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The Lord of the Rings and the Western Narrative Tradition is the sixteenth book of Walking Tree's Cormarë Series. Unlike most other volumes, it is not a collection of essays, but a the work by Martin Simonson.
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When The Lord of the Rings was published in the 1950's it did not sit comfortably among any preconceived notions of literary genre. The critical responses reflected the confusion: for some, it was an unwelcome reappearance of narrative standards that modernism was supposed to have done away with, or just a bad novel. Others considered it a refreshing work in the epic and romance traditions.Ironically, much of the critical prejudice regarding the question of genre in The Lord of the Rings has been motivated by the same kind of blindness that Tolkien denounced in his famous 1936 lecture Beowulf: the monsters and the critics. Like Beowulf, Tolkien's work has also failed to be properly appreciated and assessed due to a general refusal to accept the centrality of monsters, because despite its "monstrous" originality and fantastic setting, it is very clearly, and not only chronologically, at the centre of twentieth-century literature.The Lord of the Rings and the Western Narrative Tradition is an attempt to account for the particular genre interaction that governs Tolkien's tale and put it in a meaningful relationship with the contemporary literary context. At the same time, it is a quest to track down one of the most famous and elusive literary monsters of the past century by filling out a long-neglected white space on the map of comparative literature and genre criticism.
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|#382958 - 09/19/12 11:55 AM Re: Designing The Axiom Airplay Speaker [Re: Amie]
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This is really helpful everyone - thanks for the input! Keep it coming!
I didn't ask but should have - what are your 'weight tolerances'? How much can this weigh before you find it too big / too inconvenient?
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|#382959 - 09/19/12 12:00 PM Re: Designing The Axiom Airplay Speaker [Re: Amie]
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Originally Posted By: Amie
This is really helpful everyone - thanks for the input! Keep it coming!
I didn't ask but should have - what are your 'weight tolerances'? How much can this weigh before you find it too big / too inconvenient?
For true mobility, it shouldn't be more than 16oz (that might even be too much). For stand alone, I don't think weight is a consideration.
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|#382961 - 09/19/12 12:06 PM Re: Designing The Axiom Airplay Speaker [Re: Amie]
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Seeing some of the Gizmodo references brought back recent thoughts of what to do with my VP150 - I was thinking of pulling the middle speaker and somehow stuffing a small amp (Lepai LP-2020 guts, for instance) and an iPod docking port inside the cabinet and fabricating a power switch and volume knob that would fit in the round void up front. This would leave a set of horizontal stereo speakers on either side of the controls and dock. I know, not the best imaging, but for my kid's dorm room it's probably better than nothing.
Now, incorporating the electronics for AirPlay would eliminate the need for the dock and make for a cleaner finish.
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|#382963 - 09/19/12 12:48 PM Re: Designing The Axiom Airplay Speaker [Re: Amie]
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Yes Amie! Yes Ian!. I really hope this comes to market - there is a huge gap that is not being filled by anything decent.
I have a house full of speakers and do use airplay for a couple of rooms (I do it using airport expresses)..
Here are my thoughts and wishes...
Two models, indoor, outdoor.
Outdoor should be single, easily hangable on a wall box, (re-chargable) battery pack, weatherproof'ish would be great.
Actually I would make them both single boxes, nicely powered.
The bar for this (to me) would be the JBL Soundstage 400 which I drag around outside and in the kitchen. I like it ascetically as it is not too big and is not very placement dependant, and even with that size, as far as sound quality as it is the only single box I've heard that has any type of oomph and stereo imaging.
Competition: The new Beats audio boxes are very appealing to the youth. While not sonically very accurate, they do produce an appealing (to that market) sound.
On that note, to widen the appeal into teens bedrooms, I would add a dock for the device, even if it is just a usb port so that it could be used as a charger for phones.
Again, if you wanted to widen the use you could also add in an optical port so that the it could be used as a soundbar type of device to use in smaller tv rooms, bedrooms that may not have stereo set ups - most cable/sat boxes have optical outs on them.
Finally, I think that aesthetics are important in this market category.
And that is really my thoughts for these types of speakers, thanks for listening and good luck Amie!
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|#382966 - 09/19/12 01:50 PM Re: Designing The Axiom Airplay Speaker [Re: Amie]
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I'm with Vassillios; two, distinct products.
First, stereo speakers based on the M3 for permanent installation. I think an external power supply is okay as long as it attaches to the wall with a regular size plug. I'm interested to know everyone's thinking on whether both speakers plug into the wall or one plugs into the wall and the other one plugs into the first one (I suspect the latter is the only feasible solution). The carrying case is a nice idea, but should be optional.
As to connectivity, I think you have to make provision for Bluetooth in addition to airplay. Maybe they are different models with different internals. A third option could be a wireless version that includes a transmitter that could be connected to any source device via analog jack so that the speakers could be used as surround speakers where wiring is problematic.
The second item would be small, portable, rechargeable and one piece. Something like a Jawbone Jambox. In our house, there is demand for something in the bathroom that can connect to iPad, iPod or Android phone. It wouldn't have to be tiny, but form factor matters.
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|#382969 - 09/19/12 02:00 PM Re: Designing The Axiom Airplay Speaker [Re: Amie]
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I believe there are two separate products here.
1. A single box portable solution, heir to the boombox. Think Audiobyte speakers on either end with a single woofer for bass support in the middle. Class D amp for energy efficiency. Wi-Fi, 1/8" input jack; no Bluetooth. USB charging port for portable player/phone. Maybe an iPhone/iPod dock, but would need to be with adapters for different models. A well to hold non-Apple player devices so that it isn't sitting loose on top or lying beside.
