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What does the president of the Advanced Biofuels Association, the Biomass Power Association, Covanta Energy and NRG Energy all have in common with 10 U.S. Senators and a handful of Representatives? They all support the Master Limited Partnerships (MLP) Parity Act, a piece of legislation created by Sen. Chris Coon, D-Del., that attempts to tweak the tax code to support the popular energy philosophy that calls for an all of the above energy strategy.
If the legislation passes, it will not be until 2013, (thank the fiscal cliff for that), but when or if it does, it would allow renewable energy project developers looking for private investment funding the same opportunity enjoyed by oil, natural gas, coal extraction and pipeline developers. Typically, those projects can access capital at a lower cost and are more liquid using an MLP.
This is what Coons and others have said about the MLP Parity Act in a whitepaper explaining the bill, "The Master Limited Partnerships Parity Act is a straightforward, powerful tweak to the federal tax code that could unleash significant private capital into the energy market."
And, from Dan Reicher and Felix Mormann of Stanford University's Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance: "Master limited partnerships carry the fund-raising advantages of a corporation: ownership interests are publically traded and offer investors the liquidity, limited liability and dividends of classic corporations. Their market capitalization exceeds $350 billion." And, finally they say, "With average dividends of just 6 percent, these investment vehicles could substantially reduce the cost of financing renewables."
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According to Coon's whitepaper, an MLP must generate at least 90 percent of its income from qualified sources, such as real estate or natural resources including crude oil, natural gas, coal, timber or other minerals. The MLP Parity Act expands the definition of qualified, and includes clean energy resources and infrastructure projects. Some of the energy technologies that would qualify include wind, closed and open loop biomass, geothermal, solar, municipal solid waste, combined heat and power, and others. Advanced biofuels, including cellulosic and biodiesel, along with algae-based fuel, would also qualify.
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Interesting blog post on Palate Press about Natalie Maclean's purported copyright infringement in publishing reviews without authorization or proper attribution on her subscription-only website. Basically, the allegations are such that she's taken reviews from various commercial publications (including Wine Spectator) and other sites, and provided access to them behind her paywall.
In other sketchy allegations, here's another post about requiring wineries buying subscriptions to her website before she'd review the wines, and another post reviewing her new book.
I don't know Natalie personally, but I do know she's posted here periodically. If she's stealing other peoples' reviews and reselling access to them, that's pretty sketchy and I would suspect there's a cease-and-desist at a minimum, and a lawsuit potentially beyond that.
I personally don't consider her reviews relevant because my palate doesn't align with hers, but who knows if she even tasted the wines she wrote about.
Edited to put a capital L in Natalie's last name. The least I can do is spell her name correctly.This message has been edited. Last edited by: futronic,
BTW, the comments section of the first blog post I linked is hilarious.
Don't most american retailers do this? Does vintages get specific permission each time they quote a reviewer? winealign.com also seems to also do this. I wonder what the legality is?
I think there's a clear distinction between retailers using shelf talkers to sell wine (which is done with attribution) and taking critics reviews without attribution or permission and selling access to them on your website.
I'm not a member of WineAlign, so I don't know for sure, but I'm pretty sure the reviews they publish are from their own critics. Can anyone that's a member comment on this?
I'd be interested to hear what Thomas Matthews has to say on this matter, since surely WS knows about this. Harvey Steinman, specifically, was mentioned in the blog post.
i was reading until i realized it was about a canadian "accredited sommelier" ;-)
This is my sig -> www.brownteacup.com
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Hah! Seriously though, read the comments section. Jancis Robinson and Allen Meadows chime in. It adds a whole other level to the post.
nm i see the post now
still the same yawn, can I have my waste 8 minutes back please ;-)This message has been edited. Last edited by: g-man,
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I do remember this cellar_fiend thread: click
Pretty funny that she actually replies.
Sometimes I read a thread and think we ran out of stuff to talk about like 4 years ago. ~spo
Many people don't know this, but it's possible to read something you don't agree with on the internet and simply move on with your life. – Michael Rock
A few months ago I had the opportunity to tell someone:
"The world needs a whole lot more journalists who become wine lovers and write about wine and a whole lot less wine lovers who try to become journalists."
I don't think there's anything here other than someone who way over stepped their area of competency.
Paul Romero (tlily)- Owner, Winemaker, Parking Attendant
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Hopefully the phrases "ass with a side of ass" and "more wood put to it than Jenna Jameson" haven't been copyrighted. If they have, many of us are in trouble.
Paul - she really overstepped.
So tacky.
But I think from this latest fiasco, she's probably picked up more readers than she ever had. Before this, did anyone know who she is? Or care?
All I know about her comes from a few years ago where she was called out for doing crap like this. Joe Dressner even posted about her on his blog.
Fully agree that it's far better for the reader if a writer becomes a wine lover than vice versa.
Read the posts on this forum for examples of the latter!
"The best part is how he said the ENGLISH language. Fine irony. Use American next time."
At the risk of being accused of internet bullying, isn't conosur affiliated with MacLean?
An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools. - Hemingway
I find it hilarious that she commented on the negative aspect of the review of her book in such positive and glowing terms, thanking the reviewer. This she wrote and signed the comment with her own name.
Then she writes a later comment under the name "Kevin Johnson". KJ harshly criticizes the reviewer of her book in very strong and negative tone. Kevin then sings her praises above all and provides a link to her website / newsletter.
Unfortunately for Nat, the site publisher realized that Natalie Maclean and Kevin Johnson both published their comments from the same computer. Ooops.
Would you find this dishonest?
Some years ago we went to a restaurant after reading several good reviews about it on an online forum. During dinner, the owner told me he wrote those reviews himself.
This is becoming even more interesting as others such as Randal Graham, Alice Feiring have weighed in on Twitter (search #natnabbed)..
John Szabo also writes on the topic in a WineAlign article:
The interesting thing is that in terms of using other's reviews, ie: Spectator, Parker, etc. they have been guilty of the EXACT same thing and funny enough, seems to have quietly changed their practice while dumping on Natalie..
I don't defend her, but it seems that the practice of using other's reviews (perhaps without permission) is probably rampant and it's funny how she has become the lightening rod..
Interesting and serious accusation. To be clear, are you saying that Spectator and Parker have lifted complete verbatim reviews from other authors without attribution? Can you cite a specific example?
I've been an intermittent subscriber to Spectator over the years, and a long-time continuous subscriber to Wine Advocate. I can't recall reading anything suggestive of what you are claiming.
David G
No, WS or Parker have done no such thing - Related to this thread, the publication in Ontario 'WineAlign' has lifted WS and WA reviews under the auspices of the biweekly 'Vintages' magazine produced by the liquor monopoly in our province, the LCBO...
They've stopped the practice I believe as a response to the Natalie MacLean 'scandal'..What peeves me is that they are taking a 'holier than thou' approach to her situation whilst they've been doing the exact same thing - And then some, as I clearly have seen examples of them posting WS reviews when the Vintages mag had only posted a Parker review...
I was under the assumption that based on the profile of 'WineAlign' in Ontario, they must have had some arrangement with WS and Parker...I now believe this to not be the case as they have now stripped their website of any 'non-staff' reviews...
Once again, although 'WineAlign' is now doing what's right, they are taking an approach of complete innocence when I know for a fact they were doing exactly what Natalie has been accused of in relation to copyright infringement.
Hope this clarifies...
Yes, thanks. You meant done tothem, I read as done bythem.
David G
If I understand correctly, the complaint about Natalie McLean is that she quotes other reviewers without attribution. WineAlign always attributed tasting notes and scores to the source.
But I gave up reading anything that Natalie writes a long time ago so I'm just going on hearsay. If the rest of you did likewise, there would be no offence.
Nice find, Red guy. But doubt she will reply this time.
