: Option for Tomorrow? Sponsored by Iowa State University extension service and National Waterways Conference, April 25-27. Westin Crown Hotel, Kansas City, Mo. Contact: Seminar Coordinator, National Waterways Conference Inc., 1130 17th St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036. (202) 296-4415.
Arthur Anderson & Co., aerospace & defense manufacturing software seminar, April 26. Hilton Wakefield, Wakefield, Mass. (800) 328-4672, ext. 4593.
Council of Logistics Management, corporate profitability and logistics seminar, April 26-27. Brussels Sheraton Hotel & Towers, Brussels, Belgium. Contact: CLM, corporate profitability workshop, 2803 Butterfield Road, Oak Brook, Ill. 60521-1156. (312) 574-0985.


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Q: PNG img displays in Visual Studio Designer but not IE I am currently writing a webpage. I want there to be a banner image on the top of the webpage. Here is my html and css:
index.html
<!DOCTYPE html>

    <title>Protect The Environment!</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="styles.css" />

styles.css
body {
    background:#f8e4e4;
    font-family:'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Geneva, Verdana, sans-serif;
    font-size:medium;
}

#banner-image {
    height: 106px;
    width: 582px;
}

As you can see, I did put the image in the html and the src is set to the correct url. You can copy the url and check. Here is how it looks from the Visual Studio Designer:

But when I run it with IE, it looks like this:

I tried to add this to the #banner-image css rule:
visibility:visible;

But it doesn't work at all. The page stays the same!
I think there is some problems with the div but I really want to keep it. It just makes things much easier to manage.

A: In my testing, I didn't find any difference in HTML ordering, although I wasn't extremely thorough. Adding a float class directly to the image or in a surrounding
 makes no difference, the images still do not show up.
Fortunately, the fix is quite simple! Just add three lines to your CSS. file and the problem is solved.
No hacks, no conditionals, just pure, validating CSS.
img
{
    position: relative;
}

For as many headaches I got from dealing with Internet Explorer's inadequacies, it was a slap on the face when I realized how simple the solution is. Relative positioning is the magic fix in IE, so try it out if you've got some odd quirk that's causing you grief!
Note : Tested and workied fine

A: Internet Explorer doesn't recognize the newline character, because IE doesn't do automated encoding. Meaning that instead of:
"http://intranet.kings.edu.hk/~s13977/banner.png"

In your image path on IE you will get:
  "http://intranet.kings.edu.hk/%7Es13977/banner.png"

%7E is the url encoding of ~, Which will lead to a non-existent path of your image.
You need to use encodeUriComponent, or some other explicit encoding component for your link in order to get it work on IE.

