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South Island listed companies continued to perform well over
the December quarter, according to the latest Deloitte South
The 20th edition of the index showed South Island companies
gained $405 million, or 7.7 per cent, in market
capitalisation over the quarter, continuing the momentum from
the third quarter.
The latest results saw the index gain $1.2 billion, or 27.4
per cent, during the calendar year, with total market
capitalisation now standing at $5.68 billion.
Paul Munro, a corporate finance partner in Deloitte's
Christchurch office, said most of the increase in market
capitalisation was attributable to the share price growth of
Ryman Healthcare, which increased by about $920 million (68
per cent) over the year.
A third of the companies included in the index experienced
declines in market capitalisation.
Half the companies listed on the Deloitte South Island Index
experienced upward movements in their market capitalisation
over the quarter.
Again, the index's top performer for the quarter was Ryman,
gaining $225 million, or 11 per cent, in market
PGG Wrightson was another strong performer, gaining $67.9
million (25.7 per cent) and moving into 5th position on the
The biggest decline in the quarter came from Silver Fern
Farms, which lost $20.1m, or 23.6 per cent, in value after
the company reported an annual operating loss after tax of
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Wild Blood : Tess's fifteenth birthday is fast approaching, and like all Switchers, she must now decide what shape she will take for the rest of her life. Will it be a bird? A dog? A horse? Not knowing they may never see their daughter again, her parents send her to stay on her cousins' farm while they're on vacation. Tess spends most of her time there Switching into different forms, trying to decide on her final choice. While Switching, she discovers dark, mysterious woods in the farthest reaches of the farm. A strange power emanates from them that Tess can feel, but can't name. Then her cousins disappear in the woods without a trace - and Tess must face her fears to save them. In doing so, she discovers what being a Switcher really means. Ages 10 and up. | <urn:uuid:1caf02e6-98f5-4ebc-8281-97afbfed5fd4> | 2013-05-18T07:16:04Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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LEWISTON Senior Aubrey Kettrick, a 2009 Watertown High School graduate, was named the Niagara University athlete of the week after breaking five school records for womens swimming over the weekend at the Zippy Invitational in Akron, Ohio.
On Saturday, Kettrick set school marks in the 50-yard freestyle (24.13 seconds), and the 100-yard butterfly time trial (59.07).
She then broke her own record in the 200 freestyle on Sunday, finishing in 1 minute, 52.96 seconds. She set the record at 1:53.17 last year.
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From Ohio History Central
Acanthodians were among the earliest fishes with jaws and are found in Silurian through Permian rocks. Their fragmentary remains are found in Devonian, Mississippian, and Pennsylvanian rocks in Ohio. These remains consist of shiny, rhomboid-shaped scales and fin spines. Fin spines of a comparatively large acanthodian, Machaeracanthus, are found in the Columbus Limestone. | <urn:uuid:5e174b6f-3f11-4da4-8bf9-80e901dbbffd> | 2013-05-18T07:13:41Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Your result for The Mythological Goddess Test ...
Indeed, you are 0% erudite, 0% sensual, 0% martial, and 0% saturnine.
Apparently the Celts thought highly of her, which is only appropriate for a culture of head-hunters. It was not an uncommon practice for Celtic warriors to decorate the exteriors of their domiciles with the severed heads of soldiers they killed in battle. Not only did these household heads serve as an offering of thanks to the Goddess, but they also bore witness to the combat proficiency of the inhabitant.
There were other admirable characteristics unique to Macha besides a taste for decapitation. She was initially one of those numerous "Mother Goddesses" we hear so much about. Naturally this meant that she ruled over matters of fertility and such. She held absolute dominance over males, intimidating even the most virile of men with the sheer force of her insatiable sexuality.
This dual aspect of her nature - patroness of fruitfulness and productivity as well as fierce and ruinous warrior - brought her the mighty title of "Mother of Life and Death".
The Fifteen Goddesses
These are the 15 categories of this test. If you score above average in
all or none of the four variables: Neit. Erudite: Minerva. Sensual: Aphrodite. Martial: Artemis. Saturnine: Persephone. Erudite & Sensual: Isis. Erudite & Martial: Sekhmet. Erudite & Saturnine: Nemesis. Sensual & Martial: Hera. Sensual & Saturnine: Bast. Martial & Saturnine: Ilamatecuhtli. Erudite, Sensual & Martial: Maeve. Erudite, Sensual & Saturnine: Freya. Erudite, Martial & Saturnine: Sedna. Sensual, Martial & Saturnine: Macha.
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Permanent Good Health A Possibility?
( Originally Published 1934 )
Is the possession and maintenance of permanent good health in most of us a possibility? This can undoubtedly be answered in the affirmative. By the proper use of certain simple, harmless means and principles presented herein, permanent good health can be maintained in the average person throughout a fairly long life. These statements may appear bold or even unbelievable, but in most instances they can be proven to be true by the simple expedient of the actual, practical employment of the methods and means presented in the cases of the sick and ailing. These claims are direct no excuses are tolerated.
By permanent good health the writer infers lasting good health; the freedom from or absence of numerous, frequent, incapacitating sicknesses or illnesses ; the absence of the constant complaint of ailing, sickly people; the possession of a state of health which is lasting, comfortable and stable, without the presence of 'aches and pains in different parts of the body, or any other complaints.
The writer does not infer that diseases, illnesses or sicknesses will not take place they will but with the constant watchfulness and timely use of and the adherence to the means and principles presented herein, these illnesses in most cases will be of short duration, not permitted to become life-endangering, will be quickly relieved and cured. Let us take, for example, a severe cold or a severe attack of the grippe or influenza. Instead of the patient being laid up and incapacitated for many days or weeks when the usual methods are used, and with the possibility of other serious complications such as pneumonia, etc., setting in, when the methods and means presented herein are used, the patient will quickly get well within a few days or less, thus avoiding the dangers of complications, the loss of time and financial loss. These statements are equally true of most serious sicknesses.
As a general rule, infants and children can be kept well very easily and nicely by the faithful and efficient application of the principles and means of this system of medicine; illness can in most cases be prevented by the timely use of these methods.
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A Spider’s Web
Observe the spider's web and find in it a most suggestive picture of the hypocrite's religion. It is meant to catch his prey: The spider fattens himself on flies, and the Pharisee has his reward. Foolish people are easily trapped by the loud professions of pretenders, and even the more discerning cannot always escape. Philip baptized Simon Magus, whose deceitful declaration of faith was so quickly exposed by the stern rebuke of Peter. Routine and reputation, praise and promotion, along with other flies, are the small game that hypocrites take in their nets.
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The publication and republication of (offensive) caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed provided, to many, an opportunity to revisit the contours of the right to freedom of speech and expression. Without consciously taking sides in the debate as it unfolded in On Line Opinion and elsewhere, let me introduce to the discussion some more dimensions based on another controversy. The controversy is about Internet censorship in China which was reignited by Google’s recent decision to censor search results.
Apart from the censor, the Chinese Government, there are four main corporate players in the censorship saga. Beginning in 2003, Yahoo provided electronic details of cyber-dissidents to the Chinese authorities which lead to their incarceration. Learning from Yahoo, Microsoft adopted a soft approach and shut down an Internet blog of a Chinese journalist hosted at its MSN Spaces for discussing politically sensitive issues. Microsoft has now opened up this censored blog, but only outside China.
Most recently, Google agreed to self-censor search results of its new Chinese site: www.google.com.cn. The popular search engine will block results that include terms such as “free Tibet”, “democracy”, “human rights”, “Tiananmen massacre”, and “Falun Gong”. Finally, Cisco Systems is accused of facilitating such censorship by selling routing devices to China.
Some may ask what the big deal is. Censorship, with or without the Internet, is common in China (pdf file 2.02GB) and rights are severely restricted. Chinese citizens - irrespective of whether they have access to the Internet or not - do not enjoy any meaningful freedom of speech in any case. Such a contention, however, misses an important point regarding the efficacy of the Internet. Among others, because of its trans-border base and reach, the Internet was believed to nullify, to a large extent, the power of repressive states to control and censor the free flow of ideas within their municipal boundaries. However, the current controversy indicates that powerful states could prevail over the might of even the Internet, at least for now.
This is, however, not to suggest that Internet service providers are not (or should not be) subject to certain restrictions. Like many other rights, the right to freedom of speech, which includes the right to seek, receive and impart information, is not absolute. It could be reasonably restricted, say, on the ground of public order, health, morality, or the rights of others. For this reason, even corporations that are providing Internet services have to facilitate the freedom of speech, or of press, within such applicable limitations. For example, a corporation should not turn a blind eye to its website being used for inciting terrorism, promoting genocide, spreading social hatred, selling slaves, or facilitating music piracy for that matter.
The China factor
One natural question to ask is whether these giant corporations would have behaved elsewhere in the same way as they behaved in China. For example, would they have bowed to the censorship pressure of the governments of Myanmar or Zimbabwe? I very much doubt it. The reason is not difficult to identify; it is about commercial opportunism. One has to merely look at the speed at which the Internet market is growing in China. According to a survey report released by the Internet Society of China at the end of year 2005, China had 110 million Internet users (second only to the US), up from 103 million in 2004. In 2005, the total revenue from Internet users was about 186 billion Yuan, which is expected to rise at the rate of 52.5 per cent.
This perhaps explains why Yahoo, Microsoft and Google chose to follow the path of, as they put it, lesser evil. Apart from anything else, it also makes business sense not to annoy or pull out of China.
Corporate social responsibility (CSR)
CSR is the new mantra attracting the attention of almost everyone, from corporations to investors, consumers, media, NGOs, researchers, governments and international institutions. In addition to special corporations that have been constituted to do only CSR consultancy, there are specialised websites, journals and research centres devoted to exploring CSR issues. Despite all this, there is still a lack of consensus on what these “social” responsibilities of corporations are, how they could be balanced, if at all, with the primary objective of profit maximisation and how best they might be enforced.
It may, therefore, be interesting to examine the CSR commitment of the four corporations that allegedly helped China in censoring people’s freedom of speech. The four US corporations - Cisco, Yahoo, Microsoft and Google - are market leaders in their own fields and are generally seen as good corporate citizens. Cisco “strives to be a good citizen worldwide” and pursues a strong “triple bottom line”: profits, people and presence.
Yahoo takes prides in its “Yahoo! For Good” campaign and is “committed to making a difference in the world by empowering [its] users … with products and services that inspire them to make a positive impact”. Similarly, Microsoft “is committed … to help advance social and economic well-being and to enable people around the world to realise their full potential”. Additionally, the commendable initiatives taken by the Gates Foundation should not be forgotten.
Google, on the other hand, claims to make money “without doing evil”. It was, however, surprising not to find the names of Yahoo, Microsoft and Google in the list of Global Compact participants.
How do corporations explain the gap, as in this case, between their declared policies and practices? To begin with, it is safe to pass on the responsibility to states. The Joint Statement of Microsoft and Yahoo to the US Congress Human Rights Caucus illustrates this: “we think there is a vital role for government-to-government discussion of the larger issues involved” because in acting alone their “leverage and ability to influence government policies in various countries is severely limited”. Admittedly, states have the primary responsibility to ensure the protection and promotion of human rights, but this does not derogate whatever responsibility corporations have. If corporations have human rights obligations only subject to their profits, such obligations hardly serve any useful purpose.
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Toolkit survey: GLUT
Together with Jim Mathies I am creating a comparison between various OpenGL toolkits and widget libraries. The end result will be available through the OpenGL Toolkit FAQ: www.mathies.com/glfaq
If you have any experience with the toolkit/widget library mentioned in the topic, feel free to post your comments in this thread.
1. What is the purpose of the toolkit?
1C Demo building
2. What platforms are supported?
2A Apple - which OS
2C Unix - which ones
2D Win32 - which one of not all
3. What languages can be used with the toolkit?
3D (Visual) Basic
4.What compilers can be used with the toolkit?
4D Borland C++
4E GCC (Unix)
4F cc (Unix)
5. What is the target audience of the toolkit?
6. Please give some information about the current maintenance status of the
6A Is it actively maintained
6B What is the current released version, when was it released
6C What where the previous three major releases, when were they released
7. What type of license is required to use the toolkit?
8. Is all sourcecode of the toolkit available for inspection?
9. How is the toolkit deployed?
9A using static libraries
9B using dynamic libraries
10. What is the approximate size of the library?
11. What prerequisites/dependencies does the toolkit have?
12. What are the graphical features of the toolkit?
(this section can be as elaborate as you want)
12A Extension support
12B Fullscreen support
12C GUI-controls/widgets available
12D Input handling: joystick support
12E Input handling: keyboard support
12F Input handling: mouse support
12G (win32): DirectInput support
12H Multi-state support
12I Multiple windows support
12J Rendering loop (if present, is it extendable)
12K Resolution/color depth selection
12L Screen capturing and printer features
12M Text output handling
12N Texture management
13. What other features are present in the toolkit?
(again, be as elaborate as you want)
13A Multi-threading support
13B Network support
13C OO-framework (extendable/inheritable)
13D Scripting language(s)
13E Sound support
13F Supported file formats
13G Timer functions
14. What other things do you want to add regarding your toolkit? | <urn:uuid:a33b1437-9628-4bac-b734-477c686ab00e> | 2013-05-18T05:56:46Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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I would like to add my application to the list
"Applications using Pick directory" in
how do I do that?
Just add your application to this website using "Create content". Then choose "Application" and select the intents that your application uses. Your application will appear automatically on the listings of those intents. | <urn:uuid:a6c95c03-3007-4c0c-9451-001c79a43e05> | 2013-05-18T05:57:45Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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- One cup of carrots has 52 calories.
- Carrots are terrific for your child's skin and eyes because they're loaded with beta-carotene.
- And they're great for keeping the pipes clean because they contain a good amount of insoluble fiber.
- You can hide carrots in my recipes for Italian Meatloaf, Brownies and Cranberry Sauce.
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Growing up an only child, Carolyn and her mother were inseparable. Throughout high school, Carolyn was a star athlete in basketball and track. In college, Carolyn studied to become a drug and alcohol counselor. There she dreamed of getting married and starting a family of her own.
When Carolyn met Terrence Kelly, she thought she found the man of her dreams. Soon they moved in together. "In the beginning," Carolyn says, "the relationship was like any relationship. We got along real good."
But after just a few months, Terrence began to show a much darker side. "He got very jealous," Carolyn says. "I wasn't allowed to wear things that showed off my figure. I was only able to associate with my immediate family. I wasn't allowed to talk to my male cousins because he didn't believe they were my cousins. He was verbally abusive."
Then the emotional abuse turned violent. "I remember getting beat up for dyeing my hair," Carolyn says. "He didn't think that that was ladylike." Despite constant abuse, Carolyn stayed in the relationship for eight years. "I was in love," she says, "and I thought that he was going to change...and that I could change him." | <urn:uuid:0ed08ff7-d030-440e-b5d3-60c24d57e020> | 2013-05-18T05:55:53Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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While there are vital differences between options trading and trading in stocks, forex or
futures, there are also some similarities. One of them is that you should not simply enter an
options trade without even a cursory glance at the price chart for the underlying asset. Timing
your entry using price charts can prevent costly mistakes.
The type of options trade and when you should enter it, for example, differ sharply between
range-bound and trending markets.
A range-bound market is one where the price of the underlying asset moves up and down
over time with a clearly defined upper and lower limit. At the time of writing the gold price is
range-bound, but over time most trading assets will spend quite a significant percentage of
their time trading in certain ranges.
Fig. 8.22(a) below is what the price chart for a typical range-bound market would look like.
In a scenario like this point A, where the market has reached its top and has started turning
around, would be ideal for one of the following options strategies:
a) Sell naked call options with a strike price above the top turning point of the range and
an expiration date timed to coincide with the price reaching the bottom of the trading
range. These will then expire worthless and the trader will keep the full premium of
b) Buy ATM put options with the same expiration date as in (a) above. As long as the
price movement between the top and the bottom of the range is sufficient to cover the
cost of the options and more, the trader will make a profit at expiration.
At point B, the market has reached the bottom of the range and is starting to turn upwards.
This is when the trader should enter into one of the following positions:
a) Buy ATM call options. Once again the expected price movement should be sufficient
to cover the cost of the option in order to break even and start generating a profit.
b) Sell naked put options with a strike price below the bottom of the range and an
expiration date timed to coincide with the market reaching the top of the range. These
will expire worthless, providing the trader with a profit equal to the premium on the put
Fig. 8.22(b) shows a typical trending market.
At point A in this chart the price has gone through a correction and started moving
upwards again. At this point the options trader’s strategy would be directly opposite to the
explanation at point A under range bound markets above. This is crucial to understand; the
wrong decision here would result in one losing trade after the other.
Point A in a trending market is where strategies such as the following are recommended:
a) Buy call options, either ATM or OTM if it is fairly certain the option would exceed the
OTM strike price by the expiration date
b) Sell naked put options. The strike price should be below the previous support level to
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Sure, it might not be particularly useful or usable, but that doesn't mean it isn't totally cool. The screen is rather small, and I guess the mouse is being controlled by the five way pointer of the phone, but the phone itself is powerful enough to run Windows 3.1 easily, and I'm sure Windows 95 wouldn't be too much trouble either. DOSBox was used to emulate a 486-class processor.
The use of this? Well, fun, mostly, and a sense of "why not?". I'd love to be able to run Windows 3.1 on my Nokia E71; not because it would make any sense, but just because it's cool. With phones getting ever more powerful, there's enough spare cycles in there to dedicate to silly things like this.
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The Italian poet, novelist and screenwriter Tonino Guerra, who has died aged 92, brought something of his own poetic world to the outstanding films he co-scripted with, among others, Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni and Francesco Rosi, but also many non-Italian directors including Theo Angelopoulos and Andrei Tarkovsky. Perhaps his most creative contribution was to Fellini's colourful account of life in a small coastal town in the 1930s, Amarcord (1973), of which he was truly co-author, because the film reflected their common experiences growing up in Romagna.
The two were born in the region a couple of months apart – Fellini in Rimini and Guerra in Santarcangelo, in the hills above the Adriatic resort, the son of a street vendor father.
Guerra's own "amarcord" ("I remember" in dialect) is scattered over many books of poetry and short stories. He first started writing poetry in dialect when interned in a prison camp in Germany, after being rounded up at the age of 22 with other antifascists from Santarcangelo. To pass the time he told his companions stories: when he came home in 1945 he found a publisher for a book of them, I Scarabocc (Cockroaches, but also "scribblings").
He became a schoolteacher, moving to Rome only when he was 30. He met Elio Petri, the future director of Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970), who was working as assistant to Giuseppe De Santis. Petri and Guerra were sent to the Abruzzi mountains to find out about wolf-hunting. Though they discovered that wolf hunters no longer existed, De Santis went ahead anyway with the film, Uomini e Lupi (Men and Wolves, 1957), which gave Guerra his first screenwriter credit.
His friend Fellini was preparing La Dolce Vita, but they were not yet destined to work together. Guerra instead worked with Antonioni on L'Avventura (1960). In the preface to his published screenplays, Antonioni wrote about his scriptwriters on that film, Guerra and Elio Bartolini. "Tonino, who is closer to me, is a poet who writes in dialect; [Bartolini] is a novelist. They are very different ... [Tonino and I] have long and violent arguments ... and that makes him all the more helpful."
Guerra was to collaborate with Antonioni on the screenplays of La Notte (The Night, 1961), L'Eclisse (Eclipse, 1962), Il Deserto Rosso (Red Desert, 1964), Blow-Up (1966) and, later, The Mystery of Oberwald (1981), Identification of a Woman (1982) and Beyond the Clouds (1995). Remarking on the criticisms often made of the dialogue in Antonioni's films, Guerra was to say: "They were only a comment on the images. In the end, the best lines we'd written would get lost."
Guerra also co-authored Petri's first two films, both small jewels, L'Assassino (The Assassin, 1961), and I Giorni Contati (Counted Days, 1962). The decade also saw him working on the script of Vittorio De Sica's Marriage Italian Style (1964) and the first of several films he co-scripted for Rosi, C'Era una Volta (More Than a Miracle, or Cinderella Italian Style, 1967), with Sophia Loren and Omar Sharif. They went on to include The Mattei Affair (1972), Lucky Luciano (1973) and Cadaveri Eccellenti (Illustrious Corpses, 1976).
It took till 1973 for Guerra to work with Fellini, on Amarcord. The novel of the film was published under both their names, but was clearly penned by Guerra, and in it one detects the writer's contribution on the level of reminiscence in mood and language. It was a unique occasion for director-scriptwriter empathy. They worked together again on And the Ship Sails On (1983) and Ginger and Fred (1986). Fellini wanted him to collaborate on City of Women, but at that time, the late 1970s, Tonino had fallen in love with Lora, the Russian woman who was to become his wife, and was commuting between Rome and Moscow.
Guerra's "Russian period" thus began. He had first met Tarkovsky at Venice in 1962, when the then young Russian director shared the golden lion for his debut film, Ivan's Childhood. Guerra invited him to come to Italy, but only in 1980 was he allowed to travel abroad. For RAI-TV they made a documentary travelling round Italy, Tempo di Viaggio (Voyage in Time), and this was the starting point for Nostalgia (1983), an Italian-Soviet co-production. Tarkovsky depended much on Guerra's collaboration as his Italian guide, but the film's complexities, both in their positive and negative aspects, reflected the director's personal identity crisis as a prospective émigré.
With Angelopoulos he found another director with whom he shared "ideas on life and art". Again, there was great chemistry between them, the Greek maintaining: "Tonino has been my psychoanalyst for 20 years."
Their first film together was Voyage to Cythera (1984), followed by The Beekeeper (1986) and, completing the "trilogy of silence", Landscape in the Mist (1988), then The Suspended Step of the Stork (1991), The Gaze of Ulysses (1995) and Eternity and a Day (1998). The story of The Weeping Meadow (2004) is told against the three decades of Greek history up to the end of the civil war in 1949, while The Dust of Time (2008) has Willem Dafoe as a Greek-American film-maker exploring his family's story over half a century and several countries.
The last of Guerra's more than 100 credits was for Everybody's Fine (2009), a remake set in the US of Stanno Tutti Bene (1990), about a Sicilian father visiting his children on the mainland.
In the late 1980s, Guerra scripted films from two of his stories for directors from his part of Italy, who made them there: Gianfranco Mingozzi, Il Frullo del Passero (The Sparrow's Fluttering), with Philippe Noiret; and Ottavio Fabbri, Viaggio d'Amore (Journey of Love) with Omar Sharif. Around that time Guerra retired to a Romagnan village. For his 80th birthday, many of the directors he had worked with and a delegation of musicians and dancers from the Bolshoi Theatre gathered to fete him and Lora, who survives him, along with their film composer son, Andrea.
• Tonino (Antonio) Guerra, screenwriter and novelist, born 16 March 1920; died 21 March 2012
Burgess Powers builds and designs web sites and applications for high availability | <urn:uuid:6a6aef92-fd03-4935-bf27-f903d144be01> | 2013-05-18T05:59:30Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Author: Takaya Natsuki | Artist: Takaya Natsuki
Chapters: 60 | Updated: Jan 23 2013 | Status:
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Helping the Overweight Child
Helping your child with social and emotional concerns
It doesn't take long for children to figure out that our culture and their peers idealize thinness. Children who are overweight are especially at risk of being teased and feeling alone. This can cause low self-esteem and Reference depression Opens New Window.
For information about helping a child who is being teased, see the topic Reference Bullying.
To help your child have greater health, confidence, and self-esteem, you can:
- Avoid talking in terms of your child's weight. How you talk about your child's body has a big impact on your child's self-image. Instead, talk in terms of your child's health, activity level, and other healthy lifestyle choices.
- Be a good role model by having a healthy attitude about food and activity. Even if you struggle with how you feel about your own body, avoid talk in front of your child about "being fat" and "needing to diet." Instead, talk about and make the same healthy lifestyle choices you'd like for your child.
- Encourage activities, such as sports and theater. Physical activity helps build physical and emotional confidence. Try different types of sports and activities until your child finds one that he or she likes. Theater can help a child project strength and confidence, even if he or she doesn't feel it at first.
- Encourage social involvement in community, church, and school activities, which build social skills and confidence.
- Help your child eat well by providing healthy food choices. Consider seeing a Reference registered dietitian Opens New Window for guidance and new food ideas.
- Forbid any child (yours included) to tease another child about weight. Talk to your child's teachers and/or counselors, if necessary.
|By:||Reference Healthwise Staff||Last Revised: Reference August 29, 2011|
|Medical Review:||Reference John Pope, MD - Pediatrics
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My 3-year-old son won't go near my new baby, who is 1 month old. He did when the baby was born, but now he won't, and he tells everyone that the baby is bad or that he hates him. But my 18-month-old loves the baby and has no problem with him. What's up with my 3-year-old?
Your son's behavior is quite common, especially among preschoolers of the same gender as the new baby
in the family. Think of the situation from his perspective: He's worried that the new baby
is replacing him in your eyes. That's a terrifying thought to a young child.
There are a few things that you can do to help him feel more secure and, therefore, friendlier toward his younger brother. First, tell him repeatedly that you're going to be his parents forever and ever. Be sure to spend some time alone with him and focusing all of your attention on him every day. This way, through your words and your behaviors, you're addressing his unspoken fears of abandonment.
Second, tell your 3-year-old that he's so smart that he has a new and very special job. He's going to be the "official interpreter" for his baby
brother. When his brother babbles or coos, ask him what he thinks the baby
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This error is returned when activating the product:
- Error code 0005:0002
It has been detected that when activating Retail 2011 products, if Internet Explorer is configured to Work offline, the activation process cannot be carried out.
Follow the instructions below:
A. Open the Internet Explorer browser, click File and uncheck Work offline.
B. To know whether the option has been correctly unchecked, make sure the following Window registry entries have a zero value (0). Follow the steps below:
- Click the Windows Start icon > Run > enter regedit and click OK.
- Locate the following registry entries by deploying the folders:
- Select the Internet Settings entry from the panel on the left and check that the GlobalUserOffline entry is displayed on the right.
If there is no GlobalUserOffline entry, the Internet Explorer has not been configured to browse in offline mode (without connection).
- If there is, check that the value in the Value column is 0x00000000 (0).If the value is 0x00000000 (1), it means your Internet Explorer is still in offline mode. You must therefore double click the GlobalUserOffline entry, change the Value data field from 1 to 0 and click OK.
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In my travels through Walla Walla this weekend, I found a store with possibly the most awesome name ever: Hot Poop.
I think it's a music store of some nature. Here's the whole store front:
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Mykonos is the most famous island in the Aegean Sea as well as the most cosmopolitan of all Greek islands. It attracts visitors from all over the world including a lot of celebrities. The beautiful golden sandy beaches, the lively atmosphere and the traditional Cycladic architecture represented by the numerous small churches and the houses, along with little Venice make Mykonos an island to remember.
The windmills constitute one of the symbols of the island along with the islands mascot "Petros" the pelican who lives at the port of "Hora" the capital of the island. Although Mykonos has no real historical background there are 3 interesting museums to visit. For further educational trips you should visit Delos isle, which in antiquity was the most sacred island in the Greek world.
