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Clustered in small enclaves on the outskirts of Khartoum, the South Sudanese families had packed all their belongings more than a year ago with high hopes of returning "home," as the newly formed nation of South Sudan was born.
After years and sometimes decades of living in Sudan's northern capital, the families wrapped metal bed frames and bales of clothes in burlap sacking, stacked high their metal chairs, and piled up suitcases in anticipation.
But then time stopped for the 350 households at this "departure point," leaving them stuck in a humanitarian limbo, taunted every day by the mountains of luggage-turned-to-walls of makeshift dwellings.
"We are selling our luggage, chairs, and beds to eat and to drink," says Martha Issa, after stepping from beneath the strung-up blanket that has sheltered her family of seven for more than a year.
"Conditions are very bad, with the mosquitoes and no water," says Ms. Issa, adjusting her head scarf to block the hard rays of a scalding sun. "They told us to come, then we never go to the south – it is up to God."
"People here lost their homes, their jobs – we lost everything," says Makarios Geitano, another member of the dusty encampment. "We just want to go back [to the south]. If we suffer, we must suffer in our own country."
These are among 38,000 people from Sudan's south who remain stuck at such sites, after waiting out the north-south civil wars that frequently tore at the country since the 1950s. Perhaps 1.5 million southern Sudanese have already left the north since peace was agreed to in 2005; no one knows how many for sure. More than 400,000 of those have left since the south voted for separation in January 2011. But those still in Khartoum who want go south languish in squalid encampments dotted on the outskirts of the capital – like this one to the east, called Dar Es Salaam – with no running water and primitive facilities, if any.
The bus that never came
The transport promised by officials from the south never came. A brief conflict this April over the Heglig oil fields polarized the two sides, with parliament in Khartoum adding to popular anger in the north by declaring the southerners in their midst citizens of an "enemy state." It also left the governments of both North and South Sudan strapped for cash after a shutdown of southern oil fields in the dispute.
Western donors have been reluctant to cover transport costs, worried that they may be abetting ethnic separatism. Those have skyrocketed with fuel prices – and questions have been raised about the ability of South Sudan to even "absorb" more of their urbanized brethren.
Moved by their plight, Mark Cutts, the head of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) for Sudan, hosted a meeting recently between Western donors and representatives of the south Sudanese encampments in Khartoum, who described desperation levels so high that some of the stranded were resorting to illegally brewing alcohol and prostitution to survive.
"Some donors asked: 'What if you arrive [in South Sudan] and find it is worse?' They said: 'We would rather die in the south," recalls Mr. Cutts.
UN and donor access is limited to other conflict areas in Sudan, but "here we have 40,000 people who we can help, whose case is one of great need, who feel [South Sudan] is a place where they are safe and can rebuild their lives with dignity – and the international community is afraid to be seen to facilitate ethnic separation," says Cutts.
All sides recognize that it is solely the responsibility of the two governments – especially South Sudan – to find a solution. But it has been clear for months that an official solution is unaffordable.
"What money does the government of South Sudan have? And what money does Sudan have? And if they have it, would they spend it on [people from South Sudan]?'" asks Cutts. "Even if it's a lot of money, maybe $30 million, compared to the $1.5 billion in humanitarian aid spent in a year on Sudan, north and south, it's not too much."
Blankets for roofs
In the encampments, where south Sudanese are now officially dubbed "stranded returnees," the months-long wait has added just one more strategic disappointment to lives defined by conflict, displacement and chronic uncertainty.
Children run about – one playfully taking aim at a visitor with a toy plastic gun – unable to go to school because Khartoum authorities always expected their imminent departure. Earthen ground has been swept immaculately at the refugee-style huts. Yet when it rains, water pours off the tarpaulins and through blanket "roofs," making deep muddy puddles.
"Everything is ready. If there is transport today, they will go – they will not live here one day more," says Santino Dena Mawien, a South Sudan administrative officer from Wau, as he visits this encampment. He points out the lack of any water, toilets, and baths.
"What about food? You forget?" asks Issa, the displaced mother, after overhearing the official.
"God will give it," replies Mr. Mawien, only half in jest.
"God's mercy!" answers Issa, disappointed. "They use this language to talk to us...."
Speaking later to a group of the stranded – with mothers cradling children, and most men away hunting for work or money – Mawien tries to reassure.