"Believe me, you can count on Slippery Pete" - Kramer
Also funny that she thanked GD instead of CF.
But thinking about it - set aside the laziness and classlessness demonstrated by using other people's reviews.
Different critics have different opinions on individual wines. How does she establish any consistency if she copies a review from this one and another from that one? And for the five or six people who might act on those recommendations, wouldn't they just end up confused as all hell?
"The best part is how he said the ENGLISH language. Fine irony. Use American next time."
Happy New Year W+A.
"The best part is how he said the ENGLISH language. Fine irony. Use American next time."
Apparently now she's thinking about suing.
The local Ottawa paper
And here's something from Decanter.
"The best part is how he said the ENGLISH language. Fine irony. Use American next time."
I think Natalie should be nominated for the Lance Armstrong award for threatening to sue everyone who objects to her less-than-honest practices.
How can you damage a reputation that didn't exist?
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Can anyone disprove some of the theories of Sandy Hook hoax? **4th edit, purple ** third edit in green/ cross out
woah... got up in the top convos!
ETA: I never expected to get so many responses to this. I'm way behind, and will need some time to catch up, answer, and read/ look into responses. I do hope that people are starting to be a little more respectful, the intent of this post was NOT to start drama, I was simply asking for some facts to disprove some of the stuff I saw. Thank you to those who provided that without being raging jerks about it. From what I HAVE seen, my opinion now is that there are aspects of it being hidden still.... but it's nowhere near as big of a deal as some of these theories out here, especially the Temple of Whatever one. Eeeeek. I promise I will get back to people as soon as I possibly can, and please remember to try to be a little respectful here, people were killed! I for one am not denying that.
I'm really asking here.... I didn't believe this at first... but now... what the heck?? Does anyone have anything to add? Disproving or with more info... whatever you'd like. Very brief summary of the stuff I'm talking about.... will give further details if asked.
*To be clear: I don't think that nothing happened.... and all of this sickens me. I just don't understand some of this stuff.....*
1. No footage released, with other school shootings it was blasted all over the media almost immediately- stills or small clips - for varying reasons. Still think this one is odd. I still think this is weird
2. The freakin ME.... saying they were on the 2nd floor... all the victims he knew of were shot "with the long gun".... the man seemed drunk, and deflected questions. Still not sure about this one either. Granted, small town, he was probably nervous as shit.... but still. Some of the stuff he said is being disproved.... like the weapons used for starters. I don't like this guy still, again, get that he's nervous.... but come on. He repeatedly said a type of weapon was used that apparenlty wasn't!
3. The one father pretty much laughing before his conference (not knowing cameras were on yet) then visibily turning on emotion. (btw, he's not 57 years old... like public record shows) Alright alright, I should have clarified - I get that people react to things differently. Why would he drum up the emotion though before the interview started? You would think that's something that would just happen on its own... I still say that I understand that people handle grief differently, but his behavior was odd. Sure, he could have been gathering himself, but he seemed plenty under control.
4. The little girl with Obama looking exactly the same (same dress as her dead sister.... I couldn't do that as a mother) I'm personally comfortable with the explanations provided..... For those asking for proof - I don't have a specific link. Please look at the pictures for yourself, the sisters look similar, yes, but they are not the same person.
5. 4 handguns found inside now - but it was stated clearly over and over that they were shot with a larger gun - that was out in the trunk to me, this is the biggest question remaining. Still the biggest question for me.
6. The car he used not being his moms granted, he could have stolen it.... but really.... doesn't seem likely. I'm going to cross this out (4th update) - assuming it's true it was someone the mother knew.... alright, coulda been borrowing the car. We don't know their life. (I reminded myself of baby mama movie there)
7. What about the people chased through the woods? (video footage) still not sure about this one, yeah, people run when chased even if they are innocent.... but why was it never explained? I'll cross this out for the 4th edit, I still think that someone would have explained this better with so many questions being asked. Actually no, I'm not crossing it out. It's a valid question still, though the explanations are certainly feasible.
8. The aerial views of the scene - no children. None. No one in a hurry. There's not any footage of the scene either, there's 1 still shot of kids being led, with all the news coverage.... it just doesn't seem right. I get that it was locked down, but that wasn't permanent. Would like someone to provide a link if they can that shows anything to the contrary - may have already happened, but I haven't seen it yet. I'm about 300 replies behind at this point. At least.
9. The report that showed a stretcher with a sheet over it being wheeled a few minutes down the road where the ambulances could actually get to.... which encompasses a ton of issues in itself Still weird - I can't find a short video with this clip in it, in the 24 minute one, just look at it, tell me something isn't off there. A family member of mine is an EMT, I checked with him about this, and according to him, emergency vehicles are NOT restricted access. So is there another explanation? (yes, I'm aware different areas can have different rules)
10. The guy that had the 6 kids or whatever in his house..... why would an adult leave them there, he lived PAST the fire house, his story varies from female to male, and who just brings kids into the house and doesn't call the cops after hearing gun shots?
and why did he have a fatality list... when it wans't released until 2 days after he was interviewed? His interview makes no damn sense still, but I get the list was released to the town before media, so I scratched that one out. Does anyone have any further questions about this one?
The kid describing the events as it sounding like someone was pounding on a door.... no mention of anything else except banging. (which, would be a blessing if that's true... but why wouldn't he hear anyone scream?) I don't think anyone touched on this?? Except for one answer about an echo Ehhhh... okay. Crossing it on the 4th edit.
12. how this scrawny ass kid with mental issues succesfully killed so many people with a hand gun. Not that easy to hit moving targets, and I doubt that everyone just sat there. still wondering this. Target practice or not.... stunned victims or not... that's a lot to pull off, especially for this kid in the amount of time he did it.
13. How did he have a valid ID of his brother on him if he hadn't seen him in years? VALID ID.... not just an ID. ID's expire, ya know. One poster said that hers didn't expire for 30 years - not being rude, but I don't think Ryan was old enough to have an ID like this. Though, I realize it might have literally nothing to do with what happened, I just find it odd.
Why was his computer smashed to shit? alright, guess this doesn't REALLY matter.... i'll scratch it out.
15. Who was sitting in the front of the police car? no one sits in the front of police cars - anyone have an answer on that? I think in mass confusion, even if someone was not really a suspect.... police always err on the side of caution, and would put someone in the back. When an ex of mine got arrested, I was a minor and happened to be with him, they put me in the back of a car just for transport so my parents could pick me up.
ETA #16: Why did NO parent see their childs body? I get it... but not a single one? Someone stated that Noah's mother did - is there links to this info?
ETA #17: Go do this. 1) Go to google. 2) Search using this phrase "sandy hook united way"
3) On the results page, right under the search bar where you can choose images, web, etc, there should be a choice that says "search tools" at the far right. Click it.
4) You should see a bar underneath "search tools" pop up. There should be a choice that says "any time". Click it.
5) The drop-down box lists a choice for custom range at the bottom. Choose this.
6) A dialog with a from and to date should appear. Use the calendar on the right side of the dialog box and choose December 11th, 2012 for the to and from date. This limits the results of your Google search to pages that were indexed on that date.
7) Click "go" in the dialog. You should now be seeing the results for your search query indexed on that date. In the top few results, if not the very first, you should see the United Way page for the Sandy Hook school.
Full text: United Way extends our most sincere condolences and prayers to all those families affected by the devastating events in Newtown/Sandy Hook, Connecticut. While the eyes of the world may be on Newtown/Sandy Hook, to several staff, volunteers and contributors, Newtown is home. We will stand with the community and everyone affected directly and indirectly by this tragic event as we face the days and weeks ahead.