Housed in a neo-classical building of 1901, in the northeast side of "Hora". It contains exhibits from the nearby island of Rhenea, sculptures, pots and statuettes. Look for the big vase of clay from the Trojan War. Folk Art Museum opened in 1962, contains collections of furniture, ceramics, traditional costumes and traditional musical instruments. Among the exhibits you will see the first "Petros" the pelican, stuffed.
Opened in 1985, here you can see ships from the early Minoan period to the 19th c, maps and documents and in general exhibits from the naval tradition of the island.
The most photographed monument on the island is Paraportiani church. It consists of a complex of five churches. Four of them are on the ground level and one raised. The ground floor of the complex consists of Agios Efstathios, Agioi Anargyroi, Agios Sozontas and Agia Anastasia The church of Paraportiani is built above Agios Efstatios and actually got its name from the fact that it stands at the small entrance to the medieval fortress. The building started in 1425 and was not completed until the 17th century.
In the past there were 16 windmills serving for the grinding of agricultural products. These days some have been restored and are used as museums and others have been renovated and are used as houses.
Mykonos is a prime example of Cycladic architecture. It consists of narrow whitewashed alleyways, small churches, white houses with wooden doors and windows and brightly - coloured balconies. In the colourful harbour where small fishing boats and yachts coexist, where taverns, "ouzeris", cafes and shops are spread on the coastline, you will also see a pelican eating fish, it is one of a series named Petros. Mykonos has all the necessary facilities of a modern resort giving satisfaction both to visitors seeking an active and cosmopolitan type of holiday and those who favour a more peaceful vacation. Matogiannni with its chic shops, cafes and bars is where the island's pulse throbs. Nightlife in Mykonos is unique. Numerous clubs, discos, bars, pubs are always full with people especially during summer time.
Little Venice is one of the most charming districts of Hora and one of the prettiest places in the Cyclades. Its picturesque two - and three - storey houses, with colorful balconies, windows and doors built right on the sea, form a unique picture. Little Venice is the perfect spot from which to view the sunset.
A respectable commercial section exists in Mykonos. You can go shopping or window shopping in the fabulous boutiques which carry exclusive name brands, among them outstanding Greek jewelers, souvenirs as well as works of art.
One of the most organized beaches of Mykonos. Water sports facilities including scuba diving and a beach bar are available.
A beautiful organized beach with water sport facilities and a tavern for lunch. Elia: Another popular organized big beach of the island. It offers water sports and two good taverns.
A sandy with crystal clear water beach, perhaps the most visited beach of Mykonos. Small boats to the other southern beaches, like Paraga, kalamopodi and Elia leave from here.
One of the famous beaches in the Aegean, with crystal-clear blue water. It is preferred by people of younger age and generally people who like to swim and swing at the same time.
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JIM LEHRER: Now, I promise you this wasn't a setup, as we go now to the analysis of Shields and Brooks, syndicated columnist Mark Shields, and that New York Times columnist, David Brooks.
David, what did you think of the governor's answer?
DAVID BROOKS: Well, he hasn't decided, clearly. He described it as throwing himself off a cliff. That may not be the most attractive prospect.
But I would say, you know, I think what the country needs and what the Republican Party needs is someone who has demonstrated management capacity. And the governor really has done that, not only cutting dealt, but also improving the services, being very detailed-oriented.
And he really could -- it would be a wonderful campaign with him and President Obama, because both of them know the subject matter very well. They have philosophical differences. It would be a superb campaign if they ran against each other.
JIM LEHRER: Do you have an opinion about Gov. Daniels?
MARK SHIELDS: I have known Gov. Daniels for 30 years. And I have liked him for 30 years.
And I don't -- I'm not in the business of urging people to run for president. I try and cover them fairly if they do.
JIM LEHRER: OK. But -- so, what do you make of what he said about -- I mean, do you think he's going to run? I mean, you're a pundit. Come on.
MARK SHIELDS: Yes. No, I think, from private conversations with him, I think it's a very personal decision, and he's a long way from heading in that direction.
JIM LEHRER: All right. Let's move from the personal to the issue, the issue of public employees.
Did you pick up any new insights or see any light in the conversation between Gov. Schweitzer and Gov. Daniels...
MARK SHIELDS: Well, I did, I mean, in the sense -- I have heard Gov. Daniels before. And his positions have been well-covered, Gov. Schweitzer not so.
And I thought he made a very positive case for the public employees' collective bargaining. The reality is this. I mean, my good friends, David included, say that, well, unions are great in the private sector, because you have these powerful, rich, greedy bosses, and so workers have to get -- they didn't say that when there were 35 percent of the work force was unionized. They say it now when they're 7 percent, and they're sort of defanged and powerless.
But for -- somehow, collective bargaining should not extend to people who are nurses or psychiatric social workers or janitors or teachers who work in public, I happen to believe that all workers are entitled to collective bargaining, to -- for a just wage, to healthy working conditions, to a place that preserves their moral integrity in the workplace, to insurance, and pension.
And the only way you get that, we don't -- we don't have employers who are spontaneously generous. We haven't had them historically. There have been exceptions. But, I mean, the only reason we have a five-day workweek, the only reason we have an eight-hour workday, the only reason we have a minimum wage law and child labor laws and pension funds is because of labor unions' clout and skill.
There was a -- there was -- there were Norman Thomases and Jane Addams and the people who pushed it. And I -- so, I happen to believe fervently that unions are flawed institutions with imperfect people running them, not unlike businesses, not unlike public television, not unlike government.
JIM LEHRER: Watch it. Watch it.
MARK SHIELDS: But I do believe they are absolutely necessary to the well-being of our society.
JIM LEHRER: What are your most basic beliefs about that?
DAVID BROOKS: I mean, unions have a right to organize -- and I'm specifically talking about public sector unions -- a right to organize, and they have a right to ask.
And if there's a Gov. Schweitzer who is going to say, no, we can't afford that, then that's fine. That's not a problem, or if it's in Indiana, where you have a governor who is concentrating on the budget. But the fact is, in most states in this country, in, say, 30 states, and ruinously in 10 or 11, arrangements have been made which are simply unsustainable, where politicians year after year said, well, we can't really afford your salary increase, but don't worry, you're going to get a great pension.
And if you do that decade after decade, then, finally, the bill comes due. And it's coming due in all these states. And part of the problem is just we had weak political leaders who wouldn't say no when they had to say no and who threw problems now on us.
But I think part of the problem was structural. I think, when a private sector union negotiates, they know their company can go out of business if they ask too much. That's not the state with a state monopoly. When the private sector negotiates, a private sector union, the management has an incentive to say no.
Here, the management has much less incentive. Most importantly, the public sector unions have a chance to help select the people they're negotiating with through their campaign donations.
And, so, they get to ask what they want. I perfectly understand that. But when it's slightly off-balance, then you get what you have got in 30 or 40 states, fiscally unsustainable situations. So, I think I'm not totally in agreement with what Scott Walker is trying to do, which I think is way too polarizing, but I do think the balance has to shift a little.
JIM LEHRER: To both of you, regardless of what your position is -- let's start with you, David -- do you think this is a watershed moment on this issue that has just risen kind of because of the debt, particularly at the state level, that this -- that, otherwise, we wouldn't be talking about this; nobody would be?
DAVID BROOKS: Right. This is a watershed issue in our social contract, in what we expect from government and what government can forward.
And for the next 20 years, government is not going to be able to afford what it has afforded. And we have to change that. And one of my problems, by the way, with Scott Walker is this is going to take decades to unwind. And if you start on day one with a hyper-confrontational posture, then you're not going to get Democrats helping you on day 47, when you're going to need their help to take other budget measures.
So, I'd much rather see a much more collaborative process, where the unions did concede a few things. Maybe they could concede a few more, like the automatic withdrawal of the union funds, which the government now does. But don't force it into an all-or-nothing matter of honor.
MARK SHIELDS: There are nine states where there's no collective bargaining at all, none. They have a higher indebtedness than the states who have collective bargaining, OK?
DAVID BROOKS: Right. That's right.
MARK SHIELDS: OK? So, it isn't the collective bargaining, it isn't the unions who forced us...
JIM LEHRER: It's not necessarily A and then B?
MARK SHIELDS: No.
JIM LEHRER: OK.
MARK SHIELDS: Scott Walker got elected. He's an anti-union guy. I mean, Mitch Daniels just told us about his own record of abolishing collective bargaining in Indiana. He got reelected.
I mean, so it's not simply a one-way route to achievement. And I think what we're really -- it's -- your question, is it a watershed moment?
JIM LEHRER: Yes.
MARK SHIELDS: It is a watershed moment. There's no question about it.
Organized labor and the G.I. Bill were the bookends of the middle-class prosperity of post-World War II America. America exploded economically. But the only reason that pie was divided was because American veterans returning had a chance to educate themselves like no generation had before and to participate and secure the American dream.
And the only reason wages rose is because one-third of the work force was organized, and they secured those higher wages and the ripple effect across our economy. It is no accident, Jim, since 1979, since unions have been in full retreat in this country, from 1979 to 2009, the median income of the male American worker has dropped by 2 percent.
DAVID BROOKS: No, this is...
MARK SHIELDS: No.
DAVID BROOKS: You have got rubber rooms in New York where they can't fire terrible teachers because of union rules.
You've got schools where you can't -- you get rid of all the really good young teachers because of these rules. You have got California prison workers who are retiring at age 55 with $130,000-a-year pensions.
It's this -- I'm not against unions, but when things get out of whack, when you have got these sorts of rigidities and unsustainable costs, then you have to adjust it. And I'm not saying you have to bust it the way it's being tried, but it has to be adjusted.
JIM LEHRER: Speaking of busting things, do you think that -- there's a lot of talk now that the Senate Democrats and the House Republicans are going to make a deal for this continuing resolution by Friday. Do you think that's going to happen and void a shutdown at least?
MARK SHIELDS: I think both sides want to avoid a shutdown. I think that John Boehner understands, both -- his temperament is he's a negotiator. He's a legislator. He wants to get things done.
He saw what happened to Newt Gingrich in 1995 when it did close down and it became -- he became the personalized face of government closing down...
JIM LEHRER: But do you smell a deal here?
MARK SHIELDS: I do, I think -- I think at least a two-week deal.
JIM LEHRER: A two-week deal.
MARK SHIELDS: I think that's...
JIM LEHRER: But then it could come up again.
MARK SHIELDS: He still -- I mean, he wants to negotiate. He still has a caucus. The Republicans had a rule that they didn't bring anything to the floor that didn't get a majority of the majority. That was the rule all the way through the Denny Hastert years, when he was speaker of the House. And that is that you have to get a majority of your own side.
That's where John Boehner is going to face a problem, is being sure that he can secure that. I don't think -- I don't think there's anybody on his side right now in a leadership position who says, let's close down the government, and we will pin it on Barack Obama.
And the president has made every effort, I think, since the election to reach out, to offer sort of the olive branch to the other side.
JIM LEHRER: What do you think is going to happen? Or what do you see? Yes.
DAVID BROOKS: I more or less agree with Mark.
JIM LEHRER: Yes. Yes.
DAVID BROOKS: I spoke to Eric Cantor, the number-two Republican, just before the program, and he said, not only do they think they will get this two-week deal, but they feel good -- there are good vibrations in the Senate that the Senate is -- which is a Democratic-controlled body -- is moving also in the direction of some deficit reduction.
And, so at least for this, the next few weeks...
JIM LEHRER: There would be a $4 billion -- right?
DAVID BROOKS: Right. Right.
JIM LEHRER: They would agree to a $4 billion cut in -- for two weeks, right?
DAVID BROOKS: Right.
And a lot of the cuts that are being proposed in this initial thing are things some of the Democrats want anyway. And so it's an easier deal. Now, then, the bigger problem is the next deal after you get over this period.
MARK SHIELDS: Yes.
DAVID BROOKS: And, there, they're obviously less certain, and I would say probably a little less certain about where their own members are.
But I strongly get the sense that the leadership and even some of the freshmen, as long as they're moving in the right direction, they will consider it a job well done.
JIM LEHRER: New subject: Libya. The president has caught some heat because he's been accused of reacting slowly to what's been going on in Libya and Gadhafi, et cetera.
DAVID BROOKS: Right.
JIM LEHRER: Does he deserve criticism?
DAVID BROOKS: I think they have been slow on this one, too, and especially with the atrocities. I don't think there's any profit in being nuanced about this.
And people are beginning to talk about sanctions now.
JIM LEHRER: Yes.
DAVID BROOKS: We're embracing that, but even -- some people are also talking about no-fly zones. I don't think anybody particularly wants to send troops there, but no-fly zones, maybe recognizing the opposition, something more aggressive.
When you have got an atrocity of this nature, it's going to ratchet up demands for just a pure, simple position: We're against the tyranny.
JIM LEHRER: Do you think the president has done -- played this poorly?
MARK SHIELDS: I think the president has been hobbled, quite honestly.
And I think if history does prove and events do prove that he did act, and we did not stop atrocities we could have stooped, then I think it will be on his hands. But I think he was held hostage by the fact that the Americans couldn't get out of there and they did not get out of there until today.
JIM LEHRER: Yes. There was the American Embassy. A lot of American employees of the United States government were still there.
MARK SHIELDS: A lot of Americans, yes.
And I think that was it. There was a question whether they be would held hostage and worse things would happen to them. But that is the judgment. I mean, it's -- Rwanda is very much on people's minds.
JIM LEHRER: Yes.
Another decision he made that has drawn a lot of attention, of course, was the Defense of Marriage -- the new position of the Obama administration on Defense of Marriage -- on the Defense of Marriage Act. What do you think of that?
MARK SHIELDS: Well, his position is evolving. I mean, it's an interesting -- it's interesting to hear a president of the United States have an evolving position, especially on an issue that's been so central to the debate of his own candidacy.
It appears that he's moving in that direction. But it's -- what he -- as I understand it, as a non-lawyer, is that they will enforce the law but not defend the law.
JIM LEHRER: Yes.
MARK SHIELDS: And it's of course suggested that, if the next Republican president takes that attitude toward Obama's health care, that they will enforce it, but not defend it, that might not be a position that a lot of Democrats would endorse.
JIM LEHRER: What do you think?
DAVID BROOKS: Right. I have heard exactly the same thing.
And on the substance, I certainly agree with his position. I think he's moving toward the right position. But I do worry about a president not defending a law that's on the books. We -- presidents come in every four or eight years, and they inherit laws. And it's a nation of laws and not people.
And so I sort of think the prejudice should always be, defend the law, and then try to change it. And so I'm a little uncomfortable with that, but, on the substance, I think, again, maybe moving a little too slowly, and too slowly for the country, which I think this is becoming a nonissue.
JIM LEHRER: OK. David, Mark, thank you.
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1910 Fat Men's Amusement Company Memorabilia
Appraised Value: $2,000
IMAGE: 1 of 3
Appraisal Video: (2:37)
Collectibles, Sports Memorabilia
Leila Dunbar Appraisals & Consulting, LLC
APPRAISER: When I think of amusement, I think of those rides where you have to be this tall to get on. But looking at this shirt, it looks like you had to be this wide to play for this team. Where did this come from?
GUEST: This was my grandfather's shirt that he wore when he was 16 years old, when he played for the Fat Men's Amusement Company out of northeastern Iowa. My grandfather was always a very large man. He weighed over 350 pounds most of his life.
GUEST: But this is just amazing-- great family history.
APPRAISER: This is your grandfather right here.
APPRAISER: He was the lightweight of the team?
GUEST: Uh, yes.
APPRAISER: And this gentleman right here, Baby Bliss?
GUEST: He weighed, according to the information we have, 640 pounds. He was the largest on the team.
GUEST: My grandfather used to tell the story that it took three chairs for Baby Bliss to sit on when he ate in a restaurant.
APPRAISER: I can imagine. And you would not want to get behind them in the buffet line.
GUEST: (laughing) No.
APPRAISER: So I see in this other photo as well, we have Oliver Kimball? He was the umpire?
GUEST: Right, and he was only 48 inches tall.
APPRAISER: 48 inches tall.
APPRAISER: So how could he even see behind these guys?
GUEST: I don't think he could.
APPRAISER: And where did they go? Where did they travel to?
GUEST: They were a regional team around Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Illinois.
GUEST: And they went and they played teams that were from the towns they were in.
APPRAISER: And I'm guessing that they hit a lot of home runs.
GUEST: I would hope so.
APPRAISER: Now, you found these postcards. And he sent these from different places where he traveled?
GUEST: Yes, he did, sometimes saying what position he was going to play tomorrow or when he'd be home, those types of things.
APPRAISER: Well, I have to tell you, normally, this is the part where I spew a lot of statistics and sound like ESPN Classic, and tell you a lot of things. (laughing) We really don't know much about this team beyond what you've told us. This is what I can tell you. Based on the fact that we have this very large and very wool outfit... Yeah. And you can prove that it's from 1910 and we have the provenance behind all this-- the great poster, the jersey, the postcards, the photo-- it does have a value to it that I think goes beyond sentimental or historical. I would place about a $2,000 value on it for insurance.
APPRAISER: Now, of course it means a lot more to you for the history of what your grandfather and what he meant. And I hope you're not disappointed, Pat. I know we've had a lot higher appraisals on this show, but I have to tell you, this by far I think is the biggest appraisal…
GUEST: (laughing) Thank you.
APPRAISER: …we've ever had on the show.
GUEST: Thank you.
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This remedy relieves dry and painful cough, with dry throat and intense thirst. Coughing is triggered by speaking, and the pain is relieved by staying immobile or applying strong pressure to the ribcage.
This remedy is indicated when a person experiences hoarseness and a tickly cough that hurts the throat, or a cold that travels quickly to the chest. The cough can be aggravated by talking, laughing, and exposure to cold air. The person may feel heaviness or tightness. A thirst for cold drinks (that may cause nausea after warming up in the stomach) is another indication for Phosphorus. A person who needs this remedy is typically imaginative and fearful, and likes the company of others, but tires very easily. This remedy is often used for loss of the voice and laryngitis.
This relieves wet cough with thick, yellowish phlegm, aggravated in bed.
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This remedy is indicated when a cough has come on suddenly—often from exposure to cold wind, or after a traumatic experience. The cough is likely to be sharp, short, dry, and constant. It may begin during sleep and wake the person up, or can start when the person goes from a cool place into a warmer one. Restlessness and fear are typical when this remedy is needed. It is often used in early stages of croup and asthma.
This remedy relieves wet cough with thick phlegm and difficult expectoration.
A cough that comes on suddenly, often with the feeling of a speck or tickle in the throat, is a strong indication for this remedy. The cough is intense and nagging and the person may feel as if the head is about to burst. Sensations of heat, a reddened face, and dilated pupils are often seen when this remedy is needed.
A dry, hard, irritating cough that starts after being exposed to wind, or after being overexcited and angry, can indicate this remedy. The cough is often worse around nine in the evening and may continue into the night. The nervous system is hypersensitive, and the person can be extremely irritable and agitated. (Children may even shriek and hit, though they often calm down if someone carries them.) This remedy is also useful in asthma attacks, especially those brought on by anger.
This remedy relieves dry cough, worse at night and from the warmth of the bed, triggered by speaking or laughing, with a feeling of tickling in the throat.
This is an excellent remedy for the early stages of many inflammatory conditions, especially colds and allergy attacks. The cough is typically short and tickling, and may be painful. Things are worse in cold air, at night, and in the early morning. The person feels weary, and often has a moderate fever and lightly flushed cheeks.
Hepar sulphuris calcareum
This relieves dry, hoarse cough worsened by cold air and cold drinks, occurring at the beginning and at the end of the night.
This remedy relieves dry, fitful cough triggering nausea, and accompanied by hypersalivation.
This helps relieve wet cough and nasal congestion with yellow and irritating phlegm. Symptoms are worsened in a warm room.
Indications for this remedy include a tight sensation in the chest with a dry, hacking, teasing cough—often causing soreness or a feeling that something has been torn inside. Long coughing jags can end in stomach pain and retching, and may make the person’s head ache. A person who needs this remedy is likely to be impatient, irritable, and oversensitive to everything. A feeling of chilliness is typical, and problems are often worse from exertion (both mental and physical) and worse in the morning.
This remedy relieves croupy, barking cough, especially after a chill or cold weather, worse when lying down at night.
This remedy is indicated for burning, irritating coughs that get worse at night in bed, as well as for breathing problems during sleep. It can also be useful when a mild cough drags on for a week or more without getting worse, but without much improvement. Burning sensations, redness of eyes and mucous membranes, foul odors, and an aggravation from bathing are often seen in a person who needs this remedy.
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It's possible that your Internet connection isn't working even if ethernet reports up. Can you ping any sites from a terminal? Are you using any other programs that access the Internet: email, audio streaming apps, etc.? Do they work? You might try Wireshark to see what's happening. | <urn:uuid:c3570e42-fe0f-4d70-98c7-a7733549b91c> | 2013-05-18T06:53:04Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Have you come across any good research material on
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A recent review of UK competitiveness carried out by Harvard academic Professor Michael Porter, an expert in international competitiveness, points to significant improvements since the 1980s. Drawing on data from the Global Competitiveness Report of his Institute, he ranks the UK first in a comparative group of 23 nations that includes the US, France, Germany and Japan, for its further potential to increase GDP/capita. That's the good news.
If you want to learn a new language or if you want to know how that e-learning tool works, you have plenty of online help to reach those goals. | <urn:uuid:5c88bb87-0a1e-49db-8559-b00c53fa3f2b> | 2013-05-18T06:24:29Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Born into a large family, James Bollich grew up on a rice farm near Eunice,
Louisiana. He credits his disciplined farm upbringing and the patience and
endurance he learned during the Depression era as reasons for his survival
during World War II.
He graduated from St. Edmund High School in Eunice and studied engineering at
the University of Southern Louisiana for three semesters before joining the Army
Air Corps in 1940. He was stationed in the Philippines when war broke out with
Japan and, before the surrender in April 1942, was named warrant officer, a
promotion Bollich knew nothing of until he read newspaper clippings about it
One of the few survivors of the Japanese torture and imprisonment, he wrote
about his experiences in Bataan Death March: A Soldier’s Story
(pb). The book reveals the U.S. troops’ three years of hardship,
including starvation, pneumonia, and torture. It is a story that many people are
unaware of, because the government requested that the ex-POWs not tell their
story when they returned.
After the war, the author continued his education at University of
Southwestern Louisiana and was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to do geological
research at the University of Queensland, Australia. He is an active member of
the Acadiana Writers Guild, and he has traveled to more than thirty countries.
Bollich was most recently awarded the Daughters of the Revolution Medal of
Honor, which recognizes a United States citizen who has shown outstanding
leadership, trustworthiness, service, and patriotism.
A retired geologist, Bollich is a life member of the American Legion,
Veterans of Foreign Wars, Military Order of the Purple Heart, and a member of
the 27th Bombardment Squadron. A father of two and grandfather of five, he lives
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|Anne owes him nothing
Written by Jenny Allan
(10/24/2005 5:25 p.m.)
in consequence of the missive, If Only Anne Were More Worldly, penned by James S.
Assuming that Anne could predict that Mrs. Smith, who has revealed herself to be the enemy of Mr. Elliot (though to be fair, one could conclude that Mrs. Smith is not to be trusted and imagine she MIGHT be playing some kind of double game.) could be assured that this information would get back to Mr. Elliot. So what? She simply says that she does not believe he is interested in her and that if he were he would be refused. Is this so shocking? It's the truth, which she only came to after she was hard-pressed. How would this humilate him? I would think, if it did get back to him it would save him the humiliation of further attentions and maybe even a rejected proposal, which would be far more public.
Yes, Anne could have remained entirely reserved and not hinted at her affection for another, but I think she was a bit desparate to prevent the whole world from making assumptions about she and her cousin. Coming so soon after the frustration of having CW leave the concert in a jealous rage, Anne is quick to try to deflect the "evils" caused by his attentions. This is just one more evil associated with it.
"JA usually and mercilessly punishes her characters for their unworldliness. I can only attribute this loss of mind to A's hankering for FW -- which is something I've never been able to fathom. "
It's a loss of mind to, when greatly pressured and backed into a corner, tell your true opinion of someone in a private setting? In fact, she shows rather more decorum than Lady Russell who makes the same speculations even though Mr. Elliot is a still a widow. Anne is the only one in the situation who has kept her mind, and has not run off half-cocked assuming that Mr. Elliot will propose any day.
It seems to me that your dislike for the object of Anne's affection has led you down a path to liking Mr. Elliot too much. Even if, as you implied in your earlier post, Mrs. Smith was exagerrating his blackness, he is still not a suitable match for Anne. Even if you completely disregard her love of CW, she would still not be in love with Mr. Elliott. As she says he is not open-tempered. His opinions are all too studied and perfect. In short, he is hiding something. Mrs. Smith's letter proves most importantly that Mr. Elliot told a bald-faced lie when wanted to be readmitted to their company by pretending that the whole break earlier was caused by a misunderstanding. The letter proves that the Elliott's perfectly understood his feelings toward them. He hated them and wanted nothing more to do with them. It proves him to be a hypocrite in his present attentions which is far more dangerous to Anne than anything he might have or might not have done to Mr. Smith.
One further thing. He was named executor of Mr. Smith's will. This is not something Mrs. Smith could fake or make-up in order to get sympathy. This is verifiable. The fact that he disregarded this duty is a very serious charge. It is equal nearly to Wickham's false charge that Darcy disregarded his father's wish to give him a living. It is a breach of honor and shows a kind of carelessness and selfishness that I would not wish Anne to get mixed up in.
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Bullying Beefeaters suspended at Tower of London
Two Beefeaters have reportedly been suspended over allegations of bullying and harassment against the first female yeoman warder. Another is also under investigation over alleged harassment of Moira Cameron.
The male Beefeaters - who are basically just fancy dressed tour guides - have seemingly not taken too kindly to the first lady to join their ranks in 522 years.
Cameron, who qualified for the job in 2007 after completing the required minimum 22 years in the Armed Forces, started work she revealed not all of her male colleagues had been welcoming.
Guru says lock 'em in the Tower like they used to and let the ravens loose on them. | <urn:uuid:dbab45b2-7db6-42ba-bd9d-27693096f04f> | 2013-05-18T07:18:54Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Dropping a pound or two isn't necessarily a bad thing, especially if your pet's packing a few extra. But weight loss should be controlled, gradual and supervised by your veterinarian. Sudden, unexpected weight loss usually signals an underlying health problem. Cats, in particular, need frequent weight monitoring to prevent hepatic lipidosis, a debilitating liver disease.
Some pets lose weight in the heat of summer when rising temperatures curb their appetite. At the other extreme, you'll find some pets losing weight during frigid weather because they're burning more energy while trying to keep warm. Other common causes of weight loss include stress and lactation.
Healthy boarded pets may shed some pounds because of diet changes or the stress of a new environment, and nursing mothers burn more calories as their bodies produce milk. Although normal, these responses to environmental or lifestyle changes mean your pet uses and needs, more calories to meet increased energy requirements. Diet plays a crucial role in weight maintenance. Undernourishment and weight loss occur in pets who are fed poor-quality, inedible or spoiled food. Many underlying medical conditions such as dental disease, gastrointestinal disorders (including parasites), diabetes mellitus, liver or kidney disease, congestive heart failure and cancer make eating and absorbing nutrients difficult.
Other conditions, including hyperthyroidism, fever and chronic infections, increase your pet's metabolism and the rate she burns calories. The result can be dramatic weight loss.