"If you go [back to South Sudan], there is no problem, you will go to your home, you will find your father there, your mother there, and families," says Mawien.
That prospect certainly appeals here. The "souk" in the encampment has an assortment of goods at fire-sale prices: a BBQ set-up, an aged Singer sewing machine, a satellite dish, a gallon of synthetic enamel paint and a clothes iron – all for sale so those stuck here have money to buy food.
Inside one shelter, an baby sweats on a bed, asleep. In another, an unwell man lays sprawled in the sweltering heat.
"There is no hope," says Illario Upiou, at the group meeting. "Nobody told us anything."
That sentiment is helping drive the new effort to get these South Sudanese back to their areas, even though estimates of the total number of southerners still in the north sometimes top 170,000 – but could actually be half that.
'No operational plan'
Though hundreds of thousands already went south, the government ran out of money earlier this year, says Jill Helke, the chief of mission for the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Sudan.
"If you ask people if they want to go back [to the south], the answer depends on who is asking, and perceptions of the options," says Ms. Helke. "Now there is no operational plan, still no idea how many southern Sudanese there, are and who wants to stay."
Earlier this year, IOM moved 500 people south on two trains. And this spring, after fighting made barge movement too tricky and roads unsafe, the IOM moved 12,000 people from a way station at Kosti – built to house just one-tenth that number – first by road back up north to Khartoum, then south by air.
The 10-day Heglig conflict in April brought "hateful stuff" about southerners, from northern politicians and the media, ridiculing "enemies, cockroaches, aliens, so even those [southerners] who wanted to stay might have second thoughts," says Helke.
"Donors had their fill from the very beginning, because both governments have taken no responsibility whatsoever," adds Helke. "For the last year, donors say the situation is not enough of an emergency. And still the problem is that South Sudan is such a mess, they ask how can we send people back there, only to look after them there?"
Welcome to the jungle
South Sudanese who have spent years in the north are sometimes "regarded as outsiders" in the south, where "absorption capacity is zero," notes Helke. Some 1,130 people still remain in a transit camp in the southern capital of Juba, and transitions have not been easy.
"People arrive after 20 years [in the north]. They are urbanized, but outside of Juba it is jungle," says a UN humanitarian source who asked not to be named. "They are shellshocked, and told: 'Here's your $10 and your place 150kms [93 miles] away.' In most areas there is no infrastructure; 90 percent of health and education is handled by NGOs [nongovernmental organizations]. And since 2005, $4 billion has gone missing."
But the risks of staying on in the north are also high, as the economy deteriorates and north-south tensions are easily fanned.
"Southerners don't feel secure here, and the sooner they begin their lives in the south, the better," says the UN official. "We are now at the juncture, and I think donors need to rethink" their reluctance to fund the return.
In recent weeks, the South Sudan Relief and Rehabilitation Commission said it would truck to the south these 40,000 "stranded" around Khartoum.
"So far nothing has been forthcoming," says the UN official, "except for this soundbite."
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Album Rating: 4.5good stuff
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Dell to sell PCs through China retailer — BEIJING - Dell Inc. announced a deal Monday to launch a retail presence in China by selling computers through the country's biggest chain of electronics stores as it struggles to capture a bigger share of the booming market.
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines: Dell pairs up with China retailer
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Sumner Lemon / InfoWorld: Chinese retailer Gome to sell Dell computers
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
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Discussion: PDA, Peer Pressure, Life On the Wicked Stage, muhammad.saleem, ALLIED and Insider Chatter
Jemima Kiss / PDA: The unwritten rules of Twitter
Warner Crocker / Life On the Wicked Stage: The Death of Twitter Is Imminent
Muhammad Saleem / muhammad.saleem: scoble's 10 rules of twitter - here's what i think
Jeneane Sessum / ALLIED: IM Is the New Blogging — It used to be blogging was how we talked …
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November 2, Creative Destruction and 'Repealing the 20th century'
Well, in a free-market capitalist system, there are always winners and losers. It's creative destruction. That just happens. It's unfortunate. But let's face it, if it weren't for that we'd still have buggy whip companies. —Senate candidate Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.)
As gutsy progressive Senator Russ Feingold (D-Wisc.) has come storming back in recent weeks despite the predicted Republican avalanche, Mr. Johnson is learning that "creative destruction" is not a good campaign slogan.