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After years of seeing poor receivers like Ryan Doumit cost them strikes, the Pittsburgh Pirates signed Russell Martin to the biggest free-agent contract in franchise history over the winter. According to Baseball Prospectus analyst Max Marchi's pitch-framing statistics, Martin, a converted infielder who worked hard at becoming a better receiver, ranks fourth among major league catchers with more than 105 runs saved because of framing from 2008 to present, or roughly 0.23 runs per 100 pitches. Pittsburgh's two-year, $17 million commitment is already paying dividends. With Martin behind the plate picking up extra strikes, the Pirates had their best April since 1992, the last season they were a winning team. I caught up with Martin to find out how he does it before a game at Citizens Bank Park.
With PITCHf/x in the past few years, people have tried to put a value on turning a ball into a strike, and what the best catchers are worth. Have you seen those stats? Have you noticed more emphasis on it from teams or coaches?
It's been talked about more. It never really used to be talked about. I've always known that it makes a big difference, just looking at the greats over the years that have been really good receivers, but there's never been an association with numbers. It's kind of hard to put a value on it. It's hard to illustrate.
This is a plot of the called strikes for all the Pirates pitchers. The first image is the last five seasons, and then the second image is this season. The red area is where the called strikes are. This season it's been a much bigger blotch than the last five seasons, so that seems to suggest that might be you doing something.
Short sample right now, though.
It seems like the main difference is on the top and bottom there. Is there an area that you feel like you're most able to get those extra strikes?
Probably bottom-middle of the zone. I've always been pretty good at getting that pitch.
Jonathan Sanchez pitching to Andre Ethier. 2-1 count, 90 mph four-seam fastball. Home plate umpire: Mark Carlson.
One thing you're doing here that you don't do in the other pitches that I've got here is, you drop down to one knee before the pitch.
That's just to give Sanchy another look. It allows me to free my left side completely. With Sanchez, I can get in a lower spot and kind of catch the ball on the way up, or try and time it where I'm catching it and coming up at the same time.
But my goal is not to steal strikes, it's to keep strikes strikes. I don't want to lose strikes. The key is trying to fight against what the ball is naturally wanting you to do.
Are there drills that you can do to improve that, or is it a wrist strength thing?
I don't know if you can really teach it. You have to talk about it. Because if you just tell somebody to catch the ball, they're not going to understand. They'll just say, "OK, I'll catch it." Any ball that's coming away from the plate, you try and get it out in front as much as possible, to make it look like it's on the plate. Catching a slider here [gets into crouch, holds glove hand way out in front of him] as opposed to catching it back here [brings glove hand back toward his body] … I mean, it looks like an absolute ball if you catch it [close to the body]. But if you catch it out front and you present it well, it looks more like a strike.
Is it more of a challenge with someone who struggles with his control and you don't know that he's going to hit the target? Are you just trying to catch the ball more so than frame it?
There are some guys that you just try to catch the ball, because sometimes they're not controlling whether they're sinking it or cutting it; guys that are a little erratic. I remember when I was with the Dodgers, a guy who had great stuff but was a bit erratic was Chad Billingsley. And with him, I just tried to catch the ball. He wasn't necessarily a pinpoint location guy, so it was tough for me to get strikes for him, because his stuff was so good, his breaking ball was so sharp.
Is it something you do more often with him [Sanchez] than with someone who hits his spot every time?
If it's a ball, I just catch it, throw it back. Or if it's right down the middle, I just catch it and throw it back. When it's a borderline pitch and I need it in a situation, I'll try and catch and stick it, and hold it for a little extra time. But for the most part, I'm just trying to catch the ball and kind of help the rhythm of the umpire as well. You don't even mess with him, because if you hold it too long and it's a borderline pitch and you do it all the time, the fans will start screaming and everybody, the benches, start talking and stuff, and umpires don't really appreciate that.
You get greedy and you try to … you know where the strike zone is, and sometimes you're like, I need that pitch to be a strike! And you'll catch it off the end of the glove, and that'll kind of take it away. So that gets me in trouble, too. Because if your glove's on the plate, you get more calls that way, too. So sometimes I see myself, I'm catching balls right on the tip of my glove. Playing with fire there.
Buddy Carlyle pitching to J.P. Arencibia. 1-2 count, 87 mph cutter. Home plate umpire: John Hirschbeck.
Are you just trying to get it back into the zone as quickly as possible and as subtly as possible?
I just tried to make it pop. And that ball doesn't look like it's a strike from that angle, but it's kind of an off-center angle. It's a little slider. I must have made the mitt pop right there, you know what I'm saying? That's one of those situations where, at the right time, if you get that good pop, it excites the umpire and you get that strike.
You don't want to pull it back obviously.
Yeah, you don't want to make a big pull, like a Mike Piazza "I'm pulling it all the way back over there." It doesn't really work too much. It works in Little League, maybe.
Clayton Kershaw pitching to Scott Rolen. 2-2 count and 3-2 count, both 94 mph four-seam fastballs. Home plate umpire: Hunter Wendelstedt.
This is going back to Dodger days. I'm going to show you a two-pitch sequence, so this is the 2-2, and you don't get the call. Is there anything you could have done that you didn't to get the call, or is it just one of those things where you're doing everything perfectly, but you just don't happen to get the call?
He thought it was low. I mean, it is low a little bit.
[Makes exasperated sound.] Maybe if I'm a little sharper, a little cleaner with it, maybe. But I felt like it was presented decently.
This was the hardest pitch I'm going to show you, 94 miles per hour. Is it harder to frame a pitch that's coming in fast, or is it easier because it's not moving as much?
I'll tell you what's hard with this. There are some pitchers that have the freedom to throw a four-seamer or a two-seamer, so you don't know whether their fastball's going to sink or kind of run. Those guys, like A.J. Burnett's one of them, they have the freedom, and you want them to have the freedom on the mound to do whatever they want to do.
This is the very next pitch in that at-bat. Also 94 miles per hour, just a little lower, even. And you got the call that time.
There are runners on first and third there. Do you focus less on framing a pitch when you've got runners on base to worry about?
Body positioning is a little bit different when there are runners on base. It plays in on how you're angled. A lot of catchers these days, when there's guys on base, they cheat a little bit. So their body's turned to get in a throwing position where they can shorten their footwork and the amount of body movement they need to throw the ball to second base. When there's nobody on, you can just get in a really comfortable position.
Rolen got thrown out arguing that call, and then Dusty Baker did too. Is it satisfying when you feel like you get a borderline pitch called a strike and a guy goes back to the dugout shaking his head? Do you feel like, "I did that" or "I played a part in that"?
No. Honestly, no. I mean, I'm a competitor, so I enjoy winning the game, but I want the game to be played fair, and I want to get every strike I can for my pitcher, and I'm honest. You have to have an honest relationship if you want trust from the umpires, and that's why I feel like it's dangerous to be called a "strike stealer." I want to be more of a "strike getter" or a "strike keeper." But if you catch the ball the right way, every once in a while you do get a call. And just like anybody else, sometimes I don't get calls.
As a hitter, when it happens to you, I guess it's frustrating.
It feels good because you know that you're helping the team win. But at the same time, you don't want umpires to make bad calls.
David Robertson pitching to B.J. Upton. 0-0 count, 92 mph cutter. Home plate umpire: Dan Iassogna.
Are you trying to change the umpire's frame of reference by setting up so far inside that it looks like a strike?
I want to make sure that the pitch is in there, and sometimes I cut umpires off with my head, where they can't really see where the ball is. And David Robertson, his ball just naturally comes back toward the plate. It looks good to the umpire, and for the hitter it looks horrible. That ball, it looks like it's in between — yeah, it's clearly inside a little bit.
Do you try to angle yourself to give the umpire a better view?
If they ask me. I'm not necessarily thinking about it, because I can't see the umpire. Seeing it from this angle now I know what they're talking about when they tell me they have a hard time seeing the pitch inside. [Laughs.] For me, I'm more worried about my pitcher executing a pitch against B.J. Upton. You have to get the ball in on B.J. He's got really quick hands.
David Phelps pitching to Kelly Johnson. 0-1 count, 88 mph slider. Home plate umpire: Angel Hernandez.
You can see him cursing at the end there.
He doesn't like it. Yeah, that ball's inside a little bit too. Umpires are human. They miss every once in a while.
Do you feel like in the future, if they were to have some sort of automated ball-strike system, it would take some of the technique out of catching? You wouldn't have all this nuance, trying to frame the pitch and trying to present it the right way.
It would take away from part of that, the … what's the word I'm looking for?
Do you have any sense of what [pitch framing] is worth to a team?
I don't know what it does in wins or runs, but in baseball terms, one pitch can change a whole game. One pitch, one count. What's the difference between going 2-2 instead of 3-1? I mean, it's a big difference. How important is it? If you're building a team and you've got a young pitching staff, and you've got a catcher who's going to be a middle-of-the-order hitter, it's a tough call. Do you want to go with the guy who's going to be a good receiver, or do you want to be the guy who's going to score some runs for you? Who knows what's worth more to a team? I don't know.
If you could choose between catchers who are average across the board but excellent in one area — whether it's a really good throwing arm, good game caller, good pitch blocker, or a really good pitch framer — which do you think is the most important over the course of a year?
One thing I do know, I feel like it'd be a lot easier to teach somebody how to frame a pitch than it would be to teach them how to hit homers and drive in runs. [Laughs.] Now how good you become, I think it's just a matter of repetition. I learned a lot from just watching and observing, and I'm sure there are kids that are watching the Molinas and Poseys and all those guys and seeing what they're doing now, and they're kind of putting that to work at a young age.
Are there catchers that take it less seriously? Like, they think, "I've got to catch the pitch, but it doesn't matter how I catch the pitch"? Are there guys who work much harder at it than others?
I honestly think it's a skill that if you do work at it and you're taught the right way, you can definitely teach it. Because I was taught. I started at 20, and I had a coach who taught me about, like early on, the importance of getting the low strike, and going to get it. And he talked about getting it this way [holds glove rigidly], and I kind of changed it to just keeping it loose.
The more you work at it, the better you can get at it. How good you can be? I don't know. To me, the best are the Molinas. I feel like they're really, really, really good.


