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We had a wonderful evening yesterday with those who were able to come. We're meeting with those who've taken the medtation course this morning but would also like to see many of you before we return to Dallas,TX.
This is short notice but we'd like to take advantage of the time we're here and if you're available at 11am today, let's meet!
Learn to Meditate: For Peace of Mind & Inner Strength To make your mind your best friend To Lead a Stress-Free Life To Develop Positive values To be free from negative emotions like Anger, Worries & Fear etc.
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Photos by CHRISTOPHER ANDERSON (above) and Rajah Bose photo
Dave Quinn of Walls That Talk stops in front of his mural on the side of Empire Office Furniture at 1411 N. Monroe St. in Spokane. The mural depicts a trolley that ran on Monroe Street in the early 1900’s.
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by Anthony Ravlich
Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013 at 2:38 PM [email protected] (0064) (09) 940 9658 10D/15 City Rd., Auckland City
Video available: discusses the Captured UN's 'permanent' rebalancing of global power from the West to Developing Asia (including China and India), the 'grassroots-up rather than Beehive-down' approach to rebuilding Christchurch and the cowardice of the domestic and global establishments in refusing to discuss the ethical approach to human rights, development and globalization for World Peace - to replace neoliberalism.
Video available: Captured UN's decision means peaceful revolutions justified.
Anthony Ravlich Chairperson Human Rights Council (New Zealand) 10D/15 City Rd., Auckland. Ph: (0064) (09) 940 9658
Readers may be interested in listening to the following interview on the Vinny Eastwood Show. I explain the ‘permanent’ global rebalancing of power from the West to Developing Asia (including China and India) with peaceful revolutions justified in Western States.
Also I describe the Labour Party’s ‘Grassroots up rather than Beehive down’ approach to the rebuilding of Christchurch as well as the cowardice of members of the domestic and global establishments in refusing to talk about or debate the ethical approach to human rights, development and globalization for World Peace - to replace neoliberalism.
The interview can be found on you tube - UN a Threat to Human Rights, Tony Ravlich, Vinny Eastwood 21Feb2013
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|AmazonStudios - Development Deals|
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I've heard about this and hearthealthysolutions.org became aware of it when ArmyMan brought it to our attention today at this topic on the Forums. Turns out Amazon.com through a program called "AmazonStudios" is getting into the business of developing original programming. This is cheap levitra tablets welcome news for everyone involved with and aspiring to develop creative content and underscores just how significant the move towards bringing original programming to the Internet is becoming.
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As Detroiters continue to bask in Midtown's glow, community powerhouse Sue Mosey says there's plenty more work to do
Photographs by Josh Scott
Some important things fell into place three years ago in Midtown. National investors started grabbing real estate, land, and attention. People steadily moved there, creating a housing shortage. Entrepreneurs set up shop to sell cappuccinos and clothes. Long anchored by some of Detroit's best cultural assets, Midtown, it seemed, had finally upgraded to an urban DVR of sorts, giving interested parties a way to skip to the best parts of the show.
The Midtown "show," of course, is some three decades in the making, with Sue Mosey, president of the nonprofit community-development organization Midtown Detroit Inc., acting as its director. But unlike those quick to gush over Midtown's latest momentum, Mosey has witnessed plenty of false starts, and she never had a fast-forward button. Insiders will tell you now that Mosey's maniacal mission is largely what's bringing this Detroit neighborhood back block by block — and that few can comprehend the gumption it takes.
"Let's face it, a lot of Midtown's buildings didn't have people standing in long lines waiting to put bids on them," says Christina Lovio-George, a longtime Detroit PR professional who worked with Mosey to brand the home turf of the Detroit Institute of Arts and Wayne State University as "Midtown" in the 1990s. "What (Mosey) did for the first 20 years with no money is a testament to what face time and hard work can do."
This is typical of the praise Mosey gets, but she's uncomfortable casting herself as a savior of anything. A native Detroiter who graduated from Wayne State with an urban planning degree, she's also surprised by the curiosity during the last couple of years by both local and national journalists who continually call her for interviews. Lately, she admits, talking to the media has become like a second full-time job.
"Yesterday I spent all day with the The Detroit News. Today I'm talking to (Hour Detroit). Tomorrow I'm with the Financial Times," Mosey says. "I mean, this is like every week."
Who could blame them? In a city defined by its governmental debacles and now a historic bankruptcy filing, people understandably want to figure out how Midtown seems to be making it. Specifically, they want to know how Mosey is making it, essentially without the help of a functioning city government. She's always gracious in her willingness to tell the story, because she knows what's on the line. Outsiders, she says, need to have as much faith as she does in her little pocket of Detroit. She always points out that she's had a lot of help from other community-minded visionaries. As for her unique vision years ago that poised the area to become more than a place for art festivals — earning her the unofficial nickname "Mayor of Midtown" — well, let's just say ceremonial titles aren't Mosey's thing.
"People tell me every day that they can't find any place to live, so we are really, really trying to get housing built," Mosey says of her most pressing priority.
Sitting in Midtown Detroit Inc.'s bright, modern office space on Woodward Avenue where a staff of about 20 work on various initiatives, Mosey is all business and doesn't stop to give herself pats on the back. She effortlessly ticks off a list of MDI's current housing-development projects. You get the feeling these projects are etched on her brain and, if blindfolded, she could lead you to all of them.
"The funny thing for me," she says, "is I don't really see any change. Maybe it's because I've been here for so long. The only thing that keeps me going is when people who've been away come back and tell me how great (Midtown) looks. Because I swear when I drive around, all I do is shake my head."
'Where Life Is Art'
Despite Mosey's natural tendency to hedge her bets, she can't deny that Midtown has earned a national reputation as a very different part of Detroit where entrepreneurial spirit is high and crime is relatively low. People almost universally attribute this to the work of Mosey and MDI, which is known today as a one-stop shop for the local urban lifestyle, equipping the single resident, small business, huge developer, and anyone in between with resources to be successful in an otherwise difficult city. Mosey is passionate about relationships first, personally taking on the burden of knowing every detail of Midtown, from rental occupancy rates to the viability of business plans, so others can make wise decisions.
"If we want investment," she says, "we have to be able to build confidence in the neighborhood."
Such confidence in Midtown was never a foregone conclusion, as Mosey and other longtime insiders well know. When Mosey started working as a community advocate here in the early 1980s, it was really just a "collection" of neighborhoods close in proximity, but with no common identity. There was the Cass Corridor, the area around the Detroit Medical Center, and the cultural center with Wayne State and the DIA.
"Amazingly enough, the community had some awfully good underpinnings," says Lovio-George, noting that these assets are still sometimes used as the simple explanation for why Midtown never went the way of so many other Detroit neighborhoods.
But that explanation ignores the fact that before Mosey's strategic vision for the area, most people would go to the DIA, the main Detroit Library, or the Detroit Medical Center and then go home at night. No one lived or did any other serious business in Midtown, save for pioneers like Lovio-George, who made the radical decision in 1982 to move her PR firm to an early 20th-century historic home on West Forest.
Lovio-George at the time was a rising star in Detroit's PR world, and her client list over the years would include Cobo Center, the Parade Company, Super Bowl XL, and Midtown itself. Still, clients didn't want to come to her office, and she remembers making lots of trips to the suburbs for business meetings. "People thought the brains flew out of my head," Lovio-George recalls of the reactions she got from wanting to run her business from Midtown.
To counteract these negative perceptions, there was already a small movement in the form of MDI's predecessor, the University Cultural Center Association (UCCA), to create better awareness and appreciation for the cultural assets of Midtown. Mosey was UCCA's president, and in its earliest years, the organization concentrated on special events like putting on art festivals and simply elevating the major cultural institutions that were already there.
It was the organization's first significant development project in the late 1990s — preserving some notable historic homes to form the Inn on Ferry Street — that signaled the new, business-oriented direction. Trish Hubbell, the wife of late pioneering Midtown developer Colin Hubbell, who built the Canfield Lofts, says that it was Mosey alone who recognized this opportunity to market Midtown in a different way.
"Midtown started as mostly an arts district, but Mosey moved it toward more of an economic plan," Hubbell says. "She was really the only one who saw how to use arts and culture to unleash all the economic potential that would make people want to live and work here instead of just visit."
Strategic building renovations and housing developments, along with residential programs and business incentives to attract entrepreneurs, followed. And although the economic meltdown of 2008 was a significant blow in terms of attracting homebuyers for some of the early initiatives, 2013 started with a bona fide housing shortage. It seemed like MDI's tagline, "Where Life Is Art," was finally starting to take hold, and the possibility that Midtown could be a viable lifestyle option had become real.
She's built it, but will they keep coming?
Under Mosey's guidance, Midtown's trajectory has been one worth watching. "It started really accelerating five years ago, it reached a real crescendo three years ago, and now," she says, "it's on steroids."
The arrival of Whole Foods last spring and the promise of M-1 Rail, expected to link Midtown to downtown in the near future, are perhaps the most obvious examples of Midtown's momentum. It hasn't been by accident, says Rachel Lutz, owner of Midtown clothing boutique The Peacock Room, though many people unfamiliar with Midtown's history might see it that way.
"Ferry Street could've become a parking lot," she says. "It was slated for demolition. The reason deals like Ferry Street and everything else [happen] in Midtown is a direct result of Mosey's vision and perseverance."
Some of the biggest projects, Mosey says, are yet to come — the result of decades of seed work finally coming to fruition.
Developers are planning to break ground in the fall on a 28,000-square-foot building at Woodward and Willis. Lawrence Technological University will be the anchor tenant, occupying a new design center on the second floor. The old Agave building across from the Whitney is expected to host a new restaurant and four units of housing. And, under the plan, the Forest Arms at Forest and Second will be converted into 75 apartments, with commercial spaces on the ground floor.
MDI is also planning to expand its already successful Green Alley project, in which local bicycle manufacturer Shinola will support the conversions of four new alleys in Midtown that will serve as green spaces for pedestrians and cyclists.
But Mosey doesn't sugarcoat this trajectory. She says the market in Midtown is still immature, and that anyone who's expecting to "helicopter in" and ride on someone else's coattails will be disappointed.
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Early osteogenic response of osteoprogenitor cells on modified titanium implant surfaces leads to improved osteogenesis
Chakravorty, Nishant, Prasadam, Indira, Ivanovski, Saso, & Xiao, Yin (2011) Early osteogenic response of osteoprogenitor cells on modified titanium implant surfaces leads to improved osteogenesis. In Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society 2011 Asia-Pacific Meeting, 3 - 5 August 2011, Grand Copthorne Waterfront Hotel, Singapore. (Unpublished)
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Background: Implant surface micro-roughness and hydrophilicity are known to improve the osteogenic differentiation potential of osteoprogenitor cells. This study was aimed to determine whether topographically and chemically modified titanium implant surfaces stimulate an initial osteogenic response in osteoprogenitor cells, which leads to their improved osteogenesis. ----- ----- Methods: Statistical analysis of microarray gene expression profiling data available from studies (at 72 hours) on sand-blasted, large grit acid etched (SLA) titanium surfaces was performed. Subsequently, human osteoprogenitor cells were cultured on SLActive (hydrophilic SLA), SLA and polished titanium surfaces for 24 hours, 3 days and 7 days. The expression of BMP2, BMP6, BMP2K, SP1, ACVR1, FZD6, WNT5A, PDLIM7, ITGB1, ITGA2, OCN, OPN, ALP and RUNX2 were studied using qPCR. ----- ----- Results: Several functional clusters related to osteogenesis were highlighted when genes showing statistically significant differences (from microarray data at 72 hours) in expression on SLA surface (compared with control surface) were analysed using DAVID (online tool). This indicates that differentiation begins very early in response to modified titanium surfaces. At 24 hours, ACVR1 (BMP pathway), FZD6 (Wnt pathway) and SP1 (TGF-β pathway) were significantly up-regulated in cultures on the SLActive surface compared to the other surfaces. WNT5A and ITGB1 also showed higher expression on the modified surfaces. Gene expression patterns on Day 3 and Day 7 did not reveal any significant differences.----- ----- Conclusion: These results suggest that the initial molecular response of osteoprogenitor cells to modified titanium surfaces may be responsible for an improved osteogenic response via the BMP and Wnt signalling pathways.
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The hospital was the first one to be established in Gabon nearly 100 years ago and continues the work of its founder, Albert Schweitzer (for which he received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1952). It operates “on the front lines…against malaria, HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and threats to maternal/child health,” and its Medical Research Unit is recognized as a leading institution in Africa seeking a malaria vaccination. It has an international staff and Board of African, European, and American partners.
Our job at HAS was three-fold:
1. to work with the hospital IT to bring more bandwidth into the hospital – including satellite, 3G, DSL (this month), microwave (July 2013), and fiber (early 2014)
2. to deploy VSee telemedicine systems including remote ultrasound
3. to shadow doctors and nurses in order to understand their work flow and operating environments so that video conference and telemedicine can be organically embedded into the new hospital they are building for their centennial celebration next year
The metric of success would be a decrease in maternal and infant deaths. This goal was brought home to us on our very first day in Gabon when we were met with a woman’s death in the hospital. We worked with this in mind for the rest of the trip as we set up and trained the maternity ward staff to use the VSee telemedicine kit with an ultrasound probe. Their ultrasound machine had not been working properly for some time, so the nurses and midwives were ecstatic when we showed them how just a simple GlobalMed ultrasound probe connected to a laptop could do a live scan.
During the training, we used VSee to connect them with Dr. Steve Ralston, head of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, at Harvard’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Then one of the nurses did an ultrasound scan on a patient while being directed by him. This on-hands training with a doctor live from Harvard made them even more excited about the possibilities of providing world-class care and saving more lives in a challenging environment.
VSee’s low-bandwidth capacity and multiple video streams make it perfect for
- receiving training on how to use the ultrasound probe
- doing remote consultations with a doctor in Harvard (or anywhere in the U.S. or Europe and getting a second opinion on difficult cases
Here we are surrounded by about 10 enthusiastic nurses and midwives as we connected to the Head of Maternity at Harvard with VSee.
In the above 2 pictures, the midwife is doing an ultrasound scan on a patient as Dr. Ralston, asks her to show him the head and the heart. The smile on the mother’s face was priceless when she saw her baby’s heart beating =)
Our project would not be possible without the leadership and support of Dr. Lachlan Forrow (HAS President), Dr. Antoine Nziengui (HAS Director General), Bertrand Lell (HAS IT director), Ardile Bongo (HAS IT wizard), Marcelle Mortes (HAS head nurse), Daisy Duru (Albert Schweitzer Public Health Fellow and our hostess), Scott Johnson (MTNGS satellite wizard who traveled with us to Gabon) and companies MTN GS, GlobalMed, Interson, and MDLive.
You can also learn more about VSee telemedicine here.
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JACKSON, MI – A new, federally-subsidized park in the heart of Jackson is the first concrete step in majorly changing the face of downtown — and attracting residents to the city's core.
"We don't want to be hypocritical," said Jackson Assistant Manager Jonathan Greene. "We always knew that our part in growing Jackson was to get our infrastructure right – and we can't ask others to build in downtown Jackson if we don't do our part."
Greene pointed to the "Anchor Initiative," headed by Jackson's two largest employers Allegiance Health and Consumers Energy, and said he wants the city to have "skin in the game." Unveiled in December, the initiative promotes living, buying and innovating in downtown Jackson.
"We want people to move downtown," Mayor Jason Smith said. "In 18 months or less, you're going to see a much different downtown. The city is changing it for the better."
Once the site of the former Consumers Energy headquarters building, the park site is now an empty lot situated between the Hayes Hotel and First Congregational Church on Michigan Avenue.
With groundbreaking set for July 14, city officials and area residents eager to utilize the park hope it's complete by the Oct. 1 deadline.
"It's in a great spot, and it'll be awesome for me and my kids," Napoleon resident Jessie Holbrook, 34, said recently while walking down Michigan Avenue next to the park site. "We just left music classes at Jackson Symphony Orchestra and are about to go to the library. With a new park, we could make a whole morning out of it."
The park's construction plan calls for decorative paving, picnic tables, cable-strung lighting and checkerboard tables, among other amenities. Renovations to nearby Blackman Park will connect the two green spaces and increase the initial cost estimates.
"We want everything to be uniform between the two parks," Smith said. "We were more than willing to reallocate some funds to do that."
The park will cost an estimated $638,000, with nearly 90 percent of the costs covered by federal funds. The remaining 10 percent will come from $30,000 in gas and weight taxes for construction work on an alley between the Hotel Hayes and the park, $25,000 in brownfield redevelopment funds and $12,000 from Consumers Energy.
City officials say $571,000 of the total will come from Community Development Block Grant funds – federal dollars doled out annually to communities across the country.
Established in 1974 under President Gerald Ford, the CDBG fund program has strict stipulations aimed at helping low-income areas within a city. The funds are distributed through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
"At one time, the city would receive almost $2 million per year (in CDBG funds), now it's about $1.2 million," said Michelle Pultz-Orthaus, Jackson Records Management Coordinator.
With nearly half of the city's $1.2 million in CDBG allocations used for the park, other federally-subsidized programs within the city will suffer. Originally estimated to cost $400,000 to create a new park, city officials changed their plans and shifted federal funds from other projects to help offset the $638,000 price tag.
Proposed changes to Bucky Harris Park in downtown Jackson will no longer take place and funds used to restore homes within Jackson's low-income neighborhoods took a hit to pay for the new urban park.
"We're taking about $115,000 (in CDBG funds) from park projects that never materialized last year and the rest ($56,000) from home restoration funds," said City Manager Patrick Burtch said.
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City officials said they would have about $350,000 in CDBG funds for home rehab projects after taking $56,000 for the park. More than $400,000 will go toward street construction projects on Hamilton and VanBuren streets while $45,000 in CDBG funds are earmarked for youth recreation programs at the Martin Luther King Center, 1107 Adrian St.
Projects funded by CDBG funds must be used in low-income areas, for example street construction projects are limited to local streets in residential neighborhoods where more than half of the residents are considered low income by the federal government.
City officials said they chose to use CDBG funds for the new park to keep city coffers full.
"We're not using any local funds for this park," Burtch said.
Ron Hively, a Jackson resident since 1957, said a new park is a step in the right direction, but he isn't holding his breath and would like to see the money used for other services.
"We'll see what happens, but it's going to take a lot more than a park downtown to revitalize Jackson," he said. "Jackson was bustling back in 1957, and it's done nothing but decline since I moved here."
The consultant and contractor
While the federal government sets parameters cities must follow when spending CDBG funds, Jackson officials have the final say in the park project when directing the consulting firm Beckett & Raeder, Inc.
City officials will pay the Ann Arbor-based firm about $157,000 total to rewrite the city's master plan and oversees the design of the new park.
"(Jackson's) park project started out as a plan that we prepared as part of an urban design challenge the city asked us to participate in when competing for the master plan contract," BRI Principal Christy Summers said.
Under the direction of BRI, city administrators awarded a $638,000 bid to construct the new park to Jules Swartz & Sons Excavating on June 24. A Jackson-based company for nearly 50 years, third generation owner Nate Swartz said his company will use four local subcontractors to perform some of the proposed construction work at the park.
When complete, the park will feature decorative landscaping, trees and a sloped northern lawn affording an amphitheater effect to facilitate live shows such as movies and concerts, Summers said.
Another park feature has Chilango's Burrito Bar owner Carlos Perez excited: food truck hookups.
"A new park is a great addition," he said, adding his Mexican restaurant lends itself well to the possibility of a Chilango's food truck downtown.
The big picture
"Research shows that this park will bolster efforts to attract people downtown," Greene said. "It's something that works well with the Anchor Initiative."
Land Use USA, a Laingsburg-based team of real estate consultants, began performing a target market analysis of Jackson in January. Company officials use U.S. Census and IRS data trends during their investigation, according to spokeswoman Sharon Woods.
Initiative officials will use the analysis to move forward with their plan to revitalize downtown Jackson and – in turn – the city as a whole.
"Our job is to identify which population groups are on the move in Michigan and come up with a strategy to keep them in Jackson and in the state," Woods said. "We need to tailor housing opportunities to meet their needs. Young professionals are moving out of the state at an alarming rate."
Experts say global trends are clear that more people want to live and work downtown — to be close to shops, entertainment, and cultural venues. On the flip side, without housing or amenities to lure the younger professionals into city centers, they often leave and corrode a city's tax base in the process, according to the Detroit Regional Chamber.
"(Land Use USA) is currently wrapping their analysis up," Greene said. "At one of our mid-project meetings, they hailed the new park as a huge positive."
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'Endgame' has to be the most rewarding 75 minutes of wretchedness on stage in NYC
Just as it must, a bitter, fearful pall hangs over "Endgame," the darkest of Samuel Beckett's big three (the other two being "Waiting for Godot" and "Happy Days").
But again and again, humor pierces the gloom. It's quite a triumph for all concerned, given the circumstances.
The world is half-destroyed. A flea, a rat and four human beings have survived, but no one's in good shape. One is blind, paralyzed and plagued with pain, another is lame and two are legless apparently.
The holy trinity of Beckett devices -- inertia, repetition and delusion -- hold court in a narrow, high-walled dungeon, where two tiny, dirty windows admit practically no light.
Designer Anita Stewart was wise to abbreviate the deep Harvey Theater stage, pushing the action forward. The semi-ruinous interior looks a lot like the chamber on stage.
Director Andrei Belgrader has staffed the piece beautifully. It's half the battle with Beckett. John Turturro is Hamm, the impotent and incontinent master of the manor. Max Casella is his completely fed-up servant/partner Clov.
Hamm's parents are rays of sunshine (weak and watery, of course) emanating from the pair of garbage pails that they inhabit. Eighty-three-year-old Elaine Stritch, inquiring pleasantly, "Is it time for love, dear?," brings so much innocence to Nell it's touching.
She also gets to deliver the script's great truth: "Nothing is funnier than unhappiness." (Give it a moment's thought: From Aristophanes to Mel Brooks, Lucille Ball to Tracy Ullmann, nothing is funny unless there's a whiff of unhappiness, however fleeting.)
Alvin Epstein's Nagg gets to confess serious inadequacies -- parental warmth is neither instinctual nor automatic -- which he manages to do with great color using his face alone.
With his rich voice -- deliberately plummy and semi-affected -- Turturro might have dominated the show, but instead it is Casella's Clov, dressed in seat-sprung sweat pants, scraping about on his bad legs, back and forth to his "kitchen" furious and powerless.
Packed for traveling at the end of "Endgame," is he really going to leave? Or die? Or does it all just start over?
This "Endgame" seems a little becalmed, a little short on excitement. Still, it has to be the most rewarding 75 minutes of wretchedness on any stage anywhere in the city.
BECKETT BECKONS: "Endgame" runs through May 18 at BAM's Harvey Majestic Theatre, 651 Fulton St., Brooklyn. Tickets: $25 to $75. Info: 718 636-4100, BAM.org. | <urn:uuid:a18e862c-153a-4779-8f04-8128c1aeb0bc> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://www.silive.com/entertainment/arts/index.ssf/2008/05/arts_so_unhappy_its_hilarious.html | 2014-12-20T17:18:22Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802770060.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075250-00024-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946258 | 626 | [
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The Toronto International Film Festival is a year shy of its 30th birthday, but the latest edition proved it is hardly mellowing with age. This year's cinematic showcase, which ran from Sept. 9 to 18, often seemed downright prurient, with what seemed like a suspicious number of its 328 films focused on the libido. Some of them will be coming sooner or later to South Florida, others perhaps not at all -- which, depending on the movie, will be a terrible shame or a divine blessing.
The highest profile of these is Kinsey, opening Nov. 12 in select markets (not yet including South Florida), which stars Liam Neeson as the celebrated sex researcher. Writer-director Bill Condon (Gods and Monsters) has crafted a by turns witty and touching study of the life of the author of Sexual Behavior in the Human Male. Laura Linney, who may be this year's Patricia Clarkson, is pitch-perfect as Kinsey's wife, and Peter Sarsgaard (Garden State) is beautifully understated as a key research assistant.
Linney also pops up in the sometimes lovely, sometimes bizarrely off-putting P.S., opening Oct. 15. Roger Dodger director Dylan Kidd's sophomore feature focuses on a divorced woman in her late 30s (Linney) whose life is upended when she meets an aspiring artist in his early 20s. Topher Grace, who suddenly seems to be approaching a Jake Gyllenhaal level of hotness, plays the role famously being mimicked in real life by his That 70s Show co-star Ashton Kutcher.
When Will I Be Loved is little more than a character sketch, not accomplishing much with its plot, but Neve Campbell's lead role as a sexually voracious, cunning young woman makes the movie. Director James Toback (Two Girls and Guy, Black and White) gave Campbell plenty of room to roam and improvise. The result is a performance that few, even those who admired her far-from-Party-of-Five work in The Company earlier this year, would have imagined possible. The film opens sometime in October.
If you're the sort of person getting hot and bothered, in the negative sense, by all this fornication, John Waters would like to take 90 minutes of your time, please, to mock you. His latest, A Dirty Shame, opened Friday in South Florida. The NC-17 comedy focuses on neighborhood split down the middle, with raving sex addicts on one side and prim "neuters" on the other. Hearkening back to earlier, downright nasty movies like Polyester, Waters crafted a raucously funny response to anyone clutching his or her pearls over the moral degradation of America.
MISSTEPS AND MORE
But no matter how difficult you are to offend, it's hard to find any merit in A Hole in My Heart. Swedish director Lukas Moodysson's three previous movies -- Show Me Love, Together and Lilya 4-ever -- have found him touching on increasingly darker material, but there was little to prepare fans for this abstract, concertedly outrageous study of four people, one a sullen young teen, involved in amateur pornography. Perhaps drawn by the potential buzz-building controversy, during the festival Newmarket Films snapped up Moodysson's severe misstep.
Gael Garcia Bernal, the lush-lipped Mexican actor who is no stranger to sexually explicit films after Y Tu Mama Tambien, is transfixing in Bad Education. The latest from Pedro Almodovar, which will be the closing night film of the upcoming Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival, often finds Bernal in full drag. (As people can't seem to stop observing, in transvestite mode he looks eerily like Julia Roberts.) Bernal plays an aspiring writer traumatized by childhood sexual abuse at the hands of a priest, and the role requires him to perform graphic scenes to which few hot rising stars would agree.
Reinstating his macho image, however, is Bernal's performance as a young Ernesto "Che" Guevara in The Motorcycle Diaries, from Brazilian director Walter Salles (Central Station). Following the future key player in the Cuban Revolution when he was a young wanderer, The Motorcycle Diaries is likely to be somewhat offensive to anyone who does not see Guevara as a hero. But the bigger problem is that, despite Bernal's always-magnetic presence and a few laughs, the movie (which opens Oct. 8) is downright boring.
OUT OF THE BEDROOM
After what felt like days in which every movie seemed to open with characters immediately stripping naked and copulating, it was oddly refreshing to discover that the grunts at the beginning of The Machinist merely involve the lugging of a dead body. This dark psychological drama, which played as part of the festival's Midnight Madness program, stars Christian Bale as an increasingly paranoid factory worker. For the role, Bale (American Psycho) lost so much weight that the phrase "painfully thin" is given whole new meaning: It literally hurts to look at him, with his every rib and vertebra plainly visible. South Floridians can see for themselves Nov. 5. | <urn:uuid:5a0aec76-ec22-4c3e-bce9-4d35157e6175> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2004-09-26/entertainment/0409220819_1_garden-state-movies-film | 2014-12-22T02:44:26Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802773061.155/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075253-00104-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960302 | 1,081 | [
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December 26, 2011
In Perpignan, the Castillet, has magnificent projections with true Catalan lighting . . .
. . day-to-day decoration – functional but also arranged with a stylish eye. In Illes – sur – Tet, cascades of Ipomoea (Morning Glory) . . .
and something more architectural here . . .
and in Rue Fusterie, even more so. In Rue du Four St Jean, selective treatment of the items for the balconies . . .
and festive lights hang decorously here.
In Place Joseph Dupres, religious additions make the composition . . .
A climbing rose contributes to the delicacy in San Antonin . . .
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. . and extremely simple with Shakespeare to conclude.
It is the east and Juliet is the sun!
Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,
Who is already sick and pale with grief (5)
That thou her maid art far more fair than she.
Be not her maid, since she is envious;
Her vestal livery is but sick and green,
And none but fools do wear it. Cast it off.
It is my lady, O, it is my love! (10)
O that she knew she were!
She speaks, yet she says nothing; what of that?
Her eye discourses, I will answer it.
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Every presidential election is exciting when it happens. Then the passing of time usually makes the outcome seem less than crucial. But after more than a century and a quarter, the election of 1860 retains its terrible urgency.
All through the 1920s eager young emigrants left the towns and farms of America and headed for New York City. One of them recalls the magnetism of the life that pulled him there.
Where do you stay? What will it cost? How do you get a drink?
Where to eat? What will that cost ? What’s playing? Is it a talkie? How many people live here, anyway? What kind of place is this? All the answers are here.
The great buildings of the 1920s are standing all over Manhattan, preserving in masonry the swank and swagger of an exuberant era.
He was a capitalist. He was an urban reformer. He was a country boy. He was “Comrade Jesus,” a hardworking socialist. He was the world’s first ad man. For a century and a half, novelists have been trying to recapture the “real” Jesus. | <urn:uuid:2ce4a3e4-a120-47c4-9a81-1f04c379e89a> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://www.americanheritage.com/content/november-1988 | 2014-12-22T02:43:28Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802773061.155/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075253-00104-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96962 | 245 | [
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It’s strange how just the sight of the M/Y Esperanza’s green hull seemed to vanquish part, if not all of that stress from those months of making arrangements for its arrival.
© Steve De Neef / Greenpeace
Perhaps there really is something about arriving ships that’s inexplicably exciting. After all, before budget airlines came into the picture, ships were the harbingers of news from yonder, the return of loved ones, a renewal of ties and the start of another chapter in the ship’s log.
Or maybe the thrill comes from the memories of past battles and the significant role that the Esperanza--sometimes called the “Espy,” played in them. Vivid images, such as that of the vessel protecting the whales against Nishin Maru in the high seas, or of activists on rubber boats being hit by water cannons, never fail to inspire.
It’s not the first time that this Greenpeace ship visited the shores of Filipinas. Just last December, we were at this very port, loading the Espy with tons of relief goods which would be transported to Davao. That trip was actually a detour thought up in a span of two days, as a response to the devastation caused by typhoon Bopha. Because we couldn’t turn a blind eye to the crisis, we had to deviate from our initial plan to survey the state of the Philippine seas as part of the continuing Oceans campaign.
This time around, though, Espy will finally be able to go on the journey it was originally meant to take. It will patrol the Philippine waters, assist in water and reef checks, and support local communities in their struggle against destructive fishing, all to call for a change in the way we manage our seas. You can view the ship’s detailed itinerary here.
For years, the Greenpeace fleet of ships have been vital to our campaign work, serving as our platform for advocacy, direct action and peaceful protest. But I find that to ocean defenders like me, the ships tend to hold more and more meaning over the years, beyond their uses as watercrafts.
The M/Y Esperanza may be the biggest among the Greenpeace vessels, but it’s more than just a machine now. It’s actually an even bigger symbol of our losses, triumphs and more importantly, our determination. And such an embodiment can only be propelled by a collective willpower that’s just as vast.
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Coupeville bond's winning margin widens
One high school student was likely partially responsible for Tuesdays big school bond win in Coupeville.
High school Senior Ursula Berg supports the democratic process and wanted to help students voice their opinion.
One way she did that was assisting students in registering to vote earlier this year. She conducted the voting drive as part of her service project with National Honor Society.
Her efforts appear to have paid off as 26 of her fellow classmates registered to vote.
I just felt not enough young people care about whos elected and I thought if we gave them a little extra nudge it would help them out, Berg said. After graduating from Coupeville High School this year, shes off to Lewis and Clark College in Portland.
Shes very committed to participatory democracy, said Barbara Ballard, NHS advisor at Coupeville High School. It was a project that developed from her own interests and passions.
She added that Berg did all of the advertising and leg work to provide two opportunities, once in January and again in February, for students to register to vote.
Berg didnt know how many new voters participated in Tuesdays bond election which will fund a new high school, but if they followed the general trend, they helped approve the bond issue.
As of Thursday afternoon, the $22.8 million measure appears to have been approved by voters, as 2,022 voters approved the bond while 942 voters rejected it. The 68.2 percent majority easily breaks the 60 percent needed for a bond measure to pass.
Im just overwhelmed, said Coupeville Schools Superintendent Bill Myhr. Its a positive mandate from people that they agree with the facilities plan.
Even though the bond appears certain to pass, the election wont certified until May 28 after more absentee votes trickle in.
Taxpayers are going to pay an additional $1.35 per $1,000 of assessed property value beginning in 2005, for an estimated 18 years.
With the passage of the bond, officials are busy with a variety of projects.
Beginning this summer folks will notice their bond money at work when a $520,000 roofing project begins. Work crews will replace the roofs on the high school annex building, the multi-purpose room, the elementary school and the gym.
While the roofs will be replaced this summer, officials are getting the ball rolling on the $19.8 million high school that is expected to be complete sometime between September 2006 and September 2007.
