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On 12 March, the rapporteur of the Conseil d'Etat, France's highest administrative court, called for the decree establishing the premium purchase price for onshore wind power to be annulled on the grounds that the government had not notified the European Commission.
The call came following an appeal by Vent de Colère, an association opposed to industrial-scale wind power.
The council was expected to make a decision by the end April, but has now announced a delay while it studies the issue in more detail.
Lack of decision
Already, the lack of a decision is threatening 1000 jobs in the sector, according to Wolff. "Financial institutions are refusing to sign any project finance, so the whole system is blocked," he explained.
At the very most 600MW would be added in 2012, Wolff estimates, and there would also be a knock-on effect on 2013. "It would be an absolute disaster," Wolff stated.


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Small-cap price-to-earnings (P/E) valuations have maintained slightly above-average ratios during the past several quarters. We believe small-cap stocks have benefited from a combination of strong earnings in a modestly growing economy and a very accommodative U.S. Federal Reserve that seems intent on keeping short-term interest rates low for an extended period. In our view, the biggest potential headwind for small-cap equities would be a significant slowdown in the U.S. economy.
In this recovery, small-cap stocks have followed a performance pattern similar to that of past recoveries. The first two years following the stock market bottom in March 2009 saw small-caps lead market returns, while 2011 saw a reversal as large-cap stocks assumed the leadership position. Given the relative valuations of small-cap versus large-cap equities, we do not expect a dramatic outperformance by one asset class over the other in 2012. One of the major reasons for this expectation is that the ongoing recovery is likely to remain subpar (by historical standards) due to the weak, but slowly improving, housing market.
Currently, there does appear to be some complacency regarding overall valuations. Investors who are more negative on small-caps tend to have fears of a significant European debt problem adversely affecting the U.S. economy, or a slippage of the still somewhat fragile housing recovery.
Investors such as ourselves, who acknowledge that valuations are slightly above normal but still appear reasonable, tend to point to the strong earnings reports, solid balance sheets, and extremely low interest rates as reasons to be more optimistic. Of course, if any of these positive factors were to reverse, it's likely that the performance of small-caps would struggle.
We believe there has been a renewed interest in small-caps, based on a recent change in fund flows. After witnessing several years of outflows, we have seen modest but steady inflows back into small-caps, including Delaware Small Cap Value Fund, through the first quarter of 2012. We believe it is possible that a subtle shift out of fixed income assets and into various equity classes has begun, and may very well continue, based on the Fed's statements that it has no intention of raising interest rates in the near term. Additionally, we believe a significant shift from fixed income assets into equities may possibly assist in the performance of small-cap equities.
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Investments in small and/or medium-sized companies typically exhibit greater risk and higher volatility than larger, more established companies.
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Dir: Christopher McQuarrie. US. 2012. 130mins
A surprisingly dark noir heart beats at the center of Jack Reacher, Tom Cruise's effort to establish a new franchise beachhead. Based on author Lee Child's series, 18 novels and counting, about an off-the-grid former military investigator turned crusading antihero, director Christopher McQuarrie's film is an appealing genre piece built on a solid foundation of smartly modulated friction, blending old-fashioned fisticuffs with an engaging murder inquiry that reeks of mysterious frame-up.
Jack Reacher moves with a confident gait and streamlined sense of purpose.
Earlier this year, audiences responded in robust fashion to Liam Neeson in avenging mode in Taken 2 (a $360 million grosser, worldwide), and may have lingering positive memories of Cruise's Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, which rung up a franchise-best $695 million worldwide in last year's holiday frame. Given the source material's status and Cruise's brand popularity, it's hard to bet against this offering becoming a big hit, with especially strong box office reach overseas.
Set in Pittsburgh, Jack Reacher opens with a shooting in which five people are gunned down in a public park alongside a riverbank. Prior to slipping into a coma, the shooter, an ex-military sniper named Barr (Joseph Sikora), strangely requests Reacher's presence. When Reacher, a drifter with no driver's license or fixed address, hears news about the incident and shows up, defense attorney Helen Rodin (Rosamund Pike), the stubborn-minded daughter of opposing district attorney Alex (Richard Jenkins), is surprised to learn it's not because he considers himself a friend of Barr.
Rather, Reacher feels certain of Barr's guilt and wants to bury him. Nevertheless, Helen convinces Reacher to come aboard as her chief investigator, giving him latitude to examine evidence compiled by homicide detective Emerson (David Oyelowo). The more he looks — and suffers the effects of his search — the more Reacher becomes convinced of a nefarious cover-up. A big break with a gun shop owner, Martin Cash (Robert Duvall), eventually leads Reacher to a shadowy, enigmatic and cruel man known only as the Zec (Werner Herzog).
Adapted by McQuarrie from the book One Shot, Jack Reacher moves with a confident gait and streamlined sense of purpose, opting for relatively perfunctory set-up of its main character. (Reacher explains that his anonymity "started as an exercise and became an addiction.") Various theatrical conversational flourishes, though (the Zec's explanation of how he chewed off most of his fingers to save them from gangrene), help give the movie a distinguishing pop. Its blend of procedural and action otherwise also fit together nicely.
McQuarrie and cinematographer Caleb Deschanel also craft a movie whose spare, dank vibe hangs over even its daytime sequences. And while Joe Kraemer contributes a serviceable score, the director also makes notable use of music's frequent utter absence — particularly in a solid car chase scene and shootout in a gravel quarry, in which grinding gears and gunshot echoes, respectively, are artfully elevated to tense emotional markers.
If, after its culmination in that quarry shootout, part of the film's live-to-fight-another-day wrap-up stretches its character's Everyman connection a bit beyond belief, Jack Reacher along the way at least delivers some undeniably rousing fight sequences, well staged by coordinators Paul Jennings, Robert Alonzo and their cohorts.
Pike, so good as an attorney in Fracture, here conveys a steely professionalism, but struggles with Helen's more vulnerable moments. Likewise, the offbeat and seemingly promising casting of filmmaker Herzog, with his distinctively dour accent, kind of backfires; because he is sketched only in monologues, the Zec comes across as a caricature of villainy.
Meanwhile, much was made of Cruise's casting, given that in Child's books Reacher's imposing physicality figures prominently. And it's true that some of its self-consciously badass dialogue ("I mean to beat you to death, and drink your blood from a boot"), which seems a holdover from an era of brawnier action stars like Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger, sounds unintentionally hilarious coming from Cruise's mouth.
But Cruise still more than capably splits the difference between the iterations of the character. If it feels a bit like an unfinished sketch, leaning a bit on his movie star charisma, there's certainly plenty of intriguing room left in the characterisation for Cruise to explore a darker fringe than that for which he has shown previous inclination.