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A Name
by Marinka on February 20, 2014
I planned to spend Presidents Day figuring out once and for all if it's President's or Presidents' or Presidents Day and also watching Scandal, because I'm a patriot.
But shortly into my plan, Mama called.
"We are going to adopt a cat," she told me. Their Sly died over the summer. "Stay near the phone because we will give your name as reference."
"You can count on me," I reassured her. "I will not say a word about the decades-long experiments you've been running on cats."
"Don't joke like that with shelter," she admonished me. "they rescue cats not laugh."
The next call was from Papa.
"They will call you soon," he said. "Don't mention that we have a dog."
"Why can't I tell them that you have a dog?" I asked.
"Because in form, if you check dog, there are many other questions to answer. It's like Immigration and Naturalization over here," Papa sounded like someone who gets detained by the INS and transported to their holding area in Gitmo on a regular basis.
"They won't hear about the dog from me," I assured him. This was America. They could waterboard me or put me in B-613, I will not mention any dog. Unless they offer me a chance to win an Amazon gift card. Who can resist those?
I settled in to receive the call.
It was from Mama.
"We found a cat, but he was missing part of ear," she said.
"VAN GOGH?" I gasped.
"Oi," Mama said. "You are right, he is van Gogh! How did I pass on van Gogh?" Mama felt the type of remorse that happens when you don't adopt a cat that can paint fortune-fetching-at-Sotheyby's masterpieces during his spare time.
Mama didn't adopt van Gogh because a Tuxedo cat caught her eye.
With the exception of Fedya, our orange tabby in Leningrad, all of my parents' cats have been black and white Tuxedos.
"They're very straightforward," Mama "explained" once.
This one, Mama told me, had just been castrated, so his testicles were enormous.
"I'm not sure that's how castration works," I told Mama, but she insisted.
"They are enormous because they are swollen from being castrated. Then they will calm down and become normal testicle size."
"What are you going to name it?" I couldn't change the topic fast enough.
"I think Snorring," she said. "After the Icelandic Viking."
"I have no idea who that is," I confessed. Ever since Obamacare and legalization of gay marriage, my knowledge of Icelandic history has been really spotty.
"Oh yes, you know," Mama insisted. "He came to Massachussets once."
"At…the same time that I did?" I asked carefully.
"No, during 16th century. Maybe the 17h," Mama suddenly appeared doubtful. "But I don't want people to think that he snores."
"If you name him Snoring, that is definitely a possibility," I leveled with her.
"I will have to think," she said.
It's been three days.
The cat still doesn't have a name.
No update on the testicles.
I have been working on a book post, but it's exhausting and time-consuming and I can't possibly devote myself to it during Bachelor season. So it will have to wait, but I have to give a thumbs up to The Time Locket by Deborah Quinn. It's a young adult novel about time travel and I absolutely loved it. Read-in-the-middle-of-the-night loved it. Check it out!
Puppy! - 2012
Every Tuxedo cat should be named Armani, imo.
Steph February 20, 2014 at 10:17 am
Can't believe you left us hanging over whether Presidents Day has an apostrophe!! On the other hand, your conversation with your parents about cat regret gave me a good chuckle.
Susan Weinstein February 20, 2014 at 10:45 am
Being allergic to cats and okay with dogs but uninterested, yet I really did find your post interesting. Like learning about Icelandic culture. I am the person that when an enormous dog crowds into the elevator with its doting owner, saying, "he's big but really a love," who says no thanks and waits for the next one. And I have tried with very good intentions to share the Smithsonian article about a virus cats have that jumps to humans and has caused schizoid symptoms–irrational anger, mood swings, etc. But no one I know who has cats wants to know about this?
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How did your mom choose an Icelandic Viking name?
Have your dad explain medical terms to your mom. Maybe she'll believe him.
Guilie Castillo February 20, 2014 at 12:41 pm
I'm in love with your parents. Mine were never so entertaining. Or is it perspective? Having lived over a decade an ocean away from them, you'd think I'd have some by now 😉 And please tell them for me that THEY ROCK for adopting a homeless cat. BIG animal rescuer / advocate / chain-me-to-the-rhino fanatic here.
And… yeah, how did your mom come up with a Viking name?
Laurie February 20, 2014 at 6:42 pm
I'm pretty sure Snorring needs a friend with part of his ear missing. He can be called Sneerring.
awesome dude February 20, 2014 at 8:21 pm
The swollen element in question is called scrotum.
Wendi February 21, 2014 at 8:27 am
Is Van Gogh still available?
Jannie February 21, 2014 at 8:35 am
Yay for Mama and Papa – interesting fact…feral cat rescues clip the tip of the left ear off to indicate that cat has been neutered (nothing to see here, folks..catch the next unlucky guy!). However, a lot of people don't want to adopt these cats because of the notched ear.
Mama bird diaries
I am laughing so hard over this… "Mama felt the type of remorse that happens when you don't adopt a cat that can paint fortune-fetching-at-Sotheyby's masterpieces during his spare time." I always wanted an artistic pet.
alexandra March 24, 2014 at 10:45 am
I am having the best time catching up here. I love how I know you.
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We are too sedentary. We get up, sit on a train or in a car on the way to an office, where we sit for eight hours, then get back on the train or in the car and go home, to sit at the table for dinner and then sit in front of the television before going to bed. That's a lot of sitting. And even if you work out a few times a week, that's not enough to counteract the negative effects of that much sitting.
Sedentary behavior has been linked to a whole host of problems, from heart disease and stroke to diabetes and premature death, and it's now clear that being inactive is also linked to depression. This is a growing issue in low- and middle-income countries, where sedentary behavior is increasing.
Having seen the link between depression and sedentary behavior in previous research, Dr. Davy Vancampfort, from KU Leuven in Belgium, wanted to find out what might be behind this increase in sedentary behavior, in order to reduce and even prevent depression. What he found suggests there are low-cost opportunities to make a big difference in low- and middle-income countries.
In their Atlas award-winning article in the Journal of Affective Disorders, Dr. Vancampfort and his colleagues around the world show that sedentary behavior in people with depression is linked to lower levels of social cohesion – they aren't very involved in community and social activities.
In a previous study, researchers looked at the impact of sedentary behavior on depression. They split participants into two groups: one group had to continue with their normal behavior, and the other group were asked to be sedentary for one week. In the group asked to be sedentary, the level of depression increased significantly; when they changed back to their normal active behavior, depression rates dropped immediately.
This led Dr.Vancampfort to the idea that addressing sedentary behavior would be an effective way to tackle depression. "We wanted to find out what factors are causing sedentary behavior, as we think reducing sedentary behavior could be a low-cost intervention for preventing depression in low- and middle-income countries," he said.
Using data from the World Health Organization (WHO), the team studied 2,375 people with depression in six low- and middle-income countries. More than 11 percent of people were highly sedentary, meaning they were inactive for at least eight hours a day. Some of the factors significantly linked with sedentary behavior were older age and being unmarried, being male and being unemployed. Notably, one factor strongly associated was a lack of involvement in community and social activities. There was also a strong link between depression and sedentary behavior in more urban settings.
Being active doesn't need to mean going for a run every day – the movement can be smaller, but it needs to be regular, like standing up and walking somewhere a few times an hour. This provides an opportunity to combine active behavior and community involvement to help tackle depression.
The next step for the research is to carry out longitudinal studies to determine whether sedentary behavior is causing depression or vice versa. Ultimately, Dr. Vancampfort's aim is to promote a more holistic approach to healthcare in low- and middle-income countries, because of the strong link between mental and physical health.
"I think that in the future if we want more evidence-based healthcare in low-income countries, we need to bring these two different aspects of medicine together in a holistic health care model, which is currently absent in low-income countries," he said.
Depression is a big problem in low- and middle-income countries, and it's linked to the rise in sedentary behavior. Could helping people be more active be a low-cost intervention to improve mental health in the developing world? Dr. Davy Vancampfort, from KU Leuven in Belgium, thinks so. In their Atlas award-winning paper in the Journal of Affective Disorders, Dr. Vancampfort and his colleagues around the world show what's driving sedentary behavior in low- and middle-income countries, revealing a potential way to prevent depression.
In this podcast Dr. Davy Vancampfort talks about the link between sedentary behavior and depression in low- and middle-income countries, and what can be done to prevent both.
We all know that we need to move more but can you explain a bit what sedentary behavior is and why it's bad?
Nowadays sedentary behavior is considered the new smoking. That means that all activities in which you are not increasing your energy level above the normal metabolic rate – so the normal energy you need to survive, like your heartbeat, breathing – that's sedentary behavior.
If you look at current research, then being physically active, for example for one hour a day, can never compensate for eight hours of sedentary behavior. It's a matter of stimulating your body at least every 20 minutes next to being more active during the day – actually standing up. If you want a coffee, take a small walk to the kitchen and have your coffee there.
You looked at the link with depression, why did you investigate this?
In an earlier study, I looked at people in two groups – one group had to continue with their normal behavior, and the other group were asked to be sedentary for one week. In the sedentary group, the level of depression increased significantly, after just one week. Then I asked them to change to their normal behavior again, to be as active as they were before. Depression rates dropped immediately.
So there is a very strong link to sedentary behavior and depression. We wanted to find out what factors are causing sedentary behavior, as we think reducing sedentary behavior could be a low-cost intervention for preventing depression in lower middle-income countries.
Can you take us through what you did in the study?
We had access to a World Health Organization data set. We included all the people with depression and we looked at their sedentary behavior, and at which factors contributed to that sedentary behavior. We looked at social demographic factors: are women more sedentary than men? Does age play a role? But also physical health aspects.
The most interesting finding is actually the relationship between social cohesion in the community and the levels of sedentary behavior in people with depression. In communities where there are a lot of social activities, where people are stimulated to be involved in the community, there was a cross section association – people are less sedentary.
What sort of conclusions could you draw about how to tackle sedentary behavior and therefore, depression?
There was a strong link between physical health and mental health. I think that in the future if we want more evidence-based healthcare in low-income countries, we need to bring these two different aspects of medicine together in a holistic health care model. This is currently absent in low-income countries.
What sort of steps do you think can be taken at what levels to make that happen?
That's indeed the challenge for me to explore more. I think that what we are trying to do now in other settings as well, for example, people with post-traumatic stress disorder, is trying to invite them to join activity programs and social activity programs in a non-stigmatized environment.
There was also a strong link between depression and sedentary behavior in more urban settings, so I think another step is having more community activities in centers within big cities. There should be physical activities, sitting together, culture-sensitive activities, playing cards, playing games. I think that's the way forward.
You looked at low- and middle-income countries; is there a big difference from higher income countries or is this common across borders?
In low income countries, people with the highest socio-economic status are more sedentary, while in higher income countries it's the opposite – people with high socio-economic status are less sedentary.
In low-income countries, people are going to live more in cities, and they can afford a more sedentary lifestyle. The economic situation is improving, but that means people will become more sedentary: they have more sedentary jobs, they can afford motorized transport. So the sedentary issue will become a big problem, especially in cities in low- and middle-income countries.
This was a cross-section study, so we hope it might be a step up to more longitudinal research. That way we can explore the causal relationships and really can see if it's the depression which is causing sedentary behavior or the sedentary behavior that is causing depression. From these longitudinal studies we can start intervention studies to find out if we have to focus especially on sedentary behavior or on other factors. And then the final step will be how do we implement low-cost interventions in challenging environments? We still have a long way to go.