Feingold highlight's Johnson's use of "creative destruction" in a powerful new ad featuring workers from Kimberly Paper explaining how they lost their jobs when new owner NewPaper shut down the most productive and technologically advanced paper plant in the state (as discussed here. and here).
Yet "creative destruction" is a remarkably apt term for the corporate strategies that have undermined America's productive base, wiping out 4.9 million industrial jobs and leaving more than 43,000 factories as vacant shells since 1994, when America' officially embarked on the era of "free trade" with Mexico and China. The "destruction" side has been all too evident.
Moreover, protecting Corporate America's ability to engage in creative destruction is the central reason behind the unprecedented flow of corporate money from the Chamber of Commerce and American Crossroads flowing into this midterm election season.
Sometimes, even some FOX broadcasters will express shock at the greed-driven shutdowns of plants and destruction of communities. Reflecting on the Polaris Corp.'s move from the small Wisconsin town of Osceola to low-wage Mexico, Greta Van Susteren noted sympathetically,
It's a small town of about 2,500—515 employees, 600 families. So that means essentially that every single family lost a job. ... A company like this wiping out a town and moving to Mexico and it's already making 89 percent growth in its stock in a year is not contributing to our economy.
Hardcore rightist Steve Moore of Wall Street Journal editorial page, admitted, "That was the amazing thing about the story. [Polaris] profits were up nearly 90 percent." But he quickly added, in a remarkably revealing (and callous) statement, "but then this company's primary mission isn't to grow the town, it's to grow their own profits."
To grow those profits, CEOs have shown their creative side by shifting capital away from upgrading factories to betting on the Wall Street casino and exporting more and more productive jobs to Mexico, China, and India, among other low-wage nations.
It has proven remarkably lucrative for them, as CEOs in the top nation's top 100 firms have seen the pay gap between them and their workers rise from 45 to 1 in 1970 to astronomical proportions in 2006, reaching 1,723 to 1, as Les Leopold notes in The Looting of America.
Of course, when economist Joseph Schumpeter coined the term "creative destruction" in 1942, he had something entirely different in mind. He envisioned a sometimes brutal transition in which capitalism's innovations destroyed outworn productions processes and products and replaced them with superior new methods and opportunities.
He didn't envision an economy where the chance for higher profits in another field meant the wanton destruction of profitable and productive facilities making goods and services that were in demand--and the resulting loss of good jobs.
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The unemployment situation is actually far grimmer than anyone imagines, and there is little talk about its profound long-term health effects on its victims. Former NY Times reporter and author David Cay Johnston has revealed that real joblessness is actually more than twice the official rate. He explains, drawing on official data, that U.S. underemployment and unemployment is worse than we are generally told—around 22 percent, all told."
'REPEALING THE 20th CENTURY'
We have already returned to pre-Depression levels of inequality:
Income disparity in the US is now as bad as it was right before the Great Depression at the end of the 1920s. From 1979 to 2006, the richest 1% more than doubled their share of the total US income, from 10% to 23%. The richest 1% have an average annual income of more than $1.3 million. For the last 25 years, over 90% of the total growth in income in the US went to the top 10% earners - leaving 9% of all income [growth] to be shared by the bottom 90%.
Conservative Universty of Chicago law professor Richard Posner once proudly declared that his agenda could be characterized as "repealing the 20th century..." That also accurately describes the agenda of Ron Johnson and all the other Republican candidates, reciting in robotic fashion the need to restore economic growth by creating a smaller government--and settling for "no compromises," as GOP Minority Leader John Boehner snarled.
The mystical connection between getting out of the recession and cutting government spending is somehow never explained (or challenged much by media figures), just declared emphatically and incessantly. "Taxes cost jobs," Republican ads billboards tell us. The areas of government service to be cut are never specified, as the Republicans religiously adhere to the advice of their media guru Frank Luntz. "This campaign isn't about specifics," Ron Johnson once declared.
Johnson was trying to conceal both his lack of knowledge and his true agenda, but he's partly right.: This electoral battle between him and Feingold—like many others across the nation—is not about details.
It's between those who seek to proceed with "creative destruction" of the U.S. productive base and the reforms for which working families successfully fought, and those who seek to protect and extend democracy and justice. At heart, this election is about whether or not we will continue to effectively repeal the economic gains of the 20th century.