Production companies: Skydance Productions, Tom Cruise Productions
Domestic distribution: Paramount
Producers: Tom Cruise, Don Granger, Paula Wagner, Gary Levinsohn
Executive producers: Jake Myers, Ken Kamins, Kevin Messick, David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, Paul Schwake
Associate producer: Cliff Lanning
Screenplay: Christopher McQuarrie, based on the book One Shot by Lee Child
Cinematography: Caleb Deschanel
Editor: Kevin Stitt
Production designer: James Bissell
Music: Joe Kraemer
Website: www.JackReacherMovie.com
Main cast: Tom Cruise, Rosamund Pike, Richard Jenkins, David Oyelowo, Joseph Sikora, Werner Herzog, Alexia Fast, Jai Courtney, Robert Duvall, Josh Helman, Vladimir Sizov, Michael Raymond-James


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Robur the Conqueror/Chapter III
The many experiments made during this last quarter of the nineteenth century have given considerable impetus to the question of guidable balloons. The cars furnished with propellers attached in 1852 to the aerostats of the elongated form introduced by Henry Giffard, the machines of Dupuy de Lome in 1872, of the Tissandier brothers in 1883, and of Captain Krebs and Renard in 1884, yielded many important results. But if these machines, moving in a medium heavier than themselves, maneuvering under the propulsion of a screw, working at an angle to the direction of the wind, and even against the wind, to return to their point of departure, had been really "guidable," they had only succeeded under very favorable conditions. In large, covered halls their success was perfect. In a calm atmosphere they did very well. In a light wind of five or six yards a second they still moved. But nothing practical had been obtained. Against a miller's wind - nine yards a second - the machines had remained almost stationary. Against a fresh breeze - eleven yards a second - they would have advanced backwards. In a storm - twenty-seven to thirty-three yards a second - they would have been blown about like a feather. In a hurricane - sixty yards a second - they would have run the risk of being dashed to pieces. And in one of those cyclones which exceed a hundred yards a second not a fragment of them would have been left. It remained, then, even after the striking experiments of Captains Krebs and Renard, that though guidable aerostats had gained a little speed, they could not be kept going in a moderate breeze. Hence the impossibility of making practical use of this mode of aerial locomotion.
With regards to the means employed to give the aerostat its motion a great deal of progress had been made. For the steam engines of Henry Giffard, and the muscular force of Dupuy de Lome, electric motors had gradually been substituted. The batteries of bichromate of potassium of the Tissandier brothers had given a speed of four yards a second. The dynamo-electric machines of Captain Krebs and Renard had developed a force of twelve horsepower and yielded a speed of six and a half yards per second.
With regard to this motor, engineers and electricians had been approaching more and more to that desideratum which is known as a steam horse in a watch case. Gradually the results of the pile of which Captains Krebs and Renard had kept the secret had been surpassed, and aeronauts had become able to avail themselves of motors whose lightness increased at the same time as their power.
In this there was much to encourage those who believed in the utilization of guidable balloons. But yet how many good people there are who refuse to admit the possibility of such a thing! If the aerostat finds support in the air it belongs to the medium in which it moves; under such conditions, how can its mass, which offers so much resistance to the currents of the atmosphere, make its way against the wind?
In this struggle of the inventors after a light and powerful motor, the Americans had most nearly attained what they sought. A dynamo-electric apparatus, in which a new pile was employed the composition of which was still a mystery, had been bought from its inventor, a Boston chemist up to then unknown. Calculations made with the greatest care, diagrams drawn with the utmost exactitude, showed that by means of this apparatus driving a screw of given dimensions a displacement could be obtained of from twenty to twenty-two yards a second.
Now this was magnificent!
"And it is not dear," said Uncle Prudent, as he handed to the inventor in return for his formal receipt the last installment of the hundred thousand paper dollars he had paid for his invention.
Immediately the Weldon Institute set to work. When there comes along a project of practical utility the money leaps nimbly enough from American pockets. The funds flowed in even without its being necessary to form a syndicate. Three hundred thousand dollars came into the club's account at the first appeal. The work began under the superintendence of the most celebrated aeronaut of the United States, Harry W. Tinder, immortalized by three of his ascents out of a thousand, one in which he rose to a height of twelve thousand yards, higher than Gay Lussac, Coxwell Sivet, Crocé-Spinelli, Tissandier, Glaisher; another in which he had crossed America from New York to San Francisco, exceeding by many hundred leagues the journeys of Nadar, Godard, and others, to say nothing of that of John Wise, who accomplished eleven hundred and fifty miles from St. Louis to Jefferson county; the third, which ended in a frightful fall from fifteen hundred feet at the cost of a slight sprain in the right thumb, while the less fortunate Pilâtre de Rozier fell only seven hundred feet, and yet killed himself on the spot!
At the time this story begins the Weldon institute had got their work well in hand. In the Turner yard at Philadelphia there reposed an enormous aerostat, whose strength had been tried by highly compressed air. It well merited the name of the monster balloon.
How large was Nadar's Géant? Six thousand cubic meters. How large was John Wise's balloon? Twenty thousand cubic meters. How large was the Giffard balloon at the 1878 Exhibition? Twenty-five thousand cubic meters. Compare these three aerostats with the aerial machine of the Weldon Institute, whose volume amounted to forty thousand cubic meters, and you will understand why Uncle Prudent and his colleagues were so justifiably proud of it.
This balloon not being destined for the exploration of the higher strata of the atmosphere, was not called the Excelsior, a name which is rather too much held in honor among the citizens of America. No! It was called, simply, the Go-Ahead, and all it had to do was to justify its name by going ahead obediently to the wishes of its commander.
The dynamo-electric machine, according to the patent purchased by the Weldon Institute, was nearly ready. In less than six weeks the Go-Ahead would start for its first cruise through space.
But, as we have seen, all the mechanical difficulties had not been overcome. Many evenings had been devoted to discussing, not the form of its screw nor its, dimensions, but whether it ought to be put behind, as the Tissandier brothers had done, or before as Captains Krebs and Renard had done. It is unnecessary to add that the partisans of the two systems had almost come to blows. The group of "Beforists" were equaled in number by the group of "Behindists." Uncle Prudent, who ought to have given the casting vote - Uncle Prudent, brought up doubtless in the school of Professor Buridan - could not bring himself to decide.
Hence the impossibility of getting the screw into place. The dispute might last for some time, unless the government interfered. But in the United States the government meddles with private affairs as little as it possibly can. And it is right.
Things were in this state at this meeting on the 13th of June, which threatened to end in a riot - insults exchanged, fisticuffs succeeding the insults, cane thrashings succeeding the fisticuffs, revolver shots succeeding the cane thrashings - when at thirty-seven minutes past eight there occurred a diversion.
The porter of the Weldon Institute coolly and calmly, like a policeman amid the storm of the meeting, approached the presidential desk. On it he placed a card. He awaited the orders that Uncle Prudent found it convenient to give.
Uncle Prudent turned on the steam whistle, which did duty for the presidential bell, for even the Kremlin clock would have struck in vain! But the tumult slackened not.
Then the president removed his hat. Thanks to this extreme measure a semi-silence was obtained.
"A communication!" said Uncle Prudent, after taking a huge pinch from the snuff-box which never left him.
"Speak up!" answered eighty-nine voices, accidentally in agreement on this one point.
"A stranger, my dear colleagues, asks to be admitted to the meeting."
"Never!" replied every voice.
"He desires to prove to us, it would appear," continued Uncle Prudent, 'that to believe in guiding balloons is to believe in the absurdest of Utopias!"
"Let him in! Let him in!"
"What is the name of this singular personage?" asked secretary Phil Evans.
"Robur," replied Uncle Prudent.
"Robur! Robur! Robur!" yelled the assembly. And the welcome accorded so quickly to the curious name was chiefly due to the Weldon Institute hoping to vent its exasperation on the head of him who bore it!


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Picture: Heavily pregnant Kourtney Kardashian leaving Barneys New York in Beverly Hills Los Angeles, California - 05.07.12
Reality TV star Kourtney Kardashian gave birth to a daughter on Sunday morning (08Jul12) in Los Angeles.
Kim Kardashian's sister welcomed a little girl named Penelope Scotland, weighing in at seven pounds, 14 ounces ( 3.2 kilograms), at the city's Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
The new arrival is Kardashian's second child with her longtime boyfriend Scott Disick.
She tells E! News, "Scott and I are overjoyed to welcome our precious angel Penelope Scotland Disick into our lives. We are forever blessed. Mommy and baby are resting comfortably."
The couple is already parents to two-year-old son Mason.
The socialite's sister Kim also expressed her joy at becoming an aunt again in a post on her official website. She writes, "Welcome to the world, Penelope Scotland Disick! Kourtney gave birth to a beautiful baby daughter on Sunday and the whole family is so thrilled to finally meet her! She is absolutely perfect! I am so excited to be an aunt again and can't wait to spoil little Penelope. I know Mason is going to be the best big brother in the whole world. Congratulations Kourtney and Scott."


