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Nuclear crisis in Japan is a legacy of political meddling because of the Amakudari system
Nuclear crisis in Japan is a legacy of political meddling because of the Amakudari system
Lee Jay Walker
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In Japan the current crisis within the nuclear sector and other areas of the economy can squarely be pinned on the relationship between the political bureaucracy and its love-in relationship with electricity suppliers.
The Amakudari system enables senior bureaucrats to find important executive posts after leaving the government and it is reported that 68 high ranking bureaucrats went on and resumed senior positions with the energy sector.
Therefore, given the relationship between government and electricity suppliers it appears that this all inclusive policy means that when serious issues arise, then it may be pushed under the carpet?
It is important to state that not all "amakudari" bureaucrats will be inefficient and each former high ranking bureaucrat will respond differently. Also, many will be highly skilled and it is over simplistic to believe that all will either have ulterior motives or seek to cover up major problems.
However, it is also clear that the relationship between the political bureaucracy and electricity suppliers; could lead to complacency and for the general public it may appear to be both inefficient, corrupt, and about preserving a comfortable relationship.
The Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) is new to the power process of the amakudari system but former high ranking political leaders in the DPJ who were former LDP politicians, will know all too well about this system.
Obviously the DPJ knows about this system because for 50 years and more, the LDP have followed the same procedure in various sectors of the economy. Democracy and "open business" is rather flawed because you have so much inter linkages and not all the blame can be pinned on politicians because the keiretsu system is embedded within the business community.
Conformity and continuity alongside strong inter-relationships is all too powerful within the Japanese system and inter-linkages and connections is the bottom line for the business and political model in Japan. Of course, not all companies follow this system but in general it is part and parcel of the business environment in Japan and in South Korea they have a similar system called chaebol.
Turning back to the current crisis in Fukushima then the relationship between industry and government regulators would tend to point in the direction of complacency. This applies to data by TEPCO not being scrutinized to the full when questions were raised about the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant being vulnerable to a possible tsunami.
Government hands run throughout the system and this applies to the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. After all, this ministry is involved in expressing the importance of nuclear energy, helping Japanese companies to find major business contracts in the international arena, and regulating the safety of the nuclear sector in Japan.
The promoter and regulator conflict within the system was separated in France because of the fear of complacency several years ago. In America the government understood this weak point in the system; therefore, changes were made over 30 years ago in order to safeguard the nuclear sector from conflicting interests.
The government and TEPCO merry-go-round can be summed up by Tokio Kano. He joined TEPCO and became a leader within the nuclear unit in 1989 and in 1998 he entered parliament. Once he was elected to parliament then Tokio Kano helped to rewrite Japan's national policy related to energy and not surprisingly the conclusion was that nuclear energy was the way forward.
After being involved within the political system for more than 10 years he then returned to TEPCO. Therefore, Tokio Kano is an extreme example of the system in Japan.
The amakudari system is defended by some because you will not have many high quality candidates who have powerful knowledge of this complex sector. Therefore, it is argued that it may appear to be inefficient and based on complacency; however, the system does enable utilities to get high quality candidates who not only bring their expertise but also their strong contacts within an important sector of the economy.
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The name Solomon Abera will forever be etched in the collective memory of Eritrea's press corps. On September 18, 2001, as the world focused its attention on the terrorist attacks on the United States, the government of Eritrea borrowed Abera's voice to sound the death knell, on state-controlled airwaves, of the Red Sea nation's independent press. Shortly after Abera read the announcement, the government rounded up leading independent newspaper editors and a dozen ruling-party dissidents calling for democratic reform -- all of whom have disappeared in custody.
Ten years to the day after being handed one of the most chilling news items he ever read on Dimtsi Hafash radio during his 14 years as a reporter, presenter, producer, and commentator, Abera reflected on the experience on our blog.
Today, we learned that Solomon Abera, who lived in exile in Germany after fleeing government censorship and intimidation in 2005, is no more.
Sweden-based blogger and activist Meron Estefanos broke the news to me via email: Abera, who had been ill, died quietly at a hospital in Frankfurt on Thursday morning. He was born in 1968. He left a wife and two children who had not been able to join him in exile, Estefanos said.
Though he lived in exile, Abera continued to report on affairs in his homeland. He was a contributor to Eritrean diaspora websites critical of the authoritarian government in power since independence in 1991. Abera was among a group of Eritrean journalists in exile who met Prime Minister Meles Zenawi of Ethiopia, Eritrea's neighbor and archrival, in part to lobby for the release of two colleagues held incommunicado there since 2007.
The news is beginning to spread through the Eritrean diaspora. Friends have been posting comments on Abera's Facebook wall. "It's really sad news to hear that one great man passed! He did a great job and was doing it for the voiceless! R.I.P Solomon Abera!" tweeted one Germany-based user known as @firnash.


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The jazz season will begin with musicians from the jazz wing of Ravinia's Steans Music Institute celebrating the institute's 25th anniversary at 4 p.m. June 14 in Bennett Gordon Hall; admission is $10.
A "Tribute to Benny Goodman Celebrating the 75th Anniversary of his Ravinia Debut" will feature Jeff Lindberg's Chicago Jazz Orchestra with clarinetists Anat Cohen and Larry Combs and vocalists Cyrille Aimee and Sylvia McNair, 7:30 p.m. June 14 in the Pavilion; $45-$55; lawn, $22.