United Way of Western Connecticut is committed to providing support and resources where and when they become identified and needed. As people from our area and beyond respond to this heartbreaking tragedy, they are turning to United Way looking for ways to help. In response, United Way of Western Connecticut in partnership with Newtown Savings Bank has created the 'Sandy Hook School Support Fund' that will be able to provide support services to the families and community that has been affected.
Disproved ^ makes sense that it was google error. For those asking, there is a long history of cache errors.... please look into it.
Again - I WANT to be disproved. If I argue back, it will be with video or clips. I want someone to prove me wrong about this... I'm arguing as devils advocate, though I believe that some of this can't be just explained away. I understand that in a chaotic event, things get mixed up, people react their own ways, etc... but some of this is too weird.
Yes, it happened. No, I do not believe the entire story, nor the details and a few of the parents effected. I do however believe wholeheartedly that the government is using tragedies much like this one to gain control over our freedoms.
Quoting Anonymous:
I wish I could prove this wrong, but I cant, I personally feel it is one of many "semi-staged" events in US history for politiicians to gain control of the country. :(
I`d agree, but I think it's the shadow government, not the R's or the D's, that's just a farce. Just like 9-11 wasn't the work of one party or the other, it's bigger than that. I think it's the New World Order and not confined to the US.
And yes, the events are staged, like Boston. They executed suspects and then eliminated the FBI agents as well. Pretty obvious, unfortunately.
Quoting MeAndTommyLee:
Yes, it happened. No, I do not believe the entire story, nor the details and a few of the parents effected. I do however believe wholeheartedly that the government is using tragedies much like this one to gain control over our freedoms.
And it's working!
Time and time again.
Quoting Anonymous:
Now they are tearing down the Sandy Hook School and making workers sign confidentiality agreements. They are hiding something then!
Reminds me of when they shipped the ruins of the towers off to China after 9-11-
This whole thing stinks.


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I was watching the news last night. They were reporting on the Ok. tornado. At the end of the story they closed with an alarming fact. America suffers 10 times more than Canada @ 100 per year. Do the math that is 1000 per year. Thankfully they are not all as destructive as the most recent one. It did however get me to thinking that maybe America is cursed.


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ROCKINGHAM, N.C. - Notes from round 1 qualifying in Pro Extreme Motorcycle at the 2013 ADRL Tour presented by Speedtech, Dragpalooza IX listing lane, rider name, elapsed time, top speed, and position in order following run:
Left Lane: Lamond Payne Runs 4.426/160.16, Now #2
Right Lane: Monte Campbell Runs 4.372/161.65, Now #1
10:30 a.m. Weather conditions: air temperature 63 degrees, relative humidity 31 percent, barometer 29.82 inches, adjusted altitude 647 feet, track temperature 71 degrees.
Neither rider had any visible problems, but those times won't stay at
the top of the list.
Left Lane: Dave Norris Runs 4.098/170.36, Now #1
Right Lane: Not on File Runs 4.129/175.00, Now #2
No data on file yet for #12. Based on the numbers, this isn't their first rodeo. Nice run and top speed so far. Norris wasn't quite as fast, but he was quicker and is #1 for now.
Left Lane: Ronald Procopio Runs 4.141/170.95, Now #3
Right Lane: Jack Young Runs 4.281/164.35, Now #4
Good run by Procopio to move into third, for now. Young made a good run, but a tenth off the front-runners.
Left Lane: Terry Schweigert Runs 4.160/168.87, Now #4
Right Lane: Ryan Schnitz Runs 5.732/74.27, Now #8
Good run for Schweigert. Schnitz had some problems early in the run and slowed before half track.
Left Lane: Chuck Wilburn Runs 5.643/102.75, Now #9
Right Lane: John Collins Runs 4.350/162.84, Now #6
Wilburn's bike went to the right and he had to slow, hanging way off the left side of the Hayabusa, to stay in his own lane. Collins' run looked clean.
Left Lane: Eran Pielert Runs 4.564/157.37, Now #9
Right Lane: Jeremy Teasley Runs 5.680/102.78, Now #11
Teasley was doing the same as Wilburn, but he was in the right lane and trying to stay off the wall. Pielert went right down the track, but he's well off the competitive pace.
Left Lane: Darian Guillory Runs 4.133/171.08, Now #4
Right Lane: Ashley Owens Runs 4.085/173.01, Now #1
Bearing in mind that the motorcycles are carrying over 100 pounds more than last year, Owens' run was surprising. Low ET, top speed. Guillory made a nice run, but was well back at the stripe.
Ashley Owens' incremental times: 60ft-1.032 sec., 330ft-2.682.
Left Lane: Eric McKinney Runs 4.078/173.23, Now #1
McKinney accepted Owens' challenge and took both low ET and top speed away on a nice run.
Eric McKinney's incremental times: 60ft-1.032 sec., 330ft-2.679.
Left Lane: Kim Morrell Runs 4.166/168.66, Now #8
Morrell made a good-looking run, barely made the top half of the field.
Left Lane: Not on File Runs 4.233/167.80, Now #9
No tech card yet for #77. Clean run, best of the bottom half.
Left Lane: Tyler Wilson Runs 4.227/169.27, Now #9
Clean run to close out the round.


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Looks like we have some bad news for Iconia A100, Acer A200 and Acer A500 owners. An Acer spokesperson has just confirmed that a Jelly Bean update will not becoming to either of these 3 devices. While the A100 and A500 are already over a year old, the A200 was only just launched earlier this year, thus it's quite disappointing that these devices won't officially see anything past Ice Cream Sandwich.
Will this announcement by Acer make you guys who own these devices to root them?
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LAKE PLACID - Public school students here are taking advantage of a program that lets them compete and train in the sports they love without falling behind on their education.
Roughly 15 student-athletes currently participate in Lake Placid Middle-High School's educational leave program, which lets them take district-approved absences that don't affect attendance records, grades, class credits or their ability to take tests. English teacher Amy Spicer coordinates the program with help from school guidance counselors.
"We support many sports," Spicer said at a recent informational meeting with parents. "Luge, speedskating, figure skating, hockey, freestyle skiing, Nordic skiing, alpine skiing - we're open and pretty flexible to accepting all sorts of sports, but we want to focus on those state and national tournaments and training for those types of events."
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Miles Lussi soars through the air during the New Year's Ski Jump competition Dec. 29 at the Olympic Jumping Complex in Lake Placid. Lussi, a sophomore, is a participant in the Lake Placid Middle-High School educational leave program.
To participate, students and parents are asked to fill out a form that provides basic information about where they are going, what they are doing and how long they will be absent. Students are expected to submit the form at least one week before they leave for a competition or training event, and then Spicer gives the sheet to Principal Rick Retrosi to be approved.
"Students have to maintain an 80 GPA," Spicer said. "If we've ever run into problems, that's been it, because a student may have slipped here or there."
Once the leave is approved, it's Spicer's job to email all of the students' teachers, as well as school secretaries and counselors, to make sure they are aware of the upcoming absence.
"Before they leave, they meet with me to write a checklist before they go," Spicer said.
Spicer said teachers generally don't have concerns when a student leaves. One of the big questions, however, is whether there will be a coach or another adult to supervise the student if they have to take a test, although Spicer said teachers will often wait for the student to return to administer it.
Spicer said she also asks whether the student will have internet access where they're going.
"If there is, that's very helpful," she said. "Students can always email me or their teachers if they have questions or if they're running into problems. Plus, a lot of the time, we as teachers use our websites as ways to communicate with our students - we put our lesson plans on there."
Preparation before a trip is important, but Spicer said meeting with the students after they return is also a key part of the program.
"I usually give them a day to acclimate, to talk to other teachers, hand work in and kind of assess what they still need to do," she said. "So I would meet with the students and say, 'OK, where are we?' We'd go through the checklist, mark everything off, and if there is a quiz or a test that's outstanding, I try to say to the student, 'When do you want to take that? Do you want me to help you organize?'"
