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Lloyde England & His Taxi Cab- The Eye Of The Storm, now released
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Get ready for an intense and surreal journey with Lloyde the cab driver while he is confronted by CIT with the north side evidence.
Watch and listen to his reaction with input from his FBI employee wife who he married after 9/11 but was seeing at the time.
See exclusive footage and images of the actual cab as it is today preserved on his 30 acres of property in the woods of Virginia.
Be prepared for an extremely engaging yet disturbing experience.
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Honestly Mike, most of those approaches (I appreciate where you're coming from btw) have been tried from 2006 onwards. Here's a list of various threads on the subject at the CIT forum.
As for getting "emotional" I was exasperated just watching the interview. I can't even imagine how tense Lloyd's living room was after hours of repeated questioning and the same blatant lies being told.
When Lloyd is under pressure, he claims that he can't remember - example: he was asked for details on the "silent friend" and the details of how the pole was supposedly removed - "I don't remember"
ENGLAND: And uh, a car was comin'-- well I guess [he?] called it more or less a van. And uh, I asked the guy would he help me get the pole out. So, he stopped; he never said a word. I said, "Man it's mighty quiet, it's not makin'-- it's so quiet. And uh, he n-- he never said a word. He helped me get the pole out. The pole happened to be bent when it c-- when- when- w- we pulled the pole out, and the pole was bent. Th-- and- and the bent part took me down the ground. I fell d- down on my back. But I held the pole up. And uh, laid the pole down. And uh he got in his van and- and went on down the road.
(Later in the interview, while standing in front of Lloyde's cab...)
ENGLAND: ...The dashboard held it up.
PICKERING: It was smashed against the d-- boards. It had to be-- was- was it resting on the hood? Or was it above it?
ENGLAND:I can't say, I don't know. But it-- it was-- it was out here.
PICKERING: Okay. So the base was out here.
ENGLAND :Right.
PICKERING: Okay. So the base is out here.
ENGLAND: Right.
PICKERING: So then the man pulls up in the white van-like vehicle.
ENGLAND: Right.
PICKERING: Okay. So he doesn't speak a word...
ENGLAN: He doesn't say a thing.
PICKERING: But you ask him if he can help you.
ENGLAND: R- Right.
PICKERING: So did-- so did-- which side of the vehicle did he come around
ENGLAND: Well we- we came acround the car. Lookin at the pole.
PICKERING: So I'm gonna move over here. So now I'm the guy helping you. Where did you go? How did you guys pull the pole out?
ENGLAND: (stares at the car for a second or two)
PICKERING: So it's coming out this way. Which side was he on, which side were you on?
ENGLAND: I don't remember.
PICKERING: You don't remember?
ENGLAND: I don't remember. But I know we pul-- we pul-- we took the pole out.
PICKERING: Okay.
ENGLAND :And- and- and the bent part went to the bottom.
PICKERING: Oh so it flipped.
ENGLAND :Yeah.
PICKERING: The bent part, okay.
ENGLAND :Yeah. And it took me down.
PICKERING: So you tumbled backwards this way.
ENGLAND: I f-- yeah I fell-- I fell back-...
SOMEONE OFF CAMERA: (unintelligible)
ENGLAND: Yeah I fell back-- I fell back with the pole in my hand.
PICKERING: Okay. And then once the pole is taken out-- so-- so he must have brought his end out this way? And you were pushed over this way?
ENGLAND: Could have. I d-- I don't quite remember. Because...
PICKERING: Okay. When you fell down, did he come over and help you up? Out from under the pole?
ENGLAND: Not that I can recall.
PICKERING: Okay.
He claims that the pole fell on him after an explosion (the Daryl Donley fireball image captured @6-7 minutes after the event).
He claims that he was there until the 10:15 evacuation of the area and that a cop pushed him to the ground.
He was asked why the FBI thought he was "dead" and he simply says that his wife heard this.
He was asked how the car ended up on the bridge (which he again denied) and his wife claimed that "they" must have moved it, to which he quickly interjected and said "no, they didn't"
He first claimed that he saw the aircraft, then denied it.
He is on video pointing to the bridge in an on the scene interview in 2005, now he denies it.
The only way, as I said before, to unravel this is to frogmarch an MSM reporter to his door, shove a camera in his face and tell him to repeat his story for the "public". Or for somebody to freak him out with one of these in their hands
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Increased rates of infertility, he said, are having a profound effect on Kurdish society, which places great importance on large families. "You have men divorcing their wives because they could not give birth, and then marrying again, and then their second wives can't give birth, either," he said. "Still, they don't blame their own problem with spermatogenesis."
Baban told me that the initial results of the Halabja Medical Institute-sponsored survey show abnormally high rates of many diseases. He said that he compared rates of colon cancer in Halabja with those in the city of Chamchamal, which was not attacked with chemical weapons. "We are seeing rates of colon cancer five times higher in Halabja than in Chamchamal," he said.
There are other anomalies as well, Baban said. The rate of miscarriage in Halabja, according to initial survey results, is fourteen times the rate of miscarriage in Chamchamal; rates of infertility among men and women in the affected population are many times higher than normal. "We're finding Hiroshima levels of sterility," he said.
Then, there is the suspicion about snakes. "Have you heard about the snakes?" he asked as we drove. I told him that I had heard rumors. "We don't know if a genetic mutation in the snakes has made them more toxic," Baban went on, "or if the birds that eat the snakes were killed off in the attacks, but there seem to be more snakebites, of greater toxicity, in Halabja now than before."
Baban said that in Halabja "there are more abnormal births than normal ones," and other Kurdish doctors told me that they regularly see children born with neural-tube defects and undescended testes and without anal openings. They are seeing—and they showed me—children born with six or seven toes on each foot, children whose fingers and toes are fused, and children who suffer from leukemia and liver cancer.
Most of the Kurds who were murdered in the Anfal were not killed by poison gas; rather, the genocide was carried out, in large part, in the traditional manner, with roundups at night, mass executions, and anonymous burials. The bodies of most of the victims of the Anfal—mainly men and boys—have never been found.
. . .allegations include charges that Ansar al-Islam (a terrorist group that operates inside Iraq) has received funds directly from Al Qaeda; that the intelligence service of Saddam Hussein has joint control, with Al Qaeda operatives, over Ansar al-Islam; that Saddam Hussein hosted a senior leader of Al Qaeda in Baghdad in 1992; that a number of Al Qaeda members fleeing Afghanistan have been secretly brought into territory controlled by Ansar al-Islam; and that Iraqi intelligence agents smuggled conventional weapons, and possibly even chemical and biological weapons, into Afghanistan. If these charges are true, it would mean that the relationship between Saddam's regime and Al Qaeda is far closer than previously thought.