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Singapore, 7 November 2013 – This school holidays, we're ending off Singapore Zoo's 40th anniversary celebrations with a big bang! Join us during the weekends from 30 November to 22 December for "Zoo Hoo! Wild Wow Birthday", which promises fun-filled activities such as token feeding birthday surprises, games, mascot appearances and magic shows for the entire family.
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Glass sponges (phylum Porifera: class Hexactinellida) are exclusively marine sponges with mineral skeletons composed of silica (glass) spicules. They have a worldwide distribution but are mainly restricted to deeper waters (200 to > 6000 m) where they grow attached to hard or soft substrates. Occasionally, they also occur in shallower water accessible to divers, such as submarine caves in the Mediterranean Sea or off the coast of British Columbia, Canada, where they form massive structures analogous to Mesozoic sponge reefs (see below). These mostly inconspicuously coloured sponges are highly variable in body shape (e.g. sac-, vase-, blade-shaped, composed of branching tubes etc.) and often provide substrate and shelter (and sometimes food) for diverse invertebrates and fish. Glass sponges are viviparous and produce distinctive trichimella larvae. Like most sponges, they are filter feeders. To date, about 600 extant species are described, which is certainly an underestimate of their true diversity, given their remote habitats and very few taxonomic experts for the group. Iconic glass sponges include the venus flower baskets (Euplectella and related genera), which often enclose a pair of shrimps inside their bodies and were used as bridal gifts in ancient Japan, and Monorhaphis chuni, which anchors its body in the soft deep-sea floor with a single giant (up to 3 m long) spicule.
Hexactinellids are clearly distinct from other sponges (see the Porifera page for an introduction to general sponge design) in two main respects: 1) Their adult soft tissues are largely syncytial, i.e. the majority of cells are fused, resulting in one large multi-nucleated mega-cell that is wrapped around the mineral skeleton. It has been demonstrated that the sponges can use this syncytium to propagate electrical impulses to regulate their filtering activity, analogous to a nervous system in higher animals. 2) Their spicules have a triaxonic and cubic symmetry, i.e. they are composed of three axes that are arranged at right angles to each other. The basic spicule form is the hexactin, which has all six rays (two per axis) fully developed – hence the taxonomic name, Hexactinellida. By reduction, branching, and ornamentation of rays, glass sponges produce a staggering array of different spicule types that can be aesthetically highly appealing and form the basis to distinguish species and higher taxa. Spicules are categorized into two basic groups: megascleres, which provide structural support and are often visible with the naked eye, and the much smaller microscleres, the function of which – other than to please taxonomists – is largely unknown. Glass sponge skeletons have recently attracted the attention of materials scientists because they possess a number of interesting properties, including very good light-transmitting capabilities (if the living sponges actually use their spicules to transmit light is questionable, though).
Genetic and biochemical evidence suggests that glass sponges share an exclusive common ancestor with the largest of the four sponge classes, the Demospongiae. The exact time in Earth history when the two groups began to diverge from each other is unknown, but it certainly happened in the Precambrian (more than 541 million years ago [Ma]). The Precambrian fossil record of Hexactinellida is relatively sparse, but the group began to flourish in the Cambrian (541-485 Ma) and radiated into a number of taxa with diverse skeletal designs, most of which did not survive into the Mesozoic (252-66 Ma). In the Mesozoic, the modern orders and families developed their full diversity, which peaked in the Jurassic to Cretaceous (201-66 Ma). During that time, glass sponges, together with certain demosponges, built massive reefs along the coasts of the ancient Tethys Sea, which are still preserved as rock formations in many locations around Europe. After the Cretaceous, hexactinellid diversity gradually declined towards its present level.
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Hexactinellida is divided into two subclasses, the Amphidiscophora, which have safety-pin like microscleres (amphidiscs), and the Hexasterophora, which have microscleres resembling stars or snowflakes (hexasters). Amphidiscophora contains a single order (Amphidiscosida) with three families; Hexasterophora contains three orders – Lyssacinosida with four families, Sceptrulophora with nine families, and Lychniscosida with two small families – as well as one family (Dactylocalycidae) and five genera with uncertain taxonomic assignment (Hexasterophora incertae sedis). Genetic analyses strongly support Hexactinellida and its two subclasses, as well as most families and genera investigated so far, as natural (monophyletic) groups. Concerning the deeper interrelationships of Hexasterophora, genetic data strongly suggest that Dactylocalycidae is more closely related to Lyssacinosida than to Sceptrulophora. Genetic data for Lychniscosida are still missing but there is some morphological evidence that this order is also more closely related to Lyssacinosida.
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Lesser Known Dragon Hotspots of Europe
Everyone loves a dragon. I think there was a time in my childhood when I thought they were real. Just very, very rare. That's right – they used to hang around with the unicorns. Oh, how my literally 'fantastic' world was shattered when I was told, rather aggressively, that they didn't exist (that conversation might have taken place last week).
But, did they exist? Were they simply very big eels with bad breath which existed in the middle-ages – eels that someone told a bit of a stretcher about down the local tavern to his drunken mates to show off? "Yeah, slayed a dragon down near Black Pond yesterday. Fierce brute. Fiery breath. Nearly did for me". And the reality? Some fat bloke in armour wrestling an eel in some grass. Perhaps we'll never know. Anyway, here are some of the dragon hotspots of Europe, where the mythology is strongest.