Local athletes and LPMHS graduates like Andrew Bliss and Danielle Lussi - both ski jumpers - participated in the program when they were in school. In an email to Spicer, Lussi, who attends Harvard, wrote that the program enhanced her educational and athletic experience, and that some athletes from other public schools didn't have the same support system.


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The Role of Temperature in the Origin and Maintenance of Biodiversity
Principal Investigator(s):
Since the time of Charles Darwin in the 19th century, biologists have recognized that biodiversity increases dramatically from the poles to the equator. For example, there are more tree species in some 50-hectare plots of tropical rainforest than in all of North America! Despite nearly two centuries of inquiry, biologists still do not know why the tropics are so much more diverse than temperate ecosystems. Scientists are now studying the ecological and evolutionary factors that create and maintain biodiversity with renewed urgency because of growing societal concerns about biodiversity conservation.
Dr. Allen is developing and testing new theoretical and statistical approaches to address this question, which involve the mathematical modeling and analysis of DNA sequence data, fossil data, and contemporary biodiversity data. Contrary to conventional wisdom, Dr. Allen's recent work does not support the hypothesis that many different life forms converge at the equator because warm, tropical environments are benign and thereby allow for "comfortable living". Instead, Dr. Allen's research indicates that higher temperatures lead to greater biodiversity because organisms "live faster and die younger" in tropical environments, which leads to higher rates of DNA mutation and faster rates of speciation.
Dr. Allen's research has also yielded the first-ever calculation of the energy required to produce biodiversity. For single-celled planktonic organisms called foraminifera (see illustrations), Dr. Allen calculates that it takes about 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 joules of energy to produce a single new species in the world's oceans. This quantity exceeds current annual global fossil fuel consumption by all of humanity. Conservationists have long considered biodiversity to be priceless. Dr. Allen's research suggests, however, that biodiversity does have a price, and that this price is extremely high in terms of energy.
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Got a 5 pack of Sosa Vintage on a weekend special. Took one out of the pack and find it to be an enjoyable smoke. Even burn, nice ash , walk away for 5 minutes and it stays lit. Good earthy flavors with a nice finish, pairs well with a good bourbon. I'll let the others rest in the humi for a time. I'm sure they will be just as good and I would recommend them to friends.
I recently found a deal on 10 Sosa Vintage Toros in the Clearance area & couldn't be happier with the purchase. Saving over 50% off of the normal price is a good way to experience blends we might not otherwise get a chance to try. In the case of Vintage, the 6" X 50 frame is wrapped with a very old Connecticut leaf. The long filler has a lot of ligero, but years of post roll aging have tamed them to the point where I consider this to be a mild/medium bodied cigar. Construction & burn are spot on. Flavor is predominated by an earthy, woodsy taste with mild spice. All in all a good stogie. At the current price of just over two bones, this is a very nice deal.
LOVE this cigar, got it in a sampler..... will be ordering more.....
Got the Sosa Vintage Churchills (5 pack). Nice appearance, no visible flaws on the wrapper, though there are a few chunky veins bubbling up from the binder on one of the five, but nothing breaking through the wrapper. Even feel to them, no hard spots. Let them sit for a while, and they were pretty decent. Nice, dark ash, lightening in the center. Fairly even burn, nice cone of ash throughout and no problems with canoes on any of them. Medium flavor with a taste of leather dominating about half way through until the end which was pleasant but not overpowering. They give me about 1 hour and 15 minutes of smoke time on average. Never unpleasant, they're a good deal if you get them on clearance.... - I wouldn't pay cigar store retail for them though. I'll definitely be getting more of these.
Picked up a10-pk on clearance. Really enjoyable cigar. Well made and good flavor. Hope to get more as soon as my humidors get low.
Okay, I received my order of Sosa Vintage Piramide #2 and I immediately loved the look and smell of the cigar. It's wrapper is a littler darker than most Connecticut wrappers; it almost looks like a Criollo. I had heard a lot of good things about Sosa cigars in the past, but I had never tried one before. I put them in my humi, but I couldn't wait. After just a "few" short days, I had to try one. I was on the fence about it; I didn't dislike it, but I wasn't sure if I liked it enough to buy it again. To be fair, I decided to do the "RIGHT" thing and let them rest a while LONGER in my humi. Boy, I'm glad that I did. When I smoked the second one I enjoyed it so much that I ended up smoking three of them on the same day. The flavor was fantastic, the burn was perfectly even, the draw was excellent, and it produced huge clouds of smoke! As it burned, the ash was white and lasted almost 3" before it fell off on its own. That, my friends, is the sign of a GREAT stick! Everything I had heard about Sosa cigars proved to be true and I learned my lesson; you have to let them rest in your humi for at least a week or two to truly appreciate this awesome cigar. Keep 'em coming CI...at the rate I'm smoking these I'll be ready to buy more of them very soon!
I visited the Sosa cigar shop and separate cigar bar while at Downtown Disney. Nothing that remarkable about either place. Premium cigars sold to tourists at premium prices. Really makes you appreciate CI. The Sosa Vintage is veiny and unattractive. Everything about it says bundle cigar. The smoking experience, though not bad, was patently unremarkable. I kept telling myself that each puff would be my last. Alas, I stuck it out, giving the Sosa Vintage Pyramid its due. Not surprisingly, the cigar became more full-bodied the longer I smoked, but not more full-flavored. I have a 5-pack and a few individuals I plan on giving away to friends who favor CT wrappers.


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no matter what state! (-if you have any belief in mankind)
way to go!
There's a lot of people out there who think (sometimes unfairly) that communism is the Worst Possible Thing® on the planet. The last thing we need is to be pidgeonholed, as a community, as communists to the last code pig and riot grrl... particularly in this point in time where Linux is getting real momentum and the possibility of substantial numbers of people making a decent living off of linux solutions is reaching a much wider population.
While I applaud the Chinese government for making what I personally feel as The Right Choice (IMO, no government anywhere should be tied to any one company for any one service or product, no matter how big the company is), I think the timing could have been a bit better (like, say, a year from now).
I wonder if France is getting any closer to OSS OSes as standard. Wouldn't it be nice if Canada and the US did something similar.
email@example.com (remove the SPAM-B-GONE bit)
The Linux development model is probably closer to true communist ideals (as laid down by Marx and co.) than anything else I can think of in this world.
firstname.lastname@example.com (remove the SPAM-B-GONE bit)
It is free in a country where money is important.
It runs on old machines in a country where industry and computing are not on par with much of the rest of the world.
For the PR, Linux is ideal. There is great flexibility and power inherint in the OS and it can communicate with other systems fairly easily (i.e. Mac, Windoze, etc.).
In terms of public relations for China and good spin control, Linux is also ideal. The OS is developed by many often scattered strangers in often remote places. It is a community effort. "A People's OS for a People's Republic."
For the Linux community outside of China, on the other hand, this could be bad. In the United States and in much of the rest of the world, we still fear the "red bastards" and every thing even slightly smelling of communism is seen as taboo and evil. Linux as an OS may be tainted by communism.
Of course, die hard Linux users will never go away, but convincing other people to use Linux (read: the US Gov.) may grow more difficult. Though it is a good, stable OS, it may be killed by paranoid politicians crying "commies! commies!" ("wolf! wolf!").
And then of course, it is hard to truely feel good about making the Chinese government more effecient in its ability to oppress the masses (even with an OS from the masses).
And the Chinux mascot should be tux in red, instead of black.
Da Zdrastvui Revolutsia!!! Da Zdrastvui Lenin!!! Da Zdrastvui TUX!!!!!!!!