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Abdel Monaim Yahiaoui (born 6 December 1966) is an Algerian weightlifter. He competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics and the 1996 Summer Olympics.

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Algerian male weightlifters
Olympic weightlifters of Algeria
Weightlifters at the 1992 Summer Olympics
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AUTHOR'S UTAH ROOTS, S.L. SETTING MAKE `SIRENS' COMPELLINGLY REAL
By Ray Boren, Staff Writer
Published: July 22, 1990 12:00 am
Remember as kids how, on a hot and aimless summer day, we'd pry loose a stone or concrete slab to peer underneath? Spiders, worms, centipedes - bugs - scattered in panic when daylight's glare suddenly invaded their cool, earthy hiding places. We'd shiver and laugh, fascinated, repulsed and entertained by our discoveries.
Native Utahn Stephen Pett's pungent new novel has much the same effect."Sirens" is set in Salt Lake City, but not the pristine Salt Lake we like visitors to see, or the Salt Lake of white-collar enterprise, of quiet neighborhoods and Mormon meetinghouses.
Rather, "Sirens" is the first-person story - the "autobiography," really - of Carlos Cade. And Cade is a scrapper, a loner, a loser, a wanderer. He's bright but lost, trying to get a handle on his cruel, confusing life.
"In the telling he says at one point, `The secret is to invent yourself before someone else does,' " Pett says. And Cade's been trying to explain himself to himself for a long time.
He's Holden Caulfield in Gary Gilmore's shadowy, violence-prone world. Cade's best friends are small-time criminals. But, because of his youth and family ties, he also knows a few secrets - especially a few shockers pertaining to Lance Arthur, Utah's young governor, one regarding the death of a childhood friend during a hike in Salt Lake's foothills. Or are these "secrets" only perversions of events twisted by Cade's warped perspective?
The author is touring the West by car to talk about this, his first published novel, in trade paperback from Vintage Contemporaries, a division of Random House. A poet and short-story writer, Pett now teaches at Iowa State University in Ames , where he lives with his wife and sons.
However, his Utah roots remain strong (he's a descendant of pioneer leader Brigham Young), and his sense of the place - the city, the seasons, the canyons, the Great Salt Lake - shows in "Sirens."
"I was born and raised here, until I was 18 and went away to college," Pett said in a Deseret News interview. And even then, he stayed in the West, attending Colorado College in Colorado Springs. He returned to Salt Lake City for graduate work at the University of Utah.
He considers himself a Western writer.
"I feel deeply for Salt Lake, and there's a side of Salt Lake that wasn't being expressed." In writing "Sirens," he said, "I was interested in a modern sensibility, although with a coarser voice."
And Carlos Cade's tale is indeed rough. The language is bluntly profane, the story often sensual. If this were a movie, we'd be in solid R territory. But Pett's gritty style, constantly in the active voice, propels the reader through the pages and gives the telling a palpable immediacy.
"I wanted a sort of particle accelerator," Pett said, "so that this guy would become more and more compelling to the reader and his condition more urgent."
Pigeonholing the novel is nigh on impossible. Is it a revenge story? A mystery? A good-guys vs. bad-guys western in a modern setting? A psychological showdown - one man's struggle between his bad and better sides? The cast of characters is as diverse as Dickens, if not so quaint, and their mutatating names, nicknames and assumed names test readers as much as Tolstoy ever did.
But always at the center is Cade, as a boy and as a man, using people and being used. Remember your parents' warning about the company you keep, and the trouble you'll reap? That's key to Cade's whole life.
In devising the first-person narrative - which hip-hops back and forth, time-traveling over a 25-year period - Pett had to consider what to have Cade bring into focus for the reader, and when.
"How much is he going to reveal, how much is he going to conceal? In a few ways, he's trying to deceive himself and the reader at the same time," Pett said, "but Cade finally comes clean in the end."
Pett has tried his hand at novels before - one about early Utah has been laid away in a dark drawer - and has used the Salt Lake setting in other writing. But something was wrong when calling upon his own memories. "It always seemed like I was `recording,' " he said. And then he hit upon creating a perspective outside his own.
"The geography in `Sirens' is my geography, but this is not my personality." Cade is like people he knew - like people many of us have known. But Cade isn't Pett.
Like Cade, Pett grew up in a diverse Salt Lake neighborhood. But while the fictional Cade's family is impoverished, Pett says he was raised in comfortable circumstances.
"But from the time I could do it, I had to go to work, and my jobs were always the kind of more labor intensive, blue-collar jobs. I found that a pretty compelling world - unloading trucks, working in a warehouse, driving newspapers around from 12 to 8" in the morning.
Utah's predominant LDS culture is almost an unremarkable environmental fact of life in "Sirens," playing only an occasional role in the plot, which again seems to parallel Pett's life to a degree.
"Brigham Young was my great-great grandfather," Pett said, so the writer is in a way a Utah "blue-blood." "But I was not raised a Mormon."
The Mormon/non-Mormon polarization in Utah influences how people act, whether we want to make note of it or not, he said. Many of his friends who weren't LDS "sort of needed to announce they were not Mormon in a lot of their behavior. They smoked early, drank a lot early."
Role-playing and cultural clashes tug at his character Cade, Pett said. "He feels a great deal of resentment but doesn't quite know why."
Placing this story in familiar Utah surroundings seemed right to Pett; the story wouldn't have quite the same feel in an imaginary city of unspecified locale.
"It simplifies my work. The stage set is ready-made. But more than that, I'm interested in this place; its forces work on me, and I'm interested in how its forces work on other people.
"Besides, I've been all over the world, and Salt Lake is certainly as interesting as anyplace I've ever been."
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Arabian American Announces Third Quarter 2010...
Arabian American Announces Third Quarter 2010 Financial Results
Quarterly Revenues Increase by 20.9% to $37.0 Million Year over Year
Third Quarter Earnings up 216.3% to $1.7 Million Year over Year
DALLAS, Nov. 4, 2010 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Arabian American Development Co. (Nasdaq: ARSD) today announced financial results for the third quarter and nine month period ended September 30, 2010.
--  Sales volume of petrochemical products increased by 2.3% from the third
quarter of 2009.
--  Revenue for the third quarter increased 20.9% to $37.0 million from
$30.6 million in the same period last year.
--  Gross profit for the third quarter of 2010 increased 25.6% to $5.4
million from $4.3 million in the comparable period in 2009.
--  Adjusted EBITDA (adjusted for certain non-recurring expenses), a
non-GAAP financial measure, for the third quarter of 2010 was $3.5
million as compared to $2.7 million for the same period in 2009. Net
income attributable to Arabian American Development Company for the
third quarter increased 216.3% to $1.7 million, or $0.07 per basic and
diluted share, compared to net income of $528,000, or $0.02 per basic
and diluted share, for the third quarter last year.
Operational Highlights
--  Al Masane Al Kobra (AMAK) received an initial tranche of $35 million
from a total bridge loan in the amount of $85 million. AMAK completed
financing arrangements to fund the bridge loan with a Saudi French bank
while pre-closing conditions for the SIDF (Saudi Industrial Development
Fund) permanent loan are being met. The second amount, $46 million, can
be drawn after AMAK receives clearance for the first payment from the
SIDF.
--  Construction of the Company's South Hampton Resources facility
Isomerization Unit, was completed in the third quarter and will give the
Company more flexibility in managing its product line. The isomerization
expansion will allow South Hampton to convert up to 600,000 gallons per
month of Normal Pentane into Isopentane. South Hampton also is adding an
additional Hexane Treater to further expand production of C6 products.
The additional train will increase C6 capacity by 100%.
Consolidated revenue for the quarter ended September 30, 2010 increased 20.9% to $37.0 million compared to revenue of $30.6 million in the third quarter of 2009 and increased 1.4% sequentially compared to revenue of $36.5 million in the second quarter of 2010. Transloading generated $199,000 in revenues in the third quarter of 2010 compared to no revenues in the year-ago period. The increase in transloading revenues was due to spot opportunities during the third quarter of 2010. Excluding transloading revenues of $199,000 generated in the three months ended September 30, 2010 revenues were $36.8 million, a 20.2% increase from $30.6 million in the year-ago period, when there were no transloading revenues. Petrochemical product sales (predominantly C5 and C6 hydrocarbons and related products) represented $35.6 million, or 96.0%, of total revenue for the third quarter of 2010 and $29.7 million, or 97.0%, of total revenue, for the third quarter last year. The Company generated $1.3 million in toll processing fees, up 40.8% during the third quarter of 2010 compared with $907,000 for the prior year's third quarter. Processing revenues increased in the third quarter of 2010 compared to 2009 due to one of the tolling customers running above minimum capacity during the quarter. The Company remains dedicated to maintaining a certain level of toll processing business in the facility and currently has three potential opportunities in various stages of evaluation.
During the third quarter of 2010, the cost of petrochemical sales and processing (including depreciation) increased approximately $5.3 million, or 20.0%, to $31.6 million as compared to $26.4 million the same period in 2009. Total gross profit on revenue for the third quarter of 2010 increased approximately $1.1 million, or 25.6%, to $5.4 million as compared to $4.3 million the same period in 2009. The cost of petrochemical product sales and processing and gross profit for the three months ended September 30, 2010 includes a net gain of $291,000 from derivative transactions. For the same period of 2009, there was zero net gain or loss.
Nick Carter, President and Chief Executive Officer, commented, "Our third quarter of 2010 revenue results show solid gains from the year-ago period as well as effective control of general and administrative expenses. Revenue gains not only came from volume increases but also due to price increases as we moved several of our larger customers to formula pricing, a mechanism which is beneficial to both parties as it allows product prices to move in conjunction with feed prices without the necessity of announced price changes. We also have used derivative contracts to provide some predictability to feedstock prices, and of course we try to have timely price changes on our prime products as necessary."
Mr. Carter continued, "Our new Isomerization unit is now operational and converting Normal Pentane into Isopentane which gives us the flexibility to adjust the product slate to more efficiently meet the market demand for the two products. The new Hexane treater will undergo start up activities in the last half of this month. The Isom unit has made a difference each month beginning in late September when it became operational. Revenue generated since the start up in late September was about $250,000. The economic value varies with the product mix and the alternative market prices in any given month. The maximum benefit of having this flexibility will be in the warm weather months when the IC5 demand is at a peak. In addition, there is approximately $500,000 of work to be accomplished to finish the project's peripherals and we expect those to be completed by the end the first quarter of 2011. We have spent approximately $1.7 million to date so after all work is complete, we will bring the project, including the peripherals, in at approximately $2.2 million compared to the $3.0 million we budgeted. All of this work was accomplished with our own labor and paid out of cash flow."