What You Can Do at Home
A nutritious diet and lots of fresh water are your pet's best defenses against unwanted weight loss. Feed your pet the right amount of high-quality food that's appropriate for her life stage and activity level. And make sure she visits the veterinarian at least once a year for a thorough examination and parasite prevention.
When to Call the Veterinarian
See your veterinarian whenever your pet experiences unexplained weight loss. Call the doctor immediately if your pet exhibits additional symptoms such as vomiting, diarrhea, fever or increased thirst or urination.
Literally hundreds of conditions can cause weight loss in pets, so please be patient as the veterinarian makes his or her diagnosis.
Though some of these conditions are serious, most pets who have slimmed down quickly, soon return to their original weight with no complications. | <urn:uuid:683b563f-f9b9-4efb-8733-5c0a1f58a8b9> | 2013-05-18T05:28:33Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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These days, students come from all walks of life and enter college for a variety of reasons, and with a variety of expectations. Many of these students are acutely aware of the affect collegiate life will have on future career options, and use their college experiences to discover and refine a career path that will satisfy them. Other students are in the midst of their careers and either want to change career paths or are looking for job training to advance their careers.
Career planning is a valuable exercise for any of these students.
A good starting point in deciding what course of collegiate study would best prepare you for a career is to analyze very thoughtfully what particular skills are strengths for you. In general, are you adept at working with people, or numbers, or the written word, and so forth? What subjects in high school or activities since graduating have had the most appeal for you? You should make a list of the activities you enjoy and the subjects you like to read about or discuss.
Another valuable career planning activity is to read up on career information. Research careers that you are interested in and that would utilize your strengths. What type of education is required to get into the field? Do you need a graduate degree? Will you need to pursue a long internship or residency program? Are you willing to spend the time it takes to fulfill these requirements?
Remember, you don't have to have all the answers, but if you have an idea in mind, it can only help you. With possible careers in mind, you can research the college majors that are relevant. You can determine what colleges offer strong programs in your chosen majors, or if a career college would be a good option. | <urn:uuid:e2ad8169-48d0-448e-ad21-efc500136d25> | 2013-05-18T08:03:48Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Hyperparathyroidism in Dogs
Excessive Levels of Parathyroid Hormone in the Blood in Dogs
The parathyroid hormone is responsible for regulating calcium and phosphorus levels in the blood, increasing blood calcium levels by causing calcium to be reabsorbed from bone. The parathyroid glands are small, hormone-secreting glands that are located on or near the thyroid glands. The term para- refers to adjacent or alongside, and thyroid refers to the actual thyroid gland; the thyroid and parathyroid glands are located side by side in the neck, near the windpipe or trachea. Hyperparathyroidism is a medical condition related to the parathyroid glands, in which over active parathyroid glands cause abnormally high levels of parathyroid hormone (also known as parathormone or PTH) to circulate in the blood.
Primary hyperparathyroidism refers to a condition in which a tumor in the parathyroid gland produces excessive levels of parathyroid hormone, leading to increased blood calcium levels (hypercalcemia).
Secondary hyperparathyroidism can be caused by a deficiency of calcium and vitamin D, and is associated with malnutrition or long-term (chronic) kidney disease.
There is no known genetic cause for primary hyperparathyroidism, but its association with certain breeds suggests a possible hereditary basis in some cases. Secondary hyperparathyroidism can develop in association with hereditary kidney disease (known as hereditary nephropathy), but is not inherited per se. Keeshonds seem to show some predilection for this disease. In dogs, the average age is ten years, with a range of 5 to 15 years of age.
Symptoms and Types
Your veterinarian will be looking for cancer first and foremost for the cause for this disease. However, several other possibilities will also be considered, such as renal failure and vitamin D intoxication, which have been known to be found in some rodenticides. Other possibilities are too much calcium in the blood. A urinalysis will reveal calcium and phosphate levels.
Serum ionized calcium determination is often normal in patients with chronic renal failure and high in patients with primary hyperparathyroidism or hypercalcemia that is associated with a malignancy. If kidney stones are suspected, your veterinarian may use X-ray and ultrasound imaging of the parathyroid gland to discover whether there is tumor there. If nothing can be found using these diagnostic techniques, your veterinarian may need to use surgery to explore the area of the thyroid and parathyroid.
The failure of the kidneys to perform their proper functions
A gland found in the neck of humans and animals that secretes glands responsible for metabolic rate, calcitonin, and others.
An in-depth examination of the properties of urine; used to determine the presence or absence of illness
The name for four glands that are located on the top of the thyroid gland that help to regulate the amount of calcium in the blood
The windpipe; it carries air from the bronchi to the mouth
The hormone that is created from the parathyroid glands; helps to regulate the calcium level of an animal’s blood
Something with an electrical charge
Something that becomes worse or life threatening as it spreads
A condition of poor health that results from poor feeding or no feeding at all
A low level of calcium in the blood
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Question: How do I take my Dog's Temperature?
A dog's normal body temperature varies between 38 and 39 degrees Celsius (100 -102 degrees Fahrenheit).
To take a dog's temperature,
- Grease a snub nosed thermometer with vegetable oil.
- Lift the dog's tail and insert the thermometer slowly about 2.5 cm or 1 inch deep.
- Hold it in for 30-45 seconds.
- Take it out slowly, wipe it clean and read the dog's temperature.
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Sathya Sai Baba, who died on Sunday, probably aged 84, was India's
most famous, and most controversial, Swami or holy man, and one of the
most enigmatic and remarkable religious figures of the last century.
his followers, Sai Baba was a living god; to his detractors, he was a
charlatan, albeit one of considerable ingenuity and enormous personal
charisma and power.
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Success doesn’t come on its own.
It is necessary to invest a lot of effort and a lot of time.
It is necessary to provide high quality products, as well as appropriate business operations.
It is necessary to raise awareness of the significance of each individual and the importance of team work.
It is necessary to define objectives, to have a clear vision…
…and once you become successful, it is necessary to know how to retain all that you have successfully created in the right way.
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| | Photopost sale pricing: how often?
In Announcements, I see that on Aug 29th, Photopost and Reviewpost went on sale for $99 and $79 respectively. In a search of the past year, it seems that was the only time PP was ever on sale. When did this sale end? How often does sale pricing occur? | <urn:uuid:f3719852-fad0-4100-bf95-57deb17cbe8f> | 2013-05-18T05:35:32Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Posted by Bruce Kahl on December 06, 2003
In Reply to: Re: Origin of the slang "barrelling" posted by James Briggs on December 06, 2003
: : I'm wondering if anyone knows the origin of the slang word "barrelling". For example, "He came barrelling in the door."
: : Thanks
: One of the meanings of 'barrel' is 'the trunk of a four legged animal: the barrel of a horse'. I reckon this could well be the origin. Others will no doubt comment!
I always thought it was from the barrel of a gun--the metal, cylindrical part of a firearm through which the bullet travels. | <urn:uuid:d67d6bf8-f1b3-4782-a66e-23395c85fa07> | 2013-05-18T05:08:42Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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The process of accretion is important in the formation of planets, stars, and black holes; it is also believed to power some of the most energetic phenomena in the universe. In an accretion disc, the accretion rate is controlled by the outward transport of angular momentum. Collisional processes like friction or viscosity are typically too small to account for the observed rates, and it is universally believed that astrophysical accretion discs are turbulent. However the origin of this turbulence is not clear since discs with velocity profiles close to Keplerian are stable to infinitesimal perturbations. In the early nineties it was realized that the stability picture changes dramatically if magnetic fields or nonlinear effects are present. In this talk I will describe how some of these issues can be discussed within the framework of the flow of a conducting fluid between coaxial rotating cylinders. I will also describe some of the experiments that are on the way to study these flows as well as the computational efforts to clarify the nature of the ensuing turbulent transport.
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So I'm reading about asymmetric synthesis and read that a commonly used "asymmetric reagent" is this:
thats the dimer you get when you react alpha-pinene with borane. If I'm not mistaken, the reason this reaction doesn't go all the way and produce a trimer is because there is too much steric hindrance for a third a-pinene molecule to fit in there.
I'm trying to understand how this compound is used for stereoselective additions to alkenes. I'm guessing that the alkene has to react with the boron and form a trimer (by replacing the hydrogen). Firstly does that mean that this will only work on small alkenes because steric hindrance will block bigger alkenes from reacting with the boron?
My main question is how exactly does this make the hydroboration reaction stereoselective? Is it purely sterics? In other words, do the big bulky pinocampheol groups make it so the boron can only approach from the less hindered side of the alkene? | <urn:uuid:13aaf024-3f4c-427b-b611-f77d8c905970> | 2013-05-18T06:27:00Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Iran threatens to 'punish' any Israeli attack
Tehran, Iran (CNN) -- Iran issued a warning to Israel on Wednesday, with a top military figure saying Iran will "punish" any threat.
"The United States is fully aware that a military attack by the Zionist regime on Iran will not only cause tremendous damage to that regime, but it will also inflict serious damage to the U.S.," said Gen. Hassan Firouzabadi, commander of the joint chiefs of staff, according to the semi-official Fars News Agency.
"We, as the military, take every threat, however distant and improbable, as very real, and are fully prepared to use suitable equipment to punish any kind of mistake," he added, according to a CNN translation of his remarks.
Another semi-official Iranian news agency, ISNA, published a story in English quoting Firouzabadi as saying, "The U.S. officials know that Zionist regime's military attack against Iran will inflict heavy damages to the U.S. seriously as well as Zionist regime."
The Israeli Ministry of Defense said Wednesday that Israel "carried out the test-firing of a rocket propulsion system from the Palmachim military base. This had been planned by the Defense Establishment a long time ago and was carried out as scheduled."
"This is an impressive technological achievement and an important step in Israel's advances in the realms of missiles and space," said Defense Minister Ehud Barak.
The comments from Iran and the Israeli missile test come as a very public debate is taking place in Israel about the possibility of a military strike on the Islamic republic.
Last week, Israel's largest newspaper, Yedioth Ahronoth, published a report that suggested Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Barak both supported a strike against Iran's nuclear program.
That story was followed up Wednesday by a report in the Israeli daily Haaretz that Netanyahu was lobbying members of his cabinet to support a military strike against Iran despite the various difficulties inherent in such an operation. The paper attributed the information to a senior Israeli official, but did not disclose identity of their source.
Israeli and U.S. officials have expressed concerns that Iran is building nuclear weapons, despite Tehran's insistence that its nuclear program is for peaceful energy purposes.
The publication of the two reports in the Israeli media brought criticism from cabinet members.
"A public debate about this is nothing less than a scandal. I don't think we've ever had anything like it," Dan Meridor, deputy prime minister and intelligence minister, told the Israeli newspaper Maariv. "The public elected a government to make decisions about things like this in secret. The public's right to know does not include the debate about classified matters like this."
Speaking to Israeli radio, Benny Begin, a minister without portfolio, called the public debate about Iran "a crazy free-for-all" and criticized former Israeli intelligence officials for speaking too openly about government deliberations on Iran.
The prime minister's office would not comment on the newspaper reports and referred reporters to comments he made about Iran on Monday.
"Regional powers who have control in the Middle East will try to ensure they have greater influence on the new regimes -- influence that will not always support us or be of benefit to us, to say the least," Netanyahu said to Israeli legislators during the opening session of the Knesset.
"One of these regional forces is Iran, which continues its efforts to obtain nuclear weapons. A nuclear Iran would pose a dire threat on the Middle East and on the entire world. And of course, it poses a grave, direct threat on us too... We operate and will continue to operate intensely and determinately against those who threaten the security of the state of Israel and its citizens." | <urn:uuid:dc89290d-ec3f-4ebe-8235-feafd6fec8e9> | 2013-05-18T07:22:18Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Pizza With Spring Onions and Fennel
By MARTHA ROSE SHULMAN
Fennel and spring onions, cooked gently until they begin to caramelize, make a sweet topping for a pizza. Fennel is an excellent source of vitamin C and a very good source of fiber, folate and potassium. Fennel also contains many phytonutrients, including the flavonoids rutin and quercitin, as well as a compound called anethole, mainly responsible for its anise-y flavor, that may have anti-inflammatory properties.
2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
1 medium size sweet spring onion, chopped, about 1 cup
Salt, preferably kosher salt, and freshly ground pepper
1 1/4 pounds trimmed fennel bulbs, tough outer layers removed, cored and chopped
2 large garlic cloves, minced
2 tablespoons minced fennel fronds
1/2 recipe whole wheat pizza dough
1. Preheat the oven to 450 degrees, preferably with a baking stone in it. Heat 1 tablespoon of the olive oil over medium heat in a large, heavy skillet, and add the onion and about 1/2 teaspoon salt. Cook, stirring often, until the onion is tender, about five minutes. Add the fennel and garlic, and stir together. Cook, stirring often, until the fennel begins to soften, about five minutes. Turn the heat to low, cover and cook gently, stirring often, until the fennel is very tender and sweet and just beginning to color, about 15 minutes. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Stir in the chopped fennel fronds, and remove from the heat.
2. Roll or press out the pizza dough and line a 12- to 14-inch pan. Brush the pizza crust with the remaining tablespoon of olive oil and sprinkle on the Parmesan. Spread the fennel mixture over the crust in an even layer. Place on top of the pizza stone, and bake 15 to 20 minutes, until the edges of the crust are brown and the topping is beginning to brown. Remove from the heat. Serve hot, warm or room temperature.
Yield: One 12- to 14-inch pizza.
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Help & Advice Page
I need your help in creating some new characters
The collection of character files is complete only in the sense that all classes are represented. But BG II is such a huge game that many other possibilities exist. When I looked at the first collection of files, I realized that many NPC combinations were not included. For example, what if you wanted to see the interaction between Minsc and Mazzy? Or how about Korgan and Cernd? The only way to find out is to create some new character files.
I created a list of character combinations that would finally (when combined with the original files) give every NPC an opportunity to have dialogue with every other NPC. What I would like is suggestions from you for these parties concerning themes, quests, and type of player character (class, alignment, bio, etc.) to use in this group. The All Classes File Page gives a good summary of what I am looking for. You don't have to create the characters or game files; I will do the dirty work. I'm just looking for advice.
So, if you want to be famous (and get absolutely no money at all), send me your suggestions. No guarantee I will use them (or even acknowldege them!) but hey... at least you've got a chance!
The New List of Parties - Who shall lead them? How shall they be known?
Aerie, Korgan, Cernd, Edwin, Valygar Haer Dalis, Imoen, Minsc, Anomen, Jan Jansen Haer Dalis, Nalia, Edwin, Valygar Imoen, Korgan, Jan Jansen, Cernd, Edwin, Mazzy Jaheira, Korgan, Keldorn, Haer Dalis Keldorn, Anomen, Nalia, Cernd Keldorn, Korgan, Edwin, Anomen Minsc, Aerie, Keldorn, Mazzy Valygar, Imoen, Jan Jansen, Keldorn Viconia, Cernd, Valygar Yoshimo, Keldorn, Haer Dalis, Mazzy, Anomen Something to consider - I probably need some more multi- and dual-class characters I would like to have one triple-class character; picking an 'appropriate' group is a little tricky---you don't want this character to lose her worth in the group but still needs to be powerful enough to contribute.
All Classes Home Page
Other meaningless links...
Non Sequitur Home Page
Unofficial Master of Magic Home Page
Mail comments and rude suggestions to me.
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This year's Championship could yet be decided in the courts with reports claiming Ferrari are considering protesting the result of the Brazilian GP.
Sebastian Vettel clinched the Championship on Sunday afternoon at the Interlagos circuit after bringing his RB8 home in sixth place. That meant he beat Fernando Alonso to the crown by three points.
There was some debate in the wake of the grand prix as to whether Vettel had overtaken Jean-Eric Vergne under yellow boards as video footage appeared to show this with the German completing the move before he passes a green boards.
In the immediate aftermath Sky F1 pundit Martin Brundle reported that he had "spoken to Gary Connolly, one of the race stewards, and he has absolutely confirmed that they were red-and-yellow boards" and not yellow ones.
No investigations were launched and Vettel retained his sixth place, winning his third World Champion.
However, Ferrari are now reportedly "evaluating" the footage and could lodge a protest.
"We're looking at the video. We have until tomorrow to file an appeal," Ferrari spokesman Luca Colajanni told The Associated Press on Thursday.
According to BBC Sport it is "Alonso, who was World champion in 2005 and 2006" who is "believed to be pushing Ferrari to make an official protest to the FIA."
Under FIA regulations, motorsport's governing body has until November 30 to investigate any incidents "likely to have an effect on the result of a Championship."
Should Vettel be found guilty, he would incur a 20 second penalty, which would drop him to eighth and hand Alonso the Championship by one point.
The FIA have yet to comment on whether or not a protest has been lodged.
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Hurricanes duo Brad Shields and Reggie Goodes have re-committed to the franchise and Wellington Lions.
As the pair begin to tackle their second Super Rugby season, their re-signing is welcome news for Hurricanes and Wellington Rugby CEO James Te Puni.
"This is fantastic for our region and the Hurricanes," said Te Puni.
"Both are hardworking, dedicated young men who reflect the team culture we seek to create. They are great role models for aspiring Hurricanes."
Back-rower Shields, who successfully came back on the field in the pre-season match against the Chiefs in Mangatainoka after sustaining a knee injury last July, is thrilled to continue his career with the 'Canes.
"I'm stoked that I can play where I love and I can't see myself playing anywhere else," he said.
"There is such an awesome team culture here and it is pretty special to be a part of it."
Shields has signed for the Hurricanes for the 2014 season and extended his Wellington Lions contract for 2013.
South African-born prop Goodes made an exciting start to his Super Rugby career in 2012 and is looking forward to doing it all a second time around this year.
He will add to the hotly contested front-row positions within the 2013 team.
"I'm very happy to have re-signed with the Lions and extend my Hurricanes contract to the end of 2014," he revealed.
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Horace and Lydia Reconciled
When you were mine in auld lang syne,
And when none else your charms might ogle,
I'll not deny,
Fair nymph, that I
Was happier than a Persian mogul.
Before she came--that rival flame!--
(Was ever female creature sillier?)
In those good times,
Bepraised in rhymes,
I was more famed than Mother Ilia!
Chloe of Thrace! With what a grace
Does she at song or harp employ her!
I'd gladly die
If only I
Might live forever to enjoy her!
My Sybaris so noble is
That, by the gods! I love him madly--
That I might save
Him from the grave
I'd give my life, and give it gladly!
What if ma belle from favor fell,
And I made up my mind to shake her,
Would Lydia, then,
Come back again
And to her quondam flame betake her?
My other beau should surely go,
And you alone should find me gracious;
For no one slings
Such odes and things
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Originally Posted by Jericka
For what it is worth, I have a Secondary's perspective on the situation....
Is the girlfriend paying any attention to how this guy is treating his wife? Because, really, if I saw a guy that I was dating neglecting his wife and newborn? I'd be gone so fast!
NRE or not, I'm perfectly capable of seeing that how he's treating his wife is how I would be treated once the NRE wears off. I wouldn't touch a guy who was neglecting his responsibilities at home with a ten foot pole. EWWWWW!
This is a very good point. I intend to apply this to my dating life I think. It makes complete sense to see that if a person is not able to take care of his responsibilities at home he likely won't be able and willing to do so in my relationship with him. | <urn:uuid:d6403716-eb67-4b98-8c71-d72b47bb1488> | 2013-05-18T08:05:49Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Nearly a decade ago, NASA built an Earth-monitoring satellite that could have observed global warming in action. Then the agency stashed it in a warehouse in Maryland, where it remains to this day By Bill Donahue
More and more, computer data is being stored and processed on remote servers. But the price of that convenience could be a new wave of cybercrime By Rena Marie Pacella
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On 28th June 2009 Portsmouth hosted the Ghost Ship Pageant. The pageant was created to celebrate Henry VIII's birthday by "Walk the Plank" for Portsmouth Festivities. The event was also designed to mark the 500th anniversary of the building of the Mary Rose. The day started at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard with Falconry and Tudor cooking taking place. There were also costumed re-enactors enabling people to meet Henry VIII and his court. At 3:30 a procession started at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard involving sailors, shipwrights, flag bearers and musicians. The procession made its way along the streets of Portsmouth from the dockyard to Southsea Bandstand.
Around Southsea Bandstand there were many food stalls and living history displays to be enjoyed. In the evening the Ghost Ship Spectacle took place on Castle Field. This was a truly magical event with a cast of hundreds. It also featured a burning anchor, splendid lighting effects, pyrotechnics and fire. The evening culminated with a firework display. Crowds turned up to watch the events and they proved a huge success.
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Teen sexually assaulted on Summerville bike trail
Police today released a composite of a teenage boy who they say sexually assaulted a 17-year-old girl as she ran along the Sawmill Branch Walk/Bike Trail in Summerville.
The assault happened about 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, according to an incident report. The girl told police a teenage boy on a bicycle smacked her on her buttocks as she ran along the trail.
She became upset, the report states, but she continued to run.
The boy reappeared, she told police, this time ramming his bicycle into her.
Then, the boy jumped off the bike, pulled out a silver pocket knife and told the girl to shut up, the incident report states.
The girl told police her attacker punched her in her face three times.
She told him she would do anything he asked, so long as he let her live, the report states.
The boy pulled the girl into the woods and pushed her down on her back. According to the report he held the knife up to her throat while he sexually assaulted her.
A man walked by the edge of the woods and asked if there was a problem, interrupting the attack, the report states.
The boy told the man he was attempting to have sex with his girlfriend, according to the report. The girl, however, cried out for help, prompting her attacker to run out of the woods and flee on his bike.
The girl ran toward her car, which was parked at the trailís entrance on Bacons Bridge Road, the report states.
She drove home and told her father, who called police.
A witnesses reported seeing the girl crying hysterically and yelling for help. That person told police the girl didnít have on pants and was red in the face.
The girl described her attacker as being white, about 17 years old, having curly brown hair and wearing a camouflage jacket and blue jeans.
She told police she runs the trail often, but she didnít recognize him.
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Posted by John Loraine on December 20, 2001 at 20:52:07:
In Reply to: RE:HOVER CRAFTS posted by Ryan Sullivan on April 26, 1999 at 18:02:12:
i would like information on building a hover craftthat would carry two adults and a 150 pounds load also. The craft would only have to travel at a maxium speed of 10 Miles per hour. But it would have to have the ability to stop fairly quick and be able to climb hills.
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The Commission is composed of five Commissioners, each of whom is appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, for a term of six years. A Commissioner may continue to serve after the expiration of his or her term for up to one year or until a successor is confirmed.
At any time only three Commissioners may be members of the same party. The Chairman is designated by the President and usually is a member of the President's party. Currently the Commission is comprised of three Republicans and two Democrats. The names of the current Commissioners, their affiliation and term expiration dates are:
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A Fertility Specialist Tells You About This Medication Used In The Treatment Of Infertility
Mark Kan, MD
What is Clomid, and how does it work?
The expert answers
Clomiphene citrate (also known as Clomid or Serophene) is a medication that is commonly used in fertility treatment. Because it is relatively inexpensive and can be administered orally, clomiphene is generally one of the first medications prescribed for patients who do not ovulate regularly.
In women who do ovulate regularly, clomiphene may be used for "superovulation," where 2 or 3 eggs are produced. This increases the number of "targets" for the sperm, thereby increasing the chance of pregnancy.
Clomiphene is normally administered for five days during the follicular part of the cycle (the portion of the cycle following menstrual bleeding). Clomiphene is structurally similar to estrogen and acts on the estrogen receptor. First approved by the FDA in 1967, it has recently been reclassified as a selective-estrogen-receptor-modulator (SERM).
How does clomiphene work? The hormonal signals that cause the ovarian follicles to grow are released from the pituitary gland. These hormones are named Follicle Stimulating Hormone (FSH) and Leutinizing Hormone (LH) for their actions in the ovary. The pituitary receives its signals from the hypothalamus in the brain. Clomiphene blocks the estrogen receptor and "tricks" the brain into thinking there are low levels of estrogen. The pituitary responds by releasing more FSH and LH, thus stimulating follicular growth in the ovaries.
Whereas clomiphene "tricks" the pituitary into producing more FSH and LH, gonadotropin injections of FSH and LH increase the amount of signals directly. Treatment with these injections requires more intensive monitoring than does therapy with clomiphene. In general, treatment with fertility medications is initiated to help women overcome ovulatory dysfunction, or to produce multiple eggs so there is a higher chance of achieving pregnancy.
In the "Clomiphene citrate challenge test" (CCCT), clomiphene is administered and FSH levels are compared before and after treatment. In theory, clomiphene blocks the negative feedback of estrogen, leaving only inhibin (a substance that inhibits FSH) to suppress FSH. In some women, inhibin alone is not able to block the high levels of FSH without the help of estrogen. The CCCT will therefore be abnormal and show high FSH levels after clomiphene in women with diminished ovarian reserve.
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Ethan longs to escape his small Southern town. And then he meets a mysterious new girl, Lena.
After a stint in a mental institution, former teacher Pat Solitano moves back in with his parents and tries to reconcile with his ex-wife.
A young woman with a mysterious past lands in Southport, North Carolina where her bond with a widower forces her to confront the dark secret that haunts her.
Set on the Jersey shore, the lives of three childhood friends begin to unravel when a secret from their past is revealed.
A former sports star who’s fallen on hard times starts coaching his son’s soccer team as a way to get his life together.
Set in late-19th-century Russia high-society, the aristocrat Anna Karenina enters into a life-changing affair with the affluent Count Vronsky.
A man in an iron lung who wishes to lose his virginity contacts a professional sex surrogate with the help of his therapist and priest.
An introvert freshman is taken under the wings of two seniors who welcome him to the real world.
The lives of some visitors and residents of Rome and the romances, adventures and predicaments they get into.
Former getaway driver Charlie Bronson jeopardizes his Witness Protection Plan identity in order to help his girlfriend get to Los Angeles. The feds and Charlie’s former gang chase them on the road. | <urn:uuid:44629956-6e55-49b8-83ca-c5df864831a6> | 2013-05-18T05:24:39Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Parity: EU parliament recognises same sex families
15 March 2012
The resolution adopted by the European Parliament on Tuesday to foster male/female parity, contains a clause that opens a door to same-sex marriage. This may have gone unnoticed in most EU countries but it has caused quite a stir in Italy. Point 7 of the resolution, which is non-binding for member states, "regrets the implementation" in some EU countries of "restrictive definitions of 'family' in order to deny legal protection to same-sex couples and their children".
Italian daily La Stampa notes that an amendment proposed by the right (the majority group) aimed at deleting this point was defeated by 20 votes by the left, the environmentalists and the far-left. The Italian right, the paper says, condemns the "left's [decision] in favour of gay marriage". For Milan daily Il Giornale, "Europe wants to impose gay marriage on us". According to the paper, member states will be obliged to recognise same-sex marriages performed in other EU countries. | <urn:uuid:6b38c078-578d-456c-a33d-6bbd61a26916> | 2013-05-18T08:04:22Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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updateclient.dll is a SPAMfighter Toolkit Update Helper Library
belonging to SPAMfighter Toolkit
Non-system processes like updateclient.dll originate from software you installed on your system. Since most applications store data in your system's registry, it is likely that your registry has suffered fragmentation and accumulated invalid entries which can affect your PC's performance. It is recommended that you check your registry to identify slowdown issues. | <urn:uuid:276dc945-6798-424c-b119-144120ef8264> | 2013-05-18T06:21:38Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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PHP is a computer scripting language, originally designed for producing dynamic web pages.