Vovida, OS VoIP
Beer recipe: free! #Source
Cold pints: $2 #Product
Vovida, OS VoIP
Beer recipe: free! #Source
Cold pints: $2 #Product
If you observe the free software community long enough, you can see that its trajectory will allow it to break all historical bounds of government, law, and power. Information will be free. Encryption will be widespread. Intellectual property will not be hoarded. Multinational corporations will not hold power over nations.
Get ready.
Actually, I'm sure that China has been thinking about the very same question, in reverse. They can't see the source to Windows, and for all they know, the NSA has put back doors into every Chinese-language version of Windows. (Those of you who think that the NSA doesn't do this kind of thing, please read this link [counterpane.com]).
That is, the Chinese know that they can't trust Windows. But the Chinese can't sneak hacks into Linux either, since they have to provide source code and it has to pass review by Linus and the other kernel hackers.
Vovida, OS VoIP
Beer recipe: free! #Source
Cold pints: $2 #Product
"As long as they are going to steal software we want them to steal ours."
Then, March of this year:
We are a very global company, and we've made huge investments in some of these developing markets. Over 4 million PCs a year are sold in China. Now, we don't make so much revenue off of those PCs, because of the software piracy there. If we could raise the money we get per PC in China to be even half of what it is in the United States, that would be hundreds of millions of dollars for us. And so as piracy goes down, as that market grows, it's going to be a fantastic thing, and that's what justifies the attention we put in there, and those levels of investment.
Clearly Gates had a seat-of-the-pants plan on China... allow the piracy to continue, and then call them on it and make them pay. The monkey wrench of Linux in China could mean the loss of more revenues for MS than almost any other single event.
You would think that with that kind of one-on-one personal attention, Microsoft would not have to endure these kind of announcments.
I'm inclined to believe that Judge Jacksons 207 pages have crossed the ocean. No time to rejoice. However bad M$ may have behaved, that really isn't the issue. Neither is communism. The Chinese sense of community and their propensity for pragmatism have historical roots. And, OSS is a very practical approach to crafting computing solutions - for any government, library system, educational institute, etc., to use. The business case grows stronger by the hour!
The vast majority of Americans have been either brain-washed through advertising by M$, are sharing in the profits through retirement mutual funds, throw money at most of their problems (especially if thinking is required!), have used Windoze for so long it is the best choice for them, or all/most of the above. This is not the case around the rest of the world.;-)
From a political perspective, it looks like the Chinese were just trying to beat the French.
I predict MinneSOta, will declare Linux as its official OS before Vermont does.Character is most often discovered over time.
I keep seeing posts like China's involvement in Linux is bad. China runs over students with tanks. China doesn't observe human rights. Etc. etc.
What one country does is their perogative.
However. You want that country to change? You want them to "improve" and see things your way? Great. By choosing Linux as an OS, doesn't that simply bring more of other cultures into China? Doesn't this bring information to a country which so many consider to be locked down?
What better way to liberate a people than by giving them information from the world?
But politics aside, China's involvement with Linux will be a good thing. While not every Chinese citizen has a computer, they can all think. Most of them if given half a chance at education are extremely talented and are inclined to mental manipulation of information and concepts. What new advancements could be gained by such exposure of a high quality OS to an additional few hundred million to billions of minds?
The goal of Linux was to be the OS which dominates the world, yes? If so, then doesn't this represent a major milestone? The cooperation and adoption of Linux by one of the world's largest countries?
It is a good thing for Linux. The recognition of the value of an OS by a country's government will have impact with the companies and software institutions of the world as in order to do business with China, they will have to run Linux compatible software.
This is a major step up for the Linux community and a day when the Linux community see's an influx of a new band of programmers and contributers as well as new ideas and cultural mores.
It is a chance for us as a community to show our good graces and not be shown as selfish egotists who are prejudiced against brilliant minds for the faults of a few in power in their country.
Just because the leaders of a country committed acts which we consider to be heinous does not mean that the people in China supported such an act.
Remember, it was a Chinese student who was killed fighting for Chinese rights. Killed by people in power in China who feared what? The flow of information. The flow of new ideas.
What is Linux? The embodiment of new ideas, of free information.
This is a good thing for both China and Linux.
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- Reap the fires of the soul.
- Harvest the passion of life.
I smell another AnonCow who hasn't been paying attention.
China is built around communist ideas, and considers itself (as does most everyone else) a communist state ie: a 'Peoples Republic'. In reality, it's barely communist in its actions... more like a despotic police state which is unsucessfully trying to hold back encroaching consumerism. Socialism, however, is alive (and well? depends on who you ask) in Canada, Norway, France and a whack of other places. Even the US has its socialist leanings (FDR's welfare state, for example). I think it was FDR. Wasn't it?
McCarthyism has *not* past. "Commie" is such an ingrained word in the psyche of baby-boomer and Gen-X american residents that it'll take another 2 generations before the intolerance has finally worn off, mostly based on the death of those individuals! If you think McCarthyism is dead, just take a read at some of the posts on this very same forum, which is supposed to have a higher average IQ than Joeseph Guntotin Merican. Ask your daddy what his opinion on 'Commies' is, and see what kind of rederick is spewed. Ask your grandaddy, assuming he didn't die in Korea or something fighting the... now, what nation was that again? I forget...
Personally, I've never found a problem with the idea of communist or socialist concepts, and thus have no need to 'get over' anything. I'm lucky enough to be a relatively young Canadian born citizen which never had to deal with a national stigma of lame congressional witch-hunts. My fear is that Linux will suffer stigma from those same intolerant individuals that made those congressional hearings a reality. (This is totally avoiding the conspiracy theorists' view that the hearings were mostly just pure anti-semitism cloaked in an 'acceptable' form for that day, of course)
Communism does seem very fair, very egalitarian, very nice in theory. Of course, what with people being greedy by nature (hard to defeat millenia of genetic imperative to cover your own ass) the implementation of tenable communist/socialist states have generally sucked hard ass. The fact that is HAS sucked in the past has cast a pall over anyone or anything associated with it, and I fear that it'll cast a pall over Linux too. I dearly hope to be proven false.
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Webslacker: Woh Duh Monitor Way Sa Ma Lan Sah?
1. Webslacker was not using standard Mandarin pronunciations. The correct way to put the pinyin as follows:
Wo3 de5 Monitor wei2 she2 me5 lan2 se4?
2. 'Monitor' is not Chinese. Chinese for 'monitor' is 'xian3 shi4 qi4'.
3. The grammar of the sentence is wrong. Simply put, Webslacker's translation sounded like a Chinese dub of Yoda's speech. Correct way to speak 'Why is my monitor blue?' in Chinese is follows:
Wei2 she2 me5 wo3 de5 xian3 shi4 qi4 shi4 lan2 se4?
For those without proper browser, the UCS-2 codes for the sentence as follows:
Chinese Characters and culture [http://www.zhongwen.com/ [zhongwen.com]]
Unihan Database [http://charts.unicode.org/ [unicode.org]]
It's a heck of a lot easier to set up extemporaneous networks, write encryption and steganographic software, and raise general havoc with *nix than with Windows or Macs. Try creating a neighborhood network with serial ports and slash wire using MSWindows or MacOS...
The powers-that-be may live to regret adopting Linux (if indeed they have, and this isn't just ZDNET's overeager newsmongering). It will ultimately prove far more corrosive to entrenched power than Billy's Mandarin-speaking dancing paperclips ever would have been.
So you're saying they won't be using E as their wm.
In the world of free software, there's no room for national boundaries, corporate trade secrets, powerful governments, restricted information, or dictatorial regimes.
Rather than showing the Chinese people that we blame them for a government in which they have no say, let's invite them to participate in our world of [relative] freedom. Don't crititice the PRC regime; spread our culture (ours, not American/European pop culture) and ideas, because they will bring a greater benefit to the Chinese than making a point that we're going to limit who can use our supposedly-free software.