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CHERRYVILLE � W.C. Friday completed the regular season with a perfect 9-0 record. On Saturday the Cavaliers completed the perfect season with a tournament championship by winning the 2013 middle school tournament title. The Cavaliers scored a team total of 228.0 points winning decisively over Belmont and Grier who finished tied for second with 153.0 team points.
�Different year, new team, new attitude� said an excited W.C. Friday coach Ernest Parker after pacing the Cavaliers to his sixth tournament title. �We had a good value system.�
W.C. Friday was paced by 11 medal winners medalists including defending champion Ethan Costner (145) who defended his title by pinning Mount Holly�s Preston Osbourne. John Beddard (98) of Stanley was voted the tournaments Most Outstanding Wrestler after pinning Holbrook�s Issac Grigg in the tournament finals. The tournament finals were delayed for nearly an hour due to a power outage in the area.


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Another aftershock with a 2.5 magnitude struck this morning, after two small quakes shook the East Bay this morning, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. -more-
Another aftershock with a 2.5 magnitude struck this morning, after two small quakes shook the East Bay this morning, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. -more-
The U.S. Geological Survey has downgraded tonight's earthquake from its original preliminary magnitude of 4.2, to 3.9 a short time later, and now experts report it was a 3.8-magnitude tremor. -more-
According to the U.S. Geological Service, a magnitude
4.2 3.9 4.0 earthquake rattled Berkeley today at 02:41:04 PM, with the epicenter located within blocks of the site where U.C. Berkeley's Memorial Stadium is currently being reconstructed.
If a proposal being developed by City and School District staff comes to fruition, a battered, vacant, one-story former cafeteria on a quiet residential side-street in West Berkeley may soon become Berkeley's new City Council chambers—and meeting place for other City deliberative bodies, from the Rent Board to the School Board.
The project—estimated to cost $2.1 million—would trigger the essential abandonment of Berkeley's 102 year old City Hall Downtown and the relocation of City Council and School Board meetings to the old cafeteria at "West Campus", the School District property on University Avenue between Curtis and Bonar Streets.
The cafeteria, a dilapidated one-story structure, faces out on Addison Street between Bonar and Browning.
City and School District staff said at a community meeting Tuesday night (October 18,2011) that they have not yet presented the concept to either the School Board or the City Council for consideration.
Some of the neighbors of West Campus who spoke at the meeting characterized the meeting relocation proposal as "completely crazy", "nuts", ridiculous", "not a good choice", and "under the radar." -more-
Next up for Occupy Berkeley, a teacher grade-in and lawn watering at Martin Luther King Center Park behind City Hall Saturday noon. No March is planned. The following week, Occupy will homage Berkeley's beloved (and not) How Berkeley Can You Be? with its own, "How Occupy Berkeley Can You Be?" -more-
Editor's Note: The Norman Mailer Center and Writers Colony has announced that this year's recipient of the National Community College Nonfiction Writing Award is Christopher Woodard of Berkeley City College. He'll get his award and a check for $5,000 at the Center's third annual benefit gala on Tuesday, November 8 in New York City. Honorary Chair Tina Brown (Newsweek and The Daily Beast) and an advisory board of writers including Joan Didion, William Kennedy, Nobel Laureate Gunter Grass, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Gay Talese, and others will host a lively evening of cocktails, dinner, and an awards ceremony. The Planet is pleased to reprint the winning essay below: -more-
Having been warned by scientists that the Bay Area is due a sizable earthquake in the next 30 years, we're passing on valuable information [found on a postcard, author unknown] on what to do when that earthquake occurs. -more-
Launched just over a year ago in the San Francisco Bay Area's East Bay, the 170-member social network – driven in considerable part by expertise and membership from the University of California, Berkeley – is among the newest additions to the Village Movement, a nationwide, neighbor-helping-neighbor effort that has spread to more than 50 U.S. cities and communities.
"It's about being engaged with a lot of really smart people and trying to figure out what we want our community to look like as we get older," said Steve Lustig, former associate vice chancellor of health and human services at UC Berkeley, and an Ashby Village board member.
Next week (Oct. 24-26), the Village to Village Network, a national nonprofit organization that helps communities manage their villages, will host its annual conference in Oakland. An envoy of some two dozen Ashby Village members will attend. Speakers will include UC Berkeley social welfare professor Andrew Scharlach, whose research on aging-friendly communities has contributed to the Village Movement's success. -more-
Mayor Bates and his allies like to gripe about public process in Berkeley, complaining that an inordinate amount of citizen participation results in costly and unnecessary delays. But a striking aspect of our current civic affairs is the lack, if not total absence, of public process with respect to some of the biggest issues in town.
The problem of City employees' budget-busting benefits, for example, was last agendaized, as they say in City Hall, at the council's meeting on January 18, 2011 . The plan to spend $1.4 million to renovate the West Campus cafeteria into a meeting space for the council has never appeared on the public agenda of the council or any City commission.
Neither has the distinct possibility that Berkeley will house the second campus of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
The second LBNL campus is a very big deal. The first phase will involve 480,000 square feet of development; the second will bring that figure up to two million. Square feet aside, the presence of the second lab will raise land values and boost the "innovation" quotient of whatever place it occupies.
Twenty-three applicants responded to the RFQ that was issued in January 2011. Six made it to the final round.
One, from Wareham Development, would situate the new facility partly in Berkeley and partly in Emeryville, wholly in Berkeley or wholly in Emeryville . A second, from The Stronach Group, would locate it on the current site of Golden Gate Fields racetrack (owned by the Group), which is partly in Berkeley and partly in Albany . A third, from the Goldin brothers and the Jones family, would put the new campus alongside Berkeley's Aquatic Park . The other three possible sites are in Alameda (the former Naval Station), Oakland (the Estuary) and Richmond (the University of California Field Station).
Wherever it goes, the project will have an immense impact on the surrounding community. Accordingly, the second LBNL campus has been publicly vetted by every prospective host city—except Berkeley. -more-
The first thing some protesters experience is demo-paranoia.
Paranoia shone its bloodshot eyes early—on all factions among the protesters.
Some of the paranoia: fear that the occupy movement is a sting operation to identify America's most dangerous radicals and charge them as terrorists: fear of provocateurs and obstructionists; fear of being co-opted by larger movements; fear of politicians, fear of reporters and photographers; fears that unauthorized flyers and buttons would not benefit the protest; and the fear that someone would steal the donations that support the protest.
Saturday, I investigated a suspicious police training in a large building (the old U.C. Press Building), at Oxford and Center. Signs in the lobby touted police trainings, and an FBI Van was parked out front, less than a half block from Saturday's protest. -more-
Take a close and objective look at the angry demonstrators now gathered on Wall Street, and at similar protest encampments burgeoning from San Francisco to Madrid. What you see is not simply a vast expression of rage at the crisis enveloping the world of democracy.
The demonstrations also frame a fundamental contradiction – a profound source of strength that has been transformed into a disabling weakness.
They deserve enormous credit for drawing a global spotlight to the perpetrators of that crisis: a sinister cabal of financial scamsters and rightwing politicians, backed by the dubiously "grass-roots" electorate of the Tea Party. What almost no one, on the right or left alike, wants to talk about is that the cabal was empowered by the very people who are now denouncing it.
Progressives, out of a mixture of political correctness and embarrassment, carefully avoid the subject. The Republicans are delighted at the silence, because it masks what should be fatal weaknesses in their own position.
