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Interesting gossip out of the classic rock world today: apparently Steely Dan producer Greg Katz once had to fire the Eagles’ Don Henley from tracking vocals on Steely Dan’s 1977 hit “Peg.” And it’s still awkward. Musicians Review 2021: Billionaires' Race To Space Speaking to Ultimate Classic Rock, Katz talked about how both Steely Dan and the Eagles were tight, as they were both managed by Irving Azoff. “In the chorus, the backgrounds are sort of the lead,” Katz said. “It wasn’t like a [usual] background part.” And while the song was originally coming together, Katz and Donald Fagen talked...

Polyethylene glycol (PEG) or macrogol is a polyether compound. It is widely used as an additive in pharmaceuticals, cosmetics and food [1]. Different types of macrogol exist according to their molecular weight from 300 g/mol to 10,000,000 g/mol [2]. Anaphylactic reactions to macrogol are rarely reported. However, in recent years more reports appeared in the literature with macrogol induced hypersensitivities due to drugs, personal hygiene products, dental products, lozenges and lubricants [3, 4]. Here we report on a female with a history of three immediate type reactions triggered by macrogol 3350.

Administrators and teachers at St. Paul Public Schools have their own ideas about what to do regarding the lack of student discipline, which has led to an alarming spike in violence and unruly behavior, and culminated in the assault of two teachers in the last week. The teachers union wants the district to provide millions of dollars for teacher/parent committees in each building, to spend as they wish on potential remedies to the problem. Administrators want an overall district committee that will not have to spend millions of dollars. Only one source, Joe Soucheray, a columnist for the St. Paul...

SAN FRANCISCO – Last week we were stunned to learn that chaos has been the norm in the St. Paul, Minnesota school district, due to a student disciplinary policy that replaces suspensions with time-outs, counseling and other less punitive measures. We also learned that the controversial policy was influenced by the Pacific Educational Group (PEG), a radical San Francisco-based consulting firm that claims black students lag behind academically, and tend to have more disciplinary problems, because American K-12 education is designed to benefit white students – aka “white privilege.” Now it’s becoming obvious that several other large school districts around...

Former Wisconsin Attorney General Peg Lautenschlager wants Republican Gov. Scott Walker to explain his criminal defense fund. Milwaukee prosecutors are investigating Walker's associates during his tenure as Milwaukee County executive. Five people have been charged so far. Walker has transferred campaign contributions into a criminal defense fund. He says he's not a target in the probe, but he can set up such a fund only if he or one of his agents are under investigation or have been charged with campaign or election violations. Walker faces Democrat Tom Barrett in a June 5 recall. Barrett has been demanding Walker explain...

“Mary” is an Evanston, IL mother whose children have attended local public schools from kindergarten through high school. She noticed the recent debate on CNN and Breitbart.com over Derrick Bell's Critical Race Theory--and to her, it was nothing new. She has seen elements of Critical Race Theory introduced into teacher and staff training at Evanston Township High School by the Pacific Educational Group (PEG) in recent several years. “It just sounded familiar from what I see happening in the schools,” says Mary, who spoke to Breitbart.com on the condition that she remain anonymous. “This has already been going on in...

China’s currency, the renminbi (RMB), or yuan, has been held about 6.83 per dollar since July 2008 after the government allowed a 21 percent appreciation over the prior three years. Further Reform the RMB Exchange Rate Regime and Enhance the RMB Exchange Rate Flexibility In view of the recent economic situation and financial market developments at home and abroad, and the balance of payments (BOP) situation in China, the People’s Bank of China has decided to proceed further with reform of the RMB exchange rate regime and to enhance the RMB exchange rate flexibility. Starting from July 21, 2005, China...

China vows to hit back if targeted by U.S. on yuan By Langi Chiang and Ken Wills BEIJING (Reuters) – Beijing will retaliate if the United States declares China a currency manipulator and imposes trade sanctions, Commerce Minister Chen Deming said on Sunday, firing the latest salvo in a spat over the value of the yuan. Chen again accused Washington of politicizing the issue ahead of an April 15 deadline for the U.S. Treasury to rule whether China is unfairly holding down its exchange rate to gain a competitive edge in global markets. "The currency is a sovereign issue and...

FX COLUMN-China may have misplayed yuan hand with Obama 11.25.09, 11:26 AM EST By Neal Kimberley LONDON, Nov 25 (Reuters) - China may come to regret not offering U.S. President Barack Obama more concrete encouragement on the future direction of the yuan during his recent visit. Make no mistake, Obama cannot afford to let this go and China may eventually have to move further on the yuan than would have been necessary this time. The way it is likely to play out is that a disappointed U.S. administration falls back on the Group of 20 agreement on global rebalancing, which...