The Wawel Dragon, Krakow, Poland
On Wawel Hill, in Krakow, Poland, is a huge hill with Warsaw Castle perched on top. The medieval city of Krakow – and Poland's original capital – meanders around beneath it.
Many different stories exist. This is just one of them. When that place 'was all just fields', stories would be told to wide-eyed children of a fearful beast which dwelled in an overgrown cave somewhere in the rock. The creature was known to carry off a sheep or two here or there, perhaps a man or a child on occasion. It had to stop. Yet no-one was a match for this ferocious monster. Until a shoemaker called 'Krakus' had a pop at it. He basically fed the dragon a poisoned sheep. Once the slithery character had been killed, the locals made Krakus king. They built him a castle and renamed the area Krakow in his honour.
A small statue of him and the dragon can be see on Sienna Street, Krakow. A collection of huge bones, suspended above the entrance of the castle are said to be the bones of the dragon.
Nowadays, beneath the citadel, you can see a statue of the beast outside of the cave supposed to have been its lair. It breathes fire every few minutes (thanks to some natural gas and a nozzle in its mouth).
What's more, you can even make it breathe fire by sending an SMS with the word 'SMOK' to number 7168.
See the location on TravPad here.
The Sockburn Worm, Durham, England
In the most southern part of County Durham, there's a curious loop in the River Tees – at this point, it seems Durham is bulging as far south as it can – like an inflating balloon – into the southern neighbouring county of what used to be part of Yorkshire.
This area is ancient. The 'loop' which has been formed in the river, encircles an area of land which is only entered by land at the 'neck' of this loop. This entrance to the wider territory is small – less than a quarter of a mile across. The current owners of the hall are restoring it and do not seem to encourage tourism. This just makes the area more enigmatic.
Sockburn was an area ravaged by a "…worm, dragon or fiery flying serpent…". This story was said to have inspired Lewis Carroll (who grew up at the nearby village of Croft) to write his 'Jabberwocky'.Although the details of the scrap between the knight Conyers and the unlucky beast are scant, the remnants of what is supposedly a myth are suspiciously rich and numerous. The spring where the dragon used to bathe is still there and visible.
The 'Grey Stone' beneath which lie the remains of the beast is still also partially visible. There is an effigy of Sir John Conyers in the ruined and ancient church there, with the dragon wrapped around his feet, as it must have been for centuries.
The extremely rare Conyer's Falchion (a type of old sword and the best surviving example of its type in the world), used to actually slay the dragon, still exists and can be seen in Durham Cathedral treasury (see location on the TravPad map).
Read more about this fascinating area on TravPad here.
The Dragon's Well, Brinsop, England
Given the actual importance of what is said to have happened here, the fact that most English folk haven't even heard of this place is staggering. Even I hadn't heard about it until a few months ago.
For the tiny village of Brinsop was the location of the epic battle between a knight called St George and a now quite-well known dragon. The knight has become the patron saint of England. The dragon could only hit 'A-List' historical/cultural-celebrity-status by being killed.
Like the Sockburn beast, this dragon based itself near a water-source in a grassy meadow in the village. Plainly, the villagers didn't like it roaring around, breathing on everything, burning their crops and eating their sheep. And their relatives. George was called in. And he slew it. And that's a very long story, told in a very tiny nutshell. The stone shown above, buried in a meadow just south of the small churchyard of – yes, you guessed it, St George's Church – marks the spot where the creature was said to have been killed. See the location on TravPad here.
The Dragon Bridge, Ljubljana, Slovenia
The reason the bridge has dragons on it is simply because the Greek hero Jason (and his sword-happy argonauts) supposedly killed a dragon not too far from the city.
Fresh from relieving the Colchians of their golden fleece (and reportedly killing a dragon which had been guarding it), Jason legged it, only to be pursued by a huge army. In an attempt to give them the slip, he took a turning up the River Danube, on up the River Sava and eventually up the River Ljubljanica almost to its source. They took the boat to bits, marched it across to the Adriatic and carried on their way. Somewhere between Ljubljana and Vrhnika these cheeky mythological chappies encountered a marsh. Guess what was living in the marsh? Yes, a dragon. Having battled a substantial number of monsters already, this wee swamp-beastie was dispatched without breaking into a sweat.
It is now immortalised by one of the dragons on the bridge.
If you have any dragon related spots, please either tweet them to us, send us a comment on this blog, or place them directly on the TravPad map!


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As a part of the Irish folk group Solas, Karan Casey has defined herself as one of Ireland's best, joining the distinguished ranks of fellow female singer/songwriters such as Clannad's Maire Brennan, Sharon Shannon, and Karen Matheson of Capercaillie. The Wall Street Journal's music writer Earle Hitchner praises her singing, harking that Casey's voice "is one of the true glories of Irish music today."
Karan Casey grew up singing with her family while growing up in the southeastern side of Waterford in the Irish village of Ballyduff Lower. As a child, she sang in the church choir, but turned to the piano as a young adult. While studying voice and piano at the University College Dublin and later at the Royal Irish Academy of Music in the late '80s, Casey was singing Ella Fitzgerald standards in a jazz duo at a local pub in Dublin. She also started her own Irish group called Dorothy. She credits jazz music for allowing her to wholly approach and understand her tact to singing traditional Irish folklore. Dublin, however, was not the place for her to continue her exploration.