. . .about ten years ago Saddam underwent something of a battlefield conversion to a fundamentalist brand of Islam. "It was gradual, starting the moment he decided on the invasion of Kuwait," in June of 1990, according to Amatzia Baram, an Iraq expert at the University of Haifa. "His calculation was that he needed people in Iraq and the Arab world—as well as God—to be on his side when he invaded. After he invaded, the Islamic rhetorical style became overwhelming"—so overwhelming, Baram continued, that a radical group in Jordan began calling Saddam "the New Caliph Marching from the East." This conversion, cynical though it may be, has opened doors to Saddam in the fundamentalist world. He is now a prime supporter of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad and of Hamas, paying families of suicide bombers ten thousand dollars in exchange for their sons' martyrdom. This is part of Saddam's attempt to harness the power of Islamic extremism and direct it against his enemies.
The man they introduced me to the next afternoon was a twenty-nine-year-old Iranian Arab, a smuggler and bandit from the city of Ahvaz. The intelligence officials told me that his most recent employer was bin Laden. When they arrested him, last year, they said, they found a roll of film in his possession. They had the film developed, and the photographs, which they showed me, depicted their prisoner murdering a man with a knife, slicing his ear off and then plunging the knife into the top of the man's head.
One day in 1999, Othman(Osoma bin Laden contact) got a message to Jawad(Al Qaeda smuggler mentioned in the preceeding paragraph), who was then in Iran. He was to smuggle himself across the Iraqi border at Fao, where a car would meet him and take him to a village near Tikrit, the headquarters of Saddam Hussein's clan. Jawad was then taken to a meeting at the house of a man called Luay, whom he described as the son of Saddam's father-in-law, Khayr Allah Talfah. (Professor Baram, who has long followed Saddam's family, later told me he believes that Luay, who is about forty years old, is close to Saddam's inner circle.) At the meeting, with Othman present, Mukhabarat officials instructed Jawad to go to Baghdad, where he was to retrieve several cannisters filled with explosives. Then, he said, he was to arrange to smuggle the explosives into Iran, where they would be used to kill anti-Iraqi activists. After this assignment was completed, Jawad said, he was given a thousand Kalashnikov rifles by Iraqi intelligence and told to smuggle them into Afghanistan.
A year later, there was a new development: Othman told Jawad to smuggle several dozen refrigerator motors into Afghanistan for the Iraqi Mukhabarat; a cannister filled with liquid was attached to each motor. Jawad said that he asked Othman for more information. "I said, 'Othman, what does this contain?' He said, 'My life and your life.' He said they"—the Iraqi agents—"were going to kill us if we didn't do this. That's all I'll say.
"I was given a book of dollars," Jawad went on, meaning ten thousand dollars—a hundred American hundred-dollar bills. "I was told to arrange to smuggle the motors. Othman told me to kill any of the smugglers who helped us once we got there." Vehicles belonging to the Taliban were waiting at the border, and Jawad said that he turned over the liquid-filled refrigerator motors to the Taliban, and then killed the smugglers who had helped him.
I asked (Kurdish Prime Minister) Salih to respond to the criticism, widely aired in the West, that the sanctions have led to the death of thousands of children. "Sanctions don't kill Iraqi children," he said. "The regime kills children."
The Kurds face an institutional disadvantage at the U.N., where, unlike the Palestinians, they have not even been granted official observer status. Salih grew acerbic: "Compare us to other liberation movements around the world. We are very mature. We don't engage in terror. We don't condone extremist nationalist notions that can only burden our people. Please compare what we have achieved in the Kurdistan national-authority areas to the Palestinian national authority of Mr. Arafat. We have spent the last ten years building a secular, democratic society, a civil society. What has he built?"
There is some debate among arms-control experts about exactly when Saddam will have nuclear capabilities. But there is no disagreement that Iraq, if unchecked, will have them soon, and a nuclear-armed Iraq would alter forever the balance of power in the Middle East. "The first thing that occurs to any military planner is force protection," Charles Duelfer told me. "If your assessment of the threat is chemical or biological, you can get individual protective equipment and warning systems. If you think he's going to use a nuclear weapon, where are you going to concentrate your forces?"
There is little doubt what Saddam might do with an atomic bomb or with his stocks of biological and chemical weapons. When I talked about Saddam's past with the medical geneticist Christine Gosden, she said, "Please understand, the Kurds were for practice."

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SeaWorld San Diego recently opened their awesome new ride, Electric Eel. I was fortunate enough to #RideWithACE and attend the media event for this beauty.
Built by Premier, this triple launch coaster travels at speeds up to 62mph and features suspended, coiled track 150 feet high. The coiled track at the top is pure air time! I was in fact comforted by the comfort collars. More on that below.
This ride is pure adrenaline…….fast and breathtaking, with lots of air time and surprises along the way. Premier has brought their launched coaster to a new level. I hope to see more like this in other parks. Sadly, my personal POV was lost in digital Hades, so the park graciously gave me this POV to share.
This POV is found on the SeaWorld San Diego website.
And here is footage from test rides, with SeaWorld San Diego staff enjoying some of the first rides on Electric Eel.
The Seats and Comfort Collar:
There has been a lot of conversation regarding the trains, restraints, and the comfort collar for Electric Eel. Well I'm here to tell you the trains are very comfortable, although admittedly the comfort collar is a little awkward to get in and out of. The collar is very loose fitting on the shoulders, and on me, as a shorter person, my head did hit them a few times. The padding is such that it didn't cause any discomfort, although I did lose an earring to the Electric Eel.
As is typical with Premier, the seats are a little tight but they are more spacious than say for Full Throttle, (Six Flags Magic Mountain) or Superman Ultimate Flight, (Six Flags Discovery Kingdom). They are extremely comfortable as Jason demonstrates for us here.
SeaWorld has suffered a lot of bad publicity in the past few years, and this coaster is a part of a much larger rebranding effort. 10 News San Diego covered this story in detail.
SeaWorld San Diego Passes are a terrific value, and with the addition of Electric Eel, the park offers three awesome coasters, as well as some cute flat rides, educational and adorable animal exhibits, and the awesome Bayside Sky Ride, a classic Von Roll. This POV is by the awesome folks at Park Journey.
SeaWorld San Diego and Aquatica San Diego are offering many new events this year…………so I highly recommend getting out there!
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Oral Roberts (9-17, 5-6) at South Dakota (9-14, 3-7)
Date/Time: Sunday, February 10, 2019 / 1 p.m.
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Location: Vermillion, S.D. / Sanford Coyote Sports Center
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TULSA, Okla. – After four straight at home, the Oral Roberts men's basketball team will start a four-game road stretch, beginning Sunday as the Golden Eagles travel to South Dakota.