Starting next week, the district will start looking for an architect for the high school. That search is expected to take four to eight weeks.
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ST. LOUIS – Kansas City shortstop Alcides Escobar is on a tear.
Escobar continued his torrid pace Saturday with two hits, but it wasn't enough for the Royals in a 5-4 loss at St. Louis.
Known for his defensive skills, Escobar has 16 hits in his last 29 at-bats. Escobar has seven multi-hit games in eight contests during the current road trip that ends Sunday.
Escobar says the key to his recent success is patience.
"I feel like I'm more comfortable around home plate right now," he said. "I'm trying to hit the ball to the other side and that's what's working."
Escobar tripled in a pair of runs in the second to give the Royals a 2-1 lead. He singled and stole a base in the fourth.
St. Louis outfielder Matt Holliday hit a go-ahead two-run homer in the eighth inning that helped the Cardinals snap a season-high seven-game skid with the victory.
Holliday and three others starters — Ryan Theriot, Skip Schumaker and Yadier Molina — wore their socks up near the knees in an effort to shake the bad luck. Holliday even changed uniform pants, wearing a tighter pair belonging to special assistant Red Schoendienst, a Hall of Famer.
Now, Holliday is ready to move forward with the new look.
"You can't change after a win," he said.
Holliday drilled an 0-1 pitch from reliever Greg Holland to erase a 4-3 deficit. Holliday is 5 for 9 with two homers and four RBIs since coming back from a quadriceps injury June 16.
"I thought timing might be an issue," he said. "But I saw the ball pretty well."
Holliday homered in his first at-bat in his return to the lineup Thursday. The home run Saturday, his eighth of the season, went 422 feet to dead center.
"It was huge," St. Louis manager Tony La Russa said. "As big a hit as we've had all year."
Kansas City, which won the first game of the series, has lost three of four.
Jason Motte (3-1) earned the win in relief. Closer Fernando Salas converted his 12th save in 13 chances.
Holland (1-1) gave up his first home run of the season.
"He was lights out except for one pitch," said Yost. "He threw it right down the middle."
The Cardinals were outscored 47-20 during the losing streak.
"You just keep battling and realize that it's a long season and every team goes through something like this," Holliday said.
Alex Gordon gave Kansas City a 4-3 lead with a solo homer in the seventh off St. Louis starter Jake Westbook, who gave up four runs in seven innings.
"I still felt strong," said Westbrook. "Matty picked us up with a big homer."
St. Louis took a 3-2 lead in the third on a run-scoring double by Albert Pujols, who has 52 RBIs against Kansas City.
Matt Treanor then tied the game 3-all with a solo homer in the fourth, his third of the season.
Kansas City starter Vin Mazzaro allowed seven hits and three runs over six innings.
The Cardinals improved to 5-23 when trailing after seven innings.
"We let one slip away," said Yost.
NOTES: Westbrook batted in the No. 8 spot in the order, the third time this season that manager Tony La Russa has hit the pitcher eighth. St. Louis pitchers hit eighth 77 times last season. ... Westbrook reached a three-ball count on nine of the first 20 hitters. ... St. Louis OF Colby Rasmus broke out of an 0-for-14 skid with a single in the eighth to start the winning rally. ... The teams wore Joplin High baseball caps during batting practice in tribute to the southwest Missouri school, which was destroyed by a tornado on May 22. The clubs are wearing, "Teams Unite For Joplin," patches on their uniforms during the three-game series. ... Miss Missouri, Sydney Friar, threw out the first pitch. | <urn:uuid:738a59ab-ce8d-4e03-8cfa-9ef1d89d2c0b> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2011/06/18/holliday-homers-helps-cards-end-seven-game-skid-1484267643/ | 2014-12-25T11:20:03Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1419447547257.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20141224185907-00016-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979979 | 898 | [
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IN PARIS, A FASHIOPN PARADE
Published: September 24, 1985
PARIS, Sept. 23— A fashion show put on by 500 models from all over the world paraded before an audience of 50,000 on a runway near the Arch of Triumph in the First International Fashion Festival. A heat wave wilted the clothes if not the spirits of the audience.
For the first time the public was invited to a Paris fashion show, and barricades were set up on the Avenue Foch. Organized by the French Federation of Ready-to-Wear with the designer Daniel Hechter presiding, the Sunday spectacle almost overwhelmed the clothes. There was a big Montgolfier balloon, Republican Guards on horseback playing a fanfare, and vintage and new cars from which models disembarked next to the 300-yard-long runway. Costumed children waving flags started the show, and hundreds of pigeons were released in the finale.
The festival was dominated by France, which showed 300 ready-to-wear fashions for next fall. Designers from 10 European countries, Japan, Israel and the United States participated.
The clothes were mostly very short or quite long, with many pants. The show was the high point of four days of celebration to fete French and worldwide fashion. A dinner Friday was catered by such well-known chefs as Roger Verge, Olympe and Alain Senderens.
The whole event was largely spurned by the Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne, the association of the high-fashion houses, whose executive president is Pierre Berge, business manager of Yves Saint Laurent. The federation, which produces most of France's medium- and lower-priced ready-to-wear clothes, says it is being unfairly dismissed by the Chambre Syndicale.
At a Saturday reception in the elegant City Hall, Bernadette Chirac, the wife of Mayor Jacques Chirac, awarded gilt City of Paris medals to four people chosen as outstanding contributors to the fashion industry: France-Soir's critic Simone Baron; the designer Emilio Pucci; Joanne Brogden, fashion director of the Royal College of Art in London, and Bernadine Morris, a fashion writer for The New York Times.
The federation's final events on Monday included a noon cocktail party and exhibition of swim-wear photography at the Piscine Deligny, the public pool on the Seine opposite the Place de la Concorde. On Monday night ''Seraphita's Diary,'' a film by Frederick Wiseman on the life of a model, was shown.
Next week more than 1,000 designers will be showing clothes for spring at a ready-to-wear salon organized by the French Federation at the Porte de Versailles. On Friday, a show by the French silk industry will take place in Lyons. In late October, the traditional tent shows will be put on by the top designers of the Chambre Syndicale, which includes Saint Laurent, Claude Montana and Kenzo.
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OK you guys! Here is what I’m gonna do! I’ll be holding a contest for a free session, to be used in Sept 2012-May2013, during June. What I need from you is your BEST photo of what summer means to you. It could be a photo your favorite vacation spot, your kiddos splashing around in the waves or you enjoying a relaxing day rocking on your porch. The photo MUST be taken by you, NO PROFESSIONAL PHOTOS WILL BE ACCEPTED!
- E-mail your photo to [email protected] by midnight, June 31, 2012. As soon as I receive the last photo, then I will post them in an album and the voting will begin. =)
- One photo entry per person and/or household.
- Photos must be taken by you. No professional images will be accepted.
- Participants MUST “Like” Michele Denotter Photography in order to submit a photo and to be eligible for the free session.
On July 1, once all images are turned received, I will post them in the Contest Album.Voting will begin that same day. To vote, make sure you “like” the photo that is your favorite. That means, get your friends/family over to Michele Denotter Photography and LIKE! The photo with the most likes will win a FREE session with Michele Denotter Photography!!
The winner will receive a FREE family session good to use from September 2012- May 2013! Session details are as follows:
- 45-60 minute session with Michele Denotter Photography in the Raleigh, NC area
- up to 6 family members, pets are included! =)
- 2 wardrobe changes
- 1-8×10 from your session
So, spread the word and remember to e-mail 1 photo to be entered in the contest! I can’t wait to see what Summer means to you! =) Good luck! | <urn:uuid:430c4c54-b062-4a26-be70-b79bef64b235> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://micheledenotterphotography.com/2012/05/31/win-a-free-mini-session-5/ | 2014-12-19T10:44:52Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802768404.109/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075248-00064-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937498 | 414 | [
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The Suffering Servant
by Rabbi Chaim Ingram
[Extracted from his forthcoming book Fragments Of The Hammer: Discoveries in the Weekly Sidra - reprinted with permission]
R. Shimon bar Yochai said: The Holy One Blessed is He gave three gifts to Israel and all of them He gave only through suffering. They are: Torah, the Land of Israel and the World to Come [Berakhot 5a].
On this Shabbat when we read of a personal tragedy unequalled in the Torah, the sudden striking down of Aaron’s sons Nadav and Avihu by divine fire on the day of their [and their father’s] induction as kohanim, it is timely to examine the issue of suffering through the prism of Judaism.
To do this, it may be instructive to contrast the approach of Christianity. Its founder allegedly suffered [and atoned] for the sins of others. This gave rise to the theology of suffering as enobling, hence the highest possible form of service of the D-vine.
The Jewish approach is subtly different. Judaism accepts that sufferings borne in this world may purge a soul of its iniquity in order that it may achieve the bliss of the Afterlife. However this is rationalised only bediavad [post facto]. Jews are not expected to seek out suffering nor even to affirm its beneficial qualities. In a subsequent passage to that cited above [5b] three leading rabbis of the generation, Rabbi Chiya, Rabbi Yochanan and Rabbi Elazar, are all visited by colleagues in their sickness and are asked in turn “Are your sufferings precious to you?” [i.e “are you happy that they will purge you of your sins in order that you will inherit a prize portion in the World to Come?”] Each of them responds with identical words. Lo hen lo sekharan. “I would prefer to have neither the sufferings nor their reward!”
How then should the Jew react to suffering? Aaron demonstrates quintessentially the answer to this most difficult of questions. His silent acquiescence to the D-vine decree against his sons [Lev. 10:3] is only the beginning. Let us reflect upon the true meaning of korban, of the sacrificial service in the Sanctuary and the Temple of which Aharon haKohen was the founding father.
When a Jew brings an offering he is required to be present when the animal is slaughtered. Why? In order that, with a Jewish heart overflowing with compassion, he agonises over the death of this animal and reflects that it could have been his own life forfeit; and only by the grace of the merciful G-D has he been granted the precious gift of extended life [based on writings of the Ramban].
Imagine! Every time Aaron offered up a korban he would have to reflect that, for reasons unbeknown to him, his own sons were designated as korbanot on the day of their inauguration, that they were not granted extended life. And he would do it silently, acceptingly, without bitterness. Not, G-D forbid, rejoicing in his own suffering as might be a Christian approach. But accepting it lovingly without beginning to comprehend its rationale.
All this may help us better understand a puzzling explanation of a seminal passage in Genesis. In the section known as the b’rit ben ha-besarim, the Covenant between the Parts, Abraham asks G-D “How will I know that I will inherit the Land of Israel?” G-D replies by enacting with Abraham the Covenant and declaring that his descendants “will be aliens in a land not theirs, enslaved to their oppressors for 400 years” after which “they will emerge with great substance” [Gen 15:14].
The Talmud in Nedarim [32a] cites the amoraic sage Shmuel as linking our exile and suffering in Egypt to Abraham’s question “How will I know that I will inherit Erets Yisrael”. This is generally understood as indicating a lack of faith on the part of Abraham resulting in the “punishment” of exile for his descendants. However I would venture to offer a different explanation.
G-D is offering Abraham [and us] a unique insight into the role of suffering in His world. How will we know that we shall acquire the Land of Israel as an eternal inheritance? Because we will suffer for centuries before inheriting it! And anything earned through suffering – as Torah and the World to Come also are earned – will be a permanent and prized acquisition. | <urn:uuid:3b7b4e93-33d1-4749-9b1c-394c2610bc45> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://shiratdevorah.blogspot.com/2012/04/permanent-and-prized-acquisition.html | 2014-12-19T10:53:49Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802768404.109/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075248-00064-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968578 | 967 | [
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PATRIOTIC PRIDE: Rolfe Shows Off Sculpture
An Iowa town is building off the success of its Freedom Rock.
Artist Ray “Bubba” Sorenson painted his second rock in Rolfe and it’s been a big draw.
“It’s went over very well…it’s brought a lot of people to town. ‘Course when they stop here they go to the convenience stores, the part store and the bank and everyplace else,” says resident Dan Allen.
Rolfe, Iowa is proud of its Freedom Rock. So brothers Dan and Roger Allen had an idea to add an American symbol — a life sized eagle.
The two crafted the bird from steel in their barn and mounted it nearby, overlooking the Freedom Rock from above.
The eagle was designed so it could move its head.
“The eagle turns…when it turns to the east it always turns its head, looks back at the Freedom Rock. When it goes west it turns it back, so it’s just another thing to draw some people to our hometown, “ says Allen.
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Efe Yucemen wrote:
My comment is that it seems, at least to me that Kenji Tomiki's work on understanding aikido as a physical activity and laying out certain aspects in a rational/scientific manner (ala Kano and Judo) have been totally disregarded or forgotten by the broader Aikido world.
I currently train at an Aikikai dojo here in London, but have also experienced training at a Tomiki dojo and am well aware of the differences. I can understand why people might find the idea of competition unpalatable, (and just to avoid that old chestnut I think that you can have "realistic" training w/o explicit randori/shiai ) but I don't understand why the hard work and thought of such an early and important exponent of the art is left outside of the general body of knowledge.
I can only hazard to say that not only is there some political stigma attached to his thoughts/works, but there is a general aversion to an explanation or interpretation of aikido which is non-mystical, dry and scientific. Would you agree?
Well, when I lived in the UK, I, too, trained in for a couple of years a Tomiki dojo and an Aikikai dojo in parallel. I even went to courses in London given by Yamada Senta Sensei. The Aikikai club was run by a Japanese and most of the explanations were in Japanese: to talk of anything mystical would have been wasted breath. Most of the explanations were very direct ("Hit him!" = atemi; "Put him down!" = throw; "No strength"). The next Aikikai teacher I had was K Chiba, who is not known for mysticism in his training and teaching. (Actually, I think you can find a club in London run by his senior students.) I gave up Tomiki training because there was no dojo or teacher within convenient access, not because of any political issues.
I think you base your judgment on too narrow a range of evidence. One of the best discussions of budo I have ever read is K Tomiki's "Budo-Ron", published in Japanese by Taishukan, and I say this as someone who has trained with the Aikikai for over 30 years. Tomiki Sensei starts with the question "Budo to wa nanika?" (the concept of budo) and then discusses related questions in turn: (1) budo and modern concepts; (2) the concept of judo; (3) aikido, [where he goes into the whole question of aikido and competition--and for those who know Japanese, the term he uses here is 'kyousou', not 'shiai]'; (4) education and the body. There is nothing quite like it in the Aikikai.
The only books that comes close are two works by Doshu Kisshomaru Ueshiba: "The Spirit of Aikido" and "The Art of Aikido", both, like Tomiki Sensei's book, were originally written in Japanese. I have occasionally posted translated bits of "Budo-Ron" on the Internet, but I do not know if Prof Shishida, who edited the work, plans to make an English translation. He ought to.
So, I disagree that Prof Tomiki's work is "left outside of the general body of knowledge". "Aikido Kyoushitsu" (translated as Aikido: Tradition and the Competitive Edge) is a text, also published by Taishukan. Along with "Budo-Ron" It is one of many available in bookstores all over Japan. It might be used as a teaching text in Shodokan dojos, but I would be surprised if this was extensive: my own experience here suggests to me that teaching texts do not seem to figure very much in dojos.
I also disagree with the reverse of your suggestion: that "a general aversion to an explanation or interpretation of aikido which is non-mystical, dry and scientific" is common in the Aikikai. Of course, there are teachers who do this, but there are many more who do not. The Aikikai is an organization, rather than a style of training. At least this has been my experience. | <urn:uuid:fca1f681-5f92-4d2d-92e8-199bbc67d9a5> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://www.aikiweb.com/forums/showpost.php?p=103689&postcount=3 | 2014-12-19T11:12:26Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802768404.109/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075248-00064-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976719 | 913 | [
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Japan prince marks 400-year history with Spain
Crown Prince Naruhito begins a week-long visit with formal niceties including a meeting with the Spanish royal family. -AFP
MADRID, June 10, 2013 (AFP) - Crown Prince Naruhito launches Monday a celebration of Japan's 400-year relationship with Spain on a visit that will take him to a curious town where many residents still carry the name "Japon" to honour the Japanese who visited in the 17th century.
Naruhito, the 53-year-old son and heir of Emperor Akihito, begins a week-long visit with formal niceties including a meeting with the Spanish royal family and the opening of a Japan-Spain business cooperation council.
But the prince will leave Madrid on Thursday to tour other cities and to visit the small town of Coria del Rio, population about 30,000, not far from the Andalusian capital of Seville in southern Spain.
There, Naruhito will visit a statue to the samurai Hasekura Tsunenaga, who led a historic seven-year diplomatic mission to Europe that departed Japan in October 1613 and arrived in Spain a year later.
Tsunenaga, who was baptised during his time in Spain, travelled to Coria del Rio on the Guadalquivir River, where he stayed for a period. Some of the Japanese delegation are believed to have stayed on even after his return to Japan in 1620.
Hundreds of residents in Coria del Rio carry the family name "Japon" to mark their supposed Japanese ancestry.
According to the Spanish media, many babies in the town are born with the "Mongolian spot", a temporary bruise-coloured birthmark that is common among people of north Asia but which can also occur among Europeans.
While in Coria del Rio, Naruhito will see a bronze statue to Tsunenaga, erected to mark the first Japanese diplomatic mission to Spain.
While in Madrid, Naruhito's agenda includes a meeting with Prince Felipe on Monday, opening a Japan-Spain business cooperation meeting Tuesday and being hosted for lunch in his honour on the same day by King Juan Carlos and the royal family.
On Thursday, he goes to the northwestern university city of Salamanca before heading to Coria del Rio and Seville on Friday. The Japanese royal visits the pilgrims' destination of Santiago de Compostela on Saturday before returning to Japan.
The Japan-Spain celebrations will feature a string of concerts and exhibitions including a collection of Japanese prints going back to the 17th century to go on display from Tuesday at the Museo del Prado in Madrid.
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Ampex 601 Dual Mono Preamp
Note: This is an older design with the original Ampex output transformer plus an Altec 15095.
(see The 2T/3T option)
The unit below has two Ampex 601 channels, with their full original circuit paths, plus the addition of an Altec 15095 tapped off before the output section (the 12AU7 tube and the original output transformer.) This is a dual mono unit which features Auricaps, stepped attenuators, ALPS Blue Velvet line input pots, remote power supply with DC filament power, 48V phantom power, vintage Mullard EF86 tubes, 20 dB mic pad, and more to be discussed later.
Each channel has three separate outputs, all of which CAN be used simultaneously.
Original output #1 would be the original balanced output of the 601. This incorporates the "Rec Cal" pot (Orig Output Gain,) the 4th gain stage and the cathode follower (12AU7 tube,) and the small 601 output transformer.
Original output #2 is the unbalanced, Hi-Z "Phones" output of the 601. This is the same as #1 except that the signal does not go through the output transformer and is high impedance. This will feed a modern mixer, AD converter, or similar device well and it has a slightly different sound than the 600 Ohm Original balanced output.
Altec 15095 balanced output: This output only utilizes the EF86 and 12AY7 tubes, plus the Altec output transformer. This is my output of choice for most purposes. It is less colored than the full original circuit path, but it does not have the overdrive capability either. For driving the tubes harder even to the point of saturation, the original outputs are the ones to use. You turn down the Gain control and turn up the input level to overdrive the unit.
Above you see all the controls for the left side, plus the meter select switch:
The meter select switch selects which output will be shown on the meter.
Tip: The meter adds a small amount of distortion (~.3 THD.) I recommend turning the meter to an unused output after using it to set levels. The distortion is very hard to hear, but why not avoid it, if it's that easy?
Line input: For instrument level (elec guitar) 80 - 100% works well. For line levels, 25 - 40% is typical. I have found this to yield a great sound when you warm up the guitar just a little with the preamp, then run it through an amp simulator plug-in. I was amazed by how much better it made the simulator sound. It gets an excellent crunch with just the preamp, too.
Phantom power: 48V Phantom power. Please do not plug or unplug mics with the phantom power turned on.
Original Output Gain: This is the "Rec cal" pot which serves as a gain control for the original outputs. One can use this control to attenuate the output of the preamp section which allows one to overdrive the preamp. It can also be used to dial-in less severe attenuation to explore the variety of sounds available as the tubes are driven to various levels.
Please note that the Gain control only affects the Original outputs. For the cleanest most transparent sound, I recommend the Altec outputs.
Mic input impedance: Pull the knob for 30 - 50 Ohm mics (usually ribbons) and leave it in for 150 - 250 Ohm mics (most condensers and dynamics.)
Pad: This mic pad (20dB) is intended for use with 150 - 250 Ohm mics, not low Z ribbons.
Output select Altec - Both - Original: Much of the time this switch can be left in the "Both" position. For times when you don't want to use both sets of outputs (Altec + Orig,) I recommend setting the output switch to only the output actually in use; especially for critical tracks like vocals.
*Typical Mic input levels with hot mics is about 1 - 4.
*Guitars can go into the line input or into the mic input through a matching transformer or DI box for more gain.
*Using both outputs from one channel (I.E. left Altec O/P + left Orig O/P) as a stereo pair is an interesting application. This gives one a pair of "stereo" outputs from 2 microphones or 2 line sources. After recording, one can use either side or both in a variety of ways.
*I recommend leaving the output termination OFF for the Altec 15095 outputs. This is almost a necessity if you want to use the Orig outputs at the same time. The termination will affect the loading of the circuit and its sound. 600 Ohm output termination is recommended when feeding modern gear without input transformers. It should be off when feeding a 600 Ohm transformer balanced input like found on most vintage gear. Having said that, I like the sound of the Altec outputs unterminated and I find the Orig outputs to be almost unaffected by the termination. Termination affects frequency response and is intended to provide the right impedance environment for the flattest performance. It's not very important when the unit is used as a mic preamp, but could be more important when running whole mixes through the preamp.
For affecting stereo mixes and other tracks:
Here is an example with a CD player to get you started, then experiment:
1) Plug the CD player into the line-in inputs on the front.
2) Set the mic/line switches to the right.
3) Turn the line-in level controls all the way down.
4) Set the gain controls to about 4 if you are using the Orig outputs .
5) Start the CD player, then gently turn up the line-in levels until you get peaks around -5 VU. Use care and get the levels the same on the left and right. For critical work like working on a master, one should use a mono test signal to set the 2 line-in level controls so they are exactly the same.
6) Now use the input level controls and the gain controls to adjust how much warmth you want to add to the sound. I find that with peaks at or below 0 VU, there is just a nice sheen on the highs and silky power in the lows. As the peaks go into the red you will start to hear distortion FX - salt to taste ;) Use the gain control to prevent clipping of whatever you are plugging the preamp into, if necessary.
Below we see the controls for the right channel, plus the High Z unbalanced outputs for both channels.
For instruments: Now here's an application that can get a little crazy. If you use a matching transformer (or DI) into the mic input for your guitar or bass, then feed the unbal high Z output of that channel into the line input of the other channel, you can get the following signal path:
Guitar --> matching XF/DI --> Ampex input XF --> EF86 gain stage--> mic level control --> 12AY7 gain stage #1 --> 12AY7 gain stage #2 --> Gain control --> 12AU7 gain stage --> 12AU7 cathode follower --> patch cord to line input of Ch2 --> 12AY7 gain stage #1 --> 12AY7 gain stage #2 --> Gain control #2 -->12AU7 gain stage --> 12AU7 cathode follower --> orig output XF.
All these tube stages with all these level controls should bring a smile to even the most extreme bottlehead.
In the pic below, I was going in through the line input, not the mic input.
AMPEX 601 Dual Mono Altec Rack
This design offers 2 matched preamp channels. Each has the full original circuit path of the 601 and the addition of an Altec 15095 output transformer tapped off after the microphone preamp section of the 601. This customer wanted all I/O on the front:
The tape electronics section has been converted to a second mic/line preamp channel. Old carbon composition resistors have been replaced with Dale/Vishay 1% metal film resistors on both channels so they will match for use as a stereo unit. This has been completely recapped with Nichicon PW series electrolytics, Auricaps, polystyrene replacements for ceramic discs, and a few orange drops.
Here's a sample recording of 2 classical guitars recorded through this preamp. The only processing applied is a little reverb and a limiter on the main buss. No EQ, noise reduction or other trickery.
In the past, I have tried to use some of the old caps to try to preserve more of the "vintage sound." Even desirable caps reported to last (Budroc, Bumble bees, and ceramic caps) are failing these days and finding caps originally spec'd at 5% tolerance which are 100% or more out of spec has lead me to start replacing all the important components with high quality modern components. For those that are looking for that "vintage sound," please consider: when these units were fairly new, these components would not have been so out of spec. What you get with a deteriorated vintage unit is not the same performance that was achieved when they were new. To me, what is most important about the "vintage sound" comes from the tubes, the tube circuitry, and the transformers (The Iron!) Supporting those components with high quality caps and resistors provides excellent performance.
Note: This is an older design with the original Ampex output transformer plus an Altec 15095.
(see The 2T/3T option)
All The important controls and I/O have been brought to the front for rack mounting. The hum balance pot and the fuse are the only things not available from the front.
1) Metering - One of the things I really dislike is when companies try to hide the drawbacks to their product through misdirection and misleading ads. I will tell you straight out about the things that are not ideal about a design. In this design, the metering isn't great. With 4 outputs (L/R Altec and L/R CF) and only one meter, one has to accept that the metering is limited. I felt it was very important to be able to check levels for all the outputs, so I designed the metering options to allow for this. There is a rotary switch (Output Meter Select) which selects the output to be metered. Then one can flip the L/R meter select switch between L and R. According to specs, the meter adds up to .3% THD. Some may wish to turn off the meter after setting levels.
2) Mic / Line switches - Individual switches means that one may use the mic input on one channel and the line input on the other. Flip the switches up for Mic and down for Line. (the left switch is for the left channel, the right switch is for the right.) To help remember: When the switches are in the MIC position (up) they are more out of the way of the XLR inputs.
3) Monitor selector switches (Output Select) - These switches select the output for each channel. In the left position, the Altec output is active. In the right position, the cathode follower output is active. There is also a middle position which makes both outputs active. So we have (A)ltec, (B)oth and (C)athode follower; from left to right. I chose to try to make the design logical enough so I would not have to slap labels all over it.
I don't recommend using the BOTH position casually. The individual outputs perform better when only one output is selected. The BOTH position is nice for blending and/or panning the different colors of the different outputs - like plugging in a guitar and using the clean output of the 15095 panned a bit left and a crunchy tone from the C/F panned a bit right.
There are some strange things that can happen with certain combinations of these switches, what the outputs are feeding, and the termination switches. Nothing harmful, but you will have some loss of gain from the extra loading of the circuits. Rule of thumb: When using both outputs, turn off the termination for the Altec outputs for best results. In fact, I prefer the sound of the Altecs when unterminated in most situations.
4) Line inputs - (unbal. 1/4" TS 250k impedance) The new channel uses a Neutrik combo jack for both the XLR and line inputs. These inputs are suitable for electric guitars as well as line level outputs from a CD player for example. These preamps work beautifully as the front end for a listening system. I listen to music played on a CD player and run into the line inputs, with the outputs of the preamp feeding my power amps and speakers - nothing else in the signal chain. The sound is very good.
5) L/R Unbal C/F Outputs - These are good for use as a Hi-Z, unbalanced output to feed a mixer, sound card, or similar device. This is an important feature for those that like different colors because these outputs do not go through an output transformer and they have a slightly different sound compared to the 600 Ohm balanced outputs.
6) Termination switches - These are the switches located next to the line level input controls. Up is 600 Ohm termination on, down is off. These switches allow one to turn off the termination which is usually desired when feeding modern gear with a vintage 600 Ohm output. When feeding modern gear, the termination allows for proper frequency response from the circuit. However, there may be times when a different flavor is desired or even more gain, so I have found that there are no rules when it comes to whether you use the termination or not. (well, ... actually one strong suggestion: When using both sets of outputs at the same time, I recommend turning off the termination on the Altec outputs.)
7) Cathode Follower "Rec Cal Pot" - I have replaced the original screwdriver adjusted "rec cal pots" with these nice new pots, knobs and faceplates. These controls serve as master level controls for the cathode follower outputs. One uses these to control the amount of "tubeyness," "color," or distortion - take your pick. If one turns these controls down and turns up the input levels, more color is the result. Everything from a filthy, nasty grunge to a very clear sound is possible. These controls only work with the cathode follower outputs. The Altec outputs provide the cleanest sound and simplest signal path, but don't have the overdrive capability of the cathode follower sections.
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Posted by Monique Garcia at 11:51 a.m.
First posted on Sunshine Online, our public records blog, where you can find more resources about government transparency and get help if you've hit a roadblock.
Gov. Pat Quinn today signed into law an overhaul of the state's public records act, which supporters say will make it easier for the public to keep track of government operations.
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Time for another long term test review of a ukulele that has been with me for some time. The Makala Dolphin.
I intend to run a number of long term tests on instruments I have kept, as often the long term views can be more illuminating than the initial impressions. (See my REVIEWS PAGE for other long term tests I have done). So for this one - the Makala Dolphin, a uke I first came across nearly three years ago now. You can read my initial review of that instrument HERE. The Dolphin is an absolute entry level soprano ukulele made by Kala. This model featured the one piece moulded plastic back and sides.
So, how has it been? Well, the Dolphin is a cheap starter uke, and as you will see from my reviews I have since owned (or still own) a range of instruments with far bigger price tags since then. But you know what? The Dolphin still gets played on almost a daily basis.
Here is one of my dolphins today (yes, yes I know, it's not red, its purple, but I bought two when I wrote that review, and the red one has been gifted to my young nephew since then - this is the one we kept and gets played - same vintage!).
The reason it gets a lot of play is twofold. First, this kind of became my daughters ukulele. She is between three and four years old, so this uke is almost as old as she is! For that reason it sits in the living room, always on hand, and whenever she gets it out, I end up having a play too. But the second reason is because it really is just so good. In fact picking it up today it never ceases to amaze me how full and loud a sound these things can deliver. In that respect, what I said when I first got one still stands today.
And another plus point. Because this uke has been in the hands of a toddler, it stands to reason that it has been dropped, trodden on and generally abused. It is chipped and dinged in all sorts of places (that Dolphin thick glossy finish does chip easily I have found) but it still plays just fine.
So I will happily find myself still strumming this when at home - perhaps more than I do some of my other instruments. The tone is good, nothing offensive at all. I have even busked and played it publicly. Can't give it a much better endorsement. Friends in the band have also bought them as 'travel ukes' (the sort of instrument you won't shed a tear over breaking or being stolen) and band members have taken these to the far east and Australia last year!
As such, this retains its position as about the best starter ukulele I can recommend to people (for those wanting to spend next to no money). But my advice still comes with a couple of provisos.
1. Buy from a reputable shop. Southern Ukulele Store stock these, but going back to my original review I bought mine from Nigel at Highly Strung in Wantage. Ask him to check the setup - in fact, ask any shop to check the setup) A well setup Dolphin is just great, but at this price there WILL be duds.
2. I am not sure what strings they are now shipping these with, but you really want to try Aquilas on them. I know I don't like preaching about strings, and that you should experiment, but these have quite thick tops and the Aquila power can really drive them to get a good tone and volume.
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Gosh, just a week (ish) ago I asked, “isn’t this the definition of insanity?” In that post, I listed eight “anti-Tea Party” sites that have been cropping up ever since, well, the Tea Party itself cropped up.
I have found number nine!
This one is called Estate 44. It’s very mysterioso.
There is also a YouTube Channel, with three videos of the same material found at the website. As of right now, the vids have been viewed dozens of times.
Interestingly, the Estate 44 profile states that it/they/he/she joined in May of 2010, but the videos are only a week old. Also, the tweets didn’t start 06 September. The Tea Party Tracker was the first to tweet back, one minute later. (Did I use the lingo right? I so do not get Twitter.)
Any of you more learn-ed types know from where the name “Estate 44″ derives? I haven’t the foggiest.
Nor do I know who runs this site, or whose Facebook posts they are publishing. The site operator blurs out personal information, to keep from embarrassing people.
That’s so nice.
Sure, the site was developed for the single purpose of smearing a large swathe of the American public as crazy, bigoted, and raaaacist.
But they don’t want to embarrass anybody.
I’ve been scanning through some of Estate 44’s juicy finds, but I haven’t seen anything or anyone I recognize yet.
Tell you what. If I see any of my very own crazy, raaaaacist posts on that site, I’ll link to it and confess that it is mine.
So watch yerselves! Big Brother is out there, pretending to be your FBFF (Facebook Friend Forever). Keep all that birfer and New World Order stuff tighter to your chest, my peoples!
Or our collective insanity will be FOUND OUT.
Who’s behind Estate 44, anyway? Probably . . .the President himself! I bet he’s the one running Estate 44.
Maybe the First Lady.
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Tuesday, June 6th, 1944. At 6:30am that fateful morning, an initial assault wave landed at Omaha Beach, the first step of the offensive campaign aimed at putting a dent into Hitler's Atlantic Wall: D-Day. This first assault wave included ninety-six tanks, almost fifteen hundred assault infantry, and a task force of engineers to clear the landing area of obstacles. In the hours leading up to the landing, the German shore defenses had been pounded by Allied artillery, naval guns, and aerial bombardments. However, as the first landing craft came within a quarter-mile of shore, it was clear that the enemy fortifications had not been neutralized. Rough seas and poor visibility had hampered the artillery barrages, and overcast conditions increased the margin of error for the bombing runs conducted by the Eighth Air Force Liberators-- many of their bombs hit too far inland. Establishing the beachhead would be much more difficult than originally envisioned.