(I'm sure someone will shoot me down for the cultural imperialism in that last paragraph.
Finally, someone with the insight to use those two words to describe linux.
Another communist aspect of linux is the *complete* lack of property involved. Nobody has ownership of any aspect of the OS, including any intellectual aspects. OSS (GPL) is just about the only truly free useful human product on the planet.
open source economics might play a big factor in the physical economy too
Let's all hope we see this day before we destroy our world trying to get richer with globalization, at the expense of workers, the environment, human rights, etc.........
Did you know that the minimum wage in the United States is lower than the poverty line? Don't be so cavaliar about other countries problems, the United States has plenty of dirty laundry. And it's not just about our companies being just too damn competitive (that durn Microsoft).
I respond this way because I have close friends from China. It's a lot like the US. There are alot of good people, and a suspicious government.
Did you know that the New York Police Department had been cited by Amnesty International for Human Rights Violations? Did you ever hear of the US engineering the military coup of a democratically elected socialist in Chile? Or how about Mai Lai? Incidently, name the only nation to use a nuclear weapon on civilians? Yep that's right, good old clean faced US of A.
Get over the nationalist crap spoonfed into you -- if you don't trust the media to tell you a straight story regarding computer OS's, what makes you think that you'll get a clear picture of more politically sensitive stories.
Quoting Mark Twain (via Utah Phillips): "Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it."
Looks like this isn't true afterall. How could a government declare an official OS anyway?
ESR proclaims [linuxtoday.com] how glad the Linux community is that China didn't really pick us. Read some of the follow-ups, they range from why an oppressive nation like China is bad for an open source OS to why a greedy corporate driven nation like the US is bad for an OS OS. Personally I think the more people using and contributing to Linux, the better. When you have a great idea, and you have the ability to make it happen, differences pale in comparison to the good you are doing. Developing something like Linux has always transcended geographical, political and monetary differences.
Yeah, the US is a fat, lumbering beast of a beaurocracy. Yeah, people are shafted everyday by the Gov. But not like in China. No sir, I don't think I'll ever go back there. Not until there are some changes.
I wish I had moderator points right now. This is the best Comment I've read on this subject.
Well, I'll lend my +1 bonus to see if it helps attract it any attention...
The issue with GPL is that you need to distribute or make available the source to your changes whenever yout distribute your software to someone else. If the PRC's government makes proprietary modifications to Linux and only deploys it within the governement, they have absolutely no reason to share it with the world. None.
Nowhere in the GPL does it say you need to share all of your development work with the world if you happen to use a GPL'd work as a starting point. The GPL kicks in the moment you try to redistribute your work, since you can't redistribute a modified GPL'd work unless you make the source available for the modified work.
The GPL really is about freedom, including the freedom to take the source and do whatever the hell you want with it behind closed doors. The only requirement the GPL makes is that you must extend the same freedoms to others that were extended to you if you choose to distribute your work. I doubt we're going to see a PRC Linux Distribution anytime soon.--Joe
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Shamasdin capped a thrilling 2001/02 season with "The shot heard round the Ivies," which was a dramatic match-clinching as well as Ivy League Title winning defeat of Harvard's Will Lee 4-6, 6-2, 6-4. Adil's other highlights from his freshman season included wins over Georgia's Nick Boeker, Fresno State's Greg Shearer, and North Carolina's Andy Metzler. In doubles, Shamasdin teamed Nick Goldberg '05 to win the Omni Hotel's Regional Doubles Championship. Adil and Nick advanced to the Omni National Championships where they were defeated by the 3rd seeded team of Andrew Columbo and Tiago Ruffoni from Auburn.
Adil began his sophomore season by reaching the finals of the Omni Hotels Regional Doubles Championship with partner Nick Goldberg '05. The sensational sophomore duo reached a season high of #26 in the country. For the year Adil compiled a singles record and a doubles record, which included a win over Wake Forest's Mike Murray to help lead the Bruno to a exciting 4-3 win over a Demon Deacon team that was ranked #17 at the time!
So far in 2003/04, Adil and doubles partner Jamie Cerretani '04 have reached an impressive season high ITA ranking of #7 in the country. A tandem that is considered by Brown Tennis historians to be the most prolific doubles team in school history dating back to Brown's 1st year of sponsoring men's tennis in 1926! Adil and Jamie's accomplishments continue to pile up this year which include capturing titles at the Harvard Fall Invitational, TheOmni Regional Championships, and winning two matches at the ITA National Indoor Championships Other significant singles results this season have included reaching the singles final of the Harvard Fall Invitational, reaching the Round of 16 at the Omni Regional Singles Championship, and knocking off Michigan's Brian Hung and Fresno State's Stephan Suta in dual match play.
Adil's junior career saw him finish ranked #5 in singles and #1 in doubles in Canada. He has three National titles and an ITF doubles title as well. Adil has also reached the quarterfinals in doubles of a futures event and posted a win over three-time national champion Peter Richman in the summer before he joined the Brown Bears.
Hometown:Pickering, Ontario Canada Parents:Kamra and Rozmina Shamasdin Major:Psychology


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In 2008, Bernie Madoff taught the world the meaning of Ponzi Scheme: "I never invested the funds in securities as promised," he told a courtroom packed with victims and media.
Where did he go wrong? Madoff said that during the U.S. recession in the early 1990s, he was "compelled'" to provide the returns that he promised investors.
He should have listened to Herbert Bayard Swope. Then the vicious cycle of paying dividends and redemptions to existing investors using the money from newer investors may have never begun.
Perhaps he tried it before and got away with it. But this time, maybe starting five or more years ago, he gambled and lost, and the company's financial situation slippery-sloped into an impossible equation. After three decades of maintaining a reputation as a guru stock picker, consistently delivering returns through bull and bear markets both, he is now known as the mastermind of the worlds largest Ponzi scheme in history, totaling $65 billion, and worse over, is now the modern day mascot for investor distrust around the world.
I feel sorry for him. Only four months after confessing to relatives that, "Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC, was one big lie," he's sitting in a jail cell gnawing on a hundred and fifty year sentence. His sons turned him in and they aren't even accused of any wrongdoing.
I don't think he deserves it. Does this seem wrong to you? Hey, the SEC is also to blame for this mess. The whole monetary system is to blame for this. Madoff was the fall guy for a problem a lot bigger than himself.
As James Cromwell, in his portrayal of the 74th United States Treasury Secretary, Henry Paulsen, said in the 2009 TV movie, The Last Days of Lehman Brothers:
"The west is fucked. We fucked it up. Not just you or me. All of us. The west is done. It's over. You wanna call it a game? This is the game. You want your grandchildren speaking Chinese? We had Rome. We had Europe. And now this: Us. This thing with cars and stereos and hula hoops, we ran through it all."
In 2005, I learned the meaning of the term Ponzi scheme while working in Asia. If you want to do it right, you choose a 50+ year old handsome white male model and take photographs of him in all sorts of business and leisure positions and outfits. You tell the guy it's for stock inventory shots. What he doesn't know won't hurt him. Get pictures of him sitting at desks with hot female executives, holding his glasses and pointing at graphs. Giving presentations with expressions of mightyness on his face. What goes on the presentation screen can be added later digitally. You get shots of him on vacation, golfing and with family and kids. You can take your model over to the wax museum and get shots with all sorts of famous celebrities, or just photoshop images of them with your new fund king. Take hundreds of shots, because you could be needing them for a few years.
You might be thinking that this wouldn't fool any Americans. Well you don't have to fool people in America. They are in debt anyways. It's the new money holders of Asia that this guy has to charm.