Sunday's game will be televised by MidcoSN and available on ESPN3 and the WatchESPN app. Adam Hildebrandt's radio call of the game can be heard on The Franchise at 107.9 FM and 1270 AM, and online at TheFranchiseOk.com.
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Scouting the Opponent
• South Dakota's leading scorer at 14.4 points per game, Stanley Umude has been on a tear in Summit League play, averaging 19.4 points in league play, including six 20 point games and one 32 point game.
• ORU won the first meeting between the two teams, 77-74 at the Mabee Center. Kevin Obanor scored 31 points, DeShang Weaver added 24 and Carlos Jürgens scored 14 as the ORU freshmen accounted for 72 of the team's 77 points. Umude had 21 for the Coyotes and Tyler Peterson scored 20 points with 12 rebounds.
Quick Hits
• With the win earlier in the season, ORU snapped a three-game losing skid to USD and took a 7-6 lead in the all-time series against the Coyotes.
• After giving up just 22 points in the first half against Denver, ORU has held teams to 36 points or fewer in the first half in 10 of the last 15 games and a total of 15 times this season. 20 is the lowest total given up in the first half, doing so in an eventual overtime win over James Madison.
• ORU is 21st in the nation in total rebounds with 940 and 43rd in the nation in total 3-pointers made (217).
• DeShang Weaver is 41st nationally in 3-point percentage (42 percent) and 59th in total 3-pointers made (66).
• Last time out, ORU topped Denver 78-65, despite being without the services of Emmanuel Nzekwesi, who missed his third game in the last five. Nzekwesi is ORU's top scorer and rebounder this season.
For the latest information on ORU men's basketball, follow @ORUMBB on Twitter or Instagram, or go to www.ORUAthletics.com. Fans can also receive updates on the team by downloading the ORU Athletics Front Row App at ORUAthletics.com/frontrow or the ORU Golden Eagles Live App in iTunes or the Google Play Store. For tickets, visit mabeecenter.com or call 495-7ORU (7678).


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Mankind has been using rudimentary tools since our species started evolving. With their evolution into modern, more efficient power tools, another change has taken place – their operation has become more dangerous. Evidently, well-informed persons are sheltered from any type of injury as they are aware of proper use. Regardless of your skill level, whether you are an amateur or a professional when it comes to DIY projects that involve the use of power tools, you have to get better acquainted with them and their safe use to stay out of harm's way.
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In the category of power saws, we include table saws, circular saws, and chainsaws. All of these power tools represent a great hazard under reckless use, so you must closely follow the instructions gives in the following passages to stay safe.
Circular Saws
Circular saws are capable of spinning their outer edge at approximately 120 miles per hour. When used incorrectly, serious injuries appear. Unfortunately, statistics show that approximately 30 percent of reported saw injuries are a result of improper circular saw use.
Safety tips:
- Clamp the saw and keep both hands on it;
- Wear protective gear on your eyes;
- Keep the tip teeth from protruding past the thickness of the workpiece.
Table Saws
The blade of this power tool usually spins at approximately 3500 rotation per minute, the outside edge reaching approximately 110 miles per hour. Each year, improper use of table saws makes up for approximately 60000 injuries.
Safety tips:
- Use a featherboard to protect your fingers;
- Use a splitter to avoid kickback;
- Wear safety glasses.
Injuries linked to these tools are all caused by a reckless or improper use. Alas, some people seem to not learn their lesson considering that approximately 30000 chainsaw injury cases are reported each year.
Safety tips:
- Closely follow operational instructions;
- Wear quality boots and gloves;
- Protect your eyes from splinters by wearing goggles;
- Turn off the power tool when changing its direction away from the workpiece.
Routers are widely considered as being the most powerful tools in the woodshop. What adds to the danger in use of these power tools is the fact that they spin, at fast speeds, sharp carbine-tipped bids. The router attaches to a router table that allows for a safe and convenient operation. Clamp it down securely to the router table and the tool is guaranteed to sit in place throughout the entire unfolding of the woodworking project.
Safety Tips:
- Keep a cautious distance between the bit and your hands;
- Check for the bit to be correctly chucked;
- When making adjustments, unplug the router;
- Don't rush – rout in a series of passes;
- Wear proper safety gear – goggles, gloves, dust mask.
Nail Guns
Regardless of the tool's size, what you shouldn't forget is that the powerful compressed air used by the nail gun when firing nails is hazardous to your well-being when improper use ensues. Woefully, amateur DIYers make up the highest percentage of nail gun related injuries, more precisely approximately 40% of these cases. Considering how each year there are over 40000 documented injury cases, it's an alarming number that must be lowered through proper tool use.
Safety tips:
- Wear safety goggles at all times;
- Cover your ears – the tool can get quite noisy;
- Keep your fingers and hands away from places where misfired nails could end up.
Air Compressors
Air compressors become especially dangerous when they're not properly maintained. There are slight chances for tank ruptures to occur, it's undeniable, but in case this unfortunate event takes place, injuries when operating air compressors inevitably occur. This unwanted circumstance unfolds when rust eats away at the tank inside-out. Of course, other things can go wrong with the compressor as well. For example, a very common occurrence is when the brass connectors slip or when they're not properly seated. This leads to them flying off due to the powerful pressure.
Safety tips:
- Do regular maintenance checkups;
- Try to stay clear from the brass collectors when using the tool;
- Periodically check for rust.
These tools are used for the task of smoothing surfaces through the process of abrasion. The power tools use sandpaper for the task, featuring a mechanism that allows the user to quickly detach or attach sandpaper when needed. What makes the tool appealing is the fact that it can either by handheld or fixed onto a workbench when operating it. There is a plethora of different types of sanders, each designed for unique purposes – orbital sanders, flap sanders, oscillating spindle sanders, belt sanders, drum sanders, detail sanders, and so on. What they all have in common are proper and safe use techniques that we will immediately list.
Safety tips:
- Unplug the sander when replacing sandpaper;
- Wear protective eye material;
- Place the sander on the workpiece before you start it;
- Don't remove the tool from the workpiece before turn it off;
- Check for the dust ventilation system to be alright.


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More restaurants are offering takeout, and they're packing it in high-design containers. American Box, an outpost of San Francisco's Fish & Farm, sells everything (like "chop salad") in logo boxes. Macbar, an offshoot of Manhattan's Delicatessen, uses bright-yellow macaroni-shaped plastic tubs for its 12 types of mac and cheese.
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Black History Month celebrates the many achievements and contributions made by African-Americans to our economic, cultural, spiritual, and political development. Every Saturday during the month of February, there are a series of free events that focus on the African-American history and Gullah heritage of Mount Pleasant. This year, the Town of Mount Pleasant Historical Commission celebrated its 5th annual Black History Month!