Assuming that the landing craft were able to make a 'dry landing' without being first taken out by enemy mortars, the infantry immediately found themselves under concentrated small-arms, mortar, and artillery fire from enemy fortifications that covered every part of Omaha Beach. Heavily-loaded with equipment, weakened by seasickness, tired, and disoriented by the pandemonium around them, the disembarking infantry had to move through knee-deep to waist-high water, making them easy targets for the Germans. Upon reaching shore, they then had to cover up to two hundred yards of open beach before reaching any sort of cover. All this while avoiding enemy fire, which was fell thick and fast all around them. Not surprisingly, the heaviest casualties were suffered in the initial half-hour immediately after touchdown-- in some cases, entire Companies were cut down in this seaside slaughter.
Others did not fare as well. Some landing craft became grounded on sand bars a hundred yards away from the landing zone, and the infantry found themselves being dragged beneath the water by their heavy loads. And those who did make it to shore found themselves seriously outnumbered and outgunned, with their fellow infantry units landing late or off-target. Even worse, some landing teams found themselves without the benefit of tanks to provide covering fire, another result of the numerous mislandings that occurred that day.
The more men I kill, the further away from home I feel.
It is in this carnage that Steven Spielberg's latest World War II opus "Saving Private Ryan" memorably begins. In this artfully-done soldier's eye view of the initial assault wave, Captain John Miller (Tom Hanks) and his men hit Omaha Beach, and many are cut down as soon as the landing ramps are lowered. This initial half-hour sequence, containing some of the most horrendous violence ever committed to film, immediately dispels any preconceived 'romantic' notions about the 'last Great War' and breaks it down into a simple matter of arithmetic-- throw enough men into the maw of the enemy and hopefully enough will survive the slaughter to over-run the enemy defenses. Using specially-designed cameras that mimicked news cameras of the period, a toned-down color palate, and frantic freehand camera-work, Spielberg with the help of his lenser Janusz Kaminski, puts the audience on the beach with the Allies-- you can almost smell the death that permeates the air. And death is not pretty in this film, not sanitized for the benefit of the audience-- war is shown as it truly is, grim and unglamorous, a seemingly futile effort with every inch paid in blood. This opening sequence not only lays a foundation for the questionable moral 'no-mans land' in which Miller and his men find themselves in later, but allows the audience to experience their constant fear-- of being hit by a sniper or being killed by a land mine.
The boy's alive and we're going to send someone to save him... and we are going to get him the hell out of there.
Miller and his men survive the Omaha Beach landing, and are immediately pressed into service again. This new mission, to find a lowly private that is missing in the French countryside, is dwarfed in comparison to the magnitude of securing Normandy, but the top brass deem it important enough for Miller and seven of his men to venture deep into enemy territory to retrieve him. In a singular act of compassion, one of the women in the military's typing pool, whilst in the middle of typing hundreds of letters of condolence, notices three men with the same last name and the same home address in her correspondence. Bringing this to the attention of her commanding officer, the three men are brothers, all recently killed in action, two of them at Omaha Beach. The third brother, Private James Ryan (Matt Damon of "Good Will Hunting") is a paratrooper that is lost somewhere in France, and General George C. Marshall (Harve Presnell) orders that Private Ryan be found and brought home to his grieving mother. Thus, Miller gathers up his troops to find this lost soldier, despite his own reservations of such a foolhardy mission. Along for the mission are his loyal sergeant and friend Horvath (Tom Sizemore), a cynical New Yorker who openly questions the merit of such a mission (Edward Burns, writer/director of "The Brothers McMullen"), and a naive translator who's never endured combat (Jeremy Davies). Their search for Private Ryan takes them deep into enemy territory, where they come across pockets of German resistance, families displaced by the fighting, brushes with moral depravity, and a defiant stand against an almost unstoppable onslaught of German infantry and mechanized units amidst the skeletal remains of a town.
We're not here to do the decent thing-- we're here to follow fucking orders.
Miller is not on a mission to save the world, or even to turn the tide of war for that matter. He is on a mission to save a single man, risking his own life, and the lives of his men, an act that requires just as much courage and faith, if not more. Miller and his men are seen debating the merits of such a mission, and it seems that this is a central theme of this elaborately-constructed narrative. "Saving Private Ryan" seems to celebrate the singular acts of human decency by its characters, despite the difficulties that discourage them from doing so. There are numerous selfless acts portrayed in the film-- the woman in the typing pool taking time to inform the top brass of the three Ryan deaths, Miller and his men searching for the Private Ryan, Miller's medic re-transcribing a bloodied letter pulled from a fallen comrade, and mercy being shown to a prisoner of war. However, this central message becomes muddled as the film progresses, as each of these singular acts of human decency fail to achieve the desired outcome, or achieve them at a very high price. In essence, the development of the story fails to take into consideration the thematic underpinnings to Miller's search, if any. What is Spielberg's thesis? It is unclear... and a missed opportunity.
I just don't have a good feeling about this one.
When was the last time you felt good about anything?
Despite the weak thematic development in the film, it is compensated by the film's unforgettable visceral elements. With attention to detail in realistically portraying the Second World War (even the rifles used in the film were bought from gun collectors), the surrealistic pauses in the heat of battle, the jarring camera work that sustains the edgy atmosphere of the story, and the complex epic-scale battle scenes, Spielberg has created a devastating assault on the senses. Come Oscar nomination time, the sheer power of the scenes that Spielberg has crafted is sure to be remembered.
This Ryan had better be worth it-- he better go home and cure some disease or invent a longer-lasting light bulb.
Likewise, performances from the cast, which includes the likes of Ted Danson and Dennis Farina in supporting roles, are strong without falling into the tiresome cliches of the archetypal war film. Hanks delivers a strong performance as a middle-class school teacher that tries to distance himself from the horror and the vicious acts that he must commit in the name of self-preservation. Sizemore effectively conveys the ideals of friendship and loyalty in his role as Miller's second-in-command. Burns does well in his devil's advocate role, and Davies is believable as the timid novice who retreats in fear as the violence closes in around him. And though Matt Damon is given little to work with in the title role, he still manages to impress.
To me sir, this mission is a serious misallocation of valuable military resources.
"Saving Private Ryan", despite being weak and muddled thematically, is a powerful piece of work, and rivals his earlier "Schindler's List" as one of his best, most gripping, and most thought-provoking motion picture. This memorable and moving experience is not one to be missed.
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Jan. 9, 2011
ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) - Michigan coach Kevin Borseth knew exactly why his Wolverines couldn't beat No. 11 Michigan State on Sunday.
"Every time Michigan State came down the floor, we basically had to stop them twice," Borseth said after a 63-56 loss. "If they missed the first shot, they would get an offensive rebound and put up another one. It's tough to play like that."
The Spartans (15-1, 3-0 Big Ten) had 17 offensive rebounds to Michigan's 17 defensive rebounds, and had a 24-7 advantage on the other end.
Lykendra Johnson was the biggest reason for Michigan State's domination of the glass. She finished with 17 rebounds, including 10 on the offensive glass, to go along with 17 points.
"She was a warrior out there," said Michigan State coach Suzy Merchant. "Lykendra just has a really high IQ when it comes to rebounding. She knows where to go for the ball, and she's also a great athlete. A lot of players have that understanding of where the ball is going to be, but they don't have the quickness to get there or the power to get the ball. She has all of that."
Brittney Thomas scored 13 and Kalisha Keane added 12 for Michigan State, which has won 13 straight since losing 78-52 to Baylor on Nov. 19. The Spartans also extended their winning streak over Michigan to eight games.
"We knew this was going to be a tough one, because there is always such emotion in these games," Merchant said. "Michigan's been playing well, and they made it tough on us."
Veronica Hicks led Michigan (9-7, 2-2) with 20, but missed two key free throws in the final minute, including the front end of a one-and-one.
"We lost this game because we made too many mental errors, and a lot of those were mine," said Hicks, who also had four turnovers.
The Wolverines beat three straight top-25 teams, but couldn't get a fourth in a row.
"There were too many times when we came down the floor and just threw the ball into press row," Borseth said. "When you are playing a team like Michigan State, you can't have unforced errors."
Both teams struggled in the first half of a game that started at noon. Michigan State led 27-22 at the half despite 14 turnovers. The Spartans caused 11 turnovers and were strong on the boards at both ends of the floor.
Michigan State led 41-34 with 10 minutes to play, but the Wolverines scored the next five points. Johnson ended the surge with a 3-point play, and Taylor Alton gave the Spartans an eight-point lead with a 3-pointer.
"We had a chance to tie, but we just couldn't get a tip-in off a missed free throw," Borseth said. "That could have changed the rest of the game."
Michigan State led by as many as 11, then held off a late Wolverine surge. Thomas iced the victory by hitting six straight free throws in the final 45 seconds.
"Brittney has been in that position before, and she has always come through for us," Keane said. "We had the utmost confidence that she would do it again."
With the win...
- MSU improves to 15-1 on the season and have won 13 straight.
- The record improves the best start in program history.
- The 13-game winning streak is the second longest in program history. The Spartans had a 17-game streak in 2005. The winning streak is also the fifth longest active streak in the country.
- MSU has won its last nine Big Ten regular season games and 13 of its last 14. The nine consecutive conference wins is the second longest run in program history. The Spartans won 11 straight between the 2004-05 and 2005-06 seasons.
- The 3-0 start in Big Ten play is just the fifth in program history and first since 2006-07 and the first under Coach Merchant.
- Under Coach Merchant, MSU is now 62-6 when holding its opponent under 60 points, including 12 of the 13 games during the winning streak.
- The Spartans won their eighth straight over the Wolverines and their 16th in the last 17 games in the series.
- Junior Lykendra Johnson had her fourth double-double of the season and 11th of her career. She had team highs with 17 points and a career-high 17 rebounds. Johnson had 10 offensive rebounds and also added four steals in a season-high 39 minutes.
- Johnson's 17 rebounds were the most by a Spartan since Allyssa DeHaan grabbed 18 vs. Cal State Northridge on Dec. 22, 2006.
- Johnson has posted double-figure rebound games in all three Big Ten games, averaging 13.0 per game in conference play.
- Johnson has led MSU in rebounding in nine of the 16 games this season.
- With two steals, senior Brittney Thomas moved into 13th on the MSU all-time list with 178.
- Thomas and classmate Cetera Washington tied for the team lead with four assists. It was a season-high for Washington and was the first time this season that she has led the team.
- Thomas also grabbed a season-high seven rebounds and scored 13 points, just one point off her season-high.
- Junior Taylor Alton had nine points, on 3-of-5 shooting from 3-point range, and a career-high tying five rebounds. Her nine points were her most in a Big Ten game in her career.
- MSU outrebounded Michigan, 41-24. Over the last two games, MSU has outrebounded its opponents, 86-45.
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So it turns out The Raptor will be replaced for the year by Stripes, a black-striped Raptor in a black jersey. He’ll wear the jersey number 13 and 14, to signify that it’s a one-year thing.
According to The Star (and a painfully awkward video), “Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment will turn to Stripes, a black-clad version of the mascot generally considered the best in the NBA.”
No worry for fans of the original though. “The franchise plans to follow the mascot’s rehabilitation process through the season with a series of videos during games — Stripes was getting some tips during an afternoon workout at the Air Canada Centre on Tuesday — and the team plans to introduce The Raptor during Wednesday’s home opener against the Boston Celtics so fans can pay a proper tribute.” | <urn:uuid:b246dba9-cb84-4785-930e-0901b4ccc5f8> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://www.raptorsrepublic.com/2013/10/30/raptors-set-to-introduc-stripes-the-2013-14-raptors-mascot/ | 2014-12-22T07:09:48Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802774894.154/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075254-00048-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940398 | 181 | [
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Recipe by KENESGRL1129
"Honey and brown sugar ham."
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1 (5 pound) can
fully cooked ham, rinsed
1 (12 ounce) jar
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
Serving Size: 1/10 of a recipe
Servings Per Recipe: 10
Amount Per Serving
Calories from Fat: 153
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Pineapple juice, honey, and Dijon create a tangy glaze for baked ham.
An apricot jam, dry mustard, and brown sugar glaze makes baked ham special.
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Fri, 30/07/2004 - 07:19
Tara Capital, the Geneva-based hedge fund advisory firm has released the latest results from their quarterly Hedge Fund Strategy Barometer (HFSB).
This is the fourth barometer in the series, which highlights the intended asset allocations moves across the primary hedge fund strategies. The institutions surveyed have a combined USD 91 billion allocated to hedge funds, accounting for over 10% of the total assets invested into hedge funds worldwide.
In stark contrast to the spring HFSB, global macro discretionary and managed futures funds have fallen out of favour with investors. Other sectors where investors appear most nervous are convertible arbitrage and certain event driven strategies.
John Lowry, founder of Tara Capital, said: "Strategies most in favour now are interestingly at either end of the risk /return spectrum, with emerging markets at one end and market neutral equity strategies at the other end increasingly popular in the current market cycle."
HIGHLIGHTS BY BROAD STRATEGY
Relative Value Strategies:
* Big winners were fixed income and equity market neutral strategies this quarter. Reflecting falling fixed income markets and directionless equity markets, many investors appear nervous hence the marked shift towards neutralising strategies. Fixed income market neutral, having been one of the least popular strategies in earlier surveys has now recorded two consecutive quarters of increased allocations while equity market neutral has seen an even more impressive increase in popularity with 58% of respondents now planning to further increase allocations.
* The biggest loser in the relative value class is convertible arbitrage reflecting the weight of money squeezing returns, exacerbated by the recent relatively steep declines in performance due to widening credit spreads and the big May sell-off in US treasuries.
Event Driven Strategies:
* Distressed strategies continue to be relatively unpopular.
* This predominantly cautious view appears to be confirmed by the low and falling demand for merger arbitrage funds - in fact demand for this strategy is at its lowest level since the HFSB was launched one year ago.
Long-short Equity Driven Strategies:
* Japanese funds, which had been the most popular strategy of late, look to have come off the boil, with only 28% planning an increase as opposed to 89% in the winter survey. In contrast, emerging market funds look set to receive significant inflows, yet capacity and finding experienced managers remain significant impediments to development of this sector.
Global Macro and Managed Futures:
* Managed futures funds are falling from favour due to the disappointing returns delivered during the recent market turbulence. The one brighter point is the steady and growing interest towards the more systematic type strategies, which investors are exploring in increasing numbers.
* With equity and bond markets falling one of the primary strategies that investors were looking to were managed futures and global macro strategies. However due to the very lack of market momentum which affected the equity and bond strategies, these so called low and un-correlated strategies also generally failed to perform. As a result, many investors now appear to have lost confidence with these strategies reflected in a sharp decrease in planned allocations to both global macro discretionary and managed futures funds. Lowry noted: "At the same time, one important trend to note within the broadly negative sentiment expressed for the sector was the generally positive recent performance delivered by those managers willing to actively trade short term volatility. We therefore see pockets of opportunity for these and the more systematic non discretionary traders, within a less positive environment for the broader category "
Tara Capital stated: "The latest HFSB seems to confirm the view that investors are increasingly losing faith with many strategies and managers. The lack of market direction is proving an extremely difficult environment for the more traditional long short managers, and is also impacting momentum seeking strategies. At the same time specific strategies appear to be over crowded and expensive - making a difficult marketplace for hedge fund investors."
Background Note: Tara Capital is a Geneva based investment research and advisory firm dedicated to the alternative investment industry and specialising in the European hedge fund sector.
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ciaranc (985) - Dublin, - FEB 10, 2013
4.1 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Brightcloudy orange gold with a big creamy white head. Lovely lacing in the glass. Citrus orange aroma, bready malt and some lush pungent hops. Huge flavour, hops dominate, more orange, sharp orange zest with a lush malty backbone. Mouthfeel is robust and slick, oily hops line the palette. Carbonation is tight but not flat. Finish lasts for a long time. Insanely hoppy and very enjoyable.
Cunningham (4936) - Halden, NORWAY - DEC 22, 2014
3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 12/20
Appearance: Hazy deep golden color with a white head.
Aroma: Mild grapefruit hoppy, some alcohol and a bit to much tropical fruity.
Palate: Medium + body. Not to well balance between sweetness and bitterness. Soft carbonation.
Taste: Grapefruit hoppy, malty, some alcohol and a bit to rich tropical fruity.
Overall impression: To sweet and not very balanced.
Personal stats: Bottle kindly shared by Visionthing
kiwianer (3390) - Otorohanga, NEW ZEALAND - DEC 20, 2014
3.7 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
The head is ok, body orange, cloudy. It smells hoppy, flowery, grassy, bitter. The taste is bitter, flowery, grassy, nice fruity and balanced, nice!
Beer4000 (4617) - Kristiansand, NORWAY - DEC 17, 2014
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
330 ml bottle @ Fox and Hounds, Aabenraa. Unclear orange body with a with a fine off-white head. Aroma has malt, citric fruit, caramel, apricot, hint of rubber and the the unmistakable sorachi ace. Flavor is smooth malty, some caramel, citric fruit, pine, herbs and toast. Feels actually more sweet than bitter. Balanced body and decent aftertaste. A bit odd as an DIPA, not really that bitter but nice and interesting enough.
visionthing (2986) - Oslo, NORWAY - DEC 16, 2014
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
33cl bottle probably from Drink Shop, Tallinn. Pours just slightly hazy golden to amber with an off-white head. Rather fruity and slightly candy like aroma with caramel, some floral notes, sweet tropical fruits and hints of pine and herbs. Sweet with fairly fruity and some almost unpleasant flavours and a decent bitterness. Perfectly decent, but not a beer I would look for to have a second time.
JefVerstraete (1594) - Ghent, BELGIUM - DEC 15, 2014
4.3 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 18/20
Bottle @ Dijleschuimers Bierproeffestival 2014. Amber colour, white foam. Medium carbonation. Fruity nose of tropical fruit: peach and citrus. Sweet with bitter finish. Very well balanced, easy drinkable.
Yves (2362) - Turnhout, BELGIUM - DEC 13, 2014
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Shared with wim and benny at bierfestival dijleschuimers 2014. Hopped floral aroma with some fruity hints. Full sparkling palate. Finish is bitter sweet fruited. Soft, nice one.
atrox (205) - Kraków, POLAND - DEC 12, 2014
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Deep orange colour, great white head. Semi-sweet, malty aroma, lot of fruits (sweet and citrus). Dry taste with tons of hops. Medium, herbal bitterness.
torejh (20) - SWITZERLAND - DEC 11, 2014
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
330 ml bottle. Pours a hazy orange with thick white head. Aroma is fruity. Taste is quite dry and dominated by different hop flavours. High carbonation. The finish is dominated by a high bitterness.
BrunoVille (48) - BRAZIL - DEC 7, 2014
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Coloração ambar mel turvo, espuma branca de pouca persistência.
Aroma de malta, com pão doce, panetone, notas de frapefruit, maracujá e herbal.
Na boca bom equilíbrio entre amargor e dulçor, final seco. Notas de malte não caramelado e leve herbal.
O álcool se destaca um pouco, mas tem boa drinkability.
Bobhund (425) - - NOV 30, 2014
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Drucken på OConnors, Uppsala.. En fin öl på många sätt, se betyget för mer info.
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The A’s have placed starting DH Frank Thomas on the 15-day disabled list with a strained quad. This injury will likely end the Big Hurt’s season. Thomas has played in 71 games for the Blue Jays and A’s this season and he is 59 for 246 (.240 avg, .723 OPS) with 27 runs scored, 8 homers and 30 RBIs. The A’s have recalled 22-year old righty swinging outfielder Aaron Cunningham from AAA to replace Thomas on the active roster for the A’s. Cunningham played in 107 games in AA+AAA ball this season and he was 139 for 423 (.329 avg, .932 OPS) with 86 runs scored, 17 homers, 66 RBIs and 15 stolen bases. Cunningham was the #7 prospect in the Diamondbacks’ minor league system coming into this season and he came to the A’s in the Dan Haren trade over the winter. Cunningham made his major league debut on Sunday and it was a good one as he was 2 for 4 with a double and 2 RBIs. He will likely get a lot of playing time in September for the A’s.
UPDATE: Thomas is officially done for the season. He played in 55 games for the A’s this season and he was 49 for 186 (.263 avg, .751 OPS) with 20 runs scored, 5 homers and 19 RBIs. The A’s have activated DH Mike Sweeney from the D.L. and he will likely get some at bats against lefty starting pitching. Sweeney has played in 41 games this season for the A’s and he is 35 for 125 (.280 avg, .710 OPS) with 13 runs scored, 2 homers and 12 RBIs. I would be very surprised if either of these broken down players are on the A’s in 2009. | <urn:uuid:a607dc86-6cb5-4c53-8991-89f68d8f1d9d> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://oakland.bloglockers.com/athletics/2008/08/ | 2014-12-19T15:07:33Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802768636.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075248-00008-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975007 | 382 | [
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Jet engine construction is typically left for professional engineers, but Father Son Projects, LLC has designed a simple engine that is safe, fun, and relatively easy to build.
Father Son Projects (FSP) has done it again with their new homebuilt jet kit. Jets typically have a row of compressor blades in their front that force pressurized air into a combustion chamber. Here fuel is added and ignited. The rapidly expanding gasses flow past a turbine that is connected by a rotating shaft to the compressors up front. The gasses spin the turbine, which is turn spins the compressors. Then the gasses shoot out of the back of the jet, producing thrust. | <urn:uuid:a8fe4721-d192-43ed-b22a-7218bb4c3195> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://www.gadgetspeak.com/gadget/forward.rhtm?topicID=755&articleID=439068 | 2014-12-19T15:13:19Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802768636.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075248-00008-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951315 | 218 | [
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Questions about existence have always been dearly held, absolutely essential and vehemently contested. Do we want to be specially designed creations of God or just a by-product of a biological process? Michael Meacher has joined this timeless row with his new book, Destination of the Species: The Riddle of Human Existence. It's like a combination of science textbooks, philosophy, Star Trek and Douglas Adams.
Mr. Meacher is a Labour Member of the British Parliament. He's been in the political field for a long time. His time involved in politics must have jaded him (rightly so, no doubt) so he began this quest to understand the universe and how humanity fits into it. The result of ten years of reading and research is a book that speaks to how difficult this kind of questioning can be.
Attend this caveat: it is obvious that the author has spent time in politics. Each page, each paragraph is packed with a nearly egregious amount of words and a ton of references to other individuals, generally scientists, and their theories. I was just never sure if he really knew all of this or was just repeating what he'd read.
Additionally, I wasn't certain to whom this book was written. Was it intended for the scientific community or the general public? I fear that those of the public who begin reading will feel overwhelmed by the amount of hard science packed into each chapter. I know that's how I felt. Meacher throws about terms like "scalar fields," "Wheeler-DeWit equations" and other things I can't remember in a conversant tone. While this definitely shows Mr. Meacher's diligence, I just think it may bog people down.
Here's a sample:
"Better to accept that reality is ultimately probabilistic than the de-Ockhamized (multiplying entities beyond what is strictly necessary) ontological extravagance of endless branching. "
I'm sure there are some folks out there who dig that. Instead of sentences like that, however, it would have been nice to have theories and scenarios explained via an illustration (no, not a drawing) or an experience. Especially since this needs to be a book that helps anyone analyze science and religion and, really, try to decide if there is a God, the information needs to be far more accessible — put into real world context.
I believe this quote adequately sums up the heart of the book, once you get beyond all the hard science terms:
"The only other explanation for a universe so exceptionally fine-tuned with such incredible precision as to be conducive to life seems to be that it was designed for this purpose. This runs contrary to the whole thrust of scientific inquiry since the Enlightenment 300 years ago which has consistently sought to explain reality in a manner which avoids any hint of supernatural agency and has focused on efficient causation to the exclusion of any teleological basis to the laws of physics."
There's the conflict. The universe is fine-tuned. Religionists will tell you this is proof of God, scientists say it's simply the beauty of science. Well, some of them do. Others say other things and I truthfully got lost. Mr. Meacher points out that his book does not — cannot — provide any final answer on the mystery of human existence; it just asks if there is evidence of purpose within the universe. This doesn't equate to God, he argues. That's a completely different field of study. I was never quite sure what he was getting at, though I did enjoy the science.
I do find it interesting that this quote also seems to say, to me at least, that scientific inquiry took a stance against religious views from the very beginning — which is what scientists were angry about religion doing to them.
In the end, this book solidified in my mind how like a restless sea human belief can be — unstable and sometimes dangerous. Even Mr. Meacher points out that the scientific progress from the 18th century onward has been detrimental to the planet. World views, scientific views, religious views — always in motion they are.Powered by Sidelines | <urn:uuid:386e63eb-4d30-4ebf-835a-0993fd76e9c6> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://blogcritics.org/book-review-destination-of-the-species/ | 2014-12-21T01:31:55Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802770554.119/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075250-00088-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972752 | 837 | [
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I came across this "feature" by accident, and it's very useful.
Microsoft has an add-in to Internet Explorer called Fiddler, which
lets you inspect http sessions. I've discovered that when Fiddler is
on, you can use it to inspect Chrome's http traffic as well. This
trick also works with Safari/Windows but does not work with certain
First, start IE and Fiddler, and set "capture traffic" on. Select an
http session containing an html page. Look at the response (bottom
right pane) in Text view. Next to the button that says "View in
Notepad", there is a button with 3 dots (...) where you can select a
different program. Select Chrome. At that point Chrome will launch
on a cached copy of the html, but all of its http traffic then appears
within Fiddler. That includes all the tabs and even things like
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Fiddler has a lot more detail than Chrome's about:network feature.
As I understand it ( http://www.fiddlertool.com/Fiddler/help/hookup.asp
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More and more students are taking their smartphones and tablets to school these days. It’s something that is hard to avoid so some school districts are embracing it by using technology to enhance lessons.
One school district doing just that is West Jefferson Hills and their technology director Suhail Baloch joined The KDKA Morning News with Larry Richert and John Shumway to talk about how they do it.
PITTSBURGH (NewsRadio 1020 KDKA) – Days when the temperature dips near or below zero, AAA knows they are going to get more service calls than usual. Wednesday morning’s commute was no different.
This is the day iPhone lovers have waited for and hundreds of them in the area waited all night to get their hands on the latest version of this smart phone.
Ever drop your smart phone or iPad, cracking the screen? If you don’t have insurance and your upgrade is months — or possibly years away — fixing it can be very costly.
It’s a cashless world we’re living in these days. Paying with cash is falling out of favor as more people turn to credit cards and debit cards. Now, there’s a high-tech way to pay the tab the next time you go to a restaurant.
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Saw Franchise Kicks The Bucket!
Crack the champagne, get out your noise makers, and hang the streamers, it’s time to celebrate the death of a beaten and broken franchise that is finally giving up. Jump for joy as we announce that the Saw series is hanging up its hat after seven long years, according to Latino Review.
With the terrible numbers that Saw VI pulled, and the genuine fact that not many people give a shit any more, writer Patrick Melton, in an interview with UK Radio station Demon FM, spilled the beans that instead of VII and VIII being a two-part finale, they’re just going to make one bigger movie that “ties things up as best as they can.” Melton spends most of the interview explaining all the vague plot points that viewers were supposed to get out the films so far, but since they are generally bad movies, almost everyone missed them.
The writer claims he’ll be doing his best to wrap up every loose end from all six previous films. That’s very novel of him, but any dope who’s seen one of the movies will already see that there’s just too much to cover in one shot. Saw VII will likely play out something like this, “HEY! Look over here at this answer! OH! Now look over here at this answer! SHOCK AND AWE!” with no real story (not that there has been any real story since the original in 2004.)
There’s no reason for them to keep making Saw films. The franchise is tired, unimaginative, and devoid of any cinematic merit. After this Halloween, there will be no more ads with screaming people in random traps, no more loose story lines keeping Tobin Bell alive, and thank the gods, no more teenage kids yelling “OMFG Saw was so awesome, brah!” Of course this could all be some cheap trick from the studio to reignite interest in the series, and they may go ahead and just keep making Saw films anyway. But I’m going to tuck that idea far away in the back of my mind and just bask in utopian thoughts of a Saw-free America.
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US 4446187 A
The present invention relates to a sheet assembly with a permeability at least to gaseous media, as well as a method for manufacturing same.
The object of the present invention is to produce a sheet assembly which may be used as a forming fabric, press fabric and/or drying fabric, including as a press felt or drying felt.
This object is achieved in that a sheet assembly according to the present invention is characterized by a foil (1) of a substantially liquid impermeable material which is coordinated with a reinforcement structure (3) which is disposed wholly or partially within the foil (1) and is permeable to gas and possibly also to liquid, at least the foil (1) displaying substantially vertical through-channels (2).
1. A sheet assembly for dewatering fiber webs comprising:
a layer of substantially liquid-impermeable material in contact with said webs; and a reinforcing structure;
said sheet having substantially vertical through-channels formed at least through said layer, said through-channels being adapted to lead water away from said fiber webs when the layer is placed in contact with said fiber webs.
2. An sheet assembly according to claim 1, wherein said reinforcement structure is located on one side of said layer and is connected to said layer at least in the regions of the mouths of said channels.
3. An sheet assembly according to claim 1, comprising pores in the layer material between said channels.
4. An sheet assembly according to claim 1, wherein said reinforcement structure consists of a fabric of monofilament threads.
5. An sheet assembly according to claim 4, wherein said fabric is provided with fibres on at least the side facing one side of said layer.
6. A sheet assembly according to claim 4, wherein said fabric is provided with fibres at least on the side facing one side of said layer, said fibres needled to said fabric.
7. An sheet assembly according to claim 1, wherein said reinforcement structure consists of a fabric of multifilament threads.
8. An sheet assembly according to claim 7, wherein said fabric is provided with fibres on at least the side facing one side of said layer.
9. An sheet assembly according to claim 7, wherein said fabric is provided with fibres on at least the side facing one side of said layer, said fibres needled to said fabric.
The present invention relates to a sheet assembly which is permeable at least to gaseous media, and to a method for manufacturing an assembly of this kind.
Such a sheet assembly is extremely versatile in its applications and in its fields of use. However, it is particularly within the paper-manufacturing industry that such sheet assemblies are extremely useful. The sheet assembly according to the present invention is particularly useful as a porous belt for dewatering fibre webs within the paper, cellulose and similar industries, but the sheet assembly according to the invention may also be used to separate solid particles from liquids and gases.
In the manufacture of e.g. paper, a fibre web is formed by feeding fibres which are uniformly distributed in water onto or between forming fabrics or by allowing them to be taken up by a fabric-coated cylinder immersed in a tray. The forming fabric consists of a textile fabric of metal or synthetic-fibre yarns. The forming fabric serves two major functions, viz. to separate the fibres from the water and to form the fibres in a manner ensuring that an even and continuous fibre sheet is formed. The interstices between the yarns in the textile fabric form drainage channels through which the water is discharged and consequently these yarn interstices must not be too large since if they are the fibres might be entrained with the water and carried to the so-called white water. The density and surface properties of the fabric are factors which directly determine the quality of the finished paper. Uneven dewatering and uneven fabric surface give rise to irregular fibre formation, and this, in turn, influences the properties of the paper, such as the marking tendencies. Experiments have also been carried out with forming fabrics in the form of perforated plates, but for various reasons these have not found extensive application. The continuous fibre sheet obtained on the forming fabric has a comparatively high moisture content which is reduced by pressing and drying the sheet in the pressing and drying sections. Because of the high energy costs, it is desirable that as great amounts as possible of the moisture are removed in the press section, whereby the heating costs in the drying section can be kept at a minimum. In the pressing operation, the fibre web is compressed between two rollers together with one or several press felts and/or press fabrics. The nature of these is such that the water pressed from the fibre web penetrates into and partly through the felt. The press felt should both protect the fibre web during the pressing operation and lead off the water from the fibre web. The surface structure of the resulting paper is largely dependent on the pressing operation, which in turn is dependent upon the evenness of the press felt. The majority of press felts consists of a base fabric to which is needled a fibre batt. The fibre batt is produced by carding and has in itself a certain degree of unevenness which is amplified by the needled rows which arise in the basic fabric during the needling operation. To produce the best paper quality possible it is necessary that the side of the press felt facing the paper web is as even and finely porous as possible, while at the same time the back should be highly capable of leading-off and removing the water.
Attemps have been made to increase the permeability of the felt and its capacity to absorb moisture by providing in at least one fibre layer a moisture storage in the form of angularly inclined channels. Such channels are produced by melting of the fibre materials. Although this measure may impart improved dewatering properties, the problem nevertheless remains concerning the surface structure of a fibre product. Although at the present time the needled fibre batt gives the best and most even-fibred structure it does not solve the problems caused by streaks formed by the needles or other unevenness in the surface structure that have an effect on the evenness in the pressing operation and result in an undesirable coarseness of the paper surface. Moreover, fibre material structures display irregular, randomly located holes which give the structure or the press felt an uncontrollable porosity which may vary in different parts of the felt. Attempts have been made to grind the surface of fibre structures for the purpose of improving the surface evenness, but this grinding or smoothing operation has given rise to other inconveniences.