It may not be pleasant to hear, but a massive Democratic voter cop-out in last year's elections is what put the reactionary right in the driver's seat, creating the disastrous logjam in Congress, and bringing to a dead halt the hyper-active first two years of the Obama Administration. -more-
The splendid and beloved bear cub fountain in the Circle on Berkeley's Marin Avenue had a one-hundredth birthday celebration on Sunday, October 16, 2011.
More than 300 people crowded temporarily closed Mendocino Avenue and Los Angeles Avenue northwest of the busy traffic hub to congratulate volunteers, applaud the revived civic amenity, and raise funds for adjacent restoration. -more-
I shall never forget October 19, 1991, the day of the Oakland Hills Firestorm. From my sixth floor window looking out on the east bay hills, I saw one house after the other go up in flames. At the same time, I could also watch this devastation on my television, a rather surrealistic touch. I stayed glued to my window most of that day. -more-
There were at least six fire trucks clustered outside of Berkeley's Iceland on Milvia Street at 6:00 am this morning. What caused the fire and how much damage did it do? I asked around. "The building itself is basically indestructible," commented one bystander who appeared to have insider knowledge regarding Iceland, "so no basic damage was done. However, some rubber mats were set on fire and so the smell of burning rubber has permeated the building." -more-
The three University of California at Berkeley graduates who were imprisoned in Iran on espionage charges are expected to attend an "Occupy Oakland" rally this evening. -more-
A reader has forwarded a disturbing article by Lauren Rosenhall in Monday's Sacramento Bee, which implicates Berkeley Senator Loni Hancock in the disreputable practice of "gut-and-amend", which allows bills to be passed in Sacramento with essentially no public process. Here's the top of the story:
"It was after midnight on the last day of the legislative session last month when the state Senate took up a controversial bill concerning election laws for the very first time.
Most bills go through a months-long process of hearings, negotiations, amendments and votes. Not this one.
Senate Bill 202 was written about 24 hours earlier, when Democrat Loni Hancock of Berkeley deleted the language in a bill about filing fees on voter initiatives and replaced it with a highly political proposal to change the state's election laws in ways that will favor Democrats in 2012.
'The lack of process in this bill is inexcusable,' Sen. Ted Lieu of Torrance told his colleagues that night. 'We as Democrats should be ashamed at how this came to the Senate floor.'
Hancock's bill was the most extreme example this year of the Legislature's penchant for writing new laws at the last minute – but it was by no means the only one." -more-
November 8, 2011
To: Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
From: Councilmember Jesse Arreguin, Councilmember Kriss Worthington
Subject: Possible New Council Chambers – Options and Accessibility
That the City Council request a report back to the Council in no less than 60 days on the proposal suggested to vacate Old City Hall and relocate the City Council Chambers to a new location. The report should analyze feasible alternate locations for a Council Chambers, issues of accessibility for the disabled, proximity to transit, adequate seating for large crowds, and connectivity to technology including television broadcasting. -more-
October 14
A coward's way of killing
Murders from afar
Yemen body count:
Saleh's volleys kill 18
US drones kill nine. -more-
I just read Steve Finacom's article [about plans to move the City Council meetings to West Campus] on the Planet website and I wanted to let you know about an item that [Councilmember] Kriss [Worthington] and I have submitted an item for an upcoming Council agenda about moving Council meetings to West Campus. In response to the fact that discussions have occurred between City staff and the School District on relocating our Council meetings from Old City Hall to a new Council Chambers at West Campus, and given the lack of information, and public discussion, Kriss and I have submitted the item for the November 8th Council agenda, asking the City Manager to provide a report on the West Campus plans, alternatives to West Campus, and discussion about what will happen with Old City Hall. The item asks that the report come back to the Council in no less than 60 days and that it be calendared for discussion. -more-
Jobs is a Four Letter Word;Republican Primaries;Socialism in One City;Make it fair; Children Need Love -more-
I was asked weeks ago by some in the Occupy Wall Street movement to make suggestions for how to frame the movement. I have hesitated so far, because I think the movement should be framing itself. It's a general principle: Unless you frame yourself, others will frame you - the media, your enemies, your competitors, your well-meaning friends. I have so far hesitated to offer suggestions. But the movement appears to maturing and entering a critical time when small framing errors could have large negative consequences. So I thought it might be helpful to accept the invitation and start a discussion of how the movement might think about framing itself. -more-
The historical reality is that Iceland embodied, and can embody again, all that is truly great in Berkeley the town and Berkeley the gown. Not only did my son and I and thousands of other people of all ages and relationships and background have a wonderful time skating there to the music, with the Friday night disco lights or the Christmas lights, not only did so many of us have memorable birthday parties for our children there, but it was also a womblike place (kind of like the design for the new Apple headquarters) that held diversity in place with utter peace and good vibes. By the way, the nonpareil skate guards contributed, too, to the good vibes. -more-
While the organic Occupy Wall Street movement is similar to the spontaneous Arab Spring uprisings that began last December in Tunisia and Egypt, OWS is eerily reminiscent of the run up to the American revolutionary war.
Three ingredients fueled the original American Revolution. The first was egregious British taxation policy exacerbated by the fact that the colonies had no representation in Parliament. The second was the growth of liberalism and its concepts of natural rights and the social contract. Finally, Americans embraced the values of "republicanism" -- in its original form – which criticized both British corruption and the power of the English aristocracy.
For eighteenth-century American colonists, democracy was a novel idea, whose influence grew from 1763 onward and culminated with the publication of Tom Paine's Common Sense. -more-
Have you seen the television commercial that advertises a new medication for children with hyperactivity and attention deficit? The commercial shows a well-behaved, sedated little kid doing his homework and being an angelic little boy, while at the same time a list of possible side effects is being read over the sound portion of the commercial. If you're paying any attention to those side effects, it sounds horrific. If you're paying attention to the portrayal of the child, you ought to be horrified. No child should be that well-behaved; it's not natural. -more-
For the memory of another is like a ship which one sees coming down a bay—the hull and the sails separating from the distance and from the outlying islands and capes—charged with freight and cutting open the waves, addressing itself in increasingly clear outlines to the impatient eyes on the waterfront; which, before it reaches the shore, grows ghostly and sinks in the sea; and one has to wait for the tides to cast on the beach, fragment by fragment, the awaited cargo.
—Glenway Wescott, novelist (1901-1987), from The Grandmothers -more-
Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859), famous for his Democracy in America, wrote about Americans, "I have often admired the extreme skill they show in proposing a common object for the exertions of very many and in inducing them voluntarily to pursue it."
The traditions of community service and citizen participation have long been at the heart of American civic culture, through town meetings, local school systems, political parties, hospital auxiliaries, and national and local organizations. Many Americans act on the need to give something back to their communities. There's a good feeling that can come from commitment to an unpaid responsibility that impacts others positively. Some activities that are considered voluntary provide compensation or remuneration in kind. -more-
The mule is in many ways an admirable creature. It's tough and adaptable. It has a mind of its own, but it's open to negotiation. The US Army has rediscovered the virtues of mules as pack animal in inhospitable terrain like most of Afghanistan. The one thing a mule can't do, of course, is reproduce its own kind. The offspring of a male horse and a female donkey, it's the archetypal sterile hybrid. -more-
You're too late to catch the Kronos Quartet's most recent one night stand on the UC Berkeley Campus, but don't despair: they return February 12 at 7 p.m. to Hertz Hall. Their appearance in the same venue earlier this month was a revelation.
Not content to simply play masterfully while representing acclaimed composer Steve Reich's grand themes of terror and peace, Kronos Quartet used bow and string to transcend the limits of time and place.
