Manuel P. Asensio

July 4th, 2009

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Manuel P. Asensio is a money manager in New York best known for his work as an activist short-seller.

From 1992-2003, Asensio served as president of Asensio & Company, Inc.

Since 2003, Asensio has moved from concentrated short-selling to managing a fund with long and short positions.

Asensio has worked in the securities industry for over twenty-five years. He earned a Bachelors of Science in Economics degree from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and a Masters in Business Administration from Harvard Business School.

He is also the author of a book about his work entitled Sold Short: Uncovering Deception in the Markets.

Regulatory sanctions

In November 2000, the NASD (now FINRA) sanctioned Asensio & Company Inc. and Manuel Asensio, for Short Selling, Trade Reporting, and Internet Advertising Violations.

In July 2006, the National Adjudicatory Council of the NASD upheld a hearing panel’s ruling that barred Asensio “from association with any NASD member in any capacity” and fined him $20,000. The NASD barred Asensio and his firm for failing to respond to requests for information. It found that Asensio made statements in research reports that criticizied PolyMedica Corp. that were “misleading,” by stating incorrectly that he was shorting the company when he was not, and by making similar disclosure rule violations.Asensio withdrew his NASD membership in 2003, and denied that any wrongdoing.

References

  1. ^ See http://www.finra.org/Newsroom/NewsReleases/2000/P011426
  2. ^ a b “In the Matter of Department of Enforcement, complainant, Against Asensio Brokerage Services Inc. n/k/a Integral Securities, Inc., New York, NY, and Manuel Peter Asensio”. FINRA. 2006-07-28. http://www.finra.org/web/groups/industry/@ip/@enf/@adj/documents/nacdecisions/p017114.pdf. Retrieved on 2009-04-14. 

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Wildlife of Kazakhstan

July 4th, 2009

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Parnassius delphius

Wildlife of Kazakhstan includes its flora and fauna and their natural habitats.

Contents

  • 1 Fauna
    • 1.1 Birds
  • 2 Flora
  • 3 References
  • 4 External links

Fauna

Animals native to Kazakhstan:

  • Argali
  • Bactrian Camel
  • Barbel (fish species)
  • Beluga sturgeon
  • Brown Bear
  • Caracal
  • Caspian Seal
  • Caspian Sea Wolf
  • Caspian Tiger (extinct in Kazakhstan since 1948)
  • Central Asian Red Deer
  • Channidae
  • Cheetah
  • Common Spoonbill
  • Dogs
  • Dhole
  • Eurasian Lynx
  • Goitered Gazelle
  • Golden Eagle
  • Gray Wolf
  • Great Bustard
  • Great Gerbil
  • Greater Flamingo
  • Hemorrhois ravergieri
  • Jerboa
  • Onager
  • Pallas’s Cat
  • Parnassius delphius
  • Phrynocephalus reticulatus
  • Russian Desman
  • Russian Tortoise
  • Saiga Antelope
  • Sand Cat
  • Snow leopard
  • Squacco Heron
  • Steppe Eagle
  • Sterlet
  • Trapelus agilis
  • Urial
  • Varanus griseus
  • White Stork

Birds

Main article: List of birds of Kazakhstan

The avifauna of Kazakhstan includes a total of 513 species, of which 5 are rare or accidental

Flora

References

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Gigondas

July 4th, 2009

Coordinates: 44°09?53?N 5°00?19?E? / ?44.16472°N 5.00527°E? / 44.16472; 5.00527

Commune of Gigondas

Location

Gigondas is located in France

Gigondas
Gigondas

Administration
Country France
Region Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur
Department Vaucluse
Arrondissement Carpentras
Canton Beaumes-de-Venise
Intercommunality Communauté d’agglomération Ventoux-Comtat Venaissin
Mayor Rolland Godin
Statistics
Elevation 87–698 m (290–2,290 ft)
(avg. 400 m/1,300 ft)
Land area1 27.14 km2 (10.48 sq mi)
Population2 648  (1999)
 - Density 24 /km² (62 /sq mi)
Miscellaneous
INSEE/Postal code 84049/ 84190
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
2 Population sans doubles comptes: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Gigondas is a commune of the Vaucluse département in southern France.

Gigondas lies in between the villages Vacqueyras and Sablet at the foot of the ‘Dentelles de Montmirail’ mountains. While the village was very famous for its ‘eau purgative de Montmirail’ in the 19th century, it is now home to famous wines including ‘Chateau de Trignon’, ‘Domaine du Grand Bourjassot’ and ‘Domaine de la Longue Tocque’.