Tools And Utilities
This book is for Dreamweaver MX users who want to take their PHP sites beyond the functions provided by server behaviors. It teaches you PHP, but from the point of view of a Dreamweaver user.
This book is all about making dynamic PHP web sites with Dreamweaver MX . It covers PHP, enough to get the reader up to speed with the technology, and how to use Dreamweaver MX to produce PHP code... | <urn:uuid:16bfd9fe-fb3b-43ef-a158-63642627de56> | 2013-05-18T06:03:42Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Sgt. William David Sparrow Jr.
William D. Sparrow Jr. was the third of the four children of Gertrude
Howser-Sparrow & Dr. William
Sr. He was born on May 20, 1915, in Boyle County, Kentucky, and
lived on Main Street in Burgin, Kentucky. He attended college for
two years before going to work as a guard at a state hospital. Being the son of a doctor, he was known as
"Doc" to his friends.
Doc was a member of the Kentucky National Guard in Harrodsburg. When he was called to federal duty on November 25, 1940, he was working as a guard at a state hospital. The tank company was designated D Company, 192nd Tank Battalion. After training for nearly a year at Fort Knox, Kentucky, Doc went on maneuvers in Louisiana. After the maneuvers, he and the other members of the battalion learned that they were being sent overseas.
Doc and D Company traveled west by train to San Francisco. There, they were ferried to Angel Island. While at Angel Island, Doc and the other soldiers received shots and physicals. They then were boarded onto a ship for the Philippine Islands.
Arriving in the Philippines, the 192nd were sent to Ft. Stotsenburg where they lived in tents along the main road between the fort and Clark Airfield. For the next two weeks, Doc and other men prepared for maneuvers. They cleaned their guns and loaded ammunition belts. It was also at this time that D Company was attached to the 194th Tank Battalion.
The morning of December 8, 1941, the tanks were ordered to the perimeter of the airfield. About 12:45 in the afternoon, the tankers saw planes approaching the airfield. When bombs began exploding, they knew the planes were Japanese.
For the next four months, Doc fought to slow the Japanese conquest of the Philippine Islands. The morning of April 9, 1942, they heard the order "crash" and destroyed their tanks. Doc decided that he would attempt to escape to Corregidor.
When Doc reached the island, he learned that they could not leave. Doc was put on beach defense and given a gun. He was sent to Skipper Hill which faced Bataan. He was now attached to the Fourth Marine Division.
Each evening a chow wagon was sent down to the soldiers. To get to them, the chow truck had to cross an open field. Since the Japanese were using observation balloons on Bataan, as soon as the truck made it to the field it came under fire. The attacks got so bad that this method of feeding the soldiers was abandoned.
One day, Doc and Lawson were sent out to get food. When they began crossing the field, shells began landing around them. In front of them was a member of the 31st Infantry. As he ran, he was hit by a shrapnel from a shell which decapitated him.
Doc and Lawson did not let the man lie in the field. They dragged his body to a bunker and sat it up. They then picked up his head and placed it on his lap and left him leaning on the bunker.
As time went on, the soldiers could not go for food. Instead, Doc and Lawson went to the Malinta Tunnel to get it. While in the tunnel, they heard small arms fire. The two did not think anything of it. To them, it was a normal thing just a little heavier then normal.
Doc and Lawson were told that the Japanese had landed on the island the night before. The two men stated that they had just come from outside and had not seen any Japanese. They looked out the mouth of the tunnel and saw Japanese marching by fours toward them.
Japanese tanks approached the tunnel at the same time, and snipers were also near the tunnel's mouth. When a man attempted to get out, he was dead within eight or ten steps. In spite of these odds, the two soldiers decided that they would make a break for it.
Just as Doc and Lawson were about to make their way out of the tunnel, they heard of the surrender. They remained in the tunnel and destroyed their guns. The two men did get out of the tunnel and made their way to Queen's Tunnel.
In this tunnel, the two found canned food. They opened cans of peaches, sweet corn and cream. They ate as much as they could. While they were eating, the Japanese arrived. Doc and the others stood up at attention. The Japanese spoke English and wanted food. In particular, they wanted canned Pineapple.
Within a few minutes, the tunnel was full of Japanese. Unlike the first Japanese, these soldiers took anything the Americans had. They took their watches, money and wallets. They also began to beat the Americans.
There was an old American civilian who had a pocket watch on a gold chain with a large fob on it. A Japanese soldier motioned to him to take it off. He refused. The soldier kicked him in the stomach and hit him in the face with the butt of his rifle and then took the watch. The other Americans could little but watch. After the beating, they comforted him as he cried.
Doc and the other Prisoners of War were taken to what was known as the 92nd Garage on Corregidor's shore. There, they lived in make shift barracks to keep dry since it was the rainy season. The POWs scavenged for rice and sugar. He and the other men went three days without water.
Doc and Lawson volunteered for the water detail. To get the water they went to the Malinta Tunnel to get water from a faucet. On their way to the tunnel, a little Japanese guard picked on a big Marine. While they were in the tunnel getting water, the Marine said to them that things were going to change on the way back.
On the detail, were three guards. One in front, one in the middle, and one at the back of the detail. When they got to a cliff and were making their way along it, the Marine picked up the guard and threw him off it. Neither of the other guards saw what had happened and never made an issue of it.
About a week later, Doc and many of the POWs left Corregidor. They were boarded onto small boats and taken to a larger one. This boat took them to an area near Manila. There, they were made to jump off the boat into the water.
Doc and the other prisoners swam to shore. Once on shore, they formed formation and were marched to Bilibid Prison. He remained in the prison for a week when the Japanese moved the prisoners.
The prisoners were taken to a train station and boarded onto train cars. 75 to 80 men were put into each car. From Manila, the POWs were taken to Cabanatuan. Once there, they lived in an old school house. The next morning the POWs were marched to Cabanatuan Camp #3.
At Cabanatuan, the POWs main meal was rice and whistle weed soup. While Doc was a POW there four Americans who had tried to escape were executed.
After they escaped, the men realized that they had no place to go, so they attempted to surrender themselves to the Japanese. The Japanese tied them to posts and left them hang in the sun. They also beat the POWs with boards. The Japanese also showed the men water but would not give them any.
While the POWs were eating supper, the Japanese marched the men to where the prisoners were eating. They had the men dig their own graves and gave each man a cigarette and water. The POWs were offered blindfolds which all took but one. This man spit at the Japanese before they shot him. The men fell backwards into the grave. When one man who had survived the execution attempted to crawl out of the grave, a Japanese officer shot each man with his pistol.
The Japanese began consolidating the camps and Doc was sent to Cabanatuan Camp #1. This camp was about seven miles from Camp #3. There he was reunited with other members of D Company.
The Japanese began to transfer POWs to other areas of their empire. Doc volunteered to go to Japan on the first ship. With him on the ship were Elzie Anness, Skip Rue, Morgan French and Marcus Lawson of D Company. There were also other members of his battalion on the ship with whom he had become friends with at Ft. Knox.
On November 7, 1942, the Nagato Maru sailed for Japan from Pier 7 in Manila. The trip took 27 days. Many of the POWs came down with dysentery. On the ship were Japanese soldiers returning to Japan. The first few days they spent much of their time getting drunk.
If the soldiers had to relieve themselves, they urinated into the ship's holds onto the POWs. If they had to vomit, they did the same. Since there was not a great deal of room to move, the POWs could do little to escape the urine and vomit.
The Nagoto Maru arrived at Toku, Formosa, before it sailed for Moji, Japan. There the POWs were boarded onto a train and taken to Tanagawa #4-B. In the camp, they were put to work building a dry-dock. The POWs loaded mine cars which they pushed on trestle over the ocean. They then dumped the cars into the ocean.
At first, the Japanese expected them to load and dump twenty cars a day, but as time went on and the prisoners grew weaker, they could only manage five or six cars each day. As their work decreased the number of beatings by the Japanese increased.
Doc remained in the camp until the detail was broken up. The Japanese sent Doc and the other prisoners were sent to a graphite factory. Across from the factory, there was a airfield and behind it was a oil refinery. The camp was surrounded by 27 smoke stacks. What amazed Marcus was that the POW Camp was never hit by the American bombers.
Doc, Morgan French and Lawson were selected for a work detail to Osaka #5. There, they once again worked as stevedores unloading ships. The POWs at this camp lived in a two story house.
The Japanese expected the POWs to unload a ship loaded with bombs. The POWs refused on the basis that the bombs would be used against other Americans. To get the prisoners to work, the Japanese brought in the "baseball brigade." The POWs were beaten with bats. The POWs still refused to unload the bombs.
One night, Doc and the other POWs heard American planes approaching the docks. They also heard the bombs as they came down. The bombing lasted three hours. The next day the POWs could see that almost the entire town had burnt down.
About two weeks later, the POWs were taking a break on the dock. Suddenly, they saw three Navy Hellcats approaching. The POWs ran to a warehouse that had been bombed out. Each plane dropped three bombs. About five minutes later, sixty more Hellcats came over the docks and bombed and strafed the area. Any ships in the port were attacked and bombed.
During the attack the POWs' barracks were hit. After the attack the POWs slept on concrete until the Japanese moved them to a building across from a textile mill. Most of the workers in the textile mill were women and children.
The POWs lived in this building for a couple of months. In the building was a kiln. Some of the POWs were put to work on it. Every morning, a B-29 would fly over doing reconnaissance. One morning the air raid siren went off, but the POWs ignored it. They thought it was another reconnaissance flight. The plane dropped a blockbuster in the middle of the textile mill killing many women and children.
The prisoners knew that the Americans were getting closer from the civilian newspapers. One day the POWs were working, suddenly the guards stopped them and told them that it was too hot to work. The POWs knew something was up because this story just did not sound right. Some of the POWs said that the war had to be over because it had never been too hot to work before.
The next morning the POWs got up again and were told that they did not have to work that day. It was on this day that some of the prisoners heard a Japanese radio broadcast that said the Japanese were attempting to negotiate for peace.
The Japanese then came around and gave each prisoner a cigarette ration. The POWs had not seen cigarettes in months. Next, the Japanese gave the POWs new split toe shoes and new POW uniforms.
At this time Lawson was sick in bed with a 106 degree fever. Doc Sparrow went to see him and got him out of bed. The two friends went into the town to trade the shoes and clothes for Saki. They then got drunk.
Knowing that the war was over, Doc and the other POWs moved to a building with nicer quarters. The POWs also painted a big "POW" on the roof of a building. American planes dropped food, medicine and clothing to them, but no Americans appeared at the camp.
When the POWs were finally liberated, they were returned to the Philippines. He remained there until it was determined that he was healthy enough to return home. He was discharged from the army on February 5, 1946. Doc returned home to Harrodsburg.
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Commander Michael William Meredith
Commander Meredith grew up in Caro, Michigan, received his commission from the United States Naval Academy in 1995 where he earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science. During his senior year, he also attended the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, where he subsequently earned a Masters degree in Computer Science. Additionally, he completed the Navy's nuclear power training program.
His initial sea tour was in USS LEYTE GULF (CG 55), where he served as Communications Officer. His second division officer tour was as Reactor Controls Division Officer in USS JOHN C. STENNIS (CVN 74). Following shore duty, he completed his first department head as Operations Officer in USS HOWARD (DDG 68). He then served as Reactor Training Assistant and Assistant Reactor Officer in USS NIMITZ (CVN 68). His most recent sea tour was in USS JASON DUNHAM (DDG109) as Executive Officer. He has completed deployments in support of 3rd, 5th, 6th, and 7th Fleet operations.
CDR Meredith's shore tours include the University of Notre Dame, where he served as an instructor in the Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps program; the Navy Personnel Command, where he served as the Surface Nuclear Community Manager; and most recently at the NATO Joint Forces Command, Brunssum, Netherlands, where he served in Future Plans in support of coalition efforts in Afghanistan.
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The current evaluation system in Los Angeles focuses on teaching methods, such as how a teacher demonstrates knowledge or guides instruction, according to the district.
In his ruling, Judge [James] Chalfant contrasted the high rate of positive teacher evaluations in the district--97.6 in the 2009-10 school year--with low student proficiency in English and math.
"These failures cannot be laid solely at the feet of the District's teachers," the judge wrote. "But the District has an obligation to look at any and all means available to help improve the dismal results of its student population."
Needless to say, the ruling came over the strong objections of United Teachers Los Angeles, the major L.A. teachers union. In the Journal piece, the union's president is quoted as saying that the effect of the emphasis on test scores would be "narrowing the curriculum and really degrading the value of an education." Degrading it more than the current system, which is producing utter failure?
To be sure, performance metrics are not a silver bullet. There are a wide variety of considerations that go into determining a teacher's abilities. But just because test results on their own aren't sufficient to judge the quality of teachers doesn't mean they're not a necessary component of the process -- a process that California is overdue to take up in earnest. For that reason, let's hope that the progress out of Los Angeles spreads statewide. | <urn:uuid:7da80ac5-3f4f-461f-bb5c-32d2f56223f8> | 2013-05-18T06:57:24Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Since this site has already helped me a lot I thought I would seek your help with a quadratic equation that I can't wrap my head around.
The problem is phrased as follow (but I am translating from dutch):
In the quadratic equation 2x^2 - 3x + p = 0 one of the answers is equal to 2. Calculate p and the other answer.
Is it just me or is this pretty weirdly phrased?
So I tried solving it with the quadratic formula(x), but there is no answer that equals 2.(or is there?) And I have no idea how to calculate p.
The final answer using the quadratic formula is:
If anyone could shed some light on this I would be very grateful. | <urn:uuid:f04d2d92-6bbc-436c-b494-ef741c6d0cad> | 2013-05-18T07:27:38Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Picking up the pieces - and moving on
Moving on following a bereavement can be very difficult. Grief is very natural, and acceptance of a new way of living can come slowly. For some of us it can overtake our life, and getting through to the next stage proves very difficult.
I can't make you forget that pain, but I can help you relearn to live a normal life while you come to terms with your loss, dealing with sudden bereavement and feelingas of guilt which may be adding distress to your pain.
I can help you move on from the death of:
- Partner or spouse
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Using hypnotherapy allows me to find the root of your phobia, and alleviate the anxiety. | <urn:uuid:31475a83-abca-4a19-9fba-e5ff97af2314> | 2013-05-18T08:09:47Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
There's no limit to what you can dream. You expect the unexpected, you believe in magic, i...- Cecelia Ahern
I remembered the fox. One runs the risk of crying a bit if one allows oneself to be tamed.- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
A goal without a plan is just... a wish.- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
I don't want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.- Zelda Fitzgerald
The trick is to enjoy life. Don't wish away your days waiting for better ones ahead.- Marjorie Pay Hinckley
|Birth:||16th October, 1854|
|Death:||30th November, 1900|
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Today is a key day in the development of the 2011 World Rally Championship calendar, with series promoter North One Sport presenting a proposed schedule of events to the WRC Commission.
North One Sport officials remained tight-lipped about the precise content of a calendar which is seen as being pivotal to the sport's continued revival. While they are unlikely to be included next year, there is already talk of a snow rally in Russia and an event in Abu Dhabi for the following season.
"I can only talk in general about the calendar, no specifics," said North One CEO Simon Long. "We will not be proposing rotation of events; we will propose 14 or 15 rallies. As we have always said, we will focus on the best events including some traditional rallies and the ones which are best marketed and promoted.
"There will be casualties from the current WRC calendar and we are hoping to have the calendar presented from the Commission to the World Motorsport Council in March."
North One Sport will have to select the best 14 or 15 rallies from the 21 included in the 2009 and 2010 WRC calendars. Long admitted there remained a possible surprise in the calendar adding, "Maybe, and I'm saying maybe, there could be a surprise with an event in a new market."
The announcement of the calendar is expected to come out of the March World Motor Sport Council meeting. One of the key events North One Sport is looking to bring back into the WRC fold is the Monte Carlo Rally. Britain's Rally GB is thought to be safe, as is Rally Finland, which signed a five-year agreement with North One Sport last August.
It seems both Sweden and Norway could be included in 2011, with Long unwilling to work with rotation, but conceding that there was room for two winter rallies in the calendar. | <urn:uuid:c161444e-37da-42f0-89b1-3c61165e9e32> | 2013-05-18T06:27:44Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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GB/0397 Royal Academy of Arts Archive.
| ||>RAA Royal Academy of Arts, official archive 1768-2001|
|Title||Royal Academy of Arts, official archive|
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|Historical Background||The Royal Academy of Arts was founded in 1768, when a group of leading painters, sculptors and architects presented a memorial to King George III in order to obtain his interest in the founding of an academy of fine arts in London. They had two objects: to encourage art by establishing a well-regulated school and to hold an annual exhibition of contemporary work. By the Instrument of Foundation of 10 December 1768, the King declared his patronage, protection and support for the new body. |
Sir William Chambers was named by the Instrument as first Treasurer of the Royal Academy, a direct appointment made in view of the possibility of calls upon the Privy Purse. At the first General Assembly of 14 December 1768, Sir Joshua Reynolds was formally elected as President, George Michael Moser became first Keeper, with responsibility for the Schools and servants, and Francis Milner Newton was appointed Secretary, with responsibility for minutes, correspondence and related matters.
The Royal Academy began in small temporary quarters in Pall Mall, in premises previously used by an auctioneer named Aaron Lamb. The first exhibition was held there from 26 April to 27 May 1769. The first students had been admitted in January of that year. In 1771 the Schools and the administration of the Royal Academy were given accommodation by King George III in his palace of Old Somerset House in the Strand. In 1775 the Government had assumed control of the Somerset House site following an agreement to assign Buckingham House to the use of Queen Charlotte. The agreement had stipulated, however, that the Royal Academy be allowed to continue its tenure there. Sir William Chambers was selected as the architect of the new Somerset House, with a brief to provide accommodation for the Royal Society, the Society of Antiquaries and various Government departments, as well as the Academy. The Royal Academy was based at Somerset House from 1780-1837. From 1837, the Academy occupied the east wing of the newly completed building on the north side of Trafalgar Square, formerly the site of the King's Mews built by William Kent in 1732. The Academy shared the building with the National Gallery. In 1866, the Government decided to appropriate the whole of the Trafalgar Square building for the expanding collections of the National Gallery, and the Royal Academy was offered part of the Burlington House site in Piccadilly. Originally a two storey mansion sold before completion to the 1st Earl of Burlington in 1664, Burlington House had been purchased by the Government in 1854. A lease for 999 years at a rent of £1 per annum was executed in March 1867, and the Academy moved into its new accommodation in 1868, where it remains. The building was extensively remodelled in the 1870s, including the addition of a third storey and the construction of new Burlington House (the buildings on the east, south and west side of the courtyard, which house the learned societies). The Academy's Schools were located immediately at the rear of Burlington House. In 2001 the Royal Academy acquired 6 Burlington Gardens for use as additional exhibition space, and for other purposes.
The membership of Royal Academy of Arts has been made up since foundation of elected Royal Academicians, eminent in their various branches of art, and formerly of a class of Associate members. The Academy has always been autonomous and self-funding, and in addition to exhibition revenue, is today supported by private sponsorship and a Friends organisation.
|Content Description||The fonds consists of the official records of the Royal Academy of Arts.|
|Arrangement||The fonds is divided into a number of sub-fonds: one containing the Instrument of Foundation, signed by King George III, establishing the Royal Academy in 1768, and others reflecting the major administrative and record-creating divisions of the organisation.|
|Bibliography||Hutchison, Sydney C. The History of the Royal Academy 1768-1986, London 1986.| | <urn:uuid:43d33f32-14f2-48a9-af8b-41ffe47a2db2> | 2013-05-18T07:25:47Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Modernism And Nihilism (Hardcover)
|Author: Shane Weller|
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From the Publisher:
At the heart of some of the most influential strands of philosophical, political, and aesthetic modernism lies the conviction that modernity is fundamentally nihilistic. This book offers a wide-ranging critical history of the concept of nihilism from its origins in French Revolutionary discourse to its place in recent theorizations of the postmodern. Key moments in that history include the concept's appropriation by political activists in mid-nineteenth-century Russia, by Nietzsche in the 1880s, by the European avant-garde and 'high' modernists in the early decades of the twentieth century, by conservative revolutionaries in Germany in the interwar years, and by major theorists in the post-Holocaust period. Focusing in particular on the abiding impact of Nietzsche's claim that art is the 'only superior counterforce' to nihilism, Weller argues that an understanding of modernism (and, indeed, of postmodernism) is impossible without a reflection upon the decisive role played by the concept of nihilism therein. | <urn:uuid:534b4525-3e89-4860-a798-0bdfcab3c4df> | 2013-05-18T05:05:30Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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The light and agile A-4 Skyhawk was the first modern American jet to be offered to the Israeli Air Force, marking the point where the US took over from France as Israel's chief military supplier. Deliveries began too late for the A-4 to fight in the Six-Day War (1967), but it soon formed the backbone of the IAF's ground-attack force. From 1969 to 1970 it flew endless sorties against Egyptian forces in the War of Attrition (1967-1970). Then, during the Yom Kippur War (1973), five squadrons of A-4s saw combat and 50 planes were lost as they battled against the Arab armored onslaught. Using previously unpublished first-hand accounts and rare photography from the IAF archives and pilots' private collections, Shlomo Aloni tells the definitive history of the IAF's A-4 squadrons, including the story of Ezra "BABAN" Dotan who became an ace with an unique double-kill of MiG17s.
"The Israelis have always been paranoid about photographing their aircraft, so the selection [of photographs] in this A-4 volume is limited, but there are many color profiles. The A-4s saw lots of action in the nation's various wars and it is good to see all this information under one cover." -Air Classics
"This is one of the best-reading books I have found in a long time. It spans the combat history of one of the true workhorses of the Israeli Air Force... The photography is the primary best seller for this book. There are MANY unpublished and rare photos from the Israeli Archives and private collections. Even if you don't read the book at least look at the pictures, they are well worth it. AND of course there are the familiar Osprey Color Plates. These are outstanding, and provide the modeler with many detailed descriptions and variations to choose from." -Rick Bellanger, IPMS (January 2010)
"This book by Shlomo Aloni covers the initial search for a light attack aircraft, the use of the Skyhawk in the War of Attrition and then the Yom Kippur War. Then the ascendency of the A-4 as Israel's premier light attack craft and its inevitable reduction as other types take its place in front line units. All of this is superbly illustrated by photos of these planes in action and the usual excellent profile section that we have come to expect from Osprey." -Scott Van Aken, Modeling Madness / www.modelingmadness.com (February 2010)
"This title is Aloni's fifth for Osprey and like the previous four, opens an important window into the IDF/IAF... A great book about our special aircraft." -Skyhawk Assocation (Spring 2010)
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Katie, the Yellow Time Force Ranger.
In a series called "The Cavanaughs" (1:30 mark) She looks a little different but those eyes are still there. Sorry that was the only real reason I watched Time Force.
Also in Nelly's video for "#1":
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UNIVERSITY VILLAGE -- Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan told thousands of followers Sunday he was planning to reach out to gang leaders to help "protect" the Nation of Islam.
That came at the Nation of Islam's annual Saviours' Day convention. Farrakhan, 79, renewed the call for African Americans to pool money and buy as much land as possible, in order to "control means of production" and produce food and other goods, such as clothing.
Farrakhan told a crowd of more than 7,000 people at the UIC Pavilion that national politicians are using reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,... 's violence epidemic to push for stronger gun control laws but said the Second Amendment has nothing to do with the spate of shootings in Chicago.
"The guns that every one of our young people have, are they legal? No!" Farrakhan said.
Instead, Farrakhan had a different idea for how to address gun violence. In addition to sending letters to black military leaders, Farrakhan said he planned to contact the city's gang leaders to recruit gang members to "protect" any land the Nation of Islam might buy in the future.
"All you gangbangers, we know you love to shoot, but you're killing yourselves," Farrakhan said. "All your weapons are illegal and you're using them like savages."
But Farrakhan said gangbangers are "natural soldiers" and could be taught "the science of war" to become protectors of the Nation of Islam's assets in the future. They're absolutely not "natural soldiers." He's confusing guys waving guns with real soldiers, who're trained and disciplined.
Note the [keywords] calls for "protection", the "pooling" of money and for "control".
Louis is a classic, tribal separatist. Neither he nor the Champ truly believe in an integrated United States. Louis has always yearned for his own Swart Vrystat '[black free state] where he would become the anointed king. Like fear and hate, Islam is simply one of his tools. The exploitation of existing criminal elements and the infiltration of political structures, prisons, and the military to achieve these goals are classic techniques.
All very interesting, but should come as no surprise.
Buy what you want, you forgot about land taxes, you don't pay, you lose it. EVERY YEAR.
Posted by: Redneck Jim ||
Besoeker, I'm not saying you are wrong, but why wouldn't he then move to either a small state that he and his followers could take over (and cause white flight) or move to the state that had the highest black population to start from?
These days, calling a black person lazy is said to be like calling him a racial epithet. In future, before using any adjective to describe a black person, just think of all the good things that come to mind when you think about the black community. Musical, talented and muscular are some of the words you can use without appearing prejudiced. For instance,
It's like he's a musical, talented and muscular racist.
As "protectors" Farrakhan will likely hire people with the IED Disorder.
Intermittent explosive disorder (IED) is a behavioral disorder characterized by extreme expressions of anger, often to the point of uncontrollable rage, that are disproportionate to the situation at hand. It is currently categorized in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders as an impulse control disorder. IED belongs to the larger family of Axis I impulse control disorders listed in the DSM-IV-TR, along with kleptomania, pyromania, pathological gambling, and others.
As per the so-called "CANTONIZATION/ENCLAVIZATION
" OF AMERICA, + now OWG + NAU 2015 [+ Trans/Interim, etc.],"borders" are just a "quaint" or archaic lines on a Kiddie book or some dusty, pre-NWO "Old Order" University textbook - the OWG + NAU WILL HAVE THE POWER, NOT WASHINGTON DC ALBEIT THE LATTER WILL LIKELY STILL BE THE CAPITAL OF THE US PER SE.
Foreign worker or domestic Minority-American, AFTER 2015 WASHINGTON CAN NO LONGER BE COUNTED ON TO SERVE-N-PROTECT ANYONE'S INTERESTS OR AGENDA ON ITS OWN.
Pragmatically, FARRAKHAN + US Muslims will need all the help they can get once Jihad + Islamist insurgency begins to routinely occur in the US. FARRAKHAN'S + US AFRICAN-MUSLIMS' WAY OF LIFE AS THEY HAVE KNOWN IT IN AMERICA = AMERIKA MAY BE CHANGED FOREVER ONCE SECULAR AMERIKA DEVOLS INTO HARDLINE ISLAMIST ISLAMERIKA???
The Demoleft + aligned in Amerika have another thing coming iff they think Radical Islam's Hard Boyz will readily accept their political dominance + surrender like France to Secular Leftism/Marxism-Socialism.
DEM OR GOP OR INDEPENDENT, ETC. THE HARD BOYZ WILL PREFER FIRST TO BEHEAD 'EM ALL.