It was Sunday, October 9th, 2011, at Berkeley's Hertz Hall, and yet, it was not. -more-
I've been on the road nonstop since 1982," says John Malkovich, speaking of his career for a CNN mini-doc (which can be viewed online—click on "Multimedia" under the photo of Malkovich) ... and comments on his reputation for playing psycho heavies: "they're only talking about four or five films that happened to make hundreds of millions of dollars." -more-
How to Write a NEW Book for the Bible, now playing its world premiere at Berkeley Rep, is written by a recently successful playwright Bill Cain, S.J. Many of you of The Faith or not will recognize the letters: Cain is also a Jesuit priest.
It seems like a play written by a priest. It is about ministering to the sick, about keeping watch, about the most profoundly prolonged last rites as he moves in with his cancer-riddled, pain-oppressed, dying mother to care for her in her last days. -more-
Berkeley Public Library invites you to participate in a discussion of the myths and reality of school violence with Annette Fuentes and Jody Sokolower. Author Annette Fuentes and editor Jody Sokolower will speak about zero tolerance discipline and the school to prison pipeline in the community meeting room at the Berkeley Public Library's Central Library, 2090 Kittredge Street, at 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday, November 1. Annette Fuentes spent two years as an investigative reporter researching discipline systems in public schools. The result is her recently published book Lockdown High: When the Schoolhouse Becomes a Jailhouse which traces the penetration of prison culture into daily life in public schools. Jody Sokolower is co-editor of Rethinking Schools, a magazine about social justice education for K-12 teachers and education activists. Her work is informed by years of experience as a teacher in public schools including six years at Berkeley High School. Join us for what promises to be a lively discussion of the way education policy impacts violence in our public schools. Please note this is a rescheduled date for this event since the original presentation was canceled due to a power outage. -more-
Meet the developers, view their latest (revised) proposal for Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's second campus, tell them what you think.
Meetings will take place at the racetrack from 4-7 pm. on the following dates: -more-


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What actually happened in the infamous Malmédy massacre?
On December 17th, 1944, during the Battle of the Bulge over 80 unarmed Americans soldiers were shot down after having surrendered to a fast-moving SS tank column near the small town of Malmédy, Belgium. Although more than 30 survived and told of the killings, the event has remained mired in controversy after the U.S. Army mishandled evidence in the Malmédy investigation and trial in1946. Over the last thirty years, some SS apologists contended the massacre did not occur or was due to surrendered Americans running from captivity. What actually happened at the Baugnez crossroads over sixty years ago? Was it a "battlefield incident" in the heat of combat or deliberate murder?
The author spent fifteen years researching primary sources to help answer these questions—more than 38,000 pages of materials on the Malmédy investigation and trial, including several sources which have only been recently declassified. The trail to understand Malmédy ranged widely: archival materials at the Library of Congress in Washington D.C., the Eisenhower Library in Abilene, Kansas and the U.S. Army Military History Institute in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. German perspectives on the controversial event surfaced in lengthy examination of records and recently opened personal papers at the Bundesarchiv in Freiburg and Koblenz where Waffen SS veterans pondered the incident and its fallout.
The human side of the story is revealed by detailed first-time interviews of numerous American survivors of the chilling event. For balance, the author also obtained personal interviews with those on the German side and even local civilian witnesses. This included the emphatic commander of the Panzer IV from which the official investigation suggested the first pistol shots came. Perhaps most compelling, the author interviewed two German-speaking Belgian youths present at the crossroads who heard the orders and saw the results.
Finally, the author conducted a pains-taking ground survey of the Baugnez crossroads where the event took place. This allowed key insight into how the incident unfolded as well as appreciation for how participant recall was influenced by perspective, movements and the vagaries of human memory.
With detailed research and telling interviews, the author is able to reconstruct for the first time, the critical sequence of events– and individuals involved– that led up to the Malmédy massacre and its dramatic aftermath. Fatal Crossroads illuminates a tragic episode in World War II revealing both the brutality of war, but also the brave humanity of ordinary people swept up into historic events.
November 2011 • History • 390 pages
North American Rights: Da Capo Press
First Serial, Translation, Audio & Performance Rights: Curtis Brown, Ltd


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Thursday, January 19, 2012
It's Almost Australia Day!
My perfect Australia Day? Involves a smashing breakfast, a drive in the countryside, and a BBQ on the deck. Preferably with a cold beer in my hand.
Coconut waffles with bananas and mango jam for breakfast
(you don't have to share. the blue-tongues understand)
Need a snack? Chocolate avocado smoothies out of a thermos.
Choose grillables like broccoli, corn, sustainable seafood, or pizza made from naans or flatbreads
Drink fresh lemonade
(spiked or not)
Mix it up with some fresh slaw or a crispy salad.
By the pool, if you have one. (Because it's summer, after all)
Do not forget the lemon potatoes ...
Or the ginger cookies.
And what's Australia Day without pavlova? Or, as I favour, meringues slathered with fresh, whipped cream and passionfruit pulp.
I ♥ Australia.
Amanda xx
16 comments:
- Paula said... [Reply to comment]
I love your photographs...every one of them. Enjoy your Australia Day celebrations. Hope to visit your beautiful country one day.
- January 19, 2012 at 5:39 PM
- Easy peasy organic said... [Reply to comment]
Thanks Paula! I think *everybody* needs to visit Australia one time or another :)
- January 19, 2012 at 6:08 PM
- Renee Treml said... [Reply to comment]
So lovely... does this mean you are celebrating Aussie-Day at home?
- January 19, 2012 at 6:23 PM
- Easy peasy organic said... [Reply to comment]
Yes! we'll be home next Monday morning! (robbie arrived back today) you have beers on-tap? xx
- January 19, 2012 at 7:27 PM
- Barbara said... [Reply to comment]
Amanda I discovered your blog after I saw a tweet this morning. It looks very inviting and I look forward to reading more.
- January 19, 2012 at 9:21 PM
- Easy peasy organic said... [Reply to comment]
@BarbaraBarbara, thanks for visiting! You're an inspiration, and I hope you can keep sharing your beautiful posts on your own website :)
- January 19, 2012 at 11:07 PM
- heather reilly hiemstra said... [Reply to comment]
i love your blog. honestly, i love this blog. and i read very few blogs daily. and my husband begs me to blog for my business (metalsmith... computers vs. hammers... no brainer there), but you blog about how to make each day simple and exquisite and real and practical. and it is all so lovely.
thank you, i so enjoy
from my snowy redding, connecticut studio, anvil warm by fire,
- January 20, 2012 at 11:18 AM
- Easy peasy organic said... [Reply to comment]
Heather, thank you. And what lovely lovely words! I can see why your husband wants you to blog. snowy studio? anvil warm by fire? tell us more!! :)
- January 20, 2012 at 11:32 AM
- Where My Heart Is said... [Reply to comment]
That's a scary thought, that it is almost Australia Day. Firstly because it means January is almost over and Secondly because daughter no. 2 has invited 20 girls over on Australia Day for a little gathering!!! What is that meant to mean? Am I to be frightened?
BTW Love all your photos. They really capture the essence of Australia.
- January 20, 2012 at 10:13 PM
- Easy peasy organic said... [Reply to comment]
Ha! Jess, you make me laugh. 20 girls? You and your Nikon can handle that ... ;)
- January 20, 2012 at 11:27 PM
- Catherine @ The Spring said... [Reply to comment]
This looks amazing... but I'd add in the nectarine bruschetta too... can't get enough of it! SUCH a great idea!
Catherine @ The Spring (in Brisbane)
- January 22, 2012 at 8:12 AM
Thanks Catherine! Great idea on your part :) Mmm... bruschetta ...
- January 23, 2012 at 6:20 PM
- Suzanne @ Merino Angel said... [Reply to comment]
Great work and fab ideas......we are currently on day 2 of 5 x 40 degree days so its gonna be a hot one with lots of cool, fresh drinks & dishes :-) Happy Oz Day!