Power options: AC adapter, rechargeable battery pack, and external 12v input (e.g., for car powerpoint adapter). I like the idea of eliminating the external, plug-hugging wall-wart, but building it into the device adds weight that may be undesirable at times. A solution I haven't seen anyone use yet is to have the battery pack or AC power adapter fit into the same pocket in the device - plug in the one you need for mobile (around the yard) vs portable (around the house) use.
The unit should be as much under 10lbs / 4kgs as you can get it while still surpassing the sound quality of existing units. Weather resistant, so getting a couple of minutes of rain on it before putting it under cover isn't an issue. Limited colour choices.
The market for this unit is people who want better quality sound than current consumer offerings, and are willing to have a bit heavier unit to gain that, but who would never consider going to the extent of something like a self-built Boominator, which is designed for all weekend use.
2. Two separate powered speakers for use indoors. Fills a niche between the Audiobytes (connected to computer) and something like M2s with a receiver, for bedroom and den type systems, or primary systems for those who don't want a full-size set-up.
Power supply built-in, 1/8" input for non-Airplay use, USB charging port for portable devices. No bigger than M2s. Optional powered sub-woofer. Available in all Axiom's finishes.
Market for this is people who want a compact, convenient, good-sounding and stylish unit for secondary rooms, or a main system if they aren't into home theatre and dedicated music listening (or want a smaller system because they expect to move a lot or live in a smaller residence). So needs to be more convenient and attractive than an Airport Express/Apple TV plus separate powered speakers, and better quality but not dramatically more expensive than big-box Airplay solutions. I think Axiom's range of finishes is a big competitive edge for this product.
Why no Bluetooth? Limited range and bandwidth, most wireless music playing devices support Wi-fi anyway.
Why not focus on Apple devices? Because Apple may be dominant, but they still have less than 50% of the market in areas such as smart-phones. And there are way more competitors doing Apple only audio devices.
Two other technology thoughts, possible inclusions depending on cost. One is DLNA support, which makes possible use with systems other than Airplay. The other is for the second product - audio input from a HDTV, DVD player, or laptop/tablet. Seems a lot of people have secondary TVs, and don't want a full surround system, but do want better sound than the TV speakers or laptop/tablet provide. Their obvious option right now is a HTIB or cheap receiver + soundbar, neither of which would sound or look as good, or be as well integrated, as a powered Axiom solution.
Good luck with the product development!
|#382972 - 09/19/12 02:34 PM Re: Designing The Axiom Airplay Speaker [Re: Amie]
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DLNA, of course. I'd prefer to have Airplay over DLNA, but having both would be ideal.
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|#382974 - 09/19/12 02:51 PM Re: Designing The Axiom Airplay Speaker [Re: Amie]
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Lots of good stuff said already so I'll just add my votes.
--2 way minimum, we need that tweeter.
--AC vs. battery?? as long as it's not battery only. Question... How long can a decent speaker last on a set of batteries anyways?
--No wallworts!!!!!
--Left and rights are separate units. I have never understood stereo when the two speakers are mashed close together in a single unit. Two channels give better sonic reproduction I'm sure but certainly no stereophonic effect.
--DLNA would be useful, but I think this would overcomplicate your product. You are not trying to build the smarts into the speaker, you just want to make it an audio slave (no reference to the band intended) to other smart devices, correct?
For me personally, if I was buying 'outdoor' speakers, I'd go with permanent outdoor speakers. For this model, an indoor set that I can occasionally drag outdoors would be fine. I'll pull em back in if it rains.
--Don't shoot me folks but if you go with an outdoors model, they may need a bit of a bass bump to overcome the tinney outdoor sound some speakers get without reflection points, but hey, I'm delving into design here, which is your bag and I know nothing.....notttinggggg.
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|#382981 - 09/19/12 03:38 PM Re: Designing The Axiom Airplay Speaker [Re: Amie]
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If there isn't something more than Airplay and a good wireless method to stream, then I am out. Then again, if you advertise it with the right marketing, you will make a killing in the Apple market. Some of those folks will buy anything no matter the cost.
Seriously though, I can't complain because the original question was about creating an Airplay speaker. You could keep it simple and just have that.
Power without batteries or wallwarts would mean that the conversion from wall power to what the speakers would use just moves from the wallwart to inside the speaker. It has to be put somewhere. Make it sexy. Include Airplay (obviously). Offer it in white only. Charge a small fortune. Market it like crazy. Make a lot of money.
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|#382984 - 09/19/12 04:41 PM Re: Designing The Axiom Airplay Speaker [Re: Amie]
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Timing is everything I guess. Enter Miracast.
Miracast appears to be making a stab at becoming an Airplay-like industry standard. I like what I'm reading about it. The iSheep will prob continue to use Airplay (why would they not) but this could become a possible/probable replacement for DLNA, widi and the like.
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He was a terrific man, a great quarterback who was involved in one of the most famous college games ever, and instrumental in a single play — "the Peschel pass" — that still lives in Texas and national football lore. He was a wonderful father, including to former Colorado Rockies pitcher Huston Street, now with San Diego. My sympathy to James' wife, Janie, and his five sons. Here's my 2011 Post Father's Day story on Huston and James.
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He had been scrambling all his life, growing up on what passed for the wrong side of the tracks in Longview, Texas, about fifty miles from Shreveport, Louisiana. James's father, Grover, had health problems and was a paranoid schizophrenic, convinced someone was lurking behind the next tree and hoping to ruin his life. "He was pretty smart and he would come up with all these plans about how people were trying to get him," James says. Grover zealously coached his two boys, Sewell and James, building a little backstop in the backyard with a cutout of the strike zone and telling them they must hit each corner of the rectangle. "I never can remember him saying I did anything good," James says. "It was always expected of you to do good. But the reason you did good was because you were prepared. He would make you prepare."