[An Nahar] Afghanistan's Caped PresidentHamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtun face on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... 's demand for U.S. special forces to leave a key province came as a surprise to American commanders, who had no advance warning of the order, officials said Monday.
It remained unclear what led Karzai to issue a blunt announcement that U.S. special operations force would have two weeks to withdraw from the strategic Wardak province, southwest of the capital Kabul, two U.S. officials said.
I vote for the drugs. Does he stand by the demand today? For that matter, does he remember the demand today?
"We're not aware of any incident that would have generated this kind of response," one official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told Agence La Belle France Presse.
In his statement Sunday, Karzai charged that Afghans working with U.S. forces had carried out torture and murder that has triggered local outrage.
The Pentagon confirmed that a special panel of Afghan officials and officers from the NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... -led International Security Assistance Fore (ISAF) were looking into Karzai's allegations.
"There has been a joint commission established by ISAF and the government of Afghanistan to look into the issues that surfaced over the weekend," front man George Little told news hounds.
"We're trying to see clarity from the government of Afghanistan," he added.
Asked if the United States would pull out its elite special operations units from the province, Little said: "It's premature to speculate on what the outcome of what our discussions would be."
Wardak is a deeply troubled flashpoint where a Chinook helicopter was shot down by the Taliban in August 2011, killing eight Afghans and 30 Americans. It was the deadliest single incident for American troops in the entire war.
[BBC.CO.UK] BBC Panorama reporter Ben Anderson spent five weeks with US Marines working to advise Afghan security forces in Helmand province. While he was there, he witnessed corruption and criminality among the Afghan police force.
Most police forces investigate crimes like corruption, kidnapping, drug use, murder and child abuse. But in Sangin - the most violent district in Afghanistan - these are crimes that some of the police commit.
Politicians insist the handover to the Afghan security forces is going smoothly and that they will be able to maintain security as the allied forces withdraw.
It's their culture, you bigot -- stop judging! Besides, isn't Helmand Pashtun territory? Those Pashtuns have an extra special culture. There are songs about them.
The Obama White House has decided to turnover documents related to the attack on a U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, according to news reports on Friday evening. But a non-government organization is continuing its lawsuit against Obama's Office of National Intelligence to access the documents for itself.
Despite continuous cover-up allegations, misstatements, verbal gymnastics and other evasions, a top public-interest, watchdog group on Thursday announced that its officials had filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against President Barack Obama's Office of the Director of National Intelligence. The FOIA lawsuit seeks access to records regarding the Sept. 11, 2012, attack by Islamists on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya.
During the violent terrorist attack, Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans were brutalized and murdered by radical Muslims associated with al-Qaeda. The documents requested from the Director of National Intelligence James Clapper include emails between top national security officials showing the debate within the administration over how to describe the attack and as well as other documents.
The non-profit, non-partisan Judicial Watch is seeking a questionable "talking points" memo indicating that intelligence officials believed from the outset that Islamic terrorists perpetrated the vicious attack despite public statements issued by Obama administration officials, including UN Ambassador Susan Rice and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that attributed the attack to a response to a YouTube anti-Mohammad video.
Judicial Watch seeks the following records in its FOIA request:
Any and all memoranda, assessments, analyses, and/or talking points regarding the September 11, 2012 attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya and/or the killing of U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens produced by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence between Sept. 11, 2012 and Sept. 20, 2012. This request includes, but is not limited to, the "speaking points" memorandum referred to by Senator Dianne Feinstein during a televised interview on Oct. 17, 2012.
According to Judicial Watch, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence acknowledged receiving the group's FOIA request on Oct. 19, 2012, and was required by law to respond by Nov. 26, 2012. But the DNI so far has neglected its duty to produce any records responsive to the request.
Regarding the "speaking points" memorandum requested by Judicial Watch, according to the CBS Affiliate in San Francisco: "When asked by CBS 5 if there was an intelligence flaw, the senior California senator [Feinstein] who hails from San Francisco replied: 'I think what happened was the director of intelligence...put out some speaking points on the initial intelligence assessment. I think that was possibly a mistake.'"
[Egypt Independent] The Salafi Jihad Movement announced that it's political arm, the Islamic Party, would run in the upcoming House of Representatives elections in alliance with Jama'a al-Islamiya, the Nation Party, Hazemon and the Salafi Front.
The alliance plans to meet on Tuesday to determine which candidates each movement would field for the joint electoral list.
Mohamed Abou Samra, the Islamic Party's secretary general, said the party would field 2 percent of the candidates on the alliance's list, or 29 candidates total. They would run for election in 10 governorates: Cairo, Alexandria, Sharqiya, Minya, Giza, Fayoum, Beni Suef, North Sinai and South Sinai.
The percentage is so low because most members of the movement are ineligible to run for election due to court rulings issued against them, Abou Samra told Al-Masry Al-Youm.
He stressed that the party is running on a platform of a strict enforcement of Sharia and the establishment of the "Islamic Caliphate."
Abou Samra rejected the opposition's call to boycott the elections, claiming that those who refuse to participate are writing their political death certificates.
[VOA News] A video that appears to show seven Frenchies kidnapped in Cameroon last week has appeared online.
The video, posted to YouTube on Monday, shows two men, a woman and four children sitting in a small tent. They are surrounded by three masked men, two of whom are holding rifles.
One of the French men says the group was kidnapped by Jama'atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda'awati wal-Jihad -- the Arabic name for the Nigerian Islamist sect Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... A gunman, speaking in Arabic, warns the hostages will be killed unless Islamist faceless myrmidons are released in Cameroon and Nigeria.
[Osun Defender] THE Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... terrorism in northern Nigeria is casting a pessimistic outlook on the future and fate of the country, but the terror group's activities should not be perceived as a reflection of the Islamic faith, according to Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun State.
In fact, the governor warned that other parts of the country might soon be engulfed in similar crisis as now happening in the North because of what he described as Nigeria's "indolent elite."
Speaking on Wednesday evening at the Harvard University ...home of the Best and the Brightest, contributed $878,164 to the 2008 Obama campaign. Is there a reason universities are among the top financiers of political campaigns? , Aregbesola noted that while the "murderous activities" of Boko Haram continues to disturb the nation and fuelling pessimism, any interpretation of the terror group as a religious expression is a mis-reading of the crisis.
According to him, "other parts of the country are embroiled in varying degrees of violence and will soon catch up with the North, except effective leadership emerges at the national and local levels. The report of the murderous activities of a religious group in the North, Boko Haram, has been disturbing, fuelling pessimism on the fate of the country."
Aregbesola addressed scholars, students, diplomats, policy- makers and Nigerians in the Diaspora while presenting a paper at the university during the Nigeria in the World Seminar Series hosted by Nigeria-born Harvard professor of Religion, Jacob Olupona.
In a paper titled, Nigeria: The Challenge of Development, Aregbesola observed that projecting religious face of Boko Haram ignores a political manipulation by a political elite. To him, the sect "is essentially the manipulation of religion to achieve certain political ends. Unfortunately, the politicisation of religion has been a persistent characteristic of our national existence, with its attendant challenge to our development effort."
He lambasted the politicianship, hanging the major blame for Nigeria's lack of development on its set of leaders, stating: "Years of misrule have made religion a handy tool for the manipulation of the people by the ruling elite."
[Yemen Post] A UN team started on Sunday an investigation into the Iranian arms cargo which was seized by the Yemeni authorities last month.
The team arrived in Aden early today and has so far inspected the Iranian weapons that included anti-aircraft missiles, very dangerous explosives and other equipment, which the authorities have recently said had been sent to the Shiite Houthi Group, the state Saba agency reported.
"We came here to help the Yemeni authorities to investigate the weapons sent by Iran in an effort to collect information about the cargo and report that to the Security Council which should decide on measures then," the agency quoted chief of the team as saying. "We will also investigate the crew of the ship onboard which the weapons were seized," the chief expert added according to the agency.
The cargo was seized on the ship Jihan 1 on January 23rd as part of several arms seizures in Yemen in recent months including thousands of Turkish-made pistols and equipment.
The visit of the team came after the Yemeni government officially asked the Security Council's Iran Sanctions Committee to help investigate the arms cargo at a time when Yemeni is accusing Iran of meddling in its own affairs through providing weapons and financial support to the Shiite Houthi Groups and some secessionist factions in the south.
Iran has denied the accusations and lately senior Yemeni officials said their country has rejected an Iranian request to help on the investigation.
Observers said Yemen has been a transit hub for smuggling weapons into many conflict areas in the world and that such arms cargoes are threatening the West-backed power-transfer deal and the country's stability.
[Yemen Post] For the fifth consecutive days, Yemen southern provinces are gripped by an escalation in violence, with reports of armed festivities in Aden - southern seaport city - Seyoun and Mukallah - eastern province of Hadhramawt - between separatists and the Central Security Forces.
On Monday afternoon in Crater, residents reported seeing from the Security Forces chasing down unarmed Haraki forces of Evil - Southern Secessionist Movement - down alleyways and streets, weapons at the ready.
Just after Asr, a Doctor in al-Haddadin Street - Crater - witnessed an armored vehicle pursuing two civilians on foot, while two snipers were shooting live ammunitions. "I heard shooting and screaming .. .a few seconds later I saw two young men running while being chased by an armored vehicle. A sniper started immediately shooting at them. I could see the bullet hitting the balconies right above them. Those two men were unarmed and could not have been much over twenty years old."
Lina a housewife in Sheikh Othman also said violent shoot outs took place in her neighborhood, forcing her and her family to stay indoors. I didn't dare go out but I could hear the shooting ... We spent the night listening to the sounds of bullets...sometimes near, sometimes far away.
Relatives in Crater told me the fighting had spread throughout Aden with separatists barricading entire neighborhoods to prevent the Security Forces from raiding beturbanned goons' houses.
Hassan, an Egyptian seaport worker said he was assaulted on Monday as forces of Evil confused him for northerner. "A group of men cornered me asking to see my papers, calling me a filthy northerner ... If it wasn't for my Egyptian accent and the intervention of one of my neighbor who vouched for me I'm not sure what would have happened ... I heard news of people getting attacked and their properties torched."
A man from Taiz - Ahmed Mahmoud - and his family were attacked on Monday by a southern radical. His wife immediately perished under the assault - the attacker came armed with an axe - Both father and sons - 2 - are now at death's doors at the hospital. Having committed no crime Ahmed was attacked because he was a northerner.
Hatred against North Yemen is running at an all time high in the southern provinces as separatists and civilians are understanding Thursday's targeting of their demonstration as a declaration of war.
In Seyoun and Mukallah, forces of Evil are calling for an armed struggle, vowing to Dire Revenge™ their fallen brothers and South Yemen's honor.
Residents in both cities told the Yemen Post armored vehicles and soldiers were already heavily patrolling their streets, all in combat gear, fingers on the trigger.
While the Harak officially declared their struggle for secession open, they refrained so far from calling their supporters to take up arms.
A local Haraki officials noted that while there was still a chance things could get back to normal, he feared North and South Yemen had reached a point of no return.
"The Southern Movement does not want to draw first blood at this point. That being said, many feel Thursday attack was the last straw. I don't see how we can walk from this. As many people pointed out last Thursday, South Yemen revolution already started."
South Yemen Movement, also referred to as the Peaceful Southern Movement (Arabic:الحراك السلمي الجنوبي ), Southern Separatist Movement or Hirak, is a term given to a popular movement active in the former South Yemen since 2007, which demands secession from the Republic of Yemen through peaceful means. As of 2010, it was shown to have the support of 85% of the southern population.
[Yemen Post] In a statement published in Aden Post - local news outlets - the Harak - Southern Secessionist Movement - officially announced its armed struggle against Sana'a central government had begun, calling on its supporters to stand united in their efforts to liberate their lands.
Only hours after President Abdo Rabbo Mansour Hadi landed in Aden - southern seaport and former capital of South Yemen - to address mounting tensions and violence in the city and across the southern provinces, the Harak decided to cut all bridges and declare open its secession movement.
Southern leaders, such as former President Ali Salem al-Baidh called from Beirut - Leb - for the armed struggle to begin stressing Sana'a was never serious in its efforts to address southerners' grievances -- stolen lands, discrimination, stolen benefits and unfair repartition of resources --
While southerners stood united with revolutionaries in 2011 in a popular struggle to depose then-President President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... , old recriminations and unresolved issues soon resurfaced as Yemen state officials and the international community scrambled to save Yemen republican institutions through a power transfer agreement.
Strong of millions of bully boyz the Southern Movement, except for a few radical in-groups, so far advocated for a peaceful resolution, having agreed to participate to Yemen National Dialogue Conference on March 18th.
Thursday events and the killing of four bully boyz seem to have been a game changer of all Harak leaders, with both moderate and beturbanned goons bent on riding themselves from Sana'a overbearing shadow.
The Harak said it will now set up a revolutionary committee which will be charged with overseeing the popular liberation movement.
Residents in Aden told the Yemen Post on Sunday that festivities in between bully boyz and the authorities were still on-going with sporadic gunshots heard in Crater and Mansoura all through the day.
Eye witnesses commented northerners were being assaulting in the streets and their properties vandalizing.
Ali a Haraki thug warned things will get worse in the next coming days as the movement will organize a systematic targeting of northerners' interests in the South.
"If people feel they can target us [southerners] in Taiz by attacking our shops and businesses then we can do the same right here at home."
While no Haraki leaders confirmed the veracity of Ali' statement, several residents concurred they had heard similar rumors.
[Bangla Daily Star] War crimes accused Ghulam Azam had called upon the Pak authorities to provide arms to "peace-loving" auxiliary forces to restore order by "uprooting" the freedom fighters during the Liberation War.
Prosecutor Sultan Mahmud Simon while placing closing arguments in the case against Azam before the International Crimes Tribunal-1 said the accused used to dub members of the auxiliary forces -- Peace Committee, Razakar, Al-Badr and Al-shams -- as "peace-loving" citizens.
The prosecutor said Azam was the chief of the then East Pakistain Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... . His appreciation and urge to provide arms prove his complicity in the war crimes committed during the war in 1971, Simon argued.
Azam at a meeting of Jamaat-e-Islami in Lahore on June 21, 1971 hailed the role of the Pakistain army for "destroying the separatist movement" in East Pakistain.
"There is no alternative to freeing the country from the separatists without the army," the prosecutor said quoting Azam, adding that the accused also made eulogy of intervention by Pakistain army.
The daily Sangram, mouthpiece of Jamaat, published a report on June 22, 1971. Simon presented Azam's quote from that report.
He explained that Azam had termed the freedom fighters "separatists" and used Islam as their weapon to substantiate the attack on them.
The prosecutor further said Azam was aware of the atrocities committed by the Mighty Pak Army and their auxiliary forces. "Even after that he supported them which proves his complicity with the war crimes committed by the Mighty Pak Army and auxiliary forces," Simon added.
[Bangla Daily Star] Eight Islamist parties now blame it on "intruders".
They claim those who tore and burned the national flag and vandalised Shaheed Minars during the protest against the "atheist" Shahbagh bloggers on Friday do not belong to their organizations.
Shah Ahmadullah Ashraf, ameer of Khelafat Andolon, yesterday told The Daily Star that Jamaat activists or personnel from government agencies might have intruded into the protest and unleashed a wave of terror across the country to "blame each other".
He, however, declined to elaborate.
Khelafat Majlish, another major component of the eight-party combine, at a press briefing yesterday claimed conspirators in disguise attacked journalists and desecrated the national flag on Friday and put the blame on Ulema (Islamic scholars).
Leaders of both Khelafat Andolon and Khelafat Majlish claimed the eight Islamist parties have no links with Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... in their movement against "anti-Islamic bloggers ".
Earlier, leaders of an Islami Oikya Jote ... a political party in Bangladesh. In the 2001 elections the party won 2 out of 300 elected members in an alliance with the Bangladesh Nationalist Party. It has a focus on building an islamic state, and has used the madrassas to gain support... faction, Nejami Islam Bangladesh and Khelafat-e-Islami -- components of the eight-party -- told The Daily Star that their activists were not involved in violence during Friday's protest against the Shahbagh movement.
The mass demonstration at Shahbagh has been calling for capital punishment to 1971 war criminals and a ban on Jamaat and its student front Islami Chhatra Shibir ... the student wing of the Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh... Jamaat and like-minded parties dismiss the demand by labelling the movement as one "run by atheists".
However, by candlelight every wench is handsome... the Shahbagh protesters have all along maintained respect for all religions and made no comments that might hurt people's religious sentiment.
Russia's top domestic security official said on Tuesday more than 50 militants, including 14 group leaders, had been killed in Russia's North Caucasus since the start of the year.
"So far, more than 50 militants have been killed, including 14 militant group leaders," FSB chief Alexander Bortnikov said at a meeting of the National Anti-Terrorism Committee in the southern Russian resort city of Pyatigorsk.
"More than 60 [armed] group members and their associates who committed no grave crimes, turned themselves in to the authorities," he added.
A total of 66 suspected militants were also detained in that period.
Radical Islamist ideology is becoming increasingly popular in the North Caucasus against the background of the region's social and economic problems, Bortnikov said.
"Such a trend persists not only in the North Caucasus, but also in a number of regions in the Volga, Urals and Siberian federal districts," he said, without naming the regions.
"Based on a thorough study of the situation in Russian regions, we need to update regional anti-terrorism programs, anti-extremism measures and crime prevention," Bortnikov said.
He also called on regional anti-terrorism commissions, law-enforcers and the local authorities to improve their propaganda and information work, especially in regions where extremist ideas enjoy widespread support.
The North Caucasus region is home to a predominantly Islamic population. It has been the scene of over two decades of separatist insurgency, with Islamist fighters involved in frequent attacks on the federal authorities.
A trial in the United Kingdom last week exposed al-Qaida's new strategy for attacking the U.S.
Three men convicted of terrorism charges in Birmingham, England, had all received training in bomb-making and other terrorist acts in Pakistan, and had been instructed by their leaders to go west and lay low.
They were not instructed to launch attacks, but to teach others how to launch them. Essentially, they were told to fan out into various western countries including the U.S. and disappear into the fabric of their communities and look for apprentices and opportunities.
With the threat of sequestration only three days away, intelligence officials see a potential opportunity for the likes of al-Qaida and others.
"Allowing sequestration to be imposed at this late point in the fiscal year will dramatically reduce the funding available for the intelligence community to conduct its intelligence mission," says Director of National Intelligence James Clapper.
The mission of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence is to integrate intelligence analysis and collection to inform the decisions that are made from the White House to the foxholes. As al-Qaida operatives try to slip in and burrow deep in the U.S., the intelligence community may be without some of its key players at the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC).
"Allowing sequestration to be imposed at this late point in the fiscal year will dramatically reduce the funding available for the intelligence community to conduct its intelligence mission," says Director of National Intelligence James Clapper.
Or, we could just charge the ChiComs sales tax for the intellectual property we are allowing them to pilfer, cross charge it agains the debt held and call it a wah. Poof, a significant portion of the debt crisis goes away and we could then use the savings to support the intelligence of actually admitting that the "main enemy" is under cyber-attack by the Chinese, and we are getting out asses handed to us. The generational technology leaps their military has made using stolen military secrets and defense industry secrets has closed the parity gap to perilous levels.
First WTC attack to be remembered on 20th anniversary
Before it was destroyed with so much else on 9/11, a granite fountain honored the victims of the first World Trade Center attack when a truck bomb exploded in an underground garage in 1993, kiilling six people and injured more than 1,000 others.
On Tuesday, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey will mark the 20th anniversary of the first attack by presenting a plaque to family members of those killed. The plaque will eventually will be placed at the bi-state agency's new headquarters, to be located in Tower 4 of the rebuilt World Trade Center site.
The names of those killed in the Feb. 26, 1993, bombing are cut into the bronze parapets of the National Sept. 11 Memorial, along with nearly 3,000 victims of the 2001 attack that destroyed the Twin Towers.
The six people killed included four Port Authority employees: Robert Kirkpatrick, 61, Stephen Knapp, 48, Bill Macko, 57, and Monica Smith, 35, who was pregnant and scheduled to start maternity leave the next day. The two others were John DiGiovanni, 45, a dental products salesman; and Wilfredo Mercado, 37, who worked at Windows on the World.
"It is fitting that, as time goes on, we continue to stop and reflect on this terrible tragedy and the lives that were needlessly lost," Port Authority Chairman David Samson said in a statement.
Tuesday's ceremonies will include a 10:30 a.m. mass at St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church in Lower Manhattan, where the plaque will be presented, and a moment of silence at 12:18 p.m., near the North Pool on the 9/11 Memorial Plaza, followed by a reading of the victims' names.
Six Islamic fundamentalists were convicted in the attack in federal court, including mastermind Ramzi Yousef, who was sentenced to life in prison.
The truck explosion blew a hole in the garage several levels deep, sent thick smoke rising through the Twin Towers, and caused hundreds of millions of dollars in damage. The repaired and polished towers reopened after several weeks, and remained standing for another eight and a half years.
Sheik Shaker Elsayed, the imam of the Dar al-Hijrah Mosque in Falls Church, Va., advocated armed jihad before an Ethiopian Muslim group gathered at T.C. Williams High School in Alexandria, Va. last week.
"Muslim men when it is a price to pay, they are first in line," Elsayed said in comments seen on a YouTube video found by the Creeping Sharia blog. "They are the first in the prayer line. They are the first in the zakat (charity) line. They are the first in the hajj line. They are the first in the clean-up line. They are the first in the community-service line. They are the first in jihad line. They are the first in the da'wa line."
"But they are last if anything is being distributed, unless it is arms for jihad," Elsayed said. "We are the first to rush and run to defend our community and defend ourselves. The enemies of Allah are lining up; the question for us is, 'Are we lining, or are we afraid because, because they may call us terrorists.'"
Being called "terrorists" should not matter to Muslims because Muslims are being called terrorists anyway, Elsayed said.
"You are a terrorist because you are a Muslim," Elsayed said. "Well give them a run for their money. Make it worth it. Make this title worth it, and be good a Muslim."
Elsayed then told Muslims to accept peace when they receive peace, but to fight back when their families, communities, nations and dignity come under attack.
He has been Dar al-Hijrah's imam since 2005. Law enforcement officials have described the mosque as being "associated with Islamic extremists" and "operating as a front for Hamas operatives in U.S.
Elsayed's comments contradict statements he made in a 2005 interview on National Public Radio.
"I believe there is no apology for terrorism. We condemned it; we condemned it on 9/11, I personally signed a paper on behalf of the organization I worked for at that time and sent it everywhere to the press. I spoke with the press," Elsayed said.
This isn't the first time Elsayed has endorsed terrorism. He denounced calling terrorists "suicide bombers, homicide bombers, or murderers, or killers" in a December 2002 speech.
"To decide that this man is a martyr or not a martyr, it is a pure religious matter," Elsayed said. "Nobody who is not Muslim has any right to decide for us, we the Muslims, whose is a martyr or another. We as Muslims will decide that. It is in-house business."
His name also appears in a 1991 Muslim Brotherhood document detailing the group's plan to wage a non-violent civilization jihad to destroy "Western civilization from within."
I believe the threat of violence has to be imminent to be a crime. So his "be a terrorist" speech is legal, because jihadis take time to have their work accidents, but responding to him with "lynch the bastard" would be criminal if it were said in front of an angry crowd with him present.
Posted by: Rob Crawford ||
For information, and because I looked it up, the definition of Dar al Hijrah, as seen in a Wikipedia about something else:
dar al-hijra (Arabic: مركز دار الهجرة الاسلامي; land of migration, place of refuge).
Just to be clear - is El Sheikey calling for pan-Islamic "armed jihad" in Ethiopia = Africa, or for for international/global "armed jihad" including but not limited to CONUS-NORAM???
Just to be clear, JosephM, he's calling for jihad at home in the U.S. and abroad.
An FBI informant who has helped catch some of the world's most dangerous terrorists is coming out of witness protection to warn that a terrorist sheik in prison remains a significant threat to the U.S.
Emad Salem is urging the U.S. to keep the ailing 74-year-old sheik Omar Abdel Rahman behind bars and to not transfer him, even as governments overseas continue to press for his release.
"He will kill Americans," said Salem. "He will kill anyone who disputes what he says with a fatwa."
Salem, a one-time Egyptian military officer, had warned officials about the looming 1993 World Trade Center bombing but his warnings were ignored after a lie detector test was inconclusive and he said he would never testify at any trial.
After the bombing, Salem agreed to become an FBI informant and managed to become the sheik's personal assistant and bodyguard. Salem was able to record the sheik ordering the killing of Americans during his time in Jersey City and Brooklyn.
Salem was also able to link the sheik to the 1993 World Trade Center bombers. Six people were killed and more than 1,000 injured in that first attack.
Now Salem is concerned about the mounting pressure on the U.S. from Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi and other Mideastern government leaders to get Rahman out of American custody.
In one letter dated Feb. 26, 2008, the justice minister of Qatar relayed a request from Rahman's family asking U.S. officials to have him transferred back to the nation to serve the rest of his sentence. They said they wanted to be able to visit him more easily, according to the letter by Qatar Attorney General Dr. Ali Bin Fetais Al Marri.
More recently, on this 20th anniversary week of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, Rahman's sons wrote on their family website that "America will pay a terrible price" if he is not released soon.
"The rain begins with one drop. America should expect more violent reactions if it does not release the sheik," the sons wrote on the website.
The sons pointed to the killing of the U.S. Ambassador as an example of terrorists acting on behalf of the sheik. The terrorists in that attack are believed to have called themselves the "Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman Brigade" in honor of the blind sheik.
The family also pointed to the recent attack on a gas plant in Algeria where hostage takers demanded the sheik be set free or American hostages would be killed.
The sons said they are hopeful Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi will make progress in working to free the sheik next month or it will "review their options."
Experts said the sheik's family is intensifying an already active campaign to both seek the sheik's release and inflame passions among the sheik's extremist followers.
The sheik has also been able to call his relatives twice a month from his prison, NBC 4 New York has learned. Officials said the calls are monitored, and his relatives tell NBC News' Ayman Moyheldin that the calls are personal in nature and do not include calls for a violent jihad.
But in one posting on their website, Rahman's sons posted a political message they said was from the sheik. In that message, Rahman urged Egyptians to vote for Dr. Mohammed Morsi in the recent presidential election "because he is the candidate who represents Islam and represents the revolution."
[Dawn] Interior Minister Rehman Malik Pak politician, Interior Minister under the Gilani government. Malik is a former Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) intelligence officer who rose to head the FIA during Benazir Bhutto's second tenure. Malik was tossed from his FIA job in 1998 after documenting the breath-taking corruption of the Sharif family. By unhappy coincidence Nawaz Sharif became PM at just that moment and Malik moved to London one step ahead of the button men. He had to give up the interior ministry job because he held dual Brit citizenship. said on Sunday in Vehari that Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... , Quetta and Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. were being targeted by beturbanned goons to destabilise Pakistain consequently to hit the economy.
He said this at the opening ceremonies of passport offices in Jehanian and Vehari.
He said the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) would launch a crackdown on Lashkar-e-Janghvi (LeJ) and Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) if the Punjab government did not take action against them.
He said murders in Quetta and Karachi would not happen if the Punjab government had taken action against the proscribed outfits.
"The nation must know who withdrew cases against (LeJ leader) Malik Ishaq and provided him security," he said.