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Formication

July 3rd, 2009

Formication
Classification and external resources
ICD-10 R20.2
ICD-9 782.0

Formication is the medical term for a sensation which resembles that of insects crawling on (or under) the skin. It is one specific form of a set of sensations known as paresthesia, which also include the more common prickling tingling sensation of “pins and needles”. Formication is a well-documented symptom which has numerous potential causes.

The experience of formication may sometimes cause feelings of pain, and in some people it may trigger the scratch reflex. Because of this, some people who are suffering from the sensation are at risk of causing skin damage through excessive scratching. Even more rarely, susceptible individuals who fixate on the sensation may develop delusional parasitosis, becoming convinced that this sensation is being caused by actual insects, despite repeated reassurances from physicians.

Causes

Causes of formication include normal states such as menopause (i.e. hormone withdrawal). Other causes are medical conditions such as diabetic neuropathy, skin cancer, syphilis, or herpes zoster.

Formication can also sometimes be experienced during high fevers. Itching, tingling and formication (”the creeps”) often occur when surfacing from a dive or during ascent to altitude (decompression sickness).

It can be a rare side effect of many prescription drugs such as Ritalin (methylphenidate), Adderall (dextro/levo-amphetamine) and Lunesta (eszopiclone).

In addition, formication can be caused by withdrawal effects when a patient ends substance abuse. It is a common side-effect of abusing cocaine or amphetamines. Extreme alcohol withdrawal may also cause symptoms of formication, along with delirium tremens, and can often be accompanied by visual hallucinations of insects.

History of the term

Formication is etymologically derived from the Latin word formica, meaning “ant”, precisely because of this similarity in sensation to that of crawling insects. The term has been in use for several hundred years. In the 1797 edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica, a description of the condition raphania includes the symptom:

…a formication, or sensation as of ants or other small insects creeping on the parts.

Described again in an instructional text from 1890:

A variety of itching, often encountered in the eczema of elderly people, is formication; this is described as exactly like the crawling of myriads of animals over the skin. It is probably due to the successive irritation of nerve fibrils in the skin. At times patients who suffer from it will scarcely be persuaded that it is not due to insects. Yielding to the temptation to scratch invariably makes the disease worse.

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July 3rd, 2009

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L-lysine 6-monooxygenase (NADPH)

July 3rd, 2009

In enzymology, a L-lysine 6-monooxygenase (NADPH) (EC 1.14.13.59) is an enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction

The 4 substrates of this enzyme are L-lysine, NADPH, H+, and O2, whereas its 3 products are N6-hydroxy-L-lysine, NADP+, and H2O.

This enzyme belongs to the family of oxidoreductases, specifically those acting on paired donors, with O2 as oxidant and incorporation or reduction of oxygen. The oxygen incorporated need not be derived from O2 with NADH or NADPH as one donor, and incorporation of one atom o oxygen into the other donor. The systematic name of this enzyme class is L-lysine,NADPH:oxygen oxidoreductase (6-hydroxylating). This enzyme is also called lysine N6-hydroxylase. This enzyme participates in lysine degradation.

References

  • IUBMB entry for 1.14.13.59
  • BRENDA references for 1.14.13.59
  • PubMed references for 1.14.13.59
  • PubMed Central references for 1.14.13.59
  • Google Scholar references for 1.14.13.59
  • Plattner HJ, Pfefferle P, Romaguera A, Waschutza S, Diekmann H (1989). “Isolation and some properties of lysine N6-hydroxylase from Escherichia coli strain EN222″. Biol. Met. 2: 1–5. doi:10.1007/BF01116193. PMID 2518519. 
  • Macheroux P, Plattner HJ, Romaguera A, Diekmann H (1993). “FAD and substrate analogs as probes for lysine N6-hydroxylase from Escherichia coli EN 222″. Eur. J. Biochem. 213: 995–1002. doi:10.1111/j.1432-1033.1993.tb17846.x. PMID 8504838. 
  • Thariath AM, Fatum KL, Valvano MA, Viswanatha T (1993). “Physico-chemical characterization of a recombinant cytoplasmic form of lysine: N6-hydroxylase”. Biochim. Biophys. Acta. 1203: 27–35. PMID 8218389. 
  • de Lorenzo V, Bindereif A, Paw BH, Neilands JB (1986). “Aerobactin biosynthesis and transport genes of plasmid ColV-K30 in Escherichia coli K-12″. J. Bacteriol. 165: 570–8. PMID 2935523. 
  • Marrone L, Siemann S, Beecroft M and Viswanatha T (1996). “Specificity of lysine:N-6-hydroxylase: A hypothesis for a reactive substrate intermediate in the catalytic mechanism”. Bioorg. Chem. 24: 401–406. doi:10.1006/bioo.1996.0034. 
  • Goh CJ, Szczepan EW, Menhart N, Viswanatha T (1989). “Studies on lysine:N6-hydroxylation by cell-free systems of Aerobacter aerogenes 62-1″. Biochim. Biophys. Acta. 990: 240–5. PMID 2493814. 