- January 25, 2012 at 3:40 AM
- Jennifer (Delicieux) said... [Reply to comment]
Gorgeous photos!!!! I love the look of that coconut waffle topped with bananas. Yum!
- January 26, 2012 at 9:40 PM
hey, cool blog in general. just here i gotta say that australia day = invasion day, nothing to celebrate
- April 30, 2013 at 10:39 PM
- Easy peasy organic said... [Reply to comment]
@Anonymous Um, ok. Not opening *that* can of worms ...
- May 1, 2013 at 1:03 AM


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Jan 29, 2011 – The Ministry of Water and Energy said that it has finalized preparations to begin counting the number of potable water, sanitation and hygiene facilities available in the country.
Ministry Public Relations and Communication Directorate Director, Bizuneh Tolcha, told WIC today that the counting process will be carried out from February-June, 2011.
He said the counting process to be carried out with an outlay of 123 million birr, would help perform integrated activities besides strengthening water, sanitation and hygiene programs.
Moreover, it would enable to design a plan based on factual and set up an effective water resource management, Bizuneh indicated.
According to Bizuneh, the counting process will be carried out in SNNP, Oromia, Amhara, Tigray, Somali and Benihsnagul Gumuz states as well as in Addis Ababa City Administration.
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THAT PINK MOMENT: We're not sure that any one place, save perhaps Paris, gets an automatic seat at the "Most Romantic Cities" table, but there are a few asterisks to our rather sweeping statement. High up on the list is this: If you are a city, and you have a fabled time of day called "The Pink Moment," and it falls around evening, and the sky goes a bit peachy, and everyone swoons, well then, yes, you, too, get an automatic seat at the "Most Romantic Cities" table. It's hard to challenge a place with its own daily Pink Moment, especially when that place is Ojai. The rustic, easy-breezy town pretty much defines the Golden State's singular brand of Western, big-sky'd, rolling-hill'd romance, meaning that spending the one day that's all about romance in Ojai is a wise decision indeed. And when your chosen spot is the Ojai Valley Inn & Spa, and there are three packages to choose from, well. Hello, hearts in your eyes.
A TRIO OF STAY-OVERS: The destination indeed has three lovey packages for February 2013. Relax into Romance involves dinner at Oak Grill and a bottle of wine, Rekindle Romance has "Pink Turndown Service" (yep, they're serious about the Pink Moment 'round these parts), and Reignite Romance boasts a couples massage, as well as some other extras. There are other nice things orbiting these packages if you're interested in adding on: think s'mores and a resort property treasure hunt. Whatever dates you choose during the Love's Official Month, and whatever package, really do make time to catch the Pink Moment in the evenings. And think about how you are indeed in one of the world's softest, sweetest towns, with its rolling hills and horses and wines and its peachy-perfect dusk.


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A user's guide to the building blocks of collective intelligence: By recombining CI "genes" according to the work required, managers can design the powerful system they need.
Google. Wikipedia. Threadless. All are exemplars of collective intelligence in action. Two of them are famous. The third is getting there.
Each of the three helps demonstrate how large, loosely organized groups of people can work together electronically in surprisingly effective ways — sometimes even without knowing that they are working together, as in the case of Google. Google takes the judgments made by millions of people as they create links to web pages and harnesses that collective knowledge of the entire web to produce amazingly intelligent answers to the questions we type into the Google search bar.
In Wikipedia, thousands of contributors from across the world have collectively created the world's largest encyclopedia, with articles of remarkably high quality. Wikipedia has been developed with almost no centralized control. Anyone who wants to can change almost anything, and decisions about what changes to keep are made by a loose consensus of those who care. What's more, the people who do all this work don't even get paid; they're volunteers.
The Leading Question
How can you get crowds to do what your business needs done?
- Collective intelligence has already been proven to work, and CI systems can be designed and managed to fit specific needs.
- CI building blocks, or "genes," can be recombined to create the right kind of system.
- Four main questions drive CI "genome" design: What is being done? Who is doing it? Why? How?
In Threadless, anyone who wants to can design a T-shirt, submit that design to a weekly contest and then rate their favorite designs. From the entries receiving the highest ratings, the company selects winning designs, puts them into production and gives prizes and royalties to the winning designers. In this way, the company harnesses the collective intelligence of a community of over 500,000 people to design and select T-shirts.
These examples of web-enabled collective intelligence are inspiring to read about.1 More than inspiring, even; they've come to look like management wish fulfillment — evidence that a committed embrace of collective intelligence is all it takes for a company to magically divine market desires, create exactly what's needed to satisfy them and do it all at little or no cost. Come let the crowd get your work done for you — cheap, perfect and now.


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Dr. Jordan Pober named the inaugural Bayer Professor of Translational Medicine
Dr. Jordan Pober, recently appointed as the inaugural Bayer Professor of Translational Medicine, conducts research aimed at understanding the functions of vascular endothelial cells in inflammatory and immune responses and, reciprocally, how inflammation and immunity affect vascular health and function.
Bayer is committed to translational research and has established this professorship in recognition of shared goals with the Yale School of Medicine to improve the translation and delivery of fundamental scientific discoveries in human health, from the laboratory into the clinic, engaging in innovative and collaborative research, with the broader goal to deliver improved patient care.
Pober is particularly interested in how insights from experiments with human cells and tissues can be used to improve organ replacement therapy, to improve tissue engineering, and to regenerate injured tissues.
Pober serves as director of the Human and Translational Immunology Program and is vice-chair of the Department of Immunology's Section of Human and Translational Immunology. He earned his M.D. and Ph.D. in molecular biophysics and biochemistry in 1977 in Yale's Medical Scientist Training Program. After a residency at Yale-New Haven Hospital and postdoctoral work at Harvard University, he completed his training at Brigham and Women's Hospital, where he then was an attending pathologist from 1981 to 1991, during which time he also taught at Harvard Medical School. He returned to the Yale School of Medicine in 1991 as a professor of pathology and immunobiology, and became a professor of dermatology in 1998.
He was named director of the Molecular Cardiobiology Program at the Boyer Center for Molecular Medicine in 1991 and founded the Vascular Biology and Transplantation Program in 1999. In 2007, he stepped down as the director of the program when appointed to his current posts. He was named the Ensign Professor of Immunobiology in 2011.
The Yale scientist has been honored as a Searle Scholar, an Established Investigator of the American Heart Association and a MERIT awardee of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. He received the Warner Lambert-Parke Davis Award in 1988 and the Rous Whipple Award in 2011 from the American Society of Investigative Pathology.
Among other professional activities, Pober is the co-founder and co-director of the joint Yale-Cambridge University Biomedical Research Program.


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The Picard Maneuver was a battle tactic invented by Starfleet Captain Jean-Luc Picard. In 2355, Picard was in command of the USS Stargazer when it was attacked by an unknown alien vessel, later determined to be of Ferengi origin. The subsequent engagement and destruction of the Ferengi ship was sometimes called the Battle of Maxia by some Ferengi.
The Picard Maneuver was born out of desperation during the battle. The Stargazer, which was damaged, suddenly accelerated into high warp directly towards the Ferengi ship. By doing so the Stargazer appeared to ship's sensors, for an instant, to be in two places at once. When data from the newly-moved ship reached the Ferengi ship's sensors, data from its previous position was still arriving, so the Ferengi effectively "saw" two Stargazers in different locations.
The conflicting and rapidly shifting data caused the Ferengi to target and fire on the wrong vessel, and since the Stargazer opened fire as soon as it dropped out of warp, the Ferengi ship had no time to maneuver out of the way before the phasers and photon torpedoes hit. The Ferengi ship was destroyed. This technique was so successful that it was named after Picard, and there was no known defense against it until 2364.