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Mountain bikes will save the planet…
I wrote this twelve years ago when blogs were something that usually came just after Joe. As it
By Steve Worland
Forty eight years ago, on a blustery August evening in Redcar's Zetland Park, I had my first off-road mind over matter experience. Encouraging words from some way behind prompted the sudden realisation that I no longer had a parent's hand clutching the back of my saddle. I piled into the grass with a force that I still remember vividly. I remember the big curled pedal divot in the grass, I remember the long dark green stains on my knees and palms, I remember the front mudguard twisted against the tyre and, through sometime-warped patterns of event association, I remember three big nosed firemen coming into the living room to put out a chimney blaze. Most of all, I remember making a concerted effort not to cry. Pride can sometimes come after the fall.
I think that was my life's first turning point. Rational thought is not a conscious concept for a four year old, but I was immediately and acutely aware that it was the power of belief and enthusiasm that had kept me upright for the length of the football pitch. My dad's stabilising hand was merely a confidence trick. Since that day, most of my biggest lifestyle decisions and influences have been bike related because every time I go on a bike my mind becomes an open book, uncluttered by the obtrusive barriers of rules, regulations and accepted norms. The bicycle can be all things to all people. It's one of the world's great work tools. It spans a social spectrum that has no stereotypes.
An ever expanding band of pedalling friends and aquaintances are fascinated by the effect of bikes on their own ever expanding band of pedalling friends and aquaintances. They come to ask me for advice on what sort of bike they should buy. Most ask about Hybrids ("fig. thing composed of incongruous elements" – Concise Oxford Dictionary) mainly because they worry about the fashion accessory tag that the 'right-on' cynics attach to MTBs. I always tell them to buy an MTB, regardless of their riding ambitions.
Riding any bike involves an understanding of the multi faceted and inter-related concepts of balance, independent control of action, effort against gravity suck and personal achievement. These are life building forces that kids become acutely aware of before they have enough teeth to dent a Power Bar. Riding a bike off road begins to isolate, purify and highlight all those concepts away from the annoying interruptions of other people's lives being led. The first time you leave the traffic, the hassle, the noise and the smoke behind, you're commencing a long and secure relationship with the most far reaching and useful mechanical extension available for the advantageous adaption of the human body. Every conceivable environment becomes approachable. Life becomes less compartmentalised. Trapped emotions find outlets. I could go on but, at risk of sounding increasingly flowery, I'll get to the point.
The MTB is the first true 'bicycle for the people'. I advocate MTBs because almost everyone can find a way of feeling comfortable on them. Dropped handlebars need far more perseverance. Skinny wheels need far more care and attention. Road bikes and Hybrids are barely succesful marketing ploys aimed at those who passively accept the increasing compartmentalisation of active society. Live in a village. Drive to the city. Shop on the outskirts. Ride in a cycle lane. Go out training. The MTB captures the true free spirit of cycling, because it's infinitely adaptable. If you want a tarmac speed machine, fit some skinny treads. If you want a rock-skimmer, fit a suspension fork. As Ivan Illich once said, the bicycle "allows people to create a new relationship between their life-space and their life-time,between their territory and the pulse of their being, without destroying their inherited balance". Make of that what you will but to me it says "Get a Mountain Bike and pull your life back together".


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All season, Syracuse has dealt with a decided disadvantage at faceoffs. So why should Monday's NCAA tournament final against seventh-seeded Duke at Lincoln Financial Field here be any different?
The top-seeded Orange (16-3) will attempt to capture the program's NCAA-leading 11th national championship despite the presence of Blue Devils junior Brendan Fowler, who has won 64.1 percent (319 of 498) of his draws this season and passed Bryant sophomore Kevin Massa for the most faceoff wins in a single season with his 16 of 31 performance in the team's 16-14 win against Cornell in Saturday's semifinal.
Syracuse has three contributors in junior Chris Daddio (46.0 percent on 115 of 250), freshman Cal Paduda (44.9 percent on 44 of 98) and freshman Brendan Conroy (40.3 percent on 27 of 67), but coach John Desko knows the team may be hard-pressed to win even 50 percent of the draws against Fowler.