Sewell was older, and he felt the brunt of the attention, but when James came home after pitching a no-hitter as a ten-year-old, Grover chewed him out because he couldn't remember every "out" pitch.
"What does it matter?" snapped little James. "I struck him out!"
"It doesn't matter today," his father said sharply. "But it will matter someday! Someday, it will come back to haunt you if you don't understand what you're doing!"
Grover left and returned several times. Ultimately, he said he had to go back to his native Oklahoma—alone. "The world was just trying to get him and he had to move off," James, who was about twelve, says. "I didn't understand it, and I got used to him not being there. I learned a lot from him before he left, though."
James's mother, Helen, and Grover divorced, and she started working at a department store most of the day, then on the telephone for a home products firm for a few hours, then frequently baby-sat at night. "The amazing part about her was the next morning at six-thirty, she would have breakfast cooked," James says. "So when I got up, there were eggs or pancakes. She seemingly never tired. I think I got a lot of my work ethic from her."
In junior high, James worked in the school cafeteria to earn free meals. "I didn't look at that as a bad thing because I could get all the food I wanted!" James says. "We didn't have much at home, but I didn't know we didn't have anything."
The Streets didn't have a television. James's treasured possession was his little radio, and he listened to the scratchy broadcasts of the St. Louis Cardinals games at night, dreaming of someday being in the rotation and hearing Harry Caray calling his strikeouts.
He was a running back until ninth grade, when he switched to quarterback. When Ty Bain, a new Longview High Lobos football coach, showed up, he blanched when he saw one of his quarterbacks still working in the school cafeteria. "I need you to quit working," said Bain, who had grown up poor himself. "A quarterback shouldn't be working back there in the back."
James quit, and each Monday, Bain handed Street an envelope. Inside were two one-dollar bills and two quarters. "That was fifty cents a day for my sister and me to eat on," Street says. "I thought I was rich!"
The owner of a local restaurant, Jackson's Café, also tried to help the fiery little quarterback. "Mr. Jackson said he wanted to give me some money so I could buy some clothes," James says. "I never thought I didn't have clothes. What did I need clothes for? I wouldn't take it. So they came back to me and asked if I would work weekends. I said I'd love to, and I'd work from seven in the morning until two in the afternoon on Saturday and Sunday. He always paid me cash and I might have gotten ten dollars for the weekend. It seemed like a million at the time."
James's older brother, Sewell, by then was playing minor-league baseball, and James was hoping to do the same thing. College? No way could the family afford it, and he didn't dream anyone would offer him a scholarship.
The area star was Loyd Phillips, who had gone off to star at Arkansas. His younger brother, Terry Don, was a year ahead of James. The Phillips brothers were big enough to attract the attention of the college coaches and good enough to keep it; coaches had to look beyond Street's size—to his heart and his competitiveness.
As a junior at Longview High in the spring of 1965, Street was pitching at Texarkana when an errant between-innings toss by a teammate nailed him in the face. Blood poured from his nose, coming in intermittent floods. All Street did was take a towel to the mound and put it down by the resin bag.
Terry Don Phillips and the rest of Street's teammates were incredulous. Years later, Street and Phillips still have a friendly disagreement over that incident.
"He should remember it," Street says. "He threw the ball that nailed me!"
Responds Phillips: "I know he thinks that, but I'm innocent! The point is, he got hit right in the nose and the cheekbone and he's bleeding all over. I mean, all over. He had a towel, his nose is bleeding, and he'd wipe off his nose between pitches and go right on. He was just a great, great competitor."
When James was a senior at Longview, Terry Don was an Arkansas freshman.
With the Phillips boys gone, the Longview Lobos didn't have much talent around the holdover quarterback. As his senior season began, the scrambling Street was regarded as one of the top quarterbacks in East Texas, but a marginal college prospect. Loyd and Terry Don tried to convince the Arkansas coaching staff to recruit him, but even Street still was thinking baseball first and was surprised when Southwest Conference football coaches started contacting him during the Lobos' 5–5 season. He weighed 155 pounds. He was going to play baseball, and when a Texas A&M coach showed up at Longview High and asked him if he would play football for the Aggies, Street responded: "Naw, I don't want to cut my hair off."
Oklahoma State and Texas Tech also contacted him, and he started to figure out that college was a bona fide alternative to signing a pro baseball contract right out of high school. Texas -— the Longhorns! -— asked him to make a visit to Austin. It wasn't that Street lacked confidence; he just didn't picture himself as a football player.
Street also was considering another school—the University of Arkansas.
The Phillipses' lobbying efforts finally worked: The Razorback staff contacted Street, and then Frank Broyles called. It wasn't an all-out blitz, and it might have been a case of Broyles getting Loyd Phillips—one of the top players in the country—off his back, but Broyles asked James to add the Razorbacks to his list of possibilities. "You have some friends here, James," Broyles said, "and we wish you'd consider becoming a Razorback."
The thought was comforting: He could rejoin the big Phillips boys, his pals, in Fayetteville.
James sat down for a chat with his surrogate father, Mr. Jackson, at the café. Street said he was leaning toward going to Arkansas, or at least making an official visit there.
"What about baseball?" Jackson asked. "Isn't baseball what you want to do?"