External links

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  • IUBMB entry for 1.14.13.59
  • KEGG entry for 1.14.13.59
  • BRENDA entry for 1.14.13.59
  • NiceZyme view of 1.14.13.59
  • EC2PDB: PDB structures for 1.14.13.59
  • PRIAM entry for 1.14.13.59
  • PUMA2 entry for 1.14.13.59
  • IntEnz: Integrated Enzyme entry for 1.14.13.59
  • MetaCyc entry for 1.14.13.59
  • Atomic-resolution structures of enzymes belonging to this class

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Drudge (TV series)

July 3rd, 2009

Drudge
Format Talk show
Presented by Matt Drudge
Country of origin  United States
Broadcast
Original channel Fox News Channel
Original run June 1998 – November 13, 1999

Drudge was a television series on Fox News Channel hosted by Matt Drudge. Drudge left the show in 1999 after network executives refused to let him show a picture of Samuel Armas.

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Western Power (networks corporation)

July 3rd, 2009

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Western Power
Founded 2006
Website http://www.westernpower.com.au/

Western Power is a corporation owned by the Government of Western Australia. It was split from the monolithic vertical monopoly, also called Western Power, in 2006 during reforms to the state’s energy sector. The new company is legally registered as Electricity Networks Corporation but trading as Western Power. It is in charge of maintenance of power infrastructure besides generators.

See also

  • State Energy Commission of Western Australia
  • Alinta
  • Western Power

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Indian Rocks Beach, Florida

July 3rd, 2009

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Indian Rocks Beach, Florida
Location in Pinellas County and the state of Florida
Location in Pinellas County and the state of Florida
Coordinates: 27°53?45?N 82°50?51?W? / ?27.89583°N 82.8475°W? / 27.89583; -82.8475
Country  United States
State  Florida
County  Pinellas
Area
 - Total 1.4 sq mi (3.6 km2)
 - Land 0.9 sq mi (2.4 km2)
 - Water 0.5 sq mi (1.2 km2)
Elevation 0 ft (0 m)
Population (2000)
 - Total 5,072
 - Density 3,622.9/sq mi (1,408.9/km2)
Time zone Eastern (EST) (UTC-5)
 - Summer (DST) EDT (UTC-4)
ZIP codes 33785-33786
Area code(s) 727
FIPS code 12-33625
GNIS feature ID 0284535

Indian Rocks Beach is a city in Pinellas County, Florida, United States. The population was 5,072 at the 2000 census. As of 2007, the population estimated by the U.S. Census Bureau is 5,167 .

Contents

  • 1 Geography
  • 2 Demographics
  • 3 References
  • 4 External links

Geography

Indian Rocks Beach is located at 27°53?45?N 82°50?51?W? / ?27.89583°N 82.8475°W? / 27.89583; -82.8475 (27.895799, -82.847550).It lies on a barrier island between the Gulf of Mexico and the Intracoastal Waterway. It is north of Indian Shores and south of Belleair Shore and Belleair Beach. Tourism is its primary industry. It was incorporated in 1956.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 3.6 km² (1.4 mi²). 2.4 km² (0.9 mi²) of it is land and 1.2 km² (0.5 mi²) of it (33.09%) is water.

Demographics


Indian Rocks Beach, unlike some Pinellas communities, offers free beach access parking.

As of the census of 2000, there were 5,072 people, 2,700 households, and 1,393 families residing in the city. The population density was 2,105.7/km² (5,454.6/mi²). There were 4,032 housing units at an average density of 1,673.9/km² (4,336.1/mi²). The racial makeup of the city is predominantly caucasian, with 97.18% White, 0.30% African American, 0.18% Native American, 0.61% Asian, 0.02% Pacific Islander, 0.30% from other races, and 1.42% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 3.17% of the population.

There were 2,700 households out of which 11.3% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 44.2% were married couples living together, 5.0% had a female householder with no husband present, and 48.4% were non-families. 36.7% of all households were made up of individuals and 9.4% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 1.88 and the average family size was 2.39.

In the city the population was spread out with 10.1% under the age of 18, 4.3% from 18 to 24, 30.0% from 25 to 44, 36.9% from 45 to 64, and 18.7% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 48 years. For every 100 females there were 102.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 102.1 males.