In 1993, Karan Casey emigrated to New York to find herself studying music once again as a jazz music major at Brooklyn's Long Island Univesity. Around this time, she rediscovered her fondness for Irish traditional music and made the rounds singing in locals bars in Manhattan. Such passion led Casey to briefly play with the New York-based band Atlantic Bridge, but by the end of 1994, Casey joined Seamus Egan, John Doyle, John Williams, and Winifred Horan to form Solas. The band quickly received critical acclaim, recording three albums with Shanachie, which coincided winning the NAIRD awards with each release. Solas also found themselves touring American, Europe, and Japan, playing alongside greats such as Bela Fleck, the Chieftains, Iris DeMent, and Donal Lunny.
All in the midst of this, Karan Casey still found time to record a solo album called Songlines, which was released in 1997. Winds Begin to Sing followed in early 2001. Casey eventually decided to go solo full time in order to better control her touring schedule, which in turn would allow her to spend more time with her young family. After playing shows in North America and Europe (and appearing as a frequent guest on Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion), Casey briefly returned to Solas for the group's 2006 release Reunion. Her fifth solo album, Ships in the Forest, was released in 2008. ~ MacKenzie Wilson
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Pochettino urges Spurs to impress
Boss Mauricio Pochettino is ready to give Tottenham a licence to thrill as he threw down the gauntlet to his Spurs side.
The former Argentina international penned a five-year deal from Southampton in the summer and takes charge of his first competitive game at White Hart Lane against QPR on Sunday.
After an impressive 18-month stay at St Mary's Pochettino has won his first two games in charge at West Ham and AEL Limassol.
And he wants Spurs to impress the home crowd as he urged them to improve following back-to-back wins in the first week.
"I am looking forward to it," Pochettino said. "We are looking forward to it, my first official game at White Hart Lane in front of our supporters.
"We hope that would be a good game and always to win. It is important to win and play well and develop our style and improve, which is important in each game. Try to improve.
"We watch a lot of games from them and the last game they played well but in football not always when you play well, you win.
"But, yes, it is a derby, we expect a very, very tough games."
Pochettino is without the suspended Kyle Naughton after his red card at West Ham last week but Emmanuel Adebayor, Christian Eriksen, Younes Kaboul, Aaron Lennon and Etienne Capoue are available having been rested for the 2-1 Europa League play-off win over AEL.
Roberto Soldado scored the leveller after his struggles last season where he netted just six league goals following a £26m move from Valencia b ut Pochettino played down the magnitude of the strike.
"Always goals are important for Harry (Kane) and for Roberto," he said. "The strikers always need to score and it is important he scored and Harry scored.
"In the team, when the strikers score all the people are happy."
Pochettino takes on Harry Redknapp in his first return to Tottenham since being sacked in 2012 with the ex-Spurs chief hoping his transfer dealings can lead QPR to a famous win.
Redknapp has signed Rio Ferdinand, Steve Caulker, Jordon Mutch and Leroy Fer, as well as bringing in Chile international pair Mauricio Isla and Eduardo Vargas on loan.
Fer, who arrived from Norwich for £8m and Napoli loanee Vargas, could make their Rangers debuts and Redknapp believes his squad can secure their aim of survival.
"They are two good signings for us, I'm really pleased," he said.
"The club have been great, I have been pleased with the players we have brought in, it has made a big difference.
"We came back in pre-season and we were really, really short of numbers and we have brought some quality players in. It is up to us now to get on and do the job, if there is another one to come in then great - if not then we will see."
Redknapp is now likely to turn to the loan market with Manchester United winger Wilfried Zaha linked to Loftus Road with the club unwilling to spend big after relegation in 2012-13.
"We were the loan Rangers in the Championship last season," Redknapp joked.
"We've still got two loans that we can use from the Premier League if we want to. If they were to loan him (Zaha), if he did become available I'm sure he would be a player a lot of clubs would be interested in. If we thought he was available he would certainly be of interest."
Loic Remy started for the Hoops last weekend as they lost 1-0 at home to Hull, with the France international looking increasingly likely to stay after an aborted move to Liverpool in the summer.
Having looked certain to leave following a loan spell at Newcastle last season Redknapp feels he will have the 27-year-old available, despite Spurs' interest.
"I'm confident he'll be here," he said.
"I've spoken with Loic, he's been excellent in training and his attitude has been world class. Unless a top six club comes in, I think he'll be happy to stay here. He's seen we've brought some good players in.
"There's been no Tottenham enquiry - there's been talk of the chairman talking to Daniel (Levy), but certainly I've not been involved."
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The Accounting Historians Journal
Vol. 14, No. 1
Spring 1987
George O. Gamble UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON UNIVERSITY PARK Brian O'Doherty EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY and
M. Hyman TEXAS SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY
Abstract: With the advent of new bibliographic data sources and new analytical techniques, accounting historians may now trace the development of accounting thought with the aid of bibliometric analysis. The objective of this paper is to discuss a social science view of history, discuss essential bibliometric concepts, and provide an example of citation analysis applied to the literature of agency theory — to demonstrate its use in historical research.