February 2, 2019
The first event was a presentation on a report titled The State of Racial Disparities in Charleston County, South Carolina 2000-2015. This report provides an educational perspective of racial inequality in Charleston County from 2000 to 2015. The presentation was followed by a discussion between Barney Blakeney, Heather Hodges, and Patricia Williams Lessane, PhD, facilitated by Daron Lee Calhoun.
February 9, 2019
The Plantation Singers performed for Black History Month for the fifth straight year! With their energetic performances, the Plantation Singers play an important role in the preservation of the Gullah spirituals and the sacred music of the South Carolina Lowcountry. They are one of the Southeast's most popular a cappella and percussion singing groups and have performed all over the world.
February 16, 2019
This event consisted of three presentations with musical performances in between. Kevin Tolbert, Charleston native, now retired, spoke about his experience as United States Supreme Court librarian. Rosalee Washington and Christine Hampton spoke about the history of Lincolnville and presented traditionally stitched quilts. Dr. Rose Delores Gibbs was the first female American-American to graduate from MUSC. She spoke about the challenges she faced and gave advice to African-Americans interested in pursuing a career in medicine.
February 23, 2019
The last Black History Month event was an evening of spirituals, pop, and jazz. Alphonso Brown and The Mt. Zion Spiritual Singers performed traditional "camp meeting" style songs. Camp meeting songs are Gullah spirituals usually only a couple lines sung repetitively with a refrain. Chris Williams, member of award-winning band, Plane Jane, closed the night on his saxophone. He received a standing ovation!
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Power Defragmenter using Sysinternals Contig
I just found this tool, seems to work pretty good, it automates using the Sysinternals Contig utility.
Power Defragmenter is a GUI (Graphic User Interface) application for program Contig by Sysinternals.
Contig is a very powerful defragmentation application designed for Windows NT/2000/XP operating systems.
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The helicopters are coming
This post is a guest contribution by Niels Jensen*, chief executive partner of London-based Absolute Return Partners.
It is time to move on. Not that the crisis is over, by no stretch of the imagination. But it is not going to make one iota of difference if I join the blame game bandwagon. It is what it is. Allow me instead to focus my energy on what is likely to happen next. That is more productive and definitely more useful.
A can of worms
In the situation we currently find ourselves in, it is very easy to get distracted and lose sight of the bigger picture. All eyes are on Wall Street, obviously with good reason, but there are important dynamics which are being largely ignored. Let's focus on those.
Will $700 billion be enough?
That doesn't make Paulson's plan a bad first step, though. In the current environment, doing nothing is not an option and all those who have opposed the plan, including the "mental midgets and moral pigmies" in Congress (quote taken from Woody Brock), should shut up and work with the Treasurer to move things forward. The United States, and the rest of the world, cannot afford for some narrow minded, re-election focused egotists to take the entire world down.
Europe is skating on thin ice
So is Asia …
Banks are obviously acutely aware of the high counterparty risk at present and their wariness is best exemplified through the recent explosion in Libor rates (see Chart 1 below).
Chart 1: USD Libor Rates
Source: Financial Times
It is critical that the inter-bank market doesn't break down completely. If it does, lending will dry up very quickly and the damage to the real economy will be devastating. That's why we cannot afford for Paulson's plan not to go through. Trust in the banking system must be preserved at almost any price.
The recession is coming
That, however, is not the same as suggesting that the worst of the economic crisis is now behind us. We'd better prepare for a long and painful winter. The US economy is almost certainly in recession already (more about this later); so is the UK economy. Continental Europe is probably not quite there yet, although the very latest data suggests that France has now tipped over. It is probably fair to assume that, by the first or second quarter of next year, large parts of Europe should be in recession.
Not as strong as it looks
So what happened? It may sound strange but there is a simple explanation – the fact that oil prices rose from $101 to $140 per barrel during the quarter. In order to understand how rising oil prices can have such an effect on real (inflation-adjusted) GDP, consider the following equations:
(a) Nominal GDP = Consumption + Investments + Government Spending + Exports – Imports
(b) Real GDP = Nominal GDP ÷ GDP Deflator (The GDP deflator measures the difference between real and nominal GDP.)
Now assume that, in a given quarter, the volume of every component is unchanged. This would obviously mean that real GDP would be unchanged. At the same time, assume that import prices rise during the quarter (as was the case in the second quarter). Nominal GDP would fall as the value of total imports would rise. As a result, rising import prices lower the GDP deflator which is used to convert nominal GDP into real GDP. Therefore, as the GDP deflator was lowered in Q2, it had the effect of pushing real GDP higher. Bingo!
Prepare for a shock number
Foreign trade performs well
Chart 2a: US Trade Balance
Chart 2b: US Trade Balance
Source: www.econbrowser.com
Obviously, one might argue that it is only a question of time before US exports fall off the cliff. Maybe, but that's not where I am going with this. Much more interesting is the impact this is having on foreign exchange reserves – and therefore on global liquidity – around the world.
Reserves stand at $7 trillion
But growth has stalled …
It also explains why global bond markets have done so well in recent years despite evidence of rising inflation problems. About $5 trillion of FX reserves have had to be invested since the turn of the Millennium – much of it in government bonds. Imagine the stimulus such a vast amount of money has provided to bond prices. No wonder inflation worries have been largely ignored by global bond markets!
Don't worry about inflation
And now to the helicopters …
The risks attached to such aggressive monetary easing are limited at this stage. The global economy is facing substantial weakening and money growth has slowed significantly in recent months – just take a look at Chart 3 below.
Chart 3: US Money Growth
The stock market should react reasonably well to such aggressive monetary easing but, to paraphrase our friends at Cardano, if anything, the Lehman bankruptcy has forced equity investors to confront the full scale of the financial crisis, which they have been trying to ignore for some time. And, despite the recent sell-off, there is still little value to be found in equities compared to the deep discounts on offer in the credit markets.
Source: Niels Jensen, Absolute Return Partners, October 3, 2008.
* Niels Jensen has 24 years of investment banking, private banking and asset management experience. He began his career at Andelsbanken (now Nordea) in Copenhagen and was part of a generation of bankers building a new industry in Denmark, following the Central Bank of Denmark's relaxation of rules governing investments abroad in 1984.
In 1986, he joined Shearson Lehman in London, where he built up the firm's equity franchise in Scandinavia. In 1989, he joined Goldman Sachs with a similar mandate, i.e. to establish a Scandinavian franchise for Goldman. In 1992, he became Co-Head of Goldman's U.S. equity business in Europe, a post he held until 1996, when he joined Oppenheimer in London and became its Head of Europe.
Following CIBC's acquisition of Oppenheimer, Lehman Brothers bought Oppenheimer's European private banking operation in 1999, and Niels found himself back at the firm he left ten years earlier, now in charge of its European Private Wealth Management business. Whilst at Lehman Brothers, he developed the concept of investing that has now been put into effect at Absolute Return Partners.