Texas's baseball program, then still under longtime coach Bibb Falk, was much higher-profile than the one at Arkansas. Jackson's daughter was a UofA student, but he told Street that Texas sounded like a better fit for a dual-sport athlete. Street went to Austin for his official tour and visited with Darrell Royal. The Texas coach challenged him, bringing up the name of the all-everything quarterback the Longhorns had landed the year before — Bill Bradley.
"I guess a lot of schools are throwing Bradley up to you," Royal said.
"Yes, sir."
"You know," Royal said slowly, "if you start running away from competition now, you'll never know if you could have played with the best or competed against the best. You'll never know that."
It was as if Royal was daring Street to keep pitching as the blood ran down his face. Street never took that recruiting visit to Arkansas, and by the time he was a senior at Texas, he was the entrenched starter, the established master of the triple option, and a cocaptain—along with halfback Ted Koy and linebacker Glen Halsell. He also was the baseball program's ace pitcher, and on baseball trips he roomed with another dual-sport player—outfielder/tight end Randy Peschel. "He just did not take defeat in anything," Peschel says. "He wouldn't accept it and wouldn't let anybody around him accept it."
When 1969 preseason practice began, Street had just returned from a summer of playing semipro baseball in Colorado with the Boulder Collegians, a team of college all-stars. The Longhorns' Press Day came after a few days of daily double practices, and Street was wearing shorts and a bandage on his leg when he went through a mass interview with reporters.
"What's that bandage for? Does it hurt?" a writer asked.
Street couldn't help himself. His mouth got going, and he couldn't stop it.
Well, as you guys know, I was in Colorado for the summer, playing baseball, and I worked as a substitute mail carrier on the side, and just the other day, a dog bit me, and now they're checking it for rabies and they're a little worried that I may go mad . . .
The writers were scribbling. As he continued, Street was starting to let saliva drip from his mouth, and he was on the verge of laughing, too.
Just kidding, fellas.
He was so adept at scraping the line of scrimmage as he ran the triple option, Street often was kicked by his linemen. That's why he often had a bandage on his leg.
Royal was in the room, and he was livid.
"Nobody likes a smart—," Royal snapped after the session.
Street resolved to follow the coach's guidelines for dealing with the press: Be polite, be classy, compliment your opponents, don't say anything controversial, and then compliment your opponents again to make sure everybody got the point.
But to James Street, life was a revival meeting, a filibuster, a soapbox. "I tell you what, I can't stress enough that James Street was such a catalyst, not only with his play, but with being in the huddle," Cotton Speyrer says.
"James was a guy you couldn't ever get to shut up," a laughing Steve Worster says. "He was a great guy, and there was just something about James Street you didn't see until you put him on the football field. He was just a winner, plain and simple. The guy obviously had talent, but he threw a pass like a wounded duck. I mean, he threw it kind of like I would. That was fine, because we didn't have to throw it very often."
Once the wishbone got rolling, in fact, the Longhorns hammered everyone.
With Street usually starting the play by extending the ball into Steve Worster's belly, and with the Texas offensive linemen making the decisions easier because they were blowing away the defensive front, Texas looked unstoppable.
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Even when Democrats' fortunes tumble spectacularly in the short-term, the party can always remind itself that national demographic trends favor them in the end. Many, many old white people will die soon enough. This generation's youth voters are lopsidedly liberal. Meanwhile, Hispanics — who've voted strongly for Democrats in the last two elections after mainstream Republican rhetoric took a sharply nativist turn in 2007 — will occupy a larger and ever growing percentage of the American population. Throw in reliable support from 80-90% of African Americans, and the Democratic party could be dominant in the not-too-distant future.
In fact, these trends could severely hamper the GOP's electoral prospects as soon as 2012. The National Journal's estimable Ron Brownstein went through the new Census figures and determined that if Barack Obama's lucky, he may be able to win reelection without having to deal with terrible white adults much at all.
If the minority share of the vote increases in 2012 by the same rate it has grown in presidential elections since 1992, it will rise to about 28 percent nationally. By itself, that could substantially alter the political playing field from 2010, when the minority vote share sagged to just 22 percent. It means that if Obama can maintain, or even come close to, the four-fifths share of minority votes that he won in 2008, he could win a majority of the national popular vote with even less than the 43 percent of whites he attracted last time.
Some of these examples are stunning:
Obama, for instance, won Florida last time with 42 percent of the white vote; under this scenario, if he maintains his minority support he could win the Sunshine State with just under 40 percent of the white vote. With equal minority support in Nevada, the president could win with only 35 percent of the white vote, down from the 45 percent he garnered in 2008. Likewise, under these conditions, Obama could take Virginia with just 33.5 percent of whites, well down from the 39 percent he captured last time. In New Jersey, his winning number among whites would fall to just over 41 percent (compared with the 52 percent he won in 2008). In Pennsylvania, under these circumstances, 41 percent of white votes would be enough to put the state in Obama's column, down from the 48 percent he won in 2008.
The other way of framing this is that Republicans will have to carry, in Brownstein's words, "an implausibly high percentage of whites to prevail." Meaning we'd all better prepare for a cartoonishly racist 2012 presidential campaign. "Did you see that report on Fox News about the New Black Panther Party building a Black Ground Zero Mosque on the Mexican border to help sneak illegal Mexicans through to impose Sharia on the heartland, because of Obama?" This is what we'll be saying in late October 2012.
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CAIRO, Oct 10 (Reuters) - Business leaders voiced frustration with Egypt's government at an investment conference in Cairo this week, where officials pledged to revive an economy battered by political turmoil but offered few details on policy.
The new Islamist-led administration that emerged from last year's popular uprising has secured some aid from foreign governments to head off a fiscal and balance of payments crisis.