In this paper we look at the historical development of a modern accounting research topic, agency theory. Instead of doing this in the traditional intellectual history manner, by a personal exploration of the relevant literature, we employ a much more mechanical and impersonal method and look at the development of agency theory using citation and co-citation analysis. More specifically, we are concerned with employing citation and co-citation analysis to determine: (1) the growth attributes of the agency literature with respect to citations and papers, (2) the influential researchers involved in the develop-ment of the agency literature, (3) the relationship between the most influential papers, (4) how the structure of the agency literature has changed over the 1972-84 time period, and (5) the body of knowledge that has had the greatest impact on the development of the agency literature, as perceived by accounting researchers. We classify our style of history as social science history in contrast to traditional history. The first part of the paper presents the social science approach to historical analysis. Part two presents our historical study of agency theory.


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Rafael Betancourt, Matt Reynolds eyed by AL West teams
With the trade deadline approaching, a pair of Rockies' relievers are attracting the most interest among their available players.
The Rangers and Angels continued to call about Rafael Betancourt and Matt Reynolds on Monday night, according to muliple sources. Having two rivals competing could help the Rockies get the pieces back they want in return. So far, they have not received the right offers.
Texas has already been active tonight, trading for Cubs catcher Geovany Soto. Yorvit Torrealba has been designated for assignment and will be traded. The Nats, Rays and Blue Jays are teams looking for catching.
Betancourt is 37, but enjoying another solid season. He has converted 17 saves, and has allowed just one earned run on the road. He's also under contract next season with a mutual option for 2014.
Reynolds, 27, is on a roll, becoming more aggressive in the strike zone in mid May. Left-handers have just five hits against him their last 22 at-bats, all singles. He's capable of pitching multiple innings.


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Janelle Rominski, NBC Chicago Street Team
Chicago's hit rock 'n' roll musical, Million Dollar Quartet celebrated its one-year anniversary this month. Having rocked Chicago at the Apollo Theater for a year, this inspiring show has been extended through March 28, 2010. In the springtime, Million Dollar Quartet is set to rock Broadway.
Million Dollar Quartet is inspired by an actual event that occurred on December 4, 1956, when Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins came together at the Sun Records' studio in Memphis. Sam Phillips, the "Father of Rock 'n' Roll" discovered the four musicians and brought them together for the only time in their careers for one of the greatest rock jam sessions of all time.
You walk into the theater as if you're in Sun Records' studio where a drum set sits, an upright bass is rested on its side, a piano stands still, guitars are propped up ready to be strummed and four shiny, classic, chrome microphones lay resting on mic stands waiting for soulful vocals to be sung into them.
The performers walk out and embrace the stage singing an unbelievable collection of featured songs including "Blue Suede Shoes", "Who Do You Love", "Great Balls of Fire" and many more hits.
The stars of the show have an uncanny resemblance to the star recording artists they're portraying.
Their musical talent and acting abilities work very well together.
The production stars Eddie Clendening as Elvis Presley; Lance Guest as Johnny Cash; Levi Kreis as Jerry Lee Lewis and Rob Lyons as Carl Perkins. Chicago's very own Tim Decker plays the "Father of Rock 'n' Roll" Sam Phillips, and Chicago-based actress Kelly Lamont plays Elvis' girlfriend Dyanne.
Throughout the performance, audience members were tapping their feet, rocking their bodies, shaking their heads and singing along to the tunes. This musical journey to the past is a "must-see"!
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Sherri Shepherd and Elisabeth Hasselbeck have been staging an on-air protest against the NBA lockout for the past week or so. How did we miss this? Perhaps because we are more familiar with Saturday Night Live's version of The View than we are with the actual The View.
But the ladies have been dutifully wearing various NBA jerseys and heaving up free throws on set as they spew the usual inanities. The notion here, the voice-over informs us, is that the ladies on The View disagree with each other all the time, and yet they still manage to work it out and cohabit the same table every single day. If this doesn't inspire David Stern and Billy Hunter to get their shit together, what will?
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The brand new Chloé doll set has been exclusively developed for chloe.com. Each of the five dolls symbolises one of the Maison's core values and attaches to Chloé handbags for a decorative finish. The head consists of a gold brass alphabet letter – choose one of personal significance for a special touch. Crafted from smooth, pearl beige calfskin, the "Confident" doll is a charming festive gift.
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Arvest Bank is pleased to announce it has hired Kimberly Bontrager as a commercial lender in West Plains, Mo.
Bontrager has 19 years of banking experience, including time in both deposit-related and lending roles.
"We are thrilled to add Kimberly to our team," said Tom Dame, president and CEO for Arvest in its North Central Arkansas market, which includes West Plains. "I know our customers will find her to be sincerely friendly and genuinely interested in meeting whatever needs they may have in the most efficient way possible. I have no doubt she will be an asset for both Arvest Bank and our customers."
Bontrager is a graduate of Metropolitan Community College and the University of Missouri-Kansas City, as well as the Missouri Bankers Association School of Lending and Advanced School of Lending. Additionally, Bontrager is both president of the West Plains Sunrise Rotary Club and secretary of the Community Foundation of West Plains, Inc. She's also involved with The Bridges Organization, among other civic endeavors.
Bontrager and her husband, Justyn, live in West Plains.
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Obituary: Dolores F. Haering dies Jan. 28 in Aurora
Dolores F. Haering, 75, passed away at the Medical Center of Aurora on Jan. 28. Born in Plainfield, N.J., and raised in North Plainfield, N.J., she was the daughter of the late Giulio and Enes Gavazzi. She attended Fairleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey.