In 2364, Lieutenant Commander Data calculated a defense to the Picard Maneuver. He theorized that since even deep space contains trace gases, active scanning close by for gaseous compression could serve as an indicator for the actual location of a ship that had just used the Picard Maneuver. This defense was first successfully used when Picard attempted to use the Picard Maneuver against the USS Enterprise-D while under the control of a thought maker deployed by DaiMon Bok. This allowed the Galaxy-class starship to use its powerful tractor beam to safely halt the older Constellation-class, limiting its field of fire and without having to fire on it themselves.
The Picard Maneuver was so named in Starfleet Academy textbooks. (TNG: "The Battle")
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Behind the scenes, it became common practice to refer to Patrick Stewart's habit of tugging his uniform shirt down when standing up as the "Picard Maneuver" (Star Trek: The Next Generation Companion). In "Gambit, Part II", Data, as acting captain, concludes a reprimand of Worf, as acting first officer, by tugging his uniform down, imitating the captain.
A certificate made for Star Trek Generations, but not shown in the film stated that Picard was awarded the Grankite Order of Tactics for his development of the maneuver.
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In Peter David's novel Imzadi, the same reference becomes a common in-joke among the Enterprise's crew, as Admiral Riker notes when the gesture is copied by Captain Wesley Crusher.
The Picard Maneuver was immortalized in the game Star Trek Online with the release of the Heavy Cruiser Refit, which included the Constellation-class as a new set of skins. The device, the Warp Burst Capacitor, replicates the move, launching a player five kilometers away and renders them unable to be targeted.
The Picard Maneuver is also present in the Star Trek: The Next Generation pinball table. It's accomplished by shooting the left loop then the warp ramp.
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The mother of Nigeria's Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has been released by her kidnappers, five days after she was seized from her home, Nigerian police said Friday.
Kamene Okonjo is well and in good health, police spokesman Frank Mba told CNN.
"The Okonjo Family is full of thanks to the Almighty for this happy development," a finance ministry spokesman said in a statement.
Okonjo, an academic who is reportedly in her 80s, was abducted on Sunday from her home in Ogwashi-Uku, in Delta State.
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It remains unclear who her abductors were or whether their motive was financial or political.
The U.S. State Department warns U.S. citizens against travel to Delta State, among others, because of the risk of kidnappings, robberies, and other armed attacks.
Okonjo-Iweala has sought to push through reforms and tackle corruption while in office.
She lost her bid in April to become the next president of the World Bank -- the first ever challenge to the U.S. nominee in the institution's history.


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employing two nearly identical space-based observatories to provide the very
first, 3-D "stereo" images of the sun to study
the nature of coronal mass
ejections. These powerful solar eruptions are a major source of the magnetic
disruptions on Earth and a key component of space weather, which can greatly
affect satellite operations, communications, power systems, the lives of humans
in space, and global climate.
STEREO is the third mission in NASA's Solar Terrestrial Probes Program. The
twin observatories launched aboard a single Boeing Delta II rocket from Cape
Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., on Oct. 25, 2006, at 8:52 p.m. EDT.
STEREO is sponsored by NASA Headquarters' Science Mission Directorate,
Washington, D.C. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's Solar Terrestrial Probes
Program Office, in Greenbelt, Md., manages the mission, instruments and science
center. The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), in
Laurel, Md., designed and built the spacecraft and will operate the twin
observatories for NASA during the mission.
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directions at about 10 degrees per year for the lagging spacecraft and 20
degrees per year for the leading one. Optimal longitudinal separation of about
sixty degrees is achieved after two years. Afterwards the separation gradually
increases beyond the design lifetime of two years with the possibility of
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I mean, what are the advantages of HSR? Speed, freedom FROM having to have a car, energy use.
What are the disadvantages? Lack of personal autonomy as one has with a vehicle, perhaps the need to rent a vehicle at either end or use a vehicle to reach a station, enormous cost to operate safely, need to maintain ridership to support operations, energy use (yes, this belongs in both), very expensive to build, requiring a huge amount of lead time, stations, wide right-of-ways required, etc.
I've thought for the last 20 years that we needed a HSR in California, and I think it would have been great if we'd had one. But the future is here, and HSR is not the most advanced or flexible way of transportation for the next 50 years.
This is a serious question: Instead of HSR, why don't we instead build an autobahn for (electric only) driverless cars?
It would give the opportunity for speed, energy savings, freedom FROM having to drive, but without many of the disadvantages of a train. If we took the money for the train and simply invested in the vehicles and rental/charging stations, the government could far better recoup its operating costs in a more flexible scenario. Plus, over time, as people themselves buy cars that can operate driverlessly (and that meet the stringent requirements of such a throughway for safety), it means the populace is basically voluntarily underwriting the renewal of the vehicles. So long as the government maintained a certain number of rentals so that everyone could rent if they wished, it would remain a form of public transportation. The government could also enter into contracts with rental car companies, further reducing the government investment. Plus, once people arrive at their destination, they just switch from autopilot to pilot and drive away (if they wish) or turn the car in and take other public transportation. Or have the car drop them off and find its way back or to another rider who wants to take it!
Plus, building such an autobahn would be more flexible, easier to add to and maintain, among many other advantages. It would not depend on a certain flow of ridership to keep it afloat, and it would very likely require a narrower right-of-way than rail.
And, icing on the cake, California would be leading in the world again instead of playing catch up!
The HSR is so expensive and locks us in for so long. I voted for it, but given the new potential for autonomous, driverless vehicles, I think we should take some time to reflect on whether we should do something much more forward thinking, that gives us the advantages of HSR and few or none of the disadvantages.
And no, I do not work for Google!


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Posted: Fri 06 Apr 2012, 17:59
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I do use Thunderbird also...almost solely. But I use it from /mnt/home....I just drag the .thunderbird as symlink to the /root and drag the thunderbird script to the desktop. It works also without problem.
But...you can insert below command at the beginning of the thunderbird script:
exec `kill -9 `ps -aef | grep thunderbird | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}'``
It kills the previous thunderbird process.
The same command works for firefox...by changing the name of killed process....
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Subject description: ...file system usable failed ?
Before I get rushed out for another Easter lunch, I've a quick query.
I've just tried 5x188.8.131.52 and have a problem with a Full install created from the Frugal directory (no CD involved in either install - Frugal created directly from mounted iso).
The Frugal goes well, however after using its Universal Installer to make a Full 5x31110.3 to an unused partition, during booting of this Full, I see the displayed text:
"Making file system usable ............................................ failed" (last word in orange text).
The boot continues and the Full start-up window appears but with a frozen mouse cursor. Or if the mouse starts initially, it soon freezes.
The Frugal does not have this problem.
Any idea of what this "failed" message means? I haven't seen it with the other Exprimo types nor any other Puppy, as far as I recall.
Thanks for any help,
David S.
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Cant say what goes wrong. I would need to try it my self and start to debug. Reasons are so many. Missing libs, missing binaries can cause those kind problems. You should check the logs in /tmp and in /var/log if they would tell something more spesific.
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Hi pemasu !
Found the same problems like David45.
Tried to make full install 5X220.127.116.11 and also 5X3.2.11 from live cd using universal installer ,tried also from Usb stick . Same problems as David 45 reported.
Managed to install both Dpups ,after startup they worked( mouse worked) Did shutting down -saving .
After new booting mouse was froozen could only use touchpad.
The courious thing about it , i had before both versions installed full ,and they worked.
(sometimes i just playing -experimenting with different distroes)
After a new installation i recognized same issues as mentioned above ."Making file system usable ............................................ failed" (last word in orange text).
After a while i gave up to look for solution and tried frugal install to harddisk
Works fine .
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Posted: Sat 07 Apr 2012, 03:41
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You know me, I'll test everything.....
Starting a test full install of 5.X.18.104.22.168 on an old P4 test box.