Investors are now waiting for the government to reveal a detailed strategy for reining in an unmanageable budget deficit, including changes to a system of state fuel subsidies to ensure that subsidies only benefit those who need them.
Only then is the International Monetary Fund likely to agree a $4.8 billion loan, a stamp of approval seen as necessary to end a drought of inward investment, bolster weak foreign currency reserves and bring down sky-high state borrowing costs.
Prime Minister Hisham Kandil and Investment Minister Osama Saleh spoke of mega-industry projects, petrochemical expansion, a launch of Islamic government bonds and new public-private partnerships worth $8 billion.
Kandil forecast economic growth of around 4 percent in the fiscal year to the end of June, above the 2.7 percent seen by economists in a Reuters poll last month. Growth was around 2 percent in 2011/12.
Business figures, however, said they were left wondering how and when it was all going to happen.
"They were not speaking openly," said one local investment banker who attended the sessions. "They spoke in a vague manner and did not shed light on many important issues and did not allow questions and answers with the officials."
Egypt's stock market has rallied by more than 50 percent since President Mohamed Mursi came to power in June, but gains have been mostly driven by local retail investors.
Foreigners have tip-toed back into the treasury bill market, helping yields ease from historic highs, but central bank foreign reserves are yet to recover, with little sign of a major increase in foreign inflows.
Firms say they need more clarity on politics - Egypt still lacks a new constitution and a parliament after the previous legislature was disbanded by court order - as well as on currency policy and have lingering doubts over the legality of investment deals signed under Mursi's predecessor Hosni Mubarak.
The Euromoney conference, which has been for many years the highest-profile investment event in Egypt, did not take place last year as an army-backed interim government grappled with political turmoil and unrest.
Egypt has avoided the worst-case scenario of a fiscal crisis and unruly currency default. Euromoney's return to the economic calendar helps restore a feel of normality.
But this week's gathering was more downbeat than in past years when more ministers attended and took part in more debates. There appeared to be fewer foreign investors present.
In a sign of more uncertainty for investors, government officials signalled at the conference that new probes of deals signed under Mubarak were needed to ensure the state gets a fair price for assets it sold.
Challenges to Mubarak-era state land sales helped push the country's formal real estate sector into crisis last year but many of the cases appeared to have been settled by the time Mursi arrived in office.
The target of an IMF deal in November means the government must move fast to complete a social dialogue it insists is necessary before unveiling economic reforms that will impact the day-to-day life of Egypt's 83 million population.
Mursi's administration is keen to show citizens it is more responsive to the people who elected it and mark a clear break with Mubarak's autocratic ways.
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Haitham Moneim, head of investor relations at carpet maker Oriental Weavers, said the government must tell Egyptian manufacturers its plans for them.
The company had "an aggressive expansion plan worth 1 billion Egyptian pounds ($164 million). We stopped it now," he said. "We will not buy machinery or things to generate top line growth or sales until there is a clear direction."
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Continuing our night-by-night look at the Fall 2012 schedule, we move to Sunday. The only changes on the night are two ABC shows, and one CBS show, but only one of those shows are new. Desperate Housewives, long an ABC tentpole is gone, and hopeful sophomore Revenge takes its place at 9pm, followed by the only new show of the night, 666 Park Avenue.
Last spring there was some doubt about the NFL season, but there's no doubt this year. Sunday Night Football will, of course, dominate the night's ratings. ABC won't top football, but it may well top the night after football season.
Will The Good Wife finally be sold into syndication? Considering the tenacity of Les Moonves' salespeople, I'm going with yes, but it hasn't been an easy sell. The Mentalist takes the place of canceled CSI: Miami at 1opm. The Mentalist will have 116+ episodes at the end of next season (its 5th), and isn't owned by CBS. Next spring will be an interesting time for fans worried about the show's future.
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The TV is no longer an isolated lump of electronics that feeds you a passive stream of shows and DVDs. Internet-connected add-ons like gaming devices and Blu-ray players are opening up a whole new social dimension for TV sets. Microsoft's premium, online interactive Xbox Live Gold service has more than 10 million subscribers. Sony recently launched a social network accessible by PlayStation users. Blu-ray discs with interactive web features are already on the market. This is just the beginning, and entrepreneurs have a chance to help form the young TV/social networking industry.
Social networking through TV has a lot in common with social networking through computers. "It won't be that different in terms of spirit, but in terms of the practical use and time of the day, it will be different," says Romi Mahajan, chief marketing officer with digital agency and technology consulting firm Ascentium. He sees an initial user base made up of gamers and niche groups of TV show fans, but the phenomenon is expected to grow considerably. "We're going to be in the heady stages for the next couple years, and after that you'll need a crystal ball to predict," Mahajan says.
This is part of a larger movement of social networking extending from computers to media like radio and mobile devices, as well as TV sets. "People are much more comfortable using an array of devices for communication than they ever were before," Mahajan says. Interesting areas for entrepreneurs to consider include add-on hardware for facilitating communication, services that help users interact with each other and the creation of niche communities.
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Even though I have written copious amounts on this subject some readers stump me with their questions. They want me to concede there is room for irrationality, and when I don't, they think I am trying to impose my ideas onto them. I am NOT imposing my ideas onto you. I am only asking us to question first, and then accept later, instead of accepting things just because someone told us long ago codified in a book. In short, I am asking you to grow up. Be mature. Use your brain. Be rational.
How do you know if you are rational? Is Rationality another ideology that can be imposed onto others? Which is better? A state run on the basis of blind belief, superstition and irrationality or a state run on the basis of rationality, logic and reason?
What is rationality?