As an accountant for over 30 years, Dolores worked in the family tire businesses of Union Tire and Appliance Co. and Gavazzi Tire both in New Jersey. Dolores was an active member in the New Jersey Tire Dealers Association and even served as secretary for two years before moving out to Breckenridge in 1993. Dolores continued her career by starting her own personal accounting business here in Colorado.
Dolores volunteered at the St. Anthony Summit Medical Center for several years and was an active member of the Church. She was a devoted and loving caregiver to her late husband, Herman C. Haering.
Dolores is survived by her sister-in-law, Jeanne Gavazzi of New Jersey; nephew, Mario Gavazzi; four nieces: Tina Randall of Maryland, Marisa Capetta of New Jersey, Marla Murasko of Indiana and Melinda Mackenzie of New Jersey; five great nieces and four great nephews.
Memorial contribution in honor of Dolores can be made to the Arthritis Foundation, 2280 S. Albion St., Denver, CO 80222.
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10 reasons to wake up earlier, and 6 tips for doing so
Face it, Ben Franklin was right. But the rationale for 'early to rise' means nothing without solid techniques for getting your bones out of bed.
By now, most of you know that I'm an early riser. If you do some homework on the subject, you'll find that many successful CEOs are, as well. It's simply ingrained into us. If we want to be successful, we need to be working when others are not.
It's like the classic running quote: "Somewhere, right now, someone is training while you are not. When you race him, he will win."
So I get up early because I believe it's worth it. Here are some benefits you can get from doing it, and, as a bonus, here's how to actually do it! It's time to wake up…
Top 10 reasons to get up early every day:
10. Learn. You can browse seven websites in a row (news, news, gossip, financial, gossip, sports, weather) without being interrupted by a single e-mail. You're now smarter for your entire day.
9. This early, it really is all about you. You get a few minutes of pure "you" time. For me, it's waking up and making coffee. While I'm doing that, I can pet Karma and NASA, and not in just a "scratch behind the ears once because I'm late" way. I can sit with them as I drink my first cup of coffee and enjoy the calming effect that a pet has on you. I have no doubt this helps to set my mood for the day.
8. We're not as big as we think we are. I can watch the sunrise. We take certain things for granted. Light, air, clouds, etc. Get up one morning, and actually watch the sky turn from dark to light. It's amazing. It changes your entire perspective from how big we are to how small we are when you realize that we're nothing in the universe, just star stuff on a much, much bigger plane. That affects how you think, and it changes for the better how you look at things.
7. You're automatically early. Getting up even a half-hour early eliminates the "rush" that comes with leaving the house in the morning. Get up earlier, and you're calmer. You remember everything you need to take. You walk out without being stressed. This leads to a calmer day. Also, studies have shown that being on time is one thing that good leaders master, as well as demand. Want to be on time? Get up earlier.
6. Eat. Getting up early lets you have breakfast, which, as trite as it sounds, really is the most important meal of the day! Before you go to sleep, set out a bowl, a spoon, and a pot. When you wake up, pour some whole-grain oats and water into said pot and turn on the flame. Make your coffee and pet your cats or watch your sunrise. The oats will be done in 10 minutes. Add some fruit or whatever you like—I'm a fan of just a touch of butter and some salt. Eat your oats, and feel the sustained energy kicking into your system. Throw in two hard-boiled egg whites for protein as a side dish. (One if you don't exercise.)
5. Speaking of exercise…When I was training for my Ironman, there were days I had to do 100-mile bike rides. Most people get up at 6 a.m., and are biking by 6:30 a.m. The problem is, most people are in the park/on the roads at the same time. I got up at 3 a.m., and was in Central Park by 3:30 a.m. I got to ride for three hours, by myself, with no distractions. I owned Central Park for three hours! Getting up early and exercising, whether at the gym or by yourself, puts you in a very small, yet very powerful group of people. Get up, get it done, and get on with your day. You know you're not going to the gym after work, and now you don't have to!
4. Easier commute. I don't have a commute, but for years growing up, I did. My parents and I would ride together into the city when I went to high school, and we were always on the road by 6:20 a.m. At 6:20 a.m., we'd be in Manhattan in 10 minutes. If we left even 20 minutes later, at 6:40 a.m., the trip would take an hour. Get up early, get to the office, and your commute is done before traffic goes to hell. Easiest commute ever.
3. Be a power player. Be a market maker. Want to know who the real power players are in the business world? Try scheduling 7 a.m. breakfasts with them. I've been at 7 a.m. breakfasts with some of the biggest and most powerful CEOs in the world. Why? Because they know that the demanding schedule they have won't allow for lunches. What did Gordon Gekko say? "Lunch? Aw, come on, Marty. Lunch is for wimps!" He was right. Want to meet with the power players? Egg-white omelet and coffee at 7 a.m. at the Plaza.
2. Do something you "never have the time for." When do you think I write a lot of these blog posts? When do you think I answer a ton of e-mails? Review new software? Write my book? Yup. While you're still sleeping.
1. Change the world. The No. 1 reason to get up super-early? Thirty minutes can change the world. Getting up early each day can truly make all the difference in your life. Imagine getting up early and just doing a few of the things listed above. Would you be more productive? Make more money? Reach more people? Get more deals done? I bet you would.
That was the "why." Here's the "how."
Top six ways to make sure you get up early.