"We've lived with that all year long," he said during a news conference Sunday morning. "Like I said earlier, I think some of the things that we make up for it are with our efficiency on offense. [If] you look at the number of turnovers we were able to cause yesterday, [that] kind of made up for that gap for the number of face-offs that we lost. I think we got some big ones when it counted. We got that big one at the end that gave us a big possession and we were able to score, so we play how we've been playing. It's nothing new to us."
The Orange won just 1 of 23 faceoffs in a 12-7 victory over Bryant in the first round of the NCAA tournament, but they almost battled Denver to a draw, winning 9 of 12 en route to a 9-8 decision in Saturday's semifinal.
Senior midfielder JoJo Marasco said the team has a good amount of confidence in the faceoff unit.
"Not really much worried because our wing play has been incredible with guys like [senior short-stick defensive midfielder] Matt Pratt and [redshirt senior short-stick defensive midfielder] Steve Ianzito and [junior long-stick midfielder] Matt Harris and [redshirt sophomore long-stick midfielder] Pete McCartney," he said. "They step up and make some huge checks for us on the wings and really fight for that ball and give us a chance to have the ball on offense. I have trust [in them] all year even though they might not have had the winning percentage that they wanted, but we really trust our face-off guys, and Cal really stepped up big where he held [Pioneers senior] Chase Carraro and we've gone against some of the top face-off guys throughout the playoffs and it's just going to be another one going out there and put the trust in our wings, and we'll definitely change it up. Our coaches have been great with that, and we'll be ready for them."


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Another man's wife captivates you; a harlot, Davus: which of us sins more deservingly of the cross? When keen nature inflames me, any common wench that picks me up, dismisses me neither dishonored, nor caring whether a richer or a handsomer man enjoys her next. You, when you have cast off your ensigns of dignity, your equestrian ring and your Roman habit, turn out from a magistrate a wretched Dama,1 hiding with a cape your perfumed head: are you not really what you personate? You are introduced, apprehensive [of consequences]; and, as you are altercating with your passions, your bones shake with fear. What is the difference whether you go condemned [like a gladiator], to be galled with scourges,2 or slain with the sword; or be closed up in a filthy chest, where [the maid], conscious of her mistress' crime, has stowed you? Has not the husband of the offending dame a just power over both; against the seducer even a juster? But she neither changes her dress, nor place, nor sins to that excess [which you do]; since the woman is in dread of you, nor gives any credit to you, though you profess to love her. You must go under the yoke knowingly, and put all your fortune, your life, and reputation, together with your limbs, into the power of an enraged husband. Have you escaped? I suppose, then, you will be afraid [for the future]; and, being warned, will be cautious. No, you will seek occasion when you may be again in terror, and again may be likely to perish. 0 so often a slave! What beast, when it has once escaped by breaking its toils, absurdly trusts itself to them again? You say, "I am no adulterer." Nor, by Hercules, am I a thief, when I wisely pass by the silver vases. Take away the danger, and vagrant nature will spring forth, when restraints are removed. Are you my superior, subjected as you are, to the dominion of so many things and persons,, whom the prsetor's rod,3 though placed on your head three or four times over, can never free from this wretched solicitude? Add, to what has been said above, a thing of no less weight; whether he be an underling,4 who obeys the master-slave (as it is your custom to affirm), or only a fellow slave, what am I in respect of you? You, for example, who have the command of me, are in subjection to other things, and are led about, like a puppet movable by means of wires not its own.
1 Davus calls his master a judge, because Augustus had granted him the privilege of wearing a ring and a robe, called Angusticlavium. Thus he was in some measure incorporated into the body of Roman knights, whom Augustus appointed to determine civil causes. By "Dama" he means a mere slave.
2 "Uri virgis." The people who sold themselves to a master of gladiators, engaged in a form or bond, called auctoramentum, to suffer every thing, sword, fire, whips, chains, and death. They were then received into the profession, and styled auctorati. From thence the terms came to be used for all kinds of infamous engagements.
3 Vindicta was a rod, which the lictor laid on the head of a person whom the praetor made free. Plautus calls it "festuca". (Mil. 961)
4 "Nam sive vicarius." The Romans generally had a master-slave in every family, servus atriensis, and all other slaves were called by one common name, vicarii. The first, who commands, is not less a slave than those who obey.