Also in the drying section, felts or fabrics are used for the purpose of pressing the fibre web or paper web against heated cylinders. The degree of drying and drying capacity in this section depend upon the evenness of the pressure with which the sheet is pressed against the cylinder and consequently the surface evenness of the felt or fabric is of great importance also in the drying section.
The purpose of the present invention thus is to provide a sheet assembly which may be used as a forming fabric, press fabric and drying fabric, including as a press felt and a drying felt. Prior-art forming fabrics have a surface with knuckles which protrude above the textile structure, bend and again turn downwards. Irrespective of how evenly these knuckles are distributed, it is desirable to produce and use a dewatering device having as even a surface as possible. It is, moreover, desirable that the porosity is as even as possible in order to achieve even dewatering and even formation of the fibre web when the sheet assembly is used as a forming fabric.
Prior-art press felts having a fibre fibrous structure are not very capable of withstanding the dynamic compression which occurs to a great extent in paper making machines in which the press felt is run through several million revolutions while being exposed to heavy loads. This leads to compression of the press felt and an increase of its density. The compression and density of the felt are also caused by weakening of the textile fabric structure, which consists of a large number of intersecting mono- and multifilament threads.
Evenness of the compression pressure also plays a decisive part in the surface structure of the paper as also in the dewatering of the sheet in the press nip. Even if a fibrous structure is ground or smoothed, it will nevertheless display a certain unevenness, which leads to a reduced dewatering effect and to a coarser surface structure in the finished paper. The surface unevenness of the felt or the fabric also increases the possibility for chemical attacks, soiling etc. It is thus desirable to produce a felt or a fabric which possesses as even a surface as possible.
Furthermore, in order to ensure maximum dewatering evenness, it is desirable to provide a high degree of controlled porosity and to be able to predetermine as far as possible the location of the pores. The term "pores" as used herein relates to moisture conductor means. In the majority of fibrous structures incorporating so-called needled felts, it is impossible to avoid that the needles cause agglomeration of fibres upon needle penetration through the batt layer.
In the past, the production of particularly press felts involves a long series of low-production, inexact processes, such as is for example the case in the manufacture of batts. For this reason it is desirable both to reduce the number of processes involved and to improve the accuracy of the processes.
The technical problems outlined above are solved and a great number of the needs discussed above are met in the sheet assembly according to the subject invention, which assembly is characterised in that a foil of a substantially liquid-impermeable material is coordinated with a reinforcement structure which is permeable at least to gas, and in that at least the foil displays substantially vertical through-channels.
Preferably, the reinforcement structure is located on one side of the foil and is connected to the foil at least in the areas of the channel mouths. The foil preferably is formed with pores in the material intermediate the channels. Preferably, the reinforcement structure consists of a fabric of mono- and/or multifilament threads. The fabric may be provided with a fibre layer on at least one side. The fibres are preferably needled to the fabric.
The method of manufacturing a sheet assembly according to the present invention is characterised in that a foil of a substantially liquid-impermeable, thermoplastic material is fed together with a reinforcement structure of substantially thermoplastic material, through a laser perforator which forms discrete holes at least in the foil.
Conveniently the laser perforator is modulated in order to provide the desired depth of the holes as well as the desired configuration of the hole walls. By varying the advancement of the foil and the reinforcement structure through the laser perforator substantially discontinuous hole traces may be obtained.
A sheet assembly according to the present invention has numerous advantages. For instance, the surface of the side facing the paper web is very even without impairing the water-drainage capacity of the opposite side. By manufacturing the sheet assembly using the laser technique, one has found that a great number of cavities or voids are formed in the foil which give the sheet assembly a high degree of elasticity. The latter may be further improved by the selection of a suitable material in the starting foil. This material may advantageously be a plastics material of polyurethane type.
Apart from extraordinary surface evenness and excellent dewatering properties, the sheet assembly according to the present invention displays a considerably higher degree of strength than prior art sheet assemblies for identical applications. Sheet assemblies or felts and fabrics according to the present invention will therefore have a considerably longer serviceable life.
The invention will be described in closer detail with reference to the accompanying drawings, wherein
FIG. 1 is a schematic cross-section through a sheet assembly according to one embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a schematic side elevation of an apparatus for manufacturing a sheet assembly according to the present invention.
FIG. 3 is a top plan view of the apparatus of FIG. 2.
FIGS. 4a, 4b and 4c are schematic cross-sections showing the stages of manufacture of a hole in a sheet assembly according to the present invention.
FIGS. 5-8 are schematic cross-sections through a portion of the sheet assembly having different hole configurations.
FIG. 9 is a photograph of a cross-section similar to that of FIG. 1, the photograph having been taken through an electron microscope having a magnification of approx. 20 times.
FIG. 10 shows a similar photograph to FIG. 9, but with a magnification of approx. 80 times.
FIG. 11 is a photograph of the surface of a sheet assembly according to one embodiment of the present invention, this photograph having been taken with an electron microscope, the magnification being approximately 20 times.
FIG. 12 is a similar photograph to FIG. 11, but with a magnification of approx. 280 times.
As is more clearly apparent from FIG. 1 a sheet assembly according to one embodiment of the present invention consists of a foil 1 with through-holes or channels 2. On one side of the foil 1 is arranged a reinforcement structure 3 which in the illustrated embodiment consists of a fabric of staple fibres. The foil 1 and the reinforcement structure 3 are bonded to each other.
The foil 1 is preferably manufactured from a suitable plastics material, preferably of a thermoplastic type. The foil 1 preferably consists of polyurethane plastics. Plastics of this kind have proved to possess particular advantages which will be dealt with in greater detail below. Also the reinforcement structure or fabric 3 preferably consists of a plastics material and depending on the desired properties of the final sheet assembly it may be woven from monofilament warp threads or multifilament warp threads 4, and monofilament weft threads or multifilament weft threads 5. In the reinforcement structure or fabric 3, staple fibres 6 may also be included as is illustrated in FIG. 1, which fibres may be disposed in the form of one or more layers needled into the fabric 3.
As has been pointed out above, the foil 1 and the reinforcement structure 3 are bonded to each other, which is normally effected by means of fusion of the foil 1 and the reinforcement structure 3, but which may also be effected with the aid of some suitable adhesive or mechanical connection method. According to the invention, reinforcement of the bond between these two elements is effected in conjunction with the provision of the through-holes or channels 2 by means of a laser device as will be described in greater detail below with reference to FIGS. 2 to 4. This bond reinforcement alone may be sufficient to interconnect the foil 1 and the reinforcement structure 3.
A method of manufacturing a sheet assembly according to the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. 2 to 4. A belt 7 consisting of a reinforcement structure or fabric 3 and a foil 1 disposed thereon, is placed under tension between two rollers 8 in a perforation plant operating by means of a laser beam of a type known per se. The operative laser beam is obtained from a laser head 9 with, for example, a carbon dioxide laser known per se which is adjusted so as to be able to limit a beam which is modulated or pulsated in a desired manner via a known lens per se. These known parts are shown schematically in the drawings. The head 9 of the laser plant is supplied with the conventional equipment in the art for this purpose in a manner ensuring that recesses or channels 2 are created in the foil 1, which channels extend through the foil 1. The lighting time, beam diameter and intensity of the laser beam is such that the channels or holes 2 are given the desired width and depth. The depth is preferably adjusted to ensure that the laser beam does not penetrate through and does not affect, to any great extent, the reinforcement structure 3.
In this connection should be pointed out that in each channel or hole mouth 2 on the side turned to face the reinforcement structure or fabric occurs the fusion of the thermoplastics material as well as the bond reinforcement of the foil 1 to the reinforcement structure 3 as referred to above. This is more clearly apparent from FIGS. 9 and 10.
According to the present invention, it is desirable to effect perforation of the foil 1 and for this reason the head 9 is caused to move intermittently across the belt 7 and at each point of rest, to make a channel or hole 2. With reference to FIG. 3 the head 9 first makes the hole 10 in one row and continues moving across the belt 7 to the hole 11 at the end of the same row. Thereafter, the head is displaced by one row or row partition to make hole 12 and moves across the belt 7 to the opposite edge thereof. The head 9 continues to move in this manner across the belt 7, row by row, up to the hole 13, which may be regarded as the end of the coordinate table. At 14, a mark is made to serve as a guide by means of which the head 9 may be set in correct position after displacement of the belt 7 (to the left in accordance with FIG. 3). In this connection should be noted that after this displacement of the belt 7, the mark 14 should be set in the position corresponding to that of the hole 10 in FIG. 3, whereupon the sequence of movements of head 9 described above is resumed. It is also possible to displace the belt 7 stepwise over a distance corresponding to the spacing between the rows of holes.
The stages of manufacture of a hole or channel 2 is illustrated in detail in FIGS. 4a to 4c. In these figures, only the foil 1 is shown, however in this case foil 1 should be considered to represent the entire sheet assembly comprising both the foil 1 and the reinforcement structure 3. Furthermore, only a minor portion of the head 9 is shown, which head has a lens portion 15 which emits a laser beam 16 which impinges on the foil 1. A sleeve 17 encloses a portion of the laser beam 16, the sleeve having a connection 18. The sleeve is sealed to the head 9 and at its tip it has an aperture through which passes the laser beam 16. A high-pressure gas is fed into the sleeve 17, this gas being indicated by means of the arrow 19. The laser beam 16 melts the material of the foil 1 and, during the melting, gas generated in the hole-formation escapes, this gas escape being illustrated by means of the arrows 20.
FIG. 4b shows the laser beam 16 having penetrated further into the foil 1 and FIG. 4c shows a stage of even deeper penetration into the foil 1. Experiments have shown that without the sleeve 17 and the gas 19, the escaping gas 20 from the hole-formation would have had a detrimental effect on the lens 15 in the head 9. It has therefore proved necessary to provide a counter-acting gas, which is achieved by means of the sleeve 17 and the gas 19. The gas 19 flows from the sleeve 17 simultaneously with the laser beam 16, thereby preventing the lens 15 from being attacked by the gas 20.
The deeper the laser beam 16 penetrates (FIG. 4c) into the foil 1, the higher will be the gas pressure in the channel being formed. The gas cannot escape as easily as before, for which reason the gas will to some extent diffuse into the foil 1. Because of the gas diffusion, gas blisters 21 form in the foil 1. The cavities or blisters 21 obviously will impart to the foil 1 a greater degree of softness and elasticity which in turn improves the capacity of the foil to withstand the great number of compressions to which it is exposed in the use of the sheet assembly as a press felt. It should be noted that the occurrence of gas blisters or cavities 21 has proved to be comparatively slight at the surface of the foil 1 closest to the laser head 9 but to be more frequent on the opposite surface and the region closest thereto. This is probably so because it is difficult for the gas to escape from partly formed holes 2 and therefore it penetrates into the material to a greater extent. However, this phenomenon can be controlled by means of the laser device.
Upon completion of the formation of a hole 2 in the foil 1, the latter will have been almost completely penetrated and fusion between the foil 1 and the reinforcement structure 3 takes place, whereby the foil and the structure are bonded to each other.
By the use of the laser device it is possible to produce holes or channels 2 of virtually any desired shape or configuration. This is true as regards the longitudinal configuration of the holes or channels as well as their transverse extension. FIGS. 5 to 8 illustrate a number of different hole configurations, and it is obvious that it is possible according to the present invention to combine according to wish any illustrated hole configurations both in one and the same hole and in different parts of the foil 1.
In FIGS. 9 to 11 are shown photographs of a prototype of a sheet assembly according to the present invention. From these photographs appear both the formation of the channels or holes 2 and, above all in FIG. 10, the occurrence of the per se desirable gas blisters 21 which would seem to improve to a great extent the elasticity of the foil 1 and its capacity to withstand an extremely large number of compressions without becoming excessively dense. FIGS. 9 and 10 show also the bond between the foil 1 and the reinforcement structure of fabric 3.
FIGS. 11 and 12 illustrate in greater detail the configuration of the holes or channels 2 and, in particular, the sectional configuration of the holes or channels. These Figures illustrate particularly the formation of the channels or holes 2 by means of a melting and fusing process.
As has been pointed out earlier the sheet assembly according to the present invention may be imparted almost any desired properties. Such desired properties include, above all, the permeability of the sheet assembly, by which is intended its capacity to allow passage-through of primarily gas but also of liquid, depending on the size of the holes 2. Despite the presence of the mouths of the holes 2 in the surface of the foil 1, the foil surface will be extremely even, especially when compared with prior-art press fabrics or press felts. Consequently, considerably higher paper qualities may be expected with the use of a sheet assembly according to the present invention in the press section of a paper making machine than with the use of a conventional fabrics and felts.
Dewatering of a paper web in a press depends on e.g. the pressure distribution between the felt and the paper. Felts possessing a high degree of evenness give a favourable pressure distribution and improve the transfer of water from the paper web to the felt. This distribution depends not only on the evenness of the fibrous surface but also on the structure of the base fabric within the felt, which can manifest itself at high pressures. It is possible to gain an idea of the pressure distribution by taking an impression by means of a planar press of the felt on thin cyano-acrylic-impregnated paper. The compression pressure is selected so as to correspond to the pressure in a papermaking machine press. Once the cyano-acrylate glue has hardened, the surface evenness may be measured by means of a surface evenness measurement device of the type conventionally used within the engineering industry. One has found that in the majority of felts the contour variations are within 200 μm for a new felt and as low as 60 μm for a felt which has been run-in evenly.
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9. PHYLLIS JOHNSON interviewed by her friend DANNY PERASA
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Published 16 May 2006
FROM THE EDITOR
In late April 2006, the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), or MI6 as it is better known, shocked many in the intelligence world, when it ran two major recruiting advertisements in The Times and Economist. It was only ten years ago that the government dared acknowledge MI6 even existed, so this is a significant move. The agency has a staff of about 2,500, but facing a variety of emerging and significant problems, not least the menace of the terrorist network al-Qaida, which bizarrely translates to 'the base', MI6 is looking to strengthen its spying operations across the globe. 'Operational Officers' (known in the intelligence community as Field Officers) are wanted for postings in faraway places. It's a candid description of those who often find themselves gathering intelligence and trying to 'turn' or convince' foreign nationals to help Her Majesty's Government.
Usually they are based at Britain's overseas embassies. In most countries they are relatively safe, but MI6 officers often find themselves working in 'conflict areas', or situations where intelligence is desperately needed for its 'users'. Recent events in Moscow (the 'spy rock' affair) show that being exposed as a spy, does not necessarily mean 'certain death'. A hundred years ago it was very different. However, the fate of those uncovered or captured is really dependent on several factors, not least by those in power or the captors themselves. Field Officers rarely play a physical role in actual espionage, but rather use agents, informants and associates to do the intelligence gathering. They can, and do, offer support, guidance and material help, such as providing machines and money.
Britain's MI6 has about 50 field stations, America's CIA, probably close to 150. According to intelligence officers a UK entity is manned by no more than five officers and operates from a sealed-off area within an embassy. That's too simplistic a description. 'Field stations' are not a 'walk-in' office, nor are they just found in embassies. There are different types of stations - declared and undeclared - for example. Some are 'manned' by just one person, others are found 'buried' inside legitimate overseas companies - primed for spying and with a well established communication system. In this edition of Eye Spy, senior writers have 'pooled' their knowledge and expertise of Field Station and Officers. The result is an in-depth and revealing article on how MI6 and the CIA operate such facilities, the role of field and desk officers, diplomatic cover, gathering intelligence, communications, staffing levels, dangerous operations, and ultimately, what type of person mans these foreign outposts. An absolute must for those interested in the world of intelligence, and perhaps even readers of The Times and Economist who may have been tempted to write to the world's most secret service....
We are also delighted to introduce a new columnist to Eye Spy readers - David Hamer. David currently serves as Vice-Chairman of Acquisitions at the National Cryptologic Museum Foundation [NCMF], which supports NCM - the museum of the National Security Agency [NSA] - at Fort George G. Meade in Maryland. He is also the foundation's Liaison Officer with Bletchley Park [BP] and with GCHQ's internal museum in Cheltenham. David recently said Eye Spy was 'the best of the best of spy magazines in the world. I hope you agree and decide to take a look for yourself at the incredible world of intelligence and espionage.
Indeed, inside Eye Spy 40, we feature the NSA's museum - and augment David's first column with some stunning photographs and features.
It is just one of dozens of fascinating features, news stories and educational sections relating to the world of intelligence and espionage published in Eye Spy 40. Superb value, reliability of information, and a cast of contributors and consultants who ply their trade in the world's most secret subject...
Mark Ian Birdsall
Reconnaissance and Red Flags: How security services endeavour to unlock the secrets of a terrorist operation
Sleeper cell or sleeper agent were words often used to describe spies embedded in society that waited patiently, often for years, for a codeword or signal that usually sparked an operation, or that they were needed to help colleagues already undertaking work for a foreign government. Today the word has become synonymous with terrorist groups and their cohorts. Eye Spy examines an array of clues and incidents that exposed a reconnaissance operation on a major target. How do the security services 'piece together' seemingly innocuous data and mundane happenings to expose a legitimate threat?
By examining concerns from puzzled taxi drivers, the theft of fertiliser from a factory, the sale of a decommissioned ambulance for a film set, and the strange behaviour of two tourists, a counter-terrorism team can see the broader picture. In this fascinating feature, Eye Spy delivers some of the clues that the security services endeavour to link...
Who was body 59 - DCF12?
According to campaigners urging the release of convicted Libyan Pan Am bomber Al Megrahi, earth shattering' information has been found that will create grounds for a major review of the case - including the circumstances which brought down Flight 103 over the Scottish town of Lockerbie in 1988. Over 250 people died in the terrorist attack, but not everyone feels justice has been done... including former police surgeon Dr David Fieldhouse.
He travelled to Lockerbie just hours after the airliner crashed onto the town. In the next few hours, Dr Fieldhouse tagged 59 bodies. However, when official documentation showed he had only 58 numbers on his list, he was puzzled. Where, and perhaps more importantly, who was body DCF12?
This report also looks at the evidence acquired by former FBI contract investigator Juval Aviv. He was hired by Pan Am to investigate the case, and his 27-page report makes interesting reading. Aviv says the bomb may have been placed on the aircraft at Frankfurt Airport by a terrorist group charged with avenging the accidental shooting down of a Libyan airliner by the USS Vincennes just months earlier. The same terror group may have been in contact with a US intel drugs agency trying to uncover the whereabouts of US hostages in the Middle East. A bag, supposedly carrying information may have been switched for the bomb. It's all disturbing material, but Dr Fieldhouse is convinced that after nearly 18 years, the truth about which terror group placed the bomb on the airliner is near.
Eye Spy understands Dr Fieldhouse recently travelled to Scotland from his home in Yorkshire to examine the 'new evidence'. As for Aviv, once his report was passed to Pan Am, he was discredited by the FBI and called a 'fabricator.' More on this as it develops...
The Public Heroes of United Airlines Flight 93
US authorities have finally released Flight 93 tapes that confirm passengers did try and wrestle control back from terrorists who hijacked their aeroplane.
United Airlines Flight 93, one of four aeroplanes hijacked on the morning of 11 September 2001, crashed in a Pennsylvania field about 30 minutes after it had taken off from Newark. Thirty-three passengers and seven crew members died, along with four terrorists. The exact circumstances of how the Boeing 757 fell out the sky has been a relatively guarded secret. However, it has always been suspected that the remarkable bravery of ordinary men and women - some who tried to overpower weapon-wielding hijackers - was to blame. This has been disputed by some analysts, but following the release of audio tapes at the trial of Zacarias Moussaoui in a federal court in Alexandria, few would doubt that at the very least their heroic action unnerved the terrorists and forced them to abandon their mission to destroy either the Capitol Building, or even The White House.
Eye Spy examines the tapes and looks at the astonishing bravery of the public heroes of Flight 93.
ATHENS PHONE TAP MYSTERY
Espionage, Blackmail and Suicide
It seemed like a tragic suicide when the body of Costas Tsalikidis, 38, a senior network manager for Vodafone Greece was discovered on the morning of 9 March 2005. Apparently Mr Tsalikidis had hanged himself in his apartment. A few hours later, the head of Vodafone Greece contacted one of Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis' aides and quietly advised him that his phone, along with most of Greece's cabinet had also been tapped in 2004 - the year Athens hosted the
Phone calls made leading up to the event had been intercepted for eight months and lasted until March 2005. It is understood as many as 100 mobile phones may have been bugged. Some belonged to several high-ranking military officials.
Giorgos Koronias, Vodafone CEO in Greece told the parliamentary committee investigating the wiretaps: "There must be an organisation behind this that combines technology and financing. It was not just hackers, this is something bigger. Such know-how does not exist in Greece." The stealth bugging software had been installed at two of Vodafones main Athens facilities, in Peania and Kifissos.
Who was behind the phone tapping?
Niger Embassy officials identified as Iraq uranium document forgers...
NATO sources have revealed that two members of staff at Niger's Italian embassy were behind the bogus 'yellowcake' documents - used in part to justify the war in Iraq. An investigation has allegedly revealed that Niger's consul Adam Maiga Zakariaou, and the ambassador's personal assistant Laura Montini, created a 'contract document' in 2002 that showed Saddam Hussein had purchased yellowcake (uranium ore) from their country.
Though the 'Niger Documents', as they have since become known, have been dismissed as 'poor forgeries', investigators are keen to discover the background of their origin, not least because several shadowy figures in the intelligence world became involved in the affair. Rumours abounded that they were forged by the CIA and MI6 (with a little help from Sismi - the Italian intelligence service) to help build the case for war. There was even a story that France's intelligence service, the DGSE, wanted to embarrass Washington and London as war loomed with Iraq.
In the end, it seems the lure of money prompted the two embassy officials to embark on the mission. Amidst reports of genuine intelligence that Saddam had sent officials to Africa to examine the possibility of acquiring uranium ore, the two Niger officials allegedly doctored an authentic contract. The finished article showed a government agreement between Iraq and Niger discussing the supply of 500 tons of yellowcake.
Eye Spy associate editor Michael Smith has learned that the genesis of this extraordinary incident began in a Rome bar in February 2000. A meeting was arranged by Antonio Nucera, an officer in the Sismi, and two of his former agents, Rocco Martino and Laura Montini.
Eye Spy looks at what happened next.
British 'spy' shot dead in Ireland
Denis Donaldson, a former senior Sinn Fein politician who recently admitted spying on the IRA and his own colleagues for more than 20 years, was found dead on 4 April. He had apparently been shot twice with a shot gun at a remote farmhouse near Glenties, Co Donegal, owned by his son-in-law, Ciaran Kearney. Donaldson was killed after he answered a knock on his front door. In December 2005, Donaldson, also a former IRA volunteer, caused mayhem in the intelligence world when he told reporters that he had worked for years as a 'British intelligence asset'. Sinn Fein promptly expelled its former head of administration at Stormont, the seat of power in the North of Ireland. Full background...
SPYCRAFT - THE WATCH TRICK
Eye Spy tests one of the easiest 'tricks of the trade'
Undertaking surveillance of a target, vehicle or location can be a time consuming business. It can also prove expensive. However, if an operation simply entails finding out what time a vehicle was driven away, then there is a very inexpensive method that is almost always successful - it's called the 'watch trick'.
Besides being applied to covert surveillance, the trick can provide lots of interesting data. Managers can monitor the length of time a person attends a business meeting or the hours worked in a shift - just in case an employee starts to add a few hours to his time sheet. Suspicious spouses can discover just how long their partner has spent at a specific location. Undoubtedly readers can add to this list.
To perform this 'time old' 'off-site' surveillance trick, you must first obtain a watch, scissors and tape....
SPY IN THE CAMP OR AGENT APRIL FOOL?
Did Russia give Saddam Iraq Battle Plan?
According to information contained in two captured Iraqi intelligence documents released by the Pentagon in March, it appears someone from US Central Command headquarters, which is sited at Camp As Saliyah just outside Doha, the capital of Qatar, tipped-off a Russian agent who in turn forwarded the battle plans to a senior Russian diplomat in Baghdad. Russia's ambassador then allegedly forwarded the information to Saddam's military commanders.
Intelligence and military officials have thus far refused to launch an investigation, though the CIA and other agencies are puzzled how the Russians acquired the highly secret information.
The reasons behind the decision not to investigate are unclear, but speculation is rife that the material contained a great deal of disinformation and that the entire affair may have been a careful military intelligence ruse carried out by a US military intelligence agent code-named April Fool.
The facts and more.
OPENING PANDORA'S BOX
Iran's Nuclear Programme and 'Big Blue'
Since 1999, Iran embarked upon a programme building vast underground facilities in strategically placed positions that aircraft or missiles would find difficult to access. Even advanced 'bunker busting' bombs would be of limited use. With that in mind, news has emerged that a specially designed warhead - codenamed Big Blu - is allegedly being readied for trials by the Pentagon. The 30,000lb bomb would be dropped by B-2 stealth bombers and guided to its target by advanced GPS. What makes this weapon far more deadly to underground sites, is its Cobalt-alloy body that allows it to penetrate an astonishing 150ft through solid rock. At this point the warhead is detonated igniting 6,000lbs of high explosives - enough to penetrate reinforced concrete hundreds of feet thick and disable sensitive equipment inside.
ANATOMY OF A HYPOTHETICAL TERRORISM CASE
FBI Director Robert Mueller provides a fascinating insight into how the security services work to investigate and capture terrorists
FBI Director Robert Mueller recently delivered a lecture that provided a fascinating insight into how the FBI investigates suspected terrorist situations. The effort often involves working with a variety of local
authorities and international law enforcement agencies. To explain (and simplify) the often complex work of investigators, Mr Mueller created a hypothetical case...
Court hears attempt to purchase deadly material
The trial of three men, accused of conspiring to purchase Red Mercury - a supposedly highly dangerous material, has started at the Old Bailey Court in London. According to the prosecution, the suspects planned to sell hundreds of pounds of Red Mercury to a Middle East terrorist via an intermediary. Unbeknown to the men, the 'middle man' was none other than Mazher Mahmood, an undercover reporter.
The plot to overthrow the British Government
When MI5 renegade Peter Wright (below) wrote about a plot by the intelligence service to force the resignation of British Prime Minister Harold Wilson, the public were astonished, the media fascinated, and the Security Service silent. Wright's book - Spycatcher was banned in the UK though the revelations inside soon reached the shores of Britain with lightning speed. Many political and intelligence experts rejected the allegations, and even those who suspected some aspects of the story were true, called it an
'exaggeration of facts.' Now new evidence about the affair has again surfaced in a BBC drama documentary.
Broadcast in March 2006, The Plot Against Harold Wilson showed that far from being a 'flight of fancy', elements in the 'Establishment' and MI5 genuinely believed Harold Wilson, a staunch pipe-smoking socialist from Yorkshire, who never wavered from his working class upbringing, was considered a threat to the UK.
Journalists secretly tape-recorded Wilson in the mid-1970s. The contents of these tapes, plus other information paint a very dark picture, indeed they seem to confirm Wilson's paranoia of an intelligence-led plot using the SAS to remove him from power - and place a member of the Royal Family in Downing Street.
Learning and Understanding Intelligence
UnRestricted Warfare is a relatively new concept first defined in 1999 by two Chinese colonels in a book written in the late 1990s for the Chinese People's Liberation Army. The authors, colonels Qiao Liang and Wang Xiangsui describe unconventional tactics that could be used by an enemy against more powerful targets. This concept has continued to evolve and now consists of fifteen different modalities of warfare employed against an enemy and poses a unique threat to leading world powers that have increasingly been targeted with small scale, stealth-focused attacks on non-military targets. Since no consideration has been given to these aspects of conflict, major powers are highly vulnerable to attacks along these lines.
Warfare is defined as organised conflict between groups for political, economic, or religious purposes. Each group is motivated by a common purpose. We can categorise it using modalities or types of warfare. Traditionally we have only considered two types - Conventional and Weapons of Mass Destruction. However with the technological advancements that have been occurring in the world, 15 new areas, or modalities of warfare are recognised. These are now known as the modalities of UnRestricted Warfare.
UK THREAT LEVEL SYSTEM
The British Government is formulating plans to introduce a 'terrorist threat level system' for alerting the public
There was confusion in the UK when the public learned that the government had actually lowered the threat level just four weeks before terrorists attacked London on 7 July 2005. For those charged with assessing the danger to Britain, it was a huge embarrassment. Now, a cross-party committee investigating the background to the bombings is expected to recommend an official public warning system that will be 'visual' in various forms - from computer adverts to newspaper inserts to billboards. The levels will almost certainly be shown on all government websites; council and city websites are expected to follow. Intelligence sources say it will be virtually identical to that introduced in 2002 in the United States following 9/11.
THE 'SMITHY CODE'
Judge inserts his own code in The Da Vinci Code ruling
The judge presiding over a court case involving Dan Brown's best-seller The Da Vinci Code, actually embedded a coded message in his judgment. Justice Peter Smith admitted his secret after London solicitors became puzzled by a series of odd italicizations in the judgement. The lawyers thought the wording unusual and embarked upon a mission to see if Smith had indeed created a code of his own.
Justice Peter Smith told reporters his action was just a bit of fun. He secreted a reference to the inventor of the Royal Navy's first modern warship into his ruling using the 'Fibonacci Sequence.' This simple code is a combination of a mathematical progression and letter substitutions also used by Dan Brown in his book. Solicitor Dan Tench, who works at the law firm Olswang, is claiming 'first code-breaking rights' - the message reads: 'Jackie Fisher who are you Dreadnought.'
NOT SO SECRET
MI6 Looks for Spies... in the Times
Not that everyone need apply, but Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, better know as MI6, broke a near 100-year old tradition by actually advertising for staff! On 27 April, The Times ran MI6's inaugural advertisement accompanied by a number of photographs that featured exotic locations, from the Middle East to Africa. It is just another example that the world's most secret service is prepared to show a 'human touch'.
All applicants must be British, resourceful, in good health and be able to keep a secret.
US informant gives evidence against six men accused of involvement in a case called 'The British Bomb Plot'
Muhammad Babar, a terrorist-turned-informant, said he conspired with several followers of Osama bin-Laden to attack numerous targets throughout the UK. Flown into London with a US Marshal escort, Babar has been giving evidence at the Old Bailey Court.
On 30 March 2004, British anti-terrorist officers supported by various personnel launched Operation Crevis. Several addresses in and around London were raided, including an Access storage facility close to Heathrow Airport. Inside the unit, officers discovered a huge amount of ammonium nitrate fertiliser. Unbeknown to the media, MI5 and the FBI had been conducting a major intelligence operation months prior to the raid, gathering information from across the globe on those suspected of targeting the UK. GCHQ had also intercepted numerous calls that suggested an attack was imminent. Operation Crevis involved 700 police and support staff.
UK reveals advanced technical facility to help defeat terrorism
The UK has established an elite new centre that will 'co-ordinate the government's technical response' to terrorism, both in Britain and abroad. The Ministry of Defence (MOD) Counter-Terrorism Science and Technology Centre will be staffed by a variety of experts from government, industry and academia. Intelligence sources say the move is a direct result of the London terrorist attacks in July 2005, the increasing problems posed by improvised explosive devices, chemical and biological threats and suicide bombers. Besides research into counter-measures' technology the centre will help identify and respond to a variety of general terrorist operations. Its science wing will help develop new technologies that can be quickly assigned to all parts of the UK and beyond.
A brief round-up of additional reports and features
MAGIC. How codebreakers used an innocent signal to trick the Japanese into revealing its military intentions following the attack on Pearl Harbor
Russia's 'truth verifiers'. Passengers flying in and out of Russia will soon have to answer a series of questions on a telephone-based truth detector to determine if they pose a threat
UN Dirty Bomb Fears. Officials at the United Nations believe huge quantities of radioactive material is going missing every year - and warn that it could be used in 'dirty bombs'
New ISRAELI SPY SATELLITE. Israel has successfully launch Eros-B - a new advanced satellite that will probably be used to monitor Iran's nuclear sites
Al-Zarqawi in video production. Al-Zarqawi, one of the world's most wanted terrorists has
appeared in a 'polished' video production
CIA SPY FLIGHTS. A politician at the EU says the CIA has made over 1,000 'illegal' spy flights over European countries - often transporting suspected terrorists for interrogation
FAILED LONDON BOMB PLOT. Four men have gone on trial over the failed 21/7 London terrorist attacks
FBI OVERLOAD. A number of FBI officers have complained that the NSA forwarded 'too much
intelligence' shortly after 9/11
LIFE FOR 9/11 PLOTTER. Zacharias Moussaoui has been given a life term for his involvement in the 2001 attacks on the United States
SOCA - BRITAIN'S 'FBI'. Government appoints Stephen Lander, a former Director-General to head a new security service - Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA). SOCA will have wide-ranging powers including allowing suspects to use 'Queen's Evidence'
UNDERCOVER BOOK RELEASES.
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VH1 renews T.I. & Tiny: The Family Hustle for a third season
Good news for fans of T.I. and Tiny! The Atlanta rapper and former Xscape belle are coming back to the small screen as their reality show, T.I. and Tiny: The Family Hustle, has been renewed for a third season by VH1.