General and Administrative costs for the third quarter of 2010 were up $51,000, or 2.1%, at $2.53 million from $2.48 million in the same period last year primarily due to higher administrative payroll costs, consulting fees, insurance premiums, directors' fees, post retirement expense and legal fees. These were offset by a decrease in expenses in Saudi Arabia due to the termination of the lease for the Company's branch office.
The Company reported net income attributable to Arabian American Development Company in the third quarter of 2010 of approximately $1.7 million or $0.07 per basic and diluted share (based on 23.8 million weighted average shares outstanding). This compares to net income attributable to Arabian American Development Company of $528,000, or $0.02 per basic and diluted share for the third quarter of 2009 (based on 23.7 million basic and 23.8 million diluted weighted average shares outstanding, respectively).
The Company reported adjusted EBITDA for the third quarter of 2010 of approximately $3.5 million compared to $2.7 million for the same period in 2009.
Year-to-Date 2010 Financial Results
Consolidated revenue for the nine months ended September 30, 2010 increased 21.9% to $105.6 million compared to revenue of $86.6 million in the same period in 2009. Excluding transloading revenues of $854,000 generated in the nine months ended September 30, 2010 revenues were $104.7 million, a 27.7% increase from $82.0 million in the year-ago period, excluding transloading revenues of $4.6 million. Year-to-date 2010 transloading sales reflected spot opportunities that were fulfilled. Petrochemical product sales represented $101.2 million or 95.8%, of total revenue year-to-date in 2010 compared to $79.3 million, or 91.5% of total revenue, for the same period last year. The Company generated $3.5 million in toll processing fees, up 30.2%, during the first nine months of 2010 compared with $2.7 million for the same period last year. Again, processing revenues increased primarily due to one of the tolling customers running above minimum capacity during the first nine months of 2010.
During the nine months ended September 30 of 2010, the cost of petrochemical sales and processing (including depreciation) increased approximately $25.8 million, or 38.5%, as compared to the same period in 2009. Consequently, total gross profit on revenue for the first nine months of 2010 decreased approximately $6.8 million or 34.7%, to $12.9 million, as compared to $19.7 million for the same period in 2009. The cost of petrochemical product sales and processing and gross profit for the nine months ended September 30 of 2010 includes a net gain of $27,000 from derivative transactions. For the same period of 2009, the net gain was $1.1 million.
General and Administrative costs for the first nine months of 2010 increased approximately $1.6 million, or 25.0%, to $8.2 million from $6.6 million in the same period in 2009 primarily due to higher administrative payroll costs for the addition of personnel, insurance premiums, directors' fees, legal fees and consulting fees.
For the first nine months of 2010, net income attributable to Arabian American Development was $2.1 million, or $0.09 per basic and diluted share (based on 23.7 million weighted average shares outstanding), compared to net income of $7.3 million, or $0.31 per basic and diluted share (based on 23.7 million and 23.8 million weighted average shares outstanding, respectively), for the year-ago period.
Adjusted EBITDA (adjusted for non-recurring expenses) for the nine months ended September 30 of 2010 was $6.9 million as compared to $15.1 million for the same period in 2009.
The Company completed the quarter with $4.3 million in cash and cash equivalents compared to $2.5 million as of December 31, 2009. Trade receivables increased by $3.4 million to $15.7 million from $12.3 million due to increased credit terms being extended to foreign customers and the increase in the average selling price. The average collection period remains normal for the business. Inventory increased approximately $380,000 due to a slight increase in volume and price.
The Company had $18.8 million in working capital as of September 30, 2010 and ended the quarter with a current ratio of 3.2 to 1. Shareholders' equity increased to $54.9 million as of September 30, 2010 from $52.2 million as of December 31, 2009.
Mr. Carter concluded, "Our investment in AMAK in Saudi Arabia made significant progress during the quarter, not only with construction but also with the financing, including receipt of an initial tranche of $35 million from a total bridge loan in the amount of $85 million. Subsequent to the quarter end, the Company executed a limited corporate guarantee in favor of the Saudi Industrial Development Fund ("SIDF"). We agreed to guarantee up to 41% of the SIDF loan to AMAK, in the principal amount of 330,000,000 Saudi Riyals (US$88,000,000) as owners of 41% of the currently issued and outstanding stock of AMAK. Other AMAK shareholders are providing personal guarantees. The Loan is required in order for AMAK to fund construction of the underground and above-ground portions of its mining project and to provide working capital for commencement of operations in 2011. Mobilization began in late September, the underground work will be initiated by the end of the year and the initial ore production will take place within the second quarter of 2011 with full production achieved by the fourth quarter of 2011. More background detail on the corporate guarantee will be provided in our third quarter 2010 10-Q and I would encourage interested parties to review it there."
ARSD owns and operates a petrochemical facility located in southeast Texas just north of Beaumont which specializes in high purity petrochemical solvents and other solvent type manufacturing. The Company is also the original developer and now a 41% investor in a Saudi Arabian joint stock company involving a mining project which is currently under construction in the Najran Province area of southwest Saudi Arabia. The mine is scheduled to be in production in 2011 and will produce economic quantities of zinc, copper, gold, and silver.
Statements in this release that are not historical facts are forward looking statements as defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward looking statements are based upon management's belief as well as assumptions made by and information currently available to management. Because such statements are based upon expectations as to future economic performance and are not statements of fact, actual results may differ from those projected. These risks, as well as others, are discussed in greater detail in Arabian American's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including Arabian American's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2009, and the Company's subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q.
Company Contact:  Nick Carter, President and Chief Executive Officer
Investor Contact: Cameron Donahue
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ARABIAN AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT COMPANY AND SUBSIDIARIES
2010          2009
Cash and cash equivalents                          $ 4,286,818   $ 2,451,614
Financial contracts                                187,604       --
Trade receivables, net                             15,665,822    12,302,955
Inventories                                        5,445,562     5,065,169
Current portion of notes receivable                54,876        372,387
Prepaid expenses and other assets                  914,847       739,989
Deferred income taxes                              572,883       640,057
Taxes receivable                                   400,676       4,726,708
Total current assets                               27,529,088    26,298,879
Property, pipeline and equipment, net              32,000,154    32,407,503
Investment in AMAK                                 30,883,657    31,146,157
Mineral properties in the United States            588,311       588,311
Notes receivable                                   --            35,001
Other assets                                       10,938        10,938
TOTAL ASSETS                                       $ 91,012,148  $ 90,486,789
Accounts payable                                   $ 3,355,056   $ 3,617,043
Accrued interest                                   112,820       148,538
Current portion of derivative instruments          413,018       436,203
Accrued liabilities                                2,521,758     1,336,219
Accrued liabilities in Saudi Arabia                628,242       471,280
Notes payable                                      12,000        12,000
Current portion of post retirement benefit         31,500        31,500
Current portion of long-term debt                  1,400,000     1,400,000
Current portion of other liabilities               222,038       579,500
Total current liabilities                          8,696,432     8,032,283
Long-term debt, net of current portion             20,389,488    23,439,488
Post retirement benefit,net of current portion     740,431       815,378
Derivative instruments,net of current portion      875,032       838,489
Other liabilities,net of current portion           433,177       562,011
Deferred income taxes                              4,715,272     4,332,911
Total liabilities                                  35,849,832    38,020,560
Common stock-authorized 40,000,000 shares of $.10
par value; issued and outstanding,
23,450,745 and 23,433,995 shares in 2010 and 2009,
respectively                                       2,345,074     2,343,399
Additional paid-in capital                         42,231,542    41,604,168
Accumulated other comprehensive loss               (850,113)     (841,297)
Retained earnings                                  11,146,590    9,070,736
Total Arabian American Development Company
Stockholders' Equity                               54,873,093    52,177,006
Noncontrolling Interest                            289,223       289,223
Total equity                                       55,162,316    52,466,229
TOTAL LIABILITIES AND EQUITY                       $ 91,012,148  $ 90,486,789
ARABIAN AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT COMPANY ANDSUBSIDIARIES
THREE MONTHS ENDED        NINE MONTHS ENDED
SEPTEMBER 30              SEPTEMBER 30
2010         2009         2010          2009
Petrochemical Product
Sales                      $ 35,572,993 $ 29,741,240 $ 101,184,338 $ 79,280,937
Transloading Sales         199,432      --           853,636       4,624,681
Processing Fees            1,277,460    906,848      3,549,030     2,724,801
37,049,885   30,648,088   105,587,004   86,630,419
OPERATING COSTS AND
Cost of Petrochemical
Sales and Processing
(including depreciation of
$566,054, $556,281,
$1,703,326,
and $1,671,957,
respectively)              31,632,185   26,354,402   92,725,819    66,948,640
GROSS PROFIT               5,417,700    4,293,686    12,861,185    19,681,779
General and Administrative 2,530,766    2,480,340    8,228,616     6,581,643
Depreciation               108,545      107,397      328,398       328,739
2,639,311    2,587,737    8,557,014     6,910,382
OPERATING INCOME           2,778,389    1,705,949    4,304,171     12,771,397
Interest Income            2,699        12,141       15,222        53,976
Interest Expense           (275,065)    (324,449)    (857,391)     (970,857)
Equity in loss – AMAK    --           --           (262,500)     --
Miscellaneous              (5,951)      65,176       (25,641)      (17,293)
(278,317)    ( 247,132)   (1,130,310)   (934,174)
INCOME BEFORE INCOME TAXES 2,500,072    1,458,817    3,173,861     11,837,223
INCOME TAXES               829,881      934,246      1,098,007     4,586,543
NET INCOME                 1,670,191    524,571      2,075,854     7,250,680
NET LOSS ATTRIBUTABLE TO
NONCONTROLLING INTEREST    --           3,557        --            14,293
NET INCOME ATTRIBUTABLE TO
ARABIAN AMERICAN
DEVELOPMENT COMPANY        $ 1,670,191  $ 528,128    $ 2,075,854   $ 7,264,973
Basic Earnings per Common
Company                    $ 0.07       $ 0.02       $ 0.09        $ 0.31
Basic Weighted Average
of Common Shares
Outstanding                23,750,745   23,733,995   23,749,070    23,725,995
Diluted Earnings per
Common Share
Diluted Weighted Average