Side note........I don't really care for the new booting of the live cd.But, it may just be me.....
More when the install gets done.(copying files to sda8 at the moment).
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Posted: Sat 07 Apr 2012, 03:44
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Hi Pemasu !
Upon attempt to get a full install, got also the same message :
"Making file system usable ............................................ failed"
Could meanwhile use the mouse and use Exprimo even to perform some compiling (withdev_x.sfs installed).
I did not report this as I thought the problem was here in my full install procedure.
ps: I appreciate Exprimo very much; it is now here quite daily used. Thanks a lot for your work !
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Posted: Sat 07 Apr 2012, 03:50
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James C wrote:
You know me, I'll test everything.....
Starting a test full install of 5.X.220.127.116.11 on an old P4 test box.
Side note........I don't really care for the new booting of the live cd.But, it may just be me.....
More when the install gets done.(copying files to sda8 at the moment).
Well, it booted and the mouse and everything is working at the moment.I use the old school ps/2 mouse ..... may be a detection problem.
I'll play with it a while and see what happens......looking normal so far.
Downloading Flash as I'm posting.
I forgot to mention that I saw the red "failed" on initial boot and again when I just rebooted.Still seems normal otherwise though. For now.
EDIT again:
Mouse just froze up....keyboard still functioning.
Let me grab a usb mouse and see what happens.
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Thank you all of your reports. Keep them up coming. There definitively is something wrong with Dpup Exprimo - PUI - full install. What is the main factor...thats what we need to dig out.
I think that I dig my other laptop which has Saluki as full install. I did the first Saluki kernel compile with it and tested that it works with new - updated kernel in full install. I can use that comp for full install testing. It has single Turion 64 cpu and it is not very linux friendly - old acer ferrari laptop without screen - I need to use external monitor - its inbuild broadcom has evaded all my attempts to get it working - with many Puppies - but that is what I have got.
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Can't do much with a frozen mouse but.......looking at the kernel log the ps/2 mouse was detected at line 497, keyboard at 510.
Don't see any reference to when it quit working though.Detected the usb mouse at line 618 however a cursor never appeared.
Looking at logs gives me a headache.....
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Posted: Sat 07 Apr 2012, 04:40
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I booted into a frugal Exprimo install and I'm retrieving the logs..... I'll tar them up and attach them for your inspection.
But quickly, in the xerrs.log I noticed this
FATAL: Module fbcon not found.
SELinux: Disabled on system, not enabling in X server
(EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/mouse
No such file or directory.
(EE) Mouse0: cannot open input device
(EE) PreInit failed for input device "Mouse0"
cat: /sys/block/fd0/device/vendor: No such file or directory
cat: /sys/block/fd0/device/model: No such file or directory
Happy reading...................... it's 3:30 am....time for sleep here.
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Subject description: mouse problem for Full install
G'day again,
Back from an as-usual excessive Easter lunch and "happy" to see my problem is shared, although no one is certain where the problem lies.
In case it is important, re the hardware, I'm using a desktop computer (ASUS P5G41T-M LX motherboard) and the mouse is a "Magic Magnetism" Tevion model (running through a USB port). When the mouse freezes - the cursor stops moving, but its red light is still on and its transponder's green LED blinks when I move the mouse.
I tried a Full 5x22.214.171.124 with two USB mice, rebooting after a freeze but once the Full has frozen, I could not get it going again with either mouse.
Another issue with my desktop is its Radeon HD5450 card needs the ATI proprietary driver if I want to see anything during Puppy shut-down with Lucid and Exprimo (Debian) based Pups. The default driver is OK but dies too quickly on shutting down. I think I found the mouse freezing with either graphics driver (default and proprietary) for the Full install attempts.
But I don't see how this would be affecting the mouse response.
Thanks for the replies, and I'll cross my fingers hoping for a simple answer - apart from just using a Frugal for 5x22.214.171.124
David S.
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I do have Ati Mobility Radeon HD5650 in my laptop as the better one of my dual graphics. It behaves the same in most Puppies. It is due xorg radeon driver and the only solution for console state has been the proprietary ATI driver.
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pemasu wrote:
This should make Jim1911 happy. Openbibleviewer-0.7.0.
It needs qt4-libs, for example basic and clucene.
It works well.
Thank you,
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Haven't been able to get Blender going. As far as I can tell, the only thing different between yours and mine is that I had used the .pet for Xorg High in the initial setup of Exprimo rather then the .sfs version, which you said you used.
Could that make a difference?
Anyway, I stuck the 2.4.9 Blender on for the kiddo from slackware, and that keeps him occupied for the moment, although not all the functions work.
I still want to get your 2.6.1 going, but just not sure what to try next...
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Okay....now I have full install of 5.X.220.127.116.11 under fingers. And I managed to get usb cord optical mouse. And I get the same freezing at second boot. I checked with dmesg that the unplugging and replugging works just fine. So the problem is not there. Next I checked the /dev section. And...symlink
pointing to
was missing. So I created symlink from psaux to mouse and restarted X. I got my usb cord optical mouse back in function !
So there seems to be problem with device files creation or automatic deleting and recreation or....
I remember that there has been some changes in woof regarding them....but I really dont know much of /dev device file functionality.....yet.
But I suppose we are now in tracks.......
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Has the Accounting Profession Lost Control of Its Destiny? D. R. Carmichael*
American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
No man of woman born, coward or brave can shun his destiny.
When Howard Stettler asked me to write about whether the accounting profession has lost control of its destiny I accepted because I was interested in the answer. Like many others who are essentially in the business of putting words on paper, I don't know what I believe until I write it. However, the answer proved more elusive than I anticipated.
In a sense, no man controls his destiny. In this sense, the question is loaded because the idea of a destiny presumes predetermination. According to Webster's, destiny means either something to which a person or thing is destined or a predetermined course of events often held to be a resistless power or agency. Synonyms are fortune and fate. However, I think the question contemplates a related word—destination. The relevant questions are: Where are we going and who's in charge of the trip?
How Do We Know Where We're Going?
A logical starting point would seem to be a prediction of where the accounting
profession is headed. However, man has not been too successful in predicting. Most predictions are merely extrapolations of present trends. We cannot know what future accidents, catastrophes, or personalities may alter those trends. As a result, predictions often tell us more about the present than the future. For example, consider these predictions from the year 1876.1
• Poor penmanship and writer's cramp no longer impede personal correspondence
thanks to the advent of the home linotype.
• Malodorous footwear will never again upset social gatherings or community
affairs as gentlemen of the next century sport pasteurized spats and gaiters.
• Gone are the days of the "Three R's." Boys and girls of the future must now be drilled in the "Five R's"—Reading, Writing, Trans-
*The author wishes to acknowledge the assistance of Brian Zell of the AICPA staff and
to point out that the opinions expressed are the author's views and do not necessarily represent
the views of the AICPA or other members of its staff.


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In the past I submitted some lessons on all the main characters from The Lion King. Today I will be resubmitting another figure from Lion King, but instead of someone new, I will do a new tutorial on "how to draw Scar", step by step. Now because I already wrote all about this Disney character, there is no need for me to go crazy with a description. All I will say is Scar has played a role that is unforgettable, and irresistible. He set the trend for future Lion King movies, and his character is one of the few that has an everlasting impression on our minds. His sly domineer, and sinister personality is just some of the traits that Scar offered to his fans. The old lesson I have on Scar is really good, but just because I have one tutorial, it's always nice learning "how to draw Scar" in a different pose that is seen in some of the movie scenes. This is going to probably be a bit easier to learn from because the drawing is done with his body in a sitting position which means less body to draw. Amway, have fun with drawing Scar and remember to try and upload your finished artwork to the site so everyone can see how you did. That just about does it for this lesson; stick around because there are two more characters coming up shortly. Adios mi amigos!
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