It is the ability of a human to think, ask questions, get answers, debate, discuss, and reason to arrive at a standpoint using a set of generally agreed logical rules. It is the opposite of the ability of human not to think, not to reason, to suppress debate, and then come to an obstinate standpoint by citing a certain idea which is considered unassailable, unchallenged or unquestioned.
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A simple philosophical definition of rationality refers to one's use of a "practical syllogism". For example,
I am cold.
If I close the window I will not be cold.
Therefore, I closed the window.
The irrational way of looking at it is:
I am cold.
If I close the window I will not be cold.
But I will not close the window because my God Vayu will be offended according to this book written thousands of years before man was born.
Therefore, I will open all the windows including those of other people's homes, even if it means others will get cold. And if someone stops me, I will bash him up because I am carrying the message of God which is the ultimate truth.
Is Rationality an ideology?
Many people consider rationality to be an ideology. They think it is another set of belief systems, just like religion. The way we say, 'You have Islam, I have Hinduism'. These people want to say, 'You have rationality and I have blind belief'. They think it is a choice we make between different ideologies, like choosing one between CPM and BJP, Republicans and Democrats, Communism and Democracy, Capitalism and Socialism, vegetarianism and non-vegetarianism, Abortionism and Anti-abortionism, etc.
Rationality is not an ideology, but is a method to deal with conflict between different ideologies. We will always have different opinions, different stance, and different positions on various issues of human affairs. And sometimes those positions come into conflict.
Earlier in history, one of the ways to resolve conflicts was to impose one ideology onto others suppressing other's opinions, voice and freedoms. If one disagreed with the other, they killed the other. If you were different you were tortured, and then incarcerated. Sometimes, like in the times of Inquisition, various innovative ways were developed to torture people, just because these others had a different set of belief systems.
The ideology that reigned over a land was one which the autocrat embraced. If he quickly changed his ideology, the people who earlier enjoyed the privileges were now targeted like their erstwhile enemies. Those were the times when irrationality prevailed. They had different set of tools to end conflicts- by suppression of voice suppression of dissent, suppression of freedoms and that of choice, by curtailing all discussion, debate or questioning, and acting unilaterally based on assumptions coming from blind belief and superstition and on certain illogical set of rules.
(Not very long ago, in Communist Russia, one could be sent to Siberia to be tortured and killed just because you had a different set of beliefs. In the modern days, we still have some regimes which continue to have this practice in place. And now, Indians are doing their best to join the elite club of such irrational regimes.)
Rationality gives man a different set of tools- and those are- reason, debate, discussion, using certain agreed steps called logic. Using these simple tools which almost any thinking person can come up with on his own, a reasonable discussion can be brought about to resolve conflicts between ideologies. Some of the modern nations have been able to guarantee rights to its citizens, resolve issues through discussions and debates through participation of people's representatives accountable to the people, tolerate different kinds of cultures, ethnicities, religions, languages, give equal rights to women and minorities, give equal opportunity and access to fair justice, all because they had embraced tools of rationality.
Rationality is not the truth. It is not a doctrine. It is not an ideology.
It is not about choosing Abortionism as against Anti-Abortionism, but it is the method you employ to resolve that conflict. You have a choice between irrationality and rationality to use as a method to resolve that conflict. Either you can debate the pros and cons of each stance, bring in evidences, results of sociological and medical experiments, and then come to a decision on what suits the best for those who are victimized because of each stance, OR you can decree that a certain book written thousands of years ago is good enough to decide all conflicts for all time and therefore no questioning or debate is allowed since the decision is already made long ago.
Tools for resolving Ram Sethu Controversy
A rational way to deal with Ram Sethu is to debate about it, study what we have as evidences, question what we know as humans, and accept what is known as known and what is unknown as unknown. Discuss the pros and cons of such a project in terms of its effect on environment, the fishing population, the national security implications, etc.
An irrational way to deal with Ram Sethu is to come up with stories, fables, mythology, fantasy and mix it with history, science, a


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A/UX, Apple's version of Unix for the SE/30 and Mac II line never gained a great deal of popularity. Version 2.0, due out in June, should help A/UX's reputation significantly though, judging from the rave reviews it has received on Usenet. A/UX runs many MacOS applications, including multiple application under MultiFinder. Apple claims that only "32-bit clean" applications should be expected to run, but users have said that in reality most standard Mac applications do run, including Word 4.0, Wingz 1.1, and Excel 2.2.
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AMERICUS - The Hurricanes broke the streak with a big 4-0 win against Florida College Falcons.
Goalkeeper Joe Cullip has set the new record for most shutouts in a season. Alongside Cullip was a unbreakable defensive line including Marcus Diaz, Avery Alderman, Jon McVaney, and Pablo Lajeunesse.
The scoring opportunities started early for the Hurricanes. In the 11th minute of play, Ron Calle had Falcons goalkeeper committed and out of the penalty box. Calle was able to cross and off the ensuing clearance, Brennan Bauschka was able to find the back of the net for his first goal of the season.
On another drive to the goal, Cesar Espinosa was taken down by the Falcons' goalkeeper inside the penalty box. Alderman confidently took the penalty kick, scoring. This was Alderman's first goal of the season and the last goal in the half.
The second half equaled the same intensity from both sides as the first. In the 60th minute of play, Isaac Avila found the back of the net from a rebound off a Zack Pirtle's shot, for his second goal of the season.
The final goal was achieved when Caleb Graves found Calle making a run to the goal. This goal puts Calle in the lead for Hurricane goals, as it was his 3rd of the season.
Florida College goalkeepers Di-Stephano Occil and Ethan Shutt made a total of 5 saves on the day compared to Cullip's 0.