In December 2006 Niels was appointed as a Director of Trafalgar House Trustees Limited, advising one of the UK's leading corporate pension funds on its investment strategy.
Niels is a founding Partner of Absolute Return Partners LLP and its Chief Executive Partner. He is a graduate of University of Copenhagen with a Masters Degree in economics.
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Share the gift of skewered fabric with your closest beer-mates by grabbing a set of these friendly little frothies. Attach one to either side of your drinking girdle and bring them together for special occasions.
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Radcliff Avenue Belt
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- Casual belt
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- Dress it up or down, perfect any way you style it
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Our belts are measured from the inside edge of the buckle to the center hole. Because of this, we recommend selecting a belt one full size larger than your waist size. For example, if the waist size on your slacks or pant size is a 36" we recommend ordering a 38" belt.
Manufactured with five distinct belt holes, placed 1 inch apart from one another.
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Rated 1 out of 5 by Anonymous from Disappointing Very disappointed with the belt. The leather smelled so much that it couldn't be worn. The aroma of leather was distracting. I think the tanning process was incomplete and the hide was still fresh. Disappointing.
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Rated 1 out of 5 by Josiah from Poor quality This was purchased as a first quality item. However, it looks like belt was worn and possibly repaired. Parts of belt are more grainy while other parts were smooth or 'bubbled'. The leather color on the inside of the belt was inconsistent- looked darker at some stress points. I plan to return this as soon as I find time to get to a post office and ship it back. I paid expedited shipping to get this quickly and it fell far below my expectations.
Date published: 2019-01-18
Rated 2 out of 5 by wanderingsalazar from Weird Loop Keeper This belt really caught my eye because it is different and it looked like I could wear it with both jeans and dress pants. That part is true enough, although it is a little bit wide for dress pants, but that suits my style just fine. The thing I find weird about this belt is the odd manner in which the belt loop keeper is attached. It is almost an afterthought. The keeper loop goes around the belt and connects with a single, weak-looking leather staple. Then, rather than the keeper loop being sewn into the back of the belt to hold it in place, the keeper loop is 'secured' by another loop coming down from where the buckle is sewn into place. It's the strangest, most jerry-rigged set-up I have ever seen on a belt. It's bizarre and instills little confidence that it will last long, which is not really a feature you want in something that is holding up your pants.
Date published: 2018-10-22
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For years the hardest part of installing a custom ROM on your Android phone, especially if you didn't have a Nexus, has been the entire process. The whole thing is generally an unnecessary pain. Fortunately the CyanogenMod team has been hard at work addressing this issue, and their app has finally been released to the Google Play Store for select Android devices to use.
The CM Installer has been in private beta for a little while now, as the team slowly adds support for more devices and fine tunes the experience. The idea is fairly simple: you install the app on your phone, install the companion app on your PC, connect your phone to your PC, and wait. When your phone reboots you are running what is essentially a brand new operating system, a version of Android focused on privacy and personal security as well as access to the latest features the community has to offer. It's not all that different from buying a laptop with Windows on board, and ripping that out so you can enjoy some Linux.
In our tests with the CM Installer, we found the experience to be incredibly smooth and way faster than doing the installation manually. This one-click installer is a huge step forward in making custom variants of Android available to users who aren't quite brave enough to go flashing ROMs on their own, which dramatically opens the potential userbase up for groups like CyanogenMod. Now that they are a startup instead of just a group of developers working in their free time, the Cyanogen Inc. team can focus on rapidly delivering new features to their steadily increasing group of users, which can only be good for everyone involved.
If you'd like to check out the CyanogenMod Installer for yourself, head to the Google Play Store and see if your device is supported. You'll need Android 2.3.3 or higher.


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G&H Plugs Introduces GreyBLES: Expressionz Cables
G&H Plugs has unveiled the GreyBLES: Expressionz line of cables. Described as having an "expressive sound that's highly responsive," the cables are a mix of traditional and modern design.
"This cable has been traditionally designed with soldered sound technology, minimizing signal loss and distortion as sound passes through the plugs copper core into the copper core of the cable," the company writes. "The nearly indestructible solid brass housing protects the plugs through some seriously heavy use."
The GreyBLES Expressionz comes in three lengths – 10-foot, 15-foot, and 20-foot – with retail prices ranging from $49.99 to $69.99.
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Method Of Providing Anonymous Secure User Access Tokens
A method of granting secure access to online databases by eliminating the need to include sensitive user information in access tokens after authorization.
Publication Date11 March 2009
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What we are trying to do?
We are attempting to mobilize the creativity and innovative capacities of the Linux and broader open source community to codify the universe of preexisting inventions in defensive publications that upon publication in the IP.COM database will immediately serve as effective prior art that prevents anyone from having a patent issued that claims inventions that have already been document in a defensive publication. In addition to creating a vehicle to utilize this highly effective form of IP rights management for known inventions, it is hoped that the community will use defensive publications as a means of codifying future inventions should the inventors prefer not to make their invention the subject of a patent disclosure and application.


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Photos of a tug-of-war between visitors and an Amur tiger at Changsha Ecological Zoo in Hunan have gone viral online, with many netizens condemning the activity, China News reports.
Several human vs tiger tugs-of-war were held at the zoo on Friday as a trial of the activity, due to launch during the upcoming National Day holiday.
In order to get the tiger interested in playing with the bipedal mammals gawping at it from the other side of the glass, a live chicken is placed in a sack tied to one end of a rope, the other end is held by visitors. When the tiger grabs the bag, visitors attempt to wrest control away from the big cat. According to media reports, one group of seven visitors lost to a four year old tiger.
The game costs 45 yuan to participate in, and is, according to the zoo, designed to help stimulate the animals and avoid potential sickness that can be caused by malaise and inactivity when in captivity.
Shows involving animals are prohibited by a 2010 regulation, but zoos, including Shanghai's very own Wild Animal Park, frequently ignore the restrictions.
[Image credit: Xinhua]


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One thing about dropping the 10lbs from where I started is that now, none of my pants fit. I have to tighten up my belt to such a point that I have bunching around the waist.
Stepped on the scale this morning and was 186lbs. More than I would have guessed but not worried about it. Maybe it is more muscle since I have been focusing on body weight exercises? Shrug.
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I hear ya @JayS. For now I'm just living with the bunching. If I can keep the weight off during the winter months - when my activity tends to slow and the beef tends to add up - then I'll look to downsize my clothing.
Stepped on the scale this morning. 181.4lbs. I'm ok with that. I was at a wedding this weekend and hit it pretty hard. The really challenge will be eating healthy while I'm on the road for a week.