The new season will premiere in April
‘Top Back’ beau T.I. is back on VH1 for a season 3 of his hit reality show ‘T.I. & Tiny: The Family Hustle’, much to fan delight.
Set for debut this spring, the new season is set to chronicle the creation of the hit rapper‘s latest album“Troubleman: Heavy is the Head” and new movie ‘Identity Thief’, while wife Tiny continues to develop her all-girl group The O.M.G. Girlz.
This, of course, is all in conjunction with the never-ending dramas of family life with the two-some’s six children.
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Conclusion: The fact that College Hoops 2K7 is starting to feel a little “old hat” doesn’t hold it back from being a fun basketball title. There’s just barely enough new stuff to warrant a purchase from those who already took the plunge with 2K Sports’ NBA game. The atmosphere of a true-to-life college basketball game comes right through, both the screen and the speakers, perfectly.
Summary: Parents need to know that this game depicts the sprawling, complex world of college basketball. In addition to the game on the court, players manage rosters, player development and chemistry, recruiting, and budgets -- all while watching for job openings with better teams. Players can spend twice as much time micro-managing the business of their program as they do playing (maybe not what your 7-year-old had in mind).
Excerpt: College basketball is here, and that can only mean one thing: its time for the newest NCAA installment from 2K Games. Grab your rhythm stomping boots and your favorite jersey from the closet, because College Hoops 2K7 is as much for the die-hard b-ballers as it is the casual gamer. Having come out mere months after its 2K6 predecessor, Hoops tries to take full advantage over making the move to a next gen system.
Excerpt: Hot on the heels of College Hoops 2K6, which only came out in March of this year, 2K Sports delivers its latest update in this increasingly awesome sports franchise. And considering college sports games can’t rely on the standard roster upgrade to justify buying it year after year, does 2K7 really add enough to make it worth buying so soon after the previous installment? | <urn:uuid:c6a1f4f8-1528-4b83-bcfc-2785a6168030> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://www.testfreaks.com/xbox360-games/college-hoops-2k7/reviews/ | 2014-12-26T01:00:40Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1419447548479.105/warc/CC-MAIN-20141224185908-00016-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964509 | 358 | [
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Description: The Van Gogh Museum is a museum in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, featuring the works of the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh and his contemporaries. It has the largest collection of Van Gogh's paintings and drawings in the world.
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Honolulu—Lt. Governor Shan Tsutsui shared how his R.E.A.C.H. Initiative will positively impact public intermediate/middle school students statewide with Rotary Club of Kapolei members.
R.E.A.C.H., which is spearheaded by Lt. Governor Tsutsui, is an after-school initiative designed to provide academic enrichment, athletics, and arts and culture to intermediate/middle school students throughout our state. R.E.A.C.H.’s mission is to assure that public middle and intermediate school students are provided with an opportunity to participate in after-school programs; engaging them in a broad-base of programs and activities in the areas of academics, athletics and the arts, so they can stay on track toward high school graduation and be better prepared for a successful future.
Studies have shown that the hours between 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. are a critical time in the lives of a teen. Crimes committed by or against juveniles mainly occur on school days between 3 and 7 p.m. And for the at-risk keiki who are in danger of dropping out of school, falling too far behind academically, or falling under the influence of substance abuse or poor influences, access to after-school programs is absolutely necessary to positively affecting their lives. Studies concluded that high quality afterschool programs can lead to improved attendance, behavior and coursework.
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The Locus Poll to decide the best works of 2013 has opened. There are a couple of things you need to know about the Locus Poll:
1. You do not have to subscribe to the paper edition of Locus to participate in the poll.
2. You do have to fill in your name, age, gender, and provide a (working) email address. Please be honest, particularly with regard to gender.
3. Subscriber votes count DOUBLE; that means that the cards are already stacked against any book that has not "made" the list of works that Locus has already decided are the best of 2013, and which are already provided in the poll.
4. You do not have to vote for the works Locus has already decided are the best of 2013, unless, of course, you agree. A lot of fine work was done in 2013, and Locus doesn't read everything. If you have an opinion which is at odds with Locus, you may fill in your nominations for best works in the blanks that are helpfully provided.
5. Lee and Miller published several works in 2013. They are:
Novels: Necessity's Child, Trade Secret
Novelettes: Eleutherios, Moon's Honor
Short Story: Out of True
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Alabama Association for Behavior Analysis
Enhancing Behavior Analysis through research, education, and practice
Become a member of ALABA or renew your membership online. There are a number of benefits to ALABA membership: you will belong to the largest network of behavior analysts in Alabama, you will receive registration discounts at the ALABA annual convention, and you will be eligible for Chapter membership in the Association for Behavior Analysis International.
In order to benefit, please complete the online form below. We accept all credit cards via PayPal. You will receive a receipt from PayPal that you should save as proof of membership! Note: If you are a student member, email documentation (e.g., unofficial transcript, letter from university official) from your current institution to [email protected] in order to demonstrate eligibility for the discounted student rate.
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The new year brings new trends in diet and exercise. So what's in for 2014?
"Gluten-free" was the way to be in 2013, and that fad is not fading away any time soon. A survey by Today's Dietitian magazine of more than 500 dietitians predicts "gluten-free" will be the top diet trend of 2014.
While gluten is out, ancient grains are definitely in. Experts say expect to see more widespread use of grains like quinoa, amaranth, freekeh and spelt. They're high in fiber, which means they help you feel full longer, and have other health benefits too.
Kale was king of the greens in 2013, but will have to share the crown in the year to come. A survey by the American Culinary Federation of chefs and industry professionals predicts collard greens, turnip greens, and mustard greens will replace kale in many dishes. Overall, dark greens rose in popularity 10 percent over last year.
On the fitness side, high-tech activity trackers will remain hot and feature even more features. Expect more focus on ways to track calories consumed, not just those burned. According to Pew Research, 21 percent of Americans are now using some form of technology to track their fitness or health data.
"Functional fitness" is also a causing a buzz. Those are workouts that incorporate strength training to make every day activities easier. Experts say the benefits include better balance, coordination and injury prevention.
High intensity training is also hot. Short workouts at maximum intensity appeal to people who want to work out, but don't have much time to do it.
Finally, keep those yoga pants handy. Fitness experts say the ancient practice remains incredibly popular.
You might say "namaste" is here to stay.
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Snake (Metal Gear Solid) Custom Action Figure
Hello. here you have a snake in its previous game version. Hope you like it. Greetings
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How do I find the fn+1 term for a implicit scheme?
I have a trapezium rule scheme that I need to apply to a differential function f(t)
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the initial condition is y(0) = 1
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The Misrata trainees have so far done justice to their town’s reputation as a hard-working, can-do kind of place, and are well on their way to fulfilling the mission we set out: to produce four videos in four days. They seemed to be satisfied with our second day spent covering production basics, as many of them have prior production experience (more on that below) but none have had formal training.
Most of the guys (they are all guys, unfortunately) picked up cameras during the fighting that ravaged their town last year and became the media arm of the uprising. Some worked as fixers for the international press. They are amateurs who have more experience filming in situations of intense stress than most professionals. But though they have proven their bravery and bonafides as war photographers and cameramen, displaying their trophies– I was shown several pictures of Qadaffi’s corpse with one of our proud trainees working a camera in the frame (pictured above)– they seem to have not quite figured out how they will transition to becoming peacetime media professionals.
In addition to their inexperience, we can add their youth and thirst for adrenaline as obstacles to professionalism. Maybe there is less glory in covering a local election than a firefight, so there’s a constant push to spice things up, to add special effects to any production. Dramatic music. Anything from After Effects: explosions, fire, wild text animation.
What kind of work will they produce? Will they take up the calling of journalism and its accompanying watchdog ethic, at least as we traditionally understand it in the west, or will they continue to produce propaganda for their “side”– their town and their Katibas [militias or brigades]– as they risked their lives to do during the revolution?
Our challenge is to temper some of their enthusiasm and show that there is satisfaction in assembling a documentary style story about real life. To that end we are pushing them to defy their own instincts and make something “boring,” maybe just to make us, the foreigners, happy. So far it’s working: all the trainees are making projects that conform to the vision we set out, showing disciplined and respectful attitudes toward what we are telling them to do (they take pride in having that kind of attitude here).
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Juggling all the important responsibilities in your life, it’s easy for things to get complicated in a hurry. Even with all the advances in technology that were supposed to make things simpler, some days it seems like there are too many demands on your time. With so many things competing for your attention, you probably welcome any opportunity to simplify things wherever you can. While there are many areas you could choose to work on, one good place to start may be your family’s finances.
Like many people, you may have your money spread out at a number of different financial institutions. Typically, you won’t gain much by spreading your assets this way, and in fact it may be making your life more difficult than it needs to be. To help restore a little order, think about minimizing the number of accounts you have at various institutions.
Consolidating your accounts can provide numerous benefits. For starters, there’s the obvious benefit of only having one account to keep track of. And at the end of the year, filing your 1040 could be a lot easier because you’ll have fewer tax forms to contend with. But these advantages are just the beginning. Consolidating into an asset management account — an option offered by most large financial services firms — gives you access to several features that are convenient and timesaving.
Depending on the institution, account features and fees may vary. But the basic goal of asset management accounts is the same: to help simplify the management of your investments. With the majority of your assets all in one place, it will be much easier for you and your financial consultant to see the big picture of your finances. That view will help considerably as you work to find the most appropriate asset allocation strategy to suit your financial situation.
If you’ve had your assets spread out among several different financial firms, you may be under the impression that this arrangement helps diversify your holdings. Unfortunately, however, it’s not the number of accounts you have that determines your level of diversification. For example, let’s say you hold 1,000 shares of a certain stock, and this represents a large portion of your portfolio. It wouldn’t matter if you held that position at one institution or with 10 different investment firms; it still constitutes the same proportion of your overall investment mix. Consolidating to one account could actually help identify potential challenges or opportunities, and you could quickly see if your investments are well diversified.
By consolidating your assets, you may be worried that you’ll be missing out on the different perspectives and opinions you receive from the multiple firms you currently associate with.
The truth is, however, working with a large financial services firm will still give you access to the opinions and investment advice of a diverse group of its economists and strategists, who work together to decide how to inform and educate clients.
You might also be concerned that consolidating your assets will require you to give up some control over your portfolio. In reality, you can actually decide just how involved you want to be with the decisions made on your account. Working together with your financial advisor, you can choose to participate in the investment decisions, you can delegate that responsibility to the advisor, or you can even explore the options of working with outside money managers.
Given how complicated life has become, it’s never a bad idea to take advantage of opportunities to eliminate unnecessary complications. Consolidating your investments is a great place to start.
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2012.10.25 – BASSNECTAR IN BOISE, ID
The Bassnectar crew will be bringing the Fall Tour 2012 to Boise, ID at Revolution Center on Thursday, October 25th.
We are excited to welcome Gramatik and Gladkill to the line-up for this event!
This is an All Ages show.
PLEASE NOTE THIS IS AN EARLY SHOW
Doors: 5:30 PM
End: 11:30 PM
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A fabulous vest is the easiest way to finish your look with style! Find your ideal vest from birdsnest online’s wide range from Australia’s best brands. From knit and faux fur fabrics; padded, quilted, polar fleece and more, you’ll find something to warm you through the cooler months. Or maybe you’re after a fashion vest to added extra personality to your outfit. Find long, short and mid length vests for every body shape, personality and favourite colour. If you need extra help choosing, use our super search filters and find the best vest for you! | <urn:uuid:60d3f031-9e33-4702-92cc-2028e641a225> | CC-MAIN-2016-18 | http://www.birdsnest.com.au/womens/coats/vests | 2016-05-01T23:10:01Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-18/segments/1461860117244.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20160428161517-00094-ip-10-239-7-51.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.900154 | 126 | [
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Barbara Park, author of many books for children – including the bestselling Junie B. Jones series – died on November 15 at age 66, after a long battle with ovarian cancer. Here, some of those with whom she enjoyed lengthy professional and personal relationships pay tribute.
Kate Klimo, former publishing director, Random House Books for Young Readers & Golden Books
As editor-in-chief of Random House in 1990, I was witness to the birth of Junie B. Jones. I’ll never forget the adrenal overdrive everyone kicked into when they found out that Barbara Park was writing about an obstreperous kindergartner. Egads! These books were supposed to be geared to first and second graders. “Everybody knows grade-schoolers won’t want to read about kindergartners!” was the prevailing wisdom. I was sent to Barbara to try to talk her out of this silly notion. She heard me out and then, with utmost elegance, told me to blow it out my barracks bag.
I remember the first sales conference Barbara Park attended. It was at the Sanibel Harbour Beach & Tennis Club. If you’ve ever been there, you’ll know they feature a set of pungent complimentary bath products. Barbara mounted the dais, peered out over the ballroom crowd, wrinkled her nose, and said, “Is it me or does everyone smell like mango?”
In the following years, when I went to Barbara on the occasions that sales or marketing or B&N or Borders or whomever had a bee in their bonnet about her title choice or cover concept, her reaction was always: “Is it me, or does everyone smell like mango?” (This was our code-talk for Publishers’ Cold Feet or Publishing Committees Running Rampant.) Needless to say, the titles and the concepts remained as they were. Barbara’s feet were anything but cold. Brave and true to her vision, she hot-footed it to fame and glory. Rest in peace, Babs, on a bed of laurels tied with a polka-dotted hair bow.
Amy Berkower, chairman, Writers House
In the spring of 1984, Barbara Park queried me about the benefits of having an agent. After she received my response, she wrote: “I think you’ve made a believer of me. The phrase that convinced me I needed an agent was ‘negotiating contracts.’ As soon as I read it, I looked up at my husband and said, ‘Negotiating? Was I supposed to be ‘negotiating?’ ”
In remembering Barbara, I think about how spot-on funny she was, and about her unique ability to make multiple generations laugh simultaneously. I also think about her integrity. In 2000, when Barbara decided, despite the demands of the market, to only write one Junie B. Jones book per year, I urged her to allow Random House to publish the books in hardcover editions as well as paperback. They were certainly good enough. And it made sense from a business and marketing perspective. Barbara, however, was reluctant because she didn’t want her fans to pay more for books for which they were accustomed to paying less. After much discussion, she relented, under two conditions: that the less expensive paperback be published three months after the hardcover, and anyone who complained about the price be given a free edition.
She was a class act.
Anne Schwartz, publisher, Schwartz & Wade Books, Random House
I had the incredible pleasure of editing Barbara Park from 1985 to 2002, in the pre-Junie days. We worked on several books together, including the one we both loved best: Mick Harte Was Here.
As I was thinking about what to write for this article, a couple of phrases kept echoing in my head: No, you can’t say that, you’ll be fired and, No, you can’t say that, you’ll be imprisoned. What I can say is that when I was pregnant, Barbara was the only person to tell me that sometimes one might want to kill one’s own child. She shared with me the Rules of Etiquette for Letting One’s Boss Know that One Would Be Leaving Knopf for Simon & Schuster. Wearing her favorite Groucho Marx mustache and eyeglasses, she demonstrated for me how to rearrange books at Barnes and Noble so that Mick Harte, just for example, was featured more prominently. And she could argue at length about which Peeps were more flavorful, the yellow or the pink.
Barbara Park was hilarious, as any of us who have met Junie B. or Mick Harte or Rosie Swanson can tell you. She was also subversive, unbelievably dedicated to her craft and her readers, and had a huge heart. I will miss her.
Shana Corey, editor-at-large, Random House
I had the good fortune to be Barbara’s editor and worked with her for the past 13 years or so. Barbara was very (very) hands on, so editing her meant that we talked several times a week, sometimes several times a day. And because she was Barbara Park, talking to her meant laughing with her – often until my sides hurt and I’d have to shut my door to avoid annoying the rest of the floor.
There are too many funny conversations to recount, but one I’m remembering today is when we were discussing the art suggestions for Junie B. First Grader: Shipwrecked. Junie B. and her class are putting on a play about Christopher Columbus. Junie is playing one of the boats and the play turns into a free-for-all with the kids racing to get to land first. Christopher Columbus finally jumps overboard and “swims” to shore to avoid the massive pileup. But how does one swim across a stage exactly? Barbara had to get it right (she was always meticulous about every detail). So naturally, she insisted that we try it ourselves – she in and Arizona and me in New York, crawling across our respective office floors on our bellies, laughing hysterically – the phones on speaker so we could talk through exactly what we were doing and how you would describe the arm movements, etc.
She was just so effortlessly funny. She never took herself too seriously (or let anyone around her take themselves too seriously). She abhorred preciousness of any kind and found humor in everything – she could even make stories about the chemo waiting room funny. I’ve never laughed as much as I did with her and don’t imagine I ever will again – she had me in hysterics regularly (even toward the end, when we were also crying). She was wildly inappropriate, incredibly loyal, hilariously self-deprecating, and she was absolutely uncensored and honest about everything. As a result I trusted her more than just about anyone in the world.
She wore her heart on her sleeve and was passionate about the things she believed in-everything from the people she loved, to politics, to stickers in the back of books (she thought they were bleeping idiotic). She also hated publicity – any time I suggested anything that seemed remotely “salesy” she’d say, “We don’t want to look like we’re trying to sell books,” and I’d remind her that well, we were a publisher, selling books wouldn’t actually be a terrible thing. But it just wasn’t her priority – her priority was making the very best books she could, books that felt honest and true and made kids laugh. A couple years ago, when we were in a long debate that was going in circles about something that I thought would be a quick call (probably about stickers), she sensed I was hitting a wall and said, “You know you love me.” I jokingly grumbled back and she kept nudging, “Come on.... I love you. I love you....” until I agreed and that became our signature sign-off. Because of course, as with everything, she was right. I loved her and love her so much and cannot imagine a world where I can’t pick up the phone and call her 100 times a day. I’m so sorry that she’s not here and so very grateful that she was my friend.
Kathy Dunn, publicist, Random House Children’s Books
Barbara Park and publicity were not an easy mix. I learned this very quickly when I became Barbara’s publicist back in 1999. Barbara never felt comfortable being in the “spotlight,” so to speak, and was not a fan of flying, which made author tours tough. I was able to wear her down a few times for tours over the years, however, and she had one caveat – if she was going, then I had to as well. And as a result of our travels together, I have some of the funniest memories of Barbara that still make me laugh out loud. The first was during the inaugural Junie B. Stupid Smelly Bus Tour in 2004. The tour had come through Arizona, where Barbara resided, and she was doing a few signings in conjunction with the events. We drove to the first event in Barbara’s brand-new car, and she had mentioned how she wanted to kind of sneak into the event and not draw attention to herself (thus taking away attention from the tour). However, when we got to the store and parked the car, the car alarm started blaring before we even were able to get out. Since the car was new, Barbara had no idea how to turn anything off, and we were forced to call our Mr. Woo actor to come out to the parking lot, where he proceeded to try to shut the alarm off (in costume). You can get the visual – instead of quietly entering, we virtually announced our presence to the hundreds of fans entering the store – all of whom were pointing and telling their parents “That’s Barbara Park... how come her alarm won’t turn off?” I think we were in hysterics for the remainder of the event, and well into the night, as, over our classic glasses of tour wine, we replayed the scene over and over.
My second memory is from the 2008 Ma! There’s Nothing to Do Here! tour. Barbara was in remission, and feeling really great. We had been on an insanely early flight into Dallas – the kind that you roll out of bed and just show up for. Looking like Survivor contestants, we checked into the Ritz-Carlton and headed right to the restaurant, as we were starving. To say that we stood out would be an understatement. The restaurant was full of women decked out in the finest attire, attending a shower of some sort. We slid into our seats, grateful that pretty much no one had seen us. But right before we ordered, the fire alarm started ringing, and we were forced to evacuate – alongside all of the pretty, clean people. We looked at one another and started giggling – the kind that you just can’t control. And that pretty much sealed the deal on us not staying incognito. It was a tiny incident, but we laughed about that forever. It was the simple moments such as these that will make me miss Barbara the most – her contagious laughter, fierce loyalty, and the ability to see the humor in every situation.
Cathy L. Goldsmith, associate publishing direcor, Random House/Golden Books Young Readers Group
I had the honor of working with Barbara on all of the Junie B. books. Officially my title was art director, but in practice it was co-art director, since Barbara was very involved in how the books looked. Obviously, she reviewed cover and interior sketches, as well as finished art and mechanicals. When it was time for Junie to go to first grade and learn to write, Barbara wanted a special font that was Junie’s own, so I volunteered to create a font. Barbara jumped on that idea and sent me copies of letters she had received from children over the years. She circled the lower case “e” in one letter, the cap “B” in another letter, and so on until we had a full alphabet, although not in one place. We worked on the font and worked on the font and worked on it some more until it finally seemed right.
Years later, when we were working on Junie B.’s Essential Survival Guide to School, Barbara put her designer hat on again. She wanted the interior pages to look like Junie had written and drawn in a blank lined notebook. Each page needed to feel like a first-grader had actually filled them in. She decided that the best way to make sure this happened was to do the art and layouts herself. So Barbara bought a Mac and began learning to use Photoshop! She created all the interior art herself and even typeset most of the book in Photoshop to show us exactly how the art and text were supposed to come together. She worked on the layouts for one complete summer. I mention this because the books, all of them, are such fun and seem so easy. But Barbara worked very hard to make them that way. Children may not realize how hard she worked, but I know. And I thank her for that. | <urn:uuid:9981ed32-bcbf-4ee9-964d-beb428961475> | CC-MAIN-2016-18 | http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-authors/article/60230-barbara-park-remembered.html | 2016-05-01T23:19:21Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-18/segments/1461860117244.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20160428161517-00094-ip-10-239-7-51.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.985833 | 2,808 | [
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Pinned topic Is there a way in SQL to get the current member of a table?
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I'm trying to write a SQL trigger that will write a record in another table when a specific field is updated. The basics of this work fine, the issue is that I really only want to watch that field in just one of the table's members. The trigger fires (and writes out a record) when the field is updated in any member. If I cannot focus the trigger on a single member then (if possible) I could record the member name in the file that the trigger writes to. Something like "CURRENT DATE" except "CURRENT MEMBER". I have already tried making a trigger against an Alias which points to the appropriate member with no luck and "CURRENT MEMBER" just and error stating "Token MEMBER was not valide." I'm using DB2 on an iSeries, V6R1. Any thoughts? | <urn:uuid:7ad104aa-2a8b-435d-84a2-e125df71c1b0> | CC-MAIN-2016-18 | https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/forums/html/topic?id=77777777-0000-0000-0000-000014909472&ps=10 | 2016-05-02T00:46:04Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-18/segments/1461860117244.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20160428161517-00094-ip-10-239-7-51.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966556 | 215 | [
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The difference between Christian Religion, and true Christianity.
The aim of the Christian Religion is in fact no different than any other Religion on this Planet. Upheld by a profiteering hierarchy to promote one to find acceptance with the God of Creation. Some try by being Nuns, Monks, Charity, Popeary or Priest-craft. There are even some Muslims who try indiscriminate murder to earn their reward to enter the celestial abode. Well we can discount all of that for God is no respecter of persons and man’s works are all declared to be like filthy rags. God does not reward Monks for being Monks or Nuns for being Nuns, or Priests for being Priest or Popes, Khomeini’s or Imams nor Islamic murderers with paradise. Common sense should tell you that. 1Corinthians 6:9,10. God is Holy and has declared all under sin.
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Section VIII. Novice A or Novice B - Which Class Do I Enter?
If a dog has a title but the handler has never seen the inside of the ring (dog was trained and titled by daughter but is being handled in Rally by mom), would they be in Novice A or B
You would have to be in Novice B, the dog has a title.
For the daughter who has never set foot in a ring, however, showing in Rally, even in the Novice B class, would be a good confidence and experience builder before making taking a new dog in the regular Novice B class. One of those unusual situations that doesn't seem fair, I guess.
Co-owners who never went into the ring in Obedience are no longer required to enter the Novice B class. However, you are correct about the requirement about owning the dog to take it into A. I have a Boxer that I inherited from a friend of mine, now deceased, who got the only OTCH on a Boxer ever. I co-own her with the deceased former owner and was told when I started training her for her UD that I COULD show her in the Utility A class. I CHOSE to show her to her title, which we finished today, in the Utility B class in honor of her former owner. Co-owner in "name only" does not count any more. Besides, the NEW Rally definitions of A & B classes indicate that ANY DOG OR HANDLER that has gotten a Rally OR Obedience title must enter the B class. This was recommended as of April 3, 2002.
AKC Rule Book, Page 23, Chapter 3, Novice, Section 1: Novice A Class: The Novice A Class shall be for dogs that have not won the CD title and are at least 6 months old. A handler must own the dog entered, or be a member of the owner's household or immediate family, and may not have previously handled any dog that has earned an American Kennel Club obedience title.
Once they take a dog into the Obedience ring that already has a title, they automatically go into the B class. Otherwise, as you can see, there is a lot of latitude and the reference to co-owners has been removed.
OK, let me see if I understand. You co-own a dog and someone finished that CD. Then you take another NEW dog in and you DON'T have to go into B? (I feel like I am in high school doing calculus again!)
Not correct. You can only EVER go in Novice A ONCE in your lifetime. Once you get a CD on ANY dog, you must enter Novice B for the rest of your life. Novice is the only class in traditional Obedience which has that distinction. Novice A is truly for completely green, beginner dogs AND handlers.
Unless you are Canadian. Then you take your new dogs into Novice A until you have a UD.
Well, it seems fair to me. If I had my cousin co-own my Annie after her CD and she took her into Rally A, it would be an advantage over others who had to train from scratch. Now if I take a new dog into Novice (reg. ob.) I can go into "A," right? it's the dog's experience not the owners? (for regular obedience)
In Traditional Obedience, you can only EVER go into the Novice A Class ONCE. Once you get a CD, you must forever enter Novice B. HOWEVER, the same does NOT hold true for Open and Utility. Unless you have gotten an OTCH, you can enter each new DOG in the A class, until they get their title, and then you can continue to show in Open A, or Utility A, for another 60 days, or a HIT, whichever comes first. Then you must show in the B class. Rally, however, will only allow brand new dogs and handlers in the A classes. All the rest of us will be relegated to the B classes. If you EVER got a Rally OR Obedience Title, you may not enter a Rally A class. Interesting, no?
What I am reading is somewhat confusing. I asked about A or B classes earlier as what I read in AKC about Rally EVERYONE was going to go into A and I thought that was strange. Glad to see it's changed, but I am confused on the regular obedience angle...that if a dog is owned/co-owned, even if NEVER handle by the person, said person has to go into B. I can tell you I just had this conversation about 6 months ago with an AKC obedience rep at a show and it HAS been changed to benefit the handlers!! My interest was because I am showing one of our Siberians that is ONLY registered in my husband's name. He has NEVER titled as dog. I asked about IF I put a CD on her, would this then make him, with NO experience, a "B" handler. He said NO, not anymore, so long as the PERSON on the end of the leash has NEVER put a title on a dog, they are an "A" class person PERIOD!! I was very glad to hear this needless to say.
MY second confusion from the post was about the Canadian handler? Someone replied that if they where in Canada, then ALL their new dogs go into the 'A' class unless they have put a UD title on one? I show up there ALL the time, and it states VERY clearly that IF you have titled a dog you MUST go into the B class, and IF you have a dog that has a title in the states but has never shown there it is still a B dog. I do know IF you come from Canada to show under AKC, they do NOT recognize other "titles" and you would be an A dog UNLESS you have titled a dog in the AKC before. I like the idea of the Rally A being for complete beginners. Is there going to be both classes in the upper levels? And if so, will it then go to the dogs experience again like open and utility or Not??? Maybe its just sunstroke and I need to try and re-read the posts!!
If you have a dog that has an AKC Novice title you show in Novice B in Canada. If you put a CDX on your last dog but don't have an AKC or CKC UD (and don't teach obedience classes) you can show a new (titleless) dog in Novice A. Portia was eligible for Novice A in Canada (even though I had put CDX's on other dogs). I showed her once in A. I had trained her to be competitive in AKC Novice B and felt funny in the A class. I taught a Rally class last fall so am probably now ineligible for Novice A in Canada anyway. I would have to re-read their rules about Open A. The CKC UD is also their OTCH. If you have a CKC UD you can't show in Novice A anymore. I don't remember if you have to show in Open B also. I ended up in the Open B class anyway because Portia and Papageno both had AKC CDX's when they went to Canada.
I am confused also, but am I safe in assuming that since I owned and titled one dog for an AKC CD - I can take her into Level 1 "B"? And my non-titled Siberian I would also enter into "B"? I am a little confused because I have entered my dogs into some Rally's that are at AKC trails through May and did not specify "A" or "B" and the premium lists did not differentiate for Rally "A" versus "B". Should I just write it in?
That is correct. You would enter the "B" class since you have titled a dog in Obedience. While Rally is still a non-regular class, "A" & "B" classes are not being offered. They will be offered once Rally is a titling event.
If I read one of the posts correctly, it said if I have a CD on a dog that dog goes into Novice B for Rally, even though he and I are both new to Rally? Please confirm. Thanks
Yup. You are experienced, the dog is experienced. If nothing else, it's a courtesy for the ultra beginners - those who have never trained a dog, never been in a show. Look at it this way, A and B are the same. Judging standards won't be different because everyone will be new to Rally the first year. Everyone will be in Novice. Gosh, that may never happen again in my lifetime. I plan to enjoy it to the fullest! LOL I always thought the judges would be harder on the B folks but I really haven't found that to be true. For all the judge knows, every time you step into the Novice B ring, you may still only ever have trained one dog and that doesn't make you an expert. So they still give you some leeway. Now in Open - well, that's another story.
That will be the rule when Rally becomes a titling event. The intention was to keep anyone with experience in the "B" classes, and for the "A" classes to truly be for completely for new, inexperienced people.
Rally Advanced A class description reads to me as if no one can enter! Dogs must have RN title and must be handled by owner or family member - but the required handler may NOT have completed a RN title, or any obedience title.
Since "A" class is for dogs without Rally experience, I feel for quite some time there will be many (top) titled dogs entered in the "A" class. Newbies will have very little chance of every earning one of 4 available ribbons. (Also I think any obedience titled dogs should be in "B") JMHO.
I also think that a dog with any obedience title should go into Novice "B", not "A". "A" should be reserved for dogs and handlers with *no* obedience titles of any sort. I certainly would feel funny taking my almost-UDX dog into Novice "A". Although, that would put my CD dog in direct competition with my almost-UDX dog - no question who would win that match-up!
As a courtesy, most people would do this. In agility, as most of you know, if you have a Novice title in any organization, it's a courtesy, if not a rule, to enter Novice B in all other organizations.
You know what...I hadn't really given this much thought... A versus B...but, I think it's an excellent point and I really agree with you on having dogs with titles (obedience or agility) participate in the B classes, regardless of our Rally experience.
It would be similar to how obedience is handled now...if you've ever put an obedience title on a dog (or even co-owned one) - every dog you begin with after your first Novice A dog...goes in Novice B. To keep encouragement high and to be fair... I agree - new people to the sport should compete with other new people...I mean, how proud would I be with my 7 year old CD "beating" out a 2 year old with a basic obedience class in the A class, simply because neither of us has "Rally" experience. Wow, big win. But, going head to head with a UD or an OTCH dog in the B class. Now, that would be something to be proud of! Maybe this is something we can pass on to the AKC too?
I absolutely agree and would like to see experienced dogs have to enter "B" classes. However, we're talking about "crossing sports" here. Agility dogs that have a title are not prohibited from Novice A Obedience, and vice versa. Since AKC doesn't recognize that ANY other organization awards titles, you can have a UKC OCH and legally enter in Novice A in AKC. Obedience and Rally are different sports, and I think it would be hard to impose prohibitions from one set of titles to the next. I expect everyone will be on the "honor system" on that point.
Would it complicate things too much to have a 'C' class? A for handlers that have never titled a dog in obedience or rally; B for dogs that haven't titled in obedience or rally; and C for dogs that have titled in either obedience or rally?
Haven't reviewed the proposed rules lately, but I seem to recall that you don't have to move up once you have titled at a lower level, and since the course is different every time - I could see where someone might be content to stay at a lower level for a long time.
You are all forgetting that the "A" classes are for the inexperienced handler. When entering a new sport we are ALL in the same boat. No matter how much ring experience the DOG has, if the handler can't read and react to the signs and trips on her dog trying to remember which is the correct entrance to the spiral, they'll flunk just as easily as the totally inexperienced team. This is all about having a fun, new experience with your best buddy. the challenge is in getting it right, not what color the ribbon is.
I'm pretty sure that once your dog receives the title in Rally Novice - either A or B...you are able to continue to compete in Novice B. Much the same as we can in Obedience.
As for those of us with CD dogs, still competing in Novice B Obedience...the ONLY reason I do it is because my dog has arthritis and began refusing the high jump in Open...no title is worth my dog's soundness, so we nixed competing in Open.
I'm thinking I may end up doing the same thing in Rally - although the 16" jump height would probably be ok - (it's probably less than from the floor to my bed - which he jumps just fine)...if I find the jumps in Advanced and Excellent are a problem.....it's Novice B for us for as long as we decide to play.
So, while there may be some people who want to stay at the lower levels just to win...there may be some of us who stay there just to be "part of the party".