Asian Economies Face Double Whammy Export-dependent Asian economies are suffering from a double problem. One part is the continuing weakness of the U.S. dollar and accompanying depreciation of the Chinese yuan, which is hurting the price competitiveness of products exported by Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand. The other is that they are being pressured by the international community to reform their economic structures to become more focused on domestic consumption as a way of relieving a perceived imbalance in international trade. China unpegged the yuan from the U.S. dollar in July 2005 and adopted a currency basket system, a more...

Yuan's Fall Annoys the Neighbors Link to Dollar Pulls Down China's Currency; Other Countries Scramble By ALEX FRANGOS HONG KONG -- As the dollar continues to weaken, concerns are mounting in much of Asia over another descending currency: the Chinese yuan. For more than a year, China has kept the yuan largely unchanged against the dollar. So, like the dollar, the yuan has been falling steadily against the currencies of China's neighbors, including the Malaysian ringgit, the Indonesian rupiah and the South Korean won. That makes goods produced in those countries more expensive compared with China's. "If you have one...

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia's finance minister and central bank governor will appear before a council to discuss the riyal's peg to the US dollar and a surge in inflation, a council member said yesterday. Inflation in Saudi, which pegs its riyal to the dollar, rose to a 16-year high of 6.5 per cent in December, partly driven by a rise in global commodity prices and the declining US currency. The Shura Council, whose members are appointed by King Abdullah, will meet Finance Minister Ibrahim Al Assaf and Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency governor Hamad Saud Al Sayyari on February 10, Mohammad Al...

Paul McCartney offers Heather Mills £20m By Joshua Rozenberg, Legal Editor Last Updated: 1:08am BST 20/07/2007 Sir Paul McCartney has reportedly offered a divorce settlement worth £20 million to his estranged wife Heather Mills. Heather Mills is reportedly holding out for £50 million At one stage there was speculation that the divorce settlement could leave the former Beatle with a bill for £20 million, but it is reported that Lady McCartney is holding out for £50 million. If the couple do not reach agreement, their financial dispute could be fought out in the High Court next year. The case is...

April 17, 2006    Volume 13, No. 8 China's Reserves Soar: NAM Says The Time Has Come For China To Re-Value Its Currency BY RICHARD McCORMACK richard@manufacturingnews.com It has become "imperative" for the Department of Treasury to declare that China is manipulating its currency, says Pat Mears, director of international commercial affairs at the National Association of Manufacturers. Further evidence of China's manipulation is that nation's growing currency reserves. They have risen to $848 billion, and are now the largest in the world, surpassing those of Japan's at $837 billion. "China's currency reserves are nearing half of China's total gross...

SACRAMENTO – In his first year in office, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has proven to be a reliable ally for the state's businesses, vetoing all bills that were on the California Chamber of Commerce "job killers" list and almost always siding with businesses when legislation pitted them against consumers or the environment. Last year, he vetoed legislation to increase the minimum wage and promised to do the same this year. He sides with the majority of voters, who don't like the idea of giving driver's licenses to illegal immigrants, promising to veto such legislation a second time in a row. Among...

China-bashing has become a favorite sport in Washington of late, both on Capitol Hill and even in the Bush Administration, so we hope that the main impact of Beijing's decision yesterday to revalue the yuan by a modest 2.1% will be to bring some of the Red-scare rhetoric, and the protectionist trade impulses it incites, to a halt. China scrapped the yuan's 10-year-old peg to the U.S. dollar and replaced it with a tightly managed float against a basket of unspecified foreign currencies in which the dollar will no doubt still occupy a prominent place. Shortly afterward, Malaysia announced that...

China launches currency shake-up China has revalued its currency, the yuan, for the first time in a decade - a move welcomed by the US, a long-time critic of its exchange-rate policy. The reform is being seen as the first step towards the liberalisation of China's tightly controlled currency. The yuan will no longer be pegged to the dollar, but will float against a basket of currencies. It will also appreciate against the dollar, mollifying critics who say a cheap yuan has helped Chinese exports. "I welcome China's announcement today that it is adopting a more flexible exchange rate regime,"...

BEIJING - China dropped its politically volatile policy of linking its currency to the U.S. dollar on Thursday, adopting a more flexible system based on a basket of foreign currencies that could push up the price of Chinese exports to the United States and Europe. ADVERTISEMENT The government also strengthened the state-set exchange rate to 8.11 yuan to the dollar — from 8.277 yuan, where it had been fixed for more than a decade — in a surprise announcement on state television's evening news. That raised the value of one yuan by about one-quarter of one U.S. cent to 12.33...

Outside View: China's money and stability By Dr. Peter Morici WASHINGTON, Jun 22, 2005 (United Press International via COMTEX) -- Not since the United States floated the dollar in the 1970s and threw the Bretton Woods system on the scrap heap of failed ideas has the management of exchange rates so fixed the attention of both economists and national politicians as China's yuan peg does now. Then as now all manner of polemics and rationalizations and the weight of established authority argued that governments should fix currency exchange rates, which are nothing more than prices, much like governments fix the...