I'm having the opposite problem. I had my weight fixed at 185-190 for years and so I pulled the trigger and had a bunch of items that I love brought in. A while later I had a kid. Now I'm back up past 205 and nothing fits me anymore. I decided to pick up just some bare essentials in bigger sizes and I'm trying to be very budget about it (Target and Amazon Goodthreads), but it is a real drain looking at my closet full of great items that I can't touch.
Baby is 6 months now so we are getting to somewhat return to our normal lives. Time to train again and get back to myself.
My advice is to take it a bit easy when brining the clothes in. Maybe not all of them at once and not all the way in to start.
My best problem was going from 40W to 34W and from XL-2XL to Medium. I couldn't have been happier to spend money on clothing.
I had to buy some in-between clothes which were rendered useless very fast but I was budget conscious (Old Navy, Amazon). The benefits far outweigh the cost.
I've become the very example of slow and steady - still hovering a few ounces north of 200 lbs, but my weight loss trend over the first 4.5 months of the year is -1 lb, -0.5 lb, -1.8 lb, -1.8 lb, and -1 lb. Just recently started training for my first century coming up in August, so I fully expect that, with even passable diet, I should be able to keep or accelerate that trend. If I can maintain/improve my current FTP and drop 10 lbs, I might actually be reasonably fast.
Friday AM edit: Today, the scale reported a number that started with a 1 for the first time in over 3 years. After bring perpetually stuck at 205, it feels good to be sub-200. Even if I probably exceeded 200 again having a few sips of coffee.
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The Environmental Protection Agency is preparing to make an important and far-reaching decision this year that will affect more than 500 million gasoline engines powering everything from large pickups to family cars to lawn mowers: whether to grant the ethanol industry's request to raise the maximum amount of ethanol that can be added to gasoline.
That request has engine manufacturers and consumer advocates worried about possible damage, service station owners in a tizzy over the financial and legal implications and a leading petroleum industry group saying the move is unwise and premature.
Specifically, ethanol producers are asking that the maximum ethanol content in the most common blend of gasoline be increased from 10 percent — a limit set about three decades ago — to as much as 15 percent. The blend the industry hopes will become common is known as E15, but the E.P.A. could approve a blend between E10 and E15.
Last year, nearly three-quarters of the gasoline sold in the
The issue came before the E.P.A. in early March when Growth Energy, an ethanol lobbying group, and 54 ethanol manufacturers asked the agency for a waiver of the
Although the request went largely unnoticed by the public, it got the attention of anyone who makes or sells gasoline engines, as well as some environmentalists and consumer advocates.
Approving E15 would have a huge impact on consumers, said Clarence Ditlow, executive director of the Center for Auto Safety, and could cause problems including the voiding of car warranties. "There's a lot to worry about," he said. "All a consumer has to do is look at the fuels section of the owner's manual, which says that the use of fuel above 10 percent ethanol may result in denial of warranty claims."
Nearly 250 million cars and light trucks are registered in the United States, according to Experian Automotive. But the impact would be even broader. Kris Kiser, executive vice president of the Outdoor Power Equipment Institute, a trade group, estimates that a change would affect 300 million engines in everything from chainsaws to weed trimmers.
The National Marine Manufacturers Association says 12 million boat engines would also be affected.
Growth Energy, whose co-chairman is
The studies were done by groups including the federal Energy Department, the State of Minnesota, the Renewable Fuels Association, the Rochester Institute of Technology, the
Michael Harrigan, a former
And Tom Buis, the chief executive of Growth Energy, said, "We are confident in the science we prepared."
But confident or not, Growth Energy has plenty of opposition from groups that say some of the studies it cites are inconclusive. The critics also say its assertions are unproved and in some cases misleading.
While automakers generally favor wider use of
"We are not asking for this to be delayed forever," Mr. Territo said. "We are asking for this to be delayed until the testing is complete."
Mr. Kiser, of the outdoor power equipment group, said some initial tests already indicated that E15 could cause serious problems — including safety issues — with some small engines.
Honda can design engines to run well on new gasoline blends, Mr. Cohen said. The issue is the legacy fleet, whose engines were designed over two decades for varying requirements. There is no single answer, Mr. Cohen said, to the question of how E15 would affect them.The American Petroleum Institute is also concerned, said Robert Greco, the group director of downstream and industry operations. He said more research was needed — probably several years' worth — before the institute would be convinced that E15 was safe for so many different kinds of engines.
"We think that the current waiver request is premature," Mr. Greco said. "The science isn't in yet."
And Jeremy Martin, a senior scientist at the
"We shouldn't just look at a little data and extrapolate," he said. "There are rules here, and there are procedures. And there is a proper engineering way to come to this determination. One can guess about the most likely outcomes, but that is not sufficient to put all the fleet at risk."
Wendy Clark, group manager and principal researcher in the fuels performance group at the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory, said a lot of credible organizations were studying E15. But she said it was too early to know for sure how engines would be affected. One question is how many of the studies will be done before Dec. 1, the date by which the E.P.A. is required by law to make its decision.
Mr. Ditlow of the Center for Auto Safety said: "What the ethanol people are asking the consumer to do is bear the risk. If only 1 percent of the vehicles on the road today had E15-related problems, that would be about 2.5 million vehicles."
Among those concerned about the proposed change are service station owners, many of whom fear that their pumps and fiberglass storage tanks would need to be replaced. They also fear legal problems including lawsuits from customers claiming their vehicles were damaged by the fuel.
"It is a horrible thing for our members," said Carl Boyett, president of the Society of Independent Gas Marketers of America.In their March request to the E.P.A., proponents of the waiver said E15 would provide "increased energy security, enhanced economic development, creation of American jobs, reduced transportation costs and environmental benefits." The ethanol manufacturers contend that the increase is necessary because of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007. That act includes a renewable fuels standard that requires a steady increase in the use of biofuels in the United States — to 36 billion gallons in 2022 from 11 billion gallons this year. To meet the goals, refiners must add biofuels to gasoline.
The industry has been meeting the requirements. In 2007 , it was required to use 4.7 billion gallons of ethanol and it actually used 6.85 billion, according to the petroleum institute. Last year, when the requirement was 9 billion gallons, the industry used 9.6 billion.
But Americans are now buying far less gasoline than was expected when the law passed. That decline has the industry worried that as early as 2011 or 2012 it will be impossible to meet the renewable fuels standard with a 10 percent limit, Mr. Greco said.
Mr. Buis of Growth Energy said: "We are up against a blend wall. That cap needs to be raised."
While adding more ethanol would help refiners meet the law, it would not improve fuel economy. An October 2008 study for the Energy Department tested 16 late-model cars and found, on average, that mileage dropped 5 percent with E15 compared with gasoline that contained no ethanol.