Excellent point about A being for inexperienced handlers. You're right about me forgetting that completely. And, how "haughty" of me to think that because I was relatively successful in one sport - that I'd be so above the others in the A Class to need to show in B. I'd probably get knocked on my butt..by "true" B handlers. I think you're right about everyone new to Rally - needs to begin at the beginning. So, I probably will just do the A class.
My opinion is probably in the minority here, but I don't believe that just because you have an obedience title for another sport you should enter Novice B. My dog has an obedience title from Schutzhund, but I am certainly not entering Novice B for Rally or for a CD. I have never competed in AKC competition and barely know the rules. I would certainly be at a considerable disadvantage with handlers in Novice B. I work with two AKC clubs and a person who has numerous AKC titles. None of them who has experienced AKC ever suggested I compete in Novice B. The handling methods and the exercises are very different between the two sports. I have a friend who has two obedience titles in Schutzhund but is competing for her CD in Novice A. I don't believe you can make that statement across the board. Thanks for allowing me to make my opinion known.
I would have to agree. Currently in the Rally Class I am teaching, I have students that have CDX's, UD's, Open Agility Titles, Excellent Agility titles and Schutzhund titles. Rally is new to them. They are basically at the same level as the folks with no titles on their dogs. It is a new sport to them. I would have no problem competing against them in a Novice A class.
Very valid comment. It should be up to the individual to compete in whatever division (s)he feels most qualified for. Having never done Rally in competition but being an instructor and with Kandee having her CDX in AKC obedience, I feel I should be in Novice B. That is me and only me. Everyone is different and we shouldn't try to pigeonhole. I'm as guilty as the next person in doing that and it's not air.
While, in principle, I understand why someone might think that someone with an OTCH should enter B, and I am sure many will. It has also been my experience in teaching others to perform in this sport that it is a different skill. Not everyone is equally adept at reading a course and performing the exercises. Some beginners to the sport with NO previous exercise have less “baggage” on board, and may out score the “old timers” hands down, others will not. I would prefer to allow those who feel they belong in A to show there. It will quickly sort itself out, I think. I am comfortable with showing in B in this sport, but have no urge to force it on anyone. That would be judging them before I see them on the course! In performance sports, we have always prided ourselves on the ideal of NOT judging anyone before their performance, based on who they are, or their previous experience, let’s not start now!
The honor system has always worked well for us, and I see no reason it shouldn’t now. Peer pressure has always been enough to keep us all honest, and I have seen no real reason to expect it won’t continue to do so. The friendship and fun that this sport is supposed to engender would suffer a telling blow by mandating who can enter what class based on past performance in another sport. We wanted to be “different”, let us not get rigid now that we are getting closer to actual “for the records” competition.
I agree. Although I've competed in agility and obedience, I am still completely new to Rally. Having competed in obedience and agility does not give me or my dog an edge! My dog and I both still get serious ring nerves, get stressed out, goof, flub up, make terrible mistakes, etc. Maybe I'm not a nice person, but I would absolutely enter Novice A in Rally, and it would not have anything to do with getting a high placement....I feel like I deserve a chance as a newbie too. Because Rally and obedience are NOT the same sport, just like obedience and agility are not, I don't feel that obedience titles mean you'll succeed or be all the better for your obedience experience in the Rally ring. At least, I wouldn't anyway.
And, a person who's never competed in any dog sports has the choice of beginning in any of them that they choose--for me, it was agility, then obedience. I competed in obedience after having competed in agility for a long time, and that doesn't mean I shouldn't have competed in A against those who'd chosen obedience as their very first dog sport. Know what I mean? JMHO
This is an interesting question...the issue of what level one should show at. If we all start at the A level then we definitely put the new folks at a serious disadvantage competing against many dogs who have well experienced handlers and perhaps multiple OTCh's. If anyone having ANY title in traditional obedience is required to start in the B level then at least many of them will be disadvantaged by Rally being new and them not having any experience with it specifically.
Another issue comes to my mind in that many folks have never gone beyond the CD level in traditional obedience (myself included) and although I have put CD's on two dogs and have trained at both Open and Utility levels I have never shown to those titles. At least with my current dog with whom I squeaked through the CD I would not feel that I was so much more experienced or better than any of the Novice A folks that I would feel that I was putting them at undue disadvantage by competing against them. But it sounds like most folks would feel I should show in B level. I'm sure there are many folks in the same boat. If I had a dog that was clearly a superstar I might feel differently but this may be a case where some personal ethics will be needed.
You know what - maybe this is important...the issue of A versus B won't come into play until Rally is a regular, titling class. That means all of us should have ample (hopefully, anyway) opportunity to compete while Rally is a non-regular class where there will be no reason to split the classes. By the time it's a regular class, we'll all know where we belong. Thank you.
These are the things we need to discuss NOW, before everything gets "cast in stone" and we don't have time to form an opinion. I value the discussions on this list. They are stated thoughtfully, delivered politely, and accepted without criticism. I like that no one has to be afraid to voice an opinion, and that we understand that it's just that -- one person's opinion which we are free to agree with or argue opposing points. These discussions, now and in the future, will give us a gauge of how the sport is progressing, and we'll know exactly where to take it when the time comes. Never doubt that we CAN make a difference. Our Florida E-mail group for our State Obedience Tournament sent a torrent of E-mails when one of the Obedience proposals was to do away with High In Trial. You will notice that High In Trial is still awarded in Obedience, and I believe it is in large part to the efforts and voice of "us," the masses. And there is a LOT to firm up in any new sport, so keep the discussions flowing.
I have to agree about the exhibitor making the decision as to whether to enter Novice A or B according to their own proficiency. Although I've never done Rally, I have trained 2 dogs to earn a total of 5 CD's and 1 CDX from different registries. Even though I am by no means a "200" competitor, I feel that I've done enough work training that I should enter the B classes if I compete in Rally. Fair's fair! I want to encourage people to participate, get their titles and join the B classes with their next dog!!
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Earl and Baby, two young lovers with a plan to escape their small Texas town. But when Baby's dim-witted cousin Junior gets tangled up in a whole heap of trouble, Earl has just 48 hours to save the day, rescue Junior and keep his promise to get his Baby to Los Angeles in time for sweeps.
Sometimes doing the right thing can get downright ugly.
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by Bill Schlichting
Newcomers and veterans of Chetco Pelican Players breathed life into the songs of Cole Porter Friday and Saturday night.
Chances to see the musical production remain on Friday and Saturday, Nov. 18 and 19, on the Chetco Playhouse stage, 1240 Chetco Ave., Brookings.
"An Evening with Cole Porter" is more than a concert of consecutive songs it is a theatrical production with skits that put the audience into the world of the early 20th-century musician.
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John Embry: Why gold will keep going up for years
Remarks by John Embry
Chief Investment Strategist
Sprott Asset Management, Toronto
Vancouver Resource Investment Conference
Hyatt Regency Hotel
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Monday, January 18, 2010
Good afternoon. It is once again a great pleasure for me to address a knowledgeable gathering at Joe Martin's always excellent Cambridge Conference.
When I was here last year gold was around $850 and there was the usual angst among mainstream commentators fearing a drop to $600 per ounce or worse. Today the price is roughly $300 higher and the same individuals continue to try to frighten the public with prophesies of vertiginous falls in the gold price. Despite this ongoing aggravation, I am even more bullish on the prospects for gold than I was a year ago.
However, despite my consistent enthusiasm for the yellow metal once termed a "barbarous relic" by Lord Keynes, I still have the strong feeling that the vast majority of investors outside this room still haven't got a clue about gold and they are certainly not aware that gold is experiencing a historic bull market with much, much further to go. What we have seen to date is merely a prelude, and the appreciation we are going to see in future years is going to greatly exceed what we have seen to date. This opinion is based on a number of factors I will expand on, but the predominant theme is that gold is re-establishing itself as money.
It has been money for thousands of years, a reality that was succinctly summed up by J.P. Morgan in 1912 when he said, "Gold is money and nothing else." But we go through periods when that reality is obscured, and the decades of the 80s and 90s represent living proof of that. Gold retreated to commodity status in that era, when disinflation was in vogue and the real returns on financial assets were truly remarkable in historic terms.
Gold fell from a peak of $850 per ounce in January 1980 to a low of $252 in July 1999 in an extended bear market. To be fair to gold, it got a significant push to the downside in the latter part of that period from the central banks that were dumping enormous quantities of gold by leasing it through their bullion bank cronies. I would contend that the gold price overshot its economic value by perhaps $150 on the downside. Contributing to this fiasco was the ludicrous auction of half the British gold reserves within 10 percent of the bottom. Today this egregious error is referred to as "the Brown bottom" in recognition of the idiocy of the current British prime minister, who was then finance minister.
However, this is all water under the bridge and I don't particularly want to dwell on it other than to say that we are now in the phase of the gold market where we are about to benefit mightily from the central bankers' awesome stupidity at that time.
It is important, though, that everyone realize exactly what happened. The Western central banks supplied massive quantities of gold to the market for at least the past 15 years. Initially this facilitated excessive producer hedging. Then it helped to fund a huge carry trade that greatly enriched their bullion bank cronies. Now it occurs in large part to protect existing huge short positions held by those same banks.
You might be inclined to ask why the central banks would do such a thing. The official explanation for the transparent portion of their activities (i.e., direct sales) was to diversify their reserves. Essentially, why hold gold when you can own an interest-bearing piece of paper in its stead?
But that explanation is purely fatuous and a total smokescreen. The whole process, with the clandestine leasing and swapping of huge quantities of gold, was orchestrated by the United States. It was designed to reduce critical scrutiny of the central banks' increasingly reckless monetary policy, to allow interest rates to remain at unrealistically low levels and to maintain the U.S. dollar's supremacy. That this undertaking would inevitably spawn serial financial bubbles, the very same bubbles that brought the world financial system to its knees, was conveniently ignored.
This was all foreshadowed by some remarkable comments by then-Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan at a Federal Open Market Committee meeting in the early 1990s, remarks that came to light only recently when a transcript of that meeting was scrutinized. Greenspan referred to gold as a "thermometer" and speculated that if the Treasury Department sold a little gold in the market and the price broke as a result, not only would the thermometer no longer be a measuring tool but the lower gold price could affect underlying psychology. Greenspan was unfortunately right in his perverse judgement and shortly thereafter the systematic dumping of gold by the Western central banks moved into high gear.
It really makes you love free markets, doesn’t it?
But what a sorry mess they have created. While in the '90s, their gambit played out spectacularly with gold collapsing and financial assets flourishing, it sowed the seeds for what has happened subsequently: a robust bull market in gold since 2001 and increasing chaos in the stock, debt, and real estate markets worldwide. To this day the central bankers have remained undaunted and have increasingly intervened in all markets, but despite their annoying periodic raids, their influence is waning dramatically in the gold market.
I would suggest that today central banks are discovering to their increasing discomfort what history has always demonstrated -- and that is that manipulation of the free-market process ultimately fails. No amount of government interference and price manipulation can change the reality of the free market over the long term.
In the whole sordid process of the gold suppression scheme for the past 15 years, what has been particularly intriguing to me is that an earlier generation of central bankers unsuccessfully tried to same ploy with gold in the 1960s. Using the considerably more transparent London Gold Pool, they succeeded in holding gold at the then-official price of $35 per ounce for a number of years before being overwhelmed by the reality of the situation. In the following decade of the 1970s, gold rose a mere 2,300 percent.
Armed with the knowledge of that fiasco, one would have surmised that our current central bank geniuses might have considered that their new attempts at price control, albeit considerably more secretive, could meet a similar fate. Alas, the hubris of central bankers is well known, and this just represents another graphic example of their arrogance and awesome incompetence.
However, what remains to play out is the denouement of their current folly. Markets that have been artificially capped tend to catapult upward when the suppression inevitably fails. In my opinion the last experience in the '60s and '70s was a mere bagatelle in comparison to what is unfolding today. It has always been accepted that "the greater and longer the manipulation, the greater the eventual price rise is going to be."
In the latest episode, there has been dramatically more central bank gold expended. Credible estimates suggest that more than 15,000 tonnes, or roughly half of the central banks' supposed reserves, have already hit the market and are long gone, dangling from the wrists and necks of Indian women, filling vaults in the Middle East and Russia, and, in ever-greater quantity, migrating to China.
In the era of the London Gold Pool, only around 3,000 tonnes were sold to maintain the $35 price. This time the exercise has been dramatically larger and has occurred over a much longer time frame against the backdrop of a considerably more fragile financial structure, particularly in the West. So all of you are free to use your imagination to estimate how high gold is going to go this time.
It is critical to understand what the central banks have done because, in the absence of that knowledge, one cannot appreciate the whole gold story and will find it extremely difficult to recognise the investment opportunity being presented.
However, that is only one critical factor, and, as I said at the outset of my remarks, it is gold's return as money that is going to be really instrumental in driving gold to prices that would seem fanciful to most at the present time. In reality, it isn't gold that is changing, because it has been a constant store of value for 6,000 years. It is the value of fiat paper money in which gold is priced that is on the slippery slope to oblivion.
I could talk extensively about what is happening to the value of paper money, but to shorten things up, there is only one expression that you have to know: "quantitative easing." What a joke that is!
The authorities would have you believe it is some sort of magic elixir and a panacea, but all it represents is the monetization of various forms of debt by unfettered printing of money by central banks. Because the inflationary impact has yet to occur, the linear thinkers would assure you that it isn't going to be a problem. However, because of ongoing deleveraging and falling velocity of money in the short term, it is only being delayed.
As sure as death and taxes, continuing excessive money creation by the central banks will lead to accelerating inflation. When it begins to manifest itself, the velocity of money will pick up rapidly as people around the world rush to get rid of their increasingly worthless paper currency. In that event, we will rapidly progress from relatively benign inflation to truly frightening levels in a fairly short time.
At this point, I would like to repeat a quotation I used in a recent Investor's Digest article. It comes from Ludwig Von Mises, the brilliant originator of the Austrian school of economics, which is the only formal economics that makes much sense to me. Long before I was born, which was a long time ago, Von Mises observed:
"There is no means of avoiding a final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner, as the result of a voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later, as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system."
That comment is pretty germane to what is unfolding today. Following what was arguably the most abusive credit cycle in history, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke and his central banking confreres have clearly chosen the latter option, and accordingly, in my opinion, all forms of fiat paper money are headed for a train wreck. Ironically, Bernanke tipped his hand seven years ago in the infamous speech he gave before becoming Fed chairman. He claimed that he could combat deflation by the use of a printing press or, if need be, by dropping money from helicopters to sustain demand. To me his theories were ludicrous at that point and remain so today. Yes, he may avert deflation for a considerable time but at the very probable cost of hyperinflation and the social chaos that inevitably results.
Today the only question in my mind is whether investment demand for gold is going to go berserk as the result of a U.S. dollar collapse or because all the fiat currencies go down the drain together. The U.S. dollar is in its death throes, but will other countries print massive quantities of their own currencies to buy the dollar in an attempt to depress their currencies and keep their economies relatively competitive? To date, I would say that despite the considerable weakness in the dollar, there is abundant evidence that many other countries are printing aggressively to prevent their currencies from rising too much against the dollar.
In any case, I believe we are fated to see a continuing policy of ridiculous monetary ease around the globe, despite rhetoric to the contrary. This will occur because the idea of a double-dip recession or depression, as the case may be, is anathema to the powers that be. Very simply, withdrawing any significant amount of stimulus, be it monetary or fiscal, in the foreseeable future would virtually guarantee another deflationary event, and this time it may be impossible to stop.
Clearly, the United States is the lynchpin of the whole debacle, but most other countries are up their necks in the mess as well.
To begin, let us consider the United States' fiscal quandary, with a federal government deficit currently running above 10 percent of gross domestic product and representing roughly 40 percent of government expenditures. These numbers are horrific for a country that is providing the world's reserve currency. A recent study looked at the 28 examples of hyperinflation in various countries since 1980 and included Argentina, Zimbabwe, and many other banana republics. It noted that one common trait was that when the national government deficit exceeded 40 percent of expenditures, the point of no return had been reached. The U.S. is there as we speak and the $389 billion deficit in the first quarter of the 2010 fiscal year was far from reassuring.
While the preceding information is historical and thus factual, there is the matter of the Obama administration having recently admitted that its budget deficits would total $9 trillion (a number that I believe to be wildly optimistic) over the next 10 years. The question that obviously has to be asked is: What person, institution, or government, for that matter, in its right mind would lend money to the United States for the pathetically low interest rates currently on offer?
In reality, who would really be comfortable lending the United States money at any interest rate in the current circumstances, considering that higher rates would just ensure even higher deficits?
So it seems reasonable to assume that more of the deficits will have to be monetized, the dollar will inexorably decline as a result, and the question of confidence will become paramount. If confidence in the dollar is lost, chaos will ensue and those trapped in dollar-based fixed-income assets will see their wealth destroyed, the same fate that befell those who believed in the system in the Weimar inflation in Germany after World War I.
But the United States is far from the only country that is in serious difficulty. Things are as bad, and in certain cases worse, in many other countries. For example, Great Britain is a basket case, which incidentally looks real good on that hypocritical jerk Gordon Brown, who has led his country to ruin. Britain's central bank has been forced to intensify its quantitative easing program several times to keep the economy barely afloat and its financial system semi-intact.
Japan, with its rapidly aging population, has seen its accumulated public debt reach 200 percent of GDP with no end of that trend in sight.
Europe is no bed of roses either. Despite the soothing words of the head of the European Central Bank, Jean Trichet, and some very vocal comments about current monetary excess from Germany's Angela Merkel, they appear to have little choice but to keep the money flowing to save Club Med, Ireland, and a whole swath of eastern Europe from oblivion.
China, that paragon of all things economic and financial, had to resort to mandating a humongous increase in bank lending in the first half of last year to keep its economy moving. The ultimate outcome of this endeavor remains to be seen, although it certainly had a salutary impact on Chinese share prices and world commodity quotes. Unfortunately, the resulting massive over-capacity throughout the entire Chinese economy may become an issue.
That brings us to the favorite country of everyone in this room, Canada. I suspect that the Canadian authorities will be forced to deal with reality soon. Despite the hedge funds' love affair with the Canadian dollar, the economic and financial fundamentals in this country don't support the current level of the loonie. We are attached at the hip economically to the United States and as our dollar rises, our manufacturing industries or what's left of them are being destroyed. Budget deficits are exploding at all levels of government.
One year ago the feds didn't have one, but now the deficit is annualizing somewhere north of $60 billion. Ontario is homing in on $25 billion and even hydrocarbon power Alberta has ruefully admitted that its deficit forecast has risen to $6.9 billion, as very low natural gas prices, among other things, take their toll.
Bank of Canada head Mark Carney and Finance Minister Jim Flaherty know these problems all too well, although much of the public seems blithely unaware, and I am eagerly awaiting Carney and Flaherty's response. Rumors of aggressive quantitative easing are growing, adding yet another nation to the expanding list practicing this dark art.
Why is all of this significant?
Very simply, it ensures that the demand side of the gold-silver equation is baked in the cake. Investment demand is exploding on a worldwide basis as those with wealth to protect are beginning to comprehend the true extent of the monetary debasement under way. This is only going to intensify as inflation begins to rear its ugly head as the result of the money-printing orgy.
As I mentioned earlier, the velocity of money is going to accelerate as people figure out what is occurring. Why would anyone want to hold a rapidly depreciating monetary asset when it yields next to nothing? At that juncture we will see if the powers that be have the courage to remove significant amounts of stimulus. Since I believe that our debt-logged economies will remain relatively weak and our financial structure exceedingly fragile, I don’t believe they will.
So I find it laughable when people concern themselves with reduced jewellery demand as a factor in the pricing of gold in the current circumstances. Any decline is being dramatically exceeded by rising investment demand, and this phenomenon is only going to intensify. Besides, all great bull markets in precious metals are driven by investment demand as gold reasserts itself in its true role as money. They most certainly don't occur as the result of gold's attraction a bauble or as an adornment.
However, as bullish as I am on the demand side of the equation, an equally compelling case can be made on the supply side, which consists of three primary elements -- mine supply, scrap recovery, and central bank dispositions. The least important is scrap recovery, but it was briefly a negative in early 2009, when a lot of people around the world couldn't wait to get rid of their jewelry and realize a little cash for the gold contained in it. However, that sharply abated in the second half of the year and the focus is now back where it should be, on mine supply and central bank dispositions.
One of the key factors that is going to contribute to the ongoing bull market is mine supply, or more accurately stated, lack thereof. Mine supply has been in a steady decline since early in the new century despite the constant rosy predictions of greater supply from the alleged industry expert GFMS Ltd. I have long been of the mind that the decline will continue for some time irrespective of what the gold price does. I base my opinion on numerous factors, including a dearth of quality projects ready for mining, continuing geopolitical and environmental issues, less high-grading as the gold price rises, ongoing capital constraints, and a chronic shortage of skilled miners and mine builders.
Thus I was fascinated when Aaron Regent, the new head of the world's largest gold company, Barrick Gold, was quoted at RBC's annual gold conference in London lamenting the state of the gold mining business. He went so far as to suggest that global gold production was in terminal decline despite record prices and Herculean efforts by mining companies to discover new orebodies in remote areas. He alluded to "peak gold," implying that production has reached levels that can't be exceeded, an expression that is commonplace in the oil industry, where the subject has been under discussion for some time.
Following this pessimistic assessment, a more horrifying prediction was revealed in the South African Journal of Science. Chris Hartnady, the research and technical director of a Cape Town based consultancy, stated that South Africa's famous and extremely prolific Witwatersrand gold fields are around 95 percent exhausted and predicted that production rates should fall permanently below 100 tonnes per year within the next 10 years.
This is truly shocking in that gold production from the Witwatersrand, the largest gold field ever discovered, peaked at around 1,000 tonnes per annum in 1970 and, though falling steadily since, still contributes around 230 tonnes per year or roughly 10 percent of world production.
In view of these two evaluations by knowledgeable industry players, my negative view on production has been reinforced. Gold mine production is in the neighborhood of 2,350 tonnes per year, and I continue to believe that odds strongly favor it continuing to fall rather than show any meaningful increase for the next several years.
That brings me back to the central banks, and I apologize if I am belaboring the point, but I believe their role in the whole saga is neither widely appreciated nor well understood. Because of the remarkable obfuscation in the area, most observers do not realize how much central bank gold has entered the market in the past 15 years to fill the huge and growing gap between true demand and mine and scrap supply.
This is the direct result of misleading accounting by the central banks -- accounting, incidentally, that has been endorsed by the International Monetary Fund, the very same IMF that has been threatening the gold market with potential massive sales for a number of years. The central banks have been permitted to use a one-line entry on their balance sheets, which does not differentiate between gold in the vault and gold receivables.
There is copious evidence, if you look for it, that supports the contention that gold receivables have grown dramatically as the result of central banks surreptitiously mobilizing their gold through leasing and swaps. This gold has been dumped in the market and has been essential in filling the natural demand- supply gap, which has probably exceeded 1,000 tonnes per year in most of the years since the mid- to late 1990s. That it also served to significantly depress the price wasn't an accident.
The significance of the 1,000-tonne-per-annum number is two-fold. First, it represents in the neighborhood of 25 percent of the physical gold supply during the period, showing how truly deficient real sustainable supply is. Second, it virtually guarantees that Western central banks are getting dangerously short of reserves to continue this activity. Just as importantly a number of Eastern central banks -- including China and Russia, to name but two -- have acknowledged their intentions and are accumulating and will continue to accumulate gold as one avenue to diversify their reserves away from the U.S. dollar.
But India may have stolen a march on all of them when it announced recently that it had purchased 200 tonnes of the well-advertised and long-awaited IMF sale. This was the event that really kicked off the latest leg in the gold bull market, and unquestionably the Indian move drew widespread attention to a historic shift in the attitudes of central banks toward gold. It coincided with a complete cessation of selling by the European central banks, which under the terms of the recently renewed European Central Bank Gold Agreement could sell up to 400 tonnes per year.
Thus just as the Western central banks are being forced to wind down their incessant selling and leasing, the Asians have stepped up as buyers. This is a truly dramatic development and is going to have extremely positive ramifications for the gold price.
In view of the foregoing powerful positive fundamentals for the gold price, I find it almost nauseating that various pundits are referring to gold as overpriced and in a bubble phase. Nothing could be further from the truth, and, in reality, gold continues in its stealth bull market, which has now seen nine consecutive higher year-end closes. Despite this, as I mentioned earlier, it has attracted very little attention from the investing public in general.
The dedicated goldphile has participated throughout, and a number of sophisticated financial players have come on board recently, the latest being the legendary trader Paul Tudor Jones. But the average investor remains uninterested. It is instructive to remember that at the end of the last bull market in 1980, people were lined up around the block outside the Bank of Nova Scotia in downtown Toronto to purchase physical gold. Today the only lines that have formed are outside emporiums set up so the unsuspecting public can unload their gold jewelry for cash. To have a bubble of any significance, there has to be wide public belief, and it certainly isn't on display in the gold market.
More importantly, if gold were overpriced, the gold producers would be experiencing an earnings bonanza. A close examination of the recent earnings statements of most major gold companies reveals that they are earning very little and are certainly not achieving the return on capital necessary to justify their involvement in a very risky and difficult business.
I find sentiment in the sector to be remarkably subdued in the face of compelling fundamentals. Many attractive junior gold stocks are not even keeping up with the rise in the gold price. If history were any guide, these stocks would be rising at three to four times the rate of the gain in the gold price, but investor skepticism is holding them back.
From a media perspective, if we were approaching the end of a bull market, the newspaper articles and television clips would be universally bullish touting the obvious merits of the yellow metal. There is indeed more coverage recently because of the relentless price rise, but it tends to be skeptical with the bearish commentators continuing to get the most exposure despite having been continuously wrong.
There is no better example of this than an individual who my compliance department would prefer that I not identify. However, I’ll give you a broad hint -- he writes virtually daily for a noted Canadian gold Internet site. Dubbed the Tokyo Rose of gold commentators, he is always quoted in articles with a negative slant despite having been consistently wrong since the inception of gold's bull market. In my opinion, as long as he gets any press at all, we are a long way from the end of this bull market in gold.
Finally, it is widely acknowledged that if the peak gold price in the last great bull market ($850 in January 1980) were to be adjusted to reflect the U.S. inflation rate in the intervening period, it would be equivalent to $2,300 today. That the current gold price is approximately half of that should put to rest any suggestion that this is a bubble.
That's not to say there aren't several bubbles forming in other financial markets (most notably in government debt instruments) as a result of a new bout of central bank madness, but gold is not on the list. In fact, I believe that we are many years and several thousands of dollars in price away from the end of this powerful bull market.
In conclusion, I now firmly believe that the chances of gold ever trading below $1,000 per ounce are remote. The only caveat I would offer is that if the world suffered a catastrophic deflationary collapse, an outcome long predicted by the noted Elliot Wave theorist Robert Prechter, gold could briefly be swept under but would then re-emerge with even greater relative strength as the only true safe haven. However, in a world of pure fiat currency, I think that a near-term deflationary outcome is highly unlikely. In fact, I strongly suspect that gold is going to stage a parabolic rise from current levels in the not-too-distant future, a development that will come as a shock to the many detractors of the world's only real money.
Gold is the only real money because it isn't someone else's liability.
This remains one of the best supply-demand imbalance stories I have encountered in my long career and it will only be enhanced by the existence of massive short positions that will be impossible to cover amid myriad paper claims on gold that dwarf the physical supply, which, by the way, is a subject for another day.
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Mayawati, clearly delighted at her newfound success, is now calling for reservations to be extended to poor 'upper castes' as well as non-Hindu minorities. Well, this is an interesting psychological breakthrough for her, in recognizing that 'upper castes' can be economically backward as well. She's obviously able to get away with this stance because of her background, in contrast to a BJP that would never dare to call for such things. It's too bad that she's not willing to address the issue of extra-territorialism amongst minorities, when she's willing to extend quotas to them.
But this does pose a problem for meritocracy. If you give everybody quota entitlements, then who the hell has to work hard?
But it's still politically significant that you have a 'lower-caste' leader willing to go on record that 'upper castes' are human beings suffering economic deprivation too. It shows the greater ability of 'upper castes' to influence BSP from within, rather than from outside. This soft-power influence and its possibilities should not be sneezed at. | <urn:uuid:566908a7-de01-48cc-94c4-45c2eb9b7e62> | CC-MAIN-2016-18 | http://rajeev2004.blogspot.com/2007/05/reservations-for-poor-upper-castes.html | 2016-05-05T16:09:59Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-18/segments/1461860127870.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20160428161527-00214-ip-10-239-7-51.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960272 | 228 | [
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The opening tune of a familiar soap opera is the perfect lead-in for GemStones’s appropriately-titled Skeletons, a lyrical look at the parts of our lives that we may all be hiding. On the new record, the Chi-Town emcee pulls a few bones out of a few closets, discussing self-medication with drugs, the sale of one’s body for a chance to buy the freshest kicks, and the self-hatred that results from this behavior. Producer Fallen Angels provides a melodic beat and fellow Chi-Town representative Sarah Green (see Lupe Fiasco‘s Intruder Alert) adds a chillingly soulful hook. Although there are some that lead completely honest lives, GemStones is calling out the rest of the nation on the metaphorical graveyards in their closets. GemStones’s new mixtape, The Testimony of GemStones, is due out on June 7. | <urn:uuid:a0b85077-8177-4d1e-a6fa-36b9d2a09460> | CC-MAIN-2016-18 | http://djbooth.net/tracks/review/gemstones-ft-sarah-green-skeletons | 2016-04-29T20:30:40Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-18/segments/1461860111396.55/warc/CC-MAIN-20160428161511-00088-ip-10-239-7-51.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.917575 | 216 | [
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A new arrival on the First Transit fleet. Glenview Illinois. September 2012., a photo by Eddie from Chicago on Flickr.
I took this photograph last month in north suburban Glenview Illinois.
A new arrival to the First Transit fleet based at the North Cook garage facility, is this used 2009 Chevrolet paratransit mini bus.
This bus is used exclusively for Arlington Heights and Rolling Meadows sponsored "Township Rides" only.
This bus features comfortable leather seats, serious satelite radio and a CD player, one wheel chair station as well as heat and air conditioning.
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Currently it shows absolute delirium for me:
You either have (as you noted yourself) different units set for the grid and ruler, or the grid is set to repeat on a weird interval.
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SummaryAhh...to live in a world without sin and restrictions...Oh yeah!
The GoodThis probably is one of those games your mom and dad didn't want you to play :) But, it is the taboo that every kid even adults think about (which is why the Simpsons was a hit). This game is the first GTA series I've played and my brain still can't get over it. How in the hell did they manage to create a game this big, this magnitude? If they can create technology like this now, I'm waiting in awe of what they'll think of next.
Where to start...that's hard. This game is big, that's one. I remember the days when you only play a computer game for a whole week then finish. This usually applies to adventure typed games such as this one. This game however takes a loooooooooong time to play. Here's the background:
You appear to be some criminal that was busted out (you weren't the target) en route to a prison. Now your stuck in liberty city trying to make ends meet by doing odd jobs for the local crime lords. The game tries to give a wide variety, for instance the crime lords. You have the Italian Mafia, the Japanese Yakuza, the Chinese Triads just to name a few. Each are in the city is divided into territories between those crime lords, just be sure not to be around when a gang war starts, or just join in the fun!
As most of the perspective used is 3rd-Person Perspective similiar to games like Tomb Raider, these adventure type games acquire a lot of real-time movement. Considering the immense size of the city, that probably a lot walking. It would probably take more than 3-5 hours to walk from one city edge to the other. That's why God invented the sports car!
On that city size subject, the city itself is divided into 3 major areas. The first time around, you can't access the other parts of the city, later on in the game if you follow the storyline, you'll eventually get access to it. My amazement is, after I finished the first area of the city that was barely 25% of the game...which is more than I can say for other games I've played for the same period of time. This game is totally your time and money's worth!
Oh, now the taboo part. In this game, there are no restrictions, no morals and possibly no brains...you can shoot anyone you want, drive anyway you want, blowup anyway and anyone you want. This game has total respect to violence. I really love driving down the road and hitting every pedestrian while I'm at it. Sometimes watch a car blow up and seeing those body parts flying (yes, body parts). I do understand why this game was banned in some countries. Some people aren't stable enough to handle this kind of "reality".
One thing I like that almost makes this game a kind of RPG (but it's not), is that it has a record of all the thing's you've done. How many people you've killed, how many cars you've blown up, even how many police helicopters you've downed with your handy rocket launcher.
And the most important thing is, it gives the player a lot of freedom of choice. It's not to rigid in the storyline, you can do thing's in a manner of different ways....well most of the time. GTA is probably in the great line of freedom of choice such as legendary series of Ultima and Final Fantasy. But I do agree, GTA has certainly began a new cult of its own.
The BadAll great games with great ambitions usually have its downsides. Unfortunately for GTA, due to the immense creativity intended for the players leisure, it also created a lot of irritating creative bugs.