"C(h)ord," by Carlos Gómez deals with the past haunting one's moves through the present. He creates a powerful set of rich imagery that disturbs the ordinary, mundane ways we recall memory: "I try to make/friends with the silence. Hold its endless weight, tell myself/it is another kind of song." I love the way Gomez lets the speaker fly language out into an open space so that a failed relationship still has the potential for renewed grace.
shadows folded into syllables that ghost my throat.
not be able to hear from my own mouth for another week.
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CARLOS ANDRÉS GÓMEZ is a Colombian American poet, performer, and the author of the memoir Man Up: Reimagining Modern Manhood, released by Penguin Random House. A star of HBO's Def Poetry Jam, TV One's Verses and Flow, and Spike Lee's #1 box office movie Inside Man with Denzel Washington, Carlos has performed at more than 500 colleges and universities in 45 U.S. states and headlined shows in 25 countries across five continents. A two-time International Poetry Slam Champion (TIPS '06, BNIPS '10), Carlos is the winner of the 2018 Atlanta Review International Poetry Prize, 2018 Sequestrum Editor's Reprint Award in Poetry, 2015 Lucille Clifton Poetry Prize, and a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, his work has appeared in the North American Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, The Rumpus, BuzzFeed Reader, Rattle, CHORUS: A Literary Mixtape (Simon & Schuster, 2012), and elsewhere. He is a proud Latino and father.