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First up: after having discovered the world of traveler's notebooks, I decided to print out my (dare I say "beloved" ) goals workbooks by Leonie Dawson to fit into my A5 TN. After I posted a few pictures on Social Media I got a ton of questions about how I did print the PDF on this particular size. Which is why I filmed the tutorial below on 20th December 2014:
One of my more popular video's (published 15th March 2015) was my switch from my Erin Condren Life Planner (hey, I told ya this wasn't a Filofax blog!) to my Giramondo (the traveler's notebook by Gillio Firenze). It also includes a flipthrough of my EC Planner. Don't be shocked: it's majorly colorful and the washi and photos and stickers will probably blind you ...
Then, because Leonie asked us to in the facebook group, and because I love to bore the shit out of you with me raving about the awesome workbooks, I filmed a review of the 2015 workbooks.
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P.S. There'll be more about Leonie Dawson, because I've been granted a Skype Interview with Leonie. How awesome is that???


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This is a breaking story, if you watch the video on CNN http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/07/20/assange.wikileaks.ted/index.html?hpt=C2 fast forward to 13:19 where Julian is asked if he has received information about BP.
He says "We have received loads of information" which is true, but our deception experts say that's where the truth stopped and the lies began. As you can see from this picture his hand immediately goes up to his face and covers his mouth as he says they haven't had the opportunity to post the information because they are undergoing a major expansion and don't have enough people to vet it. Our experts say that in other frames of this video you can see where he discusses things he has seen that are terrible he uses his hand to cover the bridge of his nose and most of his right eye, suggesting he was ashamed at what he saw, and when he was lying he was always covering the smell of what he was saying by holding his nose or covering the words coming out of his mouth. These are all signs that someone is lying and is not comfortable with what they are saying.
Where did the funding for the major expansion come from? Could it have been BP paying them to shut up?
It's a little odd that the biggest story of the century (The entire destruction of the GULF) is left out of the wikileak light. Surely something as large as the BP oil spill would get a little special handling right? Surely Julian himself could vet ONE piece of data right? Interestingly there is NOTHING about BP really on Wiki leaks. Something about an Alaska North Slope Pipeline getting shut down… look for yourself http://www.wikileaks.com/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&search=bp
Am I to believe that the killing of those 12 people in a WAR ZONE is bigger news? I don't know, personally, I think that if you are in a WAR ZONE area and you get targeted by mistake it is a tragedy. Do I think it's news? Sure I do. Did the US Gov cover it up by slapping a classified sticker on it? I don't know, and frankly I don't care I let the US Gov take care of those situations the way they see fit. Why? Because I'm a citizen and that's what I pay them to do. Do I agree with everything? No, but then I don't have all the facts either.
What I do know is that the planet is on its knees because of BP, they finally capped the well and they have destroyed an eco system. They have ruined the economy in that whole area, they have killed loads of animals, they have bullied reporters, fisherman, and other people who have wanted to simply photograph and write about what is going on there… and Wikileaks has nothing to say?
**UPDATE It has been over two years since we published this article. That means more than 2 years has passed since Julian Assange claimed he had tons of BP information. Over 2 years since he claimed he was going to release it after this 'expansion'. The fact is, nothing has been released on BP since 2009 and nothing related to the massive spill. It appears that our experts were correct.
* Disclaimer: This is an opinion piece, based on deception experts reaction to Julian Assange and his body language while he discusses BP. This body language reading is not an exact science but it is used by Governments and large corporations all over the world and the results are amazing. However, We could be wrong, so in the end you will have to decide what you want to about it. To be honest, I hope we are wrong because I was really hoping Julian was what he claimed to be.


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Player of the Week - No. 10
Thompson fueled the red-hot Wildcats to two more victories. She put down 12 kills and added five digs in a 25-17, 25-15, 25-13 Mid-Central College Conference (MCCC) win over Bethel (Ind.) on Nov. 2. In their biggest win of the season, Thompson slammed down a season-high 26 kills as the No. 15 Wildcats ended No. 12 Taylor's (Ind.) 53-match conference winning streak, 22-25, 25-20, 25-21, 25-20, on Nov. 4. Her .579 hitting percentage in the battle of the MCCC's top-two squads helped the Wildcats (31-4) claim their 13th-straigth victory.