In deciding whether to raise the cap, the E.P.A. says it must consider not just emissions, but also vehicles' durability and drivability "over their useful lives." The agency has acknowledged that E15 is a complex issue, given that engines vary widely in their age and sophistication. Some might run fine on E15 while others might be susceptible to problems.
The E.P.A. says one possibility is that it could approve the use of E15 for some vehicles or engines but not for others.
Mr. Martin of the Union of Concerned Scientists says tests may show that vehicles produced starting with 2004 models could run safely on E15. That year, more sophisticated engine controls were required, making it more likely their systems could detect and compensate for fuel variations. About 79 million cars and light trucks have been produced since the 2004 model year, Experian Automotive says.
Mr. Buis of Growth Energy said that the advantages and safety of E15 were clear and that allowing higher ethanol content would help to make the nation less dependent on petroleum. He said there was no reason to delay.
"You know, some people don't want to do anything — they just want to test, test, test or study, study, study," Mr. Buis said. "You know, this nation has been stalling for 30-some years from becoming energy independent."Continue reading the main story


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So, how do you recover post workout? Recovery is an important part of your training process, as or if not more important, as any other part of my training. I've had quite a few people ask for my advice and recovery after a workout or run. And since I just completed the Blackmores Sydney Running Festival 9km Bridge Run, I thought this would be the perfect time to share with you some of my tips.
My diet
Post runs, it's super important for me to rehydrate my body and replace those electrolytes that I lost through sweating. Otherwise cramping, dehydration, faintness and nausea can set in for me. My everyday favourites are:
- Rehydration: Fresh coconut water is a fantastic option. Not only is it filled with natural electrolytes, but it's delicious when chilled and is an awesome thirst quencher. I call it my natural sports drink! You can buy fresh coconut water from just about anywhere. Even the local convenience store! Tip: Just chill, cut the top off, sip the coconut water then scoop the flesh out and eat.
- Energy and muscle recovery: Blackmores do a Bio Magnesium tablet that's fantastic for cramping and the Womens Vitality Multi vitamin is great for energy. I highly recommend taking these while you are training, especially the Bio Magnesium. Have you ever had a leg cramp creep up on you during your training? Or worse still attack you in the middle night, like they do with me? Not the most welcomed feeling at all! Magnesium tablets are a great supplement for this as they help to relax your muscles, therefore reducing cramping. They also help you sleep better. I've tried and tested these and they work a treat! Highly recommended! Tip: Vitamins should be taken during the course of your training for maximum benefits.
- Good carbohydrates and lean proteins: Think quinoa, vegetables, fruits, chicken, fish and lean red meat. These are all great for recovery and replenishing your protein and energy levels. Because without the right fuel your body can't recover or build up muscle. So eat up and eat well! Tip: Best to buy your produce fresh and cook at home so you know what you are putting in it.
My exercise tips:
The low lunge or Lizard Pose
This is my favourite pose post run. It's perfect for opening the hips, stretching the hamstrings, groin and thighs.
How to: From Downward Dog, glide your right foot through and place it next to your right hand and gently sink your hips down to the floor while broadening your collarbones. If you feel you can go lower, then drop your elbows to the floor and sink your hips down further for a beautiful deep stretch. Remember to keep your neck line long and back nice and flat.
The Pigeon Pose
Naturally you will transition to this pose from the Lizard Lunge. The Pigeon Pose is an extremely effective hip opener that also lengthens the psoas muscle. I like to spend a good five minutes in the Pigeon Pose on each leg as the gravity increases my flexibility. If you're in class, maybe ask the instructor to adjust you further into this pose.
How to: From Lizard Lunge walk your right foot over to your left hand. Now gently ground your hips to the floor. Make sure your left leg is straight behind you and your hips are square and front on. Take a deep breath in. Now gently exhale while lowering your chest to the floor. Stretch your arms out in front of you and spread your fingers. Now breathe and let go of any tightness and tenseness you feel. The more you let go, the further you will be able to stretch. Beginners, if you are new to this stretch, its best to put a bolster or block under your sit bones while you ease into this stretch.
The Mermaid Pose
The Mermaid Pose is a variation of the Pigeon Pose and while it strengthens your core and pelvic floor, it is also a very deep stretch for the quadriceps, hips, groins, back, chest and shoulders.
How to: From your Pigeon Pose slowly bring yourself up. Bend your left knee, bring your foot back towards your body. Gently cradle your foot in your inner elbow and pelvis while broadening your collarbones. A great stretch for your quadriceps.


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[Contemporary Art @ Korea] Kim Beom_Solo ExhibitionContemporary art @ Korea/Review 2010. 6. 27. 09:37
With trendy spectacle-like domestic and international exhibitions galore, Kim Beom's exhibition is like a humble breakfast. It's not easy for a modern man to have the time for a breakfast, but the experts always stress the importance of it to the human health. One can truly feel the power of a humble breakfast in maintaining health when it is consumed. Kim emits the powerful strength that nurtures our mental health through each meaningful works in his humble exhibition.
A graduate of
Animation Rhetoric
To refer to someone who cannot understand things easily, one uses the expression "to sing psalms to a dead cow." Although a dead cow may not understand words, the cow in Kim's works is somehow different. It ploughs the land like a human being, using a horse. The scene in which reappearing subjects like horse, cow, bird and other animals as well as other everyday objects are being educated like students, discloses the rules of animation that bestows life to a still object through movement. The single-channel video Inanimated Objects is an animation work which shows a purely materialistic perspective by capturing everyday objects like a clock or a bomb undergoing a transformation process like dying and decaying animals. Kim showed a variety of animation works, including the 2008 video Inanimated Objects and drawing animations 10 Animated Drawings, Horse Riding Horse and Flower. 10 Animated Drawings (2007) is a 3 min. 10 sec. single-channel drawing animation which is a continuation of 26 Untitled Drawings from early 1990s. An animated version of flat drawings in 26 Untitled Drawings, the 10 Animated Drawings deal with personal and universal notions of anxiety, frustration, relationship with objects, difficulties of existence, uncertainties, violence and sarcasm. The animated pencil drawings make the audience laugh, or at least smile. A cow ploughs a field, and a thought becomes a reality as one imagines someone aiming a gun at him and actually physically tries to avoid the bullet. A spoon transfigures into a winged bird, then into a cross. Like an irrational spectacle that unfolds between two beings of the same species, Horse Riding Horse is a drawing animation of a horse, rather than a person, riding a horse. Using animals that might appear in children's animation such as Lion King or Fantasia, the animation signifies a world in which the prey chases the weak, alluding to the unjust social structure of human existence. Like his animations, the documentary video series of 'educated objects' such as A Rock That Learned the Poetry of JUNG Jiyong, A Rock That Was Taught It Was a Bird, A Ship That Was Taught There is No Sea and Objects Being Taught They are Nothing but Tools follows the animation format in the sense that objects are personified. Teachers educating stones, boats and other objects, is truly a comic spectacle. A Rock That Learned the Poetry of JUNG Jiyong is a 12-hour video that recorded the reading and explaining of JUNG Jiyong's poem, which became a taboo due to him returning to
Power Game
Kim sharply points out the everyday things, beliefs and institutionalization in our lives through black humor in his works, such as in Objects Being Taught They are Nothing but Tools, as well as in works like Slave Key Ring, A Draft of a Safe House for a Tyrant and Spectacle, a video in which a cheetah chasing an antelope is edited and reversed to a cheetah being chased by an antelope. Kim's works are composed of events that cannot take place in reality. In the distortion of abnormally twisted images, we can read countless structures of power, from obvious political powers and master-servant power struggles, to microscopic power struggles in relationships with people and the power struggle to 'otherize' each other. Kim's work is an utterance about a delightful world that is stimulating yet inviting humor, suggesting the audience to see that 'invisible things' and 'visible things' are reversible, and to be considerate of difference in people.