He said that maintaining of law and order situation was the responsibility of the provinces after the passing of the 18th Amendment and the federal government just shares information with provincial governments.
He said that the Punjab government should take action against 734 activists and leaders of the LeJ and Taliban as the FIA had provided information regarding them to the Punjab government.
"Punjab government should arrest all those people whose names on the list," he said.
In Vehari, he told news hounds that the spate of terrorism was linked with foreign hands because of Pakistain's strategic location and nuclear assets.Mr Malik told news hounds though the government was trying to eliminate terrorism, joint efforts were needed to address terrorism and extremism.
He said he hoped that the nation would overcome the terrorism with the help of law enforcing agencies. He praised the Punjab government for arresting bad turbanLashkar-e-Jhangvi ... a 'more violent' offshoot of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain. LeJ's purpose in life is to murder anyone who's not of utmost religious purity, starting with Shiites but including Brelvis, Ahmadis, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Rosicrucians, and just about anyone else you can think of. They are currently a wholly-owned subsidiary of al-Qaeda ... 's activists.
He cited government's Aghaz-e-Haqooq-e-Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... initiative by the government to address the Balochistan issue. He said the government had given representation to the Baloch people in departments, especially in Islamabad police. He urged the Baloch youth fighting law-enforcement agencies to become the part of mainstream Pakistain.
He said that government's priority was to hold impartial, fair and peaceful elections in the country.
He advised politicians, particularly to Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif, to be decent while talking of PPP Co-Chairman President Asif Ali Ten Percent Zardari ... husband of the late Benazir Bhutto, who has been singularly lacking in curiosity about who done her in ... . He said Mr Zardari had braved 11 years in jail for the cause of democracy.
He said the provision of basic facilities to the people of far-flung areas was the priority of the government.
He said the PPP believed in the politics of reconciliation and mutual co-existence and was ready to work with the PML-N government in Punjab. PPP MNA Natasha Daultana thanked the interior minister for establishing the passport office in Vehari.
Probably wishful thinking.
When he visits Israel next month, US President Barack Obama will tell Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that a "window of opportunity" for a military strike on Iran will open in June, according to an Israeli TV report Monday evening. That's when we'll finally have a carrier ready to send over there?
Obama will come bearing the message that if diplomatic efforts and sanctions don't bear fruit, Israel should "sit tight" and let Washington take the stage, even if that means remaining on the sidelines during a US military operation, Channel 10 reported. Netanyahu will be asked to refrain from any military action and keep a low profile, avoiding even the mention of a strike, the report said, citing unnamed officials. Champ didn't say June of what year, did he...
In London Monday, Secretary of State Jahwn John Kerry said an Iran with nuclear weapons was "simply unacceptable" and warned the time limit for a diplomatic solution was running out. For something that is unacceptable, we've been tolerating it remarkably well...
"As we have repeatedly made clear, the window for a diplomatic solution simply cannot remain open forever," said Kerry, on his first international tour as America's top diplomat. "But it is open today. It is open now and there is still time, but there is only time if Iran makes the decision to come to the table and to negotiate in good faith.
"We are prepared to negotiate in good faith, in mutual respect, in an effort to avoid whatever terrible consequences could follow failure, and so the choice really is in the hands of the Iranians. And we hope they will make the right choice," Kerry added.
A fresh round of high-level diplomatic talks were set to begin Tuesday in Kyrzakhstan Kazakhstan -- the first since last June's meeting in Moscow failed to convince Iran to stop enriching uranium to a level close to that used for nuclear warheads.
I believe Obama will say it. He'll say something like, "Hey, hold off. We're lining things up, and almost ready to go."
He'll say anything to keep his friends in Iran on-track for nuclear weapons.
Posted by: Rob Crawford ||
And what exactly is a raid supposed to accomplish? At most it will simply delay things but it might not even do that. Iran is a country about the size of Alaska and as rugged as Wyoming. The only strike that could be effective would be one aimed at regime change. This would mean not just taking out the current Supreme Leader but removing that entire "Islamic Republic" form of government from Iran. Tall order.
And what exactly is a raid supposed to accomplish? At most it will simply delay things
Delay works fine for Israel's purposes, Cholet Angereting3428. Things move fast in the Middle East, and attention perforce follows events. For some reason Saddam Hussein never did get Iraq's nuclear program back on track after Osirak was destroyed, nor did Bashar al Assad after after Syria's North Korea-built facility was destroyed in 2007. If Iran's facilities are damaged, and Syria falls, Iran is going to have serious concerns about dealing with Hizb'allah, and Gulf Arab money is going to flow toward Iran's unhappy Sunni subjects.
#7 is dead-on - any air strike agz Iran's NucProgs is moot unless backed up by ground campaign, i.e. de facto invasion + occupation, + in any case will result in Iran ordering retaliatory military andor terror strikes agz US-Allied international targets, potens even widin CONUS.
The only rationale the USA = POTUS Bammer has is fear of SHIA = Iran-led Nuctech proliferation into the hands of predomin SUNNI Radical Islamist MilTerr Groups + aligned. THE BAMMER HAS TO PROVE THAT SHIA IRAN IS ARMING SUNNI MILTERR GROUPS WID NUKE-WMD TECHS, DEVICES?DESPITE THEIR WELL-KNOWN, HISTORICAL + COMTEMPORARY INTER-MUSLIM RIVALRY.
Nuke-, Caliphate-wannabe Iran is making D **** SURE THE US HAS NOTHING SAVE HIGHLY SUBJECTIVE OR DUBIOUS = SUPERFICIAL REASONS TO MAKE WAR AGZ IT. In a worst-case scenario invol the US, Shia Iran wants make sure its Sunni rivals are on its side ASAP AMAP ALAP, not on the side of the US-Allied.
The Chinese are back at Gwadar - all Iran needs is a potent Russian naval squadron or task force
on one or more of its Gulf seaports, e.g. Chandahar.
LASTLY, IFF THE US IS ATTACKING IRAN, IT S NOT GOING TO BE FIGHTING CHINA OVER IN NE ASIA + SCS DUE TO "SEQUESTRATION"-LED US-SPECIFIC CUTBACKS + OTHER.
[An Nahar] Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Light of the Alawites... must fall, "all the killing" must end and the Syrian army must withdraw from all cities before any dialogue can begin with the regime, rebel chief Selim Idriss said on Monday.
The Free Syrian Army's chief of staff Idriss spoke to pan-Arab broadcaster Al-Arabiya after a groundbreaking statement in Moscow by Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem that Assad's regime is "ready for dialogue with all who want dialogue, including those who are carrying arms".
"Muallem wants us to sit with him at the negotiating table... I am not going to sit with him or with any other member of his clique before all the killing stops, or before the army withdraws from the cities," said Idriss.
The rebel chief also called for "the departure from power of the head of this criminal gang (Assad)".
"Security and army heads who gave orders to kill must be tried," he added.
"We, the rebel fighters, will not go (to the negotiating table) until these demands are respected... We insist on these conditions," said the general.
"We have not received an official proposal for talks with guarantees. We do not trust the regime.
"But we are willing to meet and discuss if there are clear foundations" for such talks, Idriss told the Saudi-owned channel.
[An Nahar] In rebel-held Deir Ezzor in eastern Syria, opponents of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Lord of the Baath... 's regime hold local elections despite daily bombardment, putting into practice the democracy they have been deprived of for decades.
"For the first time in 40 years, we are voting freely," said Khodr Orfali, a former lawyer who became politically active during Syria's 23-month revolt against President Bashir al-Assad.
On Sunday, Orfali became one of five local council chiefs elected in Deir Ezzor by residents of rebel-held areas, following a model of local leadership set up in several towns and city districts across the country in past months.
"It's a historic day for all residents of Deir Ezzor. People feel free to choose the person they see most fit to help them," the council member-elect told Agence La Belle France Presse.
The councils' role is to help run the daily life of residents in areas where the regime's authority has collapsed, freedom fighters say.
Pasted on the walls of a handful of Death Eater-controlled areas of the city of Deir Ezzor are posters and pamphlets calling on residents to vote.
But the festive atmosphere among voters is marred by heavy rain and incessant bombardment by regime forces, leading election organizers in the Death Eater-held district of Sheikh Yassin to set up a polling station in the basement of a souk.
Dozens of voters gathered, leafing through lists of candidates' names.
"I want to take part in this election to tell Bashar (Assad) that all we wanted was the freedom to vote, and participate in decisions about our country," said Umm Shadi, 56, voting for the first time in her life.
[VOA News] Syrian opposition leaders say they will now attend an international conference in Rome this week, after they had considered a boycott over what they deemed inaction by other nations to end the violence in their country.
In a statement on his Facebook page late Monday, Syrian National Coalition head Ahmed al-Khatib said his fellow opposition leaders had decided after consultations together to stop their suspension of any visit to the Friends of Syria conference set for Thursday.
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THE HALL OF FAMOUS JOKES
(this joke is especially for Mark Brutus, who laughed till I thought
he would die)
Famy was the greatest pitcher and some believed the greatest baseball
player, period, who ever lived. He single-handedly pitched his team
to the World Series, and they easily won the three games he was able
to pitch in the Series. However, the other team won three games while
Milt was resting. Now, in the 7th game of the World Series, Milt was
The game was a 0-0 pitcher's battle
as Milt Famy walked out to the mound for the bottom of the 9th inning.
Milt took the sign from the catcher, wound up and pitched. A ball.
He quickly pitched three more balls and walked the first batter.
A stir went through the crowd. Milt Famy rarely walked anyone,
let alone on four pitches.
The next batter came up, and Milt walked
him on four pitches, too. Then two more batters. The game and
the Series were lost!
As the runner on third base crossed
home plate with the winning run, he glanced out at the pitcher's mound
and saw a can of beer fall out the back pocket of Milt Famy's
It was all too obvious what had happened.
Milt Famy had been drinking between innings! The runner pointed
to the beer and shouted out, "That's the beer that made Milt
Famy walk us!"
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LONDON (AP) -- Arsenal midfielder Jack Wilshere has had a fresh injury setback, sustaining another stress fracture in his right ankle.
The England midfielder has not played for his Premier League club this season after injuring the same ankle on international duty in June.
Wilshere, who needed surgery after initially wearing a protective boot, was set to return in early February, but felt pain when running in training last week.
While healing well from the original injury, the latest stress fracture will not be reviewed by a specialist for two weeks.
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A close race between the leading trio
The four bidders seeking the right to stage the 2018 World Cup finals -- England, Netherlands/Belgium (joint bid), Russia and Spain/Portugal (joint bid) -- are in a close race with little to choose between the leading trio.
Click Next to see the latest pros and cons ahead of Thursday's vote by FIFA's executive committee.
Image: The football World Cup trophy
England has slipped down the order
Once seen as favourite but slipped down the order after recent British media allegations of corruption levelled against six voting FIFA executive committee members, two of whom have been suspended.
England has presented itself as the home of soccer with great stadiums and a thriving and hugely popular football culture. Wheeled out British Prime Minister David Cameron, leading royal Prince William and glamour player David Beckham to woo voting members in Zurich. But is that enough as FIFA smarts from the accusations flying its way? Hosted the tournament in 1966 and won it, the only time England ever reached a final.
Latest odds: 13-8
Image: The Wembley stadium in London
Netherlands/Belgium seen as the rank outsider
Mainly seen as the rank outsider and could hope to win only as a compromise candidate if FIFA sees compelling reasons to reject all the other three.
FIFA has never been keen on co-hosting -- the only such tournament in 2002 in Japan-South Korea was a late compromise -- and the two together still lack enough major stadiums.
But they did work together on a successful co-hosted European Championship in 2000 and they would provide the most compact tournament with relatively short distances between all venue cities.
Netherlands have played in three World Cup finals and lost them all, Belgium has never passed the semi-finals.
Latest odds: 40-1
Image: The Amsterdam Arena stadium
Russia would have to build new stadiums
Favourite in the most recent betting odds but suffered a late blow when Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin decided not to attend the Zurich presentations because of what he called "unscrupulous competition" from the British media.
His personal support had been widely seen as helping Sochi win the Winter Olympics bid for 2014.
Russia's appeal is that it has never staged the World Cup and that it would open up a vast and largely isolated territory to hundreds of thousands of visitors with no visa restrictions. But Russia would have to build new stadiums and ensure its transport infrastructure would meet an unprecedented demand.
Russia were the first European champions but have never reached a World Cup final.
Latest odds: 8-11 (favourite)
Image: The Luzhniki football stadium in Moscow
Spain/Portugal bid could find approval
Despite FIFA's natural aversion to co-hosting this is a bid which could find approval because Spain traditionally wields power within FIFA and the Iberian Peninsula is a neat geographical entity.
Spain are current world and European champions and hosted the World Cup back in 1982 while Portugal successfully staged the 2004 European Championship.
Spain has great stadiums and an infrastructure well adapted to receiving large numbers of tourists but the growing financial pressure on both nations' economies is bound to give rise to doubts about their ability to fund the necessary improvements in infrastructure.
Latest odds: 9-2
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History of the Indians of the United States
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The impact of World War II on Indian affairs was more provound and lasting than that of any other event or policy, including FDR's Indian New Deal and eforts to terminate federal responsibility for tribes under Eisenhower. Focusing on the period from 1941 to 1947, Bernstein explains why termination and tribal self-determination wer logical results of the Indians' World War II experiences in battle and on the home front. Includes a brief story of the Navajo Marine Codetalkers and Ira Hayes, a Pima Indian who helped raise the flag at Iwo Jima.
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North Korea has threatened a pre-emptive nuclear attack against the U.S., according to CNN. The threat came after the U.N. Security Council voted unanimously to pass harsher sanctions against North Korea. China, North Korea's strongest ally, also voted for the sanctions. Analysts say North Korea is years away from having the technology to mount a nuclear warhead on a missile and aim it with any accuracy.
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A Breckenridge man was indicted Dec. 20 by a Stephens County grand jury on one count of murder after allegedly killing a man by running him over with a car, according to Breckenridge Chief of Police Larry Mahan.
Brandon Wayne Hayes, 36, allegedly ran over Otho Dale Noggle Sr. on Oct. 20 in the 100 block of South Miller Street in Breckenridge, Mahan said. He said Hayes did not stop to render assistance.
"Through investigation, it was learned that Hays and Noggle had some problems and with witness statements, it was determined that Hays had hit Noggle with full intent to cause his death," Mahan said. "This information was gathered and presented to the district attorney, Dee Peavy."
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After a brief but promising career as a fashion illustrator, Raymond Loewy dedicated his talent to the field of industrial design. Loewy's creative genius was innate, and his effect on the industry was immediate. He literally revolutionized the industry, working as a consultant for more than 200 companies and creating product designs for everything from cigarette packs and refrigerators, to cars and spacecrafts. Loewy lived by his own famous MAYA principle - Most Advanced Yet Acceptable. He believed that, "The adult public's taste is not necessarily ready to accept the logical solutions to their requirements if the solution implies too vast a departure from what they have been conditioned into accepting as the norm."
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With Masa having joined the crew, the fragile bonds between the members of the Five Leaves begin to change. Further changes are promised by the arrival of Ginta, a self-styled "negotiator" who learns of the existence of the Five Leaves and offers them his services. Meanwhile, the pressure on Yaichi increases as the members of his old gang continue to track him down. Burdened by the weight of his hidden past, his impervious facade begins to crack.
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Neville Brothers: Brother's Keeper
John Mendelsohn, Rolling Stone, 6 September 1990
SHOUDNT IT BE A CLINCH TO PRODUCE a consistently breathtaking Neville Brothers album? Wouldnt one have only to hand Aaron Neville a collection of worthy material, instruct the bands instrumentalists to keep a low profile, and roll the tape?
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The Rebel Programmers Society was created several years ago by individualistic coders who refused to comply to the fascist “guidelines” of computer programming. This small band of strong-willed fugitives created an underground society, where programs could go undocumented without fear of reprisal, where variable names such as “slopmomma” and “yellowhat” were commonplace.
Has the membership of this cult swelled to thousands of members? Er, of course. Are there RPS personnel in key political positions all over the Earth? Uh, Sure. Has the RPS toppled governments and thrown entire nations into economic collapse? Whatever you say. Does the Rebel Programmer Society have nuclear capabilities? Hey, quit asking me all these stupid questions! What do I look like, an encyclopedia?? I have a life too, ya know! I got better things to do than sit here and go on and on about how bloody powerful the RPS has become. For crying out loud, just leave me alone. | <urn:uuid:cf159a27-349d-4018-bac0-ab8c116c3b21> | 2013-05-18T08:09:18Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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The Rising Stars: Mo Farah and Galen Rupp
These elite runners and friends had several record-breaking performances this year.
Since becoming training partners in February 2011 under coach Alberto Salazar, Mo Farah and Galen Rupp have unleashed record-breaking performances. Farah, a Somali-born Brit, won 13 of 16 races, and captured silver in the 10,000 meters and gold in the 5000 at the World Outdoor Track and Field Championships in South Korea. Rupp, an American running sensation since high school, won the 10,000 at the USA Outdoor Championships, set a U.S. indoor record for the 5000 (13:11.44), and then destroyed the American record for the 10,000 meters when he ran 26:48 in Brussels.
As competitors vying for the same podium, it's hard to believe Farah, 28, and Rupp, 25, can maintain more than a working relationship. But they have become inseparable. "Many people think, 'Oh yeah, Galen's just a rival,'" says Farah. "But I don't see him as anything other than a friend." Indeed, they share more than a love of running. Both married their longtime sweethearts in 2010, and chose the same song for their first dance—"Differences" by Ginuwine. They spend hours playing online soccer—Farah's Arsenal versus Rupp's Manchester United. And they both like to lie down and chill on the grass before a major race (as they did at Worlds). "I think of myself as a pretty laid-back person," says Rupp. "But he is by far the most relaxed and easygoing guy I've ever met."
Their buddy system may help them navigate the coming Olympic year. Farah is hounded by the British media and favored to medal in both the 5000 and the 10,000 meters. Rupp has a solid chance of making the American team in both events. In dealing with that kind of pressure, they have a rare edge: the camaraderie and support of a friendship forged over thousands of miles. | <urn:uuid:95c02d1c-6a6f-42fc-a1b7-2ec6f0ef3cda> | 2013-05-18T05:33:51Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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The Geneva Bible Translation Notes, , at sacred-texts.com
jer 41:1Now it came to pass in the (a) seventh month, [that] Ishmael the son of Nethaniah the son of Elishama, of the seed royal, and the princes of the (b) king, even ten men with him, came to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah; and there they (c) ate bread together in Mizpah.
(a) The city was destroyed in the fourth month and in the seventh month, which contained part of September and part of October, the governor Gedaliah was slain.
(b) Meaning, Zedekiah.
(c) They ate together as familiar friends.
jer 41:5That there came men from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, [even] eighty men, having their beards shaven, and their clothes torn, and having cut themselves, with (d) offerings and incense in their hand, to bring [them] to the house of the LORD.
(d) For they thought that the temple had not been destroyed and therefore came up to the feast of tabernacles but hearing of the burning of it in the way, they showed these signs of sorrow.
jer 41:6And Ishmael the son of Nethaniah went forth from Mizpah to meet them, weeping all along as he went: and it came to pass, as he met them, he said to them, Come (e) to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam.
(e) For his death was kept secret, and he pretended that he lamented for the destruction of Jerusalem and the temple but later slew them when they seemed to favour Gedaliah.
jer 41:9Now the pit into which Ishmael had cast all the dead bodies of the men, whom he had slain because of Gedaliah, [was] that which Asa the king had (f) made for fear of Baasha king of Israel: [and] Ishmael the son of Nethaniah filled it with [them that were] slain.
(f) Asa fortified Mizpah for fear of the enemy, and dug ditches and trenches, (Kg1 15:22).
jer 41:11But when Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the (g) captains of the forces that [were] with him, heard of all the evil that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had done,
(g) Who had been captains under Zedekiah.
jer 41:15But Ishmael the son of Nethaniah escaped from Johanan with eight men, and went to the (h) Ammonites.
(h) For Baalis the king of the Ammonites was the cause of this murder.
jer 41:17And they departed, and dwelt in the habitation of (i) Chimham, which is by Bethlehem, to go to enter into Egypt,
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Long ago Fisher-Man lived with his elder brothers in a sweat-house, they say. Now he said to the Cottontail people, "Ye must remain at home, ye must stay here! I shall go away. Ye must stay close, must not go about. Thither, in that direction, I shall go in the morning." Then he went.
Now, all those people, those boys, staid there. He had explained to them when he would return. "So many times dawning, at the sixth dawning I (shall) have returned," said he, "if other people do not choke me on the road. Do ye stay there close (at home)." So they staid.
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house stinks," he said. Then Wood-Rat-Man said, "Ham, ham! My grandmother, bring out my net! He calls me very bad names." Then she brought it out.
Then, having walked over, he stretched it across the door of the house. Then he stamped on the house (Cottontail's). He kept stamping, and then one (of the Cottontails) jumped out; and just as he did so, he was caught in the net. After a while, after he had gotten into (the net), Wood-Rat carried him across. And carrying him home, when he had carried him in, his grandmother skinned (the Cottontail) and cooked him; and, roasting him, they both had breakfast.
Next morning, crawling out, Wood-Rat said, "Halloo!" Then one (of the Cottontails) stuck his head out. "Dirty, ugly Wood-Rat, defecating on his grandmother, urinating about, making things dirty, Wood-Rat, who stays where he has made it stink!" said he. Then he jumped in again.
Then, "Ham, ham!" said (Wood-Rat). "He speaks evilly of me! My grandmother, hand out my net!" Thereupon he went over, and having gone over, and stretched the net in the doorway, he stamped, kept stamping, (on the roof). Then one (of the Cottontails) rushed out, and so was caught in the net. Meanwhile, having got him into the net, Wood-Rat carried him off. He carried him over to his grandmother; and, having given him to her, she skinned him, and they both had breakfast.
Next morning, again, Wood-Rat crawled out. Then. he said, "Siī!" Then one (of the Cottontails) stuck his head out repeatedly. "Bad Wood-Rat, defecating on his grandmother's blanket, one who does dirty things, urinating all about the house, Wood-Rat, who does dirty things that make things stink!" he said. Then Wood-Rat said, "Ham, ham, ham! He calls me very bad names. Hurry and give me my net, my grandmother!" Then she gave it to him.
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Having gone over, he stretched it in the doorway, and then stamped on the house, kept stamping. By and by one rushed out, and was caught in the net. Then, having got him into the net, he carried him over. Meanwhile only one (Cottontail) was left, (who) had crawled over behind the fireplace. Now, Wood-Rat, having carried (the one he had caught) over, they skinned him, roasted him, and had their breakfast.
Next morning, again, (Wood-Rat) crawled out. "Sh!" he said. But no one stuck out his head. Then said he, "There are none left. I have killed them all." Next morning, again, (Wood-Rat) stuck his head out. "Hiī," he said. Again no one looked out. "Well, my grandmother, I think I have killed them all," he said. "I did not see any, none crawled out." Then he remained there. Next day again he looked out. "Sī!" he said, but nobody looked out. "I guess I have killed them all," he said.
That night, as it grew dark, Fisher-Man returned. He crawled in, and then (found) all had gone. Then one crawled out toward him from behind the fire, and said, "Wood-Rat chased us; and when he stamped on the house, (the others) ran out, and then he killed them," he said. "He continued doing this until he killed them all. I alone, not jumping out, (but) hiding and not moving, have kept alive." Then Fisher-Man said, "Hō!"
In the morning Fisher went after him (Wood-Rat). Crossing over, he reached (the house), and, having crawled in, he killed both, grandmother and grandson. Then he spoke. "Now you are Wood-Rat-Man! Not bothering people, you shall live and run about where rocks lie all around, doing no harm to people," said he. "And mortal men shall say of you, 'Long ago Wood-Rat was a bad man.' So mortal men (will) tell of you." Then he went over, and, having returned to his house, remained there.
p. 224 p. 225
In the morning, having fixed his bow, and having taken three quivers full of arrows, he went off. He went towards the east, and kept going, kept going. His brothers staid under a bush. Then, after he had gone some ways, he hung up one quiver of arrows, and went on. He kept going, kept going, and then a little ways off he hung up another quiver of arrows. He went on, kept going, and again a short ways off he came to a valley, a large valley.
When he had looked down into it here and there, (he saw) there were brown bears feeding, and grizzly bears also feeding, it is said. One was feeding there in the very middle (of the valley). And it was a white bear, it is said, a silver-tip. So he (Fisher), having crept down into (the valley), ready to shoot, shot him.
Then from there (the bear) ran after him, jumped at him, trying to catch him. And he (Fisher) ran up out of the valley. Meanwhile he kept shooting, and still continued to run up out of the valley, the bear jumping at him to seize him. He kept shooting; he shot dodging from side to side, he shot whatever he had (?).
Meanwhile (the bear) jumped at him to seize him in his mouth. He (Fisher) kept running away and when all his arrows were shot, he reached the place where he had left the arrows, and, taking them down, he ran on up. He kept on shooting, and still (the bear) jumped at him to seize him in his mouth. Again it seems as if he came a little closer. He (Fisher) ran, dodging all the time, dodged as he ran. And meanwhile he shot. Only half his arrows were left, he had almost shot them all away.
Meanwhile he ran on, he dodged, he shot. And, so doing, he shot all his arrows. And all being gone, he ran to the place where he had hung tip his arrows, and, having taken them down, he shot. The bear jumped to seize him in his arms, (but,) dodging as he ran, (Fisher) kept
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shooting. So continually shooting, (the bear) coming running up pretty close, he shot, dodging as he ran. And, so doing, he ran round and about the place where he had made his brothers stay. Meanwhile (the bear) still ran after him. And while he was doing thus, he (Fisher) killed him.
Then he spoke. "You shall be bad. You shall not trouble mortal men when they see you," he said, speaking after he had killed him. "You shall not hunt to seize mortal men coming into the middle of this world. That, mortal men in story-telling, (shall say) of you. Then, 'Silver-Tip in the olden time killed people, (was) a killer, they say. Killing them, he was sent away from this world, they say. And then, they say, there were no Silver-Tips.' That (is what) mortal men (will) be saying of you," he said.
Then he said, "Well, my brother! You must live on, staying in this sort of a place, staying squatting down under bushes. I shall be a traveller in this world in all countries; but you will be one who shall stay travelling about in this country only, going about only in this country," said he, speaking. Then he went on. "Well," said he, "I am going," said he. "Stay there!" said he, and he went off. And when he looked back, the ears (of the Cottontail) were shimmering (quivering?). So he went off, after looking back. That is all, it is said. | <urn:uuid:f9fa968d-5214-44df-9dc6-4f69c5398e40> | 2013-05-18T06:51:59Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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I know this is a case of pure speculation but I do wonder how middleweights of today, yesteryear, or yester yester...yesteryear would fare against him.
He was a road warrior, a technical purist, a minimalist and, heck he could bang too if he wanted to. I'd be giddy as a school girl if I could see him against Gene Fullmer or Henry Armstrong, or against Robinson as he was suppose to fight on more than one occasion. I really can't pick out a winner though I think he’d have a far easier time against fighters who tend to lead on the front end.