You give the guy an identity, choosing his name and nationality carefully. You register him a company and give it a cool name. You spend a little time creating an image for this guy. Give him a spectrum of businesses that he owns or runs. He needs to have a reputation for managing hundreds of millions of dollars in assets. He's got to have connections with money too and the perception of a consistently profitable business. The perception of an array of successful businesses. A room full of operators on computers can help. The perception that he has multiple streams of income.
Oh, and then there's that investment portfolio he's got. His hedge fund is paying like 12 % per year. You practically have to beg him to take your money. It isn't registered or listed with any securities exchange commission, but that way he can legally privately offer shares to investors in an offshore location, "not available to US residents". It's not obvious that it isn't monitored by any government agency. It's a private bidness offering. You know… Bidness!
In a country with plenty of new money investors and not a lot of government regulation, the investment opportunity is neatly packaged and given to local investment agents, and while the information isn't placed in the brochure rack in the cool red and white waiting room due to lack of any approval by the investment agency, the customer gets what the customer wants, and when the customer complains to the agent that the interest rates in mainstream investment products offered by financial institutions in this country are too low, the highly motivated agent shows him this one "opportunity".
The agent reminds the investor that he would be breaking local laws to invest more than a certain amount of his total net worth abroad, but on that note, the agent will mention that there happens to be one company offering returns of 12% or more per year.
There's a bank logo on the brochure. It doesn't mention anything about who the fund manager is. We assume that it's the guy in the photo, the boss, who is the man calling the shots. He can get a better return than banks because he invests in the little guy when the timing is right. Arbitrage and shit. We don't even want to know how he makes his money.
To make the deal seem even creamier, according to the full color printed brochure, your money is 100% protected. One of this guy's rich buddies is offering a capital guarantee, so just in case everything falls apart, the investors still get their money back. His friend's company logo is on the brochure.
Sure, it isn't unheard of for a company to get a return of 1% per month. What they don't tell you is that they need to pay those agents a commission percentage, and then of course there are administration fees and managerial fees from all these derivative based institutions.
And then of course there's the money deducted to line the coat pockets of the real bosses with some cool extra spending cash. But hey, there is no up front initial investment fee. That's what make's it so marketable.
Too many investors create an illogical investment scenario in their head and think that, because they thought it up, that it should exist. Then suddenly after doing a little research, these dream investment products suddenly produce themselves.
For the true schemer, creating real investment products is too much trouble. Real fund managers are too expensive to hire. It's easier just to fake it when you are planning on running away with the money anyway. That is when you pull out the distracting new unseen pictures of the mighty model, just before you get on a plane to one of those unextraditing countries.
It's really not that hard to create a boiler-room stock scheme that can quickly bank a million dollars. In 2005, I began working for "an old Hongkonger Conman." He was one of the nicest guys you could know.
Just before I returned to Taiwan from the states where this book begins, my most recent attempt at a US career backfired two weeks into the gig, and I went on unemployment. Those unemployment checks paid for my new passport and my ticket back to Taiwan.
I was really close to broke. I had maybe 1000 usd, so when I was offered the job withing 10 days of arriving, I took it. I went for it because I had spent too much time hanging on melancholy notes. Too many flat chords do not a symphony make.
Gits Ferrari, California 2009
Mr He wrote:I bought your book and read it - note that IO have in the past read ind enjoyed Eric Mader-Lin's Taipei mutt and other books about Taiwan by foreigners. Upon seeing this free giveaway, I have decided not to buy another book from you again, after all if i wait a few months, I might be able to download it for free.
Mr. He,
You haven't yet acknowledged my statement that there is a difference between a PDF file and an actually printed and color-bound book. Especially the version you have which is an atrocious edit, yet still a valuable collectors item due to the fact that it's the first run. A hundred years from now, it could be worth a bundle, but as Huey Lewis says, it won't matter to any of us here.
I made a free e-copy and mentioned it exclusively on Forumosa, however my intention was only to build up anticipation for the sequel TOSA, which is the real reason I started writing to begin with, and will never be made available (by me) free.
I hope y'all can take a look at the cover of the book: http://www.theoilsandsofalberta.com


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by Mike Garafolo, USA TODAY Sports
Plaxico Burress vowed he would impress any team that worked him out. He did just that Tuesday, and he's a Pittsburgh Steeler again.
The veteran wide receiver signed a one-year contract with the first NFL team to employ him. His agent, Drew Rosenhaus, announced the deal on Twitter.
Burress, 35, who was drafted in the first round by Pittsburgh in 2000, joins a battered roster that could again be without wideout Antonio Brown on Sunday when the Steelers visit the Cleveland Browns. Brown has been out since suffering a high-ankle sprain against the New York Giants this month.
Meanwhile, veteran Jerricho Cotchery suffered broken ribs in the Week 11 loss to the Baltimore Ravens, coach Mike Tomlin said.
Tomlin said Burress looked good in Tuesday's workout.
"Plaxico is in very good physical condition, from what I saw," Tomlin said.
In October, Burress told USA TODAY Sports he could catch a few touchdowns "off the couch." He'll get a chance to prove it.
Burress has been out of football since the New York Jets elected not to re-sign him after his 45-catch, eight-touchdown season in 2011. It was his first year back in the NFL since he accidentally shot himself in the thigh in November 2008, an event that helped derail the Giants' potential Super Bowl title defense and esulted in a 20-month prison term for Burress.
The Jets passed on the chance to sign Burress after Santonio Holmes was lost for the season with a foot injury.The team signed Jason Hill instead, to which Burress replied in an interview with USA TODAY Sports, "I don't know who that is."
He probably still doesn't: Hill was waived by the Jets Tuesday after appearing in only four games and making just two catches. He was cut because of a back injury he claims occurred during football activities, though the Jets gave him a non-football-injury designation. The team can expect a fight via a grievance from Hill.
MORE: Charlie Batch to start Sunday
Burress, who worked out for the New England Patriots in August but didn't sign a contract, simply shrugged off Ryan's comment about his speed and claimed it's better than it was last season when he was just beginning to work himself back into football shape.
"It doesn't bother me they didn't pick up the phone and call me," Burress told USA TODAY Sports in October. "One thing's for sure: I know I'm going to score some touchdowns. ... You put me out there right now, and I go out there and dominate, have a couple of touchdowns or a hundred-yard game, then you just got to shake your head and smile and laugh."
Burress first left Pittsburgh as a free agent after the 2004 season but met with the team last summer before signing with the Jets. He caught 261 passes, including 22 for touchdowns, in five sometimes-controversial seasons in PIttsburgh.
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Air Force Capt. Edward D. Reese has graduated from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Md. The graduate received a medical degree and was commissioned to the rank of captain, with a minimum seven-year active duty service commitment.
The university is a tuition-free institution which manages a graduate nursing school, a graduate school with doctor of philosophy and master's degree programs, and a medical school that prepares men and women to be outstanding health care practitioners, physicians and scientists for careers in the Army, Navy, Air Force and U.S. Public Health Service in service to the nation. The medical school curriculum includes a concentration of preventive medicine, primary care, military medicine, and emergency medicine. The curriculum programs are related directly to force health protection, tropical diseases, disaster medicine, military and public health medical readiness and adaptation to extreme environments.
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Reese graduated in 1999 from El Dorado Springs High School, Mo., and received a bachelor's degree in 2008 from California State University at Fresno, Calif.