6. Drink. Keep a giant glass of water by the bed. As soon as the alarm goes off, before you shut it off, drink the entire glass of water. Water is the most awesome wake-up tool for your body ever. Drink the water, it opens up brain cells, rejuvenates your eyes, allows you to come out of sleep. Drink water! (Thanks to Lara Dalch at Dalch Wellness for this tip.)
5. Move. Set the alarm clock somewhere you can't reach it. Get out of bed to shut it off (after you've drunk your water), and you're up and mobile.
4. Feed something. Get a pet. Seriously. Feed the pet one damn time at 5 a.m., and you'll never sleep through 5 a.m. again for the entire life of the pet. Trust me on this.
3. There is no try. Don't think, just do. It's amazing what we can rationalize at 5 a.m. "Oh, I'll just sleep for an extra hour, then do the treadmill at double the speed for half the time so I can still make it into the office." You know that's B.S., you know you're not going to, and you know there will be no working out for you today. Don't think. Just get your ass out of bed. Think later.
2. Get out! The bedroom is for sleeping and sex. Once you're awake, get your ass out of it. Go to the kitchen for your coffee. Go to the living room or your home office for your computer (see #10 above). You've slept. Now get out of the bedroom.
1. Sleep. The No.1 way to get up earlier? Get to sleep earlier. I know— I'm blaspheming here. How dare I waste a perfectly good night when I could go out and be a drunken idiot, or go to a boring party? I like going to sleep earlier, because I know what it's going to do for me on the flip side. I still go out, but I limit it. Remember when you were a kid, and your parents made you go to sleep early on a school night? There's a reason for that. Go to sleep earlier. Countless studies have been conducted showing that lack of sleep is hurting us, causing us to lose money, hell, even making us ugly! Chances are, not sleeping enough is the root of a lot of your problems.
Peter Shankman is the founder of Help A Reporter Out, CEO of The Geek Factory, Inc. He blogs at http://shankman.com and is on Twitter @petershankman.
This article first appeared on Ragan.com in January 2011.
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- Brazilian Grand Prix
'I gained respect' - Alonso
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Fernando Alonso said he is "proud" of both himself and Ferrari and said he gained "so much respect from everybody" for taking the championship battle down to the final race.
Sebastian Vettel took his third consecutive championship with sixth place in Brazil as Alonso finished second. The result left Alonso just three points behind Vettel in the final standings, and he said that while he hadn't managed to achieve his aim of winning the title he and Ferrari had completed "20 races close to perfection" this season.
"I feel satisfied with the job, I feel proud of myself, proud of the team," Alonso said. "Obviously we lost the championship in terms of three points but I think I gained this year so much respect from everybody and I gained more other things apart from the points.
"It was a good season, it was 20 races close to perfection; we didn't make any big mistakes, the team was fantastic in all the strategy and all the decisions. We missed a little bit of performance but it was not because of the dedication of the team or work, it was just maybe because we lacked some ideas or something but at the end it was a good season for us. We enjoyed it, we fight until the end, we part our hearts, we put everything in to it and we have to feel proud."
Alonso admitted he was being kept up to date with Vettel's progress throughout the race but had his own luck to get the podium finish he needed.
"I was constantly informed about the position of Sebastian, but also after the first-lap problem we had to stay cool. It was very tricky conditions and our priority was to be on the podium because whatever happened to Sebastian if we were not on the podium we had no chance. So at that time it was difficult; the two McLarens and [Nico] Hulkenberg were very quick and we were fourth and we had to change some situations. Luckily the rain came and finally we finished second but obviously it was not enough because Sebastian out of the top eight was not normal."
While praising Ferrari for it's execution of the year, Alonso said it needed to improve the car for 2013.
"I still don't believe how we arrived at this point because obviously we had a car that was not performing very well in most parts of the season but we proved that with a car that is a little bit slower than the others we can win the championship. With a car that is the same as the others we probably would win the championship a few races from the end and with a car that is a lot slower than the others we fight until the last race, so we have to feel proud but we have to find some performance for next year."


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Newbie Denver Beer Co announces expansion, individual keg sales
It seems like only yesterday that hundreds of people flocked to Denver Beer Co for the brewery's August opening day, packing its spacious patio to standing room only and making bar glasses so scarce some late arriving patrons had to sip from plastic cups.
Talk about foreshadowing.
Just five months later Denver Beer Co. has announced that it's upping production to 1,750 barrels a year with two new seven-barrel fermenters.
Co-founder Charlie Berger expects taproom customers to down about 1,000 barrels in 2012, leaving the extra for individual keg sales starting mid-February and distribution in limited restaurant and bar accounts. (To that end, the brewery bought 100 kegs and has designs on a delivery van.)
When it comes to those new fermenters — delivered Monday — Berger grows sentimental.
"I don't have kids yet, but when these two beauties emerged from the backside of that semi, I'll admit to shedding a tear. I think the other fermenters will welcome 'The Twins' to the family with open arms," Berger said.
Patrons have guzzled more than 350 barrels of beer — including the Beer Co's GABF bronze-winning Graham Cracker Porter — since the brewery's opening.
"It is exciting to see our business grow so quickly," said co-founder Patrick Crawford. "Within five months of opening our doors we are increasing brewing capacity by 50% to meet demand."


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Cerita mesum Tante girang kurang kerjaan ngentot Apple plans to realize their obsessions who want to become a singer through the application to be used in iPod music device. Now, Apple's patent application was registered following.