I'd like your thoughts about this hypothetical bout. | <urn:uuid:6f55d408-f1a8-49be-809c-4b2c4c529e09> | 2013-05-18T06:44:10Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Benchmark MBS and the SEC
July 18, 2008
For the week, the Dow surged 3.6% (down 13.3% y-t-d) and the S&P500 gained 1.7% (down 14.1%). The Transports rallied 4.8% (up 9.5%), while the Utilities sank 4.3% (down 9.2%). The Morgan Stanley Cyclicals jumped 4.1% (down 15.5%), and the Morgan Stanley Consumer index increased 1.9% (down 6.7%). The small cap Russell 2000 rose 2.7% (down 9.5%), and the S&P400 Mid-Caps gained 1.6% (down 6.7%). The NASDAQ100 added 0.7% (down 12.6%), and the Morgan Stanley High Tech index rallied 2.6% (down 11%). The Semiconductors jumped 5.8% (down 11%), and the Street.com Internet Index added 0.1% (down 11.4%), while the NASDAQ Telecommunications index dipped 0.3% (down 12.4%). The Biotechs gained 4.2% (up 1.1%). Financial stocks went into melt-up mode. The Broker/Dealers surged 14.4% (down 25.8%), and the Banks jumped 14.8% (up 29.1%). With Bullion declining $9.0, the HUI Gold index fell 3.8% (up 6.8%).
One-month Treasury bill rates dropped 13 bps this week to 1.27%, and 3-month yields fell14 bps to 1.465%. Meanwhile, two-year government yields rose 6 bps to 2.65%. Five-year T-note yields jumped 14 bps to 3.42%, and 10-year yields increased 13.5 bps to 4.095%. Long-bond yields increased 12 bps to 4.66%. The 2yr/10yr spread increased 8 to 144 bps. The implied yield on 3-month December '09 Eurodollars surged 29.5 bps to 4.19%. Benchmark Fannie MBS yields surged a remarkable 31 bps to 6.15%. The spread between benchmark MBS and 10-year Treasuries widened 18 to 206. The spread on Fannie's 5% 2017 note widened 4 bps to 73 bps, and the spread on Freddie's 5% 2017 note widened 4 bps to 73 bps. The 10-year dollar swap spread increased 8 to 76. Corporate bond spreads were mixed. An index of investment grade bond spreads narrowed 3 to 145 bps, and an index of junk bond spreads narrowed 8 to 549 bps.
Investment grade issuance this week included Walgreen $1.3bn, Pacificorp $800 million, and Entergy $300 million.
Junk bond funds reported $70.6bn of outflows this week. Junk issuers included Intelsat $1.25bn, CRH America $650 million, Ticketmaster $300 milion, PPL Energy Supply $300 million, and HSN $240 million.
Convert issuers this week included Sino-Forest $300 million and Trina Solar $120 million.
International dollar bond issuance included Ukrsibbank $250 million.
German 10-year bund yields surged 14 bps to 4.57%. The German DAX equities index rallied 3.7% (down 20.9% y-t-d). Japanese 10-year "JGB" yields slipped 4 bps to 1.565%. The Nikkei 225 declined 1.8% (down 16.4% y-t-d and 28.9% y-o-y). Emerging markets were mixed. Brazil's benchmark dollar bond yields rose 7 bps to 5.95%. Brazil's Bovespa equities index slipped 0.3% (down 6.1% y-t-d). The Mexican Bolsa gained 2.0% (down 4.6% y-t-d). Mexico's 10-year $ yields added one basis point to 5.52%. Russia's RTS equities index fell 1.5% (down 6.8% y-t-d). India's Sensex equities index gained 1.2%, with y-t-d losses of 32.8%. China's Shanghai Exchange index dropped 2.7%, boosting 2008 losses to 47.2%.
Freddie Mac 30-year fixed mortgage rates dropped 9 bps to 6.26% (down 47bps y-o-y). Fifteen-year fixed rates fell 13 bps to 5.78% (down 60bps y-o-y), and one-year adjustable rates declined 7 bps to 5.10% (down 62bps y-o-y).
Bank Credit increased $16.9bn to $9.394 TN (week of 7/9). Bank Credit has expanded $181bn y-t-d, or 3.7% annualized. Bank Credit posted a 52-week rise of $775bn, or 9.0%. For the week, Securities Credit rose $14.7bn. Loans & Leases increased $2.2bn to $6.888 TN (52-wk gain of $574bn, or 9.1%). C&I loans added $2.0bn, with one-year growth of 18.1%. Real Estate loans dropped $11.5bn (up 1.1% y-t-d). Consumer loans fell $2.5bn, while Securities loans gained $9.8bn. Other loans were little changed.
M2 (narrow) "money" supply jumped $24.5bn to $7.699 TN (week of 7/7). Narrow "money" has expanded $236bn y-t-d, or 6.1% annualized, with a y-o-y rise of $442bn, or 6.1%. For the week, Currency increased $2.5bn, while Demand & Checkable Deposits dropped $8.2bn. Savings Deposits jumped $22.6bn, and Small Denominated Deposits added $3.2bn. Retail Money Funds increased $4.5bn.
Total Money Market Fund assets (from Invest Co Inst) declined $7.4bn to $3.498 TN, with a y-t-d increase of $385bn, or 23% annualized. Money Fund assets have posted a one-year increase of $925bn (36%).
Asset-Backed Securities (ABS) issuance this week was stable at a slow $2.3bn. Year-to-date total US ABS issuance of $112bn (tallied by JPMorgan's Christopher Flanagan) is running at 27% of comparable 2007. Home Equity ABS issuance of $303 million compares with 2007's $206bn. Year-to-date CDO issuance of $14.7bn compares to the year ago $241bn.
Total Commercial Paper outstanding dropped $9.1bn this week to $1.750 TN, with a y-t-d decline of $36bn. Asset-backed CP fell $5.5bn last week to $745bn, increasing 2008's fall to $27.5bn. Over the past year, total CP has contracted $445bn, or 20.3%, with ABCP down $433bn, or 36.7%.
Fed Foreign Holdings of Treasury, Agency Debt last week (ended 7/16) decreased $2.1bn to $2.348 TN. "Custody holdings" were up $292bn y-t-d, or 25.4% annualized, and $352bn year-over-year (17.6%). Federal Reserve Credit increased $0.5bn to $888.4bn. Fed Credit has increased $14.9bn y-t-d (3.1% annualized) and $34.6bn y-o-y (4.0%).
International reserve assets (excluding gold) - as accumulated by Bloomberg's Alex Tanzi - were up $1.376TN y-o-y, or 24.6%, to a record $6.977 TN.
Global Credit Market Dislocation Watch:
July 18 - Bloomberg (Jody Shenn): "Yields on agency mortgage securities relative to U.S. Treasuries rose to a four-month high on concern that financial companies including Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac may need to sell the debt or buy less of it. The difference between yields on Fannie Mae's current- coupon, 30-year fixed-rate mortgage bonds and 10-year government notes widened 5 bps to 206 bps... Freddie Mac is considering selling assets carried below their value to maintain acceptable capital ratios, it said today in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission."
July 13 - Wall Street Journal (Michael Corkery and James R. Hagerty): "At the heart of the near-panic rocking Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is a vicious cycle gripping the U.S. housing market. It starts with the oversupply of homes, which is causing prices to plummet. Falling prices are leading to more foreclosures, as homeowners have difficulty refinancing their mortgages or selling their houses. Banks are reluctant to lend freely at a time when home values keep sinking and defaults keep rising. That is crimping housing demand further and leading to more price drops and defaults. This phenomenon... began with subprime borrowers but has gone well beyond the small segment of borrowers with poor credit. It is now spreading to the much-larger market of prime borrowers, which forms the bread and butter of Fannie's and Freddie's mortgage assets."
July 18 - Financial Times (Chris Flood): "Gold's appeal as a safe haven for investors has again been rising amid widespread fears that the stability of the global financial system is exhibiting renewed strains... On Friday there was a record one-day increase in holdings in gold exchange traded funds as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, linchpins of the US mortgage market, threatened to collapse and IndyMac Bank imploded - the third-largest financial institution to fail in the US."
July 16 - Bloomberg (Josh P. Hamilton): "MGIC Investment Corp., PMI Group Inc. and competing U.S. mortgage insurers reeling from record claims may have to absorb even higher loss rates from bad home loans, Fitch Ratings said. About 70% of the industry's policies cover loans issued from 2005 through 2007 when mortgage and insurance underwriting standards were lax, leading to progressively higher default rates, Fitch said. Mortgage insurers pay lenders when borrowers default and foreclosure fails to recoup costs. 'The mortgage insurance industry's troubles are not over and may, in fact, get worse,' Fitch said... The industry 'underestimated both the scope and severity of the decline in residential mortgage markets that became increasingly acute in 2007.'"
July 18 - Financial Times (Paul J Davies): "Almost a year into the widespread financial deleveraging sparked by the credit and liquidity crisis, the markets for bonds backed by mortgages and other debt are yet to see an invasion of bargain hunters. Even for the safest, supposedly bomb-proof, triple A rated bonds backed by the least risky home loans have not seen a sustained revival in fortunes. In fact, a recovery in April and May for some such deals has proved short-lived. This is not what many analysts and investors expected. The worst of the forced selling is thought to have been over by the end of the first quarter. And the height of fears about systemic risk and a potential collapse of large parts of the financial system were supposed to have passed with the rescue of Bear Stearns in March. However, across the board in markets for asset-backed securities, it is increasingly fundamental credit risk that is now coming to the fore."
July 17 - Bloomberg (Josh P. Hamilton and Daniel Taub): "IndyMac Bancorp Inc.'s collapse may spur withdrawals from banks ranging from First BanCorp in Puerto Rico to Los Angeles-based Nara Bancorp Inc. as customers trim accounts below the $100,000 limit on deposit insurance, according to Sandler O'Neill... 'IndyMac's failure has people worried about others,' Mark Fitzgibbon, a principal at Sandler O'Neill, said... The result could be a liquidity squeeze at banks that rely on 'jumbo' deposits, Fitzgibbon said."
July 18 - Bloomberg (Vernon Wessels): "The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. set new rules for U.S. banks that lets regulators take charge of paying off depositors in a move to prevent spillover in the event of a large failure. The rules, which apply to 159 banks with at least $2 billion in U.S. deposits and either $20 billion in assets or 250,000 account holders, start Aug. 18, the... regulator said... Banks have 18 months to comply. The change will help pay off insured deposits as soon as possible and help 'maintain public confidence in the banking industry,' the regulator said. It will also 'mitigate the spillover effects of a failure, such as risks to the payments system, problems stemming from depositor illiquidity and a substantial reduction in credit availability.'"
July 15 - Wall Street Journal (Joanna Slater): "A long history of bank bailouts around the world provides some models for what could unfold in the U.S. as the government becomes more directly involved in fixing a damaged financial system. This history shows it is almost always a painful process... Since the 1990s, countries like Japan, Sweden, South Korea and Thailand have all experienced banking crises. The U.S. had its own financial upheaval during the savings-and-loan debacle in the 1980s. Each of these predicaments required dramatic moves, including bank closures and nationalizations, efforts to buy bad assets, plus injections of capital by governments that the market wouldn't provide. Often, depositors and creditors of ailing financial institutions get protection and shareholders get the worst deal of all. The U.S. government has tiptoed toward some of these measures with its handling of the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac crisis."
July 18 - Dow Jones (Marshall Eckblad): "Federal banking regulators are girding for a new challenge to the nation's beleaguered banking system: rising inflation. Banks already face a historic collapse of the nation's housing markets, and a resulting wave of consumers defaulting on their mortgage, car and credit-card loans. Now, a prolonged spike in food and fuel prices threatens to push short-term interest rates higher, and squeeze operating income for banks. Higher short-term rates stemming from inflation are 'the next issue'for banks, said Sheila Bair, chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.... 'We are focused on that and encourage banks to' do the same, she said."
July 18 - Bloomberg (Lenka Ponikelska): "Receivers for Cheyne Finance Plc, the first of the structured investment vehicles to auction assets after collapsing last year, accepted bids at 43.9% of face value. Deloitte & Touche LLP asked banks to bid for $2.29 billion, or 30.9%, of the SIV's debt holdings this week. The auctioned holdings include asset-backed securities and collateralized debt obligations, according to Moody's..."
July 14 - Bloomberg (Bradley Keoun): "At an investor presentation in May, Citigroup Inc. Chief Executive Officer Vikram Pandit said shrinking the bank's $2.2 trillion balance sheet, the biggest in the U.S., was a cornerstone of his turnaround plan. Nowhere mentioned in the accompanying 66-page handout were the additional $1.1 trillion of assets that... Citigroup keeps off its books: trusts to sell mortgage-backed securities, financing vehicles to issue short-term debt and collateralized debt obligations, or CDOs, to repackage bonds... 'If you start adding up all the potential exposures, it's a huge number,' said Sam Golden, a former ombudsman for the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency... 'The banks will say that it was disclosed. Investors are saying, `Yeah, but it was cryptic. We really didn't know what you were telling us.'"
July 18 - Financial Times (Daniel Pimlott): "Merrill Lynch has pulled out of talks to locate its headquarters at the new World Trade Center after suffering billions of dollars of writedowns. Merrill had been expected to take one of three buildings in development by Larry Silverstein at the World Trade Center. The decision to hold off on building offices - at a likely cost of as much as $3bn - is the second time in less than a year that the troubled investment bank has vetoed new headquarters."
July 17 - Bloomberg (Erik Holm): "Record tornado damages, the weakening economy and a drop in premiums may reduce insurers' earnings by 30%, the steepest second-quarter decline since 2002... Losses from catastrophes, including the most tornadoes in the U.S. since at least 1950, were about $5.5 billion. At the same time, investment returns and opportunities to sell residential and corporate coverage declined as the economy slowed and home sales dropped. 'We're going to see amazingly bad numbers from the property insurers in the second quarter,' said Meyer Shields, an analyst at Stifel Nicolaus... 'There are lots and lots of losses out there.'"
July 14 - Bloomberg (Mark Herlihy): "More than three quarters of U.K. chief financial officers said credit has become 'hard to obtain' as a result of turmoil in financial markets, according to a survey by Deloitte and Touche LLP. The survey found that 77% of CFOs said credit was hard to obtain, compared with 63% in March and 48% in September, Deloitte said... Some 89% of respondents rated credit as 'costly,' compared with 72% in March and 59% last September. Conditions are likely to get 'worse,' Deloitte said."
July 18 - Bloomberg (Svenja O'Donnell): "U.K. mortgage lending fell 32% in June from a year earlier, the Council of Mortgage Lenders said. Gross lending against property declined to 23.8 billion pounds ($47.44bn)... Lending fell 3% from May."
Global Inflation Turmoil Watch:
July 18 - Bloomberg (Li Yanping and Zhang Dingmin): "China tightened scrutiny of foreign direct investment to prevent 'fake' ventures that the government said are acting as channels for speculative capital and endangering the world's fastest-growing major economy. Sham joint ventures and shell companies are among the conduits... 'Hot money' from investors attracted by a strengthening currency and interest rates at a decade high threatens to stoke inflation and destabilize the financial system in the event of sudden outflows."
July 18 - Bloomberg (Drew Benson and Lester Pimentel): "Chilean central bank President Jose de Gregorio may have to abandon his plan to boost exports by weakening the peso after inflation accelerated to the fastest pace in 14 years. The peso has become the world's worst performing currency, tumbling 11.8% in the three months since de Gregorio told traders at Banco Central de Chile to buy $50 million a day. Annual inflation soared to 9.5% in June, the highest since 1994... 'They have a very serious inflation problem,' said Igor Arsenin, an emerging-markets strategist at Credit Suisse... 'The next step for them is to scrap those dollar purchases.'"
The dollar index added 0.1% to 71.19. For the week on the upside, the Mexican peso increased 1.2%, the South African rand 0.9%, the Brazilian real 0.5%, the Taiwanese dollar 0.3%, and the British pound 0.2%. On the downside, the South Korean won declined 1.0%, the Japanese yen 0.8%, the Swiss franc 0.7%, the New Zealand dollar 0.4%, and the Euro 0.4%.
July 15 - Bloomberg (Scott Reyburn): "Diamonds, like art, are a commodity that is gaining attention as an alternative investment. Increases in the price of the rarest colorless and colored diamonds are attracting wealthy investors and structured funds as stock markets and real-estate values decline. The price of 5-carat gems with the potential to be sold at $1 million or more has risen 76.5% in the year to May 2008, according to... the Web site of the International Diamond and Jewelry Exchange... Five years ago, dealers were paying $70,000 per carat for colorless diamonds of 10 carats and more... 'Now we're paying over $200,000 per carat...'"
Gold declined 0.9% to $955 and Silver fell 3.3% to $18.20. August Crude sank $16.34 to $128.74. August Gasoline sank 11.5% (up 27.8% y-t-d), and August Natural Gas dropped 10.2% (up 42.9% y-t-d). September Copper declined 1.9%. September Wheat fell 3.2% and August Corn sank 11.8%. The CRB index was hit for 7.4% (up 19.1% y-t-d). The Goldman Sachs Commodities Index (GSCI) sank 9.5% (up 30.5% y-t-d and 55% y-o-y).
July 14 - Bloomberg (Nipa Piboontanasawat and Li Yanping): "China's foreign-exchange reserves climbed... to a record $1.81 trillion at the end of June... Currency holdings rose 35.7% from a year earlier... Chinese regulators are adding controls this month to limit 'hot money' inflows from investors betting the yuan will keep appreciating after 25 straight monthly gains. The trade surplus, foreign direct investment and speculative capital have flooded the world's fourth-biggest economy with cash..."
July 17 - MarketNews International: "China's enterprise commodity price index, which measures prices at the wholesale level, rose 9.5% year-on-year in June..."
July 17 - Bloomberg (Kevin Hamlin and Li Yanping): "China's economy grew at the slowest pace since 2005 in the second quarter... Gross domestic product rose 10.1% from a year earlier, down from 10.6% in the first quarter, as exports weakened and the government curbed lending."
July 18 - Bloomberg (Wang Ying and Winnie Zhu): "China, the world's second-biggest energy consumer, may face a worse-than-expected power shortfall when demand peaks in summer, the nation's largest electricity distributor said."
July 18 - Bloomberg (Tian Ying): "China's stockpile of unsold new vehicles rose about 50% in the six months ended June, hitting a four-year high, as automakers expanded production and sales growth slowed. The backlog reached 170,000 vehicles... First-half sales totaled 5.18 million."
July 13 - Wall Street Journal (Tomoyuki Tachikawa): "Japan's consumer sentiment worsened to its lowest level ever in June... signaling that growing inflationary pressures world-wide will likely further hurt Asia's biggest economy... Consumer spending accounts for 55% of Japan's gross domestic product."
July 18 - Bloomberg (Anil Varma): "Money supply in India grew 20.5% in the two weeks ended July 4 from a year earlier..."
Asia Bubble Watch:
July 15 - Bloomberg (Seyoon Kim): "South Korea's import prices surged by the most in more than 10 years because of rising oil costs. Prices of imported goods surged 49% in June after a 44.6% gain in May, the Bank of Korea said... From a month earlier, prices climbed 2.7%, the central bank said."
July 17 - Bloomberg (Shamim Adam and Karl Lester M. Yap): "The Philippine central bank raised its benchmark interest rate by the most since 2000 and forecast inflation will exceed last month's 14-year high on record oil and food prices. Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas increased the rate it pays banks for overnight deposits by 0.5 percentage point to 5.75%..."
Latin America Watch:
July 18 - Bloomberg (Jens Erik Gould): "Mexico's central bank raised its benchmark interest rate for the second straight month to curb the highest inflation rate in more than three years. The bank's five-member board... raised the key lending rate by a quarter percentage point to 8%..."
Unbalanced Global Economy Watch:
July 15 - Wall Street Journal Europe (Elga Bartsch and Joachim Fels): "The main driver behind rising global inflation pressures is well understood: a very lax global monetary policy stance, particularly in the U.S. and in many emerging-market countries. This has fueled higher food and energy prices, and other prices are likely to follow -- especially as most central banks around the world are unlikely to tighten policy sharply anytime soon. So it is not surprising that inflation is rising everywhere. What does appear puzzling is that, at 4%, euro-area inflation is at about the same level as that in the U.S. and has actually risen by a greater amount over the past year. That's despite a significant appreciation of the euro against the dollar during the same period..."
July 15 - Bloomberg (Jennifer Ryan and Brian Swint): "U.K. inflation accelerated to the fastest pace in at least 11 years and the housing slump worsened, making it harder for the Bank of England to stave off a recession by cutting interest rates. Consumer prices climbed 3.8% from a year earlier...Property- price declines stayed close to the most widespread in 30 years and transactions dropped, a separate report showed."
July 16 - Bloomberg (Svenja O'Donnell): "U.K. unemployment jumped the most in June since the aftermath of the last recession in 1992 as the economic slowdown forced companies to cut jobs and stop hiring. Claims for jobless benefits climbed for a fifth month, increasing 15,500 from May..."
July 18 - Bloomberg (Svenja O'Donnell): "U.K. money supply increased at the quickest pace since 1988 in June, five times as fast as economists forecast... M4, the broadest gauge of money supply in Britain... rose 2% from May... From a year earlier, it rose 11.5%..."
July 18 - Bloomberg (Mark Deen and Gonzalo Vina): "The U.K. budget deficit ballooned to the widest since records started in 1946... The shortfall was 24.4 billion pounds ($49bn) in the three months through June... Last month, the deficit expanded to 9.2 billion pounds..."
July 18 - Bloomberg (Ian Guider): "Ireland's unemployment rate may rise to 7% in 2009 as more companies fire workers in response to a slumping economy, the country's job training agency said. 'There are already signs that some of the external problems facing the economy are having a direct impact on the labor market,' said Brian McCormick, FAS senior economist..."
July 16 - Bloomberg (Fergal O'Brien): "Inflation in Europe accelerated to the fastest in more than 16 years in June, led by a 53% surge in the cost of heating oil. The inflation rate in the euro area rose from 3.7% in May, the European Union statistics office... said."
July 16 - Bloomberg (Cecile Gutscher and John Glover): "If there is any doubt European shoppers are following their U.S. counterparts into a recession, look no further than ... Chain stores... are the worst performers among the region's 140 billion euros ($220 billion) of leveraged-buyout loans, according to Markit Group Ltd. and S&P data... 'We're going into a consumer-led slowdown, which is just now starting to show its signs,' said... Pilar Gomez- Bravo, who is in charge of credit funds for Europe at Lehman Brothers Asset Management."
July 18 - Bloomberg (Bernd Bergmann): "German producer prices rose at the fastest pace in 26 years in June, adding to pressure on the European Central Bank to keep interest rates high even as economic growth slows. Prices for goods from newsprint to plastics increased 6.7% from a year earlier, the most since March 1982, after rising an annual 6% in May..."
July 18 - Bloomberg (Charles Penty): "Spain's stock of mortgage loans rose an annualized 10% in May, the slowest growth in at least 15 years, as the country's real estate boom ended. Mortgage growth in May halved from 20.5% a year earlier..."
July 15 - Bloomberg (Sharon Smyth and Ben Sills): "Home prices in Spain fell for the first time in almost 10 years in the second quarter after higher borrowing costs and restrictions on mortgage lending eased demand. The average price of new and used houses and apartments declined 0.1% from the previous quarter... Prices rose 2.4% from a year earlier... 'This is happening much faster than expected and much faster than is desirable,' said Jose Carlos Diez, chief economist at Intermoney SA."
July 14 - Bloomberg (Elizabeth Konstantinova): "Bulgaria's inflation accelerated to a decade-high in June as higher transport and tobacco prices outweighed a seasonal drop in food costs. The inflation rate rose to 15.3%, the second-highest in the European Union after Latvia, from 15% in May."
July 17 - Bloomberg (Farhan Sharif): "Pakistan investors stormed out of the Karachi Stock Exchange, smashed windows and cursed regulators after the benchmark index fell for a 15th day, the worst losing streak in at least 18 years. 'I have lost my life savings in the last 15 days and no one in the government or regulators came to help us,' said Imran Inayat, 45, a protester and a former banker who retired early and said he lost 300,000 rupees ($4,175) on the market. Police surrounded the exchange after hundreds of investors stoned the building and shouted anti-government slogans."
July 15 - Bloomberg (Tracy Withers): "New Zealand's consumer prices rose at the fastest pace in 18 years in the second quarter, fanned by fuel and food costs, adding to signs the economy is facing stagflation as it slips into recession. The consumer prices index rose 1.6% from the first quarter..."
Bursting Bubble Economy Watch:
July 16 - Bloomberg (Bob Ivry): "The U.S. housing crisis may accomplish what years of parental hectoring couldn't: Turn Americans from spenders into savers. Spending will fall because homeowners can no longer use rising real estate values to borrow cash -- $837.5 billion in 2006, according to a report by former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan and senior Fed economist James Kennedy. With mortgage lenders requiring down payments of 20%, the average household, which puts away less than 1% of after- tax pay, will have to save 10% for 10 years to buy a home."
July 16 - Bloomberg (Shobhana Chandra and Timothy R. Homan): "U.S. consumer prices surged 5% in the past year, the biggest jump since 1991, just as households struggled with falling home values and the credit crunch. Spiraling expenses for food and fuel spurred the increase in June..."
July 16 - Bloomberg (Timothy R. Homan): "Misery hasn't had this much company in more than 15 years. The jump in consumer prices reported today by the Labor Department means the so-called Misery Index, the sum of the unemployment and inflation rates, is the highest since... January 1993... The figures underscore Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke's comment to lawmakers yesterday that U.S. households are under 'tremendous pressure.' 'You add that to what's going on with home prices and that's just a huge stress on consumers,' said Robert Dye, senior economist at PNC Financial Services..."
July 16 - Time (Bill Saporito): "You would expect Americans, in a period of falling home prices, a wobbly stock market and an ongoing war, to be less than satisfied with the direction of the country. It's natural. But Americans are not simply dissatisfied. They are very unhappy. O.K., deeply, pessimistically unhappy. Un-American Dreamy unhappy: 85% of respondents in an exclusive TIME/Rockefeller Foundation poll believe that the country is on the wrong track. It's an unprecedented downer from an optimistic nation, and depending on whom you talk to, the numbers simply get worse."
July 14 - Bloomberg (Chris Dolmetsch): "Amtrak, the U.S. national passenger railroad, raised fares on 13 routes in the Midwest and Northeast by 5%, a spokeswoman said... The fares went up this month because of agreements with labor unions reached this year and the rising cost of fuel on routes served by diesel locomotives..."
Central Banker Watch:
July 15 - Bloomberg (Craig Torres and Scott Lanman): "Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke abandoned his June assessment that the threat of an economic downturn had diminished, telling lawmakers that growth and inflation risks are increasing. There are 'significant downside risks to the outlook for growth,' and 'upside risks to the inflation outlook have intensified,' Bernanke said... Bernanke's shift reflects renewed turmoil in markets that forced the Treasury and Fed to mount a rescue of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac this week. He said that stabilizing financial markets remains 'a top priority'..."
July 17 - Washington Post (Neil Irwin): "The sprawling financial and economic crisis is leading to expansion of the Federal Reserve's role, increasingly turning the central bank into a sort of all-purpose guarantor of the financial system. In the past few months, Fed Chairman Ben S. Bernanke has burst through long-standing boundaries on what the Fed does. Bernanke's actions... have repeatedly pulled the world from the brink of financial catastrophe and have won praise from Wall Street and Capitol Hill... 'The Federal Reserve has re-created itself,' said Vincent Reignhart, a senior staffer at the Fed until last summer... 'And if you do more things, you set yourself up to have to choose among them and trade off. What happens when concern for housing finance conflicts with the need to pursue price stability?'"