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Idle Lady Steers clinch playoff spot
After an up-and-down season, perhaps it was appropriate that the Big Spring Lady Steers earned a spot in the state softball playoffs by doing … nothing.The Lady Steers, who were idle Tuesday, earned the third and final postseason berth from District 5-3A by virtue of Brownwood's 19-7 win over Abilene Wylie. If Wylie had defeated Brownwood, it would have ended the season tied with Big Spring and forced an extra game with the Lady Steers to determine the district's final playoff representative.Having waited to see if they would make the playoffs, the Lady Steers must now wait some more to see who they'll face in the first round of the postseason. Big Spring (15-18 overall, 3-5 in district play) will face the second-place team from District 6-3A — either Iowa Park or Burkburnett — at a time and place to be determined.BSHS Coach John Sparks said his team has to shore up its spotty defense — the Lady Steers committed 16 errors in their final two games — to have any chance at postseason success."I think the girls are more than capable of playing upper-level softball," Sparks said. "We were successful in our final game … Now, we just have to beef up our level of play and eliminate our mistakes. The girls need to play hard-core, passionate softball."Steers fallto AndrewsAn early lead didn't hold up for the Big Spring Steers as they dropped a 15-8 decision to Andrews in non-district baseball action at Steer Park Tuesday.The Steers led, 6-5, after two innings, but the Mustangs roared back with five runs in their half of the fourth to take the lead for good.Jacob Acosta took the loss on the mound for the Steers, who fell to 10-15 overall with the loss."We started real well, but we made a couple of errors and things just steamrolled from there," BSHS Coach Burt Otto said. "In the fourth inning, Andrews hit a grand slam and that pretty much put us away. But the kids competed and hustled … and that's all you can really ask from them."Big Spring concludes its season Friday when it hosts Sweetwater at 7 p.m. at Steer Park.Cohaoma topsColorado CityCOAHOMA — The Coahoma Bulldogs pulled to within a game of the third and final playoff spot from District 3-2A by downing Colorado City, 8-4, in league baseball action Tuesday.The Bulldogs spotted C-City a 2-0 lead after three innings before rallying to take the lead in their half of the fourth. Consecutive doubles from Dakota Griffith, Adrian Grant and Casey Roberts, followed by singles from Jason Castilaw and Kaleb McAdams, led to three runs and a lead Coahoma never surrendered. Grant, who finished the game with six RBI, added a three-run home run in the fifth inning to provide the Bulldogs with some insurance runs.Starting pitcher McAdams, with relief help from Griffith, earned the win for Coahoma, which improved to 13-9 overall and 5-5 in district play.The win moves Coahoma a game behind Forsan for the district's third playoff spot."The kids played pretty solid baseball," Coahoma Coach Shane Fuller said. "They did a good job and they need to keep it going if we're going to make the playoffs."The Bulldogs return to action Thursday when they travel to Denver City. Varsity action begins at 4:30, with the junior varsity game to follow.Colorado Citytops BulldogettesCOAHOMA — The Colorado City Lady Wolves rallied for five runs in the final two innings to take a 9-5 decision over Coahoma in District 3-2A softball action Tuesday evening.The Bulldogettes led 5-4 after four innings, but were unable to score any more runs, stranding 10 runners on base in the process. Coahoma also hurt its chances by committing three errors which led to four unearned runs for Colorado City.Starting pitcher Kyla Clanton took the loss, striking out nine and walking one while allowing 13 hits.The Bulldogettes, who fell to 13-20 overall and 6-5 in district play, return to action Thursday at Denver City. Game time is 5:30 p.m.Forsan fallsto SlatonFORSAN — The Forsan Buffaloes found themselves down by five runs before they ever came to bat and never recovered, dropping a 15-6 decision to Slaton in District 3-2A baseball action Tuesday.The loss drops the Buffs to 6-4 in district play, a game ahead of Coahoma for the third and final playoff spot from the district.Starting pitcher Payton Parker took the loss for Forsan."It was a tough loss, definitely," Forsan Coach Jason Phillips said. "We didn't play well in the first inning, and you can't do things like that against a good team like Slaton. The good thing is that we still have our playoff destiny in our hands. If we win our final two games, we're in the playoffs."The Buffaloes return to action Friday when they host Lubbock Roosevelt at 5 p.m.Lady Buffsrout SlatonFORSAN — Ali Knight and Kevy O'Brien combined for a no-hitter to lead the Forsan Lady Buffaloes to a 16-0 pasting of Slaton in District 3-2A softball action Tuesday.The Lady Buffs scored six runs in the first inning and eight in the second as they cruised to victory in the game, which was called after the fourth inning because of the mercy rule.Knight and O'Brien each pitched two innings and surrendered only three walks for the night, Forsan Coach Shanna Taylor said.Forsan improved to 19-8 overall and 10-2 in district play.Taylor said her team is peaking at exactly the right time."Because we had so many new faces at new positions this year, it took time for things to develop this year," Taylor said. "We starting to peak now, and that's what you want to see from your team."The Lady Buffs return to action Friday when they host Lubbock Roosevelt. Game time is 5:30 p.m.Hawks run-ruleMidland CollegeMIDLAND — The Howard College Hawks steamrolled Midland College, 11-1, in non-conference baseball action Tuesday.Brendan McCurry had a home run, a triple and five RBI to lead a 15-hit attack for the Hawks, who won the game in seven innings because of the 10-run mercy rule.The Hawks, 16-6 in Western Junior College Athletic Conference action, return to league play Friday and Saturday when they host a four-game series with New Mexico Junior College. Action begins at 1 p.m. both days at Jack Barber Field.


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Record-Breaking Pet Fair Asia 2012
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Nov. 5, 2012 05:00 AM
SHANGHAI, Nov. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Pet Fair Asia 2012 broke all previous records attracting almost 50,000 visitors during the four-day event, which was held at the Shanghai World Expo Exhibition & Convention Center, Shanghai, China, October 11-14, 2012. A total of 506 exhibitors from 25 countries showcased new and existing brands, and 12,351 industry professionals and 36,000 pet owners attended to the show.
40 exhibitors from German, Italy, Netherlands, France, the US, Australia, Japan and Korea attended the first ever International Pavilion, which enjoyed great success at the event. "This is the first year that AFB participated in Pet Fair Asia, and it impressed us. The fair provides us a fantastic environment. We will certainly participate in the next fair and look forward to that with enthusiasm," said Kevin Hall, Area Director of AFB International.
There are currently around 40 million pets in China, and this number is growing by 20% annually. The Chinese 'pet economy' was valued at approximately RMB2.5 billion in 2010, and it is expected to exceed RMB15 billion by the end of 2012, representing one of the most promising markets in the global pet Industry.
Pet Fair Asia 2012 hosted the International Pet Industry Summit (IPIS) and the first ever Pet Food Forum China. The IPIS featured top level debates from the world's pet industry experts. They discussed trends in consumer behavior and key manufacturing challenges. The first ever Pet Food Forum China, industry experts from throughout the world presented information and insights on pet nutrition and ingredients, safety and packaging and regulations in and out China. The feedback from delegates praised the high quality and diversity of presentations on China's growing market opportunities.
"Pet Fair Asia 2012 has exceeded all expectations," said David Zhong, President of VNU Exhibitions Asia. "The exhibiting area increased substantially by 30%. Feedback that we have received so far from exhibitors and visitors has been extremely positive. By the end of the event, 60% of the booths available for next years' event were already pre-booked!"
Pet Fair Asia 2013, will be held August 22-25, 2013, at the Shanghai World Expo Exhibition & Convention Center in Shanghai, China.
"We look forward to welcoming pet industry professionals to Shanghai again in 2013," added David. "It is a key opportunity to introduce many more to the great potential of Asia's pet industry."
Pet Fair Asia is organized by VNU Exhibitions Asia
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(We're overhauling the section and topic system, replacing it with something more flexible.)
We feel pretty good about the stability of _151, it's been running on Slashdot for a couple of weeks and there are no real problems.
The big change, committed shortly after _151, is the switch from users.pl to login.pl for authentication and related operations. That seems to be working but it hasn't been tested enough to merit an R_ yet. In fact, this may be the last R_ tag that we do for a while, since there are big changes that will be committed in the weeks to come which will put the damper on R'ing.
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