The median income for a household in the city was $53,770, and the median income for a family was $65,724. Males had a median income of $41,250 versus $31,833 for females. The per capita income for the city was $40,195. About 1.3% of families and 4.7% of the population were below the poverty line, including none of those under age 18 and 3.6% of those age 65 or over.

References

  1. ^ a b “American FactFinder”. United States Census Bureau. http://factfinder.census.gov. Retrieved on 2008-01-31. 
  2. ^ “US Board on Geographic Names”. United States Geological Survey. 2007-10-25. http://geonames.usgs.gov. Retrieved on 2008-01-31. 
  3. ^ “US Gazetteer files: 2000 and 1990″. United States Census Bureau. 2005-05-03. http://www.census.gov/geo/www/gazetteer/gazette.html. Retrieved on 2008-01-31. 

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Bradford South (UK Parliament constituency)

July 3rd, 2009

Bradford South
Borough constituency

Bradford South shown within West Yorkshire, and West Yorkshire shown within England
Created: 1918
MP: Gerry Sutcliffe
Party: Labour
Type: House of Commons
County: West Yorkshire
EP constituency: Yorkshire and the Humber

Bradford South is a borough constituency in the city of Bradford, West Yorkshire. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament by the first past the post system of election.

It was a Liberal-held seat in the 1920s and 1930s, but since the 1945 general election Bradford South has returned Labour MPs, although the Conservatives came very close to gaining the seat in the 1980s.

Contents

  • 1 Boundaries
  • 2 Members of Parliament
  • 3 Election results
    • 3.1 Elections in the 1990s
    • 3.2 Elections in the 2000s
  • 4 See also
  • 5 References

Boundaries

Members of Parliament

Election Name Party
1918 Francis Vernon Willey Coalition Conservative
1922 Herbert Harvey Spencer Liberal
1924 William Hirst Labour
1931 Herbert Holdsworth Liberal
1945 Meredith Farrer Titterington Labour
1949 by-election George Craddock Labour
1970 Thomas Torney Labour
1987 Bob Cryer Labour
1994 by-election Gerry Sutcliffe Labour

Election results

Elections in the 1990s

General Election 1992: Bradford South
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Bob Cryer 25,185 47.6 +6.2
Conservative A. S. Popat 20,283 38.4 ?2.4
Liberal Democrat B. J. Boulton 7,243 13.7 ?4.1
Islamic Party M. Naseem 156 0.3 N/A
Majority 4,902 9.3 +8.7
Turnout 52,867 75.6 +2.0
Labour hold Swing
Bradford South by-election, 1994
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Gerry Sutcliffe 17,014 55.3 +7.7
Liberal Democrat Helen Wright 7,350 23.9 +10.2
Conservative R. Farley 5,475 17.8 ?20.6
Monster Raving Loony David Sutch 727 2.4 N/A
Natural Law N. Laycock 197 0.6 N/A
Majority 9,664 31.4 +22.1
Turnout 30,763 44.1 ?31.5
Labour hold Swing

Elections in the 2000s

General Election 2001: Bradford South
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Gerry Sutcliffe 19,603 55.8 -0.9
Conservative Graham Tennyson 9,941 28.3 +0.3
Liberal Democrat Alexander Wilson-Fletcher 3,717 10.6 -0.7
UK Independence Peter North 783 2.2 N/A
Socialist Labour Tony Kelly 571 1.6 N/A
Socialist Alliance Ateeq Siddique 302 0.9 N/A
Defend The Welfare State Against Blairism George Riseborough 220 0.6 N/A
Majority 9,662 27.5
Turnout 35,137 51.3 -14.5
Labour hold Swing
General Election 2005: Bradford South
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Gerry Sutcliffe 17,954 49.0 -6.8
Conservative Geraldine Carter 8,787 24.0 -4.3
Liberal Democrat Mike Doyle 5,334 14.6 +4.0
British National James Lewthwaite 2,862 7.8 +7.8
Green Derek Curtis 695 1.9 +1.9
UK Independence Jason Smith 552 1.5 -0.7
Veritas Therese Muchewicz 421 1.2 +1.2
Majority 9,167 25.0
Turnout 36,605 54.2 2.9
Labour hold Swing -1.2%
Confirmed candidates for the next UK general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Democrat Mike Doyle
UK Independence Jamie Illingworth
Labour Gerry Sutcliffe

See also

  • Bradford South by-election, 1994
  • Bradford South by-election, 1949
  • List of Parliamentary constituencies in West Yorkshire

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