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Durango resident Eric Colby died Saturday, April, 28, 2012, at St. Anthonys hospital in Denver, where he was airlifted after a serious car accident April 24. He was 43.
Mr. Colby was born to Bill and Janet Colby in 1968 in Fort Wayne, Ind. He spent 13 years in Fort Collins and Denver working as a mortgage writer for Chase Manhattan Bank. He moved to Durango in 2003.
In 2004, he married Amita Nathwani in Durango.
Eric had a passion for the outdoors and enjoyed mountain biking, skiing, canoeing, hiking and running, his family said. During his seven-year employment at First National Bank of Durango, he rode his bike to work every day, rain or shine. He would ski to work in the rare case that there would be a snowstorm that was un-bikable.
After leaving the banking industry, Mr. Colby worked for US Airways taxiing planes. He enjoyed his side business building custom Craftsman-style furniture.
Mr. Colby loved to garden and grow flowers and vegetables. He also enjoyed spending time with his dogs Amla and Kumar.
Eric had a wonderful sense of humor and a contagious laugh, his family said. Those who knew him got to experience his extreme sense of adventure and his steady commitment to always helping others.
Mr. Colby is survived by his wife of eight years, Amita Nathwani of Durango; parents, Bill and Janet Colby of Fort Wayne; and brother, Chad Colby of Durango.
In accordance with Mr. Colbys wishes, a celebration of life will be held between 5 and 7 p.m. today, May 1, 2012, at Carver Brewing Co., 1022 Main Ave.
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Ice fishing will remain good through March on most High Country waters. Green Mountain Reservoir continues to produce good numbers of smaller lake trout. However, an occasional lunker can be found. Deeper water, jigs and sucker meat are the mainstay.
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There learning curve with the Leaf is steep. The manual and the electronic display features are Needlessly Complex.
This is part of the greater cultural problem.. where-in computer program designers are allowed to meddle with
products. They are insanely focused on inventing puzzles.. the more complex they are.. they longer they get paid
to write and then debug them.
The Leaf is necessarily a technically complex car... in terms of the inner workings of its propulsion/control systems.
That is fine.
The VW BUG.. which the Leaf resembles in many ways.. was complex mechanically.
However its greatness was that it was hyper reliable, and utterly SIMPLE for the user.
Maybe some zombie somewhere needs facebook and twitter capability on their cars display.
But all users need to be able to monitor charging remotely.
Comes a new user - take me for instance - I wade through the manuals, the Nissan Connect Website - where I am directed
to go to Google Play to down load two different Nissan Connect Apps.. I go there.. do that.. and discover they are for ICE CARS ONLY !
Gee Whiz Nissan. WTF is up with that ?
Go back to google Play.. try to find the specific Nissan Connect EV... and it isn't there.
Why the diddly F isn't this downloadable direct from the Nissan website.. ?
Overall too damn many layers of stuff on the Display.. and some very important things.. Like the Charge Timer Button..
is labeled only some odd logo... and is a dark color ? Like that's incidental !! ??
Speaking of Functionality... How about giving us the ability to Stop Charging Based on Charge Level ?
Who's bright idea was it to make be Guestimate Time to Achieve a given level of Charge ?
When overcharging is one of the prime killers of the Leaf Battery.. and you get to shell out warranty claim replacements..
It would seem to be enlightened self interest to let me Select % charge as the controlling factor !!
Or, set the default turnoff point at 85%.. and let me push a button or select something to over-ride that for 95 or 100%.
How about spending a buck more per car.. and make the provided EVSE capable of 110-240 VAC operation.
This is so common in electronics now... its silly to mention it. This makes emergency and opportunity charging so much
easier and faster.. all we need to do is provide the right adapter.
Kudos for making the S-30 ! Very much in the evolutionary spirit of the bug.. just where you should be.
Just put the Hybrid Heater in it !
Charge Spots on the GPS.. ought to be a single button function.. and likely a default !
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The Gallipoli Peninsula, to the south west of Istanbul, is located in Turkish Thrace, the European part of Turkey, with the Aegean Sea to the west and the Dardanelles to the east. In 1980 the Gallipoli Peninsula Historic National Park was founded, encompassing 35,000 hectares of countryside, to protect the military and natural history of the region. Although there have been vineyards for grape production on the hills of this rural region of Turkey since long ago it is only in the last few years that serious wine production has been developed.
Last year the Digital Wine Communications Conference (EWBC) was held in Izmir, Turkey, during which we discussed the origins of wine, tasted a surprisingly wide selection of wines from both Turkey and neighbouring countries, and met with a wonderful group of like-minded wine people. Beforehand I joined a group for a rather unusual winery tour to Thrace, a couple of hours' drive west of Istanbul, with the chance to visit two recently established wineries, Suvla and Galî.
A personal history
I had a particular interest in visiting this eastern corner of Europe where many battles had been fought and wars waged: 3,000 years ago it was the scene of the Trojan War, and in the First World War the ill-fated Dardanelles campaign.
My grandfather had fought here in 1915, surviving but so appalled by what he'd seen and endured that he never told me anything about his time there. It was also an awful experience for the Australian and New Zealand forces who eagerly joined up to help and support the Empire, the first time that troops from so far away wanted to be involved in such a conflict.
The ANZACS, as they became known, acquitted themselves so well in such a badly planned and executed campaign that they became highly respected by their Turkish enemies, and vice versa. Indeed, with the passage of time (it is now nearly 100 years, and three generations, since the Allied Forces lost this campaign) the remembrance services on the peninsula, especially at Anzac Cove, have become very well attended by friend and foe, now all of them friends.