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I am bedeviled by a word.
Perhaps I exaggerate a bit. After all, you might wonder if a single word can really create that much difficulty. Well, I'll tell you that it can. When I've got a tough decision to make, this word can really nag at me, cost me a lot of emotional energy and seriously undercut my confidence. I wish I could just get the word out of my mind, but sometimes, I need it. I'm afraid it's here to stay.
Granted, it sounds benign enough, and it's actually a good word for most uses. For me, however, it is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, it can lead me to be careful and well prepared. That means researching and considering my options, gathering and assessing whatever information clarifies what my situation is and what it could be, and patiently thinking things through. It means, most importantly, a measured, level-headed and competent assessment of any risk involved. That's when realism is sensible and practical, and it leads to productive results.
But when I'm thinking of moving out of my comfort zone, that one word can really turn against me. It makes me guarded and timid and fearful. I'll be telling myself "be realistic", and even think that I am doing just that, but I'm really giving it to self-doubt. I keep checking and re-checking my facts and plans, certain that I am missing some flaw. Inside I'm fearful that I'm going too far out on a limb. I wonder if I am committing myself to a plan that is actually beyond my skill level, that I'm foolishly convincing myself to do something for which I am actually woefully and obviously unprepared.
That's to say that the same word that at other times keeps me sharp, focused, and detail-oriented gets hijacked by my insecurities. I hate this. An adaptive and necessary impulse (to be thorough and organized) gets corrupted by some pocket of self-doubt inside me and I end up like one of Dr. Doolittle's Push Me Pull Yous, with two competing halves, one pulling me forward and the other dragging me back.
And the truth of the matter is that I am not being at all realistic. It almost never turns out that this results in good. Usually, it keeps me safe and secure, but stagnant. I lose what I could have gotten because fear and doubt hide behind realism and I get conned into settling for what is familiar, but no longer satisfactory.
It's not a bad thing to have one part of you that puts a check on another. Recognizing the mental tricks that some part of you can play on another does help keep all parts in balance. Security competes with growth and change at times, but both have their place. As for me, I too often cop out in favor of security (it's just as imbalanced to do it the opposite way), and maybe you do, too.
Maybe your word isn't realistic. There are plenty of others that can serve the same purposes. Hopefully you can recognize what your word might be and fight the tendency to misuse it like I am learning to do.