Such works derive from Michel Foucault's interpretations on the problems of knowledge and power. Approaching and analyzing the dangerous 'abnormal' individuals in terms of religious, medical and legal basis of the 19th Century, Michel Foucault criticized that authority confined and 'abnormalized' the insane as well as others, and stressed the importance of an individual's existence. In his book Les Anormaux, Foucault criticized the royal authority in 16th Century, regarding the king as the 'tiger of a primitive society,' a prey that loiters the society. Furthermore, Foucault points out the fact that 'surveillance technology' was being developed in the 19th century when different administrations of power were being established, giving birth to terminology like as surveillance for children, the insane, the poor and the laborers. To summarize his message through analyzing the examples of the insane in history, or precisely the French history, we are to be reminded of the historical instances in which power and discipline alienated people from the society, and to realize the importance of a human being as it is. Through institutionalization in this society, we become infinitely standardized and uniformed. The private education fever in the heat of university entrance examination system in
It may be a bitter in the grown-up world of regulations where the strong prey upon the weak. However, like portrayed by Kim's Spectacle, in which a cheetah is being preyed by an antelope, and where regulations, institutionalization and power is being counterattacked, one can see glimpses of hopeful possibilities and spurts of optimistic energy.
(This text was an on-site review written by a critic selected and supported by 'Art Critic Support Program' by Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, for artist selected by '2010 Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture Support Program.')
IAN, Art Critic


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A design contest was held over the summer, 2012 Interactive Design Competition, and a few students from the College of Creative Studies were among those who entered and their design – the sixth-generation Chevrolet Camaro. This doesn't mean that one of these will be the next Camaro, but the sketches that came from this contest are pretty cool.
The next generation Camaro is due out sometime in 2015 and the anticipation is intense with many bursting with creativity of what they think it will look like. The new Camaro will be planted on GM's new RWD Alpha platform, the same platform as the Cadillac ATS, and will be proportioned smaller. General Motors has had a successful year with the sales of the Camaro beating the Ford Mustang about half of the time in monthly sales with an intense race of who will win the overall yearly sales and units sold.
Some of the drawings scream third-gen Camaro while others seem to explore more of a futuristic look, much like the menacing Zl1 Camaro submission. One of the images has an overview for owners of these new-gen cars: "The next generation of Camaro Owners are defined by their appreciation for the technical… the distinctly tough American muscularity and image that comes with it.â€
One of these could be the next Camaro, or possibly look nothing like any of them. No matter what, the sketches submitted are pretty awesome and maybe General Motors is really thinking of using a student-submitted design.
What do you think of these? Check out the sketch gallery below:
Source: [GM Authority Blog]


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Hey all,
So here it is. The beginning of my first motorcycle build. A 1934 Harley Davidson VLD.
Here is what I saw when I bought it:
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And here it is in my garage:
Managed to pick up this lovely bit of metal, flaking paint, and rust recently. Was found in a chicken coop of all places. Overall pretty solid rolling chassis. Don't see any obvious problems so far. Heck, the transmission even moves freely and shifts crisply. Will be interesting what the inside looks like once I pull it out and open it up.
Will update as I go. Working on the motor currently which didn't come with this rolling chassis. But the rolling chassis is a 1934 which matches my motor. ^_^v Has the dents and everything for the rear fender. :P


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"Disruptive" isn't often used to describe Austin Mayor Steve Adler, a man whose voice is so soft that city staffers have given him a special clip-on microphone to use at City Council meetings.
But the mayor's efforts to address Austin's deeply rooted economic inequalities recently earned him a spot on a list of 25 Disruptive Leaders who will be honored on Tuesday by Living Cities, an organization that works to improve the economic well-being for low-income people.
The organization cited Adler's "commitment to advancing racial equity in Austin" and noted it is partnering with Adler and the city in Racial Equity Here, an initiative announced back in May. Austin is one of five cities that will receive technical support and coaching as it looks at how government programs affect different racial groups, with a particular focus on "adults and youth of color aged 16 to 24 who are disproportionately out of school or work," Living Cities said in that May announcement. (Albuquerque, Grand Rapids, Louisville and Philadelphia are also partnering with Living Cities in this effort.)
"We also wanted to recognize (Adler's) dedication to inclusive civic engagement between residents and their elected officials," Living Cities president and CEO Ben Hecht said in a statement. "These are models for cities, nationwide."
Adler has been a leading voice in the Spirit of East Austin initiative, a dialogue between city officials and residents on how Austin — once home to a "negro district" east of Interstate 35 — can overcome that past and ensure the city's prosperity is shared by all. The mayor has repeatedly pointed to Austin's status as the most economically segregated major metro area in the U.S. as he makes the case for efforts to help balance the scales. In particular, as part of the $40 million Smart City Challenge, Adler proposed bringing high-tech transportation improvements to East Austin as a step toward "becoming an ever-more-equal city" (though that grant ultimately went to Columbus, Ohio).
Making the Disruptive Leaders list adds to the growing national profile of Adler, who last month tied for "Rookie of the Year" honors with Boston Mayor Marty Walsh in POLITICO MAGAZINE'S sixth quarterly Mayors Survey, which asked 71 mayors of the largest U.S. cities: "Who is a new mayor (elected since 2014) we need to keep our eye on?"
Living Cities' list of Disruptive Leaders includes a mix of political figures (including Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter), financial players (such as Boston Fed president Eric S. Rosengren) and nonprofit leaders (like Girls Who Code founder Reshma Saujani), as well as Mark Zuckerberg, who co-founded the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative with his wife to donate much of their Facebook fortune to philanthropy.
The 25 Disruptive Leaders will be honored at a Tuesday ceremony in Washington, D.C. marking Living Cities' 25th anniversary.