One thing I really hate is the "refresh rate" of people and cars in GTA, which is also by the way very stupid and unrealistic. For example, you look in one direction and see a grandma walking very slowly towards you, and yellow taxi cab behind her. Just look at another direction and look back...they're gone! And replaced by another citizen and different car maybe. What's wrong with that? Nothing wrong, unless you've broken the law or involved in a gang war mission. Unless you have a brick wall behind you, baddies have an irritating way of showing up behind your back, when you know and you just checked there was absolutely no one behind you. I hate the idea that they materialize in thin air. It's just not real and logical.
In this game, you really loathe cops. Probably because they only chase after you. I had this gangster shooting pot shots at me...hey, he fired first...why doesn't that cop do anything? Impatient at his passiveness, I fire back...the cop runs after me. Now I got the mob and the police up my *beep*.
I hate dying. Although in this game, you can't actually die...but if your health reaches zero...you wind up in the hospital...with all of your hard earned equipment gone. So it's not worth dying for...although this game gives you a lot of reasons: (1) You can't swim. Doh. If you even "touch" water to a certain level, you decrease your health. They should've changed the title to "grand vampire auto" or "grand didn't learn to swim in 1st grade auto". I can't recall countless times I fell of the edge of a boat by accident or run my car off into the big wide sea. There is one time, I was on a boat, I accidently blew up the boat with a grenade. I survived, the boat was ash, non usable. Now what? Stuck in the middle of the ocean, with a black ash boat...and you can't swim? Restore game. Totally stupid. (2) Your car blows up...with you in it. Not a problem really...you only need to get out...if you can get out. The idiot hero has to wait until the car reaches a full stop, to finally open the door. Did he know the car was on fire? Yes...but he's to afraid he'd hurt himself while jumping from a moving car. Might as well wait for the car to stop with the possibility of the car blowing up your body parts. Just brilliant. Another thing I hate is the view point. I have had numerous incidents where I was trying to get out of the car, but ended up running to the car instead of AWAY from the car and having the darn thing blow up in my face. (3) Grenades and Rocket Launchers. You throw the grenade to softly it blows in your face. Should've made a safety restriction there. Rocket Launchers are irritating. They're destructive, but you don't wanna get stuck with a rocket launcher with your pants down. If you have a rocket launcher, you can't kill guy next to you without a possibility of blowing yourself up...so you have to change you weapon...if you could. Not in rampage missions though. They give you one weapon and your stuck with it until the mission is over or failed. The fact that you can't run or jump while wielding a rocket launcher makes you a sitting duck in melee combat.
Another thing I reeeeeeeealy hate is missions with time limits. Now this is where I draw the line. Creativity ends when you put a deadline. I have enough deadlines in real life...don't need to be bothered in games. There are a lot of missions that have time limits...so this game can be pretty frustrating.
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Proposed laws regulating digital billboards and residential burning in Williams Township didn't get too far Wednesday night when discussions revealed enough flaws that the supervisors decided both ordinances need some modifications.
Digital billboard regulations became an issue earlier this year when Pop's Kitchen and Tap Room owner John Crivellaro installed one at his business between Industrial Drive and Interstate 78.
Crivellaro said earlier this year he was granted permits to install a 12-foot by 24-foot sign that stands 35 feet high, but later was told by township officials that they were no good because the ad changed rather than remaining static.
What the supervisors looked at Wednesday night were amendments to a digital billboard ordinance that included allowing the images to change every 90 seconds, no sequential videos and illumination no greater than 650 nits, a brightness measurement. For example, an LCD computer monitor averages 200 to 300 nits.
"Six hundred fifty nits, it's too high,'' said township engineer Timothy Edinger, who added that studies by officials in Illinois found 150 nits to be appropriate.
Because of the wide disparity in numbers, he said, "It warrants more investigation."
The 650 number came from a consultant hired by Crivellaro, said township Planning Commission Chairman Terry Lee, who added that the ordinance should be reviewed again by the commission.
While Supervisor Chairman George Washburn and Supervisor Sally Hixson voted to have the Planning Commission review and recommend an illumination level, Supervisor Vincent Foglia voted no and said, "I'm not prepared to ever vote on this.
"I have studies that say this stuff is not safe. ... They should not have these signs at entrance and exit ramps,'' he said.
A study of digital billboard safety is being conducted by Penn State University and Foglia said, "I'll wait and see what Penn State has to say.''
Park Place resident Alice Dietrich said her home near Interstate 78 is affected by lighting from three billboards along the highway and are a daily nuisance.
"I don't feel it would be appropriate," she said regarding bright billboards.
Resident Jim Picot said: "I don't care what Penn State says. These people [who install billboards] don't care. ... Go up to Route 33 at Route 80. There's one there and it's out of control.''
In discussions about a burning ordinance, Washburn said the township is required by state law to enact regulations because it has more than 5,000 residents.
The key sticking point was whether to allow any burning or being specific as to what can be burned.
Hixson, like several other residents who expressed dislike for the regulation, said she frequently uses a barrel to burn personal papers.
The ordinance, which remains in a draft version, would also prohibit leaf and tree limb burning. Washburn said that would be handled by the township, which would develop a site for disposal of leaves and branches.
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#1 W.H. to Furlough Assistant Chef for Sequester04-10-2013, 10:00 AM
4:48 PM, Apr 9, 2013 • By DANIEL HALPER
The White House will furlough the assistant chef because of sequestration, the Associated Press reports.
"Even White House chefs could be feeling the pain of government budget cuts," reports the AP.
"Assistant chef Sam Kass, who cooks dinner for President Barack Obama several nights a week, said Tuesday that he will be furloughed as part of across-the-board budget cuts that went into effect in March. Kass, who is the president's senior nutrition policy adviser, made the comments in an interview with food reporters at the White House. ...
How will the WH survive????May the FORCE be with you!
04-10-2013, 10:24 AM
Four boxes keep us free: the soap box, the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
THIS POST WILL BE MONITORED BY THE NSA
04-10-2013, 10:28 AM
That just means they will spend more money on vacations and White House parties.
I love my God, my country, my flag, and my troops ....
04-10-2013, 10:52 AM
For what they paid for that party last night would have kept this person employed for years. And the left will lap this up like a cat with a bowl of milk.The Obama Administration: Deny. Deflect. Blame.
04-10-2013, 11:54 AM
I wonder if they will furlough Michelle's index finger manicurist and big toe pedicurist, that would still leave 8 manicurists and pedicurists. I think they could still maintain her goddess like beauty.
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I Like My Hybrid
By dlbuck on
Vehicle2004 Honda Civic Hybrid 4dr Sedan (1.3L 4cyl gas/electric hybrid 5M)
ReviewI have the manual trans. If Honda offered the man trans in new hybrid, I'd buy one. When I drive at speed limit (55 mph), I ave 55-60 mpg. New hybrid can't approach this. Freeway traveling (60-65 mph) ave is 50 mpg. Headwind kills mpg. Snow tires kills mpg. To me, mpg is more important than getting there early. Two recalls for engine computer stuff. Never any problems. Haven't replaced brakes yet. I have them checked at every oil change (3k miles) & so far not worn out. I'm getting nervous. Compared to previous vehicle(Jeep Gr Cher, 20mpg) I paid for hybrid August 2003. Honda should offer man trans for Civic hybrid, same as regular Civic.
Best Features1. mpg 2. Reliability 3. Manual Transmission
Worst FeaturesIf Honda was serious about fuel economy, they would offer a Manual Transmission for the Civic hybrid. CVT only is compromise between marketing & fuel economy performance.
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With this volume, the author has finished his commentary on the Pentateuch, and it is one of the very best in existence. He is one of my four favorite living OT commentators (the other three being Iain Duguid, John Mackay, and Dale Ralph Davis). I am hoping that John Currid will be able to continue on writing on Joshua and beyond in the same series. The only really irritating thing about this series is the endnotes. As I have said before, endnotes defeats the entire purpose of having footnotes. I know it saves money, but it greatly increases the irritation factor for anyone reading the commentary to have to flip back and forth all the time. Nevertheless, anyone preaching or teaching on Numbers will want to have this commentary.
Finished His Pentateuchal Commentary
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PITTSFIELD -- City firefighters late Friday evening battled a fire at an abandoned barn off South Street, Routes 7 & 20, near Dan Fox Drive.
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A woman seriously injured in a March hit-and-run accident in Italy is now receiving care at her mother's Hall County home.
Gainesville's public works and public utilities departments are trying to find a new way to fight the budget crunch.
Hall County is one step closer to filling in the gaps where many believe thousands in sales tax dollars are slipping through.
Gainesville officials want ideas for how they should redevelop the downtown area.
Following months of dispute and a costly lawsuit, Hall County has reached a compromise in the North Hall library dispute.
Most days, he detaches from the pain, ignores the stares, keeps the bad memories at bay.
The need was there and so was a pot of money that could start providing a remedy.
Whether it's grammar or biology, history or algebra, it's often one person who makes a subject come alive for a student.
Students carefully poured liquid from one test tube to another and to another on Wednesday.
Classifying sentences wasn't exactly what fifth-grader John Frohberg would call fun, until he entered Dallas Thompson's class.
Timothy Jones can't really see the 2,297 pipes that make up the massive organ in the sanctuary of the First Presbyterian Church.
Alice Roseman knows it's just water. Still, her voice flows with despair when she speaks of the stream on her small Habersham County farm.
Traffic on Queen City Parkway is being rerouted as a result of a vehicle fire involving a truck hauling hay, Hall County emergency dispatchers said Saturday.
North Georgia College & State University will offer a new destination for students who wish to learn Arabic.
On the word "nightingale," eighth-grader Parker Ramey won the Hall County Spelling Bee for a fourth time.
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An open house for the new North Hall High School Performing Arts Center will be held from 5-7 p.m. April 28.
The suspect in a shooting near Cornelia has been located and taken into custody, according to the Habersham County Sheriff's Office Facebook page.
The Times and AccessWDUN are joining forces to sponsor a town hall meeting in May to allow residents to ask questions of the five men ...
Braving winter weather
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Yesterday on Huffpost live Jon Huntsman, former presidential candidate and one of the few in the Republican party that still uses his brain, came out against Mitt Romney's support of Richard "your rape is a gift from god" Mourdock.
When asked about the comments from Mourdock, Huntsman replied:
"I cringe. It’s like fingers on a chalkboard every time I hear men talk about women’s health issues."
I Couldn't agree more myself Jon. This whole talk by unqualified old white dudes when it comes to women's health is pretty disturbing, and I'm sure many women agree. It's not the place of men who don't even understand how a woman's body actually works to try and legislate it.
That's like sticking a computer programmer who doesn't watch football into a game as a referee. Just like the replacement refs he's gonna make some bad calls.
But at least his bad calls only affect a game, whereas people like Mourdock can seriously affect women's health and lives. See people like Richard Mourdock, Todd Akin, Paul Ryan and Mitt Romney believe that you should have your rapists baby and then have to allow that rapist to be in that kids life. 31 states have laws that allow the rapists to file for custody and visitation rights. So first the women must have the rape baby, then allow that baby to be subjected to the father, a rapist.
I can see almost no circumstance where that works out for the child.
And then there is the support for personhood, where Mitt Romney assured people in a telephone call that he "absolutely supports the blunt amendment" which is a personhood bill that would ban abortion as well as many forms of hormonal birth control.
But that's okay, according to Rush Limbaugh every women on birth control is a slut.
Except that's completely wrong, just like everything else that comes out of Rushba the Hutt's mouth. According to NPR It's estimated that 1.5 million women on birth control take it for medical reasons.
But back to Huntsman, one other important thing he said during the interview was:
" This is a complete waste of time for Americans, and they know it, and they’re angered by this kind of talk."
Nail on the head, this is 2012, why the hell are we still fighting over women's rights?
Truth is the right in Washington doesn't care about this (aside from a few nutballs like Mourdock and Akin), but it gets votes. Bush had eight years to challenge abortion rights. He didn't even try to do anything about it. It's simply a red meat issue to toss out to the base in election season and the people eat it up.
So while Huntsman is right, it's a waste of time to bring it up as well it being a great distraction from the great middle class robbery Mitt Romney is planning. It's also something we on the left need to fight back on to protect women's rights.
As for Huntsman, if he really wants to be seen as sane and credible; he might as well jump off the sinking ship that is the Republican party and write off all those tea party crazies like Paul Ryan, Richard Mourdock, Todd Akin, etc. and come over the sane side. If it's good enough for Charlie Crist, it's good enough for you.
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January 2011Conference+Meetings World www.c-mw.net3CONTENTSPUBLISHING DIRECTORPaul [email protected] & MARKETINGMANAGERChris [email protected] MANAGERLuke [email protected] ASSISTANTJustyna KochanskaPrinted by GeminiMash Media Group Ltd Faraday House39 Thornton RoadWimbledonLondon SW19 4NQUnited Kingdom Tel: +44 (0)20 8971 8282 Fax: +44 (0)20 8971 8283E-mail: [email protected]: www.c-mw.netISNN 1747-0463© Copyright Conference + Meetings WorldAll material published in Conference +Meetings World is copyright and remains theproperty of the publishers. No material maybe reproduced without the writtenpermission of the publishers. The publishersdo not necessarily agree with the viewsexpressed by contributors, nor do theyaccept any responsibility for any errors orinterpretation in the subject matter of thispublication.No part of this publication may be copied orreproduced, stored in a retrieval system, orbe transmitted in any form by any meanselectronic, mechanical, photocopying,recording or otherwise without the priorpermission of the publishers.CONTACTSNewsMCI reports profits rise;expansions for Singexand Davos; ambassadorprogramme launched inTallinn. 07Looking forwardA selection of industryleaders look forward tothe prospects for theNew Year.12"EIBTM provided a reminder of theconstant need to be aware of eventrisk management."EIBTM 2010Weather and strikeaction fails to derailEIBTM 2010 inBarcelona.09Meet in MaltaMalta and Gozo areproviding enduringincentives to meet in theheart of Mediterraneancivilisation.25City focus:KrakowMike Trudeau goesdeeper into Poland'sevents underground.17Way to go Joint Meetings IndustryCouncil PresidentLeigh Harry calls forindustry unity around a message of value.19A new AIMENew Director of RTEand Melbourne'smeetings industry show,AIME, Sally de Swart,talks to CMW.23Quantum leapPresident of globalvenue associationAIPC, Edgar Hirt, logson to the technologychallenge.29CONTENTSThe shows must go onMany of us at EIBTM 2010 in Barcelonawere reminded of the need for riskmanagement and contingency planning,when a dusting of snow cruelly exposedthe lack of preparation, snowploughs andde-icing machinery in some UK andGerman airports. Organiser Reed TravelExhibitions estimated 300 hosted buyerswere kept at home as a result. RTEreacted smartly to the challenge, makingseats available on special charters to flystranded exhibitors and buyers home. A Spanish air traffic controllers strike wasanother recent reminder of the vagaries offate and the need to check yourinsurance.As we look back at 2010 and forward toworking for future success, let's remembercreativity can also spring from adversity.Iceland Convention Bureau's smartemergency marketing strategy helpedshore up the island's business tourismindustry in the wake of last year's volcanoeruption. Their efforts were recognisedwith an ICCA marketing award.A slew of agency and organiser resultstentatively back findings from the Trendssurvey, released at EIBTM (and reviewedin this issue). Of course, there are bigregional variations in these trends but theanalysis provides much food for thoughtfor 2011 and adds to the industry body ofwork that includes Rohit Talwar's ongoingConvention 2020 project.Happy New Year wishes to one and alland special congratulations to Russia andQatar for landing the big football event for2018 and 2022 respectively, in the face ofsome cynical smear campaigns. We willalso be watching keenly and reporting onthe bidding process for World Expo 2020and, indeed, many congresses, as theyunfold.Paul Colston, managing editorMANAGING EDITORPaul [email protected] EDITORVikki [email protected] [email protected]
4www.c-mw.net Conference+Meetings WorldJanuary 2011NEWSMajor gas event win for PerthThailand to bid for 2020 World Expo EIBTM visitors up 1%Hosted buyers sign up for AIBTMTHAILAND - The Thailand Conventionand Exhibition Bureau (TCEB) hasconfirmed it will bid for the 2020 WorldExpo when bidding opens this month.The three cities at the centre of the bid are Chonburi (Pattaya), the northerncity Chiang Mai and the former capital Ayutthaya.The 2010 World Expo in Shanghai wasvisited by 73m people, according to theChinese Government. The next event willbe held in Milan, Italy, in 2015.WORLD - The Perth ConventionBureau played a key role insecuring the global liquefiednatural gas conference andexhibition LNG18 for WesternAustralia in 2016."We canvassed the opportunityto bid for LNG18 with theAustralian Gas Industry Trust(AGIT) nearly two years ago,"said the bureau's MD, ChristineMcLean. "We then worked withthe AGIT and the AustralianPetroleum Production andSPAIN - EIBTM attracted 8,395visitors to its 2010 show, pre-audit, a one per cent increaseon 2009.The Reed Travel Exhibitions'meetings and travel trade showat the Fira Barcelona inDecember, also attracted 3,125exhibiting companies from 90countries, held 59 professionaleducation sessions and saw3,582 hosted buyers.For more information on theevent, see our EIBTM reviewon page nine.USA - HelmsBriscoe, IHG,Global Synergies and The DMCGroup are the first hosted buyercoordinators to confirmparticipation in Reed TravelExhibitions' inaugural Statesideshow, AIBTM.The organiser is expecting over3,000 national and internationalmeeting planners, including2,000 hosted buyers, to attendthe show in Baltimore from 21 to23 June 2011. Hosted buyer registration opensthis month and Steve Knight,AIBTM's Project Manager, saysthere has been a positiveresponse from those eager towork with Reed on the launch. "Our hosted buyer model hasproven to be the most efficientand effective means of meetingwith the destinations, vendorsand suppliers to help satisfyplanners' needs," said Knight."Hosted buyers will have theopportunity to meet one-on-onewith exhibitors of their choice,using an online, pre-scheduledappointment system."SOUTH KOREA- A shortage of trained professionals ispreventing the Korean meetingsindustry from maturing despite awealth of venue space andsophisticated technology, industryrepresentatives have revealed.According to Seoul TourismOrganisation CEO Samuel Koo,low wages also make the industryunattractive to new graduates andthe highly-skilled, who could puttheir skills to better-paid jobs inother sectors."All the regional, local andKorean MICE industrylacks skilled workersExploration Association todevelop the bid."This is a major internationalcoup for Perth," she added. The economic impact ofLNG18 has been calculated atmore than US$49m.national tourism organisations arelooking for trained people," he said, "but at the same time thewage level isn't high enough so it is difficult to attract people to the industry."Speaking at the Korea MICEExpo 2010, Meeting ProfessionalsInternational's Chief DevelopmentOfficer Didier Scalliet said hebelieved an undefined career pathwas also discouraging youngKoreans from committingthemselves wholeheartedly to theindustry.WORLD- Publisher andconference organiser Informareported growth and recoveryacross all its main divisions inits interim managementstatement released at theend of 2010.The company reportedcontinuing signs of recoveryInforma reports revenue growthin its conference business,especially in Germany andAustralia."Informa's strongperformance year-to-dateleaves us well-placed to meetmanagement expectations forthe full year," said CEO PeterRigby. "We expect to deliverorganic revenue growthacross our core divisions andwe believe that we have theappropriate balance ofbusinesses to continue that growth this year, despitethe uncertain globaloutlook," Rigby added.Managementchange atMemphisCook CenterUSA - The Memphis Conventionand Visitors Bureau (MCVB) haswon the bid to manage theMemphis Cook ConventionCenter, the centre's board hasannounced.The move represents amanagement change fromSMG, which had run theconvention centre for 20 years.The MCVB outbid not just SMG,but also Global Spectrum, forthe contract. | <urn:uuid:fd7853ff-231d-4943-b6b5-127239c37110> | CC-MAIN-2016-18 | http://view.digipage.net/?id=cmw012011&page=3 | 2016-05-06T07:29:03Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-18/segments/1461861735203.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20160428164215-00216-ip-10-239-7-51.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.853565 | 1,875 | [
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Around the Midwest, J&P Cycles® is known for the spectacular Open House event that began as a simple Customer Appreciation Day. The event grew to a two-day event in 2009, drawing more than 22,000 people to the cornfields of Iowa. This year the event is being held June 26 and 27, and the stakes are even higher as J&P® tries to beat last year’s attendance numbers.
Some of the exciting entertainment scheduled for the Open House includes Circus Una, a new act. Circus Una is a high-flying entertainment act featuring two women. The motorcycle, dancer and rider balance themselves on a thin wire. Additionally, the ILL Conduct Motorcycle Stunt Show will perform. As the National Motorcycle Museum wraps up their expansion to a new facility, the Open House will serve as a preview for the new location and debut the AwesomeNess exhibit, all about famed motorcycle legend Arlen Ness. Ness will join in the festivities during the Open House.
A silent auction will be held to benefit the National Motorcycle Museum. True motorcycling enthusiasts will enjoy the shopping! J&P Cycles®’ enormous inventory of parts and accessories will be available for viewing. Most products in the showroom will be 10 percent off (15 percent for Gold Club members) and a portion of the one-acre warehouse will be devoted to drastically reduced clearance items (up to 50 percent off).
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Now the downtown overlords are pushing for a massive Chargers stadium subsidy, even though the only thing blighted in downtown San Diego is the City’s financial condition. The hastily drawn, secret bill to lift Centre City’s cap “doesn’t meet the smell test,” says Pasadena lawyer Sutton. “It was written on a notepad and grafted onto a bill regarding farmland. The legislature has no shame. These giveaways to developers are no different than Tammany Hall [New York City’s 19th-century graft haven]. The development agencies take the money and dole it out to political contributors.”
San Diego attorney Mike Aguirre has filed a suit against the legislature’s guerrilla raid. The defendants are three state agencies. “A finding that a project area is blighted is the absolute prerequisite for redevelopment,” says the suit. But Senate Bill 863 was rammed through “with no committee hearings, no debate before the public, behind closed doors, and while the City of San Diego and the Centre City Development Corporation were in the middle of conducting a study to determine if the relevant project area was sufficiently blighted,” says the suit. It cites a recent appellate decision in which the court rejected Glendora’s blight claim under similar circumstances. Aguirre filed in Sacramento “so we don’t sue the power structure in San Diego; we make them play an away game.”
Says Aguirre, “It is time to wean the developers from subsidies and have them embrace competition.”
That has worked in downtown Los Angeles, says Steve Erie, professor of political science at the University of California San Diego. He and a Ph.D. candidate, Vlad Kogan, have shown that in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Los Angeles was able to rein in its redevelopment agency, move tax dollars from downtown to the rest of the city, and block the big subsidies for pro sports facilities. Result: “a downtown renaissance with private capital,” says Erie. But San Diego “is the welfare queen of redevelopment agencies, still on the dole” and still steering taxpayer money downtown. “No other city has such a peculiar institution to capture the benefits for downtown.”
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Medical devices major, St. Jude Medical, Inc. (STJ) recently announced results from a large-scale clinical study of peripheral nerve stimulus (PNS) of the occipital nerve for managing pain and disability associated with chronic migraine, a condition afflicting millions globally. St. Jude’s Genesis neurostimulation system was used for this study.
The results, published online by Cephalalgia, the journal of the International Headache Society (IHC), demonstrate that the device was safe and effective in reducing the number of migraine headache days per month and helped improve a patient’s quality of life. Earlier in June 2011, encouraging preliminary results from this study were presented at the IHC, which also reported PNS therapy to be beneficial.
The Genesis neurostimulation system works by delivering mild electrical pulse to leads placed under the skin at the back of the head, stimulating the occipital nerves. The device has already received European as well as Australian approval to treat patients with intractable chronic migraine.
Per the results of the clinical study, 157 patients treated across 15 medical centers in the U.S., with severe headache for roughly 21 days per month, reported an average of 6 lesser headache days per month after receiving the PNS therapy for 12 weeks. Moreover, disability score improved by 43% based on the Migraine Disability Assessment questionnaire (MIDAS).
In addition, participants reported 42% advancement in pain relief and 52% rated their relief as either good or excellent. However, adverse effects such as pain and/or numbness at the implant site, succeeded by lead migration plagued some of the patients. Nonetheless, these were classified as mild or moderate in terms of severity in most of the cases.
The Genesis system earlier was a part of the Neuromodulation (“NMD”) business of St. Jude. However, the company recently combined its Cardiac Rhythm Management (“CRM”) Division and the NMD Division to form the Implantable Electronic Systems Division (“IESD”). The latest positive data from the study regarding Genesis neurostimulators are likely to further boost IESD’s product sales.
St. Jude’s Neuromodulation revenues are growing steadily, benefiting from new spinal cord and Parkinson’s disease devices as well as sustained adoption of the Eon Mini implantable neurostimulator. In the last reported second quarter of 2012, Neuromodulation sales increased 2%, (up 5% in constant currency) year over year to $106 million.
With a market cap of $13.63 billion, St. Jude is a leading medical device manufacturer with a solid rate of growth over the past decade. We are impressed by its solid fundamentals, healthy growth trajectory, strong product mix, robust pipeline and cost management initiatives.
While a host of new growth drivers, including new products and cost saving measures, are expected to boost results in 2013 and beyond, we remain cautious about the increased competition, weakening Euro, the soft CRM market and the overall tough macroeconomic conditions.
A still choppy CRM space overhangs on St. Jude and its peers Medtronic, Inc. (MDT) and Boston Scientific Corporation (BSX). We currently have a Neutral recommendation on St. Jude, which carries a short-term Zacks #3 Rank (Hold rating).
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This is the year of the Woody Guthrie Centennial Celebration, with concerts occurring throughout the nation. But there are precious few musicians still active who were close to the Great American Troubadour while he was alive. Guthrie, who wrote “This Land Is Your Land” and many other folk classics, died in 1967 of Huntington’s disease at age 55.
In a strange coincidence, two of Guthrie’s friends are playing in this area on Sunday. Bob Dylan (who is at PNC Pavilion at Riverbend) you probably know — as a young man newly arrived in New York from Minnesota in the early 1960s, he befriended an already ill Guthrie, whose music he idolized.
But the other, who isn’t well known outside Folk circles (although he should be), is Ramblin’ Jack Elliott. On Sunday he closes the three-day Whispering Beard Folk Festival in nearby Friendship, Ind. (Whispering Beard is in the southeast corner of the state, about 20 miles from the Lawrenceburg exit of I-275.) Elliott’s 4:15 p.m. set at Whispering Beard on Sunday fittingly closes out a weekend full of music — including Pokey LaFarge, Langhorne Slim and Justin Townes Earle, plus local acts Magnolia Mountain and The Tillers — that just might not exist were it not for Guthrie’s broad influence.
Now 81, Elliott has led a remarkable life following in Guthrie’s footsteps and making music as a wanderlust-bitten singer-storyteller and acoustic guitar player. Recently, more and more music aficionados have started to recognize him as a national treasure outside of Guthrie’s shadow. After a long absence from record shelves, he’s started making albums again. Signing with the esteemed Anti- label, Elliott’s 2006 release, I Stand Alone, featured a hip guest list (including Flea, Corin Tucker, Nels Cline and Lucinda Williams) and was nominated for a Best Traditional Folk Album Grammy. Elliott’s 2009 Blues covers album, the Joe Henry-produced A Stranger Here, won the Grammy for Best Traditional Blues Album.
Elliott, who lives in northern California but grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y., traces his ramblin’ lifestyle to leaving home at age 15 to join a traveling rodeo as a horse groomsman.
“A rodeo clown played guitar and banjo and used to entertain us between shows up in the stands,” Elliott recalls during a recent phone interview. “As soon as I got home from the trip, just before my 16th birthday, I started playing guitar.”
He grew to admire Guthrie’s records as he learned to play.
So in 1951, a New York friend and Folk-music aficionado gave him the phone number of Guthrie, who also lived in Brooklyn, on Mermaid Avenue near Coney Island.
“He said, ‘He’s a friendly guy, he’ll probably invite you to come over.’ So I called Woody and indeed he did invite me,” Elliott recounts. “But he said, ‘Don’t come today, I got a bellyache.’ Turned out he had appendicitis. So I visited him a couple days later in the hospital. He was pretty doped up but he told me to go across the street and introduce myself to his wife Marjorie and she’d show me around. He lived across the street from the hospital.”
Elliott then went with a friend to California, driving along a pre-Interstate route. When he returned, he says, he called Guthrie to tell him, “I’d been singing his song ‘Hard Travelin’ at every bar on Route 40.”
That started a friendship.
“It ended up with me staying in the apartment with him and (wife) Marjorie and (children) Arlo, Joady and Nora Lee,” Elliott says. “I kind of was a babysitter and a sidekick. We played a lot of music together. He was one of my favorite guitar players; he had a marvelous touch on the strings.
“Of course, he gradually lost that from that time forward because of Huntington’s disease, which started to hit him hard right when I moved in,” he says. “I moved in around April 1951 and by September he had to go to the hospital and get checked out because he was having dizzy spells every day.”
Guthrie was not the only interesting person in Elliott’s life in the 1950s. He became friends with the Beat writers through a literary devotee, Helen Parker. He met Jack Kerouac and read On the Road four years before it was published.
“She knew a lot of famous authors,” Elliott remembers. “She introduced me to Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg and a whole lot of authors I had never heard of before. For a period of six months, I had lots of parties with these people, who’d gather at Helen’s apartment on Bleecker Street in the Village.”
He also recorded for the first time, contributing several songs to a 1954 Elektra Records collection called Bad Men and Heroes. His selections included Guthrie’s “Pretty Boy Floyd” and a Folk ballad called “Charles Guiteau.” (An online discography says songs were recorded in 1952.) Guiteau, by the way, assassinated President James Garfield in 1881.
Elliott left for England in 1955 and stayed there for the rest of the decade, performing Guthrie songs and releasing on the Topic label both solo albums and projects with a friend, Derroll Adams.
“I was the one who brought Woody’s music to Europe. I treasure that,” he says.
When he returned to the U.S., he found his place in the Folk world as an interpreter, but never became a singer/songwriter — or a star like the younger Dylan.
Elliott’s sets these days are not just a Guthrie tribute.
“I don’t specialize in Woody Guthrie songs, by any means,” he says. “I like to include three or four in a show, and I’ll do about 18 other songs — cowboy songs, one or two Bob Dylan songs, some Rock & Roll, a Kristofferson song. I don’t have any set list.”
He knows he’s come a long way from being born as Elliot Charles Adnopoz, the son of a doctor who wanted him to follow suit.
“I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do in life but one thing I always knew I didn’t want to do was be a doctor,” he says. “I never liked anything about doctoring at all — I didn’t see the glamour, the romance, the heroism. Well, heroic, yes — I knew my dad was a hero. But I couldn’t live up to any of that stuff. So I’ve taken another form of healing people. And I have inherited a lot of his healing talent. I don’t feel bad about not being a doctor.”
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Manama: With only 24 days left for the controversial parliamentary elections in Kuwait, neither side in the duelling equation seemed ready to change course.
Emir Shaikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Jaber Al Sabah said that he was confident that the amendment of the electoral law was the right decision to make.
“I have explained the reasons for amending the electoral law and I said that it was in response to pressing interests that could not be procrastinated,” Shaikh Sabah said.
“It was meant to protect national unity, deepen democracy practices, secure equal opportunities and ensure the representation of the various segments of the society. I had the constitutional prerogative to make the decision and I made it before God and the people of Kuwait. I would not have made it otherwise,” he said in his address to Kuwaiti citizens.
However, Shaikh Sabah said that the next parliament could review the amendment and any negative aspect of the electoral law. He added that the amendment had affected some people because they would lose privileges.
“We understand the resentment of those whose interests were harmed by the amendment and we respect their views and their ways of expressing them within the framework of the law. However, no one has the right to transgress or break the laws that regulate freedom and the practice of civilised politics,” he said.
Clashes had marred two demonstrations organised by the opposition to force the revocation of the amendment of the electoral law that reduced the number of candidates a voter can elect from four to one.
The government said that the change to the “one voter, one vote” principle meant to ensure a fairer representation of the nation in the 50-member parliament.
However, the opposition said that the amendment aimed to curb its influence and to bring in a rubber-stamp parliament. It vowed to resist it, mainly through street pressure tactics.
Prominent figures from the opposition said that they would boycott the elections on December 1 and launched a massive campaign for a national no-show on Election Day.
A popular committee for the boycott of the elections was set up on Tuesday with the expressed aim of reducing dramatically the number of candidates and voters “so that the next parliament does not represent the nation and can therefore be cancelled easily.”
Registration for the elections has started and reports said that 96 people had have submitted their applications to run in the national polls. The figure is well below the numbers in the last elections in February, but it does allow for the holding of the polls and the election of a new parliament.
Pressed by time and in new attempts to reverse the course of events, the opposition said that it would stage a demonstration or a rally on November 11.
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We’ve featured three teams in the Petronas Switch for XTRA Road Challenge so far – Team Awal, Team Scha Alyahya and Team FBI – so let’s now take a look at the final one in the reckoning, Team Hanis Zalikha.
The team is named after celebrity blogger Hanis Zalikha, which I first took note of in the Mad Markets series on TV9, where she explores markets in various places. The girl is cute, and I don’t mind getting lost with her in Chatuchak! Anyway, her teammates for the roadtrip are Farhana Azreen and Tiffany Ooi, not this writer.