Anzac Day is a national day of remembrance in Australia and New Zealand on 25th April to commemorate those who died here and in other military operations. The battle was also the making of Kemal Ataturk who proved to be a great general and later became the father of modern Turkey.
Modern Wine Culture
In spite of a wealth of unusual, indigenous Turkish grape varieties the principal wineries here have concentrated on planting mainly classic, international vines.
First we visited the winery of Galî in Evrese, overlooking the Gulf of Soros. Both the winery and the wine cellar were constructed using local stones, which naturally regulate the humidity and temperature. This architectural set-up also allows for the wines to be produced in the gravity-flow method, without using any pumps.
Galî was founded in 2005 when Hakan Kavur and his wife, Nilgün, bought 48 hectares of land and planted half with vines, a mix of 78% Merlot, 14% Cabernet Franc and 8% Cabernet Sauvignon. Hakan, who had retired as an engineer in Switzerland, studied wine in Bordeaux and decided to make two reds modelled on the Bordeaux château style.
Their first vintage release was 2009 on sale from 2011. Big, rich and juicy, the three high quality reds we tasted were a tad over laden with new oak tannins, but future vintages will have less wood influence and promise well.
We drove 13km into the countryside where we walked in their vineyards overlooking the shimmering Aegean Sea to the west and the beautiful Sea of Marmara in the east – endorsing the benign maritime climate. We enjoyed a home-made lunch in the family home after an aperitif in one of the WWII bunkers nearby! Better to store wine there rather than bombs… and that's just what the Kavurs plan to do in the next couple of years.
We left this kind couple who are so passionate about their wine to drive further down the Peninsula to visit another exciting winery in Eceabat, by the Cannakale Strait , the Dardanelles.
After working in a variety of different enterprises, including the IT business, Selim Zafer Ellialti decided to make wine. Seriously make wine. In 2003, while he worked as general manager at Microsoft, responsible for the Middle East and Africa region, he and his wife, Pinar, created Suvla Wines. First they planted 44 hectares of vines, in their new Bozokbağ vineyards, mainly of international red and white varieties but some indigenous types as well.
Originally Selim sold their grapes to a big Turkish wine company but in 2009 they opened their modern winery, converted from an old textile factory, which is fronted by a smart shop and a tasting area that wouldn't be out of place in the New World. They sell their own cold-pressed olive oil as well as other speciality local foods. In the tasting bar, one can have snacks with pairings with their wines, and meals are available by reservation for groups.
Mainly from international varieties, Suvla produces a comprehensive range of wines, which are sought after by their Turkish clientele, though their wines from local varieties are increasing and perhaps more of interest for exports. Again, some of the wines showed a bit too much oak, but it worked particularly well with both the Syrah Reserve 2010, full of berries and spices, and their special Bordeaux blend named SUR.
We did learn that there is a good reason for why wines tasted here and elsewhere in Turkey were to our palates over-oaked – only new oak barrels can be imported into Turkey, so it will take few years for the barrels to lose their aggressive tannins.
Anzac Cove
As we wanted to be at Anzac Cove before sunset we didn't have time to visit the brand new Gallipoli Kabatepe Simulation Centre, which has replaced the old war museum. The centre has 11 gallery rooms, each equipped with advanced high-tech simulation equipment. The story of the 1915 Gallipoli naval and land campaigns is told from both Turkish and ANZAC points of view, and is well worth visiting.
At Anzac Cove our small group quietly walked around, each of us trying to come to terms with the awfulness of war, the suffering and the madness. We were all moved, each with our own thoughts.
With two exciting Turkish wineries to visit in this region packed with so much history, ancient and modern it had been a fascinating day, a special experience. I often thought of my grandfather, who would have seen Gallipoli in quite a different light, and am proud of his bravery and of all the other soldiers.
Visitors to the Gallipoli Peninsula can visit Suvla's tasting room during normal working hours or call ahead for an appointment for a special tasting or meal for groups. Gali can only be visited by appointment.
If you would like to learn more about the military venture I do recommend Gallipoli by Les Carlyon, a great account of the events, the battles, and the hardships of the British and ANZAC troops.
With thanks to the team at Vrazon, organisers of EWBC and to Wines of Turkey who sponsored the visit to Gallipoli.


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Present accounting for foreign currency translation is in a sad state. Several pressing problems have not been covered adequately by authoritative pronouncements; yet, at the same time there exists a multitude of alternative accounting principles which seriously hampers intercompany comparisons. Moreover, present translation procedures largely reflect the economic environment and political conditions that prevailed several decades ago. To overcome these inadequacies the FASB and others interested in accounting for in-ternational operations are currently striving to develop new trans-lation standards. It is the purpose of this paper to contribute to these efforts by retracing the evolution of accounting for foreign operations to gain a better understanding of the current problem. Furthermore, such a historical review lends perspective to the need for promulgating standards which are relevant to the significantly increased and still growing international business operations1 in an era characterized by fairly frequent and material changes in foreign exchange rates.
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Bulletin No. 92 entitled "Foreign Exchange Losses" was the first official pronouncement on accounting for foreign operations. Issued in 1931 by the American Institute of Accountants, it promulgated what has become known as the "current-noncurrent translation method" with exceptions sanctioned for (1) receivables protected by forward exchange rates, (2) inventory purchased prior to a de-valuation of the foreign currency, where the net realizable value of the merchandise exceeds (as a result of inflation in that country) the dollar acquisition cost of the inventory and (3) long-term liabili-ties if the company has receivables, which are translated at the current rate, particularly where these receivables could be applied to retire the long-term debt.