July 18 - Bloomberg (Vivien Lou Chen): "The Federal Reserve shouldn't wait until financial and housing markets stabilize to raise interest rates, central bank policy maker Gary Stern said. 'We can't wait until we clearly observe the financial markets at normal, the economy growing robustly, and so on and so forth, before we reverse course,' Stern, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, said... 'Our actions will affect the economy in the future, not at the moment.' The comments by Stern... reinforced traders' forecasts for a rate increase by year-end."
July 17 - Bloomberg (Simone Meier): "The European Parliament may call on the European Central Bank to revise its inflation goal as food and energy costs soar, according to a draft report. The ECB's aim to keep inflation just below 2% 'should be examined in the context of a new age of globalization characterized by rising energy and food prices,' said the non- binding report... 'The ECB should move toward a full inflation target regime where a shift to a range of targets might be more meaningful than a point target inflation rate.'"
Burst Mortgage Finance Bubble Watch:
July 14 - Bloomberg (Jody Shenn): "More than two of every five subprime borrowers whose mortgages were reworked in the first half of 2007 are defaulting anyway, Moody's... said. Among subprime adjustable-rate mortgages modified in the first half of last year, 42% were at least 90 days late on March 31... Modifying loans granted to consumers with poor credit records has gained favor as record numbers fail to keep up with payments and home prices tumble... Modification rates for subprime ARMs rose to 9.8% of all loans whose initial 'teaser' rate periods have expired since the beginning of 2007, up from the 3.5% recorded in a December survey..."
July 18 - Bloomberg (Bill Rochelle): "Lake at Las Vegas Joint Venture LLC, the master developer of the Lake Las Vegas Resort 17 miles from the Las Vegas Strip, filed for Chapter 11 protection yesterday in Las Vegas with affiliates, saying assets are more than $500 million and debt exceeds $1 billion."
Real Estate Bust Watch:
July 17 - Bloomberg (Daniel Taub): "Apartment rents in the Western U.S. rose 2.5% in the second quarter from a year earlier, slower than the rate of inflation, as unemployment increased and occupancies fell in most areas, according to research company RealFacts. The average monthly rent in 15 U.S. states, most of which are in the West, climbed 0.6% from the first quarter to $999..."
July 16 - Washington Post (Anita Huslin): "In the four years since he stepped down as Fannie Mae's chief executive under the shadow of a $6.3 billion accounting scandal, Franklin D. Raines has been quietly constructing a new life for himself. He has shaved eight points off his golf handicap, taken a corner office in Steve Case's D.C. conglomeration of finance, entertainment and health-care companies and more recently, taken calls from Barack Obama's presidential campaign seeking his advice on mortgage and housing policy matters. And he's privately smoldered over the events of the past week, when Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were portrayed as being on the brink of disaster... In his first interview in two years, Raines remained insistent that the mortgage finance giant's problems are not rooted in the company but stem from a time when the Bush administration and the Fed insisted the government-sponsored enterprise carried no explicit federal backing."
July 16 - Wall Street Journal (John D. McKinnon and James R. Hagerty): "For years, Washington officialdom enabled Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the congressionally chartered mortgage companies, to grow until they dominated the U.S. market. Now lawmakers are confronting the result: a crisis of confidence in the two companies that raises questions about whether they can make it through the deep downturn that has struck the real-estate market. And nobody wants to get stuck with the blame. If there's one decision that is being second-guessed, it's the 1992 legislation that created the companies' regulator, the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight, or Ofheo. In the 1992 debate, Ofheo came away with fairly weak powers, and capital requirements for the companies were set very low... Lobbyists from the companies are said to have strongly influenced the 1992 legislation..."
July 18 - Wall Street Journal (Michael R. Crittenden and Sarah Lueck): "House Democrats negotiating a rescue of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac said they wouldn't exempt the proposal from the annual debt limit, a move designed to quell lawmakers' concerns that the Treasury's financial aid could be unlimited. Rep. Barney Frank said any help for the two mortgage-finance giants would be counted against the federal debt limit, which Congress must vote to increase. Congress has voted five times during the Bush presidency to increase the limit...which currently stands at $9.815 trillion. Total public debt subject to the limit as of July 15 is $9.440 trillion, within $375 billion of the limit. Some lawmakers have worried the rescue plan would expose taxpayers to trillions of dollars in losses."
July 14 - Bloomberg (Carol Massar and Eric Martin): "The U.S. Treasury Department's plan to shore up Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is an 'unmitigated disaster' and the largest U.S. mortgage lenders are 'basically insolvent,' according to investor Jim Rogers. Taxpayers will be saddled with debt if Congress approves U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson's request for the authority to buy unlimited stakes in and lend to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, Rogers said..."
July 18 - Wall Street Journal (Deborah Solomon): "The government's rescue plan for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is the latest move by the Bush administration that transfers risk from the private sector to taxpayers, a phenomenon that poses potentially enormous financial risks if the economy worsens. From the bailout of Bear Stearns Cos. to a guarantee of student loans, the federal government has either injected public money into the private sector or promised to make capital available if needed. While taxpayers are not yet bearing the brunt of these moves, they could still wind up on the hook... 'The potential for things to go wrong is big and so the potential to step in and take a lot of the cost is really high,' said Deborah Lucas, a finance professor at... Kellogg School of Management and former chief economist for the Congressional Budget Office."
July 18 - Los Angeles Times (Marc Lifsher): "California's unemployment rate crept up to 6.9% in June, a tenth of a percentage point higher than the month before and the highest in nearly five years... The latest figure ties California with Mississippi for the third-highest jobless rate among the states, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics said."
July 14 - Bloomberg (Michael B. Marois): "U.S. states, already reeling from the slumping housing market and turbulent financial markets, will likely increase borrowing to meet budget demands next year, S&P said. The... company said discretionary resources that states often rely upon to fund capital projects have mostly evaporated, causing them to meet needs with bonds in fiscal 2009. Many states have increased short-term borrowing for cash-flow purposes, S&P said. States will have to fill gaps of more than $30 billion to balance budgets for 2009 in response to reduced tax receipt expectations because of weak economic growth... Deficits are forecast in at least 23 states for the 2009 budget year. 'For the next year, state budgets are likely to be strained because...' S&P credit analyst Robin Prunty said. 'This could ultimately lead to significantly higher debt issuance to meet budget requirements, a trend seen in prior downturns... Connecticut pays 12.6% of its general fund to debt service, the most of all U.S. states. New York expends 6.5%, compared with New Jersey's 7.4%."
July 17 - Bloomberg (Michael Quint): "New York state's tax revenue in the three months ended June 30 was $195 million less than projected because of lower business tax collections largely due to the New York City financial sector, Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli said. Business taxes fell $273 million from last year, mostly because of a 54% decline in taxes from banks."
July 18 - Bloomberg (Adam L. Cataldo): "New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said the city hasn't yet felt the full effects of the economic slowdown, a day after the state reported a drop in projected tax revenue. 'We're doing better than the rest of the country, but it is going to get to us, it is starting to get to us... Anybody that thinks it is not going to hit us is wrong.'"
July 16 - Associated Press: "Housing data show the median price of a home in California plummeted 31.5 percent in June compared with the same month last year. DataQuick... says... the statewide median home price last month was $328,000. The statewide median home price peaked in May 2007 at $484,000. The decline is being driven by tightening mortgage markets and a growing willingness by sellers to accept less for their homes... About 41.9% of the resold homes in June were foreclosed properties."
July 17 - Los Angeles Times (Peter Y. Hong): "Southern California's housing market continues to be racked by falling prices and declining sales volume... The median home-sales price was $355,000 in June, down 29.3% from a year ago. Home values are now on par with what they were in early 2004... Los Angeles economist Christopher Thornberg, principal of Beacon Economics, said home prices remain out of sync with what buyers can afford to pay. Thornberg said prices must fall to 40% below the peak to match incomes."
July 16 - Bloomberg (Daniel Taub): "House and condominium sales in Southern California fell 14% last month to the lowest level for a June in two decades as buyers struggled to get loans and prices declined, DataQuick... With little capital available, 'even some of the well-qualified households aren't getting home loans' in Southern California, said DataQuick analyst John Karevoll... 'What I find remarkable here is that the numbers have stayed as low as they have. When we're looking at numbers this low, we're looking at an awful lot of activity that just isn't happening.'"
July 17 - San Francisco Chronicle (Carolyn Said): "Double-digit drops in median home prices hit every Bay Area county in June, even the ones that had seemed Teflon-coated. Across the nine counties, the median price paid for resale homes, new homes and condos in June plunged 27.1% from a year ago to $485,000, dipping below the half-million-dollar mark for the first time in four years, DataQuick... reported... Among resold homes, bank-repossessed foreclosures... accounted for 28.7% of all existing-home sales, up from just 3.5% in June 2007... 'This is pretty grim; double digits across the board,' said Christopher Thornberg, principal... Beacon Economics. 'It was eminently predictable if you had a realistic view of the world. I heard a lot of people say the Bay Area was never going to see prices fall, San Francisco was untouchable; in San Mateo, it was impossible; San Jose, not with all the tech money, blah, blah, blah. But prices at the peak relative to people's incomes never made any sense.'"
Crude Liquidity Watch:
July 14 - Bloomberg (Daniel Kruger): "Petroleum-exporting nations from Saudi Arabia to Russia are not only charging Americans record high prices for fuel, they are also poised to become the biggest creditor to the U.S. government. Holdings of Treasuries by oil producers and institutions such as U.K. banks that are proxies for Middle East nations rose 44% this year to $510.8 billion through April, four times faster than the rest of the world, according to the Treasury Department... At the current pace, they'll surpass Japan, which holds $592.2 billion, as the largest owner this month. While the investment of so-called petrodollars into government debt is helping to temper a rise in borrowing costs as the U.S. finances a record budget deficit, it highlights America's dependence on foreign money."
July 18 - Bloomberg (Fergal O'Brien): "Europe's energy trade deficit soared 42% in the four months through April as crude-oil prices jumped to a record. The euro region's deficit on energy products widened to 99.7 billion euros ($158bn) from 70.4 billion euros a year earlier, the European Union statistics office...said... Energy-product imports increased 41%."
July 17 - Washington Post (Faiza Saleh Ambah): "Clouds of yellow dust swirled in the air as tractors moved back and forth, leveling a huge, barren piece of land dotted with billboards announcing the city that will rise from the sand here. Over the next few years, Saudi officials say this stretch of desert will be transformed into a buzzing hub of scientific research and development, with cutting-edge universities, hospitals and housing for more than 130,000 people... The project, called Knowledge Economic City, represents a first serious step by Saudi Arabia toward building a post-petroleum economy. It is one of six major industrial centers planned to rise over the next 15 years. At a cost of more than $100 billion, the sites are expected to provide housing and jobs for the country's fast-growing population, half of which is younger than 21. These cities-from-scratch are the most ambitious projects to date launched by a kingdom enriched almost entirely by oil..."
Benchmark MBS and the SEC:
This week benchmark Fannie Mae MBS yields jumped 31 bps, to an 11-month high 6.15%. Spreads versus treasuries widened 18 bps to the widest level (206bps) since the height of the crisis in March. Also this week, the SEC took an extraordinary step to tighten the rules for shorting the large financial stocks. These developments are not unrelated.
In JPMorgan Chase's and Citigroup's earnings conference calls, both major lenders this week noted deterioration in prime mortgages. This provides additional confirmation that the mortgage crisis is now reaching the bedrock of our nation's mortgage Credit system. And particularly with the mortgage insurers, the GSEs, and the leveraged speculating community having come under varying degrees of stress, a tightening in "conventional" mortgages will now significantly exacerbate the mortgage/housing/financial/economic crisis.
In years past, I have occasionally used my fictional "town by the river" analogy to demonstrate how the introduction of inexpensive flood insurance and a resulting speculative boom in writing this protection fostered a building boom along the river. The financial (insurance, lending and speculation) and economic (building, asset inflation, and spending) aspects of the boom were interrelated and reinforcing. In my fictional account, the booms were further spurred by a drought that both inflated the profitability of writing risk insurance (attracting throngs of speculative players) and buoyed complacency for those living, building, and spending freely near the water's edge.
These dynamics set the stage for the inevitable dislocation in the flood insurance market. With the arrival of the first torrential rains, there was a panic as the thinly capitalized "insurers" rushed in a futile attempt to re-insure their risk of potentially catastrophic losses in the event of a flood along what had become a highly over-developed river bank. Few in the insurance market had built reserves, as most speculators simply planned on hedging flood risk in what was, at least during the time of the boom/drought, a highly liquid insurance marketplace. Worse yet, over time the pricing of flood protection had become grossly inadequate with respect to the mounting ("Bubble") risks that had developed over the life of the financial and economic booms. Any reinsurance available during the crisis was priced prohibitively.
Back in 1990, when I first began working on the short-side, there was an estimated $50bn to $60bn in the hedge fund community. The few of us actually shorting stocks were primarily focused on diligent fundamental company "micro" research and analysis. It was not until some years later that "market neutral" and "quant" strategies took the financial world by storm. And back in the early nineties the OTC (over-the-counter) derivatives industry was just starting to take hold. Today's Wild West CDS (Credit default swap) marketplace didn't even exist.
Nowadays, the "leveraged speculating community" is measured in the multi-Trillions; the derivatives market in the hundreds of Trillions. The scope of players and sophisticated strategies utilizing short-selling is unlike anything previously experienced in the markets. And similar to how drought magnified the boom along the river, it was the boom in leveraged speculation and derivatives that played the instrumental role in fueling self-reinforcing Credit expansion and the resulting Credit, asset price and economic Bubbles. But those Bubbles are bursting - the torrential rains are falling and there is today extraordinary and overwhelming impetus to "reinsure" - to offload - the various risks that ballooned over the life of the protracted boom.
Many writing the multitude of types of market insurance incorporate "dynamic hedging" strategies. This means that few hold little in the way of actual "reserves" to pay in the event of major losses. Instead, they rely on "shorting" various securities that, in a declining market, will provide the necessary cash-flow to satisfy any insurance obligations. This all worked wonderfully in theory, and the basic premise of modern day risk hedging capabilities was supported by the nature of highly liquid boom-time financial markets. But "torrential rains" have a way of rapidly and dramatically altering marketplace liquidity. The reality is that entire markets cannot insure themselves again declines. Any attempt by a large swath of the marketplace to hedge exposure will be problematic. Selling will either immediately overwhelm the market or the "put options" accumulated as protection will create acute market vulnerability to self-reinforcing selling pressure and market dislocation.
Today, there is little liquidity in the securitization or corporate bond markets. So, the multi-Trillions of strategies relying on shorting securities for hedging and speculating purposes have gravitated to the relative liquidity of U.S. equities. And, when it comes to hedging against or seeking profits from heightened systemic risk, one can these days see rather clearly how incredible selling pressure can come down hard on the 19 largest U.S. financial institutions. And when one considers the scope of derivative strategies that incorporate "delta hedging" trading dynamics - where the amount of selling/shorting increases as the market declines (systemic risk increases) - one recognizes the possibility of a marketplace dislocation along the lines - but significantly more systemic - than the "portfolio insurance" fiasco that fueled the 1987 stock market crash.
Importantly, this issue of acute systemic risk has taken a turn for the worst with the recent deterioration in the conventional mortgage market. The highly exposed GSEs, mortgage insurers, and leveraged speculators are positioned poorly to withstand a bust in prime mortgages. The fate of the U.S. Bubble economy today rests on the ongoing supply of low-cost "prime" mortgages. Any meaningful tightening in conventional mortgage Credit - including the lack of availability of mortgage insurance, required larger down payments, and/or tougher Credit standards - would have a major impact on Credit Availability for core housing markets throughout the country (many that have thus far held together fairly well). Such a tightening would put significant additional downward pressure on prices, exacerbating already escalating problems for the GSEs, Credit insurers, and speculators. | <urn:uuid:2da456ea-53de-46f1-80a7-a5c76404115f> | 2013-05-18T05:25:28Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Simply click on a letter below to guess the identity of this famous person, from the world of TV, film, music and much more...
If you've played hangman before, then you'll know the rules of the game. You must click the letters that make up the name of the celebrity in this game. If you know from the picture it's easy, otherwise start guessing letters in the game and see if that helps you work out who the celebrity could be. If you have no idea who the celebrity star (could be an actor, actress, pop star etc but not all as famous as Brad Pitt or Angelina Jolie etc so there may be some celebrities you don't know) then you'll just have to use your knowledge of names and letters to solve it through your skill at the game of hangman, good luck!
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Kyrgyzstan are set to send a sailor to compete at an ISAF Sailing World Championships for the first time.
Ignatev Ilia, who is 18 years old, will sail in the Laser class at Perth 2011 becoming Kyrgyzstan's first athlete to represent the nation in a major international regatta.
Alex Abramov, spokesman for Kyrgyzstan Sailing said, "We are very proud that Kyrgyzstan will have a representative at the Perth 2011 ISAF Sailing World Championships.
"We would like Kyrgyzstan to be perceived in the world as a nation that is able to compete with other sailing federations and associations."
Kyrgyzstani is landlocked but sailors train on the picturesque Issyk-Kul Lake in the Tian Shan mountain range in east Kyrgyzstan.
Although it is surrounded by the snow-capped Tian Shan mountain range the lake never freezes and by volume it is one of the largest lakes in the world allowing youth and adult sailors excellent access to the water all year round.
"We are currently developing sailing on the Issyk-Kul Lake and the natural conditions allow us to train on the water for up to nine months per year,"
"The wind is very different in the places where there are sailing schools. And our sailors participate in three to four local competitions as well as two or three competitions in Kazakhstan every year as well.
"Last year our sailors participated in regattas in Thailand and China. And so far this year they participated in an international regatta in Doha, Qatar."
Kyrgyzstan are starting to develop sailors that will be able compete on the world stage. And there are plans to send athletes to more international regattas, "We would like our sailors to participate in the European Championships, World Junior Championships and the Olympic Test Event this year,"
Kyrgyzstan won't be the only newcomer to the ISAF Sailing World Championships. The Cook Islands are sending entries in the Laser and Laser Radial.
Kazakhstan, Montenegro and Trinidad and Tobago are each sending one entry into the Laser class. And St Lucia will have a representative in the Laser Radial and Palestine has entrants in the Men's RS:X and Men's 470.
Kyrgyzstan joined the ISAF family as an MNA in 2007 and as the sailing community continues to grow throughout the world Perth 2011 has already received entries from 72 nations.
And with age on his side Kyrgyzstan's Ignatev Ilia may be a regular fixture in ISAF events for many years to come.
To view some fantastic images of sailing in Kyrgyzstan click here. | <urn:uuid:d2f28a80-2d28-4193-af18-9551a8611b4b> | 2013-05-18T06:57:24Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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How well does the J28 sail to her rating with the standard 5' draft? I have also seen the shoal draft, 3'11". How well does the shoal draft sail to her rating? | <urn:uuid:a628eaa7-e5b0-4f08-b89a-24bfc8f4181a> | 2013-05-18T06:57:39Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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All 15 council members, including North Korea's closest ally China, approved the press statement hours after the latest underground test. The statement called the atomic blast a "grave violation" of three U.N. resolutions that ban North Korea from conducting nuclear or missile tests.
The swift and unanimous response from the U.N.'s most powerful body set the stage for a fourth round of sanctions against Pyongyang.
The language in the statement, which pledged "significant action" in a new resolution, was stronger than the Security Council's initial reaction to North Korea's two previous nuclear tests and its most recent rocket launch. Diplomats said it reflects the growing anger at Pyongyang's continuing defiance of the council and the sanctions resolutions.
How tough the new sanctions will be will depend largely on China, North Korea's main trading partner. China has voted for the three previous sanctions resolutions but has resisted measures that would cut off the country's economy completely.
U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice said a number of new measures to tighten and expand the existing sanctions regime will be discussed with council members and other concerned countries in the coming days. She added in response to a question
Tuesday's nuclear test followed a familiar North Korean pattern. Pyongyang conducted its first two nuclear weapons tests weeks after rocket launches in 2006 and 2009, and this third test followed a rocket launch in December that the U.N. and the U.S. called a cover for a banned long-range missile test.
The Security Council noted that last month, in a resolution that strengthened sanctions in response to the December missile test, its members promised to take "significant action" in the event of a new nuclear test.
"In line with this commitment and the gravity of this violation, the members of the Security Council will begin work immediately on appropriate measures in a Security Council resolution," the council said.
The statement was read by South Korea Foreign Minister Kim Sung-hwan, whose country holds the rotating Security Council presidency this month. South Korea was elected to the council for a two-year term starting in January.
"North Korea will be held responsible for any consequences of this provocative act," Kim told reporters later.
Rice called the test "highly provocative" and said the North's continued work on its nuclear and missile programs threatens regional and international peace and "the security of a number of countries including the United States."
"They will not be tolerated," she said, "and they will be met with North Korea's increasing isolation and pressure under United Nations sanctions."
"The U.N. Security Council must and will deliver a swift, credible and strong response by way of a Security Council resolution that further impedes the growth of DPRK's nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs and its ability to engage in proliferation activity," Rice said, using the initials of the North's official name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon welcomed the council statement and said he was encouraged by "the swift and overwhelming international condemnation of this wanton act."
Ban, a former South Korean foreign minister, expressed regret that his repeated appeals to North Korea's new young leader, Kim Jong Un, to give up its pursuit of nuclear weapons and address international concerns through dialogue "have fallen on deaf ears."
North Korea is the only country to carry out nuclear tests in the 21st century, he said, and the latest test in defiance of the U.N. and the international community "is a serious challenge to global efforts to curb nuclear proliferation."
Ban said he is also "profoundly concerned about the negative impact of this act on regional stability." | <urn:uuid:e15eb932-ecb7-4565-9192-b4ee21f3d263> | 2013-05-18T07:25:21Z | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | [
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Also, I don't consider this to be material in the "property" sense, but I adopted a(nother) kitty and he is wonderful! He's white with a black "cap and saddle" pattern and he drools when he's happy or excited. He's very well behaved and the other cats love him.
I have a big weakness for cats, so I'm very glad that the other cats love and accept him!
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Oct. 9, 1998 COLUMBIA, Mo.--Ducks, geese and bald eagles soaring over areas the size of small towns are envisioned when talking about federally protected wetlands, not areas that are maybe as big as a small swimming pool and apparently void of life. University of Missouri-Columbia Professor Ray Semlitsch is trying to change that view and explain the importance of smaller wetlands before they are managed out of existence.
"Large wetlands are beautiful and need to be protected, but for some animal species such as frogs, toads and salamanders, it is small wetlands that support greater species diversity," said Semlitsch, who along with his graduate research assistant, Russ Bodie, recently published their research in Conservation Biology. "These smaller, temporary wetlands--because they are dry at certain times during the year--are much harder to appreciate than vast marsh areas. But without these smaller wetlands, it is very possible that much of the animal and plant life that make wetlands rich, productive habitats would not survive. We need to worry about the conservation of smaller wetlands as well as the larger ones."
Small wetlands currently are defined as being less than 4 hectares, or about 8 to 9 acres. The majority of the nation's wetlands are much smaller than might be imagined, closer to 1 to 2 acres and sometimes as small as several square yards. These small wetlands may comprise the majority of wetlands in the United States and help support a vast diversity of wetland species. However, unlike the large wetlands, these smaller areas are not protected to the same extent.
Recently, the Army Corp of Engineers, which manages wetlands of all sizes throughout the United States, drafted regulations that will change the way wetlands are managed in the future. They have put off any change in management regulations until April, but the MU researchers argue that the changes in the regulations could manage these smaller wetlands out of existence.
"Right now we can't detect losses of small wetlands by satellite imagery, a technique used to assess environmental change," Bodie said. "We lose thousands of acres each year in wetlands and these smaller ones are not even taken into account. Yet, they play a vital role in the ecosystem and support a great variety of organisms."
Research done by Semlitsch and Bodie has indicated that when some individuals of a species move between wetlands, this increases their chances of survival. By populating many different wetlands, various species thrive, even during drought years when some wetlands are dry. When smaller wetlands are destroyed, the chances of survival for many species' populations may decrease dramatically because distances between individual wetlands become longer, making movement between wetlands more difficult. These small wetland breeding sites for amphibians are especially critical in light of purported world-wide declines, Semlitsch said.
Wetlands in general also have direct benefits to humans as they filter out chemicals and silt, buffer lands from flooding, and are a favorite of hunters and fishers. They also are very costly and difficult to develop for construction or other purposes.
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June 22, 2010 Millions of years before humans began battling it out over beachfront property, a similar phenomenon was unfolding in a diverse group of island lizards.
Often mistaken for chameleons or geckos, Anolis lizards fight fiercely for resources, responding to rivals by doing push-ups and puffing out their throat pouches. But anoles also compete in ways that shape their bodies over evolutionary time, says a new study in the journal Evolution.
Anolis lizards colonized the Caribbean from South America some 40 million years ago and quickly evolved a wide range of shapes and sizes. "When anoles first arrived in the islands there were no other lizards quite like them, so there was abundant opportunity to diversify," said author Luke Mahler of Harvard University.
Free from rivals in their new island homes, Anolis lizards evolved differences in leg length, body size, and other characteristics as they adapted to different habitats. Today, the islands of Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica and Puerto Rico -- collectively known as the Greater Antilles -- are home to more than 100 Anolis species, ranging from lanky lizards that perch in bushes, to stocky, long-legged lizards that live on tree trunks, to foot-long 'giants' that roam the upper branches of trees.
"Each body type is specialized for using different parts of a tree or bush," said Mahler.
Alongside researchers from the University of Rochester, Harvard University, and the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, Mahler wanted to understand how and when this wide range of shapes and sizes came to be.
To do that, the team used DNA and body measurements from species living today to reconstruct how they evolved in the past. In addition to measuring the head, limbs, and tail of over a thousand museum specimens representing nearly every Anolis species in the Greater Antilles -- including several Cuban species that were previously inaccessible to North American scientists -- they also used the Anolis family tree to infer what species lived on which islands, and when.
By doing so, they discovered that the widest variety of anole shapes and sizes arose among the evolutionary early-birds. Then as the number of anole species on each island increased, the range of new body types began to fizzle.
Late-comers in lizard evolution underwent finer and finer tinkering as time went on. As species proliferated on each island, their descendants were forced to partition the remaining real estate in increasingly subtle ways, said co-author Liam Revell of the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center in Durham, NC.
"Over time there were fewer distinct niches available on each island," said Revell. "Ancient evolutionary changes in body proportions were large, but more recent evolutionary changes have been more subtle."
The researchers saw the same trend on each island. "The islands are like Petri dishes where species diversification unfolded in similar ways," said Mahler. "The more species there were, the more they put the brakes on body evolution."
The study sheds new light on how biodiversity comes to be. "We're not just looking at species number, we're also looking at how the shape of life changes over time," said Mahler.
The team's findings are published in the journal Evolution.
Richard Glor of the University of Rochester and Jonathan Losos of Harvard University were also authors on this study.
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