The embedded video above starts with “Sedutan Episod 1”, which will show you what the girls did in the first webisode. Like the other teams, they started off by selling Boboiboy toys at a Petronas station, before heading north to Ipoh Parade for their next challenge – three games followed by 30 new Mesra card applicants from mall goers.
Pit stops are a must for long drives, and the girls found the Tapah R&R Petronas station to stretch their legs and refresh via the Petronas Pitstop app.
Getting random people to sign up for stuff ain’t easy, but after the Mesra card challenge, Team Hanis had to then find 25 people to sing a line each, shoot a video clip, edit and post the clip online to wrap the day up.
Quite a task, but they at least had feminine charms to rely on – imagine a bunch of guys asking random people to star in their video clip, and the response they will get? View the video above to see how they did.
Here’s a recap of what this is all about. The Road Challenge is actually the second phase of the #Switch4XTRA campaign after the Petronas Switch For XTRA Race, which saw fans vote for their favourite celebrities in a virtual popularity race.
The Road Challenge features four famous faces – Awal Ashaari, Scha Alyahya and Faizal Ismail (FBI) are the three celebrities, while Hanis Zalikha is the celebrity blogger involved – who will travel across Malaysia and complete fun challenges along the way. They won’t be alone though, as each celebrity will be supported by a team of two supporters, who were picked from the top 15 winners of the Switch for XTRA Race.
In the Road Challenge, each team of three will be sent on a roadtrip to a selected location in Malaysia, where they will need to complete a challenge. To add spice, the challenge can only be completed with the help of the public.
When the teams receive their challenge, the celebrities will “call for help” via their respective social networks, so every fan can play a part, not just the two teammates. The roadtrip challenges will then be posted online as webisodes on the Petronas Brands Youtube channel.
In the end, the team with the highest number of collective video views will be crowned champion. The winning team will walk away with RM10,000 cash, which will be divided 50:50 between the two team members.
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Wesley Snipes and Richard Hatch should be happy they don't live in China.
A federal jury last month ordered actor Snipes, who paid no federal taxes from 1999 to 2004, to pay up to $17 million in back taxes plus penalties and interest. Hatch, who failed to pay taxes on his $1 million in winnings from the first "Survivor" show in 2000, last week lost an appeal of his tax-evasion conviction and is serving four years and three months in federal prison.
Paying big dollars is one thing, serving time in jail is another; but in China, those punishments are mere slaps on the wrist. According to The Economist, China may lead the world in economic growth rates, but it's also a leader in use of the death penalty and the number of crimes - 60 - that it considers capital offenses. The list includes murder and other violent crimes, right along with taking bribes, embezzlement, and tax evasion.
The Economic Times of India calls tax evasion a "global scourge," which has reached 10 percent of gross domestic product in some advanced counties and 70 percent in developing countries, by some estimates.
Various methods of cracking down are being tried. In addition to stick method (the threat of death), the Chinese are trying the carrot approach. The newspaper said tax authorities encourage customers to request official receipts by issuing receipts that double as proof of payment and a scratch-off lottery ticket. Records of the printed receipts are automatically sent to the tax authorities.
In Canada, a tax evasion conviction can mean big penalties, daily interest, and a possible jail term of up to two years. Jose Rocha, a masonry company owner in Kitchener, Ontario, failed to report almost $1 million in income from 1998 to 2004. Rocha was fined $112,216. He must pay the full tax he owes, $172,639, plus interest and penalties, according to The Record. Federal prosecutor Steve Dollar told the newspaper that Rocha will likely pay four times what he should have paid in taxes in the first place. "People caught doing this will face significant financial consequences . . . it's just not worth it."
Mexico, which collects far too little in taxes, has passed legislation that aims to collect more taxes and crack down on evasion "from blue-chip companies that use multiple tax loopholes to the hundreds of thousands of street vendors who crowd city streets," The New York Times reported. The measure is expected to raise $10 billion next year.
The Wall Street Journal reported Monday that many developing countries are struggling with ways to collect more income taxes, with corruption being a major impediment. In Russia, massive tax evasion led President Vladimir Putin to implement a 13 percent levy on income in 2001. Former Russian oil tycoon, Mikhail Khodorovsky, a convicted tax evader, was sentenced in 2005 to eight years in jail.
The Journal reported that in Indonesia, which has 240 million people and one of the lowest tax-collection ratios in Asia, only 3.5 million individuals were registered as taxpayers at the end of 2006. In the Philippines, sales tax was raised in 2005 because income taxes are ineffective. More than two-thirds of self-employed people in the Philippines - from doctors to hairdressers - pay less tax than they should, Reuters reported.
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Wanna Get Pregnant RIGHT NOW? This Book Could Help!Rebekah Kuschmider
When my husband and I were ready to start trying to conceive our first child, I decided I needed to find a new gynecologist to give me a pre-conception check-up. A friend recommended a doctor who was Harvard educated, Jewish and gay. I wasn’t sure if I wanted him to be my doctor or my best friend with those credentials. He was a lovely man who specialized in fertility and was more than happy to sit with me and answer all my questions about getting knocked up for the first time. I expressed a number of concerns about my age, how long I’d been on the Pill, and various other anxieties. When I referenced some books I’d read, he told me to stop reading. “You don’t need books! You need a penis and a vagina. You know the best way to get pregnant? You schtup!”
Yep. Totally wanted him as my best friend.
Oh, and “shtup” is Yiddish for having sex.
Dr. Sctup-A-Lot’s admonishments about books aside, I did not stop reading, even when we did begin the schtupping part of getting pregnant (which worked, like a charm, by the way). I had a stack of books about fertility, fertility and diet, fertility and health, and memoirs of women trying, with varying degrees of success, to get pregnant. I probably would have LOVED The Impatient Woman’s Guide to Getting Pregnant by Jean M. Twenge PhD.
This book sounds awesome: like all the fertility books I ever read summarized by my smartest girlfriend. I read a sample after seeing the review and it was great. Conversational and smart, it talks about the emotions as well as the plumbing of getting pregnant. (I didn’t want to buy the whole book because, well, I’m already pregnant and not likely do this again.)
So, if you’re a woman like me who couldn’t just take the advice to go schtup at face value – even from a Harvard educated doctor – and needs a library of books and websites to consult during the sometimes harrowing process of trying to conceive, this book looks like a great addition to the stack on your bedside table!
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2005 Chevy Silverado - The Big Diesel
A Brawny Work Truck Turned Showpiece
The Chevy Silverado has a history of versatility. With a powerful selection of engine and drivetrain setups and great towing/hauling capabilities, the variations offer nice options for light-duty to extreme-duty work. This model is an '05 2500HD Crew Cab, equipped with GM's Duramax 6600 6.6L, V-8 turbodiesel engine. It's a setup that has power and functionality-much appreciated by hardcore do-it-yourselfers and those who work in labor-oriented fields.
In this case, owner Jason Christiansen loved the Silverado's power and aggressive look, but not the workhorse image. Envisioning a truck with power and grace, Jason used a huge suspension package, ample entertainment equipment, and other custom choices to remake the Silverado, from an unsophisticated utility to a pure and powerful 4x4. The power under the hood has been enhanced with tuning changes and exhaust, intake, and fuel system upgrades. And since this truck is unlikely to do much manual labor, its power is saved for the best uses: ego enhancement and driving enjoyment.
Wanting to go all out on the suspension, Jason chose Fabtech's 8-inch performance lift kit and a host of high-quality components. Making use of the multiple shock-mounting tabs on the Fabtech control arms, Jason went with dual Fox 2.0 Pro Series nitrogen-powered shocks with remote reservoirs, held in place with SDHQ shock clamps. Out back, Deaver leaf springs and a Kelderman Air Ride Suspension system smooth out the bumps in the road.
The fuel system was upgraded with a fuel air separator high-performance delivery system that helps make the diesel fuel burn more efficiently, thus allowing more of it in the Transfer Flow added-capacity fuel tank. Off the lot, the Silverado Duramax produces 310 hp at 3,000 rpm. Jason's truck makes a lot more than that with the addition of an aFe cool-air intake system, a Banks Monster 5-inch exhaust, and a Quadzilla power chip. Optimal tuning settings are provided by Quadzilla's Stealth Tuner, designed specifically for the Duramax engine.
On the inside, the Silverado shows off a cool beige interior set off with flame accents. An embossed flame pattern was used in the door panels, the headliner, and on the subwoofer enclosure. The exterior's bold red is repeated on the interior with a red-on-black flame insert on the subwoofer box and red neon lighting on the amp rack. The truck's versatile entertainment package was designed and installed by Signature Audio in Scottsdale, Arizona. Basically, Jason paid for functionality: a navigation system, CD and DVD capability, headrest monitors, some extra volume, and detailed sound quality were his requirements. The head unit is an Eclipse all-in-one style model that centralizes the CD/DVD player and navigation system. For extra DVD functionality, the truck also has an Eclipse DV3101 DVD player mounted below the head unit. Pioneer 8-inch monitors in the headrests keep Jason's back-seat crew entertained. Highs and mid-range frequencies are handled by 6-inch MB Quart QSD216s located in the front door panels. The lows are powered by three JL Audio 10-inch subwoofers that are mounted in a custom, sealed enclosure behind the rear seat. Powering the monster system is a pair of JL Audio amplifiers that have been accented with a cool neon-red glow.
Allowing the truck's big stance to speak for itself, Jason limited the exterior modifications to paint, a new Precision grille, wheels and tires from American Racing and Toyo respectively, and a few functional upgrades, including Amp Research retractable power steps. With the transformation complete, Jason has successfully updated his Silverado's workhorse mojo with a little show-field class. With the mission accomplished, this big diesel machine is one serious piece of work. | <urn:uuid:a0a4ad12-28e4-49fc-ae01-244eb47324a0> | CC-MAIN-2016-18 | http://www.trucktrend.com/cool-trucks/0512tr-2005-chevy-silverado/ | 2016-04-30T14:31:50Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-18/segments/1461860111865.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20160428161511-00090-ip-10-239-7-51.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.928527 | 845 | [
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You don't necessarily need to shift into first at 30-40 MPH, but I would say it would be *nice* to be able to downshift into first going faster than 5mph. My WRX will grind while I try downshifting going 10 MPH. I've been happy with the transmission overall, it's just the first gear syncro seems to be the weakest link. Double clutching(release the clutch between gear shifts) does not help in any way. Rev matching helps a little bit, but it's also very picky, and a lot of the time it will still grind.
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Vince Demerit had been going through a lot of changes lately. Between working out 4 times a week at the gym and BMX competitions, Vince has gone from shy, skinny kid to a self-assured, budding muscle boy. But his new manly physique hasn’t gone to his head. In fact since starting with a new boyfriend, Vince has gone from aggressive top to willing bottom.
And to highlight this new found pleasure, Vince is trying a dildo for the first time. But to make it a real challenge, he picked one that is bigger than any cock he has ever had up his ass.
These straight boys and their big ideas. Johnny’s big dream is to be a straight porn star. In other words he wants to get paid for fucking hot chicks. But if that doesn’t work, his back up plan is to go into construction. The connection is clear. Jobs are about working with wood. Johnny is pretty serious about fulfilling his duties as a hot straight guy. Fucking girls is VERY high on his agenda of things to do.
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After blowing his load all over the inside of the stall, he emerges from the bathroom to find two police officers questioning him about his activity. Find out what happened to him as he recounts this tale of woe to his friend on the phone.
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What I love about my job more than anything is that you never really know how a total newbie is going to perform! Nor what pleasant surprises are held within his underwear! Mike certainly was a pleasure to film – he’s got a lovely slim and toned body… a thick uncut dick and rugged look. But he’s also a little shy and has if ‘butter wouldn’t melt’ attitude… yet Mike was really eager to come and jerk off.
I’ve always said it’s more about the fun than the money and Mike’s debut is a prime example of a guy wanting to give himself some serious self pleasure and share it for us all to see!! Sure, he was slightly nervous during our initial chat but once Mike was naked with his thick uncut cock flapping about his naughty side soon kicked in.
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Source: "You can use a Raspberry Pi to give new life to old devices. Your fridge isn’t really ready to send you a reminder to buy more apples on the way home, but there are already several cool ways in which you can get your electronics talking to one another. One of the most exciting trends in technology is getting all the devices in a house connected to each other and to the Internet. The Internet of Things, as the idea is described, suggests a world where everything is interconnected, letting your washing machine order detergent when supplies run low, letting your phone switch on the air conditioner automatically as you get close to home, even letting you store music on your phone and play it from the big speakers in the house.
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SENATE BILL NO. 370
INTRODUCED BY J. ESSMANN
AN ACT GENERALLY REVISING LAWS RELATED TO THE LEGISLATURE; REVISING LAWS RELATING TO FISCAL NOTES; AMENDING SECTIONS 5-4-201 AND 5-4-203, MCA; AND PROVIDING AN IMMEDIATE EFFECTIVE DATE.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MONTANA:
Section 1. Section 5-4-201, MCA, is amended to read:
"5-4-201. Requirement of fiscal notes with committee reports. All Except as provided in 5-4-203, all bills reported out of a committee of the legislature having an effect on the revenues revenue, expenditures, or fiscal liability of the state or of a county or municipality, except appropriation measures carrying specific dollar amounts, shall must include a fiscal note incorporating an estimate of such that effect. Fiscal notes shall must be requested by the presiding officer of either house, who shall determine the need for the note at the time of introduction."
Section 2. Section 5-4-203, MCA, is amended to read:
"5-4-203. Budget director to prepare note. (1) The budget director, in cooperation with the state or local agencies or officials or organizations representing local agencies or officials affected by the bill, is responsible for the preparation of the fiscal note and shall return same the fiscal note within 6 days. The director may request additional time to complete a note, which and the extension must be submitted to the presiding officer or committee requesting the note for approval.
(2) If a fiscal note is not available in the originating house in accordance with this section, the bill may be reported out of committee and acted upon by that house but no action may be taken in the receiving house until the fiscal note has been prepared."
Section 3. Effective date. [This act] is effective on passage and approval.
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April 23, 2009
By Tim Simard
Williston students are performing better than Adequate Yearly Progress goals would lead people to believe, say school officials. In some cases, students nearly reached the progress goals set by the federal government, said Williston’s Math Curriculum Coordinator Rick McGraw.
“It’s a razor thin margin in some (subjects),” McGraw said.
In a presentation to the School Board last week, McGraw said in the four years Williston students have taken NECAP exams, there have been annual improvements in scores. This is especially true of two subgroups that have not met federally mandated progress goals: students on free or reduced lunch programs and special needs students.
“We’re now starting to get data to track some changes in individual students over four years,” McGraw said at the April 15 meeting.
While both subgroups in Williston still lag behind progress goals set by the federal No Child Left Behind Act, McGraw finds the results encouraging, especially in the fields of literacy.
“There’s some real nice growth that you can see,” he said.
New England Common Assessment Program tests, better known as NECAPs, are given every fall to test reading and math skills of all students in grades three through eight, and in grade 11. Writing tests are given to students in grades five, eight and 11. Science NECAPs are administered in the spring.
The NECAP tests measure progress and determine whether school districts meet federally mandated goals called Adequate Yearly Progress. For the fourth year in a row, Williston failed to meet Adequate Yearly Progress goals for free or reduced lunch and special needs students. The school has been placed on a corrective action program by the Vermont Department of Education for this year.
According to data tabulated by McGraw based on four years of NECAP results, students across the school and in all subgroups are progressing, although less so in math.
Williston students have seen a 7 percent increase in reading scores and a 9 percent increase in writing scores over the four years. Students in the subgroups have also, for the most part, progressed in both subject areas.
In terms of meeting Adequate Yearly Progress reading goals pertaining to free or reduced lunch students, McGraw said the school was just four students short of meeting proficiency levels. Eighty-six free or reduced lunch students were tested in math and reading. For special needs students, it wasn’t as close, but there was notable improvement, he said.
School Board Chairwoman Darlene Worth said the reading and writing data didn’t surprise her.
“I think it makes sense, because we’ve had reading recovery programs for three years now,” Worth said.
Only in math has there been stagnation in results. Students have barely increased their progress by 1 percent over four years, McGraw’s data shows.
“There’s really no significant change to be seen,” McGraw said.
McGraw said after the meeting that Williston’s free and reduced lunch subgroup fell 12 students short of meeting Adequate Yearly Progress goals in math.
“Math is an area we need to focus our attention on,” he said.
McGraw told the board he was not a fan of the NECAP exams when students first took them four years ago, but his opinions have changed since using the data provided.
“The more I learn about (the NECAPs), the more I like them,” he said.
He explained that the exam provides expert data that school assessments don’t always provide. McGraw said the tests are created with input from teachers across New England and accurately reflect school curriculums.
“It’s a good test to teach to,” McGraw told the Observer.
McGraw and District Principal Walter Nardelli said they expect even better results with next fall’s test. Literacy and math programs that started two years ago should be more accurately reflected.
McGraw said last summer’s extra help program for students who did not meet proficiency standards improved the scores for students in the most recent NECAP test, and adding a second summer school program this year should help even more.
McGraw even hinted it’s possible the school district could meet Adequate Yearly Progress goals in some capacity.
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Dairy Security Act costs increase
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) recently updated the score for the 2013 Farm Bill and found the Dairy Security Act (DSA) in the House of Representatives, which includes a supply management program, will now cost an additional $441 million dollars over 10 years.
"The Dairy Security Act supported by the National Milk Producers Federation has numerous unintended consequences as evidenced by the new cost estimates prepared by CBO," commented Laurie Fischer, executive director of DBA. "NMPF has always told farmers that the supply management part of the DSA is necessary to keep costs down, but clearly that is not the case now."
Dairy farmers need risk management tools to provide them a safety net for volatile times of low milk prices not supply management.
Representative Goodlatte of Virginia and Representative David Scott of Georgia have proposed a margin insurance program that is not tied to supply management requirements.
The Dairy Business Association (DBA) and the Dairy Policy Action Coalition (DPAC) supports Reps. Goodlatte and Scott's approach, which would cost $100 million less than DSA, and would provide a more meaningful dairy safety net program over the Dairy Security Act.
This approach, referred to as the Goodlatte/Scott Amendment in the 112th Congress, would create a voluntary dairy margin insurance program without requiring enrollment in a supply management program.
Like other agricultural insurance programs, Goodlatte/Scott encourages farmers to take a proactive approach to managing their risk and to share in the costs of such a program, rather than subjecting the industry to supply management.
DBA and DPAC have been strong opponents of the "Dairy Market Stabilization Program", which is included in the Dairy Security Act (DSA). When DMSP triggers and feed costs are at their highest, dairy farmers are not paid on up to 8 percent of their production, and instead these funds are sent to USDA.
DSA would pull the U.S. dairy industry out from a vibrant and growing world dairy market by placing artificial limitation on a dairy farm's milk production. Global demand for dairy products has been steadily on the rise.
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Plone at the CeBIT CMS-Garden 2013 – Hannover Fair, Germany
Mar 05, 2013 12:00 AM
Mar 09, 2013 12:00 AM
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The CeBIT CMS Garden
Last year the OpenSource CMS communities in Germany started a common presentation of all major OpenSource CMS systems in the OpenSource area of the upcoming CeBit, the world's largest trade fair showcasing digital IT and telecommunications solutions. The fair has a big target audience throughout the world.
OpenSource is a Professional Solution
The project was ignited by people from the Drupal community to promote OpenSource CMS Systems as a professional solution and first class competitors in the market. We know them from the Linux Tag in Berlin and they love their system as well.
Now the Plone community is proud to present Plone 4 and the current ongoing roadmap in this eye catching environment.
Live presentation of CMS systems having 14 desks where you can get hands on the look and feel of the participating systems during guided insight supported by volunteers.
Comparison of CMS Booklet
In a 132 page booklet the community teams are providing background information related to the CMS systems they provide and adverts by service companies give an idea how diverse and vibrant these communities are. Together with a register of service companies and community organisations the booklet makes it easy to compare systems and get in touch with the Open Source ecosystems.
Plone has two 3-page articles, in both German and English with infographics and a good insight into the features making Plone unique. The content is a reduced version of the German Plone brochure introduced by the DZUG team Armin Stross-Radschinski & Jan Ulrich Hasecke two years ago. The Booklet will be available as PDF soon after the fair.
Making Plone more visible
The goal of the current marketing initiative that comes with the relaunch of Plone.org and the launch of the Plone.com website is giving strong messages to show that Plone the product and community are more alive then ever before.
The Plone Foundation is engaged together with the Python Software Verband (a successor of the former DZUG). The Plone Foundation is cofunding the CMS Garden with a sponsoring ad that covers some of the new main messages:
"Plone – The CMS giving you peace of mind"
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Greece continues to provide a fantastic reality check for the American people. The Greek government continued spending more than it was bringing in with taxes. Rather than slash spending, it borrowed the difference. It kept piling debt on top of debt. Finally, the mountain of government debt got so high that lenders were no longer willing to lend more money. The gig was up. The Greek government lacked the tax revenues to pay its bills and was unable to find sufficient lenders to enable it to continue its profligate ways.
Many statists, both in Greece and here in the United States, look upon government as a Santa Claus, a glorious entity that has an infinite amount of goodies to distribute to the citizenry. Others view the government as just another player in the marketplace—like any private business making money.
That’s just not reality. The government isn’t a Santa Claus and it doesn’t earn money providing goods and services that people are willing to pay for, as private firms do. Instead, the government gets its money from taxation. It seizes people’s money and then uses that money to fund its welfare-state (or warfare-state) programs. And the more it taxes, the more it shrinks the private sector, thereby exacerbating the problem.
This reality is mugging people in the face in Greece. According to an article in today’s New York Times, the Greek government is going after Greek citizens with harsher tax collection methods. Not surprisingly, that’s not going too well. In Archanes, a team of tax collectors swept into the city, “going from restaurant to restaurant demanding tax receipts and financial records. Soon, customers annoyed by the holiday disruption confronted them. Pushing, shoving and angry words followed, and, eventually the frightened inspectors were forced to flee.”
One restaurant owner, Nikolis Geniatakis, expressed his solution to the problem: “What were the tax inspectors doing here? Why aren’t they going after the big fish?”
The great 19th-century thinker Frederic Bastiat summed up this attitude perfectly when he said: “The state is the great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else.”
In other words, people say: “Give me my welfare, but don’t tax me to get it. Tax everyone else instead.” But with everyone saying that, what is the state to do?
One thing it does is just go out and borrow the money. That way everyone is made to think that he’s getting the dole for free. That’s what the Greek government has done. It’s what the U.S. government has done and continues to do.
The problem is that ultimately the chickens come home to roost. For a while, it’s possible to continue refinancing the debt as it comes due and to continue mounting new debt on top of the old debt. But finally, the amount of debt gets so high that tax revenues are simply insufficient to pay for the government’s expenditures, including interest on the debt. That’s when it’s bankruptcy time. And that’s also when it’s time for the tax collectors to go out and ruthlessly seize whatever they can from whomever they can find.
Notice how similar Greeks are to welfare-statists here in America. They want their welfare state to continue. They want their government to continue paying out the dole. But everyone wants everyone else to pay for it. Better yet, they want German, American, or other foreign taxpayers to pay for it. The last thing they want the government to do is to reduce or eliminate the dole.
Another route governments have historically taken is to simply print the money to pay off its debt and to continue spending more than it’s receiving in tax revenues. That’s what inflation is all about—a process by which the government intentionally inflates the money supply in order to keep the welfare-state (and warfare-state) game going.
The advantage of this approach, from the standpoint of the government, is that many people have no idea of what the government is doing to them. They just see rising prices, which are a reflection of the monetary debasement, and blame the rising prices on rapaciousness and greed within the private sector. They can’t see that what the government is doing is just imposing a secret, fraudulent tax on the citizenry.
The Greek experience continues to remind Americans of the bad direction that the federal government is taking our nation. Too much debt is a bad thing, a principle reflected by the congressionally imposed debt ceiling. If lots of debt was beneficial, Congress would never have set a ceiling on the amount of debt that the federal government could accumulate.
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The Great Santa Run No culture?! Where else can you find 10,000 sprinters and strollers masquerading as Santa? Actually, they do this in Texas, too—but not like we do it in Vegas, the fattest of all St. Nick dashes worldwide. Opportunity Village is the beneficiary of this 5K run/one-mile walk, complete with entertainment and Shania Twain as Grand Marshal. December 7, registration starts at 8 a.m., $25-$40, Fremont Street Experience.
Wranglers vs. Bakersfield Condors Las Vegas’ hockey team hasn’t played at home since November 3, the result of some brutal Orleans Arena conflicts. So welcome the road-weary warriors back and remind ’em a howling home crowd can make a difference. December 6, 7 p.m., $6-$40.
Secret Santa Slam ’Tis the season for giving, so supporting local poets while they “gift” original performances sounds like a win-win. Got some free-verse skills of your own? Try them out at the open mic, or kick back to the wiry acoustic-punk tunes of the slam’s featured artist, Germs. December 7, 6:30 p.m., $5 donation, Learning Village, 727 Fremont St.
Jingle Bell Block Why should Fremont Street have all the fun? Downtown 3rd gets holiday happy throughout December with seasonal drinks, handmade gifts, Santa’s village and the only Christmas tree lot Downtown. Go ahead, spike your cocoa. Fridays, 5-10 p.m.; Saturdays & Sundays, noon-10 p.m.; free.
Hakkasan You’ve done the club, now eat the food. If you haven’t yet experienced one of the biggest and best new restaurants on the Strip this year, December’s the time, when Hakkasan will donate $5 for every guest to the Three Square food bank. MGM Grand.
Todd English P.U.B. Beer Dinner Upscale bar food deserves a better beer … or four. Todd English teams with San Diego’s Ballast Point for a four-course pairing dinner showcasing the brewery’s classics (Sculpin IPA) and limited releases (Sea Monster imperial stout). Eat, drink and talk fishing. December 6, 6 p.m., $52, email [email protected] for reservations. | <urn:uuid:1827ac9c-f52b-40ed-963a-cfe588a443f8> | CC-MAIN-2016-18 | http://lasvegasweekly.com/ae/2013/dec/04/trust-us-ballast-point-beer-wrangers-return-santas/ | 2016-04-30T20:51:57Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-18/segments/1461860112727.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20160428161512-00202-ip-10-239-7-51.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.878992 | 513 | [
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Carly Fiorina and Meg Whitman, who ascended to the top of the business world before turning to politics, prevailed in their respective battles for the G.O.P. nominations for the U.S. Senate and Governor in California, setting the stage for costly general election fights this fall.
Ms. Fiorina, a former chief executive of Hewlett-Packard , beat Tom Campbell, a former congressman, and Chuck DeVore, whose candidacy has drawn the backing of many Tea Party activists. She will face the incumbent senator, Barbara Boxer, in the fall.
Ms. Whitman, the former chief executive of eBay and a billionaire, had invested a small share of her personal fortune to prevail in the governor’s race over Steve Poizner, the state insurance commissioner, who put up $24 million of his own money into his primary campaign. She will challenge Jerry Brown, the state’s attorney general, who was first elected governor of California three decades ago.
California voters also approved a measure that would replace traditional primaries in state and Congressional elections with, effectively, two rounds of voting, which could have a profound effect on the state’s political future. All candidates would run in the first round, and the top two vote-getters - regardless of party affiliation, or unaffiliation - would then face each other in the general election. Supporters hope it would produce more moderate candidates; political parties were vehemently opposed.
And in a closely-watched race, Senator Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas survived a tough challenge , from her party’s left wing on Tuesday to capture the Democratic nomination in a runoff primary election, resisting the anti-incumbent wave that has defined the midterm election year.
Mrs. Lincoln withstood a multi-million-dollar campaign against her from organized labor, environmental groups and liberal advocacy organizations from outside Arkansas as she prevailed over Lt. Gov. Bill Halter. She faces a difficult contest in the fall, but her victory challenges the suggestion that voters are poised to oust all officeholders.
“We proved that this senator’s vote is not for sale and neither is yours,” Mrs. Lincoln said. “We took on the outside groups seeking to manipulate our votes.”
It was the busiest primary day so far this year, a coast-to-coast series of contests that stretched form Maine to California helped decide which candidates will be on the general election ballot in races for governor, the House and the Senate.
Setting the stage for one of the more intriguing races this fall, Nevada Republicans chose Sharron Angle, a Tea Party candidate, to challenge Senator Harry Reid, the embattled Senate majority leader. Mr. Reid has emerged as a primary target of conservatives intent on dethroning key Democrats this year.
In South Carolina, Nikki Haley moved closer to becoming the first female governor of South Carolina as she strongly outpaced three Republican primary rivals in one of the nation’s most divisive contests.
Ms. Haley overcame accusations of infidelity and benefited from the endorsement of Sarah Palin in a contest that lived up to South Carolina’s reputation for anything-goes politics. But she fell short of claiming an outright majority, setting up a runoff against Representative J. Gresham Barrett, a four-term congressman. They were part of a four-way Republican field seeking to succeed Gov. Mark Sanford, a Republican, who confessed to an affair with an Argentinian woman last year and was restricted from seeking re-election by term limits.
“We had the kitchen sink thrown at us,” Ms. Haley said in an interview on Tuesday. “We are a state of great people. We are a state of dirty politics.”
In other races:
- Iowa Republicans nominated Terry Branstad, who served as the state’s governor from 1983 to 1999, to run again. He prevailed in a three-way primary and will face Gov. Chet Culver, a Democrat, in the fall.
- In another South Carolina race, Representative Bob Inglis, a Republican who has occasionally broken with his party on national security and social issues, was forced into a runoff against Trey Gowdy.
- In the only contest of the night that will send a new lawmaker to Congress, voters in the northwest corner of Georgia elected a former State House member, Tom Graves, to fill a House vacancy created when Representative Nathan Deal left to run for governor. It was a low-turnout election and is expected to be the last special Congressional election before November, meaning that any new vacancies will be filled on Nov. 2.
- In Virginia, Robert Hurt, a state senator, easily won a contested Republican primary to challenge Representative Tom Perriello, a freshman Democrat, in November. Mr. Perriello is considered one of the most vulnerable Democratic incumbents because of his votes for both the Democratic health care bill and climate change measures.
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Thursday, 3 January, 1:45–3:00 p.m., Berkeley, Sheraton
A special session
Presiding: Alpana Sharma, Wright State Univ.
1. "Modernity's Others or Other Modernities? South Asian Negotiations with Modernity and Amitav Ghosh's The Glass Palace," Aparna Mujumdar, Northeastern Univ.
2. "Dalit Modern," Toral Gajarawala, New York Univ.
3. "Creole, Insect, Animal: Walcott's Planetary Creatures," Ankhi Mukherjee, Univ. of Oxford, Wadham Coll.
4. "Toward a Black South Modernity: Zora Neale Hurston, Folk Culture, and the African Diaspora," Jarvis McInnis, Columbia Univ.
For abstracts, write to [email protected].
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I realized a few months ago that we had piqued readers' interest in our March cover story when we were deluged with phone calls from communications managers pitching the idea of including their bosses in our “Ten To Watch” package. Narrowing down the field to 10 impact players is like trying to decide who is worthy of an Oscar nomination. The process is part art and part science. The latter is determined by a subject's newsworthiness, which can be measured in a number of ways: volume of transactions, major deals in which they've played an integral role or unique circumstances their companies find themselves in. The art part of the equation is clearly subjective and centers on who is creating “a buzz” in the industry, for better or worse.
The 10 executives profiled in our first-ever “Ten To Watch” package are high achievers. Their professional expertise reflects the breadth and depth of the commercial real estate industry — from mortgage banking to brokerage to ownership to technology. Our objective was to simply identify 10 impact players and tell their stories. What we discovered along the way is that each of these individuals possesses extraordinary leadership skills.
What is leadership exactly? In his book, Jack: Straight from the Gut, former General Electric CEO Jack Welch writes that effective leaders possess the four E's: they have energy, they're able to energize others, they have an edge to make tough decisions and they know how to execute. For good measure, Welch adds passion to the mix. The book is one of my favorites because it successfully argues that there is a big difference between stewardship and leadership.
The executives spotlighted in our cover story definitely possess a combination of Welch's four E's. Leo Wells, president and CEO of Wells Real Estate Funds, clearly knows how to execute a deal. His unlisted REIT spent a staggering $2.6 billion on office properties last year, which sent shockwaves through the investment sales market.
Robert Taubman, CEO of Taubman Centers, definitely has edge. With the help of the Michigan Legislature, his company successfully defended a well-publicized takeover attempt by Simon Property Group and Westfield America Inc. And Jonathan Tisch, CEO and chairman of Loews Hotels, knows how to energize his employees. Though he occupies the C-Suite, Tisch is not above rolling up his sleeves to fill the most menial of hotel jobs for a day to stay in touch with the hotel business. He understands service is king.
The “Ten To Watch” also offers further evidence that America is indeed a great melting pot. Ed Padilla, CEO of NorthMarq Capital, was born in Havana, Cuba, and came to the U.S. at a very young age. Hamid Moghadam, CEO and chairman of industrial giant AMB Property Corp., was born in Iran.
Quintin Primo, co-chairman of Capri Capital, also stands out on the list. His company is one of the giants in the Fannie Mae DUS lending business and is the only African-American owned firm advising pension funds today. That speaks volumes about how far the industry still has to come to achieve greater racial diversity.
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