The 5-foot-11 senior from Plano, Texas, ranks second on her team with 365 kills, third in hitting percentage at .283 and fourth in total blocks with 61. Thompson becomes the first player from the MCCC to win the award since Taylor's Kelsey Pritchard received weekly honors last season.
Nominees: Lauren Stuckel, Missouri Baptist; Lindsey Adams, Siena Heights (Mich.); Vanja Joksic, Texas at Brownsville; Megan Hayes, MidAmerica Nazarene (Kan.); Sara Brunner, Rocky Mountain (Mont.); Anna Sims, Union (Tenn.); Brittany Lhota, Point Park (Pa.); Amy Braaksma, Viterbo (Wis.); Cheznee Daily, Bluefield (Va.); Lauran Eschenroeder, SCAD Savannah (Ga.); Maggie Vondrak, Morningside (Iowa); Leah Keller, Kansas Wesleyan; Jordan Goings, Lubbock Christian (Texas); Jasmine Crook, Shorter (Ga.); Brianna Strete, Indiana East; Andrea Taylor, Lindsey Wilson (Ky.); Christal Hollins, Southern-New Orleans (La.); Jamie Heenan, Vanguard (Calif.); Jordan Broady, Bellevue (Neb.); Sarah Holgen, Southern Oregon; Carissa Oelke, Judson (Ill.); Samantha Miller, Holy Names (Calif.).
2011 Composite Winners
Week 1: Danica Markovic, Texas at Brownsville
Week 2: Paula Ferreira, Columbia (Mo.)
Week 3: Yiting Cao, Spring Hill (Ala.)
Week 4: Kim Weaver, Cornerstone (Mich.)
Week 5: Kristin Pressley, Oklahoma Baptist
Week 6: Paula Ferreira, Columbia (Mo.)
Week 7: Martina Gregusova, Fresno Pacific (Calif.)
Week 8: Brooke Marino, Concordia (Calif.)
Week 9: Fei Gao, Concordia (Calif.)
Week 10: Peyton Thompson, Indiana Wesleyan


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Munch, Jakob Roland; Rose Skaksen, Jan; Malchow-Møller, Nikolaj (København, 2008)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: In this paper, we propose and test a novel effect of immigration on the wages of native workers. Existing studies have focused on the wage effects that result from changes in the aggregate labour supply in a competitive labour market. We argue that if labour markets are not fully competitive, the use of immigrants may also affect wage formation at the most disaggregate level – the workplace. Using linked employeremployee data, we find that an increased use of workers from less developed countries has a significantly negative effect on the wages of native workers at the workplace – also when controlling for potential endogeneity of the immigrant share using both fixed effects and IV. Additional evidence suggests that this effect works at least partly through a general effect on the wage norm in the firm of hiring employees with poor outside options (the immigrants). URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7665
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Abstract: This paper studies the link between a firms education level, export performance and wages of its workers. We argue that firms may escape intence competition in international markets by using high skilled workers to differentiate their products. This story is consistent with our empirical results. Osing a very rich matched worker-firm longitudinal dataset we find that firms with high export intensities pay higher wages. However, an interaction term between export intensity and skill intensity has a positive impact on wages and it absorbs the direct effect of the export intensity. That is, we find an export wage premium, but it accrues to workers in firms with high skill intensities. Keywords: Exports, Wages, Human Capital, Rent Sharing, Matched Worker-Firm Data JEL Classification: J30, F10, I20 URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7623
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Abstract: This paper studies the impact of outsourcing on individual wages. In contrast to the standard approach in the literature, we focus on domestic outsourcing as well as foreign outsourcing. By using a simple theoretical model, we argue that, if outsourcing is associated with specialization gains arising from an increase in the extent of the market for intermediate goods, domestic outsourcing tends to increase wages for both unskilled and skilled labor. We use a panel data set of workers in Danish manufacturing industries to show that domestic and foreign outsurcing affect wages as predicted by the theory. Keywords: Outsourcing, Comparative advantage, Specialization, Wages. JEL Classification: F16, J31, C23. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7522
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Day's Best: Boulder's more visible bike lanes
Boulder's experiment with green bike lanes is a worthwhile effort to test whether the added visibility will help cut down on collisions between cyclists and cars.
As more people look to bicycles for transportation — and why wouldn't they in Colorado's often bike-friendly weather — accidents are a concern.