He walked into the party like… yacht. Abbreviated man, missing pants, unembarrassed, but bare assed. Cake, PUNCHy punch, kids screaming H.B.D!
Serenaded by open mic readers, feted by muses, celebrated by blogosphere. A party to be remembered; a personality destined to move mountains, if only by click click click on the keyboard and constant commenting.
For the Sunday Whirl (see Wordle HERE), and on the sidebar at Poets United, my oasis in the desert; AND for Imaginary Garden With Real Toads' Open Link Monday. n celebration of the first day of NaPoWriMo, National Poetry Writing Month (or Naturally Panicky Writhing Motions, depending on my level of desperation).


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TBI BLOGS: 13 Surgeries Later, This Acid Attack Survivor Still Has the Spirit to Fight it Out
By Make Love Not Scars
An acid attack by a trusted friend and neighbour changed Reena's life forever. But she is determined to get an education and move on with her life.
An acid attack by a trusted friend and neighbour changed Reena's life forever.
Life changes dramatically when something that you never thought of even in your wildest dreams happens to you.
Twenty-year-old Reena's life turned upside down when her friendship with a neighbour took a drastic turn.
They were classmates in school back in their village near Pratapgarh, Uttar Pradesh. He proposed marriage to Reena but she rejected his offer as she wanted to study further. He simply could not accept her decision and persisted in wooing her. She continued to resist. Just when she thought things had settled down, the unexpected happened.
One day in April 2013, when they had to go to school for their exam, he asked if he could accompany her. She waited for him but he did not show up. So she asked her uncle to drop her to school on his two-wheeler. On the way, she noticed a bike following them. She felt something was not right when she saw the two men riding the bike had their faces covered.
Suddenly, the man riding pillion shouted at her when she looked in their direction. She felt something very hard hit her face. Her immediate thought was that it was a water-balloon on account of the festival of Holi. But, when her face started to burn, she realised it wasn't a balloon – it was acid.
"The way I screamed for help at that moment, I can never ever scream again even if I wish to. I thought I would die in that instant."
Reena fell unconscious, crying for help. Her uncle had also been hurt on his back in the acid attack. Passersby took them to her village nearby, where they poured water on her.
The acid had burnt through one side of Reena's face, even as she tried to protect it with her hands. She lost one eye in the attack, and the acid also burnt both her arms. Even after treatment at Delhi's Safdarjung Hospital and Gangaram Hospital, with help from the team at Make Love Not Scars (an NGO that works with victims of acid attacks) and lawyers from the Human Rights Law Network (HRLN), her face remains scarred and she cannot see from her left eye.
"My life has changed drastically. I cannot go out freely in the village because the people there look at me differently, they mock me and my face. My mother cannot see me like this and when we meet we cry most of the time—she has a very weak of heart and I cannot see her cry so I have stopped going to the village."
Reena now lives at Delhi's Railway Quarters on Minto Road, where the Make Love Not Scars team visited her. Her father works on contract with the Indian Railways and sustains a family of five. She stays with her father and younger sister in Delhi, while her mother and younger brother stay in her village.
Reena regrets the fact that because of the acid attack the education of her siblings has suffered. Her younger sister, who was in Class 9 when Reena was attacked, remains at home and does not go to school.
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Reena made tea for the Make Love Not Scars team and showed them the sweater her elder sister's son was wearing – she had knitted it for him. She spends her time doing household chores as she does not want to burden her sister with taking care of the house by herself. Her neighbours in Delhi are very supportive and treat her well, unlike the people back in her village. She tries reading when she finds time and likes to stay aware of what is happening in the world around her.
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She has already had 13 surgeries on her face and neck and her family has run up a debt of Rs 10 lakh. Not beaten by the painful surgeries and her monetary difficulties, Reena has currently enrolled for a Bachelor of Arts programme through correspondence, and is keen to complete her studies. She also wants to learn basic computers so she can get a part-time job and support her father.
Reena's sister is unable to go to school back in her village but, encouraged by Reena, she has taken up a beautician's course and is keen to start working at a beauty parlour soon.
If you wish to help Reena with her studies, please mail info@makelovenotscars.org
Text: Gagandeep Singh Vaid & Bhagirath Iyer; Sketches: Pankaj Sharma, Vinay Dagar and Devyani Srivastava; Photographs: Detlev Konnerth
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