Cerita mesum Tante girang kurang kerjaan ngentot, With this application, iPod and iPhone devices will be converted into a mobile karaoke system that can help amateur singers to sing properly as a professional singer.
This can be realized through the applications Apple is pinned, where users are taught to achieve the tone and the right key when singing.
Like the karaoke machine, this technology will be stuffed with favorite music. Users are welcome to choose which songs will be sung to the lyrics will be displayed later in the video screen, such as quoted by the Telegraph, Monday (08/22/2011).
When the user starts to sing, the sound that comes out will be analyzed and compared with the sound 'right'.
If a mismatch occurs, then the iPod will help them to correct them. But when the singer was singing the song to perfection, he will be 'awarded' with the effect of appreciation concert hall as a form of success.
For those who love to sing, this application will likely be something to look forward.
Not only help to sing properly, karaoke application also allows users to record their appearance and edit it or compare it with the original song. Unfortunately, not yet known when the application is present on the market


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Changed library to conform with voltage regulator package. Redid routing to conform to new package. Add heat dissipation area. Still need to check that this is correct. Also fixed cap values for voltage regulators.
Added simple power circuit to the scoutfly reduced board. Using 2 new LDOs to regulate down to 5V and 3.3V Also removed the charging circuit, gas gauge, push button controller. Removed charge led.
Added a new library with a voltage regulator part. I forgot to add the Name and Value so i will do that. I also added the start of work on the reduced feature set scoutfly.


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News Release 09-189
Ancient China's Sand Dunes Reveal Unexpected Dryness During Heavy Monsoon Rains
October 6, 2009
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The windswept deserts of northern China might seem an odd destination for studying the heavy monsoon rains that routinely drench the more tropical regions of Southeast Asia. But the sandy dunefields that mark the desert margin between greener pastures to the south and the Gobi Desert to the north are a rich source of information about past climates in Asia, says University of Wisconsin-Madison geographer Joseph Mason.
Wetter periods allow vegetation to take root on and stabilize sand dunes. During dry spells, plants die off and the dunes are more active, constantly shifting as sand is blown away and replenished.
Such patterns of dune activity provide a history of the area's climate--if one can read them, Mason says. "When did those periods of stability or activity occur and from that, what can we infer about climate change?"
As reported in a paper in the October issue of the journal Geology, Mason and colleagues mapped sand dune activity across northern China and found unexpectedly high levels of mobility and change 8,000 to 11,500 years ago, a time period generally thought to have a wetter climate.
"The result challenges existing ideas about the monsoon's regional influence, and could impact future climate predictions," says David Verardo, program director in the National Science Foundation (NSF)'s Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences, which funded the research.
Today, the dunes are at the edge of the monsoon region and the scientists expected to find close correlation between precipitation in the dunefields and the strength of the monsoon.
What they found instead was rather surprising. "They turn out to be almost completely out of phase," Mason says. "Where we find lots of active dunes turns out to be a time when the monsoon system is supposed to have been stronger in southern and central China."
Part of the explanation may lie in local patterns of atmospheric circulation. At the peak of the summer monsoon, central China experiences both heavy summer rainfall and strong upward airflow.
That upward flow tends to be balanced out by more downward air motion--which suppresses precipitation--in areas north and west of the monsoon core.
Regional climate modeling data from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Climatic Research, led by co-author and UW-Madison geoscientist Zhengyu Liu, shows that this pattern may have been strengthened between 8,000 and 11,500 years ago.
The models also show high summer temperatures at that time, which would have increased evaporation and further reduced the moisture that supports dune-stabilizing plants.
This pattern of climate change had been described for areas distant from the monsoon, like Central Asia around the Caspian and Aral Seas and in northern Mongolia.
However, Mason says, "it hasn't really been recognized that this effect could be going on in northern China, which is where our study sites are. What it means is there's much more of a contrast in climate change across a fairly short distance."
The findings relied on a technique called optically stimulated luminescence (OSL), which dates the last time the sand was exposed to sunlight. Radiocarbon dating methods are of limited use since sand typically contains little or no organic material. The OSL method identifies time periods when the sand was actively moving around, indicating little precipitation, and times when dunes were stable.
Mason's previous work in the area suggests that moisture and precipitation are the most significant factors in determining the activity of the Chinese dunes.
The results mean that common assumptions about the effects of future climate changes--including the increased monsoon rainfall predicted by many climatologists--may be incorrect.
"If monsoon rainfall increases in southern China over the next century, the logical assumption would be that these dunes would become more stable as more precipitation also reaches the dune fields and increases vegetation cover," Mason says. "That may not be true. The dunes can become active and the climate there can become drier even when the monsoon is getting stronger."
Even if future rainfall in northern China isn't reduced by changing air circulation patterns as it was in the past, rising temperatures will undoubtedly increase evaporation, he says, exacerbating the water shortages that already plague the area.
An accompanying increase in sand dune activity would reduce available grazing land and worsen air quality.
"If it's drier you have less vegetation and the dunes are active," says Mason. "There will almost certainly be more dust produced, which is a major environmental hazard. Some of the dust from northern China actually reaches Korea, Japan, and even the western U.S."
The paper is co-authored by scientists in China, the Illinois State Geological Survey, and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Funding also was provided by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the China National S&T Basic Work Program, and Nanjing University.
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