Some of these unfortunate accidents are the result of an obvious error by an auto driver or a cyclist, such as someone blowing a stop sign. The less obvious mistake that can take a cyclist out is a motorist turning right across a bike's path without first looking back.
The bright green lanes Boulder has created at two city intersections which have seen high numbers of bike-car crashes, are intended to be a visual cue to drivers, reminding them cyclists are on the road, too.
We hope they work. In any case, it doesn't seem as though they'll make matters worse.


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I am a fiancee and lover of antiques, other cultures, and all things Mississippi State University, Jane Austen, Christmas, and Italian. I listen to my favorite band Relient K almost every day and watch The Office as often as possible. I am a very amateur photographer and an aspiring Special Collections Librarian. My library experience includes former student worker with the Ulysses S. Grant Collection at Mississippi State University and current student worker with the A. S. Williams III Collection at the University of Alabama. I have a B.A. in history from Mississippi State University and am currently working on my M.L.I.S. at the University of Alabama. Before I die I would like to visit every continent, so if you hear of a trip to Antarctica let me know!


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by Mark Jagord, sports information assistant
CARROLLTON, Ga. – The Georgia College softball team (22-6) won a pair of non-conference games at the University of West Georgia (14-13) Thursday at University Field. The Bobcats won both contests by 3-1 scores as freshman Faith Flanders (Dublin, Ga.) finished the day 4-of-8 with a home run and a double, while totaling two runs and three RBI.
In the first game, the Bobcats took an early first-inning lead before the Wolves tied the game at 1-1 in the fifth. Georgia College got two runs in the eighth inning and then held off West Georgia for the 3-1 win.
The Bobcats were able to take advantage of two costly Wolve mistakes. In the first inning, a wild pitch advanced Flanders, who subsequently scored off sophomore Taylor Campbell's (Warner Robins, Ga.) single. With the international tiebreak rules in play, senior Whitney Okvist (Kennesaw, Ga.) was placed on second base in the eighth and was able to gain third on an errant throw. She then scored when sophomore Abi LeRoy (Dublin, Ga.) hit a sacrifice to centerfield for the winning run.
Flanders followed LeRoy at bat and gave the Bobcats some breathing room with a solo home run to leftfield. Carly Lewis (Semour, Tenn.) (9-4) went the distance allowing one run and six hits with two strikeouts. Georgia College out-hit the Wolves 10-6, as Okvist picked up her career 148th stolen base.
The second game was 0-0 through the first five innings, but a Flanders double in the sixth provided the first score of the game. Just as in the first game, a Campbell single scored the base runner who had advanced on an errant throw. However instead of Flanders scoring, junior Natalie Lampert (Marietta, Ga.) crossed the plate as a pinch runner for Flanders.
The Bobcats' last turn at bat produced a pair of runs in the seventh after Flanders singled to score Okvist and LeRoy. The Wolves got their lone run in their last at-bat for the 3-1 final.
The Bobcats produced five hits in the second game led by Flanders' two. Sophomore Marisa Boyette (Marietta, Ga.) (7-2) went the distance allowing one run and six hits with four strikeouts.
Georgia College will return to conference play with a doubleheader at UNC Pembroke Saturday, March 22 starting at 1 p.m.
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American, 1884–1972
Untitled, 1936
vintage silver print on paper
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Collection of the Winnipeg Art Gallery; Acquired with funds from The Winnipeg Art Gallery Foundation Inc.
Frances H. Flaherty was married to the acclaimed American documentary filmmaker Robert J. Flaherty, from 1914 until his death in 1951. She worked alongside her husband on several of his films, taking stills. This work is from the film Man of Aran (1934), a fictional documentary on the lives and hardships of people who lived on the Aran Islands off the coast of Ireland. Some situations in the film were entirely fabricated, and the subjects in this image are not actually related, having been chosen by the filmmaker for their photogenic qualities. An accomplished writer, Flaherty was also nominated for an Academy Award in the category of Best Original Story for Louisiana Story (1948). This work is an excellent example of her soft, romantic, close-cropped portraiture.
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A routine Jamie Moyer interview took a turn toward Sipowicz Territory when a mysterious nude Phillie bared most in the background. But is it Cole Hamels? The Fightins seems to think so. Deadspin I-Team: Assemble! More evidence after the jump.
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